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The Monroe Advertiser
VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX
FRANK M’DOWELL
ESCAPES ASYLUM
FORMER FORSYTH YOUTH, KILL
ER OF PARENTS AND SISTERS,
SE^/S.. GUN AND FORCES
GUARD *0 ESCAPE.
TALLAHASSEE, F.., , + 14.—
Frank McDowell and John de
scribed by prison bureau officials as
“dangerous,” were sought tonight af
ter they had forced a guard to liber
ate them from the state hospital for
the insane at Chattahoochee.
The pair obtained a gun last night
and forced a guard to aid in their
escape, the state prison bureau said.
McDowell, called the “Holy Ghost”
murderer at his two trials in Clear
water in June, 1924, was found guil
ty at the second hearing on charges
of first degree murder with a recom
mendation for mercy. The trials
were in connection with the fatal
shooting of McDowell’s father and
mother.
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A Modern Theatre in Every Sense of the Word
J. M. McCarty, Prop.
THE NEW FORSYTH THEATRE
FORSYTH, GA.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY—THIS WEEK
“MAN TROUBLE”-
With Dorothy Mackail and Milton Sills. “MAN TROUBLE”
promises plenty of thrills. Only one way to find out
MONDAY-TUESDAY, October 20-21
“WHY BRING THAT UP?”—
MORAN & MACK in “ANYBODY’S WAR”
Come early Monday and Tuesday so you can get a seat.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, Oct. 22-23
“SOUP TO NUTS”—
You’ll laugh all the way from Soup to Nuts
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, Oct. 24-25
An Amazing Drama of a Man’s
Fight for Freedom —and Love —
See more about this in next week’s paper.
Suitable Comedy Features and News Reels with all shows as added
attractions
Admission Prices—Adults 35c; Children 15c
McDowell made a sworn statement
that he had murdered his father and
mother and had burned his two sis
ters in their home at Decatur, Ga.,
one year earlier. He related a tale
of being forced to kill his relatives
by the Holy Ghost to atone for some
sin he had committed when a child.
He was sentenced to life imprison
ment and taken to the state prison
farm at Raiford, but shortly after
ward was removed to the insane hos
pital where alienists found his men
tal condition growing worse.
Pruitt was moved to the insane
hospital last August. He was serv
ing three years in the state prison
on a charge of larceny of an auto
mobile in Gadsden county in 1929.
GEORGIA ROADS WATCHED
ATLANTA, Ga., October 15.—
Roads in South and Middle Geor
gia were being watched Tuesday and
Wednesday by officers who feared
that Frank McDowell, insane slayer
who escaped from a Florida asylum
Tuesday, might be on his way here
to carry out a dementia-inspired plan
to slay by “fire, blood and water.”
At his trial in Clearwater, Fla., in
1924 for the shooting to death while
they slept of his father and mother
there, the youth confessed he burned
his two sisters to death in a fire at
their home in Decatur a year to the
day before the slaying of his parents.
His rambling statement of the case
contained references to an “unpar
donable sin” against divinity commit
ted when he was a child, and asserted
he was inspired by the “Holy Ghost”
to wipe out his family, on successive
anniversaries of the sin, by “fire and
blood,” and to slay his childhood
sweetheart by “water.” She was to
have died under his plan on Feb. 19,
1925, but by that time he had been
transferred to the insane hospital
following a turn for the worse in his
mental condition after he was sen
tenced to life imprisonment for the
Flordia slayings.
During their residence near Atlan
ta the youth’s father was editor of
a newspaper in Decatur. Before that
time he was in the newspaper busi
ness at Forsyth and later at Lexing
ton.
Frank McDowell, it was recalled
today, never was popular among his
schoolmates, who called him “Flos
sie,” reputedly on account of effemi
nate manners and speech.
C. W. ENSIGN INJURED
IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISION
Mr. C. W. Ensign was painfully
injured Sunday night when his auto
mobile struck another car which had
been parked without lights, the col
lision occurring near Barnesville. Mr.
Ensign suffered a broken collar bone
and numerous cuts and bruises and
his car was badly wrecked.
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 16, 1930.
NATURAL GAS NOW
IN FORSYTH HOMES
SEVERAL HOMES USED FUEL
PIPED HERE FROM LOUISIANA
FIELDS TO PREPARE MEALS
WEDNESDAY.
Natural gas is now beihg burned
in a number of Forsyth homes, the
final adjustments of the pipe lines
and the installation of meters having
been completed Wednesday, the noon
meal on that day being the first ever
having been cooked here with this
new brand of fuel.
The Georgia Natural Gas Corpor
ation began work on the pipe lines
in Forsyth about the middle of Au
gust and the work was rushed by the
employment of a large force of la
borers. The last few weeks have been
taken up with the work of piping the
gas into the homes, testing out the
lines and making such other adjust
ments as would precede the use of
the gas.
The Georgia Natural Gas Corpora
tion is also operating an up-to-date
offipe and showroom in Forsyth, spe
cializing in the display, sale and ser
vicing of all lines of gas appliances.
Your attention is called to the adver
tisement of the firm elsewhere in
this issue.
JAMES MONROE CHAPTER
D. A. R. OFFERS PRIZES
James James Monroe Chapter
D. A. R. is offering the following
prizes for the school term of 1930-31:
Regents prizes 1. History prize to
7th grade. 2. Citizenship prize to
11th grade.
Chapter prize 1. Citizenship priz;e
to 9th grade. 2. Personal Hygiene
cards given to each pupil in Grammar
school and award given to the grade
that does the best work with them.
A simple standard for good citizen
ship for the convention of teachers
and pupils, is submitted.
A standard for determining good
citizenship traits:
I—Cooperation—A pupil may be
said to show cooperation: (a) when
he helps his class and his school in
all of their undertakings; (b) when
he helps to maintain the good name
of the school by his conduct in cor
ridors, assemblies, toilets, during re
cess, etc.; (c) when he shows a care
and respect for all the property of
the school —books, furniture, walls,
etc.; (d) when he helps to maintain
the good appearance of classrooms,
corridors, entries and lawn.
ll—Reliability—A pupil may be
considered reliable: (a) When he
speaks the truth; (b) when he re
frains from taking the belongings of
others; (c) when he keeps his prom
ises without evading or forgetting;
(d) when his written lessons and
tests are his own work; (e) when he
presents his report card at home and
returns it promptly; (f) when school
obligations, such as excuses for ab
sence or dismissal, etc., are honestly
and promptly fulfilled.
II —Self-control—A pupil may be
considered to show self-control: (a)
When he does not lose his temper at
petty annoyances; (b) when his con
duct is recognized by his teachers
and classmates as excellent; (c)
when his conduct at fire drill is be
yond reproach.
IV —Conduct—A pupil is courte
ous: (a) Who thinks of the comfort
and welfare of others with whom he
is associated; (b) who uses “thank
you” and “excuse me”, and other po
lite expressions at appropriate times;
(c) who does not interrupt when oth
ers are talking.
MRS. J. P. SUTTON,
Chm. Patriotic Education D. A. R.
Georgia lost the largest number oft
farms—s4,4B0 —of any state in the
land in the past decade, the census
bureau announces. Ohio was second
with 37,036, South Carolina third
with 34,799, New York fourth with
33,075. A loss of 2.3 per cent of al!
the farms in the U. S. was shown.
STATE EXPENDITURES
WERE BIG LAST YEAR
U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ANNOUNCES GEORGIA PAID
OUT NEARLY $29,000,000. PER
CAPITA RECEIPTS $9.69.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The De
partment of Commerce announces a
summary of the financial statistics of
the state of Georgia Jor the fiscal
year ending December 31, 1929. The
per capita figures for 1929 are based
on an estimated population of 2,903,-
300. These statistics were compiled
by Mr. Leroy Pharr, assistant state
auditor.
The payments for operation and
maintenance of the general depart
ments of Georgia amounted to $17,-
180,829, or $5.92 per capita. This
includes $5,466,803, apportionments
for education to the minor civil divis
ions of the state. In 1928 the com
parative per capita for operation and
maintenance of general departments
was $5.64 and in 1917 $2.48. The
payments for operation*and mainte
nance of general departments was
$5.64 and in 1917 $2.48. The pay
ments for operation and maintenance
of public service enterprises during
1929 amounted to $6,946; interest
on debt, $323,566, and outlays for
permanent improvements, $10,220,-
700. The total payments, therefore,
for operation and maintenance of
general departments and public ser
vice enterprises, for interest and out
lays were $27,732,041. The totals
include all payments for the year,
whether madeVrom current revenues
or from bond issues. ✓
Os the governmental costs reported
above $11,954,022 was for highways,
$2,456,922 being for maintenance
and $9,497,100 for construction.
The total revenue receipts were
$28,135,650, or $9.69 per capita.
This was $10,624,309 more than the
total payments of the year, exclu
sive of the payments for permanent
improvements, and $403,609 more
than the total payments includ
ing those for permanent improve
ments. This excess of revenue re
ceipts is reflected in reduction of
debt, and in purchase of investments,
not shown in this summary. Proper
ty and special taxes represented 28
per cent of the total revenue for
1929, 27.3 per cent for 1928, and
68.8 per cent for 1927. The increase
in the amount of property and spe
cial taxes collected was 40.3 per cent
from 1917 to 1928, and 2.9 per cent
from 1928 to 1929. The per capita
property and special taxes were $2.71
in 1929, $2.63 in 1928, and $1.93 in
1919.
Earnings of general departments,
or compensation for services render
ed by state officials, represented 6
per cent of the total revenue for
1929, 5.8 per cent for 1928 and 9.2
per cent for 1917.
Business and non-business license
constituted 53.7 per cent of the total
revenue for 1929, 45.6 per cent for
1928, and 9.5 per cent for 1917.
Receipts from business licenses
consist chiefly of taxes exacted from
insurance and other incorporated
companies and of sales tax on gaso
line, while those from non-business
licenses comprise chiefly taxes on
motor vehicles and amounts paid for
hunting and fishing privileges. The
sales tax on gasoline amounted to
$7,678,994 in 1929 and $6,156,169
in 1928, an increase of 24.7 per cent.
The total funded or fixed outstand
ing debt Dec. 31, 1929, was $8,035,-
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FORSYTH, GA.
595. The net indebtedness (funded
or fixed debt less sinking fund as
sets) was $7,932,095, or $2.73 per I
capita. In 1928 the per capita net
debt was $2.96 and 1917 was $2.14.
The assessed valuation of property
in Georgia subject to ad valorem tax
ation was $1,311,069; the amount of
state taxes was $6,555,346; and the
per capita levy was $2.26. In 1928
the per capita levy was $2.23, and
in 1917, $1.71.
MISS ZELLNER WINS
PLACE ON GLEE CLUB
Miss Mary Emily Zellner, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Zellner, won
a place on the Bessie Tift College
glee club at the recent auditions
which were held at the college. Many
tried out for places.
Plans for the year have "not been
completed but they will doubtless
prove interesting and include several
trips away from the campus. The
glee club is one of the most poular
organizations on the campus.
AUXILIARY TO ENTERTAIN
TOM HOLLIS POST MONDAY
The auxiliary of the Tom Hollis
post of the American Legion is en
tertaining the post on Monday even
ing with a supper and program. Sup
per will be served at 7:30 at the
Woman’s Club room, and a cordial
invitation is extended all those eligi
ble for membership in the auxiliary.
This includes the mothers, wives, sis
ters and daughters of members of the
post. An interesting program has
been arranged.
LIONS CLUB HEARS
BESSIE TIFT READER
At the meeting of the Forsyth
Lions Club Friday night, the enter
tainment committee introduced Miss
Edna West of the Expression depart
ment of Bessie Tift College as the
artist of the evening. Miss West de
lighted her audience with several
readings.
The club welcomed three visitors at
this meeting, Messrs. Gilbert Banks
and Harry Hill and Dr. W. K. Stew
art of Rockmart.
NO VEGETARIAN PESTS
IN THE ADVERTISER OFFICE
It is said if a mosquito bites you
it is a female. The males are unable
to puncture the skin, and therefore
are not bloodsuckers but vegetarians.
Assorted Colors
44 inch All Wool Storm Serge
98c yd.
Worth $1.50
Forsyth Mercantile Company
Phone 61 and 165 Quality and Service
CITY GROCERY COMPANY
HARD-TIMES SPECIALS
“Cash Prices”
SATURDAY
MEAL, 48 lbs A $1.29
FLOUR, 24 lbs. Good S. R 79
Compound Lard, 8 lb. bucket 99
Coffee (It’s Good) 6 lbs 99
Graham Flour, 5 lb. bag 29
Grimes Golden Apples, dozen 12%c
3 Minute Oat Meal, pkg 09
OATS, Texas Rust Proof SYRUP BARRELS
We will have Fresh Fish and Oysters
Friday and Saturday
The above prices show you that we
Want Your Business
Thanks
CITY GROCERY COMPANY
NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN
YOUTHFUL NEGRO
SLAYS HIS FATHER
JODIE BARCLAY, JAILED ON A
CHARGE OF MURDER, CLAIMS
HE SHOT FATHER IN DEFENSE
OF HIS MOTHER.
Jodie Barclay, a negro boy sixteen
years of age, shot and killed his fath
er, Squire Barclay, Friday after
noon at their home in Evers district
about six miles from Forsyth. The
shooting occurred at 2:00 o’clock in
the afternoon, the shot taking effect
in Barclay’s thigh and severing an
artery and causing death about one
and one-half hours later from loss of
blood.
The boy made no effort to escape
and was arrested and placed in jail
by Sheriff L. C. Bittick. He claimed
self-defence and stated that his fath
er was attacking his mother at the
time he shot him.
ROBT. J. MADDOX COMMITS
SUICIDE IN THOMASTON
According to a verdict reached by
a coroner’s jury, Robert J. Maddox
came to his death by his own hand
Monday evening about 8 o’clock.
According to the evidence, Mr.
Maddox borrowed a 32 calibre re
volver* from Mr. Herman Ellington
about 7:15 stating he was going to
drive out in the country. Later he
walked into the rear end of Elling
ton’s "store, back of the Thomaston
Case, and a few minutes later the
report of a pistol was heard. It was
found that he had walked into the
men’s rest room, bolted the door and
shot himself one time through the
right temple, the bullet entirely pen
etrating his head. It is the general
opinion that much suffering caused
from extremely poor health was re
sponsible for his act.—Thomaston
Times.
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COTTON CROP LARGER
GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS
The government report of cotton
ginned in Georgia prior to October 1,
gives a total for the state of 842,171
bales as compared with 578,239 bales
to the same date last year. The re
port for Monroe county is 2,048 bales
as compared with 1,740 bales to the
same date in 1929. It is considered
probable that the crop for the county
will not be less than 3,500 bales'this
year.