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AGAIN HUNT FOR
: LA SALLE S SHIP
Ontario Grants Permit to
Trio to Salvage Wreck
in Lake Huron.
Toronto, Ont.—Once again the hop"
that the remains of an old sailing ves
eel found tn the Great IJikes are those
of Le Griffin. tirst commercial veasel
on the lakes, has been revived.
The Ontario department of public
works Ims granted three Ontario men
permission to attempt to salvage a
wreck on Mississngl strait. Mnnitnulfn
island, in Lake Huron. The would-be
salvagers believe the wreck is that
of a two-masted sailing ship which
Rene Robert, Sieur de la Salle, noted
French explorer of 250 years ago, had
built al Cayuga creek, near the
Niagara river, in what now is New
York state, in 1679.
Built by La Salle.
The impecunious French explorer
had the ship built with a view toward
using it to find a waterway from the
Great Lakes to the Mississippi. The
ship was of forty-five tons burden,
square rigged and armed with live
bronze cannon. Its armament and
fittings were brought from France.
In order to finance his explorations
■nd repay his creditors, De la Salle
sent the ship Up the lakes to Wash
ington Island, Green bay. Wisconsin,
where it took on hoard a cargo of furs
■nd started hack to Niagara. its
captain and live men sailed the ship
down through the straits of Macki
nac while the explorer and Hie re
mainder of his company set out south
ward by canoe'ioward the Mississippi.
Driven by seasonal gales, the ship
was seen last by the Pottawatomie In
dians as il swept through Ihe strait.
Later two of De la Salle’s men inmle
■ complete circuit of Lake Huron in
search of the missing vessel. The
only sign of it ever seen, until its sup
posed wreck was discovered a few
years ago, was some bits of wreckage
which De la Salle found at Ml<ddl
limackinac island a year after the ves
•el disappeared.
Government Gives Permit.
Roy F. Fleming of Ottawa, G. 11.
Agnew of Kilsyth, Ont., and T. .1.
Batman of Sheguandah, Out., are the
men who have received the provincial
government's permission to investigate
the supposed wreck of the Griffin.
Several years ago the provincial
authorities refused to allow an expedi
tion from Wyandotte, Mich., to salvage
the wreck.
.Several limes In the last few dec
ades claims have been made Umi old
wrecks found along the shores of
Lakes Huron and Michigan were the
Griftin, but no evidence to support
the claims has been produced.
Memphis Man Has Bible
Printed in Year 1615
Memphis, Tenn.—A Scottish printer
in 1615 produced a Bible which Rev.
C. W. McCunn, Memphis pastor, now
owns.
* The Bible, three hundred fifteen
years old, came into the possession of
the minister’s ancestors shortly after
its publication by Robert Barker. Scot
tish printer and subject to his majes
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version, printed In boldface type, be
Heved by Rev. McCann to be the only
one of its kind iu existence.
The McCann family "lost track” of
the Bible for 79 years, until the pres
ent owner discovered it in the posses
sion of an Ohio woman 14 years ago.
Establishing bis right to the sacred
book, the minister requested the privi
lege of reclaiming if. It was willed to
blrn by the woman on her deathbed.
In what may be its final public ex
IHbltioo, the Bible was used by Rev
McCann in scripture reading at the
home-coming services of the Gospel
Tabernacle church here recently.
New Yorker Hikes 15,000
Miles on Sixty Cents
San Francisco.—With tds original
capital of 60 cents jingling in his
l>ocket and a 45-pound pack ‘on his
back, latonard V. Parker, champion
hitch-hiker, arrived In San Francisco
from New York.
I .eon ard lias been in 29 states since
lie left New York April 14. He claims
the world’s championship hiking rec
ord on the strength of 15,000 miles
tramped in the last Iwo years.
Owns Funeral Bell
Wilton, N. Y.—'J’he locomotive bell
which pealed out mournfully as the
body of General Grant was borne from
Mt. McGregor, .Saratoga county, to
New York city, is now owned by Frank
Meyers and his brother farmers.
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Seeks Divorce 13 Days
After Golden Wedding
Provo, Utah.—Thirteen days after
an elaborate celebration of their golden
wedding anniversary. Mrs. Francis M.
Barney, mother of 14 children, all mar
ried. tiled suit for divorce. She alleges
her husband came home drunk a few
days after their fiftieth anniversary
party, choked her and threatened to
kill her.
Girl Bites Passerby
After Dog Bites Her
Berlin. —A young woman who was
bitten by a mad dog ran into the
streets two hours later and bit and
scratched 15 pedestrians in Galatz,
Rumania, recently. The hydrophoblac
woman died. Two of the persons she
attacked were in critical condition.
Pony Pushes Baby Cab
When Parents Are Busy
Buckinghamshire, England, — While
the owner apd his wife are busy with
other chores, Post Boy, a pony owned
by a farmer, pushes about a perambu
lator carrying the baby.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER
UN HIGHWAY SYSTEM TO
STRETCH TO SOUTH AMERICA
Opening, Next Year, of Motor Road to
Mexico" City, First Link in
Big Project.
New York.—When the international
highway from Laredo, Texas, to Mex
ico City is formally opened early next
year, the ceremony will mean much
more than Hie simple linking of two
countries by the tirst complete motor
road. It will mark the utilization of
the first link in a highway system
which eventually will stretch over 11,-
<MM) miles from Canada to Chile, con
stituting the longest network of motor
roads in the world.
Although few North Americans are
familiar witli the plan, progress al
ready has been made to a point where
it is estimated that by 1935 the vaca
tionists of New York, Toronto or Seat
tle will he aide to drive at least to
Panama over good roads, says the Re
view of Reviews, explaining the
project.
The plan was first launched at the
International Convention of American
States in Havana In 1927. although
Mexico at that time already had begun
work on the national highway project
which lias now taken practical form.
The Pan-American Road congress,
with tiie assistance of several United
States government bureaus and other
North American agencies, lias inter
ested the Isatin nations to the point
where several are now at work on
their sections of the projected irigh
way.
Passing 1,200 miles down the spine
of Mexico, the projected highway will
thence go through Guatemala. Hon
duras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa
Rica and Panama In Central America,
then on through Colombia, Ecuador,
Peru and Chile to Concepcion. A fur
ther extension [dunned would bring
a highway across the Andes to Buenos
Aires on the east coast of Argentina
and complete a northward loop through
Uruguay. Brazil, the Guianas and
Venezuela to Colombia.
The United States; although Its
highways leading toward the border
are in fairly good order, is giving ma
terial assistance to the plan, the Re
view of Reviews article points out.
A $50,000 appropriation by congress
has established a field office of road
engineers in Panama to hplp the sur
veys or road planning projects of ap
plicant nations.
Congress also recently passed an
act providing for a highway and ferry
at the western end of the Panama
canal to link the two sections of
Panama and give ready access to
Colombia from the north.
Along the projected route the six
Central American nations now have
566 miles of graded or finished road
way between Mexico and the canal,
but 1,058 miles remain to be fimshed.
Prospects for the project in South
America are bright. Colombia Is
building rapidly, Ecuador is favored
by natural rock roads along her coast,
and in I’erti a 1,300-mile coastal road
is being rapidly improved.
3,000 Lepers Are at
Large in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires. —There are more
than three thousand lepers at large in
Buenos Aires, according to unofficial
estimates. Although the Muniz hos
pital is equipped with a special ward
for the treatment of lepers, there is
no law which compels segregation of
infected persons, and many patients
have voluntarily left the hospital to
take their chance of obtaining a pre
carious living in the city.
The fate of the unhappy victims of
the dread disease who are at present
in the Muniz hospital has recently
been brought into Hie limelight by an
apiieul for subscriptions toward pro
viding them with a radio outfit. It is
pointed out that, as many of them
have been blinded by the disease, this
form of distraction is of greater use
than books and picture magazines.
The radio outfit is being asked for as
a memorial to the late J. C. de Bohun,
an American minister who spent many
years in alleviating the lot of the
Buenos Aires lepers.
Oldest Deed Is Found;
Transfer Made in 1762
Roanoke, Ya.—During a recent fail
for old deeds. Dr. W. C. Campbell,
pioneer citizen and pastor emeritus
of the First Presbyterian church,
produced the record-breaking docu
ments.
He exhibited two deeds dated 1762
made by Lord Fairfax, transferring
nearly 1,000 acres of land to two
great-great-grandfathers of Doctor
Campbell.
He says somewhere there Is in ex
istence a deed still older, made by
Governor Gooch for 40,000 acres to
.Jolin and Isaac Yann Meter, dated
1730.
Hospitals for Vets
Soon to Get Talkies
Washington. D. C.—War veterans
carried on the rolls of government
hospitals soon will enjoy talkies In
stead of the silent moving pictures
with which they have been entertained
for years.
The first veterans’ hospital talkie
show was held at Mount Alto Diagnos
tic center, here. Gen. Frank T. Hines
administrator of veterans' affairs, said
he expected all hospitals having suite
bl« recreation halls would be equipped
by Christmas and eventually all othei
Institutions would be supplied with
the modern machines.
FOUR NEW NATIONAL
FLAGS ARE ADOPTED
Designs Selected by States
of the Levant.
Geneva, Switzerland. —Four more
national flags have been added to the
rainbow of banners which must lie
kept by all governments and warships
to be flown on state occasions.
France carted up the Levant into
four sovereign states, under rhe man
date of the League of Nations. Each
lias now [ticked its own flag. The
republic of Lebanon adopted the red,
white and blue tricolor of France,
with the addition of a green cedar of
Lebanon in the middle of the white
band.
The state -of Syria has adopted
three green, white and black horizon
tal stripes, with three red live-pointed
stars on the white band.
The flag of -rhe state of Latakia,
formerly the state of Alaouities, re
sembles somewhat that of Japan. It
is a golden sun with 11 rays rising
out of the center of a white flag. Iu
one corner is a tiny French tricolor
and in the other corners are three
red triangles.
The government of Jebel-Druze ha»
perhaps the gaudiest flag in the world,
with five colons worked into a diffi
cult composition. In the top left cor
ner is a red. white and blue rec
tangle, and the remainder is like the
American flag, with stripes. There
are five stripes—green, red yellow,
blue and white.
Lettuce Called Aid to
Beauty of U. S. Women
Paris. —American women owe their
beauty to lettuce, in the opinion of
Mlle. Paulette Bernege, a dietician
who lias just completed a three
months' tour of the United States.
"Vitamins are their chief concern,"
Mlle. Bernege said. "They drink a
good deal more orange and tomato
juice than gin, contrary to tiie popu
lar French conception, and they dis
tinctly^nre not ‘dollar grabbers.’
“As a matter of fa4't, they, are sur
prisingly loyal and industrious, and
their independence of the male is one
of the striking things about their
great country.”
But Mlle. Bernege thinks American
women are undernourished. It is her
contention that a happy medium
somewhere between the typical
French and the typical American diet
would be very nearly ideal.
“Starvation may prove temporarily
helpful,” she said. “But in the long
run it will shorten life, rather than
lengthen it.”
Vienna Police Must Keep
Up Weight to Hold Jobs
Vienna. —By the Austrian Court of
Appeals the right of the police to pen
sion off any member of the force whose
weight drops below 115 pounds has
been upheld.
A verdict to this effect was given
when Johann Kleinedler, age thirty
three, appealed against dismissal from
the force because the semiannual
health examination of all policemen
revealed that he was under this
weight.
Man Seeking to Beat
Solomon’s Nuptial Mark
El Paso, Texas. —“I’m out to beat
King Solomon at his own game—the
marriage game.”
That’s what Bruce \V. Steele, dash
ing young El Paso plumber, says is
his ambition. He has just asked the
courts to dissolve bis fourteenth mat
rimonial alliance. Os course, lie’s got
a long way to go to overhaul the an
cient wise man —but he’s got a fair
start. x
“Not one of my wives left me be
cause she ceased to love me,” Steele
brags. “They simply went away be
cause they were jealous of my suc
cess with other women.
“Winning women is the easiest
thing in the world —once you know
how. All you have to do is find out
a woman's weakness, play up to that
—and you've got her!”
Six Foreign Countries
Receive Red Cross Aid
Relief was given by the American
Red Cross during the year in six for
eign nations in disasters ranging from
a tidal wave iu Newfoundland, an
earthquake in Persia, floods in France
to help for refugees from Russia and
prevention of a smallpox epidemic in
Costa Rica.
The $5,000 Red Cross contribution
to Newfoundland, following the tidal
wave, which took twenty-six lives and
destroyed many homes and fishing
boats, was the first from an outside
country to reach the distressed people.
The sum of >5,000 was given to the
fund for the relief of the Mennonite
refugees of German descent, who had
determined to leave Russia for new
lands. About 13,000 passed through
Germany, where the German Red
Cross, aided by Red Cross societies of
other nations, helped them. The ma
jority are being transported to new
countries in the western world and
the American Red Cross has transmit
ted contributions from individuals in
1 his country.
When Costa Rica was menaced by
a smallpox epidemic, the American
Red Cross sent fifty thousand tubes of
vaccine. In two airplane loads, un
donbtedly saving the country from ■
serious outbreak of the dread disease.
SALE UNDER POWER
Georgia, Monroe County.—Default
having been made in the payment of
a loan secured by a deed to secure
debt executed by W. A. Tribble to the
undersigned, The Federal Land Bank
of Columbia, dated the 26th day of
June, 1922, and recorded in the of
fice of the Clerk of Superior Court
of Monroe county, Georgia, in Book
41, pages 587-9, and because of such
default, the undersigned having de
clared the full amount of the loan,
with interest and advances made by
the undersigned, due and payable,
the undersigned will, acting under
the power of sale contained in said
deed, on the 12th day of Decembe?',
1930, during the legal hours of sale
at the court house of said county, sell
the following described real estate,
which is described in said deed, at
auction to the highest bidder for
cash:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land containing 205 acres,
more or less, situate, lying and be
ing near Bolingbroke, in the county
of Monroe and State of Georgia, hav
ing such shapes, metes, courses and
distances as will more fully appear
by reference to a plat thereof made
by H. P. Cowan, B. C. S. Surveyor,
August 25th to September 7th 1916,
which is recorded in the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Monroe county, Georgia, in Book 38,
pages 42 and 43, a copy of which is
attached to the abstract now on file
with The Federal Land Bank of Co
lumbia, said tract is bounded is
bounded north by land of B. F. Har
rison, on the east by . National High
way from Atlanta to Macon, Georgia,
and right of way of the Central of
Georgia Railway Company, on the
south by lands of Mrs. Florence Rob
erts and J. E. Callaway, and on the
west by Mrs. W. O. Wadley estate
and public road leading from Boling
broke, Ga.
Said tract consisting of Lots 18,
19, 3, 13, 30, 34, 40, 42, 41, 1, 58,
59, 34-A, 4,5, 6, 16, and 17 and in
land lots 148, 149, 158, 159 in the
13th land district of Monroe county,
Georgia.
The undersigned will execute a deed
to the purchaser as authorized by the
deed aforesaid. This 12th day of
November, 1930.
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF
COLUMBIA. Willingham & Wil
lingham, Attorneys for The Federal
Land Bank of Columbia. 12-11
SALE OF LAND
Georgia, Monroe County.—Default
having been made in the payment of
a loan secured by a deed to secure
debt executed by Mrs. Sara W. Mc-
Gee to the undersigned, The Federal
Land Bank of Columbia, dated the
9th day of of September, 1925, and
recorded in the office of the Clerk
of Superior Court of Monroe coun
ty, Georgia, in Book 43, page 26, and
because of such default, the under
signed having declared the full
amount of the loan, with interest and
advances made by the undersigned,
due and payable, the undersigned will,
acting under the power of sale con
tained in said deed, on the 12th day
of December, 1930, during the legal
hours of sale at the court house of
said county, sell the following de
scribed real estate, which is describ
ed in said deed, at auction to the
highest bidder for cash:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land containing 234 acres,
more or less, situate, lying and be
ing on the Forsyth and Maynard’s mill
road about 7 miles from the town
of Forsyth in the 554th Militia dis
trict of the county of Monroe and
State of Georgia, having such shape,
metes, courses and distances as will
more fully appear by reference to a
plat thereof made by J. T. Goodrum,
Surveyor, on August 7, 1925, on file
with The Federal Land Bank of Co
lumbia and bounded as follows:
On the north by the lands of C. H.
Meek, on the east by Tobesofkee
creek, on the south by the lands of
J. B. Fleming, and on the west by
lands of C. H. Meek and the road
leading from Forsyth to Maynard’s
Mill. Said tract of land being
in the 12th Land District and contain
ing 234 acres, more or less.
The undersigned will execute a
deed to the purchaser as authorized
by the deed aforesaid. This 12th day
of November, 1930.
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF
COLUMBIA. Willingham & Wil
lingham, Attorneys for The Federal
Land Bank of Columbia. 12-11
SALE UNDER POWER
Georgia, Monroe County.—Where
as, on the first day of February, 1919,
Joe W. Evans ex^iuted and delivered
to The Middle Georgia Loan & Trust
Company a deed to secure debt, evi
denced by a promissory notee of
even date, to certain lands hereinaf
ter described for the purpose of se
curing said debt, which deed is re
corded in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Monroe coun
ty, Georgia, in Deed Book 38, page
733;*and,
Whereas, on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1919, The Middle Georgia
Loan and Trust Company executed to
The Peoples Trust Company of St.
Albans, Franklin County, Vermont, a
quit claim deed to the said lands de
scribed in the deed to secure debt,
which quit claim deed is recorded in
Deed Bopk 40, page 2, in the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Monroe county, Georgia; and,
Whereas, said principal note in the
sum of $6500, secured by said deed
to secure debt, is past due and un
paid and also the interest on said
note is past due since February 1,
1923, at the rate of interest speci
fied therein; and,
Whereas, said Joe W. Evans has
defaulted in the payment of said
principal and interest and the under
signed, owner of said loan deed and
note, has declared the entire indebt
edness due and payable.
Now, by virtue of the power vest
ed in the undersigned, which is more
accurately shown by reference to said
deed to secure debt, said lands will
be sold at public outcry, to the high
est bidder for cash, on the 24th day
of November, 1930, during the legal
hours of sale, before the court house
door in Monroe county, Georgia, said
lands described as fellows:
All that tract of land, situate, ly
ing and being in the Twelfth and
Thirteenth land districts of Monroe
county, Georgia, being the land pur
chased by Joe W. Evans from J. W..
Hunt and containing in the aggre
gate two hundred and seventy-seven
and 60'100 acres, more or less, and
more particularly described as fol
lows:
The east half of land lot number
fourteen (14), containing one hun
dred and one and one-quarter acres,
more or less, and all of land lot num
ber fifteen lying south of public road
leading from Smarrs, Ga., to W. B.
Meek place, except 11.6 acres sold
off the southwest corner of said lot
(15) by J. W. Hunt to Fletcher and
Chapman, there being conveyed in
this deed of lot fifteen, one hundred
and sixty-six and 35|100 acres, more
or less, and the parts of lots numbers
(14) and (15) being in the 12th land
district of Monroe county, Georgia.
Also ten (10) acres, more or less,,
in the northwest corner of land lot
number fifteen in the 13th land dis
trict of Monroe county, Georgia.
All of the above described land
being in one body and all bounded as
follow/: North by public road lead
ing from Smarrs, Ga., to W. B. Meek
place and lands of R. D. Maddux and
W. E. Davis; east by lands of Rev.
Gilreath, R. D. Maddux and Z. M.
Maynard; south by lands of Z. M.
Patterson (formerly Forsyth Mercan
tile Company and B. 0. Chapman),,
(formerly Fletcher and Chapman);
and west by land of B. O. Chapman
(formerly Fletcher and Chapman)
and public road leading from Smarrs,.
Ga., to W. B. Meek place.
This being place now occupied by
Joe W. Evans.
Description as of date February 1,
1919.
Fee simple title will be made to
the purchaser at the sale and the pro
ceeds of the sale will be first applied
to this indebtedness and the overplus,
if any, will be paid to Joe W. Evans
or - his legal representative.
This 25th day of October, 1930.
PEOPLES TRUST COMPANY OF
ST. ALBAN’S. By A. M. Zellner, its
Attorney-at-Law, Forsyth, Ga. 11-20
