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Newspaper Page TextMIOOOTOREST ; i IN CIIIFW; r TOIWICELIW President Wilson Expected to • Announce His Successor in Railroad Administration Soon, Is Report William Gibbs McAdoo will go to | California next week, or as soon as I President, Wilson has named his suc- I cessor as director general of the I United States railroad administra- . f tion, and in April will return to New | York where he will practice law. He has denied that he will not accept any of the offers said to have been made to him to head steel com binations, great engineering and management corporations, or to join famous New York law firms already established. "I don’t know just what I am go ing to do,” he said to the newspaper correspondents in Washington this week. ' It is clearly indicated in the acts I and published plans of the present secretary of the treasury, Carter Glkss. of Virginia, that the McAdoo policies will be carried out in the treasurv department, and it is as sumed that Mr. McAdoo's successor in the United States railroad ad ministration will also pursue the policies that Mr. McAdoo has applied in his management of the gigantic task of managing 181 separate rail road systems, a job of a magnitude, immensity and responsibility such as no other living man has ever been called upon to fulfill. Runaway Girls Made High Wages Three Jittle girls, each 16 years old, w < ’- arrested in New York CityY ,-runaways while in search I of wtfrk at $lO a day. Then had been working in an ammunition plant at Bridgeport, Conn., where they received sl9 a day, the girls said. The signing of the armi ;e threw them out of work. The girls told the policeman who arrested them, that they be lieved work would be plentiful and cheaper in New York than in . . Bridgeport. Americans Telephone To Berlin Every Day Daily telephone conversations be tween Berlin and the headquarters of the Third American army in Coblenz have taken place recently The conversations have been in con nection with the work of the inter allied armistice commission and also in arranging details concerning the war material which the Germans are assembling in the region of Coblenz. All wires between Berlin and the American area of occupation except two were several Saturday in ac cordance with the terms of the American occupation decree. The two remaining wiris are controlled by the American censors at Coblenz. Heavy Sales Force Liberty Bonds Down Liberty bonds were offered in enormous volume on the stock ex- ■:b <elit of annual f income.accounts. The feature was the fourth 4 l-4s, or latest issue, which . dropped to 94. a new low record. To tal sales of bonds on the exchange jo to 1 p. m. approximated $23,000,- 000, exceeding all previous records in the first three hours of a market session. Os this total it was esti mated 80 per cent were Liberty bonds. fl| , SB wi *1 f «r !«<!.«. WX/ W 1 Ll “’“° f,h *s“?i'"' l, " i Bsh'oly* SsF Resinol soothes f and heals V_z sick skins Resinol iswhatyouwantforyourskin trouble—Resinol to slof> the itching and burning—Resinol to heal the eruption. This gentle pintment is so effective that it has been a standard skin treatment for many years. It contains nothing which could irritate the tenderest skin evenof atiny baby. Alldruggists sell Resinol. iTOXATED ftl IRON ga VW If you are not strong or well rg you owe it to yourself to make LK> the following test: see how long you can work or how far you can . . walk without becoming tired. /CjgJX Next take two five grain tablets of NUXATED IRON three . z times per day for two week'. Then test your strength again *3CjLJE><» and see how much you have , ..|F gained. Many people have made ' £!:;• " this test and have been aston- ished al their increased strength. , endurance and energy. Nuxated Iron is guaranteed to give satis faction or money refunded. At pit" all good druggists. Hpisja IT’S NOT YOUR HEART; IT’S YOUR KIDNEYS ‘ Kidney disease is no respecter •>“ perstmg. It attacks all classes, re • dless of age, sex or conditions. A majority of the ills afflicting people I today can be traced back to the kid ney trouble. The kidneys are the most impor tant organs of the body. They are ' the filterers, the purifiers, of your blood. If the poisons which are swept from the tissues' by the blood Hire not eliminated through the ki.i .ieys, disease of one form or another will claim you as a victim. Kidney disease is usually indicated by weariness, sleeplessness, nerv ousness, despondency, backache, stomach trouble, difficulty when uri nating, pain in loins and lower abdo men, gall stones, tyravel. rheuma *tism. sciatica and lumbago. All these derangements ate na , ture’s signals to warn you that the Lonely Bride Sent-Thought-Wave After.. Husband, 000 Miles Away; He Cagne OTFMBnQjmaMr .* Five thousand miles —no small distance to send a thought-wave message, and have it “take!” But Mrs. Juanita Miller Reavis, daughter of Poet Joaquin Miller and four months’ bride of John Reavis, mining engineer, claims to have done just that thing. After the most approved mod ern fashion, this couple had main tained separate homes since their I Prize Puzzle Picture Letters That Won Cash THESE READERS WON REWARDS OF $1 EACH: Miss Ella Queen, R. F. D. No. 1, Madisonville, Tenn, Miss Nina Lesley, R. F. D. No. 5, Easley, S. C. Miss Sarah Greene, Abbeville, Ga. Miss Carrie McGuinn, Gaffney, S. C. Rodgers Sherwood, Brundidge, Ala. SPECIAL REWARD FOR $1: Miss Pauline Phillips, R. F. D. No. 1, Athens, Ga, The above readers won the cash, reward for correct solution of the first prize puzzle picture (favor ite flowers) and for excellence of let- ; ters that accompanied the solution. ' The correct answers were: 1. Carnation; 2, Violet; 3, Chry- 1 santhemuin; 4, Sunflower; 5, Sweet peas; 6, Everlastings. Seventy-five per cent of those who offered corrections failed on the sixth picture. Extracts from the prize-winning i letters: Miss Nina Lesley "I find the most helpful feature, • taken as a whole, to be ‘The Country : Home Timely Topics,’ writen by Mrs. I Felton. Her writings are ‘an every- ' day inspiration to me.” Rogers Sherwood "So many different things are to i fn-mA <T ~». yp?--—jr fiei‘"ttiat "t- wfax- I don’t have to read any other to get all the news.” Sarah Greene “I just love Aunt Julia. lam only [ ten years old, but I know I am learn- ; ing a lot of useful things by be- ■ longing to her big circle of friends 1 and cousins.” Carrie McGuinn "Our family has always taken the ■ Semi-Weekly Journal, it seems like, i because you are always sure to find ! things of interest in its well-edited pages to suit the tastes of every member of the household.” Ella Queen “I like Aunt Julia’s letter box the i best because it makes all the boys ! and girls who read the paper feel | that Aunt Julia is their really-and- I truly auntie, and that the paper I seems to be printed just for us.” Although Miss Pauline Phillips, i R. F. D. No. 1, Athens, Ga., failed to ' give the correct solution of the fa- I vorite flower pictures—mistaking I only one, however —she wrote what i the editors consider the very best I letter out of the thousands that were : received. So we have awarded her a special ' prize of sl, and have sent The Semi ■ Weekly Journal’s check to her with I our congratulations. Here is her ' letter: By Pauline Phillipa “The most significant and fore- NEWS NUGGETS FROM EVERYWHERE IN DIXIE 3TBEET CAB i’ABES U? IN ATHENS AND SOME, GA. Increases in street car fares in Athens and Rome, Ga., were author ized this week by the state railroad commission. In Athens fares will be increased to insure a 10 per cent increase in gross revenue. In Rome the increase will insure an added revenue of $ 1,000 a month to the company. BAN ON SKATING Waycross police have started a crusade to end sidewalk skating in that city. Children skating on the walks has been a long tolerated nuis ance. the police say, and arrests are threatened. POLES KILLED IN KIOT Bloody riots were waged in the streets of Warsaw, in Boland, this week. In one battle 47 Poles were killed and hundreds wounded when government troops and revolutionists clashed. JUDGE NEWMAN TO STAY Judge W. T. Newman, of the nor thern district of Georgia, has issued a statement denying he intends to retire from the bench, as had been reported. PLAN VICTOBY ABCH Workmen have started on the con struction of a “victory” arch in Way cross, Ga., designed as a memorial to the Waycross soldiers killed in the war. BOOST MACON GAS RATES The state railroad commission has authorized increase in rates on gas for illuminating, cooking and power purposes in Macon, Ga. kidneys need help. You should use GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Cap sules immediately. The soothing, healing oil stimulates the kidneys, relieves inflammation and destroys the germs which have caused it. Do not wait until tomorrow. Go to your druggist today and insist on his sup plying you with a box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. In twenty-four hours you should feel health and vigor returning and will bless the day you first heard of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil. After you feel that you have cured yourself, continue to take one or two capsules each day, so as to keep in first-class condition and ward off the danger of other at tacks. Ask for the original imported i GOLD MEDAL brand. Three sizes, i Money refunded if they do not heln you.—(Advt.) 1 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1010. marriage ceremony. Reavis left shortly afterward for the Philip pines. The width of the blue Pacific ocean made things a bit too separate, however, and Mrs. Reavis got lonesome. So she be gan sending “thought-waves.” She sent an “S. O. S.” to her husband by telepathy. “S. O. 5.,” in lovers’ language. signifies I “Speed Over, Sweetheart.” John ‘ ■ ''"V- IT '*ll w <.fl 9 jCjKOO«Wb»»S000o~ SLIEST QUEEN (HEIT) AND NINA LESLIE. , PRIZE WINNERS THIS V7EES - ■“ — u . j THE BEST LETTER GUT OF THOUSANDS RECEIVED ' i ; most quality of The Semi-Weekly I Journal is its thorough conception l of news. First, the headlines give i the exact “gist” of the news that i follows after it, and to a busy read ier who cannot spend much time in 1 reading - the paper, this is an essen tial. The concentrated form in this paper also employs concentrated words which just clinch the thought driven into one’s mind. “Not only is this short, concentrat ed form of news an asset to the busy reader, but also to one whose time is not so busily occupied. When one reads the paper he doesn't care to spend all day reading long and heavy paragraphs that contain in formation or intelligence of the day just as well in a ‘nut shell.’ “Concentration of news, which I suppose is the result of careful edit ing, is the most attractive quality I I find in The Semi-Weekly Journal. I admire the wide scope of your gene ral articles and I am enjoying the pictures with which you are now brightening your pages.” Winners in the second picture puzzle contest (American Cities) will be announced next week. NAB 20 PGR GAMBLING Police of Moultrie, Ga. started a campaign against gambling this week and arrested 20 persons, all negroes. Most of them await trial in jail. GOLF CHAMPION DEAD William M. Paul, champion ama teur golf player of North Carolina, died at Charlotte this week. He was 38 years old. WINS GARDEN PRIZE The Georgia state fair garden prize has been awarded to the Garden club of Thomasville, Ga. The award is ?25. E. A. Peden, a native of Griffin, Ga., has gone to France to become an aid to Herbert Hoover, food ad ministrator. ‘ Here Is a Man Wow 108 Years Old Who Laughs at Diet; Drinks What He Likes Simon Sobelman,.who lives at the Jewish Old Folks’ home in St. Louis, slapped his knees.and chuckled as he laid aside his newspaper after hav ing read with interest an account, of how Leonard Matthews celebrated his ninetieth birthday by walking six miles. “What do you think of that young ster?” he said to Mrs. Lena Gellman, the matron. “Here I am. 108 years old already, and 1 never walked that far in my life. He must be a-scared of the street cars.” "If everybody lived the way I do. B'ackmaiier Who Tried to Get SIO,OOO Is Foiled; and So Were the Detectives Attempt to extort SIO,OOO from .1. W. Bettendorf, an lowa millionaire, by threat of death, met with failure this week. A messenger boy was sent to the Bettendorf home for a suit case which was supposed to contain the money. It was to have been deliv ered to a certain address given to U. S. Peace Delegates Yet Unknown to France The statements made by Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Minister Pichon in the chamber of deputies in Paris that the French government had not been notii'. officially or semi-officially of the names of the American peace delegates, probably will result in the sending of a formal official notification of the arrival of j the American delegates to the French government. | got the message and promptly packed his grip. Now they are enjoying a re union on “The Heights” the unique home above Oakland, built by the eccentric California poet uur.ng his lifetime. Bath John and Mrs. Reavis aver that thought-waves are as efficient as cable or wireless, and a great deal cheaper. SLASHED petty WIFE OF MH SOOTH OHP \dmirer of Girl in New York Fatally Cuts Her When She Spurned His Unwel come Attentions As Mrs. Mary Thompson, the good k. ji.ing’ young wife of a soldier sta- Ic.'.ed at a southern camp, was leav : 'g her home in New York, a man : topped up to her and grabbed her by the arm. He was Paul Ward, a middle-aged widower. "Come along with me; I want to 1 talk to you,”, the man said. She tried ! to pull away from him-, for, accord- I ing to her and her mother, Ward has > been pestering her with his atten ‘-.-Cl [I ~l <n ~-' . I '"Not now. I’ll meet you tomgTTV the girl replied, in an endeavor to escape him. Suddenly becoming enraged. Ward slapped the girl violently and then I drew a big, keen-edged pocket knife, crying: “You know I love you! If I can’t have you nobody else ever will:” He cut one gash across Mrs. Thompson’s face which almost sev ered her nose. Twice he slashed her on the left cheek, twice more at the left side of her throat, then inflicted two wounds on her breast and two more, as she turned away, in her back. The stabbing happened so quickly that a crowd of young men standing nearby were unable to prevent it, but they saw the girl fall and they ran at Ward and disarmed him. As they beheld Mrs. Thompson’s condition they shouted, “Kill him!” and a doz en or more began punching and kick ing at the assailant. He went to the ground, and the young men kicked him unmercifully. ‘ Passersby joined in the assault upon him, and there were cries of “Pick him up and hang him to a lamp post!” Several hundred persons sur rounded the man, who was by now unconscious, and his girl victim, who was suffering agonies. Both the girl and her assailant are not expected to live. To Probe Paregoric Sales Federal officials are said to have sent agents to various southern states to investigate the promiscuous sale of paregoric. Thousands of per sons in “dry” territory are said to be paregoric victims. Now a Canadian Offlcot' F. P. Miller, former railroad clerk, has just returned to his home in Waycross wearing the uniform of a lieutenant in the Canadian army. He enlisted as a private in Quebec and earned Ills commission by feats of valor. Planes Forced Down Two aviators in small army planes flying from Arcadia, Fla., to Wash ington, were forced down at Mont gomery, Ala., by engine trouble this week. No damage reported. Mrs. Gellman, they all would be get ting old like myself,” remarked So belman. “The trouble is now that people pay too much attention to what they should eat and drink. Everybody, it seems, is on a diet. I eat and drink what I like and I like everything. If I feel like taking a little liquor I take it without first consulting a doctor to find out if it would give me indigestion. And when I want to take a. smoke I don’t ask myself will uy heart be able to stand it maybe. I just go ahead and smoke till I get tired.” the telegraph company which sup plied the messenger. Although postal authorities and Pinkerton detectives were on the job and had surrounded the house, a stranger stepped up to the boy, grabbed the suit case from him as be was leaving the door, darted into an alley, and made his escape. The suit case was stuffed with newspapers. Says China Will Ask Return of Kia Chow China will ask of the peace con ference the return of Kiao Chow, the termer German-controlled province captured by Japan early in the war. and a readjustment of' international trade relations to place China n an equal plane with other nations; Lu Cheng-Chiang. Chinese minister of foreign affairs and head of his coun tiy’s peace commission, declared on h,r arrival in New York on the way , to Paris. < ■ QJJiZIi Here are the correct answers to the QUIZ I printed in The Semi-Weekly Journal dated i December 31: 1. What official position does Marshal Foch of France hold? Commander in chief | of all tho Allies’ armies. 2. What is the largest city in the j World? New York, 6,000,000. 3. What is the largest American city on • the Pacific coast? Los Angeles, 600,000. ; 4. What American woman first sought • to obtain passage of an equal suffrage law in congress? Susan B. Anthony caused the drafting of what is now called the “An thony amendment to the Constitution of the united States.” 5. Where is the forest of the Argonne? ! In eastern central France, where many of the bloodiest battles of the Great War were fought. 6. What is the world’s most precious ■ metal? Radium. There is less than seven ; pounds in she world. 7. Who first perfected the wireless tele- . graph? Marconi, Italian inventor. 8. Who is William Gibbs McAdoo? For ■ six years secretary of the treasury: now i director general of railroads; son-in-law of President Wilson. Ik What is feldspar? A low-grade miu- | era! mined in Georgia. 10. What is the largest state, in area, i in the United States? Texas. 11. Which is the smallest state? Rhode Island. 12. Who was Aesop?' A Greek slave who lived centuries before Christ, and who obtained his freedom by virtue of a novel form of literary composition called a “fa ble,” most of which have been handed down to posterity and have been widely imi tated. 13. What is the greatest river in the world? The Amazon, in South America. 14. Who was the founder of the Chris tian Science faith? Mary Baker Glover Eddy, a poor seamstress in middle life, who attained a following of millions of people. 15. What is a flamingo? A bird found in tropical countries; of the crane family. 16. What woman made the first Ameri can flag? Betsy Ross. 17. Who invented the telephone? Alex ander Graham Bell. 18. Who founded the American Red Cross? Clara Barton. 19. Who was the most celebrated war nurse in history? Florence Nightingale, who ministered to the soldiers in the Cri mean war. 20. Where did Napoleon Bonaparte die? St. Helana, a desolate island to which he was exiled. HOW MANY DID YOU ANSWER COR RECTLY? (Answers to these questions will be print ed in next issue of The Semi-Weekly Journal.) 1. What great American poet died in poverty in Baltimore? 2. Who wrote “The Marble Faun?” 3. Who was Jacob Abbott? 4. What planet in the heavens is some times thought to be inhabited? 5. What is the family name of the ex kaiser? 6. What European country is noted for its mountains and its peace-loving peoples? 7. Name the five great lakes of this continent. 8. What caused a city to be founded at Nome. Alaska? S. Who was Henry Ward Beecher? 10. In what country is the Suez canal ? 11. Who was Pontius Pilate? 12. Is a whale a fish or an animal? 13. "What brothers made the greatest ad vancement in the pioneer days of aviation ? 14. For what reason is the name of ! Darwin celebrated? ! 35. Where is Vladivostok? i NOTE: Write out your answers now and ' compare them with the correct answers ta bo published in the next issue of The Semi- ; Weekly Journal. 24 Conventions Are Scheduled to Be Held In Atlanta in 1919 Tv.'tnty-four conventions are al- ■ scheduled to be held in At during the ocming year, ac dlng to announcement made ! ?. 3 week by Fred He- or, secretary ' " the Atlanta Convention bureau. is organization, which exerts its i• > ovts to secure conventions for ; Atlanta as a means of assisting ’ in ' its development, is continuing j its work along this line and ad ditional dates are expected to be ffcjfed within the next few weeks. ■ follows: I -iqnunry—Regional Meeting of Federated ■ cipffches: Institute of Dental Teachers: 1 Southern‘Traffic league; Georgia Optometri- I cal ,association. Ffebruary—Georgia League to Enforce i Podce. I April—Georgia Eclectic Medical nssocla- Georgia State Medical association; Sc.flhei'n Nurserymen’s association: Classi cal' Association of the Middle West and South. Mai’ —Southern , Baptist convention: Knights Templars of Georgia; Rebekah i State assembly; Shortline Railroad assocm- ■ iion: Georgia Surgeons’ club; Knights of ; Pythias, grand lodge. ! Juno—Southern Commercial Secretaries: | Georgia Commercial Executives: Georgia j Hotel Men’s association; Kappa Sigma fra i lernity. | July—Knights of Pythias, colored: Asso ' elution of County Commissioners of Georgia. October—Georgia Confederate Veterans. November—North Georgia Methodist "on fe-onee. December—Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Government Will Quit Marine Insurance Field The government will get out of the marine insurance field January 4, Secretary Glass announced in Washington. An order withdrawing all rates of premium fixed for insur ance by the marine and seamen’s division of the war risk insurance was issued this week. Police Seeking Girls Atlanta police are seeking two girls missing from their homes in Porteddale, Ga. They are Viola Russell and Arlena Dease, each 15 years old. Becomes Hoover Aid Refuses to Cut Fine Governor Dorsey, of Georgia, has refused to reduce the SI,OOO fine as sessed against H. C. Beasley, promi nent citizen of Tattnall, convicted of violation of the prohibition law. J. D. Price Sworn In James D. Price, of Griffin, Ga., was sworn in this week by Governor Dorsey, of Georgia, as a member of the state railroad commission suc ceeding Judge George H. Hillyer. FREE TO MOTHERS Os Children wiia WEAK KIDNEYS h II .WSUO By --iiSWi Good for old or young who can't contra! their kidneys Mothers —save yourself the trouble of either lifting your Weak-Kidneyed Children out of bed at night or drying their bedding the next morning by giving them Zemeto. A harmless medicine that should quickly banish this disease (for it is not a habit but a disease.) Zemeto is equally as good for older people who can’t control their wa ter during the night or day. Excellent for all Kidney, Bladder and Urinary troubles. Write us today—send no money, not even a stamp. Just your name and permanent address, and we will send you absolutely free a package of Zemeto. If it conquers your disease, you need pay us nothing—just tell your friends what it did for you. ZEMETO CO., Dept. 14, Milwaukee, Wis. Show this to some sufferer. SOFT BLEEDING LOOSE TEETH byak’s’Briggs 3ST/TEDT. Guaranteed to benefit or your money will be refunded. Sent for $1 post paid. RYAN CHEMICAL CO., Box 1678, Atlanta, Ga, Celebrated. 50th Anniversary Surrounded by Children Z-. -V' X! \ I Mr. and Airs. S. G. Jones, who live near Brooks. Ga.. have just cele brated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage at their country home. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were married on Christmas day, in 1865. on the very farm where they now live. The bride was the daughter of W. J. Bierse, who came to America from Ireland in 1853. The anniversary banquet, a few days ago, was spread upon a won derful linen tablecloth, the same one upon which the wedding breakfast was served fifty years before. Table Irene Castle Tells How She and Vernon . Struggled for Fame and Fortune in Paris Iren Castle recalling the day when she and Vernon were struggling for a livelihood in France tells in Every body’s for December the uncertainty of those times when the source of the next meal was problematic. “Every time we paid the rent, how ever, we had one good dinner and blowout. It was usually at some lit tle restaurant on a boulevard. We had champagne on these occasions and more than we wanted to eat, because there was so little left from the rent that it never seemed worth saving, anthe glass of wine wash ed our cares away and kept our misfortunes from swamping us. We Prices of Everything Must Come Down, Says United States Chamber of Commerce The dominant note in the story of general conditions today is the calm and collected manner in which the business world views the uncertain future which lies ahead, said a re port on general business conditions, made by the United States Chamber of Commerce’s committee on statis tics and standards in Washington. “There are all sorts of forecasts as to the nature and volume of busi ness during the next six months,” said the report. “But tfiis seems to Two-Thirds of American Contracts Abroad Voided Practically two-thirds of the American obligations in war con tracts abroad have been cancelled, Secretary of War Baker has an l nounced. French and British artll- I lery manufactured for American ao- j count will be brought back here. I The best writers and artists • A • 1 ii to write for us during rHfl V' 0 NEWSPAPER or magazine in America a more brilliant, famous and imposing afll talent than that now engaged by The Atkin jf Weekly Journal. Here is the distinguished list of writers and <IShHbH whose best efforts will be directed, during year, to making this newspaper the ’coder isl great South. 1 Contributing Editors J| Dr. Frank Crane H. Addington F nr J Frederic J. Haskin John Breck fl Department Editors Grandma” Felton Dr. Andrew M. sci: “Aunt Julia” J. C. Henson jB Lizzie O. Thomas Biddy Bye w Jesse W. Armistead Carolina Jewett Cartoonists fl R. L. Goldberg “Satterfield” “Bud” Fisher “Ahern” - In addition to these staff writers, The Atlanta-fl Weekly Journal is a member of the Associated I >v prints the last-minute cable and telegraph news fl world, carefully and expertly epitomized up to tbfl last minute of going to press. fl But in presenting to its readers the world the news of the whole country, home news—news oTthc Southern states —is by no means neglected. Hundreds of short, snappy, succinct stories of the Southland—veritable news nuggets from everywhere in Dixie—appear regularly in The Semi-Weekly Journal. I hese are sent in by 300 coriespondents regularly em ployed, and this news can be found nowhere but in the always-welcome Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal. Full and complete reports of cotton, wheat, produce and dairy markets are published, compiled with expert knowledge by our market editor. Educational topics, uplifting and inspiring editorials; cleverly written stories of city life; authoritative aids for the farmer; household instruction; short cuts in home v making; bright, clean fiction; splendid photographs right up-to-the-njinute in news interest—all these come to you twice a week for the amazingly small price of $1.25. I silver that was brought from Ireland by Mrs. Jones’ father more than six ty-five years ago, was used at the feast. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have seven children and they are shown in this photograph, taken for The Semi- Weekly Journal, along with the grandchildren. The children of the venerable couple are Mrs. B. A. Ogle tree, of Woolsey; J. B. Jone-, of Brooks; Mrs. Charles T. flriffin, of Pineview; Mrs. N. D. Huckaby, of Brooks; J. C. Jones, of Senoia: J. C. Jones, of Brooks, and Mrs. W. R. Keeley, of Pine View, all In Georgia. even used to order a whole strak for Zowie (Vernon’s dog>, to make It a big night for her too. “I can remember Vernon buying me a petticoat and hat with one of our ‘rolls’ of borrowed money. We; had admired them both on our way 1 to and from rehearsals, and I had looked so long and hungrily al the j black and white striped petticoat 1 costing 19 francs that, though we i could ill afford It, Vernon insisted j on buying it for me even before vve I paid the rent. By the time we had | had dinner and taken a. cab home, there was little left to start the next day.” be the most popular prophecy: Ape- ' rlod of intermediate length, working i itself out by common sense and fore- j thought to a far better era and greater prosperity than ever has ' been our portion in the past. In this j forecast the volume of foreign trade | ‘plays a large share.” The report says there is a wide- * spread feeling that there must be , such readjustment of prices as will j gradually bring them to a lower lev- ; el, assuring stabilization of prices ; and purchasing. QfeaiiSirjl *mß Futt. wrtc;:-.’ ac-w. tirw riAiurn s»n>.»p«<r *-n> m’”” «" tl— 4/ L „„ s„ n ,t, rT r,uh,„ n>it w »x>»y B'JV from at m fine*, until you ret th* * •* a * ki * Wriu • no»t»l.'V.| TODAY. Ancr.tx wonted everywhere. r American Foathar-. & Pillow Co. Coak XO* Maomriile, K 9 1 State 7 " , s «| * ■ Celebrations er Florida - It Tro«t m j last evening of CjL-, ■Y'/tin.’ -r’-npa nwiuwj to I • • ! .a n WSsrea ■’-»k li ouL WRU \ fr.i' ,» - f th* new Uv ' a tit <• <.f > • 1 months" I orin-.j-.t, “* the p.H. iIM f.T K'n"***’ I lens.', .-nd a fine <’T or • "OM yeats m ill. or l,o "h« for tho I offCIISC. Body of Girl Found Is ■ * In Canal Near Richmond! Clothed In a raincoat, and bearln • the appearance of having been mu . dered, and then thrown Into th< I water, the body of ■ young uniden’ ! fled white girl w.is found near Ric I n.ond. Va., (loafing in tho canal » 1 short distance west of tho city. The liody was found by a Mgf» i man who reported the fact to tn« | telegraph operator at the ChesapeaA i and Ohio railway station at We»i j hant. Va. First information of tho finding was given out hero by on | ployes of the < . Av. railway. *h>» i had been notified by the operator. Thorfe who viewed the body any I that it was a clear case of rnurde: i The girl’s face was badly sc*rr«M and bruised, and it Is the theor i that she was struck a severe blow i on the side of the face, which re I suited in death. A small bent wlr i found around her waist leads to th»- j belief she was murdered some dis- I tance from the canal and carried i there by means of the wire, tho ■ weight of her body bending it. Th* ! bodv appears to l>e that of a girt I Sixteen or eighteen' yearn old.

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, January 03, 1919, Image 1