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BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
VOL. XVI.
DEDICATION SERVICES
At New School Auditorium.
There will he dedication services
at the New School Auditorium at
Horner, Dec. 27th, instant, St
Joint's day, in Masonic parlance
A Ist) a coutest for the prettiest and
most popular girl in Banks county
to win a most valuable prize, as
well as other prizes, for those re
ceiving a less number of votes in
the contest. It is suggested that
the Eastern Star and llelrccca de
grees be confered an those entitled
an all day singing, basket dinner
and a general good time be pulled
off, on the same day. Of course
everybody will be here.
Oscar Brown,
Chrm’n. Building Com.
PROGRAM
10 o’clock—Masonic Parade and
public speaking.
11 o’clock —ledieation of School
Building.
12 o’clock —Barbecue and Tur
key Dinner.
1 o’clock p. m.—Binging and in
strumental music by the l>est musi
cians.
2:30 o’clock —contest of the pret
tiest and most popular girls in
Banks county from each School
District.
Kules —For the prettiest and
most popular young lady in Banks
county who receives the largest
number ol votes, at #I.OO per 1000
votes or the fractional part thereof,
a diamond ring to cost not less
than #2s.oii
The one receiving the next lar
gest numljer of votes 15 per cent,
of the net proceeds of the contest
for a library for her school district,
and the one receiving the next high
est vote 10 per cent of the net pro
needs lor the same purpose. Th
balance will be applied to the equip
meut of The Banks County Accred
ited High School, at llomer.
Tickets accompanied with the
money will be received at any time
by C. W. Gillespie, treasurer of
the Contest Committee, composed
of the following gentleman vis: C.
W. Gillespie, J. B. G. Logan, J.S.
Jolly,Obe Walton and Walter Dur
ham.
At 3 o’clock Eastern Star degree
will be oonferred.
Oscar Brown,
J. C. Bell,
J. 8. Jolly,
Bldg. Com.
Hr Wonder.
A woman never ceases to wondar
What her husband did with the $3 he
had butt week. -Philadelphia hedger
“CALL COURT”
School Auditorium
Dec. 19th, 7 o’clock P. M.
UNCLE 808 ALEXANDER
vs
DR SWAYNE JOLLY
Charge: STEALING WATERMELONS.
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
Judge Hill, presiding, Walter Chambers
Col. Logan, for prosecution, Loy Wilson
Col. Jolly, for defense, Rufus Chambers
Dr. Jolly, prisioner, Roy Chambers
Mr. Alexander, witness for prosecution, Newton Turk
Mr. Jimmie Hill, witness for prosecution, Lat Wilson
Mrs. Alexander, witness, Dovie Carter
Miss Lola Barden, witness for defense, Rubie Gardiner
Other Plays, Songs and Music. This program will get you in just
the right mood to enjoy Xmas. Come out and be with us.
Admission 15 and 25c, proceeds go to
Building Fund.
Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of Banks County.
Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Thursday, December I I, 1913.
Maysville Locals
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Mrs. Ed 8. Comer and little sons,
W illiam and James spent several
days recently with relatives at Ath
ens.
Mr. Allan E. Carr, a popular
salesman of the Davison-Nicholson
Cos. at Athens, spent Sunday w ith
liomefolks here.
We are glad to know Mr. Bruce
Sanders who has been in Atlauta
for the past few months is at home
again.
Mrs. Dock Carr and Master Ben,
have returned from a short visit to
Athens.
li. T. Camp, a prominent attor
ney from Carnesville, spent a few
days last week in our little city.
Col, Camp was located here for sev
eral months about two years ago,
and has many friends who are al
ways glad to have him return.
Mrs. .1. T. Smith madea pleasure
ti ip to Gainesville and a business
ti ip to Atlanta the firstofthe week.
Mrs. Walter C. Lockhart was the
hostess of the Sewing Club on
Thursday afternoon of last week.
The unique contest was followed
by a splendid two course dinner
which was greatly enjoyed by all.
Handcuffed. Leaps From Train.
After lie hml been arrested by Chief
of Police Sumner, ol' Cordole, (in.,
at Ocala, Fla., and started on the way
to Oordele, Henry Lewis, a negro,
charged witli a misdemeanor offense
In Crisp county, leaped from a fast
moving train at Sparks, (in., and
made Ills escape, wtiile securely hand
puffed.
Farmers’ Union Re-elects Officers.
At the annual meeting of Mutts
County Fanners* Inien, officers were
elected for the ensuing year. All of
the old officers were chosen for anoth
er term. They include: .1. .1. Majip.
president; J. M. McMichael, vice-pres
ident; J. I*. Jones, secretary; J. M.
Gaston. chaplain; J. ('. Kimhell, eon
due-tor; \V. S. Cook, doorkeeper, and
.1 M. Oaston, business agent.
Plea lor New Trial.
Mrs. Ooilbce. convicted of the kill
tug nf her former husband and his
young wife at Milieu, Oa., and who
has been in jail al that place sinci
her conviction, has entered a plea for
w new trial.
lahy's Lfpa Not to Be Kissed.
A baby's hand may be kissed, but
■ot a baby's lips. Kisses often convey
euntaglon, especially In the season
when colds are prevalent A cold la
the head Is a disagreeable malady,
*nd may be the precursor of a cold
elsewhere. The person who has It
should keep it, and so far aa may be
possible, establish a strict quarantine
lest the cold be given to a friend. Love
should be at pains not to spread con
tagion by a kiss.— Christian Herald.
Homer Locals
Mr. A. M. Mason lias been on
the sick list several (lays.
Mr. L. J. Kagsdale was in the
city on business Monday.
Warden Harvey Brown spent a
few hours in Homer Monday.
Harvey Anderson visited his
sister, Mrs. Bud Turk, Suuday.
Mr. Colie i’erkins and Col. Chas.
Chandler were visitors here Sun
day.
Misstw Eulah and Beulah Hardy,
daughters of Mr. Pratt Hardy, left
Sunday for an extended visit to
relatives in Atlanta.
Mr. Ural Griffin drove over to
Maysville Saturday and on his re
turn discovered that he had drove
another mans horse home. His
was sent to him next day.
Col. Gordon Logan has a woek,s
growth of beard oa his broad, and
once srnoothe face, and his friends
are wondering whether he will
wear a full long beard, Elijah
style, or cut them to a point Van
dyke style.
Dr. J. i). Rice left last week for
his home in North Carolina. Be
fore leaving he purchased a full
blooded Kentucky horse which lie
drove through. Doc, as he is fa
miliarly known here, has many
friends in Banks, all of whom re
gret to see him leave.
Hollingsworth
llowdy to everybody.
Mr. and Mrs. 1. 11. Hellers left
Sunday for South Georgia, where
they will spend a few weeks.
It seems that ifa man dosn’towu
a bird dog and a automobile he is
not up in the style.
Mr. Dock Lewallen has been con
lined to his bed for several weeks
with typhoid fever, but seems to
be improving now, we are glad to
learn.
Everybody who is not married
are still living single, so they say.
Misses iinnie and DonieDuckett
informs us that they are going to
visit friends near Lavonia during
Christmas. Surely, surely, they
will not leave this beautiful young
set of good looking boys, as they
arejolly good girls and as to “beau
ty” we have the most beautiful set
of both boys and girls we Itelieve,
in the state. If you don’t lielieve
us just ask anyone who has seen
them.
Mr. Frank Coolej has moved to
our town. We gladly welcome him
to our little city.
Bhock Wu Too Great.
Policeman —"Do you know thla sick
man?" Interested Bystander—“ No. I
only jest met him. He seemed a nice
sort of a feller; he shook my hand and
we chatted a while, an' I told 'lm I
was Seth Plnewood from Pennsylva
nia, an’ that I’d come on with one
thousand In cash to see this here
town. J ast him if he knew of some
young feller as could show me around;
an’ then he threw up his hands an* fell
down!” —Puck.
Horse's Long Fast.
A horse recently passed fourteen
days In a cave In Oklahoma without
food or water and. although It lost
800 pounds In weight through the fast,
it quickly recovered after it was res
cued. The cave was concealed by
planks and these broke as the horse
walked across. The owner supposed
that the horse had been stolen, and
Its presence In the cave was discov
ered by chance.
In the Bame Boat.
Belle and Ber. had just announced
their engagement. “When we are
married,” said Belle, “I shall expect
you to shavs every morning. It’s
one of the rules of the club I belong
to that none of its members shall
marry a man who won’t sh •: every
morning?” “Oh, that’s all right," re
piled Ben; “but what about the morn
ings I don’t get home In time? I be
long to a club, too.” —Llpplncott’s
Magazine
OVER TWO MILLION
BALES ARE GINNED
♦
Georgia Colton Crop Nets
$139,373,480
GRADE IS MUCH HIGHER
Lust Year Only 1,504,428 Bales Had
Been dinned to Date—The Increase
This Year Is 500,000 Bales, Govern*
ment Report.
The government. Kilmers' report
shows that 2.0(1-1,7112 bales of eotton
have been ginned In (ieorgia since the
cotton crop began to move. Males gin
ned, as a gene nil proposition, may be
regarded as bales sold. Particularly is
this true for the presout season. Few
farmers are holding their crop, for
prices have been thoroughly satisfac
tory.
Georgia, then. Inis sold more than
2,000,000 bales of cotton. The price
has ranged from 13 cents upward for
middling, with an unusual premium
for white, tine grades. The Georgia
crop has classed much higher than
usual, better than the crop of Texas
or any of the river states. It Is conser
vative to say that an average of
13 1-2 cents was paid for the Georgia
crop.
This makes $130,373,-100 receiv
ed for the crop to dale.
Last year only 1,504,128 bales had
been ginned to Ibis dale. The In
creise tills year is 500,000 bales.
NICK WILBURN CASR.
Motion For New Trial — Lease of Life
For Condemned.
Judge Park, of the Octnulgee cir
cuit, lias postponed until Monday, I>e
eiuiber 15, flic hearing of motion for
new trial for Nick Wilburn, the Jones
county young mail who was convict
ed of the murder of J. L, King, of
Bound Oak, and sentenced to be hang
ed on December 12.
Tills postponement was made neces
sary by, the unavoidable conflict in the
dates of legal engagements of Attor
ney John It. Cooper, Wilburn's lead
ing counsel.
.Slaton will be asked to grant a re
apite to Nick Wilburn in order to ac
commodate the court* hi the handling
of his ease.
At the trial In September Nick Wil
burn was first, tried and convicted,
and the following week Mrs, King
the dead man’s wife, tried as acces
sory was acquitted. This remarkable
and unexpected outcome of the ease
created wide comment, mostly unfa
vorable.
Judge Park publicly criticised the
verdict of the jury when they set
Mrs. King free.
Stricken Dead Shaving,
Herbert L. Dyer, district agent
of the Empire Life Insurance com
pany, with headquarters in Savan
nah, died at Valdosta, Ga., suddenly
at the home of Ids mother-in-law,
Mrs. M. A. Briggs. Mr. Dyer had
gone to the bathroom to shave him
self, when he was attacked with heart
failure, and it Is presumed, died in
stantly.
“Tiger" Hunt In Brunswick.
“The sale of whisky must stop
In the eily of Brunswick or ive will
get a police force who will stop It.”
This was the edict given out by
Mayor Hopkins of Brunswick, Ga.,
when, backed by every member of
city council, a general crusade against
the illegal sale of whisky was started
by him.
Two White Slaves Enter Guilty Pleas.
Hanging tils head with shame as be
stood before Judge Sheppard, in the
United .States court at Savannah,
Mose Zacharis plead guilty to the
charge of white slavery. Zacharis and
Itbhard Steinberg were accused of
transporting Bessie Bowen and Marie
Howard from Jacksonville to Augusta
lor immoral purposes.
Eats 30 Srtychnine Tablets.
Robert Meek, the two and a half
year-old son of Vergil Meek, of For
syth, Ga., is in a precarious condition
as a result of strychnine poisoning/
The little boy, finding a box of pink
tablets and thinking they were candy,
ate 30 of them. He was soon seized
with violent convulsion*. Antidotes
were administered and tt Is thought
the child’s life will be saved.
CONVICTS SAVE OFFICER.
Deputy Tucker, of Irwin County, Pin
ned Under an Auto in a Creek.
Deputy Shi riff Archie Tucker, of
Irwin counly, had a remarkably close
call from death when the automobile
he was driving ran off the bridge ovei
the Willacoochee creek north ol
Ocilla, Ga.
The sheriff was returning from
Fitzgerald and ha had trouble with
tie machine on the bridge. It suddenly
OBORGIA IN BRIBF. *
Miss Anne Lou Male, age 22 years,
who lived near Woodland, Ga., on tin
home place formerly owned liy lion.
Fletcher Woodall, committed suicide
b.v drinking six ounces of chloral. She
had said she was tired of life and was
ready to die.
J. B. Carlisle, a prominent plantin',
10 miles from Vienna, shot and killed
a negress, Margurctc Rutherford, and
hol and seriously wounded her son.
Sheriff M. (). Davis went to the scene
and ascertained that tlie negroes were
accused of attempting to stub the
planter with a butcher knife.
The cotton receipts for Athens this
year to the middle of this week were
72,0(13, against about 0,000 less this
time last year. Shipped out, 40.213;
on hand, 21,441; local mills, 1,401);
rail receipts, 53,688; wagon receipts,
17,775.
Over $3,000 a year has been sub
scribed by Atlanta business men for
three years toward the expenses of
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
The State ('handier expeels lo raise
SIO,OOO in Atlanta and $50,000 in
(ieorgia.
Five hundred divorces have been
granted in Fulton county to dale this
year, and more are coming. The
superior court faces the heaviest di
vorce calendar in its history. Nearly
200 sails have been Hated. Judge Ben
11. Hill will hear them.
G. W. Day, 27 years old, of Car
tersville, Ga., a patient In the sani
tarium of Dr. James N. Mrawner, at
Smyrna, Ga., was burned to death In
a lire which destroyed the cottage In
which he was confined. Four other
patients who were In the cottage were
rescued by I)r. Mrawner and the at
tendants of the sanitarium just In
time to save their lives.
The funeral of the first white per
son born in Rome took place from
the First Methodist church-over the
body of Miss Amaniln Jack. The
dead woman was 7s years of age,
having been born on August 2. 1835.
Her parents v ere pioneers and came
to Rome when Hie Indians still hud
possession of that section.
In one session of the superior court
at Savannah, twenty-seven erstwhile
loving couples were freed from the
irksome bonds of matrimony. When
the twenty seventh marital knot had
been untied Judge Charlton was mov
ed lo remark, from the bench, tliat he
wondered if any other incompatible
unions existed. There are 100 eases
to he disposed of by the court in four
days.
la a warmly contested municipal
election at Marietta. M. 1\ Dobbs de
feated J. W. Austin for mayor by a
majority of 126 votes. Dobbs’ total
vote was 360 and Austin's 254. The
successful candidate carried every
ward In I lie city.
Mount Airy Boy Weighs 180.
James Adolph Cody, the Mount
Airy, Ga., boy, who Insists on being
called “Rig Joe,” the world's giant
boy, now tips the scales at 180 pounds
and is not yet 5 years old. The boy’s
health Is perfect and he is a normal
Georgia boy in everything except
pounds and a tinge of roses on his
cheeks a little more apparent than the
average boy who romp; from morning
till night.
14,000,000 lags.
That Number Will Be Used 1 or Geor
gia Fertilizer.
In anticipation of the ever-increas
ing demand for commercial fertilizer,
there has been ordered by the Geor
gia department of agriculture 1 1,000,-
000 fertilizer tags for (be season ot
1913-14.
This Is sufficient tags for 1,400,-
000 tons of fertilizer. Of this num
ber, 7,000,000 tags have already been
received.
According to Assistant Commission
er of Agriculture Dm Hughes, the
demand for fertilizer )'i> grain crops
tills fall was unusual 1 ; nod. and al
ready orders for tags m • (lining In
in anticipation of the 1 .ivy deliveries
to be made after Cbri mas.
The sale of cotton seed meal tags
has begun, too, and tills Georgia by
product has already become one ot
the foremost in the state. With the
use of the proper amount of commer
cial fertilizer next year, Georgia prom
lses to repeat her wonderful crop suc
cess of 1913.
Take Thslr Payment That Way.
Some men want so much praise for
an unselfish act that Jt amounts to 11b
sral compensation.
dlvsd head-foremost off the side, turn
ing completely over and holding tbf
sheriff’s head down at the bottom ol
the crqek.
A gang of convicts, many of them
being sentenced to the gang by thf
sheriff, was working on the road near
by and at the call of foreman ran tc
the turned machine, waded into tbt
water and lifted the weight from tilt
Imprisoned sheriff. He declared that
thirty seconds more would bav
meant bis death, ,
Mt- Pleasnnt
Mr. Deaton Jones and wile have
returned home, accompanied l>y
their sister, Miss Jessie.
Mr. ('has. Murphy, ot South
Georgia, is visiting the family of
Mr. \V. J. Horton.
Mr. It. J. Barnes and wife v isit
ed in Clermont last week.
What is the matter with Berlin- -
everybody closed up and gone.
War on Rats.
Rats on ships do several million do!
lars of damage to cargoes every year,
to say nothing of the carrying of dis
eases. Hat killing virus is used suc
cessfully on shipboard, but some of the
rats become Immune to the dlscaso
which the virus causes. This is not so
bad, because the rats which are not
killed by the virus, but have gotten
used to it, carry virus disease to other
tats, and these in turn are killed by
the disease
Beek Something to Replace Coat.
Coal offers to mankind solar energy
In Its most concentrated form. In
deed modern civilization may he said
to be the daughter of coal. Hut the
supply of coal is not inexhaustible and
every ton of It taken out of the earth,
leaves just that much less for the fu
ture needs of the world. Hence It la
that today we are looking about us so
nnxb 'v for some other source of
fUI: 1
DOGKINS & WELL*
For sale at Cornelia,
Ga., Tennessee and
Kentucky mules. Will
be here until April Ist.
1.914.
Cow For Sale
by Mrs.W. h\ Hyder at Lula,
Gii.
FOR SALE!
Nice 6-room house in oak grove.
Will .sell with this house from 4
to 33 acres, to suit purchaser. Half
mile below depot, fronting on rail
roa< 1
J. T. White,
Maysville, Ga.
Empire Laundry.
Wc are agents lor the Empiie
Laundry of Athens. Our basket
leaves every week. Leave your
laundry at our store.
HILL & BROWN.
HART COUNTY is the home of
Rasy Teether Here 18 firms sell
it and 837 of her citizens certify it
has cured their children of all
kinds of stomach and bowel trou
bles. G. O. Mason will give your
money back if it fails to cure your
child. adv.
A GOOD FARM FOR SALL
I have a splendid 215 acre farm
for sale. Close to line school, in
good community. Gold louses
and well watered. J'art cash and
balance on easy terms.
G. G. Strange,
Homer, Ga.
EASY TEETHER is a harmless
and sweet powder and is guaran
teed by G. O. Mason to cure your
child of all kinds of Stomach and
Bowel diseases,such as Indigestion
—Diarrhoea, Flux, etc. adv.
Money to Loan
Money to Loan on farms at <>
per cent, for any length of time
from 3to 10 years. You can get
the money now and make the pay
ments due during the fall.
R. T. CAMP,
Carnesville, Ga.
Quiet Enough, but—
When an Irishman was fined for be
ing drunk at Tallaght, County Dublin,
the chairman asked if the man was
quiet at the time of the offense. A
Constable —"Yes, your worship. He
had some of his clothes off and was
saying his prayers on the roadside. He
thought be was going to bad."
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