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VOL. XVI. GREAT CELEBRATION AT HOMER 27TH, INST. At School Auditorium. Each school district in the eoun ty is entitled to one candidate to be nominated according to the rules and may be voted for until election closes at 2:30 o’clock p. m. the day named for the final contest. PROGRAM 10 o’clock—Masonic Parade and public speaking. 11 o’clock —Dedication of School Building. 12 o’clock—Barbecue and Tur key Dinner. 1 o’clock p. m. —Singing and in strumental music by the lx*st musi cians. 2:30 o'clock —contest of the pret tiest and most popular girls in Banks county from each School District. Rules —For the prettiest and most popular young lady in Banks county who receives the largest number ot votes, at #I.OO per lOOtl votes or the fractional part thereof, a diamond ring to cast not less than *25.00 The one receiving the next lar gest number 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 ceeds tor the same purpose. The balance will be applied to the equip ment of The Banks County Accred ited High School, at Homer. 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. ■\V. Gillespie, J. B. G. Logan, J. 8. Jolly,Obe Walton and Walter Dur ham. At 3 o’clock Eastern Star degree will lie conferred. Oscar Brown, J.C. Bell, J. 8. Jolly, Bldg. Com. EABY TEETH Eli is a harmless and sw*** powder and is guaran teed by G. C. Mason to cure your child of all kinds of Stomach and Bowel diseases,suth as Indigestion —Diarrhoea, Flux, etc. adv. Money to Loan Money to Loan on farms at 6 per cent, for any length of time from 3to 10 years. You can get the mouey now and make the pay merits due during the fall. B. T. CAMB, Carnesville, Ga. MONEY TO LOAN. We are prepared to make loans on larm lands, payable one to five years. No delay. Georgia Loan a- Abstract Cos. Bkaekleford Bldg. Athens, <la. DROPS DEAD IN ELEVATOR. C. W. Brown, Prominent Hotel Man, Dies Suddenly. C. W. Brown, Jr., receiver for the hotel Lanier, dropped dead as he step ped on the hotel elevator to go to his room. Heart trouble Is said to have been the cause. Mr. Brown started In the hotel bus iness ten years ago with the Kimball house in Atlanta. He was with the Lanier from 1905 to 1909. In 1909 he went to Jacksonville, where he was with the Duval and Aragon, re turning to Macon last September. Girl Fatally Burned. The young daughter of Thomas Kendrick, who lives near Zebulon, Ga., was so badly burned that she died soon after. Her clothing caught fire in the yard and she ran until burned almost to death, her frantia r’ ->rher being unable to stop her. BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL TROOPS ON GUARD AT WAYNESBORO, GA. Negroes Saved From Judge Lynch’s Vengeance MARTIAL [AW PREVAILS Enraged Citizens Were Bent Upon Avenging the Horrible Murder of a Farmers’ Wife Near the Village of Wrens, Ga. / Throe negroes from Jefferson coun ty, charged with the brutal murder of a farmer’s wife, are In jnil at Waynesboro. (5a.. under guard of the local military company, which was called out by Governor Slaton when it became apparent that unless this no tion was taken the negroes would meet violence at the hands of the in furiated men who were pouring into the town. The negroes are Robert Paschal, Sum Irby and a third whose name is not known. They were brought to Waynesboro front Louisville by the sheriff of Jefferson county, who slip ped away from a mob which was bent upon lynching the three men. The crime with which the negroes are charged was committed above Wrens, near the Glascock county line, when three negroes, Robert Paschal, Sam Irby and another whose name is hot known, went to the house of Kelli Irby, a white man. attacked his wife, cut her head from her shoulders and beat It into a Jelly. When Irby returned home from a visit he had made to a neighbor near by he found his family of small chil dren covered up In bod frightened nearly to death, the headless body of tils wife lying on the floor. Sheriff Smith and Deputy Sheriff Melton were notified and the county dogs led them to where the three ne groes were hiding. Tli officers’ quick work prevented mob violence and the negroes were landed in jail. The town of Waynesboro is under martial law. $50,000 FIRE IN ROME. Firemen Fought Blaze W hich Th-rat ened Whole Block. The worst fire Rome lias known in several years caused damage to prop erty In excess 0f560,000. and threat ened the eutira business section of the city before It was subdued by firemen. The fire originated from some un known cause, probably In the studio of J. W. Hnekett. photographer, and burned for many minutes in the rear of the buildings fronting on Broad street between Second and Third avenues, the heart of the business •eetion, before it was discovered by pnssersby. For a time it looked as ii the entire block would go up in flames. Sufferers from the fire were Hack ett’s studio, Dr. L. F. MeKoy’s dental office, l aity Sign Company, Charles 11. May, sign painter, Kress Ten Cent store, tiie Clement-Peacock Clothing Company, the Cherokee National Bank and the Elite Theater, a motion picture house. ROW IN BOARDING HOUSE. Father and Son Are Shot at Columbus Ga. Doc McChristle. a hoarder at (lit home of Mrs. J. W. Barnes, and Barnes, husband of the woman, he came involved in a difficulty at tilt woman’s linrnc nt Columbus, when the former drew ills pistol and fired several times wounding Barnes in tin right arm and shooting Barnes’ 4- year old son Just above tile left eye The wound of the child is serious. Barnes and wife are living apart. It is said. It Is said that Barnes, who if alleged to have been drinking, wenf to the home of ids wife and began u raise a disturbance with the family and that McChristle interfered in or der to protect the children, shooting with the result stated. Barnes lias been arrested and lodg ed in jail. M('Christie made his es cape. HIGH LIVING. Dressed Meat Cost Up 73.8 Per Cent In Ten Years. Dressed meat increased 7’i.B pet cent, in price from 1899 to 1909. not withstanding that the producing kept pace with the Increase in populattoi during that period, according to a re port by the Census Bureau. The total supply of all dressed meats for both 1909 and 1899 was 107 pounds per capita. Considering only beef, veal, mutton and pork, tin supply was 105 pounds per capita in 1909, compared with 100 pounds in 1899. The figures are based on the returns of slaughtering houses only, which in clude only about 65 per cent, of thi total production of dressed meat. Tired of Coffin Talk, Elopes. Miss Hansel Gilbretb, the daughtei of a wealthy coffin manufacturer o! Devoted to Giving “the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of BanKs County. Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Thursday, December 18, J 9 13- GEORGIA IN SRI2F. Eugenics will be tin- ruin topic for dls-ussion among the ph\ m inus of the (seventh District when they con vene In Home. De< < mlier ' Representative Edwards, of Geor gia, in a lull Introduced proposed that the government refund the cotton taxes collected during and just after the civil war. Judge Richard B. Russell, presiding Judge of the Georgia state court of appeals, will in' a candidate to suc ceed himself on the bench of that court. Rome is to have u new daily after noon newspaper In The Home Dally News, which will publish Its first Is sue on the afternoon of January 1, lbll. The Southern Express office at Oglethorpe was burglarized, two cases of whisky and about SIOO worth of clothing shipped to merchants being stolen. A hydrographic survey of tlie Sav annah River, from the locks above Augusta to Savannah, will be ordered at once by the War Department at Washington. Savannah society girls will invade the shopping district For four days before Christmas to sell candy in the principal stores for the benellt of the Margaret Boltome fund to tight tuber culosis. Miss I.ttlti Arnall. aged -3, of lliipe vtlle. oas all but fatally wounded when her brother, who stood in the doorway of their home, accidently dis charged a shotgun, the lead entering Miss Arnall's neck, some of the pel lets striking against her skull. Gilmer superior court adjourned af ter the jury returned a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the case of the state against lien Jones, who was charged with the mur der of Jiis father. Judge Patterson sentenced hint to live years. A delegation of the representatives of Savannah will leave for Washing ton to formally tender President Wil son an invitation to attend the Na tional Drainage congress in Savannah next April. Up to December first there were lb.lll 1 bales of cotton ginned ill Floyd county from the crop of 1013. From the crop of 1012 prior to the same date 14.502 bales were ginned. This is the government report and it shows an Increase of 5,01 b hales over last, year. An official statement of 1013 lax ligitres, given out for Atlanta for the first time, shows an increase of $17.- 450.400 in tax returns tills year over 1012. The increase is the largest la the history of Atlanta, ’and exceeds by approximately $1,500,000, the in crease anticipated in the final revi sion of the city budget. The Savannah chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, lias ex tended an invitation to the general convention to meet in Savannah next November. Mrs. A. B. Hull, the presi dent of the local chapter, sent the in vitation to Mrs. Daisy McLuurin Ste vens, the president of the general or ganization at Brandon, Miss. There is said to la* no doubt of its accept - a nee. CLEMENTS HOLDS JOB. Georgian Reappointed on Interstate Commerce Commission. That the president has practically determined to re-appoint Juiison 0. Clements, of ileorgia, to the Interstate Commerce Commission became known at the White House. Despite his advanced age, Commis sioner Clements still is vigorous and is one of the leading railroad experts of the national. Former Governor Glenn of North Carolina, was a candidate for the place, but President Wilson has decided to appoint him to the In ternational Boundary Commission. TWO SUICIDES. Georgia Voung Girl and Youth Take Their Lives. Miss Jessie Rogers, a young woman about 18 or 19 years old, committed suicide at the home of her father, who lives about 3 miles from Zebulon, While her mother was preparing breakfast she retired to a room, took carbolic acid and was dead in a few minutes. No cause is known for the rash deed. A Butler, Ga. dispatch says: Heath Foy. son of Sam Foy, in the fippei part of this county, committed suicid* by shooting himself with a shotgun. The young man was 23 years old and a member of a prominent family. Despondency over financial troubles is supposed to be the cause. Cleveland, Tenn., became tired, she says, of hearing her father discuss his trade and the lugubuous subjects apertaining to it and eloped to Home with Carl Hunter, a one-lepped boy, thereby causing bis arrest as a kid napper and making him liable to an accusation of white slavery. Iluntei and the girl, who is 18 and a beauty, registered at a local hotel where they were arrested. Both were taken back Mi Cleveland* the boy under arrest USEFUL HOLIDAY GIFTS We are Ready in Every Detail For the Host of Xmas Shoppers Ready with the most brilliant gathering of Merchandise ever brought to this city. CHRISTMAS 1913 is going clown in history as a trib ute to the long-headiness of American Men and Women. Gifts this year, as never before, will be mostly of the practical sort. This store suggests at every turn, what folks want most —Things they would buy for themselves. If you want your gifts to be genuinely appreciated come to this store and learn what delightfully appro priate things we have. MRS. J. T. SMITH MAYS\ IIzMO, - - GEORGIA Headquarters for Apples, <-an dies, Oranges, Raisins, Nuts, Cur rants, Cranberries, Celery, Fire woiks ete. M. Jj. Voyi.es, It Maysville, Ga. Miss Stella Forbes Dead Miss Stella Forbes, twenty-six years old, died at her home, 204 Plum street, Friday night about 8 o’clock. Kite is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. <Forties, and her brother, Robert A. Forbes. Funeral services will be conducted from the Moore Memorial church cuaday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, and interment will be in West i View cemetery.—The Atlanta; Journal. A Bargain If you want a bargain in a house and lot in Maysville. Bee me at once • J. Thomas White, Maysville, Ga. Notice We will sell to the highest bidder for cash on Dee. 30tb, inst. at the Bank of Maysville eight shares of Maysville Oil Mill stock and seven shams Farmers Ware house stock. Said stock sold as collateral attached to note of A. B. Smith. Bank of Maysville. Look out for my sign over the door. Come in and get Oranges, Apples, Raisins, Currants, Cran j berries, Celery, ete. Big line of | Fireworks at M. L. Voylee, Mays | ville, Ga. It The Dividing Line The bank account is often the di viding line between success and fail ure. G-reat things often come from small beginnings. Start the saving habit. Open an account at our bank, no matter how small. Systematic saving will firmly fix the habit that will lead you from poverty to inde nendence and a home of your own. We will be glad to help you in any way we can. The Bank of Gills ville G-illsville, G-a. GilO VTtS L. GRIFFIN, Cashier. Jouannef’f Frost Proof Cabbage Plants . Are known as the best to bo hnd anywhere by thousands °* experienced buyers, and are offered to you at prices '.TbL'lgK' 1 LOWER tl an you pay for common, inferior plants. Wild, x HAVE AI , VARIETIES. Plant3 tied in bunches of 25. i ( PRICES: 75 cents for 500 lots; SI.OO per 1000; 5000 an. "" over 05 cents per 1000. JOUV.M.rS EAkLY GIANT argenteuil asparagus ; -■ ‘jfyttm .J ROOTS, h. ■ year and two year old, $4 per 1000, SI per 100. 'A -nLjjkStr*?''' , COUNT AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED _ - Cowrfil by Southern Express Cos. Cash with order, please. * -' I*or a profitable crop send your orders early to L*rr mt ckariMtosWakcfuidcabbar* ALFRED jOUANNET* Box 156, MT. PLEASANT* S. C For Rent ! One-horse or two-horse crop. Tenant to furnish stock. W. Baxter Bmith. Go to M. L. Voyles, Maysville Ga., for Christmas Fireworks, also Cranberries, Currants, Raisins, Apples, Oranges, and Candy. it WO. 37