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THURSDAY AFTERNOON', DECEMBER 2S, 1M2. ' ' . •' j'p There are Nineteen different Mod el Viet r> las in our Stock for you to Chjojd from, ranging in price frem $25.00 to $350.00 Victor Victrola Price $25 Victor Victrola Price $75 Victor Victrola Price $150 TERMS Cocroft Music Company Viclor-Victrola Headquarters STONE MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL' WORK IS SOON TO BE STARTED 'Preparations for the carving of the Confederate memorial monument on the east side of Qtone Mountain, 15 nfflfia from Atlanta, Ga., are near ly .completed Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who :was engaged by the United Daughters of the. Confederacy under whose auspices the monument is to be hewn out of the face of the great monolith, is having a specially designed lens ground for the projec tion’ of figures of increased 'size against the aide of the huge mass of granite, by means of which with a powerful light photographs of models may be thrown against the face of the mountain in great ajze. Will Um Barrels of Chemicals. Barrels of chemicals for sensitizing the mountain and developing the neg ative" and the most powerful project ing lamp ever built have been con tracted for by Mr. Borglum. Using the night as his “dark room,' he plans first to treat the side of the mountain with chemicals. Then from spot 700 feet away, the picture he hopes to prihr'will be projected on the mountain from the huge lamp. Three or four hours exposure will be Such methods have never been used before, according to the sculptor who has gotten down to the actual work of drawing in the groups of heroic figures to be carved out of the side of the rock. The work of pro jection has to be done at night, he said, but added tbht.Ft is practicable. The project calls for the carving in bas-relief side of Stone Mountain of a colossal moumental panorama to commemo rate the heroic deeds of the Con federate armies. This side of fhe mountain affords'space for a mile or more of gigantic sculptured figures and horses, 50 or more feet In height, with all the paraphernalia of FLORIDA WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND WITH PISTOL Us or Davis? Carving will begin either at the head of Gen. Robert E. Lee or that of President Jefferson Davis. A crew n has been at work for .several weeks extendieng the scaffolding to the point of the mountainside where will rest the principal group, and various electrical and compressed air apparatuses also have arrived and are ready for installation. Strangs Disappearance R. E. Corner says, “I was bothered by rats until I almost went crazy. A friend told me about the wonderful results he got with Royal Guaranteed Rat Paste, so I tried it. Every place put it they Just disappeared. I tell all my friends about this wonder preparation.” Get a 25c or 60c tube today. Sold and guaranteed Ingram Drug store. (Advertisement) Gainesville, Fla., Dec. 28.—Mrs. J. L. Lofton confessed yesterday that sbs shot and killed her husband at their home near Hawthorne Tuesday be cause of ill treatment, according to announcement last night by Sheriff Ramsey. Lofton’s body, with a bullet through the head and with a knlfle clutched e hand, was found In bis home. Mrs. Lofton told the authorities that she had seen two men leave the house and then had discovered the body. On being told yesterday by the sher iff that foot prints to a nearby pond where the pistol was found seemingly were hers, Mrs. Lofton told the sheriff and several witnesses: "Gentlemen, Ill teil the truth if it kills me. He was coming at me with a knife and 1 shot him. I have suffered death by his ill-treatment thousands of times, by his cursings and beatings. My life has been made miserable and If I have suffer death for this it will be much better than the life I hare led." LAUSANNE FASHION SHOW DOOMS THE FLAPPER Lausanne, Nov. 25.—(By Mail)— Short hair and short skirts won little favor in the fashion conference which Paul Poiret, the Paris artist, con ducted at the Grand Theatre for the fashionable crowds gathered iz Lausanne for the Near Eastern Con ference. Ten Parisian mannikins displayed >re than 100 costumes before the the nearly perpendicular -[exclusive audience, which registered its approval by loud applause, oi deadly silent when a mannikin moved across the stage in a coqtume which did not meet the fancy of the audience. i became apparent that the girls counted more than the costumes. difficult for a short-haired girl to call forth much applause from the young diplomats who constituted a greater part of the male section of the audience. There were mannikins with bobbed hair which was curled, and 'bobbed hair which waa plastered down straight. There were both blondes and brunettes with short hair, but they attracted little attention. All eyes were on the girls with long hair, regardless whether it was red, golden or black. They got the applause. And the more modest and demure the mannikin wazfl the greater her popularity with the spectators. The snappy flapper was clearly in in the discard, In the opinion of tha international crowd gathered at Lausanne, and the willowly girl in extremely long skirts and with plain ly dressed hair was in favor. The ODESSA “Odesa, where newspaper dis patches say the flag of rebellion against the Moscow (bdlahetfit gime is flaunting its colors, will in a week or two sea up its houses for the winter season.” say* a bulletin of the National Geographic Society from ita Washington, D. C., head, quarters. "One peculiarity of this portant port on the Black Sea, as well aa other Rnssian cities, is that during the first frosty days of the fa? the hotels and private houses put up their double doors and win. dows and thereafter go through the entire winter wihout once opening an aperture unless it proves neces sary to come in or go out of the house. Some say that the inhabi tants even go so Car as to stop up all the cracks with cotton batting. To friends an elegant reception In Odessa daring the winter session is not an unadulterated pleasure. “The Odesssns have another pe culiarity which strikes th# average comfort-American lad the acme’ of queerneu. The men. particularity the army officers wear their winter overcoats all during the summer season 'regardless of how hot it gets It Is hard to Imagine a dashing cap. tain of the eav.lry equipped in the outfit which he.is supposed to wear down the main boulevard with a into the frozen north, promenading charming young girl clad in a dainty eunuttsr frock. .; “The gay city,—for it haa the reputation of being one of the mad dest for pleasure on the whole eontL nent—has its pathos. It la ope of the- main embarkation points ter for thousand* of Ru6bn pilgrims who each year leave their country aa for old men end old women’ who never expect to see their .native lend again, and know that ther-are pro. milea to Odessa. “But mad-cap and merry the city uaually is to all outward appear ances. In its streets, which paved and nearly always shaded with long lints of trees, the people laugh and Innch in the most light, hearted fashion. Few of them hai real homes. They live in apart- ments Attached to their places of business. Behind « hardware' store bakery or a shoeshop, or adjoining the offices of a lawyer c surance agent you will find the rooms in which his family is living the public restaurant is the family dining rqom. 'One-third of Odessa's 800,000 inhabitants are Jews, and their initiative and business acumen nave earned for them the most responsi ble places in most of the industrial enterprises in the city, as well as the prejudice of the native Russians. But so irresponsible have the young. en their own countrymen be come because of their indulgence in gambling and dissipation of all kinds, that Russian peasants prefer 'o their basinets through the Jews. 'When evening drop^ her cloak over the city, the night is filled with music, and the cares that infested the day, if there ever were any, steal away like the Arabs in the poem. Hie farmer from the Middle West or the manufacturer front New Eng land would be inclined to wonder if these ^igbt /reVelers aver did any work, eo Ute Into the night do they Uragh. talk and pUy, but by the early forenoon business b hamming in ths marts of taha^ta It does In an£ other Swi.'.-'.TSS “About twenty year ago-Odessa ■hipped out yearly through tba of grain or about eitodfcntk of that exported from Russia, but rim fail ed to keep apace with invention fat her freight-handling machinery and Xhenon and have FREDONIA. Mr- and Mrs. R. W. 1-arrainore spent Christmas with relatives Pelham. Mr. Clyde Kelly is spending the holidays with his uncle, Mr. T. Kelley of Camilla. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Braswell of the Singletary community were guest of their parents Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Shepherd Monday. Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Parramore and children are visiting, relatives In the Barnetts' Creek section this week. Mr. Earl Martin returned to his home in Quittman Tuesday after spending a few days with his uncle, Mr. G. W. Kelley. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Chastain and little daughter, Dorris, art spend ing the holidays with relatives in this community. Rev. J. B. Alligood of Coolldge fil- lad his regular appointment at Fre- donia Saturday and Sunday. Mr. E. A Moreland transacted business In Ochlocknce last Saturday. Wedding bells are again ringing in thb community and it b expected some great eventa will transpire herein the near future. Mr.' and Urs. A. D. Fleetwood Were guest of relatives fn Thomas- ville last Friday. Master D. Frank Luke who b at tending school in Thomasville Is spending tfie holidays with homcfolks A few of the local farmers are still making up syrup in thb community. »PpFng tfie influx of produce 1 wEfcfi the life-blood of the city., Sebas topol. too, has been one of the fac tors in the defeat of Odessa. The harbor of the former city b one of the best on ths Black Sea, and has the advantage that it never freezes, while that of Odessa b ice-dogged for two or three weeks every win- “Odesaa b one of the newest towns of any importance in the for. mtr. Russian Empire. In 1810, ac cording to the tint census taken, it population waa 0.000. But it b lo on a bay near the northwest rave of the Black Sea, not far from the mouths of the Dnieper and the Dniester Riven, and it grew rapidly. When Turkey ceded thb area to Rumb, Catherine the Great decided that aha would develop the little Turkish fortress called Xhodjabey tato a mighty dty which would prove Fifteen years ago the rabbit, ex cept as a pet, was almost unknown in the northwest, but in recent years the jackrabbit has become such a de structive nest that organized methods have had to be adopted and carried out to keep him in bounds. Featured among these b the “bunny drive," which in Oregon and Washington hts developfd into the greatest of all win ter outdoor sports. That these roundups of rabbits ar« proving of great value in getting rid of the btest nemesb of the agricul turist may be realized from the fact recent drive "near Ephrata, Wash., resulted in the slaughter in one day of more than 25,000 of these pests so damaging to orchards and growing grain crops. The prairie rabbits breed so rapidly that ranchers realbe that organized drives is the only way to cope with them. The drives are held in the early winter, and it b not uncommon for from ~160 to 1,000 persons—men, women and children; mounted in au- tomoEflcs and on foot—to participate in these unique roundups. No firearms of any kind, are per mitted. Not only are these drives a means of lessening the number of rabbits, but farmers, ranchers and town folks secure recreation, the flesh of the rabbits b valued for food, and many skins «*e secured for coats and prime favorite among the mannikins | was a gray-eyed little Quakerss, with | brown hair parted in the middle, and simply dressed. Her suits and gowns were all gray or blue, and when ever she appeared on the stage the applause was deafening, while the more flashy mannikins, walking with great affectation and dressed in conspicuous red and yellow gowns, were greeted with little enthusiasm. 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