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H6BC'S AN ITCMvABoJT * Russian who killed a SUV For |oo kopecs. - TMAT'S eouAL'tt. owe ^ieNT IN Real MONtVj^ DON'T knock youR Fellow men UVCG THAT, MVJTTL l THAT’S AW AWFUL V ACCUSATION , \to MAKE " y WELL, tT WAS' BCTTER THAN KILLING HIM Yfor nothing: one or 1 ee- t>y a staff the many towns In Prosperity It section through farming and In the de- of many small indus- It reflected In the growth of many of Madison, Ga. THE ATHENS VOLUME LXXXIX Body of Woman And Girl Found Hea^ Cut Off 89 YEARS OLD ATHENS, GEORGIA. . .■==» THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1921. ESTABLISHED 1832 - PRICE LOVE WITHOUT BEAUTY IMPOSSIBLE, SAYS BRIDE, 74, ASKING DIVORCE and Last Installment! F h'i . -IT- L.l r ' AT THE CITY OP MADISON, GA.: L, Excellent Business fi’g >' Houses (Three Splendid Banks Madisonlans Claim to Have Finest Water "•*' P ' In Georgia Fine Fire Department and Low Insurance Rates A Brag City and County Administration (By Henry F. Saxon) , Stores and Business Houses. Madison, Ga—About fifty stores, together with banks and Industries, doing a general merchandise, farm •apply and apeclal business, com prise the commercial activity o[ Mad General business conditions nro * good; In (set, much bettor than the ' outlook of a few months previous war ranted, and h Is felt that there nre better times ahead for those w!» faithfully work and watch. There bars been a comparatively small number of failure! of recent months t» the city. : There ere three banks In Madison. The First National, with a capital of $100,000, Mr. W. P. Wallace, presl- dent; Mr. T. M. Douglass, cashier, and Mr. H. H. Fitzpatrick, Vico pres '. The Bank of Madison, capital $100,- 000, surplus $80,000, Mr. Lee Tram- pell, president: Mr. G. D. Perry, vice president; .Mr. E. O. Atkinson, cashier. The Morgan County hank, capital ised st 850,000: D. l\ Few, president; T. Hi Holland, vice president, and on, cashier. ants if Jonesboro, Ark., July 20.—The body of a woman with the head partly severed and the body of a girl about 11 years old with the head completely cut off were found this afternoonhunters on the banks of a ^ ou eight miles from Here. Bot,y jdies were nude, the clothing ' <g torn off in the struggle pre# 0 ng the kilt ing. Neither have n identified. An inquest will btv* d tomorrow. FAI Race Track Is to Be Con structed—Horse and,Auto Races Features. i Mrs. Hudson Tells Sheriff Of Her Life at Columbia, Alabama. (By Associated Press) Albany, Ga., July 20.—Mrs. Glenn M. Hudson reiterated today her charge that hei* husband killed her two sons and then told the story oi her life after her first husband died In France and before she married Hudson, according to Sheriff Tarver, who told her that Hudson had accus ed her of killing the children. She came here from Columbia, Ala., Inst December to keep rrom having the children taken from her, according to the account In which she Is quoted as admitting the au thorities at Columbia had reasons to threaten to take the children. Sits married Hudson after coming here. I NO FURTHER ACTION I AGAINST COMMISSIONER [ | SENATOR FAILS APPEAR j ,fm supplies; T. II Holland Goods Co.; Madison Hardware & ( eery Co.; llhodM-Smltb Co„ «fh& a tremendous cash business In dry ' goods, shoes, clothing, etc.; the Farm- . era Hardware Co.; Jos. H. Friedman. / dry goods; Stovall Furniture Co.; H. H. Fitzpatrick Co., general farm sup plies; Louts Cohen, dry goods; Har ris Dry Goods Co.; the jewelry firms of M. L. Richter sod of M. C. Penlck. The McDowell Grocery Co. has a large wholesale business. The Johnson CasUand Carry Store haa a large re tail holiness. There are three excellent drug stores—(he Madison Drag Co., tWd Atkinson Drug Co. and Hammond's Pharmacy. There are four garages and service stations—tha Buick and Cadillac serv ice. station and garage, Mr. W. H. Adams; the Ford service station and garage, Mr. Ben B. Thompson; the Hudson and Essex agency and garage, Messrs. Foster and Coggin. and the Chalmers and Maxwell agency and garage, Mr. A. O. Duckworth. )a,6 WB IwB shrd shr ahr shr >hr The Chero-Cola plant at Madison supplies n large territory, three coun ties comprising the district covered by this plant Mr. L. C. Bootchever Is proprietor of the Madison CberA- Cola plant - There are the Industrial plants of the Empire Cotton Oil company, the Madison Fertiliser company, the . Southern Cotton Oil company and the Thomas Milling, Ginning and Ice Manufacturing company. The Thomas company operates a flour and grist 1" mill, which haa an extensive patron age and does a tremendous grain (By Associated Press) I | Atlanta, Ga., July 20.—The sen- | | ate agriculture committee this aft- | | ernoon recommended no further | | action' against Commissioner of | ^-Agriculture Blown, after Senator ' own failed to appear to . sub- I ™nt and expresstag the deslr PMjpi jin £--4 ■— roaia, nr. t Andrew aj. .some r - a ..v~ dent of ftk State Collegia* At one of the most enthusiastic meetings ever held In the Athens Chamber of Commerce rooms, the executive committee of the Athens Fair association on Wednesday aft- ernoon decided that the big exposi tion should not only be a Clarke county fair, but that it should also represent all northeast Georgia, or. In other words, the entire Athens trading territory. it was definitely decided that the fair project should be a permanent affair and a committee to select ana purchase a site for the annual cele bration was appointed by John A. Darwin, chairman of the association, together with E. W. Carroll, secre tary of the Athens Chamber of Com merce. Race Track to Be Built. It was the general concensus of opinion that the fair would not be complete without horse and motor vehicle races and It was decided to build a One track as soon as the site for the fair was settled upon and purchased. Jt is the Intention of those In charge of this feature of the fair to bring to Athens some of the fastest horses and race cars that hare ever rushed around a race circuit. In addition to the race track, plans were worked out for the construc tion of a number of buildings whlkh are to house the exhibits of various kinds. It was decided to have an agricultural building, a woman’s building, a livestock building and per haps others. Dr. 8oule Speaks. Heartily endorsing the fair move ment and expressing the desire to co- tbat he DETECTIVE WHS ' SMALL “If They Had Known It, I Would Have. Been Turned Over to Undertaker.” buslnwi. This company supplies (Continued on Page 4) Mrs. L. E. Baker. Kansas City.—Getting women and girlg out of jail is Mrs. Loulie E. Baker’s vocation. She found she could be of more service that way than in general welfare work. She investigates cases, and if women are worthy, she goea on their bond. She’* proud of having saved many unfor tunate girls. Agricul ture, spoke. Following Dr. Soule, Dr. Jere M. Pound, of the State Normal school, gave a short talk, endorsing the movement. Otheri to apeak tn the intereit of the project were J- Warren Smith, vice president of the Georgia National bank; T. J. Shack elford, Dr. J. L. Peacock, A. Rhodes, and others. Following the suggestions of Dr. Pound and J. Warren Smith, to ap point certain committees to have charge of the details of the fai>, Chairman Darwin and Secretary Car- roll, of the Chamber of Commerce, appointed a ways and meana com mlttee and a committee to select the site for the fair. \ Committee* Named. J. Warren Smith was named chair man of the ways and means commit tee and aervlng with hinj ore Dr. J. tv Peacock, W. G. Grlffeth, A. E. Da vison, A. Rhodes, P. J. Lawler, Hugh W. White, Mrs. E. W. Carroll ana Mrs. A. S. Parker. The members of the committee to select the site for the fair are How ard Scott, T. J. Shackelford and Ar thur Flatau. The meeting Wednesday afternoon wa B marked by the largo number ot prominent cltlsene attending. In spite ot the heavy downpodr of rain that occurred at the time of the meeting. Among those attending were: John A. Darwin, E. W. Carroll, Dr. J. Jt Pound. A. Rhodes, T. J. Shackelford, Dr. A. M. Soule, F. J. Lawler, Dr. J. L. Peacock, A. E. Davison, Arthur Flatau, Mike Costa, G. G. Bond, John E. Drewry, W. F. Dorsey, Jones PUP cell, W. G. Grlffeth, D. H. Magllt, J. Whrren Smith, Mra. E. W. Carroll and Mrs. A. S. Parker. Married Two Months, Couple Find They Made Mistake Mr. and Mra. Louis Schubert. By R. J. Gibbons. Chicago.—Mrs. Mathilda Schubert, nt 74, is aulng her husband of two months for divorce. aayNjotfi*" 0 ” past 40 should wed," Yean ago the two were iweet- hearta in the little Westphalian vil lage whew as a girl Mathilda reign ed as belle. Louis Shubert paid ar dent court. But Mathilda refined him for another. Boy and girl then drifted apart. The village, too, faded from tlielr memory. Years passed before fate stepped in again. Mrs. Schubert, after burying her huiband, was in Chicago Witting friends, Downetsiri in the houee where she stayed lived a man, alone. He had burled one wife, and divorced The man was Louis Schubert. By chance, after a month, they met. She was hanging clothes In. the back yard. He was tinkering on a repair job. Recognition was mutual. In a few days they were married. Romance Blasted. All went well for two deys and then— "Louis became irritable," Mrs. Schubert charged "He wanted the forks put in lust the same place he had been putting them. He grew In tolerable." With the romance blasted, Schu bert went back to his solitary life once more. I found him flipping flap- jacks for his evening meal. Between times he stopped to pat a mixture of rising dought that was about ready for the oven. “Don’t talk to me of women,” he said. “I’m . through with them for good. A man of my age should know better. Women cling too much— they’re too weak. Love—ha, that’s a myth for children only.” Schubert said be didn’t know where hie bride had gope., “Sbo’e a million mflee frckn me," he 'aaid. But she wasn’t She was liWng overhead. Wife’s Story. 1 She was rooking in a little chair and looking down into the deserted street when I entered. “We made a mistake—Louis and I,” she said. “The weeks that have passed have given me time for re flection. “I have waited fifty years to leqrn one simple truth. Love is like a houee of cards. With beauty to soothe the winds, the house stands. I When beauty goes, the dream house falls. v “And neither Louis nor X had beauty. We found that love could not exist on - childhood memories alone.’’ - ■ > (By Associated Press) Washington, D. C„ July 20.—Arous ed by a description of the methods used by private detectives In obtain ing information about activities ol union miners. Senator McKellar, dem ocrat, from Tennessee, at today’s hearings before the committee Inves tigating disorders In the Mingo cotllt- ty, West Virginia, field, declared It Is not right for men to work them selves Into the' confidence of union officials and then report to detective agencies what Is going on. C. E. Lively testified that while a member of the United Mine Workera he served as a Baldwln-Felts detec tive. During the last nine years he said he attended union meetings, was vice president of a local and at tended conventions as a delegate, all the while making reports to his de tective agency. McKellar asked If he thought it proper and Lively said he thought It Justifiable. Asked what miners' would have done If they had known It, Live ly replied: “They would have turn ed me over to an undertaker.” S. D. Avis, counsel for the opera tors, remarked that the department of Juetice resorted to such practices, but McKellar said even If the depart ment did that It didn’t strike hlm%i fitting In with the American idea ot honor. Illinois Governor and Two Others Placed Under Big Bonds. LtiJii- Springfield, Ill., July 20.—Warrants were issued tonight for Governor Small, Lieutenant Govefnor Sterling and Vernon Curtis, banker, of Grant Park, who were Indicted this after noon on charges of embezzlement, conspiracy and confidence games through the alleged use of' Interest on state funds for tbeir personal gain. Four Indictments were returned and their bonds fixrfd at $50,000 each on each Indictment. They . covered charges of fraud by the trio during tbe terms of Small and Sterling in the state treasurer's office between 1917 and 1921., Sterling Issued a statement denying the charges. Half Million For Barrett & Co. to Export Cotton Carolyn Cobb’s Entertainers to Appear Tonight The University ot Georgia Octagon will this evening be the scene of one of the.most delightful events ever staged there, when tbe Carolyn CObb entertainers of the Summer school give their annual entertainment. A special program has been arranged and It Is expected that the evening will be highly enjoyed. The ptnge baa been attractively dec orated, for the He&nstup-kn&thh ac ton will themselves wear appropriate costumes, all of which will add to the spice of the oocaalon. R will be re called tbat the Carolyn Cobb acldhi have on several paet 'occasion* put ori tbeir show in Atlanta, perforating be fore the Advertising clnb and other organisations in tbe capital city. '* Tbe pabllo is cordially Invited td attend tbe entertainment this even ing at 8:45 o'clock. Washington, D. C.—The firm of Bar rett A Co., cotton factors, of Athene, Gh., was Tuesday advanced $500,000 by the war finance corporation to finance tbe exportation of approxi mately , 12,000 bales of cotton from Georgia, North Caroling and South Carolina. This cotton under this loan la to be held'In warehouee for support within a period of six months. In order to negotiate the loan Barrett A Co. wan required to give an; collateral ware house receipts. Insurance attached, end tn return waa advanced halt a million dollara, which 1* 80 per cent 'ot the market value of the cotton upon which the money wae borrowed The war finance • corporation haa already agreed to make advances which will finance 100.000 bales ot long ataple cotton In the MlaaUaippt delta district It also baa made ad vances on (5,000 bales. $30,000 WORTH OF LIQUOR 8EIZED ON GA80LINE YACHT, ' (By Associated PreaS) Port Bt. Joe, Fla., July 20.— Liquor valued at $30,000 wae dis covered aboard tbe gasoline yacht. Curlew, of New Orleann, whlcji ■ought refuge yesterday In the lee of Beacon Hill, after damage at ■ea from rough weather. Six men were arrested and the vessel was' aelxed. .j I. ■ 1 Commerce Ships 97 Cars Peaches (Special to The Banner) Commerce, Ga„ July 20.—Up to date there have been shipped ninety-seven carloads of peaches from Commerce to New York and other eastern mar kets and the peach season, Is Just In Ita prime now. In addition to Ahe ninety-seven carload lots there have been many hundreds of crateg ship ped by express from Commerce to Athens, Atlanta and other adjacent town*. When It comes to growing peachea for tbe market Commerce Is “on tbs'map" and our local or cbardlata are making a aplendtd rep utation for themselves and their or charde. WHO’S WILLIAM LEONARD ERWIN IN KIWANIS By Chat. E. Martin. WILLIAM LEONARD ERWIN Is an Athenian from every angle, birth, education, choice, n’everytblng. He belongs to the legal fraternity and !■ associated with the firm of Erwin, Erwin A Nix. The University ot Georgia Is his alma mater. He holds B. S. C. E. and B. L, degrees and li a member of the 3. A. E. fraternity, the Elks, the U. C. T.’e and the Me sons. “Bill" has always been quite an athlete and has not neglected atbr letlcs since putting awny his college togs- He Is a shining light on all the Ktwanip teams and belong, to the Country club tennis outfit. In 1911 he volunteered for tbe first officers training camp and waa commission ed a first lieutenant and assigned to: the 326th Infantry. He went to - France with this unit and waa pro moted to the grade of captain and on account of his high standing as an officer was selected among those to be sent back to America ai Instruc tors for the new divisions that were being created In 1918. He has servad two -.erms as commander of the local Post of the American Legion and has taken quite an Intereit la Legion af fair*. He belongs also to that con tingent of Klwanla that can smtla-nt a pretty g|rl yet without tear of wlfey. Hts office la In the Southern Mntunl building and hla home Is at tbe cor ner ot Mllledge and HU1. Hie birth- dky Is November 29th. and JEFF And Mutt Is One of Those Guys, Too (Copyright 1921, By H. C. Fisher, Trademark Reg. U. S. Pat Office.) By Bud Fisher Jeff/it says Heec that it JUST GOGS -to SHOW THeRe’3 h|| NOTHING SOME MEN UJONT ife. t>0 Pott mongv! >*3 flV RIGHT He Re TO T\ UUHAT’S A Russian ktc*eb off TELL You THE Re’S 0M6 THIN6 sg^e Mem ujont l For money! y THAT ? A Guy FOR ONE CGAIT! AIN’T THAT AWFUL?