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IN YOU You HAVE To . *Y .lf\ OFF WITH A CR.jUSArf — " ffci I ne* of — COTTON 12.50 CENTS THUNDERSHOWERS Notae—This It one of .1 ae- f article* written Gy a staff correspondent about' the many prosperous smaller, towns In Athene territory. Prosperity le coming to this section through diversified farming and In the de velopment of many small Indus | tries, 'Which I* reflected In the splendid growth of many of Lhasa towns. p Commerce, Ga. VOLUME LXXXIX 89 YEARS OLD ATHENS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 22. 1921 ESTABT.TSHF.TV 1832 ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS (First Installment) 1 *• AT — COMMERCE, GEORGIA: | t Excellent Light and Water Systems ; Ah Important Cotton * + r f Market ' i peach Growing a | i ''« Big Industry | 1- Largest "Home-Owned" ! * Cotton Mill In i - f > the World <1 t ,f l • \ | —. > 8,000 Mile Chase Conducted By Women To Bring Murderer To Trial And Certain Penalty T (By Henry F. Saxon) Commerce, Oa.—Commerce, a pro ! greaslre and thriving little city, Is lo cated eighteen miles from Athens. In Jackaon county, on the line of the • Southern railway. The name by which the settlement . was known In Its earlier days vfSi “Harmony Grovd," and by many peo- pie It Is more familiarly thought of ” to this day by that name. The city as a settlement had Its be ginning In the early forties, and was Incorporated in 1883. The original name of the place, Harmony Grove, originated from a popular picnic site. : where people gathered In the olden ^ days to pold their holiday festivals. The present name was chosen about the year 1903 and was adopted be- : cause of the site offering such great promise of commercial activities, and the choosing has proven wonderfully apropos for. Indeed, Commerce Is a center of commercial activity beyond - many cities of Its size. The first settlers of the hamlet . were C. W. Hood,-IS. M. Shanklc and , W. B. J. Hardman. C. W. Hood wgk y father of Mr. C. J. Hood, who Is to- f day one of tho largest peach growers land shippers In the city. • - From an humble beginning the set* , tlemont steadily lias grown until to day Its population numbers around * 2,500. and there arc many Important ;-aud thriving Industries' within Us ■ borders. f There ere many handBome homes .In the city and Us streets are won- ..'derfnlly shaded by magnificent trees set In regular alignment. ■BffflBrai .^ped to Increase this distance. : : Toadways right in the city are not In keeping with Its other appearances, ■ being neglected fnore than they -.' Should be. However, the roads lead ing Into and away from the city through the county, are aa fine as can : | be made and wilt stand equal show ing with roads In other counties ot S equal build. There are excellent electric light ing. water supply knd sewerage ays- iema at Copimerce, all of which are municipally owned, ond the people ol Commerce enjoy low water and light- rates. The water supply Is ob- tnlned from a creek about two miles distant from tho town, which Is so situated that the (Unger of contaml- , nation la remote. - • -A Busy City. There la an air of hustle and buttle about the city which makes favors- hip Impression, and this Is not mis leading when one cornea to look closer than with mere superficial glance. However, up to compara tively a few years ago Commerce had not awakened to the wonderful op- ~ irtnnltiei . which lay at the - very irt, but now the pity Is wide awake and progressing rapidly. With live and energetic citlzena, such aa com pose the leadership' among its mer chants, It la not to he wondered at that Commerce is advancing with un faltering step. .Important Cotton,Market. Commerce enJoyB a large and pro!- ; ItableL wagon trade, from a territory of tonr counties—Banks, Franklin Madison and Its l|ome county of Jack- ' - ton. This trade la fostered by there dng no railroad connections Into tD« iupty seats ot these counties and the farmers from these districts come , to Commerce to get the larger part ’.of their supplies and to dispose ot their cotton and other products. Commerce buys annually 20.U0U cotton direct from the farm- tho territory right from their i delivered on the streets ot Hie city or at warehouses and pays The spot cash for same. The high record of cotton ^ales by the farm- ct We to buyers at Commerce was reach- hd'in the month of October, 1819, 5*. when In a single day there were pur- ^'Ahiiged by the buyers of Commerce BP*ir>alee. »rfrv 5 Jackson county. It Is claimed, is Snfjte second largest cotton county In IpuKmW*. And this bids fair to bold M^isopd; for the present year aa it has gE held'for seVcral years in the peat. . Tho cotton crop throughout the K_Ajnmty tor this year looks tine und -X tho 'prospects aro promising Tor a ■ larger crop despite the ravages of the K toll'weevil, reduced acreage and cur- f ’|E tainpent. ot ’' fertilizer application HBfcvhlle 'the hell weevil has made Its Ad has done consider*-.. Wo damasc. I am told that the damage fg'too* t(y such a great an extent as fVlqNr places; and, too, the plaot- ■UKm gaglng vigorous war again ft Brazil' g’rain crop* for this yeaf- ^ete.—were good, but were TnormaL. crops, such as watermelons, ,;iia; » sic. Next Five' Years Will 85 Per • Cent Sout#^ / Mills Ceas* §7 GEORGIA FORESTRY 7 . BOARD IS URGED Greely and Pinchot'Address Senate and Confer With Hardwick. (By Aasoolatad Press) Atlanta. Ga.—Warnings that the south Is cutting three times the amount of timber she produces and that unless steps are taken to pre vent waste and fires and replace the trees that tht next five years will see 85 per cent of the southern lumber mill! cease Operations were Issued today by Gifford Pinchot and W. B. Greely, United States foresters. Both delivered addresses before the third southern forestry congress and the Georgia senate and also con ferred with Governor Hardwick re garding the bill pending in the legis- lature to create a state forestry board, which would Investigate the status of Oeorgla's forests. Steps by all the southern states to prevent denuding foresta were urged by both. that hold * ; i t£S ;>y. n m* »>- PACIFIC. OCEAN Bums Tells of Proposition to Throw Series Made by Cycotte. (By Associated Press) Chicago, JJ1.—The Chicago White Sox players accused ot conspiring to throw the 1919 world's series wdre not approached on the deal by gam biers or corrupted by a gambling clique, but formulated the conspiracy among themselves and went to New Yorkers and former baseball playfrs for financial backing. Bill Burns, ad mitted accomplice and state's \^V ness, testified today In the trial of seven players and four others who are under Indictment In the case Eddie CicottA, former White Sox pitcher, once rated among the best in the American league, made a sell out proposition to Burns and GaDdll, and Cicotte then volunteered the In formation that they could have the series thrown lor J100.U00, Burns Ms- tlfied. POSTMASTER TO NAMED LIEUT. COL By GOV. HAWICK Left, Judge kforence Aden; above, Mrs. G. K. Tanner, and below, Mrs. W. C. SLY. Map shows the ro ute of the 8,000-mile police chase. Cleveland. O.—Threo women have put at least a temporary end to Cleve land's unprecedented crime wave. They did It by teaching criminals that punishment in Cleveland could be severe—and sure. The certainty of punishment la demonstrated by an 8,000 mile chase from which police’ have returned with two murder suspects—an inter national chase with all the thrills «*»T a Action detective story. punishment Si MUa Nan Bradley. Baton Rouge.—Girls, how would you like to be an auto mechanic? Miss Nan Bradley works at it. She was the first girl to take the course at the Louisiana State University. She knows all about the technical end of an engine .and can Ake one apart and put it together again in a jiffy. The Banner’s New Comics The Gumps Mutt and Jeff * They tell by actual count there are, more people In Atbei tereated In the daily doingB A Jeff and The Gump,, tbaf two other things In the w^^|| Watch them Rearfg In The Banner '' Every Morning These two Famous Comic Features. ahded doyu in Je rdcra. Women in the Case. The three women who., have ac compltshed these things are.' Miss .Florence Allen, common pleas Judge. Mrc. W. C. Sly, widow of the preal dent of a* manufacturing concern killed by highwaymen. Mra. G. K. Fanner, widow of the superintendent of the same plant murdered at the same time. 1 The widows inspired the relentless hunt; the’judge meted ott the first death sentence. On December SI, 192«, S|y and Fan ner, carrying the $4,500 pay roll ot their plant, were stopped by flee auto bandits. When they resisted rob bery, both were shot, the hold up men escaping. Widows of the two men Interested the Cleveland-^-Automobile club, and cfficfals took 'An active part with po lice, .findnelng the hunt. The "Funny Mouth:" Witnesses said one of the bandits "had a funny mouth." The descrip tion aniwered a man named Frank Motto, hr ho had been arrested for fauto stealing and later released Motto was found, questioned, charg ed with the murder and tried before Judge Florence Allen, the first worn- -n to be elected to the common pleas ench. » After hearing the widows testify, a iry found hint guilty of murder and i Allen sentenced him to die In electric chair. believed the Jury'a verdict was Jb^f,” says the woman Judge. "I f8ft the ^horrence—hnore strong in wom en than in men—to taking of a hu man. -life.. But I knew 1 could not weaken. e, it appalled me, and 1 'dread- moment. But when it came I W not hesitate.” Another Death Order, Motto Implicated others, iVerAT«**Bwrff»r flete? tlves In San Francisco, returned, tried and also iientenced to death In connection with the Barne case. Before these sentences, pay roll robberies uverpged almost one I week. There hasn't been one since. Detective Phil Mooney, famous foA Ills work In unraveling Black Hand mysteries, learned from an Italian friend that Dominick Benlgno ana Charles Collett, two ot the other men wanted, had. fled to Los Angeles.' Let- terlj were Intercepted, showing they were heading (or Guadalajara, Mex ico. ' •' • ' r No ■ city funds were available to pursue the pair. Mrs. Sly again ap pealed to the auto club. Officials, after a conference, agreed to finandb the trip,‘. Into Old Mexico. Detectives Matowltz end Carols went to Loa Angeles and took up the trail to Mexico. In Mexico City, about to take a train to Guadalajara, they ran into the fugitives on tile street. .Seizing them before the sur prised men could run. the detectIVbe took them to Jail. President Ohregou refused to allow the men to be extradited. - The fugitives appealed to the Ital ian consul to aid them In reaching either Italy or South America. The detectives wired home for in structlona. , Police sought the auto club. "Follow them to the end ot the world If necessary; we'll pay the way,” officials told them. Then began a thrilling two-montn vigil. Matowltz and Cavola stood twelve-hour guard watches over ttfh men to prevent them from slipping away. Detectives Sick. On a tip that Obregon planned to spirit the men out of the country across the Texas border. Detective Koestle was rushed from Cleveland to El Paso. Later he Joined the other two In Mexico. City and the weary twelve- bfor'WKtalwi-welw-CTri'SowigBt. c.-Th#e*fkw*re maintained regularly despite the fact that both- Koestle and Cavola were suffering from tropi cal fever so badly that they, could scarcely stand. ' jb> Often the .'fugitives were released by syMpatHMc Jailers, and the de tectives had to shadow them until they ;«bnld get another Jell to lock ihemlih- , ,?, Finally camodword that Obregon bad ordered thd men deported ana had purchased tickets for them frdm Vera Crus to Spain on. the liner MonserajL. The Cleveland detectives trailed them to Vera Crus prepared to follow them, to Spain. Coup at -Vara Crux. . By chance the liner Monterey, bound for Havana and New York, was alto lying in the harbor. By a coop the officers got the two fugitive* aboard the Monterey 1A- stead of tbe Monaerat, and when they sailed out of the harbor, all unwit ting, they were headed for the Unften States and Jail lnitead ot Spain and freedom. The constant strain over the two- month period was to great that It turned Koestle'* hair gray. Office Tendered Him While On Visit to National Cap ital. TAKES CHARGE AUGUST FIRST Tenure Will Be Only Tem porary Pending Fmal Se lection. -—' , Washington, D. C.—The postmaster general's office announced today (he appointment of Hugh J. Rowe, ot Athena, Qa„ as postmaster ot the Classic City. It Is understood that the appointment is to be only tem porary, pending final disposition of the matter sometime during the coll ing months. Although Mr. Rowe wet in Wash ington at the time the eppolntmant t was made, he stated that the tender ot the office came as somewhat of • surprise to him, haying been callea to the national capital on other busi ness, and in which the present aft- j pointment was not contemplated. It was explained that the vacancy occurred this week by the reelgda- tion of J. H. Rucker, the past Incum bent, and It waa not until today that temporary dlipositlon of the ofltes was contemplated, frlende ot Mr, Rowe learning of hta presence In the city and urging him to make applica tion for the place. Mr. Rowe la a well-known pub lisher of Athens, having been asso ciated with the newapaper business of that city for a number of years and being at present interestad lit the ownership ot The Athens Banner. His appointment Is to take effect AO-. gust 1st. Before the time for final dlepqfM- tlon of the office it Is understood that a number of other applicants will seek the position, among whom fa Mrs. Samuel J. Tribble, widow of the late Congressmen Tribble, ot Athens, and a general contest for the place la expected to ensue. Mr. Rowe, It 1* understood, will be an applicant for the permanent ap pointment. Many Inspectors *- Here on Annual Official Visit Sheppard Bill Special Order Senate Today (By Ataeclated Press) Washington, D. C.—The Sheppard "baby bill,” providing government kid In maternity and Infancy caaea, la the special order of business tomor row for the senate. The vote, under unanimous consent; will be taken be- tore adjournment, with Its passage conceded. Senator Reed, of MlasoUkl made a vehement attack on it today. E. A. SCHILLER, Prominent southern tbeauh-ai man, who has been made s lieutenant colo nel on the staff of Governor Hard wick. Mr. 8cbiller represents the Loew enterprises In the south and routbweat and la well known In Athena. He was largely, responsible for the erection of the Palace Thea ter here. His friends congratulate him on bis newly acquired honor. For the paat week there have been more Inspectors In thoxjty of Athena thBti ever before In its history'. 'This Is the statement of Oho of the city's leading druggists, Made late HMf-'"'. day afternoon. •Tnspoetorf'of ‘awry kind—all .tha way from sanitary fo rorenuo Inspec- . tors—have been flooding onr stoM ■» tor the past ten days. We ran harigy do business for them.” contlnnod tqls druggist. It seems that the revenue offleere • and Inspectors are out on their an nual “beat" to see that no one la violating those laws made sacred Of Uncle Skm's seal and signature. And they have found that Athena, la a law- abiding town—that la, aa far as tha druggists are concerned. WHO’S WHO HENRY AU8TIN PENDERGRAPH IN ROTARY By CHAS. E. MARTIN. HENRY AUSTIN PENDERGRAPH Is from the good old "Tar Heel" state and bails from Orange county, and it (ain't been bo many years since he was e star athlete at the University ot North Carolina, where he ripped holes through imposing football lines from a tackle position and played havoc with baseball nines from an outfield position. He has been a res ident of Athens two years now, com ing here as commercial manager ot the electric company, but he la ntfw securities statesman for Doherty & Co. "Pendy" baa not yet lost his usual smile on account of the bnal- nesa depression and every day • hq converts some saver to making money by the securities route He has taken hold of a new venture in Athens by the Doherty people and It la hardly worth while to mention that be Is making a success of It. despite conditions. Hta address la the Athena Railway and Electric com pany. Hia home la on North MUlsdg^ avenue. He will celebrate hie next birthday op September 24th.