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Before You Shop in the
Stores of Athens, Shop
First in The Banner-Her
ald.
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(CLOUDY, PROBABLY RAIN,
COTTON MONDAY:
GOOD MIDDLING 18M«S, tf
COTTON SATURDAY:
GOOD MIDDLING 18*4c.
\<IL. 90
NO. 121
Associated Press Dispatches
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH, 14, 1922.
Single Copies 2 Cents Dally
I Cents Sunday
LARRY GANTT’S
DAILY COLUMN
PACIFIC TREATY IS
Oldest House In
Athens
Debuts In New York Are
Reduced to $15,000 Each
JdSONOF CALIF.
i'‘Callahan tells me that
: Major Talmadge was exca-
u for the foundation of his
at the corner of Thomas
Washington streets, the work-
fuond four graves, but noth-
vt. s left but the walls and
■' 1 Ti!ul 1 cver^heard oMh^bi”' [“AMERICA WOULD
Republican Member Says
Ratification Would Mean
Recession of American
Traditions.
.■Kill:
ml, nor suspected itB ex-
N'ot even the oldest ln-
i eould throw any light on
■nves. Some said they held
ies of Indians but this is
table as the Indians did not
graves for their dead,
bodies on top of the
mi heaped rocks on them
nt wolves and wild anl-
■ disturbing them. It was
ire among early settlers
heir dead near their homes
•times in their yards. On
ry old settlement Is seen
ard.
note from
MRS. LOY
Mn S. E. Loy writes me that
i„i grandfather’s name was Var
an and not Farnum. It was the
!.,■„( srliool in Jefferson to which
mill Martin contributed. In those
thero v.erc no free schools.
,1,1 parents had to pay the tul-
,,f their ehllilrtp. Mr. Martin
.niiiributed to help pay the tul-
■ imi ,.f poor children. Mrs. Loy
.,ts (hat Martin Institute was af-
t, nvards established.
Ill Iliosc days tuition cost less
than it now takes to pay for school
u, „ks. Alex H. Stephens once told
,n<> i hat when he wap a lad If a
i,in mastered Davie# Arithmetic,
Smith's Grammar and Webster's
ltiiu- Rlack Speller, he had a fair
.Munition to carry him through life.
ESCAPE DANGER’
Characterizes Four-Pow
er Fact As One Thing in
End—“Danger,” Quotes
Japanese.
OLDEST HOU8E
IN ATHENS
.Mr. T. W. Reed tel.ls me that the
lu.iigson house, on Oconee street,
vppuslte the oil mill. Is unques-
tionably the oldest building now
Standing In Athens, ante-dating
. vert the Old College. This build
ing was erected by Daniel Easley.
* ho had a small water mill, .the
first built In this section, located
nt what was then known as Cedar
shoals on the Oconee rlvre. The
Athens Factory now uses
this
It was from this same Easley
that John Mllledge bought 633
acres, embracing all of the land
(rmn the river to beyond Mllledge
avenue, as tho site qt Franklin
College Tills house was the homo
,,i the Hodgsons for-many years
and is Still In a good atate of pres
ervation and occupied. They had
sound Umber In those days.
Prince and Wife
Deny Princess Had
Admitted Misconduct
I By the Associated Press.)
LONDON.—Prince Eltel Frled-
rii-li and his wife have requested
the government department which
dials with the Hohensotlerns' af-
fairs to proceed against dlssernlna-
tors uf the story published In Eng-
i ml anil the United States. that
the Prlneess had confessed to
misconduct with tho Baron Iwet-
o-nherg, says a Berlin dispatch.
Kin I and his wife say the story Is
untrue. They admit that the
Princess testified about a month
ago at the first hearing in the dl--
voree case brought by the Baron
ess Plettenberg. In which she Is
named its co-respondent, but de-
. ar>- that her testimony was ex-
aetly opposed to that ascribed to
iier. All divorce cases in Ger
many are ltcarjl In private.
WASHINGTON—Opponents of
the Four Power Pacific treaty
loosed another scries of broadsides
against the Pact Monday in the
Senate but slackened other on
slaught just before adjournment to
accept a unanimous consent agree
ment f°r a rot® Tuesday on the
first of the proposed amendments.
Senators Johnson of California,
and Borah, of Idaho, both Repub
licans, took the lead in the all-day
attack the former declaring rati
fication of the treaty will be a na
tional surrender under threat of
danger from the Anglo-Japanese
alliance and the latter asserting
the proposed four power arrange
ment would transfer to the Pacific
the old balance of power system
that dominated Europe for cen
turies.
Amendment to be voted on Tues
day by Robinson, of Arkinsas,
provides the' rights o the nations
both in and out of the. Four Power
group be respected an.' nunsigna-
tory nations well as signatory
would be invited to a conference
to consider any controversies af-,
fecting them.
WASHINGTON — Assailing the
four-power treaty as a "quadruple
alliance.” Senator Johnson, Re
publican. California, told the Sen
ate Monday that Its ratification
would not only mean a recession
from American tadltlon but a na
tional surrender under threat of
foreign powers.
If the statements of the treaty's
friends are to be accepted, Sena
tor Johnson declared, and abroga
tion of the Anglo-Japanese alliance
Is to be regarded as the chief pur
pose of the four-power arrange
ment, then the only conclusion Is
that the United States must enter
the "new alliance" to escape a
threat of danger because of the
old.
"The argument for this present
surrender of our ancient policy of
Independent national action,” con
tinued the California senator, “is
nothing in the end but that ono
Violated Commandments
OPERATE I TWO
Reduce Shoe Factory
Employes Wages Ten
Per Cent. Says Board
BOSTON—Reduction of ten
per cent, in the wages of em
ployes in forty-four shoe fac
tories in the Brocton and
Southshore district was or
dered by the . State Board of
Conciliation and abitration
Monday night.
$69,000,000 Plant At Mus
cle Shoals Worthless For
Fertilizer Making.
WASHINGTON—Charles L
Parsons, consulting chemist
and former technical adviser
to the government on nitrate
fixation Monday told the
House Military Committee
Henry Ford or any one else
“would lose their last penny”
before they ever produced
commercial fertilizer at ni- tv
trate plant No. 2 at Muscle 'Special Session Will Be
Held at 7:30 at Associa
Shoals.
He declared the plant which
cost the government about
$69,000,000 was designed to be
operated only by the cyanamid
process which he asserted was
obsolete and worthless as a
fertilized producer.
tion Building Today.
New Agreement
Fails In Meeting
Roads and Union
NEW YORK—Nej
I tween executives of
| railroads and reprj
the conductors
otiations be
62 eastern
General Secretary Walter Forbes
has called a meeting of the active
| membership of the Young Men’s
; Christian Association for 7:30 p.
m. Tuesday at the association
. building, when plans for negotiat
ing a loan from the Life Insurance
j Company of Virginia in the
' amount of $16,000 to pay off a
loan Of the same amount due the
j estate of John R. White, deceased,
will be discussed.
A meeting of the board of direc
sure cure mi* >::
TH10 POSSESS* WlFCd J
MSM1! Kill#
Practically Entire Mem
bership Is Expected to
Attend State Meeting.
Drs. G. Cambell Morgan and Dr.
Len. G. Broughton and other.(no
tables have been invited to attend
as guests of honor the regular
weekly lunchroom meeting of the
Athens Rotary club at the Geor
gian Hotel Wednesday.
Among other features of the
(meeting will be the report of the
membership on wtiu will attend
the Savannah State convention of
Rotary to be held in that city on
March 23-24. Dr.C. N. Walker is in
TALBOTTON, Georgia. — Major
Lee H. Coart, rormer army offi
cer and planter, shot and killed.
A. B. McNiece last fall becaufto ol!
a “desire to possess'* Mrs. Mc
Niece, the prosecution contended
at the opening of Coart’s trial here
Monday and Mrs. McNiece testi
fied Coart had repeatedly sought to
make her leave her husband and,
once had seized and kissed her.
Coart after his arrest asserted
McNiece, superintendent of tlm
Talbot county schools, sought to
wreck his home and the defense
vainly tried to get Mrs. McNiece’K'
testimony ruled out Monday.
Mrs. McNiece said Coart told'her
that McNiece was untrue to hen *-
and that he expected to separate
from Mrs. Coart who was not th*-
“sweet, lovely woman” Mrs. Mc
Niece thought, and that she final
ly told Coart ‘‘only death could /
separate me from my husband.'* *4
SEIZED AND' KISSED
HER IN HIS HOME
trainmen’s -'••live membership, U, take further! Athens delegation and it is under-
MISS ELLIN A1AOKAY (ABOVE) WHOSE DEBUT COST $20,-
000, EXCLUSIVE OF GOWNS AND JEWELRY, AND MISS BAR
BARA WHITNEY, WHOSE COMING OUT 1’AltTY COST $15,000.
BY RUTH ABELING
NEW YORK.—Another blow has
been struck at the high cost of liv
ing. There has-been a reduction
pi 25 per cinUor mbre in the cost
of “coming out” parties in New
York '
Prohibition did It.
A society debut that cost $20,000
in the era of liquor was served can
be done handsomely these days for
a mere $15,000. That’s what hotel
men say.
Society’s season Just closed in
New York saw 30 rich debutantes
introduced. Each party cost be
tween |8.000 and $12,000 -for the
big party alone, not Including
clothes and Jewels hnd the supple
mentary dinners. suppers anfl
luncheons necessary to a correct
coming out.
The most brilliant party of the
I'SED MAILS FOR
SALE OF FRAUDULENT
Oil, STOCKS IS CHARGED
NEW YORK—Alleged to have
u.-cd the mail* to defraud Inves
tors out of a million in worthies*
oil stocks, Seymour J. Cox* pro-i
motor was arrested here Monday
night. 1
word danger. The Anglo- Jap-. fleaHOn cost $20,000. That’s the bill
anese alliance, the gentlemen on • c’lnrenre H. Mnckay footed when
the other side say, exposes us to ; his daughter. Miss Ellin Mackay.
danger. Therefore, we have no [ was Introduced. There were 40
choice. We must accept this guests at dinner and neaHy 2.000
treaty.’ I at dance and supper following.
... ’ . I The party was given at the Rltz-v
”1 ^shall vote agafnst this treaty j carlt*i
because If any foreigu.alllance can | Estimates of the probable Item-
Next In brilliance and cost lines'*
was the debut of Miss Barbara
Whitney, daughter of Mr. und Mrs.
Hnrry Payne Whitney. This party,
given at the Plaza, Is understood
to have cost about $15,000. There
were 1,000 guests.
Dinners served nt the average
coming out party cost frorp $8 to
$12 n plate. Breakfasts and sup
pers are somewhat less.
Breakfasts are served, too. some
times. The Whitney debut party
wound up with n breakfast. Danc
ing doesn't begin until about It
o’clock and “good nights” aren’t in
order till 4 or 5 In the morning.
Most of the important debuts of
society—that is. anybody who Is
anybody—are held at the Rltz. The
rental of the bullroom alone at the
Ritz or the Plaza Is about $700. and
the rent for additionnl rooms for
dining and wraps easily doubles
that sum.
unions looking toward a now actlon ln . the ™ atl * r 89 author™- sitood that the dub will send
agreement as to wages and work- “on iis given by the membership. I large delegation to Savannah,
ing conditions was broken off late These meetings will be held at I practically the entire membership.
Monday without any -agreements aa early hour in order not to in-, There are several matters of im-
being reached.
Diversify Crops
Milner Fanners
Told By Agents
tertVrc with the attandance of the I portance to come up and it is ex-
iombership a: the evening scs-! pected that 10U per cent, attend-
siona of the Bible confront*.
MILNER, Ga.—The farmers of|
Milnpr district of Lamar county
held a meeting this week organiz-l
ing a local club. General farm in-1
terests -were discussed, Inch ‘
I. C. C. Is Without
Authority Over
State Railroad
ance will be registered at the meet
ing.
--WASHINGTON—T
melons, ground peas and sweet po- authority to authorise or oompell
tatoes. abandonment-of a strictly, state
. , I railroad, the Supreme court held
riEtt^ule D «T^n?e™it?n» Monday in the case of the state of
aft. *Sn eCh Texas versus the Eastern Texas
tinn ed Kallroid.OBBpwiy,
tion, tfhd stressing the benefits re
ceived from the co-operative mar-
ketipg plan. Farmers were advised
to plant only five acres of cotton
to the plow and keep one cow for
each five acres in cultivation. The
raising of hogs and poultry is en
couraged, and several in {he com-
{ munity have already made a splen
PHILADELPHIA. —Robert Mc-
. Glrr, a bank runner, was held up
. did start in this direction. It is!?" rt JPWJ. he Jf2
Running Fight With
Robbers Results In
Two Policemen Shot
ever speak to this country with
the word ‘must,’ then the spirit
which made this country safe
from perils when It was feeble
will have -departed from it and our
record in history will be that strlv
Ing to barter our heritage for safe
ty. we lost safety Itself.”
Mr. Johnson quoted many ut
terances of Japanese and British
statesmen, giving assurance that
the Anglo-Japanese alliance never
was directed against tho United
States and asserted it these sol
emn declarations were not to he
believed, then this government
was following a foolish policy liy j
establishing a partnership with I
powers which had deliberately de
ceived the American people.
Izcd bill urr these:
Dinner
Supper
Floral decorations ....
Mueic
Favors and incidentals
Rent of hot*!
I 800
.. 4,700
8,000
. 4,000
.. 1,000’
. 1,500
Many nf the young m.-n who ; “ “ 3 .hlr . . - . Southwestern National Bank
tend some debuts, according to in- Planned to ship a car of poultry, „. d ond South atreetH Mol) _
x.'M-x aro college boys who have from Lamar county by April 10. <lay afternoon. Two men waylaid
further credentials than an eve- Prof. Calloway, of the Sixth Dis-' um i blackjacked McGlrr. In the
But they are tolerated triet Agricultural school .followed chase which followed two police-
must j with an interesting talk along man and one bnnriit were shot,
these lines. One of the policemen is said to
C. P. Wheels, who is a director be 8
of the Middle Georgia Melon Grow-1 thyTere
ers association, made a report of, CUUK ht and the money recovered.
nln*
because the younjc women
have dancing partners.
There were mor4 Important de
buts in New York society this
season than In previous years. All
were crowded into the period be
tween November 20 and January
10. There seems to he an unwrit
ten law that nil debuts must be
made before January 10.
the meeting: of the association held
CLEAN UP AND PIT UP-REPl
Little Stories Of Our Y. M. C. A.
(By F. C. O.)
THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY
TO THE Y. M. C. A.
Tlure has been no mention oi
Hu „i,man's work for our Y. **•
c a ln the "Little Stories’ run-
I.iog in The Banner. . „ .
"Little Stories" has only touca ‘
work of the Y. M. C. A. in
•• phase*—really ha* only "hit
I high spots.” YOU cannot even
in high spots” the work the
un’s auxiliary has <* one ’„”**
this work has been-»o quiet,
•ntinuous and without officla
Mr K D. Mure was « rl *!nator
lirst President of the
a , v to the T. M. C. A." She
v,,s m lndefatlguable worker.
civil.g freely of her ttme and won-
r i ability. Being the only
I. ,mt oldest of the ten Hodg
brothers, had given h«r£ d*®P
insight into the viewpoint Of boy*
The auxiliary undsr Sr*. Mu™
».,s one Of the strongest womens
-•re .mirations In Athens- Th«**l*
lies helped the Y. M. C. A. *****
like Hur helped Moses—they
m**M up hl« hands.
The Ladle*’ Auxiliary
•v, y m various way* and “““
' s ir funds to furnish ,h * 1
i \t ( ' A. building throughout.
The work, started by Mrs. Mure.
».,» then taken up bx Mr*. G**”f**
Th mas. wife of out-Jtoyor, who
S one Of the most fbhhfjB “A
'indent ladles who ever lived In
ss Mime Rutherford *'*e
1 the auxiliary, succeeded by
Jnnle Hudgln* }*J*;
v Carlton), Mr*. A. B. pricer
hresident, and **rs__ T -
! on** htid this oW**'
Many and various were the ways
of making-money to pay for fur
niture, for dishes, for chairs, for
kitchen equipment, for silver.
I remember when Miss Jnnle
Hudgins wa» president, the aux
iliary sponsored a "demonstra
tion.” They hired a vacant store
and Invited merchants to take
space and demonstrate their goods.
This enterprise was a great suc
cess for the merchants ns well as
for the ladies and everybody had
a good time.
One lady I know made sixty dol
lars for the auxiliary by her own
efforts. First, she calmly appro
priated from her pantry n pound
of everything which goes Into the
making of pound cake. ' She got an
expert cake maker to make lit
tle cakeb, and ,oi|r auxiliary lady
sold those, putting the sum she
received right back Into more
little cakes. She increased her
original capital to sixty dollars,
and then returned the Ingredients
used in the flret lot of cakes to
the .pantry—for which friend hus
Streets, Homes, Business Houses and Public Build
ings to Be Made Beautiful. Whole City to Join
Move.
WELL-PAINTED HOMES RAISE MORALE
cleanliness, thrift and civic ful purpose and it will not revert
me .pant' j
band was duly grateful. I suppose.
Mrs. Ned Hodgson wns the Inst
president of the Y. M. C. A. Aux
ilary. Since her resignation
there has been no formal organiza
tion of ladles, but some of the
auxiliary members are called upon
by Mr. Forbes whenever he wants
help.
There should be a strong Wom
an's Auxiliary to the Y. M. C. A.
to help with social programs for
the boy* and young men. Mr*.
Ned Hodgson’s dream was to see
a library 'of really worth while
books for the boys, as there Is no
public library in Athens, and It
Is to be honed this work will be
tindertaksn |n th* n*ar Mur*,
pride, for Homes and a town beau
tiful the Athens Boy Scouts, fath
ers, mothers, city departments,
commercial organizations, women's
clubs, painters, firemen, doctors,
everybody, sere ’going to mak4'lA
co-operative campaign the result
of which will be greater thisytfar
than ever before. The Banner and
Htfrald have Inaugurated, endorsed
and conducted these annual clean
up and patnt up seasons and la
co-operating with the movement
to make It more successful this
year than evef, - 1
AMERICAN LEGION '
ENDORSES IT
to Its former disorderllness. Oth
erwise it inevitably and speedily
will do so.
Therein lies the reason why the
clean up Idea has developed into
recently at Dublin, Ga. One hun-| Farming Rrwn Rod
dred and fifty acres of melons have * arming UlVen 15311
been contracted for, also between I oetb&CK By KflUIS
260 and 300 acres of pimento pep-! —
pers to be shipped from Milner. , LOUISVILLE, Ga. — Severely
Indications arc that the cotton heavy rains during the past two
acreage will be cut considerably weeks have put Jefferson county a
and diversification will be the or
der of the day.
A resolution was passed indors
ing the leasing of the Muscle
Shoals property to Henry Ford,
and copies were forwarded to Sen
ator Watson and Senator Harris.
Killed Husband for
Threat On Her Life *
Not To Be Prosecuted
way back for the year in farming.
Very little has been done toward
planting anything at all; and what
preparation has been accomplished
has been greatly affected because
of the rainB. As a usual matter,
the crops—especially corn have
been planted by this time, the
tenth of March. But not so this
year.
The two couples* were together
frequently since theMcNleces dame
herc^ three years ago, said Mrs.
McNiece and she and Mrs. Coart
were fast friends. Last May she; *
went to the Coart home to «eo
Mrs. Coart, she testified, but.found
only the major there. He invited,
her into the parlor, intercepted v
her between a table and the door. \
id her. she said .and
added, "I begged Jifm to Jet nv?
go. I was crying and told him ir.
he didn't let me go. I would scream
for aid. He turned me loose.”
Mrs. McNiece said she started
to leave the house and Coart fol-'.,
lowed «her to the porch begging to
explain. As she sat in the swing,
trying to compose herself beforo
leaving the house, she said
cried, “Celeste, I forgot myself."
FQR WALDEN CHASE
Mrs. McNiece said she kept quiet .
about the occurrence simplj\ st/ek* *.
ing to avoid Coart<and adding,
I had told Mr*. Coart she wo
lose all respect for her tiusm
and If I told my husband lie
blood.” ■' ”
Funeral services for Mr. Wal-
don Chase Talmage, 21, who died
Sunday at 5 p. m„ following an op
eration for the removal of an ab-
cess at a local hospital, were held
from the residence, 495 Waddell
street, Monday afternoon at 4:30,
conducted by Rev. R. Linton Por
ter, of the First Christian church,
of which the deceased was a mem*
her, and assisted by Rev. Walter
Anthony of the First Methodist
church. Interment followed In the
Oconee cemetery, the services at
the grave being ln charge of tho
Athens Masonic lodge. The follow-
Ing gentlemen acted as pall bear-
ers: Messrs. Robert and Howard
McWhorter, Norman and Sam
Nickerson, George Florence, Dan
Bishop, Carswell Mayno and Fran
cts Price.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Allen H. Talmage. a brother, Allen
H. Talmage, Jr., and four sisters,
Mrs. T. II. Nickerson. Jr., and
Misses Frances, Marion and
Maude Talmago.
One Of Athens’ Oldes
And Best Beloved Wo
men Passes Away.'
NEW ORLEANS.— Mr*. GoOrgc
Kippers. 28, who shot and killed
her husband Bunday, because, she
said, he threatened to kill her and
their baby girl, was ordered re
leased by District Attorney Marr
Monday from the $1,000 bond sho
had furnished. Mr. Marr an
nounced that no prosecution of the
woman would he undertaken by
the state. Mrs. Kippers will make
her home in the future with a
sister of her husband.
a real campaign in which the en- j finrhl Pir^lA
f i?» pnmmnnilv of Athena I. nr- ! wu vIOl GliLlC
Merchant Dead
The American Legion has heart
ily endorsed the movement as a
means of helping to solve the prob
lem of Jobs for more than 700,000
unemployed former service men
who are looking for W'ork. Of
course all these men are neither
trained or fitted for much of the
clean up. paint up and repair work
that will be done, but there are
thousands of painter* and mechan
ics and other skilled laborers
among them who will be.-
THE SECRET OF
MOVEMENT’S SUCCESS
The symbolism of the slogan
“Clean Up, Faint Up” is im
pressive and effective. Paint a
badly neglected back yard or
vacant, lot with tne green or gn^ss
or shrubbery of a thrift garden, or
publicly commit t9 sny, ettw u$$-
tire community of Athens is or
ganized into a well-ordered con
duct of this program embracing all
the various phases of continued
effort that makes a city -not only
clean, but beautiful and not only
clean and beautiful, but that keeps
lt : so.
And .if it is necessary to public-
Jy, ootiimlt a man or a piece of
property to rospectlbility. by the
garb or' habiliaments of that state
or rank, how necessary” it is for
the self-respecting community to
publicly commit Itself to cleanli
ness, orderliness and . beauty,
through its annual participation
in the clean up and paint up cam-
th*
Funeral Today
Shot Wife, Defies
Arrest Or Removal
Of Victim’s Body
PERRY, Gsorfli*. — Aftsr
shooting and killing His wife
Monday afternoon Stanley Ay*
lor defied police to arrest him
or remove the body of hie wife,
according to county .officials.*
Sheriff T. 8. Chapman Monday
night began organizing a pots#
to affect hie arrest.
APPLICATION APPROVED
WASHINGTON—Application of
Major General Peter C. Harris,
FEDERAL RE8ERVE MAY
SEND CHECK8 DIRECT
ATLANTA, Ga.— The federal
reserve bank of Atlanta may send
checks for collection directly to
the drawee bank fbr remittance
through the mails without cost of
exchange, Judge Beverly D. Evans,
of the United States court for the
Southern district of Georgia, in
a decision handed down Monday.
Judge Evans also held that under
sections 13 and 16 of the Federal
Reserve act. the reserve banks
are empowered to accept any and
all checks payable on presenta
tion, when deposited with them for
collection and that checks thus re-
celxcd must be collected at pa»\
The ca*e was that of the Amer
ican Bank and Trust Company of
Oordele, and other Georgia banks,
which were seeking to enjoin th#
Toerve bank from enforcing Its
par clearance rule, and from pub
lishing their namw on Its so-callcU
par clearance list. *•'* .
paign. which, Athens is about to
do.
It not only takes w’ork to do
this, but it takes materials. It
takes paints and tools and various
other agencies and articles of
equipment, and the merchants and
firms handling these lines and do
ing” this class of skilled artistry,
are not only co-operating in the
movement but, are . offering for
sale everything that is necessary
to put your premises in splendid
and beautiful, condition, and their
annotmeenpenu will, appear ,In
Tfit DWin*r pqd U*ntM, -
SOCIAL CIRCLE,
Major
adjutant general of the army, for
retirement at the expiration of his,
(j a Mr I present detail In August has been 5
Francis^Greer'lDuniL^fty-three, al «I»proved and the War Department
leading bustness man of this com-j “ n " 0 ‘l" ce i l “°" da y Colonel
munity for more than twenty years | J"
after an illness of two weeks of j pointed to succeed General Hams
double pneumonia, died here early r aB 8*"e r “'\. .
Monday morning. Funeral services ( Davis was adjutant general
will be conducted from the Social th e American expeditionary
Circle Methodist church at 10.30, * orc e» during the war and will act
'Tuesday morning, with interment! 88 “djutant general during the ab-
at Conyers, at 2 o’clock in the af-|fe nce of General Harris, who ha*
- - — -- - 1 been granted leave from April 1
to go abroad until
retirement.
Ancient geographers thought
Asia lay between Europe and Af
rica. ,
Following an Illness of only
few days, Mrs. J.ucy Vincent Mat
thews, age 75, died at the homo
of her nelee. Miss Ruth Jackson,
on Mllledge avenue, at midnight
Monday. Funeral arrangements
will.be announced later.
Mr*. Matthews wits the mother
bf Mrs. 1 George E. Scott, of Alli
en.: Mr. Vincent Mntthews, of
Athens, and of Mr, J. T. Matthews,
of Jnckaonvllle, Florida.
She was a sister of the' later -
Mr. T. P. Vincent, and Imd llv.-.l
ln Athena since childhood. Bh« ,
had a large circle bf friends, who'
with the friends of the family. Will
leant with sorrow of Iter death.,omi
hoe will extend to the bereaved
nrim their sincere condolences,
Yellowly Will Be
In Charge Of New
Prohi. Districts
WASHINGTON—Division of I-
ths country into 18 districts as
enforcement torritorioo of tho
federal force pf gon.ral prohi
bition agents'was announced
Monday by Commissioner nMHs
Monday by Commissioner,
Haynes. E. C. Yellowly, chief
of tho general prohibition ag- /.
onto, will bo in direct charge of
tho districts.
OVER TOM GIBBO
NEW YORK.—Harry Grebe,,
Pittsburg, received tho Judges’ij)i
cislon over Tommy Gibbons, of _
Paul, at the end of. a 15-roui
match here Monday night.
T-tYf
at uonyers, at z o ciock in tne ai- r .J,
ternoon. by Dr. Thomas M. Elliott, granted leave
assisted by Rev. J. T. Robins. « lth .P* rml “ lan “>
' Mr. Dunn is survived by his, 1 "® date of his reti
HOWAT CASE DISMISSED
WASHINGTON.— Tne supreme
wife, Mrs. Emma Dunn; two
daughters, Mrs. Willie May Allen.
® f Social Circle, and Mrs..Leonora ; co "rMonZ‘ d^smlsseS tlTwrU.
Davis, of Covington, and one I OI error by whtch Alexander Howat
brother, James Dunn, of Crawford-, and other labor leaders sought to
ville. ! have reviewed the decision of the
. ■ — Kansas State courts holding them
8EWING HINT 1 guilty of contempt of court for
Professional needleworkers who ’ their refusal to appear before the
are troubled with perspiring hands j court of industrial relations,
keep a small tin of bran near and | -
rub It Into their hands as they be- ; Christinas season costs King
*om* damp. They r*moy* th* dust j Georg* of England about
$1.50 Novel Every Two Weeks
Free to You in The
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