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Investigate Today I To Regular Subscriber* THE BANNER-HERALD $1,000 Accissnt rcmcy Free. Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Weak. Betabllahed 18S1 "')''"TiTO«sr— Dally id Bohtiy-.il Cents « Weal * , ATHENS COTTON: MIDDLING : 28 1-2c PREVIOUS CLOS.. .... ... 28 1-4c WEATHER: - Probable Showorsi Warmer. UOI.. 91, NO. 54 Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA.. TUESDAY. APRIL !/, 1925. N. E. A torvlce Slufle Copies S Cents Daily, I Cento Sunday. BIG CROWDS THRONG STMDE COHON COURT HOUSE TO HEAR CONTEST FDR TRIAL OF SE AG RAVES i Argument of counsel in the Seagraves-Smith murder *>*«»* *>“? s « is ' ing at 3:30. It it probable the cate will go to the jury ° r Agricultural Edu- sometime Tuesday night. nntmn Annmmnoc Sfafo ter placing a i«rge number of u'ont‘ of whom were cross-exa rain- | Thousands Attend l( j by the prosecution, the defense | in ri • Tuesday ! Goodell Services Establish in court that the character of i*oapraves was and is excellent i/% tlm i « - an,! that he shot Smith in self de-jUll MOIlday Night fern Among the character witnesses plat' d on the stand Tuesday morn-1 cation Announces State Wide Cotton Contest. $100 IN GOLD Ig CAPITAL PRIZE Teach Boys How to Grow Cotton to Best Advan tage Under Boll Weevil Conditions. uesday •••„• i. n. Butler, r. a. Save. | Two Thousand People i: ( ^ r [,l ^Sn C ™‘ ,n aUo lm P C^ Hear Goodell and Law- Mjveral witnesses t\ (l\i ,atan\$\ rie At Revival. Colored A state wide cotton growing coh- Tuesday morning who testified! nL_• Q t -J ar ,s4:,i {test for the boys enrolled in vo that, Smith was seen drinking \ ^ nolr opienaia. cationsl agricultural classes in the [“,m\vith S Seag?avcs 0 which resS!t<?j By JOHN O. ALLEN 'public schools, in which the first in the formers death. J .More than two thousand of Ath- Jprize is to be .>lu0,UU in gold, was * ' i <n»* i wo pie received a new exj>eri- Uoimaliy announced Monday when LITTLE SON I ence l,iKt night. It. was somethin* U*. ohetter, assistant smte au- IN COURT * unusual, somethin* really different pervism m agricultural euucatioa, in unique experience Jittin^-in* |»er- j mailed the contest rules to aU .Mr. Scagraves’ title spn was in ; fectly with those they had received &nutn-Hugh*a teachers'ut the state, court Tuesday morning sitting on during the previous ei*ht days c*very uuy enrolled in tne «*gri- his father’s knee and taking in with • from the wonderfully clear preach-»cultural classes in tne high schools wide-eyed astonishment tne pro- j ing of Dr. Charles L. Goodell. I 01 l,,e 8tate weli as ine twelve ccedings of the court | The scene: the First* Methodist The trial is attracting consider- i CJhurch jammed from pipe organ able interest and long before the j to corridors with eager. French And Belgians Tightening Clamps In Ruhr Occupation, LWORTI LEASE FOR HE made fraudulent SI. and Smitih (By Associated Press.) ! L . ease Sidney Boley Build- COBLENZ.—The “Commif sarint of The »Empire,” mg Occupied By Reid which is the Berlin government’:', highest authority in the ! Clothing Co. Rhineland, has been abolished by the Inter-Aliied High j Shoe Store. Commission, according to a report received here Tuesday. | —— 4 Th, Commissariat wa. establish-i p^N $20,000 IN To Announce For {*? “.Z°r„ tt LT! improvements PENICK DENIES THAT STATEMENT IN FIRE •VHP Governor From •uurt opened Tuesday morning at j worshipers. 9 o'clock more than half of the n The actors: Justin Lawrle. former court room was filled with people, opera singer who since his conver- somc of whome had been waiting | „i„ n more than a year ago has de- *[»“ 7 o clock. The trial began , voted hlB llfl . In fu „ „n 8lou , «. about 3 ° <*lock Monday Afternoon j tlvlties; and a group of colored and at noon Tuesday the evidence | nlf „ „ n(1 .tohn Ector and had not been finished. j fci , oholl tmm Ihe c „iore<i Baptist All jurorv not on the Seagrayes churt , 1) UjbVnct A. and M. schools is eligi- | Die lo cofnpete m tins contest oy (growing tmee acres oi cotton in *. project’’ unuer tne aupervi-j The (’ummiHKmiat ctl in Jummry 1!»:'0 at the requent of the Merlin government, t« pro vide as sort of liaison between | - (ioi nmt the Allies. Three jp amous pjyg an( J Ten _ , days after it started, the French U|q /V|| I n |*% |1 1 attempted to have it su|ipresse«l i C6Ilt StOTGS COITipdliy _ Will Begin Occupancy of Former Governor of Miss. ';r,„,,r„r Ml “' ,v “ OVer “"'I Build,n K ^ U8t h Serving Jail Sentence : f. w. Wooiworth anti company, For Contempt, Expected : e»S^ta™'fr , th" rtU S!/ rTw " r '‘ io " ally k " ow " oper J: to ” of ,iv * ' dsy,-is.... Uahtenlnu ."dL.hly and “ nt «*«rea. Tuesday con- In their hold n the Ituhr. the f;,t- i summaterf a long term lease on the est step being tin* nbolltlon of the i Sidney Boley building on Clayton Gerninn "Commissariat,” and the street. adoption Of even sharper measure, j The building Ik now occupied by to Announce. Denying that his company submitted a fraudulent sworn statement in regard to the number of bales of cot ton in the Penick Warehouse fire at Madison in 1921, L, T. Penick, head of that concern occupied the stand in the $100,000 insurance suit trial in federal court tot. th« greate: part of Monday. « ’ ■ - , Mr. Penick asserted that he mada Two Officers Arc a Ii,t the n ’? mb * r ° f bal . ea Dead As A Result Of Bootleg Fight Deputy Sheriff and Pro hibition Officer Lose Lives irt Fight With Rum Runners. To Announce For Governor. JACKSON—From his cell in the Lafayette county jail at Ox ford, Miite.. Theodore G. Bilbo, former governor of Mississippi, will, according to his friends here, make formal announce ment of his candidacy for gov ernor subject to the August pri* maries. im> mruauitr| ibuilding is now occupied by expected an a renult of the the H. J. Reid Clothing company PariH conference between French anc J Smith Shoe company and ami Belgium representative*. 'Wooiworth takes possession of it The arcent order for the seizure on August 1, 1923. NEW ORLEANS.—From meagre reports which came drifting into New Orleans, early Tuesday morn ing, two men are dead and one injured as a result of a battle with rum runnersj The dead men are a deputy cotton destroyed as correctly as he knew how and if there was any mistake it was by honest miscalcu lation and not through fraud or in- font. tr* mi<tri*nrn«pnK The ntufe- tent to misrepreaent The state ment said that 1100 bales of cotton were destroyed in the fire. SPRINKLER . | WAS WORKING ■rT Mr. Penick also answered tho charge that the sprinkler was put out of commission by denying tnat the valves controlling th* water supply were shut oft before tho fire. He declared that the valves were not shut off beforo the fire hut after it. the only witness on the stand Tuesday morning was Mr. Tru- luck, an auditor from Atlanta sheriff and a prohibition officer, j who?e testimony took up the transport inside -the' Announcement of the deal with j bee a n IJ?5rtaine'3!' <>m lMV * n0t ^ pCjlf i0 nrohaJlv* lsst": ," 1 '" : 1 1 Ruhr has ipeen applied with »pee-|the Wooiworth company, which is 0ne of j hc men |„ the rum run- ^thuTw-lf J^more Uwn fifty ■ were dismissed until Tuesday i afternoon by the court as the trial! flflit ' fn Innf nf loaat I Long before eight o'clock the expected 1 to last at least j .stately old building w an receiving through Tuesday. t the early camera. By the owning Attorney John B. Gamble and| ,,r the service, not n pew anywhere George C. Thomas are defending ‘ ^ left unfilled, while the adjoin- Scagraves while W. H. Smith is ling Bunday mhcol rooms were assisting W. O. Dean, the solicitor, 1 .packed to capacity with chairs for i the prosecution. Scagraves. who is nightwatchman at the S. A. L. depot and yards, shot and almost instantly killed r lately and other step* the largest five and ten cent stores have been taken to screw down tne company in the United States, was lid a few notches tighter on all un-,made snortly after the transaction authorized traffic within the otcu-, was completed — ■■ pied area. >rl '~ OXFORD.—Theodore G. Bilbo,. ——» ! K .™vi.»v ,.,uc V, nut lawyer, political loader and former j turee acres. Prizes will governor of Mississippi Monday, j Isioit ot nit, agricultural instructor. me capital prize oi ^idtl.uu is to ue awarued to me ooy wno pro- uuecs me greatest vame unton De awarueu at the Southeastern j wa3 under sentence to serve ( rate in Atlanta next tail, unu tne days in the Lafayette county jail i value of cotton will be uetermined " r , contempt of court as a result U|>on the grace unu staple ot cot* I’aul Smith at the time yard mas ter for the same company on the flit I the later arrivals. They had come * to hear Mr. Lnwrie and John Ec tor's choir. For not often in a single night does one have the op portunity to hear singing torly different and yet so strange ly nllke in beauty. Mr. Lawrle has sung major parts in operu. 'ffe’has a cfear-tjut, pbwr * iourtnivd'* nc bliTw.s'Vt^med I "1 ul ' , h hl 1 ' thly uMlnst him by the January grand v l 1 11 1 the untriitn- jury. The April term grand jury, ed m. i however returned a biff of Indict-i ,onM ' Wh*""® ment for murder and hia ease is I 1 ’ 1 '*™ , f" r , Ul * * hl " N the first one on the criminal docket. } orlt friends ^admired hi to be taken up. evening ol December He wa^ acquitted by tho coro ners jnry, ordered* held in the pre 1 - liminary trial before the justice j ton exiiioueu, as uuseil o;» the cias siticaiion given by me Georgia Got ten Growers Co-operative **iarKet mg jissociauon. lOgetner wan the sample of cot ton exhibited by each boy he is re quired according 10 tne rules of me contest to submit a complete record ol nis cotton growing pro ject. including, cost accounts and cultural ptacuces. Tnese records . ]are to bo filed under tne seal of a notary public und to be attested by tne teacner under wnosc direc tion the project has been conduct- thelr According to Mr. Sheffer, a summary ot these records should give us the best information avail able with reference to cotton pro duction under boil weevil condi- sung In tions, for not only will projects be le [ conducted m all parts oi the state, ighed ■ailing. John Ector has i j Bum's nml'l carriers, "u '"faintVlar fix- jjiutfi large number of varieties wili Bandits AnOtHerl*? % ‘ riena but 'P « ,P ub V c ' *' r '- the streets of Athens. Butj^ Ifrown and a great variety ot a “ ul .. A ::. lll 5 .(vice that was wonderful and never of r Eli DIES, SADDENS CITY The amount of the leaae, which' for sixteen yesrs, was not given out, but it is learned from reuabie sour.-es that the consideratidn is the largest ever paid for a single j building in Athens. of his failure to respond to a ted oral court summons to appear as a witness for the plaintiff in the suit . . . for damages filed by Miss Frances 1 I Mr. Sidney Boley purchased the Birkhead, of New Orleans, stenog-1 ' ' building in 1913 snd paid the larg- rapher, against Lee M. Russell J est price per front foot ever given ... governor of Mississippi. Pnsaimr Awnv of MlV L nr P. lo Perty in Athens, it Is stated, the lookout for them. Tho sentence was imposed in *“S8ing Away OI "1“-; The fact that the lease calls for an j — United States district court here Eilftl A. UiaWlorCl Is amount larger than that e*er paid 1 G 0 l ore d Orator To ” • “ — ‘ f.-ir n winrrln Ltiilrlinor in (h d r> tv ,| vwiw*vu v<w|,v> * v ning gang was wounded but was taken away by his comrades, in a high powered ear, which the whis key runit rs were using as a “scout car, for the caravan which followed it. The fight took place at Lake Borgne Canal bridge near Violet, iisisna. according the repeat Louisiana, according the received by the police here. The bodies of the two dead of ficers were found at opposite ends of the bridge and one body had been severely riddled with bullets. Police officials ate at work on the case, w hile authorities have de scriptions of the cars and are on Sdwin R., Holmes I q nllv< , p firipf tn Hun- 1 b > ,lwln Ej n th j a *» { ;au guilty to the source OI Uriel IO nun-1 inHicstion that property values here onneed himself i dreds of Friends. ' are no* only holding up but are whatever, in the,' k°mir higher. lightof all the facU ami conditions! In the dcat K of Mrs. Ellen A. L-^L v*?h.°. Un .l2wl w-Ak of th.s case, the penalty of this ■ Crawford, whfch «currred at her. *“" d,y il L“ t I1( ™ _ honorable court shall be." horae in t |, in ,. ity Mo n,iay afternoon I KK.’gL fflw?. J A then" mst one her most nota-l — th « building for th»lr store. Monday by Judge Edwin when Mr. Bilbo pleaa gi charge and fhnounced ready to suffer “whatever, in thej Speak Here Friday Roscoe Simmons, reputed 'to bo the colored race's greatest orator, iLl.L.. .-J ...Ill . GROWS OUT OF FIRE The suit for $100,000 against tho Camden Insurance ccmpW "£ i Camden, N. J., grows out of a fira in the Penick Warehouse at Madi son in 1921 at which time 1100 bales of cotton are said to havo burned. The insurance company re fused to pay the amount asked. Counsel for the defense .Mon day declared that the sworn sti Bient of the plaintiff as to number of biles in the warehauso was frauluient and that the auto matic sprinkler was out of com mission when the fire occurred, ir that the valves controlling water supply were cut off and ' water was available to the fire.” Ajscns able Und beloved women.- fomin" to Athens just thinker and entertainer, will ap- Attorneys representing the pear at the Mo« auditorium unde, !««•" feo°;/Ctic$>; close of the civil war she became n leader in those matters | Decision of the Wooiworth com- which looked to the uplift and bet- party to establish a store In Athens terment of those sbout her. Pos- {nte . that the great business sesMng ren-arkaule intellectual' concerns of the country regard this qualities and a patriotism that city aa one of the belt la the state. The Wooiworth company was Pfar. auspices, of the First A. M. w.ek«h&& -its flC.y-sixth s. Anderson Bladiion and T. Wood. “Thusfc lepiescnting the di fondant are, Judge Shepard Bryai —. . . --- , —4 « _... _ 111—Illlj IwUIlti L A|ll Loolvll mV. Willy Police Chiefs Son Killed:in deeds of kindness and loyalty knew no bounds, her iove for hu manity found expression not .only PART UNDER WAY Summer Months and Warm Weather Will See Wholesale D e p a r ture, Says Col. Gantt. on Sundays, and on prayer inert ing nights, he is the choir leader at the colored Baptist church. In spare hours he trains its members. And last night, by special request, he brought them to sing for Mr., Lnwrie and the "white folks'' at much cotton per *ac their big meeting. did through tneir projects last Lucky for the music critic that | year, we may expect not less than a cub reporter was assigned t cover the service last night. fertilization methods und poison remedies will be used- “We expect to have 500 boys en ter this contest," said Mr. bneffer in commenting on this contest Monday, “and if they produce ere our boys .. ... 1.000 bales, which at present prices 'Had I would be worth about $160,000. critht been there, he would; *«•» *» »• u “‘ juu K „.^..w - e t„nv imxxllns hl» brain, yet did *'»>« *» conduct »uch a content 1 i fnf ♦)>.. rnaartn that /»nv nBnn a Ite ould | This is in our judgment a splen- Man Fatally Wounded ending. *— * * She seems fo have adopted as her stundarfl of life the words of Master “! in Fight. (By Associated Press.) the Master *'I came not to be mln- for their country. She sowed Into .... .. company represented by J. R. Allen in hand ling the transaction. Hit By Train, Small Boy Dies PAWHUSKA—Five bandits, controlling influence of her life By T. LARRY GANTT I was talking the other day with my friend, Mr. Abney, the Broad a iH that street merchant about the agri- «ultural situation and * exodus of negroes. He agreed with me that [he northward movement of blacks , Just fairly started and since warm weather has set in t^iat most l^l. n t e if r< >e» remaining would probably leave. Mr Abney then spoke of Van Jenkins, a farmer of Madison jounty and cited what can >*• accomplished in this section of Z or J? a b y whitc l*bor and intel- gent work. He said he has known an Jenkins for some 35 years, \ * hn was a poo armad on a small at man and f the colored choir. • cul» and the congrega- ^1 id n't ti*y to decide.' They knew'’ that "Steal Away.'' "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.' "Humble Yourself, the Bell's Done Rung." the rei>ertolre of the visi tors. when rendered in the soft and quaintly beautiful fashion in which only a negro can render them, are totally unlike any other kind of singing in the world and that com parisons are useless. firemen called „ ,r — - ---- i The department responded to a that tntiaX V m i a i? ,e '5 He telephone call (dl»iH morning to 448 v fgSftJPl' *■ worth Thomas street where the firemen lull.. *** »■ W * 2( * i 'Q00 and every penny was count J° m , V* , 8 °U of Madison JSt* a D' 1 l* c le»n money, repre- a htr '* u ork, frugality and an '’ «»mmon sense. A short time since Mr. Jenkins (Turn to Page Six) WHEN TH! POWER OAV! OUT Once numbered among the big/ oett of tngiNh advertisers, end prosperoue in proportion, tho famous shoe.polish firm, of Day A Martin rtranllu artlw -..i recently sold out. F.llur. to k„p up It. advar. o.ng mi th. r.aion frankly «'*on by It! managamant for th. ""*• •* bg.ln.M which forced ttap. Many famcua wrltar., Including Charles Dickens, had mada raf- rr.ne. to tho tlrm by namo In >«eir books, and Its praatlga was ’pp.r.ntly „cura. Than cam* tha mistake of "Unking «»• public would k.np on -anting th. product without constant remlndtr of Its marlta. Compttition wat Invited by this "Muds—active, advertiring c.m. petition. In.vitab.c-- cel. p c.tlg« l. a w.nd.rful found., von for advcticlng. But— •T ISN’T A SUBSTITUTE. THE BANNER.HERALD. Thomas extinguished a small flro on the roof of a residence belonging to .Mrs. Carrie Powers. Only a small aad ,J««a Jantre «n«. of day, pier thVn vhnn b.lpla, oUtnre. The ” . 0. w„ (tone ^ by, rifled the bafe of the ,|, k knew her ministrations, the • fatIi ii y Injured when atruck by a l>oor her kindness. Little children | H p ( .flal train on the Athens- Union fathered about her f ladly. | Point brant, of the Oeortth rail- Probably her work.amonx and r „ # ,| uonna, at 4 o. m. r for children was the most amiable | The child la reported to have that $he did. j been playing near the tracks in She organized “The Children of j front of his home or attempted to the confederacy" and instilled Into cross them when a switch engine, postoffice here early Tuesday morning, killed one man and made their escape. ( The is thought to be the irylou p^uMS e £{* »“«orroSKfire , :iI tlve value of Ml. Lawrle a slnalaa^ un(Ier bo |, wecvjl ‘' coadittons. , uv ^ Oklihomn. - Our yields have been materially . *[| e < * cad 'Wilkerson. reduced by the ravaircs of the peat, (|?°L*9* c W-*f of P°i lcc but at the same time our asricul-1 bandit* as lie tricd'*to S stoD the^rob' ihrt iered unto but to minister.” Tho I wan lirouKht to an Athena hoa- *" r j) I bery. His -body was comnietelv rid I * b e |r mlnda the seed of patriotism pltal, but was so badly Injured that making good Mtton crops Last yew ™^-”J a o“^»»* 8 eompleteiynd . and |(jye w| „ llever ‘' cca . e t0 death occurred at 10:65 p. m. The a dying condition. (bear fruit and will make ot them remains were removed to Dorsey's tiha the boys inthe Smith-Hughes | A „Xr man, “Shorty'’ Karri- better men and women, as they! funeral parlors and seat to tha agricultural classes wno nhii .cot-L 0Ilt a taxi-driver, was also .hoi drow into mnnluMHl and woman- home In Odaxeys Turedsy morning, ton Projects produced an average b the bandit, on d j, not cvnecfSl i hood. If she had done ho more than t 'me funeral and IntermaHU will be ° f („‘ i »L po “ n ?L°„»red 1 *o live through Yh? day this, and'she did much more, she : held Wednesday at Balrdstown. ton to the acre, a* compared to 300 After tho attempted robbery, the would hove rendered a wondqrfut I -Vr. and Mrs. Wheeler, parents bandits headed towards Battles- service to the South, which she of the child, are the only Immedl- vitlc. , loved so well. 'ate relatives surving him. His fath- A member ot the D. A. B.'s and 'cr is foreman of a bridge construc- anniversary. Speaking of Simmooa' appear* ance before an Augusta' audience, Judge Fruuklln. one nf a large number of white cltlsena who beard him, Is quoted In an article appearing In the Chronicle ot Jan* uary 2. as saying "It wts the most liowerful argument" he bad ever beard. W. A. Fountain, Jr.. Is pastor of the ABhena church and he and his colored members have prepared an elaborate program for the anni versary week. The address by Roscoe Simmons will be probably Ihe main feature, and the wblto people of the city will be Invited to bear him. An admission fee of 36c will be charged. - pounds as an average for tho farm ers of the state. Had the average yield in the state been as good as that of the vocational boys more than $100,000,000 would have been added to the total value of our 1022 cotton crop.’ in addition to the first prize of $100.00 in gold a large number of other przes will be awarded to the boys in the contest. A definite an- (iarnage resulted from the fire as i nouncement with respect to theso it was quickly put out. | prizes will be made in a few days. The many "rolls of papyrus" i UiaS were found In King Tufs I Among the Eekimos, ('conjurers." tomb In Egypt have turned out to | who have had a special training be rolls of linen, apparently loin I and may ite of either sex. wield a cloths. i frost Influence. Walker May Speak other orxanizitions her heart was always with the children. She was v»r happier than when serving At Baptist Rally ^g h „ r l0DB , lckneif Baptists of this seolion will be Interested in the announcement that on Sunday. April 59. the fifth district rally of the Sarepta as- aoclattlom'wlll be held at the Bap- list church In Comer, Ga. Hon. Clllfford M. Walker, gov ernor-elect of Georgia, has been invited to deliver an address on "Chriatian citizenship,” and other prominent laymen and ministers If You re A Nut You Can Prove It J ’ _ l ... _ -land elaborate preparations are be- When Brain Test Bill Is Passed^ttt Z will take part fn the program. ) A large attendance is expected, ALBANY.—You ck determine , mentary capacity, and If he got a hither vou are a compete luna-]* ecrPe of the court ' * fter Proi** tic s nea^eS^s a plaln "bug” or !notice and hearing officially judg- a hardbolled man of sense under a ing hJm to be sane, that could be hill todav bv Assembly- ma,,G Ending upon his heirs, man I^evy*ot Manhattan. ^vhhh en- "The obvious adv.nt.ge I. such iiibu rnurt for an a proceeding as bearing on a will r. b i e ’H./,ioY lmo W. sYmty contest Is that Mr. Eno and the investigation Into Ms ssnity. !fl|lure potpnUa | En0l , re ptacBrt Lecy says no one making a will, the Hta ml la their own behalf Negro Thief Bound Over to State Courts clarence Cokely, negro, who was arraigned in police court Tuesday morning charged with steading from the Hardy.’ Hardware com paqy, was houndover ub the state courts under $200 bond charged her home was almost continually filled by anxious friends. Everyone want ed to know “How is Mrs. Craw ford." The number of her friends was great und included ail classes. No one hud more friends than she. Mrs. (’rawford, in early life, was left a'widow wfth three !itt)e chil dren. Her life was not free from care or sorrow or trials but she tlon force on the Georgia railroad and waa at work between Camack nnu Macon when tne pccldent oc curred. « REQUEST NAMES Prices offered by Mayor Geo. C. Thomas to the Athena school children in the Clean-Up Cam paign which was prosecuted so sucessfully by them and which resulted in putting the city in order for the spring and sum*' mer season nave not been awarded. The delay has been occasioned according to a statement by the mayor* by the failure of the au thorities^ the different schools to send ni the names of the win ners to him. As soon as this is done the prizes will be awarded, and Mayor Thomas has request ed that the namea of the chil dren entitled to these prizes be forwarded to him at once. . renoant are. Judge Shcparc Atlanta; Daniel McDougal. Atlan- and^Erwin ,Err/in end Nix, * wn^ ui, anti Lrwin jErr atheiis, E. J. Trotter, DISTRICT CONTEST Franklin County High i School Noses Out Hart well By One-Half Point. Monroe Third. HARTWELL, On.—The elghtli (Itetrict high echool meet which »al held h-re April 13-H foie very ■ucrenful, e« evidenced by Ihe large attendance and Intciv.t ehown. official reprceent.itlce ..f the elxteen vleltlng echool., thetc Muperlntendenta, members of I th.. fucultles. mid valtore numbered from S00 to 1,000. The school, partlcpntlng In the meet Were Greensboro, Mnui'oe, Social Circle. Washington. Wat - klnsvIHe. Wtntervllle. Elbert'.n. Livonia, Comer, Mftdlsen. Eitnf - ton. Covington. Crawford. Dzntrix. vine, Itoy.ton, Carne.vtlle und Hartwell. ' ' I LIST OF WINNERS Martithon Dancers Kept Hopping As Police Keep In Behind Them in the literary contest, 'cotMixt - Ini? of recitation, music, declam.i - (By Associated l*n . NEW YORK.—New York s eight never complained. Affliction, sor- lone-stepping non-stoppers who row hardened her not hut through!have danced their way from' this all these she grew In those graces J state to New Jersey and* back who entered the club’s marathon which sweeten womanhood and de-j again in their attempts to set a Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock velop character. (new dancing endurance record, de- has been on the floor the longest. She was for years a consistent 'spite the ruling of the law and ball- Russell Brady, who preceded her on held in dancing academies tlon. debate, spelling. sewing. La von la won first pin... Hartwell, second. and .Monroe third. Lnvonia won first place ' ver Hartwell by one-half a point. In the literary exhibits. Katon- ton won first place, Monroe .*»«*<-omi ml Hartwell think In * the indifetrial contest Mum-on .‘won first place, - Hartwell w..u.| and innd Madison county high w«m over a tile floor in a club room. x third, of the dancers, 21 are women and j in the athletic edntest ten men. 'Miss Mada line Gottschick, won first place uud Lai ond. The school and devoted member of the Pres- room proprietors, started a jazz I the same floor, naving dropped out byterfsn church and was interested journey to Connecticut. (this morning after dancing 43 journey to Connecticut. j this morning In all the work and efforts under- Thmitened by the police here hours and 38 minutes. Miss Gotts- taken by her church. Jiast night, they fox-trotted into a chick was proclaimed in good con- Her near relatives who survive J moving van, whero a phonograph j dition by a physician who examines her are. a daughter. Miss Annie, a systematic stealing from Hardware company while in Its em ploy by getting himself locked in side the store every nighb "‘ I, , “ Jon the stand In their own behalf . unutu ought to wait to have this^iemlolu^ scnltlnlied aBd exan ,i aed by with larceny. cleared up after he Is dead. TO i»* , hc j ury as t |„, evidence that t'okely I* said to have conducted dfcate the'need for such a bill Mr. j can ^ offered, while under the^H Levy Hald: _ present practice long hypothetical "Take the caee of Amos A. lino.' questions are put to alienists hired who left $1:1,000.000, half of It to| am | paid by the proponenta and the t:ommouweatlh and half to hia .contestanta of a will.” belra. As In many many cases, for t To avoid another set of compti- like causqs, contest was made upon cations that usually uriae after one the grounds of his Insanity or men- j, Rpaq, SenatW; Levy offered a ' Inlcapaclty. ) ^.jcptnivMMot* WH.PVTWHtlps a, poraoa This coiild have hecn ayoidiSil test Ip, court,the jfqlldlty; of a ’ Eno had the right under . the! wilt while he Is alive, so he may law- to institute voluntary proceed- j have a chance to patch up any Inga to r .<ezt hia sanity and testa-;flaws found by the court. HEADDRESSES Headbanda and small turbans for . . , evening are greatly liked In Faria ho ™ el 'i*i r or georgette ejrepe ft the present JllW: Moat of the tnmlbafids, ghpvt. the: Ecyptlan Hr ftuenre and oriantal colorings and the (be lavish use ot seed pearls and bright semi-precious atones. of this city, a grandson. Brace Crawford of New York and a sister Mrs. Lucy Harris ot Chicago. The services gwill be from the residence Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. , t TOOM8 DUBOSE. SUMMER VELVETS Velvet hots are to be iiopnl-ir throughout the summer. Not the heavy kind, hut a very tight, nip ple sort with a high sheen, it is also used for large bows am. fer trimmings on transparent hats of ere a phonograph dition by a physician furnished music w hile they crossed here trequentiy. the Hudson to a Fort Lee, N. J.,: ills* Gottschick has set SO hours hall. They shuffle dpeacefully there!as her goal. ■ ANe Id plmC two different Kbi'es nS'once, a’London wfudow-ClenneC until Monday afternoon. The police j Seven women and six men are invited them to leave snd they tod-1 gliding over the tile floor of the died bark to their portable dance;dub. floor, rrussed the river again and I In one of the dancing acamedies went to a Harlem ball room. The;is u “masked man of mystery,” manager there allowed them to t and a woman, who started dan,ing stay only a few minutes and they j at 2 p. m. Sunday. Tile man u waltzed into their van once more .masked to conceal his identity, and headedJor “somewhere in Con-1 Four of 17 girls who entered .the nccticut.” The managers of none of the dance halls knew what town they might land in- With orders out that no more en durance dancing will be permitted in .Cleveland. 31 dancers were shuf fling or*r three floors in an ef- - :ord of 65 MM established' yesterday by Hies fling over tnree iiooi iirt to break the recori end 53 : minutes ‘eit Houston, Texas, yester Magdalene Williams. Two of the contests are being contest in the other dancing aca demies, dropped out today, leaving 13 women and three- men on the floor. An ordinance which would pro hibit endurance dancing here wag referred by city council to |Ls ju-Jj. Thorr : .Mmiday , i_ht after diciayy comntittee. Previous to its the former was found guilty of introduction in the dance hill,‘'In-/cutting Ernest Foster, negro on tha ring the highest number of points in these contests won loving fop * Gold medals were awarded to ilea Cheek. Jr., of Livonia, and Louise Christy, of Kinlelsvill.- on spelling: to Martha Churchill and |lsane Hays, of Covington, on de. hate: tt| lien Cheek, Jr, h>f tuiv.i- "*«. on essay; Lillian Dawson, of Wlnt. rvllle, on^esaay; Frank Nash, of Washington, on declamation : Eliza David, of DsnietildUf. on declamation; Eva Brewer, of Hart well. on sewing, and Louise Jones, of Hartwell, on music. White. Boy Fined For Cutting Negro Elmer J. Todd, a rehabilitation student^ was sentenced $15.75 fine or s-rve thirty days*., the city stnckadc ( by Recorder W. P (cuttir.g Ernest Foster, negro oi spector Charles V. Johtpon an- Chase street show grounds Si nounred that no more contests >,lav night. Th<‘ negro was would be permitted to start. Todd paid the fine.