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Mgr;- • t. RABg EIOHT THH BAWWEB-HgHXLP. ATHENS, CEQROtA % W Si -rr M ED W O M X W»V- HK E X *** * | FRIDAY. APRIL 20, 1923. y: - y "■Every day in every way Benson’s Bread will make your health a little bit better. Ask for Hot Rolls, Benson’s every day at your gro cers, two deliveries, noon and afternoon, 10c Hie dozen. BENSON’S BAKERY SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY Dressed Hens Fresh Fish Good Western Meats Also Native Meats WESTERN MARKET Phones 1446—1447 IFUNERAL NOTICES! MARKETS ATHENS COTTON The local cotton market fluffcr- HARTLEY, W. B. “BEE.”—Died Friday morning at his residence, 1 0( j the biggest drop Athens, (ia. Survived by wife, (weeks, when the staple hit twenty three daughters, three sons and | seven ce.its. The previous close three brothers. Funeral and later-j was 28 cents. ment Sunday afternoon at S: 30 at Holly Springs church near Mays-] new york cotton vllle. Rev. Wasson lr. charge. Georgia Leads ^ ■ In Building ENT BEGIf TABOR—Died Thursday after- r' ay noon the infant daughter of Mr. J ^ ly and Mrs. Paul Tabor. The inter* la ment wii be at Monticello, tho j home of Mri>. Tabor. Mr. W. B. Hartley Called By Death Open High Low flow P.C. 2h.0U 28.29 26.90 27.38 23.45 27.03 27.38 2C.18 20.31 28.0.’! 24.35 2( 61 23.73 23.92 27.03 23.83 24 11 23.28 23.31 24.20 23.65 23.76 Bids May July NEW ORLEANS COTTON .Mr. W. B. Hartley, formerly of Gainesville but a citizen of Ath- fnr the past several years, died Friday morning at 10 o’clock at the residence, corner of Baxter and Bloomfield. Mr. Hartley's death came rather suddetnly and was caused by heart trouble. He was a member of the First Methodist church and originally from a prominent Jack- son county family. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Alice Hartley, three daugh- tersters. Mrs. M. L. Pennock of Athens. Mrs. N. B. Mobley, of trwlnton, and Miss Daisy of Ath ens, three sons, Jote, Paul and Kendall and three brothers, John of Hochtop and R. J and Taylor of Pendergrass.- The funeral service* will be con ducted Sunday afternoon at 3:30 from Holly Springs church near Maysvllle and the interment will follow In the churchyard. Rev. Wasson will be In charge. 7.70 26.27 ft* 61 27.28 7.30 26.02 26.30 26.9<l 4.08 23.18 23.40 23.61 23.96; L'ec^rnhcr LIBERTY BONOS Building contracts awarded in Georgia during the first quarter of 1923, have amounted to $27,- 913.90ft, according to F. W. Dodge I Corporation. This is the largest amount reported for the period in any Southern State east of the Mississippi. The volume of con struction in proportion fo popula tion was just about the same oi for the entire country. ' The construction record for tb4 quarter included: $14,262,100 or 51 per cent for residential build ings; $4,372,700 or 10 per cent fo* public works and utilities; $3,584, 000 or 13 per cent for business buildings; and $3,230,000 or 12 per cent for educational buildings. H 1100.000 SOU Interesting Case Expect ed to Reach Jury Some time Friday. Trial Began Here Monday Morning. Beacons Erected On Highways 3 1 -2m First 4 1-4h !' .Second 4 I -4k 9 Third 4 I-4h » Fourth 4 1 -4s 9 CHICAGO GRAIN Motorists travelling the Florida Highways should be greatly im pressed with the new and novel Highway Beacons which ha- o been erected by the Gulf Refining com pany. The Beasons are on tho job every i ,: - minute of the day and night and • ■20 j are designed to warn mororists of • 17; dangerous curves, railroad and 8on j ighway crossings. The flashing <■24 j light cannot )** overlooked and 9.oo their warning should be observed | by all. Will Entertain Tourist Party May .. July .. .. FOILS'— Sept. ... ... May .. July .. OATH— Sept May .. .. July NEW YORK STOCKS f THE bread for every digestion :' No matter what your health is Mother Goose Bread is the ’ " BEST BREAD , IN TOWN its uniformly, fine tex ture—lightness and tasti- gfess—makes it the logi- col bread fer everybody —from Baby - to Grand pa. BUY IT FROM YOUR GROCER Visit the Coffee Shoppe where the best Coffee is served — Skelton’a, Bak- ery products are on sale there. The get-acquaintcd tour con ducted annually by the Greenville Chamber of Commence will visit Athens on May 17th and will bring here 125 of the leading I’Vgini&t. men of that city, oi.c of the leading manufacturing cities of the south. A tour similar to this was con ducted through Georgia and Ten- r# , nncr neesee last year. The party will •- A»k« n . V..» mmII N. y. I enlfal .... Amc. Tel. Tel. .. U. S. Steel .... Southern Ry. ... Southern Ry. pM. Fail American American Sugar.. Open 2 P.M 77% 77% Sugar 18% 16% pfd.. 61% 60% 61% .... 106% 106% 106% 34% 34% 34% 17% 68 69% ,n. Athens fui breakfast and will be entertained here. Governor T. G. McLeod of South Carolina will be with the party bo will the mayor of Greenville The party will he in Athens and hour and a half. It will travel by ipeeial train and carry an 18 piece band. The committee on entalnment ap pointed Friday from the Chamber of Commerce is composed of Harry Hodgson. James White, A. G. Dud- ley, SL J. Costa and J, W. Jarrell; FEARED OPERATION NEW YORK.—Seeing nothing but discouragement ahead or him because of a paralytic affliction and tearing to undergp an opera tion for an Internal trouble. Domi nick Drlllp, an Italian, S3 years old who lived With his wife, Anns, at 313 Wsst Twenty-sixth street, , committed suicide yesterday morn-1 *»*<?■' * — — * -■-lining 70% 79*4 <1% 41% 41% 94% 94% 94% 122% 129% 123 Hodgson Barn Is Destroyed While these danger signals bear the advertising of the Gulf Re fining company, they are at the same *«—« an exemplification of “Gulf Service” to motorists of Florida as well as tourists gener ally who are driving over. Ur-t4ge roads. TO CENTENNIAL Argument of counsel In the $100,- 000 insurance suit on trial In Fed eral court here began Friday morn ing. The case wa» expected to reach the Jury by the middle of the afternoon. - Attorneys for L. T. Penick, of the Penick Warehouse at Madison Is suing the Camden Insur- j A Puzzle A Day In the diagram shown-above, a course may be traced from A to B, along the lines between the* dir* cles, that will touch each circle once. Each line must: be followed from circle to circle; it Is not per missible to turn where two Uses cross. Can you trace the course? Yesterday’s answer:. ance company for collection of $10o,f»00 alleged loss at a coootn fire in 1921 when 1100 bales of cotton are said to have burned, began the argument with K. 8. An derson 'of Madison opening. Will L. Erwin, of Erwin, Erwin and Nix. of the counsel for the Camden Insurance company et al., followed Mr. Anderson who in turn was followed by Daniel McDougal of Atlanta. Greene Johnson of Monticello, of counsel for the plaintiff closed the argument. The trial began in Federal court Monday morning and a large num ber of witnesses were examined. The -insurance company through Its attorneys claimed fraud In statement as to the number bales in the fire and that the a Ives to the sprinkler system FIVE The word “five” is composed of four letters. If ^ and E (two let ters) are removed, IV (Roman nu meral four) will remain. Take away the I, which leaves V (five.) Replace the FIE, and you will still have FIVE. Berton Braley’s Daily Poem Give the kid a dog and you’ve fur nished him a playmate. Always true and faithful as can be; ♦he 11'Over and companion, a loyal -*> nlght-and-day playmate. Full of warm affection and of glee. wfre cut off before the fire pre- Give the kid a dog, be it alredale, Venting operation of tho sprink-1 bull or collie, lers. ' Ready tor a rome or tor a Jog, The plaintiff denied that the Tail forever wagging In a manner statement was fraudulent and that | that is jolly— the water sprinklers were cut off j Give the kid fc dog. before the fire I , Attorneys representing the Give the kid a dog and you ve Macon Ready to Enter tain 50,000 People At Big Celebration on May 9, 10 and 11. A largo barn used as a garage for M. S. Hodgson, Walter Hodg son and H. H- Gotdon, Jr., and sit. uated ,in the roar of the Prinoe Hodgson heme on Prince avenue was totally, destroyed by- fire Thursday night about 8:45 o'clock A Lexington owned by Mr.. Gordon was destroyed while tho other cars were in use or gotten out before the (Ire made great headway. A ’(fcorgia studont name I Hilton was trying to get the Lex- cummiMcu .u.c, u „ 7 e.„r H .x .u u .u- ,»«*?»' 0»> **• Ing by shoot ng himself. He h»d‘“ u ™ n * hin ] ™* h from the bar “ been a carpenter for twenty years. t0 T f’ cll P® '2SS55, on the roof He suffered a paralytic stroke two c ™ th - paralytic years ago and has been unable to work alnce. Th# Bsst Ossssrt in ths World COSTA'S DELICIOUS ICE CREAM Phena your, ordort In today and tomorrow for your Sunday dinner. COSTA'S PHONE 617 Read Herald Want Ads. Splendid work on the part of tho fire department saved the Prince Hodgson home and that of Wal ter Hodgson from damage. Large Crowd At Field Day Here I 'and S3? parents attended the Field day exercisea on the Agri cultural College campus Friday 1’rices in the speaking and athletics (contests will bo announced Sunday. MACON, (la. — Fifty thousaipl people of Georgia and the south will Join with the cJtlzena of Maeon May 9, 10 anu 11th, in celebrating the city's one-hundredth anniver sary with a three-day festival entertainment said to surpass any previous undertaking of similar nature, In the south. Five thousand Macon people are enthusiastically engaged in hearsing their parts for the torlc pageant -vhich will be an out* standing fciiture of the fete. Miss Olive Jackson of New York City IS directing the pageant, which will depfet the history of Mncnn and Middle Georgia from the time rtf 'k TieSoto’s visit to . thin , region In lf»40, to and including the present era of progress nnd prosperity. Hlx concerts by ,Creatore’s Inter nationally famous hand will con tribute tho high light of the stu< pendous musical program arrang ed. Six other hands have been en gaged for the entire celebration, including the Tyventy-Xlnth In fantry musical organization o Fort Renning. the 122nd Infantry band of Macon, the Hhrine band of AlHihnh Patrol, tho Odd Fellow* band and like organizations from Lanier High School, said to huve the greatest prep school band in the southeast. An Independent Ma con band of sixty instruments is another. There will be three civic parades which every city, town and county in middle sand south Georp gia will be invited to enter com munity flouts. This will be nn out standing .feature of the celebra tion. Living Cost Increase Far Outstrips Gasoline nlnintiff are Albert O. Foster, Madison; Greene Johnson. Monti- ^ello: K. 3. Anderson, Madison and T. M. Wood. Those representing the defendants arc, Edward J. Trottc;*, Cedartown; Judge Shepard Bryan. Atlanta; Daniel McDougal, Atlanta, and Erwin, Erwin & Nix, Athens. ATHENIANS ARE 0. J. Tolnas, W. D. Pas- chall and George A. Beattie Made First Lieu tenants. The following from Atlanta is of interest in Athens. Headquarters IV Army Officer of the Chief Staff*. Spec! - W. pete Corp Orders No. 43 O. R., 25 tree St Atlanta, Georgia, 9, 1923. ' The promotiop- of the Re Peach- April serve Officers whose names . poor below is announced, they will retain their present asignmont; Oluf J. Toinas promoted from 2nd to 1st lieutenant of date of March 9th, 1923. WiWlliam D,. Paschall promoted from 2nd to 1st lieutenant or date William D- Paschal! promoted 2nd to 1st lieutenant *of date of Dec. 21st 1922. Read Herald Want Ads. surely given something Valued more than figures can compute. Friendship, love and. service in the bosom of a dumb thing; Golden-hearted glamor In a brute J There's a guide and worder who will free your mind of worry. One with quick intelligence agog; Be It mutt or champion, short- haired breed or furry— . Give the kid a dog» Staba to Avoid Lynching ORANGE—When a crowd which collected outside the jail in which he is confined began clamoring for his life, Clarence Spiith, a negro stabbed himself and cut hi* throat Smith, who is accused of writing improper notes to white women is reported dying. The crowd was quieted. The Best Dessert in the World COSTA’8 DEUCIOU8 ICE CREAM Phone your order* in today and tomorrow for your 8unday dinner. COSTA’S PHONE 697 Aragon Co., Inc. Richmond, Virginia The Wier Grocery Co WE DELIVER Phone 166 WE DELIVER 9:30-11:30 A. M. 3:30-5:30 P. M. SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY ONLY 1 pound Jtallard’s Strawberry 33c 1 quart Jar isweet Mixed Pickles 49c 1 pound Bulk Cocoa 19c Large Fat Norway Mackerel, 2 for .. : 25c No. 8 Crescent Lard .. $1.27 No. 4 Crescent Lard 67c No. 2 1-2 can Yellow Cling Dessert /Peaches . .. .. .. ... ..-j-i “*■ No. 1 can Robin Hood Peas .. : i7c No. 1 can Royal Scarlet Okra ! * 12c Fresh Snap Beans, Nice Tender Squash, Carrots, New Irish Potatoes, Sliced Bacon, Ham, Tongue. FOR QUICK SERVICE PHONE US J yOURORDERS.. The Wier Grocery Co. PHONE 166 IMPORTANT NOTICE All who have not paid their State and Cognty Taxes for last year, please hurry set tlement to me at once. Levies will be made as fast as the Sheriff and Bailiffs can make them. W. A. MALLORY. Tax Collector Banner-Hetirtd Want ‘Aft (too LxtettfdsssjrjO^,.' f for { £o- gated’, in flfmifB rljjgintlai section, two fivfc room * Apfttments, odrrn conveniences. ~ Will rent entire bouse to one party or .separate apartmenW House newly painted- and all wallH done over. Reasonable rent Albert Davison. n23c FOR SALE— WOOD. DRY PINE. Phone im-J or 120-J. Jl. L. I3ram- blett. . * 20c 10 Pounds IRISH POTATOES. 24 cents Fresh Tomatoes, lb. . 16c Spring Onions, bunch 10c White Bermuda Onions, pound .. . f 16c Green Beans, gallon . 60c Yellow Squash, lb. .. 16c New Irish Potatoes, pound .. .... 12 l-2c Sweet Potatoes, lb. .. 3c Cucumbers, pound .. 16c Green Cabbage, lb. 10c Bell Peppers, Grapefruit, Highland Brand Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Shelled Popcorn, and Checker Brand Popcorn in 6 cent packages. COMBINATION STORE Produce Departmnet Clayton Street She Insists On ' GETTING NOO-NAME COFFEE Why? Because, she says, she has used it and found it best. She has compared it with other c o f f e e~aad NOO- NAME isher choice You will agree with this connoisseur of good drinks—the minute you taste our coffee. dtuPM-ooft SCOTT T. & COFFEE COMPANY Wholesale Roasters GET ON A CASH BASIS-IT WILL PAY 1 YOU ,TO TRADE AT PIGGLY-WIGGLY ITS THE SENSIBLE WAY Wisconsin Cheese, pound ' .. *Y. 26c Armour’s Bacon, sliced, 1 pound box 38c 8 pounds-Snowdrift Lard $1.35 3 cans Lighthouse ‘ Cleanser ;»• .-j,-. .*. 20c NOO-NAME Coffee, pound » Ofisi (A delicious home roasted product) 12 cans Government Bacon, (Just a'few left) .. ... w $1.98 10 pounds Kiln Dried Sweet Potatoes .> .e .... .. .. 23c PIGGLY-WIGGLY rh»t is thewayl&ur cus tomers oftefc describe ' our steaks. We sell the jholcestxuts.’ Nativd and WSsterri Meats Although our meats are inspected by gov ernment and city authorities, the real test of quality is WHETHER THEY SUIT YOU! Orfr Customers come back for more of our Quality Meats, therefore we know they are pleasing to the r Phones 1616—1617 •*T"‘ Mrnm VL-iir PIEDMONT MARKET 240 North Lumpkin Street .