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A I‘It PAGE EIGHT m THB BANNBRHBHALP. XTHWCg. EBOHCW GOOD MORNING HAPPY, WE HOPE Ask for Benson’s Hot Rolls at your grocers, Two deliveries noon and afternoon 10c the dozen BENSON’S BAKERY , Around Athens With Col- T. Carry Gantt am. TATE WRIGHT, who at- | tended the Good Roads convention In Greenville, S. S., aaya not so many were there as expected hut several Rovernors and other prom inent men were in attendance. Mrs. Felton nan a consplcloua character and did much of the talking. Mr. Wright says he saw between twelve and fifteen hundred new houses going up in Greenville for factory operatives. Among other new enterprises for that city is a million dollar bleachery. You see evidences of manufacturing devel opment ull over upper South Caro lina. MR. JOE HODGSON, who at tended the Good Roads convention You’ll Feel Better After you’ve had a soda or any other fountain dainty from our dispensary. Here you will find properly prepared for you the dainty or drink that satisfies you most. BRING YOUR FRIENDS HERE FOR A “TREAT’ Shoppers wilt find our LUNCHEONETTE SERVICE delightfully convenient. “ALWAYS THE BEST OF EVERYTHING” GEORGIAN PALM GARDEN GEORGIAN HOTEL State Line of REFRIGERATORS Buy your Refrigerator now, as the values we are offering are the greatest we’ve ever seen. We know the prices won’t be lower at any time this sasoir. Don’t risk your family’s health with an unsanitary refrigerator. BAY STATE REFRIGERATORS are the finest type, with large food in Greenville, aaya there if a fine road between Athens and that city but he saw little evidence of agri cultural progreas and does not know where ^iey are going to get cotton to operate the new mills they are building. Farming Is very backward aud little land broken up. SECRETARY CARROLL has re ceived a letter and circulars from the Greenville, S. C., Chamber of Commerce, stating that a delega tion of 125 business men and prom nont citizens will leave that city for a tour of the country and visit Athens. They will come via the S. A. L. railway, and reach thla city for breakfast, and after spending two hours here will go on to Madi son, Ga. They want to get ac quainted with our i*eople and seo the country on their highways. They will reach Athens on Thurs day at 5 A. iM., and leave for Madison at 7:20. Their short stay in our city will not give our citiz- ns an opportunity to entertain hem as we would like to do. GENTLEMEN who are In a po sition to know say there is not the slightest danger of the Bankhead Highway leaving Athens out, for the route passes through this city and cannot be diverted. LEE MORRIS has now OnDis play as fine a line of spring cloth ing and gents furnishing goods as were ever seen in our city. His window'exhibits are most attrac tive and embrace the latest styles. This Is ono of tiio best arranged ciothing establishments In the country, an 1 a credit not only to Athens but to Georgia and the south. MR. MORTON HOD3SON nays they are not selling as much fer tilizers this season as in past years, but’of a higher grade. He thinks all farmers will be able to get poison for their cotton. FARMERS from different coun ties say negroes who went north nre writing back home and they complain that It takes every cent they can earn to pay the high cost of living and they must work hard six and some seven days in the week. They say when their pay envelopo Is handed to them land lords and their claimants are reaching out tor the money. There Is no Saturday’s rest for them, but they must work unceasingly to make ends meet THE STORE ROOM on Clayton street, formerly occupied by Brad- berry Company Is being painted and put In condition for Chris Jones who will open a restaurant MR. COMER, of Comer aaya fafmers In his section have cone to work determined to do some thing this year. They will plant about fivq acres of cotton to the plow and all use poison. There la some rust in wheat, but ft Is on the blade and if the dry weather holds he does not think it will effect the yield. Oats are also extra flno. ' LAND OWNER8 around Comer and other section* who had the new drainage law put upon them say It Is a nuisance and a fraud: that the ditches cut fill up and It requires endless>labor and expense to keep them open. They are very much dissatisfied with the drain age law. We notice the same com plaint cornea from Wllkea and oth er counties. ON FRIDAY Mesdames W. F. Jones. 8. O. Hawes and Horace Manley, of Elbcrton, visited Ath ens to do some shopping and spent th*» day WU1* their aunt, Mrs. Mary Culawny. Mr. Julian Brewer ctmo with them in the car. The select trade of Elberton formerly went to Augusta and to Atlanta, but It now comes to Athens. Our cttltena are always deltchted to welcome their friends from Elberton. uraiis LEAD IN NUMBERS GREENE WILL GET COUNTY HI SCHOOL HIDE DOPE IN SHOES LONDON.—Scotland Yard dis covered cocaine was being smug gled Into England from Germany, concealed In the heels of r 08 smug gler’s shoes. One smuggler was seized and sentenced to prison. C. T. Conyers, University Graduate, Re-elected Principal; Wills Again Named Superintendent. GREXSBORO, Ga.,—-Grecnsborc has been awarded an extra appro priation of one thousand dollars ; a County High School. The appropriation of $200,000 for county high schools In the state wa* made several years ago, but the fund was not available. However, commencing September 1, of this year, the npropriatior will be forthcoming. This inenns that any studeni from any school in Greene county can enter the high schoo grades, can come to the Greensboro High School and pay the same tui tion as paid by a resident Greensboro. VVheh the Greensboro High School was inspected somo time ago by Prof. Pound, he paid the school a very high compliment. Prof. C. C. Wills has been i elected superintendent of I Greensboro Public School. Prof. C. T. Conyers, was also i elected us principal. However, hl» acceptance of the position Is ten tative. Opportunity In Navy of U. S. The U. S. Nnvy Recruiting Sta tion with headquarters In Atlanta, Ga., desires to acquaint the parents and young men of Athens with the splendid opportunities that are of fered to young men who enlist In the Navy. Young men of Georgia have not up to now realised how great these opportunities are and havo not seised them to anything like the same extent as have the youth of Northern and Western states. The navy is now enlisting young men of 18 and over. The navy department for many years hag operated its own traed schools where enlisted men who show promise and ability are sent for courses of instruction tor pe riods varying from six weeks to eight months. These schools en compass every technical acUvlty of our nary and consist of the fol lowing: Shlpfitter, carpenter, ma chinist. blacksmith, painter, pat ternmaker. moulder, electrician, diver, pharmiclst, photographer, radio, aviator, steward, cook and baker! In addition to these opportuni ties the navy department has map ped out now and very extensive courses of technical education tnat will be available at all times for all men on board ship. This is the outcome of iho determination on the part of Secretary Denby tha» the mon of our navy must be given every opportunity to acquire dally educational courses to better fit them for tbelr advancement la knowledgo and efficiency during their enlistment and that they may bo a powerful reserve for the navy In time of National emergency. Rural Sociology Class At State Normal School Gives Out Interesting Data on Farm Life, In the study of Georgia farm life by the Rural Sociology classes at Che State Normal School ithe fol lowing facts hsve been found from the 1820 United States census. Georgia has 810,723 farms, with an average acreage of 82 acres per farm and 42 acres of Improved land ner farm. »>«er> farms 101,' 128 are cultivated by owners and 204.084 by tenants. There are in. Georgia 180.645 white farmers. 88.081 own their tanks while 03,041 are tenants. Of these 30.038 are share tenant*. lo.94< are cash tenants, 14.012 are standing renters, and 38,222 are croppers. These white cropper* house holds In Georgia contain 181,110 of Georgia's native Anglo- Saxon copulation. Much of Geor gia's white Illiteracy may be traced to these homes. 'Wb*t Is the great State of Georgia doing to reach the chil dren In these homes? We must hear their cry for better advan tages If we are to keep pace with the other Southern States to have no white Illiteracy when the 1920 census Is taken." It Is pointed oat LETTERS IN DEATH PLOT BERLIN.—Mora than 600 letter* are being read In mart hen a* evidence In tha murder trial of Fran Rlppe and Frau Klein, young women charged with poisoning their husbands. In their letter* they reveal intimate detail* of tha aliegod death plot, says the prose cutor. Expert Washington. Wilkes Has Inexhaustible Supply of Hardwood Timber. WASHINGTON—Park A. Dallia architect and cotton mill expert was in Washington a couple days the middle of the week mak ing a purvey of the city and a por tion of the county with a view of ascertaining Just what Washington has to offer aa Inducements in site for a cotton mill and other manufacturing enterprises. Mr. Dallia made a report to the Klwanis club Wednesday at regular lunctieon. From thla report It would seem that Mr. Dallia waa very favorably impreaaed with what he found here. He allowed that the deaire of the dub to Intereat both cotton mill people and the furniture factory people to come into thla territory waa a jvtae step aa he said these Industries dove-toll. — He showed that a profitable by product of the cotton mill would be the llnters If a mattresa factory was established to utilise thla cot ton, and that when the mattresse* were put on the market, a bedstead for the mattress of Washington make should be acid to the some people.by the mattress factory. Mr. Dallia stated that his survey showed that Wilkes county had an almost inexhaustible supply ol hardwoods, such ae oaks of several varieties, gums, poplar, hickory etc. He elated this great supply of material necessary In the man ufacture of furnltura should be an inducement to bring a furniture factory to Washington. FLYING AMBULANCE PARIS.—When an invalid .be came 111 here and needed to be transported to her physician in England, and airplane was quickly England, an airplane was quickly and rushed the patient across the channeL She will recover. OLDER’N METHUSELAH SUVA, FIJI.—Roman Catholic nuns on the Island of Mans In the Tongs group have as a pet a turtle which la authoritatively known to have been presented to the Island king In 1773—and the reptile was old thenj HEARSE RIDE IS FATAL LONDON.—Several youths ap- ; proprlated a hearse and went for a Joy ride. They asked Cyril Thomas | Roberts, 21, to Join them. As he climbed to the vehicle he fell to' the pavement and died from skull fracture. IMPORTANT NOTICE All who have not paid their State and County 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 Fict Din Wknh end Nuk S,U-MiwUl»[ Cmritr, tiS •dJUitml See this car! Here’s a fresh shipment of the wonderful new Nash Four Touring model. See how powerfully the newly refined motor responds with a smoothness and quietness heretofore unknown to four-cylinder cars. Mark how thriftily the car conserves gasoline and oil. Then notice the ease of steering, the smooth sureness of the clutch mecha nism and the eager, instant action of the brakes. These and other important features will surprise you. / 1 FOURS and SIXES Prices range from $915 to $2190, f. o. b. factory G. M. KNIGHT & BONA ALLEN, JR. 548 E. Clayton St Phone 997