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About The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1923)
Investigate Today! To Regular Subscribsra THE BANNER-HERALD $1,000 Accident Policy Free. Dally and Sunday—10 Centa I Weak, EstaltsKed J832. Dali? ilia Sunday—10 Cantt I WR* " ATHENS COTTON i Middling ... 26e Prevloua Close !6J4e WEATHER: .{ Probably Fair and Coolaf ,*• VOL- 91, NO. 83 BE IQ Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA„ MONDAY, MAY 21. I92J. A. B. C. paper Single Copies 2 Cents Dally. 5 Centa Sunday. Britain’s Premier Is Forced to Resign On Account of Illness (By Associated Press.) London—The physicians of Andrew Bonar Law, for mer British Premier who retired from offfee Sunday, due to his inability to continue his work because of a serious throat trouble, announced Monday that an operation was performed on the throat of the former Premier. The re port stated' that “Mr. Bonar Law had an operation per formed on his throat today. Otherwise his condition may be stated as unchanged. Political gossips were almost unanimously of the opinion that Marquis Curzon, Secretary of State for For eign Affairs will be tendered the Premiership and that either he or Stanley Baldwin will be the successor bf Bonar Law. i The Herald, a labor newspaper, „j-< that Curaon'a appointment Wi.uld be a' disaster (or all of Great Britain and for Europe. Curzon’e mpposed aloofness and reputed at titude of unbending superiority ere nlluded to by many writers, who however do not think he should necessarily be barred from accept ing the post. Two or three other newspapers nisert that the popular Impression of Lord Curson Is far from being a correct one and that he la act ually a modest man of very human personality who would Ilka to un hend hut does not possess the fac ulty for doing ao. SUCCESSOR NOT NAMED YET King aeorgla, who Is In Aider- shot has. UP until Monday after noon. aeked no one to accept the premiership as a successor to Bonn) Law. The king la said to have no present Intention of curtailing hla visit to Aldershot, which Is ex pected to last the better part of u week nnd possibly longer. Former Premier Law returned from the continent Saturday night after spending two weeks away from London. In a vain attempt to regain n temporary respite from his St and was rushed Immediately private residence, where ronAultatlan with Sir Thomas f ADDRESS TONIGHT Senior Member of Uni versity Faculty to Deliv er Commencement Ad dress At Woodbury. mi Local Club Will Go to In- terrfetional Convention in Body Next Week. Big Program Planned. Dr. H. C- White, professor of chemistry at the University of TO HONOR PLAYER8 The George baseball team, champions of the 8. I. C., win* ners over Mercer, Auburn, Van derbilt and other Southern teamr will be honor guests at the weekly Kiwanls luncheon Thurs day nnd most of the meetlnv will he given over to the baseball layers. Coach W. P. White. Captain George Clark and captain-elect Josh Watson will all make short speeches while other mambers of the team will be called upon This year’s team ts one of the most generally popular, every man on It. ever to pay In Atheni nnd the Kiwanls club offlcert state they are proud to have the players as the guests of the club. CURB MARKET WILL OPEN AT SEVEN O’CLOCK TUESDAY ON SCHEDULE OF 2 DAYS A WEEK Fill. TO FIND BODY OF DROWNED YOUTH Searching Parties Unable to Find Body of Dorkus Shelton Who Was Drowned Thursday. Searching parties are still look ing for the body of Dorkus Shel^ ’ ton, the little boy who was drowu- ed In the Oconee river Thursday evening when a boat in which he was riding with his elder brothert capsized over the dam at the Atheni Manufacturing company’s power dam. i f Sunday hundreds of people llne<| the banks of the river looking for the body while many people waded out in the stream In an effort to I locate It. The body was expected | to come to the surface late Sunday ’afternoon but the heavy rains bf (Saturday and Sunday caused many to fear that It had been swept 1 uown stream und was beyond re- I covery. Market Will Be Held Two Days Each Week-, Tues day and Saturday. CROWDS of!buyers - ARE increasing Fanners Who Bring Se lected Products Find Easier Sale. Sixty-Five Permits Issued. Athens housewives are prepar ing to attend the Curb Market on Broad street Tuesday morning, the first time it has been held on that day. It oftens at 7 o'clock between College and Lumpkin. The success of the market oince its initial opening three weeks ago, has convinced the market master and superintendent that it should be held twice each week, Tuesday and Saturday nnd an nouncement to this effect waa made Ute Saturday. its to Sixty-five permits to sell pro duce on the Curb Market have been issued to farmers in Clarke coun ty and adjoining counties. The majority of those who have brought produce to the market have been well pleased with tho I results and believe the Curb Mar- The seventh international Monday the search waa resumed k et w uj prove o{ j^nefit to the 'and hope Is still held out that the farmers in this section. a nu»IHWI imwiwuwwi j UIIU IB HI III IICIU uu$ lim, vriition of Kiwanls club, will open j i,ody ui\the little fellow will yet be Already the Curb Market is officially In Atlanta May 28—and Wound. proving, as nothing else could, not promises tu be one of the largest I • even fifteen year's pleading of the nventlona ever held In the South, , nltf nrAIMIIfl mOM State College of Agriculture, that The international president, George Georgia and for fifty-one yearn |H- Ko»«. of Toronto, will preside . , ... ... , ..... land the business progrum will in- connected with that institution, | elude addresses by several famous will deliver the commencement ad- makers. I dress at the graduating exercises The Athens Kiwanls club will at of the Woodbury schools Monday | tend In a body on next Tuesday. evening. 'Golden Knight and Dr. WhitR is one of the best:Clark are chairmen of committees known men in Southern education-'in charge of providing automobiles al circles and is_a life-long friend ttn d special badges for the trip. of Miss Rosa Woodberry, proprie tor of the Woodbury school, Fourteen young ladies will re ceive diplomas at the exercises. Dr. Willis Memminger will also deliver a short talk. The Woodbury school is fifteen years old. Hordes and Other eminent special iits was held. • The former pitiiiier looked slOk and weary and he did not respond to the greeting by the crowd which fan gathered at the station to gre«*t him. There was a marked rhange In the face of the man wht has held the destlnipa of the Brlt- inli nation In his hand since the rrftiicnatton of Lloyd George. He did not tender his resignation to king George in person as is the URU.il custom, and this fact Is taken by many to mean that he 1* t very sick man. The former Premier sent hla resignation to King George at Aldershot, by en voys. The king soon after made public the reslkhatlon and atatet* that It wns with the greatest re- tret that he accepted it. It Is reported that Lord Curson, who seems to be the next In line for the premiership Is aleo In bad health and that he might not be able to carry un the duties of the office for-any length of time. FUNERAL Funeral .Services For Mr. George’ W. Crawford, Monday Afternoon. BREAD CONTEST TO END NEXT INDi County-Wide Campaign Ends With Contest At High School. Thirty Girls Entered. Clarke county’s “better bread" campaign, conducted In the month of May under direction of Mrs. Annie Mae Wood Bryant, will come to a close next Monday with the oounty-wlde* bread baking contest at the High School. The High School In Athens wns chosen as the place for the contest because of the remnrkablo labora tory It possesses. Mrs. Bryant de clares It is the ' most modern Mio knows of. even superior to that in the University of Chicago. Thirty Clarke county girls will take part In the bread bukJng con test here, three each from ten com munities. The community contents have been conducted during this month and the winners will enter the county-wide contest. The suc cessful winners of the county-wide contest will take part in a district contest and later in a southeastern contest, the winners of the latter be Ing given a trip to Chicago. The visitors will be welcomed on Monday niyht by Governor Thomai W. Hardwick, Mayor Sims and other dignitaries. one of the features of the con vention will be the official cele bration of National Memorial day. May 30, In Atlanta. Other featurer 'for the entertainment of the guesti will be an exhibit of the Old South at the audltor|um on Tuesday nlghi with a chorus of 100 negro voices, a Georgia barbecue-on-Wednssrday, followed by a Venetian water car nival at the East Lake country club and motor trips to Stone Moun tain to view the million dollar Con federate Memorial which Js being carved on the face of the mountain. All civic organisations of Atlanta, tho Rotary. Clvltan nnd Llonr clubs and the Chamber of Com merce nre joining In playing host to Kiwanls. The Presidents' Club will give a dinner Saturday night to the International officers and their wives. Twelve special trains haye been scheduled to visitors to the con vention. One Tennessee delegate plans to flay to Atlanta In hla own airplane nnd a Scranton, Pa., dele gate has declared hla Intention ol walking to Atlanta before tho con vention opens. » At the close of the county-wide contest three of the older club girls will give* a demonstration lo bread making at the Woman's Club .which organisation Is giv ing prises to the community con- n Funeral services for Mr. George W- Crawford, aged 71, who died at th ® residue, 347 Madison avenue 1:30 a. m., Sunday, following a ■nort illness , were held from;test winners. The prises will Peasant Grove church, at Neese, awarded at that time also. u »-. *t 8:80 Monday afternoon, The three girls who will give a conducted by Dr- S. J. Cartledge, brea d making demonstration are *nd Rev. Will Barber, with, inter- j MlM j eH |e Suddeth Hall, daughter went in the family lot at thei 0 f Mr an( j Mrs, 8am Suddeth of church cemetery. The following Bethhaven. Miss Jessie Hardeman. tl»«. deceased acted as daughter if Mr* and Mrs. Robert pallbesrtrs: Mr. B. F. Woods, Mr. n an j #ra «n on the Lexington road. Mr roMi. “‘■•J 4 - W°od.. ?h\ former ha. been n member of Mr. otho Brown, Mr. A.a Wier. th . c|l)b alI y , nr . and the latter rv .ia £■ ft ' four year, and Ml.* Elsie Todd, Dor “ y * ' d»u«hW or Mr. and Mrs. Thomas “nJertaker., in charge. -TodTot Tuckston, who has been Mr. Crawford was a naUva of four ywiM . The firat AtiM n fOT U tff, bUt *“1. "hSwm 1 "”"* brea * 1 - ,h ' * of this eltyY staunch and moit 'grerilv* citizens, and had hun- dttHls of frtenda in {hla section. Ha "*d been a member of the Baptist “domination for many years, and J 1 “Wtnplary life and influence for Kdod warn felt in the live, of ™se with whom he eeme in con- Survlvlng him am hi. widow, •irs. Dona Crawford, two sons, 'named will make light bread, the 'second blecult and the third corn meal ronfflns. The demonstration will take place at 3:30 o'clock after which prise, in the community contest, will we awarded by Mrs. E. R. Hodgson Jr., nnd the county prizes by Mrs. Arthur Henry, president of the Farm Women's Bureau. »-:lT Crawford' .S3" "al Ben Heinberff, Who " “Fleeced” Athens Men Caught in Md. p ' 7 • • .vff»wiura aim u. .both of Athens, and a ““Kilter, Mr.. S. 0. Smith of At- ““.i several grandchildren; and w A ‘“‘S,"' an. J. J. Hix. Mra. O- Griffith and Mrr. F. M. n, l of Madison; and a broth- „ He wa* u^unete*o°f''iMessra.' T..cash ha* he*" srrested In Baltomlrc ^““AElnter J. c£swfordVr Ath- Md,. according to telegram re- Paul Glenn and-celved by CT>lef_ofJMIce H. W. n^r 0 * Glenn, and of Mrs-'Boo—• Helntyrg wtl! he brought C# WUliams, of Athens. it^pk tn Athens to face trial. Ben nelnberg, who "frlssed" sev eral Athenians out of considerable I back to Atbeno’to face trial. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON — William RJ Day, former associate justice of the United Stntes Supreme Court Monday tendered his resignation to President Harding as umpire of u tho Mixed Claims Commission.* ‘ V T The former associate justice ex- plained that the desire to resign It Contestant 8 FOP Annual Young People In Athens Planning Meeting May 25 Former Secretary of State and Supreme Court Jus tice Tenders Resigna tion to Harding. ' products must bo graded and at tractively packed in neat contain ers before they will find a ready sab and at a good price. Farm ers who do this return to their homes from the Curb Market ex hausted of their products long be fore those who neglect these essen tials- Athens women find nearly everything they want in the way of produce on the Curb Market and nro patronising it in increas ing numbers. PRIZE DRILL WILE BLUE FROM LEG! $229,550.00 Increase Over Appropriation to Insti tution Last Year Sought From Stays. BY JOHN K. DREWRY A total of $538,050, or an in crease of $229,500 over last year’s appropriation Is the amount that the University of Georgia ia seek ing in the way of appropriationa from the next legislature for the purpose of maintenance of the university proper, the State Col lege of Agriculture, and the Bum mer school. In Addition to this 86103)00 la be ing asked for the purpose of plac ing new buildings on the Athens campus tnd improving some of the buildings already there, but which are in such ■ slate of decay that unleaa something is done in the immediate future to save them, their future usefulness will be to tally lost. Of this last amount, $301,000 would be used on the cam pus of. the univeriity and $258,000 on the campua of the agricultural college. Never Before in the entire his tory of the University of Georgia has there been such a feeling of alarm with reference to the future tragedy usefulness of the institution as is house fl today existing smong the minds of the faculty members. . students, alumni, and trustees of the college. The cause for this alarm ia that the state university has reached the point that unless greater funds be provided, its program will not only be stopped, but it will be forced to go backward while other rom ors, Sheriff Weleh of Kershaw fbe county Monday announced , that Ellen Barnet or Lcknow and Fan- Ask Intervention By% American Troops For Safety Of Prisoners LIST OF DEATHS IS (By Associated Press.) PEKIN—Reports were received here Monday that the Chinese troops which are encamped near the Suchow bandits in the Shantung hills have begun firing upon the bandits and that a battle is in progress. Immediately upon the receipt of this report, the dip lomatic corps in this city, drafted a new note asking the Chinese government how it so quickly reconciled it’s prom- ; iscs to procure the release of foreign captives and the events transpiring since that assurance. A Central News dispatch from Shanghai reported that Mrs. Man uel Vereo» wife of the Merlcan manufacturer has been releanerd by the bandits but that fourteen for- elffn male prisoners are still helm; held by the bandits under the most terrible conditions. Mrs. Versa was exhausted when she reached Shanghai and -consequently it wss unable to secure news of the band- its from her. Three American oflcers. Majors Powell, Allen and Solomon, were taken tm a mountain top near the stronghold of the brigands Hunday ■ nnd an. ultimatum sent out that these officers would 'pay with their lives unless the bandits* demands were comptled with Immediately* The other foreigners would also bo put to death, stated the ulti matum, unless tho troops sur rounding the stronghold were as- moved. *' $ MAY BE Two More Known to Have Died in Cleveland School House Tragedy. Total Seventy-Seven. (By Aaaoelated Prow.) CAMDEN, S. C—With this rity not yet recovered from tho horrible ‘ r of the Cleveland school Ire. which was the wont of Its kind in the history of the state, comes the latest report that two more persons lost their lives In ws-rr-w tho flaming building, bringing tho “f*™ ^ATCH" ^'rrrrt th. do. th ^ .» & >ot list* w*s* deflnfudy^settled'at sev- " B P '“ C " f ‘ r thr1 ’ **• I inty-five. but after tracing down due to the enormous work facing i ^ n A , the commission with claims amount I Jr T 1 55 0 Drill oGlGCtCu. Ing to one billion four hundred and I. TjplJ nn e« n f nr/ l F^Lf seventy nine million dollars to bei *? eia , rieia settled nnd his belief that younger ] Saturday AftcmOOn. nnd stronger men should he Ip j charge of the work of adjusting T he annual r rix® drill, one of the claims on which American and t highly Interesting features of Geor- German commissioners ara unbalcj,| a commencement season, will to agree. 1 mg. place nn Hanford Field Sat Judge as former Secretary of U rday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The elimination contests have colleges and universities state which heretofore have been considered lesser institutions than the state univenity will press their way to tha front, leaving the university far in the back' ground. \ Fear of calamity to the univer sity has so aroused the interest and loyalty of the students, alumni, and friends of the univeriity who hope that Georgia legislator* and senators will do something for the college In tho way of providing more money when the next session of the legislature cpnvcitcs in June- API’OOPRIATION CUT LAST YEAH State and for twenty years a Jus tice of thr;hlgheflt court nation was regarded by both Amer ican nnd German commlalonera aa particularly fortunate selection for the post from whlclt he has Just resigned. His appointment was by the joint agreement of the two governmenti and the necessity of selecting a new umpire Is erpected to some what delay the work of adjustment Members of B. Y. P. .U, and Epworth League In-! vited to Hear Endeavor’ Field Secretary. "Everything Is going pretty and I will arrive in Athens ’pepped up’ million-ready to give North east Georgia and to make my last trip to Georgia the beat ever" writes Carl J. Matthews^ Field Secretary for Christian Endeavor In Georgia and Florida, who will give on address at the CJty Union Rally In the First Christian church Friday evening, May fSth at • o'clock. "Fellowship Supper" will he held at 8 o’clock, when hundreds of young people will gather In the “Recreation Hall" of the Christian church and enjoy fellowship and fun., which all young people should have access. ,Then the "Junloi Table" will be a feature for the younger boys and girls. This tn been held nnd the championship will be between a number of pick ed expert Individual drillers, two features offered by the cnvnlrf. the motor transport nnd other unit* of the R. O. T. C/a. The public Is cordially Invited to attend the exercises and thero wl) 1 he no charge of admission. Southern Presbyterian Church Votes to Remain in Federal Council of Churches-of America. (By Associated Press.) MONTREAT.—The General As sembly of tho Southern Presby terian church here Monday reject ed by a vote of hundred and fortv* six to one hundred end nine, the minority committee’s report favor ing the withdrawal from the Fed eral Council of Churches of Christ of Amorica. In urging the church to stay In tho Federal Council, Dr. E. W. McCorklo of Rockbridge Baths, Va., declared, “The only safety to Protestantism in Amerira is to b J“ W A ?? Jiii h densht the ^* Te * n organisation In Washmg- of every kind and will delight the , nn .. . tho kiddles. The tickets for this supper can be gotton from O. I* Johnson, John Wright or Jack Bolton for tht email sum of >i cents. Invitations hove been extended tr the Kpworth League and B. Y. P H. organizations of Athens and tht Presidents of the societies have as sured the Endeavorers that they will use their Influence In bring ing together the young people from the furious churches for this grea,t meeting for young people. John Wright, president of the ton to Set as a buffer against the great unscnroulousness of > Roman Catholicism.” Athens Trade Body Will Aid State Schools Directors of Chamber of Commerce Discuss Plans to Get Larger Mainten ance Appropriations. It is to bo recalled that the leg islature at ita aesaion last year not only failed to vote the additional sum asked in that year, but cut th* existing appropriations ten per cent so than the University proper and the Agricultural College re ceived leas in 1922-23 than in tho preceding year. One of tne senior members of the faculty in outlining the conditions to the writer stated that while tho income of the university has re mained practically stationary for s number of years, expenses have wen) raised so that the professors might live under the changed con ditions: labor of all sorts doubled and trippled in cost, as did sup plies such as cost and laboratory materials and books. Tha atata having failed to provide the funds, the board of trustees of the uhi- versity was forced to the only alternative, a sharp Increase in tu ition fees. Fifteen year* ago the total of all fees was under twenty dollars. Ished in the fire, which followed when an oil lamp In the school house fell during the commence ment ploy with the room crowded with mere than three hundred pu pils and parents; The relief work of the sufferers end those who were left without parents is'being pushed and more than fire thousand dollars ha* al ready been raised. SINN MEN TO assassination. In event the bandits carried out their threat, or to get them temporarily out of the zone of dunger created by tho fighting. It Is feared t|ie fighting may In flame the whole countryside. Tho danger, new and acute to Powell, who Is of the staff of the Shanghai Weekly Review;. Major Allen, of tho United States medical corps at Manila, and Kolomon. ren« dered the situation that the American Comny?rca at Shanghai Secretary of State Hughes i him to dispatch American tn tho scene. Foreign land for maintained at Tlen-Tsln and ready,for Instant action. I It dramatically closed the f~~ u. • I. «<r > .Ipllvify «>f the-H«* Ill’ll wliM, with miiiMTiniH other for clgnera and Chinese were captured by bandits wrecking und ruldfng tho Shanghal-Pekln express, May Judge Samuel Adams and Colonel Alex Lawton to Make Addresses Here Commencement. SAVANNAH, Oa.—Suvnnnhh to be represented with unusual prominence at the approaching commencement of the University o eorglo, marking the conclusion of the ISSth year of the history of that oldest state university In the Union. Savannah supplies this year the speaker to deliver the baccalaureate address, Judge Bamuel B. Adam* and the speaker for the nlumnl ad dress, Colonel Alex, R. Lawton. P A. Stovall of Savannah last year delivered the Phi Beta Kappa ad dress. In addition there will tx Now studwite pay from eighty dol- prominent at the various class re- lan to one'hundred and twenty twenty- five. Thig is obviously * very un fortunate situation, uhparsllelsd in any other state ins tftutlon ao far as known—but it was the only way. Citizens of the state con from the foregoing statement of fact oak themselves such questions ss: What do the parents think of .hla? What effect hue this on tho poor boy struggling to get through .-allege 7 Despite ths Increased coat of at tending the UniversUy, ao great It the awakening in Georgia In tho u , Atoms enu usrse county, «a- aiatter of higher education that | T .„„ tth Chatham have the unions other speakers from Savan nah. Judge Davis Freeman, Judge Peter W. Meldrim, tha oldest trus ts^ In point of service In the sec tion and one who has not missed commencement In flfty'-flve years; Alex A. Lawrence, a trustee of the Institution, T. Mayhew Cun ningham. Wm. D. Denring. Pr. Jno W. Daniel, recently elected head ol the Oeorgla Medical Society, and probably a score of other alumhl. young and old will go to Athena for the commencement occasion. Nexl “•jto Atlanta and Clarke county. 8a- Director, of the Chamber ol Commerce .Monday morning dis cussed plans to aid the education al institutions in Athens next year Although the plans are not ready for publication the committees re cently appointed by President Hugh W. White on th* University, State College of Agriculture, Lucy In lBlo tfi* enrollment waa &31'Tnl^“"^ “ *"• untvcrstiy am Cnhb nnd SMtc Normal School nre lots mSTsS dSSr the n«»nt h * 8UU Normal School. In Ath actively at worit on Plan, which will aM the educational institutions L, • -* * * to « large degree. ftZr.TtV becomS'more*serious! I I * r *** t numVr of .tadsnu of n„y }i n ro',7V?. bo<h *' ,h *^University and ena. uindred per cent Increase in twelve! In term* of equipment, tho Uni versity was crowded In 1910; today The committee on Lucy Cobh, of which Dr. J. C. Wilkinson is chair man, has offered its service* to the board of trustees and president to ward making that institution a greater school than ever before and prospects for the ppening next y— ar» verv bright. Tho State Normal School com- n*. que ,i mUtee of which W, I. Erwin is especially just at this acason with '« "‘ ty *»'«> of the. legislator. WHAT IS STATE DOING FOR GEORGIA? Tho tion ia ever and anon, Oiel Hawkes, Shot By Policeman At . .. Mnnmn III A <rnrn' snoctlvely, are also working on Monroe, III Again jp, ans to sel . ure preater appropria- " tlons from tho legislature at it* Stricken Monday morning at tho I "*£1 „ !e! *r1„’ i" - home of hi* parent*, Mr. and Mr*. L. D. Hawkes, J. Oiel Hawke* !*. mong ' u , ,»**» i j IIMII . t ? young Athenian, i* xeridusly H| •*Jhce W'0^ an ‘**tion several week* from the effects of a pistol wound Stato College-nf Agriculture^com“Vi mirth ott-beln?^TSked- Ur ' FOUIM'S Home mittce^wflch Abit Nig . and i.ThT sutT&ff/ to K; and Residence of F. B. “2^°* of this grant Incrauo in..t-| H j nt(m Stru(;k Ry Light _ ning Saturday. F ! r *' Monroe nolice,nan' inflicted three year* ago by * give a talk on the "Pooalbilltlea ’of City Union for Athen*", while Mr. Matthews will deliver the.main address of the evening on "The Strength of Youth." In addition to the nddresa. the Field 8ecretnr> will direct the eong service, which promises to he a, feature of tha meeting. * y > \. Those who cannot attend* th* “Fellowship Supper" will he wel come at.*the main aeaelon, which commences at t o’clock. Mr. Hxwkes was ill for several months and it waa thought he would not recover. However, he rallied, but lute had several re* lapses since* The policeman was tried and ac quitted. Ho fa oald to have shot the young man when Hawkes and two other Athens’boys were leav ing Monroe one night in’an auto mobile. The policeman claimed the boys wrrs speeding nnd refug ed to halt- tendance ? In 1910 the combined maintenance fund, of the univeisi- ty proper and the agricultural col lege were $87,500; for th* current year, $166000—less than 100 por cent increat*, though the student IIBIWS, UlUUgU MIC s>tUUCIli> body increased three-fold. In view of the Increased cost of operating LI6H1I STRIKES 13. It canto as a climax, also, to 24 hours at renewed activity en the part of Hie local and foreign gov ernment representatives to release of the prisoners nnd r nnd increasingly alarming repc from the bandit camp au to I danger confronting those held. , Marcel O. Berube, a* Frenohma who was released by the ban rushed to the d hero tremendously agitated given him t*r the brigands. "I beseech you to act 1 raid to the diplomats, mny ho too late.” Berube was released from tha bandit camp on condltoln that ha confer with the foreign envoys and exact from them the promise of immunity for the. bandits. Th# Frenchman \ Is expected to return to the bandltH nnd give them tho decision of tho foreign powers by Tuesday night. COL CUNTT GIVES Banner-Herald Writer Gives Interesting Story of Madison Co. Town and Its Progressiveness. By T. LARRY GANTT Comer is one of the most pro gressive towns and best business centers to Its population on the 8ea- hoard Railway. I knew the site of Comer when ’It was a blackjack nnd chlnquepln ridge und a part of tho farm of Mr. Futch Comer. Whc-n the railroad was completed a town was laid off there and named for tho faintly that owned land on which the depot waa j located. About that time I visited ;CoL Smith who told me his predic- Dr. J. M. Pound’s 1 ', Home ST&.t TZJTIJZ Two Athens homes were struck by lightning during the thundst shower which drenched the city, and many of its citlens about 8 p. m. Saturday. The home of Dr. J. If. Pound at tho Normal School waa slightly ago, has already been of material help to the Lucy Cobb.. . ^ the institution, appropriations, (I i is said, should have increased 400 Scott Alien Is Sent j "Another thing, It I* pointed out, damaged. A chimney wss partial- To Anmista Charged I** &Y boUH rear part or the house suffered minor Injuries but none of the In mates were hurt. Mr. F. Hinton’s boms struck but no da megs was done. A , . . .of is the enormous increase in the Wltih Theft of Auto number of students being gradual- rtl by the high schools Of tho state wto are seeking admitanee to th* university, and who when turned down, rXelseWhere. Scott Allen, recently released from the rhalneahe where he served s-nlen-r upon ■ conviction for stenting anlomobllee wss taker tn Augusta Sunday to n newer charge ot stealing a car In the city. In 1905 when the department qf was efUbthte secondary education (Turn to P»$e Three) Inc about half way between Ath ena and Elberton, and warn uur- zounded by a zplendid farming #eo- tion. Col. Smith added that if ho waa a young man and wanted to engage In business he would locate in Copter. When the depot waa established at Comer the first persons to buy lota and locate there were W. A. Rowe and D. P. Moon. They w#re both farmers from Madison coun ty. They built a little frame wood en store-room, some 15 by 20 fe#t. an4 put in a stock of goods. With hoy standing .In the street near l>y Waa shaken up somewhat by th-* 1 shock, i Telephi put out of commission. unewfiat by tile In both house. I Shortly mmissiuu. I (" tho Comers who owned the town, these two men were the pioneer th i>f th»* place. And Just let mo add that they both met with ftucccfln and accumulated a hun<lf>oHie property. | ►* hfter this Mr. Pope Ohol* (Turn to Page Sue) ^
