The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, May 21, 1923, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextFACE SIX CUT THIS i OUTFIT 16 WORTH MONEY - 'M.f Cut out till* Blip, enclose wJth 5c and mail it to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield, Ave., Chicago. Ill. writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial pack ag* containing Foley*® Honey and Tar Compound for cough® cold® and croup; Foley Kldnej' PHI® for palnr to aide® and back; rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ail ment®; and Foley Cathartic Tab lets, a wholesome and thoroughly Cleansing cathartic for constipation biliousness, headache®, and sluggish bowels.—Advertisement. DON’T SUFFER FROM GAS PRESSURE AROUND THE HEART excess acids, sour stomach, heart-burn, intestinal indiges tion, irritated stomach or colon- nervousness, ' toxic condition, dizziness and despondency de veloping lrom INDIGESTION Take King’s Nu-Trestment, the new, scientific prescription which IS sold unuer absolute guarantee of immediate and permanent relief or money re funded. Get a bottle today. Take one- haU of it- If you are not lOQ'/o ■atiatieu witn results return it and we will refund your money cheerfully. Why suffer the agony ol Indigestion and its at tendant terrors when you are ottered freedom from its tor tures. Take Nu-Trcatment un der our iron clad guarantee given above. Eat anything and everything at you did in child' hood days. days. KING’S Nu-TREATMENT positively restores NATURES ACTIVITIES to the entire di gestive tract. Get a bottle today—eat what you like tomorrow. PALMER & SONS Main Store 229 Clayton Street Exclusive Agents in Athtna 12 ounce prescription—92-79 Indus Begins to a great builneu revival . Th-; ) ( n , !V ot ,,nly helped the farmer, ercises ,ut0 . ,hcm ,he ho <* tu ’ Commencement exercise® for the Athena High & Industrial School will begin Monday night In Mor ton Theatre. r The program nnnouneod by S. T- Harris, principal, follow®: Monday, May 21, 8 p. m. Operetta, 'College Day®" at Morton Tueatre Thursday, May 24,' 8 p. m. Senior Qlass Exercises—At the School. Sunday, May 27, 11 a. m. Bac- calaureate Sermon—At Hill’® First Baptist cKutyh, by Rt. Rev. L. G. Kyle®. D. D., Bishop of the Caro lina® and Georgia, Winaton-Saleno N. C. Monday. May 28, 8 p. m. Indus trial Commencement Exercises. Address by Dr. W. E. Wasson Pastor M. E. Church South, Ath’ ens, George. .Tuesday, May 29, 1 p. m.—Alum hi Meeting. Tuesday. May 29, 5 p. m. Junior Social to Senior*. Wednesday, May 30, 11:30 a. m Graduating Exercise®, Hill's First Baptist church. Address by Dr. A. M. Soule, Pre* Georgia State College of Agrlcul ture, Athens. Oa. You are cordially Invited. 8. F. HARRIS, Principal. determination that characterizes the town. In my travel® I have here finer or more prom ising crops than in the country trlbntnrv tn r’mim, a_.» .. Col. Gantt Gives Comer’s History (Continued From Page One) £1 Thornton’s TUESDAY Dinner 50c VcnUbla Soup Leg of Veal and DrcsMng Turnip Salad Spring Onion, Candled Yami . Scalloped Tomatoes Muffins and Biscuits Choice of Pisa Coffee, Tea or Milk 60 Cents Supper 50c Pork Sausage and Mashed Potatoes Nevy Beans Fried Com Fritters , Boiled Onlone Hot Biecuite Cocoenut Pudding Coffee, Tea < 50 Cents bton, a splendid citizen and ressful farmer nnd who operated a store, moved to Cornea and be gan business there. This was i valuable acquisition to Comer and the place owes much to Pope Ghol ston. He met with success in a!F his business ventures and at his death his sons took up his work nnd ore today leading citizens nnd buslnes men. Pope Gholston wa my good friend. SPLENDID PEOPLE With this start, new cltlgena be gan to pour Into Comer nnd among them some splendid people from 'Oglethorpe. With ouch a citizen ship the town could but Jralld up very rapidly. I do not believe there Is a place In the South the age of Comer, with 6*ly. an agricultural tributary country to rely on, thaf can show such a Jonah gourd-VIm like growth a* Comer. Every time I have passed through Comer saw new evidences of expansion and Industrial progress. The losi census gave Comer a population of 1001 Inhabitants and every per son 1s a booster for Comer. .NEVER LOST | FAITH ^ Like all prozrM.lv, men and llv< and huatllng town,, when the col- lapea in pricca and th. boll weevf cama upon ua Ilka a thunderbolt. Comer waa hard hits but not mort to than other plane. But Ua people know no euch word. a. fall or five-up, and not for on. lnatant did th.y Ion faith In their town and Ita future. In, •tead of meekly accepting the alt uation rnd bending before tthi atorm, the cltlaene and bualfceai men of the town met organaldt and went to wprk with bravo hearti and a determination to win out And right nobly have they auc- nedid. Loot Tueaday when I vleltef Comer .very on, I met wu hope fully enthualaetlo for they had won th, fight. The town haa an active Chamber of Commerce, with m.mberyhlp of ninety and each and •very member a worker for Comer, Ita merchant, weathered the atorm and ora looking forward next fall POSSIBLY you have used a cooking fat that was'hard as a candle when cold—and runny when only moderately warm, but you will never have any trouble in creaming Snowdrift. Snowdrift is never too hard no matter how cold the weather may be. Neither does Snowdrift get soft or runny in warm weather. Snowdrift is always the same creamy consistency which you find easiest to use. Snowdrift in bucket. ft r ; t? N as easy to open as winding # the clock / v tributary to Comer. And backed by a fine agricultural coun try taking in one of the garden spots of Madison nnd a belt Oglethorpe. The town has too strong banka cae the Comer Bank, under the management of W. % E. Henstee, nnd the oth«*r the People's Bank, with ltidgwuy as cashier. And Comer has n splendid Woman' Club, the members compete with the men nnd Chumber of Com merce in working for their town Mr. C. B. 'Ayers publishes the Co mer News and is doing some Uru work for bin town. He haslin up- to-date plant with a Linotype „ m ! all tqulpment, 0 f a modern print- Ing office. Mrs. Ayers nauiu*.. her huahand with hi* paper The* — "■« The following I. a Hat of the leading bueine.s hou.es of Comer: Whitehead * Oohlaton, Cook llros. Oohl.ton Bro.; w T. Cook. Harry Comer"'!! DUn ^"'’ barb< ’ r " h “P ( D ™ b c °: Comer Merran ti/c Co Homer David, a. J Car- mlchael, w. A. Rowe Co, n T Daniel, w. K coulter, and H £ Ilruner Mercantile Co. HANDSOME 8CHOOL The town ha. a handaonie hrlck eohool bqlldlng that coat yilooo before an advance In price, and l« would bo creditable to any city Xm!" 0 ^ r " 1 *„ 1 ea t’her« m the achoo' Ther. Pr ° f ’.^ ngl<,t0 " “* PflUOlpal There are three nice church build ing*, Mcthodlat, Baptl.t and I*re«. bytftrinn. The town has an oil mill two cotton gins, two blacksmith shops, as fine garage* and oil sta tions as any city can boast, a good hotel nnd In fact everything that r live and modern little city needs There are beautiful residences em its business houses ore modorr brick buildings. The streets of the town have recently been worked and put In good condition. The following ore their municipal offi cers nnd they are men in keeping with the spirit of the town: II. C Paul. Mayor; CouneIlmen.- C. V < RIdgway, Ed Johnson, B. M. Jetton nnd Jim Cascnton. Comer has a future nnd don't you Is .one town without a shack -or hovel. As you approach and entei Comer you notice handsome hornet und other evidences of enterprist nnd progress. • Come, has a future and don't you forget It, You Just can't keep such a town and people down. They have already recovered from the buslnes paralysis that seised upon the whole South anil are forging and pressing to the front I did not have long to tarry In Comer but met with there as else where, during my drive the greatest kindness snd courtesy. I Intend tc visit Comer again and often. Popular Meeting Held to Endorse Bryan Resolution (By Allocated Praia.) INDIANAPOLIS — Preabyterlan* In “popular meeting*' today unan Imouely endorsed a resolution pre- aented by William Jennlng* Bryan calling on tha general aeeembly ot the church In aeeelon here to paea a resolution aeklng every Preebyte- rlan mlnleter and church member and the president., teacher, and pupil. In alt of the denominations, schools, college* *emln*rle*, tr ■Ign a pledge of total abstinence. Ae outlined by the commoner, he proposes that evary tminater, first Sign the pledge, then every church officer, and finally every church member. In the denominational calltgeh he would atart with the presidents, then the faculty, and finally put the pladgi before every student. , The Bryan raeolutlon, which he will present tomorrow to the as sembly ot which he le a member, came aa the climax of a mass meat-* Ing under the auspices of the Pres byterian committees on Sabbatlr observance and, prohlblton and pub lic morals " Prohibition violation, Sunday golf and baseball, Saturday night theatre going nnd the e|e of Sunday newspapers were attacked by Mr. Bryan and olhar speakers repre senting the Lord's Dally alliance, GET YOUR STOMACH RIGHT Stomach misery, taa and indl- gestlon are promptly relieved with Ml-O-Na Stomach Tableta. At H. R. Palmer A Bona 6n money back plan.—Advertleement. PIEDMONT MORTGAGE & CO. FIRE INSURA-fifcE 404 Holman Building Atlhens, Ga. Georgia) Beans, Young and Tender, 3 Qts. for 25c. Georgia Yellow Squash 4 lbs. for 25c. Yam Potatoes, 25c thq peck. , a English Peas 3 qts. for 25c. Quality Bread 3 loaves for 25c. Bread is Your Best and Cheapest Food. ARNOLD-ABNEY V &CO. Market Gossip Received Over F. J. LinncII & Company’s Private Wire MEMPHIS —Light rains fail report ed Saturday scattered In eastern belt and Alabama, heavy rainfall in New Orleans district. Moderate rain fall reported Sunday in eastern, belt, light rains In Alabama. Louisiana and eastern Texas, temperatures gen erally about normal. Forecast Mon day entire belt mostly cloudy, unset tled, scattered showers.—STANLEY. NEW ORLEANS, La. — Holiday Liverpool. Southern spots Saturday unchanged to 25 higher, Dallas middling 25.65; Bales at Dallas bales; all told L518 bales vs. 3.567 Friday. End of May commitments, Jf any <$xists, and uncertainty of June bu- t report as to whether It will be bullish or bearish, likely create a better demand for the actual remainder of this month, especially If May long* demand delivery. hleh case shorts may be forced cover or enter the market for the ac tual with which to make delivery. Foreign news and weather con< tfons over week-end, as well weather outlook for immediate fu ture. probably dominate market Mon day, although It Is possible that be Influenced somewhat Jf any private monthly crop conditio reports are Issued today. Sentiment remains divided bu probably more bullish than other wise. For the present • Jongs have the advantago of unfavorable weath- whilc shorts are favored with continuance of small spot sales In U>» iuth. MARKETS ATHENS COTTON For (he first time In several weeks the local cotton market up at the close over the day before. The market closed at 20 cents ove the previous close of 2D% cents. NEW YORK - COTTON Open High Low Close P.C. May .. .. 27.15 27.27 26.90 27.14 26.93 July .. .. 25.55 25.88 25.40 26.«4 25.48 Oct 23.18 23.30 22.91 23.02 23.10 Dec. .. .. 22.75 22.86 22.52 22.12 22.70 NEW ORLEANS COTTON Open High Low Close P.C. May .. .. 26,33 26.33 26.10 25.98 26.05 July .. .. 25.55 25.87 25.40 25.M 25.52 Oct. .. .. 22.50 22.75 22.35 22.44 22.53 Dec 22.18 22.31 22.03 22.07 22.18 LIBERTY BONOS Open First ) 1 -2s 100.30 First 4 #1-4* 97?3i Second 4 1-4* 97.26 Third 4 1-4* 98.13 Fourth 4 1-4® 96.00 CHICAGO GRAIN Open. WHEAT— Sept May July CORN- Sept May* July .. .. .. OATS— > Sept. .. . May July Coca Cola 75 Cuban Cane Sugar 24 Cuban Cane pld. 53 Austin Nichols • 24 U. S. Steel 97 Southern Ry, .... Sou. Ry. pfd Pan. American .. Kennlcott Copper Industrial Alcohol N.' Y. Central ...» Amc. Tel. Tel. .. Lowe's Ino. .... U. 8. Sugar 85 DOES DIG DAMAGE Thousands of Dollars Damage Done By Flood Which Starts From Over Night Rain. SAYRE—Citizens of this little Oklahoma town were scraping mud from the streets and scrubbing the lower floors of the business hoaset Monday as a result of the heavy rain late Sunday afternoon which caused the overflow of It's banks by Short creek and flooded the busi ness part of the city. The damage from the flood will run Into the thousands of dollars though the rain only lasted through the night Reports that families hod been washed away, which were current here Sunday night, were discount ed when a check from house to house was made of the settlement inhabited by oil field worker* which showed none missing. FUNERAL NOTIC HOLCOMB—DM yesterday May, 20th at the home of her parents near Commerce Go., Helen Holcomb age eighteen months. She la survived by her parents. Mr. nnd Mr*. Lon Holcomb and six sisters and two I brothers. The funeral waa Monday lot Cabin Creek church in. Jockoon •eoupty, Interment waa . In rlhe church cemetery. The Rev. Collins j officiating with Bernstein Bro*., funeral director* In charge.