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m hanker-hjpuld. Athens, cboecia
SUNDAY,JULY, 22, 1923.
MARKETS
NEWSPAPER ^URNS
MEIGS, On.—'The plant of thc||
Meigs 'Herald formerly “The IJrick* 1 i
.bat”, was destroyed by fire Satiir-j j
day morning. Ah "Th* Brickbat," | j
the paper figured sensationally ns
a reputed organ «*f the Ku Klux J ATHENS COTTON
Klan, under the editorship of Rev | The local cotton market
Rov Ifcivis. The origin of the fire ' Saturday ut the same level
which burned the plant, which was Friday close, 20 cents,
located i nthe old city hall. Is un* t
*J. R. Smith was riddled with but- to all cotton being held jn
lets fired by the officers from the warehouse and those
rear, it was brought out at the "
hearing. Fifty-six gallons of whig
Ikey were found in the car.
J The officers "laid” for the two
men and the liquor car after being
J told It had gone down the road to
got a load of bootleg whiskey. The
shooting occurred about 9:3C
o'clock at night.
known.
WE ARE OFFERING for Monday
some attractive hats at $ 1.1)8;
rnd $2.98. Mrs. Arthur Burch, *
304 Holman Bldg.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
j The following were the ruli-ig
prices in the exchange Saturday:
Open-High Low Close
WHEAT*—
6 he artistru
of faultiest
seroice is
„ more than.
g/A result,
fv of thorouqn.’
«studu
a. rid. J
Iff professional W*.
’training • •
IV.lt must aisoiiSS
nauethe M
VCeg-note of Mi
persondlitu
100%
98% 99%
j Dec. . . 101% 102%
CORN—
July . . 84% 84%
Sept. . . 76%
Dec. ... 03%
| OATS-
'July . . 40%
' Sept. . . 35
Dec. . . 30%
99% 100%
98
65%
84 84%
75% 70%
03% 65%
41%
35%
37%
40%
34%
36%
41%
35%
37%
NOTICE
CADILLAC
0
wners
The Cadillac was the first elec
trically equipped car built.
And*it was an
EXIDE BATTERY
that was uacd—and tho Cadillac
Motor Company has ALWAYS
used EXIDE batteries.
EXIDE SERVICE Is tho host
in every country in tho world.
ATHENS BATTERY
COMPANY
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. — Covering
of the short interest put the price
of the most active months 7 to
: 11 points higher soon after the
! opening of the cotton market
i Saturday, but values lamost im-
| mediately sagged in a moderate
i {way under private reports of
4 scattered showers in drouth areas
I of Texas. October first traded up
| to 22.83 and then fell off to 22.63
5 ( cents a pound. July was alto-
| ■ gether inactive.
\ ' Business in the spot department,
the quiet reported in week-end re
views of trade in general, further
accounts of curtailment in both
New England and Southern mill
centers and cabled reports of slow
trade in the Manchester cloth
market a# combined to further
depress the price. Late in the
session October was off to 22.52
with the new crop positions 18 to
27 points under the final preies of
Friday. July traded at 24.25 or
fifty points under Friday’s close.
The close was 18 to 46 points net
lower on the day with July at
24 29 to 21.35 and October at 22.62
to 22.55. Spots were quoted dull
and 75 points lower which reduced
middling to 25.00 cents a pound.
The following were the ruling
prices in the exchange Saturday:
Tone; steady; middling, 25c;
steady.
Prev.
Open High Low Close
Jan. 22.59 22.59 22.46 22.42 22.64
Mar. 22.65 22.67 22.44 22.44 22.71
May 22.65 22.55 22.42 22.33 22.60
July 24.25 24.32 24.25 24.20 24.75
A./ do no oo BQ 09 r.n 99T.9 99 7fi
(Speclal)-
* GREENSBORO Oa.
99% Judge R. B. Park will convene
02$ Greene r.’onnty Superior Court here
'"Monday radrnlng at 10 o'clock and
the ' grand Jury in expected to
launch immediately into an Inves
tigation of the killing of Jett and
J. R. Smith, alleged liquor runneri
In this county last June.
The grand jurors drawn for the
term of court follow: ,
J. C. Williams. Pope Collins, G
H. Tuggle, J. L. Durham. 8r., E
L Leach. J D. Cook. James L
Frown, J. C. Durham. H. D. Good*
win E. If. Armor, J. L. Wilson
>\ M Fanning, W If. Gentry. W.
J. Thurmond. R. B. Well, F.- j
Fuller, G. If. Eley. A. 8 Moseley,
II I Moore, W. R. Nash. H.
Spinks, R. n. Roswell. 8 r ., J. «
Carey. R F. Taylor. W. B. Anbury
J 6 Bowles. J W. Evans, W. j|.
Lewis, W. M. Reynolds,
Thomas.
the economic vcensure will bring many
cal (paper pulp mills south. *• Is a
bankers that all loans here to roomy country and a fine climate
Barrett & Company are fully se-l—juU waiting for development,
cured, means that Athens will suf-1 ~
fer practically no direct 1 >hsc*s * Mr. Thomas Gamble, who edits a
from the reverses of the big cot | paper devoted to the naval stores
ton concern. j interests, gave a rapid summary ol
^ three hundred letters bo had re
Miss Bondurant s
Funeral Saturday
ceived from owners of forests and
men and corporations engaged In
naval stores and forest products
production.
With one voice these people
Funeral services for Miss Mary| gan( j. we must have state fire
Bondurant, 17 year old_ daughter protection, state machinery for
BARRETT & CO
WITH A COMMITTEE
Oct. 22.72 22 83 22.53 22.7,2 22.76
Dec. 22.52 22.74 22.45 22.46 22.63
LIBERTY BONDS
NEW Y O R K.—Government
bonds closed! ......
Liberty 3 J-2s ?f00.10
First 4 l-4s .. .. -- .. .. 98.11
Second 4 l-4s — .. . • • • 98.12
Third 4 l-4s 98.29
Fourth 4 l-'4s 98.12
U. S. Govt. 4 l-4s 99.26
(Continued From Pnq. On.)
man," the petition sets out, was
one of the important grounds on
which the court was asked to is
sue u temporary restraining order.
The order also restrains all claim
ants from commencing or prose
cuting any suits or any other legal
proceedings against the warehouse
company.
(Continued From Pape One)
every bale is here
c -, H - Phiniiy, manager of
the local office of Barrett &
Company, Augusta cotton brok
ers, stated to a representative
of the Banner-Herald Saturday
morning that every bale of tho
5,600 stored in Athens through
Barrett & Company and for
which receipts have been issued
is here In the bonded ware
house,
“I do not ask any person to
take my word for this but in
vite an investigation, personal
ly, on the part of the owners of
cotton stored here,” stated Mr.
Phiniiy.
That the cotton la here, and
safe, was also verified by a
statement from Robert Ouid,
representative of the Independ
ent Warehouse Company, a
concern backed by tho Guaran
ty Trust Company , of New
York, which operates the local
bonded warehouse. ‘
S. W. Ussery has also verified
the cotton check for the Athens
banks and reporta the cotton
here.
Tho owners of the cotton
stored here may feel assured
that it is here.
FRUSTRATE
CREDITORS
bo Obo J. Smith of Athens, fathel
of J. II. Smith; Ralph Smith «T
Athens, brother of Jett Smith, X.
C. Grlffoth, a young Oroeno coun
ty man and Undertaker Hemperl,
of Madison.
CREATED
BIO STIR
Tho slaying of tho two Smiths,
which occurred on tho Greene*
Morgan county line early In June
(treated a sonsatlon throughout
tho Mate becaimo of tho Issues In
volved. on© being whether a fed
eral officer ban ft right to senroh
©top an automobile suspected ol . „ ... , MM „ M ^ lut . IBW||
carrying whlekoy without a war* and A. R. Nicholson, representing j who wantonly *iet flro to forests.
tho Independent Warehouse Com- Don’t c | ea r any more land. Plant
Creditors of Barrett St Company,
especially the Bank of Charleston,
S. C., were frustrated in an ef
fort to secure possession of sev
eral thousand bales of cotton
stored in the local bonded ware
house, through Barrett St Com- .... „ ...
pony, Friday when Robert Quid vent fires, Punish people for arson
of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bondurant,
.were conducted from the home
Saturday afternoon. Rev. S. E.
Wasson of the First Methodist
church, was in charge, and the in
terment followed in Oconee cemc-
tery.
A large number of friends of
the young lady, and of . the family,
attended the service and a wealth
of flowers covered the casket as it
was borne to the cemetery, attest
ing In a partial way the great es
teem and popularity of the de
ceased, who succumbed Friday
after a lingering illness of two
years.
The pallbearers, selected from
among her friends, were: Messrs.
Carlton Mell, Fenley Ryther,
Dwight Ryther, Walter Forbes,
Carlton Jester, Jr., Moss McCoy,
Sam Cartledge and Lamar
Sledge,
Mrs J. R. Brantley
Dies Here Friday
An extremely sad death was that
of Mrs. Fay Satterfield Brantley
wife of J. R. Brantley, well known
young Athens business man, at n
local hospital Friday afternoon at
3:30 o'clock, following an llln*-*
only a few days’ duration.
Mrs. Brantley came here just
ven months ago the bride
Mr. Brantley, and had made many
friends during her short reside
here. Before her marriage she '
Miss Fay Sntterfleid of Atlanta
and surviving her, besides' her
husband, are her father, V. E. Sat*
terfield, Mrs. Clure Fitzgerald,
Mrs. Alma Feagan and Misses 'An*
and Emily Satterfield, all ol
Atlanta. Mr*. Mattie Webb, Mrs
Effie O’Nsal and Miss Florence
Sataterfield. and Mr. E. E. Satter
field of Hartwell.
On Mr. Brantley's side are the
following survivals: Mrs. J. R
Brantley, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Brantley, Miss Dora Brantley
Macon, Mfs. H. S. Cole, Ranger
Tokens., Mrs. C. D. Galloway, At
lanta, Mfs J. P. Hunt Hastings,
Fla. ' -
The funeral will be conducted
Sunday afternoon and the Inter*
ment folloWcs In Oconen cemetery
RICH LIGHTS
forcing-our present laws. We are
WiHfng^to be taxed to create the
necessary funds for this purpose.
(All of these Interests were cordial
in their praise of the Georgia For
estry Association.)
Would-you expect a rtllroad man
to make a statement like this?:
"Sentiment does everything that
Is ever done.* ’(Mr. Roland Tut-
ner. Agriculture* division of the
Southern R. R. system said that)
(What, reader, is your sentiment
about helping Forestry for Geor
gla?)
col. Joseph Hyde Pratt of N. C.,
was. with us again-bringing the
astonishing news that In his st»te
the county commissioners were
swinging into line, co-operating
with a state forestry program, al
ready he said, twenty-five counties
wero co-operating. (No wonder
North’Carolina Is forging ahead!
But then, Jos. Hyde Pratt lives
there!)
Roads Take Long I
Term Lease Sat.
WASHINGTON.— The Atlantic
Coast Line and the Louisville and
Nashville Railroads made formal
application Saturday morning to
the Interstate Commerce Xom-
mission for authority to take over
an doperate the Carolina-Clinch-
field and/Ohio Railroad system.
The Louisville and Nashville
company which is owned by the
Coast Line proposes to operate;
the Ciinchfields three hundred!
miles of* road under a .line hun* j
dred and ninety-.nino year lease.
No Need of Walking These Hot Summer Da'
Buy one of t
reconditioned.
ir Pedigreed Used Cars. They have
Our terms will suit your pDckefbook.
New Star Touring 7 Past enger c 0 j.
Ford Sedan Dodge r r „^
5 Passenger Buick II 1919 Chevrolet Touria
CONOLLY'MOTOR COMPANY
DISTRIBUTOR BUICK MOTOR CARS
Railroad Man Is
Badly Injured!
Mr. H. L. Kay ton of Savannah,
representing the Carson Naval
Stores 4>ore the unlquo request
from various wood products Indus
tries that "we be taxed to help pay
for forest fire protection In Geor
gia.” Mr. Kayton bears the dls
tlnctlon of having raised the most
money of any member of
Georgia Forestry Association
help keep clerical tn.l office fc
going. Mr. Kayton said. If the lit
tie that he had raised was the
"most" then he did not see how
tho financial side of the work had
been handled at all.
(I think It was done because
the faith, courage, patience, per.
servftnce, and executive ability of
the officers of the Georgia Forestry
Association, Messrs, Bonnell Stone
C. B. Harman, W. P. Lemmon, H.
G. Spahr and Mrs. W- W. Stark,
who with their co-workers wero
willing to undertake a patriotic
work for Georgia. .
Governor Walker was there, but
not Mrs. Walker or the boys. The
governor said the boys having been
raised in tho wbods had becomo
homescick for tho trees and had
dragged their mother back to
Monroe for a visit to their home.
(Continued From Pago Ono)
paper read by Mr. N. L. Willot of
Augusta at tho annual meeting of
tho Georgia ^Forestry Association
In Atlanta Monday, July 16th.
Mr. Willet Is chairman for tho
Georgia Forestry Association in tho
tenth district. No Is peculiarly well
fitted for this position as he Is a
correspondent for tho Augusta pa
pers and weeklies in h|s district.
He Is bringing the subject of tho
needs of forestry for Georgia to tho
attention of tho people. Ho told
of tho hundreds of saw mills work
ing In Georgia today, who as he
expressed It, are "lawn mowing tbt
forests" and who with the assist
ance of the landowners are work
ing with this slogan, "Get it today.
Damn the future."
Mr. Willett advice to help In the
solution of a future timber sup
ply: Nolther sell nor use any troes
less than fourteen inches.
Have state flro wardens. Pre-
rnnt. The state supreme court ... .. .— _ __ —. j uuu t ciear any more tana, riant
rulo. that thl. Cannot ho lawfully pony of New York, bucket, by the | treo ,. Ptant ,,„ h It make ,
done without a warrant. Officer
Oaatley, said to have been’ direct*
Ing the raid,"admitted nf the hear
ing before Judge Sibley that he did
not possess n warrant while Po
liceman Lovejoy produced a state
search warrant while on tho wit*
Yo^r^ro^nioinjr'juW Sta.h ^ine
l. Hodges of thc Northera C^: «fet c «S d .SLP?L-=:
cult, superior court, from deliver-' 7' Dt0 ,* he “"‘f- <™«e «rc 1«0»
- - - -- start pine eeed lo the pound.)
ing any of the cotton held.
The restraining order waa li
nes* stand nt the hearing which .once
ho said ho had-unknown to Onst-
ley when they wont to atop tho
liquor car In “case Gastloy failed
to not one.”
Tho body of tho younger man,
•uod by Judge Hodges in the ab
of Judge Blanton Forteon
and was in tho specific interest of
the Athene Manufacturing Com
pany, George J. end W. T. Cun
ningham and T. E, Watkins.
ORDERED ALL
COTTON HELD
MAKING IT CLEAR
—THAT A BUSINESS MAN OR CONCERN
WANTS THE BEST PRINTING—AND WANTS
WHAT HE WANTS WHEN 1IE WANTS IT.
We are turning out high grade work in nil lines rf
commercial printing—and your Job In always reedy
when "the erder U given and we promise delivery.^,
The.petition stated that the
Athens Manufacturing Company
has 17230 bales of cotton stored in
the warehouse, that George J.
Cunningham has 353, W. T. Cun
ningham 275 nnd T. E, Wetkine
60 bales. The order also tied up
all the cotton held in the ware
house and asked that in view of
the fact that Barrett A Company
was reported insolvent that the
court appoint temporary receivers
for the cotton and set a date for
• a hearing.
John J. Wilkin, nnd B. F. Hard
eman were named temporary re
ceivers and July 28th waa let as
the Bate for the hearing on the
receivership.
Early Friday morning a repre-
sentative of * Charleston, S. C.,
bank, mid to have advanced loans
to Barrett A Company, arrived
here to take over cotton—or at
(llcnst he was believed to have come
11 for that purpose—held in
i ' ■- V- Lame »kvnit(vlt
' While Atlanta has visions of be
coming a great inland exporting
city la her dream a thing of mist
becauMe:—well, because says
|5|sthew Hale, president nt the
Southeastern Martime Corp.,
Washington, D. C., what keeps
ships running' from Savanmh and
Brunswick Is the steady little
shipments of neval stores. Elimin
ate them a'tad your Georgia porta
lose their shipping for ships must
have enough freight to make their
sailing profitable. Also these south
ern forts are discriminated against
by the gnat trunk railroad lines.
This discrimination began during
tlie civil war and evontinues to’
this day. As a northern mnh, Mat
thew Hale said he was "sorry and
ashamed” of the wall between the
south and the middle west, foster
ed and maintained by the great
trank lines of the north who will
not agree to any national atti
tude.
Mrs. Alber Thornton's tribute to
(Mrs. Lollle Belle Wylie was beau
tlful. The whole association stood
with bowed heads while a loving
thought was given to* our beloved
Mrs. Wylie who recently "passed
over and rests under tho shade of
tho trees. Tho beech tree which
Inspired Mrs. Wylie's exquisite
poem is still growing on Mrs
Thornton’s lawn. A beech tree
will bo planted on tho capltol
grounds this fall in memory of
Mrs. Wylie.
High Lights! I thought I might
pick a few here and thero nnd so
mako my story conform to n reas
onable space, but it is almost !m
possible—because the wholo of
that remarkable meeting was
high light.) Thero was “Uncle
Davo” with one of his essays call
ed "The Saw Mill,” which for
flavor and quaintness reminded one
of Charles Lamb. "Uncle Dave's'
closing remark was so character
istic "I feel like I had been lyinK
on a bed of pine needles and Just
talking to you all about tre n s,
Between Austin Cary and E. F.
McCarthy there lies many thou
sands of acres of cut over lands,
for Mr. McCarthy Is the U. S. gov
ernment man at the North Georgia
Experiment Station, and Mr.
^ >ivi- w ware-* Car y 1* engineer for
hotaeh hire ”through Barrett AI ‘he U. S. Forest Service, stationed
Company but tho injunction U- in 8outh Georgia. It In amoving,
j l ‘v-- A— UaJ... MMVanfAit I npAfole'g iitniiHkllllv In Bi>nn> ,Im —
Sued by 'Judge Hodge, prevented 1 Georgia's edeptlbility to grow tint
The folks a.sembtad nil felt like
they had stepped through n dark
cool foreet with acres of lovely
wild flowers and the music
water failing over rocks when our
Dr. M. L. Brittain gavo ua hi*
talk on "Treee as Friends.” He told
a good story too about the old
lady, who. when the road from At
lanta to Roswell waa being survey
ed, hold up everybody with n shot
gun who tried to remove one o(
her big oak treee which was “In
tho way".
The tree Is still standing)
Mrs. M. E. Judd of Dalton who
Is called' by those who know her
thd hardest worker in Georgia
along patriotic and constructive
Tines, thinks Georgia la in her
present plight about her foresls,
because the people ”do not know.”
She advocates short courses In
forestry for the teachers of the
state. She also advocates town nnd
county conservation'* plats. Intel
ligently forested, snd kept ns n
revenue maker for the communi
ty. She gave facta about work of
this kind from many towns in the
state of Massachusetts. -
(To Be Continued.)
This story will be followed in
Monday's Banner-Herald wjth tho
report of the work of Mrs. W. W.
Starks in the Ilnth district
NOT GUILTY
JOHNSON PRINTING CO.
Phone 926
North Lumpkin St.
Athens, Ga.
the removal of the staple and
places it in a position of security
for the real owners.
It was stated here Saturday
! (quick action waa anticipated in
moving the cotton but of Athens,
snd Georgia, and that aitrty box
cars had been despatched here to
take care of the shipment.
This action, coupled with the
statement by Mr. Phiniiy relative
ber—first given a chnneo. From
the northern portion of the state
listen to McCarthy:
The climate Is Ideal
The soli U deep.
The rainfall most abundant In
the TV S. The land Is in the cen
ter of Its markets.
From South GeoriTa, Austin Cary
declares: because Sonth Georgia
can frowpino trees so quicker that
(By Associated Press.)
AIKEN—Verdict* of not guilty
were returned in the cases* of Ir
vin Williams, Joe Williams and
Bud Englctt and Dan Williams,
negro, of Augusta, charged with
the murder of Heedy Booth and
Eugene Feaster. realroad guards,
Inst August. The jury returned a
verdict of not guilty after twenty
eight minutes deliberation: ,
(Bv Asoriated Press.)
ATLANTA.—B. I). Bonner, en-'
glneer was badly injured Satur
day in tho derailment of a freight
train on the Southern Railway at
Oakdale, nine mllei from here.
The train was running from
Chattanooga to Atlanta. The cause
of tho accident was not determine-
The Southern offices here stated
tfyat* the Northbound, track would
be^cleared as good as possible and
that arrangements were being
made to transfer the passengers
held up on the train* at the scene
of the wreck and bring them to
Atlanta.
Plenty of Money to Lend on Real Estate
Commission 3 per cent over {1,600;'
10 per cent op to 11,000.
HUBERT M. RYLEE '
Law offices Phone 1576.
406 Holman Bldg. Athens, Q eor]
PEASANTS FLOCK TO PRAY
BEFORE MYSTICAL SHRINE
BUDAPEST,—A* - grcat\vavc* of relig
ious feeling 1* today sweeping over
the pe&nntry of Hungary hecaune of
the alleged appearance of a picture of
the Holy Virgin In tho branches of a
walnut tree In a little village In'th*
rnntfy of kcmplen.
Thousands of Peasants come dally
from all parts of the country to kneel
piously before the spot where the tree
stood. For within the past three
we4ks. since the picture la said first
have appeared, the tree has been
cut up'and carried away by the pil
grims. Peasants are now digging deep
into the ground to prifuicss themselves
of the last vestiges of the roots.
FLAN FAILS
(By Associated Press.)
MEXICO (CITY.—President Ob-
regon’s plan to accord full mili
tary honors to the funeral of
Francisco Villa, former rebel
chieftain who was killed Friday,
wjll not (mk carried out because
Villa’s name is not carried upon
official military rolls of the
government.
•Sewer Pipe—
^ All Sizes
Your requirements in sewer pipe can
be met from stock, delay,*if you
call tis.
We have a very lfirgc supply iof-sewer
pipe in all sizes on hand at all times.
When you need sewer pipe, you hn-c
only to phone the size and the amount
to us; we’ll do the rest!
CARTER-MOSS LUMBER COMPJUf
E8CAPE8 ASYLUM
PHILADELPHIA.—Erwin Wilson
of Brooklyn, Mass., who was par
doned by President Wilson for
proventing a jail delivery at Fort
Leavenworth, whore he *was im
prisoned, escaped early Saturday
from the State Jlospltal for tho
criminal insane at Fairvlcw, Pa.
WE ARE OFFERING for Monday
me attractive beta at *138
and *238. Mr.. Arthur Burch,
301 Holman Bldg.
ONLY ONE MORE WEEK
. in which to buy these
great bargains
We will vacate after this week
and tKe sale will then be over,
better see us at once for we can
save you lots of money an suits.
All $45.00 and $40.00
Suits, now ....
All $35.00 Suits
now *. . . .
Some Others as Low as
$10.00 and $12.50
Take advantage of this sale the last week
H. J. REID CO.
Clayton Street Athens, Georgia