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SCOUT NEWS
Troop No 1, J. L. Sexton ,8/ M.
Friday evening was story telling
night for Troop No. 1. Among
other recitals given, were some
ghost stories which added a som
bre coloring to the occasion.
■The troop had a good' attend
ance, there being 13 regular mem
bers, the Scoutmaster and two as
sistants.
The troop Is go*ng nicely and
£<ds tatr to close out the present
calendar year in fine condition.
Troop No. 2, Lee Bradberry, S. M. ling passed their Tenderfoot tests. I Friday evening when Troop No. 11
Interest among the members of There were 8 members present, I was called to order.
Troop No. 2 Is increasing at each
meeting. Several boys have already
paid their registration fees, and
they, with their Scoutmaster, are
planning a campaign for a larger
merbership.
There were four Scouts in at
tendance Friday and their Scout
master was also present.
Troop No. 3, W. S. Price, S. M.
With 7 regular members pres
ent, being all but one, and the
Scoutmaster in attendance, the
troop got right down to work and
bad an e/ithusiastlc meeting. The
The members of Troop No. 3 arc meeting was held out of doors,
doing splendid work since the re- Since the members of this troop
organization a few weeks ago. have not appeared in any of the
Jerome Cooper, Claude Gunnels, j notices up to ht'g time, we will
Herbert Smith and Charles Flem-
oniy one being absent.
The troop has planned a bike
for Thanksgiving, a report
which will appear later.
Troop No. 4, Thy*. M. Fowlsr, 3. M.
give the list here: R. L. Bramblett,
iH. Gladstone Simms, Dean Scott,
.(Franklin Jdann, M. L. St John,
i Wade Nelms, Lamar McConnell,
; Henry Harold Bullock.
This troop expects to increase
: lts membership, and will work to
j that end.
P. R. Rietb, 8. M
Troop No.
Troop No. 7 continues to grow.
One new member,Roy Chandler,
was added a the meeting Friday
evening. Besides Roy, there were 8
regular members present and also
the Scoutmaster and one visitor.
A nice camping site has 'be4n
given this troop by Frank O. Miller
: a member of the American Legion,
! the troop being sponsored by the
i legion. Tihe camp is located on
(the Mitchell bridge road, two or
(three miles from the'city.
, The troop took a bike Saturday,
and passed off a number of Scout
tests.
Latest Styles in
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The test of wirrt.r ia In
warm «n the dtyi nr, cold.
theao overcoat*—they're as
Bie lapeled ulstara, draa overcoat*, fur collared or fur
lined overcoat*. Rich waavea, rich color*, perfect tailor-
Inii. Remarkable values at
$25—$30—$35
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THE SHOP OP QUALITY
Clayton Street
Athens, Ga.
Troop No. 8, C. 8. Oenney, S. M
Six member* of the troop pasa-
ed tbelr Tenderfoot teete: The
boys were a H. Moaeman, Woodlo
Gann, Harold Bates, Russell Scar
borough, Charlie Paul, Alvin Wood
Two member*, Marvin and Le
roy Jamea, have come Into Troop
No. 8, making It member* In all.
Twelve of the other member* were
promt, with the Scoutmaiter,
making 15 In attendance at the
meeting Friday evening.
A hike la plannad for one day
Ufa week, and all who have paaaed
their Tenderfoot tests will be al
lowed to go on the hike. A fine
time la anticipated.
Troop No. 8, R. L. Keener, 8. M.
This troop ha* grown from three
member* to a total of 18 within
the peat few months, the last boy
to join being Lucian Mygatt, who
came In at the meeting I'd day
evening. .
The Scoutmaster, one assistant
and 14 regular members, and
visitors rp*resent the number that
was present at the last meeting.
Lucian Mygatt passed oft his
Tenderfoot testa. George Poster
qualified In Thrift, Copmasa, Knife
and Hatchet; John Bums and Wll
Ham Kant tin signaling.
The troop I* deeply interested In
their work and I* going splendidly.
Troop No. 10, W. A. Clegg, 8. M
Troop No. 10 enjoyed • nice hike
last Wednesday, with tbelr Scout
master. All the member* but one
WOOL Bacon, walnars, and bread
wen carried, and after walking
two or three miles the boys were
ready to aat a hearty anpper. The
round tVp was about five miles.
The scoutmaster and 7 members
of tho troop wore present at the
meeting Friday evening.
Russell Tarpley qualified as a
Tenderfoot Scout.
Tho Scoutmaster will take the
troop on another hike neat Thurs
day, Thanksgiving Day.
Troop No. 11. L. C. Ziegler, 8. M.
Twelve members, the Scoutmas
ter. and hla assistant war* on hand
The "Pine Tree" patrol had ala
present, and the "Flying Eagle”
rive. The scribe furnished music
(or hla patrol.
The games "Guess the Animal"
nr.d "Crane and Crow" were play
ed. much to the delight of the
troop.
A contest In knot tying and
races between the patrols added
spice to the meeting. The "Pine
Tree” patrol won every contest.
Setting up eaerclsea were prac
ticed, and magazines.were distrib
uted.
An overnight hike was planned
(r one day this week.
All In all, the troop had a most
Interesting meeting.
Troop No. 12 (Princeton), W. A.
Hall, 8. IM.
No report has been 'received
from Troop No. 12.
Around Athens
With CoL T. Laity Gantt I
Mr. W. P. Dorsey of the Dorsey
Furniture Co., ssy* up to the 13th
of this November they have aold
more goods tbau during the entire
month lu 1922. All o( our mer
chants report a great increase lu
tbelr volume or buslnesa and Ath
ens never had such a satisfying
cash trade. And this is only a
pointer to the (uture.
..Troop No. 13, A. T. Levia, 8. M
Troop No. 13 did not hold a
meeting last Friday.
Troop No. 14, C. A. Fowler, 8. M.
Troop No. 14 fn growing rapidly
at present, two new member* be
ing received at the last meeting,
which was Friday night. The new
members were Eric S. Wlllamson
and Thurman L. Wortham.
There were > regular members
and the Scoutmaster present Fri
day, and 6 of them passed otr their
Tender(oot testa. The work of this
troop Is moving along splendidly.
Plana were made (or an interest-
fng hike on Thanksgiving, a report
of which will appear later.
The above reports clearly show
that the Scout Movement in Ath
ens In going better than at any
other time In Its history.
There are eleven active troops,
and the work they are doing Is de
terring of the highest commenda
tion.
The Monster* Had
’Em Gasping When
Played Here FrL
Thornton'S Cate hat changed
hands, be'ng bought by Messrs.
Lamar Tribble and George Thorn
ton. Jr., two hustUng young men o'
Athens. They have aready made
great Improvements In the ser
vice. This cafe is a credit to our
q'ty and will be second to none
In the Btate. It ia located In the
Holman Building. Every depart
ment of the business v*!ll be made
the best
We regret to learn that the con
dltlon of Judge George C. Grogan
of Etberton Is unchanged' and he la
still confined to & hospital in At
lanta. Judge Gorgan baa many
friends In Athena.
John Jarrell, one of our oldest
and beat known citlxena, who has
been for some time on his farm In
Oglethorpe county, has returned to
Athens and Is now at the. home a
his daughter, near the Normal
School. Mr. Jarrell served gallant
ly throughout the war between the
states and belongs to one of the
oldest and most honored families
of this section.
"The Monster" Is another one of
those theatrical vehlclea built
around aecrat pasaagea, hidden
doors, tricky windows, spooky
lights ant other contrivances cal
culated to make you shiver in
yur seat while you are watching
lerformance and then go home
and bar the house from top to bot
tom.
It carried a cast of ala people,
three of whom are necessary but
unimportant but these were suf
ficient to produce enough of the
eacltement to keep a partially fill
ed bouse at the Colonial on the
qui vivo Friday night. Crane Wll-
bur, well known to moving pic
turn habitues, was the capital let
ter part of the cast and of courts
played the title role of "The
Monster." Frank Da (ten. apparent
ly a doped tramp but who turned
out to be a detective, was one of
the trl who really put the show
scrota and Mias Susanna Caubet,
whom we Imagine travels under
perflfttiy good (English name
and mannarlsma, completed the
main three at JuUa CUrtler, the
French girl, crane Wilbur betide*
being "The Monster" was also Dr.
Zlska, on* and tha tame. Alvin
Bract, a newspaper man, Caliban.
servant, and "A Man," supposed
to be an apparition or something
of that nature, completed the east
The mother of Hon. W. F. Dor
sey was a Gilmer and related to
Governor Gilmer, the great states
man and writer of Lealngton. Our
friend Will Dorsey was bora neac
the town of Gtllavllle on the North-
eastern railway, and long before
the road was built hla father had
a store at that place.
Mr. Bond ot Mkdjaon county,
brought to the curb market laet
Tuesday 47 dressed rabbit*, for
which he found ready s^le at 15
cents each. Bond says he caught
the rabbits lu gums, set In aandy
spots near a branch, where the
bunnies congregate to play.
Last Sabbath Rtv. Mr. Elliott,
paator of the Baptist church In
East Athena graduated fifteen lu
bit Sunday school. Mr. Elliott la
doing a great work In R'a church.
The Country at
Your Ear!
THE
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Pacific or Atlantic Coast, the Gulf of Mexico or the north
woods of Minnesota are no farther away from you than the
ear phones of a Radio Receiving Set
For instance anything worth while happening in these parts—
opera, news of the day, sporting events, stock market quotations,
concerts, etc.—come to you clearly and concisely.
We have an excellent stock now—complete sets or parts—just as
you like.
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ATHENS ENGINEERING COMPANY
Phone 711
Smith Building
For the easily ezdtable and
those whose aplne become* creepy
at stage wferdneas, the play fur
nished shivering situations aplenty
uiuugo toe climaxes wen not eo
cleverly concealed and sprung aa
In the "Bat,” the original of such
•hows of ractnt yean. Dr .SKska,
a "nutty" surgeon of the adenUflc
experiment specie and after having
been denied practicing on n Inna,
tic In France by a fellow ot Ms
profession, came,to America and
lived In seclusion on an out ot tbf
way road. Several motor accidents
had occurred near hla place and
the car occupants 'disappeared and
Brace, the newspaper man, rescued
Cartier, the girl, from one of theta
They take refuge r!n Ziska'a homo
during n night storm and then
find MaoKansle, the tramp-detec
tive. Zlska appear* on the scene
and tells them hla place ta
medium haven and that tbelr
night may be one of unrest. He
becomes desperate when he b'nds
out that the French girl la the
daughter of the man he claimed
disgraced him In trance. 1
Of conne It la evident that ha
has been using the bodies ot the
onto w'ctlms for hla experiments
and attar overcoming hla three
’guests" with gas fumes starts aa
iperaUon on Mlaa Cartier, with the
ild of an underground dungeon, an
electrical appUance and hla dumb
servant MacKena'e, the detective,
play* the part ot the medium and
aavas the eltaatlon, 7,taka dying in
ha own electric chair.
The piece was highly satisfac
tory but of course waa received
somewhat aa an encore of "The
Bat" and “The cat and the Canary"
though It I* a different story a!
together.
The large store room on Clayton
street under the Clayton House la
being divided Into two rooms with
a partition and on tho first of
January they will be occupied by
a Jewelry and miUnaiy eatabUah-
ment The vacant atom tin our
city are being ranted, aa a fine fu
ture it predicted.
Co.
Tho failure of Barrett
proved n bloating In dlagutse to
those who had cotton stored with
the firm. The advance In price,
during llfgstion over this cotton
will not only pay costs, but return
a handsome sum to parties who
owned this cotton.
Senator Harris will Introduce an
amendment to the tariff bill, when
congress convenes next month, to
place metallic arsenic, from which
calcium arsenate la made on tha
free list. This mill help to bear
Ionia tl-c lprica of tMs poison,
which ou.- cotton growtrs moat.
BIO PARADE FOR
CHATTAHOOCHEE TOWN8
WEST POINT, 0*.—Two Mg pa
rada are scheduled to leave West
Point and to peas through six
Chattahoochee Valley towns
two successive days according to
th* advise* given oat by officials
In charge of th* local automobile
show now In progress dn (hit town.
Th* pnradaa are scheduled to leave
West Point In the mornliig and to
tour the towns daring tho middle
of the day. In the second parade
which will be Saturday, Nvoember
24, every bualn.M bouse I* ex*
pected to bo represented by a float
Tho parades will be led by a brass
band.
T. J. Shackleford, who bought 86
acres of land on theMltcbell bridge
road, just beyond Cot Holman’s,
will ac once start work Improving
hi* property, catting It Into tmmli
farms or bnUdlng lota. Mr. Shake-
laford ie31 erect a handsome home
on a four-acre lot for himself. The
old Sima house la being remodeled.
Will Knox, ot Lexington, was In
the city tbf* week. He aaya their
cheese factory la making money
right along, and It I* now getting
about 300 gallops of milk a day.
Herds of catlte are be'ng bought
by farmers and It 1* expected be
fore long the capacity of the fac
tory must be Increased. It can now
handle 600 gallons a day. They
cannot supply the demand I
Lexington cheese.
for the
Many farmer* are -holding back,
cotton for 35 cents. It Is a risky
buslnesa to advise about bolding
cotton aa we all remember how
many refuted forty cent* for tbelr
crop and were afterward* forced
to sell It for twelve cent* or leaa.
We have never believed the crop
will exceed ten million bales.
Some northern tourist* camped
In Athena say they do not want
those southern darkles, as there
i* no room or place for thorn. Sev
eral cars ot tourists from New
York say many of these negroes
are already suffering and will not
last through the winter. They also
say white men up north, with
whom they conflict In labor, are
growing very outspoken In their
opposition ns tralnloeds ot negroes
tram the sooth come Jo.
Mr. Boh Ashford was in the city
the other day. He'says when hi*
county waa kept from organising n
cheese factory many farmer* sold
their cattle and be doubt* It
enough are left to make e cbeeae
factory profitable.
EYES CN DETERMINE
CONDITION OF HEALTH
DECLARES PHYSICIAN
LONDON.—The latest method ol
determining the condition of a pa
tient's health ta through a do*'
Avaml»a4(An Slim nvnu A niwim
examination of the eyes. A prom
Inent physician recently lecture*!
before a group of students during
which ho told thorn that ho rouM
always detenrfne the condition of
a parent's blod boy the color of
Iris, the lighter the color, the
clearer the blood and vice versa.
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