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TUB BXKTfgg-BBHaiP. gTOENfl. CTORCW' JBPNDAY. NOVEMBER g.4 ». f - 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 Overcoats! 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 H. J. REID CO. 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 i 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. Do You Want to Try One in Your Hope? 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. ChoicemcatsW Poulir wv THANKSGIVING Meats with the greatest care and handle them in a sanitary manner, and we don't send anything out to YOUR house that we wouldn’t send to OUR house. FOR THANKSGIVING WE HAVE ALL THE GOOD THINGS! PIEDMONT MARKET THE FOOD DEPARTMENT STORE BEAUTIFUL Phone* 1616—1617 240 North Lumpkin Street *NpTICE WAR SAVINGS STAMPS-SERIES 1919 TO BE REDEEMED On or after December 1st, holders of these stamps may present them for redemption. We offer our seiVices in handling them for you. 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