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FIRE INSURANCE Seventeen Toon of Satisfactory Service. Stroag Compinlu. Prompt Adjustment*. K>D CALL FLEETWOOD LAMER, MGR. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, ERWIN & CO. Phono Threo-Four-FIr# j Mystery Surrounds Finding of Burned Remains of 2 Women (Continued Front Pan Ono) Great “Covered Wagon'’ Opens Here Tonight At the Colonial Theatre Lot* Wilson and Warron Kerrigan in a sesnt from Wagon." , "The great American picture ft I last/* ia truly descriptive of the re markable screen version of Kmer> eon Houffh’a story. “The Covered Wagon*' which will be aee.n at the Colonial tonight Tuesday matinee and Tuesday night with special symphony orchestra. It Is different from most Amor- glee, hardships And bravery of, men, women, girls and boys in that great forward ntarch ol civilisa tion epitomised in the closing for ties. when progress moved west ward, fs at last brought befors our eyes and quite correctly in this, the superlative of film ere- atlons. Those who gee this motion (can epics heretofore shown on I picture wonder will feel juatij screen nr stage, for the reason it proud if they happen to have beta deals with an Intimate and jrldeJJ born in tbl B land and others who appealing phase pf our peculiar have come here from distant national development. It shows a | shores will have a vast satisfactory nation not smug and contented»thrill over their wisdom In adop* with uusual benefits and bles-^ I tlon. The finest players in pic* Ings, but answering that greatest | tures were recruited to make last- « * for expansion qnd the carry-ling fame In the great character! forward of. the best In tradl* cations of this story. Among them tlon and ideala Nothing placed between the pagee of book o r behind footlights has so vivid ly shown that spirit which alone niadg the United States the great est of nations. The trials, strug- are J. Warren Kerrigan. Lois Wil son, Ethel Wales, Eroeet Torrencq Tully Marshall and opiers. A selected orchestra of 20 will Play Higo Relsenfeld's special score. MARKETS ATHENS COTTON Tho local potion market cloaod nl 3J1-4 cenla Monday. The pre- \i«a close woo IS cento. NEW YORK COTTON Prey. Open High Low Close Close Ian, 33.20 34.38 332 6 34.28 33.10 M, h 33.00 34AO 33.78 34.70 33.64 May 34.15 34.08 33.07 34.00 33.70 11 A. M. Bids: January 33.00; Much 34.03; May 34.28. NEW ORLEANS COTTON Prey. Open High Low Cloae Close a. 33.40 34.40 33.32 34.47 33.10 ' 33.58 34.08 33.51 34.03 33.22 33.03 34.06 33.40 34,88 33.22 11 A. 81. Bids! .January 33.00; March 3323; May 3320. May P. C, CHICAGO GRAIN Open WHEAT— 1> v. .. .» .. .. 10014 10314 May 103% 108% Inly 108V4 10014 CORN— Dec . .. 74% 70% *<“7 •: . .. 70% 73% July OATS— . .. 72% 74% Doc .. 43% 42% M»y . .. 42% 45% July .. .. __ . . .. 48% 43% Fifteen Year Old Negro Boy Steals | Athens Man’s Car Willia Neel, colored, apparently noout fourteen yearn of age, waa lodged In the city Jail Monday charged with stealing an automo bile. George Williams missed his Icar and reported it to the police, and shortly afterwards Willie was found in ft in nn alley off Broad street. When the police approach ed him he made an attempt to get away but they caught him. He had tom a Yale lock from tho car and had driven it from where it was parked. He will probably be turned over to the juvenile court. EVERETT TRUE By Condo case and with her daughter Mtarted for Athens to visit tier daughter, Mrs. John Doster who** husband is employed by the B>.uth- ern Manufacturinf company. They were supposed to have boarded Uainesvllie Midland train that passed Jefferson about 5 o’clock. Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Aimmons was credited with having received a note from her daughter urging her to come to Athens but Mr* Kim mens told the officers that it was not Jn bis daughter's bandwriting. Sunduy night when Informed of the discovery and the fact that bodies' were believed to be tho.te cf the mother and sister of Mrs. Doster, both said they knew noth ing of a visit by the two here and bad written no note to Mrs. Sim mons. Mr. Doster said that his wife had received a letter from her mother asking them to come to Jefferson to spend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Doster went to Jefferson Sunday night. An effort wan made Sunday night to establish whether the two M‘ V M V FI Oi>/ ,1,3/ JffHIfil GJ08t,' I mwfflggMm msp .MONDAY. DECEMRPP i er about the return trip! to thelfarin house about 11 o’clock Sat-1 abandoned farm house and Wbat > urdoy night and an effort it being happened before the fetal fire made to establish who waa driv- The prevailing theory It that third party* believed to be a man with whom she was friendly, I: connected with the deed and fig ured In the trip from the time the party left Jefferson until the wo man and girl were either murdered and then burned to hide the crime or were tied In the empty fcou*e and there left to die as fire licked up their bodies aa the fram farm house was quickly cons?imcd in log the car. Another theory, though not gen eraliy believed, ia advanced that the mother and daughter never caught the train but started foot to Athens and stopped at the abandoned house to escape rain and were there attacked that both fell to sleep and that the house caught on fire accidentally it ml burned them while they slept, It is not thought, however, thnt they would have remained alone In nn abandoned houee until an hour late as the fire happened. Sheriff Collier In picking up the CHAReES DISTRICT trail in Athens back to the house, (By Associated Press) MOBILE, Ala.—Warrants char* ging an attempt to bribe were served on United States District Attorney Aubrey Boyles and Har< Anti-Freeze Solution Texaco Filling Station Phone 9114 COUGHS DISTURB 8CHOOL WORK same advice to children who have coughs as did this Florida teacher. I recommend FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR to the children In my school who had the 'flu' and gool results came whenever It was boarded the train in Jefferson or I used." writes Mrs. L. Armstrong, not and where they got off. Con-1 Okeechobee. Florida. Foley's ductor Godfrey did not recall the \ Honey and Tar contains no opl two but the chart of tickets show ed that four people had ridden from Jefferson station to Athens. Monny morning Sfcferiff Collier said that by passengers he had established the fact Mr*. Simmons and her daughter came to Athens on the train and he hurried here to link any details he might gath Anti-Freeze Solution Texaco Filling Station. Phone 9114 “The Covered BARBECUE! BARBECUE! Every Day At BENSON’S BAKERY and CAFE Next Door to Strand Theatre Thornton’s TUESDAY Dinner 50c Vegetable Soup Rout Veal or Rout Beet String Beans Creamed Whole Potatoes Cucumber Pickle Muffins and piecuits Chocolate Pie Coffee, Tea or Milk 50 Cents TUESDAY SUPPER Fork Sausage French Fried Potatoes English Peu Cucumber Pickle Pineapple Bomb, Cream Sauca Coffee, Tea or Milk 50 Cents ate*. Ingredients printed on the wrapper. Quickly relieves colds, coughs and croup. Bold every where.—Advertisement Only 3 more days before Tax Books close. W. A. MALLORY, Tax Collector. which was located on a farm own ed by Mrs. T. P. Vincent, Is mak ing an effort to Identify an auto mobile seen by the police here Sat urday night and said to have been occupied by a woman and girl that met the description of Mrs. Sim mons and her daughter and a man who was said to have been showing unusual and affectionate attentions to the woman. The police have the number of the car and It will be traced through the department ry G. French, a federal officer, in Atlanta. Anti-Freeze Solution Texaco Filling Station Phone 9114 Fresh Spinach Cauliflower Yellow Squash Bell Peppers Green Fla. Cabbage Egg Plants Fresh Snap Beans ARNOLD-ABNEY & CO. The crime, and every Indication ie that It waa a crime, to one of the moot horrible and blood curd ling ever known to happen In this section of the etate. it ia without parallel In thin section of Georgia that a fiend cither ravaged a wo man, and perhaps a mare child of a girl, or robbed the women and then murdered the two to cover up the dead or worse still, tied them In an abandoned house end burned them alive. Sheriff Collier stated Monday morning that he bollovad that the would soon have enough .evidence to make an arrest but would not divulge any of hla theories or what he based hit belief on. TRACEO TO ATHENS Monday mroning aa an aftermath to the recent liquor dioclosures. The wnrrante were sworn to by Charles Smith, chief deputy sher iff, one charging Boyiea and French with attempting to cor- rupt a member of the law enforce ment department and another, naming only Boylei, chargee at tempted bribery upon the deputy sheriff and a member of the leg islature. 6ERMARV ASKING COMMISSION TO ALLOW NEN LOIN green & Michael loan department 417-421 Southern Mutual Building Local and Eastern money always available for loans on farm* and city real estate. WILL FINANCE PEANUT CLUB ARLINGTON Ga.—According to ♦“Minty ngent A. B» Gibson who !t at present engaged In adding name* to the dirt of boys of this county who are Interested In the peanut club, a plan ha* been worked out by which the peanut shelling plants of this city will aid the boy* In financing the crop. This will no doubt be a great incentive to the club* members and It Is expected TO GIVE PRUNING DEMONSTRATIONS ROMS, Gs,—A series pruning, demonstrations given in Floyd county l„ K |„„| n , next week, by George Flror tlculturist at the State Colli-Tof The test. Agriculture. conducted in different days* two held each day. The fruit 7,1 pruning test, will he „f | m , rf|t ***—.“— - ■* .» Mrwm, here and all are expected to that a large number will enroll. | completed by the end of the (By Associated Press) PARI S.—Germany’s request that the npmntons commission agree to release it, priority claim on Germany’s resources to permit Germany to borrow money abroad with which to buy needed food waa delivered to tho commission Monday by the German war bur dens commission. Jones’ Sausage Jones’ Hams Norfolk Oysters ARNOLD-ABNEY & PP- Fig Bread Monday and Tuesday Raisin Bread Wednesday ARNOLD-ABNEY & cb. Perfumes —dainty as the petals of the rose, in all the wanted kinds. . HOUBIGANTS COITS DJER KISS VIVADOU HUDNUTS SOLON PALMER’S AZUREA Beautiful sets of Per fumes, Compact Pow der. etc., in Holiday gift packages. PERFUMES $1.00 to $11.00 Phone 1066 CITIZENS PHARMACY FRUIT CAKE 60c the pound It looks as if we will bp out of Fruit Cake by the latter part of this week. Place your order NOW, today. ARNOLD-ABNEY & CO. CAKES For Christmas We will have the best as sortment of Fine Cakes for Christmas that has ever been offered to the housewife of this section. Get them from your Gro cer or at ARNOLD-ABNEY & CO. Anti-Freeze Solution Texaco Filling Station Phone 9114 BANNER-HERALD WANT ADS. Too Lata to Classify. R ft”! b * l y»tn—then «ome! “ 77, buy horn*; o-g terms: C mo for lota. T.’ L. Mitchell. 2 iT) *oda (hugo ones) make Equitable net coat way Mow: Fffurs it out! T. L. Mitchell A Life-Annuity for oelf; gUp&LSSSrat, Education ae,ut£f youe'child: Fon« 740; Equttohlo Life Agency. T ?. ?r A / loor on wheels suitable for weighing box... Bo. 228, AthenS, CZ dlDc FOR SALE—One Fordaon Tractor, one two-wheel disc harrow, one -0-wheel 2-section disc harrow: “•.food hot oir heater for dwelling, cheap. Bargain. Bos 228, Athena, Ca. dlSe FOR SALE—One used two-door Ford Sedan. Phono 782. dim. Anti-Freeze Solution Texaco Filling Station Phone 9114 DOLLS of HUGGINS, 28c to 97M, d23c Only 3 more days before Tax Books close. W. A. MALLORY, Tax Collector. Sheriff Collier arrived In Athens about 11 o’clock Monday morning and Immediately began a search for evidence here that would show that the Ill-fated pair arrived on the Gainesville Midland train that came In Saturday at f:lt p. m ten minutes late. Taxicab drivers and others who are usually around the depot could give no Information while tht conductor of the train was not cer* tain that he hauled such passen* The sheriff, however, met with better success when he talked Mrs. Haskell Porter, daughter Sheriff Crow of Hall county, over the telephone. Mrs. Porter came to Athens on the O.-M train to vtftt friends here and told the sheriff that she distinctly remembered the two gttelnjr on the train at Jefferson and then getting off at Athensi. The description she gave correspoded with the pair, the little girl being easily identified on account of having a halrllp, a fact that Mrs. Porter recalled. Other additional Information was gathered by Sheriff Collier when a long distance telephone call from Jefferson said that an employee of the factory there waa at th« depot here and saw the oouple yet In a closed taxi. This Informant haa been sumn here for the purpose of Identifying, If possible, the driver of the car. Sheriff Collier stated Monday a- ternoon i*iaf he was satisfied that the woman and child came to Ath ena and that they must now be fol lowed back to the spot where thel* charred bodies were found Hun day mornlny. VALDOSTA IN SHOT III QUARREL OVER CATTLE ‘ VALDOSTA, Go.—T< <11 of Otuley District near her*, b reported dying from gunshot wound, and Wiley Lewb. rang; rider b under arrest charged with the shooting. Lewis claims to hsv fired in self defense after Powell had drawn a gun o nhim In n dis pule over cattle dipping. Lewis said Powell refused to dip his cattle or consent to their being doped. He naid that when he went to tee Powell about it n quarrel developed in which he charged the latter with pointing a rifle at him, at which he fired. _ Winder Mill Is Destroyed By Fire Anti-Freeze Solution Texaco Filling Station Phone 9114 Swint Testimony Be Resumed Monday; Many Witnesses (Continued Rom page one.) lo subject him to a severe cross’ After Dr. Swiat is excused the defense will Introduce other pro fessional men to testify aa it Pox’s mental condition, it wa* stated. When the proeecutton Its case a large number of will be presented In an ef fort to show that Pox had been guilty of improprieties with men and that fear of exposure by Cobum result** In his killing the attorney. It la thought unlikely that case wlU reach the Jury before Wednaaday. The Pox Jury, quartered In two commodious connecting room* at the Ansley hotel, had to make the beet of a diamat day Sunday. Under Instructions from Judge Howard the Jurymen were per mitted to attend church or the concert er any ppbMf gathering where they would WINDER—(Sjwclal)—The Win der Roller MUIs were destroyed by fire about I o’clock Sunday morn- ink Th# building waa a three- story wooden structure erected come twenty-five V*ara ago a»4 the plant waa owned and operat ed by tha Winder Oil Mills, Mr. John A. Thompson In charge. The origin of the fire ia unknown. IFUNERAL NOTICES BURCH—The friend, and ae qualntancea of Mr. George W Durch Mr. and Mret J. M Burch, Mr. and Mrs. Watson P. Marbut, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Smith, Mm Artie Jemee and famlllea all Athens, Mr Cicero Burch of Wiley, Da., Mr. John Burch of Calhoun Falla, 8. C„ art Invited: to tend the funeral of tho former, Mr. Oeorge W. Burch to bo held at the home of hb ebter, Mre. Wab ter P. Marbut, 444 S. Lumpkin ■treat tomorrow!, TUeeday, Morn Ins. Dec. lttb, 1MI at It o’clock, conducted by Dm E. L, Hill and 8. J. Cartlcdge. Interment tea cemetery, tha followtns gentleman will act aa pallbearers, and are requested to meet at tha home at 0:44: Ed Parr. W. P. Me, Eire.th, 1. H. Pattman, B. T. Dot- tery, Dr. J. W. Oalloway, H. J. Jackson. < Member, of the local lodge n 8PO.E will act aa honorary ee. cort. Dorsey’s Funeral/ Directors In charge. FLORIDA FRUIT STORE W. F. McELREATH, Proprietor IN FRONT OF KRESS’ Fresh Car of Oranges and Grapefruit 50 Cents Peck We Abo Have Note, Apple,, Candles and Everything to Malic the Stocking FaL CHEAPEST PLACE IN TOWN i l-l■ .... THE HOOSIER GIFT New charm and convenience to lighten the burden of long working hours in your kitchen. Enjoy it now! You need not wait For a single, small deposit you may have a Hoosier in your kitchen at once—all trim and Bhining, ready for its task of keeping the room tidy and saving your steps. And you may finish paying when convenient. We invite you to call at this store during the demonstration now on. Our salesman will gladly explain every detail of its work ing. DORSEY FURNITURE CO. BROWN—Died at hla home >47 Hancock avenue. 8unday night at 7:44. Mr. Om. W. Brown In his 41th year. Mr Brown had beat in about four months Ho b sur vived by hi, wife. Mm Mary T. Brown ana tne following Children. to the public rather than taka a stroll In the cold drlaale they remained In their rooms. SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE POUND HOO SOLD Mm W. B. wilder of Athena. Mm W. A. Fowler, Athens, Mrs. Dr. C. B. Almond of Winder, Mm C. E. Potterflold of Comer. Mlet Ham# and Nanna Brown of Ath ana, Mr I* C. Brown of Albans, Mr. J. H. Brown, Orlando, Fla, Mr. s. R. Brown of Toccoe, de- Mr. O T Brown of TaUulah Falla. AMER1CU0—The «largest meat ho* that haa been sold here on the ,, , market thlg year was the giant Ida, Mr. M. Brown of Muakoocae, Duroc ho* sold recently, Weighing j Okla„ Joe A. and Worth P. Brown (» •pounds Tha ho* waa stanch- of Athene, besides a number of tered an tha Bryant farm about I relatives. Tho sons will ary_aj pall three mile, from Americue and said, bearers and the following centb- to have been raised on Sum pro-1 men wlU ptmee act aa anTxmorary ducts and flald crops raised by Mr. I escort and meat at the heme Bryant with n flnl.hlnr ration oflprompty at >:4S: Messrs. J. B. corn during the abort period pre- 1 MqWhnrtrr, J. M, B. Thompson. C. raedlmr hi. appearance on tho marW Weatherly .-.n-t |Br. Whdchtl. The \ kefc - Hie. ho* J'.rovgbt ^ good pete, cervices, will be fram the h-m- .it: on tSa mar- Read Banner-Herald Want Adx Hancock avenue, at > .. de*/ If. “* RcY.' FT. ‘ H.’ Wasson of the Methodist church will officiate, as sisted by Rev. Earnest Campbell n nd J. J. Bennett with IWn«t«-ln Hros. Funeral Home in charge. PIGGLYI WIGGLY Offers For Tuesday and Wednesday 115 oz. Seeded Raisins . 12 l*2c i 8 Pounds Net Crystal Flake Lard .. .. $LM I No. 2 Olinda Sliced Pineapple . -• 25c ‘ No. 2 Glass Jar Sliced Pineapple .. .. ...29c No. i 1-2 Del Monte Bartiett Pears . . ..35c Chrystallizod Cherries, Pound .. .. . . .. 59c Glaced Pineapple, Fancy, Pound . - • . ..68c jk Buy Your Christmas Goods At 9 PIGGLY-WIGGLY Brazil Nuts, Soft Shelled Almonds, Rais« ns » White Raisins, Mixed Nuts, Christmas Can dies; Shelled Nuts, Large Pecans, No. 1 Wal nuts. > Mrs. Kempton’s Delicious Fruit Cake, lb. 75c (A delicious home made cake.) Same Prices At Combination Store, Milled^® Avenue, Pope Street—and PIGGLY-WIGGLY® C< J- ■ »"fo Wi »otn! How Men