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.JTHENS HERALD READERS ARE SUBSTANTIAL CUSTO MERS FOR ATHENS HERALD ADVERTISERS.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14
Mr. J. T. Griffeth Outlines
His Platform For Senator
In Circular Letter to the Voters, Claims Distinction of
-Having Written First “Bone Dry” Prohibition Bill
-^Stands for Enforcement of All Laws—Takes
Advance Position on Public Highway
- - ■ - Construction.
Dear Sir:
Enclosed you will find
s nouncement as a candidate to repre
sent' this new senatorial distinct in
the next General Assembly. I have
beeri for forty-three years an active
Worker for the prohibition cause,
feel sure that I wrote the first “Bone
Dry** prohibition bill that was ever
.written in the United States end sub-
’mitted it to the superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League of Georgia,
to bo enacted instead of the half-
igallon subterfuge that \va* enacted. 1
.also submitted o bill through Judge
, Edwards, representative from Walton
county, to the extra session, that en.
acted the present law.
You, ho doufit, have read some o?‘
•the communications I have* written
for the Athens papers on moral is
sues. In fact, I stand immovable for
law enforcement. I stand for en.
forcement of the Sabbath law, be-
NERVES TORN
ALL TO PIECES
TROD Iron ionic Frond TJi Right Renidj
f For This And Other Troables.
' '-Sometime back",- write, W. T. Pel*
< tter, of Sopertoo, Oa., "I we. In n run-
down reel.- Mjr nerree were.all torn
t to, pieces.: It wee en effort for me to
do my work. I did not reet well at
, nights. 'I felt! tired, when morning
•' came, add didn't feel like alerting the
* day. My akin wee muddy. My appe-
, tlte wee poor. I felt very much lb
- seed of n tonic. I thought It wee the
lack of Iron and decided to try Zlron,
' ne I heard there we* ho better tonlo
made. I began taking It and can aafe-
* ly and gladly aay It did me a world of
good.' Zlron li a good all-around tonlo
! for young and old. and makes one feel
. that lUe if worth living."
, Zlron'Is an iron tonic which give*
I quick, dependable strength. You need
It to put rich, red, I roe-medicated
•.blood Into your blood vessels, to steady
your norve*. pat fresh color Into your
cheeks and brightness Into your ayes.
Yonr druggist aalla Zlron on a guar.
* an tee. Bee him
today.
lieving that a non-observance of the
Sabbath law. "a glorious inheritance
handed down to us from our fatti
er*,” is but the undermining of the
very bed-rock of our Christian civil
ization.
My great, great, grandfather, John
Criffeth, lived in Oglethorpe county-.
My great grandfather, John L. Grif
feth, was raised in Oglethorpe. My
grandfather, James L. Griffeth, was
raised near the line in Madison
county. My father, George Eberhart
Griffeth, myself and my son, John H.
Griffeth, were raised in what is now
Oconee county. My wife’s father,
the late Moses H. Arnold, of Craw
ford, was raised in Wilkes county.
So, is it not fitting that-1 should ask
the suffrage of a people to whom I
am bound by kindred -tic, for a hun
dred and fifty years.
I feel that my varied experience
during a life of fifty-nine years, has
fitted me for the honor that I ask. I
was raised on a farm, which endow
ed me with some common sense. I
then both farmed and taught school
for eight years, so I know something
of the needs of our public schools. I
then railroaded for eight years, in
both transportation and construction
department*. 'Since what is now the
Griffeth Implement Company, went
into business I have travelled by
horse and buggy over twenty-nine
states, including all the southern
states, so I am well posted as to the
needs of public highways. I want al;
the state convicts to be used by the
state, and riot by different counties
to construct a hard, brick or concrete
highway, fourteen or fifteen. feet
wide, between Atlanta and Augusta
via Athens, Lexington and Washing
ton and thence to connect with one
from Savannah to Atlanta via Ma
con; from Macon to Athens; 'from
Macon to Valdosta; and from ^Ma
con to Columbus. I want to intro
duce a resolution asking the national
government to place all able bodied
men, tried and convicted in Georgia,
at work to help build at the govern
ment’s expense—these permanent
highways, instead of locking them
,up in a prison at n greater expense.
These main highways can be built of
concrete at an average cost of about
$15,000.00 per mile, and of vitrified
brick at about $22,000.04 per mile.
All lands adjoining or directly con
nected within five miles of such a
highway will be enhanced in value in
proportion to its distance and acces
sibility to the highway. That is,
I believe that not less than 90 per,
cent of the land owners would con
sider the following proportionate as
sessment on all such land as a splen
did paying investment. That an av
erage annual assessment of 25 cents
per acre for a period of ten years on
land within the first mile of the
highway, and 20 eenn per acre with
in the second mile; 15 cents per acre
within the third mile; 10 cents per
acre within the fourth mile and 5
cents within the fifth mile. Such as
sessment would raise $0,000.00 per
mile and he a paying investment for
the land owner instead of a burden.
It is my understanding that there is
accessible from the national govern
ment $2,000,000.00 per annum for
building just such permanent htgn.
ways. If this state will spend a like
amount then this state should by ail
means create a permanent economi
cal business-like aystem for building
state highways that would be accept
able to the national government. -
I have simply given *an'outline of
what I stand for. I hope that the
people of Clarke county can conscien
tiously give me their active support.
I can honestly challenge any person
to submit one single stain on cithet
my moral, social or business stand
ing, and 1 will run only a clean race
for the senate. Remember that no
vote will count except the one depos
ited in the ballot box on January 7,
1919.
. Respectfully,
(Adv.) — J. T. GRIFFETH.
NEW YORK'COTTON
40 POINTS HIGHER
'where outlet leads into the highway.
IING.SWQ
On Face for Four Years. Caused
Face to Look Terrible. Almost
Ashamed to Go Out.
HEALED BYCUTICURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT
“I had a breaking out on my face
and neck that commenced about four
years ago. Linle red pimples would
appear which caused swelling, burn
ing, and-itching. The pimples fes
tered or scattered, causing my face to
look terrible. I was almost ashamed
' to go in public.
"Then £ got Cutlcura Soap and
t £ got Ci
Ointment. When 1 had uaed two
cakes of Cutlcura Soap and one box
of Cutlcura Ointment 1 was healed."
(3igned) Arthur W. Paxton, New Cat
tle, Va., July 30,1917.
- Cutlcura Soap and Ointment are not
only wonderful healers but are also
wo nderful preventive! of akin and acalp
troubles if uaed exclusively. The Soap,
for dally uac in the toilet, claanees and
purifies, tho Ointment soothes and
beats little irritation!, rcughnesa,
pimples, etc.
Sample Hash Free by Mall. Address post
card-. "Cutlsura, lisp I. It, Boatoa.'* Sold
sealywhers. Soap2V. Oi/itmeat25and50c.
New York, December 14.—The cot.
ton market showed a firmer tone this
morning. The census report showing
157,376 bales consumed by domestic
mills during November against 590,-
437 last year and 440,833 in October,
proved more bullish than had been
expected on the basis of private re
ports published last week. This ted
to considerable covering, while there
also was buying for Liverpool and
New Orleans account on which tho
market opened steady at a decline of
3 points to an advance of 7 point-,
and sold about 20 to 40 points net
higher shortly after the call. Jan
uary contracts advanced to 26.38 and
March sold at 26.30.
Mid-morning reactions of 25 or 3h
points under realizing were followed
by renewed firmness later in the mor
ning on the favorable view of export
prospects, bullish spot advices and
strength in the New Orleans market.
January sold at 26.45 and March at
25.35. or about 40 to 55 points net
higher and the market closed steady
at a net advance of 30 to 57 points,
The market closed steady.
Prev.
High. Low. Close. Close.
26.45 25.93 26.35 25.9V
25.30 24.99
24.55 24.05
24.00 23.45
22.12 21.60
the early trading on the stock ex
change today. Utilities, including
Brooklyn Transit, Philadelphia Com
pany, Twin City Transit and Mackay
Companies, also registered losses ot
1 to 3 points. Offsetting features in
cluded Shippings, tobaccos, distilling
issues, American Can and several oP
the active motor stocks, in which ad
vances ranged from fractions to 2
points. United States Steel also im
proved later with other leaders. The.
closing Vaa firm. Sales approxtmat-
ed 20O.000 shares.
Final prices on liberty bonds were:
3%’s 97.80; first convertible 4 s
93.40; second 4's 93.16; first conver
tible 4 1-4’s 97.10; second convertible
4 1-4’s 95.96; third 4 1-4’s 96.02;
fourth 4 1-4’s 95.80.
Jan. .
March
May .
July .
Oct. .
25.25 24.95
24.56 24.13
24.00 23.50
22.02 21.6b
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
CLOSES 52 TO 67 POINTS UP.
New Orleans, December 14.—A rise
of 50 to 53 points was scored in the
otton market today in the first half
hour of business in the face of the
small consumption in the United
States during November as reported
by the census bureau. Floor com
ment was that too many traders went
short in anticipation of a bearish re-
--ort. The demand was good from
the opening.
Realizing appeared and laste in
the morning prices were about 20
noints off from- the highest of the
session.
The market closed very steady at
an advance of 62 to 67 points.
Prev.
High. Low. Close. Close.
26.85 26.05 26.70 26.03
25.14 24.54 25.05 24.50
24,35 23.78 24.25 23.73
23.75 23.20 23.70 231.10
21.60 21.20 21.60 29.05
Jan. - -
March . -
May - -
July - -
Oct - - -
STOCKS SELL;DOWN
u BUT CLOSE FIRM
New York, December 14.—Resump
tion of prestum: against .coppers and
rails impacted Am uncertain tone to
CORN CLOSES LOWER
ON WEATHER PREDICTIONS
Chicago, December 14.—Corn
prices weakened today under selling
due largely to predictions that the
weather would turn cold and dry.
Opening prices, which ranged from
to lV_irnts lower, with January
137 % to 138 V and May 137 V to
138 V, were lollowed by moderate ad
ditional declines.
Oats were easier with corn.
Lower quotations on hogs and
grain gave provisions a downward
slant.
The market closed heavy, 2'/* to
3!i net lower with January and May
both 135% to 136.
Opening. High, Low. Close.
CORN—
137V 138V 135% 135%
137V 138V 135% 135%
73%
74 V
74 V
74%
72V
72%
72 V
72%
Jan,
May .. .
OATS—
Jan
May .. ..
PORK—
Jan. .. . 48.60 48.00 47.85 47.85
May .. . 45.35 45.35 44.35 44.35
LARD—
Jan. .. . 25.00 25.96 25.50
May .. . 26.55 26.65
25.60
25.32 25.32
RIBS-'
Jan. .. . 25.62 25.62 25.22 25.22
May .. . 25.22 25.22 24.67 2467
Chicago, December 14.—Hog re
ceipts 55,000. Market mostly 10
cents lower; slaughter facilities over
taxed and many thousand hogs going
over without a bid, butchcTs 17.50(3)
70; light 18.65@>17.55; packing 16.75
@>17.45; throw-outs 15.75(H) 16.75;
pigs, good 14fl00@>15.50.
Cattle receipts 3,000. Comparea
with a week ago, beef and butcher
cattle mostly 26 cents to 60 cents
lower; canncrs about steady; calves
$1 lower; good weight feeders steady
to 25 cents lower; common stock off
more.
Sheep receipts 6,000; compared
with a week ago, lambs mostly 25 to
60 cents lower; sheep and yearlings
wesk to 25 cents lower.
Death of Judge Speer
Brings Sorrow to .
Northeast Georgia
The death of Judge Emory Speer,
whKh occurred in a Macon hospital
Friday night at 9 o’clock, brings
great sorrow to this section of the
state, where he spent much of his
long and useful life.
For a number of years Judge
Speer lived in Athens and the old
Speer home on the corner of Wash
ington street and College avenue,
the lot at present occupied by the E.
& S. Sporting Goods Company, was
looked upon as a relic of early Ath
ens. There Judge Speer resided
when he served as a member of con
gress for two terms and for a num
ber of years thereafter his sister,
Miss Laura Speer, one of Athens’
most beloved women, made it her
home.
Athens, the home of many bril
liant Georgians, such as Robert
Toombs, General T. R. R. Cobb, Hen
ry W. Grady and others who have
become famous as orators and states
men, has always felt a just pride in
Judge Emory Speer who spent many
years of his early life here.
Judge Speer is survived by his
wife, one sister and five daughters.
His wife was Miss Eleanors D. Mor
gan of Atlanta. Mis sister is Miss
I-a ura Speer of AtheAs, Ga., and his
daughters are: Ml* William Aubrey
of San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. A. ti.
Heyward of Macon; Mrs. M. H. Sig
nor, widow of a navy cdptain, of Ma
con; Mrs. S. F. Crecelius, wife of a
colonel in the engineers' corps, re
cently returned from France, of
Louisville, Ky., and Mrs. Eugenie An
derson of Macon.
judge Speer will be buried in Ma
con, but the arrangements for his
funeral hove not been completed as
yet.
Served in Civil War.
Enlisting in 1864, Judge Speer
served until the end of the civil war
as a private in the Fifth Kentucky
(Orphan brigade). After the war
he entered the University of Geor
gia and was graduated from that in
stitution in 1869.
party’s policies and ran for the for.
ty-seventh congress as an independ
ent and won. Later he joined the
republican party and was Unite,,
States attorney for one term, after
which he was appointed In 1885 as
United States district judge for the
southern district of Georgia. This
position Judge Speer had occupied
continuously until his death last
night.
Judge Speer was widely known as
an orator emij a writer on legal sub
jects, and served as-dean of the law
department of Mercer University
since 1893. He had served in many
famous cases during his time as
United States judge, notable among
these being the Greene and Gaynor
cacs at Savannah in 1906.
Have your dollars ready for
the Red Cross Christmas Roll i
Call workers Monday.
Judge Speer served four years as
a solocitor general in Georgia (1873-
76), and he had served two terms in
congress. He was elected to tha
forty-sixth congress on the demo
cratic ticket, but, disagreed with that
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AUTOMOBILE fOR
XMAS PRESENT
How about one of those beautiful
Seven Passenger Davis cars for a
Christmas present for the whole
family? I will sell you one for the
OLD, PRICE, $1,696.00, SPOT CASH.
Get one end make the family happy
and be happy yourself. I make this
low price until Christmas ONLY.
If you want a second-hand car, I
have only one, and that is a five-
passenger Buick Four. It is in fine
shape, and I will sell it at a bargain
if you will buy it before Christmas.
See these cars in my show room on
Lumpkin street. I will be there every
day between now and Christmas ex
cept Monday, December 16th.
EMMETT J. HALE.
Athens, G«. (Adv.)
SMOKE FRAGRANT
REX h ROY
CIGARS
a ‘leria-"
'TpO "
WANTED-A Few Empty Prest-O-Lite
Tanks, or cylinders will pay $2.50 each.
Athens Engineering Co. Sn phone l 7i d i ng
Gas
El lAS the eight-hour day come to stay? Will the cost of living come down? Will women who
-IB) took men’s jobs in war-time keep them? How will disabled soldiers be fitted for profitable
employment? What forms of regulation will take the place of government control of prices and
supervision of labor? What plans will be adopted to demobilize the armies and to completely re
mobilize them in the industries of the nation?
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Light on all these pressing questions will be found in
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