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VOLUME XXXIII.
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922.
NUMBER 10.
FAYETTE COUNTY
TAX LEVY
O. N. Travis To Superin
tend County Farm.
September 14th, 1922.
GEORGIA—Fayette County.
The County Commissioners met in
adjourned .session with the following
commissioners present, J. G. Adams,
chairman; J. R. Adams and J. W.
McEachern to transact unfinished
business left orer from September
5th. Selection of County Pauper
Farm Superintendent, and making
County Tax Levy for year 1922, and
making final settlement with County
Tax Collector.
They have selected O. N. Travis as
pauper farm superintendent for the
year 1923 at a salary of $50.00 per
month.
GEORGIA—Fayette County.
Tax levy for year 1922. Levied as
follows;
It is ordered by the Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues of, in and for
Fayette county, Georgia, at their reg
ular September meeting, 1922, and that
upon $1,806,954.00, the amount of tax
able property returned by the tax re
ceiver and upon all other property,
both real and personal, in said county,
there be levied and collected, taxes as
follows:
v 1. To build and repair court houses,
bridges, ferries and other improve
ments, according to contract—$0.50
per $100.
2. To pay sheriffs, jailers, and oth
er officers fees that they may be leg
ally entitled to out of the county-
$0.06 per $100.
3. To pay the expenses of the
county for bailiffs at court, non-resi
dent witnesses in criminal cases, ser
vant hire, fuel, stationery, and the
like—$0.04 per $100.
4. To pay jurors per diem compen
sation—$0.05 per $100.
5. To pay expenses incurred in sup
porting the poor of the county—$0.10
per $100.
6. To pay expenses of public roads,
alternating road law—$.40 per $100.
7. To pay casual deficiencies exist
ing in the revenue, of the county—$0.05
per $100.
8. To pay any legal charge against
the county—$0.10 per $100.
Total tax levy for Fayette county for
year 1922—$1.30 per $\100.
It is further ordered by the Com
missioners of Roads and Revenues of
said county, that all male inhabitants
between the ages of 21 and 50 years,
(except those who are now exempt by
law), be and they are hereby required
when notified or summoned to work on
the public roads of the county of his
residence, ten days before the 15th
day of November, 1922, except that
such persons may be exempted from
working said road by paying the sum
of $3.00 by November 15th, 1922,
which sum is hereby fixed as an
equivalent to ten days work, the same
to be paid at the time notice is given
to work on said road by the overseer:
same to be paid to said overseer, and
the said overseer is hereby required to
pay said money over to the county
commissioners.
It is further ordered by the Commis
sioners of Roads and Revenues of said
county that upon $1,806,954.00 the
amount of taxable property returned
by the Tax Receiver and upon all oth
er property, both real and personal,
in said county, there be levied and col
lected for the support of public schools
v of said county, as now authorized by
law—$0*50 cents per $100.
It is further ordered by the Commis
sioners of Roads and Revenues in and
for said county, that there be collect
ed upon the following amounts oppo
site the names of the several respec
tive school districts of said county,
and upon all other property, both real
and personal in the hereinafter named
school districts, for school purposes
to pay teachers, repair buildings, pro
vide sinking funds for bonds and for
other improvements, and to pay inter
est on bonds, the amount of the per
centum of the aggregate total opposite
the districts hereinafter named:
1. Upon $169,185.0G, the amount of
taxable property in the Brooks school
district, 1 20 cents per $100 for main
tenance and support of school, and
30 cents per $100 to pay interest on
and as a sinking fund to rqtire bonds.
2. Upon $53,801.00, the amount of
taxable property in' the Rest school
district, 10 cents per $100.
3. Upon $74,852.00, the amount of
4 taxable property in the Glen Grove
school district, 20 cents per $100.
4. Upon $68,101.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Ebenezer
school district, 20 cents per $100.
5. Upon $54,077.00, the amount of
taxable property In the Sandy Creek
school district, 25 cents per $100.
6. Upon $42,840.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Bethany school
, district, 10 cents per $100.
7. Upon $65,557.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Kenwood
school district, 26 cents per $100.
8. Upon $34,967.00, the amount of,
FROM MAYOR OF HIS
HOME TOWN TO THE
GOVERNORSHIP
OF THE STATE
Story of Honorable Clif
ford Walker’s
Rise.
Mr. Walker entered public life in,
1902, when he was elected mayor of
jhis native town, Monroe. He served
for three years and in 1909 was named
solicitor general of the western circuit}
of the state, continuing in this capac
ity for three years.
In 1914 he entered the state politi
cal lists as candidate for attorney gen
eral. He carried 120 counties and had
a popular majority of 65,606 votes. Dur
ing this campaign Mr. Walker visited
practically every county ,in the states
cementing many friendships, which will
endure.
Mr. Walker entered the 1920 gover
nor’s race against Thomas W. Hard
wick and John N. Holder. He was de
feated after a run-over election be
tween himself and Mr. Hardwick. He
retired as attorney general in 1921.
Prominent Baptist Layman.
Mr. Walker has not only taken an
active part in political and civic activ-
iteisi of his state, but is a prominent
Baptist layman and ardent religious
worker. He has also been Interested
in a number of educational activities,
having been named a trustee of Mer
cer university and of Shorter college,
and has taken part,in many education
al movements.
, Mr. Walker was born in Monroe,
Ga., July 4, 1877.. He is a son of Bil-
lington Sanders “Walker and Alice
(Mitchell) Walker, nis father being a
lawyer, banker jand manufacturer of
Monroe. He attended school in his
home city, later going to the Univer
sity of Georgia, where he graduated
with the degree of bachelor of arts
in 1897.
During his career at the university,
Mr. Walker distinguished himself for
his scholarship and for his literary and
oratorical accomplishments. He won
five medals through his ability as a
writer, speaker and student.
In 1898 he began to read law in the
office of R. L. Cox, at Monroe, and
during the same year he was admitted
to the bar. Later he formed a long
standing partnership under the namei
of Walker & Roberts his associate be
ing Orrin Roberts.
Mr. Walker was married on April 29,
1902, to Miss Rosa Mathewson of At
lanta, daughter of Rufus A. and Lucin
da Carter Mathewson, and half sister
of Dr. S. Y. Jameson, then president
of Mercer University. They have two
children, Harold, born June 2, 1911,
and Billington Sanders, Jr., born in
November, 1913. Mrs. Walker is act
ive in church and social life, and is a
woman of many accomplishments.
Mr. Walker is an active Mason, a
member of the Odd Fellows and of the
Knights of Pythias. In 1910 he served
as grand chancellor for Georgia of the
Knights of Pythias.
UNSELFISHNESS
AND TRUST REM
EDY FOR UNREST
Says Worry Is Deadlier Than Disease
Los Angeles, Calif.—Cornelius Cole,
former congressman and United States
senator from California, who, at his
hotme on September 18th, celebrated
the hundredth anniversary of his birth,
told the multitude of friends assembled
to greet him at a reception in his
garden that “worry kills more pepold
than bludgeons, bullets and disease.”
Signs Bill To Create New Judgeship
Washington—The bill recently pass
ed by congress authorizing the crea
tion of 25 additional judgeships to
take care of increased court business
was signed by President Harding.
taxable property in the Tyrone school
district, 40 cents per $100.
9. Upon $48,600.00, the amount of
taxable property in The Rock school
district, 10 cents per $100.
10. Upon $64,978.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Hopeful school
district, 'IS cents per $100.
11. Upon $77,229.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Union Grove
school district, 20 cents per $100.
12. Upon $61,258.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Oak Grove
school district, 30 cents per $100.
13. Upon $45,250.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Inman school
district, 20 cents per $100.
14. Upon $85,585.00, the amount of
taxable property in the Woolsey school
district, 30 cents per $100.
15. Upon $400,000.00, the amount of
taxable property in Fayetteville school
district, 20 cents per $100 for mainte
nance and support of school, and 80
cents per $100 to pay interest on and
as a sinking fund to retire bonds.
Done by ord#r of the Board in an
adjourned session. This September
14th, 1922.
J. G. ADAMS,
J. R. ADAMS,
J. W. McEACHERN, -
Commissioners of Roads and Rev
enues of Roads of Fayette Coun
ty, Georgia.
History is full of tales of desperate
chances which succeeded because some
man was not afraid to lead. In
America today exists a chance, far
from desperate, and but waiting a great
leader who will point the way—who
will he be?
The press is full of “remedies” ( for
the industrial unrest which results in
strikes and lockouts. Editorial after
editorial explains that all that is need
ed is a fuller understanding between
(capital and labor; a mutual forbear
ance, a playing each into the other’s
hand a co-operation between them for
their mutual advantage.
All, it is explained, which is needed
is for some great corporation to lead
the way and treat labor as something
to' be considered, consulted, profited,
and helped, or some great body of
labor to lead the Way and, instead of
seeing how much they may exact from
an employer for the leasit work, to
try the other scheme and see how much
they can- do in a given time to profit
the employer and let the wages de
pend not on organization and threats,
but upon the work done and the spir
it of co-operation.
That's all! But as yet the leader
does not appear. No great corporation
as yet fails to get the best of the
bargain if it can when making terms
with labor. No labor organization as
yet has considered the employing in
terest before it’s own. And if you ask
why, the answer is plain; because men
are selfish, because men distrust each,
other, because experience has proved
to each that neither is wholly to be]
trusted.
Then the answer, the real answer, is
an inculcation of a spirit of unselfish
ness. and a spirit of trust. In other
words, all those who stand in church
aud admit the Fatherhood of God,
must stand in factory, at bench, be
side desk, in a bank, on farm, railroad,
and in mines, and practice the Brother
hood of Man. Then, and not until then,
will the leader arise who will make
capital and labor truly fraternal in
stead of opponents.
SUPERIOR COURT
IN S E S SIO N AT
FAYETTEVILLE
With a calendar of one hundred and
thirty-nine cases before it, for a week’s
grind of civil matter, Judge W. E. H.
Searcy, Jr., announced court opened
Monday morning at ten o’clock, with
Solicitor General Emmett Owens ar
ranging the crimlinal docket for the
second week’s isession.
The grand jury are very busy with
affairs brought before them, having
elected C. D. Redwine foreman, and J.
F. Smith bailiff.
Attorneys attending/court this week
are Huglilett A. Hall of Newnan; H. A.
Allen of Atlanta; E. J. Reagan of Mc
Donough; Lawrence Camp and J. F.
Golightly of Fairburn; J. E. Munday
of Jonesboro; Reuben Arnold of At
lanta.
Fayetteville attorneys having cases
in court: Hon. J. W. Wise, J. W. Cul
pepper, W. B. Hollingsworth, Lester
Dickson, B. D. Murphy and E. E.
Thornton.
Monday and Tuesday sessions were
occupied entirely with the case of Lee
Hand vs. A. L. Matthews, administra
tor, which was settled Tuesday even
ing without getting to the jury.
Genos Coffield was brought from jail
late Tuesday evening and was sentenc
ed by Judge Searcy to be hanged jon
October 27th between the hours of 10
a. m. and 2 p. m.
Fayetteville Woman’s
Club To Meet
The Fayetteville Woman’s Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Y. H. Longi-
no on Monday. Miss Ethel Eastin and
Mrs. George Wallis, Jr., will entertain
with Mrs. Longino. Business of im
portance to be discussed and the prog
ress will be of instructive interest to
all who attend.
SCHOOLS OPEN
IN COUNTY ON
OCTOBER 2ND
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
School houses and school grounds
are being put in order for the opening
of school on the first Monday in Octo
ber. This is the date set by the Board
of Education at its last meeting and
most of the schools will observe it.
Already some of the-school trustees
announce themselves ready to> begin,
having put a deal of work and money
into the buildings.
The building at Oak Grove has had
a new room added and will open the
term with three teachers. Last year
the enrollment of this school, due to
the interest of the trustees, E. D.
Whitlock, J. A. Nations and W. F.
Moore, and to untiring efforts of the
principal, Mrs. Mae Loyd, reached such
a point that the old building would
hardly hold the pupils, and the two
teachers could not take care of them.
So this summer the patrons have co
operated with the trustees and added
to the old structure another well-ap
pointed room. This community is fast
awaking to the needs of its children.
The Sandy Creek people have be
gun a similar plan. The completion of
it may delay the opening of school.
This school has also outgrown its
building and equipment, illustrating
once more the crying need of Fayette
county.
Junior High Schools.
Tyrone is preparing for an epochal
opening on the 2nd of October. Here
tofore, the work of this school, though
extending through jthe ninth grade,
has not been standardized. Through
the efforts of the trustees and the
board of education, this school is to
become the center of a large district,
taking care of its grammar school and
of a still larger , district/’in the eighth
and ninth grades. The work of these
last two grades is to be made to con
form in all details to the requirements
of the county board, giving it recogni
tion as an accredited school.' This
school and Brooks have already met
these requirements and -aay be count
ed on as giving a thorough course
through the ninth grade.
Excellent faculties are provided for
each of these schools. A complete di
rectory of the, teachers will be pub
lished later.
Mr. C. S. Rhoad, A. B., of Wofford,
in 1913, will be in charge of the school
at Tyrone. He will teach the work
of the eighth and ninth grades and will
have three asis'stants.
Prof. F. E. Morton will have charge
of the Brooks High School and will
keep to the high standard this school
has already reached. The enrollment
of each of these schools is expected
to be much larger this year than ever
before, due to the standardization iof
the high school departments.
Atlanta.—Atlanta’s population has in
creased 20,000 since the official census
of 1920, and is now a city of 220,047
popualtion, according to the latest gov
ernment census figures received by Dr.
J. P. Kennedy, city health officer. The
government figures for 1920 placed At
lanta’s population at 200,616.
Savannah.—A tie in the county unit
system shows in the returns from the
first congressional district, J. W. Over-
street, the incumbent, has carried
Chatham, Burke, Screven, McIntosh
and Effingham counties, with 18 units,
while W. Lee Moore has the same num
ber of units in carrying Jenkins,
Evans, Bullock, Bryan, Liberty, Long,
Tattnal and Candler counties. The
popular vote, which was not available,
will decide the question.
SEPTEMBER 26th
Farmers’ Excursion
1“ SOUTH GEORGIA
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. $6.00 From Atlanta to Brunswick
$5.00 From Atlanta — to any other
point on the A., B. & A. Ry. in South Georgia.
Macon.—Raymond Scroggins, alias
Albert White, of Atlanta,'who was
sentenced to life imprisonment here a
couple of years ago for the murder of
Andrew J. Elkin, and who escaped
from the Charlton county chaingang
after serving four months, has been
captured at Mt. Holly, N. C., and now
is in jail at Gastonia, N. C. He will
be returned to Georgia to serve his
sentence. Scroggins killed Mr. Elkin,
an aged farmer, with a hammer, while
riding with him in a wagon.
Corresponding Rates From Other North Georgia
and Alabama Stations on A., B. & A. Railway
Return Limit 10 Days and Stop-Overs Permitted
FAITHFUL SERVANT
GOES TO HER
REWARD.
Aunt Lizzie Buffin, who, for the past
thirty years, has been with the Blalock
family, died suddenly while on a visit
to her daughter, Emma Shepherd, in
New York City.
Lizzie Buffin, bom in Virginia, who,
before and during the war and until
coming with the Blalock family of Fay
etteville, belonged to and served with
the Taylors and Lovetts of Haralson.
“Lizzie,” as she was known to all
here, will ever be remembered for her
many kindly acts, never tiring when
service could be rendered to the sick,
and, in her own way, with a kindly
spirit, always endeavored to-be helpful
wherever and whenever an opportunity
presented itself.
Lizzie was serving with Mrs. D. B.
Blalock, and had been in New York but
a few days visiting hed daughter when
stricken. She was brought back to Fay
etteville where her funeral took place
Tuesday.
Woman’s Club
Serves Dinner
The School Equipment Committee of
the Woman’s Club served dinner on the!
court house lawn ,last Monday. The
sum of ten dollars was, cleared after
all expenses were met The club has
purchased shades for the: school house)
to the amount of $158 and the proceeds
of dinner will be used on this fund.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to express to our friends our
heartfelt appreciation for the deep sym
pathy and great kindness shown ns
on the death of our beloved wife and
mother.
G. W. CLARK.
MRS. R. F. JONES.
TWO NEW
CHURCHES FOR
FAYETTEVILLE
Augusta.—Two firemen were over
come by smoke and a fire loss esti
mated at between $10,000 and $12,000
resulting from a fire that broke out at
the Atlantic States Warehouse com
pany. The two firemen, who were car
ried to the University hospital, were
George Bohler and J. T. Curtis, both
members of engine company No. 7.
They were fighting the flames in the
warehouse when stricken down by the
dense smoke. They were rescued by
comrades.
Gainesville.—Arthur Whitworth, of
New Holland, was bound over by the
coroner's jury recently on a charge of
murder after killing his wife, Mrs. Eva
"Whitworth by cutting her throat with
a razor. The killing occurred on the
Northwestern tracks, near the cen
ter of the town. Whitworth, who was
absent from the inquest, says he kill
ed his wife when he suspected her of
being on her way to a clandestine
meeting, when she attacked him with
a knife for following^her. The wife’s
juglar vein was severed?
TICKETS GOOD IN SLEEPING CARS
Waycross.—The Ware county bond
commission, after completing the high
way south of Waycross to the Charl
ton county line, still has $453,494.02
out of the total of $618,000 bonds sold.
Out of this total $70,000 has been
paid to the county board of education
and they have built some of the most
modern school houses of any county
in the state, including the Wai’esboro
school, and the Heberdsville building,
which is now nearing completion.
Work now Is progressing on the
Waresboro-Nicholls stretch of the
highway, which is expected*to be com
pleted before the winter tourist traf
fic begins.
ThomasYille.—The paving of the
highway from Live Oak and Lake City
on to Jacksonville is of the great Inter
est here, as it will give Thomasville a
fine road to the Florida metropolis.
This is in charge of Frank Mitchell,
a Thomasville man. This stretch of
road has been a great drawback to
travel between Thomasville and Jack
sonville by automobile, as it has al
ways been much of a sandbed. An
other Thomasville man has the con
tract for building four bridges on the
highway out of Tifton, John Vaughn,
of the Vaughn Construction company.
He has started this work, which is a
state highway project.
That South Georgia offers the best opportunities in the
South for making money farming on the newly cleared
level land, is proven beyond a question by the wonderful
yields of tobacco, cotton and other crops being made this
year. Some South Georgia farmers have made as much
as a bale of cotton per acre, while any number of farmers
have made more than $500 per acre growing tobacco.
Early in August, the A., B. & A. conducted a large
number of North Georgia and Alabama farmers through
South Georgia. These farmers were amazed at the
splendid crops which they saw and the wonderful oppor
tunity offered the farmer of small means. Farm lands in
South Georgia are extremely N cheap, while many land
owners are offering industrious Georgia and Alabama farmers
very favorable rental contracts, for cash, or for a part of
crop, for the crop year of 1923.
Those who may desire to combine pleasure with business
may purchase to.Brunswick and spend a few days
fishing at that point. Fishing at Brunswick is never better
than during the months of September and October.
For specific information, list of lands for sale, or for
rent, and complete information concerning Excursions from
Atlanta, Birmingham and intermediate stations, on Septem
ber 26th, write
W. W. CROXTON, P. T. M.,
A., B. & A. Railway, 614 Transportation Building, Atlanta, Georgia
Trains Will Leave
ATLANTA
7:40 A. M.
—and—
9:35 P. M.
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Baptist Women Hold
District Meeting
Rev. G. W. Garner will present a
plan next Sunday morning for financing
two new buildings. The/plans will be
scriptural, s equitable and effectual,
if they should be adopted and execut
ed- Let there be a large attendance,
to consider this worthy enterprise.
The Fayetteville Baptist Church has
extended a unanimous call to the pres
ent pastor, and by special motion the
call was made Indefinite as to tenure
of service.
The Dorcas Society; has undertaken
in earnest the matter of beautifying
the church grounds by grading- and
making new walks; and they have sev
eral other changes to make with the
coming of the next good rain, reset
ting, fertUizing and trimming the trees.
The Lord’s home should be the most
attractive place in the community.
Atlanta.—Through the efforts of tht
Atlanta typographical “booster commit
tee," appointed by Local No. 48, the
officials of the International Typo
graphical union convening in Atlantic!
City have chosen Atlanta as their 1923
convention city.
The committee consisting of Robert
T. Pavlosky and Robert E. Gann of the
Atlanta Constitution mechanical depart
ment, appointed two months ago, was
sent as delegates to the Atlantic City
convention.
Emmett Quinn, president of the At
lanta Federation of Trades, added em
phasis to the activities of the commit
tee by sending an official telegram to
Atlantic City urging that the Gate City
be chosen for the 1923 convention.
A message received in Atlanta says:
“You will be pleased to learn that the
International Typographical Union has
selected Atlanta for the convention city
next year. Atlanta was given a tre
mendous ovation on the floor, the vote
beirg practlcaly unanimous."
The mossage was signed by Luther
H. Still, Walter M. Fudge, president
of the Atlanta local; Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. Gann, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Smith,
R. T. Pavlosky and Mrs. N. H. Kirk
patrick.
The Fifth district W. M. U. of the
Flint River Baptist Association held
their annual meeting @.t Lisbon Church
Wednesday, September 13th.
A large delegation was in attend
ance from the different churches in
the district A fine program was fur
nished by the young people and Sun
beam Societies of the district; also en
couraging talks from W. M. U. mem
bers and much interest shown for thej
new year’s work.
A splendid luncheon was spread at
the noon hour and all enjoyed the hos
pitality of our sister church.
Mesdames Ingram,! Eastin, Kerlin,
Foote and Robert Allen attended from
Fayetteville.
YOUNG JAPAN TAKES TO JAZZ
Less Modernized Nipponese, However,
Frown on Western
Dancing.
Tokyo, Japan.—The question wheth
er western dances are immoral is the
subject of a lively debate In the Jap
anese newspapers at present. In the
last few years western dancing has
grown popular among Japanese wom
en, especially those who have lived
abroad, although It is by no means
general as yet. They dance very
gracefully in their native costumes and
heelless slippers, but the older and
less modernized Japanese frown on
the growing custom.
Grandmother Loses Fight For Children
Wilmingtou, N. C.—Judge W. A. De
vin, in superior court here recently,
ruled that a father has a prior claim
to the custody of his children over their
grandmother, and refused the habeas
corpus proceedings instituted by Mrs.
K. MacNeill of Greenville, S. C., to
gain the custody of her two motherless
grandchildren, sons of Charles R.
Thomas, Jr., of Beaufort. Judge De
vin held that the father had been
proven by the evidence to be a fit per
son to take care of his children.
Radio divorce is a new tangle ;for
lawyers to unravel. Husbands become
radio fans, erect antennaes in their
gardens, install apparatus in their
homes and talk learnedly and only of
amplifier, audio-frequency, condenser,
electron, grid-leak, magnavox, modula
tion, tuning signal, dial, filament, am
perage, broad-casting, tone, coil, batte
ry, transformer, crystal, detector, omni
graph, microphonei, dial, potentiome
ter, rectifier, hydrometer, rheostat,
static, variometer, vari-coupler and
wave length. Wives and cooks are fi
nally bitten by the radio bug and spend
their/time "listening in”—meals'unpre
pared. housework undone, husbands ne
glected, etc. Radio divorce follows.
The exchange value of $1 in Vienna
is now 21,000 kronen. It is worth
while to visit Austria, if only to expe
rience the sensation of being a big
spender.
One correspondent protests that
there is smalt difference between the
Republican and Democratic parties.
There is all the difference in the
world. One Is in and the other is out
