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The Home Paper’s Advertising Columns Reflect The Spirit of the Town 4 PAGES / IN THIS Xm issue VOL XLVII Good Roads Enthusiasts Will Be Guests Os City On Way To Carolinas Thursday Member* of Legislature and Leading ! Kiwanians of State Will Inspect Roads Here And In Carolinas The City of Hartwell will be host to some twenty members of the Gen eral Assembly and a number of Ki wanians on Thursday of this week, as they journey through this section * of Georgia and then into South and North Carolina on an inspection of good roads. The delegation, numbering per haps as many as fifty leading citizens of the State, will be met at The Ho tel Hartwell and entertained during their stop by a committee headed by President Jas. H. Skelton, of the Kiwanis Club, Mayor A. S. Richard son and others. The party, through information gained on this inspection of our roads in this immediate section and I in the Carolinas, will present to the 1 Legislature on their return some data that will very likely have much to do with the highway situation in the State and the passage of legislation toward building a state system of roads. Canon Want* Road. Mr. E. E. Satterfield, at the meet ing Friday, told of a conference with citizens of Canon last week, during which they urged the building of a road to that city, connecting there with the good road to Carnesville, thence the Stone Mountain Highway into Atlanta. A committee from A Canon has been invited to attend a future session of the Club and pre sent this proposition. President Skelton stated that the delegation appointed to attend the Wilson Memorial Highway meeting in Dublin Thursday, July 24th, would be present in Dublin at that time. The new highway through Georgia begins at Hartwell and traverses a wonderful section of the State into Florida. U. S. Senator Harris and other notables will attend the meet ing in Dublin the 24th. Mrs. Wood / row Wilson has endorsed the plan, and the Wilson Highway promises to become one of the most famous routes in the South. The meeting was added to very much by the singing of Mr. Aldine B. Combs, of Griffin, who has been here several days leading the music at the Methodist church. He was ac companied by Miss Lucile Carter at the piano. A number of visitors were pres , ent, among them Mr. W. F. Groome, |* of Columbia, S. C.; Mr. J. L. An drews, of Chester, S. C.; Mr. George Evans, of Jackson, Tenn.; Mr. M. C. Thornton, of Atlanta; Mr. R. C. Linder and Mr. Lamar Hailey, of Hartwell. The club was glad to welcome Ki wanian Herman L. Yates back after an absence of several weeks, spent in the hospital. A committee is now actively be hind the barbecue to be given at the country club soon. o MISS GAINES MAKES STATE- MENT REGARDING BOARD AT THE S. S. COMMUNITY TENT Miss Drucy Gaines, matron for the Community Tents at the Hartwell Campground during the Training School for Sunday School Workers of the Elberton District, states that provisions will not be accepted in p payment for accommodations this year. This change is made on ac count of confusion as to the value of produce, etc., each year. The rates will be $1 per day or 35c per meal, which is very reason able. As matron of the Community Tents Miss Gaines, who is one of the church’s leading workers in the Dis trict, has been very instrumental in making the Training School the won derful success it has been. The largest attendance both at the School and Campmeeting in the his k tory of the place is expected this F year. A force of hands has been busy several weeks making ready for the opening day, July 28th. Auto Tag Tax Brings $2,315,603 Into State Treasury First Six Months of Year O ————— - . v Atlanta, Ga., July 16. —The total receipts of the motor vehicle de ■ Partment for the first six months of 1&24, that is, up to July Ist, were I 52.315,603, according to announce ment today by Secretary of State McLendon. In this connection it is interesting o know, the secretary of state said, that there are 130 different cars reg istered in Georgia. The auto fees, being fixed by law at 60 cents per Bl horsepower, the value or price of an auto tag cannot be determined until i he horsepower of a car to which it | I is attached is known. g . ihe motor vehicle law provides that the horsepower of all the cars tegistered shall be determined by the rule of the National Automobile chamber of Commerce. There are 1 ■ different fees paid on passenger cars, and a dozen different fees on • ucks, the truck fees being deter ’r.ned by the tonnage. °unty Distribution Impracticable. At every session of the legislature, the past ten years, a faint effort Ba' 1 ' ° een made to have the auto tags THE HARTWELL SUN. TAieves Entered Two Stores In County Last Friday Night Thieves broke into two stores on the Bankhead Highway last Friday night. Entering the store of Messrs. T. M. and Pearson Myers at Camp ground they took a number of small articles, and broke open the cash register, securing no cash, however. At Goldmine the thieves entered the store of Mr. J. C. Bagwell, where they took tires and other articles. Officers were promptly notified, and search for some clue as to the guilty party or parties begun. — o * ******** * SURGEON REMOVES GROW- • * ING GRASS FROM MAN S * EYE; BELIEVE IT IF * * YOU WANT TO * » » * London, England.—A sur- * * geon, operating at the Glouces- * * tershire Royal infirmary, dis- * * covered and successfully remo' - - * * ed a blade of grass, an inch * * and a half long, growing in a * * farm laborer’s eye. * * The laborer discovered recent- * * ]y that there was something in * * his eye which he was unable to * * remove. Afte> days of in- * * creasing intense pain he went * * to the hospital. There the sur- * * geon decided to make an inci- * * sion above the eye. * * He found the blade of grass, * * and a seed from which it had * ! * sprung. * * The natural discharge from ♦ * the tear duct had watered the * * blade of grass, and light pene- * * trating the eyeball had made it * * green. Following the removal * * of the grass, the eye is as good * * as ever. * ****** ****** o * FLAT SHOALS * Health of this community is very •good at this writing. We are having plenty of rain. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Meade San ders Monday, July 7th, a fine girl. She was given the name Frances Maie. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carlton spent Tuesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Will Vickery. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Shiflet vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Bray Thursday night, the latter being on the sick list. Those visiting at the home of Mr. M. W. Adams Saturday were Mr. Belton Bray and family and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar McCurley and chil dren, of near Hendrys. Master Joe Brown spent Saturday . night with Ervin Shiflet Mrs. Polly Skelton dined with Mrs. Icie Cornell Tuesday. Mr. Jack Vickery, who was on the sick list first of the week, is able to be out again. He is visiting his son, Mr. Lee Vickery, near Bowersville. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Shiflet were the guests Saturday night of the form er’s sister, Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Bray, near Cross Roads. Mr. and Mrs. Cornell spent Sat urday night with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Shiflet. Mr. and Mrs. Sibley Sanders vis ited relatives near Hebron Satur day night. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Sanders spent Monday night with their son, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sanders. The singing by the Hart Circuit was enjoyed very much. Also some singing by Prof. Pergins and Prof, and Mrs. Gray, of S. C., and Ala bama. The visitors here from Cross Roads were Mr. Frank Williams, Mrs. Tom Moorhead and son, Mrs. Floyd Ayers and sisters, Lyda and Willie Blanche, and several from Hebron. Visitors are always wel come. We had 361 in Sunday school last Sunday. distributed through county agents. At one time it is the ordinary, at another time it is the sheriff, and then the clerk of the court. All this rating and determining of the horse power of the car, it was pointed out by officials of the secretary of state’s office, has to be done in the auto mobile department by experts who are familiar with the N. A. C. C. ratings of each of the cars reg istered. If a county agent system should be adopted, it was shown, ther would be 160 different persons who would have the handling of these tags and their delivery to the car owners, and who would collect the fees. These fees, of course, would have to be sent to the automobile department, along with the application filed by the owner. It is probable that these facts, and many others, which relate to the details of the handling of this busi ne's have not been taken into, o n | by the occasional propo-, nent of the county agency system HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JULY 18,1924 Annual Report Hart County Commissioners Is Published In This Week's Issue Sun The attention of our readers is called to the annual report of the i County Commissioners which gives | some idea of the immense volume of i business transacted in a year’s time by this body. Os course, this report is not in- i tended to give the minute details, as this would require a great deal more space. When it is considered I that every account and transaction I is carefully scrutinized and given | proper consideration it means that : it requires much time to transact ( the business of the county which covers all economic departments in which our citizenship is interested in a public way. The report forms a special section of this edition. I ***** * ****** Georgia Must Have Good Roads If She Expects To Keep Pace With Other States n - Atlanta, Ga., July 16.—The future of Georgia, in the opinion of leading citizens generally, as shown by inter views obtained here, absolutely de pends upon the building and main tainance of a complete system of good roads. “No matter what they cost and no matter how deeply they may plunge us in debt—though the bond issue plan is well taken care of by a change in the gasoline tax—we must have good, hard surfaced roads,” said one prominent lawmaker dis cussing the subject. “Without good roads —the best we can get—Geor gia will go into the discard, so to speak, and with good roads we are destined to be one of the great states of the Union.” Traveling salesmen here who have traveled over many miles of Geor gia roads point to the fact that those communities where good roads are maintained are blossoming like the rose and those sections where the people take no pride in their roads—perhaps due to lack of funds —are positively falling into decay, it was claimed. Advocates of a bond issue here as sert that the only cost to issuing bonds is the interest and even then, under the proposed plan of changing the gasoline tax, it represents no ex tra cost to the taxpayer. Present day, hard surface, paved roads, it is claimed, can be properly maintained at less than a third the cost of dirt roads, and will last in definitely, returning, bond advocates declare, an actual cash saving that during the life of the bonds will amount to between thirty and fifty million dollars in cash —enough ab solutely, it is claimed, to offset the charges in interest. Bio And NuPerg School Dis tricts To Vote Consolidation Election For Consolidation. Georgia—Hart County. A petition having been filed with the County Board of Education from Bio and Nuberg School Districts ask ing for an election on whether or not these two districts shall consolidate into one school district with the pur pose of securing better school facili ties. An election is hereby called for Bio and Nuberg School Districts ?t the Law House of the 1118th District on August 12th between the hours of twelve o’clcok noon and 3 P. M., to determine the question of school consolidation. By order of the County Board of Education. This July 12th, 1924. 50-4t* W. B. MORRIIS, C.S.S. State Highway Engineers Are Surveying Road From Hartwell To Alford’s Bridge The surveyor and engineers of the State Highway Department are now surveying out the National Highway from Hartwell to Alford’s Bridge with a view of doing some needed work at once. This is the last lap in Hart county between the Savannah river and Royston, a distance through the county of about twenty miles. The County Commissioners say they will not be able to do the county’s part of this work until other roads in the county have been gone over. However the State Highway Depart ment expects to commence doing their part of the work at once which is greatly appreciated by the travel ing public as well as the citizens along the route. o Russia has purchased between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000 worth of cotton in the United States since the first of the year. .■ ■ —-o - - - Sliced raw potatoes delight the elephant, the rhinoceros, and the hip popotamus. Monkeys have also a weakness for potatoes, but they must be well cooked and “floury.” o The consumption of wine reached such a high point about a thousand years before the Christian Era that Lycurgus, King of Thrace, passed a Prohibition Act, the thoroughness of which cannot be questioned. A strict abstainer himself, he forbade the use of wine to his subjects, and rooted up all the vines within his dominion. Hebron Baptists Will Hold Encampment At Gibson-Mercer Academy July 21-25 ♦ ******** j » GEORGIA EUGENIC MEAS- * ’ URE TO INCLUDE BOTH * BRIDE AND GROOM * An amendment to a senate * I * bill passed last year, requiring * * a man applying for a marriage * i * license to show a certificate of * ‘ * health, was voted by the house * | * committee on hygiene and sani- * * tation at a meeting held Thurs- * j * day afternoon. The amendment * i * substitutes the word “person” * | * for the word "man” in the bill, * , * thus making the health certifi- * I * cate provision apply to both * | ♦- sexes. * ****** ****** , , Program For Hebron S. S. Convention On July 22-23 Program for the Sunday School Convention, Hebron Association, i Bowman, Ga.: Tuesday, July 22, 1924. 10:00—Prayer and Praise—Rev. ; J. J. Hiott. 10:15—Organization and Enroll ment. 10:45—The Fourfold Test of a Great Sunday School—A. S. Rich ■ ardson. • 11:15—Saving the Unsaved Through the Sunday School—Rev. T. J. Espy. 12:30 —Intermission and Refresh ments. Tuesday Afternoon. I:ls—Prayer and Praise —Rev. A. ; W. Bussey. I:3o—The Teacher—His Training, a Knowledge of the Bible. b Knowledge of the Child. i c Knowledge of the Sunday , School. d Knowledge of the Art of Teaching. —Rev. Y. T. Shehane. 2:30 —Round Table Discussion of Sunday School Problems—-Rev. C. W. Henderson. Wednesday, July 23rd. 10:00—Prayer and Praise—Rev. E. R. Goss. 10:15—The Teacher—His Qualifi cations. a Character. b Personality, c Inlfluence. —W. D. Meadow. 10:45—Demonstration of Junior Memory Work Under Direction Mrs. T. J. Espy, Sardis Sunday School. 11:30—-Sunday School Expansion —M. M. Norman. 12:30—Inltermission and refresh i ments. Wednesday Afternoon, July 23rd. 1:30—Prayer and Praise—Rev. T. J. Rucker. I:4s—The Sunday Schoo] Super intendent—His Position and Prepara tion. a A Place of Responsibility. b A Place of Corresponding Authority. c A Place of Wonderful Oppor tunity. d A Place of Certain Rewards. —H. S. Hansard. 2:4s—Miscellaneous. o ■ Tourists spent $136,000,000 in Canada last year. If people would stop climbing hills before they get to them there would be less of that tired feeling in the world. Girl Asks Coffin, Grave and Stone For Heart Balm Newark, N. J. —A comfortable plot in the cemetery, a substantial, graven tombstone and an adequate coffin, the whole to cost about $25,000, is all that Dora Rissis asks of the man who loved, wronged and then spurn ed her. Dora lies in city hospital here and doctors give her not more than 14 more days of life. Dora will employ her last fortnight on earth in prose cuting a breach of promise suit against Leo Botsis, a Greek candy merchant. The stricken girl asks $25,000. “That is all Miss Rissis asks for now,” Maurize Zucker, her counsel, said. “Botsis dealt unfairly with her in life. We now ask that he make provision for her care after death.” o Hunnicutt Here Among the visitors to Hartwell Friday was Hon. G. L. Hunnicutt, editor of the Southern Cultivator, who is opposing Hon. J. J. Brown as Commissioner of Agriculture. He spoke in Elbert county Saturday. During the past three months of this year the police have discovered in the province of Saratov, Russia, more than 5,000 secrgt stills. and 3,500 gallons of homemade spirits. ,) , ■ Varied Program Lasting Five Days Arranged For Baptist Workers In This Section ( i The summer encampment of the I Hebron Baptist Association will con vene at Gibson-Mercer, Bowman, Ga., next Monday, July 21st, and continue five days, closing on Fri day, July 25th. Pastors are requested to see to it that every church in the Association I is represented by at least one active member. Rev. T. J. Espy is chair | man and general director and will ’ take pleasure in giving all needed > information about the entertainment and accommodations at Bowman. , The hour of meeting will be at 16:30 in the morning and 7:00 in the i evening. , ■ “Open Mine Eyes” will be one of the leading and most prominent top- I ics and will have a place on each ! div’s program. 1 The W. M. U., B. Y. P. U., S. S., and Laymen’s work will all be discussed by prominent and enthusi astic workers. Dr. A. Chamblee, Dr. W. A. j Wray, L. I). Newton, editor of the Index, and Rev. C. W. Benns will deliver addresses during the sessions. Detailed programs have been print ed which can be furnished now by Rev. T. J. Espy or Mrs. J. H. Skel ton to any who will make their re quest known. Address them at Hartwell, Ga. Other information concerning the encampment appears elsewhere in this issue of The Sun. Wilson Highway To Receive Support of All Cities Along This Famous New Route Dublin, Ga., July 16th.—Senator William J. Harris, W. T. Anderson, a member of the State Highway De partment, and Congressman W. W. Larsen, of the Twelfth District, are to be among the leading speakers at the Wilson Highway meeting in Dub lin on July 24. This will be the first general gath ering in the interest of this new highway that is now proposed as a result of the bridge being construct ed at Lumber City. AH counties touched by the proposed route through Georgia have accepted invi tations to have one or more repre sentatives at this meeting. The gathering will be held at the Coun try Club at Dublin. This highway starts in Georgia at HAPPENINGS IN BOWERSVILLE B. M. S. met with Mrs. C. E. Williams Monday afternoon. The program was fine, after which cream and cake were served. Miss Bert Winter in company with Mrs. Stephenson, Miss May Sanders and Miss Leo Sanders, of Comer, went to Athens Tuesday to take in some observation lessons at the Sum mer School and attend lectures for a few days. They returned Thurs day and report an interesting and profitable time. Mr. C. E. Carter came Saturday night to visit his family, who are with Mrs. Nora Adams, Mrs. Carter’s mother. Miss Mary Ray returned Saturday night from Atlanta where she has been visiting her brother and sisters, Holman, Lena and Della Ray. Little Mary Randall, of Atlanta, is Spending the week-end with Nell Williams. Bobbie Stephenson returned Sun day night from Atlanta where he has spent quite a while with his brother, Herdas. Miss Lena Shirley reports a fine time with her brother, Loy, in Bir mingham, Ala., returning Thursday. Mr. Elbert Estes and family in company with Miss Mattie May Grubbs, went to Anderson, S. C., Friday. The W. M. S. met with Miss Bert Winter last Friday afternoon. Quite a number were present and had a splendid program. Punch, sandwiches and cake were served. The young people’s cream and cake sales continue fine every Saturday, each time swelling the fund. • •••••••a* CEDAR CREEK • ♦ *»»♦♦»*• Our Sunday school is growing nice ly now. New ones coming every Sunday, and we are so glad to have every one who will come. Had 211 last Sunday. Something great for Cedar Creek. Let’s go next Sun day and make the 300 mark. There are others we wish would come. There will be preaching and busi ness conference Saturday night at this place. All the members are urged to be present at 8:30 fast time. Miss Grace Hicks had as her guest Saturday night and Sunday Misses Alma and Leola Vickery, of Mill town. Mr. and Mrs. Clayte Reid and children, of Elberton, visited Mr. Mt. Olivet School House Will Cost $9,000; Contract Calls For Completion November 1 The new consolidated Mr. Olivet School District has let the contract for a modern 10-room building, with, large auditorium, to Messrs. Mauldin, Addington & Cooper, of Lavonia. The sum involved was approxi mately $9,000, and the building will be completed by November Ist, The Sun is informed. Mr. Olivet consolidated school is composed of the old Flat Shoals, Kings Bench and Mt. Olivet dis tricts, having recently voted bonds for the purpose of erecting this new building. Prof. Wallace Thomas, formerly of Lavonia, will be at the head of the new school. The trustees are Messrs. Earl F. McLane, Wm. J. Bailey and E. Wof tord Sanders. o 1 Rents Hailey’s Case Mrs. Edith Adams has rented Hai ley’s Case, on the square, taking charge several days ago. T n an ad this week Mrs. Adams tells of the many things served at this place, and extends all a cordial invitation to eat there. There is to be no change in the name or policy of the case. Mrs. Adams states. AT SARDIS~~SCHOOL HOUSE Ice cream and cake will he sold at Sardis School House on next Tuesday evening, July 22, for benefit of Community Club. Everybody in vited. Hartwell, and comes by the way of Athens, Milledgeville, Irwinton, Dublin, Lumber City, into Jackson ville, cutting off about 100 miles from the present highways. It is named for the former President Woodrow Wilson and the proposed route has been taken up with en thusiasm. A large crowd is expected here on the twenty-fourth for the first formal meeting over the pro ject. The above news item from Dub lin is explanatory. Hartwell will send the following delegation to the Dublin gathering: J. H. Skelton, Foster C. Brown, A. S. Richardson, R. E. Cox, A. N. Alford, J. A. W. Brown and A. C. Skelton. Rev. F. E. Crutcher preached two very interesting sermons here Sun day. The S. S. had quite an inter esting S. S. Day program, conducted by Supt. G. A. Shirley, each class re sponding with song and verses. Af ter this the pastor baptized little .Josephine Carlton, and Master Joe Fred Hilliard joined the church. Mrs. J. B. Williams gave one of her old time dinners to her children last Tuesday. Mrs. Bowers, Mrs. Moorhead and C. E. Williams being present. Mrs. Clarence Ferguson entertain ed the Bible Class at her home Mon day afternoon. A good program was rendered, after which cream and cake were served. <i|enn Hilliard is at home again, also Col. John Gaines, of Atlanta, is visiting his parents for a few days. "The Poor Married Man.” The play, "Poor Married Man,” will be presented at the school audi torium next Friday night, July 18th. Don’t miss this. It is something new to see boys taking girls’ parts in a play. You wil cry over the “Poor Married Man” and want to crucify the mother-in-law, sympa thize with the pretty girl who must forsake her husband to please her mother, and the negro will please you al), say nothing of the other girls who do their part well if they are awkward in skirts, and the poor old man who gives up his only daugh ter to the old professor is very pa thetic. If you miss this you can’t live long enough to get over it. By all means COME. Scouts will look after you. 15c and 25c. and Mrs. Mac Cobb Sunday. Mrs. John Charping is on the sick list, we are sorry to learn. Mrs. Inman Maret is one of the number who are sick. We wish to see her in her usual health soon. Mrs. B. A. Cash visited Mrs. J. J. Bell Sunday. Mrs. Eula Frye and children and Mr. Sanders, of Sardis, visited the family of G. C. Lewis Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Page vis ited the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Herring Sunday. Mr. W. J. Bell is visiting his chil dren in Atlanta. Little Miss Mary Cobb entertained a number of her little friends last; Friday afternoon in celebration of her''eighth birthday. After having enjoyed the party, the little guests went away wishing Mary many more happy birthdays. | Q PAGES X IN THIS Xm ISSUE NO. 50