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CHRISTMAS IS COMING And, You Will Want Some Good UNDERWObo 6. UNDERWOOD FAT We are pleased to offer to you with the Seasons Greetings the best to be had in Poultry Feeds, as well as all other Feeds. Gome to see us when you are ready to buy your Christmas can dies, fruits and nuts. Clayton Grocery Store Clayton, Ga. 5»©o©o©«©«eo©o©o©«Qo©oeoe<)€«©o6' ooo©oeo©o©o©o©oe^©o©'; Once inside our store you will be impressd with the opportunity it affords the Christmas shopper. Articles of everyMcind and description are on display, in this store, at prices calculated ' to attract every purse. Make your selections now. Just a few items which may adapt themselve to your needs. Express Wagons Guns*and Shells Axes and Leather Stoyes and Heaters For a gift that will be gen uinely appreciated, chocs3 one of these Seasonable Gifts. Alluminum Ware Imported Crockery Knives and Cutlery HAMBY HDWE CO. CLAYTON, GA. NIAGARA’S EDGE MAY NEED PATCHING UP Horseshoe Falls in Danger \pf Becoming Merely a Spillway. ) Washington.—When the fall of n huge piece of rock threatened to, turn lhe honeymooners’ Horseshoe fulls of Nirtgaru into a mere spillway, the peril to the falls’ beauty brought forth proposals to hire engineers to patch 111) North America’s outstanding nat ural wonder. liy dropping a .keystone out of its Horseshoe arch, Niagara was merely performing Its duty to the ages. For years the falls has been the geological hour glass for much of North America. By reading the rec ord of the rocks that go through the neck of the gorge, as grains of sand slip through the hour glass, scientists stopwatch the glacier sheets, which were the first plows to furrow the fer tile Mid-West. In the sermons of the cataract’s stones lie the chronology of l.ake Algonquin, the predecessor of Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron, and of Lake Iroquois, the sprawling progenitor of Lake Ontario. Their dates are fixed almost us accurately as history hooks report William the Con queror’s arrival in England in It MB}. "Across the Neck.” The story that Is told by Niagara, which Is 1)5.17 per cent Canadian, Is related la the following bulletin by the National Geographic society: Niagara Is the North American champion In one of the greatest-but- tles nature ever umpired. Literally scores of challengers sought her crown. More than once Niagara fell almost lifeless on her waterwom rocks. But finally the seekers for her crown gave up; the last not many more centuries ago than the duys of Tut-Ankh-Amen. Niagara Is said to take Its name from the Indian title nee-agg-urali, which appropriately means ‘‘across the neck.” The Niagara river cuts across tjie neck of land separating Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. .lust east »of Buffalo the river collects the entire natural discharge of the four upper Great Lakes, rushes It through,a nar rowing rjjver for 30 miles,, pushes it over a sheer drop of 2131 feet, churns it seven miles through u canyon, and then carries It gently by seven miles of lowland to Lake Ontario. Our Niagara was born wheu the glaciers melted hack, exboslng the ridge the water now tumbles Clown. Like the glaciers of the Buckles, these enormous sheets of Ice moving down from Labrador poured out streams of water. These streams collected ages ago at the foot of the huge Ice lobes In depressions extending Into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Accumu lated water sometimes rcse hundreds of feet higher than the present level of the Great Lakes and poured out Into tile Mississippi over the present site of Chicago and through outlets In Ohio und Indiana. Finally, ah the Ice melted northward, prehistoric Lake Tonawandu formed on the edge of the plateau over which Niagara pours. There were then five outlets from this lake—at Holley, Me dina, Gasport, I.ockport and Lewiston. The spillway at Lewiston—Niagara— won out. I.ockport gorge now con tains a lllght of steps for the New York barge canal. Early Niagaras Numerous. About the time Niagara was begin ning to triumph, the melting glacier moved buck to Lake Slmeoe, Ontario. The tickle waters of the upper lakps lost little time In finding the Trent valley, a rugged series of lakes and rivers leading Into Lake Ontario. Trent valley gorges tell of many early Niagaras. At that time only 15 per cent of the present flow went over Niagara, forming the narrow lower gorge. Nature came to the rescue, tip ping a great block of land, ever so slightly, hut enough to shut off the v l'rent faucet and make even more water go over Niagara than the spec tator sees todny. But the Chicago out let, predecessor of the drainage canal, again cut down the flow. The Whirl pool was made at this time. Once again Niagara was flouted when the outlet shifted to North bay, Ontario, sending the waters down the Ottawa' over the portage which Cham plain whs to take to discover Lake Hu ron. The upper narrow gorge was then carved, hut again the huge rock aaucer, which has the Great Lakes pud dles In the bottom, tipped, leaving Ni agara triumphant. , Niagara started to 'spill over the bank nt Lewiston about 80,000 years ago. In 300 centuries it lias shoveled Its way aeven miles. < At Its present rate of excavation, more than four feet, annually, Niagara will dig backjthe re- ! malnlng lt( miles to Lake Erie abobt the year A. D. 21924. Before this time, however, man may take a hantY since the peril t<> the famous Horse shoe falls, by the recent erosion, hag brought forth the suggestion of rde forcing the lip -Of the falls..