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Gifts That Will
Please Father
When planning Gifts for Fath
er you will find th6 task ex
tremely easy if you come here
ior suggestions. This en
tire store abounds in excellent
suggestions of things that will
please him above all others.
C. E. CANNON
CLAYTON
GEORGIA.
AIR MAIL’S PILOTS
DOING GREAT WORK
S'
They Have Flown Nearly;
Six Million Miles.
Cane Juice Heavy
The sugar cane Juice, constituting
lout 80'per cent of the weight of
he cane, says Nature Mnguzlne, Is
iarlfled by the addition of lime.
Again the Sower
And again the sun blinks out, and
:he poor sower Is casting his grain L-to
he furrow, hopeful lie that the zo
diacs and far heavenly horologes have
not faltered; that there will be yet ra-
othcr summer added for us and an
other harvest.—Carlyle.
Normal Cotton Crop
A normnl world cotton crop Is 22,-
100,000 boles.
Women Outnumber Men
In the Babuyan Islands, recently dis
turbed by volcanic eruptions and
earthquakes, a very large portion of
the population Is composed of women.
Fishing Is I he principal pursuit of the
men in the Islands and il.o frequent
typhoons are futul for the lrall Halting
craft, which accounts for the greater
proportion of females among the in
habitants.
Eulogy of the Dead
The custom of funeral sermons, to- f It-X-X-******************##**'^
gather with various other rites in com
nectlon with the burials may be traced I
back to antiquity. Even the primitive
peoples hud certain ceremonies in con
nection with the burial of their dead.
In ancient Greece and Itome the cus
tom of eulogizing the dead was very
popular.
Lincoln, Famous Spy,
Turns Up as Fascist
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Not Matter of Principle
Honesty Is the best policy, but he
who acts an that principle is not an
honest man.—Bishop Whately.
THE
SEASONS GREETINGS
And While Enjoying the Best
That Nature and Man Can
Provide, Don’t Forget
Chicago.—Pilots winging their way
back and forth across the United
States In the air mail service had cov
ered 5,804,810 miles up to May 81, a
distance done In 58,202 hours, 'accord
ing to Luther K. Bell, traffic manager
of air mall service here. It is a gen
eral average of nearly 92 miles nn
hour.
The names of 41 flyers who have
given more than 100 hours’ service
to uir m: .1 are contained in a report
from Beil, with the veteran E. Ham
ilton Lee, Uazelhurst headquarters,
leading in number of hours. His to
tal May 81 was 2,387 hours and 30
minntes for a distance of 201,205
miles. He was appointed to the air
mall in Dpi ember, 1918, and at pres
ent has the “run” between Long Is
land and Cleveland.
To Pilot Will lain C, Hopson, Omalia
headquarter.'.. • <-nt the honor, how
ever, of having flown liis plane the
grentest distance. In 2,230 hours and!
7 minutes service lie covered 221,8701
miles. He now follows the air path!
between Chicago and Omaha. Hop-
son Is a Hill city. Kan., product, who
entered the air mail service In April*
1920, after a long record In Civilian:
and army flying.
Only a few hours separated Lee and
James H. Knight for fiyst place. The
pilot who bus made enviable records
In night flying and staged his mem
orable race with des^th had given 2,311
hours and 58 minutes to the service
when the compilation was made, in t
which time he had traveled 211,095
miles. Knight is another Kansns man,
born In Lincoln,t who first entered the
air mall service in June, 1919. He
resigned Muy 20, 1920, and was reap
pointed In October, 1920. His Is tlio
Omalia-Cheyenne route. *
Ot\?rs who have served more than
2,000 hours, nnmed according to rank
in hours, are .Tames P. Murray, head
quarters Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Omuliu.
run; William C. Hopson, Frank B.
Yager, headquarters Cheyenne, Chey-
enne-Omaha run; Warren D. Williams,
headquarters Cleveland, Chlcggo-
Clevelnnd run; Edison E. Mouton,
headquarters Iteno, Beno-Elko run;
Wesley L. Smith, headquarters Hazel-
hurst, Hazelliurst-Cleveland run; L. II.
Garrison, headquarters Omaha, Ohl-
cago-Omaha run, and Harry G. Smith,
j headquarters Omaha, Cheyenne-Omnha
run.
and
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‘Ole Dobbin
We Handle the Best feeds THat Can
Be Had at a\Moderate Price.
Derrick & Bearden
Clayton, Ga.
Ignatius T. Trebltseh-LIncoln, prob
ably the most amazing International
character brought to public attention
durhig the war and nfter, lias nguln
appeared, this time in connection with
the Italian imbrogollo surrounding the
murder of Giacomo Matteottl. Dis
patches from the Italiun capital tell of
the Identification of "Otto Chlrzel,”
one of those under arrest for the slay
ing, as Lincoln, Hungarian Jew anil
Anglican curate, British M. P. and
German spy, and likewise one-time
tenant of the Raymond street jnll In
Brooklyn. Lincoln’s career takes In
episodes from all over the world. It
Is said lie once wrote letters which
caused distraction among the police
heads of Brooklyn’s force.
Only Woman Colonel
in the United States
Thirtieth Infantry Ranks
High in Marksmanship
San Francisco, Cal.—The Thirtieth
Infantry, stationed here, Is establishing
the reputation of being the best regi
ment of marksmen in the army, it Is
said at Western division headquarters.
Becently 40 men of the regiment
went to the rifle range nt Fort Barry
with automatic rifles. The qualifica
tion of “expert rifleman,” the highest
grade awarded for marksmunshlp, was
given to 44 and the other two won
the rank of “sharpshooter,” the next
highest grade.
The automatic rifle, a light, air
cooled machine gun, is carried nnd
fired like an ordinary rifle and re
quires expert handling.
Out of 90 automatic gunners of the
regiment 85 have qualified as expert
riflemen this year and the other 5 rank
ns sharpshooters.
A $10,000 Soupbone .
Muskegon, Mich.—A $10,000 soup-
bone threatened to be an Issue In cir
cuit court here. Mrs. Mary Kurzdiel,
through her attorneys, has filed stilt
for that amount against the city ot
Muskegon Heights, alleging that the
officers arrested her and took a pack
age containing the soupbone from her,
believing It to be liquor and that she
was released when the officers-disco v-
,ered their mistake. j
Miss Annie Poagne of Ashland, Ky. t
Is the only woman who lias ever been
mnde a Kentucky colonel. She was
n member of the staff of Governor
Black yenrs ago- and because of her
early efforts In behulf of suffrage she
was awarded the Blue Grass emblem.
Plant Parasites Strip
Leaves From Sycamores
Washington.—Sycamores in Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, W’est
Virginia and Arkansas are being com
pletely stripped of leaves by a heavy
infection of sycamore blight, a fungus
disease known as gnomonia veneta,
according to reports received by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture here.
In Ohio the same plant parasite which
Is damaging the sycamore has ulso
attacked the white oaks. Many val
uable trees will be severely damaged
If not completely killed by the epi
demic. The cool, wet spring is
thought to have favored the growth
and spread of thin sycamore blight. '
All Girle “Nice”
Edward Wander of London was gt\
en a small fine recently for telling
girl customer In his sh i that sh
was nice. Wander protested that h
wo* not flirting, bnt called aU girl
a* a general business policy.