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VOLUME 7; Number 28
Woman Tells Why
So Many People Are
ItaiM By Her
Says She Killed Her Infant Because
It Would Not Stop Crying.
St. Paul Minn., April 23. —Mrs.
Della Sorensen, who yesterday con
fessed to the killing of seven persons
by poison probably will not be tried
for murder, but will be sent to the
Insane asylum.
Authorities making an investiga
tion have reported that the woman
was unbalanced, but it was stated
that if she is released from the asy
lum in tw'o or three weeks the mur
der charge wmuld then be revived.
The woman was arrested Saturday,
charged with the' murder of seven
persons, three of them members of
her own family and yesterday she
signed a complete confession to the
crimes before County Attorneys Do
brey. “I have made this confession
voluntarily and of my own accord,
because I want to tell the truth and
because I am sorry for what I have
done,” Mrs. Sorensen said.
“I killed my baby because it cried
and worried me, and I could not stop
her,” said Mrs. Sorenson. Her three
year-old daughter was slain because
she had St. Vitas dance, “and I could
do nothing with her.” she said that
she killed her mother-in-law because
she was a burden, as were two chil
dren of her sister-in-law.
As soon as the officers began their
investigation they were convinced
that the woman was unbalanced, and
this morning submitted such a re
port.
BAXLEY COURT TO HEAR
LOVE TANGLE OF GA. TRIO.
Baxley, Ga., April 23.—Alleged
marital complications, which are said
to have begun with the deserting of
his first wife, infatuation with one of
the factory girls in his hosiery mills
at Griffin, Ga., and later the return
to his first wife, has resulted in the
arrest of T. I* Shephard, wealthy
Griffin manufacturer, here and plac
ing him under a S4OO bond on com
plaint of wife number 2, who former
ly was Miss May Morrison, age 22.
According to the story related by
officers, Shaphard last year became
infatuated with Miss Morrison, who
worked in his mills at Griffin. He is
said to have related a story of un
happy marriage to her and induced
her to accompany him in a tour
around America.
In Mexico, Shaphard obtained a di
vorce from his wife, whom he left in
Griffin. He then married Miss Mor
rison. Later, he returned to the Unit
ed States and in Lakeland, Fla., met
his former wife. There a reunion oc
curred, and with wife number two, he
went to Atlanta. There Mrs. Shap
hard number 2 became Miss May Mor
rison again, by signing annulment
papers for her marriage. Shaphard
<*jßand the first Mrs. Shaphard were
remarried.
Miss Morrison returned to Baxley,
where she was received by relatives.
She now brings action against the
manufacturer, who returned to Geor-
gia in an attempt to straighten out
his matrimonial tangle. Miss Mor
rison is seeking alimony.
Shephard has a son by his first
wife, J. L. Shaphard, of Griffin, He
is 28 years old.
The Shaphard family is widely
known and socially prominent in this
section.
BAND ORGANIZED IN NAHUNTA.
A number of Nahunta residents are
getting togeather to organize a band,
band.
A good band helps a town any time
and most especially when visitors
come to the town.
Nahunta is the prowd owner of a
number of splendid musicians and
there will be no excuse for not hav
ing an up-to-date band.
The annual crop of stories about
squirrels gathering golf balls is now
due.
THE NAHUNTA BANNER
South Georgia Great
est Tobacco Field:
Hew Warehouses
A. B. and A. Railroad Furnishing
Demonstrators to Aid Growers.
Atlanta, Ga. April 23. —Georgia is
doubling its tobacco acreage this year
and will have a good many more
markets than operated last year, it
was stated here today by agricultur
al agents of the A. B. and A. railroad,
Douglas, Vidalia and Valdosta are
building tobacco warehouses, it was
stated, and are getting ready to han
dle more tobacco than ever during
the approaching season. Tifton had
two large tobacco warehouses in
operation last season and will have
three this season.
The territory west of Tifton and
Valdosta—Southwest Georgia—which
had only one market last year, will
have several markets this year,
practically every community of any
size in this territory having made
arrangements to open a market this
season.
Officials of the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic railroad who in
|troduced tobacco growers in South
'Georgia a few years ago and have
kept agricultural agents at work in
[the territory every season, today
J pointed to the fact that tobacco can
'be grown more cheaply in South
Georgia than in any other part of the
United States. The statement also
is made that the quality of bright to
bacco raised there is admittedly
superior to that produced farther
inorth. Altho the tobacco crop brings
millions of dollars to growers in the
southern part of the state, many far
mers in South Georgia counties will
have their first experience in grow
ing tobacco this year, it was stated. <
The dates for opening the tobacco
markets are fixed by the Tobacco
Buyers Association, which meets
j early in the summer. Last season
[the Georgia and South Carolina mar
kets were operated at the same time
and other markets followed in suc
cession. It is supposed that the
same plan will be followed this year,
though nothing definite will be
known about the dates until they are
fixed by the association.
The cornerstone of a new tobacco
warehouse was laid recently at Alma,
Ga. The occasion was marked by
special exercises, speechmaring and a
barbecued dinner. Two thousand
acres of tobacco were grown in Bacon
county last year, and it is probably
that the acreage will be increased to
three thousand this year, tobacco
experts of the A. B. and A. railway
said today. New curing houses are
going up throughout the country, to
bacco beds are green with the plants
and the farms are being prepared for
the crop.
Canine Good Fireman
Did you ever hear of a dog whose
whiskers never had a chance to grow
because he had a mania for putting
out fires? Brownie, the beautiful
three-year-old collie owned by Albert
R. Allen of Worcester, is such a dog,
says the New York World.
Light a match within his hearing.
Zip I Brownie has snapped it from
your hand before the flame fairly
caught. Light a bonfire in the yard.
As soon as he sees the flame Brownie,
with a bark and a yelp, is on it paw
ing like mad, scattering the burning
pieces of paper and, heedless of sparks
In his fur, scraping the dirt until not
even a wisp of smoke remains. And
he loves a light lunch of live bees.
Outside of that he is the most nat
ural, play-loving dog in the world.
Historical Ring
The ring which Queen Elizabeth
gave to the earl of Essex, the one
which the countess of Nottingham so
cruelly withheld when the earl lay
under sentence of death, is said to be
the very ring which Elizabeth gave
to her cousin, Mary Stuart, when the
latter married Darnley. The ring was
made for a lady’s finger and was af
terward enlarged. It was set with a
sardonyx engraved with a portrait of
the queen. Many people have claimed
to possess that fatal ring, but the ring
which is exhibited as having belonged
to Lady Frances Devereaux, daughter
at Essex, 1* (bought to be authentic
NAHUNTA, BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, April 23, 1925
rcssbyterians Will Raise Fun
For Removal of Columbia
Seminary Back to Georgia
PRESIDENT SEES SUCCESS
Atlanta Already Donated $40.-
000 Site and Subscribed
Over $300,000
Field Representatives Visit Local
A field representative from Colum
bia Seminary headquarters will be in
this section at an early date for the
purpose of making known to local
Presbyterians the facts connected with
the recent movement in the interest
Dr. Richard T. Gillespie, President
Columbia Seminary.
of the removal of Columbia Seminary,
now located at Columbia, S. C., back
to Georgia, where it was founded nine
ty-seven years ago. It is planned to
rebuild and re-equip the seminary on
its removal.
Interested friends In Atlanta and
Decatur have already donated a site
valued at $40,000 and $314,000 has
been subscribed in Atlanta and Deca
tur for buildings and equipment. The
site consists of forty acres of beau
tifully wooded land on the edge of
Decatur, five miles from the center of
Atlanta. It will be necessary, it was
announced, that a sum of not less
than $250,000 be subscribed by the
Presbyterians of the rest of the State
for an endowment fund and additional
equipment, before the removal of the
BEEKEEPER’S ASSOCIATION
TO MEET IN VALDOSTA.
Atlanta, Ga. April 23. —Commer-
cial honey producers in Georgia,
Florida and Alabama will be invited
to attend the 1925 meeting of the
Georgia Beekeepers’ Association at
Valdosta, Ga., sometime during the
month of July or August, the
exact date not yet being fixed, accord
ing to J. J. Wilder, former president
of the Association and editor of the
Dixie Beekeepers, published in Way-
cross, Ga.
The Georgia Beekeepers’ associa-
tion was organized in Waycross
several years ago, J. J. Wilder being
elected the first President Since that
time the organization has grown
steadily.
stains on rioors
Ink stains, if fresh, will come out
if washed with milk and water, but
when long standing oxalic acid, and
water must be rubbed into the stain.
The proportion is one teaspoonful oi
acid to half a teacupful of water.
Every Man’s Duty
Every man should strive to be en
titled to a good opinion of himself,
and having gained >t should strive to
keep it to himself. —Boston Tran
script
Unpopular Ministry
The word “cabal,” meaning a fac
tion or a gang, was derived from the
initials of the men who composed the
unpopular ministry of Charles 11. They
were Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham,
Arlington and Lauderdale.
No News to Him
“Harry learned to play the piano in
no time." “Yeah—l heard him playing
it that way the other day.”—Orange
OwL
Churches.
seminary can be assured. Columbia
has at the present time only a very
small endowment, it is stated.
Return to Former Home.
At a formal opening of the Georgia
campaign at headquarters, 17 Poplar
St., Atlanta, Dr. Richard T. Gilles
pie, of Lexington, Ky., newly elected
President of Columbia Seminary, and
a Columbia alumnus, spoke of his
great and enduring love for and loyal
ty to his alma mater, and his deep de
sire to bring Columbia back to its
original home on Georgia soil, where,
through its great influence, Georgia
already first in so many things, could
become a great center of spiritual lead
ership.
‘ Twenty years ago, when I was a
student at Columbia,” said Dr. Gilles
pie, “ I caught a vision of a greater
Columbia, larger and better equipped
and more centrally located, but I little
dreamed at that time that God, in His
great abundance, would ever give me
the great privilege of taking part in the
splendid task of building a modern,
forward-looking theological seminary
related to the church in all its vital
interests.
Losing Leadership.
Rev. J. Sprole Lyons, D. D., of the
First Presbyterian Church, of Atlanta,
and chairman of the Georgia Commit
tee, spoke of the many vacant pulpits
in the Presbyterian churches in Geor
gia and in the four other synods sup
plied by Columbia Seminary; said that
this was due largely to the fact that
these synods were too far removed
from the theological seminaries of the
church; said that young ministers In
variably accept charges near where
they have graduated; and that there
was an urgent need for Columbia Jn
Georgia, where it would be strategi
cally located to serve a territory 600
miles square.
The Georgia campaign has been au
thorized by the synods of Georgia,
South Carolina, Alabama, Florida and
Mississippi, and approved by the Gen
eral Assembly. The campaign Is in
charge of a Synod's Executive Com
mittee of prominent Presbyterians as
follows: Dr. J. Sprole Lyons, Chair
man, Atlanta; Dr. Neal L. Anderson,
Savannah; Mr. J. T. Brantly, Black
shear; Mr. J. Bulow Campbell, Atlan
ta; Rev. S. J. Cartledge, Athens; Rev.
J. B. Ficklen, Decatur; Rev. F. G.
Hartman, Washington; Mr. W. D.
Hooper, Athens; Dr. E. R. Leyburn
Rome; Dr. J. H. Patton, Marietta; Re’\
R. F. Simpson, Americus; Mr. Edgai
■Watkins, Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga. April 23.—The in
evitable seasons has arrived for daily
newspapers to write on the jaded
subject of swatting the fly, it was
pointed out here today by health
authorities.
The subject is a good one, these
health authorities say, but it has
been overworked. They say it has
not followed the right kind of logic.
Instead of telling the dear readers
to swat the fly, the papers should be
telling them, it was asserted, to
;clean up around the premises and to
i make it impossible for the fly to
'multiply.
The advice of the correspondent of
this newspaper to its readers, there-
fore, taking the cue of these health
authorties, is to begin to clean up.
Not only that, encourage your neigh
bor, yes, your neighborhood, to go
and do likewise.
It has been well said that one
garbage pile can breed more flies
in a season than one can swat in a
lifetime, Hense, it’s apply the ounce
of prevention this year, and then
obviate the worry over the well-
known pound of cure.
Thus Old Hundredth
The Pstlm tune, the “Old Hun
dredth,” first appeared In the Gene
vian psalter for the one hundred and
thirty-fourth psalm. In England It was
set to the one hundredth psalm. In
the new version of 1696 It was called
the “Old Hundredth.”
Old Frames Made New
It picture or mirror frames become
so damaged as to necessitate their be
ing discarded, try glueing to the old
frames ribbon or silk that harmonizes
with the color scheme of the room.
Brocaded metallic ribbon is the most
effective.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BANNER
Money Received
From fiuto Tags
Given To Treasury
Receipts Collected by Motor Ve
hicle Department For First
Three Months.
Atlanta, Ga.—A total of 82,-
291,236.62., representing receipts
collected by the Motor Vehicle De
partment of the Secretary of states
offices, for the first three months of
1925, has been turned over to State
Treasurer William J. Speer by S. G.
McClendon. This sum represents
liciense sold to approximately 150,-
000 automobiles in the State, it is
said.
The funds collected by the depart
ment for the month of March amount
ed to 81,093,451.08, this sum being
the largest to be collected for a sin
gle month in the history of the Motor
Vehicle branes, according to Secre
tary of State McLeodon.
Previously there had been deposit
ed with the State Treasurer the
receipts for January, which amount
ed to 8 228,433.90, and the February
receipts, amounting to 8969,351.65.
The receipts of the Motor Vehicle
Department are deposited by the
Secretary of State with the Treasur
as the “highway fund,” 1 which fund
is drawn out of the treasury on war
rants issued by Governor Clifford
Walker.
The Majority of the funds collect
ed for the first three months by the
Motor Vehicle Department were paid
in to the Mail Order Department, in
charge of Royal J. Miller while all
of the large amount of “cash” sales
were handled by Cashier Charles A.
Cook, and his force.
MR J. F. BENNET HURT
MONDAY AT TURPENTINE STILL
Mr. J. F. Bennett happened to a
very seious accident Monday, when a
heavy part of the turpentine still fell
on his leg just below the knee.
Mr. Bennett was confined to his
bed Tuesday 7 but is now able to be up
and about with the aid of crutches.
Os course some report that it is
only the gont, but anyway The Ban
ner wishes the unfortunate a speedy
recovery and gives advice to be more
careful.
Pottery Maker Must
Be Skilled in Art
Thrown pottery is shaped on a rap
idly revolving disk. The- preparation
of the clay is a scientific process. The
Ingredients—ball clay, flint powder,
feldspar and kaolin--are carefully se
lected and weighed in certain propor
tions, so that they will fuse properly
and become sufficiently hard when
sheped and fired. The mixture is left
to stand until thoroughly soaked and
then Is lawned through fine linen and
dumped into a plaster box which ab
sorbs the water and leaves the clay
in condition to he beaten. All the air
bubbles must be driven out of the ball
of clay before It is placed ou the
throwing wheel. Workers in pottery
delight in the touch of the plastic clay
as it spins upon the disk. The thumbs
make the inside of the object while
the extended fingers shape the walls.
After the work of art is properly
shaped it is put into a plaster box to
become “leather hard” and is then
finished or turned. The plain objects
finally are ornamented and placed in
the fire oven, and a still later baking
process puts on the desired glaze.
Toadstone’s Bogus Virtues
The toadstone is generally’ described
as a species of black pebble of no es
pecial beauty as an ornament. During
the Dark ages, however, it was in
great demand. It was supposed to
protect children from the molestation
of fairies and to cure kidney and
stomach troubles, says the Springfield
Republican.
That a common toad wears a pre
cious jewel in its head was a profound
belief in the Middle ages. Its posses
sor was supposed to be Immune from
toothache, so the legend runs, and it
was a sure antidote for poisons. These
creatures were said to forewarn
against venom by transmitting a
smarting sensation to the flesh. The
toad was credited with having a nat
ural fear and antipathy for man as
well as for all venomous reptiles,
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANNE
Fall Is Fatal To
Mrs. V. E. Hall 01
New York, Said
Descendant of Famous Men of
South Dies; Leaves Property.
New York, April 23. —Mrs. Vic
toria Elizabeth Hall, 88, a relative of
John C. Calhoun and other famous
men of the old south, died at her
home at Southhampton, L. 1., yester
day.
Death came as the result of a bad
fall last December.
She was related to Lyman Hall,
first governor of Georgia and a
igner of the Declaration of Indepen
dence: John C. Calhoun: General
Wm. Porter Rember, of the Confed
erate army., and Senator and Gener
al Robert Toombs, of Georgia.
Mrs. Hall was born at Elberton,
Ga, a town founded by her father. In
the Cival war, w'hile still a young
girl, she saved General Tooms, of the
Confederate army from the Union
forces, by seizing the bridle of the
commandant of a detachment of
Union troops, holding him back un
til the general had made his escape.
In consequence of this, her home was
burned and everything of value
taken.
Mrs. Hall is survived by a son,
Laymon Hall, of this city.
Plantations in northern Georgia,
Tallulah Falls and the Rembert
Groves on the St. Johns river, Flor
ida, are left to him.
HORTENSE CONCERT BAND
Concert at Hoboken school house
Tuesday night April 28th, at 7:30
p. m. Benefit of band and local
school. Admission 15 and 25c.
Program of band—Music, Solos,
Duets, Songs and Humor.
Everybody come. Be a booster.
Thrift and Credit
Ask any hanker, any merchant, and
he will tell you that a thrifty man is
a good moral hazard. He is a thinking
man, one who will meet his obligatloiß
promptly, hence a good credit risk.
Where Women Propose
It is the women who lo the propos
ing in Dahomey. When a girl reaches
the age of eighteen she is eligible for
matrimony, and she at once sets out
to find some one willing to marry her.
Frequently she takes a husband on
trial for a • .onth or two before choos
ing him for better or worse.
Road to Success
Men are best measured by what
they do, not by what they say. The
bigger the man the bigger the ob
stacles he overcame to be great. Suc
cess lies in fitting oneself ’o the job,
not in fitting the job to capabilities
and abilities as they are.—Pennsyl
vania Grit
bpocns in History
Ordinary spoons were known to the
Egyptians, who made them of wood,
stone, ivory and bronze, and in Bibli
cal times we may read that Moses
made golden spoons for the taberna
cle. Silver spoons have been found in
the buried cities of Pompeii and Her
culaneum. The name "spoon” is
evolved from an Anglo-Saxon word
that' meant splinter of wood, so we can
guess what the primitive English em
ployed for this useful implement.
To Frcst Glass
To frost glass first clean the surface,
apply paint evenly, then take a pad of
cheesecloth and “stlpp’e” evenly by
patting lightly all over. The eye must
tell you when you have rhe desired ef
fect. White lead mixed with turpen
tine is best.
Prolific Composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, who is called
the founder of modern opera, was a
prolific composer of music. He left
over 100 operas, 200 masses and nu
merous cantatas and oratorios, and in
vented accompanied recitatives.
Like American Corks
Corks made in this country are ex
tensively sold in South Africa, one
American firm shipping each year 400,-
000 gross, or one-third of the total con
■umptien there.