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THE NEWS. 1871.
MILLION tit *’# WM < ■jm R INC ■.■ SE IN PROPERTY HERE;
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SPART E g LOSE IN BERLIN ENDS
USE IN 1919
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TAX RECEIVER JOHNSON IN
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£un warns taxpayers in
REGARD TO RETURNS.
' * H. T. Johnson expects
Tax Reemver
» a million dollar increase in the tak*
able property in Spalding county in
1919. This .will be a splendid show
tng.
The' value of county lands, says Mr.
Johnson, has been returned at $8 or
$10 p^r acre, including buildings and
improvements. The tax received has
definite instructions (that his books
will not.be received unless the values
«€ all buildings and’dmprov^nehts
are added, to (the value of the lands
and vAll have to be returned regard
iess ofthe Value of lands.
Thfee is another class of property
that will Bfe looked into and al ipar
failing, to return same will be
double taxed,—-that is, notes, morte
'gages and bonds of ours. Govern-.
“ bonds and county municipal
ment. or
bonds are not takkbte bat All other
^nds are and will have to be return
MONEY RETURNED
THIS VAST AMOUNT HAS BEEN
• TURNED BACK TO THE BANKS
SINCE ARMISTICE WAS SIGN¬
ED—MUCH PROGRESS.
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WASHINGTON, March 6.—Over
three hundred million dollars boarded
during (the war has been returned to
the banks since Hie beginning of the
armistice, qays the February state
ment of the lederel reserve board is¬
sued today.
While progress in the readjustment
of business to peace conditions was
made and the advance in different sec¬
tions generally was gratifying*, there
Is some uneasiness because the pro¬
gress was npt more rapid.
It is believed there is over-exagger¬
ation respecting labor employment
with the smallest surplus of labor in
the South and Southwest.
The victory loan wil toe the last
popular loan drive conducted by the
government, Secretary Glass an¬
nounced this afternoon. m
BRITAIN WILL RELEASE
DLL IRISH PRISONERS
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LONDON, March 6.—The govern¬
ment has decided to release ajl Irish
political prisoners', the house of com¬
mons anounced this afternoon through
Bonar Law. There are seven hundred
such prisoners in Britain.
THE BIG FIVE RESUMES
DISCUSSION OF frERMS
PARIS, March 6.—With the arrival
of Lloyd George, the “big five” the
supreme wsr council today resumed
discussion of the military and naval
terms for Germany. The quarrel be
tween the Italians and Jugo-Slavs is
being slowly patched up. President
Wilson is due to disembark art Brest
at 1:30 on March 13th.
GA., THURSDAY r. March 6, 191*.
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CAMP 5*N SIXTH
IONAL DISTRICT' - BE
WAGED HERE IG
MARCH 31ST.
The State College of
has undertaken a purebr re cam
a ^ , / 'VhT^lanT . of the
cotigressi^ to 4** two
counties in ^ ict
into purebred sire counties a cen
ter of the district from t these
activities A of. may livestock be enlarged expert! j on. be
crew
provided for each county >f col¬
lege, and the first thing on pro
gram will $» a big meeting of farm¬
ers in the court house. At twiil meet¬
ing the plans in detail will be' made
known. Other meetings over the coun¬
ty will be provided to follow the Mg
meeting Bt th ® court house.
Spading county has been selected
as t%e county in the Sixth congres¬
sional district in which the campaign
will be carried on. meeting in
the court house at Griffin will be held
on Monday, Msttch Si, from''ffii’ at which time
the livestock eXperti col¬
lege wil lbe present and go into de¬
rails as ' to the objects of the cam
paign.
Not only will purebred sires bethih
means of making more valuable the
livestock of the State, but it will cre¬
ate a demand for purebred individuals
to fill the orders created by the cam¬
paign. It isthe intention of the ex¬
perts who will be in charge' of the
campaign to secure the sires neces
sary as far as possible jn the county
and if necessary to go outside the
coinM* to provide them within the
State from native? grown stock. This
will serve two purposes in that it. will
provide a market for home grown
stock, thereby encouraging the breed¬
er to further efforts and at the same
time' provide the' purchaser with an
animal accustomed to the climate.
This campaign is regarded by the
college authorities as one of far
reaching possibilities, and the time
and effort that will be expended in
this movement to improve the live¬
stock of the State can hardly be esti¬
mated in dollars and cents. For Ox
ample: The hog crop of the State in¬
creased last year from 2,766,090 to 3,
043,000 in numbers. The most valua¬
ble feature ofthe increase was the
advance in the valiies. Hogs in 1917
averaged $14.50 per head while those
of last year advanced to $17.50 per
head.* These are government figures.
If theRiogs of the State increase in
value $3.50 per head without any sys¬
tematic effort being made to improve
the quality, what will be the result if
twenty-four counties do away with
scrub sires and use purebred animals
in their place.
Every farmer and land owner in
Spalding county who owns livestock
should attend the big meeting in the
court house in Qriffin Monday, March
31st. Further notice of the time and
speakers will be given'out later.
SCORES OF SOLDIEB BOYS
BOOK AT HOBOKEN TODAY
Transport Leviathan is Given Enthu¬
siastic Reception as it Arrives With
Eight Thousand Men.
NEW YORK, March 6.—With eight
thousand returning soldiers aboard,
the transport Leviathan docked in Ho¬
boken at noon today. The Mauretan¬
ia, another huge transport, bringing
great numbers of veterans, lies off
Sandy Hook in a fog. New York gave
the Leviathan a great reception updb
its arrival.
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Three officers of the British Mr r dee, bat Americans by birth, have
been barred from landing otf their nal % shore by a peculiar ruling. Lieut
Edward Ruffles of Brooklyn, Lieut. R. 1 Cnapp of Brooklyn and Lieut W. 1*
Haight of Chicago arrived at Boston o* he transport Mellta. Because of a
ruling which bam all but returning A® lean troops from landing, the three
Americans must return to their starttw point at Brest
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GENERAL JAMES A. THOMAS IS¬
SUES FORMAL ORDER FOR RE¬
UNION AT DAWSON THIS^UM
MER.
DAWSON, March B.—The 1919 re¬
union of the United Confederate Vet¬
erans of Georgia will be held in Daw¬
son on June 18 and 19. These dates
have' been officially fixed by Gen. J. A
Thomas, commander ofthe Georgia di¬
vision, as contained in an order issued
March 1, a copy of which has been
sent to the Dawson Chamber of Com¬
merce. '
General Thomas urges all the camps
in the State to have representatives
and assures them they will receive a
hearth reception at the hands of the
people of Dawson. A committee of. the
Chamber of Commerce in conjunction
witlf the members of the ^laughters
of the Confederacy will sioon ‘ begin
preparations looking to the entertain
mdit of (the veterans.
Formal Order Issued.
The following is the order issued
by General Thomas:
Headquarters Georgia Division United
Confederate Veterans.
Macon, Ga., March 1, 1919.
Ordered:
That the 1919 reunion of the
Georgia Division U. C. V., be held in
the city of Dawson on June 18 and 19.
It is the wish of your commander
that every camp in the division will
have delegates present on that oc¬
casion. Every camp must before the
1st day of June, 1919, remit to Gen.
W. E. Mickel, New Orleans, ten cents
for each member ofthe Camp; also
must before 4he Is tday of June, 1919,
remit to Col. Bridges Snjith, Macon,
Ga., ten cent/tor each member ofthe
Camphor in defaut will thereof the Camp
so defauting not be entitled jto
vote' at said reunion.
I am assured by the city ot Dawson
that the Veterans, delegates and other
visitors will nave the heartiest of re¬
ceptions ami most hospitable enter
tainment.
With kindest wishes to each and
every one of my comrades, and that
our ltl9 Reunion may be the best.
JAMES A. THOMAS, "
Commander Ga. Div. U. C. V.
Bridges Smith, Adjutant General and
Chief of Staff.
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SOUTH ALABAMA AND SOUTH¬
WEST GEORGIA TOWNS HARD
HIT BY TORNADO—PROPERTY
LOSS ESTIMATED AT $3,000,000.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., kareh. 6—
A tornado yesterday afternoon in
South Alabama and Southwest Geor¬
gia resulted in the death of six people
and a property loss estimated around
three-quarters of a million. Four are
dead at Eufaula, five seriously injured
with heavy property damage. Two
are d#ad at Lumpkin, Ga., while Flo
maton, Pollard and other places were
severely damaged. A number of
churches were razed. The wires are
still demoralized and trains are de¬
layed.
TROilSQUEC SKIRT
“GOES BEFORE K FULL”
Ultra Fashionable Women in Atlanta
Find Trouble in Getting Off
and On Street Cara.
ATLANTA, Ga., March 6.—Atlanta
has become a city of new and strange
sights in these days, but particularly
amusing and interesting are the ef¬
forts ofthe feminine population to get
on and off street cars since the adopt¬
ion of trouser-leg skirts.
The term trouser-leg skirt has been
coined to fit the extremely narrow
skirts that, are being worn now by the
ultra fashionable women. They meas¬
ure frequently as little as one yard
and (ten inches around the botton,
while some are even scantier than
than this.
As may be imagined there' is not
much room for the wearer .of the
skirt to lift her feet to car and auto¬
mobile steps; and spectators have
evefi been edified by the lad’es in
question falling to the ground in
their efforts to achiev the Impossible.
Still there are plenty of such skirts to
be seen on the streets.
THE WEATHER.
Cloudy, with proMlta rains tonight
or Friday, co1<#t cert ard south
portions to* 5 ' 1
Maximum - -> . 58
Mimirr- .37
Mean .,47
THE SON, Established UR.
DICTATORIGEfIMjINYI EVENTTHE
GOVERNMENT COLUPSES, IS BELIEF
Scheideraan, of Central German Government, Has Only
Thirty-flight Thousand Troops, and His Support It
Becoming Extremely Shaky—Settlement Reached.
Between Strikers and Government Today.
COPENHAGEN, March fi.-A set.
tlement has been, reached between
Berlin strike leadens and the govern
ment, according to information from
Berlin today. The strikers had the
support of the Spartacides, In the
fighting ^accompanying the strike
many were killed. It is reported that
as a result of the agreement the Sol¬
diers and workmens council will form
the inorganic part of the constitution.
BE RLIN , Mwch 8.—Mlnfiter 'J
War Moske will be appointed dicta¬
tor of Germany if the government col¬
lapses, it is believed here today.
i The Bavarian government at Mu¬
nich is purely Bolshevist sod in
Stheidemann, of the Centra;
rasn government, Is reported- to ^
only thirty-eight thousand troops arid
his support is becoming extremely
shaky.
The indications that international
monarch is spreading throughout Ger¬
many wth Munich as the headquar
tors.
Following a long conference be^
tween Die German cabinet and a com
mitt ee-from the Berlin council of sol¬
diers and wprkmen at Weimar yes-i
terday, it is reported that -the strike
leaders,are willing to withdraw their
demands for punishment of the kaiers,
the Crown Prince, Hindenburg and
Ludenorff on certain conditions and
are willing to call off the general
strike. i
Democratic and Centrist members
of the government are likely to re
sign.
The government used tanks to clear
Berlin streets during the rioting. A
tpick load of food en route from the
Hotel Adlon for the Unified States
military commission was stolen fat
the street by a mob yesterday. Much
other looting occurred.
• Noske declared last night, “If the
rioting continues Berlin will get such
a taste of martial law as it never had
before.”
Oirar SINK UK
STMTS (B) IF WITH
The daylight saving law will go' in¬
to effect again on March 30, at whioll
time the hands of (the clock will again
be turned forward one hour.
The law says that “at 2 o’clock an¬
te-meridian'time of the last Sunday
in March of each year, the standard
time of each zone shall be advanced
one hour, and at 2 o’clock ante-merid¬
ian time of each zone, by retarding
one, be returned to the mean astrono¬
mical time of the degree of longitude
governing each zone respectively.”
Which means, in plain English that
April 1 will be the date for the day¬
light saving plan j-fftg* to go into effect
again. ' ■ *
FORMER SECRETARY OF THE
NAVY HERBERT DIES TODAY
TAMPA, March 6^-Hilary Herbert,
eighty-five years old, former secre¬
tary of the navy, filed suddenly of
.heart failure this morning. Six of his
grandsons are with the Americans in v
France.
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Senators Pluming Series of Meetf**
Throughout Country for aad
* 4'*^ ■ League . of ~~ Nations.
WASHINGTON, March
the. departure of Senators Borah, Re
by Pgtet Wilson, a c^t
fi * ht thromghofft the country over the
Republican senators are planning to
carry the case before the people in at
series of public meetings in several
sections of the United ; States. Hitch¬
cock and. others will also speak at a
series of meetings throughout the na¬
tion supporting the league. Cabinet
members may also make
supporting it.
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ntfflsmn
Churches and Welfare Agendas ha At¬
lanta Make Big Plans for Convales¬
cents at Fort McPherson.
ATLANTA, Ga., March 6—The
continuing demobilization of troop* aft
Camp Gordon and the increasing num¬
ber of wounded soldiers arriving from
overseas, has caused a number ef the
churches and welfare agendas of the
city to discontinue theis suppers and
entertainments for Camp Gordon men,
add instead, they are arrangfe* tor
the entertainment of the convaleoeoot
men from the hospital at Fort Mc¬
Pherson.
So many of the wounded soldiers
are now at the fort that the task ef
looking after their interests and
amusements is becoming quite a
large one, and arrangements are be¬
ing made to carry forward the work
in a systematic and substantial
ner.
The people of the city are respond¬
ing willingly to the calls made Upon
them for this cause, and a splendid
feeling of fellowship is being built up.
BABT TANKS WILL BOOST
THEiREIIT VICTORY LOAN
Two Hundred and Four Tanks FaBr
Equipped Will Be Start to Erefy
Section of the Country April
WASHINGTON, March 6.—Two
hundred and four baby tanks, fully
equipped, will be sent to every
tton of this country <to stimulate in¬
terest inthe approaching victory loan
campaign which will start the last
week in April, the treasury depart¬
ment announced today.