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wnejal Official Org*n Organ of of the Spalding City of Ceunty. Griffln .
O® 01 *! Or«an U. S. Court, Northara
District of Georgia.
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.1 The
days are getting longer and the
nights are getting shorter.
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P Henry Watteroon declares
---dry law is making hypocrites
©f men. Yea, and alio it ia making
aome drunkards ad well as hypocrites.
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The Quitman Free Press fears that
H the proposed legislation against
high heels passes, many Georgia wo¬
men will be lowered. Then we hope
^. the proposed legislation does not
pass.
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FIFTY YEARS OLD TODAY.
The Griffin Daily News is fifty
years old today.
On February 1, 1871, the Griffin
Daily News made its bow to the pub
lie.
The Griffin Sun was established
in 1877. During the administration
of the late Editor Glessner many
year* ago the two newspapers were
oensolidated and from that time the
‘p*P«r has been called the Griffin
News and Sun.
Hie Griffin Daily News of the sev
Was a small five-column, four
age newspaper, tout a glance at the
les, still' clear and distinct, shows
lat it was a sprightly, well edited,
erous paper.
ing its fifty years of life the
ft Daily News has been dedicated
Jfctoe service of the public and the
growth and development of Griffin
and Spalding county.
• The paper has had some of the
ablest newspaper men and most virile
waters in the South at its head, and
it has wrought well since it was first
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launched in the long years ago.
During recent years the paper has
been ever alert to anything that
would boost Griffin and Spalding
county. It has strived to render
r faithful service.
The present management has tried
„ to carry out the policies of the late
Editor Glessner as nearly as it could,
tout conditions have changed since he
passed away eleven years ago, our
own ideas have been employed, and
many changes have been made.
P In the days of Glessner and Boyd,
r of Morrow and Dudley, the paper was
a small four-page sheet, carrying no
telegraphic news and none of the up
to-date features that are required in
the days of the present.
I The Griffin News of today is an
eight page daily, with crisp telegraph¬
ic new# which gives the world’s hap¬
penings before any other afternoon
newspaper can reach the city. It de¬
votes most of its space to local news,
a feature which its subscribers prob¬
ably appreciate most, but it is not
unmindful of the news of the world
and other attractive features of mod
. ern day journalism, which the pub
-» lie now wants and demands.
The Griffin Daily News today is
■he. anxious, and than it
as more so
Wfts in ttoe days of the seventies, to
render acceptable service. That is
our mission and we are earnestly on
,voting to carry it out.
on© aim is to contribute as
h •• we possibly can to the life,
rill and cultural development of
community, the State and the
irtb-?.
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_ e seeking to reflect the best
igat and sentiment of the people
bis community, tout do not cater
pussing public opinion.
Griffin Daily News has always
m I »nd desire# now to assist the
1 i. r. • legitimate
H&j.: knowingly
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lie ques-
tions has been and will continue
be conscientiously taken, fairly pre¬
sented and religiously and faithfully
maintained.
The Griffin Daily News has sought
and is seeking now to run a news¬
paper. It knows no classes, recog¬
nises no interests and seeks no favors,
but strives to merit the public’s con¬
fidence, respect and support.
It is very gratifying to a newspaper
man to know that the paper with
which he is connected has reached the
fiftieth, year in its milestone. We are
proud of the record of the Griffin
Dally News and Sun, and appreciate
the esteem and confidence in which
it is held at home and abroad.
We appreciate the friendship and
patronage that has been extended to
our distinguished predecessors and
tcTthe present management and own¬
ership.
It is the Griffin Daily News’ fif¬
tieth birthday and we are proud of it.
We believe our friends and patrons
are equally as proud of the long years
of usefulness and service of the pa¬
per as we arc. It is a record of which
we all have occasion to be proud.
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Atlanta will please take notice that
Editor Loyless and Julian Harris de¬
clare that Columbus is the fastest
growing city in Georgia. And if Co¬
lumbus is the fastest growing city, ws
feel sure that Griffin is the second
fastest growing city.
The Walton News gives this timely
advice on advertising: “The merchant
who now aits down and says it is no
use to advertise will wake up a little
later to discover that the man who
did advertise has gone on with the
coin. There never was a time when
advertising was more necessary than
now. The people aTe looking for val¬
ues and the merchant who has no in¬
ducements to offer is in the middle of
a bad fix."
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IT IS TO BE REGRETTED.
The recent Spalding county grand
jury recommended to the superior
court that the operation of the Ellis
health law be not enforced or adopted
until financial and economical condi¬
tions greatly improve or until in¬
structed to do so by other grand ju¬
ries.
The grand jurymen doubtless made
due investigation and are more thor¬
oughly acquainted with (ttoe financial
and economical condition of the
county than we are, but ait the same
time such a recommendation is to be
regretted..
It is not only human but good com
men sense, economy and business to
make provisions for the poor and
sick and afflicted, rich and prosperous,
and we would urge that Spalding look
well to the health of this community,
regardless df the economical or fi
nancial condition of the county.
We have said before and repeat
here, “that community that fails to
make progress in the most approved
way of looking after its health and
welfare in general is making a griev¬
ous mistake. Good health is essential
to our happiness. Without good
health we can not enjoy life, and
without health we cannot enjoy the
many blessings that would otherwise
be ours.
“Time was when we went along
without running water, bath tube,
sewers, telephones, automobiles and
passable roads—in fact without any
evidence which made up what we call
civilization. But now in this day
and age the public demands these
things, and has a right to demand
them. The need for health and social
agencies require the intelligence and
public spirit of the community, and
the time has arrived when all cities,
villages, counties and communities in
general must have medical health of¬
ficers, public health nurses, charity
organizations, civic clubs, etc., the
same as fire departments, police for
ces, lighting systems and paved
streets,",
WWre wit in favor of neglecting
our health. We believe that it behoov
es Spalding county to employ the best
methods to see that our health is
kept good. The spring season is fast
approaching and there is danger of
disease if necessary precautions are
not taken to prevent it. Qur health
should and must be safeguarded and
it tomld be well and wise to plan
now for systematic work in the mat¬
ter of health.
If Spalding county is not able to
pay health officers it is in a bad fix.
We have no disposition to criticise
the action of the grand jury, but we
do believe that Spalding county should
employ the most improved methods
to oafeguard the health of this com
munity. Good health is essential and
county should have public health
whose duty it is to look well
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GRIFFIN PAILT NB AND SUN
after our health. We have a health
ful climate and all that, hut we are
not immune from disease, and before
toe spring: set* in andthetrying days
of summer come we should adopt a
definite program of work for the
safeguarding of the health of our
community. It will pay us to do it.
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Jerger declares the old-fashioned
girl will get there when all the others
have stopped by the wayside to pow¬
der ^nd pain a bft. The old-fashioned
girl was a little slow, but she was
sure.
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A STEADY SUBSCRIBER.
Apropos of -the News and Sun’s
fiftieth anniversary today, it is inter¬
esting to note that Capt. W. J? Kin¬
caid is the original subscriber to this
newspaper. When $he proposition,
was made in 1871 to start a daily
newspaper in Griffin Capt. Kincaid
Was the first man to enter his name
on the subscription books and for fifty
years he has been one of the steady
subscribers that make glad the heart
of a publisher. Fifty years ago Capt.
Kincaid was running a mercantile es¬
tablishment in Griffin and later on
he was ithe leader in the movement
to organize a cotton mill in this city,
of which for many years he was pres¬
ident. For awhile he was president,
bookkeeper, general manager and did
all the other work for the mill. The
Griffin Manufacturing Company has
made a wonderful success and is
largely responsible for the early rap¬
id growth and development of Grif¬
fin. Capt. Kincaid has retired from
active business to enjoy the fruits of
his labor r but the Griffin Mills are
still running and are a monument to
his keen foresight and splendid busi¬
ness ability, being at present one of
the largest industries of the kind in
the South. The genial captain reads
the local paper today as eagerly and
as closely as he did in the years of
the seventies, and was good enough
recently to say that the News and
Sun today is one of the best news¬
papers ever published in Griffin, for
which we most heartily thank him.
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Says the Savannah Press: “Henry
Lincoln Johnson of Atlanta has moved
his family to the capital. He will
make Washington his headquarters
for the next four years. He may be
register of deeds for the District Reg¬
istrar of the Treasury or Minister to
Haiti.”
My
WOMAN ON EDUCATION BOARD.
The recent Spalding county grand
jury in the general presentments to
Spalding superior court recommended
the appointment of Mrs. H. P. Stuckey
as a member of the county board of
education from Mt. Zion district, in
which a vacancy exists on account of
the expiration of the term of J. D.
Touchstone. County Superintendent
of Schools Manley urged the grand
jury to make this recoriimendation.
The News and Sun heartily congrat¬
ulates .the grand jury upon its action.
We are glad to see the women being
recognized. They have secured the
vote now and they have a right to
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hold office. Mrs. Stuckey is eminent¬
ly qualified to fill the position. She
was educated at Chicago and Vander¬
bilt Universities, served as a teacher
in Peabody Normal College, has
taught in the Griffin schools and has
been a resident at Experiment for the
past twelve years. She is the wife
of Director H. P, Stuckey, of the
Georgia Experiment Station, and one
iot the most , brilliant women in the
State. In selecting her for a place on
the board of education the grand ju¬
ry has made no mistake. She will be
a valuable acquisition to the board,
making it a most valuable member.
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THE ESSENCE OF FRIENDSHIP.
Perhaps the most perfect illustra¬
tion of the geunine essence of friend¬
ship is dog and man.
For the dog is the only animal in
creation that actually breaks through
the natural obstacle of fear and hos¬
tility that separates him from all oth¬
er animals, and actually loves man.
It is not what man does that makes
his dog like him; it is what he is.
Every man who owns a dog feels
that the brute understands, actually
understands him better than any hu¬
man does.
Did you ever meet a human being
you liked, or who liked you, as a dog
likes?
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RIGHT TOWN SPIRIT.
In an article on “The Right Town
Spirit,” the Albany Herald says it
has made that city “the best town
for its inches this side of Kingdom
Come.”
And the spirit i* seen in that co
operation which says, “Count me in, ft
to any proposal for the advancement
of the best interests of the commun
ity.
"It has built Albany,” aays the Her¬
ald, and—
“It enables her to do things and
to have thing# which other cities
twice her size are unable to have and
are incapable of doing. It i» the thing
which keeps Albany humming'—
makes her the ‘busy spot’ of southwest
Georgia and gives her the brightest
future to which the growing cities
of Georgia can lay claim. »
And the “Oount-me-in” spirit is
splendidly in evidence in what is be¬
ing done along progressive lines pret¬
ty much everywhere in the State.
It is, as another Georgia paper—
the Walton News—expresses it: “The
antidote for alleged ‘depressed’ condi¬
tions for the town spirit goes to
work, whatever the work may be, to
help the town, and never talks “hard
times.”
It has made flourishing little cit¬
ies of the smaller towns in the State
tha^t are constantly taking in moTe
territory and keeping right in the
forefront of business.
Because—all help—all pull togeth¬
er, in the steady, working way—Quit
man Free Press.
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FAMED FOR GIANT POTATOES
{Metric* Jwt North of Denver Hae Es¬
tablished Its Reputation for the
Suoeulsnt Vegetable.
When Horace Greeley gave the
young men of America a loose foot by
saying, some decades ago: “Go West,
young man,” he Incidentally succeeded
In getting a very fine brand of po¬
tatoes named for himself, writes Wil¬
liam G. Shepherd in the Saturday Eve¬
ning-Post. A group of men who went
to the West at that time settled in
a district north of Denver and east
of the Rocky mountains, and perhaps,
because they thought of nothing else
to raise, they planted potatoes. About
them, In the highlands, the only wild
potatoes In the United States were
growing luxuriantly. This district is
similar cllmat'eally and otherwise to
the highland district in Chile, where
explorers are believed to have come
across the potato for the first time.
These Colorado wild potatoes prop¬
agated themselves by means of seeds,
and It is from the pods of these seeds
that the Colorado potato experts get
the material by means of which they
have produced the Greeleyvllle potato.
Eastern railroads, on which huge
baked potatoes, served In the dining
cars, have come to be strong allies of
the passenger agent and heavy draw¬
ers of patronage, send to the Colorado
district for the potato giants. Trans¬
continental railroads which use the
northern route send men Into the Mon¬
tana and Dakota fields to pick out, al¬
most by hand, huge potatoes which
have been grown from the Colorado
seed. \
“SIM0N PURE” A STAGE HERO
Name of Hero of Popular Comedy Has
Become Synonymous for the
Genuine Article.
The expression, “Simon Pure,” mean¬
ing “the real man,” bad its origin in
the name of a Pennsylvania Quaker
in Mrs. CenUlvre’s comedy, “A Bold
Stroke for a Wife, Being about to
visit London to attend the quarterly
meeting of his sect, Amlnadab Hold¬
fast sends a letter of recommendation
and introduction by bis friend, Simon
Pure, to another Quaker, who is guard¬
ian of Anne Lovely, a young lady re¬
puted to have a fortune of £30,000.
Colonel Feignwell, another character
In the same play, being enamored of
Miss Lovely and her fortune, avails
himself of an accidental discovery
of the letter of introduction and suc¬
ceeds In passing himself off as Simon
Pure. But virtue is triumphant in
the end. Simon Pure appears with
bis witnesses and the scoundrelly
Feignwell is exposed.
The play scored a great success, and
the name of “Simon Pure” was grad¬
ually applied to anything which was
genuine and above imitation.
Twilight Varies With Latitude.
Twilight is the diffused illumination
of the sky which immediately pre¬
cedes sunrise and follows sunset. When
the sun sets below the horizon we are
not at once plunged into total dark
ness. There is an Intermediate period
of partial and slowly increasing dark¬
ness. That period is twilight, it Is
caused by the reflection of the sun¬
light by dust and particles of water
vapor in tlie upper atmosphere, The
same phenomenon occurs Just before
sunrise, and, to distinguish it from
the evening twilight, is called dawn.
Dawn begins and twilight ends when
the sun is about eighteen degress be¬
low the horizon, and consequently
their duration varies with the latitude
and season of the year. Tbe higher
the latitude the smaller the ungle at
which the sun’s path meets the hor¬
izon. and hence the longer it takes
the sun to sink a distance of eighteen
degrees below the horizon. In the
tropics twilight rarely Is longer than
thirty minutes, while in the north of -
Scotland about the middle of summer 1
there are several nights on which twi¬
light tills the entire Interval between
sunset and sunrise.
Was Sunday Your Birthday?
People bom on this day may not
live long, but will achieve many great
things and win much renown while
they do. They will learn many trades
and will make and spend much money,
their chief trouble coming through
their marriage. They will be subject
to headache, toothache and fever, and
may be In danger from fire nnd
plague*. They will he much beloved,
will marry more than once and will
be lucky In dealing with tyorses.
ft Ham « Oftftf N*m*
IS the yellow adders' tongue, whleft
Mm Burroughs has poetically styled
"fawn illy," there is a twofold appro¬
priateness of name, says the American
forest r y Magazine of Washington, for
the erect leaves have well been likened
to the ears of a startled deer, while
the mottled colors, with -a distinct
fswn color more or lees in evidence
the outside of the miniature ysOcnr
easily suggest the
Hotf Monty of Tim*.
boys," continued the stMfdo
was tailing "true and thrill
“yea, I was working a
tower one afternoon about twelve
to 4, whoa I slipped, slid down
end casght oe the long hand
of the dock, raters I dangled while
the town folks collected below. So
*Say you folks, go homo
to to pp er s , it’ll ba Mom to half
bafor* I droa*"
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Strickland-Crouch Co.
Our Great February
White Salels Now On
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Thousands of dollars worth of first quality
merchandise at lower prices than you will see
again this season,
Thousands attended our Silk Sale last week
I and SAVED! More will attend this WHITE
GOODS SALE and SAVE MORE!
READ THESE PRICES
5,000 Yards Long Cloth Reduced
10 yards Long Cloth, $2.50 value NOW.........-..... $ 1.49
10 yards Long Cloth, 3.50 value NOW........ ....... 1.95
12 yards Long Cloth, 4.50 value NOW ............... 2.45
English Nainsook Reduced
10 yards 36-in. English Nainsook, $3.98 value NOW...... $2.45
10 yards English Nainsook, $4.50 value NOW...... 2.95
10 yards 36-in. English Nainsook, $5.00 value NOW...... 3.35
20 yards 36-inch English Nainsook, $6.50 value NOW— 7. 3.90
1,000 Yds. Bleachd Domestic
Soft Finish
____ __•* NOW - 18c
36-inch Bleached Domestic, 29c quality NOW----- 44 l-2c
33-inch Gingham, staple stripes and plaids NOW 15c
40-inch Fine Count Unbleached Domestic NOW.. .12c
36-inch good quality Percales, 35c value NOW .., 19c
36-inch Striped Shirtings, 35c value NOW........ ...15c
Anderson Outings, finest quality NOW.......... 19c
35c quality fine Cheviots NOW ................. 19c
Wide Sheetings
81-inch Bleached Sheetings, 85c value NOW . 55c
90-inch Bleached Sheetings, 95c value NOW 60c
42-inch Pillow Casing, 50c value NOW...... 35c
36-inch Middy Twills, 65c value NOW...... 35c
Table Cloths
64-inch White Mercerized Damask, $1.25 value NOW...,.. 65c
66-inch White Mercerized Damask, $1.50 value NOW..... 95c
72-inch White Mercerized Daftiask, $2.00 quality NOW..... .$L25
72-inch All Linen Damask, $4 50 value NOW. $295
72-inch All Linen^Damask, $5.50 value NOW. $3.95
WEAR-WELL SHEETS 81x90, $2.35 value NOW $1.39
Bed Spreads
63x90 Dimity Spreads, $2.50 value NOW $1.85
72x99Dirnity Spreads, $3.00 value NOW $1.95
80x90 Dimity Spreads, $3.50 value NOW $2.25
White Crocket Quilts, $3.00 value NOW $1.75
Schiller Quilts', $3.50 value NOW....... *2.19
Wear-Wei! Quilts, $4.50 value NOW.... $2.75
White Satin Quilts, $6.00 value NOW — $3.95
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Very Special
36-inch Pajama Checks, 35c value NOW.. 19c
36-inch Pajama Checks, 40c quality NOW 25c
39c Fine White Dimity NOW............ 25c
50p quality Fine White Dimity NOW..... .35c
35c DIMITY SPECIAL, NOW............ 19c
Shop every day this week as stocks are
limited on these goods at such low prices
New stocks will be HIGHER PRICED.
Strickland-Crouch Co.
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TUESDAY AFTER NOON, FEBRUARY 1, j9 2t*
KittrThat Cold With
CASCARA fcy QUININE
FOR ^QMV & 5 AND
Colds, Coughs La Gripp-e
Neglected Cclds are Dangerous
Take chances. Keep this standard rooedy bandy for the first sneeze.
no
Breaks up a cold in 24 hours — Relieves
Grippe in 3 days- Excellent for Headache
this form docs not affect the head-Cascam is best Tome
Quinine in Opiate in Hill’s.
l axative — No
ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT