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THE NEWS, Established 1871.
FAVORABLE REPORT
PLAN
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UNDER THIS PLAN CONTRACTS
' WILL BE VESTED IN DEPART¬
MENT OF AGRICULTURE
STOCKYARDS UNDER INTER
STATE COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—A favor¬
able report was ordered today by the
house agriculture committee on the
substitute plan for the senate bill for
federal regulation of the meat in¬
dustry. .
Under the substitute, contracts of
packers will be vested in the depart¬
ment of agriculture, stockyards will
be placed under the interstate com¬
mission. The committee voted to ask
a special rule to expedite legislation
in the house.
FIGHT OH PESTS
LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY
GEORGIA SENATOR TO AID
BOTH PEACH MEN AND TOBAC¬
CO PLANTERS—EARLY ACTION
EXPECTED.
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 3.—Both
peach growers and tobacco growers
in Georgia, a number of whom are in
the city, today expressed considerable
interest in legislation proposed by U.
S. Senator Harris of Georgia looking
toward investigation affecting the
growth of their products. The peach
growers particularly are interested
in having the government appropria¬
tion continued for investigating peach
pestp in the State. Senator Harris has
proposed two amendments to the ag¬
ricultural appropriation bill providing
for $10,000 to continue investigation
of peach pests and $5,000 to carry on
investigation of tobacco production
and handling in the State.
Both amendments, according to
news received here today, will be con¬
sidered by the senate agriculture com¬
mittee when they take up the bill
within the next few days.
The failure to receive the amount
of $10,000, estimated by the depart¬
ment as essential for the peach inves¬
tigations, will, it is stated 4iere, jeop
ordize the entire Georgia peach crop
which is the largest in the-country.
Already much loss has been sustained
and reports have been sent to Wash¬
ington that the government work was
showing results.
Under a temporary emergency fund
the department of agriculture at
Washington has been carrying on the
work, following the efforts of Sena¬
tor Harris and Congressman Larsen.
Reports received here show the
whole section of Fort Valley peach
growers, together with the Georgia
Fruit Exchange, are aroused over the
possibility of losing the government
work deemed essential.
The other amendment of Senator
Harris providing for money to carry
on tobacco investigations was also re
quested by the Georgia department of
agriculture. The Georgia State Col¬
lege of Agriculture has informed Sen¬
ator Harris that it is anxious to be¬
gin the work, but the lack of funds
has shut dff the department.
n. w. Winder dies early
THURSDAY ON SIXTH STREET
N. W. Ponder died at his home on
North Sixth street at half-past four
o’clock Thursday morning. Mr. Pon¬
der was a barber and well-known and
liked by a large number of Griffin
people. He was formerly in the army
and about five months ago became
an inmate of the government hospital
at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. He
was at home on a ten days’ furlough
at the timd of his death. He is sur¬
vived by his wife and two children.
Funeral services for th^ deceased will
be held tomorrow afternoon and in¬
terment will be made in Oakhill cem
etery.
The funeral services will take place
at the home of the deceased at 3:00
p. m. tomorrow. The following gen¬
tlemen will act as pall bearers: M. J.
Hambriek, R. N. Thaxton, Roscoe
Sims, R. M. Blakely, W. E. Waller,
M. H. Duncan. The W. O. W. will
have charge of the services at the
grave. Dr. J. E. Sammons will con
ffact the fhneral services.
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Out-of-Town Patrons of Atlanta
Grand Opera WUI Be Protected
For Present Season.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 3.—Protec¬
tion of the out-of-town patrons for
grand opera in Atlanta next April has
been provided by the reservation of
sections in the arena and the dress
circles of the city auditorium, these
sections to be held until the desires
of the people, who will come from a
distance to the season, have been sat¬
isfied.
The guaranty list for the coming
season has already been opened, and
C. B. Bidwell, treasurer of the At¬
lanta Music Festival Association, has
mailed notices to all former guaran
tors to give them opportunity of un¬
derwriting the new fund.
The guarantee fund has been set at
$110,000, the same figure which pre¬
vailed last year, although there has
been a substantial increase in. the ex¬
pense the Metropolitan Grand Opera
Company must beaf in staging and
producing the seven offerings, which
will constitute this year’s program.
Another feature of this year’s man¬
agement of tfte guarantee is that no
sum of less than $200 will be accept¬
ed from a guarantor, thereby elimi¬
nating the possibility of any one de¬
positing a smaller amount in order to
secure the advantage given guaran
tors on obtaining seats for ^pera. No
more than eight seat* will be sold a
guarantor this year, at one time.
IFNI WILL BEGIN
MEMBERS OF EP^SGOPAL AND
CATHOLIC CHURCHES TO BE¬
GIN SEASON OF SELF-DENIAL
—SPECIAL SERVICES WILL BE
HELD HERE.
Observance of Lent, which begins
next Wednesday, will be marked by
special services in the Episcopal and
Oatholic churches ir, Griffin.
Ash Wednesday which begins on
February 9 comes much earlier this
year than it has in many years past.
Last year Lent began on February
18. The season lasts 40 days not
countin Sundays, closing on Easter
Sunday. The season of Lent is com¬
puted by counting "back 40 days from
Easter omitting Sundays. Easter falls
on March 27 this year. It came last
year on April 4.
The season of Lent is one of the
strongest forces the churches which
observe It have for inculcating piety
and spiritual experience.
Ltfnt is a period of abstinence and
prayer, preparatory for the celebra¬
tion of Easter. Self-denial during
the forty days is the outstanding
feature of its observance. Abstain¬
ing from* ordinary indulgences, such
as amusements and social functions
of a formal nature, Vnarks this ob¬
servance. Attendance more strictly
upon the ordinances of the church,
the cultivation of a more spiritual
frame of mind, mental detchment
from wordly affairs, especially those
of a frivolous nature, are enjoined
upon those who belong to the churches
which embrace the season of Lent in
their theology.
A very old and time-honored his¬
tory belongs to Lent The first ob¬
servance, history points out, was in
the second century. In that era of its
beginning* however, Lent was not un¬
derstood or carried out in the same
manner as later became the custom,
although the identity has been declar¬
ed to have been sufficient to establish
the second century institution as the
same one, in p rinciple , as that which
is celebrated t oday. In the seventh
century the forty-day period, was es¬
tablished and the method of comput¬
ing it, *a it is now computed, set up.
DEATH OF INFANT 80N
OF MR. AND MRS. C. H. KENT
James Everett Kent, infant son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Kent, died at
Georgia Mill No. 1. at an early hour
Thursday mining. The funeral ser¬
vices will be held at the house Fri¬
day, followed by interment at Georgia
Mill No. 1 cemetery. The friends of
Mr. and Mrs. Kent have the sympa
thy of their friends in their loss.
WEEK OF MAY 29TH SET
FOR METHODIST CAMPAIGN
1 MEMPHIS, Feb. 3,—The week of
May 29th was set today for the cam¬
paign of the Southern Methodist
church for thirty three millions for
the upbuilding of educational fastitu
tlons.
GRIFFIN, GA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRU ARY 8, 1M1.
Meeting of Minds
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE STATION
ALSO LOOTED—ROBBERS CUT
TELEGRAPH AND
WIRES AND ESCAPE IN AN
AUTOMOBILE.
St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 3.—Thirty
thousand dollars were taken from
the State Bank at Largo, sixteen
miles north of here, this morning,
and several hundred from the Atlantic
Coast Line station by bandits who
escaped in an automobile. The rob¬
bers cut the telephone and telegraph
wires leading into town.
IU ATLANTIC FLEET
Callao Shares in Program of Enter¬
tainment for Officers and Crews
of Warships.
LIMA, Peru, Feb. 3.—This city and
Callao, six miles Westward, shared
in a program of entertainment ar¬
ranged for the officers and crews of
warships making up the United States
Atlantic fleet, A feature Of the day’s
activities was a reception given by
Admiral Wilson aboard the flagship
Pennsylvania as a return of courte¬
sies shown the higher officers of the
fleet at the presidential banquet
Tuesday night. During the afternoon
Peruvian and United States sailors
are to compete in sporting events.
GRIFFIN BOY WINS HONOR
GEORGIA MILITARY ACADEMY
John Stevens Manley, a popular
young Griffin boy has recently been
appointed first lieutenant of his com¬
pany by the faculty of Georgia Mili¬
tary Academy at College Park, where
he has been a student for two years.
Mr. Manley is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Manley and the grandson end
namesake of Col. John Stevens of
Stevens Potery and Griffin.
John Stevens Manley has a bright
mentality, is a good student and is
worthy of the honor bestowed upon
him. i
GRIFFIN ATHLETIC CLUB
WALLOPS HAPEVILLE FIVE
The crack hoop ringers of the Grif¬
fin Athletic club had a walk-away
Wedensday night over the Hapeville
basket bajl team, winning by a score
of 55 to 15. The visitors were young
and light and though they fought
hard throughout, they were not in the
jJass struggle, with the the locals. It wail a
first part of the
being a see-aaw affair, with
team scoring for five minutes.
the Griffin boys began to ring
baskets, as though there were no
posing players on the floor.
Th* manager of the locals hopes
bring the Mercer second team or
of the stronger teams of Atlanta
far the next
HARDING MUST PAY
$18,000 INCOME TAX
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3_Warren
G. Harding, as .president of the United
States, will receive something like
$18,000 less in compensation from, the
government annually than Woodrow
Wilson has received.
The treasury will pay Mr. Harding
the same amount that it paid Mr. .Wil¬
son—$75,000 annually—but internal
revenue bureau officials say that Mr.
Harding must return nearly one-fourth
of this in income tax. ........— '■
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THREE ARE HELD IN CONNEC¬
TION WITH AN ALLEGED PLOT
TO DEFRAUD THE GEORGIA
RAILWAY POWER COMPANY
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 3.—Clarence
L. Lumpkin, a street car conductor,
was arrested here today and Louis
and H. C. Bumpous, brothers are held
in Gadsden, Ala., in connection with
an alleged plot to defraud the Geor¬
gia Railway Power company through
the sale of counterfeit street car tick¬
et books. According to detectives, the
Gadsden brothers were the “brains”
of the plot.
JAKE SMITH’S FATE IS
Alleged Member of Colbert County,
Alabaman Moonshiners Ring is
i Tried for Murder,
TUSCUMBIA, Ala., Feb. 3.V-The
case of Jake Smith, alleged member
of a Colbert county moonshiners
ring, who was placed on trial yester¬
day charged with murder in connectioh
with the slaying of Don Stephenson,
prohibition officer, -will go to the jury
by noon today, the State’s attorney
predicted. Hampton Kirby has been
oonvicted and given a life sentence.
Sidney Kirby, his father, was also
convicted and sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary.
TESTIMONY IS CLOSED
BY STATE AT HAMILTON
HAMILTON, Ala, Feb. 3,—The
State closed its testimony this morn
ing in the case of Sergeant Robert L.
Lancaster, national guardsman, charg¬
ed with murder in connection with the
lynching of William Baird, a miner,
when Leslie West, taxicab dirver had
been recalled and concluded his tes¬
timony.
NEGRO POPULATION NEW
ORLEANS INCREASES 18.17*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The
gro population of New Orleans ia one
hundred thousand, nine hundred and
eighteen, an increase of 13.1 per cent,
the census bureau has
Newark, N. J, seventeen
and ten, an of T9J& pot
R DAWES FLAYS
SHOUTS AT THEM “I BITTERLY
RESENT THIS EFFORT TO RE¬
FLECT UPON THE ENTIRE
ARMY BECAUSE SOME POOR
DEVIL BLUNDERED IN
SWITZERLAND.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Turning
sharply on the house war investigat¬
ing committees as a whole, Charles G.
Dawes, former head of the army sup¬
ply procurement service in France,
told one of them to day that the val¬
ue of their work was rendered use¬
less through the injection of partisan
politics.
“I bitterly resent this effort to re¬
flect upon the entire army because
some poor devil blundered in Switzer¬
land,” he shouted. “You cannot put a
blotch upon the army. What in the
h did we go in for—to steal
money? It wasn't a Republican or a
Democratic war. It was an American
war, and yet as a rule these com¬
mittees try to brfog in partisan pol¬
itics.”
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Federal Law Makes It Violation to
Kill Doves After January 31.—
Another Month For Quail.
If you haven’t had any doves this
season you will be safer to wait un¬
til next season before attempting to
supply your table with this delicate
game, as it is now against the federal
law to shoot doves. The federal law
prescribes an open season from Oc¬
tober 16 to January *31, both inclusive
and with the advent of February,
which is now here, the shooting of
this bird becomes a violation of the
federal statute.
Numbers of prominent Georgians
got into trouble last February by
shooting doves, being ignorant of the
federal la* against such, but this
year everybody is more or leas ac
quainted with the statute and fewer
violations are expected. Federal of¬
ficers have stated that the law will be
rigorously enforced, UntteA States
Commissioner George F. White de¬
clared Tuesday.
The open season for quails, both
under the State and federal laws will
continue through the month of Feb¬
ruary.
WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia: Fair tonight, wanner
in west portion Friday; increasing
cloudiness and warmer, probably fol¬
lowed by rain tn west portion. Tfc*
following is the report for the twen¬
ty-four hours
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Griffin Hi Boys Meet Deeatnr Quintet,
and Local High School Girls En¬
counter Decatur Hi Girls.
Friday night at 8 o'clock at the
armory Griffin basket ball fans will
have the opportunity of seeing in no¬
tion the two fast teams representing
the Griffin High School. At that time
the girls will tackle Hie girls’ team
from Decatur High School while the
boys will entertain the boys’ team
from the same school. Both the local
teams have been going at a lively
clip this season, the boys having lost
only one game while the girls have
almost as good a record.
The Decatur teams boast of being
among the best in Atlanta, and are
coming down with no other purpose
than to add new victories to their al¬
ready enviable list. Particularly Is
this true of the Decatur girls who
have for several years been strong
contestants for the championship in
their circles. Last year the Griffin
High boys won from Decatur while
the Griffin girls were defeated by
this same school. With added exper¬
ience to their credit the local girl*
hope to wipe out the memory of de¬
feat by winning both their games with
Decatur this year.
Both the boys and girls have been
getting in some hard practices during
the past few days and are developing
rapidly. By Friday night th^y should
be in fine shape for this reception of
the visitors. •,
One game will Immediately follow
the other, the first one beginning at
8'O’clock. An admission of 50 cents
will be charged for both games.
Mjii Mine in
Left City Hall Square at One This
Afternoon ami Marched Toward*
King’s Palace. Demanding Work
'COPENHAGEN, Feb. 8^-A proees
*ldn of unemployed estimated to num
bei^l8|000 loft the city hall square at
one o’clock this afternoon here, and
marched toward the parliament build¬
ings and the king’s palace demanding
work.
STATE WANTS TAXES
FROM SHEPARD ESTATE
MACON, Feb. 8.—JT. F. Roberts,
special investigator for the State tax
department, arrived' here tonight af¬
ter a conference tomorrow with the
heirs of the late Alfred Shepard and
their attorneys, to determine the next
move in the State's attempt to col¬
lect *150,000 back taxes alleged to be
due the State of Georia.
Alfred Shepard was the father of
Fred Shepard, whom the State recent¬
ly attempted to show was poisoned.
The court however, refused to hold
four persons who had been placed
under arrest.
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Invisible Guests I
How many will you help feed this winter?
Every penny goes to them; not 1 a
cent
• used for overhead expenses. $10.00 feeds
one until the incoming harvest
TO THE PEOPLE OF * i
lion GRIFFIN: Thrse and a half mil¬ si ■
children in Central and Eastern Eutope era f
disaster and death. The European Relief CbuneiL
posed of eight relief organisations,
hand to relieve this terrible distress X*
lief Administration, under Herbert
can Red Croes; Jewish Joint ~ Tbs
American Friends Service C__ *; n
of Columbus; Federal Council <rf”th*’ _ < )s
in America; Y. M. C A.; Y. of Christ
W. C. A.
We realise perfectly well the < t*-:
condition of our country, yet we feel that there
who will contribute this ...
to worthy cause. Ten
will care for one child until the incoming harvest,
you take one or more of these children f a'
your invisible guests. & $;
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If you will make a subscription, to
undersigned, and he will turn it to the
J. P. Nichols, and send you a m U
ready made a contribution to this
name of the treasurer and
Spalding county will get credit tor it.
ready contributed and their
published in the News and Sun in a few
wait for some one to come to you. aa *
being planned. We feel that
that all that is necessai Ui
tunity. How many will
for at least one hundred ;
J. MARION
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SEEMS THAT SPOT DEVELOP¬
MENTS IN 1
THE SOUTH E
DOMINTE MO '
NEAR FUTURE ;
NEW ORLEANS, Feb.
tion in the spot department at 1
and in Liverpool due to the abac
of any demand of consequence for
actual, affected
again today, values showing
decline.
The failure of the demand fo
to revive, especially for accoti
American spinners
ad operations of
great disappointment.
Advices from Manchester
thing are worse, reporting t
tinues depressed.
rasnt tfh# for prei
duction probable. See no
qiMEnAr
from the
walk position and liki ,uo
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eats, have
lucllfc •f March lately.
are down to
the previous low levels of the m
all of the recent sharp “
fag been lest owing to
demand to revive
of
the textile °H *i ew En
and the i tit Atlantic States.
It would | therefore, that
fa the spot situ
Liverpool and fa the soul
ularly in the south, will c
dominate the lovement of the
ket in the ne future, or until
are soma
iplated reducl
acreage will be in the sprtng
B. Beer’s Cotton Letter.