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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31, 1920
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS
Paragraphs Picked up Here and
There, from Exchanges or
Other Sources.
The high cost of fuel has brought
a raise in electric light rates in Dub
lin, announcement having been made
by the Light and Water Commission
that the rate will be 14 cents. The
commission says it faces a deficit
next year of SIB,OOO due to the in
crease in coal prices.
That American women are chiefly
responsible for “the mad rush for
pleasure which is the cause of that
universal economic unrest today that
has produced intolerable living con
dititons for some and an exceedingly
high cost of living for all,” was the
keynote of a strong and intensely
interesting sermon by Bishop Warren
A. Candler at the First Methodist
church in Atlanta Sunday night.
As a result of a strike of carpen
ters working on the new school build
ing, the Presbyterian church and sev
eral other buildings under way there,
which was called by the Carpenters’
Union Friday Dublin citizens and
contractors held a mass meeting
Monday and unanimously passed a
resolution declaring for the open
shop.
That he was grieved to learn that
Thomas E. Watson had a very large
following indeed in DeKalb county
was the statement of Senator Hoke
Smith, in his speech to 600 voters in
the court house at Decatur Monday.
“I understand Mr. Watson has a very
considerable following in this coun
ty” said Senator Smith. “I would be
ashamed to own it if I were you, and
I tell you so frankly.”
Building permits issued during the
first eight months of 1920 in At
lanta exceeded the total for any pre
vious year, now amounting to more
than $10,000,000.
John Holder was fined sls in At-I
lanta’s police court Monday for loi- j
tering. He was a negro.
Hiram Johnson will be seen on the
stage in Georgia. Not the Califor
nian, but “the crap-shootin’est nigger
in Atlanta.” He will have a comedy
part in “The Musical Whirl,” a home
talent society production.
Sunday school workers from all
parts of Georgia will attend a school
of methods which will open at Wes-
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leyan college, Macon, Wednesday.
The school will be similar to those
held at Lake Junaluska. N. C., and
Dallas, Tex., annually under the aus
i pices of the general Sunday school
i board of the Southern Methodist
I church.
J. J. Flynt, Jr., only child of Judge
and Mrs. J. J. Flynt, of Gr'ffin. is
suffering from diphtheria. His con
dition wps precarious until Monday,
when he began improving.
The state’s tax rate for 1920 was
fixed at 5 mills by order of the gov
ernor and comptroller general issued
on Monday. This is the maximum lim
it allowed by the constitution and
| all of it is needed to pay the appro-
■ priations made by the legislature last
' year and this year. It is estimated
! that the taxable values of the state
I for 1920 will show an increase of
I $180,000,000 over. 1919.
The Gideons of Georgia will meet
in a state-wide convention in Rome
I Saturday and Sunday, September 11
i and 12.
The Retail Merchants’ association
j of Georgia will meet in Macon at the
j Dempsey hotel, September 9.
I Nearly one-third of the tax payers
! of Columbus are being penalized 25
per cent by the city government for
1 failure to give in their tax returns.
Full military honors and the silent
| tribute of a great congregation of
I people marked the funeral in At
lanta Sunday morning of Captain
Joseph Brown Connally who died last
■ Thursday at the base hospital at
I Fort McPherson from gas and expos
ure suffered n the Meuse-Argonne
I camnaign.
Judge S. B. Sibley has announced
! that a special session of the United
; States court of the western division
! of the northern district of Georgia,
will be held in Columbus from Sep
tember 13 to 27 for the hearing of
the Fort Benning land cases only.
The Colquitt’ County Post of the
American Legion, organized last
Monday as a protest against the old
post here, as well as other posts of
the state entering into a political
fight now has a membership of 200.
Expressing great confidence that
he had won the contest for the gov
ernorship over Thomas W. Hardwick
and John N. Holder, Clifford Walk
er spent Monday in his headquarters
in Atlanta. “Information coming in to
me now,” said he, “indicates con
clusively that I have won. the race,
and I feel assured that we have de
feated Thomas M?. HarcJwick, my
closest competitor.”
A movement is under way in Sa
vannah to raise a fund of SIOO,OOO
to advertise Savanah as a port, fea
turing Latin and South American
an<K European trade opportunities,
and as a resort section.
Preparations for the celebration
of Labor Day at Rome are on a more
elaborate scale than in many years.
The program includes an address by
Thomas W. Hardwick, motor boat
and land races, a parade in which
3,000 men are to match and an ex
hibition drill by the fire department.
S. C. Harris, traveling passenger
agent o fthe Central of Georgia Rail-
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road, with headquarters at Macon
serves his last day today in that ca
pacity. After today he will be dis
trict passenger agent at Columbus.
This will also be G. P. Lockhart’s last
day as assistant ticket agent in Ma
con. He becomes traveling passen
ger agent. Mr. Harris’ successor, to
morrow.
The executive committee of the
Georgia Peanut Greweifs’ Associa
tion is meeting in Albany today to
hear the report of Secretary W .J.
Lyons on the matter of importation
of Oriental peanuts.
Entries in the legislative races in
Dougherty county closed Saturday,
with two qualified condidates for the
house and the same number for the
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i state senate. Dennis Flemming and
■ I Walter H. Burt will make the sen
date race and Ed R. Jones and Waiter
. H. Beecham will be the candidates
/for the lower house.
’| A diamond lest eight months ago
and recovered in a chicken’s gizzard
’ was the unusual experience of Mrs.
R. E. Johnson, of Albany, Saturday.
> The stone was one-half karat in
. weight which Mrs. Johnson had set
, in a ring.
Sugar cane for chewing has arriv
i ed on the Valdosta market. The
arrival of a carload of bananas yes
i terday broke a week’s famine in that
commodity in the same city.
•| Only a few bales of cotton have
‘ so far been sold in Valdosta, and ac-
cording to reports farmers of Lown
des county are ginning their cotton
and taking both the seed and the
cotton home and storing them, wait
ing for prices that will prove satis
factory.
The corner stone of the new pub
lic school building at Hogansville
will be laid With impressive cere
monies by Masons tomorrow at 10
a. m. Grand Master Chas. L. Bass,
will speak.
Pastors of the Savannah Methodist
church do not 4?lieve any serious
consideration will be given to the pro
posal of the National Association of
Dancing Masters that the ban of the
church against dancing be revised
so as to let in the “Wesleyan,” a
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new dance which the dancing mas
ters hoped woull gain the approval
of the Methodist church.
Actual work on the road from Sa
vannah to Tybee was begun this
morning when the Gadsden Con
tracting Company started work on
the bridge which will span the Wil
mington river. By the Fourth of
July, 1923, the contractors hope to
have reached Tybee Island.
Fred J. Robinson, general pas
senger agent of the Central of Geor
gia, has returned after a three
weeks’ vacation trip through the
west. He found the peple of the
west very prosperous and also hap
py-