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MILITARY HONORS FOR
FORMER BANDIT
El Paso Tex. July 26.—Francisco
Villa, hunted as a thief, bandit, mur¬
derer and leader of rebellion after re¬
bellion, scorner of governments, mock¬
er of civilization, may yet achieve the
distinction of becoming a national
hero, the recipient of homage from t
nation.
Telegrams from Mexican officials re¬
ceived at Parral, where Villa was shot
down from ambush, brought word that
strong efforts are being made to in¬
duce President Obrfegon to order
Villa’s body taken to Mexico City,
there to lie in state and to be given
military burial honors as a revolution¬
ary hero.
Hipolito Villa, brother of the slain
chieftain, and General Eugenia Mar¬
tinez, an old friend of Francisco, are
at Parral preparing for the last rites.
As plans go forward to bury the
body of the picturesque half-breed,
who once held northern Mexico in his
grasp, search is being pushed for the
gunmen who lay in wait and shot down
Villa and his secretary, Miguel Trillo.
Reports received here Saturday were
that two members of the attacking
party were hit by bullets when the Vil¬
la party fought l>ack, were captured on
a ranch near Santa Barbara. This
has not been confirmed but if true is
regarded as almost certain to lead to
identification of the party.
Seach has been made for Jesus Her
rera, young survivor of a family long
the object of Villa’s wrath and it was
reported he has been found in Morolia
State of Michoacan. Unconfirmed re¬
ports here are to the effect that mem¬
bers of this family some time ago con¬
tributed a large sum of money to pay
a band of gunmen to lay in wait for
Villa and shoot him down.
These gunmen, the stories go, lay
in wait around Parral for more thaw
a year, seemingly engaged in ranch
duties, and held off their attack until
they were sure Villa would be slain.
Twice before reports have it the same
gang had planned to take Villa’s life,
but each time were foiled when the
former revolutionist learned of the
plans. Once he changed hotels in the
middle of the night.
President Obregon has issued or¬
ders for Colonel Barrios, commanding
the garrison at Canutillo Hacenda, the
Villa ranch, to permit no one to enter
the estate. Everything there is re¬
ported quiet. Reports of an outbreak
are denied.
Further details of the attack on
Villa and a group of followers say the
ainbushers were concealed in some
abandoned houses, from which they
poured a steady rifle fire into the
automobile as Villa w T ent by.
SALEM NEWS
The Womans Club met with Mrs. A.
S. Ellington. Miss Norman was with
us and gave a demonstration on light
bread and basket making. Delicious
water mellon and peaches were served
The next meeting will be held with
Mrs. Lewis Ahnand.
Mr. and Mrs. T. j. Ramsey are spend¬
ing a few days in Clayton.
Miss Getrude Taylor and brother, of
Atlanta are spending a few days with
Mrs. A. S. Ellington.
Miss Sallie Rogers of Covington, is
spending a few days with her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Rogers.
Mr. Frank Almand spent a few days
last week with Mr. Zackery Norton, of
Conyers.
Mr. Harris Cowan and brother, of
Atlanta spent last week-end with their
grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Cowan.
Mr. and Mrs. Candler Almand and
Miss Letta Cowan spent last Thursday
in Atlanta.
Mrs. H. A. Patrick and Mrs. Dan
Patrick, of Conyers spent one after
noon last week with friends and rela¬
tives in our community.
Mrs. Henry Berry, of Porterdaie.
spent lust week-end with her sister,
Mrs. E. H. Stallworth.
Miss Sallie Wood and father was in
our community one afternoon last
week.
Mrs. Carrie Camp, of Atlanta, is visit¬
ing Mrs. Geo. Willingham.
Miss Sarah Sue Ramsey spent the
week-end with Miss Frances Greer of
Hayston.
Mr. and Mrs. Madison Hollingsworth
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. .T. H. Holltng
worth.
Miss Inez Holifield spent last Sun¬
day with Miss Vashti Almasd.
Several young people from this com¬
munity enjoyed a straw ride and a wa
termellon cutting last Wednesday
evening.
The Young Peoples’ Missionary
Society met last Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gordon, of At¬
lanta spent last week-end with their
parents Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Plunkett.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo Willingham and
children and Mrs. Carrie Camp were
out riding last Sunday afternoon.
SOME TOUCH
Colored Rookie: I’d lahk to have a
new pair o’ shoes suh!
Sergeant: Are your shoes worn out?
Colored Rookie: Worn out’. Man, the
bottom of mah shoes are so thin, ah
can step on a dime and tell whether
heads or tails!—Pittsburg Panther.
PEANUT GROWERS ASSOCIATION
Albany ,Ga„ July 26.—Already more
than 5,000 Georgia farmers have signed
contracts with the Georgia Peanut
Growers Co-operative Association to
market their peanuts during the next
five years throagh thgs new co-operat¬
ive marketing organization. In those
contracts approximately 100,000 acres
of peanuts from this year’s crop are
pledged to the Association, or consider¬
ably more than two thirds of the entire
production of the state for 1923, on the
basis of the most reliable estimates that
can be had as to the size of the crop.
Work by field service men now in
progress in Coweta and Meriwether
counties will bring the active sign-up
campaign of the Co-operative Pea¬
nut Association to a cloan. It had
been estimated by those who made
preliminary surveys of Coweta coun¬
ty that between 1»,000 and 20,000 acres
of peanwts are planted in that county
this year, but thorough canvasses by
the field service men in that county
have disclosed the fact that these esti¬
mates are far too high, and that not
more th na,7o0r00
more than 7,000 or 8,000 acres of com¬
mercial peanuts will be harvested there.
Although a good many of the peanuts
of Coweta County had already been
contracted for delivery to shelters and
brokers, it is believed that a majority
of the crop, however, will be marketed
by the co-op.
As soon as the work of contract sign¬
ing in Coweta county is completed, the
officers of the Peanut Association will
divide the territory in Middle Geor¬
gia into districts j:nd call elections in
each district for directors. The South
Georgia territory, where the sign-up
campaign was completed earlier in the
year, has already been disrticted and
directors elected. In the new territory,
several counties will be assigned to
each district, in most instances, as was
the case in the original territory. The
members of the Acosciation in those
counties will vote by imil for some
one of their number as a director.
There will be at least two members
nominated in each district, the voters
need mot vote for either of these if
they do not wish to, as a blank line
will appear on the ballot, and a voter
may write in the name of some other
member who may be more acceptable
to him as a director. No one but a
peanut grower who has signed a con¬
tract is eligible to serve as a director,
When the elections are complete, the
Middle Georgia counties will proceed to,
form county organizations and com¬
munity locals of members. The num¬
ber of locals in each county will depend
on the number of members in that
county. A local con not have more than
fifty or fewer than ten members. Sep¬
arate locals have morebaoi-V
arate locals will be formed for colored
members. In South Georgia counties,
the work of setting up these locals in
school districts and militia districts
is already going forward. Officers of
the locals are named by the members
in the communities they serve, as are
the officers of the county-wide organ¬
izations. The subdivisions of the Pea¬
nut Association are proving immense
ly popular with the members of the as¬
sociation, and are expected to be of
great help to the officers of the gener
al organization.
Headquarters officers of the new co¬
op. are going actively forward with
plans for marketing this year’s peanut
crop, for which they already foresee
good prices. It has been decided to
market the peanuts of the association
under the trademark of “Uncle Remus”
a name, which is typically Southern
and typically Georgian, is expected tso
have an almost universal appeal.
DAN L. GIBSON.
GIRL JOKES WITH
GUARD AND DROWNS
New Orleans July 26.— Miss Esther
Maretzky, 18 years old, of Shreveport,
died in the swimming lagoon of Audu¬
bon Park today as laughing, she
shouted a pleasantly to a lifeguard in
a boat at the park natatorium.
Miss Maretzky instead of going to
the regular entrance, dived into the
water from one side of the pool.
A. Landry, lifeguard, saw her. He
told her that it was against the rules
to enter from that side. The girl
laughed and playfuly made a graceful
dive, disappearing for a moment.
“Come, now, go to the regular en¬
trance,” Landry insisted.
“I won’t” she replied, “unless you
come and get me” and she laughed
again.
Landry turned to another guard to
tell him of the incident.
“But where is ihe girl?” the seeorid
guard asked.
She had disappeared. The guards
plunged into the water and within a
few seconds had recovered her body.
Physicians said she had not died
from drowning, but from acute indi¬
gestion, brought on probably from go¬
ing into water toe soon after eating
a hearty meal.
It is not the size of the brain, but
the texture that determines the qual¬
ity. We have the authority of eminent
surgeons for the statement that the ma
jority of large 1 >ads generally contain
a spongy, watt y brain.
iHLK COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
ROCKY PLAINS NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Davis spent a
while Saturday afternoon with Mrs. M.
H. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. Jain^s Hearn and Miss
Edith Miller returned ti* Biiomwjood
Wtxlnesday after a visit here.
Mrs. W. S. Avery spent the week¬
end in Atlanta with friends and rela¬
tives.
Miss Annie Sue Avery visited her
grandmother, Mrs. M. C. Davis a few
days last week.
Misses Sarah Boyce Davis and Inez
Turner, of Atlanta visited relatives
here Sunday.
Mr. Edward Boyd dined with Mr.
Howard Avery Sunday.
Misses Vernie Stewart, Effie and
Ruby Stroud spent one day last week
with Mrs. Mollie Grant.
Mrs. Jack Bowden and son, Charles,
of Porterdaie, spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Avery.
Messrs. Harry Stewart, T. D. Joy¬
ner and O. D. Harcrow enjoyed a big
Masonic barbecue at Jackson Tuesday.
Miss Ruth Davis spent Friday after
noon with Mrs. M. C. Davis.
Misses jinsey and Louphemie Joyner
and Frances Avery spent Thursday af¬
ternoon with Misses Vernie and Lilly
Stewart of Snapping Shoals.
The Prom party given by Miss Fran¬
ces Avery, Monday night was enjoyed
by all present.
Several from here attended camp
meeting at Smyrna Camp grounds
Sunday evening.
Mr. Roecoe Cawthorn was in our
midst a while Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Roy Davis was a visitor at Le
guinn Sunday.
Several from here attended the big
tent theatre in Covington Saturday
night.
Misses Marie and Jenie Mae Bowden
were the guests of Miss Frances Avery
Saturday night and Sunday.
A very enjoyable event which oc¬
curred Friday afternoon was a mellon
cutting at Rocky Plains Store.
Mrs. W. B. Hainey and children were
the guests of Mrs. Grier Gardner one !
day last week.
A crowd from here attended preach¬
ing at Stewart Baptist church one
night last week.
S?r. Walter Stone was the guest of
Mr. W. D. Carden Sunday.
The “Lumber Truck” is often seen
at Rocky Plain store.
Miss Frances Avery spent one after¬
noon last week with Misses Jinsey and
Lulu Joyner.
Mr. Roy Davis, Frances Avery, Ma¬
rie and Jennie Mae Bowden, Jinsey and
Louphemie Joyner visited friends near
Salem Saturday night.
TRY AN ONION!
There are many Strong Points About
It Apart from its Smell
Although apples have their virtues,
the saynig “An apple a day keeps the
doctor away” should be revised to
an onion a day keeps the doctor
away.” One humble onion is worth
fifty apples for the medical disease
preventing point of view.
lt almost seems as if the onion was
specially created for the definite pur
pose of keeping men and women heal
thy, free from disease and
immune from infection.
An onion-for preference eaten raw
-will, in its pasage through the body
destroy every poisonous germ and puri
fy the blood. A sliced onion placed in
an open dish in a sick room will gather
to itself the microbes and germs in the
air quite as well as any expensive dis¬
infectant will do. But onions must
afterwards be thrown away, never
eaten.
Those who include onions in their
regular epet n<Jver siiffer nei^algia.
headache or kindred troubles. When
influenza is about not a doctor in the
land could prescribe a better
tive than the humble onion. The juice
of an apple is good for the teeth, but
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the juice of an onion is a hundred
times better.
The freedom from disease and long
j j evity of the Breton onion growers
well known> and the smoothe and silkv
j complex i on of the women has often
been remarked. For a fact, for a clear
and beaH tjf u i complexion, nothing can
beat on j ona r
( Yes> they make the breath odorous,
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but only until your system has be¬
come accustome d to them.
An onion poultice on a bruise will
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quickly take away all discoloration . A
j painfuJ sprain or strain is also eased j
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by an oni on poultice . Finally an
j poultice is excellent £or a wasp sting j
and for raising hair on ^ hea <r s! And
’ yet in nine houses out of ten an onion !
cquld nqt be found at any time qf the
year.
WANTED—Twenty to Fifty acres
of land, (without buildings) in Newton
county. Prefer location between Cov
iggtcm and Mansfield, or Mansfield
section. State best cash price, also
term price. Give exact location and
f u n particulars. Address WANTED
LAND, 163 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Ga.
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News Office.
FIFTH DISTRICT A. & M. SCHOOL
J. HENRY WALKER, Principal
MONROE, GEORGIA.
The Fall Term Will Begin Sept. 4.1923.
This is a four years accredited high school, Class 1.
The faculty is composed of graduates of the best colleges in
the South.
Regular four year courses are required in English, His¬
tory, Science and Mathematics; with Agriculture and Farm
Mechanics for the boys, and Domestic Science and Household
management for the girls. The two years Teacher Training
Course is popular. Girls may take piano lessons, boys may
join the brass band.
The latest improvements in school plant include Gymna¬
sium, new dairy barn, and new shop.
Board, including laundry, is $33.75 per quarter of nine
weeks, payable in advance. Total expenses need not exceed
8155.00. Work is offered to help reduce expenses.
The beautiful girl's dormitory is steam heated, and con¬
tains every modern convenience. No school is better pre¬
pared to take care of girls.
Dormitory space has been crowded for the past several
years. Indications point to a record-breaking attendance
this year. Applications for admission should be placed at
once. Write for catalog and application blank.
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PLANT FRUIT TREES
All Commercial Varieties $55.00 Per
Thousand
Our State Board of Entomology says:
NATIVE STOCK IS BEST
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A. C. and F. S. BELCHER
Covington, Ga.