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MOON GOD FANE, DATED 2300
B. C. SHOWS RENOVATIONS
CORRESPONDING TO WORK
OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
A temple of the Moon God Nannar,
worshipped by the most civilized
members of the human family about
2300 B. C., has been uncovered in the
sands of the Mesopotamian desert.
The temple was repaired by Nebu
chadnezzar at the comparatively re
cent date of 600 B. C. Nebuchadnez
zar was, it seems, a revolutionary mon
arch, admitting the public to a relig
jous service that had been celebrated
by high priests in secret for thous
ands of years. |
The newly discovered records of hf!‘
reign are being used to check the Old
Testament story of the royal grass
eater. Excavations are under the Uni
versity Museum of Philadelphia in as-|
sociation with archaeologists from the |
British Museum. C. Leonard Woo- |
ley, leader of the British expedition, |
writes of the discoveries: |
Ur Civilization Center.
“Ur, which was.a great city ages
before the arrival of the Chaldees, had
the reputation of being one of the
most ancient centers of civilization in
Mesopotamia. We have not yet tapp
ed the lowest strata and the ear
liest dated object we have found goes
back no further than 2900 B. C. Yet
painted pots and stone implements
have been found at different levels
which must be many hundreds of
yvears older than that.
“At the beginning of the third mil
lenium the city had been subject to
the Kings of Lagash. We found a
statue of one of them. Enannatum, in
the debris piled at the foot of one of
the great towers of Ur. It is headless,
but finely carved and bears across its
back and shoulders a long and import
ant inscriptian.
“In the west corners of the enclos
ure stood a great rectangular tower
of solid brick and rubble rising high
above the city. It consisted of four
stories, diminishing in size as they,
went up, A stircase led to the lowest
platform, and from this a sloped ramp
ran round and round the building to‘
the top. There presumably stood a
small shrine to the Moon God Nan
nar. Built by Un-Engur and his seon
Dunghi, the tower survived through
out the whole of Ur’s history.
Blue Glazed Bricks.
“In the latter days Nabonidus faced
part of it with bright blue glazed
bricks, now all fallen away, and he
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|:zddcd on one side a kind of platiorm
!‘.\'hosv nse cannot ‘vei be determined.
PV HAL the foot of this remarkable
structure lay the cemnplex of sacred
buildings which covered mosi oi the
enclosure and culminated in the great
| Temple of Nannar. The bulkk of it
still awaits excavation. Such werk as
we did on it this vear shows that the
existing. building was divided into two
parts—the sanctuary, and the living
quarters, The latter were probably
those of the chief Priest. We found
the bronze figure of the king in the
masonry of one quarter.
The temple of the Moon God and
his consort, the complete excavation
oif which was our main work this sea
son, was on a smaller scale. The act
val sanctuary was a little five-roomed
building hidden away in the midst of
long service chambers, priests’ quar
ters and storerooms, the whole sur
rounded by a heavily buttressed wall.
When it w@s founded we cannot say.
Certainly it was in existence before
2650 B. C. We know that, for we
found, thrown out as useless and em
bedded in the later doors, fragments
of inscribed stone vases dedicated by
the Kings of Agade of that date. :
; Nebuchadnezzar Enters.
. “The first king to make any radical
alteration was Nebuchadnezzar (about
600 B. C.), who quite recast its plan.
He respected the venerable five-room
sanctuary, only repaving it and build
ing out tfrom 1t two projecting wings.
But he destroyed all the service
chambers in front of it, leveled their
ruins and laid down over them a wide
brick-paved court yard. This formed
the lower court. Between the new
wings of the central building at a
higher level is a smaller court, where
stands an altar of brick, once over
laid with metal, immediately in front
of the sanctuary door. Facing it,
against the back wall of the sanctuary
we found the remains of the pedestal
whereon stood the sacred image.”
Obviousl¥ Nebuchadnezzar's re
modeling of the temple was to corre
spond with a change of the ritual
whereby the public would take part in
a service hitherto conducted by the
priests in secret. The upper court is
that of the, priests, the lower is for
the congregation, who would look be
vond the altar and its ministerial to
the great gilded statue half-veiled in
the darkness of the shrine.
It is tempting to connect this inno
vation with the Old Testament story,
according to . which Nebuchadnezzar
not only set up an image—older kings
had often done the same—but pro
claimed that when they heard the
sound of the sackbut all the people
were to fall down and worship.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
IN CHAMBLISSTON VICINITY
Personal Mention and Other Items
Are Chronicled.
Miss Lillian Daniel is now in Plains
hospital. We are glad to say that she
is improving rapidly, and all the Sun
day school boys and girls want to see
her Sunday.
Miss Bertha Morton and mother
have returned after spending a week
with her sister, Mrs. E. G. Moncus,
near Magnolia Springs.
Evervone fortunate enough to at
tend enjoyed the splendid birthday
dinner Sunday at the home of Mr.
andMrg K. D) ‘Tam,
Miss Euradelle Daniel, who was a
student at Milledgeville, has returned
home for the summer vacation.
Mfiss Arliffa Davis, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. J. K. Moncus,
at Preston, has returned home.
Messrs. Clyde Tatum, Ravmond
Everette, Boss Garrett and Clarence
Chambliss have visited here.
Miss Lillian Faircloth, of Baconton,
is back at her work in Dawson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williams, of
Baconton, spent Sunday here.
Miss Ethel Hancock has visited her
brother in Weston.
Mr. Clarence Edwards has visited
iriends here.
AT SANITARIUM.
The many friends of Miss Nannie
Littleton will regret to learn that she
is ill at the Davis-Fischer sanitarium
in Atlanta, where she will be under
treatment for several weeks.
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CHAMPION SHOPPER OF WORLD
LEFT PLUNDER WORTH $75,000
Dies From Burns. at A;: Vof-_75: H;—H—o;; and Outhouses Barely
Had Room Among Unopened Parcels for Her to Eat and Slegp.
GALION, Ohio.—Shopping of one
kind or another is a habit shared of
the female of the species the world
over, even with the poorer sisters
whose obsession for the beautiful is
gratified from the outside—"window
shopping!”
With Mrs. Emma lLee, however, it
was even more—it was her very life!
It was her great solace that had its
inception many years ago—shortly af
ter her honeymoon in the late 80’s. It
was the old, old tragedy of a young
bride whose love story ended prema
turely, old residents here say. After a
divorce her husband, H. D. Lee, now
caid to be a multimillionaire of Kan
sas City, Mo., went westward to seek
his fortune.
Home Was Real Warehouse.
When Mrs. Lee died last month, at
the age of 75, her old home on Main
street proved a veritable warehouse,
wherein were stored hundreds of un
opened boxes of candy, baby car
riages, a small piano, never unpack
ed; 90 wash tubs, a thousand pair of
mittens, unworn; hundreds of plants
long since wilted, artificial flowers, a
large box full of $2O gold pieces, $lO,-
000 in government bonds and thous
ands of dollars in other securities se
creted in mattresses, under the bed,
under the stove, in cubby holes, be
hind wall paper, and other articles ga
lore, including fine toilet waters and
tooth brushes.
Sold Houses to Shop.
During Mrs. Lee's thirty years of
gratifying her fhtense passion for
shopping—she was wealthy—disposi
tion of her constant and enormous
purchasings was not known nor the
real total dreamed of until the day
after she succumbed to burns sustain
ed when she fell against the kitchen
stove.
Every room in her large home, sev
eral outbuildings and other buildings
in a business block here are bulging
with articles, including gems, the ac
cumulation of shopping, indulgence in
her only diversion since her romance
was shattered.
Administrators of her estate rough
ly estimated at $75,000 the value of
this queer store.
The only space in the score of
FINAL ACT OF PERMANENT
ORGANIZATION TO BE
CHARTER APPLICATION.
Directers of the Georgia Peanut
®rowers’ Co-Operative Association
will meet in Albany next Monday to
apply for a charter of incorporation
for the new co-operative marketing
organization. This will be the final
step of permanent organization of the
“co-op” which is expected to be a big
influence in better prices for peanuts.
Ballots went to all members in the
original territory last week and they
will be returned to the election man
agers this week. A vote to be count
ed must be in the hands of the elec
tion committee by Thursday night, as
this committee meets Friday to con
solidate the vote and declare the re
sults. There will be one director each
irom the ten districts in the original
territory, besides the office of public
director, to which the governor has
already appomnted Col. Robert E. 1.
Spence, executive chairman of the
original organization. New Histricts
will be laid out in orther parts of the
state when the campaign now being
waged there is completed, and each
of these districts will have a director.
Buildings on McMicken avenue, in
Cincinnati, began sliding down hill ai-.
ter excavating was done at the foot of
the hill and had to be abandoned.
THE DAWSON NEWS
rooms in her home or the store hous
es is a narrow strip five feet deep in
her bed room on an upper floor and
an equally small space on the lower
floor occupied by the stove on which
she prepared her meals.
About 10 years ago Mrs. Lee’s shop
ping mania became so acute_that she
disposed of much valuable property
and used thousands of the proceeds to
gratify her craze. She extended her
shopping pilgrimages to nearby cities,
including Bucyrus and Mansfield,
where, of course, she was very popu
}lar among the merchants, some of
whom frequently filled an entire truck
‘ior delivery of her purchases in a sin
gle day. She also loaded herself down
personally with as much as she could
‘struggle under. The very touch of her
purchases seemed to delight her.
; Candy Boxes Everywhere.
" Among the queerest buying fads
'was candy. More than 400 boxes,
some evidently bought in the last cen
tury and all unopened, were found in
a total of a ton weight. Gloves and
mittens by the gross and thousands of
newspapers she was never seen to
read she stored, too, everywhere.
Diamonds, espccially lin earrings
and rings, and fine old cameos that
were all the rage on her bridal day,
lay here and there in the queer col
lection. Rugs lay four and five deep
on the floors, while scores were stack
ed in the attic and cellar among the
90 wash tubs.
She sometimes bought all the cut
glass and china in a local store. Some
times all the watches and spectacles
in a window.
Money Stowed Away.
With the sale of most of her dwell
ing properties ten years ago her hob
by became more intense, for she no
longer was interrupted in her buying
passion by her collection of rents. As
a landlord she rented to the poor and
charged fair rates.
Among the seccurities found are
$lO,OOO in government bonds, a box
of $2O gold picces, another containing
$3OO in silver dollars and miscellane
ous cash and securities secreted iul
fully 500 pocketbooks. The baby'
grand piano is still in its box just as|
it was packed at the factory mere
than 20 years ago. |
CENTRAL OFFICIALS |
- COMING THIS WEEK
WILL CONFER WITH CITIZENS |
IN REGARD TO SHEDS AT i
PASSENGER STATION. [
Mr. F. M. McNulty has returned|
from Savannah, where he went to|
confer with officials of the Central of |
Georgia railroad relative, to the erec-|
tion of umbrella sheds at the local|
station. This matter has been pending |
for some time, and the full strength|
of the Kiwanis club is back of the
movement. It is determined, if pos
sible, to secure this improvement,
which will mean so much to the trav
eling public in comiort and conveni- |
ence when boarding and leaving the |
trains. Mr. McNulty was given a hear- |
ing and assurance that the matter
will be carefully considered and, if
practicable, favorably acted upon at
an early date. :
Officials of the road will visit Daw- |
son this week to look over the ground
and confer with citizens in regard to|
improvements that are so much desir
ed by the public. {
Isafjordur, one of the most progn«—%
sive cities of Iceland, has a popula-|
tion of 1,854, |
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666 quickly relieves Constipation,
Biliousness, Headaches, Colds and
LaGrippe. |
Gamblers Hire Gunmen
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To Protect Winners' Roll
Men With Notches on Guns Escort
Money-Laden Players Home.
Gunmen, who boast of notches on
the grips of their automatic pistols,
are now acting as ‘“police” for gam
bling house proprietors and patrons in
Philadelphia as protection against
bandits. Several bandits already have
been killed by these unknown ‘“po
lice” as a result of attempted hold
ups.
This unusual situation was brought
about in the Quaker City, police say,
when bandits began an organized war
against heavy winners in glambling
resorts. Proprietors of game houses
notified the thieves to “lay off,” but
their warnings were no use. Then the
gunmen were hired.
Heavily armed men loiter in gam
bling halls for the express purpose of
escorting players home with their
winnings. Men who made a living by
operating games were forced to pro
vide protection; their business would
have stopped altogether if they had
not.
The first victim of the gunman
bandit feud was an underworld char
acter named “Pug Nose” Morrison, at
Philadelphia, Morrison attempted to
“solicit” $5,000 from a gambling
house proprietor and was ejected
from the place. Ten minutes later he
was shot and killed as he walked
along the street. Police blame gun
men guards for the killing.
8188 COUNTY JAIL ON
ROOF OF COURT HOUSE
Contracts have been let for the
placing of the Bibb county (Ga.) jail
on top of the court house, at Macon.
The court house is a new structure,
costing half a million dollars, and is
four stories high.
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Kayser and Holeproof Hosiery in all the newest shades—and
summer 1s the one time of the yvear when you need a liberal
supply—We have reduced our prices, so why now take ad
vantage of the opportunity and buy your summer needs now.
Just Received |
Dainty Summer Frocks
of Voile and Canton Crepe
Our buyer in New York made a good buy—in fact he bought
this shipment below market value—and we are selling them at
really remarkably low prices. We welcome you to see these
new garments, they are wonderful values at the prices they'e
selling. |
Ratine Specials
We are closing out our stock of Ratine—and offer $l.OO yard
goods at 65¢ yard; 75¢ goods at 45c¢ yard.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1953