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HJeriouslv injur, i yesterday after-
Hw-hrm struck on the head by a
K. pi eC (> of timber from a build-
Honthe'.iOO block of Broad Street,
Hfrom his injuries shortly after 11
Kk night at the University
Recording to police reports, Arthur
K a t work assisting in demolishing
Building at the site where the J. B.
BL s *ore is to be erected and in
B e unacc untable manner a heavy
Be of timber became dislodged from
Esecond floor of the building and
B with a crash, striking him on the
Kis survived by his wife, Mrs.
Bjnia hare Arthur; father and
Bar Mr. and Mrs. John A, Arthur,
■ Aiken county; six brothers, Willis
Bur, A. F. Arthur, B. F. Arthur and
■ L Arthur, Aiken county; J. E.
Bur, of Register, Ga., and Henry
Bur, of Reidsville, N. C.; two sis
■ers Mrs. W. M. Hern. Bransford, Fla.
Ed Mrs. G. W. Mobley, Waynesboro,
Is, -Augusta Chronicle, Jan. 23.
I lass Meeting of Citizens Adopt Resolu
tions Rotary Club on Post Office Building
Waynesboro, Gi„ Jan. 21, 1924 — The Waynesboro Rotary Club passed
he following resolutions at its weekly luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
The city of Waynesboro stands greatly in need of a post office building.
■iVaynestioro is the county seat of Burke county, the second largest county
■nthe state, . it h a p pulation of more than thirty thousand; Waynesboro in
Hthe l!t-0 census had a population of thirty three hundred eleven; it easily
Bias four thousand now. The county contains nine hundred and fifty-six
Biuare miles. It is one of the oldest counties ni Georgia, originally a part of
John Parish.
I Tlu county h s twelve post offices in its borders and not a govern
ment building in the county.
Waynesboro is one of the oldest town in Georgia, laid out in 1783. The
government lias never made an appropriation for any purpose for the city
except the purchase of a site for a post office building.
The following facts about the post office building will support the con
tention of the itizens that the city greatly needs a building of this kind:
1. There are eleven employees in office—two city carriers, four, R. F.
D. men and, live in office.
2. There are twelve post offices in Burke county — of these Sardis Alex
ander and Girard get their mail through the Waynesboro office. In addition
to these three ofiiees the following are served by the Waynesboro office: Hil
tonia. Millhav.m, Sylvania, Springfield, Bascom, Farmdale, and Newington.
•! the floor space of the building contains only one thousand square
I '' The shape of the room is such that re-arrangement is impossible.
T r l i* registry is combined with the money order place; the parcel post
!1 nming and outgoing combined with general delivery.
£here are no classified sections in the office.
£ The lighting is altogether artificial. It can not be otherwise with the
present, quarters. This sort of lighting has been condemned by the medical
apartment of the government.
• ihe receipts of the office fcr the past four years have shown a decided
increase.
\ Ther«‘ are seven daily mails coming in and seven dispatched,
i h lobby of the post, office is very small.
\ . ‘ 1 government cwns a site for a building.
til >v< facts, the citizens of Waynesboro believe that we
I in 1 '* 0 a new post offlce building and therefore urge our Congress
b (i More and our Senators, Hon. W. J. Harris, and Hon. W. F.
x »t( their best efforts to secure a building that will give us
: ! committee from Waynesboro Rotary Club.
W. L. SULLIVAN
ALVIN NEELY
JACK LANCE
mittee of ad °P t ed by mass meetings of citizens. Signed by com-
CLARENCE ROWLAND
SIDNEY BATES
ALBERT BRASWELL
leaf The 801 l Weevil in 1924
r 'Ms f, an be done by thorough cultivation—use
P ' '-' 1( "i and a liberal apnlieation of Morris’ High
Fertilizer, such as 12-4-4, 12-3-4 or 12-3-3.
£ v A ? ce l }t no substitute. Look on the bag for the
lOil °wing trade mark.
t ivo»y/fr
ti i A ' ei T°ne who used Morris’ High Analysis Fer
an f ' season was well pleased with the results
r ' 4 ■ ave joined the throng of enthusiastic boosters
lor Morris goods.
• ( our local agent at your nearest point and
to*'?','*'} y° u more about the Supreme Quality of
1 High Grade Fertilizers.
Local Agent
* Fulcher, Waynesboro, Ga.
Vacation Bible
Class Possible
Dr. Thomas J. Evans at the Sunday
school conference here on last Sat
urday created a very favorable im
pression on the subject of the daily
vacation Bible school. A group of in
terested workers met him after the
general session at which time the de
tails were gone into. The matter will
be presented to the church for action
Mrs. Frank Burney and Mrs. Frame
Cates, from the Baptist church; Prof
Maddox, from the Presbyterian; W. M
Fulcher, from the Methodist, and H.
C. Hatcher, from the Episcopalian. Mr.
Webb the state secretary, promised
the help of the state organization.
There i 3 a likelihood that Imme
diately following the close of the pub
lis schools a daily vacation bible
school will be conducted for five weeks
Several teachers have already volun
teered. If the churches act favorably
on the question it will be undertaken.
Meshed Temple
Elect Officers
The annual election of officers of
Meshed Temple D. 0. K. K. No. 183 in
! Augusta, Monday night was an event
of much interest to the members of
this Temple in Waynesboro.
Grand Vizier, W. E. Matthews,
Grand Emir, E. E. Vaughn.
Shick, W. D. Gehrken.
Mahedi, J. W. Langston.
Secretary, J. M. Haynie.
Treasurer, H. J. Goodin.
Sabih, C. S. Brown.
Makano, E. S. Goode.
Saruk, D. Sanford.
Master of Ceremonies, J. A. Cannon
Escorts, J. M. Kirtz, and P. M.
O’Connor.
Temple Deputy, J A Cannon
NOTICE
The Board of Education has suffi
cient funds on hand to redeem all cer
tificates of indebtedness issued up to
• Dec. Ist.
O. M. GRESHAM, C. S. S.
%\ )£ ©me Citizen.
Burke County Man
Reputed Member of
New British Cabinet
Now comes a Burke county man
who has just been made Minister of
Labor in the British cabinet which
Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald,
selected upon his accession to the min
istry this week.
Thomas Shaw, minister of labor, as
The Citizen learns, was born in Burke
county near Alexander, and lived
here for several years before return
ing to his home in England. His fa
ther left his English home to try his
hand in America and he taught school
in Burke county at Alexander for
sometime. Alexander at that time was
a prosperous village and had a lrage
and nourishing school. Here he me*
a Miss Holton, niece of Mrs. Thomdlr
Blanchard, and married her.
A son was born to them, who was
named Thomas, and he lived with the
Blanchards after the death ol ’is
mother. In the meantime his father
returned to England and after several
years sent for or came for his son,
who was carried back to his ancestral
home.
Mr. Shaw had a title and became
very active in politics of his country
finally being selected to fill a position
in Sir Ramsey MacDonald’s cabinet
which was chosen this week.
The full membership of the new cab
inet as given the press dispatches fol
lows:
Ramsey MacDonald, premier and
secretary for foreign affairs.
John Robert CTynes, lord privy seal
and deputy leader in house of com
mons.
Lord Harmoor, lord president of the
council.
Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor.
Phillip Snowden, chancellor of the
exchequer.
Arthur Henderson, Secretary for
home affairs.
J. Thomas, secretary for the colo
nies.
Stephen Walsh, secretary for war.
Sir Sidney Oliver head of the Indian
affairs.
Brigadier-General Sir Christoliper
Thomson, air minister.
Viscount Chelmsford, first lord of
the admiralty.
S. Y. Webb, president of the board
of trade.
John Wheatley, minister of health.
Noel Buxton, minister of agricuiutre
Wm. C. Anderson, secretary i'or Scot
land.
C. P. Treveleyan, president of the
board of education.
Thomas Shaw, minister of labor.
Vernor Hartshorn, post master gen
eral.
Colonel Josiah Wedgood, chancellor
for the duchy of Lancaster.
F. W. Jowett. commissioner of
works.
OYSTER SUPPER
Oyster Supper will be served .t
Gough Friday February Ist, for the
benefit of the school.
Plenty of Music and Fresh Oysters.
Public is cordially invited to attend.
SPRING IS COMING
ALSO OUR
N Sport Suiting G
E Canton Crepe 0
W Silk Crepe 0
S Crepe de Chine D
P Spring Silks S
R White and Colored Voiles A
I White and Colored Flowers R
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N Silk Striped Modes E
Q Dress Gingham 1
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You are invited to come and inspect the goods.
JAS. H. WHITEHEAD
DEPARTMENT STORE WAYNESBORO, GA.
Waynesboro, Ga., January 26, 1924.
Architects’ Plans
Complete for New
Addition to School
Mr. Scruggs of Sc oggs and Ewing
of Augusta met with the committee
from city council and from Trustees
at school house on Tuesday afternoon
to show them plans for the six rooms
that will be added to the school build
nig. His plans call for the six rooms
to be placed at the bend of the pres
ent building—toward Mrs. Bell’s
There will be no plumbing in the six
room but it will contain a different
heating system. The rooms are tj be
constructed after hte very most mod
ern type of school rooms. Drs.
Stayer and Englehart of Columbia are
authors of the plans most widely
used in school architecture and the
plans submitted by Mr. Scroogs are
the same as theirs. The Austral win
dows, moist air for heating, the best
approved blackboards, every item in
the construction after a careful plan.
The rooms will be thirty feet from the
present building and will have a cov
ered passage leading into present
building. It is on the group plan and
as the school grows other units will
fellow without disturbing the system
of the present plant. Mr. Scroggs
will have the blue prints ready at
once and bids will be advertised for
Work should begin within a month
and it will be about ten weeks to
finish the job. The six rooms will
give adequate space for a perief l of
perhaps two or three yea' 3.
March 19th Date
of Primary for
Georgia’s Choice
Atlanta. .Tan. 19.—Georeia t.odav
saw beginnnig of the disinte
gration of the Watson political faction
as a dominating balance of power in
state politics. %
The state Democratic executive 1
committee’s one fight at its first
meeting since the Macon convention j
was an effort by leaders and would-be j
leaders of the Watson faction to fix
date for a presidential preference pri-|
mary for the admitted purpose on|
their candidate to be run in Georgia!
against both W. G. McAdoo and Oscar]
W. Under waak, and on two test votes I
lost by the close margin of one vote, r
It was a question whether the lead-1
ership of the fight to hold together thejj
old Watson organization should go to i
James A. Hollomcn or to James H.j>
Boykin. Both these gentlemen blazedj
the way in the opposition to the report*
of the special subcommittee- on regu-f
la.tions for a preference primary, in a
w r hich March 19 was fixed as the date.h
That, however, was the final actionf 1
of the committee as a whole, |
—The Waynesboro Motor Co., have* 1
erected a large electric Chervolet sign :
in front of their show rooms on Lib
erty street.
Hatcher Member
First District Law
Society from Burke
The organization of the First Dis
trict Law Society at a meeting held in
Savannah on yesterday was announc
ed today. The officers of the society
are: Lieut. Col. Anderson Ulmer,
Savannah, president; Judge Paul D.
Shearouse, Springfield, vice president,
'Judge W. C. Hodges, Hinesville, secre
tary-treasurer.
Executive Committee—Wade H.
Brewtou, Claxton; Thomas J. Parish,
Ludowici; Clarence T. Buyton, Guy
ton; Judge E. C. Elmore, Claxton; L.
C. Anderson, Metter; ,J. C. Trapnell.
Metter; Fred T. Lanier, Statesboro;
J. Saxton Daniel, Claxton; O. E.
Bright, Savannah; C. L. Hilton, Syl
vania; E. A. McWhorter, Savannah! J.
H. Howard, Sylvania; C. E. Alexander
Savannah; J. Spencer Powell, Sylva
nia; E. G. Weathers, A. S. Anderson,
Millen, Henry H. Durrence, Claxton;
H. Cliff Hatcher, Waynesboro.
Membership will be by invitation
only, and membership from any one
county will be limited to a maximum
of 25 per cent of the membership of
the entire body, it is announced. This
is to prevent control by any one sec
tion or clique, which has proved so
detrimental to other organizations of
a similar character, the announcement
says.
■ The purposes of the organization are
anounced as manifold, but most es
pecially will it enter into those fields
not attempted by the local or State
Bar Associations. Meetings will be
held at different points in the First
Congressional district as often as pos
sible, and at each meeting papers no
current topics as related to the mod
ern practice of law will be read by
the members, and in addition, an ad
dress will be made at each meeting by
some able lawyer, prominent in
public life.
1 The announcement further says of
the aims of the society.
The association will study the ques
tion of proper qualifications for ad
' mission to the bar, having particular
j reference to the general moral and
. educational fitness of each applicant,
I end the broadening of the scope of
j the state bar examination.
I It in common with similar organiza
tions throughout the United States
will work towards uniformity of judi
cial procedure, the speeding up of
litigated matters and also endeavoi to
bring closer together the city and the
[country partitioner.
| It will study anachronisms in the
J l°w and endeavor to bring down to
[date some of our antiquated laws ami
[practices.
| It will study methods of eoneiliatiou
jralher than increased litigation, this
j being a system of jurisprudence im
ported frem Norway and Denmark
jand which has gained a strong foot
mold in other sections of the country.
[Concili?tion prevents litigation by
(rendering it unnecessary, and this
(means less congested do kets, less
pressure on overdriven judges, and,
(ultimately, a lightening of the ox
’payer’s burden.—Savannah Press, Jan.
22.
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BROAD, ST.
EYES THOROUGHLY EXAMINED
McAdoo, Underwood
and Reed to Fight
It Out in Georgia
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 22.—The number
of entrants in the Georgia Presidential
primary was raised to three yesterday
with the introduction of the name of
Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri
by his supporters, Senator Oscar W.
Underwood and William G. McAdoo
having previously been named by sup
porters as candidates.
The announcement of Senator
Reed’s name as a candidate followed
a meeting of his supporters here yes
terday. Included among those present
on the occasion we r e former Gover
nor Thomas W. Haidwkm, Mayor Wal
ter A. Sims, of Atlanta; J 3. Daniel
of Troup county; James A. Boykin, of
Lincolnton, Ga.; and Judge James J.
Flynt, of Griffin.
Bank of Girard Fays Sixteen and Two-
Thirds Per Cent Dividend Annual Meeting
The annual stockholders meeting of Bank of Girard, Girard, Georgia,
was held on Wednesday, January 9th, 1924.
The following directors were elected to serve for the year, 1924: Dr. Louis
B. Royal, W. P. Sanders, Green O. Buxton, Samuel J. Odom, and Wm. V.
Stephens.
The officers elected for the year are, Wm. V. Stephens, President and Cash
ier.; Dr. Louis B. Royal and W. P. Sanders, Vice-Presidents, and Judah B.
Buxton, Assistant Cashier.
A good report of the condition of the bank was made and an annual divi
dend of sixteen and two-thirds per cent, ($2,500.00) was declared on the
capital stock of $15,000.00.
This bank was organized in 1906, a,nd has paid in seventeen (17) annual
dividends, $27,500.00, and has a surplus and undivided profit account of
$20,000.00.
Earnings from January Ist, 1919, to January Ist, 1924:
Interest and Discount $79,382.08
Premium on Exchange 5,009.50
Safety Box Rents 67.20
Total $84,468.78 $84,468.78
Expense Account $31,888.75
Taxes Paid 5,757.66
Interest Paid 24,322.37
Total $61,968.78 $61,968.78
Total Net earnings, shows an average net earning of thirty (30)
per cent per annum on the capital $22,500 00
Paid in five (5) annual dividends $2,500.00 each $12,5100.00
Balance of earnings placed to undivided profit account $10,000.00
Total undividided profit account to January Ist, 1919 $7,000 00
Surplus $3,000.00
Total Surplus and Undivided profits $20,000.00
Capita l stock paid in $15,000.00
Stockholders liability $35,000.00
• otal, stockholders liability $70,000.00
GRAND PROGRAM
FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 2D.
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
SPECIAL—MUSICAL COMEDY
Dancing chorus of Beautiful Girls, Pepery Girls, Snappy Costumes.
Pace Makers Musical Comeyd Co.
Three Days—Entire Change of program nightly.
Company of 14 people, 8 chorus girls
Admission, Adults 50c plus tax
Children under 12 years 25c plus tax
Matinee Monday Afternoon 4 o’clock
Daniel Boone Serial Only
ADMISSION 10c and 15c.
?Special Matinee Wednesday Afternoon for Ladies
and Children at 3.30
Musical Comedy and Pictures
Charles Hutchinson in “Speed
ADMISSION 15c, 25c and 35c TAX INCLUDED
THURSDAY
The big one we all have been looking for
“MONTE CHRISTO”
Win. Fox’s Biggest and Best Picture of the seas n
ADMISSION 10c, 25c, and 35c.
FRIDAY
Special Pathe Feature
“ISLE OF ZORDA”
A story of the South Sea Islands. See the Beautiful Bathing Beauties
’N Everything
HAROLD LLOYD IN OFF THE TROLLY
ADMISSION 10c, 25c, and 35c.
SATURDAY
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Constancy Tahnadda,
Harrison Ford tad * " “■■■"
Kanneth Harlan » “Dm Promt** Low*
A First NatNional Attraction Featuring the Stunning Constance Tal
madge in her latest picture
“PRIMITIVE LOVER”
also “Mysterious Pearls’’
ADMISSION 10c, 25c, and 35c.
NUMBER 45
Laymen Conduct
Sunday Services
Methodist Church
Due to the absence oi the Methodist
pastor, Rev. J. B. Johnstone, both ser
vices at the church here Sunday were
in the hands of laymen. The morning
service was presided over by C’apt. W.
M. Fulcher, superintendent of the
Sunday school and Mr. Lance outlin
ed the work of the Savannah district
laymen for the comivg year.
The night service was p rticularly
interesting; R L. Oliver, lay leader of
the church was the first speaker and
he stressed the great need of faith
in church work; Hon. H. C. Hatcher
spoke on “Co-operation;’’ Henry Dan
iel pointed out how the church may be
even a greater power than it is at
present; Judge W. H. Davis, a mem
ber of the B ptist church, talked in
terestingly on “The Fundamenttalis-
Modernist Controversy.”
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