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VOLUME 42.
WOODROW WILSON’S DEATH LAST SUNDAY MORNING REMOVES AMERICA’S FOREMOST CITIZEN
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON PARTICIPATED IN BY ENTIRE COUNTRY
Death Comes Peacefully and Calmly at
Wilson Home on Sunday Morning
Washington, D. C., Feb. 3.— Former President Woodrow Wilson died at
11 15 o’clock this morning.
The en«i was peaceful. Life ebbed away while he slept.
,’’ : ri .‘i lia n, he closed his eyes, and passed on to the great hereafter.
p r G.'-iyson his friends and physician, announced the end of the great
president as follows:
• W Wilson died at 11.15 o’clock. His heart’s action became feebler
,i futile and the heart muscle was so fatigued that it refused to act any
filler The end came peacefully.
1 • The remote c* uses of death lie in his ill health, which began more
. f(; ; years ago, namely: General arterio-sclerosis with haemopligia.
Tho ir mediate cause of death was exhaustion following a digestive distur
bance" whi h began in the early part of last week but did not reach an
acute stage until the early morning hours of Feb. 1.”
Waynesboro Pays Wilson Tribute
Wednesday Afternoon During Funeral
At the request of the local American
Legion Post Wdenesday afternoon
business cf Waynesboro was suspend
ed during the funeral of Woodrow
Wilson, America’s greatest citizen.
Exercises were also held in the court
house following the closing of the
places of business at which appro
priate remarks were made in eulogy of
the distinguished dead. The meeting
began with the singing of ‘Nearer
My Gcd To Thee” followed by pray
er by Dr. J. P. McFerrin Dr Mc-
Ferrin was followed by Rev John
Page Jones, himself a member of the
American Legion, who paid tribute,
He was followed with the benediction
by Rev T. M. Stribling and the ex
Simplicity Marks Wilson Funeral
Washingtno, D. C., Feb. s.—Lonely
in the inscrutible majesty of death,
Woodrow Wilson kept his last vigil
tonight in the quiet room where life
ebbed away.
Eternal calm and a great peace
brooded over the still, strong face,
Deep graven lines etched by years of
pain and suffering were softened in
death, the look of strain gone forever.
Dear ones will have looked their
last on those chiseled features when
another sun has set.
The broken machine, the valiant
spirit that ruled it fled, will have been
laid tenderly away amid sculptured
marble to sleep forever.
There was little more of prepara
tion necessary today for the funeral
ceremonies tomorrow. They will be
doubly striking by their utter simpli
city. Even the double religious ser
vices will be brief and lack much of
the cadenced sorrow of church cere
monials for the dead. Of military
pageantry there will he none. It was
so Woodrow Wilson wished to be serv
ed in the lsat hours when men could
do for him.
Wednesday will be a day that will
be strangely different from those that
went before. Again the nation stands
eager to lavish the full splendor of its
sorrow about the heir of a faithful
servant. Again it would blazen to the
world its pride as well as its sorrow
hi the American life that had ended,
l'ut he would not have had it so and
the American people have acquiesced
in his lenging for the privacy of sim
ple citizenship. There will be no
sound of drum or funeral note as he
m carried to his resting place in the
cathedral; no military coloring save
the uniform of a handful of gallant
comrades of the sister services over
Jf Wch . 1 11 their great hour of trial by
11 P re war > he w r as commander in
chief They alone wlil lay hands upon
his casket in his last juorney.
he family service at the “S” street
home will be held in the library, just
1° ovv H le room in which the dead war
resident still lay tonight. The room
ooks out over the same quiet garden
pon which he last gazed from the
n<L\vs of the death chamber. It is
P*-ireful, quiet room remote from
rw DOl * Se of the cit Y or th e strife and
wmi e fl tlons of the wor ld. Before its
m ,oV replace Wo °drow Wilson found
' ® ase an d comfort despite the
, ln ; , ianti °f fatal illness that lay
u Pon him.
tender hands will lift
in M, > , A n a Eain for his last short hour
win 1 1 I ? emor y peopled room. They
firpm‘7 lil ? 1 gently before the great
about i! ' vbere he so often sat and
the Nm'i ni ' Q tbe sacre( l privacy of
“ho S!\ clrel ® wm gather the few
Amon; ;, Share in l* loß6 last moments,
upon u .i lorn w *ll stand the colleagues
heaw 1! " 9 , e Moulders now rests the
Amom? H ylght of the presidency,
who C too > will stand a lew
great <\ ' d humbl y with him in the
true Tw 8 gone b y- The re will be
sorrow ,! ?[ acy ’ the Democracy of
«c o kl»Vme at UtHe * rou «- ln the
» half hour wdl serve for the
be the There will onl y
kindly ('onsriin erßym f nt t 0 Bpeak the
and eiuSJ S 5, W ? rdß of the Psalmß
sion for <’ 1 Gud 8 tendere st compas
parting ti, ° n , es from whom he Is
large V" read ’ to °- *rom the
cises’ that uA? 0f devotiona l exer
througl) th< oodrow Wilson scanned
iD his read
ture for thosA Bear ched the scrip
ts spirit aeatn«t X !5 that would Bta y
to come. nst tbe trials of a day
in the home A ?° music 0r hymns
h had great wA 6 ’ althou gh in life
solemn meinriio e +[° r three of the old,
n DoZ 7 1 Patie h n c t e haTe tmm me "
to the broad 8 A P pitch of “S’ street
avenue runs tiiT* * p of Massachusetts
Along the road A the Cathedral
retails of soiriin nd about the nouse
to ho!d the r r o 8 », and marlnos w 11
Pressing then* ™ d open a S ai nst the
bitterest weXA that l.ut
as t murk ot resoeet", keep Jo ' n ,hlB
lean. Ud the ; spect to a great Amer
inds over thp l* A e tke funeral way
the grade that leads to the
ercises were over.
Just as the clock struck the hour
of three the city bell was tolled every
once a minute for more than fifteen
minutes and its mellow tones were
blended with those of the Presby
terian church bell which was being
tolled at the same time by the Mission
Study Class of this church This
study class was in session at three
o’clock and they turned their meeting
into a eulogy of Mr. Wilson and had
the bell tolled. Mr Wilson’s father
was the Presyterian minister ni Au
gusta and he preached in the Waynes
boro church in 1867 .and his visit is
recalled by some of the older members
Former President Wilson was then a
hoy of about ten years
great church in its wooded cloje. The
trees are leafless now, but in summer
they spread a carpet of green about
the gray stonework of lofty,
structure.
Within, deep amid the masonary of
the foundations, in the cryot chapel
from which runs the only entrance to
the vault. The few hundreds who
may find place at this oddly small
public service will already be in their
places when the funeral train arrives
They will be standing close spaced be
hind the seats where the Deleaved
family, the President and his cabinet
and a few others of the distinguished
guests will gather. In that standing
group will be representatives of the
army, navy and marine corps, of the
Supreme Court, of the Senate and
House and of the great departments
cf government. There also will be
the ambassadors and ministers and
the few others who can be crowded in
The casket will be laid before the
altar rail and again the services will
be brief. The full choir and the or
gan will play their part in the cere
mony, and beyond that there will be
only the reading of the psalms and
the prayers with Bishop Freeman and
his Presbyterian colleagues. Drs. Tay
lor and Beach, again sharing in con
ducting the services.
At the close, when the benediction
has been said and while the organ
plays softly, Mrs. Wilson and mem
bers of the family will go out, then all
the company in the chpael. The en
trance to the vault will be opened in
private, and when the great slab stone
that covers it has been set aside the
stricken family will go back alone to
witness the placing of the casket in
niche far under the massive wall of
the building where it will lie until its
final resting place has been made
ready.
In the chapel service, the choir will
sing that favorite hymn of the dead
man, “Day is Dying in the West,” and
as the mourners turn away at last to
go back down into the work-a-day city
below and tis crowding cares and
clamour, the far rim of Maryland hills
to westward will tinged with the glow
of the night to come and Woodrow
Wilson’s last hour among men will
be over.
Milestones in Life
of Woodrow Wilson
Washington, Feb. 3.—Woodrow Wil
son’s life was marked by these mile
stones.
Born at Staunton, Va., December
28, 1856.
Graduated at Princeton University
1879.
Selected as president of Princeton,
Aug. 1, 1902, after 17 years as college
professor.
Elected governor of New Jersey,
Nov. 10, 1910.
Nominated for president in the dem
ocratic national convention, Balti
more, July 2, 1912.
Elected president Novembers, 1912.
Inaugurated March 4, 1913.
Re-elected president November 7,
1916.
Asked congress to declare war on
Germany April 2, 1917.
Sailed for France December 4, 1918,
as head of American peace commission
Signed treaty of Versailles June 28,
1919.
Carried fight with senate over
league of nations to country Septem
ber 3, 1919.
Suffered nervous breakdown near
Wichita, Kans., Sept. 26, 1919.
Stricken with paralysis at White
House, October 5, 1919.
Retired from presidency March 4,
1921.
Died at Washington, February 3,
1924.
Stye %xvit Citizen
Thirty Days of Mourning for Wilson
Proclaimed by President Coolidge
Washington, Feb. 3.—President
Caclidge’s proclamation on the death
of Woodrow Wilson follows:
“By the president of the United
States of America.
“A proclamation.
“To the people of the United States.
“The death of Wtcodrow Wilson
president of the United States from
March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1921, which
occurred at 11:15 o’clock today at his
home at Washington, District of Co
lumbia, deprives the country of a
most distinguished citizen and is an
event which causes universal ana gen
uine sorrow. To many of us it brings
the sense of a profoud personal be
reavement.
“His early profession as a lawyer
was abandoned to enter academic life
In this chosen field he attained the
highest rank as an educator and has
left his impression upon the irte'tex
tual thought of the country. From the
presidency of Princeton University he
was called by his fellow citizens to be
the chief executive of the state of
New Jersey. The duties of this high
office he so conducted as to win the
confidnece of the people of the United
States who twice elected him to the
chief magistry of the republic.
“As president of the United States
he was moved by an earnest desire
Principal Events
of Wilson Regime
Washington, Feb. 3. —Here are the
principal events during the Wilson
administration:
The World War.
Refusal of the senate to ratify the
treaty of Versailles and the league of
nations covenant.
Negotiations of arbitration treaties
with Great Britain, Japan, and many
other countries.
Military occupation of Haiti, Santo
Domingo and Vera Cruz.
Purchase of the Danish West Indies
Refusal to recognize any leader in
Latin America who acquired office by
force.
Refusal t orecognize the Russian
soviet government.
Establishment of: Federal Reserve
Banking System; Rural credit banking
System; Federal Trade Commission;
Traiff Commsision; Shipping Board
and Emergency Fleet Corporation;
jWar Risk Bureau; Federal Water
Power Commission; Employes Com
pensation Commission; Alien proper
ty custodian.
Construction of great government
owned merchant marine and govern
ment railroad in Alaska.
Enactment of Constitutional amend
dents providing for direct election of
senators, national prohibition, and
qeual suffrage; Selective service draft
act, a war measure; Clayton Anti-
Trust law; Eight-hour day for rail
read employes; Workmen’s compen
sation law; Law for federal aid in
state highway construction; LaFollet
te seamen act; Immigration law with
literacy test. Revenue law with huge
increases in income and other taxes.
Repeal of the clause in the Panama
canal law exempting American ships
from tolls.
Government poeration of railroads
and telegraph and telephone lines as
war measures.
Sale cf seized dye and chemical pat
ents to the Chemical Foundation.
Passage of the Esch-Cummins trans
portation act and creation of the rail
road labor board.
Creation of the Pacific battle fleet
with transfer to Pacific of the bulk of
naval forces.
Levermore Wins
Bok Peace Prize
Philadelphia, Feb. 4.—Charles Her
bert Levermiere of New York, student
of international relations, writer and
former college professor, tonight was
announced as the winner of the SIOO,-
000 prize offered by Edward W. Bok,
Philadelphia published for the best
plan to preserve peace among the na
tions tot the world.
Dr. Levermore was announced as
the winner of John W. Davis of the
policy committee of the American
peace award, at a meeting at the
Academy of Music. Mr. Davis also
presented him with $50,000, half of
Mr. Bok’s prize, and the remainder
will be given only if the plan 5s as
ceptde by the Congress of the United
States. Dr. Levernuore’s plan was
number 1,469 in a total of 22,165 re
received.
Mail Romance
Ends at Altar
A long distance romance carried on
through htte medium of the mail, came
to aahppy ending here last Monday
when Mr. G. M. Reed of California,
and Mrs Annie Redd of near Sardis
were married in Millen
Mr Redd became acquainted with
Mrs. Redd through the medium of a
matrmonial add, several months ago
and after he arrived in town about
ten days ago to claim the lady's hand
Although both of the couple are on
the sunny side of life they are just
as happy and well satisfied with each
other as any pair of youngsters that
ever told the preacher I will.
Folks thar hfcint nary doubt about
hit, hit sho pays tter advertise
Brier Creke Bulletin.
Waynesboro, Ga., February 9,1924
to promote the best interests of the
country, as he prompted by high mo
tives. and his sincerity of purpose can
not be qusetioned. He led the na
tion through the terrific struggle of
the World war with a lofty idealsm
which never failed him. He gave ut
terance to the aspirations or numani
ty with an eloquence which held the
attention of all the earth and made
America a new and enlarged influence
in the destiny of mankind.
“In testimony of the respect in
which his mmory is held by the gov
ernment and the people of the United
States I do hereby direct that the flags
of the white house and of the several
departmental buildings be displayed
at half mast for a period of thirty
days and suitable military and naval
honors, under orders of the secretary
of th navy, be rendered on the day
of the funeral.
“Done at the city of Washington,
this third day of February in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and twenty four, and of the
independency of the United State? of
America, the one hundred and forty
eighth.
“By the president,
“CALVIN COOLIDGE,
“CHARLES EVANS HUGHES.
“Secretary of state.”
Ex-President
Taft Has Attack
of Indigestion
Wshington D. C., Feb. 6.—Chief
Justice Taft by direction of his phy
sician, Dr. Thomas A. Clayton, has
cancelled all engagements for the im
mediate future and entered upon a
period of complete rest
This course was determined upon
after the chief justice had suffered
an attack of indigestion today.
Although the attack was yielding to
treatment he followed his physician’s
instructions and went to bed.
Because of his illness Mr. Taft was
unable to attend the funeral of Wood
row Wilson for which he been
named an honorary pallbearer. At
the same time he decided to abandon
a trip to New York and New Haven
which he had planned for tomorrow.
Dr. Clayton said tonight he did not
consider that Mr. Taft was seriously
ill and added that it probably would
not be necessary for him to remain in
bed.
“The Chief Justice had a little gas
tral indigestion upset upset today.”
Drfl Clayton stated, “but he had no
fever and will be fully restored to his
usual good health in a day or two. I
do not consider him seriously ill. He
was resting very comfortably tonight.
I have advised him to remain quietly
at home for a day or two where he
will be permitted to go about the
house. His condition is not such as
to require him to remain in bed.”
Chief Justice Taft has kept himself
in condition by methodical exercise
since leaving the White House. Even
durnig the winter monhts he has daily
walked the three or four miles be
tween the Capital at a brisk pace. He
has been generally regarded as enjoy
ing excellent health.
Ernest Camp
. Publicity Man
for Underwood
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. s.—At the request
of the leaders in the Underwood Presi
dential Campaign Mr. Earnest Camp
of Monroe, Editor of the Walton Tri
bune, a well known Georgia Newspap
er man, has come to Atlanta to direct
the publicity for Senator Underwood’s
Campaign in this state, and has op
ened offices at the Kimball House.
Editor Camp has long been a warm
admirer of Senator Underwood, and
was a delegate from Georgia to the
National Democratic Convention of
1912. He states his belief that the
people of the south should rally to
the standard of the Alabama aspirant,
whom he terms “a southerner by birth,
breeding and sentiment, who liked
the south so well that he never left
it and who has always been loyal to
its noblest ideals and traditions.”
Speaking of his reasons for coming
to Atlanta temporarily, Editor Camp
said:
‘‘Senator Underwood is the only
southerner in the public eye, that ev
ery section cf the nation will agree,
is of presidential proportions, and a
baif century may elapse before we pro
duce another man who will be nat
ionally accepted as much. Twelve
years ago at Baltimore, there was
nothing but praise for Senator Under
wood by thoughtful democrats from
every section, and his record since
that time has been such as to increase
the general esteem and enchance his
chances for the democratic nomination
in 1924.
“Please understand that I am not
supporting Senator Underwood sim
ply because he is a southerner; I fa
vor him because of the conviction
that he is the biggest and best man
the democrate have to offer for this ex
alted position and, naturally, I take
pride in the fact that he is a south
erner.”
“It is for this reason that I consent
ed to come to Atlanta even though at
some sacrifice, to do everything I
could to advance his cause and contri
bute to a victory which I feel is as
sured on March 19th.”
MELLON ESTIMATES COST OF FEDERAL
BUILDING FOR THE CITY AT $70,080
Washington, D. C., Feb. 4. —In a communication to congress, Secretary
Mellon estimates that the following amounts will be required to construct
federal buildings in Georgia cities; Canton, $50,00*0; Douglas, $76,500; Eaton
ton, $55,000; Madison, $65,000; Monroe, $65,000; Rossville, $70,000; San
dersville, $65,000; Thomson, $55,000; Toccoa, $65,000; Waynesboro, $70,000;
West Point, $69,000.
More Cotton on
Fewer Acres Is
Aim of Campaign
“More cotton to the acre, not
more acres to cotton,” is the guid
ng thought in the boll weevil drive
that has just been undertaken by
>usiness men and farmers. It is
the experience of successful farm
ers that with the methods of con
trol now known and tested, if put
into wide practice, the United
States can increase production
sufficiently to maintain the indus
try with profit.
A yield of a bale to six or ten
acres, without weevil control, will
not be profitable even at 35c a
pound. A yield of a bale to three
acres, with weevil control, will be
profitable even at 20c a pound.
The National 801 l Weevil Con
trol Association, composed of busi
ness men and fanners, and the As
sociation of Southern Agrciultural
Workers, composed of experts, have
joined in appeal for state, county
and neighborhood support of a day
by day fight against the weevil.
The Association of Southern Agricul
tural Workers, consisting of experts
from the Department of Agriculture
and the Agricultural Colleges of the
South, together with the agriculural
representatives of the leading farm
ers, in a meeting at Birmingham, Ala.,
recently adopted definite recommen
dations for cotton production under
boll weevil conditions based upon ex
periment stations and on farms in all
the cotton states. These recommen
dations for cotton production under
boll weevil conditions based upon ex
periecnes and tests at all the experi
ment stations and on farms in all the
cotton states. These recommenda
tions urged thorough preparation of
the soil, planitng after all danger of
frost is past, one bushel or more of
seed to the acre, the use of improv
de seed, cotton rows three to four
feet, according to the fertility of the
soil, spacing from eight to twelve
inches with one tc< three stalks to the
hill. Poisoning for weevils is recom
mended at two stages.
1 — Poisoning just before the squares
form when there is sufficient emer
gence of weevils from hibernation to
indicate probable serious infestaaticn.
If as many as twnety weevils to the
acre are found just before the squares
are formed the poisoning is urged,
For this poisoning either the ncme
inade molasses mixture or calcium ar
senate'may be used nad may be re
peated as seems necessary be "ore
blooming.
2 Poisoning with calcium arsenate
when ten per cent of the squares are
infested. This is to be repeated as of
ten as necessary during the fruiting
period.
The recommendations indicate that
under boll weevil conditions a high
degree of fertilization is necessary and
that land that will not normally pro
duce as much as cne-third of a bale to
the acre can hardly be expected to
yield a profit this season. It is insist
ed that profitable cotton production de
pends upon increasing the yield of the
acre rather than increasing the acre
age.
Sweetum Time
in Atlanta Now
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 6.—lt is ap
proaching “Sweetum” time in Atlanta
now
The form of salutation which is
said to have been used by Asa G.
Candler, Sr., in his letters to Mrs.
Anezima de Bouchel of New Orleans
has become a by-word here
The latest wrinkle is the disclosure
at the state department of agriculture
that a well-known milling company
has applied for permission to use
the name on a stock feed.
Also a well-known candy manufac
turing concern has announced a new
brand of confection to be known as
“Sweetum.” In the same breath that
company also advertises a Teapot
Dome” candy, capitalizing the recent
oil scandal at Washington.
“Sweetum” also has become a stock
word in the local soft drink dispen
saries. “Gimmie a sweetum with
lime,” calls the cake eater as he am
bles up and paws vainly for ye old
brass rail. “Make mine a sweetum
with cherry.” says his companion.
“Sweetum” is here to stay, it ap
pears
“Sweetums” Wins
Verdict in Suit
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. sth.—The jury in
the Candier-De Bouchel damage suit,
rendered a verdict within 30 minutes
denying Mrs. De Bouchel damages.
Their verdict was “we the jury find a
verdict for the defendant.”
Mrs. De Bouchel, of New Orleans,
was suing Asa G. Cnadler, Sr., for
$500,000 for breach of promise.
Stone Mountain
Granite Removed
For Jackson Head
Removal of granite around the head
of “Stonewall” Jackson has been
started on the precipice of Stone
mountain, it was announced Saturday
by Hollins N. Randolph, president of
the memorial association.
“This work will be pushed forward
as rapidly as possible, and whne the
head of Jackson has been relieved, the
drilling crews will then switch back
to General Lee’s figure and begin re
moving around it, working down to
ward the horse of Lee, while Mr. Bor
glum follows with the carving of Lee’s
figure,” said Mr. Randolph.
‘Mr. Borglum expects to have the
figure of General Lee and his horse
finshed by the fall of this year, and
the carving of Jackson’s head will
then begin, the Jackson head in the
r;tanwh’le laving been r •lieved.
“I wish to emphasize that our as
sociation needs funds un a large scale
The quicker we raise the luuds, tho
quicker we can finish the memorial.
We hope to have the funds to provide
Mr. Borglum with three or four full
crews, which will enable ham to make
three or four times the present rate
of progress.”
Two additional ’’Founders' Roll” sub
scriptions of SI,OOO each were announc
ed Saturday. One is made by Mrs.
Sarah Johnston Penn, of Washington,
D. C., in memory of her husband,
James G. Penn, a gallant Confederate
soldier, and the other was made by
Mrs. Annie Mason Brockenbrough, of
Rappahannock, Va., in memory of her
husband, Benjamin BLake Brocken
brough, of the Ninth Virginia cavalry,
who entered the Confederate army
when seventeen years old and served
until the surrender at Appomattox dis
tinguished himself for bravery In
many battles.
The “Children’s Founders’ Roll”
for boys and girls of Confederate de
scent under sixteen years old who
give a dollar to the memorial is
“booming along splendidly,” Mr.
Randolph stated, and shows every
promise of reaching the goal of “one
million children in twelye months.”
This plan for the children was an
nounced in last Sunday’s papers, “and
already we have enrolled several hun
dred children.”
Mark McCulloughi, a prominent
business man of West Point, Ga., and
chairman of the board of education of
that city, called at memorial headquar
ters Saturday to obtain a supply of
literature on the “Children’s Founders’
Roll.” He will undertake the enroll
ment of every school child in West
Point under sixteen years of age—At
lanta Journal.
Estimated Wealth
State of Georgia
Washington, D. C., February, 4 1024
—The Department of Commerce an
nounces, for the state of Georgia, its
preliminary estimate cf the value, De
cember 31, 1922, of the principal forms
of wealth, the total amounting to $3,-
896,759,000 as compared with $2,117,-
410,000 in 1912, an increase of 84.00
per cent. Per capita valuse increas
ed from $785 to $1,306, or 66.3 per cent
All classes of property increased in
value from 1912 to 1922, except live
stock, which decreased from $106,430,-
000 to $101,764,000 or 4.4 per cent. The
estimated value of taxed real proper
ty and improvements increased from
$821,580,000 to $1,783,798,000 or 117.1
per cent; exempt real property from
$83,403,000 to $170,938,000, or 105.0 per
cent; farm implements and machinery
from $23,117,000 to $39,908,000, or
72.2 per cent; manufacturing machin
ery, tools and improvements from $90,-
429,000 to $159,411,000, or 76.3 per
cent; and railroads and their equip
ment from $246,422,000 to $319,619,-
000, or 29.7 per cent. Privately owned
transportation and transmission en
terprises, other than railroads, in
creased in value from sl2-9,509,000 to
$169,070,000, or 30.6 per cent; and
stocks of gocds, vehicles other than
motor, furniture, and clothing from
$616,460,000 to $1,098,762,000, or 78.2
per cent. No comparison is possible
.V the value of motor vehicles, which
vas estimated in 1922 at $53,489,000,
because no separate estimate was
made in 1912.
In making these estimates the De
partment followed in general th;
methods employed in making the es
timates for 1912, though it is believed
that in come respects the work in 1922
has been more thorough. It should
be borne in mind that the increases
in recent years, and so far as that is
the case they do not represent cor
responding increases in the quantity
of wealth.
The estimatde values of and
silver and bullion, the vessels of the
Navy, and privately owned waterworks
will appear only in totals for the
United States.
The purebread Holstein cattle
which farm boys and girls of Dela
ware have fed and cared for as a part
of their dairy calf club work consti
tute 19 per cent of the purebred Hol
steins in that state, according to a
recent report received by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
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NUMBER 47
Civic Bodies
Urged to Work
For Post Office
Following Secretary Mellon’s sur
vey announcing his estimate of a post
office buildnig for Waynesboro at $70,-
000,000 it is now time for our peo
ple to pull together and back up the
Rotary Club in its efforts to get things
into shape for the erection cf this
building. Congressman Moore has
been asked to introduce a bill for the
building by The Citizen and the Ro
tary Club, and The Citizen urges the
Woman’s Club, the Parent-Teachers
Association and other civic organiza
tions of the city to pass resolutions
and urge Congressman Moore to take
some action relative to passing a bill
for this building and also the Sena
tors Harris and George.
Waynesboro must display some in
terest in this matter to secure the
building and there must net be any
let up until something definite is done
Don’t delay, but write your congress
man and senators and urge upon them
action. Waynesboro needs the post of
flee building.
Eat and Meeting
Monday Night of
Local Legion Post
B. L. I. Post No, 120 American Le
gion will hold their regular month
ly meeting on Monday night at 8
o’clock at the Masonic Temple At
this meeting Commander Morton has
inaugurated eats as a side line to the
meeting and every member is expected
to come along and pay for his eats
and enjoy the meal along with the
fellowship of his comrades. It is
expected that a large number will be
present and every member is invited
and expected to be present. Come
prepared to pay your dues for 1924 if
you have not already done so. If
you can’t pay Monday night come and
pay as soon as you can.
The post has done some good work
since its organization and it is one
of the best small town pests in the
state. There is plenty of work ahead
for the Legion and it is becoming a
greater factor in the life of the ex
srevice man than it ever was before
Much interest is being manifested all
over the country and one of the great
est honors the men of the service can
bestew upon himself is to become a
member of the Legion.
Dr. Morton wants 150 members
from Burke county this year and he
must get them. In Wilkes county last
year every available service man was
a member of the post and it was listed
as a 100 per cent ccunyt. Burke coun
ty has a number of men who should
become members and they are urged
to join. Dcn’t wait to be urged, send
your dues to the Adjutant, Mr. James
H. Walters, Waynesboro, Ga„ and get
your 1924 card. Come on in buddies,
the water is fine, even if it is little
cold now.
Sixth District
Pythians to Meet
in Swainsboro
Pythians from thirteen counties in
Georgia, known as the Sixth Pythian
District will meet in convention at
Swainsboro next Tuesday, Feb. 12th.
Hon. C H Thompson, mayor of Swains
boro, is president of the Sixth district
and he has issued invitations to all
the lodges to be represented at this
meeting Officers will be elected and
other business relative to the lodge
will be transacted. A large delega
tion of Waynesboro Pythians will at
tend in addition to the regularly elect
ed delgates, who are:
B. H. Jones and J. I). McNair, dele
gates; H. C. Hatcher and B. J. Hatch
er, alternates.
The cities that compose the Sixth
district are: Waynesboro, Augusta,
Brooklet, Wadley, Garfield, Groveland,
Louisville, Elam, Guyton, Girard, Mid
ville, Millen, Sardis, Statesboro, Sum
mit, Swainsboro, Sylvania and
Wrightsville.
Georgia Day Program
at Academy Tuesday
The following program has been
arranged by the Daughters of the
Confederacy for the observance of
Georgia Day, or Flag Day at the
Academy Auditorium next Tuesday
morning at ill o’clock.
The public is cordially invited to be
present and help observe this great
day in the history cf our state. The
program is as follows:
Song—Georgia Land —School.
Readings—Seventh grade pupils.
Clement A. Evans—Mary Cates.
Sidney Lanier—Ernest Mundy.
Alfred Iverson—Gladys North.
John B. Gordon—Katherine Hill
house.
Alexander Stephens—Emma Law.
Song—Cherokee Rose —School.
Paper—Life of Oglethorpe—Charlie
Wallace.
Poem by Sidney Lanier—Elizabeth
Quinney.
Song—America—School.
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