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5 Looks That Way
To a person, five frof tuil standing
on the beach at seaside. the horizon is
deout two and three-quarters miles
sway.
i Superstitions of Siam.
In Siam all babies receive the same
Rame at birth. This name is Dang,
which means red and {t-is the only
&esignation for some months. At birth
a cord blessed by the priests is tied
round the outside of the house and
three balls of rice are thrown In “lucky
directions.”
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Upper group: Left to right—Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, President Harding, H. S. Firestone. T.ower
right: Horseback riding. The President, Mr. Firestone, and Mr. Ford. Lower left: Left to right—Edsel Ford,
Gevrge B. Christian, Jr., and Thomas A. Edison watok. Henry Ford try his luck as an angler. Ccnter inset:
Fresident Harding attacks the camp woodpile, o T
St‘:ENES from thewniyib camping
™ Yarty of the year are shown
above, the principals being President
Yarding, ITenry Ford, Detroit gen
ius, and Thomas A, Edison, electrical
wizard and inventor, and H. 8. Fire
stone, tire manufacturer,
These famous men recently sought
seclusion and quiet among the Mary
land and West Virginia mountains,
cemping at ono night stands, motor
iug, horseback riding, fishing and
resting from ™ the strenuous duties
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Garber’s Surprise Store
Thursday, August 25
10:00 A. M.
We will sell 1,000 packages Swifts Pride Washing Powder
and Arrow Borax SOAP, 5 for—
-9 cents
Friday, August 26th
We will sell 45 of those 5 quart Best Aluminum Tea Ket
tles, worth $4.00 at—
-83 cents each
iRI D e SNS U R N
Saturday, August 27th
We will sell 1,000 Five pound packages best DOMINO
GRANULATED SUGAR, 5 pounds for—
___SZ cents
Monday, August 29th
We will sell 100 dozen extra good 18x35 TURKISH TOW
ELS, worth 35 cents at—
Oc¢ each
Men’s eßst Union-Made Overalls, worth $2.50 at—
____Bs cents Pair
A Lot of Misses MUSLIN GOWNS, $1.50 Values at—
-69 cents each
$1.25 Elastic Seam DRAWERS to go at—
-59c pair
Men’s Laundered ARROW COLLARS at—
_______JSEEach
2 IN 1 SHOE POLISH at—
____6cents Box
Men's R;ai Goodi-IANDKERCHIEFS, 10c values at—
-4 cents Each
Men’s Leather Palm GLOVES, Best made—
-22 cents Pair
A lot of Men's High Grade OXFORDS, odds and ends $6
values to go at—
sl.6s Pair
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which weigh upon them during the
remainder of the year.
With Firestone, Edison and Ford
these camping excursions have be
come an annual event. Formerly
John Burroughs, the aged naturalist,
was a member, but his death last
spring removed his patriarchal fig
ure from the group. =By his asso
ciatos he was esteemed so highly
they considered mno less personago
than the president of the United
States could take his place, and Mr.
Harding accordingly was invited to.
take his bunk.
The president slept in a converted
army tent, as did thc others, and
proved an amiable and helpful camp
ing companion.
Despite the fact that a few attend
ants were with the party, he insisted
on doing his share of the camp
chores, as did the others, devoling
most of his atiention to the wood
pile. Few persons have the distine
tion of erting dinner eocked over
wood chopped by the presidential
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! GOMPERS WILL OPEN
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
WASHINGTON, August 24,
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, will
deliver the keynote for a campaign
to increase the membership of the
federation to five million, in an ad
dress to be delivered at Baltimore
on Labor Day it was stated today
at labor headquarters,
Other plans in the official Labor
day program of the federation in
cluded a speech by Frank Moran
Morrison at Louisville, Ky, |
At Boston the Central Labor
union plans a parade in which thei
building trades and metal council
will join, it was announced. Cle've-]
land unions have arranged for a
mass meeting at which W, D. Ma-‘
hon president of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway Em-l
ployes, will speak, In Philadelphia
there will be an athletic meet under!
the auspices of the Central Laborl
union and a parade, |
Chicago has arranged for a thrce-f
day celebration, at which William
Jennings Bryan, Rabbi Judah Mag
nes and Senator Joseph I, France,
of Maryland, are expected to be
among the speakers. I
Origin of Freemaconry Unknown,
The socicty of I'ree Masons ante
lates all other socictics by centuries.
\ts origin is so ancient that the place
and time of its birth are unknown.
Its legend say that it was organized
at the bullding of the temple of Solo
won, but this is not accepted with
amuch credence. By some writers its
origin has been ascribed to the
Druids, by others to the Kuights
Templar and to. Pythagoras, and it
has not escaped the fad which in mod
ern times has attributed so many
of the uncertain productions to the
nimble brain of Sir Francis Bacon.
Within recent years traces of the
organization are sald to have been
discovered in Palestine or the Egyp
tlan obelisks and in the pyramids,
In fac\, it has been asserted that in:
vestigarors have become satisfied
that the soclety grew directly from
an organization engaged in the con
Mruction of the wvramids.
Ant Hills Start a Fire.
Perhaps the strangest of causes
vhich ever produced a fire was am
ant hill. There is a specles of ant
known as the wood ant which makes
f nest entirely of vegetahle matter.
Under certain circumstances this may
fermen< until it gets hot enough te
begin to sinolder. Then comes @
breeze which fans the spark imte
illlmo. and the result may be a semiews
forest fire.
Nickel Highly Prized Metal,
- Nickel s regarded as one of the most
useful metals, though It lacks the
prestige of silver and gold. It s
bright and hard and noncorrosive and
In combination with fron it has been
In great demand for war equipment
end for bridges and other structural
‘work.
THE LEADER-ENTERPR'SE AND PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24th, 1921
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BROWN HOUSE:FIRE
Leaky Gas Mains, Powerful Drug
| Chemicals Theories Are Denied
|
\ MACON, August 24 —With a dil
ligcnt search for more bodies, be
| lieved still in the smoldering ruins
|of the Brown House, which was de
lstroycd by fire after a terrific ex
plosion early Monday, facts concern
%ing the cause of the explosion were
| being assembled by Solicitor Gen
{cral Charles Garrett Tuesday with
fthe view of presenting them before
| the Bibb county grand jury at its
fnext session, The arrival of Albert
}'Sharp, State fire marshal was ex
pectedly hourly and a thorough in
| vestigation into the cause of the dis
aster was to be put under way,
There were four known dead and
identified persons with all four
bodies at Hart’s undertaking parlors.
The known dead were:
Harry Swansburg, 55, of 61 East
Cain street, Atlanta for 28 years an
engineer on the Central cof Georgia
Rajlway.
g Ic Hays, 67, of Macon, former
justice of the peace,
John L, Collins, 20, of Rentz, Ga,
a cashier at Ed Loh’s restaurant,
Macon.
G Pope, of Pineview, Ga,
{ Ever Catch a Micropterus?
I The black hass nre of two species—
?the small-mouth hinck bass and the
l’ large-mouth bimel: bass, writes Dr. R
| W. Shufeldt in the American Forestry
| Magazine. Both-beleng to the genus
| Micropterus, and are readily distin
| guished through the fact that in the
| last-named form the angle of the gape
[of the mouth is hack of the imaginary
| vertical line from the center of the
pupil of the eye upon either side. Se
gamy are these fish that they are
known as the “gamefish of the North,”
- wnd anglers prefer to fish for them
'above all other kinds. i
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* Burning Cork Pungent and Epicy.
~ To remove the odor of hurned food
and to sweeten the air of a room gen
erally, put a piece of ordinary cerk
on a hot stove lid or other iron plate
and let it smolder and turn black, It
will give off a fresh and fragrant odor
which will overcome any other odop
Qresent.
“ decord Geneological Treq,
A Spanish nobleman, the Count ¢f
Orca, has & genealogicel tree complete
in every branch from Noah downward.
A golden ark figures in the family
escutcheon, and the count maintalng
that his t#le commemorates the serv
fces rendered to humanity by his ap.
esestor at the tiiee o 7 ‘he Deluge.
Here [s A Thought For You!
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If you have it and want to sell it
Here’s the answer---FOR SALE|
If you haven’t and want it
Here’s the answer---WANTED
If you want to exchange something
even borrow something, let the
L.eader-Enterprise
TALK FOR YOU ‘
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| One Quality-Qne Price
Again Reduces Price
Cxtra Size 30x37%; *l6 65
¢ Now* 13 95
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Firestone first m::lj the low grlce
of $13.95 on the Standard Non-Skid,
May 2. Unusual purchasing power
through big volume of business, and
the great efficiency of its $7,000,000
Plant No. 2, manufacturing exclu
sively 303314 size, made this possible.
Now, the production of the Cxtra-
Size 30x314 tire has been transferred
You feel secure on Firestone Cords.
Because Firestone Cords don’t blow
out. Your repair man will tell you
he hasn’t secen a blowout this past
Fitzgerald Overland Co., DEALERS E. L. Dorminy Motor Co.
Cords That Don’t Blow Out
Firestone Cord Tires are being sold at lowest prices in cord
tire history: 30x3}5—524.50 32x4—546.30 34x414—554.90
to Plant No. 2. This fermlts the
rice reduction on this tire from
816.65 to $13.95. No such value has
ever before been offered tire users.
If your dealer hasn’t the Extra-
Size in stock ask for our Stand
ard Non-Skid type at the same
price. You will still be getting an
unusual tire value.
year— 10,000, 15,000 and 20,000
miles, and the tires still ‘foing
strong. See your Firestone dealer
today. Name below.