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FIGHT FOR PEACH
COUNTY IS LOST
JUDGE BHYAN HtFUSES REACH
COUNTYITES’ APPEAL FOR
RECOUNT
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. —Poach county advocates,
headed by Senator Joe Davidson, who
recently filed a motion of contest In
th' general election returns alleging
Irregularities in a number of counties,
were given a setback when .Judge Shep
ard Bryan denied the motion for a re
count and stated he was satisfied that
no miscount existed.
With apparently no resource left to
contest the - election advocates of 'he
now county admitted that the fight is
lo t, but intimated they would continue
their advocacy of the n w county,
and efforts along this line wilL be
placed before the legislature at its
next session.
At the last, session of the general
ass inbiy a bill was passed in favor
of Beach county, it requiring an amend
ment to the state constitution to sus
tain this action. The referendum was
defeated at the November general elec
tion by approximately f>,500 votes. Im
mediately following the consolidation
of votes from the various counties, It
wa- alleged by advoca' s of the amend
ment that certain Irregularities had
transpired in a number of counties,
such as the failure of election man
agers to properly sign the returns and
other violations of the rules and reg
ulations governing elections in tlm
state.
Secretary of State S. Guyton Mc-
Lendon was served with a writ of
mandamus nicl to compel him to re
count the votes and amend the certif
icate filed with Governor Hardwick on
November 27, so as to eliminate the
returns from the counties in which the
alleged irregularities are said to ex
ist.
A demurrer was filed by the secre-'
tary of etat in which ho (numerated
nine points of objection. Tht motion
of Senator Davidson was heard by
Judge Bryan, but his decision was re
served for a week.
J. W. Porker Heads Falrburn Masons
Fairburn. l<'nlrtmrn Lodge No. 180,
Free anil Afi’i'pttxl Masons, lii'ld their
annual communication recently and
elected and installed the following of
ficers for the coining year: J. Wilson
Parker, worshipful master; Robert J.
Wooddnll, senior warden; Homer S.
McDaniel, junior warden; G. E. Jen
kins. treasurer; H. It. Unchurch, sec
retary; 10. Duncan, senior deacon;
J. Condor Watkins, junior deacon; J.
A Westbrooks, senior steward; How
ard F. Tarploy, junior steward; J. R.
II Stovewall, chaplain; R. W. Mc-
Garity, tyler.
Police Chief Charged With Murder
Soperton. Lee Troupe, a negro prom
inent in fraternal orders of this city,
who was shot Christmas Day by Chief
of Police J. 11. Frost and his bro
th r. Grady Frost, died later. A few
hours before he died. Troupe made a
statement giving his version of the
trouble and subsequent shooting. His
statement was made in the presence of
witnesses. Chief Frost had arrested
a drunken negro for reckless driving
in tlie down-town district when several
small children narrowly escaped being
run down.
Charges Man With Theft Of Own Auto
Savannah. Charged with stealing his
own automobile, Hen White was placed
under $2,000 bond to the federal court
h re. The technical charge is taking
government property, the machine
having been eonfmeat and for having a
load of liquor, it is said that White
and two negroes were driving a car
when tlie enforcement officers over
took them ami holding the negroes in
tie official car. White wits ordered to
drive on to Savannah. The officers
followed hard on his heels.
Harding Given Basket Of Cotton
Rome Asa Christmas present to
President Harding a basket of lint cot
ton was shipped by express from the
Berry school. This cotton was made
and cultivated by the girl’s depart
ment of that institution, and furnish
es another evidence of the varied ac
tivities of this school and the effic
iency with which all departments func
tion.
Loses Eye From Roman Candle
Lineolnton. —Luther Crawford, a
young marri and man of Lineolnton, en
gaged with a number of friends in a
battle with Roman candles. He was
shot n the eyas, being totally blinded
in one eye. with the probability of the
loss of sight in the other. He was
taken to Augusta for treatment.
COLUMBUS BOMB PLOT
UNCOVERED BY THE
CITY COMMISSIONER
Active Plotter Said To Be About A
Dozen Men, Criminals, Anarchists
And Enraged Anti-Prohibitionists
Columbus. —Columbus was stirred aa
it has not been in years when announce
ment was made the other afternoon
that a plot had be n formed to blow
up the homes of all five of the city
eornmifsioners, an apartment house and
a factory, and that every precaution was
being taken by city authorities to pre
vent the carrying out of the schedule
of murder and destruction.
The active plotters, about a dozen
men criminals, anarchists and per
sons who are enraged over the strict
enforcement of the prohibition law —
have In their possession one hundred
pounds of TNT, enough to wreak whole
sale destruction, according to informa
tion in the hands of the city author
ities.
City Tax Digest For 1922 Shows Gain
Atlanta. —Atlanta’s tax digest for
1922, completed recently by the city
tax assessors, shows real estate values
of $194,587,120 and personal property
returns of $84,605,122. Realty values
gained $8,168,720 over last year and
personal holdings increased $5,113,896,
a combined increase of $13,282,715.
The sanitary tax amounted to $143,-
355.69, and street tax to $67,611. In
real estate and personal property the
city of Atlanta placed on its tax books
this year subject to taxation at the
rate of $1.50 on the SIOO a grand total
valuation of $279,192,252. Realty as
sessments are made on the basis of 70
per cent of the estimated actual mar
ket value of the property. Based on
the assessments, the sale value of At
lanta real estate approximate $280,000,-
000.
May Make Architects Pay License
Atlanta. —City council’s tax commit
tee started an investigation the other
day to determine whether architects in
Atlanta are subject to a license tax.
In a letter to the committee City At
torney James L. Mayson set forth the
opinion that they are. Councilman Ed
gar Watkins took isue with this opin
ion He was appointed a committee
of one to take up the matter again
with the city attorney. The question
of an architect’s liability to pay busi
ness license came up upon an appli
cation by H. K. Chapman, Atlanta ar
chitect, for a refund of $475 which;
he claimed, lie lias paid to the city
as license taxes. He asked for the re
fund, he said, when he learned that
other architects are not being assessed.
Bandit Suspects Police Captives
Atlanta. Two negro robber suspects
were arrested here recently. They an
swer the description, the police say,
of Hie two men who robbed the Mitch
ell drug company here. They were
taken into custody nenr the scene of
the Mitchell drug store robbery, it is
said. Both had pistols in their pos
session that tallied witli the type
used by the bandits who forced Doc
tor Mitchell, owner of the drug firm,
to hand over all the cash in the reg
ister. The two prisoners gave their
names as John Thornton and Bert
Chamber. They are held on charges
of carrying concealed weapons, pend
ing further investigation.
Court Validates Cave Spring Bonds
Rome.—The recent school bonds is
sue of SIO,OOO of the Cave Springs con
solidated school district was validated
bv Judge Wright, though there had
been rumors of opposition. This fail
ed to materialize, however, and the
bonds were validated without opposit
ion. Their sale with an Atlanta firm
had already been negotiated at slight
ly above par. The money realized will
le used to equip the now school build
ing now in process of erection.
Highway From Rabun Gap To Tybee
Savannah.—The Chatham county
engineer stated that Georgians will be
able to drive their automobiles from
Rabun Gap past Tybee light and leave
prints of the tired wheels in the beach
of the Atlantic by the first of the next
summer, lie declared that the new
concrete highway will be completed by
that time, the seven steel and concrete
bridges having been completed mouths
ago.
Highwaymen Murder Merchant
Columbus. —Frantic gestures made by
Sidney H. Odom, a local merchant,
when commanded to hold up his hands
by two highwaymen the other night
eost him his life, the police say. The
local authorities are endeavoring to
find some trace of two unidentified
white men whom Odom described in
a dying statement as his assailants.
Capture Runaway Girl In Waycross
Wavcross—Willie Mae Murphy, 15-
year-old Jacksonville girl, was taken
in charge by the local police recently
when she drove into town in a Ford
touring car bearing a Florida tag With
her at the time was James Hal, of
Moultrie, who aooears to he around
18 years old
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
NLWS BRIEFLY TOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THf WORLD.
FOR THE JUSY READER
The OwemncH Of B*ven Day* Olva
In An Epitomized Form For
Qulok Reading
Foreign—
Once more the Turkish Circassian
beauties bid fair to reign supreme on
the field of fascination in the his
toric city of Constantinople. All of
the Russian aristocratic and Bour
geois refugees who came here in 1920
will soon leave.
The thirtieth congress expired re
cently in Mexico City, in a turbulent
session, in which pistols were drawn
and challenges to duels were freely
made. Violent invectives were em
ployed and physical encounters were
barely averted.
The situation in the Near East took
an ominous turn as the conference at
Lausanne remained deadlocked. Re
ports from Athens said Turkish na
tionalist troops of Mustapha Kemal
were concentrating to attaik Constan
tinople and the Mosu oil regions, fol
lowing refusal of the allies to adopt
the Turkish position on oil conces
sions and judicial capitulations.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Venomous recently arrested close to
Castletown, Bere, Ireland, an Ameri
can steamship supposed to be trying
to land a cargo of arms and ammuni
tion. A destroyer patrol had been
watching for the vessel for a week.
Charles B. Warren, United States
ambassador to Japan, will sail for
America on the President Cleveland
soon, where he will present his resig
nation to the president.
Niewadomski was sentenced to
death recently for the assassination
of President Narutowicz at Warsaw.
Since the adjournment of the allied
premiers’ meeting here recently in or
der to avoid an open break between
Great Britain and France on repara
tions, there has been a flood of ru
mors and reports concerning the solu
tion of the deadlock that Prime Min
ister Bonar Law was likely to pro
pose when the allied representatives
resumed their discussions in Paris.
Ismet Pasha, a small but compactly
built Mohammedan, with melancholy
black eyes, stood behind the confer
ence table at Lausanne and in a low
voice uttered defiance to the western
world.
Latest reports reaching Paris news
papers show that the condition of Mine.
Sarah Bernhardt is improving steadily,
ond her physicians consider her tenta
tively out of danger.
According to Paris newspapers,
France gained an important victory in
the allied reparations commission when
the commission, by a vote of 3 to 1,
declared Germany in voluntary default
in her wood deliveries for 1922. France,
Belgium and Italy voted in favor of the
declaration, while Great Britain cast
its ballot against it.
Raising of all quarantine regulations
against vessels arriving from Galves
ton, Texas, gave unrestricted entry to
shipping from all American ports to
Havana, Cuba.
Washington—
Secretary Weeks has decided to au
thorize the Central railroad of New
Jersey, to construct its bridge over
Newark bay, a project which has been
a subject of long controversy.
Approximately 40 railroads in the
United States have earned more than
the 6 per cent fair return standard
set by the transportation act, in in
terstate commerce commission report
ed to the senate in response to a res
olution by Senator Caper, Republican,
Kansas.
The sentences of eight members of
the Industrial Workers of the World,
convicted in the Haywood case of con
spiracy and violation of war-time laws,
were commuted by President Harding
to expire at once on condition that
the prisoners leave the United States
and never return.
Representative Mansfield, Demo
crat, Texas, read into the record a
statement that Henry Ford was mak
ing coke and selling it to his em
ployees at IS a ton, about half the
price ho said was charged “by the
coal barons.”
The story of 1922 is one of world
economic progress and the prospects
are favorable for 1923, Secretary
Hoover, of the department of com
merce. declared in a statement in
which he reviewed the past and haz
arded a forecast of the future year.
His statement compiled from reports
of special investigators in all parts of
the earth, expressed complete confi
dence concerning the remolding of
the delicate economic machine so bad
ly wrecked by the world war.
After the calming of the cerate’s
three day’s storm through withdrawal
by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
of his amendment proposing a world’s
economic conference the senate pass
ed the $325,000,000 naval appropria
tion bill and adjourned over New-
Year’s day.
Secretaries Hoover, of the com
merce department, and Wallace, of
the department of agriculture, confer
red with the senate banking commit
tee on features of pending bills to ex
tend short-time farm marketing cred
its and provide long-time credits for
the cattle industry.
An intensive drive by the federal
courts to clean up the present conges
tion of liquor cases with the view of
making convictions keep pace with ar
rests probably will come out of the
conferences now being held here be
tween Chief Justice Taft, Attorney
General Daugherty and federal circuit
judges.
Further aspects of the move for an
American commission to inquire into
Germany’s capacity to pay reparations
came to light w-hen the chamber of
commerce of the United States made
public a definite request from German
business men that such a commission
be appointed.
Balthasar H. Meyer became chair
man of the interstate commerce com
mission for a term of one year. He was
appointed to the commission from Wis
consin by President Taft, and assumes
the chairmanship in accordance with
a policy of rotating the post among
members of the commission on a basis
of seniority in service.
Domestic—
Fire caused a quarter of a million
dollars damage at New York avenue
and Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N. J.
Three persons were reported missing.
William L. Cunningham, under in
dictment in New York on a charge of
using the mails in a scheme to de
fraud, who was scheduled to be taken
east will be held in jail at St. Louis,
until next week, it was announced.
Railroads of the United States this
year broke previous records in order
ing freight and passenger cars and lo
comotives to cope with the greatest
car shortage in their history, the Rail
way Age declared.
with 9,244 cases disposed of since
April 15, 1920, but 61 cases of viola
tions of United States railroad labor
board decisions have been made by
class 1 roads, Ben W. Hooper, chair
man, declared at Chicago.
An aged man, believed to be E. A.
Cole, of Pooleville, Okla., was burn
ed to death and property estimated at
SIOO,OOO was lost in a fire in the
business section at Ardmore, Okla.
American standards of civilization
are inferior to those of 1880, James
M. Beck, solicitor general of the Unit
ed States, said in a lecture at New
York.
Bandits recently held up the pay
master of the Ferry Cap and Screw
company, Cleveland, Ohio, and escap
ed with the $200,000 weekly pay roll.
With the subchaser Hansen, “fed
eral dry navy” of the port of New
York, tied up at the Battery with en
gines disabled, the narrows w r as left
unguarded long enough for 15 rum
runners to slip into port with nearly
$7,000,000 worth of liquor for New
Year’s, the police department was ad
vised.
Eight-year-old Mary Giovannaugeli,
kidnaped eight years ago and held for
a ransom of $20,000 was returned to
her home at Detroit, Mich., less than
12 hours after her father had report
ed her disappearance to the police.
Neighbors breaking down the loor
of a cheaply furnished little tliree
room apartment, Chicago, found the
body of Mrs. Maude Fuller Delius,
eldest daughter of the late Melville W.
Fuller, chief justice of the United
States supreme court.
Mollie Fuller came back to the stage
recently. The audience in a Brooklyn
theater laughed at the lines she had,
and listened appreciatively w-hile she
sang on Broadway. Not one knew that
Mollie came back to the stage totally
blind.
More than thirty men are injured
and burned, some perhape fatally, as
the result of a dust explosion and fire
at the mill of the Schreiber Flour and
Cereal company at Kansas City, Mo.
Angered because she had refused to
consider his proposal of marriage,
Frank Joseph, a farmer, shot and killed
Myrtle Hamlet, 18, at her home at
Paulding, Ark.
Battered and scarred by heavy weath
er, fourteen ships plowed into quar
antine in New York harbor, the skip
pers of them all reporting a vicious,
never-ending battle with a series of
lashing hurricanes which seemed to
shake the bottom of the Atlantic. One
ship, the gigantic new liner. Caronia,
put in at Halifax because she was
steadily losing her fight with the storm.
Another liner reported to her owners
that she would be several days late. A
third flashed in with a report that she
couldn’t reach New York on time, al
though she had safely gone through
most of the storm.
Current
Wit^
LAW OF COMPENSATION
“I had no mother’s voice to lull me
to sleep when 1 was a boy," sobbed the
first man.
“And I had no father’s voice to call
me in the morning,” chuckled the sec
ond.
Thus we see nature’s wonderful law
of compensation applied to the human
equation.
The Verdict.
“We find the prisoner not guilty by
reason of insanity.”
“But the plea was not that of in
sanity,” remarked the court.
“That’s just the point we make,”
rejoined the foreman. “We decided
that any man who didn’t have sense
enougli to see that an insanity plea
was the proper thing must be crazy.”
A New Law Enforced.
“I’ll just fine ye $25 for speedin’.”
“All rigid, squire. I’ll pay it, but I
wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to
get through your burg if I hadn’t
thought it was the sorriest looking
town I ever laid my eyes on.”
“And $lO for contempt.”
“Contempt of what?”
“Our town.”
There Might Be.
“There are specialists who will de
sign you a coat of arms.”
“So I’ve heard.”
“And there are other specialists who
will provide you with a family tree
you can flaunt in anybody’s face.”
“Well! Well! Do you suppose
there are filling stations where blue
blood is pumped into plebeian veins?”
Logical.
“Can I interest you in automobile
insurance?”
“I haven’t an automobile on my
place.”
“Well-er-what of that? You have
burglar insurance, I presume, and yet
you have no burglar on your prem
ises.”
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THE ANSWER
“Strange, Edith should Invite that
horrid grass widow to her wedding;
she has such a disagreeable past.”
“Yes, my dear, but she’s rich
enough to furnish a very agreeable
present.”
Our Prescription List.
No friend of mine
Is Horace Hoe;
He always wants
To borrow dough.
Exhausted Her Interest.
Her Husband —But why should we
move? We were perfectly delighted
with this neighborhood when we came
here a year ago.
Mrs. Chatterton —I know I was, but
I’m tired of talking about the same
old neighbors for a whole year.
Trained.
“Jones, I don’t understand that man
Spiffums. He used to be absolutely
dependable, and now you can’t believe
a word he says.”
“Yes, poor boob; he married a wom
an who requires detailed explanation
of trivial events.”
That's Different.
“What’s all the row?”
"It’s a two-family house.”
“That need not cause a continuous
disturbance.”
“Ah, but It is occupied by a young
married couple and their parents, her
family and bis.”
Correct Diagnosis.
Doctor —Your loss of memory is due
to cigarettes.
Dub —Alia, that’s just it, doctor. It
was cigarettes that I was supposed to
bring home to the wife and I forgot
:hem.
Unanimous Opinion.
The Senior —Professor Letterkink is
very broad-minded, don’t you think?
The Sophomore—Yes, I’ve always
lonsidefed him rather thick witted.