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531 YOUNG MEN
ENLIST IN ARMY
GEORGIA MAKES FINE RECRUIT
ING RECORD DURING THE
PAST YEAR
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—A total of 531 young men
from the state of Georgia enlisted in
the army of Fort McPherson during
tho year 1922, according to figures com
piled by Lieutenant James F. Morri
son, tho pout recruiting officer and
made public the other day. The Fort
McPherson office enlisted a total of
9CI men, tho additional men being from
the eastern section of Alabama and a
part of South Carolina.
The city of Atlanta and Fulton coun
ty led in the number of recruits with
97, slightly less than one-fifth of the
entire number of Georgians. A total
of 434 recruits was obtained from the
66 counties comprising tho northern
half of the state. Lieutenant Morri
son’s figures carry only those counties
In Georgia within a radius of one linn
dr-ed miles from Atlanta. The counties
In the southern section of the state
are recruited from Fort Henning and
a few count I near the southern bor
der are recruited from Fort Oglethorpe.
Hall county was second in tho num
ber of recruits with 30, with Cobb third
with 25 and DeKalb fourth with 18.
Other counties enlisting more than ten
men for the army during the past
year follow:
Floyd, 15; Spalding, 15; Gwinnett,
14; Clarke, 13; Cherokee, 11; Jackson,
11, and Madison, 11.
From five to ten recruits w re ob
tained in thirteen counties, while 28
counties had from one to five men.
Putnam, Jasper, Heard, Milton, Daw
son, Lumpkin, Fannin, Towns and Ra
bun counties wi re the only ones In
the Fort McPherson sector that did not
offer a recruit during 1922.
in addition to tie- hundreds enlist
ed then> wore nearly as many reject
ed for meutul and physical disquali
fications.
. The large number of rejections ie
uae to the lack of education and weight
in many of applications for enlist
ment,” Lieutenant Morrison said.
"Though rqgrotnble many of the
young men who leave the farm to join
the army have to he turned down
because they cannot pass the literacy
test. This is not alone true for this
section, but for all other places where
the army is recruiting men.”
Commission Tangle Up To Court
Sparta - Quo warranto proceedings
have be n brought before Judge James
n. Park of the Ocmulgoe circuit by C.
M Larson, H, it. Garrett and A. E.
Jernigun, recently commissioned by
Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick as members
of the board of roads and revenue of
Hancock county, against J. T. Rhodes,
William Rives and Sam J. Hill, who
constitute the board serving through
the last two years, and who contend
that their terms are for four years
since the amendment to the constitu
tion making the terms of county offi
cers of four years’ duration.
Good Building Record In Albany
Albany.—lluilding penults issued in
Albany during 1922 totalled $423,467,
as compared with $302,400 in 1921.
The years 1919 and 1920 both made
greater records, but prices of material
and labor were much higher hi those
years. The permits Issued in 1922 were
for dwellings, $312,717, and for manu
facturing and mercantile establish
ments. $110,750. These were 90 dwell
ings and apartments for whites and 74
for nog rot's New mercantile and man
ufacturing buildings number 24. making
• total of 188 new buildings construct
ed during the year.
Mountain Highway Survey Complete
Gainesville.—A highway is now being
built from Gainesville along the South
ern railroad via Lula. Alto. Baldwin,
Cornelia, Mt. Airy. Tocoa and across
the Tugaloo river into south Carolina.
The survey completed from Gainesville
to Cornelia eliminates seventeen grade
crossings, giving, instead, one over
head bridge and one underpass. Con
struction will soon begin. Several
miles of the old single-track of the*
Southern railroad will be used in the
route.
Independent Falls To Quality
Savannah.—The Chatham county reg
istrars. who have been probing the list
ot those voters who requested Paul E.
Soabrook to run for mayor as an inde
pendent in the municipal election, re
ported that he had failed to qualify.
He has not secured one-third of the reg
istered voters of the city to hie peti
tion asking him to run
DALTON MAYOR MAKES
GOOD ON PROMISE
OF RIGID ECONOM V
Dalton. —Mayor J. G. McAfee has
made good his announced policy of rig
id economy in the city’s government
when he took charge of the city in
January, 1922, for the financial report
as r ad to the retiring administration
the other night, showed that not only
did the city live within its income, but
that $11,429.57 was cut from the float,
ing indebtedness, which was reduced
from $61,058.53 to $49,628.76. It was
the host showing made in a decade.
In addition, the water, light and
sinking fund commission’s report show
ed the city’s gas, water and electric
plants made a net profit of $16,273.74.
in addition to furnishing the city fre?
fire hydrants and free street light
ing.
Uncle Sam After Shoplifters
Atlanta.—Shoplifting a tantalizing
piece of feminine wearing apparel and
then attempting to return it to the
store where stolen and get a "refund”
on it is the charge made against a
wealthy couple, now in the toils of the
federal laws, according to information
given out at the office of Joe P. John
ston, postal inspector for the South
east. William P. Ortell and wife were
arrested a few days ago in Birmingham,
Mich., following investigations in which
V. D. Young, manager of the Atlanta
Stores’ Mutual Protective association,
took part. The method of the couple,
It is charged, was to travel about the
country, stopping at tho finest hotels,
and sending all ill gotten goods back
to Pontiac, Mich., where they were liv
ing, but in correspondence giving Post
office Box 102, Birmingham, Mich., as
their address. In December of last
year two prominent Whitehall street
department stores received letters from
a person giving her name as Mrs. F.
G. Willets. In each letter it was stated
that Mrs. Willets had bought a dress
for her daughter recently while they
were motoring through Atlanta from
Florida. Later an automobile accident
occurred In which the daughter was
fatally injured, thus making it neces
sary to return the goods, and asking a
rebate on same.
Bank President Passes Away
Tlgnall.—John J. Wilkison, sixty-one
years old, prominent banker and busi
ness man of Tlgnall, Wilkes county,
died the other morning at 8 o’clock fol
lowing a serious ilnsss of five weeks.
He had been in declining health for
several months. He organized and was
president of the People’s bank of Tig
nail until two years ago, when he re
signed to become president of the
Fanners’ bank of Tignall, a position
he held at the time of his death. He
was also president of the Tignall Gro
cery company and identified actively
with other business Interests of his
community, of which he was a leader.
Enjoin Timber Men From Cutting Tract
Macon. —Judge W. H. Barrett of the
United States district court has grant
ed the Continental Casualty company
of Chicago, a temporary injunction
against Henry and Roke G. Hicks of
Dublin, Ga., stopping the cutting of
timber on a large lumber tract in
Wheeler county, it became known here
recently, when oficers returned from
making service. This action Is taken,
it is stated, by lawyers in the case,
in connection with a $20,000 mortgage
foreclosure action and a request for a
receivership. Hearing on the petition
Is set for Savannah on Jannuary 15.
Dam Washed Away Near Newton
Camilla. —The concrete dam of Baker
County Power company on Notehaway
river, ten miles from Newton, was al
most totally washed away the other
night, causing loss of $75,000. This
company furnished current to Camilla,
Doorun, Newton, Sale City and Moul
trie. The damage will bo repaired Im
mediately. The power house and most
of the equipment remain Intact. Two
largo transformers were lost. Several
months will be required to repair the
damage.
Rome Banks Aid Cotton Planter*
Rome.—At a largely attended meev
lug of Rome bankers and business men
held here. It was decided to create a
revolving fund of from $16,000 to $20.-
000 to aid the cotton growers of Floyd
count) In making a better cotton crop
next season. The fund will be used
to put the best seed and sufficient cal
cium arsenate to fight the boll weevil
and half of the amount will be advan
ced by local banks and the other half
by local merchants and others inter
ested.
City Of Athens Has Money In Bank
Athens. —Athens city administration
ended 1922 with over five thousand
dollars balance In the banks, the firet
this has occurred in many years, It
is declared In the financial report to
city council. The financial report shows
that the city enjoyed a splendid year,
despite depressing conditions. The
bond commission report shows that the
bonds Issued by this city find eager
buyer# in the financial market.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE. GEORGIA.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
FOR THE JSUSY READER
The Occurrence* Of Seven Days Given
In An Epitomized Form For
Quick Reading
Foreign—
Peace or war was the grave issue
placed squarely before the near eastern
conference at Lausanne. The Turks
practically laid down an ultimatum to
the allied forces.
A definite move toward peace be
tween the Irish republicans and the
Free Staters is under way, it is learn
ed, with the announcement that a peace
convention will meet in Dublin, Ireland,
with 150 delegates, two from each
branch of the Sinn Feiners.
Ferid Bey, the Turkish Nationalist
representative at Paris, who is at
present at Lausanne, says: “Should the
conference break down we will return
home and wait until the allies agree
to our present terms. We will thereby
possibly reduce the national debt fur
ther and save money that would other
wise be spent in commerce.”
Three hundred and twenty-three pas
sengers from the German transatlantic
Holsatia, stranded on a sand key in
the Florida channnel near Carysport,
were taken on board the French liner
De la Salle, according to wireless mes
sages picked up at Havana, Cuba.
Somewhere on the Atlantic on the
way to New York and 12 trunks be
longing to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dean —
the latter the actress, Fanny Ward.
The Deans at the last moment can
celed their passage for America and
the ship departed with their baggage.
Asa result they are back in Paris,
according to Miss Ward, "destitute
even of our most intimate clothing.”
The eleventh fire to sweep a Cath
olic institution in Canada within the
last year was reported. It razed the
Good Shepherd convent of St. George
de Beauce, about 30 miles from the
city of Quebec.
Official announcement is made that
an insurrection has broken out at Mo
sul in the Kingdom of Irak. The in
habitants of the entire oil producing
region are demanding annexation of
that territory to Turkey.
The Irish Free State government no
tified the United States consulate at
Dublin that there had been no seizure
of n United States ship by a British
destroyer on orders from the Dublin
government, as recently reported.
Reports from Halle, Germany, state
that an attempt was recently made to
blow up a large monumental group
comprising an equestrian statue of Em
peror William I, and monuments to
Bismarck and Von Moltke. The latter
monument was hurled into the basin
of the fountain.,
Washington—
The Association of Railway Execu
tives announces that Class 1 railroads
earned during November a net operat
ing income of $78.560,000.
Engineers representing thirty nation
al and local organizations will meet
here In the near future In the annual
conferenec of the American Engineer
ing Council of the Federated American
Engineering societies. President Har
ding is said to have endorsed the gen
eral finding of the engineers of the
establishment of an eight-hour working
day.
An appropriation of $5,000 to make
the white house fire proof has been
recommended by a house committee af
ter it had been told by the president’s
military aide that a sort of fire trap
had been discovered in the garret of
the building.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover has
declined the offer of the president to
transfer him to the interior depart
ment. He says he has not yet com
pleted his job in the commerce de
partment.
The senate has gone on record as
favoring withdrawal of American
troops from Germany. It adopted a res
olution by Senator Reed, Democrat, of
Missouri, declaring it the sense of the
senate that the president should bring
about the returning of the remaining
occupation forces.
Re-enactment of the excess profits
tax retroactive for 1921 and 1922, and
use of revenues so collected to pay
a soldiers bonus was provided in a
bill introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Frear, Republican, Wis
consin. The bonus provision of the
bill was similar to the measure vetoed
by President Harding.
Colonel George Harvey, American
ambassador to Great Britain, has been
summoned to Washington to discuss
American relations to Europe, spent
most of his first day in seclusion at
the white house, where he is the house
guest of President Harding
Charges that the Anti-Saloon League
has bought the Volstead act with con
gressional patronage and that the fed
eral prohibition enforcement service
is corrupted from top to bottom by
a set of depraved political officials ap
pointed under the spoils system, are
made in a letter written by W T illi~m D.
Foulke, vice president of the National
Civil Advice League, to S. E. Nich
olson, secretary of the Anti-Saloon
League.
President Harding, Secretary Hugh
es and a number of diplomatic rep
resentatives in Washington attended
a solemn high mass which was cele
brated at St. Patrick’s church, in com
memoration of the late Gabriel Naru
towicz, president of Poland, who was
assassinated last month.
Official announcement was made at
the treasury department that W. P-
G. Harding would not be reappointed
governor of the federal reserve board,
he having requested the presideut to
withdraw his name from considera
tion. Harding was said to be in New
York preparatory to selecting one of
the several offers made to him to
enter the banking field there.
Domestic—
Three persons were burned to death,
another burned seriously, a fireman in
jured and a number of automobiles de
stroyed in a fire which consumed a
garage at Raleigh, N. C.
Mrs. Georgia Hamon Rohrer, widow
of Jake L. Hamon, wealthy Oklahoma
oil man and political power, who was
slain by Clara Smith Hamon, was
granted a divorce from her second hus
band in Chicago the other day.
Notwithstanding that Mrs. Irene
Scholkopf has decided not to prose
cute her actor-artist friend Frank Car
man, accused of complicity in steal
ing $500,000 worth of diamonds from
her, the New York police announce
that the whole matter will be brought
to light.
Warning by a mysterious telephone
message to leave Shreveport, La.,
Charles Papa, storekeeper, left for Los
Angelest, Calif., acompanied by his
family.
That Watt Daniel and Fletcher Rich
ards put to death on a rack of
torture —according to deductions mada
by pathologists who examined their
crushed and mutilated bodies, were vic
tims of a black hooded band, was in
dicated by testimony put into the rec
ord in the state’s investigation into
masked band outlawry in Morehouse,
La., parish.
Alleging false and malicious arrest on
suspicion of burning down the Georgia
railway company depot at Buena Vista,
Ga., S. J. Parker, former railroad clerk,
has filed suit against the company for
$25,000 damages.
Assurance that there would not be
a coal miners’ strike next spring was
expressed by Frank Farrington, presi
dent of the Illinois Mine Workers, in
a telegram to Lon Fox, president of
the West Frankfort (111.) sub-district
of the union.
Prices for fertilizer ■ substantially
higher than those quoted last fall are
in prospect for the coming spring sea
son, is information obtained from a
meeting of southeastern manufactur
ers of fertilizers in session at Char
lotte, N. C.
Judge Timothy Hurley, Chicafio, took
anew step in his war on easy divorces
by announcing that he would refuse de
crees in cases where charges of mis
conduct were made unless the petition
er signed a warrant for the arrest of
the other two sides of the triangle on
adultery charges.
More mystery than ever surrounds
the death of Hiram Knox, millionaire
east Texas lumberman, as a result of
the abrupt ending at San Augustine,
Texas, of habeas corpus proceedings.
Knox was found dead in his bedroom
with a bullet wound in his head. His
wife is charged with having killed him.
She is out on bond.
A feeling that important develop
ments are impending in Mer Rouge,
La., was intensified when it became
known that a troop of cavalry had been
ordered there by Governor Parker, in
connection with the hooded kidnaping
outrages near that place several months
agone.
The South Carolina railroad com
mission will go to Spartanburg at an
early date to determine what action,
if any, shall be taken by it in connec
tion with the street railway tie-up in
that city.
Rumors that Geraldine Farrar, for
mer Metropolitan opera star, and Lou
Tellegen, her actor husband, were to
settle their marital differences with
out report to court were spiked when
Supreme Court Justice Cobalan set
down for trial at an early date her
suit for divorce.
Emile Coue, a smiling, active little
man. with white hair and beard and
sparkling blue eyes, once an obscure
pharmacist who toyed with the mys
teries of hypnotism in his tiny shop in
Nancy, France, arrived in America on
the Majestic an internationally fa
mous figure, the apostle of the doc
trine of self-mastery through con
scious auto-suggestion
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HumowQ^
SEEKING THE FACTS
‘‘Don’t you think she’s gifted?”
"She may be.’
“You ought to know. You’ve just
heard her sing.”
“Why didn’t you ask me if I thought
her gifted as a singer! Then I could
have answered promptly. I thought
perhaps she could do something else.”
Too Much Service.
“Waiter,” said the fussy old gentle
man.
“Yes, sir.”
“I’ve made three different attempts
to take a dose of medicine in half a
glassful of water. Each time I got the
water reduced to the right quantity
you rushed around and filled up my
glass. Stay away from me until 1
want you.”
Disarming Criticism.
“Do you believe campaign orators
should enliven their speeches with hu
morous anecdotes?”
‘‘Certainly,” said Senator Snorts
wortliy. “After a speaker has told
one or two good stories nobody but
an exceptionally hard-boiled charac
ter would have the heart to heckle
him.”
Watch That Didn't Vary.
“Henry,” said Mrs. Gloonip, at din
ner, looking down at her watch, but
speaking to Mr. Gloonip on the other
side of the table, “my watch hasn’t
varied a second In a week.”
“Remarkable!” said Mr. Gloonip,
“how did you get it to vary so little?”
“I broke the mainspring.”
Knows Too Much.
"How is Mr. Grabcoin’s business
career?”
“In what particular?”
“Would it bear u close inspection?”
“I don’t know r about that, but I dare
say Mr. Grabcoin’s lawyer is about
the last man in the world he’d want
to write his biography.”
SOME HOPE
“Reggy, do you ever intend to quit
smoking cigarettes?”' 4 •
“Deah boy, why should I?”
“Because If you don’t they will
kill you.”
“Well, when they do deah boy, I’ll
quit”
The Bucketshop Blues.
To market, to market
To buy a little stock;
Home again, home again
To put my watch in hock.
Nonproductive Arts.
“You lack the creative faculty.”
“I make money.”
“But you don’t create anything that
will live —like a poem, a picture, a
piece of music.”
“I understand —something that will
live, but Is hard to live on.”
The Exception.
“Remember, there Is room on top
for everyone,” said the professor to
the graduating class.
“Not In my father’s business, sir,”
spoke up a student. “He paints lib
erty poles and flagstaffs on skyscrap
ers.”
Qualified.
The County Commissioner —I’d like
to recommend you for the Job of su
perintendent of the poorhouse, but
what experience have you had?
Mr. Longsuffer —Ever since I’ve been
married I’ve run a small poorhouse
for the benefit of my wife’s relations.
Rrghto.
“Say nothing but good of the dead,”
said the philosopher.
“Yep," agreed the practical person.
“No use slamming a man who can’t en
tertain you with an argument.”
Charlie All Right at Chess.
Elsie —Did you ever see anybody so
dreadfully slow as Charlie?
Jack —Oh, I don’t know. They say
he plays a pretty fast game of chess.—
Pearson’s Weekly.