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SWISS DAIRYMEN
MAY SETTLE HERE
NEGOTIATIONS FOR COLONY OF
FARMERS OPENED BETWEEN
ASSOCIATIONS
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. —Negotiations that may ro
suit In bringing a colony of Swiss
dairy farmeiH to Georgia have been
opened between W. H. Abbott, secre
tary of tho Georgia association, and
the secretary of the Switzerland asso
ciation for colonization, it was announ
ced by Mr. Abbott on his return to
Atlanta from a tour through south
Georgia.
The opening of negotiations, Mr.
Abbott suited, is a result of tho asso
ciation’s activities in introducing Geor
gia to visitors at the farm bureau con
vention hero in November, 1921. H.
Bretscher, secretary of the Kwlsa MU*
Producers’ association, was a delegate
to the convention and while hero was
the guest of tho Georgia association
on u tour of south Georgia. He was
much impressed with tho possibilities
offered by the section for supporting
an extensive dairy industry and since
his return to Switzerland, has been
corresponding with Mr. Abbott.
“Tho arrrangements we have made,
witli the co-operation of Georgia bank
ers and business men, for carrying out
the association’s program for land set
tlement anft for dairy development
will be of inestimable value in bring
ing immigrants to Georgia," Mr. Ab
bott stutod.
"I have written the colonization sec
retary that Swiss experienced in dairy
ing can find ample opportunity for
profitable work In cheese and butter
making here in Georgia. They will
be assisted in getting started by Geor
gians familiar with the work and will
find a ready spirit of co-oporatlon on
the part of Georgia bankers and busi
ness men. Should we be successful
In losing negotiations to bring a col
tony of Swiss to Georgia, lift) colony
would probably Include laborers, ten
ant fanners and a number of men of
sufficient capital to purchase farms
and stock of their own."
Mr. Abbott expressed himself as
much pleased with the outlook for
carrying forward the Georgia associa
tion's land settlement program.
Stockade Terms To Be Proposed
Atlanta. The opening gun in the
new city administration’s determined
and relentless war on reckless driv
ing. speeding, and other traffic viola
tions in Atlanta was fired when the
special counclltnanlc traffic commit
tee laid down a series of heavy pen
alties for violations of these ortll
nances which will receive considera
tion of general council at Its regular
session. Persons convicted of reck
less driving, speeding or passing a
standing street car stopped to let off
and take on passengers, will receive
punishment as follows, providing the
recommendations of the committee
are ratified by council: First offense.
$25 or 30 days in the stockade; second
offense, SSO or 30 days, either or both
In the discretion of the recorder;
third offense, SIOO or 30 days, either
or both, and all offenses after the
♦bird, SIOO and 30 days.
Central Georgia Annual Meeting
Savannah. Reports to the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Central of Georgia railroad indicated
that by tho exercise of strict economy
the earnings have been for the past
year about four and a half per cent,
net Considering conditions, business
lias been good for ttie road, it was
said. All the directors and officers oft
the Central of Georgia railroad, the
Ocean Steamship company ami the
Svlvania Central railroad companies
were re-elected at the meeting
Cotton Destroyed By Fire Near Sparta
Sparta.---Fifty bales of cotton, valued
at $7,500. was destroyed by fire near
here recently. The fire is thought to
have been started by lightning strik
ing a building near the cotton. The cot
ton. the property of Dr. it C. Wiley, of
Sparta, was stored on his plantation
seven miles west of hero. Sotns of It
was of the crop of 1916. No insurance
was carried.
Boy Drown* In Effort To Escape
Augusta."- H. B. Smith, 15 years old,
alleged runaway boy who was being:
held in the city stockage pending the
arrival of relatives from Gainesville,
Ga.. was drowned as he attempted to
swim the canal beside the stockade
and escape. Young Smith was taken
into custody hen' The body is be
ing held at a local undertaking pan
lor and will be turned over to rela
tives when they arrive.
Mft. LUTHER ROSSER, BRILLIANT
GEORGIA LAWYER, LAID TO REST
Atlanta.—Mr. Luther Z. Rosser, one
of the foremost lawyers of this city,
was laid to rest here in Westview
cemetery.
The funeral was attended by a
large "number of members of the At
lanta Bar association and a commit
tee from the Chi Phi Alumni asocia
tion,appointed by Hughes Spalding,
president of the Atlanta association.
Judge Samuel H. Sibley, of the United
States court for the northern district
of Georgia, adjourned his court for
two hours out of respect for Mr. Ros
ser, to allow members of the Atlanta
bar who were engaged in cases there,
to attend the funeral.
Mr. Rosser was born In Gordon
county in 1859, a son of the late Rev.
James A. Rosser and Mrs. Temper
ance Zeigler Itosser. Graduating from
Emory university in 1878, Tie practiced
law in Fairbum county and moved
to Atlanta in 1880, where he had prac
ticed since.
His death was a result of a fall
he suffered about a month ago, com
plications having set in from a blow
ho received on the head when he fell.
Respite Granted For Baker Brothers
Atlanta. —Following the granting ot
a respite for George and Ralph Baker,
by Governor Hardwick, tho prison
commission recommended that, the
death sentence of Ralph, the younger
brother, be commuted to life Imprison
ment, but declined to recommend
mercy for George, the older brother.
The Bakers, who were sentenced to
death for the killing of J. W. Morton,
an aged deputy sheriff of Walker coun
ty, had'been sentenced to hang March
16, but tho governor sets the new date
for tho execution on April 13. The re
prieve was granted because Governor
Hardwick is leaving the state on a
trip to Florida and would not have
time to read the record in tho case be
fore his departure.
Thrown Into Panic By Pistol Duel
Savannah. —Forty artillery guards
men were thrown into a panic at the
armory whore Battery F was gathered
for drill when First Sergeant J. A.
Buxloy and Private Pat Googan en
gaged In a pistol duel in which they
plugged at ouch other till a round of
ammunition had been exhausted. The
armory was nearly cleared, save for a
bunch of officers, including Brig&dler-
Uonorul 11. J. Travis. It required an
hour of argument after the smoko had
cleared to convince the scattered ones
that the "duel” was a stage affair
to tost the norvo of the artillerymen.
Lending a more realistls effect to the
incident was the fact that a leaded
pistol had been accidentally discharg
ed in the armory earlier in the eve
nlng.
Asked To Probe Forest Conditions
Bluirsvilio.—An invitation to tiu
special senatorial committee on refor
estation to include Georgia in its itin
erary of South Atlantic states and to
visit Atlanta on its trip has been sent
by Pennell H. Stone, president of the
Georgia Forestry association, to Sen
ator Charles L. McNary of Oregon,
chairman of the committee. Condi
tions existing in the timber lands iu
the South and steps which must be
taken for the perpetuation of forest
resources will be investigated by the
committee which includes Senators
Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, and Due
can U. Fletcher, of Florida.
Rail Earnirgs Below Other Industry
Atlanta.—While the railways in the
southern group have, in recent years,
been earning an average of less than
4 per cent, other Industries have aver
aged from 12 per cent to 29 per cent,
according to figures quoted bv Presi
dent W. A. Winburn, of the Central of
Georgia railway. Information upon re
ports of the federal trade commission
Illustrates the difference between con
ditions that govern the railways and
those under which other industries are
permitted to function.
Automobiles Collide, Woman Injured
Atlanta. —Four persons narrowly es
caped death in a collision between two
automobiles which resulted in Mrs. S.
B. Edison, being seriously hurt, and
her two little children, Natalie, 5, mid
Charles, 2. being badly bruised. The
mother and children were hurt when
thrown from the machine in which
they were riding, driven by I. Gold
man. who lives at the Edison home,
when it was struck by an automobiie
belonging to Neel Reed, of Roswell
operated by a negro, Tracy Hearn,
Delegates Study County Plan
Ashburn. A delegation of mer
chants, bankers and farmers from
Washington and Wilkes county also a
delegation from Kastmen; visited Tur
ner county. They were shown all the
improvements which have followed the
cow. hog. and chicken program of the
county. They seemed much impressed
with the progress which the county if
making and said this seems to be the
proper method to combat the boll wee
vIL
THE DANIELBVILLE MONITOR, DANIEL3VILLB, GEOROIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What it Taking Place In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign—
The reason for the rigid censorship
imposed in Dublin preventing the use
of telegraph lines and telephones ex
cept for brief messages approved by
the authorities, is not known at Dub
lin. Even the sporting columns con
tain no late reports of the Siki-Mc-
Tigue fight, except what reached Bel
fast through travelers.
While evidence of a perceptible
weakening in Gennany’s resistance to
France and Belgium has come to the
notice of Downing street, British, for
eign office offficials decline to com
ment on the various reports that the
Berlin government is about to adopt
an entire new policy toward the allies.
The Ruhr volcano—Buer —is in erup
tion again. Two Germans were killed
and several wounded when fresh riots
broke out in Buer, where the civilian
population and the French troops are
seething with hatred, according to
word received at Berlin.
One of the most laudible aims of the
nationalist regime in Turkey is to
emancipate the Turkish women, who
enjoy none of the freedom or privi
leges accorded other women of the
world.
A sensational story of a plot by an
Irish Republican organization to mur
der British cabinet ministers and com
mit other outrages is printed by The
Daily Sketch, London. The newspa
per connects the alleged scheme with
the activities of Irishmen recently ar
rested in Great Britain.
Evidence has been adduced at the
trial of seven Hungarians charged
with plotting to assassinate King Fer
dinand, that the Hungarian general
staff was involved in the scheme in
close relation with a Hungarian secret
society.
The sealing fleet which sailed from
St. Johns, N. F., for the grand banks
a week ago is jammed in an immense
ice field off the coast of Newfound
land, according to reports. The steam
ers composing the fleet were caught in
Ice 48 hours after leaving St. Johns,
the reporters said.
Heroic work by 80 attendants and
as many Sisters of Providence mado
possible the safe removal of 350 pa
tients from the Roman Catholic Home
for Incurables when it was destroyed
by fire. The fire started in an elevator
shaft and spread rapidly.
One French soldier was killed and
three soldiers and three French rail
road men were injured when a French
troop train was wrecked near Treves,
in the Rhineland, as the result of sabo
tage.
Building is booming in Buenos Aires,
having reached records set before the
war, in spite of unfavorable conditions
in some of the country’s basic indus
tries. In 1922 there were 18,567 build
ing permits issued by the city, while
in 1913 the number was 14,412.
Press dispatches from Rio Janerio
say the correspondents have learned
at the foreign office that Brazil was
the nation which recently made an
effort to induce Mexico to reconsider
her refusal to attend the Pan-Ameri
can conference. It is said that Brazil
worked in conjunction with Chile to
ward this end but was unsuccessful.
VVashing ton—
Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, in
formed Governor Smith, of New York,
in a letter made public at Washing
ton, that he could not comply with the
petition of the New York legislature
for support of the proposal to legalize
light wine and beer.
Governmental building and construc
tion work now under way should be
slowed down and the initiation of new
projects delayed, Secretary Hoover
recommended to President Harding in
a letter made public in order that they
may be pushed forward at some later
period when there is less private con
struction activity and need for allevi
ating or preventing unemployment.
The influence of various factors In
the control of the cotton boll weevil is
being made the subject of anew and
elaborate statistical study of the de
partment of agriculture. Mobilization
of the department’s stabilization of the
department’s statisticians and ento
mologist is taking place, an advance
guard of statisticians from the bu
reau of agricultural economics having
already moved to the Tallulah, La., ex
periment station to confer with eno
mologists there.
State department officials have re
ceived a statement of Germany’s po
sition in regard to reparations, but
they declared that the information as
delivered by Dr. Hans Heirich Dieck
hoff, counsellor of the German em
bassy, called for no action by the
Washington government looking to
mediation or intervention by it in the
reparations dispute between Germany
and France.
With senate "irreconcilables” fear
ing that the Harding administration is
drifting toward the League of Nations
as the result of President Harding’s
world court proposal, a battle already
is under way for control of the senate
foreign relations committee in the new
congress.
Four more new stamps of the com
plete new series being issued by the
postoffice department will be placed
on sale at the department’s philatelic
agency March 20. In making this an
nouncement the department said the
new stamps, the issue of which will
leave only four remaining to complete
the series of twenty-one different de
nominations, will be sent to postoffices
throughout the country, only when the
present supply in their denominations
is exhausted.
Domestic —
I
J. H. Sutton, brother of H. H. Sut
ton, general passenger agent of the
Cotton Belt railroad at Memphis was
shot and instantly killed at Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
Excavations have revealed many
evidences of the existence in the re
gion of a pre-historic race are nearly
completed and the party of archaeol
ogists which has been carrying on the
work probably will move soon to oth
er fields, M. Raymond Harrington, di
rector of the projects at Noel, Mo.,
announced.
Philip Manson, an official of the
Pacific and Eastern Steamship com
pany, Inc., filed suit in the supreme
court of New York for $1,000,000
damages against the United States
shipping board, United States emer
gency fleet corporation and others.
The most severe blizzard of the win
ter hit the Rocky Rountain region with
Colorado as its storm center.
The Tennessee Copper company, the
largest employers of men in the great
copper basin, gave their employees a
raise of 24 cents per day.
Exercising his right under the state
constitution, Judge Harlan B. Howe,
of the United States district court at
Burlington, Vt., has sent a commun
ication to the house of representatives
remonstrating against further increase
by the legislature of taxes “on any
thing for any purpose whether
against the rich or poor.”
W. O. McCullough, of Fulton, Ky.,
engineer and Lee Smith, of Jackson,
Tenn, negro fireman, were killed, and
Clay Westbrook, Selmer, Term., brake
man was seriously injured when an
Illinois Central freight train derailed
near Corinth, Miss.
D. L. Steffnauer, 42 years old, was
shot dead by his wife, Artie, 36, fol
lowing an altercation brought on, the
woman claims, by the fact that her
husband had just returned to his home
and refused to tell her where he had
been.
Roy Mitchell, negro, was given the
death penalty by the jury, finding him
guilty of the murder of W. E. Holt,
at Waco, Texas, January 19.
An oil well producing 120,000 bar
rels per day, conceded to be the most
productive in the world, was brought
in recently at La Roa, in Maracaibo,
Venezuela, according to a table re
ceived by Alfredo Olavaria, Venezue
lan consul in New Orleans.
Mrs. Maude Cushing Storic was
convicted of killing her first husband,
Claude Cushing, by a jury in circuit
court at Cassopolis, Mich., and imme
diately was sentenced to life imprison
ment.
A notable business revival marked
the year 1922, according to the an
nual report of the Eighth Federal Re
serve district made public. "In spite
of certain powerful handicaps, includ
ing the major strikes and disturbed
conditions abroad, distinct progress
was made in the direction of indus
trial recuperation.” the report asserts.
Charles L. Mac Neil, president of the
Utah Copper company, and for many
years active in mining, financial and
railroad circles, died from pneumonia,
it was announced at New York.
Jay C. Hichenbach. 26. and Kenneth
p Brown, 28. reserve officers of the
United States army air service were
burned to death at Fort Bliss when
their plane crashed to the ground at
El Paso, Texas.
Colonel Alfred M. Shook. 77, re
tired capitalist and pioneer in the coal
and iron industry in the South, died
at his home at Nashville. Tenn.. after
an extended period ef ill health.
A lightning bolt which struck the
sea 100 feet in the wake of the Al
bania during a severe electrical storm,
shook the ship as if she were a leaf
in a hurricane and knocked her cap
tain and the first officer senseless on
the bridge, declared reports from New
York.
Ji Tew ,
Q, Little §
VEST POCKET SIZE
Fatlfbr and mother were discussing
the costumes they were to wear at a
funcy dress ball. Joan, aged seven,
was an Interested listener.
“Mother," she said, “can I go as a
milkmaid?”
“No, dear, you are too small."
“But, mummle,” pleaded Joan, “I
could go as a condensed milkmaid.”
Got the Gate.
“I understand you have an efficiency
expert over at the place where you
work.”
“ ‘Have’ is wrong; ‘had’ *is the
word.”
“What was the matter? Was he in
competent?”
“No, he was too darned competent.
He discovered that the boss was wast
ing half our time telling us things that
we knew better than he did.” —Boston
Evening Transcript.
Forehanded.
“What is your reason for announc
ing that you will not be a candidate
again ?"
“So that no one else can get ahead of
me,” replied Senator Sorghum. “lean
take it back when I get ready. The
party managers might think they'd
have to stand by it.” —Washington
Star.
t A Magnet for Sorrows.
“Is it your practice to go about look
ing for trouble?”
“No,” replied Mr. Grumpson. “It
has been my experience that if a per
son will stand in one place long enough,
and look as if he had no friends and
no influence, trouble will just natural
ly gravitate to him.”
THE FREE BOLSHEVIK
Correspondent—On your Southern
eeacoast 1 noticed some fine loca
tions for surf bathing.
Minister—Sir, under the Soviet
government there never will be eith
er serfs or bathing.
Sad, but Often True.
He tried to cross the railroad track
Before the rushing train.
They put the pieces in a sack.
But could not find the brain.
Ear Work.
Lazy Mike —I have anew position
with the railroad company.
Weary Rhodes —What is it?
Lazy Mike —You know the fellow
that goes alongside the train and
taps the axles to see if everything’s
all right? Well, I help him listen. —
Good Hardware.
The Other Reason.
The Visitor—Your boys are leaving
college very late. What kept them
back so long? Are they delicate?
The Proud Father —Delicate? On
the contrary, they’re athletes.
The Strange Part.
“Here is a queer item,” ejaculated
the gaunt Missourian, 4n the midst of
ills reading. “The paper says that the
President received resolutions express
ing the cense of the senate on a cer
tain matter.”
“What is queer about that?” asked
his wife.
“Why, you see, I clldn t know the
senate had any sense.” —Kansas City
Star. *
Neighborhood Talkfest.
“The woman next door is really
dreadful, Richard,” said the young
married woman. "She does nothing
but talk the whole day long. I’m sure
she can't get any work done.”
“Oh!” remarked her husband; “to
whom does she talk?”
“Why, to me, dear, of course,” was
the reply, “over the fence!’
Self-Made.
“She’s a self-made widow.”
“So?”
“Yes. She shot her husband and
the Jury acquitted her.”