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SEEK CREATION
OF COMER COUNTY
PROPOSED NEW COUNTY WOULD
BE FORMED OF PARTS OF
SCREVEN AND BURKE
STATE NEw[jF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here Ana
There From All Sections Of
The State
Savannah. —A fight will be waged in
the general assembly this summer to
create anew county out of parts of
Burke and Screven counties with Sar
dis as the county site. It is proposed
to name it Corner county, for the late
Hugh M. Comer of Savannah, former
president of the Central of Georgia rail
way.
This became known when leading cit
teens of Sardis announced their inten
tion of waging an active campaign be
twoen now and the time before the leg
islature meets in June to familiarize
the members of the general assembly
with conditions and circumstances
they contend make it desirable to cre
ate the new county.
The territory of the proposed new
county will embrace all of the 17,000
Rcres of land on the famous Comer plan
tation, part of which is in Burke and
part in Screven county. The population
of tiie new county will be approximate
ly ton thousand. The territory taken
from Screven county will be relatively
small. Most of tho proposed new
county will he taken from Burke, which
1h one of tho largest counties in the
state at the present time.
The lines of the new county will go
approximately eight miles north to Al
exander, while they will extend practi
cally the same distance south to Hill*
tonia. The backers of the movement
will visit the members of both branches
of tho legislature prior to the regular
session which begins in June, with the
Idea of familiarizing them with the sit
uation which brought on tho now coun
ty agitation.
Tho two representatives in the leg
islature from Burke county are A. C.
Hacker of Waynesboro and W. D. Roll
of Sardis.
It is not believed that the bill will
bo pushed for passage through both
house's this summer, as tho constitu
tional amendment, if adoptod, would
not lio submitted to tho people for rat
ification or rejection until November
of 1924. It is planned lo put it through
the senate this year and through the
lower branch of the general assembly
at the meeting of tho general assembly
next year.
$3,000,000 Damage To Peaches
Atlanta.—Georgia's peach crop suf
fered a damage in the neighborhood of
three million dollars as a result of the
cold wave. This fact, based on peach
figures prevailing last year, was dls
closed when the Atlanta bureau of ag
ricultural economics of the United
States department of agriculture offi
cially estimated the freeze damage at
37 per cent of tin' entire crop. Z. R.
Potter is statistician of the local bu
reau. Officials of the Georgia Fruit
Exchange, on reports received from all
sections of the state, estimated that
40 per cent of the crop is killed. J.
G. Carlisle, manager of the exchange,
stated that conditions may later develop
that will warrant a reduction of this fig
ure. \V. H. Hunter, president of the or
ganization, stated that the average an
nual crop of peaches in Georgia is val
ued at approximately nine million dol
lars. This would indicate a loss of $3,-
600.000. The federal bureau report
showed that the northern section of the
state suffered the heaviest damage, the
Injury in that section being placed at
from 75 to 90 per cent of the crop. In
central Georgia the damage ran from
20 to 40 per cent, and in south Geor
gia from 15 to 20 per cent.
Plant In Macon to Reopen
Macon.—A. B. Humphries, president
of the Interstate Ice and Coal compa
ny of Nashville, Tenn., announces that
his compapv will reopen the ice plant
of the Allied Backing company, in Ma
con, which has been closed for sev
eral years. The plant will have a ca
pacity of distilled water ice daily, and
will be in operation by May first. The
company will not take over the packing
end of the business, but will operate
an ice and cold storage plant. Ice will
be sold In wholesale and retail lots,
and, as Macon is a concentrating cen
ter for eggs, it is expected that two
hundred thousand cubic feet of space
in the storage building will be devoted
mainly to that industry.
Tax Receiver For Madison Elected
Dunielsville. — In the race for tax re
ceiver to fill the tmexplred term of
I). P. Brown, who died a few weeks
ago. A. M. Hix received 711 votes,
lsham A. Bond 474 votes and H. C.
Eberhart 311 votes. Mr. Hix will take
UP his duties us soon as commissioned.
EDITORS ARE TOLD PEANUT t
GROWERS’ MARKETING PLy\NS
Consider Ways and Means Of Lendlrfl
Highest Possible Support Of The
Press To The Movement
Albany—Editors of the daily and
weekly newspapers in the twenty-five
counties in this section, comprising the
principal peanut belt in the state, as
sembled in Albany as the guests of the
Albany Herald, to hear a complete ex
position of the plans of the Georgia
Peanut Growers’ Co-operative associa
tion and to consider ways and means
of lending the highest possible support
of the local press to the formation of
that organization.
Practically all interests in this sec
tion, business as well as agricultural,
are said to be solidly behind the pro
gram to set up the big new co-opera
tive marketing association for peanuts,
and those present at the gathering vol
unteered afterward to lend every assist
ance towards its success.
Arrested In Alleged Liquor Plot
Atlanta.—Alleged conspiracy to fur
nish protection to whisky runners
through Gwinnett county was bared fol
lowing the arrest of Sheriff E. S. Gar
ner of Gwinnett county; his son, Deputy
Sheriff H. S. Garner; another deputy
sheriff, J. N. Bernard, and Red Jones,
alleged whisky hauler. The four men
were arrested in Lawrenceville by a
group of federal officers at night and
brought to Atlanta and held on the
charge of conspiracy to violate the
Volstead act. In the presence of one
of tho officers, it was stated, Sheriff
Garner received a sum of cash from
an alleged whisky runner in consider
ation of protection, and the money,
bearing marks of identification placed
there by federal men, was later taken
from the sheriff's person, it was stated.
Favor Operation Of Cars By City
Brunswick. —A majority of the qual
ified voters of tho city of Brunswick,
or rather a majority of those voting in
the matter, favor the city taking over
and operating the local street car line.
This was indicated today when the bal
lots were opened and counted. Tw r o
weeks ago each voter was sent
a lengthy questionnaire giving all facts
in connection with the line to which
was attached a ballot and each voter
was requested to express himself. A
total of 1,215 ballots were sent out. Of
this number 507 voted for the city tak
ing over the car line, 13 voted “yes"
conditionally, 10 voted blank, 171 voted
positively “no" and 476 failed to re
turn their ballots.
Clarkesvllle Man Commits Suicide
Clarkesville.—Harrison Shirley, a
shingle mill operator and owner, com
mitted suicide here by shooting off a
part of his head with a shotgun. He
had been in poor health for some time,
and was brooding over the recent
deatli of a daughter. Un was about
sixty years old, and is survived by his
wife, three sons—Paul, Cromer and
Porter —and three daughters—Mrs.
Henry Nix, Mrs. F. G. Jones and Mrs.
Anna Howard, all of this county.
Urges Monuments Be Erected
Atlanta. —A. L. Branham, principal
speakef* at a Masonic luncheon recent
ly, declared that more monuments for
Georgia’s illustrious dead should be
erected, and urged the Masons to use
their influence towards that end. “The
youth of this country gets nowhere ex
cept by example,” he said, “and you
could not do anything as far-reaching
in its beneficent results as to honor
our great men.”
Chattooga Teachers Form Association
Summerville. —The Chattooga Coun
ty Teachers’ association has been or
ganized, Prof. Carey G. Metts of Lyerly
being elected president; J. R. Wyatt of
Menlo, vice president; G. C. Sublette of
Summerville, secretary and treasurer.
The executive committee is composed
of the following teachers: Vl. L. Byrd,
chairman; W. M. Avera and Miss Lula
Weesner. The organization will meet
once a month, and a special meeting
will be held Memorial Day.
Decatur To Issue School-Water Bonds
Decatur. —Decatur is in the throes of
a school and water bond campaign. As
usual in bond campaigns, the chief
cause of apprehension is the apathy of
the voters and the consequent danger
of the required vote not being polled.
The purpose of the campaign is to get
authority to issue $50,000 in water
bonds and SIOO,OOO for school bonds.
Every member of the city commission
the board of education is actively
backing the two boud issues.
Plan Apple Festival In Cornelia In 1924
Atlanta. —Acting on a suggestion of
the Atlanta chamber of commerce that
the citizens of Cornelia hold an annual
apple blossom festival, the business
men of Cornelia have organized to pre
pare plans for such a festival in 1924,
according to a letter sent to B. S. Bar
ker. secretary of the Atlanta chamber
of commerce by A. W. Farlinger, sec
retary of A. W Farlinger & Sons.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE. GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS JIFJfHE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In The South
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Brief Paragraphs
Foreign—
A Weisbaden dispatch to the Frank
furter Zeitung reports that the French
have arrested the Prussian General
Von Mudra, who commanded the Ger
mans in the Argonne during the great
war. -
Joseph Chatfield was so tickled at
the drollery of a leading American
“movie" comedian that he was un
able to control his laughter and sud
denly collapsed, dying in the arms of
a woman sitting beside him in a cin
ema theater at London.
Professor K. Gauss has discovered a
new anaesthetic which he calls narcy
lene. It is composed of oxygen and
purified acetylene with oil of pine to
offset the acetylene’s odor.
Irregulars recently attacked outposts
of national troops, quartered at the
railway station and near the town’s
reservoir, Mullingar, Ireland. * The
band was repulsed after prolonged
rifle and machine gun fire.
If France ratifies the Washington
naval disarmament treaties it will only
be because she is forced into it by
her position in foreign affairs. This
was the attitude expressed in the
French press as rumors were broad
cast that Premier Poincare was pre
paring reservations to the treaties be
fore submitting them to the chamber
of deputies foreign relations commit
tee.
Count Cuno von Moltke, former aide
to the kaiser, and former governor of
Berlin, died here.
Berlin, died recently.
All available military and police
forces are searching for five-year-old
Toacana Ordoned, of Reunion, a small
village near. Rodas, Santa Clare prov
ince, Cuba, who was reported to have
been kidnaped.
Free State troops discovered and im
mediately nttacked insurgent headquar
ters near Kingstown. After a brisk
battle in which a' Free State soldier
and a rebel were killed, and one
wounded, five rebels and a large quan
tity of ammunition were captured.
, pan Breen, one of the Republican
leaders, who formerly lived in Chicago,
according to records at Dublin, is re
ported to have been wounded in a fight
with Free State troops. No official
confirmation of the report has been
received.
Francesco Tisbo, the New York
steamship ticket agent and banker,
under indictment in that city with his
two brothers on grand larceny charges,
arrived at Naples on the steamer Toar
nilna from New York and was detained,
with his wife, on board that vessel.
Money to the amount of 60,000 lira was
found in his baggage.
The countess of Westmoreland is
planning to make her debut in London
as a professional soprano on Easter.
The countless does not profess that
she is making the venture for any other
purpose than to earn a living. Her
husband died last year.
Washington—
The early potato acreage this year
will be the smalest since 1919, accord
ing to a forecast announced by the de
partment of agriculture.
Thousands of retail drygoods deal
ers will be relieved of paying income
tax on portions of their book profits
described as “unrealized income,”
through anew regulation announced
by Commissioner Blair, of the internal
revenue bureau.
Interpretation of the 5-5-3 naval ratio
negotiated at the Washington arms
conference gives promise of being -
live subject in the next congress un
less the state and navy departments
smooth out in the meantime the tangle
over the navy’s battleships moderniza
tion plan.
Freed from the charge of a baseless
murder by the confession of another
man, Charner Tidwell, a half-breed
Cherokee Indian, has been released
from an Oklahoma penitentiary after
having served twenty-five years. He
is now enjoying the wealth inherited
from Oklahoma oil fields.
A blanket denial of the complaint
of the federal trade commission
against the proposed merger of the
Bethlehem. Midvale and Lackawanna
Steel companies has been filed with
the commission by the Bethlehem and
Midvale companies.
The problem of dividing the air to
give everybody a chance to use it for
radio purposes was taken up in ear
nest by the second national radio con
ference at Washington. After two
days of public discussion the confer
ence closed its door and in executive
session commenced an attempt to lay
out unconflicting air channels for gov
ernment and public use.
The census bureau announces that
active spindle hours for February
numbered 8,440,376,685, or an average
of 277 for each spindle in place, com
pared with 9,266,000, or an average of
49 for January. Spinning spindles
in place February 28 numbered 37,276,-
307, of which 35,307,707 were operated
at some time during the month, com
pared with 37,225,419 in place and 35,-
240,853 active in January.
The Seaboard Air Line railway pe
titioned the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for authority to guarantee
principal and interest on $6,600,000 of
equipment trust certificates. Proceeds
from the sale of these securities would
be applied to the purchase of 2,000
freight cars, 20 locomotives, 29 miscel
laneous cars and in the rebuilding of
2,000 freight cars.
Domestic—
Police spread their net over Broad
way in search for the person or per
sons who are believed to have attempt
ed to blackmail John Kearsley Mit
chell, the mysterious “Mr. Marshall"
in the Dorothy Keenan case and who
are thought to have murdered the
model because she refused to partici
pate in the plot against him.
John Murphy and Gideon Rester,
moonshiners, who killed Deputy Sher
iffs Wiley Pierce and Wesley Crain
near Franklinton, La., recently, were
convicted of murder in district court
and sentenced to hang.
Three buildings of the Washougal
woolen mills, Washougal, Wash., were
practically destroyed by fire recently,
with loss estimated by company offic
ials at about SIOO,OOO.
A temporary Injunction against
striking shopmen on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad was
granted the railroad by Federal Judge
Thomas at New Haven, Conn.
One woman was killed and six per
sons were injured when an elevator
in the Randolph hotel, Des Moines, la.,
fell seven stories.
Kilby’s crossing, near the center of
the business district, Anniston, Ala.,
claimed its third victim within recent
months when Edward Ware, 50, struck
by a Southern passenger train on the
crossing, died at a hospital.
,Mrs. Annabelle McGinnis and her
sister, Miss Myna Pioch, in municipal
court, Chicago, faced charges of mur
der made by - the police who accused
the women of plotting to kill the for
mer’s husband, Michael McGinnis, a
city foreman, who was' shot to death
March 13.
Another wife of Charles W. Davis,
alias Taylor, 84-year-old Civil war vet
eran who is held at Wilkes Barre, Pa.,
pending complete investigation of his
amazingly matrimonial career, turned
up, making fourteen wives definitely
known to the police who now believe
he may have had a dozen more.
“As the responsible agencies for
scientific research in the states, the
agricultural colleges can recommend
to the people only such methods as
have been fullly established by ade
quate and dependable scientific data.
Until proof shall be available, new or
untried methods and devices should be
used with caution and with a view of
testing their efficiency rather than de
pending upon them for control." This
was the advice Dr. Andrew M. Soule,
president of the Georgia State College
of Agriculture, gave in an address at
the Eastern Carolina Exposition, Wil
son. N. C., to farmers fighting the cot
ton boll weevil.
Mary Eloise Hughes Smith Daniel,
who was the wife of Robert W. Daniel,
of Philadelphia, a banker, is suing her
husband for a divorce. Daniel rescued
his wife, then his sweetheart, when
the Titanic went down.
Nicola Sacco, convicted murderer, be
came violent ill at the Boston, Mass.,
psychopathic hospital, where he is un
der observation as to his sanity. He
is a hunger striker.
Des Lac, North Dakota, which, last
year, elected a full complement of wom
en to run its affairs, has, in a recent
election, “turned them out,” and filled
their places with "mere men."
Acting on a tip received through in
tercepted wireless messages between
the rum fleet off the New Jersey coast
and a guest at a hotel in the Times
Square section. New York City, the en
tire coast guard in that vicinity is now
searching for a drifting motorboat be
lieved to be laden with liquor.
Fire, which broke out in the brush
factory at the Allegheny county work
house at Hoboken. Pa., ten miles from
Pittsburg, destroyed the building and
spread to other parts of the institu
tion. More than a thousand prisoners
were confined in the building and the
wildest confusion prevailed for a time.
No one was hurt. The loss was placed
at $150,000.
Just |S
NEW DISEASE FOUND
A dejected looking World war vet.
eran applied for assistance at the
Pittsburgh chapter of the American
Red Cross not long ago, saying he was
ill. “tVhat does the doctor say is the
matter?” he was asked.
“I dunno just what it is.” replied the
applicant, “but he says it’s ‘formation
of the diagnosis.’ ”
Confession Fails.
“In the interest of strict truth I de
cided to dispel thq Santa Claus myth,
so I told my youngster there was no
such person.”
“And what did he say?”
“He looked at me pityingly and said
he guessed I had been one of those bad
boys to whom Santa Claus did not pay
any attention.” —Boston Transcript.
A MINOR ROLE
“Were you ever patroness at a
society affair?”
“No. I’m always one of the pa
tronized.”
Tit for Tat.
I-oney has made the mare go
For ages past, I’ll state;
But now the fillies grab the dough
And make It aviate.
Proof.
The dear young thing whimpered:
“John, already you have begun to
slight me. Are you sure you love me?”
“Love you?” exclaimed the five
months’ groom. “Why, Della, what
more do yuh want? Don’t I let you
tell me what time I’ve got to come
home nights?”
The Carry-On.
Medium —Yes, Mr. Henpeck, your
dear wife is in heaven.
Henpeck—Are you sure she is in
heaven? .
Medium—Yes, there is no doubt
about it. J
Henpeck—Well—er—there is going
to be trouble there.
Test for Love Letters.
“Before mailing your love letters
put them through one test.”
"What is that?”
“Try to imagine how they would
sound to you if they were being read
out loud by a lawyer for the
plaintiff.”
A Cotonial Bargain.
Preserved Penny—Aren’t you pay*
ing the savages too much for that
land?
Goodman Fish —Perhaps; hut then
they are to pay me the equivalent an
nually for the privilege of hunting on
the land.
Looking for His Opposite.
Tom —They say people with opposite
characteristics make the happiest mar
riages.
Tim—Yes; that’s why I’m looking
for a girl with money.
11 L! ,IT
GIVING A HINT
Mr. Hardfax—l want no woman in
my life. Women are a delusion.
Miss Mancheser—And yet, I’m told
men are fond of hugging delusions.
What's Home Without a Carl
Alas! they often have
A family jar.
Because he can't afford
A family car.
The Thing That Costs.
Hub— What, SIOO for that ha ,?
Why, there's nothing but a $5 frame
and a few dollars’ worth of trim
mings.
Wife—And S9O worth of style, dear