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TELEPHONE BILLS
DROPPED MAY 1
ATLANTA. MACON, AUGUSTA, SA
VANNAH AND COLUMBUS
TO GET REDUCTIONS
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
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Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.—Reductions in telephone
fates estimated to save live Georgia
cities $328,2:55.28 per annum was
made on May 1 by the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph company, m
obedience to an order issued by the
public service commission on April Id.
Atlanta. Savannah, Macon, Augusta
and Columhus have borne the brunt
of the increased rates allowed by the
commission on March 1, 1921. 'lhere
arc minor reductions to be' made m
other cities in the state on the same,
date, it is announced.
Present and reduced rates in the
five largest cities in the state are as
follows:
Atlanta.
Present. May 1.
hingle line business $10.50 SIO.OO
Two party business it.SO 9.00
Single line residence—.. 5.00 4.60
Two line residence 4.00 3.50
Four party residence 3.50 2.75
Macon and Augusta.
Singh 1 line business $ 6.60 $ ti. 25
Two line business 0.00 5.75
Single lint! residence...3.9o 3.05
Two lino residence 3.30 3.30
Savannah.
Single line business $ 7.50 $ 7.00
Two line business 0.90 0.25
Single line residence 4.35 4.00
Two line residence 3.75 3.25
Columbus.
Single line business $ 0.25 $ 0.00
Two line business f6O 5.25
Single line residence 3*5 3.50
Two line residence 3.10 2.75
Four party residence 2.50 2.00
Silence Funeral Bells, Urges Pastor
Atlanta. Abandonment of the cus
tom of ringing funeral bells at the en
trance to Westvlew cemetery because
of the depressing effect of the bells on
the community was recently urged in
the preclude to a sermon at the Bap
tist Taliomnl Oj- HJohn W*. MUIII,
the pastor. “My heart has often been
stirred over the injustice done (he peo
ple living in the vicinity of West View
cemetery tv the constant ringing of
the funeral hells at the entrance to the
cemetery," he said. Hundreds of wom
en and children are forced to listen
almost hourly to the ever-recurring re
minder of death. The psychology of
such a suggestion is sufficient to de
press a healthy normal person. In this
thickly populated section there are
many who are constantly sick. The
presence of the cemetery is of itself in
all of its silence depressing enough
hut to add to It the sad tolling of bells
every hour is enough to become excru
ciating in Its action upon the mind and
the nerves."
New Cotton Bill Discussed Here
Atlanta.—More than two hundred
cotton growers, mill owners', buyer's and
department of agriculture representa
tives. from (Georgia and the Capolinaa,
gathered recently at the Atlanta Com
mercial exchange, and discussed vari
ous phases of the Fulmer bill, or cotton
standards act, which will go into ef
fect in August. Lloyd S. Tenny, as
sistant chief of the bureau of agricultu
ral economics of the department of ag
riculture. headed that department’s del
egation. and explained what effect the
bill would have on those' interested
in tlie cotton Industry stating that he
believed the bill is of benefit to the
grower, for the reason that his cotton
will lie classified, that is, examined
and placed in certain classes-, such as
middling and poor middling without any
charge.
Negro Taxi Driver Shot By Bandits
Atlanta. —Detectives . art* probing a
series of robberies reported to the po
lice, which consisted of a hold-up and
two burglaries. The hold-up victim was
Jot* Ford, negro taxi driver, who was
shot by three unidentified negro ban
dits in the Campbellton road, about
eight miles beyond the etty limits.
They took what money he hud and his
automobile. According to Ford’s story
to Patrolman C. D. Harper, the three
negroes engaged him to drive them
to Campbellton road and Lee street.
Vpon reaching their destination they
told him they wanted to go on out
Campbellton road.
School Census Shows Increase
Dalton.—The contention of Dalton
that the government missed many res
idents of Dalton in taking the federal
census in 1920 is borne out by the
school census just completed hare, It
1b said. The school census lists the
names of 2,438 children between the
ages of 6 and 18—1,987 white* and 451
colored.
FARMER’S FAMILY
IN PATH OF WIND?
FIVE ARE INJUH tD
J. T. Fulford’s Plantation In Johnson
County Is Swept By Heavy
Winds Recently
Wrightsville.—A violent wind ana
rain storm that struck the eastern part
of Johnson county early one morning
recently, destroyed a number of homes
of tenant farmers, leaving] one family
of six buried in the debris of their
home.
The greatest damage was reported
from the plantation of J. T. Fulford,
seven miles east of here, where the
home of John Brantley, a widower,
was destroyed.
Rescuers who rushed to the scene al
ter the storm lmd passed found Brant
ley buried under brick and timber, al
though he was not badly hurt. The
j oldest daughter, Adelle, 24, sustained a
! broken left thigh and ankle and u lac
erated hand. She was pinned under a
heavy sill. She was taken to a hospital
at Sandersvflle.
Beatrice Brantley. 21, was badly
Cruised and hurt internally. She was
found under a table, which had been
buried in the debris.
Charlie, 18, was bruised. He said
that he had gotten up and while wait
ing for the storm to pass dropped on
to a bed. A few minutes later fhe
bed was gone, he said.
Guy Brantley, 12, sustained cuts on
the head and hands.
Annie Brantley, 6, escaped without a
scratch.
There was one mule tied to a post
in the stable. The stable was carried
away by the storm, but the mule was
still there.
The Price school house in the east
ern part of the county was complete
ly destroyed.
On the Berry Price plantation an
other house was blown down, hut no
one was hurt.
GEORGE BAKER HANGED
IN THE LAFAYETTE JAIL
Pays Penalty For Murder Of J. w,
Morton—Brother Begins
Sentence
LaFayette.—George Baker has paid
the supreme penalty for his part in the
murder a year a,go of J. W. Morton,
aged sheriff of Walker oounty.
No nervousness was exhibited by the
condemned youth as he stepped oil the
death trap and deputies adiustod tho
iiuuse ajiu death cap. Those who had
been present at similar scenes before
were at a loss to understand the self
possession of the mountain boy.
Ralph Baker, his brother, has begun
serving his sentence on the Floyd coun
ty chaingang. ,
Revision Of Taxes First On Docket
Atlanta. —It is anticipated that the
highway bond issue and tax revision
legislation will be the most important
topics to be taken up before the legis
lature at the coming session, which
convenes the fourth Wednesday .in
June. The inauguration of the new gov
ernor, Clifford Walker, who succeeds
Governor Hardwick, will take place, ac
cording to custom, on the Saturday fol
lowing the convening of the legisla
ture on Wednesday. Governor Hard
wick, throughout liis administration,
lias advocated the necessity for tax re
vision and has specifically urged a state
income tax to take the place of the
present system. Governor-elect Wal
ker has expressed in recent speeches
the opinion that tax laws should be re
vised. It is expected that the new
governor will outline a set of recom
mendations in his inaugural address.
Negro Exodus From Georgia Checkeo
Moultrie. —Despite the fact that many
negroes who left this section last fall
for the North and East are writing their
former employers and beseeching them
to advance money needed for a ticket
home, the exodus of negroes from
Moultrie and Colquitt county contin
ues. They are not going in as large
numbers as they departed last fall and
early this year, hut, according, to ticket
agents, many negroes are leaving Moul
trie every week. Some of the letters
received from dissatisfied negroes who
went North have been published in a lo
cal newspaper. Nearly all of them
complain of the high cost of living
which, they say. offsets the seemingly
high wages they receive.
Business Man Run Down By Autc
Macon.—Allan M. MacDonald, son ot
Judge Aleck MacDonald, of Savannah,
and proimnent in Macon civic atfairs,
was run down by an automobile on a
country road near here the other night.
He was taken to n private hospital,
where doctors were unable to deter
mine the extent of his injuries. The
car was in charge of three boys.
- Rewa r d Offered For Recapture
Jesup.—A reward of SSO was offereo
by Sheriff L. W. Rogers, of Wayne
county, for the capture and delivery of
! D. Davis, who sawed his wav to
freedom front jail. Davis’ home is in
Atlanta. He was sent to Jesup tc
serve time on the Wayne chaingang or
J charges of burglary and wife beating.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
NEWS BRIEFLYTOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP
FENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
FOR THE jUSY READER
The Occurrences Of Seven Days Given
In An Epitomized Form For
Quick Reading
Foreign—
Germany bids thirty billion gold
marks for peace. The German cabi
net, it is understood, at a recent meet
ing, decided to offer that sum to the
allies as war reparations, which is said
to he in line with the suggestion ‘Of<
Secretary of State Hughes of the Unit
ed States.
Fifteen women and two soldiers were
injured in a battle precipitated by an in
surgent uprising in Amiens street, Dub
lin, Ireland. Explosives which had been
planted by .rebels in that street caused
most of the casualties. The shots and
explosions were heard all over the city
and hundreds rushed to the scene of
the fighting. !
The presence of hundreds of Amer
ican iouiists in Cairo, Egypt, has cau a ed
a congestion in the hotels. Rooms usu
ally occupied by a single persons have
two or three persons in them. In some
cases bathrooms are being utilized as
bedrooms. Roomm are so scarie that
tourists who are accustomed to the best
are willing to put up with anything.
Discouraged in their struggle for ex
istence on low wages, paid in the prac
tically worthless crown, Vienna, Aus
tria, men and women are reported to
be drowning their sorrows in intoxicat
ing drinks.
After one of those swift and informal
hearings characteristic of Chinese le
gal procedure in the lesser centers of
the interior, 26 of 30 prisoners held to
be bandits by the Hofri city magistrate
were summarily shot.
An exact of Columbus’ ship,
the “Santa Maria,” has been given by
Spain to the British government, and
was recently exhibited for the first time
at one of the London science museums.
W. G. Ross, president of the As
bestos Corporation of Canada, appeal
ed to Attorney General Tatshereaus
for protection, asserting that strikers
at tlie company’s pits in Thetford
mines, after attacking the offices and
driving forty constables out of town,
were threatening to dynamite public
buildings and mine structures.
The French have absolved them
selves from blame in the killing of 14
German workers outside the Krupp
Plant, Essen. Military investigators
are understood to have placed respon
sibility on the shoulders of six com
munists, members of the general
workers’ council, who blew factory
whistles when the soldiers entered and
thus caused the street riot that ended
in French rifle shots.
The communist congress adjourned
after approving without change Leon
Trotzky’s plan to take over the heavy
industries. The congress also approv
ed Commissar Stalin’s recommenda
tion with regard to nationalities, Pre
mier Lenine’s scheme for control of
state apparatus and M. Kameneff’s pro
posal for the substitution of a partly
monetary tax for the present peasant
levy.
W ashington—
George R. James of Memphis, Tenn.,
was appointed by President Harding to
be a member of the federal reserve
board, succeeding John R. Mitchell of
St. Paul, who resigned.
The death of Senator Nelson. Minne
sota, has reduced by one more the slim
margin tlie administration can count on
in the next senate. Senator Nelson died
en route home on train from heart fail
ure.
The largest camera in the world is
in the department of the interior. It
weighs 7,000 pounds, occupies two com
plete rooms, takes a picture one yard
square and is operated either by elec
tricity or hand as .easily as the tour
ist’s smallest camera.
Prohibition troubles, from bootleg
ging to allegations of bribery, accumu
lated here and engaged the attention
of high officials of at least three fed
eral agencies, the treasury and justice
departments and prohibition enforce
ment headquarters. There were indi
cations that facts developed from the
several investigations in progress
might ultimately come before Presi
dent Harding for action.
Investigation of alleged booze frauds
involving huge quantities of liquor and
more than SIOO,OOO in “fixing" fees has
led department of justice agents to
start a nation-wide search for Gaston
B. Means, central figure in several
episodes of international prominence.
Fear of violating the spirit of the
naval limitation treaty has leu this gov
ernment to abandon its plans for in
creasing the gun range of American
i battleships.
Influences of the world war are re
flected. in almost all the population
changes shown by the 1920 census, it
is pointed out in an analysis just pub
lished by the census bureau, which
•says the persistent influence of the
war alone is likely to make the four
teenth census conspicuous for years to
come.
The American consulate at Vladivo
stok through which the United States
has maintained official representation
in soviet Russia has been ordered
closed. Consul S. Pinkley Tuck and
Vice Consuls Charles H. Stephen,
Frederick S. Pray and Edward S.
Thomas will proceed to Tokio, Japan,
as soon as affairs at Vladivostok are
terminated and will await there for
new assignments to be made by the
state department.
The federal reserve board, in a for
mal statement, again calls attention to
the rapid expansion of credit demand
and industrial production and warns<
that “a continuance of this credit de
mand must soon result in increased
borrowings by banks which are ihem
bers of the federal reserve systeip of
the federal reserve banks.” While the
statement is issued as a summary of
April business, it deals exclusively *vUh
the credit and production situation and
threads through it a comparison with
conditions in 1920.
Domestic —
Spread into the southern California
oil fields of the I. W. W. strike which
previously had affected only marine
and forest workers, and a declaration
in court that delay in trial of two men
said to be members of the I. W. W.
might result in a revolution, aro( the
oustanding features of a recent demon
stration here.
A tornedo which struck a rural school
house about twenty-two miles south
west of Syracuse, Kansas, is reported
to have killed Miss Winifred Rogers,
teacher of the Sherwood school, and
injured three of her pupils.
Carl Nelson, after he and his wife
had quarreled, following a dance they
had attended, died of fright at his wife’s
attempt at suicide, at Buhl, Minn.
After hundreds had searched for her
all night, the body of pretty little Jo
sephine Bruno, 8, was found in the cel
lar of a house across a courtyard from
her own home near the Brooklyn, N.
Y., waterfront.
VV. A. Fraser, head of the Woodmen
of the World, made the statement the
other day in Omaha, Nebr., that if the
United States government would use
the same systematic and vigorous
measures of eradication employed in
the extinction of yellow fever in the
Panama Canal Zone, tuberculosis could
be stamped out in a few years.
Albert Kish broke the world’s endur
ance dance record at • Youngstown,
Ohio, recently. Kish received so many
offers to go into vaudeville that he
had to employ an attorney to help him
handle his mail.-
President Harding, it is announced
in Indianapolis, contributed .SSO recent
ly to the American Legion memorial
fund.
Bishop William F. Oldham, bishop of
the Methodist church, says Chile is
strongly for prohibition, and it will not
be surprising if that country goes dry
in the near future.
The actual condition of clearing
house hanks and trust companies for
the week shows an excess reserve of
$5,417,320 in New York City, a de
crease of $6,579,420.
"""Henry Ford is out in a statement
that there is probability that rubber
can be manufactured from the weeds
which have given Southern farmers so
much trouble in the years gone by.
Sentences ranging from one day to
a year and six months in jail were
given to fifty-two persons convicted of
conspiracy to violate the prohibition
laws in Gary and Lake county, Indi
ana. by Federal Judge Ferdinand Gei
ger in United States district court at
Indianapolis.
The largest upstream tow in the
history of the Mississippi river barge
line left New Orleans, La., for Cairo
and Memphis in charge of the towboat
Cairo. The tow consisted of five
barges carrying 7,460 tons of miscel
laneous freight.
The high cost pf • sugar lumps has
some * compensation for the toiler.
Eighteen hundred employees of the
Federal Sugar Refining company, Yon
kers, N. Y., were grahted unasked for
wage increases of $4 a week.
It’s now not fair to hit anyone who
tells you your brains are in your feet.
The possible passing of bumps, the old
standbys of the phrenologist, as reput
ed indications of one’s character or
one’s most propitious mission in life,
was heralded at Chicago with the an
nouncement that the human mind was
as likely to be scattered anwyhere else
in the human body as under the skull.
The minister of foreign relations and
minister of the interior of Honduras
wired to Honduras Consul Rodrigerua
at Los Angeles, official confirmation of
the arrest of Clara Phillips and two
other persons at Tegucigalpa. The
message urged him to act officially
for his government in rushing through
extradition proceedings.
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- - COI-IHOHT 0 VIM LAN lUV.Hm UNION U! \
TOWHEE PAIR
"I have so many names,” said little
Mr. Towhee, "and so have you, un
love. , ’ ’
"Yes, I’m a bird with many names.
Another one of my names Is Chewlnk
and some call me ‘Teacher, please.’
"But .I call myself either Towhee or
Chewlnk just as you do; for you’re my
little mate.”
“Oh,” gaid Mrs. Towhee, "how we
have puzzled people. They have heard
you sing and they have heard you talk
to me and they did not know which
bird you were, for the people you have
puzzled so have been city people.
"It seems they know the Oven Bird
family. The Oven Birds say Teacher,
Teacher,’ over and over again, but we
say ‘Teacher please’ and 1 think they
really know us now.” ,
“Yes,” said Mr. Towhee, "they know
now when I sing a loud and dear
‘Towhee-e-e’ and ‘See-tow-hee-e-e,
with the last notes very tremulous and
with all of our song very, very dear.
“When we call, we call a clear,
sharp ‘Cherink.’ Yes, it sounds just
like that —very clear and very sharp.
"Three lovely notes and a tremulo
Is our best song, however. Do you re
member, little mate, how I used to
sing that song to you when you were
sitting on your nest and when I would
perch myself in yonder tree?”
“Indeed I remember It,” said Mrs.
Towhee.
“I used to sing for long stretches at
a time, too.” said Mr. Towhee.
“And I enjoyed it so much,” said
Mrs. Towhee.
"Yes,” said Mr. Towhee, "I always
loved to sing in the early morning and
even on into the morning. The morn
ing is so fresh and clear and bright and
sunny and lovely a time.
"Of course I liked singing when it
grew later in the afternoon, too, and
even on the rainy days I enjoyed
singing.
“Bstill love all those times, too.”
“And at all those times I love to lis
ten,” said Mrs. Towhee.
“How we do love the swamps and
the wooded places,” said Mr. Towhee,
‘ “We Like to Scratch About.”
“and you look just like the wood
yourself, dear Mrs. Towhee.
“You match the leaves to perfectlo:
am} your dress is so simple and so be
coming.”
“I ant glad that it pleases you,” said
Mrs. Towhee, “but your costume
pleases nte. I like your black and
white and brown costume.
“Your white touches look so lovely
when you fly. Your brown feet are so
well-shaped!
“Your, eyes are s6 beautiful and
such a handsome shade of red, and
your beak is so strong and so fine and
glossy a shade of black.
“You have a white-eyed relative, X
believe, but red is so much more
magnificent a color.
“Sometimes you’re taken for a robin
because the brown .touches on your
parts are so reddih in shade.
"But you’re not really alike. You
are smaller and I’m smaller still and
there is an olive shade to my costume
which Is unlike the costume of a
robin.
“But of course in spenking of our
names we should mention that some
times we’re called ground robins and
sometimes towhee buntings and some
times towhee ground finch and some
times graekles.
“We belong to the Finch family, and
a fine family it is. 'Ve cannot help but
be proud of the family to which we
belong.”
“Ah, we had a pleasant little chat
but now we must be looking for earth
worms and insects with perhaps a few
berries for dessert,” said Mr. Towhee.
“I must admit I’m getting hungry.
"And now that you speak of it I
realize I am too,” said Mrs. Towhee.
“Yes, we must have a good dinner,
for our breakfast was rather slight
this morning."
“Ah, that is the reason why I
so very hungry,” said Mr. Towhee.