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WILL REORGANIZE
FRUIT EXCHANGE
PRESIDENT HUNTER PROPOSES
PLAN AT MEETING OF GEOR
GIA PEACH GROWERS
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Macon. —Reorganization of the Geor
gia Fruit Exchange so as to care for
contingencies which have arisen since
the inception of the organization 15
years ago lias been proposed by Pres
ident VV. R. Hunter of Cornelia. He
was a prominent figure at a mass meet
ing of the Georgia Peach Growers held
here recently.
At the session a unanimous opinion
prevailed that the Georgia Exchange
should be reorganized and a large com
mit too, headed by President Hunter,
was named to draft resolutions per
taining to the reorganization.
Suggestion of the organization of
a Tri - State Cos - operative Markteing
Association to dispose of the peach
crops of Georgia, North and South
Carolina was also made, hut until the
Georgia association is perfected, no
steps will lie taken to consolidate the
three associations, it was stated.
Standardization of the peach pack,
the creation of a centralized market
ing agency that has authority to re
quite growers to prepare peach ship
ments according to the standardized
pack, were among the recommenda
tions made.
The need of creating a fund to aid
needy growers who will not affiliate
witb the state exchange was also sug
gested by President Hunter in hm talk
to the growers.
There are more than two hundred
representative growers attending.
The committee named to prepare
resolutions on the reorganization of
the Georgia Exchange b 1 composed of
\V. B. Hunter, Cornelia, chairman;
M. F. Hatcher, Macon; David Stroth
er, Fort Valley; J. D. Duke, Fort Val
h>, John Murph and John Walker,
Marshall villo; Ed McKenzie, Monte
zuma; It. L. McMath, Americus; J. L.
Benton, Mynticello; C. W. Mathews,
Woodland; C. P. Prothro, Griffin; F.
M Stewart, Gray; C. Cornwall, Alto;
John Feasley, Canton; C. W. Finney,
Haddock; J. F. Whatley, Reynolds;
R. L. Dickey, Lizella; A. D. Williams,
Yatesville; J. R. Cooper, Perry; A. C.
Glover, Newnan; W. M. Rowland, Au
gusta; S. P. McDaniel, Thomaston; A.
M. McGill, Woodbury, W. W. Lowe,
Byron; H. M. Fletcher, Jackson; E.
M. Davis, Wayside.
Ex-Mayor Woodward Passes Away
Atlanta. —James O. Woodward, four
times mayor of Atlanta, and for over
thirty years the stormy petrel of At
lanta politics, died at a local sanita
rium, at the age of 79 years, follow
ing an illness of several months. His
wife. Mrs. Violet Woodward, who lias
kept a coy-slant vigil at his bedside
since Jie was taken td the ’sanitarium,
and a few close friends were with him
when death came. He had been in a
state of coma for forty-eight hours.
Mr Woodward received a slight stroke
of paralysis on the Whitehall street
viaduct about six weeks ago. Compli
cations developed' and he was taken
from his residence, on East Hunter
street, to Piedmont sanitarium. Sev
eral days ago he was the victim of an
other paralytic stroke, the effects of
wlrth hastened his death.
Napier Elected To National Office
Atlanta. —Attorney General George
M Napier, of Georgia, was elected sec
retary and treasurer of the National
Association of Attorneys General in
session at Minneapolis, Minn., accord
ing to telegraphic advices received in
Atlanta. Mr. Napier left Atlanta for
the annual convention of the associa
tion in Minneapolis recently. That he
should have been chosen as one of the
national officers of the association is
regarded bly his close friends here as
a signal honor since he is the first
Georgian to have attained that honor.
Attorney General T. N. England, of
West Virginia, was elected president;
Harvey N. Cluff, Utah, vice president;
C. L. Hilton, Minnesota; 11. L. Ekeen,
Wisconsin, and Jesse W. Harr, Mis
souri, were elected as the executive
committee.
Asks Appointment As State Warden
Atlanta. —Attorney Louis A. Burton
of Atlanta will be a candidate for state
game warden, it became known when
several petitions were circulated urg
ing the governor to appoint him. He
has been active in Georgia politics for
a number of years and was a support
er of the governor in his two cam
paigns. It is believed the governor
will announce his decision in the mat
ter within the next few days.
| Georgia Railroad Helps Student*
Atlanta.—-Enrollment for the firs'
engineering classes under the co-oper
ative plan between the Georgia School
of Technology and the Central ol
Georgia railway has been completed.
Forty-nine boys from all parts of the
state are at work and eight arc on
the waiting list. The plan, which has
just been put into effect, gives boys
an opportunity to earn their way
through college by working half their
time at the shops of the Central of
Georgia in Macon, Columbus and .Sa
vannah, and spending the remaining
half of the time at Tech. They re-
ceive regular apprentice wages and
will earn a sufficient amount to pay
all their college expenses. The course
leads to the regular degrees, but takes
five years Instead of four for com
pletion. The Central of Georgia Is
the first railway in the South to adopt
this plan and the experiment Is being
watched with much interest in in
dustrial circles. The first section of
students has been at work for four
weeks and the master mechanics in
the several shops report that the
students have done splendid work.
All of them are graduates from ac
credited high schools or have quali
fied with the entrance requirements
of Tech.
Policeman’s Wife Held For Killing
Atlanta. Sensational testimony
against the character of Mrs. W. W.
Evans, held in connection with the
fatal shoting of her husband, Police
man W. W. Evans, featured the cor
oner’s Inquest which resulted in a
verdict instructing that the widow be
detained for further investigation. The
coroner’s jury agreed that Evans met
his death from gunshot wounds. The
next action will be the preliminary
hearing of Mrs. Evans In the city
court of Decatur on a warrant charg
ing her with the murder of Evans.
According to her atorney, Ben Tye,
tho hearing will be held at Decatur.
Testimony that Evans accused his
wife of undue friendliness with other
men Just a few minutes prior to his
death was given by C. J. Christian,
whose wife is a niece of Mrs. Evans,
and who is a tenant of th’e same
house with the Evans family.
Expert Approval Of Railroad Lease
Savannah—That the Georgia Pub
lie Service commission will re
port favorably upon the proposed
lease of the Carolina, Clinchfield &
Ohio railroad by the Atlantic Coast
Line, was the confident opinion ex
pressed here by John L. Tye, Atlanta
lawyer, who represented the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad at the re
cent hearing in the matter. The pro
posed lease is for 99 years and the
Atlantic Coast Line declares that in
desiring to take over this road it
wishes to establish a straight line
from the Kentucky coal fields through
to Savannah, and on to other points.
Mr. Tye said, when interrogated, that
the Georgia railroad doesn’t want the
Savannah & Atlanta road, which
rumor has had it might be taken over
by the Georgia railroad which it joins
at Cainak."
Mule Dealers Ask $30,000 Damages
Atlanta.—Twenty-five mule dealori
of Atlanta have filed suit against the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
company, the Louisville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railway and James C.
Davis, agent, for $30,000 damages
which the dealers allege represents
overcharges in freight rates collect
ed by the defendants on hundreds of
shipments of horses and mules from
points in' Kentucky, Tennessee, Illi
nois, Indiana and Missouri to Atlan
ta. The mule dealers allege that the
rates collected by the defendants were
in violation of the fourth section of
the act to regulate commerce and
section 10 of the federal control act.
Floyd Farmers To Inspect Berry
Rome.—Farmers from all over
Floyd county will make a tour of in
spection of the Berry schools farm,
the tour to be conducted by County
Farm Demonstrator Agent W. H. C.
Collins. In urging farmers to be on
hand for the trip, Mr. Collins express
es the opinion that the Berry farms
show what improved farming methods
can do in this section of the state.
He feels, too, he points out. that the
demonstration is all the more impres
sive because the Berry farms are all
on what is known as "flat woods
land" popularly supposed to be very
poor land.
Increase Shown In Car Passengers
Atlanta.—lncrease of more than
260,000 passengers on Atlanta street
cars for the month of July, 1923, over
July 1922, was reported in a state
ment filed by. the Georgia Railway
& Power company with the public
service commission. Excluding the
Stone Mountain and Marietta lines,
the company carried 6.165.P&5 pay pas
sengers, and 1,702,305 who rode on
transfers during last July, while the
figures for this July show 6.466.118
pay passenger and 1,711,747 on trans
fers. Gross receipts fut Als July
I showed an increase of $18,136 sfi.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA,
THE WEEK'S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOOTJHE WORLD
A C*nd*n*ed Record Of Happening*
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
Foreign—
The Greek government has replied
to the Italian ultimatum embodying
demands for reparations for the mas
sacre of the members of the Italian
boundary mission at the Albanian
frontier. Greece accepts four of
Italy’s demands with modifications,
and rejects three of them.
The election situation at Dublin
with unofficial returns and estimates
continually coming in is such that it
is almost impossible to form any accu
rate idea of how the returns stand.
No count is complete for any constit.u
tuency and those of the candidates
whose names have been mentioned as
among the elected have not yet been
officially declared so.
It is reported at Tokio that Baron
Shimpei Goto, former mayor of Tokio,
has accepted the office of foreign
minister in the new Yamamoto cab
inet.
A syndicate composed of the largest
.Egyptian growers, having already in
duced the Egyptian government to in
tervene in the cotton market in the
hope of forcing up prices, is now
planning, says a dispatch to the Ex
change Telegraph from Cairo, to
starve the market for the next few
weeks.
The Italian government has demand
ed a formal apology from the Greek
government, an indemnity of 50,000,-
000 lire, and that full honors be paid
by the Greek fleet to the Italian fleet
in Piraeus because of the assassina
tion of the five Italian members of
the Greeco-Albanian boundary mission
at Janin, Albania.
Organized Bolshevik bands are ter
rorizing dwellers in the rural districts
of Upper Silesia, according to dis
patches received here. Standing and
stacked crops are being burned and
the lives of peasants and owners of
big estates threatened.
First returns from the Irish elec
tions indicate even a more sweeping
victory for the Free State candidates
than their supporters had predicted.
Nearly a score of government party
nominees,’ including most all the cab
inet members, have won seats by large
majority, while the election of only
three republicans was assured.
Arrangements for the withdrawal of
the French troops of occupation in
Constantinople, in consequence of Tur
key’s ratification of the treaty of Lau
sanne, are now under way, it is offi
cially announced. The French evacu
ation will be completed in about six
weeks.
The Spanish dreadnaught, Epana,
Which went aground in a fog on Cape
Tres forcas, on the Moroccan coast,
has been given up as lost. The vessel
is lying at a sharp angle, with no
chance of being refloated, and her
guns and other equipment are being
salvaged. ■>
Plans for an air route between
America and Japan were advanced be
fore the Pan-Pacific science congress,
now in session at Sydney, New South
Wales.
V. '
Washington—
Assignment of A. B. Stroup as divi
sional chief of general prohibition
agents in New England was announced
recently by Acting Commissioner Nash
of the internal revenue bureau. Stroup
has been chief of the district which
includes North Carolina and part of
Virginia.
The story of the saving of millions
of lives of starving and diseased in
Russia by American aid will be “told
lovingly In Russian households for
generations," Col. William N. Haskell
declared In a final report on the ac
tivities of the American relief admin
istration in that country of which he
had charge.
Discovery of placer gold reported to
run as high as $4 gold to the pan on
the Toklat river, sixty miles from the
Alaska railroad, has been the sig
nal for a general stampede from Ne
vada, Healy and other interior points,
according to advices received at An
chorage, Alaska.
Cablegrams passing through the
Cuban offices of the Commercial
Cable com pah y will not be subjected
to censorship by the Cuban govern
ment, according to a message receiv
ed at the company’s New York offices
recently. It was reported that all
cablegrams passing through Cuba
would be subjected to government
scrutiny.
The first of the special two-cent
stamps struck off by the postoffice de
partment as a memorial to President
Harding will he placed on sale in
Marion, Ohio, Mr. Harding’s home
town. At the direction of Postmaster
General New, Michael E. Eidsness, su
perintendent of the stamp division of
the department, started for Marion
with 200,000 of the stamps for the
Marion postoffice.
Operation of the shipping board
fleet through a number of subsidiary
corporations owned by the board is
proposed in the government’s alter
native operation plan as outlined by
Chairman Farley at a conference with
ship owners. It would be be put into
effect in case present efforts to place
the ships under private ownership fail
Department of justice agents will
endeavor to determine whether gold
coin reported to have been dug up
recently near Hagerstown, Md., by a
roadworker is tho property of Grover
C. Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft-evader,
r.ow in Germany.
Domestic—
A crowd of 5,000 persons broke up
a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan in
Odd Fellows’ hall, Perth Amboy, N.
J., 75 policemen and 150 firemen be
ing unable to drive back the throng
that stormed the building. Firemen
drove trucks into the mass of people,
but to no avail. A hurry call was 1
sent for state police in Trenton.
Arthur Reynolds, said by Nashville
(Tenn.) government officers to he
wanted on several charges and for
whom a nation wide search is said
to have been made for over two
years, is in custody, arrested by de
tectives, on charges of violating the
Mann act and the motor vehicle act.
John Fleming Wilson, author and
playwright, who died at Venice, Calif.,
March 5, 1922, deeded most of his
estate to Mary Ashe Miller, his
friend of many years, it was revealed
when the state inheritance tax ap
praiser filed a report valuing the es
tate at $90,022.34.
Maywood, River Forest, Des Plaines,
Forest Park and other suburbs to the
west of Chicago are scratching and
slapping and doing little else. Sev
eral generations of pestiferous mo
squitoes threaten to depopulate them.
Already many stores and other busi
ness houses have been forced to
close, and practically nobody is get
ting any sleep.
Alabama’s soldier sons came to Mo
bile recently for their fifth annual
reunion and convention.
Steamship service between Chicago
and Europe by way of the lake and
Welland canal, is expected to be In
augurated September 10, according to
information received at the Chicago
Association of Commerce.
Motion for dismissal of the cele
brated- Coronado Coal company dam
age suit against the United Mine
Workers of America, based on the
mandate of the United States su
preme court, was filed in United
States district court, Fort Smith, Ark.,
by counsel for the mine workers.
Two thousand members of the mu
sician’s mutual protective union have
voted to call a strike in theaters of
greater New York unless an agree
m’ent over wage demands is reached.
Two Memphis (Tenn.) detectives
are wondering what it takes to make
a wild animal wild. Dispatched on
the trail of a reported ferocious tim
ber wolf which has escaped as it was
being brought to a zoo from Cotton
Plant, Ark., the officers found it. It
followed the officers back to head
quarters as meekly as the little lamb
followed Mary.
Mrs. Rosa Simiz, who shot her 19-
year-old son, Dezze, because, she said,
she would rather kill him than have
him lead a life of crime, prayed in
her cell in a Chicago jail for his re
covery. And at the hospital the youth
was expected to recover.
Reports that John Pavlisin had
been committed to the insane asylum
in Evanston, Wyoming, since the ex
plosion in the Frontier mine of the
Kemmerer Coal company, at Kemmer
er, in which he was credited with
saving the lives of several compan
ions, are groundless, according to a
letter received from Pavlisin at Den
ver, Colo.
Jitneys are virtually ruled off the
streets of Birmingham, Ala., now, it
was announced following the counting
of votes taken in an election to de
cide whether they should be allowed
to operate.
Police leaned toward the theory of
suicide by poison as an explanation
of the mysterious death of John H.
Sutphen, private secretary, whose
body was found on a couch in his
luxurious $12,000 a year Central Park
apartment, New York.
The original of the entombment of
Christ, painted early in the seven
teenth century by Guido Reni, a rec
ognized master of the Bolognese
school, and considered by critics as
almost priceless, was stolen from E.
B. Crocker Art Gallery at Sacramento,
Calif., it became known
Just p
a^Litpe/^
OUT OF JUICE ~~
“Here, boy,” said the wealthy
torist, ‘‘l want some gasoline, and
please get a move on! You’ll never
get anywhere in the world unless von
push. Push is essential. When I was
young I pushed and that got me where
I am.”
“Well, guv-nor,” replied tne boy “i
reckon you’ll have to push again,
’cause we ain’t got a drop of gas la
the place.”—Black and ‘ Blue Jay
(Johns Hopkins).
PALPABLY DAMAGED
“What's this?" J
“The Venus de Milo. Milo must
be the Italian for mill end. It Is
evidently a remnant, as you see.”
Conservation of Effort.
If all we mortals needed here below
On trees should grow,
How many men too indolent would be
To shake the tree!
Among the Animals.
“Were you a bear or a bull In the
market?”
“Neither,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax,
“I was one of those wise old foxes
who kept out of it.” —Washington
Star.
They Hear It Coming.
Ted —That’s a dreadful second-hand
car Tom bought.
Ned —He says he’ll never have an ac
cident, for it makes so much noise ev
erybody gets out of the way in time.
Overheard at a Musicale.
“Maud sings with a great deal of
expression.”
“Yes, she does; but it’s the kind that
you must close your eyes to appreci
ate.”
A Wise Father.
“Was your son educated in New
Haven?”
“No; he went to college in New
Haven, but he got jiis education in
New York.” —Life.
S Jones’ nose is ft
storm when his
wife sees it red.
Look at Merry Side.
When your heart is feeling hea'X.
And your brain is rather sa,
Don’t think about your troubles.
But of the Tun you’ve had.
Up the Spout.
She—Jack Brokeleigh sent Edltn
beautiful bouquet yesterday. I
there's something up.
He—Brokeleigh’s watch, probaDiy.
The Relationship.
“Hello, Smitli; suppose ’a man ka
ries his first wife’s stepsisters
what relation is he to her: __
“First—wife — umph— step-aunt
let me see; I don’t know.
“He’s her husband."
Superior Sort.
“What would you call nerve
“To take shelter in an un
shop during a storm and teate
out buying an umbrella.
(Stockholm.)
Running Behind. ine
“Is your business on a ru
basis yet?” r n
“I should say so. I ah ■ „
when I see a creditor eoinm*.
' With the Athletes. ,
Phyllis—l love a backwaju H 1
Thyrsis—Shall I dc* one for 7
Cornell Widow.
* By Ma and Pa. voor
Gerald—J’d like to call joa
first name. r was
Geraldine—The first nr^ 0 „
ever called was ‘sweethea