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COTTON ADVANCED
TO $75 PER BALE
GEORGIA COTTON COOP AUTHOR
IZES RAISE IN PRICE TO ITS
MEMBERS AT MEESTINCi
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta—The Georgia Cotton Co
operative announces that it will ad
vance fifteen cents a pound to its
members on delivery of cotton this
fall, which is at the rate of $75 a
standard bale.
this advance was authorized at a
meeting f the directors, after a
thorough cauviss of the situation.
The advance is made possible by
the fact that the association in its
conduct of business during the past
year has established an enviable
credit rating and is able to borrow
at a favorable interest rate all the
money needed for financing the ad
vances pending the gradual selling of
the crop.
Cast year the association made an
Initial advance of twelve cents a
pound, S6O a bale, at time of delivery.
Commenting on the action of the
board, President J. E. Con well says:
"It is hoped that this increase of ap
proximately sls a hale as an initial
advanco will enable our members to
be in a better jmsition to take care
of their obligations at the present,
as well as to facilitate the delivery of
all cotton against which there are
mortgages or encumbrances.”
The present rate of advance will
remain in effect until further action
by the board of directors.
The cooperative association recent
ly made final settlements with all
members who delivered their 1922
crop to the association. The average
gross sale price for all members’ cot
ton received last year was 27.60 cents
and the net average price to the
grower member was 26.08 cents.
Since the first of the year the asso
ciation lias added approximately 25,-
000 new members, which brings the
total membership up to approximately
40,000, as against a membership of 13,-
r >oo for last year.
Sumter Tax Rate 12 1/2 Mills
Americus. —The board of county
commissioners of Sumter county
have fixed the tax rate at a total
of 12 1/2 mills for county purposes.
Of this total !l mills go into the general
fund, with :t 1/2 mills, or a little more
than one-third of the county's total
revenue, put into tins road fund. Last
year there was a total of 10 mills,
levied for general purposes, and 3
mills for road purposes, there being
a net reduction in the net this year
of half a mill. Total taxable values
in the county, upon which the com
missioners base their levy, are $9,-
•339,778, which, it is expected, will
yield a total revenue for all county
purposes of approximately $150,000.
Last year the couuty expended a to
tnl of $165,379.51 for all purposes, and
there remains now on deposit in Sum
ter county banks for the credit of the
road funds a balance of $165,656.95.
Greater Wesleyan To Take First Rank
Macon.—Dr. William F. Quillian,
president of Wesleyan college, who
has returned from a trip up East,
where he visited a dozen of the lead
ing colleges for women in the United
States, announces that with the pur
chase of the Wesleyan site at Rivoli,
the college has all the requisites nec
essary for making it as large and up
to-date as any one of those in the
East. A campaign to raise one mil
lion dollars for the college is to be
launched this fall. This money is to
be used in erecting a modern plant on
the newly acquired site nud the pres
ent college property is to be convert
ed into a modern conservatory of juu
sic, according to the program adopted
by the trustees at their meeting last
June. Methodists throughout the
South will be called on to aid in this
campaign.
Dog Leads To Tragic Discovery
Alma.—A dog with a human hand
In its mouth revealed a double trag
edy here recently. Luther and Estell
Knowles, 17 and 15 years old, are
dead, horribly mangled, as the result
of being run over by a train after they
had dropped to sleep on the track
here, their bodies being discovered by
a dog, vhleh carried the hand of oue
of the boys to the trout porch of the
man to whom the dog belonged, who
lived near the railroad yards. Search
was instituted immediately after the
dismembered portion of a human body
had beeu seen in the dog's mouth bv
a youug woman who lived in the
house, aud the bodies were discover
ed on the track
I YOUNG MINTER GIVEN LIFE
TERM; FATHER TO HANG
Newnan. —Grady Minter was found
guilty of murder in connection with
the death on August 10 of Millard
Trouton, and with a recommendation
for mercy by a Coweta county jury,
after an hour and a quarter of delib
eration.
He was sentenced to life imprison
ment.
Before the verdict was brought in,
J. W. Minter, father of accused, was
conducted to the court, under close
guard of two deputy sheriffs. Father
and son sat within reach of each other
for more than half an hour, while the
spectators, crowding every corner of
the courtroom, waited to hear their
fate.
Immediately the verdict in Grady
Minter’s case was read, Judge C. S.
Roop called upon J. W. Minter to
stand before the bar. The court ask
ed the convicted man if he had any
thing to say before sentence was pro
nounced. Minter, a small man, wear
ing a moustache, without a coat, pre
sented a forlorn figure as In his shirt
sleeves and suspenders and without a
collar, he silently shook his head. The
court repeated the question, and again
the convicted man indicated that he
had nothing to say.
Judge Roop thereupon read the sen
tence, which was that J. W. Minter
shall be hanged privately, with none
but officials and members of his fam
ily to be admitted, within one mile of
the Coweta county courthouse some
time between 10 o’clock and 12
o’clock noon on the morning of Octo
ber 12.
Accure Dentist Of Part In Floggings
Macon. —Dr. C. A. Yarbrough, prom
inent Macon dentist, was re-arrested
in his office here on five additional
warrants in connection with recent
Macon floggings. Two warrants
charging rioting, two charged assault
and battery and another charged
pointing a pistol at another. All five
were bench warrants and carried no
specific allegations. He made bond
soon after the warrants were served,
in the sum of $12,500. He was re
quired to give $2,500 bail in each case.
The only statement that Yarbrough
would make was that he was innocent
and was willing to leave his fate to
twelve jurors of his home city and
county. He is already under a $5,000
bond, as a result of his arrest on
warrants charging him with rioting
and assault and battery.
Ball Park Destroyed By Fire
Atlanta.—The Ponce de Leon baL
park is in a mass of ruins, the entire
grandstand and a portion of the
bleachers having been destroyed re
cently about midnight in one of the
most spectacular fires in the city's
history. The damage, unofficially, was
estimated at $75,000, fully covered by
insurance, it was said. Arrangements
are being made to play the remaining
home games of the Atlanta club at
Grant field. The uniforms of both
the Chattanooga and Atlanta players
we re destroyed, along with prized
trophies stored at the clubhouse.
Convicts Rob Guard And Escape
Augusta.—Two negro convicts re
cently held up O- V. Lambert, coun
ty chaingang guard, robbed him of a
watch and what money he had and
made good their escape. The negroes
were ‘‘long timers” and had figured
in several escapes before this one.
The negroes grabbed the officer’s gun
and threatened to kill him and the
other convicts if they made an outcry.
Ihe guard with the other men were
lined up and their pockets rifled.
Man Is Killed By Live Wire
Columbus.—George S- Nolan, 23, of
Atlanta, employed as a lineman, was
electrocuted recently while working
on a telephone pole at Fort Benning.
He came in contact with a live wire
and officials said 2,300 volts of elec
tricity passed through his body. Fu
neral services will be held in Atlanta.
Mr. Nolan came here about two
months ago.
Man Drowned As Boat Capsizes
Albany.—J. T. McDaniel. 23, was
drowned in Muckalee creek at Graves
Bill, in Lee county, recently when a
boat containing a number of young
men and young women was capsized.
In rescuing the young women of the
party the men said that they forgot
that McDaniel could not swim. He
was going down for the last time when
they first noticed him in trouble, they
reported. The body was recovered
and brought here.
No One-Teacher Schools Left
Americus.—The last one-teacher ru
ral school in Sumter county has dis
appeared. Pennington school has for
mally been consolidated into the
schools at New Era, Pleasant Grove
and Andersonville. Miss Yannie Grif
fin. who has been teaching at the
school, will be retained In the rural
school organization, being given her
option of teaching at either New Era
Pleasant Grove or Andersonville
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE. GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OFTHIB
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWSjFfHE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In Th# South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign—
Semi-official dispatches to Pekin,
China, state that the earthquake toll
to Japan will run not more than
seventy-five thousand. Probably one
hundred and forty thousand were in
jured.
Premier Poincare, in a speech at
Damvillers, France, said that the Ger
man passive resistance in the Ruhr
has collapsed altogether.
Cyrus E. Woods, United States am
bassador to Japan, and Mrs. Woods
were not killed in the Japanese earth
quake, as had been reported.
Wall papers and wall coverings of
all nations and of all periods are
shown in tlao new wall paper museum
recently opened at Cassel, Germany.
The inter-allied council of ambas
sadors, in its note to CTreece, lays
down terms providing that satisfac
tion must be given for the assassina
tion of the Italian mission engaged
in delimitation of the Greek Albanian
frontier near Janina on August 28.
Japan’s foreign trade shows a
marked decrease for the first six
months of the present year compared
with the same period last year. The
former totaled 1,107,134,000 yen and
the latter 714,658,000 yen.
A more encouraging outlook on the
situation in Japan was received from
the British consul in Kobe. He said
the Japanese war office, department
of justice, foreign office and admiralty
were said to be intact. Previous re
ports indicated government buildings
suffered severely.
Thirty per cent of the cotton spin
dles of Japan are unable to operate
and the output is suffering according
ly, it is stated in a telegram to Lon
don newspapers.
The Japanese finance minister will
probably declare a ten days’ morato
rium. The first public utterance of
Premier Yamamoto, sent by wireless,
appeals to the people of Japan to re
lieve the sufferers from the earth
quake and hasten the work of recon
struction.
The superstructure of the league of
natinos, of which an American presi
dent was the chief architect, is im
perilled, and, in the British view, the
very foundation of Europe shaken.
Such, briefly, is a summary of the
situation at Geneva, because of It
aly’s refusal to recognize the right
of the league of nations to intervene
in her dispute with Greece.
As the veil of mystery lifts from
devastated areas of Japan, the full
tragedy is gradually revealed as one
of the greatest in the history of the
world. Earthquake, wave and fire
have claimed a death toll which
may reach a quarter of a million —
the bigest in the annals of world dis
asters. Property loss in Tokio alone
is estimated at ten billion dollars,
and probably totals from thirty bil
lion to fifty billion dolars through
out the islands.
W ashing ton —
Secretary Mellon’s approval of the
new designs for paper money, under
consideration for more than a year,
has been announced at the treasury
department, and many new bills of
distinction and marking will soon be
in circulation.
Fire broke out in the treasury build
ing the other night, but the damage
was not over a thousand dollars.
The treasury announces anew issue
of treasury certificates of indebted
ness aggregating two hundred million
dollars and maturing six months from
September 15, bearing 4 1/4 per cent
interest.
Analysis of the report of the Wil
lard board, recently adopted by the
navy department as the official pro
gram for development of naval air
stations, shows a determination to de
velopment of the Western depots dur
ing the next ten years.
Regardless of the inherent rights
possessed by both sides, the United
States coal commission holds that the
necessity of coal to the general pub
lic makes it incumbent upon both op
erators and workers to make some
personal sacrifices In the interest of
the commonwealth, and that a fixed
code for the settlement of wage dis
putes should be established.
Chairman Madden of the house ap
propriations committee has present
ed to President Coolidge the details
of his plan for annual automatic re
duction in taxes. The plan would pro
vide a reduction in taxes each year
to the amount of the government sur
plus in the preceding fiscal year.
A proportionate distribution of the
proceeds of the sales of their products
to the members of co-operative asso
ciations was declared by the internal
revenue bureau to be the only method
by which the income of such associ
ations is made tax exempt. The bu
reau’s findings were announced in a
final decision amending previous in
come tax regulations.
Two thousand immigrants who were
rushed to New York before midnight,
September l,.in order to beat the bar
rier on the immigration quota for that
month, were ordered admitted in a
decision by the commissioner general
of immigration, but fines of S2OO each
were ordered imposed on the steam
ship companies.
Appropriation of $10,000,000 for fed
eral work in enforcing prohibition next
year, an Increase of $1,000,000 over
last year, has been requested of the
budgets bureau by Prohibition Com
missioner Hayes. An increase of
$500,000 additional for enforcing the
narcotic drug laws also has been ask
ed by Commissioner Haynes, both re
quests now before the budget offi
cers.
Domestic—
Seven United States navy destroy
ers and the Pacific Mail liner Cuba
were wrecked, the navy vessels crash
ing on the rocks in a dense fog off
Arguello light, 75 miles north of Santa
Barbara, Calif., and the passenger
steamer on a reef off the southeast
end of San Miguel island, 35 miles off
that port. Twenty-five enlisted men
of the destroyers lost their lives.
Ernest Baxter, a Chicago taxi driver
found $75,000 worth of jewels in his
car and took them to his company
headquarters and deposited them in
the vault, and then notified the owner.
J. Campbell Cantrill of Georgetown,
Ky., representative from the Seventh
Kentucky district and Democratic
nominee for governor of that state,
died in a Louisville hospital after an
abdominal operation.
Governor Pinchot, having settled the
coal strike, is now out after the rail
roads, and suggests that the inter
state commerce commission investi
gate coal transportation rates with a
view to reducing them.
Nine convicts sent to the York coun
ty, Pennsylvania, jail recently from
the eastern penitentiary at Philadel
phia, mutinied and set fire to the
prison. The fire was extinguished be
fore serious damage was done to the
building.
D. W. Bokwer, Pine Bluff, Ark., su
perintendent of that division of the
Cotton Belt, and Roadmaster Sub
lette of Texarkana were killed In
stantly, and five others, including
General Superintendent W. E. Mc-
Graw were injured two miles from
Plain Dealing, La., when a motor car
on which they were making an inspec
tion trip jumped the track.
The extensive areas of unoccupied
land connected with the duPont ex
plosive plans in the United States,
36,344 acres, are to be used as sanc
tuaries where game and insectivorous
birds will be protected.
James M. Cox, in a speech in New
York the other night, spoke out for
the pro-league forces in the United
States in the Greco-Italian crisis. He
said that “if the league moves with
dignified decision, it will revive the
flames of idealism which preserved
civilization once.”
Lightning willed Mrs. Rufus Proc
tor, probably fatally injured her hus
band and severely burned their two
smali children at their home at South
Side, Montgomery county, Clarksville,
Tenn.
As far as is known now only one
American lost his life In Tokio
W. T. Blume of the General Electric
company, who was killed in the col
lapse of the company's building.
Americans who lost their lives in
Yokohama, Japan, include Captain
MacDonald, of the Grand hotel; a
Mrs. Root and son, recent arrivals,
and Max D. Kirjasoff, American con
sul.
One hundred thousand persons were
maimed and injured in Tokio by the
recent earthquake and 15,000 killed,
says a privat message received by
Charles Henry Cheney of Cheney
Bros., silk manufacturers in New
York City, from Japan. The message
added that Yokohama no longer ex
isted, but that the city of Nagoya,
previously reported destroyed, prob
ably had been saved.
Mme. Olga Petrova, actress, arriv
ing New York City recently, said that
a royalist uprising in France is immi
nent. Many of her friends, she said,
believe France will return to a mon
archial government.
Scraps ,
of f' wt\
BRING ON THE BIG GUNS
“Bang!” went the rifles at the
maneuvers. “Ool” screamed a pretty
blonde, a nice, decorous, surprised
little scream. She stepped backward
into the arms of a young man.
‘‘Oh/’ she said, blushing. “I was
frightened by the rifles. I beg your
pardon.”
“Not at ail,” said the young man.
“Let’s go nearer and watch the ar
tlllery.—Pathfinder.
IT WAS ONLY
A MANDOLIN
4M II didn’t know any
~~Z: of us ever oot
• J|
Habit.
I would not work eight hours a day,
Nor six nor even four,
When ever loafing comes my way
I want to loaf some more.
Just the Well.
“They tell me you have an oil well
on your farm.”
“There’s some truth in it,” replied
Farmer Corntossel, “I got the well.”—
Washington Star.
From Personal Experience.
He—There are an awful lot of girls
who don’t want to get married.
She —How do you know?
He —I’ve asked them. —Stockholm
Sondag Nlsse.
Then She Showed Her Claws.
Miss Oldum —When I asked papa to
let me marry you, he said you couldn't
keep an old cat alive.
De Broke —Wasn’t that a rude naraf
for your father to call you?
Game.
A visitor in a mountain town In
quired, “What game can we shoot
around here?”
“Pool.”
Unusual.
“It’s an unusual case.”
“What is?”
“Brown’s. His wife is perfectly sat
isfied with his table manners.”
TIME TO GET
BUST. ,
Dano 1n g In- g* rffe.
structor: It is ft? V
time for me to In- ft
vent another JWtMI
dance. f MgL 'iJffflfj
Friend: Think WjS
Dancing In- \tljf
structor: Yes, I Nraj
understand there Uj
are two towns vV&
dancing my last
one alike.
At the Crossing.
Maw said: "It's coming!"
Iz said: “Naw, ’taint!”
He tried to cross
And now Iz ain’t.
One Characteristic.
Rub—Dobbs has such a faraway
look in his eyes.
Dub—Why not? He’s a bank
cashier.
Getting Practice.
Jack—Why did you kick that med
ical student out of the library?
Tom—They caught me trying to re
move the appendix from a book he "as
reading.—Virginia Reel.
Fellow Feeling.
Crabshaw—l always thought you
said you’d never lend money a £ alr ‘
Henpeck—But this was to a married
friend who needed it to keep hl>
away In the country another month.
More Than interest.
"Does your wife take much i
est in your business?"
“Interest? She takes a mighty hi*
share of the capital.”
All Wrong.
hope you were sa:
with your dinner, sir.
Diner—Absolutely not.
was cold except the ice cream.
Failed to Note.
“When you refused him my
papa, did he go down on his knee*.
"Well, I didn’t notice just where
landed.’’