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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.’’