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COTTON FIRMS WIN
PRIVILEGE FIGHT
CONCENTRATION PRIVILEGES RE
STORED TO SEVERAL GEOR
GIA CITIES.
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Washington.—Proposed r<;Btrictiona
In transit privileges on cotton and cot
ton liuters at Atlanta, Athens, Elber
toi. and Winder, Ga., have been found
unjustified by the interstate com
merce commission. Announcement of
the commission’s decision, recently
made, added that the schedules pro
posing to invoke the restrictions had
been ordered cancelled.
The proposed schedule restrictions
were filed by the Seaboard Air Line,
but, according to the commission’s rec
ord, had tho support of half a dozen
other carriers handling cotton shipv
rnents.
The Seaboard argued, in support of
Its contentions, that the, Louisville and
Nashville and the other intersecting
lines had threatened cancellation of
joint rates on' the commodities in
volved unless the privilege permitting
concentration at the four cities named
was abandoned. The commission said,
however, that It found no reason for
cancellation of the joint rates and or
dered them continued.
“Tlie transit arrangement maintain
ed |,y the carrier at Atlanta and the
oilier points ure not exceptional or
unusual,” the commission’s opinion
says. “Many other carriers in this ter
ritory have similar arrangements and
their connections participate in the
through rates.
“We are of the opinion that the
present joint rates on cotton from
points on the lines of the Louisville
and Nashville, Albany and Vicksburg,
Illinois Central, Yazoo and Mississip
pi Valley and the Southern railway to
points in the southeastern, Carolina
and eastern territories, with concen
tration in transit at Atlanta, Athens,
Fiber ton niul Winder, have not been
shown to bo less than reasonable rates
or otherwise unlawful.
“The carrier lias not justified the
cancellation of the concentration in
■*.- - iu nointfl
tho other lines are not Justified in re
fusing to participate in such Joint
rates when shipments are Htopped at
Atlanta, Athens, Elberton and Winder
for concentration.”
Tea Is Produced In Bartow County
Koine.—That un excellent grade of
ten vi ill not only grow in north Geor
gia luit that it can he made a highly
profitable crop has been demonstrat
'd by (' L. Lipscombe, a farmer who
ives near Adairsvllle In Bartow coun
:y. Mr. Lipscombe spent a year in
California four years ago. He was
employed by a man who operated a
urge farm. This man raised tea for
Uis own uso as many Californians do.
When Mr. Lipscombe returned to
Georgia, lie brought a dozen plants
with him. Ho experimented with
hem In Georgia.
Baptists To Meet In Augusta
Louisville. —The Hephlzlbali Baptist
association will meet this year with
the First Baptist church of Augusta
*nd will convene on Thursday night,
September 27, when a special service
will mark the opening of the associa
tion. Dr. E. L. Grace is pastor of
the Augusta church, which will be
hostess to the meeting, and Is mak
ing full arrangements to care for the
visiting delegates, from the various
churches which number something
like 40 and constitute one of the
argest associations of the Baptists in
he state.
Movie Corporation Is Planned
Augusta—Organization of n motion
picture corporation- with a working
capitalization ranging from $1,000,000
to $5,000,000, with headquarters in
Augusta, is being discussed by the
.oral board of commerce. The propo
sition recently was discussed with
the board of directors by A. N. Cntre
vns, n former cotton factor of this
city and now In business in New
Vork City. The board has expressed
its approval of the plan.
Development Plan Gains Cooperation
Macon.—More than fourteen organ
izations are co-operating in the Middle
Georgia Development campaign, which
is being sponsored by the Macon
chamber of commerce. Committees
appointed by the various organ lza
ions are scheduled to hold a joint con
erence here at an early date. The
►urpose of the campaign is to bring
tew settlers and develop middle Geor
ia
Theft Of Chicken* Draw Punishment
Lawrenceville. The Septembei
term of the Gwinnett county superior
court closed recently after disposing
of a number of cases on the criniina,
dockets are crowded and Judge Lewis
C. Russell has set the first Monday
in October for an adjourned term to
last two weeks. Judge Russell anc
Solicitor Pemberton Cooley are offi
cers of the new Piedmont circuit, thif
being the first session held since th€
creation of the new circuit. Free
McNair and Jim Cooper, colored, wert
sentenced to terms on the chaingang
for stealing people’s chickens, as was
W. C. Phillips, white. Phillips alsc
was convicted of stabbing and was
given 12 months on this count. Many
bonds were forfeited for the non-ap
pearance of defendants.
Seize Huge Stills Near West Point
Columbus. —Prohibition and county
officers of Harris county captured
and destroyed three stills, aggregat
ing 1,100 gallons in capacity, in Har
rls county, together with a large
quantity of beer and 14 fermenters
Six miles east of West Point, a 500
gallon still and 400 gallons of beer
were seized; eight miles east ol
West Point the officers captured a
200 gallon still with 800 gallons o:
beer, along with the 14 fermenters
while they found a 400-gallon outlit
prepared to make apple brandy, ter
miles east of West Point. Prohibition
Officers Kincaid and Mahoney, Sher
Iff Williams, of Harris county; Offi
cers Spence and Stanford composed
the raiding parties. No arrests wero
made.
Three Convicts Still At Large
Clarkesville. Three convicts wht
escaped from the Habersham county
jail by flawing through the bars, arc
being pursued by a posse of Haber
sham citizens, while the third ha;
been returned here after capture ir
White county. No word has been re
ceived here of the three convicts nor
of the posse since the chase started
By sawing their way through the bars
of their cage the four men escaped
sometime during the night. The men
are, Jack Harrington, sent up from
Richmond county for robbery; Leon
ard Fitzgibbons, From Fulton county
for lanceny; John Mills, Wilkes coun
ty, for bigamy; and Son R. Young
from Gordon county, for a mivde
meanor.
Georgians To Head National Parad<
Macon. —When the American Le
gion parade is held in San Franciscc
in nt'tnUn* w...au, tin# “ueorgia dele
gation will head the column, accord
ing to an announcement received here
This honor has been conferred, ac
cording to the announcement, because
the Georgia department has sliowi
the largest increase among the states
this year. This will be the second
year that the Georgia department has
won this honor and received the Me
Nider cup.
Chattooga County Plans Big Fair
Summerville.—Plans for the annua)
Chattooga county fair, to be helc
here on Thursday and Friday, Octobei
18 and 19, were made at a meeting
of the business men, when various
committees were appointed. Officers
were elected last November, at the
time when the date for the 1923 fail
was sot. Most crops are Rood this
year, although a little late, and es
pecial efforts will be made to make n
fine showing of farm products in the
agricultural department.
Valdosta Man Killed By Train
Valdosta.— W. H. Presley, of this
city, was instantly killed here recent
ly when an early morning train of the
Georgia and Florida road struck him,
severing his body and completely cut
ting off both arms. The body was
found in the railroad yards, which are
located near his home. Mr. Presley
was the oldest son of Levi Presley,
a police sergeant here. Besides his
widow and one daughter, he is sur
vived by his parents, two brother!
and two sisters.
Caicium Arsenate Placed Upon Cotton
Griffin. Spalding county farmers
investigating the deaths of a uum
her of cows and chickens recently,
discovered the deaths due to calcium
arsenate. Asa result of the discov
ery, farmers and dairy operators have
been warned against allowing cattle,
poultry and other animals of all kinds
to graze where they may have access
to cotton that may have been poison
ed with calcium arsenate, as it is
said the saturated leaves contain suf
ficient poison to produce death.
Harding Monument Plans Indorsed
Macon. The Macon Exchange club
has indorsed the idea of erecting a
monument to the late President Har
ding, which is now being considered
by Exchange clubs throughout the
country. The idea owes its incep
tion to the Cleveland Exchange club
The secretary of the Macon club has
notified the Cleveland club that it is
behind the proposal.
THE DAMELSVILLE MQldfroß, DANIELSVILLE. GEORGI^
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPEf INGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NAT IONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS ~OF*THE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In Tha South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign—
France holds the record over all
countries for the number of passen
gers mail and packages carried by
air.
Paris, free rent for clean people!
M. Caudevelle, proprietor of a large
apartment house in Rue Denoyez,
was disturbed by the condition of the
premises, so he posted this sign: “The
proprietor has the honor to inform
his tenants that he will remit one
year’s rent to the tenant whose flat
Is the cleanest and best cared for.’’
Georges Clemenceau, the wartime
premier of France, believes in prepar
ing for death. Clemenceau, it Is dis
closed, has erected his tomb at Mou
champs where his father is burled.
Resolutions favoring employment of
women in police systems throughout
tho world and recommending other
measures, Including investigation by
experts to stamp out the white slave
traffic were adopted by tho league of
nations assembly after a remarkable
discourse before the delegates by
Dame Edith Lyttleton, British repre
sentative.
Mustapha Aye, realizing that when
one dies he’s a long time dead, got
up out of his tomb and protested ve
hemently. Aye, according to advices
received at Paris from Constantinople,
startled shepherds when they were
passing his tomb on the plains of An
atolia by yelling, “Let me out!” Aya,
it appears, had suffered from syncope
and had been jerked into conscious
ness by the bumping of the coffin as
it was lowered into the tomb.
The government of the independent
state of Fium has resigned. The
Italian gover ‘, received from
Signor Depoi' ‘ oresident of the
assembly of Jl <! ftiU ‘ s letter complain
ifucHe shdl’ y Fiuna g
caused much discontent.
Five thousand persons are reported
to have perished in the floods which
fololwed upon the typhoon at Tottori,
northwest of Kobe, Japan, according
to an Osaka dispatch to the Central
News, London.
Victorious In her demands on Greece
Italy is confident of victory in her
dispute with Jugo-Slavia over the Fi
ume situation. The Jugo-Slavia cabi
net has already decided to accept the
Italian proposals regarding Fiume.
Mussolini has no intention of quitting
Corfu until Greece has made full rep
aration.
Wireless messages received at Mex
icali, Lower California, report the de
struction by tidal wave of San Jose
de Cabo, a small fishing town on the
west of Lower California, just above
Cape San Lucas. The number of lives
lost is not known.
Washington—
The British government wiped out
the obligation it incurred at Wash
ington through the purchase of silver
for use as the major coinage in India
during the W’orld war.
President Coolidge will first reveal
the policies which he desires to fea
ture in his brief term in his address
to congress early next December.
Until then the new administration’s
political program can only be inferred.
Official reports from Camp McClel
lan. Ala., discloses that an experiment
during the summer with a company
of 120 civilian military training camp
students, selected for their physical
unfitness for military service turn
ed them out at the end of three weeks
as “capable potential fighting men.”
The American people dropped some
thing like $350,000,000 into the income
tax reservoir, according to estimates
of treasury officials. The quarterly
installments they believed, would fully
meet expectations.
Conviction of judges, attorneys,
federal and state officials and mil
lionaires among the host found guilty
of violating the prohibition laws was
detailed in a recent report submitted
to President Coolidge by Attorney
General Daugherty.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
company has asked the approval of
the interstate commerce commission
for purchase of the Big Sandy and
Cumberland railroad for $600,000. The
property would be converted into a
branch line.
“Pitiless publicity” is the slogan of
.JCrnmen. for XTVur
public against the constantly recur
ring evils of the coal industry, strikes
and the skyrocketing of prices.
Admiral Anderson lias reported to
Secretary Denby that the Sacred Heart
college To Tokio had been destroyed
in* the earthquake, but all rending
there were reported to have escaped.
The message added: Colonel l Purmg.
ton and two children and Miss by
mond dead, wife safe. No report on
Dollard, Miss Rowland. Martin
family safe. Archbishop Gialdin safe.
Sale of about 170 ships designated
“unserviceable” by the board of sur
vey, may be undertaken soon by the
shipping board. The ships will be
disposed of for scrappings, it was m
dicated, and probably will be offered
in lots of ten.
The Alabama Power company has
agreed to extend the time within which
the government must determine wheth
er it will sell to the power company
its interest in the Gorgas unit and
transmission line of the Muscle Shoals,
Ala., properties.
Domestic —
The Alabama Power company has
set aside approximately $200,000 to be
expended in improvements in the
Huntsville field of operations, it has
been announced at Huntsville, Ala. A
large synchonous condenser is being
installed there to improve the volt
age delivered to power consumers.
Oklahoma cotton merchants are pre
paring to open the cotton market at
advances of one-half cent a pound.
Reports Indicate that in many places
the entire crop has been destroyed and
that what is left is badly damaged.
There is a general feeling that the
crop Is damaged to such an extent that
it will be practically worthless.
Persons charged with criminal of
fenses in connection with activities of
hooded hands in Morehouse parish
(La.) last year will not face prosecu
tion at the fall term of the district
court opening in Bastrop October 1.
A1 Spencer, notorious bandit of the
Osage is dead. He was killed by a
posse headed by Alva McDonald, Unit
ed States marshal for the western dis-
trict of Oklahoma.
A recently published series of
charges by the United Mine Workers
of America that the Communist Inter
nationale at Moscow was fomenting in
dustrial revolution in the United States
and Canada as a step toward over
throw in the governments were char
dent of the National Coal association,
as a “bold, ineffective and belated at
tempt by the mine workers to evade
responsibility for events which they
justly should be ashamed of.”
State-wide martial law took a defi-
nite form when Oklahoma City, lead
ing the way for the remainder of the
state, passed under the virtually com
plete control of the military. Streets
and highways of Oklahoma county in
which Oklahoma City is loctaed must
be cleared between midnight and five
o’clock a. m., according to the or
ders. Sale of firearms and ammuni
tion is prohibited.
Mrs. Robert F. Carr, Lake Shore
(Chicago) drive resident, lost a string
of pearls valued at SIO,OOO three years
ago at a hotel at a health resort at
Watkins, N. Y., has had the gems for
warded to her, having been found by
a gardener trimming a hedge near the
hotel.
William Jennings Bryan, in a letter,
recently to a Jacksonville (Fla.) news
paper, observed, anent the presidential
situation: “There is no reason why
the South cannot elect a president.
Its voters need only to put up such
a candidate as Pat Neff, governor of
Texas. The people must choose be
tween the exploited masses and the
exploiters.
The Gypsy Oil company, a subsidi
ary of the Gulf Oil corporation an
nounces a cut of 20 cents a barrel in
Oklahoma and Kansas crudes with
the lowest quotations at 90 cents and
the highest at $2.
Although not boastin gabout it es
pecialy, Vigo county, Indiana, claims
that Us divorces come nearer in num
ber to its marriages than those of any
other county in the United States.
Although not boasting about it es
pecially, Vigo county, Indiana, claims
been married, is dead, her romance
ended by tragedy when she fell from
the automobile her fiance was driving
and broke her neck.
A bold theft was staged in the court
house at Rockford, Ala., when the of
fice of Sheriff Prater was entered and
three complete stills were taken away
by thieves.
Improved business conditions and
an estimate from Washington placing
this year's probable cotton crop at
only 10,750,000 bales, have caused a
condition which amounts almost to a
stampede among cotton users both in
the United States and abroad, the New
York cotton exchange recently an
nounced.
Ji Yevo
'Qt Little H
OWED SUCCESS TO COW
Artist —I owe my great success to a
cow, to be frank with you.
His Friend —Oh, so the picture that
made you famous was one portraying
a cow?
Artist —Not exactly. I was painting
a landscape in the country and a cow
licked most of the paint off from the
canvas. I called the result “An Oyster
Calling to His Mate,” and here I am.—
Houston Post.
THE SAFER WAY
“He called his mother-in-law an old
cat.”
“That took some courage.”
“Oh, he didn’t do it in words; he
sent her a package of catnip.”
Natural Result.
Bud Hic!:s, he was a simple lad,
Who never done no harm.
110 milked a cow from the left-hand
side,
And now he’s left the farm!
—Country Gentleman.
At the Bargain Sale.
“My wife saved ten dollars at a bar
gain sale yesterday,” said Brown.
“She did,” returned Jones; “and did
she give you the ten dollars?"
“No,” said Brown sadly. “She de
manded ten more to buy a hat. Her
old one was trampled on in the rush.”
To Drown Her Out.
“Is your daughter going to practice
on the piano this afternoon?”
“Yes.”
“Well, then, will you please lend me
your lawn mower? I have to do tlie
lawn some time, anyway.”
Pleasure Not Business.
She (indignantly)—You had no busi
ness to kiss me!
He (apologetically)—But, bang it all,
it wasn’t business —It was a pleasurel
course, you have
'gSsfiral- sir; but I should
K? H f like to have her
I V r 'JSKffIA | in spite of that.
Likes Love Sets.
They don’t appeal to him,
These glorious sunsets —
He Is a tennis star
And only likes love sets.
Sympathy.
“Pa, what is sympathy?”
“Sympathy, my boy, is made up of
Just two expressions: ‘That’s too
bad,’ and ‘l’m very sorry.’ ”
Doctor Never Treats.
Visitor —How long has Doctor Stans*
by been treating you?
Patient —The doc never treats once.
I pay all the bills.
Principles.
“A statesman is judged by what he
stands for.”
“Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum,
“and also by what he won’t stand for.
—Washington Star.
The Successful Pugilist.
“What’s your Idea of a really suc
cessful pugilist?’’
“One who learns a good monologue
and takes care of his money.”—V astl *
ington Star.
Can’t Afford Both.
Mrs. Loser —The dentist says I must
have some bridge work done.
Husband—Then you’ll have to quit
bridge playing.
No Profit.
“Why did you stop playing poker f
“The hours were very trying. Then
I had to pay when I lost and my wife
collected when I won.”
The Question.
“Try one of these cigars, old man;
they’re the best things out!”
“How are they when they're light
?d ?” —Pathfinder.