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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.