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BIG POWER PLANT
FOR MACON AREA
$2,000,000 PROJECT PLANNED TO
DEVELOP ENERGY OF 13,000
HORSEPOWER
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Macon.— Engineers will arrive here
■within a day or two to lay plans for
the erection of a 13,000-horsepower
electric plant in middle Georgia and
actual construction will begin within
a month, according to L. A. McGraw,
manager of the Macon Railway and
Light company. The cost of the new
auxiliary steam plant will be between
*1 500,000 and $2,000,000. Just where
it will he located has not been an
nounced, but it is understood it will
not he within the limits of the city
of Macon.
The steam plants operated at the
present time by the Macon Railway
and Light company have a total of 4,-
000 horsepower. Atlanta’s total plant
output is only 7,000 horsepower.
The new plant will serve as an
nuxiliary plant for the Central Geor
gia Power company’s hydro-electric
plant at Jackson, Ga., where the big
dam across the Ocmulgee river is
located. This plant now serves cur
rent to a number of middle Georgia
cities.
Diocese Of Atlanta Lay 6 1924 Plans
Atlanta.—A series of conferences
to lay plans for a campaign to raise
$81,050 in 1924 in the Atlanta diocese
of the Episcopal church will begin
soon when Lewis B. Franklin, vice
president and treasurer of the Na
tional Council of the Episcopal church,
will speak at All Safnts’ church. The
series of conferences which will be
held is for the purpose of raising
$48,000 to be used in the work of the
Episcopal church during 1924. The
sum ot $38,060 will be used in work
in Georgia in 1924. Throughout the
world special workers are engaged
during the months of November and
December in stimulating interest of
members in the work of the church.
Blazing House Is Girl's Tomb
Washington.—Miss Fannie C. Tay
lor, 19, was burned 1o death in the
fire which destroyed the home of
Tucker Drake at Philomath, in Ogle
thorpe county, 20 miles west of Wash
ington. The fire originated in the
rear of the Drake home apparently
from a defective stove flue and had
gained considerable headway when
discovered. Miss Taylor, together
with her mother, Mrs. l/arbuck, who
lived in the Drake home, and Mr.
Drake himself, were safely out of the
doomed building, all fleeing scantily
clad when Miss Taylor turned back
to recover some prized personal be
longings near her bedroom.
Eduational Position Not Popular
Savannah. —The office of superin
tendent of education did not appear
alluring enough to create a wild
scramble for the place in Bryan coun
ty, though there were temporary evi
dences of a contest and one man of
fered to take the position without pay
except a dollar a year. The exam
ination for applicants for the position
found only one man, A. S. Bacon, of
Pembroke, in place to stand the test.
The state superintendent of education
requested Superintendent Carlton Gib
son of the local schools to conduct
the examination and in his absence
Mrs. Willie Heard, in the office of
Mr. Gibson, conducted the test for ihe
solitary candidate.
G. M. C. Enrollment Largest Ever
Milledgeville.—With a larger enroll
ment than last year, or any previous
year, the Georgia Military college here
has launched into what is generally
considered to be one of the best years
the institution has ever experienced.
Dr. E. T. Holmes, formerly president
of Gordon institute, at Barnesville, is
the new president of the college and
under his administration much prog
ress is being made. Dormitory facili
ties of the institution are better this
year than they have ever been, sev
eral thousand dollars having been
spent during the 1923 summer get
ting both dormitories and recitation
halls ready for the 1923-24 session.
Carroll Wiii Stage Poultry Show
Carrollton.—Carroll county will
stage a poultry show December 11-14,
which was made possible by the busi
ness houses of Carrollton. The poul
try show will show the progress that
Carroll county has made in this new
undertaking. It is under the man
agement of the Poultry association.
This association has been asked to
furnish a large business firm of the
suite eggs each day, an amount that
would bring into the county each vear
over J2oo,ooi>,
To Prepare Plea For Satterfield
Atlanta. —An additional week in
which to prepare his plea for anew
trial for J. B. Satterfield, under sen
tence to hang for the murder of R.
H. Hart was granted when hearing on
the original motion was called before
Judge John D. Humphries, in Fulton
superior court. Attorney Holloway
stated that he had not had time to
study the official record of the case
due to the fact that it was completed
and filed by the court reporter only
a few hours before the hearing was
called, and it was on this ground that
Judge Humphries granted the post
ponement. Satterfield was sentenced
to hang Friday, November 2, but the
motion for anew trial prevented his
execution on that date.
Held For Failure To Pay Alimony
Atlanta. —Confessing that he had
failed to pay alimony of sls a week
to his wife, Lamar Moss, Augusta,
Georgia, salesman, was ordered held
under bonds totaling $2,000 when he
was arraigned before Judge John D.
Humphries, of Fulton superior court.
The immediate cause of the husband’s
appearance in court was his alleged
action in trying to flee from Atlanta
after he had previously been ordered
to pay the designated alimony to Mrs.
Ruth Pound Moss, of 162 Ponce de
Leon avenue. He was taken into cus
tody at Decatur where he is said to
have been in the act of boarding a
train for Augusta.
Plan To Reorganize Highway Districts
Atlanta. —Reorganization of high
way districts in Georgia, through
which the number will be reduced
from 11 to 6, will be completed this
year, it was announced by John N.
Holder, chairman of the state highway
commission. Plans for reorganization
will be adopted at a meeting of the
commission in December it was
stated. The reduction in the number
of districts will not result in a small
er force, Mr. Holder said, but it is
being undertaken with the object
in view of concentrating maintenance
and construction work. Instead of
11 district headquarters now in oper
ation, there will be six under the new
plan.
SIOO,OOO Gift To Mercer University
Atlanta.—The largest gift ever
made by one individual to Mercer
university was announced Sunday
morning at the 11 o'clock service at
the Second Baptist church of Atlanta,
when Frank S. Ethridge, well-known
business man of Atlanta, offered SIOO,-
000 to Mercer university for the pur
pose of “educating poor and worthy
boys of Georgia.” The announcement
was made, at the request of Mr. Eth
ridge by Dr. Henry Alford Porter,
who has been pastor of the Second
Baptist church for eight years and
who retires after next Sunday to as
sume the pastorate of the Third Bap
tist church of St. Louis.
Woman Freed Of Drug Charge
Atlanta. —Mrs. D. M. Williams was
acquitted in the United States court
of charge of having “dope” in her
possession. The charges grew out of
a complaint made to police by Mrs.
Williams in which she charged D. M.
Williams, her husband, and Joe Har
per, an alleged accomplice, with steal
ing her purse containing s3l. At the
trial of the alleged thieves, they were
freed and Mrs. Williams was detained
pending investigation of charges
made by her husband, who produced
the alleged stolen purse which con
tained $1 and a vial of drugs. The
husband said he snatched the purse
to prevent his wife taking the “dope.’’
Atlanta Doctor Killed In Accident
Atlanta. —Dr. Arthur G. Kelly, 35,
one of the most prominent medical
men in the South, was almost instant
ly killed when he was struck down
by an automobile in front of his of
fice. Dr. Kelly was rushed to a hos
pital, where doctors worked desper
ately to save his life. A fractured
skull caused the doctor’s death.
Friends of Dr. Kelly commented on
the fact that only a few days ago the
victim of the crash had commented
upon numerous accidents occurring at
the corner where he met his death and.
on the fact that there had not been
a single one that day. .
Chatham Judge Victim Of Attack
Savanah—Hugh Gannon, judge of
the juvenile court of Chatham coun
ty for the past several years, died
recently after a brave fight for life
during an illness of several weeks.
He was suffering first from a rupture
of the appendix, rallied, was seized
with protracted coughing paroxysms,
which occasioned a serious setback,
and, when finally recovering from
that, took pneumonia and died. He
was a graduate of the University of
Georgia.
Cigarette Blamed For Macon Blaze
Macon. —Fire, believed to have orig
inated from a cigarette spark lighting
some gasoline, badly damaged the
building occupied by the Peacock
Auto Supply company at the-oorner of
j Cotton avenue and Poplar street. A
j touring car belonging to H. H. Foan
; tain, of Gordon, Ga., was destroyed.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
THE WEEK'S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOUTJHE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happenings
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
Foreign—
Eighty witnessees, including a gal
axy of international figures, will be
called in the trial of Maurice Conradi,
assassin of the Soviet lead, Vorowsky,
which has already opened in Lau
sanne, Switzerland.
One effect of Prime Minister Bald
win’s speech at Manchester, England,
has been to strengthen the conviction
that a general election is inevitable
within a comparatively short time.
The body of Premier Andrew Bonar
Law, who died recently, has been cre
mated at Golders Green, England.
Only those closely connected with the
family were present for the service at
the crematorium. After the cremation
the ashes were placed in an urn for
burial in Westminster abbey.
Three persons have been killed and
200 wounded in riots following the
police strike at Melbourne, Australia.
Looting, fights, robberies and hold
ups are reported to have been wide
spread and assaults are being made
on police who remain loyal.
. George Harvey, sailing from Eng
land for home, made this remark to
newspaper men who accompanied him
to Southampton: “The truth is that
there is nothing left for me to do
here. It is better that I should go
home and work for the great cause of
British-American friendship. If these
two great countries do not hang to
gether there is nothing left for the
world —that is my firm conviction and
my countrymen are of the same opin
ion.”
Nikola Guenadieff, a former cabinet
minister, was assassinated at his own
doorstep, Sofia, and M. Gueshoff,
former Bulgarian minister at Constan
tinople, who was with him, was se
riously wounded.
Norwich, England, has the honor of
naming the first woman lord mayor of
England. Several small towns have
had women mayors, but no city as
piring to the importance of being gov
erned by a lord mayor has hitherto
chosen a woman mayor for the post.
With flutter of flags, sweep of fas
cist standards and thunder of march
ing thousands, the glory of Rome, the
“eternal city,” was reborn in the com
memoration of the first anniversary
of the fascist march on the capital.
Eight persons, one of them a fire
man, were injured and at least 40
others narrowly escaped death in a
fire which swept the Hammond build
ing, a five story office structure on
Albert street, Winnipeg.
Eleven members of the crew of the
sailing vessel Dahrma were placed in
jail at Honolulu on the ship’s arrival
from Chile. The men were charged
with mutiny.
After a party caucus lasting seven
hours the united socialist reichstag
delegation drafted a program of de
mands, upon which it makes contin
gent its further membership in the
present coalition government.
Washington—
A third extension of a fraud order
has been issued by the postoffice de
partment against T. E. McLendon of
Germantown, Tenn., who, according
to the department, despite conviction
of fraudulent use of the mails, still
is “carrying on his alleged business of
selling ‘cold-blooded’ hunting dogs.'
Bids for $120,000,000 board feet of
United States lumber to be used in
reconstruction work in the Japanese
earthquake, have been opened at the
Japanese embassy, but no announce
ment of terms was made. Other bids
will be aßked for later as the building
needs of the stricken area are further
developed.
Executives of the grain and coal
hauling railroads through a commit
tee selected at their meeting in New
York will present to the Interstate
Commerce commission their answer
to President Coolidge's suggestions re
lative to reductions in freight rates
on export and on coal for ship
ment to Canada.
A dispatch from Manila says that
O. E. McKeeban, wealthy cattle
ranchman of Mindanao, and son-in
law of the sultan of Sulu, told the As
sociated Press on his arrival in Ma
nila recently, that the spirit of unrest
end revolt was widespread through
out Mindanao and that talk of an up
rising on a larger scale than ever be
fore was general among the Moros.
Bad Judgment and faulty naviga
tion on the part of three officers
caused the loss of 23 lives and of
naval material to the value of $18,000,-
000 In the destroyer accident on
Honda Point, Calif., September 8. the
board of Inquiry declared In its final
report to Secretary Denby. On the
recommendation of the board Captain
Edward H. Watson, the squadron
commander; Lieutenant Commander
Donald T. Hunter, commanding 'the
Delphy, flagship of the nine destroy
ers which grounded, and Lieutenant
Lawrence F. Blodgett, navigator of
the Delphy, will be charged before a
general court martial with “culpable
Inefficiency In the performance of
duty” and negligence.
Domestic —
Frank M. Young, Baltimore “blind
pool” stock operator, convicted in the
United States court here of using the
mails to defraud, was sentenced to
five years in the Atlanta federal peni
tentiary. It was shown that he had
more than five thousand clients and
liabilities of $3,500,000 when his “sure
thing” financial scheme to beat the
stock market collapsed in October,
1922.
A minister named Corey and his
son-were arrested by Sheriff Allen of
Scott county, Arkansas on a warrant
charging them with the kidnaping .of
little Pearl Turner, 3-year-old daugh
ter of Lem Turner, mountaineer, who
has been missing for more than two
weeks.
Prof. James A. Montgomery Qt the
University of Pennsylvania, president
of the American School of Oriental
Research, has received a cablegram
aunouncing the formal opening of the
new American School of Oriental Re
search in Bagdad.
Federal investigation of the manage
ment of the federal truck fund by
Gov. J. C. Walton, suspended execu
tive, appeared probable when it be
came known that J. G. Findley, inves
tigator for the western districtof Okla
homa, had asked the house investigat
iug committee of the Oklahoma legis
lature for evidence regarding the man
agement of the fund.
David Lloyd-George, former premier
of Great Britain, who has been visit
ing United States and Canada for sev
eral weeks, sailed for home on the
steamship Majestic November 3 after
a triumphant tour of American cities
with his wife, Dame Margaret, and
daughter, Miss Megan. He said to
newspaper men: “I am very sorry to
leave this hospitable country and
warm-hearted people.”
Mrs. Gertrude Walsh, Chicago, de
cided to kill two birds with one stone.
She waited outside an exclusive club
for Lillian Walsh, alleged “other wom
an,” and, when Lillian appeared, heat
her up. The cops came and Lillian
was the one who went to the “hoose-
gow.”
Alf Winchester was arrested at Tus
caloosa, Ala., three miles from that
city and lodged in the county jail pend
ing further investigation of the find
ing of the charred body of a young
woman in a negro church which burn
ed near that city recently. It is now
stated that the identity of the woman
may be established.
Samuel W. McCall, governor of Mas
sachusetts from 1916 to 1919 and rep
resentative of the Eighth Massachu
setts district in congress from 1893
to 1913, died at his home in Winches
ter recently of pneumonia. He was
in his seventy-third year.
The federal grand jury returned an
indictment charging use of the mails
to defraud investors against seven
members of four New York brokerage
concerns.
A white man who gave his name as
Leo Wiley, of Manistree, Mich., died
in a Columbia, S. C., hospital after
having been found on a lumber car
of a railway train suffering from in
juries by a piece of timber falling on
him. A telegram addressed to the
chief of police of Manistee, brought
response that Wiley was not known
there.
Dr. Henry M. Fontana, formerly
technician and laboratory expert at
Charity hospital, Now Orleans, La.,
but now an attache of the United
States Veteran’s hospital at Algiers,
joined Dr. Charles W. Duval and Dr.
J. A. Lanford, pathologists, In declar
ing that the bodies found in Lake La
Fourche last December and identified
as those of Watt Daniels and T. F.
Richard, could not linvo been in the
water more than 4S hours.
Discovery of the skoloton of a
young woman in the nshos of a negro
church, four miles from Tuscaloosa,
Ala., which was destroyed by fire,
caused the entire forces of the sher
iffs office to start an investigation of
a case that has immediately develop
ed what they term many mysterious
angles.
The English speaking peoples of
this earth “can save civilization from
doom—doom —doom,” David Lloyd
George, the war-time premier of Great
Britain, declared in an address at
Scranton, Pa., in the stato armory.
! Just ST
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ART FOR ART’S SAKE
There was only one man in the tent
when the sideshow opened, but the
lady performed as earnestly as if she
had been appearing before the assem
bled crowned heads of Europe. She
wound a torpid boa constrictor around
her shapely waist, draped It over hei
snowy shoulders, and bestowed a shy
little smile upon the lone spectator.
“The snake,” she explained, “Ip
charmed.”
“I would be myself,” said the gentle*
man, politely.
VENTILATION.
“Why is the cheese so full of
holes?”
“That’s all right. It needs all the
fresh air it can get.”
Oversupply.
“If ignorance is bliss,” said Black
To White, “well, then, my boy,
You’d better get your life insured;
You’re apt to die of Joy!”
The Hidden Face.
“Hello! Is this Jigson?”
“Yes.”
“This Is Smith. Can I borrow yoni
car for this afternoon?”
“Why, no. I shouldn’t think you’d
have the face to ask for It.”
“I haven’t. That’s why I’m asking
you over the phone.”
Notice of Improvement.
Bachelor —Well, old man, one thing
I notice about you since you’ve been
married —you always have buttons od
your clothes.
Benedict —Yes; Elsie taught me how
to sew ’em on before we’d been mar
ried a week.
Blue Enough—Blooey!
“Don’t you think iny car would look
better painted a deeper shade of
blue?”
"Not If you are planning to pay the
bill.”
The Bird News.
The canary ran a news sheet,
He was a clever fellow:
His Journalism failed because
His patrons found it yellow.
Miss Sharp's Retort.
Miss Olde—This is a corrupt age.
Miss Sharp—Well, dear, you should
know, being In a position to compare
it with previous ages. —London An
swers.
The Short Game.
Mrs. Gubidge—George, you’ll drive
me out of my mind I
George (an Inveterate golfer)—
That’s not a drive, my dear —that’s a
putt.—Life.
Not Much of It.
Louise—Don’t look around, but look
at Mrs. Stepper’s dress. They say
the material cost S2OO a yard.
Her Husband —What! Did she pay
SIOO for that gown?—New York Sun.
A Proposal for Mamma.
Irate Neighbor—l wish I were your
father for one week only.
Little Mary—l’ll speak to mamma
about it when I get home.
Old-Fashioned.
“She’s old-fashioned, all right.
“That so?”
“Yes. She still Insists on giving cod
liver oil for a cold.”
That Proves It
A. (boastfully)—l’m smoking
awful lot of cigars lately.
B. Y#s, I noticed it You gave tab
one.