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OPPOSE INCREASE
OF POWER RATES
VOTE ON POWER RATES NOT
UNANIMOUS BY ANY MEANS,
SAYS COMMISSIONER
STATE NEWS JF INTEREST
Brief News Item* Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta.—Vote on the Athens power
rates, approved by the public service
commission, was not unanimous, it be
came known when Commissioner J.
J. Perry filed a dissenting opinion, in
which he set forth his reasons for
voting against the rate increase. Ac
cording to Mr. Perry, Chairman Tram
mell and Commissioners Price and
McDonald voted for (he increase and
Commissioner Boifeuillet voted with
him against it.
Commissioner Perry took the posi
tion that the commission can not jus
tify legally the increase in rates of
the wholesale power customers of the
Athens power company, because, in
his opinion, the light and power prop
erty of the company has heretofore
been enjoying reasonable rates. He
•also insisted that the Increase in
rates as approved by the majority of,
the commission can only be justified
by combining the street railway prop
,erty of the Athens power company
with that of its light and power com
. puny.
’ Commissioner Perry also dissented
from the action of the commission in
authorizing a stock and bond issue
by the Central Georgia Public Serv
ice company. He charged that the
concern is affiliated with the Central
Georgia Power company, of Macon,
and that in permitting the issue of
stock officials of the Central Georgia
Power company have been allowed to
pay stockholders a stock bonus of
$600,000 through formation of the af
filiated corporation.
Slaying Charge Laid To Youth
Damascus. —Jim Bob Barrett is be
ing held in Milner county jail at Col
quitt in connection with the death of
Comer Milliner, 16-year-old stepson of
G.S. Goolsby. 1{ ia charged that Mil
liner came to his death through a blow
on the head struck by Barrett. Ac
cording to the local version of the
affair, the two boys were sawing wood
together on Clarence Mims’ farm in
Milner counly. A quarrel arose over
some trivial matter and bystanders
were unaware that it had assumed se
rious proportions until, according to
witnesses, Milliner stooped over to
pick up the end of the saw, when,
it is charged, Barrett hit him behind
the ear with a piece of scantling or
fence rail, knocking him senseless.
Men who were present helped Milliner
to his feet and. after a time, he w r as
able to walk to his home nearly a
mile distant.
Cedartown Seeks Company Of Guards
Cedartown. —The Cedartown Kiwa
nis club has appointed Col. Homer
Wutkius to urge a company of Geor
gia National Guard for Cedartown. A
meeting was held here at the cham
ber of coenmerce rooms when he
explained in some detail what the
company would mean to the commu
nity. Over fifty men, the minimum
quota necessary for a company, sign
ed up, and numbers of others have
expressed their intention of joining.
When other names have been added
to the list Gen. Charles W. Cox and
Col. Percy Jones will come to Cedar
town to examine and muster iu the
company, those interested stated.
Liquor Car Taken At Waycross
Waycross.—With fifteen cases of
mixed imported liquor stored in a se
cret compartment built just beneath
the body of the car, J. It. Cook and
JL>. Hoeruer, both young white men,
were arrested by local county officers
on the charge of transporting liquor.
The compartment in which the liquor
was hidden was one of the most
unique and deceiving devices yet dis
covered by local officers. When ar
rested the two men stated they had
been stopped several times in Flor
ida, but officers had failed to discover
the secret compartment.
Mrs. Miller Resigns From Mercer
Macon.—Mrs. Helen Topping Miller,
nationally known writer of short sto
ries, who for the past three years has
been an instructor in short story writ
ing at Mercer university, has tender
ed her resignation 111 health was giv
en as the cause. Her lectures before
the Macon Writers' club and other
organizations have b&en indefinitely
suspended. Doctor Weaver, Resident
of Mercer, stated that he would pro
pose that Mrs. Miller take a year's
leave of absence and renew her work
here at the end of that time.
Aged Man Meets Death Under Car
Atlanta. Crushed beneath the
wheels of an automobile, John C. Ad
erhold, Sr., died of injuries. John
Bates of Griffin, driver of the car, was
released under SI,OOO bond. Five oth
er persons were injured in auto ac
cidents during the day. The crash in
which Aderhold was killed occurred
about one block from his home, as
he was crossing Main street at Colum
bia avenue, in College Park, a sub
urb .to board a street car. Witnesses
told the police that Bates’ machine
was traveling at an excessive rate of
speed and, in attempting to bring it
to a halt, the car swerved, its side
knocking Aderhold to the ground, the
rear wheels passing over his body.
The injured man was taken to his
home, dying shortly after his arrival,
without regaining consciousness. A
fractured skull and internal injuries
caused his death.
South Urged To Guard The Shoals
Atlanta. —Careful scrutiny of every
offer was made to the government for
Muscle Shoals was urged by Ernest
Greenwood of Washington, D. C., pres
ident of the International Association
of Civitan Clubs, in an address be
fore the local Civitan club. He op
posed the pending offer of Henry Ford
and advised against its acceptance.
“The farmer is expecting cheap fer
tilizer,’’ he said, “and nothing in the
present proposals guarantees he will
get it.” Discussing the congressional
investigations now in progress at
Washington he declared that the prev
alent "wholesale condemnation of
government officials is bad business.”
“I don’t believe that with one or two
exceptions the investigators will find
much more than bad judgment or ab
solute stupidity,” he said.
Georgia Authors Write Book A Month
Savannah. —Savannah authors have
produced a volume of literature a
month for the past four months. The
list is “Metrical Melange,” by
Charles M. Gibbs, a collection of verse.
Mr. Gibbs is author of "Georgia,” a
song voted the best for a state song
at a meeting of women held here last
year; he is a member of the Poetry
Society of Georgia. Other works re
cently produced by Savannahans are
“Ancliohred Yesterdays,” by Elfreida
Deßenne Barrow and Laura Palmer
Bell; “Savannah Duels and Duelists,”
by Thomas Gamble, and “Our Trees,”
by the Huntington club. Mrs. Marie
(Conway Oertder Is a novf|'
Victim Of AecitftSfrt Sought For Murder
Waycross.—Clyde Bowen, who died
as the result of injuries received when
he fell against a circular saw at an
Argyle saw mill, was wanted at Mil
an for the killing of a man named
Hewlett, it has become known. The
man’s face and front part of his skull
were sawed off in the accident. The
body of Bowen was identified by a
cousin who came to Waycross and
who revealed his past life. It appears
that the killing took place at a party
noar Milan. Bowen is alleged to have
called Hewlett aside, shot him and
escaped. He had never been heard
from prior to the accident.
Lumbermen Inspect Macon Mills
Macon. —Members of the Northeast
ern Lumbermen’s association, accom
panied by their wives, were taken for
a sight-seeing tour of Macon and its
lumber plants recently, and the same
night a banquet was given in honor
of the visitors at the Hotel Dempsey.
This is the fifth annual tour of the
lumbermen, and they visited Macon at
the invitation of the chamber olf
commerce. Members of the party own
mills near Philadelphia and other
large northeastern cities. The tour
has carried them as far south as Ha
vana. Cuba, back through Florida and
direct from Miami, Fla., to Macon.
Tifton Girl Elected Wesleyan Head
Macon. —Miss Marriett Evans of
Tifton was elected president of the
Student Government Association of
Wesleyan eollege. Miss Merrill Mc-
Michael, of Buena Vista, vice pres
dent; Miss Cohammie Pharr of Wash
ington, secretary; Miss Frances Hor
ner of Atlanta, treasurer, and Miss
Hattie Branch of Cuthbert, member
of the point system. House presi
dents selected were Miss Katherine
Love of Baxley, Miss Elizabeth Dent
of Atlanta and Miss Louise JohnsoD
of Lake Wales, Florida.
Baptists Of Georgia Hold Convention
LaGrange.—The fourth annual ses
sion of the Georgia Baptist Sunday
school convention will be held in La-
Grange, April 8-10. This convention,
which is auxiliary to the Georgia Bap
tist convention, is one annual Sun
day school gathering for the Sunday
school workers of 3.000 Baptist church
es in Georgia.
Dawson May Install Water Maine
Dawson. —The city council of Daw
son now has under consideration the
purchase and installation of new wa
ter mains at a cosF of approximately
$35,000. This project is the main fea
ture of their program to insure ade
quate fire protection.
THE OANIELSVILLE MONITOR, PANIELSVILLE, GEORG'^
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OfImPORTANCE
Gathered All Parts Of The
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign—
The Prince of Wales, who was in
jured when he became a cropper in
the steeplechase of the army, point-to
point'meeting at Arborfield, will have
to rest up during the week, although
his condition was said to be not se
rious.
Announcing that they are seeking
an international trade agreement with
the Canadian government, representa
tives of the soviet Russia trade com
mission hav* arrived at Ottawa, Can.,
and are conferring with officers of the
government.
Between forty and fifty persons are
believed to have been drowned when
a train crossing a bridge three miles
from Bareli, India, was struck by a
tornado, according to a news agency
report from Delhi.
Manifestations by war veterans
the high cost of living are in
creasing. Most of them are taking the
form of processions in an endeavor
to persuade dealers to lower the
prices of foodstuffs. The veterans are
planning to cordon the frontiers of
Belgium to prevent exports of food
stuffs to Holland and Germany.
President Obregon has definitely
charged a British petroleum corpora
tion, El Aguila, with actively having
aided the Vera Cruz revolt against
the government through supplies,
money and ships, while at the same
time attempting to obstruct the fed
eral government’s efforts to quell the
movement.
The report of the first committee
of experts under Brigadier General
Charles G. Dawes, which is practically
agreed upon by the experts, though
the working out of some details and
the drawing up of the ext may re
quire another week, says Paris dis
patches, „ v
t iL'eniSi opt* is increasing as
the franc is steadily, being
quoted at 24.78 francs to the dollar.
Officials are jubilant, attributing the
rise of the currency largely to inter
vention by American and British bank
ing institutions.
The cost of living in France has
soared beyond any hitherto known
range, and great unrest is reported
among the middle classes.
The Chinese cabinet has agreed to
de jure recognition of ltussia, the So
viet plenipotentiary at Paris having
accepted the Chinese warding of the
agreement in principle on questions
pending between the two countries.
It is believed in European diplomat
ic circles that Japan will enter into
p treaty with Russia in a short while.
It is pointed out that Japan's Manchu
rian interests would be vitally affect
ed by a Russo-Chinese rapproache
.ment unless a treaty is entered into
[between Russia and Japan.
President Cosgrave of the Irish dail
eireann read a letter signed by Gen
eral Tobin and Colonel Dalton ex
plaining that they sent their original
letters to the government, demanding
ion behalf of the army a discussion of
the Anglo-Irish treaty, to call atten
tion to the seriousness of the situa
tion.
Washington—
Enactment of the provision in rev
enue bill for a 25 per cent cut in
income taxes payable this year before
are due June 15,
regardless of the fate of the measure
itself, appeared assured, according to
Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missis
sippi.
Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett
commandant of the Brooklyn navy
yard, has informed his superiors in
Washington that he merely was stat
ing what he had heard when he testi
fied recently in New York that Wash
ington was "the wettest city in the
lUnited States.”
More than a billion dollars’ worth
of war materials have been sold by
the United States to the Obregon gov
ernment in Mexico in virtually contin
uous transactions, dating from the firs
.sale last Janurav.
Evidence of tax frauds running into
millions of dollars, which will be sift
ed by the senate committee investigat
ing the internal revenue bureau of the
treasury departmtne, has been re
vealed to the committee through the
sworn testimony of Charles R. Nash,
assistant commissioner of internal rev
enue. His information recently given
to a house committee has been turned
over to Senator Couzen°
The District of Columma is isuv per
cent more drunken than Paris at 2,000
per cent more murderous than Lon
don, Representative Tinkham, Repub
lican, Massachusetts, declared in a
statement giving comparative figures.
Railroads on or before May 20 must
establish new rates to apply to ship
ments of naval stores from southern
producing centers to middle western
cities, under a decision of the inter
state commerce commission.
Representative Byrnes, of South
Carolina, ranking Democrat on the
subcommittee that framed the naval
appropriation bill, told the house he
would offer an amendment requesting
President Coolidge to call a confer
ence on further limitation of naval
armament.
The new soldier bonus bill providing
for paid-up life insurance policies and
cash payments to veterans not enti
tled to more than SSO was ordered
favorably reported by the house ways
and means committee.
Judge William S. Kenyon declined
appointment as secretary of the navy.
The final answer of Judge Kenyon was
transmitted to President Coolidge af
ter he had considered for two days
an offer of the secretaryship made
vacant by the retirement of Edwin
Denby.
Domestic —
Fred Van Gorden, 42, Casper (Wyo.)
real estate and insurance agent, was
shot to death in a duel with Sheriff
Albert. Peyton, of Converse county, at
Douglas, Wyo., when the officer enter
ed a hotel where Van Gorden had
taken a room, to arrest him on
charges of slaying his wife and 12-
year-old son, Arthur.
A coroner’s jury found that William
Gates was justified in shooting fatally
Richard Heaton, merchandise broker,
at Louisville, Ky„ in a “mystery
house” where Gates has declared he
was held prisoner while the slain man
prepared to perform a mutilation op
eration upon him.
Common pleas court No. 5 granted
a petition for a jury trial to deter
mine the sanity of Harry K. Thaw.
Thaw is confined in the Pennsylvania
hospital for mental and nervous dis
eases at Philadelphia.
Hugh M. Hunter, father of five chil
dren, shot and killed Mrs. Margaret
Heath, his housekeeper, at their home
,at Norfolk, Va., recently, and theD
turned the pistol on himself and died
almost instantly.
George A. White, Sr., 88, Confeder
ate wmr veteran and one of the men
who assisted in building the ironclad
Merrimac, which fought the Monitor
at Hampton Roads March 9, 1862, died
at Columbia, S. C., at the home of his
nephew, S. V. McDonald.
Another record was broken in the
Chicago police department, when 261
charges, filling seven pages of a po
lice arrest book, were placed against
Harry C. Thomas, conferred murderer,
robber, burglar and safeblower.
Newton D. Baker, former secretary
of war, intends to carry his fight for
the league of nations to the Democrat
ic national convention. Speaking be
fore the Women’s City club, Mr. Baker
said he would go to the convention and
“plead with everybody who will listen
to put a straightout declaration in the
platform” for the United States to en
ter the league.
Fred J. Carpenter of Bastrop, La.,
former sheriff and tax collector of
Morehouse parish, who was recently
removed by Governor Parker, was in
dicted on nine counts by the parish
grand jury in connection with an al
leged shortage in office. The indict
ments cover charges of embezzlement
of tax money and collecting taxes be
fore being authorized. His shortage is
estimated all the way up to $30,000.
The fate of the American railways
lies entirely in the hands of their own
ers, and the future of transportation
will depend to a large degree upon
the sagacity, justice and statesmanship
o fthose who administer the proper
ties, Sir Henry Thornton, chairman
of the Canadian National railway sys
tem, declared in addressing, in Chi
cago, the twenty-fifth annual banquet
of the American Railway Engineering
association.
In complete returns from all of the
67 counties of Alabama, Senator Os
car W. Underwood got 60,891; L. B.
Musgrove, 35,072, and M. A. Dins
more 1,760.
The brutal slaying of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Whalley and Mrs. George
Mores, apparently by a maniac, re
sulted in state troopers of New York
being sent to Linden to maintain order
in the even of the capture of a sus
pect. Mr. and Mrs. Whalley were shot
and Mrs. Morse was beaten to death
with the handle of an adz in the Whal
ley home. Rugs w’ere thrown over
the bodies, sprinkled with oil and set
on fire.
Rurrill Ruskav. former active head
of a a. Ruskay company, stock brok
ers. which recently filed for $5,000,-
000. was sentenced to the penitentiary
by Supreme Court Justice Notl at
Scraps^
of
LIKES IT STRONG
A Judge on a certain circuit was ac
customed to doze during the speech*
of counsel. On one occasion counsel
was addressing him on the subject ol
certain town commissioners’ l ights to
obtain water from a river, water be
ing scarce at the time.
During his speech he made use of
the words, “But my lord, we must have
water—we must have water."
Whereupon the judge woke up, ex
claiming: “Well, just a little; I’like
I: fairly strong.”
Frail Support
“How did you come to be lying tlura
n the gutter?” demanded the police,
man.
“Ish all right,” replied the inebriated
one. “I jush happen’ to walk between
two lampsh and leant against the
wrong one.” —Pearson’s Weekly (Lon.
don).
Overheard by J. M. R.
Clerk—This, madam, is the rao&
correct writing paper for polite corre
spondence.
Customer—But I wish to write to
my husband.
Queered.
Lawyer—Well, what shall we ask
for—trial by judge or jury?
Client —Take the judge, Doc. I’ve
done plumbing for nearly everybody ia
this town. —Colonel.
BETTER CALLED A HOP
First Frog—Do you think we shoulo
advertise our club dance?
Second Frog—By all means, but
hadn’t we better call it a hop?
Free for All.
You’d like to travel and perhaps you
fret
Because you’re keptt. at home —but you
forget,
A daily ride earth gives to every one.
And once a year a trip around the sun.
As the Boatman Views It
Seashore Visitor —I suppose you
know all the sights down here.
Boatman—Well, mostly, but there
are always new ones cornin’ down.—
Boston Evehing Transcript.
First Speed,
Stenog—Don’t you like the way 1
run the typewriter?
Boss—Can’t tell till I see you run it
So far I haven’t seen you push It be
iond a slow walk.
A Conscientious Man.
Contractor —Don’t you see that sign.
“No help wanted?"
Colored Applicant —Yessah. Ah
promised mail ol’ woman I’d ask fo
a job today an’ dass why Ah applied.
Going Down.
“Oh, yes,” said Mrs. Gadgett, proud
ly, “we can trace our ancestors back
to—to —well, I don’t know exactly who,
but we’ve been descending for cen
turies.’’
HAD THE SKELETON IN MIND
Student Professor, have - vOL
planned your new book ou anatomy
yet?
Professor —Well, I have the skee
ton in mind.
Then He Flu.
Where are you going, my pretty n ”L }
I’m going to sn-neeze. good sir,
said. ~
Who will you sneeze at. pretty mam
At-Chew! At-Chew! At-Chew! she sa 3
A Mean Insinuation.
Alice—l don’t think he knows
enough to propose.
Edith—What if you should hea
that he and I are engaged?
Alice—well, my opinion would stL
be the same