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Volume XLVI. —No. 50.
Congressman Gordon Lee
Makes $75,000 Donation
To Three Orphans Homes
METHODIST, BAPTIST AND PRES
BYTERIAN INSTITUTIONS TO
RECEIVE $25,000 EACH AS EN
DOWMENT FUND—THE PRES
ENT INCOME FROM ENDOW
MENT WILL APPROXIMATE
S4OOO A YEAR—SPECIAL BOARD
OF TRUSTEES CREATED AS
GUARDIANS OF GIFT
Rome, Ga., Dec. 23 Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian orphans in
Georgia will be the beneficiaries of a
($75,000 endowment created by Con
gressman Gordon Lee, representative
from the Seventh District of Georgia,
K was announced Saturday by the
board of trustees created to adminis
ter the fund. The endowment was cre
ated out of respect to the memory of
Congressman Lee’s deceased wife, |
deceased mother and deceased mother.
of Mrs. Lee. The institutions that
will share in the distribution of the
proceeds from the endowment are:
Methodist Orphans Home, Decatur,
Ga., the income to be known as the
Elizabeth Gordon Lee fund, in mem
ory of the donor’s mother.
Baptist Orphan’s Home, Hapeville,
Ga., the income to be known as the
Hibernia Dougherty Berry fund, in
memory of the mother of Mrs. Lee.
Presbyterian Orphans Home, Clin
ton, S. C., the income to be known
as the Olive Emily Berry Lee fund,
in memory of the donor’s wife.
The instrument creating the endow
ment provides that only the income
from certain stocks, bonds and secu
rities, the total present market value
of which is at least $75,000, is to be
expended that twenty per cent of
such income each year shall be re
tained for reinvestment,, thereby aug
menting the principal sum each year.
The present income from the endow
ment is approximately $4,000 a year.
The Board of Trustees created by
Congressman Lee for administration
of the endowment is composed of the
following Georgians:
Gordon L. Hight, Rome, Ga, nephew
of the congressman and a prominent
young business man of this city.
Horace J. Smith, Dalton, Ga., close
personal friend and a prominent
manufacturer.
William C. Wright, Newnan, Ga.,
congressman from the Fourth Dis
trict.
G. E. Maddox, Rome, Ga., attorney
and chairman of the state Democrat
ic Executive Committee.
' Thomas W. Lee, Chickamauga, Ga.,
brother of the donor.
The board of trustees meeting
Friday afternoon in the office of Mr.
Maddox organized by the election of
Mr. Hight as president and Congress
man Wright as secretary and treasu
rer. Any vacancy that might occur on
the board is to be filled by the re
maining members by the election of
a citizen of Georgia who is of the
same religious denomination as that
of the one whose place he is to fill.
It is provided that in the event the
Presbyterian denomination of Geor
gia withdraws its support from the
Thorn well Orphanage now maintain
ed by the denomination of Georgia,
Florida and South Carolina, and es
tablish a separate orphanage in Geor
gia, the Olive Emily Berry Lee fund
shall b* paid to the orphanage then
supported by the Presbyterians of
Georgia.
The inMrument creating this en
dowment sets forth that the donor be
lieves the care, maintenance and
proper education of helpless orphans
“is one of the best and highest forms
of charity.” The property set aside
for the endowment is placed in the
bands of the trustees for the uses
described absolutely without reserva
tion on the part of Congressman Lee.
REWARD
FRC.7T PAGE 123456 l 7345
Lost between E. H. Wyatt s and
Cipclcamauga, one wagon cover. Find
er return to A. G. White and Co., of
Chickamauga, and receive reward.
WANTED—2OO bushels peas at
•nee —W. A. Watdlaw and Son, La-
Fayette. Ga.
Halto Gkmntg Mtmnxapx
M’CORD TO TAKE
MANAGEMENT OF
J. A. ALLEN & CO.
ON JANUARY IST. TAKING IN
VENTORY THIS WEEK MR.
ALLEN TO TRAVEL FOR SHOE
COMPANY, OF KNOXVILLE
MR. McCORD MOVES FAMILY
HERE THIS WEEK
M. M. McCord, of Section, Ala.,
recently purchased an interest in the
J. A. Alien and Co. Mercantile estab
lishment and arrived this waek to
take active management of the store
beginning January Ist. Mr. McCord
has had wide experience in the mer
cantile business and comes highly
recommended as a successful man
ager. He moved his family, wife and
tiwo children this week, and they are
comfortably homed with Mrs. J. F.
Wardlaw on North Main. The town
welcomes Mr. and Mrs. McCord and
family.
Mr. Allen announces that whale he
retains interest in the store, which
will be operated under the same firm
name as now —J. A. Allen and Com
pany—that he will travel for the
Mbntcastle-HiU Shoe Company, of
Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. Allen states,
that he and his family will continue
to make LaFayette their home.
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MRS. SUSAN BARBER, AGED 75
PASSED AWAY WED. MORNING
Mrs. Susan Barber, aged 75, of
Rome, Ga., died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs Bela Johnson in West
LaFayette., Wednesday morning at
4:30 o’clock after a brief illness. She
is survived by her 2 sons, John and J.
D., three daughters, Mrs. Bela John
son, Mrs. Susie Faucette and Mrs.
Rosa Youngblood. Mrs. Barber was
a member of the Baptist church and
lived a true and consistent member.
The remains were carried to Langs
ton cemetery near Armuchee Ga. on
Thursday morning for funeral and in
terment. The Nuckolls-Kemp-Bryan
Co., were in charge.
LEGISLATURE CREATES
2 NEW STATE OFFICES
Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 27—The cost of
the recent extra session was nearly
$90,000. It was called into extraordi
nary session by the governor to pass
tax legislation, but instead of passing
legislation to raise more revenue it
simply created a couple of new state
office—that of state auditor and a tax
collecting commission and adjourned.
Had it gone further and passed the
income tax, calling for a string of
folks on the payroll, it would have
added still further to the state’s ex
penses. The revenue-producing legis
lation was conspicuous by its ab
sence.
Some of the leading farmers of the
statie who are constantly figuring on
how much tax would be needed or
has been needed to pay some of the
state’s expense bills, have penciled it
down that it would take the state tax
of five mills on farm land worth be
tween eighteen and twenty million of
dollars to pay the cost the recent so
called do-nothing legislature.
Some folks who saw no necessity
for the extra session take the posi
tion that with the increased tax on
tobacco and the increased tax on
gasoline the state will eventually
raise enough revenue to meet its ex
penses—so there you are.
E3S THAN 2000 BALES
GINNED IN WALKER UP
TO DECEMBER 13TH. 1923
The - bu "port of cotton
ginn ounced Dec. 29th
by th Commerce, Bu
reau - .-s: There were
197’ counting round
as 1 > Talker coun
ty, . . i.'23 prior to
Dp -’-ared with
" 1 922.”
LaFayette, Georgia, Friday December 28, 1923.
AUTO WRECK NEAR
CASSANDRA SUN.
NIGHT KILLS BOY
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 24—Wm.
Kemble, 4-year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. M. Kemble, residing at 2107
East Main Street was drowned at a
late hour last night when the auto
mobile in which he was riding ran
from a culvert near Ca9eandra, Ga.,
and overturned. J. Wise and two sons,
Abie and Ldon, residing at the corner
of Twenty-seventh and Long streets;
Mrs. and Mrs. C. C. Lawson, Miss
Erval Wilson, 714 Cedar St.; Ear!
Vail and Earl Vail, Jr., of Birming
ham, Ala., were more or less serious-)
ly injured.
According to information received
last night, the accident occurred
when the car driven by Mr. Wise
was crowded from the road by an
other car. When the wheels left the
road the car started rolling and
turned over several times, landing nn
a creek, bottom side up. All the oc
cupants were pinned underneath, the
Kemble child being covered with wa
ter.
THANKS KU KLUX KLAN,
NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS FOR
DONATION AND SYMPATHY
Exalted Cyclops,
LaFayette Klan No. 135, Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan.
Dear Friends:—
I wish to personally thank you and
Brother Klansmen for the countesy
and sympathy extended to me during
our recent bereavement by the loss
of our dear husband and father. My
wish and hope is that your order will
always prosper and flourish. I wish
again to thank you.
Respectfully,
Mrs. J. W. Fuller and family.
We wish to extend our thanks and
appreciation to the LaFayette Ku
Klux Klan No. 135, Realm of Georgia
for the sympathy and donation ex
tended to us in the time of ouy recent
bereavement by the loss of our dear
husband and father and also thank
the friends and neighbors of Linwood.
Mrs. J. W, Fuller and family.
H. V. HENRY COMMANDER
ROSS GRAHAM POST NO.
87 AMERICAN LEGION
An enthusiastic meeting of Ross
Graham Post No. 87 of the American
Legion was held in the Poet’s Club'
roome in the Courthouse on the even
ing of the 19th of December.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: Commander, H.
V. Henry; Ist Vice-Commander, T. W
Bryan; 2nd. Vice-Commander, Burl
Hall; 3rd. Vice-Commander, W. 0.
Cook; Adjutant, W. C. Kemp; Ser- 1
vice Officer, T. W. Bryan; Historian,
M. N. Andrews; Chaplain, A. F. Gil
reath; Sgt. at Arms, John Day; Re
lief Committee, Dr. R. M. Coulter, J.
W. Massey, John Edge; Social Com
mittee, E. A .Puryear, M. F. Nuck
olls, M. N. Andrews.
Plans for next year include the es
tablishment of a Ladies Auxiliary.
The date for the first meeting of the
Auxiliary will be announced later and
is the desire of the Post that all
ladies who are eligible for member
ship arrange to meet with the Legion
Poet at that time. Mothers, wives, sis
ters and daughters of ex-service men
are eligible and it is hoped that a
large membership will enroll.
All ex-service men who are not
members of the local Post are urged
to join. Applications for membership
should be sent to the Post Adjutant.
1924 OFFICERB TO BE
INSTALLED AT BAPTIST
CHURCH SUN. MORNING
The church, Sunday school and B.
Y. P. U. officers of the LaFayette
Baptist church will be officially and
formally Installed next Sunday morn
ing. Following the brief installation
exercises the pastor, Rev. I. S. Leo
nard will preach from the subject:
“Forgetting The Past.” The night
service Sunday will be known as Col
lege Night, which will be in charge
of the boys and girls representing the
various colleges. The public is cor
dially invited and a special invitation
is extended the LaFayette high
school. Members of the high school
are requested to sit in a body.
NOTICE
Will hare for sale government in
spected peach trees, G*. Belle and
Elbertas. These trees will be from 3
to 4 feet; all trees are cared for by ex
pert tree man. AH orders carefully
packed. If you want a floe let of trees
at bargain prices, make your orders
now to be delivered next fall. —P. D.
Wright l •- >
♦ >
BOX; FACTORY TO BE
N)EW ENTERPRIZE
FOR LAFAYETTE
A new industry for LaFayette at
the first of the year will be a box
factory. J. H. B. Rea announces that
a box factory will be added to his
mill plants on the Central as soon as
the proper machinery can be installed
and that he hopes to have it in oper
ation within a short time. Mr. Rea
will have associated with him in this
new industry, Samuel Ransom, who
will have active management of the
new plant. Fuller announcement will
doubtless be made later when the
plant begins operation.
COUNTY DEM. COMMITTEES
URGED TO NOT FIX DATE
OF PRIMARIES UNTIL AFTER
MEETING OF STATE COM.’
To The Members of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee:
As you are aware, during the com
ing year, the National, State and lo
cal elections are to be held. Under the
law, tho Primary for the selection of
the candidate for the United States
Senator, Governor and other State
House offeers cannot be held longer
than sisty days prior to the general
electon jind this Primary must neces
sarily be deferred, therefore, until
approximately the middie of Septem
ber.
The Democratic National Conven
tion will be held about July Ist. This
will necesstate a Presidential Primary
prior to that time. As I see it, the com
mittee will find itself very seriously
embarrassed thereby, unless some ar
rangement can be made by which the
Primaries to nominate County offeers
in the varous counties are held on the
same day which we may fix for the
Presidential Primary.
The expense of holding a Primary
in the 160 counties in the State will
necessarily be very heavy, and the
State Committee will have no funds
to pay these expenses. If a Primary
should hf called and the various Coun
ty committees had no fundi with
which to pay the Managers and
Clerks, and have to rely entirely on
volunteers, my own opinion is that the
polls would not be open in a majority
of the Militia Districts in the State
and volunteer election officials, would
in the very nature of things, be the
partisan friends of some particular
friends of some particular candidate.
Under such conditions, a Presdefttial
Primary would be exceedingly unsat
sfaebory to everybody and would in
no wise an expression of the general
wishes of the voters of the State.
It is customary in a large majority
of the Counties of the State to hold
primaries for the selection of nomi
nees for county officers in the spring
or early summer preceding the elec
tion. It is my intention to call a meet
ing of the State Committee some time
in January, and my suggestion is that
a definite date for the Presidential
Primary be fixed at that meeting, and
that the various County Committees
be requested to call their County
Primaries on the same date. In this
way the County Committees could ar
range for the name of the Presiden
tial candidate to go on the same tick
et, and not only would the expense be
thus provided for, but a full vote
could reasonably be anticipated. If
you consider this a practical sugges
tion, or if yo uhave any other sugges
tion as to how the expenses of a Pres
idential Primary can be arranged for
I would be very glad to hear from you
and in the meantime I suggest that
you take this matter up with the
Chairman of the county committee
in your section and request them not
to fix a date for their local County
Primaries until after the meeting of
the State Executive Committee, at
which the suggestion above made, or
any other suggestions, can be consid
ered and acted upon.
Very respectfully yours,
G. E. MADDOX.
Chairman Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee.
Mrs. Hammond Entertained
College Set With Bridge
Party Friday Evening.
Mrs. J, L. Hammond entertained
the college set with a bridge party
Friday evening, honoring Mis* Mary
Lee Rhyne who is home for the holi
days from Wesleyan College, Mecon.
Miss Beth Rhyne was presented a
dainty hand-made''gift for top score
tor the girls tad Mr. Byron Wagnon
made the highest snore o t the boys.
The honoree ««• given on attractive
vanity case.
After .the games the guest* were
served a delicious sweet course.
COUNTY AGENT
SAYE TO ARRIVE
HERE NEXT WEEK
TO BEGIN ACTIVE DUTIES AS
WALKER’S FARM DEMONSTRA
TOR FORMER AGENT VAN
SANT HERE NEXT WEEK AS
SISTING NEW AGENT AGRI
CULTURAL BOARD APPOINT
ED FIRST MEETING NEXT
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
At the suggestion of a number of
farmers and business men of the coun
pointed an agricultural board to co
ty, former County Agent Vansant ap
operate with the new county agent,
Mr. Saye, who assumes active charge
Jan. Ist., this board to meet early in
January. Pursuant to this request Mr
Vansant has appointed the following
as a board to meet at the county ag
ent’s office at the courthouse on next
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
“Before leaving Walker I was in
structed by a committee of farmers
and business men to name an agri
cultural board for Mr, G. P. Saye and
to call a meeting of this board during
the first week of January. In select
ing this board I have tried to make it
representative of the farming and
business interests of the county and
to have all of the districts represent
ed, as well as the civic organizations
and county boards. The membership
is as follows:
D. W. Herndon, W. B. Shaw, E. P.
Hall, Jr., O. P. Andrews, J. H. Kil
gore, C. Dunaway, Dr. Lee Bird,
Frank Hibbens, J. C. Young, T. L.
Cantrell, A. G. Cremer, W. S. Par
ker, W. A. J, Burns, Claude Clemepta,
and "W. C. Green.
“I am informing each of these
members of a meeting to be held in
the County Agent’s office on Wednes
day, January 2nd at 2 p. m. Mr. Saye
and I will be present at this meeting.
I will return to LaFayette on Mon
day, Dec. 31st and will remain there
throughout the week.”
DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRY
DEMANDS A CONTINUED
EXPANSION OF FACILITIES
Railroads must spend money, to save
money, says President W. A. Win
bum, of the Central of Georgia Rail
way, in a statement quoting interest
ing figures which show how the pub
lic welfare is served by well-planned
expenditures for improvements and
extensions to railway facilities. Mr.
Winburn argues that railway eanings
should be set and kept at a rate suf
ficient to encourage investment in rail
way securities, since the investing
public is the only source from which
transportation companies can obtain
money for enlargements and improve
ments.
The freight business of the Central
of Georgia was 69 per cent greater
in 1922 than in 1910, but this increas
ed business was handled with a de
crease in the number of freight train
miles. If the average freight train
load had been in 1922 what it was in
1910, the direct coats of freight train
operation, including wages, fuel, lu
bricants and other supplies, would
have been $1,726,047.52 greater in
1922 than they actually were. To
bring about this result the Central of
Georgia has expended in the last 12
years $15,715,324 for new locomotivts
of greater power, so that greater
tonnage could be handled in a train,
and for enlargement of terminal fa
cilities and the building of new track.
The growth and development of the
country demands the continued expan
sion of transportation facilities. Rail
roads must continue to invest heavily
in such improvements as will reduce
costs of operation so that they may
render efficient service at the lowest
possible rates. Freedom from threats
iof premature rate reductions, and ab
sence of hampeing legislation, Mr.
Winburn says, is the foundation of
any reasonable hope for lower rail
way rates.
NOTICE
,L. D. Pence has applied to the un
dersigned for exemption of person
ality and setting apart and valuation
of Jiome steed. Notice is hereby given
that I will pass upon said applica
tion at my office on Jan. 6, 1924.
W. L. STANSELL, Ordinary.
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Pay
One Dollar Per Year
COLLEGE NIGHT
AT HIGH SCHOOL
AUDITORIUM
TONIGHT AT 7:30 O’CLOCK 2ND
ANNUAL PROGRAM OF STUNTS
—COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI TO
PERFORM NO ADMISSION
CHARGES, PUBLIC CORDIALLY
INVITED A ROUSING PRO
GRAAM CERTAIN
Student# of Walker county, repre
senting some twenty Southern col
leges and Universities, together with
members of the high schools of the
county, stage the second annual “Col
lege Night” program at the high
school auditorium tonight at 7:30 o’-
clock.
Last year the movement was start
ed with the idea of bringing together
the college and high school students
and people of the county as a means
of encouraging higher education, and
the program of stunts of each col
lege represented was unique, inter
esting, entertaining and profitable.
The college and high school stu
dents and alumni will be well-repre
sented on the program tonight Each
representation is allowed seven min
utes for the stunt.
Knowing that the event was to be
staged here tonight, the students
have mado large preparations and a
program of real "pep” will be "pull
ed off.”
The general public is cordially in
vited; no admission fee is charged, it
is free to everybody and a packed
house is certain.
If you want to get young again and
feel the thrill of young life, the en
thusiasm of college rnd high school
spirit, and lend encouragement to the
advancement of education in this
county, be there by all means, a rous
ing program is in itoro for you
POCAHONTAB CHAPTER O. E. 8.
ELECTS OFFICERS FOR 192*
Roseville, Ga. Dec. 25—The Poca
hontas Chapter 0. E. S. held a bu
siness meeting Tuesday evening, Dec
18th at the Masonic Hall at which
time the following officers were elect
ed for 1924:
Worthy Matron, Mrs. Roy J. Mc-
Farland; Associate Worthy Matron,
Mrs. Alex Fricks; Cv.auctress, Mrs.
R. D. Hawkins; Asscoate Conduct
ress, Mrs. Olin Cook; Stc., Mrs J. A.
Henderson; TVeasurer, Mrs. W. E.
Huff; Adah, Mrs. Dailey; Ruth, Mrs
John Dobbs; Esther, Miss Margaret
Henderson; Martha, Mrs. Jas. Webb;
Electa, Mrs. Charles Suggs. These of
ficers will be installed about the firs’
of the year with appropriate ceremo
nies. The Pocahontas Chapter has
grown rapidly the past year and
there are a number of candidates who
will be initiated at a later date.
T. W. B.RYAN ELECTED W. M.
WESTERN LODGE F. & A. M.
LAST FRIDAY NIGHT ,
At the regular communication of
Western Lodge No. 91 F. and A. M
the following officers were elected
for the year 1924: Thoa. W. Bryan.
W. M.; Fred Moore, S. W.; H. E
Center, J. W.; J. E. Patton, Treaa..
and D. R. Thurman, Sec. Immediate
ly following election the new officer,
were installed. All appointive officers
will be filled at the next regular
meeting in January.
URGED TO MAKE WATCH NIGHT
A SPECIAL NIGHT OF PRAYEK
The Great Commission Prayei
League urges pastors and people ev
erywhere in this land to observe
Watch Night as prayer night for tb
quickening of the body of Christ and
world evangelization. The Messenge
has been requested to urge the ob
servance of this special prayer night
for the church’s consecration and the
dominance of the Prince of Peace
throughout the world.
DAVID F. POPE BACK
AT SAME OLD STANP
Now that the Legislature has eu
joumed, I am practicing law and ne
gotiating loans with office at sam:
old stand. Be coming to see me u*
general principles and on the friend
ship scork in particular,
adv. DAVIT) F. POPE