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MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
milledgeville, ga.
First Rjad to the fiorth Coast
Runs Through Santo Domin
go Republic.
OiO !i? RICH TERRUSDY
Cuts Off From Ten to Twelve Days of
Long and Tortuous Journey From
San Domingo City to
New York.
Now York.—For the first time since
Christopher Columbus landed on the
Island of Haiti a road has been opened
in the Dominican republic from Santo
Domingo on the south to Puerto Plata
on the northern side of the island, tints
connecting the two principal seaports
of the republic and opening to culti
vation some of (lie richest agricultural
lands on the island. Incidentally the
new highway cuts off from ten to -
twelve days of the long nnd tortuous
journey from Santo Domingo City to
(New York.
American marines. In the times
Crazy Quilt Work Abo Helps Ma
terially to Increase Fam
ily Incomes.
With tire return to vogue of the rag
rug and “entry" unlit, farm women in
many sections of .the country have
found another means of adding to the
family income. Thus the art of mak
ing these rugs and quilts, started in
the rural sections In Colonial days, re
turns again to the farm.
Agricultural Department agents say
women and girls themselves started
the rejuvenation of the art, and now
extension agents are spreading and
encouraging it.
In Arkansas and Mississippi espe-
clnlly, the fnnn women have taken up
the rug making. One agent recently
reported a woman near Little Hock
was devoting her spare time to mak
ing pulled, or hooked, rugs, in designs
site took from nature herself, using
flowers and forest leaves for her mod
els, nnd Is finding a ready market at
good prices for her output.
In addition, many of the popular rag
rugs are being made, including tiie
braided and crocheted types.
Crazy quilts nnd counterpanes of np-
plfque work are also being revived.
HEART OF LOUDON
CROWING SMc.LLEP:
—
Dwellers Are Migrating io the
‘■Cuter Ring.”
EXCESS OF WOKEN-OVERMEN
,Wlten they were not busy maintaining The women, however, are not confln-
order in the disturbed republic, have
built this highway, which holds out
rich promise for the future develop
ment of the Island. About 150 miles
long, It puts Puerto Plata on the north
and Santo Domingo City on the south
In dose touch with coastwise shipping
on both the Atlantic and Caribbean,
freight and passenger traffic from San-
|L> Domingo City, on the Caribbean,
.which heretofore had to be carried
around the south, east and northern
ends of the Island to Puerto Plata be
fore going north, a journey of from
ten to twelve days, may now in a few
hours proceed over the new road to
J’uerta Plain for shipment.
Columbus Church Stands. *
When Columbus landed on the site
of Santo Domingo City in 1509 be
founded the church of San Nfkolo,
which is still In existence. Now the
missionaries of the Episcopal church
in the Dominican republic, in com
memoration of tiie completion of tiie
siew highway, are establishing another
church at Puerto Plata. Land lias bepn
secured and in a few months the new
edifice will he dedicated by way of
Completing the link between the two
Sections of tiie republic.
Under the lit. Rev. Charles R. Col-
tnore, D. D., Episcopal missionary
bishop of Porto Rico and tiie Domini
can republic, Archdeacon William
Wvllie and his wife have been the
leaders in tiie movement to establish
tiie new church, and Mrs. Wyliie en
joys tiie distinction of being tiie first
woman to make tiie journey over the
new highway from Santo Domingo
City to Puerto Plata. Mrs. Wvllie
who has hist passed through New York
on tier way I ack to Dominica, having
io ole the lour ey from the island to
Pori land. ore., nnd hack to attend the
(episcopal general convention, ih one
.of the busiest indr iduals in the little
West Indian repuh! \ In addition to
her mission:'in- dip- s, she manages
the United S’,‘at •- vv rnment hospi
tal in Pomiiih-n end 'n a manner of
(speaking, has pr-Mid ns master of
ceremonies at tin*
. children who lin
ing their efforts toward .the manufac
ture of the articles, but are teaching
their neighbors and have even organ
ized classes for the renewal of the
pioneer art.
WIFE “CHASES” HUSBAND
HALF WAY AROUND WORLD
Mevrouw Billy Van der Horst is be
ginning to wonder whether her hus
band will be much changed by the time
that the luck o’ tiie sea allows them
to meet again. Tiie luck Just hasn’t
been with the Van der Horsts; for it
is six months since they Iasi met, nnd
she Is still wondering what will liap-
i o ' all the nrniy I R en lu ‘ xt -
n born in Do- I Halfway around the world she !uiS|
Ten Years From 1011 to 1S21 Saw
Male Population Increase by Only
57,603, While Women Gained More
Than Four Million—Average Size of
Private Family in London Decreased
From 4.15 to 3.79 Since 1911—In-
tcresting Census Figures.
For the last twenty years (he popu
lation of the County of London lias
been gradually getting smaller, until
now there are more than 50,000 fewer
people in the county than tlqwe were
in 1901. On tiie other hand, the num
ber of people living in tiie outer ring,
or London outside tiie county urea,
bus increased by nearly a million. At
midnight, June 10, 1921, tiie total pop
ulation of London, including its outer
ring, was 7,480,201; in 1901 the figures
were 6,691,402.
The British Isles, as a whole, have
2,000,000 more women than men, and
the city of London alone contributes
a quarter of this figure. In 1921 the
excess of women over men in London
and her suburbs was 552,160. The ten
years from 1911 to 1921 saw the male
population increase by only 57,603,
while the number of women gained
from 3,844,940 to well over four mil
lions, making an increase of 171,240,
or three times the total increase of
men. For tills, however, the war
years 1914-T8 are mainly responsible.
Increase in Widow*.
During these years there was also
a great inereuse in tiie number of
widows, the number going from 197,-
693 in 1911 to 223,615 In 1921. Of the
total population .of the county In this
year, 1,131,889 men were single, 865,-
300 married, 72,459 widowed and 1,931
divorced, nnd of the women, 1,309,828
were single, 877,298 married, 223,615
widowed and 2,203 divorced. While
the number of spinsters between
twenty and thirty years old has de
creased in the last few years, there
luts been a very large increase In their
number above the ages of thirty-nine.
It lias been suggested tlint this de
crease in young and middle-aged
single women is probably due to emi
gration.
The census returns give an inter
esting table which shows the number
of voters in the various boroughs. Men
In England are allowed to vote as soon
as they reach tiie age of twenty-one,
but women must he tldrty years old
before they can qualify for franchise,
if English women were given the vote
at the same age as ihe men they wojjld.
preponderate In most of the London
boroughs and could control every elec-
lion. As it is, for the whole of the
County of London the number of wom
en voters in 1921 was only 933,328,
while ihe men numbered 1,170,662.
As tiie result of marriages after the
war, there has been a considerable In
crease in the number of children In
London, nnd tiie total of one year and
under Is tiie largest on record, 97.30S
hoys and 94.787 girls.
Families Not So Large.
JEWELRY
The Gift that is Long Re
membered by the
Recipant
Quality Jewelry—Right Prices
A gift of lasting quality is naturally the sort
that is long remembered. As a Christmas Gift
there is nothing that excels Jewelry.
A visit to our store will reveal to you the fact
that the Jewelry we sell has the backing of Qual
ity and that our Prices are just as low as can be
had anywhere, Nowhere excepted.
J. C. GRANT CO.
The Jewelry Store of Better Values’
Sanford Building
to Harbor.
Archdeacon »Vyl!ip, her husband, is
(Similarly busily employed, Doctor
AV'.vilie is r .ie of those who have car-.
uiinicM s :icp the I• ,ir-dug of tiie j traveled—only to miss him by one. day I The average size of a private
American oi-.-vp: i’en. She* was the 1 • • • ,lIul n,,w s,u> must wait at Sun i family in the city lias decreased from
only niu- • .m th • q n-l when tiie in- ! Francisco until Captain Van der .} 15 to 3.79 since 1911. The housing
fliien- :i • Vii : in- ,r there nnd has ! Horst’s steamer, the Siinaloer, returns tables of tiie Census Blue Bonk show
endeared 1-e - If * - he entire papula- | f*' om Batavia, within a few weeks. that there has been a tremendous
linn n; t , mu) r . ei-.m alike, by her I Mevrouw Van dor Horst'-* troubles shrinkage j n the number of families
ininistr.ilions. j started when site sailed from the Or!- Hying In houses containing six rooms
p; let , r t Harbor ent 011 ">eK. S. President Grant, think- mid over. The “new poor” have been
1 ing that the vessel was to dock at j obliged to accept smaller dwellings, I
San Francisco. The Grant ended its j nn( j where 4.1 per cent of the private ^
voyage at Seattle—and tiie skipper's j families in 1911 occupied places with
wife arrived in Frisco just one day | ten rooms or over, in 1921 only 2.6
an engineer on a
Hootch tramp ship in West Indian
waters. He is credited with knowing
»u-ire about the Dominican coast than
Imy other man south of the Florida
fit tails, and on frequent occasions
Vhen he is coasting about on
pi t trips lie is called from ids bunk
during the lute and early watches to
take tiie heliii and guide ’ the ship
through dangerous reefs into port.
,, . ,_ , after his duty had called him to sea , lP1 . cen t lived in these larger houses,
(lie missionary service. AC one tune , , .. . .. “ t
- , i again. This means that tiie greater majority !
1 1 ' 1,111 11 " ' '- 1 1 - 11 *•- - '“t .i | when he received iter wire, Captain ,,f new houses built fn these years
| Van der Horst asked permission to j contained under six rooms. In spite |
I turn ills vessel over to ids chief officer : () f smaller houses, however, the
! and wait in Frisco for his wife; hut average amount of accommodation per j
he was unable to get a reply by cable | person has increased during tiie last
.isitm* j f) , ()nl )lis employers, in tiie Netherlands,
raI * slon - 1 before sailing time.
RUSE TO KEEP HUSBAND
Find Skeleton of Slain Indians.
Hnucon, N. V.—Excavating for the
pew government hospital for disabled
soldiers at Chelsea, near here, work-
German Woman Tells Story of Kid
naping in Vain.
In a tearful confession Frau Her- j average
n ine Schultz of Cologne told the po
lice that the mysterious kidnaping
ten years, the average number of rooms
occupied per head in 1911 being .S3,
and iti 1921, .91.
Husbands, It has been discovered,
are invariably from two to three years
older than their wives, and as tiie re
sult of the changes in population the
age of tiie Inhabitants of
London has increased. At the census
of 1911 twenty centenarians were re-
been , turned, while in 1921 this number had
hum dug up three Indian skeletons, i story upon which they have . . . . .
month was the result Increased to thirty-two, sixteen
■’here was a stone arrow head in tiie
Hiest of each. The spot
u4d headquarters of the
H'lie skeletons will he sent to the Na
I tonal museum.
working for
was on the of her ruse to make her husband love these being in the county itself It is
Wapitigers, her. The woman reported that she reckoned that the average age of Lon-
to he Na- was kidnaped by an ardent suitor and loners has increased by two years In
Texan Spends 37 Days
Plowing Single Furrow
It. 1). Holcomb of Amarillo.
Tex., is quite a “plowlmy." lie
inis just completed what is be
lieved to lie tiie longest continu
ous furrow ever'attempted. The
furrow is 2ihi miles lot; running
from Shut tuck, oklu., diagonally
across the Texas panhandle to
Clovis, N. M. It and another,
parallel to it, were plowed along
the Santa Fe right-of-way to pre
vent a spread of fir-. Thirty-
seven days were required to com
plete tiie Job. Tea mules, three
men, two disk plows and i chuck
vvugon were used in the enter
prise.
was kidnaped
j held captive by him in an attempt to
I make Iter desert iter husband.
I The police vainly tried to find the
culprit, and w hen all dews failed Mrs.'
Schultz confessed that the story was
pure invention. Herr Schultz failed)
to yield to the wiles of his wife and i
the last ten years.
DECORATES MOTHER CF
Example for French VJomen to Fol
low, Says Cabinet Member. [
A woman farmer, Mine. Cheminot, j
Milledgeville, Ga.
STOP PILING ON
“DIXIE GEM”
COAL
m
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Remember, Dixie Gem
not a common coal but
is so high in heat that one-
. half will give more heat
than the usual amount of
common Coal.
' told tiie police ae never did believe the mother of fifteen children, four-
j the story. j teen of whom a re working t lie land
I at Le Veurdre, France, was decorated
Finds Adam for Eden Site Buijt. j xv p|, order of agricultural merit
Mrs. Lillian G. Mills a year ago lie-] | )v Minister of Agriculture (’heron. M.
1 gun to build iu-r own home nt Luke < 'Dt-r.i:i suld it was I lie government’.-
] Como, I’a., determined to show that ]
dutj to salute such a woman :i>
, man was unnecessary for the making I ,. vim; ,'e f,,r all French women to
of a home, Recently Mrs. M ils and jovv,
i David DeWltt Milier, of Greenwich,
Conn., were married in the home.
Woman Confesses Part in Hold-Up.
Admitting that site lured victims in
six holdups, Mrs. Hazel Kelly, twen
ty-two years old. has been arrested at
Kansas City, Kan. Four youths are
implicated In the six robberies, pallet
announced.
Twenty Children in 25 Yeei-s.
Married for 25 years, Mr. an-! Mr
Ftcd (>. Shaner, of Lynchburg. -V
are receiving congratulations on ti
in-rival of tlreir twentieth child, a t>
pound son.
Seventeen of the 20 children arc V
ing. All were horn singly cv ; t
pulr 'of tv. tus. i
Fowler-Flemister Coal Co.
Exclusive Dealers
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