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$2,000,000.00. Two million dollars to lend on good farms, well impro - d
at 5 1-2 per cent interest, the borrower having the privilege of making - -
ments on the principal at any interest period, stopping the interest on such
payments. Also we have large sums to lend at
6, 6 1-2 and 7 per cent.
Loans can be closed as soon as abstracts of titles can be made. Oui t_on-
IS THE TIME
tract is as good as the best and you do not have to wait.
Write us or see MR. S. A. NUNN, Perry, (.JL, our correspondent
in your county.
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TO PAY
AMERCUS, GA.
ESTIMATES GIVEN COAL BODY
Alleged Pennsylvania Producers Net
Average Of $1.60 Per Ton At
Present Wholesale Prices
i Washington.—Producers of Pennsyl-
tho bodies wore those of adults or
children.
Thirty-five porsons were trapped on
tho second floor when the combina
tion garage and rooming house was
enveloped in flames soon after mid
night. Many escaped by leaping from
windows on tho second floor.
vania anthraclto aro netting an aver- . f?? e *? an ’ carrying a five-year-old
... . ' child «nder his arm, managed to make
age profit of $1.60 per ton at present ( hljJ Wfty to a fllght of Btalrfl< A{| he
wholesale prices according to estl- ronc h e d the middle of tho flight the
matos placed boforo the federal coal fire ato away the under-structure and
HARDING WANTS U. 8.
TO JOIN THE COURT OF
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
iATHENS NEWSPAPERS
i ANNOUNCE MERVEF'
'Banner And Herald Will Be Issued in
Afternoon As The Athens
I Banner-Herald
commlttoo by a United Mine Work
ers’ committee and made public. On.
annual production of 70,000,000 tons
the anthracite companies aro obtain
ing "an apparent not Income at pres
ent prices of $103,600,000,” the
committee Baid, adding that it is
"to bo expected that present panic
prices of anthracite will remain fairly
constant throughout this year.”
i Following their cost calculations
further tho committee figured that a
profit of 28 cents per ton would give
the Industry a reasonable return on
tho amount of capital lnvoivod in it.
If annual production was 70,000,000
tons. If the output rose to 76,000,000
tons, a proper profit would be 27.4
cents. The total profits produced at
this rate per ton, the committee said,
Would give a 6 per cent return to the
the owners of the industry, If the total
value of their holdings was considered
to bo $336,496,100.
"We hold and we reiterate- that the
present wages paid to anthracite work*
ers are not sufficient compensation for
the work they perform," tho report
Mid.
"There must he added to the labor
c6st an annual toll of over 600 lives
And of over 20,000 workers who suffer
Accidents.
Average earnings of miners, it was
said, "on the basis of best figures
the operators have been able to pro
duce, amount to $1,506 per annum,
which was asserted to bo lose than a
living rate." The commission was nak
ed to look earefully into anthraclto
bookkeeping during its fact-finding in-
veBtigation to determine whether labor
C08tB of its ouptut were not being un
duly swelled by', methods of figuring
power, administration and supply
charges.
Royalties whieh mine operators now
pay to owners of lands containing
poal were attacked in the union analy
sis, which asserted that "a satisfactory
method must be found either for the
practical elimination or the drastic
regulation of all royalties. As the scale
now stands it was asserted, amounts
ranging from 5 cents to $2.40 per ton
are being paid to the owners of the
land, the average throughout the in
dustry being 16 cents while the wide
differences in cost of production which
result from the varying charges result
in a price-fixing arrangement which is
apt to cover the high»cost collieries
and thereby allow the lower-cost col
lieries a larger profit than they would
otherwise-dare to take.”
he tumbled the rest of the way. He
staggered out of the building a few
minutes later, blackened and scorch
ed.
Fixing Of Prices For Oil Is Denied
Washington.—Dr. W. M. Burton of
Chicago, president of tho Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, testifying, the
other day, at a reopening of the senate
manufacturers' subcommittee oil in
quiry, branded as "false and wholly
untruthful” charges of price-fixing
made against the company in testimony
before the committee by Thomas S.
Black of Chicago, president of the
Western Petroleum company.
KaolInO Deposits Around EufaUla, Ala.
Eufnnla, Ala.—W. M. Weigel, a rep
resentative of the United Stated bit
reau of mines, spent a day recently in
Butonla to meet Centra! of dMtgfa
railroad officials, Mr. Weigel had Jtret
returned from Clayton and Baker Httli
where he Inspected the kaolin deposits
of Barbour county alt the iMtftutfea
of the stat* geologist. He tttepeoted
a deposit in a railroad eat near day-
ton, and It Is presume® that the rail'
road win eaten d Ota Has ts Baker HfH
and other vlfcoee wfcere the dehottt is
lows®.
OsptwSn James Mathews PaaeSs .Away
Fort VaUey.—Captain James W.
Mathews, prominent Fort Valley resi
dent and Confederate scfldier, died at
his home here after & brief Illness.
Captain Mathews was always marshal
of the day at the memorial exercises
held here annually under the direction
of the Joeal chapter of the Confeder
acy. He has led an active life in
civil affairs and was a member of the
Fort Valley Methodist churcft.
THIRTEEN BURNED TO DEATH
IN BIG BLAZE AT KANSAS CITY
Family Of Six Wii^Tout In Rooming
House—Charred Bodies Recovered
—Eight Children Victims
Kansas City, Kaus^-Thirteen bodies
have been recovered from the ruins
of a rooming house destroyed by fire
here recently, fire department officials
announced. Eight of the victims are
children.
The bodies recovered were so char
red and blackened identification was
-impossible, -officials said. In some
Jcases they wera.iinabia to .tell whether
Meroer Plana Stadium To Seat 10,000
Macon—Plans calling for a stadium
seating 16,060 people and costing over
$100,006 were discussed here by Dr,
Rufus W. Weaver and M. S. Roberts
of Nashville, Tean., designer and
builder of the Vanderbilt athletic plant
in conference with a number of the
leading business and professional men
of Macon.
Faces Wife-Slaying Charge
Waycross.—After seven years in
New Orleans where he believed him
self safe from the clutches of the law,
Will Daniel, forty-year-old negro, has
been brought back to Ware county to
face a charge of wife murder on which
he was indicted during the May, 1916
ter mof the Ware county grand jury
Advent Of Monkey Glands Facto-
Chicago.—“Ejtbelbert," run daw:'
the butcher’s and tell him your
wants the best set of monkey glru
he has in the refrigerator!” The
is not far off when these ins true
will ring through the precincts o?
modern home almost as common:
•‘Pete, go get some buns for sup
Thug at least, is the opinion of (
.•Tallin, the Cross Lake millionaire
ui’acturer, and owner of Mike, the
understood monkey, who hails wi 1
light that an eastern concern ’
incorporated to deal in mr
Washington.—President Harding has
asked tho Benato to make the United
Stales a full-fledged member of the
permanent court of international jus
tice at Tho Hague, which was estab
lished under the league of nations cov
enant.
In a message to the senate, the ex
ecutive asked that assent be given to
American adhesion to the protocol of
the International tribunal
( Athens,—Beginning February 12 the
daily issues of the Athens Banner and
the Athens Herald were merged, an
afternoon issue of the Banner-Herald
taking tho place of both a morning and
afternoon edition, it is announced.
Tho Athens Banner was organized in
1832, and continued under that name
until the summer of 1921, when it was
Fotir'raservationB'wercr'auggwted by ! 5“!** wllh «*• *!*»*«***«•
Publishing company publishing both
Secretary of State Hughes in a let
ter accompany the president’s message.
These were:
l That it is understood action by
the senato giving assent to the court’s
protocol does not involve any legal re
lation on the part of the United States
to the league of nations or the assump
tion of any obligations under the league
covenant
2. That the United States be given
the right to vote on the election of
Judges, a right now given only to those
nations which are members off the
taigne.
9. That the United States will pay
Ms fair share of the expenses of the
eeort.
A That the statute of the court ad-
jetasd to the protocol not be amend
ed without the consent of the league.
'morning and afternoon editions.
For fifteen or twenty years prior to
the merger, H. J. Rowe, now vice pres
ident of the Athens Publishing com
pany, was president and editor of the
Banner Publishing company.
The Herald was organized in 1912 by
Bowdre Phlnizy, president of the Au
gusta Herald, Augusta.
Dormitory Of Davidson College Burns
Davidson, N, O.—Firs of unknown or
igin destroyed the Watts dormitory of
Davids** colleen here, the loss being
esthwaltyl at $45,066, fully covered by
tirsurimee.
CHemteet Concern Denounced In Heuse
Washington.—A savage attack cm the
Chemical Foundation was made in the
henrsk toy Representative Huddleston
(Dew.) of Alabama, during discussion
of the alien property return bill. Hud
dleston charged violations of law and
of Justice in the sale of chemical dye
patents by the alien property custodian
to th* Chemical foundation. He made
the sweeping aesertion that "everyone
connected with tho Chemical Founda-
tin© should be in the penitentiary,”
and that if he had his way it would
not tolto long to put them there.
1 Kitted. 80 Injured, In Train Smash
Ohieaao.—One man was killed and
about fifty passengers injured in an
elevated train crash here which re
sulted from a dense fog. Bert E. Clark
was instantly killed as a fast North
Shore limited train smashed into the
rear of a Northwestern local which
had stopped at a station. The limited
comprised two steel cars. The local
had three wooden cars. Clark, who
had stood on a rear platform, was
crushed to death, and dozens of other
passengers escaped death almost mi
raculously.
Thomasvllle Water Plant Improved
Thomasville.—The report of the
Thomasville light and water plant re
cently sent in to the city council shows
that department to be in splendid con
dition and the past year one of the
most remarkable of its 17. The plant
lias made improvements during the
year, Including a handsome new equip
ment building costing about $30,000, a
new half-million gallon reservoir,
which has already proved its value in
fire sendee, a water softener that will
[preserve the boilers from the effects
[of hard water.
Sweet Potato Seed Must Be Treateo
Atlanta,—Instructions have been, is
sued recently by the state board of en-
tomeJflRy for the corrosive sublimate
treatment ft* eweei potato seed and the
inspection of potatoes required under
the htw before bedding, if the sweet
potato plants are be be sold. It is
explained fhat the eerroeive sublimate
freahneut is required! by the laws of
MtmrtaBlpfll and South Carolina. The
board euye €h4 potatoes must be lm»
ffdrsed eight er ten minutes in a so-
trifles ttl gab donee of corrosive sub-
Itowtto to eight geffana of water. The
dhoatd wot be made of .metal
end s WatftJI w, as suitable.
Jt is warned that potatoes so treated
(are rendered poisonous and eare should
be token to ten troy edl the solution
after ue% to prevent livestock from
drinking $fc,
For Kitting Eight Years Ago
fTayenoss.—Charged with the mur
der of his wffo eight years ago. Will
Uanfcftn, *T years old, riegfa, must face
'trial at the May term of the Ware
jocunty superb* eeurt. Daniels Is al
leged to bar* Wind his wife at Hop-
Do* on April 15, 191$. He was
jndletoi ft* murdsr by the grand jury,
hut was never arrested, having made
good his escape. Sheriff Sweat recelv-
«d a wire from the authorities in New
brleaxe, stating that tho negro had been
located there. As soon as Governor
Hardwick prepares requisition papers
for the extradition of the negro, Sher
iff Sweat will leave for New Orleans
to take him In charge.
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CLEARINGS FOR MONTH OP ;A W
FEBRUARY 8URPA88 LAST
YEAR’S| NEARS $100(000,000
Atlanta,—Including last week’s busi
ness, Atlanta bank clearings for the
current month total $132,484,258.48,
which Is more than the total lor the
entire month of February, 1022, or the
entire month of February, 1022, or
the entire month of February, 1021,
The four business days remaining in)
the current month should swell th«|
February total near the $200,000,000}
mark. j
Clearings for February of last year}
wore $144,484,201.40 and for February,-
1921, $168,188,446.60, Clearings this
month already show an increase of;
$18,060,252,08 over the total for the!
same month last year.
The 1923 clearings thus far total
$403,027,903.42 for the 44 business
days. Clearings tor January, 1928,
were $240,648,649.94, as compared
with $$175,006,679.43 for the same
month in 1922. 1
Not a week in 1923 has failed toj
show a substantial Increase over tho
corresponding week last year, and the;
clearings for the first five‘weeks In!
this year were each above the $50,000,?.
000 mark.
Griffin Bead Work Starts At Oncd j
Jackson.—The state highway depart
tnent win begin work on the Grlfftai
road, commencing at the Spalding
county line and reaching to Jacksop*;
the first of March, It is announced.;
The project was surveyed and approv
ed by the federal government and;
state highway department several;
months age, and the details are nofy
being worked out by E. H. Davis Of
Griffin, district engineer ami County
Commissioner J. O. Gaston. Accord*
ing to the survey the highway will be
straightened and shortened and a neto
concrete bridge will be built acrora
the Towsliga river. The road will he/
of sand-day eonstrnctiofl, and the
project cans for an expenditure of $80,-
060, half of which will be borne by,
the county and the remainder by thei
state highway department -t
Boys* Farm Products Shew Gain 7
Atlanta.—Georgia high sehool boy’s]
studying vocational agriculture under
provisions of the Smith-Hughes act,'
raised and marketed farm products
valued at $130,322.18, it was shown ini
the annual report of F. E. Land, state
director of vocational education. Tfaaft
amount was more than $40,000 greater
than the value of products produced
by the high school boys during 1921,.
and was almost $100,000 more thtf®
the value of the products two yeare
ago, according to the xreport. The
sweet potato was the most profitable
farm crop raised by the students, it
was shown. A profit of $43 per acre
was netted, and cotton netted a re
turn of $37.SS per acre. ?
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Fullbright Assails State Legislature
Jackson.—The feature of the ta:
conference of the counties of the sixth
district, held in Bartlesville, for the
purpose of fixing tentative values for
this year, was the arraignment of the
Lanier To Consolidate Schools
Milltown.—At a rousing meeting ol
the county board of education ..of La
nier county in Milltown, at which a
large number of citizens were in at
tendance, it was decided to consolidate
ay the white schools in Lanier county
Into three schools. This means that
the present schools at Grand Bay. Car
ter, Darsey, Knight, Green Valley,
Good Hope and Stone, all the schools
west of the Alapaha river, are to. be . -
consolidated with the Milltown school, 1 last B !f slon of the legislature by State
and the schools at. Crisp, Oak Grove, ^ Commissioner H. J. Fullbrighi
Waldo and the northern part of This- ff d P 16 defense of the general assem-
pen are to be consolidated at Crisp ^ 7*^ ® am Rutherford, of Monroe
and a new school house built there to coun V- Upon motion of O. E, Smith,
ireplace the house that was burned on f iem er tlie Butts county board of
January 28. ta xe 9 ua “ zer s, it was voted to reduce
read estate values 20 per cent this,
year. J. o. Gaston, of Butts, was-
man of the meeting, and T. O. Smith*
gn Monroe, was secretary. _, ,- J
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