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THE NEWS, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 13, 1922. GOOD REASON FOR QUITTING RESIDENCE Bob Fitzsimmons May Have Been Wrong in Judgment Concerning “GameneSs” of His Son.. For Many a Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist i STATONT & HOPE’S EARN Efficient Bqw'king- Service! This Bank offers yon every courtesy and all aecoa. modation consistent with sound banking. We cordially solicit your accounts, large or small. 7 What could better express your love for those dependant on you than a State Banking Company Capital and Surplus $105,000.00 T. E. ATKINS, Pres. * W. B. WINBUBN, Caahier suranee policy—the only absolute guarantee of comfort and happiness when you’ve gone? (he dihner table. “I didn’t care to slug the old gent 1"—New York Times. LIGHT ON ANCIENT HISTORY Discoveries Made in Old Tomba in Syria Reveal Important Fact Not Hitherto Known. Make application NOW for attractive “Merry Xmas ” policies for {holiday delivery. Two tomb* about 4,000 years' old have been’ discovered at Byblos, Syria, by the excavations being carried on under the direction of General Gour- and, the French high commissioner, ac* This store abounds in .helpful sugges tions for Holiday Gifts. We invite you to bring your most per plexing gift problems |p us for solution. We have hundreds 6f gift problems proposed to us; it may be we have just the idea that will solve’your most diffcult one. If you like to look at beautiful things, let us show you. Cdme in early. Decide before you buyi cording to the Paris correspondent to The London Times. The age Is established by the die- cover? In one.of them of a harpy; a 'Cnfvjfe’d swdrtl-wlth a-gold:handle; seat of gold on which Is engraved the Egyptian sparrow-hawk ; a gold scira- baena rlnr beautifully carved, and a balm box of. obsidian, mounted In gold and bearing the name of Pharaoh Amanemhat of {he twelfth dynasty. This is stated to be the oldest inscrip tion discovered In Syria,' and proves that commercial relations between Syria, Greece and Egypt were already active 2;000years before our era. The first recorded conquest of Syria by Egypt was made my Thotmes I (Teth- mosis) of the eighteenth dynasty dur ing the Sixteenth century, B. C. Incorporated 408-9-10 Jackson Bdg* Phone 319 or 610 A 22,500-Ruble Stamp. The -soviet postal service of Russia has just, issued for the benefit of the famished people of th(> Volga, a postage stamp, that, as they^ay, beats all records. It is a postage stamp of, 22,500 rubles. Stamp collectors will gladly stick It In their albums, the more so since the purchase of this vignette will not ruin them. /_ In issuing this novelty the soviet posts hastened to establish the “par ity” of the modern ruble and the for mer kopecks that were used in the times of the hated czars. One kopeck equals 10,000 rubles: This new stamp ■of 22,500 rubles is therefore worth 2% kopecks (old stjfle); that Is, a few cents., It Is to -be .added that this stamp Is colored flesh tint and mauve apd represents ayflst clasping a hammer, with banner bearing humanitarian In scriptions; . > HOT DOGS, ALL KINDS OP SAND WICHES, FRUITS , AND I0B COLD BRINKS—AT O. A. DOBBS’ PLACE, BEER ON DRAUHT. Bill Wofford PROPRIETOR. We carry a complete line of Dry Goods, Guaranteed All Leather Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Ladies’ and Children’s Ready-toWear. > Come and see our values before you buy. J. H.'Goldstein, Mgr. Ve sell for Cash and Sell for. Less Popularity of Rubber Heel*. Sixty per cent of the shoes manu factured In the;, United States - today are said to be equipped with rubber heels. Shoes for men are more often equipped with' rubber heels than shoes for women. It is estimated that 75 per cent of the rubber heels manu^ factured are s for nien. The-United States census of manufactures of 1920, covering production during 1919, showed that 275,857,206. pairs of leather boots and shoes were manu factured by 1,449 establishments. This was exclusive of slippers and fiber and other footwear not of leather. During the SBroe period the production of rub ber heels reached a.88,'468,769 pairs, and 9,777,085 pairs of rubbers and composition fiber, sbles were manu factured. We are prepared to WIRE YOUR HOUSE, INSTALL FIXTURES .Oi%do any kind of electrical work on short notice. Also general re pair work on Autos, Auto Light ing Systems, Retrimming, etc. All work, guranteed to please you. i ; Norris & Wood 85 Grove Street GAINESVILLE, GA. And keep step with your neighbors who are Daily and Nightly enjoying Lec tures. Readings. Concerts 1 , etc., via R A D I O. , ? , ' . ' ' ' , , - „ .. . - . .'. ' It does not cost a great deal to install a set, which we will do for you any time we “receive your order. No better CHRISTMAS PRESENT than a Ra- dio Set. Give us your order NOW so you can enjoy it during the Holidays—and ever after* Optometrist I can tell you if your need is Glasses. Modern equipment for proper examination. It will pay you to get the facts abous your eyes. Ask Law to Protect American Name*. At the nineteenth annual meeting and reunion of the Reade Society for Genealogical Research, held in this city, resolutions were passed asking that a, nattonal act be passed by con gress making it unlawful for any per son to assume the family surname of any one of colonial, revolutionary 6r historical fame. Alt was also voted that for the protection of such names and to avoid confusion, mistake* or fraud, the organization seek to pre vent foreigners from taking any colonial or American names which have been -made prominent.—-Boston Globe. Announcement • TO SMOKERS If your pipe needs repairin' -wing it here. We repair all kind cf pipes. J. D. MATTHEWS SB S. Main St. Jeweler &Optometrist Jackson Bldg*. Gainesville, Ga. Severe Old Forest Law*,.. , In Forest laws in England, were tnstl- tut'ed by William the Conqueror, and were so severe that they provided death for a mqn killing a deer. Upheld Right to 8quelch Bor*. Precept and Practice. Many a man who talks about get ting a broad, clear view of the beauti ful world spends most of his days sit 1 dug behind an unwashed window*-*- Washington Stur Flowers Tell Time. If you have n clock that you nev eon depend upon, pike time by (Orelrick and plant a ‘.window box w Bowers that wili help you out, If yrin live Ip the suburbs, got a Sb It Is said that dandelions opoo M ®* In the morning and close at 8:80 the evening. That (he-while (Uf °Pe"' at 8 and doses at 5. The pWt * •. lasts from s until 2; the aow tiu from f> o’clock until noon. The » low gojir's benrd shuts at 00 f n , u, dsely—the moment of the sun a • •M* «imiuU—M— V*»rV M»U New Control for Auto*. Dispensing With the present emer gency brake and gear-shift lever* in any- motor car, the clutch, brakes ami gear shifts -;are controlled by mean* df •-pneumatic pressure of frofeh '40 to 66 pounds, obtained from thfe ruotpv. tn a device of recent Invention. The s»- paratus, according to Popnlar : M*T clmnlcs Magazine, is mounted eu the transmission case in place of it* cover, and is operated by means of a small pivoted lever. With the new contra! it is impossible to strip gears, or t* the clutch when the brakes art If you light upon an Impertinent talker, that atlcks to you tike n burr, to the disappointment of your Impor tant occasions, deal frerily with him, break off the discourse and pursue frier business.—Plutarch, Small Qlrt’s Gsnsrou* Qltsr. _ Little Rose was playing with hsa doll when the wig fell off. Just then a man came along who had ao heir on the top of his head. Rose ran up to him and said: “Say, mister, you can have this. wig to cover that empty spot on tho top of your head If you want it,” D. L. CAST&N, engage •at. wwm j.SOON B I-BE- HERE::!
