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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
BAM ACCOUNTS
OF LAW’VILLE
SHEW SHOWN
Atlanta, Ga.—Officials of the Bank
of Lawrenceville, the First National
Bank and the Brand Banking Comp
any, all of Lawrenceville, appeared
Tuesday at the office of George Gold
ing, special intelligence officer for
teh internal revenue department,
with records showing the accounts of
Sheriff E. S. Garner, Howard Garner
and J. M. Bernard since 1917.
The officials were directed to ap
pear with the specified records by an
order issued by Judge Samuel 11. Sib
ley. TThey had refused to obey a
subpeana to this effect previously
Sheriff Garner and Deputies Garner
and Bernard have been indicated by
the federal grand jury on charges of
conspiracy to violate the prohibition
law. It is understood that Special
Officer Golding requested the records
from the banks in order to check the
annual income tax returnes made by
the indicted officers.
U. S. GRAND JURY
PROBES CHAPMAN
ESCAPE IN ATHENS
Athens, Ga.—The federal grand
jury here is making a thorough in
vestigation of the case of Gerald
Chapman, the “million dollar ban
dit,” who escaped from a local hos
pital here last week.
A large number of subpoenas have
been issued and federal officers wore
busy tonight in summoning witness
es to appear before the grand jury
today.
The officers here continue to cling
to the theory that Chapman never
has left Athens, but that he is being
harbored by someone here who is
supplying him with food and caring
for his wounds. It is thought that
the investigation will develop new
material for clues for the officers to
work on and that an early arrest of
Chapman may be expected.
BOY’S FALL KILLS FATHER.
Cicago.—While shingling their
home, eighteen year old Thomas Cur
ran fell from the roof onto his fa
ther, the latter being instantly killed.
NORTHCLIKFE’S WIDOW WEDS
COMPLYING WITH HIS WISH
London.—Among the last wishes
of Viscount Nortcliffe, late British
publisher, was that his widow should
marry Sir Robert Hudson, a mutual
friend. Lord Northcliffe died in Au
gust of last year and Thursday,
April 5, after a quiet wedding at
Hartlesbury Castle, in Worcester
shire, the viscountess is on her way
to a honeymoon in Italy with Sir
Robert.
The newspapers assert that Lady
Nortcliffe, by marrying relinquishes
a large fortune. However, there are
no estimates of the amount.
HONEYMOON TRIP
IS MADE IN BUGGY
Brunswick, Ga.—Dr. W. Grant
Thorp, 63, and Miss Carrie Bell
Smoak, 18, were married Tuesday
and left immediately for New York
They will make the trip in a buggy
and trailer drawn by two horses.
Dr. Thorpe, said to be a former
major in the army and now retired,
came to Brunswick a year ago and
attracted notice because of the atten
tion he gave his horse and buggy.
'The horse is equipped with harness
(embellished with heavy brass trim
mnigs and a set of bells which jangle
l w!h£never the horse moves. The high
stepped buggy is equipped with brass
fixings, electric light fixtures, fire
extinguisher and a brass horn.
Whee the doctor and his young bride
left on their honeymoon he added a
second horse to his buggy and a
trailer.
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KbAKETWINN
BURIED THURS.
The funeral of Miss Margaret
Winn, who died at her home in Law
renceville Tuesday night, was held
from the Presbyterian church Thurs
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, services
being conducted by the pastor, Rev.
J. G. Patton, and interment in the
New Cemetery. She had been ill for
two weeks with influenze.
Miss Winn was in her twenty-first
year and was one of the most at
tractive and popular girls ever rear
ed in this city. She was a daughter
of the late Latham Winn and a
granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. A.
M. Winn, deceased, with whom she
lived after the death of her father.
She was prominently connected
throughout the state and leaves a
sister, Miss ebecca Winn, and a
brother, Latham Winn, of Lawrence
ville, and the following uncles and
aunts: Messrs. A. P., T. D. and W.
L. Cain, of Atlanta; Thomas R. Cain,
of Memphis; Misses Helen and Octa
Roddey, of Atlanta; Mrs. J. W. Ri
ley, of New Orleans; Mrs. B. T. Dor
ris, of Decatur; Mrs. G. C. Mont
gomery and Miss Eula Cain, of Law
renceville.
CONDITIONS ARE BETTER
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH
Business Conditions Throughout
Sixth Federal District Are Better
Than They Have Been in 3 Years.
Atlanta, Ga., April 10.—Observa
tions and resultant optimistic re
ports of business conditions through
out the country, made daring the
past few weeks by some of the fore
most financial writers, have been
proven to be fully justified by ab
solutely reliable evidence gained
through surveys recently completed
by two separate departments of
the federal government, according
to business men here. Though the
surveys were made independent of
each other and for different pur
poses, they registered practically
idertical conclusions. There is un
mistakable evidence everywhere that
a rising tide of prosperity is upon
the country, Atlanta business leaders
assert
The survey of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta, covering the states
of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Florida and Tennessee,
which has just been announced,
shows that business conditions
threughout the sixth district are
belter than they have been almost in
three years.
Manufacturing conditions have
shown considerable improvement
over the early months of 1922, and
the volume of output, orders booked
and orders on hand at the end of the
period investigated, show substan
tial increases over figures for the
corresponding date last year.
With cotton bringing around 30
cents and textile plants running to
capacity, along with numerous other
good signs, conditions in the south
are considered particularly good and
conducive of optimism. The boll
weevil is the only blot upon the
bright prospects of an uninterrupted
period of genuine prosperity, it is
pointed out.
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WATER AND AIR SPORTS
TO HELP SHRINEKS’ FUND
Washington, April s.—With the
formation of a citizen committee of
one hundred, with City Commission
er Cuno Rudolph as chairman, to aid
the local Shrine committee in mak
ing plans for the entertainment of
the three hundred thousand Masons
and their families who will throng
the capital in June, great strides
forward in perfecting the program
have been made.
An aerial battle and a congress of
‘the seas are two plans which are
arousing much interest.
Washingtonians have been treated
to nearly every spectacular type of
aeria> exhibition, but the air battle
planned by the war and navy depart
ments will include many new fea
tures. In the number of planes en
gaged and the evolutions they will
present, the biggest air event pro
duced in the capital is promised.
The “Congress of the Seas” will
include twelve barges in aquatic pro
cession along the Potomac, fur
nished by the navy department. In
the line will be barges representing
the following ships of historic or
symbolic reference: Neptune’s cave,
Cleopatra’s barge, Santa Maria of
the Columbian caravels, the Half
Moon of Hendrik Hudson, the May
flower, a Viking’s ship, a Chinese
junk, the Claremont, the Constant of
the Virginia colonial fleet, the Con
stellation, and two others yet to be
selected. Several destroyers and
torpedo boats will complete the pre
cession.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1923.
Sees Rural America a Great Community Farm ,
mid the type of bungalows in which all residents now live.
Dallas, Tex. —Two years ago Cave
Springs was but a post office set in
the pine forests of the Sabine Bot
toms of east Texas. A narrow, deep
rutted road wandered ainPessly up to
it. Occasionally the road paused at
a stumpy clearing surrounding a
squalid negro cabin. A scraggly crop
of peanuts and garden treuk marked
the industry of the place.
That was two years ago. Today a
dozen modern bungalows face a sixty
foot graded road, and back of each
bunglow lies a productive 100 acre
farm. Here in the Sabine Bottoms is
the largest community farm in
America.
It was Mrs. W. C. Martin who
brought about the transformation.
“Community Builder of the South”
is what tey call her down tere. Cert
anily her work in developing the
Sabine Bottoms community and
other communities since then has
earned that title for her.
Mrs. Martin is no impracital
dreamer. She is a farmer, she per
sonally ran a 6,000 acre ranch in
Heavier Penalty
In Bank Wrecking
Cases Is Urged
Brunswick, Ga.—. Tames S. Peters,
of Manchester, president of the
Country Banker’s Association of
Georgia, presiding at the opening
session of the annual convention now
being held here, declared today that
it is an outrage that under the law it
s a more serious offence to steal a
horse than it is to wreck a bank in
Georgia.
Appealing for a change in the
criminal laws, to protect the banking
fraternity from crookedness on the
inside, President Peters cited a num
ber of cases in the past few years
where officiate of banks have stold
parctically all of the funds of their
institutions and have gone either to
tally unpurnished by the law, or have
been sentenced to exceedlingly light
prison terms.
He drew special attention to the
case of one banker who was allowed
to plead guilty and accept a sentence
of three years without allowing a
jury te privilege of passing on his
case, after he had embezzled over
SIOO,OOO, much of it the deposits of
Widows and industrial workmen, and
had, by his peculations brought the
bank he represented to total wreck.
Would Exempt Farms From Taxes.
Amendment to the constitution of
Georgia whereby a mortgage given
for the purchase of a small tract of
land on which the purchaser desired
to live, should be exempt from tax
ation in the opinion of Joseph A.
McCord, chairman of the board of
the Federal Reserve Bank of At
lanta.
“If I had it in my power,” said
Mr. McCord, “I would amend the
constitution of the state of Georgia
so that if a landlord or land owner
should sell eighty acres or less of
land at a reasonable price to a pros
pective farmer, white or blJl If" that,
the debt created by the purchase of
this eighty acres or less, where it
did not cost the man who purchased
the land more than 6% per annum
interest, including all of the ex
penses, tfliat said mortgage should
be free from taxation, and that the
purchasing land owner should pay
only on the equity of the land.”
POTATO PLANTS.
I am taking orders for sweet po
tato plants to be delivered about the
15th or 20th of April. Leave your
order at G. B. Clack’s Grocery store.
Al9c J. J. -BROCK.
Boque County, Texas, to such good
effect that in three years it paid a
profit of $38,000. Four years ago
the community farm plan developed
in her mind. For two years ,it was
just a paper flan. Then came the
opportunity to put it into effect on
o 1200 acre tract in the Sabine Bot
toms.
First of all'the land was laid out
in 100 acre tracts. A sixty foot
gradeed road was run through the
center. On each side of tis road
six 6-room bunfciows were built. Not
plain squar box buildings are these,
it attractive modern houses with
with porches, fireplaces, window
seats and cozy Corners. Back of the
long front porch are four large
rooms. A central chimney makes
possble a fireplace in each of these
rooms. The kitchen and a asleep
ing room are back of tese rooms.
Careful planning is evidence by
the covered well on the back porch,
the trough leading from it to the
barn, the blue grass in te yard, and
the chicken tigt fence.
Each house is set on a squar acre.
And each house is within easy haul
DEAD CHILDREN
MARRIED IN
FAR OFF CHINA
Detroit, Mich.—Marco Polo tells of
the most curious forms of Chinese
nuptials the marriages of deceased
children.
A marriage contract was drawn up
and a symbolic wedding was per
formed with every detail of rite and
festivity. A week later the contract
was burned and buried, thus com
pleting the marriage in the sprit
wolrd.
This formed an alliance between
the two families as firm as if the
marriage had been in the flesh.
Sometimes these marriages were
for family reasons, but more often
they were arranged because mar
riage confers honor on Chinese,
even on dead Chinese.
Such marriages are not unkown in
ed mrf fd rdfdwl rdwddl fdwlwwlwl
moodern China, and still less un
known is the marriage of the living
girl to a dead man. Such a marriage
is performed to carry out a betrothal
contract or for family, political or
pecuniary reasons.
The girl is in such a case almost
invartiably married to a living hus
band after she has won out her
widow’s weeds.
COUNTY CONTEST.
The following names wre omitted
from the report givenin the last is
sue, and we are glad to make these
corrections for the schools and the
young people who were winners.
High School Spelling.
Boy, Hugh Childs, Grayson.
Girl, Myrtie Cook, Duluth.
High School Arithmetic.
Boy, Mac Leach, Grayson.
Girl Thelma Franklni, Duluth.
€. O. STUBBS,
Chairman Contest Committee.
MOTOR CAR PRODUCTION
DOUBLE THAT OF 1922
New York. —Motor car production
for the first three months of the year
aggregated 867,628 cars and trucks
—more than double the number
manufactured during the corres
ponding period last year. March
production, reports to the national
automobile chamber of commerce
show, were 346,383 cars and trucks
exceeding by 57,000 the record of
289,011 produced in June, 1922.
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ing distance of its neighbor.
The whole scheme is knit together
by several community projects.
There is a community house, with
reading tables, books, soft and
-haded lights. Back of the commu
nity house is a community laundry,
and nearby is a community cannery,
a blacksmith sop and a garage.
The purchase of a large cream sepa
rator is the latest community enter
prise.
Most of the tenants are buying
heir farms on a long time payment
plan. In so doing they have a new
incentive for pushing developments,
and at the same time the land owner
is insured 8 per cent on his invest
ment.
The success of the plan has given
Mrs. Martin a vision of all rural
America made over into a great
community farm—the dwelling
place of prosperity and happiness.
She has been made chairman of
the Home and Community Devel
opment of the American Farm Bu
reau Gederation and through this de
partment wil build her vision into
a reality.
Crescent City
Is Overcrowded
With Veterans
New Orleans, La.—The thirty third
Confederate Veterans’ reunion starts
with a whizz bang. The number al
ready arrived, with accompanying
visitors, exceeds every local expecta
tion and preparation. Hotels are
overpopulated now and available
rooms wil be exhausted by morning.
Old veterans are showing temselves
remarkably spry and ethusiastic in
greetings and fraternizations.
While all lament the dwindling of
the combatant gray ranks, yet they
are resolute that, as God wills, the
remnant shall assembly annually
while there is a roll to call.
General Jule Carr, beloved com
mander in cheif hailed by every vet
with affection, is leading the host
with skill and wisdom. He is a su
perb jollier and especially popular by
his Chesterfildian gallantry to the
Daughters of the Confederacy young
and old.
No signs of any sort of scrap ap
pear except over the city for the 19-
24 reunion. The Texans, seven train
loads, are her with blood on their
horns to capture it for Dallis but
Jacksonville and Memphis are fight
ing rivals, with the odds on the latter
tonight.
Georgia is not as well represented
as customary, or as at Richmond last
year, but a notable flock of Empire
Staters is showing up under the spir
ited leadership of General J. Colton
Lynes.
Will Round Up Bunco Men.
Concentration of federal and state
force.-, in a nation-wide, systematic
crusade against confidence men in
America under the direction of offi
cials in cities where bunco men have
centered their operations during the
pa t few years will be the outcome
of an early conference in Denver,
Colo, between Hon. John A. Boykin,
solicitor general of the Atlanta Ju
dicia’ circuit, and officials from
widely separated points in the Unit
ed States, it is announced here. It
will be recalled that Solicitor Boy
kin, recognized as one of the most
aggressive prosecutors in the south,
was largely instrumental in ridding
Atlanta of a bunco ring many
months ago. He has now been
called into conference with some of
the most noted prosecutors in the
United States.
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MEN WHO DRINK
OUTBID THE LAW
Athens, Ga.—Liquor consumers,
regaidless of their reputation other
wise in the community, are largely
responsible for the difficulty in en
forcing the prohibition law because
they arc outbidding the courts, Judge
Samuel If. Silbley, told the grand
;ury of federal court which convened
iiere Monday morning.
The jurist, declared men who drink
whisky do not stop to think in many
instances, that they are responsible
for moonshining and bootlegging.
These men, high standing citizens in
other respects, would not sell liquor
themselves but help break the law
by offering the whiskey maker and
pedder a higher price for his illegal
goods than the law can impose
punishment. This the jurist called
'“out bidding the law.”
GEORGIA NEGROES
ARE COMING HOME
Georgia Blacks Who Flocked to
North Now S inging Mournful
Tunes—Experience of One.
Atlanta, Ga., April 10.—Many
echoes of the recent so-called negro
exodus are now being heard, and
most of the sounds are mournful
tunes sung by returning prodigals.
But some of the wanderers can’t
even get back home, no matter how
much they wish to, and the best they
can do while eating stale light bread
and shivering in the wintry winds
of New York and Chicago, as they
did urtil recently when the weather
changed, is to dream of and long for
the land of hot biscuits and sunshine.
Fred Phillips, a Georgia negro who
went to New York some months
ago, is one of the many who failed
to find the promised land that lured
him away from home. Fred wants
to come back, but he is unable to
negotiate the distance by foot and no
one will advance the railroad trans
portation.
Becoming desperate he has tried
to break into jail, but so far his ef
forts in that direction have been
even less successful than those of
the Weary Willie of 0. Henry’s tale.
Fre-t claims that since he arrived in
the north he has done little else but
shiver.
One day recently he walked into a
police station and laying two pack
ages on the desk he said to the lieu
tenant in charge:
“Boss, 1 done snatched dese here
two packages from a mail wagon. I
guess you better lock me up.”
The lieutenant decided that it
was a federal case and called two
secre* service men, but they would
have nothing to do with it, saying
they only had the negro’s word that
he stole the packages and they did
not believe him.
“But I stole 'em,’ insisted the
homesick negro; “you better send
me somewhere. You better send me
to Atlanta.”
The owner of the packages was
found, but he refused to prosecute
the negro. A detective made a case
against him, but it was promptly
dismissed.
When Fred was turned back into
the streets he promised the police he
would surely get into jail somehow
or other. Departing he said:
“If you all hears of a nigger com
mittin’ some outlandish crime, well,
dat’ll be me."
No doubt, leading farmers say,
there are many Freds around the
big cities of the nerth who know
that conditions back home are not all
that could be desired, but it’s heaven
compared to some things.
GIRL EDITOR WEDS
PROMISING YOUNG ATTY.
Louisville, Ga.—The marriage of
Miss Virginia Polhiil to R. G.
Price took plavs here Wednesday
evening at the home of the bride’s
parents. Both young people are well
known and have a number of friends.
The bride is the editress of the News
and Farmer, the county weekly
which is published in Louisville. She
m a brilliant young woman and has
made an enviable record in the
newspaper field. Mr. Price is a
young attorney, who is well known
in this section. He is attorney for
Jefferson county and is also attor
ney of the city court o' Louisville.
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BREAKS BABY’S NECK.
Nashville, Tenn.—After a quarrel
with his wife, Billie Watkins, former
Baptist minister, threw his one year
old baby out of the house in the yard
breaking its neck and kiling -it in
stantly, at Morris chapel, Harden
county, according to reports here,
under arrest
TWICE-A-WEEK
SOUTHERN BEL
RATES SLASHED
GEORGIA COM.
Sweeping reductions in existing
telephone rates charged bv the South
era Bell Telephone & Telegraph
Company in Georgia, amounting in
the aggregate t 05328,235.28 annu
ally and affecting every town seved
by te company except Albany, were
ordered by the Georgia public service
commission after a lengthy executive
session Tuesday afternoon.
A complet review of the telephone
company rate case, which was finally
concluded last summer is contained
in the order, wich recites that final
decision was withheld until recorda
of te company’s complete operations
for 19922 under existing rates could
be obtained and thoroughly analyzed.
Due to the fact that the company’s
report covering these operations for
1922 were not available until March
1, of this year, the commission, since
lias devoted itself to a com
plete study and analysis of these re
ports covering the period to Decem
ber 31, 1922. “Consepuently,” the
order states, “the commission is now
convinced tat considerable reduction
in the aggregate should be made.”
Having come to this conclusion,
the commission, through its order,
has undertaken to spread total reduc-
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tion over all exchanges in the states:
“Wile the commission is unable at
thy; time, to justify futher reduc
tions, yet the reductions here provid
ed applied to the business done by
.he company in 1922 result in the
aggregate a sum of $328,2335.28
SHOOTS WIFE AND MAN
IN ‘ MOVIE; AUDIENCE
STAMPEDES IN PANIC
Pittsburg,—An audience of several
hundred persons absorbed in a thrill
ing western screen drama at a North
side playhouse was converted into o
panic stricken, stampeding mob late
last night when Gustave Lieson,
waved a revolver, stalked into an
aisle in the balcony and opened fire.
Several shots were fired in rapid suc
cession. '-i-c
Almost before the flashes from the
gun were obscured, panic reigned,
and when the lights were switched on
a man and a woman were found
slumped in their seats unconscious.
The woman was Lieson's wife and
the man, Edward B. Welgner, her
escort. Mrs Lieson was* shot in the
temple, back of the head, right shoul
der and neck. Weigner had three
wounds in his head.
Physicians said Weigner would re
cover, but little hope was held for
Mrs. Lieson.
Lieson, whoes military service rec
ord showed him to be an expert
marksman fled after the shooting,
but was arresetd an hour later. He
told police he had been “waiting for
for this chance for months.”
NINTH DISTRICT SCHOOL
MEET AT WINDER
The schools of the Ninth district
are meeting in Winder today and
tomorroy. All schools in the district
arc sending representatives for both
Literary and Athletic events.
Lawrenceville is going well rep
resented and we are sure she will
keep up the splendid rep handed
down to her by the former repres
entatives of these meetings.
SINGING AT DACULA. ’
An old fashioned Sacred Harp
Singing will be held in Dacula High
School building beginning at 1
o’clock on the afternoon of the fifth
Sunday in April. All singers and
others are cordia’ly invited.
J. W. FARR,
S. A. EDMONDS.
Pitches Horseshoes
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Mrs. C. A. Lanham, of Blooming
ton, 111., pitching 2 I A pound-horse
shoes, cfca* a record of thirt- 7 -nve
ringers In winning the statr- cham
pionship at Aurora. She cliaXenyes
rtu» world.
NUMBER 49.