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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
TOCCOA WINS NINTH DISTRICT
ATHLETIC MEET IN WINDER
Toccoa Wins Over Schools
of Ninth District in Meet
Held In Winder Thurs
day, Friday, Saturday.
Winder, Ga.—Toccoa won the
large silver cup ofered by Judge G.
A. Johns, of Winder, for the school
wnining the most points in athetics
at the ninth district high school
meet which closed here today. The
athletic part of the meet closed with
Toccoa having a score of 18 points,
Winder second with 15 points, and
Cumming third with 12 points. The
total points in the meet was 91. The
school winning the cup three con
secutive years retains possession.
The meet next yea will be held in
Gainesville.
The results of the athletic meet,
by events, follows:
Hundred yards: First Barrett,
Commercse; second, Snelson, Toccoa;
third, Strickland, Cumming.
Two hundred and twenty yards:
First, Strickland, Cumming; second,
Hale, Statham; third, Perry Winder,
and Paris, Gainesville, tied.
Four hundred and forty yards:
First, Cheek, Statham; second, Rich
ards, Gainesville, third, Strange,
Cornelia, and Parker, Winder, tied.
Relay race: First, Cummings, .time
1.45 2-5 seconds; second Winder;
third, Lawrenceville.
Hurdle race: First, Bedingfield,
Winder; second, Maness, Gainesville;
third, W’ooten, Buford.
Shot put: First, Andrews, Toccoa;
second, Edwardds, Commerce; third,
Fleming, Cummings.
Broad jump: First, Snelson, Toc
co'a; second, McDonald, Commerce;
third, Chambers, Statham.
Pole vault: First, Brookshire, Win
der; second, Sheridan, Jefferson;
third, Kemp, Canton.
High jump: First, Beaseley, Toc
coa; second, Wade, Baldwin; White,
Cornelia, and Brookshire, Winder,
tied.
The debate Friday night, “Resolve,
That boys and girls have a better
chance of success in the country than
in the city,” was won by Canton, on
the negative side, represented by
Miss Leila Barden and Auther For
ster.
The essay contest, entered into by
23 boys and girls, was held Friday
morning and was won by Jack Mel
ton, of W'inder, first place; Lamar
McDonald, of Commerce, second
place; Lambert Williams, of Gaines
ville, third place in the boys’ con
test, and by Fannielee Tucker, Win
der, first place; Gladys Nelms, Com
merce, second place; Bell Davis, Bu
ford, third place in the girls’ con
test. •• ■*
In the boys’ declamation contest,
held also on Friday morning, the
winners were Nat Hancock, of Jef
ferson, first place; Gibson House, of
Winder, secondp lace; Tom Johnson,
of Commerce, third place.
The music contest was held on Fri
day night with the following as win
ners: Lucy MacDonald, of Gaines
ville, first place; Owen Ogburn, of
Canton, second place; Corinne Eber
hart, of Maysville, third place.
The girls’ recitation contest was
won by Helen Wood, of Commerce,
first place; Loy Wood, of Buford,
second pace; Jeannette Harris, of
Lawrenceville, third place.
In the sewing contest the winners
were Jessie May Parker, of Winder,
first place; Janie Stevens, of Mays
ville, second place; Emily Potts, of
Jefferson, third place.
In the spelling contest which was
held on April 5 and participated in
by the entire senior class of 27 high
schools, the decision was given out
Friday night with Winder first place,
Buford, second place and Commerce
third place. The literary cup, pre
sented by Mr. Williams, goes to Win
der for the first year, with a total
of 23 points in the literary contest.
DR. BEN CLEMENT
Dentist
Phone No. 59
NORCROSS. GA.
READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE NEWS-HERALD.
Do .You Know of an Older. Horse?
Nathan makes daUn that “Patsy" Dobbin U the oldeaf
horse In the U S. For thirty-two yean Patsy baa baoled lumber ai
Philadelphia, although pensioned now Do you knowof a bone oldei
than Patayt ' - .
The News-Herald
10 Cent Verdict
Is Given In
Damage Suit
Atlanta, Ga.—“We, the jury, find
in favor of the plaintiff in the sum
of ten—”
Counsel for the plaintiff suing for
SIO,OOO damages smiled. Counsel
for the defendant frowned.
■ —“cents,” concluded the foreman of
the jury in Juidge H. M. Reid’s divi
sion of city court. And counsel for
the defendant smiled.
The award was made Thursday by
a jury trying the slander suit of Mar
garet Froug, contractor, against Mrs.
J. Oxman, of 300 Capitol Avenue.
Froug alleged that Mrs. Oxman
called him a thief in the presence of
his father and others. The accusa
tion is said to have been made during
an argument over a bill for repair
work which Froug is said to nave
been attempting to collect from Mrs.
Oxman.
BOY MEETS DEATH WHEN
AUTO HITS PASSENGER TRAIN
Atlanta, Ga.—Millard Jolley, 18,
son of a dairyman living near De
catur, Ga., was instantly killed and
Boyd Hale, 19, Chamblee, Ga., his
companion, was injured when Hale’s
automobile crashed into a Seaboard
passenger train at 4:15 o’clock Sun
day afternoon, near Tucker, Ga.
The engineer stopped the train and
the crew* put Hale and his compan
ion’s body aboard and carried them
into Atlanta. Hae was rushed to
Davis-Fischer sanitariuum in a
Greenburg and Bond ambulance,
whr his injuries were pronounced not
to be serious. He was suffering
from severe bruises.
Although Hale was unable to make
a statement about the acciddent, it
was learned that the boys had been
riding in the vicinity of Lawrence
ville on pleasure bent earlier in the
day. On their return trip they
they failed to see the approaching
train and were thrown several feet
as the car was torn to bits.
FERTILIZING THE CORN CROP.
The two factors which usually
limit the yields of com under Geor
gia conditions are moisture and ni
trates. As it is not possible to in
crease the moisture supply through
application of commercial fe tllizers
it naturally follows that it does not
pay to spend very much on fertiliz
ers for this crop. A more profitable
prcceeclure is to use barnyad ma
nures, by increasing the oiganic
matter in the soil, will add to their
water holding capacity. Also when
a legume is used for a cover crop,
nitrogen will be added directly 10
the soil from the air. Winter cover
crops s uch as rye will also increase
the nitrates in one soil, eve i though
they are not legumes, by preventing
washing and leaching of the soil.
In fertilizing corn with commercial
fertilizers the only ones which ap
pear profitable under average con
ditions: is some form of nitrogen.
Phosphates and potash are not nearly
so badly needed. As usual thing
the corn crop is grown in \ rotat.on
with cotton '('which is heavily fer
tilized with these two elements.
Neither of them arc 'eached from
the soil nearly so readily as is ni
trogen. At the Georgia Experiment
station last year, where coin fol
lowed cotton no increase was ob
tained from applying 280 pounds of
acid phosphate or 90 pounds of mu
riate of potash. Under exceptional
conditions it may pay to fertilize
with small amounts of phosphates
or potash.
R P. BLEDSOE, Agronomist.
AT THE STRAND.
THURSDAY AND .FRIDAY —
Anita Stewart in “Sowing the Wind”
SATURDAY —Buck Jones in “The
Lone Hand.”
MAN WANTED
With conveyance to sell and *col
eet. Good proposition for right
man. Apply to Singer Sewing Ma
rine Co., Decatur, Ga. ts
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923.
RUM RUNNERS
MUST PAY TAX
ON BOOZE SALES
Atlanta, Ga.—A collective sum of
between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000
will be assessed approximately 650
of Georgia's bootleggers and whisky
makers as a tax penalty on liquor
sales, to be paid into the coffers of
government, according to announce
ment Thursday of Josiah T. Rose,
collector of internal revenue for
Georgia.
All penalties have been assessed
and as :oon as final word is received
from the revenue department the al
leged traffickers will be subpoenaed.
After the hearings, steps will be tak
en, Collector Rose stated, to collect
che tax. Some of the men assessed
own valuable property and if neces
sary an attachment will be placed
upon it.
The act by which the tax is brought
against the liquor men is the old rev
enue law, which was in effect before
the Volstead act became effective.
Quarterman udge
and Ross Solicitor
New Barrow Court
Atlanta, Ga.—Because of their
pronounced stand for law and order
and their opposition to the Ku Klux
Klan, Governor Hardwick on Thurs
day appointd W. H. Quarterman as
judge and G. D. Ross as solicitor of
the newly created Barrow county
court.
In announcing the appointments,
he gave the above reason for select
ing these lawyers from a large list
who applied o rwhose names were
presented to him by their friends.
Mr. Ross was one of the citizens
jti f'r.nt of whose home a column of
men wearing klan regalia stopped
and exhibited the klan warning sig
nal some months ago.
R. L. Woodruff, a prominent man
ufacturer and merchant of Winder,
sh county seat of Barrow n unty,
was another who received a similar
visit and threat.
The matter aroused considerable
public mtiest at the time 1• < < isc of
Mr. it’oorriff’s report of i* to the
governor and a mass meeting of citi
zens called by Mr. Woodruff in the
Winder courthouse.
The new Barrow county court was
created a short time ago by th
grand jury, as provided by law, and
the judg and solicitor appointed by
the governor will take office imme
diately.
WRONG NEWS
CAUSES DEATH
Savannah, Ga.—Mrs. Mary Elea
nor Roberts died this morning from
shock resulting from the receipt of
erroneous information that her hus
band, an engineer on the Seaboard
Air Line raiway, had been injured.
Another man by the same naxpe lives
across the street from th Robert fam
ily.
Robert was knocked down by an
automobie and the message was car
ried to the wrong house. Robert was
out on his run and when his wife
was told he bad bee nhurt she col
lapsed and did not rally, dying at
4:10 o’clock Thursday morning.
The death certificate says she died
of shock caused by the recipt of the
erronous news.
Womna Gets Fifteen
Years For Killing
Baby; Pleads Insanity
Batesville, Ark.—Mrs. W. J.
Travis, in whose behalf a plea of in
sanity was entered when she was
placed on trial in connection with
the killing of Prella Chaney, 15
months old, was found guilty late
last night of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to 15 years
imprisonment. The child was struck
by one of five bullets alleged to have
been fired at his mother while she
was holding him in her arms.
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MAN IS killed;
HOLD POLICEMAN
Columbus, Ga.—Shot through the
head as his touring car, driven by his
wife, crossed Broad street going
.vest on Fourteenth after a spectac
'ar chase, Tom Britt, died at the
City hospital.
Motorcycle Patrolmen C. D. Hall
and E. D. Welch, who joined the
hase policemen started five miles
from the city on the Whitesville
jad, gave themselves up at the
county jail, where they were being
held cn a charge of murder in con
nection with Britt’s slaying.
According to information obtained
from county officers, the chase start
i when Mrs. Britt, };he victim’s wife,
indicated by hr driving that she was
trying to escape. Britt boarded the
car with his wife a short distance
rom the point where she was first
seen by the officers, it was stated.
It was believed by the county offi
cers that Britt’s car contained whis
ky, and reports were to the effect
that a smal quantity of liquor was
thrown from the machine after it
crossed into Alabama.
KONTZ PAYS A
FINE OF 5250
Atlanta, Ga.—lnsofar as the courts
are concerned the crash at Peachtree
and Twelfth streets on the night of
January 25 between an automobile
driven by J. Thornton Kontz and a
grinding machine belonging to the
Georgia Railway and Power company
in which two workmen met their
death, became a closed incident Fri
day.
Kontz paid the fine imposed
on him Thursday following his con
vicition on a charge of involuntary
manslaughter while “in the commis
sion of a lawful act,” a misdemeanor.
Reuben R. Arnald, his chief counsel,
announced to Judge W. E. H. Searcy,
Jr., when court opened Friday morn
ing that the vercsct would not be tak
en to b coatt.
Damag : suits ajg. og :t: lg Si C G.-
000 filed against Komz and his fath
er, Judge I . C. Koau, owner ȣ the
autonu i Pc? by Sirs W. T. ITiiritcr
t.nd Mrs. ’V. S. Gorman widows of
he two victims, have tern with
drawn, fob - wing payment, of SIT 500
to ea h p'aintiff by Judge K ir.tz.
Freight Train Looted
Of $25,000 Whisky
At Point of Pistol
Peoria, 111. —Sante Fe northbound
freight train number 48 was held up
by a band of heavily armed men two
miles north of Morton, 111., last night
and acohol and whisky valued at
between $25,000 and SBO,OOO was
hauled away in automobile trucks.
Four men boarded the caboose at
Peking and held Special Agent Rich
ard Burns, Conductor Anderson and
members of the train crew at the
point of pistols. Engineer Powell
was ordered to run his train to Cran
dall’s crossing, near Morton, where
ten armed men awaited with a num
ber of automobile trucks. The train
.vas held up for two .hours and twen
ty minutes.
Property _§eized
By Dry Agents
Is Worth $9,697,477
Washington.—Property valued at
$9,697,477 was seized during 1922
in the enforcement of prohibition,
and of this amount $2,909,000 worth
was destroyed.
A yearly summary made public to
day at prohibition headquarters
showed that during the year prohibi
tion agents seized 421,838 gallons of
spirits, and 4,188,875 gallons of
malt liquor, of which 160,173 gallons
of spirits and 3,782,173 gallons of
malt liquor were destroyed. Fourteen
irohibition agents wer killed on
duty during the year and 49 injured.
Arrests numbered 60,019, and auto
mobiles seized 3,573, valued at sl,-
709,000.
Display Latest Styles
In “Bootleg Corsets”
Result of N. Y. Raid
Boston. —Latest styles in bootleg
gers’ corsets were displayed by the
police today as a result of a raid on
a tenement house. There are two
models. Each is a two partition tin
garment of two gallon capacity,
shaped to the body and held in po
sition by shoulder straps. One has
faucets at the bottom to pour liquor
into a glass. The other has a rubber
hose to sip on the stuff through
openings in the top.
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MEN WHO AIDED
CHAPMAN IN HIS
ESCAPE TAKEN
Atlanta, Ga.—Within two hours
after their indictment on charges of
having aided Gerald Chapman, mil
lion dollar mail robber, in his escape
from an Athens hospital on April 4,
Dominick Didato and Abe Silverstein
were arrested in New York late Fri
day afternoon by department of jus
tice agents, according to announce
ment by Lewis J. Baley, agent in
charge of the Atlanta bureau of in
vestigation of the department of jus
tice.
Federal authorities announced that
they plan to bring Didato and Sil
verstein from New York immediately
and place the mon trial in the Unit
ed States court at Athens on Mon
day, April 23.
Chapman is believed by authorities
they, said, to be still in or near Ath
ens. His capture will be effected
soon, it is thought, Chapman was
wounded in being recaptured after
his spectacular escape from the At
lanta federal penitentiary, where he
was serving a 25 year term for en
gnieering a million dollar mail rob
bery in New York. He was under
treatment for three bullet wounds
when he escaped from the hospital.
Didato and Silverstein were traced
from Athens to New York the night
Chapma'i disappeared from the hos
pital, according to Mr. Baley. Dur
ing the day of the getaway it was
stated, the two men frequented the
Georgian hotel in Athens, where Di
dato registered as J. Karuse, of Bos
ton, and Silverstein registered as
Abe Cohn, of New York.
Offers To Trade
His Auto For
1,000 Good Cigars
Boston.—Thomas W. Lawson,
sportsman, spot market operator and
author, has advertised for sale In
Boston newspapers, the “best car in
the world.”
Recntfy Lawson’s magnificent es
tate “Dream wold,” at Egypt, was
put in the hands of trustees and
many of his treasures were sold to
satisfy creditors.
After describing the automobile in
gluowing terms,v the advertisement,
signed by Lawson, said:
“My only reason for selling, I must
have money. My creditors say so,
and I must. This means I must con
fine myself to the use of my open
car and four or five smaller one§.
4s I am completely out of cigars for
summer smoking I will take five
thousand $1 cigar's iii lieu of cash.”
CARRIER HELD
FOR THEFTS
Macon, Ga.—Charged with appro
priating money from people along a
rural mail route, Homer V. Blalock,
a young mail carrier of Pineview,
was given a preliminary hearing to
day before W. E. Martin, United
States commissionr. He made bond
in the sum of SSOO.
Blalock admittd his guilt, stating
le had taken money from persons
along his route when asked to pur
chase and mail money orders. It also
is stated a number of C. O. D. pack
ages have not been accounted for.
Blalock is a young man, recently
married. His father accompanied
him to Macon.
Postoffices of U. S.
Are Now Furnishing
Real Writing Pens
Washington.—Postoffice pens that
will really write are now available
for the public throughout the coun
try, says the postoffice department.
Resenting the slur of the old saw,
“Did anyone ever see a good pen in
a postoffice or a bad one in a bank?”
a deluge of protests has reached
Postmaster General New from post
masters who deny that the public
writing desks contain one pronged,
crusted pens and ink wells holding
only a dry rock like substance.
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.
F. Q. SAMMON,
Funeral Director and Scientific
EMBALMER,
I carry a full line of Coffins, Cas
kata, Buriat Suits, Robes, Etc.
Calls Filled Day or Night.
Free hearse to customers.
DR. TANDY KEY MITCHELL
DIES AT LAWRENCEVILLE HOME
Mrs. McKeown Is
Indicted Friday
Fulton County
Atlanta, Ga.—Mrs. Irma Mc-
Keown, of 95 East Ellis street, who
figured in tthe R. B. Fortune black
mail case, Friday was indicted by the
Fulton grand jury on a charge of
larceny after trust.
The bill charges that Mrs. Mc-
Keown took $5, of Fortune’s money
with which to pay her carfare and
refused to return the change.
Mrs. McKeown’s recent trial in
Lawrenceville on a charge of violat
ing the prohibition law resulted in
her acquittal and a charge of malici
ous proscution against Fortune, an
attorney of that city.
Later Fortune was tried and ac
quitted ni Atlanta on a blackmail
charge made by Mrs. McKeown, who
alleged that the attorney had repres
ented himself as a government work
er and had dmanded money from
her ni settlement of the prohibition
charge.
SUPERINTENDENT STUBBS
ELECTED ANOTHER YEAR
The city board of education has
relected Prof. C. O. Stubbs as su
perintendent of the Lawrenceville
public schools for the next scholastic
year. This came as a deserving
compliment to the man who has done
) much in such a short time for the
local school system. Mr. Stubbs
stands in the front rank as an edu
cator and is fast putting Lawrern
ville on the map as a desirable place
to educate the youth of the commun
ity. With our handsome new school
building, which will soon be proper
ly equipped, he will be in good shape
to do better work with the children
in their new quarters than was possi
ble with the outworn building and
: nadequate equipment,
MR. W. T. ETHRIDGE
DIED LAST SATURDAY
1 I, , H
Mr. W. T. Ethridge, sixty-four
years of age, died after a short ill
ness of pneumonia at his home in
Harbnis district Saturday.
Mr. Ethridge was well known and
had lived all his life in the settle
ment n which he died. He is survived
by several grown children.
Funeral services were held at Ebe
nezer church Sunday afternoon,
Revs. Ewing and Moore in charge.
BOTTLING WORKS NOW
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Mr. Pass, the new manager of
Lawrenceville Bottling Works, has
arrived in this city and taken charge
of the plant. Mr. Pass comes as a
sterling gentleman, an excellent bus
iness man and is being extended a
cordial welcome to our city. It is
hoped he will move his family here
shortly.
Howard Cannon ha« resigned as
night policeman ol the city and ac
cepted a place with the bottling
works and Bob Haslett is serving in
Mr. Cannon’s place until his success
or is elect’d by city council.
ANOTHER FIRE.
Lawrenceville’s volunteer fire de
partment was called out early Sat
urday morning when a negro house
near the corner of Jackson street
and Sassafras avenue was discovered
on fire. The damage was small.
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Bernhardt's Farewell to America
. , , . - .
Just one hour and a quarter before she died in her son’s arms at
her Paris home, aged seventy-eight, Sarah Bernhardt -the “Divine
Sarah,” the world's greate*.. actress, sent this message to America, the
land of her many triumphs: “I am deeply touched with the sympathetic
Interest of my beloved American friends.” So ended a ereat MIS
TWICE-A-WEEK
Wa* One of Gwinnett’s Old
est Citizens and Most Be
loved Men—ln His Nine
ty-First Year.
Dr. Tandy Key Mtichell, Law
rencevill’e oldest citizen, died at his
home at 8 o’clock Saturday night.
He was in his ninety-first year.
Dr. Mitchell was born in Jackson
county, where his mother was visit
ing her parents, September 17, 1832,
and was a life long resident of this
county. A grand uncle on his moth
er’s side, Francis Scott Key, wrote
he national anthem, "The Star
Spangled Banner.”
At the age of 25 Dr. Mitchell be
gan the practice of medicine and
urgery and was one of the state’s
most famous doctors of his time.
His practice in this county covered
over sixty years excepting the four
years in which he served as doctor
and surgeon in the Confederate ar
my. The south never had a truer
follower than this brave soldier.
The deceased was one of the high
est types of manhood that ever lived
in this section and was a friend to
all alike and loved and respected by
everyone.
For over seventy years he was a
nember of the Methodist church and
had been a Mason for sixty-four
years. His Christian life was a shin
ing star in his community.
On November 15, 1866, he mar
ried Miss Athella West Simmons,
daughter of the late Colonel Joseph
P. Simmons, and a sister, of Major
W. E. Simmons, of Lawrenceville.
Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell celebrated
their golden anniversary November
15, 1916.
Besides his wife the following
children survive: James M. and
Thomas W. Mitchell, of Atlanta;
Mrs. Lillian Mary Camp, Misses Ida
ind Pearl Mitchell, of Lawrence
ville, and Mrs. Anna Milner, of Man
chester, Tenn. He is also survived
y several grandchildren and great
Tandchildren. . i
Funeral services will be held at
he local Methodist church Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in charge of
former pastor Eakes and former Pre
siding Elder King. The burial will
follow in charge of the Masons. ,
LAST SUNDAY WITH
THE LOCAL METHODISTS
Methodist Sunday school was held
at the regular hour, 10:30, Sunday
morning and Dr. Wm. H. LaPrade,
Jr., presiding elder of this district*
preached at the morning church ser
vice. Dr. LaPrade was greeted by
0 large gudience who thoroughly en
joyed his discourse.
At 3 p. m. the second quarterly
conference was held and among the
new business, after the reports, etc.,
it was motioned and passed that the
home on Jackson street owned by the
church, and which was bought by a
subscriptoin as a home for worn out
preachers, be sold and the proceeds
pplied on the debt of the church
lulding. j
Epworth held their regular
meeting at 7:15 and at the evening
church service the following, who
united with the church during the
recent revival, were received into the
church on profession of faith: Jack
ynolds, Marvin Franklin, Jr., Ben
Hagood, M. P. -Reynolds, George
Jackson, Wm. Webb, Kathleen Hami
lton, William Pate, Blake Pate and
luster aJckson. Service in charge
of Rev. Marvin Franklin, pator.
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