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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
poison proving
A SUCCESS IN
THIS COUNTY
A demonstration of the various
poison mixtures for boll weevil con
trol is being conducted on the farm
of Mr. D. W. Wilson, near Duluth,
that will be of much interest to all
the people of this county.
In this demonstration we have two
acres each of the following methods
of control: Weevil-Nip, Hill’s Mix
ture, We-Killum, 8011-We-Go, We-
Vo, Florida method, Government
method of dusting, No treatment at
all. Each material is being applied
as directed by the company selling
it, and no other treatment will be
given any of the plots regardless of
appearance through the t.
We will be glad to have as many
people visit this demonstration as
•will as it is being put on for the
benefit of the public, and Mr. Wilson
has made a sacrifice in allowing six
teen acres of his cotton to be turned
over for diis purpose Go see whic'r
method Ateps them down best.
About seventy-five per cent of the
cotton of the county is being treated
with calcium arsenate up to date
with wonderful results. Calcium ar
senate can be had in sufficient
quantities to meet the neeas of all
who want to use it, and I hope the
fight that is so well started and that
has the weevil well under control
will continue. The important time
now where the weevils are under
control is to keep close supervision
so as not to let them get ahead.
Possibly a few dustings in August in
many cases will save most of the
crop.
Those who have not treated their
cotton will do well to do so at once.
If you have any doubt find a stalk
that has a weevil on it and apply
poison. Spread a paper under it and
.go back the next day and find him
dead. OOne farmer reported to me
that he had tried seventy-two such
stalks and found seventy cases where
the weevil had been killed.
I have just received a letter from
a produce concern in Florida want
ing to buy a car load of tomatoes.
They want them in bushel baskets.
If any farmer can furnish a few ex
tra bushels in the next three months
please let me know the amount at
once and possibly we can handle at
least one car. They want to buy
them for the next three months
which will give time to poduce them
if plants or cuttings from other
plants ae set sqon. No price was of
fered; but the regular market price
could be expected.
Yours very truly,
A. G. ROBISON, County Agent.
Dr M. A. Born Is
Seriously Injured
In Auto Wreck
Athens, Ga.—Two persons, Dr. M.
A. Born and Mrs. Nancy Coleman,
lying in the General hospital in a
serious condition as a result of an
automobile smashup on the Winter
vill road Sunday afternoon.
Dr. Born and Mrs. Coleman were
in a Ford roadster that was being
driven by Mrs. Coleman’s husband,
Lonnie Coleman, and in a effort to
make a sharp curve turn in the road
near the Empire State Chemical
Company’s plant the car swerved,
going at a high rate of speed it is
said, and smashed into a stump near
the roadside, resulting in the car be
ing almost totally demolished and
all three of the ocaupants either bad
ly injured and shaken up.
The three were rushed to the
hospital and Mrs. Coleman’s injur
ies w’ere found to be of a serious
nature. Her chest was bruised and
it is believed that she suffered in
ternal injuries and posibly the
fracture of several ribs. At the
hospital Monday at noon she was
reported as doing as nicely as cotold
be expected but the extent of her
injuries could not be fully deter
mined.
Dr. Born was unconscious when
he reached the hospital and it was
several hours before he revived but
it developel that he was not ser
iously injured, only bruised, slight
ly lacerated and shook severely. He
is still in the hospital but not con
siderer in an extremely serious
condition.
Mr. Coleman was brought to the
hospital with his wife and Dr. Bon
but it was foupd he was scarcely
hurt and was not confined.
THRU PULLMAN
TO COLUMBUS
Leave Lawrencevilie 4:23 P. M.
Arrive Columbus . 8:55 P.M.
The News-Herald
for jonn D.
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m. BKyC ,
Attending regular services at the
community church near his home
at Tarrytown, N. Y„ John D.
Rockefeller oliserved Ills 84th birth
day July 8. The founder of Stand
ard Oil Co. and now one of the
world's richest men, was very
gracious to newspaper men.
Laurens Official
Shot By Dentist
After a Fight
Dublin, Ga.—M. C. Dominey tax
collector of Laurens county, was
shot and seriously wounded Monday
afternoon by Dr. Hugh M. Moore,
prominent dentist.
Physicians state that Mr. Dominey
will recove.
Causes leading up to the shooting
are said to be a very heated argu
ment and a fist fight a few minutes
previous to the shooting. It is re
ported that Dr. Moore stopped Mr.
Dominey on the street in front of
Smith’s barber shop, and the two en
gaged in an argument over some
dental work.
Mr. Domieny recently had some
work started by Dr. Moore, but later
went to a dental specialist in Atlanta-
Dr. Moore is said to have told Mr.
Dominey that he should also go to
Fulton county for votes. After heat
ed words Mr. Dominey struck Dr*
Moore and is said to have handled
him roughly. J
When he released Moore, the later
picked up' his spectacles and hat
from the street and a few minutes
late is said to have accosted Mr.
Dominey again with the statement
that “Well,” you slapped me, eh!”
and whipped out a revolver and com
menced firing.
Only one shot was fired befoe Mr.
Dominey grappled with Moore for
possession of the gun. The bullet
took effect in the ight side, just un
derneath the ribs, and ranged traund
near the back, but not making a peej
wound.
Bystanders separated the men,
rushing Mr. Dominey to a nereby
office and a policeman
taking Dr, Moore in charge.
At a late hour Monday Mr. Dom
iney well and Dr. Moore
remained' in l jail.
Both men are married and both
are prominent in business and so
cial circles of the county.
MEN WEARING
COATS FINED
i> -
Lafayette, Ind.—Men who attend
the evening servic at the West La
fayette' Baptist church must leave
their coa,ts at home or forfit sl.
This is the edict of the Rev. Dan
iel G. Bunkin, pastor of the church.
He believes that comfort is essen
tial to appreciation of a sermon.
“Men* sweltering in hot coats c!an
not be expected to be inspired by
any ermon,” the Rev. Mr. Dunkin
said.
FOUR COUNTY CHOIR
The Four County Choir will meet
with Antioch church, near Duncan’s
Creek on Lawrenceville-Hoschton
road, next Sunday afternoon, July
22. Everybody invited J.o come, es
pecially singers. Songbooks used,
“Awakening Praises” and “The Gos
pel Way.” ,
AT THE STRAND THEATER.
THURSDAY and FRlDAY—“Kin
dred of the Dust,” Peter B. Kyne’s
great story.
SATURDAY—Buck Jones in
"West of Chicago,” a pippin.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEO RGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1923.
PROP REPORT
MONTH OF MY
>
The smallest corn crop in the past
fourteen years is predicted for Geor
gia in a report released through the
Georgia Co-operative Crop Repotr
ing Service. The short crop in pros
pect is caused by a heatfv reduction
in acreage and a condition far be
low the average. The official acre
age is 4,034,000, a decrease of 8 per
cent from last year. The above
acreage, together with the condition
figure of 72 per cent of normal, in
dicates a probable production of 50,-
828,000 bushels, as compared with
bushels lat year and the
five year average of about 68,000,-
000 bushels.
Corn is very late in the northern
half es the state, being small and
off color. Too much rain was the
general complaint in that part of the
state during the earlier part of the
season, delaying planting and culti
vation. However, during the latter
part of June, conditions were most
favorable in north Georgia, and the
crop made fair progress except in
scattered sections that became ex
cessively dry. The early corn of
south Georgia is somewhat better,
although complaints of damage to
the later crop by excessive moisture
became rather general, especially
from the southwestern district.
Heavy Reduction in Sweet Potato
Acreage.
Georgia’s sweet potato acreage
this year has been reduced in prac
tically all sections, the acreage for
the state being 136,800, 90 per cent
of last year, and the condition fig
ure of 85 is slightly lower than last
year.
*.i *•»
Peanut.
A heavy decrease in the commer
cial peanut acreage in the southern
ditricts is partly offset by an in
cease in the northern districts, no
tably in and aound Jasper county
where the commercial acreage has
grown to be quite an item. The es
timated acreage for the state this
year is 153,900 as compared with
162,000 acres in 1922. Condition of
the growing crop, 80 per cent of
normal, is below the average and
about the same as last year.
Due to the success of the Peanut
Association, the decreae in Georgia
is considerably less than that shown
in surrounding states.
Acreage in cowpeas and velvet
beans is also less than last year,
while there is some increase in soy
beans. Condition of these crops is
about average.
t Pecans show some decline in con
dition during the month of June, but
they are still well above the average
and an excellent crop is predicted.
Pastues are fair to good, although
lack of moisture has caused deteri
oration in some sections.
Heavy Increase in Tobacco.
A greater aniount of both bright
and shade tobacco is being grown in
the state, many counties now trying
tobacco on a considerable scale for
the first time. There is also some
bright tobacco being grown in the
old shade area in southwest Geor
gia. The estimated acreage this year
is 19,000 compared with 11,000
acres last year. This with the con
dition figure of 85 per cent of nor
mal, would forecast a production of
about 13,728,000 pounds. The final
outturn will be above or below this
amount as conditions vary above or
below average from July Ist to the
end of the season.
Fruit Crops.
The peach crop declined about 5
points in condition during June. The
condition of 65 per cent of normal
is about 5 points above last year and
6 points below the average. Ap
ples continue to decline, having * a
condition figure of 55 per cent as
compared with 60 per cent last
month and 71 per cent for July of
last year. PeaTs are as good as
usual.
COURT UPSETS SEN
TENCE OF DEATH
Atlanta, Ga.—The verdict of a
Bibb county jury, fixing the death
sentence on Jack Smiley, a negro, of
Macon, who was charged with com
plicity in a race riot in Macon last
summer, was reversed in a Uecision
given down by hte State Supreme
Court Thursday.
The evidence in the case against
Smiley was not strong enough to
warrant conviction, the high tribu
nal ruled. The negro will be grant
ed a new trial.
Smiley was convicted of being one
of a number of negroes who killed
A. L. Alligood, a street car conduc
tor, wth a soda water bottle, and
which kiling led to a riot in Macon,
in which one deputy sheriff was
killed.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
MRS. MCDANIEL
BELOVED WOMAN
DIES AT HOME
Mrs. Eliza J. McDaniel, widow of
Mr. Arch McDaniel, died at her home
-near Duluth Monday, July 'l6th, in
he.- seventy-eighth year.
She was . well known in the com
munity where she lived, and was a
member of one of t?ie oldest and most
prominent ..families of this county,
being Misg Eliza Jane Garner before
marriagey and was a sister of Mr. R.
Pick Garner, Of Luxomni; Mr. Andy
Garner, of Rome; Mr. Darling Gar
ner, of Lilbum, and Sheriff E. S
Garner aqd Mrs. Georgia Purcell, of
this city; Mrs. Evie Burns, of Nor
cross, and Mrs. Lovenia Jones, of
Atlanta. She is also survived by the
following children: Mrs. J. L. Arn
dell. of Atlanta: Jno. D. McDaniel, of
Duluth; Mrs. G. M. Craft and Mrs.
G. B. Chapman, of Atlanta, and by
the children of Mrs. A. T. Jacobs,
deceased.
Mrs. McDaniel was a consistent
member of the Methodist church for
over thirty years, and was esteemed
and loved by all who knew her. Her
passing will be a source of much
pain to her large circle of relatives
and friends throughout the county.
The funeral was held Wednes
day morning, June 18th, at 11 o’clock
from the Methodist church at Du
luth, interment at the Duluth ceme
tery. Rev. Patterson had charge of
the services.
NUNNALLY NAMED
AS CHIEF OF STAFF
Atlanta, Ga.—Charles T. Nunnally
Tuesday was named chief of staff to
Governor Walker, and Malcom Mc-
Kinnon, city commissioner of Bruns
wick, Ga., was appointed colonel and
naval aide.
Mr. Nunnally is a prominent citize"
of Atlanta, pominent in business and
social life, and a popular member of
the leading clubs. He is a member of
the manufacturing firm of Nunnally
& McCrea.
The personnel of the governor’s
staff is as follows:
Charles T. Nunnally, chief of«staff,
Atlanta; Malcolm McKinnon, colonel
and naval aide, Brunswick; Edgar
Alexander, Atlanta; Victor Allen,
Buford; D. M. Byrd, Lawrencevilie;
W. E. Mobley, Macon; R. O. Arnold,
Hampton; Orrin Roberts, Monroe;
P. F. Vose, Atlanta; Harrison Jones,
Atlantf; H. A. Carithers, Winder;
Paul Barrett, Union City; W. L.
Bennett, Trion; W. B. Gibbs, Jessup;
H. R. McClatchey, Columbus; W. A.
Peterson, Mt. Vernon; Anderson Ul
mer, Savannah; W. V. Musgrove, Ho
merville; E. L. Davis, Blacksher;
Paul W. Jones, Canton; L. B. Joel,
Atlanta; Knotz Bennett, Waycross;
James H. Doizer, Athens; L. L. Gri
ner, Atlanta; R. C. Norman, Wash
ington; F. E. Shumate, Atlanta; C.
E. Brown, Cordele; R. EJ. Matheson,
Hartwell; H. G. Bel!, Baibridge;
Rush Burton, Lavonia; Lawrence S.
Camp, Fairburn; Edward Lyle, At
lanta; E. T. Moon, Lagrange; A. B
Lovett, Savannah; Irvin Walker,
Newnan.
NORCROSS TANNERY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Norcross, Ga.—Wednesday morn
ing at 4 o’clock the tannery building
and straw house of Shadburn Bros,
were entirely destroyed by fife. The
loss is- estimated at SIOO,OOO, par
tially covered by insurance. The or
igin of the fire is unknown.
By heroic efforts of gitizens the
collar fact <; j and oth°r buildings
were saved
MRS. GOLDSMITH DIES
AT STONE MOUNTAIN
Stone Mountain, Ga.—Mrs. G. A.
Goldsmith, 61 years old,"a life long
citizen of this place, died here Wed
nesday afternoon at her home. She
was a member of one of the oldest
families here. She is survived by
four sons, Howard, John, Richard
and Robert; two daughters, Gussie
May and Carolnie; two brothers, Ed
ward and Richard Scruggs; a sister,
Mrs. V. W. Osborne, and her mother,
Mrs. L. A. Scruggs. Funeral will be
held Friday morning at the home.
PROTRACTED SERVICES AT
NORCROSS BAPTIST CHURCH
The annual protracted services at
the Norcross Baptist church will be
gin on Sunday July 22, and continue
through Sunday, August 5. Rev. J.
F. Singleton, a former pastor at
Lawrenceville, will do the preaching.
Mr. S. J. Spencer, an experienced
song leader, will have charge of the
music. Everybody invited to attend.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
DOINGS OF THE
HOUSE, SENATE
Atlanta, Ga.—By an overwhelming
vote of 44 to 1 the Senate Tuesday
passed the Lankford income tax
bill, which allows the state to impose
an income tax not to exceed 5 per
cent..
Two ammendments were attatch
ed to the measure prior to its pass
age. The bill is a Constitutional
amendment.
As amended the bill provide: that
the income tax shall be used in rais
ing state funds, only. Amendments
offored by Senator Mundy provide
that the ad valorem tax shall tie de
creased from 5 to 4 mills, that an
exemption of S2OO shall be allowed
each household, for household goods,
and that ad volorem tax paid to the
state shall be cedited as exemp
tions.
President Carswell scored op
ponents of the income|tax bill and
asserted that the main opposition to
the measure came from what he
termed, “The Atlanta League of Tax
Dodger.” President Carswell said:
“You may rest assured that you
can never draw a proper or satis
factory tax measure. You can only
draw what seems to you to be most
equitable. There will always be op
position to new measures.”
President Carswell told the Sena
tors that they should not consider
action on the income tax legislation
as a political campaign. We are
trying to help everyone, from the
lowest to the highest, he said:
“When the present tax system
was put into effect in Georgia the
only thing taxable was property,”
Senator Lankford declared Tuesday,
speaking in favor of his bill.
“Property has paid the txe3 long
enough,” he said. “Things are dif
ferent now and we must touch the
incomes. In* tlje big cities of Geor
gia there are men earning several
thousand dollors a year, who don not
even pay poll taxes, yet they enjoy
all of the privileges afforded by the
state.”
Atlanta, Ga.—After a tedious
fight on the floor of the House of
Representatives all morning and
part of the afternoon, and whicji
several tinics f a ’« indicat' ns «1
ending in a tangled filibuster, the
House Wednesday afternoon voced
121 to 72 to repeal the existing tax
equalization law in Georgia.
Representatives Elders and Sto
vall are co-authors of the reDeal
measure. Its passage by the House
is the firt significant step taken by
the Legislature in establishing an
entirely new tax system in the state
as advocated by Governor Walker in
his inaugural address.
A long step toward biennial ses
sions of the Legislature, advocated
strongly for years to displace the
present system of yearly sessions,
was taken >in the Georgia senate
Wednesday with passage of the Mun
dy bill, providing for a constitutional
amendment which would establish
the system of a session every two
years. The vote was 41 to 5.
Rep. Stanford, of Lowndes county,
Wednesday introduced in the House
a measure to provide free school
books in 1923 so children in the
first and second grades and ulti
mately for all children up to and in
cluding the seventh grade.
The measure alo provides that the
books would be paid for out of the
geperal fund rather than the school
fund.
Following the rereading of the re
port of the general judiciary com
mittee No. 1, that the Woodruff an
ti-pool room bill do pass and that the
Parker bill for the regulation of pbol
and billiard rooms do not pass, Rep
resentative Parker, of Ware county,
Wednesday morning asked that his
bill be placed on the calendar for
the purpose of disagreeing with the
eport of the committee.
The Woodruff bill was approved
and the Paker bill adversed, by the
committee in executive session
Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 13
to 9.
Guy Roberts, succesful candidate
in the special election held Tues
day to choose a successor to the late
Herbert Clay, as representative of
Cobb county, was sworn in as a
member of the House Wednesday
morning.
The House committee on the state
of the republic received its first bill
Wednesday when a measure intro
duced by Representative Hillhouse,
of Worth, was referred to it. The
measure provides for a decrease
from $7 a day to $4 a day in the
compensation of legislators.
Wilson’s Daughter
In Business Now
w v
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson,
daughter of the former President,
has entered the advertising busi
ness in' New York. The 'photo was
taken her first day at her new Job,
which she says "is a business which
has always interested me."
Walton County
Tax Values Off
Half Million
The 1923 tax returns for Walton
county show a decrease of more
than a half million dollaA from
those of last year.
The returns for 1923 were $5,-
273,782, while those for 1923, are
$4,751,743. The difference in ac
tual figures is $522,039.
While the difference is considera
ble, it really is no more than was
expected under present conditions,
and The Tibune feels that the coun
ty tax officials have done mighty
well to hold them up to the figures
given.
Tax returns in various rural coun
ties of the state show a sharp decline
owing to the slump in values and the
total decrease in the state will no
doubt be considerable.—Walton Tri
bune.
DEPUTY KILLED
AUTO ACCIDENT
Washington.—Somewhere in this
country a king’s ransom is lying neg
lected and perhaps unnoticed. Parts
of it may long ago have been swept
into ash heaps.
It consists of $25,250,880 worth,of
matured government securities
which have never been presented for
redemption and on which interest
payments long ago have stopped.
Year after year, treasury depart
ment clerks transfer from book to
book the records of this huge sum
of bonds which should have been
turned in for cash, many years ago.
From time to time some of the
missing securities find their way
back to the treasury from long un
opened strong boxes, caches in stock
ings and vases or dusty bureau draw
ers and are stricken from the books,
but they are few.
MRS. BULLARD AND
EDWARDS INDICTED
Marietta, Ga.—lndictments charg
ing assault with intent to murder
to Mrs. Ruth Bullard and Sim Ed
wards, a neighbor in the Powder
Springs district, in connection with
the mysterious shooting of D. I).
Bullard, the young woman’s hus
band, as he slept the night of July
!), were returned by the'Cobb cc-uty
grand jury Wednesday morning.
Bench warrants for Ie immediate
arrest of the young wife and Ed
wards were to be issued by Judge
D. W. Blair as soon as he wos in
formed of the grand jury ! s action.
Both have been free under bond
pending the grand jury’s action, Ed
wards’ being $5,000, the young
wife’s $3,000.
Trial of the accused wife and
friend will be held early next week,
as the Superior Cout of Cobb county
is in session, the criminal docket to
be called next week.
MEET TO CLEAN NEW
HOPE CEMETERY
All parties interested are urged to
meet at the New Hope Cemetery on
Thursday, July 26th, for the pur
pose of cleaning same.
TWICE-A-WEEK
SAYS THAT HILL’S
MIXTURE ISCON
TROLUNG WEEVIL
Augusta, Ga.—“ln my opinion the
whole source of boil weevil control
in the Gough section of Burke coun
ty has resulted from the use of Hill’s
Mixture and not acident and not
from lack of infection.”
This was the statement made last
night by Ira Williams, state entomo
logist which, he said; was based up
on an expert study of the boll weevil
and its control and years of experie
nce in fighting the pest. Mr. Willi
ams added that it was the claim of
scientific men regarding the weevil
that the control in certain sections
was due either to accident or lack of
infection. This he said was not the
case 4t Gough.
After a visit to Burke county
farms where they inspected over 450
acres of cotton, Ira Williams, state
entomologist, and Robt. C. Berck
mans, a member Augustan, together
with Benjamin Williams, manager of
the Cedar Creek Farms, of Aiken, S.
C., Messrs. Ira Williams and Berck
mans were so impresstd with what
Hill’s Mixture is doing in the way of
bool weevil control that tehy nave
determined to bring the entire state
board of entomology to this city to
watch the outcome of the fight
against the weevil which has gone
on so splendidly up until now.
These gentlemen refuse to en
dorse Hill’s Mixture officially, say
ing that the proof of the efficacy of
this treatment would be found in
the number of bales of cotton that
would be made where this treatment
was being applied, but they said they
were so tremendously impressed
with its success up until this time
that they deemed it to be the duty of
the state board to watch the outcome
and they will also askComrnissioner
of Argiculture J. J. Browne and ex
officio of the Board of Entomology
to come ta Augusta an inspect the
farms ii#thi£ section where this pois
on is being used.
“We found acres and acres of cot
ton full of bopms, squares and in
many cases of bools, and we could
find no,boll weevils and only now
and then a punctured square, ’said
Mr. Williams. On the other hand
where cotton was not poisoned we
found no blooms to speak of and the
ground litered with dead squares.
There can be no question but that
the Hill’s Mixture on the half dozen
diff"rent farms we visited has been
a splendid success. Of course, aS
stated we would not place our offi
cial endorsement, on it since the
f, nd of the season will tell us whe
ther to dp this or not, but we were
amazed and delighted to know what
was being done and we hope 1 * that
the remedy will prpve to be all that
it is claimed for it, which certainly
seems the case now. The clearing
of the fields of the weevil now
menas that even in the case of a wet
spell the farmers would not neces
sarily be hardly hurt since there are
no weevils to lay eggs there will be
none hatched out and it is incon
ceivable that a rainy spell would last
indefinitely. We wish to say again
that as we rode over the fields with
Mr. J. C. Glover, of the Hill Mixture
Corporation and with Mr. Hill him
self, we were confident that a crop
of cotton was in sight and it would
be hard to figure out just how these
rmers can miss a ' crop with the
prospects they now have where they
have poisoned.
There are three member* of the
state board of entomology, J. .1.
Brown, the commissioner of agricui
ture being chairman,.Mr, Robert C.
Berekmans and.Mr-.Thos. G. Hud
son, of Americus, himself a very
large cotton grower of Sumter coun
ty.
Mr. Berckmgns stated to Th 3
Chronic last night that the stato
board or entomology was giving
Hill’s Mixture, as well as all other
boll weevil remedies a through test
at the experiment stations in Thom
as, Lowdnes and Tattnall counties as
well as observing the work of these
remedies on farms in other sections
through the state.
Mr. Williams urges the farmers to
visit the experimental stations and
the farms at Gough, Ga., where Hill’s
Mixture has been properly applied
to see for themselves what is being
done in the great work of eradicat
ing the weevil.
STREET TAX NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given to all who
are subject to street tax and have
not paid that the final date for pay
ment will be July 31.
Collectors will make only one more
round. Plea.4e be governed accord
ingly.
R. L. HASLET^
J23c _ Collector,
NUMBER 75.