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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. f^ y ‘- ■ %' * 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.