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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
CUBAN DISPUTE
DISCUSSED BY
CHAS.H. BRAND
Ably Discuxed by Hon. Chas. H.
Brand, Athena, Ga., Member of
the Banking and Currency Com
mittee of the House of Repres
entatives, Washington Flays
Harding in Virile Speech.
The proposition involved in Shis
resolution is a mater of interest to
every member of this association, as
well as to the 'Atlanta Federal Re
serve Bank and the states compos
ing the Sixth district. Besides, it
touches, in a sense, tftTT interest of
all the people of the cotton growing
states, particularly the man who
“follows the plow and bends over
the hoe.”
Most of the people who are back
ing the proposition of the Boston
bank to establish an agency at Cuba
are more or less callous and indif
ferent" to the farming classes of our
section of the country. This may be
due largely to the fact that they
know nothing about their troubles.
One has to live here with these peo
ple, move among them, see and talk
with them," in order to know their
suffering and hardships, and partic
ularly the sacrifices they have en
dured since 1920 and are now en
during. I hope a better and happier
day is coming. If so, it will he
largely due to a proper administra
tion of the system by the Federal
Reserve Board at Washington.
Ii have never fought the Federal
Reserve system as a member of Con
gress, in or out of it, and yet I have
arraigned the board, probably the
first member of Congress to do so,
for the deflation policy it adopted in
1920, which virtually destroyed the
cotton groww and most everybody
else dependent upon him. The mem
ber banks of this district are not
chargeable for this. The Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank didn’t do it.
According to information that has
come before the Banking and Cur
rency Committee of the ffouse of
Representatives, the Sixth District.
Federal Reserve Bank has been ad
ministered more wisely, economical
ly, satisfactorily, ad in the interest
of the member banks and the people
generally, than any other Federal
Reserve Bank in the United States.
I say this much in behalf of Gov
ernor Wellborn and his cabinet and
all those charged with the responsi
bility of administering the bank’s af
fairs. This policy originated at head
quarters and Governor W. P. G.
Harding, more than any other hu
man being, is responsible for it.
More values were destroyed by this
policy, which was promulgated sud
denly and secretly, than the calamity
which followed Sherman’s “March to
the Sea.”
Men suicided all over this country
on account of it; thousands went in
to bankruptcy; men, women and
children of both races have gone
half clothed and hungry; people are
suffering from the effects of this
policy now and it will he many years
if ever, before they get ove*-7E. 7. he
master mind of the Federal Reserve
Board even now as trying to manipu
ate the policies of the board. He is
trying to put over a proposition on
the Atlanta bank which is outrage
ous, and to be plain about it, I am
afraid he is going to do it.
Governor Wellborn and Governor
Harding are both from the same
state, both from the south, and yet
Governor Harding is trying to take
away from the Atlanta bank the
right to establish a branch agency in
Tuba and to give the Bootm bank,
this privilege. Yet, when he was a
member of the Federal Reserve
Board, he advocated an expenditure
of $400,000 for the purpose of
erecting a building in Jacksonville to
help expedite and carry on the busi
ness of the Atlanta hank with Cubwr
Besides, the Atlanta bank filed ap
plication with the Federal Reserve
Board to establish this agency two
years before the Boston bank did.
Everybody understood he was favor
able to this proposition when he was
a member of the board and yet he is
persistently opposing it now when he
knows the agency rightly and natur
ally belongs to us and noc to Boston.
The Cuban business belongs to the
Atlanta bank and I contend it is un
reasonable, unfair, and unjust for
Governor Harding, as the nistrument
of the Boston bank, to try to take
this business away from the Atlanta
bank.
Another phase of this question is
more important than the establish
ment of the Cuban agency. It raises
the question whether or not, occu
pying the office of governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston at
a salary of $50,000 per annum, he
The News-Herald
LooAtr*7ni«
1! INNING GAME
FROMALLSTARS
Lawrenceville annexed her second
victory over the BeKalb All-Stars
Saturday afternoon on the Camp
Gordon baseball field in eleven in
ning? by the score of 10 to 8.
The game was featured by heavy
hitting on both sides, and some
mighty poor fielding. Ten errors
were chalked up against both teams.
The heavy hitting of Patterson for
Lawrenceville and D. Britt for the
DeKalb boys carried away the indi
vidual honors of the day.
The locals put th# game on ice in
the eleventh inning, when McKelvey
firsb up in this frome, drove a long
double to center field and Patter
son followed suit with one to the
same spot. Jenkins drove Patterson
home with a screaming single be
tween second and first.
A triple, double and single in the
ninth inning accouted for the De-
Kalb boys two runs and an extra in
ning affair. This came after two
were down.
Lawrenceville will arrange several
games within the next few weeks,
and the support of the fans i solicit
ed.
Score by innings: R
Lawrenceville 012 002 120 02—10
DeKalb 030 001 202 00— 8
The Child’s Own Fault
Distracted Mother: ' Heavens!
What happened to baby? How did
the little tutsum get such a bruise
on his head?
Nurse: “Beg pardon, mum—but
you said to let him play on the piano
if he wanted to—and he fell off.”
will still be permitted to dictate the
policies of the Federal Reserve
Board. The absent member, no
longer officially conected with the
board, is reaching across the states,
with the back of his hand turned
against his own people, in his mili
tant efforts against the interest of
the people and the member banks of
the system in the Sixth district. The
question arises, has Governor Hard
ing such an influence over the Fed
eral Reserve Board as to control its
policies? When President Harding
declined to reappoint Governor
Harding a member of the Federal
Reserve Board the country thought
that his influence with the board ter
minated.
What does the Boston bank and
Governor Harding mean anyway?
What is behind the curtain? Who is
playing the . «• me in Washington be
hind the scenes in Boston? What
has the Boston bank got in mind?
Do they want to manipulate the
price of tobacco in Cuba? Are they
interested in the sugar speculators
down there and the sugar profiteers
here? If so, Governor Harding
should be reminded that he is play
ing with human life and the com
forts and necessities of the men, wo
men and little children of our coun
try.
Governor Harding should not for
get that he was a party to the policy
adopted in 1920, which decreased
the price of cotton from 40c and 50c
to 10c per pound. I have nothing
against Governor Harding personal
ly. I hope he may live a long time.
But his official connection with the
Federal Reserve Board in Washing
ton and its affairs was ended by his
fa-'are to be reappointed, and it
ought to be permanently ended on
account of the disaster visited upon
this country three years ago.
Secetary Wallace testified before
out committee that the Federal Re
serve Board could increase the value
of the products of the farmer or de
crease them when he saw fit to do
so. Governor Harding was pesent
when this statement was made. Mr.
Wallace is a Republican and a very
high class man. I myself asked him
“Do you mean to say that the Feder
al Reserve Board can, by a certain
policy which it might adopt, run up
the price of cotton to 40c or 50c per
pound or run it down to 8c or 10c
per pound?” and he said “Yes.”
Governor Harding denied this state
ment vehemently. This testimony
confirmed ray conviction that the
Federal Reserve Board held the pow
er of life and death over all the peo
ple, and for one I am against Gov
ernor Harding having anything to do
with the establishment of this bank
in Cuba or having anything more to
do with dictating the policy of the
Federal Reserve Board.
If the Board has the power to run
up the price of sugar and other es
sentials of life, or run down the
price of cotton, the men who com
pose it ought to have the interest of
the people of the South at heart, and
particularly the laboring men and
the poor people of the nation at
large.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEO RGIA MONDAY, JULY 23, 1923.
VILLA KILLED
BY BANDITS
El Paso, Texas. —Three members
of the band of bandits responsible
lor the death of General Francisco
Villa, his secretary, Miguel Trillo,
and two bodyguards, were captured
late Friday by a detachment of fed
eral soldiers under oommand of Gen
eral E. Marline, a short distance
from Parral, according to informa
tion received at Juarez military
headquarters tonight.
General Villa, Miguel Trillo, his
1 secretary; Rosalo Morales, one body
guad and a bystander were killed in
a fight in Farral early Friday morn
ing. The killing was done by a hand
of seven men. Following the killing,
which is believed to have been the
result of a political feud, a large
number of Villa’s followers started
fighting with .another faction,' says
a report received here.
General Martinez hastened to the
scene from Chihuahua City and per
sonally investigated the circumstanc
es surrounding the killing of General
Villa. Shortly after the arrival of
General Martinez and a detachment
of soldiers, the three men were ar
rested and are being held in connec
tion with the killing, according to in
formation received by Alfonso Go
mez, federal stamp tax collector in
Jaurez, and former staff officer in
Villa’s army.
Colonel Dario W. Silva, former
military secretary and close friend
to General Villa, received word late
Friday night from Chihuahua City
that the identity of the slayers had
not been established.
Hot Legal Fight
Looms In Murder
Trial of Sheriff
Lincolnton, Ga.—Prospects of one
of the hottest legal battles ever
fought in this section of the state is
keeping interest in the case of W.
S. Harrison, sheriff of Lincon county,
and his deputy, charged with killing
Frank and Wayne Cullars near here
on July 4, at the highest pitch.
Announcement has been made that
William M. Howard, of Augusta, for
mer congressman, and one of the
best known criminal lawyers in the
state, has been retained as leading
counsel to assist in the prosecution
of the officers.
Word has come from apparently
reliable sources that Len B. Guille
beau, prominent Atlanta attorney,
victor in many court fights, who was
born and reared in this section, will
be leading counsel for the defense.
No move has been made by the de
fendants for a preliminary hearing,
ancj, the accused officers will be held
in the Fulton county jail until such
move is made, ®r until the grand
jury acts.
SCHOOLS ASK
FOR BACK PAY
Atlanta, Ga.—The house will be
asked to take action on a resolution
by Linder, Jeff Davis, stating
that common schools of Georgia in
the years 1922-1923 have received
approximately $630,000 less than
the amount appropriated them, and
requesting that this sum be included
as a deficiency allowance in the ap
propriations bill.
“Whereas, the common schools of
the state have received a sum con
siderably less for the years 1922-23
than was appropriated to them by
the legislature of 1921,” reads the
resolution, “and whereas, it is of
most vital importance to the people
of the state that the common schools
should receive all the aid that the
staet can give them; therefore, be il
“Resolved, That tha general ap
propriations bil car>-y a deficiency
appropriation for the amount <.f
$630,000, or such amount as the
rt.t+o is due the com on schools un
fit.. me law of ,oo'. 1921.”
“■.• I<; intende it Ballard, of the
•• .v.a school depart .1 , „ annou.ic d
early in the session ho would at
tempt to have the sea • 1 and r.fo.ro
priation laws so amended the., n
would be impossible for institutions
to again lose a portion of their up
propriHt-'on.
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY
DROWNS IN GOLD FISH BOWL
Lodi, Cal.—Remas Hoffer, 1 year
old son of Jacob Hoffer, wealthy
vineyardist of this city, drowned in
a old fgish bowl in his home here
Thursday. The child’s mother found
him head firgt i nthe bowl, which
contained about four inches of wa
ter.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
NORCROSS NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Garner, Raleigh
Garner, Norcross; Mrs. William B.
Rutledge, Duluth; visited Mr. and
:#rs. Robert Lankford, of Tifton,
Ga., and Dr. and Mrs. P. L. Collings
worth, Omega, Ga., last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Kent, Miss
Louise Kent, Master Billie Kent and
Paul Mitchem, of Norcross, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Abbott
and Mr. and Ms. Ben Abbott, of Tif
ton, Ga., recently.
Watermelon season was in full tilt
at that time and the report follows
them home that so many were de
voured by this north Georgia gang
prices immediately advanced in that
region. Our melons are late, but
jtfst wait. Maybe they’ll be the bet
ter.
Miss Ethel Sparks, Mr. Walter
Sparks and Mr. J. E. McElroy, of
Norcross, Ga., went to Franklin, N.
C., last Sunday. Mr. McElroy
stopped over at Toccoa on the re
turn for the round of entertainments'
given by ToYcoa, Hartwell, Royston,
Canton and Carnesville auxiliary to
the press convention at Lavonia,
where the editors were royally en
tertained, after which the Georgia
Railway and Power company were
hosts for two days. f
Editor Dan Byj-d, accompanied by
Mrs. Byrd and the young “birds”,
drove there in their car, meeting the
Ga. R. W. and Power Co.’s guests at
Tallulah Falls in time for the fish
fry at Lakemont Thursday noon,
some seven miles beyond the falls.
Col. Byrd was very much in evi
dence at the social functions at the
Cliff House, hut was not seen by
your correspondent next day at Tu
galo dam. Mighty sorry he failed to
reach Lavonia and auxiliary towns
of Toccoa, Hartwell, Canton, Roy
ston and Carnesville, each serving to
queen’s taste in turn as hosts of
the Georgia Press Association. Dan’s
alright and Governor Walker dem
onstrated good judgment, with which
he is well stocked, in selecting this
most popular Gwinnett county citi
zen as one of his colonels.
Mr. Maurice Nesbitt, from Ameri
cus, Ga., was in Norcross last week
in time to attend the Methodist Sun
day school picnic at Grant Park,
Norcross. Maurice is one of the
eight sons of *Mr.»«nd Mrs. F. B. Nes
bit, of Norcross, who with his moth
er and Mrs. T. A. Rainey will motor
to Macon this week and visit Ex-
Lieutenant Noye Nesbit and wife.
He then embarks for Detroit where
another brother Verne S. Nesbit, re
moved some months ago.as an em
ploye of the Standard Oil Co., and
where several other Norcross boys
are at work. Dr. Frank C. Nesbit,
the batchelor bother, whose office is
in the Candle building, enjoys a lu
crative practice in Atlanta, while El
vin, who works for the Southern
Railway at Commerce runs down
often on Sundays.
MR. WILL NIX IS
BURIED AT SNELLVILLE
The funeral of Mr. Will Nix oc
curred at Snellville Sunday after
noon, Rev. Herring, of Grayson, in
charge.
Mr. Nix, who was seventy-five
years of age, dropped dead at his
home near Grayson Saturday night.
He is survived by his wife and
other relatives. The deceased was
an uncle of Col. O. A. and Col. W. L.
Nix, of Lawrenceville, and a promi
nent gentleman of his section.
SPEEDS ON AFTER
v AUTOMOBILE WRECK
G. M. Gunter, of Washington, Ga.,
was placed under bond Sunday night
after he had struck the Dodge owned
by G. S. Montgomery and driven by
Latham Winn, the accident occur
ring in front of the R. Smith home.
Latham Winn, according to eye
witnesses, was driving the Dodge up
the hill and Gunter in passing Winn
hit the Dodge so hard as to throw it
up out of the road and up the bank
into the Smith yard. In the car
with Mr. Gunter were several friends
and the car immediately sped on.
They were overtaken about six miles
from Lawrenceville and brought
back to town.
Mayor Sammon took bond and also
a deposit for the damages, Mr. Gun
ter stating that he would be back
here Tuesday.
ATHENS DOG KIL7 ER
TAKES OWN LIFE
Athens, Ga.—W. H. Bruce, offi
cial dog catcher for this city and
nigh' watchman for a chemical com
pany, shot and killed himself in his
home in the presence of his wife,
who begged that he “put the gun
down.” Bruce, who was 64 years
old, was the father-in-law of J. 6.
Smith, killed in Greene county .sev
eral weeks ago by federal prohibi
tion officers.
BARRETT SCO.
RESIGN FRIDAY
Augusta, Ga.—Rumors of the fi
nancial embarrassment of Barrett &
Co., local cotton factors, and re
garded as one of the largest and
strongest firmsin the south, came to
a head Friday morning, when an
nouncement was made on the New
York and New Orleans cotton ex
changes of the esignation of the
firm due to its failure,to meet its ob
ligations. Locally the news was con
firmed in an interview with Frank
H. Barrett and Co., who also stated
that aeon ference'-was being held by
the principal creditors with a view to
preserving the assets of the firm and
for the protection of creditors.
The statement is made that the
principal creditors of Barrett & Co.,
are large financial institutions in
New York, Chicago and New Orleans
and that Augusta banks are not in
volved as the operations of the firm
in its coton business were on such a
scale that most of the financial ar
angements were made with outside
banking institutions.
A statement was isued by the Au
gusta clearing house association,
composed of all the banks in Augus
ta, to the effect that the announce
ment of the failure of Barrett and
Co., Friday morning in the New
York and New Orleans cotton ex
changes involved nol ocal banks as
the principal creditors of this con
cern were represented by New York,
Chicago and New Orleans financial
institutions. Local banking arrange
ments only took care of the minor
operations of this concern, as the
magnitude of its business was such
that it had to secure financial ar
rangements in larger centers.
Will Ask Probe
Of Department
Of Agriculture
Atlanta, Ga.—Declaring that if he
had been attacked in the way The
Columbia Sentinel had attacked
Commissioner of Agriculture J. J.
Brown in its columns, he would have
used a gun, demanded an investiga
tion or resigned from office, Rep
resentative Stewart, of Atkinson
county, announced on the floor of
the house Friday that before the ses
sion is over he will introduce a bill
calling for a though probe of the
agricultural department.
Mr. Stewart read extracts from
The Columbia Sentinel, and especial
ly stressed one portion of the article
which declared that J. M. Hillburn a
former employee of the department,
had been retained on the pay roll for
a full month after he had ceased to
do any work, and had been paid a
month’s salary of $166.66 as reim
bursement for a contribution he had
made to CommissnJTier Brown’s cam
paign fund.
Commissioner Brown appeared be
fore the house committee on general
agriculture, number one, Friday
morning to support of the bill of
Mann, of Glynn, and Elders, of Tatt
nall, providing for the distillation
test for gasoline. The committee vot
ed unanimously to report this bill
favorably, and at the same time post
poned action on a bill by New, of
Laurens, which would reduce the
num her of oil and fertilizer inspec
tors in the state to three of each.
Representative New afterwards
stated that, inasmuch as several sec
tions in his bill and the Mann bill
covered the same ground, he probab
ly would seek to amend the Mann
bill ather than press his own. One
point on which he plans to insist, is
a reduction in the fertilizer inspec
tion fee from 30 to 10 cents. 1
EASTERN TIME
FOR ATLANTA
Atlanta, Ga.—Miss Bessie Kemp
ton, representative from Fulton
county in the house of representa
tives, Friday bill to
give Atlanta Eastern standard time,
instead of Central time as at pres
ent. The bill was referred to the
Western and Atlantic railroad com
mittee, of which Miss Kempton is
chairman.
Miss Kempton, in discussing her
bill, said that Atlanta is the only
city of any size in Georgia which is
not run on Eastern time, and de
clared that as the capital of the
state, and the largest and most pro
gressive city in this part cf the na
tion, this city ought to set the pace.
The Englis apply the epithet of
“ghoub” to the Americans who are
hunting the bones of Pocahontas.
But’s it’s all right to dig up Tut
ankh-Amen, you know.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
DON’T LET YOUR
CIDER BECOME
INTOXICATING
Washington.—Manufacture of ci
der and other non-intoxicating fruit
juices is authorized without the for
mality of applying for a permit un
der regulations issued today by Com
missioner Blair, of the internal rev
enue bureau, but persons who make
them must add preservatives to
prevent “further alcoholic fermen
tation.” Fruit juices may not be
lawfully used, the regulation stipu
lated for beverage purposes after be
coming intoxicating. Under a ruling
superseded by the ne wregulations,
manufacturers of fruit juices have
not been held responsible for any
natural reaction of the liquid.
The new regulations define “ore
served sweet cider” as that in which
alcoholic fermentation has been pre-‘
vented by the addition “immediately
upon pressing” of benzoate of soda
in the proportion of not less than 4
to 4',2 ounces to each barrel of 50
gallons, or by immediate steriliza
tion. The presence of four per cent
of acetic acid will be considered as
changing the cider to authentic vin
egar.
With regard to the home manu
facture of non-intoxicating cider and
fruit juices, the regulations say
“Any person may manufacture
cider and fruit juices for use ex
clusively in home without obtaining
permit or giving b,;nd. Such manu
facture need not be done at the
home of the product ' but such per
son may take his apples or other
fruits to a customer or commercial
mill and have the juice pressed ond
removed to his home, but such re
moval must be accomplished im
mediately after the juice is ex
pressed.”
The use of “dried fruits dande
lions, rhubarb, etc..” for the produc
tion of the “fruit juices’’ covered in
the regulations i 3 specifically pro
hibited. Provision is made, however,
for the issuance of a permit to the
1 head of a family intending to pro
duce in anv one year no*' to exceed
ICO gallons cf a fru ; t juice, othe£
t ‘ an cider, any part of which maty
ferment so as to contain as much as
one half of one per cent of alcohol
by volume.” Such householder is re
quired to apply to the internal rev
enue bureau for the regular formal
permit “at least five days before
commencing operation.”
Warning is given that any person
selling unpressed sweet cider, even
though it is not intoxicating at the
time of saie, to be consumed after an
illegal dcoholic content ha developed
is guilty of violating tha; secti-.’i of
the prohibition law which deals
with the sale of alcoholic beverages
MACON BOY DIES
FROM BROKEN NECK
Macon, Ga.—Herman Collins, 10,
son of Mr. and Ms. J. S. Collins cf 37
Brigham Payne’s Miil, died
at the Macon hospital Thursday
night from a fall from a pile of lum
ber. The lad was playing on the
lumber with other companions at
the time of the accident.
UNION PRAYER MEETING.
Following is the program of the
Union rayer Meeting to be held with
Bay Creek Baptist church, beginning
Friday, July 27th, 1923.
10:30. Devotional Rev. Job
Still.
10:45. Organization.
11:00. Sermda —Rev. J. P. Mc-
Connell.
1:45. Devotion—Rev. Harry Spi
vy.
2:00. The New Testament
Church, Its Authority, Its Mission,
Its Respnoibility and Oppotunity—
Rev. L. F. Iltrring and Rev. Mar
shall Still.
Saturday
9;30. Devotion by
9:45. The Relation of the
Churches to Our Mission Boards in
Wotid Evangelism—Rev. tV. S.
Walker, Rev. C, P. McConnell.
11:00. Sermon by Rev. J. H.
Webb.
1:30. Devotional.
1:45. Our Obligation to Coop
erate With and Support Our Organ
ized Work—Rev. W. S. Walker,
Rev. J. 11. Webb.
3:15. The B. Y. P. U., Its Place
and Its Value in the Church—Prof.
Hawkins.
Sunday
9:45. Devotional.
10:00. The Importance of the
Sunday School in the Evangelistic
Work of the Church—Bro. J. H. Mc-
Gee.
11:00. Sermon—Rev. J. D. Bu
rell.
Adjourn. . 1 .
• • 9 k
twice-a. week
! GEORGIA EDITORS
DISCUSS PLANS
FOR CLUBHOUSE
Tugalo, Ga.—The thirty-seventh
annual convention of the Georgia
Press association will probably re
sult in the establishment of a sum
mer clubhouse for the Georgia edi
tors and others and the fraternity
with the opportunity for members
of the association to have land in the
mountain country on which to orect
summer cottages or camps or shacks
if plans today talked over mature.
They are likely to be consummated.
R. L. Moss, owner of much moun
tain land and the Tallui Falls ho
tel, the Cliff House, owns one-third
•interest in a 200 acre tract, the oth
er two-thirds of which is owned by
the Georgia Railway and Power
company. Both have expressed' a
wilingness and desire to give that
tract for the purpose named, and
definite plans may be soon uqder
way for such an institution.
The tract overlooks the old site of
the once “Terrible Tallulah fails
tempesta.”
The press gang spent Friday at
Tallulah, visiting the Mountain In
dustrial school operated by the Wom
en’s Federation of the state, the im
mense Y. M. C. A. camps near the
falls, the power houses and the dams
at the falls and at Tugalo. The lat
ter gigantic dam is in the midst of
construction.
In all the. company will have seven
of these immense dams, the smaller
giving 118,000 horsepower, when the
present projects totaling $50,000,-
000 are completed. Then other ex
tensions are planned.
In an address President Arkwright
said that the company will develop
first the boundary rivers and will
later begin developing more of the
interior streams, that they may turn
all their millions of power into Geor
gia alone.
The work of construction for the
most part is being done by Georgians
the engineers and superintendents
comig from Georgia Tech and other
Georgia schools. Presid'pfft Atkin
son, of the board of du'ector3, de
clared that his object is eventually to
place lighting and power current on
every farm in Georgia.
The delegation of editors, more
than 200 strong, made trips on the
winding roads about the falls in au
tos. Then specially constructed flat
cars with seats and steps built for
the occasion took them to Shepard
camp for a great feast, then nine
miles on the company’s railroad to
Tugalo Junction were six Pullman
coaches awaited them for the trip to
Atlanta and then over the state
home. ~ » ,
The convention has been, in many
ways, the best ever held; in attend
ance, the largest; in every way as
fine and satisfactory as any. The
new president, C. D. Rountree, fit
Wrightsville, will soon announce his
committees for the year and the dis
trict vice presidents for the sub as
sociations. "" u ’
“LOVE DOCTOR IS “ i
ARRESTED IN S. C.
Charged with using the mails to
defraud in a “mastic love powder”
scheme, W. Grant Thorpe, known
to his “love patients’ as “Doc
tor” Thorpe, has been arested in
Greenville, S. C., by post office
inspectors, aceordng to a tele
gram received by Joe P. Johnston,
inspector in charge, Monday fom
Inspector Mansfield.
Thorpe is said to have sold his
merchandise in Georgia and ad
joining states, traveling in much
pomp and splendor as he peddled
his wares from house to heuse.
DECISION REVERSED.
Atlanta, Ga.—For the third time
the Georgia supreme court Monday
reversed sentences imposed upon
Lee Curry, a Toombs county man
now in jail in Savannah for safe
keeping. Curry has been tried four
times, with three death sentences
and one mistrial resulting. He is
charged with the murder of Bur
leigh Phillips.
The chief ground for the reversal
of the case yesterday is that a mem
ber of the jury was an illegitimate
third cousin of the slain man. The
higher cout held that the relation
ship was admitted and was not con
tested by the state, though the ob
jection was raised that such a rela
tionship is not recognized in the law.
Policeman—“ When you brought
the would be suicide from the water,
what did he do?” Rescuer--“As
soon as I . had turned my back he
hung himself from a tree.” “But
why didn’t you cut him down?” “I
thought he had hung himself up te
dry.”—Kasper.
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