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TWICE-A-WEEK VOLUME 52. FIRST MAYOR OF LAWRENCEVILIE . REVISITS CITY H6n. John Clay Smith, 1 cpla, Fla.,. reached ity iast Fri day evening, andiremeained here un til Sunday afternoon, as the guest qf Maj. W. E, Simmons, .with whom he read law'While preparing for ad -1 rtiisfe’ion to the bar. He was born and grew to manhood ■■ in Lawrenfceville, and started his ca reer aS. a lawyer, and though only sixty-three, years of age now, was its first mayor. After proving a success in that po sition he 'Was chosen one of Gwin nett county’s representatives in the legislature, where he was soon rec ognized as one of the -best debaters in that body, and a safe and capable legislator. After practicing law here for a few years he moved to Atlanta and hung out his shingle there, but, like ‘ many other ambitious young law yers, he divided his time between law and politics, and, being an elo quent and magnetic stump speaker, was in great demand all over the state, and rendered conspicuous ser vice in that capacity for Hoke Smith in his first race for the gubernatorial nominaton, which, from our view point, was the greatest blunder in his political career, but it is gratify ing to learn that he was soon there after on the anxious seat seeking re pentance and forgivenes, and finally met with a thorough cleansing. . Several years ago he left Atlanta and settled at Pensacola, Florida, a growing city of 45,000 population, which has the finest harbor on this continent, and has gradually grown to be ©ne of the greatest ports of entry in the United States. But his old penchant for politics could not always be resisted, and he shied his castor into the ring again, at the,last general election, and al though having formidable opposition w(jp by a very handsome majority, carrying every ward in the city. As a member of the general as sembly he was assigned to the most important committees, and wields a wonderful and controlling influence in shaping legislation. It was through his initiative that the chaingarig, and whipptng posts were abolished in that state, and the con victs put upon public roads. During the discussion of the bill providing for this change, the daily papers of that state were unanimous in saying that his speech in the house was the greatest and most eloquent ever delivered in the state capitol, and that at the conclusion of it the house and galleries gave him a great ovation that lasted fully fifteen minutes before order was restored. There is no doubt that higher poli tical honors await him in the Penin sular state, an>d here is hoping that they will be awarded him. His old friends and well wishers in the home of his ichildhood and young manhood are alwrays glad to greet him and talk over old times, their only complaint i* that they are too infrequent, this benig his first one for half a decade, and they are not going to tolerate such conduct and continue friendly. John is a great lover of his old home, however, and his heart instinct ively turns to it, wherever he may be domiciled, and it may be that when old gets a firm grip ojd him, he may return here and spend the remainder of his days. He has been » regular subscriber to this paper since he moved away, and his father was one of the foundation subscribers when it was established in 1858, and John has his receipt for it yet, or did have until he left it ■with us, which, as a matter of curiosi ty, we print the following copy of it: The Lawrencevilie News, Published Weekly in Lawrencevilie, Ga. BY SIMMONS & PILGRIM At $2 a Year, In Advance. All Kinds of Job Work Executed With Neatness and Dispatch. $2.00 NEWS OFFICE, Lawrencevilie, Ga., Nov. 16th, 1923. Mr. James W. M. Smith, To Simmons & Pilgrim, Dr. Subscription to the Lowrencevlle News, from Vol. 1 No. 1 to Vol. 2 No. 1. Rec’d. Payment, Simmons & Pilgrim. The Simmons of Simmons and Pil grim, was not W. E. Simmons, but his fath?r Jas. P. Simmons, who bought and paid for the plant, and turned it over to Isaac B. Pilgram, who was its first editor and publish er, but two years afterwards gave it to W. E. Simmons, who became own er and editor when eighteen years of The News-Herald GAINESVILLEHOST TO 9TH DISTRICT MASONIC MEETING Gainesville Masonic ’Eodge, No. 2io was fidst to a large’assembly'of people .Jast Thursday on .the occasion of the Ninth District Masonic Con vention their eighteenth annual communication, which proved a most enjoyable affair and' a pronounced success from every viewponit. The convention was called to or der at the new school auditorium at 10:30 A. M. by Worshipful Master C. A. McDaniel, of Norcross. The invocation was offered by Presiding Elder W. T. Hamby, following which Richarjdson Bros, and Mincey’s quartette rendered two selections, with Mr. Harry Tucker presiding at the piano. Mr. Fred Kelley then introduced Mayor H. H. Dean, who welcomed the delegates in behalf of the city, and was followed by Judge A. C. Wheeler who delivered the welcome address in behalf of the local lodge. The response to these addreses was made by Rev. Furley Baum, of Atlanta. The convention was then adjourn ed to the Masonic Hall where a bus iness session whs held. ' At 1 o’cuoek an old fashioned bar becue was served to about 750 dele gates and visitors at the Coca-Cola plant. It was a bountiful repast. Eight hundred pounds of barbecued meat, Brunswick tsew, cold drinks and other things made up the menu, and there was much left after the feast was over. The afternoon sessions were held at the Brenau auditorium, the prin cipal feature of which was the able address of Grand Master Joe P. Bow doin. He used no flowers, but made a straight forward talk on Georgia Masonry, and gave the assembly much useful information in regard to the craft throughout this grand juridiction. Cornelia lodge, led by Worhsipful Master. Brewer, en tered apprentice degree in the uni form work in a very creditable man ner. , The grand lodge has a committee to regroup the counties of the state and the ninth district will no doubt be maeriallty changed. The enta tive report would take Gwinnett county out of the ninth and place her in a new district. The Gwinnett delegation offered a protest against hte proposed change. The convention voted an increase of 25 per cent to the support of the Orphans’ Home at Macon, which is a part of the order’s benevolent work. Th efoTlowing new officers were elected and installed: W. G. Mealor, worshipful master. G. Fred Kelley, deputy master. EL D. Kenyon, etiior warden. C. M. Morcock, junior warden. C. R. Allen, secretary and treas urer. Frank Robertson, senior deacon. J. K. Miller, junior deacon. Garnet McMillan, senior steward. C. C. Pierce, junior steward. Rev. J. A. Sharp, Chaplain. METHODISTS MAY OPEN DOORS OF CHURCH TO ACTORS AND DANCERS Chicago.—The Methodist Episcopal ban on theater attendance, card playing and dancing will be lifted under plans for reamalgamation of the north and south church, it was declared here today by the Rev. E. Cobb Zaring, editor of the North western Christian Advocate. Mr. Zaring said the constitution providing for union will allow ac tors and dancing teachers to join the church. The amalgamation is a “practical certainty” as a result of the Cleveland convention, he as serted. age. At that time there was no paper publshed in this congressional dist rict, except at Athens, and the News was the official organ of Forsyth, Harbershani, Towns, Rabun and Lumpkin counties, in all of which it had a good circulation. When the Confederate war began, the management of the News was turned over to J. R. SimmonS, and \Vhen the federal troops occupied Atlanta he carried the whole out fit off and buried it, and the cemeter ry he chose for the interment, is till unknown, except that, some three years ago some of the old type and column rules were nuearthed on the Terrell farm two miles east of Law rpnceville, and the rules, which are of brass were returned to this office, as good as ever, ans are now In regular use. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1923. State School Census Shows Big Increase Tabulation of. the >923 school cen sus of Gbofgia shows that there are exactljjr 900,33fF cfitltHen between the ages of:. 6. and 18 n this state, according to a detailed'' statement made public by Sj;ate Superintend ent Ballard. This is an increase of 59,491 over the ; number of school children in Geot-giq' in 1918, when the last previous aomplete state wide census was taken." ' Of the total number of Georgia children of school age at the pres ent time, 524,350 are white and 370,217 are colored. Fulton leads all of the counties, with a total of 65,776 children, of which number 52,069 are in Atlanta. Chatham ¥ * county comes second with 23,196, Bibb wth 19,489 is third and Rich mond with 18,864 stands fourth. The percentage of illiteracy in the state is declining. The total number of illiterates for 1918 was 25,783, and in .1923 the number had been reduced to 15,432. Burke county has the groatet number of illiterates—sl9, of whom 502 are negroes Jefferson county is second with 385, of whom 352 are negroes; Troup county is third, with 317 illiterates of whom 300 are ne groes. The number of defectives of school age increased during a five year period from to 4,928, of which 401 are blind, j 626 deaf and dumb, 1/130 crippled and 1,971 fee ble minded. DEPUTY GARNER IS BROUGHT HOME Friends will be delighted to learn that the condition of Deputy, Sjheriff Howard S. Garner, who was shot by Ralph Fortune in Lawrenceville Wednesday, is such that he has left the hospital in Atlanta and is now at his home in this city. Immediately after being shot Mr. Garner was rushed to Atlanta where an examination showed that over 150 shot had penetrated his arm, side, back and head and though pain fully was not seriously injured. The gun used was a twenty gauge shot gun and No. 5 shot and the distance was something like twenty-five yards: Mr. Fortune is still confined in the Fulton county jail and the case will probably come up in the supe rior court of Gwinnett county in September. ( CLUB BOYS LEFT FOR ATHENS MONDAY Ninety-three strong and with County Agent A. G. Robison in charge the Gwinnett County Club Boys left this (Monday) morning for the State College of Agriculture at Athens where they will spend a week. While at the college they will be given all the practical training pos sible by the able instructors includ ing the judging of different breeds of cattle and chickens. Members of the Lawrenceville Ki wanis club and other citizens carried the party over in automobiles. Agent Robison is to be congratu lated in securing this outing and in struction for his boys and they should receive vast benefit from the week’s work. REWARD FOR MURDERER OF DOWIS NOW TOTALS $2,000 The rewards for the slayer of Vic tor Dowis, who was killed from am bush a short time ago on his father’s farm on the Chattahoochee near Norcross, now total $2,000 from the following sources: County, $250; State $400; Citizens of Community, $700; Family, $650; Total $2,000. An additional reward by the fami ly of the slain man of $250 is posted for information leading to arrest of the guilty party or parties. The rewards of the community and the family are deposited in the Bank of Suwanee. ANNUAL HOME COMING BETHESDA M. E. CHURCH The annual home coming at the Bethesda Methodist church on I.aw renceville highway, near Gloster, Ga., will be held the second Sunday, August 12, 1923. The speaker of the day will be Prof. Thomas L. Bryan, of Rryan- Hatton Business College, Atlanta, who is also editor of the children’s page of the Wesleyan Christian Ad vocate. Music will be by the Paramount Quartet of Atlanta and others. Bill To Abolish Oil Inspectors Voted Favorably Atlanta, Ga.—General agricuUuial committee No. 2, of the house of representatives, “On Friday morning voted favorably on a bill by Lloyd, of .Newton, which would abolish all local oil inspectors and provide for only one inspector to each congres-, sional’ district. The author of the bill argued that the bll would ef fect a saving to the state, in that over $90,000 was paid to oil inspect ors last year, whereas his measure provides that each of the twelve in spectors shall receive $3,000 annual salary, with no allowance for any ex. penses. The senate bill cutting off all ap propriations for the state port and harbor commission, already passed in the upper branch, was also reported favorably. Bill To Override ovemor’s Veto Is Lost In House Atlanta, Ga. —An effort to over ride the veto of Governor Clifford Walker on a bill to extend the term of the solicitor of the Baldwin coun ty court, for two years, was defeated in the house of representatives by a vote of 94 to 79, at Friday morn ing’s session. In vetoing the bill, Governor Walker tated in a message trans mitted to the house that he was com pelled to disapprove the measure be cause it would “fix a dangerous and most baneful precedent” The governor fated that the bill was in opposition to the law, which provides that the appointment be made by the governor. Future harm ful bickerings over poltical differ ence if such a precedent were es tablished, were declared inevitable by the governor. The bill, introduced by Represen tative ESnnis, of Baldwin, extended the term of the solicitor from two to four years, and it was declared by members durng the debate that the effect of it would be to keep a Hardwick appointee in office for a double term, and refuse the preroga tive of appointing a new man, to Governor Walker. ALLEGED BOOTLEGGER MAY BE SHERIFF’S SON Atlanta, Ga.—Luther Orr declared by DeKalb county authorities to be the son of the Dawson county sheriff, is being held in the DeKalb county jail on a double charge of reckless driving and bootlegging, following the dicovery of 97 gallons of corn whisky in the roadster abandoned by him Thursday afternoon after smahsing into a truck of the Sches singer-Meyer Baking Company, near Lithonia. Whitney, the driver of the truck, was badly bruised and sus tained a broken collar bone. Orr is held for trial under a sl,- 000 bond. SEND US YOUR JOB WORK. ONLY NINE DAYS LEFT SOLONS TO FINISH WORK Atlanta, Ga.—The Georgia legis lature will get down to work from its Sunday respite, with only nine working days left. The lower house is slated to take up the tax problem. The senate is scheduled to start consideration of the general appropriations bill. The extra session promised by Governor Walker if the present ses sion fails to solve the tax problem, seems close to materializing in the opnion of a large number of legis lators. There are solutions galore of the revenue raising tangle. Predic toins as to how long it will take the house to select one of them, however ranged all the way from three days to the full week. And then the sen ate must have its word. The chief executive has been quot ed as favoring a measure that will set up machinery to collect taxes that have escaped heretofore and to insure a full return in the future. He wants to see the tax equalization machinery discarded. There are sev eral other measures pending in the house that would set up entirely new revenue producing schemes. Incidentally, the measure passed by the house earlier in the session to repeal the tax equalization law is still pending in a senate committee. SOUTHEASTERN FORTNIGHTLY CROP REVIEW Corn Maize has made splendid progress in North , Carolina during the two weeks ending July 31. The condition is fair to good in Tennesee; better than expected in Florida; poor in South Carolina and Georgia, but im proving where sufficient rain has fal len. There is a great deal of late corn in the entire southeast. Some of it will have barely time to ma ture under favorable conditions. Cotton Uorth Carolina and Tennessee cot ton has developed splendidly. Plant made good growth all over the belt, and it is fruiting well. 801 l weevil is doing little damage in North Car olina and Tennessee; is under con trol in South Carolina; but doing serious damage in Florida, southern Georgia and Alabama. Large quanti ties of arsenate are being used, and the weevil appears to be held in check in most of South Carolina and considerable areas in Georgia. Geor gia and Florida situation becoming extremely serious, with marked de cline in Georgia, and weevils getting every squar in Florida. Sweet Potaotoe* Sweet potato acreage isverygeneral ly less than last year. Large acre age of late potatoes in Florida. Where rains have fallen, the crop is fairly good; otherwise poor. TOBACCO Condition is good over entire belt. Crop has been harvested in Florida, where quality was very superior. Harvesting continues in South Caroli na, where the quality is reported good. North Carolina tobacco 13 fine; quality is high, and yields are excel lent. Market conditions uncertain. Georgia bright leaf sales season just beginning. Small Grain. Threshing about over in Tennessee and North Carolina, with good in dicated-yields and few losses from bad weather. Florida hay mde ex celien growth, bu rans interfering with harvesting. Hay and pasture good in North Carolina, but suffered in some of the area from lack of rain fall. Fruit Georgia peach crop has surpassed last season, yield of Elbertas being in accordance with predictions and particularly good. Grape prospects are fair n Tennessee. Georgia corn agricultural crop very poor. Com mercial are dong well. Unsprayed merical watermelon crop mostly harvested in South Carolina, with satisfactory yields. Prospects for watermelons and cantaloupes in Tennessee, fair. Sorghum sugar cane have suffered from want of rain in South Carolina, but have had too much Southwest Georgia. Florida citrus condition excellent, except grapefruit short. Legumes Peanuts are very poor in Georgia. Mexican been beetle has become gen eral pest in East Tennessee and North Georgia. General Summary The period from July 15th to 31st, covered by this report, was quit favorable. Most crops excellent, except in Georgia, where condition of crops is far from satisfactory. The bool weevil seems to have been held in check in most of the territory, but the situation is ominous in Georgia and Florida and southern Alabama. Z. R. PETTET, Agricultural Statistician, Atlanta Is suing Office. GAINES VILLE-MIDLAND SUSPENSION HEARING NEXT WEDNESDAY Athens, Ga.—Hearing on the sus pension of passenger and freight service on the Gaine&v»lle-Midland railroad from Athens to Belmont has been postponed by Judge Barrett from Saturday to Wednesday, Au gust 8. The receivers of the road have asked for a discontinuance of this service with Athens, Jefferson and other places along the line fighting the move. Action will very probably be taken by the committee to place it in a pos ition to argue the merits of the move before he judge. In other words, an intervention will probably be filed by the committee, objecting to the discontinuance of the service and giving the committee a hearing be fore the judge instead of placing it in the position of spectators and in formal objectors to the move. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS-HERALD. Presidents Death Shocks the Nation Cow Horn Made Place of Hiding For 100 Bill Atlanta, Ga.—Probably the most valuable cowhorn that has ever come to the attention of police au thorities was recovered Friday morning by Detectives B. E. Moon and H. L. "turner in Covington, Ga. This cowhorn, found concealed in a room of a boarding house in Cov ington, contanied a brand new SIOO bill, which, according to the detec tives, had been stolen in Atlanta. The theft, the detectives declare, was committed by S. S. Brookng, 30, of 22 Houston street, about three weeks ago. His victim was Johti Young, of 52 West Peachtree place, they say. Young, so the story goes, invited Brooking to his room one night, and the next morning Brooking is said to have departed as the birds began to chirp with the break of day. Inci4 dentally two new SIOO bills disapl peared. Officers Turner and Moon were immediately detailed to investigate. They located Brooking Thursday night and, after severe grillng, ob tained a confession, they stated. In this confession the officers say Brooking made, he told them that he had spent one of the bills while the other had been concealed in a cow horn in a room at a boarding house at Covington. PIEDMONT CIRCUIT CREATION VOTED BY LOWER HOUSE Thursday afternoon’s session of the house of representatives was de votee‘to the passage of bifejof minor importance, with no attenfejHtto take up the all inipc riant ques tion. 1 - Among bills passed wascre ate a new judicial circuit in the state, to be called the Piedmont circuit, composed of counties which have for merly been included* in the Western circuit. The bill to divide the Western cir cuit was supported by members from many of the counties interested. They pointed out that the dockets of contested cases in all counties of the circuit were from three to five years behind, and that, even after creating the new circuit, the population in each would be greater than in the average Georgia circuit. Among thos who spoke in support of the bill were Holden, of Clarke; Russell, of Barrow; Houston, of Gwinnett; DeLapperriere, of Jack son; W. R. Jones, of Meriwether, and Woodruff, of DeKalb. Speakers against the bill were Knight, of Ber rien, and Shedd, of Wayne. The bill was passed by a vote cf 12J to 25, a call for the ayes and iajs being defeated. Under the bill, the counties composing the new Piedmont circuit will be Gwinnett, Barrow, Jackson and Banks, while Clarke, Oconee and Walton will re main in the Western circuit. Under motion of Mr. Knight, of Berrien, the bill was immediately transmitted to the senate. Blonde Bess Opines “Bobby’ weaning his sport model now. He only buys one gallon of gas at a time.” MRS. H. T. NASH INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY Mrs. 11. T. Nash, a resident of Lawrenceville road, received severe cuts and bruises Wednesday in At lanta when she was thr.wn through the wind-shield of the automobile which her husband was driving on Auburn avenue near Randolph streei. Th" accident was caused by driving the car into a washout on Auburn aver.ue, Nash told officers. He said the washout was unprotected by lights cr other markings. Nash and his eight-year-old daughter, who was aisn in the car, were not injured. YRS. MARY A. CAMPBELL DIED AT CENTERVILLE Mrs. Mary A. Camubed, seventy years cf age, the widow of Mr. J. T. Campbell, died at her home in Rock bridge district near Centerville early Friday mornng. Mrs. Campbell is survived by the following children: Mrs. E. A. Sex ton and Mrs. O. R. Williams, of Stone Mountain; Mrs. J. H. Hannah, of Lawrenceville; Maynard, Thomas and Harold Campbell, of Centerville; George and Romney Campbell, of Atlanta. The funeral and interment were at Zoar church, near Centerville, -a- . . TWICE-A-WEEK »«•**/• * * San Francisco. —The funeral train of the late President.-'Warren G. tlarding, who died here • unexpected ly at 7:30 Thursday, pigfif> t left fop Washington Friday, .AugusOrd. The body will lie in statej ii* the ccpitol and burial will be in Magi on, Ohio, Saturday, August lltk. » • Y‘ U San Francisco, Cal;, :• August 2. Warren G. Harding, prt-Aidtfnt of the United • States, died "instantaneously and without warning-toitigh*t- at 7:30 o’clock, a victim of a stroke of apo plexy, which struck hin» .dotvn in his weakened condition after art I illness of exactly a week. , , •» , n. The chief executive of-,the nation, and by virtue of his oificq• &nd per sonality cne of the, wood’s, leading figures, passed away at. the time when’his physicians, ; hi^ family and his people thought that medical skill, hope and prayer had won the battle against disease. The disease had been conquered, the fire was out, but seven days of silent though intense suffering had left their mark and a stroke of apo plexy came without an Instant’s warning, and before physicians could be called, members of his party sum moned, or remedial measures- taken, he passed from life’s stage after hav ing for nearly two and a half years served his nation and for many years more his native state of Ohio, 1 To Leave Friday for -Washington. The body of President HaTding will leave San Francisco an a special train at abcut 7 o’clock -Friday even ing and go direct to Washington by way of Reno, Ogden, , Cheyenne, Omaha and Chicago. -. . - .h. The car will be lighted• at night and at all times two -soldiers and two sailors, a part,,o{ a,,naval and military guard of sixteen enlisted men, will stand at attention. % Sixth President to Die in Office. President Harding,. the twenty rnnth president of the United States, was the sixth president to die m of fice, and the third executive from Ohio so to die. William Henry Harrison was the first to die while president. He died Apri, 4, 1841, at Washington, after serving but one month of'his term. Zachary Taylor died at Washington July 9, 1850, after serving one year, four months and five days. ■* ' v Abraham Lincoln was shot by an assassin at Ford’s theater, Washing ton, April 14, 1865, dying the next day He had served four years, one me nth and eleven days. * James A. Garfield mm shot while in the Pennsylvania station at Wasn ington. July 2, 1881, and died at EW beion, N. J., September 19, 1881. He had served six and a half months. William McKinley was shot twice, September 6, 1901, while Li the Tem p’s of Music at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo, N. Y. He died eight days later, having served four years, six months and tea days. President Harding, who died Thursday night at San Francisco, had been chief executive two years, four months and twenty-nine days. Coolidge Takes Oath of Office. Washington, August 3. Calvin Colplidge took the ca'th as president of the United States at Plymouth, Vt., at 2:47 a. m. today. ..The new president was sworn in by his father, who is a notary public* and at whose homo he was visiting! The text of the pledge as prescribed by the con stitution was telephoned to him by the white house. AGED COUPLE GET FIVE YEARS IN PEN FOR ARSON Atlanta, Ga.—Feeble with age and standing arm in arm before the bar of justice, Morris Freedburg, 80, and his wife, Rosa, 75, were sentenced to serve five years each on the state prison farm following their convic tion on charges of arson. It was charged that they attempted to burn their combination store and dwelling house to collect the insurance on a smal stock of groceries. The aged couple came to America from their native vilage in Russia only a short time ago. They speak no English and could not understand the word of the judge that sent them to prison for perhaps t(K‘ remainder of their lives. Their attorneys filed, a motkn for a new trial, pointing out to the court the age and frailty of their clients and declaring that the sentence upon hem was virtually for life. GIRL’S JUNIOR CLUB Th' Girl’s Junior Club of the Bap tist church will meet' at their efab room on Tuesday night. Every member urged to be present. NUMBER 80. i