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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
FIRST SERVICE
CAMPMEETING
MONDAY NIGHT
Monday August, 13, at 8 o’clock
the first service of the 1923 Law
renceville camp meeting will be held,
and three services daily thereafter
until the following Sunday night,
which' mark s the ninetieth anniver
sary of this historic old camp groujid.
All the details have been worked
out by the committee in charge, the
grounds have been nicely cleaned off,
the tents have all been taken, the
preachers selected, and the music,
which will be one of the outstanding
features of the meeting, will _be
placed in competent hands. Rev. Dr.
Acree, of Eastman, Ga., will be on
hand Monday night and will preach
at the first service. He comes to
this meeting with strong endorse
ments, and is one of the most able
speakers in the ‘state. Rev. B. F.
Fraser will arrive Tuesday and will
take an active part in all the meet
ings. The people of this section need
no introduction to Mr. Fraser, as he
was Teared in Gwinnett county and
has taken part in several camp meet
ings in recent years. He is loved and
esteemed hy all who know him and
all his old friends will gladly wel
come him back to this meeting.
Rev.. Marvin A. Franklin, pastor of
the local Methodist church, will also
take part in the meeting and will do
some of the preaching. He is one
of the strongest young preachers in
the conference and a thoroughly
consecrated man.
The pastor is exceedingly anxious
that the first meeting be largely at
tended, and urges all who possibly
can to be on hand Monday evening,
as he expects a great outpouring of
the Spirit during these meetings.
The camp ground is situated two
and one-half miles north of Law
renceville on the Gainesville road in
a beautiful wooded plot containing
fifty acres. It was established in
1833, the land being purchased by
Elisha Winn, William Maltbie, Isham
Williams, Buckner Harris and George
Brogdon for the sum of SSO and
deeded by them to the Lawrenceville
Methodist church. Camp meetings
have been held continuously since,
except a few years during the civil
war, and one year of recent date.
This is a sacred spot in the mem*
ories of hundreds of Gwinnett county
citizens, many of whom had their
first religious experience here, the
preaching having been dene by some
of the most prominent preachers of
the Southern Methodist church. A
large- number of the troops that
fought for the “Lest Cause” were
mustered into serviceman this historic
spet. It has been the occasion for
the annual home coming cf many of
the sons and daughters of this coun
ty who have moved to distant states,
as there is greater likelihood of see
ing their old friends here than any
other event which occurs in ii'.e
•county.
.The services will be at 11 a. m
-3:30 and 8:30 p. m. each die.
TROUPE JUDGE SAYS
THAT OFFICERS SHOULD
HOLD LAW SACRED
Lagrange, Ga.—Troupe superior
court convened Monday' for the July
term, with Judge C. E. Roop presid
ing. The grand jury organized by
electing C. L. Smith, of LaGrange,
foreman. *
Judgeßoop delivered an able
charge to the jury, touching upon
many questions. He said the schools
and colleges were giving too much
time nad money to athletics, clubs,
etc,, and not enough to the funda
mentals upon which the government
was founded, chief among which is
the coonstitution of the United States
He aid that he thought all the
schools should require the students
to make a stud> of that instrument,
and that legislation should be passed
requiring this to be done.
He referred to the recent incident
at West Point in which .one dry
agent was killed and another was
wounded when they fired upon an
automobile occupied by some yooug
men of West Point returning from
church. Judge Roop Said that there
might possibly be some circum
stances under which officers would
have a right to intercept an auto
mobile without a serch warrent but
this right should be exercised with
great caution. He said the oofficers
had no right to violate one law in
trying to enforce another; that the
citizens of the state had rights guar
anteed them by the constitution of
the state and the United Staes.even
if they were not always protected :n
the. r, ts.
The people of the country and sur
rounding country are watchng with
interest what action the grand jury
will take in the West Point incident.
The News-Herald
Buford Citizens
Celebrate Their
50th Anniversary
Buford, Ga.—Celebrating the
fifieth anniversary of its entry into
the commercial world, this communi
ty Thursday paid tribute to
Allen and his associates, who back in
1873, have developed into a business
employing 1,500 persons turning out
300 pairs of shoes a day, and put
Buford on the business map of the
state and nation.
Community games, races, a mam
moth barbecue, airplane stunts, and
an exicting basdball game between
Buford and Cartersville were the
main features of the day’s festivities,
which began at 10 o’clock in the
morning with a concert by the Bu
ford band on Main street.
Typical of the spirit which has
made Buford one of the livest towns
in north Georgia, the manufactures
and business men closed up shepsat
noon and gave everybody an oppor
tunity to attend the barbecue and
other attractions. Various business
men and citizens furnished the funds
necessary to defray the expenses of
the occasion, all “chipping in” to
give a good time to the town’s for
mer residents and visitors who came
to enjoy a regular old fashion holi
day with the home folks, and the Bu
ford people know just how to be
home foks to everyone, so that it is
safe to say that not one of the 5,000
or more people present had a dull
minute during the day.
Five truck loads of rolls from At
lanta were made into barbecue sand
wiches before the visitors were bid
den to the feast. Caldrons of Bruns
wick stew and huke tubs of ioe cold
lemonade formed valuable adjuncts
of the menu prepared and served un
der Mr. Royal’s direction.
Rev. R. M. Dixon was master of
ceremonies, and the speakers were
Major S. J. Busha, of Buford, and
Rev. George W. Duvall, of Conyers,
all paying tribute to the Allens and
reoths who have contributed to the
town’s prosperity.
Following the barbecue, came the
stunt flying at Bona ABen’s stock
farm, in which the fhrlls were fur
sinhed by John Taylor *»d Bonnie
Rowe, the latter performing death
defying evolutions, dancing, rope
walking and other hazardous stunts
that proved a severe strain on the
nerves of the thousands on the
ground looking up.
The ncame the “big league” ball
game between Cartersville and Bu
ford.
CartersviOe batsmen did the rough
work in the eighth inning, when
they landed on Buford’s hurling ace,
“Brown Mule” Smith, for a total of
four hits and four runs. Buford was
save from a shutout by Cree Daven
port’s home run in the same inning.
Tlje only other score of the game
was made by Cartersville early in
the contest. Some 2,500 fans, the
largest number ever to attend a
game here, according to Fish Sud
derth, jammed into the park.
MOTHER OF EIGHT
SLAYS HUSBAND TO
PROTECT CHILDREN
Hattiesburg, Miss.—C. S. Sheffield,
48. years old, a farmer of Maimed,
near here, was shot and killed by his
wife at their home Sunday, after he
was alleged to threatened her
life and the lives of their children.
Mrs. Sheffield, mother of eight
chiledrn, is said to have told the au
thorities she shot her husband as
he made a motion toward his rifel
after saying he would kill their
three months old baby who had start
ed to cry. I
Cheffield, according to his wife,
had taken a position on a front
porch to await the return of some
of their children, whom he had
threatened to kill. He was armed
with a rifel. The children had been
sent away by their mother.
Mrs. Sheffield says she sat at
a window on the inside of the house
so thaUshe could see every move of
her husband. When he attempted
to reach for his rifel lying near him
on the porch, she believed he was
going to shoot their baby and she
fired a load of buckshot into hia
body, killing him instantly, shes aid
Mrs. Sheffield was not arrested.
’ OBITUAIES AND CARDS OF
THANKS OFF FREE LIST
Owing to the fact that cards
of thanks and obituaries are
hardly ever offered until they
have ceased to be items of news
and are therefore of no value
to the subscribers of this paper
we are forced to charge for
items of this nature. All cards
of thanks and obituaries must
be accompanied by our charge
of one-half cent per word.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1923.
HOLD WHITE MAN
KILLING NEGRO
Jefferson, Ga.—Roy Toney, young
white man of near Jefferson, is being
held in the Jackson county jail await
ing developments in the killing of
Felix Davenport, colored, Tuesday
night near the Oconee river bridge
between Jefferson and Pendergrass.
The negro was shot three times
Tuesday night about 10 o’clock and
instantly killed and his body dragged
to the river arid thrown in the stream
Robbery is supposed to have been the
motive of the crime as the negro is
said to have had about SIOO bn his
person before he was killed. The
money was gone when his body was
recovered.
It is not known whither he was tak
en to the scene of the shooting before
the fatal hots were fired or wether
he was apprehended near the river.
The car was heard to pass down the
road and stop at the bridge where
the shots were fired. Cries for help
were heard to come from Davenport
by another negro family that lived
nearby. Members of this family
awakened H. M Roberts, their land
lord, and a serch was begun which
resulted in the finding of the negro’s
body in the river where it had been
thrown.
The car left soon after the firing
of the fatal shots and was not seen
by anyone. At the coroner’s inquest
Davenport’s body showed that three
bullets entered it in the shoulder, the
Brest and the head. No verdict has
been rendered by the coroner’s court.
MONSTER SNAKE KILLED BY
FARMER IN CHICKEN YARD
R. A. Williams, a prosperous farm
er, living three miles west of Law
renceville. was aroused from his
slumber Thursday night by a disturb
ance in the back yard and upon in
vestigation found a large black
snake wrapped around one of his
frying sized Chickens, having crushed
the life out of the victim. Mr. Wil
liams killed hte reptile with his shot
gun.
The snake had climbed the tree,
wrapped itself around the chicken
and both had fallen to the gTound.
The snake is said to have been one
of the largest ever seen in that sec
otin, weighing about 8 pounds.
ATHENS WOMAN SEEKS
ORDINANCE TO KEEP
DOGS OFF CITY STREETS
Athens, Ga.—Mrs. Thomas F.
Green, the first woman ever elected
on a municipal board here signalized
assumption of her duties by launch
ing a plan to make owners of dogs
keep them at home, tie them to a
leash.
The city council will be asked to
adopt an ordinance to this effect.
Mrs. Green, who is also a member
of the state democratic executive
committee, says she loves dogs, but
loves children more, and there is no
reason why dogs hsouid be allowed
to roam hte streets. Cows and hogs
are kept at home, he ponts out, and
they are far less dangerous than
dogs.
198 BABIES BORN
TO MOTHERS OF 15
YEARS, OR UNDER
Authorities place the child bearing
period from 15 to 45 and state that
women do not reach sufficient ma
turity to enter this period until after
the 20th year without endangering
their health.
There were 198 children born to
mothers 15 years of age or under in
1922, according to the records of the
State Bureau of Vital Statistics.
These records show 159 mothers 14
years old; 36 as 13 years, and three
as 12 years. Ther - ; were 10 mothers
that gave their ages as 50; five as
51; three as 52; two as 53; three as
54; three as 55; one as 58; three as
59, and one as 60 years of age.
Of the 69,615 children born in
1922, 36,092, or 52 per cent, were
born" to mothers between 20 and 30
years of age; 26 per cent to mothers
between 30 and 40, and 4.5 per
to mothers over 40 years of age.
The records of births show three
white mothers 13 years of age; 42 at
14; 147 at 15; 582 at 16; 1,103 at
17; 1,839 at 18, and 2,069 at 19, or
5,785 white mothers under 20 years
of age. In the negro race 153 moth
ers were 15 years or less; 5,561 be
tween 15 and 20. Of the white
children 65.9 were born to mothers
under 25 while the records indicate
that 73.8 per cent of all negro moth
ers were under 25.
W . L . NIX,
Attorney at Law,
Office in New Tanner Buildiaij
LA WHENCE VILLE, GA.
Nix Is Appointed
Piedmont Circuit
Judge by Walker
Atlanta, Ga#—Governor Walker on
Saturday tendered to O. A. Nix, of
Lawrenceville, a veteran legislator
and a member of last year’s senate,
the appointment as the first Judge
of the superior courts of the new
Piedmont circuit, which was recently
created by the legislature, and
which embraces the counties of
Barrow, Gwifinett, Jackson and
Banks.
Mr. Nix told reporters in the gov
ernor’s office, that he would accept
the appointment. A number of citi
zens from towns in the new circuit
came with him to the governor’s of
fiel and were first to congratulate
him on the appointment.
The governor told Mr. Nix it af
forded him great pleasure to tender
him the office in recognition of his
“high character, strict integrity and
unusual legal ability.”
The new judge, while in the sen
ate n 1921 and 1922, drew attention
throughout the state because of the
fight he led to repeal the tax equali
zation law. The new circuit was cre
ated largely through the efforts of
Senator George A. Johns, of Win
der, Twenty-seventh district.
Pemberton Cooley, of Jefferson,
was appointed solicitor genera! for
the new district.
Judge Nix is receiving the congrat
ulations of his many friends on his
appointment and it goes without say
ing that he will make a faithful and
honest judge.
Col. Cooley is also well known in
Lawrenceville and is one of the
ablest attorneys in thi section.
Governor Walker besides making
a pleasing made a wise selection in
the filling of these two places.
NO NEWS-HERALD WILL
BE ISSUED THURSDAY
As has been the custom in the past
during campmeeting week no News-
Herald will be issued on Thursday.
Campmeeting starts today (Monday)
and ends with tte service Sunday
night. No paper will be ssued on
Thursday, August 16th and the next
regular ssue will be mailed on Mon
day, August 20th.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
House Puts Tax
On Cigarettes
Cigars Thursday
Atlanta, Ga.—By a vote of 128 to
60, house bill number 227, providing
for a ten per cent tax on all cigarett
es and cigars sold at retail in the
state, was passed by the house of
representatives late Thursday after
noon. The bill, as passed, was a
committee substitute for the orginal
bill, introduced by Representative
Miller of Dodge county.
Debate on the measure consumed
practically the entire day, the only
other business done being the "open
ing of debate on the Ennis revenue
department measure, whch wll be
taken up as unfinished business when
the house convenes Friday.
The vote on the cigarette and cigar
tax measure came after heated de
bate and the offering of many amend
ments. Only two of these were Bdop
ted on the final vote. One placed
the tax on cigars, as well as cigaretts
and the other diverted the surplus
revenue to the payment of Confeder-
ate pensions.
The bill as passed provides that
for the years 1924 and 1925 the sum
of $250,000 be used each year f c#
the building of a new tubercular
sanitarium at Alto, the present plant
then to be turned into a tubercular
santiarium for negroes. The balance
collected is Ao go to the payment of
Confederate pensioners, and after
the expiration of 1925, the entire
fund to be used to pay the veterans.
Various estimates were given as
to the amount of revenue which this
bill will raise, the author of the
measure, Representative Millner,
placing the figure at $1,250,000 on
cigaretts alone. How much the ad
dition of cigars will increase the
amount was not even estimated.
Others, however, put the figure
much lower, several members stating
that it would not rase more than the
$250,000 per year required for the
Alto sanitarium for the first two
years. It was also argued that it
woud be impossible to collect the tax
on cigars and cigarettes sold in the
original package, inasmuch rs this
would interfere wth interstate traffic
This would mean that no tax could
be charged where the consumer pur
chased his cigarettes by the certon
or his cigars by the box.
BOYS GET SOME
GOOD TRAINING
SUMMER CAMP
By Dan Magill in Athena Banner
Herald.
At least six hundred Georgia
homes will from now on, have no
trouble keeping Jonnie or Sallie
on the farm.
Jonnie apd Sa(Jie have been with
their eyes the romance of the future
of agriculture in Georgia; they have
become enamoured of the spirit of
the soil and they will go back from
their week’s visit to the State College
of Agrculture—six hundred of the
best of Georgia’s boyhood and girl
hood—determined to “stick” on the
old farm and make it the place it de
serves to be.
Anyone who went to the genera
assembly Thursday morning at the
College will vouch for the above
In six hundred Georgia homes,
sprinkled over the entire state, the
problem of the “draft to the city”
will never mar the minds of these
children’s parents.
It doesn’t take a seer to predict
that those boys and girls will never
be satisfied until they begin to
quence the thirst for knowing how
to do things which they are creating
here ths week. They’ll come back to
“old Georgia” ’for more Georgia’s
agricultural rebirth has really begun!
Begun in the hearts of six hundred
boys and girls, stirred to the depths
of their souls by those great teachers
at the college; spurred onward to the
attainment of goals now but dimly
seen—but seen!
As six hundred cherry voices
swung into the lively strains of
“Alma Matey” Thursday morning,
and —with eyes shining, faces smil
ing and lithesome bodies swaying to
the rythm of the music told the story
of their new found love for the “Old
Mother, it did not requir any unusual
powers of divination to see those
same boys and girls, grown to man
hood and womanhood crossing the
threshhold of that great institution
and eventually leaving its sheltering
arms to return to their homes and
usefulness to the common welth.
The boys and girls are here as the
guests of the various .organizations
throughout the tate who have provid
ed scholarships for the week’s course
of instructions. The assembly Thurs
day morning was addressed by Dr.
Andrew M. Soule president of the
College: Miss Mary Greswell, state
home economics director; G. V.
Cunninham, state club work director
and Bob McCormick, prominent Bar
tow county farmer, who brought
fifteen boys on a truck-
The boys are being taught how to
judge livestock and poultry prepare
packages for marketing grading hogs
and dairy cattle and other important
things. The girls are taught how to
make clothing, the art of cookery,
poultry raising nutrition—they are
all weighed boys and girls, and told
how to increase their weights if un
dernourished. The girls will be taken
on an excursion to the sod preparing
plants in Athens'one day in the week.
They are being taught how to
appreciate the best in music and art
—and, above all, they are being in
spired to do big things for Georgia.
FIRST NEW CROP BALE
BRINGS LIVELY BIDDING
Atlanta, Ga., August 9.—The first
bale of new crop cotton received in
Atlanta was sold Wednesday morn
ing at auction on the floor of the At
lanta Commercial Exchange to the
firm of Williamson, Inman & Strib
ling, the price being 30 cents per
pound.
Lively bidding marked_ the sale,
which “Was conducted by J. Hope Tig
ner, secretary of jthe exchange. The
first bid was 25 cents per pound.
The bale will be donated to the
Sheltering Arms, according to an
nouncement made by the firm short
ly after the sale.
The bale was shipped by C. B. and
D. D. Harrell, of Doerun, Colquitt
county, Ga. It weighed 308 pounds
and classed middling.
Last year the first new bale of cot
ton was shipped from Colquitt coun
ty. It was bought by the same firm
and was donated to the Crippled
Children’s Hospital. The bale was
auctioned again several days later
and brought $1,720 to the hospital.
Early Ntit*
IF
A burglar was in your cellar,
Would the coal chute?
, No? •
Well, then, maybe
The kindling wood.
READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE NEWS-HERALD.
Late President
Is Laid to Rest
Atlanta, Ga.—As that*which is of
earth of Warren G. Harding, twenty
ninth President of the United Stales,
was committed to a vault near the
Harding burial plot at Marion, Ohio,
Friday afternoon, the whole world
paused and all its people stood with
uncovered heads n honor of and in
sorrow for the chief executive of
this mighty nation.
The seat of government at Wash
ington, which a few brief days ago
felt his kindly guidance, for the time
forgot the perplexities of mundane
things. In New Yyrk and Chicago,
the great marts of trade halted in
the daily rush for dollars.
Throughout the land, railroad tarns
paused in their flight for a minute
while the Marion bells tolled the
knell Of Marion’s distinguished son.
In Atlanta business was a standstill
and patriotic citizens of all walks of
life paid their personal tribute to tfyj
late President’s memory at memorial
services at the Howard Theater.
And so it was in every cty, town
and hamlet throughout this country
BUFORD LOSES 5 TO 1
TO CARTERSVILLE
Buford, Ga., August 9.—The Car
tersville team brcke Buford’s string
of fourteen consecutive victories here
Thursday afternoon, when they
trimmed the Shoemakers 5 to 1.
The gam* was played before 2,500
fans, the largest crowd that, has
jammed it s way into the Allen park.
The game wag the feature event of
ai all-day celebration, which at
tracted hundreds of out-of-town
visitors.
Stevens, who pitched for the Car
tersville nine, was responsible for the
Shoemakers’ defeat, turning them
back with five well-scattered hits.
Buford was saved from a shut-out
when Cree Davenport, star second
baseman, drove a fast one over the
fence for a home run in the eighth
inning.
The eighth inning was also the big
one fcr the visitors, as they shoved
over four markers in that stanza on
the strength of four hits and an er
ror. Brownmule Smith worked in
the Buford rifle pit and but for that
fatal eighth fared well, holding Car
tersville to seven safe blows.
MOORE-JONES.
Miss Corine Moore and Mr, C. D.
Jones were joined in holy matrimony
on Sunday, August sth, t by Rev.
Richard J. Broyles, pastor of the Lo
ganville Methodist church.
First Yankee-Doodle President
.» ■preyideH.t CaAcr/t CooJJd&e .
Calvin OoMldge of Massachusetts is our first Yankee Doodle Presi
dent. being horn oil the Fourth of Jn'y »Ift.v-one years ngo—lß72 at
Plymouth. It. lie Is the third vlce-'iresulenl from ttml State-—and If
is n coincidence that one of the other two, Chester A. Arthur, became
president upon the assassination of dames A Garfield. The third Whs
Levi P Morton, vice i'resident to President Harrison
TWICE-A-WEEK
and in the great European capitals
and in every place on the hemispher
es where the Stars and Stripes float
ed at half mast for the leader for
whom the world mourns.
The progress of the funeral serv
ices for the late President Harding
Friday follow:
9 A. M. to 1 P. M.— Body lies in
state and is viewed by thousands of
friends and neghbors from all Oho*
2 P. M.—Short prayer service
at the home of the late President’*
father, attended only by relatives
and intimate friends of the late Pres
ident after which the body wJI be
born to Marion Cemetery.
3 P. M.—Burial service as follows;
Song—“ Lead Kindly Light”—*
Trinity Baptist choir.
Reading of Scripture by the Rev,
George M. Landis, of Trinity Baptist
Church.
Prayer by Dr. Jess Swank , of
Marion.
Song—“ Nearer, My God, to Thee,”
Trinity chior.
Benediction by Bishop William F.
Anderson, of Cincinnati.
METHODIST PARSONAGE
RECENTLY RENOVATED
Thanks to the local department of
the Woman’s Missionary Society and
the donation of Mr 9. G. W. Clower,
the Mehodist parsonage family have
a “new” house in which to live.
Beautiful and artistic paper adorns
the walls and makes the parsonage
very attractive within. The work
was completed Tuesday.
With the improvements made on
the exterior last year and now with
those made on the interior, Lawrence
ville has a parsonage as desirable as
could be asked.
Rev. and Mrs. Franklin are very
appreciative of the improvements
and say they are enjoying living here
more and more. • i
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WINDER DEFEATS
IT. GA. TEAM, 6 TO •
Winder ,Ga., August 9v — Winder
defeated Khe althongr University of
Georgia baseball team on the latter’s
diamond this afternoon by the score
of € to 0. The game was played in
a slow rain. The feature of the game
from Winder’s standpoint was the
pitching of Allen, who let the Geor
gia team down with one hit, and the
batting of Pearl Williams, who con
nected safely three times out of three
time F at bat. For Athens Pantone
was the outstanding star, making
several difficult catcbas in right
field.
NUMBER 82.