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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 i "r 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.