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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
DATEEXTRA
SESSION SET
NOVEMBER 7
Atlanta, Ga. —Governor Clifford
' Walker late Friday afternoon issued
a formal call to the Georgia gen
t eral assembly to meet in,extraor
• dinary session beginning November
7 next. , .
Two paramount measures are to
be considered at the session, includ
ing tax reform, and free textbooks
for the common schools of the state.
Despite efforts of delegations, indi
viduals and assembly leaders to have
other legislation considered at the
special session, the governor declined
to allow any measure except the
two measures enumerated to come
up for consideration at that time.
Governor Walker cannot fix the
limit of the session, but he intimated
he expected the assembly to com
. plete its work by November 29,
which would allow the lawmakers 20
ays in which to adopt a satisfactory
taxation law.
Announcement that he would call
an extraordinary session was made
by Governor Walker on August 15,
shortly after the house had tabled all
tax reform measures before it for
consideration. Since that time the
governor has been considering the
contents of the call, which he com
pleted late Friday afternoon.
NEW SPARTA WAREHOUSE.
Sparta, Ga. —W. W. Alfriend, lo
cal cotton dealer has opened a ware
house especially for the buying of
peanuts and velvet beans. Mr. Al
friend states that he will buy this
produce at the highest market price
all during the fall months. He will
pay cash for the produce, just as-he
has formerly for .cotton. It is esti
mated that much of the above crops
will be marketed here .this fall, be
cause of the creation of a ready mra
ket.
DETAIN EVERY WOMAN WITH
INFANT, ORDER OF POLICE
New York.—SyU .mthftUt. a defi
nite clue after six days of feverish
search for three months old Lillian
McKenzie, wjio was kidnaped last
Saturday, Detective Captain Fun
stpn today issued an order for the
detention of every woman who is
seen with a small infant and who
acts at all suspiciously.
Clue after clue had been run down
by the 165 detectives detailed to the
case, while all the city’s policemen
and taxi drivers have been on the
lookout for the missing child. But
these efforts, as well as appeals
broadcast throughout the country,
have failed to produce results.
15 TON CHURCH BELL BREAKS
WINDOWS WHEN IT IS RUNG
A church ni Cincinnati, 0., is said
to have the largest bell in America,
and, next to the one in Moscow, Rus
sia, the largest one in the world.
This bell is 10 feet in diameter and
12 feet high, and it weghs 30,000
pounds. -
When it was hung a number of
years ago its deep tones shattered
windows in nearby buildings, and
threatened to shake the supporting
tower to pieces. Since then no one
has dared to ring it. It is sounded
by tapping it with a hammer.
Sounds thus produced can be
heard over a radius of 15 miles.
ACCOUNTANTS URGED
TO AID IN PROPOSED
STATE TAX REFORMS
Atlanta, Ga.—Charles E. Robert
son, executive secretary of the City
Club of Atlanta, addressed the Geor
gia Society of Certified Public Ac
countants at its regular monthly
meeting at the chamber of com
merce Saturday- night on the sub
ject, “The Development of North
Georgia.”
Accountants were urged by Mr.
Robertson to step forward and lend
a hand in the proposed changes in
the tax laws of Georgia on the
grounds that men who had made it
a life work to analyze business are
perhaps more capable than any other
body of men in the state to outline
an equitable system of taxation.
Acting upon this suggestion the
society appointed special commit
tees to study methods of taxation in
other states and to report at the
Sepember meeting at which a num
ber of the legislators of the state
will be guests. Accountants from
various parts of the nation were
frequently called into consultation
by the treasury department at the
time of enactment of the federal
revenue acts of 1937, 1918 and 1921.
The News-Herald
BREAKSPAROLE
AFTERFUNERAL
Chicago, 111.—Eli “Hop Head’’ Le
penna, released for a day from Jo
liet penitentiary by Governor Len
Small to attend the funeral of his
father, made a sensational escape
from his guard after returning from
the cemetery here Wednesday af
ternoon.
The guard had removed the
shackles from Lepenna upon arrival
in Chicago Tuesday morning, at the
request of the convict’s young wife.
Returning from the burial, the fu
neral party sat down to lunch, when
Lepenna darted through a window
and escaped across adjoining roofs.
Polce squads were scouring the city
Tuesday night with instructions to
“shoot to kill.”
The convict is known as one of
Chicago’s most dangerous hold-up
and black hand men. He has served
sixteen months of a ten year to life
sentence.
OVER TWO MILLION FROM SALE
OF TAGS FOR AUTOS IN STATE
Atlanta, Ga.—Cash receipts from
January 1 to August 15, received by
the secretary of state from the sale
of automobile license tags, amount
ed to $2,048,912.82, compraed with
$1,808,653.34 for the same period in
1922. The total revenue from this
source in 1923 is expected to reach
$2,150,000 according to Charles A.
Cook, chief of the automobile de
partment.
SUMMER SESSION CLOSES
AFTER A SUCCESSFUL RUN
Athens, Ga. —The nine weeks
course of the 1923 summer school,
of the University of Georgia, closed
Friday, the general opinion being
that it had been the most successful
in the history of the University.
Over 210.0 oficially registered for
courses a ndincluded in this number
were representatives from all but
four counties in Georgia. * Seven
teen other states were represented
in the stuent body.
Over 100 teachers undertook the
work, which embraced that work in
cluded in the curriculum of the Nor
mal School, The Agricultural Col
lege and the University, all three in
stitutions an their entire plants be
ing combined under one manage
ment uring the summer school. Nine
hundred students pursued regular
college courses.
OH, That Kind!
Mr. Smythe: “Here comes Harry
Lipp. He’s a regular human dyna
mo.”
Mr. Blythe: “Gee, is that so?”
Mr. Smythe: “Yep, everything he
has on is charged.”
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
“Class B Nigger”
The exodus of the negro during
the past few months has taken on a
change. Many of those who have
gone forth have not found the coun
try flowing with milk and honey as
it had been pictured to them and
those who have returne are glad to
get back.
The Macon News tells of an inci
dent which occurred at the railroad
station in that city a few weeks ago
which is typical of the negro who is
not easily led off by flattering of
fers and persuasive arguments of
labor solicitors. It says:
“A group of negroes were at the
terminal station Sunday morning,
telling a few departing brethren
goodbye. A trainman noticed one
negro looking nonchalantly and in
quired: “Joh are you not going
north?”
“No sir,” said the negro addressed.
“I’se a class B. nigger.”
“What do you mean by class ‘B’
nigger?” asked the trainman.
“Well,” said Sam, “I ‘Be’s’ here
when dey leave and I B’s here when
they come back.”
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WATCH THBttC'S NO PRESENT
LUCE
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEO RGIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1923.
Stpurns Seen as Factor in Guiding Nation
S WASHINGTON, D. C. —Frank W. Stearns, the Boston merchant and
tbe n*w President's closest |teraonal friend, has been referred to as the
"Colonel House of the Coolidge administration, lie Is expected to pluy
a leading port in shaping legislative programme.
Together with William M. Butler. Bostou lawyer, add James E.
Reynolds. Washington bankerwbo halls from Massachusetts, the three
•re acknowledged as the ue* President s closest political adviser*.
Tbe above photo 1* a very rare and Intimate picture of tbv 'lnside lifts
Of unofficial Washington, taken Just before tbe late President Harding
left ou bfa Alaska trip. From left to right—Harding, Coolidge, ktr%
Hardin*. Win tiara, wotlor picture Vss» " and Prank W. Stearu*
REVEALS SLAYING
AFTER OREAM
Providence, R. I.—Eight year old
Antonio Testa of this city saw the
“shadow” of Michael Lurgio, aged
nine, in a dream and told his mother
that “Henri Rossi,” 13 years old, had
shot Lurgio and buried him in a hole
just over the Providence line in the
town of Johnston on Tuesday after
noon. Policemen, hurrying to the
spot with the two former playmates
of Lurgio, found the body of the
boy. He had been reported by his
parents as missing since Tuesday.
Rossi, in a statement to the po
lice, admtted the shooting and said
he did not know the double barreled
shot gun, left by his father in a
shack on Hedley street, Johnston,
was loaded. In his statement, he
said, according td the police:
‘We were playing and Mikie stood
in the doorway. I pulled the trigger
and it went off. It hit him in the left
breast and he fell over. Then I was
afraid my father would beat me foi
hrving kiis around the shack, so we
buried him.
The Testa boy said young Rossi
made him promise not to tell. He
kept the secret until he was awak
ened by a dream last night and then
told his mother.
SHOULDER STOOP CAUSES
OLD AGE, SAYS PHYSICIAN
Portsmouth. —Dr. Peter MacDon
ald startled the British Medical As
sociation conference here by stating
that a stoop of the shoulders causes
old age—a direct inversion of the
popular theory.
He said that by following the ad
vice of a layman he threw a score
of years from his shoulders.
“I was feeling old and decrepit,”
explained Dr. MacDonald, “when I
picked up a book, published by this
layman, from a bookstall. I was
then a prematurely aged man.
CONVICT STEPS INTO
$250 A MONTH POSITION
Columbus.—Butler R. Storke, 31,
convicted Toledo forger, donned ci
vilian clohes preparatory to stepping
out of the Ohio penitentiary into a
position paying $250 a month.
He was sentenced to serve two
years, but after twenty-one months
was given a conditional pardon, the
condition being that he follow work
instituted among his fellow prison
ers among whom more than 1,800
are now interested.
Storke, a college graduate origi
nated a corresponence school for
the education of convicts. His po
sition will be to try to install some
plan among other institutions, the
movement being financed by Na
poleon Hill, a New York Magazine
editor.
BIG CROWD HEARS CELE
BRATED BAND AT HOWARD
Atlanta, Ga".'—A""large crowd at
tended the special concert of the
Yaarab Temple Shrine band at the
Howard theater Sunday afternoon.
Motion pictures depicting various
phases of life at Scottish Rite hos
pitals for Crippled, Chldren, in At
lanta, were shown and short address
es were made by officers of the
Shrine.
Potentate Bayne Gibson made the
principal address and told the au
dience of activities throughout the
nation of Shrine organzations to
emulate the charitable hospital work
instituted in Atlanta.
The “Million Dolland Band,” di
rected by Enrico Leide, noted ’cellist
and director of the Howard render
ed a delightful musical program its
selections being interspersed with
cornet solos by John Scharf.
BEAUTIFUL IN
DESIGN ARE
NEWJDICXS
The new body design of the 1924
Buick immediately impresses the
visitor as uncommonly graceful and
beautiful, without being in any sense
freakish. The radiator and hood are
suggestive of the best foreign de
sign, that on the sixes being fully
nickeled, on the fours enameled. The
headlights, with non-glare lenses are
of new and handsome contour and,
in noticeable harmony, the instru
ments on the operating board and
the tail lights are of hte same shape.
Both sixes and fours have a flush
type ventilator in hte cowl..
On the various six models the
wheel base has been lengthened
from two to four inches, affeyding
much more room. In the larger
cars, the auxilliary seats are four
inches wider and afford comfort
able riding for three persons. In
fact the so called seven passenger
models can accomodate nine per
sons if necessary.
There are ten body models on the
six cylinder chassis and four body
models on the four cylinder chassis.
Of these three types are rfew in the
1924 line. These are a five passen
ger Brougham touring Sedan and
another five passenger sedan desig
nated as the “Double Service” both
sixes, and a four cylinder four pas
senger coupe.
It is a great surprise to nolo the
custom quality of finish, appoint
ment, and equipment in all of the
closed models. Nothing seems to
be lacking to provide the utmost
comfort in riding and driving ease,
as well as in pleasing the eye and
sense of refinement.
But—after al—the thrill of the
1924 Buick lies in its engineering
features.
NEW LUMBER MILL.
Louisville, Ga.—A new lumber
firm for Jefferson county will be
that of Wren Brothers, composed of
Paul and Robert Wrens, who will in
stall planers at Wrens, Ga., for the
purpose of making roofing, ceiling,
flooring and moulding.
KIWANIANS OPEN ALBANY
WHITE CLINIC ON FRIDAY
Albany, Ga. —A free clinic for the
white children of Albany, whic-fc will
be extended later to include the col
ored children, will be opened Fri
day afternoon by the Albany ,Ki
wanic Club. The civic organization
secured quarters and purchased
equipment for the clinic. _ Albany
physicians, specialists and dentists
have promised to give their
free. A fund was raised to provide
things that might be prescribed for
the patients, such as medicines, eye
glasses and fillings for teeth. Mem
bers of the club will visit the clinic
in a body Friday afternoon just be
fore its opeiiing.
EUROPE INCREASES
« WHFAT CROP FIGURE
Rome.—Europe’s wheat crop is 17
per cent larger than in 1922, accord
ing to figures issued by Ae institute
of agriculture.
The gain may be found to be still
greater when revised figures from
Germany, Jugo-Slavia and Czecho
slovakia are obtainable. Data now
on hand from Egypt, Algeria, Mo
rocco and Tunis shows an increase of
56 per cent.
The -Tye harvest throughout • Eu
rope has increased 19 per cent over
the ,1922 figure, but’ has devlined 8
per cent in India. Barley has in
creased 7 per cent and oats 10 per
cent-
ARMY AVIATORS
SHOOTJCLIPSE
Los Angeles.—The army aviution
service will cooperate with astrono
mers during the eclipse of the sun,
September 10, in an attempt to
further the world’s knowledge of the
solar system.
Lieutenant John A. Macßoady,
holder of several air records and one
of the aviators who recently spanned
the continent in a noir stop flight,
will fly nearer to the sun than any
observer has gone for a similar pur
pose before. When Macßeady pL
lots his plane to an altitude of 20,-
000 feet, Captain George Stephens,
“crack” army photographer, will
take a series of photographs of the
eclipse and make other observations.
Astronomers are preparing instruc
tions as to the knd of pictures de
sired, and Captain Stephens, upon
landing from the plane, will turn his
plates over to the astronomers to be
developed and studied.
Scientists of America, England,
France and Germany are gathering
at points of vantage in southern Cal
ifornia and Mexico to be on hand for
the eclipse. The total eclipse will
come at 12:54 p. m., September 10,
and at the maximum will last three
minutes a'hd 34 seconds. The sun
will begin to disappear at 11:25 a.
m., and will be free from shadow.
The eclipse will be visible' first
near Japan and will travel across
the Pacific ocean at,the rate of 1,-
800 miles an hour, being visible from
the Channel Islands, the extreme
southwest tip of California arid Mex
ico. The shadow will be 105 miles
wide.
Observations of the sun’s corona,
of the surface of the sun emerging
from behind the rim of the moon, of
the quality of light and as pertain
ing to the Einstein theory, which
contends that a ray of light is bent
by gravity, will be among the prin
ciple photographs attempted by ob
servers. Much of the technical work
will be done at the Mount Wilson ob
servatory.
GEORGIA U. HUNT FOR OGLE
THORPE HITS CHURCH SNAG
London. —“Leave us*our dead!” is
the plea which England addresses to
zealous Americans bent on digging
up the dust of old and revered pa
triots.
■ First came an enterprising group
of Virginians who explored the hu
man remains of St. George’s church
yard at Gravesend in a searen for
the Indian princess, Pocahontas.
Now, representatives of the L7ni
versity of Georgia are seeking au
thority to probe for the remains of
General James' Edward Oglethorpe.
They want to transport the late gen
eral to the United States, and en
shrine his body in Georgia. General
Oglethorpe, early y Georgia settler
and founder of the state university,
will also be recalled by numerous ex
doughboys from the camp that is
named after him.
The chancellor of the diocese of
Chelmsford has denied the Ameri
cans permission to search for Ogle
thorpe. He may have been mindful
of the indignation caused by the
hunt for Pocahontas, which Lord
Curzon, among others, denounced as
ghoulish disturbance of the dead.
General Oglethorpe is believed to
be buried in Cranham, Essex, which
was his home from 1743 to 1785. He
was born ip 1696, served in the Brit
ish army, won fame as a member of
parliament and an empire builder.
From the American point of view,
his chief achievement was the found
ing of the colony, now the state of
Georgia. He was a strong opponent
of negro slavery and an ardent pro
hibitionist.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
TERMINAL DEPOT
HOUSESBIG STILL
Birmingham, Ala.—City detec
tives Friday reported the discovery
of a 50 gallon still and other liquor
making paraphernalia 'in a subter
ranean passage underneath the Bir
mingham terminal station.
Entrance to the underground room
was by way of a manhole in a street
railway underpass. Smoke from
plant was disposed of through the
terminal sewage system and water
was obtained from a pipe that sup
plied the terminal, officers said.
The place was said to have been
electrically equipped with lights and
a signal system.
.. LAWRENCEVILLE KIWANIS. ..
The Lawrenceville Kiwanians meet
at the Snellville school auditorium
Friday evening, August 31.
The Parent-Teacher Association
will serve supper.
A rousing good time is expected.
Everybody is invited.
SUES PUBLISHER OF MAGAZINE
CARRYING HER NUDE LIKENESS
New York.—Mrs. Theresa Lind,
youthful art student, who recently
engaged counsel to bring suit of
$200,000 aganst her former in
structor, A. Stirling Calder, sculp
tor, because of the alleged exhibition
of a nude figure having a composite
likeness to her head, after her hus
band had left her, has begun suit in
the supreme court for $50,000
aganist the publisher of ogue, fa
shion magazine. Publication in
February of photographs of the
sculptured figure, the plaintiff de
clared, was a contributing cause of
her husband’s separation and held
her up to ridicule and humiliation.
CHEROKEE COLONY.
Congressman Thomas M. Bell is
organzing a club of ffty men to be
known as the Cherokee Colony. One
hundred and ffty acres have been
purchased near Cleveland, Ga., on
the Northwestern railroad. It is
ideally located and tHwmffh the prop
erty there is a stream affording 200
H. P., which will furnish power and
lights for the colony. It will be
made a place for model homes with
all the climate conditions that could
be desired, summer or winter. A
lake stocked with fish, . swimming
pool, shower baths and all modern
conveniences. It will prove a profi
table investment for those taking
stock besides affording a home in
the heart of the Blue Ridge moun
tains. A number have already join
ed with Congressman Bell and it is
thought the project will be dosed
and’the colony located for the sum
mer of 1924. —Athens Banner-Her
ald.
“UNCLE JOE” CANNON.
“Uncle Joe” Cannon, who repres
ented an Ilinois district in Congress
for many years, is one of the most
unique characters in America. He
was born in North Carolina, but at
an early age his parents moved to
Illinois and “Uncle Joe” grew up to
be a staunch republican. Here are
some of his sayings which is typical
of the man:
Boots go on feet; so do men.
Boots sometimes get tight; so do
men.
A boot will shine if polished; so
will a man.
Some- boots lose their soles; so
do some men.
A boot to get on needs a pull; so
does a man.
Some boots are imitation caif; so
are some men.
Boots are tanned; so are some
men—mostly in youth.
Some boots can’t stand water;
neither can some men.
When a boot is well soaked it is
a hard case, so is a man.
■ A boot when old gets wrinkled
and hard, so does a man.
A boot to be of much account
must have a mate; so must a man.
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OUTCOME OP
MATRIMONY MOST ALWAYS
DEPENDS UPON THE
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TWICE-A-WEEK
WEEVILS MIGRATE
AT THIS SEASON
DUSTWITHPMN
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It is now about time for the boll
weevils to migrate from t®c section
to the other, and every farmer in
this county should kepjS a close
watch over hs cotton croft especially
for the next three weekft. and keep
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your cotton dusted with calcium ar
senate from the time, you find that
they are coming in until you have
them under control. Dust from four
to six days apart until you see re
sults and if the weather will permit.
Reliable reports from many sec
tions of south Georgia ar# that many
farmers there have lost, their cropsi
in a week or less timefl. In fact,
many thought they had no- weevils
until mo3t of the grown bolls had
been ruined, and while this county
as a whole has a good crop consid
ering the unfavorable weather ear
ly in the spring it c,an . easily be
greatly reduced in a short time un
less the cotton is dusted, with cal
cium arsenate when the weevils be
gin to enter the fields.
If possible apply this calcium ar
senate with some blowing machine
that will blow the fine powder out
into a dust cloud, then it can settle
on all parts of the plant. Many
farmers are using sacks and other
equipment to apply this, poison. The
best result* can not be obtained in
this way. You get the top leaves
covered; but you leave many places
that do nothave any poison. Do not
make the cotton white when you
dust it. If this is done the dew will
form a ough and the weevil cannot
drink the water.
The me who have used ducting
machines in' the past to blow the
poison aii over the plants at this
season of the year have been well
pleased; but where it has been put
on only a part of the plant as a rule
has not given results that,were ex
pected. ' - t Mu. J
It is hoped this crop will be saved 1
but if it is it will require close su
pervsion and careful applications of
calcium arsenate for the next three
weeks.
A. G. ROBISON, County Agent. *
FORTUNE FOUND IN ROAD
MOUNTS TO SIX FIGURES
Hagestown, Md.—With the asser
tion Sunday of Lee Houser, a 28 •
year old farmer living near hea*. ..
thot the box he dug up last week on
the Brownsville-Weaver road con
tained between SIOO,OOO and sllO,-
000 in bills, besides approximately
SIO,OOO in gold coin, speculation!
grew today as to whether the money
is that buried by Grover C. Berg
doll, draft dodger, before his flight
to Germany.
Complcating the situation was the
assertion of C. S. Wheeler, a farmer,
that he wolud lay claim to the for
tune. Wheeler said his 10 year old
son, Howard, is entitled to the mon
ey, since he was the first to fipd it.
Wheeler said his son was seated on as
bank beside the road when Houser’s
pick exposed the box containing the
money. Wheeler says Houser tore
the box from the boy’s hands and
made off with it.
"TURNEN COUNTY PLAN”
FEATURES MEETING
Lumpkin, Ga.—A meeting of con
siderable interest to the farmers and
business men of this county was held
in the courthouse in Lumpkin Satur
day. Diversified farming on the
“Turner county plan” was discussed.
This plan also includes, the raising
of purebred stock, best varieties of
poultry, as well as very much less
cotton than has heretofore been cul
tivated. The matter of forming an
association which might handle the
marketing of all farm products was
discussed.
Quite a number of Stewart county
farmers have visited Turner county
recently. Several of these spoke in
hearty approval of the methods fol
lowed there and recommended that
the same methods be followed in this
county.
One hundred and twenty Stewart
county farmers were present at the
meeting, and a temporary board of
directors was appointed by the chair
man of the meeting, each member
of the board being a representative
farmer in his immediate section. It
is the purpose of the board to urge
others to become members of the as
sociation, which it is their purpose
to organize at an early date.
During the meeting Professor Hall,
superintendent of Cuthbert schools,
who is extensively engaged in dairy
ing and poultry raising, made an ad
dress. j
NUMBER 86.