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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME 52.
SUITS FILED
AGAINST SO. RY.
DULUTH DEATHS
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Two suits totaling $45,000 were
filed against the Southern Railway
in Gwinnett Superior Court on Oc
tober 17th for damages growing out
of the accident at Duluth on Satur
day, October 6th, when four were
killed and two injured.
Mrs. Pauline Chadwick, widow of
Robert Chadwick, asks $25,000 for
the death of her husband.
Charlie Chadwck, a minor, through
his next friend, W. C. Wilson, is ask
ing $20,000 damages for injuries
sustained. Charlie Chadwick was
the driver of the car.
The suits filed by Attorneys O. A.
Nix andLindley W. Camp allege that
the view to the crossing was ob
structed by the freight depot and a
strng of box cars and that the train
was running thirty or forty miles
per hour and blew no whistle or rang
no bell. It is further stated that the
parties in the car stopped within 150
yards of the crossing and heard no
train but upon attempting to cross
the tracks was struck by No. 136, a
passenger train going east, and were
drug over 600 yards before the train
was stopped. Engineer William T.
Garvin is also made a party to the
suit.
MR. THOMAS MARTIN.
Mr. Thomas Martin, seventy-one
years #f age, died at his home in Su*
wanee district Thursday morning,
October 18th. Among those surviv
ing him are Ms wife, who before
marriage was Miss Lucy Dunaway.
The funeral and interment were at
Old Suwanee church October 19th.
H<* Left Georgia aivd Was Arrested
in Florida With the Dead Man’s
Widow —Both Indicted.
Douglas, Ga., October 18. —Sheriff
W. M. Tanner arrived here at 9:45
o’clock tonight with John Alton
Rogers, charged with killing his
brother, Love S. Rogers, at West
Green on November 18 last year.
The wife of the dead man, who fled)
with the slayer to Florida, was
brought back from Avon Park, Fla.,
also to answjpr indictment here.
A strong guard met Sheriff Tan
ner and his two .prisoners. They
were escorted.to the Coffee county
jail and locked up. They made no
effort to procure bail.
Confession Is Made.
Sheriff Tanner had With him what
he purported to be a signed confes
sion made by Rogers to the Lake
land, Fla., Star Telegram early today
while the party was in that city
awaiting train coiuaections.
Rogers claimed he shot his brother
three times in self-defense, according
to the confession, after Love Rogers
was advancing on him with a knife.
John declared he was forced to kill
Alton because the latter became an
gry “over my interference while he
wa3 attempting to choke his wife.”
Corroborates Woman.
Officers said Rogers’ confession
corroborated in detail a confession
made by Mrs. Love Rogers yesterday
in AvonJPark*- Fla., where the couple
were taken into custody.
“After my brother died,” Rogers
was quoted as saying, “I carried his
body out into a cornfield and buried
it. This happened November 18,
1922. and I was afraid to facie the
law at the time."
Officers said they found ghe body
last week after they had been in
formed by a friend of John Rogers
that he admittaed killing his brother
and gave in detail where the body
could bn found-. The Coffee county
grand jury reeurr.ed indictments
against John and his brother’s wife
charging murder, early this week.
John laid the scene of the killing
in one room of a crude farmhouse
near West Green, Ga., charging his
brother with being drunk and mis
treating his wife.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
Magnus Dressed-up and in Senate Office
H Mag Hus Johnson, I
H newly-elected Farmer- I
-* jJBkqI §ft Labor Senator from I
|t Minnesota, came East ■
Vl§C mto visit Washington, I
SMMr - : call on the President, I
i: : and look over bis new I *
:•••< of action at the I J
: Capitol. He promises I
The News-Herald
FAIK CLOSED
HERESATURDAY
The Gwinnett Agricultural & In
dustrial Fair closed it§ gate Satur
day night after a week’s run and a
very successful fair everythng taken
into consideration The rains kept
the crowds away during the middle
of the week but she attendance Sat
urday and Saturday night brought
the fair over the top.
The displays were unusually good
and received much coipment; the fuil
awards of premiums will be publish
ed in this paper as soon as consoli
dated.
Will Open Jeff Davit Highway.
The official opening of the Jef
ferson Davis highway in Georgia
will be commemorated with a
special program and a pageant in
Savannah on Wednesday, October
31. This will be during the Tri-
State exposition in that city and
among the distinguished visitors who
will participate in the program are
Governor Walker and staff of
Georgia, Governor McLeod and staff
of South Carolina, United States
senators and other officials.
“The pageant with its beautiful
costumes and lovely maidens, as has
been so carefully planned by Miss
Helen G. Davis, a great-niece of
JeffersOn Davis, will be presented
to the concourse in front' of the
grandstand,” said Isidor Gelders,
who has been more instrumental
than any other person in the nam
ing and in the interest taken in the
highway. Mr. Gelders is editor of
the Fitzgerald Leader-Enterprise.
“It will be a very enchanted pe
riod and history of the south will be
told in brief episodes accompanied
by southern strains,” continued Mr.
Gelders. “This will take place in
the early afternoon and will be fol
lowed by the ‘Queen of the Day,’
presenting to Clifford Walker a
large scroll on which is the map of
the highway. This will be in the
nature of a formal acceptance In
behalf of the three states.”
NORCROSS
Mr. and Mrs. William House, who
removed to Lakeland, Fla., some
years ago, are back in Norcress to
live and “little Willie” may be found
in his old quarters next to Lively’s
store even better equipped to mend
them while you wait.
Fax A. Medlock has bought hack
his old place and will move back
next door to the Ga. Ry. & Power
Co.’s sub-station. Mr. "Vaughan
took iri exchange the M. C. Medlock
farm, also near the rifle range to
which he will move.
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Another Fire at Norcroz*.
A dwellng one hundred feet east
of the Bank of Gwinnett block, occu
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Allan Sudderth
and children burned to the ground
late Tuesday,. The business block
just'west was in great danger as the
wind blaw from the east. Insurance
was carried on the building by the
Bank of Gwinnett, who were virtual
ly owners. The furniture was car
ried out by the neighbors. This was
th fourth house to burn down right
in the same section within two years.
Now, listen folks, regarding the
closing of the Bank of Gwinnett.
Let’s not tear our hair nor talk ugly
even though our mite on deposit is
not check-out-able. Just now every
body knows the bank has had o hard
time of it since opening up from its
first closing. Collections of past
due accounts have been next to im
possible even on the good kind; then
the poorly secured'kind in this era
of bankruptcy taking warrants care
ful procedure on the collections part
or the debtor; will follow suit. We
need two banks, in normal times the*
community supports two. Let’s wait
and see if liquidation cannot be
avoided in some way that would be
satsfactory to depositors and credi
tors.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1923.
a. HARVESTS
VALUESJNCREASE
Atlanta, Ga., Oo.ober .' —Esti
mates df the value of Georgia har
vests for 1923 range around two
hundred and forty million’dollars, it
was sta ed by officials of the Geor
gia department of agriculture today.
This is some twenty-nine millions
better than for the year preceding,
and sixty-two millions above 1921.
Food crops, it is stated, have
played a big part in brimming this
autumn’s income. While the cotton
dcreage exceeded that of last year
by about 8 per cent, there was a
more marked incresase in both the
extent and the diversity of planting
that go to fill the larder.
Live stock and dairying industries,
though still short of what the state’s
resources invite and needs require,
according to agricultural depart
ment officials, have grown appre
ciably. Moreover, it is asserted, the
prosperity of the counties that have
gone efficiently into this fold of
ehterprse is so pronounced that their
example may be expected to win
many followers.
The net profits Of nearly all
crops, cotton included, will be higher
this year, which it is claimed is due
to co-operative marketing. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars once
wasted through incompetent hand
ling or lost in “speculation” adven
turers now, it is claimed, are saved
for producers.
It is asserted that there is noth
ing magical in the process, but
merely an application, in the inter
est of the farm, of principles and
methods which the manufacturer
has long employed; principles, it is
declared, economically sound, meth
ods approved by business experience
and essential to success.
Will Soon Complete Grady Clinic.
Completing his gift of $50,000 to
the Grady hospital for the construc
tion of an outdoor clinic, Jacob El
sas, a director of the Fulton Bag &
Cottop Mills and well known At
iantian, has paid $20,000 in cash to
the officials of the hospital.
About two months ago, Steve
Johnson, superintendent of the hos
pital stated, Mr. Elsas gave $21,-
000 to the institution, saying he de
sired to establish a $50,000 clinic
for charity patients.
Work has been started on the
clink and it is expected that it will
be completed by Jahuary 1; It was
designed by Hentz, Reid and Adler,
Atlanta architects, who also drew
plans for the Albert Steiner Me
morial Hospital, which will t-tand
opposite Grady hospital and be con
nected with it by a promenade.
The Jacob Elsas clinic, which will
b'e named in honor of the donor and
the Albert Steiner hospital will be
additions to the movement for a
“Greater Grady” in Atlanta.
Negroes Continue to Migrate.
According to figures given out at
the state department of commerce
and labor, Georgia negroes are still
migrating to the north, with no in
dication of a let-up in this move
ment. About 1,500 a week are now
leaving the state, says the report.
Approximately ?00,000 colored
left the state between July, 1922,
and July, 1923, it was said. Agents
of the department have been keeping
a careful check on all outgoing
trains and these figures are declared
“very eon'-erva'tive.”
Lack o' employment with high
wages offered in the north and east
arc the chief causes assigned by the
department for this condition, with
the damage done by the bob weevil
to Georgia’.-, agricultural situation
as a large contributing factor.
“The ultimate result of thr negro
farm laborer leaving the state will
be s decided improvement in the
farming conditions and life of the
■cate,” on? 'f. the . officials said,
‘ after the farmers have adjusted
themselves to the absence of negro
if bor, the shate will be much better
off.”
GLEE CLUB ORGANIZES »
AT STATE NORMAL
Athens, Ga., October 11.—The
glee club at the State Norma!
school held the first meeting of the
school year Friday afternoon. There
are forty members in the glee club
this year. The following officers
were elected at the meeting which
h.-«- just been held: Director. Miss
Esther Benson, of the public school
music department; president, Mary
Ftnfecost, Lawrenceville; vice pres
ident, Martha Barnwell* Gaine-’ille;
secretary and treasurer, Li’.lie Mae
Kelley. Thomastonj/stag* managers,
Mary Williams, Cataula, and Reba
Meadows, Glenville; librarian, Lu
cia Story Waverly Hal.
First Lady
. cactc ‘O j »' ;
An excellent new portr?it of Mrs
Calvin Coolidge, wife of jut 30th
’resident..and now first lady’of the
ind. Across the back" of this pic
ure the wrote “Approved."
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
The executive committee of the
Lawrenceville Association adopted
the following program for the Stew
ardship Campaign:
Organization.
1. Association.
a. Stewardship leader
2. Association divided into dis
tricts.
a. Stewardship leader for
each.
3. Churches organized.
a. Stewardship leader in
each church.
1 Program.
1. Teaching one or more books
on stewardship by each pastor or
some one he may select in every
church in the association.
2. Laymen and the officers of
the association making a church to
church campaign, giving five or ten
minute talks on the wisdom of (this
suthwide movement.
3. Every member canvass an l an
adequate financial system in each
local church, carrying out Ist Cor
4. That we have at least one con
ference in each district before
Christmas.
5. That the first Sunday ii: De
cember be designated as Stewardship
Sunday; that each pastor preach a
sermon on Stewardship, and where
he has more than one church, to get
some one to speak on the subject.
6. Tracts on Stewardship, Tith
ing, Budget and on Every Member
Canvass may be obtained from Dr.
B. S. Railey, 317 Palmer Building,
Atlanta.
The first conference will be at
Bethany church the first Sunday in
November. Each church is urged to
send representatives, for this is our
first meeting and we want to make
our plans for this campaign. Dr.
B. S. Railey, Atlanta, and other good
speakers will be there.
Pastor Herring and his people are
planning for a great day. May we
ask the pastors to see that their
church is represented.
This is the beginning of a great
educational campaign.
J. J. BROCK,
Leader Lawrenceville Association.
GRAYSON P. T. A.
TO GIVE A PLAY
"Deestrick Skule” will be given by
the members of the Parent-Teacher
Association of Grayson at the audi
torium Saturday evening, October
27th. The proceeds for equipment of
the domestic science room.
Ihe public is cordially invited to
be present. *
The Parent-Teacher Association of
Grayson met at the school building
Wednesday afternoon, October 17th,
the president presiding. The mem
bership committee reported seven
new members. After sliort discus
sions on the health campaign and
other topics, Prof. Herring gave a
short talk stressing the importance
of getting the agriculture anil do
mestk science building finished be
fore cold weather, and announced
next week, October 22 to 27, will be
Work week. He requested that all
who want to donate work to come.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
KIWANIS GOOD
ROADS MEET
The Lawrenceville Kiwanis club
held a good roads meeting Monday
night, and much enthusiasm was
engendered for good roads during
the discussion • of this important
subject.
Chairman John N. Holder, of the
state highway commission, was the
chief speaker of the evening. There
were visitors present from Buford,
Winder, Jefferson and Toccoa, each
of whom added their indorsement to
the movement.
Mr. Holder discussed road building
over the state in general, and men
tioned in particular the need of pav
ing the highway from Lawrenceville
to Decatur, one of the most used
public roads in Georgia. He prom
ised >to aid in getting this project
approved, having assurance from the
DeKalb officials that they would
take care of their part of the road.
The cost of a gravel road will be
between SB,OOO and $9,000 per
mile, and for concrete will be
double that sum. By the county
matching state and federal funds it
can be done.
The club adjourned to meet again
on Friday night, .October 26th.
The Woman’s club served an ex
tra good luncheon, and they -.were
given unstinted praise for the good
meal spread.
The out of town visitors were
Fermor Barrett, Toccoa; S. I. Nix,
Jefferson; C. M. Ferguson and W.
C. Bradley, "Winder; Mayor S. J.
Busha and J. Loss Shadburn, Bu
ford.
THREE GINNETT COUNTY
BOYS ENLIST IN THE ARMY
Three more Gwinnett county
boys were accepted during the past
week in Athens, Ga., and were sent
to Fort McPherson, Ga., for enlist
ment.
T. L. Hall W. K. Stallings and F.
S. Buford, of Gwinnett county,
were accepted for the air service,
and when enlisted will he sent to
the Hawaiian islands for station.
We are sending men all over the
United States now, as well a 3 the
Hawaiian islands and the Panama
canal zone, stated Sergeant William
Ryan, in charge of army recruiting
in Athens. Tbe boys have their
choice of where they wish to go as
well as the branch of service they
‘feel that they would like the best.
And we will send as many of them
to the same place and same branch
of service if they desire to remain
together while in the service, he
said. Applicants must be over
eighteen and not over thirty five
years of age, able to read and write
and single. Not less than five feet
four or over six feet eight inches
tall.
The pay is fronj s2l to $157.50
per month with all expenses paid.
Sergeant Ryan will be in Lawrence
ville from October 24th to October
26th, about two days and a half,
and he will be found around the post
office or court house. He would be
glad to meet any young men who
may be interested in the army ser
vice. Sergeant Ryan has over
.twenty-six years service to his
credit "in the army. He has charge
of the army recruiting station in
Athens, for over four years, and has
been in this city many times, and
has many friends here;
The Value of Phosphate Rock
Phosphate rock—one of the many
natural resources in the south —is
now being converted into gold, so to
speak—an efficient aid to Snany
kinds of farm work, according to
chemists here.
This rock, when chemically treat
ed, as is now bjjing done by an Ala
bama concern, increases in value a
thousand-fold, it is claimed, and be
comes one of the greatest aids to
farmers yet discovered.
Phosphate rock worth $175 a car
load is now said to be shipped out a
finished product worth $2,5Q0 a car
load.
Phosphate rock, it is claimed, is
one of "the south’s great potential re
sources about which little is said,
little is known to the outside world.
Extensive deposits are found in
many parts of the south.
Local chemists have expressed the
belief that chemistry will eventually
achieve marvels in conection with
other raw materials to be found in
the south.
FOR SALE.
Purple Straw seed Wheat $1.50 per
bushel; good seed Oats SI.OO per
bushel. Stored at J. R. McKelvey’s
Mill and at W. M. Leatherwcod’s
home.
029 c McKelvey & Leatherwood.
Gwinnett Sheriff
And Deputies Go
Free in Dry Case
WHAT AND WHY OF AN
EARTHQUAKE.
Exactly what is an earthquake and
what causes it?
These two questions very natural
ly pop into the minds of millions of
persons when a catastrophe such as
that which recently occurred in Ja
pan overtakes some great city and
causes thousands of deaths.
A bulletin from the Washington, D.
C., headquarters of the National
Geographic Society answers these
questions:
“Superficially the name itself tells
the story. It is no more nor less
than a quaking of the earth or a
part of it; and thearetically any vi
bration at all fills the bill, from the
tremor caused by a heavy truck
passing along the street or a blast in
a nearby quarry to the most violent
convulsion that slides hills from their
bases and opens yawning chasms in
the earth.
“But going beyond the superficial,
there is more that needs to be said
even by way of a bare definition of
an earthquake. The quake in ro fer
as man experiences it is the coming
to the surface of waves in the earth.
These waves can not be compared
simply to the up-and-down .waves of
rippled water nor to the back-and
forth waves in the air that make
sound. Even the simplest ,wave mo
tion is none too easy to understand;
and the waves in the varying earth
materials that make themselves
known to man as earthquakes are
probably the most -complex waves
that exist. They are at once mo
tions “up-and-down” like sea waves;
crorswise like the waves in a flap
ping flag; back-and-forth like sound
waves or the motion in a long coiled
spring suspended with a weight
bobbing at its end; and in addition
mny have twists about imaginary
pivot lines in all of the three dimen
sions.
“The earth waves originate ir.
some region down in the earth and
start out in every direction. The
waves from a pebble dropped into
a pond form growing circles on the
surface of the water. But the waves
in the earth being in a solid, attempt
to form spheres that .constantly
grow outward. Soon, however, be
cause of the difference in the rigid
ity of different rock materials, the
form is not; a sphere at all, but a
very irregular curved solid instead,
more nearly that of a potato, per
haps.
“The second important question
iii repaid to an earthquake is: 4 What,
starts the waves?
“It is generally beieved that
earthquake waves flow from a point
where one of the three forces is
suddenly released—a break, a blow
or an explosion. Breaks are credit
ed with the responsibility for most
earthquakes.
“Earthquakes in active volcanic
regions may often result from ex
plosions of gases far beneath the
surface; but it is quite possible that
even in the neighborhood of vol
canoes the majority of the quakes
may arise from sudden breaks in the
rocks.”
Lloyd George and “Pal” See America
Daytd Lloyd George, England's War Premier and the strong man
of that great conflict, sailed into New York Harbor on his first trip
htfre to Be accorded a welcome which left the little Scotchman breath
less. With nls wife and daughter he is now in Canada prioi w to a tour
Of the United States, when great demonstrations will be featured at
Ifery stop. Shown with him here is his daughter, Megan, his ‘'pal”
t&fl constant j
TWICE-A-WEEK
Atlanta, Ga.—An indictment
charging’ Sheriff E. S. Garner, of
Gwinnett County, and his four depu
ties, Howard Garner, J. M, Bernard,
L. T. ages and Lum Brown, with
conspracy to transport, possess and
barter whisky in violation of the na
tional prohibitin law was quashed
Monday morning in federal district
ccui here when Judge Samuel H.
Sbiey sustained a demurrer filed by
the defense attorneys.
Judge Sibley refused at this time
to alow the government to put the
five defendants on trial on another
joint indictment, in whch they are
charred with conspiring to bribe a
government officer. He based his
ruling on the fact that* the case was
not on the calendar.
In sustaining the demurrer to the
other nidictment, Judge Sibley ruled
that it was “too general.”
“This is a novel case,” Judge Sib
ley said. “Here we have a case
against officers of the law, who, as
such officers can under certain cir
cumstances, under both the state and
federal prohibition laws, lawfully
possess and transport whisky. The
case on those two points therefore
dissolves itself into a question of the
unlawfulness of their alleged act.
True; but that point will be rather
difficult to prove.
“Ie believe the indictment is too
general. It fails to recite specifc of
fenses, and s more an alegation of
law than of fact.”
The demurrer was argued by
pames A. Branch, of the firm of
Branch & Howard who, with Len B.
Guillebeau, of Atlanta, and I. L.
, Oakes, of Lawrenceville, represented
the defendants. Assistant United
States District Attorney John Hen
ley argued against the demurrer.
Attorne yßranch filed the demur
rer immediately after the case had
been called for trial. The argu
ments which followed consumed
more than an hour.
Scores of Gwinnett county citizens
were among the spectators who
crowded the court room to capacity.
The action of Judge Sibley came
as a complete surprise to govern
ment oficials who had anticipated
that the trial of the case would con
sume at least a week.
Sherff Garner and Deputies Gar
ner and Bernard were arested sev
eral months ago by a special d«ftail
of revenue officers directed by (Jed-
E. Golding, special intelligence of
ficer of the treasury department.
Officer Golding alleged that the
sheriff and Bernard had made a con
tract with A. L. (“Red”) Tosh per
mitting him to transport whisky
through Gwnnett couny safely.
Shortly afterwards the three of
ficers were indicted along with I>. T.
Wages and Lutn Brown, two other
deputies, for conspiracy to violate
the national prohibition law. Two
indictments v/ere returned, one al
legng conspiracy to unlawfully pos
sess, barter and transport whisky,
and the other alleging conspiracy to
bribe a bovernment officer. Since
the indictments were returned hto
five ofeers have beep under individ
ual bonds of SI,OOO.
NUMBER 101.