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TWICE-A-WEEK VOLUME 52. SUITS FILED AGAINST SO. RY. DULUTH DEATHS • 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. . + • V •» 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.