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TWICE-A-WEEK VOLUME 53. INTEREST’G NEWS OF DOINGS IN THE CAPITOL CITY Atlanta, Ga., December 10.—It is from the dangers of her own young beauty that the loyal family of four teen-year-old Thelma Braswell have snatched the little girl away a wall ing prisoner into the seclusion of a country valley. “She is too good looking,” her mother sighed when she explained to the correspondent of this news ser vice why Thelma and herself had been forced to appeal to the law for protection againnt the most ardent of the daughfcpr’s suitors, Charlie Smith. With a marriage license in his hand, young Smith, twenty-three years old, to Thelma with the ancient proposal turned into a command and a threat. “The first time he saw her, Charlie began raving to companions about her beauty,” said the anxious mother. “He told them he was going to marry her.” The mother has rushed her charm ing daughter into a seclusion which almost takes the place of a nunnery. “I can never feel at ease about her. She is just a child. And there will be other men like Smith,” Mrs. Braswell fears. Into the hands of an elder brother and his wife the little blonde beauty has been placed, with babies to tend and dishes to wash and many things to forget.” President Coolidge Invited to .Sa vannah. The sixth forestry congress will meet at Savannah, Ga., January 28, 29 and 30, according to the an nouncement here of C. B. Harman, who has been appointed chairman of the entertainment committee for the meeting. Plans are being worked out to have a committee of the congress call on President Coolidge and to ex-, tend an invitation to him to attend the meeting. Col. , Joseph Hyde Pratt, of Chapel Hill, N. C., chair man of the executive committee, is assisting in the plan to invite the president. Three Big Concerts Coming. Tickets are being sold throughout the state for three big concert at tractions which are scheduled to be held in Atlanta during January and February under the auspices of the Southern Musical Bureau of At lanta, of which Russell Bridges is manager. John McCormack, the noted Irish tenor, will appear at the auditorium here on January 12th. Two days later, January 14th. Sergei Rach manioff, the great pianish-composer, will be heard. On February 12th, Fritz Kreisler, world-famous violin ist, will appear. Both the Rach maninoff and the Kreisler perform ances will be given at Wesley Mem orial hall, where Geraldine Farrar Was denied admittance on the occa sion of her recent visit to Atlanta. Refusal to permit Miss Farrar to use the Wesley Memorial hall, after con tracts had been signed for her ap pearance, came from the presiding elder of the Methodist church, and was said to be due to Miss Farrar’s alleged obscene performance of “Zaza” two years ago during grand opera week. Big Shortage in Cotton Crop. One reason, and probably the principal reason for the present price of cotton, Atlanta cotton men assert, is the government estimate of a crop under 10.000,000 bales. One crop reporting agency, it is pointed out here, puts the estimated crop at 9,600,000 bales. This means a cotton shortage, the cotton men claim, for the world has "been accustomed to using a crop totaling several millions of bales more than the estimate for thi3 year. A shortage of supply naturally brings an increase in price. But the higher price of cotton is not bringing into the market all cot ton that has been produced this year. Many cotton growers had put their cotton in storage warehouses, as shown at the big Candler warehouses in Atlanta, now operated by the Cotton Storage Finance Company, and they will profit by' the increased price. Local cotton men state that cotton warehouses in Atlanta have “stock on hand” totaling thousands of bales, and most of it belongs to the producers who will realize a good profit on it. We are giving $2.00 per bushel for all kinds of stock peas and we pay the highest cash price for rem nants of seed cotton. We sell loose Cotton Seed Hulls at SI.OO per hun dred lbs. and the very best 7 per cent Meal at $2.35 per hundred. W. O. COOPER, Mgr. I.awrenceville Cotton Co. SEND US YOUR JOB WORK The News-Herald WINGO FAMILY BALL PjSSEi a****** BY bStTULLIER, In Atlanta Journal. The Wingo family, of Nor; toss, Ga., has produced two major league baseball stars, and with both of them spending their winter at home, the town is full of baseball glory. One is Ivey Wingo, veteran catch er of thjp Cincinnati Reds, the wise and respected helmsman of that team; the other is Red Wingo— Absolam Holbrook Wingo, whose red head has flashed like a meteor from the G. M. C. and Oglethorpe teams to Detroit, where he is expect ed to be one of Ty Cobb’s stars next year. And added to all this is tne recent romantic marriage of Red to beautiful Grace Rutherford, of To ronto, where the Norcross boy played last year and led the league in hit ting untli a bum thumb put him out of the game. Red came o Norcross after the baseball season which was a sensa tional success for him, and an nounced that he was to be married. The announcement was taken as a matter of course. Quietly one day, Red drove up to the Norcross sta tion in his brand-new ■flivver just before the steamed up. A beautiful young girl stepped off. She was Grace Rutherford, who had come all alone from Toronto to be come Mrs. Red. They were married quitaly in a little Norcross church, then went to Red’s home. The wedding was a climax to a romantic affair. Miss Rutherford’s father was the most enthusiastic baseball fan in Toronto. Naturally he was interested in the red-hc.aded young southerner who had such a keen batting eye and such astonish ing ability in the field. And natur ally the young player would come over to Mr. Rutherford’s box to talk about the chances of the game. It was natural, too, that he should meet the beautiful, golden-haired daughter who came with Mr. Ruth erford, and who watched the young baseball hero. When Red lefl for home, Grace said she would follow. A few days after he reached Norcrcss, she ar rived. Red’s whole career has been like that—full of surprises. The fame of his brother, Ivey, caused great things to be predicted for him even when he was playing at G. M. C. Later, when he was on the Ogle thorpe team, he received an offer from Greenville, in the Sally league, the same team on which Ivey had started ten years before. That was in 1918. Next year, he was with the Crackers. The Athletics drafted him for a trial, but somehow the young player failed, and came <back. Then To ronto saw his possibilities, and bought him outright. This verdict was justified for Red batted .364 last year, and was among the league leaders in fielding. Ty Cobb’s scouts saw him, and now he is to be with that famous team. Once when Red was a boy, he was in a peachtree, eating the ripe fruit. Suddenly he lost his balance and fell through a glass window. Ivey’s Heady Playing When the alarmed family found him, blood was flowing from a deep cut on his leg, and his father, a doc tor, decided to sew it up at He filled a hypodermic with a local anaesthetic, but, when he tried to in sert it, the needle broke. So he sewed up the cut anyhow, sitting on the good leg and holding the wound ed one. Totally different from Red is his brother, Ivey. Ivey can’t remember when he didn’t play ball. When he was a little boy in knee pants, the boys of Norcross wouldn’t let him play on their team because he was so little. Finally, one day, when they w T ent out of town for a game, little Ivey begged so hard to go along, that they decided to ues him for a utility man. Taking a chance, they put him in the field. Almost the first play, a long, sky high fly came his way. It hit him on the head. Ivey didn’t seem to mind. “If a lick like that doesn’t hurt hmi, we’ll let him catch,” decided his teammates, and Ivey found his posi tion. He’s caught ever since. Ivey’s first professional engage ment was with Greenville, in 1908. From there he went to St. Louis, and shortly afterwards, to the Reds, where he became a permanent fix ture. Ivey has the reputation of be ing one of the most dependable play ers in baseball. He can pick a man off second, and has batted around 275 year in and year out. He knows every player’s weakness. The only change is that his knees have begun to bother him from stooping so LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1923. COURT BUSY ON CRIMINALS December term of Superior Court is still on criminal business and will probably adjourn late Thursday or Friday for the term. Since our last issue the following cases have been disposed of: Charlie Thompson, having liquor. Not guilty. Ben Wilson, abandonment of chil dren. Guilty; sentence to ba passed later. Robert Baker, colored, larceny from the house. Will be serit to 3tate reformatory on account of age. Motions for new trials have been filed in three cases which were tried last week: Fred Byrd vs. T. A. Smith and Harrington, Arnold vs. Gwinnett county, and Pharr vs. Pharr. The following bills were, nol prossed: Charlie Williard, possessing liquor. Jesse Brooks, having liquor. J. W. Cooledge, having liquor. Clifford Price, selling liquor. Jhn F’ew (2 cases), illegally pointing weapon at another. Hubert Ethridge, carrying con cealed pistol. Dock Fatillo, colored, carrying con cealed pistol. Lewis Ford, colored, selling mort gaged property. Esco Shelnutt, Hubert Ethridge and Loyce Couch, simple larceny. Solicitor P, Cooley has been some what indisposed this week and some of his cases have been handled by Col. John I. Kelley. WOMAN’S CLUB MEETS. The regular meeting of the Wom an’s Club will be held at the school auditorium on Wednesday afternoon December the 19th at 3:30 o’clock. This promises to be a most enjoy able occasion. Prof. C. 0. Stubbs will give a talk on “Southern Liter ature.” Those of us who have had the pleasure of- hearing Mr. Stubbs will appreciate the club women’s good fortune in securing him for this occasion. Music will be in charge of Mrs. Weyman Gower, chairman of the division of music. All club members are urged to be present. Visitors are cordially in vited. Following is the program: December. “Deck the halls with boughs of nolly ’Tis the season to be jolly.” Hostesses: Mrs. I. L. Oakes, Mrs. W. L. Brown, Mrs. H. R. Saul, Mrs. C. E. Monfort, Miss Minnie Peeples. Business meeting. “Child’s Christmas Carols,” Mrs. Chas. McConnell asd Mrs. W. T. Mc- Gee. Prayer. Talk, “Southern Literature”— Prof. C. O. Stubbs. Piano solo, by Mrs. Victor Hut chins. President’s “Christmas Message.” Social hour. R . N . HOLT, Attorney at Law, Collections and winding up estates a specialty. LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. much. Walks in the Night A few years ago, Ivey was visiting a friend at Norcross, who put him in an upstairs bedroom. During the night, Ivey turned somnambulist and rose out of his bed. Used to his ground floor room, he walked straight to a little porch, through a thin railing and crashed to the ground twenty feet below. He didn’t wake up. He started to walk back upstairs, and woke up suddenly half way up. The shock put him in bed for a week. On our visit to Norcross Ivey was found in old, workaday clothes, put ting up a garage back of the pretty little home he had built. But Red was more carefully dressed, as be fitted a man on his honeymoon, and was in his backyard playing with his two pets, “Billy,” a tame ’coon, and Spot, his black collie. Billy is so tame he will climb up visitors as he does his native trees, and nose around in pockets for stray peanuts and pieces of candy. Red and Ivey are both famous hunters, and most of their spare time away from baseball is spent with gun and dog in the fields. Their hunting grounds range from the swamps of Florida to the mountains of Pennsylvania. W. L. NIX, Attorney at Law, Office in New Tanner Building LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. SEND US YOUR JOB WORK Thi&J¥eek fe*l llliiSll* fllllRt!! liy Arthur Brisbane PRESIDENTIAL YEAR. METHODISTS SHOCKED. DOC COOK AGAIN. MEN ARE DULL—VERY. The Business man’s “bad Presiden tial year” will not be a bad year, un less merchants and people combine to make it so. A god year depends on good buy nig. Nothing in the election of a President preventspeople buying the usual supplies, from ice cream sodas to fur coats, from factory sites to bungalows. This Presidential year ought to be our most prosperous year. The elec tion reminds the people that this country is managed by its inhabi tants, for the benefit of the inhabi tants, when' they take the trouble to vote thoughtfully. Europe is worried, harassed, na tions mistrusting each other, taxing each other’s products. Here we have one hundred and ten millions of peo ple living at peace in forty-eight different states, all trading freely, back and forth, from ocean to ocean. While other nations lack food and raw materials, our problem is to get rid of our surplus on a profitable basis. We haven’t even begun to scratch the wealth of this country. Wages are higher than they ever were; pros perity is greater than it ever was; and there is more money to be spent than there ever was. Nineteen hundred and twenty four, the Presidential year, ought to be for the maximum year of Ameri can prosperity for all time. It will be if the pessimists will al low it. The King of Denmarx, who was told a while ago that Dr. Cook had discovered the North Pole, has now been told that Dr. Cook is sentenced to fourteen years in jail for swindles in connection with oil wells. Psychologists, if they examined Dr. Cook, would probably find that he has the brain and the imagination of a young school boy. Years ago he exhibited himself in a dime museum in New York, with Esquimau dogs, sleds and heavy furs, and gradually imagined himself a real explorer. Finally, he imagined that he had discovered the North Pole—perhaps he almost believed it. There is no penalty for imag.ning that. But when he imagined that he had discovered valuable oil wells ano sold stock—that was a different matter. The Methodist Episcopal Board of Public Morals has things to say about the stage in New York. Young ladies, it seems, many at a time, “troop down to the footlights naked from the waist up, and practically naked from the waist down —don’t call it nude, just plain naked,” so say the board. Much seems to depend on what people are doing, and why and where. In ancient Greece young girls ran in the races entirely naked without hurting anybody’s morals. Their intentions were good. That makes all the dfiference. Many things on the stage are both immoral and stupid. Women, as now presented to the public, are about as interesting as so many “sides” of dressed beef hung up in a butcher shop. Managers ought to know that. A few years ago, even Henry Ford wouldn’t have thought this possible. He will talk, through the air, from his WWI station at Dearborn, using his 360 metre wave, across a thou sand miles of this continent, three thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean, to men and women “listening in’ in England. That miracle would have astound ed those living when the Old Testa ment was written. Let’s hope that in a few thousand years, with every human being able to talk at will with any other on earth, men will decide to stop mur dering each other, and follow Jos eph Pulitzer’s advice, “Don’t fight; advertise.” Young ladies of Chicago’s “Co- FORD MOTOR CO. SAVES ITS DOST Detroit, Mich.—For more than three years the Ford Motor Compa ny at its River Rouge plant here has been saving dust until today a veri table mountain of it, containn.g at least 50,000 tons, stands out in im posing proportions at one place on the plant grounds. Of course, it isn’t dust in the or dinarily accepted terms, but a much more valuable property. It is blast furnace dust, a fine, sand like substance which is blown from the furnaces in the blast and utterly worthless in that state, but valuable because fifty per cent of it is iron ore. The other fifty per cent is coke dust. So the" Ford Motor Company has been saving it until the time comes when the iron ore could be reclaim ed, and in example of the value of litle savings this certainly stands out as among the most striking. A moment’s figuring will show jt. Of the 50,000 tons in the dust moun tain at River Rouge, 50 per cent or 25,000 tons is iron in dust form. The Ford Model T cylinder casting when finished weighs 82 pounds, and reclaiming of the 25.000 tons of iron ore dust means sufficient iron for more than 000,000 cylinder cast ings. The company has now’ started to reclaim this dust through the new sintering plant which has just be ‘gun operations and which forms an other highly interesting feature of the River Rouge activities. The Sintering Plant, a model of efficiency, is erected in close porx imity to the two big blast furnaces and joins the giant ore bins from which the furnaces arc fed. The furnace dust, caught up in suction conveyors, is carried directly to the Sintering plant and there is mixed with cast iron borings gath ered fro mthe various Ford manu facturing units. Conveyors also carry the mixed dust and borings to the plant and dump the mixture into the Sintering pan which is of three ton capacity. A gas flame of intense heat is massed ovw the dust and action of the coke, under this heat and the suction draft fuses the mixture into chunks of sufficient size and weight for use in the furnace and thus the iron ore in the dust is reclaimed. Fcrd sinter ore as produced at the new River Rouge Plant is of finer quality than any on the market, run ning between 70 and 75 per cent iron. It is considered an important blast furnace material and because of its porous nature permits better and more effective operation of the blast with the result that the fur nace product is more uniform and therefore a higher quality iron for the castings. An average of fifty tons of blast furnace dust comes from the two furnaces daily. The Sintering Plant willp roduce more than 250 tons of sinter a day due to the mixture of iron borings and dust, which speeds up the process of reducing the sin tering period from 20 to 30 minutes under ordinary circumstances to about seven minutes. At least 100 tons are being taken every day from the great mountani of dust which the company has been saving and it is estimated that at this rate it will take a year and a half to use up the mountain and turn it into Ford iron. CABBAGE PLANTS. Early Jersey and Charleston Wake field Cabbage and Bermuda Onion Plants by mail 500, 80c; 1,000, $1.25. Come to Snellville to get your sup ply. J. M. Bennett, grower, Law renceville, Ga., Route 3. dlOcm EDUCATIONAL. Teach your dollars to have more cents —buy a Ford and saev the dif ference. H. P. STIFF MOTOR CO., Lawrenceville, Ga. ed” University decide that “all men are talkers” and all are dull. Some, with dullness, combine seriousness, others froth, others triviality, but all are dull. Nothing new in that truthful statement. The miracle is that wom en have endured men’s dullness, pretending to be interested in their conversation, for so many centuries, from dull, modern man back to Ad am. He must have had nothing at all to say, being so freshly made and having no gossip to bring home to his wife. You do not wonder that, in the despair of boredom, she talked to the snake. EXCHANGE. We will exchange a brand new Ford Touring car for $434.69. H. P. STIFF MOTOR CO., |OUR GEORGIA | LEGISLATURE! Atlanta, Ga., December 10.—De spite the deadlock that existed over the Lankford income tax bill when the Georgia general assembly ad journed Friday, supporters of Gover nor Walker’s tax reform program were still optimistic Saturday that some form of revenue bill will be passed by the middle of tile present week. They do not say whether it will be the Lankford bill or the Ellis statutory income .tax measure, but admit that the latter has the best chance, as it does not require the support of two-thirds of the entire membership of both branches of the assembly. The chief danger sensed by sup porters of the tax reform program is the threat of many members of both houses to stay at home for the re mainder of the extra session. This threat was made by several advo cates of the tax bills, who were dis appointed at the refusal of the sen ate to agree to a conference commit tee recommendation on the Lankford measure Friday afternoon. One of the members who declared that he saw no hope for constructive legisla tion was Senator Phillips, of Louis ville, a member of the state tax com mission. It is predicted that the entire strength of tho tax reform group in both houses will be thrown to the Ellis bill, if the Lankford measure is finally defeated. With all support ers of the administration voting for it, the Ellis bill would be certain of passage in the house, and would have a good chance in the senate, it is believed. Governor Walker stated Saturday that he hoped the members of both houses would see the importance of being in tlieir seats throughout the week, as the fate of the revenue re form program doubtless will be de cided within the next few days of the session. The governor would not comment on the present situation, but declared that he will continue to bend every effort to have the pro gram of the extra session carried out. 1 Ellis Is Optimistic. Representative Robert C. Ellis, of Tift county, vice chairman of the state tax commission, is of the firm opinion . that his statutory income tax bill can be passed, whether the Lankford constitutional amendment measure is adopted or defeated. PICTURE-STORY SERMON METHODIST CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT AT 7:30 “Some Mother’s Boy,” a picture story sermon, ilustrated by fifty col ored slides, will be given by the pas tor at the Methodist church next Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The story gives the events in the life of a boy from infancy to man hood, from the home and its gra cious influences out into the big world, with all its alluring tempta tions, and back again. It includes the scenes of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, and this is interwoven with scenes and expreiences in the life of a boy today. An added inter est is the illustrated songs, “Where Is My Boy Tonight?”, "Yield Not To Temptation,” “Ring the Bells of Heaven,” and others. Do not miss this interesting ser vice. WANTED. Wanted 10 men to drive their new Fords from our garage. The price is $367.16 up. H. P. STIFF MOTOR CO., Lawrenceville, Ca. HOME COMING NORCROSS. The Norcross Methodist church will have a Home Coming, Sunday, De cember 16th. Rev. Nath Thompson, field agent for Young Harris College, will preach at the morning hour. It is the-desire of the pastor that every member and every former member, as far as possible, v/ill be present at this service. This day has been designated by the board of Stewards as Psv-Up Sunday on the Building Pledges. If you cannot pay your pledge to date, pay as much as possible. If you have paid your pledge in full, or \'l you did not make one, a free will offer ing will be appreciated. We have some notes due, hence we are mak ing every effort to meet them. Bring your payment on pledge or free will offering, place in an en velope and drop into the collection plate, as this will be the only offer ing taken. INFORMATION. You will tave shoe leather by buy | ing. ? N . e, NO ing a. runabout at $403.69 and riding H. P. STIFF MOTOR CO., Lawrenceville, Ga. TWICE. A-WEEK GEORGIA HAS MORE THAN HER SHARE OF BOOZE Atlanta, Ga., December 11.—Geor gia led the entire nation in the num ber of stills and distilleries seized and destroyed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, according to the official report of Internal Reve nue Commissioner David H. Blair for the. period, a copy of which was re ceived Monday by Fred D. Dismuke, director of federal prohibition forces in the s*ate. Stills and distilleries numbering 2,- 946 were seized in Georgia during the twelve-month period, represent ing approximately 14 per ccn,t of all stills and distilleries seized in all states. Virginia was Georgia’s closest rival with 2,032 seizures. Georgia was first in. the seizure and destruction of malt liquor or beer, with 2,338,078 gallons, and also was first in the number of still worms seized with 734. The state was third in the amount of whisky destroyed with 24,312 gallons; was second in the number of liquor cars seized with 198, and was fourth in the number of arrests and prosecutions with 3,438. The value of all property seized and destroyed in the state during the year by the federal agents was $633,- 367. To this was added $104,070, the appraised value of the 198 liquor automobiles and $1,099, the ap praised value of other undestroyed material. “While on the face of figures, Georgia seems to be the worst liquor hole in the United States, I do not think it is,” Director Dismuke said. “I just believe the prohibition force in Georgia, despite the smallness of its personnel, has been more active and more efficient than any other state force. “I believe Georgia is as clean from a whisky standpoint as any other state, and that it is much cleaner than many states. This is particu larly true since the smuggling sit uation at Savannah has been cleaned up." According to the report, California led the union in the number of au tomobiles seized wdth a total of 335, California was also first in the num ber of arrests and prosecutions with 5,443; New York was second with 4,927; Texas was third with 3,438. I. O. O. F. ELECTS OFFICERS. The regular annual election of of ficers was held at the I. O. O. F. hall last Monday night, at which time the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. F. Atkinson, Noble Grand. A. A. Teague, Vice Grand. M. R. Hale, Recording Secretary. R. L. Robinson, Treasurer. Iverson Russell, Financial Secre tary. G. W. Gilbert, trustee for three years. All other officers are to be ap pointed at the installation cere monies, the first Monday night in the new year. Junior Republic of the South. Total cost of the Junior Republic of the south, a model village for wayward boys and girls, for which funds are now being raised, will be SIOO,OOO, according to announcement made by the Juvenile Protective As sociation. Atlanta’s quota of the amount has been fixed at $25,000. The balance will be raised by popu lar subscription throughout the south, which is covered by the ju venile association in its child welfare work. A partial payment was made some months ago on a site of 103 acres, fourteen miles from Atlanta, on which the village will be built. When established, the junior republic will be the only institution of its kind in the south. WILLIAM H. FINCHER. Mr. William 11. Fincher, twenty four years of age, died at a private sanitarium in Atlanta December 10. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. I. B. Fincher; three sisters, Mrs. Ar thur Thompson, of Cumming, Ga.; Mrs. Fred Settle and Mrs. Walter Scott, of Norcross, and by five brothers, Messrs. F. A., H. F., V. H , W. R. and R. F. Fincher, of Dora ville, Ga. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, December 11th, at 1 o’clock at Prospect Methodist church. BOX SUPPER AT HOPEWELL. Our school will give a box supper on Wednesday night, December 26. A nice program will be rendered before the auction of boxes. Proceeds to go for school equipment BOX SUPPER. There will be a box supper at Old Field church next Saturday night December 15th, for the benefit of n Christmas tree. Everybody invited. NUMBER 13.