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TWICE-A-WEEK
VOLUME S 3.
MORE ANNOUNCE
COUNTY OFFICE
Following on the heels of the an
nouncement of Mr. Will Hobson for
county commissioner comes Mr.
Conrad O. Wood for tax receiver
and Mr. W. Grady Holt to succeed
himself as clerk of superior court.
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for the office of Tax Re
ceiver of Gwinnett county, subject
to the forthcoming primary elec
tion. In case of election I promise
fair and courteous treatment to' all,
and a business administration of
this important office. Your vote and
influence will be appreciated.
CONRAD O. WOOD.
Conrad O. Wood is the second
man to announce for public office
this year. He is a candidate for
tax receiver subject to the demo
cratic primary. “Rips” Wood was
reared in Lawrenceville and has
had considerable clerical experience
Mr. Wood is well known through
out the county, his business ability
is unquestioned, and he has already
received much encouragement in
his announced intention to make the
race.
He is a son of the late R. B. Wood
FOR CLE~ OF COURT.
I hereby announce myself a can
didate to succeed myself as Clerk of
the Superior court subject to the
forthcoming primary. I am grateful
to the people for past favors; your
vote and influence will be appreci
ated.
Yours respectfully.
W. G. HOLT.
January 17, 1924.
Mr. W. G. Holt, who as above
has announced himself as ocandi
date to succeed himself as Clerk of
the Superior Court, is now serving
his first term of public office and
has made one of the best clerks ever
serving Gwinnett.
Mr. Holt is a native of the coun
ty, a man of sterling integrity and
ability, and his record is a most
gratifying one.
Hon. Blanton Fortson, former
judge of this circuit, made the state
ment in open court that Mr. Holt
was an excellent officer and that
his records were the best of an#
clerk in the Western Circuit. Num
erous grand juries, lawyers, officers
and others having business of this
nature have frequently made favor
able public comment on the work of
this gentleman.
His many friends throughout the
county will be interested in his an
nouncement and untiring in their
efforts to re-elect him.
COTTON CROP WORTH
BILLION AND A HALF
Total production of cotton for the
1923-24 season is placed by the de
partment of agriculture at 10,081,-
000 equivalent 500 bales in the final
cotton report of the season. That
quantity is 167,000 bales less than
the department forecast on Novem
ber 3.
Te crop amounts to 4,821,333,000
pounds exclusive of linters, and at
the December 1 average farm price
of 31 cents per pound is worth sl,-
494,613,230, making it the fourth
most valuable crop ever grown. It
is the sixth crop that has been worth
a billion dollars.
The most valuable crop was that
of 1919, when 11,421,000 bales were
grown; the farm price was 35.6
cents per pound and the total value
was $2,034,658,'000. The second
most valuable crop was that of 1918
when 12,041,000 bales were grown;
the farm price was 27.6 cents per
pound and the total value $1,663,-
000.
The third was that of 1917, when
11,362,000 bales were grown; the
farm price was 27.7 cents and the
total value $1,566,198,000. In 1916
and 1922 the crop exceeded sl,-
000,000,000 in value.
Addition of the value of cotton
seed and linters will increase the
total value of this year’s crop con
siderably.
ANNIE GRACE DAVENPORT.
Duluth, Ga., Jan. 14.—Annie
Grace, the 10-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Davenport,
died at the home of her grandfather
Mr. Calhoun Davenport, Monday
morning after an illness of several
weeks.
She is survived by her mother
and father, two sisters, and one
brother, besides her grandfather and
grandmother and many other rela
tives.
The funeral will be conducted at
the home and interment at the
Methodist cemetery.
The News-Herald
Widow to Graduate
Again at 4S
fSlii
jBBSj
Mrs. A. R. McDonald, of Evans
ton, 111., widow, 48, and mother of
four grown children, will graduate
this spring from Northwestern I'nlv
at Chicago. Two of'her children
have finished college and two are
students. She graduated et Oberlln.
Ohio. In 1897
GEORGIA GASOLINE TAX
BRINGS IN $693,535
IN FIRST 3 MONTHS
Atlanta, Ga.—Collections for the
first three months under the new
state tax of three cents per gallon
on gasoline, have reached the grand
total of $693,535.44, with probably
$75,000 yet to be collected, it was
announced TQesday by William B.
Harrison, head of the tax division of
the comptroller general’s office.
The collections for the same three
months of last year, under the one
cent tax, were $203,482.74.
This fund is to be divided equally
between the state highway depart
ment, the state treasury, and the va
rious counties, which must use the
money for road construction. The
portion padi the state is to be used
in retiring the W. & A. rental notes,
issued to pay Confederate pensions.
The state, the highway department
and the counties will get $203,-
482.74 each of the amount collected
up to January 15, and the renain
der still unpaid will be added to the
checks for the next quarter.
The state treasurer is preparing
now to mail cheeks to the various
counties, covering their portions of
the money. It will be distributed on
a road mileage basis.
Mr. Harrison estimates that the
total collections from the new gaso
line tax will amount to $3,000,000
per year. He bases this estimate on
the fact that the collections for the
last quarter are the smallest of the
year, and this is the quarter during
which the new tax became effective.
The collections are heaviest during
the summer months, when automo
biles are mor generally used.
Gwinnett county’s share of the
tax was $2,093.16 and a check has
been received for that amount.
PEACH EXCHANGE TAKFS IN
SURANCE ON GEOP.GIA CROP
Macon, Ga.—Officials of the
Georgia Peach Growers’ exchange,
at the conclusion of a meeting of
the board of ■ directors Tuesday, an
nounced that the 1924 peach crop
of members of the exchange has
been insured against; all hazards.
One of the largest nisurance com
panies in the world is said to have
issued the policy to the exchange,
which in turn will issue certificates
to members, based on the number
of trees of each member.
“Te policy does not provide for
profit,” said General Manager J. G.
Carlisle, “but covers the cost of pro
duction and delivery to market.”
There are more than 12,000.000
bearing peach trees in Georgia. More
than half of the unsold peaches are
in the exchange, it is declared.
MRS. SMITH FOUND
BUT SHE DOES NOT
KNOW OF LEGACY
Athens, Ga.—After seeing the
news story in The Banner-Herald
yhich announced that W. M. Chris
tie of Cincinnati, Ohio, had died and
left one-third of his $130,000 es
tate to “Mrs. Hattie Smith of Ath
ens,” Mrs. S. G. Fitzpatrick, 408
River street has started investiga
tion to find out whether Mr. Chris
tie referred to her married daugh
ter, whose name is “Mrs. Hattie
Smith.”
Mrs. Fitzpatrick stated Thursday
she does not know of any relatives
by the name of Christie. She says
she has a brother who has not been
in communication with her for some
time and she thought possibly it
might be him. The will provides that
the one-third of the estate go to
Mrs. Hattie Smith of Athens when
Mr. Christie’s wife dies.
Mrs. Smith has not received any
notice of the legacy, however, if
it referred to her.
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LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1923.
TOBACCO TAX IS
CONSTITUTIONAL
Atlanta, Ga.—The 10 per cent
tax on retail sales of cigars and ci
garettes was declared constitutional
in a decision rendered Wednesday
afternoon by Judge George L. Bell,
in Fulton superior court. The judge
denied the petition for an injunc
tion, restraining eforcement of the
nex tax act, as sought by a group of
Atlanta dealers.
The judge’s decision automatical
ly dissolved hte temporary restrain
ing order which has held up en
forcement of the act for more than
two weeks and attorneys for the to
bacco dealers immediately sought
to have the judge grant a superse
deas, pending an appeal to the Geor
gia supreme court.
After hearing from both sides on
the question of the supersedeas,
Judge Bell directed that both sides
hold a conference in the attempt to
agree upon an order concerning this
feature of the case, and that Attor
ney Genera! George M. Napier sub
mit an order for his approval.
In rendering his decision from the
bench, orally, Judge Bell held that
the arguments and decisions cited
did not, in his opinion, act to nullify
the act, which was passed at the last
session of the legislature.
If the 10 per cent tobacco retail
tax is declared unednstitutinoal the
state faces the possibility also of
losing the $3,000,000 revenue ex
pected this year from the gasoline
tax, it was asserted Wednesday
morning by Attorney General Geo.
M. Napier, arguing before Judge
Bell.
JOHN L. BROWN, FORMERLY
OF L’VILLE, BURIED WED.
Mr. John L. Brown, a son of the
late William E. Brown, died at the
Battle Hill sanitarium in Atlanta
Monday at 7 o’clock.
The deceased resided at 17 Bed
ford Place, Atlanta, and had been a
resident of that city for a number
of years.
John Brown was born and reared
at Lawrenceville, where he was
favorably known and highly es
teemed. He was formerly in the
mercantile business in Lawrence
ville and had been clerk of the city
council before taking up his resi
dence in Atlanta.
His remains were brought here
Monday night by Undertaker F. Q.
Sammon and taken to the residence
of W. L. Oakes.
Funeral services were held from
the First Baptist church Wednes
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, the same
being conducted by Rev. L. E.
Smith, with interment in the new
cemetery, the Masons having charge
at the grave. He was a past master
anda member of this lodge.
Mr. Brown was firty-five years
old and is survived by his widow,
who was Miss Nichols before their
marriage, and one small daughter.
Also by his mother and the follow
ing brothers and sisters: S. C.
Brown, Lawrenceville; Lee Brown.
Atlanta; Mrs. O. L. Atha and Mrs.
W. L. Oakes, of Lawrenceville.
Genial John Brown was well liked
and his untimely/passing will bring
sadness to the hearts of many
loyal friends as well as those who
Here so near and dear to hi-c.
FOR RENT
Good five-rom house, all conven
iences, on East Pike street for rent.
Possession January 23rd. See or
write, W. E. SIMMONS.
HOLIDAY NOTICE.
Saturday, January 19th, being
General Lee’s birthday and a legal
holiday, the banks will be closed.
The Brand Banking Co.
The First National Ban!;.
SALSBURY COTTON SEL^.
Jackson, Ga.—l will say with
pleasure that my SALSBURY Cot
ton is the best I have. I did nothing
to mine but plow and hoe it, and
owing to the smaal foliage of the
cotton, the weevil did not seem to
like to move in it, and harmed it
less than other cotton I have. I took
one test acre of your cotton; have
picked 1,183 lbs off of it to date,
and will pick over tomorrow again.
It is three weeks earlier than other
cotton planted at the same time.
Some one is out to see my cotton
patch all the time. I think they will
all plant next year. If I had planted
all my crops in it, I would have been
on Easy Street.
WADE H. HAMMOND.
SALSBURY cotton seed for
plnating are sold in Gwinnett coun
ty by W. L. Brown, Lawrenceville,
Ga.
Th^eek
By Arthur Brisbane
BRAVE MEN ARE VALUABLE.
POWER IN THE HEAD.
FOUR GREATEST HORSES.
WATCH EUROPE’S EXCHANGE.
A ChCicago professor translates
the Bible and cuts out completely
John’s story of the woman whom
CChrist forgave, saynig to the col
lection of old gentlemen with stones
in their hands:
“He that i« without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone at
her."
John never wrote that, says the
learned translator; somebody put
it in. Another learned man says the
Book of John was written two or
three hundred years after the death
of Christ, and, if that be true, John
might have missed something.
If now some other wise person
would cut out of the New Testa
ment “The Sermon on the Mount”
and “suffer little children to come
unto Me, and forbid them not,” the
job would be perfect.
The story about the woman for
given, in the eighth chapter of John,
is especially interesting, because in
all the Bible it contains the only
reference to any wrting done by
Christ: “Jesus stooped down and
with His finger wrote on the
ground.” And that answers in an
interesting way other wise men, in
cluding Renan, who say that Christ,
a simple peasant of Galilee, never
could read or write.
It pays to save little things. And
some very rich men are rich because
they know it. But suggest saving
to a young man who hasn’t got any
thing—he smiles compassionately
and passes on.
Henry Ford doesn’t do that. His
plant in Detroit saves waste paper,
string, used-up heads of mops, brok
en palis, nuts, bolts, etc. At the end
of a year the saving equals a mil
lion dollars a month.
It is planned to send the dirigible
Shenandoah to the North Pole; an
interesting idea, but some engineers
and others declare the Shenandoah
unfit for such a journey.
If there is any doubt about it,
Principals in Latest
Movie Mess
' \_y
Cd*a. PurvMnce^P/ncVr
atul ftlaiel flofltidHcl/ J
Above Is CourtUwl Dines. Denver
oil man. aboard a yacht with Eva
Purvlance (left) and Mabel Nor
inand (right). Below Is Miss Nor
inaod’s chauffeur, Horace Greer
who shot down Dines In the letter’s
home at the end of u New Year
celebration of the three. Greer
celled /or Miss Normand with her
car and claims Dines Interfered
with her departure—so he shot.
Dili** still lives.
A PRODUCT
OF MERIT
In the last issue of the News-
Herald there appet-red an adver
tisement of The American Agricul
tural Chemical Company, it being a
reminder that the famoug brand of
fertilizer, known throughout the
country as “The Old Dominion” can
be purchased this season from two
representatives in this county.
Te younger generation of farm
ers in this section of the state are
as familiar with the brand namei
“Old Dominion” as they are with
family names, cross roads and land
marks as this brand has been handed
down from generation to generation
and has become a part of many
planter’s lives to use the fertilizer
noted for its motto “The World’s
Best by Every Test.’
For many years The News-Herald
has run the messages of the better
fertilizer companies and it is always
a pleasure for any newspaper to
carry an advertisement for a firm
with the reputation that this one en
joys for the paper is always abso
lutely sure and certain beyond any
doubt that the statements made in
the advertisements are correct and
can easily be verified.
We have been advised indirectly
that the company will have on hand
in the warehouses of its representa
ttives a supply of calcium arsenate
for the use of its customers. This is
without doubt the great spirit of co
operation ever shown a southern
farmer inasmuch as it assures him
of calcium arsenate at all times at
a price commensurate with good
business, taking into consideration
the guarantee back of the product
offered.
This article would be incomplete
if we failed to mention the trade
mark at the top of the advertise
ment “A A Quality.” It is useless
to elaborate on the trade-mark—it
means exactly A A Quality; nothing
more—nothing less.
This wel known fertilizer is be
ing sold in Gwinnett county by
Messrs. J. P. Byrd at Lawrenceville,
and J. E. Johnson at Grayson, who
will be delighted to serve their
friends with this outstanding goods.
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there should be no such North Pole
trip, and men of high authority
should take no needless' risk with
others, especially as they themselves
would not be included in the crew.
Men were sent to their death in
badly made flying machines during
the war. But that was war. This is
peace, and men able and brave
enough for that North Pole trip
are valuable. A mere trip of inter
esting scientific investigation may
well be postponed until it can be
made safely.
Man is an inferior animal, science
tells yuu. If you were as strong as
an ant you could lift 120 tons. If a?
agile as a flea, you could jump over
a tall building. What of it?
By pressing a button, working a
machine created by hisb rain, man
can lift many thousands of tons. He
can’t jump like a flea, but he can
go up in a flying machine, and stay
up. The flea cannot do that. It’s bet
ter to have power in your head, than
in leg or arm.
“Market gouyant an a big turn
over” \-~.s the Wall Street line yes
terday. Somebdoy bought 1,319,000
shares of various bonds and nearly
all of them traveled upward.
It would be hard to find cause for
gloom as regards this country’s pros
perity. If our lawmakers would al
low, enough immigrants of the kind
that this country needs to come in
to develop unused acres, and con
sume surplus products, conditions
would be even better.
The worker who thinks that im
migrants would reduce wages should
remember that the average man
makes dtohy, with 110,000,000 peo
ple in the country, from six to ten
times as much as he made when
there were only 4,000,000 people
here.
The four greatest race horses in
the world—or at least the four best
advertised—Zev, Papyrus, Epinard
and Grey Lag, will race this year
at Ascot.
Any one of those horses would
sell for at least SIOO,OOO.
The automobile show, not far off,
will show you various cars, selling
for a few hundred dollars, any one
of which could take the four great
est race horses,, one after another,
and run them all to death in one af
ternoon.
Once fast horses were important.
Now they are part of gambling ma
chinery, and they won’t last long.
Asks Movie Pals
for SIOO,OOO
Thomas Meigbau, Chairman or
the Motion Picture Stars’ Commit
tee. has'tmdertaken to raise 100.000
of the million dollar fund to acquire
ami maintain Montlcello, Va„ Thom
as Jefferson’s home, as memorial tu
the champion of relieiou* libertv.
POLICEMAN WEST IS
SUSPENDED PENDING
PROBE OF SHOOTING
Atlanta, Ga.—County Policeman
D. B. West was suspended Tuesday
morning by Chief George Mathieson
pending a formal investigation and
hearing befroe the board of county
commissioners of tht accidental
shooting of Mrs. C. C. Cowan, 25
Catherine street, Monday afternoon,
as the officer was firing at the tires
of an automobile he believed to con
tain whisky. The shooting occurred
on Sylvan road.
With the statement from Edwin
F. Johnson, chairman of the police
committee of the Fulton county com
missioners, that “it is better for
twenty or ahundred liquor cars to
escape than for one innocent by
stander to be wounded,” county po
lice authorities Tuesday began a
searching investigation of the shoot
ing.
Mrs. Cowan, who was reported
well on the road to recovery at
Davis-Fischcr sanitarium Tuesday
morning, was shot late Monday as
she was walking on the sidewulk of
Sylvan road towards her home.
THE PENSION TOTAL
IS STILL MOUNNTING
ith 7,260 fewer pnesioners on the
government rolls than in 1922, ex
penditures increased $9,405,000 last
year, the pension bureau announced
ni its annual report. The ineiease
ni expenditures was ascribed to
changes in rates and methods of
payment.
The number of pensioners on the
roll June 30, 1923, was 539,756, as
against 547,016 on June 30, 1922.
Of the pensioners there were t68,-
632 Civil War veterans, 264,580
Civil War widows, 63,393 Spanish
war widows. There were yet on the
pension list 49 soldiers of the Mexi
can war and 40 widows whose hus
bands served in the war of 1812.
By classes there were on the pen
sion roll at hte close of the fiscal
year 253,605 soldiers, 278,700 wid
ows, 2,333 minor children, 931 help
less children, 4,106 dependents of
soldiers, and 81 female army nurs
es. During the year 25,452 Civil
War veterans died.
The total disbursements to pen
sionres, under the pension system,
which dated back to 1 790, have been
to the close of the fiscal year $6,-
of which $6,224,106,-
631 has been paid because of the
civil wap and $105,333,539 because
of the war with Spain.
Pensions vary from $2 to $116.67
a month, the largest being paid un
der a special act of congress to the
widow of Theodore Roosevelt.
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3 MEN DROP DEAD
IN 6 MILE RADIUS
Greensboro, Ga.—Three men
dropped dead from heart fail," ■> or
other natural causes near here with
in the last twenty-four hours.
Will English, of Veazy, near here
dropped dead as he climbed down
from a load of wood he wsa hauling
from the woods near his home He
was sixty years of age.
Dr. J. Tate, 65, former pastor of
the Gordon Street Baptist church,
Atlanta, who has moved to Penfield
near here, dropped dead in the home
of E._ L. Leach where hewas making
a call.
George Nixon dropped dead at
his ome about three miles from
Greensboro yesterday.
All three of the men were aged
and natural causes was assigned in
each case, according to a report of
Coroner Aleck Veazy, who stated
that there were witnesses and that
no inquest was contemplated.
A peculiar fact connected \*ith
the deaths is that the men lived
within a radius of six miles of each
othc.-.
TWICE-A-WEEK
TO SPEND AT
HOME IS WISE
A woman goes into a local depart
ment store and spends a dollar.
This is approximately how the
merchant spends it. Seventy-five
cents pays for the goods that were
sold to the shopper. Twenty cents
was paid for labor, upkeep, book
losses and other charges, all of
which were disbursed in the com
munity. Five cents was left to the
merchant. That was spent in this
town, too. It was paid for the food
and clothing of his family, his in
surance, taxes and other expenses
of community living.
Another woman sent a dollar away
for a shirt waist, advertised in the
catalogue of a mail order house.
This is approximately how the mail
order houses pends it The waist
cost sixty cents. The executive and
overhead expenses, advertising and
other charges were thirty cents and
the balance was credited to the divi
dend account.
The woman who mailed her mon
ey away lost in two ways, inferiori
ty of goods and her money sent out
of the community never to return.
There is no come back in doing
business with a mail order pirate.
He has everything ONE WAY—HIS
WAY. You’re the small end of the
horn. The other end of the horn
drips prosperity for the mail order
business is a horn of plenty, with
you as the mouthpiece doing all the
work, and he is th e big end, MAK
ING ALL THE NOISE.
You literally pay the freight, not
only on the goods, but for hundreds
of thousands of splashy catalogues.
You pay the salaries of scores of de
partmental heads, and a staff per
haps, of liviried servants in the man
sion on a western lake front.
The characteristic of human cre
dulity is the factor that the mali or
der deceiver banks upon when he
mails that costly catalogue to yon.
He knows that even a small pur
chase will return to him the exoense
?f printing it. He has his costs so
figured.
hen you look that book over yod
forget the honest value waiting for
you n the shelves of the home mer
chant, you forget that to him you
owe patronage because he is a com
munity unbulider and employs home
’abor and contributes his profitß to
town prosperity.
These things and other things slip
from your mind as you contemplate
the gaudy illustrations and the false
values that beckon from that allur-
ing page.
Perhaps a tenth of the population
of this community patronize the mail
order house. Supposing ten-tenths
did what would happen to this, our
home town. The main streets would
abut up hsop and go home and the
town would become worse thaiv
Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.’*
Keep your money here. Let the le
gitimate profits on your purchase
stay where they belong. Let your
dollar become community dollars,
working for community betterment.
The compensation paid to the
clerks, the insurance paid to the
agents, the tax paid to the town,
coal bills, light bills, water bills,
worry the merchant who depends or
an honest profit to meet them. Give
him that honest profit nistead of
sending it away to folks that don’t
care a hang whether you’re poor or
prosperous, well or sick, but who
would regret your death because of
the loss of an easy mark.
COLD WAVE MADE CLEAN
CROP KILL MIDDLE GEORGIA
Macon, Ga.—Crop damage in
middle Georgia by the freeze l of
January 5, 6 and 7 was the worst in
'he history of the state, declared
W. G. Middlebrooks, Bibb county
farm demonstratino agent, Tuesday.
“It was a clean sweep; the clean
est sweep I have ever seen, said Mr.
Middlebrooks, after returning from
an inspection of several young al
falfa fields. “There isn’t even an
onion left. Collards, cabbages, car
rots —in fact ail kinds of early
truck, were completely wiped out.
• “And now I find that most of the
young alfalfa was killed. There will
be no grain crop in middle Georgia,
wth the possible exception of a lt
tle rye, and even the rye crop has
been badly damaged. Oats and
wheat have been completely des
troyed. The old alfalfa folds have
been damaged, but that crop is not
killed. The young alfalfa is gone.”
The same damage that has been
suffered by middle Georgia will ap
ply to other sections of Georgia, ac
cording to Mr. Middlebrooks, even
as far as the Florida line. The loss
will run into millions of dolliuh.
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NUMBER 23.