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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. i SEND US YOUR JOB WORK. 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. SEND US YOUR JOB WORK 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. SEND US YCUR JOB WORK 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. SEND US YOUR JOB WORK NUMBER 23.