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MONDAY. MAY It. 1t24.
PAINT
H. B. Davis Paint and Varnish Products
It will be a pleasure for us to have one of our paint salesmen
call on you and assist you in selecting suitable colors, giving es
timates, etc., for any kind of painting job.
He can furnish color cards and tell you all about the high
quality of Davis 100 per cent Pure Paint.
Call us on long distance at our expense.
FULTON LIME
& CEMENT CO.
General Builders’ Supplies
521 E'dgewood Ave. Ph. Ivy 4751 Atlanta, Ga.
MRS. LILLIE EXUM
Miss Eula Cain spent Sunday in
Decatur and Atlanta.
Mrs. Hainey, of Gainesville, was
the week end guest of Miss Daisy
Oakes.
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The local banks have announced
that during the summer months they
will close on Saturdays at 2 p. m.
Mr. William V. Pentecost, of At
lanta, spent Sunday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Pentecost.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Griffin and
family of Atlanta, visited here Sun
day. -
Mr end Mrs. Hyman Saui and
sen. Donald, were in Atlant i Sun
da;..
Mr. Maynard Tanner, of Atlanta,
is the - guest of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Tanner.
Mr. Percy Tanner, of Winder, was
the Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Tanner.
Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Hagood and
children, Gunter and Elaine, were
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Hagood in Atlanta.
Miss Margaret Sammon, who has
been teaching in Byron for the past
year, is visiting relatives in Law
renceville.
Mr. and Mrs. Hovey jriiarr will oc
cupy the house on Crogan street re
cently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. E.
M. Rockmore.
Mrs. I. J. Phillips, Jr,, and small
son, of Hartwell, who have been the
guests of Mr. J. H. McGee and fam
:y, returned home Saturday.
Mr. D. B. Dixon, manager of the
movie, theater of Winder, has taken
over the Strand Theater in Law
renceville giving the first perform
ance on last Thursday night. Mr.
Dixon is an experienced movie man
and promises this city the latest and
best in motion pictures.
ROOFING
Use long distance telephone at our expense
to get prices on Red, Green and Blue Black
Roofing.
We can furnish you with Individual Shin
gles, 10 or 12 inch Strip Shingles. Double Type,
Autumn Blend and Slate Roll in any of the three
beautiful colors.
SAMPLES FURNISHED FREE
Fulton Lime
& Cement Co.
General Builders’ Supplies
521 Edge wood A ve. Ph. Ivy 4751 Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. .All Herrington, .who has been
ait on din 4 Delco school .in At.anta.
for a week,, is now home again and
is prepared to give service on all
Deico products, including installa
tion of Frigidaire.
Miss Minnie Peeples, Miss Julia
Morcock, Mrs. C. U. Born and Mr.
C. W. Houston motored over to Jef
ferson Sunday afternoon and were
the guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. T.
Eakes and Mr. and Mrs. Akin.
Miss Florence Sammon of State
Normal, Athens, will be the guest of
her parents for a few days, during
commencement, coming over this
evening. She will be accompanied by
several friends.
Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, wife
of Rev. J. W. Montgomery, was
stricken with paralysis at the home
near the depot Friday. Numerous
friends of the family trust that she
will soon recover.
Miss Anne Bagwell is the winner of
first prize, “The Grandeur of Soli
tude,” in Artistic Photography by
Southern Amateurs, shown in the Gra
vure Pictorial Section of last Sunday’s
Atlanta Constitution. Her Lavvrence
ville friends are interested in her
achievements.
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Word has been received in Law
renceville of an automobile wreck
in Quitman in‘which Mr. Guy Hay
good was severely injured. Mr. Hay
good is well known here being the
son of Mr. Mack M. Haygood, for
mer citizen of this county, and it is
trusted that his recovery will be rap
id.
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Let’s have a splendid fine arts ex
hibit from Lawrenceville at the con
vention May 27-28. Those living in
Lawrenceville who are proficient in
any of the following will be eligible:
Paintings, china paintings, needle
work, basketry, artificial flowers, pos
ters, original poems, stories, plays
and music.
Mr. and Mrs Luther Rogers had as
their guests Sunday afternoon Mrs.
E. M. Rockmore and daughter, Miss
Letitia, Mr. William Pentecost of
Atlanta, little Miss Annell Pente
cost, Miss Kate Rogers, Dean Rog
ers, C. U. Born and Mrs. Mary Ha
good, all of whom enjoyed some de
licious cream.
firs. E. M. Rockmore a. ’ lit'.
Mks Letitia Bockroore left today for
Macon where .they will visit for some
time before joining Mr. Rockmore ill
Vii'ginia for the summer.
Rev. J. H. Webb pastor of the
First Baptist church of Monroe,
preached the commencement sermon
at the auditorium on Sunday morn
ing, delivering a most eloquent dis
course.
RECEPTION GIVEN BY P. T.
AS. THURSDAY EVENING
A most enjoyable occasion was
that of last Thursday evening when
the P. T. A’s. entertained for the
faculty of the Lawrenceville school
and the Senior class at the audito
rium.
A very interesting progran. was
rendered by the children of the pri
mary and grammar grades. After
wards the guests were invited into
the library where delicious punch
and sandwiches were served.
About seventy-five guests were
present.
MRS H. C. SMITH ENTERTAINS.
On last Friday afternoon, Mrs. H.
C. Smith entertained most charming
ly at a lovely party, complimenting
her sister, Mrs. Ernest Schroder, of
New York.
The house was beautifully decor
ated in pink roses, the color scheme
of pink being carried out in the ices
and mints.
Rook was the feature of the after,
noon’s entertainment, there being
five tables.
The tally cards were dainty
brides.
Mrs. Schroder was lovely in a
gown of blue flat crepe.
Mrs. Smith was becomingly gown
ed.
A delightful buffet luncheon was
served, consisting of an ice course,
coffee, cheese straws and mints.
The guests included besides the
hostess and guest of honor:
Mesdames D: M. Byrd, L. R. Mar
tin, E. M. Rockmore, Clayton Webb,
W‘. H. Nicholson, C. E. Monfort, W.
H Powell, Bobbie Davis, Nix Meth
vin. Rube Smith, J. C. Houston, Hop
son Young, Weyman Gower, How
ard Garner, J. L. Exum, Misses Min
nie Peeples, Pearl Mitchell and Doris
Cooper.
THE NEWS-HERALD, Lmnuyfl*. Crnih
SENIORS ENTERTAINED.
Miss Opal Hurst entertained Tues
day evening in honor of the senior
class. The house was prettily deco
rated in the class colors, gold and
white. Delightful refreshments were
served. The main feature of the
evening was a prom.
Among those present were: Misses
Nell Forrester. Nellie Benson, Chloe
Teague, Essie Davis, Bertie Bailey,
Vandoria Hurst, Dorothy Thompson,
Daisy Hewatt, Frances Haslett, Wy
nelle Webb, Annie J. Pentecost,
Gladys Youngblood, Rnth Willis, Mary
Hagood, Runell Pruett, Runette
Wright, Julia Morcock; Messrs Her
man Tanner, Hugo Corbin, Dean King,
Harvey Pruett, Quill Sammon, Willis
Holland, Lester Garner, Alvin Hinton,
Robert Thompson, Jimmie Comfort,
Tom Pate, Winn Jackson, Spencer
Byrd, Tom Santmon, Austin Webb,
Terrell Jackson, Hugh Stanley.
FOR SALE.
150 bushels of Lookou# Mountain
Seed Potatoes for saie at $1.60 per
bushel if taken at once. Also good
four and one-half gallon cow for
sale. See, phone or write,
L. R. MARTIN,
m26c Lawrenceville, Ga.
PIENTV Of GAS.
AUTOMGBILISTS will he interest
o lc :i that all records arc being
r l:en n the production,of gasoline.
Whether the enormous output will
bo reflected in a reduction in prices
is a matter 01 speculation. •
An announcment by the Depart
ment of Interior will be interesting
news to “gas”, users. It follows:
“The gasoline refiners of the coun
try continue to set new records in
the production oi this commodity,
the output in March amounting to
713,248,292 gallons, which surpasses
by 48,000,000 gallons the previous
high record established in January.
‘‘Statistics collected by the Bu
reau of Mines show also that a new
high record in gasoline stocks was
attained on April 1, when 1,571.104,-
6G7 gallons were on hand at refin
eries.
“The figure represents an increase
of practically 200,000,000 galons on
March 1 .Production of gasoline in
March of this year shows a daily in
crease of 3,030,546 gallons, or 17.8
per cent over the March 1923, fig
ures, and a daily increase of 605,-
396 gallons, or 2.6 per cent over the
figures for February, 1924. These
figures are indicative of the normal
tread in the production of
gasoline during the winter months,
the output during this period being
generally in excess of the consump
tion in order to provide large stor
age reservoirs to s.upply the country
during the summer motoring season.
“Domestic demands or gasoline
during March is reported by the Bu
reau of Mines at 462,020,385 gal
lons, an increase of 3.5 per cent,
over the figures for March of last
year, and an increase of 6 per cent
over the figures for February, 1924.
Exports of gasoline decreased 18,-
455,988 gallons as compared with
the exports for the previous month.
“The output of gas and fuel oils
■for March was 1,114,411,725 gallons
as compared with 970,891,272 gal
lons in March, 1923, an increase of
143,520,453 gallons. Stocks decreas
ed 41,047,486 gallons during the
month.
S£ND US YOUR JOB WORK.
PLANTING TIME IS HEFcb
The farmers are busiest ofi all
people just at this season. The
weather is ripe for paining and pre
paring for crops and every day is
counting for much with the tillers
of the soil. The season has been un
usually late, but ifthe present
weather continues for a few weeks
longer, crops will be as far advanced
as they would ordinarily under
favorable seasons.
In this section the farmers have
increased their acreage in foodstuff
and reduced in acreage of cotton
which is one of the moost enturag
ing signs for better times this fall,
with incereased acreage of food
stuff for both man and beast the
country is bound to prosper and
grow richer.
That a fair crop of cotton will be
gown these is no dout. Our peopU
have learned how to control or
eradicate the ravages of the boll
weevil and instead of making a
bale to three or four acres, they
will make almost a bale to th? acre
and in some instances they wiil
average a bale. Thal( coondition
is encouraging and will stimulate
every line of business. Whiie this
section has long since gotten away
from the one crop idea, yet it is
well to raise a iartain perrentage of
sotton. Diversification of crops has
been the saving of our people and
with improved conditions there can
never be danger of the agricultural
interests suffering in this section.
F. Q. SAMMON.
Funeral Director acd Scientific
EMBALMER,
I carry a full line of Coffins, Cas-
Kets, Burial Suits, Robes, Etc.
Calk Filled Day or Nnigia*.
Free hearse to customers.
Lawrenceville, Ga.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK.
T.he Australian Ballot.
With politics in the atmosphere
and the prospect of bringing the old
ballot box in pse again this year, the
Australian ballot is finding unusual
favor in many parts of the state, ac
cording to reports received here.
Under an act of the legislature it is
possible for any county in Georgia to
adopt the “Australian ballot” system
in white primaries. A number of
counties acted favorably on this elec
tion method this spring and the re
ports indicate that the voters were
highly pleased with the plan.
Political leaders assert that the se
cret ballot is the one thing needed to
perfect Georgia’s white primary sys
tem. It was pointed out that every
qualified voter has a right to cast his
ballot without interference from any
one in any way, and the Australian
ballot gives him perfect protection in
that right. Rich or poor, educated or
illiterate, his ballot is his own, to be
cast as he pleases—however wisely or
unwisely.
“The white primary is the political
salvation of the south,” said E. B.
Russell, editor of the Cedartown Stan
dard, who is urging its adoption in
his home county of Polk. “The wn'te
primary was adopted to secure de
cency as far a* possible in our politi
cal life, and I am fully convinced that
it will ho wisely strengthened by the
addition of the Australia.! ballot.”
Railroad transportation costs arc
credited with an importance in the
cost of living entirely unwarranted by
the facts, in the opinion of freight
agents in- Atlanta who discussed the
subject today at the request, of the
correspondent of this news service.
Of the 10 cents paid for a loaf of
bread in the larger cities of the
country, according to the federal de
partment of agriculture, to which the
freight agents called attention, the
railroads receive a third of a Cent for
transporting the wheat to the mills
and a sixth of a cent for bringing the
flour to the baker.
“If the railroads carried the wheat
and flour for nothing, the saving on
the price of a 10-cent loaf of bread
would be only half a cent, promising
no reduction to the customer,” said
one Atlanta agent.
It was pointed out that if dealers’
purchases are made from reasonable
sources of supply one never pays as
much as a cent a pound in freight
charges on sugar, coffee, oatmeal, po
tatoes, eggs, fresh meat, butter, or
some twenty-five other important ar
ticles of food.
Railroads, it was asserted,receive
about 6 cents for carrying a suit of
clothes 300 miles, and about 5 cents
for transporting a pair of shoes a
similar distance.
Freight rates on American railroads
are the lowest in the world, agents
declare. The average rate on a ton
of freight carried one mile in the
United States is approximately 1
cent. For an equivalent service Eng
lish railroads receive three times as
much, and French and German roads
ibout four times as much.
YOUTHFUL BABE RUTHS.
Where two or three boys are gath
ered together there is the start of a
hall game. It matters not that an
alley, a street, backyard, is all that is
available. The rules are adjusted to
suit the conditions. The American
boy holds a master’s degree in accom-
Public Sale
OF VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY
Will be sold before the court house door on
the first Tuesday in June, 1924, all my property
in city of Lawrenceville, part of the James H.
Patterson home place, consisting of Lots Nos. 11
and 12, 50x50, fronting east on Perry street,
north by C. H. Woodruff, west by T. L. Harris,
south by T. L. Harris.
Lots Nos. 20, 21, 22, 52x50, bounded as fol
lows: On east by lots of W. T. Tanner, north by
lots of W. S. Sims, west by Culver Alley, south by
New street,
On lots 20, 21, 22 is a new five-room dwell
ing, only been built about three years.
Lots Nos. 11,12, facing Perry street, are the
most desirable building lots in Lawrenceville.
TERMS CASH.
J. A. TOWNLEY
For More Particulars See
JOHN M. LANGLEY, Lawrenceville, Ga.
modating himself to circumstances.
Observation is convincing that there
is as much fun to be had in playing
an alley game interrupted frequently
by passing‘trucks and with improvised
c ji! pment as under conditions where
there is more room and nothing to in
terfere with the progress of the game.
If a mitt salvaged from a rubbish
heap is not the prized possession of
tome boy something else can be made
to supply the deficiency, for no self
respecting boy would try to play ball
without giving at least an imitation of
possessing a mitt. And games of this
character are thoroughly democratic.
There is no snobbery, no race preju
dice. Boys of a half dozen shades of
color may participate, but they are
Americans because they are devoted
to the national game.
One who observes the efforts of
small boys in playing ball amid such
restricted surroundings cannot repress
a regret that better facilities for play
are no; afforded. Yet those who make
•he best of what they have are learn
ig a valuable lesson, though they
may not be aware of it. The small
d r an alley and get a lot of fun out
of it is imbibing instruction in the
philosophy of getting something out
of Ife wherever life finds him. He
should have a better place to play,
hut a wider space might make less de
mand on his ingenuity. Thus there
ore lessons to be learned in cramped
quarters for the bay v\ho is alert.
Ana the right, kind of a boy who
learns to make the best of an idle-,
'•“'h bn the kind who will make the
most ( .' his c i cumstanres in iater life
and he s noi likely to be satisfied
v.ith an alley when he gets old enough
to work for himself in the more seri
ou.- game of life
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sl7 WORTH OF
BARREL HOOPS
That Was Rockefeller’s First
Investment
And his early history is that of every poor
boy who has become rich. He had the desire to
save and, what was more to the point, had the
WILL to save also. Do you mean to say you can’t
make up your mind to start?
Our savings department will make it easy for
you to accumulate the first few dollars that lead
to independence and success.
Call and Talk It Over
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Of Lawrenceville
We Pay 4 Per Cent on Savings
TUCK-MIDDLEBROOKS.
Mr. Arthur J. Tuck and Miss Katie
Mae Middlebrooks were happily mar
ried on May 11th by Rev. L. F. Her
ring, of Grayson. The couple reside
near Lawrenceville.
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK.
When You See U» Don'* Think
of Insurance; When You Think
of Insurance, See Us.
happens j ;
WE will write you a blanket in
surance policy protecting
you in every way from financial
loss. You will enjoy your auloing
more ii' you don't carry Old Man
Worry with you as a passenger.
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