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UNION RECORDER- MILLEUCEVILLE. GA, DECEMBER 20. 1028
BUKftL 1 WEALTH
LOCATERS BUSY
Bor SCOUT H5P0ES GIVE
THEIR LIVES FOR OTHERS
of Such Abound
These Days in Central
Kentucky.
t • "I ■* '"** «* **MWl lias
t ;i from the earth, ami »> far
( , | ba» disproved It. us the Uis-
. tens disappeared. There Imve
, r . ir.r' for many years of large
. : > in C" :, l and silver burled In cen-
i by planter* during the
riu l uar l» prevent marauding band*
r.im or another of the armies
unking juvay with It.
.f.imn. Boner, a respected and pros-
prnns negro, tells the queerest story
.,r flip recent search for treasure un-
«icr ihc pound. No onu has ques*
M iied bis veracity and his reputation
!« "f the highest. Boner lives on the
of Uerringtun lake, a huge body
it water created by erection of the
>lx river power dam.
Wore Official Ba-ige.
Boner says u negro in an automobile
crime to the Boner home. The stran
ger. according to Boner, drew back
the lapel of bis coat and allowed the
-tare cf Boner to rest upon an Im
pressive appearing badge. The negro.
Boner says, declured he was a ‘‘gov
ernment man" and that there was a
pot of gold burled on the farm of
Addison and William I'ecce, across the
lake In Garrard county. The stranger
requested Boner to accompany him to
the place where the money was burled
as the coin was in a kettle, which
would bo very heavy and he would
need help to lift It; likewise he would
require the aid of some one to hold a
flashlight while he (the stranger) wub
making the excavation for the money.
Boner told the negro that he did not
care to go. as he was old and had al
ready retired for the night. Finally,
however. Boner agreed to accompany
him. Along the uoute the visitor con-
tided to Boner that he had been en
dowed with power to locate buried
money. He went, accompanied by
Boner, straight to a place on the
Bonce farm where two ledges of rock
almost met and begun digging at a
spot which was covered with grass
and where. It seemed, the ground had
not been disturbed for many years.
Boner held the flashlight while the
negro sank a pick into the hard
ground. He dug about two hours,
said, and then there came the
ting" of the pick against something
de of Iron. Little by little a huge
kettle was uncovered.
d the strange negro
lifted the Implement from the ground.
Boner says the kettle weight'd lot)
pounds at least. The strange ur-gro
then pried up the lop and took there
from three silver dollars, a few quar
ters and half dollar pieces. Boner
said he also saw some gold coins, and
de hired the Under estimated that the
fcet le contained SfiO.UDO. Then the
twr men put the kettle Into the
uejro’s car and the “mystery man"
sp- d awuy In the darkness.
Kettle on Bcner’s Farm.
While Boner pondered all next day
there were no developments, but that
night the stranger reappeared. He told
Boner that there was a kettle of
money buried on Boner's farm and
that at a later date he would return
and dig it up for Bone*- if tiie latter
would divide with him. The stranger
offered to exchange some $.*>0 gold
pieces with Boner for silver or paper
Families Awarded Gold Medals for
Youths Who M^do tbs Supreme
Sacrifice.
| Xm York.—In m: mpllns rewuo
nf drownlns |n rsiui. Hire, [lev Soon:
IUT.HO. outdo 11,0 M,pro,tie sturiOce, II
was unmoiuced at the national ndi<vs
• •f the Boy Scout • or America In New
York, through the Boy Scout tiutimnt
. onrt of. honor, of which Daniel Car
ter Beard Is chairman.
The three scout heroes whose lives
were lost were Guy Atwood Buggies
of lecuntseli. Okla.: Curtin Larsen of
Barren. Pa., and Charles McKnctt ol
Huntington Park. Calif.
Awards of gold honor medals to Uie
parents of these three boys and to
M ven other scouts who endangered
their lives In making rescues, were
made by the national court of honor.
Certificates of heroism also were Is
sued to many scouts whose scoot
training made it possible to save the
lives of others without grave danger
to themselves.
Scout Rugglc- was drowned June
10. 1028, In rescuing Miss Jewell
Caler of Lindsay, Okla.. from n
treacherous stream ueur David, okla.
Buggies, a life scout, twenly-one jears
old, became exhausted and sank after
getting .Miss Caler to shallow water.
Sacrificing Ids own life in a success
ful effort to save Ids younger sister.
Scout Curtis Maxwell Larsen, thirteen,
of Troop No. 4. Warren. Pa., was
drowned in the Alleghany river at Big
| Bend on July 10. 11*27. The scout was
rowing a boat In which were also two
of hi* sisters. The younger fell over
board. Scout l.ai.-cii. an inexperienced
swimmer, nevertheless dove into the
, water and brought bis sister to the
boat. He sank and drowned.
Scout Charles Kdwat'd McKnctt.
twelve, of Troop No. 17. Huntington
Park, Calif., attempted to rescue his
younger brother, Bobert. nine, from n
deep pool below the falls of Fish can
yon In the San Bernardino mountains,
on June 3. 1D2S. The McKnctt fam
ily. consisting ot the father and moth
er and three hoys, were on a picnic
at Fish Canyon. One of the boys,
Kobe ft, plunged Into the pool and
Chnrles and a younger brother ar
rived. Bobert was seised with cramps
and sank, Charles directed n Rtlll
younger brother to run for help and
leaped In. He could not break the
drowning grip of bis brother and war
pulled to the bottom.
NEW TELESCOPE
MOSTPOWERFUl
Hdf Billion Stars Will B?
Seen for th- First
Time.
Washington.—About a half-hllllon
stars that cannot now be seen or
photographed with any teleseeope, ns
well a* thousands ot inconceivably re
mote nebuli.e. will tie within the
iWW-inch telescope, announced by the
California Institute of Technology at
Pasadena. Is completed. But jstron
omen, an? not Interested merely in
great numbers, and that alone would
not justify the millions of dollars ilia:
will he spent on the groat instrument.
The closer and brighter things Hint
will he seen better are what particu
larly interest the astronomer. But
I hot
only
tey. but Bon
isidci
able wealth, had no funds In the bouse.
Next day Boner decided to take
“white folks" Into In* confidence and
to id Squire Nelson May and his Ron
Albert May. with Mr. Hatcher and
other citizens. All visited the place on
the farm where Boner says the treae-
1 urc was taken from and there, right
under their eyes was the excavation.
Inquiry in Danville has developed
that at least four well-to-do negroes
have been visited by unknown persons
who claimed *hey bad found pots of
gold and silver in and around this
section. No attempt has been made
to impose upon the ii
in August. James Ashe, u farmer
the county, was going through Ids
farm when a dog began barking at n
tree stump. Ashe dug into the stump,
believing n rabbit to be therein, and
discovered a kettle containing
in silver coined between 1»l0 and
• He placed this money In a
ngfield (Ky.) bank,
ories are current from practically
y town In this section of Kentucky
r»*n having been hidden In ancient
or farms during the Civil war
and now and then loose coins are
nnd while farmers are plowing.
Turkish Women Slew
to Aucpi Short Shirts
Constantinople. - Turkish women
arc not adopting the new regulations
in respect to short skirts ami bobbed
hair ns readily as was expected. Al
though many a close-fitting little
cloche tint :.nd many a pair of silk
stockings are s»s?u on the streets of
Constantinople, the tnore-wnseivative'
women, both here and in the smaller
towns, are resisting the innovations
stubbornly.
Beccntiy Kiazlm Pasha, the presi
dent of the Angora assembly, felt the
necessity of Issuing a series of sharp
rebukes to his countrywomen.
"To let bobbed hair grow cut
again." is a retrograde step, a back
ward movement from the way of prog
ress. Long ago men got rid of their
long locks: it is now women's turn to
do the same."
The same applied to short skirts,- lie
furthei staled.
“No woman today can sweep the
streets with long skirts without being
ridiculous. They are in no way titled
to the structure of the feminine body
and I see no reason to hide the leg-
in a full and shapeless bundle."
Silk bead scarfs also eatno In for
their shade of criticism. The pasha
announced firmly that western lints
were far more becoming. Scarfs were
like ugly nightcaps, be asserted.
beating Out-of Date,
Say Grocery Specialists
lea go.—a group of grocery spe-
ts gathered in the ballroom of a
"liable North side hotel qnd com-
1 notes on how Americans treat
stomach*.
"■■is decided that, altogether, we
r “tf stomachs a pretty good break,
1 better. In fac*. than our grand-
f* did We eat HI per cent less
' than wj. did ten years ago. and
* all right with the American
* r >' Specialty Manufacturers’ a#-
Hon. ton. because we pay more
that we eat.
The Pig, Not the Cat,
Came Back This Time
Brentwood, N. II.—The cat comes
back, but so docs the pig. Not long
ago Bay Pike sold a young pig to u
man who lives two miles away. The
pig was put in n bag and carried U.
Ids new home, which was a perfectly
good oue, hut the little pig was not
contented. He got out of his p*;n.
traveled about a I t and two In days
was back in bis old pen. He showed
all sorts of nffccti n when he saw bis
mother, and she was Just about us
glad to see him. which is not always
the case when pigs are separated for
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Shoe Man Inherits g
Ancient Hammer ?
’’ Fenton. Ohio— O. S. Wilson. S
i a South side shoe deuler of tills S
g village, owns a hammer with n g
O history. Documentary evident
n In Wilson's possession «tnt«
O that the hammer was fin
§ brought to tills country fro
g Scotland In 1700 by Jessy Jus
a lice, who used it In the eon
5 s t ruction of some of Phlln
O delphia’s early frame buildings
n At Justice's death the hammer
d wot bequeathed to Ills son. und
2 descending from one generation
o to the next, it eventually came
g luto Its present owner's posse*
slon about one month ago. Th?
handle, undoubtedly made from
a hickory sapling, was placed In
the hammer 83 rears ago.
Ingtunce. there urc
the spiral nebula. Thousands ot
these have been observed in the »k>.
all with the characteristic spiral struc
ture more or less evident. For years
their nature was subject of dispute
until Dr. Kdvvln P. Hublde of the
Mount Wilson observatory, with pho
tographs made with the ldtMncb tele
scope, still the world’a largest, dell
nitely showed wtr t they urc. His
photographs revealed the Individual
stars or which they arc constituted.
They showed that these nebulae are
systems of stars like that of which the
Milky Way, and all the stars that we
can sec. including the sun. are part.
Two Nebulae Observed.
Two spiral ncbulea, out of tne thou
sands that are shown, do not form a
very largo proportion, although there
is plenty of evidence that the two
studiert an* rather typical of the
group. Astronomers have been anx
ious to observe the two even better.
The 200-inch telescope will do this.
Perhaps a half dozen or so nebulene.
that now uppenr us continuous ureas
of light, will be resolved Into their
constituent slurs. If Ibis Is done,
their distance can be measured.
Some distant spiral ncbulea. now
Invisible, undoubtedly will come Into
view. The farthest now In reach of the
lou-irirh telescope are something like
vto million million million miles away
-so fur lnut their light takes 140-mil
• ion years to reach us. With the new
telescope thousands beyond will Is*
visible, the farthest of them being
nearly five thousand million million
million, or five scxlillion miles from
us. And when they are seen, the light
exposing the photographic plates
will have been on Its way for a
thousand million years—since a time
•ong before man appeared on the
earth, nnd when the planet itself was
still young.
Sun Will Be Observed.
Another field for the 20t)-inch tele
scope will he the members of the
solur system. As it is planned to
make the mirror ot quartz, which will
uot expand distortingly under the
sun’s rays, it will be possible to use
it for observations of the sun. The
planets will be brought almost to
within hailing distance, and some ol
the present-day mysteries concerning
Mars. Jupiter and the other plants
may be solved.
In deciding on a telescope with a
mirror 200 Inches In diameter, the
astronomers are making the greatest
jump in size since Isaac Newton In
vented the reflecting telescope. It
was in 1072 that, in order to over
come the defects that were then in
lierent In refracting telescopes. In
which the light rays were brought t
a focus by a glass lens, be made the
first reflector. Here, a dlsh-slmpeo
mirror reflected the rays hack to
ward the object, and at the same rime
brought them to a fm-us. A second
and flat, mirror, reflected the rays t»
the side, where the observer could sec
the image, without getting Ids head in
the way. Newton s original reflector
with a mirror only two inches In
diameter. Is still In the possession of
the Boynl society in London. In 172::
the astronomer. Hadley, showed lie-
proper curves that should be given t<
the mirror to give the best Images
and from then on large reflectors be
came possible.
CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENT
With the coining of the Uletide and Dear Old Santa Claus, we will be prepared
as ever to fill your wants in all lines of good things to eat.
Cakes—We will have a nice line of plain pound cakes, layer cakes, and fruit
cakes ail sizes.
Fruits—Apples, Oranges, Tangerines, Grapefruits, Bananas, Cocanuts in ail sizes
and prices.
Dried Fruits—Delicious Peaches, Prunes, Apples, Seeded, and Puffed Raisins.
Currants, Citron Orange and Lemon, peel Crystalized Pineapple and Cherries.
Figs and pitted dates also all kinds of nuts.
Lxtracts and Spices—Rum, Brandy Cherry, Lemon, Vanilla, Strawberry, Rasp
berry, Pineapple, Peach, Banans, Rose Celery etc. Also all kinds spices.
FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS!
We will again be prepared to furnish you with all kinds of Fireworks at whole
sale and retail prices—
We thank you for youi past patronage and assure you that no one will ap
preciate your future business any more than we will.
CHANDLER BROTHERS
260 PHONES 280
P. S. Vegetables—We will have a nice line of Cranberries, Lettuce. Celery, Car
rots etc.
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Afghan King Builds
a New Capital City
London.—The now Afghan capital
city. Dnrlnhman. which will replace
old Kabul. Is noaring completion on
modern and completely western lines
say Afghan newspapers reaching hen*.
Amannllnh. who recently visited Eu
ropean ’ countries. Is ambitious id
transplanting western Ideas, culture
and methods of living to Ills mountain
The nucleus of the new city Is the
official quarter. This will consist of
a modern palace, equipped with the
latest facilities, and a number of hug"
government buildings which will bouse
departments.
all
Night Flyers Warned
to Look Out for Bird*.
Washington.—The War department ‘
tins cautioned night filers to look out |
for large flocks of birds that have been ,
linrrnsing night Hying operations In |
the vicinity of the national capita* I
Several minor collisions with hint
flocks have been reported. Cap!. Boss
G. Hoyt encountered three different I
flocks no one flight recently. Serious
consequences are feared If a bird
should strike and break a propeller.
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