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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 c ec-oooc cooooc moss wkhkkhm 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. :zzxxxxxxx:c 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. Last Minute Shopping Is Made Easy at Holloway’s Buy His Gift from His FAVORITE STORE BEAUTIFUL TIES IN GIFT BOXES AT PRICES TO SUIT YOU SOX—ALLEN A SILKS. SILK AND WOOL-PLAIN AND FANCY PATTERNS HICK0K BaT SETS—BELT BUCKLES—AND BELT-0-CRAM - THE GIFT EVERY MAN NEEDS OUR STOCK IS MOST SELECTIVE AND YOU KNOW IT IS A GIFT TO BE APPRECIATED John Holloway THE MAN’S STORE XTXXTXXXTTfXXXXXXXXXXTXXTXXXXXXXXXXXXXTX