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ZEbc Cleveland Courier.
Official ()rgan of Whitt County . Ga
Published Weekly *t Cleveland Ga,
Jas. P. Davidson, Editor.
Entered at the Post iffice at Cleveland
Ga.. an second class mail uiatier.
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The per capita expenditure for
postage in the United States
amounts to $5.09 annually, states
Third Assistant Postmaster Gener
K. S. Regar.
Senator Wm. J. Harris attended
every meeting of the senate except
one and was absent from the capi
tal only one day, when lie went
Gettysburg, Pa., to deliver an ad¬
dress in connection wiili the trails
f'er of a cannon to trie citizens
Marietta, Ga.
Sam Small stales that 90%
the South is Democratic and dry,
and that they *ill vote the demo¬
cratic ticket at.d that there is no
use to put a dry plank in the plat¬
form.
Well,don’t that knock you cold?
If it is true, why are the Baptist,
Methodist undPresbyterian church
es demanding that a dry man be
neminnted f Haven’t they got
enough strength to make their de¬
mands given seiious and sober at¬
tention? Since the strongest can¬
didate, Ai Smith, is a wet and
running on a wet ticket, isn’t it
only reasonable to expect that the
Protestant churches will see that a
plank is placed in the platform up¬
holding prohibition ?
When you need any kind
printing done give your order
The Courier.
The continuous rains are
the burners have despondent feel
ing. Many of them haven’t
ed plunting. We wish lliut
hud power to give them a few
sunshine so their faces
brighten up.
The Courier is glad that
editorials 011 the Houston
tion June j 6 is cuusiiig the
of White county to give some
ous thinking on this important
casion.
No one don’t know what the out
come may he, hut as many
are doing their utmost to
and try to convince the people
Al Smith, the wet Tammany
olic candidate, will he nominated
we also have tried to give
opinion that he would not he,
cause he can not possibly
73.} convention voles to put
over.
Tammany leaders claim that
has now 048 , hut wait until
time ot voting and see.
two of this Smith number is
dispute. That would give
560, lacking 16b of the
Then, can he ever secure
number? That is fust why we
lieve Al wont he nominated.
we still believe our opinion is
correct us some of the
political commentators, in
to Smith’s nomination.
1' rom vvliat states does he
to get the 16S necessary to
him over as the democratic
ard bearer?
Clevaland will have a
day just as soon as the rain
Don’t you wish it would?
7,6(19 acres has been
by the Forest Service to he
to the forest in
Fannin, White, Lumpkin,
and Dawson counties,
Harry K. Thaw has got od
front page of the
agaiu by England refusing him
enter.
Janies A. Perry has
for selection a* a member of
fMlS CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
L®<s&l N®w§
Hon. R. E. Barry, post office in¬
spector, spent Thursday in White
county.
Miss Lola Parsons, of Clermont,
-pent Wednesday night with Miss
Addie Davidson.
Mr. Arthur Power, of Detroit,
Mich., is visiting relatives in
White county at present.
Mr. Parks Bell, of Atlanta,spent
the week-end with iris mother,
Vlrs. Florence Bell.
Mr. Dan Campbell, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end with parents,
Mr. and Mrs. j. 11 . Campbell.
Mr. F. J. Nix and little son and
ittle son and daughter, together
with Travi-i Chattel! and Mr Will¬
iams, of Tampa, Fla., arrived in
Cleveland Saturday aftejnoon to
• pend the summer.
Mr. Jim Denman, of the forest
-ervice, was in office last Friday
ifternoon.
We are requested by Col. A. II.
Henderson, Jr., to state that the
White County Executive Commit¬
tee will meet at the courthouse
Saturday, June 9.
Bill Allison and Isaac Jackson
took Carey Nix and Grady Hester
to the reformatory last Friday.
Mrs, S. A. Adams and daughter,
Mari In, of Gainesville, spent the
week-end with relatives in Cleve
tnd.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. MaGahee.of
Jreensboro, spent u few days since
our lust issue with Mr. and Mrs.
Frank McAfee.
Mr. J. II. Campbell was very ill
ast week with choleru tnorhus.
Rev. B. W. Kilpatrick left Mon¬
day for Macon where he will at¬
tend a pastor’s school for two
weeks.
Mrs. Chunniug Hall, daughter
»f Mr. and Mrs, R. L. Henley, ol
diami, Fla., fell down a fight of
stairs and ruptured u blood vessel,
■the was in a pecarious condition
for several days, but is now im¬
proving nicely.
Mr. and Mrs', George II. Metzer,
tf Atlanta, are spending some time
at Kenirner Lodge.
Mr, Hoyt Cooley is very ill with
measles.
Col. A. II. Henderson, Jr., has
oeen elected secretary and treasurer
of the Cleveland National Farm
Loan association and one of the
abstracting attorneys.
Miss Lois Henderson, who has
oeen at school al Bessie Tift col
ege, returned home Tuesday.]
Miss Joneul Nelms, of Com¬
merce, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Jas. 1 \ Duvidsou.
Rev. Clots. W. Henderson, oi
Forsyth, spent a day or two this
week with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Henderson.
Georgia public service commission
Colonel John \V. Clarke lias
announced for reelection as state
pension commissioner.
Mr. Ernest Iloldt, court steno¬
grapher of the Northeastern cir¬
cuit, has moved to Clarkesville.
President Coolidge has selected
6,000 estate of the lute Henry Clay
Pierce in Brule, Wis., for his sum¬
mer vacation.
So Senator George is no longer
a favorite son candidate, as lie is
most certain to get the SouthCaro
lina vote. Good for those fellows.
Loyal Democats in Georgia
should stand by Senator George.
If you want to contribute anything
tovvaid his nomination you may
mail your check to Congressman
Bell at Gainesville, or Congres;
tnan Cox at Camilla. If Al Smili
holds out at Houston like he did in
New York the Georgia delegates
will need the people back home to
send them some money.
Fay Your Subscription Now
Lynched, Later Returned
Alive And
Taken from Georgia Jail by
Mob on May I4th, but Re¬
leased (Practically Un¬
hurt. Mystery
Cleared Up.
Atlanta, Ga., May
gia’s record for 1928 is still clear
lynching, according ‘o a statement
from the commission on
cooperation,after looking
ly into the abduction from jail
supposed lynching of Henry
at Gainesville, Ga., on the night
May lath. A careful
of the case just made by a
sentative of the commission
ed the fact that Hood was not
lynched nor even severely handled,
hut was released by the mob,
returned unhurt to his home
Gainesville fora brief visit,
then left for a distant city.
e'ement of the mob. Hood report¬
ed, desired to nandle him roughly,
but another insisted upon his
lease and finally prevailed.
information, picked up in
taiy form from various
fully confirmed by the
mother.
Hood, who was confined in the
city jail after an [altercation with a
white man, was taken from the
lock-up at 2 o’clock in the morning
while all members of the niglii
police force were absent on their
beats. As a result, the night chief
of police, who was held responsible
tor his safe keeping, has been dis¬
missed by the city manager on the
charge of inefficiency. Members
of the city government and leading
citizens deplore the incident deeply
and expressed great relief when it
became definitely known that
Hood was alive.
Grit dy Henley has always
one of the ring leaders in
off some stunt on newlyweds.
when he returned from his
moon and came to town Tuesday
morning it vvasn , t . long . .
h *
was taken 11 .I 0 custody and
a short ride and returned to try
medicine he has been guilty of
ing his friends around Cleveland
in the jail—and remained
until about 1 l’. M. Then he
released on notice never to lit
guilty of such conduct again.
N. II. Ballard will oppasu M, J.
Duggan for state school
tendent.
Congressman Bell was
last week as one of the two
crats on a special committee to
conditions ... ,
vestigate in
prisions in the United States,
The Courier is grieved to
of the death of Col, O. L.
son’ of llayesville, N. C.
Col. Anderson was very
in the development and
ment of Lnticoi Gap, and
development in ois state, lie
an able lawyer, a recognized
torian on Indjan names and
habits and was a very useful
valuable citizen,
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As General John J. l’ershing
rushing home from Paris there
considerable tulk that he will be
dark horse at the republican
vention. Boy, wouldn’t he
out if he got the nomination.
The Editior received a bag
Irish potatoes Thursday from
industrious farmer and veiv
able fellow, K. S. Price,
certainly come in mighty handy.
It was particularly thoughtful
Mr. Price and we assure|him
were highly appreciated.
Everybody who will are
ed to prepare a basket dinner
join the Georgia Forestry
cade that passes through
around 11 A. M. Saturday.
prominent men will be in
motorcade. You are cordially
vited to attend the program
Neel Gap.
DEAD MAIL BANE
OF POST OFFICE
Undeliverable Matter Fills
Many Bags Daily Despite
Repeated Warnings.
New York,—For six years the Post
Office department lias carried on a
campaign to induce the public to di- 1
rect mail legibly to the street and
number ot its destination and to place
a return address on all letters and par¬
cels. Mail bearing incomplete or il- j
legible addresses constitutes one of
the main difficulties the postoffice en- I
counters in rendering service.
Since the inauguration of the cam¬
paign, six years ago, the general post- ;
al receipts have increased approxi¬
mately 44 per cent, white the receipts j
of the dead letter office (accruing !
from the three-cent fee charged for
returning mail to senders) have in¬
creased only 83 1-3 per cent. This in¬
dicates that the department has made |
progress in its efforts to induce great- I
er care on the part of the public. The |
dead letter office acts as a kind ol j
barometer, registering the response
of mailers to the requests of the post
office.
According to postal records the
chief offenders against the rule re- |
garding return addresses are busi- 1 \
ness firms that advertise by circu
lars. There seems to be a belief
among circularizes that a return ad¬
dress on a letter of this type amounts |
to a one-way ticket to the waste has- !
ket. It is the opinion of the post offic^ |
that a letter arriving by first-class mall :
will be opened regardless of the re- I
turn address printed on it. It is ob- ■
served also that the firms sending out
advertising material have no way of 1
checking their mailing lists unless
their undelivered mail is returned.
Besides business mail of this vari¬
ety, parcels and private letters go in
swarms to the dead letter office.
Efforts to Reduce Carelessness.
This office was established in 1.825.
but prior to 1800 no complete record
was kept of its transactions. Such
statistics as are available show that
in 1830 some 380.000 letters were
turned over. In 1850, when the senate
requested that the postmaster gen¬
eral's annual report should Include a
statement of the number of dead let¬
ters received, the number reported
was 2.500,000. From that time, va¬
rious measures, including legislation,
were used to decrease the amount of
undeUverable mail.
In 1802 congress authorized the
post office to return dead letters
whenever the address of senders
could be obtained. A charge of three .
cents was required to be made for
the return of ordinary mail and six
cents for letters containing anything
of value. The amount of revenue
tints collected in one year amounted
to $10,015.92, or $20,000 more than
the cost of Hie labor Involved.
The Introduction of the money order
system in 1804 was due largely to the
fact that much money had been found
in unclaimed letters. The following
year the government went Into the
business of making stamped envelopes I
Imprinted with the address of the
sender and a request for return. De
spite these efforts the receipts of un¬
deliverable mail increased, but tills
may have been owing In part to the
general increase in the volume of
mail. In 1806 the three-cent fee was
discontinued, and it was not resumed
until 1920. In the last five years
these fees have averaged $00,000
yearly.
The number of dead letters received
and disposed of in the past fiscal year
totaled 24,056,928, an increase of more
than 2,000,000 over the preceding
year. Of these more than 3,000,000
were ultimately delivered. Some 80,
000 containing valuables are stiil held
awaiting proof of ownership. Out oi
530,000 parcels handled last year 161,
000 were delivered, 52,000 were de¬
stroyed as valueless or dangerous to
other mall matter and 321,000 were
filed for disposal at public auction.
Twelve Bags Full Daily.
Visitors to the dead letter office
exhibits in New York city often won
der at the carelessness of senders.
t
The undeliverable mail for one day in
New York and the New England states
fills twelve bags.
The dead letters are opened by ma-,
chine and distributed to a group ol
clerks called selectors, whose duty it
Is rapidly to Inspect the contents for
clews. Those that contain neither re¬
turn addresses nor anything of in¬
trinsic value are sold as waste paper.
j Those containing enclosures are
passed on to clerks who record the
contents and data for use in case the
sender later submits a claim. Let¬
ters given containing to clerks address who enclose informajAn $ieni :
are
In official envelopes and dispatch the.t:
to the indicated address.
The long experience of clerks sages
many a letter from the waste basket
One freak address that is still fresh
In the memories of the officials oi
the New York dead letter office read?
as follows:
Hill,
R-,
Mass.
I The correct reading, it was at length
j decided, is:
“R, Underhill, Andover, Mass.”
j Some weeks ago a $500 bill arrive?
at the New York post office in a deac
letter. When the letter was openec
the addresses of both sender and ad
dressee were found within and th«
letter was delivered. Many dead let
ters come from foreign countries.
These almost Invariably bear the
c&mt of a city, sometimes a stv&e;
Legal Advertisements
Georgia, White County.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
July DJ 28 at public outcry at the court
house in said county, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder for
cash, certain property, of which the fol¬
lowing is a full and complete description ;
All that tract or parcel of Ian lying and
being in Shoal Creek Militia District,
^ bite bounty, Ga., and containing fifty
acres more or less and being a part of
what is known as the old Vickery boinq
glace and the part set aside to Elizabeth
Vickery as a dower and bounded as fol¬
lows: On the north by the lands of O. T.
Nix, on the east and south by the lands
of Miss Neila Bowen arid on the west by
the lands of M. G, Nix and being the
same land conveyed to C. K. and.J.L.
Hulsey by F. M. Hulsey.
Said property levied on as the pioper
ty of J. L. and C. K. Hulsey to satisfy an
execution issued f.iom Hall City Court of
Hall County, Ga., in favor of J. B. R.
Barrett, and against said J. L. and C. K.
Hulsey. This the of h day of June l!H 8 .
W. A. Jackson , sheriff.
Will tie sold before the courthouse
door of said, county on the first Tuesday
in July 1 Daft within the legal hours ot
sale to-the highest bidder for rash, the
following described property to wit: All
that tract or parcel of land described an
follows: Commencing about 50 or fill
yards northwest, of th. bridge across
Turner creek, sometimes known as Mur
loek creek, on the Cleveland and Blairs
viiie highway where a private way leaves
said highway running in a southern di¬
rection, thence with it a northern or
northwestern direction to the Rocky
branch, thence down said branclCto
where the same crosses the above tin il¬
lumed private way, thence in a northern
or northeastern direction with said pri¬
vate way to the beginning point at said
highway, containing about 12 acres of
laud more or less. Said above land
levied on as the property of It. H. Nixon
to satisfy a tax execution issued by J. H,
Canipbe|i, tax collector of said county,
on the 20 th day of December 1027 foi
st ite and county taxes for the year 1 DU 7 .
Ala- at the same time and place and on
the same terms will be sold the follow¬
ing described property to wit: All that
tract or parcel of land bounded as fol¬
lows: On the north by the lands of Alex
Davidson and the Cleveland and Duh
lonega road, on the east by the lands ot
Frank Lenimer, on the south by tin
branch, known as the Hears branch and
ori the west by the lands of VV. M. Cool
I containing about twenty (2b) acres ol
| part la " U of 1 he ,,r propenty le8 ” Hnii known known the J. C, as
ns
Russell place III Mt. \onah .. Mditia dis
'
tl . icl ufe#w i;m|nty . said property levied
J >11 ns the property of 1 ;. w. Cash to sat
m, - v a " ‘‘xecuHon issued from the super
>r court of said county on the 14 U 1 day
of April 1028 in favor of A. I!. Mobley,
superintendent of banks against B, \V
Ca.-li. Said property in possession ol
defendant in ti fa. This June 7th 102 s.
W. A. Jackson, sheriff.
WAN FED For White County :
jly? | Are you m iking if lo to ¥130 week
Dealers starting near you
! without experience selling Whit*
| nier medicines and home necessi¬
ties do. You drive your own car
! and and do busi
i or team wagon
: ness on our capital. No luv-ofts
permanent , business . tor fanners,
laborers, salesmen and others.
White men write today for Whit*
mer's ” E very-day-pay-day-plan”
tor you.
The If. C. Whitmer Company
Columbus. Ind. Dept. K 308 K
Judge J- ^ • U- I nderwood re
; '} lK ' sls Us 10 request the one who
borrowed his mowing blade to
please biing it home,
Mrs. Ida Kellttm Shaw and sis
are visiting their father at
j Pinnacle Mountain Farm,
’
Mis. C. C. Parks, of Dewey
| Rose, Ga,, is visiting her mother,
| Mrs. J. B. Skelton, this week.
\\ illiain Allison left Wednesday
j morning for Barnard, Kansas. He
j w:,s accompanied by George Baker
i ;l,K * 1 ,nlu i an< ^ Dob •'ieais.
Mr. Jim Allison returned to
Kansas \\ ednesdav after spending
several weeks with relatives in
j White county
Coleman Seaboll i* suffering
from an ulcerated stom c!i, taking
ill early Friday morning.
Miss Muriel Bulgin, of Frank¬
lin, N. C., spent a day or two
w ' t * 1 * ,er lather, Dr. \\ . R. Bui
j a,ui leavi Dale "tf Friday visit her morning
,or to sister,
i rs ‘ L- Edwardt.
j Mr. Flody Dorsey, of Detroit, is
visiting his parents on Mos-v
i Creek this week,
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Learn to Play
| Lip Golf i
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By RING LARDNER
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To the Editor:
Tt takes all kinds of golf players to
make a world in the good old summer
time, but along about this time of yr.
tliey’s only 2 classes you might say.
namely haply marred men and guys
that can afford to go South. 'The 1st
named has got a big advantage in
many ways. For ffist. they don’t half
to spend from 1 night to a wk. in one
of them new fangle Pullmans witch
some people jokeingly calls a sleeping
car. I could go on and name a whole
lot of other advantages witch a
marred man has got if they was any.
On the other hand the bachelors
goes South in the winter and can golf
all the yr. around and are right on
their game when the season opens up
north whereas the men with baggage
has got to liegin all over again every
May, and it generally always takes
them till the 1st of Nov. to find out
what is the matter with their game.
Well, anyway, last spring I hadn’t
no more than mastered the nack of
getting off the 1st tee in 2 when they
was a nation wide clamor for a good
reporter to write up the big subjects
of the day and I had to spend most of
the fall in the rough, namely the
World Series out in old Pittsburg and
the one out in New York.
The net results was that I didn’t
really start to begin to commence my
golf till tiie central part of Oct.
My brother marred men will say
yes but what are we going to do
about it? Well gents 1 don’t know
what you are going to do about it,
hut personally I have got up a game
witch 1 have named tip golf, and l
have tried it out with grand success
and wile it don’t give a man no phys¬
ical exercise, why It keeps their mind
on golf and don't allow them to for¬
get it during the off season and when
they start playing again in the st>ring
they have at least got the language at
their tongues and don’t half to waste
7 or 8 vvks. mastering the verbage all
over again and it can be played in the
house any time of day or night and In
all kinds of weather.
The rules of lip golf is the foiling:
No matter vvliat remarks the wife
makes, the husband’s replys is to be
given in golf parlance. That’s all they
is to the rules and anybody can learn
it in one lesson and the best time to
try It out is at a meal. For Inst, sup¬
pose the kiddies has been tucked away
for the night In the waste basket and
you and the wife has set down to din¬
ner. Your part of the foiling conver¬
sation would be what you might call
par lip golf.
AN EXHIBITION GAME
Wife—What train did you come out
on?
Husband—1 missed the first two but
got home on my third.
Wife—We caught a mouse this p. m.
Husband—Did he get Into a trap?
Wife—No. Carrie killed him with a
broom.
Husband—That’s a good Carrie.
Wife—I’m going to get rid of her,
though, i’ll tell her I’ve decided to do
my own work.
Husband—A fine lie!
Wife—Will you have some more
bread?
Husband—I can’t get rid of this
slice.
Wife—No more potatoes or nothing?
Husband—How is the greens?
Wife—All gone. I’m sorry. Did
you have much lunch?
Husband—I had a couple of good
rolls.
Wife—We must hire a new chauf¬
feur. Gus don’t never clean the car.
Husband—Can’t drive, neither.
Wife—The garage man says he can
get us a good one.
Husband—(pretending he has a
cold)—Caddy?
W’ife—Yes, you better see him.
Husband—1 hooked one today.
Wife—Oh. you did ! Who?
Husband—Hazzard.
Wife—The Bucks’ driver? But I
thought tiiey paid him $25 a wk.
Husband—I topped it.
W’ife—But we can’t afford It.
Husband—Why not?
Wife—You can’t always win at pok¬
er. By the way, how much does the
boys owe you from last night?
Husband— Spalding 50, Victor 75
and the Colonel 31.
Wife—I bet Victor didn’t dast tell
his wife. She’s a terrible loser. You
and her would make a good team. You
ought to know her.
Husband—Ouimet.
Wife—Oh, that’s right. Say, what
do you think of them salad forks Ma
sent?
Husband—Stirling?
Wife—Certainly. They cost $30 a
dozen.
Husband—Evans!
Wife—I suppose if I am going to
can Carrie 1 should ought to give her
notice. But I’m afraid she would get
mad and quit before I could find some¬
body else.
Husband—Locker room.
Wife—You must run upstairs and
change your close. We only got 15
minutes.
Husband—I'll be down in 7.
This is a sample of par lip golf and
if the wife knows the game why so
much the better as she can make it >1
2 some. If she don't why she will
probly think you have went cuckoo
and sew you for a bill of divorce. In
tiiat case you are as good as a bach¬
elor. But give it a trial anyway.
Brother, and if your game Is any
wheres near mine why at lease you
can't do it no harm.
by tt»« B«U Sy&die£t«, i&e.)