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cals*
Miss Maxine Garner is visiting
in Lawrenceville this week.
Mr. and Mrs. V. T. Chamblee,
of Cuba, spent Saturday in town
Mrs. W. A. Sigman spent Sun
day in Atlanta.
Mr. S, T. Hill, of Gainesville,
visited here Saturday.
Mr. R. B. Burruss visited his
■on, Major Burruss, Sunday.
Mr. Rov Strickland was in At
lanta on business Tuesday
Mrs. J, T. Garner is visiting in
Lawrenceville this week.
Mr, Claude Sayt r has been vis
iting friends in town.
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Mr. Garland Bennett, Gaines
ville, was in town Saturday.
Mr. J. TANARUS, Garner was in Law
renceville Saturday and Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. Larmon Smith,
are spending sometime with Rev
G, W. Forrest and family.
Mr. Frank Stuart, of Waleska,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. Lee
Holbrook.
Missess Agnes and Ellen Will
banks, of Cordele, are visiting
relatives in the county.
Prof, and Mrs. C. H. King are
visiting in Atlanta, Temple and
perhaps other points, this week.
Mr. and Miss W. G. Mahaffey
spent Sunday with Mrs. Mahaf
fey’s mother, in Gwinnett county
Miss Ruby Tatum, of Atlanta,
is visiting relatives and friends
in town.
Mr. and Mrs. John Burruss vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Major Burruss
Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Harris
attended services at Concord
Sunday.
Miss Ruth Bennett, of Gaines
ville, spent the week end with
relatives here.
Mr. Ralph Brown, who is teach
JJui at Hopewell, spent the week
end at home.
Miss Mildred Barrett, who is
teaching at Hopewell, spent the
week end at home.
Mr. Herbert Benson, of Atlan
ta, spent Saturday and Sunday
with friends here.
Mr. Raymond Brantley of Dah
lonega, was here Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Rcscoe Echols, of Atlan
ta, “is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Hendrix.
Geo- W. Heard’s big sale be
gan Tuesday. Are you getting
pour share of the bargains?
Miss Villa Milford spent a few
days of last week with home
folks on route J.
Mrs. F. G. Roberts and chil
dren, of Tampa. Fla., are spend
ing awhile with relatives in town
Cl)c (Bteorgian.
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Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hope and
children, of Commerce, are visit
ing relatives in town.
Mr. M. E. Durham, of Atlan
ta, spent the week end with Mr.
Buddie Durham and family.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Martin, of
Atlanta, have been visiting Mrs.
Lipscomb and family.
Rev. H. 0. Greene filled h>s
appointment at the Methodist
church Sunday morning.
Little Miss Mary Merritt is
spending sometime with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Callaway, at Cordele
Miss Antoinette Merritt, of At
lanta, spent last Friday with
home folks here.
Mrs, Henry Hurt is spending
sometime with relatives at Bain
bridge,
Miss Bessie McCulley, of At
lanta, is the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Wesley Hawkins.
Mr, and Mrs. Berry Edwards,
Atlanta, were visiting relatives
here first of the week-
Mr. Veil Fowler and family, of
Buford, were visiting relatives
in town Sunday-
Mr. and Mrs. Rainey Porter, of
the upper part of the county,
spent the week end with Mr, Sam
Porter and family.
The infant of Mr. and Mrs.
Piklesimon was buried in the
Gumming cemetery last Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. John McGinnis
and little daughter, of route 7,
spent the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Reid.
Mrs. J. K, Tolbert is in Atlan
ta at the bedside of her daught
er, Mrs. Clyde Besheres, who is
not expected to live.
Mrs. Calvin Turner, of Bnford,
who has been visiting relatives
in and near town, has returned
home,
Miss Belle Forrest and Mr.
Clyde Cowart, of Alpharetta,
were happily married last Satur
day, The North Georgian ex
tends best wishes.
GUMMING, GA AUGUST; 17 19W3
Misses Ineil Heard and Ruby
Ingram have returned from a
week’s visit to friends at Gaines
ville.
Dr, R. L. Hunter will be glad
to extract your teeth by the pain
less process.
The game of ball, last Satur
day, between Curoming and Du
luth was won by our team, score
7 to 5.
Dr. R. L- Hunter and wife and
Mr. Roy Strickland and family
have returned from a week’s
camping trip in the mountains,
A good many from town and
vicinity took in the barbacue and
ball game in Buford Thursday of
last week.
Send your suit to Cumming
Pressing Club. They will clean
and press them and send them
back to you by; parcel post.
Dr, Holtzendorff will be in his
office at the Brannon Hotel on
Saturday, August 25th, to do
your dental work.
Rev. L, A.Henderson and fam
ily, of Columbus, Ga , were the
guests of Mr. Bill Henderson and
family from Friday till Tuesday,
Rev. L. A, Henderson, of Co
lumbus, Ga.. filled the pulpit at
the Methodist church Sunday
night.
The Sawnee Cafe are agents
for the Gainesville Steam Laun
dry, celebrated for their prompt
and up-to-date methods. You
must be satisfied. Give them a
call.
The soldiers reunion held here
Saturday was largely attended.
Good order was maintained and
everybody seemed to enjoy the
occasion.
Revival services will begin at
the Baptist church tonight.
The services of a singer has been
secured and he will be here at
the beginning also.
Mr. Harris Moore, Mr. Carl
Tallant and family, Mr. G. Mac
Puett and family. Misses Czarina
Fleming, Edith Ingram, Mildred
Heard and perhaps others, are
off on a camping trip up in the
mountains this week.
OERTH SUDDENLY
CULLS IWII
j . .
(President Sucoumbs to Apopftxy
When Seemingly on Road
to Reoovery.
(SHOCK TO NATION AND WORLD
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'Remain* Taken on OpeoUl Train. (B
Washington for Btat* Funeral
Servl ooa—Crowd* In Every
Town Stand With Bared
Heads In Silent Re
spect. j
Washington. Warren Gamaliel
jHarding died suddenly Thursday eve
ning from a stroke of apoplexy at
17 ;80 Ban Francisco time (1030 p. vy
;Ohlcago and 11:90 p. to. Now Yorkl.
[The end was shockingly saddao
and come In the midst of apparent
[convalescence.
f The special train loft Ban Francisco
:at 7 p. m. Friday, routed directly to
the capital by way of Reno, Ogden,
‘Cheyenne, Omaha and Chicago.
The train made ao stops qp
.route except those necessary for Its:
operation. The body at the President
was borno in the year car. The car was
.lighted at night, and at aQ times two
soldiers and sailors, a part of g
'naval and military guard of sixteen
enlisted men, stood at attention guard
ing the casket |
The train carried the presidential
party as composed during the trigs
across the country tet Alaska, end ntoo
Genera! Pershing, Attorney Ocenrl
Daugherty, and Mr. and Mrs. & 9 r
Remsberg and family, Mrs. ftemeberg
being a sister of the President.
Untold thousand of American cltt
•netM stood with uncovered bead* day
land night as the train passed.
Through Nevada to the boon <4
; daylight and darkness Oksre
mourners at the stations. Utah con
tributed Its thousands ths next
Wyoming’s citizens rooomod en mnare,
'And so on across tbs continent. A*
the’ cities, especially, large crowds as
sembled at tlie stations.
President Harding died of • uro&a
of apoplexy at 7:36 o’clock Thursday
night (10 A) p. m.j New York time*
Ills exact age was yearn
and nine months.
: Tl>e end came suddenly while Mrs.
Harding was reading tp bbn from a
'magazine and after what had been
.called the beet day btt had had stpoe
the beginning of hie Illness exactly
one week before.
Suddenly ft was noticed (ht On
President was Shuddering and gasp
'tug. Mrs. Harding ran to htna bet
be was unable to respond to her In
quiries. She then ran to tbs door at
the sick room and called to the seers*
service men there to snmuvon the
President’s physicians.
When General Sawyer reached the
room the President was still allvs but
he died almost at onea.
Collapse Is guddan.
In greeter detail the facts of tha
death are related. With Mrs. Harding
fn the sickroom were two nurses. Thie
to the seeming Improvement W) the
President’s condition, members of hts
party, Including the physicians who
had remained In constant call, ware
confident they eonld lenvo tha hotel
If or a few hours’ relaxation. Many at
thcm were at dinner.
' Mrs. Hording, however, refusing to
desert the post, was seated by the
bedside, reading to her husband, when,
at T :10 o'clock the President suddenly
collapsed. His breathing, which bad
been quick ever sine* the Illness over
took him, suddenly heroine spasmodic,
Mrs. Harding, leaving the nunws to
take whatever steps thv could lp the
emergency, ran to the door f the
presidential suite.
•Get the doctor#," she called, a# she
ran part way Into the almost deserted,
corridor. A secret service operative!
was seated about twenty feet down,
the hall. She hurriedly told the secret;
sendee man that the President had'
hod a tnidden and seemingly severs re
lapse, and begged the deteettv# to try
to locate Doctor Hnone or any of the
other physicians.
The secret service men took up to#
search for the physicians, while Mrs.,
Harding returned to the bedside. Winy
located Doctor Suwyer Art onoe.
Hoover Arrives Quickly.
Word of the President's sudden tore
for the worse spread through the hots
snd efforts were launched el one# to
try to locate the members at hi# oA
ciel party.
Herbert Hoover, secretary srf com
merce and one of the closest cabinet
members to the President, was ths
first of the cabinet members to reach
the bedside. He hurried Into the cor
ridor, already aware that the Preeh
dent’s life was ebbing tost, aad the
door to the suite closed behind htn. A
short time after he came out He wagr
completely broken op anil emild not
MH—ion— In Harding’* Ufa.
Bare Were the milestone* In
Warren 0. Harding's life t
Horn Is Blooming Grove, Mor
row county, Ohio, November 2,
1300.
Began career as newspaper
publisher, November 26, 1884.
Elected to Ohio etare senate,
his first political office, Novem
ber \ 1808.
Enacted lieutenant governor ot
Ohio, November 8, 1909.
Defeated as Ropubllcon can
didate for governor' November
a 1910,
Elected to United States sen
ates November & 1914.
Nominated for (be presidency,
Tune 1A 1920. ,
Elected President, November
A 192a
inaugurated March 4* 1921.
Died August 2. 1029.
i speak to the newspaper men as they
gathered around him on his way down
to Mg own quarters. Tears were run
ining down Ms cheeks and he seemed
ifo be stunned by grief os be made Ids
way to. the eievntor.
Mayor James Rolph of R*n Fran
cisco was the next to arrive, and be.
too, nfter a visit to the death room,
was Inarticulate.
Official Statement
, It vi| about twenty mlnutee from
the time Mr. Harding was stricken
i (7:10 p. m.) until he died (7 :80). The
circumstance le told briefly In the fol
lowing formal announcement:
“The President • died at 7:80 p. m.
Mrs. Harding and the two nurses, Miss
1 Ruth Powderiy and Miss Sue Drusser,
wer* is the room at the time Mrs.
Harding waa reading to the President
'.when utterly without warning a slight
1 sir udder panned through his frame he
; oonapsed, and ail recognised that the
iod had ootne. A stroke of apoplexy
was (he cause of his death.
•Within a few momenta all of the
’Fraaldeofe of&eJal pnaty had been
antntnonedL*
j De. Boons MM later tout Miss row
■derty looked ad the President while
"Mto Hatglng *<* reo/Ung W hlui mvl
I was struck ky g groat Improvement (a
“Otopattaot’r OppoftnaiK^
"Doesn’t he look fine ST she wild.
‘ tnrnlhg tp Mn Harding
Then the nurse turned bach to look
>*t the President to verify her com
ment Mrs. Harding looked, too. They
6ftw a (huddqr pass over the sick
man’s frame. That marked the stroke
j that produced death,
j Ths following telegram from the
me inhere of the cabinet who are here
was Immediately tent to Vice Presl
dent Oolldga, Chief Justice Taft, and
I those member* at the cabinet who
wwra pflt to Ban P'randE.w:
1 "The President died at fiflO p. m.
from a stroke <rf cerebral apoplexy.
The end came peacefully and without
warning.
J "DAUGHERTY,
f "WORK,
"WALLA 08,
"HOOVER."
A Shocking Surprise,
ftofhtog coaid have been a more
shocking aurprlse. But nn hour ear
tar General Sawyer bad been telling
newspaper man that Mr. Harding bad
had the beet day since he became se
riously ill tho preceding Saturday. He
said that the President hod definitely
entered upon the stage of convales
cence and that everything went to
show that Mr. Harding was on the
rood to ultimate recovery.
Tha members of the official party—
tlioee who had occompauled the Pres
ident snd Mra. Harding—bad no warn
ing that the President was In danger.
They, Oka the newspaper men, had
been assured that a fatal termination
of tbs President’s Ulricas was a thing
not to t> expected. In view of his ap
parent Improvement —the evident less
wring at eerlooe symptoms—ln the
tost hours.
Georg* tl. Christian, Jr, secretory
to the President and his devoted
trtoed. wet tn Los Angeles with Mm.
Christian. H had gon there at the
President's solicitation to read at a
Masnple gathering an address which
the President had prepared In tho ex
pectation that be would deliver It In
person.
Tba newspaper men bad an engage
ment with General Bawye.r for 8
o'clock. He was to tell them then
bow fh* Preeldont was progressing
toward recovery The bulletin enme
■t T ffiO. <•
Regarding Ots maunor in which Mrs
Harding sustained ths shock, an offi
cial statement gfvao to the press by
Jndsqo f). Welllvgr at tbs White
Hones staff, % member ot the Pr<l
Opal's official parly, said:
"Mrs Harding, who from the begin
•lag qf tbs Prmddanta Illness had ex
presssd camplet* cenftdancg in Ms re
spvery, did not break down. On the
other hawV abs continued, ns from
ths trftnnlng. ths bravest member ot
tbs gronp. When It was realised that
lbs President had Actually posaed
awej, sb turned to those tn the roojn,
wttoto concern had turned to her, and
skid I’lipadt going to down.’ ’’
NO- :H3
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Have your suit made like new
by cleaning and pressing |by
Gumming Pressing Club. They
pay parcel post charges both
ways.
ANTIOCH.
Rev J W Gill filled his appoint
ment at this place Sunday and
sure did preach a fine sermon.
There wasn’t any preaching Sat
urday,
Misses Cleo and Kate Tate are
spending awhile with their uncle
at Douglassville.
Several from around here at
tended the soldiers reunion at
Cumming Saturday and report a
nice time,
Mr John Williams and family
spent awhile Sunday with Mr S
C Williams and family.
The school is progressing nice
ly at this place under the man
agement of Misses Julia and Ru
by Deen Merritt,
Most everybody is done laying
by in this section.
The “singing given by Misses
Cleo and Kate Tate Saturday
night was enjoyed by all present
Miss Lula Williams spent a few
days last week with Mr G W
Beavers and family;
Well, as there is not much
news, guess we had better close
unless we could do better.
As ever,
Two Sifters.
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COAL MOUNTAIN
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Watson
spent a few days last week with
the former’s father and mother,
Most everybody went to the
soldiers reunion Saturday and
reported a nice time.
Master Cleon Wofford is real
sick with scarlet fever at this
writing. Hope for him a speedy
recovery.
Miss Nellie Lou Light is visit
ing Miss Martha Harrison.
Miss Irene Tidwell spent one
evening last week with Miss Eva
Castleberry.
Mr. Jack Harris, of Atlanta,
spent Saturday night‘and Sun
dap with Mr. L W Wofford.
Mr. C C Allen and Ed Tallant
were'in Dawsonville on business
Tuesday,
Mrs. L W Wofford and daught
er, Nellie, spent one afternoon
last week with Mrs. Smith Har
rison.
Mr. Bart Smith has returned
from an extended visit to point*
in South Georgia.
Mr. Dewey Allen, of Atlanta,
spent a day or two last week with
his father.
Mr. Bob Brooks and Mr Flovd,
of Gainesville, spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr. John
nie Lamb.
Mr. Hubert Burruss and fami
ly spent a few days last Week
with relatives in Atlanta.
Come again, Mu. Tallant, with
your pieces, for we all enjoy
them very much,
Rinoow.
Waterman’s Ideal Ink is abso
utelv the best for all writing. It
is uniform in quality, and will
not thicken and dry up, is non
corrosive and everlasting in its
record qualities-
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