The North Georgian. (Cumming, Ga.) 18??-19??, August 17, 1923, Image 1

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von xxxiv. 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. I J ■! 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. J:/ ' /K'' lb T ‘ U". '4 li:;f m--,- ■ • WARREN Q. KARDINO 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 • '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 To get the best results from your Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen, use only Waterman’s Ideal Ink. 15c per bottle- Harvie Siinpsop. 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. < 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- Harvie Simpson,