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property values
SHOW SMALL DROP
DECREASE In 160 COUNTIES EOF
1923 IS $3,823,865, SAYS
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: STATE NEWS OF iKTERESIj
News Iti.na Gathered Here Anc
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta.— Taxable property return
jed to assessors; In 150 Georgia coun
ties lias shown a .deereaso of onlj
$3,625,585 this jear In comparison wltt
a loss cf $74,000,000 In 1922, indicating
ar improvement In Financial condi
tions in the state, according to Hen
Ty J. F'uUirigin tax commissioner.
The $74,000,000 decrease in 1921
■ Covers the entire 160 counties of the
state and represents e i r ,000,000 gain
over 1921, in the los.
items $79,000, .{Ndbright, j
amount o'
Jropertv taxation was
$1,027,000,000, con
tinned, "This expect the to
tal to be The antlci
pnted $5,000,000 decrease’ will mean
a reduction of aproxlmately $25,000 In
revenues lot the state.
"Tuis showing clearly Indicates an
Improved financial condition of the
state especially significant when il
la compared with the $74,000,000 loss
of 1922. Land values are holding up
weil, while personal property Is slump
tag. The latter condition may be at
tributod to depressed financial stand
lng ol the farmers and tenants.
“The showing we have made to date
Is refnarkable in face of conditions.
.With a threat that the tax equaliza
tion law would be repealed before the
assessors could finish their work, It
Is wonderful that we held tax values
where they are.
"The conferences which were held
between the commissioner and county
officials resulted In much valuable In
formation being received and a better
equalization of assessments.”
Tax digests are received by the com
missioner in Juno July, August and
September. Most of the Increases In
value this year have been recorded
by the larger counties of the state ac
cording to the commissioner A ma
jority of the smaller either holding
their own or showing nml decreases
; Allied Compress Charges “fraud"
Augusta.— W. P O'Keefe Issued the
receipts claimed to lie held by the
tiu :ea,petitioners su buukruptcy against
Che Allied Ooinpr sa company, if they
Wove issued,by anyone, according to J
P. Woodall, proaident of the compress
Company, In Ills reply to the petition
*nd they were issued without the cot
ton represented by said receipts being
received by the- compress company or
being in existence at the tima. The
Compress company declares further
In its reply to the petition in bank
ruptcy made recently that they are
"Informed and verily believe” that the
receipts refereed to were "fraudulent
ly issued by the said W 11.I 1 . O'Keefe
for his own intents and purposes.”
( Jeffersonville Water Supply Falla
Jeffersonville -The water supply of
the city of Jeffersonville liaa compelie
ly failed, and the people are having
to use water from surface wells, .ft Is
reported. Failnni of the water supply
was caused by the fact that cylinders
from the pump hi the artesian well
have broht n off in the well and cannot
be gotten out. For weeks the au
thorities .in charge of the well have
Work< • to remedy the situation but
hope of repairing the present well has
*bout been abandoned, it is said. Jef
fersonville city officials are contem
plating sinking another well or laying
pipe lines to nearby springs, It is re
ported.
Body Of Man Found On Railroad
Reynolds.—Th< body of
Wjati. was found recently near the
Wh road track iietwen Beechwood and
bridge three miles east of
t with limbs broken and skull
era sited ;ie is supposed t have been
Struck bvS, w-A. bound train some
tlnie during the te was pass
ing through Reynolds going In direc
tion of Fort Valley, en route to bis
borne in Fort Valley. The coroner's
Terdlct was that he came to his death
by being 3truck by a Central of Geor
gia train near Beechwood, Gn.
Would-Be Wreckers Of Train Caught
Macon. - James Garfield, age 10,
*nd Glover Pranchlln, 12, negroes, ar
retted for placing several irons on
the main line of the Southern raflwuy
near Macon wore committed (o the
juvenile court for an indefinite period.
The train ran over the iron holts at s
■low retc of speed and railway offi
dais say this prevented what might
have boon a serious wreck.
Labor Chief Sees Waste tn Schools
Atlanta.---Charging that public mon
•y has been* used v-ith extravagance
In Atlanta’s school building program
JDmniett L Quinn former president
of the Atlanta Federation of Trades
and vice president of the Georgia Fed
eration of Labor spued on the fiooi
of the local labor federation that 1270,
000 had been paid for vacant school
.properties in Atlanta in excess of the
▼aiuntton by the city tax office Mr.
| Quinr's statement war, made in dt
;eussi.ng the issuing of bonds for puts
IBc improvements.
WILL REORGANIZE -
FRUIT EXCHANGE
j PRESIDENT HUIVfhR PROPOSES
PLAN AT MEETING OF GEOR
GIA PEACH GROWERS
j EM NEWSJF INTEREST.
Brief News Items Gathered Hare And
Thsra Prom All Sections Of
The State
Macon, —Reorganization of the Geor
gia Fruit Exchange so as to care for
contingencies which have arisen since
the inception of the organization 15
years ago has been proposed by Presl
ident W. B. Hunter of Cornelia He
Was a prominent figure at a mass moot
ing of ihe Georgia Peach Growers held
hero recently.
At the session a unanimous opinion
prevailed that the Georgia Exchange
should be reorganized and a largo com
mittee headed by President Hunter,
was named to draft resolutions pew
tabling to the reorganization.
Suggestion of the organization of
a Tr! State Cos operative Marktelng
Association to dispose of the poach
crops of Georgia, North and South
Carolina was also made, but until the
Georgia association is yeifeotod, no
steps will be taken to consolidate the
three associations, i! was stated.
Standardization of the peach pock,
the creation of a centralized marketi
tag agency that has authority to re
quire growers to prepare peach ship
ment* according to the standardized
pack, were among the recommenda
tions made.
The need of creating a fund to aid
needy growers who will not, affiliate
with the state exchange was also sug
gested by Proßidect Hunter In h'e talk
U the Stowers.
There are more than two hundred
reprcsßtativ growers attending
The commuted named to prepare
rezolultons on the reorganization of
the Ooorgla Exchange st composed of
,W. 8. Hunter, Cornells, chairman;
M. F. Hatcher, Macon; David Strotta
er, Ecs-t Valley; J D. Duke Fort Val
ley, John Murpii and John Walker.
MarshaJlvllle; EM McKenzie Monte
zuma; R. L. McMath. Americas. J. L.
Bento®. MnnticeKo: iC. W. Mnfhews,
Woodland; C. P. Protaro. Griffin; F.
M- State ait. Gray; C. Cornwall, Aito.
John Feaslay. Canton. C W, Finney,
Haddooi.; J F Whatley, Reynolds:
ft. L. j&iete*. UzaUa; A. 0. Williams.
Tate*Vllie; J a, Cotipex, Deny; A. C.
Glover, Newnan; W. M Rowland, Au
gusta ; 3 P McDaniel, Thomas ton; A.
lit. McGill, Woodbury, W. VV. Lowo,
Bvrotx. H- M. Fletcher, Jackson. B.
M. Don#, Wayside.
Ex-Mayor Woodward Passes Away
Atlanta. —Jain or G Woodward, Cota
times mayor of Atlanta, and for over
thirty years the stormy petrel of At
lanta politics, died ala local sanita
rium, at the agß at 79 years, follow
ing an Glneas ot aevoral months. His
wife, Mrs. Violet. Woodward, who hoe
kept ft constant vies; at Me bedside
irlnce he was. taken to the sanitarium,
and a few close friends w ere with him
.when death came. He had been in a
state of come tor forty eight hours.
Mr Woodward received a slight stroke
of paralysis on the Whitehall street
viaduct about, six weeks ago. Ccinpll
cations developed and he was taken
from his residence, on East Hunter
street, to Piedmont sanitarium.
oral days ago he was the victim of an
other paralytic stroke, the effects of
which hastened his death.
Napier Elected To National Office
Atlanta. —Attorney General George
M. Napier, of Georgia, was elected sec
retary and treasure) of the National
Association of Attorneys General in
session at Minneapolis, Minn., accord
ing to telegraphic advlc.ee received In
Atlanta. Mr. Napier left Atlanta for
the annual convention of the associa
tlon in Minneapolis recently. That he
should have been chosen as one of the
national officers of the association is
regarded bly his close friends here as
a signal honor since he is the first
Georgian to hare attained that honor.
Attorney General T. N. England, of
,West Virginia, was elected president;
Harvey N. Cluft Utah, vice president;
C. L Hilton, Minnesota; H. L. Elieen,
Wisconsin, and Jesse W. Barr. Mis
souri, were elected as the executive
committee.
Asks Appointment As State Warden
Atlanta. —Attorney Louis A. Burton
of Atlanta will be a candidate for state
game warden. It became known when
several petitions were circulated urg
ing the govern or to appoint him. He
has been active In Georgia politics for
a number of years and was a support
er of the goveimor in hte two cam
paigns. It Is believed the governor
will announce hie decision In the mat
tor within the next few day ft.
Husband Talked Too Littls, Oivoreed
Savannah. —Women have beer, sued
for divorce by their husbands for al>
leged "too-talkatlveness." hut suit was
filed here the other day In which the.
women in the case charges that her
husband was cruel and inhumane to
her in that he would not talk to her.
that his silence for months became
unbearable and that she left him. The
case Is that of Mrs. Josephine G. Wal
ker. who asks legal separation and
alimony from 0 E Walker The eou
pie lived with the parents of the hus
band
GecrjiU Railroad Help* Ctudenta
Atlanta— Enrollment for the first
'engineering classes under the co-oper
ative plan between the Georgia School
[of Technology and the Central ol
-Georgia railway has been completed.
Forty-nine boys from all parts of the
state are at work and eight are on
the waiting list. Tts pUu, which has
Just been put into effect, gives boys
an opportunity to earn their way
through college by working haif their
time at the .shops of the Central of
Georgia in Macon, Columbus and Sa
vannah, and spending the remaining
half of the time at Tech. They re
ceive rogular apprentice wages and
will earn a sufficient amount to pay
(all their college expenses The course
ileads to the regular degrees, but toko*
-five years Instead of four for com
pletion. The Central of Georgia 1*
]the first railway in the South to adopt
(this plan and the experiment is being
| watched with much Interest in In
dustrial circles. The first section of
Students has been at work for four
weeks and the master mechanics In
the several shops report that the
’students have done splendid work.
|AII of them are graduates from ao
jcredited high schools or have quali
fied with the entrance requirements
lof Tech.
j Policeman s Wive Held For Killing
Atlanta Sensational testimony
against the character of Mrs. W. W.
Evans, bold in connection with the
fatal ahotlng of her husband, Polioe-
Ltaan W, W. Evans, featured the cor
loner's inquest which resulted to a
[verdict instructing that the widow be
(detained for further investigation The
ccrone-'s Jury agreed that Evans mot
jhis death from gunshot wounds. The
next action will be the preliminary
hearing of Mrs Evans in the oity
.(court of Decatur on a warrant charg
ing her with the murder of Evans
According to her atorney, Ben Tye,
[the hearing will be held at Decatur.
'Testimony that Evans accused his
wife of undue friendliness with other
men Just a tew minutes, prior to his
death was given hy C. J Christian,
(whose wife is a niece of Mrs. Evans,
and who is a tenant, of the same
(house with the Evans family.
Expert Approval Of Railroad Lease
Savannah!.—That the Georgia Pub
(lie Service commission will re
port favorably upon the proposed
Tease of ,th< Carolina, Clfnchf'.eld &
Ohio railroad by the Atlantic Coast
Uae. was the confident opinion ex
pressed here by John L. Tyo, Atlanta
[lawyer, who represented the Louis
Julio (t Most till© railroad at the re
[cent hearing (n the matter. The pro
[pou&d lease is for 68 years end the
Atlantic Coast Lfne dentures that to
desiring to take over this road 11
wishes to establish a straight line
from the Kentucky coal fields through
(to Savannah. and on to other points
Mr. Tye said, when interrogated, that
(the Georgia railroad doesn’t want the
rumor has had it might be taken over
by the Georgia railroad which H Joins
Oamak.
Mute Dealers Ask $30,000 Da tragtx,
Atlanta.— I Twenty-five mule dealers
of Atlanta have flk-d suit against the
Louisville and Nashvflle Railroad
company, the Louisville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railway and James C.
Itevis, agent, for $30,000 damages
which the dealers allege represents
overcharges in freight rates collect
ed by the defendants on hundreds of
shipments erf horses and muic-s from
points in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illi
nois, Indiana and Missouri to Atlan
ta The mule dealers nllogo that the
rates collected hy the defendants were
in violation of the fourth section of
the act to regulate commerce and
section 10 of the federal control act.
Floyd Farmers To Inspect Berry
Rome.—Farmers from all over
Floyd county will make a tour of In
spc-ctlon of the Berry schools farm,
the tour to be conducted by County-
Farm Demonstrator Agent W. 'H. C-
Collins, fn urging farmers to be on
hand for the trip Mr. Collins express
es the opinion that the Berry farms
r.bow what improved farming methods
can do In this section of the state.
He feels, too, he points out, that the
demonstration is all the more impres
sive because the Berry farms are all
on what is known os “flat woods
Jand" popularly supposed to be very
poor land.
Increase Shown In Gar Pasaengore
Atlanta. —Increase of more than
260,000 passengers on Atlanta street
cars for the month of July. 1923, over
July 1922, was reported In a state
ment filed by the Georgia Railway
& Power company with the public
service commission. Excluding the
Stone Mountain and Marietta lines,
the company carried 6,166,925 pay pas
sengera, and 1.702,306 who rode od
transfers during last July, while the
figures for this July show 6,466,118
pay passenger and L 711.747 on trao3
fera Gross receipts for this July
showed an Increase of $18,136.68.
Worst Roads In Georgia On 6,500 Tow
Atlanta.—Declaring that the rough
est roads encountered on a 6.506-mite
tour were in Georgia just before reach
lng Tennessee and Kentucky, E. A.
Tigner, Milleclgeville tourists, reached
Atlanta on Ills return trip, Mr. Tig
ner said that he left his home in Ml)
ledgeville 28 days ago and that sinoe
then he has made an extensive tour
of the western part of the .United
Statee. visiting Yolowstone park and
other places in thnt section of the
country. Accompanying Mr .Tigneir
were Roy Alford snd Hanson Browder.
FOR OVER 40 Y E\R
HALL’S CAT ATv I ill ML.>. Cl X ; V
been used sucoesrtully in the* n
of Catarrh.
HALL’S CATARRH MELJC: '• ■;-
■M
Relieves by local application.
'
through the Blood on the M i. • jb
facep thus reducing *h in*'■
Sold hv all druggls’
F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toll -’
R. t. HUNTER
DJSNTIS'i,
Cuniming.
FOWLER .V l> ( l. SI
Practice ot Orin.it.al L; ,v.
CUM M IXO,O A,
The National Hog
* And Cattle Snow
I
i '
Proof of a Revolution in (,e
Tlog anti C*t!!e Raising
ol the South.
Atlanta, Ga.—There is no ni-.c r
factor In imi-ioveiacct tr,' bv I
bogs and cattle on the farms oi v
country than the National Ho; ■mi
Cattle Show held each year uu-i
--auspices of tire Southern
eTs Association and the Southern
Cattlemens Association, 1 h
is officially a part of the Southeastern
■Fair to be held October u o i.i -.i
year.
Thai this improvement liar -a
wonderful Is admitted by iil well it;
formed people, unri overybodv k,.
that there can be no comparison
tween the scrub cows and the A
rooters of even ten years ago. and
,tho beautiful and productive cat tie
and hogs of today.
There will be thousands of dollars
in prizes for Hereford;;, Shorthorns
Aberdeen-Angus, Jersays, Guernseys
Jlolßteln-Friesians and Ayrshires,
breeds which were practically un
known to most of the farmers of the
lofit generation. Dairying and cheese
(making is going forward by leaps and
bounds in Georgia and you will be stir
prised to find out how many -
factories are operating in the state.
Thousands of dollars also will be
awarded to owners of hogs: Duroc
Jerseys, Hampshirea, I’oland China:
and Bertahlres alone will draw more
than 94,000 in prizes
There will be a fat cattle and a
fat hog department of the show, and
car-load exhibits of "fanners” aud
“grain ted” cattle
No man who soes the stock shown
here can ever be satisfied with scrub
stock in his barnyard, and no boy who
sees It will ever own any scrub stock
at ail, and whether you are a stock
man or not you will be interested iu
seeing what the pure-hred stock in
dustry has accomplished to our state
and section within the last few
NEW PREMIUM
LIST IS VERY
ATTItAC i .
Bv.ery County in the
State Could Add Some
- to the Big Sh ;y
There is not a y in G
whose people, could not ,
creditable exhibit at the So;:Hi ■ ;
Fair. October 6 to 13. if they tr,
There Is nbt. a county in Go ; rl
whose people would not piufit by - h
an exhibit, and the benefit to i
state of a display from ach of its
160 counties would be Incalculable
There is not, a man in Georgia
would not better himself and bis
family by the production of somethin;:-
for such an exhibit
Let the world know that It'B Great
to be a Georgian, and particularly,
Georgian of your own home town and
county A card to R. j Stripll
rotary, Atlanta, will bring you on. of
the attractive free premium lists, * a
thousands of ideas and suggest op-,.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Georgia, Forsyth County
Will be sold at public out<;
to the highest bidder for ■ a
before the Court House dooi
Gumming in -aid count t wit
he legal hours o!' sale on 1 -
first Tuesday in Octobt - ' •
80 acres, more or less, situab”!
lying arid being in the ‘.Aid c.
trict and Ist section of Fors. 1 3
County, Georgia, and const '
ing, of lots and parts of bn
Nos. 431, being all of said Jot,
and the West half of Nos. 1" '
and 433. Said lands levied up
on under and by virtue of 13
executions issued from the J
tice Court of the 879th Dis i-
G. M„ Forsyth County, in fa
of of F. V. Green against - A I
Echols.
Tenant in possession and v
L. Echols given notice as •
law required. Deed from F. V
Green to M. L. Echols executed
and filed in Clerks office For
syth Superior Court for purpose
of levy and sale only befor*
levy as by law required.
R. L. Holbrook Sheriff.
Make Every Minute Count
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Jmy y Waterman’s
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\ [ HARVIE SIMPSON,
Cutnminpr, Ga,
New Garage.
Sew Location, New Tools. New
Prices- In fact everything new
except mechanics , who are ex=
per fenced and up-to=date ,
♦
We arc located in the G, L- Merritt
warehouse on the south west side
o* town, where we can take care of
your automobile and farm machin
ery repairing, as well as general
blacksmithing,
Respectfully, we ask for a share of
your patronage. First class work
at reasonable prices.
Oils, Greases, Genuine Ford Parts.
Yo irs for business*
BLACKSTON BROS.
Jfe"A ' RED BAND TKUKBTRtmrACTWry/
PENCIL CO. NEWYORKV.SA.
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Ad-fHiiistrator's Sale.
Ci.k.i . and by virtue of an or
g ; c(1 by his Honor W. J.
li'iv,ell Or iinary of Forsyth
■ n;; ia, on the 3rd day
. St -it mber 1923, there will
.- /-d o the court house
ui the town of Cummifig
fie legal hours
i sale, it 10 o'clock A. M., cto
lb.A Tuesday in Oct. 1923
* . . xing described real ea
rn-. ii . 130 acres, more or
; 1 mi Atuated, lying and
:,in the 2nd district and
’tier. of Forsyth County,
•oigia. consisting of lots of
id Numbers 379, 380 and
A > and ten acres off of the
tv.:-t half of Number 452, being
all of said lot lying on the East
of the old road running
g the edge of the field to
ti branch, the right-of-way
; 0. along to road to the public
r< .-.d leading by the “Betty
Butler Place".
. aid lauds being sold for the
■ ‘ po; of paying the debts
I di 'i ibution among ‘ the
hi ■. r S. Glover, deceased,
the same being lands owned
and possessed by the said D. S.
Clover, deceased, during his
lifetime.
Term ' Cash. Possession to
given January Ist 1924.
1 org ■ W. Glover, Administra
tor.
Georgia, Forsyth County.
To all whom it may concern :
Monroe Bennett having made
application to me for per
manent letters of administra
tion upon the estate of Sevier
Martin, late of said county, de
ceased, notice is hereby given
that said application will be
heard at the regular term of
th*e Court of Ordinary of said
county to be held on the first
Monday in October 1923.
Given under my hand and
official signature, this 3rd day
of September 1923.
W. J. Tidwell Ordinary.
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Georgia, Forsyth County.
To all whom it may concern :
The Bank of Norcross having
made application to me for per
manent letters of administra
tion to vest in H. S. Brooks up
on the estate of John C. Hall
late of said county deceased,
notice is hereby given that said
application will be heard at
the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county to
be held on the first Monday in
October 1923.
Given under my hand and
official signature, this 3rd day
iof September 1923.
W. J Tidwell Ordinary.
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