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BRUNSWICK HAS A LAND
LOCKED HARBOR, THE BEST
ON THE SOUTH ATLANTIC
m COAST.
VOLUME XXIM. No. 91.
FOLLOWS LI!
A. I). Daniel of the Atlanta, Bir=
minghafti and Atlantic Talks
in Interesting Fashion
WNDERFUL DEVELOPMENT
SHOWN ON WHOLE
Passeger Traffic Manager of
Popular Line Gives Out Inter
esting Statement in Bruns
wick Today.
“It reads like a story of ‘Jack and
the Bean stalk,’ the vapid growth and
prosperity 'which followed the build
ing of the (140 miles of railroad, which
constitute the length of the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic railway,’’
is the way A. 1). Daniel, passenger
traffic manager of that road put it,
when asked for a statement as to ac¬
tivities along' his line of road.
Built primarily to carry timber to
saw mills, the A., B. & A. has turned
a stream of wealth into many sec¬
tions through which it passes and is
> odav a transportation factor of ini
-ortance not only to the Southeast
generally but to other sections of the
country with which the Southeast
does bu%iess,
The timber to which the road once
owed its existence has been cut down
and in its place there have grown
up prosperous farming and manufac¬
turing communities. One now beholds
an agricultural end industrial ad¬
vancement along the line of this short
line road where but yesterday, so to
s; eak, barren waste, or timber lands,
awaited the 'woodman’s axe.
While the territory traversed by
tho A., B. & A. is primarily agricul¬
tural, manufacturing, which it has so
strongly encouraged, has forged
ahead at an almost phenomenal rate.
Along this line now will be found
cotton mills, knitting (mills, cotton
seed oil mills, planing mills, tobacco
stemming and re-drying pLmts,
fineries of naval stores, wood
ing plants, steel and iron castings in¬
dustry, machinery manufacturing
plants, and various other mnnufar
tiM'ing industries.
The territory traversed by this
road is also productive of. forest pro¬
ducts, including naval stores, and is
rich in mineral resources including
coal, iron, limestone, clays, pyritics’
graphite and other minerals. Five
coal mines, with a total capacity of
3,000 tons a day, are reached by this
lino of road.
The A., B. & A. has an all-the-year
round deep water terminals at Bruns¬
wick, thus establishing direct steam¬
er connections with the Eastern sea
board and Europe, Cuba and South
America.
The agricultural department of this
road for a number of years has en¬
gaged most actively and effectively
in a campaign for diversified crops
along its lines. This has included the
raising of live-stock. These efforts,
in co-operation with those of other
interests working to the same end,
have resulted in the building of a
number of new modern packing
houses at several points on the line
of the A., B. & A.
The packing plant at Moultrie rep¬
resents an investment of one million
dollars; at Tifton the packing plant
cost more than half a million, and
three other plants at Waycross, At¬
lanta and Birmingham, represent an
aggregate investment of more than a
million dollars. These plants handle
in a half year more than a half mil¬
lion head of hogs and cattle, for which
they pay farmers five million dollars
or more annually.
As evidence that efforts to encour¬
age live-stock raising along this line
of road have paid, the officials of the
road point out that this industry has
increased 100 per cent in its territory
since the construction of the road,
and note that the razor-back hog,
once about the only variety found in
this section, has practically disap¬
peared from the country.
As further evidence, the railroad
officials cite the fact that a breeder
on this line won at the Intel-national
Ij-ive Stock Shew in Chicago, in 1920,
vjhe Grand Chaimpionship prize for
the best Poland-China boar, and at
the same time a similar prize for a
Poland-China sow. In 1919, a breeder
on this road won at the Chicago Inter¬
national Live Stock Show, the Grand
Championship prize for the best
Hereford bull.
It is noted that the live-stock in
dustry has also encouraged the
ing of corn, and that farmers in
A., B. & A. territory produce an
nually more than twenty million bush
els of com, or two and a half times
as much as they did less than
years ago. Tobacco, an entirely' new
crop for this section, was introduced
bv agricultural agents of the road and
y lias made fortunes for growers and
BRUNSWICK
BRUNSWICK, GA., MONDAY. DEC. 17, 1923.
REPAIRS FENCES OF
THE PRESIDENT IN
THE SOU!) SOUTH
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William Butler
Entirely acquainted with the fact
that the “Solid South will have its
usual full representation in the Re
publican national convention, William
Butler, G. 0. P. national committed
man from Massachusetts and Cool
idge’s manager, has begun vc, airing
the president’s political fences below
the Mason and Dixon line.
Head of Stale Insane Asylum is
on the Stand Again
Today
HE .MAKES . crV SFINSA c*TlOWAI ! IJAAL
STATEMENT IN CASE
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Says Kti Klux Editor, Who is
Charged With Killing Attor¬
ney William S, Coburn, Will
Always be Crazy.
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Atlanta. Dee. 17 (/PI--The trial
Phillip E. Fox. charged with the niuv
der of Captain W. S. Coburn promi
nent Atlanta attorney, was resumed
this morning in the criminal branch
of Fulton superior court.
Dr. S. H. Svint, superintendent of
the State Insane Asylum, \yx% recall
e d to the stand and made rather a
sensational statement, *
According to Dr. Swint, Fox will be
a hopeless lunatic for the rest of his
l'fe, it matters not bow the present
trial terminates.
When asked by counsel, if a man
suffering with delusions could have a
motive for a crime and if that delu¬
sion could absolutely control his ac
tion, even to the time and the place of
a killing, Superintendent Swint
swered affirmatively.
He also swore that the delusion was
strong enough to control in the selec¬
tion of the gun or knife, with which
to commit the crime.
The (whole morning session was
taken up in the cross examination of
Dr. Swint.
B. Iv. Rainsdorff, aviator, an inmate
of the Fulton county jail testified that
the kangaroo court maintained in the
jai 1 would not touch Fox because his
fellow prisoners believed him ill and
nervous.
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is now recognized as one of the most
important crops in South Georgia,
In order to meet the growing de
mauds made upon the A., B. & A. due
to development in its territory, dur
ing the present year, improvements
have been made or are under eon
I struetion costing many thousands of
dollais.
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAY AND
Motorcade Reached the City at
Four O’Clock Sunday
Afternoon
MUSICAL PROGRAM FOR
THEM AT OGLETHORPE
Short Talks Made by Bruns¬
wick People Last Night.—
Party Left For Jacksonville
This Morning.
The motorcade of the Green Book
I Automobile Tours arrived in Bruns
j wick day afternoon—that shortly after four is, the o’clock majority Sun
;
j of the cars arrived at that time, the
remainder came in broken order dur
ing the rest of the afternoon. The
first party was met by a delegation of
! Brunswick business men headed by
Secretary of the Board of Trade Fred
; Warde and were escorted to the
Oglethorpe hotel, where the party
wils quartered.
; j n the afternoon the party was
] p u -gely, taking a needed rest and in
, the evening a special program of mu
| s j c j iV the Brunswick Symphony club
from eight to ten o’clock added to the
pleasure of the occasion.
During; the evening short addresses
of welcome were made by Fred G.
| Warde, B. F. Mann, and Dr. J. W.
Simmons, all of whom cordially wel¬
comed the visitors to this city and
I told them something of the (marvelous
i advantages Brunswick has to offer to
all sorts of industries seeking loca¬
tions.
These addresses were responded
by Mr. M. Rocamore, of Boston, in a
very happy little talk.
Many members of the party ex¬
pressed themselves as being delight -
i ed with Brunswick and her splendid
: seaport with its wonderful shipping
| facilities. The whole party was loud
i in praise of the route of the Dixie
Highway via Brunswick -and they an¬
nounced that the whole cavalcade had
' experienced practically no trouble oil
! the entire trip.
After the musical program, the re
; mainder of the evening was spent in
, .. , . , yui „ ,
,i (,i u i u sot la way. _ < al »®
number of Brunswick citizens called
I in the evening to meet the individual
| j members of the party and to extend a
welcome f o thorn,
The public debut of Brunswick’s
j Little eoption Symphony tendered orchestra the Boston at the Motor- re
j cai j e i ast night at the Oglethorpe ho
j te i ; seenls to have opened the eyes
j | 0 f a number of Brunswick’s music
[ 0V ers to the possibility of developing
; the musical taste of the city. Among
i numbers played on last night’s pro
! gram were:
j j -‘Largo,’’ Handel; “Sprint' Song,”
Mendelssohn; “Traumerei,” Scliu
| mann ; “Kou Fou San," the Japanese
National Air; “Fest March,” from
Wagner's “Tannhauser,” together
with lighter selections, ballads and a
few popular pieces of late dance mu
sic. “Yankee Doodle,” followed by
“Dixie” seemed to strike a popular
chord with the audience.
The piano solo of Miss Burgay, who
rendered the “Poet and Peasant Over¬
j ture” was the feature of the musical
program, many compliments on her
artistry being expressed by the visi¬
tors.
Those composing last night’s or¬
chestra were: Piano, Miss Lois Bur
gay; violins, Mr. Thomas Price and
Miss Isabel Bunkley; cornets, Mr.
Worth Johnson and Dr. J. W. Sim¬
mons; clarinet, Mr. Andrew Lorentz-'
son; saxophones, Mrs. F. J. Petersen!
and Mr. Alex Lorentzson; trombone, |
Mr. E. J. Ennis; bass, Mr. G. C. Fen¬
nell; drums and traps, Mr. Oscar Hen
sel.
After a delightful breakfast at the
Oglethorpe this morning, the motor¬
cade, escorted out by a delegation of
Brunswick citizens, left for Jackson
i-ille to continue their trip from there
to Miami.
President M. Aocamora, who is a
leading Boston business man and ti.e
executive of the Automobile Green
Book publications, paid The News of¬
fice a visit this morning an-Ytook oc¬
casion to express the grati ffe of the
visitors for the courtesies extended
by the people of Brunswick.
DYNASTIC CRISIS AND
DEPARTURE OF KING
GEORGE OF GREECE?
Athens, Dec. 17 (AP)—This city is
stirred with rumors of a dynastic
Crisis.
That a fall of the government is
imminent is said to be no secret of
the inner circles.
In some quarters here it is stated
that the departure of King George is
regarded as among the possibilities of
the present situation.
MILE-LONG WORLD COURT
PETITION SENT TO COLLIDGE
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The Minnesota delegation in Washington with '.he petition. Left to right, the women are: Mrs. Sumner T.
McKnight, Mrs. G. A. Peterson, Mrs. R. T. Hargraves, Mrs. A. .1. Muquire, and Mrs. M. 1). Purdy.
Tlie Minnesota League of Women Voters has just presented President Coolidge with mile of signatures
approving the administration’s world court stand. The signatures were collected and pasted on one strip of
paper and wound up like a ball of urine. A delegation of the league members carried the commendatory
letter to the president at the White House.
ST. MARK’S CHOIR
WILL SING XMAS
CANTATA SUNDAY
SPLENDID PROGRAM OF MUSIC
WILL ATTRACT LARGE
CONGREGATION
On next Sunday afternoon at five
o’clock the choir of St. Marks church
will sing a Christmas cantata “The
Christ Child,” by C. B. Hawley, the
afternoon hour being decided on, to
avoid conflicting with the evening
vices of other churches, and the pub
lie is very cordially invited to hear
this beautiful cantata.
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In this cantata “The Christ
the composer has woven the various
portions of the Scriptures which make
up the Christmas story, into a
cal setting tuneful and yet in keeping
with the dignity and beauty or
sacred narrative. The canta is
ed into two parts, first, the Prophesy,
and second, the Fulfillment and in
dition to the Scripture texts,
bines three of the Irr.ost beautiful
the Christmas hymns, “Silent Night,
Holy Night,” “It Came Upon the Mid
night Clear” and “O Little Town of
Bethlehem,” and is made up of
a female trio a passage for male
quartet, a very pretty female qu;ar
tet selection in echo effect, and several
numbers for full chorus. The choir
has been practicing on this cantata
for several weeks, under the able
rection of Miss Minnie Bcfivers, and
production is expected to he the
most elaborate and beautiful given in
•St. Marks in many years.
The cantata will be sung by the
regular choir of the church, which is
composed of Misses Minnie
Harriet Stevens, Mrs. W. M. Oates
and Mrs. Clyde Brown, sopranos; Mrs.
Clifford Akin and Mrs. Walter K.
Sears, altos; Messrs. George H. Mc¬
Cullough and W. W. Heaton, tenors;
Messrs. Ben R. Harley and C. M.
'Gowen, bassos, and Guy T. Hacket,
organist.
COLUMBUS IS
HIT BY BIG FIRE
THIS MORNING
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DAMAGE DONE THIS MORNING
AMOUNTS TO S200.00.—ALL
IN BUSINESS SECTION
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Coluntbus, Ga., Dec. 17 (/P)—Fire of
an undetermined origin which for
eral hours threatened the heart of the
retail business district of Columbus,
caused damage which has been esti
mated at $200,000. The Humes Mu
sic Company, occupying the basement
and three floors of the Humes build
ing was the greatest loser in the con
flagration which gutted the rear of
the structure. Charlie Mizell’s haber¬
dashery and Fdley and Gargill’s shoe
store suffered damage through smoke
and water.
AMERICAN CONSUL DIES
AT EDINBURG TODAY
Edinburg. Dec. 17 (/P)—Hunter
Sharp, the American consul, died here
today. He was born in North Caro¬
lina," in 1861 and entered the consu¬
lar service in 1886.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HIRAM JOHNSON
STILL FIGHTING
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
California Senator Seeks Legal
Proceedings to Get Name
on Republican Ticket
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Washington, Dec. 17 OP)—Hiram
Johnson has come back to the foe in
j the South Dakota situation.
| He will be in the primary running ■
I in that state good and strong.
Papers were filed today in behalf
• of the California senator for the pres
idcatial nomination, for the placing
of his name before the Republicans of
South Dakota.
Senator Johnson and his friends are
of the opinion that injunction
ceedings, which have begun, to keep
the minority nominations off' the
South Dakota ballot, twill not inter
fere with the filing of these proceed
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Washington, Dec. 17 l/P)—Papers to
place the name of Senator Hiram
Johnson, of California, before the Re
publicans of South Dakota as a can
didate for the Republican presidential
nomination, are to be filed today in
the senator's behalf, with the South
Dakota secretary of state at Pierre,
Senator Johnson believes that the in
junction proceedings which have been
begun to keep the minority nomina
Lions off the South Dakota ballot will
not interfere with the filing of these
papers.
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GEORGIA IN Hid i
PLACE JUST
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A tlanta, Dec. 17.—The sustained 1
vigor of Southern development is j
strikingly evidenced in reports of i
business agencies received in Atlan- 1
ta. showing a gain of nine and four- i
tenths per cent in this region’s build-j
record for November over Octo-:
ber.
The significance of such a score -at ,
a time when construction work of all j
sorts is generally on the wane is !
heightened by the fact that for the !
country as a whole November build- j
ing was seven and four-tenths percent |
below October. !
j n Dixie alone was there an in-i
crease. While this is partly to be I
ascribed to a climate that encour- j
ages outdoor work the year round, it
should be observed, according to At
lanta construction men, that Southern
building in November, 1923, was for
ty-nine and six-tenths per cent in ex
ce ss of its total for the correspond- j
ing month of than 1922—a twice rate great of incre- j
rnent more as as ; ]
that for the entire country. j
Georgia holds a high place in this
meaningful record. Atlanta’s build-I
ing for the eleven months of 1923 is ]
unapproached in the citys annals, as !
regards both the volume and the val- i
ae of the permits issued. Moreover, | j
the development has been city-wide
and well proportioned; no one district!
has grown at the expense of the oth- I j
ers, but all have gone substantially
forward. j
CAMDEN COUNTY
TO "** 1
CONTEST BETWEEN ST. MARYS
AND WOODBOINE HAS NOT
BEEN SETTLED
The fight for the county seat of
i Camden county, waged so bitterly for
' the last two years between St. Marys,
which, for half a century or more,
. had been the capital, :i• • •: Woodbine,
j Dr.....I ■ i anammou-'i .• '■>»• the
reside us of the county the cost
side of the ............ Satilla river, goes ......... mev
rily on. Fought out at an election
curried to the secretary ol stele,
thence to Die legislature, finally the
injunction process being resorted to,
much-mooted question is now be
fore the Georgia (Supreme court and
will be argued next month.
Woodbine, winner in the election in
1922, now considered the capital of
the old county, is still on top in the
long drawn out fight, and i1 that place
succeeds in winning out before the
supremo court it is believed that the
fight will be finally settled.
In the removal election held in 1922,
Woodbine won out by a safe
itv. The "lection only started the
fight. Both sides at once employed
counsel and the stage was all set for
a long- hard fight. Fii-st, adherents
of St. Marys claimed that the regis
tration was illegal, that many voters
were permitted to participate who
were not legally registered. The state,! mat
ter went to the secretary of
and Marys. his decision After reviewing was a victory the evidence] for St. j
and going into the case he decided
St. Marys' grounds of complaint
were right and that, according to his
way of figuring it. Woodbine had not
received the necessary number of le
‘“ir
the matter to the floor of the house
senate and at the , regular , sum- ,
mer session, Representative Atkinson, I
this o? Camden, district, who and reside Senator at St. Arnow Marys, of]
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succeeded in getting bills passed mak- ;
ing Woodbine the capital, and again I
St. Marys The had action to of resort the to legislature another j
step. j
so- aside the decision of the secre-;
tavy of state. j :
Then attorneys for St. Marys chose
the injunction route to stop the re
moval of the capital. Judge J. P.
Hig'hsmith, of the Brunswick circuit,
was presented with an injunction,
providing that the county commis
sioners be restrained from removing
the site, on the ground that the elec
tion was illegal, and further claim
ing that the legislature, in view of the
decision of the secretary of state, was
without authority anti had no legal
right to declare Woodbine the county
seat. The injunction also woud have
stopped the erection of a temporary
court house. But Judge Hig'hsmith
dismissed ........................... the injunction. Then ..... it was
that the matter was carried to the !
court of last resort. Determined to !
fight to the very end, attorneys for j
St. Marys appealed from the decision
of the superior court judge, and now
tlie case is before the state's highest
tribunal and is to be argued in Janu
ary. In all of the legal phases of the
case St. Marys lias been represented
by S. C. Townsend, of that place, and
Woodbine by Conyers & W ileox, of
Brunswick.
BE\ WIIAT YOU NEED AT
HOME AND THUS HELP
BRUNSWICK GROW TO BE
BIGGER AND GREATER. •
‘st MEMORY
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EN 3mm my
Handsome Solarium is io be
Added to the City
Hospital
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
FORMED FOR THE PURPOSE
Contract For the Sun Parlor is
be Let Soon and Actual Con
j situation is to be started
| Early in 1924.
i Within a very short time nov,. work
I will commence on the bands-.me : .
j ium, to be erected as an addition to
i the Brunswick hospital, in memory of
the kite Dr. Robert L. Fox, one time
| j surgeon in charge of the hospital and
always its active friend.
I Shortly after the death of the la
i men ted physician, who v.a< dearly
, loved by all of the people of Brim -
i wick, a movement was -launched to
honor is memory in some way eom
| mensurate wit the service he had e
j ways performed for humanity and
! something to denote his affection for
: the hospital.
The Fox Memorial Association was
formed in a tentative way with Mr
Arthur Mitcheison as chairman, and
I.. A. Robinson, the well known city
treasurer, acting as treasurer of the
association.
Many plans to honor Dr. Fox were
suggested and finally the committee
of the association concluded that the
erection of a solarium sun parlor for
the use of convalescent patients at the
hospital, would be a fitting v. . y to
memorialize him.
Work was then started in a quiet
way to raise the funds necessary to
erect the memorial, which is to be
built on the second floor of the build¬
ing jus; above the front porch. While
the subscriptions have been coming
in most satisfactorily, the association
suggests that any one who has not
contributed and cares to do so, will
please send his contribution to the
: tivaxuier. ............
While the contract has not been
awarded for the actual building of
the solarium, the plans have all boon
drawn and it iw.'s stated yesterday
that the contract will bo a warden i in¬
mediately after the holidays and that
work will commence early in the New
Year,
It is stated that the whole project,
when completed, will cost about
$1,500.
ARRESTS ABOUT TO
BE MADE IN ATHENS
MURDER CASE
Athens, Ga.. Dec. 17 (/P)—Arrest in
connection with the death of Mrs.
Mac Simmons and young daughter,
whose bodies were found in the burn¬
ed ruins of a farm shack near here
yesterday morning is expected today,
says Sheriff Collier.
Investigation definitely establishes
tin .e fact that the vcitinis c-asme to
Athens from their home in Jefferson
in response to a message supposedly
sent from the mother of Mrs. Sim¬
mons and met here by a man who
took them to an abandoned shack,
where they met their death.
BANKER-HUSBAND FA1I.S
IU At rEiAK. AvjlAiO aTAICT I UIC itlu
WIFE 1 IN DWORCF f ASF
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Nev. 7 oik, Dec. 17 (/PI Beverly D.
Harris, former vice president of the
National City Bank of this city, who
brought suit against his youthful
wife, Eleanor Elsine Lee Harris, for
the annullment of their marriage,
did not put in appearance today, when
the case was called for trial. His de¬
fault was noted and the jury irnpan
neUed to hear the testimony of Mrs.
Harris, who is denying her husband’s
charges.
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