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Gib-on School News
Regular Correspond*nf.
The Senior Class with Miss
Mattie Ll-ou Haslett in charge,
held its firs meeting last Monday
afternoon in the senior class
room. The following officers for
the year were elected. Eliza I-as
eter, president; Velma Todd, vice
president; Agnes Thompson,
secretary; George Lamb, treasur
er.
Our visitors for the week were
Mr. Hardwick Harris and Miss
Ruth Parsons.
A musical entertainment will
be given at the Gibson
School Auditorium Friday night
at eight o’clock. The public is
cordially invited. A very
csting program has been arrang
ed for the evening. Admission,
adults 25c, children 15c.
t he song hooks for the year
have been received. They are
Wijll adapted for the work in our
school.
The high school girls are de
lighted with the new basketball
and baskets. They will begin to
praeliee as soon as the courts can
be made.
The Senior Class rings have
been ordered and are exepected
the last of October.
The dramatization of William
Tell by Miss Hull’s room and the
Ribie verses given by Miss Hawes
room made a very interesting
program for Chapel Friday.
Mitchell News
Regular Correspondent
Mrs. A. M. Kitchens visited
Louisville Sunday.
Mrs. Roy Kelley is now
Rawlings Sanitarium operation where she
underwent an for ap
pr licitis.
Mr. Willie Todd left last Wed
nesday for Milieu where he will
teach school.
Miss Nancy Harrell spenl the
week-end with Miss Hula Raley.
Mr. Willie Snider is ill.
Mrs. il. M. Nunn and children
visited Gibson Friday.
Mr. C. R. Simpson and daugh
ter spent part of last week in
Sparta.
Miss Bulali Raley
the young people here Saturday
nighl with a peanut boiling which
was enjoyed by all present.
Mr. Robert Lee Brown, of L>av
isboro, was here Thursday.
Mr. B. C. Kitchens attended Dr.
Truett's meeting at Louisville on
Sunday.
Mr .Roy Kelley visited Sanders
ville Sunday.
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By Arthur Brisbane
TEN MEN AND A THOUSAND
ONE OAK, $4,000
W. L DOUGLAS, BUILDER
DEMPSEY AND DEFENSE DAT
Very good new* for the United
State* ia this:
The President i* considering the
relative value of battleships and
airplanes. that sell battleships at
oi e
forty million dollars apiece will tell
the President that the country can’t
survive without plenty of battle
ships. Manufacturer* of hansom cabs
would also have said a little while
ago that the taxicab couldn’t be a
real success.
Before the President builds an
other battleship let him ask the
builder this question: build that
“Are you forty-buffion willing to and
ship for dolars
E uarantee that it will be afloat ten
ours after being attacked by one
hundred thousand dollar*’ worth of
fighting airships?"
If the President discovers, as he
will, that a hundred thousand dol
lai-’ worth of airship*, manned by
ten men, can destroy any forty-mil
lion dollar battleship with more
than a thousand men on board, he
v/ih decide not to build battleships.
Governor Pinehot has signed the
death warrant of a young colored
wdl^elhfflfstwo^nlSiin voman who killed a colored police
the State of Pennsylvania in thirty
five years. Governor Pinehot signed
1 he death warrant when he was in
the hospital. recovered, When he comes out, to
entirely it may occur
l.im instead that of puttingJgf. locking her up is small
business for a great State.
The question is not “Does she
deserve death?” It is “Doe* Penn
■yi vania deserve disgrace?"
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There are now regular flotations
*« »ta, The average
price is $25 for $100 worth of bogus
Tills. The marked stabilised by
the demand for such money, used
IVomZhe ^m 8 ** sent*by‘‘out
Horn the turn fleet licet, sent Dy our
British brothers.
The of the ... boats am
managers familiar
good bootleggers. Lnrt not
with American money, and many.
it seems, have been taking bad
money for worse whiskey—which
seems fair eqotigh.
A Presbyterian church in New
Jersey spent $4,000 in one year, 400
taking care of a huge oak
years old. Tho oak may be worth
it. But that sum would hav#
planted several thousand new tree*
along New Jersey roads. Or, it
you don’t resent dragging in reli
gion, it would have done a good deal
to help some of those “little ones"
that are supposed to be more im
portant than many oaks.
Above the base at Quantico, Va.,
flying machines are practicing, and
on the ground our honest U. S.
Marines, in deep amazement, “ob
served that a flock of buzzards,
after watching the aviators, imi
tated all their flying tricks in the
air.”
You remember the gentleman
with ered in his his house on all fire the who furniture gath
arms
he could carry, finally picking up
the baby with hi* teeth fastened in
the little dress.
As he lifted the baby he *aw a
cat walking across the floor hold
ing a kitten in her mouth, and said,
“Look at the wonderful imitation of
that cat.”
W. L. Douglas died in Boston
last week. His name will be re
membered among the builder* of
great industry, among those that
helped to free humanity from slav
ery, by making machines do the
Work of human hands.
He began life driving peg* in
shoe* for his uncle. He lived to
make machines do the work of
thousands of human beings and
distributed American-made shoe*
throughout the world.
Those that consider Preparedness
and Defense Day a menace to peace
please notice this:
Jack Dempsey is prepared. If
you doubt it, pull his nose. As he
goes through thick crowds every
body body knows knows him, htm, everybody everybody is ts
POLITE. Nobody slaps him or in
sults him, and he does not hit or
SS'JSfS-hSFSSf 1 h= e iS
them alone unless they get in the
ring ring with with him. him. with individuals, with
As it is so
and people let him alone unless thev
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xnls Is ftm •# tn Arabia* proverb
In "Ufa St Mr Richard Barren" and
run*: »**• an. faur: Ha who knows
not and ka.vwa s*t be know* not. h*
I* a foal ahaa blm; he who know,
ant and knows he knows not, he fe
Simple—teach him ; he who knew*
and know* not he knows, he ts asle^
w»ke him; he who knows nnd knobs
ha knows, he t* wU»- 4Vtlow hum"
PROCLAMATION.
Submitting a proposed amendment
> tbe Constitution of Georgia, to be
voted on at the General election to be
said amelZenTC’aXrile^heG^:
eral Assembly to consolidate the
floes of Tax Receiver and Tax Colloo
tor In the several counties.
- By His Excellency,
Clifford Walker, Governor,
State of Georgia,
Executive Department,
August 21, 1924.
WHEREAS, Tbe General Assembly
at Its session in 1924 proposed an
amendment to the Constitution of this
State as set forth in a resolution ap
proved August 18, 1924, to-wit:
A RESOLUTION
No. 54.
Proposing to the people of Georgia an
amendment to Paragraph 1. Section t,
Article 11, of the Constitution of the
State of Georgia, so as to authorize the
General Assembly to consolidate the of
fices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector
un'tformity"^ t 'the^various
counties, the compensation of the officer
performing the duties of said offices when
so consolidated and for other purposes.
Be It resolved by the Senate, the House
of Representatives concurring, that the
following amendment to the Constitution
of the State of Georgia be, and th*
same Is hereby, proposed to the people
of Georgia, to-wlt:
Amend Paragraph i, section », Article
11, by adding at the end 6t said para
graph the following:
^eclor i B n ?„y T S
of the state, the official performing the
duttoa of said two office*, when so con
solidated. to be known as County Tax
Commissioner, and the General Assem
bly may prescribe the compensation of
such County Tax Commissioner or au
thorize county authorities to fix the
same, which oornpematkm. may be on the
basis of fees or salary and may be fixed
without regard to uniformity In the va
rious counties, and when such compen
sation Is fixed on a salary basts tho
authority fixing the same shall determine
what disposition shall be made of tho
foes and commissions accruing to each
of said offices so consolidated and to
provide for tho levy and collection of a
tax suflcient to pay the salary so fixed.
So that said paragraph. when so
amended, shall be as follows:
Whatever tribunal, or
county matters, shall be uniform through
® ut *'
General' Assembly may provide of for Roads ths
appointment of commtslonars
and Revenues in any county, and may
coVyTr .uoh
of eounty T r ,,* >urflr
cation may be fixed without retard to
uniformity of such compensation In th#
various counties. And the General As
EuditV^h" offlci Tnd dutV* S Tni
Receiver and Tax Collector In any or all
of the counties of the State, the offhaal
pCtnUon A J2£bS*' may' bounty ’nrls^b" 4 the* S,m
of euch Ta* Commit
«toner or authorize county authorities to
t£o?thri£d* o^feMw'lSS^HSd
be nxe( , wUhout regard to uniformity
In the various counties, and when such
comnensatlon la fixed on a salary bn
els the authority fixing the same shall
2f t * t r h ” ln f *of * e * h ''SmmiMltns a?dSS
to oa olx aald officer so consolidated
and to provide for the levy and oollee
tlon of a tnx aufflctent to pay th# sal
ary «o fixed,
Be It further resolved, that If the fore
going proposed amendment shall be
agreed to by two-thirds of the mem
ber# elected to each of the two houses
of the General Assembly of Georgia, such
proposed amendment shall be entered on
their Journals, with the yeas and nays
taken thereon, and the Governor shall
cause such amendment to be published
In at least two newspapers in each Con
gressional district of the State for two
inontha previous to the time of holding
the next general election, and the Gov
ernor shall also provide for the sub
mlaalon of such proposed amendment Is
tho people at the said next general elec
tion. All persons voting In aald elec
tion In favor of said proposed amend
ment shall have written or printed on
their ballots the words, ''Tor the amend
ment to the Constitution authorizing the
General Assembly to consolidate tho of
fices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector
and fix their compensation.” and all per
sons voting In said election against said
proposed amendment shall have written
or printed on thetr ballots the words.
“Against the amendment to the Consti
tution authorizing the General Assem
bly to consolidate the office* of Tax Re
ceiver and Tax Collector and fix their
Compensation." The returns of said
election shall be made to the Secretary
of State, who shall certify the result
thereof to the Governor, and !f the
people shall ratify said proposed amend
ment by a majority of tho electors qual
ified to vote for members of the Gen
eral Assembly, voting thereon, the same
shall become a part of the Constitu
tion, and the Governor shall Issue a proc
lamation to that effect.
NOW. THEREFORE, I, Clifford
Walker, Governor ot said State, do
Issue this my proclamation hereby de
claring that the proposed foregoing
amendment to the Constitution is sub
mitted for ratification or rejection to
the voters of the State qualified to
▼ota for members of the General As
sembly at the General election to be
held on Tuesday, November 4th, 1924.
CLIFFORD WALKER.
Governor.
By the Governor,
8. O. McLendon,
Secretary of State. "
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Take With Sweetened Waetr.
Saves the babies, helps the
grown-ups, B . comforts wmlU ux elderly emeu; peo- peu
iarrhoea S“tZ'T' Remedy. s Sft I sed
for cholera , infantum,sudden pain
in stomach, griping cramps, nau
sea with pros t ra ting diarrhoea.
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Their Own Selection
English Paper—“Shakespeare, Words
worth and Cowper were each horn tn
April and the first two, like Swin
burne, chose April for both birth and
death.”—Boston '■rlpt.
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Made Fishing Ground
People living near Reelfoot lake,
formed by an earthquake years ago, are
now taking on an average of 2,000
pounds of fish a day from its waters.
Agricola News
By “Brown Eyes"
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Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gibson and
p re tty daughter, Annie Van, spent
Tuesday afternoon in Thomson,
Miss Mary Harrison look sup-
1 with Miss Hattaway Monday.
Mr. D. F. Amerson spent awhile
in the Cola Friday.
Miss Vivian Hattaway spent
Wednesday night with Miss Rosa
Mr. Jimmie Haywood has pur
chased a Ford.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Kitchens and
lovely daughter, Bettie Ruth, took
Monday night supper with Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Gibson.
Mr. Greenie Amerson spent Fri
day afternoon in the Cola.
Mr. T. G. Harrison and son,
Jewell, of Wrens, spent Thursday
with homefoiks.
Miss Mary Gibson is
a few weeks with her sister,
W. C. Dairrs, of Orlando, Fla.
Misses Rosa Gibson, and Bessie
Hattaway and Mr. Virgil Snider
, , a peanut . boiling , ... „ at . Miss vf;
Beulah Raley’s Saturday night.
Mr. Sterling Gibson, of Thom
spent a whiJe here Saturday,
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hattaway
and family spent Sunday with Mr
and Mrs. George Hattaway.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Johnson
spent Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Dye.
Mrs.Cane Johnson is back from
the hospital and is doing tine.
Dr. C. S. Gibson, of Mitchell,
spent some time here Thursday.
Always Pleasant to Take.
If you suffer from indigestion,
gassy pains that crowd the heart,
. .. bilious . ... spells, .. Slttk . , , head- .
° r constipation, ask for
Chamberlain s Tablets, convein
, ,U * > agreeable. noreeohle without Without iinnleas- unj tas
ant after-effect. Ihey aid dlges
tion, stimulate the liver, give
easy regular movement willt 110
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Explains Hot Springs
The source of the head of the hoi
In Arkansas Is believed to be
the great masses of Igneous rock In
. ,ru , 1, (1 . ln ln thp tn ® p . irt ,.- s PruH rti , hv y yolcnnlf
agencies. Dfep-seateU waters con
vprt “ d ,nto v "' " rs h » <ont " ct w,th
heated mass probably ascend through
fissures toward the surfaee, where they
meet cold springs whirl) tire heated by
toe vapors,
THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR
ATLANTA, OCTOBER 4 TO 11
19 2 4
GRBATSST AMU8IMENT PROGRAM AND UN
RIVALLCO EDUOATIONAL FSATURB8
THE ATLANTA PASSING REVUE
Featuring tha Famous All Georgia Beauty Ballet
every night In front of the Grandstand
CHAMPIONSHIP AUTO RAGES OCT. 4 AND I 1
Two days of Auto Racing Jn which tho conteatante
will Include tome of the most fearloaa Drivers of Inter
national fame
HARNESS RACES OOT. 6, 7, 8, 0 and 10
Five days of great racing participated In by many
of the finest Pacers and Trotters ever appearing on
Southern tracks
FIREWORKS, MIDWAY AND CARNIVAL SHOW8
brated Every night a grand Fireworks Display, the cole*
Rubin – Cherry Shows perform each day of the
fair, and the Lakewood Midway open dally
THE NATIONAL HOC AND CATTLE SHOW
largest Officially a part of the fair, brlnglnjg together the
and finest assemblage of Fure Bred Live Stook
to be seen In the South
AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DISPLAY
attempts. Surpassing In magnitude and Interest all former
the various Boys’ and Cirls’ Club Work will feature In
departments
Reduced Rates on all Railroads. Writs for a
Free Premium List i
The Southeastern Fair Association
OSCAR MILLS. PrmMsmt R. M. STRinm. Siereterg
ATLANTA-OCTOBER 4 to 11
Bastonvilie News
Regular Correspondent
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Bastonville School opened on
September 22 with 30 pupils. Our
teachers are Mrs. Ethel Gordon,
°f ^plelon, and Miss San. Wil
eher ’ ot EdgehdI.
Mrs. C. A. Chalker and dangh
ters. Misses Ola and Sallie-Lou,
were pleasant visitors at Mr. and
Mrs. I-eon English’s Friday.
Mrs. Bunyan Smith visited Mrs.
Tom Neal Saturday.
Mrs. Walker Norris, who has
real sick is reported as improv-
Augusta Lumber Company
Augusta, Ga.2
Lumber and Building Material—From Foundation
to Roof—Sash, Doors, Blinds, Cement, Lime,
Piaster, Roofing, Metal Laths. Bompletc House
Bills to Plans or small orders—Get our prices be
fore you build or repair.
– Stomach Trouble
J>1 i f R. N. A. SMITH, of
Shaw, Misl, remember says
he can’t
being without Thedford’s
Black-Draught liver med
tcine since he and Mrs.
Smith began keeping
house, many years chills.” ago.
«when we have
says Mr. Smith, “Black
Draught is what we use
and we find it just splen- of
did. I had a bad case
stomach trouble. I couldn’t
eat enough and was very
weak. Everything I ate
hurt me, formed gas and I
•pit up my food. I would
flel stupid or staggery. I
didn't feel like doing Black- any
work. I knew what
Draught had done in colds
and I began taking small
BLACK-DRAUGHT
A Liver Medicine
mg.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. English and
children and Mr. Roy Johnson
were visitors at Mr.and Mrs. Leon
English s Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Chatker
are waiting their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. F. Kennedy at Dublin.
Mrs. Bob Land and children
were visitors at their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. C. Newsome's, Friday.
Miss Jenva Tucker was a visit
n r with Misses Ola and Sallie Lou
Chalker Saturday.
Mr. Daniel McNair is real sick.
doses. I certainly got re
lief. It did me lots of good,
“When I go to town, I
look first to see how near
out of Black-Draught we
are, and then get more.
We are » good and way keep from
the doctor our
home remedies and the
main one is Black
Draught." «f thousand* of
In hundreds
Tome*, housekeeper* th* keen shelf,
Black-Draught for when on needed,
handy household use remedy relieve as
a to
constipation, biliousness, indi
irestion, and many other simple
ailments. “A dose ia tim*
saves nine." A dose of Black
Draught cost* only one cent.
I t may save you a big bill for
medicine later on. Keep it on
your shelf. Buy it at ferns
•tor*.
Get a package today.