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VOL. XXIV.
THOMSON, GEORGIA, Friday, December 21, 1923.
NUMBER 52.
Thomson’s Own
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Returning Home
PROM NORTH AND SOUTH AND EAST AND
WEST THEY COME HOME FOR THE
HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON.
Miss Willie White Smith and Miss
Peai’l Kunnes arrived from Agnes
Scott College Wednesday to spend the
Christmas vacation at home.
* * *
Miss Caroline Smith, of Agnes
Scott College, will spend the holidays
in Covington and Thomson.
* * *
Miss Katrina Burnside will return
from Reynolds tonight for a vacation
of several days at home.
* * *
Miss Allene Lokey, of Wagner, S.
C., has returned home for a visit of
ten days.
* * * .
Miss Lura Scott will arrive home
Saturday from Cedartown to visit
her mother, Mrs. T. A. Scott.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Watson will
have as guests next week, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Watson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
S. B. Watson, of Macon, Miss Eilie
Watson, of Cedar Key, Fla., and Miss
Eleanor Watson, of Winnsboro, S. C.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs, Tom Scott and Tom,
Jr., and Miss Frances Scott, of Atlan
ta, and Miss Elizabeth Scott, of Don-
aldsonville, arrived Friday to sepnd
the holidays with Mrs. T. A. Scott.
* * *
Mr. Neal Dunn, of Emory Uni
versity, in Atlanta, is visiting his
parents, Mr. anr Mrs. M. W. Dunn.
* * *
Miss Evelyn Smith, who is teach
ing school in Covington, has arrived
to spend several days at home.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond Story, of
Greensboro, N. C., arrived Thursday
to be the guests of Mrs. Stacey Story
during Christmas.
* * *
Miss Dorothy Hunt has arrived
from Shorter College, in Rome, to
spend the holidays at home.
■ * * *
Mr. J. Q. West visited his aunt,
Mrs. Pitner, in Washington this week.
* *
Mrs. Willis Howard and little
daughter, of Macon, are guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Samuels.
* * *
Miss Effie Johnson and Miss Vir
ginia Price arrived home Thursday
from Converse College, in Spartan
burg, S. C.
* * *
Mrs. Regnold Maxwell, of Augus
ta, has returned to Augusta after
visiting her father, Mr. R. H. John
son.
* * * ^
Mrs. Eva Hardaway is the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. O’Neal in
Macon.
* * *
Miss Gertrude Samuels will arrive
home this week from Chappel Hill,
N. C., where she is teaching school.
* * *
Mrs. Lou Morris will spend Christ
mas in Macon with her sister, Mrs.
Powell.
* * *
Miss Lillian Davey has returned
from Bessie Tift College, in Forsythe,
to spend the holidays at home.
^ * + *
Miss Georgia Watson will. arrive
this week from the National Cathe
dral, in Washington, to spend the
holidays with her mother, Mrs. J. D.
Watson, who is now residing at 219
Lumpkin street.
* * *
Mrs. 0. M. Gerald is at home to
remain during the holidays and will
have as guests, Mr. and Mrs. Weiss
and family, of Birmingham, Ala.
* * *
Mr. Loflin Smalley, of Young Har
ris College, is at home for the Christ
mas holidays.
* * ♦
Miss Georgia Lee, of the National
Cathedral, in Washington, D. C., will
spend Christmas at the home of Mrs.
J. A. Boatwright.
* * *
Mr. T. B. Ivey, of Augusta, is ex
pected to spend Christmas with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ivey.
Mr. Durward Smith, of Savannah,
and Mr. Gordon Smith, of Atlanta,
will spend Christmas with their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith.
* * *
Miss Lucille Bowden, who is at
tending school at the Peabody Con
servatory, in Baltimore, Md., is ex
pected home this week to spend the
holidays
* + *
Mrs. Ted Wilson spent Thursday
in Augusta shopping.
* * *
Mr. Ferdinand Smalley, a student
at Tech, is expected home Saturday
for the holidays.
* * *
Miss Louise Blanchard, of Colum
bus, Ga., will arrive this week to vis
it her sister, Mrs. John A. Jones.
* * *
Miss Edith Crowley, who is at
tending - school in Athens, will spend
the holidays with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Crowley.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jones, Miss
l Louise Blanchard, Miss Mary Blanch
ard and Miss Georgia Lowe will
spend the Christmas holidays with
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Blanchard in
Charleston, S. C.
* * *
Mr. H. T. Avery, of Atlanta, will
spend the holidays with his wife and
children at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. IT. Smith.
* *
Mrs. Ralph Smith had as guests
this week, Mrs. G. L. Ray and Miss
Mary G. Ramsey, from Grovetown;
also Mr. F. D. Smith and a friend of
his, Mr. John Chambers, from Atlan
ta, who is a real estate man and Mr.
Ralph Smith, from Granite Hill, who
as come home for the holidays.
* * Mt
Mrs. Ruth Barnes, of Macon, will
arrive Saturday to be the guest of
Mrs. B. F. Johnson.
* * *
Miss Mackie Stanford will have as
her guests next week Mrs. J. J.
Shanks and Lloyd Shanks, of Wilkes
county, and Miss Elizabeth Bruce, of
Athens.
* * *
Mrs. A. G. Porter will have as
guests next week Mr. and Mrs. G. D.
Hillis, of Girard, and Miss Jessie
Porter, of Augusta.
* * *
Mr. Boyce Lazenby, of Atlanta,
will arrive Monday to spend Christ
mas with his mother, Mrs. C. B.
Lazenby.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs J. J. Morris, of
Starksville, Miss., will be the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. N. E Ware next
week.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Crawford and
family, of Greensboro, Fla., will
spend next week at the home of Mrs.
Crawford’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Baston.
* * *
Mrs. Madison Tucker, of Edgefield,
S. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Perry.
+ * *
Miss Vera Lazenby, of Nelson, and
Miss Georgia Lazenby, of San Mar
cus, Texas, are expected home Sat
urday to spend the holidays with
their mother, Mrs Lula Lazenby.
* * *
Mr. Zere Story, of Georgia Uni
versity, will arrive Fiiday for a visit
of two weeks at home.
* * *
Miss Louise Smalley will leave
LaGrange College Friday to spend a
fortnight at home wito her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Smalley.
* * *
Mr. James Fanning, who attends
Georgia University, will return
Thursday to spend Christmas at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Welcome Fanning.
* * *
Mrs. Nellie Pearl Neal and Miss
Elsie Neal, of Atlanta, will spend
next week at the home of Mrs. B.
F. Johnson.
Miss Annie Sue Fanning, a State
Normal student, will arrive Saturday
to spend the holidays at home.
* * *
Mrs. S. F. Morris anticipates with
delight the approaching holidays, as
it is the home-coming time for the
absent members of .her family. She
is expecting the arrival of Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Morris, who left Starks
ville, Miss., the 21st; Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Stephens and children and Mr.
Roy Morris, of Augusta, and Mr.
Lawrence Morris, of Atlanta, will
arrive Saturday or early Christmas
week.
* ♦ *
Prof. E. D. Gunby, Misses Myrtice
Gunby and Edith Ellington and Mr.
Allen Anchors will leave Saturday
morning on a camping trip through
southern Florida, to be gone several
days.
* 1 + *
Mr. Lee Langley, of Rome, Ga,
passed through Thomson Tuesday en-
route to Savannah, stopping over for
a while to chat with friends.
* + +
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McCord and
little son, of Chardotte, N. C., and
Mr. J. B. Robins, of Georgia Tech,
jin Atlanta, will spend Christmas with
I their parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. T.
| Robins.
* * *
Mrs. W. II. Stone will have as
guests next week Mr. and Mrs. 1).
W. Hardin and Martha and Billy
Hardin, of Augusta.
* * *
I Mrs. S. II. Fowler and Miss b^ellie
Fowler, of Warrenton, and Mrs. C.
B. Vail and Mr. Jack Cranston, of
Augusta, will be guests of Mi’s. J.
B. Stovall next week.
* * *
Mr. Stacey Turner and Mr. Joe
i Usry, of Georgia Tech, arrived home
Thursday for the holidays.
* * * »
Mr. Jim Wilson, a student of the
Medical College in Augusta, will
spend next week with his mother,
Mrs. J. E. Wilson.
* * *
Mrs. J. B. Withers, Jack and Rob
ert Louis Withers, of Atlanta, will
arrive next week for a visit to Mrs.
Mag McMannon and Mrs. Kate Pace.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McLean will
have as their guests for the week,
Mr. and Mrs. Leon O’Neal and little
daughter, Myra, of Decatur.
* * *
Mr. J. G. Stovall and Mr. Richai’d
Bowden, McDuffie’s representatives
at the special session Of the Legis
lature, returned home Saturday.
* * *
Misses Virginia Bussey and Agnes
Reynolds, students at G. S. C., at
Milledgeville, arrived Thursday to
spend vacation at home.
* * *
Mr. Percy Megahee left Thursday
morning for his home in Atlanta
after visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Megahee.
* * *
The many fViends of Mrs. F. E.
Hayes sympathize with her in her
critical illness for the past few weeks
and wish for her a speedy recovery.
* * *
Mrs. F. E. Hayes had as her guest
this week her sister, Mrs. M. L.
Chalker and children, from Gibson.
* * *
Misses Sarah Shields, Marie Boyd
and Evelyn Gibson, Wesleyan girls,
are at home for a two weeks’ vaca
tion.
* * *
Prof. H. H. Bartlett, of the Uni-
ersity of Michigan, is spending the
holidays with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Bartlett.
* * *
Dr. G. T. Neal returned Tuesday
from Atlanta, where he was with
Mrs. Neal during an operation at
Emory Hospital, and reports her
condition to be encouraging.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. S Megahee will
go to Atlanta to spend Christmas
with Mr. and Mrs. Grover Megahee
and Mr. and Mrs. Percy Megahee.
* * *
Mr. N. B. Panned, who travels sev
eral states for the Black and White
Co., is at home to spend the holidays
with his family.
CLEVER PIECE OF
DETECTIVE WORK
Late Monday evening a new bicycle
was stolen from the front yard at the
home of Mrs. A. W. Smith, and ef
forts were at once started to locate
the machine.
Mrs. Smith secured the assistance
of Messrs. Hillman Mathews, Ever-
ette McCommons, Marcus Rivers and
young son, Master Russell Smith,
and getting in a car followed the
track of the bicycle. Great difficul
ty was experienced in following the
track, due to the fact that other ve
hicles had all but obliterated it in
many places. The bicycle tires had
a peculiar tread, differing from the
usual kind, which accounts for them
being able to trace it at all.
Finally with the use of a flash
light, the boys succeeded in tracing
the stolen machine beyond the Matt
Hayes home, and presently came up
on the bicycle parked by the side of
the road. On investigation it was
found that a negro boy had ridden
it out into the country to attend a
frolic, and that he is the same boy
connected with the theft of other
bicycles in town recently.
Mr. Lynn Norris was called on to
assist in locating - 'the thief, who was
traced to town and located a short
while later and placed in jail.
On investigation, after question
ing the negro boy arrested, it was
found that other bicycles stolen hdd
been carried to Norwood and sold to
a party there. Mr. Lynn Norris
went over there Tuesday and brought
back three bicycles, one stolen from
Dr. Cicero Gibson’s home, one from
Mr. Crawley’s and the other from Mr.
Jim Curtis’ home. The recovery of
these machines, it would seem, grew
out of the work done Monday night
in tracing and locating the thief.
All those who joined in the search
are to be commended for their clever
detective work.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 20.
PERSHING COMMENDS UNITED
STATES CEMETERIES ABROAD.
Work on American cemeteries in
France is "progressing satisfactor
ily,” General Pershing informs the
War Department. General Pershing
made a complete inspection of the
cemeteries after his arrival in
France. There are 30,174 American
dead in France, England and Bel
gium, of whom 1,568 still are un
known. Delay in completion of the
building and landscape gardening
work at the six cemeteries in France,
General Pershing said, had been un
avoidable.
OLD THRASHER HOUSE TO BE
TORN DOWN.
One of the oldest dwellings in
Thomson, the old Thrasher home
place, corner Main and Milledge
streets, will be torn down shortly to
make room for the new postoffice
building whenever the government is
ready for the lot. The government
bought the lot several years ago for
the purpose of erecting a postoffice
there and the building has been rent
ed to tenants since that time.
Mr. Bob Howell bought the build
ing and will tear it down and move
it away, using the material for build-
ngs on his farms.
This marks th$ passing of another
[old land mark in Thomson, an adjoin-
ng building on this lot having been
orn down several weeks ago in order
•o clear the government property.
A SUCCESSFUL RECLAMATION
j PROJECT.
| A check foy $609,961.32 from th#
Salt River Valley Water Users' Ai-
, sociation, Phoenix, Arizona, of th#
Salt River project, has been received
by the United States Department of
the Interior. This is one of the suc
cessful projects built by the Bureau
of Reclamation. Since 1917 the en
tire management of this project ha#
been in the hands of the Water U#-
jers’ Association, the Government b#-
jing relieved of the expense of it#
'operation and maintenance. This i#
i the largest single payment ever re
ceived by the Government.
CONTROL OF AIR TRAFFIC.
Legislation for the revision of the
navigation laws, for control of traffic
in the air, and for stabilization of
radio service were among the recom
mendations made by Secretary Hoov
er in his annual report of the Com
merce Department. The i - apid
growth of aircraft and radio trans
mission alike, he said, had created a
need for administration development,
while the navigation laws, long under
scrutiny, required adjustment to the
increased commercial expansion.
OFFICIAL TEA TASTERS,
f- During the past year agents of th#
United States Government examined
1 nearly 100,000,000 pounds of tea fo#
j quality and purity at the ports of
entry.
PARIS SILENT ON WAR DEBT.
France has made no proposals of
representations concerning the re
funding to the Unietd States of its
four billion dollar war debt, since
the visit here in August, 1922, of its
special commissioner, Senator Borah
has learped from a letter sent him
by Secretary Mellon, chairman of the
American debt commission.
NEW CITIZENS.
During the past year 145,084 per
sons were admitted to American cit
izenship, 24,874 of whom were from
Italy; 23,621 from Poland, 17,190
from Russia, 16,953 from Great Brit
ain and possessions (except Canada),
12,064 from Germany and the re
mainder from smaller countries and
their possessions. ,
DOMESTIC BUSINESS CONDI
TIONS.
Early figures on November busi
ness activity received by the Bureau
of Census, show production and sales
well maintained with allowance for
the usual seasonal trend from Oc
tober to November.
RETAIL FOOD COSTS - .
During the month from October
15, 1923, to November 15, 1923, 22,
of the 28 cities showed increases In
retail food prices of from 1 to 3 per
cent. Six cities showed decreases.
AGRICULTURAL AIDS.
According to tjie annual report of
the Secretary of Agriculture, about
2,100 counties now have agricultural
agents, and 840 have home demon
stration agents. 1
HIGHEST AND LOWEST POINTS.
The maximum difference in eleva
tion of land in the United StateB i#
14,777 feet, according to the Geolog
ical Survey. Mount Whitney, th#
highest point, is 14,601 feet abov#
sea level, and a point in Death Val
ley is 276 feet bolow sea level.
These two points which are both In
California, are less than 90 mile#
apart.
Mrs. Yancey Lowe, of Washington,
s visiting her mother, Mrs. Cora
Harrison.
* * *
Mr. M. L. Hubert has just returned
from a trip to Quitman, his old home
town.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Firman Penuel, of
Jlilledgeville, will spend Christmas
;with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W
S. Mobley.
* * *
Miss Marjorie Hill is visiting her
ister, Mrs. Milton Brown.
* * *
Dr. II. C. Trimble, of East Point,
s visiting his son, Mr. II. C. Trimble.
* * *
Miss Miriam Harrison is at home
for the Christmas holidays.
* * *
Miss Annie Dyer will return from
Statesboro Saturday for a visit of
two weeks at home.
* * *
Mr. Clarence Brown, of Gainesville,
will spend next week at home.
* + *
Mr. Madison Tucker, of Edgefield,
will arrive Saturday to spend Christ
mas at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. Perry.
* * *
Mr. Lowry Adkins, engineer in
government service at Jacksonville,
Fla., will be at the home of his par-
nts, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Adkins, for
• stay of several days.
* * *
Mrs. C. H. Ellington will leave next
week for Florence, S. C., to spend
Christmas with relatives.
MILLIONS ASK FOR INFORMA
TION.
A record, of nearly a million re
quests for assistance for American
firms engaged in foreign trade’’were
received by the United States Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
during the past year. This figure ir
double that for 1921-22. ’
DEEPEST WATER AND HIGHEST
LAND.
The greatest ocean depth yet found
is 32,088 feet, at a point about 4Q
miles north of the island of Mindan
ao, in the Philippine Islands. Th#
ocean bottom at this point is there
fore more than eleven and one-hali
miles below the summit of Mount
Everest, the latter being 29,002 feet
above sea level.
FOREIGN BUSINESS CONDI-
TIONS.
European cables to the Department
of Commerce report some improve
ment in Spain and Austria, a lee#
favorable outlook in France, gloom
in Germany, and a culmination of
currency difficulties in Poland.
(Continued on Fourth- Page)
C. A. FARMER WINS
CHICAGO TRIP
Early in the year Swift & Co. of
fered their fertilizer agents in the
territory comprising Georgia and
parts of Alabapia and Tennessee, a
free trip to Chicago for the three best
reports coming from agents in that
territory. Mr. C. A. Farmer was
surprised the other day when he re
ceived a letter from the company
stating that he was one of the three
entitled to the trip.
Mr. Farmer says he made no es
pecial effort to win out in the com
petition, merely attending to business
as he felt he should, and that he was
surprised to learn of his good for
tune, especially as he has probabjy
a smaller territory than a good many
j other agents in the states mentioned,
j It not only speaks well for Mr. Farm
er, but for the people with whom he
I had dealings, for as a matter of fact
| the competition was based upon ef-
( ficiency and amount of collections
made, and not merely upon the
amount of business done.
While Mr. Farmer could not at
tend the gathering of agents in Chi
cago at the time of the meeting, he
feels very proud of his record for the
past season.
Clock Almost Entirely of Glass.
A Bohemian glass polisher has fin
ished a clock which, with the excep
tion of the springs, Is entirely of glass.
MR. WALL IMPROVES.
After undergoing three successive
operations at the University Hospi-
al in Augusta during the past three
weeks, Mr. J. C. Wall is reported as
gradually improving,. though it is
thought it will be a couple of weeks
yet before he will be able to leave
the hospital.
THOMSON STREETS
TO BE IMPROVED
Brief mention was made in last
week’s Progress about the purchase
by the city of two acres of land from
Mrs. Ira Farmer from which the city
will get material for surfacing th#
j streets of Thomson.
Mayor McCommons had * the ma-
j terial tried out on that section d£
I street in front of the Palace Drug
I Store and the City Bank, and it ha#
, been found to answer the purpose
I admirably. It is the next best thing
to paving the streets, and as the city
I fathers found it impossible to pave
j them at present, they are going to
do the best they can, and the plan a#
j adopted is altogether commendable,
j This material has a large constitu
ent of iron ore and when put on the
j surface of the streets makes a hard
J overing that answers very well for
a paving.
Mr. McCommons when he assumed
he mayorship of Thomson determin-
d that the streets and sidewalk#
/ould have his attention, and th8 sur
facing of the streets with this ma-
erial will be a part of his program.
As is well known much good Work
las already been done on the street#
ind sidewalks of Thomson.
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE!
EXAMINATION.
The United States Civil Servic#
Jommission announces the following
open competitive examination: For
he position of Clerk-Carrier in th#
3 ost Office at Thomson, Ga., on Jan
uary 19th, 1924.
