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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
PROMINENT WOMAN DIES
Mrs. M. Acton Phillips Will Bc Buried
 In Acton Cemetery

Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Acton Phillips Of Rocky Ridge com munity, wno died Wednesday after noon at the Baptist hospital after long illness, were held at o'clock Thursday afternoon at the cemetery at Acton, Ala. Mrs. Phillips was 47 years old at the time of her death.
 She is survived by her husband, c. F. Phillips; two daughters, Mrs. Viona Camp Townsend of Ensley and Mrs. Alta Camp Crowder of Nashville; two sons, Dennis and J. B. Phillips; her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-09
w. NJ. S. MEETS

The monthly meeting of the Wom- ans Missionary society of the Ensley Highlands Methodist church was held
The Chilkoot post., 1923-08-10

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The Chilkoot post., 1923-08-10
aI'E-4 TER SCHEDULE

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The mirror., 1923-02-15

IA
reasons; first and perhaps of the
greatest importance it is the home of
the most renowned gambling establishment
III the world. Many other European plea
sure resorts are known by name the world
over, but there are none that can rank with
Monte Carlo! second, the city is situated
on the blue Mediterranean in region that
is Justly famous for its scenic beauty, and
the little city is an outstanding point of
interest along this coastline. The rock
formations that form the base for the up
per part of the city stand unsurpassed for
sheer natural beauty. 1t is pleasure as
we'll as gambling resort. One may bathe
in the warm sea and bask under the mel
low sun on the white beach or shoot tame
pigeons, which is pastime that continen-
tai sportsmen indulge themselves in, as
fancy suggests.
Travellers touring the continent, usually
include Monaco in their itinerary, but
stay in Monte Carlo is brief unless they
are possessed of unlimited means. No
doubt there are persons of wealth who
journey to The City of Fancy to be near
the blase center of sophisticated interest,
and to bask in the reflected glory of more
adventurous friends or acquaintance.
However, the average individual does
not go to Monte Carlo to enjoy the attrac-
tiveness of the setting, or the pleasant sun
shine, but to pay homage to the Goddess of
Luck who rules supreme in The House OF
Chance. Dame Fortuna is ever tickle
Jade SO when one is ready to bid the city
farewell he is not, as rule, in mood
to appreciate the beauties of nature as the
usual result of paying too prolonged
court to the one who guides the whirling
ivory ball in its epoch-making or soul
destroying course.
People of modest means or income should
rot visit Monte Carlo, regardless of
whether they be addicted to the gambling
mania or merely lovers of nature for every
thing in the little city in the Principally
of Monaco is on an expensive even lavish
scale The hotels are the last word in cost
ly splendor, being almost sybaritic in fur
nShing. Naturally the guest rates are ex-
tremely high. The hosteries, the Hotel de
Paris, Riviera Palace and The Hermitage
cater to the exclusive set of the world.
There are more modest caravansaries for
the convenience of those who wish to be
near the intense atmosphere of the Casino
and vet remain merely casual onookers.
Constantinople has been called the most
cosmopolitan city in the world and this is
no doubt true but the Turkish city gets the
iff-raff cf the seven seas and is a babel
of cultural voices while Monte Carlo gets
the elite of all nations. Color, creed, or
ether individual traits do not enter into
consideration as long as the universal pass
wcrd, money is possessed so perhaps it is
hardly correct to say that the class of peo
pie who frequent the gambling halls, taken
by and large, form the elite.
First we will deal with the side of
Monte Carlo that would find appreciative
interest in the eyes of the true lover of
nature. Monaco is principally Of about
eight square miles in area with a popu-
lation numhering around 250C0. The city
The mirror., 1923-02-15
THE STAFF OF LIFE
By Mr.. C.. K. x.

I JUST how early in the history of man
II he learned the art of weaving and
spinning we have no positive know
ledge, but the earliest instance in which
the word thread occurs is found in Cen
esis "a :23, where Abram replied to the
King of Sodom, THAT l will not take
from thread, ETC." Certainly, long before
this time, there must have been woven
garments, for we find them represented in
hieroglyphics antedating Abrams time.
But for many centuries, so we are to
believe, man separated his grain from the
chaff, and his fine -four from his meal, by
use of the wind, or winnowing; practice
in vogue in many parts of the world even
today
Research along the line of milling, as an
art, pursued very diligently by some of
our most noted scientific students, disclose
the fact there were seves made with
various degrees of meshes for boiling -four
and meal, so arranged as to separate the
ground meal into grades. These were
made in some instances of wool, others of
cotton, and we have their authority for it
that some of the best, and the longest last
ing, were made from horsehair.
Of course, as may be expected, the first
seves used were not at all to be compared
with thr Boiling cloths made today. But,
they were an improvement on the winnow-
ing method.
And yet man in his modern mill, does
to certain extent depend on wind to
help him to make certain separations dur
ing the process of reducing grain to -four;
but, instead of having to depend on the
weather to be just right he produces the
currents of air he needs by the use of high
speed fans, such as are to be found in
aspirators and purifiers, where light
weight particles are sucked away from the
heavier, from a thin, moving mass.
The bulk, if not ALL of our bolting
cloth today comes from Switzerland. Not
having the data at hand cannot give
certain facts as to years, amounts made, or
numbers of looms, etc, but these can be
found out by writing to the leading i'm
poIters of boiling cloth in the United
States, Dufour & Co, New York City, who
control the majority of the looms They
have prepared booklet on the subject,
giving its history for some time back.
The weaving of the modern boiling
cloths, which arc graded as silks and
git gauzes" is truly an art in itself, and
,he knowledge OF its making, while not in
anyway secret, has passed from father to
SON. through many generations,
When you figure that the meshes are
made in such way that they are locked
together so that there is no chance for
variation in the Size Of the mesh or open
ings, (Which would render the cloth use
less), and that the meshes run from 10 to
the inch to 2t4 10 the inch you may ave
:.mc idea as to the perfection Of the work.
All of the cloths are made on hand-and-
foot operated looms, in the sunny, well
lighted Easements of the peasants of GER
tain districts in Switzerland Now, don't
get the idea because I said basement, that
it means a dirty, fetid, and disagreeabe
place. On the opposite it means a very,
very, clean well lighted (pagcq Col. 81
The mirror., 1923-02-15
MONTE CARLO
By Mr.. K. L. NJ.

IA ONTE Carlo is famous for several
|" reasons; first and perhaps of the
greatest importance it is the home of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
FARM HAS ABOUT 100000 BEES IN HIVE

unknown. Uncle Sam uses another au-
tomato recorder which keeps tab on
the time that each bee leaves the hive
and when the insect returns. This data
serves to show how many trips tor
nectar the average bee makes daily
and how long the insect remains away
from the hive in each instance. ne
length of the trip is an index OF the
distance that the worker has travelled
A miniature weather station with
recording and registering instruments
that keep track of changes in temper
ature, wind direction and velocity and
the amount of sunshine is another
novel equipment which is located IN
the center of the area where the busy
city of bees is located.
The immediate effect of change IN
weather conditions are observed on
the activities of the bees, much val
liable information being obtained from
this source which is interpreted by
the government experts for the bene-
fit of the apiary industry.
In addition to its regular research
work which is designed to solve all
the complex secrets of beekeeping the
government BE IdIHl dlsO CAaAliiitN
samples of diseased comb and the
bodies of bees which are sent in from
commercial apiaries in all parts OF the
country. In this way Uncle Sam iden-
titles diseases that are jeopardizing
the success of certain bee farms and
advises efficient control measures tor
the contagious. Approximately 2,5Oo
such SAMPLES are examined annually,
while between 900 and 700 samples
Of honey from all parts of the country
are also investigated for scientific la,
bors to the establishment OF United
States standardized grades for honey.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
DUST is THE CAUSE
OF MANY BIG FIRES
EXPLOS IONS RESPONSIBLE
FOR GREAT DAMAGE TO
PROPERTY AND LIFE.

Additional means OF cutting down
the hazards of fire will be sought by
the First international Fire Proven
ton Congress to meet in New York
this mouth. The movement is the out
growth of the educational work be-
ing carried on by various industrial
agencies to prevent fires and allied
disasters. One important phase of the
work under discussion at the New
York meeting is that of dust explo-
sions and the work which the United
States department OF agriculture is
doing IN developing prevention meth
DDS.
Estimates indicate that over $1,000
establishments manufacturing products
with an annual value of more than
$6,750,000,000 are subject to the haz-
ards of dust explosions and fires un-
less proper precautionary measures
are adopted. Practically every dusty"
industry is subject to such losses. In
dustrial plant dusts do not explode
in the same manner as dynamite,
gunpowder and other high explosives;
they explode in the same way gas or
infammsble vapors, owing to the fact
that they are nothing more than sus-
pended dust clouds, mixed in the
right proportions with air, burning
at very rapid rate. Records of ap-
proximately $50 explosions of this
character have been obtained by the
bureau of chemistry, United States
department of agriculture, in its dust
explosion prevention work. The aver
age property loss for each explosion
was approximately $257 1000, while the
loss Of life has often been great Ow-
ing to the nature of dust explosions
they are usually followed by fires
which cause extensive damage not on
ly to the plants concerned but to sur
rounding property as well.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

retire to one of the cells of the comb
where she will remain quiet for sew
eral hours.
OF course, she cannot sleep and
close her eyes like horse or dog for
the ordinary bee has no eyelids. The
eye Of the bee is made up of num-
Der of compound lenses. The eyeball
is not movable. The bee looks through
a different set of lenses each time the
winged insect shifts her line of vision.
Have Language.
The investigators have discovered
that bees have sort of language of
their own by which certain bees
which have secuted carefully and To-
Gated the flowers or plants richest in
nectar tell the others of the working
hive the location of the food mine.
The bees indulge in sort of vibra-
tory, buzzing dance as they spread
the news.
They are scrupulously clean and
orderly in their maintenance of the
hive. Despite that the bees live un-
der conditions of tenement-like con-
gestion, epidemics of contagious dis
ease are almost unknown. When a
bee dies his mates remove his body
from the hive. If one of the buzzing
workers becomes crippled his asso-
ciates are merciless. They evict him
from the hive according to their Gus
tomary Observation-Disclosures proceed
ure
An interesting feature of the ma
tiona1 bee farm is an electrical con-
trivance which is so arranged that the
temperatures in the different hives are
recorded at regular intervals. This
device is invaluable in securing infor-
nation about conditions in the honey
bee hive which heretofore have been
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
PARROTT PARAGRAPHS

Mr.. Henry Cook returned last
week. having spent several days at
various points in the northern portion
of the state A.
and Mrs, Shepherd, of Richland' we're
guests OF Mrs. Curt Whaley on Sun
day afternoon. r.
lumbus, spent Sunday with his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Stan McKennon
Misses Mary Ann and Carrie M NC
Tendon left Saturday for Barlow, Fla,
where they will make their home.
Miss Louise Pinkston spent Sunday
with her sister, Miss Charley Pink
sion. at Andrew college, Cuthbert.
Mr. Tom Irwin, who has been IN
Columbus several weeks on business,
has returned to his home here. q.
Messrs. Smedley Flowers. Clint
Pinkston, Jim Whaley and J. II. Cole
sDent last week in Florida
Mrs. Howard Arnold and Miss Flo
rine Coker went to Americus Satur-
dav on a shopping trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Idus Lunstord, OF
Cuthbart. were the guests OF relatives
here Sunday. D;o.o,
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin ID; Fletce
spent a portion OF last week IN AL
Miss Ruby Jones spent the week
end with her parents near Rlchland
Mr.. Hosea Harris spent Sunday III
Parrott with relatives.
Mr.. s. c. Yarbrough spent TUESDAY
in Leary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Drugs Excite
the Kidneys,
Drink Water
Take Salts at First Sign of
Bladder Irritation or
\ Backache

The American men and women must
guard constantly against kidney trouble
because we often eat too much rich food.
Our blood is filled with acids which the
kidneys strive to filter out; they weaken
from overwork, become sluggish, the
eliminative tissues clog and the result
is kidney trouble, bladder weakness and
a general decline in health.
SWhen your kidneys feel like Jumps
of lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full of sediment, or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three times
during the night; if you suffer with sick
headache, or dizzy, nervous spells, acid
stomach. or if you have rheumatism
when the weather is bad, begin drink
ing lots of good soft water and get from
YOUR pharmacist about four ounces OF
Jad Salts. Take a tablespoonful IN
glass of water before breakfast tor
few days and your kidneys may then
act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia, and has been used Tor
years to help flush and stimulate clogged
kidneys, to neutralize the acids IN the
system so they no longer are a source
of irritation, thus often relieving-'blad-
der disorders.
Tad Salts is inexpensive; can not in
lure. makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink and belongs in every
home. because nobody can make mis-
take by having 4 good kidney flushing
any time. By all means have your ply
stefan examine your kidneys at least
twice a year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
Joker Is Found in the
Cigar Stamp Tax Law
Saws No Other Tax Shall Be Re-
CURED of Dealers.


ouired of Dealers.
In some unexplained way a remark,
able Joker slipped into the. cigar and
cigarette stamp tax law. After stating
that dealers must put stamp on eVr
ery cigar and on every package OF
cigarettes, the act says:
"Nor shall any other tax be requlf-
ed of cigar dealers" Now, some deal
ers are claiming that if they BUY
stamps and put them on cigars ana
cigarette packages they will not have have.
to nav aay tax on their homes, their
stores, farms, automobiles or anything
else. either to the state, counties, cities
Unless the law is changed in some
wav at the coming extra session tax
receivers and collectors are gong TO
have trouble in getting any tax from
CIGAR dealers. And if the law stands
as written a lot of people are gong
into the cigar business to keep from
paying taxes. a., ~,
How that joker ever got IN the Dlll
is mystery But it is there apparent
" added as an after thought---the very,
last line Of the act saying. Nor shall
anv other tax be required OF cigar
dealers"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23

The cotton crop in this vicinity will
be a little over half of last years
yield. Figures given out Saturday
show total Of 1870 bales, and there
is probability that there will be 100
bales to add to this amount before the
season is over Last years receipts
were 1900 bales.
Don't forget the carnival on the
school campus Friday night Come
and bring your friends. There will be
fun for everybody. The proceeds will
go for the benefit of the school.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Richardson and
children and Mrs. Richardson's moth
er, Mrs. Eula Williford, spent Satur-
day and Sunday with Mr.. Richard
sons people at Columbus.
Mrs. ]. H. Cole had as her. guests
on Sunday Mrs. G. A. Cole, of Okla
homa, Mrs. Brown. of Blakely, and
Mrs. G. w. Cole, Will Cole and Miss
Mary Cole, of Preston.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
MADE A MILLION AND A
HALF BOXES OF BUTTER
Striking Production Established by
Auckland, N. z. $23,OOO,OO0 a Year.

Striking Production Established by
Auckland, N. z. $23,OOO,ooO Year.
A striking record in butter produc-
ton in the Auckland province has
been established for the year ended
June %, 1923, according to a report
to the department of commerce from
Vice Consul A. r. Preston, If. Dur
ing the period the butter received at
the Auckland Farmers Freezing Cos.
grading stores totaled 1,448,338 box
es. an increase of 321, 1904, compared
with the previous year, when !, l26,53
boxes were received.
The remarkable expansion OF the
dairying industry in the province dur
ing recent years is demonstrated by
comparison of the annual returns
of the last three years Previous to
the wears ended 1921 the butter re
turns had not exceeded the 100000
mark. During that year the record
total of 766,4l4 boxes was made, an
increase of 274,643 on the previous
years receipts. That record was east
ly eclipscd the following year, the in
crease being 500, 100 boxes. The in
crease for the year 1928, though not
quite so great, reveals a decided eX-
pansion in view of the progressive
DEVELOPMENT of the two previous sea-
sons. The butter delivered and export
ed for the year 1922-1923 from Auck-
land totals 1,439,255 boxes, represent
ing conservative export value OF
$22,920i34.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
D,o;ect at Somerset, Maryland, Is
The Largest of Its Kind in the
World. The Hives Are Lighted
With Electric Lamps.

citv as populous as Chicago and
G. Louis combined, and even more
t',,,-for during the summer season
,ork continues both night and day
" ,ocated in one of your Uncle Sans
h,ck wards in Washington, about five
,,,Ios from the white house. 1t is a
.;tv If buzzing bees-the largest ex-
,or;nental bee farm in the entire
,,.orld an establishment that employs
70 If the best bee experts in Amerl-
,,bo have been Occupied constantly
:, solving the intimate secrets OF the
honey bee family for the last eight
,oors writes George H. Daily in the
Baltimore Sun.
The government bee farm at Som
..o+ Nd. maintains Is hives of ex-
ooiaIr;nental Italian bees, and each hive
ppontains at least $4,000 of the indus
,r;ons honey makers. Three and three
"narter million bees buzzlng around
9vr;no the summer, and not single
o ou Of them is a member of any work
3;narnan's union. Their day is an eigh-
zen instead of an eight hour labor
.sss;on during the rush of the warm
neatber, when honey production and
comb-making are carried on at peak
oTessure. The industrious bees work
so hard that most of them die off in
,bout two mOnths-a terrible lesson
to the human family, proving that all
l. ,,J M NAV will soon make lack
dead workman.
Light the Hives.
Uncle Sans experts have devised
novel observation hives equipped with
class sides and illuminated by pow
erful electric lamps so that they can
st,dy the activities of the bees "a
hours in the day The observation
hives are located within the bee lab
atorv, but by means of exit tubes they
are linked directly with outdoors. The
bees can fly to neighboring patches OF
sweet clover, white clover or alfalfa,
gather their toll of nectar and then re-
turn to the glassed-in hives where the
scientific investigators can watch the
workers deposit the honey in the comb
or feed the queen and the drones.
The observers carefully watch the
bees and the hives for half day or
day at a time They have watched
the activities of the bees repeatedly
through the day and night. Interest
ing facts about the intimate and in
dustrious life of the honey bee have
resulted from these studies. Yes, the
bees rests at times. The worker will
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
GEORGIA HOME OWNERS
HAVE INCREASED IN NUMBER
Government Statistics Show They
Are Still Below Average, However.

Georgia was one of Is states tc
show an increase in the percentage Of
families owning their own homes, ac-
-cording to "How TO Own Your
Home" an official handbook just is
sued by the department of commerce
for the prospective home owner. In
1000, the manual shows, 80 per cent
of Georgia families owned their homes
and this rose to 800 in 1920, a gain
of nine-tenths of one per cent.
Georgia's home ownership record,
however, was below that of the aver
age of the South Atlantic states with
420 homecoming families per 1000 as
against 500 per 1000 for Georgia, the
tables show, and Georgia's average
was also behind that of APO home
owners per 1000 families for the en-
tire country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
SOCIETY DRINKING CHIEF
ENFORCEMENT DIFFICULTY
Prohibition Head Places Blame TO
Failure of Law.

Drinking in high society is the chief
difficulty in the way of making pro.
hibition effective, in the opinion OF
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes.
Praising the work of the citizenship
conference, Haynes said it would help
to stir local officials in assisting in en-
forcement, particularly in watching
petty bootleggers and blind tigers:
"A close analysis of the proceedings
reveals absolute unanimity OF OPINION
that the most outstanding difficulty
in the way of enforcement today is
the non-observance of the law among
a small minority, but nevertheless a
very influential group of citizens at at
the very apex OF the social scale,
Haynes stated.
Success is usually due to holding
on, and failure to letting go.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
MRS. DoZIER RETURNS HOME
AFTER EXTENDED VISIT

Mrs w. S. Dozier has returned
from an extended visit to Forsyth
Sandersville. Tennille and other Geor-
ola cities. Mrs Dozier is compiling a
book on land lot grants to revolution
arv soldiers and hopes within a short
While 70 have it published.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
A CARD OF THANKS.

We take this method of thanking
the people of PARROT and the sur
rounding community, who so Lovingly
rendered their service during my III
ness. and more than thankful Tor their
continuing help. We are also very
grateful to DIR. Arnold for his seem
ingly untiring service. May Gods rich-
est blessings rest on. each and every
one of YOU is our sincere PRAYER
MR.. AND MRS. T. w. HAMLIN.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-23
A KANSAS ORGY.

After a good time of playing, re-
freshments consisting of watermelon
and chewing gum were served.-The
Lyons News.