Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-18
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Produce the Figures
Instead of the tired housewife COM
planning at the end of the day to let
her family know how busy she was,
it might be more convincing to adopt
the plan of an Iowa woman who wore
a pedometer and found that on the
average she walked FIVE miles day
in preparing meals for a familys OF
three. The figures in every case would
without doubt prove Illuminating. -.
Banning the Bobbed
The Civic League of Vicksburg,
Mississippi have insisted on a regula-
ton that no hair bobbing be permitted
in their barber shops after noon on
Saturdays, that the time of business
men is too limited to stand the extra
waiting demanded for feminine Gus
toners.
Mercer Man, Inventor
DR.. Claud Fountain, professor Of
physics and astronomy at Mercer Uni
versity and director of the radiocast-
ing station at the college has just in-
vented bulb set that is pronounced
q decided improvement over the old
style. The attachment is under con-
sideration by Northern firm.
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Radio Brings Fame
A prisoner in the Missouri State
peniatentiary has acquired nationwide
fame since he entered its walls-due
to radio His skill as pianist aroused
much query as to who the wonderful
performer was. His name is Harry
Snodgrass, and he is serving term
of three years of attempted robbery,
two of which are completed.
Try, Try Again
A German youth of 18, has made
three unsuccessful attempts to enter
the United States as a stowaway. He
is said to be typical of scores of Ger
man youngsters who haunt the docks
j: Bremorl;ven 1o7l::g for an op-
portunity to slip into ships bound for
the United States. This boy, named
Paul Krupp. is now we'll known by
emigration authorities, who promptly
send him back, and he is put to work
on the ship, but he seems to like it.
He was detained in, jail for ten weeks
the last time, which may change his
inclinations. He declares his purpose
to try again, however.
Still in Service
Tho General Pershing has given up
his active control of the army, he will
remain in the War Department in a
new office created by, Congress, and
occupying the same office rooms as
before. He is now president of the
Battle Memorial Commission which
will supervise the suitable marking of
batt1efelds in France, where Ameri- |
can troops fought and also the arrange |
ment and maintenance of cemeteries !
in France where American dead are
sleeping. So while his retirement af-
fects his status and his responsibilities,
it does not remove him from close |
contact and counsel with his FORMER
comrades in the army service and the
executive officers of the government.
MERGERS Founding Fund.
The Bible of Jesse Mercer, founder
of Mercer University at Macon, has
been found recently and reveals inter
esting points in his life. His marriage
with the widow of Abram Simons, a
Jew, is recorded as having occurred
December II, 1922 1t is now known
that the money that was used to
found the university was the inherl-
tance THIS second wife had from her
Jewish husband and willed by her to
Mercer for this purpose, as she knew
his inspiration to do this great work.
However, the remains of Abram ST.
mons, who earned the money, lie in
an unmarked grave by the roadside
near Washington, Ga.
Getting Round the Bush
Young couples in Georgia who wish
to marry and who either know it or
do not know it five days ahead of time
and there are SO many who do not
have time to get into an automobile
and go across the line to Florida or
Tennessee, where they can be married
by an ordinary or justice of the peace
without public announcement of their
intentions. This parallels the case of
the Wisconsin eugenic law which was
evaded by couples getting married in
neighboring states.
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