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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
BOYS WARNED

By request fourteen youths visited Mayor Carswell's office in the Albany city hall Saturday morning i'll connec- tion with reported over indulgences during the Halloween celebration. After explaining such conduct must not occur again the mayor showed his company the door and no one was fined
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
UNION EIECTS

The Morgan county missionary union of the Baptist church has elected the following officers for the ensuing year. Mrs. A. T Hanson, general secretary; Mrs. E. l.. Hays of Hart selle, secretary treasurer; Mrs. w. J. Garnett leader of the young people, Mrs. |. E. Malone, librarian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
TO ATTEND FAIR

Butler county will send large del egation to the fair at Montgomery next week. The Butler county exhibits are sure to attract wide attention for qual- ity and variety according to c. A. Sim mons who will have charge of the agri- cultural department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
MANY SENTENCED TO PEN

Every man tried at the fall term of court was convicted and Solicitor Hanes made a clean slate in convictions. G. w. Clark and Vernon Clark, father and son, Emery BredIove of Birmingham and Joe Buck Forshee were tried and convicted for making liquor and given sentences ranging from two to three and one-half years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
FATHER AND SON WEEK

For the first time in the history of the Twin Cities father and son week will be observed beginning next Sun day terminating with a banquet Friday Nov. 15, at the Y. NJ. c. A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
WALNuTs IN nrMANn

FLORENCE, Ala, Nov. 1.-Walnut tree owners of this part of the state may realize as much as $6O,UO this year from the sale of American (black)
 walnuts. Reports are to the effect that one company has offered to buy as high as one hundred carloads of these nuts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
PYTHIANS IN SESSION

LOTHIAN, Ala, Nov. 1.-(Special.) Lodge No. 122, Knights of Pythias, of Dothan was host Thursday to the sixteenth district convention of the Knights of Pythias of Alabama. Grand Ca. ',"E . ' 'e-Nsr1 ot A aELstCu. aue Gr>nG \ per 2l Records and S,s.e W. NJ. Aldredge os MontgonegT. attend she session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
COTTON FIGURES OUT

HEFLIN, Ala, Nov. 1.-(Special.) ) According to T. J. Brown, county cot ton enumerator, there were 2,846 bales of cotton ginned in Cleburne county prior to October IS, as compared with 1922 bales same date last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
KIWANIS STEAMER

J. J. Donohue of Louisville general claim agent of the l.. and N. railroad will be the chief speaker next Thursday at the weekly luncheon of the Morgan kiwaniS club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
ACME CLUB ELECTS

The Acme club last night elected Rob ert c. Chase, Jr., as president, succeed ing John O'Neil, who has held the posi- ton during the last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
CLUB BOyS COMpETE

HEFLIN, Ala, Nov. 1.-(Special. } Many Cleburne county boys and girls are writing essays in competition with farm boys and girls in every state of the } union, according to County Agent Carlson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02

MOVES TO BIRMINGHAM J. c. Carmichael and family have moved to Birmingham where they will make their future home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
TO REBUILD PLANER

CHAPMAN, Ala, Nov. 1.-Work of rebuilding the kilns and planer mill destroyed here last week will commence .nL;n 4.I-- E. l. -.-L = ', [
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
MRS. ROBINSON ILL

Mrs. J. NJ. Robinsin is critically ill and her recovery has been given up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
1893 AUTOMOBILES
STOLEN IN 3 MONTHS
GEORGIA LEADS SOUTHERN
STATES. IN ATLANTA ALONE
WERE 1876 THEFTS.

OF the 798 automobiles stolen in the
nine Southern states covered by the
Automobile Underwriters Detective
Bureau during the three months from
April to June 80, 307 or nearly half
the number, were taken in Georgia,
the bureau reported today.
The report shows that during this
period, 1876 machines were stolen in
Atlanta proper, or more than were
taken in any southern state except
Georgia. There were only 81 in Jack
sonville, Is in Columbia, "a in Char
lesion and 3 in Norfolk
OF those stolen in Georgia six were
reported in Augusta, and five in Sa-
vannah. Of the total in the nine
states 81 were recovered, the report
said.
The report shows the following
number Of thefts by states:
Alabama, 63; Arkansas, 9; Florida,
%; Louisiana, 95; Mississippi, ~;
South Carolina, 65; North Carolina,
102; Virginia, 90.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
THE POLITICAL WAR
CHESTS ARE EMPTY
PARTIES WILL DELAY THEIR
CAMPAIGNS UNTIL SEP
TEMPER. FINANCES FIRST.

Indications are that the presidential
campaigns OF the two major parties
and the LaFollette Independents will
not get under way much before Sep
TENDER. One reason for such late
start is the lack of money in the party
treasures.
The democrats have about $4,000 in
cir war chest, the republicans have
n bout the same amount, while the in
dependents are doing everything so far
ION tick"
Preliminary Campaigns.
The preliminary campaigns must be
for finances. The democrats and re-
publicans will collect in the old way,
voluntary contributions from those
who can spare the money, while the
Independents are planning to call on
the laboring man for a half days pay
The latter expect to realize $3,000,000
in this way.
The latest development of any con-
sequence is the acceptance OF Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, democrat, of
Montana, as running mate with Sena
tor LaFollette, of Wisconsin, on the
independent ticket He gained fame
as head of the department of Justice
investigating committee of the United
States senate.
The party which LaFollette heads
has not been named officially to date,
but it is being generally referred to
as independent. Comprised of several
national labor organizations and farm
er groups, as we'll as socialist, its
greatest appeal will be made to labor
unions and the agricultural sections Of
the northwest.
The Two Old Parties.
President Coolidge, the presidential
nominee of the republicans, will make
but few speeches, it is reported, but
Gen. Charles G. Dawes, of Chicago,
his running mate, is an excellent
speechmaker and will be heard
throughout the country.
The plans of the democrats are not
known. Their nominees, John W..
Davis, of West Virginia, for president
and Governor Charles W. Bryan, Of
Nebraska, for vice president, are both
good orators and are expected to take
the stump after the first OF September.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
HER GROWING GLORY
is VERY OFTEN A WIG
CURLING MEANS BADNESS IN
TIME, AND WIG MAKERS DO
A RUSHING BUSINESS.

Women, always mysterious to men,
have launched a new mystery in the
world. Roughly stated, it is this; How
can women shear their hair, burn it,
electrocute it, bleach it and dye it and
still retain it as their browning glory,
beautiful abundant and wonderful?
In a day of well-nigh universal bob
bling mere man observes glorious
coifures in the avenue, in the park,
at the theatre, everywhere, and he is
puzzled, says the New York Times.
Yet there is no need for him to ex-
haust his mind over the puzzle, for the
answer is simply: Wigs,
He who in this day dreams that the
glory that he observes all about him
is necessarily rooted to the fair head it
adorns is but child in his innocency.
This capillary wealth is natures prod
uct, raised on some head, somewhere,
indisputably That it grows on the
one it graces is less certain. The
modern woman has gone beyond the
puffs, switches and transformations OF
a former fashion in hairdressing. She
mas lOullQ It'll way IA oNSANNyt a. Mn
her sister of the past in frank candor,
to the workshop of the wig-maker.
OF all those winsome tresses freely
flying in the breezes nowadays, or
clinging conhdingly to hidden ears,
MANY are false. Authority for this
statment is no less a person than one
of the women who supply the wigs,
hundreds of them, to women OF fash
ion.
At a time when no friends are
around women drop steaithily into the
wig shop. Soon afterward their own
particular stock, bedraggled after
much hard cutting and curling, ap-
pears to have taken a new lease on
life. Friends marvel at the success OF
the treatment" but suspend investi-
cation. Perhaps they know the Sc
cret; perhaps they have discovered it
for themselves. Wishing no questions,
they ask none. People in wigs have
much in common with those in glass
houses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
WORLD WIDE CROPS
BETTER THAN IN 1923
IN SOME SECTIONS REPORTS
INDICATE INCREASED HAIR
VESTS THIS YEAR.

ROME.-Prospects for this years
crops throughout the world indicate a
yield trife better than the average,
according to a report issued today by
the International Institute of Agricul-
ture based on data received from all
countries.
'In the MAN," the report declares,
it may be affirmed that the yield in
northern and northwestern Europe
will be somewhat above the average
and that OF central Europe quite good,
while drought has reduced the crops
to below the average in southern and
southeastern Europe"
In Canada the wheat acreage is 4
per cent less than last year and the
crop has been backward.
The most recent reports have been
more favorable for cereal crops in
general in the United States. The re-
port declares:
Northern Yield Off.
TN the aggregate reports available
up until the present seem to confirm
the forecast for the northern hemis-
phere of smaller crops than last year
because OF a reduction of areas sown
in North America and because of the
less favorable weather experienced this
year in many countries.
GAS regards the southern hemis-
phere, information as to prospects from
Australia reports a suffciency OF rain
fall and the outlook is consequently ia
vorable for the crops but more rain
will be required for maintaining the
situation.
"The data already received indicated
a yield-in millions OF matric tons
of 43.5 of what compared with 47.4
last year; As of rye against A.; 81
of barley against 1927, and 4 OF oats
against H."
The sugar beet acreage was in
creased this year in Belgium, France,
Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and
Czecho Slovakia, the aggregate in
crease in these countries being about
20 per cent over last year and So per
cent as compared with the average
during the last FIVE years. In Russia
the acreage was increased about So per
cent over last year. There is an in
crease in the acreage remaining about
same in Italy, Lithuanla and Czecho
Slovakia while it increased II per
cent in Canada and "a per cent III the
United States over the 1928 tgures.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
Florida Club Women Will Demand
That Legislature Fix 10 Years
as Minimum Age for Wives.

Since the authorities have brought
TO light case in which an 11-year-oidi
girl was married to man "a years old
with the consent of her own grand
mother club women of Florida have
begun movement to have the state
legislature set limit upon the mar
riseeable age of girls. Sixteen years
has been suggested as the limit.
an the case of the l1-year-old girl,
the Judge at first refused to grant the
i;cense declared Mrs. Amos Norris,
Tampa club woman. upon further
examination of the law he realized ne
had no legal right to deny it since the
ora the child's guardian, had
given her consent: So he issued the h
license He could do nothing else.
The grandmother, who lived in
Tampa. gave her consent, the only
legal a requirement, to :he marriage.
iTS child's father and mother were
dead. The union resulted in grief for
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
.3-DAY SPREE CENTURY
AGO VERY ECONOMICAL
PAGE OF A HOTEL LEDGER
TELLS WONDROUS TALE OF
WHAT $500 WOULD DO.

MORGANTOWN, w. Va.-Three
days OF bhssful dissipation during
which time he was dined, wined and
entertained and change was due him
from SIS bill in payment for the
whole party.
That is the story revealed by an old
hotel ledger which is being displayed
in a local store window and which
gives the account of the bookkeeping
at the old Wallace hotel conducted
here more than 100 years ago.
The story told by one page OF the
ledger is that a well-known farmer
from the country district came to Nor
gantown on November 2, 1906, for a
weekend of pleasure.
Book Tells Story.
Here is the story told by the book
account OF his "extravagant spend
ing"
November 2-One pint whisky 12H
cents; ditto, 1215 cents; lodging fol
night, 8b cents. November 4-Bitters
6H cents; one quart whisky, Is cents
two glasses toddy, rs cents; lodging
815 cents. November 5-Bitters on
cents; one new stirrup, l2A cents
one quart whisky extra good, 80 1s
cents; one bowl apple toddy, lost III
game of whist, rs cents; one quart
OF cherry bounce, 1914 cents; one
quart French brandy, so cents; ditto
so cents; one quart of wine, 81; lodg-
ing 815 cents.
Treated blouse Troup."
A study of the ledger shows that
the gay young rounder was not close
with his money, as several of the above
accounts are marked ito treat the
house troup."
In the ledger are found the names
OF many of Morgantown's prominent
men of that day and the ancestors OF
the leading citizens of the city.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
WITHOUT EQUALIZATION
LAW CAN'T RUN STATE
FURTHERMORE ITS SELF Gov
EMINENT. TAX TROUBLE
DUE TO EXTRAVAGANCE.

ATLANTA.-That Georgia law
makers have found it difficult, if not
impossible, to run the state without
a tax equalization law is again evil
denced by the recent action of the
state senate in turning down a meas
ure to repeal it. 1t was the usual an
nual result-efforts to repeal the law
being made practically at every ses-
sion of the legislature
Senator Stovall, though advocating
the repeal, said:
THE tax equalization law was
sponsored by that able and excellent
Georgian, Former Governor Slaton
whose purpose, while governor, was to
equalize the tax burdens"
Lawmakers who opposed the repeal
took the position, long advocated by
Governor Slaton, that any and all tax
es must be equalized whether they be
on land or incomes.
Every man in the same situation
must bear the same burden and pro-
vision must be made for equal imposi-
ton of the taxes" was a remark of
Governor Slaton that has been fire.
quently quoted by advocates of the
tax equalization law.
In large portion of the states of
the union, including North Carolina,
to which reference is frequently made
by lawmakers here, the property of
the farmer is assessed.
The equalization law as advocated
by Governor Slaton provides for local
lf-government, and if the law is not
properly administered in each county,
as he pointed out, it is because the tax
equalizers of that county, chosen by
the citizens of that county, are not
performing their duties. The great
complaint is that the equalizers are
not severe enough, and it is the de-
sire OF many to make the law more
stringent, it was pointed out here.
IF all the citizens were taught that
they had to pay more taxes every time
more appropriations were granted
they would check up more strictly on
their representatives against extrav-
agant appropriations" said Governor
Slaton today in commenting on the
action of the senate in unfolding the
tax equalization law.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
LARGE AMOUNTS ARE
BET ON THE ELECTION
BELIEVED NOT LESS THAN
S1o,ooo,ooo WILL BE WAGERED
ON RACE FOR PRESIDENT.

NEW YORK.-With huge sums
already placed on the outcome OF the
Coolidge Davis LaFollette presiden-
tial handicap race Wall street betting
commissioners are looking forward to
a record breaking business during the
remainder of the more or less doubt
full period. A volume of wagers is
now in sight for the commission-grab-
bling shareholders who hope now Tor a
total of $10,000,000 in bets. AS their
"cut" is S per cent of the winnings,
plus much free publicity, there's no
wav for them to lose.
The regular stock exchange houses
steer clear of the responsibility OF
placing bets, though a member OF
conservative house will occasionally
put through such matter as a favor
to good customer. So this throws
much grist into the mill OF the bet
ting commissioners, who claim to have
handled more than 100000 in demo-
cratic convention wagers. Coolidge
fans today were laying to l on his
election.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
BOBS HER HAIR AND
WEBS THE EIGHTH TIME

BILOXI, Miss. Having her
90 both inmates of the Confederate
Mary Sanders, "a, and A. ]. Fuller,
hair bobed for the ceremony, Mrs.
Soldiers Home here, were publicly
married in the presence of several
hundred persons today.
The groom was the eighth hus-
band of Mrs. Sanders.
Although we'll past the half
century mark, the bride set new
pace when she eagerly had her hair
bobbed for her eighth matrimonial
adventure, and local persons have
distinguished her as the Oldest
bobbed-hair enthusiast in the United
States.
Rev. Abner Jones, a Methodist
minister and also Confederate
veteran, performed the ceremony.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
Women Kept 4, 900 Rats in Home
And Starred Self to Glue Them Food

porting some 1000 rodents and consid-
ering them her pets. Investigation Of
the Mayer home was begun when
neighbors complained.
Mrs. Mayer, who took in sewing to
make living for herself, told the au-
ttorities she often had scarcely enough
to eat, but that her rats always were
we'll provided with food.
She gave them bread, cheese, sau-
sage, and other morsels regularly, she
said, because otherwise the rats might
go astray in search of things to eat,
and thereby inconvenience the neigh
bors, who we're given to making COM
plant.
The towns rat catcher was engaged
for the best part of week in clearing
the Mayer house of its rodents, the
owner meanwhile staying at hotel
There were white rats and grey rats
and dapple rats when the rat catcher
began his task. All were killed, and
then the house was fumigated.
=
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
No Immediate Danger of
The Sun Becoming Old
Scientist Says It's Age Is Between
Two and Three Billion Years.

Scientist Says Its Age Is Between
Two and Three Billion Years.
The age of the sun has been fixed
at something between 2,000,000000
and 3,000,000000 years, Prof. Walter
Nernst, after researches, ANNOUNCED
at a meeting in Berlin, says the De-
troit News The estimates are based
in part on the rate of decomposition
OF radioactive elements and in part
on deductions from Einsteins theory
of relatively concerning the relation
between mass and energy.
Early estimates set the age of the
sun as low as 100000 years, but
biologists showed this was too short
to allow for the erosion and other
changes observed in the crust of the
earth since it became solid. The radio
active decomposition of uranium to
lead is more accurate cosmic clock,
and this indicates that the solid crust
of the earth has existed for at least
one and one-half billion years. Ac-
cording to Nernst the sun, while get
ting past middle age, is still good for
400,000,000 years, after which crus
will form on its surface and life such
as we know it will cease upon the
earth.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
Renewed DEMAND FOR
FARM LAND PREDICTED
us. POPULATION INCREASING
100000 YEARLY. PER CAPT.
ia TILLAGE DECLINES.

That the coming years will bring re-
newed demand for land and farm prod
ucts is the firm belief OF the depart
ment of agriculture. One cause of the
slump in farm commodity prices which
occurred in the '90s is given by the
department to be the fact that the land
area under cultivation in the United
States had then recently undergone a
tremendous expansion, due to the set
Element OF the middle west and west
ern states. No increase in the per
capita area of land under cultivation
can be cited in part explanation of the
present slump in farm product prices
says economists of the department. On
the contrary, they point out the last
twenty years have seen sharp de-
cline in the per capita area of titled
land.
Good land available for farming has
been getting relatively scarcer in the
United States for several decades.
Though the census of 1920 showed
nearly a three-fo1d absolute gain since
1850 in the area of land in farms the
per capita acreage in farms has de-
creased. From 1880 to 1000 the per cap
tia area in fourteen principal crops in
creased slightly, but it was less in each
succeeding decade. The combined pro-
duction per capita OF nine principal
crops was less in 1920 than in 1900.
The per capita acreage OF improved
land in farms, which was at its maxi
mum in the decade 1880 to 1890, has
since declined.
Foreign Conditions Bad.
Conditions outside the United States
have contributed to the present agri-
cultural depression. Diminished buy
ing power in Continental Europe has
temporarily hidden the fact that the
trend in this country is toward an in
creased pressure OF population on land
resources. But the trend is there just
the same, and it is expected to become
apparent again within a very few
years, the department says.
1t is recognized that the foreign out
look may mean that some years will
be required to restore the normal bal
ance between acreage under cultiva-
ton and the demand, both foreign and
domestic, for our farm products. Yet
it is noted that the bearish outlook is
offset to some extent by the fact that
the population of the world is increas-
ing at the rate of about 100000 a
year and the population of the United
States at about 100000 year.
There is consequently nothing over
optimistic in predicting an increased
demand for American farm land and
consequently for American farm prod
ucts within few years, the depart
ment says.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
FIGHT Def HURLED IN
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
ENNIS INVITED COMMITTEE
HEAD TO GO OUTSIDE IF
HE DENIED STATEMENT.

ATLANTA.-The afternoon SEES
sion of the house of representatives
Thursday was enlivened by chal-
lenge of Representative Ennis, of
Baldwin county, to Representative
Culpepper, OF Fayette county, to go
outside the house if he desired to state
that an assertion of the gentleman
from Baldwin was unture. The chal-
lenge was not accepted.
The house at the time had under
consideration a bill to appropriate
$29905 for the erection of an ice plant
at the state sanitarium at Milledge-
vile. Mr.. Ennis declared that the in
mates at the sanitarium are compelled
to eat food that is not properly pre-
served because of the lack of refrig-
Grating facilities.
Representative Culpepper, Repre-
sentative Barrett, of Stevens; Repre-
sentative Boswell, Of Green, and Rep
.resentative Covington, of Colquitt,
spoke against the bill, claiming that
the state did not have the money to
build plant at the present time. Mr..
Barrett made the assertion that the
bill should not be considered because
it had not been submitted to the ap-
preparations committee during the
present session.
Invites Him Out.
This bill was unanimously ap-
proved by the appropriations commit
tee at the last session and the chair
man of the committee told me that it
would not be necessary to have II
passed on again this year" Mr.. Ennis
said.
Representative Culpepper, who is
chairman of the appropriation COM
mittee, leaped to his feet and demand
ed recognition, but Mr.. Ennis declin-
ed to yield the floor.
Il am making a statement that is
the absolute truth, and if the chair
man of the committee wants to say
that it is unture l will go out of the
house with him and give him that
opportunity" Mr.. Ennis said.
On a roll call there were 50 votes
for the bill and So against it. 1t was
lost by reason of the fact that an APP
preparation bill requires 104 votes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-05
100000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT
HAULED BY SINGLE TRAIN

NEWTON, Kans.-All records
were shattered when a Santa Fee
train of wheat, two miles long, pull
ed out of here. The train had 800
cars of Kansas hard winter wheat
Four locomotives were required to
pull the train, which moved in two
sections, each with two engines.
The train carried approximately
100000 bushels, for which farmers
received $396,000