Face Two
THE FRANKLIN PRESS
Frichy, December 5, 1924.
TOO BIS STORES
TO CONSOLIDATE
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Bill Cunningham and J. S.
Porter & Company Will
Consolidate on or About
January 1.
Arrangements have been completed
by ,whii:h' the stores of Bill Cunning"
ham and J. S. Porter & Co. will con
solidate. The new store will operate
in the store room now occupincd by
W. C. Cunningham.
It is expected that the stock of
J. S. Porter &' Co will be moved to
the new headquarters by the end of
the year, or possibly before.
"; The new firm will be composed of
W. C. Cunnngham,1 Steve Porter, Jess
Conley and Mark Dowdle.
Chief Engineer Here Plans
For Power Dam Under Way
Mr. C. L. Emerson. Chief Construc
tion Engineer, with Robert & Com
pany, reached Franklin last Tuesday
to discuss with the town board the
plans for the municipal power dam.
Mr. Emerson has recommended that
all iron and steel parls of the ma
chinery be purchased at once ast the
iron and steel markers are constantly
advancing. The cfty fathers are dis
posed to take his advice on his matter.
Mr , Emerson is of the opinion that
plans for the dam will be sufficiently
far advanced by the end of the year
to justify-lcttiing the contract for all
necessary electrical equipment at that
time.
. A member of the board stated Wed
nesday that the town authorities in
tend to rush the preliminary details
and to let the contract for building the
dam at'the earliest possible moment
He also stated that the town board
now contemplates building the dam
25 feet high. Should this be done
considerably more power can be de
veloped than was at first contemplated
A dam of this height would back
the water in Town Creek as far as
Mr. Tom' Angel's stables iiqar-the
station on Main street.
FAMILIAR LINES IN
EARLY SCHOOLBOOKS
HAILS PASSING OF
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN
Baptist Church Finishing
75 Million Campaign
-.' Southern Baptist have come to the
last, week of their five year program
known as the Seventy-five Million
.Campaign. , The Objective when the
campaign was launched five .years ago
in Atlanta was seventy-five Million
dollars. This was over subscribed and
work of the denomination was in
creased along all lines. All over
"the South' the . churchef are . putting
forth an effort to reach .the goal and
there is a reason to believe that the
last day of December will find the
goal reached.
The local church lias been engaged
in the work. Last week a series of
enlistment meetings were held and be
ginning Sunday a canvas of the sub
scribers was made. The teams have
been reporting good success and a
godd report was sent in for the books
of the State convention which closed
the third of December. Already the
Franklin Baptist - church has paid in
fifty per cent more than its orgiginal
quota though the full amount of the
pledge has not been paid However
- there remains the rest of this month
for the work in rounding out the cam
paign and .the local church is deter
mined to make the best use of the
time. :
Light From Trees
French scientist linn discovered
A means of extracting and harnessing
Ihe electricity In trees. He connected
a copper plate attached to a tree, and
another plate burled In the earth, with
a galvanometer, a delicate Instrument
which measures the strength of weak
currents of . electricity, and obtained
a record of the current passing through
the. tree.
"With three trees connected in the
anie way the '-potter, was. Increased,
the experiment, with a like result, be
ing continued until twenty trees were
linked up In this fashion.
The scientist then placed two cop
per plates in the earth, about six feet
npart, and with the current thus ob
"tained lighted a "small electric lamp." "
t - Whether the idea can be extended to
a . be commercially worth -while has yet
1o be determined.
Safety Leisont Learned
Saving die lives -ot, 769 children
of school ge Is credited to safety
Instruction In the Detroit schools for
the five years, 1919 to 1923, inclusive.
Decrease In child fatalities has been
from 1.64 a thousand in 19 19 to .78
In 1923, a drop of more than 50 per
cent; In; relation, to automobile reg
istration the decrease has been from
.85' ft thousand in J919 to M in 1923.;
on the basis of population the
decrease has been; from '.22 a thou
sand to ,.18 a thousand. '
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank- our friends for
their kindness ;;n l. sympathy during
the illness and 3mh of our father.
' The children of -
, :-: J. FRANK RAY.
Middle-Aged Find Charm in
Simple Sayings.
Old-time schoolbooks were likely to
be painfully solemn and didactic;
levity was abhorrent to their consci
entious compilers. Hut in our day
they afford amusing reading. .
Lindley Murray, a grave and beavy
inlnded Quaker, was averse not only
to laughter but. to smiles; in a foot
note to the once-famous Llndle' Mur
ray's English reader he carefully
apologized for a, brief passage that
lie feared was too playfully ex
pressed. But no one who read the
passage and the footnote, could ever
discover - the playfulness! Modem
renders, however, can discover a good
many passages that are the cause of
mirth, however unmlrlhfully they
were intended, lie desired to be Im
pressive in his ucrount of Niagara j
falls; he gave its height and pro
nounced, a eulogy upon its grandeur;
and then lie provided a 'complete anti
climax by adding, "It Is said that the
Indians have sometimes passed down
it in their canoes in safety." ,-,,.. . .
Some little time ago a reminiscent
writer in the New York World de
clared that the Webster spelling book
and the Webster tvader hud doubtless
had the longest history, of any school
books in the United .States once
coveriug at least three full genera
tions. ... How familiar, after you pass the
alphabet page, these lines appear to
us: "Am I to go in? I am to go In."
"She fed 'the old hen." "The hen was
fed by her." "Ann can hem my cap."
"She has a new fun." "Fire will burn
wood and coal." 'KJoal and wood will
make a lire." "Will you help me pin
my frock?" "The good girl may jump
the rope." "Kakers bake bread and
cakes." "I like to play in the shady
grove." "Cider is made of apples."
"A tiger 'will -kill and eat a man."
"Ann can spin flax." "A shad can
swim." "Cotton velvet is very soft
to the feel." "We can burn fish oil in
lamps." "Never pester the little boys."
"I had some green corn In July on a
plate."
The obviousness and simplicity of
those sayings havei now a distinct
charm. Rut they were gauged," it
must, be reinemttiered, for r infantile
minds not long graduated from the
cradle. Some changes, in society have
taken place since they were written.
Ann cannot spin -tlax now, because
that crop has lost its prevalence, and
we no longer burn fish oil, but . when
gas and electricity are not in hand
use oJl of another sort. A shad can
cf ill 'tiln liiit lm rwttir oii'tiMCt vt-If It
Otlll 13 T 1111, 1Ul JIU UVMV dlUHI.l ll&Llft
rare and rarer frequency, and very
soon will not swim at all unless we
stop polluting our streams and water
ways. Readers -for older Children often in
cluded selections that from their ter
rifying, puzzling or too ornately
rhetorical qualities we should not
deem suitable . nowadays. Children
often read these "elegant extracts"
without understanding them or even
trying to understand them. A grand
mother of today was told by her moth
er of the extreme amazement with
which long after she had grown up
the came in her reading upon a pass
age with which she had been familiar
since her little girlhood and found
that It really meant something and,
more astonishing still, that she en
Joyed it I -Youth' Companion.
Writer- Eukgizes Present
Age of Yoathfulness
Gr.vy hirlrs are gone, old age Is" out
of date, and a sfgn of the times Is
the disappearance of , the middle-aged
Woman.
This is as it should be. So long as
a . mature rwoman ; does not ape a
flapper, why should she not keep her
youthful looks into the forties or the
seventies? Why should a dowager as
sume that it is her duty to ho dowdy?
A black gown and a white, heart
are not Inseparable, and dull gray and
goodness do hot 'always go together.
If a woman is "all glorious within"
it la well that her looks should make
this manifest.
Nowadays our social world seems
to be 'divided Into girls, young mar
ried women and women who swe great
grandmothers. No more do you see
the middle-aged matron, with her
proud grace and reserved bearing;
or the handsome mother of forty,
with her flow of talk and flock vof
dull . daughters. And we 'never come
across the sweet-faced, sad-eyed
single woman the typical maiden
aunt of the Victorians-era.
Sad to (jay, the ideal old lady has
gone forever, with her silver hair,
white cap, black gown and sentle,
dignified manners. Old ladles, such as
those depicted in Whistler's famous
portrait of his mother, or In Manet's
picture of Mine. Manet mere, have
ceased to exist hTour social life of
today.
Everything in life art, dress, rules
of health and beauty culturetends
toward the exit, of the middle-aged
woman.. And she is out of it on the
stage and In fiction. I'.alzac's "Ecmme
de Trente A ns" seems a back number,
as. many heroines in up-to-date novels
arc wellon in the forties and fifties.
And the same note is sounded In the
plays of the period.
Most of us live up to this august
example. Women of sixty or seventy
yacht, hunt, shoot, dance, play 'golf
and hookey and drive their own mo
tor cars. One peeress, who was mar
ried In the sixties, drives her car with
success, and another of the same age
leads cotillons, although she is the
proud owner of several grandchildren.
Much can be said on the side of
perennial youthftilness! The desire
to .prolong one's youth shows vital
force and is. said to be a sure proof
of national well-being. Every wom
an for her own sake would fain keep
fresh :id young, as fdic is well aware
that so long as her looks remain she
can rule men, and there will be no
"Finis" written on the page of her
book of life. The Hon. Mrs. Fit.roy
Stewart in" the London Mall.
A Case c Hogs,
.Mrs. Jarr.es Woody day!) on Tdlico
recently swore out ;i peace warrant
for Mr'. James Ramsey, claiming that
Mr. Kamsey had threatened to do her
bodily harm. Mr, Ramsey .was tried
last Monday before Magistrate Geo.
Carpenter, At the time of the
trial Judge Carpenter had on a batch
of bread at the bakery. That the Judge
might a. tend to his bread While hear
ign the evidence the trial, was held
in the bake room at Clouse's restaurant
Judge Carpenter while taking bread
from the oven refused to halt the
proceedings, stating that he could
hear and work at the same time.-
According to the evidence the
Woody hogs had been taking undue
liberties with Mr. Ramsey's corn
fields. When Mr. Ramsey ventured
a protest the owners' of the hogs be
came incensed. In fact, according to
one of the witness, their remarks to
Mr. Ramsey were pointed, vituper
ative and likewise vitriolic.
Many witnesses testified in Mr,
Ramsey's favor, judge Carpenter was
evidently of the opnion that Mr. Ram
fey is an honorable and daw abiding
citizen and that he . had made no
threats against the peace, dignity or
persons of the Woody family. Mr.
Ramsey was therefore discharged. ,
Dr. W. H. Brabson of Cornelia, Ga., .
formerly a practicing physician- in
Macon County and well known here,
is now at Tulane University, New
Orleans, La., taking a special clinical
course. He will return to Cornelia
after the Christmas holidays.
NOTICE! One week till the .
Big' Christinas .'Edition.
Get your ads in AT. ONCE. I
See that the label on your
paper , is dated in advance, if
you want the Press to con
tinue coming to your home.
NfflTIPFI We-have on hand the T. D. STOKE?
I? AND COMPANY'S fine hats and '
caps for men and boys.
A supply of Ready-to-Wear dresses for ladies,
just in from New York; also a sample line of shoes11
from J. K. Orr, & Company, Atlanta, Ga.
You are invited to look over these items.
j. R PENDERGRASS
Advertising in the Press sells the
goods.
A FORD FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT
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' That hoy of yours is getting along toward 18 years
of age. For 10 or 12 years now he has been doing his
part toward making a living for the family. . What
have you lone for him? ' ,
Other boys of his age are riding in cars "and 'your
boy is getting restless. Do you want-to keep him at
home ? If so, you must make life a little more pleas
ant for him. What was good enough for us is not
good enough for our children. And we would not have
it otherwise. When this old world ceases to advance
.civilization will perish; " ' ' . "-.'..'.
Keep your boy at home. Make his life a happy one.
L-u him a Ford. The whole family can use it. In these
days' a cur is a necessity- not a luxury.
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"The White Brick Building On the 'Square"
Italy i Chemical Induitry
More than 100,000 workers are now
employed in tiie, chemical, Industry of
Italy. In 1914 It bird 50,000 workers.
Capital. invested bag' risen during the
same period from $40,000,000 to $85,
000,000. Advices to the American
Chemical society indicate that Italy,
like the United States, marched for
ward on its own initiative when Its dye
stuff supply from Germany was .'cur
tailed by the World war. Ten years
ago the Italian chemical Industry pro
duced no artificial dye-stuffs or coal
tar dyes. Last year it produced 2,
400,000 kilograms of sulphur black, 1,
000,000 kilograms of azo dyes and
more than 100,000 kilograms of vari
ous basic and acid dyes, About six
tenths io'f the national requirement
of coal tar products is now 'produced,
In Italy, which also exports some of
the lending intermediates. -
May Reproduce Old Mill ,
The Philadelphia chapter of the So
ciety of Colonial Dames of America
has submitted to ninny organizations,
in Pennsylvania a plan to erect on the
original te a replica of "The Old
Swede's Mill," the first mechanical en
terprise to be set up in fhat highly, ln
dustrialleed region. Theoriginal struc
ture says ' the f)etrol t News, was built
by direction of Governor Printzi in
1640, eight years after the first Swed
ish colonist arrived there. The stream
on which the old mill stood, how
known us Cobb's creek, flows.through
what is ndvv the southwestern out
skirts of Philadelphia. The proposed
reproduction will be made a gift to
LOOK NG A
HEAD FOR YOU
Next week everybody will be thinking of the
big ads. I want to tell you of what I have and let
you see and think in the meantime.
LISTEN LADIES
For these cold days and nights you will find
at my store coats, sweaters, sui, underwear,
blankets, cotton and wool hosieries, shoes, dress
gocds, caps and everything else that you will
need for the winter days that are now here.
The best of all my goods are ready for inspec
tion and 111 guarantee the quality to be the best
and the price to be the lbvestr'!vr 7
Fifty Ladies' Coatsuits will be sold regardless
of cost. You can buy one for the cost of making
and have the materia extra.
: It will be profitable to you to see my great, big
I i tie of merchandise and get my prices.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Come
early and get the best. There are bargains in
every line! I will appreciate your trade.
ASEnldA
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the municipality.