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THE LAGRANGE REPORTER.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 2. 1914.
HADEN'S REPORT
AT MACON, GA
Macon, Oct. l.-The report of
President Charles J. linden, of th
Georgia Chamber of Commerce, to
the annual meeting of the Organisa
tion in session here today, shows that
during the pant year,
exception, the State
with a singlt
exception, in<- Chamhu of
Georgia has done more work and ac-
compllahed more direct results, than
nny almilar organization in any oth
er state in the union. . ... .
The fact that thin wan the initial
year of the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce, and that many of the other
organization* huve been in existence
for many years, makes the showing
all the more remarkable.
President linden's report in part
was as follows:
"We have had at our disposal
much less money than we had con
templated at the time of organiza
tion. U was the concensus of opinion
of our organization that the para
mount need in Georgia was the in
crease of food crops. Moreover, we
have realized that if Georgia was
scourged by the boll weevil, ns is still
imminent, to, the extent that our
neighboring fltut** t° the southwest
have been scourged, we would suffer
extremely, unless we provide in ad
vance for home-produced food sup-
11 During the winter of 1013-14, we
began a campaign in twenty-five
southeastern Georgiu counties, urg
ing the planting of more grain and
other food supplies, and put on every
billboard stund in those counties a
poster <1 1-2 feet by 8 1-2 feet. Also,
we sent through the muil 4fi,000 writ-
ten and printed documents addressed
to every tax-puyer who appeared in
the taxhooks returning lands. We
-nit printed matter to every school
teacher (about 1,100 in number).
Also, we wrote to 200 preachers and
<enl out a number of canvassers to
obtain pledges from farmers to grow
more foodstutls.
Itooklet on Georgia.
YVV have* produced a booklet, on
Georgia for general circulation, at a
very great cost. This book contains
forty pages, handsomely printed. It
ih carefully edited, and covers pruc
tically every important phase of our
state's resources and attractions. It
has been highly complimented and
widely used.
On November 18th, Dll.!,
known throughout the Union li ter-
,, hi Products Day, seventy-eight
towns gave public dinners supplied
by Georgia products. 1 resident
son wired us a telegram of fifty
words, congratulating us upon the
remarkable event. The publicity for
Georgia obtained throughout the
Union was perhaps without purallel.
We are preparing to repeut Geor
gia Products Day on Nove.nbei 18lh
of the present year, and we most
earnestly urge every member o our
organization to do his Tull pail to
make it a success. , .
We huve caused to be held, through
our suggestion and aid, many large
gatherings through the state, which
bus resulted in the arousing of the
people to renewed efforts for the pub
lic welfare. Two of the more impor
tant 1 will mention:
In response to our invitation, nf-
teen counties sent representatives to
the Animal Industry Conference
Quitman. Gu., on May
at
26th. The
procession of "that day 'included 1.120
flouts, beautifully decorated, and sent
from fifteen counties, and was wit
nessed liy 10,000 visitors, shortly
thereafter, a number of counties and
communities organized for the pur
pose of improving and increasing
animal industry.
In like manner, through our sug
gestion and invitation, a large gathei-
ing of people from some twenty coun
ties gathered at an apple-growers
convention at Cornelia, Ga., Murqh
‘.:8th. There were present some 100
delegates. The Governor of, Georgia
and other prominent speakers were
present. At this meeting, the Geor
gia Apple-Growers Association was
organized. A great impetus was giv
en to the apple-growing industry of
Georgia.
The importance of this meeting
can best he understood when it is
known that Georgia sends away from
the state every year approximately
so,000,000 for apples (a large propor
tion of them shipped from the state of
Washington, a distance of 3,500
miles). and none of the apples
brought into the state are equal to
those which can be grown in Geor
gia. - . . • -
Counties and Towns Organized.
Through our inspiration and as
sistance, a number of counties and
communities have organized indus
trial clubs, noiirds of trade, and oth
er like public welfare organizations
that are doing solid work for the up
building of the sections already or
ganized.
We have advertised in shmething
more than one hundred trade news
papers in the north and northwest for
persons and concerns to consider the
question of locating factories and
farms in Georgia. The correspon
dence which resulted from this was
very voluminous, and was referred
to various locul trade bodies and oth
ers concerned, throughout the state,
j One of the best proofs of the far-
reaching results of our organization
has been that from more than ten
states have come requests for advice
iind assistance in the building up of
similar organizations.
Georgia Products Directory.
We have now in preparation one of
the best, if not the most important
work of the year; that is, our “Geor
gia Products Directory," now almost
ready for the press. It will be
printed and in circulation before
Georgia Products Day. It consists of
»m elegantly printed directory of
producers in Georgia, who have for
the market manufactured or agricul
tural products. There will lie a very
large edition of this Directory, and
one will lie placed at every business
telephone throughout the state.
Thus, whenever an order is to i e
placed, the buyer will have every
facility for giving to the Georgia
producer the first chance.
Our committees have been very ac
tive especially the committees on
good roads, waterpowers, and rural
credits. One of these committee —
(he committee on good roads—raised
and disbursed in printed matter and
other publicity to stimulate the road-
hullding of Georgia, $1,000.
I have herein only attempted to
touch the high points. . Possibly the
best work we have done has lieen in
arojsing the pride of our people to
greater efforts for the building up of
our commonwealth. This has been
mace p issilde through the noble
work of '.he patriotic press, to whom
we wish to express the profounaesl
gratitude.
Standardization of Crops.
We are endeavoring now to have
the dealers and growers of hay and
grain and like products, to standar
dize these crops and provide ready
cash markets in each town and trad
ing point, so that bankers and supply
our merchants may he the better able to
make money advances on these crops,
and that the growers may know pre
cisely on what they may depend. This
is a very acute need, as a condition
precedent to the" increase of food
crops. In this connection, I may say
that .through the efforts of our Cham
ber, the city council of Atlanta re
moved whut hitherto whs a serious
restriction in shipping dressed nni-
inals into that market, thus benefit
ing the farmers of Georgia.
At our request, a number of coun
tics along and near the Alubnma riv
er held a large mass meeting at
Jesup, Ga., July 4th, in which our
Chamber participated, for the pur
pose of organizing to build a bridge
over the Altamahn river.
A man prominent in politics stated
in the press that our Chamber had,
in his opinion, done more to unite
South Georgia and North Georgia
thnn any movement for many years
Our Chamber rendered substantial
service in passing the two very im
portant health measures at the last
legislature. We have had a remark
ably successful year in the face of
serious depression and ndverse pro
phecies. The Chamber of Commerce
of the state of New York is now 125
years old, and is by common consent
regarded the most powerful factor in
the making of New York the Empire
state of the Union. We most sin
cerely hope to duplicate its career in
Georgia.
In closing, I wish to thunk publicly
the many who have given us assis
tance, and especially the “Country
Gentleman” newspaper, published
outside of Georgia, that gnvo us,
without eharge, publicity abroad
which would huve cost us approxi
mately $1,000, and to Mr. Henry Wal
ters of New York (a southerner by
birth), a prince both among men and
among financiers—the chairman of
the executive board hf the Atlantic
Coast Line railrond; who contributed
$1,000 to our maintenance.
We believe that to our orguniza
lion is in large measure due the credit
for huving so awakened the people
of Georgia to study the resources of
their dwn state tiiut a quickened puli
lie sentiment influenced the railroads
to discontinue tourists' excursions to
the west. The draining away of
Georgia blood to the west is shown
by the fact that in Texas along there
are now 800,000 Georgians and chil
dren of Georgians. Organization of
state and town, county and commun
ity, is building up throughout com
monwealth a deeper appreciation thnn
ever before of its wealth of soil
mine, quarry, forest, stream und
climate. Moreover, we are coming to
leurn the value of our traditions of
integrity and conservatism, ns ns
sets that cannot be measured i
money.
We believe that within the bounds
of absolute truth, we cun say that
our organization stands first in its
work of demonstrating the solid
worth of team-work and co-opera
tion."
GEORGIA USES
1MUCH FERTILIZER
Atlanta. Sept. 26. (Special)—There
will soon he issued from the press
the fertilizer bulletin of the Georgia
State Department of Agriculture,
dealing with the analysis of fertilizer
sold in th^s state during the past
year. This is always a most valuable
ami interesting publication, as Geor
gia has for years been one of the
largest consumers of fertilizer per
acre of any state in the union.
The past season has seen more
fertilizer used in Georgia with re
sultant good effects than any year in
the history of the state.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
has recently issued an order making
the year for the sale of fertilizer
tags coincident with the fiscal year
i. e. January 1st to December 31st
instead of from October 1st to Sep
tember 30th.
The new tags, which will go or.
sale about the first of December, in
stead of bearing the double legend,
“Season of 1014-15" will state, “Year
1015."
Already the demand Is good for
cotton seed meal which is one of the
prineinal materials used in the mix
ing of commercial fertilizer of which
thousands of tons are used in this
state annually.
2 DOINGS AROUND
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WAR NOT CAUSE OF SITUATION
Atlanta, Oct. 1.—That the recent
drop in the price of cotton Heed is not
caused by the war and that it is not
justified by any present conditions,
is the belief of Congressman Dudley
M. Hughes, who is leading an inves
tigation of an alleged conspiracy to
raise prices.
The surplus of cotton here will not
account for the drop in price,” said
Mr. Hughes, “for practically all the
seed is crushed at home.
If we can secure the evidence of
a combination which circumstances
clearly indicate, I hope that the ad
ministration will take such steps in
the matter of criminal prosecutions
for violations of the anti-trust law as
will peremptorily put a stop to the
singular similarity in the low price
fluetuatirfns.”
JUDGE DANIEL HEAD OF I. 0.0. F
Atlanta, Oct. 1.—Judge Robert T.
Daniel, of Griffin, Ga., has been giv
en a singular honor in being elected
Grand Sire of the Odd Fellows of the
World by the grand lodge in session
at Atlantic City.
Judge Daniels has the unique honor
of being the only man in the country
to have been head of two great sec
ret orders. A few years ago he was
elected Grond Incohonee of the Or
der of Red Men, and is now a high
dignitary in that order.
The Georgia Odd Fellows feel
proud of the distinction conferred on
their state, and ure sure that Judge
Daniel will prove a most worthy
Grand Sire to the Odd Fellows.
EDITORIAL PAGE IN 1863
Atlanta, Oct. 1.—An Atlanta prin
ter is the proud possessor of u copy
of the editorial pnge of the Vicks
burg Duily Citizen of July 2, 1863,
printed on highly colored wall paper
at the time of the great siege, when
Vicksburg citizens were living in
caves to avoid the shells of the bom
bardment.
The most interesting item is an
editorial defying General Grant to
get into the city. The editor was
evidently driven out of his sanctum
before he put the paper to press, for
added to the editorial under a dash
is one evidently written and set up
by some printer from the Union
army, saying, "We have got in" und
adding his opinion of the Confederacy
in no uncertain terms. It is a unique
souvenir of the grout war between
tile states.
12,000 BALES FOR $600,000
Atlanta, Oct. 1.—The past week
has been a phenomenal one in the
"Ruy-a-Hale of C|i>tton” movement,
which already is believed to have
taken half a million bales off the mar
ket. Numerous he.uvy purchases
huve been reported at ten cents a
pound und the market has held up
strongly under the influence of the
movement.
The greatest individual purchase
was that of the Crown Cork and Seal
company, of Baltimore, which pur
chases vast quantities of cork from
Spain. It was unable to secure this
because all ships had stopped run
ning so it arranged for a steamship
line of its own.
Then it contracted with Spanish
spinners to take 12,000 bales of
Southern cotton for $600,000, and will
ship this from Savannah, New Or
leans and Galveston. The company
ships will deliver the cotton, the deal
being financed by the Crown Com
pany, and bring back the cork needed
for the manufacture of crowns and
corks.
MOONSHINE DAY IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Oct. 1.—Monday, October
5, will be “Moonshine Day” in the At
lanta federal court, and more than
150 moonshiners from the North
Georgia and Alabama mountains will
face Judge Newman. The Atlanta
jail is filled with tall mountaineers,
paled by confinement in a narrow cell,
and the jails in many small towns will
send their bath of "wildcatters" to
Atlanta for trial.
This has been a busy and profit
able year for the moonshiners who
did not get caught, for they have
been getting extra good prices for
mountain dew and chain lightning.
But the revenue men have been equal
ly busy and the list of arrests breaks
all records.
“OPIUM CIGARETTES” INVENTED
Atlanta, Oct. 1.—The invention of
an “opium cigarette” by u Chinese
chemist in Chicago and the arrest of
the chemist and six of his companions
has brought to light a new method
of opium smoking which threatened
to do more to encourage that habit
than any of the dens which flourish
in the great cities where Chinese are
plentiful.
The cigarette resembled the ordi
nary article, and was composed large
ly of tobacco, but this was so saturat
ed with opium that all the effects of
a real opium pipe were felt. Circulars
addressed to agents all over the coun
try were found in the inventors room,
and they showed how the habit might
he spread among the unwitting. A
great advantage of the cigarette was
that it could be smoked in the street,
said the circulars.
GROWS TWIN WATERMELONS
Atlanta, Oct. 1.—Siamese twins in
watermelons are the latest product
of a Georgia farmer. J. F. Camp, of
Jonesboro, Ga., has brought to Atlan
ta a big watermelon with a twin
brother growing on the same stem
and almost, but not quite, grown to
gcthcr.
A CARD OF THANKS
We the undersigned, desire to sin
cerely thank our many friends who
so kindly assisted us during the sick
ness of our sister, Mrs. Fannie
Spence. May God ever bless each one
and reward their kindness is our
prayer.
(Signed)
MR. & MRS. BURTON BACHELOR.
A householder in London has se
cured an injunction against a market
gardener to prevent him from fer
tilizing his garden with matter which
breeds flies. Next thing you know
adjoining property will close an
American theater exhibiting a fly
blown shops’ with a oopv of the Eng
lish petition.—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
MM • You know what it is
Iwl £\W% I to be well dressed
If llTll t and to know that
your clothes fit you
just as they should and with the very
latest effects. You have an opportunity to be clothed
like a king at the cost of a few dollars and to know
that you have the best to be had at a reasonable price.
SEE
MIKE FR0S0L0NA, Tailor
Greenville Street.
THE WAY TO
REMOVE SPOTS
In the October Woman’s Home
Companion appears a department
called "The Exchange”—a depart
ment devoted to household ideas con
tributed by readers. A Massachu
setts woman tells as follows how to
remove grease spots from floors:
“So many women grieve because
there are greese spots on their
kitchen floors and water with any
amount of scrubbing will not remove
them; just try alcohol to remove these
same spots, and you will be pleased
with the result."
10c FOR COTTON
We will accept middling cotton at
10c per pound in ppvment for Farm
and Apple Lands in Habersham coun
ty "where the big red apple grows.”
Quit cotton and start now to raising
fruit, grain and stock. Write us for
prices and particulars.McMILLIANS,
Clarkesville, Ga. 16pd
“WHERE IS THE
BEST PLACE TO
HAVE CLOTHES
CLEANED AND
PRESSED?”
Go To
The Sanitary
Pressing Club
HUNTER MILAM, Prop.
21 Ridley Ave. Phone 308
Efficient Service
and Prompt Deliv
ery Has Answered
This Question.
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REUBEN KYLE
Agent Troup County Roanoke, Ala.
What to Eat
This is the question that confronts
every housewife three times a day. And
we all know that it is a hard proposition
to decide but there is an easy solution
to every puzzle and the one to this is
it
Call 366
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The Bell Market
They will decide it for you They carry
a full line of choicest western and native
meats and can satisfy your wants with
fresh oysters and fish.
Sewing Machine Supplies of all
Kinds. Singer Sewing Machines.
Second Hand Machines from $3.00 to $10.00
Wc also Handle FRUITS and COLD DRINKS. Our stand is
convenient for the school children to get their lunch here every day.
Jordan Fruit Co.
29 Bull Street.
Sansone's Old Stand.
Barnes Furniture Co.
Best Goods-
-Lowest Prices
Easiest Terms
$1.00 Saved in $5.00.
LaGrange, Ga.
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