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' THE LAGRANGE REPORTER.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT 9. 1914.
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THIS MIDNIGHT VISIT TO CHICK
EN YARD HAS UNEXPECTED
SEQUEL.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Forty-five dollars
each for chickens is a price that
would appeal to the fanciest fancier,
but that’s what an Atlanta woman
got for two of hers this week, and
they were not registered stock, eith
er.
She lives out Highland avenue, and
just before dawn she heard a squawk
from her chicken yard. She scream
ed, and the noise of a man scrambl
ing over a fence followed. Then
silence.
Early in the morning the lady
went out to take an inventory and
found two chickens missing, but just
inside the fence lay a pocketbook con
taining ninety dollars, evidently drop
ped by the thief in his rush. He has
not called for the money yet.
GA. RAILWAY AND POWER CO.
BUY 300 BALES COTTON.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—One of the latest
moves in the great "Buy-a-Bale-of-
Cotton" campaign is announced by
the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany of Atlanta, which will retire
300 hales from the market. The cot
ton is now being warehoused at Can
ton, Ilogansville, Cartersville, Car
rollton and Gainesville.
The company appears in the role of
landlord, for in connection with its
purchases of rights of way for its
power lines and of river lowlands
subject to be overflowed later as
plans are developed the com
pany owns about 3,000 acres of Geor
gia farm lands. Such as remain fit for
cultivation have been rented to far
mers.
Such rents as are payable in cash
or cotton arc being accepted by the
company in cotton grown on the land
at ten cents a pound, and the staple
will be held by the company until the
market reaches ten cents or more.
MRS. JORDAN WRITES UP NEW
ORLEANS COTTON CONFERENCE
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Mrs. Harvie Jor
dan of Atlanta, with the assistance
of her husband, president of the
Southern Cotton Association, is
preparing an article on the recent
New'Orleans Cotton conference for
The Call of the South, the well known
Atlanta monthly published by Jonat
han B. Frost.
Mrs. Jordan, a brilliant writer, was
commissioned by Mr. Frost to cover
the conference as special represea-
tative of the magazine and the forth
coming issue will contain not only her
article but several interesting and
instructive articles on the crop and
cotton condition of Georgia and the
South. ..
ATLANTA BUSINESS MAN
ECONOMIZES ON UNCLE SAM
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Atlanta folk are
trying in many ways to cut down ex
penses without firing their help and
are swapping yarns about pet econo
mies. Several have quit shaving and
are turning out a fine crop of whisk
ers. But Forrest Adair, a prominent
real estate man who has a heavy ren
tal business, took his economy out
on Uncle Sam.
Mr. Adair has thousands of cus
tomers with offices in the heart of
the city, in a half-mile radius, and
the total amount of two cent stamps
used in mailing them monthly rent
checks was appalling. So he figured
a bit and found he could send his
“mail” by a private messenger con
siderably cheaper than through the
postoffice, and now the messenger
makes his rounds, delivering several
hundred letters a day. It is a plan
likely to be adopted by others.
TANGO CAUSES DIVORCES, SAYS
ATLANTA CLERGYMAN.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Now they’re blam
ing the divorce mania on the tango.
The increase in marital unhappiness
in the past has been laid at the door
of wine, woman and song and vari
ous other things but a prominent At
lanta clergyman now comes forward
and says that the Dansantes and the
■Tango teas are playing merry h
avoc with married life and that’s the
reason the divorce calendar is over
crowded.
“Well, it’s enough to make a man
wish for freedom,” remarked one
married man this week. “My wife
gets up too late to clean up the house,
rushes off to a dancing lesson at 11
o’clock, hurries to an afternoon dance
at the club, gets home just in time to
grab a bite and then drags me off to
a dance which lasts until two o'clock
in the morning. And then, of course,
she’s too tired to do anything before
its time to dance again. And I’m
just one of a thousand men in the
same fix,”
Certainly Atlanta is more dance
mad than ever before. A hundred
teachers of fancy steps are coining
money, the banquet halls of hotels
and restaurants are given over to
teaching and dancing, and every 1 home
has its phonograph and its dance re
cords. They’re even giving “dancing
breakfasts” at some of the homes in
order not to waste good dancing time.
GARDEN CALENDAR FOR OCT.
Prepare beds for fall planting.
Plant hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, and
all hardy bulbs. Take up dahlia and
canna roots as soon as frosted. Pot
ferns and tender plants used in win
ter boxes. Put tub plants under cov
er. Place sash on violet frames. Make
cuttings from summer flowering
plants for next year. Verbenas and
petunias can be wintered in the cold
frame.—Mrs. Alex Caldwell, ia So*-
them Woman's Magadbe.
THE FARMER WHO IS HOLDING.|
In all the enthusiasm over the buy-
a-bale movement sight has been lost'
of the farmer who is holding his cot-'
ton, sometimes under the most trying
circumstances. j
It is the farmer, the small farmer, j
who depends almost entirely on his j
cotton crop for sustenance, who
should be helped nowadays, if any
body is helped. It is a great tempta
tion to him to part with his staple
at almost any price when he and his
family need the necessities of life,
and yet there are hundreds of them
who are clinging tenaciously to their
crops.
Indicative of this is the following
from the Moultrie Observer:
“A man who has recently made an I
automobile trip in southwest Geor
gia says that at practically every
farmhouse there is to be seen cotton
ginned and stored about the premises. I
Never in memory of present day busi
ness men has there been such a stub
born and insistent holding movement.
The cotton years have been accustom-;
ed to so-called holding movements in '
the past that failed to Hold, but the
wolf has come in earnest this year,
and the farmers are demanding more
money or no sale.”
The banks of Macon, and the mer
chants, too, as well as banks and mer
chants elsewhere throughout the state
arc giving these farmers of the “hold
ing” class much assistance—Macon
News.
BUY THAT BALE.
From the Pickens County Herald.
If you have $50 that is not work
ing invest in one bale of cotton. It
will bring you a profit in the near
future and you will at the same time
help out some poor farmer who can
not afford to sell his cotton at the
present market price, and pay his
living expense. You will not only
help the farmer but possibly help
yourself by allowing your $50 to go
in circulation and enable somebody
to pay if he owes you.
COTTON SEED ADVANCE.
From the Evergreen Courant.
The price of cotton seed is now $15
per ton, just $2 more than the trust-
fixed price. The price usually com
mences at $13 on Monday and gra
dually creeps up during the week.
Some people sell because it seems as
if they are forced to do so, but many
of them are taking their seed home.
This matter of price fixing is being
investigated by the federal authori
ties.
COMMUNITY HABITS.
Communities are like humans, 'they
get habits. Ench community makes
its own collection, selects the particu
lar kinds it likes. This makes it a
“peculiar place,”—as the phrase goes,
— gives it individuality, really makes
it different from the rest. Now the
character of a community—whether
it is good or bad—depends on the
kind of stuff it packs into itR habit-
trunk. Furthermore, communities
sometimes get chronic. They get “sot
in their ways.” The habit ruts get
deep. Judgments about things get
twisted. Ambition grows tired and
quits. Whatever the community is
it stays, until it begins to slip back—
back, perhaps to the condition of that
New England rural community which
finally raised only two crops a year—
“huckleberries in summer and hell in
winter."—The Countryside Magazine
and Suburban Life for October.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons owning or interested in rural
telephone lines, that such lines must
be put in good condition at once. This
applies to all lines on or near the
right of -way of the public roads of
Troup county. All lines found to
be in such a condition as to be dan
gerous to the traveling public, from
rotten poles, sagging wires or other
cause, will be cut down and removed
by the toad authorities.
The above was decided at a meet
ing of the County Commissioners on
September 22nd, 1914.
C. W. SMITH,
Chmn. Board County Corns.
Oct 16.
It seems quite clear that the aver
age Republican politician is either
bogtied to doctrine and argument
some five years obsolete, or lacks
either doctrine or argument of any
kind whatsoever. Many of them have
opposed the administration’s war
emergency measures. Yet, for their
part, what has been proposed? Not
r. blessed thing!
WHO WILL FURNISH THE BAJK
LOTS FOR NOVEMBER STATM
ELECTION?
OLD TIME HYMNS ARE URGED.
From The Camden County News.
“We may be an old fogy, but we
believe strongly enough to say it and
stand up to it, that if our churches
would quit using these rag-time jing
les at their song services and go back
to the old-time hymn book, that the
old-time power would be revived and
the church would again mean some
thing in the community.”
There have been enough corn fields
ruined this year by laying by with
a turning plow after cultivating on a
ridge to convince any one who is
open to conviction that level, shallow
cultivation is best. Some will remain
unconvinced, but many of those who
have been “sot in their ways” have
at last seen their error, and while
the remedy is a hard one it will cer
tainly lead to better methods in the
future.—The Progressive Farmer.
“Don't Stop Mills; Start Them!”
is the title of an editorial in the
Chicago Herald—and a mighty good
title.
Many inquiries .are coming into flfc
office of Secretary of State Cook, m
to where the supply of ballots for the
state election to be held this year for
the first time on November 3d is to
come from.
There is no provision in law for the
state to supply the tickets voted i>
the election. The law simply pro
vides that the secretary of state shall
supply all necessary blanks, with
sample tickets showing constitutional
amendments and the list of all state
candidates to be voted for in such
election.
Heretofore, only congressmen were
voted for in November, except in na
tional election years. Georgia is for
the first time recording a direct vote
for United States senators, with the
single exception of the late Senator
Bacon.
It appears to have been the univer
sal custom in the past that con
gressmen supplied the official ballots
in their own districts. In state elec
tions, where the county officers are
also regularly elected at the same
time, local county candidates furnish
ed tickets, having put on such bal
lots amendments and the names of
state house officers. ,
Therefore, this custom will hove of f
necessity to be followed this coming
November. Local county candidates
in the counties must have tickets
printed and properly distributed in all
voting districts.
The official ballot this year will be
a long one. There are ten constitu
tional amendments to go on it, and
these must be printed twice—“for”'
and “against.” Then with all of the
statehouse nominees, United States
senators and judges and solicitors, to
say nothing of the county officials, it
will make about the longest ballot
voted in years.
In addition to the Democratic nomi
nees for United States senators, prob
ably three names will be embraced
outside—one Progressive and one in
dependent against Senator Smith, and
one Progressive against T. W. Hard
wick.
The official blanks, forms, sample
tickets and other necessary matter
will be sent out the latter part of
his week to every county.
Each county must supply its own'
ballots. This should not be forgotten,
as the state has no way of supplying
the same.
Learn to Forget. |)
Caesar was so ready to forgive tbat
even Cicero, who was by no means a
constant friend to him, relates, as a
singular proof of htB noble heart, that
he never used to forget anything ex
cept the wrong done to him. Indeed,
to pardon Is a most beautiful revenge;
but to forget Is still more beautiful.-—
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