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Does your ENTHUSIASM For VOIR COMMUNITY Measure To the TOP, or Towards the BOTTOM For Every BUSINESS INTEREST in TAYLOR COUNTY? , Taylor County is just as good as YOU make it—so lets co-operate and make it STRONG in every particular THE BUTLER HERALD Butler likely to become the cross-load of two of the most important highways in the State. ' Volume 53 BUTLER, Taylor County, GEORGIA, Thursday, August I,, 1929. Number 39 One Thousand Dollars Spent for Advertising Here Last Week by One Mail-Order f irm. QEORQIA’S FARM PROSPERITY u £KSSXr RIVALS BANNER YEAR OF 1919 "IZ'ZX? —From Sunday Macon Telegraph• * n Several Years. ...and— •onvinced that your busi- ; in Taylor County is a . afT , ir with that of every other ^ MUM. ire. feel that a successful community will make better, or help your make a bet- Are y° u *> succes; t| then you'll patronize your fellow business yOl'K business employer’s business, mark et for farm products, or a L e r place in which to buy things need in every way Then patron- E vour community. And vou know, too, that with a strong, sound business community, sour civic obligations, such as taxes, , W H1 be less than if you lived in struggling, poverty-stricken town? help to make your town Melon Market Opens Strong. August Crop Expected to Put $30,000 in Pockets of Local Growers Tien suc- own jssful by transacting your hsinefs, and doing your own buying 'In vour self-interest, whatever vour business, avocation, or work, tet served by contributing to the mutual success of every other busi- in the county. Then for self-in- Icre.-t, patronize your local mer its, shops, and all other indus tries. laylor county is just as good as YOU make it—so let’s co-operate and make it strong in every particu lar. TO NAME SUCCESSOR TO LESLIE STEELj? Atlanta, July 29.—Congressman L. J. Steele of the Fifth District rested in the soil of his native Georgia Mon day after simple funeral services, at tended by hundreds of his home- folks, in Decatur Sunday. The full Georgia congressional del egation headed by Senators William J. Harris and Walter F. Georg provided an honorary escort for the dead representative. Grand Theatre REYNOLDS, GEORGIA FOR THE WEEK THURSDAY, AUG. 1 “MASKS OF THE DEVIL” With John Gilbert. His most f'tey romance! The most daring utd ardent of all Gilbert’s love stories. What a role—of a man "hose motto read: “Love ’em and ' eave cm!” The drama all Ameri- ®' s talking about—greater than Ffeh and the Devil”; bigger than “Love”! Added Attractions: Danger Line 2-Reel Western NEWLYWEDS, “PESTS” 2-Reel Comedy Friday, aug. 2 "Masks of the devil” Take the most ardent love !C6nea of “Flesh and the Devil” ‘Love”, put them together, you’ll get some idea of the Gfh'* ,' n store f° r y° u in John ''belt’s most daring romance! 11 unusu al story of a man with- * u conscience about women, re; "crated at last by a pure love. Added Attractions NEWLYWEDS, “PESTS” 2-Reel Comedy —■l' NAL RECKONING. No. 2 SATURDAY, ALjG. 3 “hoof beats of VENGEANCE Added Attractions RS—1-Reel Comedy ■JNAl RECKONING. No. 2 inn .. , We are not Koing to da- , ° n Monday and Tues- nin ' ,s un *'* inter in the sum- er --.Manager. The greatest marketing event that has struck this section in many years opened Monday when watermelon growers faced a situation that ex ceeded their most cneerished expec tation, or fondest hope. As growers began to load their first cars of melons for market they were confronted with buyers offering fabulous cash prices for the cars iaster than they could be loaded. The first four cars were sold for $1,000 f. o. b. tracks here, while oth ers brought as much as $350.00 per car. Growers around Rupert have been shipping for more than a week and for which they, too, have been re ceiving fancy prices. The The Soutn Georgia crop has just been cleaned up having shipped nearly 20,000 cars while prices and demand remained good in the east ern and northern markets throughout the shipping season. Shipments have lightened up con siderably for the past week with de mand still good and prices soaring. The outlook is therefore bright foi .he growers of this section to cash-in as never before for this product of tne farm that can be produced at •ioas cost and with less labor than any other one item. A very large acreage has been planted and the prospect is good for a fine crop that will be gathered throughout August. It is estimated that 100 cars or more will be shipped from Butler, Rupert and other points in the coun ty and from which the growers are expected to receive around $30,000. Among the growers are Messrs J. A. Payne, H. L. Wilchar, O. S. Cox, H. W. Cox, W. A. Payne, M. R. Cameron, J. J. Bone, G. C. Smith and J. T. Childs, Butler; J. T. Coch ran, A. F. Harvey, J. W. Cooper, E. L. Cooper, J. T. Cooper, W. R. Law- horn, J. W. Bennett and.S. Hill, Ru pert; J. W. Musslewhite, Pebble. Agriculturists Experiencing Most Favorable Conditions in Tears, While Business Houses Report Steadily Increasing Trend of Buying Activity. (ED. NOTE—In the preparation of the story which appear below, The telegraph has endeavored to be extremely conservative, in order that it might not contain any false optimism. The figures for the crops listed are based upon the official crop figures for 15128, plus the best es timates from growing conditions that can be made for the 1929 crop. The pessimist will have to be reckoned with, of course, but until he can produce figures that will be more authentic than these, they will stand.) By G. W. GRIFFIN Georgia farmers are pulling out of the hole. Not since 1919 —the banner year for the growers—have conditions been as fa vorable for prosperity throughout the state for the fall and winter. And, with proper management aud favorable growing conditions, experts see no reason why the prosperity should not continue. High prices that were obtained on early products gained mo mentum with the marketing of the 5,000 cars of peaches that were salvaged from this year’s unfavorable season for that crop; reached greater heights with the marketing of the finest melon crop ever produced in the state and is reaching its climax now with the marketing of a wonderful tobacco crop and what promis es to be the best cotton crop since the arrival of the boll weevil. Statisticians have figured that HUGE RATTLESNAKE KILLED BY WOMAN Mrs. Tom Chapman, popular young matron of this community, is being highly commended for her bravery in battling with a huge rat tlesnake which she encountered Mon day afternoon along the bank of Lit tle Patsiliga creek while fishing. Being alone and realizing the dan ger of an attack upon her by the reptile Mrs. Chapman seized a large stick, which happened to be conven ient, and landed blow after blow up on its head while it made desperate eiforts many times to strike her. She was fortunate in being able to kill the snake without being injured her self. The snake was the size of the av erage person’s arm, measured six feet in length and carried eleven rat tles. ST. LOUIS FLIERS LAND AFTER v 420 HOURS FLIGHT St. Louis, Mo., July 30.—The mon oplane “St. Louis Robin,” piloted by Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O’Brine, glided to safe landing at Lambert-St. Louis field at 7:38 p. m. Tuesday, ending a record breaking endurance flight of 420 hours and 21 minutes. The fliers had been in the air al most 18 days and had exceeded the old endurance record of The Angele no by 173 hours and 37 minutes when with Jackson at the controls, t e plane swooped gracefully over the field, made muddy by drenching ram an hour earlier, and settled to eait . VALUE OF GEORGIA CROPS ESTIMATED A conservative estimate of the vatue of Georgia farm crops tms year is snown in the vv atermeions $ 6,000,000 Peaches _ _ 5,000,000 Peanuts 10,U0U,00U Tobacco 16,000,000 Cotton 140,000,000 Wheat 2,000,000 Corn - - - - 45,000,000 Oats 5,000,000 Sweet potatoes 9,UUO,UUO Irish potatoes 2,0,00,000 Hay 9,000,000 C.owpeas 3,000,000 soy beans _ 360,000 Sorghum - l,80u,000 Sugar cane — — 4,0U0,0uo Cabbage _ 10,00u Tomatoes 350,000 utimia _ — iOw,v. Asparagus 500,000 Cucumbers 60,000 Strawberries 35,000 Pecans _ - l,0UU,OUU Cantaloupes 85,000 Apples 750,000 Pears _ 260,0UU Total _ — $267,360,000 if hot, reasonably dry weather continues for two weeks longer, so that the full cotton crop now in sight can be saved, that there will be a total of $267,360,000 poured into the pockets of the farmers of the state in what is considered the greatest farming year in a decade. And those fig ures do not touch all of the farm products from which money is derived. In addition to numerous items of truck, not included in the list, such as pimento peppers, upon which it was impossible to obtain an estimate; the poultry industry, which is becoming high ly prohtable; the live-stock and dairying industry, which is mak ing rapid strides in Georgia, and many other features are not list ed. Retiring Old Debts Farmers are already retiring their old debts and establishing not only credit, but fat bank ac counts throughout the southern half of the state. In the northern half of the state conditions are also considered better than in years and with the marketing ot the apple crop and the cotton crop from that section, the tanners there should also be in good financial condition. Collections are better than in years, according to business houses. Bankers report that deposits are increasing and debts are being reduced or wiped out entirely. Everyone appears to be filled with optimism. Liberal buying has started in. Merchants report that while much of this is for cash, there is good trading on credit—on the prospect of a successful cotton crop and a successful watermelon crop here in Middle Georgia, which is now at its peak. Business Trend Upward July business is running far ahead of June and is even bet ter than the record established in July of last year. From now until the end of the year, experts in credit and in business believe that Macon and Southern Georgia will have the best period since 1919 which was probably the biggest business year in the history of this section. Georgia produced 1,020,000 bales of cotton last year, which brought $92,820,000 to the growers, excluding seed. Last year’s tobacco crop brought in $11,178,000; the wheat crop, $1,727,000; corn crop, $39,910,000; oats, $4,505- 000; peanuts, $14,969,000; sweet potatoes, $8,699,000; white potatoes, $1,934,000; hay, $8,077,000: C ow peas, $2,696,000; soy beans, $356,000; sorghum. $1,728,000; sugar cane $3,045- 000; melons, $2,663,000; pecans $1,690,000; apples, $1,540,- 000; peaches, $8,100,000; peas, $245,000; asparagus, $358,- 000; tomatoes $250,000. It can be seen that there are increases in the value of prac tically all crops this year. There were increases in the production in most crops and also increases in the price of each commodity grown on the farms. Marked Improvement Shown , Henry Martin, manager of Bradstreet s Commercial Agency, than whom there is no better posted man on business conditions in Macon’s trade territory, declared recently that there had been a marked improvement in business conditions since early in July. Continued to Last Page Old Landmark Reduced to Ashes Colonial Home, Known as the Montfort Place, Burned to Ground About 3 o’Clock Wednesday Afternoon One of the heaviest fire losses But ler has sustained in a long while oc curred about 3 o’clock yesterday af ternoon, when the Montfort home, a targe and beautiful Colonial building near the Bap.ist church, was burned co the ground. A more recent owner and occupant of the building at tile time of the lire •vas Hon. C. c. Cooper, Tax Receiver of Taylor county, who purchased tne Home from Mr. Ira Chambers about I tfiree years ago. 1 The cause of the fire was from the j explosion of an oil stove in the kitchen which part of the building was hopelessly afire when the dis covery was made. The building is estimated to have been worth $5,000 part of which was covered by insurance. Most of the furniture in the house was saved though badly damaged in removal. BROTHER OF MRS. M. R. CAMERON DIES AT JACKSONVILLE HOSPITAL Mrs. M. R. Cameron, of this city, and Mrs. W. M. Pettis, of Senoia, left the first of last week, for Jack sonville, Ha., where they had been called to the bedside of their brother Mr. W. S. Cartledge, who was re ported to be critically ill at a Jack sonville hospital. News was received here Saturday of the death of Mr. Cartledge at 10:30 o’clock that-morning which was the source of sincere regret to our people whose warm friendship he had won by occasional visits to th^ city. Mr. Cartledge had been in ill health since December of last year, much of which time had been spent in the hospital undergoing treatment hoping that he mignt regain his health but to no avail. Mr. Cartledge was a native Geor gian, born and reared in Calhoun county, but had spent the past twen ty years in Jacksonville where he es tablished large business connections and in which he had been quite suc cessful. For a number of years he was railway mail clerk operating be tween Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla. He was 48 years of age, a de vout members of the Methodist church and prominent in fraternal circles. Mr. Cartledge is survived by his wife and one ^daughter, Miss Louise Cartledge, of Jacksonville. Other near relatives surviving him are four sisters: Mrs. M. R. Cameron, of But ler; Mrs. W. M. Pettis, of Senoia; Mrs. J. H. Cook, of Adel; and Mrs. T. O. Fountain, of Adrian. Funeral services and interment took place at Jacksonville Sunday. COUNTY AGENT TO BE CONSIDERED TUESDAY An open session of the Loun'.y Commissioners will be held Tuesday for the purpose of hearing dis cussions and considering the propo sition relatives to employment of a County Farm Agent for Taylor County for the year 1930. Those interested in the matter are requested to meet with the Commis sioners and present their claims. This is a matter that is of vital interest to every taxpayer in the county and it is hoped that they will take advantage of the opportunity and if a majority of them appear to favor the County Agent plan we are sure the Commissioners will be glad to comply with their request. From the very best source of in formation and the most conservative estimate Taylor county will produce this year the best crops witnessed here in ten years. The corn crop is practically made and will exceed the crop of last year by thousands of bushels. The peach crop, though small, brought the growers good re turns. The peanut crop, the largest ever planted in the county is most promising and the price expected to be good. The watermelon crop has just begun to move with many car loads to be shipped and the price the | highest on record iji the county. Two weeks more of favorable weather and a bumper cotton crop will be produced and the price of the staple expected to be as good or better than last year. Indications, therefore point the way to hundreds of thousands of dol lars more in the pockets of the far mers this fall than lit any time since 1919. The crops have been produced at less cost than crops of preceding years, and there is therefore every reason to believe that the farmers will be able to settle many of their obligations that have been hanging over them ever since the clcno of the World War and leave them with enough money to invest in things they have needed yet had to do with- sult of most bountiful crops of all kinds ? The big question is, where will this extra money be spent and who will reap the benefits of the trade that will be unprecedented as the re sult of most crops? The mailorder houses having al ready been posted as to enormous amount of money coming into Geor gia and Taylor county from the mar keting of our crops and are flooding mails with their advertisements and catalogues hoping to take from this territory as much as possible of the trade that the Herald believes the lo cal merchant is entitled to. As an evidence of this fact, catalogues val ued at more than a thousand dollars were distributed through the Butler postoffice alone in one (toy last week. The Herald has been conducting one of the most aggressive “trade at home” campaigns that is possible for a newspaper to put forward. We have not grown tired of the job and will continue to do the lion’s share. But if the merchants of Butler, Reynolds and other trade centers of the county expect to sit idly by and leave the fight in their behalf to the news columns of the Herald, we are afraid the local merchants are going to experience the greatest disap pointment in many years in the col lection of their accounts and dis position of the splendid stocks of goods they are loading their shelves with at this time, preparing for a good fall business. If there ever was a time when the merchant, the farmer, the business man and the newspaper should co- onerate for the protection and bene fit of each and the community as a whole that time is now. Merchants should advertise their goods and prices.’ The money brought to the community from products raised in the community be longs to reamin in the community so far as possible. It is the newspaper’s business to help bring these things to pass. We are doing our best, are you? Or are you leaving the mail order house to come in and take the cream ? LEGISLATURE APPROVES TEXT BOOK BILL Atlanta, July 30.—A legislative dispute of nearly 15 years’ duration was disposed of within an hour Tues day by the House, with passage of a bill to create a state text book com mission. The final vote was 172 to 3.