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GEORGIA TOBACCO
MARKETS OPEN
ATLANTA, Ga., July 28.—Today
all sale: tobacco wareouses in Geor
gia op 6 '., with prospect of sale of
fifty million pounds of tobacco.
In the brief period of a decade,
tobacco has risen from obscurity to
become one of the principal money
crops of a great agricultural state.
More than this, it has become the
salvation of hundreds of Georgia
farmers who, but for tobacco, would
have been ruined by the boll weevil.
From Revolutionary times tobac
co has been raised in Georgia. Up
to the time of the Civil War every
plantation almost had its tobacco
fields, and some tobacco was export
ed. But, following the war be
tween the states, tobacco, as an
article of commerce, became extinct.
Such tobacco as was grown was for
private use, and no attempt was
made to market it.
In 1914, Mr. S. J. Brown, recent
ly moved from South Carolina into
Coffee County Georgia, grew fifteen
acres of tobacco near Nicholls, Ga.,
which yielded five hundred pounds
to the acre, <7,500 pounds in all.
This was shipped to a tobacco ware
house in South Carolina and sold for
eight and ong» half cents per pound.
From this small beginning this in
dustry has grown until in 1924, 34.-
000 acres of tobacco was planted in
Georgia and produced 30,024,502
pounds, with a value to the farmers
of the state $6,537,650.86
This year 72,000 acres of tobacco
was planted and it is expected that
fully fifty million pounds will be
produced with a value of around
fifteen million dollars.
In 1915, however, the boll weevil
began to approach slowly but sure
ly from the west, advancing stead
ily across Alabama, and began to
make its inroad upon west Georgia.
Farmers and business men who had
been watching that inevitable ad
vance began to get frightened. They
began to look about for some crop
to take the place of cotton. At this
time the agricultural department of
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlan
tic Railway became much impressed
with the opportunity for the south
Georgia to diversify her crops, and
began to promote the growth of to
bacco for cigarette and pipe pur
“Pbses, and employed Mr. Brown fcs
its special tobacco representative.
The next year Mr. Brown succeed
ed in interesting approximately
forty farmers in growing tobacco,
who planted 185 acres with an av
erage yield of six hundred pounds
per acre. These were nearly all
located in Coffee County around
Douglas and Nicholls. To the late
Mr. W. W. Croxton, formerly pass
enger traffic manager of the Atlanta
Birmingham and Atlantic Railway,
is due probably the major part of the
credit for this wonderful develop
ment in Georgia agriculture.
In 1916 the production was 1,534,-
000 pounds with a farm value
of $414,000.00. In 1917 produc
tion reached 1,600,000 pounds with
value of $912,000.00. In 1918 3,-
600,000 pounds of tobacco was
produced in Georgia, worth approx
imately $1,656,000.00.
In 1917, the Douglas Chamber of
Commerce, the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic Railway, the coun
ty agent of Coffee county, and to
bacco farmers all over the section,
began to demand a warehouse at
Douglas. A stock company was
formed and a warehouse, 70 by 150
feet, built at Douglas. An exper
ienced warehouseman from South
Carolina was employed to operate
it. Prior to this time all tobacco
grown had been shipped to the
markets in the Carolinas for sale.
And then, the tobacco acreage be
gan to increase in all directions.
From Coffee county, as a center,
farmers began planting tobacco in
Bacon, Ware, Wilcox, Turner, Ben
Hill, Tift, Pierce and all of the
neighboring counties. Production
rose by leaps and bounds until in
1919, 27,000 acres of bright leaf
tobacco was planted in South Geor
gia, producing 14,310,000 pounds
of leaf. Tobacco markets were
opened at Nicholls. Douglas, Abbe-!
ville, Fitzgerald, Tifton. Nashville, i
and Lumpkin. Tobacco,has come in- ;
to its own and farmers raalize $3,- I
532.000.00 from the year’s crops. |
All of the forces of experienced
and intelligent agriculture are being
brought to bear on the tobacco in
dustry of South Georgia to make it
a success.
And. last but not least, ware
houses have been established in
many South Georgia towns. It is
expected that forty-two tobacco
markets will be in operation today
in twenty-two south Georgia towns
and cities, giving the section mar
keting facilities second to no tobac
co growing district in the country.
These markets are located at Alma,
Albany, Bainbridge, Baxley, Black
shear, Cairo, Camilla, Douglas,
Lyons, Metter, Moultrie, Nashville,
Pelham, Quitman, Thomasville, Tif
ton, Vidalia, Valdosta and Waycross.
Monroe county has a strong force
which keeps on the trail of the boot
legger within our bounds. A big cop
per still of sixty gallon capacity was
captured by Sheriff Bittick Friday
morning near Colliers. The still was
not in operation and no arrest were
made, but five barrels of mash were
poured out, three of peach and two
of corn.
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WHAT DOES THE
LITTLE GIRL SCHOOL
TEACHER DO TO GA.
How many times have all of us
seen young girls graduate from
High School —or maybe not wait to
graduate—and sally bravely forth
to teach school, with no experience
either in life or teaching and no in
tentions of taking up school work
as a permanent vocation.
How often have we known these
young things to be utterly lacking
in leadership ability, frivolous, with
out a serious thought, and woeful
ly ignorant of the problem they are
facing in undertaking to teach a
country school.
How frequently have we heard
that these girl teachers treat their
work lightly, laugh about the short
comings of their pupils as though
they were expected; and seen them
look upon their work as something
unimportant, a mere temporary
source of income to fill the gap be
tween school and marriage or enter
ing upon some more serious occu
pation, sometimes seen them treat
the whole thing as a lark.
Yet every time one of these in
experienced, untrained girles teach
ers goes into a school to teach, the
lives of a group of children are af
fected. The foundation of the ca
res of those in that school ore im
properly laid. And such a failure
to lay the foundation right may
mean tragedy, failure, proverty or
crime later in life.
BULLFROGS IN
’SHINE LIQUOR
Mr. Bowdoin, one of the county
policemen states that seventeen ar
rests have been made since he went
on the force and that the chances of
convicton in these cases are good.
He pointed out that the bootlegger
is a wily citizen and not easily caught
as he keeps on the lookout for the
officers and is careful to maintain
constant and active sources of in
formation. Officer Bowdoin made
the additional assertion that he could
in no way recommend the quality of
the liquor manufactured in the coun
ty
a soberii!^effect if those who drink
it could see the condition under
which it was manufactured. He al
most always finds the mash from
which it is made flavored with dead
flies and in one instance he discover
ed about fifty deceased bullfrogs in
the material which was to go into the
making of the liquid which some
citizens pay good money for the de
light of imbibing.—Monroe Adver
tiser.
SWIMMING.
Swimming every afternoon
and night and barbecue on
Thursday afternoon at Blue
Hole Country Club Swimming
Pool. Everything fixed up
nice with pool lighted with
gas lights. Come to see us.
W. R. VINES.
SHOE SHINE—I have opened a
shoeshine business at the H. T. King
barber and want to see my
friends there. LEE BECTON.
Cancer Is on the increase, we are
told; this, notwithstanding many ad
vertised cancer cures. There Is no
such thing as a cancer cure; the only
scientific thing to do for cancer is to
have a competent surgeon remove the
growth. Any lump should receive im
mediate attention; delay is death.
Tuberculosis in children is very
common, but is not easily detected;
the children do not complain. The
jlands are quite often the point of
■ ttack. The old term, “scrofula.” is
überculosis in the majorly of cases.
The bacilli of tuberculosis travel along
he glandular system by the lymphatic
route to the lungs or elsewhere.
[HAMBERIAINj
FOR THE RELIEF OF
Pain in the Stomach and
Bowels. Intestinal Cramp
Colic, Diarrhoea
- SOLD EVERYWHERE -
SM3N AINHO3 ATMV7T
EFFORT TO END
MOB VIOLENCE
Atlanta, G.a, July 27.—Georgia
will soon join the growing list of
Southern states which are taking ac
tive steps to end rioting and mob
violence if the Legislature enacts
the Law and Order bill introduced
in the House last week by Represen
tatives Lawton of Chatham and
Lumpkin of Bartow.
The bill, entitled “An Act to
Maintain Law and Order,” provides
that in case of riot, riotous assemb
ly, or mob violence, careful investi
gation shall be made by the Judge
of the Superior Court. If it ap
pears from this investigation that the
sheriff, deputy sheriff, jailor, or
other peace officer was negligent
or incompetent in dealing with such
disorder, the Chief Justice or other
Justice of the Supreme Court shall
appoint a special Law and Order
Commission composed of Justices
of the Appellate Courts and Su
preme Courts of the State, which
commission shall hear all the ev
idence in the case and render
judgment as to the faithfulness or
negligence of the officer in question.
If he is found by the Commission
to have been negligent judgment to
that effect shall be communicated to
Governor, who in turn shall remove
the officer from his position and
take steps to fill the vacancy as
provided by law. Proof that any
person is taken from the custody of
the officer by the mob, or killed or
injured while in the custody, shall
be prima facie evidence of neglect,
to be offset only by affirmative
proof that the officer had in fact
used all reasonable precaution and
exercised the utmost diligence in the
effort to maintain order.
The bill provides further that
in the case of an officer so adjudg
ed negligent in the prevention of
rioting or violence, the Attorney
General of the State shall bring
suit against such officers for the
full value of any property destroy
ed by the mob and for the sum of
$5,000 for each homicide commit
ted by it. Any persons removed
from office under the provisions of
this act shall be disqualified for a
period of five years to hold any
peace office of the state, county,
or municpality.
Friends of the measure point out
that it is in the line with similar
laws enacted in other states which-*
have been found very effective in
the reduction of mob violence. It
is said to be widely supported by
religious, civic and welfare organ
izations over the State.
When the flavor of the Orange
changes then will the flavor of bot
tled ORANGE CRUSH change.
You May Have Pellagra
If you have nervousness, stomach
trouble, despondency, shortness of
breath, burning feet, constipation,
brown or rough skin, tingling sensa
tion, smothering spells diarrhoea
loss of sleep, loss of weight, diz
ziness with loss of energy; YOU may
have PELLAGRA. You do not have
all these symptoms in the beginning.
My free booklet, “The Story of Pel
lagra”, will explain. My treatment
differs from all others and is en
dorsed by a State Health Depart
ment, physicians, and hundreds who
have taken the treatment. Over
2000 treatments sold last year Dia
gonsis FREE.
W. C. ROUNTREE M. D. Texar
kana Texas.
MOTHERS
Watch for symptoms of worms in your
children. These parasites are the great
destroyers of child life. If you have
reason to think your child has worms, act
quickly. Give the little one a dose or
two of White’s Cream Vermifuge. Worms
cannot exist where this time-tried and
successful remedy is used. It drives out
the worms and restores the rosy hue of
health to baby cheeks. Price 35c. Sold by
Balkcom’s Drug Store, Blakely, Ga.
“DOES WHAT GASOLINE CAN’T DO”
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KING OF MOTOR FUEL
Take the advice of the fellow who uses Woco-Pep and fill
your tank. One tank full will convince you.
BROOKS’ WOCO-PEP STATION
Service You Like : Phone 177
I ANNOUNCEMENT) I
TO THE VOTERS OF THE CITY OF BLAKELY:
IT BEING IMPRACTICAL FOR US TO SEE
EACH ONE OF YOU IN PERSON, WE WISH,
THROUGH THIS METHOD, TO CALL YOUR AT
TENTION TO OUR CANDIDACY FOR CITY COUN
CILMEN FOR THE TWO YEAR TERM BEGIN
NING JANUARY 1, 1926, AND SOLICIT YOUR
VOTE AND INFLUENCE IN THE ELECTION NEXT
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4.
WE PROMISE TO USE OUR BEST EFFORTS
TO PROMOTE THE MORAL AND CIVIC INTER
g ESTS OF OUR BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CITY IF YOU
SHOULD ELECT US AS YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS.
WE BEG TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO
THE FACT THAT THE POLLS OPEN AT 9 A. M.
AND CLOSE AT 3 P. M.
YOURS FOR A BIGGER AND BETTER
■ BLAKELY,
I LEWIS B. FRYER
J H. B. AINSWORTH
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY
DRESS VOILES Best Grade Heavy
nr i DRUID LL
OOC yd. SHEETING
All colors, including *
Flowers 15c yd.
SPECIAL Choice of any
Happy Home House Frocks,
guaranteed fast colors, all . . .
sizes, Friday and Saturday— in h° use_ ”
Values to $35
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THE UNDERSELLING STORE
West Side Pudlic Square Blakely, Ga.
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