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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXVI > NO. 48
TALMADGE SAYS
LOBBYISTS WORK
TO KILL REFORMS
NEW COMMISSIONER OE AGRI
CULTURE ASKS FARMERS TO
HELP SECURE REFORMS.
Championing his two proposed re-'
forms in the agricultural department, |
incorporated in bills to be voted on ;
in the lower house of the Legislature |
this week, Eugene Talmadge, Com-i
missioner of Agriculture, in a state
ment, has called on the farmers to (
rally to the support of these meas-.
ures, which, he said, were “meeting
with as strong resistance as any army
of lobbyists could possibly muster.”
These reforms—the labeling of
exact content on each bag of com
mercial fertilizer sold by the manu
facturer, and the transferring of all
research in plant diseases from the
control of the entomological bureau
to that of the experiment station at
Griffin, the commissioner said, are
vital to the farmers’ interests.
“The fertilizer measure alone,”
he said, “would mean a saving of
millions to farmers when they saw
they were paying freight on Tybee
sand and other worthless products.
The bill provides that the number
of pounds of each ingredient in the
commercial fertilizer, including the
exact amount of filler worthless as
plant food, would be designated on
the tag attached to each sack sold.
The passage of this bill would mean
more to the welfare of the farmers
of Georgia than any bill that has
been before the house in many
years.
“The other bill is an effort to
place the experimental work in ref
erence to the control of plant dis
ease and insects at the experiment
al' StSffon with the provision that
they maintain substations anywhere
the necessity arises. No one realizes
more than I the importance of re
moving such highly scientific activi
ties away from the capitol and away
from the baneful influence of poli
tics.
“The experiment station at Grif
fin,” he continued, “is maintained by
a board of fifteen farmers scattered
over the state who serve for six
years. These are the men who
hould have the supervision of the
scientific efforts in controlling our in
sect pests.”
The commissioner said that he
had proclaimed “on every stump in
Georgia last year that I would ask
the Legislature for these two re
forms. With these bills now meeting
with as strong resistance as any
army of lobbyists could possibly
muster, I am calling on the farmers
of Georgia to rally to their support,
and urge their representatives to
vote for the bills when they come
up.”
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Only High Grade Merchandise,
Such As
Peters Shoes
Arrowhead Hosiery
Imperial Shirts
Mayfield Trousers
Happ Grade Work Clothes
Headlight Overalls
Roomy Richard Work Shirts
Thoroughbred Hats
Truth Sheetings and Sheets
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T. K. WEAVER i COMPANY
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Ctmntg
First Bale Brought
In Last Friday
To Henry Lee, a colored farmer on
Mr. S. J. Stuckey’s place, goes the
honor of bringing in the first bale
of Early county’s 1927 crop. He
brought it in last Thursday evening,
and it was ginned Friday morning.
The bale weighed 390 pounds and
was classed as low middling. The
Farmers Warehouse weighed it and
bought it, paying 20c a pound.
The first bale this year came in
on approximately the same date as
last year, when the first bale was
[brought in by Messrs. J. R. & F. B.
i Calhoun.
CIGARETTE TAX
NETS GEORGIA
LARGE SUM
TOTAL FOR FISCAL YEAR JUST
ENDED SHOWS INCREASE
OVER PREVIOUS YEAR.
Georgia’s cigar and cigarette tax
netted the state $876,460.02 during
the fiscal year ending July 30, last,
it was revealed today in the annual
report of the state department of
revenue. This sum was an increase
of $158,881.64 over the sales for
the previous year, when $717,578.38
was collected, the report said.
The report also showed that
$263,064.15 in delinquent taxes was
collected by the department during
the year at the total expense of
$45,518.24. The expense of main
taining the stamp department, John
M. Vandiver, commissioner of rev
enue said, amounted to less than
four per cent of the collections, or
$31,823.46. This, added to the cost
of printing stamps and the one per
cent commission allowed banks for
sale of stamps, he said, made the
total expenses for the stamp depart
ment $48,194.49.
“Since the establishment of the
department of revenue,” the com
missioner said, “there has been paid,
by this department, into the state
treasury and the secretary of state’s
office, delinquent special taxes and
penalties amounting to $866,174.94,
at a net expense to the state of
$28,968.78, over and above penalties
paid into the state treasury.” Since
the creation of the department three
and one-half years ago, he said, the
expense of collection to the state
has been only about 3 1-3 per cent.
Besides a complete record of the
expenditures and revenue of the
department for the year, the report
also contains a number of commend
atory letters from offices of state and
county tax collectors.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1927.
MARJORY PASCHAL i
MEETS DEATH IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
YOUNG DOTHAN GIRL STRUCK
BY TRUCK, AND DEATH
RESULTS INSTANTLY.
The Dothan Eagle of Friday, July
22nd, contained an account of the
tragic death of Miss Marjory Paschal,
the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Paschal, which greatly
shocked the relatives and friends of
the family. Mrs. Paschal was for
merly Miss Jetta Womack and spent
her girlhood in Blakely with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E.
| Womack.
The Eagle’s account of the tragedy
reads as follows:
“Marjory Paschal, 16, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Paschal, of Bell
street, was killed, Carolyn Stapleton
was painfully injured and several
others received minor bruises when
a Dodge sedan in which they were
riding crashed into a two-ton truck
on the Montgomery highway near the
Dale county line about 7:45 o’clock
Thursday night.
“The Dodge, driven by Yale Lew
is, son of Judge and Mrs. Oscar S.
Lewis, loaded with a merry party of
ten Kelly Springs jcampers, had
just erperged from the road leading
down to Kelly Springs and had en
tered the main highway going to
wards Midland City when the crash
into the large truck occurred.
“Miss Paschal and Miss Sapleton
were standing on the left running
board of the car and the entire par
ty was singing when suddenly Miss
Stapleton, who was sitting on the
fender, accidentally bobbed her head
in front of the windshield obstructing
the driver’s view, when the crash
occurred.
“Miss Pfe-Pthal was startling about
[ midway of the running board and the
extended body of the truck caught
her between it and the Dodge and
before either vehicle was stopped
she had been crushed to death. For
tunately Miss Stapleton was crouch
ed over the hood of the car when
the two cars smashed together and
missed the full blow of the truck,
only suffering torn muscles and liga
ments in one of her legs. The truck
was being driven by A. H. Bachelor
of East Washington street, and the
truck was one of a fleet operated
by the Montgomery Bus Lines.
“Mrs. Paschal, mother of the dead
girl, has been away from home for
some time taking musical courses in
St. Louis studios and it was after
much effort that she was finally lo
cated.
“Jack Paschal, 17-year-old brother
of Marjory, is in camp with the Do
than organization of the Alabama
National Guard in Camp Beaure
gard, La. Word was sent to him
of. his sister’s death and he has
made arrangements to reach Dothan
as early as possible.
“Miss Paschal was well known
among the younger set of Dothan
and would have entered the junior
class of the Dothan High School in
September. She was born in Daw
son, Ga., and has been living in this
city for the past ten years.”
EARTH’S POPULATION
DOUBLE DSINCE 1800
Present Rate of Increase Estimated
to Be 1 to 1.2 Per Cent a Year.
According to statistics of the I
league of nations, the earth’s popu
lation has doubled since the begin-'
ning of the nineteenth century. In
1800 it was less than 850,000,000,
while today it is in the neighborhood
of 1,800,000. The present increase
amounts to from 1 to 1.2 per cent
a year. Therefore, says the New
York Times, on the basis of one per
cent a year the earth’s population
will in 1970 amount to 2,270,000,000;
in the year 2000 it will be 4,593,-
000,000; a hundred years after that
it will be no less than 12,457,000,-
’ 000 persons.
The epidemics and pestilences that
!in the middle ages decimated the
population have now for many years
j been so abated as to have compara
tively little effect upon the increase
of the race.
OLD VETERANS’
LINE GROWING
THINNER YEARLY
587 SOLDIERS AND 702 CONFED
ERATE WIDOWS DIED DURING
THE PAST YEAR.
Although pensioners of Georgia
are passing on in numbers, 701 Con
federate widows and 587 soldier pen
sioners having died last year, this
loss does not show up immediately,
John W. Clark, state commissioner
of pensioners, declares in his bi
ennial report just published, on ac
count of the many claims for funeral
expenses of 255 pensioners was made
on June 2, last, he said, the amount
aggregating $24,406.42.
Two pension payments have al
ready been made this year, the re
port said, the one for the first quar
ter totaling $459,307, and that for
the second $448,200. A total of
;180 soldiers’ and 709 widows’ appli
i cations for pensions were approved
by the department in 1926, Commis
sioner Clark said. The total num
ber of pensioners added during the
first and second quarters of 1927,
he said, were 208. Os these, 174
were widows and 34 were old sol
diers.
“The number of pensioners, re
gardless of the number of addi
tions,” the report said, “is slowly
decreasing, but many of them are
sound and hearty and will be able to
enjoy the benefits of this honor con
ferred by the state.”
Many inquiries, he said, have been
made during the last year as to an
additional amount of pensions for
blind and disabled pensioners.
“Should an amount of $250 be pro
vided for blind pensioners or an
amount greater or less than the S2OO
be provided for the disabled pension
ers, it will be my pleasure to carry
[out the provisions as made,” he said.
Each pensioner enrolled with the
I department now receives S2OO an
nually in quarterly installments.
FERTILIZER MEETING
AT DAWSON ON
4TH OF AUGUST
AGRICULTURISTS GOING TO
DAWSON TO DETERMINE RE
SULTS OF TEST PLATS.
A meeting of state-wide interest to
agriculturists will be held at Dawson
on August 4th, when county agents
and farmers from all sections of
the state will gather to see the re
sults of the fertilizer tests which
have been made by County Agent
A. E. Gibson.
I The meeting will be at the court
(house at 10 o’clock in the morning,
( and from there those in attendance
will drive to the farm of J. J. Perry,
where observations will be made of
the tests carried out there, and then
to the farm of C. P. Johnston, near
Sasser, where additional tests have
been carried on. The tests have
been conducted under the personal
supervision of Mr. Gibson and are
quite different from any previous
tests of this kind. Each of the
plats is large, none being smaller
than one-eighth of an acre. The
prime purpose of the tests is to
determine the best and most econom-
I ical sources of nitrogen, the proper
i form of top dresser and the proper
(amount of potash required for cot
| ton. There are 84 plats in the ni
trogen test alone, and a total of
‘ more than twelve acres is devoted
to these experiments.
Among prominent agricultural
workers who have been invited to
be present and make talks along
this line of work are Prof. Frank
Ward, of the Georgia State College
of Agriculture; Frank C. Boyd,
southern agronomist, Chilean Ni
trate Educational Bureau; George
Suggs, Georgia representative of the
educational department of the Bar
rett Co.; Henry Maddox, of the
French Potash Society; T. L. Wilker
son, of the research department of
the American Cynamid Co.; Prof.
S. H. Starr, director of Georgia
Coastal Plains Experiment Station, at
Tifton, and others.
Mr. Waller Brings
News Prize Melon
We had begun to think that maybe
the crows had scratched up our good
friend, Sanders Waller’s, water
melon seed this year, and we were
going to miss our annual treat at his
hands. But our fears were in vain,
for on Monday, when we walked in
to our sanctum sanctorum, we stump
ed over a 68 pounder, which
Sandy’s card. It was high class as
usual and fully up to the standard of
those which have been coming from
our friend for more than a quarter
of a century. Delicious is as mild a
word as could be applied to every one
he has sent us in all these years.
STATE SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT
LAND IS DEAD
SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS CAUSED
BY ATTACK OF PTOMAINE
POISONING WEEKS AGO.
State Superintendent of Schools
Fort E. Land, died at the Wesley
Memorial hospital in Atlanta Mon
day, following an illness extending
over a period of several weeks caused
by an attack of ptomaine poisoning.
Mr. Land had devoted more than a
quarter of a century of his life to
educational work in Georgia. He had
only recently begun his second term
as state school superintendent.
)An official mourning period for
thirty days was proclaimed for the
state by Governor Hardman, and the
flags on the capitol and other state
buildings will be flown at half mast
for one month.
Mr. Land, who was 49 years old,
was stricken early in June at Carroll
ton, where he had gone to address the
high school at commencement exer
cises. Found unconscious in his ho
tel room, he was carried to Wesley
Memorial hospital in Atlanta, and
was believed to have been respond
ing favorably to treatment until he
suffered a relapse last Thursday.
He was a member of the Metho
dist church, and a member of the
orders of Knights of Pythias and
Woodmen of the World.
He leaves a widow and one son,
Fort E. Land, Jr., of Atlanta. Two
brothers and a sister also survive
him.
Services for the deceased were
held Tuesday, and interment was at
Cordele, his former home.
1,000 PERISH IN FLOOD.
Floods in south Anhwei province,
China, caused the deaths of mere
than 1,000 persons. Tens of thou
sands of people are said to be
homeless.
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PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$2.00 A YEAR
FARMERS’ INCOME
SHOWS DECREASE
OF FIVE PER CENT
STATISTICS GIVEN OUT BY
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE.
Gross agricultural income showed
a decrease of about 5 per cent for the
crop year which ended June 30, as
compared with the preceding year,
the United States Department of
Agriculture announces, estimating the
gross income at $12,080,000,000,
compared with $12,670,000,000 last
year. The decline was attributed
chiefly to the drop in cotton prices.
Smaller income came from feed
grains, apples and potatoes also, but
it was partially offset by somewhat
higher returns from livestock prod
ucts!
In computing the gross income cash
sales were placed at $9,549,000,000
and the value of food and fuel con
sumed on farms at $2,531,000,000.
Net income, after deducting ex
penses, was estimated by the depart
ment at $2,440,000,000, a decrease
of 20 per cent from the preceding
year. Expenses of production de
creased only 2 per cent, while the
gross income decreased about 5 per
cent. The cash income from sales
was estimated as follows:
Dairy and poultry products, $3,-
754,000,000; meat animals, $2,892,-
000,000; fruits and vegetables, sl,-
511,000,000; grains, $1,456,000,000,
and cotton and cotton seed, sl,-
291,000,000.
Expenditures estimated as follows:
Wages to hired labor, $1,238,-
000,000; operating costs, $2,987,-
000,000; taxes on operator-owned in
vestment, $645,000,000; rent on
property rented from non-operators,
$1,042,000,000, and interest on
debts to non-operatofs;” ‘s7sffp(TDo',-
000, making a total of $6,671,000,-
000, which the farmers paid out of
their income.
“The decreased earnings,” the de
partment reported, “represent a de
cline in the average income per
farm operator aavilable for labor,
capital and management from $922
in 1925-’26 to $853 in 1926-’27.”
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CAMP WILKINS.
All Early county boys from ten to
eighteen years of age have an oppor
tunity to attend a very educational
camp in Athens, Ga.
This camp will cost only $7.00 for
the week, which includes transpor
tation and other expenses.
Camp Wilkins is an ideal place
i for boys to have fun, learn things
and be benefitted in every way.
If you want to go, notify W. A.
Fuqua or Wood Smith by Saturday
noon so that you may learn more
about it. The boys will leave here
Sunday morning, July 31st.
Early county must be well repre
jsented, so join the boys.