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PAG I SIX
THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1912.
THE SUCCESSFUL FARMERS
IN BANK’S CORN CONTEST
W. O. Wilson Won $50 Premium for
Greatest Yield.
OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS
OF BOYS ’CORN CLUBS
Judge Fite’s Court of Appeals
Attitude Comes in for
Endorsement.
IMPROVEMENTS ARE
EARNESTL YURGED
Jury Would Have Court House Wired
*: Zt U> ' Sf.r.4s.k
for Electric Lights—Would Put
County Money Where it Would
Brink Most—Presentments.
The big corn contest conducted by
the First National Bank of this city
resulted in W. 0. Wilson winning the
$50 prize offered for the greatest
yield of corn.
The contest was for the grown
farmers of this and adjoining coun
ties, the rules governing the boys’
corn club contest being used.
The other prize winners were as
follows:
For second greatest yield, $25,
Charley Henderson.
For best 100 ears of corn, $15, D.
Puryear.
For second best 100 ears of corn,
$10, C. L. Foster.
For boy showing greatest profit on
acre of corn, $25, John Hackney.
The grand jury, in session for the
October term of superior court, ad
journed Wednesday afternoon, after
making the following presentments:
We, the grand jury, selected and
sworn for the October term of Whit
field superior court, 1912, make the
following general presentments:
By committee, we have examined
the county books, arid find them neatly
and correctly kept; we have also ex
amined -the books of the justices of
the peace o fthe various districts, and
find them neatly and correctly kept,
so far as our examination extended.
We find in some cases that the jus
tices have entered criminal cases on
the civil dockets, and recommend that
they be careful in giving dates of
each and every transaction, and also
give the final disposition of the case
We recommend the appointment of
A. M. Reed for notary public and ex-
; do justice of the peace in and for
the 868th District, G. M., to fill the
unexpired term of J. W. Hammontree,
resigned.
The appointment of J. D. Brackett
as N. P. and J. P., in and for the
629th District, G. M., having expired,
we recommend his reappointment.
We recommend the appointment of
G. W. Head as N. P. and J. P., in
and for 1049th District, G. M.
We recommend that the board of
roads and revenues of this county
donate the sum of $25.00 to each of
the following districts for the purpose
of erecting a justice court house, to-
wit: Trickum, Varnell and Red Clay.
Provided, that each district shall se
cure a suitable site and erect such
building.
We recommend and urge that the
said board of roads and revenues em
ploy a regular janitor to care for the
court house and other public build-
rigs. The increased number of terms
of court makes the employment of a
janitor very necessary; we recom
mend that the jail and court house be
wired and electric lights installed.
We recommend that the county
treasurer deposit the funds of the
county in one of the banks of this
county paying the largest rate per
cent on daily balances.
By committee, we have visited the
convict camp, which we' find in a
clean and sanitary condition; the
stock is well kept and in good con
dition with the exception of one mule,
which we find too light for the work
assigned, and we recommend that this
animal be sold and another purchased
in its stead. We find the work being
done on the roads to be good, being
well graded and cherted.
We view with alarm the invasion by
the higher courts of the province of
the juries of the country, and es
pecially is this true of the court of
appeals of Georgia, the abolition of
which we recommend and petition our
representative to introduce a bill at
the next session of the legislature
having that end in view. We unani
mously endorse the attitude of Judge
Fite in reference to the court of ap
peals, and commend him to the law-
abiding people of this state and those
who favor the protection of our
homes, with not so much care to tedi
ous technicalities.
Through committee, we visited the
county farm, and inspected same. We
find same well kept. The houses have
been recently overhauled and painted.
A new spring house has been built
and a large cannery installed, and a
nice supply of fruit canned for the
winter. We find the stock well cared
for and in good condition. The thanks
of this body are extended to Mrs.
Donaldson, wife of Superintendent
Donaldson, for courtesies extended.
By committee, we inspected the
jail and recommend the following re
pairs and improvements: New panes
of glass put in where needed, both in
jail and court house; we recommend
that the lower cells be made new and
that a better material be used; we
recommend that the kitchen be en
larged, and that gratings be placed
over all windows of jail. Generally,
we find the jail and jail books fairly
well kept.
We recommend the establishment
of a juvenile court and urge its im
portance. We consider it of para
mount importance among courts, in
asmuch as it is designed to protect
and foster the best interests of the
young and rising generation, wherein
lies the hope of the country.
Rev. T. J. Smith Conducted Services.
Rev. T. J. Smith, of Jackson county,
Alabama, was in the city Tuesday and
Tuesday evening and conducted serv
ices at Mt. Rachel Baptist church.
During his stay here Rev. Mr. Smith
made a number of friends.
BOISCLAIR FARM SOLD
FOR $4,300 TUESDAY
Mr. Hezekiah Jennings, of Auburn,
Ga., the Purchaser.
Mi\ Hezekiah Jennings, of Auburn,
Ga., Tuesday purchased from Mr. M.
F. Boisclair, his farm of 110 acres
north of here, for $4,300, and Mr.
Jennings will bring his family here
to live.
Mr. Jennings is a prominent and
prosperous farmer, and he and his
family will be extended a Cordial
welcome on their arrival here.
THE CITY COUNCIL HELD
BRIEF MEETING MONDAY
Nothing of Any Considerable Import
ance Came Before Meeting.
The city council negotiated its
briefest meeting of the year on Mon
day night, when the session adjourned
before 10 o’clock.
Aside from signing up the vouch
ers, nothing of any considerable im
portance came up.
Council decided to rigidly enforce
the ordinance against the throwing
of paper and trash on Hamilton,
Crawford and King streets, and also
authorized the park committee to
have the parks put in good condition
for the unveiling of the Johnston mon
ument here on Thursdav.
ODD FELLOWS OF COUNTY
WILL PICNIC AT PHELPS
Prominent Speakers Will Entertain
Crowd Saturday, Nov. 2.
The Odd Fellows of Whitfield coun
ty will picnic at Phelp on Saturday,
Nov. 2, and entertaining exercises
will be held at the large spring there.
Special committees are at work, ar
ranging a program, and an interest
ing day is in prospect for the wearers
of the “three links.”
Cedartown, Ga., Oct. 19, 1912.
To Our Corn Club Boys:
One of the chief difficulties ex
perienced by all corn club agents and
directors is that of keeping in easy
and frequent communication with the
boys. The six district agents in this
state had this year an average enroll
ment of over 1,500 boys each, scatter
ed over some 20 or 25 counties. To
visit all of 'them was an impossibility.
Experience has shown that we can not
even get to see them all at club or
county meetings. To write all of them
a letter requires so much time that it
can not be undertaken often. Even
the folding, sealing and addressing of
1,500 letters is a matter of several
days’ work.
And yet the number and nature of
the letters I have received from the
boys in my territory this year em
phasizes strongly the need of easier
and more frequent communication
with them, by which all of them may
be reached with reasonable certainty
at shorter intervals. It appears to
me that this end could be attained
by every club member subscribing for
his county paper. Of the 28 or 30 pa
pers published in the territory under
my care not more than one has failed
to give freely and cheerfully any
space desired for giving publicity to
the plans and progress of the work.
In fact, no other single agency has
shown such willingness to help.
If all our boys were regular read
ers of their county papers they could
be reached monthly, or oftener, if need
be, with helpful hints and suggestions
bearing upon their work. Meetings
could be announced through this med
ium with the confident assurance that
all would have notice. Nearly all
these county papers, perhaps all of
them, club with one or more agricul
tural papers at a very low rate, mak
ing the county weekly cost not more
than 50 cents per year—about one
cent a week.
Now, boys, before you lay this let
ter aside and forget it, if you are not
already a regular reader of your
county paper, get on its list of sub
scribers at once and become one. You
are certain to get many times the
value of your money before the year
is out. Do you know of many suc
cessful men who do not take their
home paper?
We have some new and very inter,
esting plans on foot for next year,
plans that will be both helpful and
pleasing to all of you. And they will
be published soon in your county pa
per. It will be a mistake if you fail
to take it and read it.
Yours,
WM. BRADFORD,
District Agent Boys’ Corn Clubs.
Frank Manly Was First
Depositor of Bank of
Dalton; Opened Monday
The Bank of Dalton, the third bank
ing institution of this city, opened
for business Monday, the day being
given over to showing the large num
ber of visitors through the handsome
new bank.
Mr. Frank Manly was the first de
positor.
During Monday punch was served
the visitors, and handsome souvenirs
were given all who made a trip of in
spection of the bank.
Tuesday the bank got down to busi
ness in earnest, the officials reporting
a bright outlook for the new banking
institution.
Judge Fite Hasn't Made
Up His Mind as to What
He Will Do on Saturday
When Judge A. W. Fite left the city
Thursday he had not determined upon
what would be his course of action
next Saturday, the time set for the
collection of the fine placed on him
by the court of appeals in the con
tempt case.
‘I have not decided on what I will
do,” he stated, “but whatever decision
I reach, it will be within the law and
my legal rights.”
He intimated that he would make
no statement before Saturday, when
his actions would speak for them
selves.
We recommend that the bridge
over Hassler’s mill race be floored
and otherwise improved.
We recommend that the commis
sioners on the road leading from Old
Trickum out to the Villanow road,
near Felix Martin’s, be notified of
the bad condition of same and re
quested to put the road in good con
dition and keep it so.
We also recommend that the com
missioners having jurisdiction lover
the road leading from Wallace Bare’s
to James Renfroe’s home be requested
to have same repaired and put in more
passable condition.
In taking leave of the court, we
desire to extend our thanks to His
Honor A. W. Fite, Solicitor Sam P.
Maddox, and the other officers of
court for courtesies extended to this
body during the present session.
We recommend that these present
ments be publishred in both of the
county papers, and that the usual
price be paid therefor.
Respectfully submitted.
Wm. A. Black, Foreman.
Henry L. Brooker,
Wm. T. Stinson,
Thos. R. Glenn,
Wm. E. McGinnis,
Sam. C. Britton,
Alfred M. Reed,
Geo. W. Crump,
Lon E. King,
Henry L. McEntyre,
Wm. H. Prater,
Jno. J. Caylor,
Chas. R. Nance,
Wm. C. Pangle,
Wm. S. Jordan,
Ben. F. Giddens,
Wm. A. Lowry,
Wm. Chambers,
Henry C. Erwin,
Jos. H. Moore,
Jos. E. Moore,
Ben. F. Bates,
Joseph H. Farmer, Clerk.
Ordered, by the court, that these
presentments be received and entered
upon the minutes and that the same
be published as recommended.
Done in open court, Oct. 23, 1912.
A. W. Fite, J. S. C. C. C.
Ain’t It the Truth.
You may talk about women,
Their style and all that,
But the smaller the woman,
The bigger the hat.
—Yonkers Statesman.
You may talk about women,
Who giggle and flirt,
But the fatter the woman,
The tighter the skirt.
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
You may talk about women,
But bet all your chips
That the shorter the woman
The bigger the hips.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
You may talk about women,
Their freaks and their fads,
But the thinner the woman,
The thicker the pads.
—Chattanooga Tradesman.
You may talk about women,
They’re all hard to beat;
But the taller the woman,
The longer the feet.
County Corn Club Lost
$ 100 Prize in Delay of
Corn in Reaching Macon
County Superintendent J. C. Sapp
last week received a letter from J.
Phil Campbell, state agent for boys’
corn clubs, in which he stated that the
exhibit shipped by the Whitfield
county club did not reach Macon in
time to enter in the exhibits at the
state fair.
Dr. Campbell stated in his letter
that he regretted the occurrence, as
he was confident the club would have
won the $100 premium had the corn
reached there, for he was acquainted
with the great record made by the
club.
Property Values Going
Up on Hamilton Street;
Two Big Deals Last Week
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"HE DOETH ALL THINGS WELL."
Mark vii, 31; viii, 10—Oct. 27.
"Be hath done all things icell: Be maketh
both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
—V. 37.
ODAY’S lesson gives a special
illustration along the line of
faith in God. A person was
brought to the Savior to heal
who was deaf and had an impediment
in his speech. The instance under
eonsideratiou is peculiar. (1) Because
Jesus took the man
away from the mul
titude and healed
him privately; (2) it
is peculiar as to
the means used. He
put His fingers into
the man's ears, as
though to start
some life current
through them; then
He spat and touched Be touched his
the man's tongue. tongue.
We understand that these meihods
were used in order to attract the man’s
attention and assist him in the exer
else of faith.
The statement that Jesus sighed is
worthy of note; we can only surmise
that it indicated His deep sympathy
with the mau before nim and with the
groaning creation in general. The
lesson seems to be that He was
Mr. W. R. Cannon showed his faith
in Dalton’s future the last of the
week when he purchased two pieces
of property on Hamilton street.
He purchased the building owned
by Dr. S. J. \McKnight and occupied
by the King Drug company, for
$4,300, which is a big increase over
the value placed on the property prior
to the laying of the Hamilton street
pavement. He also gave $3,500 for
the ■ building occupied by the New
York Dry Goods and Clothing com
pany.
The price for the two, exclusive of
the value of the buildings, averaged
about $100 per front foot.
Eleventh Cavalry Will
Camp in Dalton on Hike
Through This Section
REV. JOE MAPLES WILL
LOCATE IN THIS CITY
Brother of Rev. C. C. Maples Conducts
Services in County.
Rev. Joe Maples, of Cleveland,
Tenn., will move to this city within a
short time, and will find a cordial wel
come to Dalton.
Rev. Mr. Maples has, during the
past week, filled a number of pulpits
in this county. He is a Baptist min
ister, and an excellent speaker. He is
a brother of Rev. C. C. Maples, of
this city.
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The eleventh annual convention of
the National Nut Growers’ Associa
tion will be held at Gulfport, Miss.,
Oct. 3ist to Nov. 2nd, 1912. Every
one interested in amateur or com
mercial pecan growing should make
:i effort to attend this convention.
The most practical growers and also
government and state experts will
take an active part in the program.
I understand that Gulfport is making
special preparations for the entertain
ment of those attending this conven
tion and it is sure to be an enjoyable
and profitable occasion.
The Eleventh United States cavalry,
stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, will
camp in the city tomorrow night, stop
ping over here while hiking through
this section.
Last week Lieutenant Hunsaker, of
the Eleventh cavalry, was in the city
making arrangements for a camp
site.
An effort was made to get the hike
loved up a day so the regiment could
be in Dalton at the unveiling of the
Joseph E. Johnston monument; but
this could not be arranged.
The regiment carries an excellent
band, and hundreds of Dalton people
will visit the camp on Friday night.
“Bull Moose" Got Busy
And Tagged a Number
Of Daltonians Friday
Some person got busy with the
“Bull Moose” emblems here on last
Friday, the result being a number of
people were seen with the emblem
conspicuously displayed on coat la
pels.
The wearing of the moose showed
that the colonel has a number of fol
lowers here, even if they did remain
in the background up to last week.
7th in the orchard of the Experiment
Summer Queen apples picked Sept.
Station at Auburn, Alabama, and
placed on shelves in a dark place for
three weeks attained a quality rarely
excelled. This variety is not de
pendable for prolificness in this lati
tude but there is generally a medium
sized crop and a place should be given
tt> at least one or two of these trees
in the home orchard.
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Touched With a Feeling of Man’s In
firmities,
as had been prophesied. He was per
fect, He did not have a body with
aches and pains and blemishes, such
as other men have, but this did not
make Him cold and unsympathetic,
rather the reverse, nis perfect mind
would make all His sensibilities more
active than ours; His sympathy would
be stronger, His sense of pain keener.
We, as a fallen race, have become so
accustomed to ruauy of our surround
ings that they are commonplace and
we are inclined to consider them nat
ural-forgetting that the natural order
of mau would be the perfect order,
and that the blemished state is the un
natural.
In yet another way may we suppose
our Master was touched with a feel
ing of our Infirmities, namely, by rea
son of His losing vitality on the occa
sion of each miracle. Is not this the
meaning of the Scripture which de
clares that “He poured out His soul
unto death?” Daily, hourly. His vi
tality was being exhausted in the heal
ing, blessing, comforting and instruct
ing of those with whom He was in
contact. This thought should properly
bring our hearts Into very close touch
and sympathy with Him, and give us
that much clearer view of the Savior’s
love.
The day before His crucifixion our
Lord said, “My soul is exceeding sor
rowful, even unto death: 1 have a bap
tism to be baptized with, and how am
I straitened until it be accomplished!”
It was accomplished fully the follow
ing day, on Calvary, when He cried.
“It Is finished!” His baptism into
death was accomplished.
It Is following the account of this
miracle that we read that the multi
tude declared the words of our text.
We are not to understand that merely
this one healing was the basis of their
comment for the account of these
same instances by St. Matthew (xv,
29-31) tells of great multitudes gather
ed, having with them many lame,
blind, dumb and maimed and many
others, and they cast them down at
His feet, and He healed them, inso
much that the multitudes wondered
and glorified God.
“Manifested Forth His Glory.”
Let us never lose sight of the great
central thought connected with our
Lord's miracles. His mission was not
to heal the sick and
to cast out devils,
but to “give His
life a Ransom for
all, to be testified
in due time.” The
secondary feature
of His work was
the calling of the
“Israelites indeed"
to be His footstep
f o 1 lowers, who
“Who touched Met’ wou ]<} be received
of the Father and begotten of the
Holy Spirit at and after Pentecost
The miracles were merely incidentals
and not His real work.
It would have been a still greater
and grander work for Jesus to have ex
pounded the Divine Pian, and to have
opened the eyes of the understanding
of the people, and their deaf ears; but
this work could not be accomplished
to any extent until after He had as
cended up on „igh. and had appro
priated the merit of His sacrifice to the
Justification of believers. Hence it
was that Jesus said to His disciples,
“Greater works than these shall ye do.
because I go to My Father.”
The account in the conclusion of this
lesson, of the feeding of four thousand
people with seven loaves, and the tak
ing of seven hampers of fragments,
was another manifestation of Jesus'
power, or as He would express It. of
the Divine power in Him. When the
five thousand were fed. five loaves and
two fishes were used, and they were
gotten from a small boy. In this case
the disciples themselves had seven
loaves, and gave their all for the feed
ing of the multitude, and all had suffi
cient Let ns exercise faith in God
and partake of our dally bread with
grateful hearts; there will be a bless
ing In it however pialn
CITIZEN WILL GIVE
THE ELECTION NEWS.
The Citizen will furnish the
people of Dalton with the re
turns in the national presiden
tial election of Tuesday, No
vember 5. Arrangements have
been made with the Western
Union Telegraph Company and
the complete service will be
given. The returns will be
flashed by a stereopticon, so
all can see them. Arrange
ments are in the making and
will be announced next week.
Paul Rundel.
(By Will N. Harben—Review by J. L
Palmer.)
Again has our versatile North
Georgia author, Will N. Harben, come
to the front with a new and very
readable novel. The scene, as usual
is laid among the mountains of North
Georgia.
Mr. Harben always finds among the
North Georgia mountains a never-
failing source of genuinely human
humor and philosophy. The author
loves to deal with the plain homemade
folks, those who constitute the back
bone of our community.
In this story the gifted author
brings out sharply the contrast be
tween the plain, homely religion of
those who live for others as well as
themselves, and the stilted atheistic
sentiment of that other large class
who only wish to exploit other people
for their own benefit.
Silas Tye, the example par excel
lence of the golden rule, fills the story
so full of his gospel of love that the
perfidy of Jim Hoag, contemptible
though it is, serves to intensify the
beauty o fthe true Christian character
of the leading actors.
You will follow^ with growing in
terest the checkered career of Paul
Rundel, the hero o fthe story, who
starts in life miserably handicapped
to parentage and opportunity.
After much tragedy and some comedy
he is made to surmount every ob-
tacle. and to climb to the most am
bitious heights by subjecting his baser
nature and climbing from it to a con
stantly higher life.
In justice to our North Georgia
natives, and without detracting from
the merit of the story, we must say
that the conditions as well as much
of the personnel of the story repre
sent a past generation in Georgia
life. The ignorant and degraded Jeff
Warren, as well as the unscrupulous
Jim Hoag, are characters who largely
disappeared with the passing of the
kuklux klan. Still, it is true that those
characters wrote a tragic and indeli
ble chapter in the history of North
Georgia, and from such material Mr.
Harben has written a story and
pointed a moral that will tend to em
phasize the advance that our moun
taineers have made in the past gene
ration.
If you love tragic situations, em
bellished with a mixture of quaint
philosophy and up to date thought,
read Paul Rutidel and you will rise
from the perusal with a feeling of
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the strap hinges are later attached.
The Self-Supporting Roof.
When the sidewalls are one week
old, begin on the roof. To give the
roof a rise of 2 feet 8 inches, arch
rings are needed. For laying out the
rings, choose a floor or a bit of level
ground. To one end of a strong
string fasten a pencil and tie the
other end to a nail driven firmly in
the floor with exactly 5 feet 11 inches
of string between the pencil point and
nail. Mark out half a circle. Across
the circle lay a board exactly 10 fee;
long so that its ends just touch the
mark. The part of the circle above
the board represents the arched in
side of the roof. Place boards for
the arch rings over the mark on the
floor and nail them together. Mark
the curve upon them and cut them to
the mark. Brace the arch well as
shown in the drawing. Spacing the
rings two feet apart, six will be
needed. Fasten them securely in
place to 2 by 6-inch liners spiked to
the sidewall forms. Cover the ring*
tightly with 1-inch sheathing.
With the roof form ready, place the
reinforcement upon it. Use 3-8-rods
14 feet long. Space them 6 inches
apart crosswise and 12 inches the
long way of the cellar. Wire the rods
together where they cross. The roof
must be 5 inches thick. Carefully
work exactly 1 inch of concrete be
tween the rods and the sheathing.
Tamp the concrete until the liquid
finish the surface smooth by means of
cement flushes to the top and then
wooden float and steel trowel. Do
not stop for anything until the roof
is finished. In two or three weeks the
concrete roof will be strong enough to
support itself; then the forms may be
removed.
Ventilation is necessary for most
cellars. While building the wall make
one or more air-shafts (similar to a
chimney-flue) of 3-inch tile, by imbed
ding them in the concrete wall, with
an opening inside at floor level and
another outside well above the ground
line. By this arrangement fresh air
is admitted. Place a tile chimney in
the concrete roof and cover it with a
galvanized hood for removing the
foul air. If built late in the fall, pro
tect the fresh concrete from freezing
by covering it with clean straw or
with old carpet so suspended as to
leave a dead air-space between the
concrete and the covering.
Below is given a list of the materials
required. The prices are higher than
in most localities. If good screened
pit gravel is used, no sand will be
needed.
Bill of Materials.
Crushed rock, 13 cu. yds. at
$1.10 $14.30
Sand, 6 1-2 cu. yds. at $1.00.... 6.50
Portland Cement, 22 bbls. at
$2.50 55.00
Rods, 40 pieces, 3-8-inch by 14-ft.
206 lbs. at $0.02 1-4 4.65
Total $80.45
The cellar shown in the photo
graph is 18 by 18 by 8 feet deep.
It is located on an apple farm. The
owner finds it a profitable investment
as he has his own storage and keeps
his apples until the market is no
longer glutted with “windfalls” and
“seconds.”
The Arkansas Orchard Planting Co.,
at Prescott, Ark., had a big peach
crop this year. They employed 210
expert packers from Florida and Geor
gia, and shipped as many as 80 cars
per day.
One of the most successful summer
schools for farmers that has been, held
at the Alabama Experiment Station in
years ended after ten days of day and
night lectures Saturday August 10th.
Among some of the important lectur
ers were Joe Wing, Dr. Tate Butler
and Loring Brown, the famous poultry
man of Atlanta. Mrs. W. N. Hutt, of
Raleigh, N. C., gave two lectures each
day to the farmers’ wives on domestic
science. Demonstrations were held by
every department of the station. In
fruit growing, spray demonstrations
attracted many farmers. The meth
ods of mixing and applying the differ
ent important spray mixtures were
shown. There were lectures also on
tomatoes, Irish potatoes, peach and
pecan growing. The farmers’ summer
schools are attended by very bright
and energetic men. Many of the men
who need the instruction the most fail
to visit Auburn each year to put in the
busy ten days. The only moment of
relaxation conies the last day when a
barbecue or a big watermelon cutting
ends the school.
The etching used in the August
number of the Southern Fruit Grower
showing the J. H. Hale peach, was
much reduced, hence this promising
new variety off peach was not given
justice in that issue in point of size.