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MONROE ADVERTISER
YVOL. 59
- PROPERTY DESTROY-
Towaliga Rises Higher Than in Eleven
Years. Augusta and Macon Flooded
Forsyth People View Torrent.
Georgia is just recovering from
one of the severest rain storms ia{
years. For several days, briugingf
death and destruction, the rivers
and streams of the state were out%
of their banks, but now they have
subsided. This following the cy
clone of a few daws ago, makes‘
the week just passed one of great
destruction.
The low farm lands and the
creek and river bottoms have
been completely covered and it is
reported that several thousand
hoad of cattle in the lowlands
have been drowned.
The Towaligas, in this county,
have been on a rampage and the
surrounding country has been
submerged. At the plant of the
Towaliga Falls Power Company
the water rose higher than in 11
years. All the machinery was
made ready to move, when the
magnitude of the storm was seen,
but at its height the water lacked
two feet of reaching the main
floor of the power house, Tn the
basement of the plant, however,
the water stood sixty inches deep.
At Dames Ferry and along the
Ocmulgee River the tracks of the
Southern Railway were under
four feet of water and 1t was im
possiblg to run the trains over
that road. All the Svuthern pas
senger trains were operated over
the Central through Forsyth.
The M. D. and S. railway was
so tied up by the flood that no
trains were operated from Friday
morning to Monday morning. On
all but this road the passengers
out of Macon have resumed their
regular schedules.
In Macon one man, a watchman
at one of the fertilizer mills, wae
drovuved when the levee un the
Ocmulgee broke, jletting through
the raging waters. Several bouse
boats tied to the river banks at
Macon broke loose and were car
ried down the stream: while over
a hundred families along the Oc
mulgee in Macon were rendered
homeless. Central City Park,
the race track and ball park were
completely inundated.
According to the papers, the
Ocmulgee un Sunday morning
was the highest it had been, with
one exception, in forty years,
reaching the stage of 23 6: while
in Augusta the Savaunah river at
10 o’clock Sunday morning reach
ed the height of 85.1 feet, flood
ing the neighboring streets. Other
streams in the state were propor
tionately swollen. It was one of
the worst rainstorms that Georgia
has known in many years.
Many people from Forsyth
went down to Macon Sunday to
see the Ocmulgee on a rampage
and to witness the damage of the
flood, ‘
The greatest damage is to the
farm lands.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM TO
BE GIVEN BY LOCAL TALENT.
For the purpose of raising funde
t 0 properly equip the new stage at
the Ipstitute Shakespeare’s ‘Mid
summer Night's Dream’’ is soon
to be given by local talent. The
cast is Dot quite complete but
within the next few days the re
hersals will begin in earnest.
The play will be given under
ghe personal supervision of Mies
Augasta Center and this, in iteelf,
is a sufficient guarantee of its suc-
CeBS. .
It is probable that this comedy
will be given on April 25th, tho
thejdate has yet been definitely
set.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA. MARCH 21, 1913
FORMER FORSYTH
Dr. J. S. Bryan Passes Away in De
- catur, Was Local Pastor and Pre
siding Elder. Impressive Fumeral,
Dr. J.S.Bryan, for several years
pastor of the local Methodist
Church and Presiding Elder in
1892 and 1898 was buried in Oak
land cemetery on last Tuesday
morning, his body having been
brought down on the train from
Decatur, his home. It was there
that he died on Sunday night at
7:45 o’clock, at the age of 66
years.
Mr. Bryan was the pastor of
the Forsyth Methodist Church in
1901 and also in 1897, and few
preachers have ever been station
ed in Forsyth who wers more uni
versally beloved than was he. A
fine preacher, an excellent pastor,
a faithful worker, a kind, ccusid
erate, courteous Christian gentle
man he endeared himself to the
people of Forsyth.
The funeral was held from the
Decatur Methodist Church on
Monday afternoon at three o’clock
and was concluded in Oakland
cemetery here at eleven o’clock
Tuesday morning. ‘
The funeral of Dr. Bryan was
one of the most notable ever held
in Decatur. The services at the
church were conducted by Dr. W.
F. Glenn, assisted by Dr. Love
joy, the Presiding Elder, Rev. B.
H. Mays, Dr. Patterson of the
Presbyterian Church and Dr.
Smith of the Baptist church. The
Methodist Ministers Association
of Atlanta attended the services
in a body and the resolutionjadopt
ed by thia Association were read;
CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE)
DO YOU WANT MORE BUSINESS?
There are two kinds of merchants: those that advertise and those
that don’t. There are some people who don’t believe in advertising—or
wont ; just as there are some folks who don’t believe in vaccination.
But the enterprising merchant who wants to keep his shelves clean of
old stock, advertises. And you can put it down as a safe proposition that
the merchant in Forsyth or elsewhere who has the most Eard stock, old
out of date, unsalable stuff is the one who advertises least.
Other men had made Coca Cola before Asa Candler bought the for
mula. He was a poor man when he first began its manufacture. Yet, by
extensive advertising he sells his drink all over the country and is by ; far
the richest man in Georgia, Nothing did it but advertising. Yet ‘there
are still skeptics.
No matter how many good things you have to offer, the people can’t
know of them until you advertise.
You simply can’v get the trade unless you ADVERTISE.
SPRING HAS COME.
HAVE YOU NOTICED IT?
Despite the ice which appeared
early in the week, Spring has ar
rived. How can we tell? Why,
because the small boys are al
ready begging to ¢‘go barefooted’’,
the disciples of Isaac Walton are
putting new leads oun their old
fishing lines and are casling long
ing glances towards the county’s
streams: the bude are bursting on
the trees and the first green leaves
are peeping out; the tiuy blades
of green grass are pushing their
way through the earth; the school
boys are resurrecting their old
baseball mits and gloves and are
“t¢rying out their arms;" the
millinery openings have been held
and already sume of the new
creations are seen on the streets;
new tan Oxfords, not to mention
the lavender socks, are appearing
on the mcre venturesome youths;
the usual calls are being made for
the cream of tartar and sulphur
tablets, and lastly the people seem
to be afflicted with that ‘‘tired
Hon. M. L. Brittain Accepts lnvitation
to Attend Monroe Teachers Meet
ing. Address on March 29,
At theinvitation of Supt. Phin
azee, Mr. M. L. Brittain will be
present at the next meeting of the
Monroe County teachers on March
20th. The teachers and their
friends will be pleased to meet Mr.
Brittain snd all those interested
in the cause of education will want
to hear him speak of Georgia’s
special educational problems.
The friends of education thru
out the state have approved Mr,
Brittain’s plan to standardize the
rural schools, and thru thus regu
lating the primary and elementary
schools to reach the secondary
schools of the state, the feeders
of our University. Broad minded
people who study the problem of
uplifting the masses by means of
our public schools recognize the
merits of this plan which has
been circulated 1n the state and
feel a personal interest in its sue
cess.
The public is cordially invited
to hear Mr. Brittain speak on Sat
urday, March £9.
BIDS FOR POSTOFFICE SITE.
The Treasury Department has
asked tor bids from local proper
ty owne's for the new pcst office
gite. The advertisemeunt appears
elgewhere in this issue of the pa
per. The lot must be a corner
lot and must have an area of not
less than 16,600 square feet.
The bids will be opened in
Washington on April 7th next
and the people are urged to send
iu their bids promptly.
feeling.”” So, whether the weath
er man says 8o or not, the season
dedicated to lovers and poets has
arrived.
Somehow the feoling in the aif
tells you that spring has come.
U, D. C. PRIZE.
~ Some weeks agc the local chap
ter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy offered a prize to
the school children of Monoroe
County for the best essay ou the
enbject, ‘The Gallant John B.
Gordon.”” All the papers must be
sent in on or hefore March 28rd to
Mre. B. 8. Willingham, Chairman
of the local committee. The pa
pers are to be signed with a fictit
ious name and accompanied by a
sealed envelope addressed with
this same fictitions name and con
taining the real name of the writ
or. The name of the school should
also be enclosed.
Announcement of t he prize
winner will be made later 1u the
Spring, probably on Memorial
Day. /
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GEORGIA NINTH IN
Texas Takes Lead Over States of Union,
Vith Illinois Next. Total Consider
ably More Than in 1911. |
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Aecording to the bulletin justfi
issued by the Census Bureaun,
Georgia ranks ninth among the
states of the Union as a crop pre
ducing State. Illinois again has
yielded to Texas the honor of be
ing premier crop producing state
of the union. Jowa holds her
position as third, while Ohio has
lost to Missouri the bonor of
fourth place, the department of
agriculture announced today.
During 1912 Texas produced
$407,160,000 in the 12 crops re
ported on the quantitive, corn,
wheat, oats, barley, rye, buck
wheat, flaxseed, rice, potatoes,
hay, tobacco, and lint cotton.
The enormous cotton crop easily
gave Texas a big lead over the se
cond crop producing state,
Illinois, whose aggregate produc
tion was valued at $289,326,000.
Towa, Ohio, Kansas, Pennsylva
ma and Minnesota came next, 1n
the order named, with Georgia
ninth, her crop aggregate for 1912
being $159,762,000. The other
state in the first ten was North
Dukota, nearly $5,000,000 behind
Greorgia.
The total value of these crops
produced during 1912 throughout
the country was $4.,960,161,000,
compared with $4,5692,838,000 in
1911, and $4,496,647,000 in 1910.
in addition to the ten leading
states the following produced
more than $100,000,000 in the
prinecipal crops:
Indiana, New York, Nebraska,
Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ala
bama, Oklahoma, Michigan, Ken
tucky, South Carolina, Missippi,
Tennessee and California.
BESSIE TIFT FOUNDERS
DAY T 0 BE OBSERVED.
The authorities, teachers and
pupils of Bessie Tift are making
plans for the approaching Foun
der’s Day celebration. It was in
1898 on April 2d that Monroe
College was accepted by the Geor
gis Baptist Convention and last
year the practice was inaugurated
of having a proper observance of
this day.
Iu 1912 most impressive exer
cises were held in the college audi
torinm and on the campus and in
the afternoon, a wonderful sym
bolic pageant paraded the streets
of Forsyth. Itias the intention of
the authorities to make the exer
cisas this year more Impressive
than ever. The alumnpae from
over the State are being urged to
come and take part in the ceiebra
tion, and it is planned not only
to have them wear the class flow
ers aud class colors, but also to
wear the clothes that were in
vogue at the time of their gradua
tion.
Sedond Regiment to go into Camp at
St. Simons. Major Beck Praises
Co. M. in Letter. Needs Range.
The Quitman Guards, together
with the other companies of the
Second Regiment are to go into
camp this summer at St. Simons.
Col. J. A. Thomas Jr., has made
this request of the Adjutant Gen
eral and a news item from Aulan
ta says that it will be granted.
This means that the local com
pany will have a week or ten days
outing '*by the sad sea waves”
during tde latter part of the sum
mer. The men are already mak
ing their preparations to go and
is expected that a large number
of the members will take advan
tage of this outing.
The following letter from Major
William H. Beck, of Griffin, the
commanding officer of the battal
-lon in which CompanyM.ls a part
should be a source of gratification
to the people of the county and
especially to those who are inter
ested in the success of the Quit
man Guards.
“I desire to congratulate you
and through you each officer and
man in “Company M” for the
fine inspection your company
stood recently. While I did not
‘have the pleasure of being present
at the inspection, I have been re
liably informed that the recent
inspection was the best in the his
tory of your Company, and that
only a few companies 12 the State
stood a better inspection. Had
your Company shown a high flg
ure of merit on their firing report
your average would have been up
around the top. Ae it is I am
gratified to know your average
will be very much higher than it
wase last year. This shows good
work on the part of the officers
and the men, and as commanding
officer of the battalion I assure
you it is very gratifying. The
other companies in this battalion,
that have been inspected, show an
improvement over last year, We
have found our “pace,” now lets
all pull for first place in the regi
ment next year. To do this each
man must go upon the rifle range.
The regular drills during the year
count very largely in making up
the average. One company in
this battalion made perfect (200
points) on his drill report.’’
The greatest need of the Com
pany at present is a rifle range
and il a suitable range is known
to the readers of the Advertiser,
the members of the company will
be grateful for the information.
At the monthly Inspection
held last Thursday night the priz»
for the cleanest and best kept gun
went to Mr. A R. McCabe.
Recently 18t Liosutenant O. H,
B. Bloodworth, Jr., and 2nd Lieu
senant A. S. Burton stood the ex
amination prescribed by the Ad
jutant General’s office in Infantry
Drill Regulations. On Suanday,
they each received from the State
a certificate of merit in this sub
ject, the mark of Mr. Bloodworth
being 100 and of Lieut, Burton
994. This exempts them from
examination in this subject for a
period of five years,
MARCH 28 IS FOUNDER'S DAY
AT GORDON INSTITUTE
March 28th is Founder’s Day at
Gordon Institute and the usual
big preparations are being made
for the entertainment of the
guests. A special invitation is
extended to the former Gordon
students from Monroe county, as
well as to their friends.
There will be an address and
other exercises 1n the morning,
followed by a big “‘basket dinner,”’
In the afternoon there will be a
bassball game and at night, a con
cert by the Mercer Glee Club,
It will be a most interesting
day and the people of this section
are cordially iuvited to come,
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