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MQNROE ADVERTISER
VOL. 59
ITEMS OF GENERAL
INTEREST FROM LETTERS
OF CORRESPONDENTS
TWO FOX HUNTS.
Monroe was the scene of fox
hunts on Thursday and Friday
nights of last week. The first one
held in the vicinity of Breut and
participated in by many of the
young men of that neighborhood
was unsuccessful; but on Friday
night a party from Holly Grove
caught a fox, after a most excit
ing chase, near Mr. R. F. Cald
well’s. The fox weighed twelve
pounds.
ROADS IN BAD SHAPE.
While on his way to Juliette
from his home, Mr. A. A. Cham
bless had his buggy broken, due
to the bad condition of the road
and the traction engine of Mr.
Geo. Corley was stalled on the
way to Juliette. “Nellie Grey”
suggests that unless the roads are
improved that “foot-back” will
be the only means of travel.
CROPS MUCH BEHIND,
The farmers are much behind
with their crops: indeed practi
cally nothing has been accom
plished towards the making of
the 1913 crop. The bottoms have
been washed over and most of the
planting that had been done prior
to the deluge of the past few
week will have to be done over
again. The excessive rains have
given the farmers no time to
work.
“Billie T.” thinks if conditions
do not improve, the farmers will
have to begin raising “puddle
ducks. ”
UNION MEETING AT SHARON.
There will be a Union Meeting
at Sharon on the fifth Sundaj’ in
March, the exercises beginning
the Friday before. Several preach
ers are expected to take part in
the program and the public is
most cordially invited.
ENTERTAINMENT AT STROUDS SCHOOL
The children of the school at
Strouds are busily engaged in
making preparations for an en
tertainment to be given by them
on the evening of April 25th.
HUBERT WORSHAM ILL.
It will be learned with deep re
gret that Mr. Hubert Worsham
the son of Hob. W. A. Worsham
is considered very seriously ill at
his father’s home at Strouds. Mr
Worsham has been in ill health
for some months but his condition
did not take a serious turn until
last week. His many friends
most earnestly hope for his speedy
restoration to health.
TO BE TRAINED NURSE.
Miss Mamie McElroy of May
nards has gone to St. Joseph’s
Infirmary in Atlanta tc study to
be a trained nurse.
BOYS’ CORN CLUB MEETS.
On Saturday, March 22, the
Boys’ Corn Club held the firs'
meeting of the year. The atten
dance was splendid. A number of
leading farmers of the county
came with the boys to show their
interest in and approval of the
movement. Mr. J. G. Oliver,
agent for the club in this district,
made a very helpful talk to the
bovs as to the first essentials of
corn growing.
At the next meeting when the
crop is well under cultivation. Mr.
Oliver will visit Monroe Countv
again, and this time the talk will
take the form of a demonstration
lesson in the field. It is hoped
that the boys can meet at some
central place and after the lesson
celebrate the day with a barbecue
jn good Georgia style. If the en
tire club of sixty-four members
should attend and bring some of
their friends, the day could be
made one of great interest and
enjoyment.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA. MARCH 28, 1913
FARMER’S UNION
MEETS IN ATLANTA
State Convention Convenes on April 3
and 4. Elections to be Held.
Some Excellent Addresses.
To the Members of the Farmers’
Union of Georgia:—
You are hereby called to meet
at the State Capitol, House of
Representatives, Atlanta, Ga., in
Annual State Convention, April
the 3rd ond 4th, 1913, for the pur
poseof electing officers and attend
ing toother matters of importance.
The Convention will be called
promptly at 10 o’clock on April
the 3rd. Each county is entitled
to one delegate at large and one
for every two hundred paid-up
members or fraction thereof.
W. H. Thompson,
Chairman State Executive Com.
In arranging for the program
at the meeting, per the above call,
Hon. L. M. Rhodes, member of
the National Board of Directors,
and Pr-sident of the Tennessee
State Union, will address the con
vention on the subject of “Mar
kets”; and an Ohio Congressman,
Mr. Bathrick, will address the
convention on the subject of
“Governmont lending money di
rect to the farmers at a low rate
; of interest. ”
Hon. Chas.S. Barrett, President
Ir YOU WANT TO BUILD UP YOUR TOWN.
Often times it’s the very person who grumbles because he believes that some other
town is outstripping Forsyth in her progress who, when he or she desires to purchase
something, runs to some other town to do it.
Every penny spent out of Monroe county is gone forever so far as you or so far as
any benefits to your county and town are concerned; while every dollar spent at home
enriches your town and county.
Most of our people buy at home. Yet many more prefer to buy away from home.
Things that cannot be obtained at home must, of course, be purchased elsewhere; hut the
trouble is that you don’t even take time to investigate to see whether the local merchants
can supply your needs.
Read the advertisements in The Advertiser; go tell the merchants what you want
and see if they can’t save you money on your purchases. You can generally get what you
desire from the Forsyth merchants, if you’ll give them a chance.
Remember that money spent at home is really money in your own pockets.
If you want Forsyth to prosper, and want to prosper with Forsyth, remember to
BUY AT HOME.
of the National Union, and other
National officials, will be present
to discuss other legislative meas
ures for which the organization
has been working.
Experts will be there to discuss
the plan for co-operation and will
be prepared to give any communi
ty information as to the organiza
ton ol co-operative enterprises.
To get information on the sub
jects referred to above at first
bands, we urge the importance of
of every local union being well
represented at this meeting,
Information is what we need,
and arrangements have been made
for the members and delegates who
attend this convention to be able
to get more information in the two
days meeting than they would
likely get any other way in the
next twelve months.
Fraternally yours,
J. T. McDaniel,
State Sec’y-Trers.
COTTON CROP IS
TWO MILLION OFF
Totals Only Fourteen Million Bales.
Georgia Raises 980,000 Bales Less
Than in 1911.
On last Thursday, the Govern
ment issued the annual cotton re
port of the Bureau of the Census.
The final estimate of the cotton
crop of 1912 is 14,076,430 bales.
The crop for 1911 was 16,109,-
349 bales, and for 1910 it was
11,865,862 bales.
Expressed in 500-pound bales,
the 1912 crop is 14,295,500 bales
as compared with 16,250,276 bales
for 1911 and 12,005,688 for 1910.
From this it will be seen that the
present crop was almost two mil
lion bales less than that of rhe
preceding year.
Georgia’s crop was 1,887,461 as
compared with 2,867,741 in 1911;
a decrease over the preceding year
of 980,280 bales. ’
The average weight of the bale
for 1912 is 507.8 pounds as com
prred with 504 4 pounds for 1911
and 501 7 for 1910.
Cotton not yet ginned ip includ
ed in the total estimate, and is
placed by ginnerg and delinters as
129,172 bales.
“A dogfall” is the expression
of Atlanta cotton men in com
menting on the census bureau’s
estinate. There were some few
authorities in the trade who look
ed for 14,250,000, or even more.
There were as many who looked
for less. But the majority of
well-informed cotton men looked
for 14,000,000.
Analysis of the figures by states
shows big crops west of the Missis
sippi ; Texas with nearly 5,000.-
000 bales and Oklahoma With a
million.
The Georgia crop is shown in
the final estimate at something
larger than many leaders in trade
had expected.
FREE DELIVERY OF MAIL.
The prospects for a free delivery
of mail for F rsvth are bright.
On July Ist the Forsyth post,of
fice goes into the Second Class
and then the citizens of this little
City will be entitled to have their
mail delivered at their homes, if
they ho desire.
Several days ago Mr. R. B.
Stephens, with his usual enter
prise, prepared a petition request
ing the postoffice authorities to
give this priviledge to the citi
zens of Forsyth and within a very
short time he had the names of
nearly 200 of the City’s most
prominent citizens on the petition
This was forwarded to the post
office department through Con
gressman Bartlett.
It is therefore probable that
Forsyth will not only a postoffice
building within the near future,
but will even sooner have free de
livery of mail.
LOST—A WELL. RE
WARD IF RETURNED
TO CITY AUTHORITIES
WATER MAINS FOR
NEW TERRITORY
Council Accepts Bids for Pipes and Hy
drants. Work to Begin at Once.
Electric Lines to be Extended.
The work of extending the water
mains into the territory, annexed
to rhe City of Forsyth by the
Legislature when the limits were
extended to one mile will be be
gun at an early date. At its
meeting last Friday night the
council awarded the contract for
the pipe, fire plugs, and all the
necessary adjuncts and so soon as
the piping can be received, the
work of laying the mains will be
begun.
First the mains will be laid
through Tripton, out towards the
residence of Mr. C. M. Hooks and
along Berner Avenue to its junc
tion with Brooklyn Avenue and
thence out Brooklyn Avenue. It
is then the intention of council to
provide adequate water facilities
and fire protection to the people
out the Montpelier road and then
to other parts ofithetown, as long
as the money holds out.
Council also voted to extend
electric lights out the Barnesville
road that the negroes and others
in that section may receive the
benefits.
In accordance with the sugges
tion of the Civic League the Ce-j
metery Committee was instructed
to place trash boxes throughout
the cemetery; and the City at
torney was instructed to draw an
ordinance providing that all Loxes
barrels or other debris be kept
from the walks, streets etc. of the
cemetery and requiring that all
persons using mortar.; boxes, bar
rels,implements etc. in digging or
repairing graves be required to re
move these things f rom the lots,
within one week from the finish
of the work.
A public sanitary drinking
fountain was ordered installed on
the square for the use of the citi
zens of Forsyth and visitors, with
instructions to install one on each
corner of the square if they prov
ed satisfactory and useful.
The sanitary committee recom
mended that trie old shack tn the
“Bottom” known as the Ed Hu
guley shop be torn down and the
City attorney was instructed to
draw the necessary notices to this
end
The request of Will Greer for a
permit to operate a restaurant
and ice cream parlor on James
The City of Forsyth has lost a
well. Like most other wells it
was simply a hole in the ground,
“round like an orange” and with
the hole supported on the sides
and bottom by dirt; but a search
of several days last week tailed to
disclose its whereabouts. And
whether some marauder on some
dark and dismal night tucked it
safely under his arm and carried
it to parts unknown where it is
doing daily duty for the resting
place of the “old Oaken bucket,”
or whether, somepurty, finding a
well wandering loose without an
owner,cut itjup into smallerjiieccq
as someone has suggested, for use
as post holes, in the language of
Ingersoll, “we do not know.”
Anyway the well non est.
Before Forsyth installed her
present system of waterworks
there stood, (if’tis possible for a
hole in the ground to stand) on
the Southwest corner of the pub
lic square near where the drinking
fountain now is, a well, and for
many years the pure, sparkling
water from this well slaked the
thirst of the just and unjust alike.
But, at the time of the planting
of the waterworks, the well was
arched over with brick and cover
ed with a “pavement” of red clay.
With the passing of the years the
street grade has been changed and
the exact location of the well for
gotten ; so, when the City council,
having an extra supply or dirt on
hand, desired to fill 'up the old
well, no where could it be found
and altho the whole of the ground
where the well should have been
was drilled, the one-time thirst
quencher had escaped.
And now the council is think
ing of offering a reward for the
persons who was last seen with a
well answering the above descrip
tion Anyone having discovered
a stray well will confer a favor on
Forsyth by communicating at
once with the Honorable Mayor.
PREACHING AHIOLLY GROVE.
On next fifth Sunday in March,
there will be preaching at Holly
Grove Church by Rev. J, C. Davies
of Milner.
I'he public is most cordially in
vited.
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET.
The Ladies Memorial Associa
tion will meet on next Monday
afternoon at 3:30 at the residence
of Mrs. M. B. Persons, and a full
attendance of the ladies is ear
nestly requested.
An election of officers will be
held as well ae other business of
importance.
DEAIH OF MRS. B. B. BROWNING.
the night of the eighteenth
instant Mrs. Lizzie Brswmng, wife
of B. B. Browning fell sweetly
asleep in Jesus. Our sympathies
are extended to the husband and
children.
As you press on life’s weary way,
May you have peace with God
< ach day;
Muy light illuminate your soul,
And blaze your pathway to the
goal.
May vou be faithful to your Lord.
And always rest upon his word;
May grace dwell in your heart
like leaven,
And may you find, your way to
heaven. £ G.H.A.
street on Sunday as well as week
days, was voted down
Other matters in the way of
permits to build platforms, shel
ters etc , and many routine mat
ters were disposed of.
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