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THE GREAT AUGUST SALE
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Is Now Going Great
Thrifty Buyers From Every Section of Our Territory
Are Daily Taking Advantage of Our Great Savings
THE REDUCTIONS ARE SO ATTRACTIVE THAT IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO VISIT OUR
STORE WITHOUT BUYING SOMETHING
INCLUDED IN THE SALE ARE —
Men’s Suits Boys’ Suits Extra Trousers
Hats Shirts Overalls Summer*Oxfords
Dress Goods Domestics Lingerie Materials Hosiery
Ladies’ and Children’s Pumps and Oxfords
Ladies’ Ready - to - Wear
Forsyth Mercantile Company TO EAT AND WEAR
GEORGIA'S TALL BOYS
PUZZLE AUTHORITY
•NOTED NEW YORK PHYSICIAN
SEEKS CAUSE OF UNUSUAL
GROWTH OF GEORGIA BOYS.
SAYS SEVERAL FACTORS AID.
The following article by Dr. Royal
S. Copeland, former commissioner of
public health in New York and now
a United states .senator and author
ity .on health and hygene, is an il
lumuiating discussion of Georgia’s
most valuable crop—its hoys—and is
taken from .the Atlanta Georgian:
A dispatch from Georgia tells a
-wonderful tale about the size of men
in that noble state. Instead of be
ing slim and ithin individuals there
appears 'io be an unusual number of
big men.
In the Savannah High School a
“Six-Foot (Club” has been organized.
It numbers 15 members 16 and 18
years of age.
In the Technical High School in
Atlanta are said to be more than .a
hundred students, each six feet or
more in height. Many of them weigh
in excess of 200 pounds. These boys
are between 16 and 17 years of age.
It would be interesting to have
some accurate figures from oth^r
sections of the country. New Eng
land, New York'and New Jersey, the
Midwest States, the Northwest and
Southwest States should give us fig
ures for comparison.
If Georgia boys are actually larger
on the average, we must seek the
cause. National origin, mineral con
tent of the water, peculiar feeding
and greater exposure to sunshine —
these are the factors which come to
mind offhand as among the possible
reasons for producing unusual
growth.
Trees like those found in Cali
fornia, the giant redwoods, could not
grow to such heights in Northern
Canada. Vegetation in the Southern
States in never rivaled for size in
Northern sections.
It isn’t warmth alone that pro
duces the growth. There are other
properties in sunlight that have
much to do with the great devel
ment of vegetation in some sections
of the earth. Showered and poured
on the plant cells, the sunlight makes
them multiply at a great rate.
If .the water and soil of Georgia
carry the “growing minerals” it may
well 3ae that the abundant sunlight
makes them available. This makes
possible their transmutation into cells
and fiber, causing rapid growth of
bones and body.
I doubt if sunlight .alone would do
the work. If that were the only
factor the native of sunny Italy
should be big instead of little. The
fresh fruits and vitamines would
seem to be taken in quanties over
there, too. But in Italy milk is not
the common and abundant food it is
in America. So the child does not
get the lime .and other growing ele
ments of this important food.
J have not .seen a comparison of
Italian and Georgia waters. Here
may be an important difference.
Georgia has her famous springs.
Good health and growth depend,
you see, on several vital factories.
Every child should receive their ben
efits.
NEW TYPES COTTON
ARE DISCOVERED
ATLANTA, Ga.—Cotton produc
tion in Georgia and cotton breeding
through the United States may be
affected by the discovery of several
new types of cotton by 0. F. Cook,
J. W. Hubbard, and F. C, Baker
members of the bureau of plant in
dustry, who recently returned from
a three months’ exploration trip in
the West Indies and South America,
the department has announced.
One of the new types has bracts
that are open and turned back from
the buds and young bolls so that lit
tle protection is afforded for boll
weevils or other pests and diseases.
Such cotton could also be picked
with less “trash” or broken bracts
material and the grades would be
improved.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER
17-YEAR LOCUSTS
DUE AGAIN IN 1927
STUDENTS OF INSECT’S HABITS
’ SURE IT WILL ARRIVE ON
SCHEDULE TIME.
t
’ "“Coming events cast their shadows
; before.” 1927 is the year that the
5 seventeen-year locust is due again.
5 At least -the authorities on locust lore
E and superstition are sure he will ar
rive on schedule time, and they have
’ never been mistaken in the past, says
r the New York Times.
f No one seems to know exactly
; where the seventeen-year locust
1 comes from, but it is a matter of rec
■ ord just the same. The thing that is
t interesting to farmers and old tim
-3 ers more than anything else is wheth
t er be will bear a W on bis wings or a
■ P, as is usually hoped. Won the sev
enteen-year locust’s wings means
war. There is no reason known why
■ it should always be either P or W,
• but those are the only two letters
that have been noticed. Locust ex
> perts have a great amount of statis
tical backing when they assert that
if W is on the wings it will surely
mean war, and if P is on the wings
it will surely mean peace.
“In 1893, when the locusts appear
ed,” said an old commercial traveler,
“the wings bore a decided W and We
promptly got into war with Spain. In
1876 P was on the wings and follow
ing that we had peace and plenty.
And again in 1859, old farmers say,
the seventeen-year locust showed up
with W on his wings. The civil war
came.”
Some of the older generations of
farmers have records in their family
Bibles to prove that a former visita
tion of the seventeen-year locust pre
saged the Mexican war by bearing W
on its wings. The farmers are not
anxious to have them come, but they
are all unusually superstitious as to
their verity as harbingers. “This let
ter business,” said one, “seems like
a very foolish superstition, but when
FARM-GARDEN NOTES
t
Never have we had greater proof
of the fact that early fall seeding of
grain and all other winter crops pays
well than we had this year. Much
grain, vetch, clovers and some alfalfa
were seeded by the middle of Octo
ber last year and there was a vast
difference in the yields of these ear
ly sowings and those made a month
later. Experiments at the State Col
lege of Agriculture for the last sev
eral years on the proper dates for
seeding small grain show on a av
erage just half the yield from No
vember 15 sowings as from October
15 sowings. Our experience this
year bears out this record.
Another thing we have never done
to any considerable extent in Geor
gia is to “summer fallow” the land to
be sown to grain in the fall. By this
is meant breaking the land in August
and keeping it harrowed after rains
until about the first of October, then
sowing. In ^is way the land has
time to settle back together before
sowing time and yet it has plenty of
moisture as a rule to insure good ger
mination and will enable the plants
to become firmly rooted in the soil
before freezing weather. The result
will be a greatly increased yield in
most cases.
No time should be lost in prepar- |
ing a good turnip patch. Have the |
land filled with manure and fertilizer
running high in potash. Get a good
rain on the land before sowing. Sow
while there is a high season in the
ground if possible. Dairymen can
produce an abundance of cheap cow
feed from turnips if they will handle
the crop right. For this purpose it
would be best to. plant in rows and
thin the plants out to about six inch
es in the drill in order to get tur
nips of good size. The cow horn tur
nip may be left closer. It is a good
you know they do bear either the W
or P and that the sign has never fail
ed, what are you going to do about
it?”
variety to plant for feeding. The
amber globe is 4 fine for cooking.
It is not yet too late to plant a
patch of fall Irish potatoes if suitable
land can be had. They should be
planted in loamy rich soil not in
clined to dry quickly. They must
have moisture during September in
order to make their growth.
Collards and cabbage may also be
planted out at this time and if a spe
cially suitable spot is available toma
to plants may be set now for a very
late fall crop. They should be kept
dusted or sprayed with Bordeaux
mixture to keep the plants hfealthy
and in fine growing condition.
Sow rape, rye, and oats on a rich
spot of ground for the chickens this
fall. One big reason for the failure
of hens to lay in late fall and winter
is lack of tender green stuff. Try
some early sow patches for all greens
and get eggs a plenty for Christmas.
SURGEONS BUILD BOY TWO
ARMS FROM THE FLESH AND
MUSCLE OF HIS OWN BODY
CHICAGO, 111.—Surgical skill has
provided H. Wiegman, 17, armless at
birth, with two useful and movable
arms made from muscle and flesh
from his own body. The boy now is
able to perform difficult tasks and
even to operate a typewriter. He
has been using his man-made arms
for four years, but surgeons have
just permitted the case to become
known.
Henry, who was able to eat, write,
draw and do like things with imple
ments held between his cheek and
shoulder, was armless at birth. Two
stumps, one three and the other four
inches long, hung from his shoulders.
On these these surgeons built, bit by
bit, two jjealthy arms, using skin,
muscle and flesh from other parts of
the boy’s body.
For months the lad worked in a
special school in Chicago learning
how to use his new arms. He pro
gressed steadily, and today has per
fect\control over the members. He
hopes to become an artist.
TAX LAW ON RUM
IS NOW EFFECTIVE
HEAVIER PENALTIES AGAINST
MOONSHINERS AND BOOTLEG
GERS. SPECIAL TAX OF SI,OOO
ON WHISKY HANDLERS.
U .
WASHINGTON, D. C—The gov
ernment’s new weapon against boot
leggers, taxation, is ordered into op
eration today by the treasury.
Instructions were issued to prohi
bition administrators regarding the
form of taxes and penalties which
may be assessed against bootleggers
under the new revenue law and the
prohibition act.
At the same time orders were is
sued by Frank Dow, acting chief of
the prohibition forces, for the em
ployment of the staff of 62 men au
thorized recently by congress for as
sessment work.
On a basis of this drive for taxes
on bootleggers, Assistant Secretary
Andrews of prohibition enforcement
informed cong r ess he expected to col
lect enough revenue to reduce mate
rially the cost of prohibition.
The instructions issued to prohibi
tion administrators point out that
double and triple taxes on illicit li
quor can be assessed as penalties.
Under the new revenue law the di
rect tax is $6.40 a proof gallon on all
distilled spirits diverted to beverage
use and $6 a barrel containing more
than one-half of one per cent of al
cohol sold for beverage consumption.
A special tax of SI,OOO levied on any
person carrying on the business of
a brewer, distiller, wholesale liquor
dealer, retail liquor dealer or man
ufacturer of stills.
All of the assessments are in ad
dition to the regular stamp taxes
which are required under the reve
nue law on all distilled liquor, wine
and beer. For this reason it would
be assessed under the new policy as a
penalty and the bootlegger would be
prosecuted separately for the assess
ment. _