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STORM DESTROYS
RUM’S PARADISE
ANCIENT RENDEZVOUS OF PI
RATES JS LAID WASTE BY
FLORIDA COAST STORM.
MIAMI, Fla., July 30.—Rum Row,
ancient rendezvous of pirates and
freebooters and now the “capitol”
of the invisble bootleggers kingdom,
today was a shambles.
The hurricane which swept the
Bahamas and up the East Florida
Coast, leaving in its wake more than
200 dead, crippled shipping, millions
of dollars in waterfront and other
property damage and broken lines of
communication, left the small Chain
of Keys a picture of desolation from
the North Bimini Island through Gun
Cay, two score miles off the lower
Florida Coast.
The storm, after unleashing its full
force on Nassau and its island of
New Providence, veered Northwest
ward and swept with increasing in
tensity through Rum Row Tuesday,
«
attaining a velocity in excess of 130
miles an hour, according to calcula
tions of rum runners.
Eight floating liquor warehouses,
berthed in snug anchorages within
the Keys the year round were sunk
by the storm, the few persons aboard
the craft swimming ashore to safety.
No lives had been reported lost in a
partial check of the island.
Rum kings said there were cargoes
aboard the boats aggregating more
than $250,000 in assorted liquors in
■“hams” or sacks containing six quart
bottles each. These supply ships,
built staunchly for the occasional dis
turbances in the tropics, were whip
ped about the Keys, finally plunging
to the bottom.
Findings was keepings today as a
score of small skiffs, manned by
crews of ebony West Indian negroes,
dived into the blue waters off the
banks'for the cargoes of liquors, now
lying beneath 20 to 30 feet of water.
Laboring under a torrid midsum
mer sun, the negroes frequently re
freshed themselves with foaming bot
tles of the best Germon beer, sal
vaged by the divers. They were fish
ing up hams at the rate of 30 sacks
an hour, more than $75,000 worth of
( the goods, estimated at retail Gun
Bay prices, being beached by noon.
k Rum Row’s profitable industry in
the past has never,been idle for long
at a time, and dawn today brought
a trip of small speedboats the chief
' rum enemy of the government coast
guards boats.
AUTHENTIC RECORDS SHOW
LARGE PROFITS FROM FEW
ACRES OF GEORGIA LANDS
J. H. Morton of the State College
of Agriculture, marketing depart
ment, in an- interview with The Week
tells a story of actual results on a
Georgia farm of 40 acres, six of
which are in buildings and pastures,
and only 34 under cultivation, which
is illuminating as to farming possi
bilities in the Empire State.
“I have just returned,” Mr. Mor
ton said, “from a business trip to
the home and farm of Mr. J. F. Car
gyle, at Ocilla. It is a practical il
lustration of the results of modern
farming. Mr. Cargyle has just fin
ished figuring up the results from
three acres of tomatoes, which he
sold in .Atlanta and nearby markets
at $4 a crate. He netted between
S6OO and S7OO from the three acres.
“That, however, is something of a
side line with him, and was not what
took me to his place. He has put in
three acres of Big Stem Jersey sweet
potatoes. His crop is one of the pret
tiest I have ever seen. We grabbled
under several of the plants to get a
look at the propective results and
find that every hill has from five to
seven well developed potatoes of rich
golden color when broken. He is
preparing to market them in leeway
hampers, the best container to be
had, and they will bring him a yield
6 66
is a prescription for
Malaria, Chills and Fever,
dengue or Bilious Fever.
It kills the terms
of about 125 bushels to the acre, at
the time he intends to dig them for
early marketing. Os course the yield
would be even greater for later dig
ging. Figured on the available mar
ket price for the variety he is pro
ducing the return will run over
$1,200 from these three acres.
“His • method of farming, too,
proves the value of careful study
and scientific operation. This year
Mr. Cargyle has planted beans
where he had potatoes last year, and.
his records show he has sold several
hundred dollars worth of beans off
the ground used last year for pota
toes.
“Besides his big stem Jerseys, he
has three acres of Porto Rico yams
which will run a yield of about 150
bushels to the acre, and on these he
will realize just about the same re
turn in cash as on the Jerseys.”
The figures given by Mr. Morton,
taken from the records kept by Mr.
Cargyle, indicate a return to this
Georgia farmer of between three and
four thousand dollars from a farm
of 34 acres of cleared land which, he
says, does not take into account a
flock of magnificent chickens, some
fine cows and a proportionate num
ber of hogs on the place. And these
are in addition to fruit trees enough
to supply all the family wants, and
more grapes than he can use.
The point stressed by Mr. Morton
is the result that can be had in Geor
gia from careful intensive farming
on not too much land, and by close
attention to the proper crops and the
demands of the markets; particularly
markets nearby for certain of the
truck crops, like beans, cucumbers,
etc.
DEADLY DELAY IN
COURTS ATTACKED
J. P. HIGHSMITH, of Baxley, Ga-
Judge Superior Court, Bruowlok Cir
cuit, Candidate for the Court
of Appeala.
Judge Highsmith is now completing
his twelfth year as judge of the Bruns
wick Circuit, having been elected first
When 86 years of age.
He has made one of the best su
perior court judges in the State, and,
K elected, will render the same char
acter of service on the Court of Ap
peals.
If each judge averaged deciding Mx
to eight eases a month, no case would
remain in the appellate courts of Geor
gia longer than one month. What le
gitimate excuse then is there for a
judge taking a year on an average to
decide his oases? A majority of the
judges do not. If elected Judge High
smith will not.
HIGHSMITH CAMPAIGN COMMIT-
TEE.
.1. B Moore. Chairman.
MAYNARDLOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Lunsford and
sons of Macon, Mr. W. B. Lunsford
of Barnesville, Mr. Jim and Miss Sa
rah Lunsford and Mr. Herman
Wheeler of Juliette and Messrs. Paul
and Douglas Roquemore spent Sun
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Lunsford.
Mrs. Otis Allen and daughter are
guests of Mrs. Horace Ham.
Miss Estelle Lunsford returned
home Saturday after spending two
weeks in Barnesville.
Misses Julia Mae and Annie Kate
Abernathy are the guests of Mrs. C.
J. Tompkins.
Mr. and Mrs. John Norsworthy and
Mrs. Maddox of Forsyth visited Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Lunsford Sunday.
Misses Mamie and Ruth Webb and
Mr. Walter Spier visited Miss Estelle
Lunsford Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Marion Weldon and Miss Eva
Williams visited Miss Estelle Luns
ford Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. P. H. Hencely spent Monday
with Mrs. C. C. Lunsford.
We are very sorry that our old
friend, Mr. G. A. Pennington, is ill.
He has many friends who wish him
a speedy recovery.
Mrs. D. M. Johnson and children
spent Monday with Mrs. C. C. Luns
ford.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER
FARM NEWS REPRESENTATIVE
FINDS GRANARIES INADEQUATE
FOR BIG KANSAS WHEAT CROP
NEARLY ALL FARMERS
ARE USING COMBINED
THRESHING OUTFIT.
A special from Fowler, Kansas, to
Farm News says that the Kansas
elevators, granaries and bins will not
begin to hold the wheat this year.
Farmers are compelled to pile their
wheat, generally in their front door
yards, where it can be watched both
for weather conditions and theft. In
this section of the state farmers have
never had such an immense crop as
they are harvesting this year, con
sequently all of them are happy and
contented.
The National Farm News represen
tative, driving in an automobile over
Kansas, has seen enough wheat in
the last few days to feed the world,
it would seem. Every little town and
county seat has from four to six ele
vators and they cannot begin to han
dle the wheat as fast as it is har
vested and threshed.
Fowler has four large grain ele
vators that will hold 200,000 bushels.
These four elevators were filled in
four days, then farmers have to wait
or pile their wheat on the ground un
til the elevators could empty into box
cars on the sidings. The elevators
fill up again in four days. This has
been repeating itself week after
week since harvesting began. And
Fowler is only one town of this kind
among many others.
Every town and county seat has
its elevators. They are only a few
miles apart and one can see box cars
by the hundreds on the siding wait
ing to be loaded with wheat.
Wichita papers claim that 1,500
carloads of wheat are coming into
that city every day, while Hutchinson
papers claim 998 cars a day is the
record there; Kansas City reports
1,64^ cars of wheat in a day, Salina
reports 165 cars and the same thing
is true all over this part of the coun
try only on a smaller scale.
The weather in Kansas has been
perfect for harvesting, the only thing
that has given any concern has been
the numerous fires in wheat fields,
some very serious. One man lost 35
acres of wheat from a fire before it
was extinguished. These fires, in
most instances, are a result of igni
tion from the exhaust pipe on the
tractors and is one of the problems
confronting the tractor manufactur
ers. Harvesting in the old way with
'machines that pile up big straw piles
also have to be carefully watched on
account of fire.
The combined harvesting and
threshing outfit has come to stay in
Kansans. Nearly all the farmers are
harvesting in that way because it has
so many advantages. Uwo and three
men can operate an outfit of that
kind, performing the work of twenty
to thirty hands in the old way, and
they can cut and thresh from thirty
five to forty acres of wheat in a day.
That is the average for a machine
with a 12-foot cut but they are en
larging these machines until now
they are making them all the way
from twelve to twenty-two feet; the
average ranging from twelve to
eighteen feet wide in their single
cutting.
Some of those combines carry wag
ons or trucks along their sides and
the threshed grain pours in a stream
right into the wagon bed. Others
are stored in a huge bin on top of
the machine and this is emptied in
two minutes direct into trucks and
hauled away. A Fowler man is au
thority for the statement that no less
than 250 trucks are used in hauling
the grain to the elevators and dump
ing places in the vicinity of this
town. •
Another said he was working with
a combine outfit that cost $6,000.
They had just contracted with one
man to cut his wheat over 700 acres.
Many men have said that the yield
this year in this vicinity is running
from 35 to 45 bushels per acre and
that it is a common thing for farm
ers to have anywhere from 10,000 to
15,000 bushels of wheat this year.
With the price running all the way
from $1.07 to $1.26 a bushel, is it
any wonder they are happy?
Enough trucks have been passed
on the roads hauling wheat in Kan
sas that if they were put end to end
they look like they might reach from
Kansas to Washington, D. C., and
that is some distance.
THE COMPOSER OF “DIXIE”
WAS INSPIRED BY NEGROES
MT. VERNON, Ohio.—There are
persons here who remember the last
days of Daniel Decatur Emmett, the
famous composer of “Dixie,” who is
buried in Moundview cemetery, near
Mt. Vernon. Emmett was eighty-nine
years old when he died. He was born
here and died in his cabin, not far
from his birthplace.
“I spent many an hour in Em
mett’s cabin,” said J. W. McConkie.
“How he could sing and play the
violin! He would sang by the hour,
in his old age if a fat, sleek ’possum
were promised him at the end. He
was passionately fond of the meat of
that animal.”
Emmett received inspiration for
the swinging lilt of “Dixie” while
watching a group of negroes load
cotton on the wharf at Memphis, ac
cording to McConkie.
“They were humming/’ said Mc-
Conkie, “just keeping time as they
juggled the bales, and something in
their attitude and song gave Emmett
the inspiration for his immortal
tune.”
U. S. MANUFACTURES
TWELVE HUNDRED TONS OF
PAPER MONEY' EVERY YEAR
Twelve hundred tons of paper
money is being manufactured each
year by the United States govern
ment to supply the needs of the
country. In 12 months approximate
ly 1,000,000,000 new pieces of paper
money are put into circulation. The
same number are worn out each year.
The life of a dollar bill iS estimated
at six months or shorter than ever
before in history.
The use of paper money in this
country has increased three-fold dur
ing the last 15 years. At the same
time the government has been seek
ing ways of increasing the life of
paper money. Paper which is 100 per
cent stronger than the present stand
ard is to be put into use soon.
The cost of annual replacement of
papei- money i^ estimated at $4,000,-
000. The life of paper mohey is
steadily decreasing, the government
reports, due to the increased circula
tion and greater carelessness in
handling it.
FOX FIRE; ONCE MYSTERIOUS
LIGHT; NOT NOW FEARED’
Boys and girls nowadays seldom ।
experience the thrill of seeing a
mysterious light glowing dimly in the
depths of the forest or gleaming
from some half buried rotton log ini
a lonely swamp. The cutting away of
the forests and the draining of swam
py land have cleared from much of
the landscape the causes which pro
duce fox fire. In early days, how
ever, the feet of pioneer children of
ten were sent scampering home in
the twilight when their owners came
unexpectedly upon a light which
seemed to have no source, says the
Indianapolis News.
Ghosts and goblins and all sorts
of evil omens ever have been associ
ated with the appearance of fox fire
and will-o’-the-wisps. There long has
been a difference of opinion regard
ing the cause of fox fire, but now it
is generally conceded to be due to a
living fungus' growth which perme
ates decaying vegetable matter and
which possesses the power of emit
ting waves of light. No sensible heat
wayes are thrown out, and in this
respect fox fire resembles the light
emitted by fireflies and glow worms.
FIVE “MOTHERS OF ’6l”
STILL DRAWING PENSIONS
On the United States pension rolls
are five mothers of civil war veter
ans drawing pensions and they range
in age from 96 to 102 years.
One of them is Samantha Farrer,
negress, of Athens, Ga., who does
not know how many years over 98
she is.
The Advertiser I
DIRECTS YOU TO THE I
BEST SHOPPING PLACES I
Just a few moments spent
in looking through the Vari
ous advertisements in The
■ Advertiser will direct you to
the best shopping places.
Through these ads you
> will learn of the best values
offered, the newest mer-
S chandise, latest styles, the w
% most unusual services avail- J
able.
Make up your mind today
to buy from he Advertis
er’s advertisers. Then shop- I
ping will be a delight.
FEWER BANKRUPTS
DURING PAST YEAR
DECREASE OF 280 CASES IN DIS
TRICT COURT AT MACON. LA
BORERS LEAD LIST, WHILE
FARMERS COME SECOND.
MACON, Ga. —Business conditions
in South Georgia during the period
from July, 1925, to July, 1926, were
better than those of the same period
of time the previous year, if figures
of bankruptcy petitions filed, con
tained in a report compiled yesterday
by the clerk of the United States
District Court for the Southern dis
trict of Georgia, can be taken as an
indicator.
There were 732 cases filed during
the fiscal year just ended, from July,
1925, to July, 1926, while those of
the previous fiscal period numbered
1,012, or a decrease of 280 petitions.
According to the report, most of
these petitions, after they had been
examined by the referee, were found
to be a true statement of fact and
were granted,'as only 79 cases were
dismissed.
The wage earners are indicated by
the report as being the class of peo
ple the most buffeted by the winds
of poverty, while the farmers come
,in the second class. On the number
of petitions in which action was com
pleted during the year just ended,
523 were filed by wage earners and
209 by farmers.
Deaths in the Punjab during the
recent plague, between March 1 and
May 15, numbered 54,000.
BABY CHICKS FOR SALE
Purebred White Leghorn Baby
Chicks $8.75 hundred postpaid.
Brown Leghorns $lO hundred.
ANCONAS, best layers out sll
hundred.
| Rhode Island Reds, best producers
of MEAT sl2 hundred.
Barred Rocks sl2 hundred.
All purebred* and strong.
' We pay postage charges and guaran
tee live delivery.
NICHOLS FARMS,
Rockmart, Georgia.