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THE NEWS AND FARMER
VOLUME 31—No. 15.
OUR ROADS BETTER THAN
TRET SEEM, SAYS VISITOR
COMPARED WITH HIGHWAYS OF
OTHER COUNTIES THEY ARE
SUPERIOR TO SOME.
Our Roads As Others See Them.
When the rains come for weeks and
people keep running on the roads and
cutting them up, it is natural that they
should get bad. In fact it is strange
they remain as good as they do. Too
wet' to work and no shops tnd tools in
which to work and fix up old plows, wa
gons, hay rakes, etc., the people must
ride around and burn up oil and cut up
the roads. And in the early spring
when it rains most and the roads are
soft and not fit to use, guano is hauled
and cotton seed also if they can hap
pen to be sold. Is it any wonder then
that our roads get to be a mess. Noth
ing but a solid rock could stand such
treatment. And when such a condition
arises nearly all rise up and talk about
the roads. We want to say this: Some
three weeks ago when our roads were
much worse than they are now, a man
who travels much over this and ad
joining counties told us that the roads
of Jefferson county are by far the best.
That when we had bad roads in Janu
ary and February that other counties
had much worse. That while we had
bad spots, other countios had long
stretches and even miles as bad as our
bad spots. Some consolation.
WANTED
Split hickory spoke billets.
3 1-2x3x14 or 28 inches long.
3 3-4x4x15 or 30 inches long.
3 3-4x4 1-2x15 or 30 inches long.
Carload shipments inspection at ship
ping point. Cash settlements. Write
for prices and specifications. Name your
shipping point and state quality you
can furnish. Address P. O. Box No.
1302, Jacksonville, Fla. 2tpd.
Bank In Hands of Receiver.
The Farmers State Bank of Bartow
closed its doors two months ago and
much effort has been exercised to get
it in working shape, hut without avail.
Last Friday it was put into the hands
of receivers and Frank Hardeman, Esq.,
and Mr. C. S. Bryant were named as
the officers.
CONTRACT TO ERECT THE BANK
The contract to erect the First
National Bank building was let to C.
W. Bernhardt of Atlanta. It is ,to be
completed by August Ist. The picture
of the new building as it will appear
when finished can be seen at the office
of the bank. It is a handsome struc
ture, and will add much to the appear
ance of Broad street. We hope to show
the picture in the paper soon.
for Liberty Bonds. Spot
cash.—R. L. Bethea.
—Wanted—Liberty Bonds.
ANY AMOUNT. Highest
Cash price.—R. L. Bethea.
L_ T/ - / z R/GHT PRICES-
EVERYTHING THAT IS
NEEDED ON THE FARM
Hames Traces
Sweeps Shovels
Scooters Buzzards
Clevises Heel Pins
Collars Harrows
Collar Pads Cultivators
Guano Horns Corn Planters
Guano Distributors Cotton Planters
Planter Repairs Plow Repairs
Back Bands Plow Lines
AND A HUNDRED OTHER THINGS
TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION
H A R D WARE
Little & Com bam/
"THE STORE THAT SELLS * t
THE OLD RELIABLE LINES" LOUISVILLE, GA.
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
FOUND IN AN OLD TRUNK
MONEY THAT WAS MISSING WHEN
BANK OF AVERA WAS CLOS
ED RETURNED TO BANK.
When the Bank of Avera was closed
some time since, it was learned that
$3,000 • j ~~ the safe that were
left tliefJ 3r 0 n , “ l -fore. Friday
Mrs. C. H. Hattawn.,, lives
at Dayisboro was going throug.. Id
trunk, and she found the $3,000.00. It
was in six packages of SSOO each. She
at once notified Mr. T. J. Harvey and
he went and got it and turned it over to
the bank. When he offered to deposit
it, Mr. C. E. Mathis, who lias been work
ing with the bank for sometime and
who is now cashier, recognized the
packages.
CO-OPERATIVE HOG SALE
FOR ONE DAY NEAT WEEK
BEST PRICES TO BE OBTAINED BY
HAVING BIDDERS MAKE
THEIR OFFERS.
For the benefit of the farmers that
have hogs ready for the market, we
want to hold a co-operative sale in
Louisville one day next week. If you
have one or a hundred hogs you can
get them in this sale. These hogs are
graded according to the Government
regulations and weighed here and you
receive your check for them at the
same time. I am getting in touch with
the packers all over the state and ju
at this time I am offered the following
prices f. o. b. Louisville in car lots. This
bid is offered by McCrainie & Hall,
Sparks, Ga., and is subject to a raise
which I believe will be, as prices are
getting better every week.
165 lbs. and ups 14c
165 lbs. and ups roughs 13c
140 lbs and up 13c
115 lbs. and up 12e
90 lbs and up 10c
Stags docked 70 lbs 13c
I# you want to sell any hogs, write
or call me, giving the number and size.
You understand this sale is to be car
ried on in a co-operative way, and no
other expense to the farmer other than
bringing them here and the weighing of
same. This'is the first sale of this kind
ever attempted in Jefikuson county,
and no reason to believe it wont lie a
success, as the above prices are guar
anteed and probably will be raised be
fore the sale. Three cars of hogs were
sold in Sandersville recently, and sav
ed the farmers over SI,OOO bv the above
plan. •
Parties listing hogs in this sale will
be informed in due time as to the time
of sale and also if the above prices are
raised. We have only a short time
to get this sale up; so get busy and
let me know what you have to sell.
C. V. SHIRLEY,
County Agent.
HOW TO MAKE THE GARDEN
GROW IS TOLD BY AGENT
GREAT IMPORTANCE OF OBSERV
ING THRIFT IN CULTIVATION
IS EMPHASIZED.
The gardens are planted now. The
problem from now on consists of plant
ing for succession, top dressing to has
ten growth, and cultivation. Nearly
all lands were hard tins spring and
broke up dloddy, Cultivation after
every rain and a good many in between
will be necessary to remedy this.
Try some Stowell’s Evergreen sweet
corn this year. Plant it right away.
To]) dress corn with soda or ammonia
when knee to waist high, unless manure
was used lavishly. Select your own
sweet corn seed this fall. Stake stalks
this month that show most rapid and
vigorous growth, the darkest green and
biggest leaves.
Try that Pimento pepper. Seed can
be sown. Plants can now be set in
South Georgia. Where tomatoes die
when fruit begins to ripen, the land
is probably infected with wilt. Do not
plant peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers,
nor egg-plants on such ground. Select
a spot where they have not grown for
5 or 6 years. Avoid cotton lands.
Potato bugs are very easily killed
by arsenate of lead one pound; slaked
powdered lime three pounds; of arse
ate of lime one pound, powdered lime
five pounds. Dust this on plants when
wet with dew. For ripe potatoes to
eat during the fall, spray the vines
with 4-4-50 bordeaux plus 2 bars hard
soap. Begin when plants are 6 inches
high and repeat every 3 weeks until
vines begin to "die naturally. Pota
toes from diseased vines will not keep.
In north and Middle Georgia, sow a
rich, spot in early peas for green peas,
then some fall Irish potatoes after the
vines have been turned under in July.
Watermelons are subject to blight.
Begin spraying when vines have run
1 1-2 to 2 feet and use 4-4-2-50 bordeaux.
The two sprayings have doubled the
watermelon field. A side dressing of
acid phosphate and meal (4 to 1) when
vines have run about 2 feet is good.
Drill fertilizer, shallow (2 to 3 inches)
and 1 to 1 1-2 feet from the row. A
top dressing of soda or ammonia may be
substituted using 75 to 100 pounds ■
acre. Lots of acid is to be desired this
season to hasten maturity. .
In North Georgia cabbage should be
set at once if not already done. Use
succession, Copenhagen Market, Flat
Dutch and late Flat Dutch.
Top dressings of soda or ammonia are
advisable for cabbage, lettuce, corn,
melons and the asparagus bed. It does
not pay to top dress tomatoes, beans,
okra nor Irish potatoes. Sweet pota
toes may have a top dressing especial
ly on eiay lands. For North Georgia
the Nancy Hall is better than Porto
Rico Yam. Over Middle and South
Georgia the Porto Rico is to be prefer
red.
Bedded land dries out quickly and
promotes earliness. For summer and
fall crops, planted from now on for suc
cession, the level planting is best.
Try top dressing the lawns with acid
phosphate. Bermuda that is getting
thin should be loosened by plowing or
spading and the stand will be improved.
Mowing and raking up the cut gress
for the cow, and then return her drop
pings next fall, is a wonderful aid to
the lawn. Ground limestone is ais)
necessity for good lawn grass.
Prune the spireas, Golden Bell and
ledges now. Remove the old wood and
piomote n w growth. Wood over four
years* old is usually unsightly in the
flowering shrubs. Work plenty of ma
nure in about the roses and add acid
phosphate. Keep the ground stirred in
the rose garden.
Now is the time to be thinking about
that sweet potato storage house. 150
were built in the 8 nth last year. One
for every Georgia community is the slo
gan this year. The league house usual
ly gets most attention, consequently
usually has the least rot. One tenth of
one per cent, or one rotten bushel ir
1000 is the record for Georgia the past
winter. Will a bank ever equal that?
E. E. BLACKBURN,
Extension Horticultu list.
C. V. SHIRLEY,
County Agent.
Will Plant Tobacco.
Mr. W. L. Beall, who war. roared in
Jefferson, but now lives near TTazle
hurst, visited his brother, Mr. J. L.
Beall, last week. lie says the farmers
of his county will reduce cotton one
half. That owing to the boll weevil
he made only 67 bales of cotton last
year, when a fair yield would have
been 125 bales. To meet the weevil
evil much corn is being planted and the
farmers will raise much tobacco. He
says tobacco houses are being erected
ali over the county.
Every subscriber to the ocunty pa
per is doing something to upbuild his
county. The local paper is the mirror
through whicli the outside world secs
a community. To publish a good pa
per it is necessary to have every avail
aide subscriber. A good paper increases
the standing of the community in which
it is published.
If you wish to send a letter in a
hurry, write “in haste” on the envel
ope. The postmaster and clerks will
then fall over each other in the:.- haste
to get it in the mail first, then tile
postal clerk will yell to the enginerr:
“Pull her wide open, here’s a letter
in a rush.”. And the train will just
fly.
Next to the wife beater comes the
horse beater and it is to be regretted
we have one or two in this community.
A horse is the most faithful and noble
of animals and the man who would
abuse his horse has something lack
ing in his manhood.
The usual big crowd that comes on
the first Saturday in April was here on
Saturday. This is the day when ra
tions begin to be issued to those who
have been employed to work on the
farms and there is always a largo as
semblage.
LOUISVILLE, GA. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1919
TWO TON TRUCK BOUGHT
BY COUNTY FOB HAULING
THIS WILL MAKE POSSIBLE QUICK
ACTION WHEN TEMPORARY
REPAIRS ARE NEEDED.
The county board has bought a two
ton truck with cab and body and it
will be a great addition to the quick
repairing of Viad places on the roads. It
a heavy rain washes up :i bridge and
makes a place bad for travel, a lot of
hands can be put on tin truck and carry
plenty of tools to use And it will
make the trip quick —after the fashion
of an automobile. And while there tin
truck can be used to haul sand at
dirt and any other kind of material
needed. And when tin- work is done,
the hands can be quick] • returned to the
gang. We hope the truck will accomp
lish the work desired, for often a bad
place is left too long an i it grows worst
each day and soon mtn-li more expense
is incurred to fix it.
Road Tax and the Collectors.
Tile road tax for 1911 tis $4.00 or 8
days' work on the pull:.- roads. Col
lection of the tax begins April 15th,
and must be completed In- .lone 4th.
We give the names of the collectors:
76th District —A. Manning.
77th —W. L. Averett.
78th—R. W. Underwood.
79th—A. O. McCoy.
81st—G. R. Wiggins.
82nd—E. A. Harrell
84th—N. T. Medanii l, A. G. Miller.
85th—R. N. McDaniel.
1460 th —T. P. Hadden.
1593rd—J. G. LaFavnr.
Dismantled A Ford.
On September 21st, 1918, Alex Lowry
was coining from Augusta and his car
refused to run four or live miles above
Wrens and he left it and a good over
coat. Returning later he found the
coat and everything, such as the tires,
that could be detach* <l, gone. Even
the timer was gone. The cost of sup
plying the parts w*as $185.55. After
a long search he got evidence against
four negroes and* one white man and
they have been arrested recently. Tt
often happens that the owner is forc
ed to leave his ear in the road and it
should be a felony to strip and plunder
it, as it is a felony to steal a car.
As the time to plant cotton draws
near the demand for guano increases.
Wagons wait in line all day for it.
MEMORIAL EXERCISES UN
TWENTY-FIFTH OF APRIL
Tin- twenty-fifth of April will be ob
served as Memorial Pay this year.
The veterans of the eountv are cor
dially invited to attend the Memorial
Services, which will be held at the au
ditorium, Louisville, Ga., April 25th, at
twelve o ’clock.
U. D. C. Meeting.
The Daughters held their monthly
meeting at the residence of Mrs. C. C.
Burkhalter Friday afternoon, April tin*
4th at 5 o’clock.
The meeting was opened by singing
the il Star-Spangled Banner” followed
by repeating the Lord’s Prayer in com
cert.
After approval of minutes the
morial Committee made their report.
A motion was carried to the effect
that ten dollars bent from the Lou
isville Chapter as our contribute i t
the twelve hundred dollar fund whi i
is to go to the Veterans at the Old Sol
diers’ Home and used by them as
spending money.
The appointment of committees .and
discussion of plans for Memorial Day
was the principal feature of the meet
ing.
There will be no set speaker for the
occasion only informal talks from
men who can speak from heart to
heart to the veterans.
The president referred again to the
appeal that is being made to Chapters
over the State to send boxes to the
veterans at the Old Soldiers’ Home.
A letter of thanks from Mrs. Trox
Bankston was read, thanking the Chan
ter for ten dollars sent to the Heh
Plane educational fund.
Mrs. R. W. Little read so well, a po
cm, the first voice representing a Sou
thern Volunteer and second voice, a
Northern Volunteer.
Each daughter is expected to make
four wreaths and send flowers and
wreaths to the cemetery late Tliursd
afternoon before Memorial Day. There
will be a committee present to receive
and put them on graves.
The study of the afternoon was:
“The Early Efforts of the South to
Rid Herself of Slaves.” Miss Roberts
told how the North, when she had more
slaves than she could manage and was
profitable to her sent them South; how
some of the Southern States tried to
rid themselves of slaves, blit couldn’t
as it was unlawful for a slave holder to
free a slave unless he was able to sup
port himself, how eighty per cent of
those who fought on the Confederate
side never owned a slave (though slave
ry finally became one of the issues of
the war), how General Cobb and Lee
tried to free their slaves and how there
were more anti-sla v ry societies in the
South than in the North before the war.
The Historian read an account of an
incident in the lif< of the late Oapt.
Dick Milledge. After Lee had surren
dered, before the soldiers were dis
charged Capt. and a friend, Harry Har
per, were out riding near the Sand
Hills of Augusta, when the former spied
some Yankees and said: “Harry, let’s
give them a parting shot.” They did,
and this was probably the last shot of
the war.
Mrs. Barwick invited the chapter to
meet with her in May.
After the study Mrs. Burkhalter
served a delicious salad course. Officers
will be elected at the May meeting and
a full attendance is requested.
Kenyon Mott Dead.
Atlanta, Ga,. April B.—Dr. Kenyon
Mott, eye specialist of Atlanta, and one
of the best known practitioners in the
state, died suddenly of heart trouble at
his home in Kirkwood about 3 o’clock
this morning. He came to Atlanta sev
eral years ago from Brunswick.
DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF
FEED FOB IKING PORK
EXPERIMENTS BEING MADE WiTH
THE OBJECT IN VIEW OF GET
TING BEST RESULTS
Atlanta, Ga., March 7.—What k the
best and most efficient food for creating
“hard” pork? That is a problem, and
an important one, which it is proposed
to solve through tests which have just
been determined upon through co-opera
tion between the Georgia State Bureau
of Markets and the Georgia Experiment
Station at Experiment.
As the result of a conference between
Director H. P. Stuckory of the Experi
ment Station and Director L. B. Jack
son of the State Bureau of Markets, it
has been determined to secure 80 pigs
weighing from 70 to 80 pounds each,
divide them in lots of ton, and feed
each lot a distant and separate ration.
Tn tliis way it will be possible to
make a careful test of eight different
varieties of hog feeds, and the results
will he noted in the aggregate weight
of the hogs and the quality of the pork
produced.
These hogs will be, kept in different
enclousures at the Experiment Station,
so that there will be no possibility of
their getting any but a known food and
a known quantity. In this way it can
be determined exactly what a given
ration will do. The results of these
important tests w-ill be given to the far
mers of Georgia in a carefully prepared
bulletin, as soon as they are completed.
Why is it, a careless seven year old
kid can drop a half burned mat -i m
an alley and burn up all the barns in
a block, while an able bodied man has
to use up a whole box of matches to get
a wood fire started in a heater that has
enough draft to draw all the furniture
up the stove pipe?
The foolish virgins who spend nine
tenths of their time in learning to
decorate china, would do well to remem
ber that a young man in search of a
good wife is more likely to tie to a
girl who knows how to’ decorate her
china with a good square meal, well
cooked and daintily served.
The best way to build up a town is
to stand by every man in the place
who does right. Whenever a man is
doing well do not tear him down. All
residents should be partners, not op
ponents. Tn all livelihoods the more
business vour rival gets the more you
will do. Every business man who
treats his customers honestly, courte
ously and fairly will get his share,
and the more business that can be
secured by united efforts, the better it
will be for nil. When a town ceases
to grow it begins to die, and the more
people try to kill each other's busi
ness in their town the more readily
will utter ruin come to all. Stand to
gether for the advancement of every
citizen. If a man shows ability to
prosper, do not pull him back thru
jealousy or weight him down through
cold indifference.
Always Something
New and Novel
Each week we add new and novel lines of me
chandise to our already large stock of goods.
We endeavor at all times to keep abreast of mod
em innovations, and therefore we are in posi
tion at all times to give you tip top service. So
why should you seek goods from the mail order
houses? Do they pay taxes in Louisville? Do
they stand for the prosperity of Jefferson coun
ty? We should say not. This store is a home in
stitution and is dependent upon you for our sup
port.
Won’t you give us a share of your patronage?
Louisville Drug Cos.
The m&XaJUL Store
LOUISVILLE, GA.
COURT HOUSE ANO YAHD
HEADY FOR THE MAY TERM
SHERIFF THOMAS IS HAVING
THINGS MADE SPICK AND
SPAN FOR VISITORS.
Sheriff Thomas is getting the court
house and yard cleaned lip for the May
Court. And then we will have a hun
dred or more visitors here from Toombs
county attending the big murder trial,
and he wishes to have our fine building
and grounds looking sparky, dean and
attractive. You are correct Mr. Sheriff.
LOCAL RAILROAD FLAGMAN
MEETS DEATH IN ACCIDENT
CHARLIE TOOKES STUMBLES AND
FALLS AND FATALLY INJURED
BY MOVING TRAIN
Charlie Tookes, the flagman on lii
Louisviiie A Warily rai r w l , was run
ov r Tlmr.-day ~and on • b. cm* *ff
rJ-c-v Hi* k>: v th Lther at the
ankle. iL that n.J.t While
coin! :*> t ii* i \\ \uley at th V, TooV*
ran *n fi r '2 The engin * an 1 -luiu
bled an I Nil . ; the track. lie ,nau
an effort to eseape, bir su *rvodod
in getting only his body out of dan
ger.
Extra Jurors.
On account of the murder trial from
Toombs, many extra juors will be drawn
for the May court, and we will print j
all of the names next week, so all ar J
range * l ’eir business accordingly.
Toombs county pays all of the bills,
but. we are sorry for the tax payers.!
Crime is a cost and a nuisance.
AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE.
An Oakland. In first class condi
tion. Will be sold at a bargain.
M US. HENRY L. BRULATOUR,
4 3 3t pd Care S. L. Black, Bartow, Ga.
—Complete stock of high
est grade fertilizers now on
hand ready for delivery. R.
L. BETHEA.
We note with pleasure that the farms
in tliis county are developing into a
higher state of cultivation. The young
farmers have certainly improved upon
the old fogy methods if their fathers
and the modern ways of farming is
causing Mother Earth to produce her
largest and best crops.
SUIT IN U. S. COURT
There is a controversy between Mr.
W. B. Smith and Mr. N. W. Bendenfield
on a piece of property in Wadley. It
is part of the land where the Terminal
hotel formerly stood. As Mr. Smith
lives in South Carolina he brought the
case in tlie IT. S. Court. We hear there
will be an effort to have it transferred
to the Superior Court of this county.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
SUNDAY MORNING TRAGEDY
ENDS LIFE OF FRANKLIN
PROMINENT CITIZEN OF TEN
NILLE VICTIM OF BULLET
FIRED BY HARVEY BLOUNT
Sandersville, Ga., April 1). -Special—
With his brain:; oozing from a bullet
wound in his head Ram O. Franklin
was brought to Sandersville for treat
ment at Dr. Win. Rawlings Sanitarium
early Sunday morning, but as soon as
the physicians could make an examina
tion they stated he did not have one
chance in a hundred to recover, as the
bullet had entered the forehead over
his left eye and passed out at the back
of his head, rendering him unconscious.
He died six hours after receiving the
wound.
There were some conflicting reports
about the tragedy, but from the best
information rbDinrble it appears that.
Mr. Franklin, Harvey Blouna and J. A.
Whitsett were together at an early
hour Sunday morning in one of the
restaurants which serves quick lunches
to passengers who travel through Ten
mile. They left the restaurant together
and there was a scuffle, followed by the
report of a pistol shot. Those who
were near by saw Blount and Whitsett
running away and found Franklin ly
ing unconscious with a bullet hole
through his head.
Tt is not known what precipitated the
tragedy, but it is stated that Franklin
struck Blount over the head and that
Blount fired the fatal shot.
Whitsett was arrested and jailed,
charged with being an accomplice in
the crime. Blount went to his home
in the southern part of the county, but
it is reported that he is willing to sur
render to the proper authorities when
ever wanted and a commitment t
can be arranged.
The news of the unfortunate trage
dy spread rapidly and there were many
inquiries as to the origin of the trou
ble and the condition of the wounded
man. Mr. Franklin was a son of the
late Oapt. .T. D. Franklin of Tennille.
He is survived by his second wife and
three children, his mother, two married
sisters, and two brothers. He was
about thirty-six years of age and except
during the time when he was connected
with a bank at Matthews, Ga., and la
ter was employed by a railroad company
in Florida, had always made his h<
in Tonnille. He was popular with his
acquaintances, and there were many ex
pressions of sorrow and regret when
the news of his death was heard.
It is stated that Mr. Whitsett, who
is now in jail, will be given a prelimi
nary trial as soon as possible and it
is probable that Mr. Blount will also
demand a preliminary trial this week.
The funeral of Mr. Franklin took
place at Tennille Tuesday and the bur
ial occurred at Zeta eemetery.
The American naval experts are
planning a hugs battleship, combinning
the armor of the dreadnaught vvitli the
speed of the battle cruisers. This will
start anew race in naval programs.