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VOL. X-
FRUIT CROP BADLY
DAMAGED BY COLO
IN MANY PUCES
Reports Indicate That in Some
Sections of the State the
Fruit and Tender Vegetation
Have Been Ruined
The lowest temperature during the
present cold spell waa reached Wednes
day morning at .7 o’clock at which time
the mercury stood at X- degrees above
aero. According to the local forecaster
the chances are that the weather will
continue below freezing Wednesday, and
Thursday morning, but will begin to mod
erate after that time.
Fair and cold weather is expected Wed
nesday night, and unless a heavy wind
rises ft Is thought that a light frost
will be experienced aa far south as Ma
con. The temperature in that city at 7
o'clock Wednesday morning was 26 de
grees above zero.
The extreme cold in the western sec
tion of the states has not shown any
marked tendency to moderate, and it is
on thia, account that cold weather Is pre
dicted for Atlanta and contiguous coun
try Wednesday night and Thursday. In
Havre, Mon., the temperature at
©clock Wednesday morning was at 1«
degrees below zero, the coldest point
at which a weather bureau station is
located in the United States. At Wil
liston the mercury dropped as low as 12
degrees below, and at Denver. Col., a
temperature of 2 degrees below was re
<XT?e/Joold wave is being felt as far
south as Jacksonville. Fla., a tempera
ture of 34 degrees being recorded in that
city, as well as at New Orleans.
Reports throughout the state in regard
to the probable damage to the peach crop
vary a great deal. A great many lo
cal dealers have expressed the opinion
vhat the damage will not be material on
account of the fact that the strong wind
following the rain which preceded the
cold wave, dried all moisture from the
buds and blossoms on the peach trees.
Others state that while the damage may
not be at first evident, the crop prill
probably be stunted and the quality of
the fruit greatly reduced by the cold
wave, even if the crop is not destroyed.
Notwithstanding the optimistic reports
from fruit growers of southeast Georgia,
it is feared that the cold has caused seri
ous damage In other places of the statet
The extent of the injury cannot be told
exactly, however, until the weather has
moderated.
Advices from Marshallville. Ga.. are to
the effect that one-tenth of the peaches tn
that section of the state have been killed.
Orchard men In the neighborhood of Ma
>-on- say that the crop has been seriously
camaged
In the vicinity of Dalton it Is said that
the crop has been dam' i,by the frees
ipg temperature and that the crop will
be entirely destroyed if frost falls Wed
nesday night.
Texas Fruit Loss Heavy;
Mercury Takes Plunge
DALLAS. Tex.. Feb. X.—Twenty de
grees above aero was the point touched
last night by temperatures throughout
a large portion of northern Texas. The
2P-degree line appears to have extende I
east and west through the latitude
of Dallas and Fort Wnrth. The loss to
the fruit crop has been heavy, but not
total.
Hoot ton and the southern portion* of
rhe .state report that they escaped the
freeze entirely. At Galveston a phenome
nal formation of thin ice occurred today
with the official •government tempera-ure
reading at 36 above zero, minimum. Ex
tremely high barometric pressure is said
io account for the ice. Heavy rains were
reported in the gulf and along the Mexi
can coast.
Say That Cold Will Help
Bainbridge Orchards
BAINBRIDGE, Ga.. Feb. 22.-The coo'
snap of this week did not effect the peach
crop to any great extent in this se :tion.
In fact, several of the largest growers
say that they believe the crop will be
benefited.
Birmingham Growers
Say Fruit Is Damaged
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Feb. 21-Reports
from various parts of th; state show
that the frost and continued cold weather
during the past two days has damaged
fruit and produce crops considerably, an
estimate today placing the amount at
least half a million dollars.
Stiff Wind and Rain x
Saves Alabama Fruit
DECATUR. Ala.. Feb. 21.—Stiff wind
preceding rains saved the fruit crop in
northern Alabama. Should heavy frost
■■one tonight the reaudts are problemat
ical. Growers are very apprehensive.
The temperature here last night d-op
ped to 28 and ice a quarter of an inch
thick formed.
Adairsville Crops Are
Badly Damaged
ADAIRSVILLE. Ga.. Feb. 21.—Tern-
I .era to re hero this morning was 25. Fruit
Continued oa Fags 14.
WISE ILL MUI PRICES
IN KIN VORK KIT«
Thought That Price Will Climb
From 9to 12 Cents a Quart
by Jan. 1. 1912
'By Associated Press.)
ALBANY. N. Y.. Feb. M—That milk
dealers in New York city will raise the
price of milk from ? to 12 cents a quart
after January I. 1912, when the new
health "reflations, requiring it to be put i
In bottles and certified, go Into effect, is
predicted by state experts, who are pre
paring statistical material in favor of a
bill to create a state commission with
power to regulate the business and fix
prices ,
The Backers of the measure hold that
Oe state has the power to regulate the
mil* business as provided in the bill
and cites the United Ftates supreme
court decision In the Illinois grain and
warehouse case to substantiate this
move. • /
I WILL STREET OPPOSES
! TRESTY. NOT FIRMEfIS
I Representative Hill, of Con
necticut, Says Street Re-
} sponsible for Circular
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Feb. 23.—" Not
from the farmers' fireside. but
from Wall street, has come the inspira
tion for the circulars In opposition to
. the proposed Canadian reciprocity
agreement.’’
So declared Representative E. J. Hill,
of Connecticut, in a speech before the
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce to
day.
’■Reciprocity with Canada" was Mr.
Hill's subject, and he discussed It, not as
a party, or political measure, but as a
1 business matter, "divorced from party
• politics."
The trade benefits that have redounded
to the United States and the countries
with which reciprocal trade relationship
has been established, were instanced by
the speaker * as proof of similar ad
vantages that would follow reciprocity
with Canada.
Under reciprocal arrangements with
the Philippines, having a population
greater than the Dominion of Canada,
the mutual trade has increased in a sin
gle year by 70 per cent.
To the ratification of the agreement
i with the islands named, Mr. Hili re
minded his hearers there had been shown
I the most determined opposition and dire
ful predictions were made of the results
that swiftly would follow. So. in the
case of Canada, the speaker thought the
prophesies of woe that have been heard
from those who oppose reciprocity would
be proven to have been ill-advanced.
An analysis of the effect of the agree
ment. when in operation, upon corn,
wheat, fish, lumber, butter and egs. was
given by the speaker, who emphasised
a statement that it would be only the
surplus production of each country that
, go to the other. Os fisheries, from which
interests a fcreat deal has been heard in
opposition, Mr. Hill said:
RAISED MORE OYSTERS.
j ’The entire product of Canadian fish
eries in 1908 was only 225,451.094. We
raised oysters, clams, crabs and lobsters
in thia country to almost equal In value
I the entire product of all the fisheries of
I Canada.
j "Our total product Is about 254.000,000.
Canada exported 222,444,767 worth, sending
to the United States 28,162,728 worth.
We sent to her during the same year
33.342.(70 worth from our fisheries.”
Lumber, said Mr. Hill, has steadily in
i creased in cost and price until the prob
lem now is to know what substance can
I be employed for it.
Figures compiled by the governments
of the United States and Canada show-
I Ing the increasing Value of farm lands
in the two countries are given by the
speaker, who said:
“I commend these official statements
of the two governments to the authors
of the circulars wwtth which thia coun
try is now being flooded in opposition
ta the treaty w bleb. JJjere ateutbun-
• dant reasons for believing, have their
.inspiration In the vicinity of Wall street.
New York, instead of at the farmers'
firesides, and are financed by great jno
nopolles, which the farmers themselves
have .bitterly denounced for year*.”
OF RECIPROCITY W
Col. Pryce-Jones Makes Care
ful Study of Reciprocity
Question in Canada
(By Associated Brass.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—After a three
• weeks' flying'trip through western Can
ado, studs~ing trading conditions, with
a view of speaking on the reciprocity
question before the house of commons,
Col. E. Pryce-Jones, M.P., has just left
New York for London. He visited Mon
treal. Winnipeg, Calgary and a number
of far western points to get the Cana
dian point of view, and then studied
American trade conditions hurriedly in
Seattle, Minneapolis and Duluth. He
summed up the results of his investiga
tions in a brief statement before leaving
New York.
"I found great divergence of opinion
regarding the reciprocity question,” he
says. "Eastern Canadians living in the
manufacturing center of the dominion are
not particularly in favor of it on the
ground that their industries would be
injured. They think the money that
comes to them now from the western
dominion will be diverted largely to
American firms. The attitude among the
western Candians, who are for the most
part farmers, 1* a bit doubtful. On the
whole I think that if the question were
put to a popular referendum today it
would not meet with the approval of a!
majority of Candians.
"The suggestion of annexation is (
laughed at everywhere, and I don’t be- 1
lieve that any one, either in Canada or :
the United States thinks seriously of
It."
ONE CORN CLUB LESSON
K.
The investigation of soils and underground conditions plays an importan
zrt aow In the study of how to make th* fce,t corn. . .
I FARMERS NEED MEN
WHO HAVE COURAGE
TO MW NEW TOIL
i President Barrett, of National
Union, Declares That the
Country Needs to Take Hold
of New Advantages
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
UNION CITY. Ga..
ers, with the courage to beize the oppor
tunity for newer and better methods Is •
the main need of the country so Presi
dent Charles 8. Barrett, of the National
Farmers' union, declares In a statement
issued today to the members of the
union. His statement follows in full;
To the Officers and Members of the •
Farmers’' Union: One of the most diffl- '
cult things in the world is to do things
I a little differently from your neighbors
I and yet that is among the first of the .
- needs in the country life of America to- .
day. The life of the city Is different ■
from that of the country. There the
quickening influence of growth and civ
ilization accelerate development, co-op
eration is Involuntary and there is less
need for a large number of leaders.
"LIVES IN A RUT."
I In the country the problem is more
complicated. The average farmer lives I
the year around in a rut. Many of his
customs he has Inherited from his father. ,
Others he copies from his neighbors. Aa
a result life proceeds from one year’s !
end to another with not one-tenth de- |
gree of the progress witnessed in the
city, into which is all the time pour- i
ing new ideas and new influences. I
To illustrate, it has been the custom I
for decades In the country to squabble |
over land lines, over differences tn re- 1
liglnus onlnion, etc. It haa been a cus
tom and there to indulge in that I
baneful neighborly gossip which does no
one any good and does everybody con- ■
cerued an infinite amount of harm. One i
community may have • the one-horse
habit where it should have the two- ,
horse habit. One county may be stick- '■
ing to old inherited methods of agri- I
culture, when it needs modern, scientific
methods. One county may need more
schools, or better teachers, or longer
terms more teachers.
One community—ln fact, thousands of ,
them tn this country—forfeits each year
to the city a great many more of its ,
young men and women than it can as- ;
ford. There is away to keep these
i young men and women at home and to ;
invest in the country the energy that i
brings dividends in the city.
Now, I sugest tliat if you wnat to i
■ write yourselves down as a benefactor 1
to your fellows, that you get out and j
start doing some of these things that the
rest of your neighbors are too lazy, too ,
blind, or too busy to do or see.
One wideawake, energetic, self-sacrific-,
ing man in a county can accomplish .
wonders. The results may not be ap
parent at once, but if the task is fol- I
; lowed with patience and persistence, they !
; are sure, in the long run.
In the olden days when this co.un- ;
"try wks a wliffri near, tt took the hardest •
sort of courage for men to be pioneers, j
It ta*es ns much or mdrt courage of I
another sort to be a pioneer in our civ- |
Ilized age, when it comes to starting the
task of upbuilding In our country dis- ;
tricts. The man who launches It is go- I
ing to run up against enough snags and '
discouragements and ridicule and indif- |
ference to make him feel that he is
, wearing a crown of thorns.
But in the end he will triumph and be >
! rewarded by the crown of gold that ,
comes from the gratitude ,of his awak- I
ened friends and neighbors.
For the mass of the farmers are not'
so unreasonable or unresponsive, after i
all. Once shown the right way and once
con-inced that a man is trying since
ly to benefit their condition, their grat
itude is decidedly worth the having.
SIMM COTTON SUITS
WILL-BE HEMO IN SPOIL
Failed Firm’s Creditors Have
Filed 37 Suits Against Two
Railroads
; nXsHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 23.-A De
' catur, Ala., dispatch says: The 'thirty
i seven suits recently filed In the Mor
' gan county law and equity court here
; against the Southern and the Louisville
and Nashville railroads by the creditors
of Knight, Yancey A Co., the Decatur
cotton firm which failed last spring for
about 26.000.0 W, have been removed to the
United States court at Huntsville.
It is thought these suits will be tried
in the April next term of the federal
court. The, suits total something like
22.000,000 and are brought by English and
■ (german creditors.
■ The principal grounds of the suit on the
j part of the plaintiffs Is the alleged con
| nivance on the part of the railroads as
i regards the alleged forged bills of cot- '
i ton ladings. Witnesses from points in
England and Germany will be present to
I testify.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1911.
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. THE DOCTOR
ILL GEORGIA RALLYING
i TO COMMERCE CONGRESS
Governor Brown Names Dele
gation of 500, and All Civic
Bodies Respond
The southern commercial congress,
which meets here March 8 to 10, is boom
ing and getting bigger every day. The
main interea, juet now centers in the
showing Georgia will make as to dele
gations.
Governor Brown has appointed a dele
gation of 500 to Wo leading citizens, one
for every county in the state and one fdr
nearly every town. Landon A. Thomas,'+•
of August, will be chairman, and Frank
Waldos, of Atlanta, will be secretary, i
Mr. Thomas is owner of a cotton mill and,
one of the most prominent business men
in the state. Mr. Weldon is too ’.well
known to need introduction
Secretary. Walter G. Cooper,’ of the,
chamber of commerce, which will be host
of the congress, is now giving much of
his time to working in conjunction with
Secretary Quarles and Dr. Owen on the
preliminary arrangements. Nearly 2,000’
engraved invitations have already been
sent out from the chamber of commerce. :
A program of the congress and a re-'
ply post card goes with each invitation.
The Invitation reads this way: "The gov
ernor of Georgia, the Atlanta ohamber
of commerce and the Southern Commer
cial Congress invite you to attend the
third annual session of that body to be
held in Atlanta on March 8 to 10, 1911,
to consider ways and means for the up
building of the southern states and the
development of their resources.” The in
vitations are very handsome. On the
inside page they state that the governors
of 16 states Join in the invitation.
The_conimercial bodies of Georgia are
responding to the invitations in enthusi
astic fashion. Macon will send a dele
gation of 100, Rome 100, Athens, Com
merce 25, Waycross and Cordele a dozen
or more each, and the other town* and
cities in proportion.
Already acceptances have been received
from 100 men of more or less national
prominence to deliver addresses, and
there are still more to be heard from.
Hawkinsville Names
Delegates to Congress
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga., Feb. 23 Mr.
T. B. Ragan, president of the chamber
of commerce, has appointed the follow
ing delegates to attend the Commercial
congress to be held la Atlanta March 8,
9 and 10: f
Mayor P. H. Lovejoy, Hon. J. Pope
Brown, Hon. 25. C. Peacock, Mr W. N '
Parsons, Mr. H. E Coates, M. 8. Y. Hen
derson, Mr. E. B. Weatherly, Mr. J. J.
Harvard. M. W. H. Cotter, Mr. E. M.
Coleman, Mr. W. W. Thomae, Mr. Morgan
Thompson, Mr. T. H. Bridges, Mr. ,T J.
Whitfield, Mr. G. W. Jordan, Jr., Mr.
E. J. Henry, Mr. N. A. Jelks. Mr. W.
W. Poole, Mr. McLendon Pate, Mr. R. A.
Anderson, Mr. J. R. Tippett, Mr. E. D.
Richardson. Mr. J. A. PolhiU, Mr. T. H.
Snowden, Mr. W. E. Burch.
Mr. Ragan earnestly requests that as
many as possible of the above named
delegates attend. This is suppose to 1
be one of the greatest meetings of com- i
mercial people ever held in the south. ■
this farmerlexpects :
MAMMOTH OAT CROP '
BAINBRIDGE. Ga.. Feb. 23.—Mr. D. B. '
Dobell, superintendent oa the plantation
of J. C. McCaskill, in the southern part j
of the county, brought in a sample of! j
oats that, are growing on the farm at ’
present. > |.
e THIS HOG LOOKED AS ♦ '
e I.ABGE AS A BOBSE ♦ 1
e CLARKSVILLE, Ga„ Feb. 22. e
♦ Habersham county has, in Hon. T. ♦ '
♦ J. Gast ley. iterliaps the champion ♦ ’
♦ pork raiser in the county. He kill- ♦ 1
♦ cd a hog a few days ago that tipped ♦ ’
e the beam, dressed, at 652 pounds. -♦ ‘
The liog was an O. 1. C. and looked -♦ 1
♦ nearly as largo as a horse. ♦
LIVE NEWS. TOLD IN BRIEF
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 23.—Practi
cally every school and college in North
Carolina celebrated “Bill Nye day” with
apropriate exercises Wednesday, the pu
pils giving an hour to the execution of
a program prepared |>y tne Rill Jiye Me
morial committee, while tn* memory of
the “Father of ius Country" played-eec
ond fuidle -t« that of the lamented hu
morist.
2A—T*o woman
and a man. gntlng theh names as J. P.
Norton, Mrs. J. W. Norton and Leons
Humphreys, left today for Hattiesburg.
Miss.,, under the escort of an officer to
fatks charges of kidnaping.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Feb. 23.—Fire
starting in a chop suey restaurant on
South Lexington avenue here today
burned through the block to Ora wampum
wtreat and destroyed a number of valu
able business buildings. The loss Is es
timated at mora than 2500.000.
SCHULENBURG. Tex.. Feb 23 -Search
is being made for a negro answering
the vague description given by a 7-year
old child of "a black man what shoot
ed my mamma.” The body of the wonmn
wai\ found by her husband, a Bohemian
farther named Sehmaisteriah, when he
returned from the field late yesterday
to his farmhouse.
LONDON. Feb. 23.—A large steamer
supposed to be a trans-Atlantic liner, is
ashore off the Sicilly islands. The funnel
and masts have gone by the board.
Life boats have gone to the assistance
of the vessel.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22. —Instead of ap
pealing to the police Thomas F. Finley,
of Stamford, Conn., has taken up quar
ters ir the Italian quarter here and is
distributing broadcast placards a foot
square with a photograph and descrip
tion of his missing daughter, Mary Fin
ley, who, he says, disappeared some
time ago. She speaks Italian and he
hopes to find h*r among these people.
PIG EATS DYNAMITE AND
WHEN VISITOR KICKED HIM
PART OF THE BUILDING FALLS
(By Associated Press.)
CORDELE, Ga., Feb. 23. —Chief of
Police Sumner returned today .from
Worth, county, ,wl>ere he had a nar
row escape from being blown to pieces
in a peculiar accident. He says that a
farmer named Striebinger had some very
valuable swine and desired him (the
chief) to see the flock.
The farmer led the'way- to the pen
and one of the finest -porkers” in the
bunch was sound asleep and refused to
PORK' RAISING IN GEORGIA
BRINGS FARMERS GOOD PRICES
AMERICUS, Ga.; Feb. 23.—Nearly S9OO
to date represents the cash sales of home
raised hams and bacon sold already by-
Mr. Robert S. Williams, a prosperous live
at-home farmer near Americus, while his
spacious smokehouse holds meat sufficient
to last Ids family and farm hands the
entire year.
Not one pound of Tyestern side meat
is ever sold to Bob Williams. The shoe
Is upon the other foot.
Besides selling nearly 2900 worth of
meat already- since Christmas, Mr. Wil
liams has • sold enough syrup, butter
and eggs to pay all of his family ex
penses for the year.
In the poultry Mne Mrs. Williams keeps'
ninety individual hens, and has sold re
cently’ 100 dozen eggs in the Americus
market, besides using quantities of them
upon her own table. "Ham and eggs”
constitute a daily- dish upon the Wil
liams breakfast table.
In his smokehouse there are stored
away several tierces of home-made lard,
SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Feb. 23.-After a
satisfactory day the condition of Bishop
J. A. Foresa. of the Catholic diocese of j
San Antonio, who is seriously ill, con
tinued to show a slight improvement.
BATON ROUpE, La.. Feb. 23.—The ca
dets of the Louisiana State university
are soon tb know whether they are just
naturally- lazy or whether their occasion
al desire to “math" and cut
"Greek” is due to the hook worm.
JACKSON, Ga., Feb. 23.—At the meet
ing of the Jackson Rifles, company A,!
Se<-ond regiment national guard of Geor
gia. last night, G. E. Mallet was elected
first lieutenant. Lieut. T. H. Buttrill's I
resignation has been accepted and the
election of Lieutenant Mallet was to till
the vacancy—thus created. Mr. Mallet was
formerly captain of the company and i
is a military man of long experience.
ABBEVIIAE, Gs., Ob. 23.—Henry Kelly waa
arrested and lodgad in Wilcox county jail this
afternoon, by W. B. Harrison, lawn marshal of
ScTlHe. G*. Kelly is wanted for the killing
of an engineer at MUlln. about 18 months ago.
He had been in Abberllle. working at the
Central Georg'a Land and Lumber company’s i
mill, for 11 months, going by the name of
John Lewis.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23.-Dr. Charles
F. Aked, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Bap
tist church of New- York, of which Johnj
D. Rockefeller is a member, has been for-,
rnally called to the pastorate of the First'
Congregational church of this city, ac-.
cording to an announcement made last
night.
CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—A busy day lay be-:
fore Theodore Roosevelt when he arose
at 6:30 o’clock this morning and Insisted:
on taking a short walk before break-,
fasting with the chairman of the com
mittees of the Union Lague club, which :
will have charge of his movements in
Chicago. Three set speeches were on j
the program of the day, as well as two
or possibly three informal talks.
get up. The farmer kicked the pig in
the ribs and there was an explosion that
took the chief of police off hi* feet,
knocked the farmer down and blew out
the side of the building. Incidentally ft
killed the pig.
It took the farmer some time before
he discovered that a quantity of dyna
mite that he had hidden under the pen
for blasting purposes was missing. The
pigs had eaten this. Stneolnger has de
cided not to kick any more pigs.
hams, shoulders and yards of fine cpun-l
try sausage.
Hog So Large it CoCuld Not
Be Weighed on One Scale
BARNEBY ILLE> Ga.. Feb. a.-Mr. -G.
W. Langford, the well-known farmer liv- 1
ing near the city, killed a Duroc Jersey
hog Tuesday which netted 587 pounds, i
which is the biggest hog killed -so far as
reported during the present season.' The)
hog was -so big that Mr. Langford had
to cut him in pieces is order to weigh
him. and he states that if weighed whole
the"weight would have prohabjy been 600.'
The animal was a perfect show, and!
many people went to see it "before i_t was
killed. Its head alone weighed 40 pounds.
Mr. says it was not the old-'
time thick-skin, 'oarse Jersey, but the,
Duroc breed, w-hich is thin skinned, fine;
quality meat. During the past year he
has sold $125 worth of these pigs, and
says lie could now sell 2500 worth if he
had them, but he will not.
FARMERS TOVEL
FDR MILES TO SEE
COLLEGE ON WHEELS
11
Schools Are Given Holidays
and Educators Are Heartily
Welcomed by Thousands of
Farmers in Southwest Ga.
BY W. T. WATEBS, JB.
CUSSETTA, Ga., Feb. 23.—Along the
crest of a windswept ridge, the educa
tional special came here yesterdoy af
ternoon and at 517 feet elevation abeve
sea level the open air lecturers and the
workers within the coaches talked to the
best farmers of Chattahoochee county..'
Fresh from tropics of south Gear- >
gia the train party had come and fresh .
from the back hills of this section their
hosts had gathered to meet them. Some
of the latter came many miles through
the country on a cold day to attend a
two-hours’ course at the college on
wheels.
Will McArdle, one of the prominent
farmers recognized in the crowd about
300 or 400 here, cane 16 miles; Culap G-al- 1
lops, another, came 17 miles. Others
came from points 10, 12 and 15 miles dis
tant, some bringing their families. Doi.
C. Columbus Minter, a lawyer and f&in
er, welcomed the party in the name of
his fellow-citizens, and was seconded by
Mayor IT. L. Harp, 'himself a farmer.
Some of the leading farmers noticed in
the gathering were Lane Talbot, lhe new
representative from Chattahoochee; W. I.
Vanhorn, W. K. Schley, John Stevens,
G. W. King, S. J. Patterson, J. 8. Brew
er, Michael Royal, who rode seven miles
on horseback; W. T. Cooksey, IL W.
Christian, J. B. Felton, P. H. Hollis, W.
A. Weems, George 8. Jones, J. H. Jones, ’
county ordinary; Dr. C. N. Howard, 3r.,
G. G. -Gordy, C. C. Howell. 8. D. McMur
raln, W. F. Cook. John Daniel, Ike
Wyatt. H. AZ J. Harp and C. N. King,
Mrs. J. F. Harris and Mrs. S. E. Mc-
Glaun, sisters and co-principals of the
Cussetta High school, came to the train
with their 54 pupils. A town school build-/
ing was recently completed and has been-'
occupied now just two weeks. Cussetta
is one of the old towns of Georgia, es
tablished in 1854, when the county was
created, the old homes with their gaz--. j
dens in the front yards and their general
style of a generation ago, as well as the _
rolling, broken aspect of the whole coun
try that elopes away in both directions
from the crest of the ridge, offer a strid
ing contrast to the flat country and new
! cities of south Georgia, among which tlw
j special has been visiting lately.
Webster County Schools
Turn Out to See Train
BY W. T. WATEBS, JB.
PRESTON, Ga., Feb. 23.—J. F. Sou
ter, tiie county schol commissioner of
Webster county, welcomed the agricul
tural special here at 12:20 o’clock ye*
terday at the third stop in th« holiday
i run. Commissioner Souter wan the
spokexmah for a idmmlttee consiaCbg
of J. W. Montgomery, the new represer.- a
tative from Webster; Mayor X R. St*- d
pel and R. L. Nicholson, and J. C M*-
Cutheon. About 500 peopla formed
train's audience here. Among the bet- •
ter farmers of the community nc inteNJ k
out were J. G. Lowry, Oscar “right- ’
well, A. P. Passmore, .lodge J. P s WilK->
er, A. B. Holly, King Stillman, John
Freeman, James Wilson, Will Wison, W.
H. Clarke, Tobe weather, John A. King, ,
Angie Wills, W. H. Caln, S. T. Cain, I.
W. Estes, J. W. Wiggins, P. H. Flarry,
Fred Davis, W. T. Wisp, C. L. Staple
ton. W. Stevens, F. E. Bush, J. E. Terry, (
J. E. Dennard, W. H. Crosby and Leop
L. Passmore. J. L. Kenyon, princlpgl
of the school, and Miss Maud Stokes
and their 70 pupils visited the
Several groups of the children from
no is county schools of the county
rnoguized i»v Comm:-sioner Souter,
pointed out some of the teachers, n
A. G. Cleveland, teacher from the
ton school; Miss Kate Gordon, cf
Semincde school: Miss Emma
of the Center Point school, and
Janie E.owery, of the Drew school.
spectacle venders and the medicine
Mrs. who have been following the speME
cial reaping big harvests from
crowds at various stops were again
countered here.
Jt was stated that they had
m advance of the train and
themselves as members of the pirty. '|M
Dr. Soule is taking such steps as he,M|
can to pratect the farmers from thl*
Imposition both by putting his audiences B|
on notice and by advising the town aui- V
thorities. There are no advance or ■
follow agents belonging to the train ■
party and no one who is even remotely B
connected with the train has anything to ■
sell.
Farmers at Leslie Meet I
Farm Train After Dark ’
BY W. T. WATEBS, JB.
LESLIE. Ga., Feb. 23.—One hour’s af
ter-dark stop was made here by the edu- >
cational special, Tuesday from
6:15 to 7:15 o’clock. The traln’t; own
light plant was called Into service and
everybody was shown through the exhib
its. Director Hite and Commissioner Hud
son made open air talks in the dark,
the former's introduction of the latter
eliciting a round of good, hearty ap
plause from the commissioner’s fellow
citizens In Sumter county.
Other than these talks, the lecture pro-
(Continued on Page Fourteen.)
PHIttILMLST
IN FaRTY-ONE YEARS
It Is Expected They Will Be
Selling for 15 Cents
Per Dozen-
NEW YORK. Feb. 23.—The price of |
eggs in New York today is the lowest
February quotation recorded in forty-one
years. Owing to unprecedenaed receipts
from the west market men are quoting
fresh eggs as low as 20 cents s. dozen
and the prospect, according to- authori
ties in the trade, is for a fall M prices
to 15 cents a dozen before March L
One of the largest retail dealers, vrith «a
an eye to advertising his other ware, is -■ |
selling a dozen eggs for 8 cents to cus
tomers buying at least 50 cents worth of
other goods.
The low prices, it is said, are due chief
ly to the mild weather and to a great in
crease in the number of henneries, in
western states.
NO. 45.
