Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, February 24, 1911, Image 1
1 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. i 7pu;. r I ’ll - H —— £- -Tjr ’ pWr* . 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.