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THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE, CANTON, GEORGIA
FRIDAY, FEBRUA1
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CANTON, GEORGIA ..
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Official Organ
The Cherokee Advance is the Official
Orfcan of the County of Cherokee
end the municipality of Canton, Ga.
Rata of Subscription
One Year fl.60 6 Months._.7i«
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at the Canton Postoffice as mail mat*
ter Of the second clas. under Act of
Congress.
WHERE GEORGIA COMES FIRST
By Miss Mitded Ruthford
First in America to build nn or
phans asylum, 1740, showing loving
interest In others.
First to rule rum from the colony
realizing that liquor makes “a
feeble folks.”
First to rule slavery from the
colony, realizing that slaves pro
duce liziness.
First to have a vagrancy law,
1813 ; no idle people in Georgia.
* First and only military colony;
law must be mantained.
First to escape the Indian’s toma
hawk; no tomahawking in Georgia.
First to trail the Spanish flag in
the dust, Remember Rloody Marsh.
First Christian baptism in Ameri
ca, 1540 in Ocmulgee river.
First cannon ever fired in Ameri
ca, 1540, by one of DeSoto's men
near same spot.
First to have a headright policy—
200 acres of lnnd to every settler
and 50 acres to every child.
First toaHt ever offered to the
United States, “Free and Indepen
dent States of America,’’ July 1776.
First to have Sunday school—
John Wesley at Savannah, 1735.
first to ordain a negro preaches
—George Leile, 1774.
First to use an Indian alphabet—
the Indian Sequoyah, or George
Guess.
first to have a hymn hook—
ChArlcs Wesley, published at
Charleston, 1737.
First to legislate ngainst the slnve
trade.
First to have a commissioned
ship.
First to send a schooner against
the British.
First to send powder to Bunker
Hill.
First to erect a liberty polo in the
south, 1776.
I'irst to send a steamer across
the Atlantic - the Savannah, 1819.
First to suggest the possibility of
steam as applied to naVagation—-
William Longstreet. Patent granted
by the Georgia legislature to I.
Briggs and William Longstreet, Feb.
1 1788.
First to have ironclad steamboat
with ram—Charles Austin.
First botanical garden in the
south, 1833, See weeping willow
from Napoleon’s grave.
First passenger railroad planned
Ebenezcr Jenks, 1825.
First colony or state to appoint
a Thanksgiving day- Olethrope at
August, 1735.
First to have rural delivery-—J.
E. Ponder.
First to pass the married woman’s
aet, giving a woman the right to
mnnnge her own property.
First to pass a law forbidding
that wnmen shall be imprisoned for
debt.
First to codify the English law
to principles of equity—Thomas R.
R. Cobb.
First to have a paper mill in the
south—1839.
First to make cottonseed oil—
Athens, Georgia, 1829.
First to have a railroad commis
sion— Americus, 1877.
First to give free ruilrado trans
portation to farmers.
First to have a farmers club in
the south—1891.
First state department of ngri-
wltSWi 11 Iff Iff
First to plant cotton for cammer-
cial use in America—1734.
First cotton to be made into
thred in America—Sent by Riehnrd
Leak to Massachusetts.
First to chop out cotton with n
hoe— Purnal Truitt, 1818.
First to ship n bale of cotton to
Englund form Amcria- James Hab
ersham ’ or Samuel Auspourgeur
both of Georgia.
First Ito invent and patent the
cotton gin—Joseph Watkins, Peters
burg, Georgia, 1792.
First to suggest the brush in the
jrjfi— Mrs. Hiltyouse, of Augusta.
First to tell Eli Whitney of Wat-
kin’s gin— Mrs. Nathaniel Greene
of Simons.
First to invent a cotton tie—Dud
ley l ee Blakely.
First to invent the sewing machine
—F. R. Goulding.
First woman to use n sewing ma
chine- Mrs. F. R. Goulding.
First to diversify crops. Prize at
St. Louis exposition.
First to discover ether as an ana
esthetic—Crowford W. Long.
First woman to own and edit a
paper— the Washington Gazette.
1802.S Mrs. Hillhouse, of Wilkes
con n ty.
First to cultivat grapes—Work-
sham de Lyon, 1735.
First bay tree in Anmrica.
First to inevnt cotton pocker.
First philoRophial apparatus
in the south—bought in Paris by Dr.
Henry Jackson for Franklin College
1784.
First to have state university—
1734.
First to have a college for women
Weslyan Femnle college, Macon,
1839.
First woman in the world to re
ceive a diploma—Catherine Brewer.
First to bestow degrees upon wo-
nn,
First natural training school—
1803.
First free high school—Richmond
Academy Augusta, Ga., 1783.
First to organize a boys’ com
club in the south—Newton county,
1904, G. C. Adams.
First to invent a circular saw—
t’(M, 1798.
First to suggest the Ferris wheel
—Osborn Lowery, J. Jefferson,
Jackson county.
First to invent a revolving can
non— James Stewart.
First woman to own and he presi
dent of a railroad—Mrs. Williams.
First womnn to receive a commis
sion from the United govern-
Shoe Specials
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Another can be bought
And a higher class
$1.45 per pair
$1.95 the pair
$2.95 the pair
These shoes are the odds and ends, from our stock
of ladies and childrens shoes, some of them sold as
high as $12, in their day ana that has not been long
since, you can get a real bargain.
It costs nothing to look them over
Sales final, no exchanges, refunds, etc.
If you>ant something good for practically nothing
dont miss the opportunity.
Shoe Department
Mercantile Company
anion’s Big Department Store
C0ITIIN BUYERS > FERTILIZERS
ment—Octavia LcVert, 1855, Paris!
Industrial exposition.
First in automobiles—twice as
many as any other state of its size.
First southern state to sign the
United States constitution.
First to cup trees for turpentine
man u fucture—Charles Herty.
First to tunnel the Hudson—Wil
liam McAdoo.
First and only vice president of
the Confederate state*—Alxander
H. Stephens.
First to offer troops to the Con
federate government—Oglethrape
Light Infantry, Snvnnnah.
First to have a wayside home for
soldiers—Kingston, 1861.
First to celebrate Memorial Day
Columbus, Ga. April 1866.
First to plant the flng at Mnnila.
First to have a mother to send
ten sons to the Confederate army.
First to have a father to send
twelve sons to the Confederate
ormy.
First woman to give two United
States justices to her country—Mrs.
Williamson Lamur and Campbell.
First to suggest State Dny —Miss
Frances L. Mitchell.
First to have a State Day author
ized by law- Joseph Habersham
Chapter D. A. R.
First southern state to hold nn ex
position—Atlanta.
First state to give women her full
and equal rights by law, and this
without suffruge.
What G*orgia Claims.
Of the nine climate belts in the
I ' United States, Georgia has eight.
Georgia’s marble surpasses Ver
mont’s. The Corcoran Art gallery, in
Washington City; State Capitol, St.
Paul, Minn,; State Capitol, Provi
dence, Rhode Island; State Capitol,
Frankfort Ky.; State Capitol, Littl*
Rock, Ark.; stock exchange, New
York City; Royal bank, Montreal,
Canada; Bank of Montreal, Winni
peg; Illinois State monument at
Vickburg; Louisville and Nashville
station, Louisvile, Ky.-—these and
other monuments and buildings
without number all over the country
are of Georgia mnrble.
Georgia has 142 square miles of
coal.
Georgia has 175 square miles of
iron.
Georgia lias theonly asbestos in
the United States except Wyoming.
Georgia has the only mountain of
solid granite- Stone mountain.
Georgia’s orn excells Iowa’s.
Georgia’s wheat crop oxcels that
of Illinois.
Georgia's oats excells Ohio’s.
Gorgia’s apples are the finest in
the United States.
SUGAR TARIFF NO
AID TO FARMERS
Consumers Taxed for Benefit of
Factories, Not Beet Growers.
GEORGIA—Cherokee County.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Cherokee
County, and will of Fannie Hutcher-1
son deceased, will be sold at public
outcry, within the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in March
1922, before the Court House door
in said County, the tract of land in
said County, being lot No. 78, of
Block G. of the E. Billing’s survey
of >Crisler and Teasley addition to
the town of Canton on the West
side of South -East St. on said sur
vey, but now known as Roy st. Said
survey recorded in Books of Deeds,
J. J. Page 168.
The lot has a good three (3)
room house and now occupied by
Mr. Emmett Stepp. Terms one-
third cash, balance three (3) years
interest from date, 8 per-cent due
anually.
G. I. TEASLEY, Executor of
the will of Fannie Hutcher
son, deceased.
4t-Jan.-20.
GEORGIA, Cherokee County.
To all whom it may concern:
W. I. Beard gnardian «f oJseph
Bates has applied to me for a dis
charge from his guardianship of Jos
eph Bates, this is therefore to no-
ify all persona concerned, to file
u ’sr objection!*, If any they have, on
• before the ftnt Monday in Feb-
mry elao he will be discharged
from his guardianship as applied
for.
JACOB 1IASSSY. Ordinary.--
WOOL BENEFITS QUESTIONED
P air Tariff League Head Says Beets
Are Not Important American
Crop.
By H. E. MILES,
Chairman of the Fair Tariff League.
Sugar In the beet, the product of
the farm, Is given a protection of 5%
ltd valorem In the Fordney Tariff Bill
now before Cohgress.
Itelined sugar, the product of the
licet sugar factory. Is protected with
a specific rate equivalent to from 80%
to 100% ud valorem on the basis of
present prices. ,
For example, the Michigan sugar
factory receives a prohibitive protec
tion against the Importation of the
product of ilie Ciinndiun sugar factory,
hut the Michigan sugar beet farmer
receives practically no protection
against the Canadian sugar beer.
In view of this farmers art* asking
If the 00% Increase in the tariff on
Cuban raw sugar contained In the
Kordne.v Tariff Bill Is an effort to pro
tect the farmer or an effort to pay a
further Ismus to an already sufficient
ly protected beet sugar Industry.
All farmers use sugar. They usually
buy It In 100 pound sacks. Every time
a farmer buys n sack of sugar he pays
$2.00 ns the result of the tariff on
sugar. Half of this goes to the Gov
ernment and half of It to the beet
sugar manufacturer.
This Is true because we consume In
this country twice as much sugar as
we make, hut the price of sugar to the
farmer Is the Cu' au price plus the
tariff. But tlie farmer paya tills price
on both the domestic sugar and Hie
foreign sugar. Therefore tlie fanner
pays half of this tax to the Govern
ment and half to the manufacturer of
beet sugar In this country.
Sugar Stats a Miner Product
The farmer might feel that he waa
getting some benefit out of this if the
raising of sugar beets was actually an
Important American agricultural pur
suit. This, however, Is not the case.
The crop acreage of sugar beets for
1920 was 692,455. The crop acreage
for peanuts was 1.256,000, almost dou
ble the acreage devoted to the cultiva
tion of sugar beets.
The following table Indicates the
Importance of the acreage devoted to
sugar beets as compared with certain
other crops;
Sugar beets 692,455
Buckwheat 739,000
Clover seed 843,000
Sweet potatoes. 1 .. 1.042,000
Bleu 1,091.800
Bye 1.103,000
peanuts 1.256,000
Flaxseed 1,572.000
Tobacco 1,910,800
Irish potatoes.... 3,952,000
Burley 7.19K.000
Cotton 33,560,000
• tuts 41,835,000
llay 50,552.000
Wheat 72,308,000
Corn 100,072,000
Even those farmers who raise sugar
tieets might properly ask in what way
their Interests arc being protected by
an increase in the duty on Cuban
sugar. It Is currently rumored that
the contract price pafd the farmer for
sugar heets during the coming season
will he from $5.00 to $5.50 a ton.
The average pre-war price with the
tariff at lc was $5.57, approximately
the price that will tie paid farmers
during the coming season with the
tariff Increased 60%.
Very few farmers grow wool, hut all
farmers wear clothes. American grown
wool, the product of the American
farm, Is one of the chief rallying cries
of the high tariff exponent.
Fallacy of Wool “Protection”
Farmers are clad in mid-winter
mostly In cotton and shoddy, and yet
the woolen manufacturer today Is
given 45 cents u pound protection on
the entire weight of the farmers'
clothing on the basis that It is all wool.
He passes this additional cost on to
the farmer, hut gives tlie wool grower
about one-third of this 45 cents In In
creased price of wool.
A foreign piece of men's suiting
weighing eighteen ounces to the yard
ts 40% cotton, 30% wool and 30%
wool shoddy, costing on the present
rate of exchange $1.09 a yard. A com
parable domestic fabric costs $1.75.
Under the Fordney Tariff the duty
would lie 24% of this $175, or 42c;
the weight duty at 30c a pound, 33%c,
and the landing charge 9Vfce, making
.the foreign fabric cost here $1.95.
Under the present Emergency Tariff,
with Its 45c a pound weight duty, the
fabric would cost $2.08 as against the
American price of $1.75.
The wool grower would get 15c pro
tection per pound instead of the 45c
weight duty, the manufacturer keep
ing 30c of the weight duty, but charg
ing the farmer who buys clothing the
full 45c.
The American farmer should be In
terested to find out why It is that his
common agricultural Implements man
ufactured in the United States cuu be
bought for less b> the European farm
er than lie has to pay for them,
thanks to the protective tariff. For
instance, lie should inquire why be
lias to pay $891 a dozen for a shovel
manufactured in this country while
the identical shovel exported can be
hough* in Europe for $7.50.
With these facts in mind it is time
;l$at the American farmer let himself
’>* heard in protest against n protee-
:l#e tariff which most emphatically
Jgjes net give liija a square deal.
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H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN,
ATLANTA. GA.
Georgia, Cherokee County.
Whereas, G. A. Murdock, Execu
tor of the will of J. D. Johnson,
represents to the court in his peti
tion duly filed and entered on re
cord, that he has fully administered
J. D. Johnson estate. This is there
fore to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said f
Executor should not be discharged
from his administration, and re
ceive letters of dismission, on the
first Monday in March 1922.
JACOB MASSEY. Ordinary.
Georgia, Cherokee County.
Whereas, Roy Cox, represents to
the Court in his petition duly filed
and entered on record, that he has
fully administered A. D. Cox estate,
this is therefore to cite all persons
conerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they can, why-
said Administrator should not be
discharged from his administration,
and receive letter of dismission, on
the first Monday in March 1922.
JACOB MASSEY, Ordinary.
Georgia, Cherokee County.
To All Whom it May Concern:
D. J. Smith having in proper form
applied to me for Permanent Letter
of Administration on the estate of
W. M. Smith, late of said County’
This is therefore to cite all persons
and singular the creditors and next
of kin of W. M. Smith to be and ap
pear at my officewithin the time
allowed by law, and show cause, if
any they can, why permanent ad
ministration should not be granted
to D. J. Smith on W. M. Smith’s es
tate.
Witness my hand and official
signature.
This 1st day of Feb. 1922.
JACOB MASSEY, Ordinary.
Georgia, Cherokee County.
To Whom It May Concern;
Notice is hereby given that A. R.
Cagle, as Administrator of James
Cagle, deceased, having applied to
me by petition for leave to sell the
real estate of said James Cagle, de
ceased, and that an order was made
thereon at th« Feb. Term, 1922, for
citation, and that citation issue; alV
the heirs at law a*d creditors of the>
said Janies Cagle, deceased will
take notice that I will pass upon
said application at the March Term,
1922, of the Court of Ordinary of
Cherokee County, and that unless
cause is shown to the contrary, at
said time, said leave will be granted.
This 7th day of Feb. 1922.
JACOB MASSEY, Ordinary.
Georgia, Cherokee County.
To Whom It May Concern:
The appraisers appointed to sel
apart a years support out of the
estate of W. H. Woody, deceased,
for his widow and three minor
children having been filed with me,
this is therefore to cite all persons
Tiictrai-j thow cause, if any
they have or can, before me on or
before the first Monday in March
next, why said return should not be
made tne judgement of this Court.
This 6th day of Feb. 1922.
JACOB MASSEY. Ordinary.