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IkifflXEDTO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OP CHEROKEE, THE BEST COUN TY IN NORTH GEORGIA.
VOLUME XLVII
CANTON, GEORCJ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922
SHOUS PROKRIY
OFFERS COMPARED
Washington, February 21.—An
WILL SPEAK AT COURT HOUSE
Mr. F. R. Shanks of Texas will
peak in the court house here Friday
March 3rd at 12 o’clock. Mr. Shanks
is out making speeches indeavoring
abstract of the proposal of the Ala- to * et a11 farmers to or * anize 80 as
to promote their selling cotton. This
bama Power company for the Mus
cle Shoals proerty, which was for
mally transmitted to congress today,
in brief, is as follows:
1— For completing the Wilson
dam without further advances or
expenditure by the government ex
cept for its locks.
2— For leaving the government in
full title and possession of the two
nitrate plunts and the Waco quarry,
for such disposition, either by lease
or otherwise, as it seems fit, for se
curing nitrate for munition of war
or fertilizer with proper provisions
to safeguard the inteest of the
government in case of war or other
emergency.
3— For 100,000 horsepower secon
dary free of cost, for operation of
one or both nitrate plants for the
production of fertilizer and muni
tion of war, either by the govern
ment or its nominee.
4— For the purchase by the com-
pany of this 100,000 horsepower In
case the government does not use it.
5— For the payment of$5,000,000
for the government’s interest In the
Gorgas steam plant and transmiss
ion line and the Sheffield steam
plant.
plan has been worked successfully
in other states and is now being
organized in Georgia. Mr. Shnnks is
an able speaker and no doubt a
Inrge number of Cherokee farmers
will be present to hear his address.
WEEKLY DENS
WEEVILS Will
EMM BALL MID
and reliable abstract of the Ford
proposal which consists of two parts
one to lease the dam, and two to
purchae the nitrate plants and ac
cessories.
Part 1—Offer to lease the dams;
provisions of offer:
—. Ford agrees to pay $56,000 an
nually for the maintenance of dams,
locks, etc., making a total payment
in 100 years of $5,500 000:
2. He agrees to pay interest at 4
per cent on whatever the cost may
be for completing both dams. If this
amounts to $40,000,000 (the esti
mate of Ford’s engineers), the total
in 100 years under Ford's plan of
payment, will amount to $161,040,-
000.
3. He agrees to a plan of amorti
sation sufficient to retire $40,000,-
000 in 100 years $49,000,000.
Total payment to the government
under Ford's offer during 100 year
6—In submitting the offer, the |'ease period $215,540,000.
company proposes that all its rights
and obligations be fixed by a licen
se for a period of 50 years, with
right of recapture by the govern
ment under the terms and provisions
of the federal waterpower law,
with which you are familiar.
7—The Alabama Power com-
pacny is a public utility operating
in a large field, Its rates and services
are regulated by public authority.
Members of congress are deluged
egUh so many requests for the de
tails of the Henry Ford offer for the
Muscle Fkr.als properties that there
Is evidently, especially in the south,
a great deal of confusion a sto just
what the offer is in concrete terms.
Tliis confusion has been accentuated
by recent county proposals and by
a flood of organized propaganda
against accepting the Ford offer.
Following therefore , is a plain
Miss Nellie Kate Martin has re
turned to Atlanta after spending
several days with Mary Emma Mc
Clure.
Miss Louise Hendrix of Agne#J
Scott College spent Tuesday at homd
and had as her guests two friends
from Washington D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo Alender of At
lanta spent the week end with their
purents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. McCol
lum.
Mrs. Grace Jackson, of Atlanta
iR spending the week with her sistef
Mrs. John Garrett.
Miss Margaret Goble spent the
week end in Jasper last week. <*;'
Mrs. Ben Perry spent Wednes^jk^
in Canton with Mrs. Albert JonM.*
Mrs. Richardson of GainesviBe,
Mrs. Lipscomb, and Miss Lipscomb
and Mr. Joe Lipscomb of Cumin
Mr. Ed Lipscomb of Locust GrW
Dr. and Mrs. McClure and Miss M
tin of Atlanta attended the fundfl
of Imogene McClure last week.
Miss Cora Hubbardentertalned
Rook Club Tuesday evening wltHilfr
Valentine party. Several Interestl
games were played, among thi
were, a guessing contest, jumping
over the hoop and taking the gam*
of chr. i:o by receiving seal' d orders
in which the young men found, a
wedding ring to present to each rigl,
after which they were given plait
to build their homes. Mr. T. ^
Price and Miss Johnnie
Cotton farmers are now busy ar
guing pro and con the advisability
of reducing or increasing the cotton
acerage for 1922, but in the numer
ous arguments quoted we seldom
sec any mention made of one of the
most important factors which should
' have u very positive influence on the
button program for the coming sea
son. This is the prospect of boll
weevil abundance. For quite a num
ber of years the Delta Laboratory
of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S.
Department of Agriculture has been
making a series of studies each sen-
IE THICK IN 1922
WILLIAM WALTER BOBO DEADi
The friends in Cherokee of Wil
liam Walter Bobo will regret to
learn of his death which occurred on
Friday Feb. 20th in Atlanta, where
he has been a resident for several
years.
He is a son of Mr and Mrs. W. P.
Bobo of Ball Ground. He whs 37
years of age and leaves a wife and
seven children, two sons anil five
little daughters.
When he was quite young he took
up the study of telegraphy nnd riftl-
Iroad work and has worked at dif
ferent points in Georgia for the past
twelve years. At the time of his
death he was in the employe of the
! Terminal railroad and much beloved
son to serve as a basis for predic- by the men with whom he worked.
Lions regarding the severity of aping j The funeral was conducted at th«
infestation of boll weevils. The re- Hapeville Methodist church nnd his
cords for 1922 have just been com- body was laid to rest in College Pnrk
pleted and for comparison with cemetery, the terminal employee*
these we have similar records for the acting as pall bearers with maRonic
past eight years. , orders in charge amid a large num-
The number of boll weevils cmerg ber of sorrowing friends and loved
ing from hibernation each spring dc- ones. The flornl offerings were large
pends on two things; the number and beautiful. He was n brother of
entering hibernation in th cfull and B. P. nnd A. P. Bobo of this place,
the percentage of these surviving. The Advance extends sympathy for
Last fall the majority of the cotton the bereaved family.
belt saw conditions which permitted
•n unusually large number of wee-*
vils to enter hibnmatlon. The
HELP IMPROVE
MAIL SERVICE
There has been expended to date
in building Dam No. 2 about $17,- prJee ^ Miss Johnnie F i ynn m
000,000. reived tha prize which was a Kewp«?
Cost of completing Dam No.2 by fo) . ^ , b „ st huilt llome . The |u#
a contract already offered, $23,000,-
Q00.
Cost of building Dam No. 3 by
contract already offered, $17,000 -
000.
Total government investment in
Muscle Shoals dams and hydro-elec
tric plants will amount to a total of
$57,000,000.
Deducting the $49,000,000 which
Ford repays from the $57,000,000
total cost, leaves $8,000 000 unre
funded, which is less than the
amount stated by the United States
engineers as chargeable to naviga
tion, their pre-war estimat ebeing
$8,575,000.
The United States engineers have
more than once recommended that
winter weather has generally heen
abnormally mild to date and the us-
lunl period# of severe weather has
passed although there is of course
still a hare chance of temperature
low enough to influence weevil sur
vival. Because of this mild weather
a high rate of weevil survival was
i _ .to bo expected. Our recent records
lucky couple received a Booby have more than verified this expor-
v.’hich war a j-umping inr*k. -Rev^inP These reiwds are made in
games of Rook wn.j played aftei a number of different ways hut the
which refreshments were served. comparable criterion is the
The invited guests were, Misses Ada fl^ ure j iase d on the number oflive
weevils found hibernating in Span
ish moss in certain selected localities
in Louisiana each year. During the
past few days we have examined
over 3600 pounds of Spanish moss
from 15 different selected points re
presenting the different types of
of weevils in these cages determine
in the spring. We have just com
pleted an examination of this series
of cages and find that these figures
verify those quoted in the moss ex
aminations, and show the percentage
of survival to datejto be much high
er than in past venrs.
In considering'the significance %f'l out obstructing travel
February 1, 1922.
MY DEAR POSTMASTER:
The Department is of the opinion
that the service on rural routs can
he much improvdll if a greater de
gree of cooperation on the part of
rural patrons can he secured, and
that this is possible if the matter be
brought to their attention in the
proper way. It is believed thnt the
local press will not only be willling
but glad to lend its assistance in en
gaging the interest of the patrons
and enlisting their help, ns the news
papers are vitally concerned in a
prompt delivery service, and that it
will publish such matter without
cost as being of public benefit.
Postmasters of the third nnd four
th classes are requested to endeavor
to have their local or county papers
published, without incurring ex
pense to them or to the Department,
either the following article or one
of similar purport and purpose;
By direction of the Post Office
Department, postmasters through
out the country have recently made
an inspection of the rural routes
from their offices. The purpose
was that they might escertain by
personal observation and make re
port whether the roadA used were In
good condition for trnvel, the routes
well arranged, boxes properly erect
ed, so as to be easily reached by the-
carriers without difficulty and with-
the carriers
and Ester Bush, Johnnie Flynn,
Zack Head, Vera Groover and Dess
Anderson and Mr. Frank West.
WANTED—Man with car to sell
low priced GRAHAM TIRES. $130
per week and commissions. GRA
HAM TIRE CO., 443 Bulevard,
Benton Harbor, Mich.
$8,575,000 should be charged to the
these findings, it. Arnold Ik* 'remem
bered that while they mean n very
abnormally heavy emergence of over
wintered Weevils . in the....c.pmi.og
spring, they do not neOasnrlly mean
that the weevil damage this season
will he unusually great, since it is
possible that summer weather con
ditions may he sufficiently unfavor
able to the weevils to offset, this
heavy, early infestation, but the fact
remains thnt the farmers will start
the cotton crop under a tremendous j hum
handicap nnd it is going to require
serving their routes as officially pre-
cribed, the schedule observed, and
whether the families served were
satisfied with the -service rendered,
rtF fTicrr wrrt* InrpYfiVmtrt* wtlfch
could he suggested of the patrons or
the Department.
(Conlonued on bnck page)
hibernating conditions found in that ahnormai weather to produce n nor
district.. This moss is carefully ex
amined and the number of weevils
both live and dead noted. From
this we compare the ratio of both
navigation improvment of the Mus- Hye ^ ^ ton of
Courtesy is our middle name.
Whether you buy $10 worth of goods or a postage stamp you
are assured of courteous treatment in obr drug store.
Of course we are here to sell goods, and we are sure we can
please you with what we have to offer, but whether or rot you
purchase you are sure to be pleased with your treatment and will
come again.
In our new home we are better prepared bo serve
than ever before.
your wants
Johnstons Drug Co.
Canton, Ga. Phone 51
cle Shoals stretch of the Tennessee
river under the very plans for joint
navigation and power improvment
now proposed.
To meet the terms of the Ford of
fer and produce a proportionate re
turn to the government the reclama
tion service, representing a govern
ment net investment of $125,870 -
830 would have to show an annual
gross income of $10,180,132 instead
of $4, 191,844, which it now shows
The Panama canal, representing an
investment of $380,554,949, would
have had to earn $32,450,886 gross
revenue, whereas last year’s total
revenues were only $12,040,117.
moss, and past experience has shown
that this affords a very fair index to
the emergence which may be ex
pected. The following table shows
the figures for the past eight years:
Year Live Weevils Dead Weevil
per ton of moss per ton ofmoss
mal weevil damage. No man is
justified in gamboling on such luck
and the only same course to pursue
is to anticipate n year of great abun
dance of boll weevils hikI to make
all plans accordingly. Everyone
who has raised a few cotton crops
with the weevils realizes how the
weevil cuts down the acreage he can
per plow and still make a
crop. Furthermore, the more abun
dant the weevils are, the less acre
age he can handle successfully and
certainly with the present prospect*
the acreage per plow for 1922
should be reduced to an absolute
minimum if the farmer is to ex
perience any safety whatever.
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
10.0 .
24.0
8.0
1.7
4.0
2.5
22.0
127.0
From these figures it is seen that
we have far more live weevils per
414.0
136.0
144.0
48.0
53.0
15.8
26.0
2.2
Part 2—Offer to purchase nitrate t on of moss in sight now than at any
plants and accessories: time since these records were start-
Ford offers to purchase Nitrate . ed and on ]y a very few dead weevil*
Plants Nos. 1 and 2. Waco quarry
and the Gorgas steam plant and its
transmission line for $5 000,000.
He has offered to maintain Nitrate
Plant No. 2 in a state of readiness
to be promptly operated in the mann
faetdre of material necessary in
time of war for the production of
explosives. Thus securing the bene
fit of its use for the purpose for
which the plant was originally plan
ned. The government therefore re
tains every advantage of the nitrate
plant In time of war, bnt pay« noth
ing for the cranter.ar.ee cf the nit
rate property in time of peace which
benefits is to he to the cericultural
interest of the country.
■aou^anmi
Of course the records on the pres
ence of dead weevils cannot be ac
cepted as too accurate because it has
heen found that many dead weevil*
fall out of the moss during the win
ter and are thus lost. The most
striking feature, however is the fact
that the record for this year show
more than five times as many live
weevil in hibernation as in the high
est preceeriing year since 1915.
These records are checken in other
ways, among the different methods
being a series of cages located near
Tallulah, Louisiana which are in
stalled with a known number of live
weevils each fall, different types
of shelter provided and the survival
If your watch is not running properly, you take it to a watch
repair man; if you are sick, you consult a physician.
If your financial affairs are not running properly, consult an
expert. Bankers are to financial matter* what the watch repair
man is to watches and the physician is to the man who is sick.
The officers of our bank will be glad to consult with you re
garding your business affairs on which you wish financial advic^
and like the physician, they do not gossip about matters on wh|
thev are consulted.
Bank of Cherokee
Canton, Ga.
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