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VOL. XVII. Maysville Locals (From Our KeguUr Corrwpoiulent.) Mr. and Mm. Joe Aria.il, Mr. John Strange and Mrs. Martha Ariail attended serviees at Nail’s Creek chareh Sunday. Misses Maurine ami Florence Sims entertained abont forty friends at a rook party last Fifthly evening. On last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Ed Comer and Mis. J. T. Smith, visited the latter's uncle, Mr. l’hil Deadwyler, who is quite seriously ill at his borne in Nicholson. Mrs. Will Mason and Miss Mary Griffin, of Homer, were shopping hero Saturday. Mrs. S. It. Phillips, of Atlanta, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ltobt. Williams here this week. Prof. Ferris, of Baldw in, spent Sunday herewith Mr. M. C. San der’s and family. The members of the baptist \V. M. S. enjoywl a quiltiug and luncheon at the hospitable home of Mrs. Boone Suddath on last Friday aiternoon. Miss Cora Simmons, who is a matron at the Decatur Orphanage is with home-tolks here this week. Mrs. Rainey Huberts and Mrs. Luther Dunson from near Com merce; spent a day here reeeutly as guests of Mrs. Torn Blackwell. Messrs. Claude and Herbert Williams, of Gainesville, spent Sunday with friends and home folks here. Mrs. C. A. Meeks was a visitor to Commerce Monday. Mrs. Wimp Smith and children of Bishop, spent several days le cently with relatives here. Mrs. Will Ayers and Miss Ms telle Ayers, from Mt. Pleasant, were shopping here one day this week. Mrs. Walter Hill and children spent the week-end with relatives in Homer. Mr. Ralph Meeks, of Carrollton, spent Sunday in our little town. Mrs. T. K. Miller was the charming hostess of the Social Club at the lovely home of her mother, Mrs. BooneSuddath, ou Thursday afternoon of last week. On last Saturday the kinfolk of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Chandler met at their home to enjoy a reunion in honor of Mi's, ('handler’s seventy fourth birthday. Mrs. Chandler is very unlike most women of her vge. As an artist few can excel her. She is as proud and neat in appearance as if she were sixteen and looking for a beau. We, join her many friends in wishing for her many happy returns of the day. Our school w ill close on Tuesday of next week. For several reasons we will have no commencement this year. The diplomas will he given to the graduates on the last day. The faculty for the next term is composed of the following teachers: Principal. H. T. -argent, of Dahlooega. Assistants, Miss Emily McCurdy, of Tallapoosa, Mr. E. Nicholson, of Clay ton, Miss Cherry, of Tennessee, and Miss Hill, of Maysville. Miss Carrie McKee w ho has been indisposed for several days, enjoyed a surprise party Sunday when five of her sons came to spend the day with her, they were Messrs. W. J. Mcßee, of Lexington, Frank Me- Ree, of Nicholson, Bobt., Arthur, and Bert McKee, of Jefferson. On last Sunday morning the “honk honk” of a big automobile which “honked” without ceasing told the drowsy Maysvilleites some thing unusual was on hand. On inquiry we found Miss Faunita Gurlie and Mr. B. B. Jones, a handsome young couple from -Gainesville, were enroute to Homer Ihuntiug license and a preacher. “They were accompanied by Mr. <sam Ham, Miss Janie Jones and SANKS COUNTY JOURNAL Smith-Lever Agricul ture Extension Bill Atlanta, May 18. One of the duties of the coming Georgia legis lature will be to select the different agricultural colleges and schools that are to conduct and direct the farm demonstration work provided foi by the Smith Lever agricultural extension bill, which United States Senator Hoke Smith has succeeded in making a law. The senator had a hard fight to keep in the measure the clause leaving the selection of the schools to the legislatures of the respective states. Republican senators sought to force an amendment providing that part of the moody should be expended by negro colleges. This precipitated a lengthy delwite in which Senator Smith pointed out the impossibility of a southern state accepting the appropriation j it negro schools were to direct a ! part of the demonstration work in | the south. As the result of that tight, the Georgia legislature will have the absolute control of the selection of the institutions in Georgia through which this work shall be done and this money shall lie SJK'llt. The measure, of couiseis nation wide, and it is proposed to place a demonstrator of scientific farming in practically every county in the United States. Pruitt. Several of our people attended Memorial serv ices at the ((shorn cemetery Sunday. Interesting talks by Revs. Freeman Bice, W. H. Sm mens and Hilyer Brooks. The many friends of Mrs. T. E. Anderson will lie glad to learn she is much improved this week. Mr. Tom Luallen is ijuitesick at this writing. Mrs. Dora Ayers and children, of Toccaa, spent last week with her father, P. L. Caudell. Miss I.awshe, visiting agent of the Ga. Orphanage, of Atlanta, spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Freemen Candelle. Howell Anderson and wife of Broad River were in our burg Sun day. Misses Vaneie and Minnie Coch ran spent Sunday at Canon. Mr. Marion Henderson was among the passing throng last week. Mr. Jim Pool is the happy fath er of anew girl. M is. Margie Caudelle was shop ping in Maysville Tuesday. Some of our people attended the burial of Gran pa Terpine at Har mony Saturday. The bereaved have our sympathy. Mr. Herbert Mays, of Gainesville, and stopped over for Miss Lillian Stephens who went with them on their “joy ride.” After getting the license at the court house they went to the home of Mr. J. A. Hill who was entertaining the pastor, Rev. Ayers, of Mt. Airy, and after a hurried explanation securely tied the matrimonial knot for them. After the ceremony they departed, and all was well until some of the party remembered they had no proof of the marriage. Of course they turned around and hurried back lor a certificate, only to be told the pastor had none at hand. No doubt the young couples had trouble in making their trusting mothers lielieve the truth for they ran away from chnrch. Superfluous Solitaire. Judge Woodfall, In a cape at West> minster county court, sr’d the ques tion whether or not a diamond and sapphire engagement ring of the value of £45 was necessary to a young man with £3OO a year and whose ut most expectations were said to £SOO a year could only be answered Is the negative.—London Mall. Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of BanKs County. Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Friday, May 22, 1914. Statement There has been much talk in re gard to me, my wife, and my busi ness. ]am tired of it. Hencethis statement. In Feb. 1911, I had measles, and my health lieing in a run down condition, 1 suppose they affected my mind, and T lost the power of sound reasoning. My w ile waited on and eared for me as long as she could On May 22,1911, I was tried for lunacy. 1 was carried to the .Stale Sanitarium on May 29th. My wife was later appointed guardian of my estate, \V. S. Ed wards was put in as co guardian, (illegally,) they took charge of uiy business, my wife did the best she could with my business affairs un der the circumstances. She was handicapped by advice that proved to Ik* illegal, and detrimental to our interest. My wife on her part acted in good faith toward me and my creditors. For in her returns made to the Ordinary she shows ' bow every dollar came into her hands, and where every dollar went, as the records in the Ordi nary’s office at Homer shows. On Nov. 24tb, 1911, my wife brought ine Home ou furlough, but finding she and our childrod were afraid to live with me, and finding that it did not suit for me to stay with my people, and after telling my sister Mrs. H. B. Patterson in the presence ol my brother R. L. Prickett, and his wife,that she was going to send me back toMilledge ville as soon as I came home from my brothers. She told them this two weeks liefore she sent me back. None of my people made any pro test. The impression is out that she did not let my people know that she was going to return me to the Sanitarium, which is false. My wife thought, and still thinks she did the lest thing for me, her, and our children, by returning me to the State .Sanitarium. My wife and children were afraid for me to stay with them. I had nowhere else to stay; and she was afraid for me to go alone among strangers. I am satisfied my wife was honest and acted in good faith and from pure motives. But I, on my part, think she made a mistake, in returning me to the sanitarium, for 1 think I was competent to take care of myself, and my bud ness needed my person al attention. It has been reported lately that me and my wife are seperated. 1 wish to say, and wanted it distinct ly understood, that this report or rumors any anything else contrary to this statement is false, untrue and without foundation. Respectfully, A. B. Pkickktt. Clermont, Ga., May 18, 11)14. T. B. M. Hawkins Dies in Lula Rev. T. B. M. Hawkins died at the home of his son in law Mr. John Turner, at Lula last Friday night. Mr. Hawkins was a local Methodist preacher and was much beloved in the community where he lived. His remains were in terred at the Hickory Flat ceme tery Saturday afternoon. W. J. Harris Hakes Formal Announcement Washington, D. €., May 18.— Hon. W. J. Harris, director of the census,has resigned his position in the department here to become candidate for governor of Georgia, the brief an nouncement of his in tention being sent out Saturday night by the Associated Press. BoDfii lrrcjfu. . j L it. Milas* Lax* l Ur% a Rev. W. A. Harris Dead Rev. \V. A. Harris, pastor of the Methodist church of Manchest er, Ga., and one of the ablest and most esteemed men in the Method ist church iu the south, died yesterday in College I’ark. He was the brother of the late Doctor Lundy Harris. He was taken ill in Manchester about two weeks ago, where though broad in spirit and of scholarly at tainment, the type of man the church and the world needs, he was content to serve where he was called. He loved and was beloved by the little Hock ol the pretty .village at the foot of the hills. With him at the last was his noble wife, who was Miss Hope Harris and his four sons, tho eldest John Harris, who is at Emory College, W. A. Harris, Jr., Frederick Nixon Harris and Walter Harris also his sister, Mis. Cora Harris, who, is the “Circuit Rider’s Wife,” one of tho lH*st contributions the south lias made to literature, has so fre quently told the story of the sacri fices that come into the life of the men of mission spirit who serVe the church most faithfully. The two young Methodist di vines married the two sisters, Cora and Hope White, of Elbert county, over twenty years ago. Now both are widows, Doctor Lunday Harris having passed away four years ago while his brother to whom he was so tenderly devoted p issed yester day. The funeral will take place in Hock mart, Ga., today, where the two brothers will rest side by side, in the old family lot. Hundreds of Georgians will mourn the loss of this eminently noble character, and the spring llowers in their beauty and fragrance which cover wl his bier yeu'erday, bespoke the love born him, and symbolized the purity of his life and service.—At lanta ('onstitution. Pronunciation of Mexican Names Huerta—Oo-Eli-tali. Torrcon —Tor-ray OWN. Villa—V EM-yah. Hidalgo—Ke DAHL go. Zacatecas —Zach-ah -TAY-cas. Ban Luis Potosi —Sahn-Loo- EEd Po to SEE. Tam au li pas —Tail -mo- LE E pas. Queretaro — Kay-HET a roll. Coah u i la — < u-a-Wldid-lah. Jalisco —Hah,LEES co. Aguas (’alientes —AH-gwasCah- leh-EG-tess. G uanaj uto —G wah-nah -H WA H to. < iaxaca—Wall • lIA H. kali. G uerrero—(l her. BAB- o. Tex coco —Test JO eo. Tlaxcala —Tlas- KAIL lah. Tehauntepee—Tay-VVAHN tay pee. Tuxbam—TOOS pain. Tampico—Tam PEE co. Chihuahua —Chce-WAH-wah. — Ex. NOTICE For Dental Work 13 off for cash for 10 days only, beginning Friday,May 22. This in cludes all preparatory work for plates and all other work to be completed in the fall. You will do well to see me before having your dental work done. Now is the time to have your teeth extracted for artificial dentures. Kememberand do not call or ask lor an engagement on Wednesdays. Call at Jla, Ga., on Wednesdays. Dr. G. H. Dunlap, Dentist COMMERCE, GEORGIA. Gentleness and Strength. Nothing ia ao strong as gentlenoaa. Nothing ao gantle as real strength/ Ik Fnaots 4s Bala*. Young Corn And Cotton Should be Harrowed Washington, I>. C., —The ben eficial effect of a well prepared seed bed and the use of good seed may be wholly or partially offset by improper or insufficient culti vation is the advice of crop spec ialists of the Department of Agri culture. Proper cultivation is an impor tant footer in crop production. Cultivation should begin immedi ately after planting by running once or twice across the rows with a weederor section harrow. Af ter the plants come up at least two additional cultivations should be given with either the weed or or harrow in the case of either corn or cotton before the regular cultivators are used. Hun di agonally across the rows with eith er of these implements using the section harrow with the teeth slanted baokwood with an angle of 45 degrees and repeat a week la ter at right angles with the lirst cultivation. The use of the weeder or section harrow is strongly advised for the early cultivation of corn, cotton and many other crops. It is best to use the weeder on very loose or sandy soils while the section liar row is preferable on clay or buck shot soils. This early cultivation with the weederor harrow destroys all young grass and weeds and leaves the soil in fine condition and the cotton ready for chopping or thining. The use of the section harrow for the early cultivation of corn and cotton in the South is comparatively recent butis rapidly becoming general. One of the great advantages in its use, in ad vantages in its use, in addition to the excellent work done, is the ex tra amount of land that can be cul tivated in a given time. Mt. Pleasant Everything is dry in this part of the country. The Sunday School Convention met at Mt. Pleasant church Sunday and was enjoyed by a large crowd. Oscar Pruitt has anew bug gy—lookout girls, O. S. means to ride high. Little Master Clay Emory Gailc} is visiting his brother, 11. G. (Jailey, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Dailey visited the latter’s parents Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Horton Sunday. Mrs. T. M. Armour dined with her sister, Mis. A. Jf. Gaitey Sun day. The Mt. Pleasant Literary So ciety club meets at Mt Pleasant school house every Saturday night commencing promptly and 7.30 o’clock everybody come. Miss Ethel Cunningham sa\s there are many things that grow in Georgia. But of all she likes Wood best. Rev. T. M. Sullivan and wife of Comer, Ga., visited his mothvi Mrs. John Sullivan Saturday a Sunday. Miss Florence Jones visited in the lower part of the county lasi week. Tulip. Wanted A woman, (white or colored; to help do house work and cooking, for a family of four-all grown. Boom furnished in house with family. Good wages and a perm a nant home for the right person. G. P- Boone, Maysville, Ga. DENTAL NOTICE Dr. D. M. Snelson, of Toccoa, will be at Baldwin the first week of each month prepared to do den tal work in all its branches —office over the Bank. Homer Locals Bam Dyar of Roystou, came over Sunday and spent a short time with relatives here. John Hood and Homer Stark spent about five minutes in Homer Tuesday afternoon. Miss Venie Watts and Herbert Daniel were married at the resi deuce of Esq. J.A. Hill Sunday the 10th. We notice that the ton n of Por tal is to be incorporated and M. <’. Hulsey (our Cicero) is to be one of the councilmen. They have heretofore had a law and order league. Joe T. Turk, who has spent the past eighteen months in Alabama arrived at home last Saturday and will make his home here in the future. Joe is a good citizen and we welcome him back •to the land of his birth. The tax assessors have gone through the returns froth Homer, Anderson, Grove River, Rushvillc and Davids. In some of the coun ties six weeks time is being con sumed in the work of equalizing but the work here will be completed in less time than that. Mr. J, V. Phillipps special en gineer of the Drainage Department, of Washington, I). C. arrived several days ago, and with a crew of hands, is making the survey of the Grove River drainage district.- He began work at Kylee’s bridge, on the Maysville and Homer road, and will make survey and plat of all land subject to overflow, on the Grove, together with the water shed, and will transmit this report to the authorities together with an estimate of the cost of cutting the ditch. Where this is done, every thing will bo ready for work on the ditch to begin.—Commerce News. County Treasurer Hollilield dropped by last Tuesday long enough to get a drink ol water at our office pump. For along time Mr. Hollilield was troubled with rheumatism, being unable to raise his hands above bis head. A little more than a year ago, while work ing on the big Seaw.ell dredge in this county, a Hash of lightning knocked him down, where for a few seconds he was unable to move either one of his hands in any man ner. Soon recovering, Mr. Hol lifield has never felt the pain of rheumatism since. Lightning set ins'to be a cure for rheumatism but we don’t suppose there are many who like the remedy.—Dah lonega Nugget. County Unit Plan ,<u' Atlanta, May LB—For the benefit of Georgia voters who do not clearly understand the difference between the county unit plan and the popu lar majority plan of primary elec tions, the following explanation is given, in view of the wide discus H*on throughout the state on the respective merits of the two, and the possibility that the state ex ecutive committee may change the county unit system to the popular majority. The county unit plan means that each county vots within itself as a unit, and that the candidate win ning the election in that county shall send tw ice as many delegates to the state convention as the coun ty has legislative membership, and thatthis cou vention shall nominate the cand.date receiving a majority of all the delegate votes. In the popular majority plan it is purely a question of state wide popular vote. The candidate who gets th:* most votes wins. NO. 7