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DOOLY LEADS IN
HOGS AND CATTLE
PROGRAM
GA. EDITORS' ME'
CENSUS TAKEN FOR PURPOSE
OF ESTABLISHING PACKING
PLANT AT MACON.
WEEKLY PRESS ASSOCITIO
WILL MEET AT DECATUR ON
17. WILL GO TO SAVANNAH.
Mr. J. R. Lowe of the State De
partment of Agriculture has just fin
ished taking a hog and cattle census
of Dooly county. He reports that he
found 20,002 hogs and 2,809 cows in
this county. This report put Dooly
among the leading counties in the
raising of hogs and cattle There
were only 0,593 hogs and 678 cattle
in this county at the 1910 census,
this shows how we have grown in five
year's time.
Commissioner Price is having this
work done in order to get a packing
plant established at Macon, so that
the farmers in Central Georgia will
at | all times have a ready market for
‘ their surplus hogs and cattle, and, we
understand he is ready to do this for
any other part of the state. All they
wll have to do is call on him. We
heartily indorse the Commissioner
in this as it will give the farmers a
market for something besides cotton.
Mr. Lowe says we have a fine
county, the crops are above the av
erage and that he was well treated
by the people. He also compliment
ed Dooly on having Mr. Culpepper
as Demonstrator, he says he is a fine
fellow and understands his business.
Mr. Lowe is a splendid man, he was
kind and courteous to all with whom
he come in contact. Mr. Price is to
be congratulated upon securing his
services for this important work.
He says he has worked
practically all the counties within
t radius of fifty miles of Macon, and
* that Dooly leads in the production
of hogs with three thousand more
than Houston, the next largest num
ber. , ,
SECRETARY’S REPORT OF
SINGING CONVENTION
IN DOOLY COUNTY
There is a Balance in General Fund
Of $236,879,590.
NTY DEMONSTRATOR AND
iECE EXPERT WORKING
NSECTS AND DISEASE.'
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On Sunday, June 25th, the Dooly
Singing convention together with
several other singers, met at the old
Drayton Church in response to a call
for a union sing, and made one of
the most profitable days in song the
convention has yet experienced.
After the President, H. D. Royal,
had called the house to order and led
one song the services were opened
with prayer, the chair appointed
B. Smith, C. W. Southwell as the ar
ranging committee and Prof. Wm.
Rycroft was called upon to conduct
the singing while the committee was
making their report. A duet by Ry
croft and Barry. •
Committee reports the ” following
men to conduct three songs each:
E. C. Forehand, Miss Lila Smith, or
ganist; E. A. Johnson, excused by
request; J. A. Riley; W. H. Culpep
per, Mrs. W. H. Culpepper, Organ
ist; J. J. Barry, Miss Lila Smith, or
ganist; J. B. Smith, Miss Lila Smith,
organist; S. F. Sanders, Miss Lila
Smith, organist; C. W. Southwell;
T. F. Sutton, Miss Lila Smith, organ
ist; C .0. Nobles, Miss Lila Smith,
organist; Duet by Miss Smith, and J.
J. Barry; Adjournment t:30 for din-
der.
Afternoon—O. M. Heard was call
ed upon to direct three songs he beg
ged to be excused but was refused,
■ he responded with the permission to
use J. J. Barry as a relief man; L.
H. Murphy three songs, Miss Lila
Smith, organist; C. G. Powell, Miss
Lila Smith, organist; J. F. Hogsett,
Miss lila Smith,, organist, Shad
Shirley, Miss Shirley, organist; Ray
Joiner not present; Homer Ogilive,
Miss Lila Smith, organist.
A resolution of thanks was offer
ed to old Drayton Church and com
munity for their hospitality and good
dinner of which no one could make
an improvement
E. S. Johnson led the closing song
and J. B. Smith dismissed the gath
ering with prayer.
H. D. ROYAL, Pres.
J. J. BATfRY, Sec.
Augusta, Ga.—The final airange-
ments for the annual meeting of the
Georgia Press association have about
been completed by J. 0. MoAuhCe,
president of the association, and de
tails have been given out concerning
same. In preparation of the program
the president announces that great
credit is due to several members for
thoir cooperation in mailing tho pro
gram a great success.
One of the leading addresses of
the meeting will be made by H. C.
Hammond, judge of the superior
court of the Augusta circuit, who
will probably speak at the annual liar
becue which will be given at Stcne
Mountain Tuesday, July 18. The
barbecue will be tendered by the citr
izens of Decatur, who have also re-
ceived cordial co-operation from At
lanta. The following program has
been announced for the meeting:
Monday evening, July 17, 8 p. m.
address of Welcome by J. E. Steele,
mayor of Decatur.
Response by Ralph Meeks, editor
of the Carrolton Free Press.
Address by Charles V. McKenzie,
Co-operation of Home Papers and
Boards of Trade.” .
Address by Colonel George H. Na
pier.
Tuesday morning, July 18, trip to
Stone Mountain. Open air meeting
and barbecue. Judge H. C. Ham
mond will probably be thespeaker for
the occasion. "
Tuesday evening, banquet and
barbecue and short addresses. Pro
gram by entertainment committee at
Decatur.
Wednesday morning, July 19, 10
o’clock, address by C. M. Methvin,
cf Eastman, "Our Professional Hon-
“Peach trees do not live as they
used to.” This statement is made
often and in any section where mod
ern methods of pruning, spraying,
and cultivating are not applied it is
certainly true. The San Jose scale
and peach' tree borer are the two
most serious insects to cause the
trees to die young. The plum cur-
culio and brown rot cause the fruit
to bo Inferior. Through the efforts
of county agent Culpepper and . J.
William Firor of the State College,
it has been demonstrated during the
present season that these things can
be eradicated or controlled.
Although the work which was
started in this county early in March
will be continued throughout the
year, Mr. Culpepper is ready, at the
present time to report, that the
spraying for killing the scale and
preventing wormy and decayed fruit
have proven successful. To kill the
scale, prevent the curcUlio and
brown rot, four sprayings have
been made.
The first spraying was made dur
ing the dormant season with lime
sulphur solution. The trees were
first pruned and then given a thor
ough application of this material at
the proper strength for killing the
scale. Some of the lime sulphur so
lution was bought on the market in
a concentrated form and in other in
stances it was prepared at the or
chard which was later sprayed. Sy
rup kettles were found to be good re
ceptacles for boiling the lime and
sulphur in.
Washington, D. C., July.—The
government closed its fiscal year yes
terday with a total receipts of $838,-
403,969, and total disbursements of
$769,606,159, an excess of $78,737,-
810, compared with a deficit of $5,-
436,580 for the year ending June 30
last Both the income tax and inter
nal revenue receipts in 1916 show
ed up far above the estimates made
by Secretary McAdoo and swelled
the balance. Income tax receipts
amounted to $124,867,430, compar
ed with $79,828,676 last year, an in
crease, of about $16,000,000 over the
ampunt expected by officials. Of the
total, $56,909,941 came from cor
porations and $67,957,488 from indi
viduals.
The balance in the general fund at
the close of the.year was $236,879,-
590, including amounts to the credit
of disbursing officers. The actual
balance was $174,965,231, the larg
est balance in the general fund'sir.ce
1908.
In'h statement analizing the fig
ures, Secretary McAdoo said larger
internal revenue receipts for the
year have been due in agreat meas
ure "to the unprecedented prosperity
of the country and the vigorous en
forcements of the internal revenue
laws.”
Customs receipts for the year, Mr.
McAdoo said,’ amounted to $211,
866,222,34, as against $209, 268,107
the previous year and exceeding the
estimate £y more than $16,000,000.
“Receipts from internal revenue,”
said his statement, “reached a total
of 512,740,769.58, exceeding all pre
vious estimates by many millions.
Ordinary internal revenue receipts;
amounted to $287,873,330,30 and,
excluding the emergency revenue re
in addition to the scale spraying, fro “ W* ““»"*> th * 8e receipts
three summer sprayings have been were approximately $804,000,000 or
or,”
Discussion by Clifford Grubbs Syl
vester, Ga.; E. E. Lee, Warrenton,
Ga., and A. S. Hardy, Gainesville,
Ga.
Address by Ben A. Neal, Washing
ton, Ga., “The Importance of Educa
ting the Public to Respect the News
paper as a Business Enterprise.”
Address by John H. Jones, La-
Grange Reporter, “A Timely Talk
on the Business.”
- The session will close with the
meeting of Wednesday, July 19, and
the editors will then journey to Sa
vannah, leaving for that city on the
first possible train after the close of
the meeting. They will be royally en
tertained in Savannah by the news
paper fraternity and the convention
bureau, with a big dinner, boat ride
to Tybee, and other points of inter
est and most of them will probably
remain over for the week-end.
Several new members have joined
the association during the past year
and the outlook for the meeting in
Decatur is very flattering.
TO THE WHITE VOTERS OF
DOOLY COUNTY.
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for Representative from
Dooly County in the next General
Assembly of Georgia, subject to the
Democratic Primary. Your influence
and support will be highly appreciat
ed.
W. H. LASSETER.
ADULT ILLITERACY.
With the present system’of public
schools and the great number of
books, newspapers, etc., it seems that
every person in this country could
learn to read and write before they
ere twenty years old. But they do
cot. The last census showed 65,000
white people in Georgia who could
not read and write.
The leading educators of the state
are anxious to have this wiped out
entirely by next census or greatly re
duced at least. It has been shown
by a number of moonlight schools
that most of thosewbo have passed
the age of twenty can be easily
taught to read and write. All they
need is a little help and encourage
ment.
If there are any whites in this
community over eighteen years old,
who wish to learn to read and write,
I would be very glad to help them,
If they will let ine know their wishes
I will arrange for them to get books,
etc, and begin to study at once.
\ Yours Truly,
E. G. GREENE, C. S. S.
made for preventing wormy and de
cayed fruit. For this purpose arse
nate of lead and self-boiled lime sul
phur were used excepting at the last
summer spraying when the self-
boiled lime sulphur was used alone.
Actual counts made by Culpepper
and Firor in the presence of the
growers show that the scale has eith
er been eradicated or enough of
them killed so that the damage dur
ing the summer or until another ap
plication of the winter spray can be
made, has been very small. In fact
trees which had the younger twigs
and branches killed last year by the
scale are coming out to a very
healthy growth.
Wormy peaches are the result of
the eggs laid by a weevil hatching and
feeding within the peach. The eggs
are laid on the surface about the
time that the shucks fall off and on
hatching bore into the fruit. By
covering these fruits with arsenate
of lead the worms are killed. Counts
made in a number of the orchards
show that the unsprayed trees had
from 10 to 25 percent of their fruit
wormy with a general average of 15
per cent while the sprayed tfees va-
ried from nothing to 11 per cent
with a general average of 2 per cent
One half of the tiees sprayed have
shown not a single wormy peach. At
the present time no brown rot or scab
have shown on the sprayed peaches
and not expected to do any damage.
These demonstrations were placed
in Dooly through the interest of
Mr. Culpepper in the possibility of
this county becoming a commercial
peach center, as its nearness to other
centers and from the manner in
which trees responded to attention,
undoubtedly peaches can be grown
as well here as anywhere in the state.
With the tendancy of the present
time to enlarge the number of indus
tries that are being carried on by
farmers it seems that peach growing
wilt be one of them.
During the past farmers, mer
chants, bankers, etc., in trying to
grow peaches in a large or commer
cial way have made many common
mistakes. As expressed by a farm
er who had planted an orchard. “I
reckon that I will have to learn as I
go along.” Experience is a good
teacher but it is also a very expen
sive one. A very successful or-
chardist of north Georgia stated that
he got as many points as possible
from others os he always found
enough besides to get from his own
experience,
i The demonstration work with
peaches has been carried on in co
$32,000,000 greater than had been
estimated.
“The,cost,of collecting this great
sum was onljr 1.40 per cent, thelow-
est cost in the history of the inter
nal revenue service.”
Atlanta, Ga.—Salaam I Hark Ye!
Hark Yel the. faithful of Yaarab
Temple of the Mystic Shrine will
July8th, gird up their loins and gath
er together their wives and follow
ers to join the mighty caravan which
shall journey from this land of semi
tropics over hills and vales to the
hospitable oasis of Buffalo in that
wonderful land of Great Lakes and
thundering cataracts with endless
flow.
The caravan from Yaarab Temple
joined by nobles throughout Geor
gia will leave Atlanta on special
trains over the Seaboard Air Line at
the'old depot 9 a. m. Saturday morn
ing* Stops will be made at Lawrence
ville, Winder, Athens and Elberton
proeveeding from there to Monroe,
N. C. A one hour stop will be made
at Monroe, by special invitation of
Shriners and citizens of the town, as
this is the birthplace of Potentate
Walter P. Andrews, of Yaarab Tem
ple of Atlanta. He will be given a
great reception and presented with a
gold-headed cane. A few other stops
will be made at big cities, the party
arriving in Buffalo, Sunday at 7:45
p. m. Returning home the shriners
have arranged delightful side trips.
They will return to Atlanta Saturday
July 16. *
Yaarab Temple has been at work
for several months getting ready for
the trip and every arrangement was
made in advance even to the minut
est detail. Potentate Andrews, al
though busy with his work as a mem
ber of the Georgia Legislature, gave
many of the details for the trip his
personal attention. He will be absent
less than a week from the Legislature
but placed his work in the hands of
his colleagues.
The Imperial Council at Buffalo,
according to reports, will be the
greatest in the history of Shrinedom.
Yaarab Temple and other southern
caravans have planned to pull off
many big Stunts.
Estate of World’s Richest Woman
Estimated at Nearly $100,000,000-
RAINY WEATHER BRINGS
OUT WEEVILS IN PLENTY
Many Good Specimens of Pest Found
In Thomas.
SHOW FARMERS HOW
TO USE PRINTER’S INK
Thomasville, July The rainy
weather prevailing in south Georgia
for thepast week or two seems to
have been especially favorable to the
development of the boll weevil and
reports are coming in of its depre
dations on the cotton in many of the
fields in this and the nearby counties.
Up to the beginning of the rainy
spell it looked as though there would
be no weevil this season and the ex
perts reported finding few, if any,
on the cotton, though they gave out
a warning as to what might be ex
pected should the rains set in.
James B. Mitchell, living just on
the border between Thomas and
Grady, brought in a lot of specimens
of the weevil yesterday, along with
the bolls and squares punctured by
them. Mr. Mitchell said he had
planted a very small acreage in cot
ton this year, but had one-eight-acre
field which up to a week or two ago
bid fair to yield two bales to the acre.
Since the weevils had attacked it he
would be glad if it yietded^ps much
as two bales to the whole field. The
weevils were taken out to the exper
iment farm here and G. D. Smith,
government expert pronounced them
the simon pure article of boll weevil
that this country has inherited from
Mexico. Other farmers are report
ing finding weevils and over in the
lower part of Mitchell county they
seem quite plentiful.
The cotton crop is generally quite
well advanced and it is hoped that
the damage will not be serious and
the weevil can be confined to certain
sections.
operation with the following farmers
who have given material aid to the
peach industry through their assit-
snee: J. E. Horne, L. S. Wilson, E.
F. Powell, F. G. Royal, D. W. Jor
dan, W. L. Williams, E. E. Lewis,
Geo. W. Lewis, Jas. W. Darsey, J. D.
Fullington.
Farmers contemplating the plant
ing of peaches either for home use
or for market will find County
Agent Culpepper glad to assist them
in any way he able.
The Oregon farmer can swell his
annual receipts by using good print
ing and by occasional advertising in’
the weeklies of his county, says D.
W. Morton,' dean of the new school
of commerce of the University of Or
egon. x
A farm letterhead should carry the
name of the farm, the name of the
owner, the location of the farm, and
perhaps a small picture of some fen-
tMic'of the place, says Dean Morton,
who regards the farmer as a business
man with s substantial invesment
upon which heshould make every ef
fort to pay interest.
“It gives a farmer a certain busi
ness standing if he has a neat letter-
head of good grade, and it improves
the value of his farm to have a name
and something of an individuality,”
he said. “There is some initial ex
pense in having a picture taken and
a cut made, but the publisher of the
nearest country paper will attend to
the details and afterward will do the
printing reasonably.
“If the farmer raises high-class an
imals, his letterheads may contain a
picture of a prize animal with its re
cord; or if he has a tsock farm, a
picture of a bunch of stdek; or if he
has the best house or barn in the
neighborhood, a picture of that; or a
picture of a grove or a stream is us
ually effective on stationary. There
are few Oregon farms not worth
naming and few that do not provide
something worthy a permanent pic
tore.
“Advertising rates are vegr tow in
Oregon country papers, and a farmer
at a cost from 10 to 60 cents may of
ten sell a horse, a second-hand ma
chine or some other thing about the
place he does not need by putting
small advertisement in his weekly
paper.
“A farmer’s advertising should of
course conform to the best advertis
ing standards; it should bevery de
finite and absolutely truthful.”—
Progressive Farmer.
New York, July.—Mrs. Hetty
Green, said to be the wealthiest wom
an in the world, died at her home
here today at 8:06 o’clock.
She had suffered three strokes of
paralysis during the past two months
and for several weeks had been prac
tically helpless. She was eighty
years old. Her death occurred at the
home of her son, Col. Edward R. H.
Green, of No. 6 West Nineteenth
street, adjoining the plain brick four-
story house at No. 7, on the corner of
Central Park west, where Mrs.
Green had lived lately In seclusion,
except for her son and several Japa
nese servants and trained nurses. For
several weeks past Mrs. Green had
been unable to walk and had spent
practically all of her time in a wheel
chair.
Her son, Colonel Green, and her
daughter, Mrs. Matthews . Astor
Wilkes, who were the only children,
had been with her much of the time,
and it was recently reported that
Mrs. Green had turned over all of
her financial affairs to her . son’s
charge.
Wall street estimates of Mrs.
Green’s fortune range from $20,-
000,000 to $100,000,000. Officials
of the Chemical National Bank, in
which Mrs. Green once made her
downtown headquarters, declined to
hazard a guess concerning her es
tate.
A few years ago Mrs. Green was a
familiar figure in the financial dis
trict butlaterly her appearance there
had been very infrequent It is be
lieved that a considerable part of
her money was invested In first
mortgage and high class railway
bonds, although she was said at one
time to have large sums invested in
the shares of the smaller southern
and southwestern railroads, includ
ing several in which her son was ac-
i lively indentlfied. Mrs. Green was
also the reputed owner of large
tracts of land in Texas, Alabama
and other southern states, but it is
believed that she sold the last of
these holdings a few years ago.
AUGUSTA EDITOR CALLS
HUGH DORSEY’S HAND
Work Day At Campground.
Friday, July 14th, 1916, has been
appointed as work day at the Dooly
County Campground. Everybody re
quested to go' and carry several
hands.
O. P. SWEARINGEN, Chmn.
E. G GREENE, Sect.
'M
Augusta, Ga.—Thomas W. Loy-
less, the fighting editor of the Augus- .
ta Chronicle, accuses Thomas E.
Watson, the Thompson editor of
treason when he says in ” The Jef
fersonian.” “The presence of 40,-
000 United States troops in Mexico
cannot be defended in any form of
justice. It is an impudent subter
fuge to allege that such an army is
needed to catch a roving band of
outlaws. The trouble started when
the written agreement between Wil
son and Carranza was broken by us.
and it was shamefully broken.”
Taking the law’s definition of
treason as “the giving of aid or com
fort to the enemy,” editor Loylesr
declares the language of Watson “if
not actually treason, then at least
breathes the spirit of treason.”
And then the Augusta editor pro
ceeds to demand that Hugh M. Dor
sey, the ex-solicitor candidate for
governor, tell the Democratic yoten
of Georgia whether he indorses the
attacks* of Watson upon the Demo
cratic president of the United State:
and upon the Democratic administra
tion in control of the Nation’s af
fairs.
Quoting from the “Jeffersonian’'
Editor Loyless shows that Watsot
has denounced President Wilson as s
friend of Wall Street, a tool of the
railroads, a servant of the Catholic
church and the enemy of the “plain
people,” and has ridiculed, the pres
ident's Mexican policy while uphold
ing Carranza, Obregon, et al, as
“high-minded-gentlemen.”
“Does Mr. Dorsey Indorse these
outrageous and well-nigh treasonable
utterances of his political wet
nurse?” demands Editor Loyless.
“Or will he come out like a man and
repudiate them? Is Watson right Hr.
Dorsey, in his fight on your party?
If he is, tell him so, If he isn’t, then
you owe it to the Democrats of Geor
gia, whom you ask to support you,
ot repudiate him.”
Lonesome Luke and the Pathe
News are two reels that are a great
addition to “The Mysteries of My
ra” at the Dixie on Monday.