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[ What Is Happening In That Thriving Advocates Diversified Farming and
: I South Thomas To mi. I Higher Prices.
(By a School Girl.) Editor Tlmes-Enterprise:
| I notice that the Commissioner of
Christmas la coming! The stores Agriculture (Hudson) in his recent!
r our little town are kept fairly report states that the farmers of
r.mmlng with holiday trade. Georgia are in a worse condition fi
lter. and Mrs. J. E, Summers and nancially than they have been for
imily of St. Marys, Ga., have been several years. This report should
(siting relatives here this week. be no surprise to any careful obser-
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«FFIOIAIj PAPER OF THOMAS
COUNTY. >
jj!ARAJ(TEKD CIBCT'LAT3ON2,00S
MARKETS.
Country Produce.
Tbomasvllle Dec. 6.
Hulls'
Corn, per bushel
Hay, No. 1. ...
Timothy, choice
Rye ..
t tin
■ |,ot
i Bain
The Bnlnbrldge Search Light notes
that "3. Q. McLendon has Joined the
staff of~ enrd wHters of the Thoraas-
vllle' Tlmes-Enterprise."
The Moultrie : Observer b kind
enough to compliment the eight-
pass' Issue of the Tlmes-Enterprise
and express the hope that It will be
t kept up. ^
Commissioner of Agriculture Hud-
‘ son estimated the Georgia crop o>
cotton th'tf season at 1,400,000 halos
as against 1.90(y0Q0 hales Inst
season. This Is a good per cent of
the entire crop of the cotton belt.
Hoh. Thomas E. Watson's new
magaslne Is out, and b a character
istic production. The brilliant Geor
gian has rehashed ’ ait the ancient
fued between himself nnd Col. Mann,
and needless to say the Colonel's
elntdermls Is tacked to the wall
"If you '.rise a man money to go
and get whlakey for you, and he gets
It und brings It back, he Is liable to
conviction for tho Illegal sale of
whlakey. In the absence of sufficient
explanation ns to who he got It from
nnd all about it, A Thomnsvllle
man got a min named Gaskins to go
nnd get some whiskey for him. Gas
kins did ft and was convicted In the
city court of'ThomasvIlle for Illegal
ly selilpg wMsksy.' -He failed to
make the necesaary, explanation and
the supreme court holds the convto-
tlon must stand."—Atlanta Consti
tution.
The Atlanta Journal should let
.the courts alone. It > nrrpgarted
. unto Itself Ihe credit when the sen
tence of the Rawlings boys was com-
mutted, and naw that the boys have
been sent to jail tor life It b fur
ther distinguishing Itself by pleading
for their Immediate, release. It
seems to ns that South Georgia
courts and South Georgia people are
able to handle matters of this sort
^ without the Interference of the At-
- Isnta dictator to the universe. The
people of Lowndes county displayed
.'great patience nnd self control In
this cane. They did not appeal to
- Jttoge Lynch at the time the awful
crime wee committed. They stood
patient under the exasperating de
lays of the law. Now to torn loose,
practically seott free from ' punish
ment, might ha the straw that breaks
the ''amal’s back. There b a dif
ference between mercy, and divine
attribute, and maudlin sentimen
tality aucb is-(ho Journal'advocates.
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quite a number of young people at
her homo last Tuesday night.
Mrs. T. C. Mitchell ha3 returned
V 50 to ber * lome ln Thomnsvllle after a
0.25 short visit to Mrs. E. R. Young.
■ • Messrs Walter Colltne and 7. P.
.. 1,25 Strickland of Tallahassee. Fla., svoro
" j hero selling cotton Monday.
'LIttio Miss Cathrine Russell , cal-
ebrated her fourth birthday with
dancing games and refreshments.
Mrs. A. F. Berry of Metcalfe nnd
daughter Adele returned home Fri
day after a three week’s visit in
Florida. '•
Q 35 Hello Boston! Yon head .the list
^ tor the library but we are not going
® j- I to give up in despair until the votes
are counted.
Mr. Livingston Barwlck of Pino
Park Is here.
Mrs. Cary Wheeler entertained- In
. 761 honor of Mr. and Mrs.' Ira Wheeler
1.36 last Thursday bight. .
2.61 Benchton News Items.
10 1-2 (By S. M- Beach.)
Very little Interest was taken ln
the election “for or against bonds”
held here last Wednesday, only nine
teen voles being cast out of a pos
sible sixty-eight. Judg^’Henry Mit
chell, L. M. Brinson and the writer
were the superintendents.of the elec
tion In this precinct.
Mr. W. I.-JlacIntyre was here last
Wednesday and came down from
Thomnsvllle again Thursday, with
Mr. W. C. Snodgrass,- and .these two
gentlemen spent several days going
over the route for the Thomaavllle
& Gillf Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Walker went I
over to Cairo to attend the wedding
of Miss Annie Lou KInchen last Wed
nesday. , • , :
Mr. Eldrtdge Atkinson will plant
three acres of tobacco next year. Mr,
Atkinson had two acres in cotton
this year which netted him only
$38.- One aero In tobacco brought
him 3131.
Tho Castleberry brothers, John
nnd Jyejire working on the gang
surveying the route for the new rail
road. '
Messrs. R. tf. Doss, Paul Dickey,
T, N. Hopkins, R. S. Burch, LeRoy
Dickey and Mrs. John E. Dickey, of
Thomaavllle attended the burial of
Mr. Wm. J. Dickey lost Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Mitchell had
Mr, and Mrs. T. D. Winn passed
through here-last Saturday on (heir
way home to Thomaavllle after
spending- two weeks at Panacea
Springs. -j v
Dr.Taylor of Thomaavllle passed
through here'last Saturday. *
Mr. and Mrs. H. Butler and little
daughter of Plainfield, N. J. arrived
here last Saturday an<^ are staying
at "Suslna.”
The death of our friend and neigh-'
bor Mr. William J. Dickey, notice
of .wbl6h has already been made in
this paper, has cast a gloom of sor
row over the entire community. Re
spected and loved by everyone who
knew him his memory will long be
kept green. .
"We do nbt ordinarily believe In
lynching, but some strenuous punish
ment ought to be devised for the man
that goes about destroying the be
lief of children In Santa Claus.’’-
Thomaiville Tlmes-Enterprise.
Right you are, brother, and we
have absolutely no patience with the
fool spirit of Puritanism which seeks
to dispel this bit of mythology
which Is the source of more Innocent , , r - .
Joy In the fsalms of childhood than hire* be will come out behind be
any other one thing. All honor, to
"Kris (Cringle” and "Santa Claus,"
those Inimitable dispensers of Joy
and gladness.—Fitzgerald - Enter
prise.
events for the last few years. Com
missioner Hudson lays the blame at
the farmer’s failure to diversity their
crops, going wild on cotton ect.,
which Is ln a measure true. In niy
opinion there have been a multipli
city of causes which have tended to
bring about this result. The cause
and effect are largely the name that
have always brought about similar
state of affairs among ' tho agricul
tural classes, only this time the sta
tus of the case is aggravated by the
labor problem, and it is upon this
phase of the question that I desire
mainly to discuss. *
As I said, there are numerous
causes that hare brought about this
result;
1st. As the farmers have always
done In times of currency Inflation,
they have done the last few years to
an unreasonable limit; they seem to
have caught a whiff of Wall Street
frenzied finance, get rich quick by
buying heavily, of line mules, horses
and vehicles at high price! expect
ing to' make the money quickly by
making big crop qnd selling at high
prices,-neither of which has been
realized \n r Georgia the last two
yeafis ln proportion to. tho cost of
making- the crops. They have had
more stock than they have had'plow
hahds, and those that they have
hired have come so- high that! no
profit could be gained by the trans
action for the employer. This con
dition of affairs would therefore
leave 'the farmer In a condition far
from satisfactory. I havo noticed
In talking with many of the farmers
that there is a restless, dissatisfied,
a;-!rit' anions them mpre than there
has been for several yearn. Som<^ of
them are'Inquiring for smaller places
because they think they will not be
10 dependent on sorry labor, and now
It looks to me that the outlook for
the cqmlng year la more unsatisfac
tory than the one coming, to a close.
Farm labor at '31 per day with the
product) of the farm at the price
where they now, are will not work a
dividend for the farmer. Last week
( tried to Imprest the Idea that toll
was no disgrace to tbs young and
rising generation of our white boya
and glrla, nnd I truat that the effort
may not be entirely In vain, still
there Is another phase to this labor
problem that to my mind Is sxtreme-
ly aggravating and that la the fact
that many of onr beat farmers are
men that have pareed tbe meredlan
Of life, children gone, they still have
tbe energy and judgmant to menage,
bnt'not the physical endurance to do
the work that they once did to cul
tivate their farms.. What must
these men do? Laborers they can
not pay under existing circumstances,
croppers they cannot get beeauia
they do not want a boss; the situa
tion then forces these farmers eith
er to rent to agricultural batchers
of let their land lay out; a humilia
ting condition Indeed. There are a
few renting tenants but not many.
To my mind It la the curse of the
Bonny 8outh today, the main lever
to keep prices down and the best way
conceivable to wash and dilapidate
our farms and ruin their valqe In the
enc). The old fanner who sheathed
the sword In',tho sixties came home
and with resolute energy budded
him a heme and Improved. A farm
er wUI not be cheered In the de
clining years of bis life as be sees
th n labors of the beat yara of his Ilia
going to ruin and decay. Such will
te the case if he rents It It he
If the farmers will be .vise enough
to apply it, and that remedy is not to
rent out the state to shiftless negroes
-.rfio spend the lion’s share of their
time riding to town and baett. Whatj
then Is the remedy? The only rea
sonable one that I see Is to raise the
price of farm products to a point
where the farmer can go In the
markets of labor and bid with t'-o
other trades and professions. Di
versifications would not save the
farmers if the r" - 'e of the dtveraifled
crops do not U-l-g j-ioru than they
cost. It may be argued that thla
general advance would so increase
the cost of living to tbe poor In the
cities that It would cause suffering
and want. That might be true, but
It might cause them to.get out and
produce something If they could get
In no other way. , The farmer! feeda
and clothes the world, why should
his products not bring a price that
would enable him to bid against the
turpentine, sawmill, ditch digging,
public roads gang and all other clas
ses of common laborers. There Is
no earthly reason why-they should
not except that the farmer Is the
worst discriminated fowl of the whole
roont.
The Bears nqueexe him and the
Bulls toss him ad libitum. I some
times wonder If the lane will never
turn. Some of the farmers seem to
think that wbat we need Is for tho
mills to play out and then we could
tjet plenty of labor. We need the
mills and factories to give us the
market, only let our prices be high
enough that wfe-can get some of the
tabor Let mfc Illustrate this by a lit
tle recent experience: I hired for ^
time a 17 year old negro for 76c a
day. Tbe public road workers
came along giving a dollar. He
went to the road. I could not
blame him. 31 was more than 75c.
He then hired to the Kirby Planing
Mill fdr 31-20, he said, could not
blame him, again tbe "biggest is the
best” said the Dutchman. I could
not blame the road officials fdr we
need the roads and they had to bid
high enough to get the laborers;
neither could I blame the Kirby Co.
FENCE MFENCEI
FENCER
Five Carloads of American and Ellwood Fence
for sale at right prices by .<
JAMES WATT & BRO.
THOmSVllLE, - - - GEORGIA.
none. I would not atop the building
of the sewer but have Its builders
give me enough for my truck that I
might be enabled to hire a few of
their sorriest, crippled up men.
recently saw a farmer who said he
was offering his potatoes at 35
cents. I have not sold any for
than 60 cents and very few at that.
I will haul them back before I will
take less. I used to think 60 cents
was a good price, then I could get
SO cent men to help dig. This year
I paid that for 10 and 12 year olds,
lithe farmers will have backbone
enough to assert a price In propor
tion to the products of other Indus
tries, and the price of labor they will
ber enabled to stand tbe strain, and
save their farm's from the dllapldat
ed state the average renter brings
upon them. Unless we can hare a
readjustment of prices along these
lines It seems to me that the farmer
will be lost In the shuffle" and then It
will be an easy matter to guess the
financial result.
J. S. WARD, Jr.
In Praise of Chamberlain’s Cotiaji
Remedy.
There Is no other medicine man
factured that has receivod so mu
praise and so many expressions
gratitude as Chamberlain’s Cou
Remedy. It Is effective, and prompt
rejiet: follows Its use. Grateful par
ents ’everywhere do not hesitate tt
testify to Its merits foY the Uenefi
0 fothers. It Is a certain curp fo;
croup and will prevent, the attack
if given at the first appearance ef
tbe disease. It Is especially adopted
hlldrcp as It Is pleasant to tak*-
nr.d contains nothing injurious. Mr
E A Humphreys, 0 v.-e;l kooy-n ret
lcent and clerk In the store of'Mr
l) Lock, of Allre. Cape Colony. South
Africa, says: "1 lave vro-i Cha
lerlain’s Co-'-h tv- «-•- • ' 1
p and colds In my tsmily.
le very satisfactory an
They could sell the product of the j it gives me pleasure to recommeo
mill at enough profit to pky the price; Ba,e by Mon, * omery ’
by.working soon and lote. The only
trouble about the business was that
I could not get enough for whai I
had to sell to bid against tbe com
petitors ln the labor market, so I
had to drop out and let the negro
go. Recently cards were stuck up
In various places in Thomasvllle ad
vertising for a large number
hands at from 31-25 to 31.60 per day
to dig a big sewer ditch In the city
of Thomasvllle. Thti made some of
our farmers round about town so
mad that they may be wearing ashes rS!t Wp gives
and eating sackcloth yet for aught 1 permanent relief In case of habitual
1 constipation as It stimulates the
lver and restores the natural action
of tbe bowe]s without Irritating these
organs ljke pills or ordinary, cathar
tics. Does not nauseate or gripe
and la mild nnd pleasant to take.
Remember tbe name Orino and re
fuse
1 For
Death From Lockjaw,
never follows an Injury dressed with
Bucklon'a Arnica Salvo. Its anti
septic and healing proertlea pre
vent blood poisoning. Chaa. Os
wald, merchant, of Renaaelaeravllle,
N. Y„ writes: "It cured 8etb
Burch, of this place, of tbe ugliest
sore on his heck I ever saw." Curer
Cuts, wounds. Burns and Sores. 25*
of at ell drug stores l
Advertising keeps the money com
ing In. Try It n barrel and aee.
THE BHpRTAGE OF CARS.
I* to be Still Farther Investigated by
Federal Authorities.
Washington, Dec. 16.—The Inter
state Commerce Commission will ex
tend the proposed Infestlgutlon Into
the reported shortage of car equip
ment at the meeting Which begun at
St Paul, Minn., Deck 11 to Kanaes
City, St. Louis and Chicago.
%or some time theiommlaslon has
had agenta in the field gathering In
formation on the subject and ln ad
dition numerous tetters jut Te been re
ceived from persons;who have suf
fer*! from the shortage. It Is said
at the commlasIoKXhat the final and
complete remedy for the altuattoi
must come from congress, which
to thla time has not gftta the eom-
mlsalon authority over jhe movement
of trelna or the furnishing of equip
ment.
The complaints of shortage it is
said at the commission is not neces
sarily baaed on discrimination-by the
railroads, although thla may be the
case In some Instances, but on de
lays ln the dispatch and movement
of-trains and on the part of shippers
in loading and unloading freight.
Notice to our Customer*.
We are pleased to announce that
Foley’s Honey and Tat for coughs,
colds, and lung troubles Is not af
fected by the National' Pure Food
and Drug Law as It contains no
opiates of other harmful drugs, and
we reccommend is as n safe remedy
'"for children and adults. For'sale
by Montgomery & MacIntyre.
Antlimn Sufferers Should Know This
Foley’s Honey and Tar has cured
many cases of asthma that "were
considered hopeless. , Mrs. Adolph
Bueslng, 701 Wost. Third street,
Davenport, Iowa, writes: "A se
vere cold contracted twelve years ago
was neglected until It finally grew
Into asthma. The . best I medical
skill available could not ,JLs
more than temporary rellefylroley’i
Honey and Tar was recommondeJ
and one •fifty cent bottle entlrelj
cured me of asthma which had been
growing on me for twelve years. If
bajl taken it at the start I wo-;id
have been saved yean of suffering.”
For sale by Montgomery A Mac
Intyre, drugglkts. .
cause the products of the.farm won’t
pqy the hand, so tt seemx to be a ease
of being between the devil and the
deep blue sea and no remedyln sight.
Rct_ I believe that there Is a remedy
I know. The people of Tbomasvllle
thought tbe ditch was necessary for
tbe health of the town, tbe contrae-*
tore bad to go high enough to get
the hands. The v trouble with the
fanner was that he could not stay In
sight of them because hi* stuff.wa* fntyre.
tpo low. Cotton sold around 10c'
from 1873 to 1830, farmhands rang
ed around 60c n day. Today the
price of cotton la about the same!
while the price of labor hiai doubled) DEPOSITORS
and the quality depreciated. Other
farm products have enhanced some
but not according to labor.
1 would not close down tbe big!
Kirby Mill. It Is a necessity ad-!
Junct to tbe South’a prosperity, but;
I would have the employers and the'
employee give me su^h a price for
the products of my farm that they
could not hire alt' the hands and me
WUI Interest Many.
Every person should know ’ that
good health Is Impossible tt the kid
ney* are deranged. Foley’s Kidney
Cure will cure kidney and bladder
diseases in erery form, and will
bnlld up and strengthen
gana ao they will perform their
functions properly. No danger ot
Bright’s dlseqte or diabetes if Fo-
substltates. F ley’s Kidney Care ljMaken lnitlme.
^M.tgom.ryA^J^o.yMbnt.mery
NEW BANK
Bank of Ochlcicknee, Ochlocknee, Ga.
INSURED AGAINST
ALL LOSSES.
Put your money where you eon,t lose It. 5 per cent
Paid on time deposits. Courteous treatment to all.
Give us your account. Yours truly,
BANK OF OCHLOCKNEE,
WILLIAM JOHNSON
CASHIER-
JUST LOOK
Over our Stock and you will be surprised at what nice things
we have that will make plad the heart of a child on Christmas mom
mg
A full stock of Juvenile oh the road and a 20 per cent re
duction on all 1906 Motile Wheels, in orderjjjto close them out
WERTZ & SON,
Off.v/, r.l« "y THOM AS VILLA, GA. ;
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