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<B* yJfwlMXJ f> -» . mB BANNER-HR RALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA greyest preachers in the South. I few weevils. But beginning five Jap Girls Trained With Rifles THE OLD HOME TOWN ■r&m* r. By Stanley A FARMER SAYS that calcium; arsenate will amen destroy the j boll weevil, tie tcuni n low,, damp spot in his field'? alive withj weevils. He secured a small quan-j tity of calcium nrseuate and sprinkled it on the stalks. The-! next day he found ever two hun dred dead weevils on a small patch and not a live one ay. THE CHECK FACTORY, that]the lumber section begins, he no- anufactures cloth for automoblie. ticed much land untilled and shut down this week, but |crops are sorry. Mr. Smith says sumo operations next Mon-,he was surprised to sec such fine Owing to decreasing de-[crops and farmers in such fine fer goods ami the scarcity (spirits. _jy%£,r-j H a rt Tobacco THE SEWERAGE system beipg j ill c:» Oglethorpe avenue and/ tcrsccting streets was finished otton, Crop Is Fine t Saturday and is now Toady for connections. The water mains will be laid in September, when the piping is shipped. The resi dents cf that section appreciate these improvements, but are anx ious to know when they will be given street lights. MR. MENDEL MORRIS left Sunday for Atlantic City and other pleasure resorts north, dnd will be month or so. CALCIUM ARSENATE can now be bought at wholesale for fifteen cents per pound. A largo major ity“of farmers mix their poison with water *aml mmasses and they say thaTby so doing they can save from one-third to one-half of the poison and it does better. The saving thus made has doubt less helped bear down the price. ^ At "intrrviiFAn n r MR. R. J. CATLETf, a promi- MR. G. M. Will TEH * y * neJ ,t farmer of the Dry I’ond see- Jackson county, operates a large ■ Uon „f Jackson county, says the saw mill m Greene. He says tne uge p 0 j son there ure keeping price of lumber has decHned ^you down thc boll weevil and crops of all kinds have greatly improved. Dale, another Jackson county farmer, who lives near Clarks- n ! u boro, says they find very few men try to keep going so as to (weev jj a j n cotton and while corn hold their hr :da together, but un-1 ig sma) | it cominIt out a ; 8eL , less thejr can ^:nd Mlc for their, the rajns _ Jackaon win make „ Many Thousands Added to Revenue of County By New Crop Will Average 750 Pounds. per thousand and it is slow sale at that figure. Last, week saw mills in Greene closed down and others will do so. The mill boards there is nothing left but to shut down. vho AROUND ATHENS— Gkl TWO WE CONSIDER# Mr. Harold I Hulme the best possible authority! —. « __ A —- a crops, as he is one of our | OUT OUR WAY A RELIABLE gentleman last week traveled over Greene and Putnam counties, says that not one acre in a hundred is in cultivation — only small patches. People practically gave up farm ing and depend . <n lumber for money. This gentleman says can buy good farms in some see' tions at $2 and $3 per ac». himself, the last lost $16,000 try negro labor, so h : s land ? of his nelgnoors ioau| C om j s growing off nicely, as $60,000 on his farms since t e * Ljj other crops. In speaking vent of the toll weevil, In ■the the negro exodus Mr. Hulme i coantics around Athens farmer* there are plenty of darkeys, continued to work and fig # our lands need resting up and let weevil and arc rt 'Wa e a part of your farm lie out awhile HARTWELL, Ga.—That Hart vounty s first tooaceo crop is a success from every angle, and lb> , ... that arc lew farms in the absent for a I ,vl,G le county where the crop can-] not be grown successfully and: ] profitably, wa fl brought out last Friday by A. M. Best, the county’s tobacco agent, at the meeting of the Kiwaidfc Club. The report of Mr. ,JJest was the ptincipal feature of the day’s pro-j gram, and it is very gratifying to j all to learn that the new crop be-] ing experimented on here is to' bring many thousands of dollars additional revenue In even this first year. , The grade grown here will bring I from 25c to 60c per pound, he' dated. The production will average 750 pounds per acre. v , crop if the seasons most progressive and observant farmers. Mr. Hulme says he knows only one man who is ryot * I using poison this year, and he has "'only a small patch in cotton. Crops have comb out wonderfully “ Vu A.* /‘ Crops have come out wonderfully sc three year., n.. within the past ten days since the rains. Very few weevils are fine crop prospects. This gentle man savs negroes who went north are writing, back to their former employers for money to return on, but they do not heed such requests. Many farmers have not tlje money tb-advancc and do not care to risk fanning with negro labor. will be worth more than the crops made. If we have u surfeit of labor the danger is that our farm- us will again become Cottontots. Now they are raising cotton as a surplus crop and growing plenty of supplies^ ON MONDAY we called on our wholesale houses und they say the past month trade has been Dog Days begin. An old citizen says we can *knovni tfood and business is now on a SS S'r.n"«rinX~PeriodV"li« bMta.xar.au Hulme .ay. past yean, at this season, they ould not get in corn, oats and T ACT ffpinAY Mr* Lomrstrret couw not set in corn, oats ana She i connected hay fast cnou K h to .apply the dc- Mr. LonZ n»nd, of farmer., but they now StoV her “matton BC 'lt X n=^bor H who "h^StoSrtuSto ^*?hc h 'acrlfk'od h« propertV to And when the new crop, “y and rave Tallulah Falla from <°®o our farmer, will sign JK p* r Comoany their declaration of independence the Georgia I ower C ompany. i aKai , lst Kraia aml hay crow . A CABLEGRAM received by hi, era »l the west. wife from Rev. Mr. Jenkins state, j that he hud safely arrived in: HR. SMITH, n member of our SWcden, being a delegate to tho « V ™r. .ay, he last week took a World’s Baptist Conference. Ho trip through the country from will atop over In Athens for hi* Au > c "» to Augusta, via Washing- family erf returning to hi. church ton. In Wane, county crops arc ili Texas. Mr. Jenkins filled the extra fine and farmer, arc hope- puipit of tho First Baptist church ful. He never snw better corn u;id TAXI SERVICE Day and Night GEORGIAN BAGGAGE 1 Phone TRANSFER CO. Phone 66 Office Georgian Hotel 66 EVERETT TRUE By Condo