Newspaper Page Text
Lnteed Circulation Three Thousand and Five Hundred
The Best Advertising Medium in Southwestern Georgs
[Ordinarys Office
lambrftg? 0parrh ICiglit
19 NO. 29
BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY.. GEORGIA. FRIEAY, JULY 21. 1911
)0D FARMING
IN OLD DECATUR
[test Acre aid Other Crops Making
Very Fine Showing.
In figuring on the many acres
,tered in the corn contest in
>catur county it is said that
r _ e. A. J. Rich, or “Father
[ich,” as he is known by many,
u p with, if not ahead of any
if them at this juncture.
Some are already guessing
►hat the acre Mr. Rich has will
turn out somewhere around 200
Jbustels. It is of the prolific va
riety and is the finest corn ever
seen in that section.
Mr. Rich is one of the veteran
farmers of Decatur. He has at
tained at a ripe old age, but in
terest in the great occupation of
tilling the soil is still with him
and he takes a deep interest in
everything that tends to build up
the farming industry.
He has quite an extensive farm
and beside the contest acre, he
has a large corn crop that is very
promising. His cotton and other
crops are all doing well.
Mr. Euzema Rich, his son,
who lives near by, has a field of
150-acres in corn that is excep
tionally fine. The rows are
seven feet apart and in every
middle he has a row of ground
peas. Among the peas he has
velvet beans. The ground peas
are said to be as promising in
proportion as the corn. It is
said the field is one of the pret
tiest sights in the county. When
the corn is gathered in the fall
Mr. Rich has 150 head of hogs
and as many cattle that he will
turn in to fatten.
Besides the corn he has be
tween 50 and 75 acres in cotton
that will measure as high as a
man’s shoulders. This farm has
obout two hundred acres of land
stumped and is one of the pret
tiest in this section of Georgia.
Mr. J. M. Dukes in the same
neighborhood has 250 acres in
cotton and 200 in corn that is
said to be as promising as heart
could wish.
Mr. Dukes is another strong
believer in groundpeas and vel
vet beans. After he had gath
ered his corn last year he sold
his crop of velvet beans for pas
turage, receiving three dollars
an acre for these alone.
These farms are fair samples
of what Decatur county lands
will do and proves southwest
Georgia to be among the finest
farm sections in the whole coun
try.
by Mr. Peyton
Weather Report for Farmers
Big Potato Crop.
Mr. Luther Jones of the West
Side brought in a wagon load of
sweet potatoes of the 1911 crop
Tuesday and sold them at a
splendid price. Mr. Jones is
said to be .considered a one-
horse farmer, but he has sixty
acres in sweet potatoes this
year. Some samples were
brought to the Search Light of
fice and judging from the size
of those brought in, the crop
will be an^normous one.
Mr. Jones is among those who
believe that cotton is not the
only money crop that can be
raised in Southwest Georgia. If
nothing serious happens Mr.
Jones will make a good sized
bunch of money clear from his | of the qualified
potato crop this year.
Atlanta, July 20.—Initiative
and referendum fer the state of
Georgia and for all counties and
municipalities in the state are
provided for in a bill introduced
on Wednesday in the house by
Representative Payton, of Worth.
It provides for submitting to the
people at the polls a constitu
tional amendment authorizing
the addition of these modern ad
ditions to Democratic govern
ment, and provides that when
the voters have indorsed it at
the ballot box it becomes opera
tive without being again refer
red to the legislature for the en
actment of the necessary laws to
make it effective. The bill as
presented does not contain the
recall feature, but Mr. Payton
says that will be incorporated in
an amendment when the bill
comes from the general judiciary
committee No. 1, to which it was
referred.
This bill provides that 8 per
cent of the qualified voters of
the state can institute any gen
eral state legislation by petition
ing under the initiative provi
sion. These measures shall take
precedence over all others.
Special elections shall be called
to endorse or disapprove them,
when the specified percentage of
voters sign the petition. For
any measure that may thus be
presented the general assembly
nay substitute a bill it considers
better adapted to the question,
but both the petition measure
and the assembly’s substitute
must be submitted to the people
and the voters be permitted to
express their choice of the two
or their opposition to both.
Any general legislation passed
by the assembly may be submit
ted to the people on petition of
10 per cent of the qualified vo
ters of the county or municipali
ty affected. Petition for refer
endum must be made within 90
days of the adjournment of the
legislative session at which
passed. Voters are given the
privilege of petitioning for re
ferendum on any one or more
clauses of any measure The full
text of any bill asked to be re
ferred to the people must be
published in the official papers
once a month for three months
before the election. Twelve
copies of any local measure to be
referred must be filed with the
clerk of the superior court of the
county and publication made
twice a month for two months
preceding the election.
The privilege of instituting
any constitutional amendment
legislation by the initiative pro
vision requires twice the number
of signatures as for ordinary
measures, and the petition must
be filed twelve months before
the election at which it is to be
voted on. For such amendments
to pass they must have 60 per
cent of the total vote.
Veto power of governor or
mayors shall not extend to meas
ures referred to the people. No
legislative act shall become oper
ative until 90 days after adjourn
ment of the legislative session
at which passed, except emer- j
geney measures that occasion i
demands be put into immediate j
operation.
Mr. Payton’s recall feature!
will give the privilege of voting!
to remove any state, county or |
municipal officer elected by the j
people on petition of 16 per cent |
voters of the:
state, county or municirality. |
Through an arrangement per
fected between the United States
Smith to Resign
Augusta, Ga., July 18,-
Chronicle tomorrow will
^BalnMflge
Step u;
$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
-The
say:
Weather Bureau and the Bell Hoke Smith wfll resign the office
Company, more than 25,000, he now holds, as governor of
southern farmers will receive the Georgia, either Thursday or Fri-
daily weather reports by tele
phone beginning June 1st.
The daily weather reports will
be furnished the Telephone Com
pany by the Weather Bureau,
and the report will be read to
the farmers by telephone opera
tors. At a given hour each day
a general alarm will be sounded,
calling every farmer to the tele
phone. When they are all as
sembled the report will be read.
Any farmer who is not able to
answer the signal and hear the
report has the privilege of call
ing the operator and securing the
information.
Almost every farmer’s tele
phone Mne connected with the
Bell System has six or more sub
scribers, and by reading the re
port to each line the work can be
speedily accomplished.
This is the first comprehensive
and systematic effort to furnish
day of this week. By noon Mon
day, July 24, Senator-elect.
Smith will present his creden
tials as the junior senator from
Georgia to the United States
Senate and announce himself
ready to take oath of office.
This is the story that comes
out here yesterday from intimate
friends of Governor and Sena-
tor-elect Smith, following a cau
cus held in Atlanta Monday
night, when, it is said, both the
senatorial and gubernatorial sit
uation was gone over.
Mr. Smith decided at that
time, it is stated, to resign the
governorship and leave Atlanta
in time to reach Washington
Mondav morning. There was
some indeoision, according to
the story as to whether the res
ignation would be filed today,
(Wednesday) or not until filter
in the week, but the definite
this information without cost to: conclusion was reached that the
the farmers of the South. The
spread of the telephone in the
rural districts in the past few
years has made it possible to
reach such a large number of
farmers through the Bell System,
and the dissemination of weather
news by telephone is one of the
many practical uses for the tele
phones on the farm.
The territory of the Southern
Bell Company covers the states
of North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Vir
ginia and the southern half of
West Virginia.
Union Meeting Program.
The next Union meeting of the
Southwestern Association will be
held with Shiloh Church July the
28, 29 and 30th, 1911.
The subject to be discussed
are as follows:
1st. . What will be the best
method of Elevating the South
western Association? Rev. T.
J. Coleman to make the opening
speech.
2nd. Is feet washing an ex
ample given unto us by Jesus
Christ? If so why not follow it?
Rev. B. F. Poston to make the
opening speech.
3rd. What better efforts can
we make in the future than we
have in the past to advance
Christ’s Gospel? Rev. G. W.
Mears to make the opening
speech.
Rev. E. Newberry,
Moderator.
W. H. Matthews,
Clerk.
state of Georgia would have the
benefit of the services of two
senators not later than Monday.
The statement also comes that
at the same caucus the guberna-
tional campaign was Hjscussed
and it was decided to bring
about some arrangements where
by either Tom Hudson or J.
Pope Brown would not be in the
race, with the inclination toward
concentration of the Smith
strength on Hudson in view of
the fact that the Smith following
in the state is anxious to obviate
a heated and perhaps bitter cam
paign.
Rev. Christopher to Cyrene.
Rev. N. G. Christopher of
Whigham ha? accepted a call to
the pastorate of the Bantist
church of Cyrene. He will also
have charge of the Bible depart
ment of the Cyrene Ins^ute,
Mr. Christopher wa\}yamong
the very first, if not the first
one to conceive the idea of the
Institute now located at Cyrene
and which promises to iM of so
much benefit to this sec,*!” -nf
the state. He has beenAi stro.l'-
factor in the Bowen Association
for many years and Kb work is
felt throughout its boi^jds.
He is a graduate of th> South
ern Baptist Theological "hhyjh
nary at Louisville, Ky., ancT7J
among the strongest preachers
of the Baptist denomination
this section of the state.
Mr. Christopher and his fami
ly will move to Cyrene and make
their future home there.
Stop! Look! Listen!
I
We wan', at Oi/ce, Fifty Im
proved Jarms from UOO to
200 , 'iVes. If yo i Wj\NT to
sell lif 1 vlth us. . . 'i . ,> .
Office N^d to the Post Office.-r
Be^er-Fieming Realty Co.
iy Left Fortune
R. O'Neal, son of
krs. QJnne O’Neal, and prove it.
That /k’.Vou have to do to come
into a nice fortune of $20,000
cold cash, left you in the will of
J. T. Young, Sr., of Oakland,
Cal.
You are said to be somewhere
in Georgia, Mr. O’Neal, but you
couldn’t be located last week by
J. T. Young, Jr., who came to
Atlanta to look you up.
You may not even remember
T. Young, Sr. Whether yeu
remember him or not, you will
be intensely surprised that he
has left you $20,000 for you only
met him casually in Florida some
years ago, and you doubtless
never suspected what a warm
friendship he formed for you,,
J. T. Young, Jr., called at the
Journal office fuesday afternoon
to ask that you be notfified
through the press. If you will
write to the city editor of The
Journal, he will furnish you
Mr. Young’s address.—Atlanta
Journal.
Mr. W. R. O’Neal is a Decatur
county boy^ having been born
and reared in Bainbridge, where
his mother, Mrs. Chloe O’Neal
now resides.
From the foftgoing article
there is no doubt about the good
fortune coming to the young man
from Bainbridge. Mr. O’Neal is
ty>w in Macon being employed as
engineer in one of the railroad
yards of that city, so it is said.
While it is not known how
much importance to attach to
the report, it has been a matter
of much comment and wishes
that it “may be true” by his
many friends in the city.
Bills Introduced
Atlanta, Ga., July 20—Repre
sentative Peyton,0 of Worth
county, introduced a bill in the
legislature today to allow women
the right to vote.
The bill provides that they
may serve on the jury and hold
any civil office except congress
man and senator, which two are
governed by federal laws. They
are exempted from road duty,
military and patarol duties.
A hill to move the capital from
A:lanta to Macon was introduced! pathway,
PRES. BARRETT TO
FARMERS’ UNION
Says Helping the Man Who’s Down
is Sacred Obligation
President C. S. Barrett of the
Farmers’ Union in a letter to the
officers and members says one of
the best investments for a far
mer is helping the man who’s
down, whether he’s a member of
the Union or not.
He says: “If more men had
helped each other over rough
places since the world began,
civilization and Christianity
would be much further advanced
that it is today.
“The obligation to help the
man who is down and out is one
of the most sacred, and it isn’t
confined to your fellow member
of the'Farmers’ Union. In the
first place, you don’t know when
you may be in the same fix your
self and in need of assistance.
In the second, by helping to put
a man on his feet you are saving
yourself the expense of having
to feed him or his family. So
the proposition cuts from the
business as well as the philan
thropic end.
“In this country of quick
changes the man who you give a
lift today may tomorrow be
in a position to help you or the
organization. So it’s good policy
as well as a plain matter at
duty.
“I don’t think I ever saw a
man so far gone in meanness
that I would not try my best to
give him even a ray of light
The man or the woman who is
cast out by society with the cry
of ‘Unclean, unclean!’ is the man
and the woman who most need
help.
“You are not going to soil
your hands by picking people out
of the mire. You’re much more
likely to soil your soul and lose
some good opportunities in life
by failing to do it.
“One of the most beaqtifuj
features about some of the sec
ret orders is that they never de
sert a member, no matter how
far he has strayed from the
That ought to be the
jointly by twenty-five members i mo ^° °f every member of the
111' the house and was referred to I Timers’ Union, from the b(g-
a committee on constitutional ge8t ' ea ders down to the newest
joiners.
“We have a good deal of that
spirit now in the organization.
The more we encourage it the
more we enhance the prestige
of the order and live up to the
principles upon’ which ft is
founed.”
amendments. ®
Representative Ashley, of
Lowndes county, introduced a
bill to provide for state and
county boards of tax equaliza
tion.
Atlanta, Ga,, July 20.—Hand
book betting and the i making of
pools on professional baseball
games and horse races, whether
M#re Good Cottoi
Mr. J. W. Butts brought to
the Search Light office this week
a cluster of bolls from a stalk of
cotton of the Hardman’s Prolific
variety, that goes ahead of any- _
thing of the kind yet brought in. ] ; laye(i or run in orwt of
The cluster contains four large 8ta te, wi n t* prohibited by law
bells on a limb not quite two if the bill introduced in the
inches in length. Mr. Butts has Georgia house of representatives
eight acres of this variety and; on Wednesday is enacted into
says the cotton now is nearly as; i aw _ Representative McEI-
high as a man s shoulders over r e a th, of Fulton county, intro-
the whole field. duc<J( j it
I This measure is the direct
Mrs. Frank Jones gave a beau-! suit of the agitation in
tiful entertainment Monday night Georgia to curb the human vam
at their home on East Brough
ton street in honor of her guest,
Miss Gladys Boozer of Quitman.
A large number of young people
were present and a most enjoya
ble evening was spent.
pires who subsist upon the tm
fortunates who have an in
ble desire to wager on con
of sport. The measure has !
referred to the house gen*
judiciary committee No. 1.