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Vol 11. No. 2
TWELVE STATES ARE
UNDER QUARANTINE
FOR CATTLE PLAGUE
Rhode Island and Deleware Latest
Territory in Which Work to
Eradicate Foot and Mouth
Disease is Being Pushed
INFECTION MENACING THE MEAT
Supply, Says Secretary Houston, and
l nlcss Infection is Localized it
I hreutens Untold Losses Among the
I.iTe Stock of the Country.
Washington, Nov. 10.—Officials of
the department of agriculture have
prepared to extend their fight against
the foot and mouth disease to Rhode
Island. An order quarantining that
state against interstate shipments of
live stock was issued Monday. The
addition of Rhode Island would make
eleven states under federal quaran
tine against the epidemic. New York.
Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan,
Wisconsin and lowa comprise the in
fected area.
Reviewing the fight the states and
the department of agriculture are
making, Secretary Houston said that
unless the infection immediately
could be localized and quickly eradi
cated, it threatened untold losses
among live stock.
“Veterinary authorities of the Unit
ed States,” he said, “are agreed that
the only method of combating the
disease is to stop all movement of
stock and material which have been
subjected to any danger of infection,
and to kill off without delay all herds
in which the disease has gained any
foothold. This enables the authorit
ies to eradictae affected herds and to
isolate and hold under observation all
suspected herds.
“The federal and state inspectors
are now tracing up, throu ,n bills of
fading and railroad records all ship
ments of live cattle which have been
made during the last sixty days out of
any of the infected districts. The
herds of animals so shipped are locat
ed and immediately examined by vet
erinarians.
“At present the chief danger lies in
the possibility of there being conceal
ed sources of infection ” the secreta
ry added.
All shipments of live stock from
Canada to the United States will be
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GREAT SERVICE AT
M.E, CHURCH SUNDAY
"Methodism Looking at Methodism”
will be the order of the services at
the Methodist church next Sunday and
according to the pastor, Rev. M. A.
Morgan, the services will be out of the
ordinary, in view of the fact that re
ports will be made from all the depart
ments of the church work showing the
church to be in the best condition, fi
nancially it has ever been.
Short, but stirring reports will be
made by the Board of Stewards show
ing the church to be in the best finan
cial condition it has been in for years,
remarked Dr. Morgan yesterday. He
added that the president of the Ep
worth League would also render a re
port on the League, which shows the
splendid condition of that organiza
tion. And that he superintendent of
the Sunday School would give an en
couraging statement of the fine work
being done by this important depart
ment of the church. Besides these, he
said, the president of the Woman’s
Misionary Society had an excellent
'stirring statement to make of the
prosperity of that organization.
The sermon will be by the pastor,
and will be short, but to the point and
pe whole service will not be a long
oh?.
Rev. Morgan, as well as all others
interested in the welfare of the M. E.
church here, rejoices over the good
showing each department of the
church is able to make this year.
Rev. Morgan earnestly requests
every Methodist and friend of
Methodism be present to hear this
good news. He also asks each one to
bring the amount due on conference
claims in an envelope..
A cordial invitation is extended to
all to come out and hear this service
on “Methodism Looking at Method
ism.”
CONTEST CLOSES IN
ONE MORE WEEK
Only Seven Days Left in Which to
Work.—Who Will Win?
As announced in our last issue, the
Progress Business Producing Contest
will close next Wednesday night, Nov
ember'lß, at 10 o’clock, after which
time no more votes can be credited.
This leaves seven more days for the
workers to determine among them
selves who will win the piano and the
diamond ring. During that seven days
however, many changes can take place
in the standing of the workers. It all
depends on the amount of work done.
Tell Your Friends to Get Busy.
Now' is the time for the friends of
the workers to get busy, and the con
testants should see to it that they
help them right away, because the
time is short and every minute now
counts, and counts big.
Remember the Club Votes.
There is offered a fine proposition
in the way of big gains in votes thru
the club plan, which is as follows:
Clubs amounting to $lO, 50,000 votes
clubs amounting to *2O, 125,000 votes:
clubs amounting to S3O, 200,000 votes:
clubs amounting to S4O, 300,000 votes;
clubs amounting to SSO, 500,000 votes:
clubs amounting to SIOO, 1,000,000
votes.
These clubs may be made up of sin
gle yearly subscriptions, or they can
come from individuals. The point is
to send in at one time the amount of
a club, stating with the remittance to
whom the subscription is to be credit
ed and the amount of each subscrip
tion. Ten yearly subscriptions, or one
ten year subscription counts the same,
and this is also true of the larger size
clubs.
But as the contest closes at 10 o'-
clock next Wednesday night, it will be
necessary for all remittances to be in
the hands of The Progress on or be
fore that hour.
Chance For Anyone Yet.
There is a chance for any one of the
leaders to win yet, because just a few
dollars will make a big change in the
standing, and if the ones who are anx
ious to win the piano will get busy, it
is anyone’s instrument. Then, too, if
the friends of the workers get busy
now and send in the money they have
been intending to send in during the
contest, they will stand a good chance
to see the piano go to their favorite.
But, remember the time is short and
the work will have to be done betw r een
this date and 10 o’clock next Wednes
day night, November 18.
At any rate some young lady is go
ing to be made happy on Thanksgiving
by being the possesor of a handsome
piano or a diamond ring or a fine
watch, who the lucky ones will be re
mains to be seen.
Work is what counts and what will
tell the tale. As the w-orkers stand at
this time is shown by the following
schedule:
Miss Mary Annie Ferguson... 61,750
Mis 3 Georgia Livingston 130,600
Miss Edna Moore 49,625
Miss Gussie Roberts 262,240
Miss Lila Sapp 75.375
Miss Ethel Tanner 63,000
Mrs. Velma Touchton 44,350
TO GET MARKET PRICES
WE MUST HAVE MER
CHANTABLE GOODS
By J. G. McAuliff, in Augusta
Chronicle.
Now and then we have a complaint
about somebody not being able to sell
farm products. I have been trying to
farm for about fifteen yars, and I have
never seen the time when things
wouldn’t sell until now, and then it
is cotton. Oats are one of the most
profitable crops ever grown in this
section of the country, for they re
quire little labor, usually yield well,
and after harvesting a crop of cot
ton, corn, or hay, may be made on
the same land.
But we can not sell things unless
they are in merchantable condition.
Your next door neighbor doesn't want
things unless they are in fair condi
tion. For example, nobody wants to
buy oats that are damaged by rain
or by rats, or other troubles, or that
are not perfectly put up. The same
is true of corn and hay. Who wants
to buy nubbins, rotten corn, mixed
corn, and any old thing? Who
wants to buy hay that is half of one
kind and half another; half of one
grade and half another? When ar.y
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Douglas, Georgia, Wednesday, November 11th 1914
LIVERPOOL COTTON
MARKET RE-OPENED
Lancashire Spinners Gratified At
First Day’s Business.
Manchester, via London, Nov. 10.—
Lancashire spinners are gratified at
the first day’s business of the Liver
pool cotton market since the war be
gan. Trading was hedged about by a
great many restrictions, but spinners
believe the Liverpool Cotton Associa
tion will remove all impediments to
general trading as soon as the New
York Exchange opens. President Rox
burgh, of the Liverpool Association,
believes this will be about Nov. 16.
China is placing orders with
Lancashire spinners w r hich has stimu
lated the market and is regarded as
the forerunner of orders from India
and a general demand for cotton
goods.
Many spinners express the opinion
that the improvement, in the cotton
situation is largely due to Sir. George
Parish’s efforts in the United States.
While the Liverpool market was clos
ed the Lancashire spinners had little
trouble in buying spot cotton, but the
opening of the Chinese trade makes
it imperative that futures be bought
to cover orders booked.
The Liverpool Spinners’ Association
has fixed BV 2 cents a pound as the
minimum price to protect the trade
against loading up at a ruinously low
price on the 6,000,000 bales of Amer
ican cotton raised this year in excess
of estimated demands.
The Liverpool market ranged from
9 to 20 points above the minimum
fixed by the association. Futures have
been so generally sold heretofore that
there is abundant demand to justify
present prices, in the opinion of the
Manchester News, which intimates
that orders for raw cotton were much
larger than was generally believed,
lieved.
Under the restrictions of the Liver
pool market spot cotton is not affect
ed. Buying orders for May and June
are limited to old business and must
be certified by the association.
The association limited futures to
May and June deliveries, because the
limited supply in Liverpool would be
exhausted by filling heavy ot iers
booked before the war were brokers
compelled to deliver January and Feb
ruary of next year.
It is estimated that Lancashire cot
ton workers are employed from 50 to
60 per cent of the time. Orders for
army supplies have offset, somewhat,
the dullness the war has caused to
general trade.
Business is active in some classes
of yarns, especially coarse counts,
but the finer classes are sluggish.
TICKET SUGGESTED
FOR CITY FATHERS
The city political bee is beginning
to buzz, but in a quiet way. Not much
is being said in public places, but as
the election for mayor and aldermen
is only a little more than a month
ahead, the street corners, court house
steps and drug stores will, no doubt,
in the near future be the scenes of
lively discussions of city politics and
municipal affairs for another year.
Below r appears a proposed ticket
that has been handed in to The Prog
ress for publication:
Mayor: T. A. Wallace.
Aldermen: J. F. Overstreet, J. E.
Causey, H. Kirkland, S. J. Stubbs, G.
M. Stanton.
UNITED STATES WARSHIP
IS REPORTED BLOWN UP
Washington, Nov. 10. —Rumors, un
confirmed were numerous in a number
of Atlantic coast cities that the United
States cruiser, North Carolina, had
been blown up at Beirut, Asiatic Tur
key.
The Treasury Department request
ed the Commercial Cable Company to
attempt to secure some information
as to the location of the North Caro
lina. The Navy Department had no
confirmation of the rumor that the
vessel had been blown up.
Admiral Fiske, chief of the bureau
of Operations, Navy Department, stat
ed that five days ago he sent a mes
sage to the commander of the North
Carolina asking for information con
cerning the reported landing of Amer
ican marines at Bierut. No reply has
yet come to the message. Admiral
■'iske stated.
Success seldom comes to a man who
is too lazy to meet it halfway.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT
MEDICAL SOCIETY
To Convene Here on Seventeenth
—lnteresting Program An
nounced.
DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIANS BE
In Attendance—Cordial Welcome Will
Be Giveu Visitors—Banquet To Be
Nerved by Coffee C°nnty Medical
Society.
We publish below a program for the
meeting of the Eleventh District Med
ical Society, which will be held here
beginning on the 17th inst. Dr. C. VV.
Roberts, of this city, is president, and
Dr. J. W. Simmons, of Brunswick, is
secretary and treasurer.
Tile Society lias a membership of
about seventy-five and a full attend
ance is expected. These meetings are
always very interesting to the mem
bers and of much importance to the
public.
The physicians of the Eleventh Dis
trict Society form a capable body, and
one that is highly creditable to this
section of Georgia, as the member
ship has most excellent talent.
The program for this meeting im
preses one as being unusually strong.
The topics assigned are practical and
the discussions will be attended with
the greatest interest.
The city will extend the distinguish
ed visitors a hearty welcome, and will
endeavor to entertain them in a man
ner becoming the occasion.
Program Arranged for Meeting.
Introductory.
Meeting called to order by the presi
dent, at 10 a. m.
Invocation, Rev. H. H. Shell, pastor
First Baptist Church, Douglas.
Address of welcome on behalf of the
City of Douglas, Mayor T. A. Wallace.
Address of welcome on behalf of Cof
fee County Medical Society, Dr. S. L.
Vinson, Nicholls.
Response to addresses of welcomt
for the Eleventh District Medical So
ciety, Dr. E. P. Little, Manor, Ga.
President’s address, Dr. C. W. Rob
erts, Douglas.
Scientific papers.
The Trained Nurse and Modern Med
icine, Miss Ruth R. Kuhn, R. N„ Way
cross.
Discussion led by Dr. T. F. Aber
crombie, Brunswick.
The Examining Physician’s Relation
to the Insurance Company, Its Agents
and the Applicant, Dr. J. W. Simmons,
Brunswick.
Discussion led by Dr. J. M. Hall,
Hazelliurst.
Why I Want to be a Doctor, Dr. H.
P. Smith, Pearson.
Subject unannounced, Dr. J. W.
Daniel, Savannah.
Discussion led by Dr. H. C. Whel
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LEON RUTH, COLORED
KILLED BY T.W.THOMAS
At the fair grounds during the Tri-
County Colored Fair, on Thursday
night of last week, T. W. Thomas shot
and killed Leon Ruth, a negro man
about thirty years old. We have been
unable to ascertain the direct cause
of the tragedy. Sheriff Gillis who was
on the grounds when the shot was fir
ed, promptly arrested Thomas and
placed him in jail. All the statement
made by Thomas when arrested was,
“I had it to do.”
The defendant was given a hearing
before Judge Freeman Saturday morn
ing and bound over to Superior Court
which convenes one week from next
Monday.
Thomas, who is said to be the son
of a well-to-doffl,.: ein.a etaion
cf a well-known and highly esteemed
citizen of Augusta, has been in Coffee
county most of the time for about two
years.
Ruth, the negro killed, was a son of
Dan Ruth, who died a few years since
near Nicholls, this county, where he
had lived since obtaining his freedom
at the close of the Civil war.
Mrs. Thomas Attempts Suicide.
On Friday night following Thomas’
incarceration, his wife attempted sui
cide by taking bi-chloride of mercu
ry. Dr. J. R. Smith was promptly
summoned and he made a heroic ef
fort to save her by vigorous use of a
stomach pump. Her condition, hovv
■ver, has been doubtful until today,
•he physician reports that she may re
over.
FOURTEEN BUSINESS
POINTERS FOR THOSE
WHO WOULD PROSPER
By K. L. Martin
Business men cannot hope to sell
to those wiio do not know them, or
know the merit of their goods. Those
who are wise, therefore, advertise.
In this day and generation the bus
iness man, who does not advertise,
commits the same folly as the farmer
who does not fertilize.
Immigration and capital come to
those communities that extend them
an invitation: and tell them in ad
vance what resources, advantages and
opportunities they may expect to find
after they arrive.
People who wish to better their eon
dition, do not start out to hunt for
cities they have never heard of; but
they move to those that by advertis
ing have impressed them with the ad
vantages they offer.
Look up the business man who ad
vertises continuously and vigorously,
and you will find him busy and pros
perous. Note the city and section that
let their light shine upon the moun
tain top, and you will find the tide of
immigration and investment (lowing
steadily toward them.
The wise business man does not ad
vertise because business IS GOOD—
but to make IT GOOD.
If business is generally dull, it is
all the more important that you
should advertise vigorously to get a
liberal share of it.
Remember that there are over 90,-
000,000 people in America, and they
are all after the same dollar you are
chasing. Judicious advertising will
put wings on your feet, and enable you
to reach it first.
You are part ot the town, for it
couldn’t be a town without you and —
tiie other fellows. Remember, there
fore, that when you are helping the
town, you are helping yourself.
Don’t say, “Oh, yes, advetrising
might help the town, but it wouldn’t
help me.” Nothing can help the town
without helping you—unless, you are
a dead one.
Seed are sown in the spring, if a har
vest is to be gathered in the fall. Ad
vertising must be done today, if you
would sell goods tomorrow.
The business man who fancies that
he can flourish without helping the
town, will soon find out that the town
will flourish without helping him.
Find the city that is best advertis
ed, and you will find the city that is
most prosperous.
The man w'ho finally pays for adver
tising is not the business man who
does it, but the competitor who does
not do it, because of the latter’s losses
in patronage.
227 BUSHELS OF
CORN TO THE ACRE
A Pickens Connty Boy Makes
Greatest Yield Ever Known
Macon, Nov. 10.—It has developed
here that a Georgia boy—Luther All
red, of Pickens County, has made the
best yield of corn on a single acre
that has ever been known in the
South and the second best that has
ever been made anywhere.
His report, covering his exhibit at
the Georgia State Fair, shows that he
raised 227.17 bushels of corn on one
acre at a net profit to himself of
S 185.20. Two of Luther’s brothers al
so raised more than 200 bushels to
the acre this year, while four other
brothers raised lesser amounts.
Clarence Allred raised 220 bushels
on his acre at a net profit of $178.03.
Alner Allred raised 210.14 bushels at
a net profit of $156.41.
These boys are the pride of Pickens
county. They have quit raising cot
ton altogether and are devoting all
their time to corn.
The best canning club exhibit found
so far at the State Fair is that of Miss
Alice Clifton, a Bibb county girl, who
raised 4,735 pounds of tomatoes on a
tenth of an acre of ground, which she
sold at a net profit of $125.90, or equal
to $1,200 an acre. She won the Bibb
county prize and is expected to stand
first in the State. It is the best rec
ord ever made by any girl in the Geor
gia Canning Club.
Mr. Peterson Improving.
Mr. B. Peterson, who has been se
riously ill for two weeks, is much bet
ter today.
$1 Per Annum
DIGEST COTTON
LOAN FUND PLAN
For the Relief of the Cotttn Situ
ation in the Southern States,
As Approved by the Federal
Reserve Board,
By Festus .1. Made
President Mercantile Trust Co., Pres
ident Mercantile National Bank,
St. Louis, Mo.
This plan was approved by the Fed
eral Reserve Board at Washington,
D. C„ October 24, 1914, and the fol
lowing is an outline:
The fund is to be administered un
der the direction of the individual
members of the Federal Reserve
Board, who have placed the task of
the general administration on a Cot
ton Loan Committee, consisting of the
following gentlemen:
Chairman W. P. G. Harding, of the
Federal Reserve Board; Paul War
burg, of the Federal Reserve Board;
Col. E. M. House, Austin Texas; Al
bert Wiggins, New York City; Jas.
B. . Forgan, Chicago, 111.; Festus J.
Wade, St. Louis, Mo.; Levi L. Rue,
Philadelphia, Pa., and William A.
Gaston, Boston, Mass.
Amount of Loan.
It is proposed to create a fund of
approximately $135,000,000 to be
known as the Cotton Loan Fund.
Subscriptions.
Subscribers shall be divided into
two classes. Class “A” consisting of
banks or other corporations, firms or
individuals located or residing in oth
er than cotton producing states.
Class "B” subscriptions, banks or
other bankers located or residing in
the cotton producing states; Arkan
sas, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Miss
issippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee.
All Class “A” subscriptions shall be
contingent upon the receipt of sub
scriptions of that class aggregating
$100,000,000. The fund shall not be
regarded established for any reason.,
unless said subscription shall aggre
gate $100,000,000 .
On payment in whole or in part of
subscriptions, participation certifi
cates shall be issued evidencing the
interest of the subscriber. Certifi
cates shall be transferable on the
books of the Committee and specify
the terms under which the owner will
be entitled to share in the distribu
tion of moneys realized from the
loans made.
NOTE. —While it is provided that
subscriptions to Class “B” shall be
made by banks or bankers in the cot
ton producing states yet their apply
ing for a loan for a customer, and
in that event the subscription must be
in an amount equal to 25 per cent of
the loan and for this subscription
they are given transferable parti
pation certificates.
For example, a cotton planter, mer
chant or manufacturer of Corsicana,
Texas, has a thousand bales of cotton
and desires to borrow on same: This
plan gives him the opportunity of go
ing to his banker at Corsicana and
applying for a loan of 6 cents a pound
or $30,000 in total.. He makes his note
for $30,000 with the cotton as secur
ity; the banker knowing that he is
, nertectly good risk, commercially
and financially, agrees to make him
the loan. The banker advances $7.-
500 of it for which he takes a Class
“B” certificate bearing 6 per cent in
terest for $7,500 and secures for the
planter, merchant or manufacturer,
$22,500 with the one thousand bales
of cotton as security, from the SIOO,-
000,000 (against which will be issued
a Class “A” certificate for - $22,500,
which certificate is issued to the sub
scribers other than those in cotton
producing states). It will be observ
ed that no definite subscriptions to
any fund is required from the South.
Thus each baDk, whether it be a State
bank, National bank or Trust compa
ny, can finance any of their customers
needing financing, and as such banks
or trust companies know to whom
they are loaning money, they take no
risk on their Class “B” certificates, if
they are conservative in making such
loans. It is to be noted that both
Class “A” and Class “B” certificates
being negotiable can be disposed of
by the banks in any manner seen fit.
Interest on Certificates.
All Class “A” and Class “B” cer
tificates shall bear interest at the
rate of 6 per cent per annum, payable
quarterly.
( lass “B” Subscriptions.
LOAN APPLICATIONS—CIass “B”
subscriptions shall net be required.
(Continued on page 4)