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VOLUME XXXIII,
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 29, 1922.
NUMBER 24.
SHIRLEY AND WARD
At Fayette County Farm
ers’ Mass Meeting at
Fayetteville, On
Thursday, Dec.
the 14th.
Representative farmers from all part*
of Fayette county were assembled at
the Palace Theater in Fayetteville on
Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. Mer
chants and bankers were there, and
many ladies were also present.
The editor of The News acted as
chairman of the meetings and with a
few fitting words setting forth the pur
pose of the meeting, introduced the
county agent, Professor C. V. Shirley,
who, for the past five years, has been
agent of Jefferson county.
Mr. Shirley addressed the people, pre
senting the great need of organization,
co-operation and application, to over
come the boll weevil, commenting upon
the successful, use of calcium arsenate
in the raising of cotton.
Mr. Shiriey introduced Prof. F. C.
Ward, cotton specialist of the state
school of agriculture at Athens, whose
address presented ways and means of
successful cotton farming by the use
of calcium arsenate properly applied,
prescribing 2 to 7 pounds to the acre
for cotton just beginning to square,
using a horn first to insure getting the
areenate on the plant when small. Later
using a blower when the plant is
larger to insure getting the arsenate
over the whole plant, and using from
5 to 7 pounds to the acre.
Mr. Ward explained the Florida sys
tem, in picking off all squares formed
and lower blooms while the weevil is
in the tender top buds, then to apply
poison properly and thus get rid of
the weevil almost entirely.
Medium early varieties were recom
mended by Mr. Ward as best to use, the)
Piedmont Cleveland, as one of the best
tested varieties.
Mr. Shirley announced the securing of
nearby acreage for a test plot where
demonstration would be made for the
benefit of those who desired to see how
to properly apply poison,
/
The agents’ county program was read
adopted community meetipgal 4£8£? Barbecue iHirnefrim
announced with dates arranged to covert zz ’ m ™ ecue < ISfSpeCtiol
the whole county in the near future.
Fully 90 per cent of the farmers and
land owners present assured the agent
of their decision to use arsenate this
season if possible to secure it and upon
a canvass of those present, about two
car loads were subscribed for, if prices
can be made at a reasonable figure.
Mr. Charles Redwine addressed tha
farmers in particular relative to their
ability to underwrite themselves, as the
banks will be engaged largely in assist
ing their own customers. Mr. Redwine
further stated that “Aid to the farmer
will be determined by the personal ef
fort. being put forth by the individual
himself.”
Mr. A. O. Blalock, folowing Mr. Red
wine, stated: “Banks have no desire to
refuse anybody, but cannot propost to
help everybody; farmer must locate
himself and find out his own ability
and possibilities and use his own en
ergy to develop his very best and then,
if need is necessaiy, no earnest needy
applicant need suffer; honest, fair work
wil,l win.”
County banks will help after the first
work has been done by the farmer him
self. Land owners of communities, by
securing payments, can secure arsenate
for all, needs. Organization is needed
owners can secure money on paper and
let tenants have needed arsenate to in
sure better investments to owners. The
Fayette banks will endorse owners'
notes and secure money for arsenate for
everybody.
Mr. Blalock further requested that
the county agent act immediately upon
securing from the fanners the approx
imate amount of arsenate to be needed
and to secure prices from the state
beard and others selling.
4. Poultry.
(Develop all phases.)
a. Housing.
. b. Production.
c. Feeding.
d. Treatment for diseases and
parasites.
e. Marketing.
f. Adopt one or two breeds in
the community.
(Other phases can be added.’
AGRONOMY:
5. Cotton.
(Develop all, phases.)
a. Poisoning to control weevil
b. Fertilizer tests.
c. Seed selection.
d. Stalk destruction.
e. Marketing.
(Other phases can be added.)
6. Corn.
e. Seed selection.
b. Treating to destroy weevil.
c. Marketing.
(Other phases can be added.)
7. Oats.
Develop all phases.)
8. Wheat.
(Develop all phases.)
9. Peanuts.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
10. Clovers, Alfalfa and Cbrn Crop.
HORTICULTURE.
11. Commercial and Home Orchards.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
12. Watermelons.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
13. Pimento Peppers.
(Develop all Phases, including the
marketing.)
14. Sweet Potatoes.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.)
15. Miscellaneous, Horticultural
Crops.
(Develop all phases, including the
marketing.
FARM ENGINEERING.
16. Terracing.
17. Potato House construction.
18. Weevil tight cribs.
FARM SANITATION.
19. Treating farm animals, disinfect
ing, whitewashing.
MISCELLANEOUS.
20. Publicity.
21. Fairs.
Off
Tours.
JUNIOR WORK.
23. Boys’ Clubs.
a. Every pig club boy a corn
club boy.
b. Every com club boy a pig
club boy.
c. Eveiy corn and pig club boy
a calf club boy.
(The pig club boy needs the corn
for his pig; the corn club boy needs
the pig to eat his com; and we must
have a calf to eat the fodder and
hay, so there will be no waste. And
we need an acre in cotton for cotton
seed meal for calf.)
d. Seed the cotton acre in rye at the
last cultivation for the sake of the land,
pig and calf, and the acre of corn in
velevt beans for the sake of the same,
and the grain acre in hay for same
reason.
The Booster’s Creed.
FAYETTE COUNTY FARMERS
ADOPT SUGGESTED OUTLINE
FOR PROGRAM OF WORK
By C. V. Shirley, County Agent.
LIVE STOCK:
Project:
1. Farm dairying.
(Develop all phases of this.)
a. Dairy association.
b. Testing cream.
c. Feeding.
d. Dairy equipment.
e. Permanent pastures.
f. Marketing.
2. Beel cattle.
(Develop phases such as pastures
and marketing.)
3. Hogs.
(Develop all phases.)
a. Feeding demonstrations.
b. Grazing demonstrations.
c. Pasture demonstrations.
d. Treatment for diseases and
parasites.
e. Marketing.
(Other phases can be added.)
f. Adopt one breed in the com
munity.
1. I believe in God, in my country
and myself.
2. I believe in the love of good wom
en and the friendship of true men.
3. I believe there is more good than
evil in the world, although the evil
makes the more noise,
4. I believe I am as good as any
man on earth, so long as I act on the
square.
5. I believe my future—to make or
mar—is in my own hands.
6. I . believe I can accomplish what
ever I honestly try to do.
7. I believe that hard work, thrift
and common sense will put any man on
top.
7. I believe the knocker, the cynic
and the calamity howler are pests that
should be suppressed.
9. I believe in eternal justice—that
fair dealing always pays and produces
the only happiness and success worth
while.
10. I believe that all the good things
of life, love, honor, friends and money
belong to the man who goes after them
and never quits until he .gets them.—
Selected.
BOOK SHOWER.
Library of Fayetteville Woman’s
Fayetteville Woman’s Club will be
held on New Year’s day (Monday, Jan
1st) at the home of Mrs. L. A. Ingram,
2:30 p. m. Miss Clyde Matthews. Mrs.
John Adams and Mrs. Carl Graves
will entertain with Mrs. Ingram.
Every one interested in library, and
especially every one who have enjoyed
the use of the books, is urged to be
present, to bring a book or money for
same.
Tie this to your thinker: “You know
it is better to have lived and laughed
than ilever to have lived at all.”
Hi
HUinBO
Again an old year is behind us and a new one is before us, to make
or mar—by our own acts.
Have we any community plans for the new year?.
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Are we going to make it a progressive year? Or shall we just drift
along?
t
The ship that drifts goes only as fast as the tide or current that car
ries it. It would take a long time for such a vessel to cross the At
lantic.
But install a powerful engine in that ship, and turn on the full force
of its power, and it will plow its way through the water at a rapid rate of
speed.
It is so with us, in this community.
Our rate of progress rests in our own hands. We can drift along, and
let another year find us about where we are now, or we may employ the
force of will power and determination and? forge ahead, as the power driven
ship does on the waters of the seas.
We may “let well enough alone,” and drag along through life without
ambition or hope of substantial reward, or we may “pep up” and get there
almost before we know it. ,
If we go after a thing, we, at least have a fair chance of getting it.
If we wait for it to come to us, we soon learn what waiting means.
The editor considers this an opportune time to suggest that the citizens
hold some kind of a public meeting, and submit suggestions and plans for
community betterment.
No one man carries all of the community brains around under his
own hat, and hence it is not from his lips alone that all of the good sug
gestions must come.
i
Every person has ideas, and it is but fair to assume that at least some
of them are worthy of consideration.
From chance words great events ofteii occur. And some one in our
midst may be waiting for an opportunity to utter that word.
i
Let’s have a meeting, and exchange views.
There is plenty to be done, and enough of us to do it.
We take this opportunity to extend to our patrons our veiy sincere
thanks for the support with which they have favored us during the year that
has just passed into history.
We feel that a simple statement of our appreciation is as effective as
a . volume of rhetorical oratory, or a glowing string of words that but
often covers the emptiness of an insincere heart.
We trust the New Year* will bring you health and happiness, peace and
plenty, and renewed opportunities for laboring in the vineyard of activity to
the betterment of mankind.
In the future we will endeavor to serve you as faithfully as we have
done in the past, knowing full well that no reward is more just than that
which is in recognition of services well performed.
May you enjoy the choicest fruits of many years yet to come.
rsfffMjrA
Fayetteville News
GOOD ROADS COST
STATE $10,000,000
ONE OF THE LARGEST PROGRAMS
EVER CARRIED OUT BY ANY
ONE STATE ANNOUNCED
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. — Georgia spent approxi
mately ?10,0000,000 in road improve
ments, bridge construction and road
maintenance in 1922, completing one
: of the largest good roads programs
; ever carried out by any state in one
| year, it was announced recently by
i John N. Holder, chairman of the state
j highway commisssion.
A total of $8,360,706 was spent in
; construction work including bridges
j and nearly $2,000,000 was spent on
maintenance and betterment making a
grand total of about $10,000,000.
During the year the department con
structed 23 bridges, 26 miles of con-
i Crete highway, 19 miles of asphalt
: highway, 99 miles of gravel roads, 589
! miles of sand-clay roads and 57 miles
| of chert roads, making a grand total
j of 785 miles of good roads built during
: the year.
| The bridge construction work was
] carried out on a large scale several
I large bridges connecting important
; highways and opening up important
j territory being built.
| In division No. 1 seventeen projects
| were completed at a cost of $932,078.
Division No. 2, 17 projects, $1,224,135.
| Division No. 3, 10 projects, $737,000.
j Division No. 4, 10 projects, $314,268.
No. 5, 16 projects,
No. 6, 10 projects,
7, 12 projects,
STATE GEOLOGIST SAYS NO
COMMERCIAL OIL IN GEORGIA
Reports State That Soli In Franklin
Shows Some Trace Of
Petroleum
Division
Division
Division
Division
Division
Division
No.
No.
No.
No.
8, 8
9, 8
10, 5
projects,
projects,
$912,000.
$953,000.
$684,000.
$897,567.
$720,000.
i Division No. 11, 6
projects, $614,000.
projects, $372,215.
Columbus C'.iief Of Police Dismissed
l lurubus police departiiient which has
! been rumored for several days ma-
; terialized when Chief J. Tom Moore
! was dropped from the force and it was
I announced that this is to be followed
j by a general reorganization of the de-
; partment. This action was taken by
| the city commission which is in charge
: of all branches of the city govern-
i ment. Chief Moore has been connect-
I ed with the department for 22 years.
! He joined the force when 21 years
i old and at the age of 29, when a call
j officer, was promoted to chief, which
office he has since filled continuously.
The city commission which succeeded
the old mayor and council government
has been in office a year. It is un
derstood that from the beginning the
commisssioners have not been pleased
| with the work of the police depart-
| ment in law enforcement, particularly
! with reference to the prohibition law.
Atlanta.—In one of the most com
prehensive and exhaustive reports
ever compiled of the occurence of oil
in Georgia, State Geologist S. W. Mc-
Callie recently, after an examination
of soil in Carnesville, Ga., Franklin
county, announced the results of his
research disclosed the unmistakable
evidence of a refined petroleum, bfjt
stated “there is not a ghost of £
chance of finding commercial oil or
gas in that part of the state.”
Examination of the section where
oil was thought to exist required sev
eral weeks of intensive study and the
report of Dr. McCallie shows conclu
sively that he delved into the situ*
tion completely and energetically. In
cluded in his report was a warning to
residents of the state to refrain from
investing their funds in “fly by night”
oil propositions, and this was substan
tiated by a letter from Secretary of
State S. G. McLendon.
Americus Changes City Administration
Americus.—Mayor J. Elmore Poole
assumed the reins of government in
Americus at the regular meeting of
council. H. L. Mize, E. J. Witt, E. L.
Carswell and W. E. Mitchell are new
aldermen who assumed office with
Poole. Holdover members of council
who will serve during the next year
are: R. E. Allison and J. W. Harris.
Henry B. Mashburn, mayor protem, W.
E. Taylor and C. H. Burke, aldermen,
retired. Mayor J. E. Sheppard died
recently, Mashburn having served out
his unexpired term. Immediately upon
organizing the new council at the re
quest of Mayor Poole ordered an audit
of the city’s books. The audit will
be done by Alonzo Richardson & Co.,
of Atlanta, which firm previously has
audited municipal accounts here.
Two Colquitt Men Are Pardoned
Moultrie.—John T. McCracken and
Bill Radney, prominent Mitchell coun
ty superior court of murder in connec
tion with the killing of Henry T. Jones
in June, 1917, and given life sentences
in the penitentiary, have been pardon-
Columbus. A shakeup of, the Co*. by Governor Hardwick, it was
learned here, when the men were re
leased from the Mitchell county chain-i
gang. Several of the trial jurors sign
ed the petition for executive clemency.;
Both Radney and McCracken had
large families.
Re-enact Cain And Abel Tragedy
Columbus.—The first tragedy of the
Christmas holidays in Columbus was
a repetition of the old story of Cain
and Abel. Dilliard Owens admitted
that he fired the shot that killed his
brother, Perry Owens, 30 years of age,
a mill operative, in an alleged drunk
en brawl at a North Highlands store.
In his confession he said that his two
brothers were quarreling over the
division of some whisky and he start
ed to separate them. He says that he
doesn't know why he took his pistol
out, but before he healized it he was
involved in the scuffle and had pulled
the trigger.
Columbus Prosecutor Resigns
Columbus. — Solicitor-General C.
Frank McLaughlin, of the Chattahoo
chee judicial circuit, mailed Ins' resig
nation to Governor Hardwick. It will
become effective upon the appoint
ment and qualification of his succes
sor. January 1 Mr. McLaughlin will
have been solicitor-general six years,
having participated in many noted
cases in this circuit chief among them
being the Coart case in Talbot county.
Man Lured From Home And Slain
Byron.—Missing several hours when
a negro came to his house and told
him that he was wanted at the saw
mill, where he was employed, five
miles from here, the body of Zame
Bryant was found with his head split
open, buried in a pile of sawdust. Of
ficers who are confident that Bryant
was murdered, have established no
motive for the crime. It is known that
Bryant had no large sum of money on
him. One suspect has been arrested.
Fall Trade Good Says Columbus Men
Columbus.—Fall trade in Columbus
has been exceptional, this being one
of the best seasons in the history of
the city, according to reports from
local.merchants collected by the cham
ber of commerce. With numbers of
big stores the season has been record
breaking and this despite the fact that
unseasonable warm weather prevailed
for much of the fall and also that
cloudy weather prevailed for ten days
of the two weeks preceding Christmas.
Ware County Roads In Bad Condition
Waycross.—The roads of Ware
county are in bad condition at the
present time due to the heavy rain
falls of the early part of the week.
Highway officials state that not only
have the roads been badly washed in
certain places, but that the rains have
put a temporary stop to road mainte
nance throughout the county.
Marketing Association For Bulloch
Statesboro.—A. H. Wale, director of
the Independent Co-operative Market
ing association, is in Statesboro, per-
\ fecting plans for the organization here
in January of a county auxiliary to
his independent Co-operative Market-
! ing association, which has already
i been organized in thirty-four counties
j In Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
- Greek Was Murdered
Savannah.—A coroner’s jury inves
tigate wthe killing of John Kekenos,
who was shot by unknown parties in
his fruit store on Bull street. The
verdict was that Kekenos came to his
death at the hands of unknown par
ties. The jury held the killing to be
murder. The police say they have
ceased to work on the theory that rob
bery was the motive for the killing.
They suspect it was done in a spirit
of revenge.
Killed By Accidental Shot
Atlanta.—Charlie C. White, 23,
whose pistol was discharged, instantly
killed Ollie J. Hembree, 26, was lib
erated by the coroner’s jury, which
held the shooting to have been acci
dental. The shooting, which occurred
in White’s room, was investigated by
officers, who arrested White and held
him until a coroner’s jury could In
vestigate. White claimed at the time
that the shooting was accidental and
repeated practically the same story to
the jury that he told the officers.
Soldier Killed By Runaway Team
Savannah.—Charles S. Schneipf, a
soldier at Fort Screven, died recently
from injuries received in a runaway.
Schneipf was driving a wagon deliver
ing ice on the reservation. The mule
became frightened and ran away,
throwing him beneath the wheels of
the wagon, which passed over *hls
body. He was brought to Savannah
for treatment. The dead man waa
from St. Louis.
