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Bessie Compton is back in
school after two weeks illness of
measles.
The eighth grade are sorry to
know that Ellison McGuffy has
stopped school.
Commencement exercises will
begin May 24th, when Rev. Jas.
Bradley will preach the com
mencement sermon. On the
evening of May 25th, the gradu
ating exercises will take place in
the school auditorium. An en
joyabable program has been ar
ranged. The class of ’OB is com
posed of seven of the most prom
ising young people of the town.
The class emblem is a four-leaf
clover, and colors, green and
white. The class roll is: Hugh
Mallett, Valedictorian; Ethel!
Thornton, Salutatorian; James
Edwards, essay, “Heroes of
Peace;”. Bessie Barnes, essay,
“Things that Never Die;” Maur
ice Wright, essay, “Ich Dein;”
Lilia Watkins, essay, “Riley with
the Children;” Marlin Ball, es
say, “Oak not Mistletoe. ”
The eleventh grade are making
a study of “The Idyls of the
King,” and are finding a great
deal to arouse interest and
thought in these famous Arthu
rian romances.
The tenth grade are finishing
a special study of Southern poets.
Thursday of last week the
ninth grada was given an English
History test. Miss Annie Ham
mond made the highest mark.
TO PREVENT SPRING FLOODS
The greatest development of
water power that has ever taken
place in the United States has
been accomplished during the
last few years on the rivers
which drain the Southern Appal
achian Mountains, according to
an official report on the water
resources of this region. It is
estimated that there is at least
2,800,000 indicated horsepower
developed by the streams which
have their headwaters on this
watershed, and more than half
of this indicated power is avail
able for economic development.
Only a comparatively small
part of this has been made use
of yet, but the portion that has
been utilized has been one of the
most important factors in the
recent industrial development of
the South. In the future the use
of this power and its value are
bound to increase tremendously.
Manufacturing plants are con
stantly increasing in number in
the region, and it is reasonable
to expect that in time the center
of the cotton weaving industry
in the United States may be
moved from the streams of New
England where it has remained
for so long, nearer to the source
of supply for the raw material.
Moreover, waterpower, or pow-
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er originating in the streams,
will be more and more in demand
here, as everywhere else in the
country, on account of the in
creasing cost of fuel power
through dwindling fuel resources
of the country. Already the wa
ter power costs much less than
the fuel, and the difference will
inevitably grow greater. One
great difficulty of the users of
water power, not only in the
South but along the New Eng
land streams as well, though pos
sibly to a less degree, is
that it cannot be dependecripon
the year around, but must be
supplemented and replaced for
some weeks or months every
summer by costly fuel power, be
cause the streams run too low to
be of service.
More than this, as the years go
on mill owners are painfully
aware that the low-water periods
are growing longer and longer.
This is because the forests at the
headwaters of the streams are
being cut off, with the result
that the melting winter snows
and the spring rains pour off the
denuded and hardened land in
devastating floods, sending down
for a few weeks far more water
than they can use and moreover,
reducing the capacity and use
fulness of their mill-ponds by
filling them with hundreds of
tons of sand and soil which the
the floods scour off the unpro
tected upper slopes.
Nowhere are business men
wider awake to the danger than
in the South. If indiscriminate
cutting of the forests on the
crests of the watershed can be
stopped, there is a possibility,
according to a recent report of
experts, of increasing the de
velopment of power up to any
where from 3 to 30 times the
1,400,000 horsepower at present
available. Without it, almost
nothing can be done. The meth
od proposed to develop the Ap
palachian river resources to the
total of 42,000,000 horsepower is
by storage reservoirs, which
would catch the surplus waters
of the spring and retain them
until the. summer months when
the mills now have to fall back
on fuel or close down.
The United States Geological
Survey has kept records of
streamflow in the Appalachians
for a number of years and re
cently they made a careful study
of the possibilities of storage
reservoirs in that region. The
Forest Service has published
their report under the title “The
Relation of the Southern Appal
achian Mountains to the Develop
ment of Water Power,” as Forest
Service Circular 144, and will
send it free to anyone upon ap
plication. The experts of the
Geological Survey who made the
investigation, after picking out
reservoir sites and estimating
their capacity and the area from
which they would receive the
run-off. consider the figures giv
en above extremely conservative.
Even with only 1,400,000 horse
power, the annual return at S2O
per horsepower per year would
amount to $28,000,000. That is
equal to a gross income of 3 per
cent on a capital of about $28,-
000,000. That is equal to a gross
income of 3 per cent on a capital
of about $933,000,000. These
figures seem to justify a consid
erable outlay of money to achieve
the benefits promised.
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For Solicitor General.
To the voters of the Flint Circuit:
I am a candidate for Solicitor General
of the Flint Circuit, subject to the pri
mary as may he ordered by the democratic
executive committed.
If elected, I propose to lie Solicitor, and
do lily full duty, as I see it, to the best of
my ability .
Hoping I may have your support, aud
with assurances of esteem. I am,
Yours truly,
J. W. WISE.
For Solicitor General.
To the Voters of the Flint Circuit:
I am a candidate for Solicitor General
of the Flint Circuit, subeect to the primary
to be ordered by the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Committe.
I will appreciate all support given mo,
and. if elected will discharge the duties
of the office to the best of mv ability.
E. M. SMITH.
McDonough, Ga., Jan. 1,1908.
For Solicitor General.
I am a candidate for Solicitor General of
the Flint Circuit, and will be grateful for
your vote and support.
J. M. Strickland
Griffin, Ga.
For state Treasurer.
To the people of fleorglu:—l am candl
dldnte for treasurer of this stale snbject to
the action of the democratic party at Its
next primary. In making this announce
ment I confidently refer to my long service
In this department of the state government,
covering a period of more than 80 years,
looking after the financial interests of tills
state and the Interests of the depositors in
the various banks to the entire satisfaction
ofthe people ns sufficient guarantee that
the duties pertaining to this Important trust
will be well and faithfully performed If
agnln placed In my charge.
I honestly solicit the support of the voters
of Butts county.
WI GDI AM J. a PEER.
For Congress.
To tho voters of the Hixth
District: —T am a candidate for Congress
subject to tho Democratic nomination.
Before the election—tlie date of which Ims
not been fixed—l would like to grasp the
handuud speak face to face with each voter
in the district, but this will hardly be pos
sible. Hence, I shali endeavor to reach the
voters and make known my platform—my
views on public questions—through Die
medium of letters, the newspapers and pub
lic addresses.
Whereof I speak I will be glad to have my
distinguished opponent meet me in Joint
debate; and shall Invite him to do so.
Believing in a clean election and an hon
est ballot,l am opposed to the use of money,
whiskey, or any other thing for the purpose
of purchasing votes; and believe the Ex
ecutive Committee should refuse declare as
the nominee anyone who secures a majority
by such practices.
I shall keep an itemized statement of my
campaign expenses subject nt all times to
public inspection.
Not counting the Republican regime just
after the war, and when there was a Repub
lican Congressman whose home was In Ma
con, Bibb county has had—with the Excep
tion of two years—the Congressman con
tinuously for over a third of a century. Hon.
,T. H. Blount was In congress twenty years
and Judge Bartlett, at the expiration of the
present term of office, will have served
fourteen years, making n grand total of
thirty-four years for only two men and both
from Bibb county.
Is it not about time for Bibb to divide
honors with the other counties of the dis
trict? Very Respectfully,
O. H. B. BLOOD WORTH.
For Congress.
To the voters of the Hixth Congressional
District:—l am a candidate for re-election
to Congress subject to the Democratic Pri
mary to be held on the 4th of June.
It has been my constant aim and ambition
to serve faithfully the people of the
Hixth District, and I think my record in
Congress, of which I invite the closest scrut
iny,>-111 demonstrate that I have done so.
Always at my post of duty, I have ever
defended my party and my people.
If returned to Congress, I pledge the peo
ple of my District the same steadfast ad
herence to the principles of Democracy that
lias marked my record in the past, and the
same prompt and faithful attention that I
have at all times striven to give to the re
quests and needs of my constituents.
The prospects for a Democratic House In
the next Congress are more favorable than
they have been for many years, and In the
event our Party should succeed in the fall
elections, my long experience in Congress
would enable me to render my constituents
and the country more efilclent service than
has been possible in a Republican House.
Feeling deeply grateful for your confi
dence in the past, I ask your support in the
coining primary.
Respectfuhy Yours,
C. L. BARTLETT.
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