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VOLUME 4
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GEORGIA CANE SYRUP
The people of the South seem
to think that cotton is the only
money crop for the South, but
they are certainly mistaken.
Cotton is a “money crop” when
the selling price is high enough
above the cost of production.
In all the world there is no sy
rup that equals Georgia Cane
Syrup, and yet we are not push
ing the science of growing and
marketing it. The farmer keeps
on growing cotton that some
times nets him twenty dollars
bale and sometimes leaves
I him short several dollars per bale
I while he could net from fifty to
one hundred dollars per acre if
he grew Geo|gia Cane and mar
keted it properly.
The business people of the
state are indifferent, and yet this
crop properly managed would
bring several million dollars into
the state.
The thing that Georgia needs
most is to increase the number of
crops that she can send out of
the state after money, and de
crease the number of crops she
sends money out of the state for.
The Georgia hotels should
help along this line, if they would
keep more Georgia cane and less
other syrups that are brought
here by sending money out of the
state. The drummers could help
if they would insist on Georgia
cane syrup being served at the
hotels where they stopped.
The increasing of the cane acre
rage would naturaly reduce the
cotton acreage, while at the same
time the "mount of money
brought into the state will be
increased.
Let each one that reads this,
write an article to some paper,on
the growing, marketing, or im
portance to the state of increas
ing its use. If you do not care
to write, call the attention of
some one who will. The press
should be sweetend with jsyrup
articles.
Yours respectfully,
R. F. CUCKWORTH,
Pres. Ga. Farmers Union.
Miss Lois Thornton, of Tala
rjoosa, and Miss Louise Smith,
wL Atlanta, have returned to
homes after a pleasant visit
to Mrs. T. D. Walker, Jr.
Journal.
THOMASVILLE WILL
t\qTE ON BOND ISSUE.
Thomnsville, Ga. Jan. If!—
at the regular municipal elect
ion which will be held here
on January 16 a bond issue of
$50,000 for school purposes
will also he voted on. It is
understood that there will be
opposition to this issue, but it
is thought that it will carry in
spite of it. The school attend
ance here has grown so much
during the past year that al
though another building was
purchased about a year ago
and thought at that time to
be ample for all needs it has
been found to he inadequate
and the board of education
feels that there is an absolute
necessity for larger buildings.
Another matter to be voted
upon is the payment of a sal
ary to the aldermen. 1 lereto
fore those holding that office
have only done so from a pu
blic spirited desire to help a
long city affairs, but it is
thought that with the increas
ed growth of the town the
city fathers should receive a
little pay for their services.
As the pay will only be a
matter of SIOO per annum it is
thought there will be no trou
ble in carrying it.
The many friends of Mrs. T.
D. Walker, Sr., will be glad to
know that she is steadily improv
ing.
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COCHRAN, PULASKI COUNTY, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18 1912
COTTON PRODUCTION COM
PARED TO POPULATION
Number of l>nle;j of cotton raised in Georgia and Pulaski
County in 1911, compared to the population.
Number bales cotton raised in Georgia, about. .l; 2,800,000
Number bales cotton raised in Pulaski, about _jv 40,000
Official returns show population in Georgia as fallows;
Whites, 1.431,836
N egroes, 1,178.897
Aliens 318 Total 2,611,051
Official returns show population of Pulaski County as follows:
Whites 93X9
Negroes 13,504 Total 22,833
Georgia in 1911 raised over one bale of cotton to every living
human being within her borders and Pulaski County beats this
average by about two to one. No wonder cotton is bringing a
'ow price.
$15,000 LICENSE ON
NEAR-BEER SALOONS
Dublin, Ga., Jan. 13, —The
mayor and council are determ
ined that there will be no
near-beer saloons in Dublin,
and in fixing the license ordi
nance for 1012 they raised the
tax on near-beer saloons from
SIO,OOO to $15,000. This
tax is in fact prohibitory, as
it wouldn’t pay a person to
engage in any business in a
city the size of Dublin with
the license fee at $15,000.
The near-beer saloons were
closed in Dublin in 1010 on
the ground that they were a
nuisance and the license fee
of SIO,OOO kept tlio saloons
out of the city last year.
EDWARDS-COLEY.
Cane Coley, a former Cochran
boy, but now special agent of the
Southern Railway at Rockhill, S.
C. arrived in the city last Thurs
day with his bride. Mr. Coley
was married to Miss Bessie Ed
wards, of Rockhill, S. C. Jan. 10.
They will spend a few days with
friends and relatives in and a
round Cochran. Mr. Coley’s
many friends extends to the hap
py couple hearty congratulations
and many wishes for future hap
piness and prosperity. Mr. Col
ey was a long time in the U. S.
Army and for a while was
stationed in the Phillipine Islands.
He now has a responsible
position with the Southern
Railway as special agent.
MAY BE SORRY LATER.
The editor of the Citizen is
growing stronger in the be
lief that the people of Jeffer
sonville are later going to he
very sorry that they did not
make some effort to get the
Cary North & South Railroad
built through this place. We
are unable to figure out how
direct railway connection with
tlie Central of Georgia at
Toomshoro and with the Sou
thern Railroad at Cochran
will fail to help this city. Nor
can we make up our mind
that competitive lines of rail
road to this point will not af
ford some relief—eventually
—from the burdensome freight
bates now exacted by the al
ready established line.
It may not be too late for
our'people to wake up and do
something. It is certain, we
think, that the C. N. it S. R.
R. will he built. Do the peo
ple of Jeffersonville want t<»
run its trains through their
city,—Twiggs County Citizen.
, A recent special edition of
our esteemed neighbor, The
Cochran Journal, was highly
creditable to the Journal's
editor and mechanical force,
and also to the enterprising
city of Cochran. Our hat D
always off to the man who
gets up real good special num
bers of his paper. —Twiggs
County Citizen.
NUMBER 33
WILL PROSECUTE THOSE
WHO SHOOT ROBINS
County Game Warden Ryan is
Ordered By State Game War
den to Enforce Law.
Fitzgerald, Ga., Jan. 11, 1912
Mr. L. C. Ryan,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
Dear Sir:
Reports from all parts of
the state indicate that robins
are numerous in almost every
county,
Naturally they are the prey
of small hoys, gentle and slow
of movement.
The Georgia law protects
robins absolutely, and wheth
er it is good or bad, in my op
inion or yours, it is our duty
to enforce it.
1 do not advise arbitrary
treatment of any case, but
something must be done to
impress the public mind in
every community i hut robin--
must not be killed ,u G corgi. .
Where you are satisfied that
the law breakers know that
it is against the law you must
make cases against them.
The fact that they are migra
tory birds is not a matter for
our consideration. The legis
lature understood that when
they passed the law that un
conditionally protects them.
Sincerely,
J. E. MERCER,
State Game and Fish Com,
SCHOOL ITEMS.
The Senior Class held election
of officers and commencement
parts with the following result.
Will Morgan, President,
W. M. Barlow, Vice President,
Mamie B. Reeves, Secretary,
Lucy Po' ell, Treasurer,
Mamie B. Reeves, Historian,
Mary Lamb, Poet,
Lucy Powell, Musician,
Marguerite Urquhart, Prophet,
W. M. Barlow, Orator.
Our attendance has been very
poor during the cold weather.
We had 47 absent one day.
Several scholars have been sick
with colds.
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