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VOLUME SIX
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Very Important
Farmers Meeting
On Tuesday, November 11th, the
department of farm work of the
Southern Railway will hold a farm
ers meeting in the court house at
Cochran for the purpose of aiding
the farmers in working out the
problems that arise on the farm;
particularly those which serve to
make the farm pay.
The speakers will be Mr. R. E.
(irabel, Asst. Manager; Dr. H. D.
Cogdell, live stock expert; Mr. L.
E. Dykes, dairy and poultry expert;
J. M. Seaharn, market agent; Mr.
G. V. Cunningham, district agent
U. S. D. A; Mr. R. A. Stratford,
Dist. Agent, who has charge of
this territory. The speeches will
l>e brief and to the point. This will
he a great opportunity to hear these
experts on agriculture, live stock,
poultry, dairy and markets.
Our people are already taking "a
great interest in scientific farming
and are studying more than ever
the various problems that arise on
the farm. It will not he long be
fore scientific farming and expert
management will be the rule instead
of the exception in Bleckley county.
We hope every farmer who possi
bly can will come to Cochran and
attend this meeting. Let’s give
these speekers a rousing welcome,
and let them know that our farmers
a;e wide awake and appreciate their
efforts in our behalf. These gentle
men who are representing the agri
cultural department of the Southern
Railway, all have practical knowl
edge as well as scientific training,
and can speak from experience as
well as theoretical knowledge. They
w'ill he prepared to answ T er all ques
tions pertaining to their various
departments.
Let us give them a good hand
shake and royal welcome and co
operate with them and their efforts
to promote prosperity in our county.
Better farming along the line of
the Southern railway will, of course,
help the railway, for the transpor
tation companies are vitally inter
ested in the prosperity of the coun
try through which it runs, but
while it helps the railroad it is
equally as beneficial to the farmer,
and the railroad is furnishing this
splendid corpse of experts at a con
siderable cost to them, and giving
their services free of charge to the
farmers.
This movement should be highly
appreciated, and we trust that these
gentlemen will be greeted by a large
and inthusiastic audience next Tues
day, November 11th. Remember
the day.
Mrs. A.'S. Talley, from Atlanta,
and her daughter, Mrs. Clarro Tal
ley Chandler, of New Jersey, are
expected here this week to visit her
brother, Mr. W. H. Chapman, on
the way to their winter home in
Miami, Fla.
she Cochran Journal.
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1913
Basket-Ball Game
Friday Afternoon
Cochran High School team will
play the strong Hawkinsville High
school team next Friday Afternoon.
Our team is inexperienced but is
practicing hard and has a good
chance to take the game.
Prof. O. B. Trammell, the coach
will use in the game well nigh all
the boys who have been coming out
regularly for practise and select the
five boys who are to make the team
later.
Week Of Prayer
At Methodist Church
Botn Home and Foreign Depart
ments of the Woman’s Missionary
Society are to be nnited in the ob
servance of the Week of Prayer
which will l>e held at the Methodist
Church at an early date.
It has been recommended that
the Week of Prayer collection be
used for completing Lucintha B.
Helm Hall at the Bennett School,
and for the equipment of Ruth
Hargrove Assembly Hall.
The objects to which the collec
tion will be directed will be seen
from this. At Sue Bennett School,
where we have over four hundred
scholars, we have no chapel, no
library, no gymnasium, and are in
great need of class-room facilities.
Two years ago an effort was made
to raise enough money for this
building; only ten thousand dol
lars, however, was secured. Will
we not make and effort this year to
complete the sum necessary for this
absolutely indispensable building?
Two years ago the Council erect
ed Bruce Hall at Ruth Hargrove
Seminary, Key West. Before the
building was completed, the attend
ance at the school was increased,
particularly in the lower grades, so
that we had to turn away students.
More classroom facilities are an ab
solute necessity if we measure to
the opening that God gives at this
place. We would locate two hun
dred more children in this school if
we had the classroom. Remember
these facts when you get ready for
the Week of Prayer.
Sale Of Land
Last Tuesday
There was sold before the Court
House door at public last Tuesday
morning, the following property to
wit; 11634 acres of land belong to
the estate of B. F. and J. A. Blood
worth. This land was sold to W.
0. Peacock for $4,456.25.
10134 acres of land lot 276 and
30 acres of land lot 277, belonging
to the estate of J. A. Bloodworth
was sold to William Bloodworth.
Splendid Lyceum Course
For Cochran This Season
A list of splendid attractions for
the fall and winter season have
been secured, and the first number
will be rendered on Nov. 12, in the
High School Auditorium.
All the entertainments and lect
ures aie of an unusually high order,
still the season tickets are reason
able.
The people of Cochran will have
an opportunity to treat themselves
to a course of entertainment which
they will enjoy.
We always find some of our peo
ple ready to help along a good
cause, and especially the cause of
education, and are ready to pur
chase a season ticket as soon as ap
proached, and we appreciate this,
for it shows the right spirit, but we
must have the cooperation of all the
people if this course of entertain
ments would do the greatest good.
Also this will enable us to secure
each year a list 0/ higher attrac
tions.
No one is in this for pecuniary
profit, so help your town and your
school and yourself by giving these
attractions your support.
Get a season ticket now.
A good Lyceum means that quite
a number of entertainers of high
class shall come to our town for the
next few months, and they bring
with them “the breath of the great
outside,” armessage of lively hope,
a new idea or suggestion now and
then on the problems of success and
happiness.
We are none of us so forward or
so well rounded that we can afford
to do without a lyceum this year,
as we must not make any backward
steps, as this is opposed to progress.
Our community needs a tonic of
Manhattan Cafe
Open For Business
The new Manhatten Cafe was
opened for business here last Thurs
day, in the building next door to
Walker’s Pharmacy. It presents a
very neat and attractive appearance.
The building has been refitted
especially for this cafe. All the
shelving has been taken down and
the walls newly papered, matting
has been placed on the floor and a
line of mirrors have been hung on
the right hand side just above a
row of tables covered with nice
clean white table clothes. The bill
of fare calls for most anything that
is desired to eat and it is nicely
prepared.
On the opposite side is the count
er and show caaes. A shelf has
been arranged behind the counter
which contaii s various kinds of
canned goods and other eatables.
111 the rear is a nice attractive
side board. This Cafe would do
credit to a much larger city than
Cochran and we hope it will receive
liberal patronage.
Have you ever stopped to think how cheap
you can furnish that room that you have
been talking about? All we ask is that
you come in and We will show you just
how cheap you can buy the things you need
for your home.
Our prices and quality always guaranteed.
Jackson Furniture Company
new thought, a musical festival, an
evening or two together for pleasure
and culture.
It is usually true that towns that
support library, a good lyceum
course, are in the lead of other
towns that do not, and it is also
generally true that the people of a
town who patronize the lyceum are
among the most useful and progres
sive people of the town.
A great educator recently said
that: “The lyceum as an institution
is the highest embodiment of tne
dramatic instinct in man. It is
the stage PLUS. It is literature il
luminated and interpreted. It is
the novel condensed into an hour.
It is poetry personified. It is class
ical music made popular, and pop
ular music made classical. It is
oratory with a message. It is en
tertainment and education vitalized.
We might show other reasons why
Cochran should patronize the lyce
um, as it is quite an intellectual
stimulus, and furnishes entertain
ment that is both pleasant and edu
cative.
We trust that all the people of
our town will turn out at the first
number, The Euclid Male Quartett,
which will be held in the school au
ditorium on Wednesday night at
8 o’clock.
Season tickets now on sale at
Walker’s Pharmacy and also at
Kennnington’s.
The Male Quartet which comes to
us on Nov. 12, is considered one of
the best of its kind now on the
stage, and we feel sure by its varied
program that it will please any
audience so we would urge a large
attendance upon this excellent per
formance.
Death Of Mrs.
Gussie Pritchett
Mrs. Gussie Piitchett, wife of
Wiley Pritchett, died at their resi
dence in Cochran, last Friday
morning at 3:30 o’clock.
She was thirty-three yeais old
and was married to Mr. Pritchett
May 24, 1913. She was a consis
tent member of Evergreen Baptist
Church and has many friends.
She is survived by her husband
Wiley Pritchett, five brothers, John
and Arthur May, of this city, Ma
rion May, of West May, of
Newbrooklyn, S. C., ar.d Will May,
of Langdale, Ala., foursisters, Mrs.
Fannie Giddings, of Eastman, Mrs.
Mamie Herring, of Eatonton, Ga.,
Mrs. John Durden and Miss Annie
Maud May, of this city.
Her remains were interred in
Bethany graveyard last Saturday
afternoon at one o’clock. The
ceremony was conducted by Rev.
Elisher Thompson,
Death Of Mrs.
Gordan McDonald
Mrs. Gordon McDonald, of Lum
ber City, died last Thursday and her
remains were brought to Cochran on
the Southern train No. 7, Friday
morning and interred in the Stokes
graveyard. •
Mrs. McDonald was formerly
Miss Ilattie Burns, of this county,
and has many friends who will
mourn her departure. Her hus
band, Gordon McDonald, was also
a former resident of Bleckley Coun
ty, but now has a good position
with the Souther Railway in Lum
ber City.
Let Us Have Better
Sanitary Conditions
We are building a city here. We
are the proud Capital of Bleckley.
We must go forward. We cannot
stand still. We must keep abreast
of progress, or we v ill go backward.
We must have better sanitary regu
lations. Surface closets are detri
mental to health, no doubt about
that. Sanitary closets are not cost
ly, a system of sanitary closets
could be inaugurated here with
comparatively little expense.
We have issued municipal bonds
to build a public school. We have
issued county bonds to build and
equip a court house and jail. Our
people are probably not just now
ready to discuss a bond issue for
further municipal iinprovments,
but we can certainly do the next
best thing “have every surface
closet in this city made sanitary,”
so it will not endanger the health of
our citizens.
We realize that it is a problem of
just how to get rid of the refuse,
but if nothing was done but to
screen the closets from the Hies it
would be a great improvement.
Tne State board of health will
gladly co-operate with us in this
movement and send us plans and
descriptions of sanitary closets that
have been successful at other points.
We have done a great work by
cleaning out the big ditch. Equal
ly if not more important is the
question of the sanitary closet, for
our present unsanitary system.
We appeal to every loyal citizen,
who loves old Cochran and her peo
ple to join us in a campaign for a
cleaner and more beautiful city.
We invite correspondence from
our enterprising physicians, who
are always foremost in recommend
ing and cooperating with any move
ment for the conservation of the
health of our community.
LOST —One large heavy set
pointer, black and white spots, long
ears, with leather collar. Reward
of $5.00 will be paid to finder,
, B. Bullard.
NUMBER 13
Male Quartets
Always Popular
Euclids Have Seven Years Of
Success Behind Them.
It is a common saying in Lyceum
circles that male quartet program is
always popular with a Lyceum
audience. And so one of the best
of such programs will be given on
our course this season by the Eu
clid Male Quartet, an organization
seven years.
These four young men are good
singers and entertainers. They are
graduates of leading colleges, and
while in college they formed a quar
tet and began the work that law
claimed them since for all of their
time. They fill long seasons, sing
ing almost every night from Octo
ber Ist to May Ist. and then at the
Chautauquas from late June to
early September. This past season
they appeared in twenty-five Btates,
from Maine to the Rockies and
fro n the Great Lakes to the Gulf.
This summer they have sung on the
Chautauqua programs in Kansas,
Nebraska, lowo, Minnesota, Illi
nois, Indiana and Michigan, ap
pearing at over sixty diffierent
Chautauqua assemblies.
In addition to the ensemble vocal
numbers, there will be duets and
solos, while one of the boys is an
excellent reader, presenting some of
Riley’s best work. Another feature
is the playing by the quartet on the
largest set of organ chimes that is
used in Lyceum work. This instru
ment produces a tone like a fine
pipe organ, and with the entire
company playing the most beautiful
effects are secured, audiences get
ting wildly enthusiastic over this
feature of the program.
The personnel of the company
remains the same as during the
past season; H. E. Haines, first
tenor and pianist; K. M. Leith,
second tenor and pianist; C. I.
Beaver, baritone and reader, and
W. C. Shade, basso and manager.
Whitley-Floumoy
Mrs. Ella Whitley, of Bleckley
County, was married to Mr. Simon
Flournoy, of Mock, Taylor County,
Ga., at the residence of the biide
near Cary, Ga., last Saturday, at 8
o’clock p. m.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Roberts, of Evergreen Baptist
Church.
The bride is a sister of Mrs. E.
T. Dean, is a splendid lady and has
many friends in this neighborhood.
The groom is one of Taylor Coun
ty’s most prosperous farmers. They
left Sunday morning for their
future home in Mock, Ga.
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at Jewelry Store, adv.