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VOLUME SIX ****' 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. Special prices on real rose beads at Jewelry Store, adv.