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The Douglas Weekly Breeze.
FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, F 1 Li ST AND ALL THE TIME
VOL 15, No. 21
Vote for the McMichael Amendment.
Of the several amendments to be
■voted upon at the state and county
election in October, there is one
that should appeal to every patri
otic citizen of Georgia. This is the
McMichael local tax amendment
which proposes to modify the pres
ent cpnstitution of the states as to
make it possible for any county or
•sub-school district, by a two-third
majority of the votes cast, to levy
an advalorem tax,- not exceeding
two and a half mills, on all taxable
property in'such county or district
Tor school purposes.
Let it be understood that the
ratification of this amendment does
not mean that th<*tax will beassess
ed until the matter is again, sub
mitted to a vote of the people. In
other words, should the amend
ment be adopted, local taxation for
•educational purposes will be placed
upon a local option basis. If at
any subsequent election held for
the purpose, two-third 6 of those
voting favor local taxation, a tax
may be levied on the property in
the county or district, as the case
may be, the money arising from
such taxation to be aided to the
amount received from the state
school fund for the support
maintainance of the public schools.
Under the local tax plan, the
following advantages to the educa
tional cause would accrue:
The school term could be increas
ed so as to cover at least six months,
Tution would be free t j all pu
pils of public school age.
Teachers could be paid better
•salaries and could be paid’promptly.
Well trained and efficient teach
ers could be secured.
New and improved sc\hool build
ings with modern equipments could
be added from year to year.
We desire to urge upon the citi
zens of Coffee county the import
ance of ratifying this amendment
so as to make it possible to improve
our educational facilities to such
an extent that the means for liber
al training and preparation for
useful citizenship may be carried
to the young in the most remote
locality.
Go to the election on October
sth, and vote for the McMichael
amendment.
Yours for progressjin education.
Melvin Tanner,
Co. S. Com.
ludden & Bates' Southern Music
House.
Ludden & Bates are always
thought of when an organ or piano
are mentioned, because they are
well-known and popular, this long
established Savannah Music House
becoming a house-hold word in
Georgia. If you need an instru
ment, piano or organ, buy from
them, and then make a guess how
many instruments will be sold du
ring the year, and your instrument
will cost you nothing. See their
advertisement oh the eighth page.
Well Pleased With the Breeze-
The Valdosta Buggy Co sent us
a check last Monday for a half page
advertisement in the Breeze for
four insertions, and in the letter
accompanying said “We think
our advertisement in the Breeze
did us good, and that makes us
want to try you again sometime in
the future.” Just such encourage
ment as that will keep the Breeze
moving, and as it moves it will
grow better.
The Truck Growers Association.
The first nueting of The South
east Georgia Truck Growers Asso
ciation will convene at the Court
House in Waycross at ten o’clock,
Saturday morning, October 6th.
At that meeting plans for the
next Spring crop will be laid, and
all necessary arrangements will be
perfected for the work of the Asso
ciation which it is the purpose to
carry on.
The question of fertilizers will
be discussed and it is expected that
arrangements will be made to buy
chemicals in large amounts where
by farmers may mix their own fer
tilizers and save nearly half the
price they are now paying.
As soon as it is prepared, the
Association will distribute to its
member! all information concern
ing the planting of truck, the bny
ing of seed, the cultivation and the
marketing of to the best
advantage.
Every farmer in the Counties of
Appling, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee,
Pierce, Ware and Wayne are invi
ted to become a member.
The Annual dues are one dollar
a year. Send your name to E. J.
Berry, Secretary and Treasurer,
Waycross and join in this effort to
raise the farmers of this section
from simply a meat and bread cor
ner to something better.
A handsome Auburn Wagon has
been offered to the member of the
Association who raises the best
yield of Irish Potatoes on one acre
of land in the next spring crop.
Other prizes are to be offered at
the Annual meeting, Octob r Bth,
for other crops.
The Governors forjCoffee county
are T. B. Marshall.’'Seward Lott,
W. L. Kirkland, Jesse Lott, and
Dan Newburn.
“In Summertime Down by the Sea.”
Very few people have any idea
of the vast amount of money there
is to be made and lost in the Music
Publishing Business. At times j
from SIO,OOO to $20,000 will be lost ]
by a single Publisher in trying to j
make a “Winner.” Then again a
lucky publisher will make a fortune i
on his first effort. The biggest
“Song Hit,” and the best money
maker in this Country at the pres
ent time is a song called—“lN
SUMMERTIME, DOWN BY
THE SEA” written by Harry B.
Lester and Al. J. Doyle. This
song is now being sung nightly
with great success, in all the prin
cipal theatres from Maine to Cali
fornia. There were nearly 100,00©
copies of this song sold in less than
thirty da*ys from the date of issue,
and present predictions are that
over one million copies will be sold
■nside of one year. It has been
calculated by good judges that the
publishers will make a net profit of
over $30,000 on this one song above
all expenses.
CHORUS
In Summertime, Down by the sea,
The only real place boys for me,
Take.a ride on a trolley, get there be
fore dark,
Take your sweetheart to Dreamland
or to Luna (Park,
In Summertime, Down by the Sea,
The place where we all like to be;
Where the breeze softly blows,
And where every one goes,
In Summertime, Down by the Sea.
Price 50 cents per copy. Readers of
our paper, by sending 25 cents in post
age stamps to the THEATRICAL
MUSIC SUPPLY CO., 44 West 28th
Street, New York, will receive a copy.'
mailed to them post paid. \
Douglas, Ga., September 24th, 1904.
COFFEE COUNTY’S RESOURCES
Sensible Letter' from a sensible Man
on a Sensible Subject-
Douglas, Ga., Sept 20th-Mr.
Editor: We are just entering the
fall of the year, when our crops
are beginning to be gathered into
the store houses for future use.
Corn and fodder all stacked and
housed ready to be fed to the stock.
The corn, cotton and cane, as well
as potatoes, will soon be ready to
take their places as money crops.
Now, I want to draw the attention
of many that will read your paper
to a few facts that are not gen
erally known, or perhaps forgotten
by those who knew, that the South
is rapidly coming to the front as
an agricultural country and it is
but right that those seeking new
fields of enterprise should know
and understand the advantages of
Southern Georgia.
Let us go down to the sea and be
gin there and when we land at Sa
vannah or Brunswick, we find
them like all seaport towns, only
a few feet above sea level, but as
we leave them we begin an eleva
tion so gentle that we hardly re
alize that we are getting higher
and higher as we get into the mid
dle of the state, and when we are
told that Jesup is over a hundred
feet higher than Savannah or Brun
swick and that Waycross is still
higher, being nearly two hundred
feet, and that Douglas, Coffee
county, is up something like three
hundred feet we are sutprised but
this is true.
Now. this important fact teaches
! us that we have the finest drainage
or our lands to be had in any state
in the Union. Our creeks, rivers,
and branches go flowing at a gen
tle speed down to the sea ; no tor
rents and floods that tear up lands,
roads, bridges and sweeps away
the farmers crops to be lost in the
raging waters. No, none of that
in South Georgia. And the wise
men who c’aim to know say we
are not in the path of cyclones and
blizzards, while we have a temper
ature as even as any man could
wish for. In summer the thermom
eter rarely goes up to 100 degrees,
mostly about 93, while in winter
it drops down to freezing only two
or three times a year, and many
winters it never gets to freezing,
and our garden flowers are bloom
ing at Christmas and New Years’
time. You can get green peas,
turnips and cabbage all the year
’round generally.
These facts should convince
home-seekers and others that South
Georgia is the place to live in. As
for health, the writer has lived in
Europe, Canada and about twenty
different states in this union and
he can truthfully say that we have
as healthy a country as can be
found in the world. Take the death
rate of the cities of the world and
compare them with South Georgia
cities and see the result:
London is 22 in the thousand,
Paris 24, New York 26, Bruns
wick, Ga., 10, and it stood 9 for
many years. Savannah and Jack
sonville will compare with similar
cities in the world. Why should
we not be proud of such a combi
nation of circumstances.
Again as to our soil. We have
quite a variety of soils along the
coast lines. The soil is a dark alu
vial, and as we recede from the
the coast we get a sandy loam with
clay sub soil, all through South
Georgia. Up in Coffee, Appling,
Telfair, and Irwin counties we
have what is called pimply land.
It is a strong soil, full of fine pim
ples or iron ore, of a perio oxide
character. Clay soil is abundant
and it makes splendid brick. Of
course, afl good brick-clay is found
in pockets or patches.
Now what will South Georgia
produce agricultrially ? \Ve will
begin with long-cotton, sugar-cane,
sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, cab
bage, beans, rice, oats, hay, corn,
velvet beans and all good money
crops, while for fruits there is no
better soil, grapes almost growing
wild here. Among the delicious
wild fruits are the black berries,
straw berries, huckleberries, &c.,
which are big money crops. Peach
es, yes peaches that weigh 16
ounces each, sweet and juicy. Oh,
my! I have raised them myself
and know. Plums, all kinds, some
of them growing wild in the old
fields and lanes. Sour and Japa
nese oranges will do well here, as
well as the pear, but the tree is sub
ject to blight.
But th e coming money crop of
this section is the sugar cane and
Georgia syrup. There are certain
counties that are taking the lead in
this line, but South Georgia can
produce sugar cane of the finest
quality in the world. The people
are awakening to their privileges
in this line for we have the whole
world for a market for Georgia
Sugar Cane Table Syrup, which
cannot be beaten when properly
made and properly put up in pack
ages that will enable the producer
to ship it to the ends of the world.
There are vast fortunes to be made
in this line and it will be done at
no distant day. Cairo, in Thomas
county ships more syrup than anv
other town in Georgia, and this is
mainly owing to the push and
perseverance of some of.its enter
prising citizens. The Atlantic
Coast Line shipped on all its lines
in 1902, 16,618 barrels of syrup,
and of that quanlity Cairo shipped
10 ’777* See what push and ener
gy accomplished. If Cairo, in
Thomas county can do that why
cannot any other county with as
good soil and advantages do as
well or better? This amount, 16,
618 barrels of syrup seetns to be a
big lot of syrup, but it is only a
drop in the bucket comparatively.
That amount could be multiplied
bv ten and then only one out of
ten would get one spoonful of
svrup each, not taking into consid
eration what other counties would
buy from us. It has been shown
time and time again that SIOO.OO
per acre can be made on a cane
crop. Don’t that pay better than
cotton? Why, of course it docs,
but the great drawback to the in
dustry has been, as a general rule
that the syrup has not been made
of a uniform grade and has not
been put up in proper packages,
hence the sale of cane syrup has
been limited, and therefore, no
market for such syrup. But as
soon as our syrup is properly made
and handled then a market will be
found so that our farmers will be
taxed to their utmost to supply the
demand.
We give here an estimate of the
cost of pi.inting and cultivating
one acre of sugar cane :
Seed cane sl^.oo
Fertilizers 12.00
Cultivation and grinding 15.00
$42.1x1
This estimate may be varied and
it is generally conceded that syrup
can be made ready to pack for ten
cents per gallon by adopting the
most modern methods and we are
satisfied it can. How dare any man
say that Coffee county cannot do
as well as Thomas or Brooks coun
ties, arid why not Douglas be as
great a shipper as Cairo or (Quit
man or any other town in South
Georgia.
Farmers and others around Doug
las should take this matter up and
push it along. We have no reason
able excuse. Our railroads now
give us inlets and outlets to the
world’s markets, at as low rates as
any other town in South Georgia.
The timber is fast disappearing and
our lands will soon be ready for
the plow, and the Lord knows the
lands are cheap enough. In five
years from to-day land cannot be
bought for five times its price
to-day. There is no reason in the
world why Coffee county, the big
gest county in the State cannot do
SI.OO per Annum
as Thomas county does, and Doug
las could ship syrup by the thous
ands of barrels. We have seen
syrup made within a few miles of
this place that if put up in proper
shape would seli in any part of the
world for SI.OO per gallon. This
Georgia Table Syrup is the coming
money crop of Southern Georgia,
av.d we say once more get together,
talk this matter over, and make a
beginning. Other people in other
States of the Union are watching
us. They are tired of eating the
chemical syrup and are crying out
for genuine Georgia cane syrup.
They have the money to pay for it
and we certainly can make it fit
for the king to eat.
We are now looking for a party
of capitalists from Ohio to study
the Sugar cane syrup industry,
with a view of helping us develop
our wealth in growing cane in
quantities and to put up steam
plants on a large scale to manu
facture and put in proper shipping
packages Georgia cane syrup.
Let us encourage all such people
to come among us. The people of
'lie world are looking south to-day
for new fields of industry and new
homes. Let us all say welcome,
thrice welcome and extend the
hand of fellowship to all who seek
our company with a view to help
ing us build up the coming land of
promise. J* M. Jardink.
Excursion Rates via Atlantic and
Birin in attain.
St. Louis, Mo., account Louisi
ana Purchase Exposition, May i
No vein be 1 30, 1904.
Season excursion tickets will be
sold daily, beginning April 25th,
and continuing during the period
of the Exposition, with final limit
December 15, 1904. Round ttrip
rate from Douglas $37.60.
Sixty-day excursion tickets will
be sold daily, beginning’April 25,
and continuing during the period
of the Exposition, with fin d date
to leave St. Louis, returning, sixty
(60) days in addition to date of
sale. Final date in no case to ex
ceed December 13, 1904. Round
trip rate from Douglas $31.40.
Fifteen-day excursion tickets
will be sold April 25th and con
tinuing during period of Exposi
tion, with final date to leave St.
Louis returning fifteen (15) days
from date of sale. Round trip
rate from Douglas $25.60.
Coach excursion tickets will be
sold May 16th and 31st. with final
date to leave St. Louis returning
ten (10) days from and including
date ol sale. Round trip rate from
Douglas $18.90.
For schedules and full informa
tion apply to
B. F. Holzendorf, Agent,
Douglas, Ga.
Superior Court Notice.
Superior court convenes on first
Monday in October and will em
brace Ist, and 2nd, Monday’s.
Ist, week Civil business will be
disposed of. 2nd, week Criminal
business.
All parties and witnesses inter
ested in civil business will be on
hand Ist. Monday Those interest
ed in criminal business will appear
2nd, week in October. Witnesses
subpoened before the grand Jury
will come on Ist Monday.
D. W. Gaskin
C. S. C.
No Trouble at Nicholls.
A gentleman from Nicholls, last
Monday, when asked as to the cor
rectness of the report that a coffin
containing rifles, previously buried
by negroes, had been exhumed
there some ten days ago, declared
that the report was without found
ation. Nicholls is a quiet- place,
comparatively, he says, and the
law-abiding citizens hope to kee'*
it so.