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Many Hart County Cotton Growers Will Try For S2OO Record Production Prizes THE HARTWELL SUN. 4 q PAGES 5 /iN THIS ISSUE VOLUME XLVII “Clean- Up-Paint-Up” Campaign April 28-May 3 Movor Richardson has officially ' Snared the week of April 28- "Clean-Up and Paint-Up” w oZ-n Hartwell and immediate tv __and last Friday every """be’ of the Kiwanis Club pled- Hs -upport to the move that $ See this a cleaner healthier *ty, and consequently a happier peo plei snecial edition of The Sun will he devoted to this idea on April 25th, b a it is expected that when the ±k of April 28-May 3 has ended /here will be few homes and busi ness houses in all of Hartwell which do not show the effects of the spe cial clean-up-paint-up program. Report on Country Club Seve’al reports from various com mit‘chairmen for the Country Club were made, among them Robt. L Cox who stated that the perman ent 9-hole golf links would likely be ready by the middle of summer, but that in the meantime many citi zens were enjoying the temporary 5-hole links. R. E. Matheson, R. C. Thornton, j H. Barton and President Skelton ail praised the country club, and stated they were heartily behind the organization that will mean so much to the social life of our» community, and which will be operated along lines above reproach by the best and leading citizens of our city. The club house will very likely be •remodeled or torn away and anoth er built within the next few weeks. Dr. Stewart D. Brown, prominent Royston citizen, but who is an active member of the Hartwell Kiwanis Club, told the members that he would be over soon and let the golf bug bite him. President Jas. H. Skelton stated that he had himself donated one iron bench for the court house park and that he hoped to have five oth ers placed at intervals in the park ,o that the tourists might have some >lace to rest while in Hartwell. Announcement was also made that the Anderson, S. C., Female College Glee Club would appear at the Hartwell auditorium on Monday night, May sth. A large house will greet these young ladies, without a doubt. County Agent Bingham told of the meeting scheduled for Tuesday night of this week, and also mentioned the cotton growing contest, details of which have been published. 1 Mrs. L. N. Adams at the piano gave a number of selections during the program. o BAPTIST CHURCH It was such a joy to greet a splendid congregation of Hartwell people from the pulpit last Sunday morning. We were so glad to have a number of visitors from the other churches. i It was kind of Bro. T. J. Espy to preach for us Sunday night. Little Nardin Adams joined for baptism Sunday night. We have five waiting for baptism. It’s good to have them come at the quiet hour of worship. We have children’s service Sunday night. A welcome awaits you az our church at every service. , hr. 1. W. Shahbaz will preach at the Baptist church Sunday morning, and at Cross Roads church in the as- He is representing the Home Mission Board. “Six Cylinder Love” Here This Thursday Night 8:30 Real Play From New York At The New Auditorum l arge number out-of-town PE S PLE W,LL BE here for POPULAR BROADWAY HIT t ‘ world might be divided into ' Kinds of people—those who u a . automobiles and those who indo t lke to own them. “Six-Cyl -t: Love” is a comedy all about aat °mobile and the havoc it the lives of two fami ,t is why it has had such Ch tn d->us run in New York and Cylinder Love” is a real er rXc aCtS A presented by play ’ . .. n . from Broadway, New York, i ' ‘ , in Bar twell, Greenville, Ath- F cMul2d A f lanta ’ The r com P any , is H ,‘ or one Performance ini 5 1 tkls Thursday night, April : t ~ ” e new Auditorium. are on sale at Hailey’s j. A Real Comedy extr . a Powerful sermon against ti.a* tk ?ance ’ in s Pite of the fact t , ei ? are more hearty laughs iain P ’V than yon would ever ,'s a good, clean, whole i clear ? a way through, with l ‘ message that you can’t t do\, you mjght try ihijsen /. lhat ls w hy it has been Player- * or the Percival Vivian seasr.y/ as their offering for this tore 1, Love” is all the * : - P lO1 * 0115 and human because n evZr- ° r '' that can be duplicated j Bhe ■’ community in America, j - } is that of a newly mar- Final Count The final and official count in the run-over election for Hart county Wednesday, March 26th, resulted in the preliminary figures being chang ed only slightly. The Democratic Executive Com mittee met Thursday morning and consolidated the vote as follows: For Sheriff—W. M. Kidd 1320; A. B. Brown 1379. Majority 59. For Tax Collector—W. J. A. Cleveland 1294; Joe Whitworth 1416. Majority 122. For Tax Receiver—T. M. Bailey 1327; F. E. O’Barr 1380. Majority 53. MOVIES AT AIR LINE Two good pictures at Air Line school building April 10th at 8 o’clock. Air Line ladies will serve hot coffee, hot chocolate, sandwiches and cake. Everybody come. o Opening New Saul’s Store The new enlarged Saul’s Depart ment Store, fronting on both Caro lina and Depot streets has been completed, new merchandise receiv ed and everything made ready for the opening on Friday morning of this week, April 4th, when the beau tiful new emporium will be all “dressed up” and with bargains ga lore for the trading public. Several new departments have been added to Saul's new store here, and visitors during the special open ing ten-day sale will see one of Northeast Georgia’s most beautiful and modernly arranged department stores. Entrances to the store are from Carolina street and a corner on Caro lina and Depot, and on entering one can imagine himself or herself in one of Atlanta’s large establish ments. The improvements doubled the space of the old store, and gives them perhaps the largest show win dow space of any store in North east Georgia. The various departments are di vided into Shoes, Millinery, Mens and Boys’ Clothing, Men’s Hats, Furnishings, Ladies Ready-to-Wear, Dry Goods, Notions, Rugs, Draper ies, Crockery and other new de partments in addition will soon fol low. They are expecting a large gathering to call and inspect their new Store and they invite every body to call Friday during their spring opening day display. The sales force of Saul’s De partment Store here, which is one of a chain of 29, operated by J. Saul & Co., of Atlanta, is composed of Mr. W. Alfred Teasley, Mr. P. P. Harrison, Mr. Jas. H. Vandiver, Mr. Roy Teasley, Mrs. W. Alfred Teasley, Mrs. Alston Harper, Miss Cola Campbell. o- You can’t puncture a good tire by pinning your faith to it. ried couple, already deep in debt, who feel thev must have a car, in spite of the fact it will put them in debt deeper. Their increased pop ularity with their neighbors after the purchase follows. The pay ments fall due, and there is nothing with which to pay, until the young husband tampers with the funds of the company for which he works; then he conies to his senses and they dispose of all their unpaid-for property and start over again in an inexpensive flat. This is the action of this play which thousands have seen and enjoyed and which you will laugh and cry over when the com pany appears here. The plav ran for fifty-four weeks in New York and then was taken to Chicago, where it enjoyed an un usually fine season at the New Har ris Theatre. Through special ar rangements with the producer and I the author, “Six Cylinder Love was i secured by the Affiliated Lyceum & Chautauqua Association for this season, to be presented under the personal direction of Mr. Perciva Vivian, by a splendid cast of New York stage folk. Character* Mr. Burton —William Marsh. Mrs. Burton —Clara Mathis. Gilbert Sterling—Frank Joyner. Mr. Donroy—Frank Martins. Marylyn Sterling—Frances Smgle- Stapleton, Tom the Janitor —Edward Racey. Act I. The Back wards of the Burtons and the Sterlings. Act 11. The Sterling s Parlor Act HL The Sterling s Flat in 1 New York. HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1924 HEBRON MINISTERS WILL MEET IN BOWMAN 7TH Program for the Pastor’s Confer ence and Worker’s Council of the Heb ron Association to meet with the Bowman Baptist church cn Monday, April 7, 1924: 10:00 A. M. —Devotional services led by Rev. E. R. Goss. 10:20—Reports of Pastors and Key men. 11:00—An Inspirational Address by a Persian Representative of the For eign Mission Board. 12:00—Luncheon, followed by meeting of the Executive Committee. I:3o—Devotional Service by Rev. D. C. Williams. I:4s—Reports from representatives of the W. M. U., S. S. Convention and B. Y. P. U. 2:ls—Associational program and plan outlined by Rev. J. Fred Eden, Field enlistment man of the Georgia Baptist Convention. Miscellaneous Business. Adjourn at Will. C. W. HENDERSON, J. F. LEE, A. W. BUSSEY. Committee, REED CREEK SCHOOL Our school was suspended several days last week on account of sick ness. A meeting of the farmers of this community was held Friday even ing for the purpose of discussing and planning for the county wide cotton growing contest. Also, a very interesting picture of “Farm Life” was shown. The Pure Seed Association is hav ing much success in disposing of the seed. On account of so many being absent from school the higher grades were unable to hold their monthly examinations. For that reason the honor roll of those grades will not be published until next week. Honor Roll: First Grade —Hattie Ayers, George Washington Cleveland, Irene Hembree, Tonnie Madden, Sal lie Lou Madden, Broadus McLesky, Tommie Ruth Payne, Harold Roukos kie, George Roukoskie, Mary Reed, Irvin Senkbeil, Cleo Sanders, Hubert Vickery, Ottis Vickery, Hazel Dar by, Denver Atkinson, Roberta Allen, Orr Mackey, Emmett O’Barr, Inez Roland. Second Grade—Joel Maxwell, Howard Ayers, Allie Gean Ayers, Durand Cleveland, Holliman Dickert, Eloise Fleming, Leonard Madden, Severnelle Nixon, Lester Osborne, Effie G. Purdy, Evie Risner, Ethel Sanders, Leila Senkbeil, Jimmie Senkbeil, Munna Vickery, Mack Reed. Third Grade—Grace Nixon, Sam uel Hudgens. Fourth Grade—Drucilla Macijew ski, Irene Vickery, Clarence Mc- Lesky. If the weather is suitable, the play, “The Old Maid’s Club” will be given Friday night, April 4th. Every body come and bring your friends. A BALE OF COTTON TO THE ACRE By PAUL W. CHAPMAN (Atlanta Journal) A bale of cotton to the acre? Nowadays this is something of ten talked about but seldom produc ed. Yet it can be done in spite of the weevil and unfavorable weather. Dewey Morgan, a nineteen-year old boy in the senior class of the High School at Buchanan, Ga., this past year made three 500-pound bales on three acres of land, and then had 449 pounds left for a fourth bale. In other words he pro duced 1,949 pounds of lint on three measured acres of land, or 649 pounds on each acre. In making such an unusual yield for boll weevil times he won a state cotton-growing contest conducted by the Georgia State Board for Vo cational Education and defeated many of his schoolmates in other high schools who made as much or more than three 500-pound bales on three acres of land. The cotton and seed that the young man grew on his three acres were worth approximately SBOO, and in addition to this he received a prize of SIOO in gold which was present ed to him by the Atlanta Trust company in recognition of his un usual accomplishment. On the day that the state agricul tural supervisors went to Buchanan to award the prize the entire town took a part in the presentation. All the business houses were closed in order that everyone might have an opportunity to go to the school to do honor to the winner of a state con test, and to find out how the prize winning crop was produced. How He Did It. Dewey, like most folks who do things worth while, was inclined to be a little too modest and didn’t want to make a speech; but he did write down the essential points in the production of his big yield, and here they are in his own words: “Two acres of my cotton patch was alfalfa sod, and the other acre had been in soybeans. I plowed it in the fall with a tractor; and not only scratched the surface but plow ed about eight inches deep. “The next spring—in April—l harrowed rt with a tractor disc har row, and put on two loads of stable manure to the acre. I mixed my own fertilizer at home, and applied Mt. Olivet To Vote Bonds The citizens of Mt. Olivet school district in Hart county, a consoli dation of Midway, Flat Shoals and Kings Bench, will vote on Saturday of this week for the issuance of $10,500.00 bonds with which they expect to erect and equip a modern building. Some two months ago the progres sive people of these districts came together and consolidated their school interests, and it is expected that there will be little or no oppo sition to the bonds at the polls Sat urday. The place of election for the issuance is at Midway school house. The trustees of the new Mt. Olivet Consolidated School District are E. F. McLane, W. J. Bailey and T. W. Sariders. The election Saturday will be watched with interest by the peo ple of Hart county, who congratu late Midway, Flat Shoals and Kings Bench citizens of this forward step. cokesbiTryhonor~roll The following pupils are on the honor roll for the month of March: 9th Grade—Reba Hailey. Bth Grade—Una Mauldin and L. M. Cuningham, Jr. 7th Grade—Mildred Cunningham, Agnes Haralson and Edgar Chap man. 3rd Grade—Horace Mauldin, Tom Nelson Haley, Sallie Gaines, Clyde Seawright. 2nd Grade—James Teasley Frye, Archie Rice, T. E. Gaines, Jr., Ed weena Chapman, Holman Haley, Ina Mauldin. Ist Grade—Martha Chapman and Marshall Jones. “Which One Won,” an original Comedy drama in 3 acts will be giv en at Cokesbury school house on Friday evening, April 4th. The play is 2 hours long and it is full of fun from beginning to end. Every body invited. Admission 15c and 25c which will go for benefit of school. - ■ O ■- ' ARMSTRONG—HAILEY The following announcement from Sunday’s Atlanta papers will be of interest to many relatives and : friends of the groom-to-be, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hailey, of Hartwell: Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Arm strong, qf St. Petersburg, Florida, announce the engagement of their daughter, Angela Armstrong, to Ja son Hailey, of Atlanta, Georgia. o COKESBURY CHURCH Rev. J. H. Barton, pastor of the I Hartwell Methodist church, will preach for us on Sunday afternoon. ■ April 6th, at 3 o’clock. We hope for , a large attendance. ' Everybody cordially invited. o 400 pounds to the acre. “The seed I used was Wannamak er’s Cleveland. It was pure-bred, and had been improved by my broth er for years. “I plowed my cotton six times and all during the season I kept the squares picked up. I was bothered by the weevil and by army worms, but I used fifty pounds of calcium arsenate. This checked them.” This is a brief report of but few words, yet anyone who will read it O-bvOliDli|r,l2a carefully will readily see why Dewey Morgan won first prize and produced four bales of cotton on three acres of land. In this report are embod- I ied all the principles of scientific ag ricultural production. In the first place the boy tells incidentally that he grew alfalfa and soy beans, which are two legume crops that en rich the soil. This farm has come to use modern machinery and as lab or leaves the farms more tractors must be used. Live stock is raised, and the manure applied to enrich the land. The cost of fertilizer is reduced by buying the ingredients and mixing them at home. Only the best seed was planted. The land was worked faithfully, and finally poi son was used to control the weevil. Bv the same methods properly ap plied any farmer in Georgia can make a good crop of cotton. In a general way these same meth ods were used by all of the boys in the contest and many of them made a yield of cotton almost equal to that made by the Haralson county youth. Herbert Warren, of Hartwell, who won second place in the contest, made an average of 626 pounds of lint an acre on his three-acre pro- George O’Kelly of Winterville, in ject. The third prize went to Clarke county, with an average of 592 pounds. Roy Park, of. Com merce, averaged 565 pounds, and Julian Macijewski, of Reed Creek Consolidated High school, in Hart county, averaged 552 pounds on eight acres acres. This last boy made $1,540.58 from the cotton project that he carried on in connection with his school work. Ten schools made an average pro duction for all the boys who enroll ed in the contest of more than 300 pounds of lint per acre. 282 Pound* Average The average for all the vocational Slick Swindler Reaps Rich Harvest In This Section PLAYS AT AIR LINE WILL BE GIVEN FRIDAY NIGHT The three plays which were sche duled for Friday night, March 21st, were postponed on account of so much illness until Friday night of this week, April 4th. They are entitled "The Bachelor’s Dream,” “Doctor Cure-All,” and “Jack's Bluff.” The public is cordially invited. A small admission fee will be charg ed. o - ■■ O’BARR-HERRING An event that centers much cor dial interest was the secret mar riage of Miss Idelle O’Barr, prom inent young Hartwell lady, and Mr. Clarence C. Herring, well-known young business man formerly of Hartwell, bu tnow of Atlanta, which occurred on Sunday, February 3, 1924, at the Baptist pastorium in Elberton, Rev Wray officiating. A number of close friends were pres ent, but the happy event was kept a secret until last week-end, and on Sunday Mr. Herring carried his bride to Atlanta where they make their future home. The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. O’Barr, a graduate of G. W. C., at Milledge ville, and for the past few years had been one of the most popular members of the Hartwell school fac ulty. Mr. Herring is a young man of sterling qualities, highly respected by all who know him. He is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Herring, of Hartwell, and has a re sponsible position in Atlanta with his uncle, Mr. J. A. Fleming, who operates the Atlanta Bottling Works. Both Mr. and Mrs. Herring have been very popular in their home town, and scores of friends will join The Sun in extending to them hearty congratulations and best wishes for a long, happy and pros perous life. U - DEATHS ON INCREASE The death rate is on the , in crease while the birth rate de creases, Census Bureau figures show, according to a dispatch from Wash ington, D. C. The death rate for the first nine months of last year was 12 6-10 per thousand as compared with 11 8-10 for the same period the previous year. The birth rate for last year shows 22 8-10 as compared with 23 1-10 the year previous. Q No man lives up to the reputa tion he wants people to think he has. agricultural boys in the high schools of the state was 282 pounds per acre; or exactly 200 pounds per acre more than the average for the state of Georgia as a whole. Had the average farmer made as much cotton per acre as the average boy who is studying agriculture in the high schools of the state the crop for the year would have been worth 259 million more than it actually i brought. This contest in cotton growing, which was conducted by the State Board for Vocational Education, was only one phase of the regular school work for the boys in the high schools of the state where Smith-Hughes ag riculture is taught. In these classes each boy in addition to studying ag riculture ninety minutes each day in school is required to do some farming for himself under the di rect supervision of his instructor. In the contest twenty-nine schools took part and 900 boy.; submitted their records. While the best yields were made by boys in north Geor gia still outstanding records were made in all parts of the state and show clearly that cotton can be made if only the right methods are used. In the school at Buchanan, where Dewey Morgan will graduate in June, there are seventy-three boys enrolled in the agricultural classes. This year they will all carry on a home project and probably most of them inspired by Dewey’s success will grow cotton. Last year there were not so many in the agricultural classes, yet the annual report of their instructor, William Putney, shows that the farm products produced by the boys last year sold for $9,081.28. These boys are not only interest ed in growing cotton but are study ing the cow-hog and hen program and are developing the hog and poul try business. They are working on a crop program that includes not only a money crop for farm but also a home supply crop and a soil im provement crop each year. These are the agricultural princi ples that are being taught to Geor gia farm boys in the high schools of the rtate, and their economic value is evidenced by their cotton yields this past year. <■ n PAGES X IN THIS 1 fa ISSUE NUMBER 35 Expert “Collector ’ Collects And Then Leaves In Hurry ELBERTON MERCHANTS LOSE —PROMINENT NUBERG FIRM WARNS PUBLIC OF ROGUE Warren Bros., prominent Nuberg merchants, together with a number of leading Elberton business houses, were the victims of a slick scheme last week, each house losing a neat sum by the experience, which came about in this manner: A supposed representative of a collection agency in Atlanta called on several Elberton merchants, and guaranteed to collect their bad ac counts. They were requested to de posit a check for $35 on his com pany as a guarantee that he could collect the accounts. !■ each instance, for the first par ties signed up, he returned “four fold;” and then some, for the in vestment and the Elberton mer chant; were highly pleased. He (hen asked for letters of rcc ofnmendation from the merchants for whom he had collected, and nat urally they gave him the best -for was he not deserving? Yes, he was not. | Immediately after baiting and set ting his hook, he went after pros pects galore, and with the recom mendations from a few leading Elberton firms he got them galore, too. Checks for $35 were given him, and then he gave his customers checks for $35 as a guarantee. After signing up Elberton he signed up Warren Bros., at Nuberg and then he did the Arab stunt “silently folded his tent and stole away.” Cashing his checks before leaving, however. The man gave his name to War ren Bros., as Geo. M. O’Brien and it was thought he went into South Carolina with his operations after leaving Georgia. Such a scheme is not plausible, and in some instances might be al right, but in this case it didn’t work out. Mr. Warren requests The Sun to ask that South Carolina and Geor gia papers copy this in order to give the public warning. „, o KINDERGARTEN Mrs. IL W. Bingham has opened a Kindergarten at her home on Athens street. She has a well equip ped kindergarten and began work Monday morning with a fairly good attendance. The states which are most advanc ed educationally have kindergarten work as a part of their school curri culum and consider it as important as the first grade. Mrs. Walker our own governor’s wife is National chairman of pre school work and devotes a great deal of her time to it. Surely Geor gia and Georgia towns should not lag behind in this work. Several of our neighboring towns support a well patronized kindergar ten. Hartwell people cannot afford not to send their children to kinder garten. * J********* » GAINES DISTRICT Elbert County * • •••*•«'•• • The farmers are plowing to beat the band these pretty days. Oats and wheat are looking fine at this writing. Some of the farmers have plant ed corn. Misses Mary Ruth and Lessie Greenway and brother, Tyrus, spent last Sunday with Misses Ophelia and Sabrie Partain. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Cauthen spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Gip Teasley, of Montevideo. Mr. James E. Chapman, of Monte video is in Atlanta under treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Olin Taylor and children, of Hulmeville, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Archie Turner, of Montevideo. Miss Mary Chapman, of Starr, S. C., spent the week-end with Mrs. James E. Chapman, of Montevideo. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Greenway spent Sunday with their son, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Greenway, of Mon tevideo. Miss Ophelia Partain, of Monte video spent last Wednesday with Miss Leila Teasley, of Rock Branch. Mrs. Nellie Moss, of Cokesbury, Hart county, spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Fletcher Cordell, of Mon tevideo. Messrs. J. F. Partain and W. A. Howard, of Montevideo, spent a while with Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Thornton, of Nuberg, Hart county. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Partain and son, James, spent Sunday afternoon with G. L. Partain and family. FUNDS ARE PLENTIFUL Col. Broadus B. Zellars, who is Secretary-Treasurer of the Nancj' Hart Farm Loan Association, at tended a meeting in Columbia, S. C., where the Federal Land Bank is located. He states that the Land Bank has made a remarkable rec ord since its inauguration, and there are plenty of funds to be loaned on Hart county property.