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NATIONAL PUBLICITY EDITION
GEORGIA—“EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH”
A State Rich In Agricultural, Manufacturing, And Natural Resources
Georgia is primarily dependent up
on her agriculture and horticulture
for her material increment, and in
making an analysis of present as well
as the future, these elements consti
tute the natural barometer, although
within the last decade the manufac
ture of her raw materials into finish
ed products has reached such pro
portions that it has become one of
the leading factors affecting her wel
fare.
The entire system of agriculture
is being revolutionized from the one
product money crop (cotton) by di
versification. Instead of it being an
uncommon thing, it has become the
practice of communities, through
cooperative agencies, to ship car
loads of hogs, chickens, eggs, butter,
and other staple foods. The fore
cast for 1924 totals, places Georgia
well in the lead of every other state
in the United States in an increase
of farmers’ income, amounting to
46 per cent over its agriculture in
come of 1923. Estimated worth of
Georgia’s crops for 1924 is placed
at $337,000,000.
1. Increase percentage in pro
duction of butter has been unequal
ed by any state. In 1920, production
of creamery butter amounted to 12,-
* 000 pounds; in 1924 production will
surpass 5,000,000 pounds.
Tobacco Crop.
2. Georgia’s tobacco crop of 34,-
000 acres yielded 30,024,502 pounds
and sold at an average of 21.82 cents
per pound, bringing $6,551,650.86.
The yield averaged 883 pounds per
acre. This is practically a new activ
ity for Georgia on a large scale, and
if plans of those interested in grow
ing the weed are carried out for 1925
ju. and assuming the average price and
yield of 1924 as a basis, this crop
should produce over $12,000,000.
3. Georgia’s 1924 cotton crop will
be over one million bales, due to in
tensive and proper cultivation. Geor
gia probably used more calcium ar
senate in her fight on the boli weevil
than all the other southern states
combined. Producing of cotton will
always be the greatest factor in
Georgia’s agricultural income.
4. Georgia’s increase in dairy cows
for 1924 over 1923 is 33 1-3 per
w cent, a total of 10,000 cows, while
thousands of yearlings and two-year
old heifers from pure-bred sires are
on the road toward a greater in
crease next year in Georgia’s butter
production than has ever been chron
icled in the history of the state.
5. The increase in Georgia’s pig
crop in the fall of 1924 is estimated
at 13.6 per cent over 1923, as against
a decrease of 5.9 per cent in the pig
< crop estimated for the rest of the
United States, this result being also
largely due to the propaganda of the
hen, hog and cow program.
Watermelon Leader.
6. Georgia leads the entire United
States in watermelon production in
1924, producing 38.8 per cent of the
entire commercial watermelon crop,
bringing to farmers $3,092,000 from
16,103 cars.
7. Georgia shipped 13,500 cars of
peaches in 1924, thereby maintaining
ner supremacy in supplying the coun
try with this luscious fruit. The
“Georgia peach” is recognized in
every market.
8. Georgia has taken leading rank
in the production of paper-shell pe
cans, and today has 1,592,427 trees.
Many orchards are now being plant
ed, and the 1925 planting should in
crease this number to over 2,000,000
trees.
As to manufacturing, the textile
industry is still the largest manu
facturing industry. It is a well
known fact that the textile industry
of the United States has been in
creasing at a greater percentage in
the southern states than ever before,
and many of the large industries in
this line are either opening branch
factories or moving their entire
plants from New England districts
to the south. Georgia is receiving her
proportion of new mills due to a
great extent of the inexhaustible sun
r ply of hydro-electric power that is
‘ available and that has been and is
being developed. It is well to note
that textile mills of Georgia, almost
without exception, have been run
ning full time during the entire year.
Ceramics Industry.
Recently the state has awakened
to the fact that much money has
been lost by the shipping of clay for
various ceramic products to other
parts of the United States, and is
< now preparing to develop and manu
facture many articles along this line.
Georgia School of Technology, real
izing the potential assets along this I
line, has recently opened a depart
ment -which is new to the south.
During the current year many thou
sands of dollars have been invested in
the state for manufacture of articles |
made from these raw materials of ,
clay in which Georgia abounds.
Recent surveys have been made by
some of the paper and pulp manu- |
► facturers of the United States which I
have disclosed that the pine and gum I
abundant in this state are splendid ■
materials for making book paper.
Investments of a large nature to de
vclop this industry are expected dur
ing the year 1925.
Throughout the state development
in municipalities has been steadily
going forward and it is the excep
tion in to-wns of 4,000 or 5,000 where :
* you do not find paved streets and
many other improvements that are
necessary for the welfare and prog
ress of municipalities. A spirit of
'rivalry exists between these towns
that is most healthful, each trying to ,
surpass its neighbor, for they are all I
neighbors now owing to the develop- I
4. ment of highways making travel and
intercommunication easy.
Highway Development.
Development of highways of Geor
gia has and is progressing so as to ■
make travel from any part of the !
» state easy by the present popular
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
MEET IN DALLAS, TEXAS
Maj. Gen. Hampden Osborn of
Columbus, Miss., recently appointed
adjutant general and chief of staff
of the United Confederate Veterans,
announced recently that May 12 to
15 had been selected as the dates for
the Dallas reunion.
mosTFerfeciTgirl of
350,000 GIVES HER RULES
Girls who want to be perfect phy
sically will have to follow' a program
that many won’t like so well, perhaps,
if we would believe what Miss Inez
Harden, 16-year-old school girl, of
Drew, Miss., says about it.
Miss Harden is the most perfect
girl of 350,000 in a recent health
contests conducted in Chicago.
She was marked up 99.04 per cent
perfect, and gave as her recipe for
perfect health, the following:
“Sleep ten hours a night.
“Drink a quart of milk a day.
“Eat lots of vegetables.
“Don’t use face powder or rouge.
“Don’t wear high heels.”
Miss Harden is 16, weighs 117 3-4
pounds and is five feet, two inches
tall. She goes to bed every night at
8 and is up at 6:30. In addition to
deep breathing and setting up exer
cises she keeps fit by doing part of
the house work and playing right
guard on her high school basketball
team.
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The Turkish Government proposes
to amend the marriage laws so as to
allow only a second wife in excep
tional cases; in all other cases po
lygamy w’ould be considered a crime.
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The official grave digger of Aiken,
Germany, has resigned his position
because thirteen months have passed
without a death in that city. He
wrote to the city council declining to
accept his salary when there was no
work to be done.
method of motors. There is no state
east of the Mississippi that has a
greater mileage of highways than the
state of Georgia. The majority of
these are improved. All main
thoroughfares leading through the
state and connecting with national
highways are being rapidly developed
in a permanent manner either with
concrete or asphalt binder top sur
facing.
The state of Georgia has experi
enced a big construction year and
building contracts for 1925 will
amount to over $90,000,009, making
an increase for the state of 18 per
cent over contracts for 1923. The
amount expended for industrial
building in 1924 will show an in
crease of 21 per cent over 1923.
Careful surveys by the best busi
ness minds of the state reveal that
at the present writing Georgia is in
better shape financially than she has
been for years and the outlook for
1925 is more than encouraging.
To sum the matter up, the wonder
ful industrial strides of the south are
demanding attention of the entire na
tion, and it is a constant source of
pride to our people that Georgia
is keeping step with these progres
sive and far-reaching accomplish
ments.
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THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA.
Georgia’s Governor
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HON. CLIFFORD WALKER
Governor of the State of Georgia.
THE CHURCHES HAVE BEEN A
GREAT BLESSING TO OUR PEOPLE
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No single factor in a community
means quite so much to the general
welfare as the churches.
Everything worth while is advanc
ed or held back by the progress of
the church or lack thereof.
A community may have fertile
fields and many citizens, but its de
sirability as a place to live depends
upon the character of its people.
Commerce is builded upon confi
dence and moral character is the
foundation of this confidence.
Society is good or bad according
to the moral character of its mem
bers.
A democracy is safe or unsafe ac
cording to the character of the dem
ocrats.
Civic life is pure or impure ac
cording to the ideals of the citizen.
Commerce, Society, Good Govern
ment, Civic Purity and Happy Homes
make an attractive community.
The foundation of all these things
is character.
The sole business of the church
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is to make character.
The church that has no interest
in business, in politics, in civic af
fairs, in society and in the home is
of no service to the community.
Her one business is to make the
citizens who control these depart
ments of community life.
Hart county is well supplied with
churches and they have done well
their work, both in enlisting a large
number of her people in her active
membership and in influencing those
on the outside to high ideals.
There are many churches in Hart
county, of the leading denominations,
each a beacon light of hope and pro
gress in the several communities of
our county.
Indeed, the church has played a
great part in Hart county’s growth
and progress during the years.
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In the Chinese language there are
forty-thousand written characters
which differ from each other.
INTERESTING HISTORY TELLS OF
PROGRESS ALONG SCHOOL LINES
By D. C. ALFORD
Andrew Carnegie, in speaking be
fore an educational society in New
York in 1891, asked some very im
portant and practical questions be
cause he was a man who always
thought on living, practicable themes.
He asked “What is the greatest glory
of a state," answering in a short
sentence, "I would say, the universal
education of its people.”
John Knox was famous not only
because he was a great theologian
in ecclesiastic service, important as
this is, but because he resolved that
every Parish in Scotland should have
a public school. It is now said be
cause of the great work started by
John Knox that you can hardly find
a Scotch man who cannot read or
write, and for the school training of
Scotch children the parents would
almost starve if necessary to give
their children an education. Their
motto is proverbial: “We may starve
but we will not allow our children to
be reared in ignorance.”
The high school has long been ap
preciated for its importance in edu
cational matters. It is as the hub
to the wheel, the center to the circle,
and to whatever attainment, the rad
ius of usefulness may reach it must
have had a right beginning at the
start.
“As the twig is bent the tree is
inclined” applies in logic to the
school as well as anything else. Me
chanics say much lumber has been
wasted in trying to take the twist
out when once it gets in by untrain
ed workmen.
The material that has been turned
out by the Hartwell High Schools
now occupy the highest spheres of
usefulness in all the walks of life for
which her citizens are justly proud.
Many of us are glad that we have
lived to see the time—
“ When men are honored though about
to sink,
That give their child an opportunity
to think.”
Hon. F. C. Stephenson was the
first teacher, beginning in 1855; he
taught in a one-room log cabin but
soon removed to the Presnell house
before it was completed and taught
on a dirt floor. Mr. Stephenson was
one of the first citizens of Hartwell
and held public office until his death
some thirty years ago.
Miss Ellen Holland was the next
teacher and taught in n new frame
building, commencing her school be
fore the house was completed or had
a chimney.
The heads of the Hartwell Schools
from now on are as follow*: David
Steifle, Jackson Brown, Miss Mar
tha Monteith, Jno. L. Mize, who
closed his school to go to the war
about 1862; Weston Hays, Miss
Prince, Mrs. E. G. Murrah, closing
her school as General Brown’s raid
was crossing the Savannah river.
The first school after the war was
taught by Mrs. J. M. Webb, whose
husband, Dr. J. M. Webb, was mur
dered on the public square in Hart
well May 3rd, 1865, by a squad of
brutal ruffians who posed as northern
soldiers. This was doubted as most
all regular soldiers who passed
through the countv at the close of
SECOND SECTION
the war conducted themselves in a
fairly respectable manner.
Mrs. Webb, whose maiden name
was Miss Ellen Holland, and men
tioned as the second teacher, con
tinued to teach a private school at
intervals for several years, supple
menting her meager income from her
hotel: being left a widow with three
small boys she, as all other widows,
was left at the close of the war con
fronting grave problems and much
hardship, in rearing their children.
In 1874 Mrs. Webb married Prof.
S. M. Bobo which happy companion
ship was ended November Bth,
1912, by the death of Mrs. Bobo.
No woman ever lived in Hartwell that
had more friends or who was respect
ed more highly than Mrs. Bobo.
Col. P. E. Davunt was the teacher
from 1865 to 1868.
Dr. James W. Earle in 1869.
S. M. Bobo in 1870-1-2.
Martain V. Looney and wife in
1873.
Rev. A. L. Campbell in 1874.
Martain V. Looney and wife in
1875-6-7.
Mrs. Capers and Mr. Scott in 1878.
S. M. Bobo and S. W. Peek in 18714
and 1880.
Morgan 11. Looney in 1881.
Morgan L. Parker in 1882 to 1886.
J. P. Mathews in 1887.
S. M. Bobo and M. S. Stribbling in
1888-9 and 90.
S. M. Bobo and Miss Rosa Nelson
1891.
S. M. Bobo and J. S. Foster 1892.
Morgan L. Parker 1893 to 1897.
George C. Looney 1898-99-1900.
Morgan L. Parker 1901 to 1906.
John P. Cush 1907 to 1910.
E. A. Montgomery 1910-11.
W. C. Ariail 1911-12.
C. G. Power 1912-1920.
J. I. Allman 1920 to
As has already been noted Hart
well’s school equipment begun at the
very bottom a log house and dirt
floor in 1854. For many years a
frame building without any of the
modern conveniences in comfort
stood in the lot where C. I. Kidd’s
residence is now located.
The school interest in 1886 had
grown until it was considered abso
lutely necessary that a better build
ing must be erected, also a location
more desirable for school purposes
should be selected. This condition
brought about a considerable rivalry
that helped grenAly in selecting a new
lot and putting up a better building.
Two very desirable places were
chosen to be voted on, and the choice
was to be determined by a subscrip
tion money vote. One of the places
was where F. P. Linder now has a
beautiful home and the other was
the present location.
The result of the election showed
the present location as receiving the
largest money vote. While this man
ner or method of making the choice
was not as democratic as some elec
tions still it proved very satisfactory
under the conditions as .they existed
at that time. The city had very lit
tle funds that could be appropriated
for school purposes. The purchase
of the lot and the expenses of erect
ing the school building was depend
ent on private subscription which was
greatly increased by the rivalry in
making the choice of location as all
money ballots were consolidated and
totaled when the selection of the
place was determined.
In 1887 a very commodious wood
school building was erected at a cost
of about $7,500.00. It served well
until 1906 when it accidentally burn
ed while school was in session. This
was a great loss as there was only a
normal amount of insurance.
However, the fire left a good cleau
I place to erect a much larger and
I more up-to-date structure. The best
I architects were soon employed to
I submit plans and the present impos-
I ing building was chosen as the best
I for the amount of $20,000.00, which
I was the sum to be expended.
I This building when erected was
I thought to be large enough for many
years to come but not so; for several
years it had not met the demand for
the continued growing school inter
ests and in 1921, strenuous as times
were, the citizens of Hartwell said
conditions must not hinder our school
interests, it must not suffer. A bond
election was called and the $40,000.-
00 bond issue carried with so little
opposition it was not noticeable.
As in the first instance in 1907
architects were given a chance to
submit plans for a $40,000.00 build
ing and C. D. Griffin was the lucky
I architect and constructor. This house
iis a much larger and more com
j modious building than the one built
I in 1907. The basement alone is about
one hundred and fifteen feet long
by sixty feet wide. It also has a
I much large auditorium than the
I older building and has the ad
vantages of being on the first floor
and arranged conveniently for
gathering in and out which is so eo-
J sential for a public hall.
This building is three stories
! including the basement and was
, built to meet all reasonable demands
• for educational purposes.
The dawn of the greatest day in
! Hartwell school interests is rapidly
I approaching. Her educational
| achievements in the past have been
| great, receiving recognition by the
• colleges where her students have
I gone as one of the very best high
i schools in Georgia.
Our good people have always been
i proud of the Hartwell High Schoo!
and as between faculty and patrons,
with scarcely an exception, the best
> of co-operation has ever existed and
I may it continue so. So mote it be.