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Offici al Organ of
Franklin County.
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE
Cordeie.—Mystery .surrounds the
murder of Oren D. Gray of Waycross,
•a machinist f , by trade, whose , lifeless ... ,
». body found ... beside the , tracks of
was
the Georgia Southern and Florida rail¬
way near Arabi, 12 miles south of Cor¬
dele. The body was discovered by B.
( . Southwell, a farmer, at a point
about one mile beyond Arabi, where
there is a sharp curve in the road.
Gray came to his death from a revolv¬
er bullet, which penetrated his brain.
Hazlehurst.—Judge and Mrs. James
R. Grant have purchased a complete
printing outfit and will, on May 1, next,
establish a second paper here to be
known as the Hazlehurst Enterprise.
This outfit is new, costing approxi-
mately $2,000, and is modern m every
respect. Mrs. Grant will have the act-
ive management of the paper, while
Judge Grant will edit the same. The
judge was formerly editor of the
Clarksville Record, which was pur¬
chased and consolidated with the
Clarksville Advertiser, and Mrs. Grant,
with her father, John A. Reynolds,
was, for a number of years, in active
management of the Clayton Tribune.
Their experience in the newspaper
line promises an excellent weekly pa¬
per.
Americus.—A campaign to raise
530,000 to replace the administi'ation
building and auditorium of the third
district agricultural and mechanical
college here, destroyed by fire, has
been inaugurated. That the state will
appropriate $15,000 io replace the
building destroyed is the belief of sev-
eia here in close touch with state of-
nciais. i ns leaves . lo,000 to be rais-
e J ^ ! zens ^strict, $1,000
of v/hich u- has been subscribed already
y Craw ord Wheadey of Americus.
There was $8 000 insurance upon the
handsome building destroyed by fire
of unknown origin. It is the purpose
of those in control to erect two spa¬
cious buildings in place of the admin¬
istration building destroyed, There
wall be an administration building and
separate auditorium armory.
Tifton.—Til ;n is at last to have
noi only a permanent but. also a mu-
njclpally owned athletic field, the Tif-
ci ^ couneil having agreed to pur-
chase & ght lots of land diagonally
across from the public school building
for a baseball ground and athletic
field, provided the local people in¬
terested in athletics will improve the
property. This was agreed to and
over one hundred and fifty dollars for
Improvements has already boon sub¬
scribed. It is expected to have the
work completed within three weeks
and a game played on the new
grounds. When the field is complet¬
ed it will be used jointly by the high
school, agricultural school and town
boys for all athletic events. When
this field is completed it will give Tif-
ton one of the most ideally located
athletic fields in the state, as the site
is hardly a five minutes walk from
the business section and equally as
convenient to all other sections of the
city.
Dublin.—A bond election has been
called by the city council of Dublin
for June 8 to decide whether the city
shall issue bonds to the amount of
$50,000 to be divided up among several
projects for the municipality. One of
the largest items is a municipal ice
plant and cold storage section to be
erected at a cost of $20,000 and which
will use the exhaust steam of the
present light and water plant for
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FRANKLIN COUNTY AND ITS READERS.
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Sheriff’s Wife Plucky
Cordele.— _ , , Friends of Mrs. John
Ward, the wife of the sheriff of Crisp
county, are still congratulating her for
her pluck in throwing a gun in t j Kl
face of a burly negro prisoner who
had overpowered her husband and
wrenched away his pistol, at break-
fast time last \ve^. Otherwise the
officer would have been killed and one
of the boldest, jail deliveries ever plot¬
ted in this section of the state would
have proved entirely successful. Tho
ne £ r0 > Lon Hollis, and Sheriff Ward
fou S ht for ten minutes before Mrs.
t\ard could secure a pistol and come
^* el husband s assistance.
Sheiiff Watd had unlocked tho doot
of the •> ail and was distributing break-
£ast lo the several prisoners. When he
came to Hollis’ cell the negro seized
him and final, y succeeded in disarm¬
ing him. Before he could use the
weapon, however, Mrs. Ward came to
her husband’s assistance, got the drop
on the prisoner and made him drop
tlle s eri ® 8 5 un -
Dining , the fight in the cell six of
the prisoners made good their escape
from the jail. Mrs. Ward was threat¬
ened with a chair in the hands of
power. The city is able to make use
of several advantageous circumstanc¬
es to make the ice plant a success,
and it is proposed to make it not
only furnish ice, but a cold storage
plant where ihe farmers of the coun-
ty can have their meat cnred at a
season of tbe year in addition to
these> a city abatto ir is included to
cost ?5>000 where all mea t to be sold
jn Dublin will be slaughtered under
the most a p provec i conditions. Other
i^ms in the proposed issue are $10^000 $5,000
for a city incine rator plant,
for improvements at the light and wa-
ter plant and $10,000 for improving the
stre ets of the -city,
Atlanta.—Answering letter’of the recently
published Sheriff D. R„ More¬
land of Lee county, which took excep¬
tion with the governor for not having
offered a reward for the capture of the
assassins of A. D. Oliver, Governor
Slaton wrote to Sheriff Moreland ex¬
plaining the conditions under which a
reward may .be offered by the state
and why he had not offered the re¬
ward. The letter, in part, is as fol¬
lows: “The appropriation made for re¬
wards is only $3,000. It is the inten¬
tion of the law that only in extraordi¬
nary cases shall any reward be of¬
fered. The right to offer a reward is
based upon the inability of tho offi¬
cers of the law to apprehend the
criminal. So long as it is within the
power of the sheriff and his deputies
to capture the criminal, the governor
cannot pay out the state’s funds for
this pupopse.
Eastman.—The Eastman high school
was well represented at the twelfth
district high school meet, which was
held in Hawkinsville on next Friday
and Saturday. At the preliminary con¬
tests held at the school auditorium a
few days ago, the delegates and the
contests they will enter were elected
as follows: Music, Miss Margaret
Bowen; recitation, Miss Wilhelinina
Hurst; declamation, Donald Feacock;
girls’ spelling, Miss Vera Burch; alter¬
nate, Miss Genevieve Sapp; boys’
,polling, T .W. Nicholson; alternate,
Robert Wynne, Jr.; ready writers, T.
W. Nicholson.
Pay vour subscription to 1 l.e-
Advance, at least, one halt of it.
Charlie Vade, one of the most des-
perate prisoners, as he dashed
through the dining room. Her cool¬
ness as she blocked the' doorway ap¬
parently unnerved the negro, for he
changed his tactics, and was content
to bolt from the house.
Sensational Scene at Trial
Atlanta.—The acquittal of the negro
'Valter Ballard, who shot and killed
W. E. Ormond last November, created
a tensely dramatic scene in the court
house when the wife of the slain man
hysterically accused the freed man, al¬
most precipitating a riot, and necessi¬
tating an ambulance trip to the Gra¬
dy hospital. As the crowd filed out
Mrs. Ormond encountered the accused
man, she fell into a convulsion of
hysterics, seeking to tear herself from
the hold of those about her and rush
upon Ballard. She shouted accusations,
screaming that lie had murdered her
husband in cold blood.
He testified that he had been at¬
tracted of the shooting by the screams
of help from Mrs. Ormond when a ne¬
gro snatched her purse on Woodward
avenue near Cooper street as -she was
returning home.
Her outcries also attracted her hus¬
band, who came from the Ormond
heme with a rifle. The negro Ballard
also had a gun. In the darkness, he
said, he mistook Ormond for the caught rob- j
her. Simultaneously, Ormond
sight be the of Ballard, who and had believing attacked him his to j '
negro I
wife, opened fire. A fusilade ensued,
in which both men were struck by i
bullets.
Honor Atlanta Jurist
Atlanta—The funeral services of
Judge John R. Wilkinson , were held
in Atlanta in ihe First Baptist
church, and tho interment was made
in West View. The services were con-
ducted by Rev.Charles; W. Daniel, of
the First Baptist church. At the com-
etery the services v.e e in charge of
Masonic grand lodge of Georgia, of
which Judge Wilkinson was junior
grand warden,
There was r.n honorary escort con¬
sisting of the judges and county of-
ficials of Fulton county, the officers
and deacons of the First Baptist
Church, the Postmasters Association,
cf Gate City Lodge of Masonry No.
2 and also pastmasters of Masonic
lodges. The Scottish Rite guard form¬
ed a guard of honor and the Scottish
Rite choir, twenty male voices, sang.
There was an escort cf Knight Tem¬
plars of Atlanta commandery, which
also aided as an escort to the grand
commandery. The officers of the grand
commandery and all of the grand of¬
ficers attended the services.
Eclectic Doctors Hold Convention
Atlanta.—The “twilight sleep” was
discussed at length by the Eclectic
Physicians attending the annual con-
ventifm °f the Georgia Eclectic Medi-
ca£ association, which had convened
for the session in the assembly hall j
o£ a le ad ing hotel. |
The prevalent opinion was that the •
new method as suggested by its ad-
vocates, had not yet been sufficiently
proved for use among general prac-
titioners.
widely interesting ol thos. subject did n «* I
question the known advantages 0l ^ j |
such a method as the “twilight sleep,”
fliey believed that it was in the inter-
ost of medical science and of pros-
,
pective mothers that such a new de- '
parture in medical practice should i
*«• r? n t t : m, \ -,i. y of 160
countrys conditions authorities of leading under the hospitals. supe-j
nor
The occasion of this discussion was I
an excellent paper read by Dr. Re-
becca C. Brannon of Atlanta, in which
the results of recent investigations
of twilight sleep methods were review-
ed in detail. _ _____
GIVES DECISION
Important Opinion is Handed Town By
Georgia’s Hightest LegeJ
Tribunal
EFFECTS INTEREST LAWS
Discounting Of Interest On Eight Per
Cent Notes In 'Advance Held
To Be Usurious
Atlanta.—Virtually every bank in
the state is affected by an opinion
handed dawn by the supreme court,
holding that to deduct in advance
from loans interest at (he rate of
8 percent is usury.
This \js a custom which has been
practiced by many banks in Georgia
for many years. Such a custom having
been declared usury makes deeds
given as security in such cases void.
The supreme court’s decision was
handed down in an opinion written
by Justice Beverly D. Evans and con-
curre d in by the full court,
Justice Evans said in part as fol-
j ows .
“The reserving of interest in ad¬
vance by a bank at the highest legal
rate of interest on a loan whether
it be a long or short term loan, is
usurious, and a deed to land given to
secure a promissory note for the
loan is void on account of the usury,
“And if we follow the words of the
statute there can be no differentia-
tion of short term or long term loans,
“Interest is compensation for the use
of money. In determining whether a
greater sum than the maximum rate
has been reserved, we look lo the
amount received and the interest re¬
ceived. If the borrower does not re¬
ceive all the principal stated in his
obligation because of the reservation
of the interest, he does not receive
the full amount of his loan.
“The real principal of his obligation
is the amount which he actually re-
ceives. When he pays the principal
as stated in his obligation from
which the maximum rate of interest
was 'deductc' 1 in advance, he pays a
sum in excess of that which he re¬
ceived and the interest on it. This is
true in both short and long loans.”
Clean-Up Campaign In Capital
Atlanta. An all-day canvass by At.
lanta set ool children for clean-up
pledges from Atlanta householders
brought the celan-up campaign to a
rousing climax and Atlanta now re-
vealed herself ' as a spotless and shin-
ino ° city
Atlanta homes are fresh , in . their ,, .
new spring coats of paint. Atlanta
lawns are raked and clipped and
green. Atlanta trees are pruned and
trimmed. Atlanta flower beds aro re-
splendent with color. And Atlanta
back fences are whitewashed, drains
are filled with lime, basements are
renovated and directed, and
£las b een swallowed up in the maw of
Atlanta’s crematory.
The pledges that were obtained by
the school children will be counted
and checked to avoid . plicat ion, and
the white school and Ih.i negro school
whose pupils obtained the largest-
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ro i lm ent will each be given a cash
pr i ze by the chamber of commerce.
Trained by previous clean-up cam-
paigns and filled with youthful
siasm for the part they were playing
in civic betterment, the children made
a clean sweep of the city, going from
nouse-to-house in residence
and from store to store and office to
office ia the downtown istricts.
Pharmacy Board Examinations
tho slate capital, There \v ere ap
proxin ■ y one hundred applicants
for cerdficates. Of that number less
than fifty trade ma :■> high enougli to
secure certificates. Certificates are
of three degrees, druggist, apothecary
and pharmacist. The pharmacist’s cer-
tificatc requires a record of 90 per
cent perfect. No app'icant recrived
s ch a certificate, The app 1 'cants
were from a 1 1 parts of this country,
an I se veral from other countries, in¬
cluding Porto Rico and Egypt. The
members of the board who heard -he
examinations are W. S. Elkin, Jr., of
Atlanta, chairman; C. D. Jordan of
Mon; elio, secretary B. S. Persons
of Macon, W. L. Meadows of Co'um-
bns and Walter Joens of Savannah.
Doctor Jacobs Acc ots Presidency
Atlanta.—Dr. Thorn v.mH Jacobs,
elec od president of Oglethorpe uni¬
versity January 21, by letter formal¬
ly accepted tho po. ition at a recent
meeting of the board of directors of
the university.
At the same time the board re-
ceived the acceptance of Jair. m L.
Cray to he chairman:-’ '\\ r: n-'u
Mocre to the vice chairman..1
J. K. Glide' to the chairman c
the investment committee.
Whatsoever A Mas i
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Sov/etli That SMI i
Me Also Reap.
If you hid just tin ordinary mix
e>l -Pnib bushel of cotton set 3
flints worth 50 cents to oil vour
cow, or soli to mi oil mill mid on
were to p!unt them end m !<e v id
worth of cotton then by; and you
< ■ dd get a bushel of pure and im
prove*’ sect’ for $5 that, would
ma |iO von ,S'o0 worth "f cotton ami
red on the same lard, same work
and fertilizer; you’d consider ic a
wood trade to se l or teed the for
met’and btiv the latter woul In’t
von?
Like Begets Like,
Von can’t nnv more afford to
plant poor seed than you cm af¬
ford to raise scrub jugs or scrub
cattle or scrub horses and
SHOWING THE FARMER “HOW”
Editor Atlanta Constitution ,
Atlanta, da.
Editor Constitution: During the past
three months I have traveled over the
states s of South Carolina and Georgia,
interviewing many of the best and most
prominent farmers. I find that they
are hauling their cotton from the gins
to their homes and there storing same—
something I never saw before. This
condilion is brought about, on account
of the extremely low price of cotton
attributed mainly because of the \.ar in
Europe and to a lesser extent by rea-
son of a farmers “bumper” crop. Interested 1
These seem an'
express a willingness to produce other
commodities. All of the larger railway ami,
systems in this part of the country,
in fact, throughout the south, lure com-
petent and efficient industrial represen-
tatlves in the field, assisting and slv. w-
ing the fanners “how” to diversify their
crops and put them on a better pay-
ing basis.
j n sou fo Georgia (Colquitt county) I
visited some clover and alfalfa fields
as fine as ariyone would wish to see,
planted under the direction of one of
the industrial agents referred to above.
Many of the farmers are beginning to
realize that there is an unlimited and
never-ending * market for fresh meats, |
nnd are br ncWn{? out into cMlo an<
j, 08 , raising. Slaughter pens and packing
houses have bee i established l conven-
lent centers. The city comic” of Vt-
lanta has recently adopted an oidinance
permitting th. shipment of ires' meats
from Georgia points into Atlanta, un er
f erta,n restrictions which can
SSTSTvSKS vicinity have, for
Savannah and that
some time, benefited by a similar law.
Other cities in Georgia,, wh city laws
prohibit the bringing m of fresh i 'eat
shipments will no doubt, see tin. wls-
dom of adopting similar modifie- : ins
whereby the farmer i.,.iv lie pr-n.utf I
ars-Mg* ^ sjysss
cos
Georgia abounds in rich and ferti. i
soil, from tho fo.,t () f tlio Blue Ride
mountains to the Atlantic coast. 1 I
has been suc cessfully demonstrated tha
potatoes, tom-' -s, lettuce, asparagu ,,
e ffgP lant , beaus, bay. corn, uganane,
^ lcs » P eacbes * pears pecans etc. as
fine ns ever grew can be produced l ie
only in Georgia, hut in the Carolina;;, example:
Florida and Alabama. For
As a result of in lusfrial —ork around
Cornelia, Mount Airy and TJhdaii
Park, during '.he summer pproximate-
!y 80,000 crates of beans, tomatoes,cu- and
cumbers and potatoes were grown
shipped during the rnontlis of Augmt
and September, ar.d shipments will
continue until frost.
Young ladies throughout the country
are beii g taught how to can fruits h. d
vegetables and importuned Fo let noth¬
ing go to waste. Profitable markets
can be found for home made preserves,
canned fruits, and, in fact everything
produced or grown on the farm.
Because the individual farmer canno'
afford expensive storage facilities, his ho
must dispose of the greater part of
crop when it matures, either t" people
prepared to hold i f or direr to l
consumer. The F nithern T i >nn. ss co
pany’s traffic depr rtment will I: •' r '* ,,r
for general distribution in a w-elt or
ten days pamphlets contain' ii : M
names and addressee o >n
engaged in the ha ling of f r ii;
tables, etc.; likewire, of arious ii oniu itie >s i
t.c producers fish .-.nippers, column r'.?., and :
oyster and
is tl’.e company’s exp-Calion to
these lists from time o 1 , a f t
as we develop ihe nan es < producers
and consumers—the objec, ring io pir
the producer in touch vAn markets
where he can profitably dispose of vhat
he lias to sHI. For the i «ho has r >
occosional coop of chickens or era; <t
rggs to ship it will be our pleasure ana
Officii] Organ* af
Franklin County,
The man that, "rows t'lescrnbpnv'
more than tut. price • i a thorough
bred am! still lias tho scrub. Just
so with any kind of seed. VVI err
you plant a poor van etc’ you get
r poor crow and slil! hrvo vour
p tor variety to plant again.
Apply tod, 1). MeKntirt;& BrO.
for pure Cleveland P* Bowl C .
tn ^ rnd grown bv the Piedmont
Pure Seed Farm of Commerce, I'•
F. 1). 1 t, near II.i. I'av -s!.50 per
bushel and get t hem earl r b; f ore
the supply is exhausted and go
your way rejoicing.
.1, O, M. Smith
Notice..
Will be p'imu to make price on
tin and galvanized iron roofing,
A!s) n shape to do ali Kinds of
shop work in such lines, AD >
root paint lie - . Out of town works
and orders promptly attended t< .
Day phone 73; night
A. T. ClaiIf.
“One of the most inspiring develop-
ments of tho prevalent cotton crisis i»
the south is the manner in which s.uth-
era railroad; and general transpo.ta-
tion ngencic.. are multiplying agencies
ilready active, to the end of encoura;;-
mg the farmer to diversify, to reduce
cotton acreage and, in larger terms to
aid the south in finding a way out of
the problem found that confronts in communication, it. An il-
' istration is a
published elsewhere, from I. M. Cox,
industrial agent of the Southern Ex-
press company. To Mr. Cox’s propa-
ganda is traceable the gr .vtb and sh.p-
mint, now proceeding, of 30,000 and era
of beans, tomatoes, cucumbers pi>-
fate s from that rich section of ( ;COr-
gia aro nd Cc elia, Mount Airy anct
Tallulah l ark. The Southern Express find
company is helping the growers This is as
market for all this truck. con¬
structivc work of the most practical founded
type. 11 is upon such efforts, of cation
primarily upon rcd\ .tion
ac-cnge, that the "tate and the south
must depend for a solution of the an-
preeedented difficulties of this yc; r and
next year.
Mr Cox further shows what Th®
Constitution lias always contended, and
that is that the United States parcel would
^ post and Hie express companies be-
pernte in stimulating relations
tween producer and consumer, * nr-
nishing reciprocal lists to these two
classes, new and profitable markets
arc being opened up to the farmers of
the soii'herii stales,
Every important r-Broad in t ie
southern states - engaged In work along
^“‘’.oMeS^Sr Atlanta, Birmingham and Z
forts. The
Atk.utic is not one of the airiest ar-
Hers Jn the rooti., iml h m and iu «■ teen
one ii of the direction. most active, Its campaign proporibiinu.el)^, cal'ng
. ,s
attentioin to the possibilities . I the toil
of its territory, and its practical uc-
sz? comiunicat published recently in *
on
The Cor. stitution W. R. Tucker, farm-
r::’ -ih .era’ive agent of this system,
pointed out the result;, be ng accom-
nllsb.d along these lines. The Seaboard
■ is anoti.v. active faefor in
p,; s field I' is at present i Trussing
upon the south and the nation that the
south has a .ari.iu.g see 30 m varying
fri.e 2o0 to 848 days o”t o*’ the year,
u , a so il just as versatile. I tic South-
rrn, tho Coast Line and ihe L. & N.,
with the Central of Georgia, ar< like—
vvise hammering uwey. The rail iac
the Southern Express Cm..-, .HIV and
other agencies are sett ;g to Ihe ic- h
an example in co-operation arid
source in r i ds as effectual as it k in-
spiring .'*—Editorial in Cor.slit lion.
purpose to pro.ide him the names of
retail de.' rs or commission men who
■/ill pay t! market price for such
goods. and attractively put-up paclc-
A neat
age will sell much more readily and at
■ heller pi.ve than one ii 'Hessly , i^k-
t, e>er though it contains better pro-
dure,
UTh'n the st week or ten I .ys
a : -i company with D L. C unp!
It. o industLtd
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f. Ilf i .non or cri/p
il.ili - !’*■<.-g the . I
Pro. Messrs. Campi cl a: v 'if
. 'ed wftl thi
nr of p;. .A indnffj
Go .' ma . de College of Agricu,
end are doing cx ''lent and far-rct
k g work in cdr«-*- n g the farmers el if
the lines indie..cd.
T. M. COX
■ liistrlnl Agep i>ut!icr«i a.rptcss o
pa iy, Atiunta, Ca.