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About The Cordele sentinel. (Cordele, Ga.) 1894-???? | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1901)
for Best Results Both in and out of the City, Use the Columns of The SENTINEL. VOL. 1:5. NO. 47. GUANO PLANT TO BE BUILT AT ONCE—A LARGE GINNERYTOBE BUILT—CORDELE OIL MILLBEHINDTHE MATTER. Plans are now being formulated whereby Cordele will have a guano factory ready for business for the coming season. Mr. R. L. Wilson, Secretary and General Manager of the Cordele Oil Mill, states that his company is now making the necessary preparations for the of a fertilizer plant in connection with the oil mill, and that they will manufacture all kinds of fertilizers. The machinery for this plant is now being purchased, and everything will be in readiness to begin work in time for the coming season. There will be suitable buildings erected for this plant near the cotton oil mill and the same power can he used for the guano plant. Quite a number of people will be employed in the fertilizer plant, and the capacity of the factory will be adequate to the demands. A GINNERY OF 125 BALES CAPACITY. In adition to this guano factory these enterprising people will also put in a ginnery this fall that will have a capacity of one hundred and twenty-five bales per day. They will put in eight gins, of seventy saws each, be ing of modern, up-to-date machinery. They will prepared to handle the cotton quickly and to the satis faction of the planters. This ginnery will be fitted up with the best pressess, and with all .machinery necessary to the ginneries in this country. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. The Cordele Oil Mill has just closed a contract with Mr J. M. Diffee of Atlanta, recently connected with one of the largest oil mills in the country, whereby he becomes their general superintendent for the coming season. Mr. Diffee has purchased an interest in Cordele Oil Mills and will move to Cordele soon make it his permanent home. Mr. Diffee will have en : tire control of the three plants—Oil Mill, Ginnery Guano Factory. He is also a practical machinest is capacitated to perform the duties he has contracted to do. These people are to be congratulated upon securing his services. Move to Jacksonville Mr. C. M. Killian will move to Jacksonville, Fla., where he will establish a temporary office. His stenographer Miss Stoy will go with him. Mr. Killian considers Jacksonville a splendid point just at this time for his business, and will 110 doubt do an excellent busi ness. He will be prepared to sell brick, besides sash door and blinds that he manufactures here. He has just closed a deal with the Al bany brick yards whereby he can handle brick they make. This will give him advantage over any other dealer in the fire stricken city. We regret to lose Mr. Kil lian even temporarily, but hope that he will soon return to Cordele, where he is universally liked. He leaves Monday, SIBERIA REFRIGERATORS 'OIEB 10O1. Made of Ash Antique Oak Finish Polished Brass Trimmings. COLD AND ODERLESS. Titjpple Walled Charcoal pilled patent Dpip Cup. All Sizes and All Prices. CORDELE HARDWARE CO • QTnfdele A lentinel To Mountain and Sea Shore Resorts via. Seaboard Air Line Railway. Before completing arrangements deciding for your summer trips or spend upon places at which to the summer, you should call on Ticket Agents and Passenger Representa tives of the Seaboard Air Line Rail way. They are specially prepared to furnish information as to lowest rates, quickest schedules and most attractive routes to the Mountain Resorts in Western North Carolina and Southwest Virginia, Ocean also to the Seashore Resorts of View, Virginia Beach, Old Point Comfort, the great Eatem Resorts along the Jersey Coast and other popular places reached via the Seaboard Air Line Railway. This Company is offering lower rates than ever with perfect train service and fast through schedules. It will interest and ben efit you to call on Seaboard Air Line Railway Agents. C011DELE, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1901. H. M. S. Commencement Tlie exercises of the Houston High School last Thursday and Friday were a success in every par ticular. Each pupil assigned a part on the program did well, and won the applause of the audience. The sermon by Dr. Sims of Hawkinsville was full of force and logic, and was highly appreciated by the student body as well as the faculty and patrons. Large crowds attended each day, and night, pronouncing it one of the best commencements ever held by any High School. The debators of the Sigma Pi Zeta and Philomathean socities did exceed]ingly well and were loundly cheered. In the oratoircal contest Mr. J. H. Brown won the medal for the boys, and Miss Gussie Ilatcher won the medal of the girls. Mr. J. H. Brown also won the scholarship offered by the State University. Prof. Brown and his able corps of teachers have done an excellent work in this school, which will be a life-time monument to them. Many of the young men and wo* men have availed themselves of the advantages of this school and are rapidly rising up in the world prominent in the vocations they have pursued, The board of this school averages only $4.75 per month, including oil and fuel. Every department of the school is filled by capable instructions, and we doubt if there is a better school of its grade in the stgtej They now have more calls for board ing pupils, and the demand will tie met as arrangements are being pre pared to that end now. The graduating class consisted of ten boys and girls this vea’-. We haven’t space to say more this issue but later will publish a communication setting forth this splendid school as it is and should be known. Watch for the article. Llod Dots. Rain! Rain ! How it rains; and the farmers are having b a hard time fighting General Green ,, to , keep him from capturing their crops? There is not any sickness at all in this place * that we know of. Miss , r . fearah , J. T ■itt Wright * i. , left £1 , last a. Tuesday for an extended visit to relatives at McVille, Ga. Our school will soon be up, and the children are anticipating a grand picnic at the close. Mrs. Mary Johnson is on a visit to her daughter Mrs. Nettie Collins of Obe this week. Quite a number of our people attended the Sunday School con vention at New Hope last Sunday. They report a pleasant time. Dr. J. L. Mathews of Seville passed through here Wednesday on his way home from Cordele where he went to purchase a baby cradle. He was humming some tune prob ably ‘‘Rock-a-by baby in the tree top.” We notice in your paper some items headed'-Blufftown Breezes” and though they contain the names and doings of the people of this place, we do not know where there is such a place as“Blufftown” We are inclined to think that it exists only in the writer’s imagina tion. Madam Rumor says there is go ing to be another wedding in this place in a few days. So mote it be. We extend congratulations in advance, Willis. The Congregationalist of this place have purchased a nice organ which is now in the depot. They will also receive a fine library in a few days. The least in quantity and most in quality describes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the famous pills for consumption, and liver complaints, McMillan’s Pharmacy; J. B. Ryals Co. 1R. %. Mtleost But* Gbe GorMe ®il <HMU. We are pleased to present to our readers this week a write-up of other manufacturing enterprise and also our fellow citizen Mr. R. L. Wilson. Mr. ilson has been a resi dent of Cordele but a little over th ee years, but during tint time has been one of Cordeje's most in fluential and public spirited citi zens. Mr. Wilson was horn in Sum ter county, .June 12th. 1871, where he lived until four years of age, at which time his parents moved Dooly county near Snow, Ga. Here he lived upon a farm, attend ing the Snow High School, until he was 14 years of age, when accepted a position as clerk in the store of Mr. R. L. Barfield at Snow. He remained at Snow for three and a half yea's, when he purchased his brother’s half interest in the Barfield – Wilson store at Uuadil moving there in the year 1890 In the year 1898 the Barfield it Wilson Co. was organized with a capital stock of $20,000, increas ing it later to $40,000, and Mr. Wilson was made general manager. In the year 1895 a private bank was organized by the Barfield Wd son Co. in connection with their mercantile business. In July 1898 this bank was incorporated under the name of Bank of Una dilla with a $15,000 capital stock, and Mr. Wilson was made vice president . On the same day Mr. Wilson organized the Peoples’ Bank of this city and was made president. In the meantime the firm of Barfield – Wilson Co. was continued at Unadilla, the entire business being under the direction Should We Hold The Phllipines. B37- o. r. 0 The cause of freedom is universal rather than local; the destruction of life and property and the sub version of a people’s liberty for the poor excuse of extending against a na tion’s commerce, is a crime humanity, and appeals with force to every man whom God has en dowed with a proper knowledge of r jgi 1 t ) an( j whose practices are in c lined to be just. The Philipines were bought by American gold:—a good bargain f ° r S P ain > her d ? plet * ed treasury $20,000,000 in - exchange f or something that she would have surely lost, and which had she held, would have cost her more than she received in return. Is it the intention of the presi dent and his advisers to hold them as a colony, tributary to our gov eminent, without allowing them the right of representation? Can this be done without drifting from all the old, established landmarks and precedents on which our 11 a tion’s liberties are founded? I know of no way by which we can hold them and remain true to our traditions, but to give them equal and rights under our government of make them an integral part our common country ;-I believe there are very few if any adyocates for this kind of a settlement; this territory lying so far from the near est boundary to us, renders closer companionship unfeasible and in tegral relations undesirable to both countries, besides this, should we extend our territory so as subse- to in elude Asiatic waters, our quent advocacy of the Monroe doc trine would be inconsistent, and I fear that the European make the would be less likely to made ‘ same concessions they have to us in the past. Some phylosopher, commenting oil the early principles of govern ment formations, (I do not member his language but the idea canveyed is this) says in effect, that the necessity of any govern ment was conceived in sin, and born of corruption of morals and human intelligence; and that if all were thoroughly pure honorable and just, possessing the wisdom of duty, no government at ail would be required, each person would be sufficient unto himself. The object of government is to continue this liberty in the fullest, abridging only the power to in jure others, making it the duty of the statesman and political econo* j§l§ll ||tV 1 81 "■'■■■■ , •, mm 1 m * H mm " mm. t * W r M J r R. L. WILSON. of Mr. Wilson. In January the Dooly County Mercantile Co. was organized as successors to the Barfield Wilson Co. with a capi tal stock of $10,000. Mr. Wilson was elected president and financial manager of this firm. While a resident of Unad ilia he served the city as alderman several years, and in the year 1898 was the city’s chief executive. On Jan. the 1st. 1901 the Dooly County Mercantile Co. sold out. In the early part of last year Mr, Wilson pur chased the old cotton factory build ing in this city, and with the Mc Burneys’ of Atlanta, organized a cotton oil mill Co., of which he is secretary, treasurer and general manager. The cotton oil mill is one of the largest manufacturing plants in our city, and during the mist to discover how the liberty can be attained with least taxation . Romo was at one time mistress of the world, but her even in their incipiency showed evi denccs of decay; the accumu lation of wealth entailing as it did vice and luxury, the corruption of the ballot, and the placing of the frequently in competent rich in high places, making them legislators and lead er * Y" ou g ht on them the Io g ical punishment. + I While I am not a pessimist, view with alarm, the rapid advanc ment of the representatives of wealth in both branches of our na tional congress ;-I fear that our president has chosen his advisors too liberally from this class; his Philipine policy has never been fully disclosed, why is this, are the people not to be trusted? We have heard the weather beaten argument that those people are incapable of self-government, I believe that any people are cap able of self-government, even the Indians and the savages of Africa have governments that suit them selves. Every government must workout its own salvation, from an econo mic standpoint; those of the lngh est degree of civilization are cap able of enjoying the greatest liber ty, while those of the greatest ig norance must be kept down by the strong hand; arbitrary power is rarely ever vested in the rulers of countries where education is gen erallv disseminated among all classes. The existing government of any country is always the best for that country at the time; or at least when it ceases to be so, changes will come, either by gradual pro cess or by revolution; of course this is not applicable to countries that are tributary to other governments as this is a kind of slavery in which individuality has no play, The Filipinos were fighting God for what they believed to be a given right, and but for the America, inter ference of liberty loving bles would to-day be enjoying the sings of a free people; the Ameri can greed for gold has forced this war of conquest. The purchase of them has been compared to the Louisana pur chase, which w as approved of by Mr. Jefferson, but there is a wide difference between them;Louisiana BEST EQUIPPED JOB OFFICE IN SOUTH GEORGIA. 4PPL Y [OR PRICES $1.00 A YEAR. $75,000, busy season they employ about und give employ mem to about fifty bands. They have one of the bes equipped mills in the state and have done an im amount of business during the one season they have been in operation. bast season this mill purchased for its own consumption | nearly 5,000 tons of cotton seed and have utilized the entire lot. Not < nly that, but the company has sold everything the}’ have manufactured, having nothing left on hand at the close of the season. Mr. Wilson says that the oil mill lias I 63ii a splendid success and lit' could have wished for no better. Next season they will strive to do even more than they have this sea son. This company will add to their cotton oil mill a ginnery and guano factory next season, The success of the cotton oil mill is due largely the to the work of Mr. Wilson as entire plant has been under his supervision. Besides making the oil mill a success he has also made his two banks a success. The Peoples Bank of this city of which he is president, has since its or ganization paid out dividends of 6 per cent, first year, 8 per cent., second year and has a surplus and undivided profits of $8,000, being capital practically $12,000 net profits on a of $25,000 in less than three years. Space forbids further comment ation but suffice to say that Cor dele is proud of these enterpri ses and glad to have such a broad minded, public spirited, self-made man as Mr. Wilson as her citizen. He is quite a young man yet and bids fair to become one of the lead business light’s of our country. was contiguous territory; Americans had emigrated there, the majority, or at least a large portion of her people wanted to become citizens of the United States; this was expansion, but the conquest of the Philipines is the rankest imperialism, and the fact that we paid Spain $20,000,000 for something that she was unable to deliver does not relieve us of the odium. The present state of our politics gives cause of alarm to every man of reflection,patriotism and consci ence ; the retention of these islands would not only entail on ourselves the extra expense of a large stand ing army, but would establish a precedent that posterity could not well avoid; the property of those people has been devastated by our armies, their homes have been in many instances burned, their fam ilies have suffered for the neces saries of life; so can you believe that these people have so little re sentment about them that they will ever look upon the United States as being to them a friend? Is it not more probable that they will teach their children to look us as aliens and enemies? There are thousands of people in the South to-day, who have never forgiven the devastations of the armies of the North; how much more who unforgiving will these people be, are thousands of miles away, and who know nothing of Amercans waged except that they had a successful war of conquest against them, killing thousands of their near relatives, subverting their liberty, for no other reason than the attainment of commer cial advantage? Human nature must cease to be wbat it is before those people will be reconciled to our domination. The question is often asked, what can we do now that we have them on our hands? In answer to this, I can only say, that two wrongs never make a right, and to continue the work of dastruction simply be cause is we once did them an injury a cold blooded way of evading trouble. We should remove our troops at once, atone as much as possible for the wrong we have al ready done them, and remove every the; stone that we have placed in way of their countries’ liberty; this is the only way to carry out those God given principals on which out government was founded.
