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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*
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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.