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Volume^ IV. Number 50 r
GOVERNOR APPROVES COUNTY SEAT BILL
NAHUNTA WINS IN
HOT SENATE FIGHT
Made County Seat of Brant
ley County by Action of
General Assembly
FINAL VOTE SHOWS
MAJORITY 38 TO 5
Was One of the Most Hotly
Contested Measures at
The Past Session
Gov. Walker this (Thursday)
evening approved the local bill
removing tne county site of
Brantley county from Hoboken
to Nahunta. The bill now be
ing a law> the authorities of the
couny will begin as early
they can the transfer of the
books and other records here.
The legislative .tontest over
passage of this bill was one of
the hardest fought and most in
terestsng of the entire session-
From the outset the movement
in behalf of Nahunta has been
handled by W. S, Courson. H.
D. Reed, F. 0. Knox and Judge
John W. Bennett, while the, op
position to vtie bill was handled
by former Senator Larkin, who
was in the Senate when Brant
ley county was created.
Both sides were heard by the
gtj^^nor on a petition filed by
tlt^^position, to veto the bill,
af^/ which he gave the bill his
approval.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 14. —The long
drawn fight between Nahunta and Ho
boken over location of the county seat
of Brantley county has been settled, so
the Leg^to£<^ concerned, and
the court house i«'to be removed from
Hoboken to Nahunta.
In all the legislation fdught this
year, pro and con, there has probably
• been no one bill more hotly contested
than this. A few days ago the Senate
vofedsofa the measure and it failed to
pash'. fol licit of two votes. It was
tabled, after a hot fight headed by
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Nahunta, Brantley County, Georgia, Friday, August 17, 1923.
Early Copy
The Buiver is grateful to kind
friends who have and are assisting
in making this a good newspaper,
but just here wish to urge getting in
copy at earliest possible moment,
certainly no later than Wednesday
night. This, will help greatly. Just
now we are handicapped. Please
bear this in mind. Thank you l
Senator Lankford against the bill, and
Senator Parker for it. Today it was
sailed from the table and put to its
second vote. Neither of the two sena
tors addressed the body on the measure
one way or the other, and the vote re
sulted 38 to 5, or two more votes than
was actually necessary, and the bill
has passed aud goes^to the Governor
for his signature. So far as is known
there no plans made yet to try to pre
vent the approval by the Governor
which will make the act a law, but it
is said vo be not entirely outside the
line of possibility that such a fight will
be made as a last resort.
This idea is apparently pitched large
ly on the precedent, established by
Gov. Walker in declining to approve
the Ennis local measure relative to a
udgeship within Baldwin county, and
the fact that he had today opened to
rhearing two highly important bills
from Chatham count y, on which a dele
gation is seeking to have him attach
his veto. The Nahunta activity ex
tends back to th : period just before
the passage of the resolution proposing
the constitutional amendment when, it
is said, the Hoboken people, after ar
ranging lor the legislation to create
Brantley couuty, made certain oilers tn
the Nahunta people that the court
house be located at that place, if they
would shoulder the responsibility for
passsing the new county bill. That not
being done, according to the claims,
the Hoboken people then had that
town named as the county site, though
they admitted it was not in the center
of the new county. Subsequently
»t.opg differences arose over the court
house site, and a local contest resulted,
which linanlly found its way to the
floor of the legislative halls and was
settled today in the passage of the bill
in favor of Nahunta.
Tobacco Barna Destroyed By Wind
Goldsboro, N. C.—A wind-
storm north of Goldsboro cawed con
siderable property damage. Several
tobacco barns and other buildings
were destroyed by the wind and the
electric power plant here was put out
of commission for a time.
News of Interest From
Ira James, telephone lineman, was
badly hurt, and he is in a precarious
serious condition and a Mrs. Duran is
held in connection with the crime com
mitted at Hopkins.
The Marys Southeast Georgian has
changed management. W. D, Harrison
is now in charge.
It is reported that in the near future
Lane's Bridge will be a free bridge.
Said to be wanted in Franklin coun
ty for assault to murder, Henry Prit
chard, 23, of Ashland, is held at Jack
sonville, Fla.
The Liberty County Fair will be held
this year early in November for 3 days.
The Glennville public schools will
open Sept. 3 with the same faculty as
last year with three exceptions.
New members of the Savannah Cot
ton Exchange are W. J. Kenney, Jr.,
and C. H. Ctaghorn.
FARMERS ARE URGED
BY C. S. BARRETT
TO WORK TOGETHER
Little Rock, Ark. —Farmers of Ar
cansas and of the country must pool
•.ogether, sell and buy together and
zote together if they want the power
that commands respect, Charles S.
Barrett, of Union City, Ga., president
3f the Farmers’ Union of America,
ieclared in an Address at the opening
if the annual convention of the Farm
ers' Union of Arkansas.
"This old world of ours respects
power,” he said, "and you who yepr
resent 87 per cent of the total popu
atlon of Arkansas have been whin
ing for what you want 1 instead of
going after it and getting it.
“I am not a bolshevik, not a rad
ical but I know how to get things
ind my message to the farmers of
Arkansas is ttys: If you want a
square deal go' and take it. The
world will not oily respect you but
will ask ‘why dI8&t you do it be
’ore?’ ”
Mr. Barrett reviewed the work of
he Pinners’ Unio< toward co-opera
ive ;Wrketing and the pooling of
wWidt*; »S well as the political pow
,r organization.
TrIMMWn To Pieces Ift explosion
MURhtown, W; Va.—Two men and
a woman were blown to pieces when
a small powder house of the Rohedale
Coal company at Maidsville exploded.
Cause of the explosion is not deter
mined.
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Many Georgia Cities
Woodbine has won the county seat
fight dver St. Marys before the legisla
ture, the vote being 34 to It.
A bankruptcy petition has been filed
by Duncan Odom, a farmer of Lyons.
He has liabilities of $8,939 with asseeta
of $3lO.
Latest data on Blackshear tobacco
market shows that a total of 1,377,246
pounds had been sold to Aug. 10, bring
ing a return to the farmers of $396,516,
something over one-third of the expect
ed one million dollars for the entire
marketing period. The average price
for seven days was 29.03 cents.
Waycross Packing Company, W. H.
Baxley manager, will open a potato
canning factory at Waycross soon.
Report^ from Hoboken state that
40,000 pounds were marketed Aug. 10
with a return of $12,900 or 30 cents a
pound on the average.
Gang Raids State Reformatory
Atlanta.—Unidentified men num
bering about 25, raided the state re
formatory for boys, at Milledgeville,
about midnight; beat two negroes,
and frightened another negro so bad
ly that he killed himself, according
to reports received in Atlanta by Mrs.
Orien Manson, superintendent of the
reformatory. Mrs. Manson immedi
ately reported the matter to Atlanta
members of the governing board of
the reformatory, and her report was
laid before Governor Clifford M. Wal
ker. Governor Walker stated that he
had directed ■ the "sheriff of Baldwin
county to deputize as many men as
he needed and to do anything else he
considered necessary in order to give
full protection to the sheriff and In
mates of the reformatory, both white
and colored. According to Mrs. Man
son, this is the second attack on the
reformatory within the past week.
Clyde Rawlings Ends His Life
Louisville.—Clyde A. Rawlings, of
Louisville, died recently from a self-
Inflicted bullet found, whiph he fired.
Mr. Rawlings, while comparatively a
young man, had been a constant suf
ferer from stomach trouble for sev
eral years, and was . unable te per
form any kind of work. It is thought
that he desired to relieve his suffer
ing. Picking a time when bis wife
and daughter had gone down town on
a business trip, he fired the fatal
shot, sis wife and daughter found
him in a pool of blood on their return.
Old /John Tough Sa^s
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RESOURCES $2,250,000.00
SI.OO Per Year In Advance
BIG TOBACCO CROP
IN NORTH GEORGIA
ESTIMATED 150,000 POUNDS OF
BRIGHT LEAF TO BE CURED
IN CHATOOGA
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief Nawa Items Bathered Hare AM
There From All Bootlone Os
The BUte
Summerville.—That tobacco grow
ing in Chatooga county h going tb
prove to be one of the moat profit
able industries yst undertaken is ths
opinion of the more than 100 farm
ers who this year planted tobacco as
an experiment. ,
The tobacco crop, which is of the
bright leaf variety, is now being cured
in the various curing houses which
have been built in the county under
direction of expert tobacco men, and
the growers are greatly encouraged
over the business. It is estimated
that between 126,000 and 150,000
pounds of very high-grade tobacco
will be cured in the county this year.
Nearly 150 acres of tobacco was
planted by the farmers of the county.
Despite the fact that it rained
throughout the season when the seeds
were being sown and the plants trans
planted, the work went on just ths
same, and the result Is that the lar
gest crop of tobacco in the history
of the county is being harvested.
It is thought the tobacco crop for
next year will be' greatly increased,
and indications are that this industry
will take the place of cotton to a
large extent, ths growers this year
declaring that their tobaceo crop
was thei easiest made they had ever
had anywxperlence with, being much
less trouble than cotton.
Tobacco growing this year was
made possible by the progressive
spirit of Colonel John D. Taylor, of
Summervine, who became greatly in
terested in tobacco growing and se
cured the services of two expert to
bacco men, one from Virginia and one
from North Carolina. It is said the
tobacco grown here is as staple and
of as good quality as that grown in
the tobacco belts.
Stock Os Fish Washed Away
Thomasville.—Judge H. W. Hop
kins, of this city lost his private stock
of fish recently w^en a heavy rain
that resembled a cloudburst caused
the fish-stocked pond on his farm to
overflow and wash out the dam. The
pond ran dry. As a result of the
downpour, low areas became lakes
and many small streams went out of
their banks.
