Georgia Historic Newspapers

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VOL. VIIi.
BIG CROWD TUESDAY HEARD
STATE ENTOMOLOGIST WOR
SHAM AND OTHER SPEAKERS
TELL ABOUT WEEVIL CONDI
TIONS. 2
State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham
and two of his assistants, W. W. Tur
ner and J. M. Manis of Thomas coun
ty, were greeted yesterday at the
Crisp county court house by several
hundred of the cotton growers of this
section and their opportunity for pre
senting the fight against the boll wee
vil was as pleasing to them as they
could have desired. Both white and
colored farmers were present and
the negro cotton growers manifested
great interest along with the large
crowd of white farmers.
All three of the visitors made ad
dresses that were full of interest and
what seemed practical advice for the
the farmers who must cope with the
weevil next season. What they had
to say was closely taken in by the
farmers and great interest was shown
by those present.
The most important among the sug
gestions given were those touching
the cutting down of the acreage to
half the normal crop so that it can be
saved from the weevil by the proper
attention in the fields. The farmer
was urged to destroy his stalks now,
by burning or plowing under, to clean
up the farm of stumps and hedge rows
where the weevil may find a winter
ing place. The planter was urged
tn nlant cotton after beans or peas
and to start the crop as early as pos
sible and rush it to maturity before
sthe weevil has time to get in effective
work.. Close attention to destroying
those first appearing in the fields was
also urged.
Diversification, hog and cattle rais
ing and grain crops were urged. One
speaker said that when the smoke
house is moved from the west to our
own section we would have much of
the weevil fight won. Much of the
advice given has already reached the
Crisp county farmer in one way or
another and what the speakers had to
say impressed those present as being
practical and reasonable.
A change of the old plan of making
scontracts at the beginning of the new
f year was urged as a necessity, for the
‘{eason that the farmer who would
grow cotton still must have his ten
ants at work in the early fall destroy
ing the cotton stalks of the present sea
son and making the necessary prepar
ations before hand for an early cron.
?’!l‘he speakers mentioned several kinds
of cotton seed which are best suited
to the growing of cottton where the
weevil is at work and gave abundance
of advice.
Farmers were in attendance from all
sections of the county and the meeting
indicated that there is already a strong
determination to meet the new con
ditions in such a way as to produce
cotton in spite of the weevil. The
watchword will be small acreage well
tended and at least half the farm in
grain and food crops, with more hogs
and cattle. The farmers of Crisp at
the meeting promised themselves to
get right and work hard.
SHERIFF WARD AND POLICE
CHIEF SHEPPARD HAD CROWD
OF NEGRO PRISONERS THAT
CAME NEAR BREAKING JAIL.
When a “skin” game was flushed at
the home of Celestus Rice, corner of
Sixteenth avenue and Eleventh street,
eight negroes were arrested Tuesday.
With the exception of Rice all of the
negroes were from points other than
Cordele. One came from Waycross
and the others were from Wilcox
county. The. raid was made by Sheriff
John Ward, Chief of: Police Sheppard,
Officers T. N. Turk and A. E. Persall,
who went to the scene in an automo
bile and surrounded the house before
the men suspected that trouble was
brewing for them.
1t appears that *clinning” was a
froanent pastime at Rice’s home and
that it was the meeting place for ne
gro gamblers from over several coun
ties. A deck of cards for each man
arrested was found among the gam
blers.
The negroes Wwere lodged in the
county jail last night and the Way
cross negro came near affecting a
wholesale jail delivery for himself and
fellow gamers. Securing a piece of
iron, a part of a bunk, he dug through
the brick walls of the jail on the
sonth side and a few minutes longer
would have opened a way for freedom
for them, when the sheriff discovered
their intentien. They had been lodg
ed in the eorridor of the joil, and the
sheriff had to call on police officers
to handie them in transferring them
to another part of the jail.
Al ee S o
Queen Marie, Europe’s most beau
tiful queen. whom King Ferdniand
married in 1893 is of British and Rus
sian descent. She is the eldest daugh
ter of the Duke of Edinburgh and of
the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.
She is thus a first cousin of both King
George and the Czar. 5
TR CORDELE DISPATCH
PLANTS ENCOURAGING PEANUT
GROWERS—WILL PAY. GOOD
PRICES FOR ALL OFFERED IN
CRISP COUNTY.
The information is given out from
authoritative sources that the twoc
Cordele oil mills operated by the Em
pire (otton CQil company and the
Southern Cotton Oil company, will be
fully prepared next season to handle
the entire peanut crop of Crisp and
adjoining counties. Arrangements
have been made for the installation
of additional machinery for crushing
the peanuts for oil purposes, while
the peanut meal will be sold for feed
ing purposes. The statement is au
thoritatively made that plans can be
nut into execution within twenty-four
hours’ time to handle all of the pea
nuts that it is possible for the farm
ers of this section to produce. The
local managers of the oil mills, C. L.
McMillan of the Empire company and
W. E. Haskell, of the Southern com
pany, are encouraging the farmers
to plant peanuts for a money crop and
are lending their heartiest co-opera
tion with that of numerous other bus
iness men of Cordele to secure the
varieties which will be more -adapta
ble f.r this section for increased
vields. The white Spanish peanut
seems to meet with more popuiar ap
proval than any other variety.
It is anticipated by oil milling com
panies that the price for peanuts next
vear will be excellent. The manufac
ture of peanut oil and bi-products is
an industry already growing rapidly
in favor among consumers, and the
price of peanuts will of course be
gaged by the consumption of the fin
ished products, such as cooking oils,
soaps and other innumerable articles.
The growth of the peanut oil manufac
turing industry will increase the price
of the raw product fully as rapidly,
state oil men say, as has been expe
rienced from year to vear in the pro
duction of cotton seed.
Numerous farmers of the county are
laying plans to produce peanuts next
year on an extensive scale. Some of
the large farmers will plant several
hundred acres each in peanuts. With
the general plan to prepare for the
spreading of the boll weevil over the
county next year with diversified farm
ing, the farmers realize that the pea
nut crop will turn them ready cash,
in addition to extending the raising
of hogs and cattle and there is scarce
¥ a farmer in the county who is not
greatly interested in growing peanuts.
McLELLAN--GETS
~ NATIONAL STOCK
SALE TUESDAY GIVES LOCAL TEN
CENT STORE STOCK OF OLD NA
TIONAL CCMPANY.
V. {i. Keller, representing the Mc-
Lellan 5 and 10 cents stores, Tues
day beught in the bankrupt stock of
tlie National company’s store here,
the price paid being approximately
$9OO. The stock invoiced at more
than $2,800. The sale was held un
der the authority of the trustee, W. I
Staten, of Valdosta. The bankrupt
steck of the National company at Val
dosta was sold by the trustee last Sat
urday and the stock of the Waycross
store was sold Monday.
The Mcl.ellan company expects to
immediately begin the removal of the
stock from its present location on
Seventh street to their store rooms
on Eleventh avenue, and the manage
ment exnects to inaugurate a bargain
sale such as has not been experienced
hefore in this class of goods. )
HIS “TIGER" CAREER
SERVING SENTENCE FOKk SELLING
LIQUOR JOSH PASSES TO BE
YOND—WAS NOTED - “TIGER”
OPERATOR. ®
Josh Wiggins, of noted “tiger” fame
gent up at the May term of superior
court, this year, charged with liquor
selling, is dead at the camp of the
Chisp county chaingang. He suffered
a stroke of paralysis.
Wiggins bore the reputation of being
a bold and unscrupulous ‘“tiger” op
erator and on a number of occasions
he was in the toils of the law. His
last venture took him to Jacksonville
on a summer excursion. He returned
with several trunks of liquor which
he unloaded at Wenona. Before he
coul@d get his trunks away he had to
flee and the officers got his liauor.
He was finaliy caught by Sheriff Ward
and died before he finished his term.
INFANT'S DEATH.
The 4-month-old infant of Mr. and
Mrs. Graham of the Nipper scttlement
died Monday night. The remains were
interred at Antioch cemetery Tuesday.
An American has obtained a Cuban
patent for a machine that cultivates
tofore has had to be done by hand.
growing sugar cane, work that here-
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The (unard Liner Alaunia, which
left the United States the day the
German U-53 appeared off Nantucket
i.ight and sank six ships, was blown
BIG GRAIN CROPS
PLANTED IN CRISP
CARE OF GRAIN TO KEEP OUT
SWEAT IS URGED ON ALL WHO
WILL GROW CATS AND WHEAT.
The farmers of Crisp county are
making arrangements to plant large
quantities of oats and wheat the pres
ent fall. The seed has been selected
this time with greater care and much
better results on this account alone
will be expected.
Farm Demonstration Agent J. A.
Johnson has been watching the in
creasing interest in grain with consid
erable pride and is now, since consid
erable care has been exercised in se
lecting seed urging that these
sced be treated before planting to
keep smut out of the fields. Heavy
losses are reported in some cases from
smut.
He is urging the treating of oats as
strongly as he advocates treatment cf
seed wheat before planting to keep out
the smut.
Hundreds of bushels of oats are lost
every year through this preventable
disease. Many lelds show an injury
of 2 Oper cent of the heads. It costs
very little and is worth so much. It
helps make the acres do their best.
The remedies are simple. Use one
pint of formalin to 40 gallons of wa
ter. Put seed in a clean floor and
sprinkle with a sprinkling pot, one
gallon of formalin solution to each
bushel of grain. While sprinkling turn
nats with siovel so all grains will get
thoroughly wet. Cover the seed after
heaping together with a canvass or
with cotton sheets for two hours, after
which they should be spread out to
dry. If the seed are to be sown by
hand immediately after treatment it
is not necessary to dry.
The planter may use with the same
effectiveness 1 pound of bluestone
in five gallons of water and sprinkle
one gallon of this seclution on 4 bush
els of grain. These remedies are just
as good for wheat as for oats. If the
farmer will use the bluestone on wheat
just as the formalin is used on oats,
it will be unnecessary to soak the
wheat for a long period as is some
times done in using bluestone solution.
It is hoped that ovats and wheat
groweis will use this preventative to
add bushels of grain to the crop yield
tlis year.
HANDSOME HOME TO BE
BUILT IN EAST CORDELE
S. J. CULPEPPER LETS CONTRACT
FOR SIX ROOM BUNGALOW
NEXT TO E. A. VINSON RESI
DENCE.
S. J. Culpepwer, a local cotton brok
er, and one of the county’s most pro
pressive farmers, has given the con
tract to the Crisp County Lumber com
pany for the construction of a hand
some residence in East Cordele, ad
jacent to the residence of K. A. Vin
son, on Fouriecenth avenue. The resi
dence will cost between $3,000 and
$5.000.
The residence will be of the bunga
low type. containing 6 rooms and will
be one of the prettiest dwellings in
that vicinity.
SKIN GAME QUARREL b
. ENDS IN SHOOTING
Fugene Flall, a negro, was shot and
seriously wounded Saturday night by
Charlie Pate, another negro. Pate
used a revolver and fired one shot,
the hall taking effect in Hall’s chin,
ranking to the right and breaking the
iaw bone. Hall is improving and will
fully recover, though may be slightly
disfigured about the face. Pate has
succeeded in evading the officers, who
have some knowledge of his actions
since the shooting. The difficulty
originated in a quarrel over a ‘“skin”
game.
PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS ARE
MAKING IMPROVEMENTS
The Primitive Baptist church, lo
cated at the corner of Seventh street
and Fifteenth avenue. is being re
covered, repainted and otherwise re
paired. A new heater has been in
stalled and other comforts for the
winter will be provided. The total
jmprovements will cost several hun
dred dollars.
THE CORDELE DISPATC H, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25, 1916.
up in the English Channel, SBhursday.
Cctober -9. She carried a number of
American passengers who, however,
had been left at Falmouth to go lo\
SUWANEE WINS
PARTY CALLERS
SUNDAY DINNERS FOR MOTOR
ISTS BECOMIMNG FASHIONABLE
AND MANY VISITORS STOP IN
CORDELE.
The splendid Sunday dinners being
served at the Suwanee hotel, of which
W. E. Vance has recently become
manager, are winning a reputation for
this hostelry throughout the entire
section. Motoring parties are finding
Cordele a pleasant mecca for their
Sunday motor and outing parties, and
many of the town folks are being at
tracted to the Suwanee for their Sun
day meal on account of the excellent
menu being served. Last Sunday a
number of parties dined at the Suwa
nee.
A party ffiilm Tifton including the
following: isses Archibal, Bennett,
Wilson and Scandrett. Messrs. A. L.
Norman, A. A. Cobb, G. P. McConnell
and G. P. Williaius. Another party
from Milledgeville included A. J. Carr,
A JrCary, Ju.o B.CA: Tinger, D. S¢
Sanford, and still another party from
Fastman composed Messrs. Fred
Roberts, Fred Wynne, P. M. Roberts,
Oscar Shelton and W, F. Ferrell. Mr.
and Mrs. F. A, Vence and Mr. and
Mrs. Johrn B, Vance, of Fort Valley,
were also among the Suwanee’s guests
NEGRO'S AUTO HIT
BICYCLE RIDER
LITTLE MARY CRUM RUN DOWN
BY DOOLY COUNTY COLORED
FARMER WHO HAD NEW AUTO.
Charged with assault and battery
because an automobile which he was
driving ran down'little Mary Crum,
daughter of Col. and Mrs. D. A R.
Crum, when she was riding a bicycle
on Eighth street Monday, Oscar Wil
liams, a negro, was arrested and lodg
ed in the county jail. He waived hear
ing Tuesday and was released from
jail under bond of $250 awaiting the
meeling of the next grand jury.
Williams lives near Pinehurst in
Dooly county and several days ago he
rurchased an wutomcehite. He pleaded
when arrested that he was an ignorant
driver and became excited when he
saw that his machine was about to
collide with the child’s bicycle.
The little girl was thrown a consid
erable distance, though escaped with
slight injuries. Williams had just
hought the car with a pocket full of
cotton monecy he had saved from his
vear’s work. His employer, a Mr.
Jordan. advised him when he bought
his car not to go to town with it till
he could handle it, but the temptation
was too great.
UP IN NEW YORK IT BROUGHT
RECORD PRICE TODAY. LOCAL
GROWERS WAITING—JUST WAIT
ING.
Cotton 20 cents a pound! The unex
pected has happened, thoug it happen
ed really sooner than expected. The
New York market opened this morning
at 20 cents. basgis good middling. The
market playved all around the 19 cents
mark Tresday and closed considerablv
above 19 cents. After opening at 20
cents this morning the price fluctnat
ed below and above for some time,
tnovgh ehanged little either way.
There are 2 numbe *of farmers of
the county who have been holding
a pnortion of their erop for better
prices and they have in these lots sta
ple that wonid bring 20 cents on the
market today. They do not want to
he forced to go to New York for that
price,
FIRE IN COAL HOUSHA.
A coal house in the rear of the
home of Mrs. Golden on Fourteenth
avenue caught fire this afternoon.
The cause of the fire was not learned.
Little damage was done.
Belgians in England are making
large quantities of wooden shoes.
ll.ond(m by train. The liner was of
13,200 tons, and was one of the second
ary fleet of the Cunard Line.
B. N. WILLIAMS AND B. F. SHEP
PARD SPENDING GOOD SUMS TO
BEAUTIFY CITY HOMES.
B. N. Williams has given the con
tract to the Crisp County Lumber com
pany to thoroughly remodel his home
on Thirteenth avenue. The house will
be reworked throughout and extensive
improvements made, which will cost
about $1,500.
B. F. Sheppard has also awarded
the contract to the Crisp County Lum
ber company for extensive improve
ments to be made on his Fourteenth
avenue home. The residence will be
repainted, a new veranda added and
other improvenients made. The cost
will be about $l,OOO.
CRISP GOUNTY FARM HAS
FINEST POTATO, CANE AND TUR
NIP CROPS IN ALL CRISP COUN
TY. WARDEN COX AND COM
MISSIONERS SET PACE.
Warden Cox of the Crisp counly
convict camp as well as being oiie of
the most scientific and dependable
road builders in the state, is about to
cop the honors of setting the pace
in farming in the county. The pota
to, cane, turnip and other crops on the
county farm, located about two miles
south of Cordele on the National high
way, make somewhat of a revelation
in farming.
Warden Cox today has eight con
victs digging and housing potatoes. A
crop of slightly over 3 acres was plant
ed this year in the Norton yam and
other good varieties. Indications are
that the yield will be, conservatively
estimated, between 800 and 1,000 bush
els.
If some of Crisp’s good farmers
want to get a few tips on cane grow
ing it wilkpay them to visit the county
farm. Three acres are planted this
year in this crop. A cane mill is be
ing erected for the purpose of begin
ning grinding in a few days. It is ex
pected that between 18 and 20 barrels
of fine syrup will be made from the
crop, reserving a half acre for seed
purposes. The seed cane thus pre
served for another year will plant be
tween. six and eight acres, and cane
growing will be participated in on an
extensive scale.
Another eve opener from a farming
standpoint, is the turnip crop on the
farm. One acre was planted in tur
nips and the present yield is affording
a “turnip” dinner for the entire camp
almost daily. The supply is sufficient
to afford turnips every day if so de
sired. and the crop is growing larger
and better all the time. The turnips
were planted about September 1, and
the growth of this, as well as all other
crops, shows that somebody is doing
some scientific and substantial farm
ing on the county’s farm.
The hoard of county commissioners
have performed their full duty in tak
ing an interest in the work on the
farm and they are largely responsible
for the success that has ben accom
plished.
S. J. HILL LETS CONTRACT FOR
BRICK BUILDING—CONTRACTOR
ALREADY MAKING EXCAVA
TIONS.
S. J. Hill has. given the contract to
W. D. Benson for the construction of a
brick building on Sixth street, adja
cent to the stables of Frank E. Wil
liams. The building will be fitted for
a store. The cost of construction will
be about $2,000. Work of excavating
and layving the foundation has begun.
Mr. Hill will occupy the building
upon its completicn with a new whole
sale grocery business. He has been
engaged in the wholesale grocery bus
iness in Cordele for a number of
years and is known to the retail trade
over an extensive territory.
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'R. L. DEKLE HAS BEEN PUT FOR
WARD AS MAYORALIT}Y PROS
PECT CONSIDERING MATTER
MIMS FOR COUNCIL.
Political pot-simmering in munici
pal quarters has given away to
straight high temperatures and things
look much like there will be many
sides to the contest for office before
the entries are closed.
The name of R. L. Dekle has been
handled all around about town for
the past two days by friends who are
yet strongly in hopes that he will
consent to run for maycr. This lit
‘tle ripple has added a considerable
amount of political dust raising for
the week. Strong pressure is being
brought to bear and it is being at
least seriously considered. An an
nouncement may soon be ready to
be passed out to the public.
And another man forges to the front
in the aldermanic contest, not as an
actual candidate, but as a live, pranc
ing. finely groomed prospect. This
is R. D. Mims. He has ben cornered
and asked to let the public know about
it. He may be in the running.
The municipal contest is not by any
meaas shaped and no one can tell
what will develop yet.
NMayor Jones has paid his candi-
Jnte's assesment and Secretary Coker
cf the ity executive committee has
the first money in hand. The escre
tary will be “at home” when the
others get ready to pay up.
WILSON CAMPAIGNING FUND
TAKES LIVELY START HERE
Citizens of Cordele and Crisp
county who have donated to the
national democratic campaign
fund up to Wednesday noon are
as follows:
Jordele National Bank ....$5.00
Churchwell Brothers ..... 5.00
Wy Whippler eo= e 00l 500
Dr.. 3 A wand <o 50000
@M. McKenzie .. ..o 100
€ B Brown .oo s 0100
B B Strozler .:...5.. .5 . 200
B A R-Cpum. a 0 1200
T H Jennings ..ii o 200
¥ A Dittlefohn > o i 2000
Hngh Lagseter: ... ... 000
M. M. Bales ... wOO 1500
W, Domngl ... i 1400
Jas. H Brown ......:i.... 100
I, B Davis oo . oan s 10D
B 3 MoAmthur . ..o 201200
R B Banfield . ... ..... .. 1.00
Alex o Mantinic. .. .. 00l oot 1000
GO, Parnys - s b 00
Vi O Wihiife oy dor sveoy 6 10D
R.C. Boulwaye ..\, ........ 100
TR Hyegett i« .. 0o 200
@M. Rogers: . ... .. ... 100
Sam Toyett ..o 1500
J. € Batfen ... .. ... 0 100
Py Puncan s w e o 0D
W W HiSpY <. 1000
TR Bradley .s e 00
W. W. McGollum: ;.= ... 100
O M Heard »=r = .. . 100
- W Behwn s cos e 00
Bricas Heard «.. ... .0 300
PotdseVillenrt oo 0 i 100
PIENC King Ly 0D
SEWC@ONeY oo 1e0D)
G B Wilkes: . ..., .. 1,00
EodeHenn 0 i s 1000
FINE FOOD MARKET
A NEW ESTABLISHMENT
A new meat market and grocery
store combined is to take the place of
the old Cordele Meat Market and is
to be managed by G. P. Wright, a new
comer. The new place will be known
as the Pure Food Market. The man
ager is now arranging the last detail
of plans for opening an up-to-date
fresh meat and fish and oyster mar
ket as well as a more than creditable
grocery line.
NEW “HEIRS” ARISE AND
FILE CLAIMS TO SMITH ESTATE
Athens, Oct. 20.—The eighth group
of claimantis to the millions left by the
late James M. Smith has appeared in
the intervention filed in the federal
court for Mrs. M. A. Vaughn, Califor
nia; Mrs. Susie Day, J. B. Boatwright,
Mrs. Willie Ashley and Frank Boat
wright, Mississippi, bv Hoke Smith
agd the law firm of Little, Powell,
Smith & Goldstein and a Texas at
torney, E. E. Ballew.
This petition declared the late Jas.
M. Smith was the son of Phoebhe Boat
wright, later Phoebe Mabry, and later
wife of Zadock Smith, the generally
believed father of the Oglethorpe coun
ty man.
This is the fifth woman alleged in
affidavits by parties in the now fa
mous case tc have been the mother of
James M. Smith.
AMBASSADOR SHARP RETURNS
Col. E. M. House, Personal Adviser of
President, Sees Him Leave.
New York, Oct. 25.—William G.
Sharp, American ambassador to
France, sailed today on the American
line steamship St. Paul, accompanied
by his family to return to his post.
Among those at the pier to bid him
farewell was Col. E. M. House, per
sonal adviser of thé president. |
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LOCAL WILSON CLUB ORGANIZED
AND CAMPAIGN FUND COMES IN
RAPIDLY—WANT BIG cLuUB
MEMBERSHIP.
Euthusiasm marked the delibera
‘ions of the meeting at the Crystal
Cafe at noon Monday when at a lunch
aon a Wilson club was formed and
flicers elected. A fine manifestation
f democratic loyalty prevailed and
yne hour was given to brief addresses
hat revealed a strong determination
among local democrats to start things
in Crisp county.
A. L. McArthur served as master of
seremonies. Those making addresses
wvere Attorneys Hugh Lasseter and
V. M. Eakes, C. E. Brown, E. A. Vin
son, J. V. Dunlap, A. L .McArthur,
Judge U. V. Whipple, and F. M. Coker.
The portion of the lunch room set
wgide for the luncheon contained three
‘ong tables and all places were filled.
There were more than fifty citizens
sresent. 'The speakers confined them
selves to brief but forceful and enthu
siastic addresses and the occasion was
1 lively one. Judge Whipple in a
very strong appeal recounted the chief
qccomplishments of, the democratic
administration with President Wil
son at the head of the national gov
arnment. He reminded those present
‘hat two years ago Crisp county went
‘o the Bull Moose column. His ad
iress was a logical presentation of the
slaims of the demacrats and a strong
sndorsement of President Wilson.
Officers elected for the Wilson club
were A. L. McArthur, president; C. E.
Brown, secretary and treasurer. The
sxecutive committee named to have
charge of campaign interests until the
wational election is composed of Judge
Whipple, J. V. Dunlap, M. M. Eakes,
3. B. Wilkes, J. A. Littlejohn, C. E.
Brown and A. L. McArthur.
This committee will have charge of
he funds which will be raised and
sent forward to be used in strength
sning the great national fund. The
amount shown to have been gathered
1t the meeting was $57.00 and this
has been increased since until it is
now nearing the hundred mark.
The elub membership took a jump
at the meeting and twenty-eight of
‘hose attending the luncheon signed
the club lists as members. The mem
vership will be made to include as
large a number of Crisp county demo
erats as can be enlisted. There is no
fee attaching and the secretary of the
elub will take such names and list
them as members as may desire to
hecome enrolled.
No funds need be sent with the
name for membership if there are per
sons who wish to register as members
»f the club without.making donations.
It is the purpose of the club, however,
to.raise a creditable campaign fund
and those who wish to donate their
dollar are asked to be quick. Funds
will be gathered from all over the
county whenever any democrat wishes
to have part in making up the fund.
Democrats are urged to become
members of the Wilson club. It is
intended to represent the entire coun
‘v and it is hoped that more than a
thousand voters will register as mem
bers before the national election.
Those joining the club at the lunch
eon were as follows: %
Mathew Yates, J. B. Carson; S. C.
Byrd, W. J. Musselwhite, G. B. Wilkes,
I. B. Felder, J. R. Taylor, Wm. Moors,
J. 0. Anderson, L. L. Davis, M. M.
Eakes, Hugh Lasseter. J. D.. Patten,
J. V. Dunlap,>B. A. Vinson,! W. P.
Fleming, G. S. Harris, Judge Whipple,
Dr. Lee McArthur, Thos. J, McArthur,
C. M. McKenzie, W. D. Wilson, W. L,
Sheppard, W. H. Malone, W. H. Dor
ris, F. M. Coker, C. E. Brown, E. T.
Satcher.
' VERY FINE RECORD
’OVER SIXTY AVERAGE BALES
| FROM FIFTY ACRES, MATT NEW
. KIRK HEADS CRISP COUNTY
’ FARMERS.
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Matt Newkirk, a negro farmer on
the plantation of Fred Fenn, made
a record in cotton growing this year
that is almost in a class to ‘itself. He
planted fifty acres of a two-horse farm
in cotton and has gathered to date fif
tv-geoven bales of good staple, averag
ing considerably over five hundred
nounds each. }e will get another
large bale. His crop will amount to
in total weight about sixty-five 500-
vound . bales. The negro is a splen
did worker and uses scientific meth
ods of farming. He is farming on
shares with Mr. Fenn.
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DEATH CLAIMED INFANT OF
MR. AND MRS. J. G. LASSETER
The 15-months-old infant of Mtr. and
Mrs. J. G. Lasseter died Thursday af
ternoon at 1 o'clock at the home of
its parents on Northern Heights.
The funeral services were conduct
ed Friday morning at 10 o'clock by
Rev. Walter Anthony, pastor of the
Methodist church. and the remains
were interred at Sunnyside cemetery.
The longest will on record was
made by a Glouchester engineer and
contained 26,000 words.
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