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e Cordele Dispatch
(Established in 1908)
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Published Every Wednesday and Sun
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CHAS. E. BROWN, - - - - Editor
J. C. BROWN - - - - City Editor
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OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.
SANTA CLAUS FOR EVERBODY.
,F,_;’Vllile Yuletide marks the advent of
happiness in every home where there
is means of providing for the joys of
the little ones let us remember that
there are lhos'n who will not partici
pat® in any of the various forms of
pleasures to which we are accustomed.
Santa Claus will drive on to the ends
of the earth and many a little boy
and girl in our own midst—we say
many,—may be, not so many after
all,—but far too many will not even
taste the good things that ('hrislmus?
season brings to the average Amf-ri-{
can home. |
Our community, if we know any-]
thing of home conditions has far less
of poverty of the kind (hz;t means hun- ‘
ger and lack of proper colthing than |
the really poor element in the lurgurl
cities. There poverty spells hunger
and cold and when Christmas ('()nws'
there is nothing ahead with which |
to provide the good things that wu{
have. '
But the fact that the poor are not ‘
here in such large numbers, is all the ‘
more a good reason that we should
be careful not to overlook those we
have. There are deserving poor little
ones who will know nothing of the
coming of Santa Claus more than that l
he comes to those in comfortable cir-!
chmstancos. i
It will be the duty of those wlm'
are blessed with plenty to see that
no little ones go through these times
without their portion of the season's
happiness. It does not cost so much
to bring happiness to the whole fami
ly if you know there is a family whm-(-[
Santa Claus has no likelihood of vis
iting. Take note and prepare to carry ‘
joy with you to those under that roof.
It will make your season of pleznsurvsl
all the more complete, '
It is a labor worthy of the ladies in
the civic clubs to make themselves as
sured they have provided for every
place where giving can serve well
There is not a ladies’ club in the city
that cannot determine within a few
hours where the cases of need are.
The other portion of the work should
be easy. Christmas among us should
come to all
NEED OF THE CREAMERY.
Moultrie’s creamery has gained such
success during the first few months
of its existence that the business men
of Tifton are taking note and advising
emong themselves as to whether an
enterprise of this kind can be operat
ed in Berrien. It is reported that the
first three months for the creamery
in Moultrie resulted in a yield of very
nearly one thousand pounds of butter
per week. The increase in yield has
been steady since the start and now
the Moultrie creamery is a going con
cern. .
The business as it has been estab
lished in Moultrie is said to have
made it possible for a farmer to have
dairy interests almost a hundred miles
away and vyet get as much for his
cream at this plant as it brings any
where in the United States. Routes
have been established over Colquitt
and adjoining counties so that the
Moultrie creamery is strongly support
ed by milk producers.
Buisness men of Cordele ought to
study the practical money-making side
of this business. A local creamery
with the capacity of that now operat
ing in Moultrie cannot supply our
needs. It undoubtediy would find ready
disposal of its products heer at home
and at a great profit. The Moultrie
butter is going at 30 cents a pound
and, it is claimed. none of it ever gets
out of the communit, so great is
the demand for it.
It is a safe estimate that 3.000 to
4,000 pounds of butter come into this
community from outside sources ev
ery week. Of course, it is not all con
sumed locally, but butter for this com
munity and near by communities is
handled through this point and there
need be no apprehension of a lack of
demand.
The matter that should concern in
terested persons is whether the butter
can be produced and sold at thirty
cents a pound and a profit realized.
Moultrie is actually “cleaning up” on
this end of the enterprise. The suc
cess has been more marked than even
the owners had estimated it would be
in such a short time, )
Now, let's see how we manage to
get our butter: Here is Mrs. Blank
cver in Northern Heights who has a
good cow. She makes butter and the
neighbors scramble for it. ’Over on
the other side of town Mrs. Some
body Else makes butter and there is
another scramble. Her butter is en
gaged long ahead, right among her
next door neighbors and she has to
ask no one to buy. Not far away is
a farmer who produces a regular stat
d amount. He brings in what he can
vroduce each week and there is anoth
v rush for it.
A local butter making plant with
cream routes over the country adja
cent territory cannot prove but a wise
avestment. [t is now a time when
he farmer can maintain one or two |
v a small herd of fine dairy cattle,
or he has learned how to grow fecd?
or them at a small cost. i
We want to move our dairies form‘
Slgin, 111, just as we are trying to‘{
ot out oi" the west with our smoke |
suses, The price of butter is t’right-‘
ully high and there will be no relief!
ntil we get to that stage where we‘
an produce as ‘much as we consume.
BRINGIN’ 'TEM HOME.
Now that the work of the emigra
i on agent is finished and all the ne
roes that can be fooled away are in
1@ north and east suffering from
leir miscalculations about where the
‘ches and real comforts lie, the time
as arrived for Aunt Mirandy and Un
.le Josh to come hobbling in to see
e “boss” about bringing back home
e wild long headed bucks who were
ized \;'ith the desire to explore
v here the emigration agents advised
teir fortunes lay.
And, bless you, Aunt Mirandy and
ncle Josh are stirring about for the
mey to relieve the sufferings of
ose who have rambled into a strange
ad where hunger and cold are cease
© ssly grappling at their throats. The
.oprivations in the north and the
st have showered hundreds of let
rs on relatives and friends back
. me and appeal after appeal has
oon made for money with which to
Lurnm.
If we have any sort of idea what
“corn field nigger” is, his comforts,
© 5 home, his work, his existence the
ccar round is a paradise beside the
| ~rdships z\;ul sufferings those of them
v ho went north are now having.
“ost of us know the negro never goes
mngry here at home. He never goes
¢:ld. He has a sort of pride that
. ceps him from begging as long as he
'n work, but when he tells the
vhitefolks” he is hungry he gets
. mething to eat. When he says he
i cold, enough clothes are imme
¢ .ately brought out to keep him warm
f-r a season. Not many of them are
¢ lowed to suffer in this country. FKor
‘o petty thief and the crap shooter
+ > need not account. God and nuturo_
. mehow, care for them, too.
Negro farmers are not going north
. cause the lawless whites sometimes
. uwl mobs to do the mnegro violence.
] at the mobdb it is true, is no proper
i strument for measuring justice ‘nt‘ a
v ronged community against an evil
¢ er, and that practice is likewise go
i~g to be cut short in the south. It is
¢ 'ready restricted. It is not the lynch
irg that the negro fears. The law
o hiding negro is as safe and enjoys as
v uch freedom here as the white man.
2ad he knows it.
our local bankers and business men
all leading farmers have numbers
¢of letter from negroes who have gone
from this community to hunt the gold
that “aint.” In this issue of the Dis
patceh is a letter from a negro now in
i‘hiladelphia that ought to be read by
cvery colored man in the community.
11is white friends has provided a way
tor him to return home. All his col
cred kinsmen here know of his plight
snd their influence has been brought
o bhear in the effort to get him back
cate and sound.
The boll weevil agitation has had
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, CORDELE, GEORGIA.
much to do with making the negro
farmer think it impossgible to live as
he has in former years. But he can
fight the weevil a million ygars and
then come nearer surviving on his
Georgia cotion fields than he can in
an unfriendly, cold country where God
made it impossible for him to survive
the long, hard winters, Put him to
work in the frozen north and he will
fast no longer than the winter snows
of that section would under the heat
of the southern sun.
Their friends are bringing them
back home and those who have born
the hardships thus far will remember
the experience. But some of them
are not coming back without serious
impairment of health. Let us hope
the negro who, in spite of the ex
periment i’s still ours in prosperity and
in privations, has seen something of
the unwise move, will no longer bur
den himself and us with the expense
of going and coming. Those who
have gone are coming back, and they
are coming back to stay.
12ditor Cordele Dispatch,
Dear Sir:—l desire to commend
vou for your editorial in last Sunday’s
Dispatch advocating the holding of a
county fair some time during the lat
ter part of 1917. The suggestions
contained in your article are worth
deep consideration and every Crisp
county farmer and business man
«hould begin now to prepare and to
arrange for holding a fair for the year
1917." -1 will state now that the Farm
ers Exchange, the concern that T am
associated with, will do as much as
any other business firm in Cordele
to wake of this proposition a grand
success. We are already offering to
give $lOO i ncash prizes to the farm
ers that produce more per acre of
seeds bought of the Farmers Exchange
and we are willing to go further and
offer prizes for live stock and various
other exhibits by Crisp county farm
ers and citizens.
It was my pleasure to attend a dozen
nr more county fairs this past season
and T must confess that I felt embar
rassed when 1 was forced to admit
that our county had failed to hold a
county fair. This question was asked
many times by homeseekers and oth
ers.
Mr. Editor you can count on the
Parmers Exchange fo do its part in
making a fair a success and pardon
us for offering a suggestion concern:
ing the time of holding a fair. I would
name a date only a few days prior to
the holding of the Georgia State Fair
so that our exihbits can go imme
diately to Macon and compete for a
state prize. Keep up your agitation
for a county fair and Crisp will do her
part.
Again your suggestion for an en
larged chamber of commerce will, and
should appeal to every man, woman
and child in Cordele. The business
men of Cordele ought to be as near
in a business way as real brothers and
each concern should, of coures, pull
for their particular line first and then
their fellow business man engaged in
other lines of business second.
Hoping that you will continue to
take the lead in the matter of a coun
ty fair and a bigger chamber of com
merce and assuring you again that
The Farmers Exchange of Cordele will
do its part, we remain,
Very truly yours,
L. M. SUMNER.
ABOUT STUMPING LAND.
Mr. Editor:—l want to commend
that to-the-point editorial on “Gold
under the stumps.” [t strikes at a
thing of vital importance in the de
velopment and advancement of ag
riculture in this section. There are
many who are advancing with a good
pace, but the good work could be car
ried on to a still greater degree.
The thing of certain kind of remov
ed stumps however, comes back
home now and then. Tt seems that
this stump removal prdpo‘s‘ition
should be done in the most efficient
(way. It seems pertinent that this
thought should ever remain with one
in the matter of aking out stumps.
For instance, a land owner employs
a laborer to remove stumps by the day
or by the stump. The workman, es
gecially if removing by the stump,
is hardly careful enough in getting
the stumps off well underground, as
far down as they could be cut. So
in only a short time the surface of the
field changes and the underground
stump comes closer to the surface.
The absence of stumps above the
ground invites the use of improved
and more efficient farm implements.
The sulky. three or four horse, for
instance, is put in operation to go
down and open up new feeding
grounds for plant roots. When there
are from 3600 to 5000 pounds of mule
flesh pressing in the collar ahead of
one of these implements and an under
ground, supposed to be removed
stump is hit—well, something hap
pens. This may be what you would
term an extreme case, but it appears
1!!:at enough .plow points alone'are
broken each year to pay for the ef
fective removal of far more stumps
?th:\n the ones causing the damage.
i’l‘hv saving in cost of broken imple
ments will go a pretty long ways to
ward removing the pests for once
':m«l all time. Vours truly,
' g 8 JOHNSO.\‘_ County Agent.
' Suwanee Camp No. 16467
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
meets every Monday night at 7:30 in
the Elk’s hall over Heard Grocery
Company. Visiting Woodmen wel
ome,
S. M. WATSON, Venerable Consul.
While we are expressing our re
grets at the enforcement of the Sun
day laws, let us not overlook the fact
that we have few as bad records as
those now worrying the citizens of
Americus and Dublin. Cordele has
no murder of one of its young men
under a roof of the wearer of scarlet.
It has no Wade case whose notoriety
has carried with it the name of Amer
icus the country over. But neither
an observance nor a lack of observ
ance of the blue laws can determine
our real moral status. We may find
out sometime.
HOLIDAY EXCURSION FARES
VIA A. B. & A. RAILWAY
The A. B. & A. Railway will sell
holiday excursion tickets to all sta
tions on its line and to many other
destinations in the southeast. Tickets
will be sold December 20th to 25th
inclusive, and will bear return limit
January 10th, 1917. :
Those persons contemplating holi
day trips to distant points should
call on ticket agent or write the un
dersigned as far in advance as pos
sible, so that full information may
be furnished and tickets made ready
for their trip. W. W. Croxton, Gen
cral Passenger Agent, A, B. & A. Ry.,
Atlanta, Ga.
:GROCERIES :
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ARE CHEAP!
We will be firse to tell you.
Let us Supply the ‘holiday
delicacies. We have Fruit
Cake ingredients, Raisins,
Nuts, Candies and Fruits for
everybody. Ask us. Divide
with us. We’ll step lively.
PHONE 33.
Let us teach your dollar to have
more cents.
E. R. OVERBY
The Artistic Picture Framer
It is time to get up your Christ
mas Pictures. It takes time to
get them ready. I do all my
framing by hand.
At J. S. Pate Store, Next Door
To Palace Theatre
The latest and most amusing wee
vil remedy is the zone idea. Wonder
how a farm might be put to quaran
t'ne against this cosmopolitan inter
loper? We certainly hope our other
advisers know more about coping
with thhe weevil than those who sug-f
gest that any such methods as tick
eradicators employ weceuld eliminate
the weevil.
YOUR CHRISTMAS PACKAGES.
Send your Christmas packages ear
ly and insure their delivery by Christ
mas day. See that your packages are
well wrapped, tied and plainly ad
dressed. We will furnish notices, “Do
not open until Christmas.” to all who
desire them. W. S. MURRAY,
68-3 t Mgr. Southern Express Co.
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GOOD THINGS FOR THE
HOLIDAY COOKING AT
OUR STORE, FRESH
AND LOWEST PRICES.
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You are soon to enter the business of the
New Year and have already set stakes for a
larger activity. You want to do better, and
your prospects are better. In a business
way we are all stronger now than. we have
been at the close of former seasons and our
~ preparedness for a big year ought to be splen
did. |
As you enter 1917 we want you to remem
ber that this bank going with you as your
banking house will do its utmost to help you
grow stronger. Where it can help you land -
business and hold to it, it will always do its
part. _ ~
We want you to be our customer through
1917 because we feel that as a'banking house
we can mean much to you. Bring your
qecount here and let us join you now in re
doubling business effort for 1917. In order
to be in position to serve our customers best,
we study their needs always and are equip
ped in the best banking methods. Wewant
your business. A careful consideration is ac
corded each and every account.
Cordele National Bank
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FOR THE MEN AND BOYS POCKET KNIVES, SAFETY RAZORS, OLD
STY.LE RAZORS’ GUNS AND A HUNDRED OTHER THINGS. :
TOYS AND SPORTING GOODS BALLS, AIR GUNS AND BICYCLES..
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A SMOOTH, HAIRLESS
SKIN FOR EVERY WOMAN
From Beauty Secrets.
With the aid of a plain medol paste
it is an easy matter to rid the skin
of unsightly hairy growths. The paste
is made by mixing some water with
nowdered medol. This is applied to
the hairs not wanted and after 2 or 3
minutes rubbed off and the skin wash
ed, when every trace of hair will have
vanished. When you go to your drug
gist for medol be sure you get the gen
uine article, and if he will not supply
vou, the American Proprietary Co., of
Boston, will send you a 50c or $l.OO
package hy mail.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. '
Beginning Tuesday, December 26th,
the Cordele Banks will close at 12
o’clock noon for the balance of Cl::rist
mas week, except on Saturday, when
they close at the usual hour, 2 p. m.
CORDELE NATIONAL BANK,
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK,
EXCHANGE BANK,
CITIZENS BANK.