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IKE JACKSON HERALD
Published Weekly
II .50 A Year—ln Advance
Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice
as Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER Editor
W. H WILLIAMSON...Bus. Mgr.
Jefferson, G . Auugst 23, 1923
EXCHANGE NOTES
(From Athcfj Banner-Herald)
Judge Lewis Russell
Lewis C. Rut t L a native Athen
ian and an alum u- of the Unviersity
•if Georgia, ha- been appointed by
Governor Waiktr to the office of
judge of thi new Piedmont circuit
vice O. A. Nix, •>? Lawrenr vi!!e re
signed. He if well qualified f r the
office, being an able lawyer and pqs
ut'-aing a judicia turn of mind which
peculiarly fits h m for the responsi
)i|i offici to ■' n he has befn ap
pointed. His many friends here and
throughout the -'ate will learn with
pleasure of the a tion of the govern
or.
"Clasi B Nigger”
The exodus < the negro during
past few n '.:hs has taken on a
change. Many ef those who have
gone forth hav< r.ot found the coun
try flowing wit 1 milk and honey as
it, had been j Cured to them and
thus" who hav returned are glad to
get back.
The Macon News tells of an in
cident' which of’urred at the rail
road station in that city a few weeks
ago which is typical of the negro
who is not easily led off by flattering
offers and per l lasivc arguments df
labor solicitor*. It says:
"A group of negroes were at the
terminal station Sunday morning,
telling a few departing brethren
goodbye. A trainman noticed one
negro looking nonchalantly and in
quired: "John are you not going
north?”
“No sir,” said the negro address
ed. “Pse a class B. nigger.”
“What do you mean by class ‘B’
nigger?” asked the trainman.
“Well,” said Sam. “I ‘Be’s’ here
when dey leave and I B's here when
ilhoy come back ”
Cotton Tc Go To Owner*
The decision of Judge Blanton
Fortson in making the receivership
for over 4,000 bales of cotton held
in local warehouses following the
failure of Barrett and company per
manent was upheld by Judge Grubb
at the hearing in Savannah Thurs
day.
Out of a total of 4,836 bales in
protest 130 wert ordered placid un
der the jurisdiction o*f Roy Ellison,
receiver in bankruptcy for Barrett
nd company • aile the remaining
4.706 bales w:rt ordered to remain
in the custody of J. J. Wilkins and
B. F. Hardeman, local receivers nam
ed by Judge Fortson.
It was shown to the satisfaction of
Judge Grubb that 130 bales of the
■cotton was the property of Barrett
and company but that the biggest
bulk was the property of planters and
manufacturer'- here and was simply
stored in the warehouse for saf '
keeping.
The decision of Judge Grubb is one
of great importance to many people
in this section and mears that the
cotton in question will not be thrown
in the general bankrupt court but
will be administered by the receivers
named in the state court. The cot
ton is owned b; individuals who have
received advances on it but who re
tain title. ,
(From Hartwell Sun)
Supt. J. B. Jones of the Hartwell
Railway is in receipt of a letter from
M. O. Nelson, of Danville, Va., who
operates large tobacco warehouses in
Virginia and North Carolina, stating
that the samples of Hart county to
huccco sent him showed up exception
ally well, and that it should bring a
fancy price.
All tobacco experts who have seen
the finality o tobacco grown here
were impress' with its texture, and
predicted a good price.
STATE TAX FIGURE WILL RE
MAIN FIVE MILLS, AS LAST
YEAR
Atlanta, August 18.—Comptroller
Central William A. Wright today an
nounced the State tax rate, fixed to-
Uay by hims : : and Governor Waly
ker, at five mills, the same as in pre-1
vious years. Tne division is 4.9 mills j
for gentral purposes and common
schools and .10 of a mill for the sink- |
ing fund.
In connection with this anounce
ment the Comptroller General says a
compilation of ligurcs shows the tot
al digests of the State show a de
crease this year of $7,000,000 in
values, in round figures, most of j
which is on real and personal prop
erty, but at th< same time the rail-!
in thc> Slate show an increase. 1
T .Y: '.‘.on county has 562 acres
planted in p antics; Greene, 1,756;
Oglethorpe, 1,265; Wilkes, 872;
Morgan, 2,931.
Judge G. H. Howard, manager of
the 1922 gubernatorial campaign of
Governor Clifford Walker, Friday
was appointed judge of the tuw su
perior court of Fulton county, crea
ted by the 1923 general assembly.
Charles H. Ltmmond, a jeweler of
Charlotte, N. C., Sunday shot and
killed his wife, formerly Miss Bessie
L. Richards, of Gainesville, Ga., and
then fired a bullet into his own head,
from the effects of which he died
several hours later.
The receipts from automobile li
cense tags up to August 15, 1923,
wire $240,259.48 in txcess of those
up to the same date in 1922, and the
indications are that 1923 will break
all previous records in iih receipts
and the number of cars registered in
Georgia.
Lester Brantley cf Hancock coun
ty, and his young bride of two weeks,
were drowned while bathing in the
Savannah river near Egypt, Ga., late
Saturday night. Mrs. Brantley be
came frightened and screamed for
help and Brantley was drowned while
vainly trying to rescue her.
There will be an eclipse of the
moon on next Sunday morning, be
ginning about 4.51, and disappear
ing at 6.27. The eclipse will be on- !
ly partial, and will be visibly through
out this country. A total eclipse of :
of the sun will take place on Sep
tember 10th, but will be visible in
southern California, the Pacific
ocean and Carribean sea.
We congratulate the City Board of
Education of Monroe on securing
three charming, popular and suc
cessful teachers from Jackson coun
ty for the coming school session.
They are Miss Miriam Bennett of
Jefferson, who will teach the fourth
grade; Miss Louise Bailey of Jeffer
son, manual training; and Mlvs‘Wil- (
lie Carson of Commerce, the first
grade. These young ladies will add
great strength to the teaching force
of the Monroe Public Schools.
The editor of the Walton Tribune
says that some of the finest cotton
he has seen this year is the patch of
Mr. Jack Watson, just off the Georgia
Railroad tracks, at Social Circle. The
weed is large, and each stalk is full
of fruit from top to bottom, with a
large number of practically grown
bolls. The patch is free of boll
weevils, and has been poisoned only
twice since planted. He adds that if
all th" cotton in Walton county were
like friend Watson’s brag patch the
yield would be away over what it is
likely to be.
Editor W. T.. Anderson of the Ma
con Telegraph, who by his strong ar
gumenst on "Saner Eating” has in
troduced whole wheat bread into ma
ny homes, now says, “A wetermelon
a day will keep the doctor away.”
Well, it might, and it might not, as
the following from Editor Frank Sin
gleton’s pen proves: “Mr. John S.
Prickett, Mayor of Hamilton, Ga.,
died at “Uncle Mack’s” on Lake
Burton at about 10 o’clock Tuesday
night. It is reported that he had
eaten too much watermelon, fish and
sweet milk. It is said this mixture
will kill.”
Mr. I. F. Duncan of Hall county, j
who recently made a trip through
South Georgia with Braselton Bros.,
of Braselton, brought back with him
a bunch of cotton stalks from Berrien
county without a boll on them that
had not been punctured by the boll
weevil. The stalks were fine, more
than waist high, and were taken from
a large acreage upon which not a
boll of cotton will be picked. Mr.
Duncan says that tobacco and
crops are taking the place of cotton
in South Georgia and that we should
adopt diversification hire before we
reach the state that South Georgia is
in now.
The Savannah Press says there
have been very few mad dogs repor
ted this summer, but the number of
people run over by automobiles or
einjured at railroad crossings show
that there is an increasing number
of auto drivers who have hi en seiz
ed with gasoline rabies, and the
Cleveland Plain Dealer adds that it
is hard to know what to do with
such fellows. We cannot send them
to the> bug house, for they are not
really crazy. Unless they kill or
severely injure someone, we canr.ot
give them long terms on th gang.
Perhaps the best trca.ment for a suf*
ftrer from gas-madness we ..id be to
take away his license and rustleat
him in the mountains where the r .:d'
are too steep to be negotiated.
The Saturday Savannah Frees ays:
“Mrs. Hcke H. Shirley’s many friends
will regret to learn that =hc is quite
ill at her home in Fort Gaines, Ga.
Mrs. Shiriey was before her marriage
Miss Edna Swindell of Savannah.''
Fire in Martin, Ga., a small town
in Stephens county Sunday morning
destroyed the bank and a drug store.
It is believed papers in the bank
vault are safe. The bank was cov
ered by insurance but the drug store
was a total loss.
The board of trade of Turner
county entertained last week sixty
children of the Methodist Orphans
Home of the South Georgia Confer
ence for a week’s outing at Crystal
Lake near Ashburn. This was a great
event in the lives of these unfortu
nates, and Turner county board of
trade will receive great pleasure in
knowing that they have “ministered
unto one of the least of these.”
Howard Ennis, of Baldwin; Cecil
; Neill, of Muscogee; Herschel Elders,
! of Tattnall, and George Carswell, of
Wilkinson, compose the group of gu
b: rnatorial aspirants developed dur
ing the 1923 session of the Georgia
General Assembly. Every session of
the state legislature develops possi
ble candidates for governor and oth
[ er offices, but this year the number
is larger than usual, according to
observers.
Frank H. Barrett, Thomas Barrett,
Jr., and Thomas Getzen, members of
the defunct Barrett & Company of
Augusta, charged in South Carolina
with having obtained cotton under
false pretenses, will fight extradition.
Attorneys for the three Augusta men
already have requested that the re
quisition not be granted. Governor
Walker said that he could not con
sider the case until the papers are is
sued by the governor of South Caro
lina and received in Atlanta.
Two lynchings in Georgia during
the past week, besides several kid
nappings and floggings, and contin
ual mob violations of the law in
Georgia, following two invasions of
the State training school for boys
located at Milledgeville by mobs, has
brought forth the following saying
from the Atlanta Constitution: “The
reign of mob violence in Georgia not
only demands the governor’s immedi
ate and uncompromising attention,
but it challenges the public con
science of this state to a full co-op
eration in seeing that the guilty par
ties are brought to full justice, with
out fear or favor or intimidation.”
During the last fortnight in Macon
several men have been whipped and
ordered to town within forty
eight hours, and at intervals during
the last six months scores of men
have been flogged. The climax in
the disorders was reached early Sat
urday, when the police engaged in a
running pistol battle with alleged
floggers after they had kidnapped a
man from in front of the railroad
station. On Sunday night three men
by the name of Hudson, brothers,
were arrested in the act of flogging
two negroes, and with the arrest of
these men, the police believe they
will be able to round up an organized
flogging band that has been terroriz
ing that city.
People are wondering what the
next White House pet will be, and
someone has suggested a sphinx. Mr.
Coolidge likes wild birds and domes
tic fowls, but has given no intimation
of his attitude toward dogs. Presi
dent Wilson had a flock of sheep and
President Harding an airdale, “Lad
die Boy.” President Taft petted one
of the big gray squirrels that lived
in an oak on the White House
grounds until Laddie Boy came, and
then moved to Lafayette Square.
President Roosevelt and his children
had many dogs, one of which owned
by Quentin, chased the French am
bassador on an important state oc
casion. Some friend gave Mr. Taft
a fine cow and she was an object of
admiration.
The women of Marietta became in
dignant Sunday, when it was an
nounced that a traveling evangelist
had remarked in his sermon that,
“Were it not for the law, people in
Marietta would walk about without
clothing.” They had the preacher
and his co-worker arrested, and they
will appear before the court to face
charges of disorderly conduct in
"making statements dutrimsutal to
the public good.” The preacher ex
plained his remark thusly: “In
heathen countries when persons are
saved they straightway seek clothps
to cover th?ir aboriginal nudeness;
yet in our land. I said, which is deem
ed already a Christian land, 10. the
people instead of putitng on clothes
are taking th.m off, more ar.d more,
day by day.” |
Weevil Damage Reported
Heavy
Atlanta, August 17.-r-Genoral op
timism regarding most crops in the
northern part cf the belt, and heavy
weevil damage to cotton in Florida,
Southern Georgia and the southern
portion of Alabama, are the principal
points mentioned in the fortnightly
crop report of the United States De
partment of Agriculture covering
the states of North and South Caro
•ina, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida,
and Georgia made public here to
night.
I “Disaster, due ot the boll weevil,
has overtaken the cotton crop in
Southern Georgia and the sea island
crop in Florida,” the report stat"d,
“and the southern portion of Ala
bama and South Carolina report ex
tremely serious damage.”
| The middle portion of the belt
made good progress, until a few days
ago, when heavy rains caused a mar
ked decline, the report added. The
upper part of th* sc• three states re
port an improv'd condition and heavy
fruiting. North Carolina and Ten
nessee average from good to very
good, with comparatively little shed
ding, and not much weevil damage
to date. However, in this respect
the report sounds a warning that it is
still too early for serious damage in
this area.
Leaf worms are very active in Ala
bama and Western Georgia, tl?e re
port added, but the damage will,
probably be not very great, because |
the general infestation will not be
reached until too late for serious
damage. There is a general com
plaint in North Georgia, it was re
ported, of boll worms.
Com greatly improved in Tennes
see and North Carolina, the report j
stated- In all other states the yield
promises to be short, particularly in
Northern Georgia, Southern South .
Carolina and Florida.
There is considerable complaint of
grass.
October 12 Press Day At
Southeastern Fair
The Georgia Press Association has
accepted through its president, Mr,
C. D. Rountree, of Wrightsville, the
invitation to make Friday, October
12, Press Day at the Southeastern
Fair in Atlanta this fall.
On that date the newspaper men
of the state will be the especial guests
of the fair. Lunch will be served
them within the grounds, and they
will be given the freedom of th? park
with ali of its shows and amusements.
Press Day was inaugurated several
years ago, and has had a larger atten
dance each year. It gives the edi
tors an opportunity to visit together
the exhibits of the rapidly agricultu
ral and industrial resources of the
South.
The prospect for a great fair was
never brighter, and it is hoped that
more editors than ever before will
be in attendance this year.
CONDITIONS IN NORTH
DESCRIBED IN LETTER
The following letter is said to have
been received by the wife of a migra
tor now located in one of the North
ern cities:
“I is sennin you er noo ten dollar
bill, wich is haf woter git fer mer
pay lass week. Lissun and lissun ter
me good: Tek hit ter Mr. Jims sto
an tell him ter sont me by de ceastern
spress some pervisions wot er wukkin
man kin eat. Fuss uv all tell him ter
sont me er jug er Georgy cane- sur
rup, de jinnerwine Georgy cane sur
rup, kase 1 jiss kaint eat dis mapul
surrup wot deys got no uvver kine
up here. Hit sho don’t soot mer tase,
an taint fittin fur soppin wid nuffin
but light braid.
“Better box up de jug ter keep hit
fum gittin busted, kasei I is sho hun
gry fur some good old Georgy cane.
Den tell him ter sont me er peck er
water groun meal ter make some
braid wot us kin eat wid de Georgy
cane. Do meal wot us git up here hit
groun so fine hit jiss lak flour an
don’t tase lak cawn meal a tall.
! “Den tel! him ter sont me er side
er wite meat wot us ter call
sow belly, an neent be tickler how
fat hit be, de fatter de* better. Deys
has nuffin but de smoke meat up here
wot deys call bakin, but you knowed
how I loves dat good old sow belly
wot ycr kin bile wid greens an cf ycr
wants hit fried all her haster do is
ter role hit in meal and fry hit.
“Tell Mr. Jim hoddy for me. Tell
cvvybody hoddy an tell urn cf dey got
any sense a tall ter stay right whar
deys at. Dis mout beer good place
fer rich mans lak Mr. Jurden Mas
sey, but hit sho aint no place fer er
nigger cepriun he minter put up wid
most anything and starve ter defF fer
sumpin good ter eat. Dis er rich
mans town. Tell Mr. Jim ter sont
dem pervisions by de next spress
co’min dis way.”
Methodist Education Has
Right of Way
Dr. Elam F. Dempsey, Secretary of
Education, has issued the following
statement to the Methodists of the
North Georgia Conference:
In the next fourth months—Au
gust, September, October, Novem
ber, Education Move
ment has the right of way. Let us
make it a great succAs by our zeal,
our prayers, and our payments. Our
Conference stands close to the top, so
states our Headquarters Auditor.
The Committe authorized by the
General Conference to harmonize
and correlate the forward movements
of the church has given the Chris
tian Education Movement from Au
gust to November, inclusive, for cul
tivation and collection of pledges.
During this period all the general
organizatons and public agencies of
the church will be mobilized in the in
terest qf Christian Education.
The Bishops have issued a strong
address to the church and are leading
in the work. The Presiding Elders
will co-operate and direct the work
in the Districts. A live Presiding El
der brings things to pass. The Pas
tors will give the message to the peo
ple and guide the efforts in the local
churches. The wise pastor believes
in Christian Education and shows
his faith by his works. The Church
Collector has a place of great op
portunity and responsibility. It is
harvest time. He thrusts in {he sickle
and gathers the golden grain. The
Subscrbier is the most important of
all. Money talks and he has the last
word. If he fails, the efforts of all
others are futile. But a true Metho
dist will not fail. His word is out.
He has promised. He will pay.
Many subscribers made their pled
ges payable “After the Centenary.”
This means the payments will begin
November Ist, 1923, since the last
payment on the Centenary was due
January 1, 1923. “After the Cen
tenary” means November 1, 1923.
Unheeded Warnings
In a recent timely article on “Grade
Crosing Accidents,” The Baltimore
Sun tells why many motorists, arriv
ing at the danger point, neither stop,
look, nor listen—
“To preach against the reckless
automobile driver is like preaching
to a churchful of people against
those persons who do not attend; for
the more reckless the driver, the
more careful he is neither to accept
nor follow advice. Apparently he
can be neither begged, cajoled nor
bullied into looking to his own safe
ty and to the safety of others. The
high point for the month of June is
reported in accidents at grade cross
ings on the Pennsylvania railroad,
showing an increase of 60 per cent,
as compared with the corresponding
month of 1922, and an increase of
115 per cent over the same month of
1921. The same general condition
prevails throughout the country.
Most of these accidents involved mo
tor vehicles, and the causes are laid
to defective automobile brakes, dis
regard of crossing watchman’s sig
nals to stop, stalling on tracks, high
speed and other forms of reckless
driving. Warnings seem to do no
good; tragedies are so frequent that
they no longer make an impression,
and even the yawning doors of the
jail are no detriment to the worst
offenders. Only time and the supe
rior weight of locomotives can be de
pended upon to cure the evil.”
QUID ARTISTS IN LONG
DISTANCE CHEWING RACE
Juliette, Ga., August 14.—Jones
boro, Clayton county, is not to be
outdone by some of the larger cities,
where the long distance marathon
endurance contests are all the vogue
and many of Hie fair dancers have
established records for these mara
thons running up to many hours be
fore a halt was called. Dan Hender
son won the long distance marathon
chewing contest in Jonesboro
recently by going a total of sixty
nine hours on one chew of tobacco
without stopping. During the con
tent a total of forty-six plugs of to
baccco were used and sleep and nour
ishment were administered without
halting the contest. The chew was
shifted from time to time from one
jaw to the other. At the end of the
sixty-ninth hour the contest was hal
ted by the attending physicians for
fear lockjaw would develop. The
contestant was still chewing strong
when the contest ended. The Jones
boro city council and street commit
tee have expressed themselves as be
ing greatly opposed to the holding of
future tobacco chewing contests in
th city limits and may propose leg
islation against it.
See J. D. Pike at Red
Stone for Calcium Arsenat<*
Insanity Increase
Is Blamed On Auto.
.Drugs And Moonshine
Fulton, Mo.—Despite the fact that
the last census figures show the pop
ulation of Missouri is decreasing the
rate of insanity is increasing by leaps
and bounds. Missouri has four in
sane hospitals and they are becom
ing badly crowded. In the district
served by the Fulton State hospital,
which includes Kansas City, the sec
ond largest city in the state, the in
crease of insane persons has been
startling.
Ten years ago, when Dr. M. 0.
Biggs took charge as superintendent
of the local hospital, there were 867
patients, and today there are 1,444
and new ones coming in every day.
Ten years ago 10 or 12 patients were
received on an average each month,
while now the average is between
30 and 35 and with prospects that
the average will be increased in the
next year.
Purchases Cause Worry
Dr. Biggs ascribes the great in
crease in insanity to the reckless pur
chase of motor cars, which leaves
many persons in financial straits and
causes them to worry about their
debts; narcotics and moonshine. The
records and history of many of the
patients in the last two years show
their' minds were wrecked by indulg
ence in bad liquor and drugs.
EE SLOW TO SELL YOUR COWS
Famers in many sections of Geor
gia are selling milch cows to buyers
from Florida. This is all right where
the farmer has surplus cows that pro
duce more milk and butter than his
family can consume, or more than he
can sell on the local market; but he
should think twice before disposing
of one of his dhief means of making
a living for his family. Every fam
ily should have sufficient milk and
butter for the family, and a surplus
for sale in exchange for the necessi
ties that must be bought.
Recently in Floyd county three
carloads of the very best milch cows
were shipped to Florida after hav
ing been bought at an average price
of about SSO.
Buyers from Florida are. active in
the state at present, buying every
“fresh” cow of real worth to be had
at almost any sort of figure. As much
as S6O is being paid in many cases,
it is said.
Officials of the Floyd County Farm
bureau are very much disturbd by the
sales. Local farmers need all the
cows they have and more, these offi
cials point out. The Florida buyers
use the cows as milkers during the
winter tourist season in Florida, when
milk brings almost any sort of price,
they point out, and then butcher
them for beef in the spring. The
farm bureau is urging all farmers
not to sell their cows.
The action that was taken by Judge
Barrett in declining the petition of
the receivers of the Gainesville Mid
land railway to discontinue trains
from Belmont to Athens was based
upon promises of Athens shippers to
give this road more business, in order
that it may at least pay operating
expenses. No further action will be
taken before January first, but un
less there is a marked increase in the
business of the road between now
and that date, some change in the
road will necessarily follow. We be
lieve the Athens shippers will make
good their promises, and throw all
possible business to the Gainesville
Midland, and it will be up to the
road to handle this business in an
expeditious manner. Shippers ex
pect and are entitled to prompt de
livery and excellent service. That
part of Jackson county through
which the G. M. traverses is intense
ly interested in the saving of the
road, and the people will be grate
ful to Athens for all aid rendered in
keeping it a going concern.
A bank located at Morgan, in Cal
houn county, failed to open its door>
on Saturday. Inability to borrow
money to tide over temporary diffi
culties was given by the president a
cause of the failure. The town of
Morgan was the county seat of Cal
houn county until the last session of
the General Assembly, changed it to
Arlington.
Remember the date for the Home
Coming at Bethany church is draw
ing near. Everybody get busy, and
help to make that a great day. Th< >
expect to have an all-day exerci" •
preaching in the morning at 11
o’clock, basket dinner on the groum •
Program in the afternoon. D° n
forget to be on hand, fifth Sundaj
September, 1923.
The Junior Singing Choir meets at
Red Stone church next Sunday at
ternoon at 2.30. Everybody in>--
to come and bring books.