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CURRENT NEWS AND
COMMENT
The creamery that put Ashburn
and Turner county on the map is ad
vertising for more farmers in that
section to ship them cream, and this,
In face of the fact that during De
cember they paid out $22,500 to
nine handed customers for cream.
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President J. E. Conwell of the
Georgia Co-operative Cotton Asso
ciation has given out the information
that the association has received sev
enty thousand bales of cotton up to
the present, and expect to get about
five thousand more. Mr. Conwell
says next year he expects to handle
ever one hundred thousand bales.
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J. D. Mask, a farmer in Forsyth
county, made 41 bales of cotton on
38 acres. He used the syrup mix
ture twice, and then applied the poi
son in dust form.
The official call for the holding of
conventions for the selection of dele
gates to the next Republican conven
tion has been received by J. L. Phil
lipps, chairman of the Republican
organization in Georgia. The call
came from the Republican national
committee.
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Hirschburg, editor of the
Marion County Patriot for the past
twenty years, died at his home in
Buena Vista last week. Mr. Hirsch
fcurg was well known among the
newspaper fraternity, and had scores
of friends, who mourn his passing.
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Following Judge Bell's decision
declaring the tobacco tax legal, Gov
ernor Walker stated that it would be
strictly enforced. “It is but proper
that the dealers of the state should j
be put on notice,” the governor said,
“that the law will now be rigidly
enforced and that machinery for the
enforcement of the law has been
organized and is ready to be put in
to operation.”
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There is strong possibility that
Congressman W. D. Upshaw may be
a candidate for vice-president. Speak
ing at the convention of the Anti-
Saloon League of America, he was
given an enthusiastic ovation and ref
erences to his possible candidacy by
Colonel Dan Morgan Smith were
loudly applauded. It was pointed
out by men who had attended his
meeting's in states as far west of Ohio,
and in the eastern part of the United
States as far as Maine, that sugges
tion followed suggestion that Up
shaw is available timber for that po
sition.
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Rev. Joseph A. MeGarity, a broth
er of the late Rev. R. S. MeGarity,
celebrated his 75th anniversary on
January 11th, at his home in Jersey,
Walton county. He had as his guests
his entire family, numbering twenty
two.
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At a meeting of the Gainesville
Fair Association, it was voted not to
hold a fair this fall. The secretary
and treasurer reported a cash balance
on hand of $1,657.10. This was or
dered paid to the stockholders. Be
sides this cash, the association has
the buildings at the fair grounds,
consisting of three main buildings
and the grand stand.
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According to a statement issued by
Armour <S Company, who are in a
position to know the facts, human be
ings, between the years 1892 and
1921, increased faster relatively than
the animals upon which they feed—
cattle, sheep, .swine and the like. The
exact figures are that in 1891 there
were in the United States 2,299 ani
mals per thousand population, but in
1921 only 1,493 per thousand. The
growth of the food animal popula
tion is not keeping pace with the
growth of the human population.
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This is a political year and the
whole nation will become disturbed
over the election of a president and
the anticipated policies of which ever
party wins. Not only is this a na
tional affair, but in the state, county
officers on up to the governor’s office,
will be filled. Usually political years
are demoralizing to all business in-
terests. Manufacturers do not know
what to expect, and it generally
brings on a lull in this line of indus
try. Bankers and financial agents
become more or less disturbed, which
causes financial conditions to grow
stringent, bringing on a period of
depression lasting over the date of
the election.
At Butler, in Taylor county, an
entire family came very near being '
* exterminated from eating biscuits
made of calcium arsenate. In pn- !
paring breakfast the cook mistook
a sack of arsenate of lead for a
sack of flour, both being near togetb
er In the pantry, and from which she
made a batch of dough and baked
and served for biscuit. How it was
that all who ate the poison were not
killed is said to be. a miracle, the
saving of their lives being due large,
jy by the heroic effort of physiciam
who administered an antidote soon
after the discovery was made, work
ed ardently for several hours to coun
teract the poison and save the lives
of the sick ones.
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Cotton seed crushed during the
five-month period, August 1 to De
cember 31, amounted to 1,995,504
tons, compared with 2,03(1,740 tons in
the same period in 1922, and cotton
seed on hand at mills December 31
totalled 738,761 tons, compared with
789,949 a year ago, the Census Bu
reau has announced.
Avowed followers of the late Sena
tor Thomas E. Watson informed the
Georgia State Democratic executive
committee that they will support
neither W. G. McAdoo nor Senator
Oscar W. Underwood for President,
but will place a third candidate in the
field. While no announcement was
made, it wus reported that their can
didate pobably will be Senator
James A. Reed, of Missouri.
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Thomas D. Murphy, one of the
South’s best known newspapermen
and managing editor of the Augusta
Chronicle, died Saturday night after
a protracted illness.
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Colquitt county farmers will ship
three cars of sweet potatoes this
week. The potatoes which were bank
ed last fall, have been sold for 90
cents a bushel, it is stated. The grow
ers look on the price as being satis
factory. Several cars of potatoes
have gone from Moultrie in the past
few weeks.
...
The Lowry Bank and Trust Com
pany of Georgia has been awarded
the contract to discount $3,000,000
of the state school warrants for the
year 1924, the rate being 5.33 per
cent it was announced zlt the office
of Governor Walker Saturday. The
same bank discounted the warrants
in 1923 at the rate of 4.87 per cent.
The will of Mrs. Fannie Susan
Dean, well known and prominent
Clarke county resident, who died just
before the holidays, was probated
j last week, and among the legacies
was a gift of ten thousand dollars to
Wesley Memorial Hospital, and ten
thousand dollars to the Methodist
Orphans Home. She left an estate
of large proportions, and made many
bequests. She remembered, among
other institutions, Nacoochee Insti
tute.
* *
Governor Brandon, of Alabama,
in Atlanta to participate in the Stone
Mountain exercises, unveiling flie
head of Robert E. Lee on the great
monument being carved, gave out
through the Underwood headquar
ters an interview calling upon Geor
gians to support Oscar W. Under
wood for President of the United
States. In the interview, Mr. Bran
don said: “Geogia is the Mother of
Alabama, I do not think it amiss for
the daughter to come to the old
mother and appeal to Georgians to
support the greatest man in the Dem
ocratic party, Oscar W. Underwood,
for President of these United Sta
tes.”
The 1924 Democratic convention
will be held itf New York City on
June 24th, following the Republican
convention in Cleveland, Ohio, 'on
June 10th. It will be the first time
in 56 years that a Democratic con
vention will be held in New York.
TELL THE WORLD
A hen is not supposed to have
Much common sense or tact,
Yet every time she lays an egg,
She cackles forth the fact.
A rooster hasn’t got a lot
Of intellect to show,
But none the less most roosters have
Enough good sense to crow.
The mule, the most despised of
beasts,
Has a persistent way
Of letting folks know he’s around
By his insistent bray.
The busy little bees they buzz,
Bulls bellow and cows moo,
The watchdogs bark, the ganders
quack,
And doves and pigeons coo.
The peacock spreads his tail and
squawks,
Pigs squeal and robins sing.
And even serpents know enough
To hiss before they sting.
But man, the greatest masterpiece
I That nature could devise,
i " ill often stop and hesitate
j Before he’ll advertise.
—Commerce News.
How Billboards Fail of
Results
There will aways be differences of
opinion about the relative merits of
various forms of advertising. If there
were not, only one form would exist.
Wc are able, however, to get the
viewpoint of a few large corpora
tions which use outdoor, or billboard,
advertising exclusively.
Their choice would seem to indi
cate their belief that posters and
signs painted on fences exercise the
strongest influence on public opin
ion. We might attribute that hallu
cination to their insufficient study of
the subject, and dismiss it from our
minds, but for the fact that at
times their faith seems to falter.
For instance,in the case of some of
these corporations, when they desire
to influence, favorably or unfavor
ably, legislation affecting their busi
ness, they should logically utilize
their billboard space for that pur
pose. If the billboard is the most
effective means of convincing the
public of the merits of th£ir goods,
it should be the most powerful agency
for pressing their economic views
upon legislators and the people who
elect legislators.
Do they employ the billboard for
this purpose? Not on your tintype.
They hire a good press agent, po
litely called a “publicity representa
tive,” to try to get their case before
the newspaper readers. If this diplo
mat can’t get free newspaper adver
tising for them, they buy space in the
newspaper columns for the airing of
their arguments.
Why?
Are not the people to whom they
want to sell goods the very same peo
ple whose favorable opinion they
wish to enlist on propositions mutual
ly afFecting their business and the
public welfare?
When it comes right down to brass
tacks, every business man acknowl
edges the newspaper to be the
mightiest molder-of public opinion in
the field, and those who do not carry
this fundamental belief into their ad
vertising programs are deliberately
robbing themselves of sales and pro
fits.—Philadelphia, (Pa.) Record.
January 801 l Weevils
Blakely, Ga., *>924. Edi
tor Abany Herald, Albany, Ga.
Dear Sir: lam enclosing a cotton
bloom pulled from a stalk in the open
field this morning. And you will note
the fact that it has already been
punctured several times by the boll
weevil. No doubt in my mind that
the boll weevil would be as numerous
here in winter as in summer if we
had gowing cotton. G. F. Pickle.
It is an unusual time of the year
for cotton blooms, but there’s no mis
taking the one our correspondent in
closes with his letter. It is, we sup
pose, from a stalk left over from the
1923 crop, and which this winter’s
cold has not been sufficient to des
troy. There is plenty of such cotton
in the open in south Georgia.
The statement that the punctures
in the bloom were made by the boll
weevil is interesting. It is in line
with other current reports that not
all the boll weevils have been driven
into hibernation. The ioppression is
general that the first frost of the
winter season sends all adult boll
weevils into winter quarters, and
that they remain in a dormant state
tin spring’s warmth calls them forth.
But if adult weevils are now to be
found in some cotton fields, as the
above letter indicates and as other
statements allege, the facts about
the boll weevil’s hibernation are not
exacty as they are understood to
be.
And it may not be amiss to remark
in passing that if adult boll weevils
are still finding food in the cotton
fields, the folly of failure to destroy
cotton stalks as soon as the 1923 crop
was gathered becomes apparent.
Albany Herald.
FOX HOUND WORTH HALF AS
MUCH AS FARM MULE
Gainesville, Ga., January 24.—A
good fox hound, one that will also
hunt possums and coons, is rated as
worth half as much as a good mule
in Quillians district. Mansell Gil
strap, who last week moved to West
Virginia to work in the coal mines,
sold his two good mules to Quillian
brothers for SIOO each; also sold his
fox hounds to his neighbors for SSO
apiece. One man bought five of
them. The dogs have no pedigree to
speak of—just ordinary country
raised hounds that will make a fox
get up and dust.
It is said that many families, con
sisting of about 200 persons, have
left the upper part of the county
and gone to West Virginia in the
past few months to work in the
mines.
THE OLD STORY
Sfi The World’s Oest By Every Test 55
ASHEPOD BRADLEY
OLD DOMINION SEAIaWL
FERTILIZERS
Built up to a standard —not down to a price
DRY AND DRILLABLE
GUY ROBERTS
Pendergrass, Ga.
The American Agricultural Chemical Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
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Forecasting A Tremendous
Spring Demand
739,626
....
more Ford cars and trucks were pro
duced last year than the previous
, - year, an increase of over 50 per cent. -
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In spite of this tremendous increase in production, it was
impossible to meet delivery requirements during the spring
and summer months when orders for 350,000 Ford Cars
and Trucks could not be filled.
This year winter buying for immediate delivery has been
more active than ever before —and in addition 200,000
orders have already been booked through the Ford Weekly
Purchase Plan for spring delivery. V. =
These facts clearly indicate that the demand during this
spring and summer will be far greater than ever, and that
orders should be placed immediately with Ford Dealers as
a means of protection against delay in securing your Ford
Car or Truck or Fordson Tractor.
Detroit, Michigan
A small deposit down, with easy payments of
the balance arranged, or your enrollment under f
the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan, will put your *
, order on the preferred list for spring delivery.
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