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ATHENS, GA. '
Beginning Monday, June 20th, and continu
ing through the month of July, Michael’s
will celebrate by means of huge mer
chandise events its
43 rd Anniversary
These 43rd Anniversary Sales will sur
pass in value-giving all previous sales
ever held in our store. The merchan
dise is all new, fashionable, and of fine
quality, while the sale prices are so low
that buying is made an economic ne
cessity.
You will find sales in every department
throughout the whole store. So, re
gardless of what goods you might want,
you are sure to save greatly.
Remember the dates, July 20th to 31st,
and visit Athens then for Michael’s
greatest of Anniversary Sales.
STATEMENT OF
PENDERGRASS BANKING CO.
PENDERGRASS, GA.
SHOWING CONDITION
At Close of Business June 30, 1925.
AS CALLED FOR BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS
President, P. J. Roberts Cashier, Guy Roberts.
RESOURCES
Time Loans and Discounts 1 $29,399.21
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank , 900.00
Other Stocks and Bonds * 40.00
Banking House 1,500.00
Furniture and Fixtures 2,800.00
Other Real Estate owned 15,646.20
Cash in Vault and amounts deposited with approved Reserve
Agents 7,469.49
Advances on Cotton 1,838.55
Other Checks and Cash Items 102.40
Overdrafts I 2,655142
Other Assets 7 6,643.58
TOTAL $69,094.85
_ LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $25,000.00
Surplus ? 5,000.00
Undivided Profits 1,546.92
Deposits Subject to Check _ 10,390.11
Time Certificates of Deposit :. 14,505.00
Cashier’s Checks 76.54
J'iotes and Bills rediscounted 12,476.28
TOTAL J___ $69,094.85
STATE OF GEORGlA—Jackson County.
Before me came Guy Roberts, cashier of Pendergrass Banking Cos., who
b *mg duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true
condition of said Bank, as shown by the books of file in said Bank.
GUY ROBERTS.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 7th day of July, 1925.
R. D. BROOKS, C. N. P., J. C.
GRUEN WATGHES
If you wish a watch of a beautiful design, and also
°ne that will give you excellent service, call and select one
from our large assortment.
M.F.FICKEIT JEWELRY CO.
Jewelers-Optometrists
224 Clayton Street Athens, Ga.
NOTICE— CITY OF JEFFERSON
ii hereby given that a bill
Ai be introduced before the next
°n of the General Assembly of
' ;r ?ia, amending the charter of the
,‘ ty Jefferson. This June 20,
1925.
A Tonic Restorative
SCOTT’S EMULSION
OF PURE COD-LIVER OIL
FOR NURSINC MOTHERS
ABOUNDS IN VITAMINS
Sheriff’s Sale
GEORGlA—Jackson County.
There will be sold, before the court
house door, in said county, on the
first Tuesday in August, 1925,at pub
lic outcry, to the highest bidder, be
tween the legal hours of sale, the
following described property, towit:
All that tract or parcel of land
lying, being and situate in district
No. 255, Jackson county, containing
10 acres, more or less, and more
fully described as follows: Begin
ning at corner on Prickctt and
Smallwood line, thence down Frick
ett line to Jones line, thence down
Jones line on the south and down
Smallwood line on the east, and
across from Jones line to Smallwood
line. Said land levied on and to be
sold as the property of W. L. and J.
E. Nelms, to satisfy a fi fa issued
from the office of G. E. Smith, Tax
Collector of Jackson county, for
state and county taxes for 1924. Le
vy made according to law. This July
6th, 1925.
Also, at the same time and place,
all that tract of land, lying, being
and situate in district No. 255, Jack
son county, containing 10 acres,
more or less, and more fully des
cribed as follows: Beginning at
Black Jack corner, between A. J.
Holland and M. T. Massey, thence
down public road to negro church,
out the line from church, and out the
line from Black Jack corner, then
across from Massey by the church.
Said property levied on and to be
sold as the property of A. J. Hol
land, to satisfy a fi fa issued from the
office of G. E. Smith, Tax Collector
of Jackson county for state, county
and school taxes, for 1924. Levy
made according to law. This July
6th, 1925.
F. L. ARCHER, Sheriff.
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“Quit Tinkering With Tax
Laws,” Is Arnold’s Plea
Taking issue with Governor Wal
ker’s plan for revising the tax sys
tem of Georgia, Reuben R. Arnold,
prominent Atlanta lawyer, in an ad
dress on taxation delivered Wednes
day by the weekly lueheon forum fn
the Chamber of Commerce building,
advocated the repeal of the state in
heritance tax law, adoption of a con
stitutional amendment prohibiting
the imposition of an income tax in
Georgia, and urged that no classifi
cation tax be imposed at this time.
“Georgia is in good shape and will
steadily improve if we quit tinkering
with our tax laws,” Mr. Aronld as
serted, speaking before an audience
that included a number of legisla
tors.
Governor Walker, in his address to
the Georgia legislature Tuesday, ad
vocated the substitution of classifica
tion and income tax law’s for the
present ad valorem system under the
equalization plan. He urged also
that a boijd issue of $10,000,000 to
$15,000,000 be issued to provide for
the educational system of the state.
Condemns Income Tax
“The most disastrous tax of all is
an income tax,” declared Mr. Ar
nold. “It is a tax not only on pro
perty and the income therefrom, but
it is a tax on energy, on thrift, on
talent, on frugality, on productive
ness. It is the greatest blow to in
dustry which can be given any coun
try.
“A man owns a building and gets
an income of $lO,OOO a year from it. 1
The federal government taxes that
income. The state comeS along and
taxes the building and also the in
come. If the building is located in
a city, the owner has to pay taxes J
to the city. The county taxes jt and,
if it is located in a school district,
it is taxed again. ' i
“Of late years, all the states have
been abandoning income taxes as far
as possible. They seem to have rec
ognised that it is a federal function
and that states ought not to dupli
cate it. In the last four years, but
one state has adopted the income
tax, while twelve have rejected it
and but thirteen of the forty-eight
states still impose it.”
Mr. Arnold stated that he knew
of several business failures in At
lanta which were the direct result of
the impairment of their capital by
federal fncomc taxes.
“The income tax has caused bil
lions of capital to be invested in
non-taxable bonds,” he said. “The
effect is disastrous in every way. By
exempting ’these securities our sta-
tes, counties and municipalities have
been led into an orgy of bond is
sues in quantities much, greater than
prudence would have dictated.”
Classification Taxes
Turning to the classification tax,
Mr. Arnold asserted to attempt such
a tax at this time “would be a mis
take.”
“The rate of taxation on every
piece of property which is taxed
should be the same. It will not do
to say that one man who has SIOO
in town property and another who
has SIOO in country property should
be taxed at different rates, or that
a man who has SIOO in machinery
should be taxed at a different rate
from one who has SIOO in live stock.
“To d° so, is open discrimination.
There is no wiser clause in our con
stitution than that all taxation upon
property shall be uniform and ac
cording to value.
"The worst lobby that ever infes
ted a capita! would be present at the
Georgia legislature in 1927 if you
adopted any scheme of classifying
property and givng it a different
rate of taxation.
“In the end it would result with
real estate bearing absolutely all the
tax, becausec it is visible and cannot
escape.
“Twelve states have adopted the
classification tax and in those states
it is in an experimental stage. These
states are: Connecticut, Florida,
lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland,
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and
South Dakota. We should certainly
wait and see how it works out in
those states.”
Mr. Arnold asserted that the pres
ent inheritance tax, which, he said,
affords only a small income, should
be repealed, in order to induce capi
tal to come into Georgia.
Along with the repeal of,the in
, heritance, there should be a consti
tutional amendment adopted forbid
ding'the enactment of an income
tax law, he declared.
These two taxes were character
t ized as “the most oppressive that
! have been levied in this Country.”
Quit Knocking Georgia”
; "They are a direct discouragement
to labor and to the inauguration of
newt: terpries and to the hope
[ which every man has of accumulat
ing something for posterity.”
Mr. Arnold expressed his belief
that Georgia is better off in the mat
ter of taxation than most of the
near-by states.
“Why anybody is complaining of
our tax system in Georgia is some
thing that I cannot understand. Let’s
quit knocking Georgia. There is
nothing the matter with Georgia. I
believe Georgia is in better shape
than any other southern state.
“The best thing for Georgia right
now is not to agitate the tax ques
tion at all, but to go along just as
we are, because we are in a pretty
fair shape, and our taxes are noth
ing at all so burdensome as in some
of the eastern and western states.
We shall be very foolish if we at
tempt to adopt at this time any
sweeping changes of any sort.
Revenue From Present System
Mr. Arnold, after explaining that
the estimated revenue of Georgia for
1925 is $18,000,000, stated that this
w’ould give $5,000,000 for roads and
$5,000,000 for schools and leave suf
ficient for the operation of the state
government.
“It needs no argument that we
are running very well on this amount
and ought to,” he said.
“When we consider the fact,” he
continued, “that only fifteen years
ago, in 1910 we got along pretty well
with $5,000,000, and in 1915 with
$6,700,000, does it not look reason
able that in 1925 we can get along
fairly well with $18,000,000 of in
come?
“Our present income will increase
every year with better times under
our present system and we should
not make any radical departure from
the present scheme. This is the time
to let all reforms rest and let busi
ness have a change.
“Governor Walker in his address
Tuesday said the state needed only
$3,000,000 more annually. This is not
a very large amount. Increase in
prosperity for one year—a good cot
ton crop—is likely to bring it.
“The trouble is some of our men
in office do not sufficiently feel the
burden of those who pay the taxes.
They think they can erect a mental
Utopia, a sort of pipe dream, and
that the people will always pay to
make the dream come true.”
Medical Science Accom
plishes Wonders
|
Six weeks ago, Jack Cokman of
Dado City, Fia., a little six-year-old
boy, was seized with severe coughing
spells. The doctors who were caljed
to attend him, urged that he be tak
en immediately to a Tampa special
ist. In Tampa it was discovered by
use of the X-ray that there was some
kind of an obstruction in the left
lung, and despite all efforts, the con
dition grew worse.
Asa last resort Mr. and Mrs. Cole
man took the little fellow, with a
trained nurse, boarded a fast train
for Philadelphia and arrived there as
Jack was in the last stages of stran
gulation. The left lung was entirely
cut off, the right was rapidly being
affected and he was consumed with a
terrific fever. Mucuous from the con
gested lung formed a membranous
covering over his throat and the sur
geons made an incision for a tiny
tube through which he drew in
enough oxygen to keep him barely
alive. This operation was perform
ed without an anaesthetic.
The fluoroscope, an instrument
which is passed down the throat and
by which the surgeons are able to
locate obstructions in the air pas
sages or in the alimentary canal,
showed the grain of corn lodged in
the lower lobe of the left lung. Then
the bronchoscope was called into ser
vice, a ibng tube-like instrument
through which a fairly strong current
of air passes, creating a mild suction.
The bronchoscope reached and at
tached itself to the kernel of corn,
and was being withdrawn from the
boy’s lung, when Jack drew a long
breath and the kernel was drawn
back into the right lung.
Grain Is Removed
Anothehr desperate effort by the
surgeons and the grain was again lo
cated, this time to be drawn out
safely.
I Then followed days of anxiety
while Jack lay in a stupor, his
strength reduced almost to the van
ishing point, while his tortured lungs
were being relieved of their conges
tion and the doctors made every ef
fort to prevent pneumonia from set
ting in. They were successful, and
a few days ago Jack and his mother
came south from Philadelphia on
their way home to Florida.
1 Only a scar about an inch long on
his thhroat renfains as evidence of his
fearsome experience.
A lumber company located just
outside the city limits of Macon suf
fered a $1,000,000 fire los3 on Tue3*‘
day. |
Special Agent Woody
Writes On Alfalfa
The main essentials in preparing
land for alfalfa are to eliminate, as
far as possible, all crab grass and
other weeds, and to conserve the
available supply ef moisture in the
soil. The best way to accomplsih
these points is to treat the land as a
summer fallow. Of course, land that
has corn, cotton, or any other all
season crop on it can not be given
summer fallow treatment. For fal
lowing, the suitable land that has not
already been seeded to a forage crop,
is best suited. Such land should bo
plowed to a depth of from six to
eight inches; then harrowed after
each rain to conserve the moisture
and destroy all young weeds and
grass that may appear. This treat
ment should be continued until the
middle of September, after which the
seeds should be sown as soon as the
moisture conditions of the soil will
permit. Never sow the seeds unless
there is sufficient moisture in the
ground to insure complete germina
tion. It is better to wait for rain
than to make a failure. It is best,
however, not to wait later than the
middle of October, as alfalfa sown
later than this is liable to be winter-
killed.
The soil should be plowed six or
eight inches deep; then, under or
dinary circumstances, subsoiling wilt
not be necessary. Under no condi
tions should subsoiling be done Inter
than July 15. Land subsoiled Inter
than this is liable to dry out to such
an extent that it will be impossible
to get a stand of alfalfa when the
seeds are sown. Alfalfa is a deep
rooted plant, and its rotos will pene
trate the stiffest subsoils without the
I
aid of subsoiling.
The two essential fertilizer con-
stituents for alfalfa are lime and
phosphorous. Lime should be added
in the form of crushed limestone,
and the phosphorus in the form of
acid phosphate. A heavy application
of lime will help any soil as far as
the production of alfalfa is concern
ed; but, as a general rule, the more
fertile the soil the smaller can be the
application of lime? Less than I,ooo'
pounds to the acre should not be
used, even on the’ most fertile soil,
while thinner soil should be given
two tons or more. Good soil will re
quire about 400 pounds of acid phos
phate to the acre, while thin soil
will require up to 600 pounds. When,
alfalfa is to be planted on poor soil,
it will be a goed policy to add from
50 to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda
to the acid phosphate before it is,
applied.
The fertilizers should be applied
broadcast on the land about a week
or ten days before the time set to
sow the seeds. This should be thor
oughly worked into the top soil with
a harrow. This should be dpne dur
ing the early part of September, and,
the seeds should be sown as soon
thereafter as the moisture conditions
of the soil will permit. (Watch this
paper next week for another artiela
on alfalfa.)
Oscar Woody,
Special County Agent.
TRIPLETS ARE BORN
TO PAULDING COUPLE;
NOW PARENTS OF 1&
Dallas, Ga.—Triplets* were born.
Saturday night to Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Martin, who live about five milest
out of Dallas. The three boys, each;
weighing six and one-quarter pounds,
are getting along well.
Besides the triplets, Mr. and Mrs.
Martin have thirteen other children,
all of them still living with their par
ents.
* * •
Cordon County Citizen Father of
25 Children
Calhoun, Ga.—J. R. Blackburn,
living on the Crane Eater road, is.
the father of perhaps the largest
family in this section of the state-
He is 70 years of age and has been,
married twice. His first wife in nine-
, teen years was the mother of nin®
'children. His second wife, who i*
yet living, was married to Mr. Black
burn thirty-five years ago, and has
added sixteen children to the fam
ily, making a total of twenty-Bv%*
He has 117 grand children and great,
grand children.
He states that his grand father
was the father of twenty-seven chil
dren, including one pair of twins
and one set of triplets. Mr. Black-
burn was born and reared near-
Kingston, but has been a citizen of
this county for a number of years.
A letter to The Herald from Mrs.
J. H. Boger states that she is now
residing at Lakeworth, Fla. Mr. amt
Mrs. Boger have erected anew home
at Lakeworth, and extend an invi
tation to Jackson county frieds t®
visit them. ,
Be!I Weevil Mo'ataea for •!.—*
E. L. Williamson.