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The Americus Times-Recorder
i/jj-fIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
AMERICUS BOOSTERS INVADE MACON
A HUNDRED STRONG ATTEND CONVENTION
Scene on Andersonville Road, Near Americus, a Portion of The Andersonville-1 homasville Highway.
“ALFALFA DAY” IN AMERICUS
GREAT SUCCESS EXPECTED
Speakers of Ability Addressed a Meeting ot Representa
tive Citizens of Sumter and Other Counties—Many
Good Suggestions Made Along the Lines of Scien
tific Farming and Crop Diversification- Great Ben
efit Will Be Derived. •
W hen, two weeks ago, Ae Times-Re
corder suggested “'Alfalfa Day” for
Americus under the auspices of the
< hamber of Commerce, the proposition
lliet w *th instant favor, but its most
enthusiastic advocates hardly dared to
expect of it the splendid success real
ised yesterday when probably one liun
-111 ed and fifty of the representative
farmers of Sumter and neighboring
'ounties assembled at the courthouse
10 'ist™ to the distinguished speakers
•'ho had been invited to address them
a ' 0I) g lines of advanced agriculture.
' for the very inclement weather
' attendance would have been much
la. ger. Withal, the meeting was a most
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successful one and beneficial to great
degree, the careful attention given ihe
speakers evidencing the very deep in
terest felt by farmrs in the subjects
discussed.
President C. J. Clark, of the Ameri
cus Chamber of Commerce, presided,
while Mr. E. A. N'isbet very gracefully
1 introduced the several speakers, in
: eluding Mr. H. O. Hastings, of At
lanta; Mr. C. J. Haden, chairman of
the Georgia State Chamber of Com
merce; Mr. George Byrne, of the Man
. ufacturers’ Record, Baltimore; Mr. Ed
■ mund A. Felder, of South Carolina:
Mr. J. A. Pride, industrial agent of
: the Seaboard railway, of Norfolk, Va.;
STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDITION
Mr. J. F. Jackson, agricultural agent I
of the Central of Georgia railway.
Each speaker was thoroughly fan.il-'
iar with the subject he wished to dis
cuss and "a feast of reason” and flow
of good, sound, practical suggestions
was the meeting in its every sense. Al
falfa had its part therein, but other
pertinent topics were discussed as well.
Mr. Hastings, the first speaker, pre
sented his argument forcibly in a
statement entitled, “A Satement of Ac
counts; The People of Georgia, in Ac
count With the Northern and Western
I armers,” being upon the line of debit
and credit between the two sections.
The farmers of Georgia purchased
last year from the fanners of the west
said Mr. Hastings, food supplies to the
amount of $172,496,000.' To pay this
debt we raised in Georgia 1,800,000
bales of cotton, which, with the seed,
were worth $135,000,000, or lacking
$37,496,000 of being sufficient to pay
lor the supplies consumed in producing
that crop.
Put in terms of an ordinary busi
ness statement this is the actual show
ing for Georgia's cotton farming busi
ness last year. Theoretically, the
speaker said, Georgia has been mak
ing cotton and buying grain, but the
books do not* disclose that to be a
fact. The theory, Mr. Hastings said,
would not bear the sunlight of inves
tigation.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 16. 1913.
| Mr. Hastings eloquently and force
fully urged diversified farming as a
' correction for this great mistake in
our present method of all-cotton farm
ing.
Mr. Hastings was followed by Mr.
Charles .1. Haden, of Atlanta, chair
man of the Georgia State Chamber of
Commerce, who delivered a practical
address upon farm diversifications and
concert of action between the farmer,
the banker and the merchant. Tne
three are interested in one great com
mon cause —the state’s development
and advancement along material lines
Sumter, Mr. Haden said, stood second
in the 148 counties of Georgia in agri
cultural progress, and there was no
reason why Sumter should not hav-'
first place in the line-up.
1 Mr. Edmund J. Felder, of South Car
, olina, representative of German
; American Nitragin Co., of Milwaukee..
' spoke most interestingly upon the sub -
ject of plant and soil foods, demon
strating how nitrogen was most es
sential in land building and crop food,
especially in the production of alfaP’e,
• clover, peas, fceans and other legumes.
1 Mr. Felder exhibited a small can of
"Nitragin,” the discovery of a German
■ scientist and very largely used in soil
i inoculation, which in very condensed
form supplies nitrogen to the ground
■ and insures better results. Mr. Fel
der’s scientific discourse was one of
the best of the occasion, and the many
questions propounded by his audienct
evidenced the deep interest manifest
ed in his remarks upon the cultivation
of alfalfa, vetch and similar crops.
Following Mr. Felder's very inte--
esting address, Mr. George Byrne, of
the Manufacturers’ Record, entertain
ed the assemblage with a helpful talk
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MAYOR OF AMERICUS.
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Hon. M. M. Lowery.
SPECIAL EDITION OF THE
TIMES-RECORDER WILL BE
PRESENTED TO DELEGATES
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Two Special Cars Needed to Take Americus Boosters
and Their Noise To “The Next Capital”—Business
Rivais Forget Competition and Pull Together for
Americus and Sumter County.
Ciie hundred and fifty jovial boosters for Americus and Sumter
county left this morning for Macon. It took two special cars to
| transport them and their noise to the “Next Capital.” They left as
a delegation from the local Chamber o f Commerce to attend the
meeting of the State Chamber of Commerce.
Berore the sun will have set behind the towers of Wesleyan Col
lege (many sons set there) Macon and every delegate to the con
vention will have been impressed with the fact that Americus is the
livest town in South Georgia. The delegation went loaded down
with literature and advertising novelties and with a determination to
put in a good day’s work for Sumter and its capital city.
With ever-smiling “Fess” Gardner at their head they presented
a noble picture as they boarded the train for the Central City. Law
jers, doctors, merchants, chiefs, were all there with one purpose n
mind—TO BOOST AMERICUS. Prominent capitalists will
distribute dodgers; eminent divines will pin booster streamers on del
egates; business rivals will forget competition and pull together fo r
Americus. The silvery tongues of distinguished members of the
local bar will exioll the virtues and advantages of our city. Every
body will have one thing in view—TO BOOST AMERICUS.
Two thousand copies of this edition of The Times-Recorder will
be distributed to the delegates from the different towns. These will
in a condensed way set forth some of the reasons why Americus is
an ideal home town, a tip-top business city, a manufacturing metrop
olis, in fact, the BEST CITY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.
I f Americus doesn’t make an impression on the whole state through
the delegates to the convention it will be because every mother’s son
of them are both blind and deaf. The boosters are going there deter
mined to do a full day’s work for the old town and Sumter county.
All together now! LET’S BOOST AMERICUS AND
SUMTER COUNTY.
SOME INDUSTRIEHBICtIS NEEDS
MCRE SMALL MANULACTURING INDUS
TRIES OF THE KIND THAT EMPLOY SKILLED
LABOR.
A STREET RAILWAY.
A FAMILY LAUNDRY.
A BUSINESS COLLEGE.
A NEW OPERA HOUSE. .
> A MILLING CONCERN.
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL BE
GLAD TO FURNISH INFORMATION TO ANY EN
TERPRISE THAT IS LOOKING FOR A GOOD LO
CATION. LIBERAL CONCESSIONS WILL BE MADE
TC THEM.
HAVE YOU ANYTHING THAT WE WANT?
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