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Southwest Georgia Crops
In Excellent Shape With
Summer Leading In Grain
The crops of southwest Georgia are
in the best condition as a whole, which
they have seen in many years.
A representative of the Times-Re
corder in the past few days has visited
Lee, Dougherty, Calhoun, Terrell,
Webster, Stewart and Sumter. The
stand of cotton generally is the best
which this section has witnessed in
many years. Most every section has
chopped a cosiderable amount of cot
ton and this week will find chopping
under full sway.
The acreage is as much as last year,
if not any more. The farming appears
to have been carried on with more sys
tem and determination to make the
bests of every resource and implement.
Sumter county holds the palm as to
the amount of grain planted. The
jvestern section of the county presents
endless fields of W’avy grain which is
( in good condition.
Fuller Callaway, of LaGrange,
well-known throughout the country
as a man of finance and prominently
connected with cotton mills because
of his interests in spinning, was in
Americus several days ago. He re
turned with Crawford Wheatley from
Dawson, where they both attended the
banker’s convention of this district.
Mr. Callaway was plain in his praise
of this section of the state, and his
tributes to Sumter county were grand.
It was his first visit through this im
mediate section in an automobile.
During an address at the convention
Mr. Callaway made known his con
clusions reached as the result of visits
through the south and west, especially
Texas. He stated that it seemed as if
the farmers of Georgia were making
elaborate plans for the last stand
before General 801 l Weevil. A bumper
crop is Mr. Callaway’s prediction.
In a rather humorous vein the well
known La Grange financier said that
the Texas farmer was planting a huge
crop to make up the shortage which
Georgia would show because of the
boll weevil. Coupled with the extra
ordinary efforts of Texas and the last
battle in Georgia, it seems that 1916
will market a crop easily in access of
1915 and possibly an equal to the
bumper of 1913.
The only salvation which can come
to the south providing international
questions as they regard us become no
more exciting, is the raising of a large
crop of grain with well provisioned
store houses in the fall. The southern
farmer has bought his meat from the
west for years, and stocks his necessi
sities with middle western corn.
With the unprecedented yield of
corn, wheat and oats, coupled with a
reasonable stock of hogs, the south
ern farmer may pass through the fall
of 1916 unscathed provided he can
Secure prices for his cotton which is
new being maintained. But that "pro
vided” is unusually large.
Northern factors and brokers have
announced their contentment with the
1915 crop as their playground, and
that because of the unusual unsettled
conditions that they will not tamper
with the 1916 crop.
Circumstances may alter this. But
the fact remains that General 801 l
Weevil seems to have gone into col
lusion with nature to stop the south
ern farmer from his cotton-planting
mania.
The toll weevil is here. A confer
ence at Albany on April 20th was
held, and this wonderful work will
bring valuable results. Along these
lines is the following editorial from
the Augusta Chronicle of April 24th,
v'hich is interesting to every citizen of
the south
“The state board of entomology is
doing an immensely important worn
for Georgia in its fight on the boll
weevil. The Chronicle has, already,
frequently referred to the investiga
tions being carried out by the State
Entomologist Worsham, in conjunc
tion with Mr. R. C. Berckmans, of Au
• gusta, president of the State Horti-
cultural Society, and Hon. John A.
Cobb, of Americus, president of the
State Agricultural Society, both being
also, leading members of the board of
entomology
“These gentlemen have been work
ing indefitigably to hold the boll
weevil in check in Georgia, and it Is
believed they are meeting with consid
erable success. A few days ago, they
were at Thomasville, pursuing their
cotton-growing experiments, with a
view to finding, or developing, a var
iety that will mature early enough to
avoid damage by the boll weevil. They
are, also making various tests in the
hope of finding a remedy for the weev
il, though, so far, it is admitted that
either early maturing cotton of burn
ing, or turning under, the stalks after
picking, are the only known measures
ot checking the spread of this pest.
“In the mantime, it is certain that
our farmers cannot do better than to
make a careful study of the weevil’s
habits and to be ever on the defensive
for, little by little, this pesky insect is
advancing toward the east and north
east. His greatest jump was almost
across the state of Alabama into Geor
gia, where he was borne by strong !
winds more than the usual number of i
miles in one season.
“It seems that the annual rate of the
weevil’s advance, depending upon the
winds and atmospheric conditions, is
from forty to seventy miles, and the
rate of progress he has managed to
keep up despite all efforts of scientists
to stop him.
“In the meantime, it is well enough
to know the weevil when you meet
him; if for no other reason, so that
you may not be needlessly alarmed
over every insect that makes a hole in
one of your cotton bolls. The follow
ir.g official description, therefore, of
the weevil and its habits is worth filing
away for future references, if you are
interested in cotton culture:
“The adult boll weevil is a small
beetle with a long snout in front, the
whole length less than a quarter of
an inch. Throughout the season it
punctures and lays eggs in the squares
and bolls of the cotton plant. The
larva is a fat white maggot a little
over three-eights of an inch long when
full grown, and lives upon the internal
tissue of the burrs and bolls. The at
tacked squares usually drop off, but
the bolls stay on the plant, becoming
dwarfed and stunted except late in the
season, when they either rot or dry.
The boll is usually a retreat for per
petuation, one boll sometimes holding
seevral of the creatures. The adults
hibernate in grass, late cornstalks, old
bolls on the plants, in piles of seed,
about giins and other places. There
are four or more generations to the
season, the larvae being found as late
as December. The habit the insect has
of boring into the plant renders meth
cds of attack employed against other
insects almost useless. Atttempts to
destroy the creatures by spraying and
poisoning have little effect.”
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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
NOTICE OF BOND ELECTION.
At a meeting of the Board of Trus
tees of the Leslie School District of,
Sumter County, Georgia, held on the
11th day of April, 1916, the following
Trustees being present, to-wit:
E. L. Wilson, P. O. Bradley, J. T.
Bolton, R. J. Sims, R. A. Deriso, the
petition of F. P. Jones, F. A. Wilson, I
Sr., W. W. Webb, L. M. Hawkins, et
al., was filed with the said Trustees, a
copy of which is as follows:
To the Trustees of the Leslie School
District, located in Sumter County,
Georgia:
The undersigned, who are register-,
ed, qualified voters residing within the
limits of the Leslie School District, re
spectfully ask you, as Trustees ,to call 1
an election to be held by virtue of the
Act approved August 17th, 1912, the,
same being an act of the General As-'
sombly of Georgia, for the purpose of I
determining whether or not bonds shall
be issued for the purpose of building
and equipping a school house for said
district, the same being a School Dis - (
triet, in which local tax is now being
levied for school purposes, as it is by
said Act authorized.
Petitioners:
F. P. Jones, F. A. Wilson, Sr., W. T.
Anderson, V. C. Odum, J. C. Hoffman,
A. H. Walker, E. D. Bigham, D. R.
Parker, G. J. Parker, R. W. Cobb, S. G..
Evans, S. L. Cox, E. E. Gardner, J. R.
Pilcher, R. L. Reeves, H. A. Deriso, Jr..
J. L. Jones, W. W. Webb, L. M. Haw
kins, W. M. Laramore, J. O. Suggs, L.
C. Griffin, R. D. Winchester, E. W.
Drown, M. H. Sims, R. F. Thompson, R,
E. Brown, K. H. Hines, E. A. Bowen, D.
V. Smith, James Harp, J. W. Suggs, W.
IT Wade, J. Q. Jones, Crisp Wilkinson,
J W. Barwick, T. H. Ratliff, B. J.
Ranew, U. S. Lancaster, E. B. Wallace,
F. A. Wilson, Jr., Edd Jenkins, E. C.
Brown. J. E. Ranew, R. W. Pryor, H.
H. Williams, W. L. Johnson, A. G.
Janes, G. D. Jones, K. Wood, Roy T.
.'Ones, J. R. Kennington, V. D. Bai's,
P. E. Bass, J. O. Sumerford, T. W.
Livingston, R. B. Clifton, petitioning
for an election for the purpose of,
determining whether or not bonds shall
be issued for the purpose of building I
and equipping a school house for said 1
District, petition was adopted unanim-.
ously.
Whereas, We the Trustees of the
Leslie School District of Sumter
County, Georgia, have determined that
more than one-fourth of the registered,
qualified voters of the Leslie School
District in Sumter County, Georgia,
have filed their petition with the
board of Trustees of said District, ask
ing for an election for the purpose of
determining whether or rot bonds
shall be issued for the purpose of
building and equipping a school house
for said District, and the Ordinary of
said County having furnished and fil
ed with said Trustees a list of the reg
istered, qualified voters of said Dis
trict; it is, therefore, hereby ordered
and adjudged by said Trustees that an
election be held in said District in the
Court Bouse in the city of Leslie, for
the purpose of determining whether or
no: bonds shall be issued for the pur
pose of building an equipping a school
house for said District, on the 16th
day of May, 1916.
The ballots cast in said election shall
have printed or written thereon, "For
School House” or "Against School
House.”
The amount of bonds to be rssued,
denomination, rate of interest, and
dates when due is hereby fixed by said
Trustees as follows: The amount
shall be Ten Thousand Dollars ($lO,-
000), the denominations, ten bonds, the
principal of each shall be One Thous
and Dollars ($1,000); five bonds with
principal each of One Thousand Dol
lars ($1,000) shall be due July Ist,
1931, and five bonds with principal
each of One Thousand Dollars
($1,000) shall be due July Ist, 1946,
the rate of interest each bond sha'l
bear shall be five per cent, per annum
until the due date thereof, payable
semi-annually on the first day of Jan
uary and the first day of July each
year, and if the interest is not paid
promptly, to bear interest annually at
the .-same rate; the due date of last
bond shall be July Ist, 1946; all of
said bonds to bear date of July Ist,
1916.
It is further hereby ordered and ad
judged that the said Trustees, and
the proper authorities provide each
jear by sufficient levy of the tax on
the taxable property of said School
District, and the collection thereof, for
the retiring of the principal and in
terest due on said bonds.
It is further hereby ordered and ad
judged that this order be published in
the Americus Times-Recorder, a news
paper published in said county in
which sheriff’s advertisements for the
county are published, for thirty days,
and for ten days by posting at three
public places in said District, next pre
ceding the said day of election.
This the 11th day of April, 1916.
Signed:
E. L. WILSON, Ohm’n.,
Board of Trustees.
J. T. BOLTON, Trustee.
R. A. DERISO. Trustee.
R. J. SIMS, Trustee.
P. O. BRADLEY, Trustee.
EASTER IN ATLANTA
mo DAYS
ATLANTA, Ga. April 25. —Easter
in Atlanta proved to be the “day of
days” from a weather viewpoint. It
was ideal with the brightness of sun
shine and the verdancy of spring.
Tnousands of people were on the
streets, in the churches and at the
parks. But all of this was backed off
the boards by the pretty girls and their
new gowns. Truly, Atlanta which sets
the styles in the south, broke some
records Sunday in Easter clothes.
From the top of milady's hat to the
tips of her shoes she was yesterday at
tired in her gladsome finery-. As many
and varied were the styles of headgear
as the different wearers of it. The nar
row turban with its bow atop that
threatens to rake the cobwebs off the
heavens had its peculiarities further
accentuated by the broad hat which in
many cases was a filmy black lace cre
ation that increased the daintiness of
the wearer.
Then those Easter dresses. Some of
them may have been of last year’s vint
age, but nevertheless they did not look
it and were worn with as much grace
and distinction as though they w T ere
the very coronation “rags" of the
Queen of Sheba.
All colors were displayed in the
dresses from the blue of the summer
sky to the green of the sea. Nature’s
rainbows were shamed into insignifi
cance by the riot of color. The very
flowers of the florist shops must have
bowed their heads in defeat when they
tried to vie with milady’s spring gar
ments of yesterday.
But milady has more than one day
this week to display her new clothes;
in fact .every day this week she will
be beautifully attired, for it is .grand
opera week, otherwise “Dress UP”
week. Millinery stores and dress mak
ers in Atlanta are said to have done
the largest business in their history
during the last, several weeks. Local
trade has not only been heavy, but out
of-town orders have broken all rec
ords.
ROAD MARKING DAY
FOR ODtIL HIGHWAY
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 25.
One of the first divisions of the entire
Dilxie Highway to arrange for a spec
ial road marking day, is that of the
western division between Louisville
and Nashville. President D. W. Rider,
of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, of the di
visional association has sent out no
tices to all of the counties on his divis
ion to secure the markers from the
Dixie Highway Association at Chatta
ncoga and be ready to put them up on
June 1, in order that the close of the
day set apart for this work may find
the entire Dixie Highway between the
cities mentioned, thoroughly marked.
From the inquiries which the associa
tion has received, other counties and
divisions which have been made ac
quainted with the action of the Louis
ville to Nashville division are prepar
ing also to observe a special marking
day about June 1.
On marking day, Judge Rider is
planning a big auto parade and holiday
along the entire division, and the high
way will be alive with machines all
day. Residents of the various coun
ties are planning to visit one another
and the day is specially devoted to a
tig demonstration for the Dixie High
way. In his call Judge Rider urges
every resident along the highway to
give this one day to the work, stating
"cur Dixie Highway is too great an
enterprise to be treated lightly by any
and and I trust that everyone will feel
ft is his or her duty to assist us in this
matter.”
Judge Rider has also set aside May
3 as a day to start the work of beauti
fying the Louisville-Nashville division
of the Dixie Highway in every county.
The day, he stated, should be set aside
for the planting of trees, flowers, and
other shrubbery along the right of
way. The women’s clubs and the
school children have been specially
invited to have an important part in
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by Judge Rider for the suggestion of
road beautification and road marking
days.
ATLANTA POLICE IDE
CUTTING OFF MUSTACHE
ATLANTA, Ga., April 25.—Atlanta
policemen are lopping off their mus
taches, and at the rate the hitherto
adornments are being removed, this
city will show the most clean shaven
lot of cops ever brought together un
der one police station. A few of the
Ibluecoats started the fad and in a
short time the barber shops were
crowded. Some of the barbers are
said to have reduced the price to po
licemen.
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All kind Fruits, Candies and Pro
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Seaboard Air Line
rhe Progressive Railway of the Soaft
Leave Americus tor Cordele,
stelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, CoU
Uns, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond
Portsmouth and points East and South.
12:81 p ■
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la C. W. Small, Div. Pass. Agent,
Savannah, Ga.; C. B. Ryan, G. P.
Norfolk, Va.