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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 111.
FIRE AND TORNADO WRECK FAMOUS RESORT
U. S.-Troops Are Protecting Railroad In China
$15,000 TIMBER TRACT DEAL CONSUMMATED
FINE TMCT LYING
JUST IM HUE in
WEBSTER IS BOUGHT
Charles Black, Vice President of
Atlanta Trust Company, Dis
poses of Holdings
3,000 ACRES ARE INVOLVED
Millions of Feet of Virgin Pine
Timber Will Be Cut During
Next Few Months
•Announcement was authorized to
day of the sale here of 3,000 acres
of timber right, for the round sum
of $15,000, the deal having just
-been consummated. The big tim
ber tract was sold by Charles Black,
vice-president of the Atlanta Trust
company, of Atlanta, an'd the Smith.
Burgin Lumber company, of Ameri
cus, was the buyer. The sale was
consummated through the loan de
partment of the Atlanta Trust com
pany, which is represented in Ameri
cus by Luther Allison.
Only the timber rights were sold
by Black, who retains title to the
realty, and it is said, plans to de
velop a number of fine, farms there
as rapidly as the timber is removed.
The timber embraced in the deal
is located on wha£ is known as the
Giles place, lying in Webster coun
ty, just across the Sumter line, be
tween Plains and Preston, and long
recognized as one of the finest tim
ber preserves anywhere in this sec
tion of the South. No estimate ol
the actual stumpage there was avail
able this afternoon, but it was stated
there iarc several million) 'feet of
virgin timber now upon the tract.
The tract lies a distance of ap
proximately twenty miles west of
Americus, and the new owners have
not authorized a statement of their (
intention regarding removal of the
timber. It ig believed, however, that
much of the timber will bfe brought
to Americus for milling, as the
Smith-Burgin company owns one of
the best equipped planing mills in
Georgia, this being located at their
plant site just west of Americus.
It is probable, though, rough lum
ber will be sawed upon, the tract
and that carload shipments of tljp
product will be made from some
point on the Seaboard railroad be
tween Plains and Preston, a new sta
tion probably being established for
that purpose.
mw bi sms
dies st moil
Succumbed to Attack of Acute
Diabetes, After Months of
Failing Health
THOMSON, May 15.—Mrs. Thos.
E. Watson, widow of United States
Senator Thomas E. Watson, of Geor
gia, died at her home here ar 11
o’clock Monday night from '.n attack
of acute diabetes.
Mrs. Watson had been in failing
health for several months, but her
condition had not become alarming
until a short time before her death.
She took a sudden turn for the worse
early last night which resulted in
death.
She is survived by two grand
daughters, Misses Georgia Lee and
Georgia Watson.
Mrs. Watson was ‘he first woman
ever to be tendered the appointment
as United States senator, Governor
Hardwick having offered the seat
made vacant by the death of her
husband last fall. . She d 'dined the
appointment, however, and it was
then given to Mrs. Rebecca Latimer
Felton, of Cartersville.
Funeral services will be held here
Wednesday afternoon, with inter
ment in Tnomson cemetery in a grave
beside that of her distinguished hus
band. Many mesages of indolences
from all parts of the. country were
received by members of the bereaved
family during today.
MARK WILCOX NAMED
SOLICITOR PRO TEM
f BRUNSWICK, May 15.—An or
ider has been received by Superior
Court Clerk Harry dußignon from
Judge J- P. Highsmith at Baxley, ap
pointing Attorney J. Mark Wilcox
as solicitor pro tern to handle all of
the Appling county bank cases,
which have been transferred to the
Glynn superior court to be tried at
May ter. This action was on part
of Judge Highsmith was made man
datory on account of> the fact that
the court. Solicitor General Alvin
Sellers, and the solicitor pro tern, of
the Brunswick circuit ate disquali
fied. • _
FRENCH DRIVE DEEP
INTO WESTPHON
GERMANJERRITORV
Baden and Part of Ludwigshaven
Are Occupied by Invader as
Workers Quit Tasks
STREET RAILWAYS SUSPEND
Hcescht Dye Works at Ludwig
shaven and the Town, of West
phalia in Area Occupied
BERLIN, May 15.—(8y the Asso
ciatecj Press.) —The French have oc
cupied Baden, Aniline and the soda
works at Ludwigsafen, according
to a message received here.
Employes have not attempted to
enter the works, which are shut
down, with the entire regiment of
the French quartered there.
Street railways have ceased opera
tion as a result of the French occu
pation of the depot.
The Hoechst Dye works at Lud
wigshafen and the town oi West
phalia also have been occupied by
the French.
LIPSCMBMBBCT
TENT Mt M
Nashville Christian Minister Will
Be Assisted in Work by Ever
ett Derryberry, Singer
A commodious tent Las been placed
on the squar# at the intersection of
Church and Jackson streets the pur
pose of which is to hold services for
.the Christian church beginning Sun
day morning, May 20, at 11 a.m.
The series of evangelistic sermons
will be preached Ijy Rev.. A. B. Lip
scomb, of Nashville, Tenn., who is
regarded as one of the Ablest minis
ters in the south. His message will be
earnestly given and it is expected
that large crowds will hear him.
The congregational singing will be
led by Everett Derryberry, of Co
lumbia. Tenn., who is known far and
wide as the possessor of a remark
ably sweet voice especially adapted
to evangelistic work.
An afternoon service will be held
at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, and at
8 o’clock each evening next week,
and as much longer as interest is
manifested.
It is stated that no collections will
be taken at the evening services, nei
ther will donations be asked. A cor
dial invitation is extended the peo
ple of Americus to come and hear
gospel sermons and gospel hymns in
which everybody may take part.
SURVEYING ALAPAHA
f UK POWER DAM SITES
JENNINGS, Fla., May 15.—A par
ty ol civil engineers it is understood :
i»as this weex been engaged jn a
survey of the waters power possibi
lities on the Alapha river, near Jen
nings, while tne work has not prog
ressed far enough for the engineers I
to make a report, there is hope or a I
great power Ueveopment noitii oi I
jennings. People who are ramiliar 1
with tne topography of the country
and the tall maue by the river at
that point believe that there is power
enough going to waste there to sup
ply ail the electric lights and power
needed in all ot the Jennings, jasper
and White Springs are uridersioou to
be especially interested in tne pro- |
ject.
NO VERDICT RENDERED
IN SINCLAIR SUICIDE
BRUNSWICK,. May 15.—Corner
Baldwin has not yet discharged the
jury which has in charge investiga
tion of the suicide of Ethel Sinclair,
young white womaii who took her :
own life by‘ taking bichloride of ,
rrycury tablets at a house on Am- ,
herst street nearly fifteen days ago. i
It is stated that the verdict is being
held up until a missing witness can
be located. This witness was an in
mate of the house the night the girl
killed herself and le,ft immediately |
afjer she died. It is reported that she <
is in Savannah.
HARDING DEFINITELY
DETERMINES ON TRIP
WASHINGTON, Mav 15—Presi
dent Hardine has decided definitely '
to make the contemnlated trin
thiough'the west and to Alaska, leav- i
ing Washington about June 20. and ‘
bieng absent from the capital for |
about 60 davs, it was announced at -
tl -> White House.
Kitchens are small rooms in
which cooks open tin cans.
THE TIMES- RECORDER
POLES ELL 111 PLACE:
HYBHD ELECTRIC JOICE
SOON BE DEUVtfiID
Everything Ready to Cut in Cur
rent as Sen as Lines to Al
bany Are Finished
SWITCHBOARD SOON READY
First of New Current May be Used
in Americus During Next
Week cr Two
All of the poles to be used in con
veying *hyro-electric current from
the Albany dam to Americus are now
in place, but no electric energy has
yet been delivered here over the
new transmission lines. During
Sunday workmen were busy at the
plant of the Americus Lighting com
pany getting in readiness to cut in
the new current, but connections
with the Albany generating plant
have not yet been completed. As a
result of ythese activities it was cur
rently reported that the new cur
rent source had been connected up,
but this was denied today by Ameri
cus representatives of the South
Georgia Public Service company,
which owns the lighting and gas
plants here.
In preparation for the coming of
hydro-electric energy, certain needed
alterations have already been made
in the lighting plant here, and just
as soon as the current is ready for
delivery, the Americus plant will be
ready to distribute the new ‘juice’
among consumers here. Officials
were unable this afternoon to state
definitely when the new current will
be available, but it was indicated
that actual physical connection with
the Albany generating planj would
be accomplished some time during
the next week, with two weeks
placed as-the outside limit within
which hydro-electric energy will be
come available in Americus.
Previous announcements by L. L.
Ferree, general manager of the Al
bany operating concern, were to the
effect that Americus consumers will
realize a monthly saving of approxi
mately $2,000 on their electric bills
as soon as the new source of current
is made available, and undqr an
agreement with city council a new
schedule of rates will become effec
tive immediately following installa
tion of hydro-electric energy, or with
the first meter-reading following
such installation.
DOOLY SCHOOL CENSUS
SHOWS TOTAL OF 7,721
VIENNA, May 15. — Supt. Ellison
of Dooly’s schools has just completed
taking a school census of the county
'which shows the total number of
[whites and negroes within the
I schools age is 7721. Os these -814
[are white and 4907 are colored.
[There has been a gain of 17.2 per
I cent gain in the number of white
[ children since the 1913 census and a
13 14- per cent gam m the
number of negroes The to
tal number of whites in 1918
being 2400 and the negroes 4ao<.
Other interesting facts are brought
lout in the census figures: There are
\ 254 children over 10 years of age in
the county who cannot read, 236 col
ored, 18 white. There are eight blind
children, seven colored, 1 white;
seven deaf and dumb, o colored, 2
white, twenty two crippled, l.> col
ored, 7 white; thirty-three feeble
minded, 17 colored, 16 wh’te.
I uis also interesting to not that
• 1919 of the total, <e boys? and w -
are girls. _
WANT AD RETURNS
‘SPECS’ TO WEBB
When Mr. and Mrs. J- T. Webb
came from Sumter last Saturday w
spend the day in Americus Mi..
Webb lost her spectacles from the
ear in which she was riding, they
having dropped from the car seat m
I front of the Southern Bell Telephone
> office on Jackson street.
J. H. Clark, coming out on the
j street soon thereafter, saw the gold
rims shining in the sun, and picking
them up, called the Timcs-Recordci
j office and asked that a lost ad be
! inserted in the afternoon edition. “I
I want the people who lost them to
I recover the glasses,” said Mr, Claik,
' “for while they are valueless to other
I than the woner they are indispensa-
I ble to that person.”
Tuesday morning Mr. and Mrs.
Webb camo into the Timcs-Recorder
i office, inquiring for the advertised
I glasses. “We are so glad to recover
I them,” said Mr. Webb; “and had it
' not been for the Times-Recorder, it
• possible wo would have lost them
I entirely. Advertising is a great con
] venience to the public and is a de
' partment of the paper very generally
read,”
AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 15, 1923
GEORGIA PHHIANS
MEET IT MACON 111
ANNUAL ASSEMBLY
Fifty-Third Session of Grand
Lodge Will Begin Wednesday
in That City
SESSION LASTS TWO DAYS
Grand Chancellor W. G. Sutlive’s
Address to Be Feature of Big
Fraternal Gathering
MACON, May 15—The fifty-third
annual convention of the grand
lodge, Knights of Pythias, will open
here on Wednesday for a two-day
session, with the seventeenth an
nual meeting of the grand temple
Georgia Pythian Sisters to bg held
In conjunction.
A series of entertainment features
have been planned for the delegates,
who will be called to order by Grand
Chancellor William G. Sutlive, at
10 o’clock in the morning. Adress
es of welcome will be given on be
half of the local lodges and F. Rog
er Miller, business manager of the
Macon Chamber of Commerce. Re
sponse will be made by Miller S.
Bell.
Central Baptist S. S. Classes Will
Make Merry at Myrtle Sjrings
Thursday Night
Thursday evening at Myrtle
Springs; the, members of the Baraca
class of the Central Baptist Sunday
school and their wives will entertain
the members of the Fhilathea class
of that congregation at a moonlight
picnic at Myrtle Springs. The par
ty will assemble at the church here
at 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon,
going to the springs in cars for an
outing of several hours, arrange
ments having been consummated for
special accommodations there. The
committee in charge .of the enter
tainment requests all Earacas own
ing cars to have these at the church
promptly at the hour named, and
those who do not have cars will be
transported in surplus conveyances,
of which it is planned to have an
ample number ready.
CHIEF BRAGG BACK FROM
ATLANTA PLEASURE TRIP
Chief John T. Bragg, accompa
nied by Mr. and lijrs. Wallis Mott
and Eugene Walters, all journeyed
to Atlanta for the week end and all
are back home with the exception of
Mrs. Mott, who remains in Atlanta
a few days longer to attend a con
vention of telegraphers.
The object of Chief Bragg’s trip
was one of pleasure, having gone
to Altnta to visit his children, Mr.
and Mrs. H. S. Benson. The chief
is highly elated over his trip, hav
ing for the first time seen his new
son-in-law, who holds an important
post with the Armour Fertilizer
Works. The meeting was of mutual
pleasure to both.
Cljief Bragg declares the trip one
of the best he has ever had. For
the first time he visited Stone Moun
tain, went out to the Soldiers’ Home
to see his friends, Messrs. Green,
Hansford and Dodges, from Sumter,
who are in the institution. The
chief also spent Sunday afternoon
with his friend W. M. Humber, who
is confihed at Wesley Memorial hos
pital, having undergone a second op
eration.
STEWART MAIDEN VINDICATED
ATLANTA, May 15.—Charges of
disorderly conduct against Stewart
Maiden golf instructor at East
Lake Country club, and Mrs. B. May,
instigated at the instance of Maiden’s
divorced wife, were dismissed by Re
corder Johnson at the afternoon ses
sion of recorder’s court.
GAS PRICE REDUCED
MACON, May 15.—Flivvers which
have been gathering duSt in porta
ble’ garages on account of the high
price of gasoline, were revived some
what this morning when local deal
ers dropped the price of gas one
cent. The local price per gallon on
retail gasoline is now 24 cents while
the wholesale price is now dropped
to. 22 cents.
BOIFEUILLET RETIRED
MACON, May "15.---Charles M.
Boifeuillet, since Dec. 7, 1916, pay
ing teller at the Citizens and South
ern Bank, has been retired on sal
ary on account of ill health. The
retirement became efefetive with the
close of business Saturday, it was
announced.
IP RINCIPAL PRANCE HAS
FINE REPORT SHOWING
ACTIVITIES _AT AGGIE
Trustees to Get Full Accounting
of Every Department at An
nual Meeting Here
VALUE OF SCHOOL PLANT
All Current Debts Paid Promptly,
and Various Departments
Show Profits Made
Principal John ivl. Prance, of the
Third District Agricultural and Me
chanical School here, recently com
' pleted his annual report to the trus
| tees, and' 'presented this at their
I annual meeting just concluded. W.
I J. Mathis, of Terrell, is president of
the trustees, and Frank Lanier, of
Americus, is treasurer of the board
and both these officials submitted
annual reports showing Aggie affairs
to be in fine condition.
The report of Principal Prance
jshows that every current obligation |
of the Aggie school was met prompt
ly during the past year, and that the
various departments into which the
school activities are divided showed
I satisfactory progress, with the school
farm netting a neat profit through
its operation above all expenses. The
report shows there was an average
attendance throughout the year of
1,00, and that the school served more
people the past year than at any
time since tne main administration
dormitory building was destroyed by
fire several years ago. Taking the
regular couse this year were 72 boys
and 40 girls, making a total of 112
in the regular classes, and in ad
dition there were 27 boys and 42
girls taking special work, the total
in these classes being 70, giving the
total attendance for the year in both
regular and special classes of 182
Special attention is called in the
report to certain specific needs of
the school these iiucuding definite
financial requirements and an ade
quate- sanitary disposal plant to pro
tect students against contagious di
seases, especially typhoid and other
fevers. Many screens have been
placed in the school buildings this
year through the efforts of students
there, and other precautions have
been taken to protect the health of
those enrolled.
The report, in part, says:
Literary work—The literary work
in the school is as good as can be
found in any senior high school in i
the state, and is rated in Class One I
in the list of Senior High Schools . .
the State. Regular course otteieJ to
all students are: English, civics, his
tory, arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
biography, physics, chemistry. Spe
cial courses offered to girls are gar
ment making, cookery, home nursing
first aid, poultry, millinery, and m
trition and health. Special courses
offered to boys are: agronomy, horti
culture, livestock, dairying farm
management, farm mechanics, and
farm engineering. The school is
graduating 25 students this year; 18
boys and 7 girls, Sixty-one per cent
of all the boys graduated from
this school are now farming. Twen
ty of our former students are now
in the State University. Six mem
bers of the class of 1922 are gradua
tes of our school.
Industrial work—Both the agricul
tural department and home econo
mics department are doing a great
work. Some educators who have
visited our school and have looked
over this work have said that the in
dustrial work alone was wortli the
entire cost« of attending school.
I There is no doubt that the work be
| ing done by these clases is proving
to be of great value and is going to
(Continued on Page Four.)
NEW WEEVVIL POISON
PLAN IS DEMONSTRATED
VALDOSTA, May 15.—Allen
Strickland has invented and is dem
onstrating, a boll weevil poisoner
that he says will save sixty per cent
of the poison used in killing the pests
and it gets them at a time of the sea
son when they must be killed in or
der to make the fight effective. His
invention brings the cost of opera
tion down to a matter of a few cents
instead of dollars. By his arrange-
I ment the poison powder is put upon
I the cotton plant when the weevil
I first makes his appearance and the
' wind does not blow it off.
SOLID CAR OF TOMATOES
SENT FROM AUTREYVILLE
AUTREYVILLE, . May 15.—One
concern at Autreyville has just
shipped a solid carload of tomato
plants to Indianapolis. There were
about 600,000 plants in the car. The
firm which made the shipment has
I contracted for 2,000,000 plants and
I this shipment was merely a part of
th<? contract,
SHANTUHG BANDITS
DEMAND DIPLOMATIC
FOREIGN GUARANTEE
Want Other Governments to Un
derwrite Promises of Author
ities at Peking
CAPTIVES MAY BE KILLED
$150,000 and Quantity of Am
munition Part of Ransom
Price Named by Leaders
TIENTSIN, May 15—(By the As
sociated Press) —American troops
were called out early Sunday morn
ing to be prepared to guard the
railway property, following reports
received at the American military
headquarters of the battle in prog
ress between the Chinese troops and
th brigands at Thngshun, 50 miles
west of here on the Peking and
Mukden Railway.
SHANGHAI, May 15.—r(By the
Associated Press.) —Unless foreign
diplomatic representatives in China
guarantee by tonight that the Chi
nese government will carry out all
fixed by the Chinese bandits
in the Shantung hills, foreigners
held daptive will all be killed, Father
Lensers, an aged priest who confer
red with the bandit chief Sunday
reported to the American consul at
Lincheng today. /
EX-BANDITS DEMAND
$150,000 TRIBUTE
HANKOW, China, May 15.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —About one
thousand soldiers and ex-bandits
from Honan incorporated into the
army, are camped seven miles from
Hankow demanding a tribute of
$150,000 and a quantity of ammu
nition as the price of their depart
ure.
Authorities thus far have refused
to comply.
Trains between Peking and Han
kow are’carrying guard detachments ,
of forty soldiers each with machine
guns.
GOUDIMSBMY
[BOUSES BOBS
Constitutional Amendment Au
thorizing $70,000,000 Issue
Given Approval at Macon
MACON, May 15.—An adjourned
sessioned of the Good Roads asso- |
ciation of Georgia was held here i
Monday at which formal approval
w: ■: given the proposition of a state
bona issue in the amount of $70,-
000,000 for permanent roads con
necting each of the 160 county seats
of the state, at an adjourned term
of the Good Roads asociation held
here yesterday.
A proposed constitutional amend
ment authorizing an issue, drawn by
Edgar Watkins, of Atlanta, and four
members of the association, was pre
sented, and enthusiastically endors
ed. The amendment would place a
tax of two cents a gallon on gaso- I
line, limiting the tax to be levied I
on gas, however, to three cents a <
gallon in addition to levying a spe
cial motor vehicle license tax. A
state property tax “sufficient to pay
the interest on such debt and to
provide an adequate sinking fund
for the payment of the principal
when it becomes due” would also
be levied, this being limited to 5
mills on the dollar.
The proposed plan calls for the
issuance of the bonds in five, ten
million dollar installments, the sixth
installment being for twenty million.
The first issues would be made' in
1925 and the last in 1930. The
amount of bonds issued each year,
however, is not fixed in the other
than a limitation, to “such an
amount that the interest thereon, if
computed at the rate of 4 1-2 per
cent per annum and an annual con
tribution to a sinking fund suffi
cient, with accumulation computed
at the rate fixed as aforesaid, com
pounded annually, to retire such in
debtedness in 30 years, would ex
ceed the amount of the motor fuels
tax and the vehicle license tax here
inafter referred to for the preceding
year.”
The meeting was attended by
members of the house of representa
tives, former members ot the gen
eral assembly, representatives of au
tomobile associations, county engi
neer and representative business
and professional men of th state.
EASOM CALLED TO.
MOTHER S BEDSIDE
A. J. Easom received a telegram
at noon today announcing the des
perate illness and approaching death
of his mother, Mrs. J. A. Mellard,
at her home in Macon.
He left ° n the 2 o’clock train this
afternoon for Macon to attend his
mother’s bedside.
WEATHER. ’ ’
For Georgia Unsettled tonight
and Wednesday with local thunder
showers; little change in tempera
ture.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LIST OF DEAD IS
W PLACED IT S
- UTUTTLENH
Water Running 11 Feet Deep in
Streets at Texarkana, Ark.,
Early Today
’PHONE OFFICE FLOODED
I Marquette Hotel at Het Springs
Burned During Fire That
Followed Storm
EOT SPRINGS, May 15 (By
the Associated Press.) —Hot Springs
this afternoon was endeavoring to ex
tricate itself from the debris and
ruin left by last night’s fire, flood
and wind which wrecked the city’s
entire business district and did prop,
erty damage that will reach into
millions of dollars.
Several persons are reporte i to
have been killed, but thus far none
of these fatalities have been veri
fied. It is expected, however, that
the death list will not exceed 3 or
4 persons.
The Marquette hotel, one of the
finest hostelries in Southern Arkan
sas, is a pile of charred timbers and
stones, the loss sustained there alone
representing $250,000.
All public utilities in Hot Springs
were put out of action as a result
of fire and storm, which continued
throughout all of last night.
EARLIER REPORTS PUT
NUMBER OF DEAD HIGH
LITTLE ROCK, May 15.—Frag
mentary reports received by the Lit- <
tie Rock Democrat from Hot Springs ’
indicated that the reports of heavy
loss of life there in the flood had
been exaggerated, but that one re
port that six or eight are dead, per
sisted.
ONE REPORT SAYS
17 ARE DEAD.
TEXARKANA, Ark., May 15.
Unofficial advices received by the
Two States Telephone company from
Hot Springs state that the known
dead in the storm and fire last night
would be at least seventeen.
Water was runing eleven feet on
Central avenue in places, it was said.
ONLY MEAGRE REPORTS
FROM THIS SOURCE
MUSKOHEE, May 15.—Up to 4
o’clock this morning there had been
no confirmation reports of the loss
of life" at Hot Springs, the South
western Bell Telephone’s exchange
at Little Rock advised the compa
ny's exchange here.
" The Marquette hotel at Hot
Springs was destroyed by fire. _ This
is the only fire following last night’s
storm definitely ascertained, Little
Rock reported.
The water stood six feet deep in .
the telephone company’s offices at .
Hot Springs.
IMH HMPfR MILL
FIRE LOSS ■
Property of FurrScr Americus
Man at East Point Scene of
Disastrous Blaze
ATLANTA, Miay 15.—The East; J
Point plant of the Marion Hatpcr Ji
Cotton Oil company, owned by Ma- 3
rion Harper, a former Americus man, ri
.sustained a spo,oo loss by lire Mon- ||
day morning from an undetermined -.[j
origin.
Mr. Harper from his apartment at
the Georgian Terrace stated the loss
was fully covered by insurance. He
said the building could not be re
placed for less than $30,000 It is
not known if Mr. Harper will re
build the damaged portion of his . |
plant. "W
VALDOSTA LIONS NAME
ADDITIONAL NEW OFFICERS
VALDOSTA, May 15.—The time J
hf the members of the Lions Club at
the meeting this week was largely ta- aS
ken up with providing the addition- A
al officers for the organization.
There was enough entertainment, . .-3
however, to make the meeting onelof
more than ordinary interest. The ad- ■*
ditional officers named include C. J. "S
Taylor, first vice-president; V. A|.--S
Mcßae, second vice president; E. M. y
Strickland, third vice president and ’ |
C. H. Lyons and J. H. Touchton di- |
rectors for one year, with J. F.
Holmes and J. J. Joyner, derctor for |
two years.
ANTHRACNOSE RAVISHING
SO. GA. MELON FIELDS A
VALDOSTA, May 15.—An exam- |
ination just made of the melon field ||
south of Valdosta showed that the
anthracnose had practically ruined fl
it, while still another cantaloupe fl
field was in bad conditions. However, fl
‘ the latter field is being sprayed to- fl
day, while nothing had been done to fl
the melon field. Owners should either ||
spray or plow up the diseased vines
in order to afford that much protec- ja
tion to the growers who are spraying
and trying to save their crop. In all fl
1 instances where attention has been a
i given the disease is disappearing
completely. .