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Newspaper Page TextTHE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. THURSDAY. JUNE 16.1910. THE TIMES-RECORDER DAILY AS'D WEEKLY. simteb, the coming banner 5UMTER SCOOPS IN COUNTY OF THE SOUTH. OUIIIILH the americus recorder. Established 1879. the americus times, Established 1890. Consolidated April 1891. Entered at the postofflce at Amiri- aus an second-class mall matter. HBOS. GAMBLE, Editor and Manager j. W. PURLOW City Editor ,W. L. DUPREE, Asst. Business Dept. Official organ ol the City of Americus. Official organ of Sumter County. Official organ of Webster County. Official organ of Railroad Commis sion of Georgia tor Third Congres sional District Official organ U. 8. Court. Southern District of Georgia. Editorial Hoorn. Telephone 99. Americas, Go, June 16, 1910. JUSTICE. (Alice Cary.)- NVe get hack our mete as we mea3- We cannot do wrong and feel right, Nor can we give pain and gain pleas ure, For justice avenges each slight The air for the wing of the sparrow, The hush for the robin and wren But always the path that is narrow Anil straight for the children of men. INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF NEGBO FARMERS. The average production of corn to he a. re in Vermont Is 36 bushels, in Georgia 13. ThU is the text for an article in the Mlauta Constitution, by Editor Stock- bridge of tbe Southern Rurallst, on the necessity of educating the negro farmers up to the possibilities that lie in Georgia soil. It lias been demonstrated in the corn growing contests that It is pos sible to raise from 75 to 110 bushels t - nan ten millions of dollars, of corn on au acre in Georgia, at least In Southwest Georgia. In the corn grow'ug contests now on la Sumter Sumter, the banner county of the South, if not of the nation! That is the amb'tion we should cherish, that is the hope that should animate us, that is the end we should aim at. It is not an impossible end. It is, to the contrary, a strong probabil ity, something that is clearly within our reach. Already one of the banner count es of Georgia, every year finds PCs harvests increasing In quantity and in value, every year finds more of Its acres brought under cultivation, every year brings more Intensive methods, every year find its farmers more awake to their opportunity and better equipped. Practically half of the area of Sumter county is not under cultiva tion every year. That is the statement of keen observers. On the half that is cultivated the crops last year aggre gated in value five nilU’ons of dol- lors. On that same acreage, with the closer cultivation that Is being intro duced, with' the greater care that » be ing observed in seed selection, and w th the more liberal use of fertiliz ers, five years hence the crops should reach seven and a half millions of dol lars. That is clearly within reach. But during those five years the area of land cultivated will be increased by many thousands of acres. The tide of Immigration that is setting this way Insures this. And to the great increase in the quantity and value of the crops grown on the lands now under cultiva tion must be added the quantity and value of crops on lands that will bs brought under cultivation in the next five years. If we extend the period to ten years It is almost a safe assertion that the present crops will by then have ibeea doubled, that 1920 will find Sumter credited with crops totalling not less MORE CAROLINIANS Farm of 850 Acres Sold to Oim Yesterday. Will Move With Family in Fall—Others Are Prospecting. Will there be any county In Geo: gia that will exceed this? Will there is probable that on many acres be any county In the South that will rom 50 to 100 bushels of corn will be iroduced. Of course tbe average production >1 corn In Sumter county is much treater than In the state at large, ibut iven in this county the crop average s away below what It should be. The suggestion of Editor Stock- jrldge is that the only way to remedy his is through) education, and partlc- llarly the education of the negro iarmtrs. White farmers by reading ind direct obseryatlon, through the ■ducatlon that comes from personal xmimunlcatlon with those who aro more progressive, are steadily Im proving tbelr methods. But that will aot do as to the negroes. They must ie gone at in a more direct fashion, institutes must be held, it is pointed sut, for their especial instruction and efforts made to arouse a greater In terest in them. Edkor Stockbrldge says in this eonne. ion: > Thi difference is due to the fact that to large a p&rt of our farms are worked by the most ignorant and least efficient labor in the country. The pour farming done by the negro lowers the average of the whole. Every land-owner and every tax payer suffers In consequence. The e are incontestible facts. Is it not w irtL' tile while of the whole peo ple—. .1 the taxpayers—who suffer, 'o atlem • a remedy. Mui n has been done to Improve ag ricultural conditions as a whole. Practically nothing has been done directly for the negro U3 a farmer, the part or our farm labor which pro duces 65 per cent of our crops and lowers the level of our farming. Past efforts having failed to meet this need, reason should dictate that wo try something new. Th s is the effort which citizens of Laureus. Sum ter, Campbell and other counties have welcomed. The recent institute held at Ameri cas was quite a success It will be re called. Leading planters of the coun ty urged all white farmers to let the negroes have a day to attend the in stitute and many did so. Whatever tends to increase the av erage production of the county is for the good of the entire county, and it Is to lie hoped that Director Parks, In charge of the agricultural depart ment at Clark University, will suc ceed in his efforts in this direction. 'This is the practical education the negroes really need. A Sailor’s Prayer. 1E. s. Bates, in the Atlantic.) “O, Lord, X am no common beggar; do not trouble Thee every day, lor never prayed to Thee before; and If please Thee to deliver me this once, never will pray to Thee again as lg as I live. make a better showing? And how much greater will be the showing of the banner county of the nation? Who can measure the future of Sum ter county in an agricultural way? Who can put a limit to the bounds af its development? Every acre in the county is capable of profitable cultl vation. Not an acre but has some crops for which it Is eminently suit able, not an acre but which under proper methods, can be made a money maker. The government soil experts have so reported. Seldom have they found a county the equal of Sumter in thU respect. Three hundred and twenty-five thous and acres are available for agricultu ral purposes. Think what will be done on 323.000 acres when hun dreds more of intelligent, progressive, ambitious white farmers have settled oil them, as they will In the next de cade. Think of the many thousands upon thousands of bales of cotton that will be added to Sumter’s already large crop of that great staple, think of tide untold tens of thousands of bushels of corn, and of oats, that will be added to its already large crops ol these grains, think of the additional thousands upon thousands of tons of hay that will be taken from Its fertile fields, thnk of the train loads of peaches that will be added to those al ready supplied to the nation from Its orchards. We all know what Sumter is now doing, we all know the prog ress it has made, but do any of us really appreciate what the future holds in store for it, what its annual output In agricultural wealth will be widen the next census is taken? Nowhere in the land today, South or North, East or West, Is there a county with a br'gbter future assured it than Sumter has looming before It. And on this prosperity, in the promo tion of which Amer cus will play Its part, will be based the progress and prosperity of a greater Americas. The future holds nothing but encourage ment for city or county. Well may Amerieus and Sumter smile with a confidence begotten of a faith) that is built on the rock of sol d fact* There is no room for aught save optimism In one who knows the present and studies the future of Sumter and Americus. Another South Carolinian has bought a farm in Sumter county and will make his home here. This time It Is Mr. W. W. Hearon. j of near Btshopvllle. S. C. Yesterday he purchased 850 acres, five miles south of DeSoto, from Mrs. Ida C. Scarborough. The price paid was 812.50 an acre, a total of 810,625. Over in Mr. Hearon’s present borne neighborhood they are paying rental of $5 to $10 an acre a year for good farm lands. At 812.50 Sumter couniy dirt looks mighty cheap to him. Mr. Hearon came to Sumter county some weeks ago for his first vis t. That was a tour of inspection. The more he saw the more his soul long ed tor a place here. It was like the ancient Israelites standing on the mountain tops and looking over into the “Promised Land.” He went back to South Carolina, but the seed of discontent had been sown. The more he thought about Sumter county, Georgia, the greater the longing grew. Te be$an negotia tions for a place. The result came yesterday w^jn Allen & Crockett closed the deal. ‘I am a mighty happy man.” said Mr. Hearon, just before he started for the train to return to South Caro- ina. “I am going back to South Caro lina to wind up my crops there and get things in shape to move to thl3 county. I will be here with my fam ily and effects about November 1st. There are me, my wife, n'ne children, my daughter-in-law, and perhaps by that time two daughters-in-law. We are all coming, and we expect to make that farm the finest In all that country. That Is the ambition have before us. I am going to get a home for my family In De£fbto. As that is near to the farm, and-then I and my five boys will get to work on those 850 acres.” Over In the district Mr. Hearon comes from the farmers use 1,500 to 2,000 lbs. of commercial fertilizer to the acre. They make from 1 1-2 to 2 bales of cotton to the acre, and from 50 to 100 bushels of corn, be cause they use fertilizers freely and work the land for all it Is worth. Along with Mr. Hearon came a neighbor, Mr. T. M. Woodham. Mr. Hearon brought him to show him just what Sumter county offers. Mr. Wood- horn, he said, had 75 acres worth 8100 an acre. “My friend will go back to South Carol'na, but he will never be the same man again,” said Mr. Hearon. "He will keep thinking about Sumter County. Georgia, and the lands he saw there, and the price at which he could get a bigger farm, and the pos sibilities of development here, . and the more he thinks the more he will get d ssatisfied. And I’ll wager that he will get pulled back here as a set tler b^fare another year has passed. You just can’t help It.” Mr. Hearon furnished the secretary of the Board of Trade with a list of farmers In his vicinity whosy interest might be awakened In Sumter county. Copies of the Board of Trade Pam phlet were sent to them last night and efforts will be made to bring them over here to see for themselves that even Mr. Hearon hasn't told them the half of the story. -J*' THE SHOE A SENSIBLE SER] { The sensible shoe is the OM) [ iuct au<l dressy and comfortable,, same time giving absolutely sati service 41 Years of Shoe Makin i The HUB shoe is not an over-night creatioj for 41 years we have been training ourselves in i of shoe making. We made errors^who does J they have been turned into assets—and nowweci in HUB shoes the results of FORTY ONE YEARS of and study on one question—THE SHOE QUESTION. You can test the knowledge of 41 years with one [ they are riglit—we are right! We feel that we have You the rest is with you. Call on the HUB shoe merchant—have him fit yon| pair of HUB shoes. Made in all styles for Men, Won Children. JOS. ROSENHEIM SHOE CO. SAVANNAH,(j Makers of HUB Shoes ZEBRAS IN FLIGHT AND GUARDS IN HOT CHASE White Convicts in Stock ade Here Ely Away. Three white convicts, the only three whites In the county gang, flew the stockade at an early hour yesterday morning, and up to a late hour In the afternoon hod not been recaptured, al though Supt. Christian and Sheriffs Feagin and Fuller were In hot pur suit. The three zebras thus trotting away to the woods and sweet liberty were Mart n Hightower, J. L. Brett and Clift Rumney, alias Henry Stan ford. Brett and Hightower were in for two years each, while the other con vict, Rumney, was doing a six months’ Job for stealing chickens, an unusual charge upon which to convict a white man. The men evidently escaped dur- MARRIAGE IN COLUMBUS FINAL TRIBU1E \\ OCCASION OF INTEREST 1 , TO HOWELL B. Miss Lamar and Dr. Wise Funeral oi\ Tue: United. ed By Ma Americus and Plains, the home of The very large ana the groom, are interested in the mar-, day upon the funeraij riage on Thursday evening in Colum- Mr. Howell Biandford r bus of Miss Louise Lamar, of that tested the very great r city, and Dr. B. T. Wise, of Plains, be was held by the ) The occas’on was numbered among cus and this section,! (the mojst beautiful June weddings, from nearby towns job 11 and was attended by representatives sad tribute, of the society of that and other cities The impressie serrin of the state. . deuce was conducted! The bridal party passed through Burrows, of the First J Americus at an early hour yesterday while the ritual of the! morning aboard tbe Seminole Limited, was recited in couclus! en route to Florida upon a brief honey- cemetery, moon. Cooper Lodge. Knigl The Columbus Enqu rer-Sun of yes- of which the deceased E terday contained the following extend- cellor co&niander, anj ed account of the marriage: Bar Association and t “A wedding of wide social Interest clals attended the exefl throughout the state was that of Miss Many very beautlfu 8 * 1111 w U 11U U h l>Uv OIUIL ” 1,0 ** . ji ing the heavy rainstorm of the ear- Lo Ulge Lamar,,the beautiful and ta- sent by sorrowing “I There arc still eighteen ‘'graduates” in Castle Sumter, to wl|>m chain- gang diplomas will be awarded by Judge Crisp next week. ly morning and It was impossible, therefore, to follow their tracks. Care- iefsness upon the part of the guard who locked them in is said to be responsible for the fl'ght of the ze bras. The guard, it is stated, did not chain up the white prisoners for the night, and thus freed, they took the lock from the door and sailed out to lib erty. Brett and Hightower are two bad one3 and were sent up for two years each upon the recent trunk-stealing case here, and for an attack made upon a young white girl near the fertilizer works above the city.. They are wanted elsewhere when Sumter releases them. The possee n pursuit scoured the county yesterday, but at last reports bad not surrounded the escaped ze bras. ented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. V. the handsome caske- Lamar, of this city, to Dr. Burr Thad- 1 The pallbearers »eri deus Wise, of Plains, at the First Lowery, Henry A. Jotj Baptist church*, which was filled with Allen, Frank P. *1 friends and relatives of the bride and A\ heatley, Cliff • I groom long before the hour for the Harris, Jr., and • I ceremony. I ' I The Americus “The church was handsomely aud alnrm „ the f3C( that J elaborately decorated Tor the wed- tMCh ers wi« I ding, ferns, cut flowers and Pretty , „ sc6M i A green foliage contributing to the gen eral collr scheme. Rev. L. R. Chris-1 A gen ius is a mas I r—and f BIG ROUNDUP OF IDLERS JI.VDE BY MACON POLICE The sign “No Fishing Here" Is dis played In the deep holes In the pave ment on Cotton avenue leading to the Central depot. , Poor, Foolish Woman! Think of her at tempting to make ice cream In the old disappointing wav! With JELL-0 ICE CREAM Powder sbe cun make tbo »ost delicious ico cream iu ten minute**, fretting and all, at a cost of about one cent a dish —nnd ntt^rgo near the eU/oe, Your grocer will tell you all about it, or you cau get a book from tbe Genesee Pure Food Co., LeBoy, N.Y., if you will write them. Grocers sell Jell-0 Ice Cream Pow der, two packages for 23 cents. Do You Get With a’ Kidney Trouble . Almost everjon^ Swamp-R 001 ' *** Negro Vagrants lire Picked up Lurge Bunches. In tie performed the ceremony. Mus c was furnished by the magnificent or-j _ gan, with solos before the ceremodk by well known local artists. “Miss Lamar hjis as her maid of honor, Ml3s Helen Bagley, of Atlanta, and Mr. Walter Page, of Amerlcue, stood with Mr. Wise as best man* The matron of honor was Mrs. Clifford J. Swift, and the brldesma'ds were Miss Elia Claire Cutts, of Savannah. Miss Lydia WUlhlthe, of Anderson, South Carolina; Miss Mary Farrlsh and Miss Lyra Garrett. “The groomsmen were Mr. Clifford J. Swift, Mr. Allen Cutts, of Savan nah, Mr. Holmes McGregor, of Amer cus, Mr. Guyton Park, Mr. Guy Gar rard. of Newnan; Mr. Harry Wood ruff, Mr. Edgar Chancellor and Mr. Tom Lamar. N After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Wise were driven to the beautiful homo Macon, Ga., June 14.—Chief of Po lice Walter Chapman and a squad cf officers swooped down upon the un- unsuspectlng negro In bus’ness sec tion of the city late this evening and the barracks was filled w'th men. charged with loitering before dark.l of the br “! e8 P arenta a ‘ 1309 8ec ° nd Twenty-two negroes were taken from f en f’ * her * a reception wa, ten- qno place. Only a few minutes after, dered the wedding party. The happy tie first arrests a number of emplo> ,'couple were later driven to the depo., ers called to relieve their distressed wher * the >’ boarded the Seminole Llm- employes, and half of the negroes got lte<> for » tour ° f Plo , r ‘ da ’ out without having to spend a night return they will res de In Plains, with the police. The work of the of- where th , e * roo , m '* 1 » Practicing ph>- ficers moved the Idlers in every d ree- with splendid nrospecU. t[on i' “His charming bride has been on* of the most popular members of “the hold water and sM'j3 or bad effects orbeer.aiidm^ The town is filling up with negroes BOclet >’ 8et ’ and a “ att f of , r *‘ coming in from the farms, as It is * r f lhat h8r marriage takes her from too wet to work in the fields, and ^ Columbus, there’s nothing to do. or oe*!r,. int c orj necessity of g 3 through the times dunns « J Swamp-Re®*/..^ eV ^h?adder troubljj or bladder ' the remedy 5 rjs-vga sasgysf findout |f (I Jer'tr'^l reading th' 8 * fl f offer int1 '' furess' send your M Dr. Gilmer ? -a-one-dollar^ •11 dra ?££r tW A man Is just fool enough to proud of gett'ng Into a lawsuit. - nil th* F0LEYSK0NEMAR //in ehlitirmm mafm. nure *’'• drc»®»

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Weekly times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1910-1917, June 16, 1910, Image 4