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SEMINOLE COUNTY
Georgia’s Peanut Center
•The richest and best farming section
of the world, the home of the in
dustrious farmer.
SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXV.
Draft Extenson Bill
Signed By President
Service Time Extended To
18 Additional Months
President Roosevelt this week sign
ed the draft extension bill which will
permit the President to extend the
time of service of men in the army by
18 months, the senate passing the bill
by a vote of 3 to 19.
The final senate vote, terminat
ing weeks of dispute in both houses,
came after only eight minutes of de
bate. Although the senate orginally
had approved the service extension by
a vote of 45 to 30, Senator Johnson,
Republican, California, demanded the
record vote today. “There are some of
us here who are opposed to this bill,”
he said, “and we should have a chance
to vote on it.”
The measure, which passed the
house Tuesday by the single-vote mar
gin of 203 to 202, would authorize the
President to hold selectees, National
Guardsmen, reservists and enlisted
City Council
In Regular
Session
The Donalsonville City Council held
its regular monthly meeting last
Thursday evening. Mayor M. M. Min
ter presiding, with Councilmen L. W.
Martin, R. M. Holman, R. I. Evans and
B. B. Clarke nre'*ent
Past due taxes and special lueftses
were brought to the attention of
council and local officers were in
structed to demand immediate pay
ment or levy and advertise property
sufficient to satisfy the claims.
City Attorney R. L. Cox tendered
his resignation after having served
in this capacity for the past twenty
years. Election of a successor to At
torney Cox was voted down when
council voted three to two against
employment of a city attorney, decid
ing to dispense with the services oL
any legal counsel for the present.
Routine matters were discussed be
fore council adjourned
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; a moment.
As a customer of our bank all our
; facilities, our service and our ex
perience is at your disposal just as
though you were the biggest;
customer on our books.
AVe ask for the opportunity to help
make this account of yours grow.
| May we try?
Commercial
State Bank
This Bank Is a Member of the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
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, men for 18 months beyond their pre
| sent service periods. That would mean
maximum service of two and a half
i years for selectees. Guardsmen and re-
I servists and four and a half years for
' men who enlisted originally for three
■ years.
By adopting a concurrent resolu
tion, congress could terminate the
! chief executive’s power to extend the
1 service periods. On the other hand,
if it adopted a resolution stating that
extension beyond the 18 extra months
was “in the interest of national de
fense” the President could continue
the service periods indefinitely.
The bill grants a $lO pay increase
I to all Army men who have served 12
months. The raise would not be re
troactive and would end when the Pre
sident proclaimed the national emer
gency ended.
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0. H. Lewis
' Assumes Bank
Position Here
Mr. O. H. Lewis arrived this week
to assume his duties as cashier of the
Commercial State Bank. He and his
wife have already moved here where
they will make their home.
Mr Lewis succeed- Edgar W. Mose
ly as Cashier of the bank, Mr. Mose
ly having resigned to enter the life
insurance business representing the
Reliance Life Insurance Company, of
Pittsburg.
1 Mr. Lewis has been connected with
the Moultrie Banking Company for
the past four and a half years, three
as assistant cashier. He was for a
number of years connected with the
Buena Vista Loan and Savings Bank.i
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were active in
the work of the First Baptist Church
and Sunday School at Moultrie and
will receive a hearty welcome in the
Donalsonville church.
Officials of the Moultrie Banking
Company expressed sincere regret
over the severance of his connection
with that institution, but were pleas
ed to know that his worth had been
recognized by the bank which had
called him to its management.
President M. M. Minter and the
directors of the bank invite their pa
trons to meet Mr. Lewis when in the
bank and ask the continued coopera
tion and patronage they have enjoyed
in the past.
Farmers Face
Shortage Os
Hay Wire
The expression that everything has
gone “hay wire” is often heard, but at
the present time this is just the' op
posite with the peanut farmers in
Seminole county.
It is no secret that the farmers are
faced with a serious problem in car
ing for their peanut hay this year as
a result of no hay wire. Local hard
ware concerns report that is is practi
cally impossible to secure the wire,
and just what the farmers will do a
bout it remains to be seen.
Thousands of tons of peanut hay I
are made here annually and must be
packed into bales and tied with wire,
else storage facilities would not hold
the crop. With no hay wire to bind
the bales, farmers are at a loss as to
what to do about it.
The Rev. John S. Lough left Mon
day for Faceville for evangelistic ser
vices.
The Belle Benett Circle of the W.
S. C. S. met Monday afternoon with
Mrs. John S. Lough. Mrs. W. E. Brig
ham gave the devotional and Mrs. A.
B. Davis was leader.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUN TY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
LSeminole County
Schools To Open
September 15
The Seminole County Public Schools j
I will open for the regular fall term on
September 15th, it was announced
this week by Supt. of Schools, N. P.
Malcom.
At the same time Supt. Malcom an
nounced that faculties for the three j
white schools in the county had been,
tentatively completed, only a few
changes in the personnel being noted
from that of last year.
The Donalsonville school will again
be headed by C. B. Rickman, principal.
C. L. Drake and J. C. Booth will be;
principals in the Iron City and F. D.
R. schools respectively.
The complete list of teachers for,
each school, follows:
Donalsonville School
Elementary; Miss Louise Lane.
Mrs. M. T. Simmons, Mrs. J. D. Ra
bon, Mrs. Phil Yarborough, Mrs. Mary
Newberry Kirkland. Miss Vesta Min
ter, Mrs. Ralph Williams, Miss Mollie
King, Miss Maude Bragg, Miss Merle
Reed, Mrs. Bill Goodner, Miss Irene
Adams, Miss Beth Mosely, Miss Adelle
Minter.
High school, Mrs. E. C. Davis, Mrs.
Leon Barber, Miss Martha Carter,
Miss Henrietta Carson, Mrs. J. I.
Hickson, Miss Clyde Ward, M. P.
Stein, E. C. Davis, and C. B. Rickman,■
principal.
Iron City School
Junior High School, Elementary:
Miss Pearl Heard, Mrs. Roy Whittle,!
Miss Annie Rosa Greene, Miss Nell
Wheeler, Miss Ruby Waddell, Miss
Ruby Drake, Mrs. M. P. Stein.
High School: Mrs. Porter Smith, C.
L. Drake, Principal.
F. D. R. School
Elementary: Miss Edna Earle
i Moore, Miss Clarice Hay, Miss
Wynelle Daniels, Mrs. Velma Hardy,
Mrs. Elizabeth Voorhies, Miss Alma
Adams, Mrs. E. C. Bridges, Jr.
High school: Mrs. A. C. Westori,
Charles Bridges, Bruce Baker, J. C. ’
Booth, principal.
Mrs. J. 0. Baxter
Dies At Her Home
Here Monday Night
The entire community was shocked
Tuesday morning to learn of the sud
den death of Mrs. J. O. Baxter, who
passed away at her home here at
midnight Monday night. A sudden
heart attack ended the life of this
good woman.
Earlier in the night she had suffer
ed an attack and a physician had been
called to her bedside. She rallied and
was thought to he showing improve
ment when a second attack ended her
life.
Born in Miller county almost 65
years ago she had resided in this sec
tion practically all of her life. Known
and loved by hundreds of admirers
for her loyalty and devotion to her
family and friends, she will be sore
ly missed in the community.
Funeral services were held at the
local Baptist Church Thursday after
noon. Rev. J. A. Duren, assisted by
Rev. M. C. Liddell, conducting the ser
vice. Pallbearers were Messrs. A. J.
Ivey, J. H. Goodwin, G. B. Garwood,;
L. W. Barber, R. E. Daniels, and John
B. Lane.
Interment was in the Donalsonville
cemetery with Evans and Son, funeral
directors, in charge.
Her husband and seven children
are her survivors: Three sons of San
Diego, Cal., Rufus. S. T., and Harris
Baxter; Leroy and John Baxter of
Donalsonville; two daughters, Mrs.
Sam Robinson and* Mrs. F. A. Hughes
of Donalsonville.
Defense Corps
Meets
The Home Defense Corps held an
other drill Monday night at the basket
ball shell here with about twenty
members present.
The corps is in urgent need of al
ditional members an d anyone in the
county is urged to attend and apply
for membership.
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1911.
Schedule For
Drivers License
Examination
j To all applicants for drivers license,
effective Aug. 15th the safe driver
| examiner will be in the following
j towns as schedule given below:
I Bainbridge, Decatur County, Ist &
. 3rd Thursday, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
i Blakely, Early County, 2nd & 3th
I Wednesday, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Newton, Baker County, 2nd & 4th
i Friday, 9 a. m. to 12 Noon.
‘ Colquitt, Miller County, 2nd & 4th
Friday, 1 p. m. to 5 p. m.
I Cairo, Grady County, Ist & 3rd
i Wednesday, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Donalsonville ,Semionle County, Ist
. & 3rd Saturday, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
I Please note that licenses are sold in
; Donalsonville only twice a month.
Here before you could get your license
1 any week day, this has been discon
tinned. When applying in Donalson
ville come to the State Patrol Station,
' all other towns go to the court house.
'Country Club
Elects New
Officers
I
The Donalsonville Country Chib
j held an important meeting last Fri
| day at which time officers for the
! chib were elected as follows:
President—L. 11. Johnson.
; Vice-President M. C. Fain, Jr.
Seen cary and Treasurer —W. H.
VanLandingham.
At the inVeliiig it was voted to ex
tend the privileges of the use of the
, club to the boy scouts and all high
! school and grammar boys and girls
I to create more interest in golf here.
A nominal fee of 5 cents for each
* morning and 10 cents for each after
noon will be changed for the use of the
course by these children who care to
play. Members of the club will be glad
1 to assist any children in learning the
game.
The local course is being improved
all along and is now in good condition.!
Cotten And Seed j
Frices Advance
With ginnings reaching a total of
1700 bales for the county Thursday,
indications were that the crop would
be considerably shorter than was first
anticipated.
Meanwhile cotton and cotton seed
showed advances this week,
Prices paid for produce on local
markets Thursday morning was as
follows:
Cotton, middling IGGc
Cotton Seed, ton $44
Hogs, No. 110 c
Ilogs, No. 2 9%c
Hogs, No. 3 9c
Peanuts, Spanish No. 1 S9O
Peanuts, Spanish No. 2 _ SBO
Shelled Corn, per bushel 60c
Cemetery Assoc.
Making Drive i
For Funds
Announcement is made this week;
that the Donalsonville Friendship
Cemetery Association is making a
drive this week to collect pledges
made for the care of the local ceme
tery. *
Due to lack of funds, needed work has
been necessarily stopped recently.
The committee urges that funds be
paid in promptly and that anyone
wishing to contribute can do so by
mailing their contribution to Miss
Zora Carnes. A lawn mower is badly
needed and anyone having one they
could donate should see Miss Carnes.
The donation will be greatly appre
ciated.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Holman of
Dothan. Ala., spent Sunday with
their son. Mr. R. M. Holman, and
Mrs. Holman.
Regent Cummings
Addresses Lions
Regent John J. Cummings, of Don
alsonville, of the University System
of the State of Georgia, was the
guest of the Donalsonville Lions Club
iat its regular weekly meeting on
I Tuesday of this week at the Minter
House, giving a most interesting ad
dress on the activities of the Board
of Regents, especially touching on rc
i cent events.
Mr. Cummings is Chairman of the
Agriculture Committee and has been
giving a good deal of his time and
thought to agricultural schools over
the state.
Mr. Cummings, in his address to
the Lions, first outlined the duties
of the board, stating that he consid
ered the Board of Regents the most
important of the many departments
of the state because it controls the
destiny of higher education of this
commonwealth and probably ranks
second in cost to the taxpayers.
The speaker then went into a discus
sion of recent actions of the Board
j which have been given so much pub
licity over the state and nation. In
j commenting on this, he said, in part:
“Various organizations of the State
and a good many of the news chroni
cles have on numerous occasions ac
-1 eased our Board of Regents of being
, trained seals, puppets and rubber
■ stamps, following not our will but the
dictates of the Governor. For my own
part, and on behalf of my friends who
constitute this board. I would like ;
that we follow the dictates of
no man. My consciences has been my
guide through this entire controversy,
and should I have it to do again I
would not change my actions one
i iota. I would neither follow the dic
tates of the Governor nor the dictates '
of the newspapers unless it should
meet with my own will and conscience.
I do not propose to compromise my
actions to suit the purpose of any or
ganization, be it metropolitan daily or
a country weekly,
“My instructions from the Gover-;
nor were to see that all the Agricul
tural end of the Board of Regents
was operated just as I would have
my own farm managed. He lias never
suggested that any one be fired from
any of the organizations connected
with the Agricultural Department;
neither has he proposed that I make;
employment for anyone in this organi
zation. After the meeting in Athens
during the first part of June when the
Governor proposed that we not re
elect two employees from a total of
1700 employees, I and another Regent
approached Governor Talmadsfe and
asked him what effect this would have
on his political future. His answer
was, ‘We do not want to consider my
political future—but we do want to
consider only what is best for the
University System”. We have endeav
ored to carry out this mandate.
“A man who has probably been
elected with the greatest vote of any
Governor of the State and who is
willing to take the consequences ;s a
statesman and not a politician.
“You have seen Mr. Dixon in the;
papers quite a bit. He is probably
connected with the Rosenwald Fund
more closely than anybody else, and
he was originally hired for the sole;
purpose of obtaining, through his in-;
fluence, Rosenwald Funds. Mr. Dixon;
was serving his State at a salary oft
$6,000 per year with practically noj
duties, and the Board of Regents',
thought that we could dispense with!
his services without interferring with;
the efficiency of the University Sys
tem, thereby saving this amount to
the tax payers each year.
“The case of Dr. Cocking has pro
bably received the most publicity.
One of the main reasons why he was
not re-elected is that when he took
charge cf the educational department'
of Georgia four years ago it was cost
ing the State $65,000. to operate the
school of education—Last year the
> t was approximately $193,000. The
information that we had to act on was
his salary of $5,200. per year and very
likely a side salary from the Rosen
wald Fund.
“Os course the Board of Regents
DONALSONVILLE
Capitol of Seminole County
The home of progressive people, pret
ty homes, good churches, splendid
schools and the best of climate.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
realizes that the negro has a place in
the State. We want them educated,
but separately as we were reared to
believe. We do not want any man
from extreme Northwest lowa advo
; eating that we educate our white
children and our colored children to
gether. You have probably, seen af
fidavits to this effect.
“Dr. Pittman has been on the radio
a good bit recently. He received a
salary of $5,000. a year. One of the
reasons that he was not re-elected
was that he bought a farm in States
boro at a cost of ten or twelve thou
sand dollars. This farm adjoined the
College at Statesboro. The products
he produced were turned over to the
State, but he workd the farm at the
expense of the State by placing there
on various improvements which we.
felt like amounted to much in excess
of what the state received.
When the present Governor of the
State of Geogia retired at the end of
his former administration four years
ago, he left in the treasury the sum of
' between five and six millions of dol
lars with all current obligations paid.
At the end of four years he returned
as the Governor of this state to find
the treasury approximately $31,000,-
. 000. in arrears. He h.T. reduced this
amount of indehtedm by approxi
mately $13,000,000. in the first six
months of his present administration
< without, increasing the rate <>f tax. I
do not think wy atb.in Hw
State of Georgia has the courage and
ability to do this.
“Now, gentlemen, as I have said,
I understand that you are not a poli
tical organiation, hut I want to strong
ly recommend that you help to re
flect Talmadge next year for a four
ycar term as Governor of the State.
It is not a question of his needing the
position, but a question of \he State’s
needing him.
“I thank you.” '
Mrs. Y. L. Roberts was hostess
last week at a swimming partj’ for
Billy Bush of Newnan, Peggy Wind
ham of ( linton, La., Margie* Richard
son. Wallace Drake, and Caroline
bain. 1 hey went to Porter’s Fairyland
near Dothan, Ala.
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