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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 f/ $5,000 I /1m MAXIMUM ((S&A V* I if O/ INSURANCE I ££ I | 55 \U// FOR EACH AW f DEPOSITOR J;F/ £* I I DO YOU FEEL THAT YOUR ACCOUNT IS TO SMALL TO BE W ELCOME? Please don’t let that bother you for ; 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. Bmmtammillr Nmw , 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. I __ 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. OLIVE THEATRE ' ■■'■■■■ ii—i— • - .kiii..-„ Saturday Only Gene Autry, In “SINGING HILL” Monday And Tuesday Jean Arthur and William Holden, —in— “ARIZONA” Wednesday Basil Rathbone ami Hugh Herbert, In “BLACK CAT” Thursday And Friady Alice Faye and John Payne, In “Great American Broadcast” siHiaEzasstai MIDGET THEATRE SATURDAY Don Ameche and Betty Grable, In I “DOWN ARGENTINE WAY” i N UMBER 30.