(Llu> UUmtitor.
VOL. XXVI.
284 3-8 BUSHELS OF
CORN FROM ONE ACRE.
Athens,-Ga.. Oct. 24. —Twenty
thousand farmers in the co-oper
erative demonstration work con
ducted by the United States gov
ernment and the State College of
Agriculture were represented
here today in a meeting of more
than eighty county demonstrat
ors with Experts E. Gentry of
Jonesboro, Harvey Saveley of the
Washington Bureau, Walter
Cooper of the State Corn Club
and H. G. Hasting leading the
conference work.
The greatest yield of corn for
this year is reported from the
boys, not the adults’, farm. The
best is 204 3-8 bushels from an
acre, cultivated by Tom Knox,
aged 14, of Chattooga county,
with a cost per bushel of 23
cents.
The sessions of the conference
of those demonstrators from
more than half the Georgia coun
ties will be held at the state Col
lege of Agriculture till Friday
evening.
TAX COLLECTOR HERE
FIRST WEEK COURT.
The efficient and accommodat
ing tax collector of this county,
Mr. D. F. Warnock, will be here
during the first week of Superior
court to collect the shekels for
the state and county. He will
be at his office in the court house.
He will be in Ailey on Friday
afternoon of the first week of
court. See notice of rounds in
this issue.
THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR
WAS A BIG SUCCESS.
The State Fair, which came to
a close last Friday after a ten
days run, was a complete success
in the matter of finance, as well
as in attendance. During the
time over 100,000 people passed
through the gates, and it is sup
posed that the association will
come out $15,000 ahead this year.
Many of the exhibits and attrac
tions were taken to the fair at
Tifton.
MR. J. J. BURKHAITER DEAD.
Mr. J. J. Burkhalter died early
Thursday morning last at his
home at Springhill in this county.
Mr. Burkhalter was born and
reared near the place where
death claimed him, and had
friends all over the county who
will be pained to hear of his
death. He left a wife and four
children and one brother. In his
death Montgomery county loses
a good citizen, and the family
has our deepest sympathy in
their bereavement.
LADIES FIRST.
In one of the suburban towns,
where the “new thought” is
strong, one mother is particular
ly averse to having any one kiss
the baby, says the Philadelphia
Times. She has written pieces
on the subject and lectured on
it, but what has been most pleas
ing to her has been the attitude
of the new nurse,
“Oh, Julia’s just splendid,”
the woman informed her hus
band. “She won’t let any one
kiss Daisy When she’s around. ”
\Huh,” the man replied, “I
don’t know of any one who’d
want to kiss the kid when she’s
around.”
The Grand Lodge of Masons
will meet in annual session in
Macon on the last day of this
month.
J. M. Brooksher & Sons, the
well known stock men, will be
here about the 26th, with a lot of
fine stock, both horses and mules,
and will expect to meet a number
of their patrons and friends.
EVANS-VARN.
A marriage of much interest to
the people of Hazlehurst was
that of Miss Pennie Evans and
Mr. Kennard Varn, which was
solemnized at the home of the
bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.
F. Evans on last Sunday morn
ing.
The beautiful and impressive
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Austin during which Mrs. Austin
rendered a sweet, soft musical
selection.
Mrs. Varn is a beautiful, ac
complished and educated young
lady, having finished a course in
the State Normal School at Ath
ens with distinction. By her per
sonal attraction and sweet man
ners she wins friends wherever
she goes.
Mr. Varn is the youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Varn and is
handsome and cultured, possess
ing every quality which consti
tutes a model man. Being sober
and energetic his many friends
predict for him a most successful
business career.
The happy couple left on the
noon train for Clint, Texas,
where Mr. Varn will enter the
mercantile business with his
brother.
Best wishes that this happy
couple will spend many happy
days in the west.
Springhill.
Special Correspondence.
Everybody in this section is
busy picking cotton.
Mr. J. J. Burkhalter was bur
ied at the Clements cemetery
last Friday.
We are sorry to learn that Mr.
H. C. Courson is very sick. We
hope for him an early recovery.
Mr. Walter Bedgood and sister
Altha are visiting at Mr. H. C.
Courson’s this week.
Mrs. McGahee and daughter
Arris were visiting at Longpond
last week.
Mrs. Nolie Downie has just re
turned home from Longpond.
Mr. Arch Gillis and wife were
visiting at Mr. H. C. ’s Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
Mr. Davis Courson was visit
ing at Glenwood last Sunday.
Many people in this section
were at the funeral at Spring
hill Friday.
Mr. David Gourson and Miss
Ella Claxton were visiting Mr.
Courson’s brother, Mr. H. C.
Courson last week.
There was a large crowd at Mr.
H. C. Courson’s Sunday evening
last. Brown Eyes.
OLD TIME DARKEY DEAD.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 19. Sandy
Parks, an old ante-bellum darkey,
aged 106 years, died at his nome
here yesterday. He was one of
the best known and most re
spected citizens of his race in the
city. He served in the Mexican
war as a drummer and in the
same capacity for the Baldwin
Blues, when the company went
to the front to fight the battles
of the Confederacy. He was cap
tured in the battle of Petersburg
and made a prisoner for some
time. All the necessary docu
ments to prove the advanced age
of the old negro are on record,
showing his age at the time he
entered the Mexican war, and
traces him all through both wars.
He has been drawing a pension
for his service since the war. A
number of white people were
: present at the services held at
the grave. He was buried in Oak
Ridge cemetery.
Prisoners in the Valdosta jail
knocked down the jailer Friday
night and three of them escaped
but were recaptured.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911.
SUCCESSFUL MEETING
DANSELL ASSOCIATION.
The meeting of the Daniell
Baptist Association at Oak Grove
church last week was largely at
tended and the meeting was in
teresting throughout the session.
The meeting commenced on
Wednesday morning and closed
at noon on Friday. The preach
ing was done by Rev. J. A. J.
Dumas of Vidalia and Rev. J. W.
Kytle of Lyons.
Rev. J. W. Witherington of
the Tattnall Association, Collins,
Ga., and Rev. J. J. Bennett, cor
responding secretary of the State
Board of Missions, Atlanta, were
in attendance, and the latter ad
dressed the meeting.
The next meeting of the asso
ciation will be held at Ohoopee,
Ga.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
A
Seven men are sueing J. F.
Smith of Appling county for
$12,500 damages. Smith plead
guilty to a charge of peonage in
the U. S. court at Savannah last
spring for having the men ar
rested.
A. J. Oberry, a white man of
Camden county, has been sen
tenced to hang for the murder of
a negro woman and her 13-year
old girl.
Rev. C. V. T. Richeson has
been arrested in Boston for mur
dering a young girl by giving her
cyanide of potassium. A great
trial is soon to follow.
W. P. Darnell of Pocataligo,
Ga., and his 18-year-old son quar
reled at the dinner table on Mon
day, and the boy seized a pistol
and killed his father.
Chairman H. Warren Hill of
the State Railroad commission
has been appointed to the State
Supreme court by Gov. Smith,
and at the same time Paul B.
Trammell was appointed to take
Mr. Hill’s place.
Henry H. Dean Jr. of Jackson
ville was knocked in the head by
a highwayman Sunday night,
robbed and left in a dying condi
tion.
An average crop of cotton,
31,000 bales, has already been
marketed in Americas.
Prizes to the amount of $20,000
have already been put up on the
automobile races in Savannah on
Nov. 27-30.
A dividing wall between a new
and an old wall in a mine at
Rockaway, N. J., on Friday gave
way, and twelve men were caught
and drowned.
A train load of raw silk worth
two million dollars, shipped from
Japan to New York byway of
Seattle, made 65 to 90 miles an
hour.
A Connecticutt farmer has a
turkey fattening for President
Taft’s Thanksgiving dinner that
already weighs 30 pounds.
A South Carolina farmer of
Anderson county made 111 bush
els of corn on an acre, but the
crop cost him $95.
Because his wife presented
him with twins, the second pair
in less than two years, Lee Hay
of Mayesville, Ky., drank car
bolic acid and ended his life.
Out of 119 cases tried for
; moonshining in North Georgia
recently, 82 illicit distillers were
convicted, making the greatest
number of convictions in any
district ever made.
Harrison Davis and Tom Walk
er fought near Nicholls, Ga.,
Saturday morning, Both were
! badly bitten, Davis biting off
i Walker’s under lip.
117 BUSHELS OF CORN
GROWN ON ONE ACRE.
Abbeville, Ga., October 22. —
The contest-of the Wilcox County
Boys’ Corn Club was held here
today and the first prize was
awarded Maceo Gammage, who
raised 117 bushels on his acre.
He was tied by another boy who
raised the same amount but at a
greater cost. Several boys had
from 89 to 106 bushels. This
shows up well for Wilcox county.
Miss Ruth Moore was given first
prize in cake-baking and Miss
Ruby Moore first prize in em
broidery.
John Johnson, a white man at
Wheeler’s saw mill near Pitts,
Ga., was cut half in two by be
ing thrown on the saw Friday
morning.
Dr. Frederick Cook, of North
Pole notoriety, was driven from
the hall in Copenhagen Tuesday
night where he attempted to lec
ture by a mob of 1,500 "people.
George C. McDonald, an elec
trician of Macon, was electrocut
ed by a wire Tuesday morning
while attempting to connect up
the wires of a meter without
cutting off the current.
A. K. Spivey, one of the coun
ty commissioners of Laurens
county, died suddenly of heart
failure at his home near Turkey
Creek last week.
Savannah received 31,000 bales
of cotton on Tuesday, and the
total receipts to that date were
780,144 bales, being larger than
last year’s by 279,144 bales.
E. Y. Swanson, a scale tender
of the Southern railway in At
lanta, was run over by a switch
ing engine Monday night and
died shortly afterward.
W. H. Crosby, a Mitchell
county farmer, was bound over
to the grand jury without bail
for killing the little daughter of
Mayor Perry of Camilla recently
while driving his automobile
through that town.
A 13-year-old negro boy was
watching a rip saw at Jeanerett,
La., on Saturday, when a chip
was sent flying that severed his
windpipe and jugular vein.
Five freight cars, two loaded
with 60 bales of cotton, one load
ed with merchandise, and the
other two empty, were burned at
West Point, Ga., recently.
Miss Hattie Gilbert of near
Dexter, 16 years old, picked 446
pounds of cotton in a day, stop
ping one hour and a half for din
ner. In four days and a half
she gathered 1,606 i>ounds.
The postmaster at Clem, Ga.,
took all the cash out of the safe
Monday nigh, and a poor burglar
blew it open that nightand didn't
get a cent.
W. J. Hudson, superintendent
of the Soldiers’ Home in Atlanta,
jumped from a street car and
was killed Sunday evening.
Dr. Helene Knabe, a very
learned and prominent woman of
Indianaixdis, was found Tuesday
morning in bed with her head
almost cut off and no clue to the
murder.
John R. Walsh, the ex-banker
of Chicago, who was released
from prison nine days ago, where
he was serving a sentence for
wrecking three banks, died Mon
day morning.
A Chicago man tried to feed
fifty dollars in new green bills to
a horse hitched to a truck, and
was fined one dollar for being
drunk.
THE GREATEST OF GIFTS.
Once upon a’time a poor wood
cutter who lived with his wife in
a hovel at the edge of the forest
found an old woman held fast in
i one of his bear traps, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. Here
leased her and took her to his
home, and there the woodman
and his wife cared for her until
she was well enough to resume
1 her journey.
Then, as she was about to
! leave, the good man said to her:
i “Good mother, will you put a
gift upon our first born?”
And the old woman answered:
“What gift would please thee
best?”
And the mother, after the
fashion of mother, said: “Let
it be the greatest of gifts.”
“Then I wish 4iim the gift of
accumulating, ” said the old wo
man and went her way.
But the mother was sad. She
hoped her son would be a poet,
or a teacher, or a maker of laws.
When their first born was yet
a lad he traded kvives and the
knife that fell to him he traded
for two knives. And in the
game called marbles he cornered
the neighborhood market and
sold the tiny spheres back to his
little playmates at twice and
thrice their first value. Later on
the stocks he bought always
boomed, the gold mines he se
cured were richer than expected, i
the railroads he looted proved
precious pickings.
So, in time, the first born of
the woodcutter became a mighty
power in the land and poets sang
to him, and teachers took his
bounty, and the makers of laws
were powerless before him.
And the man’s mother, who
lived in a palace and longed for
a cottage, sighed and said:
“Truly, the old woman was
right. The ability to accumulate
is the greatest of gifts!”
GUMPTION ON THE FARM.
, There was too much high flying
at many of the agricultural fairs
this fall. Hauling in hay by
aeroplane is not likely ever to
become popular. Let us all live
as close the earth as possible.
Paint the ladders and store
them away in the barn.
Thrash the grain out before
the rats and mice do it for you.
Don’t stand too much on your
dignity you might slip and fall.
With hay at twenty dollars a
ton who would not be a hayseed?
It is so easy for a little rip in
the horse blanket to get larger]
Start for needle and thread the
minute you see such a rent.
As the end of the year ap
proaches let us be up and doing
all the outdoor work that has
been put off, lest winter catch us
unprepared.
Selling the farm and moving
into town to join the store-box
club is a good deal like trading
off the best cow for a yellow dog.
Don’t do it, brother, as long as
you can plow a straight furrow.
If you had to stack any hay
out this year, look at the tops be
fore winter sets in. They some
times settle badly, so that the
storms are likely to injure the
hay very much. If this is the
case with yours, top them out
again. Thick, fine grass is the
best for this purpose. Tread it
down well.
Never set a fried egg, with the
expectation of hatching a fried
chicken. In excessively hot
weather place canvas over the
potato patch in order to shield
the eyes of the potatoes from the
blinding sun. Investigations of
modern science have disclosed
the fact that there is no essential
connection between duck raising
and quack-grass. —From Novem
ber Farm Journal.
LITTLE LOUISE HUGHES
DIES MONDAY MORNING.
Wo regret to learn of the death
of little Louise, the 4-yoar-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D.
Hughes, at their home Monday
morning. Her illness was of
short duration, she having been
siek only since Wednesday last.
The sympathies of a host of rela
tives and friends will be extend
ed Mr. and Mrs. Hughes in their
sad bereavement.
CROWDS SEE GASOLINE PLOW
ON ITS ARRIVAL IN TOWN.
Sandersville, Ga., Oct. 21.
For the first time in its history
the bosom of Washington county
is to be tickled by a huge gaso
line plow. A few days ago two
of these huge machines arrived
in Sandersville on a fiat car and
at once attracted the attention of
the curious, many people never
before having seen a plow of this
kind. The main wheels are
twenty-four inches wide which
will prevent them from sinking
deep into soft earth. The gaso
line engine with which they are
operated is forty-five horse pow
er, consumes a barrel of gasoline
per day and will break twenty
four acres of land when condi
tions are favorable. The plows
can be set to break the earth to
any distance desired up to twen
ty-four inches. One of these
plows has been bought by C. G.
Rawlings who will use it on his
farms near Sandersville. He will
begin breaking the % land as soon
as the crops can be gathered.
The other plow has been sold to
a farmer at Millen and will be
shipped from here to that place.
Mr. Rawlings has made the pur
chase on trial. It will be used
temporarily in road work just to
show what can be done with
modern machinery.
The plow looks like a small
house with wheels under it, and
when it is put into operation will
be watched with keen interest by
those who have an opi>ortunity
of seeing it at work.
HOW TO BE AN EDITOR.
Most anyone can be an editor.
All the editor has to do is to sit
at, a desk six days out of the
week, four weeks out of the
month and twelve months of the
year and “edit” such stuff as
this:
“Mrs. Jones of Cactus Creek
let a can opener slip last week
and cut herself in the pantry."
“A mischievous lad of Piketown
threw a stone and struck Mr.
I’ike in the alley last Tuesday.”
“John Doe climbed on the roof
of his house last week looking
for a leak and fell, striking him
self on the back porch." “While
Harold Green was escorting Miss
Violet Wise from the church so
cial last Saturday night a savage
dog attacked them and bit Mr.
Green several times on the pub
lic square." “Isaiah Trimmer
of Running Creek was plaving
with a cat Friday when it
scratched him on the veranda."
“Mr. Fong while harnessing a
broncho last Saturday was kicked
just south of his corn patch.”
Yes, it’s a wonder they draw
salaries for it. - American Press.
DR. RACKLEY IN COLLISION.
In going to his home a few
nights ago, Dr. E. M. Rackley
came into collision with a cow,
and from the impact and the re
sulting fall is carrying one arm
in a sling. His arm is badly
bruised by falling on roots on
the sidewalk, having taken a
header over the unsuspecting cow
as she lay quietly upon the walk,
dreaming of “fields that are
green and pastures that are ,
new.” The surprise was mutual,
but we have not heard anything
from the cow.
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