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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1022.
PLANNING FOR SPLENDID FAIR.
Wc published last week the premium list for
the Toombs County Fair, which will be held the
week of Octorber 17th to 21st. The premium list
is an unusually attractive one and should insure
splendid exhibits in all departments, and the busi
ness men of Lyons are enthusiastically behind the
fair and are working hard for its success. Special
attention this year has been paid to the boys and
girls of the county, who have been organized into
different clubs by the county agent and the dem
onstration agent, and the exhibits in these depart
ments promise to be unusually interesting.
Fairs are productive of much good and we are
glad that Toombs county is to have a splendid fair
this fall.
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GEORGIA LEADS IN RAISING HOGS.
According to Martin V. Calvin, statistician for
the State Department of Agriculture, Georgia is
fast becoming a great hog state, in 1921 the num
ber of swine in the state totalling 3,102,000. Geor
gia leads every cotton state in the number of swine,
the only states ahead of her being, Towa, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Nebraska.
South Georgia is the great center for the hog
industry, having 05.8 per cent of the state’s swine.
Middle Georgia having 24.1 and North Georgia
the remaining 10.1 per cent.
While pure-bred bogs are fast making their
way, the old razor-back is still round about, 20.5
per rent of the hogs in the state belonging to this
classification.
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A GOOD TOBACCO YEAR.
According to tobacco farmers in this section,
this has been a good tobacco year for South Geor
gia, there not having been too much rain during the
curing season, resulting in a high quality of tobacco
having been produced. The price has also been
satisfactory and tire farmer who refused to be dis
couraged with the poor yield and poorer price last
year, and who put in a small acreage this year, is
this year cashing in, realizing from S3OO to SSOO
per acre from his tobacco.
Lands in Toombs and Montgomery counties
are as splendidly adapted to tobacco growing as
any lands in South Georgia and with seasons at all
favorable a high-grade quality of tobacco can be
produced. As a monev crop for our section, to
bacco should be nlanted in small acreage on cverv
farm.
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Savannah is said to he considering entertain
ing the newspaper men of the state for the purpose
of showing them Savannah’s many advantages for
a great state port. We think the newspaper men
arc perfectly willing to be shown, but if we ren
dezvous at Savannah we want Hill Biffem and those
other Savannah heavy-weights to get off the lid,
which they held down so tightly when the legisla
tors were Savannah’s guests.
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The sexton n the legislation cemetery had just
as well start digging graves. The legislature was!
so wasteful of time in starting off the session that
much good legislation died a-horning and the grave-1
yard will claim many a bill.
A VERY POOR SYSTEM j
| ' A man owed his neighbor $12.67. A few days ..
] I ago he went over to pay the debt with a $20.00 hill, +
|| expecting $7.33 in change. «■
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I ; When this neighbor went to town again he got II
\; some change and returned to each one the sum he 11
|| borrowed. It was a lot of trouble for one trails- I!
II action. X
11 But suppose that man had been using the check- * 1
11 ing system. He could have then paid his neighbor *
II quickly, with the exact change; a business-like J
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I I Every one admires the man who is careful and T
i I business-like. The checking system deserves its T
<! popularity. It is safest and l*est. T 1
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THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR
FAIITH IN OUR STATE.
The Atlanta National Bank recently carried an
advertisement in the Atlanta papers, from which
we quote the following:
“Faith is the promise of the future to pay —
unsecured except by hard work and integrity. Faith
is the quality that builds industry, wins and makes
life worth the living. Faith makes prosperity and
the lack of it is the cause of every business depres
sion. Thp Atlanta National Bank has faith in
Georgia today, and in the development of the poten
tial resources of the state. lowa has a farm val
uation equal to twenty-four other states combined.
lowa will produce this year agricultural products
to the value.of $900,000,000. The climate of Geor
gia is better than that of Towa. A greater variety
of crops can be produced in Georgia than in lowa.
The difference between the two states and the value
of farm products is only the difference in methods
of planting, cultivating and marketing. F.ach year
sees Georgia adopting more modern agricultural
methods and each normal year sees Georgia show
ing to better and better advantage when compared
to the banner states of the Union. The Atlanta
National Bank has faith in the ability of Georgia
farmers and business men to take such advantage
of the natural resources of the 1 state, that eventu
ally the value of Georgia farm products will he in
the billion dollar neighborhood. Faith in Towa by
the people of Towa put their products up to that
figure. Faith in Georgia by Georgians will do the
same thing here. ”
We all love our state and have faith in her fu
ture, and the above statement is both stimulating
and reassuring. Fverv vear sees Georgia farmers
making great strides in the, wealth produced from
Georgia farms and it is hut a question of a few
vears before Georgia’s aerrultnral products will
surpass thos-e of Towa. There are vears of discour
agement. but diversification is slowly and surely
winning its way.
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THE SOUTH’S GREATEST BLUNDER.
Ever since the Civil War, the South has been
making—and is still making— another blunder that
has cost us even more than war and secession ever
cost us. We refer to the failure to properly edu
cate al lout people. We have spent less for schools
and have given boys and girls shorter school terms
and have been more indifferent as to whether chil
dren attended school than any other section of the
United States.
While in all the rest of the nation—and in al
most all the rest of the civilized world, for that
matter—all the people are compelled to send their
children to school and give them a decent educa
tion, here in the South we have gone on saying:
“We can’t spare the children from the cotton fields’’
and it has been as if a curse of God were on us in
consequence.
For what has been the result of our sending the
South’s children to toil in the fields while all the
rest of America’s children were sent to school? The
result has been that our children 1 have worked for
nothing. As a result of the constant more-or-less
overproduction, due to child labor, the price of cot
ton has usually been forced down—and we have re
ceived no more for our large cotton production
than we should have received for the smaller crops
we should have made if we had sent our children
to school.
We mav shut our eves to the facts for another
hundred vears if we wish to do so—and pay the
penalty in poverty and ignorance and backwardness
—hut sooner or later we have got to face the truth.
“Cheap labor means cheap cotton”—and ignorant
labor means cheap labor. We have got to have
strict, absolute, thorough-going compulsory attend
ance laws effectively enforced for both races.
Onlv in this wav can we raise the Negro’s low
living standards which are a menace to the white
I man’s own standards, and shift more of the exces
| sive Negro population to other sections and other
industries and thereby relieve the present conges-
I 'ion of Nee-roes in agriculture with its inevitable
| lowering of crop prices.—Progressive Farmer.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
For State Senator.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for State Senator, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary of September 13th, and
solicit the support of the voters of
Toombs county-
S. B. MEADOWS.
For State Senate.
To the Voters of Toombs County:
I am candidate for State Sena
tor from the 15th senatorial district,
composed of the counties of Toombs,
Montgomery and Wheeler, and will
appreciate your support.
G. W. LANKFORD.
For Judge Middle Circuit.
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for Judge Superior Courts
of the Middle Circuit, subject to
the coming primary.
Respectfully,
F. H. SAFFOLD.
For Judge Middle Circuit.
To the Public:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Judge of Superior
Courts, Middle Judicial Circuit.
Very respectfully,
R. N. HARDEMAN.
For Representative, Toombs County
To the voters of Toombs county:
I am a candidate for representative
from Toombs county, subject to the
coming primary, and will appreciate
your support.
Very respectfully,
WORTH D. POE.
For Representative, Toombs County
I use this privilege to announce myl
candidacy for the office of Represen
tative of Toombs county. I will ap
preciate your support.
ERNEST C. WIMBERLY..
For Representative, Toombs County.
Having an honest desire to repre
sent my county in the legislative hall
of Georgia, I hereby announce myself
a candidate for representative from
Toombs county, subject to the rules
and regulations as prescribed by the
democratic primary to be held Sept.
13th, 1922.
Respectfully yours,
B. H. GRACE.
For Representative Toombs County.
Subject to the rules of the white pri
mary, friends from Waycross and Heb
ardsville, Ga., announce J. A. L.
Glaze as a candidate for representa
tive. He begs the ladies, for the sake
of their children, to keep an eye on
immorality and their fingers on every
rotten, being, roguish, crooked politi
cian who invades America and rapes
a civil sovereignty, thus characterized
•is a disgrace to Southern politics. A
thousand gratified thanks extended
those seven hundred and eighty-seven
plebiscites of Toombs county who
wrote their names on a stolen ballot
two years ago. Read the 11th chap
ter of St. Luke. 52nd verse, and get
on the firing line. Speaking dates to
he announced later.
REDUCTION IN TRAIN SERVICE
M. D. & S. RAILROAD.
Effective July 28th, 1922, on account
conditions 'resulting frdin strike, it
i becomes necessary for us to discon
tinue temporarily train No. 17 leav
-1 ing Vdalia at 7 :40 p- m., arrving Ma
j eon 11:20 p. m., and train No. 18,
j leaving Macon 7:20 a. m., arriving
, Vidalia 10:55 a. m.
ThtAe trains will be restored as soon
as conditions warrant.
The traveling public is asked to bear
j with us during the interim.
C. J. ACOSTA.
ts Traffic Manager.
non Cures Malarie, Chills,
nnh Fever, Bilious F«ver,
Colds and LaGrippe.
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