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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1907)
It Builds Force -21 (ieorgia Callings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Bonds Voted by Canton. By a decisive vote last Saturday, the citizens of Canton voted for the issue of bonds for the establishment of electric lights, waterworks and a sewerage system in the town, thus putting herself alongside the more progressive and enterprising cities of the state. Out of 174 votes polled, 172 were for electric lights, 171 for waterworks and 168 for sewerage, being a clear two-third of the regis tered votes of the town. * * * Fertilizer Tags Received. The department of agriculture has received 4,500,000 fertilizer tags from the Philadelphia factory where they were made. The tags will be supplied to the fertilizer manufacturers of Geor gia, and every ton of their product sold in the state must bear ten of them. The state pays 30 cents per thou sand for the tags and sells them to the fertilizer companies for $lO per thousand, or one cent each. The proceeds from the sales will go to sup port the district agricultural colleges of the state. * * * Report on Schools Wanted. Governor Smith has called upon State Treasurer Park and State School Commissioner Merritt for a statement showing just what the condition of the treasury and the school commis sioner’s office is in regard to the common school teachers of Georgia. That the state is far behind in its payments of these splendid educators is well known, and he is making an effort to see just where the state stands' in regard to this debt. Some of the counties have been p£id more than their proportionate share of the funds available and in consequence some will be paid in the near future before others. * * * Broughton’s Salary Garnisheed. The salary of Dr. Len G. Broughton, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, Atlanta, has been garnisheed and legal notice served on the treas urer of the church. The proceedings, which are return ble to the November term of the su perior court, were sworn out before Justice Kingsberry by B. A. Pugin, an architect, and followed the suit filed against Dr. Broughton some two weeks ago by Mr. Pugin, who, in his former petition, alleged that the well known minister is due him SSOO as part payment for the drawing of the plans of the proposed $50,000 taber nacle institution. * * * Atlanta-Albany Electric Line. Work is soon to start on the new electric lines from Atlanta to Albany. E. D. Harrington and W. J. Massee have returned to Macon from New York, where they went several weeks ago on a mission touching the finan cial status of the new enterprises, and it is.stated that the laying of the first tie and rail is not far distant. A great amount of work has been done towards putting the contractors in charge of the grading during tne past few weeks and the indications are that there will now be little delay in beginning the work. All officials will he hard at work now until the gradmg is started for both lines. * * * Carnegie’s Name Omitted. The name “Carnegie” is conspicu ously absent from the portal of the new library in Columbus, and the of ficial designation of the new institu tion will be simply the “public 11- brarv ” It is believed that designating the institution in this way, in prefer ence to naming it for any individual, even the philanthropist whose gener osity made it possible, will tend to popularize the institution. Before this step was taken Mr. Carnegie was com municated wfth on the subject and re What is medicine for? To cure you, if sick, you say. But one medicine will not cure every kind of sickness, because different medicines act on different parts of the body. One medicine goes to the liver, another to the spine, Wine of Cardui to the womanly organs. So that is why Wine of Cardui has proven so efficacious in most cases of womanly disease. Try it. Mrs. Wm. Turner, of Bartonville, 111., writes: "I suffered for years with female diseases, and doctored without relief. My back and head would hurt me, and I suffered agony with bearing-down pains. At last I took Wine of Cardui and now I am In good health.” Sold everywhere, In SI.OO bottles. IWniTC lIC A I ETTED Write todiy for a free copy of valuable 6*-page illustrated Book for Women. If yoa need Medical Wfil | r g \ I\ I | I lriv Advice, describe your symptoms, stating age, and reply will be sent In plain sealed envelope. I¥ 888 ■** ■ “ *“** Address: Ladies Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn. plied very frankly that it was imma terial with him what name was used, as his only object in giving libraries was to benefit communities. The new building, which cost $30,000, is the second largest library in Georgia. * * * Consumers Entitled to Rebate. H H. Tift and other lumber man ufacturers, comprising the member ship of the Georgia Saw Mill Associa tion, allege that they are confronted with a scheme of the Southern rail way and the lines forming the South eastern Tariff Association, together with the great car foundries and lum ber consumers of the west, to defeat the decree of the United States court: giving back to the producers the twc cents per hundred pounds tariff plac ed by the roads five years ago. More than fifteen hundred thousano dollars must go back to the saw mil’, men out of the freights paid under the illegal tariff, and since a stand ing master has been put to the task of taking evidence by Judge Emory Speer, the lines have joined sevc-ra! car foundries and consumers in a claim that the latter parties are tne real concerns entitled to the money. * * * Feature Days of State Fair. The full program of the state fair at Atlanta has not get been agreed on, but the following special events have been arranged: Children’s day, Saturday, October Union day, Wednesday October 16. Fraternal day, Thursday, October 17 All-day singing, Friday, October 18 Cattle judging, Friday, October IS. Cement Mixers’ ’convention, "Friday, October 18. William Jennings Bryan, Saturday, October 19. Cobb and Cherokee, Tuesday, Octo ber 22. Hall, Habersham and Rabun, Mon day, October 23. DeKalb, Carroll and Morgan, Tues day, October 24. Bibb, Twiggs and Bulloch, Friday, October 25. Camden and Worth, Saturday, Octo ber 26. Italian Colony for Stone Mountain, While \the state of /Georgia and other southern states are debating the advisability of bringing to this section a desirable class of immi grants, Vincenzo Palumbo, a private citizen and wealthy manufacturer of New York, and his brother-in-law, Jo seph Parantba, of Atlanta, are active ly engaged in Instituting one of the most comprehensive and practical col onization schemes yet brought to pub lic notice. On the Georgia railroad, one mile beyond Stone Mountain, these gentle men have purchased five hundred acres of fertile land and are prepar ing it for division into truck farms. Within the next few months 2,000 industrious immigrants from the ag ricultural classes of Italy will be brought over and settled upon this land. Already twenty comfortable frame dwellings are in course of erec tion on the new estate, and several hundred more will be constructed within the next twelve months. Saw mills have been erected, and will man ufacture all the timber to be used in building. * * * Preparing for Big Convention. Every possible preparation is be ing made for the care and entertain ment of the 600 and more delegates expected to attend the International Conference of Cotton Growers and Manufacturers, which will he held in Atlanta, October 7-9, inclusive. The city council has apropriated sl,- 000 for the entertainment and has ap pointed a committee to confer and act with a similar committee from the chamber of commerce, which latter organization has been stirring itself for several weeks in a great endeavor to outdo anything in the entertain ment line that has ever been done in Atlanta before. The convention will represent hun dreds of millions of dollars. All the great cotton manufacturers of New England and of England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, France, Austria and Belgium will he in attendance. In addition there will be several hun dred of the most prominent cotton growers of this section. The European International Cotton Spinners’ Association will he repre sented by 115 spinners. When the convention has closed the foreign delegates have arranged for a trip through the country, and especially the south, over the South ern railway. Seventeen states will be visited. ON SCIENCE OF FEEDING Georgia State Chemist Discourses in Fer tilizer Bulletin No. 44. Commisssioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson and State Chemist J. M. Mc- Candless have just issued from the press 25,000 copies of Fertilizer Bul letin No. 44, which are available at this department in the state capitol. The bulletin is declared to be the most complete ever issued. Dp. Mc- Candless has written five letters in the bulletin to “A Georgia Farmer” on the subject of cattle raising. In his third letter on the “Science of Feeding’’ he uses as his topic “Importance of cotton seed —how the progressive farmer may calculate the best rations for his stock.” He writes: “As I said, we have been raising cotton for the sake of its fiber to be spun into cloth, when we should have been raising it chiefly for the sake of the protein and carbohydrates of its seeds to be transmuted by woifcerful alchemy of the brute creation into beef, milk, mutton and pork, with the lint simply thrown in as a by-product. “When we consider the wonderful nutritive value of cotton seed meal and hulls, after the oil, another by product, has been extracted from them, and the further fact that this rich, nutritious food may be passed through the domestic animals, giving them life, growth and development, and yet in that process lose only about 10 per cent of the rich fertiliz ing constituents found in the origi nal food and yielding a manure of the very best quality, it does seem as though nature had been too lav ish and generous in her gifts to us of the south.” In addition the bulletin gives the complete pure-food law and the standard of pure-food values as allow ed under the law in Georgia, and how registration shall be accomplished for the sale of these articles so as to com ply with the state regulations. U. - CLEVELAND IN GREAT LUCK. Ex-President’s Doctors Disagree, Quit the Case, and New One is Called. As a result of a dispute between the physicians, former President Gro ver Cleveland, who is believed to be in a serious condition at his home, Westland, near Princeton, N. J., has been put in the hands of a new spe cialist, Dr. Banks, of New York. Dr. Carnahan and Dr. Bryant, who have been attending Mr. Cleveland, are said to have disagreed as to who was properly in authority in the case. It is said their clash reached so acute a stage that both doctors decided to retire and united in a request to the family of their distinguished patient that another physician be retained. Both of them refused to make any statements. JAPS BARRED BY WHITE MINERS. Gang of Seventy-Seven Put Aboard Steam er and Sent to Vancouver. Seventy-seven Japanese miners ar riving at Atlin, Washington, to work in the mines were escorted to the riv er steamer Gleamer by 300 men and started back toward Vancouver. The white miners served notice upom the Japanese that if they did not stay away violence would be shown in protecting the diggings against Asiatic labor. CRUSHERS HIT BY EXPORT LAW Bad Handling of Cotton Seed Prod ucts Causes Heavy Losses. PROTEST IS REGISTERED Special Convention in New Orleans Wfil Attempt to Remedy Matters--Ben ton Makes His Report. Facts from both sides in the con troversy as to why southern cotton seed products exporters lose thou sands of dollars monthly from negli gent handling of their goods in steam ships were presented at Monday’s ex traordinary session of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association in New Orleans. Action was taken to combat for eign tariffs, which are claimed to have cut down southern business in these products by $2,000,000 annual ly. The convention nominated Albert G. Perkins of Memphis, Tenn., for United States expert abroad on the subject of cotton seed products. This nomination is to be an appointment which will be made by Secretary Strauss of the department of com merce and labor. Professor J H. Connell of Dallas, Texas, was the only other candidate for nomination. Mr. Perkins succeeds J. L. Benton of Monticello, Ga., resigned. Mr. Benton reported to the conven tion his observations upon the cause* of the losses of southern shfppers. Mr. Benton told of the enormous waste in cotton seed products, due to careless handling by steamship lines-, and of the loss to American shipere thereby, estimated as high as $1,000,000 in a single year. As an example of how this waste occurred he said: "We find in New Orleans today waiting for export 5,000 tons of meal from five different firms. This meal includes five different brands. Of the total amount 4,000 tons of it is choice meal. The remaining 1,000 tons is dark, badly ground and with an excess of lint and hulls. All this meal is loaded Into a vessel at New Orleans without regard to the classification shown on the marks in dicating the brands. As a result it is pretty well scattered over the ship. Since this cargo does not fill the boat’s capacity, a few thousand bar rels of cotton seed oil are rolled in on top of the meal. A few of the barrels break, a few of the sacks are torn, and both cargoes, oil and meal, are more or less damaged. “Upon unloading, the meals sacks are hoisted by a single rope from the hold of the vessel and are dragged along the floor until they reach the warehouse, by which time several more bags are broken. Having been loaded without regard to brands, the meal is unloaded in the same man ner. So many bags, moreover, have been ruined that it is useless to at tempt to collect the cargo according to its classification. Instead, the meal is piled indiscriminately in heaps of a ton each of mixed meal for weighing and sampling. The loose meal from the broken bags is appor tioned to those piles which may be short in weight. At this stage, a car go which left the United States con sisting of 4,0C0 tons of choice meal and 1,000 tons of off meal, is now reduced to all one grade, and that the worst. There is just enough lint and hulls in it to cause reclamation. "The importer therefore does not get the grade he has bought. If we could guarantee him the grade we could get more for southern cotton seed cake than is paid for any other cake in the world.” Mr. Benton said it will be a diffi cult task to extend southern cotton seed products trade abroad until the delivery is improved. STAND FIRMLY SAYS BARRETT President of Farmers' Union Sends Forth an Urgent Plea. SOHWS WAY TO VICTORY Growers of Cotton Called Upon to Uphold Demand for Minimum Price—Loyalty Will Bring Success. National President Charles S. Bar rett of the Farmers’ Union has given out an appeal to the members of tha union throughout the cotton belt to stand firm for the minimum price of 15 cents, showing that if they do, victory is sure to be theirs. He says: Just after the annual convention at Little Rock has named 15 cents a pound as the minimum price whtcii the southern farmer should receive for his cotton during the ensuing yeai, the specualtors in the cotton ranks have managed to depress the markets and to beat down the price. I address to you this line as a fra ternal repeal to hold steadfast to the council of your annual convention, and with heroic fidelity to abide its ultimatum to the markets of the world. Hold your cotton for 15 cents and hold it until it brings the price. The National Union, when it flxerf the minimum, knew more about the situation than any cotton gambler or combination of cotton gamblers. It was not fixed upon an impulse or an uncertainty, but after deliberate study and investigation. With all my heart and with all my mind, I urge you to the last limit of your ability to hold steadfast to tins policy adopted by your National Union. The present status make a definite and decisive crisis in the history of our great organization. Up to thft? date the farmer has worked opposition and against the possibility of defeat. We have won victory after victory by this splendid policy. We stand now face to face with a combination which affords us an opportunity to show the world that the southern far mer is resolutely determined to main tain his rights. The eyes of the world are upon him as never before and the history of the organization in the future will depend in no sinsctl degree upon the courage and fidelity with which he meets the present sit uation. For throe years you have won out in every proposition that yon have presented to the business world. Win once more in this important issue and it will be henceforth easier sailing for us ali. You have the key to the situation. You have the eotton, you have the warehouses, and if to these you only add the courage, the business stamina and the common sense to hold your own, you need not fear the future Do not be scared by the com pir acy which has been begun to make you part with your cotton for less than the minimum price. 1 do not ask you to hold your cot ton to the injury of your creditors. Every farmer's duty is to pay his debts, but this is a period when the Individual farmer and the Farmers' Union can use their influence with their merchant friends to induce them to bear for a little while with any farming debtor whom the local union may recommend to their confidence and regard. Let every farmer face the situation without fear, and as God has pros pered him in other years and as his union has prepared for him in the storehouse for his crop, let him put his shoulder to the shoulder of his brother and breathing courage, con fidence and determination, let him re peat to the world the statement that the man who buys his cotton must pay him 15 cents a poundl __ j PREACHER GIVEN A FLOGGING. Citizens of Little Colorado Town Cut Out This “Affinity” Affair. Citizens tff the little town of Krem* ling, Colo., take little stock in the belief that ‘ affinities'’ should have full sway. They formed a band of “white caps” and dragged the Rev. H. Hasha, a Methodist minister with a wife and grown family, from a room with Miss Ruth Shumacker, and horsewhipped him until he begged for mercy. The girl was placed under arrest.
