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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1909)
CONDITION OF CROPS Reports of Department of Agri culture Show Shortage. MORE SMALL GRAIN PLANTED Cotton Acreage in Georgia off Eight Per Cent. Peach Crop also Short. Atlanta, Ga. —The May report of crop conditions and prospects, issued by the department of agriculture, shows that the acreage planted to cotton in Georgia this year is 8 per cent less than that of last year, and the condition and prospect report on cotton shows a decrease of 18 per cent. The explanation for the smaller cotton acreage Is said to be the ten dency to plant grains in order to real ize the high prices now prevailing. A further reason is the grassy condition of farming land throughout the mid dle and northern part of the state, resulting from the continued rains of April and May. The report shows a large Increase in the acreage of corn, wheat and oats. Corn. The average acreage for the state is given as 105 per cent, as compared with last year. Condition 107. Percentage of oat crop sown last fall 09 2-3. Wheat. Acreage 10C. Condition 111. Condition and prospects compared to average 100 2 3. Cotton. Acreage 92. Average time of planting 15 days late. Percentage of entire crop replanted 10 per cent. The percentage of commercial fertil izers used on cotton as compared to last year was 95 2-3. The percentage used under other crops than cotton was 93 2-3, as compared with 75 2-3 last year. Sugar Cane. Acreage 98 2-3. Stand as compared with last year 39 2-3. Sorgum. Acreage 106 2-3. Condi tion 100. Clover and Grasses: Acreage 941-3. Condition 89 1-3. The labor supply as compared with last year was 98 per cent. The per centage of farm laborers hired for wages is given as 25 p<?r cent. The percentage hired on shares is 40 per cent. The wages with board paid full hands is $13.50. The cash price of corn per bushel is given at SI.OO, and the credit price as $1.16. Fruits. Per cent of full crop now indicated: Pcs. Apis. Prs. Grps. P.p P.C. P.C. P.C. Northern sec. .40 38 37 77 Middle sec. ~.40 34 37 88 Southern sec. .50 43 31 89 Aver, for state. 42 38 1-3 35 84 2-3 Last year some of the orchard men because discouraged on account of small profits and, in some instances, losses iu the shipment of peaches, and as a consequence, many hearing peach trees were rut down and the land put to other uses. JUDGE ORDERS ROAD SULD. Contractor Oliver to Recover $289,515 From S. A. and N. Railroad. Macon, Ga. —A decree of sale was signed by Judge Speer in the case of W. J. Oliver against the Savannah Augusta and Northern railroad wlhch authorizes the sale of that railroad in Statesboro, Ga., on August 3, 1909. J. N. Talley, who acted as master in the case, was appointed commission er to conduct the. sale. Attorney Hin ton Booth, of Statesboro, filed objec tions to the decree and stated in open court that he would take steps to ap peal the case at once. The decree of the court will allow Contractor Oliver the sum of $286,- 615.84, together with interest and costs. He will receive this sum for constructing the Savannah, Augusta and Northern railroad from States boro to lx)uisville. Should the sale price not amount to what he is given by the court, he will get a deficiency decree. Before any bid is made for the railroad property, the sum of $20,000 must be deposited with the commissioner to show the good faith of the prospective purchaser. C. Hen ry Cohen and J. R. Lamar of Augusta represented Oliver. The road was or dered to pay Oliver for his work, and its failure to do so brought about the decree. Judge Emory Speer named Bowdro Phinizy as receiver for the Savannah. Augusta and Northern Railway. The application was made by the counsel acting for W. j. Oliver and for the Carnegie Trust Company. Phinizy takes charge at once as temporary receiver. PLAN NEW RAILROAD. Will Be Operated From Rome to Gainesville. Gainesville, Ga. A ‘'Rome-to- Galnesvllle railroad" was the slogan of a party of prominent Romans who visited this city. At a public meeting the Romans outlined the railroad proposition they have in mind and in which project they desire the co-operation of the people of Gainesville. Briefly, it is to organize a companv. secure a charter for the Rome and Gainesville railway, have surveys made and either build the road themselves or secure the co operation of some of the big trunk lines or other interests to insure the railroad's beina built. The proposed route is through Hall, Forsyth or Dawson, Cherokee, Bartow and Floyd into Rome. GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. Governor Smith has signed the war rant, recently held up by him, in fa vor of the prison commission for SB,- 000 with which to pay for supplies purchased on the state farm since January 1, 1909. With this warrant approved the prison commlsion can now wind up its books and Issue the annual report for the year. It is prboable that in the near fu ture judges of the supreme court, the court of appeals and possibly of the superior courts in Georgia will wear robes. The practice was suggested and endorsed at the recent meeting of the Georgia Bar association at Warm Springs, through resolution* As the result of his inspetcion of the prison farm at Milledgeville, (gov ernor Smith pardoned twenty-five in mates of the penitentiary whom he thought should go free. In some of the cases upon which he took action the governor actfd upon his own initia tive without regard to whether appli cations for clemency had been filed or not. The auditing company which has been at work on the books of the prison commission reports that no im provement has been made since it conducted an examination into the books and accounts of the commis sion last July; that there is an abso lute lack of system at the state farm, no bookkeeping at all the state re formatory, and only the simplest form cf single entry bookkeeping kept at and instructive program will be ren capitol. Captain J. W. Lindsay, commission er of pensions, has completed his an nual report for the year ending De cember 31, 1908, and has submitted it to Governor Smith. The report shows that the total number of pen sioners paid in 1908 was 15,619 at a cost of $927,775.35. The appropriation made by the legislature for the year was $950,000, leavine a balance now in the treasury of $22,224.15. The roll for 1908 shows a decrease of eighty eight, as compared with 1907. The commissioner points out that it is im possible to estimate the amount of money the pension department will need until the general assembly leg islates upon the constitutional amend ment adopted last year. A chip has been discovered in a potato patch at Lindale that had a growth of hair on one side of it.. The growth is on one side of a small pine chip and is about, two and a half inches in length. It is of very dark hue lightly touched with gray. The roots of the hair have grown down nto the chip a quarter of an inch, and one can observe with a micros cope just how the roots are mingled together in the wood just, as on a hu man head. The article was found by little Willie Ray, son of Bailiff and Mrs. C. H. Ray. It has been a source of much curiosity to observers. Miss Ella May Thornton of Atlanta has been appointed second assistant state librarian to Mrs. Maude Barker Cobb. Miss Thornton’s appointment fills a vacancy left by the promotion of Miss Daly to the position of first assistant, Miss Marian Toombs Cool ley, the former first assistant, having resigned. The annual report of the medal committee of the Georgia division, Daughters of the Confederacy, has been made public. This committee supervises contests in composition by school children, the subject, always having to do with the state’3 part in the confederacy. The papers were all good, several of them differing in ex cellence by a very small fraction of a point and a decision was no easy mat ter. The highest grade made, ninety eight. was made by Mr. Oscar Brinson, of the Thomasville public schools, and the medal has been duly awarded to him. The second best grade, 97 3-16 was made by Mr. Harry Griswood of Macon and the third, 97 1-8, by Miss Nell Hgrdwick of Jackson. That C. E. Clyde and a man named Langford, now serving four-year sen tences in the penitentiary for robbing the Menlo postotfice last August, are innocent, and that, he himself commit ted the robbery, was the confession made in Atlanta in the United States court, by James Martin. Martin w r a3 convicted and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary on a charge of robbing the postofflce at Waleska re cently. With the organization of state banks at Dawsonville and Jasper the num ber of “bankless" counties in Georgia has been reduced to four, a fact to which the state treasury department referred with considerable pride. The counties that boast of new banking institutions are Dade and Towns, in north Georgia, and Echols and Cam den in the southern end of the state. Secretary Fielding Wallace, of the Cotton Seed Crushers’ association of Georgia, has issued the program for the annual meeting of this associa tion to be held at Atlantic Beach Fla. The program includes a number of interesting speakers, which will as sure the success of the convention. Practically every cotton oil mill in the state belongs to this association, and it is expected that over two hun dred members will be present at each session. The remarkable growth of Griffin in commerce is shown in the increas ed volume of business transacted, which has grown from $38,595,840 to $47,530,000 during the past three years. The amount of cotton con sumed in the factories this year Is 35.000 bales, against 20,000 bales last year, an increase of 15,000 bales. There are seven cotton factories in Griffin, with a total of 3,429 looms and 107.950 spindles. I/N THE WORLD OF SPORTS •Baseball English.” We notice that the “pitcher’s box” has 'been transformed in to the “hurling mound ’ this year. Otherwise we cannot see but that the grand old game is Shout the same as it was last season.—Chicago "News.” There have been other changes. For instance, the hone plate has become the “residential dish.” —New York Mail. Ar.d the base line is th§ gutter! It’s a great game if you get the proper English!—Buffalo “News.” And then, too, we note that a sacrifice hit has become a “martyrdom tap.” Nothing like having variety in writing up the grand old game.—Philadelphia "Telegraph.” President Taft declares that he does not like bunting in base ball and prefers clean and hard slugging. Most of the pitchers dislike both—and their wishes go with the-magnate and managers of the present day. lan Hague, England’s champion heavyweight, entered the ring two • years ago. He won all of his fights wfth one terrific punch, which landed before his opponents had a chance to .show boxing skill; against Sam Lang ford, however, Hague’s chance never glimmered. For three rounds the husky negro played with the giant, • and then as lan dropped his guard to start the famous punch, Sam hooked a terrific right to the point of the jaw, and the stuff was off. Langford weigh ed 158, and Hague 196 pounds. Jack Johnson, the world’s champ ion heavyweight fighter, who is now in Boston, gave out the following statement; It is now conceded on every hand that Jeffries has been blufiing the public about meeting me. I am ieady to box every w r eek in the year if I am g'ven my price for my service. I bar no man who has any i ight to challenge. I am ready to box Jeffries, Ketchel, Kauffman, Hart or any one else who wants to meet me. The University of Wisconsin base ball team has received an invitation to go to Tokio, Japan, to play teu games with Keio University during September. The Japanese school guarantees to pay the expenses of the Badger team both ways, besides giv ing them a royal reception while in the land the the Mikado. The Cincinnati Reds., and the Chicago Nationals have perfected ar rangements to spend the winter sea son in Cuba. Any time the head of this great Nation says anything it counts heavily with the general public. President Taft says that "base ball is the one clean •sport.” What a splended testimonial to the typical American game, Florida is now in line with a mod est little four-club State League com posed of clubs located in Tampa, Con cordia, Lakeland, and Barlow. The balloon University City of St. Lou’s, with John Barry and John Mc- Cullough aboard, is the winner of the national balloon contest, which star - ed from Indianapolis. Official reports from the contestants were before the Aero Club of America and show that the University City covered a dis tance of 382 miles, landing 6 miles south of Fort Payne, Ala. The balloon New York, was second in the distance contest, landing 2 1-2 miles south of Corinth, Miss., covering a distance of 355 1-2 miles Writing to a Pittsburg spoit ing editor writer in reference to Jeffries bout with Berger in Pittsburg, Jack Johnson says: This bout, 1 un derstand, is too give the public a line on his condition. Please state for me that I will have a seat at the ring side and at the conclusion of the bout will demand from Jeffries an answer regarding the date of our coming fight 1 know very well Jeffries is training for me on the quiet. As for myself- - well, tawe it from me, I don’t intend to be caught napping on the question of physical condition. “I have an of fer of a purse of $50,000 to fight Jeffries in December and 1 think it could be to our mutual benefit to accept the offer. However, I intend to have some sort of an understand ing with the boilermaker before I leave Pittsburg. Stanley Ketchel, middleweight, champion, defeated Jack O’Brien in the third round, in their fight at Philadelphia, thus accomolishing a feat that Jack Johnson, the heavy weight champion, failed to achieve in six rounds some three weeks ago. The fight was stopping in the second minute of the third round, after O’Brien had been knocked down twice in the second and once in the third, and was almost unable to raise his hand to defend himself. “Chick” Fraser has formally an nounced that he will not join the New Orleans club and that he will play in the Chicago City league this year. Veteran ball player, George Van- Haltren, who was ten years wdth the New York Nationals, was handed his release by the Oakland Pacific Coast l League club. It was a great surprise I to VanHaltren. although he was re i cently deposed as manager. The club management says Van is growing too | old for active service. He served for a decade with the Giants, from 1894. and generally headed the batting list. Barney Oldfield beat Lewis Strang by one-eighth of a mile in their first competition at Louisville, Ky. No re cords were broken. H. A. Harth, Jr., a Knoxville amateur, i broke the world’s automobile record I for a mile on a half-mile track in I Knoxville, when he drove the distance in 1:19 1-2, clipping a half second ott ' Strang's record made in Chattanooga. One manager has inaugurated tho scheme of having his outfielders prac tice throwing to the plate when op portunity present itself during the game. He contends that this is the only way to insure perfect throws; that outfielders do not get enough practice in this respect. The plan cer tainly is a good one for how often does the fan see a game lost because of a bad tnrow to the plate hurled by the brawny arm of a good throwing fielder. —Exchange. In Little Rock a judge has refused to bring about a verdict against 25 players arrested for playing Sunday ball. This is taken to indicate that tho Southern league will soon be playing [♦Sunday ball there. The Mobile Gulls are composed mostly of benedicts. Ludwig, Nelgn bors, Hill, Sentell and McCay have all reached the stage when they must take life serious. Jule Watson, according to rumor, is trying to get serious, too. Manager Bernhard of Nashville has given up hopes of getting Pitcher Sit ton back from Cleveland. Lajoie not ified Nashville that Sitton would re main with the Naps and that the bal ance of the purchase price had been forwarded to the Nashville club. Tho Southern League players are showing a great improvment in their fielding, now that the weather lias gotton warm and every one has become used to their new climates and sourrounding. Thornton of Mo bile is the real leader of the outfield ers, having made but one error in fifty games and having the swell per centage of 994. Joidan is the premier second baseman, fielding 976. Raftis of Birmingham has covered the ground around third base to the tune of .976, while Demont of New Orleans cavorts around short the best of any of them, with a percentage of .994. There aro twelve pitchers who have perfect re cords in fielding, not missing a one of the hard bunts and drives sent to the pitcher’s box. Paul Cobb after a brief time with Memphis, has been released and is on the way to join the Outlaws at Fres no, Cal. Here are some men this season that have performed above expections, in the Southern league: Casey and Sentz of Little Rock; Case of Nasn ville; Bayless of Atlanta, and Raftis and Gill of Birmingham. Cursing when the Savannah base ball team is losing is justifiable, according to a decision rendered by Recorder Schwarz, in Savannah, John Brown, colored, was up on a charge of cursing in the presence of ladies. When Brown gave his statement he said he meant no offense, but to sea Savannah losing the game kinder rat tled him. and he let a few bad words slip before he knew. The recorder said Brown nor any other man could be a good American if he could sit quiet and see the home team lose. Tho negro was cautioned to use a little circumspection in the future and told to go root for the home team some more. President Jones of the South, Atlantic league, states that there will be less rowdyism in the future that there has been in the past. He has issued positive instructions to all of the club managers and to the umpires. He is determined that this habit of kicking on every decision made by an umpire shall cease. "The man agers should understand this for once and all—l will uphold the umpires.” says President Jones, “and I am pretty well satisfied that my present staff is a reliable one and deserving of my fullest support.” Charleston is strong, in the Sally League, and with a little help by some defeats for Chattanooga, may be in the leaders’ position before many weeks more. Augusta is win ning some games on her own account, and will force herself to the top with in a few days. Macon has been climbing, too. While to make pre diction is always bad form, owing to the uncertainty of baseball, it would not be surprising before long to Charleston, Chattanooga, Augusta and Macon making up the first division, while, unless they are strengthened. Columbus, Columbia, Savannah and Jacksonville will compose the “lower four.’’ The order of the clubs is noc signified by the order in which they are named.—Exchange. The troubles in Charlotte, N. C. f have been settled by a reorganization of the Carolina Asociation. The Hor nets will stay in Charlotte. A vigorous war has been declared against ball yard bettors in all the cities of the South Atlantic League, and in the future there will be noth ing doing for the the grandstand and bleacher bettor. All baseball bets in the future must be made “on the side,’’ and not in public. President Jones of the league has now taken the matter in hand and he has issued instructions to the club owners rela tive to the ball yard betting. It is now a settled fact that the Anderson, S. C., baseball franchise will not be sold this season. The team is going good now' and it will be backed by the citizens Bobby Gilks is still with the Char leston Club, and in case any pitcher blows up Gilks will be used in the box. Despite his age he has a good delivery and may surprise some of the colt batters yet. Matty says he is a good utility mail and intends is hang on to him. “What do you know, Mull?" said one of the Chattanooga players when the Jacksonville manager came over to the Lookout bench before the game. “1 don t know anything,” snap ped back Mullanev, "or I would be in a foundry or on a farm rather than trying to run a ball team." Weak Kidneys Backache, Lumbago and Rheumatism immediately relieved by Pineules Delays are dangerous. There is no more common complaint than Kidney complaint. Nature always gives due wam ing and failure to heed same may 1 (Bn\l * n Diabetes, \ ■ Jr Lumbago, Bright’s Jy Disease, or some other "JSr serious affection of the vjT ¥ Kidneys. A trial will ift convince you they are unequaled. Pine -1 ules are quickly ab \ sorbed and readily j but naturally elimin f V ate poisons due to dis- I Iml organed condition of I Jjl f Kidneys and Bladder. They purify the blood and are a tonic to the entire system. Do not suffer from Backache, Lumbago, Rheumatism or Kidney and Bladder trouble when you can get Pineules. Two sizes, tl.oo and 50 cents. The dollar size contains 2i times as much as the 50 cent size. Pineule Medicine Company Chicago, U. S. A. Horton Drug Co. Z. D. Ward, Stockbridge. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves coughs by cleansing tha mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar” Children Like It* For BACKACHE-WEAK KIDNEYS Try DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills-Sure and Safa R. O. JACKSON, Attorney-at-Law, McDonough, ga. Office over Star Store. E. M. SniTH, Attorney at Law, Mo Donough, Ga. Offloe ever Star Store, south side square. All work carefully and promptly attended to. 53y Am premared to negotiate loan* •a real estate. Terms easy. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Clement Hopkins, actor, stabbed himself fatally while ill at his bunga low in Montgomery, N. Y. A cargo of 400 frogs arrived in New York City from Germany to be used as weather forecasters. The bill amending the law under which Porto Rico is governed was passed in the House at Washington, D. C. Pasteurized „ milk was condemned by the American Association of Medi cal Milk Commissioners in convention at Atlantic City. Lightning struck explosives at Cra cow and Kingston. Jamaica, 50# per sons being injured by the explosion in the former city. A woman caught shoplifting in a Brooklyn (N. Y.) store said she stole so her husband would admire her stylish way of dressing. Three natives convicted of murder ing Dr. William James in Luzon es caped from their guards while on the way to execution at Manila. Governor Hughes and President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, at tended the installation of Dr. Charles A. Richmond as president of Union College. Magistrate Finn, of New York City, gave a youth arrested for kissing a chance to save himself by rhyming. The rhyme was so bad he fined the youth sl. After fining heavily several sellers of adulterated milk and rotten eggs Justice Hoyt, of New York City, said that hereafter such offenders would be sent to prison. As a result of the denial of recog nition of the union by the Philadel phia Rapid Transit Company it was predicted that the strike of Us em ployes would be resumed. The one thing that the farmer i* always confidently advised to culti vate. chirps the Washington Star, Is a cheerful disposition.
