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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.
