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Georgia Is First
In Many Things.
Editor Constitution: At the At
lanta “Georgia Products Dinner"
Governor Slaton named several
things in which Georgia *‘wae
first.” Miss Mildred Rutherford,
of Athens, recently compiled a list
ef things in which Georgia leads,
and it is herewith given. We are
adding some things to Miss Ruth
erford’s list and invite other addi
tions.
S. A. MARTIN, Manager,
Southern Press Clipping Bureau,
Atlanta.
MISS RUTHERFORD’S GEORGIA
FACTS.
Georgia was first to rule rum
from the colony.
First to rule slavery from the
colony.
First in the United States to
establish an orphan’s asylum —
Ebenezer.
First in America to trail the
Spanish flag in the dust.
First to invent an Indian alpha
bet.
First to teach the Bible to the
Aborigines.
First to send a schooner against
the British in the American revolu
tion.
First to send powder used in the
revolutionary war was a Georgia
vessel, '
First vessel to carry guns for
the revolutionary war vessel cap
tured off the Georgia coast and
sent to Bunker Hill.
First- to legislate against the
slavt trade.
First to establish a state univer
sity—Athens, in 1785.
First td.Jiavea Sunday School —
John Wesley, a- year before the
birtji of Robert Raikes, to whom
the credit* is usually accorded.
First hymn book in the United
States —Charles Wesley, 1737.
First to have a passenger rail
way—Augusta to Charleston.
First to apply steam to naviga
tion —William Longstreet, on the
Savannah river, in 1790.
First to send a steamer across
the ocean—The Savannah.
COTTON GIN.
First to suggest the cotton gin—
Mrs. Hilhouse, of Augusta.
First to suggest the brush used
in the cotton gin—Mrs. Nathaniel
Greene, at Savannah.
First in the world to have a
woman’s foreign missionary so
ciety—at Athens, in 1819.
First to charter a woman’s col
lege—Wesleyan, at Macon.
First woman in the world to re
ceive a diploma—Mrs. Catherine
Brewer. > ; t ' ■
First to bestow degrees upon
women.
First to have a sewing machine.
First to codify the English law.
First to pass the ‘‘married Wo
man’s act,” the right to manage
her own property.
First to discover ether anaes
thesia —Dr. Crawford W. Long, of
Athens and Jefferson.
First to send troops to the Con
federate service—the Oglethorpe
Light infantry, of Sava inah.
First general to fall on either
side in the “war between the
states.” —Francis Bartow.
First to have ironclad steamboat
with ram —Charles Austin.
First to celebrate Memorial Day.
First to suggest the Confederate
“crosses of honor” —Mrs. A. S.
Erwin, of Athens.
First to bestow these crosses of
honor on veterans.
First to suggest the United
Daughters of tne Confederacy.
First to suggest the U. D. C.
badge.
First to tunnel under the Hud
son —William McAdoo.
First to cup trees for turpentine
—Profess ir Charles Herty.
First to take the American flag
at Manilla—Tom Brumby.
First to diversify crops. First
prize at St. Louis exposition.
First to suggest the cotton picker.
The best peaches in the world—
The Elbertas, 16 000 000 trees.
Finest sea island cotton in the
world.
The most sublime waterfall in
the south —Tallulah.
The largest block of marble
quarried in the United States —at
the cftpitoi building, at Minneap
olis, Minn.
The greatest mountain of granite
in the world —Stone Mountain.
Savannah, the lowest percent
age of illiteracy to its population 1
of any city in the world.
Athens, the city with the lowest
death rate of any registered area.
An acre of land that produces
three bales of cotton.
An acre of land which produced
102 1-8 bushels of corn —raised by
a 12 year-old boy.
A Georgia ra sed hog weighed
750 pounds, its heaa weighed 88
pounds.
In the Spanish-American war
more troops were sent from Geor
gia than from any other state in
proportion to the population.
There are no ’possums like
Georgia ’possums.
No other state had a Sidney
Lanier.
No other state had an “Uncle
Remus.”
No historian is better known
that Charles C. Jones.
No finer statesman than William
H. Crawford.
No greater orator than Ben
jam H. Hill.
No baseball player like Tyrus
Cobb.
THINGS ADDED
No other state has a Frank
Stanton.
No other state has produced a
Bob McWhorter.
Georgia was one of the original
thirteen states.
Professr Otis Ashmore’s Grier s
almanac is used throughout the
south.
The first Boy’s Corn club in the
south was organized in Newton
count / in 1904 by County School
Commissioner G. C. Adams.
Georgia has the only Valdosta
and Newnan in the world.
Grier’s Almanac, that fire-side
companion of so many southern
homes even today, was founded
and printed in Georgia by Mr.
Grier. He was born, lived and
died in this state.
Largest tobacco plantation in
the world is in Georgia; 25,000
acres.
The Georgia railroad commis
sion, organized in 1877, was the
first iR the history of the world,
and the idea of railroad regulation
had its birth then.
The first mail delivered in the
United States by rural mail car
riers was in Georgia and by J. E.
Ponder, of Quitman.
The circular saw, now univer
sally used to convert timber into
lumber, was invented by a Mr.
Cox in Georgia in 1795, and his
original design is the one still used.
One of the world’s greatest inven
tions that has never been improv
ed upon.
The first amusement wheel of
the Ferris wheel kind was built
and used in Atlanta more than
half a century ago.
THE FIRST FLAG.
The first postmaster general of
the United States was Joseph
Habersham, he having been given
that position by George Washing
ton in 1795.
The first Lone Star flag, the
emblem of Tezas, was designed by
a Georgia girl. Mias Joanna Trout
man, in Crawford county in 1836,
j when more than one l.undred and
fifty Georgians went to Texas to
help in her fight for freedom.
No other Okefenokee swamp in
Anerican, this containing per aps
the only portion of the United
States yet unexplored.
No City in America is better
suited climatically for surgery than
Atlanta..
No cook book is better than the
Annie Dennis.
Georgia gold mines were the
richest in America until the dis
covery of gold in California in the
fort! «s.
Georgia has contributed more
directly to education than any
| other state.
Georgia is paying more to the
Confederate veterans than any
other state.
The United States has nine zones
■of climate. Georgia has eight of
them.
i The Georgia Technological school
in Atlanta is not excelled in the
1 south.
Georgia can produce every food
product known; has every zone of
climate known except that of the
Arctic regions; Georgia marble
considered best building stone in
the world, and she is second in the
production of marble; has 140
square miles of coal; iron covers
175 square mile area, largest de
post of kaolin in the world; from
climate standpoint Georgia favors
immigrant agriculturists from any
part of the world; Butts county
has a record of three hundred
bushels of sweet potatoes produc
ed on one acre; a trucker in Rabun
county cleared an average of $1,400
an acre on celery; Georgia boy,
Ben Leath, in Walker county, in
1611, raised 214 bushels of corn
on one acre, Georgia can grow
corn equal to lowa, wheat as good
as Illinois, oats equal to Ohio and
rpples that are good as tlio e of
New England and the northwest
ern states, best waterm dons in the
world, to say nothing of the world
famed paper shell pecan, a Geor
gia product, Georgia cane syrup,
and the Elberta peach.
CHEAP LAND.
All products in Georgia, as many
as six crops a year, may be raised
on land that costs f am twenty to
fifty.dollars an acre, yet the one
crop land in other states, especially
the midule west, sells for not less
than two hundred dollars an acre.
Their land might make a record
y ield of corn or oats, but the same
land would not make watermelons,
nor pecans, nor sugar cane, nor
peaches, nor i otatoes, as will the
Georgia lands.
Some kind of truck or food pro
duct can be raised in Georgia all
the year round. Dougherty coun
ty has a record of 756 bushels of
sweet potatoes raised on one acre.
Annually there is shipped from
Savannah two hundred and fifty
thousand pounds of wool, which
is better grade than is produced in
any other southeren states.
Persons from practically any
country in the world can find em
ployment in Georgia in the same
trade as that of his native land.
Georgia is among the few’ states
whereat times the mountains of
the northern part are covered
with snow while at the same time
the waters of the southern part
are warm enough for surf bath
ing. No state is more famous as
a resort. Thomasville was the
winter home of Mark Hanna and
is now of the Archbolds and Mrs.
Potter Palmer: Augusta is the
w inter home of ex-President Taft
and J )hn D. Rockefeller, to say
nothing of Ty Cobb. You may
bask in the sunshine and enjoy
the ocean breezes at Tybee and
St. Simmons, or you can find all
the mountain climbing you wan*
in north Georgia, and scenery that
it is said to equal that of Colorado,
and rival Switzerland; you can
find deer, bear and wild cat in
either north or south Georgia, and
if you care for a touch of the
jungle you may penetrate the
Okefenokee swamp, parts of which
have never been exDlored. The
citizen of north Georgia can spend
his summers at the Georgia coast
resorts, and the resident of south
Georgia can spend his summers in
the mountains of north Georgia.
HORSE POWER.
It is estimated that excluding
Tallulah Falls, there is a half mil
lion horsepower of undeveloped
LET (IS HELP YOU
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Make Christmas Buying
YOU will be surprised to learn how easy it is to find
desirable Christmas Gifts here, and you will be still
greater surprised when you notice how extremely
low they are priced.
We have made extensive preparations for the Christ
mas trude, and every department is now full to overflowing
with the very choicest things. Don’t put it off another day ?
but come at once while the stock is at itsjbest.
Visit our Novelty Department,
Our Gents’ Furnishing Department,
Our Shoe Department,
Our Ladies’ and Children’s
i • Ready-to-Wear Department,
Our Millinery Department,
Our Groc >ry Department,
Our Rug Department,
Our Home Furnishing Department—
And you can so easily b ■ relieved of wondering what your
Christmas Gifts for all v ill be.
A Gold Contest ticket zvith every dollar purchase, and
5400.00 in premiums to the five holding the lucky tickets.
First premium, $150,00 in GOLD.
GRIFFIN MERCANTILE COMPANY
Successors to Bass Bros* Go.,
GRIFFIN, GA.
A. B. & F. A. MITCHAM,
Funiture and Undertaking
HAHPTON, GEORGIA.
We have an experienced Embalmer, a Henry county boy,
Mr. Perry Welch.
▲U 0*11• answered promptly day or aigkt.
All embalming oarefally done and according to boot methods
Oar stock of metal sad wood oaskets sad robes are an equalled.
Oar serrlcee. hearses sad eqalpmeut, are the boat to be kad.
We furnish the beet steel, kiek or eeaneat Y a alar
power in Georgia streams, and it
is estimated that eastern capitalists
are expending a hundred million
dollars developing electric water
power projects in the south.
Georgia is the only state that
produces ocher.
Georgia is not equaled by any
stute in the number and produc
tion of minerals.
One hundred and thirty out of
one hundred and fifty counties in
Georgia work convicts upon the
roads, and Georgia led all states in
union, except New York, in 1912
in the number of miles of good
roads built.
EASY!
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