The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, December 12, 1913, Image 8
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 / 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! m 1