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B. & F. A. MITCHAM,
Funiture and Undertaking
HAriPTON, GEORGIA.
w e *have an experienced E nbilmer, a Henry county boy
Mr. Perry Welch.
All calls ssiiiswere4 promptly day or night.
All embalming carefully done and according t< beat method*
Oar stock of met*l and -wood caskets and robes are unequalled.
Our services, hearses and equipment, are the best to be had.
We furnish the best steel, briek or cement Vaults.
BUG DEATH, BUG DEATH,
Fresh Stock just
received
It destroys on
tato, squash
cucumber b>
It prevents
blight
It saves beet>
trom worm
leaves.
COPELAND TURNER MERCANTILE CO.
Phone 25
McDonough, Georgia.
A Ci OOP PHOTOGRAPH
of yourself or member of your
fa mi I v is always desired.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
is now offered to secure such a
photograph without an expen=
sive trip to the city.
1 sh II be in McDonough every
Saturday. My studio on second
floor First National Bank Bldg.,
will be open from 10 a. m. to 5
p. m.
E. H. WEDGE
Photo Artist.
BOOKLET IS COMPLIED
UPON “GEORGIA FACTS/'
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Gives Many Intersting Facts
On Georgia.
The Geoagia chamber of com-
12 .ralse
PH "Ills
Currants, Celery, Tomatoes,
Melons, SsiU&sh, Beets, Etc.
USE
BUO DEATH
There is absolutely no preparation on tbe
market that will riel your vines and leaves
of the income killing pests so satisfactorily,
thoroughly* economically end speedily
WITHOUT the remotest possibility of
injury to plant, leaf or vine in any way.
Absolutely Free from Arsenic. ;
In IW Ib. "teg*. 12*,. 3. 3 and
1 id. CacKases.
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Ask for the fr<-e bool ' ‘‘C t op insurance.’#:
merce has now at press a forty
page booklet, entitled “Georgia
Facts” which has bten carefully
complied by William F. Park
hurst, of that organization, and it
contains valuable boiled-down
facts on the resources of Geor
gia.
As a result of investigation made
ihcompiiingmaterial for this book,
Use Bug Death,
it is your triend.
It sticks, it stays,
it stimulates, it
saves.
See us about
sweet potato
Slips.
BUY A SATISFACTORY JEWELL COOK STOVE
When
you buy
Jewell
Cook
Stoves
you can
rest as
sured
thatyou
They stand in marked contrast with the many
cheaply made, light-weight, unsatisfactory cook
stoves which are advertised at low prices and
which prove far more expensive in the end. Dont
take our word for it, that Jewell cook Stoves and
Ranges are better than others. See and examine
the Stoves and Range'. They speak for them
selves as thousands of satisfied buyers can testify.
“BUY A JEWELL AND SAVE FUEL”
IT PAYS TO DEAL WITH
HOWARD CARMICHAEL FURNITURE COMPANY
McDonough, Georgia.
the standing of Georgia among
For sister states of the union is
shown to be remarkable. The fol
lowing interesting facts will be of
general interest:
Out of 59,475 square miles of
land in Georgia, only 540 square
miles are covered with water.
Georgia has 7,536 miles of rail
roads. The financial condition of
the state is splendid, as the total
resources of the 693 states banks
show an increase in 1913 over
1912 of $5,693,000. The individ
ual deposits in the state banks on
January 1/1914, were $91,441,535,
and in the national banks $53,633,-
989 a total of more than $145,000,-
000. The total amount invested
in capital stock of financial and
commercial, public services, in
dustrial and manufacturing, mer
cantile and miscellaneous corpora
tion is $485,593,822. Adding to
this the capital stock of the 693
state banks $28,895,513, and of na
tional banks $15,168, 500, it makes
a splendid total of $529,667,839
invested in all Georgia corpora
tions.
Showing ho v easily farming is
carried on within the state, Geor
gia has an average of 235 growing
days each year, while, for in
stance, Ohio has only 165 growing
days.
Value of Property.
The estimated total value of
farm lands and buildings, imple
ments and machinery and live
stock in 1913 was $625,000,000,
whereas in 1880 this total was on
ly 143,158,308. Georgia farm pro
ducts brought to the state in 1913
$360 000,000, whereas in 1880
farm products brought only’ $67,-
028,829. The income in Georgia
lor 1913 from cotton, corn, oats i
and hay over and above 1912 is
estimated to be $47,611,090, and
the total estimated value of Geor-1
gia agricultural products for 1913 j
is $332,000,000.
The value of crude cotton seed
products has grown i 'om $1,670,-
196 in 1890 to more than $16,000,-
060 in 1913.
The total value of the Georgia
tobacco crops grew from $149,090
in 1912 to $558,000 in 1913. The
estimated value of the peanut
crops for 1913 is $2,250,000. The
estimated value of sugar cane
products is $2,500,000, as compar- 1
ed to $1,481,000 in 1899.
Big Pecan Industry.
The acreage planted to pecans
apgj : r'' " 7 ;j
H Xfe'nwon out,andthe’stareflei beck
\\X and hid-'and all was h lack: *yJUP
NvM •Outali!t>’nwhta summons came’, AC \S
«OHi£tied with a tctir3rop fora name;-' i'/iyd
\AI 3?or as X wondering, kissed it, 10, f'l/Pv
Am line’ brtleath it told me so. „ jPnn
y A *T3n3/?tfw the moon hangs over tne" U§4r
c a disk of dazzling Driifiancy,
nIJ TTndeVeVy star<tip stabs msysfant P gtVI
Cacnrncbt. i«i«. TW M«mß roawy
now represents a value of $12,-
500,000, and the annual nuts pro
duction is almost 250,000 pounds.
The mux ral products of Geor
were vaiueu i i 1913 at $6,4(i0,000,
as against $5,980,000 in 1905.
Georgia now has more than 5,-
000 factories anti their total pro
duction in 1912 was $202, 893,000.:
The lumber industry in Georgia
employs 22,000 men in 1,880 saw
mills, and the value of the lumber
is $24,632,000. The value of na
val stores products amounts to
$9,958,957'
The value of public school pro
perty in Georgia is near!} $13,000.-
000. In the state are universities, j
colleges and technical schools to
are get
ting the
Best
Stoves
that
money,
skilland
brains
can pro
duce
the number of 18: theology, law
and medicine, 15: nursing, com
mercial and manual training,
44,& 11 district agricultural schools
I'here are 21 public libraries in the
state, representing an aggregate
investment of more than $700,000,-
000.
Georgia leads all southern sta
tes in the number of automobiles
owned, there being registered, up
to the middle of 1913, 20,078 cars,
whereas, one year previouly, there
were 14,000 cars, Georgians own
nearly twice as mhny automobile
as any state in the south.
There are 90,189 telephones in
use :n Georgia,,and of these
458 are farmers’ line stations. A
