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TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1925.
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DOLLAR “HARVESTING”
FORMER DAWSON MAN TO DI
RECT CAMPAIGN TO FINISH
SALE OF MEMORIAL COINS.
ATLANTA, Ga—Wade H. Davis,
prominent Atlanta business man, has
heen selected by the executive com
mittee of the Stone Mountain Confed
eraic Monumental Association as di
rector general of the “Harvest Cam
paign” to complete the sale of the
outh’s allotment of Confederate me
morial half dollars. Vi
The “Harvest Campaign” was or
ganized by the governors of the south
o states at a conference in Atlanta
July 20. Each governor accepted of
fcially for his state a quota of coins
colculated on the basis of population
and bank deposits, pledged his state to
ke that quota, and assumed the di
rection of a campaign in his state with;
that end in view. |
These several state campaigns are
now in progress from Virginia to Tex
as, with the headquarters of the me
morial association in Atlanta function
ing in the capacity of a general-clear
ing house of information and assist
ance.
Fach of the southern governors has
created an agency of the state especial
jy for the purpose of selling the quota
of coins allotted to his state, and is
wsing an executive secretary and pub
licity director to carry on the “Har
vest Campaign.”
Mr. Davis in Atlanta will exercise
general supervision over the several
tate campaigns, with his office in the
headquarters of the Memorial Associa
tion in the Grant building.
Moving to Atlanta in 1909 from
Dawson, Ga., Mr. Davis has been en
gaged in business in this city ever
since. Hie is a member of the Sale-
Davis company, lumbermen, and is
oresident of the Southern Timber
company, naval stores operators, with
Jarce interests in western Florida.
i{is family are old stock of Georgia
and West Virginia, going back to pre
revolutionary times, and have furnish
ed soldiers in -all the wars of America,
45 well as a number of noted Baptist
ministers and educators. Two of his
uncles were trustees for many years
of Mercer university, at Macon.
Legislature May Free Six
Thousand Lepers From
Confinement in Colony
Doctors Say Disease Is Not Conta
gious, and Lepers Do Not Wish to
Live Apart From Families.
MANILA.—WhiIe Governor Gen
cral Leonard Wood has launched .a
campaign in America to raise $5,000,-
000 to aid in the fight on leprosy the
local legislature will soon vote on a
concurrent resolution introduced by
Representative Formosa to set iree the
6.000 lepers now confined in the leper
colony at Culion.
Mr. Formosa says in his resolution
that many doctors declare leprosy is
not contagious, and also that the lep
¢rs themselves do not wish to be con
fined in a colony apart from their fam
ilies and friends.
[ocal opposition to Gen. Wood’s
anti-leprosy organization has been de
veloping for some time. A few weeks
ago the local anti-leprosy organiza
tion suspended- operation due to the
opposition of the native papers.
A large number of lepers in the
Phillipines who~€annot be apprehend
ed by the health department are still
at large and a menace tq the people.
One was recently shot and killed by
4 constabulary while resisting arrest.
lgnorant natives often conceal lepers
to avoid sending them to Culion.
The colony, according to American
and British physicians, is a model and
great advances have been made hy
them in research work with chaulmoo
gra oil and other leprosy cures.
REPORT SHOWS NUMBER OF
WILD BIRDS IS INCREASING
Protection .Plan "of Department pof
- Agriculture Shows Results.
Uncle Sam’s efforts in the protec
tion of birds have resulted in an in
crease of the feathered population, the
Department of Agriculture reports.
A survey shows that wherever pro
tection and friendship are offered the
hirds go to hatch their young. The
average guml)er of birds over the east
ern section of the United States 18
one pair to the acre, but this number
has been increased to tens and dozens
of pairs by the thoughtfulness and
helpfulness of various neighborhoods.
“This has been accomplished at
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, for
instance, with 404 pairs to 40 acres,
and Chevy Chase, Md., with 224 pair
10 23 acres,” the department reports.
At Wild Acres, Md., near Washing
ton, 135 pairs to five acres were noted.
FARMER LOST IN OWN |
CORN FIELD TWO DAYS;
He Roamed Aimlessly About Until a
Rescue Party Located Him. '
Roaming aimlessly - about for two
days in a corn field less than three|
miles from his home Henry Werde,
72 years old, wealthy farmer of La
fayette Township, Minn., was rescued
by a searching party after he had spent
three days ifig trying to find his wa)’l
back to the farm house. 4
Werde lost his glasses while climb
ng through a barbed wire fence, and
eing near-sighted was unable to dis
tinguish objects but a few feet distant.
“While the old farmer was groping
his way through the tall corn he was
forced to eat green corn for *food.
Werde is recqvering from his experi
ence, ;
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DR. C. R. McKEMIE |
DENTIST . X-Ray Work |
OFFICE: BRANNON BLDG. |
Res. Phone 395 2r. Office 395 |
Sow Hairy Vetch this Fall on land YOU intend to plant in
corn next Spring. Turn it under next Spring and plant corn.
On land worth planting, if 1926 is an ordinary season, YOU may expect
a yield of 30 bushels of corn an acre where you have made only 15 bushels -
in a good year. ' i S . |
~ Sowing Hairy Vetch Will Give You a
Profitable Crop
Put a few dollars . worth of right kind _of‘ fertilizer on each acre of the
vetched land and in an ordinary season you will possibly get from 40 to 60
bushels of corn an acre if you plant good seed and give thorough cultivation. The corn added
to the yield by the vetch or the vetch and the fertilizer. usually does not cost more than 30
cents a bushel. | : ' : :
ASK YOUR COUNTY AGENT WHERE TO GET THE SEED, HOW
TO TREAT I'_T AND HOW TO SOW IT. HE KNOWS |
HOW. LEARN TO DO THE WORK RIGHT.
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e average vield of corn per acre in Georgia has been 12 bushels. This low yield 1s one =
| ;l;hthe stro?)ge}slt forces that Il)(ee'ps successful %armers with capital and equipmenty from com- _
ing to our State. VETCH the land, fertilize it and let us make the average yield made
| |by good farmers 30 to 60 bushels an acre. Then good farmers by the thousanaywill come I
’ to Georgia and use our idle lands. 8 E
Bank of Parrott City National Bank
Dawson National Bank
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