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U 1 kinds of Building Mater ials
and Coal. Phone 17
VOLUME 42.
larroil County
I lakes record
I 1924 Cotton Crop
■ ... troll county is
■ Car rillUo , n ’ . normalcy,” if in
Mfi the o l *’- ; ; it ;ii reu-iy arrived. A
Kt, sb e 11 \ ]Ui 0 f the cotton
HJiser vatiV( ' is between 20,-
■r« il "! !0 “ l „ "tineas in nor-
K«aa<: production was
times* And we are
Kjnk' llling J'._ appreciable re-
Ejo t 0 planted in cotton,
lotion j ias taught the
■since the jt [iver sification.
fcf&a.'tiMt ! - iVI! 11 n ® most 10
■ The , r, he ■■ wav have been:
l rd The Lor<! : been good to us.
1 will recall
pil I V Finn said there
IttF Hu ipis of Providence:
■ieemed to 1 ’ - Watson knowed,
*, k :"T: l !l,;: ww»* Dcugia*
,K IF- oar wo certainly been
l® owe ,, ul “ al ,nd keeping of the
' that Widow Douglas
•prGvnJ*' - conditions have
H° we , ,‘ p j ia -, fined (and it has
S.UW j»-i .oo! tho unjust im-
S,v and jusi a! tliu right season
* e ry time.
ib) The fact that Carroll county is I
1 cuiali iarin owners. Our \
J? Jve been leaned by people who
«ed them, ami bonce gave a more j
*l, ami inti llim-uf ere than the
S .nt class couhi : e expected to give. 1
TiWe'liav.* ust tl pure-bred cotton I
JV something over three car loads
two or three of the best varieties
inure br<*d seed was bought and used
ie money (use,l ~s a revolving fund)
,j C g advanced by our three banks
ad a hav hnv ! visioned individuals.
j{ this to oper the spirit we will
*ve more to say later on.)
■ (d) We have louglit the boll weevil,
■rsistently, and s. ientiflcally by us-
S.r (. kiiu.i arsen.i
■(o Wf have us-.-d quick acting fer-
L er s, on ! lots of it.
■ ('{) Then last but not least eternal
■ki! uv on the part cf each and ev
■ry firmer.
■ iVeare fund f -aying that the farm
■is the backbone of the country,
■ell, in Carroll he is the “whole
■g!” Carroll Fong fundamentally an
Krieultaral coun'y. the very fabric to
Bppie when crops fail. A good part
■it did topple in 1921. And people
■ the county began to realize that if
■ were ever to he built back, some
king must be c.one to combvt the boll
[eevii. There was another thing that
larroil had to combat early in 1922,
iorr poisonous and destructive than
he boll weevil and that was the dead
r miasma of discouragement and in
rtia that w s weakening the moral
trees of our people. Our broad acres
ty idle in many p'uces; our farmers j
locked to the cities, to public works,
ny where in fact, where a livelihood
tas'promised t a, leaving the \vo
ten and children at home to stare
tclidly out over ’oarren fields, while
ie mills oi -the bankrupt courts!
round s. iw v. but exceedingly fine.”
To pm be! this discouragement on
he part oi the farmer, and to put
ope and spirit into the fight was the
Fork of a Droad-visioned men of the
icunty and an up-hill pull. A cam
paign fm the purpose of educating the
larmer up to the use of scientific
Film - in fighting the boil weevil,
sod to strengthen his morale by con
ducing him hat it could be done was
»'aged. Here and there un obstreper
individual, who was a ‘sho nuff
' ar! 'W!,' am! didn’t believe in none
F this “scientific flapdoodle” threw a
Fgin ft;-' wheel by saying, as he held
Winn tit!’ | m >• square: “Tain’t no
P; them pesky critters has got us
N and I going to give up.' but
[ as not allowed to
r ittee was sent to sit
he saw daylight and
F-d to “carry on.”
nt of much talk on
' n >n brought here
i h' 1 uru h inform:tion
w/"' ! •’ ]i , : acl ° board by tike
, part cf the farm bu
ou the part
less' 11 • t!rosr ‘ " iV ‘ bankers and busi
t . n . our vo’mers were brought
|ghV." Point * here lh,,y to
I Now tint n .,w
L 0 |~ u eic opinion had been
K e a . !!< ' were read lo light
Lo 3 ( y, !1 of arrus and amunition
I;. . 1 calcium a; 0.-v
Iwas 1, , , ( 11 Perhaps their faith
out: Vn/'l . ~ o, n g cnou S'h to ‘put
Dot str’ iai . credit was
ii of r 4 600,00 was
ness f). . .'j r banks, our busi
rero \\ an '*, few individuals—a
Ichase,l ! ,0 üße<i fo; the pur-
!with. \h- gllns t 0 Put it on
verbal !' t;, airied man, with a
w\ . !l _ cl .nteer workers,
demon- ' a About the county to
arsenal i!l P r °P er use of this
A grm j ‘vi,i ~
ty w s F sn tl of all Ibis activi-
Jear. , !i y tl * fi production last
■ 1 : 18.000 bales, two
!> mch as our neigh
ifying .f' 1 : °vvever, the most grat
into the v y ;: ' r!u> Bpirit that it put
en that ! We had prov
l,()1l weevil could be con-
T
i>}e nrrul
can be- Ul <l ie evidence that lie
J ' D. Pau-01l i
"esi n , •' w ”° lives in the south
a '>s j n ’ . ’ °' lr county planted 2%
Premiu-, . * ie used Wannamaker
se d; he used 8
Pounds nt ~r : 10 use( l 1.900 pounds
n *ed 75 ' ’ oi l) .U'rcial fertilizer; he
fcrip in ’cium arsenate in
(let;) , : indications; he plow
tflis ho i l; May 24. From
t o five hun
,! es of cotton; he has
cott! ni i ; . :,! rea ge 1,250 lbs of
es the figuret
Pr >fit ' " das received a net
Thif . , Uf, yoapr over $4(00.00.
Con nty.” j, . 1 e “Karden spot of our
ril \ j ! ra ge 1 nd. We have
k w ho j, red over the eo in
but space fn,., 1 - 1 !' (lone finite as wall,
M / forbi.ls that we name them
k fl . ' ‘ °i 1923 has convinc-
r f l! *<anb :1 *’ dal the bell wee-
A inn: . '-“d- We are alre. dy
a; ■> are , ' ' ttJ e of 1924. Circu
d) oadcast over the coun
■ it the farmer plow
. ! Iks and thus destroy
piaee of the weevil,
° n is being taken with
(i Loc’;| ; P I,r ° m Ptneßs.
:ava B'-s , , at ° Ur county today the
T,l ° boll weevil’* hasn’t
L. f. Ellison
Tells ©f His
Farm Program
Mr. L. P. Ellison lives on his own
farm of 154 acres about two miles
from Sardis, Ga., where he gets nis
mail and reports the following re
sults as to the operation of his so
that cotton may be a surplus crop.
Mr. Ellison came to the meetings
field at Sardis during the year when
the Cow, Sow and Hen” program
as being discussed and became very
much interested in the He
would lyave begun the woik in the
spring but was advised to wait until
he had grown sufficient feed to take
care of his cattle.
After the feed crop was made this
fall he bought three cows and a sepa
rator and began to ship cream to Au
gusta from Sardis. He had four cows
in all and he attends to them himself
Mr. Ellison reports that these four
cows are paying him $12.00 per month
head—s4B.oo per month tottl> He
was so pleased with the results that
he asked the county agent to aid him
in getting more cows as he wanted to
have t m cowf by spring.
Mr. -Alison operates four on
his place and he says that he knows
the returns from these cows wall pay
all expenses of the farm with excep
tion f small amount of fertilizer, lie
plans howev. r, to make the most of
the bo uses from the cows.
He pm a. >1 -bl uores oi c "lon. met
yeai and made 12 laHs weighing 509
pounds. He will tut ms acreage next
year to 20 acres and says he expems io
i take ten bales on this acreage as he
will use the compost he makes with
the commercial fertilize!. The acreage
cut off will be put in feed crops and
pastures.
Mr Ellison has planted [oar acres
of clover and it it> doing well and will
put in an additional four acres of p ts
ture to supplement .vhat he now has.
He has Bermuda and Lespedeza on his
place now.
lie viil keep 3Uihrler.t number of
Iro J sows and puic bred lions to take
cure of the surpiuo milk.
He my a he is confident that lie c, n
make his farm on the income from his
cm ’'a cheeks u • <.he Ins \»*r> ian
in k in some way.
'! ’is program cn work v as b< gun
tins year in Bui r but will g» o •
There are a number of others win are
beginning already but t think Mr Kl
lison’s results are ‘he most o il stand
ing that we have.
E. B. GRESHAM, founty Agent
' aadiver is
Elate Eevcaue
Commissioner
Atlanta, Jan. 2. —State Revenue Com
missioner John M. Vandiver today an
noun ed appointment under the Ennis
Law, :or the enforcement of all delin
ront .taxes, other than ad valorem,
nd administration of the cigarette and
cigar stamp taxes, as follows:
W. T. Little, of Milledgeville; R. N.
Holt, of Lawrenceville, John H. Jones,
of Sen ell, C. C. Guest of Tifton, Paul
D. Shean-ouse of Springfield, H. C.
Rockmore of Jefferson.
Under the law no two appointments
. ould be made from the same congres
sional district.
In addition to the foregoing Mr.
Vandiver announced also the appoint
ment of H. Grover Bell, of Atlanta, and
r. A. Waldon of Gibson, to be his of
fice assistants. Mr. Bell it is un ler
stood, will be designated chief clerk.
He has for several years been chief
clerk cf the prison commission.
There were, it is understood, up
ward of a hundred applicants for the
.fix field agent places. Because of the
vast importance of the work of the
new revenue department, particular
atimntion is now' being given to the
completion of the organization may be
gin tc function without further de
lay.
quite the mournful sound that it had
in j 921-1922. ‘ erily:
‘‘Adversity like the toad, ugly and
venomus, carries yet a precious jewel
in its head.”
And out of this same adversity has
come the idea of diversification. Being
f reed to turn to something besides
cotton for money, Carroll county turn
ed to poultry and she is now, tne ban
ner poultry country of the state.
During the past twelve months there
Vivo been imported into the county
200,000 day ell chicks. During that
i?me poultry association and several
egg circles have been formed. One
egg circle alone—The Kinney Circle,
has marketed between $32,000 and
$35,000 worth o'-, poultry products. Re
c *nll y there has been established in
the county incubators with an aggre
gate capacity of 40,000, the Kinney
incubator with a 20,000 capacity and
the A. & M. school incubator with a
|2O 000 capacity.
| -j ald eg;;3 and bought it,’ is not
the burlesque on finance that it once
W fI,S. „
But the real jewel we have found
has been the increased knowledge in
scientific farming, and the spirit of co
operation that we have suggested in
the above details of our fight. ;
i. . ]j. ;*tu < ors Record of March
8, 1923, after publishing an article on
the “Co-operative Spirit cf Carroll
County” had this to say:
“Here is a spirit that fairly radiates
the teaching of the Golden Rule, li
is a spirit that stirs ones bloou. as
we think of what might be accom
plished for the betterment of humani
ty in town and country.
“The stiry cl what Carrollton and
Carroll county is doing give premise o£
the stirring a nation-wide interest in
a closer affiliation of business men of
even community, and of the far ici i
C ‘ n*- y -.'.mt tenitcr.' Ltniithas
.1 av ails the develops ..n < f this
pi ,n if put into full op - i 'i m • -
At-y part of M ecountyr it would bring
ab. ut inucoTiious relaticjs not only
twit” the business man and the d a
! er; but also a closer spirt of frifict
ud c •' pei at ion between *.
ness men themselves and between
farmers and themselves. It would
create a spirit of brotherhood, of hu
manity and would increase liie pros
p. \>y cf Ric town and county to ;,n
extent that can not well be meas
ured.”
&t)e ©rue Citten.
Results of Democratic Primary for County
Officers Held Thursday, January Id, 1924
60 DISTRICTS
CANDIDATE 62 61 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 71 7z 73 74 Total
For Judge City Court
G. C. ANDERSON 214 8 22 69 16 6 17 79 12 28 26 ' 46 2 545
WM. H. DAVIS 432 32 43 88 64 37 27 124 8 42 30 136 8 1071
For Tax Collector
H. G. BARGERON 73 6 52 82 7 7 3 92 5 2 7 13 4 353
G. W. MURROW 189 19 1 10 11 5 6 17 3 41 7 10 4 323
J. C. PALMER 381 13 13 64 63 31 35 93 12 25 41 159 3 933
F* !r Tax Receiver
GEO A. BLOUNT 296 25 21 64 39 27 25 4 13 38 34 129 5 720
J. F. CLAXTON 19 3 9 27 2 3 0 61 0 5 1 10 1 141
R. C. HURST 255 10 16 36 27 6 17 17 5 11 18 40 3
J. G. ODOM 69 0 20 26 8 7 2 109 2 14 3 - 3 1 264
Fcjr Clerk of Court
H. M. BLOUNT 646 39 67 156 81 43 44 203 20 71 54 182 10 1616
For Sheriff
W. O. FELKER 149 19 2 11 9 16 13 12 10 10 35 158 4 448
R. A. HARDEN 80171004 0 53 100 75
J. L. HERRINGTON 241 16 46 108 13 9 5 114 1 6 5 11 6 581
F. M. HURST 121 0 10 20 30 2 13 34 2 2 11 8 0 253
J. V. TINLEY 128 3 7 16 28 16 13 39 7 0 4 5 0 266
For Ordinary
JOSEPH LAW 648 40 67 156 81 43 44 202 20 71 57 182 10 1621
For School Superintendent
O. M. GRESHAM 645 40 67 156 82 43 44 202 20 71 51 182 10 1613
For Coroner
B. H. JONES 647 40 66 155 81 43 44 204 20 71 57 182 10 1620
For County Commissoiner
S. B. BATES 519 20 42 83 68 27 25 64 13 45 39 153 10 1108
F. M. CATES, Jr. 511 33 26 86 55 29 28 114 11 57 42 169 10 1171
J. L. MALLARD 457 34 23 37 52 39 17 149 16 45 27 159 7 1062
C. J. MILLS 448 36 56 145 39 19 19 151 8 30 34 52 4 1041
GEO. PERRY 116 14 43 137 18 18 31 149 5 11 21 35 2 600
E. E. PONDER 354 23 26 68 63 24 22 131 18 66 30 145 8 978
S. I. WARNER 137 7 41 69 22 33 39 44 7 10 12 35 2 458
HO. WOODWARD 541 33 63 140 78 26 38 158 20 65 49 162 5 1378
First Meeting
American legion
For New Year
The first regular meeting of B. L. I.
P-st, No. 120, American Legion will
be held Monday night at 8 o’clock at
Dr. H. J. Morton’s office in the Wal
ters building near the post office. This
is the first meeting at which Dr. Mor
ton will preside as the Commander of
the Post and every member is urged
to be 'present to give Dr. a good send
eff The program will be in the na
ture of a surprise and will be very in
teresting. Several matters of import
ance will be brought up and several
visitors will be present including Mr.
Jc k Montogmery of the Chatham Post
No. 36. He wlil make a talk. Mem
bership cards will be issued to all
members paying their dues at this
meeting.
Much interest is being manifested
in the work of the Legion here and
before the year is over B. L. I. Post
should boast 150 paid up members.
mm Bulldlnj
©ii School Campus
Voted by Council
Monday night at the regular meet
ing cf the City Council an appropria
tion of SIO,OOO in cash was voted to
erect a new building on the Waynes
boro Academy campus for school pur
poses.
A committee from the council con
sisting or R. J. Ellison, Gray Quinney
and F. Hamp Blount together w’ith a
committee from the trustees composed
of Frank Burney, Henry Dauiel and
Clarence Rowdand will select the type
of building to be constructed
Miss Elizabeth Holt, who is an au
thority on school buildings, will al
so be asked to collaborate with rheese
, Ten in maknig the selection ct' a type
of building to be constructed.
The prerent building has been cut
grown for the past five years and the
council lias tne sincere ppreoiatio - oi
every patron of the academy in re
lieving the situation.
Hob Neely Takes
Father's Place
as A. ft S. Director
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 7.—The annual
meeting of the Augusta and Savannah
Railroad was held teday. The fol
lowing officers and directors were el
ected:
President, George J. Mills, Savan
nah; vice-president, Charles Ellis,
Savannah; secretary-treasurer, J.
Sullivan Bond, Savannah; A. R. Law
ton, Savannah; George J. Baldwin,
Savannah; Geo F. Tennille, Savannah;
Paul Mustin, Augusta; Robert C.
Neely, Waynesboro.
Mr. Neely succeeds his father, the
late, R. C. Neely.
Eight Governors
to Be Present at Lee
Unveiling Jan. 19
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 9.—Eight South
ern governors will come here for the
I unveiling of the sculptured head of
Lee in the side of Stone Mountain on
j the anniversary of the chieftain’s birth
i January 19, according to the prgoram
! for the ceremonies made public here
! teday. The ceremonies will attend the
unveiling cf the first figure in the
Confederate memorial now being chise
| led in the side of Stone Mountain near
this city.
Mrs. Helen Plane of Atlanta, char
ter member of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, sponsor of the
; rnemoria land herself a prime mever
in the memorial project, has been se
lected to unveil the finished head of
General Lee and there will be in at
tendance upon her a number of Chil
dren of the Confederacy. Mrs. Plane is
the widow Of a distinguished Confed-
J erate ofii er.
Unveiling exercises will be held sev
’ eral hundred feet up the steep cf the
mountain on a platform constructed
especially lor the occasion.
Waynesboro, Ga., Jan. 12, 1924
toi. C. 11. Cohen
Leading Attorney
of Augusta, Dead
Augusta Ga., Jan. 9.—C01. C. Henry
Cohen, prominent Augusta attorney
and well known throughout the state,
died here this afternoon after an ill
ness of nearly three weeks.
Col. Cohen was born in Augusta
seventy years ago. He was the son of
John J. and Cornelia Alice Cohen both
cf w. a m were prominent in the civic
life oN Aug us i a ad Charleston, 8. C'.,
for nu.D' years.
After c public school education. Col.
Cohen attended George town univer
sity and the University of Georgia,
from which institutions he received
degrees.
He began the practice of law in Au
gusta more than forty years ago. and
held, public office for nearly thirty
years having been solicitor of the city
court and city attorney.
Col Rodney S. Cohen, who has for
some time been a member of the law
firm of C. H. & R. S. Cohen. Mr. Rod
ney Cohen, who w r as a captain in the
World War, has since peace was de
-1 dared served as commander of the
American Legion of Georgia, and is
now a member cf the executive com
mittee of tiie National American Le
gion. Col Cohen’s wfife Mrs. Leonora
Sneed Cohen, is the daughter of the
late James R. Sneed, who was for
many years editor of a newspaper at
Savannah. Ga. Col Cohen’s brothers
are John J. Cohen, promnient realtor,
cf Augusta, and Col, S. H. Cohen, prom
inent business man of Augusta and
Asheville, N. C.
His late brother, Mr. Phillip L.
Cohen, was the father of Major John
S. Cohen, of Atlanta, and Mrs. Barton
Wise, of Richmond, Va. A sister, Mrs.
J. R. Moses, of Savannah; Montgom
ery Moses, of New York, and Frank J.
Moses, of Washington, D. C.
Not only Col. Cohen a valuable
citizen, he was an unusual citizen.
Although a man of marked dignity
and poise, he had a sense of 1 umor
that stamped him of the high type of
citizenship for which America is fam
ous. On the street, in the court room,;
or at a social or public gatherings,
of friends his was ever the cheerful, I
radiating personality about which
groups of friends sculs w r ere wont to
gather. Jurors before whom he plead
ed for the life of a client, or a knot
of friends on the street, always leaned
a little closer when they saw' the
well known twinkle in Henry Cohen’s
eye. They knew an anecdote or a bit
of burner well worth the listening to
w T as about to be delivered. Although
one of the youngest of the brothers,
others of the family had grown to
lean upon Henry Cohen, for they knew
hi 3 dependability and judgment to be
unsurpassed.
Augusta has lest a good citizen in
the passing of Henry Cohen, the
state of Georgia has lost one of her
brightest legal minds. His grasp of
legal among intiicacies marked him a
leader among the members of the bar
both here and in other cities where ap
peared to plead the cause of his clients
Some of the. most celebrated criminal
cases in the history of this section
have served to bring Henry Cohen
prominently into the limelight, and
few, if any, attorneys in Georgio have
met with more general success than
he.
Cotton Ginned
By States up
to January Ist
Washington, Jan. 9. —Cotton ginned
prior to January totaled 9,807,138 run
ning bales, including 234,732 round
bales counted as half bales; 18,639
bales of American Egyptian, an ’ 776
bales of sea island, compared with 9.-
597,330 running bales, including 166,-
072 round hlaes; 28,498 bales of Amer
. ican Egyptian, and 5,069 bales of sea
j island ginned to January 1 last year,
'the census beureau announced today.
Alabama. 594,764; Arizona, 62,371;
Arkansas, 608,230; California, 39.765;
Florida, 13.454; Georgia, 606,754;
Louisiana 366 757; Mississippi, 613,253;
Missouri, 103,103; North Carolina, 1,-
106,308; Okl honra, 622.034; South
Carolina, 781,541; Tennessee, 221,416;
(Texas, 4,084,733; Virginia, 46,447; all
j other states 26.068.
i The revised total of cotton ginned
this seas n to December 13 was an
nounced as 9.554 177 running bales.
There were 15,169 ginneries operated
prior to December 31.
Senator Heed
Says There is no
Excuse for Elan
Washington, Jan. 7.—Assertion that
he failed ,to “see any excuse for the
existence ci the Ku Klux Klan” was
made by Senator Reed, Republican,
Pennsylvania, in a letter today to
Harry A. Bubb, of Monroe, La., who
w r rote the senator expressing oppo
sition to any inclusion cf an “anti-Ku
Klux Klan plank” in the Republican
party’s national platform.
“Your letter of January 2 falls on
stony ground,” the senator said “I
fail to see any excuse for the existence
of the Ku Klux Klan, 1 do not see
why its campaign against bottlegging
and immorality, to which you refer
could not be better conducted if the
s me individuals would lend establish
ed government.
“I see no excuse for the use of
masks and other disguise by men who
profess to be acting on proper motives
I see no excuse for a revival in this
country of race prejudice and religious
prejudice.
“1 can not understand why men oi
intelligence like yourself, with a re
cord of patrotic service, become mem
ber3 • f this society. In the world
war you did not wear a disguise when
you were fighting for what you
thought alongside Jews and Cath lies
and negroes nd you found them as
pa liolic as yourself.”
f sw Palmer
Predicts Good
* .r . Ji y
At this season last year I predicted
tb t 1923 would prove a good and pros
porous yea for Burke counyt. With
that prophecy no-v vindi ated T eel
safe in the opinion that 1921 will be
even bettc —why should it net be? We
are richer in experience and judg
ment, which after all are our most
v luable assets- and generally speak
ing we are better financially prepared
To undertake the coming crop, we
have learned the lessons and seen the
necessity of poisoning, using sound
prolific seed, full fertilized and soda
and of fast work. While Burke coun
ty is fortunately stiuated in these re
spects, other counties and sections ov
er the scuth h ive not the same oppor
tunities. They have not the knowledge
the courage, the faith the land and the
money that Burke county folks have
right now. Another reasonably short
; crop over the south seems most likely
! For the first time since the Civil War
;we will next tall begin marketing a
j crop of cotton with every bale needed
! as fast as it is ginned, for there will
be no surplus or carry-over cotton
from 1923 Good prices are inevitable
with a strong possibility of very high
prices. PI n all the cotton you can
properly poison, fertilized and work.
Of course make corn. Make enough to
do you, but center your fire on cctton
lor cotton right now is just another
name for prosperity. And on top of
our best efforts may the Good Lord
lend his co-operation and senu along
the season we need. With good 'uch
i to everybody and a happy, prosperous
New Year, I am
Yours truly
FRANK S. PALMER, Mayor.
Athens Mayor
Suiters Stroke
of Apoplexy
Waynesboro friends and relatives
will learn with regret that Mayor
Gecrge C. Thomas, of Athens, has suf
fered a stroke of apoplexy, and is
seriously ill. Mr. Thomas is a, native
Burke countain, having been born in
Waynesboro, and he has manv rela
tives and friends here who are anxious
ly awaiting news from his beside. We
hope to have a more favorbale repott
cf his condition next week.
PAUL WOODWARD
KILLED IIY TRUCK
Paul Woodward, a young wiiite bey
aged about 16 was killed by a lumber
truck turning over at Mr. Hamp Hick
son’s pi ce Thursday, Fred Bunn, an
other white boy. who was with him
was only slightly injured. The acci
dent was caused by the truck turning
over and the boys being hit by fall
ing lumber.
- gCTACLE CC
. v O'
BROAD. ST.
EYES THOBOIGHLY EXAMINED
Manness Tells
How Carroll
Fights Weevil
Mr. J. C. Manness, of the state board
cf entomoiigy was a visitor to the
city Tuesday, and met with the Ro
tory Club. He told them of the fight
against the boll weevil and held a
mass meeting at the First National
Bank later on during the day. At this
meeting ne outlined his plan and told
of the co-operation of the banks and
business men in the fight.
The outline of his plan follows:
A COUNTY COTTON PLAN OUT
LINED
The Object:
1. To help every farmer produce
some cotton.
2. To help every farmer to produce
the most cotton that ca.n be produced
on a small acreage.
3d. To help each one to make a good
yield at the greatest profit.
1 The Plan:
1. Induce each farmer to plant pure
bred seed of a variety best adapted to
weevil and local conditions.
2 Encourage each farmer to make
a liberal application of high grade
fertilizer of a formula best suited to
cotton production.
3. C'o-operate only with the farmer
who agrees to use calcium arsenate
properly and to conform with the con
ditions herein outlined.
How to Work the Plan:
1. Let all the banks in the county
agree to furnish, each reliable custo
mer, with the means (on fair terms)
necessary to purchase pure bred seed,
fertilizer, calcium arsenate and ma
chinery to apply it with.
2d. Do not propose to furnish farm
ers bread and meat and other farm or
home supplies, that should be grown
by them.
3. Let all the farmers who desire to
grow cotton under this plan and who
need assistance, go to the bank in his f
community , or the one in which he J
dees business, and make his wishes
known.
4. The farmers who are able to
finance themselves and do not have to
go to their bank for assistance, may
aid materially iu the movement by co
operation and they also may be bene
fitted by purchasing the supplies need
ed in connection with the others, as
the plan is to buy everything through
a purchasing committee and at whole
sale, cash prices. By so doing, they
v ill be gotten much cheaper.
We M r Expect To Obtain:
1. as a, basis we estimate 1,200 acres
of cott'’7i plants under this plan. The
cc*st ox. the supplies above named
sheulu not exceed $17,000 to SIB,OOO (a
very small amount apportioned be
acon the banks of the county and
among so many farmers.)
2. We may resasonably except to
make 600 bales of cotton under the
no re, but should be humiliated not to
make the 600. It is possbile to make
i)0 bales on the 1,200 acres.
3. 1 his conservative estimate is
easily worth today, (seed and lint),
'120,000, a handsome dividend on so
. i c,n investment. It means also
he reconstruction of cotton produe
i, which is an absolutely necessary
element in the commerce of our coun
try. It means furthermore the re-es
uixsiiment of our citizens, not the
ast point to . be accomplished, the
n his. feet a discouraged,
honest man, and putting him in the
road that lead to independence.
The above plan as outlined has been
successfully worked in Carroll and
other counties and can be in any coun
y undertaking it where unitde effort
is ma,de.
In all cases a purchasing committee
should be appointed to see that things
are bought at a fair price and to see
that the farmer gets what he pays for
and without speculation.
This “County Unit” plan is the on
ly one that hap proven successful in
re-establishing cotton industry, and at
the same time to reach the general
condition of the farmer. The Board
of Entomology is ready to help any
countv to work the plan.
J. C. MANESS, Field Agent.
Georgia State Board of Entomology
December* 11, 1923. Atlanta, Ga.
Georgia Legion
History Will
Be Published
Gainesville, Ga., January 6.—Mrs.
Jessie Folsom Stcckbridge, State Press
Agent of The American Legion in col
laboration with the past department
commanders, is writing a history of
the Department of Georgia, The Amer
iean Legion. This history will contain ,
a, complete biography cf the heroes
who made the supreme sacrific, after
whom posts have been named, and of
all those ex-service men who have
taken leading parts in the organiza
tion and up-building of the Legion in
the State. She will also be assisted
by the Historian of each local post
I and it is c:nfidently anticipated that
i the volume will be of great interest,
j not only to legionnaires, but to ser-
I vice men generally, and an integral
i part of the history of Georgia, in that
|it will carry the most reliable data,
! concerning all those men who repre
sented the state in the World War.
Three Small
Fires This Week
THREE SMALL FIRES
REPORTED THIS WEEK,
The roof of Mr. John A. Blount’s
house was reported on fire Sunday af
ternoon. The fire department althc
delayed on account of the severe cold
rendered prompt service and extin
guished the Fames.
Monday the pressing club operated
by Tom King burned. The fire was
caused by the explosion of an oil
stove.
Later cn during the day another
alarm came from Mr. Uha: Re Cray’s
yar i. It did not amount tc much and
was soon put out.
NUMBER 43.
Mass Meeting
Tuesday Night
to Get Action
Waynesboro is going to grow if the
; efforts of the Rotary Club meet wild
i success. This club is new sponsoring
an effort to get a post office building
for Waynesboro and a mass meeting of
the citizens of the city is called for
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock at the court
house to discuss ways and means of
interesting cur citizens to urge action
; for the post office building. The gov
| ernment has had a lot for the past ten
i years and if there was ever a time to
I get busy it seems now.
| The administration has expressed it
self as favorable to buildings where
the post office receipts go over and
the lease on the building has a shert
time to run. Added to these condition
the. crowded state of afiairs at the
office now makes it almost impossible
to handle the mails as promptly as
they should be, although Postmaster
Bargeron and his crew of faithful em
ployees do the best they can under the
circumstances. The receipts over last
year show a gain of 20 per cent, and
for the month of January already a
gain of more than 20 per cent over the
gain of last year.
Waynesboro needs co-operation spd
there is no reason why we should not
attend a meeting and express ourslev
es to the world that WAYxNESBORO IS
GOING TO HAVE A POST OFFICE
BUILDING. Come out Monday night
and see what we can do . Your pres
ence is needed in the campaign to get
action.
W. A. Winburn
Dies in Hospitol
in Minnesota
Rochester, Minn., Jan. B.—W. A.
Winburn, of Savannah, Ga., president,
of the Central of Georgia Railway
and a prominent citizen of the south
died in a hospital here early today. He
was sixty years old.
Mr. Winburn came here December
22 to consult physicians at the Mayo
clinic and was operated on for nonmal
igant tumor. He apparently had been
recovering until yesteday \yhen he
ook a sudden turn for the worse.
A second operation was performed
in an effort to save his life. Mrs. Win
bum and a sen, William, were at the
bedside when death came. They will
eave with th'' body for the south
tonight.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. B.—William Al
fred Winburn was born in Gainesville,
Ga , March 19, 1866. He entered Lie
railroad service at 17 years of age at
Gainesville, Ga., as a clerk for the
Richmond & Danville Railroad.
After several years of service there
Mr. Winburn obtained a knowledge o’
transportation at Atlanta, Salisbury,
N. C., and at Asheville. While in Saks
bury in 1888 Mr. Winburn married
Miss Annie Sole Smith. His wine w
and three children survive him. His
children are W. A. Winburn, Jr., Ran
dall Winburn and Mrs. Antonio J.
Waring, all of Savannah. He also
leaves two sisters. Mrs. Thomas Bell
of Gainesville and Mrs. J. R. Brown, of
Athens, Ga.
Just before coming to Savannah in
1892, Mr. Winburn wa semployed in
the transportation department of the
Central at Columbus. Upon his ar
rival here he entered the office of the
:■ fiic manager as clerk and continued
in that capacity for several months. He
was promoted to general freight agent
and served in that position until Oc
; tober, 1901, when he was promoted
! again to traffic manager. On July 14,
j 1902, he became vice-president and
i April 8, 1914, he was elected president
bn which capacity he served until his
death, with the exception of a few
months during the war when he held
the title cf federal manager. Mr. Win
burn had been president of the Ocean
Steamship Company fop several years
also. This is a steamship line con
trolled by the Central railway. He
vas known as one of the most enthu
siastic Georgians and whenever called
upon was ready and willing to parti
cipate in any move making for the
prosperity of the state . Mr. Winburn
was active in civic end religious af
fairs. being a vestryman cf Christ
Church, and a member of several
Savannah civic ore mizations.
To Mr. Winburn is given credit for
the rapid agricultural development
and progress of communities and cities
along the Central’s line of road.
Mr. Winburn was operated on in
Savannah early in December and on
Chrsitmas eve started for the Mayo
Brothers Sanitarium at Rochester,
Minn. There he underwent two op
erations and was thought to be improv
ing until pneumonia developed. This
caused his death.
Daughters are
Meeting With
Great Success
The memorial fund of the Daughters
of the Confederacy for the Stone Moun
j tain Memorial is growing rapidly due
to the efforts of the Daughters in so
j liciting funds for this purpose. Sev
| eral subscriptions of SIOO have been
made by business houses of the city
and individual subscriptions of SIOO
and more are expected. Any number
of smaller contributions have been
made but the list this week contains
i none smaller than $5. The entire list
will be made public soon.
Those contributing are:
Burke county—sloo.
Daughters of the Confdeeracy—sloo
Waynesboro Grocery Co.—sloo
Bank of Waynesboro—sloo.
F. M. Hurst—slo.
J. C. Palmer—slo.
J. P. Palmer—slo.
Waynesboro Planing Mill—s 6.
Other contributors will follow
The Daughters are meeting with
market success in their efforts to
! raise Burke county’s quota for this
fund and before it is finished it is ex
pected that several individual contri
tions covering the cost of bronze plate
will be mgde tc the Daughter’s fund.
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the leading eye
Spectacles, Eye-
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tificial Eyes cor
rectly fitted,
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