The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, January 17, 1921, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY Official Organ City of Fitzzerald COLEMAN AGREES TO NE YEAR SENTENCE Alleged Murderer of Bud Ashley Pleads Manslaughter VERDICT BY AGREEMENT Negro Who Robbed Editor’s Wife Convicted of Larceny The January criminal session of Ben Hill county Superior Court op ened this morning at 10 o’clock with a heavy criminal docket to be cleared. The grand jury resumed its sessions at the same time after a three day re cess. . By agreement of counsel for state and defense, a' verdict of involuntary manslaughter was returned in the case of state against J. L. Coleman, charged with the murder of Bud Ashley in 1918. Coleman was sen tenced to one year's imprisonment by Judge O. T. Gower. Ashley was shot by Coleman in Coleman’s home in Ben Hill county, near Rebecca, in 1918. The first trial of the case ended in Coleman’s con viction but a new trial was granted by Judge D. A. R. Crum on motion of Coleman’s attorneys, A. J. and I C. McDonald. Because of the nature of the case, Solicitor General Joseph B. Wall agreed today to accept a plea of involuntary manslaughter and the one year sentence was imposed. Emmett Williams, negro, who is <harged with larceny of clothing and Jjewelry from Mrs. M. E. Brewster, wife of the editor of the Brunswick Banner, and with forgery of indorse ments on pay checks from the A. B. & A. railway, was convicted this morning on the larceny charge and was on trial this aft@rnoon in the forgery case. Judge Gower will im pose sentence in the larceny case af ter a verdict is returned by the jury on the forgery charge. - \Vilh’;ms, a railway porter, was convicted of stealing clothing . and jewelry from a suit case belonging to Mrs. Brewster. He is represented in the forgery case by Attorneys Sam Kassewitz and J. C. McDonald. ® Fitzgerald Boosters ° Attend Ad. Convention } TFitzgerald is represented in Macon - day at the Advertising Georgia con ention by Editor Isidor Gelders of the Leader Enterprise and Press, Hon. " A. H. Thurmond, representative in the legislature from Ben Hill county and Homer Waters. They drove to Macon this morning in Mr. Thur mond’s Studebaker and will return tonight. Editor Gelders will also attend the special conference of members of the Georgia Press Association which meets in Macon this afternoon. The Georgia editors will carry a heavy share in the campaign to “sell Geor gia to the United States” and will outline a program for the campaign as well as consider several subjects of importance to the Fourth Estate in Georgia. ’ Woman’s Club Plans 1 Local Curb Market Will Discuss Plan for Market at Meeting Wednesday Afternoon The regular meeting of the Fitzger ald Woman’s Club, Wednesday after noon at 3:30 o’clock, will include sug gestions and plans for a practical curb market or city market, the discussion slaeing led by Mrs. C. D. Carroll. ' Mrs. Carroll came to Fitzgerald “from Kentucky where curb markets are a rule and not a happening, and it is expected that she will have inter esting suggestions to offer in the line of a practical market for Fitzgerald, Miss Dorothy Thurmond, a pupil of Genevieve Spier, will give two piano selections, as follows: | (a) Impromptu, ._Hugo Rheinhold (b) Revolutionary Etude,..Chopin Members having names to offer for membership are requested to secure membership blanks from the presi dent or secretary, and to have them properly signed before presenting to the membership committee or the ex ecutive board. Only a few vacancies occur in the list of ‘members, the num ber having been recently limited to one hundred. FLORIDA MEN SEEK BEN HILL MILKERS Messrs. R. L. Irwin, George Leon ardy, W. B. Fox, and P. D. Wilcox, of Hastings, Fla., arrived in Fitzger ald today by motor over the Dixie Highway to buy two car loads of fresh milch cows from Ben Hill coun 'ty farmers. They will be here for s.7everal days. Secretary C. T. Ow /¢, of the Ben Hill county farm bu tﬁ is assisting them in locating the cattle they want. ' The visitors expressed themselves as qeiyhted with Fitzgerald and this cec3 of Georgia. “Much better that fthe Florida East Coast for farm ying,” said Mr. Leonardy, . THE LEADER=ENTERPRISE ° Airmen Back From Frozen No | 8 ! ; . a® b e o SRR o i Lo i« ' SR .«‘ S B N RoO B \ PSR NP : s:\‘-:"::" "'\\ s ‘:‘ i; & oy :‘»‘;:E:EEEEE: S \*‘%;%‘?“ R?g4 4% b {n“‘ i ﬁ\. ~ {-";_(‘ ’,;"':. eS& & ;3{% ‘;’B R ;“9" : spops C LRt s FoEaER LR e E ok & % L :! S 5 SRR et LY Faki #an g:-f’n{: SR o l R (e Re TR BRS B oﬁf §\* e% B Ente PRI TR AR R . SRR Ol RO { ¥ fg? 4@Bt TR "W\ ‘. R O L S o Ner ST o 7~ Pk Rt 0 W WAmES <. = : ] 44"10 e CTons ‘\ e—— " e e ? eRy ";;':;‘.: ] ;. @ |PR s e e N i sSR R Trme | R | 2.7 ¢ X &4;35? EAR . OSS / 1 eS N - oAR A T ) Bl | Z) e ' o NEW YORKE@IZZ ® Precedents and red o - fikely be set aside by tue Niv, Department this week in reim bursements to the three navy balloonists who have just re ‘turzed from the frozen north of tke Hudson Bay district after having established a new mnavy balloon record of 820 miles. Fae ing siarvation and freezing for four days in the woods northeast of Moos: Factory, the farthelt aorthern point of the Hudson Bay Trading Co., the balloonists final v encountered an Indian trapper National Y. M. C. A. Officer May Speak At Fathers and Sons Banquet Mershall Field Tells e Merchants to Advertise CHICAGO, Jan. 17.—Suggestions to merchants are made by Marshall Field and Company in their advertis ing service for February, their editor al saying: “The flow of trade will continue toward your store if you keep the buying public well informed of your preparedness to meet its needs. : “Advertising will sell the merchan dise if liberally and consistently used. Make - printer’s ink work “hard for you. Change the windows oftener; attract attention to the interior dis plays. Advertising initiative helps to keep business normal and healthy. “Plan now for a brisk rebruary business. Advertise and display the merchandise the moment it reaches your shelves, Look with confidence into the future.” BANKS CLOSE WEDNESDAY S FOR LEGAL HOLIDAY " In observance of Lee’s birthday the undersigned banks will be closed Wednesday, January 19th. First National Bank. : Exchange National Bank “One Price Job Printing” ---Means Fair Prices for every customer and uniformly high quality for all. It is a protection for every man who buys f printing. | ' Leader. Press prices are based on the Franklin printing cost system, ; whether it is twenty-five invitations or 10,000 double page store sales bills. . By making a fair profit on every job, we are not forced to make up a loss on one job by cheap work or high price on your job. The Leader Publishing Company can print anything you can write. If you are not one .of our regular customers you should be, for your own good as well as ours. - ~ L.eader Publishing Company | 107 E. Pine St. Phone 328 1! ~uKRALD, BEN HILL COUNTY GEO%'-'A, MONDAY, JANUARY 17 ;421 o wrought them into Moosq ctory This_picture, the firsy wceived in the U, 8., was taken at| Moose Factory by a clerk when the fatigned ballonists were brought im. They are J L, Gaduet, manager of the Hudson Bay Co., Lieutenant L. A Kleer, commander; Lieutenant Waltep Hinton and Lieutenant Stephen A. Farrell. The inserts =« Moose Factory and distai ' flight. The balloonists satled New York Dec. 13. Two h: miles of the retarn wrim « dog sled« Details Of Recreation Center Banquet Not Complete, But Will Be Big Affair Recreation Center Will Stage Hand Ball. Game; Open To Public Tommorow Night The national headquarters of the Young Men’s Christian Association has been invited to send a represen tative toe Fathers’ and Sons’ Banquet planned by the Young Men’s Christ ian Association has been invited to send a representative to the Fathers’ and Sonss bannquet planned by the Young Men’s Recreation Center for February, it was stated today, and an oofficer in the association will prob ably be present according to- informa tion from headquarters. The details of the banquet have not been arranged but it will be one of the largest affairs of its kinl ever staged here. The banquet will be served in the Recreation Room on South Grant street by one of the lo cal woman’s organizations, The Recreation Center will be the scene of a fast game of Handball to morrow night at 8 o’clock. Hand ball is a new game in Fitzgerald and is said to be very interesting. Other games will be open to the public dur ing the evening and the board of managers invites every young man, and every man who feels young, to attend. . G, BIG] PROFIT IN | “TOBACCO CROPS Practical Suggestions for Geor gia Growers Are Made R. R. BULLETIN IS ISSUED Comment Made on Report of De partment of Agriculture —— v ATLANTA, January 17.—Tobacco growing in Georgia, when given pro per attention, can be made the most profitable of all farm crops, says To bacco agent B. L.. Ring, of the South ern Railway System’s Development Service, commenting on the report of the United State Department of Ag riculture and Georgia‘’s State Depart ment of Agriculture, showing that the per-acre value of tobacco last yvear in Georgia was $222.00 while that of lint cotton was only $20.66. Mr. Ring, who has had years of ex perience as a practical tobacco grow er, has prepared the following sug gestions for the benefit of the tobac co growers of Georgia: r : Most Profitable of Ail Crops “It has been demonstrated that to bacco-growing in Georgia is profita ble and when given proper attention is the most proftable of all farm crops. “There were some failures last year due to preventable causes. In every instance where results were unsatis factory the cause was due to: (a) late planting; (b) insufficient quantity of ‘fertilizers; (c) allowing suckers to take up the growth which should go tinto the leaves; (d) pulling the leaves when too green; (e) packing down in limproper order after curing. “To be successful it is absolutely inccessary to prepare for more plants | than will be needed so that none but strong plants of uniform size may be used. It should be transplanted early in April. Eight hundred to one thou sands pounds of high grade fertilizer should be used per acre and put in drill several days before the .plants I are set. s Judgment in Topping “Judgment should be used in top ping as to the number of leaves each plant can support. After topping, the suckers should, be taken off once each week so that the growth will go into the leaves. Tobacco should be thor oughly ripe before housing and cur ing, and judgment exercised in pack ing away in proper order after cur ing. “Bud worms - which = attack - the small leaves in the buds are the most damaging of the insect pests, but are easily controlled if sprayed with a solution of arsenate of lead as soon as the first small worm is noticed.” DR. CRIBBEN PREACHES AT FIRST METHODIST Dr. J. B. Cribben. of Atlanta dis trict superintendent for the Method ist Church, North, preached at both the morning and evening services at the First Methodist church Sunday. His mroning subject was “Interces sory Prayer” and the evening subject wa “Sowing and Reaping”. Two young men made decisions at the ev ening service. Y v -~ S = % SN et~k s e W vincie Sam Delolses Tran:s 1 . ® . . Fight Against Crop (i s o R e A oL ¥ ¥ o . SRS BSR Q\Wmﬂ"“ 3 b E - 2Vs L‘ ‘EE Re N R L R el i Sol e R e S ™ ASN \‘: e € e B B focge S SRS RO R SN SO R et ;553?: Rl R SR ST EE SERR - @l Sy FUIGESR BUNIOIRNG, gt = 5 PR B R 3 X g =i~‘s§:l SR SRR \‘ SRS Sty & LT T ER \ﬁg N Rl REERL R e W RER BAEEE @@ SSR GR R & RoR SRR T Ko :3:'s‘&? T R ?‘ e BS o Sy Rt AN BRI 8 g e 7 B R e *ﬁu?s& BRSNS S .5 L & (e &3 < ::_55-:.(;-v:!"‘-:.v.i.;._.».:55;.;;:;-.;,5;'{, ik ceor-f. 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Although it is not generally known—he has been baitling various kinds of crop cooties for many years, to the ex tent that the department’s work has developed until now great “de lousing” machines which fumigate a freight train with ease are in operation The duty of the Federal Horticultural boara is to guard the United States borders and prevent the entrance of injurious plant insects This board has saved American farmers millions of dollars. Just now the Mexican border is being watched closely against pink Lollworm The pictures show, upper, the interior of a cyanide plant .t Laredo. Tex.. where the poisonous gas is turned into a string of treight cars coming into the U. S. Center, exterior of a huge fumi gation plant built by the Department of Agriculture. _l.Cwer, mem vers of the horticultural *board which enforces the crop quarantine luws. Dr. Karl B. Kellerman, Dr. W. D. Hunter, Dr. Charles L. Mar latt. chairman, and George B. Sudsworth. : ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE IS QUENCHED .The third.incesdiary fire here in the last few weeks was quenched without the assistance of the fire de partment Saturday night. It was set in the rear of a colored undertaking establishment on East Pine street. The proprietor smellel smoke and the fire out with a few bucketfulls of water. The fire bug used the same method as was used on the East Pine colored restaurant last week, lighting a bunch of oil soaked waste. Neither fire did any damage. Slight damage was done to the res ilence at 614 West Suwanee street Friday night by a blaze that caught from a defective flue. Quick action by the fire department .checked the blaze before it had spread over the roof. Atlanta Awarded o Library $7,641.00 Entire Sum Asked by Department Granted by the Committee ATLANTA, Jan. 17.—Not an item in the 1921 budget of the Carnegie li brary submitted to the council finance committee was refused, and the en tire appropriation of $76,419 requested for the institution was unanimously voted into the sheet. This is an in crease of $10,916 over last year, $5,- 160 of which will be spent toemploy additional assistants and other help. The Carnegie lihrary now enjoys the unique distinction of being the only large department of the city gov ernment to receive from the finance committee every cent it asked. Leader-Enterprise Want Aas Pay. . FITZGERALD COTTON ' GOOD MIDDLING. _______ls ll4c MONDAY RECEIPTS..___4 Bales «-dL. XXVI NO. 7 Much Discussion and . Many ~ Amendments in the Senate 'ANTI-STRIKE BILL IS UP. ‘May Be Reconsidered Along i with Army Reduction WASHINGTON, Jan,_l6—Pres entation of the Fordney emergency tariff bill to the Senate tomorrow by the finance committee will formally launch what promises to be a long and determined fight. Hours of .dis cussion and an avalanche of amend ments await the measure and the out come is admitted to be in doubt. While the Senate is preparing for consideration of the emergency meas ure, expected to begin late in the week, and the FHouse ways and means committee will continue its hearings on permanent tariff. ’ Other important affairs awaiting action by the senate are motions to reconsider passage of the Pointdex ter "anti-strike bll and the resoluton to stop recruiting until the army is re duced to 150,000 men. The latter res olution is expected to go to the House despite Senate oppostion. Sherman to Attack Meat Bill Debate on the bill for Federal reg ulation of the meat industry will be resumed by the senate Tuesday, when Senator Sherman, Republican, Illinois plans a long attack upon the measure. The bill will be voted upon finally Jan®ary 24th. Heearings on the Johnson immi gration bill are to be closed Tuesday by the Senate immigration ‘commit tee. Commissioner General of Im migration Caminetti, who arrived home yesterday after a study of im migration questions in Europe, will be the last witness heard, the com mittee then meeting in executive ses sion to decide whether the Johnson bill or a substitute shall be pressed | or the whole question of emergency legislation dropped. The Calder bill for regulation of the coal jndustry is to bee taken up Tuesday by thee Senate Manufactur ers committee, with brief hearings# and early action planned. e Repeal of war-time laws is to be pressed tomorrow by the Senate judiciary committee, which plans to report out the House repeal resolu tion wth an amendment continuing thee food and fuel control law. To Favor Disarmament Final action Wednesday or Thurs-" day on the Borah resolution to initi ate negotiations with the principal naval powers for reducing naval build ing programs is contemplated by thee senate foreign relations committee. A favorable report is forecast. Appropriation bills and the congres sional reapportionment bill are the principal measures before the House this week. Leaders are, predicting that the House will reject the com mittee proposal for increase in its membership. | » ° |Veteran Of Sixties . ~ Dies At Home Here Mr. Albert Wells Answers Last Roll Call Saturday and Passes On Mr. Albert Wells, 74 years of age, one of the thinning ranks of the men who wore the blue in the war between the states, died at his home in Fitz gerald Saturday after a brief illness. Mr. Wells was born at Portage, N. Y., on September 29, 1846 but moved to Minnesota with his parents in 1856. He entered the United States Army in 1865, as soon as he became of age, and served for a few months in the war between the states. as a private in Company C, Fourth Minnesota In fantry. He married Miss Lucy Coch ran in 1876 and moved to Fitzgerald in 1902. He was engaged in agricul-’ ture in Ben Hill county up to the time of his last illness. ; Surviving Mr. Wells are his widow and one daughter, Miss Myra Wells of Fitzgerald. The funeral will be in charge of the Sons of Veteran who will assem ble at the Wells home at 2 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon and thence repair to the First Methodist church where Rev. James E. Elder will oﬁiciate.. The pall bearers will be members of the Sons of Veterans, headed by Com mander Henry C. Foster. Inter ment will be at Evergreen cemetery. REBECCA BANK CLOSES Peoples Bank at Rebecca Turned Over to State Banking Dep’t. REBECCA, Jan. 17—At a meeting of the. Board of Directors of the Peo= ples Bank, held at the bank yester day, it was decided to close the bank and place it in the hands of the State examiner for liquidation. The direc tors of the bank are Dr. W, J. Dick-~ son, W, L. Evans, H. J. Perry and D. F. Young. s Mr. J. C. Lockett has returned froq: a business trip to Atlanta. ; “m Mr. J. Percy Manning is Qpen a few days with lelatives in J u,;,;;f;_,éf; ville, Fla. o