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UNION LGCAL HEAD
EXPLAINS RAIL LAW
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¥4 B. & A’s Argument to Labor
Board Checks “Junking”
COMPLIMENTS LEADER
Says He Reads Leader-Enterprise
with Mugh Interest
Following is a letter received from
@ union local official in Manchester
‘with additional information of inter
«est in regard to the rail wage contro
versy which was Monday remanded
by the Railway Labor Board to fur
‘ther conferences between operators
and employes.
Manchester, Georgia, Feb.. 22, 1921
Mr. Isidor Gelders, Editor
The Leader-Enterprise and Press
Dear Sir: e
I have read with considerable pleas
ure several articles in your paper with
reference to the controversy between
the A. B. and A. Railway Company
and its employees, which was brought!
about as a result of the proposed wage
reduction, I was somewhat surprised
at the good people of Georgia becom
ing becimeing so cxcited over the
threat of the management of the A. B.
and A. that the railroad would be
junked if the wages were not reduced,
however I believe that their actions
were due largely to the fact that the
public as a rule is not sufficiently in
formed as to the provisions of the
Transportation Act, of 1920. I am
therefore sending you under seperate
cover Copy of the Transportation Act
together with a copy of our argument
and brief before the United States
Railway Labor Board, which I hope
you will give as much publicity as
possible, in order that the public may
understand more fully what is required’
by the law under which the railroads
are operated known as the Transpor
tation Act of 1920,
- Employes Opposed the' Act
This law was passed over the pro
test of the employces, and is the law
which the carriers sought, now since
the law has been passed by both
branches of Congress and signed by
the President, we as good citizens
have sought to comply with the law
both to the letter and spirit of the
law, now since it is the law which the
carriers desired, we believe that they
should comply with it. the threat of
the management to junk the road if
carried out would place them in rather
an embarrassing position as shown on
J)éges 24 and 25, of the Ace.
\'Railroad employees have never in
bhe past or do they at this time ask
for more than a square deal, the rec
ords will not show that they have at
any time been unreasonable in their
demands. :
A statement has been made that the
employees were advocating an in
crease in freight rates, this statement
is untrue and misleading. The em
ployees did suggest that if the A. B:
and A. Railway was not receiving its
just proportion of the revenue on
through freight which orriginates on
other lines or is delivered by the A.
B. and A. Railway to other lines that
the management should go to the In
terstate Commerce Commission for
a Reaportionment of the through rate,
this however is a matter over which
the Interstate Commerce Commission
has contr.ol and is not a matter to,
come before the Labor Board. |
I want to again ask that you give
as much publicity to the Transporta-‘
tion Act as possible as I. believe it is‘
due the public to know what the law
provides for.
Thanking you for the interest you
have taken in the public in this con
troversy, and wishing you success in
the future wellfare,
With best wishes I beg to remain,
Yours Very Truly,
W. D. Cargile
General Chairman, B. of L. F. and E.
. Manchester, Ga.
Editors Note—Lack of space pre
vents reprinting of the mass of data
requested. Mr. Cargiles letter sum
marizes it very effectively.
Watson Case At
Buford Nol Prosed
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BUFORD, Ga., Feb., 24—The case
against Senator-Elect Thomas E.
Watson, growing out of his arrest in
the Merchants Hotel here August 19,
after he resented the behavior of a
party of card players in the hotel lob
by was ordered nol prossed by the
court here Wednesday. Mr. Watson
paid all court costs.
The action was taken with the con
sent of Miss Sally Wiley, proprietress
of the hotel. Her consent was based
on a letter of apology written to her
by the Senator-Elect Feb.l6.
‘ln view of the full and complete
apology by Mr. Watson I consent that
all prosecutions that have grown out
of his conduct at my hotel on the
night of August 18, 1920, may be set
,tled upon his payment of all costs of
prosecution and the case nol prossed.
Rev. Isaac P. Tyson is spending a!
few days in Macon with his daughter |
Miss Edna Tyson who attends Wes-l
leyan College.
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State Of Georgia
Governor-Elect Hardwick Declares
Policy of Strict Economy Necessary ‘
* ATLANTA, Feb., 25—A policy ‘of|
strict economy and retrenchment to
wipe out the current deficit in the
state’s finances will be innaugurated
by Thomas W. Hardwick, governor
elect, when he takes the office the
fourth Wednesday in June.
“There has got to be a budget
system” said Mr. Hardwick. “The
current deficit in the treasury doesn’t
mean that the State of Georgia is
bankrupt. On the contrary, jits fi
nancial resources ar among the best
of any state in the country. The de
ficit in the treasury is merely a cur
rent deficit, caused by the fact that
appropriations have been made with
out due regard for what the revenue
would be. A budget system to cor
relate appropriations with revenue
has .become an absolute necessity,
and it is my purpose to insist that the
legislature pass the necessary legis
lation.
Some reports recently printe‘d rel
ative to the state’s financial condition
are rather misleading, according to
Tax Clerk W. B. Harrison, who is
sued the following statement pointing
out the real situation:
“The only obligations of consid
erable size now before the state treas
ury- are discounted school warrants
for $400,000 and unpaid balances a
mounting to $900,000 due cities and
counties which did not discount their
warrants. The amount due for dis
counted warrants in the treasury, and
will be paid March Ist, 1921, and the
unpaid balance of $900,000 will be
paid out of the 1920 taxes collected be
fore April, 1920.”
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[Gettmg Fathers And
1 Sons Together
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Fitzgerald fathers and Fitzgerald
sons are to banquet together at the
Odd-Fellows Hall next Friday 'eve
ning, March, 4th. The event for Fitz
gerald is as important as the innau
ration of a new President on the same
day is to the nation as a whole, more
important if anything. It will be the
introduction to the fathers of the city
of an institution that is already widely
and well known améng the sons, and
should be better known among them,‘
the Young Men’s Recreation Center.i
The Young Men’s Recreation Cen-‘
ter will be the best thing that ever
happened in Fitzgerald for the boys
and young men. It will give them a
place, always open. where they can
spend- their leisure hours in recrea
tion that th¢y can enjoy and that will
build them into better citizens, phy
sically and mentally. Just as an in
stance, no less than six boys have
stopped smoking cigarettes in order
to have better success in the sparring
matches that are rtgular semi-weekly
events at the Center. Nearly every
evening from twenty-five to fifty‘
boys and young men spend a little |
while at the Center, reading, playing
nastic apparatus that has ween pro.
vided with the meager funds avail
able, boxing or othérwise diverting
themselves in a wholesome, healthful
manner among wholesome, healthful
surroundings.
The Father’s and Son’s banquet is
purposed to bring the boys and the
fathers more closely in sympathy, to
arouse more interest in fathers gener
ally in boys generally. The banquet
is going to be thoroughly enjoyable
and it is going to be more than that,
it is going to be an introduction of
grown-up boys to the boys who have
not yet grown up.
If the good men and good women
of Fitzgerald would lend whole-hear
ted and unstinted support of this erd
terprise for young men, there would
be no need for a Ben Hill Civic
League. As the sapling is inclined
so grows the tree. The Center is a
great potential influence for insur
ing straight growth of the sapling.
FITZGERALD, 8N HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1921
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Big Addition To
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Automobile Factory
Floor Area Grows trom 8 to Over
100 Square Acres in Six Years
Substantial evidence of Dodge
Brothers confidence in the future is
to be found in their expenditure of
between $6,000,000 and $8,000,000 for
the expansion of their factory. The
present building program is the larg
est in their history, and will bring the
total floor space of the plant up to
more than 100 square acres. In 1914
when production 6f Dodge Brothers
motor cars began the total floor space
was about 8 square acres.
The principal unit of the construc
tion program now in progress is the
new press steel building, with a floor
area of 860,000 square feet. The new
construction building, ‘which has just
been completed. is eight stories high
and has a floor area of 140,366 square
feet. Another important unit now
being built is the new power planty
With the gradual expansion of the
factory the interplant traffic problem
became one of prime importance. The
distance between the main building
and Plant 4 is nearly a mile, and until
recently it was necessary to cross 12
railroad tracks to reach it. This
problem was solved by the simple but
csotly xpedient of digging a tunnel.
Now: factory traffic cuts off half the
distance and passes under the 12
tracks instead of over them. The tun
nel is a good example of. the effic
iency measures always being intro
duced at Dodge Brothers factory,
which has the reputation among au
thorities of being one of the most
thoroughly equipped and best man
aged factories in the world.
When the present building opera
tions are completed others will prob
ably begin. There is nearly always
something in progress. The maxi
mum production attained so far was
an average of 600 cars a day, but this
will be materially increased by the ex
tra facilities now being provided.
| GIGANTIC WHEAT POOL
FORMED BY FARMERS
HUTCHINSON, Nan., Feb. 25.—A
gigantic wheat pool, the first of a se
ries to be organized in wheat belt
States in a farmers’ war for living
prices, was formed here Thursday by
the Kansas branch of the National
Wheat Growers’ Association. The
'pool will dispose of 50,000,000 bushels
of 1921 crop in Kansas.
! “We are going to stabilize the
‘wheat market so farmers can get a
fair price for their crop,” said W. 1
McGreevy, president of the associa
tion, “We believe this action will sta
bilize the 1921 market.
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HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
COMMITTEE WORK
While the inclement weather of
Wednesday interfered with the good
program that Had been planned for
the day, which will be given at the
next regular meeting the committee
work is going on with enthusiasm.
Mrs. F. 'R. Hendricks. chairman of
the devotional committee holds reg
ular prayer meetings service every
Tuesday at 4 o’ clock at the Hospital
to which any one is welcome.
Mrs. T. F. Pounas of the visiting
committee invites social calls and
attentions to the nurses as well as the
nurses as well as the sick, as they are
often unacquainted and their hours of
duty are usually against their mabing
friends outside the hospital.
Mrs. G. E. Ricker of the Automo
bile committee also plans to include
attention to the nurses.
Mrs. J. C. Glover and Mrs. J. M. Ji
Luke will be glad to receive contri
butions of cut flowers and of literature
for their respective work,
Mrs. J. A. Day of the yard com
mittee reports their work begun under
the direction of a landscape gardener
whose fee is a donation by some of the
members. Mrs. J. E. Turner is the
new chairman of finance and Mrs, S.
L. Smith of the social committee, -
A check of $2.50 was donated by
the Auxiliary,, the Library Shower
for subscriptions to Good Health.
Mrs. I. Gelders, Reporter.
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Community Council
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‘To Assist Y. M. R. C.
Meeting at Member’s Home Wednes
day Cordially Endorses Movement
~ The ladies of the Fitzgsrald Com
munity Council at a meeting Wednes
day at thc home of Mrs. F. R. Justice
cordially endorsed the Young Men’s
Recreation Center movement and
pledged moral support and active co
operation in insuring its success.
The ladies will supetvise the sale of
tickets to the Father’s and Son’s ban
quet next Friday, enlisting the Fitz
gerald Boy Scouts as salesmen. They
are assisting the board of managers
of the Center in working out a pro
gram for the banquet that will surpass
anything ever attempted by any local
organization,
The ladies of the Rebekkahs are
planning a five course dinner for three
hundred men and boys. The plate
price of fifty cents will just about
cover the cost of the raw food and
‘the labor entailed in preparing and
serving the banquet will be contrib
uted by the ladies to help the move
ment reach a success. The banquet
will equal anything ever before at
tempted for a dollar a plate. Fifty
chickens are to be used.
The board of managers of the Cen
ter to-day issued a call for twenty
men without young sons to sign up
with A. G. Brown, Sam Bradshaw or
at the Leader-Enterprise to adopt one
fatherless youngster for the evening.
Bachelors, married men who have no
sons, or whose sons are grown up
will be accepted. The fatherless boys
will be assigned to their temporary
fathers by a committee.
The organizations that are actively
co-operating with the Young Men’s
Recreation Center for the success of
the Father's and Son’s banquet are
the Rebekkahs, the Community Coun
cil, the Fitzgerald Concert Band, the
Boy Scouts, and the press of the city.
Gas Concern Works
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As People Kick
ATLANTA, Feb., 25—While At
lanta folk in some sections of the city
are kicking like bay steers over the
raise in the price of gas—some even
wanting to abolish vhe State- Rail
raise after a supposedly fair consider
ation. of the case—officials of the
Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany, owners of the Atlanta Gas
Light Company, are performing what
is regarded as' gigantic work in the
improvement of gas service. This
work, it is claimed, is being done in
amazeingly rapid fashion. New
pumping mains are now being placed
in Fuller and Lawton streets. which
with the street governor stations and
connections, will cost approximately
$20,000.
A similar large undertaking of ser
vice improvement was finished sev
eral weeks ago in the Virginia Avenue
section. The feat was accomplished
a week ahead of the date set for its
completion. The two jobs will have
involved a total cost of $57,030, all
told, improvements under way by the
Gas Company, including new gener
ators, will cost in the neighborhood of
$300,000. This does not include a half
million dollars which the power com
pany has been forced to invest in new
street cars.
The law which was passed by the
Legislature of Georgia many years
ago placed the control of the public
utility rates in the hands of the Rail
road Commission. It was found that
in many cities in Georgia the munici
palities were controlled by the public
service corporations and the belief
transferred to a central commission
so that the temptations of the cor
porations to go into municipal mat
ters would be removed. ‘
TACKY PARTY
An enjoyable affair of Tuesday af
ternoon was the tacky party given by
Misses Mildred Manning and Kather
ine Brown at the former’s pretty
home on South Main Street.
The entire lower floor of the home
was thrown open t the guests and
decorated in bluc and white.
Miss Ruth Bussell received the first
prize a bag of peanuts for being the
tackiest guest present and Mr. John
Robert Minter was awarded the sec
ond prize apackage of chewing gum.
Variousout-door games were played
after which Mrs. Manning assisted by
Misses Lillian Tucker. Evelyn Alber
son and Lucy Tucker served lemon
ade, crackers and all-day-suckers. i
Among those present were: Misses
Blanche Davis, Dorothy McLendon,‘
Sargh' Booker, Dorothy Jay, Grace.
Smith, Inez Leath, Elenor Mc Len
don, Elsic . James, Ruby Brown, May
Faye Searcy, Wylene Jolly, Dorothy
Brown, Tommie Lee Pittman, Maxine
Parker, Johnnie Lee. Winona White,
Martha Sue Parker, Frances Alber
son, Ruth Bussell, Martha Strange,
Edith Brown, Jeannette Davis, Sarah“
Ann Pryor, Helen McLendon, Lola
Bell Lee, Mamie Ruth Rogers, Mil
dred Jones, Mollie Nell McDonald,
Ida' Nell Turner. Rebecca Kirkland,
and Messrs Edgar Johnston, Earle
J. Brown, Jr. Lawerance Manning,
Bill Boothe, John Robert Minter, C.
T." Owens Jr., Sam B. Parker Jr.,
Richard McLendon and Lester Lee,
PP F R e R B
+ DID YOU KNOW THIS +*
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* Fitzgerald is the most cosmo- %
® politan city of its: size in the %
® South. Natives of forty-cight %
# states and nineteen foreign na- %
% tions live here. &+
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May Have 1921 Auto
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Show In Fitzgerald
Dealers Understood to Have Talked
Show at Banquet Wednesday
Prospects for a 1921 Automobile
Show in Fitzgerald are understood to
have been discussed at a banquet of
local automobile dealers at the Lee
Grant Hotel Wednesday. While no
definite conclusion is said to have
ibeen reached in regard to the Show,
it s understood that the dealers pres
iont were constituted a committee to
(investigate the possibility of holding
la successful automotive exposition this
year, probably in May or June, and
‘will meet later to make a decision on
whether the show is to be held.
Fitzgerald is the only city of its
size in Georgia that has made an auto
mobile show an annual affair and the
event has always attracted considera
ble attention. While the automobile
‘business has been distinctly depressed
‘all over the country for the last few
months, larger cities are planning to
make an evengreater effort than be
fore to stimulate interest in the trade
with automotive expositions.
Cotton Reaches Low
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Price Of Six Years
Quoted on Local Market at 1115 cts.
Lowest Since 1914 Crop.
The Leader-Enterprise carries in
the usual place at the upper right hand
corner on the front page of the paper
the local quotation on spot cotton for
today at 1174 cents per pound for good
middling, the lowest. price that has
been quoted since 1914, Cotton
touched 1134 for a short while several
weeks ago but has never stood for a
day at the price quoted today.
i It is generally believed that the bear
movement is reaching its deepest
trough right now before the change
in national administration while the
foreign policy of the Republican ad
lministration remains an unknown
quantity. When it becomes definitely
Iknown what attitude the Harding ad
iministration will take toward foreign
markets for cotton, the price trend
lwill begin to be distinctly upward.,
No hope is held, however, that the
‘price this year will be equal to the
present cost of production or any
| thing like, enough to justify farmers
rin planting cotton. Sugar cane. sweet
' potatoes, peanuts, hay, corn and to
‘bacco are to be South Georgia’s prin
cipal crops this year. wytede
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IWATSON PLANNING TO
EDIT PAPER AT CAPITAL
l WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Senator
'Elect Thomas Watson of Georgia ex
'pccts to reach Washington March 3
to take up his duties, which com
mence when the new Congress meets
at noon on Marc 4. This is the in
formation he has given Senator Wil
liam J. Harris, with whom he has
been communicating since his election.
| It is expected that Mrs. Watson will
'accompany her husband to Washing
ton. Rooms have been engaged for
them by Representative Park of Syl
vester at the George Washington Inn,
about a block from the Capitol.
Senator Watson will bring to Wash
ington with him the staff of his news
paper. which he expects to edit and
publish from Washington while he is
in Congress, it is understood. Sen
ators Watson and Harris always have
been on good terms. Since Mr. Wat
®on's election they have corresponded
freely.
REVIEW CLUB IS :
ENTERTAINED :
On Tuesday afternoon at the lovely
home of Miss Rhea Wise on South
Lee Street, Mrs. Tedfred E. Myers
and Miss Wise were joint hostesses to
the members of the Review Club.
The Wise home with its soft draper
ies and interior finishings, handsome
vases filled with red japonicas made
a beautiful setting for the assembling
of the guests. ;
. Four tables were arranged in the
living and the dining rooms. cach be
ing topped with a tiny cherry tree sur
rounded by United States flags, and
hatchets.
Several contests were enjoyed, Mrs.
R. M. Pryor being awarded the prize
a hatchet,
Late in the afternoon the hostesses
assisted by Mrs. Curtis M. Wise ser
ved an elaborate three coure luncheon.
Among those present. were: Mrs.
Thomas C. Mortan of Gray, Ga..the
guest of Mrs. Ludlow L. Griner, Mrs,
Walton Stalnaker of Broxton the
guest of Mrs, R. M. Pryor, Mesdames
Robert H. McKay, Claude Cutts Per
sons, Ulric J. Bennett, S. G. Pryor Jr.,
Tedfred E. Myers, R. M, Pryor, L. C,
Glover and ‘Misses Bobra Reynolds,
Louise Few, Julia Prentiss, Lillian
Dormminy and Rhea Wise,
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Council Candidates
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To Be Named Tonight
Civic League Nominating Caucus As
sembles at Carnegie Hall
The final meeting of the nominating
caucus of the Ben Hill Civic League
will be held at 8 o’clock tonight at
Carnegie Hall to nominate five candi
dates for city council who will, with
N. N. Littlefield for mayor, constitute
the league’s “reform ticket.”
Five names will be recommended to
the caucus as a whole by a sub-com
mittee of five appointed at the Tues
day meeting by J. E. Turner, chair
man of the Local Committee, and N.
N. Littlefield. nominee for mayor. The
caucus will vote on the sub-commit
tee’s recommendation and the League
as a whole at a meeting Sunday will
formally approve the selection made |
by the caucus. |
The personnel of the nominating .
sub-committee has not been made
public by Mr. Turner, or Mr. Little
field and the names of the candidates
recommended will not be made public
until the meeting tonight, a full ac
count of which will be carried in
Monday’s Leader-Enterprise.
Crowd Gathers For
~ Ashton School Meet
Delegation from Seven Schools At
tend Consolidation Meeting
As the Leader-Enterprise goes to
press today, the citizens of the East
‘ern half of Ben Hill county are pre
‘paring to vote on one of the most im
‘portant school improvement projects
‘ever submitted to them. Patrons of
'schools from Fitzgerald, Lynnwood,
Eureka, Horton, Dorminey, Ever
green and Ashton districts are repre
sented at the mass meeting at Ashton
‘school. i
The speakers at the meeting today
are Aldine Pound, state high schoo!
[supervisor, C. T. Owen, county agent,
and farm bureau secretary; Jo E Tur=
ner, farm bureau official and former
school board member; Isidor Gelders,
editor of the Leader-Enterprise. Nei
ther M." L. Duggan, state school sup
ervisor; Miss Georgia Crews. district
home demonstration agent, nor Mrs.
S. M. Whitchard, farm bureau vice
chairman, were able to attend the
' meeting. E
The project is to consolidate Hor
ton, Eurcka, Evergreen and Dormi
ney, all one-teacher schools, with Ash
ton, at present a four-teacher school,
and make Ashton an eleven grade
school with a full staff of teachers,‘
including a government man to teach
agriculture. Motor trucks will be
bought to transport the pupils to and
from school. Members of the board
of county commissioners have prom
ised to keep the principal roads in
best of condition to carry the heavy
trucks.
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WILSON AND HARDING
TO RIDE TOGETHER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Presi
‘dent Wilson will ride to the capitol
with President-Elect Harding on in
auguration day. despite all reports to
the contrary, it was announced at the
White House Thursday.
The President’s participation in the
inauguration has been agreed upon,
and the President plans to carry out
his part in the program, it was said.
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Mr. and Mrs. James L. Dorminey,
Miss Esther King and Mr, Raymond
Massey have left for Raleigh, N.l
C., where they will reside in the future,
Manon Grocery Co.,
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vOL. XXVI NO. 24
BEN HILL MEN YET
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Farm Bureau Rules that Prices
Are Still Too High
ENDORSES SCHOOL PLAN
Resolutions Commend Ashton
Project and Curb Market
Market prices for fertilizer are still
too high for Ben Hill county farmers
at present prices of farm products,
it was decided at the meeting yester
day afternoon of the Advisory Coun
cil of the Ben Hill Farm Bureau Fed
eration and the bureau will not make
contracts until a special meeting Sat
urday after the state convention in
Atlanta March 10-11.
The Ashton school consolidation
project, the Fitzgerald Curb Market
and the administration of Postmaster
Will A. Adams were cordially en
dorsed by the bureau. The minutes
of the meeting follow as officially in
scribed on the records of the bureau:
| Ben Hill County Farm Bureau met
Thursday. the 24th, 2:30 p. m. with
the chairman, M. Dickson presiding.
Minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved.
Bureau Thanks Woman’s Club
Mrs. Lon Dickey appeared before
the bureau and discussed the prospec
tive Curb Market which is to be
opened in Fitzgerald Saturday, March
Sth, in front of the Post Office at 8
o'clock a. m. Her, talk was very in
teresting and instructive’ and was
highly appreciated by all' members
present. Upon her departure resolu
tion was passed expressing the thanks
‘and appreciations of the Bureau for
the interest manifested by Mrs.
iDickey and the Woman’s Club of
lFitzgerald in helping to establish a
Curb Market for the benefit of the
farmers and the people of town as
well,
Mr. A. J. Swords made a report for
the Farmers' Fire Insurance commit
tee and asked for more time and for
) the committee to be increased to five
| members which was done by adding
i James Davis and J. B. Butts. This
icommittee is to make further investi
gations and report at the next meeting
; Delegates to State Meeting
A notice of the annual convention
of the Georgia State Farm Bureau
‘Federation which is to convene in
Atlanta March the 10th and 11th was
read and the following delegates
elected: M. Dickson, Chairman, Mrs.
S. M. Whitchard, Vice-Chairman;
alternates, C. T. Owens and Mrs. R.
L. Stone.
A motion prevailed to pay the ex
penses of the delegates while attend
ing "the Convention.
After a number of fertilizer price
lists were considered the Bureau
unanimously voted to not contract for
‘fertilizers until a material reduction
was made in the prices.
Mr. W. R. Tucker of the A. B. &
A. Railway was present and made an
interesting talk as to the growing of
Isugar cane in sufficient quantities to
justify the establishment of a Syrup
Refinery in Fitzgerald. He further
stated that he was in position to fur
nish farmers an excellent quality of
red sugar cane at $25.00 per thousand
and wait on them until the cane was
manufactured into syrup for the pay,
in this connection the Secretary stated
that he had an order for a car load
of Georgia cane syrup if the syrup in
the county was of a standard grade
and could so recommend to the buyer.
Name Curb Market Committee
Mr. J. E. Turner, C. T. Owens, L.
Robitzsch, and A. J. Swords were ap
pointed by the chairman as a commit
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