Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, June 15, 1921, Wednesday Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY EDITION VOL. XXVI, No. 76 Songsters and Musicians from Miles Around to Come OPENS AT 10 TOMORROW Local Music Lovers Asked At tend Early Meetings The South Georgia Union Singers Association meet here in annual con vention Friday. Judge J. B, Clements of Irwinville will convene about two hundred delegates at 10:00 o'clock for a three day program of singing and of discussions of means of promoting interest in singing in Georgia, The association comprises one hundred South Georgia counties each of which is authorized to send five delegates, The convention usually is attended by three to five - hundred singers including delegates from the county singing associations and visi tors for the section around which the convention is held. Judge T. J. Luke secretary-treas urer who is in charge of the conven tion, was elected last summer as rep resentative from Ben Hill county to the lefislature and will go to Atlanta to assume his seat after the conven tion, He will introduce a bill which has been asked by the association at several conventions to make singing a part of the common school curricu lum. -The common schoofs are now re quired by law to teach about eight lines of learning and Judge Luke would make vocal music the ninth, The bill would be made effective by the provision that no school shall re. ceive state school money Knless sing ing is regularly taught, Judge J. B, Clements, president ot the association was senator from this district for sev eral terms. His successor Wiley Wil liams from Fitzgerald will handle the bill in the senate when Judge Luke introduces it, = The visitors to the convention will be entertained in the homes of mem bers of the Ben Hill county singing association and will hear several sing ing master of wide reputation Fit.gerald people who eypect to hear the programs ure adwvised to at tc »2% e Friday and Saturday sessions as the Sunday session will be attend ed by so many visitors that few local people will be able to get in the Court House, . Judge T. J. Luke,. secretary of the association who is in charge of the convention has booked as special fea tures, eight singers of state-wide rep utation in church work and especially rural singing associatton work, the Vaughn Quartette of Lawrenceburg, Tenn,, the quartet of the Union Book Co., of ‘Atlanta, McD. Weams, a song writer of Rome, Ga. Mr, and Mrs R, M. Gresham of Greenville, S, C, Sam W Beasly of Atlanta, J. C. McLen don of Mcßae, and Eddie Faircloth of Greenville, S, C, The singing convention is to be held in the county court house which seats about 1,000 people, Tudge J. B, Clements of Irwinville, pr sident will preside at the meetings, j. C. Lend erman of Mcßae is vice-president 14 Judge T. J Luke of Fitzgerald, sec retary-treasurer, “AWAY DOWN UPON ! THE SUWANEE RIVER” A jolly party of fishermen reiurned Sunday from Florida where they had been spending several days in search of Tarpon but failed to find anything larger than carps, sackers and trout. Leaving their car at Branford, Fla,, the party attached a motor to a canoe and sailed about two hundred miles down the Suwanee river to Cedar Keys. In the party were Messrs, Lawrence Glover, Thos. Hendrix, Spurgeon Fuller, and E M, Bishop, THE. 15[ ' . : THE (o =Mei2E Special Reduction On All Suits for Men and Boys =FieiRE | ' ‘ s =9 Tl ; ~ Also On All Ladies’ Ready-to-wear and Millinery Hart, Schafiner At Mark And'Styleplus’ SUITS for MR TR BOTE o © L 0 oo o i, ONE-F OURTH OFF All Men’s Felt Hats including Stetson, Knox and Noname---the best hats America produces now one sale at - ONE-FOURTH OFF Ladies’ SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, WAISTS, SKIRTS, PETTICOATS and HATS - - - o =« - « . . - ONE-HALF PRICE THIS GIVES BOTH THE MEN AND WOMEN AN OI"PORTUNITY TO BUY THE BEST CLOTHING AND READY-TO-WEAR AMERICA PRODUCES At PRICES MUCH LOW ﬁ%gg&gg g{ggNl;ll?ggFN%cg%%E¥l§l; %llzlllgl’;“scll‘{%%AS‘{lElGo'F COURSE At The ABOVE REDUCTIONS THESE ITEMS WILL MOVE FAST SO BE ON HAND FIRST THING TO- Ladies’ Ready-to-wear and Millinery Now on Sale --- ONE-HALF PRICE One Price to Everybody The Story of Our States By JONATHAN BRACE XXXI.—CALIFORNIA Ny HERE is m Tan atmos =l A phere of ro : ,_i/ M 1 mance envel- RIS | oping the B Y e EN e T - early history \\ L of California AL which. even encircles the origin of the name. About 1520 a Spanish love story was published in which there was an imaginary island in the Far East called California. Some fifteen years later a party of Spanish adventurers came upon the peninsula which we now call Lower California. Belleving that they had discovered a romantic island similar to the one in the nowel, they called it California. Later on, the territory to the north became known as Alta California or High California and when it became a state, it wa# accordingly called Cali fornia. The first settlers were the Franciscan monks who came up from Mexico and established missions, and many are the leg ends woven around these ploneer Padres. There shortly grew up Mexican settlements around the missions which the wonderful climate and fertile soil pros pered. The government, while under Mexican control, was more or less independent, and at the out break of the Mexican war, Fre mont, who was later defeated for the presidency, occupied Cal ifornia. When peace was made in 1848, California became Uni ted States territory. That same year gold was discovered in the Sacramento Valley and the rush of people to California began. The population grew so rapidly that in 1850 California was ad mitted as the thirty-first state of the Union. With 1.5 158,207 square miles, it ig the largest state except Texas. Politically, its power has been rapidly grow ing. California now has thirteen presidential electors. (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) ° ° Rail Leaders Intimate > e E A Strike Is Possible - CHICAGO, June 13 Railroad employees may- accepr the $400,000,- 000 wage cut ordered by the federal labor board to take effect July 1— and they may not. ‘ This latter possibility was injectedi into the hearings before the board‘ of applications for wage cuts by rail roads not included in the June 1 de cision Wednesday by L. 'E. Shep pard, grand president of the Order of Railway Conductors, and by W_ G. Lee, president of the Order of Rail 'way Trainmen. ~ This is the first time in all the ne gotiations over the proposed wage reductions for 2,000,000 railroad em ployees ‘that strike talk has been so much as remotely suggested by re sponsible rail union leaders. Both * the leaders solemnly warned the board that they would not be re sponsible for the de.ssion of the men lii unsatisiacicry wage cuts are an ounced in July. B. M. Jewell, president of the American Federation of Labor, rail road department, told the TUnited Inews that aceceptance or rejeciion }votes on the proposed cuts were put in the mail Wednesday for the un ions he represents—practically 600,- 000 men, “This vote will be completed June 25,” he said. “We will know where we stand when the board makes its final decision in July.” Mrs. Belle Chovin left last week to spend the summer with friends and relatives in Michigan. THE EMPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY. Dry Goods and Clothing Phone 18, THE FITZGERALD LEADER FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1921. ENTERPRISEKE and PRESS ( o o Price Committee Of Curb Market Enlarged Junior and Negro Curb Market May Be Established Here J. N. Swearinger, farmer and one of the regular sellers at the Fitzger ald curb market was named as chair man of the enlarged curb market committee at a meeting of farmers and housewives at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday morning. Mrs, Lon Dickey , chairman of the Woman’s Club curb market commit tee, Mrs. Harvey Mathis and Mrs, C. D, Carrol of the Woman's Club, H H James, and C T, Owens of the Farm Burau were retained on the en larged curb market committee They will advise with other farmers and announce standard prices on produce. No compulsion will be used to en force observance of prices but it is believed that no farmers will try to profiteer or to cut each others throats, At the curb meeting Mr. Owens announced his intention of establish ing a junior curb market of pig, and corn, and canning club boys and girls on lots adjacent to those on which the present market stands, It was suggested also that a seperate curb market be estabished for negroes op posite the county court house. Southern Champ Beats Local Boy Brown Takes Count In Fourth Round Of Monday Night Match Jim Brown took the count in the fourth round of the boxing match Monday night after receiving a se vere drubbing from Cracker Ander son from the first bell. The blow which ended the fight was not a knockout punch but Brown “had enough”, He was hopelessly out classed. Brown is large and rangy, and as fast on his=fcet as Anderson but could not handle his fists, And erson smashed him at will. Dr, Tom White refereed the mill at the request of the crowd in at tendance, e 2 Two speedy preliminary -bduts pre ceeded the main event and were much better than the Anderson-Brown go, Two 130 pound boys opened the card with a three round mix-up in which Willie Reddick, was given the deci sion. J ak Garrett won the decision in a speedy fly weight bout that went four rounds, after the first two had been divided and the third round a draw Local boxing enthusiasts are trying to arrange a match for Cracker And erson with some good out of town boxer on the fourth of July. Gordon Stroud, who used to live in Fitzger ald and who has been boxing in At lanta and other southern citics for several years, has heer mentioned as }a good match for the Cracker and may ‘be bhrought here. Farm Bureau Has ° ° Meeting At Mystic Merarn, C. E. Garner, live stock rorketing azent and M. C. Gay, ma. ..« i agent for the State Col irge of Agriculture passed through the city this morning en route to Mystic, wiere the will hold a meet ing for the Farm Bureau Thursday morning. Mrs. E. E, Perkins has returned from Albany where she has been vis iting her son. Leader Want Ads Pay. PUT YAM SYRUP ON U. S. MARKETS First Stage of Experiment Is Completed in Fitzgerald | TRY OUT IN EAST | St Samples of New Table Confec tion Given Local People The first stage of the United States government’s sweet potato experiment l has been completed and Dr. H.C. Gore dis€overer of the formula, has return ed to Washington after having pro duced about thirty barrels of the new syrup in the experiment station built here by the government, The second stage of developing the new discovery is t be asong the line of commercial experiments and will be handled by the office of develop ment of the bureau of chemistry, It is planned to submit samples of the new syrup to candy manufacturers and other large commercial consum ers of sugar and syrup and to find how the new discovery will work in commercial confections and whether it can be used profitably, | It is not considered practical to exper'ment with the new syrup’s sal ability as a table confection in com petition with cane and maple syrups, It would take too much time and too large a distributing organization to give the new syrup a try out as a sweetener for America’s pan cakes. If the syrup can be used by the large users of syrup, it will be placed on the retail trade in the course of time. Several gallons have been distributed in Fitzgerald and those who have used the syrup consider it at least the equal of Georgia cane. Exact cost figures have been ob tained on a.sliding scale to allow for variations in the price of sweet pota toes and every detail of manufacture has been worked out to near perfec tion, If the product proves salahle‘ at a profitable price it is assured that local capital will take over and ex-! pand the experiment station here into a large factory and will oxploit} the new discovery to the fullest ex tent. This is a great sweet pot:xtol section and the potential supply of the yam syrup is unlimited, I Flag Day Celebrated . * By Patriotic Orders Interesting Program At W.R.C, Hall In Honor Of National Emblem About one hundred people attended the flag day exercises at the W_ R. C, Hall Tuesday afternoon held jointly by the W. RO C, G AR S of V. and P O S of A, Mrs. R, H. Ball presided for the G. A R. Rev. James H. Elder opened the prgram witho prayer, Mrs. J. M, Mosher read the history of the United States flag which was formally adopted as the national emblem of the new republic on June 14th 1777. 1 Rev. James H, Elder spoke on “What the Flag Means to Me,” Rev. S. A, Strawm spoke on “What ‘The Army and Navy have done for Amer ica.” J C, Graham and Johnny Lin neman recited partiotic poems. The last number on the program was a brief address on appreciation of American liberties by Stewart F. Gelders, DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO MEET A meeting of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committce for Ben Hill county is called to meet at the Cham ber of Commerce for Saturday June 18th at 11 a. m. Mrs., C. B, White, who recently returned to the city from an extend ed visit in St, Augustine, Fla, has moved into her property on West Pine strects formerly’ occupied by Mr. J. 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It is a human interest question that ' the whole West watching she court to see what decision will- be |- NAasem Clyde Manon Gets @ Canadian Patent Invents Entirely New Type of Com . bination Lck For Safes Clyde Lee Manon, son of Mr. H. L. Manon, yesterday received letters of patent from the Canadian government on a new safe lock he has invented. | He had previously received a patent from the United States patent office. The lock is an entirely new departure in combination safety devices and the young inventor has received an attract‘ ive offer from a Philadelphia concern | to develop his invention, | Young Manon kas also-invented a device for automobile motrs to in crease the power of an average motor and reduce gas cnsumption. This in vention has not been perfected and he expects t take the plans to Cincinnatti, some time this summer to have the model built. ‘ The safe lock has a changeable com binatin. The combination can be changed at will by whoever locks the safe and it is a human Impossibility to open the lock without knowing the combination of tumblers on which it was closed. “I can open nine tenths of the safes in Fitzgerald”, Mr. Manon said, “Any ‘man with patience and an understand ing of the construction of the old styvle safe lock can do it easily. I have tried to make a lock that can not be opened without the combination and I believe I have succeeded.” “KATCHA-KOO” TICKETS \ ARE ON SALE TODAY The advance sale of tickets for “Katcha-Koo” is now being made by members of the cast, The first 20 rows are being sold for $l.OO plus war tax and the rest of the house for 75c¢ plus war tax, except the box seats which are already reserved at a higher price by some of the library patrons. The first half day’s sale of reserved seats will be limited to advanced ticket holders, giving them the first choice of seats. . ° Publicity Urged By * ] Union Label Leader Assessment of 5 Cent a Month PerJ Man Would Meet Cost DENVER, Col, June 13. The American Federation of Labor was urged to conduct a publicity cam paign involving expenditures of near ly $2,500,000, by John W, Hayes, president of the union labels depart ment of the federation in an address today before the department’s con vention. He said such a campaign was necessary at this time to gain public support for the trades union movement, “Employers’ organtzations opposed to trade unions,” said Mr. Hays, “have been using publicity to destroy labor organizations. Large sums of money have been expended to take public sentiment away from us. I be-lz lieve the only way to direct it to right channels is to give the absolute facts to this large portion of the pub lic that is being alienated from us.” Five -cents a month from each member of the federatfon, he said, wuld rover the cost of the campaign. Mr. Hays, who is secretary-treas urer of the Internationa! Typograph ilal Union, declared the fight for the forty-four hour week m the printing industry was being combated by a very small percentage of the employ ing printers of their own initiative. “A strenuous and continued fight is being made,” he added, “for the reason that interests that buy print ing have said that if these printing office employers concede the forty four-hour week they will be boycot ted and their business ruined.” Mrs, R B McLain, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, arrived in the city to spend some time with her mother, Mrs Willcox and brother Mr. G, S. Willcox and family on south Grant, Mr. and Mrs. J, B, Seanor left Tuesday for Fayettville to attend the marriage of their son Preston Bauder and Miss Laurien Virginia Lester which will take place at the Baptist church this evening at 8.00 o’clock. Grocery Phone 155 FITZGERALD COTTON Good Middling __-______lo 7-8¢ No Sales No Receipts Official Organ City of Fitzgerald Will Be Feature of Independence . Day Program Here REGISTRATION OPENS Young Cyclists Must 'Register To Compete for Prizes Bicycle races in which youngsters from Fitzgerald, Ashburn, Americus, Ocilla, Nashville, Cordele and other South Georgia towns will contest, will be one of the big features of Fitzgerald Fourth of July celebration this year it was stated today by J. C. Crews of the Chamber of Commerce celebration committee. - Prizes will be offered by local mer chants and by the Cycle Trades of America to the winners in the six cvents that are on the program, a one mile, two miles and five mile event in each of two classes, one for lads under fourteen years and the other for older boys, Dr. Andrew M. Soule of the State College of Agriculture has been in vited to make the oration .of the day py General Chairman W. A.. Adams, secretary of the Chamber of Com merce. Dr Soule will not know def initely until June 15th whether he can come. The Fitzgerald and Ocilla con cert bands will combine to furnish mu sic during the day. A brilliant dis play of fireworks will close the cele bration at the fair grounds on Monday night, Fitzgerald has had a community cele bration of Independence Day for ten years. The crowds that have attend ed the celebrations have ‘grown each suceeding year and Yast year it was estimated that thirty thousand visitors came on train and in automobiles from the surrounding section. The prog ram this year will he the most elab orate and expensive ever attempted and the grand parade will include three new features, hoy scouts from five South Georgia towns, a bicycle section, awd a Farm Pureau section with six floats of sineine choruses. Registration for the hi~ve's races will open at Crew's Bicy.se C mpany on today, June 15th, and close Friday July Ist in order to gtve the race com mittee time to purge the entry lists of professinals and to see that the age limits are prperly ebserved. 3 . * . Finishing Dixie ® Highway Pavement The finishing touches are being put on the last mile of surfacing on the Dixie Highway between this city and Ocilla and the econtractors will turn the road over to the Highway Commission in a few days, A fitting program for opening the highway is being arranged for by a joint com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce of this city and citizens of Ocilla. A. H. Denmark is chairman. Burkhart’s Marmon . In Bad Accident Wilford Burkhart Drives Down Em bankment near Atlanta Sunday Wilford Burkhart and his. school mate Carl Hardaway Boone of At lanta, both honor graduates of Tech, narrowly escaped fatal injuries when !Burkhart's Marmon car, ran down an embankment and turned over several times last Sunday, near At lanta, The car was considerably damaged but the boys . escaped without a scratch, the heavy top of the Mar mon, taking care of them in their acrobatic experience, Leader Want Ads bring results— Try one Phone 228. Mail Orders Promptly filled