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MONDAY
EDITION
VOL. XXVI, No. 88
THREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS VOTE FOR LOCAL TAX
Union Counter Proposition ‘to
Citizen Pact Refused :
CITY REMAINS QUIET
Unions Asked Discharge of Railroad
Employes Who Were Found
Carrying Guns :
A series. of conferences between a
committee of citizens with railroad
and union officials failed to reach an
agreement by which both sides would
agree not to carry arms. The situ
ation is quiet and peaceful, however.
No trouble of any kind is anticipated
and both railroad and union. camps
rest content in the belief that the cit
izen-police force that has been on
duty since July Bth will prove cap
able of handling disturbances that
might arise.
For the past several days efforts
have been on foot to secure mutual
co-operation from the former employ
es of the A.B.&A_ and the officials of
road, by committee of citizens ap
pointed at a mass meeting held at the
courthouse Wednesday night. Tense
feeling created through continued
armed guards at the Shops and along
the tracks and the armed pickets of
the Union men, prompted a citizens
committee to call on Governor Thos.
W. Hardwick last Tuesday and pre
sent the case before ‘his excellency.
It appears that the committee was
advised to return home and attempt
through moral persuasion to secure
the cooperation of the belligerant par
ties to a truce and a cessation of car
rying arms, however they were as
sured that nothing would be leit un
done 'to uphold the majesty of the law
in a lawful way. After several con
ferences the following resolution was
presented to the consideration of the
Union officials, for: their approval, the
same already having the approval of
railway officials, as alleged.
RESOLUTION—We <he below
signed committee from a mass meet
ing of citizens assembled for the sole
purpose of uphoding law and order in
our county, have carefully discussed
conditions with both the former em
ploye.cs and, the officials of the A. B. &
A, Railroad and have come to the
following conclusions: v
That the only way we can. possibly
uphold the law in our county is to
discontinue carrying of pistols and
guns, and request that both the form
er employees and the present employ
ees of the -‘A. B. & A, Railway dis
continue carrying of arms beginning
at 6 o’clock p, m., July 15th and from
which time the Sheriff guarantees to
protect all citizens of our county,
A committee will be appointed and
authorized to visit the A. B. & A,
shops .and all picket lines (¢ satisfy
all concerned that this agreement is
being carried out, and the same com
mittee is to report back their findings
to the committee as a whole.
Officials Sign Resolution
We- the undersigned officials of the
A. B. & A. and the Labor Unions
- hereby respectfully affix our signa
tures aud agree to do all in our pow
er to carry out the intentions of this
resolutioh.
After careful consideration by the
committee of the Unions and their at
torney, it was thought best to draft
more effective resolutions and secure
a mutual agreement which each party
could enforce and attach penalties for
violation of its intended purposes.!
The result was that the attached res
olution and agreement was submitted
to the citizens committee, which with
some minor changes, seemed to meet
cheir' approval, but upon submission
of the same, by a sub-committee, to
Mr. R. H, McKay and Mr. A W.
Kirkland of the A, B. & A, they
. were informed that the, company
could' not agree to the terms of the
resolution. This closed the conference
-and for the present no agreement in
re -to disarmament seems to be in
sight. The community however is
very peaceful.
Unions Outline Terms
The agreement proposed by the
Union officials and prepared by their
Attorney A. J. McDonald read:
GEORGIA—Ben Hill County:
It is agreed by the undersigned rep
resenting the various crafts of the
“striking employees of the A. B, & A.
Raiway Company, and the under
signed officials bf the A. B, & A.
Railway Company, as follows:
That the following committee towit:
(Here it was intention to insert a
committee of six; 2 citizens from Ben
Hill county, 2 from the citizens com
mittee, and 2 of the Railway officials)
—shall go through the shops at 7:00
o’clock A. M., July 17th, 1921 and
other properties of said railway com
pany and ascertain that there are no
arms or weapons of ‘any kind upon
~any person now working for said
company, or stacked: upon said prop
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Tobacco Market
To Open Tuesday
The Fitzgerald Tobacco Market
opens here tomorrow af the ILon
Dickey Tobacco Warehouse with a
full corps of buyers from most”of
the large exporting firmis on the
wround. The market !ooks promis
ing, the crop being harvested in
much better shape than last year and
the experience of the growers for the
past two years is making itself felt
in the better: condition in which
most of the crop has been harvested
and cured. It is thought that the
market will open with good prices,
for ~quality tobacco and most of the
local tobacco is said to be in that
class, The acreage was considerable
less than last year but the yield has
been larger, so that the amount of
money to be realized maj be fully
as large as last yezi,x's'. .
The companies répresented at the
market are The Imperial by Mr.
Thornton; Export by Mr. Morton;
Cobb-Gwinn by Mr, Strickland, J. B.
Taylor Co.; The R. J, Reynolds To
bacco Co.; Liggett & Myers and oth- |
ers. :
Pointing Pistol Is }
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Charged To Negroes
John Daniels and Emmett Foster
are held under bond charged with
pointing a pistol at Will Jones, a ne
gro fireman for the A, -B. & A. rail
way. The alleged offense is said to
have occured on East Oconee street
Sunday - evening, Deputy Putnam
made the arrest on complaint of ne
groes living in the neighborhood of
the occurence,
erties or within the confines of suf'l‘
shops; who shall report if the samci
is free of weapons of any kind except
duly appointed and - acting deputyi
sheriffs, residents of Ben Hill county;
and that simultaneously a similar com
mittee shall investigate all persons at
the picket posts and see that they
have carried their arms away from
said posts and left them at their res
idences, and that so long that said
pickets are not attacked no arms will
be carried to said posts.
It is further agreed that said com
mittee will as often as requested visit
and search and inspect the proper
ties of said railway company and that
if any employee of said road that is
found with weapons of any kind will
be immediately discharged by said
company, or officials operating the
same; and that said committee shall
likewise as often as requested inspect
the various picket posts and any pick
ets who shall be found with arms will
be immediately relieved of said duty,
*lt is further understood that a dep
uty sheriff will be stationed at each
picket post to protect said pickets
and the Company’s property during
the life of this agreement.
It is further the desire and request
of the parties hereto that the men of
both parties discontinue carrying
arms.
We pledge ourselves to endeavor
faithfully to carry out the terms of
this agreement,
« The following gentlemen took part
in the deliberations: For the citizens:
Messrs J. H, Mayes, chairman, Dr. D,
B. Ware, J. C, Glover, R. E. Lee, J.
H, Grider, J.L, Petry, W.M. Garbutt,
Geo .W. Rogers, Lon Dickey, G. A.
Jolley, C, T. Owen, J. H, Dorminey,
and Chas. Weaver, For the Unions
the following were present: Chairman
W. M. Martin, Chas. L. Fox, M. B,
Reid, Lloyd Meeks and Fred Stubbs.
Mayor J.' L, Pittman and Sheriff E,
H. Dorminey were also present,
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1921.
The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XLIV.—UTAH
HE first
FE&,, T white ex
-5 = 'c\‘fi cursion into
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e Acnersmy )| Utah dates
% (fififl 5 back to 1540
(S ";- > when a party
¢ \«gfi;f )5 of Spaniards
189¢ sent out by
Coronado succeeded in penetrat
ing to the Colorado river. There
is no authentic record of fur
‘ther explorations until over 200
-years had elapsed. In 1776 two
Franciscan friars, in their at
tempt to find the shortest way
to the Pacific, went from Santa
Fe to Utah Lake. The Great
Salt Lake, however, was not
discovered wuntil 1824, when
James Bridges, a trapper, in
wandering through this region
came upon this huge, inland, salt
sea.
But the real history of Utah
begins with the rise of Mormon
power there. Discouraged by the
agitation in Illinois and Mis
souri, the Mormons decided to
emigrate to the great West. In
large caravans they traveled
across the plains and in 1847
came to Salt Lake City where
they settled. Here they flour
ished, increasing their numbers
and by 1852 they reached a total
in this vicinity of over 15,000,
Meanwhile, 1n 1848, by the terms
of the treaty of peace with Mex
ico, a huge western tract, of
which Utah was a part, was
ceded. to the United States. As
no definite government was ar
ranged for, the control of affairs
locally was for a number of years
entirely in the hands of the offi
cers of the Mormon church,
They, accordingly, made up a
constitution and organized un
der the name of the State of
Deseret. This is a word taken
from the ook of Mormon, and
siguifies, “Industry.” Application
was made for admission to the
Union, but this was refused and
the federal government instead
organized the Territory of Utah
in 1850. The first governor was
Brigham Young, the successor
of Joseph Smith and president
of the Mormon church,
The attempt to do away with
polygamy met with l‘ttle success
until in 1890 the Mormon church
finally agreed not to countenance
it. Meanwhile, growing antag
onism between the Mormons and
non-Mormons verged nearly on
civii war. Finally a gengral
amnesty was declared and after
many requests Utah was ac
cepted as the forty-fifth state of
the Union in 1896.
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Fitzgerald 1. 0. O.F.
. .
Are Going To Ocilla
The members of the Fitzgerald
Lodge No. 35, I. O. O. F. ‘will motor
to Ocilla Tuesday evening to put
on the second degree for the Ocilla
Ldge of Odd Fellows. A short bus
iness meeting at the local lodge hall
will precede the Ocilla trip. The
Ocilla fraters will entertain with a
big supper at their hall,
Messrs, J. W. Petty and son of
Marietta, W. O. Petty and son of
Atlanta visited their brother Mr, G.
C. Petty here for the week-end.
They leave Tuesday for Palatka, Fla.
to spend the rest of the week with
their brother M-, H. G, Petty,
LeaJer Want Ads Pays
ENTERPRISEK and PRESS
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Will Help The
Cotton Farmers
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That the government is making
carnest efforts to find means to assist
in marketing the 1921 cotton crop, is
vrmly eevidenced by the questionaire
sent out by secrctary Herbert Hoover
of the Department of Commerce,
The following letter was received
and replied to as per attacheg letter
Washington, D, L
July 12th 1921,
Mr. I. Gelders,
Fitzgerald, Ga, ;
My dear Mr. Gelders:—
I would be glad to h'.’l‘.v vour views
ius to the method of further financing
‘the cotton situation set out in the en
closed query which has bgen dispatch
ed to .a.pumber of representative
bankers in the South.
Yours Faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER,
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HH.AGS,
Secretary Herbert Hoover,
Washington, D. C,
My Dear Siri—
I reply to your request for inform
ation in yours of the 12th inst., it
gives me pleasure to reply cz’tegoric
ally to your questionaire,
Q. Do you think a bankers loaning
fund similar to the livestock loaning
fund necessary?
A. I do; furthermore the thirteen
cotton states have suffered so terribly
as a result of deflated values of their
sole money. crop, that such advances
from the Government appear to be
the only means by "which they may
be saved a still greater loss on the
incoming crop of cotton,
Q. If such a fund were to be pro
vided how much do you think would
be necessary. '
A, If the Government will provide
$50.00 per bale for approximately
5,000,000 bales, for a sufficiently long
time to keep these bales out of compe
tition with the 1921-22 crop, it will ma
terially help the south,
Q. Please let me have your ideas
concerning the practical machinery
for the application of such a fund if it
were deemed advisable?
A. The Cotton Growers should form
associations, approved by the Govern
ment, secure bonded warehouses with
official graders, whose receipts for
the cotton deposited and graded,
could form the immediate security to
the banks in the territory, upon which
this money should be lent.
Q. In view of the present market
prices for cotton it would be neces
sary to make advances based on pres
ent quotations with a margin of se
curity, Do you believe that if loans
were made on present low basis it
would tend to affect the price ad
versely. ;
A. I do not. In fact it seems reas
onable that with the present stock of
cotton safely out of competition with
the incoming erop, the new crop will
bring a decidely better price,
Yours respectively,
I. GELDERS.
Elder J. Fred Hartley has returMd
from Adel where he spent the week
end and preached at the Primitive
Baptist church. He is handling ‘the
business of the county clerk’s office
during the absence from the city of
Hon. D, W. M. Waitley:
Miss Freida Mohre of Savannah
who has been visiting her sister Mrs,
Martin Gottiieb leaves today for her
home in Savannah,
Leader Want Ads bring results
just try one. ;
BUSINESS BEGINS |
Best Monday Business In Many ‘
. Months Is Reported |
CROPS ARE DOING WELL |
Ray City Man Says Farms Look To
Be in Good Shape Through
All South Georgia
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More buyers thronged Fitzgcrald's}
stores today than on any Monday ini
several months, according to local |
business men. Merchants expressed |
gratification at the apparent im-l
provement in business and expect |
today's activity to prove the turning |
point in the tide of slow times, |
From federal reserve bank he:\d-;
quarters for some time have cmne§
promises of general trade revival.
The Leader has frequently during |
the tast few months prophecied that !
this fall was to be an unusually good |
one for business in this section, The |
Leader hased its opinion largely on |
the weather and crop reports thu:{
hiave been published regularly every |
week from the weather observatory |
in, Atlanta. While crops have been |
cut in many sections by bad weather, |
too wet or too dry, this section hus“l
had good weather and crops are do- |
ing splendidly, The general l‘l‘()]‘g
reductions will make the local Crops |
pay. ]
A small butfifiqh grade tobacco
¢rop starts comdng into market this
week and a large bunch of dollars
are about to be turned looose by the
big tobacco manufacturers in ex
change for Ben Hill bright tobacco.
- Mr. AL W. Turner of Ray City who
‘has been travelling back and forth
on his bus line stated this morning
to a Leader reporter that crops
looked better than he had seen them
in years in all the section hetween
Fitzgerald and Ray City. The good
watermelon crop is™ heing followed
by good tobacco through all the sec
tion and cotton and corn are in A,
No. 1 condition, The holl weevil has
iust begun to make its presence felt
but the farmers who have had sev
eral years experience in fichting the
pest are confident of heing able to
make a good crop if they have the
assistance of continued good weath
er.
The fall season, which used to start
about the middle of September, has
been moved close to the middle of
July by the introduction of tohacco
as a money crop and by the holl wee
vil which has forced farmers to make
their cotton crop as early as possi
ble.
The biggest handicap to business
during the last few months, the
dark blie cloud of pessimism which
people allowed to settle over their
minds, is just about over come and
everything is “locking up” and sde
ing the rainbow after the storm.
Several leading business concers
are planning an active drive for hus
iness and it is generally agreed that
if the business community as a whole
makes an agrresive campaign during
the early part of the season to get
the crop money started into circula
tion the fall season will be as brisk
as the best in pre-war times.
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B.Y.P.U. Association
. . .‘
To Have Big Picnic
e ————
More than four hundred Baptist
Young People are expected at the an
nual B, Y. P. U. picnic of the Little
River Association. The picnic is to
be held all day Tuesday at Bowen’s
Mill. Features of the day's enter
tainment are the usual pleasures of
the resort, a big watermelon cutting
and a field meet in the afternoon.
Prizes are to be given the winners
in various athletic events.
In charge of the day’s festivities
is a committee from several of the
ocal unicn of the Fitzgerald and
Ocilla section, ~The commitgee is A,
D, Tucker, Ernest Ragsfale, Miss
Jesse Harris, Herbert Bradshaw and
J. D. Henderson. :
A large crowd is expected to go
over to the pleasure resort from Fitz
gerald by train and a larger crowd
by automobile during the day,
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Union Mercantile Co.
.
In Hands 0f Receiver
On petition of its directors and
stockholders the Union Mercantile
Company has been placed in the
hands of a receiver, to pfotect the in
terests of its creditors and stock
holders. Mr, Sthith, manager of th
company has been named receiver
by Judge Eve of the Tift circuit, in
the absence of Judge O. T. Gower,
who is off on his vacation.
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You would smile too, if you
Ywere only a little girl and had re
ceived an appointment from the
governor of your state. Little Jean
summers, of Walla Walla, Wash,,
has been appointed sponsor of the
latest dreadnought, “Washington,”
which will be launched at Camden,
N. J,, *n September. Jean's father
1s J. W. Summers, congressman
from Washington.,
Club Boys Go To |
.
Tifton For Study
Thirteen Ben Hill Youngsters to
Study Better Farming Methods
Thirteen Ben Hill pig and corn
club boys went to Tifton this after
noon under the guidance of C. T.
Owens county agent and secretary
of the farm ‘bureau federation for
the purpose of taking the annual
summer short course W agriculture,
The boys will hear illustrated lec
tures by prominent educators and
will see demonstrations in fields by
agricultural experts, . ‘
They will go to Ashburn Friday to
attend a club rally and demonstra
tin and return home Friday night.
In the party are Edgar Murray,
Alton Walker, Horace Wright, Paul
Stone, Paul Fowler, Eddie Evans,
Ralph Smith, Arthur Batton, How
ard Miller,” C. T. Owens Jr, E. C
Roberts, Lester Stuart, James Drex
ler and C. T. Owens. :
Boys from all sections of the sec
ond and this part of the third con
gressional district will be at Tifton
fr the short course, More than a
hundred youngsters are expected td
register by ténight, The short course
is an annual feature of the district
school’s work,
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Miss Fannie Kulbersh returned to
her home in Atlanta today after a
visit to her sister Mrs. Abe Kruger.
Tobacco
(Growers...
Our Warehouse Will Be Open For Business Next .
Tuesday, July 19
And will be Open every day after that except
#SATURDAY p
Sales Daily at 11 a. m.
We have promises from all the largest manufact
urers and exporters in the country that they will
have buyers on our floor on the Opening Day.
Tobacco sold on our floor will bring as much as
any sold in any warehouse in Georgia or the Car
olinas.
We have left nothing undone in our power to
make Fitzgerald the best tobacco market in the
State and would appreciate you mdrketing your
tobacco with us and we are sure you will be®
pleased with the tesults.
Lon Dickey Tobacco Warehouse Co.
North Thomas Street -te Fitzgerald,‘ Ga.
FITZGERALD COTTON
Good Middling _________lo 7-8¢
No Sales » No Receipts
Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
Cotton Mills, Dorminey High
and Roanoke Vote Tax
LENGTHEN SCHOOL TERM
Puts Three More Rural, Schools in
Line with Ashton and Lynn
wood Districts
Three more rural school districts
in Ben Hill county voted to levy a
five mill local tax for school purpos
es at a special election in each dis
trict held Saturday. The districts
which voted the tax were Dorminey
High, Roanoke and the Cotton Mills
schools. Not a single dissenting vote
was polled. x
The three latest additions to the
ranks of rural schools that are mak
ing this year voted as follows:
District : For Agaist
Cotton Mills. "0 ot 70 None
Roanoke Sehool ______°l9 None
Dorminey High o . 24 None
Superintendent J. H, Bullard stat
ed that the additional funds will be
used in each district to lengthen the
school term from six to eight months
and to increase teachers’ salaries. No
new departments are planned in any
of the schools this year and no im
portant improveiments are to be
made on school buildings.
Lynnwood and Ashon had already
voted local school tax after exten
sive consolidation with smaller
school districts. The only school
district in the county which has re
fused to levy local tax is Crisp which
defeated the proposal by a close vote
last month
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Moonshine Prices =8
.
~ Are Coming Down
So Says Negro Who Spilled Booze
on Chief Dixon’s Shoes
Moonshine whiskey prices have |
taken an awful tumble in Fitzgerald
according to the latest curb market
report feccived Saturday afternoon
[l)y Chief of Police Chas. F. Dixon.
Seventy-five cents per pint is the fig
ure quoted to the chief by George
Jordan, negro, who is preparing to
face trial on charges of violatingsthe
prohibition law.
. George dropped his bottle on East
Pine street and cracked it, Unfea®d
by the tragedy he picked up the bot
tle and started making tracks for a
better drinking place when Chief
Dixon “crossed his Trail” from Sher
idan street oJhe odoriferous spirits
dampened the. Chief’s shoes,
“What have you there, George?”
the chief asked.
“Well, sah, Marse Dixon,” was the
reluctant response, “I bought it for
liquor and I expect that’s about what
it .18.” 3
He also told the chief that he had
paid seventy-five cents for the pint.
“Yessah, that’s mighty cheap but ev
erything else is coming down so I
reckon it’s about time liquor came
down too,"” '