Georgia Historic Newspapers

    FRIDAY
EDITION
VOL. XXVI, NO. 125
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North Flor:da And South Georgia
Producers Confer
VALDOSTA, Oct 12—Announce
ment by J. M, Cutler, division freight
agent ef the Southern Railway, that a
new freight tarriff granting intrastate
milling in the transit rates on corn had
been issued and wou!d become effective
#.hrough the state of Georgia on Thurs.
day, Oct,, 13 was the outstanding fea
ture of the corn convention which met
in Valdosta today, ”
Avoeosvunately fiftv peopis repre
senting the corn producing area of
South Georgia and North Florida in
cluding Marianna, Branford, Lake City
and Jennings, Florida andi Macon, Sa-i
vannah, Dublin, Baingridge, Milltown,
Naylor, Ashburn, Albany,'Sycamore,‘
Adel, Fitzgerald, Douglas and Valdos
%2 attended the meeting,
There were sfine grain daalers ar.'l‘
nenufacture s auc eight rai'voad
freight officials resent, the remainder
of the attendance L+ rg people inter
ested in the ercw rg and marketing
~of! corn,
p-The conference was called by the
Valdosta Chamber of Commerce to in
duce the railroads to grant milling in
gransit rates for Georgia and to dis
<uss growing corn for market the
proper means of market and grading,
and all other matters necessary to dis
posing of to advantage the large sur-
Plus of corn in Georgia this year out
‘of the ninety million bushels lrop, In
'sidition to this large Georgia yield
orth Florida is also a great corn pro
ducing area and is seeking advantage
ous markets for a large surplus,
The announcement that the railroads
had granted the milling in transit
fates effective tomorrow disposed of
the first object of the meeting WL.
Brandon of Marianna, Fla, engaged in
corn selling for thirty-eight years as
‘well as the elevator constructive busi
ness, discussed facilities of corn mar
dets, ,H:[f,-tated that they had sold
Florida ¢ 'n corn on the Chicago
market at*an advance of six cents a
‘bushel above the price of Western corn
%F,‘Qy demonstrating the superiority
_ the North Florida corn over the
'Western corn for feed purposes,
F. T. Bridges, special agent for the
state bureau of markets engaged in
finding a market for Georgia corn,
“ske of marketing. He said grades
.or Georgia and Florida corn would
have to be established locally as none
of the Western grades would cover the
product of these two states but that
the corn grown in Georgia and Florida
was generally superior for all pur
{4s to the Western corn,
~ For the markets of South Georgia
and Cuba. howev' ;, he said the white
&prn would not be accetible at pres.
ent as those markets demanded that the
yellow corn was better, This was un
true, he declared, but if these markets
were reached it wou'd be necessary tn‘
either grow yellow corn or convince
the consumer that white corn was
good,
The meeting adopted resolutions de
claring that proper markets were es
nffn%al for the prosperity of South
'Georgia and North Florida and that it
was also the sense of the meeting that
the nearby ports should provide at
.once the proper facilities for handling
‘corn for export which woull become
'necessary with the development of
;torn growing in this section.
¢ Those attending the meeting also
pledged themselves to encourage the
;,f?)v'oduction of surplus corn in the Io
.J. #ips hereafter, Those attending the
‘Mng, looking for a market for corn
at present were much pleased with the
elevator and bonded warchouse facili
‘ties they found in Valdosta convenient
to them providing the mnecessary
equipment for a corn market at once,
It was also of ip*erest to them to
know that Valdc§ta manufacturing
concerns were already consuming 200,
[OOO bushels of corn a year, The milling
‘in tgansit rates now in effect places
the é’éldosta market now at the dis
posal of every owner of surplus corn
‘in the state,
Prominent railroad men attending
the convention declared the Va'dosta
corn congress to be the most successful
meeting of its kind they ever attended
-and that great good would grow out
‘& it for North Florida and South
.Georgia corn growers, |
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'@PING AFTER SETTLERS
%“ prge Brown of the Wiilco l
e mpany of this city left Wed‘-1
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f \\Mensive advertising for farm
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halh, {a lists of farms listed for
g¥a¥. n them andhope to locate some
fi4 North Carolinians who are ex
#obacco farmers on some of the
ood lands in South Georgia, He
"ects to be gone about ten days, |
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_With thousands of restaurants and nearly every drug store now
having a lunch counter, one of the biggest indestries in New York{
City is the daily manufacture of at least a million sandwiches. Science,
and invention have stepped in, and now there are special machines
for cutting up bread, ham, chicken, and for putting the sandwich to ,
gether and wrapping it in oiled paper; also there are formulas for
making the more liquid ingredients, like pimento cheese, in huge quan
“ities, We have the above picture of a New York sandwich factory
F ' osmeeanahnadi il Boonlar Science Monthly,
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Business Men Urge
‘ U. S. Tax Reform
Heavy Penalty Imposed Upon Com
mercial Enterprises Should Be.
Removed They Declare =
- ATLANTA, Oct., 14—The business
of the country is waiting on tax re
form, according to Atlanta business
men, Indeed, they are almost saying
that it is the only hope of forthcoming
reform that is giving business the for
ward look it is now assuming,
One of the biggest evils of the pres
ent tax system it was stated here
today by business men who are inter
viewed on the subject, is that it im
poses a heavy penalty upon business
enterprises, Business men here say
that those who have irvested their
capital, their energy and in fact their
entire attenton and thought to some
line of work have actually been penal
ized for their success, s
A business man hus been pointed
out here, who may have qonducw
operations at a loss for two of
years, or who, perhaps, has barely
broken even for a period, and who ev
entually reaps the harvest of years of
effort in one year, is subject to a heavy
tax upon that year's earning which
take no account of his previous years
hardship, He actually jays a much
greater tax according to Atlanta bus
iness leaders than would a man who
was receiving a fixed annual income
from a similar amount of invested
capital, The effect it is shown here,f
has been to discourage business ven-i
ture and to deter men from investing
their money and efforts in commercial
enterprises where risks must be taken |
with the hope of large returns event
ually,
The system has it can readily be
seen, proved a determent to business
development, declared one of At]am%asl
most prominent business men, No |
wonder business has been slack, If
Congress can provide a system that
will put a premium upon commeréia_l!
development and tax id'e capital rath-l
er than capital eniployed in business
cxpans’on, we wi'l see things real-l
Iy begin to hum in the business world,
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“Bringing Up Father
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In Wall Street”
Fresh from its conquering triumphs
at the Manhattan Opera House, New
York, and the Metropolitan Opera
Hou%e, Philadelphia, “Bringing Up
Father in Wall Street.” has arrived in
town, According to all reports this
is the best offerings of the seriies thus
far and no doubt wiill enhance the
popularity of these ever-mirthful Geo,
McManus carttoon creations to a notch
of success never heretofore obtained,
The new attraction, divided into two
acts and five scenes interpolated with
tuneful, rollicking, infectious and ear
haunting melodies, will hold the boards
at the Grand Theatre Tuesday Oct.,‘
18th, This time poor old Jiggs Ma-i
honey still pursued and harassed by
Maggie his better ha'f, dabbles in Wall
street, where the meets with numer—!
ous humerous and side-splitting ad-‘
ventures aided and ebeted by the übi
quitous Dinty and the other famousj
and beloved characters, The company
is a large and capable one and an en
gagement of unalloyed, unstinted and
unmitigated hilarity, screams, laugh
ter and joy eternal shoull be the un
usual od.cc of things,
DR, WARD’S EMERGENCY
! GRIP IS STOLEN
Dr, Frank Ward Is at a loss to k
what anybody can do with a doctor's
outfit; but his emergency grip was
taken out of his car standing in front
of his house between 11 and 2 o‘clock
‘ast night, He is offering a reward for
lits_retum and no questions asked, |
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1921
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Gas Dealers Fail
To Report Tax Fund
All But Fifty out of 115 Are Claimed
To Be Delinquent
ATLANTA, Oct, 11—The matter
of making returns under the new cent
a-gallon gasolene tax law is about to
present a problem, Under the law the
distributors are required to report and
turn in the cash to the controller gen
eral on the first day of October of
this year, and the first day of each
calendar quarter thereafter,
In organizing the machinery for
handling the new source of revenue,
Controller General Wright fixed the
10th day of the month as the final date
for payment and report,
[ So far only 50 out of 115 distribu
}tors have paid and reported, and it
is a question what action can or will
'be taken in regard to those who are
'delinquent, The law provides no pen
alty, but it will be the policy of the
rt‘:‘ontfofler general’s office to apply the
same rule to those as to other names
Ewhich have been collected for and in
the name of the state,
’ After allowing a reasonable time for
transmitting the reports Controller
General Wright will proceed, with a
list of the registered distributors in
the state to make up an assesment
against each distributor who has not
reported, basing the assesment on the
best information obtainable, which of
course, will be an approximation from
those reports in hand, and on that as
sessment, he will demand immed‘ate
payment from the distributor, and is
sue against each of them a tax fifa
which the sheriff of the county will be
called upon to execute and collect up
on, Tow-thirds of the gaso'ene dis
tributors in the state are subject-today
to these fifas,
U. S. Department
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‘ Of Agriculture
Cotton Quotation Service; Bureau
of Markets and Crop estimates; At
lanta District, B, R, Oastler in charge,
NOTE——The following prices are
from reports of actual sales received
by this office and are not estimated
prices:
Reports of sales at Interior Markets.
ABBEVILLE
Date Grade Staple Price
8 <. Strict Middling. ... 78 __..10
8 . Middittg. ... 7.8 —-—-21814
COLUMBUS
Date Grade Staple Price
6 soMadline.aai.... 78" .20
oSthict Melidihe. . 78" . 90
7 __strict low m.iddling 7-8” -—--1814
FITZGERALD
Date Grade Staple Price
7 Middimee -L. 78t . 18y
7 -_strict low middling 7-8"* _. .__l7
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Cheaper Print Paper
May Soon Be Bought
ATLANTA, Oct, 14— Possibility
of a lowering of the price for news
print paper on account of the compe
tition of Scandanavian producers is
contained in the offer of a%rge pulp
and paper house in Christiana to
quote prices delivered at an Atlantic
port it was stated here today by At
lanta publishers,
The offer states that the rate of ex
change now prevailing betwecn Nor
way and the United States as well as
increased production, makes very low
figures possible, Qua'ity and deliver
ies, it is stated will be guaranteed
for either a single shipment or deliiv
eries running over a long term,
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~ Mr, J, C Luke 2. Ocil'a wat in the
city Thursday transacting business,
ENTERPRISE AND PR=ZSS
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Of Railroad Strike
W. G, Lee In Chicago, But Is Not
Expecting Strike Action
CHICAGO, Oct, 12—Little likeli
hood of a decision to call a strike of
railroal workers of the big four broth
crhoods was forecast tonight by L E.
Sheppard, president of the Order of
Railway Conductors, w 4
After three days and nights of meet
ings, the executives and general chair
men of the conductors, engineers and
firemen were still far from agreement
as to their action tonight.
“It is likely now that there will be
no announcement made when these
conferences adjourn,” Mr, Sheppard
said, “Thus far we can say nothing,
Warren S, Stone, grand chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and W, S, Carter, head of the Broth
erhood of Firemen and Eng‘nemen,
declared; they too, wou'd mprobably
have nothing to say even after the
conferences.
Today was the busiest of the week
Fo'lowing long sessions of the general
chairmen of each of the three organi
zations yesterday and Monday the ex
ecutive committees of the three broth
erhoods int2rspersed the chairmen’s
‘meeiings todry with secret confer
<ne es
W. G, Lee head of the Brotherhbed
of Rai'road Trainmen, the fourth body
of the big four group, a-rived today
to await the action of the remaining
trio,
* Our men have vcted to strike and
Twill give them my authorization the
minute the other three say the word,
It is up to them” Mr Lee said,
He added however that he was not
expecting strike action and that he
would not be surprised to see the con
ferences end without definite action
being taken,
Railway Boards Contend
For State Regulations
ATLANTA, Oct. 14_—_That the
State railroad commissioners of the
United States, through their National
Association of Railway and Utilities
Commissioners now meeting here in
annual convention present to Cong
ress an organized demand for speedy
amendment of the Esch-Cummins act
(otherwise known as the Transporta
tion act of 1920) in such a manner
land in such language as to preserve
‘beyond dispute the right of the states
to regulate transportation charges
‘within their borders, was recommend
ed to the association by its committee
on state and federal legislation, sub
mitted to the convention today,
The committee on litigation in a
separate report had cited an array of
decisions by the Interstate Commerce
Commission ‘“completely destroying”
the right of the states to regulate intra
state rates and had recomfiended a
continuance of resistance in the courts
against these extensions of the federal
authority,
Having been appointed to deal with
the question from a different view
point than litigation, the committee
on legislation recommended that he
association put an end to such deci
sions by the I, C. C, and to such “ex
pensive and prolonged litigation in the
courts” by obtaining at the hands of
congress an amendment of the Esch-
Cummins act making clear and certain
the rights of the states,
In the course of its report, the legis
lative committee remarked that mem
bers of both branches of Congress,
including the authors of the act have
declared it was not the intention of
Congress to deprive the states of any
of their perogatives: and yet the act
has been construed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and by the low
er federal courts, in such a manner a |
to destroy state regulation. |
CANNING SWEET POTATOES
VALDOSTA, Oct, 12—Sweet pota
to canning operations are now in
full swing in Valdosta, The local fac
tory is working to its full capacity
and is furnishing a market for a large
quantity of potatoes, As these are
bought on the field run basis prices
are considered good.
The factory has orders for its prod
nets as far away as Los Angeles and
has never failed to dispose of its full
season’s pack, no matter whether it
is sweet potatoes, fruits or other veg
etables, Because of the home market
it furnishes for these things, the can
ning factory is a splendid enterprise
for the entire community,
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We are delighted to see our old
fricnd Prof, R J Prentiss down town
today and yesterday and so will be his
host of riends who will rcad this,
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5 The men of Monmouth County, New Jersey, who were killed in
= the world war were represented in the parade at the annual conveme
tion of the New Jersey American Legion by a float bearing a replica
of a military cemetery with a tiny grave for each departed hero and @
€ross bearing his name. N -
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West’s Hearing Put
Off For A Week
Case Is Postponed Until Accounts
Can Be Audited
ATLANTA, Oct, 11—Records and
accounts in the state executive depart
ment were being checked and audited
today by auditors and former ac
countants of the department in he
process of straightening out the al
legation of discrepancies in the ac
counts of Claude A. West, former ex
ecutive secretary,
In the meantime, when the com
mitment hearing was held in the
Municipal Court this morning the
state asked for a continuance of a week
in order to get the benefit of the audit,
and the same was given that direction
by the court, ;
' In the presence of checking the rec
'ords with an application of know'edge
;of the department method of handling
them_ it is learned, there was a con
siderable reduction in he suspected
discrepancies and there was indica
tion today that very much of the con
fusion in the records will be rapidly
straightened out,
By Tuesday of next week, when the
Municipal court will again take up the
matter of a committment hearing, on
the warrant issued for West by the
executive department, it is expected
definite information will be in hand on
which the further developments of the
matter will be directed, |
CLUB PREMIUMS STILL 1
ARE BEING DONATED
D. W. M, Whitley, Clerk of Super-;
ior Court, One sctting White Orping
ton Eggs, price $5; Sam Willcox, one
setting Rhode Island Eggs, price SS;J
Red Jones, one setting Barred Piym-l‘
outh Rock price $5; Jim Pau'k, one
setting White Leghorn Eggs, price $5; ‘
W, R, Skinner, one setting Whitei
Leghorn Eggs, price $5; J. P. Patter
son, one setting of white Rock Eggs,(
price $5.00; Leader-Enterprise, year’s
subscription to each of the winners,
C. T. Owens, County Agent,
Sweet Potato Growers
We are ready to buy your
Porto Rico Potatoes
at our Storage House
Monday, October 17th.
Come and get your Crates.
Union Cotton Qil Co.
f C. A. NEWCOMER
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City Wins Out In
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Big Damage Suit
Verdict Is Directed In Favor of City
In Superior Court Wednesday
A suit for damages tricd Wednes
day in the Superior court instituted
by J. W. Scarborough for himself and
his minor daughter for $7,000 was won
by the attorneys for the City, Judge
Gower directing a verdict,
The case arose out of injuries al
leged to have been received by the
little daughter of Mr, Scarborough
some months ago, when she came in
contact with a live wire of the city's
water and light plant, while visiting
in the home of Col, Chas, Bussell on
south Grant street,
Attorneys E'dridge Cutts and Nich
olson represented the plaintiff and at
torneys Wa'l and Grantham D, E,
Griffin and A, J, McDonald represent
ed the city,
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Fitzgerald Poultry
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!! At Atlonta Fair
| Fitzgerald Poultry Association is
well presented at the South Eastern
Fair at Atlanta, by some of the fincstl
breeds of the county, Sam Willcox
and O, J, McCrary are exnibiting fif
ty Rhode Island Reds ana W, R,,
Skinner has one-hundred of his fam
ous White Leghorns on exhibition at
the Fair, Mr, Willcox and Mr, Skin
ner left Thursday afternoon to look'
after their interests at the Fair and we '
expect to see them land some of the|
first prizes at this show,
The %riends of Dr, C, A, Holtzen
dorf will regret to hear of his serious
illness which has covered over two
wecks duration at his home in Atlan
ta, He has been suffering with a con
tinued fever, but is reported at this
date as convalescing and hopes to be
out soon,
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Mrs, R. L. Stone from Bethlehem
Community is sick at the hospital,
PUBLISHED ON
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
AND FRIDAY
Official Organ City Of Fitzgerald
Charges Ware and Bussell Responsible
For Ambrose Wreck
S. A, MORRIS IS RELEASED
Special Term of Court May Be Held
To Try These Cases
Overwhelming evidence presented
in the confession of Q. C, Fairfield,
previously indicted for murder and now
serving a sentence for intimidation of
railway employees of the A, B, & A
before the Grand Jury of Ben Hill
County, of which W. M, Martin, gen
eral chairman of the striking employ
ces and a prominent leader of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was a member, compelled the return
of indictments of eleven more former
employees of the road for the mur
der of Engineer W. T, Reed, Wednes
day afternoon,
The men charged with the crime
now under indictment are: Q, L, Lee,
John T Liles | 1 Malcolm, Carl
Ellison, Fred Stubbs, J, M, Smith, A,
W. Rozar, Ed Brown, Crowder Cates,
James Mead, P, R, Harris, others pre
viously indicted for this murder are
O, C Fairfivld, Harvey Booker, Per
ry Booker, Jr, Gerald V, Myrick, J.
W. Hornsby and Tom Hendrix,
J. W, Hornsby Perry Booker, Jr.,
and G, V. Myrick have been allowed
bond; Tom Hendrix, P, H, Harris,
Fred Stubbs, and James Meade are
stil at large and officers are searching
for them.
lim Russeli, E; M, bishop and J.
R Vhomwas were arrested on a warrant
charging them with complicity in the
wrecking of a freight traln near Mus
sclwhite in Crisp County and were
taken to Cordele,
Preston Ware and J, W, Bussel,
charged in the confession of O, C,
Fairfield with having caused the wreck
of a freight train near Ambrose, in
Coffee County, were taken to Doug
las Wednesday, where the Coffe coun
ty grand jury is in session, O, C.
Fairfield is the state’s witness in the
case and was taken before the Coffee
county grand jury to testify, Other
arrests are promised in these cases by
the sheriff and special agents of the
A. B, & A, which may be presented
to the Grand Jury when they meet
again next Monday.
S. A. Morris, who had been arrest
ed Sunday on warrant charging him
with complicity in the murder, was
released from jail, no evidence having
been presented against him,
A special term of court may be
called to try these cases, according to
a statement from the sheriff’s office
today,
Solicitor General J. B, Wall, author
ized the following statement regarding
the confession of O, C, Fairfiled,
charged with the murder of W, T,
Reed engineer in charge of the switch
engine of the A, B. & A, on the night
of July sth when a general gun fight
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