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DEVOTED TO THE
INFEREST OF FITZGERALD
~ ANR WIREGRASS GEORGIA
Offieial Organ U. S. District Court
MOVEMENT TO LAND BIG DAIRY HERDS FOR BEN HILL
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SPECIAL MEETING ACTS
~ ON V. L. COLLIER REPORT
Committee Is Appointed To
Wop'k Out Plan In Securing
Westérn Dairy Colony.
A special meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce Monday night, attend-‘
ed by a number of our prominent
farmers and landowners, was highly‘
instructive by a report of V. L. Col
lier, a recent -visitor at the Internat
ional Dairy Show .at Detroit, wherei
-2 miniature pasture, made up of Ben
Hill county grasses, was an attraction
under the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce and the A., B. & A. Rail—‘
way. L :
Mr. Collier interested a number
-of visitors at this show in the possi
bilities of dairying in this section and
stated that if the proper arrange
ments can be made with local land
owners, several large dairy herds
from Wisconsin can be secured for
this county.
The plan as outlined by Mr. Col
lier was endorsed by J. J. Dorminey,
Drew W. Paulk, John H. Dorminey,
J. E. Turner, Mrs. E. K. Farmer and
others in short talks, all of which in
dicated that these landowners and
capitalists were in accord with a pro
gram to extend the agricultural in
terests of the county and take initial
steps in diversification of crops.
President J. H. Mayes presided at
the meeting and gave the proposal
his hearty approval, appointing C. T.
Owens, J. J. Dorminey, J. H. Dor
miney, E. L. Dormfney and Drew W.
Paulk a committee to cooperate with
Mr. Collier in working out % plan by
which this dairy colony may be lo
cated in the county.
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Miami, Fla.,, Oct. 24.— Rufus
#Xight, - 29, roofer, formerly of Fitz
'ferald,'Ga., died at a local hospital
oday from bullet wounds received
late Saturday night.
Police arrested Kight’s father-in
law M C. Mock, formerly of Syl
vania, But placed no charges, await
ing action by a coroner’s jury.
Mdck came here recently from Or
lando, Fla., while Kight moved to
Miami more than a year ago.
The remains of Mr. Kight arrived
here Wed{:esday‘and were laid to rest
in Evergreen cemetery. He is sur
vived by his wife, who resides in
Miami, his mother, Mrs. Kight, of
this. city, one sister, Mrs. Chas. G.l
Grantham, and two brothers. ,
Small Vote Polled In
City Primary Elction
Only 26 voters took the trouble to
vote at the election Wedn‘zsday.
. However, the candidates were duly
nominated and will be elected at the
regular election in December. =~
John D. Derminey was nominated
for the Water and Light Commission,
W. R. Paulk, alderman for the Ist
‘ward; Lacey Ennis for the 2nd, O.
L. Bradshaw for the 3rd, and. Geo.
Gray for the 4th.
o e U e s ——
Floridan To Build
Home Here Soon
Mrs. Edith P. Nichols of Port
Orange, Fla., who purchased the 20
acre Pineapple grove from Mr. E. T.
Dunn on the Dixie Highway about a
year ago, writes Mr. C. T. Owens
that. she will erect a brick residence
on the property this winter and di
vide her time between Georgia and
Florida. . ;
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1. O. O. F. Erect Sign
In Blue and Grey Park
Pitzgerald Lodge, I. O. O. E{ has
erected a large sign in the Blde and
Grey Park, announcing eeting
nights of the lodge and an {pvitation
to visiting Odd Fellows'to attend the
lodge meetings. The sign is a gift
from F. J. Hanson.
Former Moultrie -
Mayor Killed In
Tractor Accident
Moultrie, Ga.—J. F. Monk, former
mayor of Moultrie and widley known !
throughout this section died Saturday |
o the résult of injuries received
when he swas.run down by a tractor. 1
The acgcident ,occurred at the
Monk farm _ghout fourteen milesl
from here.” e
-The tractor ‘Had just been driven
into a shed and hkad been:left in gear.
Some one on .the place. started- the
motor and Mr. Monk, who was lean
l ing against a post in front of the
. heavy machine, was, crushed when it
leaped forward. / |
An ambulan brough him to
Moultrie .and_he ({#s conscious until
a few m;qgttse_s. besore he died. Mr.
Monk was'gbout 55 years old. He is
survived by his widow, several ¢hil
dren and a wide family connection. |
THE FITZGERALD LEADER
Agricultural Problems Discussed At
Kiwanis Luncheon; Stubbs Dorminy
Gives Impressions Live Stock Show
| C. T. Owens, in chargé of the pro
lgram at the Kiwanis club Friday, ar
ranged for talks on agricpltural
problems, now occupying the minds
of every business man and farmer
alike. s
President J. E. Turner of the club
introduced the subject with the state
ment that three crops, according to
one farmer, were made on the same
land this year, being planted in cot
ton and a bumper crop was produced,
and with the lowering of its price
‘“cane” was raised, and as the price
still made a further decline, this par
ticular farmer raised ‘“hell.”
; Kiwanian Stubbs Dorminey, just
returned from the West, where he
attended the International Live Stock
show and visited a number of dairy
farms in Michigan, made an enthu
siastic report of the valué of dairy
ing as a money making crop in the
‘West and its greater possibilities in
this section of Georgia.
- The personal care given dairy cat
tle by their owners or their help, was
a revelation to Mr. Dorminey and the
‘apparent prosperous condition of the
farms where milk cows predominate
was evidence of their profit making
proclivities.
~ Mrs. E. K. Farmer also gave a
short talk on her own farming ex
periences and indicated that she in
tended to make some extensive im
provements along diversification on
her large farm west of the city. |
Mr. Drew W. Paulk, cashier of the
First - National Bank, made the en
couraging statement that the local
Ibanks_had ample money to finance
‘the holding of 1926 cotton crep and
that each of them were ready to as
sist their farmer customers in financ
ing a program of diversified farming
for the future. SRR
The present condition 'from a bus
iness and banking standpoint, accord
ing to Mr. Paulk, are better than they
were in 1921.
The Crisp county amendment to
the Constitution, authorizing that
county to float a million and a quar
ter of bonds for a county-owned wa
ter power project, received the en-f
dorsement of the Club. J
DIVERSIFIED FARMING
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~ Atlanta, Ga.—The hardest lesson
for farmers of Georgia and other
southern states to learn is that of
diversified crops, according to officials
of the Georgia Department of Agri
culture.
With diversified crops, the officials
point out, it is seldom true that all
are failures or that there is over
production in all of them. g
Taken as a whole the South is no
longer unde rthe tyranny of the one
crop system, however, it is shown.
She produces for example, 100 per
cent of the country’s sugar and mo
lasses; 91 per cent of the country’s
sweet potatoes; 83 per cent of the
country’s tobacco; 80 per cent of the(
country’s rice; 50 per cent of the}
country’s butter; 90 per cent of the
country’s winter and early spring
vegetables; about 45 per cent of the
country’s crop values; 40 per cent of
the country’s peaches, and a still’
larger per cent of the country’s citrus
fruits. ' I
vut of the South comes 60 per|
cent of the country’s petroleum, and |
about 45 per cent of the country’s
lumber. The average acreage value
of Southern farm crops is said to be
higher than that of the country as a
whole. '
The .South, it is further pointed
out, leads the country in the manu
facture of cotton goods. She is mak
ing great strides toward national su
premacy in ‘furniture manufacturing.
On all sides is evidence that she has
learned the value of building fac
tories to fashion her raw materials
into the finished products. And, be
cause the South is the great winter
playground .of the country, her tour-‘
ist business brings her a vast amount
of wealth évery year. |
~- Agricultural leaders here assert
that coton is still one of the South’s
great resources, but a cotton slump
can no longer terrify her-people or
paralyze her. business.
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ROSCOE LUKE, JUDGE .
COURT OF APPEALS,
TO HOLD REVIVAL
Judge Roscoe Luke of the Georgia
Court of Appeals has been invited by
the Business Men’s Evangelistic Club
to hold 2 week’s revival in the city
during next April. |
3 e TR o e
Ima Dumbell says a fish market isj
the only real five and ten scent store
Fitzgerald, Georgia, Thursday, October 28, 1926.
INDICATIONS POINT TO
LARGEST COTTON CROP
EVER PRODUCED IN SOUTH
Washington, D. C.—A cotton crop
larger than ever before grown has
been produced in the South this year.
The Department - of = Agriculture
placed the indicated production at
17,454,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight, or about 8,343,000,000
pofinds of lint cotton. This is about
6‘(1},3,000,000 pounds more than pro
duced last year.
The etsimate was based on condi
tions existing October 18 tb which
date 8,722,066 running bales of this
year’s crop has been ginned, accord
ing to the census bureau’s announce
ment. There was an increase of 827,-
bales in prospective production be
tween October 1, when the last esti
'mate was made, and October 18.
| Uncertainty exists as ot how much
{of the crop will- be harvested, the
crop reporting board announced, in
view of the present low price of cot
ton and the scarcity of labor for
picking. The factors have discour
jaged cotton farmers and may result
{in some of the crop, especially that
tof lower grade, being left in the
fields. ) :
{ This year’s enormous production
{ was brought about by the planting of
,the largest acreage on record and fa
'yorable growing eonditions generally
throughout the season.” There was a
smaller early season abandonment
than in previous years and weather
‘and insect conditions were better
than usual. " Defoliation of the cot
tt:on plants by leaf worms, continua-
Ition of warm weather and the gen-|
|'eral absence of frost advanced the}
imaturing of late cotton boills and|
' permitted rapid picking. As a resulti
‘of all these conditions the crop has;
'turned out to be much greater than|
!was expected. i !
'MANY TREATS IN STORE
i FOR VISITORS FLORIDA
- STATE FAIR INNOVEMBER
| Offering its largest and best exhi
| bition in its nine years of existence,
|the Florida State Fair will opén in
;Jacksonville Nov. 19th. A total of
i 15,000 tickets have already been sold
{in advance ,while reduced railroad
{rates assures a record-breaking at
i‘tendance from all parts of Florida.
] A championship cat and dog show,
|a display of 3,000 prize fowls, agri
‘cuh:ural exhibits from fifteen differ
'ent counties, a fine display of unex
celled merit, live stock exhibits from
-many states are only a few treats in
|store for the visitor, - B
' Automobile races, featuring Mlle.
|Joan LaCosta, world’s champion girl
’race,driver, are included on the en
tertainment program. A $15,000
free 'attraction has also been con
itracted for.
| ~Johnny J. Jones shows will again
lprovide.ainusement for the throngs
that will flock to the fair grounds.
| Interest in the exposition this year
excels all previous records, and it is
with confidence that Miss Elizabeth
Young, fair secretary, has predicted
+he greatest year in history of the
fair,
FITZGERALD BABIES
BEAUTIFUL
Will Be Shown on Grand Screen
‘Wednesday and Thursday,
Nov. 3 and 4.
A rare treat is in:store for the
fathers and the mothers, the broth
ers and sisters, the little playmates
and friends, when they have an op
portunity to see the babies of Fitz
gerald on the screen Wednesday and
Thursday, matinee and night, at the
Grand Opera House. |
Several hundred life-size babies
and the youngest little chaps in the
family will be on the screen, laugh
ng, gooing, smiling, sober, sedate,
yr grumbling. The picture will be
ruc to life in every respect and the
ittle baby or bustling chap will be
‘ust like he is at home.
A future president, or governor, or
senator, may be in the bunch. But it
makes no diffeernce whether any of
the little children will be great or not
they are loved just the same, and!
to have their faces appear upon the
screen is a treat for all. .
A crowded house is expected to see
this showing of Fitzgerald’s future
citizens.
e el Ge T o e
No one appreciates the perils of
‘motoring like the pedestrian.
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JUNIORS OF THE CENTRAL
CHRISTIAN CHURCH PLAN
SILVER TEA FOR NOV. 5
Quite & bit of interest is being
manifested in the Silver Tea that is
to be given by the Juniors of the
Central Christian chureh, this city.
Plans are being made that will
make this one of the most interestihg,
delightful and instructive occasions
of the kindsever:held-in the-city.
The tea will’be given at the home
of Mrs. William A. Adams, 710 West
Central Ave., on November sth, and
the general public is‘invited. Music,
refreshments and a display of various
articles from China will be the center
of attraction duirng the afternoon.
The children will be ilg costume and
the decorations will carry out the
Oviental idea. !
Among the displays of Chinese ar
ticles imported direct from China
will be Gongs, hand-painted China,
pictures, dressing gowns, smoking
jackets, bath robes and many other
things of interest.
Two of the displays are the prop
erty of Mrs. Jennie Shallenberger
and Mrs. G. W. Howze.
Chinese incense burners have ar
rived and will be in use at that time.
Date, Nov. sth. Place, 710_West
Central Ave. Hours, 4:00 to 6:00
P. M. Everyone cordially invited.
LIONS CLUB TO SPONSOR
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HALLOWE'EN CARNIVAL;
- FUN FOR OLD AND YOUNG
! The Lions Hallowe’en and Carnival
committee have arranged for an
‘evening of real fun for the young
people of Fitzgerald and will have
many interesting features to enter
tain the crowd, when they assemble
in the business district Friday night.
The streets between Lee’s Depart
ment store on East Pine and the Al
dine Hotel and between the Walden
Motor Company and Russell Broth
ers on South Grant will be roped off
and all traffic. suspended during the
celebration.
The band will be located at the in
tersection of Pine and Grant and
will play the entire evening.
Booths will be placed along ,these
streets for sale of drinks and sand
wiches by the Parent Teachers’ Asso
ciations, the Band boys and maybe
others, authorized by the Hallowe’en
committee.
Judging from the varied costumes
worn by the' children of the First
Ward school last Friday, a decidedly
interesting array of masked folks
will be in attendance.
LIVE STOCK EXHMIBIT AT
FLORIDA STATE FAIR TO
BE LARGEST IN HISTORY
i Jacksonville,"Fla.—A special order
. providing for the shipment of cattle
from non-quarantined states for ex
hibition at the Florida State Fair,
November 19th to 27th, inclusive, has
been received by the fair officials,
according to F. C. Groover, president
of the association.
“The special permit was granted,”
Mr. Groover, “subject to various re
strictions for the protection of the
state, exhibitors and cattle, and it
is now a certainty that the state fair
live stock exhibit will be the largest
in the history of the state fair asso
ciation.” |
J. J. Logan will be director in
charge of the livestock department,
and it is announced that already en- |
tries have been received from cattle
breeders throughout the north and
east. - : |
Arrangements have beep made by
the management of the association
for the services of W. T. Bennett, of
Griffin, Ga., to superintend the cattle
department again this year. This is
Mr. Bennett’s third year, acting in
this capacity, with the state fair as
sociation.
Approximately $lO,OOO in cash
prizes will be awarded to the winners
of live stock exhibits, which will con
sist mostly of ecattle, swine and
sheep.
The state fair association, realiz
ing’ the large amount of credit due
he herdsman in his preparation of
the animals under the listings of the
cattle and swine department, are of
fering $5.00 in gold to the herdsman
fitting the grand champion of each
breed. . Animals winning champion
'ship must have been under the con
tinuous personal charge or care of
the herdsman. for at least six months
previous to the opening of the fair.
Owners are not eligible.
The exhibit of sheep will be large
again this year, and will include
shropshires, southdowns, hampshires,
romenys, and also premiums are of
fered on Angora Goats.. ; |
REV. LAWRENCE DAVIS
DELIVERS FINE ADDRESS
AT LIONS LUNCHEON
Rev. Lawrence Davis, evangelist
for the Savannah Presbytery, was the
feature at the Lions Luncheon Wed
nesday and made a fine address along
the future of the South and its mis
sion in the progress of the Nation.
Rev. Lawrence is a native of Penn
sylvania, but has spemit the past four
years in Georgia and much of his
time in the Southern States.
Other visitors for the day were
Rev. Winn, Mr. Kenneth Crouse, and
Mr. Knox of the Georgia Co-Ops, a
new member of the club.
President Wade Lasseter presided
and recommended that each Lion in
vite some boy to be his guest at some
future date, the day to be designated
“Big Brother” day and be made an
annual atfair. On motion a commit
tee, consisting of W. A. Adams, John
Evans and Jesse Powell, were ap
pointed to arrange for the affair and
set a date for its consummation.
Lion Gelders presented an invita
tion from the Jacksonville Chamber
of Commerce and the Florida State
Exposition requesting that a day
would be set aside during the exposi
tion week to be known as Dixie High
way day, to celebrate the completion
of the Central Dixie Highway from
Waycross to. Jacksonville, at which
the governors of Florida and Georgia
would participate. The project was
received with favor and a committee
appointed to confer with other civic
bodies to make the occasion one of
value to Fitzgerald and the Central
Dixie Highway. The committee con
sists of I. Gelders, W. A. Adams, B.
I. Anderson, Lloyd Meeks, Homer
Waters, Cecil Powell and R. G. John
son. A motion to carry the Com
munity Band was adopted.
Mr. F. C. Fountain, recently from
Hawkinsville, was elected to mem
“bership.
Action on a proposal to hold a
community Christmas tree was laid
over for next meeting of the club.
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APPLE GROWERS MAKING
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PLANS TO CELEBRATE
NATIONAL APPLE WEEK
~ Atlanta, Ga.—Coming upon the
heels of the announcement by gov
ernment agents here that the United
States is the greatest apple-export
ing nation on earth comes news that
the apple crop ir the United States
is a bumper one and that there is no,
serious worry among apple men that
the big crop will not be absorbed by
the buying public, according to C. R.
Porter, capitalist, of Rome, Ga., and
the owner of large orchards at Esom
Hill, Ga., on Treat Mountain.
| There is no reason for becoming
alarmed over a bumper apple crop in
this country, Mr. Porter said. Such
.a crop, Mr. Porter points out, can do
a vast amount of good by placing ap
ples in abundance before the eating
public which very quickly responds
to a lowered price for thrift that it
likes, and the public likes apples, he
asserts.
| “Georgia has a great advantage in
!the apple industry, inasmuch as ap
jples can be grown here and delivered
‘to the Eastern markets for the cost of
deliverey from the West,” said Mr.
Porter. “In many respects, the sec
tion of north Georgia where the com
mercial crops are grown, resemble
very closely the noted regions of
Oregon and Washington where fruits
of widely known excellence and
beauty are grown.
“The soil of the northern region
of Georgia is rich in the necessary
plant foods, the analysis showing a |
| high percentage of potash. The gen
'eral topography,of the country in|
mountainous, the lands available for
apple culture having an elevation of
from 1,000 to 1,900 feet. The long
'growing season, bright sunny days
‘and fairly cool nights of this region
primarily adapt it to the culture of
‘this most important fruit.”
The Porter Brothers Farm, in
which Mr. Porter is interested, is sit
uated on the highes int of the
Blue Ridge foothm miles from
Atlanta in a western direction, in
Polk and Haralson counties, near the
Bankhead Highway. The property
consists of about 7,600 acres of land‘
and about 650 acres are planted in‘
apple trees. There are more than
30,000 apple trees, from which fruit
is now being shipped to all parts of
the country. ‘
Mr. Porter, along with other lead
ing growers of the state, is making
plans to celebrate National Apple
Week, which will be observed in At
lanta and throughout the country
from October 30 to November 6.
s P e e
The life of uranium, the parent
element’ of radium, is about 8,000,-
000,000 years .
Old Settlers Enjoy Re-union At W. R.
C. Hall; Resolutions Adopted Making
It Annual; Permanent Organization
ELECTRIC CO. SECURES
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Radio fans who keep them
selves informed on the radio
development will be pleased to
learn that the Southern Radio
and Electric Co. has secured
the sales agency for the noted
Grebe line of Synchrorhase
Radios, A brief history of this
manufacturer of radios will be
interesting to our readers. .
Brief Histery of A. H. Grebe
& Co., Inc.
Many years before the first radio
broadcasting station wds opened, A.
H. Grebe & Company were building
precision radio apparatus. The
science was so fascinating and the
Grebe units so far superior to con
temporary material, that by 1914 the
modest factory had materially grown
in size and issued its first catalog,
and was supplying the greater part of
the apparatus used by amateur oper
ators who composed the American
Radio Relay League, a group of ex
perimenters to whom radio owes
much of its advancement. During
the World War, we find Grebe ap
paratus on U. S. war vessels, and in
the naval service of many of our al
lies.
Later came radio telphony, and
broadcasting, and with it a host of
manufacturers entered the radio
field. Jt is important to note that
during this period, the efforts of the
Grebe Company have been directed
solely in the field of radio.
It is a noteworthy and significant
fact that the monufacturing stand
ards originally set by Grebe and
many of the original designs, have
been adopted by the entire industry.
A majority of the outstanding
achievements in recgiver design had
their inception in the Grebe labora
tories. The present widespread imi
tation of these designs serves to il
lustrate the continued leadership of
the Grebe Company in radio. The
practice of panel mounting, the au
tomatic’ filmament control, the now
familiar Tapered Grip Dial and the
Tangent Wheel Veriner, with the
popular metal shielding and moulded
bakelite, along with many other fea
tures, are al lexamples of Grebe
craftsmanship, and had their incep
tion in the earlier models of Grebe
radio apparatus. |
In 1922 the first tuned radio fre-
;quenc_v amplifier available for ama
'teur radio experimentation and
'which, incidentally, was the forerun
'ner of the modern tuned radio fre
lquency reeciver, was produced by
Grebe. The true value of such con
}tribuitons is reflected in the ease of
control and simplicity of Grebe re
lceivers.
With a well-equipped, modern fac
tory in 1922, devqted exclusively to
the manufacture of radio receivers,
and with many skilled workers expert
|in the use of special radio machinery,
Grebe radio receivers at the very be-
Iginning of broadcasting were ad
! vanced far beyond the early accepted
|standards. makeshift contrivances of
cardboard, fibre and wire. This or
lganization today numbers among its
members executives who have grown
'up with the company from its earliest
~stages. ’
i The Grebe Company, because of its
steadfast tenacity to its policies in!
the manufacture of dependable ap-:
paratus, now enjoys an enviable po-’l
sition with the trades it serves.|
Throughout the manufacture every
single step is an effort to make each
Grebe instrument a masterpiece.
These are the reasons for the leader
ship atained by Grebe apparatus.
In this age of intensive mechanical
and electrical development, it is a
significant fact that the manufactur
ers of long standing, the pion'eers of
the automobile, aeronautical, ma
rine, and other industries are now
the leaders in their particular lines
of endeavor.
“By the past we may judge the
future” is a maxim that holds as true
for the radio industry as for any
otber. The careful and conservative
buyer looks first to the reputation of
the manufacturer and is not willing
to risk purchasing a new and untried
model whether it be an automobile or
a radio set. He knows that the long-‘
established and time-tried producer
is more certain to avoid the many
hazardous pitfalls of incorrect de
sign than are his younger competi
tors. It is therefore logical to be
lieve that the radio industry will be
moulded and standardized by those
whose intimate association with its
early history has given them the vis
ion to seek the paths of intelligent
development.
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Former Fitzgeraldite
Delighted With Miami
Miss Bessie Smith, formerly of this
city, but for the past year a resident
of Miami and holding a fine position
with the East Coast Railway, is in
the city. for a, visit with her sister,
Mrs. W. B.'Haynes, Jr.
Miss Bessie is delighted with
Florida and though she went through
the exciting -experience of the hurri
can, has no fear of a repetition and
continues; to :be @ Florida booster.
Miss Smith has a hest of friends in
this section, who areipleased to have
her home with them, even for only a
brief;~izit : :
PUBLISHED EVERY
THURSDAY BY THE
LEADER PUBLISHING CO.
Vol. XXXVI—No. 43.
The 1895-1900 surviving pioneers
of the Colony, whom the inclement
weather failed to deter, met at the
W. R. C. Hall at noon Tuesday to at
tend a dinner served by a special
committee of the Woman’s Relief
Corps in honor of the 31st anniver
sary of the settlement of the C)lony
of the past. .
The early days were recalled by
brief talks by W. C. Wilkerson, F. M.
Bigham and I. Gelders and the first
school teacher of the Colony days,
Mrs. F. M. Bigham, (Cora Fox) Mrs.
E. Fox and Mrs. Mary A. Green, the
former from Nebraska, the latter
from Illinois, gave as their reasons
for moving to the Colony to escape
the extreme northern winters and to
spend their lives in the pleasant cli
mate of Georgia.
Organization Launched
The affair was voted to be held an
nually and a permanent organization
formed to perpetuate the colony
ispirit. W. C. Wilkerson was elected
president, Mrs. L. Beauchamp, vice
president, and Mrs. Julia Griffin, sec
retary and treasurer.
An executive committee consisting
of the officers-elect and Mrs. Mary
Cripe, Mrs. £. Fox and Mrs. Floyd
Eads were authorized to arrange for
an annual meeting of the Old Set
tlers in include all those who lived
in Fitzgerald and the Colony lands
from 1895 to 1900, and their de
scendants, from whatever state they
may have moved, Colony members or
othewise. The name of the associa
tion was voted to be “Old Settlers
Aseociation.”
Among those arriving in the
Colony in 1895 and present were:
Mrs. Eliza Fox, the first woman in
the Colony, July, 1895; Fred and
Mrs. F. L. Bigham, Mrs. Bruce Bur
ton, Mrs. Francis Beauchamp, Mrs.
Floyd Eads, Mrs. S. F. Stewart, Miss
Irma Stewart, Walter C. Wilkerson,
Mrs. F. A. Thayer, Mrs. Annie Rol
lins, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Snyder of
Chattanooga.
Of those arriving in 1896 the fol
lowing were present: Mrs. Walter
Wilkerson, I. N. Frey, Mrs. Kate
White, Mrs. Julia Griffin, Mrs. Addie
Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. 1. Gelders, Mrs.
Mary Cripe, Ivan Thurston, Mrs.
Mary Green, Mrs, J. T. Hendrick,
Mr. and Mrs. Burt Meeker. Mrs.
Mary Thomas in 1897, and J. T. Hen
dricks in 1901.
Rev. and Mrs. Bruce Nay were
special guests on this occasion.
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| RENEWED INTEREST IN
! OF COLD WEATHER
’ Now that the summer static has
' been cleared out of the air by the
approach of cold weather, radio lis
teners will turn to their receiving sets
with renewed interest.
’ Never before in the history of
broadcasting in this country have the
program announcements of the va
rious broadcasting stations been so
rich in promise of high grade enter
tainment.
The most famous personages in
grand opera are scheduled to appear
weekly throughout the coming win
ter; musicians whose names are
household words in every cultured
nation will strive to entertain the
great American radio audience; sym
phony orchestras, jazz orchestras and
ballad singers will unite to provide
programs that will suit the varied
taste of all music lovers.
* The whole tendency of those to
whom the task of arranging pro
grams has been delegated appears to
be an earnest effort to elevate the
musical taste of the average Ameri
can without making the educational
feature unpalatable.
‘ The broadcasting . .of foothball
games play by play, ring battles
blow by blow, and baseball games are
features that are thoroughly appre
ciated by crowds clustered around ra
dio loudspeakers in the streets when
some famous contest is in progress.
The broadcasting of weather and
market reports is becoming of great
importance to the rural communities,
but this is not an unmixed blessing
as city people have found out who
drive into the country to buy eggs
and other produce and find the farm
ers well posted on city prices.
A, B. & A. Freight
Beats Mail Time
s Ordering two articles from Atlanta
from the same firm, one shipped via
parcel post, the larger by -freight,
Hussey & Bowles received the freight
shipment just 24 hours. quicker than;
the parcel post package, both leaving
the shipper at the same time, ‘accord
ing to information. .
st oo R Gt e oAz
A movie house proprietor in Shen
andoah, la., offered free admission
to each youth who would bring him -
four tin cans in a cleanup campaign.’
One youth produced L,IIR. . . . o
volts, : ¢ 35S