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VOL 20. No 24
negroes are
MISLED NORTH
bY labor agents who are
making false reports to
the negroes of the south,
ern states.
ATLANTA, Ga., —The campaign
0 f terrorism and false promises
among the country negroes of Geor-*
gia to compel them to go North, con
ducted by about fifty illegal labor
agents throughout the State, was ex
posed today by John W. Yopp, sec
retary of the Georgia Manufacturer’s
Association. Mr. Yopp has just con
cluded an extensive investigation of
negro migration from every part of
Georgia.
Mr. Yopp found that more than
ninety percent of the negroes wlio
migrate North have been induced to
do by a carefully conducted campaign
of the illegal agents in two waqs:
First, the labor agents use various
methods to terriorize the negroes in
to the belief that they will be tarred
and feathered, manhandled, mistreat
ed, and perhaps killed if they remain
in their native communities.
Second, the labor agents make
false promises of permanent high
wages in the Northern industrial
centers, and offer to pay the negroes
railroad fare to the North.
The labor agents, the investigation
shows, are paid from ten to twenty
dollars for every negro they ship
North. In most cases the railroad
fare is not given to the negro, as he
imagines, but is merely advanced to
him and promptly deducted from his
wages after be begins work. The
negroes shipped North are mostly
gottoen for short-time building booms
in Northern cities, and after the par
ticular job is completed the majority
of the negroes are left stranded, with
no money to return to the Southern
homes, all of their wages having been
spent in actual living expenses in the
Northern cities.
Labor agents usually begin their
work in a community with a cam
paign of terrorism. Letter, often
signed with red ink, and often mark
ed with “From the K. K. K.,” are
sent to several of the negroes by
the agents. These letters tell the
negroes that they must leave the
community at once or they will be
killed. Often the labor agents mark
the letters “K. K. K.” on the negro
cabins or spread a rumor about a
negro community that the white
folks are planning an attack on the
negroes.
Following this a negro is usually
employed by the labor agents to use
his influence to induce the negroes
to leave. For everone he succeeds
in inducing to go a certain commis
sion is paid him. Then the labor
agent “signs up” the negro and smug
gles him out of the community to the
North. Occasionally the negro who
is “signed up” is informed that he is
being taken only to Atlanta or some
other Southern city, and then is kept
on the train until he arrives in some
Northern city several hundred miles
from his family and the South that
is his home.
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vegetable growers to
ORGANIZE IN TELFAIR
Considerable interest is being dis
played around Mcßae at the present
time towards the organizations of an
< association of Vegetable Growers.
Already at Mcßae there has been or
ganized an association to handle the
Dewberry crop of the section, and
the plan is now to plant an acreage
of vegetables and let the present
manager of the dewberry associat
ion Mr. C. C. Child, sell the comodi
ties, since he is a marketing man of
long experience with a marked de
gree of success.
A meeting was called by County
Agent Mclnnis and Mr. Child to dis
cuss the possibilities of the proposi
tion Friday afternoon. About thir
ity of the outstanding farmers and
| business men of the immediate sec
l tion were present. Great enthusiasm
marked the meeting, resulting in
every man at the meeting agreeing
to plant from two or twenty acres.
It will take about 1,000 acres to
supply enough of the crops that are
proposed to be planted to warrant a
man to stay in the section to market
the commodities. Mr. Child has
agreed to stay if that amount can
be listed to be planted in the follow
ing crops: Cabbage, green peas, beets
radishes, beans and strawberries.
Two hundred and fifty acres have
been listed already in thsese crops.
County Agent Mclnnis and Mr. Child
claim that they can securew ith the
aid of the men who were present at
the meeting yesterday from Telfair
county, enough other men who were
not present on account of rain, to
raise the acreage to around 600 to
800 acres. It was proposed at the
meeting to extend the association’s
j territory of operation to other coun
tites by Dr. Born, of Mcßae, and sev
eral men who were present from out
side the county considered that it
w’ould be an easy matter to get the
acreage if such was done. It was
then decided to extend the operations
, if it were possible, to the surround
ing counties. It was stated that
i there would be several men who were
not at the meeting from Wheeler and
i Dodge counties that would gladly get
I into the association. —Telfair Enter
prise.
B. Y. P. U. CONVENTION DATE
CHANGED TO AUGUST 23-24
The B. Y. P. U. Convention of the
' Daniell Baptist Association will be
I held with The Magnolia Spring
Church near Monte, Ga., August 23-
24, 1923 instead of June 28-29.
At previous arrangements the
change was made on account of the
farmers being so bad behind wnth
j their work.
All churches and B. Y. P. U.’s will
| please not the change in the time of
this meeting.
J. J. ATKINS, Gen. Vice-Pres.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNE 14 1923
INCOME FROM THE
GEORGIA FARMS
INVESTIGATOR STATES AVER
AGE RETURN IS $271 PER
YEAR AT PRESENT COWS
INCOME BEATS COTTON.
ATLANTA, Ga.—The income off
the average Georgia farm, based on
thorough investigations in twenty
three counties of the state, is only
$271 a year under present conditions
and present farming methods. This
fact was revealed today by a report
made public by H. S. Mobley, south
ern representative of the extension
department of the International Har
vester Company.
The report is based on Mr. Mot
ley’s personal investigations, and not
only upon the income of the average
farm last year, but on an estimate of
the income that will be made this
year as. the result of a careful survey
of present conditions. The income
of the farm includes the income of
the entire family on the farm.
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The income from the average
farm is as follows: $l6O from cot
ton; $45 from one and one-half
cows, the average for each farm;
sl3 from 21 hens; S4O from three
and one-half hogs, the average num
ber on each farm; and sl3 from un
classified sources. In making his re
port Mr. Mobley pointed out that
six cow r s would produce an income
as large as that now produced by
cotton, and that the income from ev
farm would be greatly increased by
growing less cotton and raising more
hogs, hens and cow’s.
He pointed out that in a little
I Kentucky town, Buffalo, where he
had onced worked, prosperity was
restored in that section, w’hen the
land would no longer grow the to
bacco it once would, by increased !
I dairying.
WATER ANALYSIS OF LYONS
SHOWS VERY EXCELLENT
The water of the City cf Lyons,
of which analv si? w r ere taken on May
j 28th, shows that we have a very ex
cellent water now.
The following letter was received
by Mayor G. H. Mcßride from The
’ State Board of Health:
Atlanta, June 5, 1923.
: Mr. G. H. Mcßride, Mayor,
• Lyons, Georgia.
Dear Sir:
( I wish to make the following re
■ port on samples of water collected
i on May 28:
Samples Nos. 1958 to 1960, as
I listed, all show at this time a very
‘ excellent water.
Yours very truly,
H. C. WOODFALL, Director.
PROPOSES TO CHANGE
GEORGIA SCHOOL LAW
ATLANTA, Ga. Senator-elect
George W. Lankford of Toombs, who
has served several successive terms
in the House, is preparing a measure
to bes übimtted this year, as an
amendment to the Elders-Carsw r ell
school law, by which that will equal
ize the expenditure per child per
month in all counties in the
state.
It is his purpose, Mr. Lankford
says, to provide that each county i
shall levy say five mills for school
purposes, or such an amount that,
when added to the total that
county receives of state aid, will
make the per child expenditure for
public school education the same all
over the state.
To acocmplish this he will have a
companion bill which will change the
system of state distribution, that be
ing now under the per capita basis
according to the school census, where
as he would have it on a specific at
tendance basis for all counties.
The present average for the entire
state, from state aid and local levy
combined, is between $22 and $24,
while the per capita allotment from
state aid alone is $4.88. The value
per child, however, varies widely in
the different counties. In some of
the counties, for instance, the value
per child for the entire school year
will run well under $25, while in At
lanta, for instance, the joint expen
diture from all funds is something
in excess of $5 per school month per
child in attendance, and yet in Col
lege Park, in the same county, the
expenditure is only about $3 per
school month per child, and in many
of the counties it runs considerably
under that figure.—Savannah Morn
ing News.
LYONS DROPS ONE AND
WINS TWO LAST WEEK
The Lyons base ball team did some
I good ball playing last week, playing
j three games, winning two and losing
one. The game played on last Wed
nesday afternoon bteween Lyons and
Mt. Vernon, was the first game that
the local team had been defeated, and
this being a five inning game. The
score stood 4 and 3 in favor of Mt.
Vernon in the fifth inning, when the
game was called on account of rain.
The local team went to Dublin on
last Friday afternoon, and played a
nice game there, winning over the
opposite side in the score of 6 to 1.
Friday afternoon another game
was played here at the local diamond
between Dublin and Lyons, in which
Lyons won easily over their oppen
ents by the score of 7 to 3.
The last two games mentioned
were very interesting games, as both
sides did some good ball playing.
RACE FOR SHERIFF
CLOSESJUNE 20
THREE CANDIDATES NOW FOR
UNEXPIRED TERM VOTERS
MUST PAY 1922 TAXES IN OR
DER TO QUALIFY.
The race for the unexpired iterm
of sheriff of Toombs county, which
comes to a close next Wednesday,
June 20th, is of absorbing .interest
in the county.
While five candidates orignally
announced for the office, only three
now remain in the race—C. W. Cul
pepper, J. E. Thompson and J. D.
Mallard. Announcement is made this
week by A. S. Odom and J. W. Cros
by that they have withdrawn from
!the race, leaving the field to the
other three. A hurried canvass is
being made by the candidates and in
terest is growing more intense as
the election day approaches.
County officers have ruled that
all who vote in this election must
have paid all 1922 taxes, and notices
.are being sent out to all tax de
linquents calling their attention to
this fact. The announcement is al
so made that all women who regis
tered last year are liable for their
1922 poll tax and this must be paid
before they are qualified to vote in
the coming election.
Mr. J. W. CROSBY WILL NOT
BE IN RACE FOR SHERIFF
Mr. J. W. Crosby announces this
week that he will not be in the race
for Sheriff for the unexpired term.
Mr. Crosby also states that he ex
pects to be in the race next yeafl for
the long term of the Sheriff.
His announcement is given below:
Georgia, Toombs County:
To The Voters of Toombs County:
I take this method of annuncing
that I have withdrawn as a candidate
for the office of Sheriff to fill the
unexpired term. I feel grateful to
my friends for the interest they have
taken in my behalf and state that I
expect to be a candidate next year
for the long term as Sheriff. I am
not withdrawing in favor of any one
of the other candidates.
This June 13, 1923.
J. W. CROCBY.
MR. A. S. ODOM WITHDRAWS
FROM RACE FOR SHERIFF
Mr. A. S. Odom announces this
week to the public that he has with
drawn from the race for Sheriff, for
the unexpired term. He also an
nounces that he will be a candidate
for Sheriff for the full term, which
comes off next year.
Below is his card to the public:
To The Voters of Toombs County:
At the suggestion of my friends I
have decided to withdraw my name
as a candidate for Sheriff for the
unexpired term. I wish to thank
them for their support and to an
nounce that I will be a candidate for
Sheriff for the full term.
Lyons, Ga., June 13, 1923.
A. S. ODOM.
CHURCH NOTICE
There will be preaching at the
Baptist church next Sunday morning
and evening by the pastor, Rev. A. D.
Woodle.
At the evening service the pastor
will pay his respects to Dr. C. R.
Arnold, a member of the House of
Representative from Lumpkin county
who has announced his intention of
introducing at the next session of
the legislature, a bill to repeal the
“bone dry” law of Georgia.
The public is cordially invited.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given to all prop
erty owners to make their City Tax
Returns for the year 1923 before
July Ist next, otherwise they will be
double taxed on basis of last return.
By order Mayor and Council, this
12th day of June 1923.
F. F. GODDARD, City Clerk.
FOR SALE—White Spanish Pea
nuts, Unknowm Peas, also Red Hull
Speckle Peas for seed in good condi
tion.
Call or write C. L. Battle, Johnson i
Corner, Lyons, Ga., Rt. A. 2tp.
Subscription SI.OO
REPORT BETTS
RESTING EASY
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION HEAD
UNDERGOES MAJOR OPERA
TION—-MUCH HOPE IS HELD
OUT.
ASHBURN, Ga. June 12.—1 t was
reported this afternoon that Geo. T.
Betts was resting well after an opera
tion for appendicits late Monday.
Mr. Betts had an acute attack of
appendicits, a physician being called
in lat eSunday afternoon 'and Dr.
William J. Little, of Macon, arrived
yesterday afternoon to perfrom the
operation. It was reported that he
rallied well from the operation and
the physicians hold much hope for
him . because of his strong constitu
tion.
While his condition is considered
serious he is reported to be doing as
well as could be expected consider
ing the serious condition in which he
was when the operation was per
formed.
Mr. Betts,' who is president of the
Georgia Association, and a prominent
business man of this section, has been
| tireless in his efforts to get the State
, lined up on the “cow, hog and hen”
program. He has given much time
to the work of diversification and is
considered one of the most valuable
men in the State in this work.
ISRAEL I. FOSS WRITES LETTER
TO C. W. CULPEPPER
Savannah, Georgia,
June 7, 1923.
Chas. W. Culpepper,
Lyons. Georgia.
Dear Sir:
In event of your election as Sheriff
I will go on your bond, with three or
four of your fellow'-countrymen, men
of property, for Ten Thousand Dol
lars. As to my ability, financially,
you can make inquiry of almost any
business man of Savannah, Ga. I
am licensed to stand bonds, and stand
a great number of bonds here.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) ISRAEL I. FOSS,
417 East Bay St.
GEORGIA, Toombs County:
We the undersigned do hereby cer
tify that we, and each of us were
present in Savannah, Ga., on the 7th
day of June 1923 and saw Israel
Foss sign the above letter.
We further certify that above let
ter was signed after a careful in
quiry and examination as to the fin
ancial standing, etc. of Mr. Foss and
after consulation with Mr. Foss and
his attorneys, Edwards & Lester, of
Savannah.
(Signed) WIMBERLY E. BROWN.
T. J. COURSEY.
ORIGINATOR OF FLA. PLAN
TO BE AT DUBLIN JUNE 18
.
Mr. Geo. D. Smith, originator and
perfector of the Florida Plan of boll
Weevil control, is to give a demonstra
tion of this method at Dublin on
June 18th, which is next Monday.
This will be the first time that Mr.
Smith has been to Georgia for a
demonstration of any kind, and it was
not easy to get him here at any date.
Every farmer, business man, and
i others interested in beating the boll
i weevil are most cordially invited to
J be present at this demonstration. It
is not for Laurens county alone, but
for the entire Twtlfth District. Mr.
Smith has brought out what is re
garded as the most logical plan of
; controlling the weevil yet devised.
| He is coming to demonstrate it per
sonally. His visit is expected to be
of untold benefit to the cotton grow
ers, and for this reason the people of
your town and county are all in
vited to be present.
County Agent J. F. Hart, Jr., of
Laurens county, was a member of a
party which recently visited Mr.
Smith’s demonstration farm in Flor
ida, and Mr. Hart pronounces the
Florida plan to be the most forward
step taken in weevil control in sev
eral years.
You and your friends are cordially
j invited to be present at the demoiv
stration at Dublin Monday, June 18^. ;