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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR
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Negro “Petrified”
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Dies In Americus
Doctors Baffled by Strange
Malady; Believe Man's Death
Due to Scleroderma.
Americus, Ga., April 25 —Practi
cally every physician in Americus
visited Milton Adames. a Regro, who
died Monday morning at hi= home
here. The negro, it is said, ‘‘pet
rified,”” causing his dJeath. Physi
cians who attended him said that
death was due to seleroderma, one
of the most unusual ailsiments
known to medicine. Dr. w. 8
Prather, who has been practing
here 20 years or more, had attended
only one similar during his entire
practice A number of other physi
cians who visited Willioms had never
before seen a care gcieroderma.
The effezt of the diease is to harden
ones skin and muscle tissues, thus
eventually causing death. In the?
cace of Williame, the diease attuck-1
ed especially his throat and ‘neck ‘
Death was due directly to strangn.!
Jation, caused by the hardening ofl
the tissues about the negro’s throat.
Williams was formerly asoldier andl
the dicage, it is suid, sometimes re
sults from strains or unsual _expo
sure.
New Baptist Church
To Be Built In Leesburg
At Early Date.
Plan< are now under way to build
a new Baptist church in [eeshury
at an early date. Plans and specifi
cations have already been made and
the people are out after the money
8> the work ecan begin at once.
Which is a much needed building
and everyhody should do their part
in raising the sufficient amount of
money.
It you have not paid your sub
¢ ription yet you had beiter do =0
at once.
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CARBON PAPER AND TYPEIWRITER RIBBONS.
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Americus Hog
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; Feeding Test
Is Successtul.
Americus, Ga. April 25, —George
0. Marshall, county farm demon
gtration agent, is advising Sumter
coanty farmers to hold their corn for
a dollar a bushel and sell it on the
h of. Marshall has just concluded a
feeding test ranging over a period of
50 days during which a number of
hogs consumed 258 bushels of corn
and 1,000 pounds of tankage.
The total gain for the lot was 4,650
pounds, the hogs weighing at the be
ginning of the test 10,025, pounds
as compared with 11975 pounds at
its conelusion. he porkers gained
4.31 pounds for each pound of corn
fed, and .21 psunds of tankage con
sumed. Thecostof tankage was fig
ured by Marshal at 860 per ton, gnd
in computing the profit no allowance
was made fon hard meat which
generally commands a premium a
mong packers., |
Forrester Hotel .
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I eing Remodeled
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And Repainted.
When the work now being done
on the Forrester Hotel i 3 completed
andjtlie painting finished the people
passing through and thoze of our
town can view oneof the most
beautiful places in the way of homes
in this section The Foirester home
and hotel i 3 now undergoing repairs
and also being painted which adds
much to the appearance of this
Landsome building. Weare glad
to cee such work as this being done
as it shows that our town is on an
upward move — let others join in
and keep the good work going on
clean-up and paint-—up.
Res. Phone. 355 Office Phone 101
Dr. A. C. STEIN
VETERINARY SURGEON
Office 211 Pine Street.
J. C. & W. C. Holman Mule Barn.
Albany, Georgia.
Leeshurg. Lee County Ga., Friday April 28, 1922
Half Of The Pension
Money Is Ready.
One half of the confederate pen
sions for 1922 will be paid by the
end of the present week, it was ims
nounced Monday by Governor
Hardwick, who was very much grati
ficd that the condition of the treas.
urer made the payment possible,
The pensions this year total $l,
250,000 and the one=half payment
to be made this week will therefore
total $625,000. The treasurer’s
checks for the county ordinaries
who actas disbursing agonts, willi
be in the mails not later than Iri
-Iday. the governor said,
'The method of dividing the pen
gions into equal payments will be
the same this year as heretofore.
That is, the full years payment will
be made at this time to pengioners
in approximately one half of the
counties, and the balance will re
ceive their full years payment some
inmnths later, when the condition
}’nf the treasury permits,
This years pension is $lOO for
each pensioner except disabled
pensioners, some of whom will re
ceive less than $l9O and same more,
depending on the nature of their
injuries,
There are not many of the wearers
of the grey in this locality and the
number in the county is small. In
fact, those of the state of Georgia,
from which a full quoia was regist
ered for duty and who did valient
service for their country and' the
sacred cross of stars, is depleted by
death, and the few remaining ones
are deserving of much more than
they receive. Then let us all be
glad that they are to come into this
pittance which but illy repays them
for the sacrificial surrender which
they made. Let us not forget that
it is to them that we owe a debt
that only can b 2 paid with sweet
charity that emanated from the
lowly Nazarene who gave His all for
His fellows, and like manner give
unto them that honor sustenance
that is but becoming a truly repub
lican people.
We have a big Stock of Paper—
let ug da your Job Prinding.
Dr. A. M. Fort
In Lee County.
Dr. M. A. Fort, Director of Mnlar-‘
ial Control of the State Board of
Health has been spending the pnst‘
week in Lee county, looking into the
question of malarial prevention. cues
tioned about his work Dr. Fort said:
“lee county is one of the best
counties agriculeurally that I have
visited. The land is rich and level,
But the very fact of its being level
makes numerous breeding places forj
mosquitoes. ILven in the towns we
find all kinds of mosquitoes in all
stages of develdpment. The larger‘
towns, Leesburg ad Smithville, havel
‘plans for drainage that will eliminate
most of the mosquito breeding, and!
hence most of the malaria. Many
houses are screened, and if this is
properl done, there is sma!l chance of
getting malaria, because the malaria
mosquito only stings us when we are
still at night. There were not less
than 6 deaths from malaria in this
ounty last year, and not less than
3000 cases of malaria, and it was not
a good yefir for malaria. The loss of
time and cost of treatment probably
cost $4OOOO to the people, to say
nothing of the suffering.
The thing that I am urging here
is what we call “QUININZATION”
The doctors here are unusually pro
gressive, and have been urging the
same ‘thing for several years. I have
been simply trying to impress on the
people the fact that the doctors are
right.
By quininization we mean the using
of quinine long enough to cure com
pletely every case of malaria that we
treat. Taking quinine for a week o 1
| _tvko will stop the chills and fever for
; a time, but it will return. Taking qui
‘nine for 8 weeks, a small dose every
‘night, will not only stop chils, but
t will kill every parasite in the blood
and czmpletely cure the malaria to
stay cured, unless freshly poisoned
mesquitoes get to ou. Most of the
malaria that will show up this year
~ill bec ases that have held the para
sites in the bood from last year. If
all such cases were treated 9 weeks,
giere would be very little - malaria
this year.
After explaining this fact to the
druggists in this county, they agreed
to heip elimiate the disease by put
~ing up treatments of quinine suffi
ciet for 8 weeks, and selling it ati
a very small profit. Thus, instead of
naving to pay from $3.50 to $5.00 for‘
a treavment as you would in otherl
kpnaces, you can get this entire treat
ment for $1.50, and a child’s treat
ment even cheaper. Isn’t this fine of
the druggists? They are making it
possible for you to save thousands of
dollars. These ‘Government treat
ments’ cannot be charged howeven
They are handed out unbroken at the
jow price for cash only.
By this arrangement every negro
on our plantation can afford to be
cured. Yourself and all your children
ian be freed from this animal that
lives in your blood and keeps you
down.
Therefore let’s all net rid of our
malaria. Let’s all take quinine 8 1
weeks. Let’s all try quininization. {
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Leslie High School
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Play At Auditorium.
As we are late going to press we
are able to report a play which-was
presented here tonight by the High
Sehool of [ eslie.
The play entitled “*Miss Cherry
lossom’’ was 4 great success and
madea hit with our people and
declared one of the best ever pre
sented in the auditorium here. The
weather was bad and the audience
was small but no doubt if the
weather had been fair the house
would haye been filled to its capa
city.
Letter From Former
Lee County Citizen.
Caddo, Louisiana.
‘ April 15, 1922,
The lLee County Journal,
Youwill please find enclosed $l.OO
the worth of which you will kindly
enter my name on vour subseription
list. Tam an-ancient native of
your dear end well remembered
town. And the air that stirs the
’evergreeu boughs of those tall and
‘magestic pines, is my birthright.
How well T remember the dreams
of youth, when lying in bed at night,
when the windssighed and moaned
in the leaves. When 1 left there
Starksville was the county seat, and
Leesburg was a wayside station.
How long, Oh, how long ago, this
has been and yet it seems but yester
day. But the time has turned all
my school mates and boyhood friends
into old men and women, what,
alas, it has not turned into their
graye.
lam sending for your paper,
wondering if a name may not gome
time be mentioned that I one time
kueyw.
Your publication "I learned
throuvgh the kind civility of a young
lady at Smithyille, whose aunts and
uncles were school mates of mine,
but, alas, allor nearly all are gone.
I teft those parts away back yon
der in the early seventy’s, went in
to the far west, among the wild
Indians and the Buffalo, drifted on
the cow ranges and among men
whose law was the six-shooter, many
of them were lawless men, kill you
at a moments warning and yet they
‘were great hearied fellows, nothing
was too good for you, would use
their gun for a friend as much. as
for their self. ;
Those good old pioneer days are
gone, the cow boy is gone, the bu
falo are going and the Indians are'
nearly all gone and one is only left
to think and regret the past and
speculate on the future.
Ifthis is worth the space, you
may put it in your paper, if any
one seee it, that ever knew me I
would be glad hear from them.
R. R. (Raybe) Smith.
J. E. Johnson and W. L.Thompson
| Proprietots, »
We are prepared to all kinds of Blacksmith Work
on Buggies, Wagons, Log Carts, Plow Tools and
mn fact we can fix anything made of wood or iron.
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
Shop Near Stovali and Yeomans Grist Mill.
Ast RSN
} One of the best farms in Lee County,
!400 acres high state cultivation, gray
and red pebbly land, well im
l proved, $5000.00 home, 1-2 mile R.R.
l Station—Good Terms.
| See R. R. Forrester
Leesburg, Georgia
Stolen Auto
Found Near
~+ Leesburg.
A Buick Roadster stolen from
Columbus wasfound wrecked en the
Dawson road last Sunday by Sherift
P. C. Coxwell while en route from
Dawson to Albany. Atthetifethe
Sheriff located the car he did not
know that it was stolen but on ar
riving in town be was notified to
look out for such a car, he remems
bered seeing the wrecked ecar and
immediately went out and toak pos
session of it.
On Sunday afternoon two well
dressed young white men appeared
on the steets and were arrested and
admitted stealing the car from Col
umbus. The owner was notified
and came’over Monday for his car,
The young men arrested are Leroy
Pearce, of Columbus and M. L.
Wells of Baltimore, Md., and will
be prosecuted here for the offense
for which they are charged.
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Dinner Party.
Misses Mary Forrester, Iveylee
Bass, and Elizabeth Harris enter~
tained informally at dinner Wednes
day evening at the home of Miss For
rester. Sweet peas were used effec
tively in the rooms. The dining ta
ble had as;a center piece a lovely
bowl of sweet peas. Covers were laid
for, Miss Mary Forrester, Mr. Earle
Perry, Miss Iveylee Bass, Mr. L. G.
Downg, Mis Elizadeth Harris and
Mr. Julian Robinson. A four course
dinuer was sefved M e
City Tax Notice.
The books for giving in city tax
are now open. If “you have not
‘made your returns yet do %0 at once
and save yourself of being double
taxed. The city clerks office isin
Stovall Yeoman Lyons Co. Store.
R, H, FORRESTER,
Clerk and Treas.
Number 13