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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR
Smithville High
School Final.
Thursday night, May 25—Con
cert by grammar grades. Misses
Childers, Lunsford, Cowart and Mrs,
Israel in charge.
Friday 10:00 A M.—Medal con
tests in Recitation and Declamation.
Friday 2:00 P. M.—Medal con
tests in Debate and Piano.
Friday*hight 8:00—Play, ‘‘The
Lone Star.”’ Mrs. Stanton Diree®
tor. :
Sunday May 28th; 11 00 A. M.
Annual Sermon—Rev. J. W. Ham,
Pastor Baptist Chureh, Buena Vizta,
Ga. ‘
Monday Evening, May, 28, 8:00
Graduates progarmy as follows:
Invoeatior—Rev. J. W. Ham.
Address—Class Pres. Helen Hays.
Salutory—''New Amcricans’’—
Elizabeth Richardson,
Roll Call of Happy Years—Marie
Williams.
Class Orations—The Citizen of
Tomorrow—Frank Childers.
Examination Questions—Thelma
Clark. : !
Class Poem, ‘'Evening’’—Maude
Williams.
Advertisements—Clara Belle Mask
Prognostications—Rosa Wilker
son. :
The Last Will and Testament—
Lilo Secarborough.
Valedictery—Mary Ella Jones
. Presentation of Diplomas—Supt.
P. A. Stanton
Literary Address—Dr. S. V. San
ford. U. of Ga.
Benedietion—R. S. Pryor.
Leesburg School News.
Everybody isgetting ready for the
close of school. The teachers and
pupils all have the fever, School will
close May the 19th. Prof. Mcon
of Tifton will deliver the literary ad
dress. Rev. J, H. Stanford of Adel
is invited to preach the ecommence
ment sermon on May the 14th Al
exercises will be at the School Audi
torium. Programs will be made
next week.
Weare glad to announce that Miss
Kate Ware Smith got first honor,
Mr. Solomon Joseph Yeoman second
Loror and Miss Sara Frances Long‘
honorable mention.
SAFETY FIRST
' ‘ The splendid service which this bank has been rendering
£ its customers since 1888 is made available to you through
’ our Banking-by-Mail Department. Our ample resources
enable us to handle large as well as small aecounts, and
both are welcomed and solicited. Correspondence is in
vited from parties interested in profiting by our unsur
: passed facilities for handling both Commereial and
. Savings Accounts, ¢
A 4% Interest Paid on Savings Accounts
INTEREST COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY
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Citizens First National Bank
; ALBANY, GEORGIA :
CARBON PAPER AND TYPEWRITER RIBBONS.
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K. E Hill Appointed
Internal Revenue
Collector.
Mr. K. E Hill, a prominent
young man of this County, and a
gon of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hill has
received an appointirent from the
Government as Internal Revenue
Collector. Mr. Hill was first sent
to Atlanta and later transfered to
Savannali wherehe is at present.
Mr. Hi'l ia a very popular young
man and we wish him much suc
cess,
Mother’s Day.
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~ Of all the tributes, in cclebration,
to us, seemingly the sweetest, the
one that tinges our memory with the
golden glow of the youth that has
been spent and one in which all
humanity can and should join in a
chorus of acclaim for the tender
reverberations of the noble influence
that thrilis our souls, is ‘‘Mothers’
Day.”’
On Mothers Day we expect to enter
thechurch and see the roses hanked
upon a table, 0. the one side the
white for the mother who is but a
memory and on the other the red,
signifying that mether is still bless
ing the child with her cmiles and
encouraging love.
You who have mothers yet in
life, forget not the tribute that as a
son-or a Jdaughtler, is due her, for
soon, yea, too soon, the cycle of
Time shall have counted off years
of her servitude and you will
'pluck the white rose instead of the
red and your heart’s void will eall
aloud for ‘‘Mother.”?
Res. Phone. 3556 Office Phone 101
Dr. A. C. STEIN
VETERINARY SURGEON
Office 211 Pine Street.
J. C. & W. C. Holman Mule Barn.
Albany, Georgia.
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EASY MONEY—in picture show
business. Complete outfit, good as
new, seiling at sacrifice. Suited
for road work.—\. T. Chyistopher,
Montezuma.
Leeshurg, Lee County Ga., Friday MAY 5, 1922
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Union Meeting At
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Baptist Church.
The people of Leesburg and com
mumty are enjoying a Union Revi
val Meeting which began at the Pres
byterian Church here last Sunday
morning, Rev. W, K. Elder, former
pastor conducting the services, On
Sunday night Rev, J. DD, Snyder
newly chosen Pastor of the Metho
dist chureh conducted the services
at the Baptist church and on Mon
day Rev. H. F. Joyner, of Rome,
Ga., began the preaching at the
Baptist Church where he will con
tinue the services for two weeks.
Large crowds are attending and the
preaching and singing is fine, if.you
have not yet attended yoa will miss
a treat if you do not. |
Old Negro Lost In
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~ Swamp Five Days.
Fed Collier, a negro residing on
the place of W. Z. Youngblood left
the place on Friday to spend a
while on Muckalee Creek fishing. He
was about 70 years old and when he
did not arrive at home during the
night a search was made but no
trace of him could be found. Dur
ing Sunday and Monday the searche
ers continued their hunt for the old
negro and it was finally decided that
he had fallen in the creek and drown
ed, bui on Tuesday morning some
negroes working in the swamp found
him almost starved sitting on a log.
The old negro stated he had been
without food or wafer during the en
tire time and is at this time stillin
‘bad shape. |
The boys of this country are learn
ing that they have a calling just as
sacred as the call to motherhood and
that is the call to fatherhood. The
boy can be taught sacredness of his
body at his mother’s knee. The pa
rents who neglect such teaching are
omitting a greater opportunity. Write
the State Board of Health, Dr. Bow
doin, for “Keeping Fit,” pahphlet and
“Sex Education in the Home.” They
are given you free.
You cannot stop contagious disease
with a law, a health officer and a
placard. You must get co-operation
of the people by education, by per
suasion and by organization.
Children may be immunized against
Diphtheria, with safety and certain
ty. Prevention is better than cure.
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Superior Court In
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- Session This Week.
The May term of the T.ee County
Superior Court convened Monday
morning and adjourned this after
noori, Judge Z. A. Littlejohn pre
siding, while Solicitor Jule Felton
looked after the states interest,
~ The Civil Docket was first taken
up and the only case of importance
‘was that of Manery vs The Central
of Georgia Ry , for damages caused
by mjuries received in 1919 while
employed with the road. The ver
diet of the jury allowed Mr. Manery
$7,500.00 as damages against the
read. The Criminal docket was
taken up Wednesday and coneluded
Friday afternoon, ‘
The last eriminal case to be tried
was a negro charged with the mur
der of another negro and was sen
tenced to the Chain Gang for from
ten tu twelve years. :
RAILWAYS
GROWING
SAFER.
That railways are safe, and con
stantly growing safer, is the asver
tion of W. A. Winburn of the
Central of Georgia Railway in an
interesting statement just issued
from his office in. Savannah. Mur.
\Winburn proves his contention by
quoting facts and figures, and says
that twenty-nine millions of passen
gres handled by the Central of Geor
gia since a passenger riding ina
coach has been fatally injured. The
lagt-fatality of this nature was more
than five years ago.
The year 1920 was a record one
for heavy traffic, yet the number of
fatalities on the railroads was the
smallest in 22 years. Traflic in
1921 was not so heavy, and figuves
just issued by the Interstate Com
merce Commission show a decrease
of 14 per cent. in the number of
fatalities from the previous year.
Mr. Winburr attributes the fine re
cord of the railways in large part to
the fact that employes have been
trained to give safety procedence
over all other things,
The average newspaper reader
will perhaps be suprised to learn
that there are nearly as many per
gong drowned accidentally in the
United States in a year as are fatal
ly injured on the railroads Al
statistics for fatalities include auto
modile grade-crossing accidents and
injuries to trespassors, for neither
of which the railways are responsi
ble, but which go to make up one
half of the fatalities.
Mr. Winburn says that the hand
ling of & heavier business with a
smaller number of fatalities is a
barometer of railway efliciency,
and pledges the renewed efforts of
the Central of Georgia toward ren
dering to the publica transportation
wervice of safety and gatisfaction, in
which the co-operation of the pub
lic is asked.
Ice of this seagon will be as fol
lows: 200 Ibs at ice house $l.lO,
delivered $1.20; 100 Ibs at Ice house
60 cts., delivered 65 cts; 50 lbs at
ice house 30 cts. delivered 35 cts;
95 Ibs at ice house 15 cts. delivered
20 cts. lam willing to accomidate
my patrons as” much as possible,
but where I gell ice on credit I must
demand the money Monday or else
[ will cut it off. My expenses are
‘heavy and must collect every Man
day.
Yours very truly,
: G. D. KIMBROUGH.
Georgia Peach Growers
_Expect Prosperous
Season.
With the successful outcome of
the 1921 marketing season fresh in
mind, Georgia peach growers are
looking optimistically forward to the
1922 deal which opens about the
middle of this month.
Approximately 1,000 earloads of
peaches were moved out of the State
last year. This was more than one
third {he carlot movement of peach
esfor the entire country owing to
the short crop elsewhere and double
the quantity of Georgia peaches mar
keted in 1920, The Georgia crop
was carefully grown and distributed
last year, and met with less compe
tition than usual from other fruit
growing section where spring frost
had injored the erop. Georgia
peaches reached the highest jobhing
price of the season during the week
ending August 1.
It is not improbable that within
a few years as many as 15,000 cars
of peacheswill be produced in Geor
gia for market, in the opinion of
several large growers and buyers.
In the past the ravagesof brown rot
and curculio have caused heavy
finaneial loss to growers and buyers,
but last year considerable loss from
ingects and disease was prevented
by a campaign of systematic spray
ing and insect control conducted
co operatively by the Geogia State
Board of Entomology and the United
States Drepartment of Agriculture’
and the occurence of generally
favorable climatic conditions.
~ City Tax Notice.
The books for giving in city tax
are now open. If you have not
made your returns yet do so at once
and save yourzelf of being double
taxed. The city cierks office is in
Stovall Yeoman Lyons Co. Store.
R, H, FORRESTER,
Clerk and Treas.
J. E. Johnson and W. L.Thompson
Proptietots,
We are prepared to all kinds of Blacksmith Work
- on Buggies, Wagons, Log Carts, Plow Tools and
in fact we can fix anything made of wood or iron.
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
Shop Near Stovali and Yeomans Grist Mill.
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One of the best farms in Lee County,
400 actres high state cultivation, gray
and red pebbly land, well im
proved, $5000.00 home, 1-2 mile R.R.
Station—Good Terms.
See R. R. Forrester
Leesburg, Georgia
Red Bone School
\ To Close May 18.
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Supt. Pettit, of the Red Bone
School requests the Journal to an
nounce that the school will close on
Thursday, May, 18th, at which
time they hope to have Dr. Faulk
ner, of Atlanta, Ga., of the State
Board of Health, to speak for them.
On Wednesday night, May. 18th,
the pupils of the school will present
an evenings entertainment to the
public and patrons. A special in
vitation is extended to all by Prof.
Pettit to attend.
Leesburg Hi Defeats
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Smithville Hi.
In w game of ball at Smithville
this afternoon between the Leesburg
Hi and the Smithville Hi, Leesburg
won by a score of Sto4. Another
game between these two teams will
be played here one day next week
it is stated and a good game is pros
misged.
Church Services in
Leesburg
Baptist—J. H. Wyatt, Pastor.
Preaching 2nd, and 4th Sundays
Morning and Evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock a. m.
B. Y. P. U. 6 o’clock p.m. every
Sunday.
i W. M. U. Monday afternoon fol
fowing 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Mid Week Prayer Service and
Choir Practice Wednesday evening
7 o’clock, ,
Methodist—J. D. Snyder, Pastor.
Preaching 3rd Sunday, morning
ard evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
Presbyterian—Rev. Grille, Pastor.
Preaching Ist Sunday morning
and evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
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