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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR
PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY WEEK
GREATEST CELEBRATION OF THE SOUTH
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Full Week of Festivities,
Parades, Band Con
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certs, Wild West Exhi-
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bition, Light Opera,
Lectures, Venetian
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Singers, Dance Festival,
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Pageantry, Fire Works,
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Atlanta, Ga., May 17.—During the
week of May 29th through Juue 3rd,
the civic, social and commercial or.
ganizations of Atlanta will sponsor 2
big festival of celebration with the
purpose in view of reviving sectional
and national confidence, pride and op
timism. In order that the occasion may
typity the spirit of the purpose sought,
the event is called “PROGRESS AND
PROBPERITY WEEK,” and will be
in the nature of a full week of enler
tainment both enjoyable and educa
tional.
Included in the more serious as
pects are a number of lectures by men
of national prominence, a series of
motion pictures and lectures relative
to the Muscle Shoals project and edu
cational parades.
. Wonder Float Parade '
The festivities of the week will be
gin on the evening of #onday, May
29th, the first event being a gorgeous
float parade called, “The Romance of
the Rose,” consisting of twenty splen
did floats similar to those used in the
New Orleans Mardi Gras. The parade
wiil be followed by a brilliant fancy
dress ball.
The first evening of the program
will also consist of band concerts, fire
works display, and an exhibition of
diving girls.
Wild West Round-Up
Tuesday morning the Atlania Auto
mobile Club will have a beautifully
decorated car and float parade. Be
ginning at 2:30 in the afterncon at
Lakewood the thrilling wild west
Rodeo Round-Up will give its first per
formance under the direction of Chey
enne Kiser. Cow boys, cow girls, wild
steers and wild horses will enact true
scenes of western life. Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings there will be a
performance of light opera.
On Wednesday morning there will
be a Ford car parade. It is expected
Tyewriter Ribbons $l.OO Each At This Office.
' Because this bank is so big and strong and because
‘ it has developed to a high degree of satisfaction in its
banking-by-mail Department, we number among our
customers many highly valued out-of-town accounts.
ZE People in neighboring communities have been in
//?fi%g{\\ fluenced to place their money here because they know
[ 2 Fl?. S'fi \ - it will be safe and because they find complete satisfac
‘\ A'l / y tion in the service which our large resources enable us
‘Y&,;\\\ \,1)97/ to offer them. Would you not like to haye the facili
ovaLys ties of this big bank behind your business, so that all
: of its legitimate demands might be promptly and ef-
Safety F_'r” ficiently met? : .
v ) OUR SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS ARE ABSOLUTELY
; BURGLAR-PROOF. RENTALS ARE REASONABLE.
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Citizens First National Bank
ALBANY, GA.
CARBON PAPER AND TYPEWRITER RIBBONS.
that some 10,000 to 15,000 Fords will
participate.
A parade of secret orders, civic and
social organizations will be given
‘Thursday morning. The Rodeo Round-
Up will take up the entire afternoon.
In the evening there will be a Venetian
Water Carnival. Appropriate music,
Neapolitan costumes, with a realistic
Venetian setting, will tend to make
this one of the most attractive fea
tures of the event.
Dance Festival—-Pageantry
The Evolution of the Dance, con
sisting of & dance festival will also
be a part of the program during this
event,
Friday there will be another parade
in the morning, Rodeo Round-Up in
the aternoon, and the same evening
events as the day before.
On Saturday morning the Atlanta
Automobile Association will put on an
old Timers’ automobile parade. The
afternoon entertainments will be iden
tical with that of the previous days.
Saturday evening will be in charge
of the Atlanta Ad Mens Club, and
will be given over to carnival events.
Something unusual i& promised In the
way of amusement for this night. A
brilliant fire works display will com
plete the program of the week.
Plans Completed
Sensing the need of a revival of ac
tivities, both commercial and indus
trial, and appreciating the fact that
to accomplish this, the public must
be made to realize the return of pros
perity, it is planned that this event
be something in the mature of a fes
tival occasion as well as educational.
Plans are now about completed, and it
is stated that never in the history
of the Southeast has there been any
thing of this nature quite as elaborate
and extensive in its scope.
All parades will be held in the early
morning hours in the downtown sec
tiqns, ending about 10 o’clock, in order
that the people may have opportunity
to attend to business, The other at
tractions will be gtaged at Lakewood
Park, beginning at 2:30 each after
noon, and with almost an uninterrupt
ed program continuing ntil 11 o'clock
in the evening. .
100,000 Visitors Expected
The celebration will not only be
participated in by all of Georgia, but
by other adjacent states and the en
tire Southeast. R. M. Striplin, general
chairman of the event, states that
more than 100,000 persons are expect
ed to visit Atlanta during that week.
Leeshurg. Lee County Ga., Friday MAY 26 1922
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The High School Of
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Georgia.
~ The High Schools of Georgia,
which are every vear growing in
efficiency, nre being more and more
appreciated, as attested by a report
from Dr. J. S. Stewart, state High
school supervisor.
In this report, issued a few days
since, itis shown that a total ol
5,725 students graduated from the
schoole this year. This is an in
crease of 1,183 over last year, which
meanathat our boys and girls are
rapidly coming into their own and
that their advantages thus aquired
will allow them in full measure to
pertetuate the great state that malk2s
their education possible,
Luke B. Forrest.
Americus, Ga., May 25.—A num
ber of Americus and Suinter county
people attended the funeral Monca
at Smithville of Luke B. Forrest,
formerly sheriff of Sumter county
and one of the best known among
the older residents of this section.
Funeral exercises weve conducted by
Rev. J. D. Snyder, pastor of the
Smithville Methodist chureh, and
interment was in Oak Girove ceme
tery here.
Mr. Forrest was a native of Edge
field county, S. C. and moved to
Sumter county, Geotrgia, with his
parents, April 9, 1848, He was a
Confederate veteran, serving during
two years of the Civil War with cour
age and distinction. Surviving him
are two daughters, Mrs, Ella Turner,
of Smithville, with whom he resided,
and Mrs. Walter A. Mask, of Lee
County; three sons, Larkin Forrest,
and Albert A. Forrest, of Snmter
county; and Joe Forrest, of Sanford,
Fla., and a brother, J. L. Forrest,
of Plains.
Chrysanthmuns all colors 75 cents
per dozens, also a nice collections of
pot plants, ferns, begonias and ger
aniums, call and and see them,
Mrs. S, A, Odum,
Route 2. Montezuma, Ga
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Letter From Pension
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Commissioner Lindsey.
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~ 'Several of the Pensioners of ILee
County have called on Ordinary
Jackson in regard to their Pensions
a 8 the Governor informed them that
the Pensions would be paid at once.
The State only pays one-half of
the counties at a time and last year
our county was one of the first,
therefore, this year they will be in
Lt ones to be peid.
The following letter from Com
missioner Lindsey is sell Explani
tory:
Hon. W, T, Jackson,
Leesburg, Georgia,
I am unable to tell you just when
sufficient money will be in the Trea
sury to pay the unpaid pensioners
for 1922, on the old roll in your
county. We are ready to pay them
if we had the money, but as I said
before just when sufficient will be in
the Treasary I can’t say, but I hope
it will be at an early date.
With best wishes, T am,
Respectfully yours,
J. W, Lindsey.
Com. of Pensions.
868 Swams Of Bees
Shipped From Helena
McRAL, Ga., May 25.—What is
considered the largest of bees ever
made from this section of the State
‘was the car lot shipment made a few
days ago by the Stover Apiaries of
‘ Helena and consigned to some point
in Canada, This shipment consist
ed of 434 hives containing 868
swaims of bees.
This concern has been in the in
dustry here for several yearsand has
a good number of bee colonies in
different sections of this and adjoin
ingcounties A number of individ
uals throughout this section have
bee colonies where a considerable
surpius of honey for market is
produced, :
RIFT NEWS.
We learn with regret the cad death
of Mrs. Mollie Law, on May 15, at
her home near Leslie,
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Mr. and Mrs. Colin Stantford, of
near Leslie, was a visitor in our
community Sunday:.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Laramore had
as their guest Sunday, Mrs. J. L.
Tissue and family.
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Mrs, Hubert Vanium and bahy'
spent Wednesday night and Thurs
day night with her mother Mrs. S.
B. Camp.
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little Pauline Stantford has been
very ill recently and it is reported
that she is not much better at this
writing. ;
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Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Laramore and
children and Hattie Tissue vigited
Mrs. J. H. Young, aecently.
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~ Mrs. Ike Hart and children, spent
Sunday pleasantly at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Varnum.
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Messrs Louis and Tke Tissue spent
Sunday afternoon in Chokee the
guest of Mr. and Mrs, Chrrlie
‘Tissue.
Don’t wait for us to call for your
Job Printing but send it to us for
we have not the time to call and
get it.
A GREAT NATIONAL
PARK FOR GEORGIA
ONE of the biggest
development pro
jects yet proposéd in
Georgia is the contem
gl ated -establishment
y the United States
Government of a great
recreational park in
the mountains of Hab
ersham, Towns, Ra
bun, Fannin, Lumpkin
and White counties,
where the government
now owns thousands of
acres of land in its na
tional forest reserve.
If the plan goes
through, North Georgia
bids fair to become a
national summer play
ground, for the Cats
kills and White moun
tains, now teeming
with vacationists every
summer, have no more
bewildering beauty and
picturesqueness than
can be found in the
Georgia mountains,
What the establish
ment of such a park
would mean to the
state cannot be esti
mated, for, if under
taken by the govern
ment, its development
will be at federal expense, and it would
attract into Georgia thousands of visitors
from every section of the country.
And in this we are brought face to
face with another reason why the state of
Georgia should complete her highway sys
tem, for if such a recreational park is to
be of benefit to Georgians, it must bhe
made accessible to them. Very little of
this forest rescrvation can be reached by
the railroads of the state. The develop
ment of the plan must necessarily depend
largely upon whether or not the highways
leading to this section can he made usa
ble for the thousands of tourizt that would
be attracted to such a playground. Va
cationists from central and southern states
now throng the mountains of North Car
olina, when they could find the same rest
and repgse in “the hills of Habersham,”
if Georgia will be enterprising enough to
_eapitalize her natural resources as North
Carolina has done, and as Tennessee has
done, and build a system of roads that
can be used the year ’round by these
pleasure scekers who spend money wher
ever they go.
A stretch of seven miles of the state
highway system runs through this reser
vation now and the forestry commission
hae on hand $20,000 with which to help
pave this section, but the counties through
which this road runs cannot match the
federa] money and the state has no funds
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Typical Mountain Scene in North Georgia
with which to match it, so the whole plap
is delayed.
When the bond issue for gcod roads,
which the Georgia Good Roads Associa
tion is championing, is passed, and the
state highway system completed, the moun
tains of north Georgia as well as the
plains of central and. south Georgia will
become a playground for the thousands
of tourist who would come to this cli
mate the year ’round, to the mountains
in summer and the southern sections in
the winter, and would enrich our state
with the money they would spend.
The West long ago recognized the value
of permanent all-the-year-round roads and
of inviting the tourists of the nation to-use
them, so that section spent money lavishly
‘on road construction, What is the re
sult? Thousands and thousands of peo
ple go West every year, spend millions of
dollare, and come home singing the praises
of a country that has been progressive
enough to build good highways.
Georgia can issue bonds in the sum thst
can be retired by the automobile license
fees and gasoline tax and build the 5,500
miles in the state system without extra tax
ation on the people. Would it be worth
to the state to have these roads?
This is a question the next session of the
legislature will have to answer, and if they
will free Georgia from her limitations and
permit her to issue bongs to build these
roads, in ten years the state will have de
veloped beyopd our fondest dreams.
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