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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR
Be Prepared To
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Poison 801 l Weevil
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At Right Time.
“In time of peace, prepave for
war’' is a proverh more or less in
disfavor in international negotiations
just now, but it still applies to
fighting the cotton boll weevil, says
the United States Department of
Agriculture. Late poisoning is like~
ly to hurt the farmer more than it
hurts the weevil, and the only way ‘
to be sure of getiing an “even
bieak’® with the weevil is to be’
supplied in advance with caleium
arsenate and dusting machinery.
“We find every year,” says B}
R. Coad, director of the Depurt-‘
ment,s boll weevil laboratory, “‘that
many farmers fail to realize theirf
danger early enough and then start
making desperate efforts to poison}
afer ths infestation has become very
heavy. They scurry around trying;
to get calcium arsenate and dusting
machinery, and nearly always there
is considerable delay. KEven when
they get the poison and the machine
ry, it is extremely difficult to con
trol weevil infestation after it comes
severe. There are <0 many weevil
stages present in the squares and
bolls that some of them come out
every day and poison must be kept
constantly on the plants if any good
is to be done by it. This very
greatly increases the expense of
poisening. Then, if there comes
even a short spell of rainy weather,
guch control as has been gained is
Jlost and the farmer has gone to
heavy expense for nothing. We
advise all cotton planters to be ex
tremely careful about starting late
season poisoning. In a few cases,
it has been successful, but at heavy
cost and only nnder the most favor
able conditions. The only safe
course is to be prepared to poison at
the right time.”” Write the Delta
Laboratory, Tallulah, Louisiana,
for instrsctions ‘‘When and How to
Poison.”’
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To Pay Balance
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Of Vets in June
Governor Hardwick Ex
- pects Checksto Go Out
~ About Second or Third
of Month.
Atlanta, May 30.—The balance
of Confederate pensions for 1922 will
be paid by the second or third of
June, Governer Hardwick announe
ed today.
This is the first time in many
vears, he said he was informed when
the state’s finances permitted such}
early payment of ‘pensions in full. ‘
This is due, he said, to paying
the state’s current deficit by dis
counting the Western & Atlantie
rentals, to holding down peagions
and other appropriations to a mini
mum, and to the decision of the U. 1
S. Supreme court awarding thei
State of Georgia about $378,000 of
the inspection fees, which have been
in the hands of a receiver for more%
than two years. :
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ARKANSAS ““MEWSINGS” 1
The man who won’t listen to reason
is usually thinking the same thing
about you. |
Mighty bad to fall by the wayside,
but it's worse than bad to lie there
and holler, when you might rise and
run,
' The lad who is always telling you
that banks are not safe is the same
fellow who never has anything to put
in them,
The summer dresses are to be tight
with loose effect. They must expect
them to look like a girl who has had
too many cocktalils, ;
Don’t like that expression, “Prosper
ity’s just 'round ;the corner.” Pros
perity has been cornered too many
times by a willful group of watchful
waliters,
Don’t stop to measure happiness,
but if you do, don’t worry when it
rungs over the rim—for some poor
soul’ll get it on the lonesome way.—
Arkansaw Thomas Cat.
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Leesburg, Lee County Ga., Friday JUNE 2, 1922
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Nation-Wide Careful
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Crossing Campaign.
The Central of Georgia Railway
urges the cooperation of its patrons
in the nation-wide ‘‘Careful Cross
ing Campaign’’ which will be in
progress during June, July, August
and September by the Safety Section
of the American Railway Associa
tion. In a statement printed in
today’s paper President W. A.
Winburn says that these four months
have in the past been the worst of
{he year for motor vehicle grade
crossing accidents. The seriousness
of the problem is apparent from the
fact that there is now one motor
vehicle for every ten persons in the
United States.
In 1920 there were 3,012 grade
crossing accidents in whieh 1,273
persons were killed and 3,977 injur
ed. Not one of these accidents
would have occured if the driver
had ‘‘Stopped, Looked and Listen
ed.”” The railways are powerless
to prevent accidents (hat are due to
the negligence of drivers, though
every other kind of accident shows
gratifying reductions in recent years.
It would require more than twelve
billions of dollars to elimnate the
grade-crossings in the United States,
and many years of time. Caution
at the crossings on the part of
drivers will so far as safety is con
serned give the same result as the
expenditure of twelve billions. '1
In closing his statement Mr.
Winburn says ' By cooperation with
our patrons we have found many
ways in which we can render them
exceptional service, and our
patrons, in turn, have served us
well. ,
City Tax Notice.
. The hooks for giving in city tax
are now open. If you have not
made your returns yet do so at once
land save yourself of being double
taxed. The city cierks office is in
‘Stovall Yeoman Lyons Co. Store.
R, H, FORRESTER,
Clerk and Treas.
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let ug do your Job Printing.
Democratic Executive
Committee of Third
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1 District Meets.
On Tuesday the Executive Committee
of the Third Cougressional District met
in Americus with a good attendance and
with proxy votes from thoge counties not
personally represented.
They passed the following resolutions:
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Democratic
Congressional Exeewlive yCommittee for
the Third Congressional District of Geor
wia, as follows:
FIRST That a Democratic Primary
Election shall be held in each of the
counties comprising the Third District of
Georgia, on September 13th, 1922, for
the selection of the Democratic canidate
for Congress to the 69th Congress from
the said Congressional District.
SECOND That all persens qualitied to
vote for the selection of Governor and
state-house officials shall be qualified to
vote in said primary fer the selection of
the Democratic candidate for Congress,
THIRD That the entire vote cast for
Congress in the filicen counties compris
ing the Third Distiict of Georgia shall
be consolidated. and the candidate who
receives a plurality of the vote cast in the
entire district shall be declared the Demo
eratic nominee for Congress from said
district, it qualified, as hereinafter pro
vided, to hold said oftice,
FOURTH That, as soon as the I)mno-‘
cratic Executive Committees of the res
pective counties of the district shall
declare the result in their respective
counties, as to the vote for Congress, the
Congregsional Committeemen from each |
county shall certify the result in his
county to Hon, W. B. Parks, Dawson,
Georgia, Secretary of the Congressional
Executive Committee for said district.
The said Secretary shall consolidate the
vote cast in the fifteen counties of the
district,” and the candidate who receives a
‘plu’rality’ of the votes cast shall be en
‘titled to appoint delegates from ecach of
gaid counties to a Democratic Congres
gional Convention, |
FIFTH That said Congressional Con
yention shall assemble in Americus,
Georgia, on September 20, 1922, at ten
o’'clock A. ‘M. The Secretary of the
Congressional -Committee shall present tuj
said conyention a certified statement of
the vote cast in said district for Congress,
and the candidate receiving the plurality
of the yotes shall be, by said convention,
declared the Democratic nominec for
Gongress. Said convention shall haye
power to clect & new Congressional Com
‘mittee for the ensving two years, to make
a platform and to pass upon any question
that may avise as to the qualifications of
the nominee to hold the office for which
e has been nominated.
SIXTH No candidate for Congrens shall
be declared the nominee of the party if
it is proven that, in the conduct of his
campaign for the nomination, he violated
any of the laws of the state of Georgia
or of the United States.
SEVENTH WHEREAS, the State
Democratic Exccutive Committec has
provided that all candidates for State
office to be yoted on in ‘the Sept',mnb(‘r
primary ghall announce their canidacy
before midnight of July Ist, 1922; and
whereag, the Statec Committee has su.
preme authority in the state in all party
matters, as was decided four years ago
in a contest arising from the Tenth Con
gresgional District, TH EREFORE, any
canidate desiring to contest for the Demo
cratic nomination for congressman for
the 68th Congress from this district shall
on or before midnignt of the first day of
July, 1922, in writing, notify Hon. W.
|B. Parks, Dawson, Georgia, the Sccre
;tary of the committee, that lie ig a cani
date for such office, rewitting with his
notice the sum of ten dollars tor the
purpose of paying postage and’ other
expensed incident to the discharge of the
official duties of the secretary; and after
said date, all entries shall be cloged, and
no person subsequently thereto shall be
eligible for, or can become a canidate in
gaid primary for, the Democratic nomina
tion for congressman from this district.
EIGHTH That all candidates for Con
gress shall pay to the Democratic Ixe
cutive Committec of the respeetive coun
ties of the district whatever assessipent
shall be levied againstsaid candidates for
Congress by said committees to defray
the expenses of the primary, and the
natwe of no candidate failing to pay such
assessment shall be. placed ‘upon the
official Democratic ticket.
- NINTH That»-;.%m
s oasionaldistrict are, ect-
Th itds Go L ee< mm
Much Damage in Lee
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From Heavy Rains.
The rains of the past two weeks
have caused considerable damage in
this section, according to reports
from all parts of the county. It
rained more or less steadily during
last week and up until this morn
ing when the sun came out again,
Some of the bardest rains ever ree
‘vordvd in thig section fell during
last week and this week. Farm
ing has been at a standstiil, but the
erops are geod eonsidering so much
raix with some grass, The farmers
say that all they want is adry June
and July and they will make a good
cotton crop.
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Years Subscription
Free. .
We are going to give one years
subgeription to the farmer bringing
to the Journal office this year the
biggest watermelon, We are not
doing this to get the first one and to
get a large number, but only to see
the size of the melons grown in Lee
county. If you don’t think you
have an average chance we would
advise you not to send it in as peo
ple say theygrow large in Lee.
full requested to publish these resolutions, '
o that praspective candidates and the
publie generally may be acquainted as tn‘
the rules and - regulations governing
said Congressional Primary* s ‘
I, Juno. M. Greer, Acting Sceretary of
he Democratic Congressional Kxecutive
Committee of the Third Congressional
District of Georgia at a meeting of said
Committee held at Awmericus, Georgia,
on May 30th 1922, do certify that the
above and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the resolutions passed and :u\opt-‘
ed by said Committee at said meeting,
This May 3lst. 1922,
JNO. M. GREER,
Acting Secretary.
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Chrysanthmuns all colors 75 cents
per dozens, also a nice collections of
pot plants, ferns, hegonias and ger
aniums, call and and see them.
" Mrs:'S. A, Odum,
Route 2. © Montezuma, Ga
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
1 fact we can fix anything made of wood or irom.
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
Shop Near Stovali and Yeomans Grist Mill,
T e et
One of the best farms in Lee County,
400 acres 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
s g R sesbueg, errii
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}Dr. Bush For Railroad
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~ Commissioner.
Atlanta, Ga., June 1= Organized
labor representatives at a meeting
of the chamber of Industry in
Savannah, it was announced in
political circles here today, referred
the name of Dr. O. B Bush, of Pel
ham, to the various Savannah labor
organizations with the vecommenda
tion that he be endorsed for state
railroad commissicner to be elected
at the general election next fall,
Dr. Bush, it is understood, says
a Savannah dispateh, will receive
the undivided backing of labor in
that section of state, because of his
platform plank in reference to hav
ing various rates of public utilities
lowered.
Recently Dr. Bush, while in
Savannaly, assured J. G. Valentino,
president of the state labor organi=
zatton that he wou'd mdke a fight
to lower public utility rates if he is
elected.
The Pelham physician is quoted
hy Mr. Valentino, as declaring he
believed there are many lates in
creased during the war that should
be reduced now.
D Bush, who is well and favors
ably known in Atlanta, is a former
member of the state legislature and
a former member of the state demo
lcm,tic commitfee. He has besn a
leader in state politics for a number
‘of years. He isa consin of Billie B,
Bush, prominent Atlanta lawyer.
First Cotton Bloom
Of The Season.
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My, O S. Pryor brought to town
Tuesday the first cotton bloom of
the seaon. Mr. Pryor isone of our
best farmers and states that he has
this year 400 acres in cotton and the
prospects are bright for a good
crop.
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