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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR
Longest Day
In The Year.
We notice that the daily press
carries a statement that yesterday,
Thursdav, June 22nd,was the long
est day in Lhe year,so it must be ro.
However, we had already taken a
look at the calendar that had it
marked as lLeing Wednesday, the
21st, which puts us to wondering
and to studying Greer’s, Velvet
Joe’s and some othor alhanaes, by
which we had heon determining the
best time to go fishing, plant beans,
kill hoge, make scap, efc., though
the deeper we delved the wore con
glomeration we stepped into, for no
two of them gave the rising and
setting of the sun alike, so we are
ready to take anybody’s word for it
as l:nth days seemed ratner elongat
ed and hot to a workingman of our
caliber, and hereafter we are going
to kill oyr hogs, make our soap and
and do our fishing on our own
darned judgment.
GOD’S OWN.
1 : et e
(T. W.M.)
He who can gaze in the deep blue sky.
And see God’s beauty pictured there,
Or note the grace of the birds, as they fly
And flit through his sweet air—
He who can scale the mount’s highest tip,
Or blaze a path through its wooded vale
And in each finds sweet companionship,
That plants hissoul in the highest pale—
-Ile who can ‘watch thelightening’s flash,
With never a thought of fear,
And bears but music in the thunders crash
And welcomes the storm with a cheer—
He who can stoop for the lowliest flower,
And in its fragrance finds an added charm
Orstalks the wild bird:to its nesting bower
With no inteut of harm—
Yea, ‘tis he whom all the earth must laud,
*Pis he who will never a duty shi’k,
For truly, he’s the child of God.
The acme of bis handiwork.
For Sale.
A good second hand open buggy
in gosd repair. Will sell same
cheap for cash.
W. A. CURTIS,
At Blacksmith Shop.
_» FIRSTE _
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Our S ice to K
This bank has been a consistent friend of the Farmers
of Southwest Georgia. It has extended them accommoda
tions to enable them to buy their fertilizers and make
their cropf, it has assisted them in marketing their crops
and it has furniched them a safe and convenient place in
whish to deposit the moneys which their harvests have
yielded them.
= Just now we offer special service to Watermelon,
Cantaloupe and Peach Growers. We ean handle your
drafts to all markets and give you every banking service
that will expedite the marketing of your erops.
If your returns from these crops should leave you ;
more money than you have a present need for, you will
find it safe and profitable to depoeit it in our Savings
Department and let it earn you interest at the rate of
4% per annum,
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED '
Citi First National Bank
ALBANY, GEORGIA
s Te R ST, 2 P RINST < R R R R
CARBON PAPER AND TYPEWRITER RIBBONS.
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The 8011-Weevil
Problem.
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We are in receipt of the following
letter from our United States sena~
tor, Wmn. J. Hariis, anent the 801 l
Weevil problem, which should be of
tnterest to every farmer who is rais
ing cotton and which should,
through the interest thus elicited in
their behalf by Senator Harris,
make him more staunch in the
hearts of his constituency than he
even now s, -
The letter is as follows:
Dear Mr. Editor:
The boll weevil has great inter
est for Georgia, and the latest
information has been compiled by
the Department of Agriculture in
Bulletin No. 1262 on ‘‘The 801 -
Weevil Problem.”’ 1 believe there
is much information in that bulletin
which should be in the hands of
eyery Georgia cotton grower, and I
will be glad to send a copy of that
bulletin to any one requesting it.
I hope it will be possible for you to
make brief mention of this in your
paper.
I.et me know when I can serve
you, and with Lest wishes, I am
Very sincerely yours, -
Wm J. Harris
City Tax Notice.
The books for giving in eity tax
are now open. If you have not
made your returns yet do so at once
and save yourself of being double
taxed. *The city clerks office is in
Stovall Yeoman Lyons Co. Store.
R, H, FORRESTER,
Clerk and Treas.
Road Tax Notice.
l All parties subject to Road Tax
are hereby notified that same are
now due and that I have been ap
pointed Road Tax Collector for the
Teesburg, Red Bone and Palmyra
Districts. Please settle same as
eaily as possible.
D M. MELVIN,
Road Tax Collector.
Leesburg, Lee County Ga., Friday JUNI 23, 1922
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Some More Automobile
Law
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Clause 3, Section 7 of the Georgia
Motor Vehicle Law says;
“A number, when issued, shall
not be transferred from one vehicle
to another, and shall not be used
by any person or upon any motor
vehicle other than motor vehicle to
which it is assigned, and any use of
said number by any person in any
‘manner not provided forin this Act
ehall be a violation of said Act,
provided, however, where a maotor
vehicle has been duly registered in
the office of the Secretary of State,
and the number assigned to said
motor vehicle for the year, the own
er of said motor vehicle to which
said number bas been assigned may,
upon the sale or exchange of said
motor vehicle, transfer and assign
the number assigned to said motor
vehicle to the purchaser of said
machine by registering such trans.
fer in the office of Secretary of State,
and the payment of fifty cents,
which shall accompany said traps
fer or registration, and upon said
transfer the assignee of said number
shall stand in the position of the
original person in whese name such
number was recorded.’’
As we’ve told you, the publie,
about the other laws we’ve quoted
and commented on, you’d better
come to the scratch on this one for
it is common knowledge throughout
the state that this section is being
flagrantly violated and the officers
attention are being called to its en
forcement. Just remember that
an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. ;
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Examinations Set For
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Georgia Postal Jobs.
Waghington, D. C. June 21.—The
following Georgia postoffice examinations
to be held July 18 are announced here
today: Bainbridge, Cedertown, Coving
ton, » Douglas, Fort Valley, Hartwell,
Monroe, Montezuma, Newnan, Quitman-
Rossville, Waycross and Waynesboro.
Place your order for JOB
WORK now.
Homers To Race From
Here Saturday
400 Pigeons to Enter Contest in
Speed Flight From Oglethorpe
To Washington.
The people of Oglethorpe and
vicinity will havean opportunity on
Saturday morning, at an early hour,
of wilnessing the spectacular sight
of seeing abont four hundred pedi
greed homing pigeons hop oft on
their racing flight to Washington,
D. €., a distance of about 600 miles,
wherein their records of time will
be as accurately recorded as are
those of the best blooded horges” in
the derby races, while at Washing
thg}r owners will as anxiously and
eagerly await their arrival as do
the fans at real horse races watch
for the passing of the nose of their
favorite under the wire. ‘
Thes e pigeons, which will be
liberated from their crates in the
middle of Main street by Mr. J. A.
Bush, American Express agent,were
shipped here by Geo. J. Gatéau, of
Washington, who with them sends
feed, explicit directions for feeding
and liberation, and on their being
loosed word will be wired him of
the exact time, weather conditions,
ete., relative to their leaving.
This is not the first pigeon race
that has been staged from Oglethorpe
one haying been started from here
last July, nor is it the last ono as
another is on program during the
month of July, the birds for that
race to be sent here by the same
party who sent them last year,
when in little less than 24 hours
the birds began reaching their cote
at their home, thig flock winning all
prizes over competitors though they
were retarded in their flight by
having to pass through storms ex
tending through three states.
The flight from here to Washing
ton, under fair conditions, will
doubtles be made 1 much less time
than required by the birds last year.
If you have never seen the “‘start’’
of homers, you should come out and
gee this one—just watch the birds
preen their wings for flight, watch
the same restless anxiely to ‘‘be
off’” as is noted in horses at the
start, hear their eager calls when
the word ‘‘ready’’ is given and sece
them as they all ceem to leave the
crates at once, see them cut the air
with their sharp wings as they arise,
see them circle in search of l)(cal'-{
ings—then see one lead off with all
in hot pursuit for their home where
they will be welcome and fondled
by their owners, who are true sports
and know and enjoy true and clean
sport.—Macon County Ciitizen,
Church Services in
Leesburg ‘
Baptist—J. H. Wyatt, Pastor.
Preaching 2nd, and 4th Sundays
I Morning and Evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock a. m.
B. Y. P. U. 6 o’clock p.m. every|
Sunday. l
W. M. U. Monday afternoon fol
jowing 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.
Presbytcrian—Rev. Grille, Pastor.
Preaching Ist Sunday morning
and evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
| Sunday.
Subseribe for your home Paper—
Job work a SPECIALTY.
Will Judge Max
Land Announce °
For Governor?
A strong pressure is being brought
to bear on Judge Max K. Land, of
Cordele, to induce him to ‘become a
eandidate for governor, and though
to this time Judge Land has been
non-committal, since the publication
in the daily press, on last Sunday
of & complete outline ot his advo
cated reforms in the state judiciary
and an exposition of his ideas and
ideals of a true and applicable
government for Georgia, all of
which constitutes a splendid plat
form, there is no doubt but the
jn‘essurc will become so great that
Judge Land will either have to turn
‘a deaf ear to his champions or grace
fully submit and enter the field for
the gubernatorial toga.
The Judge’s advocacy is for a
strictly economical administration
and applicaticn, and in keeping
with the conditions and times in
whieh we live, He would urge and
work for strict retrenchment. He
shows the eyil of aud the cure for
money rule. He favors a cut in
appropriations of one third amount
except the common school fund,
the pay of Confederate veterans, the
school for the blind and the lunatie
asylum. He is against the building
of an expensive mansion as a home
for the governor. Ie urges the
selling of the present state farm and
buyivg a better and smaller one that
would be self-sustaining, or of put-t
ting the convicts at some ntherl
humane work where they would
bring an income into the state or at
least prove self-sustaining. Hel
urges the abolishing of the State
Highway Commisgion and to allow
the gasoline and auto tag tax to go
into the-county wherve they are soll,
giving as his reason therefor that
the state highways under this éx
perinzent are not better and in many
instances not as good ag those main- |
tained by the county commissioners.
He opposes the bond issae of $75,#
000 000 or any other sum at this
time for paved roads because the
people are too much involved for
this extravagance, Ile is against
dfid ;
J. E. Johnson and W.:L.Thompson
Proptietots, S
We are prepared to all kinds of Blacksmith Work
on Buggies, Wagons, Log Carts, Plow Tools and
i fact we can fix anything made of wood or iron.
Horse Shoeing a Specialty.
Shop Near Stovali and Yeomans Grist Mill,
One of the best farms in Lee County,
400 acres high state cultivation, gray
and ted pebbly land, well im
proved, $5000.00 home, 1-2 mile R.R.
3:ltion—Good Terms
See R. R. Forrester
Leesburg, eorgia
Number 21
Prof. J. H. Hope '
In Race For State
L]
~ Supt. of Education
It will no doubt be of interest to
the many friends of Prof. J. H.
Hope to know that he is in the race
for State Superintendent_of Schools
of South Carolina. Prof,. Hope is
well known and liked by everybody
in Lee County., He was Suaperin
tendent of our City Schools in Lees
burg, for one year. Heis a man
of high traits and we cannot say in
words what we think of Prof. Hope
as a man—we only wish that we had
the opportunity to cast just ohfa vote
for him. The people of South
Carolina can make no mistake in
clecting him to the office of State
Superintendent of their schools, and
we wizh him much success.
Theatre Party.
Complimentary to Miss Maggie
Baldy, of Bowling Green, Kentucky,
whe is visiting Mre. M. [, Bunkley.
Mrs. R. E. Howe entertained at a
picture party in Albany Tuerday
afternoon. Those enjoying the trip
were, Miss Maggie Baldy, Mrs. Roy
Jordan, Miss Eleanor Jordan, Mrs,
Reid Stovall, Mrs. M. 1.. Bunkley,
Mrs. R. E. Howe and Miss Edith
Howe.
issueing bondsto buy A. B. & A. or
any othér railway. He would have
the General Assembly meet only
every two years, congidering that
often enough and saving of half the®
expense of its maintenance.
This is but a part of Judge Land’s
advocacy, though all of it is as sane
and as philosophic as is this, and
knowing him as we do as a fearless
man, a deep thinker and one who
hasg the welfare of Georgia and all
Greorgiur.s at beart, it is our earnest
desire to see him come before the
people and at their hands be seated
as our next governor.