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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR
Minutes i
utes of Meeting of
Commissioner
s of Lee
County May Term 1922.
In office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenu:s, Lee County, Georgia,
Meeting of May 2, 1922, All members being present.
GEORGIA—LEE COUNTY.
In office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of said County.
Owing to May term of Lee Superior Court being in gession and in accordance
with this regular custom this meeting is hereby adjourne:d until next Tuesday, May
Geh 1922,
J.J. FORRESTER, Clerk.
GEORGIA—LEE COUNTY.
In office of Comnissioners of Roads and Revenues of sald County.
Persuant to adjournment of last meeting until May Oth 1922, the meeting is
now in session with all members present.
GEORGIA—LEE COUNTY.
In office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Said County.
After consideration the following bill and accounts were ordered paid
T C Tharp, Treas. Cash items as per bill 5196 86
R H Forrester, Reports to State bureau of Vital Statistics 2 50
( H Laramore v iy o o 300
J [ Randall 2 00
ILee County Journal, Printing as per bill 17 00
S A Duncan, Five days gervice as balilf in Superior court 15 00
W K Knight, 7 dags as road guard in May 9 31
R W Davis Garage, Repairs for motor car 175
I. E Powell, L. C 5 days as baliff at Superior Court (Riding) 20 00
Dennis Pugh, Repairing bridge R ¥ D No 5 50
D M Melvin Jr, Beel for convicts as per bill g 705
D M Melvin, Seryice as baliff bill rendered 60 09
R E Howe, Suplies for convicts as per bill 8 95
G A Wallace, Cash paid out for repairs on typewriter 10 00
J L Cooper, April salary as road guard 50 00
J W Coston *f - e o 49 00
W C Averett, 10 days as salary as road guard 1835
R M Baskin, 20 days service as road guard 26 66
W K Kmght, 1 Months salary as road guard 40 00
Roy Scarbrough, Salary as tractor driver 100 00
J D Mcßride, April salary as Warden 100 00
Mrs W H Forrester, Board for Jury and Baliff 12 50
Leeshurg General Repair Shop, Blacksmith work as per bill 23 40
P C Coxwell Sheriff, Services and expense rendered as per bill | 277 35
Jeft Styles, Preaching to Convicts 160
Mrs H J Tyler, Beef to convicts as per bill 16 06
G A Wallace, Services rendered as clerk bill submitted . 99 67
Austin Bros Baidge Co, Iny 3-18-22 110 75
W A Neel & Sons. Inv 4-1-22 70 00
Mrs J W Lyons treas, Dinner for Jury and bailiif 700
Lee Sales Agency, Labor and parts for motor cars 6 21
R R Green Tax Collector, For postage : 25 00
Tyson & Stubbs. Lumber as per bill : 153 24
W A Curtiss, Blacksmith work 890
Leesbuog Drug Co, Drugs for convicts Bill rendered 775
Stoval Yeoman Lyon.Co, Supplies for convicts as per bill 120 45
F T Moreland, Repairing road, Palmyra District 6 50
leesburg Auto Co. Parts for motor cars 295
G D Richards, D. 8, Services and expense for the arrest of sundry prisoners 69 00
J F Hines, D. S. Feed bill for prisoners 316 69
G A Wallace, Clerk, Cost in Sundry cases bill rendered 51 00
P C Coxwell, sheriff ‘¢ 5 oy £ 107 00
B E Powell & o o £f 13 85
P C Coxwell sheriff, For lands purchases by County for taxes 5436 83
Americus Gro Co. Sundry Inv on file 1136 00
Southern Bell Tel & Tel Co, For service rendered to date - 8 50
Walker Evans & Cogswell Co, Inv 3-14-22 85 03
Standard Oil Co, Sundry Inv on file 157 77
Americus Gro Co, Iny 4-25-22 83 42
Albany Produce Co, Sundry Inv on file 144 98
W G Martin, April salary as Judge of City court s 12500
O W Stathan, April salary as county phy 25 00
§ J Yeoman, Asst to warden 50 00
J J Forrester, April salary as clerk of Board 25 00
In addition to the above, scripts were issue 1 all panpers appearing on the list.
GEORGIA LEE COUNTY,
In office of Commissioners of Roads & Revenués of said county.
Order fixing commutation road taxes for the year 1922,
The Alternative road law for the State as it rppears m code of Goorgia and
{he acts ammendetory thereof: Being in operation in the County and by virture of
the authority conveyed by the aforesaid laws, and the exercige of our official duties
we hereby assess and levy a commentation road tax of $5.00 upon each male
inhabitant in said county subject to road duty for the year 1922, and it is ordered
that said assessment and tax shall be due and cotlectable on an<d after this date.
May 9th 1922, but that gaid time shall remain open for the payment of said taxes
until the 15th day of Sept 1922.
It is further ordered that all paupers be reported at this body by the road
tax collectorsin the manner provided by law that they might be dealt as by Statuate
in such cases.
Witness our hand and official signature, This May 9th 1922.
S. J. YEOMAN, Chairman.
W. L. CHILDERS, Com.
S. M, COOKE, Com.
GEORGIA—LEE COUNTY.
In office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of said County.
Whereag. it is necessary that an appointment be made for the collection of
road taxes and for the preparation of the digest for the use of tax collector, for the
year 1922 and it har been agreed that Mr G D Richards be appointed to prepare
such digest and to collect such road taxes in the District of Smithville and Chokee}
and Mr D M Melvin for the Districts of i.cesburg, Palmyra and Red Bone. Said
tax collector hereby appointed are to receive for said work 10 per cent of the
amount collected. Upon completion of said digest they are to have in advance
30 per cent on account of gaid work and the balance of said commission of 10 per
cent above referred to is to be paid to them upon completion of said collection.
S. J. YEOMAN, Chairman. :
W. L. CHILDERS, Com.
S. M, COOKE, Com.
This is to certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Minutes
of the meeting of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Lee County. Held
this the 9th day of May 1922,
J. J. FORRESTER, Clerk
Typawriter Ribbons $l.OO Each At This Office.
Leesburg, Lee County Ga., Friday JULY 21, 1022
PEACH MOVEMENT
END IS IN SIGHT.
Week’s Total Will Bring
Shipment Above 7,000.
Expect to Send Out 75
This Week.
Due to the bulk of the peaches
having been shipped to the market
only few scattering shipments will
be made during the week, The
!(ieorgia Fruit Exchange has dis
continued its daily report giving the
number of cars shipped and the
prices quoted at the Eastern
Markets.
By the end of the week the entire
peach crops in Georgia will be mov
ed to the markets. The peaches
that are being shipped from Geor
gia at the present time are coming
from counties in the northern and
western parts of the state. While
a few cars from TFort Valley are
being moved.
Railroad offleials state that the
movement should total obout 75
cars for the remainder of the season,
which will bring the total move
ment of cars above the 7,000 mark. |
Lee County May
Boast First Bale.
The editor of this paper spen
several days of this week in Lee
county at and about Leesburg, and
was most favorably impressed with
the prospect of a fair cotton crop.
Already cotten is opening rapidly
and while it shows a curtailment
from the eflects of the ravages of the
boll weevil, the prodaction in that
section is more promising than in
most sections of Georgia.
In all likelihood by the time this
paper goes to the people, a bale of
Lee county cotton will have been
gathered, ginned and marketed, as
we were told by one of thestaunch
farmers of the neighborhood of Lees
burg, on Monday, that if the weather
stayed dry and warm that he would
put some pickers to work on Tuesday
for the purpose of getting in an early
bale, which he thought he would be
able to place on the market by the
last of the week.—Macon County
Citizen.
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First Bale Ginned |
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At Omega, Ga.!
Moultrie, Ga., July 18.—Geor
gia’s first bale of cotton of the 1922
crop wag ginned at Omega Monday
night by J. W. Lang & Co, It was
grown on the farm of Horkan and
Lindsey, near Omega. ~The bale
weighed 490 pounds. It was ship
ped to Atlanta by express, and|
and auctioned off on its arrival
there.
It is the earliest first bale gin
ned in South Georgia ina num
ber of years, and two weeks
ahead of last year’s first bale.
The cotton c¢rop throughout thiz
section is usually forward - and
the picking season will be well
under way before the end of July.
~ This cotton arrived in Atlanta
and was auctiored off on Wednesday,
at the Atlanta Commercial XEx
change, being bought in by H.
Hilbrath for J. J. Williamson &
Co., the price being a premium one,
fifty cents per.-pound, as compared
to the market quotation of Wednes
day of 227 cts.
This looks pretty good to the
yaiser of this cotton, for oot only
did heget it in and out early enough
to beat the boll weevil, but he beat
his neighbors to the premium as
well.
} OUR EXCUSE.
~ Itis one of the frailties of
humanity to give a reason for
all things good and to render
excuses for those things that
do not measure up to the
standard of excellence that is
expected. Hence, we, the
office devils, herewith make
excuse for the low standard of
the Lee County Journal, this
week, which we hope the
readers will accept.
The editor has been away all
week frolicing. We haven’t
heen away, but you remember
the adage that is old asitis
true, ‘‘When the cat’s away,
the mice will play’’——we’ve
been frolicing too. |
lOur Representative
| At The P
i t ihe Press
ok
| Association,
. The Macon County Citizen and the
Lee County Journal are this week
represented at the annual convention
of Georgia editorg, in Quitman and
Brunswick by Mr. Julius Horn, of
jLeeslmrg. On Monday hundred of
‘members of the Press Association
met in Quitman, where for several
days they will hold forth with a
splendid program and enjoy the
Lospitable treatment that is held out
to them by those good people.
Their entertainment ineludes barbe
cues, banquets, dances, rides, ete.,
if the common reading public knows
what ‘“‘etz.”” means in newspaper
parlance.
FFrom Quitman the pencil pushers
will take a trip down to that splen
did coast town, Brunswick
where they will again enjoy that
true Georgia hospitality that can but
emanate in the hearts of guch people
as abound there, and here, besides
heing taken for a plunge in the surf,
they will be escorted aboard a boat
and carried over the bosom of the
n;ighty Atlantie, to nestle forawhile
on some near by island before return
ing back to assume responsibilities
that will no donbt b 2 broadened by,
the trip and the meeting together and
discussion of the necds and future
development of the possibilities of
(ieorgia.
Mr. Horn will likely return home
about next Sunday. '
Local Ballist Gather An
Easy One #'rom Sasser.
Our little neighbor town has
grown alittle ‘‘sassy’’ of late
becavse of the fact that they
have won several games of ball
played with the Leesburg bunch.
However, on Tuesday after
noon, on the Sasser field, and by
the decision of a Sasser umpire,
the local boys succeeded in tak
ing the starch out of their necks
and the game as well, to the
tune of 10 to 4.
The game, throughout, after
the first inning, in which Sas
serites placed four runs to their
credit, was an easy go for the
locals, for in the second inning
they popped them out and beyond
the reach of the fielders and
when ‘‘three outs’”” was called
they had scored six and the op
posing team seemed to have lost
their pep, in as much as they
failed to stage a come-back with
another score.
The home team, however needs
some more hard work before
they can be quite sure of their
supremacy, for though they play
well they have some weak points
that need strengthening and
more military precision in their
action. Get to work boys and
tak’em as they come.
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. RENVIA C.
YOUNGBLOOD.
Though the summons came not
unexpectedly to her, her family
or her friends, yet the death, on
yvesterday morning of Mrs. Ren
via Cannon Youngblood; at the
home here, was no less a sorrow
ful shock since her kindly and
ministering Christian spirit had
so entwined her personality
about all who knew her as to
make her going, even though it
were with the assurance of her
entrance into the realm of God’s
angelic hosts, an epoch of sadness
and all bowed in sweetest homage
at the dissalution of soul and
body.
Mrs. Youngblood, in her
seventy-eighth year, was a native
of Florida, from whence she
removed to this place in 1868,
hence was of that ante-bellum
type of the Old South thatis
typical of gentlest and deepest{
charity toward all mankind and'
that makes them likewise loved
and revered.
Deceased was a member of the!
Methodist church and adhered
to its principles so devoutly asl
to proclaim to the world her true
‘beautitudes as a woman of God.{
She was preceded to the grave]
by her husband about forty-|
seven vears, and out of nine{
children born of the union there|
are three left, they being Messrs'
W.Z,J.W.and E. T. Young
blood, all citizens of this place.
Death, which had been im
pending for some time, she hav
ing been in a lowly state of health
was due to no cisease in particular
but to infirmity of age.
The funeral service was con
ducted by Rev. J. D. Snyder
after the body was laid to rest
in the Leesburg cemetery, there
to await the resurrection,
The sympathy of the com
munity rests with the sorrowing
sons for truly no loss is like the
loss of 2 mother.,
THANKS.
The old story of the town
farmers living in town because
he’s in closer proximity to bread
and meat than if he were living
on his farm, won’t go any
longer.
Mr. Barney Usry, who liyes
here ana farms out in the country
is a real farmer and we’ll bet
a box of popping matches against
a saddle blanket that all his
crops are most promising, which
is indicated by a large and lus
cious melon which he brought in
to the Journal force this morn
ing. The melon is the largest
and nicest we have had brought
in thus far this season.
~ Thanks, Mr. Usry, may you
live long to raise many more
}such melons with a kind remem
brance for poor editors and their
office devils.
Secure From Fire---
But you are secured from going ‘‘broke’’
after the fire if your property is properly
insured.
Others consider it better to pay a little for
insurance than to lose a lot by fire. How
about you?
I represent the most reliable Companies of
America.
T. C. THARP,
Leesburg, - Georgia.
FAST SOUTHLAND
WRECKED; EIGHT
SERIOUSLY HURT
| Five Coaches Overturned
Caused By Broken Rail.
At an early hour yesterday, Thurs
day, worning, the Southland, fast
passenger train en route from
Chicago to Jacksonville was wrecked
on the Central of Georgia railway
about eight miles north of Leesburg,
when it struck a broken rail that
precipitated five cara into a ditch
with their human freight.
Thyee of the cars were pullmans,
the others being a diner and a day
coach.
Kight people were hurt, several
of them seriousgly, though none of
them were local people. They
were: —
Mrs. W. A. Conyers, Sarasota,
Fla., puncture wound in left side
gnd dislocated left shoulder.’s
Mrs., 1. Hohman, Louisville, Ky.
Small of back injured.
) Mrs. C. M. Swindel, Newberry,
Fla., lacerated scalp.
~ H. S. Walters, White Pine, Tenn.
Lelt shoulder ana back hurt.
Mrs. J. A. Wallace, Tampa, Fla.,
right arm sprained and very nerv
ous.
Mrs. Mary R. Mitchell, Maritns
ville, Ind., left hip and breast bone
hruised.
E. . Freidman, Atlanta, Ga.,
very nervous.
Eloise McDonald, Jacksonville,
Fla., negress, bruises.
In a very short time after the
wreck occured a hospital train was
made up at Albany and was soon
at the scene of the wreck with
physicians, surgeons and nurses
aboard and trausported the injured
to the Albany hospital, where they
are being cared for.
The train, so says the engineer,
was runring at about forty-five
miles an hour when it struck the
broken rail, the engine and a part
of the train passing over the defec
tive rail before it gave way.
The small list of injured is
attributable to the fact that the
wreck occurred on a straight, level
stretch of track, that the passenger
list was small and thatthe oyerturn
ed cars were of the latest all-steel
pattern.
~ Wrecking crews were hurried to
the scene to clear the track, and
throvgh hard and effective work
traffic was resumed in the afternoon
NOTHING LIKE IT.
Recipe: Take one reckless,
natural-born fool. Two or three
big drinks of white mule. A fast
high-powered motor car. Soak
the fool well in the liquor, place
in the car and let him go. After
due time, remove fool from the
‘wreckage, place same in black,
gatin-lined box, and garnish with
flowers. Serve cold.
Number 24