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"THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-EIVE
“Glocmy Cus” Predcis
Many Disasters in 1923
Professor Gustav Mayer, as-i
trologer of Ho!.oken, N J. whosei
card modestly proclaims him
“nation’s caunsellor’’ can see noi
“happy new year’’ ahead. His
predictions, based dn a study of
the stars, show that 1923 will see: '
Another flu epidemic; cut
breaks of strikes and "violence;.
terriffic -earthquakes;. subwafl
cave-ins and collapse cof sky
gerapers; Wall Street failures
plague in ‘the public schoois;
explosions and fires on ships at
sea, continued wave of murder,
and increasing number of divorce
and scandals among clergy, press
and the bar. - |
Farmers Making ;
Improvements in
-~ Lee County
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. It is very evident that every
thing in general is getting bet
ter. The farmers in all sections
of the County are building new
farm houses, barns and making
‘other improvements. Some of
the best and largest barns to be
found are being built by some of
the big farmers this year.
Our farmers are beginning to
‘diversify their crops and within
a short time we will not know
“the boll weevil ever hit Lee coun
ty. This year Lee county raised
~2bout 4000 tons of peanuts which
is at the present price worth
~ more than-the same number of
® hales of cotton. Besides this
Lee county shipoto-the -thou
sands of dollars worth of pecans
which is another coming indus
~try for this county. Our farmers
now have several car loads of
‘hogs but are holding them for
better prices before putting them
on the market.
It has been said that cotton
was our only money crop but we
think the farmers of this section
are convinced that this is not
true and are going to prove it
within their own mind and show
that money can be made on the
farms of Lee county with some
thing lLesides cotton.
Undergoes Operation
- Mr. Kline Kirkpatrick lefton
Monday for Plains hospital,
where le seeks surgical
“treatment, at the bands of the
noted Drs. Wige. A
The many .friends of this young
man hops that his restoration to
normal health wiil be complete
and speedy and-that he will soon
be at home again. :
R. H. FORRESTER, Agent
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE GO,
' ASSETS $952,632,139.00
~ Protect Your Family
WITH A GOOD INSURANCE
< S BaleY. |
FARMERS URGED TO
5 ATTEND MEETING
[N ALBANY ON ’
i FEBRUARY 9TH l
To Form Cotoperative,
l Marketing Organization
To Handle the Pecan
' And Peanut Crop of this
‘ Section. ;
! The Journal is publishing below
ia letter from Mr. R. E. L. Spence,
of Albany, in regan_i to a meet-
I ing to be held there on February
9th. We think it is probably the
best thing for our farmers and
urge them to attend this meet
ing. The letter is as follows:
Kditor Lee County Journal,
Leesburg, Georgia. -
Dear Editor:-
lam writing to invite your
attention and the attention of
your splendid paper toa little
news item which may have escap
ed your notice, namely, the visit
of Mr. Aaron Sapire, of Califor
nia, to Albany, Ga., on February
9th for the purpose of meeting
and discussing in. detail with the|
farmers of all over this favored
section of Georgia the possibility
of the organization of the pea
nut and pecan into a cooperative
marketing organization.
To my mind this will be one of
*he most important events of
this year for this section of Geor-.
gia and I hope that you will be
kind enough to cooperate with
me and assist me in getting the
very largest audience possible
from all over South-West Geor
gia, to hear this wonderful man.
In this coqnection it is unneces
sary for me to tell you of thel
wonderful work Mr Sapiro has!
done for California. I feel that
you already know this. And‘
also the splendid service which
Judge R. W. Bingham, of Louis
ville, Kentucky, with the assist
ance of Mr. Sapiro, has done for‘
Kentucky by the organization of
the Kentucky Tobaceco Growers
Association into a cooperative
marketing plan for their tobacco.
Immediately after .the war
Kentucky, like nearly all other
states of the Union, was finan
cially prostrated. Horse racing
and Horse breeding had gone to
the bad, there being no market;
tobacco was selling for 1-2 to 2
cents per pound, and Kentucky,
like Georgia and nearly all of
the other states, was in finaucial
chaos and prostration. But at
that time some of the Jeading
citizens of Kentucky appealed-to
Judee R. W. Bingham, owner
!and publisher of the Louisville
| Courier Journal and the Louis-
Leesburg, Lee Connty Ga., Friday JANUARY 19, 1923
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New Baptist Church
Nearing Completion
The new Baptist= church ™ will
be completed this month about
the 27h, according to informa
tion. This church will cost about
$lO,OOO and will be modern in
every respecl. There will be 14
Sunday School rooms with .an
anditorium to seat five hundred‘
or six hundred people. The name
of the church has been changed
from the Leesburg Baptist church
to the Calloway Memorial in
memory of the Calloway family
former residents of this city.
O
yille Times, two of the most im
portant daily papers in that sec
tion of the United ‘States, and
therefore to large an extent a
mculder of publid opinion on
public events and of business, to
do something to help Kentucky
out, For it wasa time when it
was absolutely necessary that
something must be done, Judge
Bingham’s attention was finally
concentrated on conditions, he
realized that Kentucky’s greatest
hope for prosperity was in the
raising of and profitablely selling
tobacco. Naturally this was the
first possivle remedy to which he
gave his attention. And realizing
that the trouble was not in the
raising of tobacco, but in profit
ablely selling it, he at his own
expense went out to California
and spent several weeks or
months in - studying the Sapiro
plan of marketing farm produets,
and became convinced that this
plan was the solution of the far
mers problem of marketing his
products. He therefore, at his
own expense, brought Mr. Sapire
back to-Kentucky with him and
spent several months in the
organization of this Kentucky
Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Marketing Association. Before
the organization of this associa
tion tobacco was selling from 1.2
to 2 cents per pound, almost im
mediately upon its organization
the price of tobacco became 25
cents per pound and is today
lselling for more than 30 cents
per pound, and it is a fact that
today, almost due entirely to the
organization of this cooperative
marketing plan for tobacco, that
Kentucky is Leginuning to be one
of the most prosperovus states in
entire United States.
To my mind this is such an
important subject that I would
love to see every farmer through
out Georgia present at this meet
ing, for to my mind the greatest
problem before the farmer is not
in raising products, but in selling
them. Every manufacturer on
the face of the earth, except the
farmer has the most expert
talent and brains that money can
employ to sell his produets. The
farmer on the contrary works
hard all the year, makes and har
yests his crop, brings them into
the warehouse, dumps them on
the floor, all at the same time in
an un-organized and un-systema
tic way, and says to the bhuyer,
“What will you give me for ic”’
and has to take what he is offered
Cooperative marketing of farm
producis to my mind is the solu
tion for the present weak con
dition of the farming interest of
the entire country.
Won’t you therefore, help me
to get an audienca for Mr. Sapiro
at Albany, Ga., un February 9th,
next month. Don’t forget, don’t
fail and give this plenty of pro
|minence and publicity.
With kind personal regards,
l Sincerely,
: R.’E. L. SPENCE.
‘Ten Priseners Deliver
| Themselves Late
Thuday Night
All Escapes Are Negroes
Ten inmates ,of the Houston
County,#jail, including several
convicted felons, made thei
escape late last Thursday nigh'
through a hole about two fee:
square in thelsouth 'end of the
jall wall. They used their blan
kets to scale'the3{wall. Cflicers
believe the work leading to the
delivery was an inside job. The
escaped men were all negroes.
Jesse Holden, white {man, who
was confinedon the upper floor
was the only prisoner who did
not get away.
Luciug Mallory, convicted for
murder at the April, 1922, term
of Houston Superior Court, sen
tenced to die, and whose case has
been appealed to the Supreme
Court; Aaron Clark, convicted of
manslaughter, at the October
term, and sentenced to fifteen
yearsin the penitentiary; Floyd
Roach, under charge of muder,
with a mistrial declared at the
October term; Clint Cherry. held
under charges of burglary; Wal
ter Johnson, charged with simple
ilarcency; Otis Rutherford, held
for burglary; Eugene Maxon,
alleged forger; Lovett loster,
%accused with assault with intent
to murder, and Yancey Brown,
\vagrancy, were the prisoners to
escape.
[ Friday morning about 8 o'clock
when Asa L. Woodward went to
the jail to feed the prisoners, he
discoyered only a void where his
prisoners had been. He found
Jesse Holden in the upper story
corridor. Holdzn told him that
the inmates on the ground floor
‘were working all Thursday after
noon and the early part of that
night, and got away at about
10:30 o’clock. Holden said an
autcmobile came to the jail some
time between 8 and 9 o’clock,
and left tefore the inmates went
out.
L. B. Griggs, deputy sheritl,
fed the prisoners Thursday after-l
noon at one o’clock. Then, every‘
thing was all right, he said. |
The hole in the wall seems to
have Leen dug by someone on the
inside, officers say.
There were only two prisoners
in cells, The others were out in
the ground floor corridor. The
bolts in the two cells were remov
ed, and the pair joined the eight
men. The door to the jail was
apparently opened with a crow
bar.
Houston County officers have
hroad cast news of the escape,
and are scarching for the escaped
negroes. :
(ity Court in l
- Session This Week
The City Court of Leesburg
convened here. on Monday with
only a light civil and eriminal
docket. All the cases were
finished and court adjourned on
Tuesday. - =~
is a Prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It’s ‘
the most speedy remedy
we know, preventing Pneu-}
monia. ’
Nrs. Annie McDonald
Dies From Burns
Mrs. Annie MecDonald, 21 years
old, wife of Warren MecDonald,
died at the Phoebe Putney Me
morial Hospital, in Albany, on
last Monday morning at 3 o’clock
from the effects of burns she
suffered at her home, 126 Broad
Street, the morning of Decem.
bor 23rd, when her clothing
ignited while she was standing
in front of an open grate. See
was badly burned at the time
and little hope had been enter
tained for her recovery from the
first. ‘
Mrs. McDonald was a former
resident of Leesburg, until a few
months ago, at which time they
moved to Albany, where they re
sided at the time she received
her fatal injury.- Mr. McDonald
was employed here by the State
! Highway Department.
~ Deceased is survived by ker
husband and three small child
ren, four years, two years and
six weeks old.
The body was taken by the
Albany Undertaking Company
to Thundering Springs Baptist
Church Tuesday afterncon for
burial. Funeral services were
conducted by Rev. J. B. Turner,
D. D., pastor of the First Baptist
church of Albany.
-PEC ANS
WANTED—To buy your seed
ling and paper shell newpecans,
crop only, cash market price paid
for them. Submit samples as
soon as gathered, stating approx
imate amount you will have.
MILLS-McCORMACK
CANDY COMPANY
ALBANY, GEORGIA
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‘One's ldeals.
Humanity never rises above its
fdeals. What ought to be is always
above and beyond what is. Unless,
however, we have before us the vision
of something better, weacun never
rise above what we are.—Kxchange.
‘ ° ®
Procrastination
© “Defer not till tomorrow to bé wise,
Tomorrow’s gun to thee may never rise.”’
—Congreve «
- You have manvy times determined to prepare your
self for future opportunities. Probably you have as
many times put off taking the necessary steps.
Some folks say that opportunity knocks but once;
" others say that it knocks more than once; however that
may be, it is surely inability to take advantage of oppor
~ tunity knocks all the time '
Opportunity is knocking at your door now. It points
the way for you to take advantage of taking a fresh
start in life by opening a bank account, accummulating
money with which to take advantage of the next good
investment that comes alorg.
There never was a truer saying than the old adage
‘it takes money to make money.” How many times in
your life have you said to yourself “if I only had the
money, I could make some money out of "that proposi
tion?” :
Every day you are putting off opening a bank ac
_account and accummulating something puts you just that
much further from taking advantage of opportunity.
Make the start today even if it be smull. We will help
and give you every encouuagement possible.
BANK OF LEESBURGE,
G A NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
wJuf i : T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
ITO Attend Conference
~ Of Employees of
' Central of Georgia
Agent J. H.|Kirkpatrick, of
Leesburg, and of Central of
Georgia KRailway and other
employes of the road have
been invited to attend the annual
conference of employes at Macon,
January 25 and 26. Representa
tives of the Central from all parts
of the system to the number of
more than-five hundred, will be.
present.
The purpose of the annual con
ference is to discuss plans for
the betterment of the service,
and to hear reports of what has
been accomplished during the
past year. Records show that
the Central made excellent rec
ords for efficiency and econmy of
operation during 1922. There
was a remarkable reduction in
the amount paid out for loss and
damage to freight, which of
course means that shippers were
receiving improved service.
Claims for loss, damage and de
lay to baggage were the lowest
in the history nf the road and a
fine record of economy in the use
of fuel was made.
The conference will convene
in Macon’s city auditorium and
will be presided over by G. L.
Candler, assistant general mana
ger.
W.R.Grace & Co.
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