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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 \ e | . 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 = \ 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 — e f e ‘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. NITRATE OF SODA | Imported Direct From ~ SOUTH AMERICA Use it on your COTTON - GRAIN - CORN » And Grow a Crop. Get latest prices from GEO. T. BURTON, Smithville, Ga. R NITRATE AGENCIES CO. Agents, Savanmab, °.° . Georgia Number 3.