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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLLUME TWENTY-IFIVE
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Georgia Farmers Urged
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To Bid in U, S. Nitrate
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Of Soda Sale
Since the war department has
postpened the date of the nitrate
of soda sale to February 15, and
has reduced the minimum to be
sold from 100 to 20 tons, the de
partment of agricultute is anx
ious for Georgia farmers to take
fuil advantage of this sale and
get a larza quaatity of this nit.
rate for use in nroducing the 1923
colton crop, it was anncunced
Monday by Commissioner J. J.
Brown.
~ “l am writing Secretary of
War Weeks a letter thanking
him most gratefully for the man
ner in which he gJandled this
matter,”” said Commissicner
" Brown.
**Several senators and repre
sentatives- - had requested the
war department to pastpone the
sale date and reduce tre mini
mum, so that farmeas eould bid.
They did not, however, present
the request to Secertary Weeks.
They were not suceessful, and
had atout given up. But the
co-operation of the two Georgia
Seflators and a large number of
the'Georgia representatives was
of inestimable value to Mr.
Bridges in finally getting this
plan through. : |
Neceded Spraying. ‘
. Miss C, L, S. sends us the fellowing
_\ which she received direct from _thel
9;\(],\' referred to: DMarjory; five years 1
old, after hearing for the first time |
the story of Eve and the apple, re
marked: ‘Yeu know, Miss Smith, 1
think the trouble was that tree wasn't ;
gprayed, and Eve ghould never haveg
eaten an apple oif of a tree that wasn't i
gprayed. You never can teil what will
Lhappen.’ "—Boston Transcript, :
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Will sell you your Merchandlse €heap for Cash.
We will exchange anything we have, for anything you
have that has a market value, or we will pay you the
CASH,
Come to see us, we might be of some help to
you. Everybody is BROKE and everybody knows ib,
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Leeshurg, - - Georgia
R H. FORRESTER, Agent
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE GO,
"ASSETS $952.,632,139.00
* Protect Your Family
WITH A GOOD INSURANCE
' POLICY.
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The Journal Moves
Into New Quarters
~ THE LEE COUNTY JOUR
NAL IS THIS WEEK MOVING
INTO THE OFFICE Building
of Mr. J. A. Lipsey just North
of the Court Ilouse. For a num
ber of year the printing office
has been in a wooden building
owned by the Calloway Estate
and we have been trying every
since we purchased the Journal
to get a better building and on
ly last week sucgeedéd in clos
‘ing a three years contract on
the building in which we are
now moving. We have now one
of as nice printing cf¥zes as you
will find In the state and for
which we are very proud. The
neople of our town and county
ought to also feel proud of our
paper and take an interest in it.
A town and county can always
be judged by the home paper.
So it is to your advantage to
support the paper and let’s
have a “Bigger and Letter Pap
er”, and a better county and
Town.
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Melon. Seed for Sale
Genuine EXCELL MELON
SEED sold unde® a guarantee
true -to name, saved by handj
from large melons and dried in
thd shade.# e
Delivered subject to examina
tion; one pound $1.25, ten pound
or more $l.lO.
Jeff A. Taylor,
Buena Vista, Georgia.
Cut for the Championship.
An actor with a decided thrift strala
was told by a Broadway bbtel mani
cure girl that a certain feilow in town
wis called the champion tightwad \b&
cause he. only tipped her a dime.
“Well,”, said the actor, “I'm going to
take the championship away from
him.”
Leesburg, Lee County Ga,, Friday FEBRUARY 2, 1923
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’Dramage For ‘
‘ Health’s Sake
. Solomon said ‘‘To everything
there is a season and a time to
every purpose under the heavens,
a time to cast away stones and a
time to rather stones together.”
D.gging ditches was not specifi
cally referred to by the wise
man, but everyone with any ex
perience knows that ditch dig
ging is no exception to the gen
eral rule, with this as with every
thing else, there is a time when
it can be done to best advantage.
How many farmers, however,
[ know that one of the pest times
for ditching in the southern
states, if not the very best, is
during the late winter months,
At this season of the year farm
labor at least has same choice in
the selection of work. During
the summer rush there can be
none. Then too, soil conditions
in the Southern States.are apt to
be exactly suited for ditch dig
ging in January and February.
Our heaviest rain fall in the
South oceurs at two periods,
during January and February
and during Sune and July. But,
someone says, ‘‘You would not
expect us to do our ditching in
standing water -with the soil
saturated like a sponge? Not
entirely. We were thinking of
the outlet ditches, the biggest
part of the job and the most ex
pensive. The small laterals can
be dug at any time but if the
farmer wants to save money and
time he will dig his main outlet
ditches with dynamite when the
ground is wet. The wetter the
better.
Dynamite works much better
in wet seil than # does when the
soil is dry because under these
conditions dynamite will give a
complete ditch, requiring very
little if any hand cleaning, three
hundred to four hundred feet of
ditch can be shot at one time,
thus requiring only one blasling
cap, all stumps can be removed
cleanly; and the dynamite holes
which must be spaced 11-2 to 2
feet apart can be put down much
faster and cheaper. :
In ditching with dynamite
where the soil is well saturated
with water material can be mov
ed at a cost of from twelve to
;eighteen cents per cubic yard,
Under favorable conditions a
crew of three men can complete
a mile o;' main outlet ditching in
four days by using dynamite
properly spaced and loaded. -
Ponce de Leon crossed the
Atlantic ocean and searched the
| Western Hemisphere in vain for
the fountain of vouth. Any
Southern farmer ecan find it, or
something just as good, on his
own little farm by draining the
mosquitd breeding swamps and
' ponds and by protecting himself
and his family against malaria
and the other preventable dis
eases.
Your State Health Department
employs experienced sanitary
engineers who will advise you
upon request relative to farm
drainage as a health measure.
-PECANS
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WANTED—To buy your seed
ling and paper shell newpecans,
crop only, cash market price paid
for them. Submit samples as
lsoon as gathered, stating approx
imate amount you will have.
l MILLS-MecCORMACK
CANDY COMPANY
ALBANY, GEORGIA
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'Governor Hardwick -
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Will Not Enter
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| Newspaper Field
Governor Hardwick has de
cided not to enter the weekly
newspaper field in Georgia.
The governor said that the
practice of law will so occupy
his time after he leaves the
gubernatorial chair that he will
be unable to devote the time he
had expectad to ‘‘The Georgia
Democrat,’’ as his projected pap
er wag to have been called® He
added that as soon as the neces
sary clerical work could be done
he would return the subscriptions
already received to those who
have sent them.
Governor Hardwick also said
}that he had heard rumors to the
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effect that others were shortly
to attempt the publishing of a
similar paper to the one he had
in mind, and that this belief had
largely influenced him in aban
doning his own plans.
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Church Services
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Leeshurg :
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Baptist—J. 11} Wyatt, Pastor.
Preaching 2nd, and 4th Sundays
Morning and Evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock a. m.
B. Y. B. U. 6 g’clock p.m. every
Sunday.
W. M. U. Menday afternoon fol
lowiig 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Mid Week Prayer Service and
Choir Practice Wednesday evening
7 o’clock. |
Methodigt—J. D. Snyder, Pastor.
Preaching 3rd Sunday, morning
ard evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday. ;
Presbyterian—Rev. Grille, Pastor
Preaching Ist Sunday morning
and evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
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TREES NOT DAMAGED BY WIRE
Belief Long Held Has Been Disproved
by Experiments Made by Univer
sity of Washington Expert. g
In 1918 George R. Rigg of the Unl
versity of Washington heard it stated
that shade trees were being killed by
driving one or two pleces of copper
wire into each. He recently proceeded
to put this to the iest and announces
his result in Science. Six young trees,
‘he writes, from two to four inches in
‘diameter were selected, and on March
21, 1919, there were driven into each
tree five pieces of thick copper wire
1.5 inches long. The end of each wipe
was left flush with the outer surface
of bark. All wires were within six
feet of the base of the tree. The
trees comprised two hemlocks, two
alders, one cedar, one willow.
On July 8, 1922, the trees were ex
amined and found to be perfectly
healthy. In all cases they had com
pletely healed over the wires, and
their growth was equal to that of
other similar trees in the immediate
vieinity. On cutting into the trees it
was found that there was very little
infury to the wood, merely a brown
color showing for about 1.5 inches
above and below the wire, and about
0.25 inch to each side,
A Flying Bishop.
The bishop of Bangor, Wales, has
created a record by flying to Cologne
to deliver a sermon at the age of
seventy-eight years. He is the Right
Rev, Watkin Williams, member of an
ancient Welsh family, the Willlams of
Rodelwyddan, descended from Sir Wil-
Ham Willlams, speaker of the house
%t commons. :
He began his clerical career with
a curacy which few Englishmen would
care to, pronounce, that ef Rhos-lllaner
chrugog, and was for many years rec
tor of Rodelwyddan before becoming
archdeacon of St. Asaph and then
dean. He became bishop of Bangor
nearly 24 years ago.
New Business
Enterprises For
Leesburg
We are.pleased to see new
business enterprises springing
up in Leesburg, which means
that the outlook for the year
should grow more sanguine in
the minds of those who are al
ways looking through pessimis
tic glasses. i
Our new blacksmith shop
which has been open for a short
time is a welcomed institution
and should enjoy a good patron
age from the citigenship hdre
and in surrounding territory.
This shop is owned and operat
ed by Mr. L. E. Powell and is
throughly equipped, and a work
man at the bench that has had
years of experience, an assur
ance that their business will
give satisfaction and grow in
volume, o -
Another is the store of Mr.
J. M. Cannon, which opened up
for business last week, and in
which you can find your hearts
delight im groceries dry goods,
notions, ete. is.also quite an ad
dition to Leesburg.
Give Us The News !
yVe want the news from everyl
neighborhood, including -\every
thing from births to deaths, no
matter where nor under what
conditions they occur.
Write or tell us the news hap
penings; this paper is for the
whole people of this county and
hopes to be an element of pro
gress and prosperity. Help your
self by helping us in inaking a
readable sheet.
You Say You Cav.™
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Advertise?
SRR RR SR Ry L
That’s what others have
said and all of a sudden’
found some competitor
was doing what they
thought they cculdn’t do.
And gettingaway withit.
Get the bulge on your
competitori by telling |
your story in an attractive
manner so it will be read.
You'll get the results.
We Are Anxious to Help
What Shall the Harvest Be?
““For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”’
: Galatians VI:7
This is an unchanging law, just as unchanging as
the law of gravity. -
If we sow wheat we reap wheat, if we sow, or plant
corn we reap corn. A handful of wheat would not feed
a family, butif sown and fertilized would yield a suffi
cient amount to feed a large family several days.
The above is just as true with money as anything
else. We all want to accumulate money and the best way
to do it is to plant it by depositing it jn a good safe,
strong bank, like ours, where it will accumulate and
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Let us~help you with your mdney crop.
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BANK OF LEESBURG,
G.ANESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
Basketcers Suffer
Another Defeat
When we placed the caption,
“Suffer Defeat,” at the mast
head of this articlewe doubt our
own discretion in the choice of
verbiage, for it seems to us that
the locals suffer but little, or at
least not to proficiency in the
winning of games at this royal
sport, it
Leesburg has a master team,
so for as the tact ad talent ot
the players is to be depicted,
though they are weak in some
places. .
This team has a great acu
men individuality though must
have and acquire that same ele
ment in combination before they
can lay elaim to real basket ball
progyess. :
Leslie team were over here
on Wednesday, tue 24th, ' and
the locals went down in this
game with a score of 36 to 6.
The Highs are busy with their
studies and have but little time
to devote to Dall playing though
since we have such good mater
ial here for a team to represent
Leesburg we are anxious that
,they get busy and through or
ganization for the fray. They
can and will have the backing
of the town and we are count
ing on them to furnish us the
ire for some loud hollerin’ ana
glad eventides throughout the
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True Creatness.
He ouly is great who has the habits
of greatness; who, after periorming
what none.in ten thousand could ae
complish, passes on like Samson, and
“tells neither father nor mother of it.”
—Lavater.
‘Holy Carnon” Worshiped in Batavia.
In picturesque Batavia there is an
anclent piece of ordnance half-buried
In the ground, which is known as the
“Holy Cdnnon.” This i 8 consldered
particularly sacred by the natives. At
the breech of the cannon there is a
casting of a man’s wrisc and hand,
olosed tight. This symbol is regarded
by the superstitious natives as a spe
ples of god, and wershiped according
ly. Childless women sit beside it, fully
believing that their prayers for a fam
{ly will be heard and granted. ©
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Quirinal Originally Church Property.
The Quirinal is one of the seven
hil%s upon which Rome stands; it was
dedicated by the ancient Romans to
Romulus, or Quirinus.» The Quirinal
paiace was built in the Sixtcenth cen
-Itur_v by the Roman Catholic church,
;but after the breach between the
' church dnd state in 1870 it became the
\residence of the Itailan kings. The
Quirinal, as it is figuratively used,
,meuns the court of united Italy and
the monarchical regime.
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