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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-I'IVE
Two Essentials in
& ”
Clean Up” Effort
From some source in the com.
munity there always is coming
the call for a ‘‘Clean Up Day”’
or a ‘‘Clean up Week.” :
- Whoever makes the suggestion
will mean well, but he or she
really would help the community
more by starting the slogan:.
“Don’t ecall ita ,‘day’ nor a
‘week.’ Lets havea. real cam
paign.”’ i
A ‘day’ is merely pathetic, and
a ‘‘week’’ is hardly long enough
to make even a fair start. |
Make it a- ‘‘campaign’’! And
KEEP IT UP as long as may be
necessary to do a real job; then
renew it on the same basis,
spring—and fall, to "‘get ready
for the indoor months.”
That’s the first essentia| of any
successful community effort in
such work.
The second essential is to pub
licly commit to the new order of
things, whatever is cleaned up.
For example, converting the un
sightly dump into a playground,
or painting the vacant lot with
the green of grass and shrublery
or a thrift gard=n—but, however
it be done, ‘‘clothe it in the garb
of righteousness,’’ and thereafter
its cleanliness and. orderliness
will be respected by everybody.
. Eleven years of experience in
this work and in reading the re
ports of the thousands of com
munities that now conduct some
such work, have demonstrated
to the writer both the futility of
community clean up efforts that
are merely ‘‘a lick and a pro
mise’’ and the utility and effect
iveness of the real campaign,
well planned and properly con
ducted.
These facts are generally rea
lized most of - all by those city
official who look after the com
munity cleanliness and health,
and generally with inadequate
budgets. It is impossible for
them to co-ordinate their efforts
with those of every householder
within a sixty day period, though
the public co-operation ' that can
be enlistedin a real campaign is
invaluable to them, and to the
community, in the visible and
lasting results secured and in the
gense of personal responsibility
for continuous care taking in
these matters that is inculcated
by such a campaign. :
To “‘Get the habit”” is the
thing, and that never can be
done in the aunual bath of a
‘‘day’’ or a ‘‘week.”’
FARM LOANS
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Goods Farm Loans in Lee County.
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J. K. FORRESTER,
Leesburg, 23==32 Georgia
Former Editor of
- Journal is Dead
PFLHAM, March 21.—-Z. V.
Blanton, editor of the Pelham
Journal, died at his home here
today about nown. Mr. Blanton
hought the Journal from H. P.
Merry about three years ago and
has since conducted the paper as
editor and proprietor.
He is a son of the late S. R.
Blanton, who died of pneumonie
following influenza about six
weeks ago. Mr. Blanton dled in
Washington, D. C, and was fol
lowed by his wife in about a
week’s time, of the same malady.
Editor Z. V. Blanton was called
to Washington during his par
ents illness and it is thought he
contracted flu there which finally
resulted in his death today. He
leaves a wife and several child
ren.
Where to Trade
We call the attention of our
readers to the big advertisement
of the oldest and best established
business in Americus, this adver
tisement is that of Mr. Chas. L.
Ansley. Mr. Ansley appreciates
the trade of the people of this
gection and is telling you so
through the colums of our paper.
We trust that when one of our
readers are in Americus and have
anything to buy, they will go to
Ansley’s for it. He carries a
complete stock of the finest
merchandise to be found in South
Georgia and as his expenses are
not as high as the city merchant
he can giye you much better
prices.
| ettuce---Letuce
I have plenty of large head
Lettuce for sale at 5c per head.
Will deliver anywhere in Lees
burg if you will notify me and
give number of heads desired.
MRS. MARY BUNKLEY.
As Usual,
There was a woman [n our town
who was so wondrous wise she used
her ears for hearing things, for seeing
things her eyes. And when she’d
heard and seen it all, what did this
temale do but use her tongue for tell
ing every blessed thing she knew.==
Exchange. -
leeshurg. Lee County Ga., Friday MARCH 23, 1923
National Negro
Health Week
From April 1, to April 7, has
been designated as National
Negro Health Week. Last year
is the first time Health Week was
ever observed by the megroes of
Lee county, howeyer we are glad
to recall the fact that the work
was a very good success consid
ering it was g 0 new. We shall
ever he grateful to the good
white folks of this county for
co-operating so heartily with us
in this effort. |
Realizing the fact that we are
living as no two races ever dared
to live kefore in the history of
civilization, living quiet and
peaceably together in the same
community, in the same towns,
and the same city with the
stronger race assisting the weak
er along lines of intellectual,
financial, physical and moral de
velopment, it is no wonder that
America is considered the most
humane of all nations now exist
ing. :
It is not possible for twu peo
ple to live in such close proXimi
ty and the physical condition of
the one not affect chat of the
other. We are urging the ne
groes to practice more sanitary
hatits in order that they will not
be a menance to the community
in which they live.
- 1t is not uncommon to see
colored laundresses doing their
‘work in unsanitary homes, and
‘many times cooks and maids
icome out of homes where germs
abound, and even where some
member of the family is sick
with a contagious disease.
Many individuals are germs
carriers yet themselves are im
mune and may never develop
the disease that they give out
to others.
We are putting forth strenuous
efforts to correct the conditions,
for they are not abstract theory
but real concrete facts.
The following is the Health
Week program:
Sunday, April 1: Sermon and
lecture day.
~ Monday, April 2: Hygiene day,
talks by doctors and nurses.
Tuesday, April 8: Swat the fly
d.y, destroy brezding places of
flies and mosquitoes.
Wednesday, April 4: Tubercu
lois day.
Thursday, Aprils: Children’s
Health day.
_ Friday, April 6: Church and
Schoo! house sanitation day.
Saturday April 7; General clean
up day.
l —By ANNIE MEAKINS
Church Services
Leeshurg
Baptist—J. H. Wyatt, Pastor.
Preaching 2nd, and 4th Sunday?®
Morning and Evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock a. m.
B: Y. P. U, Bulelock p-ni. every
Sunday.
W. M. U. Monday afterncon fol
lowing 2nd and 4th Sundays.
Mid Week Prayer Serviee and
Choir Practice Wednesday evening
7 o’clock.
Methodigt—J. D. Suyder, Pastor,
Preaching 3rd Sunday, wmorning
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.
Pension Payments Due
To Start Next Month
ATLANTA,—~The first pay
ment of 1923 pensions will likely
be made this year between April
15 and 20 and as usual, will cover
one half the pension list, the re
mainder to be paid at a later date.
The matter of proviaing for
pensions was under discussion by
the State authorities today and
it was found there is not a bal
ance in the treasury at this time
with which tomake pension pay
ments. Last week a temporary
loan of $500,000 was madé to pay
the school fund, which exhausts
the horrowing power. but tax
payments which are to be made
will begin to come to the treas
ury about the first of April, and
itis estimated a sufficient amount
will be accumulated in the treas
ury by the 15th or 20th of that
month to meet one half of the
pension payments.
Freight Rate
Reduction Necessary
Says Senator Harris
Urging a reduction in freight
rates in the southeastern terri
tory, especially in time to assist
in the movement of the crop of
peaches, watermelonsand canta
loupes in Georgia, U. S. Senator
William J. Harris has conferred
with Commissioner J. B. East
man, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, it was stated. Mr.
Eastman has been the represen
tatiye of the Commission holding
hearings in the southeast and he
informed the Georgia Senator
that the entire question was now
under consideration by the Com
mission.
Senator Harris is quoted here
as saying that substantial re
ductions in freight and passen
ger rates were necessary to as
sist in the revival of better busi
ness conditions, and that the far
mers and fruit and vegetable
growers needed cheaper freight
rates to put their products on
the markets.
The Georgia Senator brought
to the attention of Commissioner
Eastman the reports of higher
earnings by southeastern rail
roads as compared with other
sections.
Notice
~ Notice is-herchy given that the
Central of Georgia Railway has made
application to the Georgia Public
Service Commission for authority to
discontinue its agency at,Adamsg,
Georgia, and appoint a caretaker in
lieu thereof.
This application will be heard by
the Georgia Public Service Commig
cjon at meeting Dbeginning at 10
o’cluock A. M., April 10th, next, at
its offlces in the State Capitol, At
lanta.
All parties besiring to be heard
in conncetion with this matter
should communicate with the Com
mission on or hefore the dale named
above. E
This notice is given in accordance
with the requirements of the Ga.
Public Service Commission.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
- * By H. D. POLLARD,
General Superintendent
| Cures Malaria, Chills
lsss and Fever, Dengue o
Bilious Fever. :
Peach Spraying
~ Advise is Given
‘ By State Board
The state Board of entomology
Friday issed a bulletin telling
the result of experiments in spray
ing of peach orchards during the
past year in effort to control
curculio and brown rot.
The department advises peach
growers to spray their early va
rieties three times during the
seasun, and the late one four
times.
For dusting the growers are
advised to use a mixture consist
ing of 95 per cent lime and 5 per
cent arsenate of lead. This
should be applied twice, the first
immediately after the pedals
haye fallen and the second when
the calves are shedding and the
small peaches are exposed.
They are then advised to make
two more ‘‘dustings,”” using a
mixture of 80 per cent arsenate
of lead. The third application
should follow the second in about
two weeks, the fourth- made
about four weeks before each
variety is due to ripen.
Saw Mill for Leesburg
Mr. R. F. Pope recently pur
chased a new saw mill which he
is now running at the old Far
mers Gin Co., location. It sounds
a little off to hear the old gin
whistle at this time of the year
and especially at 4 o’clock in the
‘morning. Mr. Pope is ruuning
on regular time and is cutting
several thousand feet a day.
R. H. FORRESTER, Agent
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" G A.NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
! T. C. THARP,JCASHIER,
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Old Confederate
Soldier Passes Away
At Smithville
Mr. John Toster a prominent
citizen of Smithville, died at his
home there Sunday morning at 9
o’clock alter o lingering illness of
several months.
Mr. Foster has made his homein
Smithville fora number of years
and loved by theentire town. He
was a confederate soldier and at the
time of his death was about 76 years
of age.
The funeral service and interment
occurred vt the Primitive Baptist
cemetery at Sumter City, Monday
afternoon at three o’clock.
Deceased is survived by his wife
and several children who have the
sympathy of the entire town.
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Baptist Church
Seryices Sunday morning and
evening.
Morning Subject—Unclothed
and clothed upon.
Evening Subject—The seeking
Shepard and the lost sheep.
Wednesday evening 7:30, four
out of town Campaign Speakers.
Come no collections.
Revival meeting to begin 4th
Sunday in April.
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BRIDGE PARTY
Miss Ruth Harris entertained
several couples on Thursday
evening at her home on Main
street at a bridge party. Three
tables were used and all. report
a most enjoyable time.
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