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THEAEELOGUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
Peanut Association
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- Makes Plans for Big
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. Volunteer Week Dnve‘
Albany, Ga., April 4,—With the
preliminary work out of the way,
the Georgia Peanut Growers Co-op
erative ~ Associaton began this week
determined and concentrated efforts
to eign up 50 per cent of the 1923
acreage of peanuts in the 25 counties
comprising the territory of the asso
¢iation. Withe the field forces of
the association active in many coun- |
ties heretofore unvisited, it is cxpcc-l
ted that every county’s organization
“will be brought inte a state of pre
paredness that will enable it to put.
over its contract quota with a mini
mum of paid workers, if indeed,
not entirely by volunteer efforts.
Col. R. E. L. Spence. chairman of
the executive committee and of the!
organization committee, has set lxisl
heart on doing with this association
something no big co operative ever
did—complete the organization'
without any paid workers. I
During this weck, officers of the
association, county Chairmen and
representatibes of the State Bureau
of Markets are signing contracts in‘
every part of the asscciation’s terri
tory, and with every contract signed,
if possible, they are obtaininga
signed pledge from the grower to]
sign at least one other man to a
contract. s ‘
Plans are well advanced for **Vol
nfteer Week,”’ which will be from
\i\.&il 93 to May 1, and during
which the most intensive effort will
be made in every county in the asso.
ciation to put over the minimum
. quota for that county. Volunteers
“are now signing agreements in large.
_numbers to put their services at the!
disposal of their respective county
Chairmen for at least two daysduring
that week.” Automobiles are being
lined up for use of the werkers, andl
it is believed that there will not tei
an unsigned grower in the 25 eoun=;
ties who will not be visited that week. ‘
One coanty—Dougherty—has set
for itself the ambitious task of sign
ing its minimum quota in half a day
Paul J. Brown, Chairman of the
county committee, has secured a
jarge number of volunteers, botb
farmers and business men, who have
a completedist of all the farmers inl
that connty and they will make a
concentrated drive that day to puti
Dougherty across. !
FARM LOANS
UNLIMITED 6 per ceat Money for
- Goods Farm Loans in Lee County.
W —SEE—
R E L. SPENCE
Albany, Georgia
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I have a complete line of Patent Medicine of all
linds now in stock and can supply your demands
for most anything, Castor Oil, Turpentine, Epson
Salts, 666 Chill and Faver Tonie, (iroves Tasteless
Chill Tonie, Vicks Salve, Vaseline, Quinine, Cap
sules. You can buy this at a big saving by buying
from me.
| J. K. FORRESTER,
_;;{Leesburg, " gsmegy Georgia
’ ~ Petit Jury List
Drawp at January Quarter
ly Term For April
Term 1923.
S M JonesSr M S Childers
M W Kitchens E J Bell Jr
R T Jones A L Andrews
M W Bryan Willis Bowen
J H Kirkpatrick H T Kearse
G C Kearse J R Usry
H D Logan J H Randall 8r
Herbert C Johnson S M Jones
H H Laramore . G H Laramore
T.S Burton Jr O P Womack
Roe Lewis HL Longa:Tr
Gid Stocks W H Long
J O Morris R H Forrester
The Country ]
| Newspaper
The country newspaper man
dislikes (o blow his own Horne, ‘
probably does not do it enough‘
for his own benefit. He is so busy
tooting away for the welfare and
progress of his home community 3
that he has not much time leftin
which to think up plans for the
benefit of his own business.
His home folks will forgive him
if once in awhile he states hid
ambitions for his sheet, tells
what he wants it to be, outlines
ithe service he desires to render,
and states what he belieyes with
proper co-operation his newspa
per could do for his communlty.
The country newspaper, if
’ handled right, should be a power
ful force to inspire the people of
;its home town to work for pro
gressive measures. Also in 0
far as it makes a creditable and
‘wide awake' appearance, it
\spreads abroad the impression
;that the town is an advancing
place. The country newspaper
ris the home town’s best adver
tisement.
The Macon County Citizen will
print in a few succeeding issuesa
brief statement of the ideals itis
trying to exemplify, and the ser
vice it feels that such a sheet
may be able to render. It will
'try to tell what it means to have
2 bright and newsy sheet printed
as an exponent of the life of
Oglethorpe.
Leeshurg, Lee County Gua., Friday APRIL 6, 1923
.
Delegation From
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Leesburg Visits
Ashburn
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We had a delegation last week
who went to Ashburn to investigate
and see just what the people in Tur.
ner County were doing towards
diversification and co-operatiye
marketing as you seen considerable
in the papers as to what Turner Co.
was doing along this line, these men
report that nothing has been overs
estimated and it is a revelation to'go
and see Just what they are doing.
The real motive in this trip was
to get ideas and start something like
(this in Lee county, we need a coun
ty Chamber of Commerce, a farm
demenstrator, and a co-operative
marketing system whereby our peo
ple can raise any quantity of farm
produce and, after this is done, get
a decent price for it.
I em thoroughly conyinced this
can be done if our people put the
vigor behind it that they shoull, 1
am informed by some of these men
who went to Ashburn that they
found the people there raising chick
ens in any quanities, one man ship
ped on theday this delegation was
there five hundred chickens at an
average of two pounds a piece at
thirty-eight cents a pound, the
Ashburn people have an association
who handles this stuff and the pro
ducer fouud a ready market for his
produce. They also have a cream
ery and ship any quanity of butter.
The farmers and business men of
[.ee county should wake up to the
situation and call a mass meeting
immediately and formulate some
plans of this kind and encourage
the people to divergify and bhave a
market for their produce when it is
ready to be sold. /
Lee county ic one of the best
counties in the state. 8o far as pro-~
duetion is conrerned and the thing
wee need to do is to wake up and
get busy. As a citizen of thecoun
ty I stand ready to put forth every
effort I can along this line.
Statistics show there is only five
chickens to every man, woman and
child in the United States, this is
indeed a very small amount when
we take into consideration the num
ber of chickens we country foiks eat
during a year, and we can readily
reaiize that some of our city friends
are not eating as many chickens dur
ing the year as we ourselves are.
In 1921 there were 510,000,0000, so
ichickens raised in America and in
1922 543 009,000, so you will ob
!serve from this we are making some
{progress but there is room for more,
‘the average price is 65 cents, and
ithis should at least make it attrac
tive to the growers.
The eggs sold in America last
year produced $500,000,000, which
consisted of 1,962.365,000 dozen,
I would say some eggs, how many
of these did the Lee county people
put on the market. These figures
are worth thought and I firmly be
lieve if our farmers would diversify
and put as much energy behiud
other things as they do ie raisicg of
cotton with a co-operative market
gystem it would only be a matter of
a few years when we would have
one of the richest county’s in the
state.
Some Risk in Everything.
While it may be true that the man
who risks nothing gains nothing, it is
also true that gain does not depend on
risk alone. In all business there is an
element of risk, but in DLusiness this
element is smaller than it is in specu
lation,
Proof to the Contrary.
od4d thing about yawning; the doc
tors say it is caused by a deficiency in
the supply of alr to the lungs—and yet
a fellow usually does his best yawning
when somebody Is pumping “hot air”
into him.—Boston Transcrins.
‘Sumter Leads In
| Cotton Production
Terrell is a Close Second.
Randolph Holds Fourth
Place in the List.
Sumter county led Georgia in]
cotton production for the season
1922-23, according to the last re
port issued by the department of
commerce, through the bureau
of census, showing cotton ginned
by counties for the crops of 1922
and 1921.
Sumter county produced 22,342
bales, as compared with 18,143
bales in 1921-22.
Terrell county ranked second
with 21,547 bales, against 15,537
bales the previous season, and
Carroll county came third with
a crop of 19,928 bales against
20,692 Lales for the season of
1921-22. Randolph county rank
ed fourth with a erop of 16,110
bales, against 11,467 hale the
previous season,
The total for the state amount
ed to 735874 bales, against
822,621 bales for the season of
1921-22,
IN OTHER COUNTIES
Following shows ginnings in
counties in this section of the
state:
County: 1922 1921
‘ Baker - 89 1,685
Calhoun 7,106 6,119
‘ Chattahoochee 1,808 1,416
Clay 4,345 2,613
Colquitt 11,504 12,050
Crisp 8,117 12,743
}Dooly 14,396 12,743
Dougherty 4,2i6 3370
Early 9,231 6,481
Lee 3,850 3,455
Macon 9,606 9,172
Marion 3,700 2,766
Mitchell 10,441 11,230
Quitman 959 675
Randolph 16,110 11,467
Schley 5,193 3,766
Stewart 6,307 4,463
Sumter 22,343 18,143
Terrell 21,647 15,547
Tt 8,657 6,383
Turner 7,656 6,746
Webster 1,989 1,500
Worth ; 10,266 9,499
Counties that produced less
than 1,000 bales each are: Bald
win 902, Campbell 781, Clayton
454, Crawford 934, Dawson 591,
iGlascock 993, Green 345, Han
cock 761, Jasper 297, Lincoln
729, Lumpkin 355, Monroe 579,
Putnam 164, Taliaferro 919,
White 595, Wilkinson 716.
American Glee
Club Coming
The American Glee Club isl
coming April, 11th, Wednesday
evening at 8:15. |
All who heard the Harp Sing
ers know what our Lyceum at
tractions are like. Come out
and hear the American Glee Club,
They have a fine program, then
to all above expenses of the at
traction will be given for school
improvements by the men who
are backing the Lyceum courses.
Business Changes Hands
Mrs, J. H. Kirkpatrick pur
chased this week from Mr. D.
M. Melvin, his grocery and meat
market. Mrs. Kirkpatrick will
run the husiness in the same
stand and will no doubt do a good
business as this was already one
of the Lest §small businesses in
town, ander the management of
of Mr. Melvin. Mr. Kline Kirk
patrick will also operate a barber
shop in the same building.
Plea to Georgians
Begs Them to Aid
Fish Preservation
An appeal to citizens of Geor=
gia to co-operate with the depart- J
ment of game and fish to preserve
the fish of Georgia was issued
Saturday by J. Frank Rhodes,
state commissioner of game and
fish.
He called particular attention
to the Georgia law prohibiting
the use of nets, seines, traps or
other devices (except hook and
line) for catching fish between
Feh. 1 and July 1. ‘
He alsa called attention to a
statute prohibiting the use of
such devices throughout the year
from sundown on Fridays to sun
rise on Mondays to catch shad.
The object of this statute, it
was explained by Commissioner
Rhedes, is to break up seining
parties organized at week ends
to make wholesale hauls of shad
in south Georgia streams, where
this species of fish comes up in
to iresh water to spawn.
~ The commissioner’s statement,
warning citizens that unless the
fish laws are enforced there will
soon be no fish in Georgia stream
is as follows:
““Let us save the fish!
“I desire to call the attention
of the people of the inland coun
ties of the state to the advantage‘
of their co-operating with this
department in the enforcement
of the act of the general assem
bly of Georgia which prohibits
the use of nets. seines, traps, or
any plan or device for the stopp
age or collection of fish, from
Feb. 1 toJulyl. All of these
devyices must be removed from all
creeks, streams and inland was
ters of the state.
R. H. FORRESTER, Agent
NEW YDBK LIFE INSURANGE GO,
Protect Your Family
WITH A GOOD INSURANCE
POLICY.
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Is Your Ship Coming In?
|
| You often hear people say they are going to do
1 “‘thus and so’’ when their ship comes in. Did you ever
stop to think that your ship will never come in until you
} send one out. '
| You must build your ship in this world by industry
| and thrift, and it is not so hard after you once begin
| and get the habit.
! Which would you rather hear people say of you:
| “‘yonder goes John Smith, who struck it lucky on a deal
] and cleaned up a pile,”’ or ‘‘yonder goes John Smith, the
| man of means, judgment and influence, who has made
‘ money by keeping steagily at it and by saving what he
; has made—a man who does things?”’
: What you would term a ‘‘lucky streak’’ only comes
g to one in a thousand, while we can all become indepen
dent if we go about it in the right manner.
Let us help you on the way to independence. We
; feel an interest in you, and this part of the country.
’ You are a part of the countiy, are you going to do vour
] part? :
BANK OF LEESBURG
!
. G ANESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
' Underwood
for President?
Suggestion of the name of U,
S. Senator Oscar W. Underwood
of Alabama for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency
has found very generous approval
throughout the entire country,
particularly in"the South, accord
ing to Georgia political leaders.
Mr. Underwood is a Southerner
to be sure. His grandfather was
a United States Senator from
Kentucky, as he himself isa
Senator from Alabama. Yet Mr,
Underwood, by virtue of his long
service in Congress, has become
a national figure, and sectional
antipathy would cut less figure
with the voters of the country in
his case than in that of perhaps
any other man from the South.
} Two years ago the Democratic
defeat was of such a nature that
it amounted to a disaster that
looked very much like the party’s
extinction. Yet today, thie party
with a resiliency almost unparal
jleled, has managed to resume its
armor of battle, reports state,
and is ready to enter the big
fight, confident almost to the
point of certainty.
There may come to the front
more than one man. At the same
time right now the name .of
Underwood is impressiye and will
|give to other candidates congid
erable anxiety.
Uncle Eben.
“Dar’s mighty few people,” sald
Uncle Eben, “dat don’t believe dey’s
fntitled to sympathy; an mighty few
dat won't resent it, if you offers It too
liberal.”
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