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THEAEELOGUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE Peanut Association ; ? g 1 - Makes Plans for Big . . 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 ~® o . eaicine e s 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 - . Leesburg Visits Ashburn ; e 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. |ei ° 7 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.” Number 11