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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF | E COUNTY
- AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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Published Every Friday
J. P, H0RNE,............Edit0r
EDWIN F. GODWIN . _Publisher
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FRIDAY, MAY, 4, 1923,
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OPENING OPPORTUNITY DOORE
The United States is now spend
ing overa biilion of dollaes :‘.lln'.l‘l”.\‘
on public school edueation, and
many peaple feel it is an awful som
and should be eut down, And ye!
there are great maszes of people
whose education 18 of a fragmentary
character. They are now fitted fn
citizenship, or for industry or busi-
NESS .
If this country is to get the full
Lenefits that would flow from a
well trained and intelligent popula
tion, much must be done for var
:ous classes of people who have had
limited or no schooling. Mi lions
of aliens need instruction in LKng
hsh speech and other conimon
atudies. Many vourg people who
quit «chool at an early age ought
to have a chauce to make up the
educational defects that they are
beginning to realize.
This great need is being met
guite generally through evening
schools and classes conducted by
social agencies, factories, ete. A
great army of learners are gathering
in such groups, aud the spivit of
persistence and ambition that they
manifest is remarkabie.
While many pupils in our finest
schools and colleges are indiflerent
about their work, and spend their
chief energy on outside interests,
these learners who are making up
educational defects are doing so at
the the cost of toilsome effort.
Most of them have regular, work
through the day, and whenevening
comes they sit down to their books
instead of playing with the crowd,
The young people who are climbing
over obstacles in this way are bound
to make something of themselves.
The city that does the most to
help aliens learn English and as«ist
the young people to improve their
mental and technical vquipmcnl{‘
for life, will be one that will have
the most intelligent working popu
lation, and will likely to lake a
prominent place in the con')pclitimn.\
of the future. |
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A WORD OF CAUTION
The constant and rapid increase
in the number of automobiles sug
gests that the problem of traflic in
city centers and on leading motor
roads will be more than ever per
plexing and hazardous this ,\'e:n'.%
Every season it grows more con
gested. Many people are driving
who have little intelligence, and
not much fear. {
The need for caution, which has
been im.perative for years, l»ocomes{
more urgeat than ever. Unless
people exercise a great deal of care
automobile accidents will be more
frequent than ever before. i
And yet there is plenty of room
in the millions of miles of ruads‘
and streets, for all these automo
biles. The trouble comes almost
entirely because of the speed- with
which cars are oper:ued,;:\aml the
stubborn unwillingness ofia great
number of drivers to consider the
safety of other people, or even their
own welfare,
A kind of madness seems to seize
some people when they get a steer
i wheed in their hands” Many
will ot pay ‘attention to their speed
oueter, and may Jet the same get
ont of order, so they do not know
lhow‘ fast they are going. Muany
people do not want to kpowa,
A lot of people take the attitude
that they have the right of way,
and if they blow their borns it is
the buginess of everybody (o jump
and avoid them. They niake no
allowances for people who are domf,
for those who get bewildered und
comfused, and for heedlegs chi'dren
whio are not mature enough to look
out for themselves,
Hevere treatment i 4 called for a
great body of reckiess drivers, Yet
there are well meaning people who
intend to do what is right, and who
may be influenced by suggestions
of prudence. They should realize
that under existing conditions, it
will be for their benefit to use ex
treme prudence congideration for
the rights of others.
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WRIGLEY'S
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% stomach a lift.
. Provides *“the bit of
sweet” in beneficial
: form.
Helps to cleanse
the teeth and keep
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Revival Closes ai
.
Baptist Charch.
The Revival meeting which
hls been going on at the Baptist
church for the past week and
half closed Wednesday night.
There were 20 accessions to the
church by Baptism and letter.
Rev. J. E. Oquinn an able
preacher from Plains did the
preaching and no doubt his
work among the people of this
place has accomplished much.
Large crowds were in attendance
at all the seryices Both morning
and evening and it was a great
meeting from the Leginning to
the end.
~ Church Services
Leesburg
Buptist—J. 11, Wyalt, Pastor.
Preaching 2nd, and 4th Sunday?
Morning and Evening.
Sunday School 10 o'clock a. m,
} I Y. BUL G ulclock pint. every
Sunday.
- W. M. U. Monday afternoon fol
lowing 2nd and dth Sundays.
- Mid Week Prayer Serviee and
Choir Practice Wednesday evening
7 O‘t‘l()(‘k.
Methodizt—J. D. Snyder, Pastor.
Preaching 3rd Sunday, morning
ard evening.
Sunday Schoo! 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
-~ Presbyterian—Rev. (rille, Pastor
Preaching Ist Sunday morning
and evening.
Sunday School 10 o’clock every
Sunday.
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THE WHITE LEGHORN
—HOLLIS PLACE—
S. C. White Leghorn Pullets,
One Dollareach. Sixty daysold.
Ferris Strain. |
J. E, BILL.
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Melon Seed ‘
The Thurmond Gray water melon |
seed for sale. Place your order
now with C. A. Thurmond, Perry,
Ga., propagator and successful
grower of Melons. Also ger Tiee
with your order o weatise on how
to suceessfully grow and market the
“Thurmond Gray’’ melon.
IHE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA
There are sald to be 53 widows left
of the War of 1512, )
One out of every 12,000 persons in
the United States Is murdered an
nually.
Japanese In the United States now
outnumber the Chinese nearly two
to one,
The United States produces from
two to three billion bushels of corn
annually.
The United States lost far more sol
diers In the Civil war than In the
World war,
Since 180¢ tuwe conl miner In this
country has worked on an average of
190 days a year.
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From 10 to 20 per cent of the value
of the annual apple crops of the Unit
ed States I 8 destroyed by the ravages
of Ingwots,
About $8,000,000 is invested In the
ralsing of silver foxes in captlvity In
the United States, and about U 0
ranches are engaged in the Industry,
During the twenty-five -years of
American occupation of the Philig
pines the school attendance i the
fslands has inereased from 4,41 to
nearly 950,000 pupils.
The United States pald I'rance $15,-
000,000 for the Louisiana territory.
Beginning with the Louisiana pur
chase in 1803, the United States has
aequived territory aggregating 2,987,-
8492 square miles in ggzd at a total
cost of $122,039,768.
PICKED UP
The price of dishonesty Is the fear
of being found out,
Is easy to be plilosophical with
the other man’s troubles,
The trouble is that a lot of folks
et married who should never have
even become engaged.
Indifference is the hardest obstacle
progress has to overcome.
Where you find conceit it is folly to
look for much of anything else.
No one has yet invented an alarm
clock that ecan arouse indifference.
The income tax shows where the
money comes from and then sets us
91l to wondering where it goes to.
The chances are that the man who
2gesn’t live within his present in
come won't be sble to live within it
when it grows larger—Detroit Free
I'ress, :
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A FEW REFLECTIONS
Knowledge and timber should be
geasoned before using,
A shallow mind offers poor anchor
age for broad opinions.
To attain happiness one must give
up the pursuit of pleasure.
Patience is the art, or rather the
practice, of enduring human stupidity.
No wonder egotists find the world
_so ugly, they see only Themselves in it.
There is more fatigue in laziness
than in labor. Someone has said: It's
the things we don’t do that tire us
most.
The excesses of our youth are drafts
upon our maturity, payable with inter
est about thirty years after date.
EYE-OPENERS
Life is what you make it.
The pixotographer knows how a
woman really looks.
Matrimony is life's greatest eye
opener.
A fellow falls in love for a woman's
reason,
Thank God for rotten weather; it
makes us love spring.
SENTENCE SERMONS
Love comes just exactly once—in a
while.,
Ambition needs to look out for brok
en rungs.
The thankless child merely proves
what we all knew.
A perpetual grouch is almost ws an
noying as an endless giggle.
MUCH IN LITTLE
The treasures of the Vatican are
valued at $250,000,000.
Nails on the right hand grow more
rapidly than those on the left.
The great temple of Caaba in' Mecea
can be entered by 19 doors.
The Y. M. C. A. in China has 19,000
members in 174 different organizations.
In the Arctic regions of northern
Canada the thermometer goes to 91
below zero.
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Never go to a goat's house for wool,
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When I argue with a fool there are
two of us,
The way of the backslider is full
of egplinters,
Contentment consists not in great
wealth, but In few wants,
The shortest way to do many things
Is to do only one thing at a time,
Many a man has dled of heart dis
ease brought on by worry over his
heart.
If your horses shy when your hired
man goes near, get another man,
Awmbitlon 1s always commendable,
but when it gets topheavy it is like a
fat man on a banana peel,
Put every tool In its place; the dull
ones by the grindstone, Or, If you
have power, by the emery wheel,
Some people spend so much time
preparing to enjoy the hereafter that
they find little or no pleasure here,
Uncle Levi Zink says that one hair
'n the hash will cause more hard feel
{2z than seven mottoes ecn the wall
f 23 overcdwne,
FLASHLIGHTS
The crooked vay leads straight to
tle jail
It is easier not to offend than it is
to make amends.
The man whose word is as good
as his bond seldom hesitates about
giving his bond.
You never can convince the poor
man that the rich man was happier
when he was poor.
Reason usually has a hard time get
ting a willing audience, ‘
We never bump into a -chronic |
grouch but what we give thanks that
we're not married to him. !
Sometimes the most unsatisfnctory!
thing to get is satisfaction.
The best you can say for some men
is that their clothes are smart. |
The rich go south in the‘ winter and
north in the summer, and we Some
times wonder why they ever go to the
trouble and expense of maintaining a
home.—Detroit Free Press. ‘
LAGNIAPPE
Every man is his own kind of a fool.
Rainy days are good for introspec
tion,
One shoe is the most lonesome of all
things. v
Nothing is sweeter than just love
without frills.
A man can be a hero to almost any
one but himself,
Some men misunderstand women;
others take them for granted
We will now give the plumber the
money we save from the iceman.
" If there's one thing all men would
rather do it's something else.—Rich
mond Times-Dispatch.
- POPULAR SCIENCE
The X-rays are now used by man
ufacturing jewelers to detect flaws in
diamonds and other precious stones.
A gasometer with 'l:.l capacity of 7,
000,000 cubic feet—and said to be the
largest in the world—is being bullt in
Belfast.
One of the largest telescopes in the
world, a 60-inch reflector, has just
been completed for the Argentine Na
tional observatory. :
A tiny flashlight mounted on the
safety razor helps the man to shave
cleanly and quickly, where light is
not otherwise available, It was made
for campers. ’
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§ KINGS AND QUEENS 3
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1, Being king is a small job, but }
i cleaning house is a contract. i
% Every girl is a queen to some
one i
$ Fairy princes are scarcer than g
3 little girls think. o
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¢ Mercy can stand a lot of ¢
i straining and still make good. i
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TRUISMS
There is a liberal education in a
swift kick. -
Accident makes fame, but purpose
holds It
The aviator is not envied by =
happy mole,
Home is any place where youn would
rather be—Richmond Times-Dispateh.
FARM FORSALE
108 Acres
~ ON DIXIE HIGHWAY
$35.00 Terms, __ BARGN
10 ACRE FARM FENCED.
Country Bungalow Near Albany.
- 100.00 PER ACRE
Wallace Realty Co.
LEESBURG, . : GEORGIA
FARMER'S EXCHANGE
e e e ss e et
We will sell you your merchandise cheap for
cash of we will exchange anything we have for any
thing you have that has a market value or we will
help you get the cash. Come to see usmay-be we can
help you, let’s spend our money where it wiil go the
fartherest, our place is where you can do it Good
stuff at reasonable prices, we are going to work to push
and pull regardless of what people say or think.
. There are no obstacle but what we will under
take to remove, great or small. We can’t go back
there is no room at the bottom, we can go forward for
there are few at the top. Let’s get this old grouch
look off our faces. Smile and the world will smile
with you. Let’s smile or bust.
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J. M. GANNON, Mgr.
e
Leeshurg, - - Georgia
YOU ARE NEVER
Secure From Fire---
But you arc secured from going ‘‘broke’’
after the fire if your property is properly
insured. :
’ Others consider it better to pay a little for
insurance than to lose a lot by fire. How
about you?
I represent the most reliable Companies of
America. )
: To Cd THARP, s
Leesburg, - Georgia.
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M@dlCllle
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I have a complete line of Patent Medicine of all
kinds now in stock and can supply your. demands
for most anything, Castor Oil, Turpentine, Epson
Salts, 666 Chill and Faver Tonie, (iroves Tasteless
Chill Tonic, Vicks Salve, Vaseline, Quinine, Cap
sules. You can buy this at a big saving by buying
from me.
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J. K. FORRESTER,
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Leesburg, 22--22 Georgia
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