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LOCAL NEWS.
o M. Kirby Summerford, of At
lanta, is spending several days of
this week in Lee county with rela
tives.
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The Pment-Teacher Association
held their regular meeting Thurs
day alternoon.
~ Everybody has been *‘courting’’
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Roby, of Ma
con, were visitors to relatives in
Leesbt_\rg_ this week.
Phone us for-prompt delivery if
you want anything in fancy grocery
line, we have it. J. K. FORRES
TER. .
Mr. and Mrs. Merrell Stewart, of
Louisville, spent Monday and Tues
day in Leesburg the guests of the
latters parents, Mr. and Mra. AW,
Godwin.
Miss Sara Pope was a visitor to
Albany Tuesday afternoon.
An ad a day keeps the sheriff
away.
- Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cannon and
Mrs. H. D. Cannon and children
were in Albany Thursday.
WHO? .~ WHO? WHO?
Will buy B. F Cassel’s Residence,
Walnug leights.
T WALLACE REALTY CO.
Mrs. Robert Pace, of Leslie, is
spending this week with her daugh
ter, Mrs. R. R. Green.
Miss Ruby Exum was a visitor to
P}aius Wednesday.
Mrs. Bonnie Mae Kennedy had
as her guests this week, Mrs., Me-
Gi!l and daughter and Mrs. McTier
of -Plains. ‘
You will find at all times a com~
plete line of fancy groceries at my
store. ’Phone us and your order wil
be delivered promptly. J. K.
FORRESTER.
Mrs. W. W. Hooks and Miss
Neva Green were visitors to War
wick Friday.
Mrs, J. \V. Lyons was cailed
home last week from Douglas where
she hed been spending some time
on account of the death ot Mr.
lipsey. ;
WHO? WHO? WHO?
Wiil buy B. F. Cassel’s Residence:
Walnvt Heights. 3
* WALLACE REALTY CO.
Rev. J. H Wyatt filled his re
gular appointment at Acree and
Sumner last Sunday,
666 quickly relieves Constipa
tion, Biliousness, Headaches, Colds
and Lagrippe.
Rev. J. H. Wyatt will leave Mon
day for Kansas City, where he will
attend the Southern Baptist Con
yention which meets in that city.
666 cures Malaria, Chills and
Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever,
It destroys the germs.
Smithville was well' represented
at Superior court here this week.
I will appreciate the patronage of
the farmers of Lee county when in
need of Plow Tools or Ilardware,
cull and see me. J. K. FORRES.
['ER.
Rev. and Mrs.J. E. Oquinn, of
Plaing, were visitors to Leesburg
last Sunday, Rev, Oquinn assi-ted
in the funeral services of Mr. J. A.
Lipsey.
WANTED—2 cook stoves, second
hand in good shape, 1 four eyes and
| siX eyes. Apply at Journal for
information if you have either.
Mr. and Mrs. George D Williams
of Miami. Fla., are spending sever
al days of this week in Leesburg
with friends.
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I will be at the following places
for the purpose of collecting the
State and County Tax Returns for
1923. All other days I can be
found at the Court House in Lees
burg: . :
RED BONE.
Phelem, Tuesday, Feb., 20th,
Beloit, Tuesday Feb.-27th,
E. J. Stocks Store, Wednesday,
March 7th.
SMITHVILLE
Saturday, Feb. 24th,
Saturday, March 10th,
Saturday, April 23rd,
CHOKEE
J. I. Kaylor, Wednesday, March
14th.
D. C. Jones, Wednesday, March
28thr,
\W. M. Laramores Store, I'riday,
April 6th,
PALMYRA
Cocks’ Store, Wednesday, March
21st.
B T, KING.
Tax Receiver. Lee Lounty.
Envy of Talent,
As to clever people's hating each
other, I think a little extra talent does
sometimes make people jealous. They
become irritated by perpetual attempts
and failures, and it hurts their tem
pers and dispositions. Unpretending
mediocrity is good, and geniuas is glo
rious; but a weak flavor of genius in
an essentfally common person is detest
able. It spoils the grand neutrality of
a commonplace character, as the rins-
Ings of an unwashed wine glass spoll
a draught of falr water.—Oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
Darken Fish Bowi.
On the outside of your goldfish bowl
paint the bhottom and about two inches
above the bottom in dark green paint.
This adds greatly to the comfort of
your pets. They will not swim 8o
wildly but seek the bottom and rest.
Very pretty castles can be built of
rough pebbles, and cement (choosing
& cement that wili not be affected by
water) projections, nooks and tunnels
will be appreciated by the fish. Boys
and giris, too, will find making them 8
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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS °
A fool and his boat are soon rocked
apart,
There's nothing so gloriously uncex
tain as tho law.
i Mother Eve was the orlginal discov- |
erer of the curiosity germ, |
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And occasionally there is watered'
stock In the dry goods business, :
Trying to please people is a matter
of business with an officé seeker, |
Beware of the man who has & good”
story to tell you in a whisper, |
Learning from the experience of |
others Is like getting money in a let
ter,
Money talks and a benny makes |
more noise on a contribution plate
than a $2 blll,
A man never knows what he can
do until he tries, then he is often sor
ry he tried.
When a man has had occasion to
employ a first-class lawyer you can't f
convince him that talk is cheap.
A man thinks that he is practicing
economy when he denies himself some
thing he can’t raise the money to buy.
If a girl can pass her thirtieth birth- l
day without detection she begins to |
think that the dates In the family rec- |
ord may have been slightly mixed.—
Chicago Daily News.
I
MANY SHORTS i
Foxes, as a rule, are very spiteful.
Some suppose Hebrew to have been
the language spoken by Adam.
The inhabitants of Lapland are the
shortest people in Europe.
There are 11,000 apartments in the
Vatican.
Butterfiles live only about two
months.
‘Shanghai imported 132 British motor
cars in 1921,
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Sheiks in Arabia now wear wrist
watches with radium dials.
The manufacture of airplanes is be
ing attempted in Australia.
Spartan daughters were taught to
wrestle and fight like their brothers.
Jupiter's year is nearly twelve times,
as long as our own. :
There are 175 different pleces in an i
average watch, '
There are 200,000 diabetlcs in the
United States.
Grade crossing accldents have in
creased during 1922, :
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WHAT A BILLION MEANS
A billion in silver dollars weighs
81,250 tonms.
It would take a treasury expert 102
years to count a billion.
The American billion is a thousand
millions. The English billion is a mil
lion millions.
A billion dollars divided among all
the people of the United States
would give each person about $lO.
If paid out in wages a billion dol
lars would give work to 1,666,666 per
sons at $2 a day for a whole year.
About $92,000,000 worth of gold is
mined every 12 months. To mine a
billion would take about 11 years.
A billion seconds is 381 years, 259
days, 1 hour and 40 seconds. A bil
lion miles is more than ten times the
distance from the earth to the sun.
President Harding's salary is $75,-
000 a year. The people would have
to keep on electing him for 3,333
terms, or 13,332 years, for him to earn
$1,000,000,000.
FLIVVERETTES
The purse of many an autoist looks
like a flat tire. ;
Shifting gears is a terrible grind
for the new driver.
Two things that annoy the motor
ist are—tax and tacks.
The man may be at the wheel, but }
the woman drives the car. I
In crossing the street pedestrians
seldom violate the speed law. '
The speeder may not know where
he is going, but the traffic cop does.
The man who calls his ear “the cld
boiler” boils over if any one else does
it
A citizen with a trpublesome fliv
ver Is in excellent training to be
come a professional contortionist.
It folks get much more numerous
the citiez will have to set aside one
way streets for them.—Chicago Amer
fcan.
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Central of Georgia Tells What Railroads Are Doing For
~ The Public and What The Publie Can Do
For The Railroads.
American railways are passing through a period of reconstruction. Their situation is due in part to
the devasiating influence of the World War, and in part to the restrictive policy toward improvements
and additions adopted by the government during the twenty-six months of Federal control.
The railways frankly admit that there have been short-comings in their service. They contend,
however, that they have made good progress in overcoming these, as evidenced by the fact that during
the thirty-seven weeks between July 1, 1922 and March 17, 1923, they handled the greatest volume of
traffic ever transported in the history of the country, during any corresponding period of thirty-seven
weeks. This achievement was accomplished in the face of obstacles arising from national strikes of
coal-miners and of railway shopcrafts.
But the railways are not content with what has been done, and through their organizations they
have pledged themselves during the remainder of the current year, to place their locomotives and cars in
good repair, to load their equipment to maximum capacity, and to move their cars faster and further.
In brief they pledge more efficient operation, of all the facilities at their disposal, to prevent so far as
poessible, any delay or interruption to business.
In ddition to this, the railways recognize the urgent need of vast expenditures to rehabitate their pro
perties and to make adequate provision for the constantly expanding needs of public service, To this
end, they expended in 1922 for cars, locomotives, trackage and other facilities, $440,000,000. They
have appropriated for equipment and other facilities for the year 1923, the huge sum of $1,100.000,000.
Having taken these definite steps, and having proved their purpose to make good, the railways now
come to the public with an appeal for co-operation by the exercise of certain simple and practicable means
such as: ;
; (1) Loading equipment as near to its capacity as is practicable with the
. various classes of commodities, thereby reducing the number of cars required
and likewise reducing empty mileage in the return of equipment to produc
ing districts. Hawi e g
IF ALL THE CARS THAT WERE LOADED DURING
SEPTEMBER, CCTCBER AND NCVEMBER, 1922, HAD
BEEN LCADED TOC AVERAGE OF 30 TONS PER CAR (a
figure heretofore attained) INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL AVER
AGE OF 27.7 TONS PER CAR,IT WOULD IN EFFECT
HAVE ADDED 188,357 CARS TO THE SUPPLY.
(2) Restricting so far as practicable the number of cars shipped under
“to order bills-of-lading,”” which invariably causes delays to the equipment at
destination. . ol
(3) Limiting the reconsignment of traffic to the greatest possible or prac
ticable extent. b Bl
(4) Unloading cars as promptly as possible.
(5) Increasing storage facilities where necessary and practicable and
providing adequate siding capacity to facilitate loading and unloading,
thereby increasing the number of available cars.
(6) Not ordering cars beyond ability to load daily.
(7) Proceeding early in the season with programs for road and building
construction, advance coal storage by industries and public utilities during
the summer months, the successful carrying out of which plans should reduce
the peak movement to considerable extent in the months of September, Octo
: ber and November. :
: Over and above these helpful measures, railway managements seeks and needs the good will of
the people. The men who are trying to keep the railways in. step with America’s march of progress
and to make them useful in enhancing the nation’s material prosperity will be aided in their task by
public faith in their honesty and capability. '-
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
W. A. WINBURN,
President, Central of Georgia Raillway Company.
Savannah, Ga., May 8, 1923.
For Confederate States
Stamps, all are worth
Money, I buy them and
pay as high as $lOO each
for some of them. If you
REWARD
Paid
have any old stam;w Confederate or old U. 8.
issued before 1870 write me. Send postal card
for free illustrated list that I pay, write today.
JOSEPH F. NEGREEN, 8 East 23 St.
NEW YORK
Gold $1 pieces also wanted
, . .
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine
Those who are in a ‘“run down” condi
tion will notice that Catarrh bothers
them much more than when they are in
good health. This fact proves that while
Catarrh is a local disease, it is greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con
sists of an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves by local application, and the
Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which assists
in improving the General Health.
Sold by druggists for over 40 Years,
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohijo.
Many would come to wisdom if they
did not think themselves already
there.—Bacon.
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ELECTRIC WIRING
lam now prepared to do your Electric Wiring
of all kinds, also I can furnish you the material
at less cost to you. If you have Electric wiring
to du I will be glad to call on you and figure on
same. No job too large or too small to handle.
Just drop me a card and I will call and see you.
W. F. GODWIN,
608 North Jackson Street
ALBANY, :: GEORGIA
Have Your Clothes
1 have opened up a Pressing Club in the building
next to Davis’ Garage and have secured the ser
vices of a good Cleaner and Presser. Clothes call
ed for and delivered. All work guaranteed to be
the BEST. Bon’t carry your clothes out of town.
D. E. GRAHAM
FARM LOANS
UNLIMITED 6 per cent Morey for
Goods Farm Loans in Lee County.
—SER..
R.E L SPERCE
Albany, Georgia
Sometimes,
Sometimes the weather comes in
punches like bananas, and sometimes
it’s all strung out like spaghetti.
“Measly” Trick?
Astronomers announce that the sur
face of the sun is breaking out. Maybe
it has heat rash. :