Newspaper Page Text
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
Tybee Season Opens
Saturday May 19tb
Tybrisa, on the Strand at Ty
bee, ‘‘Where Ocean Breezes
Blow,” opens for the 1923 Sea
gon on Saturday, May 19. The
commodious bathhouse, dancing
and picnic pavilions have been
thoroughly renoyated and made
even more attractive than ever
-New Bathing suits and all other
bathhouse assessories have keen
purchased and will be ayailable
for visitors. A new dance floor
has been built, the lunch counter
and refreshment stands put in
good condition, and the entire
premises painted and made spick
and span. New settes and com
;ortable lounging chair haye t.een
"provided for the free use of visi
tors to both the dance and picnic
pavilions.
The Chassy-Applewhite Six-
Piece Orchestra has been engag
ed to play at Tybrisa this season,
beginning Saturday, May "19.
There will be music for dancing
at Tybrisa every night in the
week, and concert music on Sun
day afternoons and evenings.
Tybee is assessible to Savannah
by frequent trains run on con
venient schedules. The trains
consist of clean and well venti
lated coaches, drawn by oil burn
ing engines, on smooth, well
surfaced roadway, making the
eighteen mile journey back and
forth comfortable and pleasant.
Tybrisa, owned and operated
,by the Ceritral of Georgia Rail
way, is the largest and most
attractive bathing, dancing and
amusement palace anywhere on
the South Atlantic Coast. -
There are numerous hotels,
boarding houses, and cottages at
Tybee for the accomodation ot
those contemplating a stay of a
day, week, month or season.
The imposing Hotel Tybee, fire
proof, with extensive improve
ments in every department,
opened for the season- on May
5, under management of Tom M.
Perry. The Hotel Tybee rates
are based on the Amarican Plan,
and range from $6.00 up.
The Seabreeze, Ocean View,
and other smaller hotels “and
boarding houses, bathing houses,
amusement places, resturaats,
lunch stands, ete., are now open
for the season.
The visitors from the inland
will find Tybee even more inter
esting this year than ever before
becanse of the presence at Fort
Sereven, a short distance
down the beach from Ty
brisa, the Eighth Infantry,
*“The Millionaries of the Rhine,”’
who liaye been stationed there
since their returia from Germany
in February. Visitors are wel
come at, the post, and will see the
smart soldiers who were the
pride of the allied armies. The
German and French wives of the
soldiers, with their rosy children
chattering away in two langu
ages, are centers of attraction.
Army life today is very different
from what it was before the
World War. The visitors will
gsee the soldier boys at drill and
study, as well as on parade.
Modern- weapons of warfare,
such as the machine gun the
deadly one-pounder, are in use
for practice. The radio and
field telephone outfits show mod
ern methods of directing ad
vances. The Sandy beach gives
an excellent backgrouud for in
troducing the scenes of trench
warfare.
The Agency at Tybee Island
was opened on May 1, H A
Deuémg Wives Must
rn Own Support
Rules Court
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A
man cannot be compeiled to sup
port a woman anywhere except
in his own house provided he has
given her no jest cause to leaye
him, .
Furthermore, if a wife leaves
her husband, without just cause,
taking the children along, the
duty of supporting them belongs
to her and not to him,
. These edicts were spread across
the high court-annuals of the
country Wednesday through a
Jecision lendered by the United
States Court of Appeals. They
are regarded by the legal frater.
nity as epochal in their effect on
litigation involving domestic
relations. Said the court:
“A husband who is able- and
willing to support his wife and
gives her no just cause to aban
don him or leave his bed and
board cannot be compelled to
support her elsewhere than at
his own house if he has one.”’
The effect of the decision, ac
cording to lawyers, will devolve
upon tradesmen the necessity of
determining the circumstances
of a separation before providing
an estranged woman with even
the necessities of life, for the
husband is not always liable.
The decision was rendered in
the case of two women who took
care of a wife and three child
ren, the wife having left her
husband taking the children
along. The court decided she
left without proper cause and
reversed a lower court decision
which had ordered the husband
to pay $4,120 to those who had
fed and housed his estranged
family.
BASS--GAGSTATTER. |
Mr. J. W. Gagstatter, of Al
bany, Miss Iveylee Bass of this
place were married at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Forrester
Monday evening at 8 o’clock in
the presen e of relatives and
friends. - Rev. John H. Wyatt,
pastor of the Calloway Memorial
Baptist church performed the
ceremony.
Miss Bass has made her home
in Leesburg for a number of
years arnd is very popular, she
has numerous friends throughout
this section. ‘
Mr. Gagstatter is a prominent
young business man of Albany
and operates one of the largest
jewelry stores in this section
Immediately after the ceremo
ny they left for Albany where
they are at home to their friends.
TS R S A K T S R TR B S SR SR,
‘Hodges, Agent. Miss Nell V.
Lynch is agent at Fort Screven.
T. G. Bonner is agent at the
Tybee Station, Savannah. ‘
Round trip tickets, at reduced
rates, will be sold from the
Southwestern territory to Tybee
by the Central of Georgia Rail
way and connections from May
15 to August 30. Adequate
train schedule,-serviceand travel
facilities and conveiences are
proyided for the ample accomo
dation of visitors from up state.
Any Agent of the Central of
Georgia will quote you the round
trip fare and - tell you all ahout
the schedules, service, etc., and
make your sleeping and parlor
car reservations in advance.
PigoshitedTeo Coffnty iy Friday MAY 18, 1923
GEORGIA’S STATE PORT
Its Plans and .Purposes and What it Means to .
~ the Georgia Farmers.
The State Port was .concetved 1n
the moment of (eorgla’s recent re
awakening agriculturally. It was when
Georgia farmers and Georgia bankers
and other business men discovered
clearly what had been casually bhoast
ed and boosted, that—
Georgia lands and Georgia climate’
mixed by Georgia labor and with gkill
can literally produce anything almost
any other state of the United States
can produce—and produce it in abund
ance and profitably with reasonahle
expenditure of effort and skill; that any
crop on earth, almost, can be gro.wn
out of Georgia soil in some section
of the state which has every Kknown
variety of soil and six of the seven
hrands of American climate; that Geor
gla can grow all sorts of fruits except
the tropic fruits; that Georgia can
raise worlds of live stock — poultry,’
goats and hogs and cattle, dairy and
beef cattle; that Georgia factories and
mills can make anything that is made
anywhere else; that Georgia mines and
quarries and clay beds have wealth
untold. -
But economically it became apparent,
bold and stark and emphatic, that it
now is a question -of marketing what
fs being and can be produced.
Agitation and discussion, organiza
tion and co-operation for marketing
has become the big- agriculturally eco
nomic gquestion in Georgia.
The co-operative sales in the coun
ties is helping to solve the question—
hut that, while tremendously of advan
tage, touched only one county at a
time and ome product at a time—the
puccess of some great project that
would take in the whole state and all
the scores of products could be as in
credibly more advantageous! This
is logical, it appears, from the rela
tively great results for good in the co
operative ‘sales of eggs and poultry/
hogs and potatoes, peanuts and melons
and other products in limited areas.
The big economic question of the
hour for the agricultural states went
down immediately to the idea of a
great reservoir system, a storage point,
terminals situated with reference to
the markets of the world stretching
out every way, where for long periods
grains, potatoes, other vegetables, pea
nuts and cotton and cotton seed, frufts,
poultry, meats, dairy products, scores
of perishables—could be kept for dis
tribution at the best marketing time—
and where warehouses could hold for
release too—for the markets of the
world by the promptest and cheapest
transportatiop means — finished goods
from the mills and factories. -
The “state port and state terminal
fdea” did not originate in any other
port city or town of Georgia—
« It was born back in the interior—
And not there of capitalistic parent
age, ‘but of the necessity of the present
and the desideratum of the future of
the farmers. B i
A high-rank, thoughtful member of
the Farmers’ Union thought out the
project of a State Port and Terminal
Commission to study the plan which
had been successfully executed in oth
er states and other lands— SO SUC
CESSLY OPERATED THAT THE
TERMINALS PAID THEIR WAY
FROM THE START AND COST THE
TAXPAYERS NOT A CENT OF OUT
LAY, BUT PRESENTLY BEGAN TO
PROVE A SOURCE OF ACTUAL IN
COME TO THE PEOPLE. The farm
ers thought of the idea first, because
the farmers had come to a big need
in their economic progress. And the
interior farmers thought of it first, be
cause there are more of them than
of any other class ard their need was
therefore larger.
The port cominission was formed,
following an act of the Legislature
Smithville Sunday
School News
The Sunday school attendance
was exceedingly good, there be
ing a total of 71. There were
two honor classes, No. 2, Mis.
George Clark, teacher, 100 rer
lcent. Class No. 7, Mr. L. D.
Hays, teacher, 100 per cent.
l There were 17 visitors present
‘as this +was Mothers Day the
’following progrom was rendered;
| Song— Brighten the Corner
| Where you are, Audience and
(By D. G:. Bickers,)
providing for it. That commission
went about the plans and had an ex
pert survey made of the ports of the
state, The commission obtained detailed
data on which to propose a state bond
fssue for the development of terminals
—with docks and warehouses, grain
elevators, cold storage plants and pos
sibilities for® every facility to handle
every product in large quantities, 'l'he
commission has in hand the record ot
‘Montreal and of New Orleans WHERE
STATE TERMINALS HAVE IN
STEAD OF COSTING THE TAXPAY
ERS A CENT MADE MONEY FOR
THE STATE—and they have the pros
pective plans of other state ports in
the Southeast — prospective develop
ment at Wilmington and Charleston up
coast and Jacksonville and Mobile
around the other way.
The farmers themselves, however, in
great numbers had not thought out
the plan as a necessity, an economic
scheme for outlet for the products to
the markets of the world for all the
times to come; their bankers in the
towns and cities had not taken time
to think the thing out and talk it
over with the farmers nad the other
business men; and so the legislators
at the last session, not having had
the wishes and will of their constit
uents expressed to them, failed to do
anything in.the matter of state termi
nals.
The matter is to come up again,
Thousands of farmers and business
men in the state have learned much
‘ot the proposal and will intelligently
‘favor the proper sort of solution of this
‘ great marketing question,
What would happen if there were
‘state owned terminals at a port in
‘touch with the world, at a point where
railroads and highways concentrate to
imeet the ships of the seven seas and
where there is money to back enor
mous husiness involved in storing mil
lions of stuff (on which advances could
be made as farmers required money)
is. this: ’
No matter what the farms of Geor
gia preduce there would be a safe
place to store-the-stuff, get advanceg
upon it, keep it without deterioration
until markets were right and release
‘it to the world ‘markets—not simply
the market of'thé next town or the
county nearby in the same state; beef
cattle raising in the state could be
developed and meat by millions could
be marketed to the East at a profit;
80 with poultry and eggs and dairy
products; sweet and Irish potatoes by
the millions could be sately stored
to be released to the world when sup
ply and demand combined to make
prices attractive; peanuts and pecans
could be kept in immense quantities
and for indefinite periods — pecans tor
example which bring forty cents in
South Georgia and $1.50 a pound in
New York could be sold in New York
when New York wasg paying that
price; North Georgia apples could be
gtored by the thousands of barrels
to be sent by refrigerator boat to New
York and Boston and Philadelphia and
‘Washington when they could meet and
match the fanty apples of the North
west.
So with. dozens of other products—
and with grain to fill elevators at the
terminal port.
With such reservoir the production
of these articles for which a certain
profitable market could be afforded
would be stimulated. Still other crops
would assume commercial importance,
In short, the state port and state
terminals would prove the great agri
cultural products’ banking institution,
the clearing house, the reservoir and
distribution point, che stabilizer and
standardizer of the crcated wealth of
the state.
Choir.
Prayer—Rev. J. D. Snyder.
Song—My Desire, *Choir and
Audience.
Song—My Mothers Bible, Choir
Introduction—Supt. Geo. Clark.
Poem—Wilbur Sparrow.
Reading—Girls and boys classes
Reading—Lydia Phillips.
Musical Solo—Lyla Scarbrough
and Miss Ansley.
Reading—Mrs. C. R. Malone
. Duet—Mrs. Henry Ernest
Simpson. 1
Reading—Dorothy Hays.
Benediction—Rev. Snyder, -
Senator Harris to
Speak in Leesburg
. U. S. Senator Wm. J. Harris
the first senator to make a tour
of the entire state of Georgia in
a year when there was no elec
tion and reports reaching herei
today tell of the large audiences
which greet him throughout'
South Geocrgia. He is giving
an account of his stewardship
during the first four years of his
term and discussing legislation
passed by congress, as well as
plans for measures at the next
session. In many places a rising
vote of approval is given his
record. .
Senator Harris plans to visit
every section. He will speak in
Leesburg, at 4 o’clock p. m. at
‘the court house, on Friday, May
’2sth. On June 2nd he finishes
his present itinrary. He will
by that time have visited each
of the sixty-five eounties from
the Florida line north.
- Mrs. Harris and daughter, Miss
Julia Wheeler, will join the sena
tor early in June in Georgia upon
‘the completion of their daup:h-l
ter’s school terms.
\ POTATO PLANTS
~ Porto Rican yellow yam pototo
slips, for sale, J. R. LONG.
| R.F.D. 4, Box 43.
R. H. FORRESTER, Agent
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANGE GO,
ASSETS $952,632,139.00
Protect Your Family
WITH A GOOD INSURANCE
POLICY.
An Irshman came running down the street with his
hat in one hand and his bandana in the other, puffing
and blowing, almost out of breath.
He ran up to the station just in time to catch hold
of the rear of the train, but tbe train had gained so
much monetum that it threw him sprawling on the
ground.
A bystander [remarded: ‘‘Pat youdid not quite
catch it,”’ to which pat replied “‘Oh yes, Oi caught it,
but it got away.”’
Another remarked: ‘‘Pat you did not run quite
fast enough,”” and Pat replied ‘‘Sure I did run fast
enough, but I did not start soon enough.”’
That is just the trouble with some people in saving
money—they do not start soon enough, consequently
do not get anywhere and, like Pat, when an opportunity
comes along for them to make a profitable investment
they have to let it go by.
Right now is the time to begin, even if the begin
ning is small. The longer you put it off, the harder it
will be for you to accumulate something.
LET US HELP YOU. :
BANK OF LEESBURG,
G.A.NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER,
Mrs. Tom Watson of
- Thomason Expires
- THOMASON, Ga., May 14.—
Mrs. Thomas E. Watson, widow
of United States Senator Thomas
E. Watson, of Georgia, died at
‘her home here at 11 o’clock to
night froman attack of acute
diabetes.
- Mrs. Watson had been in fail
‘ing health for several months,
‘but her condition had not be
come alarming until a short time
‘before her death, She took a
‘su«lden turn for the worse early
tonight which resulted in death.
She is survived by two. grand
daughters, Misses (icorgia Lee
and Georgia Watson.
Mrs. Watson was the first.
woman ever to be tendered the
appointment as United States
Senator, Gov. Hardwick haying
offered the seat made vacant by
the death of her husband last
fall. She declined the appoint
ment, however, and it was then
given to Mrs. Rebecca Latimer
Felton, of Cartersville.
Funeral arrangements had not
been -announced late tonight.
It was thought probable, how
ever, that the funeral would be
held Wednesday.
No Such Luck.
Many a thing would go without say
tng if people had wisdom enough to
fet them. Capmin Sl tn g
Number 14