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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE GENERAL PRESENTMENTS OF THE GRAND JURY MAY TERM 1923 We, the Grand Jury, chosen and sworn for the May term, 1923, Lee County Suerior Court, beg lecave to mae these our Presentments: We recommend that Leee County use the Australian Ballott system. We recommend that the City Of ficials of Leesburg and Smithville and the County Officcials co-operate to secure closer cbservance of the closed-shop laws for Sundays over the County. i It appearing to us that the term of J. H. Randall, N. P. and Ex., Officio J. P. of Smithville district, will expire before the Fall Term of the Lee County Superior Court, We recommend that said J. H. Randall be re-appointed to this office. ; We recommend that Court House grounds be beautified and brought into better condition. We recommend that Lee County employ a competent Certified Public Acccuntant to audit all County books and report to the Fall Term Grand Jury, 1923. We recommend that the County Commissioners publish in condenged form minutes of 21l preceedings for each quarter immediately after the Jast meeting of each quarter, and that all monthly reports be discon tinued. We recommend that the County Cq'{mi_-ni‘s‘sioner's use their influence in having the unfinished part of the Dixie Highway, near Smithville, built by the original survey, past the New High School Building. We recommend that the Chairman of the Board of County Commis gioners .employ suitable means to collect all back taxes; and that where real property is sold for taxes and bought in by the county com missioners, that they proceed to take possession of same and collect rents on same, and that when said réal' px_'ppérty in not redeemed with in. twelve months property be sold. _W,evreqoinmend that the people of Lee County co-operate in every way possible with the Malarial Experts seht_ to this county by the Rocker fellow foundation, We recommend that these pre sentments be published in the Offi cial Organ of the county, and that the legal price be paid therefor. Road and Bridges. | We, recommend that bridge be put over Fox Creek between planta tions of Usry and Bryant also bridge over Bay Branch between Bradley and Bothwell place, mail route. Main road from Lesburg to DeSoto on. Brown Hodges place, bannisters need replacing also road needs re pairing. We find that bridge be tween Duncan and Whitsett place is in ‘bad condition. And recom mend that road be straightened. at Rice pond at Clegg place. And rec ommend that main road b-tween Philema and Albany be repaired, at Mr. Akins. : .We find outer doors of Court House need repairing, all windows need to have putty replaced, one window -in Mr. Powell’s office needs new _bottom sash, one light is out in clerk’s office and chairs in Court room and Grand Jury room need re pairs. - The basement is very un sanitary, otherwise the building is well kept. Veranda floor at jail needs repairing also walls where plaster has fallen. The jail is kept very sanitary. All buildings at ‘County Farm are in good condition and we find everything very clean. Pensions. We find n examination of ension list that there are thirteen (13) ersons entitled to ensions. All of these have been paid one hundred (100.00) Dollars, each, however, during the last twelve months four (4) of that number have died. Finance Committee : - Wefind the books of the different offices fo Lee County correct and neatly kept. We attach hereto re ports of the various- county offices that have been submitted to us. Convict Camps. . NO RACE SUICIDE HERE One Beby Born for Every Ten Geor ' gia Women Between 15 and 45 ‘ ATLANTA, July 28.—There is little danger of race suicide in Geor gia. For every ten women between 15 and 45 years of age in the State in 1922 there was one baby born or, in other words, one woman out of every ten gave birth to a child dur ing that year. According to the 1920 census, there were 685,335 women in this class and according jto the State Bureau of Vital Statis ‘tics records there were 69,615 chil dren born. The white race shows a better record in this matter than ‘the negro. There were 385,654 white women and 44,525 white bab ies born or one baby to each eight women. There were 25,042 negro babies born to the 299,681 negro women in the child bearing age showing a ratio of one baby for aach twelve negro women. WATERMELON CROP FAILURE The watermelon crop in this sec tion is a commercial failure this séason, only a few shiprhgnts have becen made from this point. The stock which in the past has averaged about thirty pounds is run ning this season less than a twenty pound average, with considerable gourd ends and sunburn. Bl il A eOOT SR We find the convicts properly fed and clothed and well cared for: and the camps in excellent condition. Justice of Peace Books. ‘ The following Justice of Peace 3oooks were presented for examina sion J. H. Randall, B. E. Powell, 3. M. Jones Sr. We find these books aeatly and correctly kept. The other Justice’s of Peace did not presentt their books for inspec tion. ? Public Records. We find all public Records neatly and correctly kept. Twenty-eight mules, 2 horses, 10 2-horse wagons, 1 1-horse wagon, 1 cook car, 2 sleeping cars, 4 road machines, 1 3-horse drag, 5 2-horse irags, 2 tents, 38 hogs, 13 pigs, 1 Best Tractor, 1 Fordson Tractor, 1 Ford Truck, 1 Ford car, 1 Avera Road Drag, 3 Army Trucks, 9 Wheelers, 1 Gasoline engine, 5 tons of Hay (more or less), 300 sacks ofl feed (more or less), 150 bu., corn 175 pounds of meat, 2 cases of soap, 1 case of coffee, 200 gallons of oil 100 gallons of syrup, 25 sacks of salt, % case soda, 100 bu., sweet potatoes, 100 acres of oats on Coun ty Farm, 150 accres of corn on County Farm, 1 Oat thrash, 13 state men, 20 county men, 15 tons of guano, 90 bu., field peas, 200 sacks cement (more or less), 2 oat binders, 100 gallons gasoline. | To the Honorable Board of Grand Jurors, I hereby hand my report as Warden of Lee County. | | J. D. MCBride, | Warden of Lee County. 'GEORGIA, Lee County. To the Honorable County Com missioners and Grand Jury of Lee County, Georgia. Herewith, I beg to submit semi annual report as Clerk of Lee Superior City Court of Leesburg, Lee County, Ga., as to the monies collected as per receipt hereto at tached. I have received no monies arising from City Court since last report. - : I, G. A Wallacce, Clerk Lee Superior Court do herewith certify that the foregoing is a true and correct accounting. Given under my official signature and seal of this office. This 3rd day of May. Sworn to and subscribed befcre me this the Bth day of May, 1923. H. L. LONG, Ordinary Lee County, H. L. LONG, Ordinary Lee County, Ga. G. A. WALLACE, C. S. C. Lee County, Ga (Continued on page two) Leeshurg, Lee Countvy Ga., Friday AUGUST 3, 1925~ | \ GEORGIA COUNTY - OFALL COTTON ATLANTA, €a., The story of how + Georgia county threw of the yoke »f an “all ¢otten” erop and found in rop diversiiication a remedy for the many ills a too faithful adherence to cotton had placed upon its farmers, is interestingly told in national pub lications by Will W, Bruner, editor of the Washington, Ga. News-Re porter. Wilkes county, Georgia, for more than one hundred years had been growing cotton to the exclusion of ‘almost all other crops. The result was that the farmers of Wilkes county prospered only when cotton was high in price and were under a burden of debt when the staple be came unprofitable. Mr. Bruner, in his article, tells how the Kiwanis club of Washing ton, the county seat of Wilkes, with the co-operation of the business men and bankers of the town and the progressive farmers of the county, ‘naugurated a program of develop ment for tae county which has Lad amazing results. The Kiwanians adopted the slo-% zan: ‘““Co-operation, square deal, good will, the cow, the hog, the hen; 1 little cotton now and then.” A better slogan, in the opinion of state agriculturists, could hardly e devised. With the hearty sup sort of business interests and farm ng interests, the Kiwanis club start ad to carry out its program for di versification. Dairying has been introduced, a :reamery in under construction, sure-bred eggs have been purchased 50 take the place of ordinary kind ‘or settings and a ten-thousand egg iatchery in under construction. The sounty had been producing. pure bred hogs for a number of years and this industry has been enlarged. Crops suitable to the land have been slanted ot take the place of so much cotton, and Wilkes county is seeing daylight ahead and financial free dom for its farmers is well in sight. As agriculturists here point out, 1 splendid example is being set by ;he Georgia county for other coun sies in the South. What is possible ‘'n one Georgia county is possible in almost any county in other southern states. All that is needed is, far mer experts say, for some organiza tion with the determination of the Washington, Ga. Kiwanis club to start the movement. Southern farmers are willing, Georgia agriculturists claim, to plant less cotton if they can be shown that it will pay them better to produce other crops, fo add dairy ing and hog raising and produce cotton only as a part of their farm ing activity. FARMERS LOSE BILLIONS _BY DECLINE IN PRICES SINCE 1921. e Comparison of prices received by farmers for their several principal products in the summer of 1921 with the returns they are getting now shows that in every instance there has been a heavy decline— amounting in the aggregate to bil lions of dollars to the agricultural producers of the country. Wheat is now selling for about $1 a bushel. In 1920 the maximum price was $3 a bushel. Corn brought almost $2 a bushel at the “peak’” of prices in 1920. That is more than a dollar above the present price of corn. In 1919 the highest price for barley was $1.50 a bushel, as against 52 or 53 cents a bushel now. QOats reached a maximum of $1.15 a bushel in 1920, and is now selling for about 43 cents a bushel. Pota toes have fallen from about $4.50 a bushel to less than $l. e ‘ Hog have declined in value an average of $l5 a hundred pounds below the maximum price the far lmers got for them in 1919, the “‘peak.” At that time the price at Chicago was $22.25 a hundreds pounds. The price now is about $7 a hundred pounds. | PEANUT CO-OP. HAS lOVER 5,200 MEMBERS Marketing Organization will Con ] trol Over Two-Thirds of Crop. | ALBANY, Ga, July 30.—With the sign-up campaign of the Geor |y;lu Peanut Growers Co-operative Association about completed, it is now evident that this new co-opera tive marketing ovganiation will con trol the yield of more than 100,000 acres of the 152,000 acres estimated as the total crop of the state by the lU. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econo ‘mics, The number of members is already in excess of 5,200, and the total will probably be 6.000 by har vest season. - Through the county organizations and district and community locals now being set up in different parts of the state, it is estimated that a large number of additional acres of peanuts will be pledged to the new co-op. and that the membership will be considerably increased. The lo cals will preserve contact between the members and the association. New and larger headquarters for the association have been opened in the David Brown building on North Washington street in Albany, im mediately in front of the St. Nich olas Hotel. Heads of the different depart ments have been selected as follows: Colonel Robert E. L. Spence, gen ieral manager; John H. Mock, direc tor of field service; J. J. Watson, production manager, and Richard McCarthy, office manager and sec retary. Col. Spence will have gen cral supervision of all departments. Mr. Mock will have charge of the locals and preserving contact be tween the members and the assopia— tion, as well as the matter of giving public information about the asso c¢iation and advising- members as to different plans of the association. Mr. Watson will have charge of the warehousing, shipping and grading end of the business, together with a participation in the sales and ad vertising end. Mr. McCarthy, who comes from the Prune and Apri 2ot Growers Association of Cali fornia, will have general charge of the office work and accounting. M. Watson’s department is already busy lining up warehouse facilities for handling this year’s peanut crop.. HALTING AUTOMOBILES WITHOUT WARRANT IS DEPLORED BY JUDGE LAGRANGE, Ga., July 31,— Troup superior court convened Monday for the July term, with Judge C. E. Roop presiding. The grand jury organized by electing C. L. Smith, of LaGrange, foreman. Judge Roop delivered an able charge to the jury, touching wupon many questions. He said the schools and colleges were giving too much time and money to athletics, clubs, etc., and not enough to the funda mentals upon which the government was founded, chief among which is the constitution of the Unifed States. He said that he thought all the schools should require the stu dents to make a study of the insti"u ment, and that legislation should be passed requiring this to be done. He referred to the recent incident at West Point in which one dry agent was killed and another was wounded when they fired upon an automobile occupied by some young men of West Point returning from church. Judge Roop said that there might possibly be some circum fstances under which officers would have = right to intercept an auto ‘mobile without a search warrant but this right should be exercised with igreat caution. He said the officers ‘had no right to violate one law in \trying to enforce another; that the citizens of the state had rights guar anteed them by the constitutions of the state and of the United States. even if they were not always pro tected in the right. The people of the county and sur rounding country are watching with interest what action the grand jury will take in the West Point incident. PRESIDENT HARDING PASSES AWAY SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2—Pres ident Harding died instantly and withow warning tonight at 7:30 o’clock. At 7:456 p. m. it was announced that an official bulletin would be is sued within a few minutes. Death came to the Chief Execu tive while he was conversing 'with members of his family and accord ing to official statement issued by physicians, was apparently due to some brain evolvement, probably an apoplexy. The end came so suddenly that the members of the official party could not be called. It came after a day which had been described by Brigadier General Sawyer, the Pres ident’s personal physician, as the most satisfactory day the President had had since his illness began. The physicians in their formal announce ment of the end said that “during the day he had been free from dis comfort and there was every justi fication for anticipating 'a prompt recovery. The first indication that a change | )had occur.ed in the condition of Mr. ‘Harding came shortly after 7 o’clock when Mrs. Harding personally open ed the door of the sick room and called to those in the corridors to “find Doctor Boone and the others quick.” At that time Mrs. Harding was understood to have been reading to the President, sitting at his bed side with the evening papers and messages of sympathy which had been received during the day. The death of the nation’s Chief Executive was announced in these words: “The President died ' in stantaneously and without warning and while coversing with members of his family at 7:30 p. m. Death was apparently due to some brain envolvement, probably apoplexy.” “During the day he had been free from discomfort and there was every justification for anticipating a prompt recovery. (Signed) “C. E. Sawyer, M. D., Ray Layman Wilbur, M. D., C. M. Cooper, M. D., J. T. Boone, M. D., Hubert Works, M. D. August 2, 1923 7:30 p. m. In a second official statement is sued at 8:02 p. m., the statement was made that death had been caus ed by a stroke of apoplexy. ‘ The story of the President’s tragic Have You Got the Pass Word? We do not konw whether you belong to any of the various and sundry secret organizations or not, but you are no doubt a‘.wn'o that before entering any of these sanctums you have got to be in pos session of the “pass word.” Not only are you required to give the pass word to some duly authorized officer, but you are obligatorily bound to give it to no one wfio is not duly qualified to receive it. We want to give you the pass word to one of the most desired institutions the world knows today. The pass word consists of a pass book to this bank, where the rank and file to which you may ascend is governed by your own efforts and the help of this institution, There are many degrees you may take in the ranks through which you may travel in banking channels, but the highest degree is independence. iR : : G Come to us and let us give you the pass book._. our first deposit constitutes the “first dog;ee," then it is up to you as to how many you may take and the rank you may attain in the pinnacle of al;- solute indepemdence. ;< * R bt A rm— BANK OF LEESBURG, G.A.NESBIT, PRESIDENT ~ O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT : T. C. THARP, CASHIER, : SHIP SIX CARS POTATOES LYONS, Ga., AUG. I.—The big steam Jersey sweet potato total shipment have reached the six-car point now and the season is over for this point. These six cars were pro duced on about sixty-five acres and when all the returns are in will total about $7,600 or better than $lOO per acre. The highest yield was made by W. L. Duncan, who dug 137 bushels, or fifty barrels, off of one acre. G. E. Corley received a check for his shipment from two and one-half acres last Saturday and it totaled $312 net. Mr. Duncan’s first car of 229 bar rels returned him $1,600 and was produced on five and three-fourths acres. This was the highest average acreage yield. The lowest price re 2eived for number one potatoes was $8 per barrel on one car. The oth ers ran from $9 teslo per barrel. Number two's ran from the lowest lot, which sold for $3 to the other ‘which sold from $5.50 to $6.50 per barrel. end was told in this way: “The Pres ident died at 7:30 p. m, Mrs. Hard ing and the two nurses, Miss Ruth Powderly and Miss Sue Dausser, were in the room at the time. Mrs. Harding was reading to the President when wutterly without warning a slight shudder passed through his frame, he collapsed, and all recognized that the end had come. A stroke of apoplexy was the cause of death. “Within a few minutes all of the President’s official party had been summoned.” ; . Secretary, Hoover was the first of the four members of the President’s Cabinet, who are in San Francisco, to learn the sad news. He went into the room at once and in a few min utes came out obviously deeply dis tressed and in a low voice said to newspaper men, most of whom did not now of the hurried call almost half an hour previously: “Boys. I can’t tell you a thing.” A third official statement, issued at 8:15 p. m. announced that Vice President Calvin Coolidge, the next man who occupies the first position in he United States Government, had been notified of President Hard ing’s death. N Dl3