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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
W. T. AVERETT
Mr. W. T. Averett who resides
¢ miles north of Leesburg on the
Dixie Highway died of heart trouble
yesterday sometimes during the day.
Mr. Averett left his home to go into
the field nearby to get some bait
to go fishing, failing to return to
his home after a few hours his
daughter with the assistance of
neighbors began a search and Mr.
Averett was found about two hun
dred yards from the house. Hé was
subject to heart trouble and it is
thought that this was the cause of
his death. |
At the time of his death he was
about 72-years of age and had lived
in Lee county about 40 years and
was always considered a good citizen
and a good man and his many
friends were shocked to learn of
his death.
The funeral and interment oc-l
cured today at Adams, and he was
laid to rest beside his wife ,who‘
precededy him to the grave about
two years ago. . |
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ORETO CLOSE
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We are requested to anneunce byl
Mr. H. Nankin that his store will
be closed on September 11th and
12 and also on September 20th, on
account of the Jewish Holidays.
WHITE HOUSE FLAG,
DOWN FOR HARDING,
NOW FULL-STAFFED
WASHINGTON, D. C.,Sept. 4.—
The great flag that flies atop the
White .House went up to full staff
Wednesday, making the end of the
period of national mourning for the
late President Harding.
* The flag a full saff means that
the President of the United States
is in the executive mansion and
that all is well with the republic.
Simultaneously with the end of
the period of mourning, the transi
tion of adminigtration within thel
White House itself was comnpleted |
Tuesday. !
C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, |
veteran Republican congressman
from a Southern State, reported to
President Coolidge and took up his
duties as presidential secretary, |
George B. Christian, Jr., of Ohio,
secretary and personal friend to the
late President, bade Mr. Coolidge
good-by Monday night and departed
for Mainne on an extended vacation.
‘OUR LITTLE FAIRY
eee e :
We want to tell all the children between the ages of
six and ninety-six about the little fairy we have in our
bank.
Her name is “Interest,” and every time you put a
dollar in our bank on savings account or on time certifi
cate, she waives her magic wand and 5 cents jumps right
up by the side of it, then you have a dollar and 5 cents
where you only had a dollar before.
If you keep on adding to your account, she keeps on
rolling nickels up to your dollars and before you harldy
realize it you have a snug bank account.
In later years she guards your welfare and keeps
poverty and want from attacking you, makes you enjoy
life in pleasure and comfort, where otherwise you might
have led a life of drudgery, misery and want in your old
age, besides Leing dependent on relatives or charity.
Deposit your dollars in our bank where our little
fairy “Interest” will add to them regularly and make
you independent.
Se e et
- BANK OF LEESBURGE,
G A NEsBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
T. C. THARP, CASHIER.
'COTTON FIGVRES
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10,788,000 BALES
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THIS YEAR'’S PRODUCTION ES
TIMATED 54.1 PER CENT
OF NORMAL CROP.
This year’s cotton production was
forecast Friday at 10,788,000 bales
of 500 pounds each by the depart
ment of agriculture.
The forecast was based on the
condition of the crop on Aug. 25
‘which was 54.1 per cent of normal,
indicating a yield of about 134.8
pounds per acre. Last month’s pro
duction forecast was 11,516,000
bales based on the July 25 condition
of 67.2, which indicated a yield of
about 143.9 pounds per acre. Last
year’s crop was 9,761,817 bales.
The eondition on Aug. 25, in per
centage of a normal, and the fore
.cast of production in thousands of l
bales by principal states are:
Virginia 92 and 50; North
Carolina, 71 and 885; South Caro
lina 57 and 708; Georgia, 42 and
827; Florida, 30 and 17; Alabama,’
52 and 828; Mississippi, 48 and
858; Lousiana, 53 and 361; Texas,
55 and 3,722; Aarkansas, 57 and
948; Tennessee, 64 and 415; Mis
souri, 67 and 193; Oklahoma, 46
and 791; California, 88 and 42;
Arizona, 90 and 83; New Mexico,
88 and 59.
MEX RECOGNIZED
Recsgnition Accorded Automatical
ly by French Republic
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4.—The re
public of France automatically rec
ognized Mexico yesterday when
Jules Blondel asked the foreign of
fice whether Jean Pier, the French
would be accepted as minister to
this country.
Mexico and the United States re
sumed relations yesterday when
George T. Summerlin, counsellor of
the United States embassy, present
ed his credentials as charge of af
fairs to Foreign Minisfer Pani.
Great Britain, Belgium and Switzer
land have as yet taken no steps to
ward recognition.
The commercial customs and ex
tradition treaties between the
United States and this republic have
been resumed. It is announced that
Washington will demand the extra
dition of several Americans who
have escaped to this country to
avoid arrest.
We want mnew subscribers—Give
us your name.
LLeeshurg, Lee County Ga., Friday SFPTEMBER 7, 1923
’ TRIAT REVIEW
Industry means employment, em
ployment means payrolls and pay
rolls mean money to spend for the
necessities and luxuries of life.
Moral, encourage industrial stabil
ity and development.
Dalton—Local Masonic¢ order pur
chases Crawford street property as
site for proposed new temple.
Pavo—4o,ooo of farm products
shipped from here in July.
Elberton—Georgia Granite Corpor
ation to double capacity and em
ploy 250 more men.
Atlanta—New $500,000 girls’
high school to be constructed.
Newnan—New $21,000 business
building to be erected on' Greenville
street.
Macon—Plans for new $600,000
city auditorium being considered.
Waycross—New concrete bridge
over Satilla river under construe
tion. |
Newnan—sso,ooo to be expended‘
on new Presbyterian church.
Columbus—New high school pro
posed.
Elberton—Work on overhead con
crete bridge in western city limits
to commence.
} Macon—Georgia Pecan Company,
capital $lOO,OOO, to commence gen
eral nursery business, specializing
on peach and pecan orchard develop
‘ment.
Magnet—Cheese factory proving
great success.
Thomasville— Local hatchery,
capacity 14,000 eggs, doing big busi
ness.
AtlantaN $250,000 health resort
to be erected on PeacHtree road
near' Seaboard crossing.
Hoboken—New tobac¢e¢o "house
opened at this place.
Rockmart—Building boom in pro
gress in this vicinity.
Alhany—New creamery plant to
open at this place.
Crisp—New 11,000 school building
pianned. e
Juliette—Monroe county bunks
report great improvement in busi
ness situations.
Covington —Fire escap:s to be inr
stalled on school uilding,;. :
Toccoa—Tcecoa Cotin: mills pur
chased for s£4£o,ooo.
Dawson—Two new gins' being
erected in this county.
Collonden—Planing mill, capacity
75,000 ft. daily, completed.
- Thomaston—New planing plants
installed to manufacture roofing
and other dressed lumber.
Moultrie —Moultrie-Thomasville
road ‘nearing completion.
Macon—§s7s,ooo of pipe purchas
ed for water service extension.
Cedartown—Work started on lo
cal $1,000,000 textile plant for
United States Finishing Company.
Sparta—Pecan crop in this county
largest in years.
Montezuma—Electric gin recent
ly installed.
, Louisville—New ten-ton municip
al ice plant recently installed.
Atlanta—sl2s,ooo hotel to be
erected on corner of Pryor and
Houston streets.
Sylvester—New chees factory
may be established.
Statesboro—Methodist church to
have new $15,000 Sunday school
building.
Southwest Georgia Melon Grow
ers Association reports 615 cars at
$205 per car.
Twelve of twenty short-line rail
roads operating in State reports
good business.
Valdosta—Site for new egg hatch
ery to be considered at this point.
Jackson—Dam at this point to
be improved at cost of over $4,000,-
000.
Atlanta——s3o,ooo bond issue pro
posed for construction of new school
in Cross Keys district.
~ Summerville—Work on big sub
station of Georgia Railway and
Power Company started.
Atlanta—Georgia Peanut Grow
ers Association signs up over 100,-
000 acres throughout state.
The teaching of fire prevention
and safety is to be made a part of
the required courses of study in the
Kansas graded schools beginning
’with the next school year.
Electricity will be the main fuel
and power of the futuure. We have
barely entered the Electrical Age.
| Chained Lightning is growing up
iLEE COUNTY
l ATLANTA, Ga.—Cow, hog and
hen—that’s an epic which Georgia
agriculturists and editors sing at
about the little old firm of the cow,
this time of stress and turmoil—
hog and hen. This firm, according
to reports from many Georgia coun
ties, and the firm is growing with
big profits to both state and individ
uals.
It stays on the job whether war or
peace prevails, whether dynasties
wax or wane, whether brokerage
concerns go on the rocks or consti
tutional monarchies eollapse. Traly,
it is a sign of the times in Georgin—
this big movement, to put cows, hogs
and hens on every farm—a form of
broadcasting that as the advotates
hosefully aver will “save the day
for Georgia agriculture”.
That astute showman, Oscar Ham
‘merstein, some years ago was cas
ting about for a potent lure that
would bring the crowds to his New
York rooof garden. Finallyq he }md;
the inspiration to exhibit a cow and
her calf. They were the gaxing
stock of his exhibition. They made
the same bucolic appeal as that on
‘which “The Old Homestead” or Way
Down East” has traded so success
fully these many years. But those
two animals from the farm stood for
a lot more than sentiment. They
were the epic figures of the $,500,-
000 farms of the country, with &ni
mals valued at $8,000,000,000. 1
The hen that flutters and squawks
across the road before your auto
mobile is not the mere foolish fuss
and feathers she-seems. ShWorth
a billion dollars a year. ' " |
' Diversification -and co-operative
selling are solving a difficulty in the
South that long has proven to be
a serious handicap to agricultural
prosperity, according to farm ex
perts here.
“Cotton must be grown in ex
actly the manner in which the Fath
ers of the Fifties grow it, namely,
as a surplus money crop”, said Hon.
}Martin Calvin today to the corres
pondent of this news service. Mr.
Calvin is the statistician of the
Georgia Department of Agriculture.
He was for seventeen consecutive
years the secretary and for two
iyear, the limited term, the President
of the Georgia State Agricultural
Society.
* “They (our Fathers of the Fif
ties) practiced on evry farm and
plantation diversification of crops,
and gave close personal attention
to life stock farming. As a result
of that wise course, they themselves
grew apace; They became the
‘wealthiest people in the world. The
rural districts were the backbone of
the money centers—indeed, they
were the money centers, and they
‘were the embodiment of genuine
society—not ‘sassciety’. What a civi
lization. It will never be equal led;
it can never be surpassed.”
PEACH SEASON WAS SECOND
LARGEST IN STATE'S HISTORY
A report on August 18th by the
United States department of agri
culture showed that 8,559 cars of
peaches had been shipped from
Georgia during the season. This is
the second largest crop ever produc
ed only by the 1921 crop of 10,468
cars, the report showed.
666 quickly relieves Constipa
tion, Biliousness, Headaches, Colds
aud Lagrippe.
RSeTY, 0 A A STb AT TP TNIn,
into your best slave. The establish
ment of a telephone -circuit of over
5,5000 miles between Havana, Cuba
and Santa Catalina Island, off coast
iof California is recent achievement
of the Bell Telephone System. This
is longest circuit in the world and
in constant use. The voice travels
under sea, over mountains and by
radio in reaching its destination, all
in one operation.
According to annual repoft of
New Orleasn Cotton Exchange, boll
weevil during last five years has
cost South $1,500,000,000. !
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ISMALLEST CROP -
APPLIES BOTH TO YIELD PER
- ACRE AND TOTAL PRODUCT
LOSS IS BIG.
The boll weevil continued its ram
pages in South Georgia, but in North
Georgia the cotton plant displayed
a remarkable fruition during August
and an improvement in condition of
from 3 to 4 points was registered in
that section, according to the month
ly crop review issued Saturday by
the Georgia Co-operative Crop Re
porting service of the federal and
the state deparmtents of agriculture.
One of the smallest cotton crops in
many years was predicted by the
report. The yield per acre will be
below 100 pounds, it said.
During the past thirty days the
boll weevil has destroyed more than
half the cotton in South Georgia,
and is now taking heavy toll in the
upper section of that state. In
North Georgia the plant put on a
wonderful amount of fruit during
August, and a net improvement in
condition of three or four points
was registered in most of the ter
ritory north of the line running
from West Point to Augusta. South
of that line the decline ran from
a moderat figure to 17 points in the
South and Southwest. One large
area (the territory from Wilcox to
Berrien - coutny) registered a prac
tical failure.
While most of the damage may be
attributed to the boll weevil, excess
moisture, the army worm, the red
spider and the boll worm were re
;;sponsible for a considerable, pro
portion.
The average condition for the en
tire state is placed in this report at
42 with the condition in Sumter
county placed at .35, and the South
west Georgia district condition by
counties, as follows:
Bager ..o ot Lo DR
Oalhoun . o s si D 8
Oy o 0 e TR
i S G B
PgHeßarby. voo O
EaR oao B
Grady oo ol Bl
Jee v o - oo g R
Miey ..o oo o O
Mitehsll .. 0v 0 86
Quitthan .o 0 o ens O Sgy
Ramdoloh .. '&0 —eni 48
Seminole o 0 o i b B Ok
prewart ..o o e i aa LBN
gunitey . i o 3
Teyrell i b iR
SR e e
Webnter -oo oo a R
Districl average ... - ... ... .80
District average 1922____.______52
The present prospect is the re
verse of that year, the report adds.
This season upper Georgia will make
the cotton and Scuth Georgia very
little.
INSULIN, A NEW REMEDY
Diabetics Have a New Hope
There hags been much publicity
given a new remedy known as Insu
lin; miraculous things have been
clzimed by some for the remedy in
the treatment of Diabetes Meillitus,
as the doctors call it, meaning sugar
in the urine. It i 8 made from the melt
or pancreas; it is indeed a powerful
remedy. We have asked a physician
tn whom we have confidence to tell
us about it, and he advises that all
diabetics are not helped by it or
cured. He tells us, however, that it
{s a wonderful aid in the treatment of
this disease; that it will not take the
place of diet.. .
DAILY INSPECTION
: OF SCHOOL :CHILD
A great deal of sickness.could be
prevented if every school child were
mmspected each morning. It would re
quire but a few minutes for 'the teach
er to look at the children under his
or her indivdual care; so many of the
infectious and contagious . diseases
could be detected by a casual observa
tion and if the child showed signs of
disease or vermin it could be sent for
‘examination. All children with a tem
‘perature should be immediagely sent
Lhome; sore throat or coldsy ,Bame
e caEs Rl
Tmmwn;& ec
WER DAM
Baker County Company to Begin
Work on Notchaway Creek
ARLINGTON, Ga., Sept. 2.—The
Baker County Power Company will
begin work rebuilding their dam
across Notchaway Creek, which was
washed out in January, according to
Dr. W. E. Saunders, secretary and
treasurer, and one of the principal
stockholders of the company.
The dam was originally built by
the power company, but Dr. Saund
ers stated that the work this time
will be under contract with the
Hardaway Construction Company,
of Columbus, Ga., as constructors,
and the Mees & Mees Company, of
Charlotte, N. C. as engineers.
This announcement is the outcome
of a directors’ meeting held at New
ton, Ga,, where the final arrange
‘ments were made towards financing
the work. Dr. Saunders stated that
the cost of replacing the dam would
be approximately $lOO,OOO. He also
expressed himself as certain they
will be able to furnish their lines
with their own current in sixty days.
The Georgia-Alabama Power Com
pany, of Albany, Ga., has been fur
nishing current for the Baker Coun
ty Power Company’s lines since the
wash-out.
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
FOR WAREHOUSING AND
STERING PEANUTS
ALBANY, Ga.,, Sept. 3.—J. J.
Watson, production manager of the
Georgia Peanut Growers Co-opera
tive Association, has completed ar
rangements for warehousing and
stering the peanuts from the more
than 100,000 acres under contract
to this big farmers’ organization.
Bonded warehouses in about twenty
centeral points will be the main re
ceiving points, but local receiving
stations will be establishedu through
out the counties covered by the as
sociation. Members will have the
option of delivering at either, but
they are being urged to take their
jpeanuts to the bonded warehouses
which will be the only places where
peanuts will be stored for any length
of time. By taking their peanuts to
the bonded warehouses, which are
located at the places enjoying the
lowest freight and insurance rates,
the members will save the associa
tion money, which amounts to the
same thing as saving themselves
money. :
At a joint meeting in Albany last
week of bankers, business men and
Peanut Association representatives,
an agreement was reached whereby
bankers and business men holding
crop liens against peanuts of mem
bers of the association will allow
these peanuts to be handled by the
association. The lien will be paid
out of the proceeds of the sale by
}the association, and in this way the
Ipeanuts will not be dumped on the
market at the time when prices are
usually lowest. It is believed that
practically all of bankers and sup
ply merchants of the state who are
not speculators will accept the Plan,
which, it is claimed, will add to the
general prosperity.
Arrangements have also been
made to finance the initial .advances
by the Pean®t Association to its
members on first deiiveries by short
term loans from lesal banks at 6
per cent interest. Money borrowed
for longer periods to finance such
portion of the crop as will be stored
will be secured from the Federal
Intermediate Credit Bank at Colum
bia, S. C,, at 5% per cent interest.
Money secured on the short-term
notes will be deposited in the banks
from which it was borrowed and
paid out to Peanut Association
members in that county, most of
whom will be customers of the bank.
In this way, the money, or very lit
tle of it, will ever leave the bank.
The County Commissioners held
their regular meeting here Tuesday
and the usaul business was tran
sacted. .. .l By b
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