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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE CROSSED CHATT- With more than 70 per cent of the total estimated peanut acreage of Georgia under contract, the Geor gia Peanut Growers Co-operative Association has now crossed the Chattahoochee river and is carrying the message of co-operative market- | ing, as opposed to ‘“dumping” and speculative selling, to the peanut growers of the State of Alabama. ' The White Spanish Peanut, acre age of Alabama—and White Span ish is all that the Georgia Peanut with-—it limited largely .to four counties, and these will be the only Alabama counties that the Associa tion will, work this year. They are Houston, Henry, Barbour and Rus sell. Two teams from the Field Service Department, headed by J. Lelley Simmons and J. B. Lawley, assisted by A. M. Prince and J. T. Ferrell, are now signing contracts in the Alabama territory at a rapid rate. The Peanut Association has al ready signed 102,000 acres in Geor gia, out of a total estimated acre age of 142,000 acres, which is con sidered a higher estimate. This sign up alonc makes the Association the biggest single factor in the world jn the White Spanish market. Delivery season for Association members begins September = 20th and it is estimated that the per centage of deliveries will set a new Ligh record for a Southern co-op. The morale of the membership is at a high pitch, and little difficulty is auticipated in getting the members .Eo turn their peanuts over to the Association. Crop mortgages ~in some places will interfere, but all over the belt bankers and supply merchants arc agreeing to let pea nuts on which they hold liens to be delivered to the Association and for the Association to assume the lien. " Bonded warehouses and local re ceiving and shipping points have been established throughout the belt ‘at which the members will deliver their peanuts. They have the op tion of delivering at either a bonded warehouse or a local receiving or shipping station, but are urged to deliver to the bonded warehouses, on account of the lower freight rates and insurance rates at the points , where they are located. The list of warehouses and receiving points follows: - : Bonded Warehouses—Farmers, Barwick, Ga.; Trio Peanut Oil Co., Arlington; Wallerstein & Wiggins, Edison; T. L. Dozier, Morgan; Me- Rae Bros., Fort Gaines; Coweta oil Co., Newnan; warchouse unselected at Senoia; Albany Gil Co., Albany; L. E. Stripling, Cordele; Central Warehouse, Blakely; warehouses un selected at Greensboro and Monti cello; W. W. Perry Shady Dale; Barnhart Mercantile Co., Valdosta; T. A. Acrce Co., Camilla; warehouse uncelected at Madison; G. K. Riley, Eatonton; Donalsonville Ooil Co,, Donalsonville; Richland Cotton Oil Co., Richland; Dawson Compress Co. Dawson. : Temporary Storage Warehouvses and Loading Stations—M. L. Grifin, Nashville; Cochran oil & Gin €o, Cochran; W. A. Rayburn, Pavo; O. K. Jelks & Son,” Quitman; W. D. Addison, Leary; J. R. Culberth, Doerun; Trulock Supply Co., Cli max; W. H. Biddenfield, Unadilla; D. B. Thompson, *Vienna; Willie Wiley, Damascus; Cane Growers Warchouse, Cairo; A. J. Crew, Whigham; W. R. Thompson, Hahira; Cowart & Dancer, Colquitt; D. D. Autrey, Hinsonton, I. M. Marchant, Sale City; Geo. B. Mashburn, Haw kinsville; Joe Ray & Co., Coleman; Cuthbert Warehouse Co., Cuthbert; D. E. Burress, Shellman; J. L. Mil ler, Shellman; J. T. Humber, Lump kin; Richland Cottén Oil Co., Rich land; Sumter-Lee Warehouse Co., Leslie; D. M. Hill, Bronwood; Em * mett Pinkston, Parrott; B. W. Stone, Thomasville; J. T. Pileher, Meigs; G. D. Sheppard, Sycamore; J. L. Evans, Ashburn; G. R. Choate, Tif ton; D. Q. Harris, Pitts; W. “R. Storm, Oakfield; A. M. Burts, Syl _vester; warehouses unselected at » Milledgeville, Fairburn, Adel, .‘Suarpsburg, Turin,. Bainbridge, Fayetteville, MecDonough, Hampton, Locust Grove, Machen, Dublin, | The two outstanding feautres of the transportation situation at the present time are the facts that the railways rendering to Anierican business more efficient serviee than at any time in the history_of the country, and are accomplishing this achievement at costs to the travel {ing and shipping public lower than prevail anywhere eles in the world. These statements are made in a re view: of the transportation situation by W. A. Winburn, President, Cen ‘tral of Georgia Railway Company. Mr. Winburn points out that this yvear the railways are expending for equipment, additions and improve ments the enormous sum of $1,500, 000,000. He declares that freight rates are not out of line with com moaity prices, inasmuch as rates are now 50 per cent higher than in 1913 while the everage wholesale price of all commodities is 57 per cent higher than in 1913. Morcover, last year while commodity prices were in creasing, freight rates . were reduced 13 per cent. Mr. Winburn asks if any other large American industry reduced to the consumer the cost of its product in 1922. He declares that the future de velopment, of trasportatidn hinges upon the ability of the railways to secure sufficient ca~p§tal to keep pace with the business demands of the zountry and asks for a fair trial of the present. Transportation Act for 1 reasonable length of time under normal conditions. : Attention is directed to the fact that despite. widespread public be lief there is no 6 per cent “guaran 'tee” of railway earnings, but that the law on the contrary limits the ‘earnings of ' transportation com panies without maknig up deficits. HUSBAND GRANT- . LOS ANGLES, Sept. 8— Mar riage is fifty-fifty, said Judge John W. Eummerfield, of the Superior Court, in ordering Mrs. Mary Scran ton to pay her husband, Charles Scanton, $5 a week as temporary alimony, pending trial of his - suit for separate maintenance. Scranton, testified his wife, who earnes $l5O a month in a bank, de serted him. He said he was ill and unable to work. “This couple married for better or for worse,” remarked the court. “The husband has broken in harness. I am afraid the wife will have to pull a double load for a while, at least. Marriage is a case of give and take. Gentle reader have you noticed that lightning roads, once go plenti ful in this section are rapidly disap pearing? such is the case, we are in formed; and it is doubtful if the average citizen knows why. According to the officers of the law the Volstead act is responsible for this. Lightning. rods consists principally of small copper pipes, which ingenious individuals desirous of profits by pandering to the per verted tasts of those who hope the country will never “go dry” have found they can be neatly converted into worms to be used in distilling corn and other products. Sheriff Taylor says lightning rods in this country are few and far be tween. The inference is that’the manufacture of “white lightning” by the use of lightning roads (sounds very appropriaté, doesn’t it?) is rather extensive in this section.— ‘Clthbert Leader. | 666 quickly relieves Constipa tion, Biliousness, Headaches, Colds \and Lagrippe. : Bolingborke, Forsyth, Bostwick, Rutledge, Maxeys, Arnoldsville, ’Den nis, Willard, Longansville, Monroe, Social Circle,. Sandersville, Rochelle, Washington and Warwitck. I.,éeéiinrar. Lee County Ga., “Friday SFPTEMBER 14, 1923 Industrial detivity is the life blood of any prosperous community, To refrain from taking an interest in industrial problems, either labor, legislative’ or fimapcial is as short sighted as to neglect ones own per sonal health, Midland—New $lO,OOO local school building being erected. Savannah—New local Kress store near completion. Blackshear—Sales of tobacco at this point in one day amounted to approximately 120,000 Ibs. Macon—Paving of Clinton road to be completed soon. Milledgeville ° —Oconee river ‘bridge at this point ready for traf fie. "' Moultrie—Local © commiercial egg hatchery, capacity 10,000 eggs, re opens for fall season. - - & i Valdosta—Walker wood products company to extend plant. ‘ Albany—New high school biulding proposed. ! : Ocilla—New machinery regently: installed at local water and light plant. : | } Tifton—Local hdtchery . opens for business. 3 ‘ Nashville—Approximately 215, 000 Ibs. tobacco sold here in one day, bringing general average of 31 cents Ib. e ' Hawkinsville—Pulaski * “hotel un dergoing extensive alterations and repairs. o Perry—Many building projects under construction. . - Montezum—Three warehouses open here 'and ready for season’s cotton crop. Bainbridge—New ten-room negro school building being rushed to com pletion. - i A : Bainbridge—New chick hatchery being considered for this point. When winter comes—it will find in Georgia that summer and autumn, with great crops and heavy harvests have been making ready for it. (Sa vannah Post) Waynesboro—New Thankful Bap tist colored church nearing comple tion—will- cost $15,000." : . Carrollton—Maudeville Mills pur chase warehouse, to convert into mill laundry. Total Georga peach crop this sea son is ‘approximately 8,860 cars, 1,492 cars more than last season’s Crop. ; Georgia’s poultry industry in creased $1,500,000 in past year. | Savannah—Swift Fertilizer Works purchases plant of American Ferti lizer Company on Lathrom avenue. Atlanta—Forty gtreet improve ment projects, costing $500,000 to be carried out in this city. Valdosta—slso,ooo in bonds to be issued for municipal improve ments. # : ‘ Savannah—Gas Company to is sue $1,850,000 new stock. “ “Dublin—New steamboar for Southern Cotton Oil Company com pleted. S | - Augusta—Several paving projects! to be carried out here. | . Sylvester—Georgia Public Ser vice Company : constructing power line from Flint river dam to this point: % | Dubois—New Miller gin com pleted. m Macon—=6,7ll carloads - melons shipped from here this season. . ~ Savannah—New “City of Birm ingham” steamship completed for servec on New-York-Savannah line at cost of $1,000,000. - Thomasville—New Tourist Inn to be located at this point soon. Savannah—sss,ooo to be spent for enlargement of Hicks hotel. Georgia’s July building activities reached total of $4,237,300. Blueberries are becoming a big money crop. Recent sale of a 10-acre pecan grove in Floriad indicates that the owner received a good price from the purchasers who made a good in vestment. Pecan groves in Florida and Georgia are money-makers of no mean ability, in the way cf pro ductiveness. : - The American Telephone system is the envy of all other countries and several nations of Europe are lconsidering doing away with gov vernment ownwership of their sys- 'WATER TRAGEDY J. T. M’Daniel, 23, Drowns Near Albany as Boat Capsizes RESCUE EFFORTS TO LATE | ALBANY, Ga., Sept. 9—J. T, Mc- Daniel, .23 years of age, was drown ed in Muckalee Creek at Graves Mill, in Lee County, this afternoon, ac-. cording to reports brought here by a party of young men and women with whom he had been spending the day. - Young McDaniel, who was not a swimmer, was in a boat with a num ber of young men and young women, when the craft was capsized. A number of the young women also could not swim and in saving the young women, according to re ports, brought here, the male mem bers of the party-entirely overlooked the fact that -McDaniel also. could not swim. S : .One of the girls as ghe reached the bank, glanced: back. across the pond, and shouted, “Look at. Me.” ' McDaniel was: just 'going down for what turned out to ‘be the last ‘time. ; Rescue Efforts Too Late. Swimmers of the party .endeavor ed to reach him, but they were too ’late. R. T. Palmer, noted for find [ing bodies of drowned:persons, was obtained as soon as the alarm of rthe drowning .was given, and he quickly recovered the ‘body, which ‘was brought ‘here after dark to night. ; Word was sent to MecDaniel’s ‘mother, Mrs. J. T. McDaniel, at Leary, and .she 'hastened here in an automobile, with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, of this city. Young McDaniel was popular with the young people here and had been employed at the G."& O. Service Station on Jackson Street for sev eral months. ~There were thirty or forty peo ple spending the day at Graves Mills, which is the site of ‘an old mill long ago fallen into dacay, and a favorite |spot for picnic and fishing parties. MR. WILL AVRETT On Thursday morning September 6, God in his infinite Wisdom saw fit to send the Angle of death ' to earth to reclaim the soul of Mr. Will Avrett. Words are inadequate to express our regret and deep sorrow that God has transplanted from earth to Paradise so fair a flower. His generous heart sustained the sweet spirit that bear within His aimable disposition endeared him to all with whom he came in contact and he has doubtless received from the omnipotent. hand of our Creator a crown of unequaled brilliancy. Over his grave the silver moon will hover like a beautiful spirit and the little stars will sparkle like myriads of lanterns in azure blue. May God bless and comfort the loved ones. : “Cling tightly to the cross, ye loved ones, One more look on that face divine. ~ You will them find strenght to bear your cross, And say thy holy will—not mine. There in the glorious sunset, As golden beams come streaming | down [ His noble work here is cnded, His cross is exchanged fcr the crown.” e A Friend. WANTED—Men or women to take orders for genuine guaranteed hosiery for men, women, and chil dren, Eliminates darning. Salary $75 a week full time, $1.50 an hour !spare time. Cottons, heathers, silks. 8 International Stocking Mills, : Norristown, Pa. tems In the Eope that a cflange to private management will pull the service out of the slough of inefii-‘ ciency into which it has fallen. 3 The majority of the people think that they are paying high enough ' taxes now. A smoking match carelessly thrown aside may mean a smoking forest or a burh city. The South leads in percentage of Life insurance gains. A I have been asked by a number of patrons of public schools as to the right of trustees of the school to charge and collect any money from the patrons for tuition, incidentals fees or any other charges, and by request I am submitting the law as applies to the schools: | Code of Georgia, Section 1509, says, ‘“That admission to all the schools of the state, the tuition shall be free between the ages of six and! eighteen, | This law applies to all schools where the town ar city receives money from the State, or by local taxation. The Supreme Court has decided in the case of Ives vs. Greyary 36| Georgia Reports page 605, that no | school supported by the State or 10-l cal taxation can charge or collect‘ entrance fee, incidental or tuition | from its patrons. | This is affirmed in the case of Edlgo vs. Southern Ry. 126 Ga. Re port page 266. % ~ln the cese of the board of educa tion vs. Price 101 Ga. Rep. p, 426, ‘municipal schools must. be free to all children who may enter the same. This is affirmed in the cese of Wilson vs. Stafford 133 Ga. Rep. "484. ~ Also affirmed in the case ofl Brewer vs. Riley 149 Ga. Rep. 596, and this affirms the case of the City of Gainesville vs. Simmons 96 Ga. Rep. 477. . ‘ While it is not criminal to charge the tuition, in asking the charge the trustees violate a moral law. Schools authorities under the law have no right to pay out any of the money received from the state or municipal taxes for salaries for themselves or the secretary and treasurer. ~ If the patrons of the school has paid the tuition incidentals or ad }mission fees, the trustees can 'be ‘lmade to refund it, and they are personal liable. ' If they refuse to receive the children without the fees being paid, then a mandamus against them will compell them to admit the children to school. Where there is consolidated schools and they furnish convey ances to carry children to the school, they must see that every one is furnished with a conveyance, and a failure to do so the county school superintendant can be enjoined from paying any money received from the state for the schools. I BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LOAN | e Pty Benjamin Franklin once wrote this letter to a man to whom he was lending money: “I send you herewith a bill for ten louis d’ors. Ido not pretend to give such a sum. I . only lend it to you. When you shall return to 3 your country, you cannot fail of getting into “ some kind of business that will in time enable *¥ ' you to pay, off all your debts. 3 . ; ; In that case, when you meet with another ~ honest man in similar distress, you must pay ~ me by lending this sum to him,, enjoining him . to discharge the debt by a like opration when 4 he shall be able and meet with another oppor 4/ tunity. I hope it may go through many hands before it shall meet with a knave to stop its . progress. : This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with little money. And it is a very good trick.” - This is a mighty good way to be “tricky.” We are tricky in this way—we retain the custodianship of the loan. You pay it back to us and we in turn lend it to the other fellow. We are just as anxious to help you as Ben Franklin was, ’tho we want to keep record of its ro tation. LET US HELP YOU. ei e oee it mact § o BANK OF LEESBURG, G A.NESBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT ~ T. C. THARP, CASHIER, Of 160 Georgia Counties But 32 Report Increases, Full bright Announces. Of the Georgia counties making returns of the taxable property for 1928, 128 showed losses under the returns for last year, while only 32 showed increases, according to a formal statement issued by Tax Commissioners Henry J. Fullbright. The losses says the statement, ag gregated $25,628,511, and the State Tax Commissioner ordered a further decrease in one of them of 10 per cent on lands amounting to $136,- 522, and 10 per cent increases in fthree others amounting to $847,174, 50 the final decrease in the 128 coun ties was $24,918,259. ’ The increases in the 32 counties aggregate $20.908,876, so that the net loss in the state is only a little over $4,000,000, and the final figures from Dougherty will reduce this a little., The loss in 1922 was $74,- 000,000 and in 1921 $79,000,000. After his round of conferences with the tax officials in the eary part of the' year the State Tax Commis sioner advised the Governor and Budget Commissioners that tax val ues would be substantially the same this year as last, expecting the gain in the cities to offset the losses in some of the country sections. Every one of the five counties showed in creases except Chatham. The 32 honor counties are Ap pling, Ben Hill, Bibb, Burke, Chap bett, Cherokee, Clay, Clinch, Colum bia, Decature, Dekalb, Dougherty, Echols, Fulton, Gilmer, Habersham, Irwin, Jenkins, Lanier, Mitchell, Mus cogee, Pickens, Rabun, Richmond, Spalding, Stephens, Talbot, Troup, iUpson, Ware, Warren and Whitfield. DEATH OF MRS. | LUCRETIA CRUMBLEY ~ Mrs. Lucretia Crumbley died in Eufaula, Ala., Monday very sudden ly. Mrs. Crumbley is the mother of Dr. P. B. Crumbley and Mr. Joe Crumbley of this place and made her home here for a number of years. She was a faithful church worker, and a member of the Metho dist Church, and for sometime Sup erintendent of the Methodist Sun day School, of this place. At the time of her death she was 62 years of age. The funeral and interment occur red at Georgetown, Ga., her former home, on Tuesday. She is -truly mourned by herlarge circle of ac quaintances here, everyone of them a friend. Number 31