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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TVENTY-FIVE
BORROW .MONEY
According to a decision of the
United States Supreme Court county
authoritics cannot borrow money
without the authority of the voters
of the county.
The Farmers Loan & Trust Co.,
of New York lost in the United
States Supreme Court last Monday
its appeal for hearing of a suit
against Wilcox County, Georgia, to
recover $20,000 loaned the county
officials for county expenditure in
anticipation of tax receipts.
Repudiation by the county author
" fties of the debt was based on the al
legation that under the Georgia con
stitution the county was not author
ized to borrow money without au
thority from the voters of the coun
ty, which was not had in this in
stance, |
The Farmers Loan & Trust Co.,
contended this assent was not neces
sary for the specific loan and
was valid.
The decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States will
make it impossible for county a'u-!
thorities to borrow money. They
must wait until the taxes are paid.l
—The Winder News.
The editor of the Banks County
Journal has the following to say in
a recent issue of his paper: “Once
upon a time while in Clayton, Ga.,
we saw one beautiful young lady
riding a steer. This was a little
out of the ordinary, but this week,
we saw a blind man driving an auto
mobile, through town. Mr. DeWitt
Smith, of Atlanta, came up on a
visit and he was driving his car
about with no one on the seat with
him. I had rather risk my life with
DeWitt driving than with some
around here who hLave two . good
eyes and nothing back of them.”
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.
International Stocking Mills,
- Norristown, Pa.
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I “Cupboard Bank” is Found .
I by Thief—Takes $960.00
If you pity the pup of Mother '
: Hubbard, drop a tear for Sarah v
I Fair, negro woman, of 164 Fort X
Street. She had saved up $960.00 .
I in a tin cup in her cupboard and ;
! Wednesday morning it was gone, '
y she reported to the detectives. £
I The money,; the woman said, had 3
been sent her in small amounts by .
l her husband, who is working in East '
$ St. Louis. When the amount reach- i
p ed $1.000.00 she was to have joined -
I him, she said. . » N
Eeach week a money order would g 1 I
I . come, and the cash would be placed
N carefully away in a tin cup in her l
y cupboard. Detectives were assigned -
l to the case by Chief Pool.”—At- a
l lanta Georgian, Sept. Tth. |
: How often do we read of just such occurrances?!
IHow n.uch Letter it would have been for this woman tosx
have deposited the money received from her husbandi
'in come bank, where it would have been absoultely safe.
X It is unsafe to keep your money hidden, for youl
inever know when some one is going io find it. It is also
dangerous to carry it around on your person. The oldl
'saws “Hands up” or your “Money or your life” are no
\ jokes. |
_d 3
N Deposit your money with us and pay it out by’
P, check. It is safer and more convenient, you are never,
‘bothered about having the exact change and your can-I
celled check is the best receipt in the world. On the
'other hand if you do not need your money for immediatel
M requirements we will be glad to pay you interest on it;.
ithus it will ke earning something for you. i
\ E
ic. A. Nesbit, President O. W. Statham, Vice-Prcsidenli
‘ T. C. Tharp, Cashier. I
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Say This Is Most Effective
Method in Weevil F.lght
MOULTRIE, Ga., Sept. 27.—Con
vinced that stalk destruction is not
lonly the most effective method of
combatting the boll weevil but also
the cheapest farmers jn every one of
ithe seventeen militia districts of Col
quitt have already started plowing
in their cotton fields. The banks of
the county took a lead in the move
ment which is resulting in the almost
; general destruction of stalks, Ex
perience of a large number of cot-
Eton growers who have tried the plan
for several years has shown that the
weevil infestation where the staiks
are destroyed over 2a considerable
area is so ligl‘lt that the use of poison
has not been found necessary up un
til well in July. The cost of plowing
up the stalks, then going back over
the fields and pulling up the few
that might be missed, is said to not
run over 20 cents an acre. It costs
about $5 an acre to poison the cot
‘ton during the grpwing season, and
‘where the farmers in a community
group together and plow up their
stalks in September or the first few
days of October it has been shown
that the method is more successful
than the use of calcium arsenate.
Leaders in the stalk destruction
movement her, however, have point- }
ed out that it is a community pro-‘
gram and that for one small farmer
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alone to destroy his stalks is not‘
worth while. Reports received here
state that in sections where a cotton
grower is found who opposes stalk
destruction he is being urged by his
neighbors to let them do the work.
In some casees more drastic action
is being taken. The new farm pro
gram that has been adopted in Col
quitt calls for not more than five
acres of cotton to the plow but lead
ing business men here believe that
with that acreage Colquitt can pro
duce more than twice as much cot
ton as it made this year on an aver
age fifteen acres to the plow.
666 quickly relieves Constipa
tion, Biliousness, Headaches, Colds
aud Lagrippe. _
[,eeshurg. Lee County Ga., Friday SFPTEMBER 28, 1923
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GEOXGIA WERKLY
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INDUST’AL REVIEW
Development of oil and :nincral
lands, lumber and water powers,
goes on—Every kind of construction
work continues—Crops larger than
expected and the usual scarcity of
harvest ‘hands reported everywhere.
Sardis—New Baptist church com
pleted at cost of $35.000.
Adel—Local business to build to
bacco warehouse fd* next season’s
crop.
Lawrenceville— New $35.000
school building completed. *
Moultrie—New electric pumper
‘installed at city power plant.
! Savannah—Local gas company to
‘increase capital stock.
~ Rome—Manufacture of paper -and
pasteboard boxes begun at Kuster
Manufacturing Oo’s., new plant in
this city employing 25 persons.
Savannah—Local shops of Cen
tral of Georgia give employment to
631 persons.
Moultrie—Sugar cane placed on
sale on lo¢al market at pre war
price.
State peanut crop this year to be
worth about $7,000,000.
Coreen—Construction of plant
costing $1,500,000 with a capacity
of 2000 bbls. of cement per day to
begin shortly.
Gordon—New road bulidnig equip
ment purchased by county received.
Augusta—Atlantic States Ware
house Company organized to opecrate
cotton storage warehouse.
/ Wrens—s3o.ooo reinforced con
crete bridge over Briar creek plan
ned. :
Work on Jefferson Davis highway
between Louisville and Wrightsvillle
in Jefferson and Johnson counties to
’begin. :
¢ Waycross—Work begun on con
struction of new hard-surface me
morial bridge over Satilla river.
Athens—New Methodist church to
be built here.
Zebulon—New cotton warehouse
completed at this point.
Savannah—lmprovement of Ty
bee road completed.
Dublin—W. & T. Railroad lays
heavier rails between this city and
Brewton.
Rd{ne--Reyn‘olds'-’Rankin 1 Com
pany to manufacture pants at new
local plant. i ‘
Greenwood county has lost 65,000
negroes by migration north and is
offering free farm lands to thrifty
intelligent northern farmers accord
ing to the Albany Herald.
Sylvester—Power line being built
to furnish local hydro-electric cur
rent.
Atlanta—l 923 state tobacco crop
raised and sold at various ware
houses exceeds 8,061,712 Ibs.
The people of Georgia fcel that
it is high time they. were given re
lief from unequal taxation, and also
time to take some forward step that
will keep us abreast of the States
‘that are building good roads.
Jefferson—Business men are boost |
ing the Gainesville-Midland Railway.
Crisp county” Board of Trade las
undertaken a five-year development |
plan. :
“Mortgage Lifters”—the cow, the
sow and the hen.—(Lavonia Times). x
There was, at the end of 1922,i
10,789,084 central station customers’
of light and power; 17 per cent,
users of industrial lighting; and 4
per cent, industrial power consum-;
ers. The remaining 1 per cent is,
‘not accounted for. This total of |
more than ten million was diveded !
numerically as follows; 8,467,600
residential customers, 1,896,900 in
dustrial power customers. 1
Omaha had a failure of its muni
cipal water supply caused by caving
in of the Missouri river which filled
the mains and service pipes with
liquid mud. Damage done the city
and industries is estimated at $15,-
000,000, and 200,000 people were
deprived of water for a week in
August. The city acquired the plant
ten years ago and its manager was
elected to the United States Senate
on a public ownership campaign.
A Senatorial Committee investiga
ting the fire insurance industry in
ithe state of Illinois found that out
lof the average insurance dollar, 99
‘cents stayed in the state.
i United States is still Canada’s
_customer, taking during year ended
lJuly valued at $595,414,601.
72 80, or 90 Per Cent Normal?
What sort of school advantages do
your children have and the children
of your community? The three main
questions to consider are these?
1. Are the provisions for teach
ing elgmentary grades efficient and
! up-to-date?
l 2. Then after passing through
the elementary grades, can your
boys and girls get modern high
school instruction without having to
leave home and go to the gxpense of
“boarding” somewhere? :
' 3. And does this high school pro
vide proper instruction in vocational
agriculture and home economics?
! But to be more thorough we wish
to present twenty-five tests that will
show whether or not the schoo! ad
vantages offered your children are
60, 72, 80, 88, or 96, etc., per cent
of what they should be. Read over
the following list of twenty-five
questions, credit yourself with four
points for each question you can an
swer affirmatively, and see how your
school advantages score: ‘
1. Have you a progressive school
board?
2. Have you a special local tax
to supplement general support?
3. Have you a vocational agricul
tural department and teacher for
high school grades? :
5. Have you a home economics
teacher for your high school girls?
6. Have you a community audi
torium? 2
| 7. Have you a school farm or
garden, laboratory, and workshop.
L 1 Have you a school band or
lorches’tm?
| 9. Have you an up-to-date school
!library? ;
' * 10. Have you literary or debating
societies for the boys and girls?
l 11. Have you a school fair and
judging teams?
[ 12. Have you a nature study de
partment?
13. Have you a well equipped
playground—fdr 'baseball, basket
ba]l, tennis, and minor sports?
14. Do you provide transporta
tion for distant children?
15. Do you have community sing
ing and community plays in connec
tion with your school?
16. Are there reproductions of
beautiful picutres on the schoolhouse
walls?
17. Do you have public com
mencement each spring? j
18. Is there medical inspection of
the pupils once a year?
19. Is your school building well
planned for comfort, fire protection
and care of the eyes; and if built
of wood, is it regularly painted?
20. Do you have inter-school de
bat\es, sports, oratorical contests, etc.
21. Do you have large enrollment
of boys and girls in clubs—corn,
cotton, garden, poultry, pig, calf,
ete.
22. Do you have year-round pro
jeets in the home and farms of- chil
dren?
23. Have your school grounds“
been, beautified by proper planting
of flowers, trees, shrubs, and vines?
24. Have you a teacherage or
teacker’s home, modernly bulit and
!e'zuipped, at your high school?
i 25. Are the sanitary conditions of
“.)uildings‘;\r, water supplies, and
grounds such as to preserve the
health of the pupils?
i It might be an interesting thing
to read out these twenty-five ques
itions to each member of your fami
'ly, ask each listener to mark the
'numbers which he or she thinks
‘should be - answered in the affirma
tive, and then see how nearly you
all agree on the proper score for
Ithe school advantages offered your
ichildren.—-—The Progressive Farmer.
l A Holy Tryst.
As many people are aware, most of
the older streets in Montreal are
{named after saints, male and female.
‘A progressive Yankee has a typleal
American drug store at the corner of
two of these streets, and last summer
.he put the following sign In his win
'dow: “Meet your girl here for an ice
crezm soda, This is where St. Thomas
"nee_ts St. Genevieve.”—Harper’s Mag
'lzine,
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‘ Value of Society.
Soclety hath this good at least: that
It lessens our conceit, by teaching us
our significance, and making us ac
lqualmed with our betters.—Thackeray.
’ MONTEZUMA, Ga., Sept. 23.—
Montezuma warehouses received 156
bales of cotton Saturday, which is
slightly less than the receipts of last
Saturday and very much less than
the usual receipts in the height of
the cotton season. Warehousemen
state that the prospect grows more
gloomy each day, the farmers
throughout the county reporting that
their crops will be shorter than they
expected. Some are through picking
The conditions vary, however, in dif
ferent sections of the county and
some report a fairly good crop.
~ ALBANY, Ga.,, Sept. 24.—Pea
;nuts are being delivered to the Geor
gia Peanut Growers Co-operative As
sociation rapidly by its members in
all parts of the state, acecording to
statements made by officers of the
big new co-operative marketing or
ganizaation, ‘'wihch has headqaurters
at Albany.
Members are being advanced a
first payment of $75.00 a ton on No.
1 peanuts within less than 24 hours
after their warehouse receipts reach
headqaurters at Albany. The initial
advance was first placed at $60.00
a ton on No. 1 peanuts by the execu
tive committee of the Board of- Di
rectors, because of a desire con
servation, Colonel Robert E. L.
Spence, President of the Association,
stated. As soon as il was found that
an advance of $75.00 a ton could
;safe be made on No. I's the first
payments were increased $15.00 a
‘ton. Colonel Spence, ‘stated this was
done in a desire to see that every
grower, had as much ready money as
possible available just now, when so
many of the growers need it.
These advances of $75.00 a ton
are not all that the Association’s
members will receive for their pea
nuts, Colonel Spence stated, but is
simply a first payment, to be fol
lowed by others during the period
of months over which the Associa
tion will market its members’ stocks
in an orderly manner. It is expect
ed that the final payments will bring
the total for the members to a much
higher average than the non-mem
bers will receive for their peanuts.
One member -of the Association
living in Dougherty County deliver
ed his erop of ten tons to an associa
tion warehouse at Albany and went
by the headquarters office with his
receipt for payment. When he re
ceived his check for $750.00, he
said that the initial payment he had
just received amounted to exactly
$2.50 a ton more than he received
altogether for his peanuts last year.
It is estimated that the Peanut
Association controls more than 70
per cent of the commercial peanuts
in Georgia this year, having con
tracts covering more than 100,000
of the state’s 152,000 acres.
Due to the high prices at the open
ing of the market season, many of
the leading business men of the pea
nut belt are afraid that the farmers
will go in for peanuts too heavily
next year, and accordingly urging
their farmer friends not to over
ipla.nt; peanuts. They declare that
‘it will be just as ruinous to the
state to have peanuts for a one crop
burden as it is to have cotton the
sole money crop. Many of the best
minds in this part of the State are
urging a diverse system of agricul
ture, which includes not only pea
nuts, cotton, tobacco and other well
known money crops, but also perma
nent pastures, corn and velvet beans,
hogs, hens and milk cows. It is im
pessible for a farmer to have a
failure in all of these in one year,
unless from a national catastrophei
of some kind, they pay. ‘
Cures Malaria, Chills and
Fever, Dengue or Bilious
Fever. It destroys the
germs. :
EVERY COMMUNI-
Most of our readers have noted
that American Education Week is
to be observed this year from Sun
day, November /18, to Saturday,
November 24, somewhat earlier than
in former years. The program
emphasizes the importance of the
country schools by devoting the ex
ercises of two days mainly to the
consideration of rural problems.
Sunday, Noveember 18, is desig
nated, “For God and Country’’; Mon
day, “American Constitution Day”’;
Tuesday, “Patriotism Day”; Wed
nesday, “School and Teacher Day”;
Thursday, “Illiteracy Day”; Friday,
“Community Day”; Saturday, “Phy
sical Education Day”.
The slogans for Friday, Novem
ber 28, are, “An Equal Chance for
All Children”; “A Square Deal for
the Country Boy and Girl”. The
suggested program emphasizes the
plea for “Equality of opportunity
for every American boy and girl”
and urges the importance of a pub
lic library in every community. It
is expected that every rural com
munity will assemble at its school
house on that day. On Saturday
will be featured, “The Great Out
of-doors” and the ‘“Conservation
and Development of Forests, Soil,
Roads and other Resources’.
STATEMENT OF CONDITIONS
OF THE
BANK OF LEESBURG
Located at Leesburg, Georgia, ‘Lee
County. At The Close of 'Busi
ness Sept. 14th, 1923, As Call
ed for by the Superintendent
of Banks.
RESOURCES
Time loans and dis-___
counts ... __.5.-..5% 138,361.76
Demand loans _______ 4117.26
Loans secured by___.__
real estate___..__.__ 20,817.42
Industrial stocks_.___.__
and bonds. .. ... .. 3,270.00
Banking house______/ 2,610.17
Furniture and fiz-____ ;
POHes o sl 2,895.00
Other real estate.____
owned ..ol 2,593.80
Cash in vault and_____
amounts deposited__
with approved Re-__
serve Agents_______ 9,991.21
Due from other banks.
jn: this- state. .. ... 404.40
Other checks and__.___
cash sfems___._____ 139.53
%overdrafts—(if any) —— 73.43
\ TOTAL ... ...... $181,478.98
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in___s 15,000.00
Surplus fund. .o, .o 5:000.00
Undivided profits_..___.. 2,171.06 .
Call money.--.._ ... ... 4b,600.00
Individual deposits____._
subject to check____._ 17,713.87
Time Certificate of____ :
depasit- -7 i 2. 2680820
Trust funds on deposit__. 5,446.38
Cashier’s checks_______ 429.23
Bills: payable to.. ... .2
" bank in this state____ 10,500.00
Bills payable.to _______
banks in other states. 36,500.00
Notes and bills redis-___
counted with other __
banks in other states. 7,105.24
Certificate of de-. _____ 3
posit for borrowed.__
money . 10,500.00
TOTAL. . 01, :.8181.478.98
STATE OF GEORGIA: :
| Lee County.
Before me came T. C. Tharp,
Cashier of Bank of Leesburg, who
being duly sworn says that the above
foregoing statement is a true con
dition of said Bank, as shown by
the books of file in said Bank.
T. C. THARP.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 24th day of September 1923,
; s R. R. GREEN,
© N, P. Lee County, Georgia.
Number 33