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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. : . N 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 k,_:_.——‘;_—‘l_—‘k——‘l—_lk__ll‘ 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 | 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 » GEOXGIA WERKLY O | 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, ‘ e ——————————————————————— ‘ 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