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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL ! VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE HENRY FORD STRONG IN GA. ATLANTA, . Ga,, Oct. 24.—“1t would surprise you” said C. W. Me- Clure; Atlanta merchant-finaneier, discussing gthe subject in a Hhotel lobby in Atlanta, “to know just how much Heénry Ford sentiment there is in Georgia. I honestly believe that there are more: Georgians for Henry Ford for President 'today than there are Georgigans for any other man for President. And the Ford ‘boom’ is growing, too—his star yet is in its ascendancy. 'Keep your eye on Henry Fotd; he"tay be your next President. : Mr. McClure, who has largeg busi ness connections,in various parts of the state, is the original sponsor of the Ford-for-President movement in the South. He urged the auto mag nate to make the race seven years ago. Mr. McClure also was one of the most active men in the South in the ‘movement -to have Ford take muscle Shoals,: £% 0 W dg RECIGAR AND CIGARETTE DEAL - ERS EXEMPT? . ATLANTA, Ga., / Oct. 24.——‘InJ some unexplained way, a remarkable joker slipped into the cigar and «eigarette stamp tax law. After stat dng that the dealers must put a _stamp on every cigar and on e\(gry] _package of cigarettes, the act’ says‘:'w “Nor shall any other tax be re-! ‘quired -of cigar dealers.” Now, some dealers are claiming that if they buy | ‘Whmps and put them on cigars and | cigarette packages, they will not ‘have to pay any tax on their homes, ‘their stores, farms, automobiles or .anything else, either to the state | ‘counties, cities or towns. , ~ Unless the law is changed in some ‘'way at the coming extra session, tax | receivers and collectors are going toi have trouble in getting any tax from cigar dealers. And of:the law stands‘ as written, a lot of people are going into the cigar business to keep from paying taxes, ¢+ '+ : ' How that joker ever got in the bill ‘is a mystery. '‘But it is theref ap parently added as an after thought _the’ very last line of the act say ing: " “Nor shall any other tax be required of cigar dealers. ! —_— | FARM LANDS WANTED Wanted, to purchase for a friend in Atlanta, a farm, improved or ‘unim proved, in Southwest Georgia. Write' what you have, giving complete de scription, price and térms. ‘ : Box 228, Leesburg, Ga. ] ' Ravens liate for Life. J Ravens pair for life, and use the game nest year after year, IS YOUR SHIP COMING IN? | e ! You often hear people say they are going to doI / “thus and so’” when their ship comes in. Did you. I ever stop to think that your ship will never come in until you send one out. : . I l ‘ “You must build your ship in this world by in- N dustry and thrift, and it is not so hard after you oncel ¥ begin and get the habit. ; ' Which would you rather hear people say of you: “yonder goes John Smith, who struck it lucky| ‘ ~ ‘on a deal and cleaned up a pile,” or “yonder goes . Jol#f*Smith, the man of means, judgment and in-.l 7 fiuence, who has made money by keeping steadily: ‘ at it .and by saving what he has made—a man who ~: _does things?” : ; : I l' : What you would term a ‘“lucky streak” only b+ " comes to one in a thousand, while we can all becomel P 2 independent if we go about it in the right manner. . ‘ _ Let us help you on the way to independence. We feel an interest in you, and 'this part of the coun-' ‘ try. . You are a part of the country, are you going ; to do your part? I \" BANK OF LEESBURG, gG. A. Nesbit, President 0. W. Statham, Vice-President b T. C. Tharp, Cashier. ACTIVITIES OF THE s IGAINESVILLE, Ga.—Upon the re {turn of Edgar B. Dunlap, Depart ‘ment Commander, and Heyward C. Hosch, Department Adjutant, from ‘the sth Annual Convention in San Fransisco the American Legion in Georgia is confronted with a busy month during November. Beginning November 3rd the Posts in the 10th ‘District will hold a Convention at Warrenton, a day having been set apart by the management of the Warren-Clascoek Fair as Legion Day. Several thousand Legionnaires are expected to attend. On November 7th the Posts in the 7th Distriet will meet in convention at Marietta as guests of Horace Orr !Post No. 29. . Invitations have been isent to all Legionnaires in the T7th lDistrict and a large attendance is ‘expected. On November 9th the Ist District will meet in convention as guests of Chatham Post No. 36 at Savannah. A general invitation to all members of the Legion in Georgia has becn ysent out by the Savannah Post and a !record breaking crowd is expected to ;be there. ~~ On November 19th the 11th Dis trict Convention will meet in Val dosta. At the same time a meeting of the State Exécutive Committee will be held. This date will mark the closing of the Educational Fair in Valdosta which is to be held Nov: %ember sth to 10th. Many notable ‘_speak:ers have accepted invitations to }be present on'the 10th and take part ‘in the Armistice Day Celebration ‘which is to be in charge of the local Legion Post. On November 12th the Legion naires of the 2nd District will meet in convention at Moultrie as guests of the Thos. S. Teabeaut Post No. 41. All meémbers of the Legion in the 2nd District .have been invited and a large crowd is expected. . An event of national importance will take place in Rome on Armistice Day. Shanklin-Attaway Post No. 5 is erecting a memorial to the mem ory of the last soldier dead to be brought to this country from the battlefields of France-Charles Grav es, a Floyd county boy. His remains now rest in ‘“Memorial Place” Hill cemetery. This soldier represents all the known dead of the World War and therefore belongs to the nations as well as Floyd county. The memorial is to be unveiled on Armis tice Day and a number of prominent soldiers and statesmen from various parts of the nation will take part in the ceremony. | ESTRAY NOTICE - Took up on my place, one red heifer owner can get her by paying ‘for this advertisement and paying idamage and cost. If not will be .sold. | MRS. ARTIE DUNCAN. | bl 10-19-1923. LEESBURG, LEE COUNTY GEORGIA, FRIDAY OCTOBER 26, 1923 GEORGIA WEEKLY INDUST’AL REVIEW Prosperity breeds content, Where industries provide steady employ ment and maintain equitable work ing conditions radicalism can gain no foothold. Every community should do its utmost to encourage the establishment of permanent fac tories, plants and shops. Moultrie—Large tobacco ware house to be erected. Thomasville—Contract to be let for erection of new school building to cost $155,000. Macon—sloo,ooo to be spent for improvement of hard-surface bridge over Swift creek on Riggins Mill road. Wayeross—Work on Dixie high way south of town nearing comple tion. | Thomasville—Votes $15,000 bonds for municipal improvements. A cotton mill development involv ing $2,000,000 will be erected at Dalton by American Thread Com pany. It plans to erect a modern mill community. First unit will be a 30,000 to 40,000 spindle mill., Savannah—Local banks total $28,947,849 in savings deposits. Pelham—Contruction of Georgia Yam-Curing Company’s local plant nearing completion. Waycross—New tobacco ware house to be constructed. Savannah—Plans completed for construction of new office building to cost $416,000 Louisville & Nashville Railroad has spent or authorized for addi tions and betterments since end of federal control $88,000,000. " Brunswick—St. Simon highway project under way. ~ Sylvester—Two electric pumps and ¢lectric air compressor for water works purchased at cost of $3,600. ~ Red Rock—New cheese factory to be installed and ready for business by November 1. Waycross—Building permits for this year double those of 1922. ~ Macon—Central of Georgia Rail way to make improvements on term inal station property at this city. Quitman—Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to run tracks on level at this point. ~ Carrollton—26oo bales of cotton ‘marketed this season from this coun jty, a marked increase over last year. ~ Macon—Contract to be let for re pairing Spring street bridge. } Sparta—Construction of highway across Hancock county being rushed to completion. } Atlanta—Gulf Refining Com ipany opens new service station at Bellwood avenue and Ashby street. | Quitman—Pecan crop in Brooks county is of best quality and one of largest grown in recent years. West Point—Lanett Cotton Mills and West Point Manufacturing Com pany to merge, combined capitaliza tion, 7,200,000. Most important to the mainten ance of prosperity is a fair day’s work. ' Statistics show that 26,000,000 Americans, nearly one-fourth of the nation’s population, have savings accounts in state and national banks. . DALTON, Ga., Oct., 23.—Carried | 'in_the wreckage of his automobile for a quarter of a mile on the pilot of the engine and escaping without serious injury was the experience of Homer* Painter, young son of Doc Painter, whose automobile was hit at the Long Streetecrossing by a Southern train. The train was going at a rapid speed when it hit the car, driven by the boy. The ear was completely demolished. The train was stopped about a’' quarter of a mile from where it hit the automobile. The boy was hurried to a physician, and an examination showed no bones broken. Aside from sever bruises he appears none the worse for his ex perience. Sometimes, | Sometimes the weather comes inl bunches like bananas, aid sometimes | it’s all strung out like spaghetti. ALBANY, Ga.,, Oct. 22.—~While only six suits had actually been filed through Saturday by the Georgia Peanut Growers Co-operative Asso ciation against members alleged to have broken their contracts , plans were being made to sue others unless they came in and paid the penalty required under the contract, Colonel Robert E. L. Spence, President and General Manager of the Peanut As sociation, declared. « Those who have actually had suits filed against them in the Superior Courts of their respective counties are: L. E. Brown, of Lee County; D. R. Hunt, of Decatur County; T. W. Curles, of Mitchell County; W. L. Bateman, of Colquitt County; C. A. Smith, of Worth County and D. C. Wynn, of Colquitt County. “While it is the policy of this as sociltion, as required by the contract and expected by the membership, to to see that all defaulters shall pay for their lack of faith,” said Colonel Spence, “we are not rushing pell mell into court on every rumor. We are investigating each casey and where a member shows a disposition to be concilliatory, we allow him to settle the amount of his damages out of court.” Under the contract each member signed, he is required to pay two cents a pound, or $4O a ton, into ’the association for all the peanuts sold on the outside. Some of the defaulters, who probably yielded to the temptation of high prices that the association had such a big part in bringing about, have actually gone to the association office’ in Albany and paid their damages = without suits, thus saving the cost of court triam‘_. o i .l welly o Colonel Spence declared that he has the utmost sympathy for a man who has yielded to the press of pov erty, but declared that he had no other option under the contract and in keeping with the trust the Jloyal members have imposed on him to re quire. payment, .either voluntary or by court action, from those who sell on the outside. “An overwhelming majority of the members have been completely loyal,” the President de clared, “and it is only simple justice to them to see that others who are not shall pay for their failure to keep faith.” Those who voluntarily pay dam ages for defaulting in undeliveries | will be allowed to sign reaffirmation contracts and be restored to good sanding in the association without suit. Each member of the association, “Colonel Spence explained, ‘“‘is bear ing a small fraction of the overhead expense of the association that has done so much to make the present high prices possible. Those who break faith will also pay a part, but it will be much heavier than the part of the loyal members. For this reason, if no other, it will pay all of us to remain layal,” he added. CITY TAX NOTICE All parties who owe the City taxes for the year 1923 are here by notified that the Tax books are now open and you can pay your taxes any time at the office of the Clerk and Treasurer in the Barber shop. The books will positively close on Dec. 20, 1923, and Fi.Fas. Will be issued on Dec. 21st. Pay befpré ,that time and save yourself addit(;m al cost. : T. R. BASS, Clerk and Treasurer. ; STREET TAX NOTICE Street tax for the year 1923 is now due and must be paid to the City Marshal at once. The street tax for this year is $5.00. Please see me and settle same at once. D. G. MERCER, City Marshal. A A 70 R AN 5 1 TS [ S e N leges and normal schools are offering‘ teachers special courses in concoli dation and transportation. The amount of money spent for trans portation by 34 States tota&ed $18« 343,020 in 1921-22. This repre sents an increase over the amount ceported by those same States in 1920 of $4,978,5614. ; 5 ! Lee county is underlain exclusive ly by rocks of Post-Eocene age re presented by ‘the Vicksburg forma tion which consists of white lime stones, sand and gravel, Undoubtedly, limestones extend throughout the county, but there are comparatively few outcrops which are confined to the escapments of the principal streams. The most notable exposures are along the Flint river and Kinchafoonee and Fowltown creeks. The deposits con sist eof interbedded, hard, partly rystalline stone with soft, white, éranular, fossiliferous lime stone. Some of the beds are associated with chert.- The deposits along Flint river are six miles or more distant from railroad transportation, but as the river is not navigable above Albany, the limestone is of interest only for local farm use. The limestone exposed along Kin chafoonee Creek consists of inter bedded, hard and soft limestone,} which varies in thickness from one to twenty-eight feet. The usual ex posures, however, show a thickness of less than ten feet overlain by resi dual soils and some sand. Core dril ling is necessary to determine the thickness. There is an exposure on the J. R. Smith property at the head of a small branch one-quarter mile east of the Leesburg-Dawson road, about five miles from Leesburg and one quarter mile southwest of Kincha foonee Creek. The upper part of the exposure shows thickness of fourteen feet of partly crystalline limestone, while underlying this there are six feet of hard, white stone. An analysis of this exposure shows the limestone to be of* exceptional light and commercial conditions are attractive. There is an exposure along west bank of Kinchafoonee Creek one and a half miles below the Leesburg- Dawson road, which consists of twenty-two feet of limestone over lain by three feet of sand. There is another exposure in the escapment on the west side and one hundred yards distant from Kincha foonee Creek at the bridge west of Century. On the east bank of Kinchafoonee Creek one mile above the mouth of Fowltown Creek there is an exposure of limestone which has a thickness of twenty-seven feet in a bluff and which is overlain by about four feet of sand. This exposure is of promise. The Rawson property is located at point five miles northwest of Al bany and the exposures are on the southwest side of Fowltown Creek. The deposit is high grade, but is overlain by considerable thickness of sand and clay and is of more par ticular promise for fine grinding for the chemical industries. There are no commercial deposits of sand in Lee county. Gravel is found at some points associated with thin beds of sand on the hill tops. The above article was copied from the directory of Commercial Min erals published by the Central of Georgia Railway. GRADUALLY DISAPPEARING Recent State reports show an en couraging growth in the number of consolidated schools in the United States and the amounts of money spent for transportation of pupils. The little one-room schools are grad ually disappeparing. The movement to centralize rural schools went for ward rapidly in the latter part of the decade 1010-20" and it seems now to be continuing with unabated strength., Not all of the State de partments of education have com piled the figures on centralization but the data available point to the general trend. Thirty-seven States abandoned 7,359 one-room schools in the bien nium 1920-22, which means a de zrease of approximately 5 per cent in the number of such schools in those States. Thirty-two States re ports 1,180 more consolidated schools in 1922 than in 1920. Campaigns for consolidation, county surveys, and better methods of handling pu pil transportation are all helpigg to increase the number of larger, strong | er, country schools. At least 20 col- NUMBER 35 Destruction of Plantation Building South of Americus Causes Damage of $16,600 AMERICUS, Ga., Oct., 23.—News reached here early Tuesday of the destruction Monday night by fire of the large barn located on tht Jenk ins place, adjoining the Huehuenin plantation, 20 miles south of Ameri cus, and owned by R. T. Humber, of Americus. Besides the barn, 22 mules, 1,600 bushels of corn, 1,400 bales of hay, 32 tons of cottonseed and 250 bushels of peas were burn ¢d. The total loss is estimated at $16,600, with only $3,200 insurance W. M. Humber, when informed of the burning, left Americus imme diately for the scene of the fire. According to information given Mr. Humber, the fire was discovered Monday night about 10 o’clack by an overseer on the place, who was roused from sléep hy the roar of the flamies. There is no indication as to how the ‘barn was. fired, but a thorough investigation will be made. It is probable the State Fire Marshal will be asked to come to Americus to aid in the investigation. Mr. G. H. Laramore, Chairman of the County Commissioners, sent to town this week some sweet potatoes that he made on the county farm this year. Four of these potatoes weighed 27 pounds and would have weighed more but the plow cut two ’large places in them, they would probably have weighed more than 28 pounds if all had been there. Mr. Laramore states that the county this year will make about 1200 bushels of potatoes. DEATH OF MR. C. G. AVERY Mr. Charlie George Avery a prom inent young planter residing two miles from Leesburg, died at his home Wednesday afternoon, after an illness of only a few days. ~ Mr. Avery was 26-years of age at the time of his death, he was held in high esteem in Leesburg and Lee county and numbered his friends by the hungdreds, to know him was to }like him, he was born in this county ‘and had made his home here with us during his childhood and up until his death. Medical science was ex hausted in efforts to save him but ‘to no avail and the end came peace fully. ; i The deccased was a member of the Baptist church, a man of high morals and excellent character. He is survived by his widow and four small children, three boys and one girl, besides his mother, Mrs. Kate Avery, one brother, Mr. Daniel Avery and a numebr of other rela tives. Funeral serveces were conducted from the home yesterday afternoon at 1:30 by Rev. J. D. Snyder, pastor of the Methodist church and inter ment occurred in the Leesburg ceme tery. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community. TAX COLLECTOR ROUNDS I will be at the following places on dates named below for the purpose of collecting State and County taxes for the year 1923, at Leesburg. all other dates. CHOKEE Oct. 23, Chokee Courthouse, Nov. 20, J. T. - Hooks, Dec. 4, W. B Laramore Store. » } PALMYRA Oct. 31, James Bros., Nov. 23, S. M. Cock. : RED BONE Nov 6, S. M. Stocks Store, Nov. 27, Philema, Dec. 12, ,E. J. Stocks Store. SMITHVILLE Nov. 15, 30, and Dec. 18, Drug Store. ; ~ R. R. GREEN, T .C. tf.