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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE NUMBER OF CON- Migration and Indeterminate Sentences Cause of Reduction The roll call of the state prison farm at Milledgeville and the various conviet camps in Georgia showed 600 fewer inmates on October 15th than upon the same date last year, it was stated at the offices of the prison commission Saturday. | The falling off in the number of convicts is attributed to two things by Captain Goodloe H. Yancey, sec retary of the prison commission. The most important factor is the migra tion of thousands of negroes from Georgia, including the reckless, crim inal element to a large extent. This migration has had the effect of greatly re‘ducing the proportion of negroes among the convicts, and at the present time there are as many white men sent to the penitentiary as negroes, it is said. v Another factor in the depletion of the prison ranks is the indeterminate sentence law. Some juries do not appear to understand that a convict is eligible to release after he has served his minimum term, and the prison cammission must turn him out, if his record as a convict has been good. This is indicated by the receipt of men from scme counties sentenced to serve from one to twen ty years, the jurors apparently figur ing that the maximum and minimum terms are averaged. As evidence that fewer men are belgg-¥ent to the penitentiary only thirty have been received up to the present date this inonth, while 131 were reccived during October, 1922, The November term of the Su perior Court of Lee county will con vene here next Monday morning. The docket this time is very light and court will not last long accord ing to information. The list of Grand and Petitt jurors appear elsewhere in this issue of the Journal. 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 before that time and save yourself addition 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. FOR SALE OR . FOR RENT 405 acres in Lee County, Georgia 8 miles South from Leslie. 300 acres in cultivation; 9 tenant houses, barns, ete. Also 303% acres in Lee County, Ga., 3 .4 miles from Chehaw, 125 acres cleared; three houses, barns,, ety ' We seil on ten years time, or rent rcasonably. : Farmers Land Loan and Title _ Company, Albany, Ga. EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. I.—Politi cal leaders are now talking about the forthcoming extra session of the Georgia Legislature and wondering what it will accompilish—if it is to accomplish anything, which some lawmakers doubt. : , Dr. Whitley, of Douglas county, 'says that a motion will be made on. the first day of the extra session to ‘recess until next summer. { That brings up the question, “Could Governor Walker call the ’General Assembly to come back at ‘some date during the recess?” - It is known here that Governor Walker has been advised to call the Legislature together again after New Year’s , if the November extra session fails to agree on tax legista tion. Much depends, it is pointed out here on the attitude of a_ large bloec of members, headed by Repre sentatives Stewart, of Atkinson; Knight, of Berrien, and Lindner, of Jeff Davis. It is said this bloc has majority of the House. On at least two occas-’ ions when a real test came Stewart won—one when he and his group up set the rules committee’s progress to postpene action tax measures on the last day of the session. WOMENS ' GANIZATIONS e J The thing that. has killed country life for many families has been the routine of women’s work. The to’i!sj‘ of women have on the whole been harder in the country than in the city. | Yet the problems of country wora en are not wholly solved even when all the labor saving improvements are put in. The routine of doing the same thing day after day, of long hours of laborious toil, gets on the nerves of many of them. City life with entertainments and more varie ty looks good to them. If their hus bands get discouraged with their own business prospects, a woman who is fretting over those conditions may be ready to urge him to pull up stakes and quit the country home. But if such people live in a town or neighborhood where the women are well’ organized, they are likley to get a different point of view. For ‘a host of such women, the regular ‘meeting of the woman’s club or the sewing circle or thle Ladies’ Aid so ciety is a bright spot in their rou tine, and it colors their whole lives. The interesting discussion of cur rent themes, the talks upon litera ;ture and recadings from good books, the pleasant social life, the new friendships formed, send many wom en back to the labors of sweeping and cooking and mending with a new feeling. They find out that the country town is not a lonely place after all. They can see that it gives better opportunities for friendship, and a broader life than can be found in the average city street. They dis cover that they can have wide hori zons if they want to. Every country town needs organi zations that shall give the women folks the social life that they need to color the monotonous round of 'toil, and shall offer them a broader vision of life. Are the women folks of Lees burg doing all ‘they can for these lenriching experiences? GEORGIA’S HAR ]’ = Estimates of the value of Georgia harvest for 1923 range around $240,- 000,000, it was stated by officials of the Georgia Department of Agricul ture today. This is some $29,000,- 000 better than for the year preced. ing, and $62,000,000 above 1921. - Food crops, it is stated, have played a big part in bringing this autumn’s income. While the cotton }acreage exceeded that of last year by about eight per cent, theére was !a more marked increase in both the ‘extent and the diversity of planting that go to fill the larder. LEESBURG, LEE COUNTY GEORGIA, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1923. According. to figures given out at the state department of commerce and labor, Georgia negroes are still migrating to the North, with no in dication of a let-up in this movement About 1,500 aweek are now leaving the state, says the report. ' Approximately 200,000 negroes left the State between July 1922 and !July 1623, it was said. Agents of the department have been keeping a careful check on all outgoing ’:rains and these figures are declared ‘very conservative”.: Lack of employment with - high wages offered .in the North and East are the chief causes assigned by the department for this condi tion, with the damage done by the{ boll weevil to Georgia’s agricultural situation as a large contributing fac tor. “The ultimate result of the negro farm laborer leaving the state will be a decided improvement in the far ming conditions and life of the State”. one of the officials said, “‘aft er the farmers have adjusted them selves to the absence of negro labor, the state will be much better off.” TOA%'R%TH% ’(I)’(I)E%ANS Judge R. W. Bingham and Col. R. E. L. Spence has recently pur chased large tracts of land mear Leesburg and we are informed that they will begin at an early date to set 2,000 acres in pecans. The tracts they have recently purchased include the Gardner land and the Tyson land, some of it being in one mile of Leesburg. Lee county is fast coming to the front in the pecan industry and with in a few years the entire county will be in pecan, and will be one of the richest in the state. There are al ready several groves in the county containing as much as from 1,000 to 3,000 acres. . W. RANDALLACON MACON, Ga., Oct. 31.—C. W. Randall, of Macon, died at the Ma con Hospital Monday after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Randall came to this city from Albany, Ga., more than 28-years ago, and has been em ployed here by the Georgia Cotton oil Company during most of resi dence in Macon. He was born in Palmyra, Lee County, February 4, 1850, and was well-known through out central and southwest Georgia. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. R. S. Patillo, of Milledgeville, and Mrs. Elton M. Adams, of Macon; one sis ter, Mrs. E. D. Huguenin, of Macon, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services were held . Tuesday afternoon from Burg hard’s chapel, Dr. William E. Owen, pastor of the First Baptist Church, in charge. Interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery. The following served as pallbearers: Kelly Allen, Francis Lowe, George Hatcher, Davenport Guerry, C. M.- Adams and Guyton Parke. ; PROMINENT VISI- Rev. W. J. Hyde, a prominent Methodist Minister of Chicago, 111,, is spending some time in Leesburg as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Todd. at the Hollis place. Rev. Hyde filled the pulpit at the Baptist church here Sunday morning and the people here who had the pleasure of hearing him state that they enjoyed the sermon very much. Rev. Hyde owns a pe can grove in Lee County and visits here every year. At the night service the people had the pleasure of hearing Prof. J. H. Hope, State School Superinten dent of South Carolina and well known to the people of Leesburg raving taught schocl here during the terms of 1920-21. The talk by Prof. 'Hope was very much enjoyed. e A Industry that furnishes bread and butter to the bulk of our popula tion is the one most important fac tor of every city and hamlet. The wheels of progress are kept in mo tion by construction, manufacturing, development and steady employment. ~ Atlanta—New Booker T. Wash ington Junior and Senior high school for negroes under construction. Adel—Local Baptist church erect ing new brick church. . Lawrenceville—lndtallation of 10,- 000 egg capacity hatchery proposed for this-county. ; = T'ybee—Extensive paving program under way at this point. | Atlanta—Pres Glenn of GeorgiaT Cotton Manufacturers’ Association says Georgia cotton mills are oper ating full time and may start night shift. Lawrenceville—Suwanee Baptist church completed. Savannah— First Presbyterian church to erect modern Sunday school building. : Rome—Congregation of First Baptist church to erect new $50,000 Sunday school annex. Quitman—New school building completed. Atlanta—Georgia Peanut |Grow ers’ Association $l4O a ton for pro duet marketed on co-operative basis in comparison to less than $7O on non-co-operative plan. Macon—North avenue paving pro jeet completed. Atanta—New Senior girls high school to be erected at cost of ap proximately $493,293. Pembroke—Plans being made for bridge to span Canoochee river on Willie road. - Atlanta—New English avenue grammar school under construction. Savannah—Gordon Kaolin Com pany, capitalized $145,000, to start mining and manufacturing activities. Atlanta—Construction of outdoor clinic at Grady hospital to be com pleted January first at cost of $50,- 000. Gordon—~Construction of Wilkin son county jail completed. Atlanta—lmprovement of road between here and Buford proposed. Young Harris—Construction of Lawson Peel dormitory at local col lege nearnig completion. ~ Atlanta—99-year lease taken on iPeachtree street property for erec tion of $BOOO,OOO building. ‘ Macon—=Schuster-Adams Chemi cal Company to manufacture electric ‘batteries at his point. ~ Juliette—Monroe county cotton crop for this season to triple last ‘year’s production. ~ United States potato crop for 1923 estimated at 401,424,000 bush els. ~ More than eight per cent of the total tax burden of the nation in ‘1921 was collected from three agencies of transportation, steam jand electric railways and motor cars. According to figures presented to the National Tax Association by John E. Walker, former tax adviser to the U. 8. treasury department. ‘ Borrowing on the part of states, countics, and cities, through the flo tation of bonds, has fallen off sharp ly since the first of July, according to compilations made by the Daily Bond Buyer of New York. Some of the farmers in Lee coun ty this year made very good crops of peanuts and the prices are good, some small farmers have reported as much as thirteen tons to the plow, while others did not d¢ so good. With the prices ranging from $135 to\sl4o per ton there is no reason why a farmer cannot make money on peaiuts. Let’s forget cotton an other year and begin now to ake arrangements to plant peanuts, save your seed as this is going to be a big item another year. 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 seription, price and terms. | Box 228, Leesburg, Ga. 120’6H00AVWM eee - ¢ This State Has Lost More Than Any Other by The Exodus to North. A study of the Northward migra tion of Southern negroes by the la bor department indicates that 278,- 700 negroes left thirteen Southern states in the year ending September Ist. The figures were compiled from state, municipal and industrial sources, Georgia, with 120,000, led the oth er states. The migration of other states fol low: Alabama, 90,000; Mississippi, 82,000; Virgina, 10,000; North Carolina, 25,000; Louisiana, 15,000; Tennessee, 15,000; Arkansas, 5,000 Kentucky, 2,500; Texas 2,000 aund Oaklahoma 1,000. Southern observers have advised the labor department that during the the winter months, in their opinion, large numbers of negroes would re turn to the South. The Central of Georgia has just started the erection of a number of section houses in Smithville, there are two or three section gangs in Smithville which necessitated the erection of the houses. They will be ready for occupancy within a few days. From 10 to 15 years ago, the country people were in a state of great indignation about automobiles. The city folks came tearing around the country roads, frightening the farmers’ horses and causing many accidents. - Many country folks then regarded automobiles as a curse, and wanted them prohibited from using the side roads. Today the automobile is revolu tionizing country life and is breaking down its isolation. This modern technical science is doing wonders to improve rural conditions, and there will soon be other devolop ments just as helpful as automobiles have proved. A Grand Finale. Musical professor, explaining why he had to have his new car towed in It’s like this, the engine made staccato reports, then the car changed keys, and went on four flats, and it ended up with a grand pause.—Science and Invention. ‘ . IS YOUR SHIP COMING IN? k ! You often hear people say they are going to dol . “thus and so” when their ship comes in. Did you< I ever stop to think that your ship will never come ing until you send one out. I I You must build your ship in this world_ by in ; dustry and thrift, and it is not so hard after you once' ‘ begin and get the habit. - ! Which would you rather hear people say of & you: “yonder goes John Smith, who struck it luc_ky| I on a deal and cleaned up a pile,” or “yonder goes b John Smith, the man of means, judgment and in-' : fluence, who has made money by keeping steadily: I at it and by saving what he has made—a man, who - does things?” I i What you would term a ‘“lucky streak” only : comes to one in a thousand, while we can all becomel independent if we go about it in the right manner. % i Let us help you on the way to independence. We feel an interest in you, and this part of the coun—l i try. You are a part of the country, are you going > to do your part? l ' | | BANK OF LEESBURG, | Ic. A. Nesbit, President O. W. Statham, Vice-Preside.nti I T. C. Tharp, Cashier. i NUMBER 35 PN ek ALBANY, Ga,, Oct, 20.-~Despite the fact that there is a larger crop of peanuts in the United States this year than was grown in 1922, ac cording to Department of Agricul ture figures, the prices for White Spanich Peanuts in Georgia are high er than they were at this time last year, officials of the Georgia Peanut Growers Co-operative Association declaired. Colonel Robert E. L. Spence, Prisident of the new Co operative Marketing Organization, which controls a big majority of the White Spanish Peanut acreage in ‘Georgia, pointed out that the yield in 1922 in the United was 623,507,- 000 pounds, against 695,771,000 pounds in 1923, yet prices have ever aged from $25 to $5O a ton higher in Georgia than they did last fall. He also pointed out that the price of White Spanish Peanuts in sections not organized by the Peanut Asso ciation is below the pricg in organiz ed Georgia. : “These conditions show conclu sively,” Colonel = Spence declared, “that there has been something redically wrong with the method of marketing peanuts in the past. It is true that there have been high prices for peanuts in the past, but they usually came after the farmers had sold theirs, and were of no bene fit to the man who grew them. This year the high prices have prevailed uniformly throughout the gathering season. Any fair minded man must admit the influence of the Peanut Association in bringing this condi tion about.” Splendid loyalty has been accord ed to the Peanut Association by a vast majority of its 6,000 members, the officers declare, it being neces sary to sue only a few for breach of contract. , While most of the crop in South Georgia has been gathered and a great deal of it picked and delivered to the Association, in Middle Geor gia, the gathering and picking sea son is just opening up. A few grow ers in Middle Georgia, where the ‘crop is largely a new one to most ’farmers, have been inclined to gath er and pick too early, Association of ficials declare. Warnings are being issued to them by the Association, lwhich is pointing out that such pea nuts will suffer in both weights and grades when they are sold. 'BUILDING MODERN BUNGALOW Mrs. T. W. Love recently purchas ed the property at Administrators ‘sale of Mrs. M. E. Love and has al ready started the erection of a hand some five room bungalow with sleep ing porches and other improvements. When completed this will be one of ithe most desirable homes in the city.