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June is on the wing, which ush
ers in the Georgia peach, the sweet
girl graduate, the June bride and
the Georgia Legislature.
The fellow that’s behind at the
end <>f the year, and feels that he
is in hard luck is usually the fel
low who will not work.
THE ONE AGENCY
The Fanners’ Co-Operative Mar
keting Association, doing for the
farmers of tile country a two bil
lion dollar business annually, is
getting the attention of business,
political leaders and farmers in a,
way which was never dreamed of a
few years ago.
Much has been said against and
for the association, and yot why
shrMild it be thought a thing
strange for the farmers to organize
when all other business enterprises
have dose organizations. Through
co-operation we make progress and
agriculture needs to progress be
fore all other material endeavor.
The farmer has been the sport of
other organizations and has simply
been the gambler’s tool. 19 million
persons are trafficking in the pro
ducts raised by 34 million farm
ers in this country, and getting fvr
the* farmers’ products two dollars
to every dollar received by tiio
farmer himself.
About 7 1-2 billion dollars is tho
auni the farmers get in this coun
try for his annual output of farm
products, according to statistics.
The consumer of these products
has to pay for these same pro
ducts over 22 billion dollars. The
difference of some 15 billion dol
lars represent the amount received
by dealers, middlemen, speculators
and other tell takers.
As Senator Capper so aptly
points out: ,
“At present the fanner stands
out side the counter. He must pay
what an organized market demands
•f him. he niu.it accept what an or
ganized market offers for his
wares. Fanners are the only unor
ganized group in business and in
dustry. Because they lack organi
aatien they get only $7,500,000,000
of tlie $22,000,000,000 consumers
pay each year for their products.
"This is a tragic absurdity. We
must relieve the farmer by restor
ing the purchasing power of his
dollar bo an equality with other
dollars. The fanner must take con
trol of his .selling market. And eo
operat ive marketing offers the best
method of bringing this about,”
This state of affairs in our coun
try is fundamentally wrong. The
order of thaigs must be reversed,
and the only way it can be done is
through well-planned, well-execut
ad organization* of the farmers
them solves.
We believe in this mutual co-op -
•ration of the farmers because it
means better buying, more econo
mical production, and more advan
tageous prices for the efforts of ag
riculture. Mutual co-operation a
mong the farmers eoause b 1234 13
mong the farmers in the county
will mean not only a larger mate
rial prosperity to the farmers
themselves, but will be followed by
larger community and rural devel
opment and rightful progress a
loag all helpful and inspiring lines
of activity.
Cu-operatm— in S big word, n<*
over-worked, as some think t <Juy,
because the more it is preached
the more converts it has and in
such unity of thought and action
great things are achieved.
Business interests for their own
welfare, as well as for rendering
a service they can render hv vir
tue of bheir power, must co-opo-:«te
with the farmer, and on the other
hand the farmer must co-operati
with the outside agencies. He must
want co-operation, see its value
and realize its power to bring
large things for him and his com
munity to pase.
The high schools of the county
arc sending out their graduates
within the next few days. It is a
time of crisis in the lives of these
young men and women—whether
or not they will go on through and
get training for larger leadership
and service, or be satisfied with a
job and jump into the big world
with only a smattering of training.
We trust every young woman and
young man graduate from our high
schools will let nothing deter them
from entering some standard col
lege this fall. We have never heard
any collego trained person regret
going to college and on the other
hand we have heard numbers of
people endowed with groat natural
gifts lament the fact that they did
not have college training. Go to col
lege and get the best training for
life you can get.
President Coolidge vetoed the Bo
nus bill on account of the fact that
it would cost over a hundred mil
lions each year, and would retard
the progress of the country for five
years. Reads very well while the
country is talking of tax reduction,
but if the government would cut off
the innumerable host of parasites,
bureaus, government jobs with fat
salaries, Uncle Sam could pay a
real Bonus to the World War vet
erans, have a surplus left and have
a self-respect that would be grati
fying to all honest citizens.
Encourage your boy Mr. Farmer
to join the agricultural clubs, make
a partner of him, share with him
in the results of his and your la
bor, and ‘he will love the farm and
its work, and you will have done a
great service. Many a boy left the
farm because his colt became his
father’s horse, and then the fath
er wondered why his son didn’t
like the farm. Play fair with him,
and the son will respond beyond
your expectations.
The Macon Telegraph thinks
Senator Underwood would make
the greatest President the United
States ever had. It seems rather
sad then to think the people do not
realize the greatness of the man
as Wall Street and the esteemed
Telegraph.
The middleman in this country
gets two dollars to every one the
farmer gets for his products. The
farmer needs the marketing asso
ciation and needs it now.
If you plant food and feed pro
ducts on your farm to insure full
supply for your home needs, then
cotton is a surplus crop worth
while. \
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LEAVE TO SELL REAL ESTATE
OF MINOR
Georgia. Walker County.
Notice is hereby given that, at 10
o’clock a. m. on the ltith day of June
1924, I will make application to Hon.
Moses Wright, Judge of the Superior
Courts of the Rome Circuit, at Cham
bers in the courthouse at Rome. Geor
gia, for an order authorizing me, as
guardian of Bernice Mitchell, minor,
to sell, for the purpose of reinvest
ment, the following described real es
tate, to-wit:
An undivided one eighth interest in
town lot No. 6. in Block 4 of the Spar
ger Field addition to the City of Chick
amauga, said county, said lot front
ing one hundred (100) feet on Wal
thall Street, and extending back a uni
form width a distance of two hundred
and fifty (260) foot.
This 16th day of Mav, 1924.
CLARENCE MITCHELL.
Guardian of Bernice Mitchell. Minor.
6-13 4t
FOR SALE—Two hundred and fifty
_ balm of, good ‘S’?***’*” Toot
9oodi Spa, (Wotwt» Gta
Walker County Messenger, May 23, 1924.
| TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO |
May 25, 1899.
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Below will be found items of news
published in the Walker County
Messenger twenty-five years ago,
which will be of interest to the
readers of the Messenger today.
The spring term of the LaFayette
academy will close Friday the 2<Rh.
The closing exercises Will be held in
the courthouse.
The Walker County Singing Con
vention will be held on Saturday and
Sunday May 27-28 at Rock Spring
church.
The value of the precious metals in
Solomon’s temple were estimated at
$34,399,121,500.00.
Thursday the stockholders in the
Bank of LaFayette will meet to orga
nize.
M. M. Whitlow one of the county’s
moat prosperous farmers sowed for
2000 bushels of wheat but now aays he
will be glad to make 1000 bushels.
Mias Lewis, the artist with General
A. P. Stewart as her escort drove
Tuesday from Chickamauga to La-
Payette and took dinner at the Center
House.
135,000 crates of strawberries have
been shipped this season into Chatta
nooga, which brought less money than
the 90,000 crate crop last year.
Ed Myers, John L. Rowland and J.
F. McKinney were inducted last Mon
day night at a called meeting of the
Western lodge into the mysteries of
the Fellowcraft’s degree.
— o —
nice showers fell last week but
the corn is suffering badly from the
bud worm and the cotton from the
flea bug. Never saw so many flea
bugs in my life—A. F. Shaw.
Rev. J. G. Hunt and J. W Pitts, of
Summerville returned last week from
Louisville, where they attended the
Southern Baptist convention.
The members of the Plresbytrian
Church are called to a meeting Sun
day for the purpose of calling a pas
tor.
At the Southern Baptist Conven
tion the statistical report showed that
the Baptists have 18,873 churches and
1,586,709 members. These are all white
and there are about as many colored
Baptists. There were 869 delegates
and 2000 visitors.
It looks now as if Walker would
have one of its worst crop years—
wheat, oafts, corn, and cotton all look
poor. However, these crops improve as
the weather improves.
PETITION FOR REVIVER OF
CHARTER
Georgia, Walker County.
To the Superior Court of said county:
The petition of P. D. Fortune, J. E.
Patton and A. R. Fortune, for them
selves and their associates, respectful
ly show unto the court:
1. That, on the 9th day of April
1903, by order of the Superior Court
of said county, the Walker County
Telephone Company was duly incor
porated for a term of twenty years,
with the privilege of renewing and
amending said charter at the expira
tion of said term.
2. That said Walker County Tele
phone Company was incorporated up
on the petition of Gordon B. Tatum,
John L. Rowland and E. W. Sturdi
vant. Said petition asked that said
Walker County Telephone Company
be incorporated for a term of twenty
years, with the right of renewal at
the expiration of that time; said cor
poration to have an office and princi
pal place of business at LaFayette,
Georgia, and to have a capital stock
of $600.00 divided into twelve shares
of the par value of SSO per share,
with the right in petitioners, their as
sociates, successors and assigns, to
increase said capital stock to the!
maximum amount of $2,000 whenever,
by a majority vote of said original j
stock, said increase may be deemed j
necessary or expedient. Said petition!
further asks that said corporation be)
given the right to construct and op-'
erate a telephone system in said town j
and said county, for the purpose of j
giving its patrons and customers tele
phone communication and accommo
dation over its lines and other lines;
to purchase, lease, rent and sell real
estate and personal property, of all
characters necessary for the operation
of said business; to acquire easements
in and over lands, to acquire and be
come owners of franchises from said
town of LaFayette and other towns,
granting the rights to petitioners,
their associates, successors and as
signs, to carry on said telephone busi
ness, and the right to such use of the
streets as may be necessary in the
construction and operation of said
telephone system and its accessories;
the right to sue and be sued, and all
other privileges and rights usually in
cident to such business. Said order of
the Superior Court of said county on
April 9th 1903 granted unto said in
corporators of said Walker County
Telephone Company all of the rights
asked for in said petition.
3. Subsequently, John L. Rowland,
A. S. Sparks, S. M. Warthen, R. M. W
Glenn. S A. Hunt, Jr, and Ear! Jack
son filed in Walker Superior Court a
petition seeking an amendment of said
charter of the Walker County Tele
phone Company as granted on April
Oth, 1903. Said petition for the amend
ment of said charter asks that the
charter of said Walker County Tele
phone Company be so amended as to
increase the maximum capital stock
of said Walker County Telephone
Company to $10,000.00, aame to be di
vided into one trandred shares of the
ft* erf SIOO.OO per Aar* that
' said corporation be granted the privi
lege of building and extending its line
into any county of this state, or any j
other State or territory, and to oper
ate the same in as full and complete ,
a manner as it now has a right to do:
in this county; that said corporation;
have the right to borrow and loan mo
i ney, issue and sell its bonds, execute
mortgage upon its property, and to;
any other thing incident to these pow- j
ers that may be deemed expedient by;
its stockholders, or a majority of the j
ones holding tfc" majority of the
stock; that the rights, privileges and
franchises originally granted be ex
tended to said corporation in any
county, town or city in this State, or
any other State or terrisory of the
United States of America.
4. That, on Jaunary 6th, 1905 at
the August term of Walker Superior
Court, an order was duly entered in
said Walker Superior Court so amend
ing and changing the charter a* said
Walker County Telephone Company j
as prayed for in said petition for a
mendment.
s—“-That said original petition for
incorporation of the Walker Ccunty
Telephone Company, the order grant
ed thereon, the petition amending the
charter of said Walker County Tele
phone Company, and the order grant
ed thereon, are duly recorded in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of said county.
6. That said charter of said Walker
County Telephone Company, as origi
nally granted and afterwards amend- i
ed, as hereinbefore set out, expired on
April 9, 1923, but said Walker County
Telephone Company has continued in
business as a corporation in ignorance
of such expiration, and continued to
exercise the rights and privileges j
granted it as a corporation in said
charter, as originally granted and
subsequently amended.
7. That, on the 22nd day of April,
1924, a majority of the stockholders
of said corporation, at a called meet
ing, notices of the purpose having
been given to the stockholders, adopt
ed a resolution asking for a reviver
of the charter of said Walker County
Telephone Company, as amended, as J
hereinbefore set forth. A copy of said
resolution is hereunto attached, mark
ed “Exhibit A” and made a part of
this petition.
8. That petitioners are stockholders
of said Walker County Telephone Co.,
and on behalf of themselves and their
associate stockholders in said corpora
tion, file this petition asking a reviver
of the charter of said Walker County
Telephone Company, as amended, as
hereinbefore set forth, and that all
of the property and other rights of
said corporation continue in the cor
poration as so revived. Petitioners
further ask that the acts and doings
of said corporation, in the period be
tween the date of the expiration and
the date of the reviver, be confirmed,
and held as acts and doings of the
original corporation so revived
and that said corporation, as revived,
shall continue from the date of the
order reviving said charter, as amend
ed, for the full period allowed by law
for such corporations.
Wherefore, petitioners pray that an
order reviving the charter of said
Walker County Telephone Company,
with all rights and privileges granted
in said charter, as originally granted
and subsequently amended, and that
it be granted all such further rights
and privileges as hereinbefore set out.
ROSSER AND SHAW,
Petitioners’ Attorneys.
Resolution of Stockholders of the
Walker County Telephone Company !
Asking for a Reviver of Charter.
Adopted April 22, 1924.
Whereas, on Aprli 9, 1903, on the
petition of Gordon B. Tatum and J.
L. Rowland, the Walker County Tele
phone Company, was duly incorporat
ed for the term of twenty years, by
order and judgment of the Superior
Court of Walker County, Gorgia, and
Whereas, on January 6th 1905, by
order of the Superior Court of Walk
er County, Georgia, the original char
ter granted on April 9th 1903, was
amended, and,
Whereas, the charter of the Walker
County Telephone Company, as grant
ed on April 9th, 1903, and as amended
on January 6th, 1905 has expired, and,
Whereas, said The Walker County
Telephone Company has continued ia
business in ignorance of such expira
i tion, and has continued to exercise its
| rights as a corporation under said
; charter,
Therefore, Be it resolved: That the
! president of The Walker County Tele
| phone Company be, and he is hereby, I
! authorized and directed to apply, in
; the name of the stockholders of said
| The Walker County Telephone Com
pany for a reviver of said charter of
said The Walker County Telephone
Company, and that the property and
other rights of said corporation shall
continue in the corporation as revived,
and the acts and doings of the corpo
ration in the period between the date
of the expiration and date of reviver
confirmed and held as the acts and
doings of the original corporation,
and that the corporation, as revived,
shall continue for the full period al
lowed by law for such corporations.
Georgia, Walker County.
I hereby certify that the foregoing
resolution was duly adopted by a ma
jority of the stockholders of The
Walker County Telephone Company
at a called meeting of said stockhold
ers held on the 22nd day of April,
1924, notice of the purpose of said
meeting having previously been given
to the stockholders of said The Walk
er County Telephone Company.
This 22nd day of April, 1924.
D. R. THURMAN,
Sec. The Walker County Telephone
Company.
Georgia, Walker County.
I hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the ori
ginal petition for reviver of the char
ter of the Walker County Telephone
Company. Said original petition hav
ing been filed in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of said county
on the 6th day of May, 1924.
This 6th day of May, 1924.
THOS. W. BRYAN.
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it. F. McClure W. A. McOott
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Tennessee.
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HENRY & JACKSON
AUorneys-at-Law
LaFayette, Ga.
Practice in all the courts. Office if
Jackson Building.
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ROSSER & SHAW
AUorneys-at-Law
Offices
Walker County Bank Building
LaFayette, Georgia
Hamilton National Bank Buildiaf
Chattanooga. Tenn.
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Office in Bank of LaFayette Biff,
LaFayette, Ga.
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Building
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LaFayette, Ga.
Residence with J. L. Rowland if
North Main Street.
Office in Jackson Building
Residence Phone 2 shorts on 153 '
Office Phone 51.
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AUorney-At-Law j
Office in Cooper Building
LaFayette, Ga
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Physician and Surgeon
LaFayette, Ga
Office Over Rhyne Bros. Pharmacy
Office Hours:
8:00-9:00 a. m.. .1:00-2.00 p< m.
Telephones—Res. 151, Office Iff
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Dentist.
At Chiekamauya, Ga. On Saturdayl
City Office, Room 811. Hamiltnf
National Bank Building.
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Physician and Surgeon
Office Over Loach’a Pharmacy j
LaFayette, Georgia.
Telephones: ,
Day Nos. 159 and 49 -a
Night and Sunday No. 84.
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Attorney-At-Law J
Office Over
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LaFayette, Ga.
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