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m mu ms 'The Tremenduous Advance in Wheat. [||($ to EntCrtdin ®lU4*r*d thr.njfch the Miltmjfnv)1i« at •ac titd v'l .Mi. mall matittr. AII this week's news in 1h« News nnd when you see it ii The News you know it’s so That means reliability, Best advertising medium ir The demand lor wheat has s:nt the piic: of that great cereal skyward. It is a pity that speculation too is adding to th: trouble. The big operators of the c ainiry have turned from f otto i and whcit today is king on the boards of trade. A short crop this year may mean flour at ten dollars per barrel. That is not a high price, not near as much as bread is worth, for bread is the start of life, but think just what it means? Add to such a state Miis section) of Georgia, largest [of aflairs a ihort corn crop over the country and try to fathom what it will circulation in Baldwin county of any paper! J. C. McAULIFFE, Editor. H. E. McAULIFFE, Associate. ADVERTISING KATES:-Display 2.7 cents per inch, special discounts for time and space, Reading notices five cents per lino brevier, each insertion. Subscription $ I .(Ml Per Year. I mean? Coin at a dollar and fifty cents per bushel aud fionr at ten dollars per barrel will not sound very poetical to the cotton farmer, nor the city folk, but think what it will mean to the grain farmers of the northwest. They are already riding in autos over their splendid farms and day by day their wealth is increasing. The wealth is not necessarily confined to the great grain belt, but farmers here who grow corn can make money just as well and besides this they can benefit humanity by placing something to eat within their reach. A hundred j ears ago bread was an item in the bill j of fare, something charged up to the man who ate it. Nowadays it is a matter of minor consideration. McCormick made such a thing possible by his invent on ol the reaper. People now are figuring on substitutes for wheat and corn in feeding the world in the years to come. Harold McCormick, one of the great men who is now controlling the International Harvester Co. told the writer little more than a year ago that he expected to sea the question solved in some way within the next few decades by the development of wheat that would Clubbing Offers For a limited time we offer to our n tbscriber* the following inducements anl they will be fully carried out- The News nnd Southern Agricultur ist, beth for $1.00. The Naws and Home and Farm, ine | double the yield, Thai may be, but the question of the present is what shall we do today? We are born advocates of providing for the homes of the country. The larmer who tails to raise grain and hay this year may be a rank failure in a financial way, tor even twelve cents cotton cannot buy flour and corn at prices that tnay soon be predominating. Lookout for your own interest and be sure to plant an extra lot of corn, plenty of cowpeas and in fact something of everything that can be used to hold down the expenses on the farm and in the home. yenr for $1.25. The News and Inland Farmer, weekly for $1.50. The News nnd Southern Cultivator for $1.50. The News and New Yorl. World 3 — times—a—week, for $1.75. The News and Semi—Weekly Atlanta Journal $1.75. (Saturday, April 24 iooo If you wfere April’s lady, And I were lord in May, We’d throw with leaves for hours And draw for days with flowerg. Till day like night wore shady ^ And night were bright like day; If you were April’s lady. And 1 weie lord in May. - Swinburne. The pic nlc season is at hand nnd afterwards comes the peaches and watermelons. What’s the matter with bluckberricti also? Sunshine, fruit and flowers us n dc- doseription could be aptly applied to Georgia now, but we need the showers along with other spring time blessings. The Atlanta Journal of last Sunday carriod an excellent article on the pro motion of Cuptuin James M. Little, of this city. They also used a photograph of the genial eflleer. I’EfT There is talk of a state law regulating the speed of automobiles on the public- highways. And there's some talk, too, about enforcing the local law on the same subject. Next Monday will be Memorial Day and it is well tiiat all should honor the memory of the Confederacy, for there’ll never be another nation like it. Pessimists saw ruin to the state j through loss ef revenue from the liquor j tax when the prohibition campaign was being waged, but now the near-beer tax about equals the liquor tax of other days. A IIAHSH CRITICISM. The report that is given out by a Barn?sville papor concerning the college games played here last Monday and Tuesday is undoubtedly the unkindest cut that has been handed to Milledge- ville in some time. The games were played fairly and squarely and none of the rules were violated except when a certain visitor walked into tru diumond Tilt EDITOR OF THE LOCAL WEEK LY NEWSPAPER. Down in Augusta Tom D. Murphy ranks as the Nestor of local journalism. He is known thoughout the country us one of the most original writers in the South and that is saying a great ileal. to register some sort of a kick and he He knows every phase of newspaper was wearing no uniform. life and he is at the helm of the The game Tuesday would have been ,,, . , J Chronicle now as managing editor. And won by Milledgeville, but for one single costly error. From the standpoint of playing the local team simply outclass ed the visitors. As gentlemen there is no team in the state which can surpass the G. M. C. team and the harsli criti- ciem given in undeserved. The medical authorities are trying to scare us out of eating corn bread by telling us some of the secrets of that j and success in dreaded disease, Pellagra. And this tiser. after twenty five years experience— personally—with corn bread and butter milk. BLOODWORTH EUR CONGRESS. Some of the newspapers me already beginning to discuss the probable can didates for congress from this district in 1910. We set 1 no reason why a cam- naign should be precipitated this far in advance of the primary, but we write this to emphasize the fact that the logi cal candidate of the people and the logi cal successor of the present incumbent is Monroe country’s distinguished sen, the Hon. O. H. B. Bloodworth. Last year Mr. Bloodworth made a clean nnd splendid race and the change of forty-eight votes in one county and sixteen in another, would have given him the nomination. His friends are loyal and enthusiastic and say that the prize so nearly won in the last campaign must be captured in the next. Mr. Bloodworth is energetic, worthy, able and honest. Ho is a clever, clear headed, courageous southern gentle men. He is of the people and for people and we predict that they will nominate and elect him next year. Just after the last primary, in speak ing of the remarkable, clean and al- most-successful rece he ran, we closed | country—when 1 our editorial with what we now repeat: "Here’s to Bloodworth for congress 1910!" Monroe Adver- yet in spite of all this he has the follow ing to say about the local weekly paper, one like The Milledgeville News for instance: Saturday Evening A party of young men members of the Elks Club will entertain a number of their young lady friends at supper Saturday evening and quite an enjoy able time is promised all who are invit ed. The young lady guests will include: Mrs. Geo vV. Perkins, Mrs. Sher man, Misses Kirkpatrick, Campbell, Roberts, West. Gilman, Brewer, Crook, Wright, Barksdale, Jones, S. Whita ker, O. Whitaker, A. Center, S. Cen ter, McCullough, M. Barrett and L. Barrett. The affair will be one of a series which has been given by the Elks dur ing the past few months. **i AN ESTIMABLE CITIZEN •OF BALDWIN COUNTY With the approach of memorial day interest in anybody associated with the Confederacy increases and recently Mr. W. R Durden, who was a good old rebel,celebrated his golden wedding. Mrs Durden is 67 years of age, while Mr. Durden is 70 and they know a great deal about the ups and downs of the period of the civil war. On the 22nd of March they celebrated their golden wedding, having married on that ciate in 1859. Ho is a membtr of camp Doles, U. C. V. having served the Confederacy as a member of the famous 54th Georgia re giment, witnessing the siege of Fort Sumter and surrendering at Greenes- boro, N. C. conseqtently he saw four years of service. Mr. and Mrs. Durden have four chil- ron a-i i twsnty grandchildren living. A WORD TO OUR FRIENDS. We want to call the attention of many of our subscribers to the fact that their subscription has expired and it is time to renew. We are trying to get out the best paper of its kind publish j edcin Georgia and we want the co-opcr BOWLING 18 SPLENDID AT THIS SEASON Though the weather is hot at times now and one is inclined to follow the Why not provide a few swings and some chairs for the court house lawn? It’s one of the best parks imaginable and could be used to great advantage in this way. I.et's investigate the matter trend of the tired feeling of spring time | most eKac tj nK and when the examining and if the county i.n't able to do it '*• wi " ** better part of va,or | has finished with the record sure- whv we can beg enough monev tor the to wear away the languor contingent ^ ^ satisfactory too. purpose. upon the advent of summer and con "To run a couutry weekly —t&v finqy the paper, the bigger the town,the bet ter—is a situation that any man might covet. And which many of us on the big papers no covet. The position is ono of groat respon sibility—in many ways more exacting that the duties on a great metropolitan ( journal. "The country editor is close to hia subscribers; bis patrons are his per sonal acquaintances; his paper must be the paper of all his people; so par tisanship; no discriminations: no flesh of one and fowl of the other; no ik- voritism—must be conducted sw the big papers ire conducted, only miseso. The editor the country weekly must make the paper the mirror of his entire community—all the factions, all the isms, sll the parties. “He must never forget that there are two sides to every question, and that the weak has the same right to have his side presented as has the strong. There is hut one exaction- get the facts straight, without fear or favor, and the person helped and the person hurt will stand by him. “Aik 1 all that ought to open up tome the pick of the country weeklies of the want to get ace, I oughtn’t it?" But folk down there wont let Mr I Murphy leave Augusta and so his hopes . for local editorship will prove futile. I When they need another recruit to help j along with the make-up of the Book of 1 Life over on the other side of Jordan i then “T. D. M.” will lay down his pen and join the star staff over there. But j just yet he’s obliged to stay with khe ! folk at home. When ”30'’ is passed j in he'll be found steady at his desk with eipy enough ahead to satisfy the ution of our friends through their sub set iption and by this token give us their moral support. We receive many words of encouragement and this makes us think that our struggle is worth while. Here’s a letter: Lagrange, Ga. April 19, 1909 Editor News, Milledgeville, Ga. Dear Sir:- Enclosed please find $1.00 for mycub- scriptioo to your paper for one year. Yours truly, S. W. Thomun. And here's another good one, too: Soperton. Ga. Apr. 17, *001 Dear Mr. McAuhffe:- Enchawd you will find one dollar for on* year’s subscription to The Milledfce- vrhe New*. So please start the paper at wide U>- Yours iruly, F. E. Acres. THE GROWING UF WHtAT. seqently all folk should engage in some ! sort of exercise. In this connection the The development of the cotton need loc , ted acrog8 th . products trade is now engaging the at ^ ^ ^ Newg officc furnishe8 tention of the cotton oil men io every i .... . . , V a method whereby exercise and sport section of the south. Last Monday and ... , , - 1 will combine to solve the problem cf Tuesday Georgia cotton seed crushers , ..... ... , _ 1 uesuuy k that tired feeling and it may ward off together with many farmers and busi- j ,. . , , , logeuici — ! a doctor s bill. It will be found a de- ness men, met in Athens and discussed . , ... . ness men, lightful place to spend awhile and Mr. the auestion. Mr. Roy S Alford of the ,, _ ..... • . . .. uie q ‘ , Van Brunt will treat you right. He Milledgeville Oil gathering. Mills attended the also has a bowling alley in operation in Fatontoa now. The Georgia peach is surely safe now and think—Geogia watermelons are on the way, too. The most highly refined and healthful of baking powders. Its constant use in almost every American household, its sales all over the world, attest its wonderful popularity and usefulness. A HIGHI.Y APPRECIATED LETTER OF ENDORSE MENT FOR THE NEWS. The News has received the following valued communication from Mr. Simp son, one of our mo3t ‘enterprising sub scribers and we wish to present it to the public with our thanks for same: Editors Milledgeville News: The spirit of enterprise which your most valuable paper has manifested along all lines is worthy of all commen dation. I wish to offer a word of praise that should long since have been spoken by all who have civic pride in their slate and in the development of home in dustries. Your readers have found much interest and a real delight in the editorials that inspire a spirit of enthusiasm for new enterprises, par ticularly that of poultry raising, an in dustry more profitable and far more pleasant than many people think. You are doing a good work in awakening an interest in this all important industry, and I for one. wish to say go on with the good work. It is an all important industry, a work of world wide import, for articles of food for the sick chick ens and eggs are absolutely necessary in Our modern life It is an industry that should be encouraged by every possible means because peculiarly adopted to our chraate and resources. Just as our climate and lards are finely adopted to the raising of fruit and cot ton, so in like manner the climate and lands of Middle Georgia are pecufirry adopted to the raising of poultry. 1 speak from the stawjpoint of ex perience ami am happy to sav that that experience has been a success. I think it probable others have been West cannot continue to produce bread enough for the increasing population of the world, and regions m which the cultivation of wheat was abandoned be cause the West could produce it more cheaply will resume that industry. The world must have bread if other crops mrv neglected. ; equally successful in their experiment and would take pleasure in telling your readers what success tney have had in this important industry. I would be glad to hear from such persons and to co-operate with them. The demand for eggs, and for the different kinds of poultry is so great, not only here but throughout the South that it has been utterly impossible to supply the de mands. There is therefore plenty of room for others to enter the field to | raise chickens and eggs, turkies, guineas, ducks etc. Start out with a determination to furnish the market with nothing but the best, and as is al ways the case 'he buyers irrthe market will come to you in preference to others. I wish to praise in the highest terms possible your article entitle! “Raising Pure Fowls.” That article contains key note to the secret of success. Buy for your farm none but thorough bred fowls. Raise for the market nothing but thorough bred fowls. It is always a mistake to mix the breeds, whether in poultry, or in horse raising, or in fruit raising, keep in line with these taws of nature, and your poultry ex periment will be a success and your profits greater. How few persons know the fact that the eggs of a thorough bred sell for more than do eggs of com mon ordinary poultry? But such is a fact, such egg3 bring the hard cash al ways, and more of it than other eggs. In this way’ the thorough bred chicken, and the pure blooded turkey has ofte* paid J.be merchant’s and doctor’s bttt to my certain knowledge. Would the reader like to read the latest and best in the science of poultry raising? If so, then read the article "Poultry and Mortgages” in the Milledgeville News of April 17th. Go on with the good work you have given an impulse tsy and we shall delight as heretofore to came to you for new Inspiration. Sam Simpson. Few* the Nashville Banner. 1* the days before the Civil War near ly every Southern farmer raised enough wheat to supply Hour for home cootunip- tioa. In these days the old water mills flourished in the south and there was one wii every available creek, in the cotton regions these mills all went into decay and no more wheal was planted after the war. Cotton was soaring in price and all the land was demanded for its cultivation. It was then that the Southern planter be gan, as the popular expressitm ran, “To keep his smokehouse and corn crib in the Northwest.” He got most of his flour from the same region. The great plains of Minnesota and Dakotas pro duced wheat in abundance and the great mills of the North shipped here flour of a better quality than the old water mills could make and cheaper than they could afford to make it. But if the price of wheat gets up to wards the $1.50 mark and is maintained at something like that figure the South- Poultry needs to be well supplied '! ern farmer will reduce his cotton aere- with both lime and gravel. Keep these a jj e an j plant more grain. The pictu- thlngs within, easy reach of the birds. | ,. . ... , Keep both lime and gravel regularly . r«*<J ue water ml a have gone never In the poultry house durpig winter, to return, but more modem pattern Gravel helps the fowls to digest their ,., , ... . c _... food. The lime Is said to be best giv- wouW be built in the South, on In the form of oyster or clam | More grain raising is bound to come ■JSL -and then P ° Und ' in the South some day. The bountiful —D. W. Brown UEAUEn IN COFFINS AND CASKET | Well Equipped in this Department and I j Carry a Full and Complete Line | ■’Phones: Nos. 65 and 254 me Milledgeville Ming 6oniDanu Has received a letter of congratulation from “The Financier” of New York, the largest banking newspaper in the world. The Financier has compiled its ‘‘Roll of Honor Banks,” approximately there areTwelve Thousand State Banks in the United States. The Milledge ville Banking Co., appears on th9 “Roll of Honor” as FOLLOWS: Ranks First in City, Ranks Sixteenth in State, Ranks Two Hundred and Thirty-fourth in United States.