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THE home journal’negbo FARMERS SUCCESSFUL WITH
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Price, $1.50 A Year, In Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning.
Official Organ of Houston County,
JOHN H. & .I0HN L HODGES.
Pe»by, Thursday, Jan. 25.
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GOOD NEWS
Yesterday’s headlines and newp
storiesueemed with encouringe
inent. One headline said that the
farm situation generally was grow
ing better, and the story that
followed ispoko on agricultural
conditions in the South being
especially encouraging. The farm
er is at work getting ready for
Urge plantings, and is urged on
#by hope that ho has not shown for
' yeavs. 1 he news comes from the
prohibition headquarters that peo
ple are drinking loss and that
King Barleycorn is losing his sub
jects, even iu the wettest sections
of the country. As someohe has
, said, if prohibition has not suc
ceeded in drying up the rich wets
and some of our statesmen, it has
had 1,1 marked effect in , making
dryer Lho working classes. Ahd
there comes also the news that
insauily in Georgia is on the de
crease.
Aud Mr. Hoover has recently
told us that tho world, has turned
lho corner and that, he feels it is
on tho way to recovery, In his
opinion, tho force of Bolshevism is
greatly diminished, and lie gives
us the. exceptionally good news
that famine tied .distress are less
this Winter than any Winter since
tho War began. And as Editor
Martin, of Li to. commenting on Mr
Hoover’s optimism, brings out:
‘'‘Production has increased groatly
international commerce is increas
ing, and tho world is'prolty gene
rally buYlug its commodities by
tho normal exchange of service
and goods.”
The Telegraph lia.3 made fre
qu6nb reference to the oxtraordi-
xinoy spil'ib of the best Italians as
wellasof the new life that is
stirring in Italy as a w v {to)e. Italy
lias h.ul a movement somewhat
like our Ku Klux, but u*like the
v IClau, was entirely a thing of tlio
day and not of the ijight. iThe
Faseisti pub themselves, openly at
the disposal of the people needing
protection and help, and it ap
pears were not eVen tempted to
mask and liide their identity. They
fel b that what they were doipgwere
things that men should bo proud
of. rather than ashamed of..
There has been a remarkable de-’
termination on jtlie part of. the
Italians to pull Italy out of her
difficulty, ‘by hard work and self-
sacrifice- Artisans by tlio thous
ands beg leavo to work over-hours
and that their extra wages be paid
to tho Government, .Other thous
ands offor their.jewels and ffecibus
metals to augment the public
funds. While there strikes and
;je{\Jousies among the workers
•everywhere, there. is now good
feeling and hard work. Labor and
capital are in. harmony, tl;e teach
ings of the Reds are rejected, aud
there is even a marked return to
religion.”—Macon Telegraph.
Georgia leads tho entire United
States in percentage of members
enrolled in the American Legion
for ly23 as compared with* the
"1922 membership, according to
announcement made by B. P.
Gambrell, Commander of Atlanta
Rost No. 1 of the American Le
gion. The position of Georgia so
early in the year as the head of
the list of states in point of mem
bership is particularly noteworthy
for Georgia now holds the nation
al trophy for membershi p award -
ed last year. The record this
year-may keep the cup in the sfca*e
Cooperative workshops, stocked
with community-owned fools, orga
nized in 1920 in Alabama among
Negro farmers by agricultural ex
tension workers, are cohtribaling
much toward economical farm
management ar.d improved crop
production /of their members.
These cooperative' workshops have
grown out of an actual necessity
realized by the communities when
t'liemovable school conducted by
the extension service of TusUcgee
Normal and Industrial Institute'
visited them. Considciablek ejn-;
plmsis was placed by extension!
workers accompanying tb*' mov
able school truck on keeping the
home and farm equipment in re-|
pair, and on the making of labor
saving devices which could be
made and installed by unskilled
workers, the men of the coimnuui-
ty working side by side, exchang
ing the various tools of the school
throughout the week. An exhibit
of the tools owned in the com
inunily usually brought out the
faet that there were none with
which even the most ordinary
work taught during the week at
the movable school could be clone.
Only a few* farmers had tools of
any kind aud those not in usable
condition. To meet this need the
cooperative workshops have been
developed, /
In Nichbnrg community. 15
farmers organized in 1920 and
placed $10each in tho treasury to
buy tools With which to keep up
repairs about the farms and homes
and to make simple equipment.
Similar work-shops were organiz
ed in Coffee and Lee counties.
Members spend rainy days t\nd
spare hours at the workshop, do
ing blacksmithing, harness re
pairing, 'horseshoeing, Khd (tar
pon try work. Certain of tho tools
may be taken home by members
nhd returned at * specified time.
The Nichbiirg cooperative work
shop reported the estimated value,
of work done by members last
year as $365, including cash re
pairing done for members amom t-
ing to $150. This shop was visited
recently by & representative of
the United States Department of
Agriculture who found horses be
ing shod, wagons repaired, fix
handles and other useful articles
being made. An exhibit of the
tools showed that, with the ex/
coption of two or three minor
articles brok< n or wern* out and
soon to be replaced, the original
tools are on hand and giving good
service.—Department of Agricul
ture. ,
According to John W. Fenner,
govennent chemist, who claims to
analyzed nearly 26,000 simples »»f
‘ white mule” in ibe.last few years
the country’s best “moonshine”
liquor is made in the noighboi-
liood of Peoria, 111.
Even at that, an exchange re
minds us that: even if you can gel
Peoria “moonsltinc,’’ you
i hg a posion. All w 11 isu . v y. v. e n re
told, is moonshine in the raw
state before years of aging in.
wood. In Lho old days, nietory
records, it took a very 'uns 'nip-
uious bartender to sell “green
whiskey,” even triple distilled.
Sri ven-y ear-old was Lho safety line.
Vidalia Advance.
In some parts of the Sou t hives'
cactus is fed to cattle alter the
spines have been removed by
burning. Feeding this succulent
feed to dairy cows, says the Uni*-
ed States Department of Agricul
ture- causes a decrease iirtbe but-
terfat percentage in the milk. So
far it lias been determined that it
is not the lime nor the water that
causes the reduction- Other tests
will be madeto fiud out if possible
the constithnent that, causes the
reduction. Magnesium is the .next
element in the calus that will be
investigated. ,, *
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NOTICE!
Application will be made by the under
signed to the Judge of the Superior Court
of the Macon Circuit at ill aeon, Ga., on
the 24th day of February, 1923, aV 11 a.
m. during the regular term of Bibb
Superior Court for leave to sell for tho
purpose of reinvestment, nil the Vested
remainder interest of Mary F. and
chailes F.. Middlebrooks, minors; the
same being a two-sixth interest in a
one-fourth undivided share in one hund
red end fifty and one-fourth ncres of land
situated in Houston county Ga.. whereon
W it Middlebrooks, Sr., lived at the time
of his death in the 10th district of said
county on the public road from Perry to
Houston Fa' tory. a full description of
which is part’ciil rly set out in deed from
Robt. N. H Itzclaw to Mrs B L Middle-
brooks and others, recorded in dork’s
office Houston Superior court, book 20.
page 560, reference being made thereto
as though incorporated herein. Reason
for sale being to secure some income
from said property, none being had,
tho other remaindermen heingdegirous of
selling. The Guardian aiid minors are
residents of Bibb county, Ga. Said land
is now occupied by Mrs BL Middleb-ooks
life tenant, widow of TV H MIDDLE
BROOKS, Sr.
MRS. 0. F. M1DDLEHROOBS, Gum-
dian for Mary F. und Charles F. Middle
brooks..
COLORED FARMERS ATTEND TUSKEGEE
INSTITUTE.
On January 17th and 18th, 12
colored IToustqn county farmers,
with .Farm Agent, O. 8. Oneal at
tended the farmers ponference held
at the great negro inslitutp Tus“
kegee.
Each of these fanners was inspir
ed by the lectures and demonstra
tions given by the Institute.
They w^re as follows: Jas, Wil
liams, John Turner, Fred Miller,
Jas Miller, John Clekvard, M J
Arnica, Tri's Smith,, John Jeffer
son, .Tames Jackson, B J-Dinkins,
and Miss Oarri’e Davis. X.
TOURIST MARRIED HERE.
Miss Sallie Kirkland of Augus
ta and Mr- Lester Courtney of Flo
rida were married b|y.- Justice of
the Peae.e M. Kunz at tho Court
House Monday at. noon. ,
The young couple, they say were
not running away, but in passing
through decided to get married
.stopped, .secured a .license from the
Ordinary;,seoured the services of
the Justice of Peace and proceeded
on their journey to Florida.
AN IMPORTED CUSS WORD.
An exchange giyes the follow
ing interesting account of the ori
gin of an expressioii usually at
tributed, to profanity, bfit which
came from a basis of coin value;
.“There is a coin in India known
as a rupee- It is worth about 32
cents American coin, .at normal
rates of exchange. ‘Also there used
to be a lit(le copper coin in circu
lation in India. It .was cull a dam
and ifejs lowest value ,wni estimated
to be worth one thousandth of a
rupee. Hence came the expres
sion among British soldiers in In
dia “Not v orth a dam.”
“Later this expression became
confused with the oath, damn,and
generally the expression now is
written, “Not, worth a danin.”
You can understand, how /little
value was placed upon anything
that was said to be not Worth a
damn.”—rVidnlia Advance.
-FOR SALE—Hatching E g g s
from pure bred Wycoff Strain
Single Comb White Leghorn hens.
$1.50.per 16, $1.20 in lots of 100
or more. Heard & Arnold,
3-t. Kathleen, Ga.
For the first 10 girls in Hous
ton oonnty who answers this ad
I will give 5 settings of pure bred
Wycoff strain eggs furnished for
5 pullets 12 weeks old-
Heard & Arnold,
Kathleen, Ga.
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Just a Word Why
Churches Should Advertise
The writer was in Syracuse, N. Y., one Sunday last August.
, He was detained because of an accident to hie car. He wanted
to go to church that night, but he didn’t know where to go.
He picked up the Syracuse Sunday paper and looked through
it from She front page to the back, but there wasn’t a word
about the church or the church services. As far as the papers
were concerned that city might have been churchless.
But it wasn’t so with the movies and other houses of
entertainment. Oh, no! Their invitations were spread in large
advertisements all,over the page. There were a dozen or so
invitations to go out on Sunday night for amusement, but
not one to go to the House of God. , ,
Possibly the church notices appeared in the Saturday
issue. They generally do, but this was Sunday and the
Sunday paper was the one available. The amusement
places do not overlook the Sunday papers.
There may have been many more' in the city with the
\ same thoughts and desire as the writer. He happened to
remember that sometimes the churches (have bulletins in the
hotel corridors, so he took the trouble to go downstairs.
Being a Methodist, he looked for the Methodist churches.
There were two on the board, so he Tricked out one and
took a chance.
We suppose that some will say that a man or woman
who wants to go to, church will 'find a way. That’s true,
but why permit the theatres to have the monopoly? Isn’t the
church a business ? If it isn’t, it’s time it was. Think it pver.
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