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TWICE-A-WEEK
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VOLUME 52.
APPROPRIATIONS
BILL RETURNED
TO HOUSE TODAY
Atlanta, Ga.—The general appro
priations bill today will be returned
by the Georgia senate to the house
of representatives with approx:mate
ly $293,000 added to the total as
fixed by the house when hte meas
ures were adopted last week, putting
the total proposed appropriations at
$9,699,000. Final consideration of
the bill and its subsequent unani
mous adoption by the senate was
voted at the conclusion of an after
noon session Tuesday.
An amendment by Senator Hen
detson„ of the thirty-second district,
increasing the appropriation to the
confederate pension fund from sl,-
250,000 bo $1,5000,000 voted during
the afternoon session, was the prin
cipal change in the bill. This addi
tional $250,000 will enable the state
to pay «ach pensioner of both old
and new class, the sum of SIOO for
the years 1924 and 1925, it was
estbhsfted.
Rapid progress was made on the
appropriations bill when it was taken
up for finl consideration in the up
per house. The house of represent
atives consumed almost a week in
devising the measure and the upper
house spent less than five hours
discussing the various items, amend
ments and changes in it. \
In submitting his amendment to
increase the appropriation to the
'Confederate veteraia pension fund,
Senator Henderson declared he was
satisfied that the additional s'2so r
000 will be more than sufficient tt>
pay all classes of pensioners SIOO
for each of the next two years.
SAMMON CLASS
AT GRANT PARK
Quill Sammon, Jr., honored his Sun
day schdol class with a trip to Grant
Park, Atlanta, Wednesday, the party
leaving Lawrenceville in cars n the
mornng. Young Sammon is a very
enthusiastic worker in his church and
is appreceited by the membership.
The party going numbered ob®ut
thirty.
CAMP MEETING
OPENS MONDAY
Camp meeting opens on the night,
of Monday, August 13th, and a num
ber of our citizens are already plan
ning to move out the last of this
week.
Pastor Marvin Franklin announces
that the preachers secured for this
year are amoung the leaders in the
Methodist church and no doubt will
accomplish much good.
The meeting will last one
with services four times each day. It
is hoped toAave over 1,000 persons
at the openng service at B:3® Mon
day evening.
MR. CARL HARVIL
AT STRAND FRIDAY
In addition to the picture at the
Strand Friday night Mr. Carl lias'vil
world famous mimic and humorist,
will render a program will be
to all, the show to start
at S8 :30 sharp.
Mr Harvil is an old Lawrenceville
boy but has made his home in Illinois
for the past twenty years and is well
known throughout the country as an
entertainer and humorist and as the
Constitutioji says “is the world’s
greatest mimic.” He is spending
some time with his mother and other
relatives here and is being warmly
received by many of his old friends.
The Strand is very fortunate in be
ng able to secure Mr. Harvil’s pro
gram for this night and announces
that the admission will be 10 and 20
cents.
MULBERRY ASSOCIATION.
Following is the program of the
Sunday School Workers Meeting for
the third district Mulberry Associa
tion to be held at Carl Baptist
church, Sundya afternoon, August
12th:
3:00. Song Service.
3:15. Devotional —Lee Roberts.
3:30, “Why Have a S. S. Bible
Authority For It.”—J. M. Dodd.
3:45. “The Rural S. S. Need.”—
J. R, Burell. »
4:00. “How to Build a Good S.
S.—J. B. Brookshire.
4:15. '‘The Need qnd How To
Build a Class.” —Mrs, Ned Pender
grass.
4:30. “Our School Needs.” —J,
M. Wilson.
4:45, Business. *
5:00. Adjourn.
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THREE CENT TAX
VOTED FOR GAS
. Atlanta, Ga.—After' one of the
hottest debates in the history of the
present session, the house of repres
entatives by a vote of 120 to 62 on
Tuesday passed the bill of Repres
entative Mann, of Glynn eounty,
which places a tax on gasoline, the
revenue to be used for road pur
poses. •
An amedment, ntroduced by Cul
pepper, of Fayette, to apply the
money raised from this atx to the
payment of past due confederate
pensions, was voted down, 141 to 48.
The Mann bill provides that for
the first five years the revenue rais
ed shall be divided equally between
the general fund, the state highway
department and the counties. It was
introduced as a committee substitute
for the original bill, which was house
bill number two.
At the end of the five year period,
the portion of the fund paid into
the general fund is to go to the high
way department, the money during
the five year period to be used for
retiring the rental warrants against
the Western and Atlantic railroad.
Ccnyer* Wins.
Conyers, Ga., August B.—Ccnyers
defeated Lawrenceville here today
in one of the most interesting and
exciting games ever witnessed on
the local diamond by the score of 6
and I>.
Conyers fought an uphill battle
throughout the entire gme winning
in the ninth inning after two men
were out. Webb and Martin played
best for the losers, while Pirkle and
Moore played best for Conyers, each
making some nice catches in the out
field.
The Lawrenceville baseball team
will entertain the fast flying Geper
al Fire Extinguisher Company of
Atlanta here Saturday afternoon in
a baseball game.
The locals will have a crack bat
tery in Lonnie Milligan and Frank
Simpson, while their lineup will be
composed of several well known
stars.
Come out and help our boys win.
EXTRACT'S POISON FROM
SNAKES FOR SCIENTISTS’ USE
Three glass'jars, hermetically seal
ed, each filled Wth yellowish crys
tals, respose on a shelf in the office
of W. A. (“Snake”) King, at “Snake
ville,” on the outskirts of Browns
ville, Texas. The crystals in each
jar represent the poison form ap
proximately 8,000 rattlesnakes.
Kng annually buys and sells thous
ands of rattlesnakes. At Snakeville
there are at all times hundreds of
rattlers of all sizes and descriptions.
For several years he has been col
lecting poison from the repitiles,
crystallizing it in a small kiln, and
sending the crystals to scientist in
all parts cf the world who are endev
oring to find a remedy for snake
bite.
“I have never charged a cent for
the poison crystals, nor do I ever
expeet to charge any one for the
antitoxin,” King said. “I have
saved the poison and crystallized it
for the benefit of science, and I have
the aneitoxn for the benefit of any
one bitten by a rattlesnake.”
It is a curious fact, King points
out, that the poison used to produce
the antitoxin works well only when
it comes from the family of snakes
from which the bite has come. The
serum used for rattlesnake bites is
made from the blood of a horse in
oculated with rattlesnake poison.
WHITWORTH GETS THIRD
SENTENCE OF DEATH
...i.esville, Ga., August 6.—Ar
hn • Whitworth Saturday morning
received his third sentence cf death
p or the Idling of> his wife at New
Holland, September 12, 1922.
His first trial was in October, 1922,
when he was convicted and sen
tenced to hang on the following De
cember 8. The case was carried to
the supreme court, which affirmed
the court beVw, and Whitworth was
sentenced to be hanged June 15,
1923.
The prisoner’s attorneys then
brought an extraordinary motion be
fore the superior court, asking for a
new trial on the ground that one of
the convicting jurors was related in
the forbidden degree to one of the
prosecutors. The new trial being
granted, the case came to Clearing
Thursday morning of last week, re
sulting in a verdict Saturday morn
ing at 9 o’clock.
The prisoner’s attorneys, Messrs.
Johnson and Adderholdt, have ap
plied for a new trial on the ground
that the verdict wa s contrary to the
law and evidence in the case.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1923.
MONROE INVITES
LOCAL KIWANIS
TO BARBECUE
F. Q. Sammon, president of Law
renceville Kiwanis, is in receipt of
an invitation from the Monroe,
Georgia, Kiwanis Club inviting the
whole membership of the local club
to a barbecue which will be held in
ther honor in Monroe on Wednesday
August 15th, starting at six o’clock.
The date hd formerly been set for
Friday of this week but as that date
will be observed throughout the na
tion as a day of mourning for the
late President of United States
Harding, the meeting was postponed
until Wednesday following.
Lawrenceville Kiwanis will hold
their regular meeting on the evening
of Friday, August 10th, at which
time the trip to Monroe will be fully
discussed. It is planned to leave here
about 3 o’clock and the president
urges that as mny Kiwanis as possi
ble make the trip. Monroe has one
of the livest clubs in the state and
all present are assured of a good and
profitable meeting.
MRS. D. A. WHITE WAS
BURIED AT DAWSONVILLE
Mrs. Docia White, age thirty-five
years, wife of Mr. D. A. White, died
at their home on Shadbum Ferry
road, spar Buford, Monday of last
week. Mr. and Mrs. White had been
married for only abhut one year and
her death brought sorrow to all of
their friends.
She is survived by her husband, D.
A. White; father, Mr. G. R. Vaugh
ters, of Dawsonville; one sister, Mrs.
Lei 1 a Chambers, Leesburg, Ala.;
four brothers, Oscar, Lindsay, Homer
and S:lomon Vaughters, all of Daw
sor.viTle.
The remains wqre carried to Daw
sirville Tuesday and the funeral held
a- Bethel church.
NEGROES FROM SOUTH
WILL BE VACCINATED
St. Louis. —Persons coming here
from the south who appear to muni
cipal health officers to need inspec
tion and vaccination will be exam
ined at Union station, it was an
nounced Tuesday afternoon.
The announcement followed a con
ference of city health officials which
was called after a plan of vaccnat
ing negroes from the south had been
abandoned when the negroes assert
ed they were discriminated against,
as whites from the south were not
included In the vaccination arrange
ment.
Following the conference, Health
Commissioner Starkloff issued the
following statement.
“The health department has ar
ranged to meet incoming trains from
the south and will examine persons
who in the judgment of health of
ficials may indicate the need for in
spection and vaccination as a means
of prevention against contagious or
infections diseases.”
MRS. HAWKINS WAS BURIED
AT HOPEWELL LAST WEEK
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The remains of Mrs. Adaline Haw
kins, who died in Atlanta at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Simpson,
were taken to Buford Monday, July
30th.
Sh> was sixty-nine years of age.
Her death was caused from slregto
coccic infection after the extraction
of k tooth. Mrs. Hawkins united
with the Baptist chu-rch some forty
years agio and was a devoted Chris
tian. She wag loved by all who knew
•her.
The deceased is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. H. H. Simpson, of
Atlanta; Mrs. Julia Alexander ,of
Texas; Mrs. Wilburn Blankinshin, of
Buford: three sons, Mr. W. B. Haw
k'ns. of Buford: Mr. C. W. Hawkins,
of Belmont, and Mr. Andrew Haw
k-ns, of Texas.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Arch Holland, fcf Lawrence
viile, Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock
from the Hopewell church, near Bel
mont, in Hall county, where a large
concourse of peepie assembled to pay
their last tribute of respect.
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Detroit, Mich., August 1, 1923.
The News-Herald, Lawrenceville, Ga.
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JACKSON COURT
ADJOURNED WK.
Jefferson, Ga.—The August term
of superior court for Jackson county
opened Monday tnorning, but before
organizing Adjourned over until
Monday, August 13th.
The postponement of the court for
a week was due to the great proba
bility of the bill creating Piedmont
judicial circuit being passed by the
senate within the next day or two
which would by operation of law dis
qualify the present judge and solici
tor.
After taking the matter up with
the bar regarding the court it was
thought best to postpone so that
when the bill passes the senate the
new judge and solictor to be appoint
ed can then open court here next
Monday hold the entire August
term of said court.
The grand jury was instructed to
report next Monday for service as
well as the traverse jury which was
drawn to serve this week. The jury
drawn to serve next week is required
to report a Week later for service.
* In the event the new circuit is
created there .Will be two full weeks
of the present term of court, but if
the senate does not pass the bill
there will be only one week, as the
Walton county superior court would
prevent the holding over longer than
the regular weeks.
RAZOR BLADE OPERATION
BY BOY, 14, SAVES HEN
Cincinnati, O.—Albert Koch, four
teen years old, operated on his prize
winning Plymouth Rock hen at- his
home recently and cured it of a tu
mor in its n«ck. He used a razor
blade. Biologists say the operation
is one of the most remarkable on
record, considering that a fourteen
year old boy performed it success
fully.
“The tumor was exhausting the
hen,” Albert said. “It couldn’t
breathe and had reached the point
where it no longer could walk.”
CAN’T ESCAPE IT!
Washington.-—Maryland and the
District of Columbia are experienc
ing an influx of motorists from Vir
ginia, such as has never before tak
en place.
The reason is Virginia has a gas
oline tax of 3 cents o nevery gallon
of fuel bought there. So the mo
torists come here for their gas,
where it isn’t taxed.
But not for long! Beginning Jan
uary 1 Maryland and the District of
Columbia will collect a 2 cent gaso
line taxi At that, it will be cheaper
than buying fuel in Virginia.
SPARTA PETITION OBJECTS
TO CHANGE RAIL SCHEDULE
Sparta, Ga. —Local residents have
petitioned the Georgia public service
commission not to allow the change
of schedule sought by the Georgia
ralroad in the operation of its train
which now reaches here at 7:45
o’clock in the morning. The propos
ed change would make the train ar
rive here some two or thfee hours
later. It would mean that the peo
ple here would not get their mail un
til about noon, it is pointed out
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U. S. DISTRICT COURT
TRIES 46 MORE CASES
IN 1923 THAN IN 1922
According to the annual report of
the district attorney 46 more crimin
al cases were on the docket of the
United States district court for the
northern district of Georgia at the
close of business on June 30, J 923,
than for the previous period ending
June 30, 1922. This report, which
was sent to Washington on Monday,
showed the following:
Only 1,291 cases were disposed of
during the year, while 1,337 were
nitiated, the report showed. There
were 2,666 cases on docket at the ex
piration of the fiscal year ags.inst
2,620 for the previous, period.
Out of the 1,337 cases initialed,
1,112 were for violation of the feder
al prohibition law. Of this class of
cases, 729 were terminated while 2-
73 whiskey cases were brought under
the old federal revenue statute were
also settled.
Fines, forfeitures and penalties ag
gregating $50,190 were assessed in
all divisions of the district.
There were only 237 acquittals.
Progress was made -in handling
civil cases. June 30, 1922, there
were 437 civil cases on the docket.
During the part fiscal year 384 such
cases were initiated, while 490 were
terminated.
Judgement for the United States
totaling 278 and aggregating $16,0-
68 were assessed.
MARION PLANS
SIMPLE FUNERAL
FOR OLD FRIEND
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Marion, Ohio.—Simplicity almost
approaching severity will character
ize the last rites for Warren G.
Harding, when his body is brought
here Thursday from Washington.
Carrying out the expressed desire
of Mrs. Harding, as communicated
by her to those in charge of funeral
arrangements here, the only servic
es, excepting probably a prayer at
the home of his father, George T.
Harding, Sr., where the body will re
pose before being placed in a receiv
ing vault, will be brief and will be
conducted at the vault in Marion
cemetery where the president’s body
will be placed temporarily.
This will be in charge of Rev.
George M. Landis, pastor of Trinity
Baptst church, of which Mr. Hard
ing was a member, assisted by Rev.
Jesse Swank, pastor of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, Mrs. Hard
ing’s pastor.
There will be no imposing funeral
cortege to the cemetery, made re
splendent by bright uniforms and
glittering sabers; no trooping of
horses; no rumble of artillery
wheels; no marching organizations.
Its grandeur will be its simplicity
and its sadness. Not even the “pres
ident’s own” troop A. Ohio national
guard cavalry, Cleveland, which act
ed as escort of honor when Mr.
Harding was niaugurated president,
will participate, other than to main
tain quietude. There will be thous
ands of other soldiers here, but they,
too, will be here in the capacity of
aides to civil authorities to maintain
order.
HERE FROM FLORIDA.
Mr. R. B. visited here
Wednesday on business. Mr. Brewer
is connected with the Florida Citi
zens Exchange as Fruit Salesman
and is a very prosperous young man
and has a lot of relatives and friends
in Georgia. He is a cousin to John
Roy Perry, manager of the overall
plant here. *"
BALK AT VACCINATION;
SMALLPOX THREATENS
London. —England is in real dan
ger of a smallpox epidemic according
to Dr. W. W. Keen, Philadelphia,
who is visiting here. Noviile Cham
berlin, Minister of Health, agrees
with him.
Dr. Keen criticized the recent ac
tion of Parliament in permitting
“conscientious objectors” to evade
vaccination. Gloucester is now suf
fering from an outbreak of the dis
ease. ,
HERE’S THE LONGEST WORD
(From The Clevland Plain Dealer)
Until recently the largest word in
the English dictionaries was “dis
proportionabless,” which is not so
very long, after all, when it is com
pared with some of the gigantic
names or modern chemistry.
Henry Sarey, an English poet,
wrote somewhere around the year
1700 a burlesque called by the
sounding name, “Chronhotontholo
gosgos,” in which there was a chac
gos,” in which there was a character
called “Aldeborontiphoscophcrnio.”
This whole plap is full of long words
and bombbastic phrases, a noted ex
ample of which is the following: His
cogitative faculities immersed in
congibunditp of cogitation.” An
English newspaper is on record as
having used (with what meaning it
is hard to guess) this truly Gargan
tuan word, “Polpyphrasticcontinom
imegalondulation.”
This was possibly a burlesque on
some long winded political proclama
tion. But the king of them all, the
longest word without doubt, ever
coined, was a word used by the
Greek comedp writer Aristophanes.
It is unnecessarpy to give this word.
Besides, lack of space forbids. Suf
fice it to say that it has 79 syllables
and 171 letters.
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THE NEWS-HERALD
Chicago, 111., August 1, 1923.
The New-Herald, Lawrenceville, Ga.
Gentelmen: Let the paper come on
to my address, 3628 West 66th
street. Would have written you
sooner but had expected to spend
this month in Atlanta and Lawrence
ville but intsead am going to New
York to meet Mrs. Pilkington, who is
returning from a trip to Europe in
September. Keep the News-Herald
coming on to me as I get more news
of interest from the old county pa
per than all the Chicago papers com
bined.
Yours truly,
W. PILKINGTON.
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Writes on The
Turner Plan
Bj E. H, Taylor, in The Country
Gentleman.
A county in south Georgia, one of
those stamped with the red sandy
soil of the coastal plain, has proved
the truth of the old saying that
“where there is a will there is a
way.” It ha s done something so out
star ding that forty delegations of
farmers and business men from other
counties, seme of them from other
states, visited it during the past
year. For Turner county is working
out an answer to that hard riddle of
the south —how to put itg farming on
a sound and self-supporting basis
tliat promises a permanent prosper
ity tc farm owner, tenant and
business man.
Not only is Turner county showing
how that can be done but, what is
me re important, it is doing so with
only the ordinary means that are at
hand in almost any county; in fact,
it had far less of the material re
sources than the average county.
But this lack it offset with resources
of spit !\
Only a couple of years ago Turner
county was down and almost out. If
a general liquidation had been called
for, few in the county would have es
caped bankruptcy. The small farm
ers and tenants—and over three
quariers of the county's farmers
were tenants—were deep in debt to
the large landowners and credit
merchants. The latter in turn owed
the banks, some of them so heavily
they had to turn over their property
to b' held in trust until some sort of
settlement could be worked out. The
banks were having troubles of their
own, as banks always do when a com
munity threatens to go insolvent.
A Disaster of One-Crop Farming.
One of the familiar disasters that
invariably overtake one-crop farming
communities had occurred here. Tur
ner county, only a little mere than
a generation removed from standing
timber, had developed no other im
portant industry than agriculture.
This it centered around cotton, fi
nanced hy the usual credit system.
Then came the boll weevil and, a
little later, the collapse of cotton
price s under the pressure of defla
tion. In a year the cotton production
was more than cut in half, with the
price cut to a quarter cf what it had
been, The double blow left business
prostrate in the county. left its peo
ple with virtually nothing except
couratre.
It stood that way in the-early sum
mer of 5921 when C. H. Bishop, gen
eral manager of the Ashburn Dis
tributing Company, of Ashburn, the
county seat, read an article in The
Country Gentleman telling how Dal
las county, Alabama, had turned a
similar disaster into prosperity. The
article told how a capable county
agent, the farmers, bankers and
otl ei business men had cooperated
to establish a better-balanced fam
ing system that would be immune to
such misfortunes as the boll weevil
or low cotton prices. On the same
day the late George Betts, banker,
merchant and large landowner of
Ashburn, read the same article. It
gripped the interest of both men.
Within a week they organized a
party of Turner county farmers and
business men to visit Dallas county
and learn how such an evolution in
farming was accomplished and if
some of its principles could be ap
plied to the relief of Turner county.
They returned, fired with hope and
with a new vision of the possibilities
wrihir. their own county and within
themselves.
There was a board of trade at Ash
burn, compcsed of local business
men. Like most such organizations
in .‘•mall towns, having failed to at
tract pay-roll-producing industries,
it had relapsed into inactivity. Betts
and Bshop proceeded to give it a
program. They declared that the
farm was Turner county’s one big re
source and that the board of trade’s
proper function was to exert every
effort to help make farming pay.
They carried their point.
The need, as the leaders saw it,
war, to put dairy cows, hogs and hens
on Turner county’s farms, to help the
farmers get on a self-supporting !
basis The other desirable things
then wogld follow. It wasn’t easy to
get the plan under way.. Money was
very scarce, local markets for any
thing except cotton were few and
poor paying, the banks were doubt
ful and many of the farmers hesitant
about risking the little they had left
in a new departure. The first test
came in raising capital to install a
creamery. Finally fifty men, some
of them farmers, ?ome townspeople,
were found who agreed to put up
their notes for SIOO each. It was
agreed to try out the creamery pro
ject for three years, if not then a
success to take their loss and go out
o f the business.
Experts were called In for advice
Some of them shook their heads and
went away convinced that it couldn’t
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be done. The farmers were not
dary-minded, there were 1 virtually
no dairy herds in tne section, and a
creamery couldn’t be run without
patronage, they said. The gloomy
prophecies did a good tarn by show
ing the Turner county people that*
a credm production would have to be
insured before the creamery started.
There ijere only about six thousand
cattle in the county, of. all kinds,
ages and breeds, but mostly the veri
est sort of scrabs. So a production
outside the county would have to be
secured. The small band of apostles
of the new farming thereupon set
out on a pilgrimage to neighboring:,
towns and villages. They visited
twenty-two such in a radius of sev
enty miles of Ashbum, preceded by
big display notices. They took with
them a cream separator and in each
place they obtained a milch cow.
Right out in the main -:lreet tkey
gathered, milked the cow and sepa
rated the milk, then' proceeded Ur
tell the story of what dairy cows
would do to bring better farm in
comes, better homes and better
health.
There was about these meetings,
the fervor and the atmosphere of a
Salvation Army street meeting or of
a revival. And they won converts.
The Creamery’s Opening a Big Event
1 was at Ashburn the day the
creamery opened in the early fall of
1921. The tireless Bishop, manager
of the creamery, alon-g with his other
business, and the other loyal work
ers were waiting, full of ajrpreftew
sion. There stood the new machin
ery of\the creamery with the butter
maker, an experienced man from a
northern dairy district, in readiness - .
But nobody knew how much or how
little cream to expect. Then- farmers. ,
began bringing it in—in glass jars,
in buckets, in sirup tins, in any kind
of receptacle that would serve the*
purpose. More arrved by train. That
first month the creamery turned out
3000 pounds of butter.
Two things had been learned 'm
Dillas county, Alabama: Owe was;
that a good county agent ix tfeWestU
mainspring in the machinery of any
farming program; the other was that
a suit i essful dairy industry-la a-mat
ter of careful development. St* the’
planners set out to get the best w»-
ty agent available, a man experi
enced in livestock farming and with
qualities of leadership. They found
him n H. B. Ralls, Jr., a young far
me.- who was president of the Geor
gia Swine Breeders’ Association, and
who recently had disposed’ of h>'s
farn; business. Again Obstacles :
bobbed up. Some of the business ;
men and farmers opposed Mining h
county agent, saying it was an un
necessary expense to the taxpayers.
A mass meeting was held protesting,
against it, then court action was:
taken. Finally the'loyal group bade
of the undertaking had to pledge a
large part of his salary out of thpie
own depleted pocketbocks. It was
ten months after he began- work that;
Ralls received any salary, but he is
the sort who would keep right orr
working with all his might-.
A farm bureau was formed, and tor
act with it on a county-wide scalo a
county board of trade was organized
by the business men of the several
towns, with George Betts as presi
dent
Then began the development of the?
dairy industry through the.one most:
necessary step, the building ~up of
better-producing herds. The Jim*
bureau arranged for the shipment of
a carload of young Guernsey bulls
and heifers from the Rev/an Cooper
ative Bull Association, a farmers' or
ganization at Salisbury, North Caro
lina. By the time the shipment
reached Ashburn arrangements had
beer made so that Turner county far
mers couid buy the stock. Six banks
in the county joined in this adver
tisement in the Wiregrass Farmer,
of Ashburn, the first cf a series of
epochal bank advertisements:
“Recognizing that farming is by”
far the greatest and most important
industry in Turner county, and that
its successful pursuit is vitality im
portant to the success of r.it only
every business institution in the
county, but of our schools and.
churches; and believing as we do that
good dairy cows, hogs and poultry
are indispensable to profitable farm
ing under boll weevil conditions, we
will as far a® in our power lend to
worthy farmers financial assistance
in providing such livestock. It will
be our policy to lend such aid only to
fanners growing on their farms suf
ficient feeds to properly care for .rfl
livestock on their farms."
Twenty-three pure-bred bulls, sev
en heifers and one cow were sold in
that first shipment, all but four of
the aniirtalp going to Turner county
farms. Fourteep other carloads of
cattle, mostly good grade rows, fol
lowed in the next year, all bought
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