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MARCH IS, ISA*.
Ssifelt
MRS. LILLIE F.XUPI
Mr. Kelley Holt, of Gainesville,
spent the week-end at home.
Miss Kate Woodward is at home
from her school in Tennessee.
Tyler Peeplds, of (Atlanta, wias
here for several dys recently.
Miss Ruby Pharr spent the week
end with relatives in Alburn.
Friends will be glad to know that
Miss Monite Holt, is some better.
Mrs. Jack Hintdn, who has been
ill for several days, is reported
better.
Eugene Brand has returned from
Florida where he spent most of the
winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Hobson Young have
as their guests, Mrs. T. C. Mason, of
Rome.
Little Mannaing Austin is report
ed very much improved after his
recent illness.
Friends will be glad to see Mr. L.
R. Martin out again after his re
cent illness.
Mrs. F. M. Smith Continues critic
ally ill at the home of her- son, Mr.
- Peter Smith.
Ben Clack has purchased the stock
of groceries of Oscar Chatman and
moved same into his store.
Mrs. Saliie Gouge and Master
Joseph Gouge have returned from a
pleasant visit to Logansville.
Bud Ewing writes from Florida
that he will be in Lawrenceville on
election day to vote for some old
friends.
LOST—Strayed from my barn two
small male Hampshire pigs, one has
short tail. Information regarding
them will be appreciated and piad
for. ml7p
J. P. WEBB. Lawrenceville,
Friends will be glad that Miss Wil
lis is again able to resume her dut
ies at the high school, after her re
cent illness.
Mrs. D. P. McCleskey, of Atlnta,
has returned home after a delightful
visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.
C. Brown, here.
Mrs. Jim Bob Poe and two little
daughters have returned to their
home in Atlanta, after a pleasant
visit with relatives here.
Mrs. Lucy Robinson is very sick
Martin, ofat her home here. Mrs.
Annie Martin, of Atlanta, was with
her during the week end.
The oyster supper served by the
Epworth League at the old Delmar
case on Saturday evening was well
attended and a nice sum realized.
The program “law and order’ with
three local attorneys in charge, will
be carried out at the regular meeting
of the Kiwanis club on Friday night.
The Ladies of Lawrenceville and
vicinity are cordially invited to at
tend the demonstration of Morning
Joy Coffee given by Mr.and Mrs.
Fowler at the grocery store of John
R. Williams on Friday and Saturday,
March 14th and 15th.
Mr. J. P. Gunter has returned to
his home after avisit to the bedside
of his brother, Mr. M. B. Gunter, of
near Buford. Friends will be glad to
leant that Mr. Gunters condition,
which was serious for several days,
is now improving.
Messrs. J. Loss Shadburn, Thos.
Langley and H. J. Hinton, efficient
registrars of Gwinnett, are busy on
the lists of voters for the coming
primary. The executive, committee
has had the ballots printed and
everything due to go off smooth on
election day.
EDITORS HOLD MEET
IN ATHENS ON FRIDAY
Athens, Ga., March 10.—Editors
of the Eighth and Ninth congres
sional districts will meet here Fri
day for the first convention since the
associations from the two districts
were combined.
President E. A. Caldwell, of Mon
roe, will preside.
Among ne speakers will be Mrs.
John N. Holder, Jefferson; W. T.
Anderson, Macon Miss
Ruby Anderson, Athens; Miss Moina
Michael, State Normal faculty; A.
S. Hardy, Gainesville; B. A. Juhan,
Athens; John Shannon, Commerce;
J. C. Williams, Greensboro: J. W.
McWhorter, Winder; Miss Mildred
Rutherford, Athens.
E. W. Carroll, secretary, is mailing
out the completed program for the
meeting, which begins in the Hotel
Georgian.
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A benefit play will be given at
Robert’s Academy, Saturday night
Marchls. Admission 10 cents. The
proceeds will be used to buy black
boards for the school. Every one
Invited to c m-*. •
SEND US YOUR JOB WORK
A CAMPAIGN LIE.
Some miscreant has been circulat
ing a story to the effect that Wil
liam G. McAdoo is a Catholic, which
is a lie out of the whole cloth, and
no newspaper has made any such
charge, knowing that it would be li
belous.
Mr. McAdoo is an Episcopalian,
but his father and mother were
strong Presbyterians, as is his wife.
A GREAT MEETING FOR YOUNG
PEOPLE HfeRE FRIDAY P. M.
In the Presbyterian church, com
mencing Friday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock, when every young peipon in
Lawrenceville will find a cordial wel
come at one of the greatest Fellovf
ship Rallies ever sponsored by a
Christian Endeavor Society.
Steoropticon slides will be shown
and in those pictures you will see the
work of the young people in the
Dixie states in developing young
people’s Christian work. These pic
ture? will be shown at 7:30 o’clock,
preceded by an address.
Two of the south's foremost and
most eloquent speakers will make
heir first appearence in Lawrence
ville in persons of Mr. Chas. F. Ev
ans, southern secretary of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, Bos
ton, Mass., with headquarters at
Chattanooga, Tenn., with Mr. Gerald
Harris, field secretary for Young
People’s work is Arkansas, Missis
;ippi and Tennessee.
The people of this community can
not afford to pass up the opportunity
iof hearing such experts as- the
above. It was not known until Mon
day that it would bp possible to have
these speakers stop in town, but
since they were passing en route to
Atlanta, it was announced that a
stop would be considered and made,
if Lawrenceville people would make
possible the rally.
The B. X- P- U.» the Epwprth
League and the Christian Endeavor
ers have decided to band together
and make this rally Friday evening,
March 14th, a success and work will
be the mother of success; therefore
all young people are boosting the
meeting for Friday night.
A cordial welcome is extended to
every person in Lawrenceville to at
tend the biggest meeting for young
people ever staged in the commun
ity. Make your plans to be there!
Bring the pastors of the various
churches, bring your friends, cousins,
aunts and uncles, too. Bring the
family and be a booster for young;
people and their work.
Can Readily Dispose of Their Sur
plus to Good Advantage.
Atlanta, Ga., March 10.—Should
farmers advertise Why not? They
often have something to sell that
could be easily disposed of if they
advertised in the home paper. They
often wish to buy something that a
want ad in the home paper would
bring to them quickly. Certainly
farmers should advertise. It would
pay them to do so.
The foregoing statements are the
opinions expressed here both by
newspaper publishers and leading
agriculturists.
Advertising, it is pointed out,
brings supply and demand together
quicker quite as much as it does the
town resident.
If a town resident has a room for
rent, or wishes a room, the first thing
done is to telephone or to go to the
local newspaper office and put in a
want ad. If they wish help they ad
vertise for it, if men and women wish
work, they advertise for it.
The farmer just as easily could
get farm help, or could just as eas
ily sell what they may have that he
does not need, or buy what he wishes
to buy, through the advertising col
umns.
Farmers often waste money hunt
ing something that a smaH ad in the
home paper would bring them in a
day. And the advertising columns
would easily, quickly and cheaply
sell the cow, the horse, the surplus
produce, grain, or poultry the farm
er may wish to dispose of, and save
him a vast amount of trouble at a
trifling expense.
Business men have pointed out that
advertising is a phase of the business
of farming that should engage the
attention of farmers generally.
To Develop the Oyster Industry.
The oyster industry in Georgia
may soon be developed on a large
scale.
State Game Warden Paul Twitty
is investigating the matter with a
view of interesting investors to en
ter the field on the coast of this
state. As a result, Georgia may be
eventually one of the most important
centers and markets in the country
for the sale of oysters.
It is claimed that the oyster from
the coast of Gergia is just«as good as
any raised in any section of the na
tion, but for some reason the indus
try has been allowed to go undevel
oped and through this lethargy thou
sands upon thousands of dollars
have been lost.
EGGS FOR HATCHING
Throughbred White Leghorn Eggs
for Hatching fifteen for SI.OO.
Phone, write or see
R. S. HOLT
Lawrenceville, Georgia
FOUR BIG STATES IN
PRODUCTION OF CROPS
BY MARTIN V. CALVIN.
Widespread interest has been, for
many years, manifested in the gov
ernment’s report on the hypothetical
or conditional value of all crops pro
duced in the United States. The
basis of such valuation is, what is
termed “the farm price.” I have di
rected attention to the fact that that
is not the preferred basis of such
valuation; for the reason that it does
not give the amount of money which,
through farm products, the farmers
annually contribute to the wealth of
the entire country. You understand
that I am making reference to the
value which comes from the sale of
farm products to the ultimate con
sumers. For illustration—the farm
price of corn per bushel may be fixed
at 60 cents a bushel; the ultimate
consumers pay $1.40 per bushel. If a
state’s crop of corn be 60,000,000
bushels, the total value at "the farm
price” would be $36,000,000; at the
price’ paid by the ultimate consumer,
the contribiitive value to the wealth
of the entire country would be $84,-
000,000, a difference of $41,000,000.
The foregoing paragraph does not
carry criticism; the sole object in
view is to fix in the public mind a
very important economic fat - . Or
that basis, Georgia’s total crop value
for 1923 would be $550,800,000 com
pared with the value at the farm
price—$236,395,000. You may bet
ter appreciate the petinency of the
comparison made when informed that
the general average of all Georgia’3
crops, five years, 1917-1921, amount
ed to $440,290,000 at the farm price.
The Big Four in 1923.
You will note with pleasure that
Texas, a great cotton state, led the
host in 1923 in total crop values.
Here is the array:
Texas $1,064,775,000
lowa 475,920,000.
Illinois 459,509,000
California 447,993,000
Extremely unfavorable conditions
considered, the ten strictly cotton
states did wondreusly well. Here is
the list in order of rank:
Total Value Rank Rank
All 22 All
States Crops Crops Crops
Texas $1,064,775,000 1 1
North Car. 415,737,000 4 5
Oklahoma 264,975,000 13 13
South Car. 261,713,000 16 14
Georgia . . 236,395,000 19 14
Alabama.. 227,447,000 19 18
Tennessee 207,864,000 22 21
Arkansas. 207,735,000 23 22
Mississippi 193,712,000 30 30
Louisiaha. 161,141,000 28 26
Here is a table brimful of valuable
information. It is a comparison of
crop values per acre:
1923 1922 Per Cent
Crop— Value Value Increase
acre acre 1923
Tobacco $198.30 $140.40 41.2
Irish pot 112.00 95.20 17.6
Sweet pot 63.84 50.63 26.0
Peanuts 35.33 28.29 24.8
Cotton 26.24 23.90 9.7
Oats 15.30 13.50 13.3
Wheat 13.53 12.00 12.7
Corn 12.47 14.28 12.tf
Hay (minus .. 12.47 14.28 12.6
An inquiry is frequently made:
“What is the corn acreage, compared
with the cotton acreage, in Georgia?”
In order to answer the inquiry in f.
manner that will be perfectly satis
factory to every reasonable reader,
Groceries!
When you buy groceries from us there are
three things of which you may be sure—best qual
ity, lowest prices, prompt attention to your order
—whether it be large or small.
A FEW OF OUR SPECIALS ARE:
Coffee, good grade, per pound 20c
Eggs, the best country, per dozen 20c
Sugar, granulated 10 pounds SI.OO
Lard, good pure, net 50 pounds weight, per
can T $7.00
Van Camp’s Tomato Soup, regular ten cent size
at sfc
G. B. C L A C K
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Telephone 22 Prompt Delivery
mi RIVS-HUALB, I
who may be content simply to scan
this article, I have prepared the fol
lowing table. I am giving you not
only the acreage in corn and in cot
ton in 1923, but the general average
yield per acre of the two .crops—not
only in this state, but in the other
nine strictly cotton producing states.
In studying the table, do not overlook
the supreme importance of the gen
eral average yield per acre; for on
that factor in crop production de
pends the cost incident to. making the
crop. It is not a question of
acres under cultivation, but it is a
question of the first importance—
“ What was the general yield per acre
of the acreage you had in corn, cot
ton, or other crops?”
States Acreage Yield
In Corn Per Acre
Texas ..5,213,000 18.5
Georgia 4,034,000 12.2
Alabama 3,310,000 14.8
Oklahoma 3,264,000 11.5
Tennessee 3,018,000 24.5
North Carolina ..2,603,000.. 22.5
Mississippi ......2,327,000 14.5
Arkansas 3,002,000 19.6
South Carolina . .1,980,000 16.5
Louisiana .......1,604,000 15.4
States Acreage Yield
Cotton Per Acre
Texas 14,081,000 146
Georgia ... ..... 3,433,000 82
Alabama 8,149,000 91
Oklahoma 3,295,000 90
Tennessee ..: ... 1,167,000 90
North Carolina .. 1,678,000 290
Mississippi 3,298,000 89
Arkansas , ... 3,054,000 97
South Carolina • • 2,930,000 187
Louisiana .... • • 1,395,000 125
It will be observed that Georgia
planted a very large acreage in corn,
but made a very low general aver
age yield per acre. Indeed, she
stood second to foot. To cut the
number of acres in corn to one half,
of the number planted in 1923, and
to plant selected seed of a prolific
variety, and apply at least 400
pounds of a high grade fertilizer
adapted to corn, would be truly eco
nomical and profitable. The general
average yield of corn in Georgia
should be 20 to 25 bushels per acre.
But this result cannot be won unless
the best seed corn is planted and not
less than 400 pounds of high grade
fertilizer be applied to each acre.
The best method of cultivating the
crop should be diligently practiced.
How can we expect a larger yield of
corn per acre when less, far less,
than 100 pounds of fertilizer is put
under the seed?
During a series of years, I halve
endeavored to persuade a few of
our farmers to plant five or ten or
twenty acres in Golden Beauty—a
yellow corn, suitable for roasting
ears as for stock. Planted 42 inches
apart, with 5 or 6 grains in each hill;
thinned to £wo of the strongest
stalks farthest apart; fed liberally
and cultivated thoroughly, would be
to secure 35 bushels of the finest
corn per acre: “But they would not.”
My, the nubbins in Georgia corn!)
They should be few and far between;
indeed, there should be no nubbins
at all. When Blount set about pro
ducing and developing his 8 ears to
the stalk, nubbinless corn, he put in
to action an idea he had, namely,
that nubbins could be relegated
summarily to the rear. His effort'
on three acres, planted away from
“A
Sound
Idea
Needs
Little
Explaining”
We need few here to explain the value
of Thrift—as practiced through a bank book.
Fortunes—ease—comfort and peace and
plenty in old age, have come to many who start
ed FlßST—with a small entry, in a SAVING
ACCOUNT book.
It’s Not a New Idea-
But a Sound One!
Why Don’t You Start This Week?
The Brand Bank ng Company
his larger acreage, demonstrated the
practical character of the thought in
his mind. It is the simplest thing
in the world, but requires work. No
live farmer can possibly invest a
little money in a way that will turn*
into his capacious pockets many
shining dollars, in crop dividends,
’han by buying a full supply of high
grade fertilizer to be used under se
lected seed corn.
More Pay for Postal Employees.
Civic organizations, merchants,
manufacturers and business men gen
erally in Atlanta- and other sections
of the south have heartily endorsed
the movement for increased pay for
postal employes, according to news
received here ? It is contended that
congress should determine what is a
reasonable wage for postal em
ployes, considering living costs, and
enact a law that will establish this
wage.
“The habits, standard of living, ed
ucation and environment of govern
ment employees and those dependent
upon them must, of necessity, reflect
credit or discredit upon the govern
ment of which they are an intimate
and responsible part,” says a state
ment made public here.
“It is for these reasons that the
congress of the United States cannot
longer afford to ignore its just obli
gation to government employes. 11l
fed, shabbily poorly housed
and miserably underpaid government
employes cannot and will not render
efficient service. They cannot add
anything to the wealth or progress
of the country. They cannot proper
ly equip their children'for the battle
of life nor can they contribute the
quality of children to insure and
safeguard the future of this republic
in the generations to come.”
PEDIGREED
SALSBURY
Cotton Planting
Seed
For Heavy Production and Early Maturity
A NEW VARIETY
SALSBURY IS DISTINCT
* SALSBURY is a distinct variety—the result of eight year’s plant breeding
by Professor J. W. Fox and Mr. E. C. Ewing, the experts of the Delta and Pine
Land Co. at Scott Miss. Commencing with an extra-early heavy-fruiting
strain of Wannamaker-Cleveland, these men have worked untiringly year
after year selecting and cross-breading, keeping the best and eliminating the
underesirable, until they produced SALSBURY, which we believe to be a per
feet cotton. It has all the disirable qualities of an early big-boll short cotton;
still, is worth a good premium in any market.
FOR FUTHER PARTICULARS WRITE OR SEE
W. L. BROWN
LAWRENCEVILLE, - - GEORGIA
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“JOE
Likes
STEAK!”
Every man does—and at this season of the
year, smothered in onions to ia temptingly tender
brown—its the most healthful food morsel you
can place before him. Heed these words, Mrs.
Housewife —and give him a spring tonic he will
relish.
Porterhouse Steak 20 and 30 cts. lb.
Sirloin Steak 20 and 30 cts. lb.
Round Steak 20 and 30 cts. lb.
Chunck or Flank Steak 10 and 20 cts. lb.
Sausage _ r 20 and 25 cts. lb.
Pork Steak and Chops 25 cts. lb.
Oysters - 75 and 90 cts. at.
Ham - 40 cts. lb.
Brains - 10 cts. set
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