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1,000 GEORGIA CORN BOYS IN
Prizes Awarded at Rousing Meeting Held at State Capitol
nni rMnm D A D A nr Relax in the Rest Room-Third Floor
orLtNUlU rAnAUt ? m. rich & bros. co.f
Speakers WTio Were on
Program Fail to Ar
rive. hut Young Farm
ers and Canning Club
(iiris Take Places.
ilie seats of the mighty, or the
r- of the Solons, or whatever you
van: <’all the places of the Georgia
Legislators, a thousand Corn Club
"»vupied the hall of the House
. presentatlves Thursday morn-
re ,tnd heard a good deal about
, -elves and about their work.
T second big event of the day—
* parade—began receiving preferred
..Mention right after luncheon, when
t , hoys began forming at the north
side of the Capitol for the march to
he Armory, where the parade was to
start it 3 o’clock. Orders were given
it the Canning Club girls and the 85
roll of honor” boys should occupy the
Capitol steps, as they were to be
piaepd in a post of honor when the
re of march was formed.
. entire thousand didn’t sit in the
i. -ars of the mighty fn the House in
morning—only as many of them
■a- here were seats. The rest piled up
ine galleries or stood^ In the aisles.
Highly Impressive Meeting,
they all were ’’ere. That seem-
In -ini! then the (’tinning < dub
g . anti the dignitaries of state, and
miring populace, filling in avail-
a 1.1 e chairs.
i, was highly impressive, in spite
, • fact that there were a couple of
delations from the established pro
gram.
To begin with, a telegram from
. .ncellor Barrow, of ‘be State Uni-
vtrs'.;y, announced that serious ill -
ii. -- in his family prevented him from
•. ing present. That was sad, and, be
lt left a gap in the program;
. is. it would have left a gap but
f. Lie presence of mind of Walter
• er of the Chamber of Com*
and J. Phil Campbell, head of
<»rn Club work in Georgia.
Thev got right together and filled
• gap ? *b •> .series of -'resent'’
; outhful and ir. some cases embar-
r -od and wriggling hero ~ of the
Corn Club, who even made some
her themselves: while little Miss
F : Dooley, expert tomato grower,
. rattling good talk and wasn’t
bashful at all.
Then tne Governor wasn’t in town,
■ ouldn’t sign the 85 diplomas, so,
t i course, they couldn't be presented.
\’ ; the names were read out of all
boys who made 100 bushels or
: i n to the acre, and Dr. A. M. Soule
-- :red the boys the diplomas would
i • sent them, and all tied w ith red
.•mi hlack ribbon, too, emblematical of
the State University.
Governor Provides Carriage.
Ft his part, the unavoidably ab-
sin’ Governor Slaton wired that he
arranged for a carriage to repre-
sont him in the parade in the after-
: > n. the vehicle to contain as pas
s' ngers four leading members of the
c r! Canning Club. Those selected
were Miss Mary E. Creswell, Miss
: izabeth Holt,' Miss Clyde Sullivan
hnd Miss Eron Dooley, thejittle hero*
Wilmer L. Moore, president of the
ambor of Commerce, presided, and
cid some lively talking himself,
g oVer the assembly. Mr. Moore
is moved to wonder how many of
•e youngsters then cocupying the
T?tts of Legislators would return in
‘ iture years to Atlanta to take up in
earnest the law-making duties of the
> w Then he said something pretty
"It should always be remembered,”
tir] Mr. Moore, “that the legal pro-
fission has no monopoly on states
manship. nr even State law-making.
>iid our law-making bodies never will
- all they should be ’;ntil the pro
gressive and intelligent farmer and
r ’ie progressive and intelligent busi
ness man take their places in the leg-
-iativc* halls and look after the wel
fare of their own fields.”
A young crowd of hustlers,” M. L.
I rittain, State Superintendent of Ed-
ation. called the gathering, and
ihen he complimented them on be-
' mging to the “great middle class” of
penp f . —the people neither of the froth
>ri(] foam nor of the dregs; the peo
ple who do things that move the
world.
Soule Looks to Youth.
Ur. Soule, president of the State
' ollege of Agriculture, stated that
' time was coming when “the in
telligent use of land would free the
ountry of most of its burdens, and
make the farmer boy a dominant fac-
in the development of all the re
sources of the world.”
Ur. Soule spoke in favor of rotation
'■ f, rops, showing that where corn
t >-orbed a third of its value from the
mineral resources of the soil, cotton
’"k a seventh, and pigs, fattened on
farm, removed only one-twenty-
I • 1 *i of their selling price from the
I'hen Mr. Campbell had his inning,
gave a lot of the credit for corn
lul. success to the “dads,” in re-
’ n £ some little thrusts to the ef-
' t that the young idea had .been
“ bing its dad how to shoot, and
II "b‘ a rattling good talk or the I
rn club, and its growth, and its.
ni ng to the State.
1 Uon came the youngsters, and ;
m 'Vbe they didn’t hate it—to be
‘'ilcd up on top of a tall desk, and j
’ U* the focus of attention! They
A; -R'gled and their ears got red, but
went through the ordeal like |
• mng heroes.
Boy, 10, Gets Big Reception.
•t.‘ was Clarence Aired, of Piok- j
County. Clarence is only 10
l! ’ s °ld. and he probably would
‘ :V ” preferred to die rather than get !
‘ "n that desk, but Mr. Campbell ^
Two of the leaders in the Georgia Girl Canning Club Competition. Ont the right is Miss Clyde Sullivan, of Lowndes County,
the State champion, who canned from one-tenth of an acre 5,354 pounds of tomatoes at a net profit of $132. Site is 14 years old. On
the left is Miss .Josephine Simms, Floyd County’s fairest young canning girl.
r /tere is Only One
H i
didn’t give him a chance to die. He
was grasped under the arms and ele
vated before t he admiring populace
before he could run or do anything,
and when the crowd beard that that
little bit of a boy had made 163 bush
els of corn on his acre they gave him
the big cheer of the day. Whereupon
Clarence’s ears flamed again.
Then there was Marion Jackson
Hall, the Irwin County bard, who
wrote out the entire Odyssey of his
corn-growing adventures in verse,
but only read a couple of short pre
dictions of glory for Qld Georgia,
and that sort of thin, you know.
It was all right, too, and Marion
Jackson had a strong voice.
Then there was Grady Lee, 14
years old, of DeKa-lb County, who
made a good talk, telling of his early
disappointments, and how he couldn’t
hold the plow in the ground at first,
but after two years of failure he
finally came through with 77 bushels
to the acre.
And tow-headed Durenne Adair, of
Paulding, 11 years old and small for
the age, who had made 188 bushels.
He made a good talk, too, and was
cheered.
Miss Dooley Good Speaker.
After which Miss Eron Dooley,
Oconee’s champion tomato grower,
stood up very straight and cool—ever
notive how much more at home the
girls are than the boys when speak
ing?—and told about clearing $91.50
on her tenth of an acre, which would
run the profit per acre up to mighty
near $1,000..
The crowd enjoyed it all hugely
and cheered the youngsters, and th?y
enjoyed it, too, after it was over—
sort of like having a tooth pulled ( r
a picture taken.
And after that Mr. Campbell read
the list of the prize awards, and
everybody cheered. Mr. Moore In
vited them to come again, and then
everybody went out to get something
to eat before the parade.
Prizes Announced.
Announcement of the prize winners
was made by J. Phil Campbell, of the
United States Department of Agri
culture and head of the corn club
work in Georgia, at the meeting
Thursday morning in the hall Pf the
House of Representatives.
Class 1 included all the county club
prizes, covering the entire State.
These prizes were as follows: First
prize, for countv club exhibit by not
less than 50 members, $100; second,
best county exhibit by not less than
40, $75: third, best by not less than
30 members. $60; fourth, by not less
than 25 members, $50; fifth, by not
less than 20 members, $40; sixth, by
not less than 20 members, $30;
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seventh, by not less than 20 members,
$25; eighth, five next best county exr
hibits, $20 each; ninth, five next best
county club exhibits, $15 each; tenth,
the ten next best county club exhibits,
$10 each; eleventh, the twenty next
best county club exhibits, $5 each.
These prizes were won by the clubs of
the following counties in the order
named:
Carroll, Hart, Troupe, Appling, Wal
ker, Polk, Gilmer, Paulding, Pickens,
Floyd, Henry, Bartow, Hall, Pike,
Spalding, Jackson, Upson, Coffee, Tat-
nall, Wilkes, Irwin, Franklin, Coweta,
Whitfield, Meriwether, Morgan, Fay
ette, Hancock, Lowndes, Butts, Col-
initt. Bibb, Talbot, Elbert, Cherokee,
Monroe, Berrien. Stephens, Brooks,
Chattahoochee, Stewart, DeKalb, Tift,
Thomas, Wayne, Macon, Decatur.
Individual Sweepstakes.
In class 2, the individual sweep-
stakes prize-winners were announced
as follows:
Edward J. Wellborn, Morgan Coun
ty, 181.72 bushels; profit. $127.07; Per-
cheron mare and Georgia Bankers'
trip.
<’arl Campbell, Paulding County, 168
bushels, $147.84; Hastings’ scholar
ship.
Clarence Allred, Pickens County,
162.5 bushels, $139.95; J. D.’s spreader.
Luther Alfred, Pickens County, 165
bushels, $126.95; I. H. C. corn mill.
Next comes Class 3, which takes in
all of the individual Corn Club prize
winners, with the exception of those
in Class 2, who won the grand prizes.
In Class 3 there are 43 individual
prize winners, as follows:
Watson Adcock. Paulding; Paul
Johnson, Oconee; R. B. Lynn, Tatt
nall; Durrell Adair, Paulding; L. T.
Bellah, Henry; J P. Brooks, Jr.,
Polk; William Ruffin, Troup; J. O.
Lucas, Brooks; John Allen, Pike;
Dewey Smith, Paulding; Newman
Davis. Troup; Jesse Borders, Troup;
Jog JB lan kingship, Douglas; Glynn
York, Polk; Horace Dobson, Polk;
Paul Nichols, Polk; Fay Randall,
Tattnall; Raymore Brown, Polk;
Hope Bowden, Meriwether; Tom
Overby, Stewart; Worthy Lunsford,
Newton; Max Gillam, Bartow; Hugh
Overby, Stewart; J. B. Standard,
Wilkes; Crawford Dillard, Chattahoo
chee; Lucius Overby, Stewart; Ray
ford Morgan, Polk; Aubrey Wood,
Floyd; Marcus Hugh ling, Harris;
Paul Freeman, Troupe; Herbert
Broome, Hancock; Buren Webb,
Lowndes; Cliff Johnson, Troup; Ben
jamin Giddens, Berrien; John W.
Turner. Floyd; Allie B. Self, Bibb;
Ernest Bell, Bartow; W. J. Rabitsch,
Jenkins; Cohen Passmore, Lowndes:
Willis Fowler, Cherokee; Clarence
Chanibless, Meriwether; W. Everett
Brigman, Effingham; Dewey Dowdy,
Tattnall.
Prizes Valuable.
The prizes won by the foregoing
boys were as follows: First, $75;
second, $75 wagon; third, $60 gaso
line engine; fourth. $50 feed mill;
fifth, $50 feed mill; sixth, $45 wagon;
seventh, $45 disk cultivator; eighth,
$45 wagon; ninth, $40 cream separa
tor; tenth. $35 stalk cutter; eleventh
to twentieth, inclusive, each a schol
arship for the short course at the
State College of Agriculture, valued
at $30; twenty-first, walking cultiva
tor, valued at $28.50; twenty-second,
Union corn drill, valued at $17.50;
twenty-third, breaker, valued at $16;
twenty-fourth to thirty-third, Inclu
sive, each $10 cash; thirty-fourth, $10
corn sheller, thirty-fifth, $10 guano
distributor; thirty-sixth. $8 plow;
thirty-seventh, $5 plow'; thirty-eighth
to forty-third, inclusive, each four
pairs of overalls.
The individual and county prizes
offered by the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic Railroad to those pro
ducing their best results in the terrl-
Commissioner of Agriculture
Price and Miss Eron Dooley,
both of Oconee County- and both
proud of it. Miss Eron, who is
only 11 years old, packed 1,415
one-quart cans of tomatoes from
one-tenth of an acre, netting her
a profit of $91.50.
tory which this railroad covers were
awarded as foliows:
Hope Bowden, Raleigh, Meriwether
County; Sterling Carmichael, Coweta;
Haines Lennon, Ocilla, Irwin; Reason
Walker, Tifton, Tift County.
County prizes for Atlanta, Birming.
ham and Atlantic Railroad:
Colquitt County, Row Banning,
Funston; Macon County, Monroe and
Robert Hill. Oglethorpe (a tie): Tay
lor County, J. C. Fuller, Reynolds;
Turner County, Ira Whittle, Worth,
Dooly County, Otis Dorough, Vienna;
Talbot County, Joe B. Daniel, Wood
land; Thomas County, Ralph Newton,
Thomasville; Crisp County, Donald
McKay, Cordele; Meriwether County,
Hope Bowden, .Raleigh ; Harris Coun
ty, Marcus Mughling, Hamilton; Ma
rion County, Cecil Hendricks, Buena
Vista; Coweta County, Ralph War
ren; Meriwether County, Clarence
Chambless, Grantvllle; Campbell
County, Fred Coleman; Troup Coun
ty, Cliff Freeman; Troup County, Ru
fus Johnson; Fulton County, Clar
ence Buttles; Wilcox County. Horace
Russell, Abbeville; Pierce County, Lei
Waters, Blackshear; Ware County,
Elisha Moore, Nichols; Coffee Coun
ty, Harry Vickers. Ambrose; Coffee
County, Earl Vickers, Ambrose; Tift
County, Reason Walker. Tifton: Tift
County, George Conger, Tifton; Irw'n
County. Clinton Berry, Fitzgerald; Tr.
wln County. Haynes Leonnon, Ocilla;
Wayne county, Otis Tyre, Odum; Ben
Hill County, Buford Robitzsch, Fitz
gerald.
Prizes Given by Railway.
The prizes offered by the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic were as fol
lows:
Individual First, scholarship State I
College of Agriculture, all expenses !
for two weeks’ trip and $25 In cash;
second, third and fourth, scholarships. I
short course. State College of Agricul
ture.
County Prizes (offered in each
county covered by the road)—First,
$10 in agricultural implements; sc •- I
ond, $5 in agricultural Implements In
the case of the county prizes the in
dividual winning it is announced.
In Class 4, Stewart County wins the
prize of $25 for the best written re
ports by ten boys or girls relative to
th^ir work; Fayette County was
awarded the second prize of $15. and
Gordon County the third prize of $10.
The special Improvement prizes of
fered in classes 5 and 7. for ten coun
ties in the northwestern section of the
State, where special records were
kept, were not awarded for the rea
son that the records are not yet com
plete. Announcement of these will
be made later. In class 6, Morton
Fort, of Stewart County, won the
first prize of $25 for the best indi
vidual written report on his work;
the second prize of $15 went to Max
Gillam, of Bartow County, and the
third, $10, to Luther Roy McEacher,
of Fayette County.
Central of Georgia Railroad Prizes.
Following are the winners of the
county premiums offered for the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway Company for
the best results obtained in the ter
ritory which it traverses:
Henry Watson, Wellaton; Allie B.
Self, Holton; Monroe Hill, Oglethorpe:
Robert Hill, Oglethorpe; J. (’. Fuller,
Reynolds; Crawford Dillard, Cusseta, j
Stewart McGlenn, Cusseta; Joe
Brown Daniel, Woodland; Marlon
Graddy, Georgetown; Stewart Green,
Gray; Milton Green, Gray; Cecil
Hendricks, Buena Vista, No. 3; Wil
lard Chalkley, Buena Vista, No. 3;
Joe Herring, Ellaville, Route 2; Lester
McCrary'. Upson; Frank Freeman,
Monroe; Carlisle Buchanan, Ameri-
cus, No. 1; L D. Lawrence, Milford;
Watson Eley, Dickey, Route 1; Uriel
Cleveland, Blakely; Robert Summer-
ford, Leesburg; Tom Kennedy, Daw
son; Glenn Mims, Dawson; Ulyss
Smith, Edison; Ennis RoblnSon,
Shellman; Frank Hammock. Gris-
woldvllle; Hilyer Land, Dry Branch.
Remarkable records had been I
made by the girls in their canning j
competitions, and, as for the excel
lence of results. It appeared that the
mothers of the State would have to
look to their laurel If they did not |
wish to be surpassed by their daugh- i
ters who are not yet out of their
"teens.”
Take Miss Clyde Sullivan, the young]
champion, for example. She is from j
Ousley, Ga., and raised the tomatoes
she canned upon one-tenth of an acre,
like the other contestants.
Here is her story of what she ac
complished :
"I planted my tomato sc ds Febru
ary 20. We have to keep a record of
everything we do, 60 as to make our
reports here, and that is how I know.
Transplanted In Maroh.
"Then it was the last day of March
that I transplanted them. I put them
in rows 2 1-2 feet apart. I didn’t
have any trouble with them to speak
of The Insects were the only ‘hlng
that bothered me a' all, and I kept
them picked off pretty clean all of the
time.
"The first fruit showed up on May
7. The first week In June the toma
toes began to ripen well.
"How many tomatoes do you think
I raised? Oh, you’re a poor guessf'r.
I raised just 5,354 pounds. That
wasn’t so bad. was it?
“Now. of course you couldn’t guess
how many cans of tomatoes I made
out of these 5.354 pound-s. Let me,see
—there were 212 No. 3 cans (they j
hold a quart) and 2,254 No 2s. The j
No. 2s hold 22 ounces, or about twu-
tbirds of a quart.
"Besides all this. T put up 60 pounds
of ketchup and 50 pounds of tomatoes
in jars.
"The total cost of all the work--
the cultivation, the fertilizer, the cans, j
etc.—totaled $80.22. My gross re
ceipts were $212.61, leaving me a net
profit of $132.39.”
Miss Lela E. Dixon, of Fayetteville,
Fayette County, had excellent yield
and profits and turned in one of the
best notebooks in the competition
The exhibit counts for 40 points, and
the report, the yield and the profit for
20 points each.
About 50 of the girls from various
parts of the State are in the city to
attend the exhibit, which is being
conducted under the auspices of the
Georgia Girls’ Canning and Poultry
Club. Miss Mary E. Cresswell, of
Washington, In charge of the girls’
demonstration work that is carried
cn by the Bureau of Plant Industry
and the General Education Board, has
been active in making the Georgia ex
hibit a success.
Though the Corn Show being held In
the corridors of the State Capitol is
conceded to be the largest Atlanta ever
has seen, Dr. Andrew M. Soule, presi
dent of the State College of Agriculture,
at Athens, and a leading figure in the
work of the State corn clubs, Is of the
opinion that the 1914 show will be. even
larger and better.
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Prices on New
$15 to $25 Suits
Coats & Dresse?
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There are 113 silk dresses chiefly in crepe de chines and
messaline. Tn the approved styles, cleverly made; excel
lently finished; smartly trimmed. Black and leading
colors.
There are 79 wool dresses in French and storm serges,
wool crepes, brocades and matelassps. All new. Choice of
black and colors,
$15 to $20 New Winter Coats $10
Choose from plain gray' chinchillas, velours and heavy
Bedford Cords. Also zibelines, either plain or with neat
white or colored stripes. Helf or velvet collars and cuffs.
Black, gray, blue, brown and mixtures.
$15 to $20 Winter Suits at $10
Just twenty-eight in all, including serges and cheviots
in black and navy blue and shepherd checks. All new
this season. Doou puoo.g)
Starting the Pre-Inventory
Sale of Silks
The Yearly Event That Distributes the
Finest Silks, Robes and Trimmings at
j Half & Less Usual Prices
£ Included are such values as these:
Choice of any colored $2 or $1.75 “f A q
crepe de chine in stock
Choice of any colored $1 silk >70
messaline in stock at ■ OC
$8.50 imported silk bengalines at $3.50.
$1 and $1.50 fancy silks and remnants, 59c.
$1 black silks, a small lot at 59c.
\ $5 and $6 velvet and fur coatings at $3.50.
£ $7.50 and $10 Tunics, $3.95 $17.50 Tunics, $9.75
Imported Dress Patterns
Fashionable fabrics of silks, chiffons and velvets; bro
caded, printed and some beauties with gold and silver.
$7.50, $8.50 and $10 Fabrics at $4.95
$10 to $15 Fabrics at $7.50
$20 Fabrics at $9.95
$25 to $20 Fabrics at $12.50
Clearing Wool Remnants
We’ve gone through stock, assembling the va
rious short lengths that inevitably accumulate
through a busy season. They leave to-morrow
thus:
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'J*'** dress goods—Con
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6 yards, in white serges
with black or colored
stripes, plain colored zibe-
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etc.
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dress goods—A big
table of fashionable whip
cords, vigereaux, serges,
suitings, ratines, brocades
and matelasses. 2 to 5-yard
lengths.
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A Sale of
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Sample bracelets from which the maker took orders.
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Every piece fresh and new. Gold filled; warranted for
years. Roman or polished finish; embossed and hand-en
graved designs. Styles for misses, children and ladies. A
lavish assortment at these savings :
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