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IMM RECORD**. SBUEDGEVILLE, GA., FEBRUARY 11. IK*
Union Recorder
Ofhcc. Milledf*-
1 WHAT ABOUT IT?
[ The parents that worry so much
j about the kids needs a little couching
■low end then. We see men and
women with nearly grown boys and
1 that don't pay any more atten
tion to them than a cow does to a j
calf. They -ire so busy chasing a *
gi*od time themselves that they don't
•Know where their kids are at any
time. We see some women with
young lady daughters that try to be
uiore modern, faster, than their
daughters even think of. Children
are more than liable to get their
i«L-a» from their parents. What kind
of .an idea can a kid get from a mum
my and daddy that don't study any
thing but have a good time them
selves. gamble drink, flirt and frolic
in such a forward and fast manner
I that their kids deserve credit for ev-
i en staying out of the chain gang. ,
THE RECEPTION TO DR. HERTV Turn the nuns of the ironclaat firat
.u . ....... torwiumH 0,1 the parents and then after bom-
r0C |T n l 1 visited Warding them it might be well to hit
„ . , t , y ; T.l 'the kid- « few. But sad
Milledgeville Tuesday was not a pass- * I
„ . „ daddy need a call down too now and
IT which renewed and cemented tlu "' -B.inbnd« Post-S..roh!l*ht. I
friendships of years ago, and a spir
it of loyalty and faithfulness to the ,
city and old G. M. C. was rekindled.
The influence of Charley Hetty's , ,
, ,, -i l _* e farmers have Recognized that anoth-
vwt will long linger in the he.rt, of , __ , A
many who were boys with him
aad-cia.
R. B. MOORE—EDITOR
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
On* Year ... *150
Six Month* 75
Adverti.in* Rate. Furnished on
Application
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNTY
Februa
It. 1926
nnd profeasicr.i—than they are to
day. The man who is kriown to be
reliable is never without a job. even
though he be .apacitated for filling
only an humble position. On the
other hand, he may be a genius, or
apicuously well qualified
t LOCAL 3
HAPPENING,if
ELECT OFFICERS
FOR TWO CHAIRS
Next Sunday will be St. Valentine's
prominent and p a y_
rative position in some of the |
great industrial, commercial or fi-' Sunday was clear and pleasant and
rancial departments of the business attendance at the various churches
world; but if he is without the qua!- vras larger than it had been any Sab-
ity of reliability he will get through bath this year.
life badly handicapped, what ever his
attainments or opportunities may be. j The price of eggs took a decline
The man who is known to be relia- Saturday, the supply being greater
hie iri all things and whose word is than the demand. Quantities of them
. P. O. E. Elect Officer* to Fill Va-
cancioa Caawd by Death. H.
B. Emu and J. C. Ingram
Elavatad,
to fill vacancies in the lodge .
by the death of Mr. C. P. Schell'
Mr. H. B. Ennis was named L I
teemed Lending Knight and Mr. J r
Ingram elected to the chair of
teemed Lecturing Knight to flu
existing vacancies. Both these m* a I
have been members of the lodge her* I
was held the past week » l™* number of years and the h< #n .
by the Millcdgeville Lodge of Elks or was a deserved <
good as his bond will command the
respect and confidence of even those
of his fellow-men who are not them
selves reliable, nnd. as we said in
the opening sentence of this little
preachment, his a personal asset that
vere brought to the city froi
country.
the
•Saturday brought a good size
wd to the city from the surround-
• country. It was a clear and
fully through pleasant day. and the merchants had
,a good trade.
BIGGER COTTON CROf$
(Macon Telegraph!
Although the convention-attending
year, which have become the long
Charley Herty has become one of
the United States' big men and the
work he is doing is destined to be
come a blessing not only to this
country but to mankind throughout
the world. .Milledgeville has just
reason to 1ms proud of him.
? HARRIS' GOOD WORK.
To Senator Harris, of Georgia. '»
big cotton crop this year would
be disastrous to prices, Georgia’s
newspapers bear the information that
farmers are planning to put out this
year even more acreuge in cotton
than they cultivated in 1925.
If they will do it. there is no way
to persuade them away from it. The
voice of the Department of Agricul
ture should have influence, however.
In a survey of the 1926 crop condi
tions, the Department says, in ref-
ottoi
A cotton crop us large i
that
due to a large extent the credit for l-mt year would sell for lower prices
the early vote on the world court in because world production has exceed-
the face of the vigorous opposition.' ,.j the ratio of world consumption in
and the determination of the irre- the last two seasons and stocks have
eoncilibles to defeat it by deferring increased. Cost of cotton produc-
nction—the deferring of action to tion will probably be about the same
be by processor filibuster. ai in .1925. and growers would do
This is made very playi by the well to proceed with care when plan-
speech of Senator Robinson. Demo- tring their acreage for the present
cratic leader, with reference to Sen-1 year. Although stocks are not yet
ator Harris’ motion ut the special burdensome as a whole, further in-
session of Congress designed to bring creases might easily make them so.
the world court to a vote. The mo- The conditions under which the new
tion undoubtedly brought about a crop will be marketed are somewhat
vo*e several months earlier than uncertain, but there is no marked
would otherwise have been the case, j indication that the mill demand will
And it is not unlikely that the delay exceed that of the present season,
which would have been occasioned i„ other words, the top price for
would have defeated the court resolu- next year's cotton will likely be
tion - around 18 or 19 cents if the crop is
It will be interesting to Georgians anything like as large as it was this
to read what Senator Robinson said. year. A good many farmers sold
in specific reference to the Harris this year at 25 cents a pound, before
motion which placed the obligation t he market dropped. Encouraged by
— one of honor—squarely up to the ' that price, they are intending to
Senate. It follows: plant big crops this year. If this is
ally, not only next year's
ill be low. but such a surplus
7 crop. The 'farmer who
dditiona! cotton acreage this
inviting low prices for two
CONSERVING OUR SOILS
E. A. Nesmith.
A few days ago I walked over the
truck farm of Mr. Adrian Home. It
seems as if Mr. Horne has literally
turned an acre up on edge and is now-
farming on both sides the latid is s i
rolling in some places. The striking
thing about this little truck firm
is that there is not a gully
This condition has
about by terracing ami deep plowii
The land is so mellow that the wa
is taken up as fast as it falls. T
condition was not brought about
one year no more than the wrestli
go: his heavy muscle;
irg’s exercise. It took time.
In one particular section of South
Georgia Baldwin county soiliix used
for fertilizer. That seems * rather
strange but nevertheless it's true.
I am referring to the Altamaba river
delta. I hatj£ seen corn on this del-
A number of our citizens have
pen ill with colds and influenza the
Bst several weeks.
d..n
i the fan
The highways were filled with .iu-
mobiles Sunday afternoon. The
>:;ds were in good condition, and
.brought the weather fine for an outing. j
Rain fell Tuesday morning fol
lowing several days of sunshine and
pleasant weather. Monday the farm
ers begin looking forward to pre-
morn- Paring their lands for cultivation but
; the rain has again delayed the work.
We
Maddox, who for
fifteen j
ars served as porter at Chandler
ro*. grocery store, died Monday
orning after an illness of several
[•eks. His duties carried him to
la yie'd a hundred bushels of corn a number of the homes of the
without a pound of ferti- "hite citizens, delivering groceries,
than the cream of the nnd he was always polit.
i held i
the
The
s of the world court
during the last few days adopted a
policy which, in my opinion, is fairly
subject to criticism.
* It will be recalled that when the
President convened the Senate
traordinary
THE HABIT OF BEING RELIABLE
(Albany Herald)
Reliability is one of the cardinal
virtues of mankind, and he who pos
sesses it as distinct and consistance
following the characteristic has a personal asset
Inst regular session there was pend- J that will command confidence and
ing before this body •» resolution by c,irr >' hini successfully through the
tha Senator from Georgia (h,r. liar .tortuous ways and ahiftinij condi-
ris) which contemplated that the : of lif* 1 .
Senate shodld proceed during the ' While reliability is one of the bas-
spccial session to the final disposition tc elements of moral character, it is
of the question as to whether the at the .time time a natural outgrowth
United States should become an ad-'« f that fundamental virtue. And
herent to the statute of the world >et reliability is largely a matter of
court, Every Senate, knew then, as habit and must be cultivated to be
he knows now. that unlimited time alive. The person who culti-
would have been afforded for the ! vatea the habit of being reliable is as
consideration of the resolution of j Particular in the application of the
the Senator from Georgia if an ar- ] virtue to little things as to the great-
rangement had not been entered into l *r and more important ones,
for the consideration of the subject When once the habit of being re-
rinring the present session. Senators liable is formed it is comparatively
who are infatuated with the music ?»sy to mnintain it under all circum-
nf their own voices would have been ‘tances, and when one knows that a
riven the opportunity then to hear [ promise given means faithful perfor-
t hem selves sing without limit. There j nvinee on his part he naturally cxer-
ar practically no other business be- cises another virtue, candor. If he
fore the Senate of the United doesn't want to do a thing or doesn't
States when the speclil session ad- ‘"tend to do a given thing he will
.ioumed: and if we had not entered "®t, under stress of importunity re
in to the arrangement that was made, luctantly give his promise to do it,
if we had not voted the special order ' impelled by the conscientious re-
that was fixed, we Would have pro- ~* rd that he has for his own word,
reeded then to dispose of the subject W *H bring the virtue of hone-t can-
and there would have been no way! dor to his assistance and say no if
ul of this and other sections. Fur- t ^ ous -
thermore, I personally supervised an employers as he was t
experiment with cabbage on this del- was faithful in his w<
Li. On one plot we applied fifteen *
hundred pounds of 7-5-5 truckers *^ r - ® en Simmons has
fertilizer, and on the other the river ^‘‘neral merchandise ston
applied a coat of fine Baldwin coun- s,de °f Ocone«* river
ty soil. As far as the eye could tell-** 1 *’ **de of the h»Vhw.ij
there was no difference. This pro- Iond to McComh'* Mount,
cess of erosion has been going on for |” ons l ,as a number of yi
age» and it is time to call a halt if ' c ? ce in thl * lino of bu«ii
we are :«» keep pace with other sec- " ' dp| >' known among thi
tions in farming. Very steep hill- that SPCt, °n of the count
sides should be ditched, others*that' m
u'e not s»* roiling should be terraced,
and all should be plowed as deep as
possible. It is not advisable to
plow too deep the fi*st season us this
would put tun much of the subsoil
on top. One should plow just a lit
tle deeper each year until he gets a
good deep workable soil. One can
not obtain this condition of tilth
by terracing and deep lowing alone.
Organic matter must be added
is best don,- by growing both
•tnd summer legumes. A good slo
gan for the farmer to adopt is “A
summer legume in every ro wof corn
in summer and a crop of hairy vetch
on all land planted to cotton in win-
ifidei
■ bv
ok like
etted tha
should be
NEW VORKFR
> FARMING HERE
H.lt.d Her. By High W.l.r 1
Really When You Stop to Consider
the popidinty of dw ASP
Store! H in’t nrpriuf. A
wrl paid utu&ed monger,
cowl ecu oad tailing pretid-
iag orcr a duo, tarnUr; *
store, settof oily goods of
recegosxed stoodord .eeSty
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The
GREAT
ATLANTIC & PACIFIC ™
fitable
■ than
in which Uu-se who are afraid
meet the i*>-ue could have avoided
during the special session, a vote on
the resolution.
Now that the world court resolu
tion has been constitutionally pass
ed. though cloture had to be finally
invoked, the part played by Georgia’s
senior Senator in getting an early
vote i* worthy of commendation and
worthy of a page
tu Constitution.
that be the word that need
I to keep him from promi
•-••niething w*hich he does not
to do.
ng
Mr. Claire Sutton, i
wr a yww made Milledgeville his!
, . •„ . ... . , . 1 home instead of Floridi, has develop-]
1 ■ U ° " at e p a splendid trucking business and
“ (lu - ">*“«• « f frr.a.„g »nd| hos b ., Bun up „„ an Mht |
that'th. raising „f poultry j
I Mr. Sutton wa, oro..ed South bv
PETITION m. hi * d ‘* c,on ' ” ,,d had Picked Florida
I FOB DISCHARGE for his .topping ph.ee when he wo,
C "“ rt ' detained here by the high waters of
.ro O........ Di.trici .1 th e Oconee river and ro pleawd with
bn ,7'*'*', . , . [this roction he decided to east hi, lot
' r a .. Al » n ” bore .and rented n small farm and be.
' win Co t " Mn * d **v tUe ' Bald - can raising truck. Sutton bought a
y : , ‘few registered chickens nnd began
T this first experiment with poultry,
! T° ' h : C r' d ' t «"‘ » f above-n.m- Gaining e.peri.nee he ha. thi, ye.3
V * n ’'u 1 ' . 1 oofeted the businen on an eaten.
■ m . h '. r “ b ?' "O' 1 "" 1 ‘ ha ‘ “» «ive scale and ha, nlready hutched
.amrd bankrupt ha, applied j nearly five hundred baby chicks. Mr
for a disc ha rge from all debt, prov-1 Sutton ia raising these baby chick.
b » ntr "P*^y I with capon,, n new experiment in
The ,,nl appiieation will be heard the South, and one that Mr. Sutton
by the United State, District Judge |„y, i, highly antiafactory and in-
". d ‘ , "‘ | o" and district at the aurea better protection and n higher
hinted ntates Court room in the,per cent of mature chick,. He ex.
cdj of Macon Ga.. on the !2th day pacts to have chickens for the mar-
of March. 10-0. at 10 o’clock in the.ket at nn early date.
j Mr. .Sutton ilso plans a largo ac-
of said bankrupt are reage in truck to All the local lie-
and mand. Ho expects to ship s.'/oral
ars of melons and to cooperat’ in
'ther sales.
Mr. Sutton has* his family wish him
;»th day and all of them are pleased with the
Southland nnd its opportunities He
rays ho ox poets to “stay put.”
notfied to appear at the time
place -stated and show cause, if any
they can. why the prayer of said pe-
i titioner should not bo granted.
, Ditod at Macon, Ga.. this 9th
!<>f February. A. D. 1926.
L M. ERWIN. Clerk.
By M-v. Erwin. Deputy Clerk.
And then, reliability nnd candor
will naturally conspire 3n one's daily-
life to beget still another most de
sirable human quality, caution. One
who does not make promises to be
mmendation and forgotten or easily broken will soon
history.—Atlan- form the habit of being careful in
| assuming obligations, however light
they may appear to be.
I Reliable men have never been in
1926 automobile tags by the greater demand in the business world
first of March. I—»nd we may include all the trades
-V- - - V E. F Bel!
Stembridge returned
from New York whe
ed spring and summi
dry goods store of Mr.
Bell, who is a frequent visitni
| New York, says that the weather
>!d-
he
FOR SALE—One dining table and)
rd Sidney Lee!MX chairs, one linrt electric fan. one
Friday night good second hand buggy, one new
they purchas- huggv. mi- new pair wagon shafts,
goods for the One set of good heavy wagon wheels,
Ir. Bell. Mr. (one Edison phonograph with cabinet
nnd records, one Franklin Heater, a
number of pot plants
ver experienced I BECKER. 405 South
| Milledgeville, Ga.
Wayne .St,
2-4-3t
Remember that you must have
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tires with extra, a real bargain.
RALPH SIMMERSON,
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! no fit no charge. Chandler's Variety
Store.
Insure With
Sidney D.
Stembridge
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