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THE CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
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FIFTH MIW AVE.
YOlUft CITY
When you vist a man of
Tell him quick your
Leave him to his own
Go about your own.
- -SELECTED.
yjfc There to Newspaper. the is progress no one business ol the County more essential than its f :
There is no one business of more import- I
tance to th agricultural and business j
interests of the county than its News¬
I i paper. |
There is no one business in which every j
citizen of the County should take more
interest than in the local Newspaper,
for it deals with the public affairs of the i
farm and business life. j
There is no one business which more
vividly reflects the religious, social, i
tions moral, of agricultural the County than and business condi¬ |
the;iocal News¬ ;
paper. ]
1 What are you doing to back it up?
!.} i Do you subscribe for it? |
; Do you advertise m it’s columns?
Do you patronize it’s job office?
“ If not, UVI, wby W nuui not do u.u it it NOW? no w r
^ Cbe Clevclanb Courier ^
j
ELECTRIC POWER.
An Editorial From the Pen
Perry D. Rich, in the Col¬
quitt (Ga.) Sun.
It is said that twenty-five years
ago Lee Hall, of Baker County,
while a mere lad, stood on the
banks of tiie rushing Notchaway
Creek and predicted that twenty
)ears hence there would be a
erful dam across said creek and
that the surrounding country would
would furnished hyro-electric cur
rent by the waters of that creek.
Lee’s dream is ab >ut to come
true. The dam is nearing
tion. The wheels are . place and
m a short while ifie cti'ieiu will be
turned on.
I would like to hear his predic¬
tion for twenty-five years lienee as
to what hydro-electric power will
be doing in this section of the
country.
It is not possible that hydro
electric power be accessible in
every town and on the principal
highways of this section?
How do they know we will
using automobiles
years from now? Who knows but
that aeroplanes aud electric
will supersede Henry’s flivver?
I think it is indeed fortunate that
these things are being developed
bs private capital and not by the
-tale and its political subdivis ous.
because then its failure would be
assured.
I have no sympathy with the at
empt now being made o create a
sentiment in this state in favor of
public ownership of such indus¬
tries.
In every city that I know any¬
thing about they have made i sig¬
nal failure with municipal owner¬
ship. Here in Colquitt right now
we are having to pay more
electricity than anywhere else by
reason of the city ownership of the
plant. If this plant was owned
by a private corporation I am
that the rates would not be nearly
so heavy as they are now.
A private corporation will near
ly always have able management.
A city will always have political
manegement. A private corpora
tion will operate their business eco
nomically and the city manage
ment doesn’t care. At any rate
the municipalities that have tried
owning their own plants Jj^ave
made miserable failures with only
a tew exceptions and the private
corporations generally succeed.
If the Baker County PowerCom
pany was owned by a city, county
or state it would never have been
built. If it had been built the
watte and graft in its construction
would have made its cost of con
struction enormous.
The United States government
bnilt Muscle Shoals and look what
a mess it is.
1 say le* the private corporations
develop these things and then let
the people see to it that they treat
| public right. Advertisement.
LOUDSVILLE LINES.
Mr. and Mrs. R. \Y. Ash spent
one day here last week,
1 ‘ f '' ' ' I lomas is planting
j part ° f the Lon ® Street P ro P er T
! Barnett Hunt paid Meldean a
v ' s ' ( Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Cox spent
j Sunday here with relatives,
j Miss Jessie Cox Saturday
spent
and Sunday here with relatives.
\\ . L. l’ardue and your corre
-pon lent paid Cleveland a visit
last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Ledford
spent Sunday at Asbestos.
i Several f b ttcnded lhe
I u ° 0l,r °> S 1 *
supper It Yonah Saturday
The farmers are getting behind
J with their work up this way.
When you see a man fighting
whiskey and his own family drink
j ing and making the stuff you had
j better watch that man for we do
not have any confidence in such
people,
BLUE CREEK NEWS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. B. Pruit
a boy.
Mr. A. L. Tree has been on the
sick list for a week or so.
Miss. Lucy May Dixon is visit¬
ing relatives here this week.
i A number of dogs down this
wa y have been having fits and
I some of the women have become
ver y muc h excited.
Mr. T. N. Hix visited the bed¬
side of his father who - s very sick.
We had a hard rain storm down
this way last Thursday. So much
rain has give the people the blues.
SOME JURY!
Sandersville, Ga.—Josh Smith, of
Winder, Ga., wanted to plead
guilty in superior court here on a
charge of possession of ninety
gallons of “pure North Georgia
corn whiskey,” and pay a fine,
The prosecutor, however, objected
to the court’s acceptance of the
plea, and the Case went trial,
Four minutes after retiring the jury
returned a verdict of acquittal.