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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
O. J. ESPY, Editor and Manager.
J. G. HUNT, Associate Editor. ;
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SWIFT JUSTICE
Alabama has given other states an |
example of swift justice being meted
out to a murderer that might well be
emulated by other states.
Clyde Reese Bachelor hired a neg
ro to kill his father-in-law, Judge La
mar C. Smith, in order Jo get control
of the wealthy jurist’s estate.
Bachelor was convicted and senten
ced to death within ten days after
the murder. Less time than this elap
sed between the arrest of Bachelor
and the convicition as suspicion was
not. directed toward him immediately.
Many students of the subject be
lieve the law’s delay is largely re
sponsible for crime flourishing as it
docs Certainly it is a factor that con
tributes toward the flagrant disre
gard for law that has grown up in re
cent years.
British methods are frequently
pointed to as an example of what
prompt action of the courts in cri
minal cases will accomplish. Crimi
nals in England .know that they can
not evade punishment while the crime
is fresh in the minds of the public
by using every device known to the
American criminal lawyer to delay
11 Swift justice can not be regarded
ns a panacea for the troubles beset
ting the United States, but it would
be a helpful influence. It would be a
step in the direction of restoring res
pect for law among those who believe
that they can wantonly violate it and
not be punished.
A MARK OF CONFIDENCE
The following dipping from the
Toccoa Record is fitting and appro-
If we live up to this we shall never
be refused in time of need and dis
"'iTis an honor to receive a bill. In;
stead <>f getting all “riled up
when the mail brings y° u “
of vour account you should be pleas
ed for a bill is an indication that,
someone has faith in your honesty. A
bill indicates that someone who knows
vou depends upon your honor to keep
the word you pledged, when you re
ceived the'services of the goods which
it™, received . Mil It would
indicate your credit you
that no person trusted you that you
wen- held in poor esteem by those
who know you, that none had ever
been willing to take your word that
you would pay. (’•■edit is he most
precious thing you have. Money can
bv had hv various means, but <r< <nt
comes only from years of honesty and
prompt meeting of bills when they
come due.
When you pay a bill you are mere
ly being honest’ You are doing your
self a good turn. When you receive a
bill, then meet it as you agreed if you
possibly can. If you can’t meet it be
sure to tell your creditor frankly why
you can’t. You will find him more than
ready to meet you half way. Cherish
your < redit as you do health, happi
ness and others priceless boons.
THE COMMUNITY’S BACKBONE
The business men of Summerville,
are the backbone of the community,
it is they that make the community
substantial and firm.
The term backbone is not used ad
visedly. It is used with the full un
derstanding of its moaning. The back
lione is a column of bones in the back
of the body that sustains and gives
firmness to the frame, lienee, the
term has come to mean firmness,
moral, principle and steadfastness.
Baek of every movement for good,
for development, for progress and
advancement are the home-town mer
chants. ami often they stand alone
while others hold their hands ami look
on complacently.
When there is a local fund of any
kind to be raised, the business man is
always the first one appealed to and
he is the one who generally bears the
financial load. Every enterprise of
church and school is backed by the
merchant.
He does his share along with all
the other residents of the community
in supporting public improvements
and paying taxes-and he pays a large
per cent of the taxes in addi
tion to fostering every public spirited
movement that is initiated.
Some do not give the home-town
merchant the credit he deserves, lie
is entitled to more than the retailer!
eiswhere, or the mail order house,
because he is the backbone of the
community, the central force that
holds the community together.
Os course, he is in business for pro
fit. He must have a legitimate profit
to live. None should deny him that.
And the truth of the matter is. local
merchants sell goods at ,or less than
city prices, and if we will be fair
enough to admit that it costs money
to go to the city the expense of car
or bus fare, gasoline and wear on the
automobile, time spent and shoe lea
ther worn out - it is cheaper to trade
at home, to say nothing of the spirit
of reciprocity that should be shown
by every loyal• home-town citizen.
Dead men tel! no tales so the boot
leggers don’t care who they sell their
stuff to
Next to loafing, the One thing that :
takes up more time than angthing else j
is working. I
Farm Demonstration Department
Co-Operative Extension Work in Agriculture.
Georgia State College of Agriculture and United States Department
of Agriculture Co-operating.
B. M. DRAKE, County Agent, Summerville, Ga.
. Office in Courthouse Phone No. 50.
CRIMSON CLOVER
When to Plant
Aug. 15 to Sept. 15. Dont’ wait for
the rain.
How to Plant
Use chaff seed. Plant.on top of the
ground just as it was left at last
cultivation.
Where to Plant.
Stubble land, especially if grassy,
is best adapted. But cotton or corn
'fields, if not of a character that heav
es badly in thewinter, are all fight.
How Much to Plant
If you are beginning with clover
and your land is not inoculated /start
with a seed patch of one, two or three
acres, according to the size of your
farm. After you have your own seed
and have some experience I think a
third to a half of your land should be
sown each fall.
Where to (Jet the Seed
Look through the advertisements in
The News. If you fail to find ads. ask
the county agent where to buy seed.
—now.
Now for the County Fair
It is just three weeks before the
county fair, and it is time we were
getting ready for it. It should be made
up of a great number of small exhi
bits representing the farmers of the
county. Surely you have something
that 'is worth showing to your neigh
bors and fellow citizens. Look about
and see if you haven’t
Haven't you a stalk of cotton in
your field that represents your idea
of what a cotton stalk should be?
Take it up and bring it in out of the
weather, place it where all the bolls
will open and strip off the leaves if
there are still any on it. When all the
bolls are open take out the locks, put
a little glue or paste in the boll and
put the locks back. Bring this stalk
to the fair and see how your idea of
a good stalk of cotton compares with
that of your neighbors and the judges
Pick out the best ten ears of corn
you can and put it in the corn exhibit
If you raise sweet potatoes to sell
exhibit a bushel basket of ncely grad
ed patotoes. If every farmer who rais
es sweet potatoes would do this we
should have an interesting exhibit of
potatoes and all of us would learn
something about marketing them.
In the same way with other crops
or commodities. It will not take a
great deal of time or expense to do
this and it will add a great deal to
the interest -of the fair.!
The premium list for the fair will
be published next week. There is one
important change in it. That w there
will be no district or community Mfe
es offered. These prizes have
complished the object for which they
were designed, that is copoerative ef
fort in the various communities.
There will also probably be some
changes in the livestock department.
But for the most part premiums will
be offered as in last years catalogue,
including the premiums for individual
farm exhibits.
Exhibits will be arraged by com
modities not by communities so that
we will have a good chance to com
pare the individual exhibits and to
learn what there is to learn from
their n-omparsions.
The Boys’ clubs will have a very
fine exhibit of hogs that everybody
ought to see. The pigs that win prizes
at the Southeastern fair will be ex
hibited as well as some very good
ones that did not win there.
We expect to have the livestock
much more advantageously placed
placed than heretofore.
Let’s get together and make this
the best fair Chattooga county ever
bad.
Test of Sulphas Dusting
For Cotton Flea.
When the cotton flea was discover
ed in our fields last June Jno. King
put on a test on the ‘'Abrams" farm
near the county convict camp just
west of Summerville, to determine
whether dusting with sulphur would
control the pest to a profitable de
gree.
I visited this test plot with Mr.
King a few days ago and wish to
make a report of the result of this
test as it appears to me.
On one plot Mr. King carried out
the dusting schedule as suggested by!
the various agricultural authorities,
dusting three times at intervals of
live days.
(In an adjoninig plot otherwise:
treated like the dusted plot he did:
not apply any sulphur .
Both these plots are now entirely:
stripped of leaves and the boils are'
exposed to view.
On the dusted plot the stalks are
heavily fruited ami. will probably
make at least 1,000 pounds of seed;
cotton per acre.
The check plot has very few bolls
and will probably not make more than
300 pounds per acre.
" But there is no necessity of de
pending on my judgement in the mat-1
ter. Go and see for yourself. Mr.
King will be glad to take you out at
any time and show you.
Os course no one experiment is!
conclusive but taken with the results)
reported from the experiment sta
tions it cenainly makes a strong pre
sumption in favor of the efficiency of:
the sulphur treatment.
Mr. King says the infestation here
was heavier than anywhere else he
knows of and certainly the undusted
plot has not recovered as well as un
dusted cotton ir most fields.
Experiments like these are of great
value to the community and Mr. King
deserves the appreciation of the coun
ty for this piece of work.
If she says lasts winter's coat will
do. just put it down that there's some-,
thing worse coming. ]
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1926. V
Be sure and attend the sheriff sale <
at the court house Saturday after- <
noon, at 2 olelock. Among the things
to be sold—a good mule, a milk cow, «
and a good two-horse wagon. ; <
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Dennis and!’
little daughters, Georgia, and June, ],
were week-end guests of T. A. Dennis'
south of town.
Mrs. Dovie Bryant and children,!
Billy and Ruby, of Shannon, were!'
guests of Mrs. F. Wooten of Berry-j
ton, Tuesday and Wednesday, and are
now visiting in south Summerville. :
W. L. Abbott returned Saturday i
from a week’s stay in Cincinnati, 0.,!
where he went to purchase the fall ■
and winter goods for Taylor Mercan- |
tile company. He reports finding a j
wonderful line of merchandise which j
his firm will offer at attractive prices |
The show at Berryton Friday and'
Saturday was a huge success. Wof-|
ford Wooten won the beautiful $27.50:
pearl necklace in the candy drawing !
contest.
GAME WARDEN’S NOTICE
All persons desiring to kill birds
or other game in the county are here-,
by notified that license is required
for that purpose and that I am pre- .
pared to sell the license to all desir- :
ing the same, and that license can be 1
obtained from the following namedl
persons:
W. P. Selman, at Selman-McGinnis
Drug store Summerville; Rube Green- |
wood, barber shop, Trion; T. P. Bak-!
er, Menlo; D. A. Hemphill, Teloga.
Later notice will be given of other
parties who will be authorized to fur- j
nish license. License can also be had j
directly from me. On each license a
synopsis of the dates when the sea- j
son for killing each variety of game
begins and ends, is printed, and your
attention is called to that.
This September 22, 11)26.
J. D. PLEDGER,
Game Warden, Chattooga county
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