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“BACK TO
THE FARM”
Ill—How the R. F. D., Tele
phone, Trolley and Good
s?oads Are Moderniz
ing the Farm.
fey €. V. GSLECGIRY.
(Copyright, 1510, by American JTchh Arro
clatton. ]
THE farm In no longer the Iso
lated, lonely place (lint It lined
to be or (bat ninny people
seem to think It Is yet. Karin
►k under modern conditions Is n busi
ness and In most eases is coining to
be ran In a business way. The first
atep in the modernizing of the farm
came with the Introduction of the ru
ral free delivery 111 ls!l“. I’ul in at first
•a a sort of experiment, a concession
to the Insistent demands of the tin
tional grange and other farmers' or
fanlzntlons. It spread rapidly and soon
became indispensable. It was a potent
factor In waking up the farmers One
of the first and greatest results was
that the dally paper for the farm was
made a possibility.
Before the advent of the rural fre<
delivery the farmer who kept within
THE TELEPHONE II AS HAN IHI I TCT> FAKE
LON El/ If. Kiss
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• week of the markets whh doing well.
An a result he usually mu linked to
strike all the slumps in tho market
when he hud stoek or grain to sell.
With a market paper delivered at his
gate eai'h morning he cotlld follow
prices of farm produce closely amt
take advantage of a rising market.
Tills one factor alone has paid the cost
of the rural free delivery many times
over.
The market reports were not the
only part of the paper that benefited
the farmer. He uo longer got Ills new a
a week old, hut Imd it served up al
most ns hot as if lie laid lived In town
This daily contact with the things that
were happening In the world bright
ened him up, rubtied off the dust und
gave him a now interest in life.
The shift less farmer who went to
town two or three times a week on the
pretense of “getting the mail,'’ only to
waste half a day or so each time and
maybe come home “boozed up" tu On
bargain, was deprived of his excuse
and fell into the habit of s|>eiidlug his
extra time fixing up about the place
The farmer who had been enterprls
lng before became more enterprising
and had nioro time to put ilia Idea
Into practice.
Along with the It V. D. cntne better
roads, and when the farmer did go t<
town ho could make the trip In much
less time than he did before. His dal
ly papers and magazines made him at
well Informed us any of the business
men of the town. The days of the
"hayseed '* were numbered.
Along with the It. |\ I). came
great increase In the circulation of
the agricultural papers. The old type
of pupers edited by men who hud seen
little of furmlug except from a car
window came to uu etui about this
time, and their places were taken I>\
papers edited by men who had grown
UP on the soil und who hud never goi
very far away from it. These pi
pera taught the farmers the value of
better methods They tuught what
theee methods were and how the'
could be a|>pllad. Above all, they in
spired the farmers to do the best Uie\
knew how, to respect their calling and
to put it on a business basis.
Along with tbe K. F. 1). come tbe
telephone Home of tbe first lines were
little more than cheap instruments
connected to a barbed wire fence, but
they aerred the purpose. Then follow
ed lines put up on willow poles and
finally modern lines as sut<stantlally
built and ns efficient as money could
buy. An automatic device to prevent
any one listening except tbe pnrtie
talking Is In use In some localltlet
Moat communities prefer the party
line, however, issruusc of its aocial
features Often after supper on a
stormy winter evening sonic one will
put in a general call and furnish some
Instruments I musk* for the lament of
every one on tbe line. Then some one
else will sing a song, some one will
run off a few musical records on a
phonograph, and an otherwise lonely
evening will lie passed pleasantly
Immediately after dinner ia generally
conceded to be the "women folks'"
hour at tbe phone They will stand
and visit, often a dozen of them at a
time, until the proverbial loneliness of
farm life Is entirely forgotten.
Tbe principal use of the telephone Is
for business The modem farmer re
lies upon his telephone as much as
does the business man Most of the
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telephone lines are connected with the
central switchboard in town, so that
u toll call will get any one In the conn
ty or In the slate. Market and wenth
er reports' are sent out over the rum
lines at certain hours each day. If the
market Is especially good the farmer
can call up the lieal buyer and con
tract bis hogs at once, or If he prefer
he can call up the rallv.l7 freight of
flee and arrange to have a stock cat
ready for him the next morning. In
most communities the practice of
“changing work” at thrashing time is
still followed. This used to necessitate
a day’s work notifying the neighbors,
and thin frequently It all had to la
d. ne over again on account of a break
down to the machine or bad weather
Now the notifying Is all done in u few
moments by phone.
On many occasions a prompt tele
phone call has brought the nenresi
doctor to the bedside of a sick child
who,would not Inive lived until a trip
could he made to town for the doctor
Tlilh Is one of the reasons that a tele
phone Is seldom taken out after V lias
once been put In In a hundred minor
wavs the telephone has become neces
sary to the farm folk. Often after the
farmer has left for town lib; wife will
think of something she wants him to
get. All she has to do Is to call up the
store where he does his trading and
leave a message for him. Whim the
young folk* want to give a parly the
telephone will quickly bring In every
one In the neighborhood. A Stray
horse is soon located and brought back
home. In weather too bad for the mall
carrier to get through important let
ters can be received over the tele
phone.
One other step Is necessary to enable
the farmer to make the greatest use of
the rural free delivery and the tele
phone. II Is the parcels post. Bocal
merchants have objected to n parcels
post on the ground that It would favgr
Ibe mall order houses at their expense.
Oiils can he overcome by giving a low
er rate to packages that go over a rural
route only. A parcels post of this kind
has been recommended by the post
mnstcr general. lie figures that It
would prove profitable for the govern
ment, turning the postal deficit into a
surplus. With a cheap parcels post In
operation on the free rural delivery
routes the connection of the farmer
with tile town will be complete. Me
can onler parcels from town and have
them delivered at Ills door a few hours
Inter. Things which he cannot get in
Ills local town lie can procure from 11
mall order house In two or three days.
The farmers are united In demanding
this convenience, and It is hound to
cotne before long.
The filial step In the emancipation
of the farmer was taken when the trol
ley line and the automobile cntne Into
general use The trolley has meant
better schooling for Ills children. It
has brought theaters, lectures and bet
ter churches within reach of the farm
er’s family. lies* of all, the competi
tion with tin* cities has brought about
n much needed awakening of the coun
try schools mid the country churches
The trolley Is a great convenience ill
taking produce to market. Most of
the cars will stop at any farmhouse
or crossroads to pick up a can ol
cream, a crate of chickens or a pas
senger. Trolley lines are ft great fac
tor In hastening the “back to the
land" movement. The farmer who
lives near a trolley line has no desire
to go to town because he has all the
conveniences of both town and coun
try.
Wherever a trolley line puncture:; a
city the crowded population spreads out
into the country. At first the city peo
pie move Into the country only to have
n pleasanter place to live while still
carrying on their business in the city.
Once in the country few of them ever
regret the change. Most of them say
that they would not go back to the
city to live under any consideration.
What the trolley lines are doing for
the more thickly settled districts, good
ronds, automobiles and driving horses
nre doing for those communities which
are not yet densely enough populated
to support a trolley line. Tile good
rouds movement started with the ad
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TEOLLEY LINKS A!tK UKLPIKO THE "BACK
TO WIK LAM>" UOVKMKNT
Tent of th>> II F. I> While country
roads in many places are far from be
ing Ideal as .vet. still the length of
time when they are not fnlrly passable
has been reduced to tt minimum. Most
of the main loads are well graded, and
neurly every farmer has a road drag
vrlth which to keep the road along his
farm smooth Graveled roads are be
coming common, and macadamized
nnd oiled roads are being extended
Into the country.
All these modem improvements have
nddod much to the profits of farming
They have added more to Its pleasures
Titer t-ave given to the farmer tbe ad
vantage* of the city without taking
away any of the advantages of the
farm. They have made the farm the
Idea) place to live.
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I R. C. HE IS
FBI SATURDAY,
NOT FRIDAY
Date With Atlanta High Neces
sarily Changed. Think! Prep
School Football Champion
ship of State to Be Decided
Here. Augustans Shouldn’t
Miss It.
The frame* between Richmond Acad
emy and the Atlanta Hoys’ High will
be [flayed Saturday instead of Friday.
This change has been made in re
sponse to a telegram from the Ath
letic Director of the Atlanta Institu
tion to the effect that it had been
found impossible to make the trip
here Friday, as had been originally
planned. Inasmuch as practically all
the games of the season had been
Htaged on Saturday, the local man
agement was very anxious to have
this one pulled off on Friday. This
being impossible, it. was decided to
accept the next best thing and play
on the usual day.
Under no circumstances would the
management consider the cancelling
of the game. It is the first opportunity
Augustans have ever had to see a
championship football game arm the
management would not, for a moment,
consider the possibility of depriving
them of this opportunity.
Great Enthusiasm.
It is doubtful if there has ever
been an athletic contest in the city
that has aroused such interest as the
Saturday battle. The people have
taken to the game and will undoubted
ly be out in force. Kvery man who
has ever seen a football game will be
there and there will be hundreds of
others who will be attracted by the
great fight the locals have been put
ting up throughout the season. It
would not be far out of the way to
predict a two thousand crowd.
Miegel Back at Quarter.
Miegel proved conclusively, in the
Porter game, that he is tDo man for
quarter, and he will be found at that
position running the team Saturday.
This means that the Academy will
put in tin* field the strongest line-up
of the season, Saye being shifted to
guard and Davis being on tin* job at
his regular position, right half.
The Charleston News and Courier
said that Saye played the best game,
in the Porter contest, of any man on
either line. His defensive work was
especially noticeable, time and again
breaking through and getting the
man before he had well started.
The Academy boys are expecting
the hardest game of the season and
are straining every effort to get in
the very host of condition. If the
Boys* High crew should happen to
emerge victorious, they will know
they have been in the toughest scrap
In which it has ever been their lot to
engage.
20 YEARS AS K. OF P.
OFFICER, NOW RETIRES
M. E. Layfield Given Worthy
PlSte---Keeper of Records
and Seal---in Vigilant Lodge,
Held For Long Time By Geo.
Schaufele.
Vigilant Lodge No. 2, Knights of
Pythias, met Tuesday night and elect
ed officers for the coming year. A
notable feature of the election >vaa
the selection of Mr. M. E. 'Layfield,
one of the younger members of the
lodge, to fill the office of Keeper of
Records and Seals, which has been
supplied by Mr. Geo. C. Schaufele for
the past twenty years. Mr. Schaufele
has made a splendid officer, but as he
had held the place for such a long
time, as he stated Wednesday morn
ing, he wished some .younger man to
have It. Mr. Layfield was the popular
choice of the lodge, and It is assured
that he will prove a capable succes
sor to Mr. Schaufele.
Splendid Attendance.
The meeting Tuesday evening was
marked by a fine attendance and
every member is enthusiastic, over the
work as it Is now progressing. They
as well as ihe members of the other
K. of l*. lodges in Augusta are await
ing with the keenest interest the com
ing of the Supreme Chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias, Hon. Brigham S.
Young, who will be here for a day or
two the first part of January, with all
the Grand Lodge officers of Georgia.
Plans of entertainment axe now being
perfected.
The New Officers.
The result of Vigilant’s election is
as follows:
Chancellor Commander, Jos. 8.
Pilcher
N ice Chancellor Commander, Jas. A.
Cannon.
Prelate, John H. Lewis.
Master of Works, W. F. West.
Keeper of Records and Seals, M. E.
Layfield.
Master of Finance, R. L. Onkman.
Master of Exchequer, 11. T. Wiggins.
Master at Anns, W. A. Green.
inside Guard. J. M. ltaynle.
Outside Guard. W. P. Schleln.
Mr. Geo. C. Schaufele was elected
trustee for three years, succeeding
Mr. Geo. 8. Culpepper. There are
three trustees in the lodge and one’s
term expires every year The trus
tees to serve with Mr. Bchaufele are
Messrs. Frank West and W. A. Green.
Other Meetings.
The officers of Woodlawn Lodge
will be elected at a meeting of the
lodge called for Thursday night. The
officers of Fountain City Lodge will
be elected at their next meeting, next
Monday night.
Mre McClain’s Experience With Croup.
"When my boy, Ray. was small he
whh subject to croup, anil I was al
ways alarmed at such times. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy proved thr
better than any other for this trouble.
It always relieved him quickly. 1 am
never without It in the house for T
know* It is a positive cure for croup,”
writes Mrs W R. McClain Rlalrs
ville, Pa For sale by all dealers.
$9 MV tll.tJl, f 15.00. $18.75 Suits and
Overcoats, all-wool Hart, Sehaffner
and Marx and other makes spvnd
isU*.v)o, save $4.00. F. G. Mkrtina*
AUUUbiA HtKALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
DEFERS HIMSELF
AS A SACRIFICE
Life Prisoner Proposes In
oculation With Cancer Germs
to New Warden of Sing Sing
Prison.
New York.—ln a letter to Thomas
Mott Osborne, the new warden of Sing
Sink prison, a life prisoner in the
prison at Auburn, N. Y. t offers him
self as a sacrifice for inoculation with
cancer germs to ascertain whether
the disease is contagious. The new
warden of Sing Bint{ prison, whose
home Is In Auburn, and who was
closely associated with reforms in
Auburn prison, stated that he knew
the prisoner well and vouched fully
for his sincerity.
“He is a man of better than the
average education, of refinement and
had a family of preat esteem," War
den Osborne explained. "He erred and
was sent to Auburn for life. In prison
he has read much on medicai matters
and has been Intensely interested in
cancer research. His hope also Is that
Ills sacrifice will benefit the many
sufferers from cancer."
Wouldn't Allow It.
Warden Osborne said that he would
take up the case with the new attorney
general, Egbert E. Woodberry. It also
became known today that this man
offered himself for the same purpose
a year aito, but Attorney General Car
mody ruled that the state of New
York could not allow it.
Warden Osborne officially took up
his new duties yesterday. He met a
few prisoners whom he described as
"friends I met while serving my ex
perimental term in Auburn.” The
warden also met fifty members of the
Golden Rule Brotherhood, a prison or
urcuixatinn which is expected to put
all prisoners on their honor through
their co-operation.
The new warden said he planned to
extend the personal liberty of the con
victs and to plve them more recrea
tion in the hope of strengthening them
physically and thereby improving
their mentality.
LEO FRANK REMITTITUR
NOT HANDED DOWN
Atlanta, Ga. —The remittitur on the
final appeal in the ease of Leo M.
Frank was not handed down Tuesday
by the supreme court to the superior
court, and it is believed that the re
mittitur will be held by the higher
court until after the supreme court of
the United States has announced
whether it will sanction a writ of error
11 nd hear the constitutional phase of
the case.
Frank cannot be arraigned in the
superior court to have a new date for
the execution of his sentence fixed
before the remittitur is handed down
by the state supreme court.
LEGAUJOTICES”
STATE OF GEORGIA,
EICfTMOND COUNTY—
V. M. Mills vs. Jolcey Belle Mills, in
Superior Court of said County, January
Term. 1915 —Libel L. Divorce.
To the Defendant. Joicey Belle Mills
in the above stated case you are hereby
requited in person or by attorney, to Dr
and appear at the next term of the Su- j
perlor Court, to be held in and for the '
County aforesaid on the third Monday j
in January, 1915, then and there to an- i
swer Plaintiff in action for Divorce, as ,
in default thereof, the Court will proceed '
thereon as to Justice may appertain.
Witness the Honorable Henry C. Ham- i
mond. Judge of said Court.
This 29th day of October, 1914.
DANIEL KERR,
J. W. BURCH, JR., Clerk.
Atty. for Plaintiff. n28,30,d1,2 J
ST ATK OF GEORGIA;
RICHMOND COUNTY—
Rhoda Estelle Phillips vs. Martin W.
Phillips, in Superior Court of said Coun- !
tv January Term, 1915. —Libel for Di
vorce.
To the Defendant, Martin W. Phillips,
in the above stated case you are hereby
required in person or by attorney, to
lie and appear at the next term of the
Superior Court, to be held in and for the
County aforesaid on the third Monday
in January, 1915, then and there to an*
swear Plaintiff In action for Divorce, as
in default thereof, the Court will pro
ceed as to Justice may appertain.
Witness the Honorable Henry C. Ham
mond. Judge of said Court.
This 9th day of November. 1914.
GEO. B. POURNELLE.
nIUOdI.2 Clerk.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
RICHMOND COUNTY—
Mildred Jamison vs. William L. Jami
son. in Superior Court of said County,
January Term, 1915—Libel for Divorce.
To the Defendant, William L Jamison,
in the above stated case you are hereby
required in person or by attorney, to be
and appear at »»e next term of the Su
perior Court, to he held in and for the
County aforesaid on the third Monday in
January, 1915. then and there to ap
swer Plaintiff In action for Divorce, as
in default thereof, the Court will proceed
thereon 9s to Justice may appeartain.
Witness the Honorable Henry C. Ham
mond. Judge of said Court.
This 9th dav of November, 1914.
GEO. B. POURNELLE,
nMOdl.2 Slerk.
STATE OF~GEORGIA,
RICHMOND COUNTY—
J. O. Sullivan vs. Annie S. Sullivan, in
Superior Court of said County, January
Term, 1915—Libel for Divorce.
To the defendant, Annie S. Sullivan In
' the above stated case you are hereby
required In person or by attorney, to be
and appear at the next term of the Su
perior Court, to he held in and for the
County aforesaid on the third Monday
In January, 1915. then and there to an
swer Plaintiff in action for Divorce, as
!in default thereof, the Court will pro
; ceed thereon as to Justice may apper
| tain.
Witness the Honorable Henry C. Ham
mond. Judge of said Court
This 2?th day of November. 1914.
DANIEL KERR.
J. W. BURCH, JR., Clerk.
Atty. for Plaintiff n?T.-S.dl .2
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
SALE OF UNCL .MED AND RE
FUSED FREIGHT.
Augusta, Georgia, November 17th, 1914.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
' Friday, December 18th. 1914, the
I Southern Railway Company will sell at
public suction at 12 o'clock noon for
freight and other lawful charges, two
c r.vuis of poles consigned to and re
fused by A. J. Twiggs & Son. Terms
Cash. W. J. Townsend. Agent.
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I STATE OF GEORGIA,
RICHMOND COUNTY—
Chas. v. Len on vs. Amanda Lemon-
Libel for Divorce.
Tbe defendant, Amanda Lemon, is
hereby required to appear at tbe Su-
I perior Court of ssid Coun y on the third
| Monday In January. 1915, to answer to
this petition In action for divorce, in de
fault whereof the Court will proceed a«
to Justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable Henry C. Ham
mond. Judge of Mid Court, this 23rd
day of November 1914.
DANIEL KERR.
Clerk of Court.
T r HARRISON.
I Atty. tsw l ijOaUif. n 21,25,42,5
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Tuesday, December Ist
Daughters of Isabella.
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—Mary Warren Home.
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Don’t Forget the Day of Your Choice
and ask your friend to come in and register
and count 50 free votes for them. The one se
curing the largest number of registrations on
their day will be given 5,000 votes free. The
time is getting short, so don’t delay. The
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someone.
In addition to this, we are offering some
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Z
Friday, December 4th—
Salvation Army.
Saturday, December sth
Woodlawn Baptist
Church.
Monday, December 7th—
Woo dlawn Methodist
Church.