The Middle Georgian. (Jeffersonville, Ga.) 1925-????, December 24, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XV. STILLS HAVE CLEAR TWIGGS HIGH ENDS FIELD IN TWIGGS SUCCESSFUL TERM Peace Officers Quit Because of Small Pay GmITFIN. THOMAS, HARTLEY WEARY OF SUBSISTING ON CRUMBS HANDED OUT BY THREE MAJOR COUNTY OF FICIALS By R. E. WHITE Macon News, Sunday, December 20. —So far as intensive local offi ri?l opposition goes the liquor traf fic fraternity has little to fear in Twiggs county in the near future, its Nemesis here during the last year having retired from the field for want of financial emolument. Since January 1, 1925, Baliff J. L. Griffin, former Jeffersonville Mar shal, Robert Thomas, and John H. Hartley, operating together, each as a special deputy sheriff, have raid ed and destroyed approximately 80 whisky stills in Twiggs county and brought into court between 75 and 85 alleged prohibition law violators, and all but less than a dozen of them were indicted, and punished after having either pleaded guilty or been convicted following jury trials. But these three intrepid Twiggs county liquor raiders have retired from the business —Mr. Hartley go ing tg Wilkinson as a county police man; Mr. Thomas, recently resigned from his city office, running a case here, and Mr. Griffin has declared publicly that, while he will retain his official position as bailiff and deputy sheriff, he will move against stills only whose existence and loca tion are reported to him. In other words, he said, his policy will be to act in cases brought to his at tention but, as he expressed it, "I won't go out looking for them." Serve At a Loss. The reason these three splendid officers give for retiring from the prohibition law-enforcement busi ness is that they have pursued it during the last year at a personal financial loss, their emoluments, they declare, having been insuffi cient to defray their automobile and other expenses incident to their aggressive activities, to say nothing of compensating them for the per sonal danger incurred and the physi cal hazard accruing from long trips in bad weather day and night and exposure in lying out in swamps, holding long vigil, waiting for the opportune moment to bag their moonshiner prey. In accordance with the fee sys tem, under which Twiggs operates, when a prohibition law.violator pays a fine into court the amount there of is split between the solicitor gen-" eral, the sheriff and the clerk, the former getting 50 par cent of it, the clerk and the sheriff dividing the remaining ppg-half on a 50-50 basis. 'Absolutely none of it fa-directed b," law to go to the officers who endur ed the hardships and exposures and who incurred the risk of life and limb in making the arrest and bring ing the culprit to the bar of justice Major Officers Divide. - It has been the policy of the three major officers in Twiggs, however, to voluntarily contribute each 10 per cent of what he received from liquor-case fines to compensate the arresting officers. This has been done during the year, but Officers Griffin, Hartley and Thomas took the position that that was not enough, hence their retirement, leaving the field clear for the boot leggers and 'shiners until either the fee system is abolished and the peace officers are put upon a sala ry, or until a county police force is employed, or until some other pro vision is made for the carrying on of the war against the illicit liquor traffic in Twiggs county A year ago Twiggs had the un enviable reputation of being one of the ''wettest" and worst moonshin er infested counties in Georgia; but following the last Septembei term of co.urt authorities generally con ceded that it was one of the clean est counties in this respect in the entire . state, the credit being due in a large measure to the aggressive and fearless official conduct of . Superior Court Judge R. Earl Camp and Solicitor General Fred Kea, but primarily to the tireless and faith ful- efforts of the three peace offi-' cers who have recently receded from the picture. Santa to Visit all Jef'nville Children Unless the joint plans of the two local churches, Methodist and Bap tist; the Parent-Teachers Associa # tion, the Sewing Club and all other Jeffersonville religious, social or ci vic organizations, go astray, Santa Claus is coming here for a certainty on Christmas Day, prepared to bring joy to the heart of every child un der 15 years of age in this city and immediate 'surrounding territory. Plans that have practically been completed contemplate a giant Christmas tree to &ind near the Baptist and Methodist, churches and the old school house, and upon it at least one present, besides nuts and candy, for every child. A complete census of the children, rich and poor alike, is being taken in order that none may be overlooked and the relatives and friends of the youngs ters of the more well-to-do families of the community have, been appeal ed to to consider the hearts and sensibilities of the poorer boys and girls upon this occasion. Danville Gives Santa Elaborate Reception Danville, Ga., Dec. 22.—A royal reception, features of which are a Christmas tree and appropriate ex ercises, have been planned for San ta Claus by the enterprising women of this community. An elaborate religious program has been arranged, in conjunction with a tree, loaded with good things for the children of Danville and this immediate vicinity, to be enjoy ed in the headquarters home of the; Danville Community Club Christ-' mas Eve night. Good Deportment Prominent Feature r(TEACHERS, PUPILS, PATRONS T PULL TOGETHER TO PILE UP f BEST RECORD EVER MADE - PY JEFFERSONVILLE SCHOOL BY 0. W. JOHNSON Superintendent Twiggs High School Twiggs High School of Jefferson - ville closed its fall term last Friday 1 with the best average attendance , record of any school that the writer t has taught in many years. 1 This has b^en a very quiet school. The term just closed has been free . from any disturbance worthy of - mention; all of the pupils have . been most courteous and mannerly, 3 and there has been the least disor derly or unbecoming conduct on the ) playgrounds we have ever seen. Not I one word of ugly conversation at I any time has been called to the at , tention of principal or other mem -1 hers of the faculty. In short, the • school up to this time has been sug i gestive of a big, well-mannered, happy family. ; An outstanding feature of the [ fall term's school activities was . "Education Week," which was ob . served for five consecutive days, I and everybody concerned—faculty, .pupils and parents—took interested I part and entered enthusiastically in ithe daily exercises. I High Attendance Average ; The attendance up to the Christ mas holiday season held up the best I we have ever seen, the average dai -Il.v attendance for the last month . being 156, which is the second high : est of the four months of the fall term. The average for the four months was 155, with a total enroll ment of 174. Bad weather condi । tions are accountable almost entire . ly for what lowered attendance the school has suffered. For the fall term there was anl , aggregate attendance of 12.400 days and the average per cent of attend ance for the term was 94. Th? monthly budget for teachers was $700.00. About 14 tons of coal were used during the term, and $150.00 cov ered the expense for janitor's ser vice. The entire expense of maintain :'oAA the seh ° ol was approximately SBOO per month. The school has a vocational train ing department, with a trained in structor in charge, 80 minutes per day being the time allotted to it; and a home economies' teacher who serves one full day each week. A room 25 by 40 feet in dimensions 13 ^ed b y each of these classes. Me have a good room, of ample size, ,j utilised as a "Chemical lab- Our work in high school was di vided into eight 40-minute periods per day. Mathematics, six periods per day; science, history, Latin and English, four periods per day each. All classes had spelling and raad ing. All of our work was carried on with clock-like regularity, undec' the direction of the most indus trious and devoted corps of assist-' ants the writer has ever worked with and the class government by : these teachers has been the best we have ever seen.: Board Has Confidence. We have a Board of Education : that places implicit confidence in! these teachers, and a very loyall and sympathetic patronage, and a' splendid P. T. A. which meets each month. The president of this P. T. A. is a model for the state of Geo/ | Professor R. L. Johnson, mJ, tionnl instructor, who is one of the) state's leaders in his line of educa-1 tion.nl activity, is installing a model < room for the mechanical depart ment. t Mrs. Kathleen Carswell, who con- 1 ducts the home economics depart- 1 mont, ha; a well-equipped room for ! her branch of the work, where pu-' pils are taught cooking and sewing.„ We have about SI,OOO worth of the ( latest books for our school library.< The total aggregate value of our ; building and equipment :s approxi-i mately $60,000. The plant is located| on ten acres of land, worth about , SI,OOO. We are setting out about 20 ] kinds of trees on the grounds in ac-. cordance with instructions from the State College of Agriculture. There are two good literary so-c Icieties in the school —the Sidney ( Lanier and the Frank L. Stantonj ! societies—which give monthly pro igram. I Gur expression teacher has a good, well equipped room in which ex-' pression is taught to a good class. Mrs. Dr. Jones has charge of the ° class and is herself well-equipped 1 for the work. Mrs. Shannon has ^ the music department, and the; school building Contains a commo-I dious heated room for the work in h I music. I) I The Average Gradesg I The following marks are the aver ।,gegrades for the five basal sub jects for the whole term, on which f the Twiggs High stands as an ac- „ credited high school, these marks „ showing the standing of all pupils l of the high school, and constitute p the pupils' permanent record for f this fall term: Eleventh Grade Elsie Spears, 96.5; Kathryn Me-' Callum, 96.4; Mabel Poole, 93.5; 3 Gladys Burke, 92; Beatrice Kenning- , ton, 88.4; William Califf, 88.? Tenth Grade.a Turner Wimberly, yj; Leila Lay ton, 90; Sarah Burke, 92; Daisy : 1 Snow 90; Shedrick Carswell, 88; Carl Gettys, 91; Hugh W. Mercer, 85; Caloway Mercer, 77; Ivy John son, 90; Henrietta Price, 90. Ninth Grade . Yancy Griffin, 95.5; Elizabeth L Mercer, 80.3; Roxylene Slappy, 87; T Esther May, 95.3; Margaret Vaughn, ri 80.3; Bill Worsham, 89.4; Howard i' Wimberly, 86; Harley Mercer, 92; , Joseph Winburn, 75; Leon Kenning-I ton, 89.3; Essie Hamrick, 88.2; Bill f ( Sims, 85. ,fi Eighth Grade a Rufus Carswell, 88.5; Julian p Jones, 85; Oliver W. Johnson, 92.4; tl THE MIDDLE GEORGIA JEFFERSONVILLE TWIGGS COUNTY, GEORGIA, I HURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1925 SPECIAL SESSION GEORGIA SOLONS Will be Called by Governor Walker FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH SELECTED AS DATE FOR LEG , ISLATURE TO ASSEMBLE TO CONSIDER FEATURES. Atlanta, Dec. 20.—Now that Gov ernor Walker has settled the ques tion of the extra session by calling ' the General Assembly into such a 3 convocation for February 24, next, r political observers around the state capitol are awaiting for the day . with something qf keen expectancy. 1 The three big questions for which f the Legislature will be ordered into } extraordinary session — pensions, , highways and schools —are providing . quite a ,it of speculation, calcula ,tion among those on whose depart -1 ;monts the action of the lawmakers will fall —if any action takes place. Governor Walker believes that it will—that with proper consideration " by the legislators of the big three 3 questions some good may be accom plished within a comparatively short , session. It is his opinion that three weeks, perhaps, should be sufficient 3 time for the General Assembly to Iremedy what he described as condi tions needing immediate attention. , Other officials, however, without , making their beliefs known in an [ official way, venture the opinion t that it will take a great deal more than three weeks to arrive at a stage of civity where actual legislative ac complishment may become a possi bility. These observers cling ob stinately to the argument that the legislative body has shown clearly 1 is attitude toward bond issues for ' state highways and schools and so Ifar as the pension problem is con cerned they do not see any immed • iate chance for legislative action. In his call for an extra session the ■ Governor did not mention possible >consideration of a tax reform meas ure, which those against the session t;have pointed out would be inescap iable is Georgia is to have a definite . road system and a general better ment of school facilities. The cigar ! and cigarette tax, of course, they say takes care in a measure, of Con , is found for realizing hard cash on is found or realizing hard cash on the script issue and prospects in the minds of the more pessimistic an alysts are not exactly brilliant, the old veterans and their surviving widows must wait for relief. Neither did the Governor make reference to the current questions of the state's care of prisoners, al though it is known from those close to his confidence that the prison sit uation is, in the words of the Gov ernor's intimates "one of the mat ters closest to his heart." Whether the subject will be placed before th? special session is more or less conjectural but many believe that it will be a difficult proposition to pass unnoticed this latest outbreak of Georgias' numerous quandaries. Specifically, only three things are on schedule for consideration of the legislators. In the words of the Governor, contained in his statement given out Saturday for publication in Sunday Newspapers, the call will entail no personal political or con troversial subject. It will be limit ed to measures preserving the honor and credit of the state by making a adequate provision for its obliga tions to the Confederate pensioners and submitting constitutional amendments to the people for their ratification; providing for a modern common school and college system and a modern highway system with such statutory educational enact ments as may be necessary to per fect the school system. Just what the scope of the men tioned constitutional amendments I will bo is not definitely known or whether inference may be taken [from tl.o phraseology that the ques tion CL an income tax will fall un-| der that more or less broad heading. | At any rate the announcement of the chief executive has injected in-| to the statehouse a new vitality and/ political observers are looking for ward with much interest to the com ing session. Christine Beall, 94.7; Doris Snow, 92.6; Frances Winburn, 95.6; James Griffin 89; Melton Spears, 94.3; Louie Turner, 88.4; Joshua Wim- Iberlv, 73; Otto Snow, 91.3; Sanders- Mercer, 90.3; Pink Mercer, 82; Fitzpatrick Jones, 67; Hayward Bal com, 89; Claude Kennington, 86.3; Annie Holliday, 86.6; Elizabeth Whitehurst, 93; Myrtle Holliday, 89.5; Stella Floyd, 87.5; William Gallimore, 75; Carey Shannon, 78.3; Ruby Thompson, 82. First Honor Pupils The following are the first honor pupils for the fall term: Eleventh grade:—Elsie Spears; ] Tenth grade, Turner Wimberly; ] INinth grade, Yancy Griffin, eighth 1 grade, Frances Winburn. Second Honor Pupils I Eleventh grade, Kathryn McCal- ( lum; Tenth grade, Sarah Burke; , Ninth grade, Esther May; Eighth ' ( grade, Christine Beall. Grade Attendance( The following are the teachers of I the various grades and figures show ing the per cent attendance record made by each for the fall term:' First and second grades, Miss' I Ruby Long, 91 per cent attendance for the grades; third and fourth, Miss Ellen Carswell, 96 per cent at- ( tendance; fifth and sixth, Miss Era। Lott, 94 per cent; seventh grade, } Miss Minnie Griffin 95; eighth and : ninth grades, Miss Ross Harrison, 94:5; tenth and eleventh grades, f Miss Bertha Daniels, 06.7 per cent attendance for the grades. Postmaster Urges t Return A ddresses 5 Christmas Cards , Washington, Dee. 21. —A warning , to senders of Christmas and Now i Year greeting cards to have their । return address on the envelopes was j issued today by Postmaster Gener- ] al New( Moro than 1,500,000 such cards found their way to dead letter of fices last year, he said, resulting in a loss of about $15,000 to the de- a partment for clerical help to handle e them.] ^@l^ WEET eve eternal! Wondrous night! I Aglow with songs and candlelight; ^^/ Aglow with dreams and mystic spells w,fc , Os Santa Claus and Christmas bells! ' 1 LET my dreams of Youth run free! R^ 4 B , Glad Christmas eves, come back to me! |r, / Change me to child! Let me once more q Go nightie-clad to Dreamland's door. ^ —WILLIAM HERSCHELL ? raram^CTe^^^ Roads Become Miry by Last Week's Rain People who had to do any travel ing during the past week found some of the roads in this section had been softened by the rains that had fallen, and they became metre con vinced than ever that hard surface roads are necessary if we expect to keep up with the progress and de velopment of other sections, and avoid such conditions that general ly come after a season of rain. It is true that our roads do not remain in this condition very long, as they generally dry out after a couple of days of sunshine, but are left too rough for comfortable travel until traffic again makes them smooth and passable, but there is no good excuse for allowing this condition to prevail at any time if we can afford concrete roads, which will stand all kinds of weather. Jef'ville Defeats Cochran High School In a well played game, on the lo cal court, the basket ball team of the Twiggs High school continued its record of wins by defeating the strong team of eagers put out by Cochran High, last Friday after noon.' The Jeffersonville team has play ed consistent ball this season and is attracting the•attention of this en tire section. The team deserves the support of the city. The score in Friday's game is as follows:— Jeffersonville, 32, Cochran 14. Winburn, R. F. 24 Mullis, R. G. 9 Wimberly, L. F. 6 Wright L. F. IL Faulk C. 2 Duggan, L. F. Wimberly, R. G. Smith, C. Mercer, R. G. Hardy, R.'G. 5 Carswell, R. G." Rogers, L. G. Fisher. L. G. Follow the line of least resistance and you will discover how much easier it is to convert cash ntio ex perience than experience into cash. CLAY ASSOCIATION MEETS AT GORDON Visitors From all Over the Globe INVITATION WILL BE EXTEND ED VISITORS TO COME TO TWIGGS COUNTY AND IN SPECT CLAY DEPOSITS. The American Uerenianics Associa tion will hold its annual meeting in Atlanta during the month of Feb ruary, after which a visit will be made to the clay mines in and ad jacent to Gordon, Ga. An invitation will be extended the visitors to come to Wilkinson County and inspect the vast deposits of kaolin and beauxite in the west ern section of this county. There will be visitors from Eng land, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and other foreign countries. The Central of Georgia, through its ce ramics department will show the vis itors every possible courtesy and will arrange a special train from At lanta to Gordon. At the time this edition of the Middle Georgian went to press we were unable to learn the itinery of the Association or the exact date of the meeting. , It has been suggested that citizens of Twiggs county get together and appoint a committee to invite the visitors to come to this county and inspect clay deposits that we have. Thi^ may be :he means of bringing into Twiggs county thousands if dollars for development. Every citi zen of the county is urged to co operate in this movement immediate ly tatter the holidays. We could rrrro 4 he visitors with a big barbe cue fond bring them from Gordon in a fleet of automobiles. What do you say folks? Thrift is a wonderful virtue, es pecially in an ancestor.—-New York Herald Tribune. I Bad Check Loss $50,000,000 Year Says Local Man Albany, Ga., Dec. IS.—Hotel men of tho United States lost $50,000,000 by accepting bad checks last year, according to Horace Weems of the Hotel Southland, Macon, who is at tending the annual convention of the Georgia Hotel Men's association here. Mr. Weems declared he knew no means of preventing such a loss except a ban on the handling of per sonal checks. Petty thefts by quests was also a source of considerable loss to hotels, 11. P. Anderson of Millen declared. Statue to Eve In Front Yard Greenville, S. C., December 18. — Robert Quillen, nationally-known humorist and author, has erected a monument in his front yard to Eve, the first woman, and his townspeo ple are horrified. In an editorial in his own paper, answering the criticism of the neigh bors, he said: "Eve was a distant relative of mine, on my mother's side. The family has always been proud of her. She was the first la dy of the land, and the reigning beauty of her time." Beneath the inscription, "In Memory of Eve, the First Woman," is a nicely-carved apple, with a twig and one leaf. SIOO,OOO Asked for U. S. Building at Rocky Ford Washington, Dee. 21. —Representa- tive Edwards, democrat, of Georgia, today introduced in the houw a bill calling for an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for a federal building at Rocky Ford. Bet a bear driven into a Maine city by heavy snow was just about as hungry as a bear. NO STATE OFFERS I BETTER CHANCES Constitution Calls Attention to Facts FORTUNES CAN BE MADE IN GEORGIA AND OUTDOOR LIFE ENJOYED ALMOST EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. Commenting upon a paragraph! which appeared in the last issue of the Progress, the Atlanta Constitu tion has the following to say of the opportunities which are open to all who have energy, thrift, and fore sight in developing the resources of our soil: The Sandersville Progress tells the following story of how a northwes tern farmer can find sunshine and happiness and wealth —if he works —in Georgia: I "An lowa farmer who settled in Pierce county in this state about 13 years ago has just sold his pecan crop for $2,400. He also sells about 125 dolen eggs a week. He saw his opportunity and is making a fortune from the one hundred acres of land Iwhich he bought at a low price. lie also sells several varieties of fruit." Out on the lowa prairies it took no doubt about all he could make in seven months to stay warm the oth ler five months. In other words, if his farm experiences were about like the rest of the lowa farmers he car ried a load of wheat to the elevator and brought a load of coat back. l ln Pierce county he doesn't have to buy any coal. He can work out doors every day in the year. He can keep his chickens and hogs and cows on open pastures every day. He doesn't have to close them in from the blizzards, and heat their houses from October to April to keep them from freezing to death. He can keep something going to market all the time —as for instance, 125 dozen eggs, worth something like $65, every week. The point of especial concern is there arg 161 counties in Georgia in which the lowa, or Illinois, or Kan seas, or Dakota—or the farmer from any section, can do the same thing. If the pecan is not profitably grown in some of the counties, peaches are,' or apples or berries or melons or potatoes—and cotton and corn and wheat and rye and the other, staple crops. In most counties all of these can be grown. The wonder is that more lowa Ifarmers, and more farmers from any ,less favored section, should not< come to Georgia and do what the farmer in Pierce is doing. And they ,are coming. They will come in greater numbers—ten, twenty, thir ty to one —when Georgia builds her oads, and improves her schools, and doos a few other things that she needs to do, and must and will do. No state in America offers more , substantial opportunities to the, homeseekers from other states than ] does Georgia. ~< Ford's Fiddler Enterttains Hylan New York, Dec. 21.—Mellie Dun l am, the white-haired fiddler from Maine, reaped the first cash harvest of his journey from Norway, Maine, to Detroit, with its attending publi city when he signed a contract to night with the Keith-Albee vaude ville circuit to tour its stages. His first appearance, it was an nounced, will be in Boston during the Christmas holidays, to be follow ed by others in Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and other large cities. The amount he is to receive under the contract was not made public. The 72-year-old fiddler and snow shoe maker went to Detroit last week at the request of Henry Ford to play old-time dance tunes at a barn dance for the Ford employees. Reports have also been circulated that Mellie is negotiating with Tex rickard concerning a monster barn dance in Madison Square Garden. Dunham took city nail by storm today. Mayor Hylan greeted the aged minstrel and heard old barn dance favorites such as "Turkey in the Straw," "The Devil's Dream, and others. Mellie told the mayor he came very near losing the $3 gold piece, coined before the civil war, which was given to him as a keepsake by Mr. Ford. "A hard-boiled reporter," Mellie said, with a gesture toward the newspapermen present, "tried to trade me out of this $3 gold piece. He offered to swap me a S2O gold piece for it, but after one Took at his face I wouldn't even trade horses with him, and I'm pretty Hood at that." Baptist Pastor and Wife Given Shower Rev. J. J. Winburn, of the local Baptist Church, is authority for the statement that a woman can keep a secret. The Baptist pastor has this con clusion for the reason, that, although all tho city knew of the proposed shower of good things that came in abundance to the pastorium last Monday afternoon, ho was kept in absolute ignorance until it begun to rain "good cheer." The ladies of the town were thoroughly organized in their plan and exactly at 3 o'clock came to the pastorium in numbers, with arms filled. They brought with them a prepar ed feast of good things to eat and after refreshments were served and the clouds had rolled away, the pan try was found to be full, the linen closet was full, and the hearts of ^r. and Mrs. Winburn were full of happiness, "It surely is a great ex porienc" to s n rve such a church," said Rev. Wr. Winburn, after it was all over and the self-invited guests had departed. FRR ON THE OTHER SIDE Many people are so busy telling the world what is wrong with it they havn ' t time to improve it. — Toledo Blade. NO PROSPECT EOF 1 COTTON ADVANCE Big Crop Keeps s Down the Market V MILL INDUSTRY IS BETTER E TITAN LAST YEAR AND PROS ^ PECTS ARE THAT CONSUMP TION WILL BE LARGER. f Hubbard Bros. & Co., thus an s alyze the cotton situation as it ap pears to them just before the Christ mas holiday season. ! There has been little change in the market during the past week. Some " feel that the final ginning will be even larger than the Government in dicated. while others are inclined to e think that the size of the crop from now on will make very little differ -1 ence. s The question of consumption is al ways rather a difficult one to gunge 1 because it is something that only , becomes known after it has taken place and has not the daily interest 1 that develops with the growing crop. : Its influence, therefore, comes very 4 much more gradually and as so of ' ten is the case after the turn of the I year, the minds of the trade become )fixed on the question of what will be ' planted another season. So that to a greater or less extent both con ;sumption and prices are very much influenced by next year's prospects. ; For instance, if the weather is ex tremely bad in the early Spring, and it look's as though we might have a short cYop, then spinners hasten to put in a fairly large stock of cotton - at prices which they consider to be > reasonable, such as might easily de velop after the decline which has b taken place this Fall. On the other I hand, if the prospects of the Spring , are good, and the start.looks as ithough there might be another largo . crop, then the tendency is to pro ) ceed on a hand to mouth basis. Therefore to a very big extent the , question resolves itself automatical ly into the value of the balance of ; the old crop being determined by the : prospects for the next crop—a con dition which becomes increasingly imore influential as the season ad vances. In the meantime the immediate question of grades still is an all im portant one, with the basis on white cottons extremely high but shoving some tendency to ease the natiral result of the slacking of spinners' buying before the holidays and in ventory sea son. We expect, how ever, that after January Ist our spinners will be in the market for cotton to carry them through the balance of the year. It should not be forgotten that even in the most difficult manufac turing centers such as New England the mill industry -is infinitely bet ter than it was last year; which means, of course, a larger consump tion in this country, and unless their' is an enormous falling off in exports we will ship out more aottou^than was the casor last year. Therefore, aside from some tired long Vnuida tion, wo doubt if then wu bo any great pressure exerted on ^e mar ket though wo are frank to - t y there does not seem any immediate pros pect of any sustained advance.! HUBBARD ROS. & CO. Newspapers Will Help Out of the Mud The Hartwell Sun has found a n w use for newspapers. It says: ~^ When your car gets stuck in the mud and the rear wheels n^relv spin around and your friends advise you to call for help, get a bunch of news papers, slip them under the rear wheels, turn on the juice and see the car come out of the mire. New papers are great uplifters. 1% hen your business gets intern fut, the newspapers will help you out if you use the advertising columns. Croat is the power of the press. Georgia & Florida Pays Special Bonus Every employe of the Georgia & Florida Railroad was. given a ten per cent bonus a few days ago. The receivers for the company stated that the revenue for the month of November was the greatest in the history of the road and they desired that all those on the pay rolls of the company to participate in the prosperity. Laborers on the track were paid $2.50, while engineers, conductors, flagmen, station agents and all others who made as much as SIOO or more were given a flat bon us of SIO.OO. No one received more than this amount. It was stated that the bonus amounted to several thousand dollars and was given to the men in the form of a Christmas gift. Reports indicate that the road is making money and the receivers hope to bo able to borrow sufficient funds with which to extend the line to Greenwood, S. C., and from Madi son, Fla., to Tampa. Fla. Dairy Cows Being Sold to Floridians Sandersville, Ga., Dec. 22 (Special) Quite a number of graded cows were sold in Washington county the past week at prices ranging around eno hundred dollars each, and a carload shipment was made up to be sent to Florida dairymen who are preparing to feed the hungry hordes of people who have moved there to make their homes. Fresh milk com mands top prices in that state and the demand is far greater than the supply. Many of the dairymen buy the graded cows because they want milk more than they do cream, and it does not require such large in vestments to buy tho cheaper cows. Several carloads of Washington county cows have already been ship ped to Florida from this county, and the demand is for more and more, as our cows have a reputation for fine qualities that makes them very valuable, as the grade cows come from some of the best stock in the United States, duo to the fact that there are several large dairies here for foundation stock. FOR SALE! One 1925 Model Ford Touring Car. Practically new and in perfect condition. $275 caFh. It's a bar gain. See car at Merrill's Garage, Jeffersonville, Ga.