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Burglars Getting
Active in Town
Last Saturday ni^ht Mrs. Alex
Patterson was almost frightened
into unconsciousness when a
noise was heard at the rear of
their house, making an effort to
gain an entrance to the house.
When this effort failed they went
around to the front and walked •
up on the porch and began try I
ing the door knob, whereupon
Mrs. Patterson demanded of
them to give their name, er to
answer for their action. They
paid no attention to her, but pro
ceeded to turn the knob of the
door It was loc ed, however,
and Mrs. Patterson had the pres
ence of mind to gather a revolver
which she thrust through a win
dowpane and fire in the direction
of the would-be-burglars. They
quickly disappeared and the shot
attracted some of the neighbors,
who notified Mr. Patterson, who
had just left the house and a
search was made, but no clue
copld be found, and the dirty
Scoundrels are still at large. A
similar occurrence, we under
stand, occurred at the home of
Mr. J. B. Fordham a few nights
ago, and gave his wife a severe
fright while Mr. Fordham was
away. If some extra precautions
are not thrown out, those worth
less thieves will be successful in
their efforts to burglarize some
of our homes.
Blind Tiger Ordi-
nance Held Valid
To set at ease any doubt as to the
authority municipalities have in deal
ing with blind tigers, regardless of de
cisions to the contrary, we publish the
following decisior rendered by the court
of appeals last Tuesday morning, when
it affirmed the judgment of the Fulton
superior court in the case of Ramsey
vs: the City of Atlanta:
Atlanta’s “traveling blind tiger or- '
dinance,” which has been copied by a ;
a number of Georgia municipalities,
was upheld by the state court of ap
peals Tuesday morning when it affirmed
the judgment of the Fulton superior !
court vs the City of Atlanta.
The plaintiff in this case was convict
ed in police court of having violatod a
city ordinance known as the “.raveling
blind tiger ordinance. ’ He certiorar
ied the case to the superior court and
contended the city ordinance was void
because it was in conflict with a state
law. The superior court ruled against
Ramsey, and he appealed.
This tribunal, in the headnote of its
decision, says:
“A municipal ordinance declaring it
shall be unlawful for any person to
carry intoxicating liquor or beer on his
person for the purpose of unlawful sale
and fixing a penalty for so doing, does
not conflict with the state prohibition
law making it unlawful to ‘keep or fur
nish at any other places, or keep on
hand at their places of business any al
coholic, spirituous, malt or intoxicating
liquors,’ etc.”
The court holds the municipal offense
is separate and distinct from state
crimes which may have been incident
ally committed in connection with it.
He is Coming to Alamo
For One Day Only
Dr. A. D. Suhler, Georgia’s reliable
■eye-sight specialist. He comes well >
recommended and guarantees all ,
glasses he may fit.
All tnose suffering with headaches,
eye-strain, inflamed eyes or failure of
sight should take this opportunity to
call at Jackson-Moye Drug Co. and se
cure proper glasses.
Consult him. about ihe one-piece
tense, giving far and near vision, no
matter what the age may be. j
Remember the date, Saturday, Oct.
84th. Yours truly,
A. D. SUHLER.
FOLEY KIDNEY PIUS
FOR BACKACHE KIDNEYS AND BLADOEg
' Colored Gathering
Culminates in Funeral
At a colored frolic on the plan
tation of Mr. L. N. Ryals, near
। Glenwood last Saturday night,
1 Daniel Bennett was the victim of
the row engaged in by Duncan
Mcßae and himself. Just what
! the trouble arose over is suppos
led to be the overmount of jeal
ousy arising between Mcßae and
Bennett over the latter’s wife,
as she has been arrested, charg
ed with conspiracy in the mur
der of her husband. Sheriff
Wright went over and arrested
her Monday afternoon, Mcßae,
the man charged with the crime,
is still at large, though it is very
probable that he will be overtaken
soon and answer to the next term
of superiorcourt, which convenes
on the second Monday in next
month.
Notice to Taxpayers.
To the taxpayers of Wheeler County:
That you may know why I haven’t
made my first tax round, after being
delayed of getting my tax book I went
to the book maker and got him to make
a receipt book. It has been sent by
express ahd is lost in the express com
pany. We are tracing it up and I hope
to get it in a short time and make my
first tax round.
Yours to serve,
M. Jenkins.
Gining Days
From this date, those having
cotton to gin will please bear in
mind that the undersigned gins!
will be shut down Monday and'
Tuesday of each week, but will:
run the remainder of the week. '
This October 22, 1914.
Graham & Hightower, I
8. I. Bullard. i
I
Not that we are posing as cot-'
ton experts, but we do know that j
when an acre of cotton will pro-,
duce a bale it is above the aver- ■
age. Mr. J. F. Sikes was dis-j
playing a stalk of cotton this
week that measured six feet tall
and was well fruited. He cut
this stalk from a five acre field'
that he has already gathered five
bales from and is satisfied that
it contains enough unmatured
fruit that he can gather another
bale. Now six bales to five rcres
is good cotton, at ten cents a
pound would be worth $2500.
Erick News
Mr. J. E. Cockfieid of Mt. Vernon,
spent Sunday with relatives here.
Mr. E. D. Hinson of Columbia, Ala.,
and Mr. C. K. Hinson of Herndon, Ga.
were called here to the bedside of their
mother, Mrs. J. L. Hinson, who has
been very ill.
Miss Ruby Faircloth of Oak Park, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. A. W. Thomas.
Mrs. J. R. Summer spent the week
end with Mrs. C. B. Cummings of Mt.
Vernon.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Morrison visited
friends in Alamo, Sunday afternoon.
Misses Ruth and A ietha Cooper spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Miss
I Lula Bailey.
Mrs. J. J. Hinson of Mcßae, visited
Mrs. J. L. Hinson Sunday afternoon.
Sunday-school eyery Sunday after
’ noon at 2:30 o’clock. Everybody in
vited to come.
Some of our correspondence is
crowded out this week but will
apear in our next issue.
Mr. Covert McNatt and Lillian
Cameron of Mcßae, spent Sun
day with Miss Cleo H ill.
। Hon. John D. Brown, repre
sentative elect from Wheeler,
enterta ned the corncontest boys
I for dinner last Tuesday.
FOLEY CUHARIIC TABLE
ietp Stomach Sweet -tow Active -Bowels Res
Opinions Differ as to
Naming Commissioner
Since the death of our worthy and
highly esteemed member of the Board
of county commissioners, Mr. J. A.
Clegg, the question of filling the va
cancy in this office is a little puzzling
to some. The act creating this body
specifies the remedy in case of the
death of a member, but to some the
construction is construed some different
to that of others. The opinion of some
' is that the act specifies that the vacan
cy shall be filled by an appointment by
>he judge of the superior court, as it
occurred in this case, while some are of
the opinion that the act provides for
the successor to be voted for in the
coming general election. For the ben
efit of the public, we hereby reproduce
the paragraph governing the filling of
vacancies in the above stated office:
“In case of a vacancy occurring, the
judge of the superior court shall have
the power to fill the vacancy by ap
pointment, and the appointee of the
judge shall hold until the next general
election, when a successor for the un
expired term of the encumbent from
the district in which the vacancy ex
ists shall be elected, provided that if
the vacancy occurs within less than
six months of the expiration of the
term, the appointee of the judge shall
hold until the end of the unexpired
term.”
Death ol Lillie Girl
Yesterday afternoon, Annie,
tlie eleven year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Crawford,
died after a short illness caused
from being poisoned by eating
ground peas. She was a bright
little girl and the relatives and
friends have the sympathy of the
community in her loss. The in
। ferment will be made in the cem
, eteryat Snow Hill this after-
I noon
j The doctors of Wheeler county
I are formulating a plan whereby
I they expect to elminate the dead
j heads by exchanging a list be
tween themselves, and then will
'demand the cash, from them
j when called. A more specific
statement will appear in next
issue.
Mr S. A. Hall a brother of Dr.
| Hall of this place, from Cedar
1 Crossing in Toombs county, has
leased the plantation of Mr. C.R.
Outlaw near town and will move
in with his family about tne first
of December.
COUNTY COM MISSION ERS:
J. F. SIKES, Chairman.
J. A. CLEGG
THOMAS KENT,
W. E. CURRIE, Clerk.
Court Ist Tuesdav in e; ch month.
SUPERIOR COURT:
E. D. GRAHAM, Judge.
W. A. WOOTEN, Solicitor
Court convenes Ist Monday in March
and September
County Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS:
ORDINARY. W. B. Kent-Court Ist
Monday in each Month.
CLERK SUPERIOR COURT, J. D.
Brown.
SHERIFF, J. F. Wright.
Tax COLLECTOR, M Jenkins
TAX RECEIVER, W. T. Hadden.
TREASURER, Daniel Pope.
CORONER. J. J. Brantlev.
Church Directory
FREE WILL RAPTIST-Meetin* evey Ist Sun
day at 11 o’clock a. m. and 7:30 p. m. and Sat
urday before by B. F. HORN. Pastor. Plain
field. Ga. Second Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7^o
p. m. by W. C. Coleman, Alamo. Ga., sr d
clock by C. B. Digby, Griffin, Griffin. Ga.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday night 7:30.
Busy Bee Society every Thursday 3 o'clock p.
m. Sunday School every Sunday 3p. m.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST—2nd Sunday in each
month, and Saturday before.
METHODIST—Fourth Sunday in each month
Sunday School 3-30 each Sunday afternoon.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening
J.R SUMMER Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN—Third Sunday afternoon,
4 o’clock.CHAS. M. MONTGOMERY Pastor
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SHOWING THE FARMER “HOW"
Editor Atlanta Conttitution,
Atlanta, Ga.
Editor Constitution: During the past
three months I have traveled over the
states of South Carolina and Georgia,
interviewing many of the best and most
prominent farmers. I find that they
are hauling their cotton from the gins
to their homes and there storing same—
something I never saw before. This
condition is brought about on account
of the extremely low price of cotton,
attributed tnainly because of the war in
Europe and to lesser extent by rea
son of a “bumper” rrop.
These farmers seem interested and
express a willingness to produce other
commodities. All of the larger railway
systems in diis part of J.e country, and,
in fact, throughout the south, have com
petent and efficient industrial represen
tatives in the field, assisting and show
ing the fanners “how” to diversify their
crops and put them on a better pay
ing basis.
Tn south Georgia (Colquitt county) I
visited some clover and alfalfa fields
as fine as anyone would wi h to see,
planted under the direction of one of
Hie industrial agents referred to above.
Many of the fanners are b irinning to
realize that there is an unlimited and
never-ending market for fresh meats,
and arc branching out into cattle and
hog raising. Slaughter pens and packing
houses have been established at conven
ent centers. The citv council of At
' inta has recent’• adopted an ordin mee
.Mrmitting the shipment of fresh meats
from Georgia points into Atlanta, under
ertain restrictions which can, without
iconvi nience be con p'ied with by the
armors and producers. The people of
ivannah ami that vicinity have, for
ome time, benefited by a s’milar law.
Other cities in Georgia, where city laws
inhibit the bringing in of fresh meat
' inments will no doubt, see the wis
■ll of adopting similar modifications
whereby the farmer may be permitted
to market such products in the nearest
city, thus minim, ing transportation
cost
Geor ’ i abounds in rich and fertile
soil, fuum the foot of the Blue Ridge
mourdains to the Atlantic coast. It
has been successfully demonstrated that
potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, asparagus,
eggplant, beans, hay, corn, sugarcane,
i apples, peaches, p ars, pecans, etc. as
I fine as ever grew can be produced not
| mly ; n Georgia, but in the Carolinas,
Florida and Alabama. For example:
\s a result of industrial work around
Cornelia, Mount Airy and Tallulah
Park, during the summer approximate
ly 30, (MX) cr ites of beans, tomatoes,cu
cumbers and potatoes were grown and
shipped during the months of August
and September, and shipments will
continue until frost.
Young ladies throughout the country
are being taught how to can fruits and
vegetables and importuned to let noth
ing go to waste. Profitable markets
can be found for home made preserves,
canned fruits, and, in fact everything
produced or grown on the farm.
Because the individual farmer cannot
afford expensive storage facilities, he
must dispose of the greater part of his
crop when it matures, either to people
prepared to hold it or direct to the
consumer. The Southern Express com
pany’s traffic department will have ready
for general distribution in a week or
ten days pamphlets containing the
aames and addresses o" commission men
engaged in the handling of fruits, vege
tables, etc.; likewise, information as to
t,.e producers of various commodities;
oyster and fish shippers, etc., and it
is the company’s expectation to revise
these lists from time to time, as fast
as we develop the names of producers
and consumers—the object being to put
the producer in touch with markets
where be can profitably dispose of what
he has to sell. For the man who has an
occasional coop of chickens or crate of
eggs to ship it will be our pleasure and
“One of the most inspiring develop
ments of the prevalent cotton crisis in
: the south Is the manner In which south
ern railroads and general transporta
, tion agencies are multiplying agencies
already active, to the end of encourag
ing the fanner to diversify, to reduce
cotton acreage and, in larger terms to
aid the south in finding away out of
the problem that confronts it. An il
lustration is found in a communication,
, published elsewhere, from I. M. Cox,
। industrial agent of the Southern Ex
press company. To Mr. Cox's propa
ganda is traceable the growth and ship
went, now proceeding, of 80,000 crates
of beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and po
tatoes from that rich section of Geor
gia around Cornelia, Mount Airy and
Tallulah Park. The Southern Express
company is helping the growers find a
market for all this truck. This is con
•tructive work of the most practical
type. It is upon such efforts, founded
primarily upon reduction of cotton
acreage, that the state and the south
must depend for a solution of the un
precedented difficulties of this year and
next year.
Mr Cox further shows what The
Constitution has always contended, and
that is that the United States parcel
post and *he express companies would
co-operate in stimulating relations be
tween producer and consumer. Fur
nishing reciprocal lists to these two
classes, new and profitable markets
are being opened up to the farmers of
the south rn states.
livery important railroad in the
southern states is engaged in work along
similar Lies, and the European war
has caused them to intensify their ef
forts. The Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic is not one of the largest ar
riers in Hie south, but it is and has been
one of the most active, proportionately,
in this d rection. Its campaign calling
attentioin to the possibilities of the soil
of its territory, and its practical de
monstrations to the fanners along its
lines, is having telling effect In a
communication published recently in
The Constitution W. R. Tucker, farm
ers’ co-operative agent of this system,
pointed out the results being accom
plished along these lines. The Seaboard
Air Line is another active factor in
this field. It is at present impressing
upon the south and the nation that the
south has a farming season varying
from 200 to 348 days out of the year,
and a soil just as versatile. The South
ern, the Coast Line and the L. & N.,
with the Central of Georgia, are like
wise hammering away. The railroads
the Southern Express company ana
other agencies are setting to the south
an example in co-operation and re
source in crisis as effectual as it is in
spirinir.”—Editorial in Constitution.
purpose to provide him the names of
retail dealers or commission men who
will pay the market price for such
goods.
A neat and attractively put-up pack
age will sell much more readily and at
a better price than one carelessly pack
ed, even though it contains better pro
duce.
Wthin the last week or ten days I
have, in company with D. L Campbell
and W. R. Tucker, industrial agents for
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railroad, called upon forty or fifty farm
ers around Moultrie and Fitzgerald,
Ga., who were found to be enthusiastic
over the possible benefits to be derived
from the diversification of crops. In
addition to representing the A. B. 4 A.,
railroad, Messrs. Campbell and Tucker
are also connected with the United
States bureau of plant Industry and
Georgia State College of Agriculture,
and are doing excellent and far-reacb
ing work in educating the farmers along
the lines Indicated.
L M. COX,
Industrial Agent Southern Express con>
pany, Atlanta, Ga