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(the iPIufitl
A Tenth District Newspaper
VOL. XIII-
THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913.
NO. 22
WHAT A WOMAN’S
CLUB HAS]DONE
SIX MONTHS
Those-who are asking what a club
can do will find an astonishing reply
in an account of what the Woman’s
Club of Thomson has done since the
organization last spring.
It will be recalled that this club
v as the outgrowth of the united ef
forts of Mrs. Ira Farmer and the
Board of Trade. The president of
the board, Mr. B. A. Neal, and the
secretary, Mr. Borders, knew of the
work done elsewhere by club women,
:.o they extended an invitation to
the district officer of the Georgia
federation to visit Thomson. They
arranged for ?. mass meeting, pro
vided printed matter and pledged
themselves to stand by the club.
How well their efforts have been re
paid can be seen from this partial
account of the club work from May
first to September first.
A rest room for visitors from tin-
country and a club room in the very
center of town was immediately se
cured. The building is shaded by
large trees and surrounded by at
tractive grounds.
A lot was secured, in which to tie-
horses, thus permitting the public
square to be kept clean and order
ly.
The club has taken charge of the
woman’s department of the McDuffie
County Fair, which will be held Oc
tober fourteenth to eighteenth. This
feature is being widely advertised in
the attractive literature being sent
out by the fair association..
Every detail has been arranged
for a big public celebration of Arbor
Day.
Tickets have been placed for a
lyceum course foT the winter f'ea-
FAIR
A new fair to hoi ’ forth this year
will be the McDuffie fair at Thom
son, and it will undoubtedly prove a
success. Mr. Ben A. Neal is presi
dent of the association and Colonel
It. E. L. Evans is secretary. This
fair will be held October 14 to IS,
and the management is making pro
gress, for Mr. Neal knows how to
promote agricultural interests, and
he is enthusiastic in the work. The
section is one little exploited, but
is rich in resources, making splendid
crops, and the climate is delightfully
healthy in every way.—Atlanta .lour-
nal.
son.
On November sixth and seventh
the club will hold a (lower festival.
An automob.le parade and exhibit
of chysanthemums and pot flowers
will be the feature of the afternoon.
In the evenings a mnsiealo and a
play will bo given under the direc
tion of the departments of music
and th v drama.
They have also raised money to I
employ a sextoi who will keep the
cemetery in order.
On Memorial Day a beautiful j
drinking-fount.'in and statue will be
Cotton Seed Market
unveiled.
This will be in the public square
and will be the result of the united
efforts of the veterans, the U. D. C.,
the Memorial Association and the
club. Each of the patriotic socie-j
ties had a small fund, and each de
sired to erect a memorial, tablets or
monuments, to the soldiers, spud the
women of the Confederacy. The club
' came forward and with an eye to
civic beauty and utility proposed
the fountain and offered to help.
Mrs. Farmer, persident of the club,
was made chairman of ttie commit-
The Progress has sent self-addressed postal cards to a
dozen cotton seed buyers, in as many towns, within a radius
of about 50 milts of Thomson, asking them to furnish us
the price every week that cotton *seed are being sold at in
their respective markets* Such quotations as we receive;
will be published every week* This should prevent dissat
isfaction which often arises out of mere rumors as to what
prices different markets are paying.
The printed inquiries are as follows: “Prices paid
here for cotton seed last week were cts per bus.
Prices today; (Tuesday) cts. per bus* basis lbs.
per bus. Cotton seed meal selling here $ per ton,
Hulls $ per ton: in ton lot”. Signed
QUOTATIONS:
Madison: No quotations*
Warrenton: 30cts. last week and Tuesday.
Elberton: 30cts. last week and Tuesday Meal $27. Hulls $8*
Washington: 30cts. last week and Tuesday Hulls $9.
Thomson: 30 and 32cts* last week, 30cts. Tuesday
Waynesboro: No quotations.
Dearing: 30cts. last week, 30 cts. Tuesday.
Harlem 30 and 32cts. last week, 30cts. Tuesday.
MtCannel, S. C. 30cts. last week, Tuesdays quotations not
given.
COTTON:
Cotton bringing 12 7-8 freely in Thomson Thursday*
THE
DRUG
tec. Sketches were submitted and
the work is well under way, and by
spring the beautiful memorial will
be in place.
A teachers’ and mothers’ depart
ment is a special feature; much i3
expected frdm their committees, as
their work lias been -most carefully,
arranged. •
No wondqr Thomson, “the .Tapo-
nica City,’’ advertises herself as a
center of unrivaled 'possibilities and
opportunities. When the business
men eiTcburage the women to help,
success in every line of city better
ment is assured.—Augusta Chroni
cle.
Christian Science Services—
are held every Sunday at 10:45 a. m.,
in room number 19, 2nd floor Neal-
Knox building, known as the old Post-
office building. The public is cordially
invited.
The newspapers greatly exagger
ated the slight poisoning of Mr. A.
F, Atkins and Dr. C. Gibson—which
occurred last week.
The facts, as given us, are, that
Nick Atkins was keeping, for the
sake of convenience to him, a vial
of Bismuth and Pepsin in Dr. Gib
son’s drug store. On going to take
a dose Friday afternoon Mr. Atkins
found the bottle empty, and asked a
clerk, Mr. Montgomery, to refill the
bottle, which ho did, but when Mr.
Atkins swallowed the dose, he
called for Dr. Gibson, saying: “1
have been given the wrong medicine
and believe I am poisoned.” Dr.
C. Gibson then looked at the prepa
ration, and looking to be the same,
took a small swallow of it himself,
but upon doing so instantly recog
nized that a mistake had been made,
and called for the clerk to sliow
him from what bottle he had gotten
the drug, and it was discovered that
Bichloride instead of Bismuth had
been used. In the twinkling of an
eye, everything was being done that
could be done to relieve the stom-
aches of the poison, with the result
that neither Mr. Atkins nor Dr.
Gibson were ever very sick, and
both were on the streets the next
day, suffering more from the heroic
methods of relief than from the
poisonous drug.
Dr. Gibson regrets exceedingly the
unfortunate occurrence, and we pre
dict that the utmost caution will be
hereafter exercised to prevent simi
lar mistakes.
No further bad effects from the
poison is anticipated, and every one
feels that a serious accident was
narrowly averted.
For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonic
nnd sure Appetizer. For adults and children. 5Qc.
1 M
OPENS COCA-
COLA BUSINESS
T, M. Nabers will again enter the
coca-cola hotting business with the
Augusta Coca-Cola Bottling Works.
Wednesday Mr. Nabers purchased
coca-cola 'right in the territory em
braced by McDuffie, Columbia, War
ren counties, and a portion of Han- '
cock county. “ $
Thomson will be the distributing
point for the territory named which
is two-thirds as large as that re
cently sold by Mr. Nabers for $20,-
000. The plant at Thomson will be
newly equipped with modern ma
chinery, which he hopes to have
rehabitated by Nov 1.
This means that Mr. Nabers will
leave Washington, where during the
past six years he has been wonder
fully successful in that business
which now takes him to Thomson,
lie will retain his large realty hold
ing here, but will always, he says,
call Washington his home to which
lie expects ultimately to return.
A host of Washington friends will
part with him most reluctantly, but
with the hope that fortune will con
tinue to smile upon him.—Washing
ton Reporter.
CHURCH OF GOD MEETINGS.
A series of religious meetings
will begin at the Court House on
Sept. 2.0th, under the auspices of
the “Church nf God.”
Handbills have been sent, out an
nouncing these services, and that
they will last as long as God wills.
Every one cordially invited. For
further information write Box 471.
NEW HULLS AND MEAL
BEGINNING MONDAY, SEPTEMBER I4TH, WE WILL HAVE
new hulls and meal. The milch cows will relish the
fresh feed and will show it in the milk and butter
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Swap Us Your Seed For Meal And Hulls
“You have the seed, We have the feed,
To swap is what what we need.”
It will pay you to save your corn by grinding cob and corn and
mixing 100 lbs. of cotton seed meal to every 800 lbs. corn and cob
meal. One sack of cotton seed meal contains as much food value
as 200 lbs. of corn and be bought for 1-3 the price of the com.
Watch the crops this year that used The Famous McDuffie Brands
of High Grade Guano, andjnext year you will use it yourselves.
The McDuffie Oil & Fertilizer Co.
THOMSON,
GEORGIA.