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A Tenth District Newspaper
VOL. XIII.
THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1913.
NO. 24
ANOTHER OF CU
PIDS PRANKS
Just as we go to press, news readies
us of tlie rather sudden and unexpected
marriage of Miss Carolyn Lois Dozier
to Mr. George Young, both of Thom
son, and married at Mosena Thursday
evening, by a minister whose name we
have not learned.
Invitations had been sent out to the
marriage of Miss Dozier to Mr. Walter
Gardner on October the 9th; but Air.
and Mrs. Young will likely see to it
that such an event is indefinitely post
poned. “There is many a slip betwixt
the cup and the lip ” The Prog teas
extends its best wishes:
STATE INSTITU-
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KILLED ACCI-
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Milleugeville, Ga. September 28,—
(Special.)—The state farm will make
this year between 5,000 and 0,001} bush
els more corn than last year. The state
reformatory will make 1,000 bushels
more, and the woman’s department of
the penitentiary will make an increase
of 2,000 bushels, while the male de
partment will go considerably over
this figure, insuring a total increase of
over 5,000 bushels.
While making a largely increased
corn crop this year, it is stated that a
sufficient quanity was made last year
to supply all the‘needs of the farmers.
The harvesting ot the new crop is now
in progress, and there is plenty of old
com still on hand.
Mr' J. Russell, living on the John E.
Smith farm, shot and accidently killed
Hob Davenport, a negro man about 115
years old, who was in the yearly tm-
ploy of Mr. Russellf, last Friday A. M.
in a cotton (lel.i on his plantation.
Mr. Russell statement of the unfor
tunate affair, made to The Progresses
as follows;—that he went to the field
where about a dozen of his hands were
picking cotton, among which were two
negroes who had not been giving him
faithful work, and he began giving
th se two negroes a verbal excoriation
for their neglect of duty, and in order
to empathize his remarks, he lired his
pistoi two or more times in quick sue-
cession, ill a different direction, strik
ing another negro in Ihe heart, wno
was about 200 yards nwn>, picking
cotton alone, and who Mr. Russell says
he did not see or kno.vt was in the
direction of where he shot. He was
leaving the Held, not knowing that
this negro had been shot, which was
aCCi'rtained by some of the ••ther ne
groes later, and reported to Mr. Rus
set).
Cotton Seed Market
QUOTATIONS:
Madison- Last week 36cts. Tuesdays market not quoted.
YVarrenton: Last week 33cts. Tuesday 30cts.
Elberton: 33cts. last week 34 1-2 Tues. Meal $27. Hulls $8.
Washington: No report-
Thomson: 32cts. last week, 33 Tuesday Meal $27 Hulls $8.
Waynesboro: No report
Dearing; 30 to 3lcts. last week, 32 1-2 cts. Tuesday.
Harlem Last week 30 to 32cts Tuesday 33.
Evans Last week 33, Tuesday. 33cts.
COTTON:
Cotton sold for 14 cts- in Thomson Friday-
Cotton Seed bringing 36cts. in Thomson Friday*
Why not fill-out the postal cards? They are self-ad
dressed and postage paid. Please make report next week.
Please make reports more regularly, and always give
Tuesday market.
Editor.
Ik' come to town and immediately j
reported tho matter to sheriff Chuy i
who in company with several while
men, went to the scene to learn the ;
particulars, and having been convinced
that the shooting was plainly acciden-!
till, no arrest was made.
Mr. Russel I states that he wanted an
inquest held, but was advised that one'
was not required, and that the county
would not pa.v for one, under the cir
cumstances, whereupon he stated that
he was willing to pay for it, and tried
to see the corroner, but he was at
home sick.
The oat crop at th.’ farm will he
another feature this fall, particular
attention being given to winter farm
ing there.
Mr. Russell snys that, lie had never
had any trouble with the negro killed,
that he was an inollensiva negro, and
that he regrets the killing more than
any act of his life-
(Evening Wisconsin)
On January 15, 171)7, when John
Ilethorington emerged from his .Lon
don haberdashery shop in the Strand
wearing a silk hat, he was surrounded
by a mob of such proportions that he
was arrested and charged before the
Lord Mayor with inciting a riot. The
constable who arrested him testified
that “Hetherlngton appeared upon the
public wiglnvay wearing a tall struc
ture, which he called asilk hat, having
a shiny luster, and calculated to
frighten timid people. Several women
fainted, children screamed, dogsyelped
and a" young son of Cordwainer Thomas
was thrown down by tha crowd and
broke his right am..” The defendant
pleaded that as an Englishman, he was
free to wear any hat he chose, but
nevertheless was hound over in $2,500
to keep the peace,
YOU SOU
TO THE FAIR?
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Backward, turn backward, oh tune
in your light, give us a girl with skirts
not so tight; give us a girl, whose
charms, many or few or not exposed by
too much peek-a-boo; give us a girl, no
matter what age, who won’t use the
street for a vaudeville stage; give us a
girl not so sharply in view; dress her
in skirts the sun cannot shine thru.
And give us the dances of days gone
by, with plenty of clothes and steps
not high; put turkey trot caper and
buttermilk slides, hurdy.gurdy twists
and wiggletail glides, and other such
bunny hugs all on a level as products
of hell inspired by the devil, and let us
feast our optics once more on the pure
sweet woman of the days of yore.
Yes, time" turn backward, and grant
our request for God’s richest blessing
hut not undressed,—The Yellow Jacket.
’S
Go to your local and State Fairs was
the advice we gave in Tile Progressive
Farmer for a week or so ago in prose.
Now the Kansas Farmer preaches the
same good doctrine in verse. Here’s
the way it puts it:
“Ale you going to the fair? All the
live ones will be there. Does us good
to take a clay from tlje steady grind
away; seeing what the neighbors raise,
learning new and batter ways. Edu
cate—that’s half the charm of this
life upon the farm.
“We’re not going just for fun, or to
see the horses run. We’ll not stund
around and knock; but we’ll take our
finest stock, and our products we will
show. What the use of being slow?
Life is great. At every turn there is
ggThe Woman’s Club will hold the first
meeting of the wintei on Wednesday,
October 8th, at S l\ M. at the olub
rooms. As this is one the most impor
tant meetings of the year, ali members
are urged to be present.
Each chairman section orcommittee
must bring report of work her section
will undertake for the year. This re
port must be in duplicate, one for the
secretary and one for the chairman.
Should there be any members who
have not paid their dues, please bear
in mind that They must be paid by
November 1st.
(Signed) Lulu M. Farmer, Pres.
A SAD AND FATAL
ACCIDENT
On Wednesday, near Winfield, on
her way to Thomson in a buggy, ac
companied by her three children, Mrs.
J. W. Blackwell, of Bussey, Lincoln
county, was killed in n very tragic and
unusual manner. She struck the
mule that she was driving with the
whip, and before she could recover her
norma! position, it kicked her over the
heart, creaking several bones and
causing almost instant death. She
was taken to her home, and we have
not learned the time and place of
burial.
Mrs. Blackwell is the sister of Mr.
Henry Prioe of this town, but engaged
in the saw mill business near Way-
cross. He arrived in Thomson Thurs
day and left for the home of his sister
immediately.
TO CUT PRICE OF
BEEF MORE THAN
ONE-HALF
something new to learn.
“Help to make that fair a go. Tell
the folks just how you grow, pumpkins
big as all gee out, stuff that makes the
natives shout, how to farm the modern
way, making crop rotation pay. Gome
across and do your share. Are you
going to the fair?
Washington, 8ept. 27.—A message
of hope for a reduction of the price of
beer to less than one-half of what it
costs today, which would be a big help
in solving the cost of living problem,
lias been brought to the American peo
ple by Auguslo JG Leguia, former
president of Peru, who is now in this
city. He made the declaration that
with the opening of the Panama canal
and a reduction of four thousands miles
in commercial distance between the
United States and Pom, beef could be
delivered in Now York for ten cents
a pound from his country .
Figures made public by the depart
ment of commerce show that during
the first leiv months of the present tts.
cal year there were, increase of several
million pounds of beef caning prin
cipally from Argentina and Australia,
which averaged in price from seven
to t en cents a pound,
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