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THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923
NUMBER 2&
SENATOR STOVALL DISCUSSES
IMPORTANT LEGISLATION
BEFORE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Asked to give his views on im- gia on this subject, and still the law
portant legislation to come before
the present session of the Georgia
legislature, Senator J. Glenn Stovall
presents the following interesting
interview on the subject:
continues its injustice. It remains
to be seen just how long the large
centers of wealth will be enabled
through a well organized effort to
force this unpopular and unjust law
under the false cry of necessity. I
grant that to raise money with which
to run government is a necessity,
but no government is worthy to ask
support of its citizens itss in turn
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL NEWS
You ask me what, in my opinion,
is theoutstanding problem which
will claim the attention of the Gen- .
eral Assembly this year. I answer, R oif ers equal protection to all; and
unhesitatingly, the general question '
of taxation.
For a number of years the people
of Georgia have been agitated over
this question. This was true when
v v hi< h is
lie mind, perhaps as never before,
is seriously turning to these prob
lems and seeking solution for them.
There are certain burdens which can
not be escaped. Taxation is one of
them. The government must be run,
and run by taxation. All good citi
zens recognize this, and are willing
to contribute their reasonable share.
This done, no one is hurt; and no
one should complain. But when tax
ation becomes burdensome, it is in
iquitous. This was never intended
by the framers of the laws. It
should never be permitted at any
time, under any • normal condition,
and when a law is so framed as to
have such effect, whether intention
ally framed for that purpose or not,
it is bound to merit and receive the
unequivocal denunciation of the in
dividual or community who suffers
from its operation. Such is the sit
uation in this state today. Our tax
laws seem to be archaic and unfit
for the time in which we live. An
effort some ten years ago to rem
edy this in a measure, resulted in
making matters worse, and for the
past ten years there has gone up
from all over this state a general
complaint against the unequal bur
den this last effort at modernizing
our tax system placed upon one
class of tax payers, while a more
favored class were permitted to con
tinue to escape almost entirely. Us
ually the complaint is aimed at the
administration of a law, when it
fails to function satisfactorily.
Strange enough that is not true
with our present tax law. But small
complaint is heard against the coun
ty boards who as a rule are trying
to administer this law as nearly as
practicable as it is written on our
statute books; there is but limited
complaint against the mere adminis
tration by the tax commissioner,
whose duties and powers are much
broader, but it is the law itself that
the people, after fair and impartial
no law can long remain
inherently wrong.
But, you ask, what will take the
place of this law if it be repealed"
Other states have successfully tried
conditions were much better, and i various experiments. Perhaps clas-
now, that financial stringency has j sification and income tax have prov-
been so emphatic and progressive' en most generally satisfactory. Per-
for a period of years, culminating i sonally, I think a reasonable income
in a combination of burdens and tax W ’B more nearly distribute the
hardships which threatens to under- burden than perhaps any other. Any
mine and destroy the weak, the pub- wa >’. the people of Georgia want a
■ - change, and will be content to try
any sane and just system which has
been tested by other states . nd
found fairly adapted to modern • on-
ditions and which will fairly dis
tribute the support of the govern
ment among all classes of citizens.
Next after taxation, the general
assembly will have to deal with the
usual question of schools, pensions,
good roads, etc. Our old soldiers
and their widows are ccrying for
their unpaid pensions, but the money
must first be found. The institu
tions of the state are all in press
ing need of money, hut it is not in
right. Our common schools -nii-L be
supported, and many promises have
been made to furnish “f'-e-” book".
It is easy enough for the gi ncral
assembly to appropriate .hese si ms,
even into the millions, but not so
easy to find the money with which
to pay. Again I say that we must
sooner or later find a new and bet
ter system which will raise am
ple funds, without adding to pres
ent burdens. It has been done else
where and it is up to Georgia to
profit by the example of other states.
Good roads will continue to de
mand attention. This is a subject
of vast importance. Large sums of
money are being spent, and the fu-
ure will witness still large expendi
tures. Good roads mean for pro
gress, but I feel that we have some
what overlooked our inter-county
systems in which the average citi
zen and tax payer is most vitally
interested, in the interest of “inter
state boulevards” for the use of our
“traveling neighbors.” Personally, I
have contended for a reasonable por
tion of our road funds with which
to maintain and keep in reasonable
renair the little roads in the country
which lead to the market place and
to the schools and churches. This is
the concern of the average citizen
whose automobile and gasoline tax
is making up our road funds, and
Mrs. R. B. Waddell, Mrs. J. R.
Waddell and little son, Robert Ed
ward, returned to their home in
Charleston, S. C., after a pleasant
visit to Mrs. B. A. Anchors and Mrs.
C. C. Hall. They were accompanied
home by Alexander Marion Anchors.
Mrs. Carrie Mathews, Mrs. Lou
Morris and Mr. Preston Johnson will
arrive home Saturday after an ex
tended tour through California, Yel
lowstone Park, New Mexico and oth
er interesting points.
Misses Hazel and Marie Leary, of
Augusta, are guests of Miss Lucille
Fam.er.
Mrs. A. C». Porter is the guest of
Rev, and Mrs. D. A. Howard in Fort
Valiev
Dr. G. C. Trimble and Miss Sarah
McDuffie county schools
B,, P. drexel, DISCUSSED BY MEMBER OF
c^tyA^R THE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD
FAIR OR NO FAIR
IflBBi Ull llV inill ^ Bearing, Ga., July 8th, 1923. one mill in the tax levy.
Editor McDuffie Progress. Seventy school children were
The question of having a small Dear sir-—-I would like to n<,k transported to the Dearing school,
fair tthis Fall has been under dis- ,, . . , .. which is a four-teacher school with
cussion by the Thomson Chamber of t ie use of your column3 to discuss a nine-months term.* The transpor-
Commerce and the Advisory Coun- some of the school problems of our tation service was one hundred per
cil, both bodies of which are in fa- county. The schools of our county cent perfect and the experiment has
vor of a display of McDuffie’s agri- a ce so closely allied to our social, proven that our children are anxious
cultural resources, should enough civic and economical life that it to attend school if only given a
backing be had from farmers to seems to me they should be of vital school to attend. Only a few of the
make it a success. importance to every citizen. larger boys had to stop before the
The plan mentioned includes an The great state of Georgia has school closed,
exhibit of livestock and a float from done many great things, but her The county scchool board meets
each community on which is dis- greatest undertaking has been the the first Tuesday in each month,
played all the products grown in education of her chilren. On account July or August will be the time to
that community. The float idea °f the groat task and the vast assess county school tax. I would
would allow foor bringing the stuff amount of work to be done, the state like to suggest that the patrons of
_ to town without unloading or re- administration has given each county the county schools, who are inter-
Trimble, of East Point, were guests loading, thereby saving much labor the administration of its own schools ested in better, and longer school
of Dr. and Mrs. Harold Trimble Sun- anc t still have the desired effect of anf l upon them rests to a great ex- terms to come before the school
day. i showing what we did do this year. tent the success or failure of the board and let us know your needs
Miss Nannie Kate return-! Beginning as late as this would schools in the individual counties. and let’s have schools that will be
ed Fridav from T mrmkin 1 no ^ warrane having a longer fair R has been recently said (and not a credit to us and put us in line with
,.. ' . . ' ' because much preparation necessary refuted) to our county board that the best counties in the state.
miss tnelma Norris will leave bat- to many exhibits could not be done our county public school system to- Under our present system and ad-
ui.uay tor Atlanta, where she will now, therefore the suggestion of a day is the same that it was a quarter ministration, there are one hundred
join a party of friends to go to Lake-, one-day fair. of a century ago. While everything pupils more enrolled each year in
mont to spend a fortnight camping. , Lincoln and Warren counties are °} se has made progress, the educa- the first grade than in the second.
Miss Mary Bowden, of Atlanta, is planning large fairs this Fall, and tional interest has stood still so far The only reason that can be account-
visiting Miss Lucille Bowden. i while we in no sense mean to com- as the county schools are concern- ed for this is, that the child makes
Mr. Hammond Story is spending a ' P ete with tthem, we do want a cred- ed - . , such little progress that he is en-
few days with his mother Mrs. S. ’table showing of what we have and Of course this is not true of the rolled the second year in the same
rT ' this cannot be unless it receives the Thomson school, and I
. would like grade as the first. We cannot blame
hearty backing of every farmer in to take that school and contrast it this upon the child or upon the teach-
the county to help make his com- with the schools of our ccounty. The er. It is our system of so many
munity exhibit worth while. Thomson school system has been a schools and so many grades for one
The business men of Thomson are partly independent System, and I un- teacher. We know it to be a fact
returned willing to do some advertising and derstand expects to_ soon ^ become that the larger pupils get most of
tew
H. Story.
Mr. George Young, of Florida,
spent a few days with friends in j
Thomson last week.
Miss Frances Reid has
home after visiting in Barnesville. put up many prizes and the expense wholly independent, for which to one the teachers time, and no one can
Miss Eleanor Johnson and Dr. and money to meet other expenditures; who is acquainted with the facts, tell the number of small children
Mrs. Regnald Maxwell, of Augusta, therefore the question is, will each ? ou ld blame them. My information that become discouraged or are
are spending a few weeks in Seven community support such a fair with ’ s that they have seven teachers for taken out of school because of the
Springs, N. C. a display float? Die first seven grades and a nine slow progress being made and allow-
Mr. Wightman Bowden, of Atlanta, The McDuffie Advisory Council ap- months school year. The county e d to grow up without even the ru-
is spending several day's with his P roves the one-day idea, and if you schools have only one teacher for diments of an education,
brother, Mr. P. A. Bowden. do, let them know about it, for the seven, eight and sometimes nine My suggestion is to reduce the
m ’ w tj n n H , ! decision to hold or not to hold it grades, and a term of six months, number of our schools by transferring
j' ,/ ' „ . k „‘ Y iu a depends upon how well it will be O ae teacher can no more do the the children to the centers, increase
M W iJl B f M Mrs - supported. work of seven than one man can do the efficiency of these and give
‘ A meeting will be held in the near the work of seven at a sawmill, on longer terms. If this cannot be
Mrs. Cicero Gibson has as her future to determine this question, so a farm or elsewhere. The boys and done then cut our county school tax
guests this week Mrs. M. L. Hubertt talk it up. girls who are dependent on the coun- to the minimum, as fixed by law, to
and Miss Emily Hubert, of Norwood. try scchools for an education have 0 ne mill, and use that in supplying
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Jerry WEEVIL FIGHTING IN JULY. n °t the shadow of a cchance with f re e text books beginning with the
Freeman and Mr. Marion Howard, of I The last chaice to fight the wee- the boys and girls who have an op- first grade and continuing as far as
LaGrange, were guests of Mrs. R. L. vil is here, and it all depends upon portunity to attend the city sys- it will go.
Hadaway this week.
Miss Belle Brunner,
will urrive next week
guests of Mrs. A. L.
Miss Mattie McLean.
Mrs. E. A. Moore, of Atlanta, is
visiting Miss Emma Stapler.
John Q. West, Jr., is visiting in
Atlanta.
Miss Evelyn Gibson returned
Thursday from Jewels, where she
has been the guest of relatives
how efficiently this is done as to terns. I agree with our rural school agent
of Atlanta I whether there will be a fair crop on Is it any wonder that there are so when he says that the countv
to be the! y° ur f arm - many idle farms in our county and snhools, and especially the small
Mcl ean and I The highest efficiency is obtained so f ew young men remaining upon ones, are wasting the people’s mon-
wit h the dust arsenate when ap- the farms where they were reured? ey .
plied with dusting machinery. The Then, too, is the problem of at- Again thanking you, Mr. Editor,
dust gets all over the plant and into tracting desirable settlers to^ our ( f or the use of your columns, I am,
trial, have condemned. It is wrong j justice should be done these before
in principle, was hastily devised and ! building fine race tracks for the use
unfairly forced upon the statute ; of those who merely pass through
books of our state by the narrowj our state as a matter of convenience
margin of one vote cast by the speak-! and without contibuting anything to
er of the House of Representatives, its upbuilding. I believe in a good
after a single member of the House,
who had opposed its passage, and
himself voted against it, changed his
vote and made it possible for the
speaker to vote off a tie, and in this
way a system of law dealing with
every piece of property in the state
and affecting the rights of every
citizen, was fastended upon an un
willing people, who for these ten
years have constantly protested
against its further operation and
earnestly pleaded for its repeal. It
became the law as the result of the
ambition of a particular administra
tion to write a “change” in that sys
tem which was then known to have
outlived its usefulness. It was hop
ed, of course, that it would serve
the dual purpose of raising more
revenue, and more equally distrib
ute the burden. It has signally fail
ed. It is true that it has been pos
sible to extort a larger sum of mon
ey from the pockets of the people
under the cry of neccessity of more
money to run the institutions of the
state, but as an equalizer of the bur
dens of taxation, it has been content
ad from one end of the state to
the other. It is a good advertise
ment, and an incentive to better
county roads all over the state, but
without the smaller roads, we will
have no use for the main ones; so I
favor building the system from the
hottom up, instead of the opposite.
Some progress is being made, and
more will come later, as a result of
persistent effort and demand.
I do not believe any considerable
number of people expect a large bond
issue under present conditions, eith
er for good roads or port terminals,
both of which may be good enough,
and both of which are asking for
enormous bond issues for support.
For the present, in my judgment, we
have burdens enough without assum
ing any more needlessly. What is
needed is economy, conservatism and
a fair distribution of the burdens
which none can, rightly, and none
should be allow, unfairly, to escape.
This is program enough for the
nresent, and its approximation af
fords ample opportunity for every
man, woman and child in Georgia,
the small squares, therefore the county to work the vacant farms
weevil will get it by both eating and fill up the gap caused by the
and drinking. exodus of the negro north. When
Arsenate solution applied with a these prospective settlers are shown
sprayer is next, but though it gets our lands, will they not ask to be
over the plant pretty well, it does shown our schools?- And when they
Miss Sarah” Shields has returned not get on the under sides of the learn that some of our people, who
from Jackson after a visit of sev- leaves or into the squares. own their homes already are leav-
eral days t Mopping, sprinkling or dropping it mg them and moving to town and
Tiyr An,* „ n „ . j on has the lowest efficiency and other communities to educate their
B l ’ i °f u GaineS '! wwrk s well only during dry spells. cchildren, will they not, too, seek
\ille, spent the week-end at home. p 0 ison should be applied once ev- other communities in which to set-
Mrs. M. W. Moseley has returned | ery four days for three applications tie?
from a delightful visit to Savannah jf the weevils are very bad; less if Das the county school administra-
and points in North Carolina. j notvery destructive. If a rain tion done its full duty? Has it
Mr. Bentton O’Neal, of Macon, is | should fall within 24 hours after ap- been progressive
visiting relatives and friends in plying, go over again.
Thomson. | Those not using poison
Miss Sue Willingham, of Savan- j continue square picking.
liams* S visiting Mrs - Roy McWil I ROGERS OPENS FEED MILL AT anil judiciously'“applfed to"the'"rum a «° and Philadelphia show that in-
DEARING ning and upbuilding of our schools ? creased prejduice and an increasing
Messrs. Edgar Winter and Win. M Roeers owner of the Let us see number of clashes between whites
Sutlive, of Savannah, passed through ! (Dear 'i n(r Roller Mill has recently During the inflated period of 1918- a ”d blacks have resulted from the
ihomson Monday en route to the 1 £ f , d mill a Y an adjunct to 19 we ran a five-months school be- migration of the Southern Negro to
his flour mill and is Sow open fo? ginning November 1st, 1918, paid all the North. These reports particu-
business grinding dairv ho- and teachers, white and colored, paid all mrly show that the foreign element
chicken feeds at the prevailing toll, the running expenses of the schools, °f the Northern cities hate the ne-
This mill will grind corn and cob including our part of the salary of : £ r ° because of competition of labor
meal corn and shuck meal velvet the home economic agent, and bought an d because the negroes are over
bear!'meal, oats oat straw, alfalfa or over $600 worth of desk and other floowing into the .foreign quarters
other rouirhaees and grains either school supplies with $12,309.00. Dur- of the Northern industrial centers,
separated or S mixed ^ ing 1921 when the scale of wages The negro, the figures and reports
His grinding davs are Tuesdays und prices were much lower, it cost show, is far better off in the industri-
THursdavs and** Saturdays ‘ " us $20,749 to run a six-months a J centers of the South than he is m
This is an enterprise ’ worthy of school. Why should twenty days of similar centers m the North, accor-
! support by the dah-y^and poultry in- school cost "in those terrible days ding Jo Mr. Woofter. Race wars in
Yours truly,
ARTIE McGAHEE.
RACE PREJUDICE INCREASES
IN THE NORTH.
Atlanta, Ga., July 5th Race pre
judice against tthe negro is decided
ly on the increase in the North, and
at the same time is growng notice
able less in Georgia. This stattement
was made today by T. J. Woofter, Jr.,
secretary of the Georgia Committee
ganization has interested itself ac-
__ oon Race Regulations which or
Has it studied Dvely since its organization in trac-
the rural school problem and en- j in S cases of injustice to Georgia neg-
should larged its program for the develop-; ro !j 3 an ^ correcting them. . .
ment of our county schools? Has „, Re P ort 3 from Northern citie?,
our school fund been economically Cleveland, Cincinnatti, Detroit,Chic-
the
North, scattering tracts along
route, advertising Suvannah as a
winter resort.
Miss Mattie McLean is spending
j the week with Mrs. Grady Lane in
Double Branches.
Miss Josephine Benson, of Mon
roe, is the guest of Miss Eleanor Mc-
Mannon.
Miss Mary Clark, of Lithonia, is
visiting Miss Dorothy Hunt.
Thursday in Augusta. | balanced feeds as good as those crease our term another month.
the South ever have, and a survey
” ! hnno-ht rearlv mixed bv iust using Under the law we can levy only of past years show a definite rela-
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Johnson, of | i ^ N g one more mill to our county school ttionship bettween negro migration
Macon, were the guests of relatives
in Thomson this week.
the stuff grown on any farm.
in its operation to equalizing the AD- to contribute whatever time and tal-
DITIONAL BURDEN which it creat
ed among that class which was al
ready paying its full share, while
the favored class continued to es
cape entirely, as had been possible
before. In other words, the man or
set of men who owned real estate
or other visible property, and who
ent each may care to use in the ac
complishment so devoutly to be
wished by all concerned.
CLUB PARTY.
Mrs. Milton Brown was hostess to
I the Maids and Matrons Club and a
i few invited friends Thursday after
noon at her home on Milledge street, unable to put money into a
. . _ , qtntp school offi- to northern centers and race
farmer making stock raising a part tax. une oi our state scnooi om ren ters
of his farm income can long engage cials says, It may be said that fin-1 - •
I in the business without growing his ancial support of our schools has in- r , OMMITTFF appoiNTFH
feed and grinding it to mix into bal- creasd much more than organization COMMUH EE APPOINIED
anced rations. anc * supervision have been improv-'
Individual grinding machines can e< L More education per dollar may
ON WATSON MEMORIAL
Advices from Senator Stovall, stat-
^71=^
SUNDAY SCHOOL DAY AT
MESENA.
The Methodist Sunday School at
had been paying on it all the time,, Mesena will carry out a splendid all-
was asked and by law required to day program on the second Sunday
meet the greater burden of raising in July in observance of Sunday
more money as the growth of our j School Day. The teachers and pu-
institutions required it, while the mis V>nve been working hard for
owner of money or other invisible some time to perfect their plans and
property escaped all taxation, unless, expect to surpass in excellence any
forsooth, he voluntairly returned program the school has ever put on.
such property for taxation, as the A special sermon will be delivered
small education will be appropriated.” pointed from the Senate to prepare
In 1921 I called the attention of suitable memorial_ on _ the death of
Miss Marjorie Hill was honor guest TpiH should find this mill of Mr. Rod- n — ^ a « h ® “ th e " ‘° C o Ua : Senator Thomas E. Watson, caused
on this delightful occasion. After J >rs a convenient service, C ,” ~
games of bridge,
was served.
a frozen salad
SENATOR STOVALL ON
IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
machinery of the law did not reach
it. The “EQUALIZATION” feature
applied alright to the man who could
not escape; he was given an equal
opportunity with those of like situa
tion to have an EQUAL share In the
additional taxes which were demand
ed from year to year, while the tax
dodger went merrily on his way, tax
free.
This is our present system. It
has been tried and found unsatis
factory. It has been denounced from
practically every hamlet in Georgia.
A majority of the representatives
have waited an opportunity to re
peal it for several years; two gov
ernors have been elected with in
structions from the people of Geor-
by the pastor, Rev. Odum Clarke, at
11 o’clock.
A cordial invitation is extended to
everybody to attend the exercises,
bringing well-filled baskets.
DELIGHTFUL ’CUE.
A delightful event, assembling a
number of young people from Thom
son, Washington and Dearing, was
the barbecue and fish fry Wednesday
at the lovely old Smith home on Lit
tle River. This occasion was spon
sored by the young men and was
made possible by the charming hos-
oi tali tv of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Flu-
ker. Miss Louise Fluker and Mr.
William Fluker, who acted as hosts
and hostesses of the event.
Senator Stovall, of Thomson, rep-
resentting the 29th Senatorial dis-
i trict, appears to be rather popular
! among his colleagues in the Senate,
I as is indicated by the large number
] of committees upon which he has
! been placed. The Senator has spent
several terms as representative from
McDuffie county, and naturally his
knowledge of legislation and wise
counsel especially fit him for commit
tee work.
The Senator is represented on sev
eral of the most important, as will
be noted from the following list:
He is chairman of Judiciary No. 1,
and is a member of the following
committees: Appropriations. Educa
tion and Public Schools. Hygiene and
Sanitation, Internal Improvements,
Manufactures, Military Affairs,
Training Schools, Mines and Mining,
Railroads, Rules, Temperance. Tuber
culosis Sanitarium at Alto, Ways and
Means, Pensions, Penitentiary.
ties were furnishing transportation leading business men of Thomson to
STATFMFNT THICKEN SALE OF to their school children and claimed get busy and prepare to act in con-
SIATEMLNI t.HlCKhN bA it a solution of the public school junction with the committee, which
problems to a great extent—on the is to ake up the proposition of creat-
Tickets’for chickens *565.41 theory that it is better and cheaper hg a »«“»"»{ - Thomson, or rath-
Telegrams, labor, etc. 4.65 i to carry the children to the scchool er, endorsing it.^
Paid on scales 6.00
$575.06
on scales „uu than the school to the children. I A meeting of citizens was held
Expenses totafed":: ' *575.06 suggested that we try a school truck Thursday aftenroon, »h“h took ^
Enr qnoo lhs noultrv bv draft $576.74 somewhere in this county as an ex- tion in the premises, neaituy enaors
for 3000 lbs, poultry ny aran *>o per iment, and if it was successful mg the movement and pledging co-
F ... /.q here as it was claimed in other coun- operation. Mayor McCommons, Mr.
The si^nators below "certify the ties, that we adopt them through- G White Jordan, president of the
above to be correct as stated from out the county as fast as possible. • Chamber of Commerce, Mr. P. A.
an examination of the'books of the The board was positively informed Bowdeti and Judge L B Burnside
committee.
Signed:
POULTRY SALE COMMITTEE.
G. White Jordan,
W. C. McCommons,
E. P. Drexel
that the money was not available,
though our scchool funds for that
year were $6,218 more than for any
year previous in the history of the
county. In 1922 the board was in
formed by the superintendent that it
There is often a misunderstanding would be necessary to reduce the
of the methods of management of teachers salaries 10 per cent and
our cooperative sales, especially the raise the tax levy in order to have
poultry sales, therefore the Sales funds to meet the expenses of the
Committee publishes the foregoing schools. Such a coming-down on
itemized statement, records of which one hand and going up on the other
are on file in the office of the County was not satisfactory to me when
Agent and open for examination by there was nothing to show that our
thf. nnhlir schools were being improved. So I
p ‘ put forward my transportation idea
H uttic nti In Iho “Want” again and succeeded in obtaining a
■nimnn will sell that article you want truck for Dearing, whereupon I
te get out at your way. a ^eed to vote for an increase of
were chosen as a committee to con
fer with the Senate committee
The plan on foot is to purchase
the home place of the late Senator
Watson out of a memorial fund to
be raised by friends of Mr. Watson,
and convert it into a memorial.
SHERIFF VISITS FLORIDA.
Sheriff A. D. Adkins returned
Thursday from a trip to Florida,
where he went in search for negro
laborers who left McDuffie county
without first settling up with their
creditors. The sheriff brought back
four of them that he found at places
along his route.
The crops in that section, Sheriff
Adkins reports, are in fine condition.
