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M’DUFFIE SHIPS ITS
1ST CARPEANUTS
McDuffie county’s first car of pea
nuts was loaded and shipped Mon
day, the peanuts being bought by
Mr. Cliff Farmer. The price paid
was $135 per ton, which is considered
a very good price at this time.
These peanuts were raised by vari
ous farmers in the county, and being
the first time they were raised for
the market, it is considered some
what in the nature of an experiment
al crop.
In talking with some of those who
planted peanuts, they seem very well
pleased with the results this year,
saying there is more money in them
than cotton. This, ; t is understood,
has been the experience of thbse in
other parts of the state, and it is
presumed more peanuts will be plant
ed in this county next year than were
planted this year.
THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1923.
IS REAPPOINTED
Rev. J. T. Robins, who has been
pastor of the Thomson Methodist
ciiurch for the past year, was re-ap
pointed by the Conference to this
church for another year.
Methodists are also delighted that
Rev. J. W. Quillian is to remain as
their presiding elder.
The appointments as affecting this
district in the-immediate section are
as follows:
Presiding Elder, J. W. Quillian. /
Thomson, J. T. Robins.
Thomson Circuit, J. O. Burnett.
Bearing, Odum Clark.
Harlem, A. E. Scott.
Mesena, Foster Young, supply.
Warrenton, W. S. Norton.
Commissioner of Education, W. L.
Pierce.
COTTON MARKET
MAKESBIG GAINS
New York.—Following its big ad
vance into new high ground Tues
day, the cotton market Wednesday
made further sensational advances
which lifted December contract above
37 cents and carried the entire list
60 to 115 points net higher, with final
prices at best levels of the day.
Near the, close December touched
37.12, the highest price that had ap
peared on the quotation board since
1920.
THOMSON HIGH TEAM PLAYS
AUGUSTA SHAMROCKS.
Unusual interest centered in the
football game preparations for
Thursday when the Thomson High
School team matched the Shamrocks
in Augusta.
The social feature of the game
was enhanced by the choosing of
sponsors. Lively enthusiasm was
shown in the election of the young
ladies who represented the Thomson
team, resulting in the selection of
Miss Mildred Farmer as sponsor,
with Misses Frances Reid and Ada
Davey as her attendants.
Upon their arrival in Augusta the
football squad and their sponsors
were taken by the Augusta boys to
their different homes for the Thanks
giving dinner, In the afternoon they
were taken to the Richmond-River-
side game. As a happy ending of
the day’s sport a dance was given
for the opposing teams in the Sacred
Heart College Hall.
The game was a very spirited one,
and while the Thomson boys lost, it
was agreed they gave the Shamrocks
a tight struggle for supremacy.
METHODIST PLEASED OVER RE
APPOINTMENT OF PASTOR.
The return of Rev. J. T. Robins to
serve as pagtor of the Methodist
church another year is gratifying to
his many friends here.
During their residence of a year in
Thomson Rev. and Mrs. Robins and
Mrs. Branch, Mrs. Robin’s mother,
have endeared themselves to the
many with whom they have been as
sociated.
Having the advantage of knowing
the field, work organized and leaders
lined up, the outlook for a second
year promises to be fruitful and with
the ties of friendship and other at
tractions it is hoped that the pastor
and his family are as happy to re
main here as the people are to have
them.
Rev. W. 1). Spence, who has had
charge of the Thomson circuit was
transferred to Roswell, Ga., and Rev.
J. 0. Burnette given that appoint
ment.
I Mr. Spence is a young preacher
with promise of a bright future and
he will carry to his new field the good
j wishes of the people over the com-
j munities where his ministerial service
has been enjoyed.
more mar
fifty cities and towns have become C ° mpany3 misconduct.”
converted to the city manager plan
of administration in the past vom- McIN TYRE SHOULD READ THE
superceding the assembly, councfi or PAPERS -
selectman form of group government
under a mayor, according to Secre
tion. The city of Cleveland, one of
the first ten cities in the country in
- , v,wuuLi % y III r ~
the point of population ,is said to be reau insular affairs, said, in his
COTTON GINNED IN McDUFFIE
COUNTY.
MR. FRANK GRESHAM DIED
FRIDAY MORNING.
The many friends of Mr. Frank
Gresham will be grieved to learn of
his death, which occurred in Augusta
at the home of his mother, Mrs. H.
P. Schneider, Friday morning at five
o’clock, of tuberculosis.
For many years Mr. Gresham re
sided in Thomson, moving to Augusta
about two years ago. He had many
warm friends here among the young
folks with whom he grew to man
hood.
Mr. Gresham will be buried in West
View cemetery Augusta, Saturday
aftrenoon at 3:00 o’clock.
There were 4,297 bales of cotton,
ounting round as half bales, ginne I
n McDuflie county from the crop of
1923, prior to November 14, 1923,
compared with 2,619 bales ginned to
4ovember 14, 1922.
SUNNY SIDE NEWS
Mrs. J. D. Hobbs spent Wednes
day in town.
Mrs. J. P. Anderson called on Mrs.
J. D. Ilobbs Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. J. P. Anderson spent the
week-end with his wife and daughter.
Our Sunday school is progressing
licely. We are beginning to get
ready for our Xmas program. We
hope Old Santa will be good to all
the little children.
Mrs. Florine Story, Bill and Gor
don Story spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. John Terry.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Rabun spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Story
at Pine Grove.
Mr. Clinton Hobbs spent the week
end with Mr. Jack Hobbs.
Mrs. James Anderson spent a short
while with Mr. and Mrs. J. P. An
derson Sunday.
Miss Blond Hobbs and Mr. Dur
ham Ilobbs spent Saturday afternoon
in Thomson.
SALEM NEWS.
By Cutie.
Well, we are back again after be
ing absent for a week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. May and chil
dren spent Sunday with Mrs. G. W.
May.
Mr. and Mrs. Dozier Rogers were
the guests of Mrs. Gertrude McCorkle
Sunday.
Mr. Claude May, of Atlanta, spent
last week with his mother, Mrs. G
W. May.
Mr. W. M. Rogers was the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Rogers, ■ of
Thomson, Sunday.
Mr. E. L. Mathews and Mr. W. M.
Rogers made a trip to Thomson
Tuesday.
Mrs. George Colvin and Miss Nina
McCorkle were the guests of Mrs.
J. O. May Wednesday afternoon.
Glad to sec you back again, Brown
Eyes, and hope you won’t be absent
any more.
THE NATION’S CAP
Washington, D. C., Nov. 29.
300 CITIES ADOPT MANAGER
SYSTEM.
More than 300 cities and towns,
have adopted the city manager plan
of government since its inception in
1904 in Sumter, N. C. More thar
• nse by taking greater profits that*
lermitted and other offenses. It
isks recovery of $1,671,882 for al*
eged excessive charges between Sep
tember, 1918, and March, 1919, and
.he return of $422,242 profits, which
it avers were forfeited because of the
Although political activities in the
3 hilippine Islands and in Porto Rico
tary John G. St.utz of the associa- , bave been marked in the past fiscal
ear, Major General Frank McIntyre,
chief of the War Department’s bu-
manager
annual report, ust made public, that
there was little justification for re
ports that “a condition of unrest ex
isted in these territories.”
preparing to adopt the
form of government.
FILMS ARE INTERSTATE
BUSINESS. I
Exchange of motion picture films FOR SALE,
through state distributors constitute | Shi PPing Board has advertised
interstate commerce and is subject ^ or sa ^ e twelve obsolete steel ves-
to Federal laws, including the Sher- se * s and one concrete vessel. A con-
man Anti-Trust law, according to an , °T the sale is that the vessels
opinion rendered by the United be scra PPcd in the United States#
States Supreme Court in the case of I
Charles G. Binderup against the CHANGES IN RETAIL PRICES
Bathe Exchange, Inc., of Nebraska.
The plaintiff asserted that he had
been - driven out of business at Min-
JF FOOD.
During the month from September
5, 1923, to October 15 1923, 17 ar-
den, Nebraska, through the refusal tides on which monthly prices are
of varicHis exchanges to supply him
films. He contended that the State
exchanges entered into a conspiracy
to put him out of business and plac
ed him on the black list. He held
that there ha3 been a restraint of
trade by the Pathe Exchange, be
cause this and eighteen other ex
changes refused to let him have
films.
ecured by the Government increased
.s follows: Strictly fresh eggs, 12
er cent; granulated sugar, 10 per
ent; cheese and lard, 4 per cent;
butter, vegetable lard substitutes,
lour, corn meal, and onions, 2 per
ent; fresh milk, oleomargarine, rice,
.offee, bananas, and oranges, 1 per
.ent; canned red salmon and tea
ess than five-tenths of one per cent.
Thirteen articles decreased in price
I AX EXEMPT SECURITY. J s ofllows: potatoes, 15 per cent;
ihe value of the amount of prop- | -abbage, 9 per cent; pork chops, 1
erty in the United States which has
been rendered by various means ex
empt from taxation reached' in 1922
the stupendous sum of $54,000,000,-
000, says a statement by a national
real estate organization. This rep
resents slightly less than one-fifth
of our national wealth, and is equal,
roughly, to one-third of all property
assessed under the general property
tax, which forms the bulwark
>er cent; sirloin steak, round steak,
eg of lamb, navy beans, and prunes,
per cent; rib roast and raisins, 2
)er cent; chuck roast and hens, 1
,er cent; ham, less than five-tentha
of 1 per cent.
State and local government finance.
Special taxes against motor vehf«
le owners to cover the entire cost
of maintaining improved highways
of of the country have been recom-
THANKS THOMSON PEOPLE.
Washington, Ga., Nov. 26.
The McDuffie Progress, Thomson, Ga.
Through your paper I want to
thank the good people of your town
for the kind -ervice rendered me, and
the many words of sympathy ex
pressed, when on last Friday morn
ing I took my little son off the train
just after he died on the w’ay to the
hospital in Augusta.
Thanking you for this courtesy.
Yours very truly,
W. L. HENDERSON.
McDUFFIE PROGRESS AND
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
BOTH FOR SI.50.
The McDuflie Progress, has made
arrangements with The Southern
Cultivator, of Atlanta, whereby we
can send both The Proogress and
Cultivator for $1.50 per year, the
regular price of The Progress.
Both new subscribers and renew
als are entitled to this offer.
THE NATION’S TAX BILL.
The entire tax bill paid by the
nation in federal, state and local
levies for 1922 was $7,061,000,000,
as compared with $8,363,000,000 in
1921, the research of tjie conference
board found.
COOLIDGE—WHO NEVER
RESTS.
President Coolidge has declined all
invitations to attend functions in ; around 5,000,000 pounds^ aTcompar
mended by a committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce of the United
States. Such taxation, the commit
tee believes, should be carried by
motor vehicle owners to place this
mode of transportation on an equali
ty with the steam and electric rail
ways.
TURKEYS PLENTIFUL.
Turkeys are plentiful this year,
says the United States Department
of Agriculture., Storage stocks are
various parts of the country. It is | e d with 2,000,000 pounds last year,
behoved in Washington that he will Just what effect the existence 0 f
yield to no importunities, political or these storage stocks will have on re-
otheiwise, until alter the campaign tail prices is not known. The price
for the presidential nomination is situation is influencing some farm-
over. With the coming of Congress er3 to hold their stocks for the
Mi. Coolidge s obligations will be Christmas trade. Although the sup-
multiplied, and there is no prospect ply is large( the demand for turkoys
that he will have opportunity to seek will play a large part in movemen £
a vacation even for a brief period. and pricea . The large carry . over
UNDEI IVFRFiTTfTTFRS fr ° m laSt ^ iS attribute(i mainly
UNDELIVLKED LETTERS. to the high prices prevailing at that
In the fiscal year ended June, 1923, timef department officials pointing
17,000,000 letters were destroyed by out that as prices advance congump .
the dead letter office, most of them tion is curtai ied.
failing to carry through because of
incorrect or inadequate address or PROGRESSIVES CRITICISED,
absence of sender’s address. More , ... ....
than 17,000,000 writers sent letters ^ Tbe Passives' have said that
that never reached those to whom J 6 / armers are , in 3ad and
thev writton nr moiiorl Mr,, that governmental aid is needed, an<
they were written or mailed. Mroe
than 17,000,000 persons failed to re
ceive communications addressed to
they are sticking to it, although the
record shows that agricultural con
ditions have greatly improved,” says
'them. The makings of tragedies are amons nave greatly jmproved," say,
in those figures. Thousands of de- edltorial m the Washington Post
stroyed letters were of great im
portance. Postmaster General New
which adds: “Crops are worth many
millions more than last year, ths
farmers are better fixed than evei
suggests that in addition to care in ai ^ mc>1
addressing letters the address be before u and governmental aid
supplemented by deserptive and de- . lou ^ * e al ’nance oipora
ion and other agencies is meetmj
he demands in practically every sec
supplemented by deserptive and de
signative clews as to the identity o
the sendee.
The Whole Secret.
Progress Is a matter of going In the
right direction and keeping patiently
on.—. A nonymous.
tion. Not feazed by changes in tht
PACKERS ACCUSED OF $2,000,000 a g ricult ural situation that have cul
FRAUD the ground from under their argt
■ * - - j ments for special relief, the *pr<
'prepared by the Department of Jus-
j tice says the existence of such a
j ontract has r.ot. been proved, and
' accuses the company of fraud, viola
tion of its food administration li-
original tjieme.”
A counter-claim seeking recovery i ments specia pr ?
I of nearly $2,000,000, is the Govern- ^essivcs are still harping on then
1 ment’s answer to Swift & Company’s
allegation that the Government owes
it about $1,500,000 on a war-time
| contract for army bacon. A brief
Nothing Gcc.d Comes From Evil.
That which Is won 111 will neve
wear well, for there Is a curse attend
It which will waste it; and the sam
corrupt dispositions which incline mei
to the sinful ways of getting will In
cllne them to the like sinful ways 0
spending.—Matthew Henry.
