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VOL. XXIV.
THOMSON, GEORGIA, Friday, December u, 1923.
NUMBER 81.
Christmas Shopping In Thomson
GOVERNMENT CHEMIST IS IMPRESSED
WITH “BOLL WEEVIL DEATH” FORMULA
After consulting with the govern
ment chemist in Washington, D. C.,
Messrs. J. B. Burnside and C. B.
Story returned home Sunday, very
well pleased with their trip. They
went to Washington, as was stated
in last week’s paper, for the purpose
of registering Mr. Story’s formula,
“Boll Weevil Death,” with the patent
office, and for having patented the
mop with which to apply the solu
tion to cotton. They were success
ful in both instances, which insures
Mr. Story against infringement on
his patents. Mr. Burnside is acting
in a legal capacity for Mr. Story.
The government chemist is so im
pressed with Mr. Story’s fromula
that he has signified his intention of
giving it a thorough tryout the com
ing season when the weevils appear,
and if he finds it does the work, of
course the government’s approval
will go on it, which will mean suc
cess for the formula. The chemist
believes it will work. Mr. Story has
tried it out and knows it will work.
As said last week, it is gratifying
to know that Mr. Story will manu
facture his formula and mope in
Thomson. From present outlook it
promises to be a big proposition.
MERCANTILE MOTOR COMPANY WILL
BUILD MAIN STREET FILLING STATION
The Thomson Mercantile Motor
Company is preparing to start im
provements on its recently acquired
property, the former Sam Story place
on Main street.
This property was purchased by
the Mercantile Motor Co., where they
intend ~a little later to install a fill
ing station. Material is being plac
ed on the site now for a warehouse
to be built in the rear, which will be
used for storage purposes.
It is understood the company in
tends to build a station on Main
street that will eclipse anything in
this section of the state. In view of
the fact that tourist travel is expect
ed to come through Thomson princi
pally in future,' Mr. Price, manager
of the Thomson Mercantile Motor
Company, feels that it will be one of
the main stops for tourists, there
fore is worthy of putting in a station
to take care of this business.
Work will begin, in a few days on
the warehouse, and it is expected that
improvements on the property will
follow in due season.
PAW AND MAW FIND MUCH TO SURPRISE
THEM.—A BALE OF COTTON BUYS
A LOT OF CHRISTMAS CHEER.
PRESENT COTTON CROP OF COUNTY
NEARLY DOUBLE LAST YEAR’S VALUE
To November 14th of this year
there was ginned in McDuffie county,
according to government figures, 4297
bales of cotton. To the same date
last year the ginnings amounted to
2619 bales, making a difference of
1678 bales in favor of the present
season.
Taking an average of 30 cents per
pound for the present crop to the
above date, counting 500 pounds to
the bale, it will be found that the
crop would yield $644,550.00. And
figuring last year’s price at 25 cents,
which would be a most conservative
average for the crop to that date,
the crop would yield $327,375.00,
which gives a difference of $317,175
in favor of this year’s crop, or in
round numbers nearly a third of a
million dollars.
These figures are only an estimate,
it is believed that thisy will be some
where in the neighboi’hood of cor
rect, if not a little low.
It means much to a community
like this to have a third of a million
dollars handed to it. Last year the
cotton yield was very poor and the
price was low, while this year the
yield was good and the price middling
to fair.
CHRISTMAS SEALS NOW ON SALE IN
THOMSON—SEE THE COMMITTEE NOW
The sale of Tuberculosis Christmas
Seals is conducted in December an
nually in every state in the Union
and each state is rated on the basis
of its per capita sales. In 1921 Mew
York had the largest per capita sale,
New Hampshire had the next larg
est, while Georgia had the smallest.
In 1922 the rate was about the same,
Georgia still at the bottom of the
list, though her per capita was a little
better.
Last year McDuffie county sold
$43.35 worth of Seals. This year in
order to solve her own tuberculosis
problem and help improve the State’s
rating, the committee in charge will
try for a much larger sale and a
larger per capita. They think that
Georgia has been at the bottom of
the list long enough.
But it is not just to get a better
rating that the McDuffie committee
and State Tuberculosis Association
from McDuffie county last year, and
that means that there are fully nine
times that number of cases in the
county now. There were 2683 deaths
from this disease in the State last
year. The* sale in the State helped
the State and local associations to
reach and gtVP direction and care to
a few more than 3500 patients, the
Paw come home from town last
Satidday and he said Maw we didn’t
have much Christmas last year, so
you take this money I got for one
bale of cotton and you get the things
you want for the children and your
self this year. <
The stores look right pretty in
town, and we can go there next week
and you can shop.
Well sir, it most took my breath
away, and you better believe I hust
led the children up early the day me
and Paw was to go. So we went, and
the first store we came to sure did
look pretty, the way the windows
was fixed up and the Christmas tree
and everything. It was a grocery
store, and who should be running it
but Ras Morris’s son Jack, and that
nice son-in-law of Mr. Hadaway,
young Mr. Trimble. You’ll be sur
prised to see the way they have fixed
up for Christmas, and I declare I
couldn’t stop buying fruit, pound
cake, fruit cake and before I knew
it I had loaded up on fire wroks for
those boys at home—and it was scan
dalous the little money it took to
get all these things.
Then we went in the store where
Mr. Mathews has followed the busi
ness of his Paw; I sure did love his
Paw, and Emmett was so nice and
polite about showing me the things
he has for Christmas. I felt right
at horpe. He calls his store the
Mathews Drug Store and he has
some of the nicest things I ever did
i see at Chirtsmas in Thomson. He
| showed me a box that will do for
jewelry or a work box; it was madt
of mahogany, and had a box of candy
in it, and when Susie has, done eat
the candy, then she will have that
lovely box, all lined with, green vel
vet. I bought me a china bow! there,
because it was just too pretty and
too cheap for me not to. And some
of that Japanese hand painted china
he showed me I could hardly let go,
so I got a pretty tray for my sister
in law because I know she wont see
nothing prettier in Atlanta. And
they had some of the nicest candy
by the pound, and I got some of that
for the stockings and some toys, too.
Then Paw asked me why I didn’t
go to see what Mrs. Martin had, so
I did, and I never was so glad in my
life; for she had reduced all the hats
in her shop, and I got one that was
so pretty Paw made me wear it
home, and acted real foolish in there,
telling me right before Mrs. Martin
and Miss Emmie that I looked real
girlish in it. And I boughL a hat for
Susie and one for Lucy, while I was
there. The fine French linen hand
kerchiefs made me think of Paw’s
even if there isn’t much sense
getting them.
When Mack first opened his grocery
store we used to go there for the
makings of our fruit cakes every
year, and now that he has three
stores, you can get all you want at
any of the three; but we went to the
one on Journal street and he sura
in said was real good for the money;
so we bought Joe some school thing*
there and I got me some real nlc*
ginghams for the girls school dre*-
ses, and some home spuns for til#
house.
Mr. Horace Clary’s son, EaloflkL
has opened up a beef market toe?
girls a dressed doll, and some of
those iron toys for Joe.
After we got through two of the
drug stores, it didn’t seem like sense
to go to another, but Paw said for
us to try another, and we went down
to that Palace Drug Store, just
across the railroad. Well, we had
seen a lots of pretty things in the
other stores—but here was a lot
more. I asked about some candy I
saw in some pretty little jars and
the young man said it was a new
sort of jar that kept candy fresh as
long as there was any thing to keep;
so we
said Joe woman i nave to eat ail tne , ' , too and he told Pm» tVint Vm
candy a. soon as we got ho™ , or |‘» set a box of apple, along with the ^ , ^runon worMti
. , . . and he was the only one having tttr-
had some mce things there frurt keyg when j wanted Qne f „ Thank „
the fr % d f ° Cd S ivl "S> 30 I ordered another for
the fruits and nuts to fill them with Christmas. I didn't have a bit of
We got a ot of the things we needed luck with my turkeys thig an<J
for Christmas dinner there-fruits, jit ain - t Chriatnias without one at our
nuts and the things for the cake hW He has some nice vegetable,
Roy Johnson has always been first to0f and we b ht a right smart
to get the new things in the grocery
line, and he was the first to make us
buy a box of oranges, because it was
stuff from him.
The Bee Hive was so crowded W*
cheaper to get them that way. He C0U J ld , hardly get in > but we P u,be ‘ l
has apples by the box too, from those and , when we saw 30me of the cloth «*
placfes out West where they raise w , e kn ? w we had S° ne to the right
place for extra suits and shoes. He
bought r of them and Paw "tT.e.l £"2 p"at S h7,7 It
e wouldn’t have to eat all the are ane * te 1 you ’ 30 1 aW sau too and he told Paw that he vm
'°n a, we got homo fori* 0 ee * a box ot a M> los "longwith the ^ sptialrun on work”*
Id onoil Tn thi* P°x of oranges this year, and we did. , “, K , special run on woritmi
fjorn I llo And we &°t some of those'big table , clothe3 nnd shirts ’ Wlth warm under-
I saw some good looking . . . wear for the whole family. They an
lives of many of whom were saved
this in addition to much preventive I s ' stor ’ and * £ot some for her, be-
work among the well. This is a good cause she was alwa y 3 craz y about
showing, but there is still much more
to be done, and the work next year
depends upon the present Seal sale.
When a citizen of Thomson or any
citizen of 'the State receives a pack
age of the Christmas Seals through
the mail or is approached by a com
mittee he should think of the double
purpose of the seals—the lowering
of the death rate from tuberculosis
in his county and State, and the rais
ing of Georgia’s per capita rating,
and his purpose should be a declara-
are striving for. There were ten j tion that Georgia shall remain at the
deaths from tuberculosis reported 1 bottom no longer.
WANT TO QUIT
AND GO HOME
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 12.—The fate
of pending reform legislation of prac
tically every nature, reached a pre
carious condition at 1 o’clock today.
Several members of the House of
Representatives and two or three
Senators closed their accounts, pro-
ured transporration and left for thoir
homes on the early afternoon tiain.
The big issues of the extra sess’on
are still in the balance, and the ses
sion is going to either adjourn or dis
integrate tomorrow sometime—un
less Speaker Neill and others, who
were for a time today working to
that end, can enduce enough to re
main to carry over to noon Saturday.
That’s doubtful and before final ad
journment for today may be aban
doned.
The income tax bill is no nearer
solution at this hour. The sixth con
ference committee on it failed to
reach agreement or solution in the
forenoon and a seventh committee
wa.^called for. The record estab-
lishesa -pew precedent in legislation
in the state in conference.
ACOUSTICS INSTALLED AT
METHODIST CHURCH.
The acoustics installed at the
Methodist church were tried out last
pretty handkerchiefs. And I got one
or two pretty little tricks for the
girls there too, and all were so reas
onable priced.
Well, we kept on down Main street
till we came to the Thomson Drug
store, and they had some of the
prettiest manicure sets in the win
dow, and inside some of the finest
writing paper I ever saw. You know
how girls are about writing to their
beaus, and I got Susie a big box, and
I .know she will write to that fellow
of hers first thing Christmas morn
ing. The young man asked me
didn’t I want to see some “corn-
packs,” and I thought he said come
backs, and I told him no, I reckoned
we’d not be coming back any more
as I would of spent all I had, but he
laughed and .^aid he’d show me, so
he got out some cute little boxes a’.!
fussed up, and when he opened them
they had powder and a littlq glass
in them, and Paw said to get a couple
for the girls to powder their noses
with like all the girls was a doing,
so that made some more things fur
Susie and Lucy’s stockings. Well,
by that time we mo it looked like a
couple of dray horses, out we went
to Mr. Schneider’s store, and he sure
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Sunday and found to work splendid-' has %°t plenty of things that you
ly. Mr. Robins invites all who are
hard of hearing to come and use
them.
will want to buy. First off I got me
some of that gold figured china, and
then I got me a set of gold banded
fear it would
Drug Store
pipes, and when Paw wasn’t looking
I bought him one for land knows the
one he’s been smoking since Uncle
Jerry gave it to him five years ago
was about wore out and I wont try
to tell how it smelt. They had some
nice silver things too, like watches
and such, and I bought Susie a nice
wrist watch and I hope she wont
break it first thing.
We have been buying from the
Thomson Hardware Company a long
time, and when Paw saw the toys
he told me to get busy and first
thing I knowed him and Mr. Turner
was loading one of those new ranges
in to the wagon and a whole parcel
of that grand aluminum ware that
me and the girls have been so crazy
to have because it is so easy to keep
clean.
We went over to Hadaway’s then,
and I just told Paw he had to have
some new clothes, and he got him
a suit—the first he has had since
the War, but as it was such a good
suit and so cheap, he said me and
the girls had to have some of those
fine suede shoes and slippers. Give
me nice, easy high shoes for winter
-r-and I got a pair there, but we got
Susie and Lcuy a pair of the nicest
slippers of this suede the girls talk
so much about. And we got Joe a
sweater too.
Mr. Clyde Hunt sure has a nice
lay out this Christmas; I never saw
a woman that wasn’t crazy about
baskets and Lucy said she wanted
one to give her Granmaw so we got
a nice one, that will hold flowers, and
make the parlor look fine. In the
window they had some of the nicest
blankets ever I did see, not the old
fashioned kind but that new style
sort that makes a bed look so nice
in the day time, and so warm at
night. There were some pretty look
ing comfortables too, but we had a
plenty of patch work quilts at home
I didn’t bother. But we did get
Aunt Susie a pair of bed room slip
pers, for she sure suffers with cold
feet in the winter and Susie is named
after her.
I always did like to trade at
Steine’s, and this year he has some
things the other stores didn’t have.
Some of those new sandals in col
ored leathers, that they call the King
Tut sandals; my brother lives way
out in the country and his girls don’t
see the new things, so we got each of
his girls a pair—a red pair for the
youngest girl and a green pair for the
big one; and they never have had no
silk stockings, and you can get a
good quality here right reasonable,
so I got them a pair to go with the
sandals. They had these pretty lit
tle narrow ties too, so I got the boys
some. And I got me a new corset—
land knows I needed it, and Mrs.
Steine showed me the new styled
one for fat women—and I ain’t as
slim as I was when me and Paw got
married. v
Mr. Kunnes has his show
windows mighty pretty too, but the
silver ware was what caught my eye.
We went in there and Paw said this
was as good a time as any to load
up on knives and forks and spoons,
as we could get them so cheap, and
he bought us one or those sets ivith
all -the things in them, and I am
sure proud of, am know wo will
feel set up when \/e use it Christ-
raisins too, for Joe will eat all he can wear ior tne wnoie fami1 ?- Th ®y •*»
get of what I have for the fruit cake, pleasant P e °Pl° to deal with, toe?
if I let him and all the doctors say ! and we were S lad we went there -
fruit and raisins make healthy chil
dren. You can get fine candy here all
Mr. Barney Scott has got hint A
nice stock of goods on Railroad
ready mixed too, and we had to get street, and he has plenty of the beat
some of that for the stockings.
No body ever comes to Thomson
that don’t go to Mat Hayes, and this
year he out did him self in the things
he got for Christmas. Dolls, fancy
boxes with neck ties in them, per
fume sets, fa^cy bags, Christmas
candles, umbrellas, all looked fine
and pretty, and > we bought a right
smart there too. He has some of
those mamma dolls that cry just as
natural when you bend them over,
and I got one for Lucy.
The people that run the Economv
Store on Railroad street sure are
accommodating, and they had a nice
line of ready made things that Paw
canned goods to keep you from wor
rying about what to have when the
vegetables give out. He’s got some
nice things for the children too.
We had some of the money left
over, but we had every blessed thing
we needed and a lot I just wanted?
and I said we’d put the rest in the
bank for a nest egg for next Christ
mas, so we divided it and put it ill
the banks.
But you can believe me; there aint
no body going to have any better
time this Christmas than me and PaW
and the children, and every thing WO
got came from our own home town
i of Thomson.
HUNDREDS OF WHITE PEOPLE ATTEND
WEDDING OF COLORED COUPLE SUNDAY
An unusual occurrence in Thomson
was that, of hundreds of white people
congregating at a colored church to
witness the marriage of a colored
couple and pay their respects to the
contracting parties.
The marriage was that of “Jimmie
Lou” Stapler and
which took place
church Sunday night at nine o’clock.
The church is a large one, and it
was filled to overflowing, the crowds
reaching out into the church yard.
White and colored friends of the
couple mingled together in one com
mon accord to pay tribute to their
colored friend.
The scene was unusual in that it
is not commdn foy the two races to
congregate on such occasions, but
there was a feeling of friendship for
the groom and his bride that brought
them together on this occasion.
“Jimmie Lou” is just a common?
every-day, under-sized negro boy?
who has shined shoes at Hancock'*
barber shop for many years, and all
alike have a kind feeling for him.
He is strictly of the humble class?
Emma Butler, 1 kind and considerate, and there are
at Springfield many white people who would stand
by him in a pinch. It was simply A
tribute to honesty and sincerity, good
will arid friendship.
The couple were the recipients of
many gifts, some of them valuable
and lasting. Some of his friends
gave him money, others tokens of
remembrance.
The cei*emony was attended wfth
usual pomp and ceremony incident
to colored weddings. Rev. J. W,
Whitehead, pastor of Springfield,
church, performed the ceremony.
LOCUST GROVE LITERARY SO
CIETIES CHOOSE FALL
TERM DEBATORS.
Locust Grove, Dec. 12.—The Phil-
omathean and Philosophian Literary
Societies of Locust Grove Institute
have chosen three debators each 1 * to
represent these organizations in ti e
inter-society fall term debate sche
duled to be held at the Institute De
cember 22. Since these societies
are composed of the entire student
body, it is quite a distinction I or a
student to be elected to this politicn.
The subject proposed for debate
this fall is an historical one: Resolv
ed, That the Life Imprisonment of
Napoleon on the Island of Saint Hel
ena was Justifiable. Messrs. D. E.
Duggan of Hawkinsville, J. F. Har
din of I?eah, and Wm. King of Spring METHODIST
Place, will champion the affirmative
side for the Philomatheans; Messrs.
F. M. Davis of Toccoa, Y. T. Sheffield
of Pinehurst, and Swift Vaughter of
.JUNIOR ORDER
ELECTS OFFICERS
The Junior Order of . American
Mechanics elected the fo'''owing offi
cers at its meeting this week.
C. C. Hall, Councilor.
J. D. Adkins, Vice Councilor.
W. A. Watson, Chaplain.
W. T. Broom, Financial Sec’y.
H. E. Wrens, Treasurer.
J. J. Benning, Recording Sec'jL
H. G. Jones, Warden.
H. T. Powell,. Outside SentineK
H. T. Mathews, Inside Sentinel,
H. A. Rogers, Conductor.
Dr. S. Gibson, J. T. Ivey, J. R. Farr?
Trustees.
SCHOOL
SUNDAY
INVITES YOU.
More than four hundred chair*
will be waiting at the Methodist Satt-
Elberton, will defend the negative da Y school room Sunday morning
for the Philosophians. Much inter- for more than four hundred member*?
est and a strong spirit of helpful Don’t let your chair be lonesome?
rivalry is being manifested by both Besides special music and good Sun-
societies as the date of the debate da y school, some specials to be out-„
approaches. lined - Get read y for the big victory?
| Visitors cordially invited.
TO GRAVEL STREETS. I
tea cups, and some vases and a j mas Day. They had some fine cut
pitcher with glasses to match. Talk j glass too, and if' I had a lot more
about toys—but he has them, '.nd 1 money I sure would have gotten a
Hospitality.
A cannibal's motto for strangers.
“First come; first served.’’—From the ' y° u can S et things from twenty-five . lot of that too—little baskets and
Medical Quip. [cents up. We got each of the little things that a woman likes to have
WORK SOON TO BEGIN ON THE
BAPTIST CHURCH ANNEX.
Material is arriving and being
The City of Thomson has purchas
ed two acres of land from Mrs. Ira
Farmer, from which they will get
gravel to surface the streets of hauled to thp church yard for the
Thomson. This gravel has been annex to the Baptist church, and the
found to be ideal for the purpose, and actual work of building the new per-
it will be gratifying to know that the tion to the church will be started in'
streets are to be thus improved. " .a few days. ,
