Georgia Historic Newspapers

    VOLUME aXV.
THOMSON, GEORGIA, Friday, January is, 1024.
NUMBER 4.
DEATH OF MRS. COTTON MILL WILL
JOHN T. WEST OPEN MONDAY
FARMERS WEEK AT
STATE COLLEGE
Mrs. Laura F. West, wife of Col.
John T. West, died at her home in
West Thomson at 12 o’clock Tuesday
night after an illness lasting several
months.
Mrs. West’s health showed a state
of decline in the spring and she
sought a complete rest at a mountain
side cottage near Clayton, Ga., whero
she remained during the summer.
She returned home early in Septem
ber where, patiently and cheerfully
she has striven to regain her health,
upheld through all the long days of
suffering by a beautiful fortitude and
optimism.
Mrs. West, daughter of Dr. E. C.
Hawes and Amanda O. Wilson
Hawes, was born in McDuffie county
April 9th, 1863. She was mai-ried
to Mr. John T. West in 1884. She
is survived by her husband and three
children, Mrs. T. F. Fleming, of
Sparta, Mr. J. Quinn West and Mr.
Roger H. West, of Thomson.
Other bereaved relatives are her
brothers, Mr. E. W. Hawes, of Thom
son, Mr. S. C. Hawes, of McDuffie
county, one sister, Mrs. N. E. .Ware,
of Thomson, her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Rosa Hawes, wife of deceased broth
er, Mr. William M. Hawes, and seven
grand children.
The burial rites were held at the
grave, Rev. C. C. Kiser officiating,
interment being at West View ceme
tery at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon.
The active pallbearers were Messrs.
C. E. Martin, J. S. Boyd, P. S. Knox,
J. B. Burnside, J. E. Wilkerson, B.
F. Johnson.
Honorary pallbearers: Messrs. J.
E. Gross, P. A. Bowden, B. P. O’Neal,
W. S. Mobley, J. G. Stovall, P. B.
Johnson, W. W. Hardaway, G. W.
Lokey, H. T. Clary, W. J. Perry, H.
A. Price, Ira Brinkley, T. B. Hamil
ton, W. A. Watson, A. L. McLean
D. B. Hadley, R. L. Hadaway, R. A.
Kunnes, E. H. McCord, J. B. Sam
uels, S. F. Neal, B. J. Stevens, A. H.
Thrasher, J. E. Harrison, J. B. Boyd,
A. G. Porter, J. T. Neal.
Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Pitner and Mrs.
Ed Wingfield, of Washington, were
here Thursday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. J. T. West. Other out-of-
town friends who were present were
Judge Hammond, of Augusta, and
Judge Shurley, of Warrento\i.
| Washington, D. C., Jan. 16.
Mr. N. B. Murphy, manager of the A BID FQR MUSCLE SHOALS.
Lullwater Cotton Mill at Thomson, Southern power companies have
has arrived and will start operations made a tentative offer 0 f $100,000,-
at the mill Monday. qqq f or utilization of the power at
Work will begin at once cleaning Musde shoals for fifty years . Under
up the machinery, an it is lopec o pj an Henry Ford would be allow-
begin the actual making of cloth in ed tQ taRe oyer the nitrate plants
a week or more. i and operate them for the fertilizer
Plans of the company as disclos- manufacturer if he wiahed . The of-
ed to The Progiess y ^ r. m piy> f er does no t include these plants, but
the genial manager, inc u c a wi< e S p ec j^ ca jj y provides that a large
range of development, including not KWL . nf nnnror aVinl)
block of power shall be reserved for
only the personnel o^the^ force^o bc fertiHzer production> Representa
tive Hull, a member of the House
16.59 per capita. The actual amount
lies somewhere between these figures.
FIRST NATIONAL
HAS GOOD REPORT
The regular annual meeting of th*
stockholders of the First National
maintained, but the building up and
extension of the plant. 1 here is
plenty of capital bejiind the company
and it is intended to eventually make
Military Committee says that the
Ford plan is inadequate from the
„ , , . , ... ,, standpoint of public benefit or of a
this one of t ie lgges mi s in le ydurn Government of its war-
Athens, Ga., Jan. 16.—Farmers
Week, the annual short course fo.
M pt \ i Mivimr tv pat n?m?VT a farmers and business men of Georgia Bank was held on Tuesday, January
TheV,”"™ftegou silver! bo held at the State College of 8th. The cashier reported to th.
per, and lead produced in California Apiculture January 21-26, 1924, ac- stockholders an Unusually good year 5
in 1923 is estimated at $20,646,400, 1 cordin S to a recent announcement . business for 1923. They have en-
as compared with $21,332,168 in 1922. ; from that institution. deavored to serve this community m
The gold produced in 1923 is estimat- j County agents from all over the every possible way consistent with
ed at 642,200 ounces, valued at $13,-I state will be present also and will good banking.
274,300, as compared with a value hold their annual conference in con- | An eight per cent dividend on their
of $14,670,346 in 1922. Apparently junction with the farmers meeting, | capital of $90,000.00 was paid, and
authorities stated. j their capital and surplus at this timd
While all phases of problems con- j is over $135,000.00.
fronting farmers this year will find | Mesars - B ' F ' Johnson, Paul A,
a place on the program, emphasis Bowden, R. L. Hadaway, R. A. K.tm-
will be placed on marketing, and some i n es, Dr. S. Gibson, E. H. McCor , >
of the foremost authorities in the W - Loke y and G - White Jordan were
state.
Mr. Murphy bespeaks the coopera
tion and good will of the people oi
Thomson, which he will gladly receive
from all civic bodies.
BOYS LEARNING
time investment of $107,060,000,
whereas the power companies’ t 51 * 0-
posal would insure a proper return.
In his opinion the new plan is “the
1 most practical solution yet advanced
j for one of the most troublesome
problems, with which Congress had
1 had to deal.”
OFFICIAL REAL ESTATE
ETHICS.
First prize in Ihe state-wide cotton | A concerted effort to prevent the
growing contest for high school boys haphazard settlement and reclama-
in agricultural classes will go to tion of idle lands is being made by
Dewey Morgan, a tenth grade pupil many State governments, the United
in the Buchanan High School, in States Department of Agriculture
Haralson county, according to an an- reports. Practically every State of-
nouncement made by F. E. Land, ficial interviewed by a Department
State Director of Vocational Educa- j investigator in 25 States declared
t ; on I that the old-ftime Land boom and
This 18 year old boy produced 1849 J auction land sales methods are be-
pounds of lint cotton on three acres ing discouraged. State officials and
of land, which together with the seed private organizations are working to
produced sold for $765.00. j bring about a sound and legitimate
As winner of this contest in which 'system of land settlement, which will
the reduction was due to a decrease
in the output of the deep mines, for
the dredges, which normally yield 90
per cent of the placer bullion, were
more productive than in 1922.
The silver produced in 1923 is es
timated at 3,444,540 ounces, nearly
345.000 ounces more than in 1922.
The output of copper in 1923 is es
timated at 27,098,300 pounds, about
4.560.000 pounds more than in 1922.
the output of lead in 1923 is estimat
ed at 8,400,700 pounds, nearly 2,100,-
000 pounds more than in 1922.
Judge Lokey Will Not
Enter Race.
To the Citizens of McDuffie County.
I take this method of announcing
that I shall not be a candidate for the
office of ordinary of McDuffie county
for the ensuing term.
Owing to business affairs which de
mand so much of my time, I find that
it will be impossible for me to con
tinue in office without great personal
sacrifice. I have determined there
fore, in justice to myself, not to re
main in public service after the ex
piration of my present term of office.
In this connection, I desire to thank
my friends who have so loyally sup
ported me in the past, and who have
pledged me their future support in
the event I should make the race.
I shall always greatly remember and
appreciate these friends and stand
ready to serve them whenever the
opportunity may arise.
Gratefully yours,
G. W. LOKEY.
Thomson, Ga., Jan. 17, 1924.
Mr. Claude Story Dies
In Florida.
more than 300 boys took part, Dewey
will receive the first prize of $100.00
in gold which was awarded by the
Atlanta Trust Company.
This contest which was conducted
by the Georgia State Board for Vo
cational Education was open to any
boy in any of the vocational agricul
tural classes in the high schools of
Georgia. In order to compete a boy
was required to grow three acres of
cotton under the supervision of his
teacher. The awards were based on
the value of lint cotton produced as
determined by the graders of the | Financing
Georgia Cotton Growers Co-operative
Association.
Two hundred and eighty-five boys
completed their cotton growing pro
jects and submitted their records .to
L. M. Sheffer, Assistant Supervisor
of Agricultural Education, who was
in charge of the contest. The aver-
benefit the settler as well as the
country. Corrective legislation has
been passed in many instances. A
large influx of settlers, inexperienced
in pioneer tactics and with little capi
tal, located under unfavorable con
ditions, and doomed to failure from
the beginning, has proved in more
FARMERS WHO GO BROKE.
More than eight and one-half per
cent of the owner-farmers in fifteen
corn and wheat producing States lost
their farms with or without legal
process between 1920 and the spring
of 1923, the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has learned
through a special inquiry to which
2,400 farmers in the Upper Missis
sippi Valley replied. In addition,
more than 15 per cent of the owners
were in fact temporarily insolvent,
but. held on through the leniency or
creditors.
country will be present and address
the conference on this subject. Pro
duction will come in for a large share
of the discussion and College authori
ties will cover this part of the pro
gram.
The results of boll weevil control
work carried on during the past year
will be presented and recommenda
tions made for tthe coming year. Soy
beans permanent pasture, and com
munity production oj: varieties will
also be discussed.
elected directors for 1924.
The following officers were reelec
ted: B. F. Johnson, President; Paul
A. Bowden, Vice-President; G. White
Jordan, Cashier; J. H. Morgan and
Miss Anese Davey, Bookkeepers.
Tobacco Production*
SUGAR PRODUCTION AND
CONSUMPTION.
The average amount of sugar eaten
in the United States is two pounds
per person per week. Consumption
of sugar is higher in this country
than in most other parts of the worlu.
it has increased to its present levei
from 10 pounds per capita in tin
The Light That Doesn’t
Fail.
than one State a means of retarding j hundred years. At 6 cents
rather than advancing development,
says the Agricultural Department.
BUM TIRES BY MAIL.
The Rose Tire Corporation, United
Syndicate, Dealers Tire
pound, sugar provides 100 calories o
energy for one-third of a cent, a fig
ure lower than that for almost an.
other familiar food material. Can
and sugar beet production in the coi.
unental United States supplies bare
ly one-fourth of the total of more
The United States is lighting the
world. The American incandescent
lamp finds favor in the most advanc
ed of the great manufacturing coun
tries, for in 1920 the number of
“metal filament” lamps alone sent to
England was 507,000, to Belgium
746.000, to Italy 330,000, and to Eu
rope as a whole approximately two
and one-fourth million. Candad
which buys freely of all of our man
ufacturers took in 1920 nearly 4,000,-
000 incandescent lamps. Cuba took
over 2,000,000, Brazil in 1919 took
practically 3,000,00.0, and Argentina
1.500.000, while the number taken
by Australia in 1921 aggregated con-'
siderably over a million.
The production of cigar types of
tobacco last year were 195,788,000
pounds as compared with 175,001,000
pounds in 1922. Production of cigaif
tobacco increased in all tobacco-
growing States except Ohio where"
the crop decreased around 750,000
pounds.
The crop for all types for snuff
and chewing, cigarette and pipe to
bacco ’totalled 1,278,988,000 pounds
in 1923 as compared with 1,071,836,-
000 pounds in 1892. The burley crop
alone jumped from 275,601,000
pounds in 1922 to 326,116,000 pounds
in 1923. The Old Belt type of to
bacco crop in North Carolina and
Virginia was 249,500,000 pounds in
1923 as compared with 209,708,000
pounds in 1922, and the New Belt
crop of North Carolina, South Caro
lina and Georgia was 306,647,000
pounds compared with 199,060,000
pounds. Decreased production is
shown for a few types, but the de
creases are more than offset by the
increases in other kinds.
Company, Low Price Tire Company,
n f than 5,000,000 tons consumed annual
and the Mail Order Tire Company of . ’ ’ , „ , ..
. . , . . , t ly m this country. Production o
Chicago have been denied the use of
the mails. From the evidence at the
hearing in the case it was shown that
the concern, opertacd by Bernard and
Milton Holtzman, received orders
ranging from 110 to 150 per day and
age production made by these boys j did a monthly business of more than
was two hundred and eighty-two ; $12,000. Discarded and usually
pounds of lint per acre; or just ex- worthless tires were purchased from
actly 200 pounds per acre more than junk dealers and others, repaired at
the average production made by® the 1 a school for automobile and tire
farmers of the state. The ten high- 1 mechanics at 65 cents each, and sold
est boys in the contest made thirty- ' by mail throughout the country as
one five hundred pound bales on thir- j “slightly” used tires. The tires, al-
ty acres of land. though old, and in most instances
In addition to the first prize of absolutely worthless, were neverthe-
$100, five other prizes were awarded, less carefully wrapped in a manner
The second prize went to Herbert to new tires.
Warren of Hartwell, who made just i
as many pounds of cotton as D^wey RETAIL FOOD PRICES.
Morgan but which graded so that its j During the month from November
total value was a trifle lower. Third 115, 1923, to December 15, 1923, 14 of
prize went to George O’Kelley of ' 22 cities showed decreases in prices
Wintterville; fourth to Roy Park of food. Seattle showed a reduction of
Commerce, and fifth and sixth to 3 per cent. Eight cities showed in-
Julian Macijewski and Foye Sanders ! creases. Peoria increased 2 per cent.
of the Reed Creek High School. )
In ‘connection with the records THE PUBLIC DEBT,
submitted by the winner of the con- j The Department of Commerce ati-
test he wrote a brief account of how nounces that the total gross debt of
he handled his three acres to make the National Government and of the
his remarkable yield. In this he States, counties, cities, and all other
states that two acres of his land civil divisions amounted to $0,814,-
was alflafa sod and that the other 955,000 in 1912 and $32,786,715,000
acre had been in soy beans the year in 1922, an increase of 381 per cent,
before. He plowed his land in the The per capita gross debt was $70.20
fall with a tractor about eigth inches in 1912 and $301.56 in 1922. For the
deep. Two loads of stable manure State Governments the debt increas-
and 400 pounds of high grade ferti- ed from $422,796,000 to $1,162,648,-
lizer were applied per acre. The 000, an increase of 175 per cent; for
field was plowed six times, and 50 the counties, from $371,528,000 to
Mr. Story left Thomson over a pounds of calcium arsenate was used. $1,366,636,000, an increase of 268 per
year ago and has been conducting a j The results of this contest have cent; and for all other civil divisions,
garage in Winter Garden. He was of been so satisfactory, as a means of from $3,104,426,000 to $7,731,658,000,
a large family of brothers and sisters, teaching boys to grow almost normal an increase of 149 pei cent.
His father lived to a ripe old age, yields of cotton under boll weevil j The gross debt of the National
having died at the old family home conditions, that plans* are being made Government increased from $2,916,-
plaee a few miles from Thomson only by the State Board, for Vocational 205,000 in 1913 to $22,525,773,000 in
a few years back. Education for conducting a similar 1923, or 672 per cent. The indebted-
Besides his wife and three small contest next year. ,ness of other countries to the United
children, Mr. Story is survived by — States November 15, 1923, was $11,-
the following brothers and sisters: j TRANSFERRED TO THOMSON. 800,010,245; and of this total $4,600,-
S. G. Story, of Thomson; H. G. Story, ' 000,000 represents the debt against
of Athens; Mrs. F. J. Hyland, of At- Mr. C. H. Moore, who has for the Great Britain.
lanta; Mrs. H. H. Hadden, Mrs. Hu- past several months had charge of The annual interest on the gross
bert Kendrick, Mrs. Bessie English, the Georgia Lumber Company’s cleri- debt outstanding, $32,786,715,000,
of McDuffie county. cal work at Gibson, has been khans- computed at the rate of 4 per cent,
Burial took place Wednesday after- ferred to the Thomson office of the would amount to $1,311,468,600, or
noon at the old family burial ground company. His friends are all glad $12.06 per capita. At 4 1-2 per cent,
at Ebenezer church, near Aonia, he ha3 returned home and we feel and 1 per cent sinking fund the total
Wilkes county. sure he is equally as glad to get back, charges would be $1,803,269,325, or
News was received in Thomson
Tuesday of the death of Mr. Claude
M. Story, which occurred at his home
in Winter Garden, Fla., Monday,
death being due to Brights disease.
He was about 45 years of age
ly in this country,
sugar under the American flag i.
about half the amount consumed b.,
ihe American people.
GASOLINE STOCKS.
Gasoline stocks in the Unite:
States amounted on December 1 to
985,046,373 gallons; an increase o
38,000,000 gallons, or 4.03 per cen.
during November. The domestic
consumption of gasoline during No
vember was 538,308,809 gallons, ac
cording to a statement made by the
United States Bureau of Minos.
HUMAN BODY IS A COMBUSTI
BLE ENGINE.
If it were possible to so enclose a
man that he could continue to breathe
and no heat could escape from his
body, he would die within a short
time, states Dr. T. T. Read, super
vising mining engineer, Department
of the Interior, and F. C. Houghten,
of the American Society of Heating
and Ventilating Engineers, in a pub
lication just issued by the Bureau of
Mines. The normal temperature of
the human body
grees F. and whenever work is done
by the muscles, indeed even when
sitting still, the normal bodily pro
cesses generate heat which must be
given off', otherwise the body will be
come overheated and a number of
bad effects will be produced. In a
series of experiments made at the
Pittsburgh Station of the Bureau of
Mines, it was found that a dry-bulb
and a wet-bulb temperature of 112.5
degrees F. could be borne for only
35 minutes, even when the subjects
were at rest. A wet-bulb tempera
ture of 100.4 degrees F. (dry-bulb
What the Public Should Know About Cancer
Prepared for Publication by the Cancel Commission of the Medical
Association of Georgia and the Georgia Division of the Amer
ican Society for the Control of Cancer.
Warning No. 1.
scaly “scab,” which leaves a reddish
surface when removed.
The skin is made up of several
layers of cells which resemble the
brick forming the walls of a house.
Skin cancers grow from different
layers of these cells. Those about
the head and face arise from the
, . ! basement layers, do not grow fast,
Such a conception is erroneous; a 1 and
sore may o rmay not be a career and,
The popular conception of a cancer
is that it is an open sore which shows
a tendency to increase in size and
depth, which does not yield to ordi
nary methods of treatment, and which
is finally followed by severe consti
tutional symptoms.
when it is it may be one of tho sim
pler varieties that can be ured by any
one of several remedies. Probably 50
to 75 per cent of tthe cancers aifcer-
tised as cured by quacks ie/er were
cancres.
The most serious cancres never
appear as external sores; consequent
ly, the popular idea concerning them
must be revised before the death
rate can be reduced. Unfortunately,
early cancers do not cause pain. If
they did, the death rate could be ma
terially lowered in a few years; peo
ple will .seek medical aid for pain,
while a deadly disease that does not
about 98 5 de- cause P a ' n will go unheeded.
Cancer most frequently make3 its
appearance as a lump—of course all
lumps are not cancers. Again most
cancers are found in people past
forty years of age; the two decades , .
from thirty-five to fifty-five claim the may havo . a raised > ^my appearance
largest number of victims. Certain
organs and parts of the body are the
do not spread of “metastasize”
early or rapidly to the nearby glands.
They rarely return when thoroughly
removed and may be treated success
fully by a numbfer of means.
In other parts of the body skin
cancers are more serious because
they arise from another layer oof tho
cells of the skin. They grow rapidly.
The cells reah out into the surround
ing tissue, break off, and are carried
to the nearby glands whree secondary
growths start, just as in plants that”
send their roots under ground for a
distance and then send up new
sprouts.
These cancers may arise in the
edge of a scar, from a deep burn,
sometimes from a mole, and fre
quently without cause. At first, they
look like small nodules or lumps; or
a mole may begin to grow and get
hard and scaly; or the edge of a scar
nd then become a "sore."
There is another kind of skin can-
site of cancers at particular periods cer which is very fatal. It arises
of life and it is our object to teach ^ rom a hat black mole and spreads
the people enough about cancer to ra Pidly to all parts of the body. It
make them watch for suspicious i s the mos t difficult cancer to cure;
symptoms and consult their physi
cians if they are in doubt. In this
way thousands of lives may be savde
each year. It is not a bad idea to ^
the only real cure is to have such a
mole thoroughly removed before it
becomes a cancer.
To prevent the development of skin
157 degrees F.) could only be toler- , . , . . ...
ated for 45 minutes. Under such j follow the example of business men. cancer 3 ^_ t ^
the bodily temperature ! nearly
conditions
all
corporations employ an oughly examined by your physician
much*as 4 5~degrees F above [auditor to examine their books and and, if h eis not sure it will never
_,i is accelerated, [check up their stock. Would it not give future trouble, have it removed.
be a good idea to tkae stock of your If you have a cancer already devel
oped, do not procrastinate, as no man
can tell when one of the cells may
Skin Cancer: Skin cancer, rodent be torn off and taken to some dis-
nses as
normal and the pulse is accelerated.
Very uncomfortable sensations are ; .
felt when the pulse rate exceeds 135. health once or twice a year]
The human body, like any other in
ternal combustion engine, must be , , , . ... .
cooled in order to function properly, ulcer, and epithalioma are all names tant and inaccessible part of the
used to describe cancers which are body.
most frequently located on the face, f Early Cancer Can Be Cured— Can-
Sartorial Differentiation. nose, eyelids, back of the neck, and cer may be prevented by the proper
Clothes do not make the man as some times on the extremeties. They care of known pre-cancer areas. Late
for women, they are like salads, a usua jj y b e gj n aa small lumps or ole- cancer cannot, at present, be perman-
good deal depends upon the reusing.— t d crusty patchse covered by a ently cured!
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