The McDuffie progress. (Thomson, Ga.) 1901-current, February 22, 1924, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text6V* t\* s CQ° She JUcUutti VOLUME XXV. THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1924. THOMSON P. 0. NEW APPROPRIATION MEASURE INCLUDES $55,000 FOR THE LOCAL BUILDING. Appropriations for Georgia .post- office buildings are included in a bill presented by Senator Fletcher, of Florida, which inludes Thomson with an appropriation of $55,000. These appropriations had been made, it is understood, several years ago but were held up during the war period. It is now hoped that they will be taken up and carried through. The Progress has written Con gressman Vinson asking him for in formation on the status of the pres ent prospects of the measure. He has been quite active in reminding the government of the need of these appropriations for Georgia cities. NEW INDUSTRY FOR M’DUFFIE CO. Boneville, Ga., Feb. 19, 1924. Editor McDuffie Progress* How often we view the old hills around us, and how worthless they appear from a monetary standpoint, and yet how ignorant we are of the valuable deposits they may possess beneath the surface Quite recently while prospecting in this vicinity, a representative of The Oconee Brick and Tile. Co. dis covered large deposits of valuable material to be used in the manufac ture of tiling, and while it usually requires about thirty days to make a test, the deposits found here proved to be of such superior quality until a deal was quickly consummated by which the company acquired a con siderable tract of land about one mile east of Boneville, and we are in a position to state that sidetracks will be put in and active operation in the mining of this deposit begin within sixty days. J. P. WILSON. LULLWATER MILLS Mrs. Mary Easley and her three daughters have moved here from Au gusta. The children of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Kennedy are still on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Mitt Howell, of Bone ville, visited Mr. and Mrs. Imour Hartley Wednesday. Mrs. C. Paschal and Mrs. Ruth Pearson visited Mrs. R. P. Gill last Friday. We had a number of visitors at the Mill Chapel Sunday School last Sunday. Mr. Urquhart, of Sweet water, vice president of the 1st Dis trict of the Kilpatrick Association, was present and made an interesting talk. Mr. Daniel was present and sang a solo which all enjoyed. Also, present were Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Stovall, Mrs. R. L. Hadaway, Mrs. Harold Trimble, Mrs. Stevens and two ladies and a gentleman, unfortu nately ye scribe has forgotten their names, however, we were glad to have all these visitors and tru-st thev will come often. As the weather opens up we are looking for a big Sunday School. Will you come^and help us? Sunday night. Rev. R. P. Gil! preached on the subject, “Raising of Lazerus,” had a good congregation. Glad to see some of the new people at church and Sunday School. Preaching services next Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock. Work is progressing at the mill, soon will be making blue chambry. Have you seen the famous Luilwater shirts yet? Boy, they are fine. Oh, yes, they are on the market, saw some at Fitzgerald’s store. PARENT-TEACHER ASS’N. Tuesday afternoon, February 2G, at 3 o’clock the Parent-Teacher As sociation of the Thomson High School will present the pageant “Lighting the Congress of Mother’s Birthday CandleB.” • , >ySti LIFE THROWN AWAY. \ Statistics compiled by one of the larger life insurance companies for 1923 show an increase in America’s accident death rate of more than 8 per cent over that of 1922. It is estimated that in the past year ac cident deaths throughout the country approximated 70,000. LULLWATER SHIRT HE LULLWATER MANUFAC TURING COMPANY IS GET TING UNDER WAY. The Progress is glad to know that n the very near future our local ■otton mill will be shipping finished loth to be made into shirts. At present some of all the machinery ;s running except the looms, and hese will be under way on receipt of supplies which are to be shipped his week, according to Mr. Murphy, the genial manager of the mill. We are wondering if the citizens of Thomson and McDuffie county .ealize what an asset to us a pros perous cotton mill will be. At pres ent the weekly payroll is around $800 and will double when the looms get started. This means more prosperity to local merchants, and to our county it means a boost. Mr. Murphy says: “We have ex pectations of this plant being doubled as soon as we can prove to the offi cials that Thomson and McDuffie county is the locality in which to expand, but we cannot prove this fact unless we citizens join in to make ■ his move successful. “The plant at East Point, Ga., has started production and a few of the Luilwater One Dollar Shirts are in town. Ask your merchant to show you one of these, then put it on and how everybody else that you are full of local spirit and desire to see Thomson and our county the leading •ity and county of Georgia in textile industry. “The Luilwater shirts are now obtainable at Hadaway’s Department Store.” The Progress has seen several of hose who are wearing the shirts al ready, and they are said to be the best shirt for the money ever put out. There is hardly any doubt but hat the men of Thomson and Mc Duffie county will become confirmed wearers of this shirt. And there is hardly any doubt but hat the people of Thomson are going o cooperate with the mill in any un- lertaking the company deems best. They are glad that the mill fell into the hands of people who want to do business. SWEETWATER Smiles & Curies. Bertha Hardwick, colored killed a chicken owl measuring 4 1-2 feet early last Friay morning on Rev. W. A. Johnson’s plantation. He saw another owl and has been trying to kill it too. Mr. Johnson rewarded him with a nice White Leghorn hen. We arq sorry to report that Mr. Clifford Palmer’s children are suf fering with the measles. Hope they will soon be well again. - Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Smith and Ag nes Smith were at preaching' at Sweetwater Sunday. Mrs. Ed Reynolds and little daugh- ers, Lois and Ruth, were the guests Mrs. Tom Hardaway Saturday . Mrs. Scab Jones and daughters, Misses Lou and Bessie, spent Friday afternoon in town. Mrs. Edward Loolis and little son, of Savannah, are visiting her moth er, Mrs. J'. J. Mathews, who has been real sick, but is much improved at his writing. Mrs. Tom Hardaway and Mrs. Ed Reynolds and children spent a short while Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Sieve Hammock. Rev. Willis Howard was the guest )f Mr. and Mrs. Seab Jones Satur- lay . Mr. John Gross happened to the misfortune of one of his tenant rouses burning last week. The house jaught from fire in the fire place. Mr. Jim Waller Jones made a busi ness trip to town Friday afternoon. Rev. W. A. Johnson was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Hammock Sunday. Business License Due. No changes/ have been made in he Business License Schedule for 1924. This License is due March 1 to 10. Those doing business without first /rocuring the proper license will lay nemselves liable to prosecution and me. 1-22 2t. MAYOR & COUNCIL. A Thought for the Day. Tf some people worked as hard and as fast as they talk, the world's work would be done with les: friction. Washington, D. C., Feb. 21. i AN ELECTRIC POWER SURVEY.] The Survey of Electric Light and Power Companies of the United States, compiled and published by Bonbright & Company, of New York, furnishes 215 pages of valuable in formation, and while it is to a large extent statistical, still it is so well done as to be of unusual interest to all who are following the growth and development of electricity in the United States. From the foreword we learn that electricity has brought its wonders to the world in the last forty years. “We have become too used to having the light answer the swicth, the bell answer the button, the elevator answer the lever, and the thousand and one other services of the genius of electric energy,” says the Survey, “that we find it difficult even to recall the clumsy mechanics of former days.” Approx imately $5,800,000,000 are invested in electric power and light industries, and five billion or over in electric railways. Notwithstanding what looks like a condition of electricity for everybody who lives in cities tlie Survey gives the surprising infor mation that electricity “is a conven ience still unknown to almost two- thirds of the dwellings in our coun try.” In 1880 the urban population in the United States contained 29 per cent of the total, and the rural popu lation 71 per cent. In 1900 urban population was 40 per cent and rural population GO per cent. In 1920 ur ban population was 51 per cent and rural population 49 per cent. Just how this has been affected by elec tricity most students of the subject do not say. But if it is true that the advantages and conveniences of liv ing, augmented by electrial develop ment, have drawn people from the country to the cities, there is good reason to believe that with the ever increasing extension of the power industry, which is being doubled ev ery five years, that it will not be long before the congested areas will be relieved by a back-to-the-country movement that will be permanent in its nature. THE RADIO CAMPAIGN. General Carty, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, was the central figure in a great radio night in which Havana, Cuba, and San Francisco, exchanged radio conversation with millions of “fans” throughout the United States. And then followed President Coo- lidge’s Lincoln Day speech, which also reached millions of listeners-in. Every preparation is going forward to conduct the principal part of the coming presidential campaign “in the air.” We have arrived at the period forseen by Longfellow when he wrote, “the night shall be filled with (chin) music.” TUNGSTEN. Never since tungsten became an article of trade have the quantity of tungsten used and the quantity in stock been certainly known, and few among those most familiar with the trade have agreed in their estimates of either quantity. A canvass of the industry has been made through the Geological Survey, who find that the quantity used in steel during the period between September 22, 1922, and November 1, 1923, was probably fully 8,700 tons. BETTER GAS BEING USED. The average motor gasoline being marketed this winter apparently possesses sightly better engine starling qualities than that tested in formej winter surveys, states the Department of the Interior, following the completion by the Bureau of Mines of the ninth semi-annual sur vey covering gasoline sold in ten American cities. The results of the Bureau of Mines’ survey indicate that in certain districts petroleum r.efiners are obtaining a much better frac tionation of the lighter products, or in other words are, through greater 'kill and improved mechanical appli ances, able to make cleaner cuts of gasoline and kerosene refined from crude oil, thus permitting an increas ed yield of gasoline without appre ciably affecting the quality. RADE WINDS. Production of pig iron in January ncreased 3 per cent over December, tnd production - f steel ingots in creased about 27 per cent. Ship ments and unfilled orders of locomo tives declined. Production of zinc in January increased over the preced ing month and a year ago and the stocks declined. Receipts and ship ments of zinc at St. Louis declined. SHIPMENTS UNDER EXPORT TRADE ACT. The Federal Trade Commission re ports that the total value of goods exported under the Export Trade Act, known as the Webb-Pomcrene law, during the first eight months of 1923 amounted to approximately $63,000,000. The largest item con sisted of food-stuffs, including meats, lard, milk, sugar, , eornstarh, corn, flour, etc., of which 220,500,000 pounds, valued at $25,900,000 were exported to twenty-one foreign coun tries. The second largest item was lumber, a total of 243,800,000 feet, valued at $13,336,000, was exported. Sixteen foreign countries purchased more than 284,000,000 tons of phos phate rock and crude sulphur valued at $8,700,000. The exports of rubber goods, including tires, tubes, elastic webbing, etc., amounted to nearly $5,000,000. Naval stores (turpen tine and rosin), paints, varnishes, dyes, soda and industrial alcohol val ued at $4,340,000 were exported to 43 foreign countries. About $2,500,- 000 worth of locomotives, textile ma chinery, steel tires, pipe fittings, etc., were sold. THE ENGRAVING BUREAU. President Coolidge has appointed Major Wallace W. Kirby of the Army Engineering Corps as Acting Direc tor of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. He succeeds Louis A. Hill, resigned. The placing of a mil itary man in the position in the Bu reau charged with the printing of Government bonds and paper money results from the charges made early in the Harding Administration by Charles W. Brewer, special attorney for the Department of Justice, that duplicate bonds had been printed and that irregularities and a general lax ity existed in the Bureau of Engrav ing. With the announcement of Major Kirby’s appointment Presi dent Coolidge made public a letter from Secretary Mellon dealing with the Federal money and bond printing situation at the Bureau. In his let ter the Secretary declared that the public could rest assured that there had been no overissue of Government securities and that the integrity of the public debt could not be attacked. The official announcement that a new head had been named for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing marks an important turning point in the situation following the action of the late President Harding in March, 1923, when he suddenly dis missed former Director James L. Wilmeth and twenty-eight chiefs. Recently it was shown that the ac tion was based upon false information and the men discharged have been exonerated. FAVORABLE TRADE BALANCE. America’s export and import sta tistics for January show a favorable trade balance of $94,000,000. A year back there was also a favorable trade balance, but it was only $6,160,000. While some shrinkage of imports is registered, that is not the explana tion of January’s large balance. It stands chiefly as a credit to increase of exports. Therefore last month’s figures register not only a gaining balance, but gain for America’** in dustries and commerce. . MOTORIZED PROGRESS. America, with an increase of motor vehicles in 1923 of 3,498,000, or 24 per cent over those in .use in 1922, holds its ownership to 83 per cent of the world’s supply. “These figures not only spell prosperity but pro gress,” says the Washington Post. “With the increase in use of motor vehicles, the nation’s transportation condition is improving and, with the automobile functioning as a facility of communication and transportation, sectional differences and localisms debited to insolation and separation of different parts of the country are breaking down. Thus is the auto mobile annihilating distances .and bringing the different communities nearer together as time flies ahd into I closer relationship.” JURORS DRAWN FOR MARCH TERM Following is a list of the jurors drawn for the March term Superior Court, which convenes at 10 o’clock on the first Monday in March, Judge A. L. Frankling presiding: Grand Jurors. 1. John E. Gross. 2. Wallace Neal. 3. Ed T. Pounds. 4. Walter M. McGahee. 5. W. C. McCommons. 6. P. S. Knox. 7. H. A. Price. 8. A. H. Curtis. 9. H. S. Norris. 10. Oliver Baston. 11. Oc S. Green. 12. W. S. Fitzgerald. 13. Paul A. Bowden. 14. L. F. Cook. 15. W. S. Mobley. 16. J. F. Hobbs. 17. C. A. Farmer. 18. O. P. Morris. 19. J. Edgar Wilson. 20. E. H. McCord. 21. II. L. Turner. 22. II. Grady Montgomery. 23 J. F. Smalley. 24. Fred J. Howard. 25. E. Chas. Hawes. 26. J. Willis Howard. 27. J. C. Cliatt. 28. Steve P. Reeves. 29. B F. Smith. 30. J. E. Pearson. Human Nature Resilient. Human nature Is so resilient that It will find its happiness in small itmiUnru ir Inmir mil's are denied It. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38 39. 40. Traverse Jurors. Martin S. McGahee. W. D. Hunt, Jr. R. II. Newby. Roy E. Lowe. R. J. Newsome. F. O. Johnson. s Chauncey II. Williams. Jno. B. Samuels. W. II. Stone. F. S. Rogers. C. M. Blanchard. John F. Johnson. J. .T. McDonald. J .'Foster Young, Sr. R. II. Johnson. John W. Johnson. Sam F. Neal. J. S. Reynolds. O. P. Hunt. Jno. F. Simons. John M. * Overton. E. F. Adams. II. L. Turner, Jr. J. B. Stovall. ^ Albert S. Johnson. Jack (D.) Hobbs. J. J. Mathews. Ed L: Huff. J. B. Burnside, Jr. B. V. Watson. M. W. Farr. W. S. Shields, li. S. Hadaway. Li B. Swann. J. S. Culpepper. M. A. Harrison. G. A. Sammons. L. O. Crawford. W. C. Guy. W. E. Green. CLAIMS FILMS UNDO WORK OF MISSIONS. Motion pictures are interfering with the work of ^missionaries in for eign fields by giving natives under Christian instruction a wrong impres sion of American social life, speak ers told delegates to the National Motion Picture Conference, which has just been in session in Washing ton. Dr. Fitch, president of the Christian College at Hankow, China, told the Conference: “Of all the pic tures I saw in China, not one did the American people justice. The result is that the natives are coming to be lieve that their heathen customs were no worse than the custos ascribed to the Christian Americans. The motion pictures are showing them the things we cover up in our asylums, prisons, and hospitals.” WASHINGTON HAS 7(5 PUBLISH ING HOUSES. Seventy-six concerns in the Dis trict of Columbia publishing news papers and periodicals in 1921 dis tributed products valued at $15,219,- 735, says a bulletin of the Depart ment of Commerce. . These concern, employed an average of 1,072 persons during that year. Subscriptions and sales of newspapers in the Distric: during 1921 brought $2,533,943, while advertising in newspapers brough; in a total of $6,328,707. Periodicals published in the District during 192! for $4,328,986, while their advertise monte totaled $1,464,255 in value. NUMBER 9. OTES FROM THE COUNTY AGENT POULTRY SALE TODAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, FEB. 22-23. This column announced last week the probability of a poultry sate early in March. So far nothing ha* been learned from other agents con cerning same. Due to the fact that the agent at Washington could not fill his quota the car has been for warded to Thomson and is on the track now. If you have chickens for sale deliver them as early as possi ble as the car wants to move early in the afternoon of Saturday, Feb ruary 23rd. Prices—Fryers, 25c; hens, 20 l-2c; turkeys, 18c; roosters, 10c. SWEET POTATOES. An attempt is being made to ship several carloads of sweet potatoes. The Bureau ol' Markets advises that they can sell one or ten carlots at good prices. The price offered Tues day for No. 1 potatoes (1 1-2 to 4 inches) was $1.14 per bushel f. o. b« ears. Potatoes sold here as low as 60c per bushel. Here is an opportu nity to dispose of all surplus sweet potatoes at a good price. This means hilled potatoes. Curing house pota toes are selling for considei’ably more. If you wish to dispose of pota toes now list them with your county agent and let’s sell while there is a demand. LET’S GO SLOW. This is indeed a perilous year for the Georgia farmer. From reliable sources we are informed that the whole state is going strong on cot- lon. Some of our biggest men are •idvocating “make or break” for 1924. Sumpter and Terrell counties adopt- (1 the same slogan last year and we know from their experience that here is a possibility of “not mak- ng.” While we may have another good year, there is always that rainy ay to be considered, and while we ■ire in good shape we had better nsure our prosperity by not taking io great a risk on cotton. Our aim ihould be to divide the risk on our money between peanuts and cotton jo that in case one fails the other in make the realization of it less gainful. BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS. The county agent is pleased over i lie attitude taken by the boys and girls toward club work this year. There have been letters come into Jie office from children who were alt of school who wanted to become < iub members. Our club work will ’,e conducted along lines which we feel will brin£ the greatest financial returns to the participant. If your son or daughter is interested in cot ton, pig or poultry club work, and if they are between the ages of 10 and 18, have them write to the agent for information. WHAT CLUB WORK DOES. 1. Provides investment opportuni ties. 2. Anchors youth to soil. 3. Promotes the habit of industry. 4. Develops thrift and the saving instinct. 5. Varies the program of work. 6. Teaches principles of business. 7. Increases dependability. 8. Demonstrates necessity for Co operation. The child today—The man tomor row.—Andrew M. Soule. HOW TO GET RID OF CANCER AND WHERE TO GO. To all inquirers that are interested in cancer cure: Since my offer through The Pro gress to help there have been sev eral inquiries as to where to go and how long they will have to stay. We go to the Middle Georgia Sanitarium, Macon, Ga., and will have to stay there ten or twelve hours unless you have to wait for others to he treated that are ahead of you. The treatment is an application of radium, which by the virtue of its light penetrates, destroys and heals all cancers so perfectly that they never return, without operation or pain. Through 1922 and 1923 I have persuaded and gone with some and have witnessed some of the applica tions. All of them are cured. One case was fifteen years old. My offer of January 29th stands good. The treatment is usually ten hours long. Address Dr. Harrel, Middle Gerogia Sanitarium, Macon, Ga. R. A. LAZENEY.