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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.
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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
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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.