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'' ■ " SvW e f CO"' v.'° r v*> (She i railti'M VOLUME XXV. THOMSON, McDUFFfE COUNTY, GEORGIA, y VRCH 7, 1924. ——————mmrn#. NUMBER 11. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS MARCH TERM OF M‘DUFFIE SUPERIOR COURT We, the Grand Jurors drawn for March Term, 1924, of McDuffie Supe rior Court, beg to submit the follow ing report: Clerk’s Books. We have inspected the books and records of the County Clerk and find them to be kept in a neat, accurate and up-to-date manner. We com mend this faithful officer for the highly efficient manner in which the affairs of his office are conducted. Fred J. Howard, J. E. Wilson, E. H. McCord. Ordinary’s Books. We, your committee appointed to examine the Ordinary’s books, wish to report that the books have recent ly been audited by accredited ac countants, and said audits may be seen at the- Ordinary’s office by any one wishing to scrutinize same. So far as this committee is able to de termine, the accounts are in accurate shape and need no comment fi’om this body. We wish to commend our Ordinary for his efficiency in office. It having come to our knowledge that the incumbent, Mr. G. W. Lokey, has signified his intention of no longer standing for the office of Or dinary', we wish to express to him our gratification of his honorable, untiring efforts to perform the duties of this office during his incumbency. Respectfully submitted. W. C. McCommons, Oliver Baston, H. S. Norris. Tax Collector’s Books. We, the committee appointed to examine the books and records of the Tax Collector, wish to submit the following report: To amount of state tax on digest, $14,460.40. Amount added by Tax Collector, $80.50; total, $14,540.96. Amount collected to date, $12,581.- 03; balance uncollected, $1,959.93. To county tax on digest, $26,714.- 15; to amount added by Tax Collec tor, $160.00; total $26,874.15. To amount collected to date, $23,- 508.45; balance uncollected, $3,365.- 70. Amount collected for county school $5,927.36. We find the books in excellent con dition and evidently the Tax Collec tor has been very attentive to his duties. We commend this oilier for his faithful service. W. M. McGahee, Fred J. Howard, E. T. Pounds. Sheriff's Books. We, the committee appointed 'to examine the Sheriff’s books report as follows: We find the jail record neatly and correctly kept. We find that according to the auditor’s report the county is due in collected and un collected fines two hundred and sixty ($260.00) dollars. We recommend that uncollected fines be collected and the amount due the county be paid as soon as possible. This March 4t.h, 19924. Oliver Baston, H. S. Norris, E. C. Hawes. Justice of the Peace Books. We, the committee appointed to examine the books of Justice of the Peace find them all ri^ht. J. F. Hobbs, O. P. Morris. Public Buildings. We, the committee appointed to examine public buildings report as follows: We find that the buildings are well kept. The court house is in fair condition, some minor repairs needed. We recommend that neces sary work on same be done. We find no improvement in the condition of the jail building. We found it clean. E. C. Hawes, J. E. Wilson, J. E. Pearson. County School Commissioner’s Books. We, the committee appointed to examine the books of County School Commissioner, find he received from State, $15,415.92; received from Tax Collector, $5,811.50; total, $21,227.42. Less vouchers, $19,597.48; balance on hand, $1,629.94. We find the books kept in a plain and business like manner, with vouch ers for all monies disbursed. E. H. McCord, B. F. Smith, J. C. Cliatt. Chaingang. . We, the committee appointed to in spect the Chaingang of ItlcDDuffie County, wish to report that we have found the camp to be in good condi tion, sanitary, clean and well kept. We find the following property, to- wit: 21 Mules valued at $2,250.00 1 C. P. Tractor valued at __ 5,000.00 *4 Road Mahines valued at__ 1,500.00 4 Dump Wagons valued at__ £00.00 4 Tractor Trailers valued at 800.00 1 Government Truck valued at 600.00 1 Steel Cage valued at 400.00 1 Wooden Cage valued at 150.00 21 sets harness valued at__ 150.00 1 Kitchen outfit valued at_l 60.00 Bedding, etc., valued at 175.00 Guns and pistols valued at 50.00 48 suits of clothes, valued at „ 50.00 24 shovels valued at 20.00 24 picks and maddox at 20.00 1 4-horse wagon at 60!00 1 1-horse wagon at 20.00 Blacksmith tools at 10.00 1 barrel of oil at : 35.Q0 2 pick plows at 50-00 11 Wheelers at 550.00 J. Willis Howard, O. S. Green, S. P. Reeves. We recommend that C. E. Loke^ and J. M. Harrison be put on the Borad of Education. For Notary Public we recommend that G. F. Rodgers be reappointed for the 133rd District G. M. of said County and State. We recommend that J. R. Farr be appointed Notary Public for the 132d Distrit G. M.. of said County and State. We recommend that the following be put on pauper’s list and that they be paid six ($6.00) dollai's per quarter: Evans Norman, Milas Gard ner, Amanda Bugg, Walsh Jackson. We recommend that Mr. Howard be paid five $5.00) dollars for trip to chaingang camp. We recommend that Mrs. C. V. Curtis be paid five ($5.00) for type writing these presentments. We recommend that these present ments 4>e put in the county paper and the usual fee be paid for same. We' recommend that all insolvent costs of tWe Clerk and Sheriff be paid out of the general fund after having been properly audited and ap proved by the Judge. We wish at this time to commend our Honorable Judge, A. L. Franklin, on his able charge to this body, and his policy of opening court with prayer, invoking spiritual guidance in the affairs of the Court. We wish to thank Solicitor Hains for the courtesies and assistance ex tended our body, and the able man ner in which he has conducted the State’s interest. Respectfully submitted. A. H. Curtis, Foreman; H. S. Nor ris, Oliver Baston, W. M. McGahee, B. F. Smith, O. L. Green, j. C. Cli att, E. H. McCord, S. P. Reeves, O. P. Morris, W. C. McCommons, J. F. Hobbs, J. E. Wilson, E. T. Pounds, E. C. Hawes, J. W. Howard, J. E. Pearson, Fred J. Howard, L. F. Cook, Secretary. Meeting Of the Cotton States Highway Association. Officials of the Cotton States High way Association met in Thomson Tuesday for the purpose of securing cooperation in advertising the route, which runs from Greenville to Jack sonville. It was argued that this is the shortest route for tourists com ing down from the North and it is the purpose of the association to ac quaint them with this fact through a campaign of advertising. The Thomson Chamber of Com merce took the gentlemen in charge and an enthusiastic session was h^eld at the court house at 12 o’clock. Soon another meeting will be held at some other place along the route. Washington, D. C., March 5. Mangus Johnson and Shipstead. They A NATION OF MEAT EATERS. urged that from War Finance Cor- Official reports show increased con- poration funds, at least $5,000,000 sumption of meat during the past be placed at t}ie disposal of inter year. The greatest increase in the 1 mediate credit , banks at St. Paul, consumption of meat was in the use Spokane and Wichita, and that these of pork, which was a bumper crop, i funds be used primarily for the re but there was some increase in the j lief of the State banks. The Presi- consumption of all other kinds of dent asked the War Finance Corpor- meat. The consumption of meat per capita for the year 1923 was *167.0 pounds. The total quantity of meat consumed in the United States during the year was 18,481,000,000 pounds. Of this 6,918,000,000 was beef, 873,- 000,000 veal, 574,000,000 mutton and lamb, 3,000,000 goat, and 10,113,000,- 000 pork. The total is an increase of over 2,000,000,000 pounds over the average of the last five years, and the per capita increase is 18 pounds. About 90 per cent of the increase was represented by pork products. LABOR STRIKES. Labor strikes occurring throughout the country during the third quarter of 1923, according to reports received by the United States Bureau of la bor, numbered 371, a considerable increase over the same period in >922. The largest strike taking place dur ing the three months was that of the anthi’acite miners in Pennsylvania which lasted three weeks and involv ed 155,000 workers. The industries which were principally affected by the strike movement were the cloth ing, coal mining, and building trades, in which 52 per cent of the strikes occurred. The largest single cause of strikes was the demand for in creased wages. “SERVICE” CAPTURES FOREIGN TRADE. In domestic trade the keynote of service has been stressed more and ation and the Farm Loan Board to consider the proposal and report on it. PRESIDENT OPPOSES PENSION INCREASE. President Coolidge is opposed to enactment at this time of any pension legislation involving any considerable drain on the public Treasury. Among the measures before the committee is a proposal by Representative Ful ler to increase pensions of Cival war veterans from $50 to $72 a month and of widows of Civil war veterans from $30 to $40 a month, which would involve an additional expenditure of $42,000,000. THE NORTHERN PACIFIC CLAIMS. Expenditures by Congress in in vestigating the Northern Pacific land grants is urged by President Cool idge in a letter to the Senaet Public Lands Committee. Such action should he taken to insure “the fullest pro tection of the public interests,” the President said, pointing to the pro posal recently made by Secretaries Wallace and Work that Congress adopt a resolution directing the In terior Department to withhold ap proval of the adjustment of North ern Pacific land grants until Con gress shall have made a full and complete inquiry into them. Unless directed specifically by Congress, the Interior Department will soon be more until now it is inseparable from compelled under the law to turn over Pay Your Subscription Now, Only $1.00 hfow is the time to pay your sub scription to The McDuffie Progress and save 50 cents. For a short time we are accepting subscriptions at $1.00 per year. This cut is made in order to induce subscribers to renew, but those who are not already sub scribers may take advantage oi it. Those who do not accept this offer | we will take it for granted they do not want the paper and of course their names will be str! ken from the list. We trust all will want to re good merchandising practice. While its application to the foreign field has unfortunately been slower, the De partment of Commerce gives reasons which prove that American export ers are coming to realize in every greater degree that service and qual ity are potent factors in capturing a foreign market in face of even the most adverse conditions. ASK HIGHER DUTY ON FLOUR/ Flour milling interests Have pre sented arguments to the United States Tariff Commission for main tenance of the present tariff relation ship between wheat, flour and wheat products. The millers pointed out that if the wheat duty were increas ed 50 per cent, and a corresponding increase were not placed on Hour, Canadian millers .would not be able to undersell American millers in the New York market to the extent of 77 cents a barrel. FIGHT BAR ON ALIENS. Twenty of the 22 Democratic mem bers of the House of Representatives from New York State joined in a statement that they are “unaltera bly opposed to the rigidly restric tive” Johnson immigration bill The measure, it was contended, ‘is par ticularly objectionable because it dis criminates against certain nationali ties already going to make un a great part of our population , fans and flames racial, religious and national hatreds and brands forever elements already here as of inferior stock.” “We are underhoused,” said the statement, “underreconstructed and underdeveloped and are in sore need of those who are willing to do our work, both skilled and hard and la borious, but this bill would tenjj' to keep out that class of immigrants best suited for such occupations,” The statement concluded with this paragraph: “Our great country is still big enough, geographically, politically and socially to receive those persons knocking at our doors,' whether of brain or brawn, who answer our mental, moral and physical require ments and can contribute to our science, our art, our literature, our commerce or our industry.” SPECIAL FUND ASKED FOR INTERMEDIATE BANK. Wider use of the intermediate cred it banks backed by a special fund from the War Finance Corporation as a means of relieving the agricul tural and banking situation in the Northwest has been recommended by five Senators for Western agricul tural States at a White House con ference. The proposal was made by Senators Capper,, McNary, Frazier, to the Northern Pacific railroad ap proximately 3,900,000 acres of land, including large areas of national for est lands. Secretary Wallace says there is a serious question as to the extent to which the railroad company may have obtained benefits from the grant, and also the extent of its compliance with the obligations imposed upon it by the legislation which conferred the grant. A MILLION A WEEK FOR CHEWING GUM. Prior to 1914 the European de mand for this product was negligi ble, but its popular favor among the American army soon spread, through out the rank and file of other allied troops who on return to their i’e- spective countries became potent fac tors in its popularization. Based on the factory output for 1919, valued at $53,430,000,. it is evident, the bul letin points out, that the American .public expends for chewing gum con siderably more than an average of a million dollars a week. INJURIES TO COAL MINERS. Non-fatal injuries occurring at coal mines in the United States num ber approximately 200,000 pe^r year, according per year, according to a statistical study made through the Bureau of Mines. A STRING OF HOGS. It is not easy to grasp the real magnitude of the meat producing in dustry in the United States, but a comparison made by the United States Department of Agriculture is intei'esting. The Department says that the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year, allowing 4 feet as the length of a hog, in single file, would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator witji enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same drove* would strand 21 abreast from New York- to San Francisco. RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an ex position of rural carrier at Thomson, Ga., on March 29th, 1924, to fill the position of rural carrier at Thomson, and vacancies that may later occur on rural routes from that post office. DR. SHIELDS OUT AGAIN. Dr. Morton Shields, of Atlanta, is visiting his sister, Mrs. II. S. Pal mer. His friends are glad that he has so far recovered from the injury he sustained in an automobile acci dent last September that he is able to get about again. NOTES FROM THE COUNTY AGENT MARKETING SWEET POTATOES. The potato car moved out Tuesday night on its way to-Birmingham. We will know in a few days the exact price we will get for these potatoes. We were offered $2.36 per hundred, or $1.41 per 60 lb. bushel, but we will not be able to produce a strict num ber one potato and are hence at the mercy of the market. By the pbove statement I mean that the carlot as a whole would not grade up to that standard. The loading the first day amount ed to 26,000 lbs. approximately, and wdre as good as could be expected. The seond day’s loading of 5,341 lbs. were of poor quality throughout, but we felt like they had to be accepted to fill out the tonnage minimum of 30,000 lbs., and so all must suffer alike in case the price is redufcdd, which is very probable. No one is to blame for market conditions except the man who produces the article. You wouldn’t exchange a good horse for a dead one, neither will a buyer purchase coarse stuff when he knows it will be left on his hands. Our po tatoes were sound and the sizes were pretty uniform, 1 1-2 to 4 inches in diameter, but practically the whole lot were scarred and diseased, caus ing sunken areas and a darR colora tion. The secret of success is to market your potatoes when the demand is greatest during December, January, February and March, and to produce an article that is acceptable. This can be done and an attempt will be made to demonstrate that we can produce a quality article this season. This brings up the important points of proper fertilization, disinfection of seed potatoes, handling and cur- ng, each of which will be discussed .n season. It is important now to emphasize the importance of treating .he seed before bedding. All diseases of the" potato itself, black, soft and Iry rots, are caused by disease germs and are transmitted / just as with animals. If potatoes are treated be- I fore bedding and the slips planted n uninfected soil there is no reason why they should not keep if not bruised or the skin broken in har vesting. Handling of course is as important as the presence or absence of disease. Stable manure is a car rier of disease and will cause black ening of the skin. A black potato even though it is sound and meets every other specification ,is not a number one potato. This black skin is caused by a dis ease known as soil stain which is easily removed. Black rot, causing the bitter taste, is another disease prevalent in the field and seed bed. Soft rot is a storage disease and may show up in the seed bed. Treating the seed with a solution of 1 ounce bichloride of mercury to 8 gallons water before bedding* will prevent these troubles in the bed and field provided the potatoes are plant ed in ground not previously planted. The soil in the seed bed should be treated as follows: 1 pint formalin to 25 gallons water. Soak the seed bed soil to a depth of one foot allow ing 1 gallon of water to foot of soil. Cover with sacks to keep the formal dehyde fumes in the soil. After 10 days bed your treated seed. Only good seed should be bedded; cut off one-third inch from either end of the seed potato and if any diseased condition develops throw away such seed. Now is the time to insure a good crop of disease free potatoes. When you come to town Saturday drop in and let me help you get these materials. Twenty-five gallons of for malin seed bed solution will cost 60 cents; 8 gallons of the mercury solu tion will cost about 15 cents. Your savings may amount to many dollars. Give it a trial. CASES DISPOSED OF IN SUPERIOR COURT Mrs. Lizzie Lemons vs A. K, Lemons, Libel for Divorce; first ver- diet. Mrs. Bessie L. Johnson vs John E- Johnson, Libel for Divorce; second verdict an<J decree. f Mrs. Bartow Pearson vs Bartovf Pearson, Libel for Divorce; second verdict and decree. Mrs. Carrie E. Mathews vs Mrs# Florence C. Johnson, Suit on Note; verdict and judgment for plaintiff. B. F. Johnson vs Robt. H. 6ard» wick, Suit on Note; verdict and judff- ment for plaintiff. M. M. Prescott vs S. T. Holliman* Suit on Account; appealed from Jus tice Court 133rd District; verdict and judgment for plaintiff.- Motion for new trial. The McDuffie Bank vs Madison White, Petition to sell land; verdict and judgment for plaintiff. The State vs Tillman McAlpin* Burglary; Plea; Sentence of fouif years. The State vs Bill West, Murder; Plea; Sentence not less than 10 year* nor more than 15 years. The State vs E. H. Miller, Assault with attempt to murder; verdict and entence of not less than one year ior more than two years. Motion for new trial filed March 4, 1924. The State vs E. H. Miller, Carry ing pistol without license; carrying concealed pistol. (Transferred to City Court of Thomson). Grand Jury True Bills. The State vs Bill West, murder. The State vs Tillman McAlphlr burglary. The State vs Jack Lazenby, assault to rape. Grand Jury No Bills. The State vs Jack Lazenby, As sault to Murder. • E. H. Miller Goes To State Farm. Mr. E. H. Miller left Wednesday morning for the State Farm at Mil- ledgeville, accompanied by Sheriff Adkins. He was convicted of assault on Mr. J. C. Wall and was sentenced to one to two years. His case wa* disposed of late Tuesday. It is un derstood his lawyers made a motion for a new trial. THE FERTILIZER MARKET. The fertilizer jharket seems to be unsettled at present. Agents and dealers are quoting various prices. Soda, however, is on the upward climb and indications are that it will go higher. Those who have spoken to the county agent should see him by Saturday if we are to order an other carload at good prices. POULTRY SHOW. Mr. Turner, county agent of Co lumbia, is holding a poultry show and short course at Harlem Wednesday, March 12th. The county agent and several enthusiasts will be on hand. The farmers of McDuffie are invited. Come and let’s get an inspiration. ARRANGING MEETINGS. The county agent is planning sev eral meetings over the county during the next week. There will be severa. topics'discussed and you are request ed to be present at these meetings A number of letters will be sent oul within a few days. REARING NEWS' Rev. R. C. Young, of Mercer, filled his regular appointment at the Dear- ing Baptist church Sunday afternoon and night. There was a large attend ance at both services. The many friends of Mrs. R. E. Printup are delighted to know she is still improving. The play, “Much Ado About Betty,” was given at the Star Thea tre in Harlem Tuesday night by the boys and girls of Dearing, and was a- great success. Mr. Forest Cason was in Thomson Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Anderson, of near Harlem, were visitors in Dear ing Thursday 1 . Mrs. D. A. Harrison spent the week-end in Thomson with her par ents. Mrs. Thurston Phillips has return ed to her home in Tifton. Sheriff Harrison, of Lincolton, was in Dearing Friday. The many friends of Mr. Rufus McGahee are delighted to know he is improving rapidly. Look at Your Thumb. A French writer classes all women by the size of their thumbs. Those with large thumbs are said to be more likely to possess native intelli gence, while the small thumbs Indi cate feeling. China Great i Farming Country. China ranks first among agricultur al countries In the production of sllfe. soy beaus and grain sorghums, nnd second only "to the United States In tobacco, and possibly also in wheat production.