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VOLUME XXV.
THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1!)24.
NUMBER 33.
THOMSON SCHOOLS
ON INCREASE
The Thomson School Board met
Saturday for the purpose of mapping
out plans for the coming school year.
There were several matters of im
portance to come before the board.
It was decided to open the Fall
term the first Monday in September.
Prof. Ed Gunby met with the board
and submitted the names of teach
ers for the ensuing year. The list
is not available at this time, but it
is ascertained that Prof. Boswell, of
Greensboro, will be at the head of
the high school and have charge of
athletics. In the high school will
be Mrs. Ham, Mrs. Fogg, Miss Edith
Ellington, and in English Mr. Gunby
has secured the services of a French
lady graduate of London, who ha3
taught in some of the leading schools
of this country.
Teachers in the other grades were
not definitely settled upon, but will
probably be mentioned in full in
next week’s paper.
Another important matter was the
providing of more room for the in
creased number of pupils to come in
this term. Nearly one hundred ad
ditional pupils will have to be taken
care of. Anthony, Cobbham and
Marshall are coming in and will add
some seventy-five or more, while
Dearing will send a number of high
school pupils, all told making about
one hundred new pupils.
The board decided to furnish the
boys’ work shop as a school room
and install the woyk shop in another
part of the building. It appears that
the school will soon be confronted
with the problem of enlarging the
building to take care of the increas
ing enrollment. The country schools
are fast coming to the knowledge
that it is better to send the children
to a central school than try to main
tain small institutions in the coun
try. By sending the children to this
school they receive the best training
possible in the county and all re
ceive the same benefits. The State
provides a fund for this purpose that
puts the country children in the high
school on the same footing as the
children in town.
On this account and the fact that
the school is constantly on the in
crease, something must be done in
the near future to enlarge the build
ing. A bond issue js being spoken of
for this purpose.
Watermelon Season
Soon Be Over.
To date there have been shipped
from McDuffie county about one hun
dred cars of watermelons, and it is
expected shipments will come to an
end next week. The melons shipped
were all of a fine grade, and while
much money had been lost in other
parts of the state on melon ship
ments, those from McDuffie county
averaged about $100 per car net, so
stated Mr. G. W. Lokey, one of the
largest shippers.
C. E. Lokey Sells Inter
est In Hobbs & Lokey.
An important business deal of the
week was transacted when Mr. C.
E. Lokey sold his interest in the firm
of Hobbs & Lokey to Mr. Will Hobbs,
who will conduct the business in
future.
This is one of the leading dry
goods and clothing stores in Thom
son. Mr. Lokey withdraws from the
business on account of other inter
ests.
P. S. KNOX BUYS HAMPSHIRE
RAMS.
Mr. P. S. Knox has purchased four
Hampshire rams, which he has ad
ded to his herd of sheep on his farm
in the upper part of the county.
They are thoroughbred registered
Hampshire stock, and when crossed
with the grades in his herd hopes to
produce a superior grade of wool
producers. The rams formerly in
hi3 herd were discarded.
Mr. Knox has been experimenting
with sheep for the past several yeais
and has found there is money in the
business. He has found they are a
more dependable “crop” than cotton.
His pastures feed the sheep most of
the year and the forage raised on the
farm cany them through the closed
season. With the new stock added
to the herd, Mr. Knox hopes to pro
duce more wool per sheep than here
tofore at the same cost of feeding.
Hi'
IENNIAL SESSIONS
ADOPTED
The Georgia house of representa
tives Tuesday by a vote of 150 to
45, passed the bill r' Senator Mundy,
and others, proviu,. - for a sixty-
dav session of the Georgia legisla
ture every two yean instead of the
present 50-day ses.non each year.
The bill had already passed the sen
ate, and therefore will become a law
when signed by the governor and
ratified by the people at the next
general election in November.
The biennial sessions bill was
passed by the senate last year, thir
ty-eight members of the senate ad
joining in its authorship. However,
it struck rough sailing in the house
and was bitterly opposed by several
of the leading members of that body.
Argument on the measure was be
gun last Thursday and continued
throughout the day.
Opponents of the bil tried to
force a vote on it last Friday when
there were less than 150 members
present, but its supporters succeed
ed in having the vote postponed un
til Tuesday.
The vote was watched with great
interest because it was idealized that
there might be difficulty in securing
the 138 votes required for passage
of a constitutional amendment.
When the halfway mark was
reached there had been 63 votes for
the bill and 28 against it, indicating
a vote of only 126 for the measure.
Supporters of the bill immediately
began rounding up absentees and
when the roll call was finished the
vote stood 137 for the measure to
43 against it. Before verification of
the roll call a number of members
who had been absent came into the
hall and cast their ballots, bringing
the tatal to 150 for the bill and 45
against it.—The Atlanta Journal.
Electric Chair Bill Is
Passed.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7.—By a vote of
26 to 21, the senate Wednesday af
ternoon passed the house bill of Rep
resentative Perkins, providing for the
substitution of the electric chair for
hanging as a legal method of execu
tion of convicted criminals in Geor
gia.
The bill was debated at length, a
dozen senators being heard for an
against it. On the roll call the vote
was 25 to 21, one short of a consti
tutional ..majority. President Cars
well voted “aye,” giving the bill the
constitutional majority necessary for
its passage.
The bill was amended by Senator
Grantham of the 46th so as to pro
vide that no person now under in
dictment for murder shall be af
fected. This amendment was adopt
ed 19 to 8, and its adoption means
the bill must go back to the house
for concurrence.
State Owned Port Bill
Is Approved.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7.—The proposal
to establish a state owned port with
adequate terminal facilities, with a
view to developing Georgia’s mari
time resources, was given new life
Wednesday when the state senate
approved an amendment to the state
constitution proposing to issue $15,-
000,000 of state bonds to carry out
the project.
The measure is by Senator Cason,
and now goes to'the house of repre
sentatives for concurrence. The vote
in the senate was 36 to 8.
• No definite site is designated in the
bill. Savannah and Brunswick are
in hot competition for the state port,
both cities conducting active cam
paigns to secure designation in the
event the proposal is approved by the
people if the house passes the bill.
BUILDING OPERATIONS IN
THOMSON.
.Work was resumed on the Baptist
church annex this week after a delay
of several weeks. It is understood
the building will be completed with
out further hindrance, except some
finishing touches that will be done
from time to time.
Mr. C. If. Smith and family hope
to move into their new home on
Jackson street next week.
The handsome little bungalow of
Mr. Joe Ivey on East Hall street
has been completed,' and the family
expect to move in some time next
week. \
Washington, D. C., 4ug. 5.
THE NEXT SENATE \ND HOUSE.
Political prophets are in session.
By the route of predicting what may
happen in Colorado, where two Sen
ators are to be chosen, and tho prob
able results in'other States, the Re
publican politicians claim the next
Senate. In doing so they count in
nominal Republicans like Brookhart,
Norris, Ladd, and all the rest of the
independents, among whom they even
imlude La Follette. On the other
hand the Democrats say they have a
cinch on the Senate, and in order to
substantiate their claims they show
how certain of the “independents”
nearly always vote with them.
Squaring the Circle.—It ought to
be a patent fact to all unprejudiced
persons that party control of the
Senate is more a hope than an actual
ity. The few independents hold the
balance of power, and by doing so
they have frequently effected com
promises to their liking. It will not
be forgotten that they elected Sen
ator Smith as Chairman of the Com
mittee on Commerce, thereby replac
ing the republican wheelhorse Cum
mins with a Democrat. This group
supports the Republican Couzens in
his fight against Secretary Mellon
and the Internal Revenue Bureau.
The same “balance of power” stood
solid behind Senator Walsh, the Dem
ocratic investigator of the oil steals.
They not only make Senator Wheel
er’s investigation of Daugherty their
own, but they annexed Wheeler, to
boot. The out-and-out independents,
or the La Follette group, get a lot of
support from Senators like Dill, and
Reed of Missouri, democrats, and
from Borah, and Johnson of Californ
ia, Republicans. In the face of facts
that arc as stubborn as they are un
yielding it is impossible to “square
the circle” of discontent and protest
and figure out from the performances
any logical reason why Democrats,
or Republicans, lay claim to the next
Senate any more than the present
one is capable of being bent into con
trol.
Same Condition in House.—Repub
licans and Democrats are making
extravagant claims regarding the
control of the next House of Rep
resentatives. Those familiar with
the triumphs of Representative Nel
son’s bloc of seventeen, which suc
ceeded at the very outset of the last
session in securing changes in the
Another Thing Good
Roads Will Do.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7.—Good roads
increase bank deposits. F. D. Single-
ton, editor of the Tri-County Adver
tiser, of Clarkesville, Ga., tells of
having made a business trip to the
little city of Iliawassee, the county
site of Towns county, in the interest
of his newspaper—eight years ago.
He says he remembers well the road
from Clayton to Hiawassee, which
was about as far from being a good
road as distance can be measured .
“I told a bank cashier that a good
road through that county would
double his bank business in ten
years,” said Mr. Singleton.
At that time, according to Mr.
Singleton, the first bank statement
his newspaper ever published for the
bank showed that its whole business
amounted to less than $55,000. The
business of the bank now, he says,
amounts to $205,587.63, in just eight
years time.
“Towns county has voted bonds and
has the best roads of any mountain
county in northwest Georgia,” Mr.
Singleton said. “The people over
there now who opposed bonds will
tell you that bonds and good roads
have done more for that county with
in the last six years than anything
else. In addition to good roads the
Hiawassee College has been rebuilt
and a new dormitory-, erected for the
girls. Young Harris has spent $100,-
000 on rebuilding and building dor
mitories.”
Mr. Singleton adds “and the man
or woman who says money properly
spent for good roads will bankrupt
the county and break up the people
financially are sadly mistaken in
their judgment.”
Advocates of good roads here and
in other sections of the state claim
that sentiment for the proposed bond
issue for a statewide system of paved
roads is growing rapidly. .
Fine Outlook For To
bacco Growers.
Let The Progress Do Your Job
Pirnting.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7.—After in
specting crop conditions in the bright
leaf tobacco belt of South Georgia,
Charles Gregory, circuit director of
a large export leaf tobacco company,
today expressed his enthusiasm and
interest over the outlook. It was his
first trip to South Georgia and con
sequently his first glimpse of the
bright tobacco belt, he said.
“Tobacco growers in the Georgia
section this year are extremely for
tunate for more reasons than one,”
Mr. Gregory said. “I never saw fin
er tobacco anywhere, which means
that the crop should bring a good
price purely on its high merit. /
“And then another reason—the
crops in both the Carolines are ex
tremely short. The acreage this year
was greatly reduced and in the last
few weeks hail, wind and rain storms
have ruined practically fifty per cent
of the growing crop. This means
a shortage of supply and an increas
ed demand, which should keep prices
to the very top for every pouni of
high grade tobacco produced in Geor
gia.”
A circuit director, or “rider,” for
the large buying concerns, Mr. Greg
ory explained, is the general field
manager during the buying season.
These riders cover the territory every
week during the selling season, vis
iting all the markets, and keep in
close touch with tobacco grades and
the buyers for their concerns.
K. I>. BARBECUE NEXT TUESDAY
AFTERNOON.
Thomson Knights of Pythias will
give a barbecue next Tuesday after
noon at 6 o’clock at Johnson’s Grove.
Tickets can be had by applying to
Mr. Oscar Montgomery.
Efforts will be made to have a
speaker on this occasion. Come out
and have a good time.
rules, are aware of the fact that
party control in the past session had
too much sand in its gear boxes to
run smoothly.
Triangular Deadlock.—It doesn’t j
need a political sage, a tipster, or a
prophet, to figure out that the next
Congress will be even more hopeless
than the present one, from the stand
point of party regularity. The read
er may imagine what any one of tho
three Presidential candidates will bo
able to do, or not to do, with such a
Congress as is reasonably certain to
be chosen to work with one of them.
Did President Harding or President
Coolidge carry out their “policies”
by the help of the present Congress?
They did not. Their records of fail
ure are likewise records of the re
fusals of Congress to follow the lead
of the Executives.
Party Control Vanishes.—Thus we
find that party political control van
ished somewhere between the begin
ning and the ending of President
Wilson’s second term. It was run
ning and greased splendidly during
Mr. Wilson’s first term. But with
in the past two years, especially,
every Senator and every Representa
tive, has been running his own poli
tical machinery in his own way.
Party disloyalty is apparently no
longer a political crime, nor even a
misdemeanor, and party regularity
has become more a matter of the
glory of history than a moral respon
sibility among those who hold legis
lative offices.
CAMPAIGN PLANS.
A “careful observer” notes that
“what’s delaying the La Follette
boom is having its brakes tested.”
Another astute tooter of public in
formation says Coolidge wants to get
the reaction from his speech of ac
ceptance in order to be sure-footed
that he is right before he steps on
the gas. The .third political Sherlock
Holmes thinks Davis is like the water
carrier from whose yoke dangles two
buckets, one filled with progressive
punch and the other with the spirits
of friendly finance. The proper bal
ance to prevent spilling is difficult.
On the whole the analysis is good
even though clothed somewhat in the
obscurity of speech. At all the
j Washington political headquarters,
• the inidcations are that the campaign
has been getting under way rather
slowly, but that it will have plenty
of momentum when it hits its gait.
FOUNTAIN CAMP
MEETING
Fountain camp meeting will begin
Friday, August 15th, 11 o’clock, A.
M. All the tentholders are expected
to be moved in by that time and not
disturb the people by moving in after
the meeting begins.
For more than a century our fore
fathers have been gathering at this
sacred spot to worship God where
nature joins in every song to praise
His Majesty. Here many a saint
has feasted upon His wonderful love,
and many a sinner has found Jesus
precious to his soul.
Besides the preaching, which will
be of the highest quality, Rev. J. C.
Adams, Superintendent Rural Sun
day School Work, North Georgia
Conference will teach a training
course which will bo very helpful to
parents and Sunday School workers.
You are invited to attend this meet
ing and see your friends. Among
them will be “a friend that sticketh
closer than a brother.”
FOSTER YOUNG, P. C.
Mr. Price Did Not Sell
Ford Agency.
Let The Progress Do Your Job
Printing.
It was reported that Mr. H. A.
Price had sold’ his Ford agency, but
Mr. Price advises that the trade did
not materialize, and that he is still
in the Ford agency with a greater
determination to push the business
than ever before.
Mr. Price has added to h.is force,
Mr. J. M. Cloud, of Augusta, who
has been connected with the Lombard
Motor and Supply Co., of that city,
for more /than ten years. Mr. Price
feels that with the experience of Mr.
Cloud he is quite an acquisition to
his organization.
The Progress is glad that Mr.
Price is still with the local Ford
agency, an institution that he has
built up from a small beginning to
a business of remarkable proportions.
The people of Thomson will wel
come Mr. and Mrs. Cloud and chil
dren as new citizens. They expect
to move from Augusta as soon as a
suitable home can be found.
“Money Made In Turn
overs; Lost In Left
overs.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7.—This county
must keep money working.
This is the opinion of editors, busi
ness men and others who are now
commenting on the fact that inter
est rates are lower than they have
been in years.
It is shown that, just at this time,
when the demand for money is at a
low ebb, it is time that every avail
able dollar should be put to work or
brought into sight. There is an old
maxim frequently quoted here |>y C.
W. McClure, head of a chain of ten-
cent stores; in fact it is carried on
his stationery and other printed mat
ter, to the effect that “Money is made
in turnovers and lost in leftovers.”
To make money with money, as Mr
McClure and others point out, it must
be put to work.
“Don’t keep your money hidden
away at home,” says one Georgia
editor. “Don’t hide it in safety de
posit vaults, or in some fancied se
cure place around home. Get your
money in sight by putting it in the
bank. If you don’t want it to draw
interest at savings then ask your
banker about how to invest. Put
ting money in real estate securities,
especially in the South at this time,
is one of the best forms of safe in
vestments.”
Forest Adair, president of the
Adair Reality and Trust Company of
Atlanta, a nationally known concern
says that southern people are waking
up to the fact as they have never
done before that money invested at
-home is not only a safe and paying-
investment, but that it contributes
materially to the upbuilding of the
section. The extensive construction
work which is now being carried on
in various sections of the South is
made possible, he says, by buyers of
real estate mortgage bonds, which
are becoming more and more a pop
ular form of investment.
NOTICE.
Campmeeting at Fountain will em
brace the third Sunday in August, the
17th inst. The public tent will be
there in the same way it has heretcr-
fore been.
2t J. II. KENDRICK.
NOTES FROM THE
COUNTY AGENT
TIlE SOUR CREAM STATION-*
WHAT IT MEANS TO THE
' FARMER.
The Georgia-Carolina Creamery
agreed to • establish a sour cream
station at Thomson if we would agrees
to furnish 100 gallons of sour cream
peri week. The first week has gotut
anc} although fanner3 agreed to de
liver the 100 gallons only 67 gallon*
have been delivered Some farmer*
who promised delivery have disre
garded their word in the matter,
leaving their fellow producers in II
bad way. Unless more farmer* /
realize the importance of this sta
tion it will be discontinued.
Most of the patrons are already
shippers of cream in quantity and
really do not need the station. Thoy
have very kindly agreed to deliver
here in order to help establish 0
market for the fellow who wants to
begin or ha3 only a few cows. They
are to be commended and it is Sur
prising that so few small producer*
have manifested interest in the Sta
tion.
While this is not a big paying!
proposition, it docs give a fair re
turn in spending money and enable*
a man to produce more manure on
the farm and he has his skim milh
for home consumption and to feed
chickens and hogs. Hog price* are
sure to soar this fall and we are just
beginning to grow in tho chicken
business.
R. H. Newby with five cows clear
ed $88 above all expenses in 6 month*
on his cream. He has cleared be
sides the S88 a good supply of skim
med milk and manure.
I know we have several who in
tend to patronize later but we need
100 gallons of cream to keep thi*
station here. Let tho county agent
hear from you farmers and start
next Tuesday even if you have only
a quart. The next few weeks will
determine whether this market will
be permanent or not.
G. C. DANIEL.
Georgia Railway Make*
Generous Offer To
Club Members.
The Agricultural Department of
the Georgia Railroad has offered t*
give $25.00 provided that amount
can be matched in McDuffie county
for the purpose of paying scholar
ships to Camp Wilkins next summer.
Boys and girls who are winner*
this fall at the poultry show, also
other club members than poultry
members, will receive these scholar
ships and enjoy an outing at Camp
Wilkins next August.
Some really big man in the county
or some group of such men who are
in sympathy with boys and their
work should match this money SO
that at least five club members can
have an outing next summer and
enjoy the benefits of a week’s train
ing in agriculture at the College of
Agriculture next August.
On Monday, August 11th, five club
members will leave on their annual
trip to Athens. Ask them when- they
return what it means to attend 0
summer camp.
Pasture Demonstration
Was a Success. *
The pasture demonstration at the
farm of Mrs. Ira E. Farmer was pro
nounced a success. Out of 700 farm
ers invited 40 were present, showing
the unusual interest in this county
in scientific methods of soil improve
ment and better, more economical
methods of increasing yields.
The speakers for the day were Mrs,
I. E. Farmer, D. H. Upshaw, E, S.
Center and H. C. Appleton.
NIGHT SWIMMING AT SMITM'S
POND.
With the installation of a lighting
system at Smith’s pond, night swim
ming at this popular resort will no
doubt be the favorite pastime for the
remainder of the summer.
Mr. W. S. Shields, manager of th«
pond, celebrated the opening night
Tuesday with a watermelon cutting at
which a large number of his Thom
son and out-of-town patrons wer*
present.
Youth and Age
Doth not the appetite alter? A mas
loves tin* meat in his youth, that h*
’iinnot endure in his age.—Shake-
.•peare.