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The Camilla Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. THE CAMILLA THURSDAY AFTER PRICES HAVE BEEN •. BETTER THIS WEEK Average of About 40,000 Pounds Sold Each Day This Week. Total Sales for Season Will Be About 1,400,000 Pounds. The Camilla tobacco market closed for the season Thursday, after the ‘ day’s sale. During this, the last week of the market, sales have been very satisfactory on the whole, though there was no improvement in the grade of the tobacco offered and pric¬ es averaged low. Some observer's thought prices were somewhat better on Monday and Tuesday when a con , „side?able amount of tobacco was sold. The sales for this week have averaged about 40,000 pounds daily with the average price probably between 11 and 12 cents per pound. The total sales for the season on the Camilla market have been about 1,400,000 pounds. The average price for the season on this market has not been given out but it is probable that it will run above 12 cents. The Camilla market: has given gen eral satisfaction this year, and the sales, grade considered, have been in Sine with the best markets in the state. There has been a good deal of disappointment over the outcome of the crop, but this has been due to un¬ favorable weather conditions and in some measure to the weakness of the market on the higher grades. The growers, as a rule, have not been dis¬ couraged to the point of giving up * the crop, though there will undoubt¬ edly be many who will reduce their tobacco acreage next year. This will probably be for the best because of the scarcity of labor and the oft re¬ peated assertion that tobacco is crop that requires the closest person , al attention of the grower if the best results are to be obtained. The tobacco crop is recognized here as a practical and profitable crop, * properly handled, and there is no question but that it will be a perma¬ nent erop in this section. Growers here are already planning for another year and in this they will have the co-operation and encouragement of the banks and supply houses which will help to finance the crop. There will be no effort made, however, to encourage people to grow tobacco who are not situated so as to handle the crop to the best advantage, neither will there be any disposition on the * part of the promoters of the tobacco • industry to encourage growers to plant more than they can take care of. Quality, rather than quantity, will be stressed here and it is believed that the next tobacco crop will more defi • niteiy fix its status as a staple mon ey crop for this section. The best of demonstrators can not take the place of experience of individual growers and the number of growers in this county who have now grown from one to three or four crops of tobacco will have a decided effect on the next crop produced in this county. The Camilla market will open next year with the same warehousemen, a full corps of buyers and, it is hoped, •the best crop of tobacco yet produced in this section. Camilla business men and those directly interested in pro¬ moting the tobacco market here are very much gratified over the outcome of the present season and are appre¬ ciative of the business and encourage¬ ment that have been received from to¬ bacco growers outside of this imme¬ diate territory. Every effort has • been made to give everyone a square deal who sold tobacco on this market and this attitude on the part of ware¬ housemen, buyers and others con¬ nected with the market has been rec¬ ognized and appreciated by the grow¬ ers selling here. The Camilla market has made friends over a wide terri¬ tory this year and will be able to open the season next year with every as¬ surance of the support of the grower who have patronized this market in the past. Local Market. (Thursday) Cotton. Strict Middling _____________21 l-4c Middling —_________________21 c Cotton Seed. Per Ton_____________________$30.00 MARKET CLOSED SUCCESSFUL Monthly Hog Sale Held Here Tuesday The regular monthly 'co-operative hog sale was held in Camilla Tues¬ day. Only a small lot of hogs was offered, there being less than a mini¬ mum car and on this account the price paid for the hogs was about 50 cents per hundred under the top market price. Hall Commission Co., of Moul¬ trie, bought the hogs, paying $12.00 per hundred, basis No. 1. The pur¬ chaser offered to increase his bid to $ 12.50 per hundred in the event ad¬ ditional hogs were secured sufficient to make up a minimum car. Hogs ready for market are scarce in this county at present and people are so busy with their crops that many who might have been able to put two or three hogs in the sale let them go over till the next sale rather than stop other work at this time. COTTON SCHOOL TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY LARGE ATTENDANCE EXPECTED j ON OPENING DAY DESPITE RUSH WITH CROPS. By Correspondent. The board of trustees of the Cotton school announce the opening of fall term on September 7th. Although this is some earlier than school was expected to open by some,, it was de¬ cided best after due since beginning school on this date, the school hopes to put in four months work before the Christmas holidays, and five months after holidays. It may be necessary in order tor fanners to gather their crops for some pupils to be absent first week of school, although this is a great disadvantage to both pupil and teach¬ er. It will be understood that teach¬ ers will be as considerate and lenient as possible on those who for good rea¬ sons, find it impossible to attend the opening week. The principal urges that all pupils possible, be present on opening day, for since the consolidation of Lake Pleasant and Mt. Ebal schools, the ar¬ rangement of rooms, desks, etc. will be some what difficult. A truck and driver has been secured for each of these newly added schools, Mr. Strickland having charge of Mt. Ebal hauling and Mr. Eubanks in charge of Lake Pleasant. Prof. Adams announces that a full corps of teachers will be ready for the opening. There is one vacancy on faculty at present, but it is expected j that this place will be filled within ] the next few days. | ed A of tuition all pupils, fee of regardless $2.50 will he of requir¬ i age or whether they come from Cotton dis¬ tinct or elsewhere. This fee will be due when pupils enter school and all will be expected to bring admittance card from Mr. H. J. Adams (who will have charge of fees), showing that this fee has befcn paid, in order that delays may be avoided. All parents should see that their children have on opening day their report cards and card of admittance. The building and grounds will be in good condition and prospects are that attendance this year will break all previous records since consolida¬ tion of two new districts with an ad¬ ditional teacher employed. Several changes have occurred in faculty, the following is list of teach¬ ers as given, out by Prof. Adams. Stetson B. Adams, Superintendent. Principal-—to be supplied. Miss Myrtice Adams, Fifth and Sixth Grades. Mrs. Grace Eubanks, Third and Fourth Grades. Miss Alice Middleton, Second Grades. Miss Ollie Bowen, First Grade. Mr. Frank Perry Has Located In Miami, Fla. Mr. Frank Perry, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Perry of this place, left last week for Miami, Fla., where he has accepted a position with the Mia mi Tribune, one of the daily papers of that city. Mr. Perry is connected with the advertising department of the newspaper and writes home that he is well pleased with his CAMILLA, GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1925. GEORGIA MOTOR CO. TO MAKE CHANGES FACILITIES FOR HINDU N G FORD BUSINESS WILL BE IMPROVED. Along with the information that several business men have purchased' substantial blocks of stock in the Georgia Motor Co., local Ford dealers, comes the announcement that impor¬ tant improvements in the facilities for handling the rapidly growing business of the company are planned and will be made in the near future. Among those who have recently ac¬ quired stock in the concern are Messrs. J. B. Lewis, who is prominent¬ ly identified with several local busi¬ ness concerns; G. B. Baggs, Active Vice President of the Planters & Citi¬ zens Bank and who has other impor¬ tant business interests here, and J. D. Gardner, local attorney. Among the old stockholders are Messrs. J. D. Ledbetter and B. C. Gardner, who have held the major portion of the stork since the organization of the company. The new stockholders will be members of the board of directors with Mr. J. D. Ledbetter. Mr. J. D. Ledbetter will continue as president and manager of the com¬ pany and he will have as his assist¬ ant Mr. A. E. Crow, who it is under¬ stood will also have a financial inter¬ est in the company. Mr, Crow has grown up in Camilla and has been connected with several local business concerns and has won the esteem and confidence of all with whom he has been associated. He is a capable of¬ fice man and has a wide acquaintance throughout this section which will be of value to him in the position he has accepted. Among the improvements planned for the near future is the fitting up of a large parts and display room which will facilitate the display and sale of automobile accessories and will enable the company to give quicker and more satisfactory service in the matter of supplying parts to the mechanical de¬ partment and to othe.r garage men who buy through the local agency. Additional machinery and equip¬ ment for handling repair work will be added to the repair department which will enable the local concern to give as quick service and to handle work as economically as in the best Ford agencies in the state. This equipment, with a full corps of exper¬ ienced mechanics will insure those who patronize the local concern of the best service at all times. In addition to the office and garage force, a number of salesmen will be kept busy pushing Ford products. While there will be no let up in the attention given to the sale of Ford cars, it is understood that more at j tention in the future will he given to the truck and tractor lines. The Fordson Tractor is already recogniz¬ ed as necessary equipment on many of the farms in this section, but the possibilities of this machine, it is said, have never been fully realized in this section and the local concern will make a special effort to popular¬ ize the Fordson Tractor in this coun¬ ty.' The Georgia Motor Co. is one of the most successful concerns in Camilla. The business has been built up large¬ ly through the energy and ability of Mr. J. D. Ledbetter, who has had the management of the business since its organization and who will continue to control its affairs. His friends and the many customers of this com¬ pany will be glad to learn of the ex¬ tensions in the business and the ser¬ vice which are planned and which in¬ dicate the continued and growing prosperity of the business organiza¬ tion. Baconton Concern To Do Albany Paving J. R. & J. B. Miller, of Baconton, have been awarded the contract to lay 52,000 yards of concrete paring in the city of Albany. The paving con¬ tract secured by the Millers is part of a huge street paring project Al¬ bany is planning which will cover 59 blocks of streets. The contract calls for 52,000 yards of concrete paving and 106,000 yards of asphalt paring. j TTie asphalt paving was let to another j contractor. J. R. & J. B. Miller have been handling some large road paving contracts in Georgia and Alabama and have been very successful in this line of work. Mr. T. C. Sellers Has Moved To Baconton Mr. T. C. Sellers, who for some time has been in partnership with Mr. C. B. Cox in a poultry and dairy farm near Hopeful, has closed out his in¬ terest in the Hopeful place and has moved to Baconton, where he will manage a poultry and dairy farm for Mr. Pierce Jackson, of that place. Mr, Jackson has a herd of fine Jersey cows ar.d a large flock of White Leg¬ horn hens and a well established bus¬ iness. Under Mr. Sellers’ manage¬ ment it is expected to enlarge the business so as to supply a growing list of customers. Mr. C. B. Cox will continue his poul¬ try and dairy business at Hopeful un¬ der the management of Mr. E. D. Heidt, who has had experience in this line of work. Mr. Cox has found this sideline to his large plantation pro¬ fitable and will continue it along the same lines as heretofore. NO FAIRWILLBE HELD THIS FALL OFFICIAL OPPOSITION AND LACK OF LOCAL INTEREST IS GIVEN AS REASON. The announcement has been made by Mr. Thos. P. Littlejohn, for several years manager of the Mitchell County Fair at Camilla, that there will be no county fair here this fall, at least not under his management and conducted as heretofore. Mr. Littlejohn made this statement to the publisher of The Enterprise several days ago and gave as his reason for leaving Camilla off his list of fairs this fall that he had been informed that it was doubtful if the city council of Camilla would again issue him a pemit and that there appeared to he a general lack of interest on the part of local busi¬ ness men. He stated that he would have been glad to continue the man¬ agement of the local fair, but felt that it would be unwise to attempt it in the face of any considerable opposi¬ tion and especially in view of the fact that lie already has about as many fairs on his hands as he is able to give proper attention. A good many people have expressed surprise that the fair was called off on account of local opposition, and from these expressions it would ap¬ pear that there is a strong public sen¬ timent in favor of holding the fair, but at this late day it is doubtful if it could be arranged. So far as known the matter was never submitted to the city council for a vote, hut the writer was inform¬ ed by a member of the council early this year that in an informal discus¬ sion of the question “practically ev¬ ery member” voiced opposition to holding the fair again under the same arrangement as held last year. Those who knew of this sentiment existing among the members of the council considered it a definite bar to any further fairs under the old manage¬ ment, as a permit from the council was absolutely necessary for the un¬ dertaking, and the future of the fair was considered settled. The principal objection heard to the fairs as they have been held here for the past several years was to the carnival features which were not ap¬ proved of by those who considered the moral side of the question. Some of the business men also objected to these features on the ground that they gave very little in return for the money expended on them and that the money taken out of the county was hurtful to all interests. A fair without the carnival feature is practically an impossibility on ac¬ count of the heavy expense, and no other practical method has been de¬ vised to raise the necessary funds for holding the annual event. The Mitchell County Fair was en¬ tirely successful from the standpoint of agricultural, live stock and home exhibits and the interest in this de¬ partment increased each year. On this account it is regretted that it was necessary to call off the fair. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to extend our thanks and appreciation to our friends for their kindness and sympathy shown us in the death of our son and brother. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Marshall, and Family. Mrs. D. D. Burgess spent Saturday in Albany. Peanut Crop Promises Good Yield This Year All reports indicate that the peanut crop this year will be above the aver¬ age, both in yield per acre and in the quality of the nuts. This is true, it is said, despite the fact that nearly every one had a poor stand of peanuts this year and the crop started off un der very discouraging conditions. The peanuts are of unusual fine quality this year, there being very few imma¬ ture or faulty nuts found on the vines. If the farmers have favorable weath¬ er for harvesting and picking it is beleived the grades this year will be extra good. Although the market for peanuts will not open for several weeks and no quotations are now available, it is generally believed that the market will open at about $100 per ton and that this price is likely to be maintained throughout the selling season due to the smaller acreage ov¬ er the belt this year. THOMASTOSTART PAVING AT MEIGS SIX MILES OF PAVING PLANNED ON HIGHWAY TO LINK UP WITH MITCHELL. Thomas county is planning to be¬ gin a paving project on the Dixie Highway in the near future which will add six more miles to the stretch of continuous paring through this sec¬ tion. The State Highway Depart¬ ment, through an arrangement with the Thomas county authorities are advertising for bids on a paving project of 6.270 miles which will start at the Mitchell and Thomas county line and extend south through Meigs. Bids are to be received on this project today, September 4th, and if there is no hitch in the letting of the contract the work on this project will begin in about thirty days. The paving is to be of concrete of the same charac¬ ter as that done in this county. The road will conform in other particu¬ lars to that constructed in this county. About the same time the work starts on the project in Thomas coun¬ ty the contractors will begin laying an additional stretch of five miles of paving north of Camilla and which will give Mitchell county a continuous stretch from the Thomas county line on the south to the Flint and Newton road crossing about six miles north of Camilla, or about twenty miles of con¬ tinuous paring in this county. The paving in this county and that in Thomas county will be completed ear¬ ly in the spring unless delayed by some unforeseen circumstance. There will still remain a gap of about ten miles between the northern end of the paring in this county and the south¬ ern end of the Dougherty county pav¬ ing at the Dougherty county line which it is expected will be filled in within the next year and a half or two years. It is also understood that the Thomas county authorities intend to finally complete the paving of the Dixie Highway north from Thomas ville to the Mitchell county line which will then give an unbroken stretch of between sixty and sixty-five miles of paved road. It is not unlikely that Lee county will undertake the paving of the Dixie Highway through that county at a not distant date, according to reports re¬ ceived here, and that will connect up another unbroken stretch of about sixty miles, making something like one hundred and twenty-five miles of continuous paving. There is strong probability that all of this work will be completed within the next four or five years, and long before all of it is completed this route from the north to Florida will have outstripped all others in popularity with the tourists and this section will be enjoying the results of an influx of homeseekers and investors directly attributable to the improvement of this important road. The paving' already done is attract¬ ing wide attention and reports indi¬ cate a much greater activity in farm lands and town property in this sec¬ tion than in any other part of South Georgia. There isn’t a doubt but that good roads and good crops have al¬ ready started a movement of investors in this direction and this movement will increase as the truth about this section becomes more generally known. Messrs. E. J. Vann, Jr. and G. M. Cochran spent the week-end in Ma¬ con. NUMBER 21. RURAL SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 21ST WILL OPERATE SEVEN MONTHS, LONGER IF FUNDS ON HAND JUSTIFY IT. The County Board of Education met in regular monthly session on. Tues¬ day, with a full board present except the chairman, Mr. T. J. Glausier, of Baconton, who was out of the county. Mr. J. D. Gardner was made tempor¬ ary chairman and presided at the meeting. The board decided upon Monday, September 21st, as the date for the opening of the rural schools of the county. The rural schools will be operated seven months this year, as was the case last year, and if it should happen that there are sufficient funds available, the term will be extended. Many people of the county who are sometimes inclined to criticise onr school authorities for one reason or another are probably not aware of the fact that Mitchell county has a school record equal to the very best counties in this section of the state and consul - ably better than a number of good counties. During the past two or three years several rich counties in this section have been forced to drop down to a five or six months term for their rural schools and only a few have been able to maintain a seven months school as has been done in Mitchell. Our school authorities are sometimes accused of being too con¬ servative, but it must be admitted that they have managed to secure the maximum results from the amount of public school money placed at their disposal. The board has made arrangements with Mr. C. R. Hatcher to haul all the students above the seventh grade from the Lester and Pine Hill school districts to Sale City, where they will have first-class high school advan¬ tages. Mr. W. B. Lewis and Superinten¬ dent J. R. Sloan were appointed as a committee to make arrangements for the transportation of school children from Branehville and Evergreen dis¬ tricts to Camilla. It is planned to haul all the children above the fifth grade from Branehville and of all grades from Evergreen, doing away with the school at Evergreen, alto¬ gether. A delegation appeared before the hoard from Bethany district, some to protest against the abandonment of the school in that district and others to approve this plan. The board, at a previous meeting upon a request from patrons of Bethany school, had decided to abandon the school there and haul all the children to the Ca¬ milla school. It appeared from the best information obtainable Tuesday that a majority of the patrons of the Bethany school still favor the aban¬ donment of the school there, so the board let its previous action stand. It was announced that some of the children in the Bethany district are within reach of the Mt Olive school and they will be allowed to attend that school if they desire, but no transportation will be supplied. The board agreed upon the same county tax rate for school purposes as was levied last year. A tax of fhre mills will be levied for general pur¬ poses, and two mills for agriculture, home economic and county agent work. This action will be certified to the county commissioners and the school levy will be made with the regular county levy. A delegation of citizens from Mt. Ebal school district appeared before the hoard stating that some of the patrons in that district wanted to send their children to the Pelham school. The board had previously made arrangements to have the chil¬ dren from Mt. Ebal hauled to Cotton. It was agreed that those who wanted to attend the Pelham school may do so and that an allowance of 12 cents per day for transportation will be allowed, provided the number hauled to Cotton does not drop below an average of 35 each day. The reason for this pro¬ posal is that the board has already contracted to run a truck to Cotton which will take care of 35 pupils at one trip. If the number should run above 35, necessitating a second trip, the board would be inclined to make the second trip to Pelham if it is de¬ sired by the patrons. Mr. Ben Taylor, of Tampa, Fla., is spending the week here visiting his brother, Mr. Bob Taylor, and other relatives. '4