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t The Camilla Enterprise. * VOLUME XXIV. HOGS BROUGHT $10.51 TUESDAY THREE CARLOADS HANDLED IN SALE. SEVERAL FINE LOTS % OFFERED BY FARMERS. About three carloads of hogs were sold here Tuesday in the co-operative hog sale, the price received being $10.51 per hundred, basis number one grade. According to those in charge of the sale it was one of the best lots of hogs that has been seen here in some time. There were only 232 ♦ head, but the average for the entire lot was nearly 200 pounds. The total weight of the lot was 45,444 pounds and the total value was $4,578.61. Hall Commission Co. of Moultrie, bought the hogs. The lot was made up of 67 No Is, #! v!9 No. 2s and 28 Roughs. There were only eight head in the other three grades. Among those who had unusually nice lots of hogs in the sale Tuesday were Messrs. W. H. Joiner, of Branch ville, and W. M. Acree, of Camilla. Mr. Joiner had 31 head that graded number one and averaged above 200 pounds, the total weight of this lot being 6700 pounds. At present prices they brought him as much as eight or nine good bales of cotton would be worth. Mr. W. M. Acree had 26 num¬ ber one hogs that weighed around 5,000 pounds, we were unable to get the exact weight. He, also, carried away a sizeable check. One lot of hogs that attracted a good deal of attention was several pure-bred Poland Chinas which were put in the sale by Mr. J. F. Hooks. #■ Mr. Hooks was disppsing of his stock ♦ herd on account of a change on one of his farms. One fine male was with¬ drawn from the sale and sold private¬ ly to Mr. T. R. Davis, of near Hope¬ ful, In the lot that was sold were several fine sows which it seemed a pity to ship away for slaughter, but t no one seemed interested in buying them for stock purposes. Mrs. W. C. Dixon, of near Camilla, had a pig in the sale that afforded an impressive illustration of how quick a hog will grow into money. This pig was less than five months old and weighed 215 pounds. It brought Mrs. Dixon almost $25.00. The pig was raised around the yard and of course had exceptional opportunities, as op¬ portunities go with a hog, but it re¬ paid its owner for the attention given it. Those selling in the sale were ap¬ parently well pleased with the price received, which was not far under the i Chicago quotations. The hog market ♦ has declined something over $2.00 per hundred from the peak during the summer, but prices are still very sat¬ isfactory to those who are fortunate enough to have hogs ready for mar 0 ket. The trouble is that hogs are still scarce in this county, a great many farmers having only a sufficient num¬ ber to supply their own requirements for meat and these are not selling. Tucker Ass’n. Meet In Camilla Tuesday An important meeting of the Tuck¬ er Association executives and church 0 workers will be held at the First Bap * tist church in this city next Tues¬ on day, November 10. The meeting will open at 10 o’clock in the morning and continue until 2:30 in the afternoon with intermission for lunch. The members of the Exe¬ cutive Committee are all expected to be present at the meeting, and also all deacons, Sunday School superin¬ tendents and teachers and leaders in * the woman’s missionary societies within the bounds of the Tucker As¬ sociation. All these people are urged to be present at the meeting. It is important that every church in the Association send representatives here Tuesday. Rev. J. G. Graham, chariman of the Executive Committee, has arranged the meeting Tuesday for the purpose of discussing some plans for the work of the Association for next year, plans in which every church will be vitally interested and will need representa¬ tives to join in the discussion and gain needed information to carry back home. While here Tuesday, the delegates at the meeting will be entertained as guests of the deacons of the First Baptist church, and at 1 o’clock lunch will be served them at the church. Methodist Quarterly Conf. Next Sunday Rev. O. B. Chester, Presiding Elder of the Thomasville District, came to Camilla Sunday to fill the pulpit at the Methodist church for Rev. H. W. Joiner, who was called out off town by the death of a relative. Rev. Ches¬ ter gave one of his deeply earnest and thoughtful sermons, which was thoroughly satisfying to all who heard him. On next Sunday, November 8, Rev. Chester will return to Camilla for the purpose of holding the fourth and quarterly conference of the year with the pastor and church officials. The conference will take place Sunday af¬ ternoon and final reports of the year's work will be given by the various or¬ ganizations of the church. COUNTY SCHOOLS WELL ENROLLMENT AND ANCE RECORDS BROKEN THIS FALL IT IS BELIEVED. At the regular meeting of the County Board of Education, which was held Tuesday at the office of the Coun¬ ty Superintendent of Schools, the monthly report of the County Attend¬ ance Officer, Dr. J. A. McDaniel, caus¬ ed a discussion of enrollment and at¬ tendance figures, which are good for this season of the year. is believed by school officials that the county schools have broken all rec¬ ords this year, both for and for average daily though the exact figures are not now available for comparison. ly all of the schools are crowded and the daily attendance figures show av¬ erages ranging from 80 to 95 per in the country schools and above per cent in the schools of Camilla and Pelham. This condition is both to an increased interest in cational work and to excellent conditions among the children of county, which in turn may be to the efficient work of school author¬ ities and County Health er C. O. Rainey, working under direction of the County Board Health. Miss Ella Foy, County Agent, and Mr. O. L. Johnson, ty Farm Agent, made their reports to the board. County Johnson reported something like acres of legumes seeded in the with the possibility of a further increase in legumes and crops. Miss Foy has also been during the month and her showed considerable interest in work throughout the county. Home Economics Agent is allowed month off each year which she uses attend special courses at the College of Agriculture. The approved a suggestion of Miss that she be excused during instead of December, it appearing with this arrangement she could ter take care of her work. Prof. C. F. Richards, of High School, appeared before board and presented the body with photograph of the Mitchell county cational exhibit at the state fair Macon which won first prize. exhibit was put on by the classes of" Hopeful and Camilla the supervision of Prof. Richards Prof. Reid. No attempt was made bring together a large number of products, but each product and records given were taken from actual records of the work in schools and the Mitchell county hibit scored the highest number points among a number of strong tenders. The board authorized a change the schedule of the school bus Lake Pleasant to Cotton and Evergreen and Branchville to ful, so that these busses will after make two trips instead of It ’ was shown that the busses unable to take care of the number children that have to be hauled the change was authorized to over crowding. x HOPEFUL ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. A delightful entertainment will given this (Friday) evening at school auditorium at Hopeful, ning at 7 o’clock. An especially program will J>e carried out and eryone is assured of having a time. Cordial invitation is given all who will attend. CAMILLA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1925. A. C. L. TO BUILD IMPORTANT LINK EXTENSION OF ITS LINE FROM MONTICELLO TO PERRY WILL BE MADE. According to a story appearing in the Albany Herald of last Saturday the Atlantic Coast Line is planning an extension of its line from Monti eello to Perry, Florida, which will connect up the Albany and Monticello branch of the road with a direct line to Tampa and other west coast points. The announcement is received with a great deal of interest in this section because it is believed that the build¬ ing of this line will convert this branch into one of the main lines of the A. C. L. to Florida and that much of the travel and freight traffic here¬ tofore routed through Jacksonville* will be directed over the western route when lihis link has been com¬ pleted. The distance from Monticello to Perry is only forty miles and for/the past several years there have been ru¬ mors that the Atlantic Coast Line was planning to connect up these lines but nothing ever came of the matter. It is now stated that a definite an¬ nouncement has been made to this ef¬ fect by high officials of the railroad company. The Herald published the following announcement which it says was is¬ sued from the executive offices of the Atlantic Coast Line in New York by H. L. Borden, vice president: “The Atlantic Coast Line railroad has completed securing the right of way from the end of its Thomasville branch, in Georgia, to Perry, in Flori¬ da, a distance of 40 miles, which will open a new through line from Tampa, and other West Coast Florida cities to the middle and northwest via Al¬ bany and Atlanta, and with the Louis¬ ville and Nashville, via Montgomery and Chattanooga. The contract for construction will be let as soon as au¬ thority is granted by the I. C. C. “The new construction, it is esti¬ mated, will cost about $1,200,000, ex¬ clusive of the price paid for the right of way which will bring the road’s total investment in the project up to several millions. No new financing will be required as the funds for the work will be drawn from the road’s treasury. “The tremendous expansion in Flor¬ ida during the past two years and the corresponding growth in traffic in¬ fluenced the Atlantic Coast Line offi¬ cials to open up the new gateway. Heretofore, ‘it has been necessary for the road to route most of its freight and passenger traffic from the West Coast through Jacksonville, in the Northeastern part of the State.” The Circus Attracted Big Crowd Wednesday Walter L. Main’s circus played in Camilla Wednesday and attracted the largest crowd that has been seen here in a long while. From ten o’clock in the morning hntil nearly ten at night the streets were jammed with vehi¬ cles and the sidewalks were crowded with people. Even while the perfor¬ mance was going on the streets were crowded and those who attended the show could hardly be missed. There was no disorder during the day and the few extra police who were sworn in as a precaution had very little to do. The school turned out at noon and gave the children an opportunity to attend and most of them were on hand when the performance started. The young folks pronounced it a cracking good show. The older peo¬ ple shook their heads and grumbled. From this we would judge that it was about the average small town circus and filled the bill in that it provided the excitement and amusement which, apparently, a large number of people were hungry for. Bread Contest On Saturday, November 7 The Bread Contest of the 4 H Girls of Mitchell county will end on next Saturday, November 7th. Not until then can we form even an idea as to who the successful contestants will be. Girls from nearly all the communi¬ ties have been at work practicing for the final production of their skill in baking and will profit greatly by this splendid practice, even if they cannot all be winners at the close of the con¬ test. f PRIMARY NEXT TUESDAY FOR MAYOR AND THREE PLACES ON SCHOOL BOARD TO BE SETTLED. The city Democratic white primary nominating candidates for city of¬ and members of the Camilla school board will be held next November 10th. There are contests to be settled in the pri¬ and all are eliciting considerable on the part of the voters of city. Chief interest, probably, is in the race for mayor be¬ Dr. J. M. Spence, the present and Dr. F. L. Lewis, well local professional men who are with the voters. This con¬ is generally conceded to be close to leave some doubt as to the and to permit the friends of candidates to predict victory for favorite with some substance of their predictions. The three for members of the Board of of Camilla Public Schools ranking close up to the mayor’s in the amount of interest mani¬ by the general public and the of these contests are about much in doubt as the main “bout.” The three old members of the board terms expire this year are M. H. Metcalf, C. E. Watt, Jr. G. B. Cochran. Mr. Metcalf is be¬ opposed for re-election by Mr. C. Stripling. Capt. Watt is opposed by J. L. Gray, and Mr. Cochran is op¬ by Mr. J. R. Adams. The city committee has ruled that for member of the Board Trustees must name the member place they seek, therefore the are paired in three separ¬ and distinct contests. This ruling made by the committee to pre¬ single-shoting or other meth¬ that might defeat the Democratic of majority rule. The can¬ for trustees are conducting in a manner that is fitting those seeking an office that carries it more responsibility than emol¬ but they are managing, never¬ to let their friends know they seeking the places and each of the has a following of his own is backing him in this contest. of the gentlemen are well fitted the place and whatever the out¬ the school will have the bene¬ of the services of conservative men who are deeply inter¬ in the welfare of the school and improvement of the educational consistent with reasonable Besides candidates for mayor and trustees, there are also to be in this primary a City and three members of the Council. There are no contests these places, Mr. E. J. Vann, Jr. unopposed for re-election as which is also true in the of Mr. B. H. Jenkins, candidate Council from the city at large, A. J. Pinson, candidate from the Ward and Dr. D. P. Luke, can¬ from the Fourth Ward. Messrs. and Pinson are now members the Council. Dr. Luke is offering succeed Dr. F. L. Lewis on the The election will be held at the City under the usual rules governing The registration books kept open for the registration of up to Saturday, October 31st, on Monday the list was turned ov¬ to the City Registrars who are now in going over it fqr the pur¬ of purging it of the names those who may not be qualified un¬ the law to participate in the pri as voters. Where there is any of the qualification of the vo¬ a notice will be mailed to him or citing such voter to appear before the registrars on Monday morning, 9th, at 10 o’clock, and show why their names should not be from the list. The city char¬ ter provides that, those residents of city who are qualified to vote for of the general assembly and have paid all taxes assessed against them shall be eligibe to vote city elections. Local Market. Cotton. Strict Middling-----------------19c Middling--------------------18 l-2c Cotton Seed. Per Ton___________-.........$34.00 Peanuts. Per Ton —-----------------$75.00 Butler To Broadcast Monday Friends in Camilla of Charlie But¬ will be interested to learn that he an evangelistic party with which is connected in a revival meeting St. Louis will render a program ov¬ the radio Monday night, November from 9 to 10 o’clock. The pro¬ will be broadcasted from station St. Louis, and should be heard easily by those possessing a ra¬ set. Many radio fans in Georgia particularly in this section of the will listen in to hear Mr. Butler, reputation as a singer is well throughout the country. Peo¬ in Camilla, Mr. Butler’s old home, be particularly interested and sev¬ radio parties will likely be ar¬ for this occasion. SESSION OF CITY COURT RECESSED OVER UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING FOR FINAL SITTING. The September adjourned term of City Court of Camilla convened Monday morning and was in ses¬ until Tuesday morning, when a was announced by Judge Bur son until Saturday morning for the of one or two important eases could not be tried the first of the Several cases were disposed of Mon¬ though only one jury trial was the others being disposed of by or direction of the court. Charley Caldwell, a colored farmer near Baconton, who had entered against the Atlantic Coast Line for damage to his crops due hogs and cattle getting into his through a cattle gap, was award¬ a verdict for $400 against the rail¬ Caldwell sued for about $500, that the stock destroyed peanuts and velvet beans of this as a result of the railroad’s fail¬ to provide a cattle gap at the where the road crossed his field. plaintiff was represented by E. E. Cox and the railroad was by Pope & Bennett, of and Col. J. D. Gardner, of Camilla. Other cases called and which it had been expected would be tried at this were passed over on account of absence of witnesses or other rea¬ sons which made it impossible to try them Monday. Some of these cases may be called Saturday when court reconvenes. A jury has been drawn to serve Saturday. Commissioners Meet In Special Session A special call meeting of the Coun¬ ty Commissioners was held at the of¬ fice of the board Tuesday. The pur¬ pose of the meeting was to consider a proposition for the purchase of tractors for county road work, the meeting was adjourned, however, without any action being taken. It is understood that the Commissioners are planning to sell a nunjber of the county mules and replace these with tractor power, it having been found according to members of the board, that much of the work can be handled more economically with tractors. An advertisement is now being run offer¬ ing about twenty-five head of mules for sale and it is understood that sev¬ eral parties are negotiating with the county for the purchase of the entire lot. Farmer Has Hand Mangled By Hog ■Mr. S. J. Johnson, of Pebble City, is nursing a badly mangled left hand as a result of an encounter he had with a hog on his place on Sunday, Octo¬ ber 25th. Mr. Johnson had a sow with some young pigs in a pen. Something happened to the pigs and he got over into the pen to see about them and the sow attacked him. In trying to ward off the attack the hog got hold of his left hand and inflieted a severe injury before he could get loose. Mr. Johnson considers himself fortunate to have escaped with so slight an in¬ jury as he says the sow was so infur¬ iated that it is remarkable that he es¬ caped with his life. Mr. Johnson is under the treatment of a physician. It is not thought that his hand will be permanently disabled unless infec¬ tion should occur. NUMBER 30. FINE REPORT FROM CAMILLA CHURCH LOCAL BAPTISTS SUBSCRIBE MORE THAN $3,000 TO OTHER THAN LOCAL OBJECTS. The thirty second annual convention of the Tucker Association came to a close on Thursday afternoon of last week at Union Hill, after two days of wonderfully high experiences in faith, fellowship and thanksgiving, rejoicing at the progress of God’s kingdom during the past year. Judge B. T. Burson, who was re¬ elected moderator, presided over the Association convention. Mr. W. M. Harrell, of Pelham, was elected clerk, and Mr. W. C. Adams, of Camilla, treasurer. The Executive Committee named to serve for the ensuing year is as follows: J. G. Graham, Chair¬ man, S. B. King, B. U. Curry, G. L. Smith, W. H. Hoggard, O. L. Johnso*, J. T. Rigsby, H. N. Burnett and Ivey .'Davis. Moderator B. T. Burson and Clerk W. M. Harrell are ex-officio members of the committee. During the business sessions a pe¬ tition was granted to the newly con¬ stituted church at Laney for admis¬ sion into the Association. Mr. L. M. Shiver headed the delegation present¬ ing the petition. Numbers of excellent reports of progress among the various organiza¬ tions of the church were heard with large encouragement. The First Bap¬ tist church of Camilla made a splendid showing, reporting more than $3000.00 raised for various denominational pur¬ poses outside of the local work. The entire amount raised by the church for all purposes this year, including local budget, will run considerably be¬ yond $8000.00. During the second day of the meet¬ ing the high peaks in discussion were the work of the Sunday School, the Hapeville orphanage and the Womans Missionary work. The Tucker and Mallory Associations have joined in assuming the employment of a Sun¬ day school worker, who shall give full time to these two associations. The money has already been raised for this work, whicji will be largely help¬ ful and stimulating to the Sunday School work in the rural sections, since the worker will be able to give individual attention to each church and its needs. It was decided by the Association to ship two cars of food and supplies to the Baptist orphanage at Hapeville this year instead of one as previously, the cars to be sent just before Thanks¬ giving, according to previous custom, the cars to be stationed one at Pelham and one at Camilla on the days set for bringing in the food and produce. Rev. Water M. Lee, representative of the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky., was among the visi¬ tors at the Association, and gave in¬ teresting talks on both days, telling of the work of the seminary. Rev. Walter P. Binns, of Moultrie, Rev. J. L. Claxton, State Field Worker, and Mr. J. W. Merritt, Business Manager of the Christian Index, were honored visitors and interesting speakers also. The next meeting of the Associa¬ tion will be held with the First Bap¬ tist church at Pelham. Rev. S. O. Thomas will preach the introductory sermon and Rev. Spencer B. King will deliver the missionary sermon. Mr. B. U. Curry and Rev. Spencer B. King were elected to represent the Association as delegates to the Bap¬ tist State Convention, which convenes in Savannah next month. Delegates elected for the Southern Baptist convention in Houston, Texas next May, were Rev. Spencer B. King and Rev. J. G. Graham. Parent-Teacher Ass’n. Meets Next Tuesday The regular meeting of the Par¬ ent-Teacher Association will be at 3 o’clock on next Tuesday afternoon, November 10, at the school auditor¬ ium. All mothers who are interested in their children’s work and the school, are urged to be there. An interesting program will be ren¬ dered. Mrs. B. L. Holton will read a paper, “The Relation of the Parent to the Parent-Teacher Association.” A short talk will be given by Mrs. J. D. Gardner from the subject, “What the Parent-Teacher Association can do for our School.” Refreshments will be served. A large attendance of parents at the meeting will be expect¬ ed.