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The Camilla Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
DAVIS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY BUYS ,
650 ACRE FARM IN MITCHELL COUNTY
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The Consideration Announced
Is > $a0,000... Purchasers ,, . Buy ,,
for Investment and W ill Make
Important Improvements.
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The most improtant real estate
transaction consummated here in
some time was closed last week by
Mr. F. A. Brown who sold his Win¬
gate place, an improved farm con¬
sisting of 650 acres, to the Davis Con¬
struction Company, of Atlanta, Ga.,
and Danville, Va. The consideration
announced was $50,000, which is said
to represent a profit of something like
$20,000 Mr. Brown has cleaned up on
this place in less than two years.
The Davis Construction Co. was
represented in the transaction by Mr.
Jack Davis, Pres, of the company,who
let it be known that he was for in¬
vestment and not for re-sale. He al¬
so announced that he has plans for
extensive improvements which will
include the erection of tenant houses,
additional tobacco barns and other
buildings necessary to accommodate
several families he expects to move
here from Virginia and North Caro¬
lina to operate the farm. Mr. Davis
is familiar with the tobacco industry
in the old belt and has faith in this
crop for this section of Georgia, and
with experienced farmers and land
that has been pronounced well suited
to this crop, he will undertake to
give tobacco a fair trial.
The Wingate place is located about
two miles west of Camilla on the
Bainbridge road. In addition to the
well improved farm there is a 100
acre pecan grove on the place which
is just coming into bearing. This
grove is regarded by Mr. Davis as one
of the most valuable features of the
place and experienced pecan growers
estimate that the grove alone is worth
close to the price paid for the entire
farm.
The Davis Construction Company
has been engaged for the past eight
teen months in executing contracts
for road and street paving in this
county. The work already complet¬
ed, which includes fourteen miles of
concrete roads and extensive street
paving jobs in Camilla and Pelham,
total considerably in excess of a half
million dollars. This'company is now
engaged on another paving contract
on the Dixie Highway, extending the
paving north from Camilla toward the
Dougherty county line where it will
eventually be linked up with the
Dougherty county paving. While en¬
gaged in carrying out these projects
Mr. Davis, the head of the company,
has had ample opportunity to ap¬
praise the value of investments in
farm lands in this county and his
judgment led him to purchase a farm
in the vicinity of Camilla.
Mr. F. A. Brown has closed out his
farm holdings in order to be able to
give his full time to his real estate
business which he expects to extend
materially through the establishment
of connections in North Carolina,
Virginia and in the Northwest
through which he will be able to get
in touch with farmers in those sec¬
tions of the country who dimate~and are looking
for cheaper
the opportunity for a diversification
of crops not offered farther north.
Mr. Brown has had many years ex¬
perience in the real estate business,
having been engaged in this business
in Montana and other Western states
before moving to Camilla several
years ago. He came to Mitchell Coun¬
ty more by accident than anything
else, but he quickly recognized the
possibiities of this section and his
recent sale of the Wingate place at
a substantial profit is only one of sev¬
eral transactions that have vindicated
his judgment. He is convinced
all that is necessary to get a move¬
ment of farmers started this way
from less favored sections is to place
the hard facts before them, and this
he proposes to do through plans
has worked out and will put on
in the nature of a private
There are many indications
this section is becoming the center
interest for hundreds of
who are headed South. The
prices at which good farm land
be purchased in. this section is one
the attractions, and the variety
TOBACCOPRICES
HIGH AT WILSON
AFTER OPENING LOW THE MAR¬
KET ATTAINS HIGHEST PRIC¬
ES SINCE 1919 SEASON.
The Enterprise is in receipt of a
letter from Mr. S. W. Smith, manager
of the Planters Tobacco Warehouse
in Camilla and the New Smith Ware¬
house at Wilson, N. C., in which he
inclosed several account sales for to¬
bacco sold in his warehouse in Wil¬
son. He states that tobacco prices
in Wlison are averaging about 35c
per pound and that much GOOD TO¬
BACCO is being offered. He calls
attention to the prices shown on the
account sales as indicating that there
is always a demand for good tobacco
and a big profit for the farmer who
can produce it.
From other sources we learn that
the North Carolina market opened
very low, prices averaging even low¬
er than on the South Georgia market
when the difference in the quality of
the tobacco is taken into considera¬
tion. After the market had been op¬
en seveval weeks the Export Tobacco
Co. and the Imperial Tobacco Co. be¬
gan to buy strong and prices shot up
to the highest point since the 1919
season, when tobacco prices were the
highest ever known. From the same
source it is now learned that prices
have dropped considerably from the
highest level but are still very satis¬
factory. Our informant States that
one reason for the sag in prices has
been that .the Wilson market has been
swamped with a tremendous volume
of tobacco that has been drawn there
from all sections of the belt. The
congestion at the sales, in the opinion
of this party, has operated against
the satisfactory marketing of the to¬
bacco and has caused the tobacco
companies to make a sharp cut in
prices. This party states, however,
that this year’s tobacco crop in North
Carolina has been the most profitable
one raised since 1919 and that the
growers are highly pleased with the
results.
Mr. S. W. Smith, in his letter, states
that he expects to come down to Ca¬
milla about Thanksgiving and will see
as many of his friends here as pos¬
sible during that necessarily short
visit. He is anxious, as is everyone
interested in the success of the tobac¬
co industry in this section, to see the
farmers here raise one crop of good
tobacco and retrieve the loses sustain¬
ed during the past season. Mr. Smith
is confident that tobacco of the very
best quality can be raised here and he
is boosting for quality rather than
quantity production.
We are copying several of the ac¬
count sales below for the informa¬
tion of the growers of this county:
G. M. Boykin, Grower:
Price Price Amounts
120 40 $ 48.00
84 60 50.40
170 59 100.00
152 99 150.48
80 99 79.20
50 1.00 50.00
40 99 39.60
Average, $87.00 per hundred.
Smith & Strickland, Growers:
Price Price Amounts
90 50 $ 45.00
68 51 3468
102 38 38.76
146 64 93.44
88 45 39.60
94 43 40.42
122 45 54.90
76 48 36.48
110 72 79.20
74 85 62.90
66 33 ° 21.78
48 46 22.08
Average, $52.40 per hundred.
Joyner & Wells, Growers:
Price Price Amounts
122 91 $111.02
170 75 127.50
124 53 65.72
124 42 52.48
134 36 48.24
100 35 35.00
164 31 50.84
Average, $52.50 per hundred.
B. A. Lancaster sold 428 pounds of
tobacco for $160.00, an average of
$37.39 per hundred.
C. E. Strickland sold 410 pounds
for $179.76, an average of $43.84.
K. J. Smith sold 1436 pounds for
$643.46, an average of $44.50.
Note Book Covers and Fillers and
all school supplies may be had at The
Enterprise Office.
that can be profitably grown is
another, but the big factor with a
great many people, especially those
in the North and West> seeins t0 be a
desire for a milder climate where the
hardships °f rarm life are not so
In spite of our backwardness
letting the world kpoW) the truth
about South Georgia’s wonderful eli
has become known and it is be
lieved that this section will be the
scene of the next rush for land.
CONVICTS HERE
WELL CARED FOR
COMMITTEE ON INSPECTION
TOUR GIVES OUR WARDEN
HIGH PRAISE.
A legislative committee, selected to
make inspection of convict camps in
this section of the state, arrived in
Camilla Tuesday afternoon and spent
Wednesday here, visiting the convict
camps here and at Pelham and Sale
City. The committee had no com¬
plaint whatever to make of conditions
here and complimented Warden A. A.
Maples and the County Commission¬
ers highly for the manner in which
the prisoners in this county are han¬
dled.
The committee was composed of
Senator C. F. Owen, of the 41st dis¬
trict, whose home is in Gilmer county,
and Representatives E. Wheeler, of
Pickens county; Dr. C. D. Williams,
of Johnson county, and O. P. Milton,
of Gilmer county. This committee
visited six counties in this section of
the state, as follows: Early, Miller,
Seminole, Decatur, Baker and Mitch¬
ell. According to statements made
to The Enterprise man they found
conditions fair to good in all of the
counties vjsited in this section. They
stated without hesitancy that condi¬
tions in Mitchell county are the best
of any County visited. They found no
evidence here or in any of the other
counties in this section indicating
that prisoners have been mistreated
in the matter of punishment for in¬
fractions of rules or from neglect of
living conditions.
There are several legislative com¬
mittees now engaged in inspecting
the county convict camps of the state
and a sensation was recently caused
by reports that in several counties
the legislative committees have found
that prisoners have been subject to
various forms of tortue in, order to
quell rebellious spirits and force com¬
pliance with prison rules. These
methods, some of them quite ingen¬
ious and original, have been resorted
to in lieu of the lash, which can no
longer be used under the Georgia law.
The legislators who have visited the
counties complained against say that
the lash is unquestionably more mer¬
ciful and less barbarous than some of
the methods which have been resorted
to and it is indicated that there will
be strong sentiment for restoring the
lash at the next meeting of the Gen¬
eral Assembly. Some of the mem¬
bers of the committee visiting Mitch¬
ell county are in favor of returning
to the old method of punishment. It
is pointed out that while this method
of meting out punishment was abused
by a few heartless wardens, the same
type of wardens are n ° W fi " din / ™ y8
and means more vicious ana mnu
mane than the lash for quelling un¬
ruly prisoners, and that it is more of
a question of securing wardens of
the right type and character than of
the method of punishment.
Senator Owen, who headed the dele¬
gation that visited this county, is edi¬
tor of his home county paper, which
is published in Ellijay. He and the
other members of the party were very
much impressed with agricultural
conditions in this county and marvel¬
ed at the large number of crops which
are grown successfully here. They
will return to North Georgia with a
good report not only of the manner
in which our officials deal with the un¬
fortunate men who find their way in¬
to our prison camps, but also of the
fine farm lands and prosperous con¬
ditions they found in this section of
the state.
Local Market.
Cotton, Middling -----------18 l-2c
Cotton Seed, per to__________$31.00
(Peanuts, per ton-------------$77.50
CAMILLA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1925.
EDUCATION WEEK
IS OBSERVED HERE
AN INTERESTING AND HELPFUL
PROGRAM IS CARRIED AT
LOCAL SCHOOL.
Camilla public schools fell in line
with numerous other schools of the
state this week in the observance of
American Education week and a most
inspiring program of speeches has
been carried out from day to day.
The program for our school was ar¬
ranged by the Parent-Teacher Asso¬
ciation under the direction of the
State School Superintendent.
Monday was Constitution Day and
the school body and visitors had the
privilege of hearing Col. E. M. Davis
speak on the “Federal Constitution”
and in his clear and illuminating way,
bring out many facts that made
hearts swell with pride at the great¬
ness of this bulwark of our govern¬
ment. Col. Davis said that the fun¬
damental law of our government is an
instrument to a great extent inspired
by men whose vision extended far in¬
to the future and it’s main purpose
was the exaltation and preservation
of rights of property and regulating
relative rights of citizens of a govern¬
ment under this fundamental law.
He called attention to the fact that
this instrument is remarkable in that
although it has been in existence one
hundred and thirty eight years and
has been the fundamental law for the
government from a very small group
of people, to the greatest nation of
the earth and fixing and controlling
the relative rights of unnumbered
millions of dollars of property, that
it has become necessary to amend it
only about eighteen times and most
of these amendments were intended
to broaden and give wider preserva¬
tion to the liberties and fundamental
rights of the citizens of this nation.
Mr. Davis held his audience through
every word of his speech, which not
only stirred the hearts of young
America with patriotic pride, but
brought them into closer knowledge
and understanding of the Constitu¬
tion of these United States and its
worth to Us.
Tuesday was Patriotism Day and
Congressman E. E. Cox was the spea¬
ker of the day, taking the subject,
“The Flag of our Country.” He be¬
gan his speech by saying that we
hardly knew just when flags originat¬
ed, that in olden times every family
had its flag, telling of the flag of the
Washington family and of the Lee
family. Then he gave the facts in
connection with the origin of our flag
and when it was first hoisted, how
that the thirteen stars and thirteen
stripes stood for the thirteen colonies
and how, after other states began to
be added to the union the design of
the flag had to be changed somewhat,
a new star being placed on the field
for each new state and the thirteen
red and white stripes left unchanged,
representing the thirteen original
colonies. He told of the march
of the flag through the history
of our country and brought out the
truth of what the protection of our
flag means, what the flag insures us,
and the great thought that we were
not born in a country where we were
bound by some certain caste, but were
born free and equal. At the end of
his speech, his hearers felt more for¬
cibly than ever the reality and great¬
ness of our flag, that it is not just a
banner to fly on patriotic occcasibns
and to be saluted in war times, but
has a significance that is real, sacred
and solemn, the insignia of the great¬
est government on the earth, and
which, shelters an inconquerable na¬
tion.
Wednesday was School and Teacher
Day and Rev. J. G. Graham, pastor
of the First Baptist church, was the
speaker of the occasion. His sub¬
ject, “The School and the Teacher,”
naturally called for a more intimate
disucssion than the others, but cer¬
tainly no less interesting. He told
at the first of his speech of the high
place that the school holds in every
community, reciting forcible incidents
of families refusing to move into
towns or communities where there
were no good schools. He discussed
the teacher in the school, the quali¬
fications that every teacher must pos¬
sess to make any success in the work
in the school room, a higher and a
nobler calling than many people rea¬
lize and one that some teachers fail
to value as they should. He then
told of the sympathy, the apprecia¬
tion and the co-operation that should
be given the teachers, how their work
CHAMBER OF COMMECE IS ORGANIZED
AT MEETING HELD HERE MONDAY NIGHT
is crippled and ineffectual unless they
have the backing of parents. To the
school body he spoke of their part in
making the school a success, their
respectful obedience to the teachers
and diligent work in the class room.
All these several parts form, he said,
the successful and growing school.
Thursday was Thrift Day and the
school body and visitors were to be
honored by having Mr. W. C. Cooper,
President of the First National Bank
of Pelham, to speak to them on the
subject of “Conservation and Thrift.”
Mr. Cooper is said to be splendid on
this subject and his speech was un
duobtedly heard with large apprecia¬
tion. An account of his speech will
be given next week.
Friday (today) is “Know Your
School" Day. Prof. T. L. Anthony is
the speaker of the day and will use as
his subject, “Education Must Ad¬
vance With The Times.” Everybody
who can should hear Prof. Anthony
speak on this important subject.
Owing to the fact that the program
for Education week was not announc¬
ed until a few days ago, few people
knew that these splendid speeches
were being given at the school chapel
every mornning and the number of
visitors has not been very large. It
is unfortunate that the whole town¬
ship could not have a part in this in¬
spiring program. It has been very
impressive, especially so to the young
people of the school, and of wonder¬
ful value in building better citizens
for our nation.
BAPTISTS TO LOAD
ORPHANS CAR HERE
ONE CAR WILL BE STATIONED
AT CAMILLA AND ONE AT
PELHAM NEXT WEEK.
Next week is the time set aside by
the Baptists of Tucker Association
to load their two cars of food and pro¬
duce to be sent to the Georgia Bap¬
tist Orphanage at Hapeville.
Sending a car to the orphans home
as a Thanksbiving offering is a yearly
custom with the Baptists of this As
siciation and the custom is observed
by a good many other Associations at
this time, but this year Tucker Bap¬
tists pledged two cars instead of one,
and already a large amount of the
produce to fill the cars has been
pledged.
To make it convenient for every
one, the plan is to place one car in
Pelham and one in Camilla, and the
people in the lower half of the Asso¬
ciation will carry their gifts to Pel¬
ham, and those in the upper half car¬
rying theirs to Camilla. Ihe cars
will be on the track at each place two
days, November 24 and 25, or Tues¬
day and Wednesday of next week,
ready for loading. If anybody wish¬
es to carry in stuff before that tiime,
it will be taken care of for them. In
Camilla Mr. J. E. Brooks will be in
charge of the car and any supplies
carried to him or Mr. M. H. Metcalf
or Mr. M. B. Mock at the depot, will
be taken care of and put in the car
when it arrives. Any information
concerning the car may be obtained
from Mr. J. E. Brooks.
At Pelham Mr. B. U. Curry will
have charge of the loading of the car
with the assistance of several other
gentlemen. They have provided a
place already to store any supplies
brought in for the car, one corner of
the freight warehouse having been
engaged, and they are already storing
gifts that have been brought in for
the car.
As last year corn and potatoes,
hams or other meats, syrup, or any¬
thing raised on the farm that will fill
little hungry mouths or anything
from the shelves of the stores either,
directed to the same purpose, will be
appropriate for the cars, and provid¬
ed you have none of these things and
do not want to bother with them, gifts
of money can be used on the freight
and will be gladly accepted by Mr.
Brooks or Mr. Curry. The plan is
that everyone have a part, large or
small in sending the cars, for it is a
work of love, rewarded by the knowl¬
edge that you are feeding the par¬
entless and hungry little ones.
A “fiddlers convention” was held at
the court house Wednesday night. It
was not very well attended.
NUMBER 32.
FUNDS RAISED
FOR PUBLICITY
Entire County Will Be Invited
To Join In Oorganization of a
Body That Will Represent All
Interests.
The organization of a chamber of
commerce was started at a meeting
held at the City Hall Monday night
and which was attended by a num¬
ber of Camilla citizens and several
farmers of this community. A ten¬
tative plan was adopted providing for
a county-wide organization in which
all sections of the county would have
equal representation, and the perma¬
nent organization was deferred until
this proposal can be submitted to the
other communities of the county. The
temporary organization was formed
by electing F, A. Brown, President;
P. E. Bailey, Treasurer, and O. J.
Culpepper, Secretary. In the event
county-wide co-operation can be se¬
cured it is planned to raise a fund
sufficient to employ a high-class man
to direct a publicity campaign for
the county and to give his entire time
to the organization. It was argued
by speakers at the meeting that bet¬
ter results could be obtained from a
united effort baeked by the entire
county than through several local or¬
ganizations working in their own way
in the interest of strictly local propo¬
sitions.
There was a good deal of enthus¬
iasm manifested at the meeting and
there was evident a disposition on the
part of the citizens present to sub¬
scribe liberally for the support of
an organization that is prepared to
function in a practical way and on a
scale large enough to get results. All
the speakers were agreed that the
greatest opportunity ever offered this
section is now before us and that with
the proper effort hundreds of invest¬
ors can be attracted to this county
in the next year or two. The wonder¬
ful resources of this section need on¬
ly to be brought to the attention of
investors, it was said, in order to con¬
vince them that South Georgia and
particularly Mitchell county has as
much to offer as any section of the
United States, with the advantage
that this section has not been ex¬
ploited and lands are offered at low
prices.
Col. E. M. Davis, President of the
Camilla Lions Club, mentioned a pro¬
position which had been submitted to
the Lions Club to take an advertise¬
ment in a special edition of the Atlan¬
ta Georgia and American, but which
the club was unable to finance. In
a few minutes a fund of $250.00 was
subscribed for this proposition and
an invitation was extended to the At¬
lanta paper to send representatives
to Camilla to confer with a committee
of citizens with reference to getting
up the data for the space to be taken
by Camilla.
Another meeting will be held at an
early date at which time it is expect¬
ed definite plans for the permanent
organization will have been worked
out and will be presented for adop¬
tion.
Pelham Primary To
Be Held On Dec. 3rd
According to reports received here
candidates are active in the race for
mayor and members of the city coun¬
cil of Pelham, which is to be settled
in the city primary to be held on De¬
cember 3rd. Mayor D. A. Spence is
offering for re-election and he is be¬
ing vigorously opposed by Mr. A. R.
Baggs. Both gentlemen are popular
and it is predicted that this contest
will be a very interesting one. In the
race for council the following are
mentioned as certain or probable can¬
didates: L. D. Hand, Fifth Ward;
W. M. Turner, Fourth Ward; D. T.
Holland and W. J. Adams, Third
Ward; Louis Williams, Second Ward,
and Grover Thigpen, First Ward.
There may be more in the race for
council before the entries close at six
o’clock Saturday evening. Under an
amendment to the city charter passed
at the last session of the legislature,
Pelham will elect officials for a two
year term instead of one year, as
heretofore.