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Camilla Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
CITY COUNCIL IN
REGULAR SESSION
U. D. C. SUBMITS PROPOSAL FOR
CARING FOR CEMETERIES.
PLAN IS APPROVED.
The regular monthly meeting of
the city council was held Monday
night and several matters of general
interest came up for discussion and
action.
Mrs. J. M. Spence and Mrs. Chas.
Watt, Jr., representing the local chap¬
ter U. D. C., appeared before the
council and submitted a proposition
for caring for the two local cemeteries
which was received with interest and
tentatively approved by the council.
The U. D. C. proposes to take charge
of the cemeteries, employ a regular
sexton whose duty it will be to keep
the cemeteries cleaned up and to at¬
tend to digging of graves and other
work in connection with funerals.
The funds to defray the cost of this
service, it was proposed, would be
provided in part by the owners of lots
in the cemeteries, in part by an ap¬
propriation from the city and in part
from the sale of lots and sexton fees.
It was pointed out that the city is
now expending annually from $300.00
to $500.00 merely to have the ceme¬
teries cleaned up and repairs made to
fences. The ladies of the U. D. C.
believe that the property owners
should be willing to match the city’s
appropriation with annual subscrip¬
tions which will provide a sum suf¬
ficient to pay a man to give the work
constant attention and that better re¬
sults could be obtained. The ladies
also plan to erect a pergola at Oak
view Cemetery, which is some dis¬
tance from town, so as to provide
shelter in bad weather. As funds are
available shrubbery and flowers will
be grown and other plans for beau¬
tifying the grounds carried out. It
is also proposed to have a blue-print
made of both cemeteries, with each
lot carefully marked and to keep a
more careful record of the ownership
of lots. This record would be kept
at the City Hall, where arrangements
will have to be made for the purchase
of lots. From the discussion that
followed, all the members of the coun¬
cil seemed to approve the plan and
it was agreed to have the city attor¬
ney go over the matter with the la¬
dies and present a definite proposal
at the next meeting of the council
when the matter will be passed upon.
Mr. W. J. Fleming, manager of the
Columbian Peanut Co. business here,
appeared before the council and ask¬
ed that the city extend the water
main from the swimming pool corner
to the company’s property, a distance
of about 600 feet. Mr. Fleming stat¬
ed that his company is preparing to
rebuild its shelling plant and that it
is felt that better fire protection
ought to be provided by the city. The
council voted unanimously to extend
the water main at once and instruct¬
ed Superintendent Hoggard to order
the necessary materials and lay the
main as early as possible.
The council also placed an order
for 750 feet of new fire hose for the
Camilla fire department.
Mr. A. H. Gore appeared before the
council and asked for a reduction in
the license fee on fire works. This
matter was taken up later and the
sentiment of council seemed to be
more favored to an increase in the
license than for a reduction. Anyway
it was decided that it would be im¬
possible to change the ordinance in
time to give Mr. Gore relief.
The annual business license tax or¬
dinance was read twice, preparatory
to final reading and adoption at the
Jonuary meeting. It is understood
that no material changes in the ordi¬
nance are contemplated.
The feature of the meeting was a
clash, good humored but hot enough
to be interesting, between Council¬
man J. W. Butler and Mr. G. B. Baggs
of the city school board. The cause
of the encounter was a bill amounting
to $388.00 for paint used on the school
buildings which the Board of Trus¬
tees asked that the city pay. The
school board knew what it was doing
when it elected Mr. Baggs to act as
“foraging agent” and sent him before
the city council; the other members
of the city council were likewise using
their heads when they cast Mr. But¬
ler for the role of “watch dog” of the
city treasury. It was a battle royal
in which all of the tax problems that
have worried councilmen and school
trustees in the past came in for a re-
Tourist Camp Is
Being Cleaned Off
The city has had several men clean¬
ing off the vacant lots on Scott street,
just north of the Union Supply Co.,
which are to be used as a camp site
for tourists. The place is well light¬
ed, and convenient to the business
section where those camping will have
police protection. The suggestion
has been made that if the city would
lease the Cullens property adjoining
this lot, the small house on this prop¬
erty could be fitted up as a rest room
for ladies and kept open for tourists
or people from the country who care
to make use of it. A few dollars
spent for paint and repairs would
transform this house into a very at¬
tractive rest room which would prob¬
ably be worth more as an advertise¬
ment than the same money would buy
in any other way.
IMPROVEMENTS
AT ICE PLANT
COLD STORAGE FACILITIES ARE
IMPROVED. NEW MACHIN¬
ERY TO BE ADDED.
Extensive improvements in the
plant of the Camilla Ice & Cold Stor¬
age Company have been commenced
which will add much to the efficiency
and capacity of the plant and cut the
cost of operation considerably. The
work was started about two weeks
ago and will be completed in about
sixty days. The total outlay on the
improvements planned will be about
$15,000.
The cold storage rooms in which
meat, vegetables and other perish¬
ables are stored, will be lined with
cork throughout. This expensive
improvement will not. only cut the
cost of refrigeration but will also in¬
sure the best possible service to the
company's customers. The cold stor¬
age facilities of this plant are already
among the best to be found in this
section of the state and with the im¬
provements now being carried out no
plant in this territory will be able to
offer better service. Several hundred
thousand pounds of meat are stored
by the local company every season
and it is therefore important that the
storage and refrigerating system be
kept in first-class condition at all
tinges.
Tie other improvements consist of
the installation of a new refrigerat¬
ing machine which will give the com¬
pany two units; also new ammonia
condensers and certain other renewals
and*repairs to machinery and equip¬
ment. The installation of the second
refrigerating unit means that the ca¬
pacity of the plant will be increased
somewhat and that the service of the
company will be rendered doubly
sure. In case of a break-down one
unit will be able to take care of the
refrigeration while the other is be¬
ing repaired. The installation of the
new machinery will also enable the
company to maintain refrigeration in
the cold storage rooms without ope¬
rating the big plant, which will effect
another saving in off seasons when it
is not necessary to operate the ice
making machinery.
Capt. C. E. Watt, Manager of the
company, and Mr J. S. Evans, Super¬
intendent of the plant, are supervis¬
ing the installations and it goes with¬
out saying that the work is being car¬
ried out in a thorough manner.
The improvements will not inter¬
fere in any way with the regular func¬
tioning of the plant or the cold stor¬
age department and the company will
be able to give its customers the same
prompt service as before the work
was begun.
Mr. Bob Taylor left Sunday for At¬
lanta, where he is spending the week
attending an automobile meeting.
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airing. The ' argument was finally
closed (for the time being) when
Mr. Butler announced that so far as
he was concerned he would oppose
any further appropriations to the
school over and above the amount
that institution now receives from a
seven mill tax levy and that he would
resign before he would vote to divide 1
the funds received from the city’s five
mill levy with the school board. Mr.
Butler, being on home ground, had the
best of the argument, but Mr. Baggs
out of the fight, in fact he gave notice
showed no signs of being permanently
that unless the school board can find
the money elsewhere he will be back
at the next meeting.
CAMILLA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1925.
MR. I. MAPLES IS
CLAIMED BY DEATH
PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN
THIS CITY LAST FRIDAY
EVENING.
Mr. 1. Maples, one of the pioneer
citizens of this county, passed away
at his home in this city on last Fri¬
day evening at nine o’clock. Mr. Ma¬
ples had been in failing health for
several years, but his last illness was
of comparatively short duration, ex¬
tending over a period of less than two
weeks. His advanced age and im¬
paired physical condition rendered
him an easy victim of the last attack
in spite of the efforts of physicians
and loved ones who ministered unto
him and his summons was expected
for several days before it came.
The announcement of his death
brought sorrow to a numerous family
connection and a still wider circle of
friends extending over this and ad¬
joining counties.
The funeral was conducted from
the Camilla Methodist church Sunday
afternoon at three o’clock, the pastor,
Rev. H. W. Joiner, and Rev. J. G. Gra¬
ham, pastor of the Baptist church,
officiating in the services. Probably
the largest crowd ever seen at a fun¬
eral in Camilla attended the services,
the church building being inadequate
to accommodate all who came from
this and adjoining counties. The sim¬
ple church ceremony was made more
impressive by a large body of Masons
and an escort of about forty men and
women representing the Ku Klux
Klan. After the services at the
church, the Masons took charge of the
casket escorting it to Oakview ceme¬
tery where the final ceremonies were
held.
The following gentlemen acted as
pall bearers: Messrs. G. B. Baggs,
J. H. Phillips, W. E. Holton, L. H.
Hayes, W. C. Hilliard, and H. J.
Gauldep.
Mr. Maples was almost 77 years of
age, having been born on January
29th, 1849. He was a son of the late
Israel Maples, one of the first set¬
tlers in Mitchell county and the de¬
ceased had spent practically all of
his iife in this county. He came to
young manhood during the troublous
period of the war between the states
and at the age of sixteen volunteered
for service in the Southern army,
serving two years with distinction.
After the war he returned to Mitchell
county and engaged in farming. In
1869 he was married to Miss Mar¬
garet Pullen and they reared a large
family of children. After the death
of his first wife, Mr. Maples married
Mrs. Margaret Shivers in 1908, and
of this second union one son was
born.
In 1898 Mr. Maples was nominated
and elected as representative from
Mitchell county in the State legisla¬
ture and served three successive
terms in that capacity. Though this
was the only public office he held, he
always took an active interest in pol¬
itics and wielded considerable influ¬
ence in county affairs.
Mr. Maples was a member of the
Methodist church and the Masons,
having attained the Royal Arch de¬
gree in the latter ordey
Few had ' friends than
men m ore
Mr. Maples. He was a man who al¬
ways presented a smiling counte¬
nance to the world. Such troubles as
he had he concealed behind a pleas¬
ant smile and had a jovial word and
a friendly handclasp for everyone he
met. He was quick, however, to note
the other man’s distress and never
lost an opportunity to sympathize
and help if possible. Loyalty to his
friends was almost a fetich with him
and it was only natural that such
devotion should create like sentiment
in those whom he trusted, and hun¬
dreds of these were here Sunday af¬
ternoon to pay their last respects to
their departed friend.
The deceased is survived by his
widow and nine sons and daughters,
as follows: Mrs. C. E. McSwain, of
Fitzgerald; Mrs. L. A. Threatt, of
Montgomery, Ala.; Mrs. E. A. Bar
field, of Macon; J. M. Maples, of Da¬
rien; M. W., A. A., Albert, C. E. and
John Maples, and one step-daughter,
Mrs. A. J. Pinson, all of this county.
Of several brothers and sisters only
one sister, Mrs. J. M. Keaton, Sr., of
this county, survives.
Among the relatives residing out¬
side of the county who attended the
funeral, were: Dr. and Mrs. Irving
Stallings, Thomasville; Mr. Armoncl
Rayburn, Valdosta; Mrs. Emily Mc¬
Clure, Jackson, Miss., Mrs. T. A. Cull,
PEANUT COMPANY
IN MARKET AGAIN
PEANUTS WILL BE STORED AND
SHELLED IN NEW PLANT TO
BE BUILT AT ONCE.
Mr. W. J. Fleming, local manager
for the Columbian Peanut Co., return¬
ed Saturday from Norfolk, Va., where
he wont for a conference With the of¬
ficials of his company with reference
to the re-building of the peanut
shelling plant in Camilla and imme¬
diately re-entering the market for
peanuts. Upon his return Mr. Flem¬
ing announced that his company is
preparing to re-build its plant at once
and that it would be in the market
for peanuts from now on at the high¬
est prices.
In line with this announcement the
Columbian Peanut Co. began buying
peanuts Monday morning, their re¬
ceipts Monday and Tuesday being
dose to 100 tons. Peanuts afre being
stored in the New Camilla
Warehouse, which will take care
several hundred tons. The
for peanuts Wednesday was $70.00
per ton, which it is understood is in
line with the markets
South Georgia.
Mr. Fleming announces that
company is preparing to rebuild its
plant immediately and that the facil¬
ities for handling peanuts will be
larger and better than before the
disastrous fire which destroyed the
old plant several weeks ago. Mr.
Fleming states that plans for the
new building have already
completed and that work will begin
as soon as materials can be placed on
the ground. It is the intention of the
company, Mr. Fleming states, to have
the new shelling plant ready for op¬
eration the first of April or May and
that as soon as the plant is ready to
begin operations they will start shell¬
ing the peanuts which will be bought
and stored here during the remainder
of the season. This will enable them
to get the new machinery adjusted
and in good working order by the time
the new crop of peanuts begin to
come. The new plant will have a
shelling capacity of fifty to sixty tons
of peanuts daily.
The plant site where the old shell¬
ing plant was burned has already
been partially cleaned off. The in¬
surance company salvaged a quantity
of partially cooked peanuts, some of
which were fit for oil mill stock, and
the balance sold as fertilizer material.
The farmers throughout this sec¬
tion will be interested in the an¬
nouncement that the Columbian Pea¬
nut Co. is again in the market for
peanuts and that the shelling plant
is to be rebuilt right away. The Col¬
umbian company, through their meth,
od of dealing directly with the grow¬
er of peanuts, is highly regarded by
the growers and the announcement
that the shelling plant is to be re-built
here is expected to have an important
bearing on the acreage planted in pea¬
nuts in this section next year.
Mr. Frank McEIvey’s
Residence Damaged
Mr. Frank McEIvey’s residence was
slightly damaged by fire Saturday
about twelve o’clock. The fire start¬
ed from the stove-flue, igniting the
shingles of the roof. The fire was put
out before it gained any headway.
Mr. McEIvey’s chief damage was due
to moving furniture out of the house
before it was discovered that the
blaze was of little consequence.
Begin Work Soon
On Service Station
Mr. D. V. Thompson is having ma¬
terial placed on the ground for the
new service station that is to be built
at the comer of Scott Street and Oak¬
land Avenue. White brick are to be
used in the construction of the build¬
ing and when completed it will be one
of the handsomest and most complete
stations to be found on the Dixie
Highway south of Atlanta. Mr.
Tnompson has not announced yet who
will operate this station.
Moultrie; J. M. Maples and family,
Darien; Mrs. L. A. Threatt and chil¬
dren, Montgomery, Ala.; Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. McSwain, Sr., and Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. McSwain, Jr., Fitzgerald;
Messrs. Ernest, Jr., and James Bar
field, Macon; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mil¬
ler, and Mrs. Emma Livingston, New¬
ton; Mrs. R. H. May, of Florida.
Special Meeting Of
Board To Be Called
Mr. G. B. Baggs, chairman of the
county commissioners; Dr. J. M.
Spence, representative from this coun¬
ty, Dr. C. O. Rainey and Mr. J. A.
Hayes drove over to Ashburn last
Friday where they met Chairman
John N. Holder of the State Highway
Commission and presented a formal
request for a special meeting of the
Commission at an early date at whieh
citizens of Dougherty, Mitchell and
Thomas county can be heard with ref¬
erence to the early completion of the
paving on the Dixie Highway through
this county. Mr. Holder received the
committee cordially and while he was
non-committal as to the attitude the
Commission may assume, he acceded
to the request to call a special meet¬
ing of the board. The date will be
early in January and all parties con¬
cerned will be notified in due time.
DEATH TAKES
MR. J. P. CROSS
WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DIED
SUDDENLY WEDNESDAY
MORNING.
Many friends and relatives through¬
out the county were sadly shocked by
the news of the death of Mr. J. P.
Cross at his home on South Harney
street on Wednesday morning at five
o’clock after a short illness. He had
taken his bed last Friday, but was not
thought to be seriously ill until a day
or so before his death.
Funeral services were held Thurs¬
day morning at Hopeful church, where
the deceased had been a member for
a long number of years. The service
was conducted by Rev. J. G. Graham,
pastor of the Camilla Baptist church
and there was a large gathering of
friends and relatives, and there were
many beautiful floral offerings. The
body was laid to rest in the cemetery
beside the church.
Mr. Cross was about forty eight
years of age when his earthly life
came to a close. He was born and
reared in this county and had lived
practically his entire life at his home
near Hopeful, moving to Camilla
about four months before his death.
He was happily married to Miss Mit
tie Hollingsworth about eighteen
ago, and she survives him, together
with their three children. Mr. Cross
was a man of staunch Christian char¬
acter, happy experience and strong
faith, and his warm, friendly and
brotherly nature had caused him to
be generally loved and appreciated.
He had been a member of the Baptist
church since childhood.
Surviving the deceased are his wife
and three children; Willie Kye, aged
16, George, aged 12, and Regina, aged
9. He leaves one brother, Mr. F. R.
Cross, of near Hopeful.
The warm and tender sympathy of
many friends goes out to the heart¬
broken family in their loss.
Methodists To Have
Christmas Tree
The Methodist Sunday School is
planning to have a special service at
the church on Christmas eve in com¬
memoration of the first Christmas
and the birth of Christ. A Christmas
program in song and story will be¬
gin with the prophecies concerning
the advent of Christ and giving all
the events of the Natal night and the
adoration of the Eastern sages.
It is hoped that by the time of the
close of the program, Santa Claus
shall have arrived, having accepted
a warm and urgent request from the
Sunday School to be present, and it
is hoped that the old saint will relate
some of the experiences of his jour¬
ney from the far, wint’ry North.
Anyway the important thing is that
he has requested the boys and girls
and little tots to write him just what
they want on the tree, as he just de¬
lights in making little folks happy,
and some of the grown folks might
possibly be remembered also if they
have been very good during the year.
So the Sunday School and its com¬
mittees, who are arranging for the
nrogram and for the tree, are expect¬
ing a large number of people to be
present at the tree, to enjoy Santa
and his gifts and to carry home the
■cal Christmas spirit and deep im¬
pressions from the old, old story of
the Christ child.
Mr. Frank Cordell spent Friday in
Albany on business.
NUMBER 36.
PREPARING FOR
TOBACCO CROP
INDICATIONS ARE CROP WILL
BE ALMOST IF NOT QUITE
AS LARGE AS LAST YEAR.
Tobacco growers in the Camilla
territory are making preparations for
the 1926 crop and the indications are,
judging from expressions this writer
has heard, the acreage will be almost
if not quite as large as it was last
year. There was considerable dis¬
couragement in evidence among the
growers soon after the tobacco mar¬
ket closed this past season and from
the sentiment which prevailed among
the growers then it was expected that
there would be considerable curtail¬
ment of the tobacco acreage in this
vicinity. Recently, however, there ap¬
pears to have been a considerable
change in sentiment and it is believed
that the acreage in this territory will
not be appreciably reduced. A few
of the larger growers who experienc¬
ed difficulty during the past season
in finding labor sufficient to handle
the crop will cut down their acreage
somewhat, but this reduction will be
made up by increases planned by oth¬
er growers and by flew growers.
Mr. J. A. Hayes, sometime referred
to as the “daddy” of the tobacco in¬
dustry in this section, will have a
considerable acreage this year, though
he has not yet decided what the ex¬
tent of his plantings will be. Mr.
Hayes is one of those who is trying
to pitch his crop on a scale justified
by the labor available. Last year he
and his associates had 125 acres of
tobacco and it is probable that he will
be interested in close to 100 acres this
year.
Mr. €. F. Earp, an old North Caro¬
lina tobacco grower who grew about
85 acres of tobacco here last year in
partnership with Mr. Leon Perry, be¬
longs to the tribe that it is hard to
discourage. His crop this past sea¬
son turned out about like the aver¬
age grower in this section and in the
place of making a “killing" he broke
a little better than even on his opera¬
tions. Mr. Earp and Mr. Perry are
now making preparations for next
year’s crop. They will have not less
than 60 acres and probably more if
the labor situation warrants it.
In addition to his own crop, Mr.
Earp is arranging to demonstrate a
limited acreage of tobacco for other
growers in the vicinity of Camilla.
Among the demonstration acreage he
has signed up is twenty-five acres for
Mr. Jack Davis of the .Davis Construc¬
tion Co. who recently purchased the
Wingate place from Mr. F. A. Brown.
Fifteen acres of tobacco was grown
on this farm last season. Mr. Davis
plans to build two additional barns to
take care of additional acreage. He
is also building several tenant houses
in which to house his farm labor.
Demonstrators working in this sec¬
tion are experiencing no trouble in
signing up all the acreage they can
take care of Mr. W. T. Gibson, who
had a very successful season here this
year in spite of generally unfavorable
conditions, will have a large acreage
under his direction next year and it
is probable that he will have several
assistants. Mr. Gibson has the con¬
fidence of the growers due to his
good work here last season and he
has the assurance of as much acreage
as he can handle.
Mr. W. B. Hodges, who has demon¬
strated tobacco around Hopeful for
the past two seasons, is another suc¬
cessful demonstrator who will have no
trouble in securing all the acreage he
can look after. In a conversation
with the writer several weeks ago,
Mr. Hodges stated that practically all
of the growers in his territory who
grew tobacco this year are planning
to plant about the same acreage next
year. Mr. Hodges is a conservative
man and due to his advice the grow¬
ers in his territory who have exper¬
ienced unfavorable conditions have
not been hurt by the tobacco crop.
Many growers in this section made
a handsome profit on their tobacco
this past season in spite of the most
unfavorable conditions, and these, of
course, will plant this crop again next
year.
The general opinion seems to be
that while there is need of caution,
especially with regard to over-crop
ping, the tobacco crop is no more
hazardous than many other er«ps
grown in this section, and the reward
for success is considerably greater
than with any other crop grown here.