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The Camilla Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. PERRY ACQUITTED IN U.S. COURT CASE JURY RETURNED A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY AFTER BEING OUT ONLY FEW MINUTES. Mr. T. B. Perry, former Camilla postmaster, who was placed on trial for the second time in United States District Court in Albany this week on the charge of converting to his own use an insured parcel post pack¬ age while he was postmaster here, was acquitted by the jury Wednesday evening. The jury returned a ver¬ dict of not guilty after deliberating only about fifteen minutes, according to reports received here. The case was taken up soon after court conven¬ ed Tuesday morning and two whole days were required for the trial and argument of attorneys. This was the second trial of Mr. Ferry on these charges, a mistrial re¬ sulting at the previous hearing. At the first hearing the former Camilla postmaster was tried on two charges, that concerning the parcel post pack¬ age and also for opening letters ad¬ dressed to parties at this office. The defense charged at that time that the complaints against Mi\ Perry were the result of political animosity and the desire of otligr patties to have him removed so that a man more ac¬ ceptable to the party in power might receive the appointment. The charge of political conspiracy was so well substantiated by the evidence submit¬ ted by the defense that the jury try¬ ing the case acquitted Mr. Perry of the charges of opening mail, but disa¬ greed on a verdict in connection with the charge of appropriating the par¬ cel post package. Having eliminated the letter charge, which served to complicate the case, the defense attorneys in the trial this week were able to concen¬ trate their attack upon the govern¬ ment’s case regarding the parcel. Several of the witnesses, who at the previous trial gave damaging testi¬ mony, were considerably shaken and somewhat discredited by the grilling cross-examination to which they were subjected by defense attorneys. The acquittal of Mr. Perry was predicted by those who heard the testimony and watched the trend of the case, long before the case went to the jury. The news of Mr. Perry’s acquittal was received in Camilla with much rejoicing by his friends. Throughout the ordeal through which he has pass¬ ed he has had the confidence and sup¬ port of hundreds of Mitchell countians who have known him all his life and refused to believe him guilty of the charges preferred against him. Mr. Perry was postmaster at Camilla for six or seven years and throughout that period the office was managed with entire satisfaction to the postal authorities and to the patrons of the office until a short time before his re¬ oval. Mr. Perry was represented in the trial of this case by Messrs. Sam S. Bennet, of Albany, J. J. Hill, of Pel ffiam, Judge E. E. Cox, J. D. Gardner ^nd Chas. Watt, Jr. of Camilla, and B. B. Bush, of Tampa, Fla. Two Small Tracts Of Land Sold Here Two small tracts of land changed hands in the Camilla territory dur¬ ing the past week. Mr. Ralph C. Middleton, of Miami, Fla., real estate dealer, purchased a fifteen-acre tract located on the Dixie Highway a short distance south of Camilla from Mrs. Roberta Patrick of this place. The consideration announced by Mr. Chas. Watt, Jr., who handled the deal, was $150.00 per acre. Another transaction was closed this week by Mr. W. H. Bullard, local real estate man. In this deal Mr. W. E. Batts, of Wilson, N. C., bought a sev¬ enty-two acre farm in the Braneh ville community from Mr. Lacey Yates. The consideration was $15.00 per acre. This is the fourth pur¬ chase Mr. Batts has made in this vi¬ cinity. He first bought the Foster place on the Dixie Highway, south of Camilla, and at different times la¬ ter he purchased two tracts of the old Townsend place, west of Camilla. Mr. Batts is operating these farms, a large acreage on each being given over to tobacco. Messrs. Forrest Lewis and J. T. Hooks left yesterday for Gainesville, Fla., where they will enter Florida State University as students. Wilson Package Store Is New Local Concern Another addition to the business concerns of Camilla is the Wilson Package Store, which has opened for business in the warehouse building next door to the Georgia Motor Co. on Broad street. The business is under the management of Mr. J. C. Wilson, a well known local business man. The business will carry a full line of feeds and heavy groceries. Mr. Wilson announces that he has secured the account of the Purina Mills and will carry a complete line of this feed. The business will be operated somewhat like a wholesale business except that sales will be made direct to the consumer in unbroken package lots. CAMILLA DRUG CO. TO CHANGE HANDS SALE OF BUSINESS TO E. G. WIL¬ LIFORD IS PRACTICALLY CLOSED THIS WEEK. The sale of the Camilla Drug Co. stock and fixtures to Mr. Ernest G. Williford has been practically closed, according to information given The Enterprise. Mr. Williford took charge of the business last Friday, af¬ ter an inventory of the stock had been made, and it is understood that the definite conclusion of the deal now awaits the working' out of cei'tain minor details. Mr. Williford, who is planning to purchase the drug business here, is a Camilla boy and a son of Mrs. W. T. Williford, of this place. He is a graduate druggist and has been in the drug business for several years. For some time past he has been con¬ nected with a drug concern in Bain bridge. He is an energetic and capa¬ ble young business man and has hun¬ dreds of friends in this county who will be interested in the announce¬ ment that he plans to engage in bus¬ iness here. The Camilla Drug Co. is one of the oldest drug concerns in this sec¬ tion and since its organization has been under the management of Dr. F. L. Lewis, one of the chief stock¬ holders. Dr. Lewis has been in the drug business in Camilla since 1897 and it will seem strange to the peo¬ ple of this county to see him give up a line with which he has so long been identified. He first became interest¬ ed in the drug business soon after lo¬ cating here for the practice of medi¬ cine. He formed a partnership with the late J. G. Wood and the firm of Wood & Lewis was for a long time a thriving institution. After several years Mr. Wood withdrew and the business was continued by Dr. Lewis with various associates until about fifteen years ago when the Camilla Drug Co. was incorporated and the business has since been under his management. In closing out his in¬ terest in the drug business now, Dr. Lewis is planning to give his full time and attention to the practice of his profession and to relieve himself of the responsibility and worry of ac¬ tive management of the business. It is understood that Dr. Lewis will continue to make the drug store here¬ tofore managed by him, his headquar¬ ters and for the time being will have an office in the building. Another change resulting from the prospective change in management of the Camilla Drug Co. has been the resignation of Mr. George H. Parker, who for many years has served this business as pharmacist. Mr. Parker has accepted a position with the Jen¬ kins Drug Co. and has already taken up his duties with this concern. With the exception of a year of'two during which time he was in business for himself in another town, Mr. Parker has been behind the prescription case in Camilla for the past eighteen or twenty years and he has many friends throughout this territory. Negro Woman Cut In Saturday Night Row Florence Odolph and Ruby Cran¬ ford, two negro women, engaged in a row Saturday night and the Odolph woman was stabbed in the breast. Bum Lewis and Jimmie Jones, two ne¬ gro men, were also mixed up in the affray in some manner. The police arrested the whole bunch and cases were made against all of them. The Odolph woman was not seriously hurt. CAMILLA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1926. BUSINESS FIRMS MAKE CHANGES NEW YEAR MOVES OCCUR IN CAMILLA. FILLING STATION CHANGES HANDS. The New Year has brought few business changes in Camilla. Two or three local concerns are occupying new quarters and a filling station and oil business has changed hands. Messrs. B. J. and J. R. Marshall have leaded the filling station equip¬ ment and store room heretofore ope¬ rated by the Mitchell County Motor Co. and this business will be continued as heretofore under the new manage¬ ment. The Messrs. Marshall operate a grocery business next door to the filling station and they will therefore be able to give both businesses their personal attention. , The Mitchell County Motor Co. lo¬ cal Chevrolet dealers, has arranged with the Marshall Filling Station to use part of the store room for the storage of cars and part, and for the time being will continue to make this place headquarters for the Chevrolet agency. Mrs. J. J. Stewart has moved her Ten Cent Store from the Broad street location to one of the Baggs build¬ ings on Scott street. Mr. Henry O. Shiver is having the store room va¬ cated by the Ten Cent Store fitted up for a modern meat market and gro¬ cery business which he will operate in this location. Mr. Shiver’s old stand next door to the Camilla Hard¬ ware Co. will be converted into a res tuarant which will also be operated by Mr. Shiver and his son, Mr. H. A. Shiver. City Council Meets Next Monday Night The regular monthly meeting of the Camilla City Council will be held next Monday night. The meeting in January is the most important of the year on account of the numerous matters which come up at this meet¬ ing. The recently elected mayor, treasurer, and councilmen will be for¬ mally installed, the new official board will then elect a city clerk, chief of police and other members of the po¬ lice force, a superintendent of the wa¬ ter and light plant, and will fix the salaries of these officials for the year. The city tax equalization board will be named at this meeting and the an¬ nual business license tax will be read the third time and adopted. So far as known no drastic changes are con¬ templated by the council, either in the personnel of the city employes or in the license regulations to be adopted. Only one change will occur as a result of the recent election. Dr. F. L. Lew¬ is, councilman from the fourth ward will be succeeded by Dr. D. P. Luke. Young People In Automobile Wreck Several Camilla young men had narrow escapes from serious injury last Thursday night when a Lincoln coach, driven by Mr. Ralph Middleton, of Miami, turned over on the Bain bridge and Camilla road about seven miles north of Bainbridge. Those in the machine were Mr. Middleton, Messrs. Carroll Spence, Bennett But¬ ler, Warren Earp, Virgil Holton and Adger Hayes. Fortunately no one was hurt, though the car was badly damaged. The accident was due to a bad place in the road which the driver tried to avoid and in doing so lost control of the car. The party, with a number of other young men hnd young ladies from Camilla, had attended a dance at Bainbridge and were returning home. New Ford Is Burned Following Collision A new Ford car driven by an un¬ known negro was burned on Broad street Sunday night after a collision with another car driven by John L. Stripling. No one was injured in the accident and the negroes left the scene before their identity could be learned. Mr. Stripling’s car was badly damaged. The Ford which was burned belonged to Jamie Hall but it appears that he was not in the car at the time. The negroes were on the left side of the street and were entirely to blame for the accident, ac¬ cording to those who saw the cars after the collision. MITCHELL COUNTY PECAN LANDS SOLD TWO DEALS RECENTLY CLOSED IN THIS COUNTY INVOLVING $100,000 EACH. Two big deals in Mitchell county pecan lands, each involving $100,000, have recently been announced by real estate operators in Albany. The Al¬ bany Herald carried an announce rnent several days ago of the sale by A. H. Pinson, a Sylvester business man, of a 400-acre pecan prove in the northern part of this county. The grove was sold to W. H. Wilson and associates, said to be Northern capi¬ talists. The purchase price was $100,000, according to the account of the transaction carried in the Herald. This pecan grove is located in the Baconton district and though the grove is a young one it is a very de¬ sirable property. Another important transaction an¬ nounced last week by the Albany Herald was the sale by J. R. & J. B. Miller, of Baconton, of a 1,000-acre tract of land,. 480 acres of which is set in pecan trees, to Messrs. James A. Branch and D. N. Williams, of Atlanta. The consideration in this transaction was an even $100,000, ac¬ cording to the Herald’s story. The Miller tract sold to the Atlanta parties is located near Baconton and is known as the Phinizy place. It is only a short distance from the Dixie Highway. In making this deal the Miller Bros, reserved the timber rights on that portion of the tract that is in woodland. Mr. James A. Branch is a promi¬ nent Atlanta attorney and a former Mitchell countian. His mother, Mrs. Horton Branch, and brother, Mr. Paul Branch, live on the old homestead in this county, which is located near Sale City and is one of the finest farms in this section of the state. Mr. Branch is therefore well informed as to conditions in Mitchell county and also as to land values and it is sig¬ nificant that he selected his old home county in which to make an invest¬ ment of this magnitude. Mr. D. N. Williams, interested with Mr. Branch in the investment near Baconton, is a well known Fulton county official. This is his second in¬ vestment in the Baconton section, ac¬ cording to report. Some time ago he purchased a fifty-acre pecan grove from the Miller Bros, not far from the Phinizy place but located on the Dixie Highway. It is understood that he paid $500 per acre for this tract. The Baconton district is famous for its fine pecan groves and for many years that section has been attract¬ ing investors from all over the coun¬ try. The culture of papershell pe¬ cans was first undertaken in the Ba¬ conton section and that section now boasts some of the oldest and best paying pecan properties to be found anywhere. The Millers, Jacksons, Cowans and others are pioneers in the development of the pecan indus¬ tries and they have large holdings in that section. The success of Baconton orchardists in developing this profitable industry has resulted in widespread interest in pecans and the pecan-producing area now extends over several South¬ west Georgia counties. A number of large groves are being developed in the vicinity of Camilla and in other sections of Mitchell county. The possibilities of profit from this crop, where the trees are properly se¬ lected and properly handled, has been demonstrated by Mr. John R. Pinson at Baconton. He has a ten-acre grove which is reported io have produced more than $4,000 worth of nuts in a single season. Mr. Pinson’s grove is an exceptional one. There is proba¬ bly not another grove in Georgia that produces so well, but it shows the pos¬ sibilities of this crop. There are many groves in this county which pro¬ duce heavily almost every year and from which the owners take a larger profit than could be realized from any other crop known to this section. CARD OF THANKS. To My Friends and Patrons of Ca¬ milla Postoffice: I thank all my friends and the pat¬ rons of Camilla Post Office for their continued confidence, co-operation and friendship in my trial and complete vindication of all charges against me. T. B. Perry. Commissioners Will Meet Next Tuesday The first meeting of the County Commissioners for 1926 will be held at the office of the board on next Tues¬ day. No business of extraordinary interest is scheduled for this meeting, though it is probable that plans will be made for sending an official delega¬ tion to appear before the State High¬ way Commission at an early date to confer with that body with reference to completing the paving on the Dix¬ ie Highway in this county without de¬ lay. A delegation of citizens from Mitchell, Thomas and Dougherty county will appear before the com¬ mission at the same time to urge the speedy completion of this road. $10.21 PAID FOR HOGS TUESDAY $5,529.00 DISTRIBUTED AMONG FARMERS BY MONTHLY HOG SALE. About four carloads of hogs were handled in the regular monthly hog sale held here Tuesday. The hogs sold for $10.21, basis number one, which was somewhat higher than the Chicago price on the same day, ac¬ cording to sales officials. There were 290 hogs in the lot and the total weight was 58,635 pounds. The total value of the lot was $5,529.56. Hall Commission Co. of Moultrie, the hogs. There were several bid¬ ders on the hogs and the price finally secured was somewhat higher than the sales officials were expecting. Two big truck loads of hogs which were sent up from Mr. E. E. Wilkes farm near Pelham arrived too late for the sale and could not be accepted. This was regretted very much by the officials of the sale and attention is being called to the fact that hogs should be in the pens by twelve o’clock in order to insure their inclusion in the day’s sale. Sometimes it is pos¬ sible to take them at a later hour, but the sales association has an agree¬ ment with the railroad to move the hogs out promptly after noon and it is necessary to complete the loading promptly in order to catch the train. Several unusually fine lots of hogs were seen at the sale. Among these was a lot of ten head put in the sale by Mr. W. E. Holton, of Liveoak, which it is believed established a rec¬ ord. The ten hogs weighed 2810 pounds and brought Mr. Holton a check for $281.00. Two hogs in this lot weighed 670 pounds and were passed as number one grade, as were all the other hogs in this lot. Mr. T. E. Cox had eight hogs in the sale which weighed 1800 pounds and netted him $180.00. Richard Alexander, a well known colored farmer, had four head of hogs in the sale which weighed 880 pounds, netting $88.00. Mr. J. L. Stripling had 14 hogs that weighed 2890 pounds and netted him $308.00. C. H. Cross & Son, of Baker county, had a nice lot of hogs in the sale as usual. Nine fine Durocs, a breed that they make a specialty of, 2110 pounds and netted $215.00. Mr. J. F. Hooks, of Pelham, had 14 head of hogs in the sale that weighed 3010 pounds and netted $306.00. J. J. Martin & Son, of Hopeful, had 13 head of hogs in the sale that to¬ taled 2660 pounds and netted $270.00. On the same day Messrs. G. L. Wade and Dan Palmer shipped one car of hogs and two cars of cattle which were sold privately by them. They have been dealing in cattle and hogs and have made a number of car¬ load shipments in the jjast few weeks. Dr. E. C. Michel To Preach Dr. E. C. Michel, of Boston, will be a visitor in the city Sunday and will fill the pulpit at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening on invitation from the pastor, Rev. Jas. D. Dr. Michel is a widely known loved minister, having for a of thirty years, furnished the comment on the Sunday School son in the Christian Observer. Cor¬ dial invitation is given to come and hear Dr. Michel. Rev. Deans goes to Thomasville Sunday morning, where he will speak to the Presbyterian congregation the church program for the year, on invitation from the Dr. Campbell Symonds. NUMBER 39. FARM RALLY HERE ON NEXT THURSDAY IMPORTANT MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE COURT HOUSE THURSDAY, JAN. 14TH. An important meeting of the fann¬ ers of Mitchell county will be held at the court house in Camilla on next Thursday morning, January 14th, at 10 o’clock. Several prominent speak¬ ers representing the State College of Agriculture, as well as members of the" Mitchell County Agricultural Ad¬ visory Committee, the County Dem¬ onstration Agents, will be present. Matters of importance to every farm¬ er in the county will be discussed and it is hoped that a large number will turn out to the meeting. This is one of a series of meetings which will be held throughout the state next week, as announced by the State College of Agriculture. It is planned to have a committee of speak¬ ers visit every county in the state during the week. This is the most extensive farm rally program ever attempted by the State College. There will be twenty-two groups of speakers trained especially for this tour and who will bring a message to the farmers of Georgia which is ex¬ pected to be far reaching in its effect on crop production. The main object of the tour is to discuss certain problems which face the farmers in every section of the state and to secure the adoption of a well-balanced program for this year. Such a co-ordination of the plans of the farmers for the corning crop-year is regarded as more urgently needed at this time than in many years due to the uncertainty regarding the mar¬ kets for several of Georgia’s staple crops and the indecision of many farmers regarding the proper course to pursue this year. Over-production is regarded as the big danger this year and it is to avoid this condition as regards the several principal Georgia crops that many thoughtful farmers are giving their attention. The representatives of the State Col¬ lege of Agriculture tvho are expect¬ ed to come here next Thursday have made a special study of the situation throughout the state and they will be able to furnish information which is available from no other source. After the public meeting in the morning, a conference will be held some time during the afternoon when the State College party will meet the members of the Mitchell County Ad¬ visory Agricultural Committee, the County Agent and such others as may wish to attend. At this meeting a round-table discussion of conditions in this county and the possible solu¬ tion of problems confronting the farmers here will be held. County Agent O. L. Johnson expects to get ' the Advisory Committee together and formulate the program for this year so that this program can be taken up and discussed. Paper Club Offer Proving Popular The club offer made by The Enter¬ prise several weeks ago in which a year’s subscription to this paper along with a year’s subscription to four other publications is offered for $1.50 is proving quite popular and a num¬ ber of our subscribers have taken ad¬ vantage of the proposition. The oth¬ er publications included in this offer are the Southern Ruralist, the Home Circle Magazine, the Gentle Woman, and the American Poultry Advocate. The combined subscription price of all five publications is $3.00 and The En¬ terprise by a special arrangement is enabled to offer all five for one year at $1.50. This offer is a temporary one and may be withdrawn at any time. Those who wish to take ad¬ vantage of it should do so at once. Basketball Game At Sale City Tonight A basketball game between Sale City and Nashville will be played on the Sale City court tonight (Friday, January 8th) at eight o’clock. Both teams are in fine fettle and a real in¬ teresting game is expected. Thc Nashville team eliminated Sale City in the tournament last year and on this account.the Sale Qity fans are looking for their team to put out the best they have. Nashville, however, is reported to have a better team than last year and will not be easy meat for Sale City.