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VOLUME XXIV.
DR. RAINEY MAKES
ANNUAL REPORT
RE-ELECTED AS HEALTH COM¬
MISSIONER BY COUNTY
Board OF HEALTH.
At the regular January meeting of
the Mitchell County Board of Health,
County Health Commissioner C. O.
Rainey was unanimously re-elected.
A budget of expense for the ensuing
year was also agreed upon, the
amount being approximately the same
as heretofore expended on this work.
The Board of Health voted to in¬
clude the cost of gathering the vital
statistics in this county in its budget
and hereafter the officials compiling
these reports will be paid for their
services as provided in the law. The
collection of this data throughout the
state was seriously interfered with
last year by a court decision in which
it was held that the county commis¬
sioners are without authority to pay
for this service. The effect of this
decision was to cut off the small fee
paid the officials who make these re¬
ports. By assuming responsibility
for this expense the Board of Health
has solved this problem so far as
Mitchell county is concerned.
Dr .Rainey submitted his report for
the year at the recent meeting and
it contained much information that
ought to be of interest to every citizen
of the county. Few people realize
the magnitude of the work be¬
ing carried on and the substantial
benefits that are being derived.
The outstanding feature of the re¬
port was the small amount of mala¬
ria shown during the past year. Erad¬
ication, preventitive measures and
dry weather are responsible for this
result, according to Dr. Rainey. Ev¬
ery child in the county above the
fourth grade has been taught malaria,
its cause, prevention and cure. 790
children wrote themes on the subject.
Out of about 3200 white children in
the county the loss of time from
school on account of malaria was
"less than negiible.” In 1924, the
report showed, we had fourteen
deaths from malaria. In 1925 up to
December 1st there were only three
deaths. The report states that the
mosquito eradication work at Camilla
has been highly complimented by the
State Board of Health and by the In¬
ternational Health Board.
Typhoid fever was reported in only
three families in the county in 1925.
In 1924 there were no deaths from ty¬
phoid. In 1925 one death. During
the past year typhoid vaccine has
been administered to 6,033 people in
this county. %
Smallpox was reported in two fam¬
ilies during the year. Prompt mea¬
sures resulted in stamping out the di¬
sease in both cases.
There was not a death from dip
theria in the county during the year.
Fourteen cases were reported from
various parts of the county. Protec¬
tive measures are believed to have
prevented loss of life.
There was not a single case of scar¬
let fever in the county during the
year, as compared with five cases in
1924.
The trachoma situation appears to
be well in hand, according to the re¬
port. Only four new cases have been
reported and three of these have al¬
ready been operated on.
Throuugh the good work of the Ki
wanis Clinic at Albany, 156 children
in this county had tonsils and ade¬
noids removed without cost. The
work of this clinic, supported by the
Albany Kiwanis Club, has been of
inestimable value to the people reach¬
ed by it and Mitchell countians are
particularly appreciative of the work
done for children in this county.
The dentists of the county report
a good deal of interest among the
school children in having denial cor¬
rections made. Dr. J. A. McDaniel,
of Camilla, conducted free dental
clinics at the Camilla and Baconton
schools and a number of children
were treated.
In the treatment of hookworm, 2,-
774 doses of medicine were adminis¬
tered during the year.
During the year 172 children were
permanently protected against diph¬
theria and 118 were temporarily pro¬
tected.
The report shows that 768 cattle
and 721 head of hogs killed in the
city abattoir were inspected before
and after slaughter. This city insti¬
tution safeguards the meat supply of
the Camilla markets and the results
Camilla
More Cases Made
Against Hunters
Mr. Hoggard Faircloth, county
game warden, continues active in
making cases against parties who vio¬
late the game law. Following a raid
made on a dove shoot near Pelham
last week when cases were made
against several prominent men, sev¬
eral cases have been made around Ca¬
milla for hunting without license and
for shooting over alleged baited fields.
In some of these cases where it is al¬
leged the law was violated warrants
have not yet been sworn out and a
list of the victims in the crusade
against violators of the game law was
not obtainable.
COUNTY SCHOOL
TERM EXTENDED
BOARD OF EDUCATION VOTES
TO INCREASE TERM TO
EIGHT MONTHS.
At an adjourned meeting of the
County Board of Education held on
Thursday of last week, the board vot¬
ed to extend the county school term
this year to eight months, instead of
the seven months term which has
been in vogue here for the past two or
three years. The report of County
School Superintendent Sloan which
was laid before the board Thursday
showed that the county school finances
are in much better shape than has
been the case in several years and the
board decided that with careful man¬
agement the school term could be ex¬
tended and authorized the announce¬
ment to this effect.
The action of the board will be re¬
ceived with interest throughout the
county. Some of the schools have
been operating on a nine months basis,
but have been forced to depend upon
local financing for the additional two
months and the extension of the
school term means that these com¬
munities will be relieved of part of
the burden they have been bearing.
Mitchell county school finances are
said to be in better shape than the
great majority of counties in this
part of the state and this fact is at¬
tributed to the sound business judg¬
ment of the members of the County
Board of Education and the conserva¬
tive policy that has been followed in
handling our school affairs. While it
was necessary to cut the school" term
in Mitchell county to seven months,
in many other counties the term was
cut to five months, and besides hav¬
ing the school term curtailed some of
these counties are also badly in debt.
Our county has steered clear of debt,
even during the years of greatest de¬
pression, and the board is therefore
able to take advantage of a slight in¬
crease in income to partially restore
the service curtailed when the lack of
money made it impossible to carry
on the full school program.
Among the other matters that came
up at the meeting last week was the
re-election of Miss Ella Foy as Home
Demonstration Agent for Mitchell
county. Miss Foy’s election was
unanimous and The Enterprise learns
that the expressions heard from mem¬
bers of the board regarding her work
were quite complimentary. Miss Foy
has made many friends throughout
the county and who will be pleased to
know that she will continue to serve
the county as Home Demonstration
Agent.
Second District
Dental Society
The regular meeting of the Second
District Dental Society will be held
in Albany on January 28th and 29th.
The meeting will be held at the New
Albany Hotel, where special arrange¬
ments have been made for the enter¬
tainment of the visitors. A program
covering a wide range of subjects has
been prepared. Among those who
occupy prominent places on the pro¬
gram are Dr. J. R. Mitchell and Dr.
I. M. Hair, of Atlanta.
obtained are highly important to the
patrons of local markets.
The above information was selected
hurriedly from the mass of (lata cov¬
ering a year’s work of our Health
Commissioner. No agency of the
county is functioning more thorough¬
ly or efficiently than the health de¬
partment and Dr. Rainey is deserving
of the highest commendation for the
excellent results achieved.
FARM SPECIALISTS
HEARD IN CAMILLA
SMALL CROWD ATTENDS MEET¬
ING HELD HERE ON LAST
THURSDAY MORNING.
The farm rally which was held in
Camilla on Thursday morning of last
week was attended by a small crowd
of representative farmers and the
talks made by the several specialists
from the State College of Agricul¬
ture were heard with interest and pro¬
fit by those in attendance. The meet¬
ing; here was one of 160 that was held
in Georgia during the week of Jan¬
uary 11-16 and were arranged by the
State College of Agriculture for the
purpose of urging the farmers of the
state to adopt a balanced program of
farming and thereby avoid the disas¬
ters which have in the past followed
the one-crop system.
One of the speakers last Thursday
was Mr. Jule G. Liddell, Extension
Swine Specialist for Georgia. His
talk was not confined to livestock,
however, but was of a general nature
and covered the whole range of sys¬
tematic farm management. He spoke
of the necessity for soil building and
the prevention of lands going to waste
from washing and “gullying.” He
suggested improvement of soil
through growing of legumes and by
the use of livestock manures. The soil
building program will be followed by
increasing crop yields, the speaker
said. Georgia ought to average 250
pounds of lint cotton to the acre,
whereas the present average is far be¬
low that and the average corn pro¬
duction is only about 12 bushels to the
acre. Mr. Liddell stated that there is
no money in selling corn direct from
the farm but it does pay handsomely
when fed to live stock. He said that
Georgia now has 3,000 less brood sows
than in 1920. Other points made
were increased food production, for
man and beast; increase in number
of cash crops, mentioning cotton, to¬
bacco, peanuts, poultry, livestock, hay
and forestry. The speaker urged
landowners to use idle lands for grow¬
ing timber which in time will produce
a handsome return. He urged the
standardizing of crops for marketing
and to improve the co-operative mar¬
keting system. Education was also
stressed as a crying need and special
mention was made of vocational
schools and club work.
Another speaker was Mr J. H.
Wood, Head Poultryman of the State
College of Agriculture. He discuss¬
ed only the poultry situation in Geor¬
gia and submitted figures and facts
to substantiate his claim -that the
poultry department of the farm ought
to be highly profitable. He stated
that the increase in the value of poul¬
try in Georgia in the past few years
has been greater than in any other
part of the United Stales, but even
at that we are not producing any¬
thing like as many as we consume
and there is a ready market at good
prices right here at home for all the
poultry and eggs that is produced in
Georgia. He did not advocate com¬
mercial poultry plants, operated on a
large scale without consideration of
other farm operations and the speak¬
er said that most ventures of this
kind prove a losing proposition. He
said, however, that every farm ought
to support a flock of hens and if prop¬
erly handled will prove profitable and
will serve to encourage the wife and
children to thrift and economy. He
referred to the fact that Carroll coun¬
ty farmers are making money out of
poultry and said that the average
flock in that county is 500 birds, which
would be considered a commercial
flock in Miehell county. He advised
a flock of 100 birds for the average
farm in this county. He said that
75c corn fed to a good hen will bring
the farmer $2.50 per bushel.
Mr. Wood went into detail about'
the best methods of caring for poul¬
try to avoid disease and to get the
best results. His talk was most in¬
teresting and should have been heard
by many more of our people who are
interested in poultry.
Despite the small crowd, the meet¬
ing was a success and it is believed
much good will result from the infor¬
mation offered by the speakers.
Mr. and Mrs, L. R. Goff, of Valdos¬
ta, spent the week-end in the city vis¬
iting Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bunch.
Their mother, Mrs. S. A. Nix, return¬
ed home with them Monday, after
spending several weeks here visiting
her sister, Mrs. Bunch.
CAMILLA. GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22. 1926.
E. T. FITZGERALD, SR.
CLAIMED BY DEATH
OLD AND HONORED CITIZEN OF
GREENWOOD DIES AFTER
SHORT ILLNESS.
The news of the death of Mr. E. T.
Fitzgerald, Sr., an old and honored
citizen of Greenwood community,
which occurred at the family home
at about eleven o’clock Wednesday
morning came as a sad shock to hun¬
dreds of friends throughout this coun¬
ty. Mr. Fitzgerald had been ill only
a few days and the sudden ahd serious
turn of his illness was quite unex¬
pected. Up until about a week ago
Mr. Fitzgerald appeared to be enjoy¬
ing usual good health and was in Ca¬
milla shaking hands with his friends.
One day last week he fell and hurt
his hip and this injury confined him
to his bed, but was not considered
serious until a day or two before he
died when his family noticed that he
appeared to be losing strength and
was not responding to usual treat¬
ment. The end came Wednesday
morning, with the members of his
family and friends of the community
gathered around his bedside.
Funeral services were held at
Greenwood Baptist church Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock and were con¬
ducted by Rev. J. I. D. Miller, pastor
of the church. Interment was made
in Oakview Cemetery at Camilla. A
large number of* sorrowing friends
attended the services and followed
the remains to the last resting place
in the family plot here
Mr. Fitzgerald was 77 years of age
last December and had spent the
greater part of his life in this county.
He was born in Stewart county and
moved with his parents to Mitchell
county when he was a young man.
Soon after moving here he married
Miss Emma Spence, daughter of the
late II. W. Spence of this county and
for the past forty or fifty years they
have lived in the Greenwood communi¬
ty. The deceased is survived by his
widow and five children, as follows:
Mr. Joe Brown Fitzgerald, of Lees¬
burg; Mrs. J. C. deGraffenreid, of De
sota City, Fla.; and Messrs. D. W., E.
T., Jr., and G. H. Fitzgerald of this
county.
The deceased had been a member
of the Methodist church since early
in life and gave his support to the
movements in his community that
tend to build up a religious and moral
influence.
Mr. Fitzgerald belonged to the old
school of Southern gentlemen and his
home has always been noted for its
hospitality and he was a big-hearted,
generous and kindly man who was al¬
ways glad to see his friends and have
them in his home. To these and hun¬
dreds of other admirers who were
less intimately acquainted with him,
his death brings sorrow.
Gardner Wins Place
U Debater Again
Camilla has again occasion to be
proud of the fine record Milton Gard¬
ner is maintaining at Florida State
University at Gainesville, Fla. At a
recent tryout at the university to se¬
lect debaters for the annual triangle
debate between South Carolina, Ten¬
nessee and Florida, Milton Gardner
won first place and with Ross Quincy
will go to Knoxville, Tenn. February
13th, where they will meet South Car¬
olina in debate. The question to be
argued is, “Resolved that the United
States should enter the world court
without reservations.” The Florida
debaters will have the negative side
of the question. Milton Gardner won
in annual debate last spring over Au¬
burn. He again added to his laurels
by winning the medal in junior ora¬
torical contest at close of school last
summer at the University.
Judge Roscoe Luke
Preaching In Newton
Judge Roscoe Luke, of the Georgia
Court of Appeals, is conducting a
series of meetings in Newton this
week, preaching in the court house
every evening at 7:30 o’clock. The
services are well attended and much
interest has been manifested. Judge
Luke is delivering some strong mes¬
sages that have a peculiar appeal to
“the man in the street" who is often
not reached by the regular church ser¬
vices. Judge Luke will speak Sunday
afternoon at three o’clock and a gen¬
eral invitation is extended to the peo¬
ple of this section to attend.
Paving Contractor
Making Progress Now
After much delay from bad weath¬
er, the Davis Construction Co. is again
making good progress on the Dixie
Highway paving north of Camilla.
The paving crew is now working in
front of the Worley place and lacks
only a little more than a mile of fin¬
ishing the road to the big slough
bridge, where it will connect with the
first paving laid. The contractor ex¬
pects to finish up in about two weeks
with favorable weather conditions.
Traffic over the highway is now being
detoured at the T. A. Acree farm,
coming- into town via the J. R.
Spence place.
SALE CITY TO GET
CAGE TOURNAMENT
BIG BASKETBALL EVENT TO BE
DIVIDED BETWEEN SALE CITY
AND THOMASVILLE.
The boys basketball tournament of
the Southwest Georgia Athletic Asso¬
ciation is to be divided this year and
Sale City and Thomasville divide the
honor of entertaining this important
athletic event. Many Southwest
Georgia towns were bidding for the
tournament and Sale City was among
the strongest contenders. The decis¬
ion was reached Saturday at a meet¬
ing of the executive board of the as¬
sociation held in Moultrie. The girls
tournament will be played in Moul¬
trie. The decision to divide the boys
tournament in two sections was made
on account of the large number of
teams which will take part and which
would make it rather an unwieldly af¬
fair if held in one place. The teams
that will play in Sale City in Thom
asville will be decided by lots. The
winning team from each section will
meet on some neutral court to decide
the championship.
The girls tournmanet will be played
during the last week in February.
The boys tournament will be held
the first week in March. The brack¬
eting and pairing of the teams for
both the girls and the boys turna
ment will be done by drawing, which
will take place on February 13th.
The executive board will employ all
officials and pay all expenses, 30 per
cent of the gross receipts from ad¬
missions being used for this purpose.
The members of the executive board
who were present at the meeting
Saturday were: L. R. Towson, sup¬
erintendent of the Pavo schools, pres¬
ident; H. M. Mills, athletic director
Albany High School; J. C. Sirmons,
superintendent Tifton schools; E. C.
Elean, superintendent Bainbridge
schools; H. R. Mahler, principal
Thomasville High School and J. L.
Yaden, superintendent Moultrie Pub¬
lic Schools.
Sale City is being congratulated
upon her succes in landing this im¬
portant event. Their succes is due
largely to the prominent place the
Sale City School has won in district
atheletics, especially on the basket¬
ball court, and the large amount of
interest that is manifested by the peo¬
ple of Sale City in school athletics.
Plans are already being made for the
entertainment of the visiting athletes
and officials during the tournament.
Every home in town will be thrown
open to the visiting players and they
will be given a royal welcome and en¬
tertainment during their stay in the
East Mitchell capital. The tourna¬
ment will attract large crowds of vis¬
itors and Sale City is well prepared
to take care of them. The new bas¬
ketball shell erected on the school
campus about two years ago will seat
several hundred people and affords
excellent accommodations for the
players. /
Road Meeting In
Atlanta Next Week
The County Commissioners of
Mitchell county and a number of citi¬
zens from Mitchell, Thomas and
Dougherty counties expect to appear
before the State Highway Commis¬
sion in Atlanta on Friday of next
week, January 29th, for the purpose
of urging the completion of the pav¬
ing on the Dixie Highway in this
county. All but ten miles of this pav¬
ing is completed and the highway De¬
partment is under contract to finish
this work. The purpose of this meet¬
ing is to get the Highway Department
to finish up this work with the mini¬
mum of delay.
NUMBER 41.
MITCHELL SOLONS
DIFFER ON BONDS
SPENCE FAVORS STATE ISSUE
CONDITIONALLY. MJELVEY
OPPOSES PROPOSITION.
Through an interview that was giv¬
en a representative of the Albany
Herald here Wednesday afternoon
by Dr. J. M. Spence and Col. O. B. Me
Elvey, Mitchell county’s two repre¬
sentatives in the legislature, their
positions on the proposed state bond
issue for roads, schools and the pay¬
ment of past due pensions became
known. The Herald is publishing a
series of interesting views with rep¬
resentatives and state senators from
Southwest Georgia and the local cor¬
respondent of the paper was instruct¬
ed to get an interview from Dr.
Spence and Col. McElvey.
Dr. Spence favors the bond issue
for roads, conditionally. He is quot¬
ed as saying: “I am in favor of a
bond issue for public roads provided
it can be arranged for those counties
that have already voted and applied
road bonds to be re-imbursed for the
amount so expended, so as to allow
them to share in an equal way with
other counties that have not voted
bonds improvements. Take the coun¬
ty of Mitchell, for example; we have
already voted $400,000.00 of road
bonds and have or soon will have
about thirty miles of road paved in
this county, which takes in all of the
Dixie Highway in the county. I
would not be willing, and do not think
it would be fair, to vote for additional
taxes on top of the ones incurred to
care for these bonds when a similar
improvement is contemplated, we will
say in another county on the same
road, and let the state bond money be
applied to the payment of road im¬
provements in such other county to
complete the system, without regard
to the fact that Mitchell county has
already incurred the expense of such
paving and will simply have the bond
expense already incurred over and
above what a sister county would
have. If it can be arranged so that
we and other counties similarly sit¬
uated can get in on an equal basis
with counties not already bonded as
we are, I will certainly support the
issue. Otherwise I will not support
the measure. I shall vote for the
bonds for school improvement and for
the bill for the payment of Confed¬
erate Vterans.”
Col. O. B. McElvey, of Pelham, was
in Camilla Wednesday afternoon and
when asked for an expression of his
opinion by newspaper men stated
that personally he was opposed to a
bond issue for roads or for the other
purposes mentioned. He stated that
he would not like to commit himself
at this time regarding his official at¬
titude, but that he probably would
vote for the submission of the ques¬
tion to the people of the state, as in
no other way could the sentiment of
the people on this matter be learned.
In the general election, he said, he
would oppose the measures. Col. Mc¬
Elvey takes the position that the re¬
ceipts from the state gas tax and
other sources will afford a- sufficient
sum to carry on road, improvement as
rapidly as the work can be economi¬
cally done.
In this county, as in other counties
of the state, there appears to be a
growing sentiment in favor of bonds
for paving a system of state high¬
ways The biggest change in senti¬
ment noted here has been among hard
headed business men who are usually
slow to commit themselves for a bond
issue. The point that seems to be
winning support from this element is
that the bonds are to be taken care of
out of the state gasoline tax without
an additional levy of taxes. The senti¬
ment of the rank and file of our citi¬
zens, however, is not easily determin¬
ed and the proposition will have to
take more definite shape before the
discussion will become general enough
to form an idea of what the result of
an election will be in this county.
Albany Raises Big
Advertising Fund
Albany is receiving the congratu¬
lations of neighbors and friends over
the success of the one-day drive con¬
ducted there Tuesday to raise $60,000
for an advertising fund. The ambi¬
tious undertaking went over with a
swing that was surprising to no one
who is familiar with the progressive
and loyal citizens who are building
Albany.