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The Pelham Journal.
Kutered December 3rd, ism, at i'elliam.Ga
a 4 second.class mail matter, under act of Con
gress of March 3rd, 1879,
Published Evey Friday,
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The county of Ware expects as
a result of the late census to be
one of the counties entitled to two
representatives in the legislature.
The Doerun Advertiser says con¬
siderable acreage has been devoted
to wheat in that section this year
and crops ranging from 15 to 25
bushels to the acre are reported.
Colquit county has 2,483 regis¬
tered voters. Of this number only
fifteen are negroes. The registrars
having completed their work show
the above figures.
The Salem Journal says that a
mistake of a single letter in a word
makes an innocent item look like it
was loaded. This was the item:
“The meeting of the Ladies’ Aid
Society was hell at our house yes¬
terday afternoon.”
We publish this week the formal
announcement of Mr. L. G. Collins
of Flint for representative. Mr.
Collins is well known over the
county as a man of high character
and progressive ideas. He has
characteristics that will make him
a good representative.
The Montezuma Record is advo¬
cating an increase in the subscrip¬
tion price of the country weekly
newspaper and urges that one dol¬
lar a year is not a fair return for
the service. The matter will
probably be discussed at the an¬
nual meeting of the Georgia Week¬
ly Press Association at Americus
in July.
The movement of Z. II. Clark
of Moultrie to interest the trade
bodies of the municipalities of the
state in a movement for the adver¬
tisement of Georgia and the induc¬
ing of immigration from the north
and west into the state is meeting
with considerable favor. It is fitt¬
ing that the head of such a move¬
ment should be in south Georgia
where a large part of such immi¬
gration would land. At a meeting
in Atlanta next week the plan of
organization will be outlined. If
it meets the approval and secures
the active support of the various
chambers of commerce and boards
of trade of the state it will be
movement of far reaching impor¬
tance. Quite a delegation will go
to Atlanta from Moultrie in a
special car.
The closing paragraph of the
letter of Tom Watson to Tom
Hardwick is taken by many as an
admission that he has returned to
the democratic party. It can
hardly be seen how in the face of
the statement he can hereafter
seek any political ends fighting in
the ranks of the populist party or
any party other than the democrat¬
ic party. And yet there is no need
for newspapers to be nursing them¬
selves into an ecstacy of delight
over his “return”. It is certain
that as an independent democrat
he will fight to hold the balance of
power in the state and dictate its
politics. It is hardly to be ex¬
pected that Watson will be bound
by any democratic rules or pre
cedents when they do not work to
the accomplishment of his pur¬
poses.
THE PELHAM JOURNAL
Doerun will have three modern
ginneries, two up-to-date ware¬
houses and several hustling cotton
buyers this fall, and we propose to
get into the cotton game for all we
are worth.—Doerun Advertiser.
The name of Judge W. A. Cov¬
ington of Moultrie is being promi¬
nently mentioned as a probable
candidate for governor. Mr.
Covington was an ardent suppor¬
ter of Hoke Smith, is a militant
prohibitionist and has been sus¬
pected of having gubernatorial
ambition for several years. He is
at present lecturing in the north.
Life Insurance Provided
for Man of Moderate
Means.
1 Life insurance fnr the man of
moderate means—the laboring
man—the man who is not finan¬
cially able to invest his earnings
in an insurance policy which re¬
quires the payment of a big annual
premium, has been provided at
last by the organization of the
Washington-Lee Insurance Co., of
Georgia, which lias its headquar¬
ters at Dawson, Terrell county.
Intent upon selling the largest
possible policies and thereby secur¬
ing the biggest returns, the insur¬
ance companies which have done
business in this state in the past
have concentrated their efforts up¬
on the business man, the banker,
the capitalist, the man who was
able to buy insurance by the whole¬
sale and to pay big premiums on
it. The big city has been the
center of their activities.
MAN WHO EARNS SMALL SALARY.
In the meantime, the man who
needs insurance most of all, the
man who earns a small salary and
whose death or physical disability
means actual want and perhaps
starvation or the poor house for
the family, has been neglected and
forced to content himself with the
prospect of being able to save
enough of his salary to shield his
wife and children from poverty
when death or misfortune has laid
its hand upon him.
But the scope of the insurance
field is by no means bound by the
limitations of the cities. In the
smaller towns and cities and in the
rural districts of Georgia there are
hundreds of thousands of lives
that are insurable and the only
reason they are not insured is be¬
cause insurance companies have
been busy writing big policies,
and big policies, as a rule, are be¬
yond the reach of the laboring
class.
Realizing this fact, the Wash¬
ington-Lee Life insurance Compa¬
ny was organized as an old line
life insurance company, and will
put energy into the intermediate
class of insurance which is design¬
ed especially for the man who
cannot afford to spend the bulk of
his salary in paying premiums on
life insurance.
Intermediate insurance means
the writing of policies of not less
than $100 and not more than $500
on one life. It means that the
man who cannot afford to buy
$1,000 of insurance, even of the
cheapest premiums, which vary
from $24 to $26 per thousand
(taking the cost at 35 years of age
as a basis), is afforded the oppor¬
tunity of buying the intermediate
class of insurance in amounts of
$100 up to $500 at the rate of $2.60
per year, or 5 cents per week for
each $100.
ACCORDING TO HIS MEANS.
The rate on intermediate insur¬
ance is, of course, the same that it
is on any other kind of insurance
but the advantage lies in the fact
that a man may secure insurance
according to his means, and is al¬
lowed to pay premiums in propor¬
tion to his salary.
While the company will write
! the regular standard forms from
i $1,000 upward, particular atten¬
tion will be paid to the interme¬
diate class.
The brilliant prospects of suc¬
cess which lie before this “home
insurance” company is apparent
when it is considered that this
class of insurance in Georgia has
been practically untouched. The
northern companies which write
the intermediate class, have not
had time to go into the smaller
towns and outlying districts. The
opportunities of the cities have
been too enticing and the harvest
has been too great.
Insurance reports show that in
the state of Georgia there are
1,161,818 lives that are insurable,
of which only 112,881 are insured,
or 9.72 per cent. By those figures
it is clearly shown that in Georgia
there are today 1,049,000 lives in¬
surable, and the vast majority of
them are the class of people to
whom the intermediate class of in¬
surance will appeal.
By the intermediate plan of in¬
surance, taking the lowest amount
of insurance that can be written,
$100 for each person, the Wash¬
ington-Lee Company has a field
equaling $104,900,000 of possible
insurance. Should only 10 per
cent of this business be written it
will amount to $10,489,370, with a
premium income of $272,723.26.
The magnificent possibilities of the
company are readily apparent,
sentiment developing.
Another feature which augurs
well for the success of the Georgia
company is the fact that a strong
sentiment is developing against
sending life insurance premiums
away from e. The south in
1907 sent >,000 in life in¬
surance.;; , v New York,
and the idea that this money had
best be kept in the sonth instead of
sending it to enrich other sections,
is rapidly gaining ground.
The incorporators of the compa¬
ny, in view of the class of business
to which they propose to pay par¬
ticular attention, have chosen well
in the selection of its location.
Southwest Georgia is the coining
section of Georgia and the south,
and Dawson is the heart of it.
Backed by some of the strongest
and best known citizens of the
state whose financial standing and
business integrity is unquestioned,
the success of this latest “home
insurance” company is already
assured.
The organizers of the company
are J. R. Mercer, J. G. Dean, J. M. j
Bell, R. L. Saville, M. J. Yeo¬
mans and J. E. Morris. From
this board of organizers the fol-1
lowing trustees were elected: J. R. ;
Mercer, J. G. Dean and J. M. Bell.
The company has already made j
the necessary publication for a
charter, which will be granted by j
the secretary of state on June 9th. |
Notice Odd Fellows.
At the regular meeting next;
Monday night it is desired that ■
every Odd Fellow be present.
Officers for the ensuing term will
be elected, and other important
business transacted. Don’t fail to
be on hand.
C. J. Cain, N. G.
B. Y. Cooper, Sec.
Glad to Recommend Them
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In a yellow package. Consolidated j
Clothing & Drug Co.
Tax Receiver’s Rounds.
I will be at the following places on
the dates named for the purpose of
receiving state and county taxes for the
year 1910.
Will be in Camilla all of court week
and balance of time except Saturday
June 11th and will be in Pelham on
that date. My books will close on June
20th, and all parties failing to give in
their taxes by that date will be double
taxed. J. H. Hilliard,
T. R. M. C.
HIGH CLASS EXCURSION
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JACKSONVILLE:, FLA.,
MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1910.
A GRAND 3 DAY EXCURSION
via
Atlantic Coast Line R. R.
$3.00 FOR THE ROUND TRIP $3.00
From Thomasville.
TRAIN LEAVES 2:03 P. M.
Tickets good to return on any train on or before June 16th, 1910.
Don’t miss your only opportunity to visit Florida’s metropolis at this
exceedingly low fare. A visit to the Ostrich Farm is alone worth the money.
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