The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-11-26
Caledonia Department.


We returned home on last Friday
night, the 10th instant, from bus
iness trip to Greenwood Springs and
Detroit, Ala. We found the crops all
gathered There are not over five
bales of cotton from Caledonia TO De-
troit, distance of sixty miles, in
the fields to pick, and We find the
farmers in the Greenwood Springs
and Detroit neighborhoods raise a
sufficient amount of corn, meat and
moIasses for their own use and some
for the market. They plant patches
of cotton and large fields of corn.
There is one steam gin that does all
the ginning in and around that sec
ton, and ESQ bales is considered a
large crop for that gin. We spent
the night with our old friend, Mr..
John Wood, who has been married
forty-six years, and has never had to
buy a bushel Of corn or pound OF
meat, but on the other hand sells
from four to six hundred bushels of
corn every year and from twelve TO
ifteen hundred pounds of meat per
year, and four or five bales of cot
ton is large crop of cotton for him
more of it than any of the Lowndes
county or any other counties, as this
man has four or five thousand dol
lars loaned out a surplus in the bank.
This money was not made by rails
ing cotton, but by raising corn, meat
and hay. and everything that is need
ed on the farm at home. He is not
the only man in the Greenwood COM
unity who is making money and lay
ing some back for the rainy day, by
raising corn, meat, etc. We found
the farmers of that section all pros
porous and contented, making every
thing that they consume at home.
They have nice, comfortable houses
and plenty of good stock. We are
proud to say that we found our friend
Mr.. Afford Booth in the mercantile
business. He has a large stock of
goods, and is making money. He is
agent at Greenwood Springs. He
was formerly in the drug business
in Columbus.
While the writer was at Green
wood, he was entertained in the hos
pitable home of Mr.. Dan Crenshaw,
one of the leading merchants and
business men of the village. He is
also one of the successful farmers
be bought for from $40 to $12 per
acre, and there is but very little for
sale. The village of Greenwood is
a nice, hustling little village, with a
population of $50 people. It has
two large lumber plants, one hotel,
a good school, one physician, Meth
odist church and parsonage.
We are proud to say that Gale
donia will soon boast of having a
paper. 1t will be published by Mr..
Otto M. Lawrence, editor and busi-
ness manager. The paper will be
published monthly at fifty cents "a
year. ''The High School Advocate"
will be published by the two literary
societies of the Caledonia high school.
We pedict a bright future for the
Advocate and its able editor.
The patrons of the Caledonia high
school are glad to know that DR..
Thos. P. Bailey will visit our school
at an early date, as the people of not
only Caledonia, but the surrounding
neighborhood, are especially inter-
ested in our school and are very anx-
ious to establish an agricultural high
school. Our school is located right
in the very heart of the best farm
ing belt in the county, and it is the
country boy, the farmers son, who
gives bone and sinew to the tired
city. 1t is the farmers son who
steers his way straight as his father
guided the plow. Tt is our farmers
boy whom you can name along the
line of presidents and statesmen, who
has tried to keep his county and its
people above the groove of selfish en-
terprise and pointed the way to
higher things.
Mr.. n. S. Partain, one of our lead
ing farmers. made 400 bushels of
extra fine corn off of twenty acres of
land, and fine lot of peavine hay.
Mr.. j. L. Stillman has twelve Ro-I
den apple trees from which he sold
$125 worth of apples this year, be-
sides feeding quite lot to his hogs
and canning enough to do the family
to years.
Mr.. Edgar Springfield has the con-
tract to build Mr.. Geo. Myers house.