The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-01-14
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.

4 requirements OF the law IN making
their tax Ievies, they are having some
trouble with their collections The
law permits counties to levy only 50
per cent of the state tax for general
purposes, which for 1909 gave them
IL mills. Besides that, they are
allowed to levy mills for roads, liz
mills for public schools and to make
other Ieyies for certain extraordinary
purposes 1t seems that a number OF
Georgia counties in making up their
levies punched all these different
items together under the single head
OF general purposes, which, OF
course, made a levy under that head
greater than the law permits. al
though the total amount under vari-
Gus heads, may have been fully JUS
tified. Az result OF this situation,
a large number of counties, among
them Epson, Henry, Pike, Harris,
Meriwether, Turner, Irwin, Clayton,
and Banks, are having difficulty with
some Of their collections, particular
w from the railroads.
| Work Of preparing for the confer
ence OF farmers wives which will
take place In Athens under the aus
pieces OF the State College OF Agricul-
! ture on January 18 to ~, inclusive,
! is well under way in the hands OF
Mrs. Walter B. HILL She has sent
out invitations broadcast over the
state to the wives of farmers, re-
q1esting their attendance at the con-
ference. Domestic science, culinary
machines and labor-saving machines
Of all kinds will be demonstrated at
the four, days session. In particular
will the feminine portion OF the at
tendance be interested in the spIen-
did demonstrations of dairying ma
chimes and all kinds of work
| Permission to sell 21,117 acres OF
valuable lands situated in ten GeOr-
| gia counties is asked in petition
presented to Judge Charltan in Chat
ham superior court Loring r. Mil
| len, Hal FL. Bacon and the heirs OF
Mrs. Mary P. Harris own the land
! The time has arrived to divide the
big property and Judge Charlton will
| probably appoint receiver and or
der the land sold. The property lies
in Murray, Fannin, Gilmer, Union,
| Towns, Dawson, Lumpkin, Pickens,
Cherokee and Gordon counties.
thousand fertilizer, tags have been re-
ceived at the department OF agricul-
ture at the state capitol in Atlanta,
1 to be sold to the fertilizer manufac-
| tureTes doing business in Georgia, to
be placed upon the fertilizer used in
this state during the year 1910. This
represents $4,000 tons of fertilizer,
which will, in all probability, find its
way into the soil during the coming
spring season. In view of the splen-
did yield of cotton per acre in Geor-
gia last season, brought about by
heavy fertilization, it is believed that
the planters, this year, will not in
crease the acreage of cotton, but will
| intensity the fertilization of their cot
ton acreage.
A systematic search is to be made
| in Macon by both police and sheri1's
forces, and it is hoped that the fire
| fiend who has been at work will be
caught There has so far been no
trace of the person who is doing the
work, but the large steady fire losses
have caused general alarm Nearly
twenty houses have burned in Macon
in less than three weeks.
One hundred and twenty-five thous-
and dollars represents the fortune
pal dout in Americas in the purchase
| of mules. Such is the conservative
estimate made by stock dealers, and
the amount is, if anything, too con-
sentative, rather than too large. Five
hundred mules have been sold in
Americas since the season opened in
October About $3.50 is the estimat-
ed average mule value. And at that
conservative estimate the five hun
bred mules sold in the Americas mar
ket to date have brought the round
sum to S125,000 All of which went
to Missouri and eintucky.
Authority was given the Seaboard
Air Line railroad by the railroad
commission to issue $1,3S0,000 in
| equipment trust notes, the proceeds
| of which will be used for buying new
rolling stock.
The Houston county commissioners
of roads and revenues at their month
| ly meeting desided to let the convict
camp remain in the southern portion
of the county and complete the road
to Perry from the county lines OF Pu-
laski and Dolly counties before be-
| ing moved to the Fort Valley district
The changing has been building fine
roads and has made good progress
in the year just 2ast The roads
built and completed will compare ia
vorably with any dirt roads in the
state and all will, during the present
year, be put in as fine condition as
possible under the new system OF
road improvement.
The movement for a million or
half-million dollar cotton mill in Jack
son has taken definite form within
the last few days. Eastern capital
| lists have been in jackson looking