The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-01-29
MUCH INTEREST
IN MOVEMENT
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD
LAST NIGHT AND SOME OF
PRIZE MONEY SUBSCRIBED.
All Farmers Who Will Plant an Acre
or More cf Cotton Will Be Given
the Seed-TaIks Made by Local
Business Men and Visitors.
For cottonseed ........$ SO
For prize fund for best crops rs
Total to date ..,..........$125
Proposed cotton fund $500
Proposed cotton fund =.

Concluding one of the most enthus-
iastic two hour sessions ever held by
the Merchants Retail association, that
body last night by unanimous vote, con-
.tributed $125 towards the cotton plant
ing movement inaugurated Wednesday
by the offer of Parker & TAFT to erect
"a gin at their place near the city pro
yided 20V acres could be pledged by
the farmers of Glynn for long staple
cotton and an equal acreage for short
staple.
Senator L. R. Akin gave the move
.ment additional impetus by pledging
himself to plant ten acres in long
staple provided the additional 100
acres were pledged and followed this
offer up by pledging a second ten acres
in short staple on the same terms,
both crops to be grown on Glynn
county land
General Passenger Agent W. H.
Leahy, of the A., B. = A., who came
. 8.
drove in another spike by Offering to
furnish all the seed to any Glynn
county farmer who would agree to
plant ten different crops this season.
The only limit was that at least one
acre should Re devoted to each crop.
following one of the strongest talks
by John W. Greer ever heard in q
Brunswick business meeting the asso-
citation on motion requested the city
council and county commissioners to
in the "Wiregrass Country" the mag
azine now being used SO effectively
in the north and west to induce i'm
migration to south Georgia. Giynn
county's resources are to- be exploited
on this page month by month so that
no reader of the magazine shall fail
to know what has been done and what
can be done on Glynn county soil
Seldom have the business men Of
Brunswick rallied so promptly to ah
idea as they did last night to the pro-
posed development of the county's un-
cultivated lands. The big offer of Par
ker & TAFT as published in The News
had met hearty endorsement on all
sides as a sane, practical proposition
which means much to Brunswick. Fifty
representative citizens filled the board
of trade rooms when President Bruce
called the meeting to order and in
troduced General Passenger Agent
Leahy of the A., B. & A. Mr.. Leahy
had a message for Brunswick and it
rang with optimism for the natural
port of the Wiregrass section which
his line bisects. He told of the fine
results his company has been having
from it's advertising campaign, as
many as fifty inquiries per day now
coming from farmers in the north and
west. He told even mOre-hoW scores
OF families were being located along
his line. over one hundred in the past
few months. AS he told of his com
pany'5 plans and above all, what had
already been done interest and enthu-
siasm grew apace. 1t was practically
4 revelation to the business men pres
ent, few of whom had had an inkling
of the campaign being waged by the
road to bring in new families.
Manager John w Greer of the
''Wiregrass Country" followed in
thirty minutes talk on land and men.
THE only difference between New
York and Brunswick is about four
million people Given the same num-
her of people as New York, Brunswick
would show up equally as we'll was
the way he put it. Mr.. Greer told OF
the thousands of inquiries coming to
his company from farmers seeking
homes in south Georgia He wanted
Brunswick, his former home city. to
abandon ner policy of relying upon
natural advantages which has failed
TO increase her population, and to take
up the only method which had been
proven successful, that of a direct In
yitation through q page advertisement
in a journal which gees only to the
interested ones--farmers seeking