Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-07

youngest member OF the house, extended
the county's welcome, singing praises
ON the trains purpose and eulogizing the
county for whose interests he stands. b.
w. dunt, vice president of the Geor-
gia Bankers association and live stock
editor of The Journal several years ago.
was the third and last speaker. Mr..
Hunts speech, like those before it, was
a magnificent exposition of the vital
truths which the train Is preaching, as
well as a fiattering expression Of cor
diality. State Senator George W. Adams
was another one of the welcoming COM
mittee. but did not speak, the time OF
the trains stay being shorter, and the
crowd being bigger than usual.
DISCUSSES MULE BREEDING
Mr. Hunt nailed down an argument for
tha breeding of mules in Georgia with
these concluding words: For years
Georgia has spent half of the net pro-
ceeds of the cotton crop for mules 10
make that crop with. No other section
could have stood such a strain" He
said that for 80 years he has stood like.
a prophet in the wilderness, urging the
Georgia farmer to breed live stock, and
he called on the lecturers to uphold his
hands in that doctrine He begged his
audience to hear from the lips of author
ity the tale of the incredible damage
that the cattle tick does In Georgia
each year, estimated at $6,500,000. Putnam
county is a leader in Its eradication. He
CONCLUDED by calling the visitors at
tention to the fact that they had come
to the birthplace of Georgia's greatest
man of letters. Joel Chandler Harris, the.
Uncle Remus of childhood, whose name
is praised throughout the world.
Every school in the county was sus-
pended for the day, by order OF County
school Commissioner w. c. Wright, who
visited the train at the head iof repre-
sentatives from each school.
Dennis Nesbitt, principal of the Eaton
ton school, and his assistants and 400 pu-
pills, also helped to swell the big crowd.
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.
The BOYS and Girls Corn club work
is organized in Putnam county to very
creditabIe degree A ST. Louis philan-
thropist, it Is understood. has lent valu-
able assistance, and it is due largely to
his belief in the resources of the county
that Mrs. Ira Thompson is here, directing
the work of organization. The reputed
fact that School Commissioner Wright
is one of the hvest school heads in the
state, is also credited in large measure
with the success attained here. In addi-
ton to the work among the young folks,
$50 farmers of the county have been or
ganized into a club of their own Pro-
lessor Campbell declares that if sufficient
demand is made for the concession, the
United States department of agriculture
win send an expert in canning TO Put
nam county this summer, as 1t will send
one to Baldwin county, equipped with
canning outfit and all, to teach the girls
how to can fruits and vegetables for the
home market
q. G. Newsom, Jr., a farmer living on
r. f. D. No. 2, brought a curiosity to the
train. in what looked like a petriied sec
ton of tree root. He said the natives of
Putnam county call it Indian bread, be-
cause the Indians used to eat It. It was
classified by the scientists aboard the
train, as cassava, plant OF the manioca
family indigenous TO tropical America