The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-12
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES

MduuIdEluIeTS duu NACA SAdApE nooO-
citation at the Appalachian exposition
at Knoxville, was awarded an esyposi-
ton blue ribbon, diploma and a
gold medal. The exhibit was of the
products Of the Anchor Duck Mills.
and the letter from the committee Of
awards states that these Homemade
products secured first prize for the
best display Of seamless bags and
duck specialties. The exhibit was
in charge Of Rhoten Smith, and he
had put in hard work in arranging
for the display and handling it at
Knoxville.
Waycross. - Inquiries frequently
reach Waycross that are well out Of
the ordinary run, but it remained for
professor at the University Of Illi-
nois to go the limit. Recently a LETT
ter came from the department Of en-
tomology of that university asking
that samples of a certain kind of bug
that has it's home in the South be
sent by return mail. This particular
bug is not harmful. but is not easy
to capture and it will probably be
the hardest inquiry to comply with
of the many received in this city.
Atlanta COMMISSIONS of AgricuI-
ture Hudson still remains quite sick
man from malaria, but he is slowly
improving. 1t is understood that the
data from his office will probably be
completed for the Ault committee
some time this week,
general of Georgia will have to con.
tent himself with his salary of $4,000
per year. He will be allowed no
more special fees from the state. Fol
lowing conference with Attorney
General Fielder, Governor Smith is
sued an order that the attorney gem
eral shall in future handle all cases
in which the state is involved with
out special compensation.
Jackson. -Reports of record-break-
ing cotton yields continue to come in
from Butts county farms. Kinney Wat
kins, whose farm is situated just on
the outskirts of Jackson, will gather
this year, unless all signs fail, from
two to three bales per acre on
"brag' patch of three or four acres.
J. M. Green, in the Indian Springs
section, has one acre from which he
expects to produce two or more bales.
But the largest yield yet reported
comes form the northwestern section
of the county, near the line of Henry,
from Johnnie Bledsoe, who, it is stat
ed, has already gathered six bales
from four acres and expects to get
three or four more bales from the
same ground.
Waycross. Shipping orders were
placed for household goods for 12
families living in Indiana, Illinois,
Ohio and Iowa, all of whom become
Ware residents within two weeks. The
parties who are planning to move pur-
chased farms in this county last year,
and after coming down this summer
have completed their arrangements
for locating on their farms. This is
locked upon as the advance guard Of
A1O0fJ A1OVCAAO11J u
to Ware this winter, others having
given statements of similar plans.
LAGRANGE Willie George MCGEE
and Josie Bernard MCGEE, aged re-
spectively 10 and u years, are ac-
claimed by popular consent as the
champion boy cotton pickers in Troup
county. These youngsters have re-
spectively records of 305 and 40
pounds for one days picking to their
credit, making total of 715 pounds
in one day for both boys. Their fa-
Their is G. E. MCGEE, living on plan
tation near Big Springs.
Macon.-Rag time music has been
barred in Wesleyan college. DR.. Ding
ley Brown, musical director, found
some rag-time music which had been
brought to the college from home by
one of the girls. An order against
the playing of rag-time was promptly
issued by the faculty.
Rockmart.-There have been produc-
ed in the 18th Georgia COMPRESSION dis
Seventh Georgia congressional dis
trict this year between 10000 and 50,-
900 bushels more of corn upon about
1000 acres of land than would have
been produced but for the effort of
the membership Of the boys corn
clubs of the district, and their friends.
when we consider that this corn has
been produced at a cost per bushel
of about 30 cents,'' says William Brad
ford, district agent boys corn clubs,
'and that this means saving Of
about so cents per bushel on what
it would have cost next year, if inn
ported from the west, we begin to re-
alize what these clubs have done, and
are going to do in the future.
Savannah. S. B. Thompson of
Atlanta, president of the Atlantic
Compress company, at the urgent re-
quest of Savannah cotton men, is in
Savannah for the purpose of taking
some action looking to relief of the
situation at the local congresses.
Will three and a half million dollars
OF cotton destined for September sail
ings be compressed in time for the
vessels to get away? This is the