The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-19


elai Georgia Power company here on
maj inspection of the plant in Butts
county before the wheels are set run
nlng' 1t has developed that this man
ol means and his associates who have
tnelr fortunes in the power plant
are only waiting for it to prove sue
cess before they start work on the
interurban railway line, from Macon
/. to Atlanta.
washington, D. C.--Laurens county
ulsplaces Burke as the banner cotton
producing county of Georgia, accord
ing TO the figures made public by the
bureau of the census of cotton ginned
70 december 81. Usually about 95 per
cent OF the crop is ginned up to this
uate. The crop of the entire state
was $4,000 bales Short of last year,
l'IO6,Sl6 bales having been ginned
70 December 81. 1910. Laurens is
created with 1928 bales and Burke
with S4,4s5. A year. ago Burke ginned
5000 and Laurnes 38, 1S4. The yield
Oh both counties fell off in the past
crop year. Twelve counties raised
upward of $4,000 bales the past sea-
sen and seven of these raised more
imam 10000 each They were: Laur.
ems, 1928; Burke, S5,495; Jackson,
1882; Meriwether, 32,28S; Carroll,
So,59O; Coweta, 3O,551; Walton, 3d..
O65; Terrell, 27O23; Bulloch, 26,59S;
Dooly, 26,416; Sumter, 25,754; Eman-
uel 25,O79.
SWainsboro.-For the first time in
a number of years, Emanuel county
jail is practically empty, only one
prisoner remaining, and he is a man.
convicted and sentenced TO the peni.
Tertiary, being still in jail pending
motion for new trial.
Griffin. W. Gresham and the
city council are not satisfied that Crit
inns population is only 7,478, as was
announced by the census department.
The population of Griffin in 1890 was
6,857 and the increase is only 621, or
800 per cent. 1t was stated by mem
bers of council that more than 621
houses were erected in Griffin during
the past decade and council will at
an early date send Hon. w. z. H.
Searcy, Jr., city attorney, to Washing
ton to argue for a recount
Valdosta-The people of Valdosta
are up in arms over the census figures
| for thic oitu which uraro onnoupaad
from Washington, and it is probable
that some public action looking to the
filing of protest and a request for
new count may be made. The last
city directory, the business of the
postoffice, the telephone company,
the banks and everything that goes to
indicate the population of city shows
that Valdosta has received a, sorry
deal in the recent census.
Americus-The Americas board of
trade in a Geographic communication
to Congressman Dudley Hughes makes
emphatic protest regarding the CEN
sus of Americas recently announced.
The census enumerators here assert
| that the figures announced are short
| of the count made here, and this state
ment is verified by the enumerators
employed by the board of trade who
followed the federal enumerators day
after day in their work and secured
practically the same results that were
| Stated at the time. The board of
trade enumerators returned 1855
names of bona fde residents of Amer
icus and the board Of trade now has
the names and addresses of each and
every one as proof.
Gainesville. A movement is on foot
to retake Gainesville's census, only
citizens to enter the project. It is
claimed that the governments census
did the city AN injustice and that
scores of citizens were, overlooked.
It is also rurnored that the two cot
ton factory villages only a mile dis
tant' will be included in the next CEN
sus and all in all will give Gaines,
vile a population of possibly 10000.
At the. census bureau estimates it is
now only 5,925.
Waycross.-A net profit of $241.S0
ON half acre planted in cabbage
Is the record A. 7. Sweat, Wares
new surveyor, has made at his Glen
more farm. His. success has caused
him to plan for larger acreage, and
he says he can beat his own record
so far as is5 known this is the best
record any farmer has made for such
a small acreage in cabbage in this
section.
Rochelle.-Oscar Banks OF this
Mace returned recently from a. visit
70 W. M. Martin at Norman Park; ga.
He brought with him a turnip which
weighed four and three-fourth pounds
and measured is inches in circumfer.
ence. Mr.. Martin is an old Wilcox
county farmer, who moved to Norman
park about year ago, and If the pal
ance of his crop is on an average with
his turnips, he is. doing wen.
Tawrenceville. A. Cooper Of
Gravson, gave tle biggest corn shuck-
ing ever held in Bay Creek district.
Tbirty.seven hands shucked out 45O
bushels of corn and slowed 1t away In
the barn.
Blackshear-George w. Lyons
brought a stalk of sugar cane, the red