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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1913-05-22

come to be the best advertisement
that this county has in the way Of
securing additional immigrantsfrom
l.thss9 sections. In this way the
many inviting features of Lee coun-
ty are made known to the others.
The fact That land equal in fertility
and in ability to produce almost
ANY crop to that Of any section Of
the state can be bought cheaper in
Lee county than in any county in
the state where school conditions,
general health and widespread inn
proyements can be had, is serving
to make Lee county the Mecca for
a large number Of worthy imnli-
grants each year.
An already excellent school sys-
TEN is to be made better. Lee
county will soon have up for def
mite consideration the passing Of a
bill through the legislature of a
bill through the legislature to make
possible the levying Of a small tax
for the improvement Of the county
schools. The schools are already
good and numerous, being scattered
well throughout the entire county,
50 as to make them convenient for
all parents who wish to send. But
stilf better schools are wanted for
Lee county, and this new fund for
the betterment ofthe county schools
will doubtless soon be available.
As to the matter Of health. Lee
county has resord of which any
county in Georgia may well be
proud. The improvement in this
particular has been little short Of
marvellous during the past decade.
One Of the most important factors
in producing health conditions that
are. second to those Of no other
county in the staIe is the preya-
lence Of artesian wells. 1t has come
to be a maxim in Lee county that
every farm has It's artesian we'll.
This is not igurativeIy, but literally
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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1913-05-22
II You Want to Build Up Your Town.

Often times it's the very person who grumbles be-
cause he believes that other town is outstrpping
Leesburg its progress who when be or she desires
to purchase something, runs to some other town to
do it
Every penny spent ou; Of Lee county is gone for
ever 50 far as you far as any benefits to your
county and town are concerned while every dollar
spent at home enriches your town and county
Most Of our people buy at home. Yet many pre-
fer to buy away from home. Things that cannot be
obtained at home must Of course be purchased else
where: but the trouble is that you don't even take
time to investigate to whether the local merchants
can supply your need
Read the advertisements in The journal; go tell
the merchants what you want and see if they can't
save you money on your purchases. You can gene
rally get what you desire from the Leesburg mer-
chants if you'll give them chance.
Remember that money spent at home is really
money in your pockets
ii you want Leesburg to prosper, and want to
prosper with Leesburg, remember TO BUY At HOME.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1913-05-22
Farmers Need Aid In
Marketing Their Crops
According to r. F. Duckworth d the Farmers
Union.

The Georgia farmers are notnlak-
ing money on what they produce.
The reason is to be found in two
ihings largely, these are bad farm
management and improper methods
of marketing.
Our state and national govern
ments are spending millions an
nually to teach the farmer how to
make two blades Of grass grow
where only one grew" but have been
spending practically nothing to
teach him how to finance and mar
ket properly the one blade.
The Farmers Union has agitated
this balance" Conformation until
the national government has decided
to establish department of mar
kets. They have appropriated $780,
900 to study the subject Congress
appropriated $4,000 to study rural
credits.
Our methods are out of date, not
keeping pace with the times. The
farmer cannot be prosperous on AZ
cents on the dollar and have to sup
port his school, church, pay his
taxes, keep up his farm and support
his family out Of the AZ cents. If
the South attains the position f.
nancially that she should, her far
mers must become prosperous.
The Farmers Union is working
for this prosperity Every legiti-
mate business in the south will be
helped by our worka
The Farmers Union has always
taken an advance position on all
questions Of general interest to far
mers. We have .een many Of our
put into laws, and many
of our suggestions put into practice
We could have done more if more
farmers had helped. Sometimes a
farmer will stay out of the union,
then ask why such and such thing
has not been done? Each farmer
has duty to perform in behalf of a.
ricultural progress and he can best
perform that duty by joining hands
with his fellow farmers.
In organization there is streng-
tn, unified we stand, divided we fall"
is just as true with the farmer as
any other class.
This is an age of organization and
II the farmer fails to use these
means, he and his family must suf-
fer loss, and the whole country is
injured.
We are anxious ia bring financial
prosperity to every farmers home
and this can be done if the farmers
viii join in the effort. It cannot be
done by each one standing alone.
R. F. Duckworth.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1913-05-22
Lee County Man Got
First Gator Of Season

Beuregard Gown, who resides in
Lee county, brought trophy to A.
mericus, the hide Of an alligator
which he killed upon his farm re-
Gently. The gator was nine feet in
length, and had come out Of Mucka-
lee creed into an open field. where
Mr.. Gown found the old saurian
and shot it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
WILLARD SEEMS TO
Be NEXT IN LINE
He Is Now Most Logical 0p-
ponent for Conqueror
of PalZer.

NEW YORK, January At is highly
probable that Luther McCarty will find it
convenient to sidetrack the few remain
ing hopes who threaten his reign until he
has finished theatrical tour. such as in
variably follows a notable success in the
ring. The elimination of AL Palzer in such
decisive fashion makes the newly ere
ated champions future look exceedingly
bright. But there still remains some work
for him to do before he can feel himself
securely seated on the white heavyweight
throne.
That McCarty can justly claim to be
the holder of the new title, despite his
possession of the McCarey belt, will be
disputed in some quarters Most of this
opposition will come from Gunboat Smith.
Bombardier Wells and Jess Willard. OF
these the siX-foot siX-inch form of Will
llard looms up the most menacing of all
1t can be argued that Wells was elimi-
mated when he lost to Palzer. Smith, al
though a terrific hitter. is not SO much of
boxer, and besides. is badly handi-
capped in the matter of weight But Will
llards right to the next match with Pal
zers conqueror cannot be argued away
Willard and McCarty already have
crossed arms. and the result was not al
together favorable to McCarty. In fact,
during the last two rounds of their ten
round bout, McCarty looked to be all
prined for knockout He was badly
cut up. while Willard escaped without a
mark. After that affair many of the crit
les could see no hope for McCarty. and
put him down az greatly overrated fight
err. If the bout had had ten more rounds
to go. Willard would have been a ten-to-
has since shown great Improvement. Still,
Willard also has learned a lot since
then.
Willard is a very mysterious person
The exact extent of his ability is still
very uncertain. Even his closest friends
do not understand him. "A queer fell
low. very queer fellow was Charlie
Cutters comment while discussing Will
lizard just prior to the latter's bout with
Soldier kearns. Cutler is the wrestler
puglllst who helps Willard train and as
sists making his matches. Many shrewd
managers have made overtures to Will
lard He will have none of them AS
one of them explained it, Willard believes
he can look after his own interests and
thus obliterate the necessity of splitting
the proceeds with a manager. He figures
that he is now so prominent he cannot
be overlooked. and needs no manager
with the necessary influence in fistic cir
cles to secure for him a championship
match.
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PROMINENT ATHLETES
Will Compete Tonight in Junior
A. A. u. CHAMPIONSHIPS.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Many promi.
nent amateur athletes from the colleges
and athletic clubs Of several cities com
pete tonight in the annual junior cham
pionships Of the Amateur Athletic Union
in the I'D Regiment Armory 1t may
prove to be practically a dual meet be-
tween men from Yale, Harvard, Dart.
mouth. Cornell. Lehigh and Columbia. and
the representatives of amateur clubs from
the metropolitan district, Boston. Pitts
burgh. Philadelphia and the south.
One Of the most conspicuous names In
the entry list is that of Charles Brickley,
described as 1.-The Jim Thorpe Of the eau
casian race" whose wonderful drop-kicks
were sensations of Harvard gridiron
struggles with Yale. Princeton and Dart
mouth last fall. Harry Whitney. Dart
mouths wonderful shotputter, who won
third honors in this line at the Olympic
games. will be pitted against Brickley in
the shotput. Pat Mcdonald and ]. Reid
Fitzpatrick are prominent In this event.
In the 6O-yard hurdle race a number OF
local champions appear against Jackson
and Freeman Of Harvard, Potter of Yale
and Williams of Cornell.
Homer Baker, the New York Athletic
Club middle distance runner. will have
Harry Lee of the Boston Athletic Asso-
citation as one of his most formidable
competitors in the 1.OOO-yard run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
GR|FF HASSTRONG
CATCHING STAFF
Hal Chase Says Nationals
Trio of Backstops Is
Best in League.
NEW PITCHER Is SIGNED
WHO HAS GOOD RECORD
Victor BickerS Won 20 Out of
% Games in the Semi
Pro League.
BY J. ED GRILLO.

Even though John Henry has to I'M
dergo an operation. there is no need for
worrying about the Nationals catching
staff. Henry will undoubtedly be ready
To take his turn behind the bat when the
season opens and the most encouraging
kind of news comes from Eddie Ainsmith
down in Texas to his condition.
Manager Griffith received a letter from
his youthful catcher this morning. stating
that he had entirely recovered and that
he was now in better physical condition
than he has been in years.
Ainsmith and Alva Williams could take
care of the catching department IL 1t
should be necessary for them to assume
this task. Both are hard workers and
Williams can catch every day without
going stale
According to the New York Sun Hal
Chase believes that Washington has the
best trio of catchers in the league. Here
is what it says:
Hal Chase says that the best young
catchers in the American League are
Ainsmith Henry and Williams of the
why the Red Sox parted with Williams
Chase also believes that Schalk, the ten
thOusand-dollar catcher of the White
SoX. will be star next season; that AL
by the St. Louis Browns last fall, will
be heard from. Incidentally Prince Hal
is sure that Chance will make a first
class catcher out OF Charley Sterrett. the
former Princeton College man.
While there IS hardly chance of Griffith
accepting the offer of the Brownsville.
Tex. business men to build a training
grounds and house for the Nationals this
year. il is probable that he will make
some arrangements to go there next year.
Griffith wants a training place Of his own.
He figures that it would be of benefit to
any city TO have him go there every
spring, and he expects Brownsville or
some other town to make concessions to
have him so there.
Another pitcher has been added to the
Nationals staff. He is Victor Bickers,
who lives in Buffalo. Bickers is a young
Ster VINO won twenty out of twenty-five
games for a semi-pro team out in In
dianapolis last summer. Bill Shannon. a.
shortStop in the big leagues some years
ago. recommended BickerS to Griffith. He
describes him as a SiX-footer. who may
make a great pitcher. and Griffith is going
to take d chance on him.
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COBB WILL NOT GET
THREE-YEAR CONTRACT
President Navin Says His Star
Will Not Be Signed for
That Period.

DETROIT. January 4.-Tyrus Raymond
Cobb will not get a three-year contract.
President Frank Navin of the Detroit
base ball cub made that very positive
statement. Just why Frank is averse to
signing up the Georgia Peach for three
years was not explained.
1t is not likely that Cobb will even
start to slip for three years, but there
is always the possibility of an accident
which would rob him Of his tremendous
speed and dash Certainly the southerner
will not have become aged or decrepit
in another trio of seasons. He has just
passed his twenty-sixth birthday, and, as
he takes good care of himself, ought to
last for long time yet.
What seems more likely explanation
of the Detroit clubs preference for a
one-year contract is that Mr.. Navin may
find it more convenient to give Tyrus a
very large sum for a single season and
then taper off than to book him for the
triple appearance at salary that would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
SCHEDULE COMPLETED.
Lynchburg High Five Will Play Six
Games.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
LYNCHBURG. Va, January 4-The
schedule of the Lynchburg High School
basket ball team has been practically
completed. the first game taking place
tonight at Danville with the high
school of that city.
Two games are being arranged with
Jefferson School and Randolph Macon
Academy Of Bedford City, but the dates
have not been announced as yet. One
each is to be played at home and one
abroad.
The schedule arranged thus far is as
follows:
January 4EDanville High at Danville.
January 10-Cluster Springs Academy
at Lynchburg.
January 18-Cluster Springs Academy
at Cluster Springs.
January 25-Roanoke High at Roanoke.
February Granville High at Lynch
burg.
February 14-Roanoke High at
Lynchburg.
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fifth Adds Another Pitcher to Nationals Staf-SpoS of All Sorts
REDUCES SALARY LIMIT.
Tri-State League Votes to Cut Down
to $1,000 Per Month.

HARRISBURG, Pa. January 4.-The
Tri-State Base Ball League voted to
reduce the salary limit from $1,000 a
month and $40 per man to $1,000 per
month and $50 per man. This will
necessitate a virtual reorganization of
many of the teams Reading and Ches-
ter representatives led the fight for re-
duct1on. Reports showed that every club
lost money last season.
The league disallowed the claim OF
manager George w. Heckert of Trenton
Tor Sl,43o back salary. A new board of
directors Was elected as follows: w. s
runs, Harrisburg: DIR. A. II. Ballet
Allentown: John II. Myers. Atlantic City
and Thomas III. Brown. Wilmington.
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enter upon their physical course with
minds heavily laden with business cares.
As they swing their dumbbells they
think about bills receivable and payable.
They worry about credit. They chafe un-
der the contemplation of tomorrow, next
week and next month. They are afraid
OF the future.
That kind of physical recreation does
not help them. 1t poisons them. 1t adds
to their staleness. 1t dwarfs them. 1t
binds them down to still narrower con-
fines Their exercise only adds to their
fatigue, and fills them with the poisons
of fatigue. which are quite as real as
any other poisons.
The man who would enjoy physical ex-
ercise should learn to enjoy something
else-such as books. or clubs or outings.
He should first Of all learn how to isolate
his mind from his business worries When
he has achieved that, he may enter upon
his course Of physical training with the
assurance that it will do him some good.
But the mind bound down to the Office
remains there in fact even though the
body be bending, or going through some
meaningless rhythm that is supposed to
bring about regeneration.
No man can be greater than his point
OF view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
TALES OF THE DIAMOND
Humorous and Otherwise.
BY Billy Evans.

ern organization. The story that I am
about to relate may seem like a fairy
tale but my partner. Jack Egan, who
was with me at the time. will verify the
facts. Egan and I were seated at one of
the tables in the diner when one of the
recruits came in and sat down: later the
other one arrived. AS the last one sat
down at the table he remarked:
We'll. old boy. this must seem like
Christmas to you.
1T would seem whole lot better than
any Christmas 1 ever had if there was
only little turkey on the side
do you suppose these bright lights
and fast moving trains will affect our
appetizer"
II don't know. but am going to find
out verXn4hortly.'
"What4have you ordered?"
Nothing as yet, but there is one thing
am not going to order; lamb chops.
"Why?'
Lamp the bill-o'-fare and you will
understand. Why, fellow ought to be
able to buy the whole lamb for the
price asked
The other recruit heartily agreed with
him when he read: Lamb chops CD 60
90 10.
Copyright. 1913 by W. G. Evans)
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Physical Fitness for Business Men
WHEN A MAN GOES STALE.
BY Frank A. Gotch, Worlds Wrestling Champion.

Too much work. mental or physical. is
like too much rain or superabundance
of sunshine. Men. like plants. must have
a variety. Continued along one line, the
result is unsatisfactory. And the time is
apt to come when any man goes stale.
There are plenty of authors. painters
and professional men who once appeared
to glitter along the trail toward the top
Of their callings. They worked tooth and
claw to get up to the top. but the day
came when they began to dry-rot, and
their grip and punch were gone.
Athletes go stale sometimes. 1t may
be a temporary. passing condition. It
may be permanent. But through the very
force of entertaining they sink into that
condition where everything looks dull
drab to them. and they have neither the
interest nor the force to proceed.
Now, the average business man takes
to physical exercise chiefly to relieve his
nerves and body of the strain Of inces-
SAINT labor. He wants to keep the fighting
edge that will carry him through.
In nine cases out of ten, business men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
BATES DISQUALIFIED.
And Will Not Be Able to Plav
Hockey at Columbia.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Columbia
Cniversity's hockey team suffers a set
back by a ruling of the university COM
mittee on athlstics yesterday that Capt
John S. Bates is ineligible because of the
four-year rule. Bates had previously
played at Arcadia College, Nova Scotia.
He considered this as an intersectional
rather than an intercollegiate affair, but
the university committee held otherwise.
Next to HOBBY Baker of Princeton,
Bates was considered one of the strongest
of the college hockey players in the east
His disqualification comes almost on the
eve of COlumbiaS season, which begins
next Wednesday with a game against
Yale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
AMOS RUSIE LOCKED UP.
Famous Pitcher Is Arrested for
Beating Wife.

SEATTLE, Wash. January Amos
Rusie, once pitcher for the New York
Nationals, was committed to the county
Jail last night on charge of threatening
to kill his wife, who Swore to the COM
plant. 1t is alleged that Rusie drove
his wife, who is an invalid, and her little
daughter into the street. Last summer
Rusie was gatekeeper at the Seattle ball
park. Since the close of the ball season
he has been working as laborer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04

Playing the big hotels and feeding on
the dining cars is quite a treat to some
of the major league recruits who have
just graduated from a class Q league.
American plan hotels at s. per day and
an allowance of from s. to $ day for
meals while making jump from one city
to the other are unheard-of luxuries in
the bushes. Some Of the boys have the
habit OF getting of at a station and
grabbing sandwich and a cup Of coffee
SO strongly that it takes them quite a
while to realize that they have $50 for
each meal
Last year I happened to be making a
jump east with the st. Louis club. which
at that time was trying out a number of
new recruits. In fact, the veteran Jack
Powell insisted that there were SO many
new men on the club that the secretary
spent at least twenty minutes each morn
ing introducing the later arrivals. Two
of the recruits, both of whom have since
passed back to the minors. had spent the
previous year in some very small south
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
ENGELHORN INELIGIBLE.
Dartmouth Tackle Will Not Play
Next Year.

HANOVER. n. H.. January 4-Because
T. Engelhorn. recently elected captain of
the Dartmouth College foot ball team
for next season, discovered that he was
ineligible under the so-called three-year
rule, the Dartmouth athletic council &C
copied his resignation.
No date has been set for the election
of a new captain.
Engelhorn told the council he had
played on the Washington State College
foot ball team a year before coming to
Dartmouth. The council decided that
this, with his two years Of service on the
Dartmouth eleven, rendered him ineligible
to play another season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04

average up the same in the long run.
Good friends of Cobbs say that he is
very anxious to claim the honor of being
the highest paid man who ever played
base ball. It would bestow upon him a
sort of distinction that he much covets.
Having achieved this ambition to reach
q mark that nobody else had touched in
the past and that nobody would be likely
to attain in the future he would be will
ing to accept somewhat less for the flu
ture years of his service.
Mr.. Navin will not announce what he
is to pay Cobb for 1918 in case the Peach
signs up.
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THEATRICAL ENGAGEMENT
Has Been Made by McCarty for a
Week for S2,5OO.

NEW YORK. January 4.-Luther Nc
Carly. the white heavyweight champion,
is expected I'd arrive i'm this city from
Los Angeles next Friday. His manager
Billy Mccartney. has practically accepted
terms from local theater to have Nc
Carly give boxing exhibitions for week.
for which he is TO receive $500. If the
contract is signed McCarty will make his
first appearance January Is. In a tele-
gram Mccartney says that the receipts
of the Palzer fight We're S27,0 McCarty
got 80 per cent of the gross, which gave
him s., lO4. Palzer's end was S7,429
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
Birthday Greetings
CONGRATULATIONS TO PAT LIVINGSTONE.

Patrick Livingstone Philadelphia
Cleveland January
Wheeling
Of the sold Cincinnati taking
in of
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TO ARRANGE FOR POLO.
Whitney Goes to England to Nego-
tiate Next Years Meeting.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Harry Payne
Whitney. captain of the American polo
team, which recently accepted challenge
from the Nottingham Club of England
for the international cup, sailed for Eng
land on the steamer Celtic. 1t is
expected he will conclude while abroad
the arrangements for the matches which
the Englishmen will play here next June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04
DE PALMA RETIRES.
Quits Auto Racing Game for Good
and All.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, January 4.-That
Ralph De Palma, winner of the 1912 Van
derbilt cup, has retired from the racing
game was the word that reached here
De Palma has not fully recovered from
the injuries he sustained in the collision
with Caleb Bragg here. and he doubts
his ability to ''come back as a driver.
He will enter the automobile business in
Ell Paso Tex, it was said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-04

Acting President Van der Putte of the
Union Association has declined to call a
meeting of his circuit until after the
meeting of the Western T1i-State League
late this month. He says the Union can't
do anything toward framing up a circuit
until it is seen if the Tri-State will re-
lease Boise to the Union Association
Boise is now said to favor aiming in
its present company, at least unless the
Union drops some of the Montana towns
and frames an entirely new circuit.
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Tackled the Wall.

From the Boston Transcript.
Gibbs-So in the panic Blank was driven
to the wall. What's he doing now,
Understanding a trowel.