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The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-12-08
Teachers Institute

The Ben Hill County Teachers
held their regular monthly insti-
tute at the Bird Ward school build
ing Saturday. Farm Demonstra-
tor D. L. Campbell address ed the
teachers on Agriculture at the
Schools and urged the Importance
of the Corn and Canning clubs to
the teachers and the pupils. The
regular program included short
talks on the food value of milk and
its care and preparation, in which
most of the teachers Joined. Prof.
j. G. Holt read a paper on Vocal
Music in the School room and
Prof. j. w. Beasley discussed the
question of Corporal punishment,
which caused a spirited discussion
among the teachers present. Mon
dav Dec. Doth the teachers of Ben
Hill, Irwin and Wilcox will hold
their annual Institute at Abbeville
and will be in session for. the
entire week.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-12-08
Here's What New Law
Requires Of Motorists

The new automobile law pas
.sed at the last session of the
legislature requiring owners of
cars to secure licenses annually
at S. each against the old Custom
of So for the life Of the car has
been the means of swapping the
office of Secretary of State Philip
Cook with letters and has kept
his telephone going daily from
morning until closing time.
Here are some facts about the
new automobile law set forward
by Mr.. Cook for the benefit of
the motorist.
Licenses for 1914 will cost SIS
and are good for that year only
no matter whether the car is
changed or not.
These licenses will be ready
for issuance on December Is, and
Mr.. Cook is especially anxious
that all owners send in their ap-
plication blanks at once in order
to facilitate the mattee of distri-
buting the numbers.
The 1914 numbers will begin
at No. and the same system of
numbering will hold through
subsequent years.
No number may be carried
over from one year to another
under any circumstances what
ever.
Numbers purchased at the
close Of 1913 will not be good fol
the next year. New ones must
be procured.
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REUNION DATE IS FIXED

Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 5.-In
an official visit here today, Gen.
Bennett H. Young, commander
in. chief of the United Confeder-
ate veterans, named April 1890
and May l as the official days Of
the 1914 reunion of the organize
ton.
General Young was the guest
of the city of Jacksonville and of
numerous organizations while
here. The days entertainment
ended with a general conference
with local committees as the pro-
posed innovations connected with
the reunion here next year.
One of the features of the plan
for the reunion here which was
heartily endorsed by general
Young, was that Of having all
veterans providen with home
lodging and this meaning the
total abolition of tent camp
grounds. Eloquently replying to
the address of General Young,
Mayor Swearingen, of Jackson
vile, stated that tents and a
campground would be provided
but that citizens would occupy
such, if necessary, and veterans
could occupy the homes Of the
city.
General Young was accompan-
led in his Florida trip by Col. S.
A. Cunningham, the well-known
editor IF the Confederate
Veteran.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-12-08
COUNTY PUTS
IN STEEL BRIDGE

The old delapitated wooden
bridge between Fitzgerald and
Ocilla is to be replaced by a
modern structure of Steel. The
bridge will be 300 feet long and
16 wide, with a double track for
vehicles. The Roanoke Iron
Works are furnishing the mater
ial and B. M. Russell is the con-
tractor putting the bridge in. 1t
will require about one month to
finish the job, in the meantime
the lower road to Ocilla will be
closed for travel.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-12-08
Bound Over On Charge
Attempted BlaCkmaiI
Letter Written to J. J. Dor.
miney, the Coffee County
Capitalist Demanded Sum
of $1,000 IN Cash, or Dor
miney's Life, McSwain
Got Dummy Package

Valdosta, Dec. 6-Norman Nc
Swain, the Coffee county man.
charged with attempting to black
mail }. j. Dorminey, of that coun-
ty, and to obtain 1000 from him
under threat of death, was given a
preliminary trial here today before
United States Commissioner O. w.
Franklin and bound over to the
next term of the federal court
here.
The case against McSwain origi-
mated two or three months ago.
>. }. Dorminey, a well-to do citi-
zen, received an anonymous letter
instructing him to place 81, 900 in
cash at a certain place on certain
date, failing to do which he would
be assassinated. Under direction of
Sheriff Ricketson a dummy pack
age was hid at the spot designated
and the sheriff set himself to watch
for the man who got it.
McSwain got the package, and
admitted it in the trial, but claim
ed that he found it by accident. C.
A. Tyler, a merchant, testified
having sold McSwain some shells
loaded with buckshot about the
time of the affair.
EN-. Moore, bank cashier, testi-
fed as an expert in handwriting
and expressed the opinion that the
writing in the anonymous letter
was the same as McSwain's.
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Stu Received by Boy
From Raising Hogs

Triton, Dec. 4.-The possibili-
ties which lie in pig clubs for
Georgia boys are well illustrated
by the experience of Tiff coun-
ty boy.
This lad, who is only ten years
old, in the spring of 1918, drew
out $40 of his bank savings, and
bought a Duroc Jersey pig. This
pig is not yet two years old, but
has born two filters. one of nine
and the other of eight pigs.
These pigs were sold at $40 a
piece, bringing $17O. The little
boy has'been aided by his sister
in caring for the pigs and the
two have paid their tuition and
railroad mileage to attend the
Triton high school, from their
pig money and have a neat sum
left. TIE boys father says the
pigs W. raised at practically
no expense to him. Mr.. Down
ing, in charge of the pig club
work for this state, has asked
for full details of the boys ex-
perience.
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BOndsmen Can't Give I'd
Principals To The Court

Atlanta. Dec. 5.-Consterna-
ton was spread among bonds
men Friday, when Judge John
T. Pendleton ruled that a GER
tiorari bond, while the case is
still pending, cannot be relieved
by the surrender of the principal,
and that in fact the bondsman in
a certiorari case has no legal
right to surrsnder his principal
until the case finally is decided.
The ruling was made when
John Douglas, a negro, was
brought before the court on a
habeas corpus writ.
/ The negro had been convicted
in the criminal court for vag-
rancy, but appealed, Charles E..
Thompson going bond for 5000.
A short time ago Thompson,
fearing that the negro was pre-
pairing to flee from the jurisdic-
ton Of the court, caught him and
surrendered him aC the county
Jail to relieve his bond. This
custom had long been in vogue
here, and dozens of principals in
certiorari cases have been sur
rendered by their bondsmen.
Attorney B. L. Chappell then
broughr the habeas corpus petit
ton on the ground that the
bondsman had no right to sur
render the negro, and the court
held with him.
This ruling will probably NEAR
that attorneys will have in future
experience much difficulty in Sc
touring bondsmen in such cases
Many of the professional bonds.
men in the city have the machin.
cry to keep a close watch on
their principal whom they sur
render when preparations to
leave the city are commenced, OF
when they have reason to fear
that the principal will flee.
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$40 Reward.

Five dollars for the return, OF
ten dollars for the return and
proof to convict person who took
bicycle.
liver Johnson. blue Wheel. two
plugs in hind tire about six inches
apart, one rubber plug one metal.
Notify,
l2-5-3t-p Fl. B. Richie.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

- - e q 7.-y - = =
The County Commissioners of
Irwin County notify the Travel
ing Public that after this date
the Willacoochee Bridge near
Lake Beatrice will be closed for
travel until the new steel bridge
can be installed. Take the
Fletcher road to Ocilla until
further notice.
Irwin County Commissioners,
Ocilla, Dec. 9th 1918. y
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Reckless Bicycle
Riding to Stop

The Mayor has employed a
special officer to patrol the streets
and make cases against those
riding bicycles on the side walks.
Several people have been in
jured lately by careless riders
and riders on side walks and
those without lights will pay the
usual ten dollar fine. 12-3-3t.
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Ben Hill Farmers Union

The Union will meet at Roanoke
School house Saturday Dec. 18th.
All new and old members are in
vited to attend.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-08-15

INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN.
entered as Second Glass Matter as a
Semi Weekly, Oct. Is, 1910.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-08-15
Open IN DECEMBER
Water to be Admitted to Culebra Cut
December 10.

Observation-Disclosures reports from
the canal zone announce that as the
result of prospective substitution OF
dredges for steam shovels in the eX-
cavation of the Culebra cut, the canal
may be ready for shipping by next
December. Even earlier than that
passing through the waterway, for as
the greater part of the canal has been
cut to its final depth small vessels
probably can navigate it safely with
in few days after October 10 next,
when Gamboa dixie is to be blown up,
thus admitting to the Culebra level
the great store of water in Gatun lake.
The "a steam shovels now in the
cut handle only 100000 cubic yards OF
earth and rock per month, which OUT
put will be greatly reduced as the
depth of the cut increases and room
| for shoveling is reduced.
Colonel Goethals has assembled is
dredges with capacity of 100000
cubic yards and this will be floated
into the cut as the dixie is destroyed.
Meantime, not content with digging
away at the base of the cliffs, the en-
gineers in their haste to open up the
waterway have begun to tear away
the top Of the bills with great jets of
water under high pressure, sluicing
| the earth into the bed of the canal
whence it is being swept up by preu-
matte dredges and pumps and dis
| charged into the ravines and valleys
and placed so far away that it never
can wash back.-Statesman
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MURTAUGH NEWS.
Murtaugh, Ida, Aug. II, 1918.

Murtaugh, Ida., Aug. LII, 1915.
VIM. Morrison's father and brother
arrived in Murtaugh Tuesday from
Nebraska, to make Mr. Morrison and
family visit
The Ladies' Aid met at the home of
Mrs. Blanche Gordon. Several were
present and refreshments were served
by the following ladies': Mesdames
Smith, Snider, Goss, Johnson and
Hoffman. All departed declaring they
had had a most enjoyable afternoon.
The next meeting will be held the
first Thursday in September, at which
meeting election of officers will be
held
| VIM. Morrison, father and brother,
drove to Twin Falls Wednesday. They
were greatly impressed with this
country, as everyone else is.
| Henry Boyd of Twin Falls, is assist
ing the Gordon boys through haying.
! Mr.. Bartlett was in Murtaugh Fri
| day representing the National Cor
respondence School of Pennsylvania.
| On Friday evening four men from
Twin Falls came in an auto over the
sage brush route and were coming
toward Murtaugh at high speed and
being in an intoxicated condition they
did not slow down any in turning a
road south of Murtaugh and damaged
| their machine and threw the occu-
pants out, but did not iRjure them.
| Several of the young people attend
ed the ice cream social given at the
Bickel school house by the Literary
| society A program was rendered
and all report having had good time
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Goss spent Sum
day at the True home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hunt and Mr. and Mrs
Kendell drove to Miner Sunday.
/ Dora Goss, Ruth Kendell, Grace
Gordon, Clara Willard, Bob Webb, Ell
FINER Chance, Bob Kendell, Sherman
Hansen and Roy Hunt were among
those attending the ball game at Mil
ner between Miner and Murtaugh
!! which resulted in a score Of Z to in
favor OF Miner
i Mrs. Francis L. Johnson was pas
senger to Twin Falls Friday
Mrs. Julia Silvers left Saturday
morning for Kansas to visit while
with friends and relatives.
s NJ B. Boley sold three carload O.
, spuds H $100 per hundred and is dig
ging them for shipment. They go t.
Butte
Grace Gordon took supper Monda.
evening with Dora Goss.
!, F. Lee Johnson, wife and daughte,
are expecting to arrive in Murtaugl
this week
The west bound evening train wa
delayed Sunday evening and Rev
Hoffman did not get home to conduc
services Sunday evening, so instea'
: they had song service.
E. D. Hunt was business passen
5 ger to Twin Falls Tuesday
: Mr.. Brown of Twin Falls, and Col
ner of Hansen, were in the Murtaugl
Ineighborhood Monday getting tn
farmers interested in feeding lamb
on their ranches.
, Miss Ruth Kendell expects to leav,
for Salt Lake the last of the month tt
visit Mrs. Fanny Engstrom.
The farmers will finish their hay
ing this week. Haying and grain cut
) ting came in together Milton Smitl
is baling hay.
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ROCK CREEK NEWS.

Rock Creek, Idaho, Aug. ID, 1913.


Mrs. TOLLS Teitjen and children of
Ogden, are spending some time with
Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Stark.
Miss Nina Parker of Ogden is Wis
iting at the present tine at the Stark
ranch
Russ w. Alfred of Bull, came up
Saturday and spent Sunday at the al
bee home. Mrs. Alfred, who had been
visiting there for a week returned
with him Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Robert Brose spent last week
in Twin Falls with her husband, re-
turning Friday.
Misses Wall and Sizer, both of Twin
Falls, spent a few days last week at
the Norton ranch.
Miss Trumbell of Stillman Valley,
ILL.,, is a guest at the Norton ranch
this week
Patsy Mccormick came up from
Salt Lake City last Sunday for a
visit with his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. E. Burke.
DR.. and Mrs. Murphy and little
daughter from Bull, were calling on
Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. Albee on Sunday
last.
Miss Jaunita Dean of Twin Falls
spent last week the guest of Miss
Maud Tatro.
c. Peterson and Lawrence Hansen
were business callers at Hansen
Tuesday.
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ARTESIAN CITY NEWS.
!.
Artesian City, Aug. II, 1913.

Artesian City, Aug. II, 1918.
Miss Melissa Randell is visiting at
her sisters, Mrs. Tracy, of Murtaugh,
this week
Bradford Edwards of Nebraska, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. ]. r. Gour-
ley. He is pleased with our country.
Mr.. Hershey and Mr.. Hathaway OF
Berger, were up looking over our
tract with view of locating with us.
J. r. Gourley was a Twin Falls Wis
itor Wednesday.
Miss Leota Randell made flying
trip to the Hub City, Thursday.
The picnic at Antelope Springs last
Sunday was pronounced a success
Several of our youths spent Sunday
in the canyon.
Mr.. Hutchinson has quite recovered
from his attack Of lumbago.
Sheriff Vanausdeln was through
this neck of the woods on business,
Wednesday.
George Frederics of Kimberly, spent
several days in Artesian City this
week looking after his interests here.
Mr. and Mrs. McMinnimum and Mrs.
Joab Hutchinson went to Twin Falls
Thursday, returning Friday.
Johnnie McMinnimum is laid up
with crippled leg.
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<UNIoN &LAeEE
IEla 49,
WAR WITH MEXICO PROBABLE.

WAR WITH MEXICO PROBABLE.
We very. much fear that this coun-
try will be compelled to intervene in
Mexico, but even SO, who can find good
excuse for critcizing the efforts of the
president to go to the full limit in his
efforts to prevent such interference?
1t is one of the strange phases of
the human mind that those who most
urge Intervention, which means war,
are the seyerest critics of the efforts
to prevent war, the criticism being
based upon the assumption that the
efforts at peace will fail.
Very we'll, suppose they do fail
Will not our country's cause be the
more just because it attempted to
prevent war? Or will our cause be
less just because we went farther
than the civilized world has ever
known before to bring peace before
war?
Any man who could be guilty of the
treachery that caused Huerta, the
trusted and confidential adviser of
the president of his country, to use
the power thus placed in his hands
because of his confidential relation to
seize, imprison and finally murder
that president and usurp the power
rightfully belonging, not to the muir
derer, but to other constituted au-
thority even if the murder of the
chief executive be condoned,-such a
man, will not endanger his own neck
by laying down the power stolen by
him with such treachery and amidst
such treason.
1t does not seem possible that the
people of Mexico, if left to them
selves, would elect any one president
who would not call Huerta to account
for his murder and his treason. On
the contrary, should Huerta be ousted
from his place through Intervention
on the part of this country, he could
at least, make his escape and save
his own neck.
We, therefore, believe that the
presidents efforts at preserving
peace, will prove unavailing because
it is to the interests of Huerta t.
bring about war, and murderer ant
traitor that he is, his own and no
his country's good is his controlling
motive.-Capital News.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-08-15
the PROFIT IN HOGS
Oregon Man Sells Carload for
$lS3S.32 In Portland.

The Prairie ranch, located few
miles southeast of Fossil, Wheeler
county, shipped carload of hogs TO
the Portland Union Stockyards a few
days ago and they topped the market,
selling for 919 cents per pound. There
were 70 head In the car, their COM
bined weight was trifle more than
10000 pounds, or an average of al
most $50 pounds. The check given in
payment, after deducting freight, feed
and commission charges, was for
$1833.32 That shows net price of
$23.O8 per animal.
Mention was made in these columns
short time ago of former shipment
of hogs from this ranch, and it was
then stated that carload would be
sent to the Portland market about
every two weeks during the balance
OF the year, there being about 2300
head feeding on this and other ranches
owned by the same company
The hogs just shipped had eaten, all
told, about IL bushels Of grain each
and about $50 pounds of ground al
falfa. Aside from this, they had been
fed nothing, but had, of course, been
pastured on alfalfa, stubble and grass.
The grain fed them as pigs and hogs
would be worth today at the ranch
where it was fed not to exceed 81 per
animal; the alfalfa meal perhaps $3.50
per animal. 1t cost to haul them to
market, we will say, about $40 That
makes a total cost of $3.50, to which
must be added the cost Of producing
the pigs. Two dollars and half each
would be fair figure for this In
fact, if any breeder with ample faoili-
ties for keeping a large number of
brood sows could sell his day-old pigs
at that figure he would never carry
them along even to shoat days
We find the 70 head Of hogs cost in
real cash outlay $500, which does not
include the indeterminate expenses of
labor and ranch expenses, including
taxes, interest, etc. 1t is impossible
to figure such costs, but the surplus
shown by the above figures, $1S33.32,
is surely ample to give large profit.
Suppose the company keeps up its
semi-mOnthly shipments during the
balance of the year and each carload
does as we'll. That would make ten
carloads and a profit of $8333.20. AS
there are now more than 1000 head of
hogs on the ranches OF the company.
the shipments will probably continue
the year round.
Compare these figures with the
grain business. Suppose in place of
feeding their $4,000 to 10000 bushels
of grain to hogs they had hauled it to
Condor, the nearest railroad point
Or suppose the road were already
built TO Fossil and they hauled the
grain there, say an average haul from
the ranch of Is miles. The wheat fed
this last carload of hogs weighed
$3.50 pounds; the fattened hogs
weighed but 10000 pounds.
The point is just this: Feed more
of the grain to livestock. Our sheep
owners are in terrible furry about
the tariff on wool. Let them try to
forget it and build their business
along new lines-better wool and bet
| ter mutton, and more of each. That
means granted sheep, and why not?
| We can produce as good mutton as
is grown in the world, and We ought
to double and treble our output and
raise the quality until we control the
markets of the west.-Oregonia1 Au-
| gust 3, 1913
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oludes the culture of alfalfa, crop ro-
tation, use of fertilizers, feeding crops
to animals instead of selling them
and a return to the soil of the ele-
ments taken from it in the growing OF
crops. This sort of farming is being
fully carefully and persistently ex-
planned to the farmers by the agri-
cultural press by bulletins, by lee
lures, by demonstration farms, by ex-
hibits and in every possible way to
reach the ears and the intelligence OF
those who are pursuing the old and
wasteful methods and declaring that
farming no longer pays. Especially
are they being urged to replace scrub
cattle, both for dairy and beef, by
grading them up with pure blood sires
and carefully saving the good cows
from slaughter. 1t is going to take a
long time to get this new farming in
troduced generally, largely because OF
the need of cheap money for the farm
er to make the necessary improve
and consumers face the GER
tainty of high prices for some years
to come. But in the end all these var
ious activities must have the effect of
our farmers from mere
grain growers into general farmers,
with livestock as a basis and prosper
ity as a result, and possible arrest
ing of the upward flight of prices of
food for the consumer
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MORE LIVESTOCK.

If we are to have cheaper and bet
ter meats, it will be necessary that
our farmers give more attention to
livestock production. Recently it was
announced that the department of ag-
riculture was sending inspectors to
tralia to look into the matter of ship
ping meat to this country and there
followed large volume of protest
from the farmers, who said the de-
partment should not encourage meat
importation in competition with home
products. To this the department has
properly replied that it is not seeking
to stimulate the importation of meat,
but to see that whatever meat is i'm
ported is handled properly, inspected
and all regulations for the preserva-
ton of the health of the people COM
piled with. This movement on the
part of our government is rather dis
couraging; at least, it is far from en-
couraging. If there is an absolute
necessity for the importation of meats,
then it is right shat it should be in
spected, but the main point is that we
should be compelled to look away
from our home markets for our sup
ply of meat. If it is a real necessity,
it should be corrected at once. Every
effort should be made to induce the
encouragement of livestock produc-
ton. Every effort in this direction is
being made by our agricultural coll
leges and experiment stations with
the cooperation of the farmers we
can have success in this endeavor,
which would mean an increase of
livestock at home, and which increase
is necessary if we are not to pay even
more for meat than we now do.
But more than this is necessary,
and Is being done. Every effort is be-
ing made to induce farmers to take
up livestock growing as the most pro-
fitable form of agriculture This in
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