The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-10-01
Live News From CGntraI'S
Lee County Settlement
M,nv items Of interest from that progressive
section.

Last week your correspondent sta
ted that a man here would give $50
TO the new road and bridge, and Mr..
Littlejohn says he will give 500.
and all the cypress timber needed
for the bridge. A young man over
the creek says he will give a weeks
work, while five or six men in this
neighborhood will do the same thing
Begins to look like we are going to
get that bridge.
People interested in the new road
and bridge on the east side Of the
creek are requested to meet a dele
CATION from this section to appear
before the County commissioners
Tuesday, Oct. 9th at nine O'Clock
to urge them to open up this road
and help build the bridge.
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The farmers creates the wealth,
pays road and other taxes and
should have good roads. The auto
mobile fellows get the best and pay
nothing. OF course, | mean the
transients.
/ heard a negro say recently that
his race was more enterprislng than
the white people as they were going
to have a fair at-Albany hard times
or no hard times.
A northern man is farming here
and a negro got an advance of SOL.
and after working awhile left him TO
gather his crop alone. Our friend
will learn a whole lots about the
genius African Mellicana after a.
while. AS Bill Nye said about the
Chinaman who he caught slipping
cards out Of his shirt sleeve while
playing poker. For ways that are
dark, and tricks that are vain the
heather chinese are peculiar. = The
same can be said Of the fellow who
is considered the white mans bur-
den in the south. 1T is his day thou
ght and night dream about how to
do the white men up and he gene
rally succeeds.
If all.the land lying idle and that
which was planted in cotton this
year was sowed down in oats, Lee
county could ship out train loads Q.
feed oats next year.
Saturday | rode part Of the way
J to Albany with Lawrence NeWsome,
and naturally we discussed farm
topics. He informed me he had two
checks in his pocket for $40 each
for two little pigs he had sold the
day before, and just as we entered
town he sold another for the same
price. That beats cotton a country
mile. Let the slogan be more grain
and stock and our people will e
happy and prosperous.
After cotton is picked labor will
be plentiful. Hard to get now.
Don't sell your cotton seed to the
oil mill for less than $40. Haul
them bone and make wheat and oat
fertilizer Of them.
Soon all early cotton in this neck
of the woods will be out, then come
that glorious time in Georgia-cane
grinding. The crop is fairly good
but acreage small Soon as the
'skimmings" get ripe enough to
pull, the bibulously inclined fellow
will hit enough to make his breath
as mellow as a bulls in June. When
you see fellow sitting on the sunny
side of house striking at yaller''
jackets you will know that re has
visited the juice barrel.
School begins the first Monday in
October and the children are in
high feather. An old house will be
used for the short term, and a new
sckoolhouse will be built for use
next year, and hope it will be To-
Gated on this part of the Settlement
as it promises to be the most thick
ly settled, and be on the public road
to the new bridge. Mr.. Littlejohn
has agreed to give an acre for chur-
oh and school house.
non, Mary L. Forester and Willie
Powell