The Marietta journal and courier., 1916-02-04

more than year attending the high
school in Marietta.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs Enyer ].
Greer, of Mt. Zion, on the 22nd of
Jan. 10 lb. girl. Mother and baby
doing we'll.
Mr. and Mrs. c. NJ. Head, spent
Friday, Jan 2Sth. Mrs. Heads fif-
tieth birthday, with her youngest
sister, Mrs. Huff, of near Dallas.
Mr.. D. d, Underwood, of Marietta.
hiked out to see his mother Sunday
evening.
Mr. NJ. A. Griggs and other are
making an honest effort to get a
road opened up from Fair Oaks to
the Judge Irwin old home place on
Powder Springs read. Now let every
one who can help these good people
out, Roads, more roads and better
roads is the slogan today DO as
you would be done by Don't throw
any ice water or other obstacle in
the way, but think how very bad i'll
is when you cant get to neighbors
home and when you get there you
can't get away.
And that reminds us of that $50
600 golf link, swimming pool and
etc, etc, that is under construction
in or near our mud-hOle city Just
imagine, if you will, for one min
ute, Mr.. Taft or President Wilson or
any of the great golf players coming
to help pull off a big game stepping
off the car in mud shoe-mouth deep.
We guess it would be golly-ding in
stead of golf-it you would show Ma
rietta better pave her streets
What about that coon that isl
perched up in the court house att
$4,000 month. We dare say
there are 140 white men in the coun-
ty that would be glad to have that
Job and no less than 40 who could
fill it just as well as any colored man.
Go after it boys. We believe you can
get it if you want it, Just ask the
Commissioners about it; its Janitors
place you know. A white man filled
very admirably. It's a good paying
job.
Last but not least we come to the
farmer and the cotton and fertiii-
zer question. Can we afford to buy
guano (even though it was good at
present prices to grow cotton on un-
certainties? Had it not been for the
Galveston flood and gale that blew
salt mist out over Texas and almost
killed her cotton last August she
would have produced half a million
more bales last year and naturally
the price would have been five to
ten dollars per bale less.
Texas will plant more cotton this
year than she did last, Now the
thing for us Georgians to do is cut
out the guano entirely. Oh says
one we cant make cotton without
guano. Yes but know that you can
for a number of reputable men did it
last year. Mr.. John p. Jones, Of
Olive Springs cultivated "a acres and
gathered 10 bales without a lb. OF
guano. j. M. Davis, of Mt. Zion,
planted acres used one sack Of qua
no (but could not tell where he put
it, and got a bales.
But you say they had fresh land,
how about Mr.. X. r. Petree's farm,
it's as old as any OF the hills, as flat
as a pancake and as gray as a rat,
one of his tenants used over 500
worth of so called fertilizer another
one did not use any Both made
about the same amount of cotton,
but one was considerably ahead in
dollars and cents Mr.. Petree him
seld has not used any potash in some
years and always makes good crops
of cotton and you will be convinced
by going to his farm and seeing his
cotton stored away, some or 3 crops
of it.
How does he keep it? He does nos
owe the guano man.
DON'T YOU SEE.
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