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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-13
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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
BIG GRAIN CROPS
PLANTED IN CRISP
CARE OF GRAIN TO KEEP OUT
SWEAT is URGED ON ALL WHO
WILL GROW OATS AND WHEAT.

The farmers of Crisp county are
making arrangements to plant large
quantities OF oats and wheat the pres
ent fall. The seed has been selected
this time with greater care and much
will be expected.
Farm Demonstration Agent J. A.
Johnson has been watching the in
creasing interest in grain with consid-
cradle pride and is now, since consid-
cradle care has been exercised in Sc
lecting seed urging that these
seed be treated before planting to
keep smut out of the fields. Heavy
losses are reported in some cases from
smut.
He is urging the treating of oats as
strongly as he advocates treatment or
seed wheat before planting to keep out
the smut.
Hundreds of bushels Of oats are lost
every year through this preventable
disease. Many lelds show an injury
of 2 0per cent of the heads. 1t costs
very little and is worth so much. 1t
helps make the acres do their best.
The remedies are simple. Use one
pint of formalin to 40 gallons of wa
ter. Put seed in a clean floor and
sprinkle with a sprinkling pot, one
gallon of formalin solution to each
bushel of grain. While sprinkling turn
oats with Shovel so all grains will get
thoroughly wet. Cover the seed after
heaping together with canvass or
with cotton sheets for two hours, after
which they should be spread out to
dry. If the seed are to be sown by
hand Immediately after treatment it
is not necessary to dry.
The planter may use with the same
effectiveness 1 pound of bluestone
in five gallons of water and sprinkle
one gallon of this solution on a bush
els of grain. These remedies are just
as good for wheat as for oats. If the
farmer will use the bluestone on wheat
Just as the formalin is used on oats,
it will be unnecessary 10 soak the
wheat for long period as is some
times done in using bluestone solution.
It is hoped that oats and wheat
growers will use this preventative to
add bushels of grain to the crop yield
ibis year.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
CRISP COUNTY FARM HAS
SWEET POTATOES GALORE
FINEST POTATO, CANE AND TUR-
NIP CROPS IN ALL CRISP CoUN-
TY. WARDEN COX AND CON-
MlsSICNERs SET PACE.

Warden Cox of the Crisp county
convict camp as we'll as being one of
the most scientific and dependable
road builders in the state, is about to
cop the honors Of setting the pace
in farming in the county. The pota-
to, cane. turnip and other crops on the
county farm, located about two miles
south of Cordele on the National high
way, make somewhat of a revelation
in farming.
Warden Cox today has eight con-
victs digging and housing potatoes. A
crop of slightly over acres was plant
ed this year in the Norton yam and
other good varieties Indications are
that the yield will be, conservatively
estimated, between 800 and 1000 bush
els.
If some of Crisp's good farmers
want to get few tips on cane grow
ing it wilkpay them to visit the county
farm. Three acres are planted this
year in this crop. A cane mill is be-
ing erected for the purpose of begin
ming grinding in a few days. 1t is ex-
pected that between 18 and 20 barrels
of fine syrup will be made from the
crop, reserving half acre for seed
purposes. The seed cane thus pre-
served for another year will plant be-
tween six and eight acres, and cane
growing will be participated in on an
extensive scale.
Another eye opener from a farming
standpoint, is the turnip crop on the
farm One acre was planted in tur-
nips and the present yield is affording
"turnip" dinner for the entire camp
almost daily. The supply is sufficient
to afford turnips every day If so de-
sired, and the crop is growing larger
and better all the time. The turnips
were planted about September l, and
the growth of this, as well as all other
crops shows that somebody is doing
some scientific and substantial farm,
ing on the county's farm.
The board of county commissioners
have performed their full duty III TAX
ing an interest in the work on the
farm and they are largely responsible
for the success that has ben accom-
plished.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
LARGE CROWD
At WEEV|L
CONFAB
BIG CROWD TUESDAY HEARD
STATE ENToMoLOGIST WOR-
SHAM AND OTHER SPEAKERS
TELL ABOUT WEEVlL CONDI-
TIONS.

State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham
and two of his assistants, w. r. Tur-
ner and j. M. Manis of Thomas coun-
ty, were greeted yesterday at the
Crisp county court house by several
hundred of the cotton growers of this
section and their opportunity for pre-
senting the fight against the boil wee
vii was as pleasing to them as they
could have desired. Both white and
colored farmers were present and
the negro cotton growers manifested
great interest along with the large
crowd of white farmers.
All three of the visitors made ad-
dresses that were full of interest and
what seemed practical advice for the
the farmers who must cope with the
weevil next season. What they had
to say was closely taken in by the
farmers and great interest was shown
by those present.
The most important among the sug-
gestions given were those touching
tho cutting down of the acreage to
half the normal crop so that it can be
saved from the weevil by the proper
attention in the fields. The farmer
was urged to destroy his stalks now
by burning or blowing under, to clean
up the farm of stumps and hedge rows
where the Weevil may find winter
ing place. The planter was urged
tn nlant cotton after beans or peas
and to start the crop as early as pos
sible and rush it to maturity before
Sthe weeyil has time to get in effective
work Close attention to destroying
those first appearing in the fields was
also urged.
Diversification, hog and cattle rails
ing and grain crops were urged. One
speaker said that when the smoke
house is moved from the west to our
own section we would have much Of
the weevil fight Won Much of the
advice given has already reached the
Crisp county farmer in one way or
another and what the speakers had to
say impressed those present as being
practical and reasonable.
A change of the old plan of making
~ contracts at the beginning of the new
gear was urged as necessity, for the
reason that the farmer who would
grow cotton still must have his ten
ants at work in the early fall destroy
ing the cotton stalks of the present sea
son and making the necessary prepar-
ations before hand for an early cron
sThe sneakers mentioned several kinds
of cotton seed which are best suited
to the growing of COTTON where the
weevil is at work and gave abundance
of advice.
Farmers we're in attendance from all
sections of the county and the meeting
indicated that there is already strong
determination to meet the new con-
ditions in such a way as to produce
cotton in spite of the weevil. The
watchword will be small acreage we'll
tended and at least half the farm in
grain and food crops, with more hogs
and cattle The farmers of Crisp at
the meeting promised themselves to
get right and work hard.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
ANOTHER MAN
IS URGED FOR
MAYOR
r. L. DEKLE HAS BEEN PUT FOR
WARD AS MAYoRALITV PROS
PEcT CONSIDERING MATTER
MINIS FOR COUNCIL.

Political pot-simmering in munich
pal quarters has given away to
straight high temperatures and things
look much like there will be many
sides to the contest for office before
the entries are closed.
The name of R. l.. Dekle has been
handled all around about town for
the past two days by friends who are
yet strongly in hopes that he will
consent to run for mayer. This lit
tie ripple has added a considerable
amount of political dust raising for
the week. Strong pressure is being
brought to bear and it is being at
least seriously considered. An an
nouncement may soon be ready to
be passed out to the public.
And another man FORCES to the front
in the aldermanic contest, not as an
actual candidate, but as live, pranc-
ing. finely groomed prospect. This
is r. D. Minis He has ben cornered
and asked to let the public know about
it. He may be in the running.
The municipal contest is not by any
means shaped and no one can tell
what will develop yet.
Mayor Jones has paid his candl-
,Iate's assessment and Secretary Cocker
CT the >ity executive committee has
the first money in hand. The escre-
tary will be "at home" when the
others get ready to pay up.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
PEANUTS To De
USED BY LOCAL
MILLS
PLANTS ENCOURAGING PEANUT
GROWERS-WlLL PAY. GOOD
PRICES FOR ALL OFFERED IN
CRISP COUNTY.

The information is given out from
authoritative sources that the two
| Cordele oil mills operated by the En-
pire Cotton Oil company and the
Southern Cotton Oil company, will be
| fully prepared next season to handle
! the entire peanut crop of Crisp and
adjoining counties. Arrangements
have been made for the installation
of additional machinery for crushing
the peanuts for oil purposes, while
the peanut meal will be sold for feed
ing purposes. The statement is au
thoritatively made that plans can be
put into execution within twenty-foui
hours time to handle all of the pea
nuts that it is possible for the farm
ers of this section to produce. The
local managers of the oil mills, c. L,
Mcmillan of the Empire company and
w E. Haskell, of the Southern com
pany, are encouraging the farmers
to plant peanuts for money crop and
are lending their heartiest co-opera
ton with that of numerous other bus
mess men of Cordele to secure the
varieties which will be more -adapta
Bile far this section for increased
yields. The white Spanish peanut
seems to meet with more popular ap
prevail than any other variety.
1t is anticipated by oil milling com
panies that the price for peanuts next
year will be excellent. The manufac
ture of peanut oil and bi-products is
an industry already growing rapidly
in favor among consumers, and the
price of peanuts will of course be
gagged by the consumption of the fin
ished products, such as cooking oils
soaps and other innumerable articles
The growth Of the peanut oil manufac
turing industry will increase the price
of the raw product fully as rapidly
state oil men say, as has been eXpe
rienced from year to year in the pro
duction of cotton seed.
Numerous farmers of the county are
laying plans to produce peanuts next
year on an extensive scale. Some Of
the large farmers will plant several
hundred acres each in peanuts. With
the general plan to prepare for the
spreading Of the boil weevil over the
county next year with diversified farm
ing, the farmers realize that the pea
nut crop will turn them ready cash
in addition to extending the raising
of hogs and cattle and there is scarce
" a farmer in the county who is not
greatly inter ested in growing peanuts
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
NEGRO GAMING BUNCH
WAS NEAR FREEDOM
SHERIFF WARD AND POLICE
CHIEF SHEPPARD HAD CROWD
OF NEGRO PRISONERS THAT
CAME NEAR BREAKING JAIL.

When a "skin" game was flushed al
the home of Celestus Rice, corner of
Sixteenth avenue and Eleventh street
eight negroes were arrested Tuesday.
With the exception of Rice all of the
negroes were from points other than
Cordele. One came from Waycross
and the others were from Wilcox
county. The raid was made by Sheriff
John Ward, Chief of Police Sheppard
Officers r. N. Turk and A. e. Persall
who went to the scene in an automo
bile and surrounded the house before
the men suspected that trouble was
brewing for them.
It appears that "skinning" was a
f-on1rnt pastimo AZ RiCe's home and
that it was the meeting place for ne
gro gamblers from over several coun-
ties. A deck of cards for each man
arrested was found among the gam
blers.
The negroes were lodged in the
county jail last night and the Way
cross negro came near affecting ?
wholesale Jail delivery for himself and
fellow gamers. Securing piece OF
iron. a part of bunk, he dug through
the brick walls of the Jail on the
south side and a few minutes longer
would have opened way for freedom
for them, when the sheriff discovered
their intention. They had been lodg
ed in the corridor of the joil, and the
sheriff had 10 call on police officers
to handle them in transferring them
to another part of the Jail.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
SUWANEE WINS
PARTY CALLERS
SUNDAY DINNERS FOR MOTOR
ISTS BECOMING FASHIONABLE
AND MANY VISITORS STOP IN
CORDELE.

The splendid Sunday dinners being
served at the Suwanee hotel, of which
w. E. Vance has recently become
manager, are winning a reputation for
this hosiery throughout the entire
section. Motoring parties are finding
Cordele pleasant mecca for their
Sunday motor and outing parties, and
many of the town folks are being at
tracted to the Suwanee for their Sun
day meal on account of the excellent
menu being served. Last Sunday a
number of parties dined at the Suwa-
nee.
A party from Triton including the
following: Misses Archibal, Bennett,
Wilson and Scandrett. Messrs A. l..
Norman, A. A. Cobb, G. P. Mcconnell
and G. P. Williams. Another party
from Milledgeville included A. j. Carr,
A. j. Carr, Jr.. E. A. finger, D. S.
Sanford, and still another party from
Eastman composed Messrs. Fred
Roberts. Fred Wyune, P. M. Roberts.
Oscar Shelton ard w. F. Terrell. Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Vance and Mr.. and
Mrs. John 3. Vance, of Fort Valley,
were also among the Suwanee's guests
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
Negroes AUTO HIT
BICYCLE Rider
LITTLE MARY CRUM RUN DOWN
BY DooLY COUNTY coLORED
FARMER WHO HAD NEW AUTO.

Charged with assault and battery
because an automobile which he was
driving ran down little Mary Crum,
daughter of Col and Mrs. D. A. R.
Crum, when she was riding bicycle
on Eighth street Monday, Oscar Will
liams, a negro. was arrested and lodg-
ed in the county Jail. He waived hear
ing Tuesday and was released from
Jail under bond of $3.50 awaiting the
meeting Of the next grand jury.
Williams lives near Pinehurst in
Dooly county and several days ago he
purchased an automobile. He pleaded
when arrested that he was an ignorant
driver and became excited when he
saw that his machine was about to
collide with the child's bicycle.
The little girl was thrown consid-
cradle distance, though escaped with
slight injuries. Williams had just
bought the car with pocket full of
cotton money he had saved from his
years work His employer, a Mr..
Jordan, advised him when he bought
his car not to go to town with it till
he could handle it, but the temptation
was too great.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
SKIN GAME QUARREL -.
ENDS IN SHOOTING

Eugene Hall, negro, was shot and
seriously wounded Saturday night by
Charlie Pate, another negro. Pate
used a revolver and fired one shot,
the ball taking effect in Halls chin,
ranking to the right and breaking the
Jaw bone. Hall is improving and will
fully recover, though may be slightly
d'sfigured about the face. Pate has
succeeded in evading the officers, who
have some knowledge of his actions
since the shooting The difficulty
originated in a quarrel over Skin
game.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
McLELLANGETS
NATIONAL STOCK
SALE TUESDAY GIVES LOCAL TEN
CENT STORE STOCK OF OLD MA
TIONAL COMPANY.

w. G. Keller, representing the Nc
Lellan 5 and 10 cents stores, Tues
day bought in the bankrupt stock OF
the National company's store here
the price paid being approximately
5000. The stock invoiced at more
than $4,000. The sale was held I'M
der the authority of the trustee. w. r
Staten, of Valdosta. The bankrupt
stock of the National company at Val
dosta was sold by the trustee last Sat
urday and the stock of the Waycross
store was sold Monday
The Mcclellan company expects to
Immediately begin the removal of the
stock from its present location on
Seventh street to their store rooms
on Eleventh avenue, and the manage
ment expects to inaugurate a bargain
sale such as has not been experienced
before i'll this class of goods.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
NEW THEIRS" ARISE AND
FILE CLAIMS TO SMITH ESTATE

Athens. Oct. 20.-The eighth group
of claimants to the millions left by the
late James NJ. Smith has appeared in
the intervention filed in the federal
court for Mrs. M. A. Vaughn, Califor-
MIA; Mrs. Susie Day, J. B. Boatwright
Mrs. Willie Ashley and Frank Boat
wright. Mississippi, by Hoke Smith
a9d the law firm of Little, Powell
Smith & Goldstein and a Texas at
torney, E. E. Ballew.
This petition declared the late Jas.
NJ Smith was the son of Phoebe Boat
wright. later Phoebe Mabry, and later
wife of Zadock Smith, the generally
believed father Of the Ogletherpe coun-
ty man.
This is the fifth woman alleged in
affidavits by parties in the now ia
nous case to have been the mother OF
James NJ. Smith.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
JOSH W|GG|NS ENDS
HIS TIGER" CAREER
SERVING SENTENCE FOX SELLING
LIQUOR JOSH PASSES TO BE-
YoND-WAS NOTED TIGER"
OPERATOR.

Josh Virgins, of noted "tiger' fame
sent up at the May term of superior
court, this year. charged with liquor
selling, is dead at the camp of the
Chisp county changing. He suffered
a stroke of paralysis.
Virgins bore the reputation of being
a bold and INSCRIPTIONS tiger" op-
orator and on a number of occasions
he was in the tolls of the law His
last venture took him to Jacksonville
on summer excursion. He returned
with several trunks of liquor which
The unloaded at Wenona. Before he
could get his trunks away he had to
flee and the officers got his liquor.
He was finally caught by Sheriff Ward
and died before he finished his term.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
new WHOLESALE
GROCERY STORE
S. j. HILL LETS CONTRACT FOR
BRICK BUILDING-cONTRACTOR
ALREADY MAKING EXCAVA-
TlONS.

S. ]. Hill has. given the contract to
w. d. Benson for the construction OF
brick building on Sixth street, ada
cent to the stables Of Frank E. Will
liams. The building will be fitted for
a store. The cost of construction will
be about $4,000 Work of excavating
and laying the foundation has begun.
Mr.. Hill will occupy the building
upon its completion with a new whole
sale grocery business. He has been
engaged in the wholesale grocery bus
mess in Cordele for a number of
years and is known to the retail trade
over an extensive territory.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
WILL REMODEL.
TWO CITY HOMES
3. NJ. WILLIAMS AND 3. F. SHEP-
PARD SPENDING GOOD SUMS TO
BEAUTIFY CITY HOMES.

B. N. Williams has given the con-
tract to the Crisp County Lumber COM
pany to thoroughly remodel his home
on Thirteenth avenue. The house will
be reworked throughout and extensive
improvements made, which will cost
about $500.
B. F. Sheppard has also awarded
the contract to the Crisp County Lum-
Der company for extensive improve
ments to be made on his Fourteenth
avenue home. The residence will be
repainted, a new veranda added and
other improvements made. The cost
will be about $1,000
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
COTTON JUMPED I'd
TWENTY CENT MARK
UP IN NEW YORK 1T BROUGHT
RECORD PRICE TODAY. LOCAL
GROWERS WAITING-JUST WAIT
ING.

Cotton 20 cents pound, The unex-
pected has happened, thong it happen
ed really sooner than expected The
New York market opened this morning
at 20 cents basis good middling. The
market played all around the 10 cents
mark Tuesday and closed considerably
above 10 cents. After opening at 20
cents this morning the price fluctuat-
ed below and above for some time,
though changed little either way.
There are numbe, of farmers of
the county who have been holding
a portion of their crop for better
prices and they have in these lots sta
pie that would bring 20 cents on the
market today. They do not want to
be forced to go to New York for that
price.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
NEGRO FARMER HAS A
VERY FINE RECORD
OVER SIXTY AVERAGE BALES
FROM FIFTY ACRES, MATT NEW
KIRK HEADS CRISP COUNTY
FARMERS.

Matt Newkirk, q negro farmer on
the plantation of Fred Fem. made
a record in cotton growing this year
that is almost in a class to itself. He
planted fifty acres of two-horse farm
in cotton and has gathered to date IF
ty-seven bales Of good staple, averag-
ing considerably over five hundred
pounds each lie will get another
large bale. His crop will amount to
in total weight about sixty-five 800
pound bales. The negro is SPLEEN
did worker and uses scientific meth
DDS OF farming He is farming on
shares with Mr.. Fem.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
HANDSOME HOME TO Be
BUILT IN EAST CORDELE
S. j. cULPEPPER LET'S CONTRACT
FOR SIX ROOM BUNGALOW
NEXT TO E. A. VINSON RESI-
DENCE,

S. j. CulpepDer, local cotton brok-
er, and one of the county's most pro
pressive farmers. has given the con
tract to the Crisp County Lumber COM
pany for the construction of a hand
some residence in East Cordele, adj
jacent to the residence of E. A. Vim
son, on Fourteenth avenue. The resi-
dence will cost between $4,000 and
$4,000.
The residence will be of the bunga-
low type, containing rooms and will
he one Of the prettiest dwellings in
that vicinity.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
FINE FOOD MARKET
A NEW ESTABLISHMENT

A new meat market and grocery
store combined is to take the place of
the old Cordele Meat Market and is
to be managed by G. p Wright, new
conner. The new place will be known
as the Pure Food Market. The man
ager is now arranging the last detail
of plans for opening an up-to-date
fresh meat and fish and oyster mar
ket as well as more than creditable
grocery line.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
FIRE IN COAL HoUSa.

A coal house in the rear of the
home of Mrs. Golden on Fourteenth
avenue caught fire this afternoon.
The cause of the fire was not learned.
Little damage was done.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
PRIMITIVE BAPTlSTS ARE
MAKING IMPROVEMENT S

The Primitive Baptist church, To-
Gated at the corner of Seventh street
and Fifteenth avenue. is being re-
covered, repainted and otherwise re-
paired A new heater has been in
stalled and other comforts for the
winter will be provided. The total
improvements will cost several hun
dred dollars.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25

Queen Marie, Europe's most beau
tiful queen. whom King Ferdinand
married in 1898 is of British and Rus
sian descent. She is the eldest daugh-
ter of the Duke of Edinburgh and OF
the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.
She is thus a first cousin of both King
George and the Car.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
DEATH CLAIMED INFANT OF
Mr.. AND MRS. J. c. LASSETER

The 15-months-old infant of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. G. Lasseter died Thursday af-
ternoon at / O'Clock at the home OF
its parents on Northern Heights.
The funeral services were conduct
ed Friday morning at 10 o'clock by
Rev. Walter Anthony, pastor of the
Methodist church. and the remains
were inferred at Sunnyside cemetery.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25

An American has obtained a Cuban
patent for machine that cultivates
tofore has had to be done by hand.
growing sugar cane, work that here
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
AMBASSADOR SHARP RETURNS
Col. E. M. House, Personal Adviser Of
President, Sees Him Leave.

New York, Oct. 25.-William G..
Sharp American ambassador to
France, sailed today on the American
line steamship ST Paul, accompanied
by his family to return to his post.
Among those at the pier to bid him
farewell was Col. E. NJ. House, per-
sonal adviser of the president.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
INFANTS DEATH.

The 4-month-old infant of Mr. and
Mrs. Graham of the Nipper settlement
died Monday night. The remains were
inferred at Antioch cemetery Tuesday.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25
WILSON CAMPAIGNING FUND
TAKES LIVELY START HERE

Citizens of Cordele and Crisp
county who have donated to the
national democratic campaign
fund up to Wednesday noon are
fA11nrrc.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-25

The longest will on record was
made by a Glouchester engineer and
contained $4,000 words.