Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-23
SWINE CHAMPION
is ADDED TOLONG
LIST OF NOTABLES
He Is Lamar Mills, Son Of 0s-
car Mills, Whose Boar Wins
Ribbon in the Boys Club
Contest

NOllAONN
Atlanta has It's Alexa Stirling and its
Bobby Jones. golf champions; il has the
Championship baseball team In the
south; Il seems &C have developed a
championship football team this year in
GeOrgia Tech, and /; has numerous other
svinners. but II took the Southeastern
fair 20 dIselcsl new Championship
that is the pie club champion
Lamar Mills. son o. oscar M.lls. the
Frrtton county commissioner and super
intendent OF the fairs swine department,
walked of with the first honors or the
Boys Pig club exhibit at the fair, when
his Hampshire sow was declared by the
Judges Friday afternoon to possess more
merit than any OF the hundreds OF en-
tries in the Boys Pig club department
u took the judges many hours 10
reach their decision. for there were many
me specimens OF swine. fattened ana
slfckened through many months effort
OF the part OF the youthful pig raisers
OF the state.
The Judges finally eliminated every
entry with the exception OF the BerK-
shire boar. entered by Ford Maxwell OF
the BOYS Pig club Of Grady county anu
that entered by young Mills.
II was conceded by the judges mat
Young Maxwell had the finest specimen
az a boar among the Boys Pig club en-
tries. and that Mills had the champion
SOW.
Then came the task OF judging be
tween the merits OF the champion SOW
ard the CHAMPION boar. II was not 80
easy, and the final decision was reacheu
only zfter careful deliberations.
The champion OF the Boys Pig CLUBS
In Georgia will not be selected until the
Georgia state fair in Macon, beginning
a week from Monday. Young Mills ana
vo,,ng Maxwell both have announced
their intention OF competing for the
highest pig club honor within the state
at the Macon exhibit
veteran pig ra!sers of the state ex-
pressed establishment at the wonderIul
progress tbs has been MADE oy the
pig club boys -. -
clubs will be able 10 compete with pro-
fessional pig raisers." said ono OF the
judges. ,-Ds
Awards for the boys state pig CLUBS
In the swine barn. announced Saturua!'
were as follows:
Berkshires. bears over six months' i
FORD maxwell. Cairo. Ga; ,. W. ID. SCOTT
ATiInTton. ca: 8. W. D. Scott. Arlington.
Cs-. 4. Orin Rogers. Atlanta; ,. Hershel
Griffin. Cairo c.
Pa-kshire sows over six months: l.
pavuond oliver. College Park; :, sam
wallace Zen Hill: 3. Howard Burdet''
Dunwoody; 4. Ray Kemp, Ben Hill;
Berkshire bOars under six months; 4
Morris HazslTig. Atlanta; :, FREQ "alsn'
Cairo; :. Spencer Woodward. AtaIlla' -
Edy,Srd SILVER. Cairo. >. Guy StancI'
Ball Ground
berkshire sows under six months: !.
Pav McCIeskey. Blackwclls; :, joan
stack. Smyrna: :. W. D. Scott, airing
ton. 4. Morris Tiazelrig. Atlanta; D. Ed
ward Shiver. Cairo.
Duroc-Jersey bears over six months
1. Henry Wight. Cairo; :. Erstoh hOEa.
Ocflla. ., Edward Miles. DOnwoody'- =
Marshall Jackson. Atlanta; ;. Clyde
Bridges. Dawson
prIroc-Jersey sows over SIX months;
I Warren Hodge: EIko; 2. Harold Clot-
felter. Ben Hill; 3. Marshall jackson,
Atlanta. 4. Charles Clotfelter, Ben Hill;
5. Lula Gin. Manchester.
Duroc-Jersey bears under s1
rnonths. !, Craig Mathews. Atlanta; z
craig Mathews. Atlanta; ;. Thomas
MOODY. Atlanta. 4. John Minchew, way
cross: :. Knox Barrow, DunwOody.
D,iIoc Jersey sows under six
months: Z. Goode Carr. Cairo; 2 Jo-
ssph Fowler. Durand; ?. Brantley Pat
tersvn. WaycrOss: 4. Tom Moody At
lanta: 3. Powell Moody. Atlanta
HAMPSHIRE bears over six months.
san Adams. Bolton. .. Walter
Rridges. Dawson: ,, Leo Roberts. At
anita. 4. ]. T Cox, Jr.. Macon; .. Car
cnce Henderson
Uampshire sows over six months; i,
Lamar Mills. Atlanta; >. Eugene Dill
O,iIIa. ?. ]. T Cox. Jr-. Macon; 4, Lunle
Henderson. Atlanta, .; Max ClotfeIter'
Ben Hill.
Hampshire bears under six months: l.,
Ered Walsh. Cairo: .. George Sheats'
Atlanta: g. q. W. Waits. Jr, Ben Hlll'
a Lee ID. Wicker. Warrenton; D. olin
Bonner. Manchester
Hampshire sOws under six months: l.
Powell Jones. Cairo: :. George shea.a'
Atlanta: ,. ObIe Ysncy, Atlanta; 4, ROD
80 ETiVdon. Cairo: ;. Fred ROddenberry,
Cairo.
Poland-China bOars over six months;
/ Ellen Dean. BOwersville; >. Joseph
Jones. Cairo: ,. Preston Ward. Pine
park. T. Walter Harper, Cairo: ., sam
flaming. Washington
Poiand-China sows over six months; J.
Walter Harper. Cairo; >, James NJ Cul-
len Fort Valley.
poIaud-China bears under six months.
IL. r. HuEhey. Jackson.
oIand-China sows under six months:
/ Goode Carr. Calvary: >. Neal Hartman
s,to,-sl. ?. Guthrie Bedford. Ochlochnee
Sweepstakes. boars: Ford Maxwell
Cairo.
Sweepstakes. sOws: Lamar Mills At
lanta.
sveepstakes. club prize: 1. Fulton coun-
". carl Wallace: >. Grady county. p. III.
ward ? Early county, w ID. Scott;