The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-11-01
Newsy Paragraphs
OF State Interest

pushed rapidly. Practically all OF the
buildings are already ready for serv-
ice and the committees I'm charge
OF the exhibits and amusements say
that their work is progressing in q
splendid manner
FITZGERALD A freak from the Vege-
table kingdom Is on display in one
of the drug stores in the city, having
been brought to town by A. Foster, a
farmer living north of town. II is q
sweet potato AZ inches long and IS
shaped exactly like rattler stretched
out, head, body and tail, with the pc
culiar curves which marks the snake
when in motion. The potato weighs
about five pounds.
ANNOUNCEMENT is being
sent out to members of the grand
lodge of Masons of Georgia that the
grand lodge meeting scheduled to be
held in Macon, October 20, has been
postponed until November 26. A deci-
sion to this effect was reached by
Grand Master W. G. England of Cedar
town, who instructed Grand Secretary
Frank Baker of Macon TO notify each
lodge in the state of the change in
date. The laying of the cornerstone
Of Macon's new public library and
the unfurling of the big flag at the
Masonic orphans home, which cere-
10, bnr hnnY1 hn16 dUr-
ing the session of the grand lodge,
have been postponed until the grand
lodge assemblies in November.
Barnesville-The farmers of this vi
cinity are complaining considerably at
the situation which exists as to the
market for cotton and cotton seed,
and apparently they have made up
their minds not to sell either the cotton
or the seed until the price is satistac-
tory to them. In many cases they are
storing both the seed and the cotton
at their homes and state that they
will let them stay there until those
who want and need them are willing
to pay what the farmer regards as the
price he should receive. In most cases,
too, the farmers are able to hold
them indefinitely AS a result bust
ness is dull The banks are carrying
nearly as large volume of bills re
ceivable as they carried in mid-sum-
mer.
Atlanta.-A program for develop
ment of the South after the war has
been outlined for presentation to the
session of the Southern Commercial
Congress at Baltimore next month.
Its authors were representative South
ern business men who attended the
conference at the invitation of the
Southern Commercial Congress. Gov
ernor Dorsey, champion Of the project
to connect the Gulf and the Atlantic
ocean by the ST. Marys-St. Marks ca
nal, was the principal factor in call
ing the meeting The program in
cludes advantageous railway rates for
the South completion of the inter
coastal canal and establishment of the
St. Marys-St. Marks project, highway
projects, equitable distribution of the
merchant marine, establishment OF
branches of the federal reserve sys-
tenn in foreign lands, encouragement
of Southern people to take advantage
of the sections natural facilities, the
adoption of MADE in U. S. A." as
trade stamp, training of young men and
women for the nations foreign com
merce, establishment of wounded sol
diers on agricultural lands, establish
ment Of district offices of the bureau
Of foreign and domestic commerce,
completion Of treaty with Uruguay
as to commercial travellers, and inves-
tigation toward establishing shipping
lines from Southern ports, with view
to return cargoes.
Atlanta.-To Mr.. Grocer, anywhere
in Georgia: Watch your step" That's
the potent warning of the federal food
administration for the state of Geor-
gia 1--WE intend to adhere strictly
to the regulations issued by the ad-
ministration in Washington" Maj. D.
F. McClatchey executive secretary,
stated recently, in discussing the food
situation. Every foot of territory
which our boys are winning on the
western front means that thousands
of additional mouths must be fed from
Uncle Sans storehouse. Food conser-
walton must be practiced as never be-
fore. And the grocers are frankly adj
vised that the rules laid down by the
federal food administration must be
obeyed" In this connection DR.. An
drew M. Soule, federal food admins
traitor for Georgia, has approved a
number of findings with reference to
violations of food administration rules.
One merchant at Sparta has been put
out of business for the period of the
war, and number of other merchants
in other sections of the state have
been fined for violations of the law.
Twenty five commission merchants
in the city of Atlanta have already
been tried and found guilty of viola
ton of this rule, each of whom have
been allowed to contribute the sum
of $25 to the Anti-TuOerculosis assocf.
alton.
Fitzgerald.-At a meeting of the