davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-12-10

was held over until the next meeting
so that he could have a chance to ex-
plain the various items in the expense
account
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

times during the five years, and yet
they have not been able to increase
their capacity fast enough to keep
apace with the increase in live stock,
as thousands of carloads have been
shipped to northern and western mar
kets which the plants were unable to
handle.
This live stock is directly the result
of the packing houses, for it was not
here prior to the erection of these
plants, except few cattle and fewer
hogs in Tennessee, Virginia and west
ern North Carolina, where they were
close to the markets. It is striking
fact that every plant that has been
built has developed more live stock
than it could handle.
Prior to 1914 Georgia was buying
forty-two million dollars worth of
meat annually from the west. To-
day she has overcome that great bal
ance against her and is selling large
quantities to other states. Alabama
and South Carolina bought nearly
thirty millions each, North Carolina
over thirty-fve millions, and the
SOuJn dS Whole over OOO1OOOSOOU
worth. | do not know how much the
other southern states have caught up
on their deficits, but believe that
Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have
nearly or quite wiped out their bal
ances and are on the black side of
the ledger.
And practically all of it has been
done in the last five years.
After having travelled over the
south many times during these five
years in the interest of this develop
ment, and HAVING studied the live
stock industry in respect to climate,
soil, animal and feed, l have come to
this conclusion.
Gulf Stream Benefactor.
That the territory south of a line
drawn through central Mississippi
Alabama, Georgia and South Caro-
lima and up the coast as far as the
gulf stream hugs it, say to Whining
ton, N. c., will in few years be the
greatest live stock country on the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
WHOOP|NG COUCH
RUNNING WILD
MANY MEMBERS OF SAME FAM
lily SICK FROOM COOLDS
COUGHS AND GROUP.
Cheney's Expectorant Gives Quick
Relief.

Frequently whooping cuogh affects
entire families. In this case try
Cheney's Expectorant. The parox-
ysms will grow lighter from its use
and you will feel much better IN
short time. 81 wish to say your
Cheney's Expectorant is the best
medicine ever saw" says l. A. Bate,
of Bloomingburg, Ind. 81 have used
it for three years and have tried
it thoroughly, particularly for Group
and whooping cough. Last winter
our children had very bad coughs
and colds and we gave them Expec-
torant, never dreaming that they had
whooping cough In few weeks
there was a great deal of whooping
cough in our neighborhood and we
tried our best to keep our children
away from it, but could not. They
were both exposed a number of times
and did not take it. After that they
were with children for a whole day
who had whooping cough. This was
positive proof to me that my children
had had the whooping cough and
that Cheneys Expectorant had so
kept it in subsection that it had ap-
peared only as an ordinary cold"
Any druggist can easily supply you
with a bottle of Cheneys Expector-
ant at slight cost. Try it-now-
today. adv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

Mississippi and one in Georgia. The
South now has about twenty-five
complete packing houses. The plants
in Georgia are in Atlanta, Moultrie,
Macon, Statesboro, Savannah, Triton
and Waycross.
The Atlanta plant was the first
built in the Southeast. 1t develop
ed from a very small unit, has grown
into a big plant and has been prof
table from the start. The plant at
Natchez, Miss, was the second built
/ in the Southeast. 1t was built five
years before the Moultrie plant, fail
ed after a years operation, was final
4! ly bought by Wilson. & Co., and is
now in operation.
The Moultrie plant was the out
come of an effort on the part of
Moultrie business men to make a
market for the farmers of the sur
/ rounding territory. 1t more than full
filled their expectations, for it made
money from the start, and at the end
of three years operation had a book
value of $192 on its capital stock.
. II was luGu SOIu W IliC OWlLtN dI d
fair profit and they agreed to enlarge
it to meet the demands of the rapid
7 ly growing live stock industry. They
Z have since spent more than million
enlarging and improving it, and it is
now the largest plant in the South
working about 500 employees,
Other Southern Plants.
Other plants outside of Georgia
that have been built since are al
Andalusia, Birmingham and Mobile
Ala; Chipley and Jacksonville, Fla.
Orangeburg, S. c., two at Whining
ton, n. c., and one or two small ones
in Tennessee. A large one is il
/ process of erection at Richmond, Va.
there being two already in that city
The packing house is no longer al
experiment in the south. Nearly al
| the plants have made money; three
or four have not, either for lack o.
capital or on account of poor main
agement. All the successful 'one'
have been enlarged from one to fou
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
North American continent.

North American continent. e
l predict TINS on my huo"I0GS0
what the Gulf of Mexico ana tn5
gulf stream means to the nora anu
fauna of this section.
The waters a the gulf are warm
and the winds from them are warm
and laden with moisture. These WlhoS
blow across this territory either dlrect.
ly from the guII OF rom Ile suIt
stream along the Atlantic coast ABOUT
80 per cent of the time during crop
growing seasons, while the ch~EactS-
OF the soil of this section permits lS'
rapid radiation, so that soon aIIeI
dark all during summer the coo4
earth wrings the water out OF these
winds and deposits it on vegetation
and creates a luxuriant growth. Nhen
these soils are fed with suInclenV
lime and humus, the growth increases
to rank luxuriance. These warm
winds also make it possible TO gro"
many feed crops all winter.
There are twenty-three rich stock
feeds grown on these soils at present
and new ones are being developer
ach year. One link has been missing
! to make this ap efctreSHR dRD NJ
to make this a perfect cattle country
"a grass that would grow pracJicai-
! w ali the year. State authorities
! think this has been found. At Ihom-
asville last wear three grasses We're
| kent growing with d rich foliage Tor
nine months and SO acres kept I0o
| head of cattle seal fat throughout Ihe
| season. H.
Iowa is the wealthiest state IN the
union per capita. She made 1t on
! hogs in seventeen years. SouVn HeoI-
gia, south Alabama and north FIorlua
are growing hogs nearly three tlmeS
as fast as Iowa when that state start
ed in the business. In from five to
seven years this section will catch
Iowa and pass her in hog production
Will not this section then be the
richest country in the United States
per capita? Is it not growing rlcE
faster than any other section OF the
union-of the whole world!
The baby county of Cook reports
that during the past year the county
sold over $4,OO0,O00 worth of prod
ucts and cotton was only a modes'
, part of it.
Colquit county five years ago hat
a gross income from all products Of
81, 100000, principally cotton. Las
year she had an income of over. So,
100000 less than third being from
, cotton.
And this was a section of Georgis
that few years ago grew only, pines
The south needs 100 packing houses
we'll scattered over the territory.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

The live stock business has be
come an actual reality in the South
and it has been established largely
through the packing house the
market for live stock And thus
long cherished dream has come true.
A dream the newspapers started
writing about thirty-fve years ago.
A dream which bankers advised, but
would not finance, which merchants
urged. but would not furnish sup
niles to farmers to run on-a
dream whose reality many business
men knew was necessary to make the
South prosperous country, but
whose practical solution, until re
Gently had not been worked out for
the South.
Since a newspaper man five years
ago made the egg stand on its end,
the whole problem seems simple
enough and perfectly natural
1t was not a difficult problem and
not at all original, but simply lack
ed a business applications of we'll
known facts.
An old farmer of Ware county sup
piled the connection that led this
newspaper man to work out the idea.
One day these two were taking din
ner together when the scribe said to
the countryman: my friend, why
is it that you farmers will not prac-
tice Investigation in your crops?
You have been urged to do so many
years by the press, the bankers, the
merchants and all, but for some rea-
son you persist in running on one
crop system that appears to be MAX
ing you poorer and poorer and gradu-
ally dragging the whole South down
to poverty.
The farmer hesitated fOrsa mo-
ment. waiting for the right words to
express what, to him, ought to have
been apparent to every sensible man
in the world, and then with apollo
gies said: "Well, my young friend,
you edit a mighty good newspaper
and love to read after you, but you
don't know much about farming. The
fact is, we can't sell that stuff. you
call 'diversifcation.'
Not Much to Stay For
After that the newspaper man did
not write any more about diversified
ton. and not so long after that, sold
out his newspaper and went west for
he realized that unless the South
could break away from a one CROP
system, there was not much to stay
in the South for. Out west he learn
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
COMING TO
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Treating Diseases Without ursicst
Operation
Free Consultation and Examination
to All Who Need and Want
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Medical AID
viii be at the Windsor Hotel, Sat-
urday and Monday, Feb. 7-9, from
10 am. to pm, two days only, re-
turning in months.
The Progressive Medical Doctors
Specialist is licensed by the state Of
Georgia; a graduate of one of the
best universities; twenty-five years
practical experience; comes well rec
commended. VIII demonstrate in the
principal cities methods of treating
diseases of long standing by means of
medicines, diet and hygiene, thus saw
ing many people from a dangerous
and expensive surgical operation.
This specialist is an expert in dag
nosis and will tell you the exact truth
about your condition. Only those
who have a good chance to regain
their health will be treated, SO that
every one who takes treatment will
bring their friends at the next visit.
Those whose cases are found hope
/ less will be told the truth and be adj
vised as to their mode of living, etc.
J The diseases treated are: Dis
eases Of the stomach, bowels, liver,
blood, blood vessels, skin, kidneys,
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bronchitis, consumption, asthma, ap-
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giving rise to loss of mental and bod
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dren, either mental or physical, and
all chronic diseases of men, women
and children that have baffled the
skill of the family physician.
A diagnosis of any disease of long
standing, its nature and cause, win
be made Free and proper medicines
will be furnished at a reasonable
cost to those selected as favorable
cases for treatment.
Children must be accompanied by
their parents and married ladies by
their husbands.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
CREAM FOR CATARRH
OPENS UP N0STRILS
Tells How To Get Quick Relief
from Head-COlds. It's Splendid!

In one minute your clogged nostrils
will open, the air passages Of your head
will clear and you can breathe freely,
No more hawking, snufling, blowing,
headache, dryness. No struggling for
breath at night; your cold or catarrh
will be gone
Get small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic
healing cream in your nostrils. 1t pen
etrates through every air passage of tn,
head, soothes the infamed or swoyler
mucous membrane an9 relief comes in
stantly.
It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed-ul
with cold or nasty catarrh-Relie
comes so quickly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

and sank into anconsciousness.
A few moments later the Bollingers
arrived at the hospital and took the
baby away in a blanket. When the
mother opened her eyes again she
cried for Billy. She repented having
given Billy away. She cried so hard
that it really seemed as though her
grief might cause her death.
AT any rate, the doctor insisted
that Billy must be brought back or
Katherine die.
SO they scurried around and found
who had taken the baby. After no
end of trouble and argument they
got the baby away from the Boiling
ers and brought him back to his
mother. And there you see him in
her arms. She is happy-so happy
but as for Billy, he just yawns.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02


ed how a one crop system was chang
ed to Investigation, and how some
states had grown rich at it.
At that time not many people knew
the real conditions in the South and
what they were leading to. The South
was the poorest section in the United
States at that time and the South
ern farmer was the poorest class OF
people in the country. His average
gross income was only 1857 year,
as compared with 5000 in Iowa, and
the cause of his poverty was that for
thirty-hve years he had been raising
cotton at an average cost Of ten and
a quarter cents a pound and selling 1t
at nine and three-quarters thereby
losing a half cent on every pound OF
cotton he raised in that period OF
thirty-fve years. And the despera-
ton of it was that ninety-three per
cent of the business of the South
was based on that little income of
S157.
Year after year that farmer had
worked hard and saved; his wife had
worked harder and economical more,
and in spite of that labor and that
gnawing economy, each year, when
fthe crop was sold and the settle
ments made, that man and his poor
wife realized that they had less than
they had the previous year, and so
they had to plan some more economy
and another year of hopeless labor,
for the cotton crop would not pay
out and cotton was all they could
sell.
About per cent of the farmers
would raise some other crops, be-
cause about five out of every hun
! dred were natural born traders and
these could peddle few chickens and
pork pigs, beef now and then, few
potatoes. This per cent were hold
! ing their own or making little
money, but the other 95 were losing
out, either selling their equities or
/ being foreclosed on and moving away
! to no one knows where. They were
lost sight of and nobody seemed to
care, since they were considered fail
ures and of no value to the com
munity.
Failures Censored.
/ Many business men blamed and
censored these failures for not rails
ing their own supplies,for in fact,
the 95 per cent did not raise enough
meat, enough potatoes or enough of
anything to eat to carry them
through the year, and it did seem that
they deserved censure for this ap-
parent lack of self-preservatiOn.
Rut tho nbiloconhv of lifa SppnnS
about this-and it applies to farming
as well as to other things: The man
who does not do more than enough
hardly ever does quite enough; the
fellow who tries to live just good
enough to stay out of Jail will event
ually break the law and get in Jail,
and the farmer who simply tried to
raise just enough hogs and potatoes
and feed for his own use hardly ever
raised quite enough, and consequent
ly had to buy before the year was
out. 1t was throwing away land and
labor, he thought, to raise more than
enough, for he could not sell it, so
what was the use?
And so this cankering tragedy
went on throughout the South
selling the farms. foreclosing the
mortgages and moving away-to God
knows where.
Did the children move to town?
Of course they did. What else was
there to do? a twenty-dollar clerk
ship looked like a promotion from
track hand to president of a railroad
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

avenue. She was barely in her teens
when she married and when she
whispered to her husband the news
of the expected arrival Of Billy, he
up and deserted her.
Katherine was left helpless. She
feared the little baby was coming into
a hard, bitter world, fatherless and
helpless. She decided she wanted
to provide a home for the baby-a
better home than she could give him.
So she advertised before the baby
was born for happy married couple
to adopt the baby.
She found foster parents fer the
babv-the Bollinger family at No.
1861 Warren avenue.
Then last Monday baby Billy was
born. The mother held the baby in
her aims just moment, kissed him
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
The Strong Withstand The Winter
Cold Better Than The Weak

Cid people who are feeble and younger people who
are weak, will be strengthened and enabled to
60 through the cold weather by taking GROVES
TASrELESS chill TONIC, which is simply IRON
and QUINlNE suspended in syrup. So pleasant
even children like it. You can soon feel it.
Strengthening, InviaoTatine Effect Price Soc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
Political Announcements

FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
| hereby announce myself for re-
election to the office of County Com
missioner, subject to the Democratic
Primary of March 8, 1920.
N. r. RAY.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
GREER TELLS OF PORK
AND MAKING OF SOUTH
Coming of Packing House Has Done Wonders, He
Shows, For Dixieland-Great
Future Foreseen

John w Greer the who
responsible packing house of which he delivered
officers Of in
of the South spreading the
of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

! hereby announce myself for re-
election to the office of County Com
missioner, subject to the Democratic
Primary of March 5, 1920.
S. E. STATHAM.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02
Bv HOWARD MANN.

CHICAGO, Feb. Acknowledgement
even a grown-up-ever had more
strenuous two days Of it than Billy
Helms in the first 48 hours in this
world.
Being born-that was his first ad-
venture. Then he was adopted before
his eyes were open and returned a
prodigal to his mothers arms before
the two days were up.
This is the brief summary of his
eventful early life and yet Billy sees
fit to yawn, proving himself to be a
blase young person, indeed.
1t happened this way. Katherine
Helms, Billy's mother, is only Is
years old. She is one of l3 chill
dren who live at No. 2748 Warren
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

What do you want? A Want Ad
in the Times-Hecorder will get it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-02

FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER =
hereby announce myself for re-
election to the office of County Com
missioner, subject to the Democratic
Primary of March 8, 1920.
R. S. OLIVER.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
Smart Accessories
Seen in the Store

Just casual stroll through the sec
tons OF small wares on our Main Floor
dlscloses all the niceties that are the Sc
cret of well-groomed appearance
Handsome new veilings for the Winter
hat; an umbrella that makes one want to
consplre with the weather man; gloves
for every costume and with the quaintest
and most unusual of fastenings; neck
wear to frcshen the frock or substitute
for the blouse; handkerchiefs that glorify
the art of needlework and so on ad in
tnltum. Details, of course, but such very
important ones in woman's general APP
pearance.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
Goats for
General Utility

Many excellent models
made along strictly tai
lorcd lines, smartly Sc
we're and handsome as
TO cloth and style. are
ideal for the business
woman or woman who
needs a coat for rough
and-ready wear. Fine
for motoring.
$500 up.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
Lovely Wraps
for Afternoons

Very elegant in their
appe IN &C are the
handsome Wraps Of We
lour-like fabric, lavish
ly embroidered, be-tas-
seled, and fur-trimmed.
These because OF their
unusual beauty arc par
ticularly smart for all
the affairs that come
after the stroke or
twelve.
$4,000 up.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
= MANY ELDERLY WOMEN
=sa..: NEW PULASKI VOTERS
one HeEistrar Believes lie Holds
Hecord For Number of Such
-1 49,
<s~s>%s>s@- .
..:SnccIaI % TGe Timcs Dlspatch ]

GSpcciaI 70 Tee Times Dispatch l
PULASKI. VA. Oct. "a. NJ. era
nam. registrar for Max Creek prc-
rinct. Pulaski County. perhaps holds
tho record for registering the oldcs,
woman in tho state. OF the six old
est out OF a registration or eighty
three at his precinct, one was SOW
enty-tvc years OF age and another
scNcntE-ninc. ono si1ty.esght and
three siNty-iivc.
Referring TO the woman who gave
her aSc as Scventy-ninc. Mr. era
ma N said she alightcd from her buggy
ana wrote out tho essential inforna-
plying 70 him 10 register and as
though 1t were n frequent act on her
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
Fur Lends
Charm to Many

The beauty Of a huge
fur collar lends a gra-
cious charm 10 many.
Coats of this type are in
tensely practical because
Of their adaptability to
the requirements of the
average WON an. In
many styles, fabrics and
colors.
$3.50 up.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
Undergarments of JERSEY Silk

Beauty and durability go hand in hand
in Jersey Silk Undergarments, and so the
practical, as well as the luxury-loving,
woman finds merit in it. Vests, boomers
and union suits Of it are practical and
delightful for everyday wear AS re-
mlnder Of the approaching gift season,
inspection is invited From CSC to SS.9S.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
Lacy Negligees
for BOudOir Moments

such moments may be rare, but they
are all the sweeter if one may relax with
the consciousness that the Crepe de
Chine, Georgette or Taffeta Negligee one
wears is becoming. These feminine crea-
tlons, for all their look of utter fragility,
last comparatively forever"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10

part to register. In this connection
the registrar said he had boon ofl-
ciatinE rs registrar since 1899 and
recalled having once registered n man
ninety-nlnc years OF age who par
tlcipatcd in one and perhaps Two cleo
tens following his registration.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
Many Small Permit. Issued.

building Inspector Butler ycstcr-
day issued the following: J. w. Humid
ley. TO rcpair dwelling at 230S FLOYD
Avenue. $500; Mrs. II. NJ. Cannon, 70
repair hr.cii building at lOl6 West
Franklin. $50: cambridge Stree,
Baptist Church. repairs to dwelling at
1910 Porter Street $500.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10

clever New Suits
of Winter Weight and Warmth
Qualms vanish at the sight and feel"
of these new Suits. Concealed in the ex-
cellent fabrics is warmth enough for the
most bustery of Winters, and, best of
ALL it is achieved without giving bulky
look. Modes are interestingly new, and
one may select from many styles and
prices. Prices are advantageous, and
from buying standpoint it is wisdom to
make selections now.
AS low as $3.50 upwards.