Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-02
GOV. BROUCH
NOT In PARTY
AS EXPECTED
Rotary-Kiwanis Banquet
Tonight Crisp To Be
Toastrnaster

Coming on a purely educational
trip, to see what Sumter county has
done in an agricultural way with
cotton under boil weevil conditions,
and with all crops by commercial fer
tilization, $50 representative farm
ers, bankers and other business men
of the state of Arkansas, travelling
by special train, spent from $3.50 a.
m. to l p. m. today viewing crops in
various parts of the eastern and the
southern sections of the county.
This afternoon they are spending
in the western and southern parts of
the county. Tonight at $3.50 o'clock
they will be given a banquet at the
Windsor Hotel, at which talks on ag
ricultural methods applied here will
be made, this ending their stay in
Sumter county. They will leave at
IL 80 on their special train for Ath
ems, their only other stop in Georgia,
and from there proceed to the Car
olinas, where they will spend the re-
mainder Of the week.
The party was not headed by Gov
ernor Brough, as had been expected,
he having been detained in Arkansas.
Governor Dorsey, of Georgia, arrived
at o'clock this afternoon to be pres
ent at the banquet tonight to assist
in welcoming the visitors.
So Automobiles in Line.
Fifty-two automobiles made the
trip this morning, formin--at the
Chamber of Commerce hea-larters
and proceeding in single il--out to
the farm of Neill Ray, where Ne first
stop was made. The route t.. fol-
lowed was to the Methvin farN, and
thence to the river road, bacle the
Rylander farm, across past t John
Sheffield place to the Leslie L, "A and
in to Leslie, where an informal re-
ception was rendered by the people In
Leslie, in the New Sumter and Lee
cooperative cotton warehouse. The
visitors were given watermelon cut
ting and supplied with cigars, as well
as cold drinking water on their ar
rival. Leaving Leslie, the party re-
turned to Americus via the j. J. Will
son farm and Lee street road. A stop
was made at Charles Ansleys farm,
where another melon feast was wait
ing, and where his crops and herd of
mules were inspected.
Due to a slight mixup, about 16
of the cars failed to make the entire
trip, cutting off the Methvin loup and
reaching Leslie ahead of the first 35
cars. They received the official well
come there and were first to sample
the watermelons.
The visitors expressed themselves
as extremely well pleased with what
they had seen and learned on the
morning trip. The roads were very
dusty, most of them having been new
ly worked since rain had fallen, but
they were dressed properly for such
trip, with khaki trousers and wool
en- and khaki shirts, and field straw
hats in most instances, and they ap-
peared not to mind the dust, being
accustomed to it. Some of them ex-
pressed more or less amazement at
what is being done here through fer
tilization and good farming. Lands
of similar soil to those seen here, one
man said, can scarcely be sold for $40
per acre in Arkansas, because of the
low productivity.
Reception Committee at Leslie.
At Leslie the party was welcomed
by Professor E. L. Bridges, chair
man of the reception committee. He
told the visitors they had come to
the biggest little town in Georgia,
and recalled the many important fea-
lures of the town, which included its
good farming methods and its high
type of citizenship, but emphasized
the new consolidated high school
which is being erected at cost of
S65, 900 and will serve the children
of sig districts. In speaking of the
progressiveness of the citizens of the
community, he declared one farmer
had an airplane in which he flew to
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