Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-11
BEN HILL BUREAU
SELLSPOTATOES
FOR PLANTERS

FITZGERALD. Ga, Nov. 9.-The
Ben Hill County Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton announces the sale of five
carloads of field run sweet potatoes
at sixty cents a bushel, the price
potato merchants in this section have
been paying for selected and graded
sweet potatoes. The sale was made
through the farm bureau to a Ten
nessee concern. The first car was
shipped Monday.
With nearly 800 active members
the Ben Hill federation has pit
through several deals of cooperative
purchasing and sale for farmers and
including assistance for distressed
corn and cooperative live stock mar
keting.
At the meetings during the next
two weeks of community councils,
official membership cards will be
issued to each member. The cards
will be carried on the same principle
as labor union cards are carried
testifying that the owner of the card
is entitled to the benefits of the as
ISOLATION. Previously some confu-
sion has resulted in cooperative en-
terprises of the bureau.
Tax Receipts Slow
Tax collections November, 1920,
were $1,700 less than on the same
L
Collector Fred Graham, despite the
fact that increase in assessments has
raised the estimated income of the
county about 20 per cent. Cheap cot
ton and resultant tight money are
blamed for the slowness with which
tax payers are meeting their public
obligations.
Chrysanthemum Show ,,
The Woman's club chrysanthemum
show will be staged Tuesday, Novem-
Der 9. at the home of Mrs. J. 3.
| Wall. More than twenty growers of
chry have registered for
| space, including several frora neigh
boring cities. Nearly $500 worth of
prizes have been offered by mer-
chants of the city.
The Woman's club is fostering a
movement for the growing of chrys-
| anthemums for the market. Unusu-
ally fine specimens are produced
have shipped the rIowers have re-
ceived fancy prices for them. The
show is held to stimulate interest in
chrysan themums locally. The women
want to make Fitzgerald known as
the 'chrysanthemum city of Georgia"
Following the general election here
in which eighty women cast their
votes in Ben Hill county. and the
resolution of council opening the
polls in the city election to women,
registration of feminine voters has
taken q squirt and to date $50 have
signed the voters oath in the county.
The Woman's club and the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance union
through their presidents, Mrs. George
Brown and Mrs. S. M. Whitchard
have united in urging the women
of both city and county to register
Few country women have registered
here to date.
Telephone Controversy
The controversy between the city of
Fitzgerald ana the Bowen Telephone
company over a new franchise, in
allowed by the Georgia railroad COM
mission on the one hand, and fixing
of an annual franchise fee or oc-
cupation tax on the other, was,
threshed out at meeting recently
of a special citizens committee and
the members of city council. 1t was
decided that the citizens committee
should present it's recommendations
to council at it's next session.
The Telephone company holds that
the validity Of it's present franchise,
running to May, 1880, has been ques'
toned by council, because of the
! rate raises, and it needs an unques-
ell and the company differ on the
points of duration of the franchise,
the use of the streets for telephone
poles, and the franchise fee.
The telephone company asks a per-
petual franchise which the city hest
tates to grant; the council objects
to spelling the appearance of the
city by wires and poles on the
streets; the company wants to pay
$500 a year, as specified in the pres
ent franchises: the city wants to as
sess $500 year.