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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
CITIZENS BANK in
OCILLA REOPENED
Stockholders Make Good Deficit
Opens Doors Again
SEE PROSPEROUS YEAR
Luke Succeeds Henderson, John
son Becomes Cashier

The Citizens Bank of Cecilia was
reopened for business yesterday after
having been closed and in the hands
of the state bank examiners since
December 9TH when a shortage of ap-
proximately $4,000 in its resources
become known.
The stockholders of the bank made
good the shortage, which was caused
by loan to D. ]. Henderson Jr. who
was then President. Mr.. Henderson
made over all his assets to the bank
to assist in putting it back on its
feet.
J. c. Luke was elected president OF
the bank to succeed Mr.. Henderson
and R. H. johnson, for years cashier
OF the First National Bank of DELLA
I was elected cashier and assumed his
position with the Citizens Bank when
it reopened yesterday.
G. Sam Wilcox, second vice presi-
dent, in an interview with a Leader
Enterprise reporter today, declared
that the bank reopens in the best fin
ancial condition it has ever enjoyed.
The, capital stock is $4,000 but the
resources of the bank on its reopen
ing are in excess of quarter million
dollars. Mr.. Wilcox said that the
officers of the bank are looking for
ward to period of prosperity this
year as good as any normal pre-war
year. Except for the stockholders no
one has sustained any loss by the
closing of the bank.
The officers now are ]. c. Luke,
president D. r. Henderson, G. S.
Wilcox, J. c. Hollingsworth, vice
presidents, r. H. Johnson, cashier;
and A. L. Mobiles. ]. R. Russell, A.
S. Harris, E. L. Harper, G. w. Willis,
S. H. McAllister, w. M. Hudson, d.
trectors. -
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
County Schools To
Have improvements
Heating and Sanitation Improvements
Will Be Sought by Board

At their meeting Tuesday. the
Cunty Board of Education partially
adopted plans to install complete
heating and ventilating heaters in
each school room and install SAM
tary closets in each building. The
approximate cost will be between
ten and twelve thousand dollars, to
be met by special tax of the prop
erty in each school district in the
county, if the people in the district
give their consent The heaters and
closets are in the nature of a needed
Improvement, but as the Board has
only limited funds to carry on the
regular work of the schools, a special
tax will be needed for these improve
ments. It is planned to call meet
ings of the citizens in each school
district at an early date to place this
matter before them. Mr.. Anderson.
"a representative of a manufacturing
concern making the heaters and
closets, spoke before the Board.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
HOWELL COMMANDS
AMERICAN LEGION
Local Post Elects New Officers
at Meeting Last Night
WAR HEROES JOIN POST
Smith and Holt, Both Decorated
for Bravery, Join Post

About thirty members of the Mars.
Mcdonald Post, American Legion
attended an enthusiastic meeting last
night at which application of two
world war heroes were accepted and
a new staff of officers elected for tn,
year 1921.
Cleon Howell, who served in both
the french and American armies
during the war, was elected Com.
mander of the post to succeed C. Roy
Adams. Chester Strickland was
elected adjutant, Robert Fretwell
finance officer. Herbert Bradshaw
chaplain, E. L. Dickson, vice com
mander, and Mulkey, historian.
Walter A. Holt, of Rochelle, who
was awarded the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross for vaior near St. Tuyin
on October 1918, was presented to
the post and accepted as a member.
Emmett Cline Smith, who won the
SSh SAOLn NC NucTIe lot ValOr
while he served with the marines. also
joined.
Past Commander Adams in a short
speech of welcome expressed the
pride OF the post in having among its
members two men who distinguished
themselves for valor in action.
The local legion post conducted the
ceremony at Rochelle in which the
cross was presented to Mr.. Holt. Mr..
Smith, who is in Augusta, was not
present at the nlsc;;ar.
Plans were discussed for organiz-
ing a woman's auxiliary to the Le-
gion post. A district officer from
Americas will attend the March meet
ing and organization of the auxiliary
will probably be made after that
meeting. The post will make an eff
fort to double its membership before
January 1922 and contemplates ex-
tending its activities in non-political
civic affairs during the year.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
SCREWS TO PREACH TO
PRIMITIVE BAPTISTS

Elder w. B. Screws of Graymont,
one of the leaders in the Primitive
Baptist ministry in the South and dis
tinguished bible student, will deliver
series of lectures on the bible at the
Fitzgerald Primitive Baptist church
next week, beginning Monday even
ing. Elder Screws is conducting "a
series of meetings over the South and
is in Birmingham. Ala. this week.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
Fitzgerald Library Is
Fourth In The State
State Library-Commission Secretary
Compliments Librarian

Fitzgerald's library ranks fourth
in circulation of books of all public
libraries in Georgia. according to
statement by the secretary of the
state library commission in a letter
to Miss Louise Smith, local librarian.
The letter follows:
Miss Louise Smith,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
My Dear Miss Smith:
have just received your annual re-
port and wish to congratulate you on
the splendid work accomplished in
1920. You may be interested to know
that your Library stands fourth in the
state in circulation; only Atlanta, Sa-
vannah and Columbus ranking above
it. while your circulation per capita
population is much higher than that of
these cities.
hardly see how you can handle so
much work without assistance and
with so small book and binding fund.
Such large circulation would be very
hard on much larger collection of
books than you have, and the fact
that it was made on book stock of
less than 5000 volumes means a serious
depreciation in your book collections;
without much larger expenditures
for books, you are very soon going to
find yourselves with a seriously de-
pleted collection of books.
While your Library is fourth in cir
culation it is eighth in appropriations,
and l am sure that your citizens, who
make such wonderful use of your
librarywould be very unwilling to
see it going down, through insufficient
support for the work it is doing.
1t has been my experience that tax
payers never object to taxes for things
they really wish. By the demands
which are made on your library, they
are demonstrating that it is one of the
institutions which they want, and I'm
sure they would be willing to paw a
reasonable amount for its support.
And let me say for the library in
terests of the state, that the Fitzgerald
library is an inspiration to the whole
state and its splendid work and incen-
tive to better and broader service to
us all.
With best wishes to you, am,
Cordially yours,
Charlotte Templeton.
Secretary Ga. Library Commission.
II can not believe Fitzgeald will fail
to give its Library adequate support.
Too much is at stake. I have been
in close touch with its good work,
both in the city and county and 1 do
not believe we have a more useful
Institution" Signed,
M. w. Garbutt
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
Cotton Association
Postpones Big Meet
Convention Will Not Be Held This
Month AS Originally Intended

ATLANTA, Feb. 2.-Announce.
ment is made here today that the an
nua1 convention of the American Cot.
ton Association will not be held this
month at Dallas, Texas, as originally
! intended.
The association has invitations FROM
Dallas. New Orleans, Montgomery,
Birmingham and Columbia still pend
ing. The Question of city and date
for the conference, it is stated, will
be taken up when the cotton acreage
campaign has been brought to sue
cessful conclusion. While the Febru-
airy date for the convention has been
postponed temporarily, association
officials say the conference will be
called lateron and at the earliest pos
sible moment
ut requires an enormous volume
of work to prepare for the conven-
tion," says Harvie Jordan, national
secretary, "since the widespread Or
ganization and activities of the asso-
citation have developed so extensively
throughout the cotton-growing area
of the United States.
THE intense campaign now on for
cotton acreage reduction and for in
creased acreage in food and food sup
ply is taxing the limited force at ma
tional headquarters to the utmost. 1t
is felt that every effort possible
should be concentrated by the associ-
alton in pressing forward that most
important feature of the work.
THE very great financial depres-
sion throughout the cotton belt at
this time would also act as a deter
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
Cotton Oil Mill Operator Advises
More Food Crops and Less Cotton
Wright T. Paulk Gives His
Views on Present Cotton
Situation; Will Cut Crop
Advises Sweet Potatoes, Hogs
and Grain with Small Amount
of Cotton

The present intensive drive of the
American Cotton Association for cot
ton acreage reduction and crop diver
siflcation and the effort of the A. B.
q A. railway extension department to
have the farmers along its line diver
sify, have been a source of so much
interest and discussion that the Lead
er Enterprise is trying to secure fer
its readers the opinions of large bus
mess men and farmers Of our coun-
ty in regard to the change in CROP
ping methods for the South.
In an interview with Mr.. w. T.
Paulk. Secretary and Treasurer of
The Fitzgerald Cotton Oil Company
who is also a large breeder of Spotted
Poland China Hogs and owner of
considerable farm interests in Ben
Hill and Irwin counties, Mr.. Paulk
outlined to us his plan for reducing
his cotton acreage this year.
Mr.. Paulk said II firmly believe
that we should all reduce our cotton
acreage and on my farms in both this
county and Irwin 1 have inauguarat-
ed a plan which will in effect reduce
the cotton acreage and increase food
production and which I believe will
be far more profitable to both nv
tenants and myself.
Figuring on a one horse crop, my
plan is that in lieu of planting a full
cotton crop, | have placed with each
OF them pure bred Spotted Poland
China Sows and have agreed to give
them half of what each sow raises,
then, | have planned to plant my crop
on this basis:
Is acres in corn and beans,
) to 10 acres in grain
to 10 acres in sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes in my opinion is
the proper feed for fattening of hogs
and as cheap feed as one can grow
since one acre of sweet potatoes will
last twice as long as any other crop
for hogs and will take care of twice
as many. hogsawith the smallest ex-
pense. q Sweet potatoes not only are
the most economical feed for fatten-
ing hogs but simply finishes them
hard and bright for either keeping or
for the market.
Then, each one horse cropper can
plant enough cotton to produce one
bale and in this way his cotton as
well as his entire crop will be free
from a heavy accumulated debt for
supplies since he will have a grain
crop for his own use and plenty OF
bacon and lard for his consumption
and for sale.
Il believe that to each plow the
cropper can raise and fatten 80 to
40 hogs each year which at an es-
timatated weight of from $50 to zoe
lbs. will give him 5000 to 5000 lbs. OIL
meat at value of between 100000
and $4,000, out of which he car
keep what he needs for his own use
and the balance can always be dis
posed of on a ready market.
This in my opinion is far better
than expectations from boil weevil
cotton"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
RAIL DEBACLE IS
NEAR, SAYS BUGG
Issues Statement Calling on
Georgia People for Aid
A. B. & A. JUNKING FEARED
Conference Is Held by Labor
Leaders and Rail Head

Atlanta, Ga, Feb.2.-There will be
no change in the matter of the wage
dispute between tn A. B. and A. Rail-
road Company and its employees until
1T has been passed upon by the Fed
eral Labor Board. In themeantime
everything stands status quo.
Following a conference held be-
tween B. L. Bugg, president of the
road, and representatives of the or
gained men employed by it, the
statement was made that. after con-
sidering the situation up one side
and down the other, from every pos
sible angle. the friendly agreement
was reached to agree to disagree.
1t was decided that nothing can be
done by further conferences to recon-
cile the different views or to better
the situation as it stands, and there
the whole matter will be allowed to
stand in its present shape until it
can be submitted to the Federal Labor
| Dodrd on February H.
President Bugg issued the following
statement directly to the people of the
State, calling attention to the calamity
which will result from junking the
road
He says: "The controversy between
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Attain
tic Railroad Company on the one hand
and its employees and the International
Brotherhood members of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor on the other.
concerns the people Of Georgia to a
far greater degree than merely their
interest in the wage troubles involv-
ing public facility.
However, important that interest
[ may be, the officers of the railway
company have stated that unless the
road can get lower wage level it
cannot much longer continue to oper-
ate and perform its function as public
carrier. :
Inc question has already been
raised at the hearing before the Rail-.
road Labor Board at Chicago whether
or not the road is sufficient value
as public servant to justify its con-
tinuance, and if in case it shopidbe
strapped the necessities of the COM
munities it serves would be cared for
by other existing roads in stronger
financial condition, then if the people
OF Georgia feel that this road is of
value to the State and its citizens
and that it performs a public service
that cannot be dispensed with with
out great inconvenience upon the in
dustry of the State and loss upon
its citizens, calamitous in magnitude.
is it not time for some expression to
be given and not wait until decisions
and judgements have been rendered,
which will start this property on the
way to the junk pile and when it
VIII be too late to stop this colossal
debacle?
Has. not the State of Georgia and It's
citizens an interest here that is super
ior to that of the owners OF the prom
erty or its employes?"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
Demonstrate Vans In
Two Northern States
c. T. Owens Returns from Athens
Where Advertising Plans Made

The South Georgia Yam will be in.
traduced to the appetites of northern
people this spring by a demonstration
car, carrying an old fashioned negro
nanny to cook the sweet potatoes in
approved southern style, it was stated
today bye. T. Owens, county agent
and farm bureau secretary, on his re-
turn from Athens where he attended
an Advertise Georgia conference.
Acommittee composed of F. H. Alb.
bolt, of the Advertise Georgia Assicia-
ton, Frank T. Reynolds of the Geor.
gia Automobile Association, w. R
Tucker, of the A. B. & A., G. E. Nc.
Whorter of the Central of Georgia
w. ]. Lyon, of the State Marketing
Bureau. M. C. Gay, of the State Col
lege of Agriculture, and Mr.. Owens
outlined the plan. A Subcommittee
is going next week to Pittsburg, Cleve.
land, Columbus, CINCINNATI. ant
Chicago to make arrangements fol
the demonstrations.
Mr.. Owens stated that he secured
from Mr.. w. w. Croxton, genera
passenger agent of the A. B. and A.
assurance of the utmost degree of Co
operation of watermelon growers O.
this section in marketing their melor
crops this year. Railroad agricultur
al experts will aid in growing anc
traffic experts will aid in getting thu
crops to the markets quickly.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
TO JUNK AB&A WOULD JUNK FITZGERALD SAY CITIZENS
BIG COMMERCIAL
EVENTS THIS WEEK
Curb Market Joint Committee
Meets Thursday Afternoon
MAKE DEFINITE PLANS
Chamber of Commerce Govern
ors Will Meet Friday Night

The joint committee of the Woman S
Club, Chamber of Commerce and
Farm Bureau appointed to make def
mate plans for Fitzgerald curb mar
ket to handle farm produce direct
from producer to consumer, will meet
at the Chamber of Commerce Thurs
day afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The board of governors of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet
Friday evening at 8 o'clock to hear the
curb market plans, consider going af-
ter the Georgia Primitive Baptist
College location hear an address by
w. L. Robuck of Cordele. decide
whethe to move the headquarters of
the organization, and discuss other
important matters.
The committee that will arrange
the details of the market project at
the meeting Thursday is composed of
Mrs. Lon Dickey, president, Mrs. C..
D. Carroll, Mrs. S. L. Smith, repre-
senting the Woman's Club; Marion
Dickson, chairman, c. T. Owens, sec
rotary, Mrs. S. M. Whitchard, vice.
chairman, of the County Farm Blu
reau board, w. R. Walker, of the
Ashton council, A. ]. Swords. chair
man, H. H. James, secretary of the
Fitzgerald council; Mrs. R. L. Stone,
vice-chairman of the Vaughn
council, and L. Robitszch; all repre-
senting the Farm Bureau; Will A
Adams, secretary, J. E. Turner, vice
president, ]. ]. Dorminey, J. A. JUS
tice, representing the Chamber of
Commerce.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02
A. {. L. Reduces Force
At Shops In Waycross

Waycross. Ca, Feb. ga reduc-
ton in forces announced last week by
officials of the A. C. L. Railroad,
which will effect every department of
the A. c. L. shops here, became effec-
tive this afternoon.
The. reduction amounts to approxi-
mately 10 per cent of the men en-
ployed at the shops, which means that
there were about $50 men cut off,
The reduction effects every depart
ment of the shops, those being in the
service the shortest time being cut off
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02

Miss May Edmiston, daughter Of
DR.. and Mrs. G. A. H. Edmiston, is
spending a few weeks in Macon Sc
Letting fixtures for her beauty par
Tor which she will open in Fitzgerald
in the near future.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02

Francis w. Clarke. managing edi-
tor of the Atlanta Constitution. and
wife passed through Fitzgerald yes
terday en- route from their winter
home in Florida to Atlanta.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02

rent factor in securing the attendance
of delegates, and those who would go
would necessarily be forced to make
sacrifice for the expenses of travel
incurred"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02

Mr.. c. T. Owens has returned from
Atlanta where he transacted business.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-02

Mr.. G. R Womb1e has returned
from a business trip to Macon
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
HARD BOILED EGG IS MORE POPULAR
 THAN EVER

Los Angeles, Dec. That ome- Iettes, poached and just plain hard boiled" eggs are proving more pop ular than ever before is indicated by the shipments of California eggs. which so far this year are reported to have smashed all previous rec orGs.
 According to figures disclosed here by James P. Britt. Deputy Director of Markets for the California De- partment of Agriculture, poultry pro- ducers report that more than 162,- 00O,00O eggs have been shipped from the state this year. Practically all of these have been consumed in ed over into Canada, where it is still possible to stir up a real egg-nogg.
 Poultry producers base their esti- out of the state through the records kept of the number of carloads of shipments. There are 360 eggs to a case. 450 eases to a car, and some thing more than l .000 cars have been shipped out of California so far this year
 Britt says that egg shipping has reached such a science that it is now possible to serve fresh eggs, prOduc- ed in California, in the restaurants Of the Strand, in London. In recent months large shipments of California 1 eggs have been transferred to Eng l land. where they are regarded as l quite a delicacy. The eggs are treat | ed by a scientific process which keeps ! them fresh for a considerable time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-07
NEW ENGLISH MOTOR CARS
 AT REASONABLE FIGURES
 FEATURE OF LONDON SHOW
British Manufacturers Exhibit Many Fine Hgh-Priced Cars, But Have Realized Demand For
 Cheaper Makes.

opened at the Olympia the great Au- tomobile Pageat of Europe
 There are cars of beauty and lux ury, costing anything from $6,O00 to
 $10,000, and against these aristocrats
 of the broad highway there is the
 tiny roadster known here as the
 "Runabout," which the young city
 clerk can acquire for a meagre $40O. It is the latter that makes the popu- lar appeal.
 Last year the concurrent exhibi-
 tions of the British Society of Motor
 Manufacturers and Traders at Olym- plan and the White City held a unique
 position as the only large and impor-
 tant show in Europe.
 This year at first sight the condi-
 owing to the fact that the French have revived their Salon. with no
 small success, and a. certain number
 of the new French and Italian mod
 els have been shown already in Paris. Incidentally, also, the Germans have held their first postwar eXhibi- ton in Berlin. showing a large range of new models.
 The Paris Salon in reality, outside the actual industry itself. has done very little more than Berlin, except possibly on paper, to anticipate the French Made Blind Move Last year, when the French, in the hour of clump, coupled with non-pro- auction, got "co1d feet and decided somewhat precipitately to abandon their Salon, they did not realize until
 some time afterward that they had allowed the European centre of in terest to pass out of their hands to
 the British capital, and with that ill.,
 judged decision the erstwhile prestige of the Salon has to a large extent been yielded for good.
 The British show is noteworthy not merely because design is necessarily | l1-, I@,N oSvl af}s i1yT because prices are such that better value for money Is offered that at either of the previous postwar shows.
 gledy of the transition period be- tween pre-far and postwar. Then i those who could not show a post war model tried to improve on their they did better than their confreres, l who rushed out a postwar model l full of innperfections. And of both l classes the prices were eXtortionate. | of the 1919 one; but prices were cha l otic and changed from day to day. | Then followed a setback, a period of l depression and of failures. At the present show we see the trade has extricated itsef@ from the | briars and thickets of the two pre- | vious years and has emerged some | what tattered and shorn of it's pros 1 Prices Have Come Down 1 Prices have come down with run, | and manufacturers have realized that | low prices alone will attract the or | ders that will keep them in bread and | butter through the next year. As it is, the present exhibition at | Olympia has broken all bounds as re- | gards the matter of numbers and ex- | hibits, and this in the teeth of the 1 worst and most trying year that auto l mobile manufacturers, not only ir
 England. but all over the world, have