The Columbus dispatch., 1921-09-21
Rumblings Round
Rural Hill

AS we pen these lines to the Dis.
patch we see many signs of the ap-
proach of the fall season, although il
still continues quite sultry for Sep
tember. We have had long, hot
summer, and we are glad cooler
period is near at hand. The leaves are
beginning to change their color, and
we can see the yellow butterflies as
they pass on their way farther South.
The fields are ripe with the harvest,
and the ears Of corn are hanging down
ready to be garnered by the hus-
bandman Fields of cotton are being
picked, and hay is being cut. All go
to show that summer time is leaving
us and fall is coming on.
Right lately we have been thinking
of few things that would help our
community and other communities as
well. One thing we thought of was
Produce Route The plan as it
came to us was about as follows: Sup
pose some man in the Liberty com
munity should buy a truck and would
start from this community with what
produce he could gather, and then
add to his load along route of
eighteen or twenty miles, picking up
such things as eggs, butter vegetables,
chickens, etc, hauling the same to
Columbus and selling it and charg
ing the producers reasonable COM
mission for their stuff. AT Colum-
bus the owner o. the truck could in
woke the aid of the county farm
demonstrator in disposing of the load,
or, in case there was no demand in
Columbus, the produce could be ship
oed to Birmingham or Memphis. This
system, if carried ON regularly, would
rive the farmers some ready cash all
The time and it would make business
better in town. The truck, after dis
posing of its load of country pro-
luce, could bring back merchandise
from Columbus and distribute it
among the farmers. 1t seems that
every community should have milk
quite, such as Mt. Vernon has, mas
much as the farmers get their milk
delivered for a whole month for what
t would cost them, individually, to
leliver the milk two mornings One
good feature about the milk route is,
that the Columbus Ice Cream &
Creamery Company pays big share
of the cost of the delivery of the
milk. Ruralite is ready to help start
a milk route up and down the Tus-
caloosa road Who will cooperate?
We think our community should
organize for the production of poul-
try, eggs, vegetables, live stock, ETC.,
and affiliate with the Lowndes Coun-
ty Farm Bureau. We could raise
and ship stuff and bring lot of
outside money into our county This
is being done in other places; why
not here? One trouble with the
farmers is, they do not treat their
business as a business. The average
farmer doesn't paw as much atten-
ton to his business (as business) as
Charley Funk pays to his peanut and
popcorn store at the old Mayo cor
ner in Columbus. The average farm
of 100 acres, with improvements, far
ming implements, stocks, etc, is
worth approximately nine thousand
dollars. Why should not the farmer
thus situated do as well financially
as merchant with nine thousand
dollar stock of goods? The farmers
Of the country are in the most gi-
gantic business of all, and they
should, by organization and cooper
alton and strict attention to busi-
ness in a business way, get what is
coming to them.
Mr.. Joseph Bell, of Paragould,
Ark, is visiting Mr.. w. NJ. Bell this
week. Mr.. Bell is a planter in Ar
kansas and is successful business
man. We were glad to see him and
shake his hand, as he was one OF
pur school mates in the long ago.
RURALITE. (