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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-05
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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Flag Day Celebrated
By Patriotic Orders
Interesting Program At W.R.C. Hall
In Honor OF National Emblem

About one hundred people attended
the flag day exercises at the w. R. c.
Hall Tuesday afternoon held jointly
by the w. R. c., G. A. R, S, of V,
and P o S OF A. Mrs. r. H. Ball
presided for the G.. A R.. Rev. James
H. Elder opened the prgram witho
prayer. Mrs. J. M. Mosher read the
history of the United States flag
which was formally adopted as the
national emblem of the new republic
on June 14th 1777.
Rev. James H. Elder spoke or
'What the Flag Means to Me-" Rev
S. A. Strawm spoke on what TIL,
Army and Navy have done for Amer
lea" ] c. Graham and Johnny Lin
neman recited patriotic poems. TIT
last number on the program was
brief address on appreciation o
American liberties by Stewart F
Gelders.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Price Committee Of
Curb Market Enlarged
Junior and Negro Curb Market Nav
Be Established Here

J. N. SWearinger, farmer and one
of the regular sellers at the Fitzger-
aid curb market was named as chair
man of the enlarged curb market
committee at a meeting of farmers
and housewives at the Chamber of
Commerce yesterday morning.
Mrs. Lon Dickey chairman of the
Womans Club curb market Commit
tee, Mrs. Harvey Mathis and Mrs.
c. D. Carol of the Womans Club,
H H James, and c T. Owens of the
Farm Burau were retained on the en-
larged curb market committee They
will advise with other farmers and
announce standard prices on produce.
No compulsion will be used to en-
force observance of prices but it is
believed that no farmers will try to
profiteer or to cut each others Threats.
At the curb meeting Mr.. Owens
announced his intention of establish
ing junior curb market of pig, and
corn, and canning club boys and girls
on lots adjacent to those on which
the present market stands. 1t was
suggested also that seperate curb
market be established for negroes op-
posite the county court house.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
BICYCLE RACES
PLANNED ON 4TH
Will Be Feature of Independence
Day Program Here
REGISTRATION OPENS
Young Cyclists Must Register
To Compete for Prizes

Bicycle races in which youngsters
from Fitzgerald, Ashburn, Americas,
Ocilla, Nashville, CordeIe and other
South Georgia towns will contest,
will be one of the big features of
Fitzgerald Fourth of July celebration
this year it was stated today by ]. c.
Crews of the Chamber of Commerce
celebration committee.
Prizes will be offered by local mer-
chants and by the Cycle Trades of
America to the winners in the six
events that are on the program,
one mile, two miles and FIVE mile
event in each of two classes, one for
lads under fourteen years and the
other for older boys
DIR. Andrew NJ Soule of the State
College of Agriculture has been in
vited to make the GRAFTON of the day
Ply General Chairman w. A. Adams,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce. DR. Soule will not know def
initely until June 18th whether he can
come. The Fitzgerald and Ocilla con-
cert bands will combine to furnish mu-
Sic during the day. A brilliant dis
play of fireworks will close the cele-
bration at the fair grounds on Monday
night
Fitzgerald has had a community cele-
bration of Independence Day for ten
years. The crowds that have attend
ed the celebrations have grown each
succeeding year and fast year it was
estimated that thirty thousand visitors
came on train and in automobiles from
the surrounding section. The prog
ram this year will be the most elab-
crate and expensive ever attempted
and the grand parade will include
three new features, boy scouts from
five South Georgia towns, bicycle
section, and Farm Bureau section
with six floats of singing choruses.
Registration for the hi~vc'e races will
open at Crews Bicy,.e Co.1pany on
today, June 18th, and close Friday
July LIST in order to give the race com
mittee time to purge the entry lists of
professionals and to see that the age
limits are prperly observed.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Southern Champ
Beats Local Boy
Brown Takes Count In Fourth Round
Of Monday Night Match

Jim Brown took the count in the
fourth round OF the boxing match
Monday night after receiving a Sc
we're drubbing from Cracker Ander-
son from the first bell. The blow
which ended the fight was not a
knockout punch but Brown had
enough. He was hopelessly out.
classed Brown is large and rangy
and as fast on his-feet as Anderson
but could not handle his fists. And
erson smashed him at will.
DR.. Tom White refereed the mill
at the request of the crowd in at
tendance. ~
Two speedy preliminary bouts pre-
ceeded the main event and were much
better than the Anderson Brown go
Two 100 pound boys opened the card
with three round mix-up in which
Willie Reddick, was given the deci-
sion. ] ak Garrett won the decision in
speedy fly weight bout that went
four rounds, after the first two had
been divided and the third round a
draw
Local boxing enthusiasts are trying
to arrange match for Cracker And
erson with some good out of town
boxer on the fourth of July. Gordon
Stroud, who used to live in Fitzger.
aid and who has been boxing in At
lanta and other southern cities fol
several years, has beer mentioned a.
good match for the Cracker and ma,
be brought here.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Clyde Manon Gets
Canadian Patent
Invents Entirely New Type of Com
bination LEX For Safes

Clyde Lee Manon, son of Mr.. H. L.
Manon, yesterday received letters of
patent from the Canadian government
on a new safe lock he has invented.
He had previously received a patent
from the United States patent office
The lock is an entirely new departure
in combination safety devices and the
young inventor has received an attract
i've offer from Philadelphia concern
to develop his invention.
Young Manon has also invented a
device for automobile motrs 10 in
crease the power of an average motor
and reduce gas assumption. This in
vention has not been perfected and he
expects take the plans to Cincinnati
some time this summer to have the
model built.
The safe lock has changeable COM
binatin The combination can be
changed at will by whoever locks the
safe and it is human impossibility to
open the lock without knowing the
combination Of tumblers on which it
was closed.
Il can open nine tenths of the safes
in Fitzgerald, Mr.. Manon said, "Any
man with patience and an understand
ing of the construction of the old style
safe lock can do it easily. I have tried
to make lock that can not be opened
without the combination and l believe
| have succeeded"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Publicity Urged ByN
Union Label Leader
Assessment of Cent a Month Per
Man Would Meet Cost

DENVER, Col, June Is. - The
American Federation of Labor was
urged to conduct publicity cam
paign involving expenditures of near
ly $2,500000, by John w. Hayes,
president of the union labels depart
ment of the federation in an address
today before the departments con-
vention. He said such a campaign
was necessary at this time to gain
public support for the trades union
movement.
Employers organizations opposed
to trade unions" said Mr.. Hays,
have been using publicity to destroy
labor organizations. Large sums of
money have been expended to take
public sentiment away from us. be-
lieve the only way to direct it to
right channels is to give the absolute
facts to this large portion of the pub
lie that is being alienated from u.s."
Five cents a month from each
member of the federation, he said,
wuld cover the cost of the campaign.
Mr.. Hays, who is secretary treas
urer of the international Typograph-
ilal Union, declared the fight for the
fortyfour hour week IN the printing
industry was being combated by a
very small percentage of the employ
ing printers of their own initiative.
"A strenuous and continued fight
is being made he added, "for the
reason that interests that buy print
ing have said that if these printing
office employers concede the forty
four-hour week they will be boycott
ted and their business ruined"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
PUT YAM SYRUP
ON u. S. MARKETS
First Stage of Experiment Is
Completed in Fitzgerald
TRY OUT IN EAST
Samples of New Table Confec-
ton Given Local People

The first stage of the United States
governments sweet potato experiment
has been completed and Dr. H.C. Gore
diseoverer of the formula, has return
ed to Washington after having pro-
duced about thirty barrels of the new
syrup in the experiment station built
here by the government.
The second stage of developing the
new discovery is be a.ong the line
of commercial experiments and will
be handled by the office of develop
ment of the bureau of chemistry. 1t
is planned to submit samples of the
new syrup to candy manufacturers
and other large commercial consum-
ers of sugar and syrup AMI to find
how the new discovery will work in
commercisl CONNECTIONS and whether
it can be used proftably.
1t is not considered practical to
experiment with the new syrup's sal
ability as table CONNECTION in COM
petition with cane and maple syrups
1t would take too much time and too
large distributing organization to
give the new syrup a try out as a
sweetener for Americas pan cakes
If the syrup can be used by the large
users OF syrup, it will be placed on
the retail trade in the course of time.
Several gallons have been distributed
in Fitzgerald and those who have
used the syrup consider it at least
the equal of Georgia cane.
Exact cost figures have been OBJ
tanned on a sliding scale to allow for
variations i'll the price of sweet pota-
toes and every detail OF manufacture
has been worked out to near perfec-
ton. If the product proves salable
at profitable price it is assured that
local capital will take over and ex-
pand the experiment station here
into a large factory and will exploit
the new discovery to the fullest ex-
tent. This is a great sweet potato
section and the potential supply OF
the yarn syrup is unlimited
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
"AWAY DOWN UPON
THE SUWANEE RIVER

A jolly party of fishermen returned
Sunday from Florida where they had
been spending several days in search
of Tarpon but failed to find anything
larger than carps, suckers and trout.
Leaving their car at Branford, Fla,
the party attached motor to a canoe
and sailed about two hundred miles
down the Suwanee river to Cedar
Keys. In the party were Messrs.
Lawrence Glover, Thos. Hendrix,
Sturgeon Fuller, and E M. Bishop
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
PREPARE TO OPEN
SONG CONVENTION
Songsters and Musicians from
Miles Around to Come
OPENS AT 10 TOMORROW
Local Music Lovers Asked At
tend Early Meetings

The South Georgia Union Singers
Association meet here in annual con-
vention Friday Judge J. B. Clements
of Irwinville will convene about two
hundred delegates at 1000 o'clock for
three day program of singing and
of discussions of means of promoting
interest in singing in Georgia.
The association comprises one
hundred South Georgia counties each
of which is authorized to send five
delegates. The convention usually is
attended by three to five hundred
singers including delegates from the
county singing associations and visi-
tors for the section around which the
convention is held
Judge T. J. Luke secretary-treas-
urer who is In charge of the conven-
ton, was elected last summer as rep
resentative from Ben Hill county to
the legislature and WIN go to Atlanta
to assume his seat after the conven-
ton. He will introduce a bill which
has been asked by the association at
several conventions to make singing
a part of the common school curricu-
lum.
+ The common schools are now re-
quired by law to teach about eight
lines of learning and Judge Luke
would make vocal music the ninth,
The bill would be made effective by
the provision that no school shall re-
ceive state school money unless sing
ing is regularly taught. Judge J. B.
Clements, president OF the association
was senator from this district for sew
eral terms His successor Wiley Will
liams from Fitzgerald will handle the
bill in the senate when Judge Luke
introduces it.
The visitors to the convention will
be entertained in the homes of men,
bers of the Ben Hill county singing
association and will hear several sing
ing master of wide reputation
Fitzgerald people who expect to
hear the programs are advised to at
te 20 he Friday and Saturday sessions
as the Sunday session will be attend
ed by so many visitors that few local
people will be able to get in the Court
House.
Judge T. J. Luke secretary of the
association who is in charge of the
convention has booked as special fea-
lures, eight singers of statewide rep
utation in church work and especially
rural singing association work, the
Vaughn Quartette of Lawrenceburg,
Tenn, the quartet of the Union Book
Co., of Atlanta, Med. Weams, a song
writer of Rome, Ga. Mr.. and Mrs R,
M. Gresham of Greenville, S. C, Sam
w Beasly of Atlanta, J. C. McLen-
don Of McRae, and Eddie Faircloth
of Greenville, S. C,
The singing convention is to be
held in the county court house which
seats about 1000 people, Judge ]. B.
Clements of Irwinville, president will
preside at the meetings. j. c. Lend
erman of McRae is vice-president aad
Judge T. ] Luke of Fitzgerald. sec
retary-treasurer.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
"KATCHA-KOO" TICKETS
ARE ON SALE TODAY

The advance sale of tickets for
"Katcha-Koo" is now being made by
members of the cast. The first &c
rows are being sold for $1.00 plus
war tax and the rest of the house for
Use plus war tax, except the box
seats which are already reserved al
higher price by some of the library
patrons
The first half days sale of reserved
seats will be limited to advanced
ticket holders, giving them the first
choice of seats.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Finishing Dixie
Highway Pavement

The finishing touches are being
put on the last mile of surfacing on
the Dixie Highway between this city
and Della and the contractors will
turn the road over to the Highway
Commission in few days. A fitting
program for opening the highway is
being arranged for by a joint COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
OF this City and citizens of Ocilla. A.
H. Denmark is chairman.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Rail Leaders Intimate
A Strike Is Possible

CHICAGO, June -. = Railroad
employees may accep, the $400, 000,-
600 wage cut ordered by the federal
labor board to take effect July l.
and they may not.
This latter possibility was injected
into the hearings before the board
of applications for wage cuts by rail-
roads not included in the June l de-
cision We'd esday by L. E. Shep-
pard, grand president of the Order
of Railway Conductors, and by w. G
Lee, president of the Order of Rail
way Trainmen.
This is the first time in all the ne.
gotiations over the proposed wage
reductions for 100000 railroad EN-
ployees that strike talk has been sc
much as remotely suggested by re
sponsible rail union leaders.
Both the leaders solemnly warned
the board that they would not be re
sponsible for the de>Ision of the mer
if unsatisfactory wage cuts are an
uounced in July.
B. M. Jewell, president of tn,
American Federation OF Labor, rail
road department, told the United
News that acceptance or rejection
votes on the proposed cuts were pu
III the mail Wednesday for the un
ions he represents-practically 600,
600 men.
"This vote will be completed June
U.s." he said. "We will know where
we stand when the board makes it.
final decision in Iulv.n
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Farm Bureau Has
Meeting AT Mystic

Mecs~.. c. E.. Garner, live stock
marketing agent and M. c. Gay,
ma. ~ IN agent for the State Col
lege Of Agriculture passed through
the city this morning en- route to
Mystic, where the will hold meet
ing for the Farm Bureau Thursday
morning.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15

Mrs c. B. White, who recently
returned to the city from an extend
ed visit in St. Augustine, Fla, has
moved into her property on West
Pine streets formerly occupied by
Mr.. J. M. Lee and family.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15

Mr.. and Mrs J. B. Seanor left
Tuesday for Fayetteville to attend the
marriage of their son Preston Bauder
and Miss LAUREN Virginia Lester
which will take place at the Baptist
church this evening at 800 o'clock
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE TO MEET

A meeting of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee for Ben Hill
county is called to meet at the Cham
Der of Commerce for Saturday June
18th at II a. m.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15

Mrs. r B McLain, of Sulphur
Springs, Texas, arrived in the city to
spend some time with her mother,
Mrs Wilcox and brother Mr.. G. S.
Wilcox and family on south Grant.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15
Burkhart's Marmon
In Bad Accident

MILFORD Burkhart Drives Down EN-
bankment near Atlanta Sunday
MILFORD Burkhart and his school,
mate Carl Hardaway Boone of At
lanta, both honor graduates of Tech,
narrowly escaped fatal injuries when
Burkhart's Marmon car, ran down
an embankment and turned over
several times last Sunday, near At
lanta.
The car was considerably damaged
but the boys escaped without a
scratch, the heavy top of the Mar
mon, taking care of them in their
acrobatic experience.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15

Mrs. Belle Chovin left last week to
spend the summer with friends and
relatives in Michigan
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15

Mrs. E. E. Perkins has returned
from Albany where she has been Wis
ting her son.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15


The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XXXI.-CALIFORNIA
~ THERE is
:: :: s: !: :: !: !:
NJ n w. of California
9@ which even
encircles the origin Of the name.
About 1920 a Spanish love story
was published in which there
was an imaginary island in the
Far East called California. Some
fifteen years later a party Of
Spanish Adventures came upon
the peninsula which we now call
Lower California. Believing that
they had discovered q romantic
island similar to the one In the
novel, they called 1t California.
Later on, the territory to the
north became known as Alta
California or High California
and when 1t became a state, it
was accordingly called Cali
fornia. The first settlers were
the franciscan monks who came
up from Mexico and established
missions, and many are the leg
ends woven around these pioneer
Padres. There shortly grew up
Mexican settlements around the
missions which the wonderful
climate and fertile soil pros
pered.
The government, while under
Mexican control, was more or
less independent, and at the out
break Of the Mexican war, Ere
mont, who was later defeated
for the presidency, occupied CAL
ifornia. When peace was made
in 1S48, California became Uni
ted States territory. That same
year gold was discovered in the
Sacramento Valley and the rush
Of people to California began.
The population grew so rapidly
that in 1850 California was ad-
mitted as the thirty-first state
Of the Union. With lis 158,297
square miles, it Is the largest
state except Texas. Politically,
Its power has been rapidly grow
Ing. California now has thirteen
presidential electors.
90 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.l
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-15

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-01
RED CROSS GAVE 100000.
For Distribution Toward Relief of Peo-
pie in Ireland.

Burlington. April l.-State Chair
man McAuliffe of the Vermont branch
of the American committee for relief in
Ireland, received a telegram from Nor
gan j. 0'Brien, the national chairman
of the organization, this tnorningstating
that the American committee had re.
ceived donation of one hundred thou.
sand dollars from the American Red
Cross for distribution of relief in Ire
land.
The telegram further reads:
Upon receipt of this donation we
agreed that all state and local chair
men would hereafter refrain from So
liciting funds for purpose of this com
mittee and that all donations so far
received from local Red Cross chapters
shall be returned to such chapters.
This contribution from the nation
nj orga niLation of the Red Cross dem :
onstrates the need of the suffering
women and children of Ireland and that
this society approaching the situation.
comes substantially to the rescue.
Il have notified all county chairmen
Of Vermont to discontinue the solicit
ing of contributions from the local
chapters of the Red Cross and to no
tify all solicitors Of this action.
THE work of raising money in Yer
mont for the relief in Ireland is going
on nicely and the state is sure TO place
another star in its crown Of noble
deeds"