Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-31
WORLD BEING TOLD
Of TURNER COUNTY'S
BIG DEVELOPMENT
BY JACK l.. PATTERSON

vertisements appearing in the Phila-
delphia Public Legder, the Saturday
Evening Post and the Country Gen
tlemen and smaller announcements
appearing in various other publica.
tons reveal an ambitious develop
ment program that has made this
prolific and progressive South Geor-
gia county the topic Of discussion
throughout the state.
Turner county has adopted the de.
velopment program of the Georgia
association, whose directors held an
important meeting in Ashburn Fri
day. The president, George T. Belts,
of this city, presided. r. E. Trexler,
Of Waycross, was elected treasurer,
and F. H. Abbott, Of Waycross, was
elected secretary. Among the direc-
tors and vice presidents present were:
Mrs. J. E. Hays, Montezuma; P. r.
Bomeisler, Maycross; C. K. C. Aus
ley, cambridge; 7. ]. Parker, Tiff
county; A. S. Bussey, Crisp; w. B.
F'lemming, Decatur; w. Hardy, Tur-
ner; E. w. Carroll, Clarke; J. G.
Oliver, Clarke; S. H. Starr, w. E.
Algee, w. l.. Harmon, w. S. Cobb,
Mrs. N. Peterson, H. D. Webb, J.
N. Brown, il. S. Murray, S. L. Lewis,
of Tiff.
w. o. Foote, of Atlanta, is thirr
vice president of the association.
Many Visitors Present
Scores of interested farmers and
business men from other counties
spent the day in Turner county, in
specting the farms and investigating
conditions. Among the counties rep
resented was, Ware, with a delega-
ton Of fifty men and women; Pierce,
Clinch, Irwin, Decatur, Ben Hill,
Tiff, Crisp, Dooly and others. The
Ware county delegates was headed
by Editor Jack Williams, Of the Way
cross Journal-Herald; r. E. TreXler
and f. H. Abbott. At noon the hun
dreds Of visitors were the guests at
a luncheon given at the high school
building which was prepared by the
young ladies in the domestic science
class. This complim ant was arrang-
ed especially for the Third District
G. G. Mckenzie, acting as toast
master, talks were made t5y the
following: c. H. Bishop, presi
dent of the Turner county Board
of Trade; George T. Belts, Ash
burn, president of the Georgia
association; Miss Emily Woodward,
editor Of the Vienna News and presi-
dent of the Third District Press asso-
citation; H. D. Poo' -7~-'c-oss; Mrs.
j. E. Hovs Montezuma, vice presi-
dent of the Georgia association; Jack
L. Patterson, Atlanta Journal; Sen
ator J. K. Larkins, Hoboken, Brant-
ley county; Charles J. Bayne, asso-
ciate editor Of +he Macon News; Jack
Williams, editor Of the Waycross
Journal-Herald; Charles r. Crisp,
member of congress from the Third
Georgia district; f. H. Abbott, Sec
rotary of the Georgia association.
Development Program
Ashburn has a creamery with
capacity of one hundred thousand
pounds Of butter month. At pres
ent the production is about forty
thousand pounds. This enterprise is
supplied largely by dairy cows in
Turner and adjoining counties. Re
in agricultural development, inspir-
ing the people to adopt the follow
| ing program for 1928:
One hundred thousand pounds of
| sour cream every month.
Fifteen carloads of hogs sold every
month.
Two carloads of poultry sold every
month.
fOy
club.
Two hundred members for the pig
club.
Eight hundred members for the
Turner county farm bureau.
One hundred members for the
girls canning club.
| Permanent pastures on every
farm in Turner county.
A rs per cent increase in acreage
| production.
| Better schools.
Two hundred new settlers for the
county.
Spirit of Cooperation ,
| Cooperating enthusiastically in
| the promotion Of this development
program are: Turner county board
Of trade, Ashburn Merchants asso-
citation, Ashburn Bankers associa-
ton, Turner County Pig club, Tur-
ner County Calf club, Turner county
| Canning club, Turner County Co.
operative Sales Agency, Woman's
Club of Ashburn, Turner County
Dairy association, county agent,
Ashburn Creamery and Cold Storage
association, Sycamore Woman's| club,
home demonstration agent. Working
energetically and effectively with
these organizations is the Wiregrass
Farmer, weekly newspaper, owned
edited and published by Joe Law
renee, an Irishman, who came to
America at the age of 20 years, and
has grown up with Ashburn, with
whose interests he is prominently
and influentially identified.
Past Achievements
Turner county is noted through
out the country for conspicuous
achievements along various lines Of
endeavor, particularly that of agri-
cultural development. Pre-eminently
a cotton-producing county, the farm.
ers have found it necessary, on &C
count of the invasion of the boil
Weevil, to resort to diversified farm
ing, with results that have Dor.
dered on the sensational. It has
been convincingly demonstrated that
the fertile soil will yield various
crops in rich Guidance. Frequent
cooperative hog and poultry sales
have Melted substantial profits.
For years the immense lumber
mill operated by J. S. Belts & Co.
was Ashburn's principal industry
but long-leaf yellow pine is fast dis
appearing throughout the section i:
which it once f1ourished, and saw
mills and turpentine stills are not
as numerous as they were twenty,