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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
To Attend Conference
OF Employees OF
Central of Georgia

Agent j. H. kirkpatrick, OF
Leesburg, and of Central OF
Georgia Railway and other
employees of the road have
been invited to attend the annual
conference of employees at Macon,
January 25 and 26. Representa-
tives of the Central from all parts
of the SYSTEM to the number OF
more than five hundred, will be
present.
The purpose of the annual con-
ference is to discuss plans for
the betterment of the service,
and to hear reports of what has
been accomplished during the
past year. Records show that
the Central made excellent rec
ords for efficiency and econmy OF
operation during 1922. there
was a remarkable reduction In
the amount paid out for loss and
damage to freight, which OF
course means that shippers were
receiving improved service.
Claims for loss, damage and de-
lay to baggage were the lowest
in the history of the road and a
fine record of economy in the use
of fuel was made.
The conference will convene
in Macon's city auditorium and
will be presided over by G. l..
Gambler, assistant general mana
ger.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
Farmers Making
improvements in
Lee County

It is very evident that every
thing in general is getting bet
ter. The farmers in all sections
Of the County are building new
farm houses, barns and making
other Improvements. Some of
the best and largest barns to be
found are being built by some OF
the big farmers this year,
Our farmers are beginning to
diversity their crops and within
a short time we will not know
the boil weevil ever hit Lee coun-
ty. This year Lee county raised
about 1000 tons of peanuts which
is at the present price worth
more than the same number OF
bales Of cotton. Besides this
Lee county ship1',s',0 the thou
sands of dollars worth Of pecans
which is another coming indus
: try for this county. Our farmers
now have several car loads OF
hogs but are holding them for
better prices before putting them
on the market.
1t has been said that cotton
was our only money crop but We
think the farmers of this section
are convinced that this is not
true and are going to prove it
within their own mind and show
that money can be made on the
farms of Lee county with some
thing besides cotton.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
Gloomy Gus" Pred.c;s
Many Disasters in 1923

Professor Gustav Mayer, as
trologer of Holoken, N j. whose
card modestly proclaims him
nations counsellor" can see no
happy new year" ahead. His
predictions, based on a study of
the stars, show that 1923 will see:
Another flu epidemic; cut
breaks of strikes and violence;
terrific earthquakes. subway
cave-ins and collapse Of sky
scrapers; Wall Street failures
plague in the public schools;
explosions and fires on ships at
sea, continued wave of murder,
and increasing number of divorce
and scandals among. clergy, press
and the bar.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
New Baptist Church
Nearing Completion

The new Baptist church will
be completed this month about
the 9th, according to informa-
ton. This church will cost about
$40, 900 and will be modern in
every respect. There will be Ia
Sunday School rooms with an
auditorium to seat five hundred
or six hundred people. The name
of the church has been changed
from the Leesburg Baptist church
to the Galloway Memorial in
memory of the Galloway family
former residents of this city.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
Ten Prisoners Deliver
Themselves Late
THU day Night
All Escapes Are Negroes

Ten inmates ..,,of the Houston
County Jail, including severa'
convicted felons, made theil
escape late last Thursday nigh
through a hole about two fee
square in thessouth end Of the
jail wall. They used their blan.
kets to scale,theSSwall. Officers
believe the work leading to the
delivery was an inside job. The
escaped men were all negroes.
Jesse Holden, white imam, who
was confined ION the upper floor
was the only prisoner who did
not get away.
Lucius Mallory, convicted for
murder at the April, 1922, term
Of Houston Superior Court, SEN
fenced to die, and whose case has
been appealed to the Supreme
Court; Aaron Clark, convicted of
manslaughter, at the October
term, and sentenced to fifteen
years in the penitentiary; Floyd
Roach, under charge of nun der,
with a mistrial declared at the
October term; Clint Cherry. held
under charges Of burglary; Wal
ter Johnson, charged with simple
larcency; Otis Rutherford, held
for burglary; Eugene Maxon,
alleged forger; Lovett Foster,
accused with assault with intent
to murder, and Yancey Brown,
vagrancy, were the prisoners to
escape.
Friday morning about 8 o'clock
when Asa L. Woodward went to
the Jail to feed the prisoners, he
discovered only a void where his
prisoners had been. He found
Jesse Holden in the upper story
corridor. Holden told him that
the inmates on the ground floor
were working all Thursday after
noon and the early part of that
night, and got away at about
1880 O'Clock. Holden said an
automobile came to the Jail some
time between 8 and 9 O'Clock,
and left before the inmates went
out.
L. B. Griggs, deputy sheriff,
fed the prisoners Thursday after
noon at one o'clock. Then, every
thing was all right, he said.
The hole in the wall seems tc
have been dug by someone on the
inside, officers say.
There were only two prisoners
in cells, The others were out in
the ground floor corridor. The
bolts in the two cells were remov
ed, and the pair joined the eight
men. The door to the Jail was
apparently opened with a crow
bar.
Houston County officers have
broad cast news Of the escape
and are searching for the escaped
negroes.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
Undergoes Operation

Mr.. Kline Kirkpatrick left on
Monday for Plains hospital
where he seeks surgical
treatment, at the hands Of the
noted Drs. Wise.
The many friends of this young
man hope that his restoration to
normal health will be complete
and speedy and that he will soon
be at home again.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
p C. CANS.

WANTED-To buy your seed
ling and paper shell newpecans,
crop only, cash market price paid
for them. Submit samples as
soon as gathered, stating approx
innate amount you will have.
MILLS-McCORMACK
CANDY COMPANY
ALBANY, GEORGIA
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
FARMERS URGED TO
ATTEND Meeting
IN ALBANY ON
FEBRUARY 9Th
To Form cooperative
Marketing Organization
To Handle the Pecan
And Peanut Crop of this
Section.

The Journal is publishing below
a letter from Mr.. R. E. l.. Spence,
of Albany, in regard to a meet
ing to be held there on February
9th. We think it is probably the
best thing for our farmers and
urge them to attend this meet
ing. The letter is as follows:
Editor Lee County Journal.
Leesburg, Georgia,
Dear Editor
lam writing to invite your
attention and the attention of
your splendid paper to a little
news item which may have escap-
led your notice, namely, the visit
Of Mr.. Aaron Sapiro, of Califor.
MIA, to Albany, Ca, on February
9th for the purpose of meeting
and discussing in detail with the
farmers Of all over this favored
section of Georgia the possibility
Of the organization of the pea
nut and pecan into a cooperative
marketing organization.
To my mind this will be one Of
ehe most important events OF
this year for this section of Geor-
gia and I hope that you will be
kind enough to cooperate with
me and assist me in getting the
very largest audience possible
from all over South West Geor-
gia, to hear this wonderful man.
In this connection tits unneces-
sary fol- me to tell you Of the
wonderful work Mr. Sapiro has
done for California. I feel that
you already know this. And
also the splendid service which
Judge r. W. Bingham, of Louis
Vile, Kentucky, with the assist
ance of Mr.. Sapiro, has done for
Kentucky by the organization of
the Kentucky Tobacco Growers
Association into a cooperative
marketing plan for their tobacco.
Immediately after the wal
Kentucky, like nearly all other
states of the Union, was fnan.
cially Frustrated Horse racing
and Horse breeding had gone tt
the bad, there being no market;
tobacco was selling for IL to
cents per pound, and Kentucky
like Georgia and nearly all OF
the other states, was in finaucia
chaos ard prostration. But a
that time some of the Ieadinf
citizens of Kentucky appealedtC
Judge R. w. Bingham, ownel
and publisher Of the Louisville
Courier Journal and the Louis
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
6 6 8

is a Prescription tor Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's
the most speedy remedy
we know, preventing Pneu-'
monia.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
Ones Ideals.

Ones Ideals.
Humanity never rises above its
ideals. What ought to be is always
above and beyond what is. Unless,
however, we have before us the vision
Of something better, we ecan never
rise above what we are.-Exchange.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
City Court in
Session This Week

The City Court of Leesburg
convened here, on Monday with
only a light civil and criminal
docket. All the cases were
finished and court adjourned on
Tuesday.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19

from the Leesburg Baptist church
to the Galloway Memorial in
memory of the Galloway family
former residents of this city.
vile Times, two of the most I'M
portant daily papers in that Sec
ton of the United States, and
therefore to large an extent a
mtulder Of publid opinion on
public events and of business, to
do something to help Kentucky
out, For it was a time when it
was absolutely necessary that
something must be done, Judge
Bingham's attention was finally
concentrated on conditions, he
realized that Kentucky sgreatest
hope for prosperity was in the
raising of and proftablely selling
tobacco. Naturally this was the
first possible remedy to which he
gave his attention. And realizing
that the trouble was not in the
raising Of tobacco. but in profit
ablely selling it, he at his own
expense went out to California
and spent several weeks or
months in studying the Sapiro
plan Of marketing farm products.
and became convinced that this
plan was the solution Of the far
mers problem of marketing his
products. He therefore, at his
own expense, brought MI. Sapiro
back to- Kentucky with him and
spent several months in the
organization of this Kentucky
Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Marketing Association. Before
the organization Of this associa-
ton tobacco was selling from IL
to 2 cents per pound, almost i'm
mediately upon it's organization
the rrice of tobacco became Is
cents per pound and is today
selling for more than 80 cents
per pound, and it is a fact that
today, almost due entirely to the
organization Of this cooperative
marketing plan for tobacco, that
Kentucky is lightning to be one
of the most prosperous states in
entire United States.
To my mind this is such an
important subject that | would
love to see every farmer through
out Georgia present at this meet
ing, for to my mind the greatest
problem before the farmer is not
IN raising products, but in selling
them. Every manufacturer or
1.-THE face Of the earth, except the
! farmer has the most expert
talent and brains that money car
employ to sell his products. The
farmer on the contrary works
hard all the year, makes and har
vests his crop, brings them int
! the warehouse, dumps them or
the floor, all at the same time il
an un-organized and un-systema
tic way, and says to the buyer
What will you give me for it.
and has to take what he is offered
Cooperative marketing Of farm
products to my mind is the solu
ton for the present weak con
dition of the farming interest o.
the entire country.
Won't you therefore, help me
to get an audience for Mr.. Sapirc
at Albany, Ca, On February 9th
next month. Don't forget, dom
fail and give this plenty of pro
minence and publicity.
With kind personal regards,
Sincerely,
/ R. 4. L. SPENCE.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-01-19
PrOcraStinatiOn
''DeSer not till tomorrow to be wise.
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. /"

You have many times determined to prepare your
self for future opportunities. Probably you have as
many times put off taking the necessary steps.
Some folks say that opportunity knocks but once;
others say that it knocks than however that
may be- it is surely inability to take advantage OF oppor
tunity knocks all the time
Opportunity is knocking at your door now. 1t points
the way for you to take advantage of taking fresh
start life by opening bank account, accommodating
money with which take advantage of the next good
investment that comes along.
There truer saying than the old adage
1T takes money to make money" How many times In
your life have you said to yourself IF only had the
money could make some money out of that PROPOSE
tion?
Every day you putting off opening a bank ac-
account and accommodating something puts just that
much further from taking advantage of opportunity
Make the start today even if it be smull We will help
and give you every encouragement possible.
BANK OF LEESBURG,
G A. NEsBIT, PRESIDENT O.W.STATHAM E-PREsIDENT
~ T. c. THARP, CASHIER
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01

Rev. Francis j. Medallion. THE
Heart of Americanism," Rev. Father
Medallion showed to be love for our
fellow men. Throughout his address,
he stressed the points of love and
charity and told of the various kinds
of love, such as different animals
have for their young, but held that
only st. Paul in his writings explain
ed true love for our fellow men.
Rev. Father Medallion also quoted
from st. Luke in bringing before the
audience his explanation of this
canism' and pictured how great
love can be by telling of the Prodsi-
cal SON, who after spending his mon
ey in a far country went home to
his father, was received with open
and shown tho Sreat love his
father held for him while ON the
other hand his brother who had
stayed home, proved himself to be
a baby and lacking love when he re-
fused to go into the house because
his father was making such a time
over the return OF his brother.
He told Of the work of Michael
Angelo in cutting the statue of
Moses, how he hung O lamp above
his head in order that no shadow
would be east on his masterpiece
and declared that VIC. as Americans,
must bask in the amp of love and
go shoulder to shoulder with each
other.
Following the prayer by DR.. Med
ermeyer and the singing of America,
the meeting adjourned.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01
Another Card Party
For Rosary Society

Mrs. Edward Witt is chairman of
the regular weekly card party of the
Rosary Society, which will be held
in 81. Mary's hall in Centre street
Thursday night, There win be sew
eral non-players prizes. The usual
card games of bridge. five hundred,
pinochle. euchre and the peanut jap
will be played.
Those assisting Mrs. Witt are Mrs.
II. johnson. Mrs. William Clark,
Mrs. J.. Smith. Mrs. Charles Quinn.
Mrs. William H. Buckley, Mrs. Fred
Seguine, Mrs. Margaret Foley, Mrs.
Ellie: Donahue. Mrs. Thomas Hen
derson, Sr., Mrs. j.. White, Mrs.
Patrick White. Mrs. Joseph Nc
Laughlin, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. ]. N.
Kennedy, Mrs, Bracken, Mrs. Frank
Rhodes, Mrs. l.. j. Mullen, Mrs.
Leavy, Mrs. Gleason, Mrs. Joseph
Van SICKLE, Mrs. Draper. Mrs. w. J..
Buckley, Mrs. Thomas Patten, Mrs.
M, Donovan, Mrs. Bullwinkle. Mrs.
Henry Sfa' MIS-. Catherine Clapsa-
dell, Miss Louise Senior, Mrs. Peter
J.. Quadt. Mrs. r. Seguine. Mrs. G.
White, Mrs. Richard Stack, Mrs. j.
Stack, Mrs. w. Riley Mrs. William
Cheshire, Mrs. j. Pender. Mrs. c..
Lind, Mrs. w. Morrow, Mrs. +.
O'Brien, Mrs. M. O'Hara, Mrs. T.
Eearney Mrs. Hartung, Mrs. n.
Mordissey, Mrs. Pavese. Mrs. Wit
liam Reid and Mrs. Williqam Halla-
han.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01
Perth Amboy
Personal Mention

Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Clark, of High
street, have opened their summer
Tome at Spring Lake.
Miss Ethel Siberia. OF Brooklyn,
was the guest of Miss Henrietta Fine
OF New street, I've the Weekend.
A son, was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
wallace Sofield, of Linden formerly
OF this city, Sunday night.
Miss Rose Cooper, of Bayonne,
was the weekend guest of Miss The
fesa Horowitz, Of Mechanic street.
Miss Marion Burns, OF Leonia. was
the guest of friends in this city.
Miss Sadie Goldsmith, of Trenton
orn1aI School, spent the weekend
her home in Kearny avenue
Miss Elizabeth Jay, of Newark.
the weekend guest of Miss Ro-
selia Goldberger. of Water street.
Misses Amy Goldberger, Theresa
Jacobsen, Blanche Whitman, and
Anna Ballagi, of New York, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Hummer of Lewis street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01
Musical Treat
For Woodbridge

WOODBRIDGE, May l.
Mr. Molly Chapin-Ely, a we'll
known eontralto soloist. has been
secured TO sing at the concert which
VIII be given in the Methodist church
on May II. Stanley c. Potter, a ten
or, will be the other soloist. The
concert is being arranged by Mrs.
Frank Valentine, who is accompany
ing at the piano. and Harry Stone
Martin viii preside at the organ.
The proceeds will be divided between
the Methodist church, the Trinity
Episcopal church and the ST. Paul's
church of Railway. Tickets are now
on sale and may be procured from
any member of the committee in
charge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01
POLITICAL CLUBS MEET

A joint meeting of the Slovak In
dependent Political Club, Polish AM
erican Citizens Club, Hungarian So
cial Club, Hungarian Sixth Ward
Democratic Club and Carpatho-Rus-
sian Political Club. was held Sunday
in the Slovak Catholic school audi
torium in Penn street. The object
of the meeting was to formulate
plans for political affairs especially
in the sixth ward. Following the
meeting refreshments were served
and a social hour was enjoyed. Rev.
Joseph Szuchy was present.
The speakers were: DIR. Matthew
#. Urbanski. Eugene Borros, Mich
ael Stunt, Alex o. Zambory. Joseph
Kisk. Wendell Hoffman, Michael La
komski, Joseph Mrasz, John Strom-
bach and Emil A. Bacha.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01
Anniversary
Event Enjoyed

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stevenson, of
Meade street, entertained a number
OF friends at their home Sunday
night, in honor of their first weddine
anniversary. The house was decora.
ted with steamers and cut flowers,
Games were played and music en-
Joyed. A supper was served.
The guests included:-Mr, and
MRS Q. u. Hanson, Mrs. Mary Stew
eneon, Mr.. and Mrs. John Steyenson
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hanson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Ostergaard, Mrs. Nav
kohler, Mr.. and Mrs. George Fb-
ner, Frank johnson, Theodore
thompson, Anna and Marie Elmer,
Mildred Kohler, John Kohler. Georre
and Charles Stevenson, Walter and
Edward Disregard, Robert and
Harold Hanson. of this city, Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Stevenson, of Bound
Brook. Miss Vivian Sampson, Of
Brooklyn, Joseph Keiher, OF New
York,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01

ed Peter;'' and other books OF SINH
lar character which the speaker
called rotten"
The talk on books brought Mr..
Giles to the point where he intro
duced his little red book into the
address. This book, he declared, as
he held it high SO that everyone
might see, was written 100 or more
years ago, and is the most sacred
of the American people, with the ex-
ception of the Bible. The little red
book contained the constitution of
the United tates He pointed out
that some people who pay as much
as 500, 600 in taxes don't know
whether the constitution is as large
as the telephone directory or as
small as a farmers almanac.
1--WE owe our government to the
splendid constitution said Mr..
Giles and continuing he told how the
constitution keeps the senators and
congressman from doing as they
please as it tells them they can go
farther. What would become of
our liberty If the men who govern
were not told what they could do"
asked the speaker.
He divided the people into three
classes. masters of reality who slave
such as Washington and Alexander,
Hamiltoon; slaves OK reality who
drift, such as Benedict Arnold and
dupes of reality. or those who change
their mind SO often that they never
have q chance to change conditions.
The trouble WIN revolutionary
socialism is, according to Mr. Giles,
that you cannot know where you are
going if you don't know where you
are at. The trouble with Russia, he
held, was that she doesn't know
where she is at or where she is going.
lie then contrasted conditions in this
country with those in Russia and
pictured how conditions would be
the same in the United States if the
constitution was wiped out.
In closing he urged the people to
return to the God of Our Fathers
and be loyal to the church, then they
will be loyal to the little Red. Book.
Forty-five members of the new
citizenship class of the Y. NJ. c.. A.
were present and at this point in the
meeting J. A. Larcombe. the indus
trial secretary of the Y. M. c. A., in
.troduced the class to the audience.
Mr.. Larcombe also lead the audience
in the reading of 1.-THE Americans
Creed" In a short talk before the
Introduction of the class Mr.. Lar
combe told of the studies taken up
and the work accomplished by the
new citizens.
Six girls and three boys, pupils of
School No. 8. under the direction of
Miss Nellie Shean. then recited This
Is the Land Where Hate Must Die"
and az Am An American"
Captain w. w. Wigman, COM
mander of the Third Battalion Naval
Militia, told of the work accomplish
ed by the militia since it was organ
lied here, how the first membership
of seventy-five men had been in
creased to 800 with twenty-four Off
GERS. He told of the cruise taken last
year and that six of the men on
board the ship had never seen the
Statue of Liberty. In closing he told
of the plans of the militia for the
coming summer.
THE Heart of Americanism," was
the title of the address delivered by
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01
ACCUSED COP GIVEN
TRIAL BY ALDERMEN
tContinued from page y

homes" the city attorney replied.
ut may be in the form of bridge or
five hundred. II I knew where a
game was going on, I would not tell
an officer but I might tell a friend
who might want to participate"
Our policemen have good jobs.
They get good treatment and secure
an increase every time they ask for
it. They ought to realize their re-
sponsibility. There must be Kas-
przaks on the force or there would
be no police force. Sergeant Kas-
przak did his duty as an officer in
acting as he has done in this case.
No n is talking of breaking an Of
ficer who has a family to support.
IL I were a member of the board in
this Ease I would favor giving the
officer a reprimand but as 1 am not,
it rests entirely with the board.
Instead of taking the evidence in
to consideration at the close of the
hearing, the aldermen decided to
wait until Monday night to make
known their decision.
Counsellor Brown deplored the
fact that this alleged game had bean
raided when. according to him, there
are flourishing in this city real
gambling games with large sums at
stake. In this case, Mr.. Brown de-
clared. three Hunks were sitting
around a table and the sergeant raid
ed the place, charged them with
gambling, they were arrested and
fined. The attorney for the defense
asked why 1.-THE little fellows were
picked upon when the 'big ones"
were allowed to carry on their games
as they saw fit.
81 don't know why Senator Brown
is so worked up unless it is because
this man is his CLIENT the city attor-
ney said. "When an officer sees men
sitting in a saloon at 2 o'clock in
the morning with cards and money
on a table it does not take much
imagination on his part to reach the
conclusion that gambling is going
on"
There is not a man in this room
who does not know where there are
gambling games going on" Mr..
Brown declared heatedly. "It is COM
mon knowledge that the town is
wide OPEN"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-01
Fords Won1an'S
Club to Convene

There will be a baseball game on
the school grounds tomorrow after
noon. Port Reading school will be
the opposing team.
The weekly gospel meeting will be
held tomorrow night at the home Of
Mrs. William Seel.
The baby cline will be held on
Thursday at the schoolhouse.
Miss Helen Byrne was the guest of
friends here Yesterday.
Miss Anna Schenck was a Perth
Amboy visitor last night.
A number of Fordites attended the
patriotic meeting at the Perth AM
boy high school last night.