Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-08-21
MERCHANTS AND,
FARMERS VISIT
TOBACCO CENTERS
Delegation rendered Warm Recep-
ton at Nashville and Hahira

Taking the advice of w T Ander
son editor of the Macon Telegraph
and member of the State Highwa,
Department about one hundred o
Fitzgerald and Ben Hill business met
and farmers motored down to Nash
vile Wednesday to get the inspiration
vouchsafed by Bill. From all outward
indications they are getting it will
three warehouses filled with the Col
den Leaf and hundreds Of wagons ant
trucks waiting for floor space on thi
the eleventh sales day they foune
the picture barely doing justice to thu
reality Tobacco is everywhere ant
everybody in stores banks and foun
tains hotels and eating places lacking
facilities to take care of the folks an
xious to part with the Filthy lucre'
so easily and no anxiety about thu
boil weevils in the future for this sec
ton. Farmers are planning Tor d1
versification with tobacco as nucleus
around which the cow, hog and he1
program will play its part.
William R. Bowen, president Of the
Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce, J
J. Dorminy, president of the First Ma
tional Bank, ]. E. Turner, active vice
president of the Exchange Nationa
of Fitzgerald, headed the delegation.
At Nashville Co. Tucker, secretary
of the Nashville Board of Trade, made
the delegation feel at home and devot
ed his time in introducing many OF
his business men and farmers to the
visitors, getting from them first hand
information about the method and re-
suit of raising tobacco, and its effect
on their community which was so evl-
dent in the crowded banks and bust
ness houses of the town. The party
dined in squads at the three hotels Of
the town and after dinner, gathered
at the court house lawn to be officially
welcomed, Mr.. Tucker introducing
for that purpose, Rev. w. W. Webb
of Hahira, who in the absence of Mr.
Giddens, of Nashville, did the honors
for the city and Berrien county
Mr.. J. E. Turner responded to the
welcome address. =
About twenty-five cars, with the
following business men and farmers
in the party, made up the delegation:
w r Bowen, w H Roberts, T
Turner, w J Lewis, w S Halle, w Z
Britt, Bruce Nay, D D Garrison, J B
Russell, F L Peoples, Claude Wilson
S 6 Pryor, Sr., A H Denmark, ] i
Widernan, D w Paulk, J L McMil-
Ian. Martin Gottlieb, Hardy Troup
G B Eunice, Frank Hunter, Joe
Kassewitz, Holiday Troup, Geo John
son. M L Hobbs, Sam Abram, + n
Dorminy. A w Kirkland, R R Dor
miny. Oscar Bradshaw, J R Kimball,
T A Bond, W. Fl Belvin, ] w Morris,
S G Pryor, Jr,, M Dickson, c T Ow-
ems, B H Dorminy. J. J Dorminy, b
F Hardin, ] R Horton, Ferry ritz-
gerald, c A Newcomer, + X gustice'
C L Prescott, r L Stone, l Geloers'
J w Swanson, ] Casper. Henry stew 14eNV "
art, Harry Vinson, E L Dunn, N
Littleheld, S ] Harden, Quincy Con
nell ] P Patterson. c M Anderson
"A w Mccall, Lon Dickey, W. X
Walker, w H McRae, w = no
bitzsch, J H Benton, w } IrouP ?,
Arthur Troup, T w Gaines, J .
Seanor. Tom Lester, Yancy BoWles'
Newt Watkins, w A Bowling, Hor-
ace Paulk, Barry Clare, M Massey =,
Preston Seanor, Henry Beall, . l
ROGERS. w r Watkins, DR. M J
luke w R Dorminy, Elex Kruger
"a Rogers Abe Kruger, Inn Barren
fine Roland Stone, M w Garbutt, MI
E Whitman, Clarence Miller, A LunT
dv w T Brown, Fl H James a }
Sword w A Tombeflin, Ed Smith
Geo T Young, L c Whittle, L a
Hunter w P Hyatt, J N Swearlngen;
pa,,l Hammond, H P Vaughn, Geo
crsy s Fl Wilcox, Geo Boney zoe
Russell. Sam Booker, R + Lee, oe0
Drexler. L C Register, Z , NSS,
II Chaple, A Swanson, w M mas
+eer Fred Iyemeyer, G w Rogers
Anderson, M w Chasteen, n
1rs+;ce Fred Derminy, and others.
Th;rtv Of the party accepted :. the
;,v;tat;on of Hahira to visit that iiVe,
l., co,nmunitv and were well repaid
fo, thew efforts. Hahira, altho BOAST
;na onIv a population of fifteen nun
bred, has two tobacco wa III; ~,
each filled to capacity. and seillg ~ :
bacco by the hundreds OF thouS"n''0
of pounds. IT, VIZ Mabb.
that missionary of economic deyelop la
ment and Investigation, whose noino
&c in Hahira, and who made tnat nam
1e+ known to the Nation. the 1nIolll:a
+ior was given that the bank oeposi.s
nf the town are the largest per caplta
~ any in the Southern States ana '.la.
this condition was brought aDJGt
within the last few years thru !nteln
cent cooperation between the cltizens
of the town and its farming commune f1.
w oo-operative marketing OF farm
com raodities playing large part III
y 1900. ne the nrograr1.