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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW OF GEORGIA

Pearson = Improvement being
made to portion of Wilson Memorial
highway in Atkinson county.
Glennville-New ice plant con-
structing here.
Douglas-New business building to
be erected corner Peterson avenue
and Sellers street.
Waycross-Survey being made for
new sewer system in this city.
Valdosta-J. N. Bray and COM
pany to build big sawmill plant on
eastern outskirts of city.
Cordele-Plans under way for con-
struction of large hydro-electric pow
er dam on Flint river opposite Cor
dele.
Burnt Fort-New bridge proposed
for construction over st. Mary's rlv-
er at this point.
Thomasville-S4 to be ex-
pended for paving several streets of
the city.
Valdosta-New sewer system con-
templated for construction in residen-
tial section of Valdosta.
Waycross-New schoolhouse to be
erected in Williams Heights.
Jesup-Ware County Light and
Power company extends line to this
city.
Kingsland = Coca Cola Bottling
works plant here completely remod-
eled.
Savannah-$1OO,OOO new cooling
system to be installed in Lucas thea
ter.
Savannah-Savann Electric &
Power company planning to extend
street car line to municipal stadium.
Alta-S50O,600 new tuberculosis
sanitarium completed and opened
Dupont-Oglethorpe highway to be
routed through Dupont.
Waycross-Work started on con-
SCrucClOn OF new FOdu IIoH "dyCiooo
to Brantley county line.
omerville-Work nears compile
ton on new water and sewer system
in this city.
Savannah-New hotel contemplat-
ed for construction on East Brough-
ton street between Abercorn and
Lincoln streets.
Savannah-Several streets of city
to be paved.
Savannah-Western Union Te1e-
graph Company improving service
here at cost of $4,000.
Vienna-South Georgia Power Co.
opens office in Cooper building here.
Albany-South Georgia Power Co.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24

to reduce it's rates in this city.
Cedartown-Goodyear Clearwater
Mills new plant starts operations
here.
Reidsville-Standard Oil Company
erecting filling station on Brazzel
street.
Waycross-Plant may be estab-
lished here for manufacture of ce-
ment building blocks.
Waycross-New hotel contemplate
ed for construction in Waycross.
Darien-Work under way paving
Coastal highway from Midway to
Darien with asphalt.
Patterson-Oglethorpe Highway to
be hard surfaced from Blackshear to
Patterson.
Hartwell = Southern Bell Tele-
phone to build line through this town
to Anderson, S. C.
Pembroke-Work to start soon on
construction Of new city hall build
ing.
August-Savannah River Electric
Company to develop vast hydro-elec-
trio project on Savannah river, Fl
miles above Augusta, at cost of $780,
100000.
ingsland-Coastal highway from
Kingsland to new St. Mary's river
bridge being graveled.
Metter-United five and ten cent
stores company to open store in this
town.
Gordon-Farmer and Merchants
Bank reorganized here recently with
capital stock of $4,000.
Augusta-Plans under way for
construction of 60-mile extension of
Georgia and Florida railroad from
Augusta to Greenwood, South Caro-
lima.
Savannah-$50O,O0O new apart
ment house to be constructed IN
neighborhood of Forsyth park.
Canton-$65, 900 new postoffice to
be erected in this city.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
NORMAN NAMED TO TAX OFFICE


R. Claude Norman, so, of Wash
ington, Ca, for years a member of
the State Industrial Board, Sunday
afternoon was appointed by Cover
nor Clifford Walker as State Tax
Commissioner, succeeding the late
James H. Dozier, of Athens, who died
last Friday.
Governor Walker also announced
the appointment of Judge Max E..
Land, of Cordele, to succeed Mr..
Norman on the commission, and
Judge Thomas F. Green, of Athens,
to fill the vacancy on the board of
trustees of the University of Georgia
caused by the death of Mr.. Dozier.
Mr.. Norman is one of the best
known state house officials in Geor-
gia and a prominent citizen of east
ern Georgia. He formerly was solici-
tor general of the Toombs circuit,
and is trustee of Mercer Universe
ty. He is member of the law firm
of Norman & Norman, of Washing
ton. He married Miss Johnson, of
Washington, and they have two chill
dren.
Judge Land, newly appointed COM
missioner, wos formerly solicitor
general of the Cordele circuit, and
now is Judge of the city court of
Crisp county. He is a brother Of
Fort E. Land, state superintendent of
wife was state regent of the Daugh-
education, and is one of the leading
attorneys of South Georgia. His
ters Of the American Revolution.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
GRAHAM BROTHERS SALES
CONTINUE TO INCREASE

The record breaking pace set by
Graham Brothers in January in the
sales of trucks, commercial cars and
motor coaches was maintained thru
February.
In January 4,255 sales were made,
more than in any other January in
the company's history. The figures
for February, just announced, show
sales for the second month of 5,093.
Production has been stepped up at
the Graham Brothers plants at De-
troit, Evansville, Ind, and Stockton,
Cal, in anticipation of heavy de-
mands in the Spring buying season.
Graham Brothers is a division of
Dodge Brothers, Inc.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
CHILDREN'S AOME
SOCIETY FIDS HELP
FOR CKzDREN HERE

The Georgia Children's Home So.
ciety has taken ~ Ben Hill county
children for adoption while 5 Tiff
county youngsters and many from
other neighboring counties have been
rescued from absolute destitution and
placed in good foster homes in other
parts of Georgia.
These figures were included in a
report this week on one thousand five
hundred orphaned, abandoned, and
otherwise homeless children from
ninety-two counties for whom the So
ciety has found good foster homes
where they are receiving a fair
chance in life.
The report was made by the ex-
tension division of the society thru
DR.. Joe P. Bowdoin, chairman, who is
director Of child hygiene of the state
board Of health, a former grand mas
ter of Georgia Masonry and former
president of the society.
"The difference in the amount of
service rendered in different counties
shows the need for county executive
committee of the society in each
county such as the State Extension
Division intends to organize" DR..
Bowdoin said in making the figures
public.
The amount of distress among
the children in proportion to popula-
tion is much the same throughout the
state but the society cannot reach in
to sections where it has no contact
with either the children or the gen.
erous people who are willing to help"
he explained.
Leading citizens in more than 25
counties, including Carroll, Douglas,
Barlow, Hall, Gwinnett, Cobb, Nor
gan. Laurens, Troup, Thomas Broks,
Grady, Lawndes, Ware, Wilkes, Nc
Duffie, Pulaski, Cherokee, Jackson.
Glynn, Decatur, Habersham and Cow
eta, already have organized them
selves into county executive COM
mittees to carry on the work in those
counties. Members of the extension
committee are visiting other counties.
Full information concerning the state
extension program will be supplied
on request to the society at 80
Peachtree building, Atlanta.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
GENUINE PROSPERITY CERTAIN in WAKE
OF DIVERSIFICATION, GOVERNOR FINDS

making it possible for the farmer
and his family to make at the time
they need them the various purchases
large and small, required for their
convenience and comfort. 1t reduces
the necessity of borrowed money to
a minimum, and releases "frozen as
SETS"
Greatest Work
wish that transcript of the tes-
timony we heard could be placed in
the hands of every business man,
banker, farmer and we'll intentioned
citizen of Georgia. There are sec
tions of this state where far differ
ent story would be told. l feel that
no greater work in the realm of eco
nomics can be done than this work of
the Georgia Association, and es-
pecially of its operating head, Mr. F.
H. Abbott, with whom l was privi-
legged to make this trip. have found
that the Association has cotton to
the bottom of what is needed by
Georgia agriculture and has develop
ed a practical working plan through
which Georgia's agriculture can be
made the true source of wealth to
the majority of our people. l took
occasion in every address delivered
to point out the necessity for schools
for all through the erection of con-
solidated schools in every district of
every county.
| told of the necessity for good
highways so that the underprivileged
child in the rural districts could live
in his own home under his own moth
er's influence and still attend good
school nine months in every year. |
pointed out what | am assured by
every one | have seen is true, that
only through this economic revolu-
ton in Georgia agriculture-getting
it on a sane productive basis-can
these proper benefits of advancing
civilization be received by the youth
of our state.
l challenge every business man and
every banker, wherever he may be
situated or doing business in Georgia,
literally to hunt out every farmer of
character and capacity in his county,
his section or his state and see to it
that that farmer is enabled through
banking and mercantile credit to buy
the dairy cows, the chickens, the
brood sows, the seed and the supplies
which will enable him to enter on the
only system of farming through
which our highest hopes in Georgia,
or any of our hopes, can be realized.
would point out to these business
men our happy situation in Georgia
in having as the leaders of our "ag-
rarian party" namely the Georgia
Association, men who are conserva-
tive and will lead the farmer along
proper economic lines. l would
point out that the bolshevism, the So
cialism and the radical movements of
history have come from discomfort
ed agrarian class falsely seeking re-
lief through these methods. We will
have no such situation in Georgia
while safe and sane men are at the
helm.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
Obeying Orders

"Whither with the mask, Enron
ius?"
"To Mabel's house, Calculus"
"Then whyfore the mask"
ooh, her dad requested that
never show my face again in his
house"
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Amt 1t So

"Yep," said the campus philoso
pher, as he eyed a group Of mongrels
chasing each other down the lane:
"life is just one darn thing after
another"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24

The jedge says: A new tax exemp-
ton arrived at Jake Mann's house,
weight nine pounds.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
Right, Too Right

Down but not OUT" cried the con-
vict as he lay on the ground inside
the prison walls.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
Smooth Bird

81 have a drag with the cop" said
the man as he swapped cigarettes
with the policeman.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24

Mike-That boxer is in the pink of
Tyke-Yes, he makes me see red.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-03-24
Fortunes Made

E. ]. Perry, banker of Bainbridge
in Decatur county, told US of a case
which had come under his personal
observation of man who had come
to his county twenty-five years ago
and borrowed $500 with which 70
start farming operations. This gen.
tleman died recently leaving an es-
tate of $4,000 entirely as result
of diversified farming operations.
l feel, with the association, that
the cow, the hog, and the hen with
the feed raised on the farm for their
culture, is the way out. 1t provides,
first, a small regular income from
eggs, poultry and sour cream; sec
ond, a fairly large income from the
sale of fattened hogs for market
twice year, and tlird, il makes pos
sible the raising cf real "cash crop"
of cotton or tobacco. The cow, hog
and hen provide such real benefits
as soil-building, the growth at home
of all food needed for the people and
live stock, and year-around income,
Evening star., 1927-05-01

subtractiag from it the thickness OF
the material multiplied By tUo."
''MaItipiied by tICo!" / exclaimed.
"Why BIZ tac02"
"FOr the toe and the heel"
idiot that am" cried. "it all
seems so plain 9chea goW explain ii.
In other words, the Poor Nut makes
an admirable narrator. However much
logged the reader may get, he has
at least the comfort of knowing that
the Nut is far more logged than he is.
Indeed, the Nut may be said, in q
way, to personify the ideal reader
that is to say, the stupidest-the
reader who is most completely bam-
boozled with the mystery, and yet in
tensely interested.
Such a reader has the support of
knowing that the police are entirely
''baffied that's always the word for
them; that the public are ''mystified";
that the authorities are alarmed: the
newspapers lin the dark" and the
Poor Nut altogether up a tree. On
those terms. the reader can enjoy his
own ignorance TO the full.
A first-class insoluble crime having
thus been well started, and with the
Poor Nut narrating it with his in
genious interest. the next stage in the
mechanism Of the story is to bring
out the personality of the Great De-
tective and to show how clever he
really is.
But let lis leave that for another In
stailment.
lTo BE Continued, -.
Evening star., 1927-05-01

furr, fife witt seextiInes. wot itch
time he deedn't soxcidded he should
manufacturing de wabn So Robert
was hall agrog from hinterest wot
he watched a savant time so dees
time de splitter soXcidded he should
manufacturing de wab-wot it
crulled in prompt a fly wot 1t hate
hopp de fly de spiter!!
So Robert sad: "You know, Splitter,
you a considerable sauce from
hinspiration by me.."
So de Spiter riplite: ''You telling me,
ha? Heb! I'm some spiter--I am,
kiiro--In feet, I'm VERY rimocka-
BILE suit from a spiter! In feet,
deedn't used to Railways was a
spiter.-"
you deedn't was Railways a spiter.!
So wot deed you was?"
race-hussr'
"A race-huss.. VI VI YIa So how
from race-huss you bicame
spiter? p
"Wal, it's lung sturrw-you saw dot
fly jost hate opp, So geeve a
leesten--Dot fly sdeednt was
Railways a fly nidder -
Hay Hay!-jost a meenit!. Izzy
nere. W0t klnd from q geg is
dees??n He deedn't was nidder a
fiy?? Say you sure wot you deedn't
was maybe heeting opp leedlMde
hootch?? SO wot was he???"
'.He was guy wot he he'd it by
noospaper a job he should peck
by de race-treck on de husses
weeners---'1
MOO. moo Nennette.! SO wot was??"
$50 dot dope wot he peecked by de
race.treck oI* de husses weeners so
he peeckem me lwot I was in dot
sizzoraf de hpssh Wot he wouch-
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tell you l think / know buyer for
the car-that Philly may take it?"
''Philly?" asked the dazed Nina.
'Philander Munro Findley, esq,
my neighbor, | wouldn't sting him
with it for anything, Ninny, dear.
But Mrs. Warrington just writhes If
she thinks the Findleys are going to
have anything bigger or costlier than
the things she has. SO there you are.
III bet you your tea that she will
phone you or me inside of an hour
after her guests leave, and ask the
price Of the car"
1t worked out even more rapidly
than the conspirators hoped. Mrs.
Warrington did not wait to tele-
phone The very moment her guests
left she walked straight to the old
desk in the hallway, where Babs sat,
and came abruptly to the point.
Il heard you discussing the car
that that young motor salesmans $
wife had standing here in the drive.
Have you any idea what price they
are asking for it?'
Babs lifted her eyebrows ever so
casually.
II imagine much less than IT'S
worth, she said sWeetly. Il think it
could be bought for $4,000. But. if
YOU want to talk to Mrs. Herndon
about it, she's just driven around in
back to get her daughter, who has
been playing with my hopefuls."
Mrs. Warrington's eyes narrowed
1T so happens that that young
motor salesman's wife was looking
at the gardeners lodge in our fame
the other day. I've been talking
about selling it. Our present gar
dener has a house of his own in the
Italian settlement. / was just won
dering-do you think she would con-
slider giving me the car as an initial
payment on the cottage?"
Babs, holding her breath, led the
way to Nina.
1t was thrilling and most unbusi-
nesslike transaction. The older
woman was excited over getting a
bargain that did not involve an actual
cash outlay. and delighted to get rid
of little house that had been drug
on the market. The younger women
were too excited to know exactly
what they were doing.
BabS, the only person who was go
ing to get any real money out of the
deal-that blessed 10 per cent COM
mission--had such an involved tale
TO tell her Eugene when he came back
from town that night that it took a
half-hour of cross examination to
get the details.
Evening star., 1927-05-01
THE OTHER DAY:

"Ah, you lucky children" she
smiled "You mpst be very happy"
I'VE are" I admitted.
"But I'm luckier than you" con
tinued she. I've had four honey.
moons"
"Well, we'll" I said. There didn't
seem to he anything else / could say
And at that minute the wind whirled
alond the deck, up my spine, past my
ears and lifted my hat off. ! grabbed,
but too late The hat dropped out
over the sea and finally came 10 rest
on the top of wave.
"Oh, dear" exclaimed my wife.
THAT was the hat / liked"
Mrs. Pringle was smiling cheerfully.
cit might have been worse" she
comforted.
Yes" agreed L might have been
wearing two hats"
Mrs. Pringie beamed.
1T reminds me of the time my last
husband lost his three front teeth, ,"
she said "and ! told him"
Whatever Mrs PringIe told her last
husband about his front teeth was in
terrupted by the arrival Of Mrs.
Pringle's son. and whatever may have
been missing from the front Of the
last husbands mouth was certainly
made up for by his offspring.
This is my Allen" she explained.
"Allen is nine"
Il could not help from observing"
remarked Allen, acknowledging the in
PRODUCTION with a bow. that you have
been so unfortunate as to suffer the
loss of your hat"
/ looked at my wife in amazement.
He says he's sorry you lost your
hat" she explained
oh" I said. THANK you. Allen"
'Not at ALL" replied the boy. Il
trust that it was not a very good hat"
ooh. no" l assured him. Il Just used
it more as a head covering than any
thing else
The boy blinked once or twice be-
hind his spectacles.
Are YOU and Mrs. Stewart enjoy
ing married l!fe?" he asked.
Evening star., 1927-05-01

sick and the others are busy. And
there's not a car In the place that we
can let ysu have"
She eyed the Runyard contempIa-
lively and laughed.
'FHaye them put in some oil and
gas. I'll take that out"
1t wouldn't hurt the thing, and she
had a sudden idea. Shed go and call
on her dearest friend--and enemy
Mrs. Eugene Huntington Bliss, jr.,
and simply stun her. Just for good
measure, she put her small daughter
and her small nursemaid into the ton
neau.
Tmpressing Babs Bliss was a large
order. Babs, whose youngsters hadn't
q nurse since Eugene's illness, had
dumped her young hopefuls inside the
old pony paddock and was cutting
lilacs to decorate her tea room. She
hailed her old schoolmate gayly:
"You can't sell that TO mel Harry
was around last week, trying to sting
my next-door neighbors with it,
She was 50 good humored about 1t
that Nina had to laugh. She parked
the white elephant beside the drive,
added her own daughter to the Bliss
collection, gazed at the lovely old gar
den and sighed enviousfy.
''Babs, you lucky guy. to fall into
this heaveni'
Babs shipped off branches busily
and nodded her charming head. %
"Righto. Ninny. dear. And theNea
room, bless its little heart, is dRlng
three times the business / dared hope.
Trouble is, it is growing so fast
haven't the proper equipment. / need
more dishes, more linen, more every
thing / could spend a couple Of hun
dred for glass and fat silver this
minute"
Nina put two and two together.
"If you know anybody who wants
to buy a beautiful foreign car" she
laughted, Harry viii give you a 10
per cent commission. That will be
more than a couple Of hundred"
Babs didn't laugh. She sat down on
the grass and eyed the car thought
fully.
BET we could pull that off, she an
nounced presently.
She unfolded a scheme.
you stroll in for tea in a few min
utes. Only let me go in first. Park
the car so anybody can see it from
the alcove. Mrs. Warrington is hav-
ing a luncheon party in the alcoye.
Her help left unexpectedly last night
and she phoned this morning, begging
me to take care of her party. III stop
by your table, while you're waiting
for your order to be brought in and
Evening star., 1927-05-01

N gentleman few minutes Of life be-
fore knocking him on the head. AS
long as the reader knows that there
Is either a body right away, or that
there is going to be one, he Is salts
fed
Sometimes a touch Of terror is add
ed by having the elderly gentleman
killed in a country house at night.
Most readers will agree that this is
the better way to kill him.
"Sir Charles Althorpe Sat alone ia
his library at Althorpe Chase. 1T gcds
late At night The fire had burned
lolc in the grdte. Through the heartily
curtained 1CindoaCs no g01ad came
from outside HdDe for the maids,
1oho slept in q distant ria9, ana sdUe
for the butler, 1chose room 9rdS 7tsadcT
the stairs. the Chase at this time of
the Dedr 1cGs empty. As sir Charles
SAT thus IN his arm chair, his head
gradually sank upon his chest and
he dOzed of into slambef.
Foolish man. Doesn't he know that
to doze off into slumber in an isolated
country house, with the maids in a
distant wing. is little short of mad
ness" Apparently he dQfsn {, and his
Evening star., 1927-05-01

fate, to the complete satisfaction of
the reader comes right at him.
Let it be noted that in thus setting
the stage for a detective story, the
body" selected is, in 3 cases out of
10. that of an elderly gentleman"
1t would be cowardly 10 kill a woman,
and even our grimmest writer's hesi.
tate to kill a child. But an elderly
gentleman" is all right.
After such a beginning, the story
ripples brightly along with the finding
Of The body, and with the inquest, and
with the arrest OF the janitor, or the
butler, and the usual details of that
sort.
Any trained reader knows when he
sees that trick phrase, save for the
janitor, who lived in the basement. -"
or save Ter the butter, whose room
was under the stairs" that the janitor
and the butler are to be arrested at
once.
Not that they really did commit the
murder. We don't believe they did.
But they are suspected. And good
writer in the outset of a crime story
throws suspicion around like pepper.
In fact the janitor and the butler
are bot the only ones. There is also,