Georgia Farmers Diversify as Cotton Acreage Drops
In an April report from the Georgia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service combines data from the U S Bureau of Crop Estimates and the Georgia Department of Agriculture indicate nearly 700 000 acres not to be put under the plow this year Despite improved outlook farmers face low prices and loan difficulties Yet planting totals show shifts toward corn oats sweet potatoes beans and tobacco while cotton acreage is slashed by about 83 percent The theoretical area for all crops may reach 11 75 million acres down 5 1 percent from last year and still above pre war levels with uncertain final adjustments for 1921.
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Atlanta
Georgia
John &. Denee
Georgia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
United States Bureau of Crop Estimates
Georgia Department of Agriculture
New England
John S. Denner
Georgia Co-operative Crop Reporting Service
Capitol Annex
Georgia crops show record corn potential and cotton doubt
John S. Denner reports Georgia farmers plan 6.27 million acres of corn yielding about 94 million bushels, a historic high, while cotton remains uncertain due to boll weevils and little fertilizer use. The 1921 crop outlook suggests possible boll weevil damage costing around 20 million dollars.
Thorough to Succeed: A Cautionary Retail Tale
A grouchy retailer resents blunt advice from old schoolmates Banks and Binks who critique his shop. They tell him fortune won’t help him unless he acts thoroughly, cleans his store, and pays bills on time, urging self improvement over luck in this Commercial Index excerpt.
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Gettum
RTS
John Banks
Ned Binks
Legislature
Banks
Jim
Commercial Index
Henry County Plans Centenary Celebration
Henry County Georgia, nicknamed Mother of Counties, completes plans for its 100th anniversary on May 14. Governor-elect Thomas W. Hardwick is the speaker with Colonel John L. Tyre as master of ceremonies. A morning pageant recounts county history from 1821 to today, followed by speeches on courthouse steps and an afternoon Locust Grove Institute band concert.
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M’donough
Henry County
Thomas W. Hardwick
John L. Tyre
Atlanta
Indian Springs
Locust Grove Institute
Plans for Potato Warehouse Under Way
The Fayetteville Potato Curing Warehouse Company plans a 15000 bushel capacity potato curing warehouse. Start of construction hinges on securing a railroad sidetrack, engineers have agreed on location, with completion expected by mid-summer. Local farmers urged to plant more potatoes to stock the facility amid cotton uncertainty and strong sweet potato crop prospects.
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Fayetteville
Missing Girls Surge In 1920 Sparks National Action
Washington April 27 sixty five thousand girls disappeared in the United States last year with most lured from small towns to big cities. Lieutenant Catherine Van Winkle urged a central missing girls bureau and nationwide auxiliary bureaus to coordinate tracing efforts as convention plans a campaign against loose morals and related dress and behavior concerns.
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Washington
United States
National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations
Catherine van Winkle
District of Columbia Police Department
Ward Morgan
William Ullman
Missouri State Organization
Drunkenness and Rowdiness Spark Fayetteville Crime Backlash
In a scathing civic alert Fayetteville residents condemn Sunday disturbances tied to liquor. The editorial lauds the mayor and council for arrests, praises the sheriff, and denounces whisky as the enemy of virtue, pledging to publish authentic tips on liquor sellers.
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Fayetteville
Sunday School Association Names and Programs
The Fayette County Sunday School Association outlines its church education role with Rev. Geo. P. Cary as advocate. W. B. Hollingsworth presents methods to boost Sunday attendance while J. B. Lester covers lesson preparation. Chauncel L. Foote discusses program variety and J. T. Babb leads as president.
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The
Sunday School
Rev
Geo. P. Cary
Chauncel L. Foote
J. T. Babb
Fayette County Sunday School Association
Pension Plan Opposed by Coweta Confederate Veterans
Coweta Camp Confederate Veterans adopted resolutions condemning Governor Dorsey and the pension commissioner for paying 1921 pensions to old list veterans before 1920 pensions to those on the new list. Copies were sent to the pension commissioner hoping revocation. The group calls partial pension payments unjustified.
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Dorsey
Coweta Camp
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Fayette County
Georgia Department of
Agriculture
Co - Operative Crop Reporting Service
Noah Turner
John Carlton
Jim Strickland
Clayton County
Turner
Charley Ward
Homer Bray
George Brown
John Wallace
Hampton
Carlton
Strickland
Ward
Troy Moore
Moore
Wallace
Brown
Jonesboro
Carltons
Payette County
Ayette County Sunday School Association
Fayetteville Methodist Church
W. B. Hollingsworth
J .B. Lester
Coweta
O Store
Blalock Trading Co
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