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Americus Times Recorder
Americus, Sumter County, Georgia
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Committees appointed in Sumter and neighboring South Georgia counties to organize farmers against the Mexican boll weevil pest, with named members for Sumter, Dooly, Terrell, and Lee counties.
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COMMITTEES THROUGHOUT FROM ALL PARTS OF SOUTH GEORGIA ARE NAMED TO ASSIST IN FIGHT IN MEXICAN BOLL WEEVIL.
The committee of Sumter county citizens are expected to assist in the fight on the boll weevil by organizing the farmers in their respective counties.
They are expected to call the farmers together, explain to them the best methods of fighting the pest and minimizing the danger, and secure as far as possible unity of action among the farmers.
The Sumter county committee is Lee G. Council, F. P. Harrold, R. I. McMath, R. P. Stackhouse, E. H. Hyman.
The committees in the neighboring counties are:
Dooly-J. Woodward, M. U. Rushin J. B. Walton.
Terrell-H. A. Petty, John R. Mercer, M. J. Yeomans.
Lee-J. L. Long, J. A. Lipsey, Goode Price.
No committee are named from Crisp, Macon, Schley Marion and Webster counties.
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Sumter County, South Georgia
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Committees throughout South Georgia are appointed to assist in fighting the Mexican boll weevil by organizing farmers, explaining methods to fight the pest, minimizing danger, and securing unity of action among farmers. Sumter county committee: Lee G. Council, F. P. Harrold, R. I. McMath, R. P. Stackhouse, E. H. Hyman. Neighboring counties: Dooly - J. Woodward, M. U. Rushin, J. B. Walton; Terrell - H. A. Petty, John R. Mercer, M. J. Yeomans; Lee - J. L. Long, J. A. Lipsey, Goode Price. No committees named from Crisp, Macon, Schley, Marion, and Webster counties.