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MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1921,
Final Work of Enterprise, Which
Will Raise $300,000 to Advertise
State, Will Be Planned at Macon
Meeting.
Atlanta, Jan. 10.--The final work
of the advertise Georgia ‘enterprise
which has for its motive the raising
of $300,000 to advertise the advant
ages of the state of Georgia, will be
initiated January 17, at Macon, when
hundreds of the state's leading men
will gather to discuss the comple
tion of the movement.
As general chairman of the move
ment, Governor Hugh M. Dorsey has
issued a call to more than a thou
sand of the state's leading citizens
to attend the Macon meeting, and
has also issued an official proclama
tion calling attention to the session
The principal speaker of the after
noon session of the meeting, January
17, will be Thomas W. Hardwick.
governor-elect, who will assume the
leadership of the enterprise upon
his inauguration, and who will have
charge of the follow-up work of the
movement, which will extend over a
Jong period after the actual printing
of advertisements in a specially se
lected list of the country’s period
iocals. “Need of Teamwork in Geor
gia,”” will be the topic of Senator
Hardwick’s address.
Various counties of Georgia have
already pledged their quotas in the
$300,000 fund and in several coun
ties the commissioners have Aoted
the entire amount asked of them
Practically every section and com
munity ‘of the state will be repr
sented..
There ,are 6,000,000 children horn
every vear in China.
—WORK and SAVE WORK and SAVE
WORK and SAVE WORK and SAWE . WORK and SAVE
AT LESS THAN WHOLESALE COST
Ouy stoves were purchased before the last
three advances therefore we are going to sell
on a basis of purchase, not of present price.
If yvou need a stove there’s no use delaying
for you now have an opportunity of buying
at a price that can’t he daplicated with-in the
next twelve months.
Our customers will remember and appreciate
the-class of goods we “put out’ every one
must satisfy or money hack.
WATT & HOLMES HARDWARE CO.
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY AND SERVICE
PHONE NO. 9 CORDFLE, GA.
WORK and SAVE WORK and SAVE
H. F. CORBET]
‘ PLUMBING
And Everything in the Plumbing Tine
124 Nimuh Avenue Opposite Light Plant
Phone 375
CORDELE, GA.
A HAPPY
Ts our wish for our customers and friends.
May 1921 bring true happiness and pros
perity to you and yours.
We wish to express our great apprecia
tion for the patronage given us during the
past year, and trust that our service and
methods shall be such during 1921 to war
; rant vour continned patronage and a great
' er volume of trade for us.
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~ Jones-Pate Drug Co.
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Most Powerful Radio Station in
Wlorld Located in France.
Sainte Assise, Department of Sein
et Marne, France, January 9.—
Louis Deschamps, under-secretary
of state for posts and telegraphs, laid
the cornerstone today of what is
designed to he the most powerful
radio station in the would, capable
of transmitting with two sending in
struments 24,000 words hourly, ov
receiving and deciphering simulta
neously 60,000 words hourly on five
instruments. The alternating sys
tem will be used.
The LaFayette station, which now
ix the most powerful, .has a maxi
mum range of 15,000 miles, but ex
perience has shown according to
{he” ministry of telegraphs, that it
cannot he depended upon for more
than 4,500 miles regularly, being un
able, for instance, to work satisfa
torily with Argentina. The Sainte
Agsige station when completed in 19
29 will, it is calculated, work oasil‘}‘
and regularly with all stations in the
world.
The station will be erected for The
Compagnie Generale Telegraphe
Sansfil (General Wireless Telegraph
company). Thirty per cent of the
capital invested in the company is
English and 70 per cent French, the
French Cable company holding 20
per cent of the total capital. The
ccmpany has a working agreement
with the American Radio corpora
tion.
The Striking physicial features of
the plant will be sixteen steep tow
ers, each 820 feet high. A number
of special telegraph wires will con:
nect the station with the telegraph
. w YBUT THEY RODE.” e
.*v*’)‘fit*****#********
(Published by Request—Author is Un
known..)
Last spring when cotton
Was selling so high, .
You could see some farmers |
“Floating” in the sky. |
§ (But they rude!)i
They rode in sun, ‘
They rede in rain—
Some even rode
In an aeroplane.
(But they rode!)
They rode all night.
They rode all day—
They, kept on ‘“riding”
Till the devil's to pay.
(But they rode!)
If it wasn't an auto
It was a blamed old mule—
They kept on “riding”
Till they've cut the focl.
(But they rode!)
Some rode hard,
Some rode well,
‘But they kept on-“riding”
Till they sure played h——-
(But they rode!)
Some doctors spent the whole vear
Distributing pills,
And can't collect enough mceney
To pay gasoline hills.
] (But they rode!)
Some rode fast—
The dust rose like a mountain fog;
They tell us that his true name
Was Old Rent Hog.
(But they rode!)
The real estate businesg
iWas the best of all—
But blame my skin
IF IT didn’t fall.
(But they rode!)
Some bought Fords,
But carried them back,
And (promised) the difference
Foy a Cadillac.
" (But they rede!)
The farmers and merchants
Are broke, that’'s true,
And it looks mighty like
The banks are, too.
(But they rode!)
The above was written
Just for a joke,
But durn my hide
1f the country ain't “broke.”
WORK and SAVE WORK and SAVE WORK and SAVE
offices.
Captain George R. Evans, assist
ant naval attache to the American
embassy in Paris, represented the
United States navy at the ceremony
today.
A kitten crawled inside the rim
of a large flywheel in a mill at Bur
lingten, Nebraska, and fell asleep
The machinery was set in motion
and the wheel whirred for nine
hours. When the machinery was
stepped for the night the kitten was
still alive although it had traveled
equivalent of 600 miles.
DR. BYRON DANlEL—Stomach, In
ternal Medicine, Radiology, Office
Harman Building,
DR. A. J. WHELCHEL—Gynecology.
Office: American Bank and
Trust Co., Building.
DR. M. R. SMlTH—lnternal Medicine
and Surgery.
Office: American Bank and
Trust Co., Building.
THOS. J. MCARTHUR, M. D.-Special
Attention to Surgery and Gyneco
logy. Cordele, Ga.
DR. W. A. DOWNS—Veterinarian.
Officc Prone 242 Res. Phone 109
W. E. EDWARDS, Physician and
Surgeon. American Bank & Trust
Building.
DR. S. F. WILLIAMS—SpaciaI Atten
tion given to Diseases of Women
and Children. Watt-Ilolmes Bldg.
Phone 177, Cordele, Ga.
A. S. BUSSEY, Attorney-at-Law—
State and Federal Practice. Office
over Kxchange Bank, Cordele, Ga.;
DR. T. E. BRADLEY,—Eye, Rar,
Nose, Throat and Fitting of Glasses
Office Williamg Bldge.
DR. A. H. KENDALL, Dentist—Spe
cial attention to Gum Disease and
the correction of crooked teeth.
Phone 40, Holmeg Building.
McKENZIE & McKENZIE, Practicing
Physicians... American Bank and
Trust’ Co., Building,
CRUM & JONES, Lawyers,—Practice
in all courts, State and IFederal. |
Cordele, Ga.
L. L. DAVIS, Attorney at Law—Office
Phone 120. Farm J.oans at 5 1.2
Percent interest, Cordele, Ga.
THE'CORDELE DISPATCH
GEORGIA MARKETS BUREAU
HEAD BRANDS IS CURSE TO
AGRICULTURE.
Washington, Jan. 8-—L, B, Jack
son, director of the Georgia Burean
of Markets told the house agriculture
committee today if the prohibition of
speculative “short selling” forces thoe
exchanges to close congress should
create a federal exchange where
“legitimate trade can he executed,
CLUB FINES MEMBERS
WHO TALK HARD TIMES
Dublin, Ga., Jan. 9— The local
Kiwanis Club has put into effect
a rule that every man who talks
hard times and gets pessimistic
must pay 2 fine of 10c¢ the amount
to go into a special charity fund
that the club has.
~ Since the rule has been passed
‘\'m'ious citizens have been caught
in the act of handing out pessimis
tic and panicky views of the pres
ent situation, and much fun has re
sulted from the collection of some
‘cf the fines. Most of the men when
3tho matter is explained to them ad
}mit the idea is good and pay the
fine but most of them taik about
the bright side of the situation
from then on, as paying a fine for
'such an offense sets the man to
thinking about how easy it is to en
courage an optimistic feeling among
his friends and associates.
WILSONS DOCTOR DROPS IN
Washington, Jan. 9 — Dr. Fran
cis X. Dercum, the Philadelphia ne
rologist, who was called in for con
sultation during the early stages of
President Wilson’s illness visited
the White House today for the first
time in two months and spent some
time with Rear Admiral Cary T,
Grayson, the President’s personal
physican.
Dr. Grayson spid that no signif
icance was attached to Dr. Dercums
visit, it merely being made, he said
in accordance with the agreement
P'eached several months ago that the
Philadelphia specialist should come
to Washington oceasionally for con.
sultation.
Dr. Dercum was said by Dr.
Grayson to have expressed himself
as “Immensely gratified” over the
the condition of the’ President.
FEDERAL JURY INDICTS
CALIFORNIA DOCTOR
San Francisco, Jan. S.—lndict
ments charging a conspiracy to use
the mails to defraud in connectiop
with the alleged distribution of birth
control literature among the women
students of the University of Cali
fornia were returned by a federal
grand jury today against Dr. Waldo
Richardson and wife, Mrs. O. B.
Richardson, of Fair Oaks, Sacra
mentg county.
Federal officials say the Richard
sons are agents of a Kansas City
concern,
TOBACCO GROWERS
OF NORTH CAROLINA
WILL CUT ACREAGE
Kinston, N. C., Jan. 9,— Tobacco
orowers of the Carolinas and Vir
ginia will join farmers of Kentucky
Ohio and Indiana in reducing to
bacco acreage planted this year,
planters, warchousermen, bankers and
business men predicted here tonight
Low prices and an over supplied
market makes this step necessary to
avoid bankrupting the tobacco
grower, it was stated.
SINGING CONVENTION CALLED
Dublin, Ga., Jan. 9.—The district
singing convenction of the Twelfth
District is to be held in Dublin at
the courthouse on the fifth Sunday
in January, which will be January
30. It is expected that one of the
largest crowds ever gathered for any
occassion will be here at that time
and the singers will turn out in full
force to show the Dublin people how
the folks from over tlis district can
sing.
DANNUNZIO MAY FOUND
NEWSPAPER IN ROME
TL.ondon, Jan. B.—The London
times Correspondent reports that
D’Annunzio proposes to stay in Fiu
me until he has completed his his
tory entitled: “Five Days cof Fiume”
when the work is finished, its said,
he will go to Rome where he may
found a newspaper.
SPECIAL ATTTENTION—Given to
cleaning and pressing Ladies and
Gentlemens Clothes.
McCOY STEAM LAUNDRY, Phone
108. 11/14{t4
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The Dispateh and the Sentinel plants ave in their new home
starting out for the New Year ready to do any kind of Commercial
Printing for vou at moderate cost. We want vou to learn to head
for the new plant with vour work. We want to find yon when
vou need something, If vou will call telephone 30, we will go af
ter you in a‘run and put you up a ¢lean, high standard job and do
it quickly. And the price will be right.
And we want vou to remember, too, that vou cannot run a
very promising business without advertising. Your outlay in
this line should bhe proportionate with your volume of business,
but we will he very glad to consult with vou and advise such a
course as will get the best resnlts at the right ontput in eash.
I vour business grows, vou must be a hooster and the way
to learn the first prineiples of good community hoosting is to
hoost your own husiness. Real boosting requires a certain
amount of sensible advertising. You cannot argue out of that.
You may say vou don’t need it, but when you say it vou do not
helieve it—and we know it. So, the honest, fair thing to.do is to
get behind it and start something. If you need us, ¢all Phone 30
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and somehody will he after vou forthwith.
We are as appreciative and happy as we ean be that you have
heen patient with us inour moving perplexities and complica
tions—and hard work. We are ready to return the favor now.
Tell us about it. We will follow yvou soon and late trying to make
more business for you. ;
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ispatch Publishing Co.
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
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