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Vol. 9, No. 15. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Sallie Tatum has return ed from an extended visit to rel atives in Buford and Atlanta. Mr. P. M. Hawkins of Atlan ta was here last Friday on bus iness. Good Friday was not so good after all, that is so far as weath er is concerned. Mr. T. J. Hayes and family of Buford visited Mr Smith Har rison and family Tuesday. Messrs J. G. Puett and C. B. Otwell were in the Gate City on business Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bacon ot route 6 announce the arrival of a little boy at thir home. Miss Madge Brooks is spend ing a few days with relatives and friends around Sharon this "school will close in three weeks, and then the little fel lows will keep the streets crowd It is not so powerful long, brother, until the June singing. Feed the friars plenty and have them ready. T _ „ , Messrs S. H. Allen, J. B. Pa+ terson, R. T. Shadburn and Gay Lummus spent Monday night in Atlanta on business. Rov Gilstrap is spending a few days with homefolks at Al pharetta, and while there is learning Mr. Mansell how to run a Buick car. Mrs. G. L. Jones, who has been .spending sometime with Mr J B. Patterson and family, left Tuesday for Gainesville to spend a few days. Reb. J. W. Gober filled his appointment here Sunday a eleven, but there was no ser vices Sunday night on account of bad weather. . The people are gardening in dimming some these days, and in a few weeks we will all have plenty of vegetables if the sea sons are good. . Your attention is called to the ad of Edmondson & Pirkle in this issue. Look it up anc go to them to get you a good suit of clothes. Easter Sunday was a little rainy but the weather faired off before the close of the day. The weather prevented some of the good women from get ting to show their easter hats. With the exception of some steel railing the Strickland bridge between Cumming anc Buford has been finished up, and it is now in tip top shape f °Mrs° Light of Buford, and Mrs. T. W Harrison and Mrs T L. Keith of route 8 vis S' Mr. Smith Harrison and family one day last week. Vegetabeles are scaice in this section this spring. It is vedy very hard to buy anything to eat in the vegetable line. We can live on meat and bread, though, if we have to do it. A horse belonging to Mr. Will Gravitt, of route s,.ran a way in Cumming Saturday af ternoon, demolishing Bis buggy but fortunately no one was hurt While at work at the bnc yard Saturday, a bank caved in on Mr. J. H. Lowery, knock ing his hip out of .l°i nt -. are glad to say that he is do- iß *Mr" WU Westbrook and (am W-WMArUm fp Band 8 and family near town .W has bought him a car to carry the mail on route 1 trom riow 61 y Di Br W. C E. Lipscomb and^ol. r p Fowler went to the uate City Tuesday afternoon to see a D dT y HospSk b tewey's although he hopes to be able to come home in a very tew da Orders have been received fr, rn the Post Office Depart ment to discontinue route 8 af terthis week. This mail will be delivered by carriers on routes 1 2 and 4 from Camming am route 11 from Gainesville. This ™n ' cause some inconvenience in the mail in routing it for the -outes, but everybody will get tlicir mail on time each day. The Forsyth Qounty News The farmers are at work pre paring for another crop. Mrs. N. E. Wolfe and daugh ter of route 1 spent a day or two last week with her sons here. Bob Hope went down to Al pharetta Tuesday on business. He and Thurman Shadburn have the agency for the Buick car in that county, and they have sold several this season. Flour is selling at $2.70 a sack now, and some say it will go to four dollars before long. What the thunder is us poor rascals going to do for bread when it reaches that price. Taylor Pirkle is agent for the Coggins Marble Cos. at Canton, and will be glad to figure with you when you need a monu ment to place over the grave of your loved ones. The Council and citizens are top soiling some of the streets in town. That’s right. Make some permanent improvements all the time. It will be money saved in the long-run. You can get the News and Daily and Sunday Constitution for $3.95, if you will bring or send your order to us before April 28th. It will not be sent you at this price after that date so let us have your order NOW Mr. and Mrs. Truman Patter son wishes to thank their many friends and relatives for their kindness and assistance in the sickness and death of their dear daughter, Mrs. Mary Alice Ow ens, who died March 16th, 1917 John McClure of Norcross told us the other day in Atlan ta that he would not be afraid to buy cotton for fall delivery at 25c per pound. We feel sure, ourselves, that cotton will be a good price, but no one knows just at this time what it will bring. If you want to beautify and decorate your home Edmond-j son & Pirkle can help you by j showing you and taking your order for the most beautiful Wall papers you ever seen. You can see the line by calling ■ t their store. They can obtain for you anything you may wish Give this due consideration and see the line. Early Tullis of route 4 was in town Saturday. He says he is going to raise a lot of peas, beans, potatoes, and garden truck this year, and cut down the cost of living. Nearly all the farmers in the county are going to do indentically the same thing. Miss Ethel Fowler of Cum ming Ga., who has been teach ing at Silver Shoals, left Sun day to take an eight week’s nor mal course at Demorest. Miss Fowler has made many friends here who wish her success and for her speedy return when she has finished her course—Banks County Journal. The new directories of the Cumming Telephone Exchange are being distributed by Mana ger .J. E. Puett. In the Directory is printed the name and num ber of every subscriber, the ringing numbers being printed so that subscribers can call by number, instead of name, and in this way secure quicker and better service. Before calling look up the number and give it to the Operator, instead of the name. Tax Receiver’s Notice Third And Last Round. I will be at the following places on dates below: cnatahocchee District. Court ground April 17 10 a. m. New Bridge District. Court ground April 17 11 a. m. G. W. Olivett, do Noon. Chestatee court ground do 2 p m Rolands District. Court ground do 3p m. Hammond store, do 5p m All property must be return ed by May Ist, or else be double taxed. Your property must be given ifi to the Receiver, as the law don’t allow the Collector, or Ordinary to receive taxes with out double taxing. J. C. Williams, R. T. R. Sunshine In The Home, Power in The Life. Clean up the Home Premises. This is a good time to clean up all trash and filth that ac cumlates about the yard, barn and feeding grounds. This should be carefully rak ed up and carried out and : pread on the galled and thin places on the farm, it will add humurs and plant food to the soil, and materially increase the yield of the crop and make home more sanitary, by remov ing the germ beds and breeding places for house flies. Poultry houses, hog pens and closets should be thoroughly cleaned up and washed with lime. Use air slaked lime free- ly all through the summer and it will greatey reduce the num ber of houseflies. This work can be done while the land is too wet to work. The stable manure may be cut up fine while it is raining, and thus save time when the ground gets dry enough to cul tivate. The manure if piled up in heaps should be well framed to keep it from beating too much, and should not lie very long fn heaps before it is carried to the field. If from any cause it becomes necessary for it to lie longer than 10 or 12 days it should be examined, and if very much warmer than blood heat, it should be cooled by making holes form the top with hoe handle, and poring w'ater on it. The late w'et spring makes it necessary for the farmer to have his plans well mapped out and all wet weather work out of the way, so he can push the preparation for and planting of his crop as rapidly as possible wffien dry. Don’t forge! to clean up, for it pays in better health, less doc tor bills and more food. S. J. Smith, . ,j County Agent. SILVER CITY Easter past up very quietly ! here on account of the weath er. There were no mountain trips taken. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Woodliff have ben visiting at Mr. S. J. Smith’s. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ewing and Mr. Ezra Whitmire of At lanta visited Dr. Jones Sunday. Mr. Dave Wallis who has been visiting in Atlanta is now employed by Dr. Jones. Misses Lula and Luna Law’- sen are visiting Mr. T. F. Rol ands’. Mr. W. A. N. Jones is in At lanta. Mr. W. T. Shaw of Gaines ville was here Sunday . Mr. S. J. Smith reports a nice beginnig with his agriculture work Let’s all co-operate with him and make Forsyth county one of the leading counties of the State. The people in this section are storing away guano, for what purpose we do not know. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Blanton B. F. Pirkle and Alene have gone to Atlanta again. All wjio are interested in Sil ver City Base ball club come out Saturday night. Miss Effie Clark and the Miss es Lambs were in the City first of the week. Smith and Pirkle have asup piy of Ford parts. Bring your cars to them and have them put in first class shape for the sum mer. Young Boy Drops Dead. Dewey the thirteen-year-old son of Mr. W. L. Shadburn of Buford dropped dead while on his way from school Wednes day. Mr. Shadburn in this county on business at the time of the death of the lad, and it was sometime before the news could reach him. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shadburn have many friends in this coun ty, where they resided for many years, who will be greatly pain ed to learn of their sad mis fortune, and who extend them their deepest sympathy. Pigs For Sale. 20 Poland China and Berk shire pigs for sale, ready for delivery April 24t.h. Howard Jackson, ) C mming, Ga., Rt. 5 CUMMING, GA., APRIL 13TH, 1917. Important. Honorable VV T Merritt Sheriff, Gumming. Georgia , Dear M\ cl.frill: The law regulating the operation of mo tor vehilcles, in section 18, pro vides that I shall write to the sheriffs, at divers times, and call their attention to the pro visions of the law. From reports that reach this office, however, I feel that this letter is altogether unnecessary as every sheriff in Georgia, with but three exceptions, seems to be discharging his full duty not only in enforcing the automo bile law but every other law on the statute books. I will take this means, how ever, of thanking you for your hearty co-operation, and in form you of the character of complaints that aie filed in this office. The greatest number of com plaints refers to the failure of drivers of machines to comply with the law and obtain drivers licenses. Every person who op erates a car other than his own is a chauffer, in the meaning of the law, and should register in this office and obtain a badge. Our construction of this provis ion is that any member of an owner’s household may drive the owner’s car without such registration, excepting when such car is used for hire or com mercial purposes; in that case the driver wrnuld be a chauffeur and should be required to com ply with the law. Frequent complaint is made that persons under 16 years of age operate cars. This is a gainst the very text of the law and should be stopped. Another complaint, and it has become very frequent, is that some owners are operat ing their personal cars under a deplerjs license t, This is also against the law’Vuid should' be stopped. I call your attention to the above as I am constantly receiv ing letters from various parts of the State asking that I do something to stfip these viola tions of the law. During the twelve months of last year we issued 47,558 li censes. In the month of March of the present year we lack just one hundred of having issued the same number. We have not been without tags, and have is sued them as proptely as it was possible to do. With kind regards and best wishes, I am, Very truly yours, Philip Cook, Secretary of State. Considerable complaints have to me in regard to the speed limit used by autos in the town and county. In this connec tion, I beg to call your attention to the Acts of 1910 pages 90 to 95; also Acts of 1913 pages 75 to 78. Complaints are also coming to me in regard to the whiskey traffic in Cumming every Sat urday night. Georgia has a “bone dry” whiskey law, and I expect to enforce it as it is my duty to do. Violators can gov ern themselves accordingly. W. T. Merritt, Sheriff. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our neigh bors and friends for their good and loving help and kind at tention during the sickness and death of our dear companion and father. Also Drs. Brice and Hunt for their kind help. May the kind Heavenly Fath er ever watch over and protet each and all of them is our sin cere desire. Mrs. Roxie A. Roberts and children. Notice. The sth Sunday Central Un ion Singing will be held with Mt Tabor church the 4th Sun day in April on account of the singing at Friendship on the sth Sunday. Everybody come and bring your song books and well-filled baskets. Alfred Harris, Pres. J. W. Hughes, Secy’y. S. S. Convention. The Committee in charge of the program for the State Sun day School Convention, Savan nah, May Bth, 9th, 10th, is be ing congratulated upon its suc cess in securing for the program three of the best Sunday School workers in America Mr. John L. Alexander Chicago, 111., Sec ondary Division Superintendent of the International Sunday School Association, the w orld’s greatest teen-age specialist; Miss Nannie Lee Frayser, Louis ville, Ky., Elementary Superin tendent of the Kentucky Sun day School Association, who is well known as an author of bocks on Junior Sunday Sun day School work and also as a lesson writer; Prof. E. O. Ex cell, Chicago, 111., famous com poser and World’s greatest con vention chorus leader will have charge of the music assisted by his pianist, Prof. W. P. Erwin, a talented musician. Many of the leading Sunday School workers of Georgia are to speak at the convention, a mong them are, Mr. J. J. Atlanta, President of Georgia Sunday School Association; Dr E. C. Dargan, Macon, Pastor of First Baptist Church, Bishop F. F. Reese, Savannah, Bishop of Georgia for the Episcopal Churches; Dr. Plato T. Durham Atlanta, Dean Candler School of Theology, Emory University; Dr. Joseph Broughton, Atlanta, Vive President of the Georgia Sunday Schol Association; Mr. T. M. Furlow', Chairman Exec utive Committee of the State Sunday School Association ; Dr. Marion McHull, Atlanta, Super intenent of North Avenue Pres byterian Sunday School, and in all more than sixty of the best Sunday School workers in the State. Every Sunday School in the State is asked to send three del egates besides pastor and super intendent who are delegates by virtue of their office. The Sun day Schools are also requested to elect three alternate dele gates who can take the place of any delegate who finds it im possible to attend. Trains will be met by the entertainment committee. After registering the delegates will be assigned entertainment for lodging and breakfast. This arrangement same as last year, was made be cause experience has shown that delegates prefer getting their own lunches and suppers at down town resturants near the convention church. The va rious railroads of the State have granted a low round trip rate to Savannah on acount of the convention. Two afternoons there will be special conference for pastors and superiendents and for Ele mentary, Secondary and Adult Division workers, and also a lunch and conference for all of ficers of County Sunday School Associations. A Bible Class parade has been planned for Wednesday afternoon, May 9th. It is ex pected that a thousand men will be in line. The program committee has arranged for a special train to fake all delegates who care to go to Tybee Beach, and spend a little while in social inter course and recreation on the ocean beach. This is planned for Thursday afternoon, the 10th, so all will be refreshed and ready for the great climax session the last night. Clean up Week in Cumming. April 17 to 23. Beginning Monday morning Cumming will observe clean-up week. This national movement needs no explanation. There is no cause more worthy, nor more needed. Do your part toward mak ing your town a more desirable place to live, and help prevent sickness. Cumming wants the cooperation of every man,, wo man and child. Will you help? DR. J. ROBERT SIMPSON Specialist in Diseases of The Eye, Ears, Nose and Throat 302-303-304 Jackson Building, Gainesville, Ga. From D. S. Patterson. Editor Forsyth County New’s: Dear Editor; Please give me space in your valuable paper to say a few' words in regard to the new' “Bone Dry” Prohibition law, just passed by the extra session of the Legislature of the Strife of Georgia. I am sending check to pay for one years subscription to the pa per, as 1 feel that I have done without news from home just about as long as I can. I was born and reared in good old Forsyth county, just three miles from the line of Hall, and two miles from the line of the coun ty of line of Dawson, in the fourteenth District, and I love the people at home, and want them to send men to represent thefn in the State Legislature who will vote against the w'his key gang, so that we may save our noble sons, daughters, and wives form the curse brought on them by the whiskey traffic. First I want to thank God, that Govenor Harris had the grit and grace to call that body of men together in extra session for the purpose of passing such a law. Then let me say to Hon. Pa trie Sloan as w ell as the other men who voted for that “Bone Dry” bill that I appreciate the noble fight which they made on the whiskey traffic. Of course the whiskey gang put up a stiff fight, because they knew that it was the last stag gle, and they brought forth many reasons; (as they saw' it) why the two quarts should be allowed; but no valid reason could be given, and in spite of the giganic struggle they made to keep whiskey in the State, the “Bone Dry” bill was passed by a good majority. They say as you will hear other men who love their dram say, you are taking the rights from the peo ple. Now let me say as one who loves the people of my home State, and county, to the peo ple I love that the last Legis lature did not intrude on the rights of any man. No man has the right to fill up on intoxicants of any sort, and go up and dowm the roads or streets disturbing the peace of other men. Ac cording to Ethics man has a right to gratify his normal de sires, so long as he does not in trude on the rights of others. But when a gets drunk, and goes home to abuse his wife and children, to mistreat his neighbor, to take the life *f his fellow man, as well as to waste a life that might have been spent in service for others; is he not intruding on the rights of others? Go to that home wrecked and ruined by whiskey traffic, then look yonder at those tears as they find their way down a ten der hearted mothers cheeks, take a look at the little tots as they hear the foot steps of a drunken, disgraced, debauched would be father, as he comes staggering in at the door; hear those sons of the State of Geor gia as they cry for food and clothes. Then look at the many thousands in the gang, look at that widowed mother, and ask them what did it, and hear them say it was whiskey and then in the face of all this, who is that whiskey scoundrel that will say you are taking the rights from the people? I am glad to say that senti ment is growing every day a gainst whiskey, and I feel safe in saying that the good people of our state are in favor of a speedy deliverance from the curse of the whiskey traflic, then let those in authority see to it that the law in enforced, let the people of old Forsyth stand by those who passed this splendid law, and let those no ble representatives be not a shamed of the fight they made, and make no apology to any man. Then in ten years from this time the people of Georgia will praise those men who stood by what they knew was right. Best wishes to all, D. S. Patterson. rdmondson & Pirkle have a beautiful line of new Spring Suits. Skirts, Waists etc. Call and look them over. 75c per year. First Quarterly Report of the Farmer* Co-operative Fire In •urance Cos. of Georgia, Hall Forsyth County Division. Gainesville, Ga., March 27 1917 The Finance Committee of the Board of Directors met in regular session in the office of the Secretary-Treasurer, all members being present. Secretary-Treasurer’s Report RECEIPTS Ral on hand Dec. 15, 1915 53.96 C. B. Wallace, 22.75 Premiums, 512.85 Assessments, old 1915, 485.61 Assessments, Nov, 8 1916 1,231.00 Borrowed money, 450.00 Re-instatements, 9.93 Total receipts anti bal ance, Jan. 1, 1917, $2,766.10 DISBURSEMENTS. Auditors, 10.00 Advertising, 1.96 Secretary’s salary, 312.50 Books, 7.70 Postage, 37.00 Printing and stationery, 23.25 Agent’s salary, 585.00 Secretary’s bond, 7.50 Fire losses, 1,014.00 Interest on note, 24.00 Payment of note and in terest for 10 days 451.00 Directors’ salary, 70.50 Publishing, 35.00 Incidentals, 13.65 Total disbursements, 2,593.06 Bal. in State Banking Cos. January Ist, 1917, 173.04 Certificate of Accountant*. We certify that this state ment of the Farmers’ Co-opera tive Fire Insurance Company of Georgia, Hall-Forsyth coun ty division, sets forth the re ceipts and disbursements, as shown by the books and re cords, at January 1, 1917. Joel Hunter & Cos., Certified Public Accounts. February 13, 1917, >< RECEIPTS. Cash on hand Dec. 26, 1916, $173.04 Amt. col. on reinstate ment, 3.60 Amt. col. on Nov., 1916, assessments, 175.16 Amt. col. on notes, 17.06 Amt. col. on premiums, 174.08 Total amt. collected, 542.94 DISBURSEMENT Directors’ salary, 10.00 Sec-Treas, salary for Jan. Feb., March 75.00 Agts. salary for Jan. Feb., March, 150.00 Premium on Sec,-Treas, bond • 7.50 Stamps, 13.00 Printing, 22.75 Auditing books, 17.50 295.75 Balance on hand, 247.19 Bills and notes receiv able, 16.74 Amt. insurance that paid Nov 1916 as sessments, 703,08g.00 Amt insurance writ ten since Nov. 1916 assessments, 103,360.00 Total amt paid up insurance, $806,440.00 The November 8, 1916, as sessment of 20 per cent on %719,158.00 of insurance, less fPrnount of $7,758.00 of proper ty previously sold and not sub ject to assessment, $711,400.00 $1,422.80 of this amount, $1,406,16 has been paid leaving a balance unpaid of $16.24. On motion the Secretary- Treasurer’s report was adopted On motion the minutes were ordered published in the three Hall county and two Forsyth county papers. On motion the committee ad journed until the last Tuesday in June, 1917. T. Lumpkin Adderholdt, Sec.-Treas. Notice. I have an up-to-date mill and am ready to grind your corn. Will grind every Friday. - I will also pay you the cash for your butter, eggs, chicken 1 produce of all kinds, and wi pay you the top of the mark for your cows. W. L. Chadwick, Cumming, Gaj