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The Forsyth County News.
Published every Wednesday at Gumming, Ga.
By J. B. Patterson.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
Per Year 75c.
Six Months 40c.
Three Months 25c.
OFFICIAL ORGAN FORSYTH COUNTY.
.. Entered at the Post Office at Cuir.ming, Ga.,
August 10th, 1910, as mail matter of the second
class.
Advertising rates made known upon application.
Cumiring, Ga., June Ist, 1917.
Meat 27c a pound. Raise some hogs.
Prosperity is headed this way. Let her come.
Bread is the staff of life. Haint it coming high?
Meal is $2.00 per bushel. Plant corn, and then
some more com.
The income tax is not giving us very much
worry.
We shall try to meet the boys at Thomasville
in July.
Forsyth county has the best crop prospects she
has had in many years.
Cotton, corn and all farm products are just a
humping since the rain.
Gardens are looking mighty fine. Great to be
the possessor of one, isn’t it?
Old man, “Hard Times” has left for parts un
known, and we hope he will never return.
Nothing bu< a crop failure can hurt the farm
• er this year. Here’s hoping it wont come.
Cos to your voting precinct next Tuesday, the
sth, and register, and save future trouble.
The loss in Atlanta’s big fire is now estimated
to be five million dollars.
The Buforl road is in an awful bad condition
for travel just now. This ought not to be so.
A dredge boat engaged in draining the Alcovy
river, was badly damagedby fire last week. *
Covington, Monroe and Gainesville each held
a large chatauqua last weefc,
lam. rvindav. ' T Jna -family Stum
Did you ever see a on a monument? Guess
not, and you never will.
It seems nearly impossible that no one was
killed in the big Atlanta fire last week, but they
didn’t.
100 people were killed and two thousand left
homeless in a tornado that swept over Illinois
last Saturday.
*
i'he hail storm of last week did considerable
damage to the trees, but did not damage the
crops.
Commencement exercises of many of the
schools of the state were held last week, and
others will be held this week.
We are pleased to have the bright, breezy, and
well printed Walton Tribune on our exchange
list.
The bill introduced in congress to place a tax
of? 2.50 per bale on cotton, was killed when plac
ec before the House for passage.
Ve work on the paper three days and three
nights in each week, sell calendars three days
and three nights, and rest on Sunday.
Creditors of the R. M. Hose Cos. have applied
for a Receiver for his soft drink establishments.
Wonder if he thanked them for it?
Two car loads of irish potatoes, grown on five
acres of land, and shipped from Douglas, Ga.,
netted the growers one thousand dollars.
A farmer in Thomas county sold the irish po
tatoes from one acre of land for six hundred
dollars. This beats cotton.
6G,543 had been raised by the citizens of At
lanta for the fire sufferers up to Saturday night.
Atlanta always does her part to help those in dis
tress.
Go out next Sunday and help raise twenty
thousand dollars for the Georgia .Baptist Hospi
tal. A small contribution from each person will
raise this amount, and more too.
The pay of a private in the army is thirty dol
lars per month, including board and clothes.
That's more than we are making’right at this
time.
A FEW LINES FROM JOHNNIE SPENCER.
MACON TELEGRAPH.
If we get Atlanta aright, she respectfully re
quests all and sundry to watch her smoke.
We know something like 352 ways to lose a
lead pencil. How many do you know’?
The Kansas City girl who married Fred Lusher
evidently doesn’t think there’s a great deal in a
name.
One thing about the nickle loaves of bread,
you can get so many more of them in a sack now
than could aforetime.
Coming down town yesterday morning we
stopped in front of a vegetable emporium and
looked at a tomato all we wanted to.
“Many houses, surrounded by flames,” says a
dispatch out of Atlanta, “collasped in heaps, it
was said, before the fire actually reached them.”
Dr. Frank Crane says men should use 1 hpeir
mule power. We’ll say this, some of them
seem to have more of it than a mule has.
But where’s the need of Hindenburg shifting
his line as long as he can get the French and
British to do it for him?
General Pershing and Senator Stone come,
from the same State, but already the General has
lived it down.
This thing of calling the food speculators bur
glars should be stopped. What if the burglars
get sore and double their activities just for spite?
The proposition to limit individual incomes to
$lOO,OOO and 'turn over to the goverment all a
bove but we suppose we can stand it if every
body else can.
And then, again, a model wife, as we under
stand it, is one who pretends she’s not listening
when Friend Husband steps out of the bathtub
onto a collar button.
Some of those new radical statesmen in Russia
appear to be as expert in throwing crossties on
the track as our own statesmen over here who’ve
had years of practice.
We will go with the Food Dictator as far as the
next one, but we certainly do hope and trust he
doesn’t get it in for us and prescribe soup for
breakfast.
If the anti-prohibitionists along the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts know what’s good ’em they’ll
keep.it to themselves they see
submarines arH * u 1 **----* M
In th matter of vexing problems to be solved,
the elimination of the U-boat appears to rank
right up alongside the proposition having to do
with the unscrambling of eggs.
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Judging from the newspaper reports, Austria
must feel about like we looked not long since
when a motorcycle buck jumped us off into a
ditch.
Herr Doctor Kaempf says President Wilson
will bite grainte. Even that, though, would be
better than biting the dry and tasteless pulveriz
'd earth thousands and thousands of the doctor’s
counrymen are biting over there somewhere in
France.
Another cause for rejoicing is the thought you
didn’t have any hand in electing the United
States Senator who stood up before the most dig
nified body on earth (if you don t care what you
say) and asked, “Who is this man Hoover?”
We, are, we are proud to say, gradually taking
<>n town ways, but don’t suppose we’ll ever be
able to tell Central to give us three-fife-fife when
we want three double five, not without giggling,
anyhow.
The executive committee of the Boston branch
of the National Equal Rights League, whatever
that is, sends a telegram to the President express
ing horror at the lynching of a negro in Tennes
see. The Boston Branch doesn’t appear to be at
all perturbed over the fact that the victim of the
lynchers had criminally assaulted a little white
rirl and then cut her head off.
About ten per cent of those who register next
Tuesday, will be called into service.
The state prison commission recommended
commutation to present service for ten murder
ers last Saturday. Life is getting very cheap.
Don’t let the income tax worry you. If you
make mere than two thousand dollars a year you
can well afford to pay it.
The registration of those between 21 and 31
will be done without an extra session of the leg
lature. Something wonderful, isn’t it?
The officers of Gwinnett county are making
many arrests tor violation of the prohibition law.
About three hundred gallons of "jj.iice” wa;
captured last week.
In Loving Memory
Of sister Minnie A. Julian.
Sister Julian was born in Hab
ersham County, Ga., July 31st
1839, she joined the first Bap- 1
tist church at Dalton, Ga., in'
the year A. 1)., 1850 and was
baptised by the Rev. G. W. Sel
vide ■ She ••■as married to the
Hon. A. J. Julian April 19th,'
1864. They had born to them
several children all of whom
preceded the mother to the
grave except two, Ethel O. 1
Brice and Jamey Lilley.
Sister Julian /departed this 1
life Feb. 27th. 1917, her re
mains was laid to rest at Con
cord Baptist church, Forsyth
county, Ga., March Ist 1917.
She united with Liberty Tlap
ust church in the year 1864,
(Dawson county).
Sister Julian was a faithful
A’ife a devoted and kind mother
and a consecrated church mem
ber. She was always ready to
end a helping hand to the sick
and distressed of her commun
ty. She always contributed to
he support of her church and
its institutions. She was a
close reader of her bible, she
•vould commit to memory ver
ses, paragraphs and even whole
chapters of scripture, and she
always had a scripture quota
ion ready for any and all oc
casions. She was a literary
eacher by profession having
aeen educated at Mary Sharpe
College. Tenn. She was a tho
rough scholar.
Liberty church had the mis
fortune to get the church-house
burned down, sister Julian, sis
;er Annetta Porter and sister
Ann Townsend did such profi
cient work in collecting funds
vith which to rebuild that the
church in (conference ordered
a blank page set a icart in ap
preciation <Tf said labor. As the
sisters are all dead we think
his a suitable time to make men
ion of said facts.
Respectfully submitted,
R. A. Elliott,
L. S. Townsend,
* Jeff Taylor.
Committee,
In i,W* •nan Memory.
T ~7^ ay l ’ eco^unt Dora Bol
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. ; ng,‘ A wj ™>~vtea uns ate
April 16g „!rf§. She was 31
years old when the Lord says
here is a vacant seat for you
;ome up higher ahd I will give
you sweet rest. She leaves a
husband, 4 little children, a
father, 5 brothers and a host of
other relatives and friends to
mourn her loss. Aunt Dora
.vas sick about 1 week with
pneumonia fever but bore her
suffering with patience. She
tlways had a kind and loving
vord to all she met. Her spir
it lias gone to God to dwell for
ever. Oh, that we may all
•each that happy shore, aunt
Dora is done with the troubles
jf this life and she had went
hru a great many. She joined
Lhe church at Ophir quite
young and lived a Christian life
intil her death.
Aunt Dora was the daughter
>f Mrs. A. M. Ellis and was
uarried to G. M. Boling Sept.
10th, 1894. Oh how lonely the
ionic is since aunt Dora is gone
;he is singing sweet songs of
Zion and with her 4 children
vvho have gone on before. Oh,
now sad it was to see her child
ren standing around the coffin
aldng the last look at her, and
sad for them to go home and
sec no mother there and their
father down with pneumonia
fever.
She was laid to rest at Cool
Spring cemetery, Tate, Ga.,
dev. conducting the funeral
services.
Farewell dear aunt but not
forever, there will be a glorious
lawn v.e will meet to part no
lever on the resurrection morn.
Written by her neice, Neva
ffiis.
The Dlvle!.
Three Germans had been doing an
odd Job of repairing and agreed to
split the pay evenly. They received
$4, and, after several unsnceessful ef
forts of two of them to hit upon the
correct division of the amount the
hird settled the business transaction
hus: "Here iss it, two for you two,
nd here Iss it, two for me, too. Ain’t
d?”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. .
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time when you
drink
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REFRESHING /f \ M f Jos\
With no bad after I
W Why only in bottles? We are determined
(.HERO-COLA shall be pure. We are de
// termm. and it shall be dean and sparkling.
/ f • are determined it shall be free from
Yf\ |jißation. Wo are determined it shall
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Rugs to ■
Bum at Prices
apt .—r -~v.ru & "JL •*. St-. ifa+J
That ws n set em.
Be sure to come and examine this
line of rugs, buy-some of them, and
go home happy.
300 Pairs of Sam
ple S hoes to go at
Wholesale Prices
Both of us lose money if you fail to
do your shopping at this store.
Yours for Business,
Geo. W. Heard
Pigs For Sale.
I have 9 Registered Berk
shire and Duroc pig£ for sale,
ready for delivery June Ist.
This is a good chance for the
members of the Boys’-Pig Club.
H. W. Tollison.
Gumming, Ga., route 2.
Notice.
Will now take cotton notes
for guano at 20c per pound.
We will hold open as long as
we can, but subject to being
closed at any time.
All wishing to give cotton
notes come at once.
Yours,
L. T. Ledbetter.
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Call on Clay Bagby. Flowery-
Branch, Ga., route 2 for hogs
and cattle; also for lumber of
all kinds. He will cut it to
measure for you.
OUR LUiWS Ml DELICATE
Overwork, lack of fresh air, mental strain or any sickness
disturbs their functions. Stubborn coughs tear and wear
the sensitive lung tissues.
storn enuishni
should be taken promptly for bard coughs, unyielding colds,
for when strength is lowered from any cause. Its high
nutritive value creates resistive force to ward of: sick
ness. The rich cod liver oil improves the quality
of the blood to relieve the cold and the glycerine is
soothing and healing to the lung tissues.
Refuse Alcoholic Substitutes Which Exclude the Oil. ■.■
BRING US YOUR JOB WORK.