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The Forsyth County News.
Published every Wednesday at Cumming, Ga.
By J. B. Patterson.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
Per Year . 75c.
Six Months 40c.
Three Months 26c.
OFFICIAL ORGAN FORSYTH COUNTY.
.. Entered at the Pont Oflice at Cuinming, Ga.,
August 10th, 1910, as mail matter of the second
class.
Advertising rates made known upon application.
Cumming, Ga., June 22nd, 1917.
Corn a growing nicely.
Life is sweet, so don’t worry.
The war tax will hit everything and everybody
Everybody having plenty of beans and vege
tables.
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The food control bill is being fought out in the
United States Senate this week.
The United States army needs seventy thous
and volunteers to reach war strength.
A good garden is half a living, hut you have
to work like the deuce to get the other half.
Flour is retailing at $3.60 a sack. Makes a bis
cuit taste mighty good.
It is reported from Washington that Senator
Hardwick will not come to Georgia and open his
campaign in September.
Uncle Sam is going after the slackers. Quite
a number of them have been indicted by the fed
eral grand jury.
We do not believe there is a man in Forsyth
county between twenty one and thirty one years
old who did not register on June sth.
It was reported in Atlanta that Forsyth coun
ty come up short in the negro registration. That’s
one report on this county that, in true.
A war tax of five per cent on the net profits of
newspapers has been written in the war tax bill.
This will not cause us much w orry.
Cr<fp S hav'ft'oino out consith rably in the past
Yr r w—weeks, bUTT'ruiHWV/i WVhAi-Hi im '*' ■
oral clays have delayed them a good deal.
Get ready for the big June singing next Sun
day. There will be a few buggies here a net hun
dreds of automobiles.
Johnny Riplasill of the Cherokee Advance, ad
ded an “s” to Revelation and some of the papers
are having a fit about it.
We notice where a man walked more than one
hundred miles to enlist in the army. It did not
happen on April Ist either.
The Central of Georgia Rail ay Cos. is asking
the state Railroad Commission to allow them to
discontinue fourteen trains on their road.
plans are being drawn for work on the water
pipes to the cantonment below Chamblee, and
work will begin at an early date.
Two anarchists are held in ' ew h ork jail un
der twenty five thousand dollar bonds to await
the action of the federal grand jury.
Swift & C<>. have bought the' Moultrie Packing
Plant at.Moutrie, Ga„ and will enlarge it to four
times its present size,
The boll weevil has made an early start this
year. They have already appeared in forty sev
en counties in this state.
Ten hundred and ninety two men enlisted in
the marine corps last week. Only four thousand
more are needed in this branch of the service.
A man. h : s wife and twelve children were
poisoned in South Georgia lasi week from eat
ing honey. It is thought that no death will occur.
The Southern railroad has been allowed by
the Railroad Commission to discontinue a num
ber of trains on their road oil account ot the war.
K. R. Silbey of the American Canning Cos. says
that thy have plenty of tin cans to can the vege
table crop. They have on hand now more than
half million of Nos. two and three cans.
A dividend of eight per cent will be paid to
the depositors of the detunct Neal bank in At
lanta in August. This will make a total of Tti 1 -j
per cent paid the depositors.
Five thousand pardons were granted by Pres
ident Wilson last Friday to persons who were
now under suspended sentences in the federal
courts.
A FEW LINES FROM JOHNNIE SPENCER.
MACON TELEGRAPH.
Macon and New York both oversubscribed
their Liberty Bond allotments. Towns of a feath
er will flock together.
The way some of the states are delaying the
registration returns you’d think they are in the
hands of practical politicians waiting to see how
many more names it will take to win.
Emma Goldman, though, probably feels about
as much at home in jail as out. '
An Atlanta Irishman when asked by a regis
tration official if his wife had anyone except him
self to depend upon for support replied that he
hoped not.
The Russians have agreed to give the former
Czar (lie ballot. Please him better, though, if
they’d give him a steamer ticket.
Why, of course, Forsyh county gets her part
of the automobile tax.
The sate of Georgia paid $1,708,693 income
tax to the government the past year.
The receipts at the Atlanta post oflice for the
fical year ending Junde 30th will exceed one and
one-half million dollars. ,
“Many go through the war and escape death”,
says a headline. Yes, but it is a deuce of a risk
to run.
Russia gives us her word that she will continue
in the war and be with the United States in her
fight.
South Georgia canteloupes are selling at one
thousand doll: rs a car. The crop in that section
is said to be very short.
The liberty loan bonds were about one billion
dollars over-subscribed. This shows that the
United States people have the money.
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The citizens and business men of Atlanta sub
scribed about six million dollars to the liberty
loan.
If the farmers can have the seasons and make
a good crop, we will have a season of genuine
prosperity this fall.
Raymonde Stapleton, Secretary to Gov. Har
ris. has applied to the war department for a
as Advocate.
Tin. 'me nil- ■ tux collected for the fiscal year
lending the ,*>olh of this month amounts to
1 $330,565,628.
There are nearly five million central Euro
peans in the l nited States according to figiues
given out by Ihe census bureau.
I
j Judg James R. Grant of Toccoa accidentally
,-h- • and kilhd himself Sunday morning at ten
o’clock.
i Judge Judson C. Clement, of Georgia, who has
served for twenty five years on the Interstate
'Commerce Commission, died suddenly of heart
'failure in Washington Monday.
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A lady in Wa.vcross has set a new’ style by
walking through the town donned in overalls on
a shopping trip Of course, others will take up
the style too.
There is an increase of sixty one pel cent in
peanut acreage in Georgia this year. Ihe farm
ers of the south are raising peanuts instead of
so much cotton in some sections.
A Texas Rotarian w as robbed of one hundred
land ninety beans while enjoying the convention
‘in Atlanta. This was too much money for one
' man to Have at this season of the year anyway.
A salesman of Lithonia, Ga., was found guilty
of violating the prohibition law in the sale of ex-,
tract of Vanilla. He has appealed his case to the
higher courts.
G. M. Howsmon of Atlanta has filed a petition
in bankruptcy. Out of twenty two creditors ten
Of them are doctors. It’ a thousand wonders
that one of the others was not an undertaker.
, Judge Hand of Pelham, who died recently, left
twenty thousand gallons of wine to the state
universiy at Athens. The trustees are now up
■a tree as- to how to handle the wine under the
prohibition law.
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I Spot cotton reached 26 cents Monday. It
| would not surprise us if it does not reach thirty
cents in the next few weeks. No one can toll
what cotton will do. whether it will go up or
come down in price.
Hugh Franklin, mayor of Mansfield, Ga.. has
sued two c’ty detectives of Atlanta and the Ma
sons Annuitv Cos. for fifty housand dollars dam
ages, allegin:. that he was falsely arrested in At
lanta in November 1915.
ROUTE 3.
As we haven’t seen any dots
from this part we will try to
write a few.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Green
spent Sunday with Mr. Grady
Green and family.
Mrs. M. G. Hutchins spent
Saturday afternoon with Mrs. A
J. Green.
Mr. Gladston Green and
wife spent Saturday and Sun
day with Mr. J. W. Fagan.
Miss Marie Hutchins spent
Saturday night with Miss Lola
Orr.
Mrs. A. J. Pirkle spent Sun
day night with Mr. Clyde Ma
jors anid family.
Mr. Ah Gilbert and family
spent Friday night with Mr. A.
J. Green and family. /
Mrs. M. G. Hutchins and Mrs
Phipps and Mrs. Lena Green
spent one afternoon last week
with Mrs. Wills.
Mr. Matt Satterfield and fam
ily spei|t Sunday with Mr. Gra
dy Green and family.
Mr. Preston Green and wife
spent Sunday with Mr. F. V.
Green and family.
Two Pets.
STAR ROUTE.
The people in this part are
busy ttjinning grass.
Mr. sddie Echols and family
spent Saturday night and Sun
day at fathers, Mr. M. L.
Echols.)'
Mr. L. P. Green, wife and son
spent Saturday night and Sun
day at Mr. T. B. Fowler’s.
Mr. 11. W. Pruitt, wife and
baby spent Sunday at Mr. J. W
Pruitt’s-.
Mr. T. G. Smith and wife
spent! (Sunday afternoon with
Mr. L)iwitt Fowler and family.
Mr. Ezra Wright and family
spent Sunday at Mr. Carl
Kemp’s’
visiting at Mr. S. B.
Wright* Sunday' were, Mr. A.
3. Samples and wife and Mr. T.
B. Fo jW and wife, and Mr.
Homer W)ocl and wife. e
I amßorry to say that Mrs.
CansadmPhillips is no beter.
'■ er re P° r^s cot
n s^ient
flR V v ‘l? e *3 ''eek at Mr. S. B.
WrTghß l
I ! 11 , f m - r,ani f,’ spending
awhile!with his a _
Fayettl; Barnes.
MrsJ Leonard Poss spent
urday flight and Sunday at Mr.
LaFayrtte Samples.
MrsJ Jordan spent awhile
recently at Mr. 'A. S. Samples.
I will ring olf by saying what
• went with the two wads of
Sweet Gum?
Daddy.'
Georgia, Forsyth County.
To all whom it may concern:
W. T. Major administrator De
Bonis Non upon the estate of
D. P. Major, late of said county
deceased, has in due form ap
plied to me for leave to sell
lands belonging to the estate of
said deceased, and said applica
tion will be heard at the regular
term of Court of Ordinary for
said county to be held on the
first Monday in July 1917.
Given under my hand and of
ficial signature, this 4th day of
lune 1917.
W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary.
Georgia, Forsyth County.
To all whom it may concern:
i’. H. Edwards having made ap
plication to me for permanent
letters of administration upon
the estate of Mrs. I. A. Edwards
late of said county, deceased,
notice is hereby given that said
application will be heard at the
regular term of the Court of Or
dinary of said county to be held
on the first Monday in July 1917
Given under my hand and of
ficial signature, this 4th day of
June 1917.
W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary.
Law Regulating Fashions.
ru IG3S the general court of Massa
chusetts passed a law that "No gso.
ment shall be made with short sleeves;
and such as' have garments with short
sleeves shall not wear them unless
they cover the arm to the wrist. Ar.d
hereafter no person whatever shae
make any garment for women w,t.>.
sleeves more than half an ell wloo
(twenty-two and a inches). H
laws regulating fashions were passed
today, how many women would br
laed for law-breaking?
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
JARRET P. FOWLER
Attorney-at-Law
CUMMING, GEORGIA
Will Practise in All Courts.
Over F & M Bank
DR. J. C. GILSTRAP
Calis Attended Day or Night
Office at W. B. Bagwell Place.
Ciirimi' k, Ga., F^Mte>.
DR. J. L. HARRISON
Dentist
301-302 Jackson Building
Gainesville, Ga.
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V. w. PIP.KLE, M. D.
Phyt>v~: an and Surgeon.
Cuiara. n?| Georgia.
Office at Residence. Phone 88.
DR. M. F. fcELLEY, Dentist,
4 Cumm n gr > Q a>
Office in Doug ler ty Hotel
All W ork f> u ranteed
O. W. SETTI.:
Funeral Director & Ri’jalmor
Norcross, Ga.
Day and Night ’Phone.
DR. J. ROBERT SIMPSOi
Specialist in Diseases of
The Eye, Ears, Nose and Throat
302-303-304 Jackson Building,
Gainesville, <G a .
Pigs for Saje.
I have a few tross bred
Berkshire and Ch'r.a
pigs for sale Call at
once.
Howard Jackbn, Cum-!
ming Ga., route 5. 1
Deafness Cannot BaCuret/
by local applications, as ty J caanot
reach the diseased portion l the ear
There is only cne way to 'cuAg. ufm sj*
and that is by constituteonaV meclit s’
Deafness is caused by an imUVi condi
tion of the raucous lining of \ ]<;usta
chian Tube. When this tube ilnllamcd ?
you have a ruitibling sound orhpcrfect
liearing, and when it is ontirq closed
Deafness is the result, and unk-the- in
flammation can be taken out m tliis
tube restored* to its n rma! Edition,
hearing witt bo destroy* and form; n j no ■
cases out of ten arc caused j
v. 1 ich i.; nothing but an inflamjconcU- I
tion of the mucous surfaces.
\W * ill pivo Ono Ilnndred PoPars r ,f
Svifness (cansr t by catarrh) that cannot i re 4t)7
all’s Catarrh Cure. Pend lor circulars, I
F. J. CTIENET, & CO , Tol )tn c .
Bold by Druggists, 7';\ \
Tako Hall’s l-’ami ly Tills for constlpatW
Notice.
Will now take cotton tes
for guano at 20c per r id.
Wo will hold open as loas
we can, bus subject to jig
closed at any time.
All wishing to give cjn
notes come at once.
Yours, i
L. T. LedbetU ‘
Rugs to
Burn at Prices
That will set ’em.
Re sure to come and examine this
line of rugs, buy some of them; and
go home happy.
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300 Pairs of Sam
-1 pic Shoes 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
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