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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. • ____________________ 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. * 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. I 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. ! 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. • 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. —— 1 300 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 c- ;•:/>>. " ;a- K m\ Y , I ■ < I J•• \\ \ % I * / m v. / b\; 'v>, ... . : 7- >* v y \ ■ i - . u\ I I *1 * 3 J 4 ’yil jat J \¥’ \ i\\ JuiiiibLi i m In the growin ' army which is | enjoying daily ' Im a V U . a3 if J ~liO a wr V* / \ , -In a Bottle- ' 2hr ough c Straw ” mm no AFf£N JBFFBC7Z IA of delicious fruit flavors, with a poo irti- a oft.., rHrTMi’ng and exhilarating ' •' 1,1 J ;> i..>- h !.• c, id! Mended so exactly that *c is iO feeling of depression. - (3) 't -. nrsTt, y~ ^ syifl h . % I