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Vol. 9. No. 39. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. V. W. Dougherty was in Atlanta on business Friday. Rev. F. T. Willf filled his ap pointment at Norcross Sunday. Local news is rather scarce this week. See the ad of Folsom Hotel in another column. Mr D. W. Lochamy of Double Run, Ga., is visiting relatives pear Haw Creek. Mr. C. T. Kemp is visiting his daughter Mrs. O. W. Settle, in 1 Norcross. Three head of, cattle for sale Call on Sam McGee, Cumming, Ga., route 5. Cols. H. L. Patterson and C. L. Harris had business in Atlan ta Saturday. j Miss Vivian Shirley, one of our teachers, spent the week end with her parents at Ocee. Miss Stella Douglas spent the week-end with her parents in Norcross. '•““•Mi-ss Addie Rhodes has been spending several day with rel atives in town. Misses Leoa and Grace Latt n<r left Saturday f. r Chattanoo ga where they will teach"school Dr. W. W. Pirkle made a professional trip to Atlanta Fri day. Mr. James Poole and sons of near Buford spent Saturday flight with his brothers here. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Puett spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at Norcross. Mrs. T. P. Burruess and child ren visited her parents at New ftope '*• bo first of the wectk. Mr. G. L. Heard and family spent Sunday with relatives at Chamblee. Some from Cumming attend ed the singing at Friendship Sunday and report a nice time. Dr. Marcus Mashburn, and Messrs Roy Otwell and Vincent Merritt were in the Gate City Tuesday. There was no preaching at the church here Sunday. Rev. Gober went to New Hope to fill an appointment. Misses Mae and Cynthia Reid of route 6 spent Tuesday night with Mr. V. W. Dougher ty and family. Quite a number more of the boys were examined last week for military service. The coun ty has secured its quota and a bout ten more. We understand that Mr. P. D Brown will become a citizen of Cumming in a short while, and will live at the Groover place. We welcome him and his fam ily to the city. Henry Hurt will begin this week to make out his tax re ceipts. He will give the boys a “popcall” soon, and will be af ter you to grease his hands to help pay the expenses of the state and county. Rev. J. W. Gober will preach at the Baptist church in town Sunday. The meeting will be protracted for a few days, and the pastor will be assisted by Rev. A. A. Sullivan. Everybo'dy invited to come out and take a part in the meeting. Mr. Warren Wood was in town the other day and when asked if he thought he would make one thousand bushels of corn replied, “Why if nothing happens I’ll make about two thousand bushels.” That’s pret ty good corn crop. Mr. Clyde McClure of Toccoa was here for a short while last Thursday, shaking hands with his many friends. He had the misfortune to lose his good -wife a few weeks ago, and the peo ple sympathize with him in his misfortune. The Forsyth County News Mr. F. G. Roberts of Cordele was here the first of the week. Mr. J. T. Blackstone was at Camp Gordon Wednesday. Mr. D. B. Vernon and family are visiting relatives in Atlanta. 1 Several from town went to i Camp Gordon Sunday on a pleasure trip. Mrs. D. B. Vernon and child ren have been spending some-j time in Atlanta visiting relatives There was a larg crowd in town'Thursday to see the sold-J ier boys leave for the camp. I I Any one who has a good en gine and saw mill to sell, please call on H. W. Tollison, route 2 j For thoropgh bred Bershire pigs call on E. J. McGinnus, Al pharetta, Ga., route 1. Strickland & Wisdom will pay to the ladies only five cents a pound for cotton rags. Forty per cent more of the boys are expected to report at Camp Gordon about the third of October. _ I Mrs. Marcus Mashburn is sick at the home of her mother, Mrs. H. H. Summerour of War saw.. We hope she will soon be out again. Read the new ad of Strick land & Wisdom ir this issue. If you expect to buy a Ford car you had better get busy and place your order now. Mr. Jess Norrell carried a truck load of cattle to Atlanta last week. The load weighed 3300 pounds, carried by Smih Harrison’s truck, and was said to the biggest load of cattle ever carried to the ciy. The ladies of the Baptist church are requested to meet at the school house Sunday morn ing at eleven o’clock. Mrs. Mc- Ever of Gainesville and Miss Evie Campbell of Atlanta will address the ladies on the miss ionary work. The Hiram P. Bell Camp, United Confederate Veterans, have a cordial invitation to at tend the annual reunion of the old vets at Thomasville. We trust some of them will go down and see their old comrades of the sixties and have a good time. Cumming’s First Bale The first bale of cotton brought to Cumming market this season came Wednesday, and was raised by Ed Samples, up on Ben Fowler’s place. George Merritt bought this bale, paying 25 cents per pound for same. It’ll not be too long until the farmers will be bringing the fleecy saple in to the market, and we trust that the price will stay high and every one enjoy a season of genuine prosperity. Union Singing No. 2. Will meet with Liberty church (Dawson county) the sth Sun in Sept. 1917. Everybody come out and bring your song books and well-filled baskets. E. G. Chambers, Pres Hubert Patterson, Secy. Street Notice. All those who have not paid their 1917 street tax will pleasb report to Clerk by Oct. Ist, and pay or be prepared to work Oct. 3rd. s I Marcus Mashburn, Mayor Claude Groover, Clerk. We are requested to announ ce that there will be an all day singing at Ebenezer the fifth Sunday in this month. Every body is invited to come and have one more good singing be Tore cold weather gets here. Sunshine InThe Home, Power in The Life. SCHOOL FAIR The following is a list of prizes to be awarded: Literary Ist prize. Best Essay by I child between the ages of 6 to 18 SI.OO I 2nd Prize .50 Best Declamation 6 to 18 years Ist Prize SI.OO 2nd Prize .50 Greatest number of words in written contest of 25 words from Swinton’s Wordbook Ist Prize SI.OO Manual Arts Ist Prize Best crooked ax handle SI.OO 2nd Prize .50 Best Claw Hammer Ist Prize .50 2nd Prize .25 Best Feed Basket Ist Prize .50 2nd Prize .25 Free Hand Drawing Ist Prize SI.OO 2nd prize .50 Domestic Science Ist Prize Best butter milk biscuit, .50 Ist Prize Best plain cake .50 Best pint can of apples preserves .50 Best pint can of apples jelly .50 Domestic Art Nicest made cook apron and cap by girl between the ages of 8 to 14. Ist Prize SI.OO 2nd Prizes .50 Nicest Crochet Pieces Ist Prizes SI.OO 2nd Prizes .50 Nicest half dozen handkpr * . . *■ ' ' * * 7 *“~~ chiefs finished with tatting and crochet Ist Prize .50 2nd Prize .25 Best bird house .50 Best School Display Ist Prize $5.00 2nd Prize $2.50 Boys’ Corn Club Capital prize for best mark on yield, profit, history and ex hibit. Two scholarship to South eastern fair SIO.OO Best Yield Ist Prize $5.00 2nd Prize $2.00 Profit Ist Prize $5.00 2nd Prize $2.50 Best 10 Ear Exhibit Ist prize $3.00 ! 2nd Prize $2.00 Best History | Ist Prize $3.00 2nd Prize $2.00 Girls Tomato Club Best Yield , Ist Prize $5.00 2nd Prize $2.50 Profit , Ist Prize $5.00 2nd Prize $2.50 Exhibit Ist Prize $3.00 2nd Prize $2.00 History Ist Prize $3.00 2nd Prize $2.00 Capital Prize for best history profit, and exhibit of pig One scholarship to South eastern fair $5.00 Profit Ist Prize $5.00 2nd Prize $2.50 History Ist Prize $3.00 2nd Prize $2.00 Poultry Best Chickens Ist Prize $3.00 2nd Prize $2.00 This contest and fair will be held at the Court house and park in Cumming on October 9th, 1917. Everybody who is interested is invited to come and bring an exhibit f the best CUMMING, GA., SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1917. Change in Boys for Camp Last Thursday morning after we had gone to press, an order came to the local board from the district board, changing the personnel of those to be sent to Camp Gordon. The following were certified by the board and carried to the Camp for training:- Rufus Bryant, Candler B. HfwlCns Geo. B. Goolsby Rufus H. G. Disspain Emmett G. Hamby John Henry Blanton Edward H. Martin Robert Lee Callahan James F. Bovd Homer Virgil Tatum Bryant E. Nfcckolls Marcus L. Holbrook Clarence A. Bennett Otis R. Mashburn Lynn Bryant John W. Tallant Henry J. Millwood . Buell Roper Minor A. Bennett Jesse Erwin Robbs The following were notified but failed to show up for the trip:- . , Boyd James Waiter Lee Floyd Stone Rice ? Richard L. V allace Wiley Turner The ladies >f the town gave a delightful dinner in the grove at the residence of Col. C. L. Harris, which was very much enjoyed by the boys-who were leaving for training. Speeches were made hr Cols. H. L. Pat terson „jnd • r Xi Harris, which was well We wish , riooys God speed in their traimjhg. Cummkjg Cemetery Friends, have you took a look over at the silent city of the dead in Cumming lately? If you have, you know without us going to the trouble of telling you, that this cemetery needs cleaning off and put in nice shape. . I Friday and Saturday of next week has been designated as the date for doing this work.] All who wish to contribute can send the amount they wish to give to Claude Groover. Or, if you do not wish to make a do nation meet them on the dates named above and help beautify this city of the dead. Card of Thanks We w ish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kind ness shown us during the sick ness and death of our darling baby. We feel that all was done that willing hands could do. We thank Dr. Otwell for his faithfulness. We pray that the good Lord will comfort you all is the prayer of Seed Wheat. I have about 75 bushels of seed w-heat for sale at $3.25 per bushel. T. L. Brannon. you have in the line of corn, sorghum, sweet and irish po tatoes, pumpkins, hogs, cattle, chickens and other products you may wish to exhibit. Committee on arranging the displays are as follows: Misses Julia Merritt Floy Hill Bell Hughes, Vivian Shirley, Edna Henderson and Stella Douglas: Messrs T. W. Seabolt S. J. Smith, Q. R. Williams, Carl Couch and Jesse Bales. Respectfully, Jesse Bales, Pres. S. J. Smith County Agt. A. C. Kennemore Supt. Sow. Wheat and Oats The farmers of Forsyth coun ty have responded patriotically to the call for War bread. I think we will be able to feed ourselves. I The government now*calls on us to double our acreage in wheat. This we can easily do to our advantage both in soil building and keeping the cotton money at home. It’s true that seed wheat is high and scarce, but I t,hink we have about wheat enough in our County to sow the necessary acreage and I think it is best to buy seed that has been tried in this section. See your neighbor who has seed and buy from him. This is no time for experimenting on new seed. If possible select land that has a legume crop on it. And prepare a fine seed bed if you have stable manure use 2 or 3 tons per acre and 200 to 400 lbs. of Acid Phosphate, 3 pks. of clean wheat will be sufficient for an acre if put in with a drill If the land is old red land it will pay you to use 1000 lbs. of lime per acre. The wheat should be treated with formaldehyde for smut. Use 1 pound of formal dehyde to 40 gallons of water. All of the Corn Club Boys should join the wheat club and sow their corn acres in wheat, for this would get you started in the proper rotation for suc cessful farming. Those who join will receive special insruc tions and Bulletins on growing wheat. The proper time for sowing is from Oct. 15 to Nov. loth. i Oats shoulcPbe so\Cn from Oct. Ist, to Nov. Ist, on a well prepared seed bed. Sow Rust Proof varieties in open furrows about 16 inches apart 2 bushels per acre, and fertilize with Acid Phosphate 200 to 400 lbs. per acre. Seed is high bue we can get them if we are willing to pay the price. Growing them will make them cheaper. There is no better feed for work stock. Yours truly, S. J. Smith, County Agent. F'rom Agricultural Department Atlanta, Sept.— (Special) “In comparison with the price of wheat and some other prod ucts, cotton today is worth and should be selling around 31 censapound”. Such is the em phatic view of the State Depart ment of Agriculture,, as ex pressed by Commissioner J. J. Brown. When cotton went down to 1 20 cents the other day, for no apparent good reason, Director L. B. Jackson, of the State Mar ket Bureau, with the endorse ment of Commissioner Brown, urged all farmers to hold fast to their cotton. Evidently, his ad vice was heeded, as within a few days it went up about $5.00 a bale and showed a much stronger market tendency. j “Cotton is going right back to ; 25 cents and even higher”. Com missioner Brown said. “It is on ly a question of holding a little bit. There is not anywhere near enough cotton to meet the , world’s needs. The Government estimate of 1,900,000 bales for Georgia is much too large. I have been all over Georgia, and I am satis fied this state will not make much more than 1,500,000 bales, and not over 1,750,000 at the outside. We are not going to have over a 12,000,000 bale crop in the entire South, and the world needs and can use 20,000,000 bales. BRANDYWINE Who is who in your commun ity? Rain is much needed here at the present. Did you attend Sunday school last Sunday? Can you tell God you are trying your best to lead your children to him and then not carry them to Sunday school Some of the boys are still working at Camp Gordon but some have quit to gather their crops. Did you ever notice that the boys who give the most trouble in the world are, as a rule, those who take no active part in Sun day school? Mr. and Mrs. Mixon Monroe have the sympathy of a host of friends in the death of their lit le darling, Grace, who died Sun day morning and was interred at Ebenezer, six miles from Cumming. Brandywine has furnished her portion of the comfort bags for the soldiers and are going to give them to our boys as they are called. Mr. Henry Stone and family of Atlanta spent the week-end with relatives here. Mrs. S. L. Bales is on an ex tended visit to relatives at Sil ver City this week. Cotton at 24 cents per pound will not buy much meat at 33 cents per pound. How many Daniels have we in our coynty? If you knew that you would be cast into a den of lions if you prayed to God would you pray? What is a newspaper? Can you answer? * Wfe as ‘ corres ponents should get a good def finition for this and then let our writing conform to that writing The boys carried old John Barley corn to Camp Gordon one time too many. Gentlemen you should not have begun that practice and you would not have got in to trouble. I regret very much that they did not get all the folks who have been car rying it there. Is money the root of all evil? When a man can make from six to ten dollars on one gallon of whiskey it is very tempting but then we should remember that when we violate the law we must suffer the penalty. Paw. MULES WANTED If you have a mule for sale thats sound and will weigh 800 to 1200 pounds and from 3 to 12 years oid I want to buy it, and I believe I am in a position to pay as much spot cash for them as any one. I also have a few mules that are too small for the war trade to sell that is worth the change 1 also carry a full line of Barnes ville buggies, the best on the market regardless of price, also a big line of buggy harness, wagon collars, bridles, check lines. Yours for more and better business, G. W. Wilbanks. All Day Singing. There will be an all-day sing ing at Union Hill the sth Sun day in September. All good singers are invited to come and bring your song books, Chris tian Harmony and New books: Also well-filled baskets, W. S. Webb, Pres. J. M. Boling, Sec’y “We are on the verge of a cotton famine. Farmers, hold your cotton, and it will not be long before you appreciate the value of this advice.” 75c per year. Tax Levy for 1917. Georgia, Forsyth County. Court of Ordinary, sitting for County Purposes. It. is hereby ordered that (70c) seventy cents on the one hund red dollars of taxable proper ty of said county as per Digest for the year 1017, be and the soune is hereby levied for coun ty purposes for the year 1017, viz :- To pay jurors, bailiffs, sten ographer, 08c lon the SIOO. Sheriff and nonresident witnesses 06c on the SIOO. Support of paupers 03c on the SIOO. Books and stationery 01c on the SIOO. Other lawful claims 12c on the SIOO. Public bldgs and bridges 40c on the SIOO. Total 70c on the SIOO. It is further ordered that the Tax Collector collect said a mount and pay the same over to the County Treasurer for county purposes as aforesaid. It is further ordered that the Tax Collector of said county collect the sum of fifty cents on the ($100) one hundred dollars of the-taxable property of Cum ming Public School District a* shown by the tax digest of said district for the year 1917, as levied by the board,of trustees of said school and the County School Commissioner of said county, and pay the same over to the Treasurer of the Board of Tifrstces of School. It is further ordered that the Tax Collector of said county col lect the sum of 20c on the one hundred dollars of taxable pro perty of Mayfield Public school district as shown by the tax di gest of said district for the year 1017. as levied by the Treasur er of (he Board of Trustees of slid district, and the County School Commissioner of said county, and pay the same over to the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of said school dis trict. This Sept. 10, 1917. W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary From Recruiting Officer. “The Officer In Charge of the Navv Recruiting Station, Allan ta, da., states that the Navy has about secured its full quota of enlisted personnel, and it is very likely that in the near future he will receive instructions from the Navy Department that only skilled men will be enlisted. He says that young men who have a preference for Naval Service, should come and enlist immed iately before the office closes down. At present th< ratings in which young men can enlist are Apprentice Seamen, Fire men, Musicians, Machinists, Cooks, bakers, radio operators, 'coppersmiths, and seamen. Ap- plicants should write or apply to Recruiting Stations for fur ther information with a view of taking advantage of the op portunities offered, before it is too late. Thanking you in advance, -. i.l as< : ng you : Navy De partment : opreciato . and infor mation you may be able to give ihc younp reen of your common it'y through your paper, etc. re lative to the Navy, I am, Very truly yours, Fo r Sale, or will trade for smaller car, late model, five pas senger, six cylinder automobile Looks good—runs better. Ap | ply at this office.