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The Forsyth County News.
Published every Wednesday at Cuimning, Ga.
By J. B. Patterson.
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICL.
t Per Year 75c.
Six Months 40c.
Three Months 25c.
OFFICIAL ORGAN FORSYTH COUNTY.
... Entered at the Post Office at Cumming, Ga.,
August 10th, 1910, as mail matter of the second
class.
Advertising rates made known upon application.
Cnmming, Ga, Oct. 5,1917:
The Germas are gwine to get it in the neck.
Rev. J. M. Foster of Roc hell*, has four sons in
the army.
Two alien enemies have been arrested at Sa
vannah. That’s right, put a stop to ‘era now.
Congressman Heflin of Alabama is catching
it in the neck by his colleagues.
' A little rye sown about the house is worth
lots to the chickens.
Dr. L. G. Hardman has been appointed state
fuel administrator for Georgia.
The officers at Camp Gordon were paid off
Saturday.
Eighty million dollars worth of bonds is the
minimum for the Atlanta district.
Under the war revenue bill it will require a
two cent stamp to mail a postal card.
The North Georgia Conference will meet in
LaGrange Nov. 7th.
Pearson’s Magazine has gone into the hand
of the bankrupt court in New York.
Germany is willing to accept peace terms on
better terms than those offered by the Pope.
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The Southern express office at Buford closes
at five o’clock now instead of six as heretofore.
There will be plenty of rifles for the boys at
Camp Gordon when time comes distribute them.
A woman in Jakin, Ga., and a man in Hobo
ken, N. J., were married over the telephone one
day last week. That’s what we call grabbing
a fellow in spite of distance.
Joe Quillian has resigned as city attorney of
Buford and the city is so good they will do with
out one for awhile.
The James M. Smith estate, consisting of a
about sixteen thousand acres of land, was sold
by the executors at Lexington Tuesday.
It is said that forty five million dollars worth
of eggs spoil every year on account of poor mark
et conditions.
Often the cheapest thing on the market is
hardest to get. Frinstance money is about the
cheapest, thing we know of today.
The Army League is planning to have all the
boys between nineteen and twenty one years old
drafted for military service.
A severe wind storm passed through the
southern part of Alabama last week doing con
siderable damage to property.
Only one man has died at Camp Gordon so
far. He was sent from Tennessee and had ty
phoid fever when he reached the camp.
Two thousand gallons of beer and about fifty
gallons of whiskey were seized by revenue of
ficers in Harris county Satuiday. No. Matilda,
all the “booze" is not made in North Georgia.
Rev. By ron Couch has been called as pastor
of Buford church for another year at an increas
ed salary. Bid you ever notice that these old
Forsyth count?, boys win the hearts ot the peo
ple wherever they go?
Business is picking up a little.
Our advertisers are getting interested.
J. L. Walker is now editor of the Dahlonega
Echo. We wish him well.
Don’t forget to sow some wheat and oats, and
a little rye.
How do you like the News this week? Eight
pages, and something to read on every page.
The rains last week retarded the cotton crop
some.
Forsyth county’s quota of negroes is 15. How
the thunder are we to furnish 'em?
An avitation camp will more than likely be
located at Grayson.
Two cotton buyers in Cumming and they are
just itching to buy your cotton.
Flour dropped forty cents a barrel Saturday
We can stand another drop in price very well.
Forsyth county has about seventy merchants
About ten per cent of them advertise.
Cotton jumped five dollars a bale Tuesday
Let her take several upward jumps.
Eight more of our boys left for Camp Gordon
Wednesday. Good luck to ‘era.
The city council of Atlanta has voted motors
for the Fire Department.
The Sunday School exhibit will be a strong
feature of the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta.
Be sure to come to the school fair here next
Tuesday. It’ll be worth your while.
Don’t get it in your head that it makes us
mad for a fellow to come in and pay for his pa
per. It is a good cure for nervousness.
A man in Kansas has started a contribution
offering to give one million dollars to the fellow
who captures the kaiser.
The government liberty bonds are selling like
hot cakes. .Verily there is prosperity in our coun
try. . • .
Our government is loaning money to the al
lies right along. Seems that we have money for
everything.
The United States Supreme Court has been
asked to pass quickly upon the selective draft
act. *
The doctors over in Buford have raised their
fees, while the doctors here are trying to raise
the fees already made.
Two hundred and forty seven ofc the 4800
soldiers sent up in the second quota failed to
pass the examination at the camp and were given
tickets to their home.
An airplane ambulance has been invented and
given the test. When we get started upward in
one of them things we don’t want to stop at the
hospial but just keep a going upward.
Nine years ago it took one bushel of corn to
pay for the News Now the price of a bushel will
pay for three years. Haint things gone up in
price.
Two thousand boys will be prosecuted for de
sertion is the claim made hy the state head
quarters, because they failed to show up when
notified to report for military service.
Ground glass is being found in some of the
earned go. ds shipped to Georgia. Be careful
about eating these goods and see that the name
of the canner is on the label.
It will cost you three cents to mail a letter
if the war revenue bill adopted by the House is
approved by the Senate. The bill will go into
effect within thiry days from its passage.
The postage oil newspapers is raised, and the
editors will have to pay extra for mailing the
advertising part of the paper, under the new
war revenue bill.
Coming Events
CAST Tlililß SHADOWS BEFORE THEM.
The main topic of discussion these
days is not the war, the conscription
act or the yield of cotton. It is not the
price of flour, the scarcity of “flivvers”
or the length of skirts.
The main topic on every tongue in
this part of the country and the BIG
event of the year is the
North-east Georgia Fair
Gainesville’ Ga., October 23rd to 27th.
The exhibits will be marvelous. The a
muSements will be thrilling. The music will
he patriotic. The crowds will be enormous.
You are invited
NORTH-EAST GEORGIA’S BIGGEST EAIR
Gainesville, Ga., October 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
FRIENDSHIP
Several from this place at
tended the singing at Zion Hill
Sunday.
Listen! the Sunday school at
this place is still alive but that
is abou all. Everygody come
Sunday and us revive it up a
gain before cold weather gets
here.
A singing class was organiz
ed at this place during singing
school and the 2nd and 4th Sun
day evenngs were the time set
to have singings every month.
Remember this and come.
Miss Blanche Tallant, and
Mrs. Maude Lindsey spent Sat
urday afternoon at Mr. B. P.
Roper’s.
Miss Net Howard is real sick
at th : s writing, hope for her a
speedy recovery.
Mr. Jack Chadwick and fam
ily spent Sunday at Mr. Henry
Chadwick’s.
Mr. Will Bramblett and
daughter, Lillah, spent Thurs
day night at Mr. Bud Creamers,
near Drew.
Mrs. Emma Tallant spent;
Sunday afternoon at Mr. Jerrey
Howard’s.
Miss Maggie Lindsey spent
Saturday night at Mr. D. H.
Rollins.
Mr. Charlie Tribble spent
Saturday night at Mr. W. N.
Tribble’s.
Mr. Aaron Stapp and wife
spent Saturday night at Mrs. L.
M. Stapps.
A Reader.
SHARON
Well as Uncle Josh has about j
quit your cheerful page, be-1
lieve I will see if I can escape
ihe waste basket.
Miss Ruby Vaughan spent
Wednesday night with Miss
Delphia Buice.
Those visited at Mr. Roy
Bvice's Sunday were, Mrs Pearl
lej and ■< hildren, Mr Frank
S 'e’ice. .V T.-es Mattie Willie,
Delphia and Patsey Buice, Mrs
Voythell Buice and Mr. Chesty
Buice.
Mr Troy and Benjamin Buice
made a business trip to Atlanta
Monday last.
Roy Terry is visiting in
this part.
Mr. Troy Buice and wife vis
ited at Mr. A. J. Vaughan’s
one day last week.
Mrs. Corene Dempsey visited
at Mr. J. C. Hall’s Sunday.
Miss Alpha Buice spent
Thursday night with Nettie
Bell Spence
Mr. J. D. Buice, who has had
an awful sore hand, we are
glad to say is better.
If I escape the waste basket
maybe I will come again.
Nell.
Saving Good Money on Denta! Work
People all over Georgia are finding it
pays them to go to the old established
One Price Dental Office, 104 y< White
hall st., Atlanta, for their dental work.
Even after paying railroad and hotel
hills and the charge for plates, bridges
cr crowns, their actual outlay is less
than if the work had been done in the r
hometown. The other day 11, C. Kikor,
of Hiram, Ga., who had a full set of
plates, upper and lower, rn.de fcyjtha
One Price Dental Office in May, uoifi,
wrote: “The teeth are a perfect fit.
Others had tried to make them ar-d
failed, saying I could never wear any.
I went for four years without any. Ths
lour gold crowns ar.d six fillings you
put in for my daughter in 191 ft are aisc
o k. ’ ’ 'i lie One IT ice Dental Office em
ploys only i he in os t skillful operators and
uses the modern painless methods. Dost
gold crowns, "s3; bridge work, per
tooth; finest set of teeth money can
huv, $6. All we k guaranteed ten years.
Write for appointment or h.for.nstic.Ji.
Notice
After September Ist I will
grind oniy on Wednesday and
Saturday of each week.
T. L. Brannon.
Any one who has a good en
gine and saw mill to sell, please
call on H. W. Tollison, route 2
Seed Wheat.
I have about 75 bushels of
seed wheat for sale at $3.25 per
bushel.
T. L. Brannon.