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The forsyth County News Published every Wednesday at Cummin#, Ga. by J B Patterson atJMMJKIKrioN PRiCU. One year 75c Six months 50c Three months 30c Entered • tn>- i***' ilt> ('tin •ninif Gi Aug. 10th, as mail matter if t ie an on 1 Class Official Organ forayth Cc Cumming, Ga., Oct. 19, 1917. Cotton about 28c a pound. A bale and the seed worth nearly S2OO, is pretty good. Have you sowed you a little wheat patch yet? Beautiful weather for farm work, isn‘t it? Peas bringing a good price up towards $3.00 a bushel. A wave of prosperity is just over the hill. If cotton were to drop to 15c the farmers would be ruint. We don’t care if cotton goes to 50c a pound. Gainesville is fixing to enter tain you next week. Go over. Good old watermelons are about all gone. We want to collect up, so we can pay up. Plenty of apples in the moun tains. They ought to be cheap in any form. If there is anything better than a Yates apple, it must be Henry Poole’s oysterless soup. Get yourself one of those Beautiful Calendars. See no tice elsewhere in the News. Sorghum mills running day and night, or at least some of them are. Some of our subscribers are bragging <jn last week’s paper. Thank you. This is an eight-page paper and every bit of the gentleman is printed at home. Yes. The U. S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the Select ive Service Law' Dec. 10th. Our government has loaned fifteen million more to the Brit ish. The Navy Department has contracted far three hundred and fifty million dollars worth of submarine destroyers. The Southeastern Fair is on in full blast in Atlanta this week. Several from this coun ty will likely attend. Be sure you visit the North east Georgia Fair at Gaines ville next week. They want to see you over there. The Atlanta papers talk as if the Southeastern Fair in At-' lanta would make our county Fairs look like a monkey and organ grinder. Sea Island cotton is bringing about 75c a pound. There is a war tax on all own ers of cars, including 4ds. Georgia Products Day will be observed Nov. 15th. Walton county pulled off her Big Fair last week. Ernest Camp of the Walton Tribune, writes his editorials in rhyme, and they are good ones. A woman in New Mexico says that long skirts will win the war. What shall we do? The tax levy of Gwinnett Cos. is SI.OO on the hundred, and they are building good roads. Electric lights are being in stalled in Dawsonville. Why can’t we have them here? Twenty thousand air ships are now being built in the Unit ed States. An ad planted in this paper will come up and make you a good yield. Forsyth county farmers have made lots of sorghum and oth er food stuff this year. It requires 2,500 car loads of food every day to feed Uncle Sam’s army. Mack Cornett, postmaster at Lawrenceville, has resigned, and will farm in South Georgia. Don’t forget to put 3c worth of stamps on your letters begin ning Nov. Ist. The rate of postage on pos tal cards will be 2c after Nov ember Ist. Keep this in mind. There are only 25 cabs in At lanta propelled by horses. A few years ago there were hun dreds of them. A manufacturing company, will begin business in Atlanta in a few days, making shells for the government. On and after Dec. Ist reve nue stamps will have to be put on deeds, except deeds to se cure money. The Western Union Tele graph Cos., has purchased two and one half million dollars of Liberty Bonds. The term of public schools in Gwinnett county is for five months, all to be taught dur ing the winter “Clubbing a Husband” in 3 acts, was pulled off at the the atre in Lawrenceville one day last week. One act would be enough for us. It is estimated that there are 933 million tons of coal in the mines of Dade, Walker and Chattooga counties, enough to run the state 200 years. Three slackers were tried in the United States court last Fri day. One plead guilty and was sentenced to one month in jail. The other two were acquitted. The Southern Railway Com pany paid out $1.28 for every dollar received during August. The country newspapers have got 'em skint forty city blocks along that line. BRANDYWINE. It sometimes takes more cour age to say “No” than to face an army. The fellow who said that Merritt and his deputies won’t capture booze is a charter mem ! ber in the annanias club. We are too prone to do only what we like to do. We don’t like to cut stove wood, but it is our duty to do so. We don’t like to get up a cold morning and make a fire, but it is our duty. We may not like to sup port our government, but it is our duty, and I believe it was Gen. Lee who said, that duty is the sublimest word in our lan guage. We should get famil iar with it. Rev. F. R. Smith filled his ap pointment at Shiloh Sunday. Mr. Luther Wade, who has been in South Georgia, has re turned home. Mr. J. M. Bales and family “forded” ic to Atlanta in their recently purchased car. Several from here went to Camp Gordon Sunday to see our boys who are to be remov ed to another camp. Mr. Emery Wade of Atlanta came up to his father’s for the week-end. Jack Frost came last week, and done some damage to the crops. Some late patches of corn were caught, and a few immature bolls of cotton. I,ve been informed That it was not corn liquor that the boys were carrying to Camp Gordon, but *v>: j made f-om su r'ur and some other materials. Anyway, it would make a sens ible man crazy if he did not let it alone. Someone said that the gov ernment intended for the ne groes and poor white people to live on corn bread and syrup. If that is true we think we have our next year’s rations already made. | Cyrus was a great man. Hon est now, who was Cyrus? It would be a good time to join the Adventists in so far as to let hog meat alone. Meat at 35c per pound is high even if cotton brings 28c. Mr. Farmer, right now would be a good time for you to get out and purchase you a little farm. The interest on your place might nearly equal the rent but you would have the sat isfaction of knowing that it was your home, and that any work you did on it was for the bene fit of your own property. November 3rd will be the last Quarterly meeting of the Alpha retta charge. It will be held at Midway. It is earnestly hoped that all the churches will pay their full assessment for the preachers surely need all that is coming to them. Paw. ROUTE 6. Rev. J. W. Thomas f.lled his appointment at Corinth Satur day and Sunday, and was call ed as pastor for another year. Mrs. Caroline Brown and fam ily spent Sunday with relatives near Bethel. Mr. Bryan Williams left on Monday for Dalhart, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Chadwick spent the week end with Mr. Bethel Dover and family. Mr. John Day spent last week with relatives near Duluth. Mr. Quinton Williams was in Canton several days last week. Rev. McGee will preach at Corinth Sunday at eleven. As news is scarce this week I will ring off. MULES I have my barn full of good mules and can fit you up with single or pairs, and right no w is the time to do your tall plow ing, so come and let me fit you up with a good team as they’ll be much higher later. BUGGIES Another car load of Jackson G. Smith, and it is by far the best buggy on the mar ket, so come, look them over and get our prices. I also carry a full line of buggy harness pads, wagon collars, bridles, wagon har ness, and a big lot of lap robes, auto robes and storm aprons. Get my prices be fore you buy. / have a big lot of two and three ply roofing. Come and let us sell you what you need to cover your barns and sheds Come to see me when in town and get my prices. I will sell you anything in my line worth the money. Big line of Oats, Hay and Shorts. Yours for Business, G. W. WILBANKS. NEXT WEEK Is Fair week At Gainesville On Tuesday, October 23rd, the gates of the Big Fair will open. The amuse ments will be on hand to furnish high class entertainment all the week. There will be something doing every min" ute of the day and till twelve at night. Bring your exhibits Friday, Saturday or Mon day before the Fair. Plenty Of space has been provided. The prizes are liberal, Your exhibit will be appreci ated. Vou are invited NORTH-EAST GEORGIA’S BIGGEST FAIR Gainesville, Ga„ October 23, 24, 25, 26,27. Call on Edmondson & Pirkle for your seed wheat, rye and oats, Appier, red rust proof and Burt. All good varieties for sowing for fall, and don’t neg lect to sow plnty of small grain Edmondson & Pirke have a line of Schloss Bros. & Cos., “Clothes Beautiful” also Milton Och’s line of Gold Bond Cloth es; also the Wear Ever line of Boys’ Clothing. You will make no mistake when you dress you or your boys out in these famous lines of clothing. They have stood the test and are bet ter than ever. Give them a call and look them over. Notice. All persons due me by note or account please come and set tle by Nov. 15th, as I am going to move about that date. Thank you. J. T. Lamb. For Sale. 140 acre farm; about 50 acres in cultivation, about 25 in bot toms, balance timber. 3 loom house. See me at once. P. W. Green, Suwanee, Ga., route 2. Seed Wheat. I have about 75 bushels of seed wheat for sale at $3.25 per bushel.