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The forsyth County News Published every Wednesday at Cumming, Ga. by J B Patterson SUKHCKIt'TION PRICk. One year 75c Six months 50c Three months 30c fcnt*r*Ml at the po*l oftce Curr •ninjr Ga Aug:. 10th, *0 mail matter if t e second claatr Official Organ h orsyth Cos Cumming, Ga., Nov. 2, 1917. October is gone. November is here. Everybody busy at work. Lots of wheat being sown. Did you buy a liberty bond? The tax on income is not wor- ( rying us. The frost got some of the top cotton the other morning. Pork is selling at 25c a pound wholesale in Cumming. If cotton keeps a jumping, what will it bring? The U. S. Food administrator is to force lower prices on bread We have several meatless days every week. We feel like writing Dr. Hard man for a load of stove wood. —i ■ We expect to sweep our of fice Frida" morning f nothing happens. The governors of the six New | England states want Teddy to go to France with an army. We are living in a land of hog *nd hominy shore as you’re born. One million dollars worth of gasoline was burned in Georgia during September. An American soldier fired the first gun in the French ar my not many days ago. Nearly all the Atlanta minis ters preached on food conserva tion Sunday. Emmett Shaw has announced for Senator to succeed Mr. T. W. Hardwick. Atlanta will warm up this week, they are to get 50.000 tons of coal. John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oil Cos., of New Jersey, left an estate valued at forty one million. Dr. J. R. Reall, representa tive from Richmond county, re signed to accept a place at the Alto Sanitarium. )r. Hardman, the State Fu- Hministrator, has asked the 'jiment for 85,000 tons of br the city of Atlanta. / —• /this parcel post business bs on increasing Cumming t . I | have to have anew post of \bu.i;dirg. The live billion dollar liber ty loan was oversubscribed. Bring your cotton to the Cum ming market and get the top. You can sell your cotton seed in Cumming at top price. Some tell us thaht the News is getting better. Thanks. Those calendars are going to beat the band. Several new subscribers since last issue. Thank you. People are paying for their paper right along. Money is getting more plenti ful in this neck of the woods. What has become of the soil ing of the Coal Mountain road? The United States is fixing to give Germany brimstone. Thomas A. Edison, the “elec trie wizard,” has established an office in Washington city. Two and a half million dol lars of the liberty loan was se cured by the women. The Northeast Georgia Fair at Gainesville last week was a fine one. Buy your goods from a home merchant, you will save money j in the long run. Eggs tve worth forty cents a dozen, but a cheap one does not taste good. It is good exercise to chop stove wood. 'lf you don’t be lieve it just.'ask'your wife. Geo. Rucker of the Alpharet ta Free Press is taking in the Fair at Macon this week. Do away with all prejudice, and let’s all pull together for our town and county. If you know of any way we can improve this paper, please make your suggestion. Don’t forget to put 8 cents in ; ostrtgp on Utters from now on. Betcher a dollar some of you boys have already mailed a let ter to her with only a 2c stamp. We sent out some notices last Saturday morning and a dozen paid us by sunset. That’s do ing business. Put two cents worth of post age on cards in the future. That is if there is written matter on them. Cumming buyers paid more for cotton Friday than any mar ket in the United States except Philadelphia. The Georgia Railway & Pow er Company have increased the wages of their hands 2c an hour amounting to $60,000 a year. A man in Pickens county will make ten thousand pounds of cabbage on less than a half a cre of ground. Atlanta bank clearings were twenty one million dollars in excess of the last week in Octo ber last year. The little city of Chamblee' is installing a modern system of waterworks. The Atlanta negro shriners have received the “black eye” again in the courts. Atlanta has paid out of debt and has one hundred thousand dollars in the city banks. It only takes about two and a half pounds of lint cotton to pay for the News a year. Buford citizens subscribed a bout fifty thousand on the lib erty loan. Boys, you had better write a lot of love to your gal when you do write. Postage has gone up. Letters to the people in Cum-j ming or on our rural routes will only require 2c postage. Bud Hooper won first prize on cotton at the Atlanta Fair. Ver ily our county is on the map. Senator Hardwick is to ad dress the people at Lawrence ville next Thursday. Bob Fitzsimmons, the cham pion, at one time, prize fight er, is dead. Taylor Wright was killed by Gordon Ray, near Canton, one day last week. Both parties were from Gilmer county. Bona Allen of Buford had an exhibit from his stock farm at the Gainesville fair, and it is re ported that it was a fine one. W. H. Rowe of Buford sold a bale of cotton and the seed the other day for $224.90. That is some money for a bale. Notice to Trustees & Teachers. The trustees of each school are xequested to meet in my of fice November 6th, at 1:30 p. m. The teachers are asked to have their contracts filed by No vember sth. Respectfully, A. C. Kennemore, Sup’t. None Around Here, No. Three of the stingiest men in the world have been discovered The first will not drinl: all the water he wants unless it comes from his neighbor’s spring; the) second stops his clock at night to save wear and tear of the ma chnery, and the third makes the members of his family write a small hand to save ink. Neither one takes a newspaper. They claim that reading them wears out their spectacles. They don t live many miles a way. —Mays ville Enterprise. Church Notice. We are requested to state that as the church ai Roanoke did not commune on the last reg ular meeting day that they will do so at the next meeting which is the second Saturday and Sun day in November. They invite all the sister churches of same faith to be with them, and es pecially want all the members present on Saturday to transact important business. For Sale. 140 acre farm ; about 50 acres in cultivation, about 25 in bot toms, balance timber. 3 room house. See me at once. P. W. Green, Scwanee, Ga., route 2. MULES I have my barn full of good mules and can fit you up with single or pairs, and right now is the time to do your tall plow ing, so come and let me fit vou 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. I have a big lot ot 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 Oais, Hay and Shorts. Yours for Business, G. W. WILBANKS. AUTO REPAIRING Bring your Auto to me for fixing and save a lot of money. I will re pair at the following prices and do you a first-class job: Overhaul motor and transmission 10,00 Overhaul motor anly 7.50 Overhaul transmission only 6.00 Cleaning carbon & grinding valves 1.50 Clean carbon only . 75 Overhaul rear axle assembly 3.25 Overhaul rear axle only 2.50 Overhaul drive shaft only 1.50 ALSO TUBE VULCANIZING. Also first-class Blacksmithing at a price as reasonable as anywhere. Give me a call day or night and if not pleased tell me JAS. M. MUNDY, Coal Mt., Ga. i Always Have PERUNA Mrs. L. A. Patterson, 1399 Kentucky 3t„ Memphis. Tennessee, writes: “I have been a friend of Peruna for many years. I have used it off and on for catarrhai complaints and found it a very excellent remedy. I. have a small family of children. Times are hard with us, but I can scarcely afford to do without Peru :.a, especially during the season of the year when coughs and colds are prevalent. We always recom mend Peruna to our neighbors, for the benefit it has been to us." Notice. All parties due me for medi cines, etc., must settle by No vember 30th. Respectfully, A. G. Barrett. Important All parties who owe Mr. L. Foster Hunt for blacksmithing will please to call at my office and sette the same at once. Do not overlook this matter. Your friend, Jarrett P. Fowler. For •F** l 0$ Coughs W _ *|gjt and Colds L* in the n-M Home. Recommend It to Our Neighbors. These who object to liquid medi cines can procure Peruna Tablets. 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 look them over. Granites of ! . Some granite. crushing strain of-.,.••• —> the square inch.