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fhe Forsyth County News
Published every Wednesday at
Cumming, Ga. by J B Patterson
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Official Organ Forsyth Cos
Cummlng. Ga , Jan. 18, 1918
Bo syre to see the income tax
man and return your taxes.
January half gone, and still
a going in a hurry.
Running a paper without help
is some job.
This bad weather is hurting
business in all lines.
Some little cotton coming in
to the market all along.
Cotton went to 33c one day
'ist week.
V' ’ '
Germany wants peace but the
Kaiser wants war.
A year and a day isn’t long,
but we don’t care to serve it in
prison.
Tha Grove river in Banks
county was a solid sheet of ice
during the recent cold spell.
A Newark man borrowed a
neighbor’s baby in order to be
allowed to buy coal.
If you want to come in and
pay your subscription, wade in.
the water’s fine.
The Tax Receiver will be- a
calling on you to return your
taxes for 1918 before long.
Georgia will secure one hun
dred thousand tons of nitrate of
soda through the government.
Hugh Richardson of Atlanta
has been named as a trustee of
Princeton University.
There is some talk of Schley
Howard entering the race for
the Senate.
Bankruptcy is getting to be
very popular with some of the
people.
The selective service law has
ben held as constitutional by
the U. S. Supreme Court.
One and a half million sol
diers are about ready to fight
the Germans.
The food administrator has
decided to send 90 million bush
els more of wheat to the allies
High heel and high top shoes
must go, says an exchange, but
what about high skirts?
Flour will likely be scarce
during May and June, until the
new wheat crop comes in.
Vol. 1, No. 12 of the Rebecca
Appeal is on our exchange list
It is -a bright weekly, and we
hope it will succeed.
AH the Georgia banks are in
a prosperous condition accord
ing to reports.
The DeKalb County Ban!: r
Decatur declared a dividend of
28 per cent at a meeting of the
atockholders one day last week.
Congress has passed the wo
mans suffrage law. If it pass
es the Senate we will never run
office against a good losing
mail.
The fuel situation doesn’t get
much better.
All the Georgia congressmen!
voted against the woman’s suf
frage act in congress.
A Labor Exchange in charge
of state and federal oificeiv, is
ppw in operation ii; Atlanta.
The shoes of the army officers
at Camp Wheeler were frozen
,to the floor when they got up
last Saturday morning.
Senator Hardwick has been
appointed chairman of the Im
migration committee of the U.
S. Senate.
Germany has withdrawn the
peace terms made to the allies
last December, but she will be
ready with more soon.
A severe storm hit Camp
Wheeler at Macon last Frisay
afternoon but only one soldier is
said to have been killed.
Many head of cattle and
valimd a* $60,000 were destroy
ed by fire at the stock yards in
Atlanta one night last week.
Forty one head of Duroc jer
sey sows sold at auction o.ie
day last v eek at Dublin.a nd
brought an average of $350 a
head.
Backing his judgment on the
book of Revelations, a Savan
nah man has bet sto 1 that
the world war will end in 6(
days. Hope he’s right.
Sheri ffCrow of Hall county
has been cited to appear before-
Judge Newman on a charge of
contempt for alloying prison
ers to be drunk in jail.
Col. Dean of Gainessville has
given the city the wood off of
two tracts of land provided the
city will cut the wood and give
it to the poor people free.
Wood’s Seeds
—For 1918
The patriotic duty of farmers and
gardeners everywhere is to increase
crop and food production. Inten
sive farming and gardening, and
the liberal use ot fertilisers, together
with proper rotation of crops, so
as to increase end improve the fer
tility and productiveness of the
land, arc all vital and necessary
considerations at the present time.
Wood’s Descriptive Catalog
For 1418 gives the fullest and most
up-to-date information in regard
to all
Farm and Garden Seeds
And tell 9 about the best crops to
grow, both for profi t and home use.
Write for Catalog and prices of
Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed
Potatoes, Seed Oats, or any
Farm Seeds Required.
Catalog Mailed Tree On Request.
T. W. WOOD & SONS,
SEEDSMEN, Richmond, Va.
School Notice.
Until further notice the Board
of Education of Forsyth county
will meet on the first Tuesday
of each month for the year 1918
We urge that the trustees and
patrons see that their school
houses are in good condition.
We kindly ask you to examine
carefully the report cards of
your children at the end of the
month.
We request all teachers, prin
cipals, assistants and those who
are not teaching to meet at the
court house on Saturday, Jan
uary 19th, at 1:30 p. m.
The Boar of Education of v or
syth county has adopted for sup
plementary hooks, the follow
ing :
Holton Curry readers nos. 1,
2,3 and 1 (including primers)
History—The Story of Old
Europe and Young America.
Agriculture — Water’s Essen
tial Facts.
Introductory to Science by
Clarke.
Curry’s Literary Classic Read
ers.
A. C. Kennemore, Sup’t.
I) M Read, et al. Vs. Miss Nao
mi Redd, Ora Pilgrim, Gertrude
Roper and Otto Roper.
Application for sale and par
tition of a tract of land contain
ing 8i acres, more or less, con-'
sisting of lots 626, 627 and om
acre to include the orchard on
671 in the 3rd (list and Ist sec
tion in Forsyth county, Gu.
In Forsyth Superior Court.
To Ora Pilgrim, a non resident
of this state, and Gertr-.ule Ro
per, whose whereabouts is un
known :
You. and each of you, w ill
take notice that application
will be made the Court at the
next regular term to be held on
the third Monday in Febru.rv,
1918, for the appointment of 3
Commissioners, and for an or
der of partition of the above
stated tract of land and the sale
of the same for such purpose
in which tract each of you as
children of Nancy Rope dec’d
are entitled to one thirtieth
Service of this notice is to be
maue upon you by the publica
tion of the same twice a month
for two months in the F irsyth
County News, the pubi-.t Ga
zette in whicn the legal adver
tisements of said count v :.ro
published by order of the Court
Witness, the Hon. N. A. Morris
•Judge of said court. B‘c. i ”th,
1917.
IT. S Broo'.s, Clerk.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, FOT JfTH COUNTY:
By virtue of an order from the court
of Ordinary of said county, will be sold
at public outcry, on the first Tuesday
in 1 ebrtary, 1918, at the court house
door in said county between the legal
hours of sale, the following tracts of
land hereinbeloW described as the prop
erty of the estate of E. B. Brannon, late
of said ceunty deceased, to wit:
TRACT ONE: All of land lot number 192
except nine acres, more or less, in the
northwest corner of said lot haretofore
deeded off to J. S Pirkle; all of land
lot number 517, the west half of land
lot number bO4, all of 563, lying and be
ing in the second district and first sec
tion in said county find state, and con
taining in the aggregate 140 acres more
or less. This tract being known as the
E. B. Brannon old home place. Th_re are
two good dwelling houses and fair out
buidings on this tract.
TRACT TWO: All of land lots numbers
271, 272 and 305 lying and being in the
second district and first section in said
county and state and containing in ti e
aggregate 120 acres, more or less. Tn.s
tract is situated southwest of the Pi ;e
Grove school house and is well timbered
TRACT THREE: Ail of land lots numbeis
173, JSB and 16 acres more or less of
laid lot number 244 lying northwest if
the Marietta road and northeast of the
creek, and also IS acres more or less of
the same lot of land lying in the scut! -
east corner of said lot, in the seen: and
district and first section in said county
and stale and containing in the aggre
gate 114 acres more or less. This tract
being the balance of the home place
where E. B Brannon was living at the
time Of his death outside of the dov e
applied for and sot apart to t! e w.dow
of said deceased by the Gommissioneis
Terms of sale c. sh
B c Brannon, adm’rof the
the estate of E B Brannon, dec’d
ROUTE .2
As I have been absent for a
while, 111 come again.
Mr. Duffev Bolton and wife
spent one night last week at Mr.
D. E. Martins,
Owing to the bad weather
there wasn’t any school at Spot
last Friday.
Messra Ceneath Monroe and
Verbon wingo visited at Mr. G.
B Monroes one night last week.
Miss Bertha Pilcher spent one
day last week with her sister,
Mrs. C. E, Tatum.
Messrs Sherman and Silas Pool
spent Sunday at Mr. J. C. Ste
phens.
Mr Arthur Martin spent one
day last week with his sister Mrs
E. H. Vance.
Say, Bud, isn’t this cold vveath
er cn you and I?
Blossom.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
in Use For O ver 30 Years
A,w X Deara
Signature of
Do You Want to Buy
A FORD CAR?
If you do please follow the following instructions.
We only are allowed a certain amount of Ford
Touring Cars and Roadsters in any one year. We
have already practically sold our estimate of the a
bove mentioned models for the next year. Now Listen
We have on handsome six or seven Chasisor Run
ning Gears. We can’t even get any more of this
model for some months to come.
IF YOU WAN! A NEW FORD CAR BETWEEN NOW and NEXT FALL
you had better get your hands on a second handed
BODY of some kind and buy oneotuu Cia ssis.
You can in this way get anew car with almost no
additional expense.
Better get these chassis while they last. The War is
on and we are liable to get no more Forde of any model.
This is no idle talk but a solemn warning.
Your Friends ,
Strickland & Wisdom
AGENTS, FORSYTH AND DAWSON COUNTIES.
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COFFEE J
Patients from All Over Georgia
• It would surprise you to know the
vast number of Georgians from all over
the state who go to the One Price Den
tal Office, lOili Whitehall st., Atlanta,
to have their teeth attended to.- There
are hundreds of them. And all of them
find they can save money by paying
railroad fare to Atlanta and availing
themselves of the services of the skilled
operators at the One Price Dental
Office. IT. S. Sparks, of Shiloh, Ga.,
says in a letter dated March 15, 1917.:
“You worked on my teeth a year ago
in February. The work has been per
fectly satisfactory. I could not ask any
more of a dentist.” Here is the One
Price Dental Office low schedule of
prices: Best gold crowns, $3; bridge
work, $3 per tooth; finest set of teeth
money can buy, $5. All work gua
teed ten years. The next time./
teeth r.eea attention, be sure to gei.an
estimate from the One Price" Dabtal
Office before you have the work done^
pROFtSSIONAL CARDS
JARRET P. FOWLER
Attorney-at-Law
GUMMING, GEORGIA
Will Practise in All Courts
Over F & M Bank
DR. J. L. HARRISON
Dentist
301-302 Jackson Building
Gainesville, Ga.
W. W. PIRKLE, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
i Camming, - Georgia.
Office at Residence. Phone 88.
DR. J. ROBERT SIMPSON
Specialist in Diseases of
The Eye, Ears, Nose and Throat
302-303-304 Jackson Building,
Gainesville, Ga.
DR. M. F. KELLEY, Dentist,
Gumming, Ga.
Office in Dougherty Hotel
All Work Guaranteed
O. W. SETTLE
Funeral Director & Embalnter
Norcross, Ga.
Day and Night ’Phone.
Important Notice.
All parties owing me either
by note or account must call at
, once and settle and save coat.
Dr. J, Thad Bramblett. ,