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fhe Forsyth County News Published every Wednesday at Cumming, Ga. by J B Patterson SUBSCRIPTION PRICK. ©neyear 75c Six months 50c Three months 30c ■ntarad at the pout ofttre at Cum '*lbk G. Aug. 10th, as mail matter o tta laeond class. 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. 1 for | I La Grippe Coughs | | use F OLEY’S I I|pC Honey I 1 lifSpjp | np i | 1 and far \ = jj ' -jS the Standard Cough Medicine j= 5 'j; ' Upbfc Take No Substitute for 3 = |,l —- —r— * Foley's Honey and Tar Hiiiilliillilllil SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY imimimiiiiV ? ■> C.-' iHhLt'iV-,* * " 1 j! ' \ Pours, | : II Msk&is • _ 1 ,<f*V ’IT ycu just ‘T.ste chut cup of good j J |UZIA?IKE 'L-c old Luitianne Codec? Steaming hot f V i and . :ady to give you a whole dayful | I ' of pep and go. 1 v ‘ The ilavor is wonderfully good and J the r/.oma—get it?—oh, ma honey! J ' fe’.'uwf* 1 Belt r run quick and get a bright, clean j tr: o Aizianne while it's there. If you | j don’t like it—every L-it of it—then your j grocer will give you back every cent you ' paid for it. Try Luzianne today and see J "When It how mighty good it is. i ££- WZiANNB ! 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. ,