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Vol. 10. No. 44. A Safe Bank It has ever been the policy of this Bank to do a business that was safe at all times. During prosperity is the time to be sav ing, economical and cautious. We offer every facility and accommoda tion that any Pank can offer and do a safe and legitimate business. We will accept on deposit or payment all good checks on any Bank or individual without exchange or discount. Yours for Business, BANK OF CUMMING LOCAL AND PERSONAL Col. C. L. Harris and fami ly have moved to the Bob Harri son house near the Ivl E church. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Pirkle report the arrival of a fine boy at their home. Mrs. J. V. Merritt has accept ed a position in the store of Mr. W. Heard. / B,ev. C. T. Brown went to his appointment at Fairview in Ejaftkliu county Sundav. ' T*e ban on gasoline has been lifted and people were ruling in their cars SffrrcSay. Quite a number attended the Sr.ie over at Charlie Haris’ last. Saturday evning. Mrs. Reeves, one of the teach ers in the school here spent a day or two in Atlanta last week The flu patients are all on the mend, and we hope this ep idemic will soon be over. Mr. G. W. Heard is anle to be up again after a two weeks sickness. We received eleven new sub scribers to the News last Satur day, and it was no day for get ting subscriptions cither. The local board began exam ination of the men between 19 and 36 who were placed in Ist class, Tuesday of this week. Mr. R. E. Harrison, wife and little daughter of Chamblee vis ited Mrs. Sallie Tatum Satur- day night and Sunday. Looks like someone would rent or lease the old Sims hotel and run a hotel and boarding house here. We believe it will pay them to keep boarders. There is a lively race on be tween route 1 and route 7 for subscription. Both routes have away over 125 and still they continue to come. People are buying and pay ing for war savings stamps to beat the band. Nothing uncom mon to see a fellow walk away from the post office with a cer tificate in his hands. Wheeler Hill has bought the Claude Groover farm near Cu ba. This is one of the best up land farms in the county, and Mr. Hill is fortunate in being able to buy it from Claude. Everybody run their clocks and watches back one hour Sun day and we feel like we are one hour early all the time. It will seem allright when we get ac customed to it. Your attention is called to ad of the Rucker Cotton Seed Cos. in this issue. If you want any of these seed for planting next year you had better go down and get them before they are all sold. __ _ The Forsyth County News Next Monday is Court of Or ' dinary. Next Tuesday is sale day, al so election day. Mrs. E. F. Smith has returned from Athens. The little infant of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Barrett is quite sick. Hope it will soon recover. Mr. John Pilgrim of Cham b'ee spent Sunday with relativ es in town. Mrs. J. L. Rogers had the mis fortune to lose a valuable horse Sunday. The rural carriers leave at 8:20 yet, but it is an hour laier in the morning. ! Mr. Walker Heard, clever car | rier on route 3, is confined to i his room with fiu. His friends | trust that he will soon be well. I Thad Burruss is some farmer I He and his renters have alread y gathered 38 bales of cotton, and are not done yet. School will open next Mon day if the flu don’t get worse, and we hope it will not do so, as the little fellows ought to be in school every day they can. The fourth Quarterly meet ing, Cumming district, will be held with New Hope church on the second Sunday in November, Every one urgently invited to at tend. The future price on the News and Tri-Weekly Constitution is $1.90. The News is not gone up in price, understand, but the Constitution has advanced to $1.50 a year and we had to go up on the price of the club. A fine rain fell last Thursday and we have been having plen ty of it since. It may be a help to the city people who are suf fering for electric lights and to those who operate with electric ity. All of the Gainesville papers have advanced the price to 1.50 a year beginning Jan. Ist. The News is holding the price down to 75c, and will not go up unless we are forced to do so. Come on and join, the long list of subscrib ers and make it unanimous. Everything on the market is high at this time, and when a country newspaper editor buys a dollars worth of rations for his wife and kids, he can take it home in his hip pocket with out the public suspicioning him of violating the prohibition law. Miss Ethel Branch has resign ed her position in our school to accept a position in the City schools in Atlanta. Her many friends, especially the little fel | lows in her class, regret to see her leave. Sunshine in The Home, Power In The Life The doctors are kept going day and night, looking after pa tients with the flu. Mr. Geo. Merritt has several cases of flu in his home, but they are all getting better. Mr. Cliff Vaughan and fami ly of Roswell spent Sunday with Mr. W. J. Groover and family. Mr. Henry Wolfe and fami ly are all sick with flu. We hope they will soon recover. So many people have fill it la impossible to get the names of all of them. Mr. Hiram Kelley and fam ily of Gainesville spent Sunday with relatives in town. There was no services at ei ther of the churches here Sun day on account of flu, not even Sunday school. Mr. L. D. Stephens and fam ily are moving into the house he recently purchased from Col Harris. Mr. F. G. Roberts has been confined to his room here with flu, but expects to be able to return to his work in a few days Mrs. Warren Brannon is sick at the home of her sister in Tex as. Her friends here hope she will soon recover. Mr. W. W. Reid had the mis fortune to get his finger shot off while fooling with a gun one day this week. The many friends of Dr. W. E. Lipscomb will be glad to know that he is able to be out again. Dr. Marcus Mashburn is con fined to his room with flu. His friends hope that he will soon be out and practising again. Newsprint paper is nearly 2c a pound higher than it was two months ago. It is liable to go a good deal higher yet. Look up the Tax Collector’s notice in another column, and try to meet him at his appoint ment in your district. A little seven year old son Mr. Alvin Glover of route 3,j died Monday and was buried at | Pleasant View Tuesday. We ex tend sympathy to the bereaved Dr. Will Rusk of Alpharetta who was born and reared in our county, has been made a Lieu tenant in the army and is now in camp. His friends here wish him well in the service. Bring your job work right oil to the News office and we will do it up for you nicely and just as cheap as we can considering the high price we have to pay for the paper to orint it on. Henry Hurt suffered some se vere pain by trying to hold a hog by the ear one day last week but is better now, and will probably be more careful with hogs in the future. Eddie, the 11 year old son of Mr. John J. Bruton, formerly of this county, won first prize on 6 moths old Duroc Jerseys at the Southeastern Fair in At lanta. Mr. Glen Tallant of Atlanta is spending a few days with his father, Mr. B. A. Tallant on route 7. He expects to be called into the army in a week or two and came up to see his parents before reporting at camp. Next Tuesday is the general election. Go out and vote your choice for officers. It is necessa ry that a good vote be cast in order that there will be no dan ger of our representation in congress from this state be de creased. Judge Tidwell says he will not put the convicts on the road until the middle of February or Ist of April as he does not care to be at the expense of feeding and clothing them during the rough winter weather when no i work can be done. CUMMING, GA., NOVEMBER IST, 1918. Tax Collectors Notice. Iwill be at the following pla ces on the dates named for the purpose of collecting state and county taxes for the year 1918: Wednesday, Nov. 6th. , Montgomery store 10 a m Chattahoochee C G 11 a m Orr store 12 m Oscarville 2pm Brice’s store 3:30 p m Ben Fowler residence 4 :30 p m Thursday, Nov. 7th. Stripland store 10 a m F M Porter’s store 12 m Roy Westbrook store 2:80 p m Rolands, C ground 4pm Friday, Nov. Bth Coal Mountain 10 a m^ Wallis store 12 m Silver City, 2pm Mat store 4pm Saturday, Nov. 9th. Hightower 10 a m John Bruton place 12 m A J Dooley 1:30 p m F H Pruitt 3pm R H Bramblett’s 4pm Tribble store, 5 pm Monday Nov. 11th, Jas P Holbrook, 10 am Heardville, 11:30 a m Ducktown, Ipm Pursell storre, 3pm ' Roper’s store 4:30 p m Tuesday, Nov. 12th, W C Wheeler, 10 a m Wills’ store, 11am Bagwell store, 12 m W W Jones’ 1:30 pm Big Creek, 3pm Glover's store, 4pm I will be at mjr office in the court house on**ll pul)!ic days. Books 1 left 20th Meet] me promptly* or. Eart^.ni.has. H. L. Hurt, T. C. Card from Hon. Tom Bell. To the voters of Forsyth Cos.: It is of the utmost import ance to the people of the south that we get out a full vote in the November election. This is the only vote which is reported to Washington, and it is this vote upon which our represen tation is based. As long as our vote does not show a compar ative full strength so long will bills be introduced in congress to reduce our number of repre sentatives. It only takes a short time to vote and I trust every man in the district will cast his vote on November sth. Very truly, Thos. M. Bell. For Sale Home in Cumming. 5 room house, garage, barn, wood house, large lot. For particu lars. write H. A. Kelley,Gain esville, Ga., or see E. W. Mash burn, Cumming, Ga, To Merchants and Millers. I wish to especially call your attention to a recent order pass ed by the Food Administration in Georgia, to this effect: “All merchants and millers are required to keep at all times a permanent record showing the name and address and the date of all sales of two gallons of syrup or more, or 100 pounds of corn meal, or more, sold.’ This record must be kept in such a way that it can be easily inspected at all times and any false record kept will be heav ily punished, or failure to keep a record will be heavily pun ished. This order to take effect im mediately. K. A. Kemp, County Food Admiinstrator. Seed Wheat for Sale. 25 bushels purple straw seed wheat for sale. E. W. Mashburn. FARMERS OF fORSYTH COUNTY SHOULD GET Rucker’s Select No 1 Cotton Seed Now Price $3.50 per bashel at Warehouse The roads are fairly good now, and any farmer can come in his ford and get hie seed, coming to Alpharetta and returning within a few hours. He can bring his neigh bor with him and take twenty bushels of seed back with him. Every farmer in For syth county who desires to know the truth about the Rucker cotton ought to come down into Milton county and enquire for the facts, and then he will plant no other variety of seed. The Rucker Cotton is a cross between the Cook and the King, possessing the good qualities of both and the bad qualities of neither. It is a very early fifty-fifty cotton, frequently turning out 50 per cent lint, and seldom falling below 46 per cent. The bolls are very large and easily picked. Acre for acre it will beat any other variety producing seed cotton. Forsyth county farmers who come after seed and fetch their sacks can get what they desire for $3.50 a bushel. At this price w'e can make no discount for any num ber of bushels. These seed are well matured and thoroughly culled. They are the purest and best that can be produced. They are seed that have been grown this year from the best seed we had. Rucker Cotton Seed Company Alpharetta, Ga. w DEATHS. Mrs. Warner Stone died at her home near Atlanta last Wednesday and her remains brought tgJMidway for fu neral and interment Thursday. She was a daughter of Mr. W. H. D. Puckett of route 7, and had scores of friends in this sec tion who will be pained to hear of her death. Mr. S. W. Gilleland of route 8, died last Friday and his re mains were laid to rest at Zion Hill Saturday, the funeral be ing conducted by Rev. J. R. Stone. He is survived by his wife and several children to all of whom we extend sympathy. Miss Lucinda Haris, daugh ter of Mr. Elia Harris of near town died last Thursday morn ing from influenza followed by pneumonia, and her remains were laid to rest in Cumming cemetery Friday. Mr. Harris has many friends who will ten derly sympathize with him in the death of his daughter. Rev. H. F. Wood, a promi nent Baptist minister, died at his home in Hartwell lasc week. He served ■ twrencevilk Eap iist chuivh for several years., tnd had a number of fr> ads in 'his county. Col. Wm. M. Johnson, a well known Gainesville attorney, a man who had many friends in this section, died at his home in Gainesville last Saturday. He had influenza followed by pneu monia and was only sick a few days. Mr. Roy Barrett, son of Mr. J. H. Barrett of Atlanta, former ly of this county, died of pneu-| monia one day last week. Mr. j Barrett has scores of friends in this county who will sympthizej with him in the loss of his son. i Mr. Ceph Castleberry, son of j Mr. J. H. Castleberry of route; 3, died at his home in Atlanta one day ly t week, and his re mains were interred there. He has scores of boyhood friends in this county who wi'l regret to hear of his death. Mr. J. K. Perry died at his home one day last week. He was a brother to Mrs. W. W. Reid, and was formerly a resi dent of this county. _ _ Deposits Reach Quarter Million Mark The Farmers and Merchants Bank is al! the name implies, a safe, sound and con servative bank for Farmers & Merchants. The growth of this bank has been both steady and rapid from its organization until now we have one of the best coun try banks in this section of the country. Our deposits have grown from year to year until at the close of business Octo ber 18th we had oh Deposit a quarter of million dollars. We appreciate our customers aud show them every courtesy or favor possible consistent with sound banking. IARMERS& MERCHANTS BANK, Chattahoochee on Rampage. The old Chattahoochee got on a ‘bigun’ Tuesday night and Wednesday and the creeks and branches over the county did identically the same thing. The mail from Buford got o ver to us Wednesday morning,! but did not cross going toward Buford with the morning mail. There was no mail from Buford Wednesday afternoon, nor did any mail go from here to that point. j The carriers on route 1 and 7 did not make their trip Wed nesday. They started out but the high waters on the creeks turned them back. This is the heaviest rain that, has fallen in Forsyth counV n some time, and it is thought that a great deal of corn has been ruined on the streams. hope not, however, as we reed this corn to bust the old kaii’er’s eye. GIN NOTICE. After Saturday, the 2nd of November, we will gin only on Monday, Wednesday and Fri day of each week. Hooper Gin & Seed Cos. 75c. Per Year. How to help save soldiers live*. Save peach atones, apricot pits the shells of hickory nuts, but ter nuts, walnuts, , prune pits, plum pits, cherry pits, date seed and olive pits. The carbon produced from these materials : when placed in respiration wdl j save soldiers lives by absorbing ! german poison gas. | Dry the materials thoroughly and deliver them to the Red Cross room at J. G. Puett’a resi j dence. Every person in Forsyth ( county can do this. NOTICE. All persons indebted to the firm of J. M. Tollison & Son are hereby notified to comeat once and settle. Arthur Tollison is in ; the army and this business must !be wound up. J. M. Tollison. Notice of Dissolution. The firm of Allen & Harris on is dissolved. All parties ow ing the firm must come at c*nce and settle their indebtedness as we want to collect up and have a settlement. Do not put tms matter off, but come at once. J. 3. Harrison.