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Vo.l 10.—No. 45. 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 Read the new legal ad.?. The ‘flu’ patients are all im proving. Mr. Wiley Majors of Rochelle spent a few days last week vis iting around Haw Creek. Cols. Patterson and Harris spent Wednesday in Atlanta on business. The post office here sold about six thousand dollars worth of War Stamps last Thursday. Miss Ruth Pirkle has return ed to her work at the G. N. & I. C. at Milledgeville. Mr. Ivan Otwell of Locust Grove spent a day or two this week with homefolks. Mrs. C. T. Brown has been elected as teacher to succeed Miss Branch, resigned. Messrs J. G. Hammond and H. M Phagan of Abba are visiting relatives in the county. The bird season opens up No vember 20th, but you must get license before you hunt any. H. W. Tollison has some real good hogs and cattle for sale. Sc 6 him at his home on route 2. Mr. and Mrs. E. I'. Barrett of Gainesville spent Sunday with Mr. P. D. Brown. Messrs Bill Reid and Ernest Tidwell have joined the Motor Transport Corps, and are await ing orders to report. Mrs. Mary Summerour of Warsaw is spending awhile with Dr. and Mrs. Marcus Mashburn, who are sick. About a car load of locals are crowded out this week to give space to the War Work drive. Those who are saving peach seed, etc., for the Red Cross are requested to bring them in to the Red Cross Room on Sept. 26th. Their rooms at the resi dence of Mr. J. G. Puett. We are requested to state that Revs. Ingram and Cochran will be at Shady Grove on the third Sunday in this month to assist in the meeting.. Mr. Ben Spence of near Bran dywine received the news Tues day njght, that his son, Arp, died of pneumonia at a hospital in France Sept. 26th. We extend sympathy to his parents and rel atives. According to gin inspector P. D. Brown, there were 5,226 bales fo cotton ginned in the county up to Oct. 18th this year as compared to 565 up to same time last year, showing an in crease of 4,661 bales. This in crease comes from the fact that most of the cotton this season was out and ginned, and the crop last year was very late. The Forsyth County News rams® Mr. Jesse Robbs of Camp Gor don spent a few days last week with Mr. W. A. Robbs. Mr. P. D. Brown has bought the J. R. Echols place from G. W. Wilbanks. Col. J. P. Brooke of Alpharet ta transacted business here on Monday of this week. Mr. Walker Heard, who has been laid up with flu, is able to be out again. Mr. L. D. Stephens has pur chased part of the Jep Elliott farm -from H. C. Westbrook.- Mr. G. W. Myers of Atlanta spent the weekend with relativ es at Cuba. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mash burn of Atlanta and Mr. W. J. Dodd and wife of Norcross vis ited relatives here Sunday. Mr. John M. Rice and fam ily of near Bethel spent Sunday with Mr. Major Nuckolls and family. Mr. Frank Bacon of Camp Green is spending a few days with his mother, Mrs. Laura Ba con on route 3. Harris and Bell ,carried the county overwhelmingly in the e lccion Tuesday. All of the Con-j stitutional Amendments carried There has only been three or four deaths in this county from Spanish Influenza, although we have had hundreds of cases. This is a high compliment to the skill of our physicians. Mr. W. M. Wallis of Plano, Texas, and Mr. J. B. Wallis of New Holland visited Mr. M. T. Wallis, who is sick at his home on route 1, last week.- Mr. H. L. Jones of route 3, knwn among the boys as Sam, will move to Tifton in a few weeks. We hate to give him up but wish him w'ell in his new home. A little 7 months old child of Mr. Henry Pruitt of route 3 died last Friday and was buried at Haw Creek Saturday, Rev. J. W Thomas conducting the funeral service. We extend sympathy to the bereaved parents. A little seven year old child of Mr. Wesley Neal of Cordele formerly of this county, died one day last week, and its re mains were interred at Concord Sunday, Rev. Braddy conduct ing the services. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved pa rents. Thad Burruss has bought the farm of P. D. Brown and C. B. Otw'ell the farm of Mr. A. 11. Dunlap. Jep Elliott has bought the C. C. Reid farm from John Tordan. In fact the real estate market is getting lively. Sunshine in The Home, Power In The Life School Notice. The school term for the year 1919 will be five months. Any district desiring to begin before Christmas may begin school Nov. 25th, 1918, and teach five months in succession. There must be three and one-half months taught during the win ter term. Teachers are required to grade their schools to the best of their ability and to use Pupil’s Monthly report cards. Parents are requested to exam ine these cards carefully at the end of each month. Respectfully, A. C. Kennejnore, Sup’t. Quarterly Meeting. The fourth Quarterly Con ference of the Cumming charge convenes at New Hope the sec ond Sunday in November. I trust every member will be pres ent. Remember further that this will be just two days before the annual conference meets in At lanta. May God bless you in your efforts to meet all the de mands of the church. Your pastor, J. W. Gober. Gin Notice. After Nov. 9th we will gin on Tuesday, Thursday and Snt urday of each week only. Cumming Oil & Fertilizer Cos Gin Notice. After Nov. 9th the gin at Coal Mountain will only run days in each week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. C. E. Thomas. * < ■ " 1 ■ > S ' - Gin Notice. After Saturday, Nov. 9th, we' will gin on Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday .The' Nuckolls old gin stand. A. D. Majors. Mgr. Notice to Overseers. The overseers of Chattahoo chee district are required by jthe Commissioners to put the ’ roads in good condition betwen the Bth and 20th if Nov. Any 1 overseer failing to do so will be I subject to a fine of $25.00. Cornin’.oners. 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. Public Speaking. Hon. Alex Stephens of At lanta will speak here next Sat-, urdav at 11 o’clock in the in-J tcrest of the War Work Cam paign. There may be others to tell you the good of this cause, j and every man in the county is urgently requested to come on that day and bring his family along with him. This is a worthy cause, and our people should help (o make life comfortable for our boys across the sea. We arc requested to announce that Rev. J. J. Dempsey will preach at Pleasant View' next Sunday at 11 o’clock.. Every body invited to go out and hear him. Rev. J. P. Erwin, Presiding Elder of the Marietta district, will preach at the Methodist church in towm Sunday night at 7:30, and all are cordially in vited to be present. The local board has received a call for 56 men to report for! entrainment on the 15th. They will go to Camp Wheeler and it will require otfr board to call some of those who recently reg istered. CUMMING, GJL, NOVEMBER BTH, 1918. Should Baptists Give In the Ap proaching United War Work Campaign? By Prof. W. J. McGlothlin, D D Southern Baptist T. Seminary Louisville, KY In order to get to the heart of the matter at once, f answer without hesitation or cation, “Yes, in my. judgment, they should give as freely and generously as they are able.” I recognize the confusion of mind in which we have been groping for the past few weeks, and frankly admit that there are things about the campaign that I do not like. But notvvjthstand ing all this and more that might be said, I believe it would be a serious failure and an irrepara ble blunder for Baptists to re fuse or fail to give. Some of the reasons for this opinion are as follows: 1. All the money is given for the welfare of American sold iers and will be expended for their good. It will not all be ex pended in ways that we regard as the best, but it will all be ex pended by men and women who are trying to serve “our boys.” All these millions of sol diers are “our boys” fighting our battles, whether they are Jew's, Catholics, Protestants, or religiously nothing, and to serve them is a good thing, w hether that service is rendered in just the w'av we would prefer or not Let us remember that not a dol lar of the $170,500,(KMT will be expended with the purpose of injuring these boys, - v*- - 1 2. It is highly probable that the Catholics and Jew's will them selves give as much as they are to get out of the United Cam paign. It is not probable that 1 dollar of Protestant money w ill be expended on Catholic boys or one dollar of Christian mon ey on Jewish boys, or that the Baptist will give one dollar more than is spent on their own boys. In fact, it is not probable that we Southern Baptists will give as much as will be spent on our own Southern Baptist boys. If some Baptists are un willing to have their in ney spent on anybody but Baptists it may relieve Lhem somewhat to look at the matter in this light. 3. It is now known that the consolidation of the campaign ! was not due to the wishes of Dr Mott. On the contrary, we know! that he was opposed to the con-' solidation, which was pressed upon him by the President and other officials of the govern- 1 ment. We also know that the motive that actuated our gov ernment was not the desire to J favor this or that form of relig ion, but the feeling that the im mense financial demands made by the war upon the country’s resources made it necessary to have as few calls as po3siblj. | There are to be, during the year tlnee great government loans which are to total not less than sixteen billion dollars. In view of these facts it is easy to see why the President insisted that we should have one united cam paign for all forms of camp ser vice. He was judging the mat ter from the standpoint of the entire nation, and he was prob ably right. 4. We know that Dr. Mott and the Y. 1.1. C. A. had nothing to do with the removal of the camp tors from the camps, but that, on the contrary, Dr. Mott has steadily favored their presence and ha > used his influ ence to give them every facility for their \.<rk in connection with the Y. M. C. A. As far as my information goes, there has been little complaint by camp pastors as to their treatment by the Y. M. C. A. It would have been a miracle if such multi tudes of workers had every where and always succeeded in getting on without friction. The fewness of the cases of friction is a fine testimony of the high character and wisdom of all the religious workers of every kind 5. The cessation of hostilities, when this comes, will but in crease the need of religious workers It will be many months after fighting ceases before it will be possible to begin to bring the men home and the process of returning and demobilizing them will be a long one. In these weary months of idleness, relax ation and home sickness they will need the sustaining help of the Y. M. C. A. and other social and religious organizations more than ever before. Now, while they are fighting, they are sustained by our great ob jective; when peace comes this will cease its elevating influ ence. Then they will need these agencies more than ever before For these reasons it seems to me that eveiy one of us can and ought to give as largely as possi ble in the United Campaign. But, someone asks, Shall a man give against his conscience? Emphatically, No. But when the government of the United States insists upon a given pol icy for all the citizens of the country for. the general wel fare of all our American sold iers, a ought to examine his conscience carefully to see if it is properly instructed be fore he decides that he can not, conscientiously give to this great cause. He should also con sider whether he is not calling covetousness by the name of conscience. Let no man give a gainst his conscience, but let him consider very carefully be fore he lets conscience restrain him from giving. In my judgment it would be most unwise, from a denomina ' tional standpoint for us Baptists to hold out of this campaign. The country will have small pa tience with that body who must be absolutely satisfied with ev ery detail of the work before it lends its help. How will our Baptist boys feel, and how will they stand among their fellows if it should become generally known in the army and the na tion that Baptists are holding out in this effort to care for the moral welfare of American sol diers? Such a situation would, in my judgment, be disastrous to us. And since we have had so much rather censorious discuss ion recently in our denomina tional press, which may have disposed some of our people to hold out, it seems to me impor tant that all of us who can con scientiously do so should put our shoulders to the wheel and push hard. We Baptists have multitudes of boys ill the army and we must do a good part by them. A great humanitarian service is to be rendered the A merican army, and we can not afford to be slackers. Communion Service Corinth church invites all sir ter churches to be with us next Sunday in our communion ser vice as the church did not com mune last meeting day as there was a lot of sickness in the com munity. Hope that all who can will come and be with us. J. W. Thomas, pastor. Deposits Reach . Quarter Million Mark The Farmers and Merchants Bank is all the name implies, a safe, sound and con srrvative bank for Farmers & Merchants. The growth of this hank 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 untit at the close of business Octo ber 18th we had on Deposit a quarter of million dollars. We appreciate our customers and show them every courtesy or favor possible consistent with sound banking. f ARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK, Died of Influenza. Mr. J. C. Castleberry, former citizen of Dallas and Forsyth county, died at the home of his father-in-law, Mr. W. R. Grif fin last Sunday morning at 3 o’- clock. Mr. Castleberry was employed in the government service at Camp McClellan near Anniston Ala., when he contracted ihe .Spanish Influenza. It was first thought that he only had a cold and last Sunday came to Dallas for the purpose of carrying his family back to Annistor. with him. As soon as hetarrived he took to bis bed and grew rap idly worse until Sunday morn :ng when he died. Mr. Castleberry was one who made friends wherever he went and he counted them by the scores. There are many who re gret his untimely death. Rev. Thomas M. Elliott con ducted the funeral ceremonies which were held at the home of Mr. Griffin and the interment took place at the cemetery here He is survived by his wife who was formerly Miss Maude Grif fin of this place, and four small children. He is also survived by his pa rents who reside near Camming Ga. The New Era extends its sym pathy to the bereaved widow and little children, and also the aged parents.—Dallas New Era Gin Notice. After this week the gin at Drew will run on Tuesday and Friday only. Wheeler & Holbrook. Ford Car For Sale. 1916 model. Not run to hurt. Price right. H. S. Buice, Suwanee, Ga., route 2. 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 oice :nd settle their ndebtedness as ,ve want to collect up and have a settlement. Do not put tins matter off, but come at or.ee. J. 3, Harrison. Seed Wheat for Sale. 25 bushels purple straw seed wheat for sale. E. W. Mashburn. 75c. Per Year. United War Work Campaign County Chairman, Ilariie S. Brooks, and County Publicity [ Director, J. Ed. Puett, with ! their several committees in eve ry district in the county, are or jganizing for the United War Work Campaign drive, begin ning next Monday, Nov. 11th and closing Monday, Nov. 18th. The county’s share of this fund is around two thousand dollars and, mir people should raise this, amount easily. Of all the war work thirds trie most -inqportapt affect's our boys ‘over (hfire’. mote directly than cl -cm* Jttfjtojer nish them with thfMummß?cl arid one little things which give 'em home comfort and happiness, and which can not be had ex cept through this agency. Let everybody be prepared to give liberally to this splendid cause. When our boys come home they will bless you for remembering them while thev were ‘over there’ fighting for your freedom And don’t get it in your mind that the boys will be home soon Even if peace is declared at an early date, it will be from one to two years before our boys get home. Dear grandpa: I will write.you a line or two to let you hear from me. I am all o k, and feel ing fine. How are vou and the boys getting along. Guess you are through picking cotton ami sitting around the fire. I Guess you are having plenty of fresh meat and are living fat. Guess you didn’t know what had be come of me as I hadn’t been writing to you. I have been thin king for sometime that I would write but just kept putting if off.. I wrote you a card after I got on the ship in New York. I am in the trenches now and i have been for 12 days. I have been in France about 2 months I left New York July 6th spent a few ( ,r >vs iri England.. 1 sure would like to see you all. Tell aunt Bessie I will answer her letter in a few days. How !■ rank and Lewis getting along? Tell them hello for me. Tell Zillie and Agnes to write to me. I si re would be glad to hear from you all. Haven’t heard from Char lie in over 3 months. Is Mrs Hoi broook still living?. Guess this .-.ill be all for this time a3 news is scarce. I want vou all to write to me. Your grand-3on, Pierce Durham. Pure Broadwell cotton seed for sale or exchange for other seed. See A. C. Kennemoi", Cumming, Ga.