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The Forsyth County News Vcl. 11. No. 30. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE & Mn'rijmtts ImtU Located at Gumming, Ga., At the Close of Business, June 30th, 1919. Resources. Demand loans, 10,000.00 Time loans 211,549.49 Overdrafts secured 3,486.06 Overdrafts unsecured 2,747.00 Bonds and Stocks owned by the Bank 10,150.00 Banking House 0,500.00 Furnituie & Fixtures 2,946.30 Other real estate None Due from banks and bank ers in this state 45,216.00 Due from banks and ! ank ers in other states, 4,002.70 Currency, 2,464.00 Gold 40.00 Silver, nickels, etc, 890.59 Cash items, '2,496.28 Clearing House None Advances on cotton 9,459.08 Profit and loss None Other resources None Tota l 311,948.22 Total 311,948.22 State of Georgia, Forsyth County. . Before me came R. E. Hope, Cashier of banners & Mei chants Bank, who being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition ot saiu bank, as shown by the books of file in said bank. jjQp^ Sworn to and subscribed before me. this Bth day of July, 1919 Glen N. Merritt, C. N. P., Forsyth Cos. Ga. About The New Road. Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1919. Hon. W. J. Tidwell, Ordinary, Forsyth Cos., Gumming, Ga., Dear Sir: From an inspection of the ground and some few pre liminary surveys, I decided last April that to follow the present road into Gumming would be more expensive to build, more expensive to maintain, and with less favorable grades for ope ration than it would be to locate anew line on the ridge. Con sequently anew line, called lor convenience, the “ridge route ’, was located. After this was done, knowing that the eye is not always a reliable guide, a line following the old road was located and its cost calculated in the same manner as we used for the calculation of the other. These calculations show that to follow the old road will cost at least $4000.00 to $5000.00 more than it will to follow the ridge. Now the facts are these Ist. The ridge route will cost $4000.00 to $5000.00 less to build than the old road. 2nd. The ridge road can be kept in good order for one-hall or one-third of what it will cost to keep up the old road. That means that every year for the rest of your life you will have to be spending two to three times as much to keep up the old road as you would have to spend to keep up the ridge route. 3rd. The travel on this mile and a half is very heavy as all of the freight from Buford comes over this road. Going from Buford to Cumming, a truck will have to climb a three and six-tenths per cent grades on the ridge route, and live per cent grades on the old road. These are the facts the peo ple of Cumming and Forsyth County should know. They ought to be published in your papers.- ( If it was proposed to aban don the old road entirely,'there might be some reason for stick ing to it in spite or its disadvan tages, but it is not proposed o abandon the old road, but to build an additional road and it will be a benefit to the old road to divert the heavy trucks on to the ridge. Instead ol be coming impassable in bad / , Liabilities. .Capital stock paid in 25,000.00 Surplus fund 13,500.00 Undivided profits less cur rent expenses and tax es paid 4,077.85 Due banks and bankers in this state None Due banks and bankers in other states None Due unpaid dividends 8.00 | Individual deposits sub j ject to check 117,182.65 : Savings deposits None ! Demand certificates None Time certificates 152,179.72 I Certified checks None ! Cashiers checks None : Due clearing house None j Notes and bills i re-discounted None ! Bills payable None I Other liabilities None weather, the old road can be kept in good order at small ex pense. If the old road should be adopted, the hills must be cut down to eight feet lower than they are now and the fills must be raised six to eight feet high er. That does not sound bad on paper, but if the old road should he adopted, when the property owners living along it seq how effectively those deep cuts shut them off from the road, they will regret very much that they did not urge you to select the ridge route and let the old road stay as it is. There is another very im portant point. Any tax payers can enjoin you from building on the old road, and when he proves that the old road will cost the County more to build, that it will cost the County more to keep up, that the grades are steeper on it than they are on the ridge road, that all of the engineers who have examined it state that the ridge route is the best, the court in juncion will be made per manent. It is also very probable that the government will refuse to give you any help in improving the old road, but will pay halt the cost of building on the ridge The public does not know these facts as yet, and when they are known, I do not be lieve that the property owners on the old road would want you to put this burden on For syth County. Let the people know these facts and they will urge you to build on the ridge route. Of course this is not a matter in which 1 have any interest, ex cept that I was appointed as a properly qualified engineer to select and survey the route, and I would be neglecting my duties if I did not bring to your atten tion the facts that the survey: have brought out. Very truly yours, Arthur Pew. Mrs. Margarctt Anglin. Mrs. Margarett died at her home on route 7 Monday and her remains were laid to rest at Midway Tuesday. She was about 75 years of age and is survived by a brother and sis ter and a host of other relatives and friends to whom we extend sympathy. Sunshine in TSie Home, Power In The Life GUMMING, GA., AUGUST IST, 1919. PROGRAM The old soldiers reunion and the ‘Welcome Home’ for the young soldiers and sailors will take place at the court house Saturday, August 9th. The exercises will begin at ten o’clock, promptly, court, house time. A most cordial invitation is extended to all confederate vet erans, their wives, and widows of old soldiers. All soldiers and sailors who have taken any part in the world war are urged to come. A hearty welcome awaits them We insist that they wear their service uniform. A special ta ble will be reserved for all of these soldiers, both old and young. Every district is expected to bring well-filled baskets, and thus help to give these boys ol ours a well deserved welcome home. The program is as follows: Music. Invocation. Chorus, Dixie Welcome to old and new sol* diers. Music Speech. Chorus: Bonnie Blue Flag. Music. Dinner. Music. Chorus: Long, Long, Trail. Experiences of S^rs. Musjt-.-r Reading: The Flag. Star Spangled Banner. Memorial Service. Chorus: Tent ng To Night. Music. For Better School Buildings.. This county is making great progress in farming, stock-rais ing, the mode of traveland the building of better and more at tractive homes. We are very much delighted at this progress but we are not pleased and should not be satisfied with the progress that education is mak ing in our county. One way to advance the Ed ucational interest of our county is to build better school houses. This county has three dollars invested in its court house to one dollar invested in school buildings. The State Depart ment of Education will furnish you a blue-Print Drawing of any size school house you wish to build, or remodel. These plans will be sanitary in regard to heat, light and ventilation. Let us build new buildings and remodel the ones we have ac cording to these plans. To build the best house we recommendd that two or more districts or parts of districts u nite into one school district. By so doing these things we can se cure more and better qualified teachers and have longer terms at each school. For further information in regard to the remodel and building school houses see or write me. A. C. Kennemore. Teachers Elected. The Board of Trustees have elected Prof. W. M. Pettis, of Reynolds, Ga., as Principal of the Cumming Public School. Prof. Pettis is a graduate of the State University and comes highly recommended as an ed ucator. Mrs. Pettis and Mrs. Hall have been elected as grade teachers. Other teachers will be elected very soon, and the prospects are good for a fine school next'term, which opens September Ist. Farms For Sale 7G aci es of land known as part of the A. O. Holland farm on Flowery Branch and Dawsonville road. 25 acres original forest, fine timber, the rest in high state of culti vation. I hree room house, and barn, two fine springs, bermuda pasture. Lands joining priced £.■; ninety to one hundred twenty five dollars per acre. This farm can b ebought for much lesc. L miles to railroad, 1-4 mile to school; good community. iO acre-, cr, o half mile east of G. E. Wallis store, known as the Garrett place on the Ga.necvide vend. '1 wo good houses and barn. Convenient to churches and school. A good orchard and pasture. 75 acres of i nid, of the J. W. Stripland farm, 2 miles south of Silver City on the At lanta read. Good i lew house; fair barn;; good smokehouse; good red mulatto land, southeast exposure, no waste land in the whole tract. Plenty of wood and timber for building purposes. Made 14 bales of cotton last year and 400 bushels of corn. 40 acres in cultivation. Fane crop now on land. A bargain in this tract. 20 acres of land, 8 miles northwest of Camming cn Frcgtown road. 6-room dwelling practically new, painted ir.side and out. One 3-room dwelling painted inside and out 2 good barns and storehouse, garage andother outbuildings. Will sell all or divide the tract. 115 acres of land, 9 mile morthwest of Frogtown; 1 good 5-room dwelling ceiled & painted, good outbuildings; old dwelling of 4 rooms, good condition with necessary out buildings. Most of this lan 1 is red mulatto 5 acres of good creek bottom, fine cottcn and corn farm—Fins crop on this place. This farm made last year 15 bales of cotton and 300 bushels of corn. ; 175 acres of land, near Cross Roads church in Forsyth county. Most of the land is [ in Forsyth county. Small traction crossing the Sam Hammond farm. We bought this | land at a bargain and can tell it the same way. Plenty of timber on it. Running water. I | 60 acres of land near Harmony Grove church and school. Good red land. 4 new | houses, fair outbuildings, plenty of running water, a nice little house for somebody at [ a small price. See us before some other man gets it. I | Within the past feur weeks we have sold something over FIFTY THOUSAND DOL | LARS worth of Forsyth county lands to parties who are buying homes. We have cm | hand southing like THIRTY FIVE THOUSSAND DOLLARS worth of land. For the ; past ten days we have been averaging a land deal for every day. We are of the | opinion that now is thqfeime to buy, we advise every person who wants to own a \ home to buy some land now, whether we have anything that will suit him or not. If ! you have a farm which you desire to sell, orif you are in the market to buy a farm, the ! undersigned will be glad to have a conference with you. I \ Watch the columns of the papers from time to time and see what we have as we are 1 se tiling every day and what is advertised this week may be withdrawn from the market ! next week. I \ The above described farms and others owned by FORSYTH COUNTY REALTY & ! AUCTION COMPANY ,can be bought on easy terms. Let us show you this property. ! For further information call on I : Forsyth County Realty & Auction Cos., i j J. A. OTWELL, President, C. L. HARRIS, Secty. & Treas. ■ W. E. BELL, Sales Manager and Auctioneer. PIEDMONT. Rev. F. C. Owens will preach at this place next Sunday af ternoon at the usual hour. Ev erybody come out and hear him Sunday School was well at tended at this place Sunday af ternoon. There were several visitors from other churches, which, we were very glad to have with us. Mr. Gordon Lamb and family of Montezuma is visiting Mrs. Lula Hughes. The singing given by Mr. J. M. Hughes Saturday night was very good. Miss Irene Hughes who is teaching school at Mat, spent the week-end with homefolks. Those visiting Mr. Milton Kennemore and family Sunday afternoon were too numerious to mention. Mr. Ernest Cravitt and fam ily visited Mrs. Lula Hughes and family Sunday. The singing at Mr. Frank Barrett’s Sunday night was en joyed by all present. Mr. Claude Brown, wife and baby spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. White and family. Mrs. Hayes and baby of At lanta is visiting in this part. Mr. J. M. Hughes and family visited Mr. R. K. Bettis and fam ily Sunday afternoon. Miss Cornela Patterson vis ited Mr. Lawton Barrett and family Sunday. •' c -N, / 7 V ' Vi \ / / •'■'■it 7' •:•*•'. V wyt nmi There may be Insurance Companies as good as the Prudential, but there are none better. None that appreciates your busi ness more, or pays its policy holders more promptly. I have written several nice Policies. I am ready to write yours. Ed Merritt, Agent, At the Post Office. Mr. Alton Hughes and wife spent one day last week with' Mr. W. P. Hughes and family. Mr Grady Morgan of Buford | was a visitor in this pari, one I day last week. Aunt Peggy, j If you have a farm for sale I t; o see the Forsyth County Rea: !y & Auction Cos., and get in the : game. If you want to buy one they sell sell 'em just the same. 75c. Per Ysr Card of Thank*. Wo wish to thank our many friends, and neighbors through the columns of the County News for the help and kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our dear step mother and we also desire to thank Dr. John Hookenhull for !i!s kind attention shown her. May God’s richest blessings rest on you all is the prayer of Asaboll Martin and sister.