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County Offices Hold Annual
Convention in Valdosta
June- 19-20.
The annual convention of the
Georgia Connty Officers’ associa
tion will be held at Valdosta June
19-20, it was announced Saturday
by Judge James R. George, ordi
nary of DeKalb county, who is
president of the association.
Judge George urges attendance
from all ordinaries, clerks, sher
iffs, treasurers, tax collectors, tax
receivers, coroners, surveyors,
chiefs of police, city marshals,
judges and solicitors of county
courts. Legislation vitally af
fecting some of these officials
will be discussed.
Officers of Lowndes county
have prepared an elaborate en
tertainment program, including
-'boating, swimming, fishing, fish
dinners and other features.
INSPECT HARBOR
AT ST.
A Ban on Refreshments.
100 DELEGATES AT MISSISSIPPI
GULF AND ATLANTIC CA
NAL CONVENTION
STATE NEWSJF INTEREST
Brief News Item* Of Importance Gath
ered From All Parts
Of The State '
St. Mary’s.—There were approxi
mately one hundred delegates in at
tendance here upon the Mississippi
gulf and Atlantic canal convention,
called by Governor Dorsey, and held
under the auspices of the Georgia
state council of national defense, and
a more representative body of men
never gathered in Georgia. The party
of delegates, including citizens of the
prosperous little Charlton metropolis,
were conveyed to the scene by a train
of automobiles which subsequently
took the party to the historic old land
ing of Coltraine. where a monument
stands in commemoration of the Creek
Indian treaty 3igned at the spot in
1784. At this point the delegation
was met by a couple of the govern
ment’s revenue cutters and conveyed
to St. Mary’s, over thirty-five miles of
one of the most beautiful navigable
waters in the Southern states, a great
Women’s societies and social
clubs who make it a practice to
serve refreshments during after
noon and evenings, and particu
larly those who have been in the
habit of Serving ice Cl earn, are ex-j natural asset dividing the states of
pected by the United States food I Georgia and Florida, potential in its
administration to desist from such
practice. This is an authorized
statement by Dr Andrew M. Soule
federal food administrator. Dr.
Soule stated emphatically that the
food administration is unalterably
opposed to any deviation from a
strict three meals per day pro
gram, and will consider unpatri
otic and un-American any depart
ure therefrom. He says the con
sumer of ice cream, “which is a
rich concentrated food full of
sugar,” at any between meal pe
riod, is a food slacker.
TIMELY TOPICS,
By ARTHUR BRIBANE.
Reading of Germany’s advance,
the ter. or twenty miles added to
German territory in France, you
ask, perhaps, is Foch’s plan.”
Foch is a Basque and comes of
a race that for centuries has had
bull fighting for. its chief athletic
study.
He seems to be fighting the
Prussian bull, as his Basque an
cestors fought and destroyed many
a black bull in years gone by.
The bullfighter lets the bull
make his rush and plants the
sharp barbs in its flesh. The bull,
tired, bleeding, rests, and attacks
again. Again the bull fighter
watches him, waits for him, tor
ments and wounds him.
At last comes the final, fatal
rush, when the sword of the ma
tador goes through into the bull’s
heart.
And that is the last of that par
ticular bull.
In Foch’s methods you see bull
fighter tactics, and are justified!
in the hope that before long the
crowd will applaud, and the dead
bull be dragged out bleeding by
the heels.
For further comfort remember
this; Germany is on French soil.
And the Allies have not set foot
on German soil. But the Kaiser
is shut up in his empire with his
congenial friends, the shifty Aus-
trions,} the rebellious Magyards,
and barbarian Turks and Bulga
rians.
He is not conquering foreign
territory. He is trying to break
out of prison.
He is shut in, shut away from
the ocean, away from the world,
from freedom, from prosperity,
from supplies from food.
This attack in the west is anoth
er effort to break out of jail.
And Foch, the bullfighting jail
er, is there to watch his direction,
stab him as he comes out, give
him plenty of room to tire him
self, and at the right moment get
him.
Don’t have any doubt about
how this war will end.
When a fighting round begins,
the crowd near the prize ring for
gets all else. So it is with that
prize ring of the world, in the
western part of Europe, where
civilizec intelligence and bloody
autocracy are fighting for the
champ onship of history. It is
difficult to think, aimless to talk
of anything else.
possibilities and yet of no practical
use now by reason of the lack of de
velopment. It is this waterway that
creates the opening link in the pro
posed inland waterway extending to
the gulf and thence up the Missis
sippi and back into the sea on the
northern coast that will be made pos
sible by the excavation of a barge ca
nal of approximately less than one
hundred miles in length.
Yaryan Company Is Again In Courts
Macon.—For the second time with
in a few years the Yaryan Rosin and
Turpentine company, probably the
largest concern of its kind in the
world, ha
protection
’ Dfinsy Create* Furlough Bureau
Atlanta.—The.governor of Georgia,
ipho is also chairman of the Georgia
state council of national defense, cre
ated, in this dual capacity, the bureau
of furlough, with offices in the capitol,
and appointed N. G. Bartlett, secretary
of the Dublin chamber of commerce,
as director. The decision to create
this bureau was arrived at after sev
eral conferences between Governor
Dorsey, Commissioner of Agriculture
Brown, Commissioner of Labor Stan
ley and others of the state house, with
General Sage and staff at Camp Gor
don. Under the Dent federal law, re-
cenUy enacted, furloughs may be grant
ed to farm laborers, or farm operators
who may be in military service, pro
vided the granting of such furloqghs
do not embarrass military activities.
The war department has recently pro
mulgated regulations that, under the
present emergencies on the western
front, no able-bodied men, suited for
trench warfare, shall be furloughed.
This brings about a new condition, but
the working out of a plan for the fur
loughing of those who are not physi
cally suited to trench warfare, or to
the trench line in any place, is con
sidered feasible, provided the officers
and the civil authorities both co-oper
ate in a system by which it can be
done without interfering with military
efficiency in discipline, and without
misplacing the grant, on the basis of
unjustifiable claims.
Gordon Soldiers Fighting In France
Atlanta.—“Somewhere in France,”
within the area of that fair country
which bears the scars of Hun ravish
ment, bearing day and night the stun
ning roar of giant guns as they belch
defiance at the opposing armies, the
82d division. U. S. A., has been camp
ing since May 10, according to infor
mation contained in letters received in
Atlanta. This news, of such vital in
terest lo Atlantans, telling, as it does,
that the men who trained at Camp
Gordon, mans of them natives of tijis
city and state, first reached the city
in letters written to his parents by
William Leslie Rawlins, now graduate
of the third officers’ training school
and a member of the 326th infantry,
IT. S. A. Letters received at Oxford,
Ga.. from Capt. O. Q. Melton, also tell
of the arrival of his regiment, the 325th
infantry, at a spot behind the battle
applied to the courts for j lines in France. Many Atlanta young
to save the stockholders | men, graduates of the first officers’
OVER 700,000 MEN
NOW IN FRANCE
secretary of war baker
MAKES STATEMENT TO
“BLUE DEVILS"
MAXES PATRIOTIC ADDRESS
Figures Given By Head Of War De
partment In Bidding Farewell
To French Veterans
and creditors from heavy loss. A pe- j training camp at Fort McPherson are
tition in voluntary bankruptcy was in command of the troops comprising
filed in the United States district! this division.
court here by Attorney Max Isaacs 1
of Brunswick on behalf of the com-: Technicians’ School Opens June 15
pany, the petition being signed by The
odore Hemmelwan, Jr., president of
the company. Previous to the reor
ganization of the com pan;
months ago it was known a
Yaryan Naval Stores company
Atlanta.—The United States govern
ment school at the Georgia school of
technology for the training of enlist-
several et j men as technicians will open June
is the ; i5 Five hundred and fifty men will
be sem. to the school. In addition to
| : lie work in the shops, military drill
Emory Will Move To Atlanta In 1919 * and tactics will be taught. The use
Oxford. — Definite announcement! of the Tech by the government for this
that the entire collegiate department work is possible only during the sum-
of Emory university will be moved j nier, as the shop facilities are suffi-
to Atlanta, where the schools of medi-j cient. during the regular school year,
cine, law and theology are now in i only for the training of the regular
operation, and opened on the campus! graduates, and the government doqs
in Druid Hills in September, 1919, j not think it advisable in any way to in
leaving the numerous splendidly equip- j term pi. the regular work of school in
ped buildings in Oxford for what is producing engineers,
proposed to be the greatest .prepara- ■
lory academy in America, was made 1 Cut Out Bread. Urges Governor Dorsey
by Chancellor Warren A. Candler. ! Atlanta. -Governor Dorsey, comply-
j ing with the suggestion in a telegram
Peach Crop Is Largest Ever Produoed received from Gov, R. G. Pleasant of
Atlanta.—The largest early peach j Louisiana, has wired the members of
crop in the history of Georgia by fully ! the Georgia delegation in congress
300 per cent is reported by the Geor-. asking that they request president
gia fruit exchange. Nearly 1.300 cars ! Wilson lo recommend that the food
of the fruit that made Fort Valley i administraiton order all hotels and
famous have been shipped to northern. restaurants of the United States to
and eastern markets, and the early serve no free bread with prders dur
Washington.—More than seven hun
dred thousand American soldiers have
gone overseas to carry France the en
couragement and assistance which La-
Fayette and Rochambeau brouhgt to
America, Secretary Baker told the
French Alpine Chasseurs in bidding
them farewell here at the base of the
Washington monument.
The war secretary’s last announce
ment some weeks ago concerning the
size of the American forces abroad
was that five hundred thousand men
had sailed for the battle front
The Alpine Chasseurs, better known
as the “Blue Devils," came to Amer
ica last month.to assist in the third
Liberty Loan campaign, and since
have toured the South and middle
West. They were reviewed and re
ceived by the secretary of war be
fore leaving for Baltimore, Newark,
New York and Boston en route back
to their native land. Attending the
exercises were M. Jesserand, the
fYench ambassador, representatives of
the French high commission, Mr. Ba
ker’s staff and many government of
ficials.
“You soldiers of France," said Mr.
Baker, in addressing the chasseurs,
“came to this country in order that
the people of America might see with
their own eyes in your persons the
kind of men who have written a new
page in the record of human heroism
and success. You are welcomed in
this country from one end of it to
the other. The hearts of our people
went out to you and to your people.
As the embodiment of the determina
tion, the courage and the heroism of
France you have been accepted and re
ceived. Nearly all of you. i am toid,
are battle-scarred veterans. You are
members of an army which has never
known defeat, and you are representa-
i tives of a peaple who would rather die
than not be free.
“You are going back to your own
country—still, thank God, your own—
and when you get there you will find
that the small beginning of our army
which you left there has grown into a
mighty manifestation. When you left
France the American army was there
in small representation, hut now more
than 700,000 Americans have sailed
from their shores to carry back to
your army and your people the en
couragement and assistance which La-
Fayette and Rochambeau brought to
America in the early and struggling
days of American freedom."
season is not over. The nearest ap
proach to this figure was in 1912. when
up to June 21 only 417 cars of peaches
had been shipped.
ing the next sixty days, bur. to substi
tute baked, boiled or mashed potatoes
instead. He also sent a copy of his
telegram to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, fed
eral food administrator for Georgia.
Persons Heads Georgia Hardware Men
Savannah.—J. P. Persons of Griffin ! Bloks Are Adopted For State Schools
was .elected president of the Georgia 1 Atlanta.—The Georgia school book
Retail Hardware Dealers association: commission has adopted the courses
at the last meeting of their conven-1 an( j school books for the next ensuing
tion here. Following are the officers scholastic year; and awarded the con-
elected: President, J. P. Persons of j tracts for the supply for the entire
Griffin; first vice president. R. F. De-j public- school system of the state.
Lamar of Hawkinsville: second vice _\n'. 0 ng the publishers to whom con-
president, E. L. Armond of Social Cir-1 tracts were awarded were: American
cle: secretary and treasurer, Walter; Book Co.. Ginn & Co.. D. P. Heath
Uncle Sam pushed the clock nhwj
one hour to give more light.
Take advantage of it. You owe it
to yourself and your country to make
every minute count.
Use your car—passenger or com
mercial—to the limit.
Samuel P. Colt, president of the
United States Rubber Company,
helped awaken the country to the
economic value of the automobile
last fall. He said—
“ Everything, on wheels must be
used an^nSbDuizie
SUMMER COLDS
rapidly reduce human strength
and illness is easily contracted,
tut Scott’s Emulsion will
promptly relieve the cold and
upbuild your strength to
prevent sickness.
is second to the
net and supple-
in collecting and
ndise.
use their cars,
and commercial, more
!e automobil
bads as an ad,
ntary to the
istributing
“Owners
both passeng
and more
Make th€ most of your car by using
the tire^That will extend its usefulness
to th/rutmost.
Ee good tires—United States Tires,
hey last longest and carry
[farthest at least cost.
There is a United States Tire for
svery car or truck—to guarantee un-
nterrupted service and greatest
tconomy.
Our nearest Sales and Service Depot
lealer will tell you which ones will
rve you best.
s j
nited States Tires
are Good Tires
tr Sale by
IRA CHAMBERS, Butler, Ga.
HART & CHILDS, Howard. Ga.
C. B. MARSHALL, Reynolds, Ga.
Harland of Atlanta.
Waycross To Organize Two Guards
Way cross.—For the purpose of fur
ther perfecting the plans incident to
organizing a home guard in Way-
cross. the committee selected at a re
cent meeting met again in the cham-
& Co.. Lippincotts
or two oihers.
McMillans and one
Sibley Heads The Bar Of The State
Savannah.—The Georgia Bar Asso
ciation in closing its thirty-fifth an-
annual session at Tybpe, unanimously-
indorsed President Wilson and his pol
icies, pledging support and service jn
any possible capacity. Secretary Har
rison of Atlatna was instructed to
wire the resolution to President Wil
son.
Certificates Accepted In Paying Taxes
Atlanta.—Interna] Revenue Collector
A. D. Blalock announced that certifi
cates of indebtedness maturing June
25, 191S, will be accepted in payment
her of commerce room. The present • 0 f income and excess profit taxes and
plans are to have two companies, an j ul .ged that they be so employed in or-
active company and a veteran com- (j er to jeave as much money as possi-
pany an
an advisory board.
ble in circulation. The government is
Voice Is Raised For Drug Fiend
Atlanta.—The state prison commis- j
sion in its annual report again called j
attention of the legislature to the prac- j
tiee of sending drug fiends to the state j
farm under the technical charge of va- j
grancy, a condition, which, if magitain-
ed, should not exist. “Many of these
men are not criminals,” declared the
Is There
a Baby
“ Your
Home?
Babies and Children Need.
mxfm
Absolutely Harmless—.\<! Opiates
It Keeps Their Little Insides Right.
For Constipation, Diarrhoea, Worms
Cold, Feverishness, Loss. of sleep.
Sour Stomach, Convulsion, Colic,
and Teething Troubles.
Druggists sell and recommend it.
None Genuine without the signature
/llo/tiiAaM
P. MARSHALL, Manufacturing Chemist
Atlanta, Georgia.
f encouraging everywhere the payment • commission, “and should not be brand-
j of taxes with certificates instead of ’ et * as such by being incarcerated in
the penitentiary. It is recommended
that the state make some provision to
YOUR DAUGHTG
WILL* NEVER-COI
TO-THIS
YOU HAVE
NO MONEY
IN THE BANK 1
r
CopyritHt I d/v, by C. L. Zix
'"'a
with cash.
care for these persons.’
A TEXAS WONDER.
‘ Large Steamer To Be Ready July 4
Brunswick.—Definite announcement
I has just been made by the American
! Shipbuilding company that it will have
! one of the large steamers in course i
! of construction at that plant ready for The Texas Wonder cures kid-
I launching on July 4. j ney and bladder troubles, dis-
j selves gravels, cures diabetes,
; 1,334 Young Men Registered In Fulton V ’eak and lame back, l’lieuma-
; Atlanta.-Allowing for deductions on | tism and irregularities of the
| mem. Atlanta and Fulton county did | kidneys and bladder in both men
! just about what was expected of them j Rnd women. Regulates bladder
in the registration of young men who
have become twenty-one years of age
since June 5, 1917. According to the
estimate 2,000 men should have regis
tered. Exactly 1,334 did register. Add
to these the young men who joined
the army and navy within the past two
weeks and the estimates of the mili
tary authorities will be seen to be
almost accurate.
troubles in children. If not sold
by your druggist, will be sent
by mail on receipt of $1.00. One
small box is two months’ treat
ment, and seldom fails to per
fect a cure. Send for sworn
testimonials. Dr. F. W. Hall,
2926 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Sold by druggists.—Adv.
YOUR daughter will never come to
this if you have no money in the
bank. If you were to investigate the
families who have accomplished daughters, you would
find that in practically every instance a bank account is
started for their education when they were children.
You envy such people, so will your children when they
grow up unless they have the same advantages. So think
how much a bank account will mean to them and start
one today.
Farmers & Merchants Bank
BUTLER, - - - GEORGIA.
Now is the time to pay your sub
scription, if you are due any.