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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.