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- Volume XXXXII. BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY, Gf ORGIA, ‘THURSDAY. JUNE 27 191S. Number 33
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
CAMPAIGN NOW ON.
Organization Has Been Perfected for Drive for Pledges
Tomorrow, June 28th.
The war savings campaign in
Taylor county began in earnest
several days ago when more
than a thousand invitations
were mailed to tax-payers by
Mj\ I. F. Peebles, chairman of
the drive, asking them to assem
ble in their respective school
houses Friday (tomorrow) when
a county-wide War Savings rally
will be held.
Taylor county’s original quota
was $231,260, of which $4,336.75
has been sold, leaving a balance
to be disposed of $226,923.25.
Can we raise it, did you ask ?
YES INDEED IF ALL WILL
DO THEIR 'PART.
It is not the purpose of the
meetings and individual efforts
tomorrow’ to sell stamps, neces
sarily, but to seek pledges.
Quotas for each militia dis-
t; ict have been figured out by
the census department, accord
ing to population of each district
and the District Chairmen for
ehch militia district have sub-di
vided the militial districts into
the different school districts, so
that each district may know just
what its quota is. The quota is
arrived at by figuring $20.00 for
each man, woman and child in
each district.
• The organization is the com-
pletest organization yet perfect
ed in any war measure campaign
The State Director apry ' -
Chairman for each epur .a
State: this County Chairman ap
pointed two Vice-Chairmen: tire
two Vice-Chairmen appointed
School Supervisors for each
school district, and the School
Supervisors appointed a local
c-ommitte.
The county organizating is
composed of the following offic
ers:
I. F. Peebles, County Chair
man
R. A Hinton. Vice Chairman for
Reynolds and Panhandle dis
tricts
Mrs. Mattie Riley, Vice-Chair
man for six districts.
Executive Committeemen are:
Messrs. V. I. Butt, O. G. Mc-
Cants, G. C. Smith, H. J. Peag-
ler, A. S. Wallace.
District Chairman Messrs
F. R. Purvis, Howard; J. F.
Posey, Carsonville; Edgar Stew-
ari, Cedar Creek; H. J. Garrett,
Rustin; J. H. Adams, Daviston.
In order to raise the amount
for this county it will be neces
sary that each militia district
subscribe the amount alloted to
it. This will not impose any
burden on any one in the district
if each person does his duty.Those
in charge of the district drives
have been instructed not to cease
their efforts until the total amount
ailoted to their district has been
subscribed.
“SWEETHEART OF MY DREAMS.”
This tender and beautiful song is,
the work of Harry Stillwell Edwards,
author of a hundred southern stories
and melodies, and is his gift to the
American soldiers through the Camp
“Y’s” and Red Cross. It will be mail
ed on receipt of 25 cts by the Secreta
ry of “Y” 46, Camp Wheeler, Macon,
Ga., to any address in America.
Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. workers
in all localities, where the proceeds of
sale are to be applied to the comfort
of soldiers, can obtain the song post
paid at $3.50 per 100, on application
to The Macon News.
The song is a splendid seller. The
military bands play it and vocalists
sing it wherever introduced. A Red
Cross girl on a crowded street corner
binging it will sell a hundred in an af
ternoon. Order it for your home
circle, for your local quartette and for
the boy “over there.” Every cent
beyond the absolute cost of production
and mailing (3% cents) goes direct to
the soldiers in camp.
BAPTISTS GATHER AT
WAVERLY HALL JULY30.
The Columbus Baptist associa
tion will open a two-days sesion
at Waverly HolI, Ga., on July 30
with many prominent men on
the program as speakers.
Thirty-one churches are to be
represented at the meeting and
it is expected that fully one hun
dred messengers will be in at
tendance. Dr. B. W. Bussey, of
Cusseta, Ga., is moderator of the
association, John T. Bray, of Co
lumbus, clerk, and R. Homer
Willis, of Columbus, treasurer.
The annual election of officers
will take place and it is predicted
that Mr. Bussey will be re-elect
ed as he has held the office of
moderator for the past sixteen
years and has been very success
ful in the administration of the
affairs of the oi'ganization.
Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Manches
ter, will deliver the introductory
sermon. Among the other
speakers will be Dr. R. C. Gran-
berry, of Lanier University, At
lanta; Dr. Solon B. Cousins, of
Columbus, and others.
Butler had the pleasure of en
tertaining this association two
years ago and hopes for a return
of that privilege and pleasure in
the near future.
The following churches of Tay
lor county are members of the
Columbus association: Butler,
Antioch, Midway, Horeb. Mt.
Pisgah, Mauk. Each of these
will probably send messengers.
Those to represent the Butler
church are to be elected next
Sunday.
District Sontereiice Met
Af Lumpkin Monday
The Methodist conference for
the Columbus District convened
at Lumpkin Monday night for a
two-days session.
Rev. J. A. Smith, of Macon,
preached the opening sermon and
delivered a powerful discourse
driving concrete facts home to his
j large and representative audience.
Presiding Elder J. P. Chatfield, of
Columbus, presided over the
meeting which was concluded
yesterday. The conference is the
annual meeting of the executive
and advisory body which meets
each year about mid-summer, and
all Methodist ministers, traveling
and local, also an elected dele
gation, consisting of one man from
each hundred members of the
church in the district.
Reports from the various
churches were carried by the dele
gates and were most gratifying.
The work of the past year was
reviewed and new plans and de
tails were formulated tu make the
present year the most successful
in the history of the district. Prac
tically all of the churches in the
district are on the honor roll, hav
ing paid fifty per cent or more of
their ministerial assessments for
the year.
The Lumpkin Methodists made
elaborate preparations for the
visiting delegates, who received
royal entertainment with true
southern hospitality.
Those attending the conference
from Butler circuit, returning last
night, bring back most gratifying
accounts of the meeting and the
hospitable spirit which Lumpkin
people entertained all her dele
gates were: Rev. L. A. Harrell,
Prof. A. S. Wallace, Walter J.
Riley, R. M. Suggs, J. J. Eason and
Rev. John Foy.
28 Selectmen Leave
For Camp Today
Taylor’s quota for June 26th of
twenty-eight men leave this af
ternoon for Camp Gordon. A
large gathering in Butler is ex
pected to bid the boys adieu and
extend to them best wishes for an
early and safe return. The fol
lowing is a list of those who will
leave this afternoon:
Grady Ranow
Emmett J. Crawford
Ausey Lee Smith
Will Benson
Hugh Jack Byrd
W. Columbus Hicks
M. T. Gaultney, Jr
Charles F. Cooper
Henry B. McDaniel
Eugene L. Saunders
Horace Watson
Joe E. Matthews
Leonard F. James
Moses E. Raburn
Thos. J. Sams
Eddie A. Childers
Luther M. Cox
George R. Standridge
Samuel M. Martin
Oscar S. Draughon
M. Mason Cooper
James Herman Amos
Norman B. Cox
Daniel W. Payne
Oscar J. Howard
Jos. Thos. Hobbs
B. Pope Beeland
Robert W. Woodall
Notice to Purchasers of Govern
ment .Nitrate Soda.
I i egret to say that we have
been advised by the Department
of Agriculture that the RED
ONDO, which was loaded with a
cargo of Nitrate of Soda from
Chile to Savannah which was to
arrive about June 20th, has run
ashore on the coast of Cuba and
is probably a total loss. Conse
quently he • cargo will not be
available for distribution.
The Department of Agricul
ture has made every effort to se
cure Nitrate from other owners,
and replace Nitrate to arrive at
a latter date. The Department
has continued its efforts to effect
this exchange, through the War
Industries Board, but has been
unsuccessful.
No vessels are now engaged in
transporting Nitrate for the De
partment of Agriculture, and ev
en if vessels should be assigned
at this time most of the Nitrate
would arrive too late for thhis
crop. Unless the department
should be able to hereafter ar
range for an exchange of Nit
rate from other sources through
the War Industries Board, it is
likely that there will be no more
Nitrate for distribution.
G. C. SMITH,
County Government Nitrate Dis
tributor.
EPWORTH LEAGE
CONVENTION ENDS.
C. L. Sheppard, of Fort Valley is
Elected President for Next Year.
At the closing sesion of the
Epworth League conference held
at Macon Friday night officers
were elected for the coming year
and C. L. Sheppard, of Fort Val
ley, formerly vice president, was
elected president.
The sesion was closed by con
secration services and a sermon
by Rev. W. F. Quillian.
The officers elected were: G.
L. Sheppard, Fort Valley, presi
dent ; Malcolm Strozier, Moultrie
vice president; Geo. W. Crosby,
Savannah, first superintendent;
Miss Freda Schofield, Macon,
second superintendent; Mrs. F.
. Little, Dublin, third superin
tendent; Miss Jessie Myers, Way
cross, fourth superinte n d e n t;
Miss Bessie Brightman, Macon,
secretary; G. C. Barnhill, Glen-
wood, treasurer; Miss Florence
Cross, Colquitt, Era Agent, and
Anthony Hearn, Byromville, con
ference editor.
$23. Worth W. S.S.
Far Capita Expected.
Uncle Sam expects eyery man,
woman and child in Taylor coun
ty to buy at least $20 worth of
War Savings Stamps between
now and the end of the year, and
expects them to sign the pledge
promising to make their pur-
cyhases on or before tomorrow,
Friday, June 28, the great Nat
ion 4 War Savings Day pro-
ela Yirx ky President Wilson and
the Mvernors of all the states,
ine tiding Governor Dorsey of
Georgia. The quota of the Em
pire State of the South is $57,-
500.000, more than twice the
state’s puota in the third Liber
ty Loan. In order to put this
puota over the top it will be nec
essary for every family in the
state to do its part. There are
thousands of children who can
not buy, there are thousands of
men who will not buy. This
mearU that parents will have to
make up for children, and pa
triotic citizens will have to make
up for unpatriotic cilizei t. No
one can bny more than $1,000
worth of War Saving Stamps
in his or her name, or in the
name of a firm, but any citizen
can bay $1,000 each for himself
his wife and all of his children,
and a firm can buy $1,000 each
for its officers and directors.
Throughout the United States
a great campaign is now in prog-
gress to put War Saving Stamps
over the top on June 28.
Taylor county did her part
well in the Liberty Loan, the
Red. Cross drive and all other
wa.i movements, and she will
nor fail in tnis important task.
WRIGHTSVILLE PRPARES
FOR EDITORS OF STATE
Barbecue, Trip on Oconee River and
Other Features Arranged—Large
Attendance at July Convention
Expected.
Wrightsville, June 22,— The
big big event of the season in
which all rightsville is interested
is the convention of the Georgia
Weekly Pres Association, which
convenes here Monday, July 15,
and adjourns the following Wed
nesday. One hundred and fifty
delegates are expected to be in
attendance and ample prepara
tions are being made for the en
tertainment of these scribes and
boosters of the first order who
will come from all parts of
Georgia.
All thhe guests are expected
to arrive on Monday afternoon.
The first session will be held at
the courthouse Monday night.
The welcome address will be de
livered at this meeting by Col.
B. H. Moye, one of the promi
nent members of the Wrighes-
ville bar. Tuesday morning
there will be an executive ses
sion.
Tuesday at noon there will be
a barbecue at Idhvild. This
barbeche and basket dinner will
be fnrnished by Wrightsville
and Johhnson county in honor i
of the editors and Gov. Hugh M.
Dorsey, who will deliver an ad- J
dress at twelve o’clock. Anoth
er session will be held Tuesday
afternoon and that night there
will be a garden party on the
courthouse lawn at which the
Civic League will serve refresh
ments. Wednesday morning
at ten the lastbusiness session
will be held. In the afternoon
at two-thirty the delegates will
leave by auto for Dublin. From
Dublin they will take a boat
trip down the Oconee river on
the Farmer’s Union boat. On
this- trip luncheon will be serv
ed by the women of Dublin..
The editors will return to
Wrighhtsville by auto Wednes
day night.
Editor C. D. Rountree, of the
Wrightsville Headlight, is doing
Everything within his power to
make the coming convention a
great success.
QUESTIONNARIES ABE
BEING MAILED OUT
Lists Being Sent to Y’oung Men Who
Registered June 5th.
\ In accordance with instructions
the local board is mailing out
this week questionnaries to the
young men who were made sub
ject to military- service under the
legislation June 5.
The work of sending out ques-
tionnaries will be conducted on
the same principles as used be
fore, excepting that the boards
will be ordered to proceed accord
ing to the registration ‘number of
registrants and shall defer mak
ing any entries on the classifica
tion list until after the order num
bers have been assigned. The
order number will be decided
later on by the war department.
Registrants wili receive the
same assistance in filling cut their
questionnairs that was received
by those in the first registration,
members of the legal profession
and also those of the advisory
board, both of which rendered
valuable assistance to registrants
before, having been called upon
to render the same assistance
again.
In filling out these question
nairs it is vitally important that
the writing be in ink.
LOVE FOR NEIGHBORS
SHOWN ’IN W. S. S. DRIVE.
.Taylor county is athrob with
heartbeats today, conducting as
she is thhe great drive for war
saving stamps. cam
paigns and drives have risen to
:evr heat in our county and
hearts have swelled with gener
ous emotion while purhestrings
have been loosed. But never be
fore has any campaign reached
ail the people in the same syste
matic way as the war savings
stamp work which is being car
ried on now.
The committee and workers
have discovered that there is a
blessing in what they are doing
Ja bleshing for all the people of
Taylor county.
The men and women workers
go forth upborn by high motives
They are not calculating the
tangible results so much as the
intangible good that will come to
the State and nation.
This is a campaign for neigh
borliness; for cementing com
munities in a great common
cause; for giving every person
in the county a chance to grow—
in heart, in mind, in character,
and in the appreciation of his
fellow man.
Through heat and cold and
dorm our men are training and
fighting today and here thous-
andh of hearts are buoyed up at
this time because a way has
been found whereby every per
son can attest his loyalty to
those men and the principles for
which they are fighting.
By turning out to the great
thrift stamp rallies at the school
houses of Taylor county, the
people in each section will pro
claim their desire to cast off
selfihhness and join in a great
movement for the common good.
When we have all learned to
answer these calls of the hour
we will have become a finer
community of people and thus
give evidence of our willingness
each to do our part in the one
way that has been opened to
ALL the people to share in the
task that lies before America—
trie spreading of the doctrines
of freedom that our great na
tion stands for.
Despondency Dne to Constipation.
Women often become nervous and
despondent. When this is due to
constipation it is easily corrected by
taking an occasional dose of Cham
berlain’s Tablets. These tablets are
easy to ttake and pleasant in effect.
All Business Houses
To Close a! 2 P, M.
Tomorrow at. 2 o’clock Butler
will have the appearance of Sun
day so far as business houses are
concerned. At that hour every
body in this section will assem
ble at the court house where War
Savings rally will be held for
Butler district.
It is pretty well assured, but at
this writing cannot be definitely
an fenced, that a Canadian offi
cer will be among those tp deliv
er addresses.
There will be several good
speeches made that will interest
all who hear them so don’t fail to
be present.
CsngraUaiions For Sente
Well And Faithfully Performed
The great responsibility that has
rested upon the members of the
local military board since its" es
tablishment more than a year ago,
has made that position one that no
man naturally would seek. But
the men who are placed there are
filling the office, not by their
own volition, but by governmental
directions. It is therefore a source
of gratification to them to know
that their efforts have been satis
factory, as is evidenced by the
following telegram from Adjutant
General Mallet received Monday:
“The per cent of men in Class 1
for your Board is above the stand
ard in this State and we desire to
congratulate you upon your work,
for it has been entirely satisfactory. ”
The standard percentage, by A"
counties, for the state is 28 1-2 py - J
cent, some counties running as
low as 10 per cent. The local <
board of Taylor County has a ;
record of 34 per cent in this class.
This indicates that they have i
without fear, favor, reward or the
hope thereof placed every regis
trant in the class in which they
believed he belonged.
Taylor’s board is composed of
Hon. O. T Montfort, clerk super
ior court; Mr. J. R. Beeland, ■
sheriff; Dr. T. G. Turk; CoL H. P.
Wallace, clerk.
They are men of broad intellect,
affable manners and ever ready
to extend favors wherever it is
possible for them to do so. How
ever, they are men of firmness of
character, conscientious in their
rulings and faithful to eyery duty
reposed. They have not been
swayed the least from a direct
path of their duties by persuasion
or otherwise on the part of those
who may at some times have ap
pealed to them for favors. Neither
have they been unfair to any
registrant, but at ail timesextend
ing to him every courtesy and
favor wherever law and duty
would allow.
Such men are alw ays an .-honor
to the county, and it is Taylor’s
good fortune that she has the
right men in the right place at
this time.
v
Thirty Barrels of Liquor De
stroyed In Musccgee County.
Columbus, Ga.. June 24—J. H.
Mhite has been bound over 1g
the Federal Court on the charge
of conducting two illicit stills of
considerable siee in a swamp
just a few miles out from, Co
lumbus.
The Officers found and de
stroyed two stills and also thirty
barrelh of liquor, and charge
that all this was his property.
Definite arrangements’ , v have
been made for a. joint debate be
tween H. H. Dean and William
Schley Howard to take place in
Gainesville Saturday: j jamming,
June the 20,. ai i\ {b’clqpjq Mr.
Howard to hayethe -opening and
conclusion^ -.each - to £peak. tone
hour and twenty minutes. - ■