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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. - ■