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THE NEWS AND FARMER
VOLUME 31—No. 18.
OVERSTREET
BROS. MAKE
OPENING BOW
PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITED TO
SEE WADLEY’S NEWEST MER
CANTILE FIRM.
In this issue of the News & Far
mer will be found n page advertise
ment of Overstreet Brothers, Wadley’s
newest mercantile firm. This firm now
occupies three large modern brick stores
with connecting arches, which is vir
tually one building. One store is given
over to the display and sale of gro
ceries and farm supplies, the middle
store is filled with an elaborate display
of hardware, furniture and musical in
struments and the third store is stock
ed with anew line of shoes, dry goods,
clothing and gents’ furnishings.
This firm is composed of two of
Wadley’s most sterling business men
and who have made a success in the
mercantile business and it is needless to
saay they will enjoy a large share of
patronage from the trading public of
Johnson and surrounding counties.
Watch for their advertisements each
week.
ADMMITTED SBOO, BUT DENIED
$930.
A negro was tried in the Superior
court recently for stealing $930 denied
getting that amount, but willingly ad
mitted getting SBOO. The funny part
was that the owner of the money did
not lose it. The thief went to where
a crowd was gambling and among them
was the owner of the money, who was
an expert card player. He soon gath
ered in the SBOO and the money of all
the others. He then prosecuted the
man for stealing his money. Is not a
professional gambler about as big a
thief as the man who breaks into a
home to steal?
BUSINESS RUNNING AGAIN.
My store was burned, recently and ail
in it lost, but in ten days I had anew
and complete stock of goods and ready
to serve my customers anti friends, j
The patronage of all is solicited and
I offer you the best goods and at low !
prices. Give me a trial. .
may - 2t C. C. ROBINSON, j
ICE CREAM SUPPER
To be given at the Hickory Flat
School on Thursday night, May Bth.
Proceeds for benefit of the Sehool. |
Everybody invited.
PEACE IS WORTH
THE PRICE
—Worth any price we have to pay for it.
—Some of this price we have paid. Many of our
boys have paid their all. The rest is up to us—to
us who have been benefited by their sacrifices—to
us whose peace has been secured.
—Back the Victory Liberty Loan to your limit.
all you can, then one more. , ■
HARDWARE
Little & Company
"THE STORE THAT SELLS *
THE OLD RELIABLE LINES" LOUISVILLE. GA.
liSOMENEW
BOTTIMPLANT
To Be Built On Smith Street
COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. TO
HAVE ONE OF FINEST PLANTS
OF ITS KIND IN SOUTH.
Sandersville Ga., April 30—Special
Work has already begun on the hand
some bottling plant of the Sandersville
Coca-Cola Bottling Company on Smith
street next to Holt & Brother’s stable.
The brick foundation is being rapidly
laid and it is stated the building will
be ready for occupancy by July Ist.
The building will be one story 43 x 100
feet with concrete floor.
The most expensive and up-to-date
bottling machinery will be installed in
this plant and it will be the last word
in efficiency and sanitation. The pres
ent quarters of this company were con
sidered among the best when first built
about six years go, but Mr. Williams,
the general manager states he wants
the new plant to be far ahead of the
present equipment in every way in or
der that his company u-ill be able to
handle its constantly increasing volume
of business. In addition to bottling
Coca-Cola, this plant also bottles soda
waters of every kind.
In addition to the erection of the
bottling plant, two model bungalows
will be built one of which will prob
ably be occupied by Mr. Williams and
wife and the other by Mr. and Mrs.
Hogue.
Mr. Williams stated he would be glad
to pay half of the cost of paving the
road in front of his plant if the city
would pay the other half. This is a
good opportunity for our city to start
street paving.
WANTED
Split hickory spoke billets.
3 1-2x3x14 or 28 inches long.
3 3-4x4x15 or 30 inches long.
3 3-4x4 1-2x15 or 30 inches long.
Carload shipments inspection at ship
ping point. Cash settlements. Write
for prices and specifications. Name your
shipping point and state quality you
can furnish. Address P. O. Box No.
1302, Jacksonville, Fla. 2tpd.
Now is the time to use
top dressing. R. L. Bethea.
AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE.
An Oakland. In first class condi
tion. Will be sold dt a bargain.
MRS. HENRY L. BRITLATOUR,
4 3 3t pd Care S. L. Black, Bartow, Ga.
LOUISVILLE, GA., MAY 1, 1919
CIVIL ENGINEERS
BOOST ROADS
Suggests Concrete Paving
s. h. mcarthur vists Washing
ton COUNTY, GIVING STATIS
TICAL INFORMATION
Great interest is being manifested
throughout Washington county in re
gard to the building of permanent
roads. I.ast Friday and Saturday Mr.
S. H. McArthur, a civil engineer, rep
resenting the Portland Cement Associa
tion, was in Sandersville boosting the
building of permanent roads. Mr. Mc-
Arthur stated he or his company would
be glad to furnish any information per
taining to the building of cement roads
to any one interested without charge.
His association will also furnish any
county without charge the services of
one of their expert engineers to assist
in desigttii g and planning bridges, cul
verts and roadways.
Washington county is today spend
ing approximately $75,000.00 a year on
the temporary building of sand and
clay roads. These roads hold up for
a few months and with the first rainy
spell are cut to pieces and made almost
impassable. We are literally throwing
away this much money. It has been
suggested by several of our most in
fluential citizens that our county go
ahead and issue a half million dollars
in bonds which will be matched by an
equal amount from the government. Un
der this plan our county will have a
million dollars’ worth of concrete roads
at a cost of a half million.
Another plan suggested is for our
commissioners to go ahead and pave
the public road from the city limits of
Sandersville to the city limits of Ten
nille, a distance of two miles. This
would cost the county $40,000.00 and
could be easily paid for out of the cur
rent funds, or by one- and two-year
notes. With this road built, it is safe
to predict every loyal and progressive
citizen in the county would be heartily
in favor of building such roads through
out the county. The Tennille road
should be straightened out as much as
possible, for to build it with the pres
ent curves would be courting disaster
for years to come.
Some of our citizens favor the plan
of spending $100,000.00 each year for
concrete roads with an equal amount
from the government. Under this plan
the issuance of bonds would not be nec
essary, as the increase in taxation would
be so slight that no one would object.
The time has arrived for our people
to get busy and get their share of the
government money, for unless we go af
ter our pro rata, some other county
will get it. If Washington county can
pave the Tennille road for $40,000.00
and the government will pay half of it,
why not go ahead and pave it at once?
If we wait until after July Ist, the
present appropriation will be given to
some other state. In other words if
our commissioners act now we can get
our share, of the funds available for
tiff 1 fiscal year ending July Ist, 1920.
These roads are to be built sooner or
later, so why not build or begin build
ing some of them TODAY?
Some people can be described fully and
completely by four words bumcombe,
bluster, blow and bragg—that is all
they are when it comes to real, genu
ine merit. They and theirs and all they
have are at the top, and all other folks
and things are poor indeed. They have
and do all that’s worth while, and as to
knowledge, wisdom will die with them.
But really the four Its., and some others
that could be named suit them fully
and completely. No doubt you have
run against such in your journey
through life. If not, your enviroments
to use big words, have been most hap
py and fortunate.
PLENTY OF ICE.
I am now ready to supply
the public with pure ice in
any quantity-_ If you want
a ton or a dime’s worth see
me. M. J. West,
Wadley, Ga.
I am prepared to sell you any style
of monument or toombstone at very
reasonable prices. Also coping for
cemetery lots, etc. See me before you
buy. A. J. DIXON,
4t pd. Bartow, Ga.
Big supply of top dres
sing corn, cotton and
grain. R. L. Bethea.
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
The safest and best investment in the world.
Jefferson county is going “over the top” as
usual, but do your share in buying bonds.
CLARK BROTHERS
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA
MISS ROBERTS |
i ONRIVIERA
Cannes-On-the Mediterranean
There is so much, to write that I
scarcely know where t,. Login. Any
way, here I am in the garden spot of
the world—a land of flowers and sun
shine —The Riviera. As I write I have
a wonderful view of tie sea. The wa
iter is a perfect sapphire ldue, and the
sunshine dazzling on it makes a
wonderful picture. I never saw such a
I profusion of flowers of ail varieties.
The “gamins” bring us great arm
fuls of them and their faces beam as
|we give them candy and cigarettes
j and pennies. My little room is a reg
ular bower, with violets, mimosa and
Inareissus, and the atmosphere is per
moated with the different perfumes.
We got 360 patients ('convalescent)
at Toul and brought them here to re
cuperate. We went from Toul to Ly
ons and from there to Marseilles. Mar
sailles, you know, is the “Gate to the
Orient,” and is very interesting, be
cause the population is made up of
so many nations —Algerians, Africans,
Spanish, French, etc., and there arc
many queer sights to lx- seen. There
are 500000 people in the city and 75,-
000 prostitutes (licensed, so this gives
one some idea of v.ce conditions. A
trainload of Algerian troops traveled
ah'uo- by the side of r. part f the way
They wer > \.n their woy back to
Africa, and such hi 1i •11 y y<*u never
saw; and how do vo i hippos * their of
ficers controlled them; WITH LIT
TLE WHIPS. Some military persua
sion. There is somc ji).., fascinating
ah ut Ih.in, and their customs. For in
stance, when they greet each other,
they shake hands and then kiss their
own hands to each other. Some of
tern sing very sweetly, like our ne
groes. The other morning T waked up
at 3 o’clock and their train had stop
ped right opposite ours and one of
those Algerians was singing (very soft
ly) a beautiful little minor melody,
and it seemed to me the sweetest mu
sic I ever heard.
From Marseilles we ride all along by
the sea to Clannes. Cannes is not so
large as Nice, but is just as beautiful
and more aristocratic. King Edward
VII had his villa there and many of
the crowned heads of Europe winter
there now, and it is the meeting place
jof the largest yacht clubs in the world.
I From Cannes we had a wonderful trip
by auto to Nice and Monte Carlo. The
Mediterranean coast looks like Fairy
land. Didn’t know was such scen
ery in the world. Imagine the blue
sea with the mountains (Maritime
! Alps) towering above it and the rocks
' covered with flowers. Some of the
j villas arc too beautiful to describe,
i Such violets!—as large as pansies and
'the roses and lilies are gorgeous, and
many of the stone walls are covered
with climbing geraniums, which are in
full bloom. There ni'e enormous per
fumeries at Grasse near Nice, where
we got the full extract of the flowers.
I got you a bottle of rose.
In he R.R. Tours Officer at Cannes
is Lt. Bennett from Swainsboro, Ga.,
and when he found that Lt. Hill, Miss
Ryan and I were from Georgia, he put
himself out to bo nice to us, and kept
the train down on the coast for three
days so we could sec the country. AND
WE SAW IT. Yesterday we saw Nice
and Monte Carlo. We went through
the Casino saw gaming-rooms and
the people playing the roulette wheel,
II Rouge et Noir” and other gambling
games. Some of the women were quite
young—mere girls. Monte Carlo looked
like a flower garden set upon top of a
mountain overlooking the sea. On the
way home we went around the moun
tain tops and visited LaTurbie, a vil
lage dating back to the Romans,' where
we saw the famous “Tower” —the re
mains of a monument which the Ro
man people erected in 13 B. C., to the
glory of the Emperor Caesar Augustus.
We saw the Lerius Islands where there
is a prison in which the mysterious
“Man with the Iron Mask” was con
fined in 1867. More than 200 years
afterward Marshal Bazaine (to whom
France owes pertly her defeat in 1870)
was imprisoned in the same dungeon.
We leave here this afternoon and hope
to go to Paris for fumigation. Our
train seems to be the most fortunate
of all. We get such wonderful trips.
May go back to Germany. I wouldn’t
mind having a few more weeks up there
with the Army of Occupation.
Last Friday was a joyous day for the
children. They were turned loose for
Memorial day and they certainly en
joyed it. They have had to go to school
every day in the week and a day off
was like getting out and enjoying life
once more. It was like turning young
animals loose and they could hardly
content themselves.
MEMORIAL DAY
IS OBSERVED
The IT. D. C.*B have tried their best
many times to give the veterans an oc
casion that they would long rem. inber
.and they have succeeded vorv often.
But we doubt if they ever surpassed
their effort last Friday.
Little advertising and promise had
been made, but they were quietly at
work, and when the day arrived thev
had all things ready. No arrangement
was lacking that would make the day
one of great pleasure and enjoyment
for the few remaining veterans. In
fact, it was doubtless to be the last
memorial day for several who are fast
going down to the river’s edge, and it
was fitting that they receive the best.
It was feared very few would be pres
ent, but over thirty came, which was a
most pleasant surprise. Several came
from other, counties, who either went to
the war from Jefferson or knew com
rades in this county. We secured the
names of twenty-live and here they are;
Capt. J. 11. Polhill, W. 11. Morris, Wil
lis Arrington, E. Palmer, J. W. Brady,
E. .F Newman, S. A. Arrington, W. S.
Jones J. W. Dve S. J. Smith, D. J.
Thompson, John Marsh, M. D. Quiiinev,
F. A. Baggott, Jno. T. La Favor, 11. I.
Harvey A. J. Thigpen, J. M. Peeples,
Jno. M. Snider, B. J. Moxley, Law
rence Kitchens, Cicero Peebles, Mr.
Whitfield, John B. Williams.
John R. Phillips, Esq., was master of
ceremonies and did the job well. As
usual he gave the speakers a good send
off. The music and singing was good
and all joined in the patriotic songs I
with a pleasure and animation, lt was)
an inspiring oecasaion, and we believe i
the hearts of the old veterans were*
stirred as never before. And the young!
veterans of the great world war re-!
ceived full recognition and were lov j
ingly remembered in all of the oxer-!
cises. They fought a good fight and.
gave their country valiant service and!
deserve all praise and honor.
Academy Hall was crowded and the'
large and sympathetic audience added!
vim and glory to the day of honor and 1
enjoyment. When the exercises in the j
hall were over, all went to the cemetery j
to see the decorations on confederate j
monumnt and the graves of the soldiers'
which were most appropriate. Then
came a most bountiful dinner. There
is no use to try to describe it. We will
say it was the best and most sumptu
ous meal we ever saw on such an oc
casion. All so declared it. The vet
erans of the two wavs had r; table all
alone and they certainly fought back
and forth and covered and took all
the territory in sight. They said they
enjoyed the day to the fullest extent
and we believe it. To aid in keping
cool and wash away all cares, four big
tubs of extra good lemonade were serv
ed. May all of the veterans and every
one else live long and remember most
pleasantly that most pleasant occasion.
Let’s Finish
The Job
THE OBLIGATIONS OF PEACE
To Care for Our Soldier Boys Abroad.
To Bring Our Soldiers Home Again.
To See Demobilization Through.
To Pay Every Dollar of War Insurance.
To Give the Soldier His Pay Envelope.
To Rehabilitate the Wounded Men.
To Sustain Hospitals For Our Soldiers.
To Pay Our War Debts.
To Preserve a LASTING PEACE.
The war is won, but the bills must be paid. The
success of the Victory Liberty Loan is your job.
You are lending, not giving your money, and your
Government guarantees its return with interest.
Louisville Drug Cos.
LOUISVILLE, GA.
VICTORY LOAN
A success!
What is it? It is the last '-all of the,
greatest Government on earth to its!
loyal and patriotic citizens to LOAN
tin* Government sufficient money at a*
! good rate of interest and free from all!
| local and state taxation, to miry out:
! its contracts already entered into 1 *.■ - !
fore tin* Armistice* was signed, and
which were necessary to the sue I
leessful termination of the world war. j
! What is it for? It is to pay the ex j
!]tenses of feeding, clothing, transport i
ing to the seat of war, and back home |
again, your boy and mine, and our!
neighbors boy, who gallantly and hen i
rally placed not only their matei ia 1 ef
fects on the altar of their country, but
placed their own life blood in the bal
ance, and many of whom are now slcon
ing their last sleep on the blood stain-j
ed field of France and other European j
countries, or if they have been fortu
nate enough to return again to their na-1
tive land, have done so with only one
eye, one arm, one leg and in many in- j
stances with not even one of either j
Shall we finish the job? If America
is t<> retain her place among the great
nations of the earth as a reliable and
responsible obligor there is no other
course left her but to prove true to her
promises and meet to the letter every
obligation and promises she made dur
ing this world struggle and if she does!
this then this VICTORY LOAN MUST
go to the finish, with subscribers to
spare. Reader, what is your attitude?
Are you a redblooded American, proud
of your country’s position in the great
world struggle, ready to give your last
dollar, (No not give) but actually Loan
to this great country the few dollars
you may he able to get together, as an
act of high minded patriotism, or will
you skulk in your tent and allow others
to get all the glory that is to be gained
by an overwhelming subscription to
this Loan? The day is coming, and it
is not far distant either when the man
who can show to his children or even
to his grandchildren one of these United
States Bonds will feel prouder of his
possession than ever Ceasar was of his
(Town. It is the desire of every man,
to leave to his family a heritage of val- !
no as well as of honor and nothing!
I can come nearer combining both value
and honor in one possession than in be- j
coming the owner of these Victory
bonds. Try it. lt will bring more real
j pleasure as well as profit to the average
i citizen than any other act of his life.
Deny yourself some other necessity,
i even and provide yourself with this;
I most exalted badge of honor as well as j
Duty.
One of the Committee, j
supply of top dress
ing, for corn, cotton and
grain.—R. L. BETHEA. j
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
BAIT JOHNSON
GOES TO WADLEY
WILL HAVE CHARGE OF FTJRNI
TURE AND HARDWARE
AT OVERSTREET’S
Mr. Butt. Johnson, who is well known
in J* fT rson and adjoining counties ha?
accepted a position with Overstreet
Brothers and will have charge < f the
furniture and hardware departments at
Wad ley.
Mr. Jo’.ns-Hi has been engaged in this
iiii'' i ba-mes- for more than ten years
For scvral years he had complete
charge of this department with the C.
s. Bryant Company at Bartow, Ga.
He is familiar with the wants of the
trading public and will see that his de
partments '*arry an immense stock of
high class merchandise and the prices
will always be right, for he knows
where, when and how to buy both fur
niture nhd hardware.
The hardware and furniture depart
ment haas been moved into the center
stoiv where it is now attractively ar
ranged and presents a most pleasing a;
pen ram-e. lie cordially invites his
friends and old customers to give him a
call at his new location.
POPULAR CITIZEN
IS DEAD
Mr W. P Lowry died at Hot-
Springs April 23. He had gone there
hoping relief from those healing waters,
but he lived only a few days. His
death caused sadness to his many
friends here where he spent more than
thirty years. Ho made many warm
friends by his many fine traits of
character. He was a merchant here for
many years and also engaged in farm
ing. He leaves an only sister, Miss
Maggie Lowry, to mourn his death. The
remains were inteired at Selina, Ala.,
when his father, mother and brothers
and sister are buiied. Religious ser
vices were conducted by Rev. Paul
Pressly. A friend will write a fuller
notice for the next issue.
BASE BALL STARTED UP
The war put hose ball out of busi
ness for a time, but now that the cruel
conflict is over, the boys are ready to
take up the ball and bat with renewed
vigor. Wadley and Midville played
a good and close game at Wadley Fri
day afternoon, and Wadley won by the
score of 3 to 2. There of get
ting up a club in Louisville, but many
of the good players are gone, and it
will be difficult to have a winning
club.
—Now is the time to use
top dressing.—R. L. BE
THEA.