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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.