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VOL. XVI. Lula News Miss Bobbie Lemonds spent last week with her cousin, Miss Ger trude Martin of Athens. Mr. Robert Smelley visited rela tives and friends at Grove Creek Saturday night. Woodie, the little daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Yarbrough, had the misfortuue to break her arm by falling from a chair oue day last week, but we are glad in deed to say she is doing nicely. The Misses Boling of Cornelia, were admired guests of their cousin Miss Ora Boling here last week. Mr. E. F. Whitworth attended court at Clarksville last Wednes day. A marriage of much interest to their many friends was that of Miss Pauline Baugh to Mr. Claud Berry, which occured at the home of the bride’s uncle, Mr. B. C. Bryan, Sunday evening, March the first. The bride is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Baugh and was reared in Lula from childhood until about one month ago when she moved with her parents to Gloucester, Ga. The groom is one of the operators here. They are at home to their friends at Moun tain Ridge Hotel. The Ladies Bible Reading Class held their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. R. Martin last Wed nesday afternoon. Miss Nezzie Baugh of Gloucester, spent last week with relatives and friends here. Mrs. 1). Adams Avas called to the bedside of her brother, .Mr. Wylie Dorsey, who is seriously ill at his home in Madison county. Mr. Dorsey’s family lived in our little city and has many friends here who truly hope he will soon recover. At a meeting of the Council here last week Mr. Hudson Terrell was elected as police. He is a brave young lx>y and we are hoping that he will have everything getting quiet, as something of that kind is badly needed here. Mrs. I). W. Woodall spent last week with relatives and friends in Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Lewis of Atlanta, spent a few days here re eently with the latter’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Hals* Hulsey. Mr. Tallent of Atlanta, is spend ing a few days with his son, Mr. C. T. Tallent. Mr. and Mrs. G. Lord of near Lattys school house, visited rela tives here Sunday. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kylee has been right sick, but we are grad to know is much letter. Box Supper There will be a box sapper at Henderson school house Saturday night, March 21st, for the purpose of raising money for a Library. All are cordially invited to come. Mae Btkw4rt. Hart County Realty. Hartwell, Ga., March 9.—Spec ial.) Hart county dirt is golden. A part of the N. J. Brown farm in McCurry’s district was sold Tues day at public sale. Forty acres brought $2,200 and was sold for cash to J.N. Mayes,of Banks coun ty. Mr. Mayes is moving to Hart. Mr. Charles I. Kidd bought a Suburban tract ou the Bio road for over SIOO per acre, Hart county land is very much in demand, and is bringing the faciest prices that Hartwell and Hart county real estate have ever brought.—Atlanta Constitution. Daily Thought That load be coma* light which la ffeoarfully born*. —Odd- BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL i Homer Locals J. M. Murphy of Maysville, was in the city yesterday. Eleven of the militia districts in the county have purchased road machines. Mrs Ural Giiffin has been suf feriug with grip, but is now much improved. Prof. J. C. Bell spent Saturday and Sunday in Cornelia visiting relatives. Roger Meeks has purchased a motorcycle and rode over Sunday to see bis friends. Judge, J. N. and Vauuie Hill made a business trip to Atlanta last week. J. E. Vaughn attended Clarkes ville court and came back wtih a very fine black horse. L. J. Ragsdale spent a short time in Homer Friday. . Walter Reynolds, of Maysville, visited the city Monday and shook hands with the boys. John Mason is ill with pneu monia, but is not in a serious con dition at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hill of Lula, spent Tuesday with the former’s parents Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hill. An error occured in the Baldwin State Bank statement last week for which we are responsible. We re produce the statement this week corrected. Air. Henry Aliller’s announce ment for treasurer will be found elsewhere in the Journal. Henry is a good citizen aud is well known to the people of Banks. Uncle Jim Wilson spent a few hours in Homer one day last week. Jiin says that thirty years ago he joined the Good Templars and he still believes in the doe tonnes taught by that organization. 0 The Altanta Journal says in fiaming headlines that “The World’s Biggest Liar is Dead,” but I don’t believe a word of it for I saw him yesterday and he seem ed to be in the best of health. Read the new ad of Blackwell Bros., in the Journal to day. This is one of the most enterprising firms in this part of the state and you will always find what you want at their store. Their stock is complete and of the best quality. Read the fertilizer ad of W. It. Finch in to-day’s paper. Mr. Finch is an experienced fertilizer man —knows the good from the bad—and has bought the business of King & Cos., of Cornelia, and invites the public to cull on him. Mr. Cicero Chambers is road overseer in Horner. He started out with the “hands” Tuesday morning, and at night we heard some of the boys discussing their activities of the day, and all agreed that their limbs needed rest. Cicero is the proper man for this place and, if it was possible, the council should give him a life time job. He don’t say “go boys,” but “come boys,” and all men are easier led than driven. Kev. Hillyer Brooks came down on business last Wednesday. Mr Brooks is a big farmer, a Baptist preacher, a merchant, and chaplain of the Odd Fellow lodge. While here he told of visiting a very sick man and administering the usual domestic remedies, but the medi cine failed to have the desired re suits and he said the man called on him to pray for him as he thought his time had come. At this point of the conversation Mr. Brooks shook his sides with laughter, as much as to say “it’s too late to pray wnen the devil comes.” But the man tailed to die —had just taken a little to mucn “tea.” Demote 1 to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of Banks County. Homer, £ at ks County, Georgia, Thursday, March 12, 1914. Maysville Locals (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Mr. and Mrs, Allred Chandler, and Mrs. Tom Bryson, of Gaines ville, spent a tew hours with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lockhart Sunday afternoon. Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Sharp spent a few days the lirst of the week with relatives at Lexington. Miss Blanche Sims, who is teach ing at Apple Valley, ami Air. Ollie Sims, one of Atlanta’s most popu lar young engravers, spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. aud Alls. Ben Sims. Aliss Leila Medlock, of Norcross, returned last week to take charge of the millinery department at 'Mrs. J. T. Smith’s store. Rev. Mel’hail of Athens, filled his regular appointment at the Presbyterian church Sunday morn ing and evening. Aliss Lillie Smith has leturned from a two weeks visit to relatives in Atlanta. Aliss Ramelle Hiiddatli who has been in Athens the past tliiee months spent a day or so the lirst of the week with friends and home folks here. Mr. If. P. Camp who has been traveling in South Carolina for the past two weeks in the interest of the Chattanooga Wagon Cos., is at home for a few days. Air. J. A. Hill, one of Banks county’s few candidates for the office of Treasurer, was shaking hands with the voters here Alouday. Airs. Billie Wylie had as her guest on last Sunday, her sister, Miss Nannie Ragsdale, of Alt. Pleasant. Airs. L. A. Henderson and chil dren spent a ew days this week with relatives in Forsy th county. Mr. Littleton AI. Wilbanks, of Elza, Ga. who spent last week in our midst returned home Monday his sister, Miss Mittie Wilbanks going with him. Alter a shoit visit th re Aliss Wilbanks will go to Sanford, Fla., where she will make her future 1 nine with her sister Airs. Woods ( handler. Mrs. Ci aw I od Massey came up from Commeiee Monday to see her mother, Mrs. 11. T. Stephens, who Ijus been quite sirii at the home of her son, Air. J. E. Stephens, lor the past two weeks. A number of farmers from Banks county were here Monday and Tuesday and judging from Hie many big loads of guano lining hauled out they must be prepar ing to plant another big cotton crop. Air. U. C. Alexander of Homer, was among the passing throng Mon day. Mr. Alex, as he is generally called, has changed in personal appearance in the last 25 years than most anyone we know. The United Daughters of the Confederacy met at the hospitable home of Airs. Ben Wood on Fii day afternoon of last week, after the usual business hour, a pleasant social half hour was spent and the delicious refreshments served were [greatly enjoyed by the large num ber present. Mrs. Md Garrison was tin: charming hostess of the Social Club on last Thursday afternoon, her spacious new home was beauti fully decorated with ferns and jou quils. The refreshments served were beautiful and delicious, the celery served with the salad course was prepare ! by Mr. Bruce Han ders, and highly complimented by the guests. The prizes were won by Mis. If. W. Headers, Mrs. Robt. Cair and Miss Medlock. SHINGttsToR SALE 75,000 first class .Shingles for sale —saps and hearts —Call on or address W. S. Chambers, Homer, R- 1- Boy Under 21 Should Not Work Public Roads The boy s under twenty-one years of age, who live where the alterna tive road law is in force,are exempt from road duty. But the ones who live in incorporated towns and in counties where they do not have 'he alternative road law are forced to work the public roads after they reach the age of six-teen years. If it is right that people should be exempt irom road duly until they are twenty one, and we believe it is, then all the people of the state should bo treated alike. 1 have never met a man who be lieved that a six teen year old boy should work the public roads, and I am satisfied that a large majority of the people of the state are op posed to the system, but the law remains on the statute books. We respectfully call the atten tion of our representative to this sy stem, and if he will introduce a bill in the next general assembly exempting al 1 persons in this state from road duty until they are i wenty-one years of age, I believe it would receive almost a unani mous vote. To see a little sickly, hookworm affected boy shoveling dirt on the street with a shovel twice as long as himself while his neighbor boy across the branch, who happens to live under the protection of the al ternative road law, is exempt, does not look like “equal rights to all and special privileges for none,’'to us. Remember, too, that when the grand jury repeals the alternative road law in this county, it it ever does, your six teen year old hoy will again go to work on the roads. When the alternative road law is in force the authorities are al lowed to levy four mills for main tenance of convicts on the public roads. Now, should the grand jury abolish the system, then nec 'essarily the convicts would have to be turned over to other counties, and your boys put back to work the roads in Banks. ■mm*- What the Convicts are Doing in Banks The convicts are now at work Ini tiding piers and butments for a bridge across the Quillian mill creek that will be twenty-two feet high, this will necessarily lower the grade on each side of the creek and make a good road where one has been needed ever since Banks was a county. If the alternative road law is allowed to stand as it D, butments will be built and good bridges erected across many streams in the county and much good road work done where it is badly needed, but on the other hand if the al ternative ioad law is repealed by the grand jury, the work stops, for it is necessary to have the four mills allowed by the alternative road law in order to support the camp. It is a plain proposition: When you abolish the alternative’ road law in the county you abolish road working by the convicts at the same time. Mallory Scoggins Loses a Hand. While ginning cotton at Hol lingsworth last Friday afternoon Mallory Hcoggins attempted to clean out some part of the gin when his left hand was caught by the saws and so terribly mangled that it had to be amputated between the wrist and elbow. His arm above the elbow was also broken. He is resting as well as could be expecten and if no complications set in he will soon recover. Mal lory has many friends thru-out the state who will regret to learn of his misfortune. The Hookworm And The Grand Jury The Hart, Franklin and Aradison county grand juries have each rec ommended the appropriation of #IOO.OO for the purpose of assisting the Rockefeller Commissioners in eradicating the Hookworm in their respective counties. Theexamina lion has already been made in Franklin and out of 1588 children 855 were infected with hookworm and are now being treated. When the eradication ol cattle ticks was first attempted in this county many people were skeptical as to the existance of such a tick, and opposed to the expenditure of any money for the purpose of free ing the county of a pest that they believed harmless, if it existed at all. Now all are convinced that the ticks exist, that they arc a menace to the health of the cattle, and glad that the county is free and the quarantine about to be raised. Some people will, no doubt, ob ject to the county spending even a small amount of money to eradi cate the Hookworm, because they will doubt the existance of the worms or that they cause a diseased condition of the human body. But scientists say they do exist, cause disease, and that it is easily cured. Ifockefeller has donate 1 #1,000,000 to help eradicate these worms and thereby help suffering humanity. Now is Banks eounty’s time to get her share of that money, and Dr. 0. 11. Verner will be here Monday of court to lay the plan before the grand jury and explain how many children in the county can be great ly benefitted by a small outlay of money. I believe we should be as kind to our children as we have been to the cattle and invest the small amount of #IOO.OO for their benefit. If only one child of the most humble parents in the county can be saved by the treatment, the money will be well spent. Apple Convention at Cornelia. Mayor .1. I>. G. Logan received a request from the Georgia Chamber of Commerce to appoint five citizens to attend a State wide Apple Con vention at Cornelia March 28. The apple industry is destined to be come one of the leading industries Of the state, and the enterprising citizens ol' Cornelia are very much interested in a bill recently intro duced in congress for an appropri ation of *IOO,OOO to aid the devel opment of apple growing in the Appalachian territory. Col. A. .1. Grifliu, .1. N. Mill, C. W. Gillespie, J. J. Turk and A. J. Hilton have been appointed to at tend this meeting, which will no doubt start a movement that will be of great benefit to the whole of north Georgia. Cliff WalKer Ente rs Race to Succeed Felder Hon. Clifford M. Walker of Monroe, former Solictor General of the Western circnit, has annonuc ed his candidacy for the office of Attorney General of Georgia to succeed Hon. Thomas M. Felder who is in the race for the IT. S. Senate for the unexpired term Mr. Walker is a widely known laivyer, prominent in state politi cal affairs and has hundreds of warm friends throughout the state who will support him in his effort to land the office to which he as pires.—Commerce Observer. Realty the Whole Thing. All one woman cares in her crit icism of another is that she looks well. —Manchester Union. I Sarahlene Furr Receives Present There is oue young lady in Banks County, who this week, was the recipicent of a munificent gift; and unlike most gifts to young ladies nowadays, this is one that will be come, more appreciated, more valued and more valuable to her as the years go by; in fact, by the timeslie is able to fully appreciate it, it should represent #I,OOO of increased valued for every year of her age. The young lady we refer to is Aliss Sarahlene Furr, the eighteen month old daughter of Air. Hem \ Furr, of Homer. The gift is a piece of real estate in Atlanta, located in Brook haven Heights, opposite the Capital City Country Club (the wealthiest club in the South ) and adjoining the new two million dollars Oglethorpe Uuivertsiity site. The donor of the gift is Mr. I*. F. M. Fiut, of Maysville, who with the foresight and wise judgement he has exercised in his affairs which have made him one of our most successful citizens, decided upon this gift for several reasons, the least of which is that it is valuable now; but with the natur al growth of Atlanta, and the en hancement of its real estate in the next ten or fifteen years as it has increased in the past ten years, this little lady will be possessed of a piece ol real estate when she be comes of age worth easily #20,000.00, or a $1,000.00 for every year she has waited. Worth wait ing for, isn’t it? From Comptroller General Comptroller-Generals’ Office State of Georgia Atlanta, Ga., March 4, IJ* 1 I Mr. L .1. Ragsdale, Homer, Ga. Dear Sir:— It gives me pleasure to state that during your incumbency of the office of tax collector of your coun ty, from 1893 to the records of this office show that you rveie diligent and prompt in the dis charge of the duties imposed upon tax collectors by law,and that your settlements were prompt and <n tirely satisfactory. Yours very truly, Wat. A. Wuuijit <Comptroller General. The Poor Preacher The preacher has hard time If his hair is gray, he is too old. If he is a young man, he hasn,t had experience. If he has eight or ten childred, he has too many. If he has none he should have and isn,t setting agood example. If his Avil'e sings in the choir, she is presum ing. If she doesn’t she isn’t in terested in her h usband’s work. If a preocher reads from notes he is a bore. If he speaks extemporane ously he isn’t deep enough. If he stays at home in his study, he doesn’t mix enough with the people. It he is seen around the streets, he ought to be at home getting up a good sermon. If he calls on some very poor family he is playing to the grand stand. It he calls at the home of the rich, he is an aristocrat. Whatever he does, someone could have told him how to do better—Exchange. Strenjth of a Nation. The foundations of a strong and vir ile race are laid in the rural districts, and. if agriculture be allowed to de cay, no development of industries In the heart of the town will atone for the loss to the nation of that greatest of all Industries which makes wealth while it creates manhood. —Percy Al den. NO. 49