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DETROIT
Quick, convenient, com
fortable transportation at
economical cost has made
the completely equipped
and newly improved Ford
Coupe the busiest car on
our thoroughfares today.
A saver of time and
money. Terms.
THOMASVILLE SALES CO.
Authorized Sales and Service
We want to Gin Your
Cotton and Buy Your
Cotton Seed.'
We have our Ginnery in
first-class condition and
want to Gin your Cotton.
Guarantee first class ser
vice and the price is as
cheapas any one.
MURPHY
J. H. Newton, of Midway.
cheap as any one.
GIVE US A TRIAL
CENimiHLAKD
mnuzQt co.
BOSTON, OA.
Old man Jlmbotjaw stutters, but
that don’t prerent hla laying "no"
nrht quick when you aik for an ax-
Buv a Zfxrr^d-
andSpend thedifference
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It lore Is blind. It gets worse with
old age.
The man with a hunch usually don’t
need much backbone.
The atrlke will reduce eome of the
miners’ Income tax returns.
The vacation daya are about over,
but we haven’t had our day off yet
The guy that ii a born fool always
lives to realize it
X on a greenoaca meant a lot more
than an unknown quantity.
Winter hits are being shown, and
winter coats are all the rage.
If Henry Ford la running for presi
dent, be ought to take a runabout
The bllla that the coal strike cost
will not be settled for some time to
'•’iS'flt’lwv.
’ There are a few gossips who can’t
get rid ot their habit but they will
learn.
- When he sings his own praise ho
hasn’t a very large chorua or congre
gation.
Tainted money la an abomlnaUon,
hut It Isn’t If you don’t know It la
tainted.
If they removed a lqt ot the dead
wood from your tows, what would
there be left?
The things we get for nothing are
perhaps enjoyed, but never properly
appreciated.
The German mark Is about as low
down aa the Germans were wben tbe
war closed.
Tbe man that Is aa bad as bis wife
knows him to be hasn't got much use
for himself.
The swan song of the atrlke would
be delightful mualc to the thousand*
of radio tana. m
The only difference between hug
ging and dancing Is that dancing Is a
lot more nicer.
The days are getting so ahort that
It makea you think somebody has
been on a strike.
The man that Is headed for the
nether reglont, doesn’t know It nearly
as well aa hla neighbors.
The men that are killed by over
work are a lot lesa than those that
rust out from idleness.
Tbe be*, men In tbe world are hen
pecked because they are too good to
take advantage of a lady.
Tbe shortage of tbe moaqulto crop,
now and then, would prevent a lot of
very undesirable dlaeaaea.
The man that Is looking out for him
self Is usually looking out for you, If
you are doing the same thing.
The bridegroom always lets the
present take care of itself and then
start! scratching for the future.
Irwin MacIntyre baa about the most
sensible resume of the Georgia Legis
lature that we have seen yet.
The man thut loses his nerve nearly
always discovers that It was Just at
the time when It would have been
most useful.
If some grown ups could aay as
many bright things as their children,
the stage would offer them forty mil
lion per day.
The boy with too much time on hla
bands, and too much money in hla
Pocket, can't bo blamad If bo Isn't
■worth a blame.
The legislature at its recent session
failed to provide for the use of the
government highway funds In build
ing roada In this state- Such a condi
tion Is deplorable but It is quits true.
The counties In Georgia wbicn have
voted bonds for road building on tbe
idea of using federal funds with which
to supplement it are going to regret
this action, because it meens a delay
of at least two years In tbe regular
building program.
An effort was made to get tbrouzb
legislation that would make tbli mim
ey available. A bond lasue was pio
posed but It was opposed by Tod
Hardwlek, Tom Watson. Clllf Wulker
and a goodly part of the legislature. It
had no chance of success even in the
legislature which Indicates that >t
would have had little chance before
the people. Vet no other means were
provided and no agreement satisfac
tory was brought out of the discussions
to make provision for an agency that
would meet the demands of the Feder
al government in tbe distribution ot
these road funds.
No county can proceed Independent
ly in their paving programs and re
ceive federal aid. In tbe absence of a
definite state organisation and pro
gram. The Idea of tbe bond Issues
was based on fe*deral aid. It doesn't
seem possible under the present ac
tion of the legislature.
SPEND AT HOME.
The man with the proper love of
home and Its development will do
everything in hla power to aid pro
gressive movements. There is one
thing that anybody can do, from the
tightest tlte-wad In tbe town to tbe
most liberal spender, without any In
convenience or regret. That Is spend
lng the dollar you have to spend at
home.
Nothing makes a town look, feel
seem more prosperous than the spend
ing of dollars aod nothing makes this
prosperity more profitable than to
spend those dollars at home so that
they can be respent nnd then again
spent to boost local business enter
prises and thereby the community at
large.
If the Iasi analysis of real business
success Is ever realized It will bo
when folks stand to their home tow
nnd spend their money at home, when
ever that Is possible to do In secar
lng their wants. Tbe dollar you ha-e
in your pocket will pay ten dollars'
worth of debtB in o week If It Is prop
erly bundled. It will never do a thing
In your pocket or In tbe pocket or till
of the big mail order house a thous
and miles away. • e i •
Thomasvllle doesn't have to beg you
for your business. It has fbuslnesa
house! here that are replete with
anything you want, they nre convent
ent, comfortable and well ventilated
tbsro were Ter* few case* In the elty
at the preeent time. Neither of them
were treating e case.
Both reported that there has been
e very radical change la this disease
during the past three years. Both at
tribute It to tbe campaign, watch was
put on against the mosqnlto under
government supervision aereral years
ago and which has been continued in
a fairly effective way since that time.
If malaria has been eradicated In
Thomasvllle the money was well
spent. Tbe government promised
that with complete co-operation In the
carrying out of rigorous inspection of
premises and keeping ditches open
and ponda drained In the limits of the
city malaria would be reduced
ninety per cent. We are constrained
to believe that this promise baa come
true, Judging by tbe reports of theae
physicians.
Nobody has yet been able to esti
mate the deadly results of malaria
it Is most Insidious In Its ravages
aud while It never seems to cause
death It has a way of affecting vari
ous functions of the body that prove
very disastrous to health or full-time
activity. This result la noticed In
many people in caaes where tbe af^er
effects of the disease were observed.
The actual time In which the dlseas
Is taking Its course la one of extreme
discomfort and torture.
Thomasvllle may well be said to be
malaria free at the present time. The
people's money spent for that firs
campaign was not wasted. Neither
has the small amount spent on It by
the city since than. In order to keep
this condition at Its present statua it
la well to consider means of continu
ing the malaria work. It can be ne
glected to the extent that Ml this
work will have been lost. It can be
continued so that malaria will soon
be one of the lost diseases of thi
section.
Individuals have a particular duly
to perform In this regard. Their pre
mlaes may be the breeding place o
thousands of the pesky mosquitot-
that carry the disease- When It gets
started It spreads through the mosqui
to to muny homes and many famine,.
No man In Thomaivllle would probn
bly inject the malaria germ into hla
neighbor's blood. Yet some of them
keep pots full of water, open well
that breed millions of mosquitoes and
other places where stagnant water
obounds. They aro encouraging ma
laris and in an Indirect way paving
the way for Its injection Into thalr
own blood, -the blood of their wives
nnd children and their neighbors an
friends. The best way to keep It away
Is to keep the mosquito eradicated
That means merely keeping free of
stagnant water, a very small thing Ii
Itself and one that anybody can
with hnlf an ounce of cere.
They have done even more. They
hare so thoroughly cohverted the boy.
•r that he will go to extra trouble and
extra expense to boy from them when
his naturM preference le to bny at
home.
The merchant's one method of fight
ing the mall order bualneae, le eeelly
aeen. He must take a page from these
firms' own book, and by consistent
and Intelligent' advertising prove to
his customers that the mall order
house does n6t give tbe better bar
gain.
He has no such handicap as' dis
tance imposes on the mall order deal
er. Neither does he have to overcome
naturM skepticism Jn the beginning
as does the mall order man. The
merchant’s customers are hla neigh
bors—men and women who know him
and who are Inclined to believe what
ever he may say.
The public needs educating to a
knowledge that they can buy at home
as cheaply, that they can actuMly see
what they are buying before they
pay for It, and that they do not have
to wait sometimes weeks for the de
livery of tbe article they want.
Wben the merchants get reedy to
talk plainly to the people they will
have nothing to fear from the null or
der man, but If they remain silent,
then the outsider will surely burrow
hts way Into their profits.
Self-satisfaction has spelled many
a bankruptcy.—Athens News.
TRIEO TO MAIL LETTER8'|N
VALD08TA STREET TRASH CANS
Valdosta, Oa.. Aug. 24.—Recently
a new variety of street corner trash
boxes were placed on the streets of
Valdoata- The boxes carry advertis
ing matter and are rather attractive
In appearance. However, they were
not In the streets twenty-four hours
before persona began to mistake them
for a new kind of mMl box and let
ters were found deposited In them.
Now that people have tried to mall
letters In fire alarm boxes and trash
cans It Is not known wbat other re
ceptacle will he seized upon through
mistake. * '
HEARST’8 PLAN8 GO AWRY.
HOW IT HAPPENS
The big mall order houses ot the
The clerks are agreeable and pleasant, COU ntry report that their business la
and the merchants are unusually llb ^, and that lt wlu toon be back
eral with their credit.. What size' , better-than-normal baais.
could you ask? All they ask is that. To meroh>ntti especially Id
If you are going to spend, to .pend It im „ Ier townli thu Kem , un betlev-
at home where they can use lt to able wben be remembers how far from
your advunlage and their awn. Isn’t norm#I ,, „„ own trade . slnce lhe
that a perfectly fair proposition?
COMING WINTER MAY BE HARD.
mail order houses have no possible
reason for misrepresenting the matter,
though, there Is nothing left for one
to do except to accept their . state
ments as bekig true.'
Nor It tbe reaaon as hard to find
as the average merchant might think.
For years, tbe mMl order houiea—
The coal strike seems to have bean
settled to a large extent. This of
course means that many of the mines
will be uctlvely operating In a very
few days- But lt also Is quite evident
that the production will not be nor- eipcetaUy n, Iarger one 0 , the conn-
try, have been among the country's
moat continent advertiser!. They
mal or above normal, due to the num
ber that are still refusing to abide by
the settlement plans.
have hammered on the Idea that they
It Is quite evident that no m stter can gsvo the buyer money. They have
how many o, the mines are started up pUced ln hu hueo catalogues
this week, there will be a shortage cf|tm el j with cuts of all manner of
coal this winter In many sections ot
the country. This will be particular
ly dlaagreealble and discomforting -t
the railroad strike la not quickly set
tled. It has been over four months
since the coal miners quit. The re
serve supply of coal has been exhaust
ed and the production could not keep
up with the demand.
The Industries have not materlaJy
suffered from the effect of lt yet, bu
the suffering will be entailed this win
ter ln tbe shortage and tbe high prto>
es that will result therefrom. We are
In for a very disagreeable winter un
less tbe rail strike It settled within
tbe week. If lt I* not we may aa well
face a period of deepest business de
presaloq and dangerous anarchy. '
thing* at eeemlngly very low prices.
They have pointed out that they buy
In such large quantities that they can
undersell any average merchant.
They have made the general run of
people believe this. If a merchant
doubts this, he has only to pell the
people who patronize hit (tore to learn
that this Ii true. He will find that
even those who never patronize a mall
order house fall to do k*—not because
they do not bnllovo they would get
better values tor their money, but be
came it lt too Inconvenient. As
whole, the publlo hat become thor
oughly convinced that the mall order
house gives more money. Hence their
popularity.
That these firms do NOT actuMly
give better bargain* than does (he
average merchant, makes the letter's
cate all the aaors striking, it
Ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, of
New York haa stated that he would
accept the Democratic nomination
for Governor of New York. Thla
statement was Issued only a ahort
time ago when the political situation
sAmed threatened with mediocrity on
the one hand and the domination of
William R. Hearst on the other.
Mr. Hearst has been paying his
writers to boost him for the Gover
norship of New York as a stepping
stone to the Presidency In the near
future. He had a definite campaign
for that purpose but even bis gigantic
newspaper enterprise failed to arouse
any enthusiuHtn tor him either as Gov
ernor of New York or President- It
Is hard to understand how he could
have hoped that It would.
The sentlmen* ln favor of Hearst Is
of the usual Tammany paid In ad
vance kind that Is working through
hcnchnten with power to control
certain number of votes. The freo and
untrammeled electorate of New York
would not tolerate him ln any posi
tion and the entry of A1 Smith Is a
very desirable addition for that ele
ment ln the Democratic party that
doesn't want Hearst hut feared that
he might get the nomination and
thereby force the party to desert Its
standards at any cost.
There are few politicians even In
Tammany that are as braxen aa Willie
Hearst. or why would go further to
foster their own ends than the news
paper misfit. He has an -xzgg?ratcl
ego that knows no equal even among
politicians of hla stamp. He started
the rumor that Smith would refuse
the 'nomination and even np to the
day that hn tentatively accepted It In
a public way. Hearat was making til
sorts -of political effort! through Ily
ina, mayor of New York CUv » l oth
ers. when, he seems to dominate to
keep Smith out of the race. He haa
failed again but it la not Impossible
for him to even Imagine that It la
worth while to spend a few hundred
thousand to get advertising as a can
didate tor the Presidency. He would
have about as much chance of selec
tion ln a National Democratic conven
tion aa W. J. Bryan did at the last
one, but not by reaaon of the tame
form of opposition-
the zing at Enon last Sunday.
The many friend* of little James
Berby Sharp will be glad to learn that
be I* improving after an operation.
Miss Velma Smithirltti, ot Pine
Grove, spent the week-end with her
coualn, Mtia Alyne Murphy.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Murphy were
■hopping ln Moultrie. Saturday.
Mr. Coy Dekle attended the sing at
Enon, last Sunday.
Mr.' Albert KendMl made a business
trip to Albany, Saturday.
Messrs. John Bradley and Coy
Dekle made a business trip to Moul
trie Saturday afternoon.
Mr. L. O. Baldwin, ot Coolldge, was
tbe dinner guest of Mr l E. Bradley,
Sunday.
Task Before America.
America, too, will have to strain Its
energies, crack Its sinews and all bat
break Its heart/as the rest uf us have
had to do, before It can become a habi
tation for the gods.—Thomas Carlyle,
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—75 acres of land, 26 acres
stamped; on 2 public roads 1ft miles
west of Coolldge, 2 mulea, 1 two-
horse wagon and farming tools. For
92,700. See or write, B H. PllUn
ton, Coolldge, On., Route* 1. 15-dt
GIN NOTICE—New gin at Coolldge
now ready for business. Bring us
your ootton, prompt and best ser
vice guaranteed. W. A. Jones, Cool
ldge, Oa. 6-lOtd-lm sw
PASTURE WANTED—Want to rent
good crab grass or beggar lice pas
ture at once. J. W. Stegall.
15-2td-3tsw
COWS WANTED—Will buy 50 head
of Jersey or Guernsey Springers to
freshen In Nov. and Deo. Nothing
but best wanted. J. W. Stegall.
15-Std-3taw
LOST — White nnd black spotted l"-
male hound; one ear hnlf off and
the other badly scarred. Write or
return to E. T. Carter, Boston, Ga
Ronte B. and get reward. 21-4UW
-f-
HOGS FOR SALE—See or write M. H.
Robinson, Metcalfe, Oa. 2Z-4t
COWS WANTED—Wanted, twenty-
five head fresh cows or heavy spring-
ers. Phone 458 or apply J.. F, Pitt
man, Thomaivllle. 21-3td-2sw
BIG 8UNDAY SCHOOL MEETING
IN CORDELE LAST SUNDAY
Cordele, Ga.. Aug. S3.—Cordole
church goers and male members of
the Sunday school blble classes made
the Sunday visit of the Albany,, the
'Vienna and the Perry delegations
from thi men's Bible Classes In those
communities tbs matter ot general
comment Monday, The large msn’a
class at the First Baptist ehnrch hare
took care of all thalr Sunday school
visitors in their homes and gav* tham
two meetings at ehurch which were
marked tor thetr impressiveness.
Among the visitors who left e mark*
ed Impression on the home folks was
lion. Joseph 8. Davis, of Albany, who
mad* one of tbe finest ot the layman
talks. Jn Ml there were about two
hundred visiting men’s class members
bare on Sunday.
pert few days and both stated thkt'public by their'eooslsUnt r.dvertletag.' Mr ^
FRESH VEGETABLES WANTED—
Bring us your fresh vegetables; we
want green peas, snap and lima
beans, tomatoes and other vegeta
ble!. Farmers Union Exchange.
32-2td-2sw
A Valise full of
Complete
Shaving Needs
FOR $1.5?
Gem Safety Razor. .JI-00
Ever-Ready Shave
Brush $L75
Lafltu Shave Cream .. .30
Metal Miniature.
Valise .. -Gratis
ALL FOR ...
JJ.
Square Deal Druggist.
104 E. Jackson St
PHONE 406.
The POOLISMMAN
waits until he hears it,thunder
Be wise and start a savings account today wjth
dollar or more and we will loan you one of these
BOOK COIN SAVINGS BANKS tp
help you save.
We Pay Interest on Savings' at—
Tbe Peoples Savings Bank
T. Jr BALL, Prest R. J. -McCLENNEY, Cash.
Why “Blanket” ice
Do you know what really happens when you cover
ice with newspapers or cloth?
If you did, you would never try it again — because
"blanketing” absolutely destroys the entire princi
ple of efficient refrigeration. It stops the constant
circulation of cold air throughout the refrigerator.
Without this constant air circulation, your refriger
ator is only partially efficient. Real savings are ef
fected by keeping the refrigerator filled and the ice
chamber free from food.
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