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W” "HEN HE comes marching
home again, will you be able
to look him in the eye and
say, “Old man, I’ve backed
you to the very limit?”
Suppose he asks you how much of vour
money you have loaned to the Government?
Will you be able to “produce” if he asks to
count your WAR SAVINGS STAMPS?
Either you are doing ALL in your power
to win, or you are NOT!
BE F.LADY TO MAKE YOUR PLEDGE
NATIONAL WAR IIT M C O O
SAVINGS DAY JUINL Z.O
Stanton & Company
If you are due the Progress any
money—please pay us promptly, as
“we need the rnone, honest, we do.
We can sell you a set of harness
worth the money.
Stanton & Company.
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Have you seen the bargains in
Porch Rockers at Fort & Thompsons’?
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Baby Percy Medicine
"Teething" is an anxions time for mothers and a time of sore trial to babies. Their
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tant that their general health should be most carefully guarded at this time.
BABY PERCY Medicine keeps babies free from Indigestion. Sour Stomach,
Colic Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, etc. It's an old doctor’s prescription; entirely
harmiess- in successful use for many years. Get a bottle at your drug store. Or
send 50c to the MERRICK MEDICINE CO.. Waco, Tex., sole manufacturers of
Baby Percy Medicine, and a bottle will be promptly sent, postpaid.
FREE BOOKLET: "Helpful Hints for Mothers
sent on receipt of postal card request.
MISS MINNIE JORDAN
JUNE SALE
ON MILLINERY
«
Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats at
HALF PRICE
All Q3I IHIHXNO3 33V.1S SIHI
For Sale—Good second hand buggy
and set of harness cheap. Stanton
& Company. ad.
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COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS
BOY SCOUT FIELD
DAY JULY 4TH
July 4th, will bo cur field day in
Douglas for the Boy Scouts of Broxton
and Douglas. Broxton made a pull
for this meet, but our Scout Master
and his assistants put up such a plea
for the day to be sent to Douglas that
they agreed on having the contest
here. Rev. Bugg, the Scout. Master,
of Broxton, said: “Why not have it
in Broxton, the people will appreciate
it more”. Well good for the reflect
ion on Douglas, because it is few peo
ple of Douglas do not appreciate
things that are beneficial and uplift
ing enough to attend such things
which takes good attendance to en
courage that which is uplifting instead
of things that are degrading our boys
and girls.
Now then, let Douglas people and
especially parents of Boy Scouts re
deem themselves by attending this one
meeting that encourages our boys so
much in things that will help them
physically mentally and morally.
In order to enlighten some of us
that cannot see progress or seem to
care not to see anything but degrad
ing excitement we will outline a few
things that a boy Scout is expected
to do—but which he will not have
the courage to do unless we stand
behind him and encourage him.
The Scout Oath embodies a great deal
and when impressed on the mind of
the boy, helps him at all times to
honor trust and obey. It first reminds
him of his God whom he is instructed
to love and trust in using his name
only in that reverential way. It
teaches him his country and
there is not a Boy Scout in our troup
that would not be willing to serve his
country in any way that he could. In
fact we sold SIO,OOO worth of Liberty
Loan Bonds in the last drive.
It fui-ther teaches hiim obedience
to his parents, his Scout Master and
his assistants. -There is not a time
that I have noticed that a boy has
failed to do what he has been asked to
do by one of the Scout Masters. I
must say right here that this is un
usual for a boy and I think this shows
a linking of cooperation between the
parents and the Scout Masters.
It further teaches the boys to help
others at all times—here we have the
important lesson of charity. It teach
es the boy to keep himself physically
strong, mentally awake, and morally
straight. I must say here that we
need a little help from the parents
in asking our boys to be a little more
morally straight. Some few of our
boys are lacking a little in home train
ing. The Scout Masters are not sup
posed to reform any boy and if one
gets in by false promises then we
reserve the right to expel him from
craft—this we do not want to do. We
don’t w’ant the public to know that
there is a boy in Douglas hat is not
moral enough to belong to the
Scouts. But we cannot tolerate smok
ing, cursing and other things that one
or two of our boys have been doing, j
| Talk it over with your boy he might
| be the one.
Thanks to some of the mothers that
have told us that they know their boys
I are in good hands when with us —We
do not promise to censor a boy any
more than within our rights and we
| promise to always advise them for
what is clean and wholesome.
We are issuing this announcement
a little earlv so as you can make ar
%
rangements for being with us on that
daywhich is not for our benefit, but for
our boys’ delight and joy. Thanks to
Mrs. Ashley for permission to use her
land for a play-ground, which we have
followed her instructions “to dig all
we want to, but don’t cut down the
trees”. The Scouts are now preparing
the grounds for the day, and have done
some manly work in digging trenches
building a fort, fortified with a high
embankment.
The following is our program for
the day—Remember, everybody come
out. All of Broxton are coming.
Boy Scouts No. 2
Thursday July 4th, 2 p. m.
Opposite Cotton Compress, Douglas
2 p. m. Parade from Court House to
grounds by the Douglas and Broxton
Scouts.
2:3o—First aid demonstration by the
Douglas Scouts assisted by the Brox
ton Scouts .
8 p.m . —Capturing the Flag—Brox
ton Scouts vs Douglas Scouts.
3:4s—Hand wrestling—Two Douglas
Scouts and two Broxton Scouts.
1 p. m.—Crab i-ace—All Scouts Brox
ton vs Douglas.
4: 15 —Antelope race Broxton vs
Douglas Scouts.
4:3o—Relay race, Douglas vs Broxton
Scouts.
3 p. m. —The beseiged fort.
5 p. m. —Address by Rev. T. S. Hu
bert.
6:3o—Adjourn.
F. C. WILSON,
Assistant Scout Master.
CARD OF THANKS
Please allow us space to thank all
of our relatives and friends for their
many acts of kindness and sympathy
during the illness and death of our
darling baby and little brother, J. D
Their kindness will, always be re
membered, and may God bless them
every One. ,
- Mr. and Mrs. Riley O’Steen
and Child.
Just a few more buggies left—
See us before it is too late.—Stanton
6 Company.
OOODELI NEWS
Dear Editor:
I have failed to get in the news
from our little village for sometime,
but I will let you hear again.
We are having plenty of rain in this
section now.
Mr. Fairum, who has been in for
three weeks with a broken thigh, is
setting up some now. Hope he will
soon be out again.
Mr. Boothe, who has been confined
to his room for sometime with ty
phoid fever, died Saturday p. m., was
was buried at Camp Branch church
p. m. He leaves a wife and three
small children.
Some of the boys are expecting to
leave for the training camp in a few
days.
Mr. B .L. Davis, of Axson, was
in town Sunday.
The farmers around Axson had a
lot of fine wheat threshed here last
week. Mr. A. K. Sessoms has a fine
machine and it does the work.
Uncle John Griffis, one of Clinch
county’s oldest and best citizens died
in Milledgeville Saturday p. m. and
was hurried at Camp Branch church
Monday. His mind was bad and was
carried there for treatment, but he
grew worse until the end.
Mr. Jacob Sweat is out in New
Mexico on business.
RED CROSS ELECT OFFICERS
The yearly meeting of the Coffee
| county Red Cross Chapter was held at
the court house Wednesday after
noon, at which time the election of of
ficers was held. All the officers of
last year being retained. They are
is follows:
Dr. H. C. Whelchel, Chairman, Mrs.
.J. L. Shelton, Vice-Chairman, Mrs. A.
S. M. Coleman, Secretary, Mr. J. L.
Shelton, Treasurer.
Mrs. J. M. Ashley, Chairman Execu
ve Committee.
The Executive Committee are:
Mrs. J. M. Ashley, Mrs. Lawson Kel
ley, Mrs. Turner Brewer, Mrs. T. H.
Clark.
Mrs. H. C. Whelchel, Mrs. T. S.
Price, Mrs. J. W. Quincey, Mrs. \\. W
McDonald, Mrs. G. M. Stanton.
FOR SALE
Grist Mill, 20 H. P. Gasoline Engine,
Bottling Works, and two lots of land
50 X 90 feet. Grist Mill in operation
and in good shape. Buyer wanted for
personal reasons and will sell at bar
gain. Terms one-half cash, balance
to suit buyers convenience.
See or write, R. X. STALNAKER,
(adv) Broxton, Ga.
Wesley's Reteruve Memory.
Samuel Wesley reproduced from
memory after a lapse of 25 years nc
oratorio covering upward of 300 close
ly written pages which he lmd com
posed early In life. He said that he
saw the score In his “mind’s eye" •»
' accurately as it It lay before him.
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Prepared b.\ Feut-rai * ih>j Administration lor Georgia
DOES THIS FIT YOU?
(Herbert Hoover.)
“I do not believe that extortionate profits are necessary to secure the
maximum effort on the part of the American people in this war. If we
are going to adopt that theory, we have admitted everything that has
been charged against us of being the most materialistic, the most ava
ricious, and the most venal of people in this world.”
Save Wheat Or Face Disaster
Herbert C. Hoover, United States
Food Administrator, says:
“Every aspect of the wheat situa
tion, both present and prospective, in
tensities the need for the greatest pos
sible limitation in the American con
sumption of wheat and wheat prod
ucts. If present restrictions should be
in the slightest degree relaxed, it
would result in serious want for the
people of the allied nations before the
new crop can reach the market.
“The food administration estimates
on the first of June a total available
supply until the new harvest of about
fifty-six million bushels. Of this, thir
ty million bushels must he exported
before new wheat is available for ex
port. If we are to maintain the ab
solutely necessary shipments to our
army and the Allies, that leaves about
twenty-six million bushels for domes
tic consumption for the next two
months. Normal American consump
tion is something over forty million
bushels a month, so that the most lib
eral consumption at home should be
only one-third of normal.
“The new harvest will not be gener
ally available in flour until the middle
of August or early in September, al
though in the extreme south it will be
somewhat earlier.”
Large Food Reserves Advised
Federal Food Administrators in con
ference at Washington recently urged
that a food reserve be stored up,
should the coming harvest he ample.
The sentiment was overwhelmingly in
favor of this policy as a precautionary
measure. The British Ministry of
Food recently suggested a like plan
for Great Britain. A food reservoir
would be a stabilizer, to keep markets
steady and assure an even supply, re
gardless of submarine successes.
Sugar Troubles
Manufacturers and .soft drink mak
ers and dealers can purchase sugar
only by procuring certificates from
the food administrator. Those who
have tried to side-step or have over
looked this order are suffering. In the
past week nearly a hundred fountain
men were subjected to fines, ranging
“rom $25 to S2OO.
■wrooaw
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Prepared by Federal Food Administration for Georgia
RESULTS
FIRST YEAR OF
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
, (Preliminary work began May 19, 1917.
Food Control Act passed August 10, 1917 )
WHEAT EXPORTS (since July 1):
Estimated surplus for export 20,000,000 bushels.
Actual shipments to June, 120,000,000 bushels
BEEP EXPORTS:
Ordinary rate one to two million pounds monthly.
Largest single month this year, 87,000,000 pounds.
PORK EXPORTS:
Ordinary rate, 50,000,000 pounds monthly.
Largest month this year 308,000,000 pounds.
PRICE OF FLOUR (Minneapolis):
One year ago, $16.75 a barrel wholesale.
Present price, $9.80 per barrel.
PRICE MARGIN (between farmer's wheat and flour made from it):
One year ago the difference was $5.68.
Present date the difference is 61 cents.
IN GENERAL: To the farmer going to market, 27 per cent more than
last summer; to the housewife buying in market, 13 per cent less
than last summer.
AND TH E ALLIES HAVE BEEN S U S T A I N E I)
SATISFY YOUR
HUNGER WITH POTATOES
They Will Help Save the Wheat
By eating potatoes instead of wheat,
the people of Georgia can better help
win the war.
The situation, in brief, is this. We
have not enough wheat for our Allies
and ourselves. We have an abundance
of potatoes, an excess of 90,000,000
bushels over normal times. If we are
to win this war the Allies must have
wheat. The potatp cannot quite come
up to wheat in food value, but it does
come about as close to taking the
place of wheat as any other food
Therefore, by eating potatoes we can
save wheat for the Allies.
Americans should rally to the sup
port of the potato, for, like corn, it is a
native of this continent and is as thor
oughly American as the American In
dian. When it is realized that the
potato is one of the chief foods now
sustaining Germany and that the oth
er European countries are largely de
pendent upon it, its importance in the
war may readily be seen. Yet the po
tato was not known abroad until the
end of the sixteenth century when
both the English and Spanish intro
duced it from their American colonies.
New Mill Feed Margins
A new schedule of maximum prices
which mills may charge for wheat by
products has been announced by the
ice Restrictions
To Savo Peaches
Refrigerating the peach crop, which
is a big one, and meeting a 50 per cent
larger demand for ice than last year,
with no new or enlarged ice plants,
is a problem.
Dr. A. M. Soule, federal food admin
istrator, lias solved the problem by
an order which prohibits the use of
cracked, crushed or shaved ice in any
soda fountain drinks, soft drinks or in
individual glasses in service of table
water at hotels, clubs or public eat
ing places.
Food control in North America to
day means chiefly getting the food
across the Atlantic at all costs.
Support Growing Strong
Various organizations throughout the
country have recently transmitted
pledges to the United States Food Ad
ministration, indicating tiieir intention
to support its policies. The Northwest
Tractor Trade Association, meeting
May 27 in pledged itself
& vU U Cf-a fe-’jp m y?e war
by supplying implements and machin
ery to increase crop production.
The Retail Merchants’ Association
of South Dakota has pledged unre
stricted co-operation with the Food
Administration; the Marian Club, Me
nominee, Mich., sends the same mes
sage: and others on the list of sup
porters are the National Livestock Ex
change, Chicago; the Evangelical Lu
theran Church of Peace, South Ha
ven, Mich.; Grand River Masonic
Lodge of Macksburg, la.; Masonic
Lodge No. 366, Atlanta, La.; and the
Illinois Grain Dealers’ Association.
The Presbyterian Sunday School of
Holt, Mich.; the citizens of Josephine
County, Oregon, and the Ferndale
Washington, Methodist Ladies’ Socis'y
have all promised to use no wheat un
til the next harvest. The last has
given up lunches at its meetings, so
far as foods to be conserved are con
cerned, will exercise rigid economy in
all use of food and is using all avail
able substitutes for foods needed
abroad.
U. S. Food Administration. The mar
gins show a general reduction down
ward compared with those previously
in force.
The maximum bulk price of bran per
ton bears the same relation to the
price of wheat as formerly—3B per
cent of the average cost to the mill
of a ton of wheat. The price of flour
middlings which before was $9.00 per
ton over bran prices has been reduc
ed to a $3.00 differential. Red dog has
also been reduced to a maximum of
$2.00 per ton over the price of bran,
whereas the former difference was sls.
Mixed wheat feed prices, according
to the new schedule must not be more
than $1.25 per ton over the price of
bran. The former difference was $4.00
per ton. These new v price margins are
the outcome of an investigation into
present methods of milling. With the
larger percentage of flour now be
ing milled from wheat, the quantity
of flour middlings and red dog is con
siderably less and these products have
been placed in the same by-product
group as shorts, standard middlings,
gray shorts and gray middlings. The
bulk price of all these feeds must not
exceed bran prices by more than $2.00
per ton.
Although these new price margins
are already in force, the Food Admin
istration emphasizes that they are for
bulk carloads at the mill. Persons
buying in small quantities at retail
should consider freight, dealer’s profit
and cost of sacks. The last item alone
is at present between $5 and $6 peg*
ton. Both Jobbing and retail profit*
have been limited, howevar, to a mod*
•rate Axed maximum
