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CLAYTON TRIBUNE
THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPEIETO HOME PEOPLE.
VOLUME XXVII.
CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA,
Mr. George Ledford, of Betty’y
Creek section, was in the cicy on
last Saturday and paid his dues
to this paper. Mr. Ledford has
leased to a Mr. MeJunkin a tract
of land for the purpose of grow
ing lettuce. We expect to keep
in eye on this new industry and
hope for the success of Mr.
MeJunkin he is expecting. We
:«re told that it requires a very
• Ool Soil to successfully grow
THURSDAY AUGUST, 4, 1921.
NUMBER 29.
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This office is obligated to
A. M. Smith, of Tiger, for his
renewal to this paper.
Mr. and Mrs. Lum Ledford
were here Monday trading with
our merchants.
C. V. LeCraw and'" family, of
Atlanta are at their summer
home near Claytoq.
Miss Mary Lee Kimsey, 0,1
Atlanta, is visiting relatives ii
Clayton this week.
JasperS. Bleckfciy, of Warwo
man, attended Ordinary’s court
[here Monday.
Eugene Smith, of Atlanta, is
isiting his mother here, Mrs.
ierena Smith.
coming:
Dr. J. P. Parks, Eye Sight Specialist
From Atlanta will be at Keener’s Store,Clayton,
Ga., Saturday and Monday, Aug. 6th and 8th.
Eyes examined and glasses correctly fitted at very
reasonable prices. Regular visits here.
If you are troubled with Inflamed Eyes, Poor Vision,
unable to read,sew, or thread your needle without strain,
see this Specialist and get his advice free of charge.
Remember the dates and place—Saturday and Mon-
^tore.
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Miss Annie McCrackin, of
brnelia, is spending the week
ith relatives in (JJlsyton,
Mrs. Mary Btinespring and
Udren, of Cornelia 'are in Clay-
>n this week.
J. W. Derrick is tBecontractor
foreman of the Dozior pack-
g house building.
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Miss Sallie Mae Scruggs, of
abun Gap, is visiting Miss
•ctavia Hall, this week.
Miss Marie Collingsworth, of
lernide, Bucholz
Mrs. 0. H. Florence, of La-
range, Ga., is visiting her
bister, Mrs. J. C. Dover.
|W. P. Dickson is growing toma-
:oes weighing one pound and
en ounces.
Eliga Littleton, of Rabun Gap,
lade this office a short call last
Saturday ( and gave us a renewal.
Mrs. J. A. Swafford is with
>er sisters, Misses Lizzie and
liza Duncan and brother, II. E.
luncan.
CEMENT
The Rabun Gap Industrial School will begin its fourteenth year
on Monday the first day of August next The place is a farm
and school where worthy boys and girls work their way and receive
a three-fold education in books, industry, and personal conduct.
No fees are paid in money for.board and tuition. The place is in
operation the whole year round, with the exception of short vaca
tions at Christmas and at mid-summer. There are ten school months
devoted about equally to books and work, and ten weeks devoted
entirely to work. Applicants for admission must be of good health,
good character, apt to learn, willing to work, and not under twelve
years of age. For form of application address %'
A. J. Ritchie, Pres., Rabun Clip, Ga.
The Roads We Pay For
There is nothing intangible
about the results that Will, come
7 ;„ x iav rebuua inai Si": come hshment carried stx full pages in
is, -WR- «pP**** a ‘ -Miss
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Smith
.rrived in Clayton last Saturday
|vening and will be here for
veral days.
Miss Blanche Hamby is at
une from Milledgeville where
e has been taking a summer
urse at G. N. I. C.
this edible and during the grow
ing there must be a wav to irri
gate or it is a failure. Mr.
MeJunkin has selected a place
where the soil is adapted and
ririgation is made easy.
It should help a lot if one could
raise vegetables like those shown
in the seed catalogues.
Skirts, like high prices,
down more slowly than
went up.
come
they
M. Wall, of Wiley, was a
[itor in Clayton on last Tues-
and renewed his subscription
lis home paper. Thanks.
r. and Mrs. Bridges Smith
irned to their home in Macon
'day after an outing of a
|k or two. They were guests
le Bleckley.
'his county has the best corn
in her history. The vege-
fle, onions, tomatoes, beans
other things are a 100 per
it crop.
!ome of the Ford cars here
look like a pile of tin cans and
rattle worse than a kettle drum,
bleat like a dying calf, bpt they
spit fire and raise the dust and
GO. ,
The Doziers Orchards Com
pany is building a packing house
on their. lot near the Cannon
siding. 'This company has the
heaviest crop of apples in this
section, in fact they have about
all the commercial fruit in the
county.
greatest assets—the roads—
from the morass of politics and
the dismal swamp of local graft
and inefficiency.
Mortor transport has become a
big factor in our lives. Cheaper
and quicker distribution of food
and other goods means lower
prices. We have spent billions
of dollars for roads, and have
received only a pitiful fraction of
the strong, wide, honest high
ways that we need. We are pay
ing big taxes for highway devel
opment, and not getting proper
return for our money. President
Harding put itthisvvay: “I know
of nothing * more shocking than
the millions of public funds,
wasted in improved highways;
wasted because there is no policy]
of maintenance.” j
There are signs that a vast im- ;
provement in our national con -1!
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Wise Advertisers
One Atlanta merchantile estab
lishment carried stx full pages in
the Atlanta papers. That cost
about $1200. Some business men
we know sav that was a waste
of money; but that firm has been
buying printers ink long enough
to know that it pays.
The man who does not adver
tise may just as well close up
his store.—Gainesville Eagle.
Miss Jewel Molton. a lovely
brunette of Macon and Miss
Mildred Smith, a beautiful blonde
of Atlanta: are two of the most
charming and attractive young
ladies visiting Clayton this sum
mer. These jourig la.lies are
loud in their praises of our little
city, and we welcome them into
our midst.
On the morning of August the
first Rev. L. T. Weldon dropped
atructior. and unkeep of roads is I i " to l our office ' He was L e,ate( *
at hand. Instead of being a hap- at th ® ^at meetings he had
hazzard affair for local bodies to ^ c " nt ' y " l0S ^ d at „ D, ' lar l d and at
dicker over, as in the past, it is , ? d °. rk ‘ AtDillard there were
high time for our roads to be j tl »rty nine additions, thirty one
placed in the . hands of a well
selected group of experts, who
will have no other interests to
serve than the creating of an
enormous network of hard, well-
built, durable highways,
Let us see to it that the hun
dred million dollars of Federal
money appropriated this year,
and the even greater amount of
Stats, county, city, and village!
money dug up for the con-;
struction and maintenance ot!
of them by experience and bap
tism. At Wolf Fork there were
several additions but not so many
as at Dillard. Bro. Weldon
is at Mountain City this
week in a meeting with Bro.
Ammons, of Cornelia doing the
preaching. Bro, Weldon requets
through the paper that the
deacons of Clayton Baptist
church have the elements pre
pared for the observance of The
Lord’s Supper next Sunday.
roads by hard-pressed taxpayers,! ’ ,
is spent for-roads. I Mrs. Jerome Jones, of At-
—Colliers Weekly. 'lanta, is a guest of the Bleckley
! House.
Mr. R. G. Denard, of Atlanta, j Miss Vera Powell is spending
is numbered with the guests at;the week with her sister, Mrs.
V. A. Green.
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the Clayton Hotel.
Miss Mattie Donaldson, of At
lanta, is visiting friends
and relatives in Clayton
Mountain City.
A brilliant event of the week,
and was the dance given at Uie
and j Bleckley House by “Uncle Doe”
I Tuesday evening. -
