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is the emblem worn by the 1st and
2nd class BOY SCOUTS.
If you are going to be a Boy Scout
and take “hikes” through the moun¬
tains—one of the very first require¬
ments is that you earn a dollar and
open a
SAVINGS ACCOUNT
We are prepared to take good care
cf your savings—we want to be head
quarters: for the Boy Scouts.
SAVINGS BANK OF GRIFFIN, T
GRIFFIN, GA.
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MERCHANTS & PLANTERS BANK
Griffin, Ga.
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Prompt and persona! attention to all customers
Accounts solicited
R. F. STRICKLAND, President J. C. BROOKS, V. P. and Cashier
J. S. TYUS, V. P. O. S. TYUS, Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS
N. B. DREWRY JAS. M. BRAWNER
W. J. KINCAID R. F. STRICKLAND
J. C. BROOKS J. S. TYUS
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HASKELL H. BASS ALLAN LITTLE
FORD CARS
If you want a new Ford this Spring, come in and let us place your or¬
der NOW. There are so many unfilled orders for Ford Cars and the demand
is so great that it will probably be se veral months before we are able to
make deliveries except on orders plac ed in advance.
WILL TRADE FOR Y OUR LIBERTY BONDS---
A full line of Ford Parts and As cessories. We have a competent force
of mechanics and are adding more equipment to our shop which is one of
the best Equipped in the State.
Bring your Ford work to us. - .
B. B. BROWN COMPANY
109 E. Solomon Street Phone 732
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American Prisoner Is Disfigured
in Almost Unbelievable
Manner.
6HASTLY DESIGN ON HEAD
Former Circus Performer, Horribly
Mutilated, Is Forced to Do Work
of Oxen for Turkish Master—
Made Harem Guard.
London.—Many have been the tales,
exaggerated or without foundation,
which have passed from month to
month, and even found their way Into
print, of prisoners of war who have
been sent home with faces disfigured
by brands of the German eagle, snakes
and other horrible objects. Many of
these stories could not be traced by
the authorities and were attributed to
heated imaginations. A correspondent
of Lloyd’s Weekly, however, has dis¬
covered a very bad case of Hun sav¬
agery, which sufficiently testifies to
this method of mutilation by branding
or tattooing, being no exaggeration.
“The man’s name is Houghton and
he lives In a miserable slum near Wa¬
terloo, hating to go out In daylight
On his forehead was a disfigurement,”
says the writer, “that seems almost
unbelievable In these days of so-call¬
ed civilization.
“The man’s bead Is covered with
short stubby gray half, and his nat¬
urally fine forehead gives plenty of
room for a sinister sign that stretches
from temple to temple and from the
arch of each eyebrow to the edge of
the scalp. It Is a heavily tattooed
design of a huge crablike creature
which he afterward told me is called
The Spider of Death’ or the scorpion.
Ghastly In Design.
Tn some horrible frenzy of imagi¬
nation this creature, which had been
pricked with red, white and green Inks
upon his forehead, has been given
three bodies. One lies over the other
and each outline Is clearly visible. It
shows first the shield of Bulgaria,
above that the military drum of Ger¬
many, and superimposed upon these,
the fes, the star and the crescent of
Turkey. On either side stretch eight
human-booted legs, while from the
middle, or head of this horror, hangs
a ring shewing that the man brand¬
ed thus Is the property of the Turks
lor eternity.
“ TTes, that is what I have to show
for my share in the great war,’ said
the branded man. T have seen a lot
in my life. I was born fifty-seven
years ago in Chicago and I guess
there are a good many men there yet
who remember the name of Houghton,
famous for feats rijUit of strength an<fphys¬
ical endurance through from
Maine to California.
ti « My life has always been one of
adventure. I have been a “strong
man” and an acrobat in circuses.
«( ( When the war broke out in 19i4,1
joined up with a regiment of royal en¬
gineers that was being recruited la
the States, and over I came to the
fighting front
“ ‘I was at Mons, and I got the ribbon
right here,’ and he produced a little
blurred ribbon. ‘But I never wear it
After Td finished with the Second
army In France I was moved to Sa¬
lonika, and then to Mesopotamia, and
that’s where I got caught
“ It was while I was doing some work
with barbed wire one night alone out
under the stars In that ‘blessed land’
of Mesopotamia that I got done in.
They got me, but It took a lot of them
to do It
“*I was put to work, and I tried to
escape, and I was caught and put
through more torture, and then one
day a Turk under the direction of a
German officer, put this upon me,’ and
the man smote his forehead with a ter¬
rible gesture.
Made Guard In Harem.
‘"By and by, over there In Turkey,
my captors realized that my physical
strength was beyond the ordinary and
I was turned over to a pacha who
bought my body for hia service. I was
put to work pulling a plow, and when
I didn’t cover enough ground, or the
furrows that I made were crooked, I
was beaten with a leather cat-o’-nlne
talls that bad nails at the end of each
thong.
“ Then the great potentate for whom
I worked seemed to realize that he
was wasting good material In rough,
unskilled labor, and after many weary
punishments he placed me (with this
badges ^of of shame upon my brow and the
price 5,000 marks upon my head
should I tix to escape) aa the guard¬
ian of his harem.
“ ‘Among the many women slaves In
this place there was a ybung Arabian
girl who had been stolen and sold to
the man who was our master. She
was unhappy to the verge of madness,
and the horrors through which she
went on many occasions nearly drove
me out of my mind. By methods that
are too long to tell you, this Arabian
and myself plotted and planned to¬
gether and succeeded In escaping.
Finally we managed to get In touch
with Briti s h troops?^ --------------- f
First Cargo From Greece.
New York—For the first time since
the beginning of the war a steamship
arrived here recently with a commer¬
cial cargo from Greece. The ship was
the British steamer James Carinva
llno from Salonika. She brought cur¬
rants, tobaccd and liquor.
Chinn and the Bean.
The bean plays aa Important part
in Chinese domestic economy, and one
of the specialty desired qualiflcxtiooz
of the Chinese metron, throughout
the northern provinces. Is her ability
to concoct from beans—freen, black
and yellow—several staple dishes.
The bean seldom appears on the
Chinese table whole; It Is not con¬
sidered as fit for food until it has been
reduced to Its essences and put op in
the form of bean card or bean gela¬
tin, which are for aal4 In every road
aide food shop of northern China.
The art of producing these nourish¬
ing foods, which are the meat of the
poor, Is to the rural Chinese woman
what the making of butter, cheese and
Jain la to the occidental honsewlfe.
In the large cities been manipulation
of that sort Is a craft and a commer¬
cial activity, just as the making of
Jam and bntter Is tn the large cities
of the west, but It can scarcely be
called an Industry, since It Is still
quite without organization. The beans
mast be crushed, soaked, baked, boiled
and strained before the essences ap¬
pear.
Patriotic Air Roused Her.
A Quincy girl returned from a dance
recently at about 8 a. m. and could not
be awakened for work. The alarm
clock had no effect, nor did repeated
calls from members of the family. Her
little brother tooted the reveille, but
the girl was no soldier. Finally “The
Star-Spangled Banner” was played,
and to that the patriotic girl immedi¬
ately responded.—Boston Globe.
REW WAY MARKET
George Oxford will be
glad to have his friends
call on him at the New
Way Market.
When you want meats
here is the place to get v
the choicest cuts at all
times.
HI WAY MARKET
T. R. WHITE, Proprietor.
• Phone 6S-69
You’ll spend the money i
—Get the most II of it
Every year you spend a large proportion of the money
you get. So much for clothing. So much for shoes. So
much for things to eat, house furnishings, garden seeds
and tools and what not.
There’s one sure way to get the most for your money.
Know what you want before you go to buy. '
READ ADVERTISEMENTS. The advertisements you
read will tell you what is new and good. They will give
you the latest ideas and improvements. They will help
you to live better and dress better at less cost.
If you think of it, you’ll be surprised at the world of in¬
terest and the wealth of new ideas you’ll find in reading
advertisements.
Advertisements are the daily record of progress. They
are the report to you of the manufacturers and merchants
who work for you, telling what has been accomplished 0
for your benefit.
Hi
PAY
You ought to have every mete of your land paying
you more—producing Your land you should something besides tax
receipts. in wet be ditched and
drained order to yield you big, profitable crops,
instead of tax receipts, tadpoles, crawfish, and mos
quitoes.
Your hillsides should be terraced to save the soil,
yielding do both you good, and big crops instead Simplex of gullies. You
can more with the Ditcher
Terracer, one of the most
useful implements ever **
brought on thefarm. Youfc t
drain not only can ditch with it,"
your wet „
lands, dean out
your old ditches, , < 'uJA
sides, terrace but your hill- [V.i’jySHwi® t
fill you tag
can up old
gullies, grade
your roads and
do many other
things with it,
*Ccme in and let us
show it to yon. It’s
a wonder.
GRIFFIN HARDWARE COMPANY
GARDEN SEEDS
Like Cirgars Or Like Candy,
Are of Many Grades, but
Landreths’ Seeds are the BEST SEEDS
The kind your father, grandfather and great-grandfather
planted. Washington planted them at Mt Vernon. Jeffer¬
son planted them at Monticello.
Maine Grown Seed Potatoes .A
(No Bug Germs in Our Potatoes)
Onion Setts, Cane Seed, Dent Corn, Adams and «
Grass Seed—German Millet, Red Clover, Alfalfa.
Cabbage Plants—finest grown.
EVANS PHARMACY CO.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS AND SEED STORS.
—Buy Seed in Balk and Save 50 to 100 Per Cent. * "i