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ROBERT L. DUKE
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Entered at the poetoffice in Griffin,
Georgia, as second-class mail matter.
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Official Organ of the City of Griffin.
Official Organ of Spalding Northern County.
Official Organ U. S. Court,
District of Georgia.
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paper.
The following printer’s error Is
cited by the Boston Transcript: “The
doctor felt the %wmiio patient’s purse and
declared there hope.”
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“The birds are building nests.. Are
you building a nest?” says the Co¬
lumbus Enquirer-Sun. We know of
several young men in Griffin who are
trying to build “love nests. »
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The Rome Tribune observes (hat
“Tom Watson’s cravats are creating
a sensation in Washington, but this
doesn’t make much difference so long
as he is able to keep his head out
of a noose.”
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Women In Belgium outnumbered
the men at the recent election. In
this country they haven’t got to
voting quite so universally as that,
but the future holds some surprises
as a result of the suffrage amend¬
ment.
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They say it is going to be a
“Green Summer." And then we find
that the story did not refer to the
vegetation at all, but to the prevail¬
ing shade for women’s attire—espe¬
cially head gear. Emerald has the
call, it is said. Wonder if the Irish
question has anything tq do with it.
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“A forgiving tea,” is the title of
a little party by Richard .Fagan and
his bride, who was Miss Kate Stev¬
ens. The guests were his father and
the bride’s mother—and the young
people gave the parents an oppor¬
tunity to forgive them for eloping.
The parents rose to the occasion
and a kiss all round was the result.
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Editor Jack Williams, of Way
crops, rises to ask “Have the women
who asked President Harding to call
a disarmament convention discarded
the rolling pin?” From which we
judge that the rolling pin has not
been discarded in genial Jack’s hum¬
ble home.
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Speaking of the indictments re¬
turned against white men in Mitch¬
ell county, the Tifton Daily Gazette
makes this timely comment: “Mitch¬
ell county furnishes a novelty in the
indictment of white men accused of
lynching a negro. If the accused are
guilty that county can furnish a still
^greater novelty in their conviction.
But should the jury fail to convict,
the prompt action in bringing the in¬
dictments indicates a wholesome
change in puMic opinion and will go
far toward checking these outrages,
which disgrace not alone the South,
but the whole country.”
ELIMINATING NOISES.
Every city and almost every coun¬
try town, as well, is interested in a
movement that, will do away with un¬
necessary noises. Not only are they
very annoying, but they may be very
serious menace to the health of one
who, ia suffering from illness. And
if these noises can be eliminated or
even reduced, it will be a boon to any
town.
How often we find some one with
produce for sale going up and down
the street blowing a horn or a whis¬
tle that would almost rouse the dead. 9
Then there are mischievous boys
who make life miserable with voice
pitchel so high that it almost carries
from one side of town to the other.
There are the necessary noises of
trains—or are the noises really nec¬
essary?—and of puffing 1 blowing,
,
distracting automobiles. These surely
can be reduced, while autos can be
forced to keep cut outs closed and
mufflers working.
Noise will be always with us, like
the poor, but it can be reduced. Eve¬
ry unnecessary noise should be stop¬
ped and every one that cannot be en¬
tirely done away with should be re¬
duced to the lowest point. The
American people are called the most
nervous in the world—possibly • the
noise has something to do with it.
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“A man in a neighboring town Who
took a city paper in preference to a
country paper because he got more
bulk for his money was attracted by
the advertisement of a fire escape
which would be forwarded on re
celpt of $2. He sent the cash and in
a few days received a copy oL the
New Testament” is an old one, but
a good one, dug up by Editor Jim
Williams, of the Greensboro Herald
Journal, notes the Tifton Daily Ga¬
zette.
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r- EVERY DAY HEROES
Not on the battlefield is all the
heroism. Millions of men in the
every day walks of life perform as
great acts of heroisirj as do the men
who give up their lives in the excite¬
ment and amid the noise of battle.
In the battle it is a question of being
trained for just that emergency. The
man goes into the army with the
idea that his life is always on the
altar and he stands ready to give
it when caflled upon. In the everyday
work the heroism is iricidental, com¬
ing often in -some sudden emergency.
When the valve gave way on a
phosphene gas tank at Bound Brook,
New Jersey, recently, the lives of
the whole town were in danger. In¬
it looked as if there was little
that any would escape, but
the emergency brought forth two
Harold Saunders and Michael
Paschall, employes of the plant, un¬
dertook to stop the leak afld succeed¬
ed. Time after time they plunged
through the fumes of the deadly
gas, working a moment and then
getting air, to stop **4he flow. Time
after time it looked as if they would
merely sacrifice their own lives, but
gain nothing. ‘Yet they persisted.
Protected by flimsy gas masks hard¬
ly worthy of the'name, they faced
a danger greater than the German
gas on the West front. And they
Won. The flow was stopped, the town
was saved. Then they rushed to the
office of the company and received
medical attention. It is said that
their lives will be saved because of
prompt action.
But they are none the less heroes.
They offered their lives as freely as
ever man tendered the great sacri¬
fice. They did not pose as heroes—
there was no parade, no acclaim, no
cheers. It was all in the day’s work.
The duty was there to be done—they
did jt, and were as modest as brave
men always are.
All around us, every day, we find
such heroes. And there is another
class—the man who cheerfully i and ]
bravely faces the daily grind. He
knows that there is nothing to life
for him except the same endless
round of duites—that he must work
for others so long as he may live. He
knows that it takes all his toil to
support wife and children, with lit¬
tle chance to accumulate anything
for the future or to provide any lux¬
uries ter himself. Yet he goes to the
task daily, joyously, cheerfully and
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happy in the thought that he can do
tor others, He would not call himself
a hero. He* does not believe a man
is entitled to special praises for doing
his duty. He asks nothing except the
love of those to .whom he devotes
his life. Much is said about the de
votion of mother, and she deserves it
all. But the faithful father, who toils
for his loved ones day by day is do¬
ing his bit to make the world bet
ter.
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WHAT LIFE IS LIKE
As I write this I can look out of
my window and see a cloud, a hill,
a spire, a house, a wall, a road and
a Tiver, in just this order from top
to bottom.
Life Is not a cloud, for a cloud has
no substance, save thin mist.
Life is not a hill, for a hill is beau¬
tiful at a distance only, while life is
near and dear, and its microscopic
ways are as charming as its perspec¬
tive.
Life is not a spire, for a spire
points to a happiness in another
world than this»- whereas happiness
grows in but o»e place, here and at
one time, now. The kingdom of life
is about us.
Life is not a house, for a house is
permanent, while life is fleeting.
Many lives come and go, and the
house stands.
Life is not a road, for life roams
the fields and goes where other men
have not gone. It flies over the
hedges as a bird, it treads the forest
as a deer.
Life is a river, always the same
yet ever different; always passing,
always present; fluid, yet outlasting
all walls and houses; flowing, yet en~
during; going, yet eternal.
“The River of Life” is a true sym¬
bol. The river is the one natural ob¬
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ject that is both fleeting and perma¬
nent — Dr. Frank Crane in Farm
Life.
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BE A HUNDRED POINT MAN.
A hundred-point man is one who
is true to every trust; who keeps his
word; who is loyal to the firm that
employs him; who does not listen to
insults nor look for slights; whip
carries a civil tongue in his head;
who is polite to strangers'*-without
being “fresh;” who is considerate to¬
wards servants; who is moderate in
his eating and drinking; who if
willing to learn; who is cautious and
yet courageous.—Elbert Hubbard. -
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NEWS OF MILNER
MILNER, GA., April 27.—Miss
Ann Caldwell, who has been in
health for some time and was
to the sanitarium in Milledge
last year, died there on the 13th
April. Her remains were laid to
in the cemetery there. _ .
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ham and chil¬
dren, Mary and Elbert and Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Duke and children, Ja¬
nie and Howard, of Rehoboth, were
spend-the-day guests of Mr. and Mre.
G. W. Howard recently.
Julian Whatley and Robert Dyke,
of Rehoboth, spent the week end with
Master Garland Kinard.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Williams were
guests of relatives in Griffin Sunday.
Mrs. Stokes Weldon entertained the
Rook Club Saturday afternoon* A
large crowd was present. After the
games declicious refreshments were
served. * \
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. White, of At¬
lanta, accompanied the funeral party
of Col. B. N. Barrow to Griffin Wed¬
nesday and were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Rucker Wednesday
night. Mr. White returned to Atlanta
Thursday with H. E. Head, who came
down to attend the funeral Thursday.
After visiting relatives Mrs. White
returned home Friday afternoon.
' Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rucker, Mr.
and Mrs. Clark, L. C. Barry and
Homer Brown attended the funeral of
Col. B. N. Barrow in Griffin last
Thursday afternoon.
Dr. Hitt and family were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Littlejon
last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Thurman and
Horace Thurman and Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. Chapman motored through here
Sunday en route to Edison, Ga., after
spending several days in Griffin and
attending the funeral of Col. B. N.
Barrow, the latter’s father.
Homer Brown and Lamar Barry
motored to High Falls Monday on a
fishing expedition.
Original inhabitants of the island
of Yeza, Japan, were pit dwellers.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
Beginning- May I, 1021, nine hours
Union constitute Bricklayers a day’s work for
and Plasterers of
Griffin, Ga., at a rate of 80 cents per
hour. By order of- Bricklayers and
Plasters Union No. 20, of Georgia.
W. N. Reynolds, Deputy; A. B. Coh
ron, President; A. C. Childs, Secre¬
tary, phone 794-W, 423 East Solomon
street.
TIN ROOMING
GUTTERS, DOWNSPOUTS
GARBAGE CANS
Corrugated Iron Roofing
Repairs and Roo t Painting
Agent for the
MONCRIEF FURNACE
R. L. MONCRIEF
Phone 455 No 2 Slaton Ave.'
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Large and small farms f«r
sale. Also vacant lets and
In the my. All at
reasonable prices.
INSUR ANCE
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All lines, lowest rates.
Call and let us show you.
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Real Estate and Fire Insurance.
GRIFFIN, GA.
A Three Day Sale of
IMPORTED GINGHAM
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
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Q X £ On these three days we will
mm ; w • ■ place on sale a number of pieces
t'. li S! i •. 1 I I of the finest Imported Gingham
II r* that is worth today’s market
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id 75c yard at only
per
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H A fct. 35c
I Per Yard
The allowance is two dresses to the cus¬
tomer. Come early and avail yourself of this
wonderful opportunity to purchase these won¬
derful fabrics for such little money.
We are also showing a wide range of Dotted Swisses
and Organdies and all the pretty shades for Spring and
Summer.
Long Silk Gloves, Special at $2.00 the pair
Long Chamoisette Gloves, Specials at $L50
Crouch Co. i
Strickland
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