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ROBERT L. DI KE,
Editor and Publisher.
A. G. JONES. ...... -Superintendent
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Entered at the postoffice in Griffin,
Georgia, as second-class mail matter.
KATES ()E ADVERTISING.
Reasonable and will be furnished upon
application.
GJiffin, Ga., Julv 26, 1918
Go on, allies.
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The kaiser is wearing a worried i
look and his moustache is beginning,
to droop.
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'1 he Barnesville News-Gazette n ,
fers to William .1. Harn- a (»■•<>!• I
gia’s next United State- senator.
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The Americans and Frenchmen
make a combination hard to beat [
■when it comes to fighting.
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The greatest trouble with the
American soldiers “over there’’ seems
to be in holding them back. They are
rearing to go all the time.
When the government takes con
trol of the telegraph, telephone and
cables, will there be more or less
wire-pulling than at present?
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We are anxiously awaiting the
time for the meeting of the city coun
cil to see what action will be taken in
regard to the repainting of the Spald
ing Grays’ armory.
The president's phase “that noble
death which is only a glorious con
summation" is a fitting word of obi
tuary for any man who dies in the
service of his country.
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The only American troops that will
ever "take to flight" are our squad
rons of “Eagles,” and when they get
busy the Hun will desperately wish
they had “stood their ground.”
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Artists in Berlin, ironically enough,
when they ask for “Prussian Blue,”
are informed that it cannot be ob
tained, and to make the situation
still more ironical, they are given in
its place, “Parisian Blue!”
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The young American sergeant, who
brought 159 German prisoners into
the American headquarters in
France, should be wired to come
home. He has already done his part
in the war and should be allowed to
take a little vacation.
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Another woman has been acquit
ted for killing a mere mam If this
thing keeps up it will not be long
before the life insurance companies
will be forced to include this mode of
death with suicide in their list of ■’ex
ceptions."
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During the three-pounds per month
per-person sugar limitation, do not
complain if your cotfee is not sweet
enough. The French are allowed but
thirteen pounds of sugar per year
per person, the Italians only nine
pounds—if they can get it. Ihe
price of sugar in France is twenty
five cents, in Italy sixty cents a
pound.
Lady told us confidentially the oth
er day that she always got her id-m
of the prevailing styles from the m '• -
ies and we hope she hadn’t seen I b e
da Hara lately, if she had any notion
of following the styles closely.
Thomasville Times-l-.nterprme. It the
widow with the dimple in her cheek
who smiled at him had told Hob Ihike
that, he would at once have arrmwd
with the management of a t.vi". m
theater to wire for an engavenn-t
for Theda, and wmml have w■' d
her picture on the first page
Griffin News and Sun. That t ’.--w
Duke is a sight.--Columbus I’.im i .
Sun. The “widow with the dmin 1 in
her cheek” is away on a vi it <' v.
but she will be back next fall ami C n
Theda Bora will soon be : :ti ■
NOW REALIZE
’ AMERICANS CAN FIGHT
Under the above heading the At
lanta Sunday Journal printed the f .!-
lowing interesting letter from Ho
mer Brannan, The Henry (oun’y
I Weekly's former faithful employee:
j The Americans are fighters "'he
i French know it and the Germans are
beginning to find it out. This i:: the'
information furnished by a letter fr< m .
a .McDonough boy, Private Homer G. j
Brannan, a youth not yet past Lis |
majority, who ran away from home!
to enlist at Fort .McPherson on the]
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dav before Easter last year.
'I he communication addressed to,
'A. 1,. Foche, of the Federal R serve’
bank, whose father, ,J. A. Fouche,
I proprietor of The Henry County
j Weekly, was employing the youth at
j the time he joined the color-. His
news from the front throws some un
|u ual sidelight on the weakening of
the German mt.rale, the eagerness of
the boys to hear from the folks across
seas, and their keen interest in the
(success of the Liberty bond cam
His letter, which is well worth try
body’s reading, follows:
“June 7, 1918.
“Mr. A. 1.. Fouche, care Federal Re
serve Bank, Atlanta, Ga.
“Dear Alf: 1 am going to reply
to your letter that 1 receiv'd a few
days ago. 1 was certain'y glad to
hear from my old friend and was also
glad to get the papers you have sent
me. I was not the only one glad to
get them, too, for there .are a good
many boys from Georgia who were
glad to see them, so please send some
more. We were interested in the
news from the Toul sector because
we had only been away from that
front two days when the things the
papers describe happened.
"We are on a front now where
things are pretty lively, but you will
have to hand it to Uncle Sam’s boys,
for they are certainly doing their duty
and the French know it, too. They
certainly do treat us nicely, pat us
on the backs and say: ‘Americans
bon.’ (meaning ‘good.’).
The Germans also have found out
that we are pretty good lighters, 1
believe. We took a German sergeant
major prisoner the other day, and
he said there were just two things he
wanted to do before lie died —take a
chew of American-made tobacco and
see one of those ‘three-inch machine
guns’ we had been using on them.
“A German came over the other
night just in time for our midnight
lunch ami gave himself up. He was
treated to a good square meal and
then he wanted to go back and get
his brother.
“Alf, you said something in your
. letter about wishing you were over
here with us boys. You are doing
i your part there. I here s one thing
' 1 want to say—if the people in the
States only knew how their buying
Liberty Bonds is making it possible
for the army over here to do things,
• they would have to be requested to
t stop buying bonds instead of being
: begged to buy them. You know that
; every time the Germans shoot at us
• we want to fire about a hundred shots
' in return, and it certainly takes mon-
• ey to keep that up.
“The thing that surprises me most
i here is that it makes no difference
where I go the papers you send me
follow me up until I get them.
"Write me again soon,
"Your friend,
"HOMER G. BRANNAN.
"Somewhere in h rance.
Private Brannan is a member of a|
'machine gun battalion. He is the son
Ls dames W. Brannan, a farmer in
the vicinity of McDonougl . Although
1 he lyul been favored, with but limited
: opportunities as to educational ad-
I vantages, he clearly saw the justness
iof America's cause and his duty to
the nation, avoiding to his friends Mr.
\ 1;1 ] bis anxiety to get into the
[thick of things is evidenced by a ratn
1 1. extraordinary incident that occur
•'red at Fort Oglethorpe, where he rc
-1 eeived preliminary training. In his
(company there he found his “double,”
ja man of almost identical features]
.and figure. This man was named for ,
overseas duty before Brannan. So i
the young patriot persuaded the [
“double” to trade places. They
swapped clothes, equipment and j
bunks. And it was only on the eve |
of his departure that the substitution >
was discovered and frustrated.
If the world would have absolute i
1 proof of the deep duplicity of the ,
; German nation it can !«• found in the I
j statement from high German author- ,
i ity, that that nation, instead of num-j
bering sixty millions of people, as
i given out at the opening of the war,
jin reality numbered ninety millions.;
• There can be no doubt that for years
(past, Germany’s census returns have;
been deliberately falsified. There]
could have been but one object in
this -deceiving the world as to I.er
true strength. The allied world
knows now, however, that it is fight-]
ling a mon-ter of gigantic proportions
and is making its preparations ac
cordingly.
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RELIABLE NEWS.
hi times like these it is very easy
for a rumor to gain great proportions
and only great care saves a newspa
per from mixing dependable news
with that which is unfounded and un
warranted. When this newspaper
started news service for its home
community a reliable and dependable
press association was selected. There
are other press services in the coun-]
try less costly than the United Press I
but none more reliable.
Last week’s example in Griffin was
a splendid one. There was a wild ru
mor that thirty thousand enemy pris- I
oners had been captured and that the
whole German army was in peril. We
would wish that it were so, but it
was not—at least, at the time it was
being circulated in this community.
It only made it necessary for the
whole force of the News and Sun to
constantly deny and before the eager
news hunters would be satised the
headquarters of the press association
in Atlanta had to deny it. There
were enthusiastic employes there
who likewise could wish it were so,
but it was not.
The service is costly, but it is de
pendable when you get it from the
News and Sun. No need to have any
thing unless it is so. Rumor ruins
with the public. They
1 want to know. Rumor is never cer
tain. When it hits it is all good, but
it can miss, and there is the rub.
The News and Sun each day is re
ceiving the latest and most accurate
news from the front that is obtain
-1 able, and it can be depended upon.
The management does not delay in
giving its news to the public. The
bulletins are posted as soon as re
ceived on the bulletin board in front
’ of the monument club’s headquar
' ters. The bulletins printed in the pa
! per are in brief form and one can
’ read as he runs and know the pro
? gross of the great war. Don't pay
’ any attention to wild rumors, but
’ wait for the newspaper to give you
’ the most accurate and reliable news
L of the day.
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A FOR SALE.
Two good young bloodhounds. A.
A. Hulsey, Williamson, Ga.. R. F. D.
t \SSISTANT NAVY SECRET\RY
H\S ARRIVED IN El ROFF
Washington, July 22.—Assistant
Secretary of Navy Franklin Roose-
celt has arrived in Europe aboard a
destroyer. His purpose is to look ov
er naval administration matters.
His Back Hurt
When He Stooped
“Just the one box of Foley Kidney Pdl* re
lieved my beckeebe. J. W. Etrie, Etn*. C«-
"I.ast vcar I was stiff ring with a
terrible backache, writes .1. W. Etrls
of Etris (la. ‘ I’vcry time I’d lean
, r so op over or to mu sale. I d have
a VH mful catch in my back just over
n-v kl I- ■' • lin I me.licit. « " ith
«( ,>! n- tils I I 'tight a '.. ■•tie or
Foley i:m: . y I’ll'm m.d pi»t the one
t x eatir- ly reliev’d my backache.
It > as b< on s> me time 1 took
t ■ • ■ 1 thick Tam well."
Weakened, overworked, s’.pned-up
van . • F y K-.1-..C Blv
r-> a- •it;..' :r.. I:"nr, cmr ; ■ m.-ieu
t ' clear th. . F y- -md re.-i tn m
t > !>. a ’ v xc 11 n I " d ..’. ■1 r g :• >d
dr? ~g rn > t t’-o s-tm n e
is and I'. Ifc as c1..?. c.a:«
kii':. v triiUbb' and 1. i .u<. „i.m : '&•
v, u w.: i pi... t’• ,r t ,c „ * r- • ■ r
atlve actb ready effect aod <;.<i -
feed r suos.
Sold Everywhere.
TROOP SHIPMENTS ]
TO CONTINUE TO BE
SENT TO FRANCE
DESPITE GERMANY’S SECOND Ü
BOAT COASTAL RAID, WAR DE
PARTMENT WILL KEEP UP ITS
PROGRAM BACKED BY NAVY.
Washington, July 22.—Troop ship
ments to swell the great American
army in France will go on undimin
. ished and unafraid, despite Germany’s
second U-boat coastal raid which is
]now under way. The war department
intends to keep at its asserted pro
gram the navy department is ready to
afford the needed protection. This is
I the answer to the new German ef
fort to shake the .American morale
and disturb'military and commercial
[ shipping.
MANY KN CALLED
I TO COLORS MONDAY
—
SEVENTY - FIVE REGISTRANTS]
WILL ENTRAIN FOR CAMP]
GORDON, TUESDAY MORNING I]
FOR MILITARY SERVICE.
Seventy-five registrants of Spald-1
ing county were called to colors Mon- i
day, reporting to the local exemption!
board at two o’clock. They will en- ■
train for Camp Gordon tomorrow
morning at 9 o’clock for military ser
vice. Those going are:
Hugh England Crowder, Roswell
Abner Farlev, Carl Crowder, .Mar- !
I tin Luther Watson, Leonard Lewis
I Waller, George Steel, Walter Paris
(Watson, Grover Cleveland Clark, Lu
ther Herman Lynch, Clarence Eth
[ ridge Alford, James Haralson Car
' roll, Joseph Raymond McKibben, Ray
mond Lamar Underwood, • George
Reese Collins, William G. Cobb, Flem
ing Brooks Stanley, William Ery
Henderson, Ernest G. Shivers, Fred
I Marable, Philip G. Horne, Roswell E.
( Pullin, Jimmie Milton Shockley, Will
] Raynor, Virgil Clark, Leon Beatty
I Nelson, Bony Morris Hunter, James
(Frank Posey, John Robert Barfield,
j Richard Bunn, John Guy Wesley, Ab
ner Columbus Bennett, Rufus Ander
son Midldebrooks, Leon Moulder,
James Virgil Kilgore, Wesley Hend-
Iry McCollum, Charlie Bunch, Glass,
; Henry Lewis Goodman, Grover Cle
| veland Dingier, Otis Boyd Allison,
I Judge .Milton Biles, Janies Mitchell
i Pullin, Harvey Emanuel Thomas,
[Otis Bates, James Fred Shannon;
; Fred Alexander Spanglqr, William
: England Connally, Leon Delos Miller,
! James Hill Touchstone, Homer Leo
jnard Pitts, Grady William Biles, Troy
[Sanders Hammock, Gable Cox, Barney
( Draton Ward, Lewis Blanton, Eugene
( Whit field Rivers, Elma Clarence Pitts,
; Emmett Lucius Boyd, James Andrew
! Coppedge, John West Chapman, Da
! vid McGee, Thomas Nymrod Hutson,
i Barney Franklin Maddox. Claude S.
( Smith, Charley Herbert Maddox, Jos
jeph Logan Logan, Roswell H. Akin,
(Thomas Clifton Nichols, Richard Mc
( Kendon Blanton, Jesse Luther Isom.
(Walter Chambers, Homer Lamar Ma
jthis, Willie Cluey Aaron, Leroy Ma
{this, Claude Blanton, Thomas Lawson
• Rhodes.
MEI DIWTES
ISLUGEISH LIB
—
Cr;:shc c Uto Sour Bile. Making You
1 Sick and You lx>se a
Day's Work.
L Calomel salivates! It’s mercury.
. Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug-
I gish liver. When calomel comes in
-1 to contact with sour bile it crashes
into it, causing cramping and nau
sea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, con
stipated and all knocked out. just go
to your druggist and git a bottle of
Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents
which is a harmless vegetable substi
tute for dangerous calomel. 'lake a
spoonful and if it doesn’t start your
liver and straighten you up better
and quicker than nasty calomel and
without making you sick, you just
go back and get your money.
If you take calomel today you'll be
sick and nauseated tomorrow; be
sides it may salivate you. while if
you take Dodson’s Liver Tone you
will wake up feeling great, full of
ambition and ready for work or
play. It’s harmless, pleasant and
safe to give to children; they like
it.—(Adv).
Soft Brink
||j|\ The final triumph in soft drin »•
Has the good Wholesome taste .
MF*.’ Sparkhn?.’bubbling-absolutely ce
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Offic ial chtmi ?^ e whMe y wme y p S roduc°G I
and vrnt ceils ■
\ tree from prewr'ati i. 1 unt o f f e r- B
B e/ A. und "entvv<> M ld-.aythat
U- gA mentable sugars pro < ill pro .
VA no deleterious effect* „
\ W duced on proceMes of dige.tion. jBM?
CERVA isgeodforthir-t-good
'a\\\
« WB' Orders case nt your grocers ,
Wi ut druggists’, etc.
jiwfn-siMiM|
This /• the
* Forty United Profit
, Sharing Coupons 2
Try the good taste of CERVA toda >’‘ -Tm"M
LEMP MANUFACTURERS ST. LOUIS pa^ k x e c d h angeaMef?/ 6 ’
GRIFFIN GROCERY CO,. Distributors, Griffin, Ga
I Big Auction Sale
75 Registered Bred
Hampshire Sows and Gilts
At Arles Plantation, Americus, Ga.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31ST, 1918
All mai! bids and wire bids to E. C. Stone, Sec., Care
Arles Plantation, Americus, Ga.
Auctioneer: COL. F. N. HVLICK, ar> tjL!_L2— L——
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MOTOR OIL 1 3
kind yorc ought to use
X \\ I hr best is none too good, applies directly and S
forcefully to MOTOR OIL. If you could afford it,
Ks pure castor oil wouldn’t be too good for your mo-
U; tor; but the cost would be prohibitive. Did you know that K
S| the great army of flyers "over there” use pure castor oil for
g their flying machine motors’—well, they do; and notwith- B
H standing the enormous demand for castor oil for the winged ■
machines of the daring birdmen. we are able to get enough
Ig to make it one of the basic constituents of
® “GREEN FLAG” MOTOR OIL |
MW I his is what gives “GREEN FLAG” its surprising clarity BV
Rm find its wonderful uniformity of distribution and lubrication.
S More milcage, more power, and more economy per gallon
wr in GREEN ! LAG .MOTOR OIL, makes it the continued
preference of motorists who have a regard for the wear of ■
EM their motors.
S I here s a “GREEN I LAG” dealer in your citv. Hunt him
■ up. He not only sells, but recommends ‘‘GREEN FLAG” ■
H| MOTOR OIL. That’s a whole lot better than just buying C
oil that Jias no name, that you can buy at any old place that |H
Gas no one in particular will take the trouble to recommend
K We guarantee the quality of “GREEN FLAG" and your 9
gL dealer will d so as well. The best dealer in your city is H
selling “GREEN FLAG.’’ Look for the sign of the “green S
||» flag waving over his doorway. ■
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9 109 East Solomon Street Phone 732 S
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j THOS. NEWTON McKIBBEN, Gridin Oistricl Manager,
6 PER DENI FARM LOANS I PER CENT
A client has placed at my dispo stl One Hundred Thousand Dollars to
place on farm property in the count ies of Spalding and Pike. If in need
of money see me. All applications -will receive prompt a‘tention.
Buy War Savings Stamps Now. ■
EUGENE R. CLARKSON, Attorney. 4
Law Offices 1011-2 N. Hill Street. i u ; n Ga.
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