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ROBERT L. DUKE,
Editor and Publiuher.
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A. G. JONES Superintendent
Entered at the postoffice in Griffin,
Georgia, as second-class mail matter.
WEEKLY, Per Year..... .$1.50
Griffin, Ga., DecTzO, 1918
The Columbus Ledger says Wilson
may not be seated at the table, but
he will provide food for thought at
the peace meeting just the same.
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Mrs. Lollie Bell Wyfle, president
of the Atlanta Writers’ Club, makes
the interesting announcement that in
memory of famous Georgia authors,
'the club will plant a grove of trees
in Piedmont park. The first tree to
-he planted will be dedicated to the
memory of Jacques Futrelle, the well
known author, who went down with
the Titanic.
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According to the official report
there were 70 deaths in Atlanta last
week from all causes. Thirty-nine of
this number died from influenza and
pneumonia. The number of deaths
for each week for the last several
years has been about the same, vary
ing less than five each week. Ninety
- new cases of influenza were reported
as having developed last week.
<4 Somehow or other we have an idea
that those who put up posters should
have to take them down when they
are out of date. It doesn’t look well
for those old posters to be so conspi
cuous,” says the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun. We are frequently misled by
reading the signs on the roadway.
Sometimes and very often the pro
prietors have been dead for years
or gone out of business long ago.
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The Girls’ Canning Club put on a
most beautiful exhibit of all kinds of
canned goods at Griffin recently. The
display attracted the attention and
praise of a large number of specta
tors. Many prizes were awarded for
creditable work. Mrs. Franklin Sib
ley was in charge of the exhibit, and
she was highly praised for her suc
cess in, teaching the girlc how to
can so excellently.—Macon Evening
News.
Nothing is ever accomplished by
forcing a man to kiss the flag. If he
will not honor the land in which he
sleeps, eats, earns his livlihood, pos
sesses friends, is amused, protected
and himself honored because he is it’s
citizen, only the five inch toe of a
number eleven boot can place him
where there is no torch in Liberty’s
"hand and where, by the sweat of his
temples and the ache of his back, he
can love the oppression of the world
to his heart's content.
So to speak, the free lunch is a
thing of the past. The grills of the
lower order have decided belatedly,
that the cash register would tinkle
more often and loudly- if the lunch
Is served and the drink thrown in than
vice versa. Accordingly, drinks are
becoming worth less than the skin
of al) out of date sausage and the rail'
holders-down have the food specula -
tors to thank with every pick and
shovel at their command, for the sit
uation. It is well, though; perhaps
the thriving grass in the old home
trials will begin to wear out as the,
husband and father shakes his head;
as he passes tiredly the Blatz en
trance niug and goes home where hel
belongs. “Lo, there, Agnes dear, pass'
the cutlets.” "Yes, John."
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“To get some value out of the in
numerable reports the government
sends out, we suggest to oar editor
friends that they turn ’em over and
write copy on them." say- the Savan
nah Press. W.> 1 ve htf’i ,oi.scrv
paper in this wa ■ for son,*- time and
it’s fine, but we had no idea any of
the other brethren had thought of the
scheme.
RELIEF WORK MUST CONTINUE
Now that the war is won, many
Griffin and Spalding county citizens
are asking why the Red Cross is
planning to enroll the entire popula
tion of the city as members the week
before Christmas.
Chairman Goodrich, of the local ex
ecutive committee of the Red Cross
Christmas roll call organization makes
the following reply:
“Starvation, sickness and sorrow
did not vanish in Europe when the
fighting ceased. On the contrary, the
new conditions have revealed greater
opportunities for the American peo
ple, through the Red Cross, to extend
relief. This work is just as impera
tive in peace as in war, though not
so dramatic.
“Besides, Griffin boys in France or
in home camps, with millions of other
American soldiers, and sailors have a
right to expect that Red Cross ser
vice will be continued for them in full
measure until demobilization is com
pleted. This means the Red Cross
must ’carry on’ for many months, and
the money raised through member
ship dues will help finance the ser
vice.”
All that is asked of any adult in
the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call is
that he or she shall have “a heart and
| a dollar.” When you multiply these
hearts and dollars by the millions of
adults in the United States, it is evi
dent that a substantial total will be
raised if the response to the Roll
Call is general.
Children will not be solicited, as
they already are represented in the
school auxiliaries, or will enroll
through the auxiliaries at twenty-five
cents a year, but they will be valuable
aids in the Roll call by reminding
their parents of the opportunity to
register approval of the greatest re
lief work in the history of the world.
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AMATEURS RUN WILD.
Plumbers are useful; but .you don’t
take a sick tooth to a plumber.
There are watchmakers who are
almost magicians. The experience of
a lifetime has given them a dexterity
approaching the supernatural. Yet
we perversely send for a gasfitter
when we want a gaspipe fixed.
Political revolutionaries of the more
radical kind are less methodical. One
would imagine that the right person
to discuss the needs of the working j
man would be one who had worked ■
at some kind of trade himself. You]
can be a good bricklayer, and still
possess capacity for organization; but
bolshevists don’t recognize this. To
be a leader of their ranks it is gen
erally a qualification to be ignorant
of all trades. They usually pick a
man who has never worked at any
useful job in his life.
He is often a literary failure. He
may have tried to teach a school at
some time, or he may be a discarded
college professor. He is hardly ever
a competent machinist, painter, plas
terer, carpenter or boilermaker; but
he knows a lot of long words.
If Trotsky or Lenine have master
ed any trade to the point of qualify
ing for union wages the name of its
has not been made public.
Make plans to finish paying foi l
your Liberty bonds and hold to them.
Keep the war savings stamps until
I they mature. You will always feel
I that you have a strong financial sup
' port by you as long as you have gov
ernment bonds or war savings stamps.
Tucker appears to be overworking
I his “fat girl" friend dope.
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i CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED
[with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
I they cannot reach the seat of the
I disease. Catarrh is a local disease,
| greatly influenced by constitutional
i conditions, and in order to cure it you
I must take an internal remedy. Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally
and acts thru the blood on the mucous
surfaces of the system. Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine was prescribed by one of
the best physicians in this country
for years. It is compose<L of some of
the best, blood purifiers. The perfect
combination of the ingredients in
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is what pro
duces such wonderful results in ca
tarrhal conditions, .Send for testi
monials. free.
F. J. CHENEY <fc CO., Props., Toledo,
1. All druggists. 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Today Griffin shoppers need not
worry about their fai’ure to buy
Christmas gifts in 0.-ioher. The best
gift is to be available the week be
fore Christmas- Ther? is an unlim
ited supply, rfiid there wil be no diffi
culty in purchasing. The co. t i only
one dollar.
This gift is membership in the Red
Cross, and it is a gift to the Griffin
boys in the army and navy as well
as to the victims of war in all coun
tries. These men will interpret an
overwhelming enrollment of the peo
ple as members in the American Red
Cross as a guarantee of continued
service of a kind they have leraned to
value highly.
The Red Cross Christmas Roll Cail,
December 16-23, will afford the oppor
tunity to buy this gift, and delivery
will be made without fail on Christ
mas Eve in a cablegram to he sent
to General Pershing announcing the
united support of the nation for the
Red Cross policy.
What finer Christmas gift can
Griffin send? Added to every other
city and the rural districts, the en
rollment here will make a total that
will rekindle hope everywhere people
are suffering.
Our two million soldiers in France,
our sailors on the high seas and the
men in training in this country should
know beyond a shadow of doubt that
they will receive everything—abso
lutely everything—in the way of Red
Cross service until the last one is
mustered out. A universal response
to the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
will give them such assurance.
If possible Griffin should enroll
every adult the first day, December
16. At any rate, the task must be
finished before Christmas Eve.
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THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
Christmas is the only one of ou'
holidays the observance- of which is
based upon love and tl oughtfuiness
for other people than ou • inffividua 1
selves. Oher holidays are for the
most part, as tittny, in recogni
tion of a great national event or in
memory of those who have done ai d
suffered great things for their coun
try. Thanksgiving expresses grati
tude for our blessings, and New
Year’s, if we keep it with thought
fulness, is an tension for a little
self-examination and some fresh le
solves.
But Christmas is rigidH a day of
generosity and love.
We make the children happy with
toys and candies, we thin': of the gift
which will please mother, wife sis
ter, husband, we plan pleasant home
entertainments. But Christmas lacks
something if our observance of it is
bounded by our family circle a-ai our
friends.
The festival will be an e pec-idly
joyous one for .Ama-ica ti
The shadow of a gr? it an.' -ruel icr
has been •lifc-.-J from ' We 1.-ok
forward to an era of p".n • ami pros
perity.
But at the same time th 1 . - . 1 has
never been a year when generosity
was more needed. Prices of all com
modities are appallingly high, and
the little income of tnany a family
has, been sadly diminished i the al
sence of one or more of i's wage
earners in the army. If we consider
this and, not forgetting our own dear
ones, do what we can to bring relief
and pleasure to those in need, we
shall indeed feel the bLw-e mess .of
a real Ch-isOr As we have been
prospered, s" 1« us give.
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15 PER CENT MORE WHEAT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.--The
acreage of winter wheat was today
estimated at 1'd,027,000 by the depart
ment of agriculture. This is fifteen
and one-ninth per cent greater than
the fall of last year.
To Guard Against Influenza.
Don't li t the dread influenza get
you. If you have even the slightest
cough or cold, better begin using Fo
ley's Honey and Tar at once. Henry
Willis, Sandy Point, Texas, is one of
| many thousands who consider this
'remedy “just fine.” He says: “I suf
fered severely with a bad cough; af
ter using four or five dollars’ worth
of different medicines decided to try
Foley’s Honey and Tar. One bottle
gave relief. Best medicine 1 ever
used.” Contains no opiates. Sold
e v er vw here.—Adv.
DEMOBILIZATION
WHEELS TURNING
VERY RAPIDLY NOW
About Fifteen Thousand Men in
This Country Daily Being Put
Back in Civil Life, War De
partment Anounces Today.
FIGURE TO BE DOUBLED
IN A VERY SHORT WHILE
Eight Hundred and Twenty-Four
Thousand Men in This Country Des
ignated for Early Discharge—l4o,-
915 from Europe December 15th.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Demobi
lization machinery for this country is
now turning out about fifteen thou
sand men a day in civil life and the
war department hopes to double this
figure before long.
Announcing this today, Chief of
Staff March added that eight hundred
and twenty-four thousand men in this
country have been designated for an
early discharge from service, while
5,653 officers and 135,262 men have
been designated for an early convoy
home from abroad up to December
twelfth.
The demobilization plans are being
worked out as rapidly as possible.
THE FAIR ASSOCIATION
POSTPONES ITS MEETING
The Griffin and Spalding Fair As
sociation called a meeting for the
fifth of December, but on account of
the lack of a quorum postponed the
session until the night of February
9th at 7 ( :30, at the city hall. The
stockholders are requested to keep
the date of the meeting in mind and
be present, as business of importance
will be transacted.
Morth Attention of Women.
When you feel too tired to work,
when dark puffs appear under your
eyes, when you wake up weary, with
backache or pains in sides and loins,
when muscles and bones ache, when
yoif suffer rheumatic twinges, when
lumbago puts you down, then you
know the kidneys are weakened or
disordered. Mrs. T. J. Bucknell, Route
1, Hardy, Neb., writes: “I am recov
ering from an attack of lumbago, by
the aid of Foley Kidney Pills. They
surely have helped me.” Sold every
where.—Adv.
ORDINARY’S AOVLRTISEMENIS.
CITATION.
GEORGIA, Spalding County—
Ruth Phillips Brooks, having made
application for twelve month’s sup
port out of the estate of Thomas J.
Brooks, and appraisers duly appointed
to ser apart the same, having filed
their return, all persons concerned
are hereby required to show cause
before the Court of Ordinary of said
county on the first Monday in January
1919, why said application should not
be granted. J. A. Drewry, Ordinary.
This 2d day of December, 1918.
CITATION.
Ella A. Bass, having made applica
tion for twelve months support out of
the estate of Henry H. Bass, and ap
praisers duly appointed to set apart
the same having filed their all
persons concerned are hereby required
to show cause before the Court of Or
dinary of said county on the first
Monday in January, 1919, why said
application should not be granted. J.
A. Drewry, Ordinary.
This 2d day of December, 1918.
ADM INI STR ATOR'S SA LE.
By virtue of an order granted by
the Court of Ordinary at the Decem
ber term, 1918, of said court, there
will be sold before the court house
door in Griffin, Spalding, County,
Geoigia, between the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in January,
1919. to the highest bidder, the fol
lowing described property belonging
to the estate of T. J. Brooks, deceased,
to-wit: House and lot in the city of
Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia,
fronting on North Hill street between
Quilly street and the property of Dr.
T. J. Brooks, deceased, and also four
vacant lots fronting on North Sixth
street between Quilly street and Tins
ley street, and also one vacant lot
fronting Tinsley street sixty feet, ad
joining property of Dr. T. J. Brooks,
deceased. All of said property lying
in one body, bounded North by Tins
ley street; East by Sixth street,
South by Quilly street, and West by
Hill street and the property of Dr.
T. J. Brooks. J. C. BROOKS,
Administrator of Estate of T. J.
Brooks, deceased.
December 4, 1918.
NoTTcE TO DEBTORS - AND
CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given to all credi
tors of the estate of Mrs. Callie E.
Deane, late of said ’county, deceased,
to render in an account of their de
mands to us within .the time prescrib
ed by law, properly made out. And
all persons indebted to said deceased
are hereby requested to make imme
diate pavment to the undersigned.
LLOYD CLEVELAND.
L. I\ GOODRICH.
Executors of Mrs. Callie E. Deane,
deceased.
This 4th dav of December, 1918.
fl hrktmas Banking Club
IT IS NOT HARD TO GET THAT $33:75 OR $G7.59. ,«
BRING IN THE 5 CENTS OR 10 CENTS
EACH WEEK INCREASE YOUR 00 OR$5 00
AMOUNT, OR YOU CAN JOIN OUR 50 CENT,JI- EftCH
CLUB, WHERE YOU PAY IN THE SAME AMOUNT EACH
WEEK. IN 50 WEEKS:
10-CENT CLUB PAYS F127.5J
5-CENT CLUB PAYS G 3.75
l-CENT CLUB PAYS 25.50
1-CENT CLUB PAYS 12.75 •
ALL THE MONEY YOU PAY INTO THE ANY
BANKING CLUB IS YOURS. THERE ARE NO DUES OF
KIND. COME IN AND JOIN TODAY.
YOU WILL RECEIVE 4 PER CENT INTEREST.
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