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Thorough Soil Preparation
Is Easy the Fordson Way
BECAUSE the Fordson has plenty of power and
is fast running, Fordson farms are known as the
best tilled farms in the community. Good plow
ing can be followed promptly by good discing be
cause the man who drives a Fordson is soon
through with one job and ready for the other.
This thorough tillage, of course, results in bigger
crop yields.
Because of its scientific design and easy hand
ling qualities, the RODERICK Lean AUTO
MATIC Engine Disc Harrow, specially de
signed for the Fordson, inspires its owners to pul
verize thoroughly both before and afterplowing.
The Roderick Lean Automatic is as
necessary to economical tractor farming as the
special tractor plow. Operated from the tractor
seat, it provides easy, thorough soil preparation
with the Fordson. Strong for power require
ments, flexible for short turning, and adjustable
to meet all soil conditions. This is the proper
disc for Fordson tractors —the one disc harrow
preferred by Fordson owners,
HARRIS MOTOR CO.
BARNESVILLE, GA.
Being Power Farming Headquarter •, you thill
alwaye find here, equipment that will do more
thorough work with leee exertion by the drioer
H. G. JORDAN & SON.
Market St. Barnesville, Ga.
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY
—The Right Way—
A WAR TIME STORY
By MRS. L. E. VEAL
The command is given “On to
Richmond” as in the days of the 60’s,
and the veterans gray are heeding
the call. Not with gun and knap
sack, but with hearts full of joy to
join old comrades again; recall by
gones; revisit old battlefields, per
haps for the last time. They’ll talk
of Jeff Davis and Lee and Jackson
and Gordon and myriads of others so
dear to their hearts. All honor to
the president of the Seaboard for
free transportation for the old Vets,
they deserve all the homage of a
grateful nation for their bravery and
hardships endured for four long
years to bequeath freedom and glory
to their nation. Not only the men,
but the women, too, shared in this
honor. I lived in those days and I
know how busy were the hands and
how aching the hearts that daily
toilt and for fathers, brothers and sweet
hearts at the front. Now comes a
pleasant recollection at grandmoth
ers. The scene around the big open
fire place at night. The blazing fire
logs of four and five feet in length.
Our maids would bring in the cards,
the reel, the spinning wheel &c. The
granddaughter just from college tak
ing a lesson on the spinning wheel.
Whizz would go the wheel and pop
would go the thread and the girl
would say I’d rather study trigonom
etry any day than do this, but that
was done and this had to be done.
The servant girls would scrape
away on the cards, making the great
piles of fluffy rolls by their sides.
Grandfather with curls of silken
white, turning the reel and grand
mother, the queen of the group, in
the corner clicking the knitting need
les turning out the socks. The
sheep had been sheared and the cot
ton finger picked from the boll to af
ford all this material for work. Next
morn the four looms were put in
operation and fast the shuttles flew
to weave the cloth to make the
clothes. Our seamstresses were
called to the cutting tables and pants
and coats of warm jeans cloth was
cut to make the soldier clothes.
Grandmother was now my tailor. I
had started to school of another kind.
Happy were we though, to think we
were doing something for those dear
Texas cousins who’d come to us from
beyond the Mississippi to help fight
our battles over here. For four long
years this busy life continued. We
had no government to ship us bales
of cloth to make the clothes as in the
big war. My first pair of pants fin
ished, a Herculean task accomplished,
now see grandmother peering through
her glasses, then peeping over top
and smiling sweetly said, “The but
tonholes are on the wrong side, you’ll
have to rip it out.” How crest-fal
len. But it was done. When the
soldier clothes were completed our
own wardrobes were depleted and our
ingenuity taxed to get something for
ourselves. So the red oak and sweet
gum trees were skinned to get the
bark and boiled to get the tea to dye
our thread and the dye set with a lit
tle sassafrass or indigo. More spin
ning and weaving and making and
decorating. The turning lathe
brought into requisition for turning
the buttons—six dozen to trim a
Gabrille dress. We’d rummage for
some scraps of gay color with which
to cover the buttons, stunning they
were when completed and we proud
as peacocks. Then the head gear de
manded attention. Hats made of
shucks and rushes, like Moses’ little
basket in the Nile. An antique
frame of a bonnet, called skyscraper
was found. A big flock of guineas
suggested material for the bonnet.
The bird was slain, feathers carefully
plucked and sewed on and so perfect
the imitation of Pot Rack had pealed
forth, you’d thought the bird had
down in. A bunch of flowers was
needed for adornment, so a quacking
goose was slain and petals cut and
fashioned into flowers. No Paris
milliner did we need.
The parched okra coffee was drunk
and the sorghum syrup eaten. The
smoke houses dug up and dripped to
get our salt. The good sugar served
to cook up cakes and boxes filled to
send to the soldier boys. We were
content with all hardships to save our
soldier boys. Do you wonder that
the president of the Seaboard offers
free transportation to a hand of vet
erans invited to Richmond to join old
comrades and revisit old scenes and
battlefields for perhaps the last time?
A crown of immortals should encircle
his brow. One of these cousins from
Texas still lives and is leaving his
home today for Richmond. The oth
ers have passed over the river and to
day are resting with Stonewall Jack
son under the shade of the trees.
He. at the opening of the war, was
in the military school at Marietta
w'ith my brother, Ben Blanton, L. J.
Hill, now of Atlanta, and W. E. H.
Searcy of Griffin, the only military
school then in the state. When the
guns boomed at Sumter they were
the first summoned. He was wound
ed, then captured, sent to Johnson’s
island to feast on rats. This is sure
ly a memorable week in Georgia.
Our commencement season is closing
with our grand old University at
Athens, where I’ve spent so many
happy days with loved aunts and
cousins. Cousin Dave, the chancel
lor, was then a boy. My last com
mencement was when his brother,
Pope got his diploma.
Diplomas are being awarded. I’d
like to know how many have been
given from that institution.
TO OWNERS OF COTTON
I AM PREPARED TO BUY YOUR
COTTON DIRECT FROM YOU.
GIVE ME A CHANCE TO MAKE
YOU AN OFFER. YOU MAY FIND
ME AT EITHER WAREHOUSE IN
BARNESVILLE.
It A. S. MITCHELL.
PIEDMONT ITEMS
We had an all-day meeting at this
place Thursday of last week and the
good sermon preached by Brother
Marr and the splendid talks made by
several others were enjoyed very
much by all who were present. There
was also an announcement made that
there will be a singing at Mt. Zion
church at this place every Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Mrs. Alice B. Waller returned to
her home in College Park Sunday af
ternoon after spending a week with
the family of Mrs. Mary Waller.
Mrs. J. W. Elliott returned home
Monday from a visit to her sisters,
Mrs. Gillispie of Macon, and Mrs.
Peel of near Americus.
Mrs. C. C. Elliott and children and
Miss Eva Evans of Barnesville were
visitors in Piedmont Saturday night
and Sunday.
Messrs. J. T. Spier, C. G. Koon,
Emmett Waller and Roy Pridgeon
motored to Lifsey Springs Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Colquitt spent Friday
and Saturday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Waller.
Miss Annie Pearl Matthews of
Vega is the guest of Miss Jewell
Spier.
Mrs. J. W. Milner visited Mrs. J.
T. Spier recently.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bankston spent
Sunday with the family of Mrs. Mary
Waller.
Miss Eunice Milner of Atlanta
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Milner.
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CLAUDE CHRISTOPHER
Barnesville, Ga.
KEEPINGTHE LAW
Editor Gazette:
You did a good thing when you
published the State Law on the driv
ing of automobiles by little children.
If a father permits his child under
the legal age to drive his car he vio
lates the law himself and is educating
his child to become a law-breaker. He
is placing him in the list of the moon
shiners, bootleggers and pistol-toters.
He ought not to be proud of him as
a skillful driver, but to be ashamed
of him as a law-breaker. No good
citizen deliberately violates a law.
Now pursue your course and see
what can be done about speeding.
CITIZEN.
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Why Suffer from Rheumatism?
Do you know that nine out of every
ten cases of rheumatism are simply
rheumatism of th muscles or chronic
rheumatism, neither of which require
any internal treatment? The pain
may be relieved by applying Cham
berlain’s Liniment, which makes
sleep and rest possible, and that cer
tainly means a great deal to any one
afflicted with rheumatism.
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His Last Appearance.
One night while I was washing
dishes my loy friend called on me.
He came into the kitchen where 1
was working, and in my excitement
I set a pan of hot water on a chair.
I turned around to do something, and
my friend sat down on the pan of
water! He was wearing anew suit.
I never saw him again.—Chicago
Journal.
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and beginning to advance.
If you need anything in the
building line be sure to call on
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30x3 1-4 . “ 9.50
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