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A HOT WATER BOTTLE There $ no prompter, more positive or satisfactory solution of the ice-cold bed problem than one of our pure rubber hot water bottles. Take one of them to bed with you and go to sleep—the bag will do its part by keeping you warm through the night. One of our seamless water bags is a true as well as a warm friend — it can be depended on not to spring a sudden leak. Every one is guaran teed for one year. A hot water bottle is more than a little rubber heater — it • the easiest, simplest, and most direct method of successfully treating many different kinds of ills, aches and pains. m % We have a complete and splendid line of satijfactory rubber goods here awaiting your inspection. Come in and let us explain their advan tages to you. LAMAR COUNTY DRUG CO. Phone 30 And Get It Quick Bartlesville, Ga. LOCAL, PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS Miss Cora Moss spent Monday in Atlanta. —o— Sweet mixed pickle, 25c per lb.— Sarah Fambro. Old Gold and Silver bought.—J. H. Bate & Cos. Mrs. Lee Hawkins spent the week end in Thomaston. Mrs. J. M. Anderson is on a visit with relatives in Atlanta. —o — FOR SALE—OId fashioned black walnuts.—Sarah Fambro. Miss Rbsa Middlebrooks spent sev eral days in Atlanta last week. —o — FOR SALE—One open and one top buggy, second-handed, overhauled jobs in first class condition.—Frank lin Buggy Cos., Inc. 11-30 MOTHER! MOVE CHILD’S BOWELS ;<=- "California Fig Syrup” X ,/n v ~- Child’s Best Laxative ’ i Hurry mother! Even a sick child loves the “fruity” taste of “Califor nia Fig Syrup” and it never fails to open the bowels. A tablespoonful today may prevent a sick child to morrow. If constipated, bilious, feverish, fretful, has cold, colic, or if stomach is sour, tongue coated, Special Prices We are offering special prices on Men’s Furnish ings, Shoes, Hats and Caps. The Gent’s Furnishings Go. Pierce Hammond, Manager "We're Got What You Want Or We'll Gel It" STAFFORD BLOCK WAIN STREET Barne9vilie, Georgia Misses Esther Dumas and Annie Laurie Butler spent the week-end with their cousin, Miss Mary Alice Dumas. Am prepared to make loans on city property, in cluding residences and busi ness houses. CLAUDE CHRISTOPHER Attorney-at-Law 12-7 Barnesville, Ga —o Misses Ethel Cochran and Mary Fannie Beasley, two A. & M. girls, spent the week-end with their school mate, Miss Clifford Dumas. —o — Miss Florence Dumas spent last week-end with home folks. She filers her work, which is copying agent for Western Union Telegraph Cos., in At lanta. —o —■ FOR SALE —5-room house with lights and water. Apply to 328 Central Ave. H breath bad, remember a good cleans ing of the little bowels is often all that is necessary. Ask your druggist for genuine “California Fig Syrup” which has di rections for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! You must say “California” or you may get an imitation fig syrup. The Famous: r**'V • J. J. GROVER’S I \ a “SI STICK AI.MA" 1 \ SHOES \ • (58.60 Grade) / M SC.OO / rk Pr. / Hack IncitKl** with order. oft&mb ATLAJITA. OA FOR SALE —Pigs.—Arthur Owen. —o — Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDowell of Atlanta were visitors in the city last week. FOR SALE—Nice gentle mare, fat and sound, good buggy and har ness.—J. P. Park, Milner, Ga. Mrs. J. E. Calkins of Tallahassee, Fla., who has been visiting her sis ter, Mrs-. E. A. Stephens, of Atlanta, will return to Barnesville today. —o— -6 Per Cent Money —Under Bankers Reserve System 6 per cent money may be secured on city or farm property, to buy, build, improve, or pay indebtedness. —Bankers Reserve Deposit Company, 1648 California Street, Denver Colorado. 12-28 Mrs. A. S. Hardy returned to her home in Gainesville Tuesday after a visit of two weeks with her mother, Mrs. C. E. Lambdin. Mr. S. T. Sailings of Waycross has been visiting the family of his fath er, Mr. Ellsberry Stallings, the past w'eek in the southern portion of La mar. Mrs. B. H. Butts returned home last week from Gainesville, where she went to be at the bedside of Mr. J. C. Butts, who was seriously ill with pneumonia. It will be grati fying to the friends of the family to knovv that Mr. Butts is on the road to recovery and will probably soon be entirely well again. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Jones and the members of their family and Miss Lilia Jones of Woodbury left Tues day for Florida, where Mr. Jones owns valuable property, and where they expect to remain for some weeks. They went in their automo bile and were prepared to make their trip partake of camp life. Their friends here hope for them a most enjoyable trip and safe return to Barnesville. How Not to Take Cold. Some persons are subject to fre quent colds, while others seldom, if ever have a cold. You will find that the latter take good care of them selves. They take a shower or cold sponge bath every day in a warm roofn, avoid over heated rooms, sleep with a window open or partly open, avoid excesses, over eating, becoming over heated and then chilled and get ting the feet wet. Then, when thev feel the first indication of a cold, they take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy without delay and it is soon over. BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES Arthur Jackson, Pastor. Were you at Sunday School last Sunday? No one else can take your place. And there is a place for you. Come next Sunday, and bring some one with you. Help us to make the school reach every home and every person in the community. The B. Y. P. U. work is going fine. Attendance is good and the spirit is better. The Senior Union is taking “Training in Christian Service” this week. The class meets at five o'clock every evening at the church. Seven teen present the first lesson. Come to Prayer Meeting every Wednesday evening at seven o’clock. The W. M. U. of the Georgia Bap tist Convention is meeting in Atlanta this week. Several of our ladies have been attending. Sunday morning at eleven o’clock we will have our Loyalty Program. Every member of our church is urged to be present. Not only does our iocal interest require your presence, but the general denominational in terest calls for your presence. The situation which we are facing now. challenges the loyal and faithful sup port of <jverv Baptist. Your church and denominational loyalty is chal lenged. What will your response be? Special program. Come. Sunday night the pastor will preach on “A Good Man’s Hell.” We have ha<4- especially interesting ser vices for the last two Sunday nights. Professions of faith at each of them. Come next Sunday night praying for; the pastor and the ■ message. Bap-1 tism following the service. Limit to his* cleverness Defect in Elephat’a Education Re sponsible for Smart Young Man's Small Financial Loss. “That’s n very knowing animal,” said tire young man to the keeper of the elephant at fT) ij. MI I the circus. R “V e r y,” wn s the cool rejoin {Ai rILY-v forms strange \ tricks and an- Wjbit “Does lie?" in quired the youth, / rejC inK eyeing the an- Imnl critically. “Surprising," replied the keeper. "We’ve taught him to put money in that box up there. Try him with half a crown.” Sure enough the elephant took ,the money In his trunk and put it in a box which htmg high on the wall. “That's extraordinary,” said the smart one. "Now let tne see him take it out and hand it back again.” "We haven’t taught him that trick yet!’’ retorted the keeper, blandly. FITTED WITH ENEMY'S LEG Confederate Veteran Has Probably Unique Memorial of the Conflict Between the States. Many interesting incidents of the Civil war were brought out in con nection with the recent grand Con federate reunion In Richmond. One of the most remarkable, and an ab solutely true story, is that of a “Yan kee’s” artificial leg which came into the possession of a Confederate offi cer. Marching in the parade the other day was rapt. J. N. Bullard, wear ing n leg flint originally belonged to. Colonel Daldgren of the northern army, and which Captain Ballard lias been using for approximately sixty years. Colonel Daldgren, after losing a leg in one of the earlier battles of the Civil war, replaced It with u costly artificial one. lie later fell mortally wounded in a skirmish at White’s tavern, near Richmond, in 1864, at the hands of .1. E. It. Stuart’s men. His artificial leg by chance fell into the hands of some of Mosby’s men, who presented it to Captain Ballard, an officer of Mosby’s command, who also had lost u leg in the war. The leg was a perfect tit, and ever since Cap tain Ballard lias, wearing it and probably will carry it with him to his grave. “Dead” Mail Would Cover Town. Dead, or misdirected, letiei'f. re ceived by post offices throughout the United Stales during one year would completely cover a fair-sized town. •Not a blade of gloss or a speck of ground would be seen if the letters were laid flat on the ground. During the fiscal year Just recently ended, there were 19,000,000 letters sent to the dead letter office through carelessness in addresses. This amount is reported virtually every year, it is said. The dead letters, laid side ly side, would cover 1,979 lots, each 20 by 100 feet. There would lie some 8,- 058,.'188 square feet entirely covered by mail. Mother Hen Proud of Freak. A chicken which is quadruped was hatched out among a lot of other nor mal chickens in a New York man's poultry yard. The uncanny bird has its legs arranged so as to he able to run along on all four, just like a cat, ami is apparently healthy and is peeking away with un appetite as good as that of any of its two-legged brothers and sisters. The strange quadruped is a Red Wyandotte and the mother hen is strutting round it clucking with pride at having hatched out a marvel. f BLISS Fly: Oh joy, from a distance I thought it was a barber pole, but It’s a stick of delicious candy. Preserve Life of Freak Colt. A two-legged coll, u remarkable freak of nature, was born at Fort Garry, Man, According to the veteri nary surgeon, there is no sign of even the stliirips of forelegs. The cult is til ing fed a .special preparation of milk In an effort to keep life in ihe body. When the colt has Acquired sufficient strength, it will be •‘cradled," that Is stdod upon its hind legs ivitli the fore quarters strapped up from the ceiling; in tills way It may live, fur years. Women Have New Opportunity. One of America's foremost women radio experts Is Mrs. Charles K. Cut ler of Tacoiiia. Mrs. Cutter wiisGmc of the first women wireless operators. For some years site was engaged at a radio Instructor and now she Is ac tively Interested In a radio niotni faeturiug company. Wear Abundance of Petticoat*. <’hnln women, of South America, are stated never to remove a petticoat, clean ones ticlng added as required: Dome of them are credited with as many as <kt of these garments at tntce WHAT CARNEGIE SAID “Apply to the masses of men any of the tests that indicate success or failure in life and none more clearly than THRIFT will separate the re spected and useful from the unsatisfactory mem bers of society.” Now, Andy was in a position to know what he was talking about. He came from a raee of peo ple proverbially thrifty. As an example of thrift he did fairly well himself. It will pay you to ac quire the habit of saving and profitably investing. An account at our Bank will start you on the right road. HESEBYB^' I^SVSTBM^hI THE CITIZENS BANK BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA FIGHT THE ROLL WEEVIL MAKE SOME COTTON IN SPITE Of HIM The following is suggested as a Farm Program for LAMAR COUNTY for 1923 One Horse Farm Unit Three to six good pro ducing milch cows, pure bred recommended; two to three good sows, pure bred recommended; twenty to forty brood hens,pure bred recommended. 10 acres in corn, velvet beans and N. C. peanuts; 5 acres in oats,followed with peas or other hay crop; 4 acres in wheat, followed with Spanish peanuts; 5 5 acres in Spanish peanuts, or watermelons; 3 acres in sweet potatoes and cane, 2 to 5 acres in Pepper;s acres in cotton,follow early with grain; 12 acres in permanent carpet grass, Dallas grass and Lespedeza. This will bring Permanent Prosperity toLamar County and Its Citizens.