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,plT. NOVEMBER 15, »«•
uy your Maxwell Now
. receive d a shipment of the 1918 models, which
" beautifully designed and built for service.
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We invite you to call and inspect them
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The Leslie Red Cross Chapter had
very interesting meeting Monday
afternoon at the Lodge Hall. The
uuernuun ut u»o **•*•••
TUOISASDS OF REFUGEES BEING membcrsh comm|ttco reporte d tl5
CAKED FOR BT BUITISH AB- P
THOKITIES WITH AMERICAN
BED CROSS HELPING.
SALONIKI, Nov. 14—(Staff Corros-
spondenco of the Associated Press...)
There are 70.000 Ore sufferers cam i-
ing out In tents In and around Salon-
ldl, with the British and French mil
itary authorities and the American
Red Cross taking care of them. A tour
of these relief camps gave an oppor
tunity to Bee the extent of misery
want of these poor people, and the paving
members enrolled up to the present
da)f. The ladles at the work room,
under the direction of Misses Mary
IJttloJohn and Mary Parker, of the
Americus Red Cross Chapter, will soon
complete the lesson they are giving
on sergteal dressings.
Mrs. E. L. Wilson aid mother, Mr
J J. Sloan, have bought a quantity
of wool and are carding and spin
ning thread to maks socks tor the
rddiers, owing to the trouble somo are
in getting the thread. It
and ... ... . . ,
efficient relief work being done:„hows they mean business, regardless
chiefly by the British, as they have or difficulties. It will bo a sight to
the largest stock of available supplies,' some of the younger set to see thread
with tho Americans and French also being made on an old-Ume eplnnig
doing their share. | wheel. ' . r
The Dubular camp, where 2,500- Mr. and Mrs. Lasco Harvey spent 3tates for the r
people are being cared for by tho Sunday in Americus with relaUves. tlon ' To ^™ g - B _ D> |gq
British and the American Red Cross, | Mlsu Luclle Green went to Cordolo iracn ment
CMPM !N FULL SWING
ATLANTA, Cu.. Nov. 14.—Do you be
lieve In naUon-wtde prohibition? If eo,
let your congressman know where you
stand.
That Is the Blogan of the whirlwind
campaign now being conducted tu
Georgia by tho Anti-Saloon League
or this Btate, of which James A Christ
ian Is superintendent, and in practical
ly every section the campaign epakers
find public sentiment overwhelmingly
in favor of tho issue.
The proposed prohibition amend
ment to the federal constitution whl :h
has passed the United States Senate
will come to a vote In the national
House of Representatives 'n Decembor.
If It passes the House and Is signed
by the president, It will then be refer
red to the legislatures of tho various
BRAGG’S MARKET
choice cuts of Beef or Poik in Steaks, Roasts and
itews. Good Sausage Meats, Liver, Steak, Brains,
Vienna Sausage, Sliced Hams and Bacon.
Butter, Eggs, Fish and Oysters.
BRAGG’S MEAT MARKET
123 W. FORSYTH ST. PHONE 181
was the first one visited. It is tweb shopping Friday,
miles back of tho city, on rising taillr.t Mrs. Mattie Hutchinson, of Tifton,
which the Bulgars thought to tako, is spending tho week In Leslie with
when they made their first rush on the relatives.
city Mr. Floyd Hines made a business
On the way to the camp we passed trip to Cordele Thursday,
the British supply base, and had an Mr. Ted Young* was bruised up con-
opportunity to see the vast reserves siderably Saturday afternoon when hts
tho British have laid in. in ammunt- car, driven by his son Edwin, collided
tion, food and charcoal for the cold [with another ouotombile in which two
months ahead. Nothing could havejmen were riding, one of them sustain
Not how cheap, but how good we can make your
otograph, Portraits, Commercial Work, Kodak Fin-
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liiumuo aui.au, ivuvuiuo i
shown more clearly that the British. a broken arm in the shake-up. Tho
Miun ii iuuic i/ »i
like the French, are here to stay. In Occident happened on the Americus
Is now being waged throughout tho
country under the auspices of the
sntl-Saloon League ot America, and
the campaign in Georgia :s a part of
the great national drive.
Richmond Pearson • Hobson, famous
hero of the Merrlmac and probably
the ablest prohibition advocate In the
world, Is being heard by large and cu.
thuslaBtic audiences whereever ho ap
pears In the Georgia campaign. He
will sreak in Macon today; In Athens
tomorrow and In Savannah on Friday.
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Illtt: tile r I Lm is, ait uviu UV “J j ,
.a. i >l ninni-a /xf ahoiia Leslie road near Mr. J. M. Johnsons
munitions alone the stacks or shells
A. McPheeters Forsyth Street
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extended for a mile along the road,
and as far back as the eyes could see.
In the engineering park there were
acres of wire, curved steel trench
covers, and lengths ot narrow-gauge
railway, ready to put together, as
children eons'ruct a toy railway. Tlie
stock of charcoal being laid in Is
prodigious, for there Is no intention
that tho Tommies shall again be cold
! While in their trenches and dug-outs.
; Endless tiains of pack-mules and cam-
' ions circulated through this supply
base, with the bustle and road and
overhanging cloud of dust of a colos
sal enterprise.
In Camp Dubular, where refugees
are quartered, a city of white tents
spread out for half a mile ovor thd
level plain. They were the regula
tion nritish army tents, drawn from
the big reserve base. They were laid
out in regular streets and cross
atreets. Everything was scrupulously
neat, with British Boldlers on guard
to see that order and proper sanita
tion was maintained
home.
aged
Both cars were badly dani-
Reisonablo Idea.
Le Roy was being teased by hif
aunt, who told him that his father
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Several of the Methodist hero will'liked his baby brother bettor than he
attend the South Georgia Methodist, and said:
conference In Albany this week. »j daddy should V.ta rao Hotter.
Miss Leila Ranew left Tuesdaw for| ’cause ho knows roe longer ”
Manchester, where she was called cn
account of sickness in the family of
A number of young men from this community have already been
assigned to duty In our army, and some are now tn service ' aomo-
where" In foreign countries.
It Is quite likely that many more will go.
The occasion may arise for someone In this community to remit
funds to relatives of friends who arc In service In foreign fields.
We are enable, through our bank correspond who have branch
banks in foreign countries,, to effect payment of such remittances
by a safe and direct method, and we offer our faculties for inch
purposes to the people of the surrounding community.
The Bank of Commerce
when you jump out
of bed these cold
mornings! You shiv
er—br-r-r-r. What’s
the use? One of our
little gas heaters will
make you perfectly
comfortable. Turn it
on, instant heat—turn
it off, expense ceases.
$6.00 and $7.00
her sister, Mrs. J. L. Amason
Mr. J. W. Suggs and family havo
moved to the home of Mrs. W. C.
Laramore, on Bailey avenue.
Clyde Harp and family moved to
I^eslie Monday.
Mrs. Homer Oxford, of Ocilla, visit
ed relatives and friends in Leslie last
week
Mrs. Molllo Nunn and daughter, Mrs.
Bose Johnson, of Huntington, were
iu town Monday.
Mrs. Grorge Laramore was In Los
lie Monday morning shopping.
Rev. J. C. Cook and father, Rev.
J O. A. Cook, left Tuesday for Al
bany, where they will attend the Meth
odist conference which Is being held
their this week.
— Mrs. J. D. Cocke Is spending this
-We have to do It all ourselves," j wc#|£ j n . Atlanta with relatives,
eald the commanding, officer of thOj w c. Laramore and two
camp, "for singularly the rofuge<;s j dauBht er8 left Thursday for Macon,
refuse to do a stroke of work ' or | where thcy w i|| reside In tuturc.
selves. When their supply MIga Rosa Morgan, of Americas
h meat came we asked them ,0 i v | 3 |tea i, cr mother, Mrs. Annie Morgan,
the flies off ot it, but they would week
shoo the files off of it, hut mey wuu.u, { week
not keep their own fond clean unless ^ ^ Mf> , j gtevenson and
paid for It." I v;rody (Stev)cnson, of Chlckasawhat-
The refugees are grouped in tho chec _ gpcnt g un day In Leslie,
tents by families, five to a tent, wlth^ M | >s Rutb p ar ker spent the week-
army cots. They are a very wretijhoJ, ^ at War wiek with her sister, Mils
lot, who lost everything in tho big •-«— — 1
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tire which destroyed Salonlkl. There) .
are many old women and children ^ Sa „ le Wadc and ao n Thomas, £
ned Cross j visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. CUpton. at
nurses were bathing the Infants, with, !■ a, ™ r ( ’ aatu ^ Broyles. wh0 mad e a
hoy scouts as helpers. Not a baby had trlp t0 his homo sit Knox-
dled. ami there Is Rule sickness <■*- ^ . e , urnod t0 Leslie Sun-
spite the usual camp experience the ^ *
infants are going through. j y ^ LetUe Fryar gpent lha we ek-
Food for dinner wa» being m| w|t „ „ cr parent , at Rochelle,
the party passed. Lach family, ^ ^ M , hat can com o out
had a card showing n» number and ^ ^ a „ dUorlum Friday even-
needs, and only one member of be ^ ^ number flf (ho Ly
family is recognized In P r “ enUng fe „ m courao wl „ be the attraction,
these cards Their holders wero ga | ^ Cr , (p W ilklnson has recently
ered in long lines, men women and ^ the home now occupied by
children. The British furnish a good ^ to
part of their arm- rations, and tb « ad ' crypbl '
American Red Cross adds rice and^
l,fans J a Statesman 8et RIqM.
Ur. Edward W. Ryan, head of the, ETan tbou who themsetvea
L)p. r.nwaru «. — — i ^ r en iaob© wo©
American Red Cross here, took tho npon comet ipeoch frequently uso
Initiative In starting these camps.
v.'hlch now represent one of the ncenil7 that “he did not belong to a
ert relief works of recent year«. C enftin club.” “Belongr Certolnly
While the conflagratton was stilt rag-' ££
ing, he had set up soup kitchens, and ihouJd bay , uld that he wns not a
within twelve hours of the start ot membor.—London Answers,
the tiro he was feeding *A0O people.'
Tho military aatb “ riU “; t0 d<r this army ot d^Ututo p~
French came tn later, and the work
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Herbert Hawkins l ™ing~^e problem now t. what he inhabited.
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Britten. Americans and French co- In and the cities of tents can no longer
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