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b IRWINTON, GA.
Internantional Stock Food
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Announcement
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SOUTHERN LAND & LOAN COMPANY
Is organized for development in Mipdle Georgia.
IWe buy your land, find you a purchaser for your land,
| Loan you money to improve your place or to improve the
(toe you have.
Successors to Stokes Brothers
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Southern Land & Loan Co.
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Jeffersonville, Georgia !
Irwinton Bank
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Your money is insured with us.
Character is good collateral.
n 0 We make loans to those who deserve it-
We have never sued anyone.
We have never had an overdraft.
We have no notes'past due.
This bank is not run for the benefit of the officers,
I but for the stockholders and customers.
Any honest man can borrow’money here.’
Every note in the bank is worth face value.
We have never lost a cent oh any man.
We pay to have our books audited, and|they are always correct.
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Irwinton Bank
Money T ° Loan
I ■On Improved Farm Lands, by one thefbesgLoan
I Companiesjin the South.
I Long Time
| PaymentsUnd
I Low Rate
of Interest.
I Fleming Bloodworth
prwinton, ?_ ■ - - Georg
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;! Farmers’Supplies, Mules I
4 Hi^h Grade Fertilizers I
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THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
GET SCHOOL BOOKS
FROM MOMAND
You will find all necessary school
books at Montand's Store, Irwinton.
If you haven't time to come after
I hem, ordpr the books to be sent by
mail. Your order will receive prompt
attention, adv.
When You Must Hold
A Book Near Your Eyes
to be able to read, it is high time you
consulted an eye specialist and had
your eyes examined. Delay is dan
ead to serious conse
quences. You are invited to consul l
us and have your eyes examined. We
will tell vou exactly what your eyes
demand.
C. H. KITTRELL
[ Optometrist and Mf’g. Optician,
Dublin, Georgia.
Illinois Girls Want to Have Col
ony in Far West.
Suggest That Governor of Wyoming
Procure for Them a "Bad Lands"
Tract as Soon as Possible.
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■ Bloomington. 11l. —A group of Kane
county girls plan to found an “Adam-
' less Eden” in Wyoming or some other
far western state.
I Miss Nellie Grant is sponsor for the
I movement and has written to Gov. R.
i D. Carey for his assistance In starting
। a woman’s colony far from the haunts
of man. In making her unique request.
Miss Grant stated that the party will
be made up of twenty, of whom ten
i are employed in a watclr factory, seven
■ are housekeepers, two are nurses and
■ one is a school teacher.
AU are dissatisfied with their lot and
: assert that the future holds forth
; nothing that is sufficiently encourag
ing to warrant their remaining at
home. They believe that they can
make a success of farming and would
like to obtain a section of land, 640
acres, in some unsettled region, far
from a railroad and little frequented
by man.
Miss Grant suggested to the Wyo
ming executive a tract in southwest
ern Wyoming known as the “Bad
Lands,” and which is really a desert.
No man will be allowed about the
premises.
Governor Carey admitted that it was
the most unusual request that he had
ever received. He turned the letter
over to the immigration commissioner
with a suggestion that he lo every
thing in his power to find uch a tract
for the party from Illinois.
The young women arc ready to pay
for the tract, but have limited funds,
and can only finance a section that has
not yet felt the advancing tide of civ
ilization in the way of price. Some
members of the proposed colony object
to Wyoming and believe that Montana
or Idaho offer greater possibilities.
The decision, however, has been left
with Miss Grant and the choice will
follow the investigation of various sites
now being made. In anticipation of
the establishment of the colony, the
various members are studying diligent
ly the subject of farming and stock
raising.
They are ambitious in their plans
and propose to utilize tractors and
trucks instead of horses, and will in
troduce other up-to-date methods on
the western frontier. They are also
studying irrigation. All of the young
women are becoming familiar with a
revolver and rifle and will be prepared
to defend their colony against any
unwelcome intruders.
An effort is being made to close the
deal by fall so that the trip to the
West can be made by the first of next
year. It may be necessary to erect
some buildings. The young women
say that they will be prepared to do
everything necessary in the way of
constructing a domicile.
DISEASE COSTS
BILLIONSJ YEAR
Economic Loss From Preventable
Ailments Is Estimated at
Enormous Figure.
BASED ON STUDY IN ILLINOIS
Influenza Epidemic Responsible for
Economic Loss in Vital Assets of
Approximately $1,000,000,000
—Health Means Money.
New York.—Economic loss In this
country from preventable diseases Is
estimated by American Medicine at
$2,500,000,000 a year. This conclusion
is based on an elaborate study of the
subject by Illinois Health News, which
shows that in 1918 in Illinois alone ill
ness and death from such diseases en
tailed a loss of $24.07 for each man,
woman and child in the state. Although
the general death rate in Illinois was
at the low figure of 14.2 per 1,000 of
population, the loss from the prin
cipal preventable diseases amounted
to $15,881,685, or 6.01 per cent of the
total property value of the state.
“If this ratio of per capita cost,”
American Medicine says, “were to
apply for the entire United States
the loss during 1918 would amount to
more than $2,500,000,000. The Illinois
figures, however, merely considered
the cost of the following communi
cable diseases: Typhoid, malaria,
smallpox, measles, scarlet fever,
whooping cough, diphtheria, menin
gitis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis and
pneumonia.
“In computing the financial cost,
three items were involved: (1) The cost
of funerals based at SIOO for adults
and SSO for children; (2) the value of
life lost at $3,000 for an adult and §SOO
for a child; (3) the cost of care of
those who recover, including medical
’service for adults.
“Utilizing the same figures for the
few above-named diseases in a com
putation on the basis of the United
States mortality figures for 1916, the
death losses from these ten diseases
(poliomyelitis not included) amounted
to approximately $570,000,000 and the
losses due to medical care and wages
to approximately $1,078,000.
“The recent epidemic of influenza
involved at least ten million persons,
with a mortality of approximately 400,-
000. Assuming that each case of ill
ness involved only $25 for medical
care, the cost would be $250,000,000.
Pestilence Adds Another Billion.
“Inasmuch as the mortality from in
fluenza involved approximately three
persons of working age to one child,
one may consider the average loss by
death equivalent to $2,400, and the
funeral expenses at S9O, giving thus
a total economic loss in vital assets of
approximately $1,000,000,000. These fig
ures, large as they are, take no ac
count of the losses in production due
to the pestilence, nor, indeed, of the
cost of labor turnover due to the mor
tality of industrial workers.
These tremendous costs of com
municable diseases may be regarded
in part as an index of the economic
efficiency of communities. It certainly
does not reflect great interest or care
in the conservation of the assets of
the community to note the astonishing
destruction of resources due to pre
ventable communicable diseases.
“It is probably a shock to the con
servative thinker about economic
wastefulness to realize that the num
ber of industrial accidents reported to
the New York state industrial com
mission for the year 1917-1918 was
286,871, a number larger than the total
casualties of our American array oc
cupied in the strenuous work of con
quering a pitiless foe. It is of the ut
most significance that war, with all its
atrocities, is probably responsible for
little greater disease and disability
during the period of greatest industrial
activity than occurred during the or
dinary years of conditions reflecting
normal industrial activity.
Health Means Dollars and Cents. i
“Health must be estimated in terms
of dollars and cents, in terms of pro
ductivity in order to reach the con
science of the average taxpayer, who
must be called upon to defray the ex
penses of health departments and to
meet the increased costs laid upon
industry by virtue of the economic
losses entailed through sickness and
death. The economic value merits
greater attention particularly at this
time, when every effort is being made
to secure the rehabilitation of the
wounded and to increase the vigor and
potential power of those who have
suffered from disease while pursuing
their course as part of the military or
naval forces of the nation.
“It must not be forgotten, however, |
that similar problems are of equal im
portance in connection with the every
day living of the. growing nation, now j
bent upon renewing national prosperi
ty and raising the standards of health,
comfort and prosperity for all tin
types of citizens which comprise the
nation.”
Needle in Her Body.
Concordia. Mass.—A surgical needle
that has been in her body for more
than twepty years has never given
Mrs. F. J. Hannum of this city trou- ;
' ble until recently. The needle was re- j
moved by a physician after Mrs. Han
num had suffered severity with cramps
iu the leg'until the u»; dlr was found. ,
You are invited to visit ns in our new quar
ters. IVe are now ready to serve the public
in anything pertaining to safe and sound
banking.
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Gordon, - Georgia
Dupe sits Insured
I DR. J. L DUPREE, DENTISI '
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First-class Work
At Reasonable Prices
Georgia Life Building, Macon, Ga.
Planters Implement Co.
Attention:
Dont buy a TRACTOR nor a Truck
nor a Wagon nor a Harro vz nor a Plow
nor any other Farm Implement until
you see Ours.
It will cost you nothing to look.
It will be to your interest to wait
and see us before buying.
Planters Implement Co.,
512 Third Street, Macon, Ga.
Horses and Mules
Wagns, Buggies for Sale
Goood Harness and Saddle Horses
and the best Wagons and Buggies
that I can buy.
B. A. Hooks
DUBLIN, GA.
Tires, Tires, Tires
Suy the best and get them changed
and pumped Absolutely Free.
I am exclusive dealer iu Diamond and Pennsylvania Tires and Tubes.
They carry COJO mile adjustments.
If you want a good Tire at the M right Price
See Wright at
Wright’s Garage
F. P. WRIGHT, Proprietor.
Irwinton, Georgia.
Genuine Ford Pats. Veed ,1 Oil and Crown gasoline- Accessories.
Ug^ARO'JND THE WORLD WITH SV
fiE^THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. I
In the Arctic Circle. )
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jBBKsF life
Wherever American soldiers went during the war and after, tnere also
i wont the American Ited Cross. This policy carried Red Cross workers to
j far corners of the globe and here they are seen near the ran of everlasting
I Ice and snow in North Russia. Automobiles were used whenever possible but
on many Journeys the reindeer pictured here proved most effective. v