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THE BULLETIN
Ofifcial Organ of Wilkinson
County.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
~AMAR TIGNER,
FLEMING BLOODWORTH, -
Editors and Publishers
Subscription $1.50 per year,
paid in advance.
Entered as second class mail
matter at the postoffice at Ir
winton, Ga., under the act of
congress of March 3, 1879.
Strikes and Economic
Conditions.
A good many strikes are occurring
ovej; all the country now. It seems
that the labor situation is no better.
The railroad companies are trying to
ease off the government scale of
wages. The amount they are cutting
now is very small. But the employes
are thinking that it means a bigger
cut later. So they have taken the cue
and walked out. If the railroad does
not come across to the demand of
their former status the other unions
will walk out also. They are in sym
pathy with the clerks. The trouble
with the whole country is that we are
spending too much money and work
ing too liftle. We are yet indulging
in high prices. The strikers say that
they cannot live now with their wages
cut any at all. So hence they refuse
to work. The only solution that we
have before us is for the government
to take charge of the price situation
in some democratic way. When we
can live on a reasonable basis then
we can hear less of strikes.
Fall in Prices.
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The Literary Digest says that prices
of men’s clothing have taken a tumble,
d'ownwards all over the country. This
magazine quotes the leading business
men of the country on the subject.
They say that the tide has turned.
That prices now are headed to pre
war conditions. They do not prophe
sy that a panic will come. But that
we will face a period of hard times
that will affect us all, but will not
mean disaster. The people feared
that when prices made a turn it was
only temporary. That it meant they
would drop and then bounce up again.
The leading business meft say that the
reason the merchants and manufac
turers have cut prices are from two
causes: Ist millions of people have
refused to buy good's at the prices.
They have worn patched clothes and
done everything else to economize.
Second: By fall all those who have
gone wild over spending money will
have spent all they have by fall and
herefore both causes will stop sell
ing. Hence prices are coming down
from the two above-named causes. It
is not thought that food products will
come down very much on account of
world demand, for rations. But that
prices in general will take a tumble
and pre-war conditions will prevail
again.
Who Is Satisfied?
There seems to be great . dissatis
faction over the country. There is
a great unrest among ^he^eople. Peo
ple are not satisfied. We have made
a wild rush living high. We did that
on high -price cotton. We made mon
ey. We did not place it^n the bank.
The boll weevil caught us asleep. So
we were caught napping. The man
on the farm is dissatisfied. Labor is
bad. Weather conditions are unfav
orable. The boll weevil is here and
the farmers are dissatisfied.
The man in town with his city
home; Packard car; electric lights;
all modern conveniences, theatres for
amusements and every other conven
ience is grumbling about the high
prices and conditions of the country.
He is also dissatisfied. What will it
take to satisfy people? yThe trouble
is that we are living under a strain.
We are not making the proper sacri
fice. We have gone back on the
principles and customs we used to
live under. Formerly we killed a calf
and sent our neighbors different^ parts
of the fatted animal. In turn when
he killed one he sent us f part. But
we have quit all that. We have com
mercialized everything. Everything
is money-business finances. Yet we
are not satisfied. We must forget
this wild rush for money and live
more for home and our community
and under the right kind of conditions
and circumstances we will experience
a better feeling. Long as money is the
God, unhappiness and unrest will
reign. We will never be satisfied.
Daily Thought.
His mind his kingdom and Us will
Ms law.—Cowper.
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Quitting the Farm. *
Farmers are quitting. Farmers in
Wilkinson county are quitting farm
ing after this year. The boll weevil
has discouraged them. This, of course,
is a trying time for the farmers. They
are up against it. But all this will
. blow over. Now is no tim# to quit.
Os course, we cannot make as mnch
cotton as we formerly did, but we can
make more money. 801 l weevil cuts
down the cotton crop from 20 to 40
. per cent. In every section where they
have the boll weevil under .good sea
, sons the farmers make from 75 to 80
' per cent of what they formerly did.
Under bad conditions the average is
fifty per cent of a crop. So there
we are. We will make less cotton.
But we can make a fair average of
crop by planting early, fertilizing high
and working it fast. Then we can
make more fcod stuffs. Live more at
home. Buy less and get more for our
cotton and get along better. They
have done that and are doing that in
Alabama. We can do it and will do
it in Georgia.
Labor Union Leaders.
So it has come at last. The union
men struck a few days ago. Their
officers ordered them back to work.
The men now claim the officers sold
out. The union men should not be
come discouraged. Unions are good
things. But unions shculd! be on a
stern defensive business proposition.
They should cut out the fellowship
part of the union. Let the fraternity
side go. Place men in office whose
integrity cannot be ’questioned. All
organizations have traitors. All camps
have spies within. The union men
have just met a stumbling block. They
need a reorganization and a commit
tee to keep up with the officers. They
need a better system. Absolutely
turning the union over to a few men
to run as they see fit is creating an
autocracy in the union. Why not
make it more democratic? Unions
are good things defensively but they
should use better judgment in select
ing men if the reports are true that
their officers have sold them out.
Convention Votes.
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What is the meaning of an elector
al vote? It is this: for the Demo
cratic convention each State is allow
ed two delegates for each electoral
vote. Now the electoral vote corres
ponds to our representation in con
gress. For each Seantor we have
two delegates. For each -congress
man we have tw’o delegates. So we
get the delegates correspondingly
with cur representation in congress.
Each delegate has an alternate. The
alternate votes of the delegate is not
go “instructed,” and “uninstructed.”
When delegates go “instructed” they
generally abide by their orders. The
chairman sees to that. He keeps them
all together. He is to prevent the
break in the ranks. It is bad politics
to break “within the ranks.” The old
boys wll get you if you do that. After
voting on a man till there is no
chance fcr him to win, then they can
take another choice. And vote for
that candidate so long as he has a
chance to win. But go to the conven
tion uninstruited means that the dele
gates have no “rules and regulations”
laid down for them. They can vote
as they please for the best interest of.
the party.
As a general rule there are a few
men at the convention who have ev
erything mapped out and carry the
program to suit themselves. But af
ter they do that and if they do it
gracefully, we all fall in line and stack
to him as “the people’s choice.’’
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STRAIGHT TRUTHS
1 There are several ways of
making good in this world, but
I the main thoroughfare to suc-
, cess is simply to do your best
, all the time.
People never seem to know as
much about the use of money
1 after they get it as they did be
-1 fore they had It. *
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1 The man who has been sav
' ing up for a rainy day has bad
plenty of opportunities to dig
) into his bank account this year.
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5 ALL TRUE
f Face value of courage shows up
1 when It faces misfortune.
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t A married man usually feels sorry
■ for himself when his wife is sick.
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( Too much money or too little doesn’t
( beget happiness, so try just enough.
There are but few sensible people in
the world —yet they all agree with you
If a married man is looking for an
easy job he has no time for anything
i else.
You never can tell. A suit of clothes
’ may look rusty and still wear like
iron.
After burying the hatchet a poli
tician is reasonably sure to dig up
an ax.
Some men hustle almost as hard for
a job as some women hustle for a
। husband.
Scientists tell us that people should
wed their opposites. That is why so
many people are anxious to matry
■ money.
Yes, Alfred, rolling the rugs back to
dance, during courtship, is far differ
ent from taking them to beat, after
marriage.
Imitation may be the sincerest flat
tery, but it is difficult to convince a
girl that such js the case when she is
presented with an imitation diamond.
Few filings taste as good when
warmed over, a pretty good argument
against letting your love grow cold.—
। Philadelphia Record.
WISDOM ’
l The best remedy for a heart-attack
is another girl.
. Let us be thankful for our lot, even
if it is not a lot.
People hate to get a reputation for
what they really are.
’ The last thing you want is generally
- the first thing you get.
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A stolen kiss has cost many a man
> 50 years of matrimony.
, A man likes to feel that he is loved;
a woman likes to be told.
’ Love is a candle which all women
hope to light with a match.
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1 The fact that riches have wings
’ does not help a man to feather his
i nest.
Life is full of disappointments.
> Nothing ever comes off —except but
, tons,
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It is a solemn thing to get married,
but a serious thing not to have the
chance.
* The women wno then men’s hair
■ gray are the women who turn their
t own golden.—Pearson's Weekly.
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FRAGMENTS OF THOUGHT
1 That which a man really is becomes
U his truest reward or his direst pun
-3 ishment.
5 Demand of every common thing that
it shall bloom into fine results in
y your own soul and in your influence
_ on the world.
. If we all found it as natural to at
tack our own faults as to see the
same shortcomings in other people,
what a delightful world this would
be!
All our sowing looks toward the
day of reaping. The trouble with
much of it is that we demand the sort
of harvest that is utterly foreign to
the kind of seed we sow. Nature will
• not work that kind of miracle.
£ GATHERED FACTS
Grass is the natural food of the
horse. On no other food will it keep
so healthy, become so strong, or live
so long.
One test for distinguishing diamonds
, from glass and paste is to touch them
with the tongue. The diamond feels
much colder.
At Swedish weddings, among the
middle and lower classes, the bride
groom carries a whip. This is an em
blem of his authority in the domestic
k circle
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—and Act Quickly
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1 sympathy between the I
eve, the brain and the §
nervous system. If the
vision is impaired, it en
forces strained action up- ,
on both the mental and ’ i
the nervous system. No / 1
man, woman or child can /
be thoroughly efficient,
alert, active or comfort- < ; I
able with impaired eye- /
sight. '
The straining of your ' •
faculties induces head
aches, lassitude, nervous- sEW'iy
ness and dullness. V® ■
Nature may not have < ।
already warned you that
your eyes are defective,
but don’t wait — assure V .
yourself. V
Let us examine your |
eyes. If you don’t need
glasses we will be happy U\ i
to tell you so. If you do • y \ ’
need them, we’ll pre- ! \
‘ scribe the proper sort and ?
style to correct your vis- s
ion and render a most be- (J ,1 |
coming appearance. ' e
®WM. W. SMITH
OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN
JEFFERSON ST. New Dublin Hotel Bldg. DUBLIN, GA-
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Sheriff’s Sale of Land.
GEORGIA —Wilkinson County.
Will be sold at the court house door
in said- county on ithe first Tuesday
in July, 1920, within the legal hours
of sale to the highest bidder for cash
all of the following described real
estate, to-wit: •
Four lots of land, lying, being and
situa/te in the Town of Gordon, Wil
kinson county, Georgia, and known
as lots Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4 in Block F,
as per plat on record in the Clerk’s
Office of the Superior Court of Wil
kinson County, and recorded in Book
30, Folio 24. Said land levied on as
the property of W. L. Weaver to satis
fy an execution issued from the City
Court of Nashville, Georgia, on the
Ist day of May, 1920, in favor of the
Peoples Bank of Gordon against W.
L. Weaver. Said levy made by L. P.
Play?r, Sheriff of Wilkinson Co.
Also; one lot*of land lying, being
and situate in <the Town of Gordon,
Wilkinson County, Georgia, and
known as.lot No. 12 in Block C, as per
plat on record in the Clerk’s Office
of the Superior Court of Wilkinson
County, Georgia, and recorded in
Book 30, Folio 24. Said land levied
on as the property of A. E Bonner
to satisefy an execution issued from
the Justice Court of the 202 District,
G. M. Georgia, Jones County on the
25th day of September, 1919/ in favor
of the Peoples Bank of Gordon vs. A.
E. Bonner. Said levy made by J. R.
Kelly, a Constable of Wilkinson Coun
ty, and fi. fa. and notice turned: over
to the Sheriff of Wilkinson County.
Also; two lots of land lying, being
and situate in the Town of Gordon,
Wilkinson County, Georgia, and
known as lots Nos. 1 and 2 in Block
C, as per plat on record in the Clerk’s
Office of the Superior Court of Wil
kinson County, Georgia, and recorded
in Book 30, Folio 24. Said land levied
on as the property of D. T. Butts to
satisfy an execution issued from the
Justice Court of the 320 District, G.
M. Georgia, Baldwin County, on the
24th day of October,, 1919, in favor of
the Peoples Bank of Gordon vs. D. T.
Butts. Said levy made by J. R. Kelly,
a Constable of Wilkinson County, and
said fi. fa. and notice turned over to
L. P. Player, Sheriff of Wilkinson
County
Purchaser must pay for executing
deed.
No tenants in possession of any of
the above described lots. Defendants
In fi. fa.’s notified in terms of law.
This, the 15th day of May, 1920.
L. P. PLAYER.
Sheriff of Wilkinson County, Georgia.
ELI B. HUBBARD,
Atty, /at Law for Plaintiff.
Gordon, Ga.
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Character is good collateral.
We make loans to those who deserve it.
We have never sued any one.
We have no notes past due.
This bank is not run for the benefit of the offi*
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Any honest man can borrow* money here,
Every note in the bank is worth face value.
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