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ABOUT COUNTY AFFAIRS
BY VICTOR DAVIDSON
The grand jury of Mitchell
county has just urged its com
missioners to abolish the chain
gang system of road building and
substitute free labor, declaring
that such a move would result
in that county saying fifty thous
and dollars a year and wipe out
within two years its floating
debt.
Forty two counties in Georgia
have already abolished their
chaingangs and are using free
labor in the maintenance of
their roads.
Cobb county tried out plan of
maintaining and woiking these
misdemeanor convicts which
these counties did not want, but
has found the plan so expensive
thatjt has been discontinued.
An Atlanta news article says
that a state-wide movement is
on foot to limit the amount of
taxes a county may levy for
county purposes. The 1929 Leg
islature limited the amount one
particular county could levy to
five mills, except in cases of
emergencies to be passed .upon
by the grand jury.
Free speech seems to be de
nied in Wilkinson, and a man
must not run for office against
any member of the chosen few.
If he happens to hold a county
office and occupies office space in
the courthouse he must not criti
cise any official acts or suggest
any reforms or the reduction of
expendituresand taxes. If he
offend in these particulars he
will be denied office space, even
though one particular room was
built for that office and office
space has been provided for that
office ever since the creation of
the office, and even though there
are vacant rooms in the court
house.
FURS &PEAS
I will be in the fur business again
this year and want to buy your fuis.
Please ship or bring them to me or
let me know and I will come for them
I will pay the highest market price,
T also buy field peas. Let me
know what you have to offer.
J. A. Butler Fur Co.
R, F, D. 1, Irwinton, Ga.
How doth the little school bov get
busy the moment school is out,
THE BULLETIN
Ofifcial Organ of Wilkinson
County.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Lamar and Mary Tigner. Editors
Subscription $1.50 per year,
paid in advance.
Entered as second clars mail
matter at the postoffice at Ir
winton, Ga., under the let of
congress of March 3. 18/9.
Two letters, nearly 150 years
old and written by George Wash
ington during the Revolutionary
War have been found between
the pages of an old ledger Hn a
Savannah home. One of the let
ters authorizes the release of one
Amos Gregory from the county
“gaol ” The other grants permis
sion to “Mr Bradford and his
negro man, Sam, to pass and re
pass the picket at Ramapo. ”
Opera success hailed as sign of
prosperity. Thereby admitting
that to us music is a luxury. The
Persians say: “If I had but two
loaves of bread I would sell one
and buy white hyacinths to feed
my soul ” We Americans have
too much ‘common sense’ to take
Art seriously. Wonder what we
gain that’s half so precious as
the thing we lose?
A gypsy princes has been kid
napped. She is the 14-year-old
idol of the famous Mitchell clan.
Looks more like an elopement to
me. A young spark belonging to
another tribe induced the prin
cess to steal SSOO 00 irom her
brother and fly with him. When
they were caught the gypsies
brought so many charges against
the man that the court was
baffled, and finally agreed to let
the gypsy tribal court settle the
whole matter.
Which reminds me of an old
ballad I used to be sung to sleep
by long ago when I was little. —
‘Go rob your father of his gold
Your mother of her fee,
And to old England we will go,
And a-married we will be.’
That was the way it went. And
the outcome of it was that the
man got the gold and the silly id
iot girl got left. That was when
I began turning into an old maid.
Two York girls are standing in
line for the British throne. That
is a royal bred line.
The Law has agreed to tie its
hands and feet together with
technicalities and try to whip
Crime by yelling at it.
Once a Polish leader approach
ed the Kaiser for some grant of
liberty. He was advised that he
would fare better if he dreamed
no dreams. That same day in Po
land a child was born whose name
means “no dreams.”—Paderew
ski. However, we know that the
boy, grown man, made his dream
walk and liberated Poland.
Football Games
October 25
Tech vs. Tulane at Atlanta, Ga.
Alabama vs. Vanderbilt at Birmiing
ham, Ala.
Auburn vs, Georgia at Columbus,
Ga.
November 1
Georgia vs. Florida at Savannah,
Ga,
Furman vs. Oglethorpe at Atlnta, Ga,
November 8
Tech vs. Vanderbilt at Atlanta Ga.
November 15
Alabama vs, L. S, U. at Montgomer,
Ala.
Auburn vs, Miss. A&M at Birming
ham, Ala.
November 27
Georia vs Alabama at Birminghm,
Ala.
Tech vs. Florida at Atlanta, Atlanta,
Ga.
Auburn vs. South Carolina at Colum-
bus, Ga.
December 6
Tech vs Georgia at Atlanta, Ga.
Travel by Train
Safer - More Economical
For reservations, tickets, fares, etc,
Ask ticket agent for further infor
mation.
Central of Georgia Railway
“The Right Way"
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N H BACON. Irwinton
ComfcTt Kits Sent 40,000
Service Men by Red Crocs
Gey patterned cretonne bags, or
comfort kits, containing articles use
ful and amusing, are sent by the Red
Cross to 40.000 soldiers, sailors and
Marines, on foreign service, as Christ
mas remembrances.
The little gift bags are donated and
packed by women in Red Cross Chap
ters all over the country. They are
despatched by Army transport in the
early autumn in order to reach the
foreign ports and posts of the U. S.
services in time to be hung on the
Christmas trees. Giving the remem
brances from home is the outgrowth
of a plan adopted by the Red Cross
prior to the World War when so many
National Guard regiments were on
the Mexican border.
Parts are being assigned for short
plays which are to furnish lively en
tertainment in Irwinton soon.
IDS FOR RED CROSS
SERVICE ON INCREASE,
SAVS CHAIRMAN PAYNE
'Disaster Relief and Service to
War Veterans Make Heavy De
mands—First Aid on Highways
New Plan.
Demands upon the public services
that the American Red Cross is or
ganized to give are increasingly heavy,
and will continue to be so in the fu
ture, John Barton Payne, chairman,
has announced.
The two major services of the so
ciety—service to war veterans and
their dependents, and relief in disas
ters —show each year a greater num
ber of persons helped by the Red
Cross.
Pension legislation passed recently
for World War Veterans, and increased
allotments to all Spanish-American
War Veterans, have gi-’en to Chapters
and the national society many thou
sands of additional cases to handle,
Judge Payne said.
• In the past year help was given in
108 disasters. Ninety of these were in
the United States, twelve in foreign
possessions and six were in foreign
countries.
Health activities of the Red Cross
also are being extended, especially
in the rural communities where all
health authorities agree the greatest
need exists. Red Cross, with 794
nurses in its employ, is the greatest
employer of public health nurses in
rural areal” in the United States.
In its campaign against accidental
deaths, begun twenty years ago with
its life saving and first aid programs,
the Red Cross now has adopted an ad
ditional program—that of combating
the huge toll of life from automobile
accidents on the highways.
Expenditures of the Red Cross in the
past year were §4,254,796.34, of which
§1,208,151.09 was spent in disaster
relief, the chairman pointed out,
“The Red Cross depends upon the
public for its support, through their
memberships enrolled once each year
in the period from Armistice Day to
Thanksgiving Day,” Judge Payne said.
“We do not receive any support from
the Government, or thrtxigh other tax
ation, although as the President of the
United States is president of the so
ciety, and one-third of its governing
members are representatives of U. S.
Departments, it ranks as a semi-gov
ermental agency.
“By joining as a member, in the
local Red Cress Chapter, once each
year, during the annual Roll Call,
every citizen till have a part in car
rying on this great humanitarian
task.”
Motor Injuries Treated
By Red Cross First Aid
In line with its work for the preser
vation of life and prevention of acci
dental death, the American Red Cross
has adopted a new program of emer
gency first aid stations on the high
ways of the nation, where victims of
automobile injuries will be helped.
In the last year 31,000 persons were
killed as the result of automobile acci
dents and more than 1,000,000 were
injured. As its contribution to the
nation wide safety campaigns of other
organizations, the Red Cross will aid
through the emergency stations. A
number already are in operation by
Chapters on such important traffic ar
teries as the Westchester County,
m, y_ park system, the Valley Forge
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