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FRIDA YMORNING FEB 4th, 1921.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
DR. GEO. D. CASE BACK
FROM WASHINGTON
Dr. (Jeo. D. Case, of Milledgevillo,
who has been in Washington for the
ing of the supervising narcotic in
spectors of the federal government re
turned Satin lay evening.
Dr. Case was selected from the
southeastern district to go to Wash
ington where agents from every dis
trict in the United States gathered
to discuss the Harrison Narcotic Act
and other laws pertaining to the en
forcement of same and to formulate
plans for the handling of these mat
ters in the future.
It was a distinct honor to Dr. Case
to be selected for this mission as he
was chosen from twenty-six men in
the district, the vote being unanimous
that he was the man to attend tlrs
important gathering.
FEW SMALLPOX CASES
IN BALDWIN COUNTY
Written by a patient in the Contagion
Department of the Cincinnati General
Hospital
Little chills and fever
Little aches in back’,
Little wish for living,
flead about to crack,
Little skin eruptions,
Showing up in flocks,
Littl 0 pus formations—
That's what makes smallpox.
Smallpox
There are many health problems that
are still unsolved and only small pox
is the real triumph of national preven
tative medicine.
Quarantine is imperfect or even un
desirable for the disease can spread
before it is recognized and besides to
be in any measure effeotive it de
prives too many of liberty and is'en
expensive procedure.
As San Francisco and Chicago are
now having extensive epidemics ol
this disease you can readily see why
cases oecuriug in our county should
bo viewed with much concern. Small
pox vaccination is an effective pre
ventive and all persons who expect to
work or mingle in general crowds os
schools, churches, and other gather
ings places should be vaccinuted.
Only seven well defined cases have
conte to the attention of the commis
sioner of Health hut mild cases that
always characterize the beginning of
an epidemic may have easily bee l
over loaded.
Be fair to yourself, be vaccinated
and profit by the o -nee of prevention.
H. D. ALLEN
Com of Health Baldwin County.
OIL DISCVOERED IN
x WASHINGTON COUNTY
Sondersville, Ga.—Sandersville is
greatly excited over a report from a
well-known chemist stating that - sta
ples of soil from the oil well being bor
ed near here by the Middle Georgia
Oil & Gas Co., contained petroleum,
Tho big drill Is now pounding away
day and night on what appears to be
limestone formation and expertB here
state it iB highly probable oti will be
found in the next few days. The test
of the chemist states the oil has a
very fine parafin base, and crowds
are going to and from the well in the
western part of the county and many
are wondering if Sandersville will be
on the oil map in the near future.
FREE
MUST PAY HIGH
FOR PASSPORTS
European Countries Tax Ameri
cans Equivalent of $10,
the Rate Here.
LESS FOR OTHER TOURISTS
$90.00 SEWING MACHINE
Be In The Crowd In Front Of
This Store 5 Minutes to 10
O'clock Friday Morning
FEB 4th, It May
IX Be Yon
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President Mitchell of the Red Star
Line Suggests Action by the United
States Chamber of Commerce—
Peasants Go Back to Land.
GAIN IN FARM WAGES
Pay for Labor Has Tripled in
the Last Twenty Years.
Hired Men Get Four Time* aa Much
for Their Services aa They Did
in 1879.
If you run short of a Typ*
writer ribbon, Carbon Pape'
or Second Sheets, tell us aiv
we will get them to you in
short order. Phone 312
New York.—According to Percy V.
O. Mitchell, president of the Red Stur
line and general manager of the Inter
national Mercantile Murine company
In Belgium, the charge of $10 for an
American vise on passports Is not only
n tux upon Immigrants who have to
pay the high rate of exchange, hut also
upon American business men abroad.
"Since the charge for a vise lias been
raised from $2 to $10,” said Mr.
Mitchell, “the countries In Europe have
retaliated by making Americans pay
the same amount. They have arranged !
to base their charges for u vise on a '
sliding scale. For example, I have to j
pay 175 francs for my vise at the Bel- ,
giiin consulate because I am an Amer- |
lean, while uu Englishman hns only to
pay 10 francs, which Is a big differ
ence when a man is accompanied by
members of his family.
All Are Doing It.
"Since the war Europe has been split
up into a number of small countries,
and each of them is charging Ameri
cans the equivalent of $10 In United
States currency. A business man has
to puss from one country to another to
get anywhere, and In each case he has
to pay heavily because the State de
partment In Washington, without any
reason that I have been able to learn,
has raised tin’ fee to $10.
“The citizen of the United Stutes
has to pay $10 for his passport in the
first place, and then to pay another $10
to return from abroad, and the same
amount for the countries lie visits on
the continent. Why the United Stutes
Chamber of Commerce lias not taken
up tills question, which ts so important
to American business men traveling
through Europe,-1 am at u loss to un
derstand.
Tourist Travel Hit.
"In addition It will nlso interfere
with tourist travel In the summer,
which lmd already decreased consider
ably through the increase in passen
ger fares made necessary by the high
cost of operation of the steamships, In
creased wages, food, fuel, etc.”
Mr. Mitchell said the Belgian govern
ment was putting the peasants hack on
the lund In Flanders, and in place of
the small cottages with eurtlien lloors
which were demolished by the German
guns they were erecting neat, small
houses with tiled floors and modern
sanitary conveniences. From What he
lmd heard recently in Brussels before
suiting for New York, the govwnment
would not rebuild Nlpuport, the former
fashionable seashore resort, as It had
been blasted to pieces by sheljs and
bombs, the avenues approaching It be
ing ruined.
Dlxmmle, where the severe fighting
took place nt the bridgehead on the
Yser, was to a great extent dembltshed
nlso, hut the people hud started to re
turn there in the summer of 1019 and
build on the ruins of their former
homes. The Belgian peasant loves his
country and does not want to go
abroud to live, Mr. Mitchell added.
Washington.—Wages of hired men
on fnrms have more than doubled in
the last ten years, tripled In the last
twenty years and were more than four
times higher last year than they were
In 1870. These changes are shown by
statistics of the Department of Agri
culture.
Wages paid by the month, without
board, averaged $04.95 for the country
ns a whole last year; ten years ago
they averaged $27.50 anl In 1879 they
were $10.43.
Day labor nt hnrvest time last year
nvernged $4.30, without board, and at
other than harvest time $3.50. Ten
years ugo harvest-time lnhor was paid
$1.82 and at other than harvest time
wus paid $1.13 nnd non-hurvest-tlrae
labor 81 cents n day.
California and Nevada farmers paid
their lnhor the highest prices without
hoard, the average In those stntes last
year having been $107 a month. The
lowest nvernge wus in Mississippi,
where $41 was paid. The nvernge for
the country as a whole was $40.95;
the northern Atlantic states averaged
$75.54, tho south Atlantic $50.50, the
northeast central states $70.00, the
northwest central stntes $79.79, -the
south central states $51.94 and the far
western states $99.43.
For harvest-time lnhor, without
board, North Dakptn paid the highest
rate with $7.40 a day, while nt other
than harvest time South Dakota paid
the highest rnte with $5.90 a day.
FUTURE INDIAN BELLE
INNOCENT, SERVES 15 YEARS
8wiu Convicted of Killing Girl to
Freed—Real Culprit Makes
Confeaaion.
Geneva.—After serving more than
fifteen years of a life sentence for a
murder of which he lms alwuys claimed
to be Innocent, a young man named
Hirschbrunner Is to be released, the
real culprit having confessed.
On the day following a masked bull
at Soleure In May, 1906, the body of a
yonng Swiss girl was found In the
waiting room of the railroad station,
where she had been strangled to death
She had been seen the previous eve
ning In the company of a young man
dressed as a peasant woman. The de
scription of her companion tallied with
a costume worn by Hlrscbbronner, and
he was tried and sentenced to Ufe Im
prisonment entirety on circumstantial
evidence.
Preparing for the tluys when she will
undoubtedly be the belle of the valley,
this maid of India Is undergoing first
stages of omamentntlon. Note the odd
palfti leaf roll stuck through the lobe
of the car and tho inetnl ornuments.on
the nose. As the girl grows older
larger rolls are substituted, gradually
enlarging the hole In the ear lobe.
FLAGS TRAIN, AVERTS WRECK
Unidentified Hero Disappears After
Saving Fast Train From Being
Thrown In Ditch.
VW««»W « I
Breaks Wsstfen Arm as
He fSmakes Man’s Hose
Martlnsbnrg, W. Ya.—W. B.
Welt}', an alleged doorkeeper of
a suspected gambling Joint,
broke his woeden arm over the
head of Philip Hack, a Taren-
tom (PuJ business man, who la
reported t® have tried to enter
by force the room which Welty
guards. The Mow seriously
dumaged Hack's nose. Mayor
Seibert fined Welty $12.60 on a
charge of assault and battery.
Casper, Wyo.—Westbound Chlcngo,
Burlington ft Quincy train No. 30 wna
narrowly saved from a serious wreck
by an unidentified man who flagged
the train as It wns approuchlng a part
of the trnck a few miles east of here
that had been torn up. The train was
traveling fifty miles an hour at the
time and railroad officials eald that
the train would have been ditched
completely had It etruck the torn-up
track.
Who was responsible for the at
tempted wrecking of the Burlington
train 1s still a complete mystery, ao
cording to police and railroad offi
cials. It was thought possible that
the person who flagged the train was
originally one of the party Intending
to wrack It, tor whan the train
stopped and It* erasr sea 111 aa tavaatk
nation no ana aould ha fsawl
The spikes had bam palled oat of
the ties and the rails torn np com
pletely for nearly 100 feet, «oly four
miles from Clasper.
-NO POCKET*- JUS TO THEFT
Tacoma RrabaUan OWWsr toys Boys
•teal From Women, Rarely
From Man.
Aaka World to Honor St. Francla.
l/mdon.—Pope Benedict has mnd«
public an encyclical letter Inviting th«
Christian world to solemnize in 1926
the seventh centensry of the death ol
St. Francla of Assisi, founder of ih«
order of Franciscans, says a Central
News dispatch from Romo.
Tacoma, Wash.—Because women's
clothing la not provided with pockets
stealing Is Increasing uniting the Juve-
i nlle population. In the opinion of S.
i S. nealy, county probation officer.
| Having no place In which to stow
j sway her money and valuables the
average woman flaunts them In the
faces of youths too weuk to resist,
nnd careers of erfme are started, he
says.
Mr. Healy reports that nlraost every I
day complaints are made of boys j
stealing money from women, but that J
very rarely does a boy steal from a
1 man.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
Fords orv
Announcement
Mr. Edsel B. Fori, Presidet of the Ford Motor Company, gives out the following
statement:
"The price of the FGRDSON Tractor has been reduced from $790.00 to $625.00, ef
fective immediately.
"This price change has been made possible through lower cost of materials and tho
(act that we ar e now located in our new Tractor Plant with greatly increased economic
manufacturing facilities in immediate connection with out foundry and machine shops
and large blast furnaces where iron is poured directly from the ore, giving us maximum
liafficiency with the power to reduce cost of production, and down comes tho price in lilies
with our policy to market our products at the lowest possible figure without in any way
affecting our high standard of quality.
"We are particularly pleased in being ablo to bring this big reduction In price at this
time because the farmer needs all the help we can give Cim and this big cut in price will
be the means placing a valuable power unit within the reach of partically every one of
them, not to mention industrial and commercial concerns which likewise have benefited
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through its use and already realizing, to a much greate rextent, its value ns a power
and hauling unit. But particularly has the FORDSON Tractor proved a most valuable-
gactor iu the saving of farm labor, at tlie same time increasing th e per acre crop yield
as well as making possible a utilization of previously uncultivated land, to say nothing
of removing no end of drudgery.
"There is no question that the use of machine power on the farm is the greatest ad
vancement made in the development of agriculture, not only in money making results us
well as raising the standards of living on the farm to a much higher level but becai .se
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of Its proved value in making every type of land more productive and consequently our
desire to place the FORDSON within the react: of all.
"THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE PRESENT FORD CAR AND TRUCK PRICES,
which are already at th'q lowest possible figure and now with rock bottom reached on the
tractor price a further reduction in price of either the Car, Truck or Tractor is out of the
question, in fact the big price cuts have been mad? in anticipation of contlnous maximum
production and Increases may be necessary before long if a large volume of new business
is not obtained. Therefore; present prices of Ford products cannot be guaranteed a-
gainst poslble increases.” -' », • «< ,
Ask for tfbe book "The FORDSON at work wlhch will be supplied free of cost. Let
us demonstrate the value of the FORDSON on your farm, in your factory, lumber yard,
coal yard, or In any general hauling or power work you have to do ana let us have your
order for a FORDSON. Prlwcb delivered on Farm $676.41.
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