Douglas County sentinel. (Douglasville, Douglas County, Ga.) 190?-current, May 04, 1917, Image 4

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You work too hard for it to let it all go! Change Your Methods! Start A Savings Account! It’§ easy of accomplishment and you will soon have new interests and Money In The Bank! Douglasville Banking Co. DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA THE SENTINEL Published Every Friday Idlers, who are physically uh- fit for the army, should be con scripted for the farms. Entered in the Postoffice at JlouglaB- ville Ga., as second-class mail >.ia»er. Z.T. OAKE, Editor and Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year - -- -- -- - $1.50 Six Months - - .75 Three Months - .10 ADVERTISING RATES One page per issue.- ... $10.00 One-half page per issue $5.00 Small space per issue, per inchl2l-2 Vocals per line per issue .05 Office Phone 102 Residence Phone ...07 tHIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES “Come on, George, ” sounds better. Every man admires a pretty girl—and she knows it. Talk is never cheap -when a lawyer’s tongue is wagging. Fight or produce. Both are equally honorable. From the best information we can get Douglas county is plant ing the largest corn crop in its history. Congressman Howard strongly endorses the Bankhead Highway through Douglas County and we know him as “The Man Who Does Things” Cedartown Standard is Making Great Claims The Cedariovvn Standard last week was a little premature in announcing in big headlines that they had secured the Bankhead Highway. If there was anything done at the Birmingham conven tion that in any way favored th^r rou'e, we failed to learn of it and weattended every session. In fact there was not a county on therr route'that had qualified A. R. Dodson has purchased the Bremen Gateway from Flovd Robertson ana Mr. Roberts., n will assume the editorship of the Buchanan Tribune, recently sold by Mr. Dodson to a stock compa ny. We wish them both -uccess. Every Georgia Congressman and Senator Hoke Smith sup ported the administration’s war program, but Hardwick had to act the part of a ba king mule. We think it will be generally agreeable to Georgians to put some one in his place next time and as we have before remarked, W. J. Harris will be entirely sat isfactory to us. Charley Clonts Dead It was with the gaeatest de gree of sadness that friends in Douglasville learned of the death Tuesday of Mr. Charley Clonts at his hsme nearBrowns- v lie. Mr. Clonts was one of | the most prominent citizens of his commuetty and a Steward in the Methodist churcn at Bettiel. He will be greatly missed by a host of friends and relatives be sides the bereaved family. His remains were interred at Bethel Wednesday but we have been unable to get a detailed ac count of the funeral. The Senti nel extends symyalhy to the be reaved family, Your Country! It feeds you— tG UtrmJrr --- — IIIM | Cansler Brothers Auto Repairing of All Kinds Oils and Greases of all kinds Child’s Hotel! Cafe Cut the high cost of living by getting a “Man’s Lunch at a Child’s price.” No better place in Atlanta to get a good meal. Nice Rooms at Reasonable Prices Carranza insists Mexico is .neutral. Rush an army to the border! *si The girl who is unable to fi; an ideal man is generally willing to accept something “just as .good.” If congress gets obstreperous, Mr. President, use a big slick— it will smash hard. “I WILL.” Make it YOUR motto, and LIVE UP to it. An exchange asserts that the Chinese used natural gas 2,000 years ago. Possibly 'so —that old codgsr of an editor may have been there. The man who readily recog nizes the good qualities of otners is never without them himself. By the time the producer, the middleman and the retailer get through, about .the only thing left foi*the consumer is the bill. The Army of the Tillers will rank among the immortal pa triots of history. Get a hoe. There are three classes of men •today—fighters, producers, and slackers. Your choice. With famine a grave possibili ty, there is no room in this town for the man who won’t work Pass on! Speculators in foodstuffs cre ate highprice3.' High prices sap the - vitality of the people through --lack of sufficient nourishment. Vitality is-essential to a success ful prosecution of the war. Jail the speculators—or make them fight. We see where covering caused I a rise in cotton. How could you I raise it if you didn’t cover it? An old German lady wrote her l boy in the army that she hadn't [had any potatoes in eight daysl IWe haven’t had any in— well,’ t has been so long we can’t re- knember. 8-10 So. Broad St,, Atlanta. KOZYTilRH'M THEATRE TONIGHT, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MAY 3rd, 4th, 5th. CO £= - be hr C3 co CTO CTO CD CD “73 CD >s 25 HacRney’s Royal Marionetts. DID YOU EVER SEE MARIOftETTS? in Vaudeville; mystifying, funny, instru If not, don’t fail to see Hackney’s TONIGHT. Something entirely new (live, amusing, entertaining. The children go wild over these little people, the ladies are d< .lighted and even the wise men smile when they see this act. A stage upon a stage, where figu: Contortion Acts, Negro Songs and Dane Animated Skeleton, Jerry and His Mule people. Everybody likes them, so don’t ADMISSION Adults, 15c is 3 feet high come on and act like human beings. , Jugglers, Singing Turns, Japanese Dancing, an In fact, all kinds of performing with these little liss seeing them. \ • Children, 10c