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SENTINEL
Pol. XI'1,
~DOUGLASVILLE DOUGLAS COUNTY. GA.. June 1 j.
No. tO
$13,0D0B0NDS
The following article is clipped
from the Nashville Tennessean,
and relates to the father of Mrs.
Z. T. Dake. Mr, Dozier having
vioited here frequently and be
come personally acquainted with
njany of our people, and having
contributed liberally to the fund
which erected the confederate
monument in front of our court
house, we feel that Douglas
Countians will be interested in
reading it:
“rfbo t the largest i dividual
out-of-town subscriber to the
liberty lean bonds was made
Thursday by Nathaniel Bell
Dozier, a prominent retired bus:
ness man and ex Confederate
soldier of Franklin. Mr, Dozier
subscribed for $13,000 of the
liberty loan bonds. $10,000 for
himself and $1,000 for his wife
and daughters. Mr. Dozier is
keenly intierested in uphplding
President Wilson in the crisis
facing the nation, and is anxious
to do his utmost for the cause of
his country,
Mr. Dozier has the enviable
record of having fought from
the first to the close of the cival
war in the :avdry brigade of
_Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest,
the wizard of the saddle. He
enlisted in November, 1862, at
the age of 16 years, in Company
G, Fourth Tennessee, Starnes
regiment. He was with General
Forrest when die pursued and
captured General Straight's com
mand, and was present when
Emmq Sansom showed Forrest
the ford across Black creek, the
yankees having burned the bridge
Liter he was made bugler of the
regiment. On the retreat from
Dalton to Atlanta' he was pro-
The Hospital Corps Most
Dangerous Service |
Atlanta, June 13. Contrary
to the popular impression, avia
tion is not the most dangerous
branch of the service in rhodern
war, as indisputably proven by
statistics from the battlefields of
France and Belgium. Nor is
artillery the most dangerous, nor
even infantry.
The most dangerous branch of
service is the hospital corps,
made up of doctors, stretcher
carriers and ambulance drivers.
This fact was recently brought
out at a conference in Washing
ton between members of the
cabinet, the national defense
council and newspaper publish
ers, and attention has been
called, to it here in connection
with the organization of two
field hospital units, consisting of
physicians and stretcher carriers
and ambulance drivers.
But the fact that the hospital
service is more dangerous than
any other branch has not
deterred 150 Atlanta boys from
enlisting in the two companies
organized here by two Atlanta
physicians, and it is expected
that other companies will be or
ganized. later.
The doctor who gives up his
pra .tice and g<5es ti the fighting
froat in France is not enlisting
simply to minister to sick and
wounded men, behind the battle
lines in safety. He must be on
the field, exposed to greater
danger than the men in the tren
ches, and the death rate among
the men in hie branch of the
service is the highest of all.
Three isonered Race for
Speakership Seems Fa
vorable to the Man
From Jackson
The writer has had opportuni
ty recently to confer with men
from different sections of the
state who are in a position Know
and the best information we can
get is that the race for Speaker
is between the two former Soehk-
ers, Holder and Burwell, the
former appearing to have the
better of it, and will probably be
elected on first ballot.
Col. Holder has already demon
strated his ability as Speaker
and is well known and very pop
ular throughout the state and
has the support of nearly all the
newspaper men.
Mr. Burwell, whose ability is
uquestioned, seems to have lust
his grip on many of the old mem
bers by his former stand on pro-
nibition and for other causes,
while Mr. Culpepper is something
of an unknown quantity.
We confidently predict Hol
der’s election and know that il
he is elected, the House will have
a most capable presiding officer
To Make Comfort Bags
for “Our Boys” Who
Have Enlisted
House Btirnes
Douglasville, Ga., June 13.
Dear Editor:
We are sad to learn of the
burning of the home of F. H.
moted to brigade bugler, and Pitts on Wednesday, June 13th.
held that position tillJhe close of I Everything being burned except
the war. He was in all the bat
tles in whicli the regiment and
brigade were engaged from the
time of his enlistment until the
close of the war, except two
months when he was in the hos
pital at Augusta, Ga. His brig
ade, then commanded by Gen.
.George Dibrell, was selected to
escort President Jefferson .Davis
,and his family from Greensboro,
N. C., when they left Richmond
in the spring of 1865. Mr. Do
zier with the brigade, surren
dered at Washington, Ga.,
May, .1865."
THE HOG RULES
Atlanta, June 13. Where are
japw the scepters of the Moor,
the Hindu and the Osmanli?
Thus inquires a writer who
points out the fact that eaters of
the meat of the hog now rule
tlie earth, while those races
which case him out as being un
clean have long since passed
from power.
And the Georgia hog, as in
creasing statistics show, is be
coming more and more an im
-portant factor In the develop
ment of the agriculture of the
state. Fed on velvet beans,
peanuts and molasses, he turns
his feed into money as fast as, if
not faster than, any stock the
farmer can raise. He i-t hardy,
healthy, prolific and self-reliant.
• On the farms of America will
be decided the outcome of the
war—whether democracy shall
rule the world or the iron hand
of German militarism—and in
the meat. No one was at home
when the fire started.
It is supposed the fire started
from the stove flue. The fire
started about 9-15 and in 45
minutes the house was a com
plete bed of ashes
Will you please contribute a
little.
GEORGIA PEACHES
* - j ,
Queen of Dixie peaches moved
to eastern markets in large num
bers last week, despite the latt
cold weather of spring and de
spite disastrous hail in many sec-
itions, and this week the Car
mens are going in carload lots
-to tickle the palates of .cafe
diners along Broadway.
Exceptionally good prices are
being paid this year, and the
demand is good, with buyers at
the orchards giving $2.50 per
crate on the ground, which
means from $3.00 to $3.50 in the
eas ern markets,
Final argument against the in
crease of 15 per-cent in freight
rates on peaches, which the rail
roads, propose to put in effect on
July 1, was submitted to the In
terstate Commerce Commission
in VVashington this week by At
torney Arthur B. Hayes of
Washington, representing the
Georgia Fruit Exchange, whi
has compiled some very striking
figures to show that Georgia’s
this decision the hog, the Geor- P^ch industry is not in a posi tion
gia hog, will play an important!* 0 8 * ano * ae burden of an in
part. j crease in freight rates.
ForGod and Home and Native Land”
The W. C. T.U. is an intensely
patriotic organization and has
bten called “organized mother-
love.” Patriotism literally burns
in the heart of each of us and
What can I do to help in the
present crisis?” is the question
in every mind.
At the last meeting of W. C.
T. V. held at the home of Mrs.
-L. C. Upshaw and cpnducted by
Mrs. J. C, Wright, it was de
cided that this organization
would render patriotic s rviee by
making “Comfort Bags” for our
very own soldier boys and sailor
boys who have gone, and will go
from Douglas county. So each
and every “White Ribboner”
and all other mothers and women
who wish to make and furnish a
“Comfort Bag” for our very own
boys," are cordially invited to
meet at the home of Mrs. F. M.
Stewart Friday afternoon, June
15th. All material will be
purchased bo W. C. T, U,, pre
vious to this meeting and each
one may get them and so forth
.the same afternoon. Bring your
needle, thi ead and thimble, pre
pared to sew, and also write a
good motherly or sisterly letter
to go with i our bag. Don’t for
get this.
Contents of Bag: Two sizes
of black and white buttons, 1
spool of patent thread, khaki or
olive drab, 1 spool white thread
No, 24, 1 spool khaki darning
cotton, 1 pair small blunt scissors,
1 package court plaster. 1 Testa
ment with Psalms, 6 needles No.
6, 6 coarse darning needles, 6
safety pins, 1 piece narrow
tape, 1 pin ball filled with pins,
1 small roll absorbing cotton, 1
small roll clean muslin for band
age, 2 inches wide 3 yards in
length, a good motherly letter.
You are requested to bring a
box lunch or a few sandwiches,
LETTER FROM
SOLDIER BOY
In camp, Fort Oglethorpe,
Chickamiiuga Park, Ga.
Editor Sentinel:
Dear sir: If you will allow me
space in your paper I will try ti
give some of my views of armj
ife.
I enlisted in the Army in At
lanta Feb. 1st, and like the life
of a soldier fine. I left Atlanta
the night of Feb. 1st foi
Columbus Barracks, O., arriving
in Columbus on the 3rd, and was
sworn into the service. While!
was there many hundred re
cruits arrived daily from points
alltover the United States. Af
ter spending four weeks in the
barracks, I, with five hundred
others, was sent to El [Use, Tex.
We were four weeks in quaran
tine for measles, having had two
cases on* the train oil our trip
down from Columbus. Andthei
I was assigned to Company L, of
the 6th United States Infantry
when my service began.
Some people have the idea
that a soldier leads a rough life.
Mow, that is not correct in every
case. There are some very good
boys in the army.
After spending 3 months cn
Border p.urol in El Paso, we
came East and are now stationed
inChiekamauga Park, Ga,, which
is a Government reservation of
something like twenty thousand
acres, situated about eight miles
from Chattanooga, Tenm, two
miles from Lookout Mountain
and 1-2 mile from Ft Qglethrc: c>.
At Ft Oglethrope there are 250
interened German sailors, sent
here as prisoners of war from
points on the Atlantic cost, un
der guard of a detachment from
the Seventeenth Infantry at Ft.
McPherson, Ga.
Will now try to give a de
scription of this park. It is one
of the famous battlefields of the
civa' war and in this park are
many monuments erected bv the
people of different states, in
memory of the brave men who
[ought and died on this field for
the cause in which they believed.
At present there are about 12000
troops stationed here, the sixth
eleventh and seventeenth U. S.
Infantry und the eleventh Cal-
very and the officers reserve
training camp. We expect to
split up in a few day. Each
regiment will make three regi
ments, The Sixth will make the
Sixth, Fiftv-third v and Fifty-
fourth U. S. Infantry.
Well, as this letter is getting
rather lengthy, I guess I had
better close, wishing you the
greatest success and wish you
would please send me a copy of
your paper, as I am an old Doug
lasville boy, being formerly em
ployed at the Lois Cottn Mill.
Ben D. Head.
Washington, D. C., June 9th.
(Special) Messrs. T. S. Plow
man, President, J. A. F.ountree,.
Secretary of the Bankhead High
way Association, have been in
Washington during the past five^
days in the interest of the Bank-
head Highway that traverses the
states of Virginia, North and.
South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Tennessee,.
Arkansas on to Los Angeles,.
California. During their visit
here they have been in consul
tation with Senator Bankhead
and Senators and Congressmen
from all the states along the
proposed route through whi :h it
will traverse- Senator Bank-
head has been quite active in in
troducing Messrs. Flowman and
Rountree to members of Con
gress, Road Officials and those
ohat aredirectly interested in the
Bankhead Highway. They called-
upon Secretary of War, Baker,
and reminded him of the tender
they made of the Bankhead
Highway as a military road from
Washington to Memphis when
he visited Birmingham in Maich.
They also called to his attention
the fact that five mobolization.
and training camps have already-
been established ou this high
way, and it would be a stroke
of military strategy, the saving
of time and railroad transporta
tion, if the government would,
take over the same as a military
road.
These officials also called upon-
Secretary of Agriculture, Hous
ton, and members of the road,
division of his department and.
urged him to co-operate in mak
ing this road a success.
President Plowman will re
turn to Alabama within a few
days. He will give out a state
ment of what was accomplished
by the visit of Secretary Roun
tree and himself to Washington.
He will also call a meeting of the
Executive Committee and set a
date for the Pathfinding Com
mittee to start on their tour .to-,
officially bcate and designate
the Bankhead Highway from'.
Atlanta, Birmingham and Mem
phis.
Secretary Rountree will visit
Richmond, Danville, Lynchburg,
and a number of Virginia towns,,
and organize branches of the.
Bankhead Highway Association.
He will also visit Greensboro,
Charlotte, N. C., Greenville, An
derson, S. C. and other towns in
these states in the interest of.
the association.
Destructive Hail Storm
Last Friday afternoon a most
destructive hail storm devastated
quite a lot of corn and cotton
north and east of town, Many
reports "are that the growing
crops were absolutely destroyed,
but we hope the damage is over
estimated.
preparation and formless dread
of what is before us, let us. dear
sisters, cling closely to the cross
ot Christ with one hand while
with the other we show forth
the love of Christ by unselfish
In all the dire confusion of (helpfulness.
Cofer-Gill and
A wedding of much interest to
Douglasville people occurred in
Atlanta last Sunday, when Miss:,
Lavinia Gilland of this city, and.
Mr. W. S. Cofer of Atlanta,
were united in marriage.
The groom is connected with
.he fire department in Atlanta-
and the bride the popular ar.d;
accomplished daughter of Rev-
and Mrs. S. T. Gilland.
Mr. and Mrs. Cofer will live in
Atlanta.
The Ssntinel extends con
gratulations to^the happy couple.
The Star Spangled Ban
ner floats more proudly over
every home that buys a
United States Liberty Bond.