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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.