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DOUGLASVILLE DOUGLAS COUSTTYrGAT. June 22, lW77
No. )l
Douglasville Man Highly
Honored
It is with pleasure that we
note the deserved high honor
bestowed upon Dr. H. Mason
Smith of Milton, Fla., a brother
of Mayor V. R, Smith, and a
former citizen of £his town, by
Goueanor Catts, who has just
appointed him Superintendent of
the State Hospital for the insane,
Dr. Smith is only 33 years old
and the youngest man in the
United States to hold such re
sponsible position,
We quote from the Milton
(Fla.) Gazette:
“In the appointment of Dr. H.
Mason Smith as Superintendent
of the Asylum for the insane of
this State Governor Catts has
made a wise choice, and one that
will be generally approved.
There is probably no man in the
State better qualified for this im
portant position than Dr. Smith.
In the first place, his appoint
ment is, in a large sense, non
partisan, the doctor having taken
but little or no part in tne politi
cal contentions of the past eigh
teen months. But the real merits
of the appointment lav in the
new Superintendent’s qualifica
tions for the office. lie has been
connected with the institute ol
which he is the new head, for
the past three years, and in ad
dition to being in close touch with
the requirements of every de
partment of the office, he has
devoted his spare time assiduous
ly to the study-of n.rvous diseas
es, insanity and institutional
work, both in F orida and in New
York City, where he has gone
for Clinical work every vacation.
His appointment will be especial
ly gratifying to the Medical fra
ternity of the State to whom Dr.
Smith is well and favorably
known, and who are a unit in
the belief that the head of the
Florida Institution for the Insane
should be a medical man, as is
the case in almost every other
institution of the kind in the
country. The State is to be cdu-
gratulated, and the Governor
commended for this appoint
ment.”
Death An^el Calls Mr,
W. A. Wood
Tag Funds
The automobile tag fund has
been allotted to the various
counties according to public road
mileage. Douglas county, with
402 miles gets $657.28; Carroll,
1,223 miles* draws $1,999.64;
Haralson, 1,300 miles gets $2,-
125.55, the largest opportioned
in Western Georgia.
Paulding, with 694 miles, gets
$1,134.71.
A pall of gloom spread over
the town Saturday morning when
it became known that “Uncle
Billie”, Mr. W. A. Wood, had
died at his home in Douglasville
at an early hour.
He had been in feeble health
for some time, but had been up
a few days previous to his death.
Mr. Wood was 68 years old and
most highly r.espected. He was
a good, substantial citizen and
will begreally missed.
He leaves a widow and six
children to mourn his^ death.
The children are: Miss Ola
Wood of Douglasville; Mrs, V.
M. Leathersof Douglasville RtS,
R, C. Wood of Fairburn; W. P.
Wood Rt3; D, T. Wood of Doug
lasville, and Mrs. Vivian Collins
of Rt 4,. all of whom were at the
funeral.
He had been a consistent mem
ber of ihe Methodist church for
more than 50 years and served a
number of years as Steward.
The funeral and interment oc
curred Sunday afternoon at
Sweetwater, the service being
conducted by Key J. C. Atkin
son.
Th ; pall beares were; Messrs
J: IVf. Banks, W. F, Wallace, W.
E. Burton, T, P. Huekaby, E. Y.
Mahaft'ey and J. P. Dodson.
A 1 rge crowd attended the
funeral. Many going from
Douglasville.
The Sentinel exten Is sympathy
to the bereaved family.
Problems for Law Ma
kers
War a Leveler
50,000 Negroes Leave
Georgia in Ten
Months
Investigations conducted by
Hal M. Stanley, State commis
sioner of commerce and -labor,
show that wichin the last ten
months 50,000 negroes have left
the State of Georgie. Commis
sioner Stanley, with the co-ope
ration of the State department
of agricultural and the Georgia
Farmers' Union, js undertrking
to find a remedy for the general
exodus of negroes which has
been taking place. He will like
ly ask the next session of the
legislature to' give his depart
ment further control oyer em
ployment bureaus. There are
fifteen such establishments li
censed in Georgia and but one
of these i has paid license as an
Atlanta, June 20 The sons of
the rich and the well-to-do are
going to fight in this war along
with the sons of the poor and the
men in moder te circumstances,
and anyone who entertains an
opinion to the contrary can satis
fy himself by looking over the
roster of men in the officers
tiaining school at Fort McPher
son, or observing the sons of
wealthy men who will be drafted
by the government.
In the school at Fort McPher
son are represented some of the
wealthiest and most prominent
families of Atlanta. A son of
Robert F. Maddox, former mayor
and bank president, left his
studies at Harvard to enter the
training camp, William D
Grant, the son of John W. Grant,
Atlanta’s largest real astate
owner outpide of Asa G. Candler,
tried his best to get in, but was
below the minimum age limit.
He is a studient at Yale.
Joseph Brown Connally, a
nephew of one Georgia governor
and grandson, of another,
wearing the khaki and carrying
a gun and 60-pound pack on all
day hikes that tire a man to the
marrow of his bones.
Two nephews of former Gov
ernor John M. Slaton are in the
camp, while two others were
prevented from entering, one be
cause of an astigmatism and the
other because of a recent attack
of pneumonia.
The sons of the rich are not
going to be exempted from
draft, merely because their dad
dies wanted them to be exempt.
Some will be exempted for
various reasons the same as
other men, but wealth cuts no
figure with Uncle Sam in the
prosecution of this war for liber
ty and civilization.
With prohibition effectually
disposed of by the enactment of
the bone bry law. whibh is prob
ably the most thoroughing stat
ute of its kind in the country,
Georgia’s h.winakers when they
meet next week in annual session
will be torced to turn their atten
tion to other matters,
Ihe st: to’s financial condition
will come in fora greater share
of attention than anything else,
Already the appropriations for
1917 are nearly $590,000 in ex
cess of estimated receipts, which
means that the legislature can
not safely make any special ap
propriations 'for this year, nor
increase appropriations pr =vious-
ly made.
The tax equalization act,
passed a few years ago in the
administration of Governor John
M. Slaton, is the only bulwark
that has saved the’stutefrom the
financial quicksands. But this
act has never been popular with
men who wjre in the habit of
dodging taxes before it was
passed, and who could dodge
taxes, and it will again be the
object of attack, with a strong
attempt to repeal it. Every one
of these atternpls, whhh have
been made annually since the-
passage of the act, have been
opposed l.y the leaders of both
the house and sei.tate, and have
always been defeft£&t.
A mai l.at'bi i-iguf fa- the agri-
culturt 1 department, harmoniza
tion of certain features of the
inheritance tax and cotton stand-
.aidization will be among the
other matters of importance.
Pathfinders Start About
July 20th
Residence Burned
World’* Longest CunaL
Mr. J. N. Griffith, a prominent
citizen of the southern part of
the County, happened to the
misfortune of getting his home
burned last Saturday night, in
cluding all the household effe.cls.
The fire occurred about ten
o’clock at nightand as there had
been no fire in the house since
noon, the presumption is that it
was caused by a match being
ignited by a mouse.
A Big Corn Acreage In
Sight
The season has been very late,
and corn planting was much de
layed, The greater part of it,
however, was finished by June 1.
Correspondents haye furnished
us information which warrants
the statement that the acreage
will show more than 10% in
crease, ai d will, therefore, ap
proach 120,000.000 acres.ViThis,
of course, is by far the largest
acreage which has ever been
planted to any grain crop in this
or any other country, and it wiil
be noted that probably three-
fourths of the abandoned wheat
acreage has finally been put into
corn.
The corn crop has not made
sufficiant progress at anv point
to warrant an effort to repoit
upon its condition. It may be
said, however, that while it is
late in being planted, the ground
was in an unusually good con
dition, both as to preparation of
the seedbed and current moist
ure supply, so that it is not sur
prising to learn that germination
has been prompt, ■ and there is
every prospect that the crop vjdll
start-fn excellent shape,— South-
Birmingham A!a., June 19th.
Mr. J. A. Rountiee, Secretary of
the Bankhead Highway Associ
ation, has just returned from a
two weeks tour of the Bankhead
Highway from Washington to
Atlanta. In company with Pres,
T. S. Plowman and U. S. Senator
Bankhead, they held conferences
with various road officials, de
partmental officials, aotomobile
officers and Good Roads advo
cates and directors, in arranging
details for officially locating the
Bankhead Highwa.V'fuom Wash
ington to Atlanta, Birmingham
and Memphis. After holding
these various conferences it wa
decided that immediately after
congress adjourned, which is ex
pected to be in six weeks, an
official path finding committee,
composed of two engineers, rep
resentative American Automo
bile Association, and two repu
table citizens will start from
Washington and officially desig
nate the highway from Washing
ton to Atlanta.
It was also decided that when
President Plowman returned
from the'East this week, he
would immediately call a meet
ing of the Executive Comrnitttet
in Birmingham for the purpose
of deciding the date and itine. a-
ry and announce the official lo
cating committee to designate
the highway from Atlanta to
Birmingham on to Memphis. It
was decided that -the Atlanta,
B.nninghnm, Memphis division
of the Bankhead Highway would
be designated first and that the
people on this division would be
given two weeks’ notice to pre
fect their plans to fix tire roads
and arrange for the official party.
It is suggested that about July
20th, the Pathfinding Party
would start, but the definate date
would be settled by the Execu
tive Committee.
For the past 10 days Secretary
Rountree has been visiting the
various cities and towns betweei|
Washington and Atlanta over
which the Bankhead Highway
will traverse. Among the cities
and towns that he visited were
Richmond, Lynchburg, Altavis
ta, Danville, Va., Reidsviile,
Greensboro, Highpoibt, Char
lotte, N. C., Gaffney, Greenville.
S. C., and At'anta, At all these
points he was met by special
committees from Chamber of
Commerce, Mayors and city and
county road officials. He was
extensively entertained and giv
en an opportunity to address the
people at these various towns
and cities and was shown over
the links of the Bankhead High
way in their respective counties.
He wa3 extended many courte
sies.
He states that the greatest en
thusiasm was manifested all
along the route. The people are
anxious that the road shall be
linked up, buiit and officially
designated. He also states that
actual constructions of perma
nent roads has alseady begun.
The link through Guliford coun
ty, N. G., has already been built
and is surfaced with asphalt 16
miles, it is one of the most beau
tiful stretches of road in the
United States. Cherokee Coun
ty, N, C-, has issued $300,000
worth of bonds, the road has
been surveyed and :mtra ts let
to build and connect up with the
North Carolina link. Sparten-
South’s Crop Values
In 1916 the total value of the
agricultural Tirodiicts of the-
southern states went to the stu
pendous figure of $4,650,000,000,
or only 8 per-cent less than the
total value of the agricultuial
products-of the entire countiy
M1900
That the South this year is
coming in for a still greater
share of agricultural prosperity
than ever before is the opinion
of Atlanta business men and
barkers who have made a cl se
study of the situation. The
soutii lias only needed to raise
her food and forage, to make
herself, the most economically in
dependent farming section of the
world. This year the south is
doing that thing to a greater ex
tent than ever before.
On top of her food ami forage,
which will startle- the country
this year,.the'soulh is raising a
good crop of cotton, which will
sell at the highest prices since
the Cival War.
Lois Mil is
The hall game between Lois-
Mills and Villa Rica was some
what of a one-sided affair. The
score was 11 to 1 in favor of Lois
Mills.
Messrs. M. E. Geer, J. F.
Long, W. L. Stephens, W. A.
Bums and Henry Clarke molred
to Atlanta Saturday afternoon,
making the trip in atout one
hour in Mr. Geer’s new Buick.
We are .very grateful to Mr.
Geer for bis change of heart in
regard to letting men ride in his
car.
Our Sunday school was not up
to the standard again Sunday. J.
guess it must be all-day singings
that is the trouble. Next Sun
day is “Boys Day.” Everybody
especially invited. „——
The Company has made ar
rangements with an old line In
surance Company whereby each
and every employe is insured to
the amount of two hundred dol
lars without any cost to the
policy holder, the Company pay-
the premiums. This is a
now feature in the insurance-
field is what is known as Group
Insurance. Quite a number of
corporations have adopted this
plan, and goes to show.the pro
gressive spirit of the Lois Cot
ton Mill Co. Our people should
appreciate this, and we believe,
they will. -
President M. E. Geer an
nounced in Sunday school Sun
day that the barbecue, to be
given by the Company, was a
sure thing and tho calf was being
fattened for all Prodigals; or, in
other words, all former employes
are especially invited to partici
pate in the festivitieson July 4th,
W. Hy. C.
and has sold the bonfis and is
actually building 32miles of con
crete road, which will be a di
vision of the Bankhead High way -
Anderson County, S. C., has
voted and issued $200,000' worth
of bonds to build their roads.
Information of building, in Geor
gia between Atlanta and South
Carolina, is quite with the same
information in North and South
Carolina. Every indication points
to the fact that the Bankhead
Highway from Atlanta, Birm
ingham, Memphis and to Little
Rock, Ark., will be a well built
m