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I J 11 McLarty 24aprl7 UGIAS COUNTY SENTINEL VoL xiu, 1 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