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DOUGLAS COUNXY SENTINEL
VoL XII1,
DOUGLASVILLE DOUGLAS COUNTY. GA-. July 27. 1917.
No. 16
The Committee on organization has planned the organization
of a Red Cross Chapter for Dmglas County on next Sunday morn
ing at eleven o’clock at the Methodist Church, Douglasville.
Mrs. Fuller of Atlanta, will be present to address the people
and direct in the organization.
Let every man, woman and child in Douglas County, especially
in Douglasville, who do not intend to help Germany in her un
speakable butchery of innocent women nnd children, be present
and help in this organization. In thus doing you defend virture,
life, liberty, your country, as well as minister to your brave sons,
brothers, husbands, farthers and friends on the battle front.
Next Sunday morning at eleven o’clock at the Methodist
Church Douglasville and Douglas County go on record.
What shall that record be? You must decide, COME!
Committee on Organization:
J. C. Atkinson
Mrs. L. C. Upshaw
Mrs. Paul Selman
Mrs. J. C. Wiight
Mrs. T. R. Whitley
Mrs. M. E, Geer
Mrs, J. A. Enterkin
Mrs, G. T. McLarty
Mrs. Z. T. Dake
Mrs. F. M. Stewart
Miss Nannie Love Selman
J. M. McElreath Dies in
Texas
A message was received here
Wednesday that Mr. J. M. Mc-
Elreath, a former citizen of
Douglasville had died at his home
in Mart,--Texas.
His remains will arrive here
Friday for burial and the
funeral service will be conducted
by Rev. S. T. Gillandat 2 o’clock
at the Methodist church.
Mr. McElreath has many rela
tives and a host of friends here
who will be grieved to learn of
his death. He is a brother of
Mr. J. T. McElreath and Mrs. J.
M. Morris of this place.
The Sentinel extends sympa
thy to the bereaved family.
Haltman-Fuller
(Communicated.)
On Sunday afternoon, July
22nd, at 3 o’clock, Mr. Leonard
Hallman and Miss Eunice Fuller
were united in marriage by
Judge Dick Wilson.
They only invited four special
friends: Miss Ola Fuller, the
bride’s sister, Miss Coro Lock-
ridge, Arthur Meadows and
Connie Thomas.
Mr. Hallman is a very popular
young man, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. T. Hallman. The bride
is the modest and refined daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ponnie Ful
ler, of Paulding coun'y, She
has many friends in Dallas who
wish her every happiness.
We wish the bride and groom
a happy, prosperous life.
Baptists. S. Convention
Inoculate Hogs
This is the season when the
farmer who has hogs should do
everything possible to prevent
the appearance of diseases and
to conserve his stock by inocula
tion with anti-cholera serum.
The state department of agricul
ture is prepared, as always, to
furnish this serum to farmers at
actual cost, and to render any
assistance necessary in connec
tion with it. For information
write to Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen,
State Veterinarian.
Program of the Good Samari
tan S. S. Convention to be held
with Flat Rock Baptist Church,
Carroll County July 28-29, 1917.
SATURDAY MORNING
10:00, Devotional—W. D. Ty
son.
Welcome address—Rev. F. C.
Payne.
Response—Rev, Dan Carter.
11:00 Sermon—Rev. L. J.
Hensley.
Alternate—F. C- Payne.
Adjourne for refreshment.
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 Song and devotional.
Enroll delegates’ names.
Election of officers tor ensuing
year.
Reports from various schools
by Superintendents or
Delegates.
2:30 Address—R e v. Paul
Watkins.
3:20 Wise suggestions for the
enlargement of our schools
led by Rev. G, W. Jones.
SUNDAY MORNING
Devotional —Clarence Boyd.
Why Parents should be inter
ested in Sunday School—
J. N. Morris.
Every Church should have a
Sunday School and use its
denominational literture—
Rev. G. W. Jones.
11:00 S. S. address—Rev. W.
M. Samples.
The above program will be in
terspersed with song led
by C. A. Barfield.
Adjourn for refreshments.
1:30 Each School to render its
own Program.
We invite all S. S, C. workers
and will appreciate any help
rendered.
J. N. Morris
Garvy Layton
W. M. Samples
Committee,
Exemption Claims Must
Be Made Early
Claims for exemption from the
draft must be filed not later than
the last day set rside for physi
cal examination by the board.
The government’s regulation
specifically states that exemp
tion claims must be filed with
local boards by all first-call men
by the last day of their physical
examinations.
This interpreted means that
not later than the last day al
lowed for “exams,” exemption
claims must be in the hands of
the board.
The notice to appear for ex
amination by the board’s phy
sician will call one third of the
first-call men to appear on the
fifth day after date of mailing
notice, one-third on the sixth
day after mailing notice, and the
remainder on the seventh day
after date of mailing notice
The calling of the first-call
men to appear in sections is to
expedite the work of the examin
ing physician.--
Official blanks on which to
makeout claims for exemption
are being distributed to thefirst-
call men only at the offices of
the various exemption boards
Men who are to be drafted at
later periods are requested to
ask for these blanks now, as
the supply is limited.
Any person seeking to avoid
JOIN THE RED CROSS
Wear the badge of
honor’and prove vour
patriotism by con
tributing to a cause
that everyone knows
is worthy.
Help alleviate the suffering of the soldier boys —our own
boys-perhaps your own—in the trenches-the], boys who
will give their life blood to protect YOUR country, YOUR
home and loved ones. The membership fee isj $1.00 and up
according to your ability to pay. Attend I heTieeting at the
Methodist Church. Sunday at 11 o’clock.
Every man, woman
and child should who
are not German sym
pathizers, see a
member of the com
mittee and join.
Market Bureau
Especial attention of Georgia
farmers is called to the effort
that is being made to defeat their
market bureau bill through a
substitute which, if passed,
would not bring them the relief
they need and, in addition,
would put a further tax burden
upon them to provide for the ex
penses of it.
73 To Be Called From
Douglas, County
- All men who were registered
in Douglas county were placed
on the waiting list’tFriday. It
will perhaps take an average of
three names to secure one to fill
the requirements, and these will
be called in the order of Friday's
drawing. Those whose names
were first drawn will be first
„ - The pending market bureau
the operation of" the draft by | bill, known as the Cheney-Stew- ( considered and so on till the re
making false statements as to art bill,, is the measure which quired number will be selected,
the fitness or liabilities of him-" ’ J J »--•-n—
self or any other person for serv
ice under the provisions of the
act approved May 18, 1917, shall
be subject to a fine of $10,000 or
or two years imprisonment, or
both.
The physical examinations will
at once determine hundreds who
are to go into the first selective
army of 687,000. In cass a
young man passes his physical
examination and claims no ex
emption his name will be far-
warded to Washington at once
as qualified for the first army.
Not Hard to Make.
A homemade desk set, mounted In
moire silk In green, brown or the col
or predominating In her bedroom, la
schoolgirl would he delight-
Sheets of blotting paper
.ought to match, and a pen-
id small blotter backed with
pieces of cardboard covered with the
silk and tied with narrow ribbon In
the same color. L
has been endorsed by the Farm
ers’ Union of Georgia and by
farmers’ mass meetings all over
the state. It provides fob the
payment of expenses out of tuxes
which the farmer is already pn
ing, namely, the inspection fees
on fertilizers and oils. There is
plenty of surplus monev derived
from this source to meet the ex
pense, and no extra burden
should be put on the georgia
farmers for it. Georgia farmers
should be careful not to be mis
led by measures which will fail
to bring them the real marketing
relief which they need and must
Probably by [next [week we
will be able to publish a list of
those meetingjthej requirements
from this county.
Douglas county’s number to
■c-iraftecMs 73 and to get this
number between 200 and 300
will have to present themselves
to the exemption board.
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Patriotic Move
In case exemption is claimed,
the exemption board is expected l' ave -
to pass upon the grounds for ex-1 would take a volumn to
emptions within three days. If answer^the questions tojhat
the claim is turned down, the
district boards having juris
diction over the local board will
be notified immediately that
‘John Doe’s” claim has been re
jected. L’kewise, "John Doe”
will receive notice that his claims
have been rejected ty the local
boards, and notice that he can
appeal his case to the district
board if he so chooses.
However, the army doctors at
the training camp will get a
final say-so abont the physically
fit entering the army. When the
young man reports to the can
tonment camp[i for training in
the first army he will be given
an even mare rigid examination
by the army physician.
The local boards expect to
mail out before the end of the
week notices to first-call men in
their divisions to appear for ex
amination and thereby get the
examinations started next week.
the State Bureau of Markets is
doing and can dp for Georgia
consumers and Georgia pro
ducers. Sometimes a single lit
tle incident tells almost the
whole story. The other day a
South Georgia farmer who
wanted 20,000 sweet potato slips,
happened to be in Atlanta, and
called on Director L. B. Jacksan.
He made known his wants and
immediate hold was taken of
the matter. Another South
Georgia farmer was found who
had 20,000 potato slips he wanted
to sell. The two were brought
together and both profited by it.
The same thing can be done with
practically every Georgia pro
duct.
Prof. W. S. Boynton of the
Flat Rock School, has installed a
community cahner.v and is in
position to can vegetables of
every kind for the public, and
the only charge is a small per
centage of the vegetables.
Giles Brothers have agreed to
sell cans at wholesale cost and
Prof. Boynton says if people will
get the cans with soldered
hemmed caps, every can will bo
guaranteed.
This is an opportunity every
one should grasp. Nothing
snould be allowed to go to waste.
Take your corn, beans, tomatoes,
in fact, everything in the vege
table line to the Flat Fock School
and have them canned. See
Prof. Boynton for information.
Dreadful Possibility.
Little Margie had heard her Sunday
school teacher apeak ot backsliding,
and one rainy Sabbath morning her
mother thought It beat for her not to
attend Sunday achool. ‘‘But I've just
got to go, mamma," said -Margie.
‘‘Teacher Bays If we do not come
every Sunday our backs will aUde."
Card of Thanks
Mr. Wilson Vansant and child
ren, Messrs. W. A., D. T., J.
W., H. R., N. L., Mrs. Yancey
and Miss May, wish to express
sincere thanks to the many kind
friends and relatives for their
acts of kindness and expressions
of sympathy extended to .them
during the illness and death of
their wife and mother.
Why He Knew
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Atlanta, July 25—Rev. Frank
lin Pierce, an Atlanta missionary
returning from the Orient, tells
of a fellow missionary ship
wrecked on an island which he
believed to be inhabited by can
nibals, After hiding three days
in terror of his life he was forced
by hufigry to come out and brave
the perils unknown. Approach
ing a hut where he saw smoke,
he heard a man bawl out: “Why
in the hell did you play that
card?” Dropping on his knees,
the missionary exclaimed:
“Thank God, they’re Christians
and not cannibals.”