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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL
VoL XII1,
DOUGLASVILLE DOUGLAS COUNTY. GA.. August 3 . 1917.
No. 17
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m MASONS
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Hundreds of the Craft
Will be in Douglasvilla
Next Wednesday
Final preparations are being
made by the local Masonic Lodge
to entertain the Fifth District
Masonic' Convention, which
meets here next Wednesday, the
8th, From advices already re
ceived there will be several
hundred visiting Masons in at
tendance, and the Masonic
Lodges at Winston and Mc
Whorter in this county, will be
joint hosts with the Lodge at
Douglasvi'le, there being only
three Lodges in the county, and
it has been agreed that the oc
casion shall be made a county
affair in the way of entertain
ment. ■ ■■ -—
The Convention will be called
to order in the school auditorium
at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning
by V. O- Kirnsey or Decatur,
who is Worshipful Master of the
Fifth Masonic District, After
the usual preliminaries the con
vention will get right down to
work. The E. A. Degree will
be confered by a special team,
after which an adjournment wil
be had tor dinner. A magnifi-
cient basket dinner will bespread
in the James grove, just south
of the d ;pot. Every member
the three Lodges in ihe county
will bring baskets filled to over
flowing with good things to eat,
A special committee has been
appointed to look after the bas
kets until time to spread the
table, and all parties bringing
baskets can l.eave them in charge
of this committee at the grove.
Dr. F. M. Stewart will be chair
man of this committee. Any
families in Douglasvilleor Doug
las county, w hose head is not a
Mason, and would like to bring
dinner and join in with us in en
tertaining our visitors, will be
more than welcome. Notice
however, is given that this is not
a public dinner.
At two o'clock in the after
noon tlrs public meeting will be
held at the school auditorium, at
which a public address will be
given by Hon. Chas. L. Bass,
Senior Grand Warden of the
Grand Lod^e of Georgia. The
public is eai nestly requested to
hear this address. After thead-
dress of Brother Bass the con
vention w.l! re-as ; emble and the
F. C. Degree and the first section
of the M. d. Degree will be con-
fered by picked teams from At
lanta. Adjournment will be had
for supper at 6 o'clock, and after
supper an: last section of the M.
M. Degree will be conferred.
We earnestl;. urge the full co
operation. of all in making this
occasion the splendid success it
deserves. Fraternally,
F. M. Stewart
Thid McKoy
R. E. Edwards
Committee.
Notice
All persons interested in the
Holly Springs oemetary are ask
ed to meet there on Wednesday
August 15th, for the purpose of
cleaning the graveyard.
Red Cross Chapter Per
fects Organization
Mrs. Fuller of Atlanta, ad
dressed a good sized audience at
the Methodist church last Sun
day in the interest of the Red
Gross movement, and a chapter
was organized with nearly 200
members.
Rev, J. C, Atkinson was
chosen President; Mrs. L. C Up
shaw, Vice President, V. R.
Smith, Treasurery; Miss Naunie
Love Selman, Secretary.
The following compose the ex
ecutive committee: Dr. J. L
Selman, Mrs. J. L. Selir.an, Mrs
M. E. Geer, J. F. Long, J, T
Duncan, T, H. Selman, J. S
Abercrombie, Mis. F. M. Stew
art-
Lois Mills
Quite a number of East Doug-
lasvillians went to Atlanta Satur
day afternoon to witness the
auto races.-
W. A. Burns and family re
turned last Friday from a trip
of a week over several parts of
Georgia.
President M. E, Geer spent
Monday in Atlanta on business.
Miss Lula Keown of Rockniart,
is visiting her brothers, C. A,
and G. F. Keown, this week.
Dirt is being broken for an ad
dition to the cotton warehouse.
This will afford room for several
hundred more bales of cotton.
Mrs, Nora Cheek is spending
tome time with her father at
Gainsville.
Our Sunday school continues
to hold up despite the extreme
warm weather-and the fact we
have our Sunday School in the
afternoon, when the sun shines
the hottest.
We hope everybody will bearin
mind that :he protracted meeting
will begin at the East Douglas-
ville Church the fourth Sunday
in September. Begin to think
about and make preparations for
a great revival right now.
We often hear people sympa
thizing with down-trodden, over
worked, under-fed cotton mil'
people. We believe they are
sincere in their feelings in the
matter but they are doing the
object of their sympathy a graxe
injustice. No man who works
and makes an honest living needs
the sympathy of his fellow man.
If you sympathize with a man or
child because he or they have to
work for their living, right then
and there you retard their use
fulness and they look for sympa
thy from everyone. Do not sym
pathize with there, but rather
give them encouragement and
adyise them that this is the right
thing to do. That every man
should earn what he eats by the
sweat of his brow. We are only
too glad to say that we have no
objects of sympathy or charity
in our village and everybody
works, including father. Should
you see a boy who is working
and helping to support a large
family and perhaps a widowed
mother, for God’s sake and this
boy’s own good, do not sympa
thize with him. If you do you
will ruin his usefulness.
W. Hy. C.
Subjects for Criticism.
Tbsre are three things no man cab
do to the satisfaction of other men—
make love, poke the fire, and run 'a
pftjWJr—United Mine Workers’ Jou|-
Fall Beans Profitable
J, W, M’Qaaig, Ware County
I have been growing beans for
Fie last five years, as they are
mature and ready to put on the
market during September and
October, at a time when there
are few vegetables on the market
Iplant these beans between Aug.
1st and 15th. As the weather is
verry hot at that time, a good
many of the plants are killed but
I sow the beans very thick,
but I sow a third more seed at
-that time of the year than I
would ordinarily use.
The beans arc planted on land
that has grown a crop of Irish
Potatoes, melons, or early Peas
the same year, and I have plant
ed after corn that was cut off
die land in july.
A ready market is found for
these beans with eattier whole
sale trade or direct to the con
sumer. When selling wholesale
T always get from $2.00 to $2 50
a bushel, and 8 and 10 cents a
quart when retailing. I can easi
ly grow the beans at a cost of
40 cents a bushell. I cnnsidei
them good sale in any market at
tnat time, if the year.
In preparing the land for the
crop fertilizer is broadsasted and
then plowed in and harrowed,
The rows are made 2 fe - apart
and from a half to three pecks
of seed is sown to the acre. This
does not make it too thick but
allows for some of the plants to
die. The six weeks valentine is
iny favorite, I slflpr.ed S’.veral
bushels to Valdosta lpst year,
and could have sold 100 bushels
more on this market if I had hao
them, I only had a s nail patch
last year, but expect to plant 2
acres this season. — Southern
Farming.
Important Meeting
Of the W. L. T. U.
Will be held at home of Mrs
M. E. Geer. Tuesday afternoon
August 7th at 3:30. Mesdames
C. V. Vansant, E. M. Hulfine,
will be joint hoste.-ses with Mrs
M. E. Geer asd every member
of the Union is invited and earn
estiy requested to be present.
Willi this month comes the
annual Election of officers;
reports of the years work on all
lin33 and other business matters
The meeting will consist of a
short program; business social.'
Let us have a good attendeance
Tribute to Mr. McElreath
East Point, Ga., July 30—Edi
tor Douglas County Sentinel:
For many years it was one of
the greatest privileges of my life
to enjoy the friendship and the
confidence of Mr. James M
McElreath, whose death at Mart
Texas, occured a few days ago.
I noticed in your issue of the 27ih
instant.
Without attempting to extol
his many virtues in this brief
notice, It saddened, and grieved
me as almost nothing could have
done to learn of his death, and
with his sons and daughter, and
other relatives and friends, I
"weep with those who weep.”
J. A. Pittman.
Economy Can’* Save Him.
Bconomy is not much good to a man
who refrains from spending money be*
muse he would rather loaf than earn
Home Coming and Me
morial Services
Invitations have been mailed
out to each member of the Baptist
Church to Home Coming ond Me
morial Service to be held at the
Church on next Sunday. The
event promises to be quite a
success. Sunday School will be
held at the regular time lOoclock
Rev, A. A. Lummus, of Atlanta
wili preach at 11 o’clock, after
which dinner wili be served on
the grounds. The memorial
services, which will be in mem
ory of those members who have
died during the last twelve mon
ths, will be held in the church
at 2 c’cloclc in tb° ■ fternoor,.
The public gene ally will be
cordially welcoree at these serv
ices and the msmbu .-Imp is espic
ally requested to a te.;d.
Save The Cornstalks
Georgia Chamber of
Commerce Will Furn
ish Information
Atlanta, July 30—The Georgia
Chamber of Commerce is in po
sition to assist those in this sec
tion of the country owning Mica
deposits, commonly called
“Isinglass,” to market this pro
duct in large or small quantities,
at prices that will prove a good
source of inepme to those suflt-
icient.ly interested in collecting
'his material. The prevailing
price for first grade mica is four
dollars per pound, or approxi
mately eight thousand dollars
I per ton.
Mica is found in the mountain
ous secCons of this state and is
so prolific in sorpe parts that
farmers frqeuently turn it up
with a plow casting it aside as
of no value simply because they
have no idea of i:s worth.
Mica has countless uses grow
ing more fieqhent every day.
Among other, things it is used
in incandescent electric bulbs,
by phonograph' manufacturers,"
insulations of all sorts, and is
much in demand in this
That our American people are
wasteful is an evident fact, and
this is particularly tru * of us
folks herein the South. No bet
ter example of absolute waste
could be eided than the way in
which a large percentage of our
corn crop is handled. Very lit
tle, if any, more than 50 per
cent of the vaiue of the corn crop
is represented by the ear of corn
itself. Yet it is only a small
percentage of our farmers that-! very
save much more than this. [country at this time due to th \
It has always been a wasteful lack of importation from ot\ v
method to strip the fodder from countries since the war.
the eta!ks and allow the stalks The Georgia Chamfer of Com-
to go v.o waste in the field. But ^merce will be glad to furnish
it is more than this now; it is necessary information for the
almost a criminal waste. With sale of this product and is much
out question, one of the biggest interested in the promotion of
single problems today is that of this industry in Georgia
an adequate food supply
and animals.
i r man
In view of this
fact, not a single cornstalk
should be alloxved to go to waste.
Sacred Harp Singers
The Chattahoochee Facr=d
If one hasn’t a corn shredder and Harp Singing Convention will be
held this ydar atthe Villa Rica
Baptist Church, in the City of
Viil,a Rica, all are invited to
come and o ewith'us, I his includes
the editor and' family, bring
some one with you and bring a
well filled basket, Many notable
singers from all parts of I l.e State
vvill be lie:e, the convention will
be in session for three days,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
August the Third Fourth and
Fifth.
W. E. Hudson Chin. Arr J2oro.
can’t hire the use of one to
handle this year’s crop, at least
dont let the cornstalks go to
waste. Cut the corn and shock
it just as though it was to be
shredded. Then husk Lhe corn
from the shock and store the
whole stalks ai d feed them as
roughage. This is the method
followed in some sections of the
gauntry, and it is far better than
Lhe old method of pulling fodder.
It is pot only good business to
save every particle of roughage,
but it is an absolute patriotic
duty to do so. Southern Farm
ing hopes and believes that out-
farmers who have been practic
ing wasteful methods in handling
the corn crop will not do so this
year. Our farmers are just as
patriotic as any set of follks on
the face of the globe, and just
a3 sure as we live one way of
showing our patriotism is to ab
solutely save every particle of
roughage or aryx other kind of
food products for man and ani
mals. Let nothing go to waste.
Apply this rule to everything
grown on the farm. It will pay
in dollars and cents, and will be
a real demonstration of patri
otism,—Soutnern Farming.
Hops.
The estimated yield of hops. Is 1,048
pounds per acre for the United Btates
against 986 pouuds last j\ear, and a
ten-year average of 1,065 pounds.
Hops In New York are given at 51)0
pounds, Washington 1,760, Oregon 960
and California 1,880, an Increase over'
last year In all the states except Or<9-,
gon, where It remained the same. 1,
Show Us a
Business That’s
Growing and
Well Show You
A Merchant
Who Advertises