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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL VoL XII1, DOUGLASVILLE DOUGLAS COUNTY. GA.. August 3 . 1917. No. 17 l m MASONS t;l - 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