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Yol. XIII,
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY. GA.. August 24, 1917.
No. 20
Commissioner of Agri
culture is endeavoring
to Help Farmers in
Marketing Their Crops
Atlanta, Ga, Auk 22-Through
legislative recognition, in a
special act just passed, and ac
companied by a maintenance ap
propriation, the Georgia State
Bureau of Markets is an ac
complished fact.
What the Department proposes
to do now is to make the market
bureau the most efficient agency
of its kind in the South, in as
sisting the Georgia farmer to
find always a ready cash market
for surplus food crops. To do
this we must have organization,
system and the hearty and cor
dial co-operation of each com
munity in the state.
For efficient service every
county in the state must have its
local market depot, where the
home farmer can take his sur
plus food products, whether a
carload or a wagonload or what
not, and dispose of them for
eash. There these can be com
bined into larger lots for ship-
Fannly Picnic
One of the mo:t enjoyable oc
casions of the season wad the
family reunion and picnic df the
Selman family held Tuesday at
the old Selman home, settled in
1836 by Mr. William Selman, the
father of Mr. W, W. Selman,
the present owner of the place-
lie and Mrs. J. J. P. Henry of
Ringgold, being the only two
surviving children,
Dinner and supper were served
on the ground and it was a feast
fit for kings—words being in
adequate to describe the abun
dance, variety and quality of
the many good things to eat.
The relatives present were:
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. P. Henry,
Ringgold; Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Selman, Mr. and Mrs. 0. A, Sel
man and children, Francis,
Laura, Bii'ie, Jackand Jene; Mr.
and Mrs. T. H. Selman, Dr. and
Mrs. J. 1 . Seim n ar.d daughters.
Nannie Love and Ruth; Mr. and
Mrs. G. F. Selman and children,
Dorris, Mary and Mattie Clyde;
Mr. and Mrs. John Hatchett and
daughter, Evelyn; Mr. and Mrs.
0. T. Selman and children, Sara,
Dorothy and Mildred; Mr. and
Mrs. P. D. Selman and children,
Pauline and Bessie Joe; Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Abercrombie, and
children, Rose and Henry; Mac,
Frances, Stewart Dorothy and
W. G. Abercrombie, Jr ; Mr.
ment to the most advantageous an( ] Mrs W. A. Abercrombie and
market.
One of the first works of the
state market bureau unded the
a;ro , *tP,n of L. o. atekoon, will
be the establishment of these
local market depots, in which
the department urges the full
co-operati n and assistance of
farmers, local merchants and
bankers, They have already
been organized in several coun
ties; but every county must have
its own. 1 hose interested should
write the Department at once,
for the time is here when prompt
action is necessary. The fall is
on us and the harvest is ready,
There must be no delay in es
tabiishing ready markets.
“Now that we have the law,”
said Commissioner J. J. Brown,
“and a moderate appropriation,
we propose to give Georgia farm
ers the most efficient market
service we know how, The ser
vices of the bureau are at the
disposal of all of tnem, and I
urge them to come forward and
ask for just what they want.”
children, Evelyn, Marion, Ralph,
Roy and Walter Joe; Mrs. Jim
Abercrombie and children, Ma
bel and Maurice: Mr. and Mrs.
Santord Abercrombie and child
ren. Mildred and Paul; Mr Tom
Abercrombie. Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Harding and children, Tommie
and Helen; Mr. W. L. Morris,
Mr, and Mrs. Lee Morris and
children, James, Edwin and
Harold; Mr. and Mrs, T. E.
Morris and childrtn Eddie'Mae,
Fred and Marjorie; Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Harding and little daugh
ter, Eleanor; Mr. and Mrs. A.
S, Baggett and children, Edwin,
Julia, Virginia, John and Bilii ;
Mrs. D. T. Wood and children,
Mildred and G theriue; Mr. and
Mrs, Joe Morris and sons, Ches
ter, .left’and Joe Neil; Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. Morris, Mr. and Mrs.
W. J, Camp, Mrs. Zue Baggett
and Billie
Fla.
Visitors and invited
Tell The People The
Facts!
“To make the world safe for
democracy”—the high-sounding
aim of the United States in war
laid down by President Wilson—
is a true expression of the ideal
ism back of our entrance into the
great world conflict but it is not
a battle cry . It is not a clarion
call to harden men’s hearts and
steel their arms.
The people of this country are
commencing to relize that if we
•iregoing to win the war we
must fight and America is not
FIGHTING. A middle western
Senator who is not a La Foljette
or a Granna or a Stone’ told a
friend the other day that if a
plebescite was taken in his state
on the war the people Would vote
lour to one against it. Through
out the length and breadth of
the country thi3 feeling exists
and is foster by the pacifists,
the socialists and other deliberate
or unwitting agencies of Kaiser-
i m. As S. Stanwood Menken,
President of the National Secur
ity League, said in his opening
address at the great patriotic
education conference held under
the auspecies of the League at
Chautauqua, N. Y., early in
July, “The people are asleep
They do not relize that thtir very
lives are threatened!”
The meaning of "making the
world safe for democracy” pass
es over the heads of the average
man. He will not FIGHT in re
sponse, and FIGHT he must if
America is gm.n<* to win.the war!
His personal., individual relation
the war: ivhut the difference
The Highway
The pathfinders were here last
Thursday and everything points
to the fact that we are easy
winners in the location of the
Bankhead Highway.
They turned back here with
out inspecting the route between
here and Austell which was vir
tually an acknowledgement that
minds were made up and the Ce-
dartown route eliminated.
We have semi-official inform
ation that Douglasviile has won
and that the new road from
Winston to Villa Rica will be
adopted.
The Douglasviile—Tallapoosa
route not only has the'advantage
of being nearest, hut being on
the crest of a ridge all the way
will be more easily constrcted
and kept up. It also has the ad
vantage of the route from Aus
tell to Alabama line without a
single surface crossing and the
river bridge across the Tal apoo
sa is already constructed.
We c n safely state;
DOUGLASVILLE WINS.
Sow More Wheat
Washington, D. C., Aug. 22—
To assist in carrying outlthe pro
gram for a billion bushed wheat
crop in the United States next
season, the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has just is
sued the first'of a series of prac
tical emergency bulletins em
bodying constructive suggestions
for wheat growing in the various
sections of the country, The bul
letins, “W beat- Growing in the
Southeastern States,” is devoted
, . |to a discussion of wheat pro
ot victory or defeat will mean '°-j dcf( . tion m Tennessee, North Car-\M.!
HIM, must be explained. He
must be told that German aggres
sion in middle Europe means Ger
man aggression in NORTH
olina, Mississippi, Alabama.
Georgia, and South Carolina.
In the program recently adopt
ed by the department it is sug-
AMERICA and that the dumb j ted thatthe3e states can easi-
subservience of peaceful, home^ i j y j nci , ea 'g' e their wheat acreages
loving Germans to the power of j n proportions ranging from 12
arson and rape means HIS dumb i percent. North Carolina,
subservience! tin which in 1916 wheat was seed-
The National Security League ed QI1 1,053,000 acres, should find I L)ood 0 f 0U r forefathers,
and other agencies are engaging j R possib j e without serious modi-1 A s j m ji ar meeting was held in
in the task of bnnginga realiza- fication ot - itg farming system to j D oug i asv ille Tuesday, electing
the same delegates mentioned
Notes of the Mass Meet
ing Held at Prays -
Church Saturday Af
ternoon, Aug. 18th
(Communicated.)
The mass meeting: was held at
Prays church for the purpose of
making their grievances known
concerning our constitutional
rights in regard to the conscript
law and the attacks that, are
being made on the freedom of
the press and our religious liber
ty.
Mr. J. W. Baggett was nomi
nated chairman of the meeting,
Paul H. Vansant, Secretary.
Addresses by different parties
of the meeting were made. Two
very interesting talks were made
by the registered boys of that
community. Uncle Parker
Brown and Mr. Collins made two
splendid addresses concerning
the approaching dangers that
are now facing us.
At, the close of the meeting,
delegates were nominated to go
to the state convention at Macon,
and to raise their voices in be
half of our constitutional rights.
The delegates arc as follows: P.
N. Brown, W. I. Dorris, J. W.
Baggett. In case of vacancies,
M. B. Daniel, P. A. Williams,
Paul H. Vansant were nominated
as substit: tes to fill their places.
A most patriotic spirit was
shown when they were asked
to stand all that were solid for
constitutional rights and would
shoulder arms when cur country
was • subject to invasion. No
sooner than this question was
asked, the entire audience sprang
to their feet and loud cheem.
went up. They also pledged
themselves that they would
never forget every officer at the
polls both in the county and in
the state who were in favor of
depriving the American people
heir liberties won by tne
tion of these things to the people. , geed during the coming season
Power to them! There is plenty j 1 180 000 acres . T i le acreage
of patriotism and plenty of fight- j figures for 19l6 production and
ing blood in this country. for the proposed p oduction in
Bluett of Davtona il W,U only be brouB ' h 1 t °“ t b / th ® 1917 for tins other five States art
Baggett ot Daytona, | r ,' ACTS! Te |i t he people the facts! as fo]lows:
Then they’ll
, Make them MAD!
guests, HG ht,
who enjoyed the hospitality of
Mrs. J. E.
Is Constitutional
The Supreme Court of the
United States, in the Tarb'.e case
(13 Wallace 297), in speaking of
the war power of Congress, said:
“The execution of these pow
ers falls within the line of . its
duties; and controll oyer I the
subject is plenary and exclusive.
It can determine without ques-
the occasion were:
Phillips, Mr, and Mrs. A. I’,
Botnar, Mrs. Amanda Muse of
College Park; Mr. and Mrs.
Dalrymple, A. A. West of South
Carolina, Mrs. J. C. Reed and jin
James Reed of Marietta; Mrs. wh
W. A. James, J, P' Cannon, L. |
School Election
Satuaday, September 1st, is
the day set for the school election
in this district to determine
ouds will be issued to
school house.
G. Camion, S. W. Herring, Miss 1 ,
India McTeer of Chattanooga; ever j
Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Dake and I mai l
daughters, Edith and Lillian; jg r( .
Mr
a new
- is a vital question
man who believes that
uod and womanhood is the
i asset to our civilization
same
above and something over $20.00
was raised by snbscrlption to
pay the way of the delegates to
Macon.
tion from any State authority; Brown, Torn' Brown, Lawrcn
how the armies shall be raised;! House, Mattie Bell Edwards.
whether by voluntary enlistment
or forced draft; the ag o at which
the soldier shall be taken; the
compensation he shall be allowed
and the service to which lie
shall be assigned.”
Dreadful Possibility.
Little Margie had heard her Sunday
Bchool teacher -speak of backsliding,
and one rainy Sabbath morning her
mother thought -it best for her not to
attend 1 Sunday school. “But I’ve just
got to go, mamp\a,” said Margie.
"Teaclier says’ if we do not come
every Sunday our backs will slide.”
Notie Durham Mrs. • Betfie! Mv.a’.d ally to the support of
The present school building is
Acrerge Proposed
seeded acreage
in 1916 for 1917
South Coro! in a 238,009 325,000
Georgia 393,000 786,000
Tennessee 900,000 1,080,000
Alnbama 133,000 200,000
Mississippi 18,000 100,000
The bulletin treats the cost of
production and yield per acre,
soils, fertilizers, rotations, pre-
parati n of the- seed bed, sowing
the seed, varieties, protection
from diseases and insect pesls,
It was a day full of enjoyment'; B-.^Mquate and does not meet
for all; friendship and good will j the needs of our children. Let
abounded and the older ones j U9 build now for the future and
were happily rerninscent. ^make it possible for our children
■a .1 our children’s children to
enjoy better advantages.
“Doing” the Art rjuscum.
A drawing in Life rsaresent.cd two
Nature's tqvc.M: at,ioo..
A peculiarity of d-cv cats is that
they seem to have a very great sense
of feeling in their, feet pads. It is
almost an impossibility for a heavy ■ j - , ~ .
animal to approach a float’ cat from 1 women In an art Museum stand-
behind Without giving It warning, and .9*8 hcforo_ tho Laocoon group Yfluto
this may bo attributed to tile extreme ' ona reufarisa: “I; can see that t
sensitiveness of the cat's feet record- . are firemen, all rlfeht but I don t see
ing the slightest tremor of the ; .jr^y sot so tangled up in the
around. hosb. ’
Birthday Dinner
On August 15th Mr. Y. D.
Butler, of near Bill Arp, was
treated to a birthday dinger by
his chi dren on his 75th birth
day. Five of his children, 35
grandchildren and a number o.t
friends and neighbors, making
a total of something line 100
enjoying the occasion.
MtC Butler is teroakably strong-
and active for his age and his
many friends hope to meet with
and the management, and liar-j’ nlmon niaby birthdays yt
vesting of .the crops. Specialists
who prepared the bulletin be
lieved that if more attention, is
given by southern farmers to the
production of wheat, the wheat
crop may become as valuable in
certain sections of the South as
in any part of the country.
come.
Subscription
The following
S'.'ri) ion since our 1
have pa
oil.
sub-
t issue
F. Iv. Dune,in, Potyder Spri
C. II. Watkins, Rt. 2
. . .Y, D. Butler, Winston
A large edition of the bulletins | Sclhian, Doiiivlnsvrllo
has been printed (or distribution j NEW' SUBSCRIBE 1 S
among the farmers of the States J. L. Cooper. Douglasviile.
concerned. Copies will be sent J. L, James. BesMiter, ,AM.
free on application to the Depirt-! W. L.Goodwin Douglasvi ie
' |W. J. Daniel Rt. 4
R, G. Duke Douglasviile
H. R. MoLarty tiadison.
ment of .Agriculture, ,Washing-:
toq, D C.