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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
Social and Personal
. Born—Monday to Mr. and Mrs.
* G. W. Prickett—a daughter.
Miss Marjorie Upshaw is home'
for a few days from Bessie Tift
College.
Messrs. G, W. Griffith and S. E
Johnston exchanged residences
this week.
Mrs. Z. T. Dake ar.d daughter,
Miss Edith, were in Atlanta
Thursday.
Don’t fail to read Col. ,1. R.
Hutcheson’s article on the school
bond question this week,
Mrs. T. P. Huckaby and little
-daughters. Hazel and Hellen,
spent the week-end in Atlanta.
J. W, Morris, of Columbia,
S. C., is slightly improved from
a severe case of typhoid.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hopk ins
of Palmetto, speut Sunday here
wtih their son, E. L. Hopkins.
C. C. Johnston, Winston’s hus-
y tling merchant, was a pleasant
caller at the Sentinel office Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Hannah,
-of Salisbury, N. C., are visiting
the latter’s mother, Mrs. M. E
Ward.
Prof. B. B. Beall and Rev.
Sam Haynes came out from Beth
el Monday. They report a good
meeting.
Wade Young, of Salisbury, N.
■€., accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
M. C, Hannah on a visit here for
-several days.
Parks Watson has returned
home after spending several days
with his brother, Floyd Watson,
at Cochran, Ga.
Messrs. Sanford Land, Clyde
Eskew, Paul Cochran and Lieut.
T. H. Phillips were out from
j Camp Gordon Sunday.
Mrs. J. M. Morris and Miss
Jeannette Morris left Thursday
for an extended visit with rela
tives at Cullman, Ala.
The Boy Scouts have been
^Xdoing their "bit” this week by
putting up advertising posters
for the Liberty BonJ sale.
Rev. J. B. Tallent and family
arrived Friday and Bro. Tallent
^ filled the pulnit Sunday morning
and evening at the Baptist
church.
We welcome the progressive
firm of H. Mendel, Villa Rica,
to our advertising columns this
week and call attention to his
half page ad—others to follow.
Messrs. J. L. and F. P. Dorris,
■who are with the marines at
Paris Island, S. C., are here for i
few days with their parents, Mr
and Mrs. J. B. Dorris.
Col. W. T. Roberts, of Wash
ington, D. C., has given the Boy
Scouts the use of a room—rent
free—in his building over Boyd’s
store and they rre fitting up a
nice club room.
Rev. J. B. Tallent was sur
prised by his congregation this
week with a "pounding” which
he appreciated, the articles con
sisting of edibles, the prices of
which are almost out of reach of
the average pocketbook.
The Progressive Primitive Bap
tists have arranged to have ser
vices once a month in Douglas-
ville. These services will be at
11 a. m. on the third Sunday in
each month in the school house
until they can erect a building.
Elders D. H. Smith of Atlanta,
and T. J. Bazemore, of College
Park, will do the preaching. The
first services will be held on
Sunday, October 21. j
V
Mrs. M. E. Ward and daugh
ters, Mesdames Lillie May Peter-
s6n and M. G. Hannah, were
called to Cordele Saturday on
account of death of Malcolm
Ward, son of Sheriff John Ward.
Mr. J. M. Morris is in receipt
of a letter from his nephew,
Tom McElreath, of Mart, Texas,
stating that the boll worm has
entirely destroyed the top crop
in his section. Mr. McElreath
also sent a specimen boll weevil
which he advises not to have
turded loose.
From the "Bessie Tift News,”
in last week’s Forsythe Adverti
ser we learn that Miss Louise
Upshaw has been highly, honored
by being elected local editor of
the Bessie Tift Journal and
also a member of the editorial
staff of the Annual. Her many
friends here congratulate her.
Repairing Court House
The County Commissioners lire
having the court house thor
oughly overhauled. The interior
plastering and woodwork has
been repainted and looics as good
as new. i/
The last bond on the court
house will be paid in Janu ry
and the county now has a build
ing that could not be built for
less than $75,000. -»
Public School Honor
Roll For September
FIRST GRADE
Millard Dixon, Dolwart Griffin,
Ruth Hoffman. Roy Hall, Nellie
Hudson, Margaret Johnston,
Pat McGouirk, Mat Vansant.
SECOND GRADE
Mary Frances Freeman, Mary
Love Foster, Frank Holloway,
Corene Griffin. Elizabeth Rudd,
Margaret Wilson.
THIRD GRADE
Reba Adcock, Virginia Baggett
Vassie Lee Black, Gladys Couch,
Estell Conner, Frances Downs,
Mozelle Herrod, Margaret Huf-
fines, Edna Kirby, Thelma Moody
Martha McKinley, Walter J.
Atercrombie, W. C. Abercrom-
Elvin Duncan, James Harding,
Richard Holland, Thomas Hol
land, Buford [Styles, William
Wilson, Leeman White.
FOURTH GRADE
HokeFeely, Verdyne Eskew,
Lucile Baggett, Willie Davis,
Bessie Jo Selman, Maurine En-
terkin, Dorothy Selman, Lois
Waldrop, Gertrude Roberts.
FIFTH GRAPE
Opal Baldwin, Lois Boatright,
Mary Burton, Coburn Carter,
Dora Gurley, Mary Smith, How
ard Burns, Harvie Houseworth,
Frank McLarty.
SIXTH GRADE
Ena Williamson, Blanche Wal.
lace, Lucile Stringfellow,
SEVENTH GRADE
Agnes Baldwin, Carolyn Upshaw
APPLICATION FOR LEAVE
TO SELL LAND
GEORGIA—Douglas County.
L. H. Baldwin, administrator of the
estate of Mary Rulfin, late of Douglas
couuty, deceased, having duly applied
by petition for leave to sell the lands
belonging to said estate.
Said application will be heard at the
regular term of the'Court of Ordinary
for said county to be held on the first
Monday inTiovember, 1917.
This 9th day of October, 1917.
J. H. McLarty, Ordinary.
"Doing” the Art Museum.
A drawing in Life represented two
young women in an art museum stand
ing before the Laocoon group while
one remarks: "I can see that they
■re firemen, all right, but I don’t see
why they got so tangled up in the
hoee.”
Notice
GEORGIA, DOUGLAS COUNTY.
Public School District Number -Twen
ty-two (22) of Douglas County,
Georgia.
A petition of more than one-fourth
of the rogisi 'i-ffl qualified voters of
Public School District No. 22, of Doug
las County, Georgia, haying been pre
sented to and filed with the Board of
Trustees of Said P ( ublic School District,
asking that an election he called and
held in and for said Public School Dis
trict in pursuance of the acts of the
General Assembly of the state of Geor
gia (Acts of 1912- pages 176-177,) and
the laws of the State of Georgia re
lating thereto, tor the purpose of de-
termininiv whether or not bonds shall
he issued by the Board of Trustees of
said Public School District, the pro
ceeds of the sale of which to be used
for the purpose of building and equip-
i ing a school house or houses in said
Public School District; and the said
[Board of Trustees, in conformity with
the provisions of said act, and the
general laws relating thereto, haying
! fixed and determined the amount of
In’ ! lube issued by said Board of
| Trustees for said Public School Dis
trict. for the purpose aforesaid, to be
| forty-five thousand (45000.00) dollars,
to be divided into ninety (90) bonds of
'■five hundred ($500.00) dollars each and
i bearing date of-March 1st, 1918, and
j numbered from one (1) to ninety (90)
'consecutively, bearing interest at the
I rate of five (5) percent per annum, to
I be issued and paid as follows:
I Tin ee bonds for $500.00 each payable
| March 1st, 1919, with one interest
coupon attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 payable MarchJlst, 1919.
Three bonds for $500 00 each payable
March 1st, 1920, with two interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25 00 each payable annually be
ginning one on March 1st, 1919, and
one on March 1st. of each year there
after until all of said coupons are
fully paid.
Three Bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st 1921, with three interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
o* $25.00 each payable annually be
ginning one on March 1st, 1919 and one
on March lst.of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fullly
paid
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1922, with four interest
coupons attached to.each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one,on March'lst, 1919, and’one on
March 1st. of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully
paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1923, with five interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, andoneon
March 1st. of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid
Three bonds for $500 00 each payabk
March 1st, 1924, with six interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919,and one on
March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
• Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1925, with 7 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919 and,’one on
March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1926, with 8 interest
coupons actached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually be
ginning one on March 1st, i919, and
one on March 1st, of each year there
after until all of said coupons are
fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1927, with 9 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fu Iy paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1928, with 10 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st. 1929, with 11 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
kntil all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st 1930, with 12 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
YOU ARE TAKING CHANCES
When you do not exercise every precaution to pro
tect your money against loss.
By depositing it in this Bank you need not lie
awake nights wondering if it is safe.
We Insure All Deposits.
No matter what might happen -fire, theft or other
disaster—your money would still lie aLsehilely safe
here because we insure every dollar you deposit
against loss of all kinds.
This is progressive Banking—safe, sane and sound.
We invite inquireies, either in person or 1 y mail.
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DEPOSITS INSURED
PEAS THRESHED—I have a
good pea huller and will thresh
your peas for 15o per bushel or
one-tenth toll. Phone 90 31. I.
H. Standridge. 25-4t
Time to paint. Get your paint
and brushes here. Almond &
McKoy.
Money to Lend
We make loans on improved
real estate for terms of five, sev
en or ten years, at 5 1-2% interest
and up. Payments made to suit
borrower.
Hutcheson & Merritt.
Office in Hutcheson Building.
March 1st 1931, with 13 interest
coupons attacheh to, boud lor sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1949, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
uncii ail of said coupons are fully pflld.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1932, with 14 interest
coupons attached to each bond forsum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919 and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st 1933, with 15 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
one March 1st. of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for 500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1934, with 16 interest
coupons attached to each bond forsum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500 00 each payable
March 1st, 1935, with 17 interest
coupons attached to each bond forsum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all df said coupons are fully'paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1936, with 18 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500 00 each payable
March 1st, 1937, with 19 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
nmg one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1938, with 20 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1939, with 21 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annual.y begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919 and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500 OOeach payable
March 1st, 1940, with 22 interest
coupons attached to each bond forsum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1941, with 23 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum»
of $25.00 each payable annually begin-}
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1942, with 24 interest
coupons attachsd to each bond forsum
of $25,00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st 1919, and one
on March 1st of each year thereaftei
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1943. with 25 interest
flOUJiofig fiUfifehed Gfieh bond for sUffl
of $25,00 each payable &hnuaily begin
ning one on March 1st, 19l9, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereaftei!
until all of said coupons are fully paid,
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st 1944, with 26 interest
coupons attached to each bond forsum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st 1919, and one
on Maich 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1945, with 27 interest
coupons attached to each bond forsum
of $25.00 each oavable annually begin
ning one on March 1st 1919, and one
on march 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fuiiypaid.’
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1946. with 28 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919. and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1947, with 29 interest
coupons attatched to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annn&lly begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st, of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
Three bonds for $500.00 each payable
March 1st, 1948, with 30 interest
coupons attached to each bond for sum
of $25.00 each payable annually begin
ning one on March 1st, 1919, and one
on March 1st of each year thereafter
until all of said coupons are fully paid.
It is therefore ordered that an elec
tion be held in and for said Public
School District number twenty-two
(22) of Douglas County, Geoigia, on
the 20th. day of October, 1917, between
the hours of 7 o’clock A. M. and 6
o’clock P. M., at the Just ce Court
room in the Court House of said Coun
ty at the town of Douglasville, within
said Public School District, to determ
ine whether or not bonds shall be is
sued as aforesaid by said Board of
Trustees of said Public School District
as aforesaid, the proceeds of the sale
of which are to be used for the purpose
of building and equiping a school house
or houses within said Public School
District. Those favoring the issuance
of said bonds shall have written or
printed upon their ballots “For School
House’’, and those opposing the issuance
of said bonds shall have written or
printed upon their ballots ‘’Against
School House.”
A certified list of the registered and
qualified voters of said Public School
District having been filed with this
Board as required by law in such case
made and provided.
This September 10th, 1917.
M. E. Geer, Chairman
J. T. Duncan, Secretary
W. C. Abercrombie
F. M. Stewart
Paul D Selman
Trustees.