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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL. DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
Social and Personal
^.Mr. W. M. Aimt.nd is the
proud possessor of a new Saxon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Giles and
'family motored to Atlanta Tues
day.
Fred Duncan came ho ne from
Auburn for a week end visit
with home folks.
Superior Court Cierlc, T. L.
Pittman, attended the State Fair
at Macon this week.
Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Ward of
Marian, Fla , are guests of their
mother, Mrs. M. E. Ward.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vahsant are
l/-the happv parents of a Inby
daughter that arrived Monday.
Mrs. Holcomb is reported quite
sick this week at the home of her
granddaughter, Mrs. G. H.
Turnet.
■ Mr. and Mrs. Otlis Selman and
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Alrnand
m Hi re I to Atlanta Tuesday to
s to Ben Hur.
Mesdames N. B. Duncan and
T. Dake motored to Atlanta
Tuesday to see Ben Hur and hear
Billy Sunday.
Lieut. J. R. Smith, who has
been stationed at Fort Screven,
writes to have his paper changed
to Rossvilie, Ga.
H. P. Sibley has been reac-
p tinted Game Warden for Doug
las county and received his com
.mission this week.
The Sunbeams will hold their
regu ar meeting Friday after
noon at 3 o’clock. All members
are urged to be present.
Miss Nannie Land of Villa Rica
-and Miss Rilla Land of L'o.iglas-
ville, visited Sanford Land at
Camp Wheeler Sunday.
Dr. J. L. Selman and family
and Mr. T. H. Selman are spend
ing several days at the Billy
.Sunday meeting this week.
■H. W. Winn, after spending
several weeks in Jacksonville,
Fla., is stopping a few days on
his return to Birmingham.
The North Georgia Conference
.is in session at LaGrange and we
\/'will know in a few days who the
Methodist pastor will be for next
year
Z Hugh Watson, who is in the
y Aviation Department of the army
,r— .at Dayton. Ohio, is here for a
few days with his father, M. B.
Watson.
Mr. and Mrs, F. M. Winn, Jr.,
Mr. J. F. Freeman and M.sses
Savanahand Lilia Freeman spent
Sunday at Jonesboro an guests of
Editor J. J. Freeman.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Baggett,
Mrs. W. A. Abercrombie and
Mrs. P. D. Salman motored to
Atlanta Wednesday to hear Billy
Sunday and see Ben Hur.
Mrs. Sarah Morris and Mrs. J.
L. Weddington of Dublin, spent
the week end here with their
mother, Mrs. M. E. Ward
Miss Gladys Stewart of Wes
leyan, Miss Rose Abercrombie of
Agnes Scott, and Miss -Chlotilde
Banks of Bessie Tift, spent the
week end here with home folks
Mrs. Hattie Layne, Miss Isabel
Pace and Mr. Burrel Mawbinney
motored up from Chattahoochee,
Fla,, for a week’s visit wilhjthe
former’s mother, Mrs. Ellen ID.
Smith and family
Miss Marjorie Upshaw] under 1
went an operation for appendi
citis at the Davis-Fisher sanita
rium Friday and her many
friends are glad to learn that she
is doing nicely.
The friends of Miss Ola Brown
who was operated on for appen
dicitis. at trie Georgia Hospital,
on the lUtn instant, will be glad
to know that she is now at home
i and is improving rapidly.
Dr. and Mrs. Guy Selman re
turned this week to Nashville
after spending some time here.
The Doctir will Icok after his in
terests there till lie is railed into
army service for which lie has
been accepted.
The Baptist Sunday school led
in attendance last Sunday with
350; the Methodist school had
256, and the I ois Mill school 176,
making a total of 782 white
people in Sunday school in Doug-
1 isville last Sunday.
Mr. John P. Dodson, wife ai d
daughters, Misses Estelle ai.d
Lucile, together wilh Mrs, Louise
Long i no, motored over to Brerm n
from Douglcsville Sunday and
spent the afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. Dodson. —Bremen
Gateway.
The Senior B, Y. P U. held
its regular meeting Sunday.even
ing at 6 o’clock with a good at
tendance and several members
were enrolled. They have now
received all their necessary liter
ature and all tlie young people of
Douglasville and the older people
who will, are cordially invited to
attend the meeting next Sunday.
0. r young friend, Mack Winn,
son of Mr. A. P. Winn of Rt 1,
brought to the Sentinel office last
week a sweet potato measuring
over 20 Indies in lengtii, and
several fine Irish potatoes which
he presented to the editor.
Basing our predictions on these
specimen we are confident that
Mack will make a great farmer.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
GEORGIA, DOUGLAS COUNTY.
Pursuant to an order granted by
Hon. J. H. McLarty, Ordinary of said
County of Douglas, at the November
Term, 1917, of the Court of Ordinary,
I will sell before the court house dc.or
of said county, in the Town of Doug-
lasviile, on the first Tuesday in Decem
ber next, within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described property
to-wit:
A certain tract or parcel of lar.d
lying and being in the Town of Doug
lasville, Douglas County, Ga, described
as follows, to-wit: Beginning at land
ne of V. R. Smith on East side of
Thompson Street and running in a Sou
therly direction along the East side of
said Thompson Street Two (200) Hun
dred Feet; Thence in a Southeasterly
direction Two Hundred and Ten (210)
feet, more or less, to the line of the
land of Lem Evans;Thence in a North
westerly direction aRng the line of the
land of Le n Evans One Hundred aud
Twelve (112) feet, more or less, to the
line of the land of V, R. Smith; Thence
In a W(8 e-ly direction along the line
of the land oi V. R. Smith Three Hun
dred and Ten (310) feet, more or less,
to Thompson Street or point of begin
ning. Saul land lying and being in
Block Forty (40) of the Town of Doug
lasville, and having situated thereon
chohouse of Mary Ruffin, Deceased,
and known as the Lula Buise place.
Said property sold as the property of
Mary Ruffin, Deceased,
This 7th day of November, 1917.
L. H. BALDWIN,
Administrator of Estate of Mary
Ruffin, Deceased.
Livelier Talker Than Stepper.
“Step lively,” yelled a conductor to
two old women who were trying to
board a cross-town car at Broadway
and Thirty-fourth street the other day.
“Step lively there, will you?” lie called
Lois Mill
Well. Mi-ter, ,ve done it—we
sure aid. Yes, sir, we had a
dandy school lust. Sunday. A
billy goat buster, and if size
amounts to anything, we had a
good one. Yes, sir, we went out
in the by-ways and highways
aud gathered ir. a few stray
■sheep that had been wandering
around without even a bell on.
And we just told them that this
was not the time to he Hopping
about in mental darkness like a
hob tail lion on a rickety roost,
especially when this old world
seems to be going flapdoodle and
hipspraddle into tlie lumberhoute
ot oblivion, and our different
ln>»fidsof religion were being
torn and s cattered about like a
ragged shirt on a brush fence
and (to use Billy Sunday’s
words) hit the trail for Sunday
school and get a fresh supply of
red hot Gospel knowleege pum
ped into them before old Gabriel
tooti^Hns horn for tlie last time
aVttfTiegin to rake in and thresh
out what little good there is in
tiiis conglomerated mixture of
worldly shypoks.
And we got. some of them war
dering sheep and led them lo tlie
fold. Some of ’em didn’t look
exactly like a sheep They look
ed more like a goat that had
been wandering around in the
wilderness of useless knowledge
or a long eared mule that hgd
been sloshing around in the mud
of oblivion until he had lost all
his harness and kicked the dash
board off the band wagon and
brayed until his throat war. sore
for some one to come and find
hjjan and lead him out into green
pastures where there was plenty
of free grub and a good place to
vallow.
But people can’t help their
looks—that is, men can’t. But a
woman can take a handful of
flour, awhisp of another woman’s
hair and a looking glass and
knock fifteen years off her age
in about three scats of no time
and then turnaround and wink a
wink that will knock a man’s
golden crown so full of holes it
will look like a Ia9t year’s bird
nest,
As to Sunday school: We can
drag them to the fountain but
we can’t make them drink. If
we could I guess we would want
to drown some of them before
they backslid.
I asked a lot of people once
their reason for not attending
Sunday school, and you would be
surprised at tlie answers. One
said every time he went they
passed the hat around and wan
ted a nickel and he thought all
brands of religion was free and
he’d be doggoned if he didn’t do
without it rather than pay
nickel. And there were various
other answers about as good as
the above. T just want to say to
tyem kind of people that religion
is just like a dentist filling a big
old rotten wisdom tooth, He
lias to prize open your mouth
with a crowbar and then take a
case-hardened steel drill and
bore all the rottenness out of it
or the filling won’t be worth a
hoot to you as it will soon drop
out.
Just so with religion, only it
takes more and better tools for
some people.
You have first got to hire a
preacher that’s got plenty of
nerve and he gets his diamond
drill and a good sized sledge
hammer and goes to work and
drills a small hole in your head
BIGGER OPPORTUNITIES
lively now, don’t we? Walt till you
are as old as we are and see how live
ly you will step; but you will never
present them
selves to the man who has the resources to
grasp them.
You have as much chance as the next
one if you systematically lay aside in this
Bank a part of the money you earn.
Open an account here today and be
ready for the next opportunity.
Farmers and Merchants Bank
DEPOSITS INSURED
Real Estate For Sale
If you don’t own a farm, there
never will be a better oprortu=
nity for you to buy one.
We list below some bargains both in farm
lands and town property.
100 acres 7 miles from Douglasville, 15 or 20 acres
cleared and all tillable, though some of it rolling. Lots
of fine young timber. A 3 room house $700.
70 acres 3 miles of Powder Springs, 3 room house,
running water, lies well, free from rock, 35 acres in
cultivation $1600.
110 acres, 6 room house, 3 room house, good barn,
apple orchard, pasture, CO or 70 acres in cultivation,
balance original timber. Cmi from Douglasville $3500.
150 acres 1 1-2 miles from Douglasville. 2 good
houses and barns; 75acres in cultivation. $35 per acre.
503 acres 2 miles Winston. 7 houses and barns. Half
in cultivation, balance in timber and pasture A good
farm and cheap. $15 per acre.
150 acres, 7 room house, barns, pasture, orchard. 75
acres in cultivation, 60 acres original forest. Good saw
timber. $4500.
70 acres, good 7 room house, 2 tenant houses, good
barns, Close in and one of the best farms in the county
$4600.
50 acres in Chapel Hill District, 3 room house, good
barn, fine water and timber. 25acaes'in cultivation.
$1000.
40 a:res good house and barn, orchard and pasture,
25 acres in cultivation. 2 miles Douglasville. $1000
84 acres, 5 room and 4 room house 50 acres in culti
vation, lies well and free from rock. Can be cut into
two small farms. $3200.
150 acres, near Winston. 2 good houses, barns and
out buildings, running water, trehard, A splendid
farm and well located $5,750.
100 acres near Chapel Hill, 5-room house, 3-ioom
house', 2 barns, running water, pasture, lies well and
free from rock. 40 acres in cultivation $2000 or will
trade for smaller place.
100 acres, 3 miles of Villa Rica. 15 acres in cultivation,
40 acres good oak timber, Good land and lies well, on
proposed Bankhead Highway. 10,000 feet of lumber
ready to build. $2000.
51 acres, 7 miles from Douglasville. new houses, good
land and lies well $850.
66 acres, 2 miles from Winston, new 1-room bouse,
good barn, 35 acres under plow, balance timber. Easy
terms $1850.
CITY PROPERTY
8-room house, 5 acres land. A big bargain $2500
Lot 67 x 175 and 4-room house in Fairburn, Ga. $400
3 room house and 2 acres land in Douglasville, beauti
ful building site $800
Lot 50 x 200 feet, 5-room house and barn $1500
4-room house and 3 lots in colored section $500
New 6-room bungalow on lot 100 x 200. Close in
$1600
See us for complete description of any of above prop
erty and others not mentioned.
Terms can be had on most of these farms.
Dake & McLarty
again. "Step lively, you idiot,” an- : about where your brains ought
swered one of the old women, trying j t 0 ^e. Then by hard work and
to puli herself up to the step of the }j eaV y driving he manages to
car. "We look as if we could step get a few drops of religion driven
through your skull. If the shock
don’t kill you on the spot it will.
live to be so old. ThVfooi kiiier win ! crop out in a few years where 1 . ; . . „ ,,
get you long before then.’-New York j other people can see some of it. An Ad in The Sentinel Brings Results,
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