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DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY. GA.. November 30, 1917.
No. 34
Hatchet’s Crossing
Hon. Wrr. Schley Howard will
spe.ik at the court house in
Douglasville next Saturday at 2
o’clock.
Congressman Howard has
many warm personal friends in
Douglas county who will ce glad
to see and hear him again and
the public at large are invited to
attend.
His record in congress is one
of which his friends are proud
and his ability as a speaker should
fill the court house to overflow
ing.
Let everybody come and hear
our congressman on the issues of
the day. Ladies especially invi
ted.
Remember the date: Saturday,
December 1st, 2 o’clock, at court
house.
The First Thanksgiving
One cold day in December, in
1620, a ship came to America.
It was called the Mayflower.
There were 102 Pilgrims in it.
They came from England. In
England their king would not let
them worship God like they wan
ted to, so they decided to come
to America to live.
When they got here the ground
was covered with ice and snow
and the grouud was frozen.
They had to build houses and
they had nothing to eat much.
They built some log houses and
bought some corn of the Indians
and planted it. They had a hard
time that winter, but after they
had stayed here a year they had
such a good harvest and God had
been so good to them that they
decided to set apart a day of
Thanksgiving to return tharrks
to God. They'invited the Indians
to have a feast with them on
Thursday, this is why we have
our Thanksgiving.
• Elvin Duncan.
$20.00 Tine in Dog Case
The most unique trial in the
history of Douglasville occurred
Tuesday afternoon when -V. M.
Davis was lined $20 00 and costs
or twenty days for burying a dog
in the city cemetery.
The incidents leading up to the
trial are as follows: A Mrs.
Wilson, a daughter of the defen
dant, who lives in Atlanta, had a
poodle that died at a (dog) sani-
sanitariurn last Saturday and she
at once had the remains placed
in a suitable (?) casket and sent
to Douglasville via automobile
for interment, her father having
the funeral arrangements in
charge.
Sunday morning Mr. Davis
arrived with the remains and
the interment occurred in his lot
in the city cemetery.
Mayor V. R. Smith, however,
concluded that the cemetery was
not for dogs and enforced a line
as stated above with an addi
tional provision that the dog be
moved before sundown.
Union Services Endorsed
Dear Brother Dake—I wish to
second your suggestion made in
the Sentinel some time ago that
the two churches alternate mon
thly in having monthly union
services on one Sunday night. I
think each congregation should
ask its pastor fiat this be arran
ged. It will tendto cement Christ
ian unityand brotherly love in our
city, and at the same time give
the church-going people an op
portunity to hear each of our
splendid pastors.
R. E. Edwards.
Linton S. James Gets
Lieutenancy
Friends here congratulate
Linton S. James on his rec 'rd
in the Officers’ Traing Camp at
Fort Oglethorpe, in securing a
first lieutenant’s commission.
Mr. James has worked himself
up from a private and has made
a record of which not only he,
but his friends, feel proud.
Congratula tio ns
Editor Sentinel-Of course all
our people are proud of the boys
who are in the army from Doug-
lassville and Douglas county, but
especially do I think that our
congratulations rre due Lieut.
Linton S. James, who has just
received his commission as first
lieutenant at Fort Oglethorpe,
No one knows bet ter than Linton
the strugg'e he has been com
pelled to mane and the handicaps
he has had to surmount in order
to win this honor.
All ate hi3 best friends now
since h i has won out, but how
many gave the young boy a word
of oncouragement in the days
past when the future was not so,
bright for him? All honor to
our brave boys, and three cheers
for Linton.
R. E. Edwards.
Don’t forget we still send
off laundry on Wednesday morn
ing. Call No. 6 and we will
r.omeafter it. Boy d Co.. Agts.
Keep Counties Tick-Free
The people of thess freed
counties are to be congratulated
on the success of their efforts to
rid their territory of this danger
ous and expensive cattle tick.
They are to be congratulated on
having opened up their eounty to
the unrestricted cattle markets
of the nation.
Every citizen owe3 it to him
self and his neighbors to keep
his county tick-free. Each one
should make it his business to
see that no ticky cattle, horses
or mules are driven into the
county or reach it in any man
ner.
Final cleen-up dipping, where
advised next spring, should be
carried out as conscieeciously as
the orignal dipping.
Farmers in other countries
who are tired of the old posters
and want new ones have only to
follow on the advice of the old
ones:
“Dip That Tick.’’
FOR RENT—Three rooms.
Apply to Mrs. Mary K. Maxwell
(Last Week’s Letter)
I see our Uncle San, is yetting
after son.ie of the meanest men
that ever stepped in shoe leather
Now I don’t mean the Germans.
Before they went war crazy
there were a lot of good Ger
mans.
Since they lost their heads in
trying to satisfy the Kaiser’s
ambition good Germans are about
like what the old frontiersman
thought about tin I idi; n .
No, the meanest man—the
right-down meanest—are those
fellows that have been trying to
take advantage of everybody on
this side of the Atlantic. They
are chaps that buy the neee3 i-
ties of life cheap, an l sell tln-m
it a price that is called “The
high cost of living.”
It puts me in mind of the time
that we needed a new school
house over in the eastern dis
trict. The town had bought a
acre of land from Deacon Grimos
No. he weren’t the one that they
used to sing about being dead.
He was very much alive then.
But the town' hadn’t any money
to build the school house.
There were too many children
at the school house at Center,
and a lot of them were coming
from the eastern part of town.
They talked it over in a town
meeting but didn’t seem to get
anywhere. Finally they quit
and went home.
This made the Widow Green-
enough so all-fired mad that she
up and took two planks and
rarried them to the lot and left
them there with the following
sign upon them: “This is the
beginning. Who will help finish
the job?”
Some of the old busybodies
made a lot of talk about it, but
the more they talked the more
they set the people to thinking
about it, and pretty soon there
was quite a pile of lumber on
that ground.
Finally Bije Hemmingway, the
village carpenter, said he would
give his time to building the
school house if the other men
handy with tools would help.
So they got up quite a reSpec-
tabie looking ischool building.
But it was the widder’s begin
ning that put the school house in
the eastern district.
The widder’s daughter, Sally,
married a man from the city,
what thought he vas so all-fired
smart that he could fool the far
mers.
There had been a poor apple
crop the year before and the
price had been high. Of course
we farmers ean-’t get anything,
for the price the merchaats give,
but the price was high all the
same.
So Sally’s husband came’round
and bought up all the apples the
next year before they had even
got to be green ones.
There’s the trouble with us
farmers. We are too blamed
afraid that some other will get
a better price for his stuff than
we get. We are afraid to trust
each other. Of course they have
got ever that fear in some parts
of the west, but when the farm
ers get over it in all parts of the
country, it will be better for
everybody. As the widder wrote
“There’s been a beginning.”
’Tother day somebody asked
jine the question about when Jthe
Lois Mills
Our old friend, Mr. Owens,
who has been a familiar figure
around the mill, ; s very low at
this writing. Friends have lost
all hope hr hie noveiy Dr.
Housewort.h is attending him,
Mr. .1. F. and T. P. Long made
a trip to South Carolina last
veek to visit their fither, who
is very Bick.
We are sorry that Mr. W. B
Williamson and fantily are leav
ing us this week for Covington
Mr. Williamson has made us a
good citizen in more ways than
one and we wish him well wher
ever lie may go.
Some of our boys hayn joined
hands with Uncle Sam and are
going to take a crack at the
Kaiser, We wish them the best
of lock in their undertaking.
By the time this comes out our
Thanksgiving turkey, cranbe ry
sauce and all the other good
things that it takes to enable
the American people to give
thanks, will be a thing of the
past and some people will be
truly thankful that they can eat
enough for a good-size family
without making themselves sick,
and then promptly forget all
about giving thanks until our
regular appointed Thanksgiving
Day comes around agoin. We
are an awful thunkful people in
some ways. bill blue.
KJimniiimi Biiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiim uuiiminiGn
I HONOR ROLLl
Coire and hear Congressman
Howard speak Saturday.
The Mail Order Menace
Atlanta, Ga., November 29.—
The menace of the mail order
house is not confined to small
town merchants who feel its
effects in the volume of trade
their customers send away from
home.
It is just as real and just as
hurtful to the merchant of At
lanta as it is to the merchant of
the .'ountry town, and Atlanta
merchants are preaching the
doctrine of “Trade At Home”
with equally as fervent emphasis
as their brothers in the rural
districts.
The local merchant is the man
who gives you credit when you
are financially embarrassed and
carries your account when you
cannot pay.
He is the man w’ o gives you
back your money or makes ex
changes when you are not satis
fied with your purchases.
He is the man whr meets you
at the door with a handshake
and bids you adieu with a rea
come again and a good word for
the kiddies.
He is the man who pays his
taxes to support the public
schools and fire department and
police force and other public
institutions.
The same thing applies to the
merchants of this city as well as
it applies to the merchant of any
Georgia town.
= Pay Your Subscription and Be |
Happy on the Way. |
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Mr H. F. Winn, of Villa Rica,
nlled Wednesday end handed us
i year’s subscription to the Sen
tinel.
Mr. E. Woods, of Wir.slon.
made us a pleasant visit 5«*f
week and moved Ins subscription
ip a notch.
Mr. F. W. Giles, of Rt 1, han
ded us a year’s subscription this
week.
Mr. W. B. Williamson, of Lois
Mill, who leaves this wetk with
his family for Covington, drop
ped ill Saturday and had his sub
scription marked up.
Mr. H. C. Brooks, of Rt 1,
called this week and had his
Sentinel marked up to 1918.
Mr. R. A. Land, of Rt 4, called
this week and had his subset ip-
tion set forward a year.
Mr. P. A. Milam, of Rt 2, was
i plea fun t caller this week and
set his subscription up a notch.
Mr. J. K. Danish, of Winston,
approached the editor Tuesday
with the proper sign, passwoid
and grip to secure the Sentinel
i for another year.
Mr. .1. M. Stitcher, of McWhor,
called Monday and had his sub
scription moved up three not
ches.
Our friend and Confederate
veteran, Mr. W. C. Burnett, or
Winston, called Wednesday and
renewed his subscription for
another year.
war would be over, and I told
them about a hundred years. So
let’s do everything we can to get
this war business finished up as
quick as we can do it right.
Then we can at least feel that
we have done our duty, not only
by our country but to humanity
as well. To do this you will find
one of them price boosters at
work. Horse Fly
Litliia Springs Locals
The Parent-Teacher Associa
tion held its regular meeting at
the school house Friday after
noon. An interesting program
was rendered and much business
attended to. A stove was bought
toward fitting up a kitchen in the
building, with the view of put
ting domestic science in the
school after Christmas. Plans
were made for an oyster supper
and bazaar to be given on the
evening of December 8th. De-^
cember i2th was set as the' ‘com
munity work day,” when every
body is invited to come and help
work on the yard's, then enjoy a
good hot dinner in the building
and afterwards listen to a speech
by the presideni of the Georgia
branch of the National Congr<ss
of Parent-Teacher Associations,
Mrs. J. W. Rowlett, of Atlanta,
Miss Lilly Reynolds of Atlanta-,
spent several days of the past
week with Mrs. J. A. Watson.
Miss Francis Maxwell has re
turned from an extended visit
to Charlott, N. C.
Among those spending the
Thankskiving holidays away are-
Misses Fmma Gardner at Macon v
Ethel Gardner at Adaivsvifie:,
and Mary Noble at Atlanta.
Mrs. George Patterson has re
turned from South Carolina,
Mrs, Jas. A Watson enter
tained a number of her friends
at her home Thursday afternoon.
After a time of pi jasant chatting
and doing Red Cross work, de
licious refreshments were served!.