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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
Social and Personal
Prof. W. H. Butler has as his
R'uest this week, his mother from
Rex.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Aluand,
of Conyers, spent the week-end
here.
The Masons and Odd Fellows
each contributed $25.00 to the
Army Y. M. C. A. fund.
Little Sai-a, daughter of Mr.
It Is Here Now. What ?\YO\] DON’T NEED TO
The boll weevil is in Douglas
Misses Ruth Winn and Louise county and it is of the utmost!
Smith are spending the week importance to every farmer to j
realize it.
It is very gratifying to know ;
that but very few farmers in the I
end in Atlanta.
An architect has been employed
to draft plans for the new school
building and as seon as the plans coan y aie
are acceptable to the board work ^ ton “!?i y ' 'f,
will begin.
The Young Peoples Missionary
Society held a most interesting
and Mrs. C. G. Brown, Is dan-! ™ eet j ng at * he Me , thodi ? t church 'states say that the weevil has
gerously ill with scarlet fever. | Monday night with a large at- proven the greatest blessing,
_ , , . j tendance. j because it has opened their eves
Ool and Mrs. Astor Merritt 1
will move into their new home
on Oampbellton street this week.
still depending
are going to be strictly up
against it.
Successful farmers in the wee-
infested sections of other
We are getting ou' a day early
this week so the Sentinel force
can have a Thanksgiving holi
day,
bliss Mildred Ward, of Cor-
dele, will ai
spend some time here with rela
tives.
Dr. J. E. Ward, of Cordele,
arrived Wednesday for a visit
with his mother, Mrs. M. E.
Ward.
Dr. J. T. Gibson, of Waco,
filled dis regular appointment at
the East Douglasville Church
-Sunday.
Mesdames A. W. McLarty, P,
H. McGouirk, N. B. Duncan and
J. E. Phillips motored to Atlanta
Monday,
Dr. T. R. Whitley attended
the meeting of the directors of
the Bankhead Highway at Bir
mingham.
Mrs. G. H. Turner bis broke
up housekeeping and will spend
same time with friends in Rome
and elsewhere.
Rev, A. Earnest preached two
most excellent sermons at the
Methodist Church Sunday. The
members a e delighted with their
new pastor.
Messrs. N. B. Duncan and A.
W. McLarty, who are at Robin
son’s Sanitarium in Atlanta, ar
this week to both leporled to be doing nicely
an 1 are expected to return home
in a few days.
The Dodge party consisting of
Messrs. P. D, Selman, Noah
Baggett, Arthur Griffith, Clinton
Camp and Bojd Moody returned
Monday from Detioit each driv
ing a new Dodge.
Mesdunes S. A. Griffith, J. R.
Duncan, J. A. Enteikin, N. D.
Burton and Mr. J. L. Pergins
were callecf to Atlanta Tuesday
to attend the funeral of Sam
Perkins, who died Sunday in
Washington.
Dr. T. R. Whitley has returned
fro n the Directors’ meeting of
the Bankhead Highway Associa
tion in Birmingham and reports
that the Bremen Tallapoosa
route won in its contest will)
Carrollton and Bowden.
Mr. and Mrs J. C. Wrighthave
moved into the Dr. Turner resi
dence on the corner of Church
and Bowdon Streets.
to the fact that the most success
ful farming is the kind they have
been forced into.
Instead of being one-crop far
mers they are now growing all
kinds of crops and have some
thing to sell the year round.
It is reported that Douglas
county farmers are sowing more
| wheat and oats than ever before
and will plant the biggest food
crops next year they have ever
planted.
The demand for all kinds of ';
farm products will continue lo
be enormous and every farmer j
should diversify now before he is
forced to it.
keep your money at
home for fear of something happening at the
Bank to cause its loss.
This Institution is keenly alive to safe
guarding its customers’ funds before every
thing else, and has adopted the distinctive
policy of insuring every dollar of its de
posits against loss from any source.
It is this watchful care of your interests,
as our customer, that makes the Farmers &
Merchants Bank the one desii able place to
transact your banking matters.
You are assured of prompt service and
absolute protection.
Farmers and Merchants Bank
DEPOSITS INSURED
The Great Melting Pot
The public school is the best-known
and most relied upon melting pot that
America has; it is a tradition that the
five-year-old Slav, Czech, Italian,
French, German, British and other
Floyd Fee'.v of the Avaition ‘"strangers” enter the public school to
Department at Newport News, come out after u dozen years quite
is visitimr hie narpnte Mr and Americanized or well on tlie way to
is visiting ms parents, Mr. and belngso But this function of the pub-
Mrs. J. T. Feely, this week. , lie school as a melting pot for the ra
cial elements Is always considered in
Its relation to the pupils only, while Its
relution to the teachers Is In reality
even more Interesting. Superintendent
F. E. Spnuhllng of the Minneapolis
public schools tells us that the 448
teachers appointed to that city's teach
ing staff during the last two years rep
resent 23 nationalities. Only 01 per
terian Evangelist, was here Wed-! cent ot the teachers appointed are
; .v, _ . , . . , of American, English-Auierieun or Eng-
nesday with a view to organizing, Ush parentage . Fifteen per cent are
a Presbyterian church in Doug- of Norwegian or Swedish parentage, 11
Iasville. I per cent of German, 7 per cent of Irish,
4 per cent of Scotch and 2 per cent of
Jay W. Camp came up from Flench pnrentuge. The Spanish, Eus-
t sian, Jewish, Danish and Bohemian
from Camp Wheeler for the raceg are other elemeuts represented
week-end With his parents, Mr. i by competent teachers in the Mluneap-
and Mrs. W. J, Camp. | oils schools.
FOR THE BOY IN THE SERVICE
A Kodak is the acceptable gift.
Call and look at our line of Eastmans.
Films for all Cameras.
JOE, C McC^REEY
DENTAL
WORK
AT LOWEST PRICES
Wo do not charge ono penny more than
the price wo advertise.
ONE PRICE
Best Gold Crowns
Bridge Work . .
WANTEB-“<Jood quali
ty of pine wood. Will pay
$3.00 per cord. Lois Cot
ton Miil. 25-tf
Violent Temper Inherited.
In two-tliirils of the cases ot violent
temper studied by Charles B. Daven
port this wan clearly inh*
Painless Method. Skillful Operators of
years* experiences. We will pay your rail
road fare to Atlanta if your work
amounts to as much as $10,
One Price Dental Office,
104' j Whitehall St. Cor. Mitchell, Atlanta. Ga.
Coughing Tires the Old
Hard winter coughs are very tiring to
elderly people. They mean loss of sleep,
and they deplete the strength, lower vi
tality, weaken and wear out the system*
Foley’s Honey and Tar
stops coughs quickly. It is a standard
family medicine that contains no opi
ates, and is noted for its quick effect on
coughs, colds, croup, bronchial and
la grippe coughs, and the chronic coughs
of elderly people.
J. B. Williams, Trenton, Ga., over 73 years
old says: "I have used Foley’s Honey and Tar
for years with the best and surest results,"
J. L. Seimar. <& bon,
ANNOUNCEMENT
Having bought the Grocery business of Uncle
Joh n mith, we wish to announce to the public
that we are receiving new goods almost every day,
and it is our purpose to carry a full line, not only
of Staple and Fancy Groceries, but will add many
other lines’ making it an up-to date General store.
We will keep our stock clean and fresh and
we earnestly solicit the patronage of the people of
both town and country. Yoj’11 find our prices
right and we will prove our appreciation by cour
teous treatment and good service.
Call and see our new stock.
Phone us your order.
Give us a share of your business.
We have secured the agency for the Troy Laundry, which has been
jn business for 33 years in Atlanta. Will send for your laundry and deliver
it-also cleaning, pressing and dying.
We also sell the best 5c & 10c loaf of bread on the markket.
Telephone No. 28, and we’ll do the rest.
We Deliver In Town.
C £
BAGGETT & BURTON
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