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DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY. GA.. J otuary 4. 1918.
No. 39
IhOi^'R ROLL* I
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jj r .iG. Rainwater of Route 2,
ealleo since hst issue of the hon-
or ro || and sit his sucription for
ward i 1 y ear '
jl r- 0. P. Waters of Route 2,
is a ne'w reader of the Sentinel.
M r ; J. H. Griffith of Route 3,
j, g j ist had his subscription set
up a i.eteh.
Lj el t. Linton S. James of Ft.
Ogletl or P e ' W ‘N receive the Sen
tinel t ur '£ 1918 with the compli
ments 0 ! Mrs. Bertha Moody.
\y- H. Brown, of Rt 2,
made u “ a pleasant visit last
week ar. set * lls Paper up a
notch.
Mr. T. J. Brewer, of Rt 3,
remembered us the' past week
with an advai ce< l subscription.
Mr. W. H. R^erts, of Lithia
Springs, called last week and
set his subscript 011 up a notc h-
Mr.' M. T. Wa^ins, of Rt 2.
was a pleasant v® ltor ' ast wee k-
His subscription ls now Paid to
an advanced date
Mr. F. H. Sluter, of Rt 1,
remembered the e ditor last week
Lois yfi >
On Frida> night before X" i
our big hearted president, M
M. E. User, extend -l sti-e h'
vitations to all overseers, section
men, bandboy3, office force and
their wives to meet him ..
hall over the new office b i id'
where he presented to his guests
a beautiful ball that is the latett
in architectural beauty to use for
their pleasure and benefit. Noi
being content with the mere pri
sentation of the beautiful hall,
Mr. Geer s-1 the ball rolling
with one of the best oyster sut -
pers 't has ever been our plea-
svre to attend in a long time.
The band rendered some fine
selections during the evening
which was enjoyed by alt. After
supper was over and everybody
happy, the office force and band
boys determined not to be out
done in the generosity of the
occasion presented Mr. Geer
with a nice electric lamp and a
fine pair cuff buttons. Mr. J. F.
Long also received a nice desk
outfit from the overseers. Good
talks were mode by Messrs.
Geer, Long, Upshaw and Dun
can. But Mayor V. R. Smith
carried olf all honors in the
Government Will Have
M n Here Prom Jan.
14 to 19 Inclusive:
to He>p Make
OutRetu ns
Atlanta, December 26.—It will
require a small army of men t<
take the income tax returns of
persons subject to the new law.
Collector of Internal Revenue
A. C. Blalock today annonneed
hat 35 officers will start from
his headquarters on Januaay 1,
and on January 2 every one of
them will be on the job in the
county assigned him, to meet the
people and help them make cut
their income tax returns.
The officer assigned to this
county is due to arrive here cn
January 14 to remain nntil Jan
uary 19 inclusive. He will have
his office in Douglasville in court
house where he may be found
every day on the dates stated.
It will he well for every un
speech making line. He brought married person whose net in
down the house and everybody 'come for 1917 is $1,000 or over
went home happy and content
1 am sure that I can say in
behalf of the people that we
reiuemueieu uit . . Denali Ot me people uiau wt
with an advaw ecl subscription, £ u |] y a pp rec j a ); e the hall for om
Mr. Steven Stovall, of Win
ston, advanced kis subscription
a notch thi * >veek.
Mr A. L. Wortham, of Rt 5,
handed a year’s subscription to
the Sentinel this week.
Mrs. Mary Parrish, of Atlanta,
advanced her subscription a
notch this week.
Mr. E E. Pope, of Winston,
called this week nd advanced a
notch.
Prof. W. 0. Collins, of Athens,
called last week and extended
his subscription a year.
Mr. Horace Darnell, of Rt 3,
called th’8 week and left the
price of the Sentinel a year.
Mr. J. S. Ware, of the Lois
Mill village, remembered us with
a substantial payment on sub-
scripti n.
We acknowledge receipt of
check from Mr. J. I. Vansant,
cashier of the Bank of Roopville,
in payment of subscription.
Mr. J. T. Lee. a prominent
citizen and Confederate veteran
of Winston. wa3 here this week
and had his subscription advan
ced a year.
Mr, L. H. Baldwin has our
thanks for a year’s subscription
Mr. E. L. Abercrombie, of
Rockingham, Ga.,is a new read
er of the Sentinel.
Mr. G. T. McLarty, the popu-'J
lar cashier of the Douglasville
Banking Co., had the date on
his label moved up a year.
Frank Clark (col.) is a new/
Sentinel subscriber this week.
Special School Notice 1
This notice is to correct the 1
report that the opening of school
will be postponed on account of
a shortage of coal. We haye
plenty of coal to last through the
winter and school shall begin at
the appointed time, Monday,
January 7,1918.
W. H. BUTLER, Supt,
use. The ladies can hold their
Sewing Circles or Red Cross
meetings, and theboyB can blow
to their heart’s content winter
or summer—it’s all the same in
side the hall.
Our Christmas ent"rt.aiament
was mentioned in the Sentinel
last week. We had something
new—a Santa C.aus workshop.
Andthrour . Gie co-operation of
the ladies and all working to
gether we had a success and a
fine time.
and every m irried person living
with wife or husband whose net
income for 1917 is $2,000 or over
to call on the income taxman
and learn whether or not they
have any tax to pay. Collector
Blalock said 'iod»y Hhe person
subject to tax who doesn’t make
return in the time prescribed is
going to regret it. The govern
ment will get after all income
tax slackers.
"There’s hardly a business
min, re chant, or professional
man wno won’t have to make
return of income. Farmers, as
a class, will have to pay the tax.
The sate thing to do is for every
Food Control Helps
Georgians
Some very illuminating figures
Oave been compiled by the ex-
e-utive committee of the Fed
eral Food Administrator for
Georgia, Dr. A. M. Soule, show-
_ that food corftrol has save
to the consumer in Georgia alone,
>n one commodity o ly, more
nan three times as much as tlv
ntire United States Food Aci-
ninistration is costing the gov
•rnireiit by congressional appro
priation.
These figures show that, whilp
t >is savin r has accrued to thi-
families of the state, the farmer
has made $800,000 more fur hit
product out of the same artieh
than he made before this one
article waB taken under the four
control regulations.
When flour was selling at retail
in Georgia for $16.60 per bs -rel
the price of raw wheat was $1 40
per bushel. Under government
regulation flour has been brought
o $13 per barrel, a saving of
$3 60 per barrel to the consumer,
and the price of wheat is a fixed
one of $2.20 per bushel.
Figures compiled by the gov
ernment show there are 625.000
families of the accepted average
of five to each familv in Georgia.
The average consumption of flour
per family is four barrels per
annum, or a total of 2,600,000
barrels of flour in Georgia each
ye r. The reduction in the price
of flour to the consumer was
governed by speculation'and h id
already reached $16.60 per bar
rel, with every indication that it
would have gone to any higher
figures speculators could force
it; ptobably more than $20. At
that time and under that con
dition, the farmer was getting
$1.40 per bushel for his wheat
and he, too. was in the hands of
Old Fellows Coiumn.
DOUGLASVILLE NO. 162.
C. F. Selman. N. G.
E X. Uopkins, Secreturj’,
Meets every Monday night.
WINSTON NO. 387.
G. VV. Smith, N. G.
W. M. Richardson, Secretary.
Meet.R Friday nights before first aid
third Sundays and Saturday nig’Mb
before second and fourth Sunda.ys.
FLINT HILL NO. 474.
W. W. Cagle, N. G.
L. E. Bartlett, Secretary.
Meets every Tuesday nicht.
We are bidding farewell to the-person who had a total income
old year of 1917 and welcoming
in the new year o' 1918. We
don’t know what the new year
will bring forth, but while hop
ing for the best, we have decided
not to make any more New Year
resolutions. For what’s the use?
We have been making them all
our 1 fe only to be roken and
cast aside. Our motto should be
practice good habits and culti
vate friendships every day in
the year, learning to treat and
love our fellow man in the full
meaning of true friendship. Let
us take our eyes from the back
wtrd path that is lined with
pieces of broken promises that
prick our conscience and makes
us sad and old before our time,
and look to tne future and a clo
ser union of love and fellowship
with one another and we wil
probably see the silver lining of
he dark cloud now overhanging
(he new year. Bill Blue.
(Edited This Week By W. C. Pollnrd>
We regret to note that Bro.
Joe McGarley has been on the
sick list this week.
Here’s good news: Grand
Master Bodenhamer will be at
our next county convention.
The boys are making prepara
tions to give the county conven
tion a royal time.
Let’s all pull together and
make 1918 the banner year for
Odd Fellowship in Douglas.
Send us the names of your
officers elect for our lodge direc
tory. Don’t neglect this.
Douglasville lodge will install
officers Monday night and also
confer the initiatory and first
degrees.
Stars the new year by paying;,
your dues promptly and attend
ing your lodge every meeting.
If you can’t pull for the ad
vancement of the order got out
of the road of those who will.
Bro. E. L. Hopkins has tho
sympathies of the entire bnother-
,hood on the illness of his daugh-
j»nd he too. was in me nanus ui . , . . •
the speculator. The government, ter in whom an .mprovsment»
in the process of regulating the noted<
of $1,000 or $2,000, as the case
may be, and who is not suie
about what deductions the law
allows him, to play it safely by
calling on the income taxman.
“The man in the field will
have forms for everybody and
persons who expect to call on
him need not trouble themselves
to write my office for blanks.”
Brutal Assault
' Mass Meeting
A mass meeting of the voters
of Douglasville is called to me4t
at the court house next Monday
night, January 7, for the pur
pose of electing a new executive
committee, fixing date for city
primary, and such ether business
:as may come up.
J. T. Duncan, Chairman.
Z. T : Dake, Secretary.
One of the most brutal assaults
that has ever come to our atten
tion occurred near Brownsville
latt week when the little three-
year-old son of Mr. Hugh Tid
well was beaten with rocks by
two negro boys, ten and twelve
years old, children of Wash
Griffin.
The assailants beat the child
till they thought he was dead
and dragged him to a brier 1 patch
and left him, but he recovered
sufficiently to get home and
physicians were summoned. Late
reports indicate that the child
will live.
The boys were arrested and
brought to Douglasville and later
turned over to Paulding county
officials.
raw and finished product, fixed
the price of wheat at $2.20 per
bushel. Under the old system
of speculation the farmer, for
the four bushels of wheat in a
barrel of flour, got $5.60; under
the new system of food control
he gets $8.80 for the same four
busnels of wheat, or an increase
of $3,20 which, on the total con
sumption on the total consump
tion in Georgia also yields him
$800,000 a year increase for the
same amount of wheat consumed
in making the flour on which the
consumer is saved $8,760,000 a
year.
This is an example of the elimi
nation of profiteering in flour
and wheat by the operation of
food control under the United
States Food Administration.
Notice
Smith-Styles
On Christmas evening at 7:30
o’clock at the residence of the
bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. S. Smith, Mr. Sherman Styles
and Miss Jennie Smith, two of
Douglasville’s most popular
young people, were united in
marriage, Rev. J. B. Tallant
officiating.
Quite a large number of
friends and relatives were
present to witness the ceremony
and enjoy the refreshments.
A,l W,t,r ,n„ L,.ht
City Taxes, must be paid not extending congrrtulations and memuer to ms louge aunng
later than the 20th of this month, j wls hj n g them a successful jour- ■ which can be done with but little
V. R. Smith, Muyor j n ey on the matrimonial sea. j effort.
We want to make this column
interesting and to do so-mu3t
have the co operation of all the
brethren.
No good Odd Fellow will be a
Slacker, either to his God, his
family, his Order, his neigbgor,
or himself.
One hundred and ten new
members were added to the
membersnip of Triple Link Lodge
of Detroit, Michigan, during the
first six months of 1917, -and
$2,600 was paid into the treasury
thereby. The lodge is two years
old.
When it comes to regular atten
dance, regardless of weather, we
must hand it to the Lois Mill
boys.
The grand lodge building in
Indianapolis is twelve stories
high and cost $500,000. There
are about 800 lodges in Indiana
with a membership of about
90,000.
We arc informed that Brothers
Dake, Edwards and Friddell wil!
make oratorical flights at On
coming ounty convention that
will make an ordinary areoplane
look like 30 cents.
Every member of Douglasville
Lodge is urged and expected ti»
be at the regular meeting Mon
day night.
Let every brother add a new
member to his lodge during 1918