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Vol. XIV,
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GA., November 22, 1918.
No. 33
Suggestions to Formers
By County Agent
Douglasville. Go
, « Mcl^W »^ r19 B.
Mr ' - x-armors of
Douglaa County:-
in my travels over the County
I am impressed with the great
number of fine porkers found at
almost every farm home. This
is ve>-y encouraging, yet I am
conatra'nei to believe that some
of the farmers and others who
have raised these magnificent
hogs, are making a serious mis
take in holding hogs over until
thev reach 14. 15 and 18 months
before butenering them. As a jbeth Ann Hatchett and hvechild-
matter-of-fact no hog should be Iren to them, four are now living,
permitted to have a birthday. I He and his wife lived happily to-
In fact a pig should never see gether for 44 years, having been
his birthday according to the best mairled October 15th, 1874,
authorities on pork production. Brother Abercrombie was a
The hog is a good producing raa- j consecrated member of the Bay-
chine and the more quickly this! tist Church for 49 years. He
In Memorium
To the Worship Master, War
dens, and Members of Doug-
1 isvills Lodge No. 289, F. &
A.M:
Dear Brethren:-
As your committee appointed
to draft suitable resolutions on
the death of Brother Jesse
Abercrompie who del a ted this
life October 12th, 1918, we beg
to report as follows;
Brother Alercrombie was
born October 31, 1851, in this,
Douglas County, near Holly
Springs Church in Ch pd Hill
district, He n.arried Miss E iza-
Good News for Doug
lasville
H—
As was expected and as every
b 'dy wished. Brother Ernest has
been returned to Douglasville for
another vear, Donglasville
never had a better preacher tht>n
B-other Ernest aud never was a
man more universally loved and
respected than he is here and it
is indeed good news not only to
his church bnt to the the town
and community that he has been
returned.
The same may be said of
Douglasville circuit and the re
turn of Rev. G, P. Brawell who
is a most popular pastor and
loved by everybody.
Other assignments in which
our people will be interested is
that Rev. Frank E. Jenkins
goes back to Powder Springs,
Rev. T. M. Elliott remains at
H Dallas, and Rev. Marvin Williams
machine can be made to convert | was made a Master Mason in ; a( . Q,. ace church, Atlanta, Rev.
‘ W. H, Cooper goes to Carrollton
and Rev T. J. Branson goes to
Greenville.
Local
Board Thank.
Helpers
feedstuff into food the more'1874.
profitable and efficent will the! It is useless to give a detailed
machine be for its owner, Time I list of the splendid virtues of
may r.ot be worth very much to j Brother Abercrombie, as he has
a hog, but even the hog’s time' lived among us all his life, but
is worth a great deai to the j suffice to say that a truer man
owner. Therefore, the sooner, and Mason never walked among
a pig "makes a hog of hinstlf” ‘us. lleloved his Church and
the better for all concerned. his Lodge. He practiced the
Douglas ville,'_Ga.
Nov. 18th, 1918
We desire to thank all person!
who aided registrants in filling
out their questionnaires durinj,
the rejent registration «nc
classification. This work beint
done without charge you havi
contributed something towart
winning of the war.
We wish especially mentioi.
the following persons who pal
riotically devoted davs anc
weeks of their time to this work;
Col D. S. Btrickland, Mtss Mil
dred, S ilmah Mr. J J. Kirh , M’.
T. L. Pittman. Mr. F 1 M. v*i n
Jr., Miss Kvylen Adercom
hie, Mr. Robert McKo , Mr. L,
E.Bartlett, Mr. PatH.Winn, M
J. L Dunn, Mr. J. H. Taylor.
Miss Edith Dake, Miss Chris
tine McGouirk, Mr, W. L. Dahl
rmple, Mr. W, R. Thomas, Mr
A. R. Bomar
Local Board Douglas County
Georgia,
Pay Stamp Pledges
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 19-The war
is over, but the big ball which
Union Services
According to arrangements
made some weeks ago, every
fourth Sunday night will be a
It is a
common be i f th it if principals taught bv boih and America wound up to win the 'union Service between the two
the
the grav fed to hog on pasture j his devot'on lo his family was war must be unwound just as
is limited, more forage will be known of all who knew him, slowly anb carefully and at just
eaten and cheaper gains pro- Truly one of our best men has'as great;,a erst. The money
duced This belief is not sup-, fallen’ and his place in tois com- { which it took to put. our boys in
ported by the feeding tests inunity will be hard tu fill. He |France and to pay the other vast
that have been conducted at was of a quiet disposition, but in expenses of prosecuting the war,
several Agricultural Experiment all questions of morality aud j was not more necessary than the
Stations. 1 A full fed of grain righeteosness he was always to sums it will take to bring them
to hogs on goo-1 'pastures not he found on the right side,
only produces ihi most rapid Therefore, Be it Resolved,
gains, but us ally gives the most That we wish to extend to bis
profitable results. When ac-' widow and children oorsympathy
count is taken of the savings in this hour of trial and a»suie
of labor and the reducing of them that our tears are shad
loss from disease by either wirii theirs in the death of this
butchering or marketing animals good Brother, • . ......
from 7 to 9 months of age! Resolved futhor, That we set; -prosecuted more vigorously that
instead of keeping them f.-r a a-idea.page of our records to lever in Georgia. In thisconnec-
year or mom, the ad vantage is the uieuany ol brother Abur tion, a plan, hard business ligl t
almost always with ihe more cromUie, end a copy of these reso- j the a jt ua iion was pointed out
rapid gr >wth. The seif-feeder lotions be furnished «he family j th(j )e of Georft .j a wi |l
which permits hogs to eat grains 1 and printed m the county ta
ut will either in pastures or i t per.
Respectfully submitted,
Thad M Moy. *
As Lor Meritt,
Joe C, McCarley,
Committee. .
churches, and next Sunday night;
the fi’St of these services will te
held at the Methodist chuich a- d
preaching d r ne by the BaptH
pastor. The two churches will
unite in some good music.
At the suggestion of Brothei
McMahan this will bn a Thanks
giving Service and everybody
in urged to co-iie. The house
should be filled to overflowing
for tfiisservi e.
back again and transfer
nation to a peace basis.
Therefore, it was announced
here today,. the campaign for CHARTER AMENDMENT
the sale of War Saving .amps t)E , 01{U | A _u OUR j tts p 1unty
and the redemption of War |To Ul( , Supl »rior Court of said County:
Saving Stamps pledges will le The Petition of the DOUGLAS HO
SIERY MILLS shows:
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That they are a corporat
od and doin-j lmsinc-HB undi
pn
:il offii
* and | .
l>ougis
ion charter-
■r the laws
and having
ace of bus-
Nelson Daniell
iOnNov, 8th, 1918 Godin His
tllwi.-e dealings saw fit to take
o himself the spirit of Little
'Jelson Daniell, three months old
son of Mr. and Mrs. W, M,
Daniell.
We can look back to the first
few weeks of life and see a pert,
sweet and laughing babe, tne
sweetest days of ones life are
chose innocent days.
Spasmodic Bronchitis taken
lold of him and for eight long,
weary weeks he fought nobly,
most of time while sick he was
•leasent with a sweet smile for
those who ministered to his
wains and ne-ds.
He has left a sad place in the
dearts of father, mother, brother
and sisters, ard only the one
who made the wound can heal
it. The loving master, giver of
all good gifts, has promised hi3
children he Would be with them
through all troubles and as David
said "I shall go to him but he
shall not return to me,” and
*rulv these are words of comfort
in hours of distress, insuring us
of a blessed hope of some-day
meeting our sweet ones who
have gone before. Another
sweet thought is that heaven is
the home of little childred and we
must become as such if we ever
reach that sweet abode. We
take it very hard when our child
ren die and go to God: but God
who gave them have a right to
take them and trans-plant in the
<arden of heaven.
Our hearts bleed with yours
as we have passed over the same
,vav you are r.ow going and
truly, wq sympathise with vou.
Our great regret, dear friends
are that we were unable to re
turn the many favors that you
so cheerfully gave, when we
lost onr dear l?ube.
Mr. Lester S. Lambert,
Mrs. Rilla A. Lambert,
dry lots is becoming more and
more popular in the cornbelt
states, a d there stems to he no
valid reason why self-feeders
should not prove as successful
in Douglas County.
nil County.
do well to note.
"The government right this;
minute is deciding the question J" 1 *!,"*
of whether to raise tne money it Five Thoiuami I
needs by taxation or by trying
to sell povernmedt securities,”.
said a leader of the War saving ! Th >t the stockholders of said
stock of said cori«> i
-halter is Twenty-
>Uais, divided ii to
fil.artjH of om hundred dollars each,
beiligt#o hundred and fifty
*Dol«
Now that the dormant season | the place of labor. However, r - , u , t iah Hosiery Mills-desire to it
is on, all farmers should begin they can often secure this addit- i^bimps organize ion o a V- jp.-tpitj,!spocU of said corporation
to look, after their fruit trees, jonal holp by buying implements-j "The big moneyed interest of,, from Twenty l ive Thousand Dollars.
There is nothing so conducive; cooperatively, and doubling qp ! the nation have shown thnt they I t'”’ humlr«d ana litty shares ><-
to a good cref]. at fri.it:, . nqr is :tlVtir teams to operate them, j f ayor the latter method by| ( ,. vi(led into shares of one hundred
there, any .better and cheao-r the farmer. is to meet ihd , buying up every issue of Liberty [dollarseach, beiniidnethotiBandshares,
insurance than a good applies-l f . food foed and forage B muls. The people now art . T h *t Twenty Five Thousand Dollars
iton of the concentrated Lunev ■ , . , t , ; „ „ . has already been paid in.
Sulphur Spray. This should be Production, he must have im j answering m the matter of War 4 - -
•mnlied during the, winter proved machinery. j Saving Stamps. The man who 1 liar, on account of the volume of its
cippiMru iui <i>n . ! . J business it is now necessary to have
months, j A place is made more attrne- buys them says, I doil’t want the cap itnl stock id-creased an afore-
By growing more or the feed tive, more profit able and more j to bo taxed, I want to help pay
and providing pasture, the Dou-1 homelike by fruittrees about it, ‘ for this war by putting my
glas County farmers can well : invest a few hollars in them, money in government securities
afford to increase Ins poultry !,.. .„ . , ,
and egg production. I was talk- this winter. which will pay me back dollar
It is impotant to get rid of the f 0 r dollar at a good rate of
deseased plants in the fall of the
ing to a farmer out ill the coun
ty last week, and he told me
th t his wife from a few hens
had sold over 8125 dollars in
egg3. Having produced all the
wheat and meat which to supply
his family, the egg money easily
furnished the sugar and coffee,
and some of the clothing. This
is strong argument in favor of
the far n poultry, but I should
like to see from one to two ex
cellent milk cows on each farm,
All farmers cannot afford to
buy extra horses and larger
implements or tractors to take' !
said for the succensful operation of its
said business.
year. Thorough sanitation is a
big factor, ard increases the
yield the following year. . .
If you haye raised a good crop
this year, let it be an incentive
to a greater crop next year.
The royal road to greater meat
production is through the pure
bred sire.
Respectfully,
J. E. CHEATHAM.
County Agent,
Wherefore petitioner pravs that its
charter be amended so that its capital
stock shall lie one hundred thousand
I dollars, divided into shares of one
interest. ‘The man who fails to ' hundred dollars each, being one thous-
purchase War Saving Stamps is and alares
saying, ‘Ido not like this method.
I prefer taxation, even if it takes
mv savings for the next seven
years, ‘And as surely as the
war is won, it will take the
savings of all the people in
America for the next seven
years if they vote for taxation
instead of purchasing the splen
did securities in War Saving
Stamps that are offered them.”
.1. H, McLartv,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Filed in office, this 20th day <
November, 1918.
GEORGIA, DOUGLAS COUNTY.
Office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Douglas County.
1, T. L. Pittman, Clerk ot the
Superior Court of Douglas County,
hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of the applica
tion for charter, as t e same appears
of file in this office.
This 20th day of November, 1918,
T. L. Pittman,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
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