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DOUGLAS COUNTY
VOLUME XV
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1919.
NUMBER.
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IfPTSreiON SOLDIER
ORAGNIZATION
PRODUCTION OF BEEF OB THE Mil FARM
People Must Act Promptly or
Douglas County Will Fail to
Maintain Her Record
For the fifth time tiie people of
I the United States are called upon
' to subscribe for Liberty Bonds.
I Your government needed the won-
j ey or it would not have made the
call. Since signing the armistie
our expenses have been but little
less than before. It took time
to get two Million soldiers over
seas and it will take time to bring
them back.
It would be the height of folly
to undertake to answer the various
questions asked relative to this
bond issue. We shall consider the
matter in the light that the eon-
try has made the call and as pa
triotic citizens it. is our place to
buy bonis.
Your country fully relizes the
high prices of all commodities, the
loss to the south by the deprec
iation of the value of cotton and
the depletion of the finances of the
country by form of war securit
ies ; all of which may he answered
in one short sentence, “A hard,
luck story will not go with the
boys we sent overseas.” We prom
ised these boys when they left that
we were with them to the last man
and the last dbllar. They now call
our hand to see if we meut what
we said
The fact that we are now enjoy
ing praotally all the pre-war luxur
ies and conveniences and the fact
we are making hut few self de
nials or practicing any new meth
ods of economy indicates that the
country is amply able to do its
duty in the Fifth Liberty Loan.
This very fact is sufficent answer
to all excuses and hard luck
stories rendered by the average
citizen.
Douglas county is called upon
to subscribe $62,250 to this Victory
Loan. This is less than the county
subscribed in the Fourth loan. The
Dotal amount of this loan is $4,500-
000,000 and is 25 per cent less than
anyone anticipated it would he.
The terms of the notes are more
attractive than any of us thought
it was possible for the government,
to offer. The bonds are really
four year notes, bearing 4% per
cent interest, payable every six
months with the option of the gov
ernment redeeming them after the
third year. The interest will date
from 'May 20, 1919, maturing the
bond May 20, 19211. They may he
purchase! for all cash or upon the
installment plan—10 per cent ac
companying the application, 10
per cent July 15, 20 per cent Aug.
12, 20 per cent Sept. 9,20 per cent
Oct. 7, and 20 per cent Nov. 11,
with accrued interest on deferred
installments. These notes will be
issued in denominations of $50,
$100, 500, $1000, 5000, $10,000,
$50,000 and $100,000.
The sale of these bonds wdl be
handled through the County Com
mittee, just like the sale of the
Fourth Liberty Loan. At a public
meeting in Douglasville on Friday
iMay 2, we sold over $28,500 of
bonds. The loan campaign began
Monday. April 21 and ends Satur
dav, May 10. The local committee
will’ not’ have the time to make a
thorough canvass of the county.
Don’t disappoint the local workers,
but subscribe in honor of the boys
who are still overseas. Anythin"
else would he a disappointment to
them as an unpatriotic act ot the
citizens of our county.
There is every reason why our
people should subscribe to these
notes to the limit of their ability.
They will pay the lebt which we
•contracted in good faith and which
was the means of bringing an end
to the terrible conditions in Eu
rope many months sooner than we
thought possible.
Success of the loan will mean a
prompt return of business to its
normal basis. This is the last
great public loan to be offered by
the government. Now let’s finish
-up the war schedule and go back
to our regular business with the
satisfaction of knowing that we
did our part in the great work m
the same spirit that was shown b>
our boys in France.
It is going to take more grit,
more energy, more patriotism anl
more red blood'to buy these bonds
than «ny war securities previously
offered. On the other loans an
assessment was made and you were
GOOD CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
On of Douglas (Jonties pioneer
citizens Mr. J. W. Rutherford,
passed away at his home iinChes-
nut Log district, Monday after a
short iliues.
Mr. Rutherford was one of the
counties best citizens, a confederat
veteran, a mason and a member of
the Methodist Church at Mt. Ver
non.
He leaves a widow and two dau
ghters, Mrs. Albert Howell and
Mrs. Sam Carver with several
grand children, other relatives and
friends to mourn his death.
The funeral and interment oc-
eured Tuesday at Mt. Carmel. The
funeral sevice was conducted by
Rev. L. W. Neff of Austell and Rev
<4. P. Broswell, and he was laid to
rest by his Masonic bretheren
with tthqir beautiful ritualistic
eeitebiony.
His death was a destimjt loss
not, only to the family but to the
community and the .county. The
Sentinel extends sympathy to the
bereaved family.
A chapter of tile American Le
ft' li, Hie new national association
of men who served with the colors
in tie- great world war. has been
formed in the Fifth congressional
district and the organization of
similar chapters in various sections
of Georgia is assured. The new
association is modeled after the |
Untied Confederate Veterans, lias up tut
for its object the bringingtogether
of a II men who served in any
branch of the army and navy dur
ing flit great conflict now brought
to an end, and is expected to in
clude about. 4,000,000 members
throughout the United States. The
Legion is non-partisan, but it is
plannel to have its members co
operate for the best interest, of
their community, state and nation.
Captain Charles J. Turpie is tem
porary chairman of the Fifth Con
gressional District chapter. Dele
gates will he sent to the national
onferenee at St. Louis, Mo., next
week.
The production of beef on the', which will 1
nail farm is one of the most im-jyears under :
ortant questions before the A-
ver.v twe
onditious
nenean farmer at the pre
ime.
The
hi
MRS. E. M. HAGAN DEA.D
Douglasville expeirencefl
unusual degree of sadness Tues
day when it was known that Mrs.
E. M. Hagin had died at her home
in WainSboro.
Mrs. Hagin who was the wife of
former (iost master, E. M. Hagin
was well known and greatly loved
here where before her marriage
was principle of the Douglasville
public school and one of the most
popular as well as the most effi-
eint terehers we ever had.
Her remains were brought to
Douglasville Wedesday morning
the funeral services being con
ducted Thursday afternoonby her
former pastor Dr. J. T. Gibson of
Roopville.
Besides her parents, many other
relatives and friends, Mrs. Hagin
leaves her husband a young babe.
The Sentinel extends sympathy
to the bereaved 1 family.
Feeding
!'•<! ranges of tiie middle
id tin- North-West, have
are rapidly being broken
mall farms, ami this move
ment is now still more .rapidly ap
proaching the South and South-
West, so that in a comparatively
short time there will he practically
no large ranges left for cattle.
Those that are left will he of such
poor quality, that they will not he
capable of maintaining many beef
cattle. The effect, of this has al
ready been felt for a number of]i r g
years by the decrease in the num
ber of beef ealttle ill the count ry.
At this point let us remember
that there is a steady, and yet
rapid, increase in the population,
which of course increases the de
mand on our beef supply
Our el
the silo,
pastures
either ol
imate, supplemented with
enables us to have green
almost, all the year, with
some of the grasses, clo
ver, silage or grain. Corn (iocs
wonderfully well, and along with
it, we can plant velvet beaus, soy
beans, cowpeas, etc., any of which
will help the land besides furnish
ing a splendid crop of hay or a
crop to he grazed off as soon as the
crop is harvested. Then if the pas
ture is getting short, silage can he
fed, until the clovers and rye get
iiougli to furnish some green
grazing.
Bermuda is no doubt, the best, of
all the pasture grasses of the
South, hut in some instances may
he found a hit. troublesome on the
farm where it is permitted to
HOME SUNDAY SCHOOL RE
PORT EY CLASSES
libers 50c offer-
Class No.
Class No.
25c offer-
6 meml
ing:
10 members 20e o
Total memhesliip, 45;
Total offerings, $1.80;
A visitor for each class is in charge
O. B. Supt. H. a s.
_ . . . d to fields. This is to the
I hesc are the chief causes of the .South what, the hlu grass is to Kon-
rapiil increase in the pricejtueky. It is very easy to get a pas-
of hermuda established, it is
>f la
A good roads meeting was held
Tuesday and arrangements were
mad to begin work on thhe Bank-
head highway. Work will start
at Winston and come this way.
or he branded a pro-German
This isssue is put up to you as an
individual matter. You ought to
consult your relationshi]
American citizen to a stranded
bnnsli of home sick hoys. 9,000
miles from homq. We simply leave
the matter up to the citizenship
of Douglas County and ask that
they aet i the same manner as they
would have these boys aet were
there an exchange of places at this
time.
With an abiding faith in the
citizesbip of our great county,
with compliments and high praise
for what you have already done
and with ardent desire to have
everybody returned, to the Lnited
States at the earliest date possible,
I fully believe that Douglas county
will again demonstrate her pa
triotism for the fifth time in the
world’s great struggle by “going
over tiie top’’ with thq Victory
Loan.
Let every individual in the coun
ty either see some member of the
committee or call at one of the
banks by Saturday and: subscribe
f for the pas't few years, and
being Hie causes of the ine-
in price, gives us double as
surance that, these prices will re
main high for many years to come,
Aside from the increased demands
of America, European demands
will he greater after the declara
tion of peace than ehey have ever
been.
Small Farms Suitable For Beef
Cattle
The idea is general throughout
the South, that the small farm, say
from 60 to 200 acres, is not suited
for raising and finishing beef cat
tle. hut that it is necessary to have
a large acreage for such farming.
This, however, is entirely wrong.
If one will visit the older farming
sections of the North, he will find
many of the small farmers depend
ing almost entirely on the beef cat
tle that they raise and finish for
the profits of the farfh. When one
takes into consileration the oapital
invested 1 and the outlay in produc
tion, there is much greater profit
proportionately, to the small
farmer than tothe large farmer, in
raising beef cattle.
On the small farm a much closer
observation can he kept, of each
individual, a better record can be
kept of the breeding, growing and
feeding qualities of the offsprings
of the different cows, and thus, in
a short time, the farmer can weed
out the poorer individuals and
have nothing but the best, and I
am sure that you will agree with
me in that, the best of anything
gives the best, returns. The small
farmer cun also soon get. his herd
to a point where they will be uni
form in every way. He is better
able to watch closely the condition
of his herd bull, which is a very im
portant part if the best results are
to be obtained.
There is probably no other one
thing that will create an interest
and a love for farm life in every
member of the family so much as a
small herl of pure-bred or high
grade beef cattle. Every individual
watched with interest, and pride,
and til is interest ad. pride increases
as the quality of the herd im
proves.
The cheapest, as well as the best
and safest way for a farmer to
start a herd, is to select from the
native cattle, a few heifers or
young cows of the best, beef type
he can possibly find near his home
and then secure a pure-bred bull
whatever breed he wishes to
de up to. Later on he can get
a few head of pure-bred heifer
lives anl thus, gradually, and' at
nominal cost, build up a pure
bred herd.
In deciding upon the breed to
start, with, one should consider
carefully, as he must have cattle
of gentle disposition, as they will
have to he handled much more
tliann is necessary on a large farm.
Also, the gentle, contented animal
is always a better feeder than the
wild, restless individual.
The farmers in the same neigh
borhood, or, I might say county,
should all raise the same breed.
Tliis gives uniform cattle to be put
together to make up car-lot ship
ments when selling, and this uni
formity will lead the buyer to pay
better prices. It also enables the
relished by cattle more than any
other gross, and. has great feeding
value. It can he pastured during
the summer and tiie ground turned
in the fall and seeded to oats or
or rape or all of these together
for winter pasture and in the
spring the hermuda will come on
again as good as it was the pre
vious season:
By growing a small acreage of
sotighum to he used in soiling
when t'he pastures become short.,
several additional head of cattle
cifil lie kept on the farm, and by
using a silo a farmer could keep
jugirly double as many cattle on his
farm as where no silo is used, and
cilfI secure .better results from his
•ivttle in every way.
*ff silage and legume hay is used
int feed ing. one can have a grain
pntyue during the winter, on which
tihajca'ttle may run during the day.
hnfcfdilring the nights should he
kept, under shelter and there fid
the ensilage and hay. All the cat
tle that are to lie sold during the
winter should he kept in a sepernte
feeding shed while being finished,
and should not he turned out to
pasture during the day. This will
give the much preferred stall-fed
beef which will always bring the
very top market price. This is the
beef that brings nice profit to the
small farmer of the North, and as
we can produce them at much less
cost, and with half the effort that
is necessary up there, our profits
would be greater in proportion.
Saving The Manure
By feeding in sheds, the manure
is saved and by using plenty of
straw as litter there should he
jtnough barnyard manure produced
each year to build up the farm to
the higWest state of fertility.
Age for Marketing
Probably the best age at which
to market cattle raised, and fed
under the above conditions, would
he at about two years. They grow
rapidly and thus increase in
weight rapilly, in proportion to
feed consumed, up to that time.
After the cattle get beyond the
rapid growing age, the profit on
food consumed, becomes less.
Hogs to Follow Cattle
Where one is raising and feeding
cattle, lie should, of course, always
have hogs to follow cattle during
the time they are being fed ensi
lage, or grain of any kind, as th
increase in the weight of such hogs
s about all profit.
Various Other Advantages
SOUTHERN BAPTIST
PEROUS
PROS-
The southern Baptist are closing
the most suecesful year in their
history is indieatel by jinnouee-
ments just made by the head of the
Home Mission and Foriegu Mis
sion hoards. As the result of the
financial campaigns which closed
on April 90, tile sum of $2,223,914
has been raised in the south and
southest for home and foreign
missions. Of this sum $1,007,480.
24 was raised by the home miss
ion hoard, according to a state
ment by Dr. B. D. Gray, corresp
onding secretary and executive
head of the hoard, which has head
quarters in Atlanta. The sum of
$1,215,834 was raised by the For
eign Mission Board, which has
headquarters in Richmond Va.
Excelent reports covering all
lines of activity will he presentel
at; the southern Baptist conven
tion, which meets here (Atlanta)
May 14-21 and Baptist throughout
the south are regarding with satis
faction the remarkable results ac
complished during the past year.
for ona or mord bonds. Lets go
over the tap by Saturday night.
J. T. Duncan County Chairman,
required to purchase your quota Eof Victory Liberty, Loan^
rs in tiie county to exchange
bulls, where bull clubs are orga
nized, instead of buying new ones
when it becomes necessary to make
a chauge to prevent in-breeding
Wiien the small farmer has a few
good cattle to finish and sell each
year, he is as independent ils one
ould possibly he. He does not
have to sell at any certain time, ns
the offsprings are not perishable
and he can wait until the market
is favorable. If he should require
ready money at any time before he
gets ready to sell, lie will not have
any trouble in getting it, as his
cattle are the best of security.
Perhaps the question uppermost
in ninety per cent of the farmers
who would consider making
start at raising beef cattle on their
small farms, would he, how inuny
cattle couM! I keep on my farm?
or how many could I reasonably
(expect to finish and sell each year? tless -
This is a question hard to answer,
, as so much depends on the fertility
and general condition of the farm
as well as the farmer himself. One
thing is certain, after cattle had
been kept on the farm for a few
years under conditions similar to
those alretady mentioned, the farm
would support many more than it.
did at the start.
The following will give a conser
vative ilea of what could lie done
on an 80 acre Southern farm of
good 1 land in a fair state of fertility
and under good management, con
sidering 60 acres under ctfltivation
and 20 acres in pasture, and where
100 tons of ensilage are put up
each year. On such a farm there
could he kept at least 14 cows, 12
yearlings and 12 coming two year
old, which figures on a basis of 12
calves each year from the 14 cows,
or, in other words, the farmer
should he able to sell each year, at
least 12 finished beef catttle, each
ranging in weight from 800 to
1,000 lbs., which should bring him
from, $800 to $1,000.
In addition to this, the farm
could produce enough butter, milk
meat and' eggs, etc., to pay the
running expenses of the family.
This may not appear a very
large return to many, hut it is
about as sure as anything can be
under the present, conditions, and
when one consideres that practi
cally all of the work on such a
farm can he done by the farmer
himself, with a little outside help,
if proper machinery is used, it is
far above the average, under nor
mal conditions, the average man
iceives for his labor.
Unless one has experience in rais-
lg beef cattle on a small farm,
e should start in in a reasonably
small way and make a close study
of the business as lie goes along,
and as the business progresses,
there is no reason why lie should
not he independent, live well, and
sd'd to his hank account every year
and within a few years, double the
value of liliis farm by increasing
the fertility of his land.
Now, therefore, my suggestion to
you farmers is: castrate the scrub
bull or eliminate him in some way,
use only the pure-bred bull of
whatever type you may prefer,
permit your hoys to have a small
interest iu the profits from those
cattle and allow them to fit up a
few head each year to show at the
different fairs in the county and.
state, and they will become greatly
interested in the stock, will become
expert at cattle breeding and feed
ing, will come to love farm life and
will be less likely to want to leave
the farm when they grow to man
hood. than they would if good cat
tle had 1 not been kept on the farm
as a main purt of the farm busi-
Nir.th Annual Meeting of the M,
E. Church Woman’s Mis
sionary Council
The ninth annual sessio no£ the
Woman’s Missionary Council, held
at Memphis, Tenn., April 2-9, wks
the most successful and farreach-
ing in the history of the organi
zation. The entire session wan
marked with a Spirit of earnest
ness and power.
One of Hu* most powerful and
enthusiastic honors of the Council
was when the Conference pledges
pledges last year was $257,674.50,
and were overpaid by $21,901.55.
The pledge for the year 1919 is
$335,910.00, which' is an excess of
$5ii. 344.00 over what was paid
last year, 1918. •
President, Miss Bell H. Bennett,
-eeomends that the Council should
idopt, a financial goal of fifteen
per cent increase for the remain
ing three years of the quadran-
nimu. The. Council unaimously
idopted her recommendation.
One of the high water marks of
this meeting was when ten foreigu
Missionaries and three deaconesses
food before the Bishop to re-
eive their consecration and theif
commission to go unto the utter
most. parts of the earth.
Centenary eaU is for over
thliree hundred missionaries and
leaeonesses in the next five years.
We feel inspired and gratified for
these young lives, but each of ufl
an realize that this number is ia»
adepuate to meet the need.
Plans were made for the en-
largement of the Searritt Biblo
and Training School. An appro
priation was made that would pro
vide for a large teaching force and
vote was taken which would re
lease Centenary funds for the en-
argement of tile pdant.
A new feature of the Council
meeting was a delegate from
China, Mrs. Tsiang, Vith two Mis
sionaries, Misses Atkinson and
Rogers. Among the many. iuhar=
esting things she told was one Con
cerning the Poliang Missionary
Society. The people are very poor
and most of the women who are
niemlbers work in the fields and
are too poor to pay their dues in
money, so they pay them in eggs,
She said this story was written to
Africa and was the means of the
organization of an African Mis
sionary Society.
China and Korea have Connen-
tional Missionary Societies, Africa,
Japan and Brazil have societies,
but not connections'.
Another important feature in
the Council was reports of follotf-
ig facts:
Work in the West by DeConesS
Godbey, of Ranger, Texas, Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
Union Medical School, Health
Crusade for China, by Dr. W. W.
Peter.
'Mexico—Miss Ssther Case, Ex
ecutive Secretary of Latin Ameri
ca.
Africa—Dr. D. L. Muinpower.
Work in Europe, the commission
to France, composed 1 of Bishop
James Atkins. Bishop Walter ft.
iLambth, and 1 Hr. W. W. Pinson,
Concerning Prohibition
Among the live topics presented
through the Social Service Com
mittee. was prohibition. The plans
and intentions of the manufac
turers of intoxicants to transfer
their operations to foreign lands
is a vital concern to every one in
terested in the redemption of the
world. The following resolutions
were passed:
Resolved, 1. That we eo-opsr-
ate to the utmost in securing the
enforcement of our national pro
hibition laws.
2. That we hereby protest
against the transferance of their
death dealing operations to ou
mission fields, and pledge ou.
selves to eo-operate with ot.
Missionaries and other agenci
in bringing final world pro!
bition.
MRS. H. Q. NICHOLS
if. E. CHEATHAM,
Respectfully,
LOST—Between Douglasville s
Mr. Whit Selman’s Saturday af
uoon a pair of ladies black slippers
No. 3y 2 . Please leave at Giles
Brothers’ store.
W. C. Burnett
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