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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINELS
VOLUME XV.
D0UGLA8VILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDA*. OCTOBER 10. 1919.
NUMBER 26.
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ELOQUENT INVITATION BY
CONGRESSMAN UPSHAW
Fifth District Congressman Extends that would be the pride of any metro-
invitation to Colleagues to Visit P°Hs Come and see our mayor, the
. _ „ . „ forward-looking friend of upward-
Reumon. It Follows .n Part r#aching humanity; our governor,
young in years but keen and clean,
bright, and brave; our sheriff, as
handsome as he is fearless and ef
ficient; and our far-famed chief of
police, who proved in a campaign for
civic righteousness that he is “not
afraid of poverty, the poorhouse, death
nor the devil.” Come to Atlanta and
find a chamber of commerce, positive
ly wild on the subject of spreading the
famous “Atlanta spirit” to the four
comers of the earth—a chamber of
commerce that will stay up until mid
night working for your happiness, then
If the gentleman wilf allow me, I
will bring you the message of invita
tion from my home city. God willing
—and I want you all to hear this—I
would love to be living when the last
survivor of the gray and the last sur
vivor of the blue shall be brought here
within these sacred walls, and clasp
ing hands in a beautiful fellowship
which only true soldiers on both sides
can understand, let hem cement with
their latest word and their latest deed
the once sunderedsections in a glori-
STRIKES AND UNIONS
Careful students agree that the in
dustrial disputes are not upsetting
American ideals of free government,
says that “organized labor is losing
Secretary of Commerce Redfield
the sympathy of the general public.”
He explains that “organized labor agi
tators are taking advantage of a sort
of post-war economic crisis to increase
their power over the whole field of
industry at a time when all elements
should be moderate and pull together
for the national well being.”
DURSEY WON'T RUN
FOR SENATE
Atlanta, Ga., Oct 8—Governor Hugh ;
M. Dorsey, who has been mentioned j
at one time or another as a possible
opponent next year of United States
Senator Hoke Smith, who probably!
will offer for reelection, has told his |
friends that he postively will NOT
make he race. The governor is going
to quit the governor’s at the end of!
SUGAR SHORTAGE
MUCH ENTHUSIASM OVER
COTTON ASSOCIATION
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—With only ten days’ •
supply of sugar in Atlanta, according
to J. E. Raley, one of the largest!
sugar brokerage houses in the south, I
housewives throughout this section i
are taking measures to meet the j
emergency by using brown sugar for a)TT()N ASSOC IATION
cooking purposes and supplementing ORGANIZED TUESDAY
this with the good old fashioned cane,
syrup. And the worst part of it is I A f<Jw farmer3 and busine8s merl i . .
that no relief is in sight until the Cu- me( . afc bhe court house Tuesday at Heads List With *60,000.000—
ban crop begins to move in January. ^ o , cl(>ck and „ rRanized a branch of 1 *
The refiners have no further supphes ^ American cu™ Association.
Those who heard the speeches of
$28:!,000,000 FOR IMPROVED HIGH
WAYS IN II STATES
of raw sugar, according to Mr. Raley.
United States District Attorney Hoop- Me * 8a rs.“ Bale" an^Davis "last Satu rday
er Alexander had issued a statement
pointing out that the sale of sugar for
know the purpose of the organization
and every man, whether farmer or
FOR 1
, stay awake until daybreak planning
ous spirit of national love that would for your joyg of the morroWi and
put the last partisan to a stammering then Ret up with the (!arly streakings
hush and crown within this temple of Qf the m0rning ' 8 light t0 put into
patriotism “a national glory and Rran-1 execution its dreams for your diurnal . . . , . ... -
deur without a parallel in the annals ,,.. , i his term and return to tht practice of
^ur without a p ( bliss and your nocturnal felicity! , &w He i s quoted as saying that he
Com. to Atlanta, my colleagues, and Mc^e^n^clT .n.V^d 1 has K °° d ^T". 8 ^ a
see there the statute of Henry W. ^ marve| of ’ lobili7 P ationi ( , amp candidate for the United States Senate
Grady, the great seer, statesman, and Gorciorli from who8e hurried but won .
pacificator, who died “literally training countIe98 thou8ands of
a Nation into peace. Come to Allan-; the flower of America . g youn(? man .
ta and see revolving about that statue hood went forth to fri hten thc H uns
the activities of a great city amid mt0 8ubjecti((n far earlier than the
I , , , ailU cvciv moth v..
more than 12 cents per pound ".^es bmdneaa ma[1 ghould inform him8elf
| the retailer liable to prosecution under ^ become # member
; the food control law. I Mr . G g. K m K wtt8 chosen pre9 i-
deni; Mr. F. M. Winn, Jr., Secy, nad
! Trees., for Douglas county.
The secretary has a suply of liter
ature which fully exqlains the object
of the organization, at his office at
| the Douglasville Banking Co. Call
! and get some of it and give him your
j application for membership.
Let’s get behind this movement and
j help the farmer get a living price for
■^ll^jhis cotton. In doing this we help
INFORMATION
W. I. D.
whose bricks and mortar, as Grady de-
, , ... xt _ , . .. most sanguine patriot dreamed. Come
dared in hi, Nhw England dinner and see ^ homcs of the three
speech that so mightily touched and met |itan papera _ the Atlanta
stirred the Nations heart, “There is Journa , the At , anta Constitution, and
single bitter prejudice the At|anta Georgian-American-the
breeziest bunch of boosting dailies
, , , that any metropolis ever had since
ours, for you do not want to go tOn„, iim , ... , A . n
. J , | Columbus discovered America! Come
heaven, you do not want to walk the , , w ,
, ’ * VT , i and see Kenesaw Mountain, where
streets of New Jerusalem, until you . . .. ., .......
, ,, , , ’ ... brave men on both sides, in the sixties,
have walked the streets of Atlanta, - , . . A ...
. a . ’ found how brave Americans could be;
the most famous city of a quarter of a ; come and ae# stone Mountai the
million people on the American conti- bi t solid rock jn the world .
nent; a city whose very curbstones are , Come tQ th(J heart of „ DWe „ where
sure arge wi e e ec ric y o pro- w ^i te
snows of billowing fields of
press, and beneath the ambient blue of ,, me , t the music of million8
whose arching sk.es there grow surely of 8 pindles that sin the jubi(ant 80ng
the bravest men and the fairest wo- - « ,, ., ., . , ...
, . of Southern prosperity as they clothe
men on whom the sun ever shone, for .. %r% , , . . - .. , ...
... ^ ’ . the sons and daughters of the habita-
we believe, Mr. Speaker, that it is ... „ . n , . ....
e ble grohe. Come and see how a city
not buried
—not one ignoble memory.” Come to
Atlanta for your own sakes as well as
almost as near to heaven from Atlanta fair/ . of a „ arter of .
as it W from 1 adduJ 1<w w)0 of that aggl . e( . ate since
"'“l^.h-has
ton herself. _ Come to Atlanta, my col- j barrooms were banisbed a dozen
ago,
—he hasn’t got the money to make
the campaign and even if he Lad the
necessary funds he doubted, very ser
iously doubted, if he could win.
“Count me out” says the governor ifc
so many words, so all you prognosti
cating polliticians who have been say
ing the governor was going to run, o: 1
was not going to run, as the majorit;
believed, have the authority of th
governor himself as to his futun
plans. ,
HOW' ABOUT COUNTY-WIDE
SCHOOL TAX?
It seems that we are almost us good
as the little boy in the story—he waj
so good hat he was scared he was goj
ing to die. All the world is in an upf
roar—fighting in some places, striked
in many others, and lyuching somfc
where else, and its alarming to read
our newspapers. All we can find i|
Wilson and his peace and league, with
the U. S. Senate punching holes in
both; strife, strike, race riots an<J
Sentinel,
Douglasille, Ga,
Gentlemen;
If the party who signs himself “W. 1 everybody
I. D.” could only see a few of the en- The . Big Thing in Georgia and
closed figures he no doubt would think throughout the South just now is the
just a few other people have “gone American Cotton Association. It is
wrong” as to the bond issue on good the one topic of conservation in the
This and Next Year Seventeen More
States Will Vote on Highway
Bond Issue of $664,000,000
leagues, and see a city whose •nthu-1 Come to thU great indu8trial
siasms have always gathered around center and 30e the | argest bank in a ,j
the things that are highest and best, the South . with re80urce8 of $50,000,-
a city whose temples of worship are 000 , Come an(J 8ee Qwn f . ederal
the inspiration of the South and a bu -1 reserve bank that ha8 80 8tabilized our
wark of strength and hope to odr finances that , c ig „ rare „ , da
threatened civllazion. ! in June or a Chinaman with whiskers."
Come to Atlanta the progressive Come to At|Bnta and we wi| , fa „
home of Emory University, Oglo-, with , outhern breezes . bathe
thoroe University Lamer University, southern 8Un8hinej and „ it we ,. e on ,
Cox College Georgia Military Acade-1 the >ood old 8Ummer time .. we wou(d
my, Agnes Scott College, Washington feed you on Ge0 ia aches and feaat
Seminary, Spellman Seminary Gam-1 you on that delectable edibIe known
mon Seminary, Clark University, and | as the .. Georgia watermil , ion ,- And
. half dozen progressive commercial ■ this Wt of plantation fernacular re .
coHeges together with famous Geor- mindl me that Qne of the chjrf
g.a “Tech, he greatest technological, tractions AUanta fop the rea , |over
school in all the South. Come and of humanityi especially children, will
see the city of splendid auditoriums,
the greatcity auditorium— the meeting
place of the reunion—seating 9,000
people—Washington ought to have one
like it—the Baptist Tabernacle, seat
ing 3,000; Wesley Memorial, seating
be the “Wren’s Nest,” the home of
Joel Chandler Harris—Uncle Remus—
dreamel his quaint dreams and wrote
his inimitable stories for the fascina
tion and delight of the children of the
2,500; and a dozen superb theaters world.
road»s.
A. SENTINEL READER
(In a small town)
EGGS TO THE EGG ER
stores, in the streets and in the homes
of citizens everywhere. A membership
campaign which has just been started
is extended to “every nook and comer.”
Heading* the big drive in Georgia
is Major D. F. McClatchey, state cam
paign director, with an able corps of
assistants. Everybady knows “Mac”
for he is the secretary of the Georgia
Senate, and it comes qunte natural
It is not probable Jim Reed of Mis-
souria, is suffering as much personal
distress at the rotten-egging given
him by the audience at Armore, Okla.,.. , . ......
, c ., rr . n. . „ for him to make his office, the state
the people of the United States . . ’
feel in that a Senator has placed him-
the Senate Chamber at
From this center
Talking in millions when dollars aro
mentioned, gives greater force to th<*
import of any movement from which
the public will uitimately be the gain
er, than would a mere statement of
of other and perhaps less comprehen
sive facta. For that reason some fig
ures that mount into the millions will
demonstrate to the majority of read
ers the growing strength of the nation
wide movement for improved high
ways.
Better roads throughout the coun
try are necessary, even vital to the
welfare of every community if the
cost of living Is to be reduced. Cheap
er transportation of foodstuffs from
ble with improved highways. The mo-
the farms to the markets is only possi-
tor truck is one means of bringing
down the present high cost of all
kinds of provisions, because .statistics
show that they can he moved more
quickly by truck and at lower rates
than the railroads can afford.
Recently eleven State vjoted bjg
bond issues for the building of good
roads and their maintenance. And
these State roads when finished will
give quicker transit than 'is now pos
sible under present road conditions.
$283,000,01)0 Bond Issue
The total amount voted was $283,-
000,000. The States which have al
ready approved their highway meas
ures by the amounts declared in bond/?
j to be i.ssued are: Arizona, $4,200,000;
IN MEMORY
MINISTER ESCAPED CONVICT
With bowed heads and saddened Atlanta,—“Reverend” Sirl Winches-
hearts we chronicle the death of our ter, who, claiming to be a minister of
dear sister, Mrs. D. R. Plunkett, who the Gospel organizing what he termed
on the morning of June 17, 1919, an- a “Purity League,” became ena-
swered the call from on high and her mourned of a cigar-counted saleslady
sweet spirit went to dwell in the home in Atlanta and finally shot her in a
eternal.
Sister Plunkett was born June 4,
1854 and joined the Baptist church at
Sweetwater in early life, and proved
k consistant member until her death
She was married to Brother D. R.
fit of jealousy, has escaped from the
Monroe county chain-gang, according
to advices received by the Atlanta
authorities. Winchester was serving a
two-year term. Mrs. Mary Green, the
woman he shot, married him a few
Plunkett, and God blessed this anion days after the shooting while he was a
with twelve children, five of whom
have preceded her to heaven.
Sister Plunkett was a loving wife,
and devoted mother. Let us be great
ful for the priceless legacy of her
beautiful life. May it act as a sweet
influence to draw all who were near
and dear to her to a higher and holier
life.
We die not all, for our deeds re
main to crown with honor or mar with
stain, through endless years to come.
Our lies shall spjak when our life
dumb.
Therefore, be it resolved;
First That we bow in humble sub
mission to God’s will.
SeopmL That we extend to her
;amily our love and sympathy and
pray God to comfort them.
Third. That we dedicate a page of
our minutes to her memory; that a
.copy bo famished the family and a
copy garnished the Douglas County
jSentin^l Co * publication
prisoner in the Fulton county Tower.
That did not save him from trial ar.d
conviction, however. She is now seek
ing a divorce.
GOVERNMENT STORE
ways. Yet, over here in Douglas coun
ty, we stand together almost as a man
especially on road bonds. Hurrah for
our grand old county. She’s hard to
beat with her many hills and silvery
streams of pure and healthly water.
More than that is a people strong and
brave, always ready to do their duty
as it comes before them. Some of our
our strongest opponents offered their
property for sale after bonds were
voted, and was taken up, but he ad
vanced his price 25 per cent on the
sp-ot,. So you see it helps all alike.
Compulsory education coming in
eamest for next terms of our schools.
Surely this will help some of those
poor children who have not had the op
portunity of going because of a neg
ligent parent. Some of those children
who have come at pleasure; those
who hunted rather than study; those
who hear those good old goods-box
orators and carry their smutty jokeB
and yarns will have the privilege of
bathing their minds in a sweeter and
more wholesome atmosphere, and we
are sure will producea better man
or woman for the tomorrow of life.
If we had county wide tax so as to
help every nook and corner of our
county it would have been of far more
good to the future generations than
the voting of bonds for roads. I am
stoutly in favor of progress in any
way, but it seems we first are think
ing of pleasure for ourselves, disre
garding the best interests of our boys
and girls, or the men and women of
tomorrow.
I favor bonds, and voted for bonds,
and feel that I voted for a good cause,
but I thoughtthat we should l^ave done
both jobs at once.
Now you have bonds, are you ready
for county wide tax. L» K. W.
BIG CROWD IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Oct. 8—With the grand
reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans in full swing here and thous
ands of the heroes who wore the gray
thronging Atlanta’s streets, together
with other thousands of visitors from
every section of the United States, the
present week in Georgia’s capital city
is a strenuous one. Out at Piedmont
Park there is a tented city where most
of the veterans are quartered. The
aged and infirm are being accommo
dated in private homes. The big pa
rade which occurs on the last day of
imposing and impressive event on the
the reunion, Friday, will be the most
program, while the two grand halls,
one on Tuesday night and the other on
headquarters
self in such public regard as to have i kkate Capitol
a thing' of that nor* happen to him. : 13 now directln * the ^kers and
f course there is no excuse or pal- ma33 meetings throughout
Ration for the way things went at e ' ® . ,
Ardmore. This is a country of free! u The greatest enthusiasm has been
debate and if Reed wanted to speak 1 3hown by the cotton « row ers al the j Arkansas, *50,000,000; California, *4,
at Ardmore that should have been his 7“^ , !“ VB 1 *'?*** b f n 00i, ' 00(): Iilinoia - <««.000.000; Maine,
privilege and all protection should bel,i sa,d Ma J or McClatchey, “and it $10,001),000; Michigan, $50,000,000;
have been given him | appears that the farmers of Georgia j Nevada, $1,000,000; New Mexico, *5,-
Grantin* it-was a cheap audience are «» in « to back the movement to j 000,000; Oregon. $10,000,000; Penn-
llpp-JOn -chat got down to such tactics we need the Ilmit ' Organization, as we all sylvania, $50,000,000; Wyoming, *2,-
' not feel as distressed as though it had kn “ w , means the salvation of the cot- 800,000.
happened to Borah, Lodge or Knox—} ton f “™ er “ In unit y there is ! Seventeen States are yet to vote on
for Jim Reed is a cheap statesman., 3CTen|fth ' ia a maxim as true as the' bond issues this and next yeur, and at
His arguments against the League* 0 ;^;.. '« a ^ a dor.en more States are coutem-
a- a pi a ti n j^ bond issues, for the improve-
are cheap; his methods of holding the j f hey Pf tbe boe j" theeoton P atch tu
attention of audiences are the purest I brm _* 5_ or . th 1J th « ^eece of *hite that
demogogy of oratory. Logic, reason,
controversal honesty and discussion
for the sake of illumination are in a
world far remoed from either his am
bitions or his understanding.
turns to gold, it will be the gold that
goes into their pockets and not in the
pockets of the speculators. Wall
street and all other agencies that may
try to beat down the price of cotton
His seeches against the League of find t f ,e , iref 5° rts W , U1 die aborn mK-
After awhile they will be forced to
say as Sambo did of the yellow jacket,
‘Let dem alone; dem is organized.”
Farmers, merchants, bankers, busi
ness men, professional men and men
posted in understandtag' of” what'the of ever T trade ad caUin * are taking $50,000,000, and" Wisconsin, *5o"o00,
real issues and conditions might be .memberships in the associaton. Even | 000.
Nations, against any full and whole
hearted participation by America in
the war or its aftermath have all been
calculated to appeal to the qjind least
informed, to the intelligence least
ment of their highways. The seven
teen States to vote on highway bond
issues, which will total $664,000,000,
are; Alabama, 6,000,000; Colorado,
$5,000,000; Georgia, $40,000,000; Kan
sas, $60,000,000; Minnesota, *100,000^
000; Mississippi, $15,000,000; North
Carolina, *25,000,000; North Dakota,
$50,000,000; South Carolina, $26,000,-
000; Tennessee, $50,000,000; Texas,
$75,000,000; Utah, $4,000,000; Wash
ington, *30,000tp00; West Virginia.
They have been the cheapest sort of T 5 " who are not direct >y b y
snipery by an exjssrt rifle shot directed I the a f<*> a tion feel that they are help-
against forces too busy with the main m « the ‘ r nei * hbora and tbeir trieads
issue of the conflict to pay a good deal! " ben , the y. * et , bebind tbe movement,
of attention to much he has been firing 1 } 3 bbe Thing now. Have you
against them. | joined - «.
If sombody had to be rotten-egged -
by an Oklahoma gathering in favor of .... ... , , .. .. .
, - Kr .. .• d j i exhibits will require tents if all of the
the League of Nations Jim Reed was I entr j eg are t d
the man to send out and get it , with | . , .. p ‘
the fewest regrets bv the countrv at As U3Ual> the ama3em ent features
the tewest regrets by the country at, f ^ fajr wi „ be without rival
large. He has been finng rotten eggs .. a . . . ",
. 7. M *.• lL n • the Southeastern states, made up of
at the League of Nations, the Presi- , . - . ,
, . , f, , , . , I exclusive features that do not play
dent and all others who have wanted _ - . , . . . ^ ,, ,
. a • • . . , small fair and selected after all the
to see America in a vision than seems .. - . ... . .. , . .
. , .,. . al a i. bl K fairs had been visited in order to
to be possible to those coming out of. ., . , e ... .
, ... • -,, * 1L secure the best for Atlanta.
the ward politics of Kansas City or the;
creek forks districts of Missouria. j rac * n 8 features are not. to be
Some real ones back at him at Ard-! found at any other Southern Fair, and
more, after all, carry something of j the best horses which have been pleas-
oetic justice in their fragrant arrival ing the thousands of people at the big
on his shirt bosom.—Macon Telegraph. 1 .. . . ... . .
6 K northern tracks will all be in Atlanta.
The people of Minnesota, Mississip
pi, Missouria, Montana, Washington,
and West Virginia will vote on their
bond issues in November, 1920, at
the national election. A few of th«
States mentioned have not actually
approved their bond measures, but sen
timent is so strong it is predicted ttos
issues will undoubtly come up for vot<k
—The Evening Telegram, New York*
4 4-lff
With sales averaging *10,000 per
day, the big government store on
Stewart avenue in Atlanta continues
to do a land office business and crowds
of patrons are on hand throughout
the day to take advantage of the low
prices which prevail in Uncle Sam’s
retail establishments. Several food
products, such as rice, sugar, jams,
etc., have been withdrawn from sale
on account of the stock being exhaust
ed, but many new articles have been
added to the list It is expected that
the store will continue to operate in
definitely, or as long as the surplus
stock of food; wearing apparel and | Friday night, are features of the r-
miscellaneoue articles holds out
THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR
Two days of Auto racing, Oct, 20-21
have been added and will be conducted
_ „ under the sanction of the Internation-
Secretory Stnplrn, of the South- , — _ . . . . .. _
— i . ... *1 Motors Contest Association The
eastern Fair Association, announces
that when the gates are opened next j entr *es include Ellingb<% IHugdahl,
Saturday, Oct., 11, the big exposition i Keotzela, and Don Adolfoe the Mexi-
will be the most complete first day i can champion, with a dozen other
fair of which he has any knowledge. le8ser lighta which aggures fche ^
Exhibitors and Concessionaires have] .. ,,
been at work for two weeks and the raCmK m the world ‘
big Liberal Arts Building is ready
now to take care of every exhibit
booked for the season.
The Machinery Exhibit will be three
times as big as any previous fair, and
the 26,500 feet space in the Automo
bile Building was sold without solici
tation. President Martin of the At
lanta Automobile Association says it
will be the biggest Automobile Indus
tries Exhibit that has ever been seen
in the South. Space in the Agricultu
ral Building is not sufficient to take
care of the counties and individuals
applying for space, and the livestock
The railroads of Georgia have re
duced rates which are on file at every
agency station in the state and will
be quite attractive to those who live
any distance from Atlanta.
The management is working to
make School day Tuesday, October 4
a record breaker in every respect.
All who attend school will be admitted
that day for ten cents and a number of
adjacent counties have already de
clared school holiday on that date for
the first time in the history of tin fair.
COLD STORAGE
Uncle Joe Cannon believes in prac
tical regulations of cold storage, and
he told his fellow members of Con
gress that he wanted the law sofucei
that “when it said ‘spring chicken’ oar
the dining-car menu he would know
which spring was referred to, whether,
it was this spring or last spring.”
Representative King, of Illinois*
told the House that he believed that
from three to five per cent of th*
membership of Congress suffered con
stantly from ptomaine poisoning*
caused by eating cold-storage food*
“and if 'the truth were known,” ht
added, “it would be found that tho
President of the United States, on
his long trip to the Pacific coast, wOB
served with cold-storage food, so that
he is now suffering from nothing sis*
than ptomaine poisoning.”
Hording and profiteering am
charged up to the cold-storage system*
but in defense of the practice it ift
pointed out that the government itself
is right now disposing of thousands oi
carloads of food that were held in cold
storage for the army and navy.
And so, Congress, weighing the iffl
and ands of the storage problem hmjy
decided in its favor, but is intent oa
maintaiging stiff rules and bylaws ia
order that the thing may be doas
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