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VOLUME XV.
DOUGLAS VILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTS, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24,1919.■ ,f\ j,.
NUMBER 2B
CONTEST OF CLUB MEMBERS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH
*
~~ An oppoirtunity to be given these dth. Bring your pigs early on the
young farmers, who have specialized in j morning of the 8th.
growing corn and raising pigs this | Besdes showing your pigs, coni and
year, to show the interested public j wheat exhibits, -there will be present
what has been accomplished. j an excellent speaker who will talk to
Every club member is expected to the club members in the court room,
have an exhibit. The corn club boys | commencing at 1:80 p. m., after which
will bring in an exhibit of ten ears j all club membrrs will form in line and
and a single ear of corn. Each pig I march to the “Kozytorium,” where
club member will crate and bring his j Mr. Dorris, the proprietor, has kindly
pig, and each wheat club member, as j consented to admit all club members
far as possible, bring one quart fruit j free. In addition to some comedy pic-
jar of wheat. tures being shown, a special reel will
An excellent lisft of premiums will. be shown, entitled “Keeping the Rc.y
be awarded, however, on account of. cn the Farm ’ The characters of this
not knowing just what premiums the picture ure Firmc" B own; his six-
Douglas county exhibits will win at j teen-year-old son, Jack, and the hired
the Southeastern and State Fairs, man. The story starts in Farmer
which will be included in the list of .Brown’s old barn—dark, inconvenient.
premiums given by the business men
of Douglas county, an itemized list of
premiums cannot be published at this
time. However, the exhibits will be
scored, percentage of each carefully
recorded, and as soon as the County
Agent gets the rewards from the above
Fairs, the winners in the county con
test will be announced in the county
paper, and premiums mailed out
promptly to all successful club con
testants.
Now, club members, let every one
rally to the cause, and each of you
tkae especial pride in bringing in the
best exhibit you can get up.
Bring your corn and wheat ex
hibits to the court house any time
during the first week in November,
so they can be properly and attrac
tively set up. Don’t wait until the
day of contest, as we shall have only
one day of the contest ?.nd I want all
•exhibits in place by the morning of the
unsanitary, with Brown, the hired
man and Jack doing the chores.
The hired man and Jack are milking,
the hired man obviously much dis
turbed. The hired man jumps up and
commences to talk to Jack. about
quitting. Jack expresses his dissatis
faction with life on the farm and talks
of going to town for a job.
Unknown to them, Farmer Brown
ovetrhears the conversation, and is
clearely worried lest Jack leaves home.
The hired man quits, leaving Jack to
brood over his troubles alone.
This picture will show the actual
conditions of every day life on several
Douglas county farms. It will be
educational, and we want every club
member to see this picture, and bring
with you your parents, so they »too
can see some of the hardships which
you have to undergo.
J. E. CHEATHAM,
County Agent.
TWO OF THE PRESIDENT’S COM-j
MISSIONS
MRS. A. H. MATTHEWS DEAD
Mrs. A. H. Matthews, o
lasville’s most estimable
le of Doug-
ladies, died
Congressman Up
shaw Helps
Library
Hon. Z. T. Dake, Mayor,
Douglasville, Ga.,
My Dear Mr. Mayor:
I have just instructed the Superin
tendent of the Book Room to prepare
for sending you 125 handsomely bound
standard publications—political, his
torical, ethnological, literary and
scientific. These books will muke a
splendid nucleus for the county library
which I am plannng to establish in
each county site in the Fifth District
The same quota of books has been sent
to Decatur, Conyers and Fairburn,
and will be released to you just as
soon as a place is prepared to receive
them in the new school building, to
gether with somebody to look after
the books. I am stipulating in each
case that the library shall be open to
anybody in the county who complies
with the general rules, the special
purpose being that they shall be a
blessing and inspiration to all am
bitious country boys and girls who
rarely have such opportunities for
reading, While these books ar
sentially for thoughtful people and
those eager for actual knowledge, it is
my hope and purpose to secure other
books from time to time, covering all
branches of wholesome literature.
I hue written to Mr. George Mp-
Larty, the ounty School Superinten
dent, about the library, and I hope
that you and he will put your heads
together and plan to let me know
right away that I may direct the books
sent to you. *
Believing that general co-operation
will make these county libraries
^eal value in stimulating the building
of intelligent citizenship, and counting
it always a privilege to serve you and
the good people of Douglas county,
am,
Cordially yours,
Wm. D. UPSHAW.
You rembmber a few weeks ago I
turned my poetic skill loose on the , • , . . . „
high cost of living, saying “Sambo WayS mea " a ° f COm ‘
could now sweeten his coffee” batting the high cost of living has
— been indicated by the governor. He
has just received a letter from Attor
ney General A. Mitchell Palmer ask
ing that such proedure be taken to
bring together all officials and orga
nizations connected with jUie cam
paign against high prices. *
CARTER GLASS, EDITOR
Th/ President’s Industrial Commis- at her home Sunday night after a
ion is Seriously endeavoring t0 | lingering illness of more than a year,
. . . . , , . and, while her death was expected al-
fitraighten out the affairs of industry I . .. .. „ . .
* most any time, it was a severe shock
and everyone wishes it success. A J to the community as well as the fumi-
fow blocks away, in Washington, an- j y>
other one or the President's Cd-nimia-4 *-Mfs. Matthews was 53 years old -„ r
sions is trying to solve the dilemma ] and 1( , aves a husband.'four s.W a.ld -Secretary of the Treasury, alt hecaiuse
of the street car interests of the coun- l on „ daughter to mourn her departure,
try. Before both bodies stands out ] Also her mot her, Mrs. Ellen Smith,
the increased cost of living. The In- j three brothers, V. R., J. Frank, and
dustrial Conference is grappling its j Dr Mason Smith, and three sisters,
problems, and they are so spectacular j Mrs Hattie Lane, Mrs. Mollie Lee and
that the whole country looks on
anxiously. The other Commission has
just as hard problems, but the inter-
Just Some
Remarks
By Bill Blue,
G®v. T© Fight
High Ost of
Living
That Governor Dorsey may call a
meeting of the state and federal offi-
Wpll, bless my soul, I believe my
logic has soured or sprung a leak, for
prices seem to be going the wrong
way from what I predicted. Now, of
course, it was reasonable to expect
the market on poetry to advance as
soon as my lyricks were published, but
it was far from my intention to boost
the price of everthing from fish hooks
to divorce decrees so high you couldn't
reach them by wireless.
I thought prices were coming down
and was honestly trying to help Wood-
row pull them down another notch or
But you know unforseen things
happen when least expected. And
about that time Woodrow got sick,
Senator Reed got foundered on eggs
that were old enough to vote; Johnson
had to hustle back to Washington and
help his pals hold on to what little bf
the League they had left; Itily swelled
up and wanted to form a partnership
with Germany; French ladies came
out in their new fashion gowns with
all the back and 92 begrees of the
front cut out. So the world just had
to stop, look and gasp. You know we
have got to see and keep up with the
latest no-back hobble skirt fashion if
business goes to the devil and prices
ub to heaven. We must admire them
to please the gentle sex. Listen to
this:
Twinkle, twinkle, hobble skirt.
How I wonder how you flirt,
Up above the earth so high,
When I see you passing by.
Dainty spots and silken hose,
And the lingeree, goodness knows!
How I wonder how you are
Going to climb into a car.
TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION
All farmers are invited to attend a
demonstration of the Cleveland Cater-
piller Tractor at Mackland A. & M.
School on Wednesday, Oct. 29th, be
ginning at 10 o’clock and continuing
to 6 o’clock.
All competitors are invited to com
pete in this demonstration of f *fche
“Cletrac” all purpose Tractor, com
plying with our eight hour demon
stration.
This is the greatest labor saving
invention of the age. This machine
will do anything on the farm.
CANNON BROTHERS,
Douglasville, Ga.,
Distributors for Douglas, Paulding,
Cobb, Fulton, Clayton, DeKalb, Bar-
row and Gwinnett Counties.
Good opportunity for the right men
as dealers in these counties.
CANNON BROTHERS, Douglasville
Now' uardner, it may sound funny,
hut I beiieve women folks could help
lower the price of some things by
wearing skirts that would reach from
Carter Glass is making ***** '“"j*
«r-tarv the Tnuu.urv, all Because .“ ake
THE OPEN FURROW METHOD
OF PLANTING OATS
Funny Clowns,Trained Animals, Biff
Parade, and Special Features too
Numerous to Mention
A circus is coming! Nothing so
thrills the hearts of children as the
approach of circus day. In fact, most
every red blooded person gets rather
restless when the parade starts and
the band ,begin9 to play and the
caliope belches forth that unmistake-
able circus music. In fact, we rather
feel that the man or woman is to be
pitied who has become so hardened
that he has forgotten when he was a
child, or finds no joy in the fact that
the youngsters of his community are
to know the thrill that the circus with
its posters, parades, clowns and wild
animals brings to them.
In fact, the grown-ups enjoy it al
most as much as the kids, and if you
hav<? to go to take the kids it’s all
right—any reason will do—go and en
joy the day with the youngsters and
be a kid again for one day and see
how much better you feel. ..
Don’t miss the parade Oct. 30th.
est is farless. The street car compa
nies' are hog-tied to the Woolworth
jitney, and in the whole industrial
horoscope they are the only concerns
that cannot break way from their
unlucky stars, and increase the size of
tTieir small coins.
The Saturday Evening Post is the
sole remaining adherent of the nickle,
r and even though postage rates con
tinue the same it costs one six cents
io remail this publication. But the
Post puts dollar pegs in the adver
tising measurment of lines, and con
tinues to make money. The tale of
the street railways is that whereas
they used to make a cent, or a part
of one, on every nicklefare, that times
have so changed that every time the
conductor pulls up a fare the stock
holders are thereby notified that'it is
up to them to chip in to help pay the
deficit of transportating the passen
ger who has just parted with the
nickle.
Both Commissions are trying to
perform a fine public duty; but in
both instances the great problem is:
“Where’s the money coming from to
keep the wheels turnng round?’’
Strangely enough street railways can’t
survive, any more than individuals
unless their affairs are readjusted
to meet the new order of things.
Miss Bettie Smith.
The sons are: Cobb, of Cincinnatti.
of Jacksonville; Choicer ttnd But Carter Ghasa has some speed him.
he was a first-class editor (and he
still owns a daily newspaper in Vir
ginia), before he began distributing
his talents in the sphere of politics.
The job of following Mr. McAdoo \vas
no minor undertaking, because Mc
Adoo was always found “going some.
Carl,
Frank, of Douglasville, and the daugh
ter, Miss Dallie, of Douglasville.
The funeral services were held at
the home Tuesilay afternoon, conduct
ed by Rev. S. T. Gilland, and the re
mains were interred in Douglasville
cemetery.
The bereaved family has the sym
pathy of the entire community.
WINSTON NEWS
Winston was well represented at the
Southeastern Fair last week.
Mr. Alford Daniel, of Austin, Texas,
visited his sister Mrs. A. B. Stovall,
Friday/
Miss Cleo Watkins spent Sunday
with Miss Jessie Plunkett.
The singing at Miss Nora Thomp
son’s Sundays night was well attended
and enjoyed by all present.
Mr. C. B. Weiss visited home folks
at Lincoln Ala., last week.
A wedding of interest to their many
friends was that of Miss Virgie Lee
and Mr. Marvin Waldroup, which oc
curred Sunday.
Mr. B. L. Sayer, of South Georgia,
is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Sayer.
Mrs. B. E. Burnett and children
spent the week-end with relatives in
Atlanta.
CHUMS
self, and one of his latest appearances
public was to talk the prosaic doc
trine of thrift; and he did it in a way
that reflected credit to Carter Glass,
Editor. “France,” he said “would pay
off her national debt before the United
States." “Germany,” he added, would
not only meet all of her war obliga
tions, but would, in a few years, he a
chief competitor in the commercial
markets of the world.”
dope on Germany, since a news dis-
Carter Glass evidently has the right
patch a few days ago told that com
merce has already been resumed be
tween Hamburg and Cuba and Mexico.
THE AGENT WHO WAS FOUND
WANTING
UNCLE SAM SELLS SHOES
Uncle Sam has gone into the retail
shoe business at his big store in At
lanta. Thousands of pairs of reclaim
ed shoes are to be sold at $2.50 and
$3.50 per pair and the sale has already
started. The shoes have been
thoroughly disenfected and repaired.
They include the heavy hobnailed
inarching shoes worn by the dough
boys in France while in the field and
also the lighter dress shoes ordinarily
Been h this country. The shoes that
have been patched, or in which the re
pairing is hot first class, are being
sold for $2.50, while the best grades
go at $3:s« per pair. The sale will
continue until the entire surplus stock
on hand a$ the Candler warehouse has
been exhausted:' !• • •.• .i
THE ROAD HOG
(From Maysville News)
Much has been said and written
about the Road Hog, but there are
some loose in the country yet It sits
at the wheel of the automobile and has
intelligence enough to drive a car,
but it hasn’t sense enough to give a
person half of the road.
It is very wrong to get angry when
you meet one of these riding hogs and,
in safety, are compelled to take the
ditch rather, your nature should be
aroused to ntenae pity for the pos
sessor of a disposition utterly lacking
in manners. You shoal* congratulate
yourself that you just meet him oc
casionally. Think of the poor miser
able ones who have to live with him
in the' home. * "• “ 4 •' *
In a talk to the soldiers at the
Walter Reed hospital in‘ Washington,
Colonel R. G. * Cholmeley-Jones, di
rector of the Bureau of War Risk In
surance, outlined the many methods
by which soldiers and sailors insur
ance policies with the Government,
have been broadened and strengthen
ed, and brought more around to the
methods which furnish every kind of
insurance and protection that is de
sired by a person taking out a policy.
After describing the bettered con
ditions affecting this fine piece of
work in behalf of the boys who ans
wered the call, the Director said that
insurance officials and the men in the
insurance profession, had been among
the most loyal of all supporters of the
Government in war risk matters.
There are, however, some agents who
have urged men to drop their Govern
ment insurance and take out insurance
in private concerns. “I feel confi
dent,” commented the Director, “that
in such cases where ex-service men
have been advised in such a way as to
allow them to lose their Government
insurance, that there will be at least
one man in the world whom the ex
service men will utterly despise, and
distrust, and that will be the unscrupu
lous aget who in time of of test was
found wanting.”
whether the wore green lingeree and
silk hose or not. In fact, they could
go sockless and no one would know
but what you were wearingTour dollar
hose.
Yes sir, if ladies’ skirts come down
the price of silk hose and a few other
things will follow.
Mary had some holey hose
She, darned them up one night,
v Then wore longe^ skirts to keep
The darn things out of sight.
Do like mary and you can econo
mize,prosper and be happy. But as
long as you insist on wearing slit
skirts and spider-web waists, men will
form cricks in their neck, lose time
from their work, ?nd possibly injure
their eyesight gazing at the new fash
ion,. And it don’t take that kind of a
strain long to fit him for the bug
house. So let us enter into the future
paths of modern society with econo
my, mixed . with good horse sense;
shake off the shackles of the fashion
gods, and turn back to more sensible
things. And don’t forget that as long
as we dance in the devil s shindig we
must help pay the fiddler.
Men can help lower the cost of liv
ing by going to work and staying at
work, wear out all his old diothes, pay
up all his debts, quit spouting hot air
roll up his sleeves and put some elwo
On account of an unusually poor
corn crop many farmers are gffing to
find themselves short of feed, and
there is every probability that feed
will be very high during 1919-1920.
Confronted with such a problem it
is highly advisable that a large acre
age of fall oats be sown. Good va
rieties for this purpose are Appier,
Texas red rust proof, and Fulghum.
In case of winter freezing, the same
land should resown about Feb. 15th
with Burt oats.
Now is the ime to sow fall oats, and
the open furrow method, originated
by Col R. J. Redding at the Georgia
Experiment Station, has proved its
value. The following is Col. Redding’s
own description of his method as given
in Bulletin 44 of this Station, which is
no\V exhausted for distribution:
“By all means use a regular grain
drill, if one can be had that will sow
rust-proof oats satisfactorily, and
there are some that are guaranteed to
do it.
On the Station farm we have found,
even when the drills were laid two feet
or one and a half feet apart, using .»
common scooter plow, or, better, a
single row fertilizer and seed distribu
tor—that oats so sown always produce
a larger yield than wheren sown broad
cast and harrowed in. But a more
Important discovery is the fact tha
vihen the seed are sown -in open fur
rows and barely covered, leaving the
furrows open of unfilled, the oats
plants are very much less, liable to be
killed by a severe freeze. The idea
was conceived several years ago, an
nually since we have sown the larger
portions of the fall-sown area in drills
18 to 24 inches apart, latterly using
Gantt fertilizer distributor. This sows
but one.row at a time, has no covering
attachment, but simply opens a fur-
arid sows the seed, the single
BALL ROCK
Well as the writer has been absent
for some time, will come again.
Mr. and Mrs. Linard Hallman spent
Sunday with Mr. Warner Townsend.
Mr. Frnk Couch and wife spent Sun
day at C. C. Harper’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Linton Harden spent
Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr,
and Mrs. Jeff Harden.
The singing given by Miss Ruby
Kilgore Sunday night was well at
tended and enjoyed by all present and
very good singing.
Miss Ruby Kilgore spent part of last
week on the river visiting her sister,
Mrs. Jeff Henley.
Misses Mae any Myrtice Harden
visited Mrs. Dolly Couch Sunday af
ternoon. ‘
Miss Dura Gilley took dinner with
Miss Ruth Harper Sunday before last.
Mrs. Dolly Couch and children
spent Sunday*, with her daughter,
Mrs. Grover Blair.
Mr. Lon Renfroe and family spent
Sunday with Mr. Will Lee and family.
Mr. Jim Arnold Couch and wife
took dinner with Grover Blair and
family Sunday.
We want every member of County
Line church to be present next meet
ing day, which will be the third Sun
day.
The writer, attended the Fair and
certainly had a nice time. If anyone
goes and says they didn’t have ft
time, something must have happened,
sure.
Mrs. Jesse Couch visited Mrs Flora
Blair Sunday and Monday.
Mr. Willie Hallman gave Mr. War*
ner Townsend a call early Sunday
morning.
Mr. Jeff Harden made a quick trip
to Villa Rica last Monday.
Little Waymon Townsend has been
sick, but is much better now.
Mr. C. C. Harperand Frank Couch
Made a trip to Douglasville Sunday
afternoon.
Misses Blanche and Nolia James
and their mother spent Monday after
noon with Mrs. Lillian Townsend.
POLLY ANNER
grease into the wheels of inlustry,, wheel f 0 u 0W ing in the furrow and
and when they all start rolling they barely cover in: K the seed. The result
will soon grind prices down to reach-1 the p i ants come U p one and a half
ing distance.
Strange Gratitude
The other day a merchant, who had
gotten hold of a small supply of sugar,
decided to slip it around to his best
customers as long as it lasted. So,
seeing one of his ladie customers away
from the crowd a moment, he steps up
an in a low tone says; Do you want
some sugar?” But instead of thank
ing the merchant she turned red in the
face, went home and told her husband
she had been insulted.
big fair closes
The Southeastern Fair, which has
just closed the most successful season
in its history, drew more than 200,-
000 people, according to statistics just
announced by the fair officials. The
Grand Circuit races, with more elabo
rate exhibits in all departments than
erer before and a splendid array of
ammusemente, featured the big expo-
aitioo. • ' ‘
made forty bushels to the acre. Of
Che two acres so planted thqt were
badly killed, the rows were laid east
and west; of all the other section®
the rows were laid north and south}
thus developing another significant
fact, that the ideal direction would be
northeast and southwest, in order to
protect the plants, by means of the
wall of earth, against the northwest
wnd.
“In order to make more sure of the
correctness of the ^Teconceiwed
theory that the poen furrows would
secure the oats from fatal freezing,
on ‘two one acre sections that were
sown in open furrows running east
and west, on every alternate tenth
acre the furrows were filled up flush
by running over them with a clod-
cruhser and smoother. The result wa8
that the oats on these alternate tenths
were almos entirely destroyed, not one
plant in ten surviving the severe
freeeze, and the plots were re-BOWn
with spring oats. But the other
tenths, of which the furrows were
left open, although severely injured,,
to two inches below the general sur
face, and the ‘crown’ of each plant is
formed and established say two to two
and a half inches below the general
surface. The winter rains, light
freezes and thaws gradually but only
partly fill in the open furrow, and the
more vital and sensitive parts of the
plants are left at the original depth,
below the reach of even very severe
freezes.
' “The long anticipated freeze at last
came and our theory was put a crucial
test. On February 8, 1899, the ther
mometer sank to 15 degrees, followed
on successive mornings by 19 and 17
degrees. On the 12th it was down *o
11 degrees, and on the morning of the
13th it stood at 7 degrees below zero—
the coldest day since February 8, 18-
35. The result was fall-sown oats and
January-sown oats. were pretty gener
ally destroyed everywhere. But our produced forty bushels of grain per
open furrow drilled oats, excepting
two- acres, stood the test remarkably
well, and 'though Severely -iniqred,
acre, or more thanhalf of the expected
crop. . •
(Continued Next Week) j