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DOUGETftS COUNTY SENTINELS
VOLUME XV.
DOUOLASVILUB, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919.
NUMBER 32
EDUCATIONAL ADVERTISE-
MENTS OFFERED BY BUICK
MOTOR CO.
I MISS MORRISEY MADE HIT WITH
AUDIENCE
Buick quality is a known fact; the |
mechanical features of the nineteen-
twenty Buick line are just the same as
have been associated with the product
during the past fifteen years—ex
cept they have gone through the pro
cesses of elimination and refinement.
The Buick Motor Company have
not wavered from the mechanical
standards and practice which have
been so strictly adhered to by their
engineers; they have not been guilty
of offering a new line each season.
They have taken the firm foundation
afforded by the Buick valve-in-head
motor and built upon this a line of
models of standard performance and
standard value.
The demand for Buick motor cars
seems almost universal. Undoubtedly
£he majority of prospective buyers are
seeking the car in consideration of its
general reputation. That all Buick
owners are boosters is a good guide
for the prospective automobile buyer,
but the Buick Motor Company wants
the public to know WHY their product
affords maximum service at minimum
costs, and hence its recent series of
advertisements. ,
They are bringing to the attention
of newspaper readers the various
points of excellence. Are illustrating
the Buick built front axle; the Buick
built radiator; the Buick patented
valve and cage, and will cover all the
vital points in the construction of the
Buick car. This copy has already
created comment, and is looked upon
with favor by the prospective purch
aser, for the Company wants him to
know “the ins and outs” of the product
they are offering.
“Our demand,” says Mr. Paul D.
Selman, the local Buick dealer, “shows
no abatement, and we have orders
booked ahead constantly. Our Cus
tomers agree with us that these cars
are well worth awaiting delivery, and
are giving us orders covering deliv
eries as far as three and four months
\. ahead.”
The school auditorium wass filled
to capacity last Friday night to hear
Miss Marie Morrisey sing, and to say
they were pleased would be expressing
it mildly.
Miss Morrisey is an artist and
possesses a wonderfully pleasing
voice. She sang in unison with her
own voice on the phonograph, also
in duette when it was impossible to
tell which part she was singing. She
sang with piano. Her songs were in
English and easily understood, mak
ing them all the more appreciated and
it was the concensus of opinion that
she is the most accomplished singer
ever having visited Douglasville.
The playing of Mr. Reddick was
also a pleasing feature of the evening
and the coming of these two high-
salaried artists, employed as record
makers by the Edison Company, was
an event in the musical history of the
town.
It is to the enterprising business
methods of Mr. J. C. McCarley, the
local Edison representative, that we
are indebted to for the enjoyable oc
casion.
400,900 MOTOR CARS IN 5 YEARS?
Dodge ..Brothers .Again Achieve
Record for Rapid Develop
ment of Great Industry
When Dodge Brothers motor car
number 400,000 rolled from the as
sembly line and swung around the
factory test track for a final inspec
tion before delivery, it marked a
manufacturing achievement of ex
ceptional importance in the history of
the motor car industry.
The achievement is unique because
400,000 motor cars were produced and
marketed during the first five years
of operation, which is a record in the
automobile industry. ,
Less than five years ago, on De
cember 4, 1914, to be exact, the first
motor car bearing the Dodge Brothers
name plate was shipped to a bona
fide purchaser. It was the first ma
terial evidence of Dodge Brothers’ de
termination to devote their wide man
ufacturing experience to the produc
tion of complete motor cars. Since
that day the shipments have been
growing in volume until, a few days
ago, the 400,000 mark was reached.
In 1914 Dodge Brothers works cov-
• ered approximately twenty acres of
floor space, and even then was con
sidered one of the large manufacturing
plant* of America. But unit after
unit has been added with unfailing
regularity until the original twenty
acres have grown to ninety, and th
number of employees to more than
18,000.
The first hundred thousand car was
completed October 31, 1916, the second
on October 31, 1917, .and the third on
December 13, 1918.
Car number 400,000, which is a four
door sedan, was allotted to Thomas
J Doyle, Dodge Brothers dealer in
Detroit '
UPSHAW HIGHLY HONORED
Congressman Wm. D. Upshaw/ of
g fth district, and well known in
section of the state, was ac-
an unusual honor on Armistice
He was chosen in preference to
her member of the nation’s leg
islative body to deliver the dedication
spebch at Trenton, Ohio, at the first
unveiling of a monument in America
to the heroes of the world war. News
paper dispatches show that the Geor
gia congressman acquitted himself on
the big occasion, as he does oil all
similar occasions, with credit to him
self and the state from which he hails.
He is looked Upon as one of the most
\ eloquent and impressive speakers that
1 the South has ever produced. He is
i son of a Confederate soldier.'
CRIMINAL CALENDAR
September Adjourned Term, 1919.
{Vtonday, November the 24th, 1919.
Monroe Cornett
S. H. Hudson
John Hudson
Perry Hudson
W. M. Anderson ,
H. A. Crow
Allen Beddingfield
Arthur Murphey
Roy Snipes and W. T. Veal
Marvin Winn
G. H. Eubanks
Geo. Powell
Geo. Powell
Henry Carter
Henry Carter
J. Hue Sparks
Tuesday, Nov. 25th, 1919
Glenn Holloway
Andrew DeFoore.and Sam Mathews
Will Estes
Charley Barge
Ernest Barge
Ben Heflin
Bud Odom
Lon Hindman
Ernest Mapps
Wayne Gentry
Wayne Gentry
Wayne Gentry, Obe Jones, Wid Jones
ajid Boyd Mitchell
Obe Jones and Wayne Gentry
J. J. Odom
Curtis Chatham ,
Wednesday, Nov. 26th, 1919
England Scales
Charley Noles
Pratt Lovelace
Grover Nutt
Olin Dyer
A. D. Giles
A. D. Giles
Felt Touchstone
R. M. Eidson
OVERTON- A BERCROMBIE
A pretty home wedding occurred
Tuesday night at the residence of the
bride’s mother, Mrs. Maggie Aber
crombie, near Bright Star, when Mr.
Lewis Overton, of Birmingham, and
Miss Lettie Abercrombie were united
in marriage.
The home was beautifully decorated
in chrysanthemums.
.. Miss Marie Price played the wed
ding march and Miss Edith Dake sang,
“I Love You Truly.”
The bride was given away by her
mother and Mr. Overton, the groom’s
brother was best man Little Miss
Kathleen Thomas, of Atlanta, was
the ring bearer and little Miss Caro
lyn Alford was flower girl.
Rev. G. P. Braswell performed the
ceremony that united the happy
couple.
Immediately after the ceremony a
delicious ice course was serveed the
many friends and relatives who were
present.
Mr. and Mrs. Overton are both
popular young people in their re
spective comjnunities and received the
congratulations of a host of friends.
They will be at home to their friends
in Birmingham.
BIG GRIFFITH PLAY ANNOUNCED
“Hearts of the World,” D. W. Grif
fith’s greatest achievement, will be
seen here Friday and Saturday, Nov.
21st, and 22nd.
This announcement is one of the
most important of the season, since
Mr. Griffith’s former triumphs, “The
Birth of a Nation” and “Intolerance 1
have ' established him as America’s
foremost dramatfc geeibs.
CLASSES IN HOME HYGIENE AND
CARE OF SICK
Health and sickness at all times,
momentous factors in the welfare of
a nation, now as never before are mat
ters ofc vast importance. In times of
peace as well as in war, a nation
needs all of its citizens with all their
powers. It is a matter of more than
passing interest to know that alarge
number of our citizenry are constant
ly incapacitated by disease.
In the year 1910 there were more
than 3,000,000 persons seriously sick.
It is a very significant fact that at
least half of our national sickness
could be prevented if the knowledge
at hand were fully utilized.
That the women of this country are
not adequately prepared to safeguard
their homes from contagion and to
even nurse their families in minor dis
eases, has been only too evident in the
recent influenza epidemic, which
claimed a casuality list of 400,000 in
the United States.
The American Red Cross Society,
which did such a noble work in the
European war, feels that now, the
most important issue is the fight
against sickness and disease. Aloug
with the other lines, which it has
mapped out for service, the Red Cross
is seeking to bring all the women in
every community in a position to pre
vent disease and to systematically
care for those who may becomeill in
their homes. They have made avail
able a course in Home Hygiene and
Care of the Sick to every community
desiring it, through the instruction of
a graduate nurse, who is enrolled as a
Home Defense Worker. Such an op
portunity has been offered the women
of Douglasville during the past two
weeks, free of charge, through the
Red Cross Chapter of Douglasville,
under the instruction of a graduate,
Miss Sadie Williams, of Cartersville.
This instruction does not prepare a
woman to assume the responsibility
of a graduate nurse in serious illness,
but it qualifies her to give adequate
attention in minor illness and emer
gencies arising in her household.
Every woman iin town should have
considered it a great privilege to
have availed herself of this course of
study. Two classes have been in
progress achh day. Those who have
taken the course have taken great
interest in it, and speak very favor
able of the help received.
The following ladies are in the va
rious classes: Mesdames Elizabeth
Lovell Johnston, Ida Johnston Al-
mand, Monnie Turner Dorris, Mollie
Thornton Hawley, Louise Longino,
May Almand Almand, Myrtizack Al-
mand McKoy, Nodie Dorsett Durham,
Lena Shamblin McKoy, Willie Selman
Stewart, Jimmie Mae Herring Brown,
liola Nichols Peace, Bama Thompson
Abercrombie, Mary Upshaw Phillips,
Mary Peace Winn, Luella Griffith
Johnston, May Moody Harding, Bes
sie Moody James, Grace Morris House,
Sallie Ray Perkins, Floy Kinney Brad
bury, Octavia Pounds Thompson, Lo-
rena Brown Griggs, Mrs. M. E. Ham,
and the Misses Florence Reese, Hattie
Houseworth, Gladys Stewart, Edith
Dake, EdaMay Cahoon, Elizabeth Har
ris, and Irene Gunter.
SHOOTING MEN ON PARADE
The dirty work of the men who oc
cupied the I. W. W. hall at Centralia,
Wash, on Armistice day is hardly
equalled by any past occurance in
American history. To think that men
could stoop so low as to assassinate
in cold blood soldiers barely returned
from service abroad staggers the im
agination.
News report state that “without
warning burst of rifle fire swept the
ranks of marching overseas veterans”
and that “from that building (the I.
W. W. headquarters) and the roof of
a building across the street bullets
came.” The commander of the post,
who was one of the killed, had recent
ly returned from Siberia. Another
dead soldiers was married two weeks
ago. An eye-witness to the attack
even condemns some of the people on
the streets, saying “just as the head
of the line slowed down to ‘mark time’
in front of the I: W. W. headquarters
to permit the rest of the column to
make up distance there came from
the roof and windows of the I. W. W.
headquarters and the building across
the streets and from pedestrians vol
leys of bullets” which “sprayed the
halted ranks.”
It almost passes belief that this
actually happened! The punishment
of such wretches should he neither
slow nor lenient. Once caught sum-
niary justice should be exacted. The
I; W. W. and their ilk instinctively
recognizes that the American Legion
is against their policy of wrecking
humanity and debauching life. They
have taken it out upon the four dead
men of Centralia. It behooves every
community in the United States to
make an example of the representa
tives of this organization. They
should be forced to leave America, and
hope Congress will pass laws suf
ficient to deport them and all other
foreign miscreants, who come to
America from lands of adject subject
ion and attempt to improve upon po
litical theories of which they are igno
rant.
BIG DAMAGE SUVl’S
Nine big damage suits have been
filed in the superior court of Chero
kee county at Canton by Attorney
Reuben Arnold, of Atlanta, against
the U. S. Railroad Administration
operating the Louisville & Nashvill
Railroad, growing out of the disas
trous automobile wreck which occn-
red in Canton some months ago when
Mrs. C. O. Westbrook, and her two
daughters, Miss Aurelia Westbrook
and Miss Minnie Westbrook, were
killed, and three sons seriously in
jured. The automobile was struck by
a train over a public crossing.
RAIPH DOTS
The far n aro just about th* .ueh
picking cotton, which is unuitially
early. Some are hauling in t
corn. No wheat sown as yet. The
good prices they have been* getting
for cotton has just about cleaned it
all out of this part.
/There are a lot of mighty fine
porkers among the farmers. So we
can have bread and meat if we don’t
get any sugar. We can keep moving
long without it.
Some moving and changing places
among the farmers now.
holiday, an occasion to stage some ^^fhe new bridge across Sweetwater
festival, or to have a good outing. / on the Graves-Creel farm will soon
But, its deeper significance should opened to the public.
THANKSGIVING
The annual day for Thanksgiving'
will soon be here.
Usually, for the most of us, it is a
not be lost sight of. Its primary pur-
tentment should bring.
If you hav enjoyed a prosperous
and healthy twelve months, don’t you
owe something to help alleviate the
condition of those who met misfor
tune, who faced disaster, who stand
now discouraged and doubtful? Why
should you be satisfied- and others
hungry and wanting ? What have you
done to deserve immunity from life’s
hardships ?
Thanksgiving Day is a beautiful
ideal of prayerful joy over past good
ness, and an occasion of dedication
for future service to mankind. Do
you feel that way about it? Or, is it
merely a holiday from a day’s usual
working ?
Mr. J. E Creel will sonn have hiss
pose is to awaken in the minds of ouc dwelling completed. It will be a nice
people a sense of the favor enjoyed residence. When finished it will cost
during the year, and to remind thei^i around five thousand dollars. Chest-
of the duty their prosperity and con^jmt Log is looking up.
Mr. Thad Kilgore returned home
from overseas last week.
Mrs. Evie Gore, one of our very best
women, died and was interred last
Tuesday at County Line, Rev. S. T.
Gilland conducting the services. We
extend our sympathy to the family.
Mr and Mrs. W. W. Campbell were
called to the bedside of their daugh
ter, Mrs. Ray Peterson, in Atlanta,
last Wednesdy. She was veryseick.
We learn sheis improving.
Sunday was County Line church
rally day or the 75 Million campaign.
Results were fine. They went over
the top and still moving.
Mr. M. E. Geer and Mr. J. T. Giles,
of Douglasville, were with us at the
rally Sunday.
STOK ELY-LEMON Mr. J. G. Mozley is attending court
M. James C. Stokely, of Acworth, this week,
announces the engagement of his y Mr. J. O. Renfroe sold a fine cow
daughter, Jimmye, to Mr. William Jast week for $90.
Lane Lemon, the marriage to be ^Mr. G. W. Eskew, who moved from
solepinized at the Acworth Presbyf here to Indiana the first of September,
terian church, Sunday, December 2i, has retumod, and says that old North
at 4 o’clock. No cards. \ .Georgia is hard to beat, especially
A COURTEOUS YOUNG MAN
We have been asked to call atten
tion to the apparent lack of courtesy
shown older folks by younger people.
It is noticable nowadays when a young
man shows consideration for older
ones, but a gentleman who has travel
ed long the pathway we call life told
us the other day of his surprise and
gratification at the politeness of a
younger man, who was quick on oc
casion to offer his chair to the older
man, and to insist upon his taking it.
The act was spontaneous respect
for age, than which there are few bet
ter graces in this world. To those
who have come through life the young
owe much, but because the young are
unthinking, and because it is not giv-
en to youthful eyes to see with the ex
show the proper consideration for the
perience of age, many youths do not
infirmities of the years that they
should. We are glad to chronicle this
evevit for the benefit of our younger
readers.
REV. W. H. CLARK COMES TO
DOUGLASVILLE
The North Georgia Conference made
a number of changes that will be of
interest to our readers. Rev. W. H.
Clarke, who has been stationed at
Hapeville, comes to Douglasville and
Rev. A. Ernest goes to Monticello,
which we are sure is very pleaasing to
Brother and Mrs. Ernest, as that is
the home of their only child, Mrs. L.
K. Jordan.
Rev. G. P. Braswell remains on the
Douglasville circuit, which will be
good news to his churches.
Rev. J. W. Veach has been returned
to Villa Rica, Rev. Marvin Williams
remains at Grace church, Atlanta;
Rev. W. H. Cooper returns to Carroll
ton, Rev. J. T. Brannon goes to Cal
houn, Rev. L. P. Huekaby to Bowman,
Rev. Thomas M. Elliott to Hogans-
ville, Rev. F. E. Jenkins to Acworth,
and Rev. J. C. Atkinson Y. M. C. A.
Secretary.
A SMALL DOSE OF GOSPEL
By Bill Blue
BALL ROCK
As this comer was absent last week
on account of so much work to do,
will try to give the news from Ball
Rock.
Cotton picking will soon be' a thing
the past in our burg, but the writer
is not sorry. Everybody has reaped
the reward of a good crop. Only |
slight damage by the bolf weevil, but I
am fearful another year will be to our |
i. But the farmer can live with
out raising all cotton, strive to have
his meat and bread at home and never
theless we can prosper some way.
Tom McCord and famil and John
Couch visited at Frank Couch’s Sun
day.
Miss Dura Gilley and Miss Susie
Rainwater spent Sunday with Mrs.
Olen Couch.
Jesse Renfroe and wife spent the
latter part of the week with the
former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Renfroe.
Bud James and wife spent Friday
night with Olen Couch and wife.
Mrs. Lillian Townsend and babies
spent*Tuesday with Mrs. Lilia Harper.
Linton Harden and wife have moved
in our burg. Glad to have them with
us.
1 Mrs. Lilia Harper spent the latter
part of the week with her daughter in
Villa Rica.
Mrs. Vola Harper spent Sunday
night with Mrs. Jessie Couch.
The writer has been requested to
announce that there will be a big
dinner at Uncle Jesse Renfroe’s on
Thanksgiving Day, in honor of the
returned soldier boys, and all are in
vited to meet there with a lunch, in
their memory, and spend the day to
gether, for we are all glad in our
hearts they have returned home and
should show our appreciation by meet
ing them there on that day, Nov. 27.
Everybody invited to come.
Was sorry to hear of the death of
Mrs. Leona Poole, which occurred on
the 7th of this months in Atlanta. The
husband has our sympathy in the loss
of his dear wife.
Mrs. Lizzie Kilgore spent Sunday
with her sister, Mrs Huey, near Doug
lasville.
Miss Lois Couch, of Villa Rica, is
spending the week with her cousin,
Miss Inez Couch. i
-,Come on, all you correspondents
and help our editor to keep our home
paper florishing.
POLLY ANNER.
Douglas county. (He's righk)
Well, it’s‘ potato digging time, and
they are fine j
Mr. Brock Vansant and Mr. Yan-
oey, of Chapel Hill, were at Ralph
Saturday.
Every now and awhile we runn
across some scissor-billed, snoring
snipe of a cult who couldn’t digest a
whole truth if he had it soaped and a
down hill pull on it. He takes the
camp meeting jim-jams if you say
boo or rub up against his religious
feelings, which he keeps conviently
hanging around on his sleeves. He
wants everybody to help ease his bil-
lious liver by agreeing with everything
he says or does, and if you don’t he
swells up, hops around’ and snorts
like a bob-tail bull in fly-time. His
little mind, instead of upening up to
the broad expanse of enlightenment,
runs in one direction only and tries
to bore its way through ecclestastical
doctrines like a dull auger through a
knotty log. His soul is veneered over
with his special brand of isms until
you couldn’t drive a wholesome idea
into his head with a pile-driver. About
the only thing we can do with such
swiveled up misfits is to set him to
one side until the good Lord sees fit
to open up his think trap and let in
some illumination.
I ran across one of thes monstrosi
ties not long since, and during our lit
tle confab he said I was a full blown
in the bottje heretic of the first watar
(whatever that is) all because I
said people didn’t study the bible like
they should, and that man wasn’t
originally made to inhabit heaven, but
was made to have dominion over the
earth and all creaping things therein
—Gen: 1:26, That God created thous
ands of angels to inhabit heaven and
people to inhabit the earth; and that
man had made a conglomerated piesS
of his job from the dawn of Eden up
to the present time. And the ma
jority of folks would continue to
browse around in the devil’s thistle
patch and greedily wallow in the flesh
pots of the world until Christ returned
and put in force His ruling with a rod
of iron, while He gathered up Hi3
ccattering. elect church (His bride)
and begin the judgement of the world
with truth and righteousness. “Do ye
not know that the Saints shall judge
the world?. 1: Cor. 6:2.
My education faculties being some
what limited, I shed my coat, roll up
my sleeves and wade around in a
dictinoary until I found the word*
“heretic” just to see what old Brother
Webster said about it. And he says a
heretic is a two-legged man that has
kind o’ slid the old beaten re
ligious trail (probably the sawdust
trail) and is hunting around for a
new one, or blazing out one of his own
by chipping the bark off some old
ecclesatical bell weathWs who per
sists on staying stusk up in the quag
mire of the dark ages.
Brother, you can’t law goodness into
a man. You can’t shoot religion into
him, not even with a machine gun 1 .
Catholics tried it for hundreds ofl
years and made a flat«failure. Main’s
brain was made to grow and develop
ideas. He is supposed to increase ip
knowledge and no man-made inven
tions will stop him from thinking his
own ideas. You can force him into
different places; you may control his
body, but you can’t control his mind.
Our forefathers bled and died for
religious freedom in these good old
United States Why not have it in the
full sense of the word. As long as a
man’s religion don’t interfere with the
other fellow, it’s nobody’s blooming
business what brand he totes. If yotf
can’t lead a man into Christianity by
love and good deeds, there is no use
to bridle or put worldly harness oA
him, for he is sure to kick out of the
traces or bust a girth and take dowA
the road ahelling for parts unknown
Some folks take mighty good cafe
of their religion by not using it ex
cept a short time on Sunday.
SOME POTATOES
Mr. Beaton Daniel cracked the
record and I will finish it. He said
he made some potatoes so large they
stalled one of his mules. Mine were
to big I had to send and get one of
the road engines to pull them up, and
they were so hard to pull up it made
the wheels spin and in spinning the
wheels grated enough potatoes to
supply Douglas county with custard*
If anyone can beat this let us hear
from you.
JESSE SMALLWOOD,
Winston, Ri. 2.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this method of thanking
our many friends and neighbors for
the kindness shown us during the
sickness and death of our dear hus
band and father.
May God bless you all is our prayer*
MRS. M. E, HAMBY
and Children.
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