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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME XV. ..... DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1819.
VOLUME XV. ..
LAWYERS ADOPT RESOLUTIONS
ON DEATH OF COL. WEATHERLY
NUMBER 83,
Douglas Superior Court, September
Adjourned Term, 1919, November 24,
1919.
Whereas, on account of the sudden
and unexpected death of Honorable
Chas. B. Weatherly, the efficient
Court Stenographer of the Tallapoosa
Judicial Circuit, he having died sud
denly on the streets of Douglasville
this morning, while om-his way to
the Court House to attend the present
session of Douglas Superior Court, a
gloom of sadness has been cast over
the Court, members of the bar, Court
officials, jurors and attendants upon
the Court as well as upon the entire
town and county; and,
Whereas, the members of the Bar,
of Douglas county, appointed by the
Court in open session, to prepare and
present suitable resolutions in memory
of our beloved Brother Weatherly,
beg to submit the following statement
and resolution:
Resolved first, That in the death
of Brother Weatherly the Tallapoosa
Judicial Circuit has lost one of the
most faithful and efficient Court Re
porters in the Staete—he having the
entire confidence of the Court, mem
bers of the bar, and parties concerned
in litigation as well as the people of
his circuit generally. He was one of
the most refined and geniel members
of the Bar, having been admitted to
the bar several years ago, and was
considered by allthe members of the
bar an able attorney.
Resolved Second, That in the
death of Brother Weatherly his State
and County has lost one of her most
loyal citizens; his church .one of its
most faithful members and workers;
his neighbors one of their best friends
and associates, and his family an af-
ectionate father—our Brother’s wife
having preceded him to the grave
about a year ago. He leaves surviv
ing him four children—two boys and
two girls.
Resolved Third, That out of the
respect far the memory of Brother
Weatherly this Honorable Court ad
journ for the day.
Resolved Foiurth, That we extend
our sincere sympathy and condolence
to the bereaved family and to his
friends and acquaintances througout
the circuit; and.
Resolved Fifth, That a copy of
this resolution be spread upon- the
minutes of tj|iis Court; that our Coun
ty paper, the Douglas County Sentinel,
be requested to publish same, and that
a copy be furnished to the members of
the deceased's family.
Respectfully submitted,
J. S. JAMES
D. S. STRICKLAND
J. H. HUDSON
J. R. HjUTCHESON
J. S. EDWARDS
ASTOR MERRITT
J. H. McLARTY
Committee.
THE BUBBLE IS SURE TO BURST
DOUGLASVILLE SCHOOL NEWS
The Douglasville Public Schools
have the largest attendance in the his
tory of the school, the enrollment be
ing over five hundred. ,
Regular attendance is stressed in
our school. The pupils who do the
best work are those who attend school
regularly. Any pupil who is absent
six days in one month fails in his
work for that month unless the work
Is made up. Therefore it is essential
that every pupil be present every day.
The pupils and the people of the
town are very much interested in the
work and improvements which are
being made on the grounds, under the
direction of our superintendent. Plats
have been assigned different grades
and much rivalry will beseen among
them in the attempe to beautify their
plots.
The teachers and pupils of the school
are very grateful to the Ladies Club
for the hundred dollasr presented for
improvements on the school grounds.
With the co-operation of the town
the pupils can make our school
grounds the most beautiful .grounds
in the state.
The High School classes have com
pleted their first courses in the clas
sics, examinations have been stood
and books have been bought for the
second course. The eighth grade will
study Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden;"
the ninth grade, Shakespeare’s “Julius.
Caesar;” the tenth grade, Eliots “Silas
Marner;” the eleventh grade, Haw
thorne’s “House of the Seven Gables."
The Domestic Science classes are
studying, planning, and serving meals,
and two of the classes will serve
breakfast #o the members of the
faculty next week.
The Toombs and Lanier Literary
Societies have been organized and are
under the supervision of Mrs Ham
and Miss Harris. The members of
the societies are deriving much benefit
from the programs, consisting of de
bates, readings music and other fea
tures.
Willie Frank Morris has returned to
school after a severe attack of Bron
chitis.
School will be dismissed Thursday
and Friday for Thanksgiving holidays.
INEZ feAfUBE’l'T
ERNEST THOMPSON
PUTTING OUT STRAWBERRIES
COURT STENOGRAPHER FALLS
DEAD ON DOUGLASVILLE
STREETS
No more stocking event has oc
curred in Douglasville in many years
than when Col. C. B. Weatherly, of
ficial court stenographer of the Talla
poosa Circuit, fell dead on the street
Monday morning.
Col. Weatherly and Judge Irwin
had just arrived on train No. 12 and
started to the Kirby House for break
fast when told the Judge he would,
have to have some assistance. Judge
Irwin grabbed him and he began to
sink. Dr. Houseworth was called and
responded at once, but CO). Weatherly
died in a few minutes. His body was
taken to the kirby House and prepared
by N. B. & J. T. Duncan, undertakers,
for shipment to his home at Buchanan.
Col. Weatherly was about 50 years
old, and while robust in appearance,
had been complaining for several days,
court being adjourned last week on
account of his being unable to attend.
He leaves four children, two sons
and two daughters, his companion
having preceded him to the grave
about one year.
Col. Weatherly was well known
and popular here, having served v as
stenographer of the Tallaoposa Cir
cuit for about ten years.
He was an able lawyer and promi
nent fraternity man, and leaves a host
of friends not only in his home county,
but throughout the circuit.
Court adjourned Monday out of re
spect to him and the local bar drafted
appropriate resolutions, which are
published in this issue of the Sentinel.
Colonel Weatherly was a warm
personal friend of the editor, and it
is with the greatest degree of sadness
that we chronicle his untimely death.
His going is a distinct loss not only
to his home community, but to the
circuit, and to the state.
We extend our deepest sympathy
to the bereaved family.
CHAPEL HILL
The world is floating on expansion.
Credit has been strained to its utter
most limits everywhere. Inflation is
the habit Business .houses, indil
viduals and all, are splurging on an
unprecedented scale. Sooner or later,
and probably sooner than most of us
expect, the bubble of war time infla
tion is going to burst:
Sign of the coming financial hur
ricane are not lacking. The Federal
Reserve Bank has advanced its rates
for rediscounts, and the Bank of Eng
land followed suit. Call money on the
New York Stock Exchange has
brought high figures, fifteen and
twenty per cent, being frequently
paid for overnight accomodation. A
well known New York financial house
says:
“Judging the future by the past,
the efforts of the world’s statesmen
and financiers to force lequidation will
prove unavailing and inflation and
expansion will continue until the bub.
ble bursts with disastrous results. The
results are likely to be much more dis
astrous than usual as the world’s
rresent inflation is more extended
than ever before.”
The action, of the Federal Reserve
Bank and the Bank of England is re
garded as a warning to the commer
cial and financial world that credit ms
dangerously strained. Whether the
business and financial folks of the
world heed the warning in time, or
whether they folishly build dreams
of ’great profits upon further inflation,
rests entirely upon the individual man.
Unices the great majority of them set
their houses in order they mtay ex
pect disaster in the financial temest
that is certainly coming.
Those who wish to put in a new crop
of strawberries will find, as a rule,
that it is advisable to put out the
plants in late fall or early winter,
rather than wait until the following
spring. Of course, there are certain
sections of the South where spring set
tings are probably more advisable, but
in the middle and lower part of the
South, we are of the opinion that fall
setting or early winter setting is
decidedly the best.
And in this connection, we would
like to say that we do not believe it
pays any one to try to have the plants
bear a crop of berries more than two
or three years. It is true that by
properly thinning out and allowing
new runners to develop one can have
the same old field produce sveral
years, but as a rule they, do not pro
duce as profitably as the newer set
plants. Our experience haB been that
it pays to depend upon the strawberry
plants only for two full crops. Then
it is best to plow them up and plant
to some other crop and plant a new
lot of strawberry plants in some other
place. Those who succeed best with
strawberries, that is the most of them,
make it a practice to set out a new
field each season.—The Progressive
Farmer.
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW
The last session of the Georgia Leg
islature passed a compulsory attend
ance law, which requires all parents
and guardians to keep children be
tween the ages of six and fourteen
years in school for six months each
year.
This law provides penalties for
non compliance and appoints an at
tendance officer, whose duty it is to
see that the provisions of the law are
carried out. The law becomes opera
tive on January 1st, 1920, and the
County Board of Education has no
option in the matter of its enforce
ment, hence is bringing the matter to
the attention of all patrons so that
they may prepare to meet- the con
ditions imposed by the State,
PAT H. WINN, President,
County Board of Education.
WINSTON NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. E. Henderson were
Atlanta visitors Thursday.
Miss Williams, from Jackson, is
spending a few days with Miss Mattie
Miles.
The birthday dinner, given by Mrs.
B. L. Griggs and Miss Nora Thomp
son, was enjoyed by all present.
We are glad to report that Ephesus
church went over the top in the 76
Million campaign.
Mr. Roy Plunkett spent Sunday with
home-folks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stovall spent
Thursday in Atlanta.
Mrs. Brown visited her daughter,
day.
Mrs B. L. Griggs, Saturday and Sun-
Mrs. B. L. Griggs is on the sick
list this week.
Mrs. E. Henderson spent Saturday
afternoon with her sister, Mrs. Rey
nolds.
CHUMS.
tii aaacioD :shw
Atlanta—Reports made to Governor
Dorsey by Dr. Eugene Murphy, well
known Augusta physician, are to the
effect that Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee,
who is serving a life sentence at the
state farm for the slaying of her for
mer husband and his second wife, will
be obliged to undergo a major opera
tion in the very near future. Her con
dition is said to be serious. Dr. Mur
phy was appointed by governor Dor
sey to examine Mrs. Godbee, whose
petition for parole is now before the
governor. The woman haB served
about bIx years, the killing having
occurred in Millen, Ga„ her former!
home. A petition for pardon was’
firet presented, but Governor Dorsey
declined to entertain it, Indication,
however, that he would hear argu
ments on a request for parole,
Cotton picking is out of order thru
here.
Some are killing hogs these con!
coq^/ mornings.
The- fhiends of Mrs. D. T. Vansart
are glad to learn that she has return
ed home from Atlanta, where she un
derwent a serious operation.
Jay and Varner Camp visited hom-a-
folks Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steed visited
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bomar Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Johnson visited
relatives in Campbell county Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. . C. Cook visited Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Butlre Sunday.
Messrs. Humphries and Pope, of
Atlanta, were in our burg one day
last week. ’
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Winters visited
in Douglasville Sunday.
Mr. Jack Yancey, of South Georgia,
is visiting relatives and friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cook visited Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Brock last week.
" Mr. Charley Yancey visited Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Butler Sunday.
Mr. R. V. Green is preparing to
move to East Tennessee in the near
future.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Webb visited
Mr, and Mrs. Tom Moxley Sunday..
Chapel Hill church is progressing
with their porata share of the 75 Mil
lion campaign.
1 LOST—note book on federal aid
4bad work in Douglas county, near
Lithia Springs. Please leave at resi
dence of Mr. F. M. Giles and get pay
fpr trouble.
THE BOX SUPPER AT LOIS MILLS
(By BiU Blue)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to our many friends for their
kind and helping hands during the
You have often heard the expres
sion, “We went over the top," or “we
killed, a bigurn,” and “we are going recent illness of our mother andgramL
Well, I think it^will take all three of
them rollecf irtio One to express jyhat
thei Modem Woodman box supper did
Saturday night, Nov. 22nd.
The young ladies (and we must not
forget, some married ladies) brought
up some of the finest, nicest, prettiest
boxes the writer ever saw at a box
supper or anywhere else. Some of the
mother.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gore and Children
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Gore and Children
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Gore and Son
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gore and Children
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Strickland
The man who offers you figures
showin the cost of living has been
boxes were almost as pretty as the j lowered also brings to your mind fch©
young ladies who brought them, and ! old saying that “figures won't lie,
we had a host of young men present j but liars will figure.”—Dawson News.
who seemed to think just as we did, | —
for the way they bid at those boxes \ Hall, an( * others. Then it was
was a sure cure for a tightwad. All j nec * c an( * neck and the devil take th©
the writer lacked in having a good j hinemost for awhile. And the way
time was a pocket full of money, Edi- j fc k° se fellows run I Barney Oldsfield
tor Dake's stomach and Bob Edward's j couldn’t have kept in sight with a 12-
appitite. We enjoyed it pretty well as , cylinder Stutz, and no wonder they
it was. | ran - Take a good look at that row
After a short introductory talk by j Either one of those faces
Mr. W. M. DeLay, the boxes, 14 in all, | wou, d stop an eight-day clock at
were auctioned off to tHe highest bid- 1 midnight. They have to go in home
der by Mr. J. L. Cooper. After the; backward with a sack over their head
bidding was over and the last box j ^ ee P from scaring the -children to
sold for $5.00, the receipts totaled up j death. Ugly! Gosh! Take another
the neat sum of $40.80. .. Those faces would sour milk
A nice prize box of candy went to ] at 200 yards on a cold day. The
the young lady whose box brought the j word “ugly” can't half way express
highest price. This prize went to j looks on those things called faces.
Miss Alma Bennett, whose box sold 1 A short-nosed freckled faced Berk-
for $6.00. shire hogs looks pleasant after taking
/''Another box of candy ’Vas a look at them Now do you wonder
voted to the most popular young Iad.V that they run a hard race? And the
present. This was a close contest, hardest part of it was to get beat
carried out in a most pleasant, good-
natured way. Several young ladies
received handsome votes, the honors)
being carried off by Miss Alma Ben-
\being came
and have all the honors carried off by
a two-legged sign-board called T. P.
Long. He got theprize, but some
think he used his political, religious
and all other, kinds of influences to
Last, but by no means, least, there grot it. But get it he did, and it was
was another grand prize offered for • highly appreciated by him. It was a
the ugliest man present. This was j bottle of Chero Cola,
a poser, and was a hot fought out | Everything passed off fine and all
contest from start to finish. Every; enjoyed the good things in the boxes.
... . . . . .. | The Modern Woodmen highly appre-
man was in the race by a big majority, I . t . . . . . * .* *
ciated the interest taken by the young
and then some. O. L. Pressley started ; kdies and young men . We take this
in the lead, but was soon overtaken occasion to again thank them, one and
by DeLay, Cooper, Ledbetter, Jordan,: all, and we hope they will come again.
Cummings Predicts Victory
Atlanta—Confidence that the demo
cratic party will score an overwhelm
ing victory in the presidential cam
paign of 1920 if the League of Na
tions is made a party issue was ex
pressed by Homer S. Cummings, chair
man of the national democratic execu
tive committee, who spent a few hours
in this city a day or two ago, to con
fer with party leaders of the state.
Mr. Cummings indicated a desire to
see Senator Lodge, the republican
leader in the senate, named as the
standard bearer for the republicans.
He scathingly arrainged the partisan
politics that has manifested itself In
the republican ranks on the League' of
Nations question. A meeting of the
national committee will be held about
January 8, said Mr. Cummings, to fix
a date and place for the national con
vention of the democratic party.
SPECIAL END OF THE SEASON
Hats. Many useful things for Xmas.
SALE. Save 1-2, 1-3 and 1-4 trimmed
giving. ;;
• A. SHANNON YOUNG, "
Austell, Ga!
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The Fanner’s
Bank Account
With both labor and capital falsely branding the food
producer as the high-cost-of-living profiteer, our farm
ers must fight together under strong leaders if they
are to continue to get a living wage for their labor. In
our own county this bank will always stand for your
prosperity. Nationally—internationally—the strong
voice that is speaking for the American farmer today is
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forts, by saving the world from
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weekly touch with farm condi
tions everywhere—to hold what
he has won—the farirfer should
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you will get in the next 52 big
issues may make or save for you
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tleman. Or, better still, come in
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Capital and Surplus over $100,000.00
Phone No. 23
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