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FURGESON’S MILL
THE SENTINEL
As I have not heard anything- from
this corner will try to drop in a few
lines. — , '
The farmers of this section are
about done gathering, and have a good
many fine porkers to kill. Sugar
shortage-or anything else may come
along but we will have plenty of meat
and bread.
Mr. S. C. Norton and son, Fred,
spent Friday and Saturday with rela
tives near Rockmartsr-"'
Mr. J. A. S. Bullard and daughter,
Miss Ruby,, spentSaturday night and
Sunday with relative near Powder
Springs.
Mrs. H. A Watkins had a very bad
attack of rheumatism one day last
week, but is improving.
Miss Mary Hollis, of Westhaven
Springs, near Atlanta, began her
school at Union schoolhouse last Mon-
! day.
'Grad Bullard, while on his way to
Atlanta one day last week lost his
pocketbook and fifteen dollars in
money.
Mr. Pierce Moore, of Atlanta,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Mr. W. H. Baily.
Mr. and Mrs. Vester Burk, of For
rest Park, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Burk. '
.Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Tucker spent
Sunday with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Tucker.
Mrs. N. C. and Mrs. J. A. S. Bullard
spent Sunday with Mrs. W. H. Baily.
Mrs. W. H. Bailey spent Monday
with Mrs. Lula Tucker, near Ralph.
Best wishes to the Sentinel.
BROWN EYES.
It would be interesting to know
whether the home of the family on the
Iowa farm wher that $16,000' hog
house was built is in keeping with the
horn of the hogs.—Dawson News.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
OFFICIAL ORGAN DOUGLASVILLE
AND DOUGLAS COUNTY
'Don’t trust to luck. Luck is untrustworthy.
Systematic, scientific striving for any
goal is far more likely to bring you suc
cess than any iftfcre faith in your success.
lost h changing a tingle tetter change* “Luck” to
"Lack,” to will the reverse* of a single da, change
plenty to want But you can insure yourself againat
this by building youraucceaaon the habit of saving.
Save and Win
Be well dreased. Make friend*. Increase your in.,
fluence in your community. Enjoy the respect of
dll your associates.
These things do not come to those who trust to
luck for them. Systematic Saving will.win them for
you. Systematic saving
will accumulate for you
a small fortune that can ( ^ I [mu
safely and readily be 1 I SU
expanded to a large one. r
Decide on a regular do- Jp , *>}
posit and start deposit- -/
ing NOW. xA'nL
Z. T. DAKE,
Editor and Publisher
One of the strongest arguments in
favor of th League of Nations is the
kind of crowd fighting it.—Dalton
Citizen.
Subscription Rates
Six Months, .75, -
Three Months, .40
Entered in the Postoffice at Douglasville, Ga., as second class matter.
The papers in the supposed oil
regions of Georgia are cautioning
their readers not to sell out too cheap
ly while we are advising our readers
not to speculate at all in oil stocks.
If each follows the advice given alt
will be well, and the legitimate owner
j of any oil land will in time be proper
ly rewarded.—Marietta Journal.
We wonder where all those cotton
politicians are who were so anxious to
have the price fixed by law.at 30 pr
35 cents a pound, about the time this
year’s crop was planted?—Marietta
Journal.
It?ls reported that the railroads need money for the next
three years; so do we.
We hear that sugar will soon be plentiful, but as yet we
haven’t realized it.
We have seen no account of a strike in the glue factories.
It is presumed the workers there will stick. —
went vino hi
The weather man must be in sympathy with the suffering
'public during the coal shortage.
The long prayer or the long sermon
are tiresome to the church goer. The
long after > dinner speaker wearies
his audience, and the long winded “ad"
is never read by many people.—Madi
son Madisonian.
Mexico has refused to return the U. S. Consulor agent,
and we rather expect something will happen.
The Georgia Editors will meet in Macon next Friday and
Saturday to see if they can solve the paper and labor problems.
To Save
Y<mr Mon«V
annul Make
YaurMoTO«jf S&fn
The Unied States Senate has quit
and gone home, having thoroughly'
impressed themselves with their own
wisdom and importance, and the worid
with their utter selfishness and nar
rowness.—Marietta Journal.
It is rumored that the U. S. Gdvernjnent will soon take
over the Bankhead Highway and concrete it. Won’t that be
fine? .
BANK WITH US
DOUGLASVILLE BANKING CO,
With a population of 400,000,000 China has only one in
sane asylum. We had better send some of our people there for
sojourn.
Unlimitedsupplies of minerals of
use in paint-making have been found
Many a dealer tries to take your mind off it while the sale
is being made. We Won’t. We want you to do a lot of careful
figuring on it.
And we’d like you to do more than figure. Give us a
chance, in actual test, to show you the astonishing records of
the Briscoe-built economy motor. •
A Briscoe gallon will take your car a wonderful distance—
twenty-six hides and more is an every-day performance.
That’s because Briscoe engineers devoted years of experi
ment to the single feature of economy.
Ask us to prove it.
Just received a shipment, and 1 will he glad to demonstrate.
Phone 59
Douglasville, Ga.
There is considerable building activity in Douglasville just
now, and if is to be hoped it will keep up. We need houses and
need them had.
Give useful presents this year. This idea should govern
all giving at all times, but is of peculiar importance when a
dollar is so short.
A better attendance of the Georgia Press Association
might be had next week if it had been called at new Orleans—
since the lid is off.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has ordered that miners
receive an increase of 14 per cent, and that the operators do not'
increase the price of coal. <■ '
An exchange observes that if the coal strike materializes
to any great proportions, we can run pipe lines to the Senate and
keep warm with hot air.
I It looks as though the League of Nations will he the politi
cal issue in the next presidential election. If so. we believe it
spells victory for the Democra ts.
The British House of Commons has given women the
privilege of sitting and voting in Parlaiment. Who would have
thought that of English conservatisms? -
j-gp* ,, 1 — ,,.t •«-
If T.udendorff, Hindenborg or the Kaiser had been in the
Senate they would have voted with the Republicans and Senator
Smith. What do you-think of the line up?
Weekly papers everywhere are being forced to increase
their subscription rates. Announcements to this affect among
among our exchanges this,week are: The Carroll Free Pressj
The Bremen Gateway, and the Greensboro fierald-Journal.
There ate some folks in Georgia who will approve of the
action of Senator Smith in helping the republicans block the
ratification of the Peace Treaty, 7 but they are hopelessly in the
minority and the senior.Senator will,find .that he guessed wrong
just as he did when he fired Joe Brown.
In “Flashes from Floyd',” in the Fort Valley Eeader-Tru
bune, we find the following forceful paragraph: “Before a
man marries he will lie awake half the, night trying to repeat
whahsome woman has said'fohitVi', after tnarmge He 'will go to
sleep before she is half done' Saying it. 1 '
Vice-President Marshall was, by invitation, delivering a
public address in Atlanta last Sunday night 1 when his speech was
stp^ped-and’his audience broken up by the false announcement
in th Okefenokee Swamp, which are
nof to be found elsewhere in the
United States. Great and varied are
the resources of Georgia if we only
uncover and make use of them.—Ma
rietta Journal.
If relatives rauld know about how
uncertain is thl chance of getting the
right body, fewer would ask for the
return of the dead in France. Of
course there was a system of identifi
cation, but under the stress of battle
such as waged in this war, all system
was liable to break down.—Marietta
Journal.
Another thing which discourages a
farmer from greater production in
spite of the high price he receives is
going to town an.d paying U>. cents fpr
an egg he sold for 3 cents. It makes
his neck ache.—Dawson News.
Possibly people are becoming a lit
tle tired of the very name “drive,”
and it may be found best ere long to,
quit driving or else find some other
name for the operation. “Over the
top” has also become a chestnut.—
Dawson News.
Even printers are lucky sometimes.
One working for the Johnson-Dallas
Company, in Atlanta, gave a dollar to
the Red Cross and drew a bale of cot
ton. Hope he will remember his old
friends, now that he is in the million
aire class.—Cordele Sentinel.
A friend recently told us rtf the ex
perience of a South Georgia friend
of his with a “one more” crop of cot
ton. This friend showed our friend
the check he had received for his En
tire two-mule crop ant^it amounted to
eighteen dollars and sixty-five cents.
Hoee no Oglethrope qounty farmer
will come out that bad in the gamble
next year.—Oglethrope Echo.
that Presideht Wilson wasted- We do-not, know jvhat jhe
obfert of the “hoax” was, but it was either isstnine or criminal
—perhaps both, and'we commend the pr^pt'amon~dFG5vern-
or Dorsey and the Atlanta officials in^ trying to apprehend^ the
cillprit. v I j ‘
Soon all the world will be at peace,
except the United States. We have
a senate. And no senator, imbued
with the proper sense of his own dig
nity, traditional greatness, and in
born superiority to ordinary mortals,
can afford to vote fbr S treaty writ
ten by anyone but himself—not even
by a Brother senator. So we listen
to long drawn out debate, while other
nations mfeke peace and go about
their business.—Calhouri Times.
and Me
to.
makes Electric Starter*. Gcn-
gditera repaired. v 1 . j-
Store year ear lier#'while la the!
ettjk •- # A W~ '
SMthcrn Aula and Equipment C*.
HI FORSYTH Sf. ATLANTA.
Get-yaor Hunting License from 3. T:
gntBY. _ . ,
This paper would like to get old
Madam Gossip backed- up in a comer
yelling for ! ice water. - "And -believe
us*, ’there are a lot of ’em in and
around this community. We. have
heard old Gossip described in many
ways, but ther; following seems to fit
the occasiijh. very well: Gossip is a
humming bird with eagle’s wings and
heard ttotrt Dah wBprsneba anahls
caused wore trouble than all the bed
coyotes,
-ppersS boll
>rm8,:gattli
cyclone*; ehrthqtiakes,
Viw fever, goui
- . , citis.. -Ahd. wa-j&nt it
and look st00d m Iteve not been into any
sort of meanness that has leaked out
on us. We just^fett likt tal
(39 W. Mitchell Atlanta at old j
got to start somethhing around her*
YS'pdt a’Tttop to-so muchAmneceaeaty
talking.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
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