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D0UCL4S COUNTY SENTINELS
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VOLUME XV.
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919.
. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, DOUGLASVILLE
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1919.
Sunday School at 10 o’clock (Special Music.)
Devotional Service at 11 o’clock.
Opening Song—“Doxology and Joy to the World.”
Scripture Reading and Prayer.
Brass Quartette, by C. A. Keown, B. O. Sauls, J. L. Cooper and
L. E. Sauls.
Offering
Violin Duet, by Misses Ruth and Pauline Selman.
Song—“Hark! the Herald.”
Sermon, by Pastor. Subject—“The Wonderful Name.”
Cornet Solo, by C. A. Keown or J. L. Cooper.
Closing Song—“All Hail the Power.”
Each family is kindly requested to bring some article to
church Sunday to donate to Baptist Hospital.
A silver offering will be taken for the Orphans’ Home.
Yon are expected to attend church Sunday. Do not disap
point your friends. v,
“PEACE ON EARTH AN( GOOD ll'll.l. TO MEN.”
DOUGLASVILLE HELPS | IN MEMORY
WEST POINT SUFFERERS
' , ... 1 ~ , . To Worshipful Master, Wardens and
Douplasville responded promptly to
, Bretheren of Douglasville I.odpc No.
the appeal for help from the devas-, 28f) F & A M .
tated eity of West Point. Collections j We _ yom , committee appointed to
were taken at both Sunday Schools draft resolutions memory of ,. lte
Sunday morning and the mayor made brother> John B DorriS) bef , to sub .
hurried canvass of the^ business
section early Monday morning.
We are giving below, as far as ob
tainable, the names and amounts con
tributed. The collection at the Bap
tist Sunday School was made in lump
and the names not given, the amount
at Sunday School being $30.00, but
several members of that school con
tributed Monday, making the total
for which it should have been credit
ed $00.50.
Following are the contributions:
Baptist Sunday School $30.00
J. T. Duncan 10.00
Stewart Brothers 10.00
N. B. Duncan 5.00
J. R. Duncan 5.00
J. L. iGles 5.00 |
Z T. Dake...' 5.00
J. R. Hutcheson 5.00
Farmers & Merchants Bank... .5.00
Pouglasville Banking Co 5.00
Motley Brothers. 5.00
Nerbit Harper..........
G. \T. McLarty
,1. H. McLarty
Rev. W. H. Clarke
mit the following:
Brother Dorris was born in Pauld
ing county, Georgia, on the 22nd day
of March, 1851, and remained a citi
zen of that county until about the
year 1808, when he moved to Douglas-
ville, Ga., where he resided at the
time of his death. ,
He united in. marriage with Miss
Lou Laird on or about the 1.1th day
of Nov. 1873, and his wife survives
him. Seven children—four boys and
three girls—came to bless the home of
this devoted couple, five of whom
still survive, a daughter having died
several years ago, and a son, Frank
P. Dorris, having given his all for
humanity and God, lies buried on the
fields of France.
* During early nianhuod, Brother Dor
ris united himself with the Methodist
church and remained a consistent
. .5.00 j member and earnest worker in his
. .2.50 I church until his death.
••2.50 John B. Dorris was raised to the
. .2.50 | sublime degree of a Master Mason in
S. C. Harding 2.50 j 1880, and afterwards, as before,
R. S. Duncan. 2.50 lived the life of a true Master Mason.
Astor Merritt.....* 2.50
Tom Stewart 2.50
S. A. Griffith 2.50
J. Groodzinsky 2.00
P. D. Selman 2.00
J S. Abercrombie 2.00
Upshaw Brothers 2.00
Brother Dorris died at his home in
Douglasville, Ga., o^i the morning of
Dec. 4th, and although he had been in
feeble health for some time, the sad
news of his death was a shock to his,
many friends, quite a number of them
not knowing that for the last few
W. G. Dorris 1.00 days ho had been seriously ill. But
Mrs. J. A. Enterkin. 1.00 j lc was ready to go—having informed
Mrs. R. E. Hamilton 1.00 his family that the end of his journey
on this earth was drawing nigh, a.>s
also took every precaution necessary
for the care and comfort of his fami
ly ^after he had gone.
Therefore, be it resolved by your
committee, that:
1. On Account of the passing away
of Brother Dorris, Douglasville Lodge j posed"by-the government.
Roy McOouirk 1.00
Lanius Dake 1.00
J. C. Harding 1.00
Bessie Burton .1.00
Mrs. D S. Strickland 1.00
Mrs. E. M. Huffines 1.00
B. F. Burton 1.00
Clifford Burton 1.00
G. S. King f 1.00
W. M. Almand 1.00
Mrs. A. W. McLarty ... 11.00
J. L. Dorris 1.00
J. W. James '. 1.00
A. S. Baggett 1.00
M. B. Vansant 1.00
W. E. Burton..... 1.00
P. R. Baggett 1.00
Arthur King 1.00
Ralph Morris 1.00 ported and builde^rand
J. P. Cannon 1.00 j 4 His f am j]y a faithful and af-
J. M. Banks 1-00 : fectionate husband and father.
J. C.McCarley 1.00 1 Resolved further, That a page of
Dr. T. R. Whitley 1.00 our minutes be dedicated to the memo-
Grady Davis.... 1.00 r y 0 f Brother Dorris; that a copy of
J. O. Sayer 1-05 j these resolutions be furnishecT the
Glenn Selman L00 , members of the deceased’s family;
W. A. Edwards L00 j an( j a copy furnished to our County
n j paper with rquest that the same be
) ! 1
C, F. Selman 1.00
A. H. Matthews 1.00 j
E. L. Hopkins 1.00
ATLANTA NEWS LETTER
(By Starr & Bradley)
Atlanta, Dec. 2—The general coun
cil probably will shortly begin an in
vestigation of the report of a com-
mittefe o Atlanta women that the
Auditorium-Armory is a danger
GEORGIA WEEKLIES WILL RAISE
RATES
Publishers of Smaller Papers Agree
on New Schedule of Charges
Publisers of country weeklies and
.. uaiigciuiu newspapers °f Georgia, members
fire hazard and that great loss of life j ° , e ''j 01 ress Association,
might result from a blaze there at a i V ° e . a e lna ' day s sess >«» of a
special meeting at Hotel Lanier, to in
crease advertising rates and sub
scription rates and to curtail the con
sumption of white paper to meet the
shortage of paper, the shortage of
labor and the rapidly increasing cost
of operating their plants.
The association dealt a body blow
to so-called “press agents” who have
I been “putting over” advertising mat
ter or political propaganda in guised
“Smoky Joe” Daniels, a negro ar-1 news stories, when it adopted a poliev
rested some time ago in Macon while j to consign all such matter to the
engaged in conducting a rousing re- waste basket unless paid for at full
time when the building was filled.
The report was concurred in by Fire
Chief W. B. Cody and the consulting
enginer of the Southeasern Under
writers Association. Experts already
have recommended protective meas
ures that ccouncil will be asked to
appropriate money for.
vival after having escaped from the
state sanatorium, where he was un
der sentence of death, is not insane
and has never been insane, according
to reports made to Governor Dorsey
by Dr. George L Echols, of the state
ndverising raes for such matter.
“We anticipate a marked curtail
ment in the consumption of white
paper as a result of the action of this
meeting,” said J. Kelly Simmons,
president, of the association, after the
sanitarium, and Dr. J. C. Wall, of meeting came to a close. “Our pro-
Eastman. The negro was convicted, of j gram is to curtail wherever possible
killing two little children with an ice j without crippling the revenue.”
pick and then burying their bodies in The following recommendations
.be woods. He was at first found to were adopted:
be insane wh°n font to U c» state farm j First, for the conservation of news
and.was pla ‘ -, rl in O r. -'j;t ‘ hospital, print, and for economy of operation,
hut .ater was removed to the fan;:, i «nd all newsptpers shall eliminate
fitm which he escaped a ■•t- t*mo ago. ;free copies., free exchanges, shall put
He was picked up in Macon not long their papers on an absolute cash-in-
after his escape, Governor Dorsty | advance and stop-on-expiration basis,
directing his return to Pulaska county 1 mailing checking copies to adver-
to be hanged. It is believed that the j tisers only on insertion of ads; papers
execution will be carried out without j to be sent to advertising agencies in
dcl »y- specially marked wrappers., That all
newspapers adopt tgr'regulation of
the S. N. P. A., regarding newsprint
conservation as far as practical; and
tfcut each newspaper office investigate
The price of shoes classed as neccs
sities by the government will be fixed
by the Fdlton countv fair price com- ! sale of waste paper, and if prac-
mittee beginning Jan. 1, 1920, it wr j ticable, install necessary machinery to
decided a meeting of the committee bale same for shipping. ♦
Friday afternoon. The committee al- ; “Second, That this association here-.
so empowered a subcommittee to re- j by endorse the plan proposed by the
quest the Attorney-General of the j & N. T \ A., for a training school for
United States to investigate shoe man- j linotype operators and printers, and
ufacturers, tanners and importers urge rl 1 members to give active, prn<J-
with a view to discover the cause of tjcal a. sistanc to further the plans fo^
present high prices of footwear. trbe increase of linotype operators-
and printers.
Recommends Raise in Rales
“Third, that this association urges
all home-print paper to adopt a sub
scription price of not less than $2 per
year and recommends that the larger
country papers advance their sub
scription price to $2.50.
“Fourth, that this association rec-
At least four colleges will be picked
as having won the Southern football
championship by sport, writers Sun
day, it is expected here, and it will lie
up to “gentle reader” to take his
choice. With Georgia Tech, Auburn,
Vanderbilt and Alabama all contend-
ini?, odds are even that all will head ommends and *1™"^ urges the adop.
the list of some sport writer. All- : t,on of tlle followin K advertising rate
southern line-ups also will furnish schedule, based on paid circulation:
some interesting comparisons for Sun
day consumption.
TAXES AND HIGH COST
(Frm Atlanta Constitution.)
Clothing manufacturers and dealers
testified at a hearing in Massachusetts
a few days ago that the prices of
men’s wearing apparel will be higher
next spring than they are now, on
account pf the excess profits tax im-
No. 289, F. &. A. M. has lost one of
her most faithful and efficient mem
bers; and that our noble order has
lost a man who had builded his life
upon a firm foundation—Christ Jesus
—and has made the same conform to
the precepts of our institution.
2. Our County a^d State has lost
ont-^jf their most honored citizens.
3, \Our town one of her best sup-
Sanford Land 1.00 j j
F. M. Winn, Jr 1-00 J published.
Respectfully submitted,
W. A. Abercrombie l.fiO
Foley Burton ) 1.00
T. M. Varner 55
_J. M. Hardir.g 50
Xj... O. Meadows 50
T. N. Greshsm 50
Earnest O. Sayer 50
ASTOR MERRITT
J. R. DUNCAN
F. M. STEWART
Committee.
WILL AID SOLDIER BOYS
Mr. Dakes I noticed id the Sentinel
a few days ago where some of our
~ Douglas county boys were ,having
k $162.55 trouble in getting their insurance or
Two or three have not yet paid their compensation from the War Risk
subscriptions to this fund. A check ] Bureau. Being connected with the
■was sent Mo.day covering the amount j Bureau, I will take pleasure in assist-
collected to ;hat time. A few dollars i n g a ny of our ex-service boys or their
have come in since. Anyone who has families in getting their compensation
not contriblted to this worthy cause or insurance straightened out.
can hand whatever you wish to the
mayor or Hr.- G. T. McLarty and it
will be senf in promptly.
W. H. HALLMAN,
1319 E. Capital St.,
„ Washington, D. C.
The Nebraska State Journal ridi
cules this suggestion—not the proph
ecy so much as the reason upon which
it is predicted—and argues that ex
cess profits taxes cannot legally be
passed on to the consumer because
“the profits on which these taxes are
levies are made on goods already sold.
Here is stated a principle which is
not susceptible of dispute. Every
body knows that the government does
not compel nor expect a business man
or corporation to pay taxes on excess
profits that are not already on hand.
And everybody that if, when he sells
his goods, a merchant does not make
excess profits the government is not
going to qompel him to pay to it ex
cess profits taxes.
In other words, no excess profits,
no excess profit taxes; and, therefore,
the way for the merchant to escape
the payment of.: excess profits taxes
to the government is to take only reas
onable and fair profits from the con
sumer.
But for a merchant to anticipate
the harvesting of excess profits and
in advance fix the prices upon his
merchandise at a high enough figure
to absorb the excess profits tax and
still leave him the margin of reason
able profits would be unjust and un
fair to the public and a policy which
the government should not condone.
Excess profits taxes are for the
profits-takers, and not* the public,
to bear; and to offer the levying of
such taxation as an excuse for keep
ing prices high is not in keeping with
either good business judgement or
common sense.
“For first 1,000 circulation or less,
20 cents per inch.
“For second 1,000 circulation, 10
cents per inch.
“For the third 1,000 circulation, 5
cents per inch. / -<
“We recommend that all political
advertising be subject to a higher
rate for reasons that are obvious to
any one conversant with this class of
business.
“Fifth, that all newspaper plants
doing job work adopt a standard price
list, in all cases where the cost sys
tem is now used; that insofar as
practical, printers in the same terri
tory use the same system of determ
ining costs and prices.
Saving of Paper Urged
Sixth, that this association en
dorses the suggestion of saving of the
waste paper by the daily newspapers,
to be available for use by the weekly
papers, and we request the president
to take such steps as will insure co
operation.
“Seventh, that this association here
by condemns the publicity methods
adopted by certain politicians, public
e companies and others, an 1 that
the secretary is hereby directed to
notify all known candidates for of-
seeking free publicity, through press
agents, or other means, that all such
matter will not be published by mem
bers of the Georgia Press Association,
except at “Paid Advertising Rates,”
applicable to that class of business.
“Eight, that this association as
sures the Macon Chamber of Com
merce, Georgia Hotel Men’s Associ
ation and the local newspapers and
hotels, of its deep appreciation for
the many courtesies extended the
association while in session in Macon.”
RECITAL
By Pupils of
MRS. H. V. JOHNSTON
At Methodist Church j
Friday Evening. December 12, 7: 30 O’clock
Deeds of Valor, March. . . ... Morrison
* Blanche Feely—Gladice Banks
T ulip Lichner
Mary Morris
Little Bo Peep, Waltz.... Englemann
Elizabeth Wilson
Sweet Flowers, Waltz. . Spencer
Ruby Conley
Joyous Farmer. Schumann
Sarah Brown
Honey Belle Polka ; . . . Straebog
Margaret Waldrop—Mrs. Johnston
Jessamine Waltz Powell
Elsie Wood
Recreation March .Mack
Louise Wright
Snow Bells Polka; Behr
Margarette Johnston—Mrs. Johnston
Swallow Schottish Hoffman
Maybelle Meeks
Fairy Waltz Straebog
Dorothy Freeman
Philomel Polka Kunkel
Fayne and Ima Boatright
(a) Duet;—Playing Tag Margstein
(b) Mary's Pet, Waltz. . E. Mack
Robert Groodzinsky—Mrs. Johnston"
Norwood March Hart
Mozelle Wilson
Valse Bleue Lee Orien Smith
Johnny Smith—Nell Giles ,
Morning Prayer. . . . Straebog
Blanche Meeks
Calvary Advance 1 , Scneider
Gertrude Roberts—-Sarah Lee Groodzinsky—Mrs. Johnston
Gavotte, Colonial Reid
Irene Waldrop
1 Frolics . . Hoesche
Florence Willoughby—Cleo Watkins
Second Mazurka. . . Porter
■ Gladys Johnston
Valse Br'rliiante. Concone
Blanche McClendon
.Spanish Dance. .... . . i . . . .Moszkowski
•, r Lucy Willoughby-—Mbs. Johnston
Mocking Eyes, Waltz:.. \nthony
■'"* "V* , Claribel Meeks .■ ./
• , ■ Polo Polka . ' ,. • • De Lancet*
’’•/ ... Mary Hpupeworth'— Lois Hagin ,
’ On Blooming Meltdown-.t": :\ Rive King
'Blanche Feely
Brownie’s Revels. . - . v . . De I.ancey
Gertrude - -Roberts
Valse des Fleurs Kctterer
.Gla'tliee Banks
Hungarian Rapsodie Migrjonne. . «. Knelling
Sara-Lee. Groodzinsky
La Fontaine .-. 4 T.ysberg
Nell Giles
Concert Polonaise. .. pi. . .. . - Englemann
' Johnny -Smith
The Sleighride (Galop de Concert) Treloar
Willette Gorman—rGladys Johnston
FURGESON’S MILL
: 'We havd had a lot of rainy .-Weather',
which has caused all th water courses
to overflow, causing some damages
to property. The mill and electric
plant at. this place has been put out
of operation, which was caused by
high waters, and damaging the elec
tric plant obout $800.00. *
Mr. Grady dullard and sister, Miss i
Ruby, spent the first part of last week
with relatives near Chapel Hill. I
Mrs. N. C. Bullard has been on the j
sick list but is some better now. |
The farmers of this section were j
glad to see the recent cold weather
on account of getting to kill their i
fine porkers. !
One of the head leaders of the
Farmers’ Union will speak next Fri
day afternoon at Poplar Springs
churchd Everybody come out and hear
him, for he may tell us something
that-will do us a lot of good.
Mr. J. B. Tucker is very sick at
present.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Carson, of Cobb
county, spent Friday night with Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Carson.
Mr. T. W. Bozeman has resigned his
position as operator of the mill and
electric plant at this place.
BROWN EYES.
DOUGLASVILL CHAPTER
ELECT'S OFFICERS
STUFF THAT TRAVELS
One of the great Metropolitan daily
papers of New York City, poked fun
at the getup of the “dope” in one of
the unpretentious little weekly papers
of that state. Nothing out of the way
about that, to be sure. The average
country paper is a good and willing
Douglasville Chapter Masons elect
ed officers Tuesday-night, Dec. 2, as
follows:
J. M. Harding, High Preast; J. C.
Morris, King; A. L. Campbell, Scribe;
N. B. Duncan, Treasurer; J. C. Mc-
Carley Secy.; Rev. S. T. Gilland, Chap
lain; T. N. Mozley, Captain of the
Host; W. M. Hays, Principal Sojourn
er; F. M. Stewart, Royal Arch Cap
tain; Roy McGouirk, Master Third
Vale; Charley Huey, Master Second
Vale; J. S. Bomar, Master First Vale;
E. L. Abercrombie, Sentinel,
r Afterwards they were installed, the
Royal Arch Degree was conferred
mark for criticism. However, in the
same issue in which the big paper
handed the country brother some hot
shots, the statement was made that a
certain Mr. So-and-So had been to
Kansas, where he had bought a train
load of mules for shipment to New
York state, and the wise guy who
posed as a newspaper critic was of the
opinion the stock “was to be used for
breeding purposes.”—Tecumseh (Neb.)
I Chieftain.
RAINS PLAY HAVOC
The heavy rains of Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday have done untold
damage to lands, crops railroads and
towns.
Sweetwater creek and Chattahoochee
river have reached flood stages higher
than ever before within the memory
of our oldest citizens.
Thousands of bushels of corn and
much ci Aon has been lost by farmers
of DoiTj^as county. We have had no
report from Dog River. Imagine
similar conditions exist there.
Due to washouts on the Southern
railroad, Douglasville has been with
out mail since Tuesday morhing, and
still without at this writing (Thurs
day.)
Towns along the Chattahoochee
have suffered heavy loss—West Point
being almost entirely inundated, neces* )
satating Red Cross relief trains. The-
entire business section has been under
from 5 to 10 feet of water, destroying,
their telephone system, putting their .
electric power out of commission am)
washing away water mains, leaving 1 ,
them without drinking water. v