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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1920.
THE SENTINEL
Published Every Friday By HALL & KIRBY
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DOUGLASVILLE
AND DOUGLAS COUNTY
Subscription Rates,
Six Months, .75,
One Year, $1.50, Six Months, .75, Three Months, .40 *
Entered in the Postofficc at Douglasville, Ga., as second*class matter.
THIS CITY BUILT
WHILE YOU WAIT
Fourth Largest Town in Alabama
Full Grown in One Year.
HAD A MODEL GOVERNMENT
To The Public.
Permanent Settlement Around
U. S. Nitrate Plant Presented
Unusual Problems.
.1 take this method of announcing to the readers and adver
tisers of the Sentinel that, in order to get a vacation, after nearly
eight years continuous service without missing an issue, I have
leased the Sentinel plant anil good will for a period of months
to Messrs. I lull ik Kirby, both of whom are competent and
ambitious, and will continue to give good service both to the
subscribers and advertisers. They will have complete charge
of the business, collecting all accounts and paying all bills.
I would not retire, even temporarily, without thanking all
who have Ijclped us in building the business of the Sentinel—-
making every year a better one since we have had charge of it.
I commend the new management to the public, and ask
that you give them your support, and assure you that you will
find them thoroughly capable and always courteous.
Z. T. DAKE.
Salutatory
In assuming proprietorship of tile Sentinel we fully realize
the responsibility which rests upon us.
We know the important place a country newspaper holds
in its community and the power it wields for good or evil, de
pending upon the motives back of those controlling it.
We propose making the Sentinel an agent for good: keep
ing it always up to the high standard of character it has main
tained in the past.
Our conception of a good newspaper is one which strives
to record the happenings of the day accurately and interestingly;
which carries special features for the instruction and entertain
ment of its subscribers; which is independent politically, and
which is not afraid to be honest with itself and its readers.
And feeling that we will have the support of the people in
making such a paper; we look forward with the confidence that
our efforts will,attain success.
H. G. HALL.
K. N. KIRBY.
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Sentinel
By GARRET 8MITH.
The fourth largest city In Alabama,
peopled with 25,000 soul? of diverge
races and religions, uprooted from far
scattered communities In every purr
of the United States and Canada
sprang Into being uliuost overulgnr
around the great new government am
monium nitrate plant down on the
open cotton and corn fields at Muscle
Sbonls on the Tennessee River during
the last year of the World War. Here
was a problem In city building, munic
ipal government and continuity wel
fare that has seldom been equalled
and the success of its solution has
never been excelled.
The Job was in the hands of the Air I £
Nitrates Corporation which had been ! J|>
organized under the direction of tin* j <j)
Ordnance Department to build plant 1
and city at Muscle Shoals. Early In *
January, 1918, this new town iiad a >
few temporary buildings and a popu
lation of 300. This bad Jumped by the
middle of August to more than 21,000.
A population multiplied by 70 In 7
months.
In the management of the new
towns and army cantonments that
sprung up during the war the old-
time evils thut attended the growth of
mushroom cities have been avoided
by the application of modern welfare
systems. Rut nowhere were condi
tions more difficult than at Muscle
Shoals. Here was a malarial region
tbreutoued at the same time with
other deadly disease epidemics. Trans
portation was lucking. No nearby
labor was available and the general
labor shortage wus at its most acuto
stuge. Costs of labor and supplies
were leaping over night. Furthermore,
Muscle Shoals differed from all the
other new war towns inasmuch us it
was to be permanent.
ana
you
wishes each
everyone of
a very happy
and prosperous
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the copy
everywhere
in that article and a good many
of the same sort to follow, and
we'd like to have every farmer
hereabouts follow them with us.
Fifty-two big issues of this lead-
3 r ou new ideas for your farm,
re.p
and we believe they
you to make and to .save more
money. Come in to see us—and
subscribe today.
Costs Only $1.00; May Save $100.00!
Douglasville Banking Company
John T. Duncan, Pres. » G. T, McLarty, Cashier.
Gentlemen:
(1) Because you know
.charge the cost, $1.00, to e
enter xny name for THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN for one year and | Cron
(2) Here’s my dollar. I wont The Country Gentleman. Sendittome. J one
PROHIBITION WILL BE ENFC RCED.
That is as certain as the doom of the liquor
traffic.
BUT IT WILL NOT ENFORCE ITSELF.
It will not be enforced by fax officials, elected
by the vote of the “bootleggers.’’
SUPPORT CANDIDATES WHO STAND
FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.
The fight against the licensed barroom has
been won.
It must be followed up.
1 HE LAW OF THE LAND MUST BE
OBEYED.
To assist in enforcing Prohibition there will be
a week’s campaign for funds, beginning January
16, the day the 18 amendment becomes effective.
Let’s make it o Red Letter week in the Battle for Na= gj
tional and World Freedom from Rum. 1
PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT CAMPAIGN