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DOUG!
COUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME XVI.
DOUGLASYILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920.
D. 0. CLUB SCORES
Alt Home Talent Put
on Best Show Ever
Presented Here.
One of the best performances either
amateur or professional, ever given in
Douglasville was witnessed by a
packed house at the auditorium Fri
day evening when “D. D. Follies” was
presented.
The playlet is from the facile pen
of Miss Ruth Selman, one of our citys’
most cultured young ladies, and her
first effort at play writing shows
talent of exceptional ability, and she
has been the recipient of many well
deserved compliments on her success,
which would do credit to much older
and experienced writers than Miss
Selman. Every part (was success
fully carried out and the usual stage
fright on such occasions was con
spicuous by its absence—each role
being presented with the precision and
correctness of veterans, and shows
that our city possesses dramatic
talent of high ability.
The piano solo of Miss Verna Per
kins, the vocal solo of Miss Bessie J.
Selman and the soeeial readings of
Mrs. F. M. Winn Jr., and Mrs. A. W.
McLartv were also appreciated Mem
bers of the program, each ladv ao-
ouittine herself handsomely, and the
large audience showed their appreci
ation by long and liberal ant/lini«*e.
Much prise is due Mrs. A. W. Mc-
Lairtv. who directed the play, as to
her offer? wa« due largely its success.
The sum of no was realized,
which will he applied to the improve
ment of the citv cemetary.
Congratulations D. TVs., come again.
Douglasville
Citizens Fly
I The Rubberneck Club turned out in
full force again Saturday when the
cry of airplane was heard. After lo
cating a landing place and circling the
city several times, the appeal was
| made for passengers, when the fol
lowing parties took advantage of the
opportunity to be a high flyer: Parks
Watson, Hiram Gurley, Thad McKoy,
Tom Poole. Frank Winn. Henry Taylor
and perhaps others, who were “too
high” to get their addresses. The
trips were made safely, and the-boys
pronounced their experiences in the
air wagon as the greatest ever.
COUNCIL MEETING
A special meeting of the city
council was held Tuesday, when a
permit was issued the ladies for the
erection of a pavalion in the cemetery.
A committee wus also appointed
composed of Mayor McLarty, City
Attorney Strickland, Col. Hutcheson,
Messrs. Z. T. Dake and J. T. Long to
extend to the Georgia Press Associa
tion, which meets at Carrollton this
year, to spend a day in Douglasville,
that they may see what a live city we
Have, and it goes without saying that
they will tell the outside world about
it, thus putting us on the publicity
map, which will more than repay us
far our trouble in entertaining them.
WE’VE TROUBLES OF OUR OWN
Broad Street
Gutters Dirty
....
Almost daily the Sentinel man is
approached by some 2 by 4 grouch
with a kick on something that don’t
suit them, because they can’t run it
to suit themselves. But mind you,
they won’t write an article themselves,
but suggest that we do it. Right here
we want to say for the benefit of
these guys, that if they haven’t the
news to daddy their articles we won’t,
having troubles of our own.
REAL ESTATE DEALS
IN 08UCLAI
BROKE RE
Friday When $60,000
Worth of Property
Was Sold.
Friday was a red letter day in
Douglasville, from ft real estate
standpoint, when approximately $60,-
000.00 worth of property changed
hands. Following are the sales made:
Sam Mozley sold a house and lot
to Glen Dorris.
Sam Mozley bought the home of
John Hendrix.
John Hendrix bought a house and
lot from S. A. Griffith.
Dr. Stewart sold a vacant lot in
front of his home to Luther Dorris.
Billy Bobo sold his home to J. Rice.
Billy Bobo bought the Lela Watson
place of John Hendrix.
This is a good sign of Douglas-
ville’s growth and shows the value of
its real estate, which is soaring sky
ward, but even this does not stop the
demand for property in the coming
city of the south, whose location is
the best and people the finest; whose
arms are always open to welcome th e
stranger in our midst and make him
feel at home after he gets here.
SOME ROAO FACTS
THAT ARE WORTH
II
Matrons Club
Give Statement
OUR STOCK IN TRADE
We often wish citizens of Douglas
ville could see the mass of “junk” that
comes through the mails every week
to this newspaper office. If they
could tliey would readily see that the
Broad, street gutters are a dis- world is still full of people who do
ace to the main thoroughfare df the not realize that a newspaper man’s
y. A good idea for parties who ( space in his paper is «his stock in
five their sweepings in the gutters trade. They would also see that for
vouid be to get it in a pile and burn
it.
A GIFT TO THE BOYS
Prof. H. R. Hunt, the President of
the Seventh District Agricultural &
Mechanical School at Powder Springs,
informs us that any ex-Service men
from the Army or Navy can secure an
education at that school at the Gov-
ermert’s expense, both tuition and
board being furnished free.
If Jiese men already have a High
School education, Prof. Hunt can se
cure free board and tuition for them
at the State University.
This is a splendid offer on the part
monumental gall the average press is
without an equal.
A newspaper is run primarily to
disseminate the news, build up the
community and earn a living for the
man who works hard to keep it going.
But many people seem impressed with
the belief that it is printed and ciflfcu-
lated merely for the purpose of help
ing them pull their own chestnuts out
of the fire or assisting them in un
loading something on the public they
don’t think enough of to advertise in
the regular way. Free auto readers,
free political puffs, free readers ask
ing to subscribe to this or that “en
dowment” or special graft pour into
the newspaper offices of this nation
in such a torrent that it is not hard
MEMORIAL DAY
of our great War Administration, and
we hope there are a number of young to undersatnd why there is a shortage
men in Douglas who will avail them- of white paper. The wise and sen-
•elves of it sible editors throw such trash in the
’ (stove or the waste basket, and awakens
next day to find new grafters seeking
1 to filch fhom him his only asset, his
Monday was"Memorial Day-a day!only stock in trade—the space in his
that should be held sacred and ob- P aoer -
served everywhere in the south, to the Personally we have always run this
memory of our dear heroes of the P«P« in the interest of the people of
Sixties. The day was partly observed this community, and we expect to con.
here bv the closing of the banks, but tinuc s0 ’ If f the , *"*• eV "
*. , „ „ .. comes that we are forced to turn it
no special exercises were held for the Lu,u r> a ‘ , ,, » ....
over to anyone it will be to the sheriff,
occasion. , J , , - ..
j and not to the horde of space-grafters
A FACT I who clutter up the mail with attempts
j to persuade editors they should join
Such dresses as are worn by a great h an( j g in imposing upon the very
number of women and girls today are peop , e whom they depend upon for
immodest. They are ugly and un-,
healthy as well as expensive. Girls su FP° r •
who persist in following the up-to-
date styles and fashions are ruining
their-own souls and the souls o»f their
neighbors’ sons. Designers of fashion
seem to be devoid of taste and prin
ciple. Honestly, where do you figure
this immoral standard will wind up?
If there is a hell, it will gather droves
from the immoral dressrs.—Roy Vance
in the Dalton Citizen.
FROM MAR. UH9 TO MAR. 1920
Money from bazaar for school grounds
in bank $114.74
Money from musicale in bank for
school grounds 10.65
Money made up for school ground by
members 52.00
Money donated by members for
flowers 10.00
Money for dues and tardiness... 17.50
Money received for party 24.30
Total $140.19
Paid :jii school grounds $52.00
Paid on school grounds 45.39
Paid Mozley Bros, for party.... 16.30
Paid P. D. Selman for cream.... 8.00
Paid P. D. Selman for Secretary
book 1.75
Paid Mrs. J. H. Almond for Treasurers
hook 36
Paid editor for musical ad 1.00
Paid Mrs. P. I). Selman for whipped
cream 80
Paid Mrs. W. M. Almand for
doilies - 15
Paid for flowers 10.00
Balance 13.45
Totyl .$149.19
MRS. ROBERT MCKOY. Pres.
MRS. THAD McKOY, Secty.
CROOKED MAYOR
T1 Centro, Cal.—O. E: Ohmstede,
El Centro’s new mayor, has instructed
Chief of Police Oliver to suppress all
news of arrests and crimes, it became
known today.
“Publicaion of sensational news of
crimes does not in -any manner bene-
! fit the public,” declared the mayor,
land in many ways tends to lower the
| moral tone of the community.”
—
A MAN’S PRAYER
BRYAN BRANDED PARTY
WRECKER
Show me a lad with a pompadour
head, a pinch back suit, a cigarette in
his bloodless face and who frequents
the pool halls, and I’ll show you a
prospect for the hospital first, then
the jail and finally the pen. Get
that, kid. and think o'er it, you little
measly bug.—Roy Vance in. the Dalton
^Citizen.
Omaha, Neb.—Advising democrats
here last night not to send W. J.
Bryan as a delegate to the democratic
national convention. United States
Senator Hitchcock proclaimed Bryan
a “party wrecker” and as out of sym
pathy with the present democratic
administration. He charged that
Bryan had defeated probable com
promise over the Lodge reservations
to the league of nations covenant and
the ratification by the senate of the
peace treaty.
Teach me that sixty minutes make
an hour, sixteen ounces one pound,
and one hundred cents one dollar.
Help me to live so that I can lie down
at night with a clear conscience, with
out a gun under my pillow, and un
haunted by the faces of those to
whom I have brought pain. Grant
that I may earn my meal ticket on
the square, and that in earning It T
may do unto others as I would have
them do unto me.
Deafen me to the jingle of tainted
money and to the rustle of unholy
skirts. Blind me to the faults of the
other fellow, but reveal to me my
own. Guide me so that each night
when I look across the table at my
wife, who has been a blessing to me,
I will have nothing to conceal. Keep
me voung enough to laugh with little
children, and sympathetic enough to
be considerate of old age; and when
comes the day of darkened shades
and the smell of flowers, th*» tread
of soft footsteps and crunching of
wheels in the yard, make the cere
mony short and the epitaph simple—
“Here Lies a Man.”—(Author un
known.)
Cold Facts Presented
That Bad Roads
Are a Menace.
Tip to Farmers
On Acreage
Boston.—An increase of more than.
$1,060,000,000 a year in the value
of cotton to the growers in this
county and a better quality of produet
for the spinners could be attained
through closer relations between the
cotton grower and spinner, H. M.
Cottrell, of Little Rock, Ark., told the
National Association of Cotton Manu
facturers in annual meeting here.
Growers who produce annually cot
ton valued at $2,000,000,000 are with
out information from the manu
facturers, Mr. Cottrell said, concern
ing the grades and staples and in
quantities of each required by the
spinners. He urged the manu
facturers to make a survey of the
cotton growing grades in co-opera
tion with local specialists to deter
mine the staples and grades moat
profitable for each locality to raise
and la- best adapted for the spinner's
A permanent decrease in cotton
acreage unless the movement from
th P farms to the cities can be checked
through making cotton raising more
attraclve, was 1 forecast by Mr. Cot
trell. For the past, five years, he
said, enormous quantities of cotton-
have stood in the field until so badly
damaged by weather that it brought
less than the cost of production be
cause there were not enough pickers
to gather it at the proper time.
Supt. McLarty
Makes Report
Odd Fellows
Anniversary
Every member of Doglasville Lodge
No. 162 I. O. O. F. are requested to be
at their hall Sunday morning at 10:30,
when they will march to the Baptist
church, whese a sermon will be
preaehed by Rev. W. M. Subties. As
this is the 101st anniversary of the
order every member is expected. All
visiting brethren in good standing
have a special invitation.
J. W. HOUSE. N. G.
T. P. HUCXABY, Sec.
PASS IT ALONG
County Supt. G. T. McLarty, has been
visiting schools for a week or so past,
and reports that they are holding up
well for this time of the year. A
majority of the schools where not sup
ported by local tax are closed until
summer, but long term schools, such
as Cool Springs, Winston, Bill Arp,
Lithia, etc., are still running.
CHAPTER MEETING
We are asked to announce a regular
meeting of Douglasville Chapter Tues
day night, when the Past Master and
Most Excellent degrees wiU he con
ferred. Also report of Mr. J. M.
Harding, wo went as a delegate to
the Macon meeting, will he made.
Let there be a full atendance.
REPUBLICAN JOKE
When you return to Douglasville
from a trip to some other town, or
one that took you into many towns and
communities, don’t come/ back with
| reports of how far “behind the times”
!we are, or with how much more at
tention other towns pay to improve-
Iments. For that kind of talk is too aot
I to be construed as “knocking.” On
the other bnd, come with suggestions
of how we ca n adopt the exam ole of
(some other town with benefits to all
'■ here at home Point out the good
'things you saw in the'other town we
j ought to .adopt here, and suggest to
your neighbors that we get busy and
make the same improvements.
' We learn largely by watching
j others, and good towns become better
1 by adopting the things other towrs
have found by experience are worth
something to the public at large. We
never get any where by merely point
ing out our home town’s shortcomings,
or making comparisons with some
Other town that puts us in a poor
light If the other town has a public
place for parking autos, a vacant lot
or a special side street, where they
wilt b! safe and out of the way of
traffic, then let us set about securing
something like that If other towns
have a better system of keeping the
streets clean and in repair, let us
know what it is no we can talk it over
and adopt the same methods here. If
other towns are making a special bid
for outside trade or new industries,
tell our TMlblic-spirited citizens about
it that they may think it over and
devise some way to follow the ex-
amDle.
Suggestions are always in order,
and everything that works well in
another town will work well here.
So don't hesitate to pass the^ along,
remembering all the''time that one
good: suggestion offsets a thousand
knocks.
We have just read some interesting
figures about the roads of Oklahoma,
figures that will make the average
Douglasville man sit up and take
notice in a hurry. Tests made over
every kind of highway in the state
show that where 6,000 pounds is to be
transported, ten horses are necessary
upon a sandy or muddy road. Upon
a hard, dirt road five horses must bd
used. On a gravel road, two horses
will do the work. If there is a good
macadam or paved road, one horse
is all that is necessary.
Then, the figures are switched
around, but they are still interesting.
Suppose a farmer has only one work
horse available. He can haul 800
pounds over a muddy dirt road, 1206
pounds over a hard, smooth dirt road,
3000 pounds on a gravel road and from
5,000 to 6,000 pounds on a macadam
or paved road.
Tn this country, where considerable
hauling is now being done by motor,
the time consumed would also enter
into the calculation. But the relative
cost of transnorting goods over good
highways and bad ones is about the
same, whether horses or trucks ajo^
used. And the figures also show tnat
in every community where the roads
a”e good and farmers can get easily
and quickly to and from market living
costs are lower than in sections where
little attention is given to roads.
Isn’t that latter condition worth
thinking ove**?
The Republican national party has
selected Georgia as the pivotal point
on which will be centered the deter
mined fight to be made in the N<v
vember election to break the Solid 1
South, it was disclosed Friday by
Dr. H. E. Stockbridge. director of
Georgia in the Republican financial
campaign, who has just returned from
a conference with leaders in Wash
ington.—Georgian.
The old-fashioned Douglasville man
who used to eat all he could at one
sitting now has a son who eats all he
can pay for. .
One thing that has never been
made plain to us is how some Doug
lasville women can boost of their
husbands to their neighbors all day
and then find so much fault with them
when they get home in the evening.
Irwin Cobb nominaes the best can
didates one with Wood’s backbone,
Edwards appetite and Bryant’s legs.
Patched Pants
, Club Possible
We believe if a "patched pints"
club were to iw organized the member,
ship would be far greater than in the
overall club. At least it would serve
more to reduce the hiirh cost of
ciothinij than the overall club, we
suvvested recently. Anybody can af
ford paches, but it takes the pick
pocket of a millionaire to purchase
overalls at the present price.
INTERESTING SERVICES
The Methodist Sabbath school ex
ercises unusually interesting
Sunday. Eesides a stood attendance
ar.d interesting lesson, a quartet com
posed of Misses Nell Giles. Nell
House, Mary Vansant and Sarah Bag
gett rendered a selection quite sweetly,
while Mrs. A. W. McLarty read in a
very touchinor and impressive manner
a brief sketch on the life of Naomi.
TEE HONOR SYSTEM
One of w. M. Fox’s latest serials
be seen at the Kozytorium Satur
day nivht. It is of the western type
and the lover of thrills should not
fait to see it. The plot is well laid
and interesting from start to finish.
EDITOR LIKES TO EAT
“We're human,” says the editor of
the Milan Standard and .give all
candidates this warning:
‘‘No candidate, no matter who he
is, where he cornea from, what he w,
which way he parts bij5 hair, how he
ties hi? necktie, whether he wear? silk
or cotton socks, silk or work shirts,
whether he is dry or wet, gets any
thing or any sunport from the Milan
Standard free gratis. We have been
Lied to by governors, secretaries of
c tate, auditors, treasurers, congress
men, senators, county officers, mayors,
clean down to constables, during our
life of ‘rubedom,’ and now we say
‘never again.’ If you want anything
in the Standard, boys, write for rates.
Promises are far below par at thi3
office. They have gotten so they do
not get us anything or anywhere, and
we like to eat, wear clothes an’ ever'-
thing, just like you candidates do.”
SUBSCRIPTION
HONOR ROLL
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
Mrs. Ollie West, Lula, Ga.
S. N. Dorsett, DeRidder, La.
Mrs. D. P. Burson, Atlanta.
G- A. Enterkin, Winston.
Mrs. W. W. Walden, Winston.
RENEWAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
Mrs. C. W. McGuoirk, Rt.' 2.
W. J. Kilgore, Rt. 6.
Mrs. W. R. Gaines, Rome.
T. J. Selman, New York.
J. K. Rutherford, Rt. 1.
J. T. McElreath, Rt. 3.
Graves-Creel Farm, Rt. 6.
Bryan Giles, City.
Mrs. Lola Harper, Rt. 6.
J. R. Benson, Rt. 3.