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DOUGLAS COUNTY
VOLUME XVI.
DOUGLASVILLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GEORGIA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1920.
NUMBER 23.
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lEnjoya^iv.uflMF
Social Service "”111
Of County Official who
Called Him Down
For Negligence
The bad aim of a mean negro
doubtless saved the life of one of our
tost citizens and county officials last
Friday. ,
At the time mentioned Road Com-
mi^ioner Joe Abercrombie, was at the
cm.mty camp at Cool Springs, and
toki Allan Swann, colored, and an
employee, to take some mules to an
adjoining camp, which the negro r
fused to do, and witn a surely remar
pulled a gun and iired three times,
f-nd tailing to h r. Mr Abercromb
who was unarmed, advanced unon
hwi\ with an axe, Mr. Abercrombie’
»uly weapon being forks, which h
1 urted with rapidity.
Gifter parties were seen approachi ig
' ' the negro to *k m he woods, an i
’whorl next hea-d from was at v. tank
neai- Villa Rica, where he shot thre«>
times at a white man,
arrest him.
The Missionery Society of the Meth
odist chunch met at the parsonage
Monday, this being the time for a
Social Service prograf. Mrs. Frank
Burton, chairman, had a very interest
ing program, trying to educate our
women up to the new idea of voting
etc.
Mrs. F. M. Stewart was elected
chairman of study and publicity to
finish the year in Mrs. Nichols place,
she having moved away.
Mrs. Clark gave us a talk on
Christian Stewardship, and said she
would have literature here in a few
days and hoped every woman in our
church would take advantage to edu
cate herself on tithing or rendering
onto our Lord which is rightly his.
No other business, and meeting ad
journed.
Mrs. G. T. McLarty, President.
Mrs. F. M. Stewart, Chairman Pul).
COMING AND
MEMORIAL EXERCISES
Was Enjoyed by AH—Excellent Sermon by
Pastor—Impressive Memorial Exercises.
Magnificent Basket Dinner
Mrs. Harding
Passes Away
JOY RIDERS GET
T
On last Sunday the first Baptist Matthews, Mrs. Nat Mozley and Mrs.
church observed its annual Home R. C. Harding. Suitable resolutions
Coming and Memorial services. While commerorating the noble virtues of
the attendance was not as large as these departed women were adopted,
expected the church building was com- These memorial services being com
fortably filled at all the services. The pleted, messengers to the Concord
regular Sunday School exercises at Association were elected, and church
10 o’clock took place, and at 11 o’clock and Sunday School officers for the
the pastor, Rev. W. M. Suttles, ensuing year were elected as follows:
preached an able sermon on church Deacons—M. E. Geer, Gordon Banks
unity, (or Christian unity,) and then and J. F. Marchman. '
adjournment was taken for dinner. A Sunday-School Superintendent—
sumptuous spread was had under the .]. F. Marchman, J. E. Phillips, As-
large trees adjacent to the church sistant. Secretary—R. E. Edwards,
building, at which a majority of the Justus Gower, assistant. Church
Now ami then we run across a congregation brought baskets well Clerk and Treasurer—Chester Brown
Douglasville man who harbors the I filled with good things to eat. At and Gordon Banks, assistant,
opinion that the farmer’s wife is a 2:30 the Memorial services took place, It was an enjoyable day for the
human being separate and distinct, and it was noted that the church had members of the First Baptist, and the
ho tried to ^ 10,11 °lber women, a down-trodden | lost three members by death during church shows much marks of prog-
| class, worn out by
THE FARMERS WIFE
Mrs. Nell Harding, wife of Mr.
Robert C. Harding, of Birmingham,
died at the residence of her brother,
Mr. W. W. Johnston, where she had
been visiting about two months.
Mrs. Harding was a victum of
complicated stomach trouble of which
she had been a sufferer for quite
awhile. She was 32 years old.
She leaves a husband and two
small children, a mother, two sisters,
Mrs. Ida Almand, of Douglasville, and
Mrs. Lizzie Keaton, of Birmingham;
five brothers, Herschel, Sidney and
Watkins, of Douglasville; Reese and
Rader, of Birmingham. The funeral
occured at the Baptist church on
Saturday, Rev. W. M. Suttles the
pastor, delivering a very touching
and impressive discourse appropriate
to the occasion, after which the re
mains were laid to rest in the city
cemetery.
The large cortege of weeping rela
tives and friends which followed the
remains to their last resting place
attested the popularity of this good
and much loved woman, whom none
knew but to love.
By Insulting Ladies on
High way=-Arrested
After Chase
of drudgery
As soon as the news reached town| an< * U)i! - Nothing could be farther
Sheriff Baggett formed a posse who | from the truth. The farmer’s wife
went after the negro, who took refuge Is and ,iat "’bat someone thinks she
in a swamp near Bremen, where the; is or ou & ht to be. she is » first of all,
trail was lost and the posse aftet ! a woman endowed with the instincts,
several attempts to get him out of! a,)il • • ities and aspirations which
his hiding place, returned to town to | nmrks ber SGX - Then, she is a far-
formulate other plans for capture.! mer s w ^ e » bving > n °P en eoun-
which of course will take time to put! tl *y» under a wide variety of conditions
into execution. from grinding poverty to a large de-
But the public can rest assured of i ^ Tee wealth, but in almost every
last year, as follows: Mrs. A. H. ress.
one thing, the negroe’s freedom is
limited, as we have a sheriff who
does things, and will not rest until
the object of his gust is behind the
bars.
Mr. Abercrombie was not injured in
the mules and is surprised at the
negro’s act, who.has heretofore been
obedient to all orders and always had
the best of treatment at the hands of
the commissioners.
instance possessed of that same mod
esty and contentment which endears
her to the hearts of those who ad
mire that which is pure and good. If
she is a farm-reared wr man, she D•;s
the manners and exhibits the behavior
common to all women of her day and
generation who have grown to wo
manhood on farms and married far
mers.
farmer’s
Good Woman I Mr. Sutherland
Laid to Rest! Dies in Carolina
Miss McLarty
Entertains Club
A pall of sadness was cast over the The
neighborhood in which she resided Suthe
when the death of Mrs. Ollie Wade, Long,
daughter of Mr. A. S. Talley. ! death
Mrs. Wade was in her 23rd year. S. C.,
She leaves a husband and two child- 20th.
ren, her parents, two sister
host of friends to mourn h
which will be keenly felt, she being
a clever neighbor and a gpod chris-
Mr. G. W.
of his
nville,
many friend:
and, brother of Mr
vill be grieved to leai
which occured in G
Tuesday morning, Septembe
Mrs. Long was at his bedsuli
and a when the end came.
loss, j
BALL-DR1GGER
The Young People’s Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist church met at
the home of Miss Inez McLarty on
last Monday evening. After the
usual business meeting an interesting
program was rendered and games
were indulged in after
and cake was served.
vhich
SYSTEM IN READING
New Club
Organized
When we think of thi
wife wo think of a woman,
of the human family with
ality of varying power and a real j
helpmate to the man to whom she
is married. We think of her as a good | Are You
mother, doing well what falls to her
lot and working out a destiny of
! which those she leaves behind need
The St. Cecilia club organized last j 110 be ashamed. We think ol her as
Friday evening by Miss Adams at I who strives for the better things
the home of Mrs. N. M. Hawley, with in life and trics to lu ‘'P th ° se ai,out
the following members: Sarah Peace, I der rc:lcd them. And wove seen
Mary Vansant, Opal Giles, Blanche | mighty few exceptions to the farmer’s
Edwards, Lucilc Duncan, Buena Ha- j wife we ’ re tr y in K picture.
Thomas J. Driggers, of Atlanta,
uneral occured at Mt. Pisjah and Miss Martha Ball, of Hapeville,
conducted by Revs. Sinor and motored over to Douglasville on the
it tended by an unusually large afternoon of the 18th and were
•rowd. The bereaved ones have the quietly manned at the parsonage by
leepest sympathy of all. Rev. \\ H. Clark.
tian v
The
Moral
Meek,
gin, Winnie Bell House, Alamarine
Watkins, Nell Giles, Evelyn Hatchett,]
Eula Evans, Nell House, Ellen Winn.!
Opal Giles was elected president,;
Blanche Edwards. Vice-president, and ,
Nell Giles, Secretary.
Winnie Bell House, Buena Hagin,
and Ellean Winn will act as program
committee for the first session.
Attention
Interested?! Odd Fellows
Everybody interested in United All members of Douglasville Lodge
Daughters of America, or-any phase No. 1(>2 are requested to be at their
of this work, come to the home of hall Monday night at 7:30 o clock,
Mrs. JL M. Stewart Thursday after- when there will be work in the first
noon at 3 o’clock, to re-org
BELLE OF NEW YORK
talk about a D. A. R. movement too.
Select Pictures offers “The Belle of :Ai i q , i
New York,” with Marion Davies, to I lT.il Cl v^tTl-lCK
the Kozytorium Theatre on Friday,
September 24th. “The Belle of New
York” is the story of Violet Gray,
daughter of Amos Gray, the inventor,
By Automobile
! Kenu
1 be fi
“Good-Better-Best” was selected as and °f Jack Bronson, son of William
the motto. The object of the organi
zation is to arouse more interest in
musical lines.
The meetings
each month at th
ferent members,
act as director.
On last Tuesday afternoon Estelle, happii
Bronson, one of the richest men in the the little daughter of Buddy Wortham,
Middle West. Bronson steals an in-
»ss than to
nd prosper?
ious if not fatal accident. It seems when it is crowded
came near being the victim of a ser- ad bent 011 3°°d fdl
ious if not fatal accident. It seems
was knocked down but not hurt, doubt
less due to the fact that the truck
was going at a moderate rate of
speed.
PEACHES IN SEPTEMBER
! vention which Gray has spent his
ill be held twice whole life perfecting and causes his
homes of the dif- death. Violet goes to the city, where
Miss Adams will i she is employed as a singer in a caba-
V ret. She is called the belle of New
l York. She later meets and falls in
Love with Jack, ignorant of the fact
that he is the son of Bronson. When
she is informed who her lover is she
joins the Salvation Army. She again
meets Jack and having pardoned his Mr. Elmer Champion of the lower j
father she makes him happy by part of Crawford county is not only
promising to be his wife. j Champion by name, but is the unchal
lenged champion late peach grower
of this section. Mr. Champion sold in
Fort Valley this week, a hundred
Rrirurc 'T'T bushels or more of a late variety of
.DllUgO VyClilO cling . stone peaches that is of excel
lent quality for perserving and can
ning. A number of crates of these
have been shipped. The peach is of
1 / season was muugut m uy x»x. xn. an un _ name d variety, but Mr. Cham-
Dorothy -Dunccin * Brown, a tenant on A. A. Fowler’s ion is thinking of naming them
^ . -p. j farm. It was bought by Selman Bros.| « The champion Late.” He is prepar-
VjrlVGS JL cirtV at 33 cents - Another bale was ] j n g to plant a large acreage of this
brought in from Paulding, but no variety next spring.—Leader Tribune.
The man who works and lives sys
tematically gets the most out of lib
no doubt about that. Nothing has yet
been discovered that helps humanity
on its way as much as this thing we
call system. And just as system can
be used to advantage in most every
thing we do, so it can be applied *o
newspaper reading.
The Douglasville man who reads his
paper systematically, page by page,
and who is not content to merely
glance at the headlines or matter
printed in bold-face type, gets the
most for the money he has invested
in reading matter. Therefore, read
your paper with attention, thinking
as you read, and it will enable you to
talk ably and convincingly on all im
portant topics. The student of the
newspaper is an educated man be
fore he has studied them long, for
they are a printed university and
have far broader and more compre
hensive courses than any college can
possibly have. Do not skip from page
b pleasure. What spirit could | to P“*«> ™ lum " t0 column - ”|
r and what could produce more i >’° u '»“? the n ' !W " 111 « ^ral |
,e DoufLville riuy- Rl;ad - voul ' newspaper thor-
What a delight 1 °ug'>'ly and attentively. Read every ;
ith local people ! article to the end. That will consume j
ittle time, and after a few week’s j
ik h reading you will be amazed'
ie benefits you have derived,
i man, however rich, could afford,
•arch for himself the information]
W. C.
H. G.
Pollard, N. G;
HALL, Rec-Sec.
BOOSTING THE HOME TOWN
Boosting the old home town is a
Douglasville was wrought up t»
a fever of heat last Sunday, owing to
the acts of two joy riders who had im
bibed too freely of firewater, causing
them to forget the precepts taught
them at mother’s knee, which if re
membered, would have kept them out
of trouble, to say nothing of the em
barrassment of the ladies, whom theV
offended without cause cr provo
cation.
At the time above mentioned, Mrs.
Paul D. Selman and daughters Misses
P-i Mne and Bessie Joe, were out in
‘heir car going west for a ride., and
when near the home of Dr. Whitley
they saw another car coming from the
i.ppisite direction, who wfved them
down. The ladies thinking their as
sistance was needed promptly slowed
up and were chagrined and morti
fied when one of the men in the car
began abusing them in language of
the most violent kind, after which the
men put their car to its full limit
and came through town at a terrific
speed. Mrs. Selman immediately re
turned to the city and notified her
husband of the occurence, with the
result that a car load of men ^ook
after the cowardly blackguards. At
Austell several shots were fired at
them without result, but they were
i finally run down and captured at the
ream i bridge beyond Austell.
They gave their names as W. A. Hel
ton and Clyde Hood, of Fulton county,
and were landed in jail, but afterward
made $500 bonds, and the grand jury,
which is now in session, will do the
rest.
The act of these men is condemned
'■\ by all as low down and cowardly, and
they will be taught that an insult to
the fair women of our town will net
be. tolerated, but resented to the full
extent of the law.
Gone to
His Reward
Mr. J. P. Dodson and wife went to
Hapeville Wednesday, where he was
called to attend the funeral of his
uncle, Rev. B. F. Dodson, aged 72
years of age, and an aged and beloved
minister of the Methodist church.
Rev. W. H. Clark of this city, con
ducted the funeral exercises.
Meeting of
City Council
hip, brighten
ing up the place with legitimate pleas
ure and business. Painting up and
cleaning up old buildings, remodeling
others, creating new business, are all
Met
night.
measun
the
Us in the
Id home
jour
Misses Westmore=
land Entertain
Messrs. Tuck Upshaw, Tom Stewart,
Jack Duncan, Roy McGouirk and Hen
ley Hutcheson, were guests at a
dinner-dance party given the Misses
Westmoreland at Austell last Wednes
day afternoon.
First Bale
The first bale of cotton of this
season was brought in by M. N.
y of life through j that the newspapers place before the
j eye. Business men depend upon it,
shade trees, flower for they are more of a business nec-j
store windows and ; essity than the telephone or telegraph,
that is what makes They are also a necessity to you, who.
tranger who comes ever you may be. But unless you
More public wells! read them,through and know what is
in them you get only half the value
! of them that you would otherwise
Little Miss Dorothy Duncan enter
tained quite a number of *i*r little
friends at a birthday party Tuesday
afternoon. The house w&3 artisti
cally decorated in pink and white. The
dining table had the pink ribbons
hanging from the chandolier, the
center piece was a white cake with
nine pink candles on it. Many games
were played. Virginia and Dorothy
were beautifully dressed in dnk or
gandie. The color motifs ’’S PHAilSfl
out in the dainty re r
cream, cakes and fr
sale was made.
CARD OF THANKS
Words cannot express our appre
ciation of each act of kindness shown
us by our friends and neighbors dur
ing the sickness and death of our
dear wife, mother, daughter and sis- At the last meeting
ter. *Ve also wish to thank you for council an ordinance was passed mak
the lovely floral offerings. May God i ing it a misdemeanor to drive a cut-
ble&s each one of\ you is our prayer.
Better street?
beds, attractive
everybody bu,v
a hit with the
within our gate
or drinking fountains, fewer stray
dogs roaming the streets, sidewalks
that do not stand from an inch to a
foot deep in water following every
ra in—any town can have these things
and can keep them forever if it so
wills. Such things serve to bring
trade from a distance,' because it is
human nature to want to visit a clean,
up-to-date, hustling town. And we all
benefit bv every dollar spent here,
whether it’ falls directly into our
hands or not. We will come into our
share of it in th*
trade, so why not invite it here?
The slowest way to get anythin
regular session Monday
Among the most important
: passed were the following:
Resolution on taxation adopted.
Rates same as last ypar.
Marshal ordered to advertise in
Sentinel against all unneccessary
automobile noises.
Sanitary committee ordered to look
after sanitary condition of severs.
A parking ordinance for cars will
be offered at next meeting.
SKIRTS LONGER
Remembered
The Sick Ones
Important to ./
Auto Owners done is to wait for someone else to j t ~ im ' c j t)
Mr. J. M. Baker and sister, Mrs.
Fannie Suttles, and Mrs. M. L. Baker,
of Ben Hill, visited B. P. Wallace and
his sister, Mrs. N. O. Harbin, of
Chapel Hill, last Saturday. They
usual channels of j brought ice cream, cakes jellies and
all kinds of fruits and good things! ten inches of the ground,
to eat. Mr. Wallace and Mrs. Harbin | gjjk stocking,
both have been in ill health for some-
Chicago—Srreet sights are to be
different this winter—a matter of a
few inches.
According to members of the Fash
ion Art League, an organization com
posed of fashionable dressmakers, wo
men’s skirts are to be at least two
inches longer this winter.
When the fashion show is staged
here Septmbr 15, models will display
skirts which reach to within nine and
Mis. W. C. M. Hording anci children.
J. J. JohnstoFi and family.
C. Harding i*nd children.
i start doing it. The surest way to occasion.
' get the improvements we need, and
the city ought to have, right here in the old
home town is to -start on our own
can hot you, life the
;atly enjoyed the
SUPERIOR COURT
Convened Monday with Judge Irwin
out open in the town limits. The premis?s ' Yon : ‘ an ,,CI y( ‘ u ‘ mc u,c on the bench and Col. Hutcheson rep-
town marshal was also instructed to other fellow wiH n uickl y fal1 m llne - resenting the state. Large crowds in
rigidly enforce the law in all cases. * And when we’re pulling all together town all week, and the court docket
By orderof—Mayor and Council. ' no town on earth can beat us. is being cleared with rapidity.
getting so com
mon that if you want to be in style
heavy woolen stockings will be the
thing, dressmakers say.
There will be little difference in
gowns. One daring gown to be ex
hibited will show a bare back.
Millinery will undergo a change.
Hats of velvet in brown and Copeh*
hagen blue will be fashionable.