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DOUG*-AS COUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME XVI.
LOLGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA Friday uitohkr 29. 192,1.
NUMBERjo
Still Hale and Hearty
and Able to Do Good
Day’s Work
We were told way back when we were
3 kid, that Methuselah was the oldest
man of his day and time, and as we
came on up to manhood we were told of
ethers, but in his rambles last Saturday,
the Sentinel’s “Irishman’’ opines he ran
across an ebony hued son of Ham who
has them all “skinned” on longevity and
activity*
His name is “Rev.” Iker, of Heflin,
Ala., who informs us that he was horn
in Columbus, Ga., January 4. 18I1, thus
making him 111 years old. His father
reached the age of I05 years and his
mother 106 years, both of whom died
only a few years ago.
The colored brother doubtless does
not think matrimony a failure, having
been married five times, two arc dead,
and of the other three he seemed reluct
ant to speak- He is the father of thir
teen children, has twenty-two grand
children and nine great grandchildren.
He claims he has been a member in
good standing of the colored Missionary
Baptist church seventy-seven years, fiftv-
#even of which he has been “sky pilot”
to many flocks, and says he is still point
ing sinners to the straight and narrow
path.
Rev. Iker claims to have touched no
liquor or taken any medicine for fifty-
seven years and his healthly looking con
dition* bears out this statement. His
vision is clear, his mental and physical
condition are good; as according to his
own ■ statement, during four and a half
days of last week he picked thirteen
hundred and eighty seven pounds of
cotton.
When asked as to the cause of the
success of his longevity, the venerable
eld man replied: “By living right and
doing right.’’
What an object lesson in r. few words,
in the life of this aged old colored man,
who, owing to his position in life, was
denied many advantages which others
kave had showered upon them, while in
his darkened pathway he has had but
one light to guide him—that of the cross
—and although having passed the age
allotted to man he still plods on in an
humble wav, but soon his rrials wi'l lie
over, when he will enter ikai city no.
made of hands and where there is list
eternal for all who pr>v; faithful to the
end.
Officers Capture
Blockade Still
Revenue officers went out on a raid
Friday night and were rewarded by cap
turing a well equipped still of 30-gallon
capacity, on the Douglas-Paulding coun
ty line. The operators were not “at
home” when their visitors came, hence
madp their escape.
MRS. BUD THOMPSON
The death of this most estimable lady,
which occurred at her home near Flint
Hill, cast a pang of sorrow in Douglas-
ville. where the lady was widely con
nected with some of our best families.
Mrs. Thompson was in the thirty-
second year of her age, ami is survived
by a husband and two small children.
The funeral was held at Flint Hill Mon
day, and was largely attended.
MRS. HENSON
STAND BY P8I- UPSHAW WARNS OF
Strong Appeal From
Democratic Execu=
tive Committee
A good and lovable woman died at
her home in the Flint Hill community
Sunday. She was 26 years of age, and
is survived by a husband and two child
ren. 'Fhe funeral occurred at Flint Hill
church Monday and was largely attend
ed.
Lois Mill
Resumes Work
Lois Mills, which shut down a portion
of last week to install a new boiler,
and give the mill an overhauling, re
sumed work Momlav.
Halloween
Entertainment
A beautiful Halloween party was that
at which Mrs. R. IS. Hamilton enter
tained the Matrons club. The whole
house Was de- o Mtcd in a profusion of
autumn foliage and flowers, with grin
ning Jack-o-lanterns, witches, black cats
and skeletons placed at intervals. A
large pumpkin cut to represent a Jack-o-
luntern, was in the center of each table.
The place cards were in Halloween de
signs and the favors were little plates
filled with salted peanuts. After a busi
ness meeting, of which the club members
are planning to put a hedge around the
high school, progressive rook was en
joyed for some time. A delicious and
appetizing salad course and hot coffee
was served.
The club will meet next with Mrs.
Sydney E. Johnston.
'Fhe St. Cecelia Music Club will en
tertain at a Halloween Carnival Friday
evening. Oct. 29, 7:30, at school audi
torium. .
A delightful program will he free,
after which
take place.
for five and ten cents you can view the
heads of Blu Beard. Infant Phenomtnan
Chamber of Horrors, etc., and receive all
kinds of thrills. Everybodv invited.
Proceeds to buy furnishings for music
studio.
, ELLEN WINN. Reporter.
If somebody :s thinking evil about you
when you know you have done the best) I
,ou could, why worry? | Hail, fellow Spooks! You are here*
The opinion of outsiders may effect, by notified that you have been elected j ^ 1C , ^ n ’ ,e ^ States higher than
reputation among those who know j ( i c I e prate to fhe National Convention of
Hunter Kills
Fox Squirrel
Mir. W. W- Johnston, the well-known
rural carrier, went hunting last Friday,
and encountered and killed a piece of
game he was not looking for hut was
glad to get a shot at. It was a fox.
squirrel, and a variety seldom found in
this section- After the hunt. Mr. Johns
ton skinned the animal, and filling the
hide with sawdust, he brought it to town,
which created much interest, many of the
onlookers never having seen one before.
To every. Voter in Douglas CoutPy:
'Fhe Lincoln-Goree-Martin Republi
cans in this county and the Fifth Con
gressional district are resorting to the
same old Republican scheme of trying
to catch white Democrats off their guard
in the election on November 2nd. They
are making the argument that we ought
to have two political parties in the South,
while at the same time they insult every
self-respecting white man in the South
by placing a negro at the head of the
Republican party in Georgia.
John W. Martin, the Republican can
didate in this District, voted for Henry
Lincoln Johnson, the negro politician, for
Republican National Committeeman in
Georgia, against a prominent white man,
who was a candidate.
If Martin were elected under a Repub
lican administration he and this negro,
Johnson, whom he helped into office,
would dish out the Republican patronage
in our State- Negro office-holders would
defy the ideals of Southern white men.
and under such a combination of Repub
lican hacking and negro voting some of
your own county offices would he in
danger.
The fact that over two thousand ne
groes have been registered by the Re
publicans in Fulton county alone, and
that they are organizing negroes in other
counties of the district, shows how neces
sary it is for every white man who voted
in the white primary of September 8th,
to go to the polls and ca^sl his vole for-
the regular Democratic nominee.
Every nominee won fairlv—for U. S.
Senate, for Governor, for Congress, for
the Legislature, and all County Officers.
Let every red-hlooded white man
stand by his party pledges, vote the
straight white man’s ticket.
DOUGLAS CO. DEM. LX. COM.
THE FLOOD IS ON
There is genuine cause for alarm in
reports from New York that never be
fore in America’s history has there hecn
such a flood of immigration as at this
time. Of course we need not be alarmed
so long as the new arrivals arc coming
for the purpose of establishing a home,
honoring the laws of the land and living
as good and upright citizens. We wel
come that kind, and are mindful of the
fact that we arc all here as the result
of our ancestors having migrated to this
country. Rut the reports are to fhe ef
fect that a large per cent of the immi
grants than ever before are of the un
desirable class, and are merely coming
over because they have heard money is
plentiful here and a man doesn’t need to
do very much work to get it.
At present, of course, these etnmigranfs
are stopping in the cities. Eventually,
however, they must spread to towns like
Douglasville and it will he up to u
Shows That John Martin, Re
publican Candidate for Con
gress, Voted for Negro
Instead White Man
The Republican candidate for Con
gress in the Fifth District is spending
Republican motify to scatter statements
about my posiiou on several public ques-
ions which everybody who heard me, in
my campaign speeches, before my nomi
nation, !n • the Democratic primary,
knows to be untrue.
I stand for nothing, and will stand for
nothing in Congress in our national or
international
fiee one inc 1
Automobile
Damaged Here
IN AUTO WRECK
A lady and gentleman from Atlanta,
driving a Buick car, met with a mishap
at the depot Monday. In attempting to
cross the track a front wheel hung in a
rail, causing the front of the car to
skid, striking the iron bumper of • box
car, badly damaging the radiator and
hood of the automobile.
IS THE FARMER GETTING RICH?
Many people, who judge by the
amount they pay for vegetables and gar
den truck imagine the farmer is fast
waxing rich. And yet we see in a re
port from the Department of Agriculture
that the average return on farm invest
ments in the past five years has only
lations, that will sneri-j increased from 4 to 7 per cent, and that
r one atom of American f ew farmers made over $500 a year
vereigntv or independence. I above the things the farm furnished to-
But the thing which comes closest to, war ,| t j ie family living,
homes and our happiness here in the We sit here in Douglasville and re
flect on the high prices the farmer gets
for his products, and never stop 10 con
sider the high price he has to pay for
whatever he buys. We also forget that
One Killed, Another
Seriously Injured
Going to Fair
South is the League which John W*
Martin stands for—a political league
with negroes to hold public office in
Georgia.
According to the voluntary testimony 1 labor is scarce and that he n*is to paj
of Mr. D. (, . Cole, of Marietta, formerly, f WO an( j tliree times as much for help
as he did five years ago. And wc
Altai
Assistant Postinaste
was present when the vote was taken,
MARTIN voted for HENRY LINCOLN
JOHNSTON, a negro, instead of Sena
tor Rosenc Pickett, a white man, to he
the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COM
MITTEEMAN for GEORGIA! 'The
Republicans have already introduced a
Bill to cut down Southern representation
in Congress, because of our White Pri
mary. When that fight comes on in
volving the ideals and tlie very safety
of our Southern civilization, how would
it look to have the greatest district in
the South represented by a man who
would walk into Congress, as it were,
on the arm of a Georgia Negro, and
rk and
for (i
corgi
cverlaf
white
n auction , of spook, will | l,el P s!f( lllc fain K rnm •!'« chaff,
witch, fortune teller, and
NO USE TO WORRY
humiliation? How c
contribute to such a scene?
The man who votes for MARTIN,
who worked for a Negro in preference to
a white man,. simply gets in the same
political Ted with. HENRY LINCOLN
J('»'! X.'* qjjii ;<'.d other prospective negro
officials. 1 ,
“It is purely a matter of taste, as the
man said when lie kissed the cow,” hut
tli,Tt kind of taste does not suit me. And
it will not >uit the Anglo-Saxon manhood
of the Fifth District of Georgia.
Whatever a man may think about
other ouest ions, the question of negro
office-holders in Georgia, for which
JOHN W. MARTIN stands, comes
closer to us than anything else right now.
The effort to bring hack such devilment
and all the trouble that would come
from it, ought to he so strongly rebuked
that it could never be attempted again.
The Republicans are organizing negroes
in every county. Let every white man
who has red blood in his veins go to the
polls and rebuke this thing if lie has to
crawl on. election day.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW,
Democratic Nominee
Fifth Congression District.
don’t seem to consider that he has to
buy clothing and shoes for himself anil
family, and that lie pays the increased
price for these the same as the balance
of
What a man makes out of farming is
doubtless as variable as what a Merch
ant or manufacturer makes out of his
business. Tt all depends on the man.
Farming as well as
calls for executive
As the result of a collision between a
Fairhurn-College IJark street car and aa
automobile in which four young mea
were riding on the Fairhurn road be
tween Red Oak and College Park Mon
day morning, Wyatt Morris, 2i years
old, Winston, Gu. t r is dead; Grady Capps
also of Winston, is at the Lingo hospital,
where the victims were rushed after the
accident, baiPy injured; Frank Daven
port and Robert Camp, of W.hitesburg,
were also injured, but left the hospital
during the day.
Morris died shortly after reaching the
hospital. Capps, it is believed, will re
cover. It is understood that the young
men were on their way to the South
eastern fair. The automobile was over
turned on the car tracks and carried
forty feet. •
It was found that one of Morris’ legs
had hecn broken, his jawbone broken in
three places and that lie was suffering
from head contusions. Capps suffered a
had scalp wound, in addition to con
tusions and lacerations.
Camp suffered an injured leg, in ad
dition to a severe shock. Both Camp
and Davenport received had scalp
wounds and lacerations. 'They left for
their homes despite pdvice at the hospital
other business,j that the> should remain in their beds,
ability and fore-. The above news item from 'Tuesday’s
these do not win when^ Atlanta Constitution received more than
thought, and
the weather isn’t right. When land
lords in town and city are demanding
25 per cent interest on their investment
in property, there should he no kick if
the farmer asks seven per cent on his.
ng gI a r
populai
; Wyatt Mor-
I i veil quite
itli all whom
/ J)AY OF RECKONING
he came in .
Only last
with friends
c-d they were
Iv salutation
Saturday he was mingling
here , none of whom iiream-
giving him their last earth-
ami hand clasp, hut alas!
Be Kind to
The Teacher
Be fair and just to the teacher of your
really going to have to children. Remember that the teacher in
Iv to prepare for future
emergencies, and the best way is by in
culcating a still deeper love of country
and a still greater love of home in our
children now in school. They arc the
ones who
wrestle with the problem. And we owe
it to them to point out to them now that
tlierre is no room in this community for
the man who cannot take a solemn oath
to lay down his life if necessarv for his
home and country—the man who holds
other
nation on the face of the earth. Talk
patriotism, teach it in. fhe schools and
1 pessimistic wav.
ay of reckoning."
vlien' we discuss
e been enjoying
it was too true, and those who once jol
lied him now mourn him, and their grief
come across a , .
, 1 i is well nigh uncontrolable, despite die
woman who dc-| ...
injunction “that all that is horn must die.”
The deceased was a son of the late
;Mr.yv,l Morris, and is survived by an
aged mother, three sisters, Mrs. Corinne
Hudson, Miss Willie Morris and Mrs.
Annie Rowland, and a half brother, Mr.
Ralph Morris, of this city, and Ed* of
Charleston, S. C. f
The remaines arrived here Tuesday
morning and were taken to the mime of
Mr. Ralph Morris, where the funeral
was belli in the afternoon, the interment
being in the city cemetery .
The sympathy of the Sentinel and our
entire community are extended to t*»e be
reaved ones in this, the darkest hour of
all life’s trials and as a halm for theit
bleeding hearts point to them the martyr
of Calvary, who doetli all things well and
for the best, and what now seems to them
a pang, at the last day will be a ray of
I sunshine.
The other unfortunate victims of the
rident have hosts of friends here who
peedy recovery.
eloping into true
womanhood vour
l.iterial
well
that
between yo
As long
proves you
you to worry, whatever me
opinion of men. When you
doubt your own rectitude, it i
let your conscience bother yo
Jess of whatever praise may be bestowed
upon you bv others.—Covington News•
/ be the
yourself,
regard-
hut vour character should stand , , TT , ... , . T ,i
vm./.friends ami all slander. I H,d " Ha,ls ' ’ 6 W ° ndr0W Avem "' H j P™“h h In "<e pulpit- That is
• o.. the weather he fair, come in full rc-
vour own, conscience ap-
actions there is no use for galia of sheet and pillow case. Your
password is “Cabbage.” Don’t forget it,
divulge it, under penalty of expulsion.
To he given by eleventh grade.
FLORENCE HUTCHESON,
High Spooketv-Spook
REDUCED RATES
A little girl who was in the habit of
bringing ten cents to Sunday School,
heard the superintendent say that each
child in her department had been ap
portioned six cents a Sunday for the
centenary. Upon reaching home she ran
to her mother and said: “Mother. Mr.
M. says we needn’t bring hut six cents
to Sunday school now- You know, that’s
five cents for Sunday school and the war
tax.—Zion's Herald.
"IF YOU'VE GOT A JOB, KEEP I/T"
This is the advice tendered by the
heads of various employment agencies
to the wage earner and salaried man of
Chicago. It is the product of new labor
conditions in the Chicago district—con
ditions which already have produced a
surplus of job hunters and which threat
en to bring about unemployment on a
large scale before the end of the winter.
—Moultrie Observer.
the
surest weapon we have against a class of
citizens we cannot hope to escape so long
as our immigration laws continue as
lax as they are at present.
LOIS MILLS ITEMS
T have not seen anything from Lois
Mills in some time, so will give a fen*
items.
The mill has been running 55 hours
a week, hut started up Monday, Oct 24
on full time, 60 hours a week.
The little infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Will Shedd has been very ill. hut is
better at this writing.
Mrs. | P. Head, who was operated on
last Sunday, is recovering rapidly. We
hope to see her up again soon.
the public schools
portant factor
rnd useful rna
child.
The child n
which is made
require all of
of the teacher.
It is mosj; important work, involving
great respr/snibility, much tact and clear
judgement If your childd complains of
the teacher, remember that it is the com
plaint of a child who does not know what
is best. Youth is impatient under re
straint and often complains without jusst
cause.
We are not claiming perfection for
school teachers, and condemning all
children, but we know that the teacher
is nearly always right, and that they
have only the best interest r,f the pupil at
heart
Be fair to the teacher and she will he
kind to your children.—-Jo nos County,
News.
GINNERS REPORT
Now and then yc
Douglasville man nr
lights in tilling \oil. I
that There, must ,he a
He shakes his head
tly* prosperity we h
and assures us that we will “have to pay
for it.”
He is like the man who can’t enjoy the
sunshine for thinking that it is going to
rain. lie admits that the weather for
the most part has been ideal, but he
shrugs Itis shoulders when he thinks of
what is going to come upon us in the
way of weather to make up for it.
But there is this difference between
prosperity and weather. 'The one is
largely of our own making—we can in
no wise control the other. It is reason
ably certain that we shall not always
enjoy our present advantages, that times
change from year to year, or from
period to period. Harvests are not al
ways the same and accidents happen
the best regulated nations. Trades and
commerce have a way of being influefic-|
cd tomorrow by what is going on today* I ^ or t * ,cm
So, while not allowing ourselves to be
(influenced by the heait-shaking pessi- j A ppj-
mist, it is well that we prepare as best! X V1 1 W L
we can for anything in the way of dis
aster that may follow*, It is only the
part of common sense that we prevent
work while there i/wnrk to he done, and J 0n last Tuesda y m0 "> in *. a P i ‘ iaM «
that wc save something from our daily; ai 8 ht was seen nn ">« streets of our
I town, in the person of an old man, bent
with age, apparently blind, and whose
I disheveled gray locks and general ap
pearance betokened hard luck.
Tie came from Villa Rica, and claimed
to have been a former resident of Pauld-
I ing county, and was seeking to get ad
mission to our poor farm,- but being a
, non resident, his request could not be
: granted.
aiu *j Some one finally took him to the
acts of .kindness shown us at the death j country, where he hoped to find refuge
in the home of a friend of by-gone days.
Here was an object lesson for our rising
Lesson for Boys
ea rnings.
In other words, it’s a good idea t
smile and believe tomorrow is going t
he brighter than today—arid yet it i
S* t to he prepared in the event it docsn
happen to he.
CARD OF THANKS
For the many words of consolntic
and burial of our .son and brother, wc
have not words to express our apprecia
tion, , and if at any time we can serve
those who came to our aid we are you-
to command. May God bless von all
MRS. E. M. MORRIS AND FAMILY
1 here were 1.483 bn
ginned in Douglas county
of 1920, prior to October 1
with 5,^03 hales ginned 1
1919-
generation and it was this:
In your robust days lay aside a fevr
shekels, so that when adversity comes,
you will not he caught in the road with
this aged old man was the idol of a pray-
nothing but the earth for a bed and the
sky for a cover.
Who knows but that at some time
ing mother, who, when he reached man
hood, expected great things of her boyfr
But time alone, plans our destiny, and
it’s up to us to prepare a way with which
Better to keep the wolf from the door while
rent here, and implicit faith in Him who
you. marks e’en the sparrow’s fall, insurer}
Now, Friend Farmer, sow some wheat
and if you don’t starve to death during
the winter, plant plenty of food crops.
For the next crop rent land for the
of cotton j fourth of the crop or ttot at ;
on the crop; quit farming than to promise
is compared 1 while the boll weevils stay
October 18. i Next year will he worse than this year, j us the best home of all when life’s toiU
> I —Social Circle New Era. arc ended.