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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL
VOLUME XVI.
UU.GLAS COUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17. 19*0.
NUMBER 37.
Mis
sionary Society
For Ensuing Year and
Enjoy Sumptuous
Oyster Supper
On last Thursday .night was held the
annual election of our fire fighters. All
of the old officers were, re-elected. They
were J. W. House, chief; J. P. Dodson
and P. H. McGouirk, captains; J. A.
Enterkin,- secretary and treasurer.
..After the routine business the boys
repaired to the Little Gem Cafe, where
they were served an excellent oyster sup
per.
Douglasville is proud of her fire lad
dies, who are composed of the best man
hood of our city. And it’s mainly due
The Woman’s Missionary Society of
the Methodist church ■■met with Mrs. H.
F. Burton Tuesday afternoon. The pro
gram was prepared bv the superintendent
of Social Service, which was as follows:
Song—"Stand Up For Jesus.’’
Bible Lesson—"Christ the Real Solution!
of the World’s Needs"—Mrs T. A. Jack- !
Prayer—Mrs. B. F. Burton.
Topic—“The Child’s New; Day
D. S. Strickland.
Leaflet—“The Child”—Mrs. J. T. Dun-
After the program the meeing was
turned over to business and the election
of officers. The president gave a short
talk\thanking the officers for their co
operation and loyalty to her during the
past year. The officers for the new year
arc: President, Mrs. G. T. McLarty;
Vice President, Mrs. Glenn Dorris; Supt.
to their effcency and promptness to an- j Noting Ptople, Mrs.XN. M. Hawley;
swer alarms that the losses by fire re- 1 Sup. of Children, Mrs. W. II. Clark;
main so low in our city, and while only Supt. of Publicity, Mrs. F. M. Stewart;
a hose company they combat the flames ; Supt. of Social Service, Mrs. B. I*. Bur-
with a dexterity not excelled by much j * on J Supt. Supplies, Mrs. J. T- Duncan;
larger and better equipped fire depart- Corresponding Sec. & I teas., Mrs. 1. A.
Bients than ours. faekson; Local I reas>, Mrs. Mollie
PEAR TREE ROAD
| Jackson; Local Ti
R cording Sec-
Agent for Miss
i Giles.
Mr
I). S. Str
Mi
'klaiul;
. J. L.
is regula
church
Brother Gilland filled
pointment at Sweetwatc
urday and Sunday.
What do you think ? There wa
out hunting Sunday afternoon
dogs barking.
T. W. Hollis and H. C. Walker went
to Douglasville Monday.
Well the farming man is left unless
he finds a man that will be like the
Judge was a few days ago. He had
rented a farm the first of the year to a
man and family who worked it very
hard and only made two bales of coton
And the man bought two mules and his
guano from he Judge. This fall he
could’nt pay either of them and the good
Christian Judge gave him what Jie owed
him and told him that he was not obli
gated to him in any way.
The man that takes everything the farm
mer makes and also his hogs and cows
and then leaves him and his family to
etarve he is a land lord hog, and heaven
3s on earth with him, God does’nt want a
rogue and a thief in heaven.
Our hostess who is always an adapt at
ntertaining, served us with hot chocolate
ml wafers. Mrs. Glenn Dorris closed
! the meeting with a prayer that we might
someone. |>c drawn closer together as a society and
ind had do better work for the next year.
Lauded by Pastor Who
Was Given Pound
ing by Citizens
S Douglasville, Ga— One of our good.
| Methodist habits is to welcome the ne\y;
pastor with a good warm meal and a*
I well stocked pantry. Such a reeptiot).
always makes the incoming preacher-
' feel at home and is a fitting introduction,
to the closer and more spiritual relation-!
ships that are to exist between him and
these same people.
But when a pastor is returned to a
charge and the same kind of reception
greets him it means even more than the
other. The personal element has entered
into the matter. He feels that there is
an appreciation of his own life and labors
among those whom he calls his own
people and it heartens him indeed!
What a pounding came upon the occu
pants of this ptrsonage two or three days
after the reading of the appointments!
All manner of good things to eat. cooked
and uncooked, till the dining table
groaned under the weight.
Words only poorly express our nppre-
Drives Thru Marietta
With Brandy and
Sheriff Gets It
, About seventy five gallons of brandy
were captured in a wagon driven by Bud
jV! u I key, who is said to live at Ellijay,
'Friday about noon, when Sheriff Swan
son came across the wagon on a road a
few miles out of Marrietta. The driver
was under the influence of the goods he
was carrying anil had stopped the wagon
by tlie side of the road and gone to sleep.
Sheriff Swanson had gone out in the
country to serve some legal
was returning when he di
brandy laden vehicle.
Mulkey had provided a
for the wagon and had store
and
bottom
Pastor Clark
Loses Father
Our entire community extends sympathy
to Rev. \V. H. C lark in the death of his
father, which occured in Augusta last
Thursday. Mr. Clark had been a sufferer
for quite a while, but be bore bis burden
without a murmur, like jhe true Christian
that he was.
Mr .Clark had reached his 76th year
and was one of the most highly respected
and best beloved citizens of Richmond
county. He was one of the gallant heroes
of the sixties.
He is survived by three sons Dr.
Edward Clark of Augusta; Rev. YV. II.
Clark, of Douglasville; and Dr. S'. H.
Lillian Clark of Hepzibah; Mrs. D. E.
C’lark. of Entonton; two daughters, Miss
Mann. of, Baconton, and one sis
ter, Miss Ella Clark of Hepzibah.
for this
we pra;
xpre
hie
WAR HATH JAVAN
e he backbone of the
e art some land lords
■y thing that the far-
honest people wan to
But the ruler over
The farmers a
■world, but yet tin
that wil take evi
mer has. and the
pay their debts,
earth is the ruler over heaven and the
t crops, and the bible says, “ The earth and
t the fullness thereof belong to the lord,”
and the Judge was a Christian man and
fie is working for a home beyond *thc
skyes- -The man that takes all is working
for a home where be won’nt need an
RET All. PRICES
Almost every day we encounter on the j
streets of Douglasville the man or woman j
who calls our attention to market quo- !
tations which show a decline, and who !
•want to know why retail prices do not 1
follow.
Retail prices do follow, in a majority
of instances, but the drop is never as J
rapid as in the wholesale markets. When |
the meat marker, for instance, fluctuates
a fraction of a cent or a few cents, the ;
retailer doesen’t lower his price immed- i
has postive assurance |
1 only temporary, and i
e-tore the price to its
vho have lowered the
It won’t down and it won’t stay quiet
when it is down—this old bugaboo about
our having war with Japan. We are
hearing a good deal of it just now, but
it is coming largely through fear, and
partly through politicians who have an
axe to grind.
There is a possibility of course,that we
are going to have some very serious
questions to settle within the-next few
months questions involving our relations
with both Japan and Mexico. But we do
uot believe, and we feel Douglasville
citizens who are watching events closely
will bear us out, that Japan is as anxious
to become involved it; trouble with the
United States as a few polititions and
the jingo press would have us believe.
In fact, since she had an opportunity in
the world war to get a slight idea of what
the world war o get a slight idea of what
we can do, Japan is more determined
now than ever to look before she leaps.
At the same time we are waiting to
see what steps the new president of
Mexico will take to restore friendship
between his country and our own. And
we recognize, too, that in this instance
moneyed interests, instead of politicians,
are largely responsible for the strained
relations which exist between the two
countries. But somehow we can’t bring
ourselves to feel that either Japan
Mexico arc going to be tricked into
trouble by a few men who are anxious
bring about war for what they can get
t of it. We know the Unite States
not “easy’’ enough to be led into such
is people and pledge ourselves to
of the largest possible service.
Rev. W. H. Clark,
•slyan Christian Advocat.
under this in tin cm
bottom the wagon w
dt r. 'Flic wagon is
searched as it pasei
and allowed to pass
The wagon which
mules, was driven
the. brandy Was pour
Mulkcy was placed
Cobb County Tim
Above
loaded
l the brandy
ive the false
itli fod-
e sewer and
minty jail.
VOW ELI. CHATTEL
GOOD SERMON
Rev. Reese, the new pastor for Doug
lasville circuit, spent Sunday in the city
and delivered one of the best sermons at
the Methodist Church heard here recently
and our people hope to have the pleasure
of hearing him again.
Indian Princess
Makes Good
Princess Oyopela with Miss Fannie
Wienstock, Violionist, .and Miss Gene
Burton gave an excellent enter
tainment at the auditorium Saturday night
to a large and well pleased audience.
From advance notices much was expected
of the Princess and she delivered the
goods in a pleasing and artistic manner,
and should she and her tallented assistants
ever visit us again they can rest assured
of a larger audience and warm reception.
THE GOSPEL OF GOOD SENSE
contend that preaching the truth
ml that benefits the whole public
: be overdone. And this is espec
true at a time when we are enter-
ye
be more
11s there arc going
of employment in
that
at any
up.
HELP AND HE HELPED
iately because
that the decli
he may have
old figure, 0
The wholesal
recentlv
The weekly newspapers of this country
are deserving of better support than they
are now receiving in many communities.
Some have not succeeded during the
vear just closing because of the policy,
y , and I or the lack of policy of their editors, but
to its j laying these aside and considering the
orrow. i ones run wholly in the interest of the
ed the 1 public we arc still confident that they
crying j have not had the square deal and the pat.
won’t ! run-age they were entitled to.
lot of The big daily paper will bring to one’s
obser- doorstep the news of the world as it is
in this I see through the spectales of its city or
They | telegraph editor, but it is the editor who
following the market changes closely I ives in the heatr of a community, in towns
when a decline warrante a retail | we’ll say about like Douglasville, who
is able to reflect the sentiment of the local
group. He alone is the interpreter of
events as they effect the home town and
the country immediatly surrounding it.
The local papers deserve better sup
port than they are now receiving. Dur
ing the war they had hard sledding—
most of them—and now they have a per
fect right to come to the citizens of thei
price of the
aloud that it is the retailer \vl
return the pre-war prices. In
instances this is correct, but ou
vation has been that the retailer
community are not of that strip
and
drop they act accordingly. In some cases
too, it means a loss of money, since the
article sacrificed was bought at a higher
price.
It is hard to place blame in its rightful
place during this period of re-adjustment,
when all markets are topsy turvey to a
certain extent. But the wise retailer is
the one who does -not ever-stock, so that,
since the armistice was signed. Jobs will
be scarcer, and there will be a greater
number of applicants for each one. Money
is not going to be as easy to get as it has
for the past two years and a dollar is
going to look bigger than it has for a
long time. For that reason we want to
again preach the gospel of good sense,
and that is, if youv’e a steady position,
stick to it and i fyou have a dollar you can
spare put it in the bank. IJon’i be tempted
to pack up and move elsewhere. If lie
job which tempts you is such a fine one,
someone in that locality would have it
already. If you haven’t acquired the
habit of saving, start the first week in
January anil put aside something each
week, if it is only a dollar. If you never
do more than this you’ll find at the close
of 1921 ha you’ve formed the best habit
you ever formed, the habit of saving.
There’s nothing hard about saving. The
secret is in making the start. There arc
vith bank accounts today who
dollar then there are men who
It a hundred or a thousand
Rev. Parrish filled his regular ap
pointment at Flat Rock Saturday, his text
being ith Chaper of Exodus, 13th verse
"Stand Still Anil See The Salvation Of
The Lord.”
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Payne have move’ll
from our section up near Pleasent Grove.
Mrs Lizzie Gardenr of Fairburn spent
the week end with her parents, Mr. and
Msr W. H Tyson.
Mr. Foster Wheatherton of Rome spent
Sunday with Miss Marjie Wallace-
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Brock moved in
our section last week from Douglas.
Friends of MrsTom Tyson are delighted
to know that she underwent a successful
operation at the Georgia Baptist H
pital. We are glad to report that she
duing^ nicely and hope she will return
hum"-'soon.
Mr. W. W. Wallace spent Tuesday ii
Carrollton.
T’he sugar boiling and cotton pick
ing given by Miss Essie Mayfield Friday
night was enjoyed by a large crowd.
Mrs. M. E. Edge and daughter, Mi
Vennie, spent Saturday in Villa Rica.
Mrs. Carrie Boyd and Miss Cleveland
Smallwood were the guest of their
ter, Mrs. Bass, near Little Vine Monday.
Mrs. IRetta Payne and Miss Mary
Exum silent Saturday afternoon will Mrs.
Exum spent Saturday ofternoon with Mrs.
W- H. Tyson.
Misses Bell Langston and Syble Mc-
iuirc gave Mrs. J. H. Couch a call Fri-
av afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. George Slay entertained
large number of their friends Satur-
ay night.
W. D. Tyson, Rodo Nowell and Miss
.lac Payne spent Sunday in Fairburn.
Miss Vindue Langston was the guest
f Miss Omar Williams of Hickory Level
/fond ay.
SOUTHERN WRECK
light wreck near Temple Sunday
train delays and much inconven-
the traveling public.
Convict Escapes
From Stockade
On last Sunday night, at the
Stockade, some excitement was in evi
dence when about “locking up” time it
was discovered that John Wilson, a
negro sent up from Harris County for
six years for burglary made his escape
by scaling the fence sourrounding the
prison. Search was at once instituted
for the convict and it is thought that he
will soon be captured.
Thief Kicks Off Tele=
phone Receiver and
Gets Into Trouble
On last Wdnesdny morning the night
operator of the local exchange at Mar*
riettn noticed that the signal on the
switch hoard connecting the Hodges Drug
store telephone was down, and whei
no one called for a number she thought
something must be wrong in the place
She immediately called the pol: •; lu-au-
quarters and told them about it.
Two policemen accompanied by several
other men, went down to the store and
when they saw a negro in the store
they sourrounded the building and then
two of them entered the store. The
negro ran up the stairs and leaped from
; a side window, which was about twenty
1 feet from the side walk he dropped a box
containing several bund red pennies, but
I got away with some silver.
Two of the men who were Rtationd
| near the front of the store shot at the
1 negro and he fell near the northwest
1 corner of the square. The men thought
I they stopped him, but he evidently only
.1 as soon as he could get up
faster than ever.
stumbled
LI Till A SPRINGS
Miss Emma Gardner, of Atlanta,
the week end guest of Mr. and Mri
H. Winn.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Richardson,
had
PORK CHOPS
as guests recently, Mr. and Mrs. Lamar
Adamson, of Elmwood.
Misses Mary Noble, Mary Lee Owen
and Beatrice Thigpen went to Atlanta
Saturday.
Mr. Seymour Keer, who is at Ga Tech,
spent several days of l^tst week with
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Maxwell.
Miss Gene Bass, of Atlanta, spent the
week end with home folks.
'File many friends of Mrs. Eugenia
Patterson, are glad to hear she is re
covering from her recent illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesbit Harper and fam
ily were Atlanta visitors Saturday.
'I’lie Womans Missionary Society met
1 Tuesday with Mrs. J. P. Pharr.
Tme last meeting of the "Round Dozen
UNCLE SAM liUNCOED
WASHINGTON, D. C. —Immediate
revision of the present method of dis
posing of surplus government stores to
prevent speculators from buying federal
property from another branch of the gov
ernment at a higher figure is recomended
in the annual report of Maj. Gen.
Chamberlain, inspector general of the
army, to the secretary of war, made pub
lic to-day. The necessity for the proposed
action is indicated by a recent investi
gation that disclosed that one department
of the government sold surplus cement
for $1.00 per ton to a civilian, who ira-
mediatly sold the same cement to a branch
of the war department for $6.00 q ton#
the report states-
GEORGIA IS SECOND IN NUMBER
OF FARMS
Club”
-ith Mrs. He
Richardson,
itertnin hem
xt Thursday P. M-
•MO TllER WHERE'S—"
that questii
of far
while
Missis
tdeky
Caroli
Ju
ini red fat he
let school
(her
listened
ceil by 1
ill he
I fa
ich of the :
as many j
he home. ■
’’"Mother!
more n
sarted
started
dollars
with.
Liste
if a still furthur drop comes, he will not ( communities asking for business support-
be caught with his money tied up. Don’t
blame the retailer if he doesn’t slash his
prices at the very moment the wholesale
market goes off a cent or two. There
are two sides to the question. Read the
wholesaler’s and then go and ask the re
tailer for his.
One of the strangest things in the world
is why an old woman wraps from head to
foot when she goes out and a young wo
man wraps only half way up and down-
It js a part of the duty every man owes
his community to see that they get it. If
the local paper has the proper kind of
encouragement it can do more for the
welefare of the town and the country
arround it than any other factor. Sup
port means merely sudscribing- Send it
the news. Patronize its adverisers, and
pretty soon you will find yourself becom
ing more interested in the community than
you have ever been before. Help your
home town paper—and it will help you.
to the gospel of good sense, all
11 Douglasville people- And the
inces are that before another year
closed you’ll have reason to be glad
j did.
Douglasville women love a bargain,
iut it will be bard to get them to support
cheap politician.
Our idea of a favorite son worth hav
ing is one who isn’t'afraid to go to work
in the event he doesn’t land the office.
Sometimes, after a man has been mar
ried in church it’s almost impossible to
get him back there.
Just before the World War we
pig for roc per pound gross, and paid i8c ;
per pound for pork chops. Then pigs j
went to 20c per pound gross and we paid
35c for pork chops. Now pigs have drop. (
ped hack to 10c per pound, but have j
parted company with pork chops leav-,
mg them hanging high and dry at the.
same old 35c mark.
Something rotten up the creek.
PREPARING FOR 1 SCRAP
Par
retail
France.— Believing that an-
• with Germany will come in
future,France is determined to
• military strength and wil not
he caught ‘‘napping” again, according
to Frecnh officials. The Republic will
keep a sanding army of 800,000 men.
“Germany,” says the French minister
of war, “is already manufacturing war
material and is thinking only of revenge.
School Closes
For Holidays
After a successful fall term, for both
teachers and pupils, Douglasville High
School closed this week untill after the
holidays, when books will he resumed-
For both teachers and pupils the Sentinel
wishes a merry Christmas and may the
coming term be the most successful and
pleasant in the history of the school.
mngsters 111
“Mother, where’s my satchel
where’s my pencil?” ‘‘Mother, have you
seen my geography?” “ Mother, have
you seen the hammer?" etc., etc
We have often wondered how mother
happened to keep up with everything,
I and if she ever happened to misplace or
I loose any thing, how she ever found it
and upon whom does she call?
Little and big, old and young, male
; and female all the family depend upon
I mother, but upon whom does she depend?
! To whom does she tlirn for help when
j she has lailed Or does she ever fail?
| To our knowledge she never does. If
1 she can not tell the questioner just where
to find the misplaced article she goes in
search of it and never stops till she has
found it, or substituted it satisfactorily.
No the real mother never fai's From
babyhood up through childhood, youth
and man, or womanhood, morning, noon
or night mother is always on the job
In joy and sorrow, pain or pleasure, hap
piness or misery, success or failure, fame
or disgrace, mother can always he coumcj
on to stand by her child, and now few
really know how to appreciate her worth
and devotion, till they either take their
place as mother of a family; or look u
mi the still temple from whence her
spirit has gone to be with the source of
her strength.
Boys, girls, sons, daughters, as you
call upon mother, learn to help her as
well as to depend upon her. Prove
yourselves worthy of her confidence and
trust as she is worthy of'yours.
—Leona Glenn, in Conyers Times.
That Georgia has the second largest
number of farms among the states of
the union, is one of the most interesting
facts contained in the report of the cen
sus board concerning this department of
the recent census work.
Texas Leads
[ Only the state of Texas largest in the
union, surpasses Georgia in the number
The total in Texas is 435,666,
ic totai in Georgia is 310,737.
>pi is third, with 272,437; Ken-
fourth , with 270 676; North
is fifth, with 269,740; Mis-
sixth, with 263,124.
ia in 1900 had a total of 224,691
1111910, a total of29i,o27 and in
s total above given. Georgia’s
farms from 1910 to 1920 was
-vliich was a gain of 6.8 per cent
as a small percentage of gain
a red with some of the newly set-
ues of the west, where the pop-
has increased rapidly and thous-
new farms have been opened
ultivation in the past ten years,
a for instance, shows a gain of
9 per cent.
The Definition
“A farm for/census purposes.is all
!• land which is directly farmed by one
rsoti, either by his own labor or with
■ assistance of members of his house*
emplyes. When a land
one or more tenants, renters
• manager the land operated
by each is considered a farm.”
'File report of the census bureau con
tains some further interesting figures 01
the number of farms in each county, k
shows that Carroll County leads the list
with a total of 5,436 farms. Laurens
county comes second with 5337; Burke
comes third with 4,675; Gwinett comes
fourth, with 4.460; Emanuel comes fifth
with 3916; Glynn county on the coast#
where most of the land is salt marsh,
is last on the list with a total of33i.
Camden county, also on the coast, is next
to the last with 334.
ulntii
up to
hold
ropper:
hir
CALF MEETING OF DOUGLASVILLE
CHAPTER
There will he a call meeting of the
Douglasville Chaper next Tuesday night
Dec- 21 st. 7 o’clock, work in the
Mark Master and Past Master Degrees
All candidates are requested to be on
time. Come out and see the new of*
ficers officiate.
J. H. Harding,H. P.
J. C. McCarley, Sec’jr.