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Five hundred dollars was the fine
imposed upon each poison found guil
ty of whiskey dealing or violating the
prohibition law in a number of cases
in the superior court this week.
Clyde Hood, of Cobb county, was
convicted and fined $500 for using
profane language on the public high-
.av and in the presence of ladies.
The occurrence was said to have taken
place in Douglasville last September.
A man named Helton, who was
with Hood at the time he is alleged
to have committed the offense for
which he was placed on trial, was ac
quitted by the jury of the charge of
having liquor in his possession.
Joe Miller, colored, was convicted of
selling whiskey and fine $500.
Perry Redwine, colored, appeared
before the court to vouch for the good
reputation of Henry Williams, colored,
charged with violating the prohibition
law. He stated that the prisoner was
a good boy and a church member. At
this point the court asked if the de
fendant were a deacon in the church.
“No sir,*’ he’s just a low member,”
was the reply, and a ripple of laugh
ter surged over the courtroom. The
defendant was fined $500 or ordered
to servq twelve months in the gang
in lieu thereof.
Tilts between the solicitor general
and attorneys for the defense were
r. t infrequent in several cases.
Ollie Butler was acquitted of the
charge of selling whiskey, after a
closely contested battle between the
solicitor and Attorney John H. Hud
son, for the defense, who sought to
make a showing of former jeopardy in
that the trial was begun last Septem
ber and then halted for the purpose
oi giving the defendant time to se-
ci re material witnesses. The jury,
however, threw out the isue of jeop
ardy, but acquitted the defendant.
The Soijter brothers were found not
guilty of making and selling whiskey
Thursday morning.
COUNTY LINE SINGING
DATE CHANGED TO
THIRD SUNDAY IN MAY
' The annual all-day singing, which
has always been held the third Sun
day in June at County Line church,
will be held this year on the third
Sunday in May. The change in the
date has been made on account of the
change of the date of the Union Grove
singing, which will be held the first
Sunday in May this yeajq instead of
the third Sunday in May, as formerly.
The above announcement was made
by a deacon of the County Line church
and will be of interest to all singers
and the public generally who have at
tended these singings in such large
numbers in the past.
NEW BATCH GARDEN SEED
FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION
The Sentinel has received another
hag of garden seed from Hon. W. D.
Upshaw for distribution to Douglas
county folks who want them and will
call at the Sentinel office within the
next few days before they are ail
gone.
There are in the new lot, peas, rad
ish, onion, lettuce and beet seed, which
is a different variety than that dis
tributed last month. Everybody who
wants garden seed should come or
send for them at their earliest con
venience as it is likely they will not
last long.
“DADDY LONG LEGS”
PLEASES LOCAL AUDIENCE
Jean Webster’s inimitable story,
“Daddy Long Legs,” drew packed
houses two days in succession last
week-end when the screen version was
presented at the local theater.
"Daddy Long Legs“ is too well
known to need any comment here, but
the manager promises some pictures
for next week’s bill, which he says
merit the attendance of all who like a
varied program of the best produc
tions obtainable.
SOUTHERN EL IMIX A T ES
WINSTON SECTION FORCE
FROM PAY ROLL
The section force at Winston has
been done away with by the Southern
Railway, there being now no track
workers situated at that place. The
sections of Villa Rica and Douglas
ville have been extended to cover the
mileage formerly kept up by the Win
ston force.
Grand Jury
Presentments
We, your Grand Jurors, selected,
chosen and sworn for the March Term
1921, Douglas County Superior Court,
beg leave to submit the following
General Presentments:
We recommend that the Southern
Railway build a bridge across the
Railroad on the Bankhead Highway
near Winston at once.
We recommend that Mr. J. T. Sam
ples be appointed N. P. Ex-officio J.
P. for the 1260th district G. M. to
succeed Hon. John W. Frank, now de
ceased.
It is ordered that Pat H. Winn be
appointed to succeed himself as mem
ber of the Board of Education. Also
W. H. Gore be appointed to succeed
Mr. A. L. Campbell, having moved out
of his district.
We recommend that Mr. R. O. Boat
wright be appointed as N. P. Ex-of
ficio J. P. for the 1259th district G.
M. to succeed himself.
We recommend that the pay for Ju
rors and Court Bailiffs’ per diem be
fixed at $2.50 per day.
We recommend our Representative
to introduce a bill in the next General
Assembly to pass a law placing our
County Officers on a two-year term
instead of four. Also recommend that
our county officers be placed on sal
ary basis except the Sheriff.
We further recommend that the Bill
creating our Board of County Com
missioners of Roads and Revenues be
amended so as to give us one com
missioner instead of three and that
the Ordinary appoint two citizens of
the County to act with him as an ad
visory board to appoint this Commis
sioner.
We recommend that our County
Commissioners have the road worked
from James Strickland’s residence on
the Campbellton and Austell road,and
intersecting the Highway at H. H.
Richardson’s farm residence, about
one-half mile in length, same being
on a rural mail route; also recommend
that the County work the road from
Tucker Branch to Carrol home on
what is known as the road leading
from Lithia Springs to Fay Morris’s,
a distance of about one-half mile.
We recommend and direct that the
Board of County Commissioners of
Douglas County, Georgia, officially
termed The Board of Commissioners
of Roads and Revenues of Douglas
County, Georgia, levy and raise a tax
for County purposes, over and above
the tax they are authorized to levy
without a recommendation of the
grand jury, to-wit: fifty per cent on
the State Tax, not to exceed fifty per
cent upon the amount of the State Tax
for the present year, that is that the
Board of Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues of Douglas County, Geor
gia, be authorized anti directed to
levy for County purpose for the year,
1921, one hundred per cent on the
State Tax for said year, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.
Above and foregoing resolution
adopted by said grand jury by the fol
lowing vote, to-vvit:
Voting for said resolution, 23 mem
bers; and
Voting against said resolution, none.
We, your Committee on Treasurer’s
Books, as per audit, find same neatly
and correctly kept.
W. M. RICHARDSON,
Chairman.
We, the Committee ajmointed to in
vestigate County School commission
ers’ books, find same correct and very
neatly kept.
Balance on hand last report .$ 2,104.56
Borrowed since that date *
for the purpose of paying
teachers’ salaries 8,000.00
Received from the State 5,362.32
Making total receipts from
all sources 15,466.88
Paid out as per Voucher. 16,026.61
Which would leave an over
draft of 639.73
if all checks were in hand.
T. N. GRgSHAM, Chairman.
We, your Committee on Tax Collec
tor’s Books, as per audit, report find
same correct and neatly kept.
E. L. HOPKINS, Chairman.
We, your Committee on Public
Buildings, make the following report:
We recommend that the proper au
thorities have the outside doors of the
Court House fixed so that they can be
locked and glass put in the side doors
of the Court House and new grate he
put in the Boiler. Also we find leaks
in the roof of the Court House and
recommend that it be fixed. With the
Community Bowed in Grief When
Reaper Takes Joe S. Abercrombie
exception of the above, we find the
building in good shape. Also we find
the jail in sanitary condition and well
kept.
H. W. GURLEY, Chairman.
We recommend that our County
Commissioners have the Janitor to
remove cuspidors from the Court
House hall and replace them with
clean ones and that the hall be put in
a clean and sanitary condition. Also
that the Janitor give more attention
to the Court House grounds, keeping
them in a clean and presentable con
dition, also that he stop ball playing
on the Court House grounds, and if
necessary have the Marshal make case
against same.
We, your Committee, appointed to
examine the books of the Ordinary re
port that we have made an examina
tion of the books and papers and also
the records in the Office and we find
them all neatly and correctly kept.
We commend him for the business
like manner of keeping Ids office.
An examination o fthe Pension roll
in his office shows that there are now
on the roll 102 Soldiers and Widows,
but 8 of these have died since the last
term of court and after the Pension
due these for this year, there will be
94.
The following soldiers have died
since the last Court, namely: David
Griffin, J. W. Frank, Jesse Renfroe,
and It. M. Wilson. Also the following
Widows: Mrs. Emeline Causey, Mrs.
Eugenia Patterson, Mrs. A. Watkins
and Mrs. Rachel Williams.
We take this occasion to pay this
last tribute to the deceased and while
we will see them no more, yet the
memory of their virtues will ever be
cherished by us.
Respectfully submitted,
JNO. C. JOINER, Chairman.
Mr. Joe S. Abercrombie, after re
tiring Tuesday night in apparent good
health, was found dead in his bed
room at the home of his son, Fred
Abercrombie, Wednesday morning at
about seven o’clock. Soon the neigh
bors were notified of the sad occur
rence, which was a terrible shock to
the entire.community, there being few
people in Douglas county who did not
know and admire Mr. Abercrombie.
The body partly dressed was lying-
on the floor a few feet from the bed.
It is thought that Mr. Abercrombie
had arisen from bed a short time be
fore the discovery of his dead body
by his son with the intention of dress
ing for breakfast, and that he was
suddenly stricken with apoplexy.
Telegrams'were sent to the wife
and son of Mr. Abercrombie in Law
rence, Kansas, and they immediately
left for Douglasville. Mrs. Rose Bur
gess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aber
crombie, who lives at Decatur, arrived
within a few hours after she received
the news of her father’s death. One
biother, W. C. Abercrombie, resides at
Phoenix, Ariz., and it is expected that
he will arrive Friday.
Besides his wife, sons and daughter,
Mr. Abercrombie is survived by three
brothers, W. C., of Phoenix, Ariz.; W.
A. and J. A. Abercrombie, of Doug
lasville; his father and step-mother,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Abercrombie, of
Douglasville. His two sons' are Fred,
of this city, and Henry, of Lawrence,
Kansas; the daughter is Mrs. Rose
Burgess, of Decatur, Ga.
The funeral will be held from the
First Baptist church and the funeral
services will be conducted by Dr. A.
J. Morgan, of Acworth, assisted by
the Rev. W. M. Suttles, pastor of
Douglasville Baptist church, Rev. S.
T. Gil land and Rev. W. H. Clark. The
funeral will be held Saturday fnorn-
ing at ten o'clock.
We find that our new Tax Collector,
J. W. Baggett, having collected no
taxes except special tax to the amount
og $867.50, and the same having been
turned over to the State.
Less sale of mules and ma-
' chinery to L. O. Meadows 5,850.00
We, your Committee appointed to
examine the J. P. and N. P. books
from the several districts, report that
we find the J. P. and N. P. ex-officio
J. P. correctly kept.
L. E. BARTLETT, Chairman.
The Grand Jury in a body visited
the Pauper Farm and Convict Camp
and find that Supt. H. R. Barrow has
the farm in good condition. We find
four inmutes, all women. Since last
report he has spent $125.40 on an av
erage of 16 cents per day each.
We find the buildings at the Camp
a deplorable condition and we rec
ommend that our County Commission- j
ers proceed as early as practical to j
put uj> new buildings for the convicts, |
guards, etc., and also we find that
barns or stalls for the stock arc very j
much needed and we recommend that.
these be built before another winter:
and that camp proper be put in aj
more sanitary condition.
Showing net indebtedness at
end of this month $6S,700.93
Respectfully submitted,
W. M. ALMAND, Chairman.
We, your committee on sheriff’s
oks and records, find jail records
d other books kept in proper form,
d that the sheriff has received
,166.00 on tax fi fas and has same
hand.
A. P. BARFIELD, Chairman.
We, your commitlee to examine the,
clerks’ books find them neatly and,
correctly kept.
S. A. CARVER, Chairman.
In order that the people may know
the true conditoin of the County fi- j
nances, this jury has investigated the I
reports of the auditors and also of the
county commissioners and treasurer
and tax collector and here set forth in
a concise form the indebtedness as
shown to date, namely:
Outstanding warrants $67,691.98
Bond money
on hand $9,877.68
Approximate amount from
taxes ami fi fas after de
ducting insolvent and er
ror, state fund and school
fund ...» $11,663.37
Total
...$21,541.05
Less
...$21,541.05
Net indebtedness as shown
by hooks today. ..$40,150.93
To this should he added bills
for the month of March
that are due from grad
ing, piping, surveying, in
terest on Road Bonds, etc. 28,400.00
Adding item above .
...$74,550.93
Whereas, it is with profund regret
that we have learned of the untimely
death of our beloved citizen, Hon.
Joseph S. Abercrombie, which oc
curred this morning, March 30th, 1921,
and
Whereas, Mr. Abercrombie has
served well and faithfully as mayor of
Douglasville and chairman of the
board of county commissioners and in
each place of trust he held he ever
showed his unselfishness in all mat
ters coming before him and his ser
vices wore always not only above crit
icism but ever for the uplift of his
county.
Therefore, Be it resolved: That we,
the Grand Jury of Douglas County, do
: deplore the death of this useful and
I honorable citizen and extend to his be
reaved family our earnest and sincere
! sympathy.
j In taking leave of the Court, we
wish to thank our Hon. F. A. Irwin
! for the courtesies shown this body and
; his very able charge. Wc wish to
( tliank our solicitor for many favors
| shown our body and also the foreman
j for his very efficient service rendered
our body. We commend our clerk of
the grand jury and his assistant for
very efficient service. We also com
mend our bailiff for his faithful ser
vice to our body. We further recom
mend that these presentments be pub-
lished in the Douglas County Sentinel
and that the publisher be paid the
sum of $15.00 for same.
JOHN T. DUNCAN, Foreman.
H. W. GURLEY
A. H. MATTHEWS '
W. M. ALMAND
E. L. HOPKINS
W. M. RICHARDSON.
L. S. ENTERKIN
T. N. GRESHAM
M. B. WATSON
J. A. AYERS
JAMES McINTOSH
J. A. JACOBS
S. T; NALLEY
S. A. CARVER’
J. C. JOINER
'll. B. JOHNSON
B. T. FARGASON
D. P. FARGASON
A. P. BARFIELD
T. J. MORRIS
L. E. BARTLETT
J. T. CARNES
.1. E. BALDWIN
Ordered, that within general pre
sentments of the grand jury at this
term of court be spread upon the min-
G. T. McLARTY NAMED
CHAIRMAN OF GREATER
GEORGIA TECH COMMITTEE
G. T. McLarty, of this city, has
been offered, and has accepted, the
chairmanship of the Greater Georgia
Tech committee for Douglas County,
and will have charge of this impor
tant branch of the campaign designed
to raise $1,000,000 a year for 5 years
for the Georgia School of Technology.
The Greater Georgia Tech campaign
will begin April 20, under peculiarly
favorable conditions. Its objective is
$5,000,000, to expand 'the Georgia
School of Technology into a technical
training institution capable of an en
rollment of at least 6,000 students,
and of training them as well as any
school in the world into producers;
men who will develop the enormous
natural resources of the state, now
for the most part either untouched or
sent out in crude form to be made into
valuable commercial products in other
states, which thus reap practically all
the benefit and profit.
Georgia begins work on this fund
with a challenge from Georgians in
New York City, headed by Ivy L. Lee,
that they will raise in New York and
the East $1,000,000, if Georgia will
raise the remainder. On top of this
comes the approval of the Georgia
Cotton Manufacturers’ association of
a resolution that its members shall
contribute $500,000 to the fund.
The appointment of a chairman in
this county is a step in a great gen
eral organization, beginning with the
acceptance of Victor Allen of Buford
as chairman of the state executive
committee. The state is divided into
five regions, with a chairman for
each, having approximately thirty
counties under hrs general supervis
ion. The county unit organization,
however, is probably the most impor
tant fuctor of the entire plan, and the
general committee is exercising the
greatest care in choosing men to
whom the appointments will be of
fered.
The Greater Georgia Tech made
possible by the fund will include in its
scope a research laboratory—the only
one south of the Mason ;md Dixon
line; of vast importance to all the
state’s industries; an etxension serv
ice, by which Georgia industries will
be suppleid experts at any time, to go
to their plants and assist in working
out their problems; an industrial de
velopment department, for the bring
ing together of capital—from outside
states as well as in Georgia—and
Georgia opportunities; and the techni
cal training of Georgia’s greatest as
set, her young men, to take charge of
her industrial affairs and send her to
the front rank of the industrial states
of the Union.
PROGRESSIVE CLUB ENTER
TAINS PROMINENT VISITORS.
The Progressive Club met Friday
evening, March 25, with Mi’. Thad Mc-
Koy. The entire house was effective
ly decorated in lilacs and brides-
wreath. Covers were laid for 32.
A four-course menu was served,
consisting of everything from grape
fruit, turkey dressing, creamed pota
toes, stuffed eggs, tomatoes, lettuce,
to an ice course carried out in the
Easter suggestion with old fashioned
pound and fruit cake and many other
things too numerous to mention.
The club was honored at this meet
ing by having Judge Irwin, of the
Tallapoosa circuit, with them. Among
the other visitors were Mr. J. W. Sim
mons, of Atlanta, Mr. J. S. Abercrom
bie ,of Lawrence, Kansas, and Mr.
Woodall.
CARIM >LLT()N K NIGH TS
TEMPLAR ELECT OFFICERS
Carrollton, Ga., March 29.—Hebron
Comamndery No. 23, Knights Temp
lar, have elected the following offi
cers :
Thomas It. Luck, commander; N. N.
Johnson, general; Robert H. ICinne-
brew, captain general; lOlvin E. Har
per, senior warden; Will O. Cobb, ju
nior warden; C. K. Henderson, Jr.,
treasurer; Robert F. Hyatt, recorder;
I. N. Ballard, standard bearer; J. C.
Griffin, sword bearer; W. G. Foster,
warder; C. M. Tanner, Jr., sentinel;
Dr. H. I. Barker, J. W. Stone, D. 1..
Hearn, guards.
utes of this court as such and that
the recommendations therein , con
tained be carried into effect by the
proper and constituted authorities.
March 30, 1921.
F. A. IRWIN,
J. S. C. T. C.
J. R. HUTCHESON, Sol. Genl.
An anxious family hourly awaits
the return of Alton Brittain, son ot
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Brittain, and hero
of the battle of the Meuse-Argonne,
where he was killed in action white
advancing upon the Germans in the
early part of October, 1918.
Private Brittain’s bravery and valor
in the face of the enemy has been
communicated to his mother in nu
merous letters from officers of the
organization to which he belonged.
The burial will be made at the old
family cemetery near the familiar
scenes of his childhood. His body will
be brought three thousand miles to a
resting place in the same ground
which it was his last expressed wish
to see before lie was sent from the
camp at Atlanta to a hero’s death in
France.
BEULAH NOTES.
Mr. Henry Hendrix, of Powder
Springs, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. S. L. Hendrix.
Miss Nolle Thomas spent the week-*
end near Winston.
Mr. and Mrs. Renfroe visited rela
tives near Chapel Hill Sunday.
Mr. George Bell, of Atlanta, spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lockridge.
Mrs. Dean Rutherford and daugh
ter, Flora, of Atlanta, spent the week
end with Mr. Kirby Rutherford.
Miss Georgia Lee King gave ther
young people an Easter party Satur
day night which was enjoyed by all
present.
Mrs. Ike Standridge’s children gave
her a surprise dinner Sunday.
Miss Baugh, of Atlanta, was Miss
Dollie Faye Huey’s visitor this week.
EXPRESSES ON WHISKEY EVIL
Editor Sentinel:
It seems like this fs a lonesome part
of the vineyard for The Sentinel, and
I decided to give it a few dots, if it
don’t go to the waste basket. ^
The weather is fine at present, but
can’t tell how long it will continue. A
three-inch snow would be the wrong
thing to accommodate the rabbit and
the tliink to make the man carry his
axe to the grindstone.
Sheriff Baggett, of Douglas county,
has a fine lot of stills on hand that he
has captured of late. If you send him
for one, don’t look back, he will bring
it with him. He conies and if the dis
tiller is not on his job, he will be with
him, too. “A good sheriff!” The dis
tiller does not say, but he just as well
say, he will do his best to continue
manufacturing drunkards, paupers,
lunatics, beggars, criminals and dead
beats for the sober and industrious
people to support. I shall add to the
number of fatal accidents, of painful
disease, of disgraceful quarrels, of
riots, and of murders. My liquors are
warranted to rob some of life; many
of reason; most of property, and all of
true peace; to fathers, fiends; wives,
•widows; children, orphans. I shall
cause mothers to forgot their infants;
children to grow up in ignorance;
young women to lose their priceless
purity; young men to become loafers,
swearers, gamblers, skeptics, and
‘lewd fellows of the baser sort.” Boys
and girls are the raw materials out of
which 1 make drunkards, etc. Parents
may help in this good work by send
ing their boys to buy the booze. On
two hours’ notice 1 agree to put hus
band in a condition to reel home,
break the furniture, beat their wives,
and kick their children out of doors;
1 shall also fit mechanics to spoil their
work, be discharged, and become
tramps. If one of the regular cus
tomers should be trying to reform, I
will for a few pennies, take pleasure
in inducing him to again take just one
glass and start again on the road to
destruction, and when his money is
gone, 1 will persuade him to run in
•debt, and then Collect the bill by at
taching his wages; in short, 1 agree to
help bring upon all my customers in
this world, debt, disgrace, disease, de
spair and death, and in the next world,
damnatoin, having closed my cars to
God’s warning voice, having made a
league with hell and sold myself to
the devil, 1 have a right to bring all
of the above evils upon all inv friends
for the sake of gain. A fine assort
ment of my manufacturing wrecks
may be seen inside or at the city sta
tion houses every morning; also in the
poor houses, the prisons, and on the
gallows. *
This is my opinion and the best I
can at present express my views on
this subject. FLOYD DANlELL.