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DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1921
DOUGLAS COUNTY
SENTINEL
$1.50 THE YEAR
RALPH MEEKS
Publisher
R. N. KIRBY
Managing Editor
NOTICE.
Application has been made to the
Georgia Railroad Commission for au
thority to charge the following rates
for Exchange Service at Douglasville,
Georgia:
Business Individual
Line Service $3.25 Per Month
Business 2-Party
Line Service 3.00 Per Month
Residence Individual
Line Service 2.25 Per Month
Residence 2-Party
Line .Service 2.00 Per Month
'Hie Commission has set this matter
for hearing at its offices in Atlanta,
Georgia, for 10:00 o'clock A. M., on
May 10th, 1921.
GAINESBOItO TELKPHONE
&. TELEGRAPH CO.
Says World Needs Cotton.
Editor Sentinel:
As Pve made numerous promises to
write my friends through the Sentinel
I glady comply with the editor’s per
mission.
I’ll begin by saying times are migh
ty hard, and the outlook gloomy, in
deed. (Guess you’d heard it, though!)
I am not wise enough in one little
article to enumerate all the causes
leading to this, but they are many and
varied. It seems the power of all the
money in the world was hoarded, mar
shaled and hurled against Dixie’s sta
ple cotton, and the price went down,
down! and still down. We must fatfe
the facts and admit the country is
passing through a crucial stage, and
the end is not yet. The farmer seems
as usual to be the goat.
Deflation of price for his products
make it impossible for him to meet his
debts, and that puts the local mer
chant and local hanker into a tight
hole, as well as the farmer. I will
pause right here to say, that as a rule,
our local business men understand the
situation just as it is, and they must
he praised and complimented for pa
tiently waiting and extending every
possible courtesy to their farmer
friends, when too, it is forcing them
to the verge of bankruptcy.
Hut now, just as in 1914, we have
whole pessimistically lost faith in
At best the situation is
of faith
s dispatch
War J-
STATE or GEORGIA,
DOUGLAS COUNTY.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain loan
deed from Robert J. Bingham to Ses-
Bions Loan & Trust Company, dated I lhe situation
January -J, 1!MK, and recorded in Deed |,. lf | nriou,"'li, |
Book "4," I’ttRo 2iJ2, of Douglas Coun- j m akes it vastly worse,
ty records, given to secure,a loan in j from Washington slate
the principal amount cif Four Hun-1 Hoard to esnort cotton, early resump- '
dred and Fifty (If laO.tiO), due No-1 tion of trade with Germany, wlm I
vember I, 11122, bearing interest.at needs five million bales of Dixie's cot-
the rate of 7% per annum, the under-1 i„ n .
signed will sell to the highest bidder! |. n v,.s must recede to normal levels'
for cash, on the First Tuesday in all tilings, and yet you maybe sun 1
May, JII21, bciorc the Court House j ; lie . peculator expect, to export out
door in DnUglusville, Douglas County,| |„ n ;l t a. big profit just as he did tt ftoi
Georgia, between the legal hours of tItsit glorious campaign or shearing
sale, the following described property, the Southern goats in IPI4. With oui
■tio;
£i»i
rib
(In
nm
to-wit:
All that tract oV parcel of land, sit
uate, lying and being in the First Dis
trict and Fifth Section of original!>
Campbell, now Douglas County, Gcor-
.giu; containing GO acres, more or
Jess; same consisting of the South
west quarter of lot number eighty-five
(85) and containing fifty (50)
crop shortage, boll weevil difficulties,
etc., that cry of bumper crop, and
over-production in 1920 is all cheap
bosh. The world needs our cotton and
is able, and should he made to pay a
living scale of. prices for it.
Agriculture must have governmen
tal protection against a repetition of
nt situation, for it is tie
»v.'es, the present situation, lor it is the
more or less, and ten (10) acres oil' of backbone of the world. Fertilizer and
the North Side of the Northwest cor- business men who last year sold their
per of lot of land Number eighty-six goods on a cotton basis of J0c per lb.,
should come across, agree on a good
price and pay the farmer a good
price, just as far as he ofvos debts,
pocket thoif* part of the loss, and re
sume business on a careful footing.
Neither one should bear all the loss.
And this idea of abolishing all cred
its is going to prove mighty unsatis
factory in operation.
If our farmers don’t get enough
upon which to make a normal crop,
somebody’s going to got hungry.
Whoever it is got all the money,
they can’t eat it, and live oil* it that
way. They’ll have to. turn it loose
and when they do here’s hoping I
won’t he far oil'.
Friends, just think what Douglas-
ville would he this day without the
Lois Cotton Mill and Douglas Hosierv
Mill!
Let us hope it isn’t the whole demo
cratic party, but only the Tory lead
ers, that have been scrapped.
And Eureka! Old Gene Debs sen
tenced 10 years for sussing an auto
cratic president, is soon to he freed,
thank heaven. J. H. K.
(86), adjoining the fifty (50) acn
lot eighty-five (85), this tract lately
known as the Bomar property; and be
ing same property conveyed by A.
Wood to Mrs. J. E. Jones on Septem
ber 9, 1910, by deed recorded in Book
<4 Q,” Page 105, of Douglas County rec
ords.
Said notes and the equity in the
land conveyed to secure the payment
of pan\e having been endorsed and as
signed to the undersigned before ma
turity and for value received.
Default having been made in the
payment of interest in the amount of
$36.00, due November I, 1920, the un
dersigned has -elected to declare the
entire loan due and to exercise the
power of sale contained in said deed;
the amount due to date of sale being
as follows: $450.00 principal; $55.66,
interest; plus $50.57, attorney’s fees;
and all costs of this proceedings.
This March 16, 1921.
H. L. GREEN.
By M. M. Sessions and W. M. Rey
nolds, Attorneys.
Jn the District Court of the United
States, For the Northern District of
Georgia.
Jn re— No. 7136
JOSEPH HUMPHRIES, Co!.,
Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy.
A petition for discharge having
been filed in conformity with law by
above named bankrupt and the Court
Jhaving order that the hearing upon
said petition ho had on April 30th,
1921, at ten o’clock A. M. at the
United States District Court room, in
the city of ATLANTA, Georgia, no
tice is hereby given to all creditors
and other persons in interest to ap
pear at said time and place and show
cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of the bankrupt for discharge
fchould not be granted.
2issucs O. C. FULLER, Clerk.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES
For Atlanta and Points East.
Lv. Douglasville 5:29 AM
6:55 AM
11:08AM
9:38 PM
For Birmingham and Points'West.
Lv. Douglasville 6:55 AM
5:24 PM
6:27 PM
“ “ 11:52 PM
N. B.—Schedule figures are shown
only as information and are not guar
anteed.
For further schedule information or
sleeping ear reservations write V. L.
Estes, District Passenger Agent, 48
N. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
■MULES FOR SALE!
Sealed proposals will be
accepted until
noon, April 4th, 1921, for the
purchase of 2i> head of
lttlltes GEORGIA, Douglas County.
These mules can be seen at' wm bc soUI before thu Court Houso
inese mints can nt seen at (Ioo rjn sai(l County on thc first Tues .
the plant of the Atlantic lie- j ay in Aprili next , within the legal
fining Company at Bruns- hours of sale, to the highest ami best
W'ick, Ga.' bidder for cash, the following doserib-
Owing to the completion 0,1 property, to-wit:
_ . . . . • , Dna 1017 l."V
of certain construction wort
SKEPTICISM OUT OF PLACE
No Announcement of Scientific Dio-
covery May Today Be Looked
Upon as Fantastic.
That tJie butterfly contains within It
self what Huxley would have called
the promise and potency of the cure
of tuberculosis and perhaps of other
malignant plagues might seem fantas
tic proposition were it not for our
memory of its antecedent, remarks the
North American Review. It is now
about 55 years since Pasteur perceived
in the fermentation of beer and wine
the principle which emboldened him
to declare that we shoud one day learn
to eliminate nil communicable diseases
from the world. Biot, Dumns nnd
other veterans of science were Incredu
lous. But crying “Travel I Her! tour-
jours tnivulllier J” the young master of j
them all proceeded to cure first the !
“sickness’’ of beer and wine, then the i
“silkworm disease,” then a formidable !
poultry pestilence, then one of the ’
deadliest plagues of cattle.
I hiving thus worked Ills way up in
the scale of life, he addressed him
self by the same methods to the saiva- j
n from what had been re-
the most hopeless nnd hor-
iisenses, rallies, and thus
opened the way of Lister, of Koch, of 1
Finlay and C’nrrell, nnd to all the un
speakably beneficent wonders of tin*
bacterial therapeutics. If
ir found in an atom of yeast
dr rubles, typhoid, clmlera,
Dllow fever, diphtheria ami
bubonic plague, there Is no occasion
for skepticism when his disciple, Metal-
nikow, suggests that in tho larva of
a butterfly may l*e found the cure
for other pestilences.
TOBACCO USERS NOT IMMUNE
Only Germs of Cholera and Meningitis
Succumb to Smoke or Juice
of Nicotine.
Professor I’untonl of the University
of Home has performed a series of ex
periments by way of determining
whether tobacco, smoked or cliewd,
would act as a disinfectant against dis
ease germs. For the purpose lie used
Tuscany cigars, Macedonian cigar
ettes and "very strong chewing to
bacco.” He placed a piece of paper
covered with a salve which contained
the germs of cholera, influenza, diph
theria, typhoid and meningitis in a
glass Jar and then tilled the jar with
smoke or covered the paper with to
bacco Juice, says New York Evening
Post.
He has arrived at the depressing con
clusion that, except In the case of
cholera and meningitis, tobacco is pow
erless in the presence of germs. As to
typhoid and diphtheria, ho exposed tlas<
bacilli to tin* strongest of smoke from
Tuscany cigars for one hour, alul
they were as robust at: the end of the
experiment as at the beginning.
As to tuberculosis, Professor Pun-
tonl says that the most inveterate
smoker or ehewer can Iiojk* for no pro
tection from his Indulgence. The ele
ments of tobacco that disinfect in tin*
case of cholera and meningitis are
tar, nicotine and formaldehyde.
GOOD CHEER AT WHITE HOUSE
Silk Chemises for Dusky Belles.
Lurid purple silk chemises, size 52,
are becoming popular with tin? dusky
belles along the African Congo, ac
cording to an announcement by a Chi
cago mail order house.
'Pile firm’s foreign department an
nounced the notification of safe ar
rival from Chief Atigogo in the Bel
gian Congo of a recent order for such
undergarments for 12 of the chief’s
favorite wives. Because of tin* color
and size, it was necessary to have
them made to order.
“The results are quite satisfactory,
however,” the chief wrote.
With tlie chemise order came funds
for “shoes with watches in their toes,”
rubber hoots with copper toes, pink
silk stockings and several hundred
pounds of heads and brightly-colored
cotton goods.
on which they were used,
these mules are being; offer
ed to the highest cash bid
der.
Mark proposals “The At
lantic Refining Company,
Brunswick, Ga., proposal to
purchase mules.”
The right is reserved to
reject any or all bids.
One 1917 model Ford touring car,
motor No. 19846S5.
Said property levied on and to bc
sold as the property of H. D. Thomp
son, under and by virtue of an execu
tion issued from Superior Court of
said County in favor of J. E. Feltman
and against said H. D. Thompson, J.
F. Benton and L. E. Bartlett, on
mortgage foreclosure.
This March 7th, 1921.
A. S. BAGGETT,
Sheriff. Co., fin.
Rebuked.
The prospective employer looked the
applicant over carefully’.
“And now,” he said, “about the sal
ary; what would you expect?”
“Oh, I couldn't consider less than
$10,000 a year,” said the applicant.
“You don’t understand me,” said the
employer. “I don’t waiit to buy you;
I only want to rent the use of you.”
President Harding’s Reported Bill of
Fare Certainly 8macks of Demo
cratic Simplicity.
It is said that the Harding White
House bill of fare will include
chicken pie, as the first lady of the
land knows how to make It—and waf
fles, browned to a turn, by the effi
cient old-fashioned colored cook of the
Harding household.
Tills smacks of democratic simplicity
and "homey” housekeeping of the good
old days.
The state breakfast nnd the diplo
matic dinner are necessarily more pre
tentious, nnd “old-time eating,” served
in the old-time way, if not altogether
discountenanced, is so disguised ns to
make the satisfying plenty of the home
table seem like a far-off dream.
But. allowing for the proprieties of
state banquets and the like, there Is
never h distinguished guest of them nil
hut that. 1ms come up from plain
"home raising,” nnd still remembers
the dishes of old days as more to thank
God for than nil the French refine
ments of Inter repasts.
The “homeliness” nnd heartiness of
the former linger with them forever
in much the same way ns they did
with our old friend of the "Uncle Re
mus” stories when, after n certain
notable banquet, nnd lie seldom at
tended such, he remarked: "Now I’m
going home to eat!”—Atlanta Consti
tution.
TENANT FINDS BURIED MONEY
And Now a Court Must Pick the Owner
of Treasure Discovered Hid
den in Jars.
Rumors of the finding of a great 1
treasure in the old Holland house here
have been confirmed by the filing of
suit in the Fayette county circuit ,
court by the administrators of the IIol- j
land estate against a dozen defend
ants alleged to have shared in the di
vision of the treasure, which amount
ed to $21,000, says a dispatch from
Nuttallburg, W. Vn., to the Pittsburgh
Dispatch. Attachments were served
on 50 hanks in the surrounding sec
tion. where the money is believed to
have been deposited.
The story of the treasure rends like
romance. In the sixties William Hol
land. veteran of the (Tinman war, came
to this country from England and set
tled in the Pennsylvania coal fields. In
1S72 he canto to Kenney's creek and
began thc development of a kiln. He
built a home here. in 1885, where he j
resided until ids death in 1918.
He was tin eccentric character, and i
none of his family knew of his habit :
of hiding money; He died suddenly j
of heart failure. After Holland’s '
death the home passed into the hands
of William Nelson, superintendent of ;
the coal company, who began repairs i
nnd reconstruction. The gold was j
found in different jars at different
times.
COMMUNITY STORAGE i
BINS FOR AGRICUL
TURAL LIMESTONE
(By W. M. Goodman, Editor Farming.) .
An article appeared In a recent issuo ;
of a Chicago paper, giving an account
of u procession of farm trucks and
wagons, extending almost the entlra
length of the main street in a West
ern town, all loaded with agricultural
limestone and the parade headed by a
brass baud. One might conclude, upon
reading this article, that the farmers
of Unit section had struck "pay dirt"
In this muteriul and had good reasons
for a celebration on the occasion re
ferred to when a train-load was dcliv*
en d at their station.
And tills is true. The value of lime
In agriculture is recognized in all sec
tions where tests have been made by
practical farmers, and in many of the
Middle and Western States it Is now
regarded us essential to the most prof
itable development and permanent
Improvement of soils. Limestone asso
ciations have been formed by farmers
In a number of counties of Illinois, the
object of which, as stated in their
constitution and by-laws, “Shall be to
promote the general interests of agri
culture by encouraging iho use of
limestone, phosphate, etc., on our
hind.”
These associations have erected
community agricultural limestone stor
age bins. In some counties they have
had the eo-operaviun of merchants and
other business men, who arc wise
enough to see that all farm improve
ment work leads to larger farm in
comes and better trade for cities and
towns. The accompanying .illustration
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The
Twenty Years in Forestry.
'Hie Yale forest school Iihs just
celebrated Its second decennial re
union and the twentieth anniversary
of its founding, says the American
Forestry Magazine. Over one hun
dred alumni nnd students, or approx- (
imately 20 per cent of those who have,
received professional instruction at the
school attended the reunion. Of the,
twelve leading forest schools ten are'
under the direction of Yale men, and;
eleven have Yale graduates in their
faculties. In addition, forestry is
taught as a subject at four other in
stitutions by Yale graduates. In nil,!
43 men from this institution are en
gaged in training professional for
esters in America.
Shuts Out Sound.
Persons who wish to concentrate
their attention upon studies, business
matters or what not. often find them
selves most annoyingly distracted by
noises of one kind or another. Street
traffic may be disturbing; the crying
of a baby may Irritate, or perhaps the
yowling of cats on a back fence or
the persistent tooting of a cornet in
the neighborhood may induce exasper
ation.
To obviate this sort of trouble, Ga-
bino Janregui of Bridgeport, Conn.,
has devised what he calls the "ear si
lencer.”
It is a frame of light construction
which may he fixed upon the head in
such a way that two screws carrying
soft rubber plugs on their ends are in
serted into the ears.
When this adjustment has been
made exactly right the two screws that
carry the rubber plugs enter the wear
er's ears horizontally and have only
to bo tightened sufficiently In order to
fit snugly and exclude all troublesome
sounds.
Motion Pictures in Java.
The motion picture business in Java
appears to he expanding rapidly, ac
cording to tlie American consul at Ba
tavia. American pictures are increas- j
lngly popular; the types best liked are!
big features, comedy, news and travel j
films. No film of less than five reels j
makes a great success. The pictures
which attract the native audiences are
those of the action and adventure
type, while the European and Ameri
can audiences usually prefer well-
acted drama of the type most popular
in America.
Opossum a Pest in Australia.
New /.(‘aland tins a native species
of opossum which wears a very Beau
tiful fur. It is not at all like the
opossum that we know in this country.
Many years ago it was introduced
into Australia, and, finding there none
of the natural enemies that preyed up
on it In its own land, it has since In
creased in numbers until it has be
come a serious pest. It is u robber
of fruit trees.
However, the value of the animal
for its fur is so great as to outweigh
the damage it dues In the fruit-growing
sections, and in view of this fact, the
Australians are encouraging tlie in
crease of opossums in forest districts.
Their skins are becoming a consider
able item of export, and already, many
of them are made up into fashionable
garments for women in the United
States.—Philadelphia Ledger.
■rsKbIiwH! Ml l.l
Tsfsggs&j,
allows how some of these bins are con
structed. This type is equipped with
bucket elevators.
Limestone storage bins should be
built at railway stations in every agri
cultural section of the South. It would
pay to build and’equip bins like lhe
one shown in the illustration, hut a
cheap shed for storing limestone is
better than nothing. The object is to
have limestone stored where it can he
procured at any time, so that the
farmer coming to town with a wagon
or truck load of produce can haul a
load of limestone back to Ills farm in
tend of returning with an empty ve
hicle. The small farmer can not buy
limestone by the carload, and the
large farmer would prefer to have the
material handy so that he can haul it
nnd spread It on ids land when It >S
most convenient to do so. The advan
tages of such bins ns are equipped
with bucket elevators are found in the
saving of time and labor in unloading
cars and loading wagons and trucks.
It. will pay to erect bins of this kind.
The farmers and merchants of the
South should get together miw! build
limestone storage bins us they are do
ing in the North and West. This will
encourage the use of lime, and that
means the profitable raising of clover
and other legumes and greater pro
ducing power sf soils.
-His PAPER REPKESEKTEt) FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THt PRINCIPAL C.TIES
ALWAYS ANXIOUS TO PLEASE
Hubby Ever Thoughtful of the Treas
ure He Had Won for a Partner
in Life's Joys.
It whs her birthday, but he had
•nislied off to business with just the
usual duty-peck
at her upturned
face, and she was
left to worry the
day through, op-
p r e s s c d by the
thought that his
love was waning
When lie re
turned nt night,
wished her "many
happy returns,” gave her a full-size
ling, and placed a tiny packet In her
hand, she knew that she had wronged
him. lie was still the same generous-
hearted Romeo who hud wooed nnd
won her.
“And I thought you’d forgotten all
about it, Harold,” she cooed, ns she
carefully unwrapped the package.
Then a black-edged expression took a
front seat on her features.
“Pipe-cleaners!” she gasped.
“Yeti, pet,” lie said, "I knew they’d
please you. You never did like me to
use your hatpins!”
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA, Douglas County.
Will be sold at the Court House
door in said County, on the first Tues
day in April, 1921, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, the following personal prop
erty, to-wit:
Five bales of lint cotton, weighing
as follows: One bale, 353 lbs., more
or. less; one bale, 425 lbs., more or
less; one bale, 520 lbs., more or less:
one bile, 433 lbs., more or less.
Also 103 bushels of cotton seed,
more or less.
Said cotton levied on in the seed and
since ginned.
Levied on and to be sold as the
property of J. R. Ballard under ami
by virtue of a distress warrant for
rent in favor of W. M. Enterkin
against J. R. Ballard, his tenant, for
the year 1920.
Being in thc* possession of J. R. Bal
lard at the time of the levy.
This March 7th, 1921.
A. S. BAGGETT, Sheriff.
First American Train Robbery.
Train robbery, u pastime which was
for some years very popular in the
West, was Inaugurated 48 years ago
at Verldo, Nevada, when the Overland
express was held up and despoiled of
about $50.1*00. This robbery marked
a’ new departure in the field of crime,
for previously only stage coaches and
travelers hud fallen prey to holdup
men. When western outlaws are dis
cussed, the name of Jesse James is
usually the first brought up, but he
was not the pioneer train robber.
That dubious distinction belongs to
one Buck Taylor, who, with four com
panions, pulled off the train holdup
which was the first of a long string of
riml'nr crimes.
Why not plant an early va
riety under boll weevil con
ditions? Improved Rucker
Cotton Seed $1 per bushel. -
Will exchange for Corn or Peas.
Glenn Dorris, Douglasville
PAY ME for CURES ONLY
It you arc suffering from rectal troubles such as Tiles, Fistula,
Stricture. Fissure or Varicose Veins, which invariably cause loss
of vitality, nervousness and general debility, I will cure you or
make no charge for my services. I also successfully treat Catarrh,
Blood Poison, Skin, Kidney. Bladder and Chronic Discuses, Eczema,
Nervous Debility, Exhaustion, Weakness. Out-of-town men visit
ing the city call on me at once, as you may be cured before re
turning home. Office hours daily 10 a. m. to 6 p. tn. Sundays 11 a.
m. to 1 p. m. Everything strictly private and confidential.
DR. T. W. HUGHES, Specialist.
Established 1912—18’N. Bmnd St., oop. 3d Nat. Ban!f, Atlanta, Ga.