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mm An election for $9,000 worth of . uinjtMpal bonds for improvements on the waterworks plant will be held June the 20th. The bond notice is published elsewhere in this paper by . order of the mayor and council which BOND NOTICE. NSVILLE, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921 To the qualified voters of the Town of Douglasville, Ga.: Notice is hereby given that pursu ant to a resolution adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Douglasville, Georgia, at its regular meeting held on the l(ith day of May, 1921, there will be an election held in said town on the' 20th day of June, niopted the resolution calling for the' 1921, at the Court house in said town, election at the regular meeting Mon- the V(ltinR . pVecinct fol . hoUlinK gen _ day night. j ...... . i 4 • . 4 , , - crai election m the same, tor the pur- lt is claimed by the state board of , health that grave consequences may! posc (>t submitting to the qualified result in the continued use of thej voters of said town tlie question of present water system. A careful es- whether the Town of Douglasville, tiurate .-gems to show that the amount q.,., , hlU1 have authoritv through its necessary for h safe water supply will . , , . , ,, i i.- . pioPer ofticers to issue bonds in the approximate the sum called tor in the: resolution adopted,- it is said. p um of Ni " e Thousand Dollars Council men present at the meeting! 9,000.00) for the purpose of Monday night were, H. T. Cooper, I*. H. l\,-.le‘, J. H. Moody, P. H. McGou- iik and J. O. Connally. Mayor Mc- l.arty presided. When put to a vote tjie resolution curried unanimously. There was some speculation as to whether the bond issue could be car- • rie’4 at this time, but all admitted that it. was the only way the waterworks could be built as the city can hardly pay current bills, let alone build a pro ject of the scope of the proposed wa terworks improvements. The mayor and council seemed to hold the opinion that it was the dut\ of the city government to safeguard the health of the people in eve possible, that the people themselves were interested in the water supply as much as th city government, and in view of the fact that a bond issue is the only possible way in which the money can be raised the question should be put before the citizens them selves so that they by theri vote may say whether or not Douglasville shall have pure drinking water. Put in that light the question before every voter is whether the voter had rather vote for bonds and safety or against bonds and take the risk of a siege of sickness. As the requirements for a success ful bond election are two-thirds of the votes polled and two-thirds of the reg istered voters in the* last general elec tion it would seem that active interest must be aroused among the voters if the election carries. It developed during the meeting that an official of the state board of health had written a letter to the city of Douglasville in which he claimed to have visited the local waterworks plant upon a certain date, and pointed out many of the defects surrounding the plant in his letter. While it was admitted that his knowledge of the local situation seemed first-hand, it was disputed that the official in ques tion was ever on the grounds of the local waterworks. When asked several men at work at the plant denied that any person had visited the plant except people whom I nprov- ing the Water Works system in said town now owned and operated by aid town as a municipal plant. Said bond issue shall be in denomi nations pf One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each thereby making the number of nine bonds of said denomi nation. and each bond aforesaid shall bear interest from date at the rate of five per cent, per annum, and hr* dated and issued on August 15th, 1921, and mature and become due and payable on August 15th, 1951, thirty years from date. The interest aforesaid shall become due and payable on each bond aforesaid semi-annually as fol lows: Two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225.00) of interest shall be due and payable on Feb. 15th, 1922, and Two hundred and twenty-five dol lars ($225.00) of interest aforesaid on August 15th, 1922, and semi-annu ally thereafter on Feb. 15th and Au gust 15th from the years 1923 to 1951 inclusive. The Mayor and Council of the Town of Douglasville, Ga., in event of the issuance of said bonds, shall by proper ordinance provide for the levy apd col lection of an annual tax on the tax able property within the Town of Douglasville sufficient to pay the in terest aforesaid; and shall provide for the levy and collection of an annual tax upon the taxable property within said town sufficient to raise and pro vide an annual sinking fund of Three hundred dollars ($300.00) annually for the years 1921 to 1950 inclusive so that the principal and interest on said bonds shall he paid ofr and extin guished on August 15th, 1951. All of said principal and interest shall he payable in Gold coin of the United States or its equivalent. Those voting at said election for GKOl.VM WILL TRY SAPIRO MARKET PLAN The results of an interesting test shipment of specially prepared kiln dried sweet potatoes from Montezuma, ... , ,, „ , " " Ga., to London, England, have been Atlanta, May 14.-* The bankers many points, but paid forces will be announce(l bv the headquarters of the and business men of each cotton com- used only to the smallest extent pos- Goorffia Parm Bureau Federation, aqd n,un,t >; ( f 01 'p !l ulU be llnetl U I> | sible and will be built up as the need it is c!eaviy shown lha t potatoes pre- strong-ly behind the California plan, arises. pared for export tliro*ugli the kiln- or co-operative mnrkeung ot cotton, Meantime, mass meetings will lie (il . ie(| pi . ocess wi || ,. en ch their desti- belore any really organized attempt is; hel dot important points and that nation in first class' condition, mud.' to sign up the cotton growers of work has already begun. On March .7, over thirty bushels of. that community to the associatoin con-j Asked whether or not that he ex- f potatoes, cured by the - kiln- tract,said A. A. Elmore, director of pectcd the organization to complete drio , ( process, were started for Lon- organization tor the Georgia Cotton | jtsejf in time to handle the 1921 crop, ,| oll They arrived ther on April 1. Growers’ Co-operative Association, which means that the 300,000 bale . altt i\ veve immediately offered for sale.’ batm-day. minimum would have to lie secured Within the duv, tlicv were all sold, at Mr. Elmore was giv.ng out for the before July 15, next, Mr. Elmore said: a m . ice of ten cenls pel . p0UI „|. Ad- first tunc, detailed plans ..I the forth-) “it is quite possible, and altogether viccs from LondoOi are to the ed’cct i t ,. ln . a . coming campaign to sign up growers probable’in the event that.the organi- lhat thc potatoes reached there in ‘ of more than 300,000 hales ol C.eoi-, y.ation committee is successful in an ,. 00< i condition and commanded a ma a annual cotton crop to the a. . o- effort now being iqade by some of its 1CU( | V market ciation’s ; five-year marketing agree-; members to raise a substantial organi-1 ‘ The potalo es wcro cured in a bouse mer.t, l ie plans arc those which have nation fund at once among friends of| in jjontzeuma, or the tvpe approved bcen °y 0lvC ‘ l t0 a UTeat t x ;i,nt b - v ih0 'ho movement The committee has lly thc Unito(l Statcs Bureau of Mar- gencral organization committee, and the power to borrow money and bind kets . T i ie u , s . W as carried out under ihc execution of which was placcit (lie association, when formed, to repay; the auspices of the state college of ag- Cuesday m the hands or an operating it; and it may use that power. In j r | cu lture and the United States Bu- committee to remain in permanent any case, thc contract fee of five dol- renu ,,(• Markets, session in Atlanta, consi.-Llug of Mr. lars, while small, will be .more than President R. A. Kelley, of the Geoj* Kimoro, H. C. Bagley, C. S. Barrett, . ull’icient, ill the long run, to pay for L iu E avm Bureau Federation, said in O. ... Tate, and I„ B. Jackson. the campaign. But unless a substun-1 discussing the results of tile test that “The active, co-operation of banks tial advance can lie secured at this it showed conclusively that the Gear- and business interests of all kinds is time, our beginning will have to h (, |gia sweet potato raisers could make a not only essential, ” he said, “but very slow. ' | „ ea t profit on their products by ship- easy to secure. We found it so in the, “But," he sniflcd,/‘don’t you doubt! p ] nff them to European points for successful organization of the Pacific for one minute that we’re going 1 Wheat. Growers’ Association, which I get there!” have just left to take up this-work. I “At thc present price* of cotton, know they arc solidly behind the tight even though the crop will be gr KILN-DRIED GEORGIA POTATOES REACH LONDON they kenw. It is known that J. B. Me- j Crary, of the well known engineering: " ,ud bo,1<l issue shal < ,lavc written or firm of J. B. McCrary & Company, was j printed on their ballots, “For Water on the premises at about the time the Works Bonds,” and those voting letter was writte nand it is thought against said bond issue at said election the information in regard to the un healthful state of the water was gain ed from him. In one letter from the board of health the statement was made that, “the sample of water from the coagu lating basin is as polluted and unsafe as the sample of raw water stream, and is therefore un unfit for use.” M1CK1E SAYS shall have written or printed on then- ballots, “Against Water Works Bonds.” The above and foregoing notice pub- co-operative enterprises in California, cheaper this year than in many years, and I understand that they were the j when the cost of calcium arsenate and deciding factor in the successful or- its treatment to the crop in the effort ganization of the Oklahoma and Mis-1 to kill off the weevil are taken into sissippi cotton units which have just j consideration, it is perfectly obvious completed themselves upon the identi- to the farmer who will think for cal contract which we are offering! niinute that there is absolutely no in- h ere * ducement for him to try to replant bad “This movement is different from stands at his time. It will be far bet anything that has ever arisen among, ter and far safer for him to put in the farmers of this country outside of j late corn, Spanish peanuts, potatoes, California, where it has brought end- peas and things like that.” less prosperity not only to the far ers but to all interests in the com munity in which they dwell. We are not creating a class organization, but a business institution. We are form ing an economic upitpurely a political one. And when the bankers and business men realize, as they must as soon as they understand the enterprise, that we operate strictly and constructively within the existing business order, they come with us to a “There is some contract signing go ing on among the growers here and there already,” said Mr. Elmore, “but we have not yet got really started.” The state is being divided, he said, into about 35 districts in each of which a central local . organization committee will be created, which will have more or less complete control of the work in that section, and which will operate largely through militia district committees of its own appoint ment. Organizers sent out from head quarters will visit the various districts and will probably be established at AURORA BOREALIS PUTS SPELL ON WIRES The phenomenon commonly called “northern lights,” in its appearance peas and thing: These conditions, says Mr. Br go to further emphasize the fact that “safety first” to the farmer is proving to him that his best hope for the fu ture in going to lie in organized co operation in handling his production. “I am more firmly convinced than ever,” said Mr. Brown, “that the whole hope of the cotton states, the business and commercial interests as well as the farmers, rests on their feeling of an equal responsibility in pushing to a rapid conclusion the or ganization under the California plan for the purpose of co-operative mar keting of our crops. That plan should be progressed to the point where a sufficient number of producers may be signed up to enable the hadlnig of the 1921 crop of cotton. It has been shown that, from the great Northwest and stretching clear across the conti nent this matter of organized co-op erative marketing is sweeping over the country, and this state ought to go very earnestly and seriously into it at once in order to keep pace with the other producing sections.” WEDDING HELD UP WHEN GROOM FAILS TO APPEAR sale. He said that the Farm Bureau intended to push this movement as one of its chief activities during the com ing year. Leonard W. Palmer, another of the Douglasville boys to die in France, was sent home for burial this week. The funeral was preached by Rev. S. 1. Gilland at the' Second Baptist church Wednesday afternoon, the in terment taking place in the Douglas* ville cemetery. ^ie body arrived on the accommo dation train Tuesday evening, and was met by many relatives and friends, besides the family of the slain soldier. \ soldier accompanied the corpse from as has been customary since i the returning of the dead soldiers be- gan. Leonard W. Palmer was a privateJa j Company I of the 20th Infantry, reg ular army division. He was engaged . in the battle which raged in the Sois- sons sector in the summer of 191,3, where lie was gassed during the first days of July. He. died a few days ! later, the 19th of July, in a field hos pital in the rear of the lines. Upon its arrival here the corpse was carried to the home of the deceased soldier s mother, Mrs. Mary Palmer, in the Lois Mill village. The soldier’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. L\ Palmer; four brothers, W. D., H. L., U. R. and J. B. Palmer; four sis ters, Misses Annie, Myrtie, Flora and Ruby Palmer, survive him. SOUTHERN PASSENGER TRAINS OBJECTS OF SHERIFF’S RAIDS A raiding party composed of Sheriff Seawright Baggett, E. L. Hopkins, ther Bartlett and W. Q. Enterkin searched two early morning passenger trains going east Saturday morning and seized six suit cases containing whiskey. No. 8 was searched Satur day night. Four gallons of whiskey was taken oft’ this train and poured out in the street near the depot. An all-night vigil kept by the offi cers at Winston resulted in a water haul. Several cars were examined but no whiskey wo?. fou£d. * Whiskey cases not cusposed of in clude Mrs. Mary Cooper, J. C. Wil liams, T. L. Watson, J. C. Waters and a man named Morrison, all of Atlanta, whom are under bonds of $750 each. John Baugh, colored, is in jail, three cars and 150 gallons of liquor have been confiscated. Sheriff Baggett and Joe Harding at tended United States court in Rome Tuesday in connection with two stills which they raided in Paulding county. FEAST OF THE RED CORN, OPERETTA, FIRST OF THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ! ishe ‘l by order - resolution and author- Saturday night completely tied up) designated in a letter to Mi: from the ' 11 ’' o1 the May0 ‘ a,ui Council lbe | telegraphic communication for about) Martin, of near Douglasville safe and : Town of Douglasville, Ga. ) an hour> ac , Douglasville, Ga., 1921. this May 16th Tvae onln WAN 'WVAQ Enje* FOUND \T OiDNT PPCH tN fcD\Jfc*T\SE U4UZ. - YHZ KAVSER* J. H. McLARTY, Mayor. THAD McKOY, Clerk of Council. DOUGLASVILLE DEFEATS LITHIA SPRINGS IN GAME Featured by base-running The game with the fast Lithia Springs team this week was taken by the Douglasville team after some good j playing on both sides. It was a good game in spite of the somewhat tire some base running done by the local team, who galloped around the dia mond circle 16 cr 17 times—or was it 18? It was too many to count, any way;, not forgetting that Lithia got a few runs, too. urday night. Linemen unfamiliar with things astronomical were per plexed to determine the cause of the sudden “laying down” of a lot of elec trical apparatus. For a few minutes the sky was very bright, reflecting a light upon the earth very similar to daylight. Little is known about the aurora except that it appears with more frequency in some places than others, though to a certain extent it always appears in the same place. In the southern states it is generally seen in the north, hence the name “northern lights.” In the northern hemisphere to the south of the zone of greatest fre- SC HEDULES OF TWO TRAINS quency, it is said, the part of the sky CHANGED LAST SUNDAY i which aurora most generally ap- ! pears is the magnetic north. In high- No. 39, afternon train to Binning-j er latitudes aurora are most often seen ham, arrives here now at 5:53 p. m. j in the south. The new schedule makes this train j The relative frequency in the two about thirty minutes later than form- i positions seems to vary with the hour, erly. It leaves Atlanta now at 5:00! the type .of aurora, probably with the o’clock instead of 4:30, as formerly. | season of the year, and, it is said, pos- No. 40, eastbound, now arrives here sibly, with the position of the year in at 10:53 a. m. i the sun-spot cycle. When Mr. Henry M. Rains, of In- liana, failed to appear at the time he Cordie le dis according to the operator on j appointed his pretty young fiancee as duty at the depot. The condition was j well as a number of other people, who, also felt throughout the country on when let in the secret, expressed al- the telegraph wires, telephones not most ,as much anxiety to witness the being affected. (arrival of the would-be-bridegroom, The phenomenon was noticed and and incidentally the wedding, as the remarked upon by a number of peo ple between 8:30 and 9:15 o’clock Sat- The first night of the Douglasville public schools’ commencement began with an excellent presentation by the music department, directed by Miss Adams. “The Feast of the Red Corn” was the title of the operetta presented. The cast included some of thc school’s most talented pupils, who: plau once. Many compliments were paid Miss Gladys Adams, under whose direction the operetta was presented, for her untiring efforts which may bo largely responsible for the gratifying success which attended the opening of the Douglasville commencement. OVERHEAD BRIDGE AT WINSTON NOW BEING USED BY TRAFFIC The bridge over the Southern rail road west of Winston has been com pleted and is now being used by traf fic on the Bankhead highway. The bridge was built by the railroad at its own expense. With this bridge in use a very bad piece of road is eliminated, making an excellent road from Aus tell to Villa Rica in this county. Thd final completion of the Bankhead high way will give the south a nationa] highway to be proud of, and it is said each county will strive to keep its sec tion of road in the best condition. The National Bankhead Highway Associa tion will endeavor to stimulate inter est with a view of keeping the road at its highest efficiency through local pride in the couties through which it runs. CAMP SKINNER MAKING GOOD WITH DALLAS IN TEXAS LEAGUE According to what the scribes out Dallas way say it was a lucky day for tjiem when Camp Skinner hit town. Hardly a day goes by that the sport ing editors do not fling a boquet or two in the path of the Douglasville boy. That he is really good is evidenced by the I act that he didn’t get a sin gle roast for a little hard luck in a recent game which proved costly to /ork brought forth much ap-i^ ie P a ^as team. When anyone is so from the appreciative audi- consistently good as the Dallas papers say Camp is, it can usually be taken for granted that he has the old job cached for a while at least. Skinner holds down the center garden. His batting average is well over 300. COMMENCEMENT AT FLAT ROCK THURSDAY NIGHT INTERESTING TALK MADE BY tmunrr tii m* S. C. DOBBS AT CHURCH SUNDAY young bride-elect herself. A feature of the case is that neither! Miss Martin or Mr. Rains have ever) sen each other. Following about a| year’s correspondence they decided j that Mr. Rains would come to Doug-! lasville where he would he met by the young woman—they to then decide whether they would suit each other. Tuesday was the day set and in ac cordance with the arrangement, Miss Martin was on hand, hut Mr. Rains failed to arrive. It was thought that he was delayed in transit or that some unforeseen occurrence had made it necessary for him to alter his plans. A photograph was exhibited by Miss Cordie Martin, which she said was a likeness of the Indiana He appears to be about 35 y« I The close of the school term of the I Flat Rock Academy will be marked : by an excellent commencement pro- j gram, which "’ill be held in the open air in the grove near the school* attentive audience greeted! There will be an orchestra and music Sam C. Dobbs, of Atlant: Methodist church Sunday morning where he made an interesting talk on the subject of education in connection with the Christian Education Move ment sponsored by the Methodist church. From the church the speaker, ac companied by his mother, went to the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Clark, where they spent the afternoon before returning to Atlanta. at the will be one of the features of the en- -• tertainment. I he principal, Mr. W. S. Boynton, said the commencement will be held in the open to accommodate the crowd which is expected to be larger than the building would accommodate. It is certain, however, that everyone will be comfortable enough in the place ar ranged anti an enjoyable program Is promised. DOUGLASVILLE (). E. S. IS HONORED AT MEETING L ! At a district meeting of the Order J ofHlhc Eastern Star held in Atlanta j on Wednesday of last week the Doug- a B e and or athletic build. Further de-, lasviUc .. gtara .. shone forth in Kuch velopments are awaited with interest, | numbers as to dim the presence of and it is safe to say that if a wedding twenty other chapters from the fifth is the outcome there will be no lack| district, and to brine home the silver of guests if it is known, on account of) loving cup given for the largest per- the novel manner of the courtship. I centage of members present. DOUGLASVILLE SCHOOL CHILDREN GIVEN TOOTH BRUSHES BV RED CROSS The Douglasville chapter of the Red Cross is presenting each child in the Douglasville schools with a tooth brush and a tube of dental cream. lake care of your teeth," is the word of advice thrown in with each gift, ihc generosity of the local druggists made the gifts possible, it is said, they co-operating to give the children these articles at a minimum cost to the lo cal Red Cross.