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COUNTY SENTINEL VOLUME XVIII DOUGLAS COUNTY SENTINEL FRIDAY, MAY 1922. CULLING STANDARD AND MIXED BREEDS OF POULTRY I COMPARED In Knox County, Ind., half the mini- J her of flocks of hen's culled Under the supervision of the county agent, em- ; /YNE of the biggest development ployed cooperatively by the United j States Department of Agriculture, the jeets yet proposed in state Agricultural College, and the | Georgia is the contem- The past week has been one of much interest to the community as it embraced the various interesting e- vents occurring during commencement 'week with Douglasville schools- But for the untimely death of Prof. Ram sey it would have proven one of the most enjoyable occasions within recent years* Prof. Ramsey and his able faculty have wrought well and faithfully and a good year’s work has been accomp lished. Students who have worked with a determination have been bene- I breeds 2,647, or 362 less. In culling, fitted more than they realize. The ™ standard bred and 355 mongrel 1 acquisition of knowledge, important h<=n« were removed from the flock, p 1 a I e d establishment by the United States Government of u great recreational park in the mountains of Hob* ' cr&liam, Towns. Ra bun, Fannin, Lumpkin and White counties, where the government now owns thousands of 'ear’s worK has oeen accomp- 7T7‘I 7”;, • . acres of land in its 11a- Students who have worked htns lald 2 ’ 90b e ^ gs and * he ! ™ xed tional forest reserve. . i i- i broods 2.547. nr 352 less. In culling. jf j| 10 j,] an county, were standard bred and the other half mixed breeds, so their com parative merits could be considered through culling. The 9 standard bred flocks number ed 1,087, while the 9 of mixed flocks numbered 1,103, or 1G more hens. Thu week before culling, the standard bred as it is, is a secondary consideration compared with the mental develop ment • and increased capacity for greater acquisition. The week’s series began on Tues day night with an entertainment by the Junior Music pupils, and was followed on Friday night by the Sen ior Class Play. Both of these occas ions were pronounced successes and called forth much favorable comment. The commencement Sermon, Sun day was delivered by Dr. J. O. Gro gan. a former pastor of the Methodist church here, hut now of Alamba, and wag a gem of noble thought and | Scholarly wisdom. The graduating exercises Tuesday | ^ night was a fitting climax to the. year’s work when twelve young people were awarded diplomas for comple tion of the High School work They were four young men and eight youny leides, viz: Messrs. Henry Abererom bie, Ralph Abercrombie, Rader Stew art and Paul Ritch, Misses Elizabeth Abercrombie, Estelle Dodson, Gladys Downs. Wyoline Hester, Buna Hagin, Winnie Bell House, Mary Lewis and Pauline Sselman. The Educational address was made by Prof. W. A. Sutton, of Atlanta, and many pronounced it one one of the very best addresses ever made hero o similar foccasious. Th Musical Play, “In India” which leaving 773 standard bred and 738 mongrels, or 35 more standard breds. Two owners of the standard bred flocks, being breeders, culled much closer than the owners of the mixed flocks. The week after culling the standard bred hens laid 2,724 and the mongrels 2,433 eggs. The figures show that among the 1.087 standard bred hens there were 41 less culls than among the 1,103 oi ».. u goes through. North Georgia bids fair to become a national summer play ground, for the Cats kills and White moun tains, now teeming with vacationists every summer, have no more bewildering beauty and picturcsquencss t h a n can be found in the Georgia mountains. What the establish ment of such a park would mean to the state cannot be csti- -. „ . mated, for, if under- the mixed flocks, and that they Ian. ■ taken by the govern- 359 more eggs the week before culling I ment, its development and 291 more the week af ter. .. ^ — j from every section of tin TWO M ! And in tins we tiro ] face with another reason should complete her highway sys*] if such a recreational park is to Georgians, it must lw them. Very little of NUMBER 7 PROF. RAMSEY DIES SUDDENLY | Funeral Tuesday at East Point and I Laid to Rest In College Park L». - Couch Buried Here Typical Mountain Scene sc, and it would isands of visitors • country, brought face to v.hy the slate of The other day wo passed-a build-I Ge ing in the course of construction j j cm > * ol j 11 ® wc and stopped for a whi’.a to watch j 1,0 of n ‘ n, ‘ ‘! I the carpenters at their work. ' ma 0 0CC<oS ‘ h this forest i the ruilront of tlo We noticed in particular one fal low whose every move was an ef- | mi . nt 0 f ,j |R pj m fort- Ho handled his tool s and the j largely upon wh pieces of wood in a listless mann*, i leading to th 10 ■ and several times we saw (ever with inexperienced eyes) that -lie had made error H of judgment, mak- : ing it necessary for him to do his work over. Or.ee he stopped an 1 | wiped the perspiration from ' his glistening face* ‘Pretty warm work,” he remarked, i That was sill ho needed. He lie- ml th of ton icl.cd 1)V develop; ' depend tiigiiways *•, I,, old Vo unluins < C old find tin! ■ lulls of Hal in North Georgia natch it, so the whole pUn with which to is delayed. When the bond issue for good vliich the Georgia Good Roads Associa* ion is chumpiuningf is jxissed, ami the l:-.tr lii-diwny system completed, the nmun- ai:is of north Georgia as well as the ■dams of centr.’l a.r.d south Georgia will |, ( .(;„ine a pluvip-ound for the thousands »f tomi-t who would come io this cli* ,iiate ,!ic. year ’round, to the mountains in .summer and the southern sections in i!„.. winter, and would enrich our .state •y they would spend. il the value Just as his year’s work had closed and in the midst of Commencement Week exercises, Prof. M. F. ^Ramsey, Superntendent of Douglasville Public Schools died suddenly Sunday morn ing at the Douglasville Hotel, at the age of 56* Prof., Ramsey had been here just one term and had endeared himself to the faculty and pupils and others whose pleasure it was to know him. He was a man if high idelals and possesseda quality of character that commanded both the respect and ad miration of his pupils. He was an active andloyal member of the Baptist church, a Knight of Pythias, a Mason and a Shriner. He whs formally connected with tne Atlanta Real Estate Board, and was for a time Senior Land Appraiser for the Government. The fueral was held Tuesday after noon at the First Baptist Church at East Point, the services being con ducted by Dr. Charts W. Daniell of Atlanta. .{ A large number of his Douglas ville friends attended the funeral. He is survived by one brother, - • w. Ranmsey, of East Point; one sister Mrs. W. T. Ivey, and five half brothers \v. .]• Trimbie, of Redmont Wash.. ,j j. Trimble, of Chamblee, C. Q. Trimble, of College Park and Dr. Geo C. Trimble, of East Point. gan cursing the weather, hig em i | ployer the government, in fact nl- was to have been given Monday night i most everything under the sun came UVl der the capable direction of Miss , in f 01 ; a drubbing, and he concluded Adams, \va R postponed till Thursday ; say j n g that nobody but a blank night on account of the death of Prof. f (10 j wou ld work. Ramsey. The final feature will not , We pa8se d ()11 to another workman, be given until after this account is j The sSveat was rolling from his fore- printed, but we are confident it will (bead' and cheeks, unheeded. ugh ic, and as Tennessee has a System of roads that e year ’round by these who spend money wber- ble for the tl ho attracted to canonists from c now throng the olina, when they and repose in if Georgia will I capitalize her n. Carolina bus dot done, mul build can he used t! pleasure seekers ever they go. A stretch of seven miles of the stute highway system runs through this reser vation now and the forestry commission has on hand $20,000 with which to help pave this section, hut the counties through which this road runs cannot match the federal money and this stute has no funds with the The Vi of p.e ago •nt all-tho ogn id of the natii v-.i jnv.iing tile u,ui,.«<i *«• ,-w — them, to that section spent money lavishly on road cointruction. What is the re sult? Thousands and thousands of peo ple go West every year, spend millions of dollars, and come home singing th • praises of a country that has been progressive enough to build good highways. Georgia can issue bonds in the sum that ran be retired by the automobile license fees and gasoline tax and build the 5,500 ini'.cs in the state system without extra tax ation on the people. Would il he worth it to the state to have these roads? This is a question the next, session of the legislature will have to answer, and if they will free Georgia from her limitations and permit her to issue bonds to build these roads, in ten >«?ara the state will have de veloped beyond our fondest dreams. Sweetwater Mission Sunday School RALPH bp one of the most enjoyable 1 of the week. Ford Car Stolen Friday night, during Commence-, ment exercises at the School Audi- j torium, the new Kurd car belong-] ing to Fred Abercrombie, was] driven away from where he had left it and up to the time of going’ to press no truce o! it has been found. Two strangers are reported to . have been seen in the vicinity of where the car was parked a short time before it disappeared and it is believed'they were the culprits. Every effort is being made to find it. active hammer kept time to the j tune he was whistling. Every time The singing‘at County I.ino Sun- he moved something was accomplish?.! j day was fine especialy, the noon hour. “Pretty warm work,” we said to There was a good many fine sing, him as we had to the otherfcllow. I ers from Atlanta they were; Prof. “Well, yes, it is rather warm,” his 1 Morris, Straud, Warn; Perry, and hammer never ceasing. “But isn’t James C. A- Barfield, of Winston, it dandy weather?” That was ail— I Mr. Ralph Clay, of Austell, and we lie dident even wipe his face. j had the very best of order during th? I At first we couldon’t understand , day. • be marked difference between the One of the convicts made his escape two carpenters. Then the reason |from Warden S. A. MsGouirk Tucs- F-. canto clear—one was "working” | day near this place, but was soon captured Again farmers are on a stand still waiting for the land to .get dry so they can start planting. Miss Sallie James of College Park, visting at Ralph this week. Mrs. E- Y. Hendricks and daughter Miss Ummie, of Atlanta, were here Sunday. ATHLETES MAKE SCHOLASTIC RECORD Atlanta. Ga—Tied for first place in scholastic standing in the senior class at Georgia' School of Technc logy are two of the most famous foOt ball players on the Golden* Tornado. They are Albert Staton, tackle, and (>irar Davis guard. Stator, is the only man in Southern football who has ever been selected on the composite All-Southern team ip two different positions- In 1919 he was the All* c e s s 1 u 1 man r io J° —* —v —" Southern selection at the end position ! there arc no dull moments for him. and in 1921 he was selected for the j The failure put s in a working day of ... „ il. aii-C!svii+v«nt*r> 1 laiire nf recreation vbile the Other .? -vort: was ieall? “play.” To the disgruntled one, every hour was sixty minutes of torturing toil; to the whistler every new hour offered the opportunity to get more done toward the completion of the building. One man has found his place; the other was a misfit. The man whose work is P■ay, will do things. He calls it work, but the name ig a misnomer* Young man are you a ‘‘worker or q “player”? When you look at the clock do you make a mental calculation as to just how many hours you must yet work to call it a day? If you do. your’e in the wrong place. When you get the right job you’ll forget the existence of the clock, or if you do happen to notice it. you’ll put a little more snap into your movements and try to beat it s time. Let this idea sink deep: A suc cessful man plays all da^ long and A Correction I11 publishing the report of Jibe general meeting of the Concord Assiciivtion in our issue of May 12th, we stated that the evange listic meeting would be held at the Douglasville First Baptist church on June 19th. We are informed that it should have read June 9th. We gladly make this correction ( Cave Springs School House ij \V e arc glad to report a lively little Sunday school nt this place. Mr. Harvey McIntosh gave an interesting talk on the lesson last Sunday. We are proud our juniors are getting interested. , Officers and teachers - 11 Pupil average attendance about 40 Report of scripture read Inst week ‘291 chapters. There are some f-'ilk-s i.n t»ur town And they are always blue. When Sunday cornea around They don’t know what to do. The only way to cure such blues is with your might and main to start right out and join our school. We’H cheer you up, all right. Joseph Queen, Sec. L. C. Williams, Supt. Friends of Mr. W. T. Barron and family extend sympathy in the death last week of his son-in- law, Mr. B. C Couch, of Atlanta. Mr. Couch died Thursday night. The funeral was conducted Friday afternoon at the home in Atlanta, and the remains brought to Doug lasville for interment Saturday morning. He was 40 years old and a na tive of ‘Tocoa, Ga„ where he leaves two brothers. His father and one brother live at Seneca, S. He has four brothers-in-law here: O. E. Mason, Gordon Banks, J. T. Giles and A. S. Hud-" son. FARMlItS IN GEORGIA ARE SEEKING LOANS Atlanta, Ga.—There are 2130 applications for farm loans amount ing- to $5,072,295 from Georgia, pend ing before the Farm Loan Bank at Columbia, S. C., the Farm Loan Board advised United States Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia, says advices received here today. Senator Harris asked for this re port in connection with the farm loan bond issue of $75, 000,000 put on the market this week. The board expects to allot to Georgia an amount | over $1,000,000 more than previously made for loans* | Out of tiic applications pending, a | total of 1002 aggreating $2,480,035 . have been approved and are in the process of closing, while the others are passing through the preliminary stages. Senator Harris said the Columbia bank informed him plans were under way to start accepting new appli cations by allotment of a certain num ber to each of the local farm asso ciations . ^ WILL BREED OF SOFT HOGS RESULT FROM PEANUT FEED' Is a soft, oily fat on a hog, produced by feeding peanuts, a characteristic , can be inherited and that will ! persist regardless of the nature of the Mr^and Mrs- T. M. Dalnymple, of ration fed the offspring? That is one Atlanta,.was in our midst Sunday. | of the interesting questions to be in- Williams and Turner finished saw ! vestigated by the United States De- iog Monday and Turner has moved i partment of Agriculture at the ex his mill near Chapell Hill, Williams periment farm at Beltsville, Md. will stay at this place. j Boththe bacon and lard types will be Mr- A M Howell taken up his used, the former to be represented at work in Atlanta Monday. j the start by 4 Tamworth gilts and the J. O Renfroe went to Center Hill latter by 4 Poland-China gilts. Monday on business. | From weaning time until their first This section was visited by a mad , litters are weaned these 8 giltswiB dog Sunday and bit several dogs. | be grown and fed on a peanut ration. The Timmons boys were at County From the time of weaning their pigs Line Sunday with their music. A j will be fed on some hardening ration, collection was taken up which amoun- such as corn and tankage, and will be Singing at New Georgia First Sun day In June Everybody is invited to conic to tho si.iginir at New Georgia church tlie first Sunday in June. There will be many noted singers there. Among them will be the McBi’ayer class, of Rome. VIRGINIA BANKS AID FARMERS TO PURCHASE PURE.BRED SIRES The bank s of Charlottesville, Va.. .. :e cooperating with farmers of the surrounding county in obtaining p-.re bred sires- According to reporth received by the United States De partment of Agriculture, if a farmer will sell his grade or scrub sires and purchase pure-bred animals, the banks supply the necessary funds to cover the purchase of'(he pureofed sire over the amount received for the in ferior animal. The loan is made on basis of a year’s time. Sentiment among bankers regarding the use of pure-bred live stock in practical farming operations appears to be growing more favorable, and the attiude of the Charlottsville banks is evidence of this point. Pure-bred sj,re s of good qualityr-as shown by information obtained by the Bureau earning power of herds and flocks in which they are used, of Animal Industry, increase ]the D. D. CLUB MEETS Mrs. Clark Carver entertained the D- D. Club in a most delightful way Wednesday 'afternoon. Progressive rook was the feature of the afternoon, after which delicious sandwiches and tea were served. The next meeting will be held with Miss Louise Duncan. ted to about $19.00 tackle position on the All-Southet 1 eleven. He is also participated in other form s of athletics at Tech. Staton and Davis headed the lis* among the seniors on the Tech honor roll for this year which has just been made public- The honor roll i 3 com posed of students ranking highest ir. scholarship, only ten per cent rn each clasg being eligible- These two Yel low Jackets ' have Von many other scholastic honors. Doth of them have won the scholarship Gold "T” and have been selected for membershm in Phi Kappa Phi, honorary fraternity. Station is also assistant secretary of the Tech Y. M. C- A., tond a leader in religious work among (the students agony and his hours of recreation are spoiled by the dread of tomorrow. Find the work that isi/t work, and you have your reward—arich one THE JOY BELLS The greatest chime hells today are the bells on the cash registers ringing in the new era of prosperity. Their glad tidings are that the people are buying again-*-not buying what they do not want, but buying what they should have. These are indeed the joy bells that herald the better ti«e» Do your part in helping to keep these chimes ringing- MATRON’S CLUB ENTERTAINED The Matron’s Club met Friday afternoon with Mrs. R. C- Burton Progressive rook was the feature of the afternoon. After a most enjoyable .game, a delicious salad course was served. The next meeting of the Club will he with Mrs. Fred Duncan. compared with a check lot of pig^ whose dam s were fed on hardening feeds instead of peanuts during their development and gestation periods. When the pigs have been grown out and finished, some of each lot will be slaughtered to determine whether there is any difference in the car casses; that is, if the peanut ration fed to the mothers has made it more difficult i. ?ut a hard flesh on the offspring w*b corn. Notice On Saturday, June 3rd., all par ties who have not cleaned of graves at Sweetwater Church Cemetery, are requested to meet to finish cleaning off graveyard. , W. H. MEADOWS. BIBLE STUDY CLASS MEETS The Bible Study Class Circle No. 5 met with Mrs. Fred Duncan last Tues day afternoon. A number of the members were present and after a benificial study, delicious refreshments of sandwiches • and tea were served. NOTICE—FARM LOANS Farmers of Douglas County are hot taking advantage of benefits offered by Federal Land Bank. More than ten thousand dollars of our allotment has not been applied for up to this time. I will be at the Court-House on Saturday the 27th. for purpose of taking applications. Do not wait until late Saturday P. M. to come as it takes about 2 hours to properly fill an application. This will be the last chance on this allotment as all appli cations must be in bank by June 6th. and it requires considerable time to have farms appraised. Astor Merritt, Sec. THEY STILL WIN Winning is becoming moonotonous to the Douglasville ball team. ’They hung two more scalps to their belt Sat urday and Wednesday, when they crossed bats with the Scottdale and A. B. C’s- in decidedly one-sided games. A detailed report nest week. STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION JUNE 13-14-15 Columbus, Ga.—Plans for making the State Sunday School Convention, which meets in Columbus, June 13-14- 16, a succe s so far as local arrange- ments, of which W. H. Young is gene ral chairman. Assisting Mr. Young are the following sub-chairman: C. R. McAllister, Entertainment; J. R. Fitzpatrick, Registration; Hamlin W. ; Ford, Buildings and Ushers; T. C. Kendrick, Publicity; E. w. Stephens, Finance, Dr. F. M. Jenkins, Recep tion and Mrs. C. M. Trulock. Pageant. The invitation to meet in ColumbU9 thi s year was tendered by the Musco gee County Sunday School Associa tion, the Kiwanis Club, the Rotary Club, the City Federation of Women* Club, the City of Columbus through the Mayor, the Chamber of Com merce, the Muscogee Commissioner* and the Advertising Club. Tt^is understood that a strong array of out-of-state speakers and nbout thirty of the leading Sunday School workers of all denominations inGa. have been secured to take part on th# program, assuring one of the best programs ever presented at a gather- no- of this kind in the State. Hin ton Booth, of Statesboro, is Presi dent of the State Sunday School Asso ciation. and Will preside at a numbo* of the sessions, assisted by the vice- presidents and othsr tolling offlcUtt*