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DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1922.
NUMBER 32
DOIGLAS COUNTY
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Would be Qreat Help—
When Farmers Need
Every Available Assis
tance. ,—
Just at this time it seems to us, we
need the services of a capable County
Agent to help the farmers in an aggres
sive campaign for diversification and the
fights that must be made on the boll
weevil.
Tike loss sustained the past season by
the farmers for lack of capable advise
was sufficient to have paid the salary
of a competent man several times over.
But in the past not all farmers have
been willing to co-operate as fully as
they should, but after the experience
of the past -,v e believe that ever) one
is ready* * &
A good man can be secured at a
very small cost to the county that can
pay big dividends on the investment-
The commissioners, the county School
hoard and the business interests of the
town should get together and rais e suf
ficient funds to supplement the out side
funds that are available and make it
possibl e for early plans for successful
farming for another year.
Lets get busy. This is vitally im-
, portant*
In Memory of Little Albert
Phillips
Mrs. August Burg-
hard Praises D’ville
As silently as the first frosts of Aut
umn caus e the leaves to release thei:
hold and drift back to mother Earth;
the Angel of- death entered the home
of Mr. and Mrs- W. A. Phillips on
last Friday evening Nov- 10th and
claimed the life of their seven year old
son, littl e Albert-
He was a loving and obedient child,
possessed tvith a sunny disposition and
was a precious' jewel in th e home.
He was sick two weeks with pneu-
moina, but bore his suffering very
patiently- His death cast a shadow of
darkness over the community*
He leaves a father and mother, five
sisters and four brothers and many
friends and relatives to mourn his death.
H e has been taken from the rugged
paths of earth but now lies safe in the
arms of Jesus-
We extend our heart felt sympathy
to the bereaved family and bid them
look beyond the misty vale by living
close! to- the Savior and trusting him,
tome sweet day we shall meet around
th e great white throne to live forever-
While little Albert peacefully sleeps.
His memory we will always keep
This early bud so young and fair,
Called hence by early doom
Just come to show how sweet a flower
In paradise would bloom.
Will you allow me spac e in your
paper fo express the appreciation of th c
Gtorgia White Ribboners for the count
less courtesies and kindnesses extended
by Douglasville citizens during the re*
cent State Convention of the Georgia
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union?
So delightfully were the delegates to
e 1921-22 convention entertained in
your city that they talk as if they would
take up the delegate habit or profession,
like the third little girl in the story
where the three small girls were dis
cussing what they intended to become
when they grew up. The first said she
was going to be a musician, the second
a teacher, while the third, whose mother
must have< attended the Douglasville
convention, declared, ‘‘When I grow up
I am going to be a delegate ”
All over the state those so fortunate
as to represent their Unions at the con
vention, are praising Douglasville at
borne, in meetings and in the press,
praising the Douglasville W.C.T.U.,
the editor and W.C.T.U. edition of
The Douglas County Sentinel, the min
isters, teachers^ children, the mayor
bankers, druggists, merchants, the White
Ribbon decorated streets and store win
dows, praising the charm of Douglas
ville homes and people, praising Doug
lasville as a. whole and Douglasville
itemized.
The W.C.T.U. is glad that Douglas
ville is “a lover of hospitality a lover
of good women, sober, just, holy, tempe
rate.” The W.C.T.U. is glad to have
proved that Douglasville Is ‘‘given to
hospitality,” for even the memory is a
joy.
The Georgia W.C.T.U. thanks every
one in Douglasville who contributed in
any measure to the success of the con
vention and pleasure of the delegates,
knowing that ,“oft good turns are shuf
fled off with such uncurrent pay” as
mere thanks but because \f the renew
ed strength and enthusiasm acquired at
the convention, Georgia White Ribbon
ers will add to their thanks, harder
work for the annihilation of th^ liquor
traffic in the state, the protection of
Georgia homes and the ideal conditions,
the triumph of Christ’s Golden Rule in
custom and in law.
A 'Sorghum Industry
For Lieprgia
(By F. //. Smith, Chemist,
About one-fourth > as much sorghum
syrup was mad e in the United States in
F. K IH. MERGES
WITH GEORGIA'
STATE BANK
Yours ‘‘For God and Home and Every
Land.”
• Mrs. August Burghard-
Director of Publicity Ga. W.C.T.U.
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METHODIST CHURCH
, Under appointment from the North
Georgia Conference a nd in the provi
dence of God, we begin our fourth year
,as Pastor of the MethodisT church in
Douglasville-
Never in 'Our own ministry has more
been said and done, we believe, to make
a pastors return easy and inspiring
The .friendship and good will of a
community regardless of church or af
filiation is to us the highest earthly com
pensation to be desired. Every kind
word and act directed to the pastor and
his family is heartily appreciated. ,
We have been brought under renewed
obligations to you and to our gracious
Father in Heaven to render the first
service of which w e are capable through
the coming year-
The cordial relations into which we
have e ntered, furnish a splendid basis
for larger success in our labors togethr.*
Looking to God for wisdom and grac>
we pledge ourselves to the highest
ministry of which We are capable in
your ^behalf.
, Faithfully yours,-
W H- Cl?rk.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
George IF, Light, Pastor
CARD OF THANKS
We want to extend to our many
friends our heart felt thanks for their
kindness and sympathy shown us during
the sickness and death of our little boy.
May God's richess blessings be upon
you all is our prayer. ^
Mr. and Mrs, W. A. Phillips ^
^ . and children
The number of Young men and
women volunteering for foreign mission
work under our foreign mission Board
has not been equaled by any other de
nomination since Jesus was on the world-
God is dealing with our young people
and the needs of a suffering world are
calling for them. Shall w e sacrifice and
keep faith with our contract with God
when we launched the 75 million cam
paign, or shall we hesitate and thereby
discourage our young people who, like
Isoiah; are saying: “Here am I, send
me?”
Southern Baptists have increased their
contributions to all their causes in thc
last three years of adversity more than
$43,000,000 over what they did in the 3
previous years of prosperity. That
Just cause for thankfulness- God is
evidently pleased with it as is shown by
the great numberof convertions and bap--
tisms during these three years and !»;.
the number he is calling unto the ut
most corners of the earth- FFurtherpiorc
during these last three years when hun
dreds of banks and other business and
-finincial institutions have failed, we have
not had as many as one failure among
all our institutions and we have 9S0
general state and Association boa-'*,
650 schools in home and foreign fields
37 hospitals at home and abroad, 19
orphanages, 27,0001 churches, and] 18
great Baptist papers. Surley God’s pres
erving ppwer and care has been over
all th e courses fostered by us.
AH this should call us to loving con
secration and sacrifice.
Moreover God’s blessing is upon our
local work in a marvelous degree- We
are - notrealizing what we would like
to. have in tangible results but the atmos
phere in our church services is healthy,
bracing and invigorating. When you go
once you fjel as if your were wirh
God’s people and that they really loved
the Lord.and we ar in ern©st about his
work-There is a seriousness of purpose
that gives hope for the future.
Sunday was a real good day. The
flower servite in the closing moments
of die Sunday School was one of deep
1921 as was produced in 1880. The
lowest prices for the cro P werc
received in Mississippi, Georgia, ^and
Alabama. In Georgia the production
was 3,478,00 gallons and the average
price was forty cents a gallon. In
Minnesota the price stood right around
one dollar, and in other states was even
higher. Georgia produced 90 gallons
per acre and Minnesota produced no.
Several factors, aside from the com
petition of sugar cane syrup caused the
lower value of th e southern grown sor
ghum.. In Georgia for instance, sorghum
syrup is mostly made in the small farm
plants,and about the only uniformity
between the small lots of syrup is the
lowed quality*. Uniformity and high
quality is obtained in the syrup made
in larger plants where the manufacture
is controlled by scientific methods. *
In Georgia practically th e only clari
fication during the evaporation is that
obtained by skimming. For sorghum
juice skimming is not sufficient to pre
vent cloudy syrup, but it is the only
process adaptable to small outfits*
Sorghum syrup making requires close
chemical control. Th e juice contains
more-gummy substances and suspended
matter than cane juice. The acidity is
too high and must be corrected by add
ing lime—not too much or the color or
flavor will b e impaired. If the sorghum
milled with the leaves on, the syrup
will be of, a lower quality, and strip
ping and, heading by hand increases the
cost to a greater extent than with sugar
cane. The color can be improved by
decolorizing, material^.
The utilization of by-products is an
advantage the sorghum industry offers.
The leaves and bagasse will afford 85
per cent of the fuel needed to make
the syrup in a large size- plant^ and th e
seed is an additional source of revenue.
There is room for . muijh improvement
totfard a variety givja^ high syrup
yields, and the possibilities in this line
re great since sorghum is a plant that
is readily bred for certain qualities. By-
lection and combination of varieties
maturing at succeeding dates and keep
ing well in the field after cutting the
milling season can be lengthened. Jm-"
provements in - harvesting arid stripping
machinery can be made, while very good
\nachines for both purposes are already
the market.
is not likely that any small grow°r
making his own crop into syrup cane can
ever make improvements in all th^se
directions. A combination of efforts by
■establishing larger central plants would
permit improvement in quality of pro
duct and economy of production, to say-
nothing of advantages in marketing.
Ther° is here in Georgia a field 'for the
development of a few well located sor
ghum syrup plants of the larger size.
A financial deal of considerable mag
nitude and of much interest to this sec
tion occurred Tuesday when a merge
was formed between the Farmers and
Merchant Bank of Douglasville and the
Georgia State Bank of Atlanta one of
the big financial institutions of the state-
The name was changed Wednesday
and the Farmers and Merchants Banx
became the Douglasville Branch of the
Georgia Stat e Bank*
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
has aJway^ been a successful and safe
institution and Mr. N. R. Henderson,
who has been its pbpular cashier will
remain in the same capacity with the
new and larger institution, and having
the backing and being a part of a< half
million dollar enterprise, will be
much better position to care of the de
mands of its customers.
Douglasville is indeed fortunate in
that its two banks—one a branch of
the Georgia State Bank with its great
resourses and the other a member of
,the Federal Reserve System with its
unlimited capital-
Rev. W. H. Clark
Returns
Douglasville rejoices in the news that
the North Georgia Conference saw prop
er to return Brother Clark td the Doug
lasville charge.
fttie Douglasville church wanted him
returned because he is one of the most
SURE METHOD OF
INC WEEVI
IS DISCOVERED
abl e preachers the church A^s ever had.
The town wanted him because he is not
only a preacher but a citizen of the
highest type, taking an active interest
in every movement for the betterment
of the community.
IJhe people of the community were
anxious for his return because of his
excellent family. A master’s useful
ness is either augmented or retarded by
the influence of his family, and it is jus
tice to say that Brother Clark is greatly
strengthened in that Mrs. Clark, is
herself a great factor in the mbral and
religious life of the town. She is ac
complished, and conseciated and com
mands the respect and admiration of
all who know her.
And the children. Did you ever
know a, family of more lovable children
than those of the Clark family? They
re indeed examples of what proper
home influences mean to the children of
family. Suffice it to say that Doug
lasville is to be congratulated on
return of the Clark -family.
Developing Georgia
and/ joyful meaning. He a rts warmed
with a sense of the tie that hinds,were
made to beat faster while eyes were
dimmed with moisture- Not only did
that* service give an opportunity' for the
expressionof that love already existing
but I am sure it deepened the love one
has-for another.
The T- E. L. Bible study class
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs- Ma
The pastor had to he in ameeting at
the time with some Associationalworker
but th e study went right on. The in
terest in his class in the study of tlv
Bibles such /that it ’does not depend
upon the presence of any one person even
the pastor. While this takes away some
of the liv c sense of self importance il
nevertheless gives him a renewed ap
preciation of th ability and determination
f these ladies to find out what God
has ^written.
jr meeting with Brother DeVor.e
preaching for us is just one month off
this week. It begins December the 10th.
Next SSunday night we are to have
with Us Mr. H- E- Montague, he is
doing a great work with the Hi-Y boys
Georgia. He will speak on some
phase the /‘Father and Son” subject.
The Baptist people al{ extend Christ
ian greeting to th<$ new Methodist
preacher and family, and the news
comes ahead of him that he is thor
oughly orthodox - in the number of his
children fo'r a Methodist preacher.
We all love Bi-other Clark and are
glad along with his people for his re
turn.
George W- Light, Pastor.
Arm on Rltaal Hfffe
The wettest Oreo In the world Id 00
610 Khasl hnts. In Asanm.
The success that has rewarded the
business activities of the White Provision
company, which lias just completed the
process of increasing its paid up capital
stock from $600000 to $1,000,000, sug
gests what this and similar institutions
have done and are doing toward the d3-
velopment of Georgia, agriculturally
and commercially.
This company was founded twelve
ye a rs ago’ and is a pioneer in the pack
ing and commercial live stock industries
this state.
Its growth from its original meager
proportions to the great institution which
l is today has been a constant attestation
f the possibilities of Georgia as a pro
ducer of the best grades of meats and
meat products.
it is a convincing object lesson of
hat can be done in Georgia by diversi
fied farming—the growing of foodstuffs
and of feed crops to be converted int^
live stock—the system of farming which
The Constitution has been advocating
in season and out of season for, practi
cally half a century.
A11 idea of the extent to which an
institution of this kind benefits all other
lines of business and enhances the pros
perity of the entire community is supplied
by the following statements taken from
a pamphlet recently issued by the White
Provision company:
The company buys its livestock, cattle,
sheep* and hogs locally, and throughout
the south, and manufactures a complete
line of high class packing house products
The vast quanity of raw materials,
mostly cattle and hogs, purchased by
this company are grown mainly on the
farms of this state, thereby we are
sustaining the fuhdamental!» of our home
independence, and 'building a
Georgia enterprise, investing our money
and energies in the agricultural develop
ment 'of this state, and in doing
arc contributing to the industrial and
educational development of pur city
state. We furnish the farmers a ready
cash market for their live stock;
purchases from Georgia farmers alone
this year will exceed a million dollars.
We are spending large amounts in
’Atlanta and Georgia (or supplies enter
ing into the operation of our plant. We
pay out more than $25,00 annually for
boxes made in Atlanta; $10,000 is spent
for cotton cloth used in wrapping ham*
and bacon. We *use imany carloads
of Georgia hickory wood in smoking
hams and bacon. We pay out more than
$25,000 annually for paper containers
made in Atlanta, used in our sausage
packing department*. Another $25,000
is paid for lard pails and cans m*ade in
Atlanta.,*
These expenditures for supplies and
many others; too numerous to mention,
amounting to many- additional thousands
of dollars, help to keep our home labor
employed and our home plants going.
What this firm is doing to develop
Georgia is being done to a greater or
less extent by every other packing plant
or other manufacturing institution that
is operating in-this state.
Each creates a demand for the raw
products, the sale of which makes pros
perity for the farmer; and each supplirs
a market for various manufactured com
modities. to the end that ©very merchant
every business and every professional
man, every laborer and the community
as a whole, are directly oif indirectly
benefited and share its prosperity.-—At
lanta Constitution.
Florida Expert Evolves
Plan Which Has Brought
Astonishing Results in
Experiments There.
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A TRUE STORY
(Bv Brownlee Frix}
COPYRIGHT, 1922. '
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About the year 1784 In a little cabin
home in the mountains of Wales a girl
child was born, whose name was Mary
Jones- As she grew older she and her
father and mother often went to the
little Methodist meeting house and this
child became intensely interested in the
Bible stories. Her two great ambitions
were to learn to read and to own a
Bible.
In those days schools were scarce arid
Bibles printed in th e Welsh language
were few and the prices which were
asked for them were beyond the reach
of the average man or woman in that
section.
When sh e was ten or eleven years old
a school was started about two miles
from her home and when Mary was
told that she might attend,/she fairly
danced with delight. “If this is the
way it’s going to Bfe, Jacob,’’ said Mary’s
mother to her father, “I shall wish
there had never been a thought of a
school at Abergnolwyn- The child’s
J off her head that she goes about like
one in a dream; what it’ll be when that
school begins, I daren’t think.” At
last the long three weeks went by and
Mary Jones who had hundred and pray
ed for khowledge was there the first
morning, eager to learn to read the
wonderful Book which she was deter
mined to own someday.
One of her teachers was Lewis Wil
liams. This man was exceedingly igno
rant himself, but he started a school
and kept just ahead of his pupils in
the hooks he taught. It was a case of
“the blind leading the blind” or rather
of pulling oneself and a whole' class
out of the darkness into the light-
IF hen Lewis Williams joined the Church
he was asked this question: “If Jesus
Christ asked you to do some work ^for
Him, would you do it?”
“Oh y-es! whatever He required of
s I would do at once!” he said.
He started a school and a Sunday
school, ignorant as h e was, because 1 he
felt the urge to do something, anr his
influence will never stop going this side
of Eternity!
Mary Jones learned to read and she
often visited a lady two or three miles
away, who allowed her to read her
Bible.
Every penny that she could save was
dropped into a little box, and saved.
At last when sh e was sixteen' she had
enough money to pay for a Bible and
she walked 25 miles to th e town of
Bala to buy if. Spending the night
with her uncle who lived In that town
she and he went the next morning to
see Rev- Mr. Charles who sold Bibles.
“The consignment of Welsh Bibles
that I received fztaa London last year
was sold out rrrwiflls ago, excepting a
few copies which I have kept for friends
whom I must not disappoint,” said Mr.
Charles. .
Mary Jones who had saved all heF
money for six years and who had walk*
ed with bare feet twenty-five , miles Just
to get a Bible, could nof stand to hear
him talk like tW and wept as if ail
her neo*' , » •T*r*
Gainesville, Fla.,—Removal of all
squares (bracts subtending the flowers)
from cotton plants at a time when virt
ually all cotton boll weevils are out of
their winter quarters in Florida about
June 5—and destruction of the squares,
followed immediately ,by a thorough
application of calcium arsenate or lead
arsenate with a suitable dusting ma-
chine, is the method developed for con
trol of the weevil announced Saturday
night by Dr. Wilmon Newell, plant
commissioher for the st~te plant board
and director of the University- of Florida
experiment station, it vvlTS disclosed to
day by the official bulletin on the sub
ject. Dr. Newell termed the develop
ment a “solar-plexus blow” to the wee-
and stated that fields which had
undergone the treatment had produced
virtually as much cotton as before its
advent. George D. Smith, associaie
entomologist working under the aus
pices of the state plant board, was given
credit for evolving the new method of
combating the pest which has cost the
southern planter hundreds of millions
of dollars.
The long known fact that th e weevil
can be poisoned effectively during the
period preceding the appearance of
the first squares played the leading part
in Mr. Smith’s work. Applications of
poison at this time kills virtually all
weevils emerging later deposit their eggs
in the early squares, starting the sea
son’s infestation. After the ssuares de
velop the adult weevil is difficult to
ppison and because th e eggs and larvae-
are within the squares the poison h
no effect upon them. t rj
By stripping the first squares,' r/O
and larvae deposited by the overwi
ed weevils are removed, says the b
tin. This disposes of the weevil
geny but a considerable number of
weevils remain. These, depriv
the squares, in which to 'hide - .
which to feed, turn upon th*
squares in which to hide and
to feed, turn upon the termin
ing bud of the plant for fo—
the squares out of the way l - -
it is simple to literally fill
bud with poison from a dust gun. \
At this time the over-wintered weft
vils have only a few more days to livA
and their instinct to survive urges them\
to feed liberally. Application of poi
son to the terminal buds at this stage
has been followed in all the experiment
by the destruction and practically evt 7
weevil that escaped was ccaptured U
the stripping operation. ^
With the over-wintered weevils ;
their progeny disposed of, no additio
weevils of any consOquencce will co„. y
to the field before the annual migration^
which in Florida usually takes place
about August x. Cotton bolls which
are more than half grown when the
summer migration occurs succeed iu
maturing and opening because the firs:
migatory weevils arriving in the fields
late in July turn to the squares .and do
not attack the green bolls to any extent.
Ini this respect the treated field, on
arrival of the first migatory weevils,
1 a condition comparable to that of
any ordinary cotton field earlier in ihe
season—while weevils are destroying
the squares the bol^ largely- escapes
• attack.
by Dr. Newell at from $1.50 to $2 an
(The cost of the treatment was placed
acre, including labor.)
My dear child, I see you ilfuj/ have
have a Bible B It is impossible yes*
impossible ‘to <refusq you,” said Mr.
Charles, and Mary Jones smiled through
her tears- Holding the Book to lief
heart sh e thanked them C.fflk *a£ waik-
ed back atone to her little home twenty*
ftve miles up the road.
• That winter Mr. Charles Visited Lon
don. He wanted to establish a society
for the diffusion of Bibles in Waies.
He spoke feelingly of Wales and its
poverty ih Bibles and told the story of
Mary. Jones- ‘ An earnest desire took
h^jd of his congregation not only to
send Bibles to Wales but to evei^;
tongue arid tribe in th*e whole world
arid The British and Foreign Bibl e So
ciety was born, That society rind Itri
giant child, Th e American Bible So-
cletv, have .. v
v..o; l*.e» • -.cut t!i