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THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD FOR DOUGLAS COUNTIANS"
VOL. XLVI
OFFICIAL ORGAN
TOWN AMD COUNTY
DOUGUASVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948
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No. 52
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Can You Top This?.
Michael O’Neal Riley is one
little boy who will not lack for
attention at Christmas time for
he will be surrounded by doting
parents—great, great and great-
great—and other kith and kin
that runs from uncles and aunts
to great-great uncles and aunts,
and a host of cousins—one, two
and three times removed.
Michael, age 3 Vs years, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Riley,
has 11 living grandparents, five
great-great grandparents; 37
great-great uncles and aunts, 28
great aunts and uncles, and nine
plain uncles and aunts, that com
prise seven sets and four gene
rations.
He is the only great-grandchild
on his father’s* side and the only
grandson and great-grandson on
his mother’s side. He was born
on his daddy’s birthday, May 7,
1645, and both were bom on
Monday. Christmas Day marks
the seventh wedding anniversary
of his parents.
Michael, called the Silver Dol
lar baby because of money saved
by his parents, and turned into
silver dollars to pay for his doc
tor and hospital bills when born,
is the great-great-great-grandson
of Ypung Vansant who gave the
land on which Douglasville is
built. 1
Among the great-great uncles
and aunts that now live in Doug
lasville are: Mrs. J. R. Holland,
J. H. Thomas, Noah Vansant, D.
T. Vansant; and J. A. Brown, of
Lithia Springs. An uncle, Mr.
W. A. Vansant, passed away just
two weeks ago.
MICHAEL RILEY’S GRANDS AND GREATGRANDS—Front row
left'to right, Mr. W. O. Wilson, Mrs. W. O. Wilson, Mrs. J. W. Van
sant, holding Michael, Mrs. M. N. Brown, Mr. M. N. Brown—all
great-grandparents; top row, Mrs. J. R. Riley, grandmother, Mr.
Harold Riley,. Mrs. Harold Riley, Michael’s parents; Mrs. B. N.
Brown, Mr. B. N. Brown, grandparents, with Daisy, the dog in the
foreground.
Douglas Cranford Wishes
County A Merry Christmas
Master James Douglas Cran
ford, youthful namesake of
Douglas County, is shown here
wishing the good people of Doug
las County a Merry Christmas.
Douglas was a year old on No
vember 19. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Cranford. Mrs.
Cranford is the-former Miss Viv
ian Smith.
Because of the mother’s love
for her native’ county Mr. and
Mrs. Cranford .who. were then
living in Atlanta, decided to name
their- son for her beloved county,
hence the name of Dougals.
Douglas, who weighed four
pounds and five ounces at birth,
is now a husky, red-cheeked lad
weighing 24 pounds. For Christ
mas he will receive a United
States Savings Bond which will
be salted away for educational
purposes. The Cranfords have
high and . noble aspirations for
their son and if they have it in
their power they hope to educate
him to be a citizen that will be
a credit to his county, perhaps
like that of Stephen A. Douglas,
orator and statesman for whom
Douglas County was named.
DOUGLAS CRANFORD
Hen Lays 4- Ounce Egg
An egg’s an egg but sometimes
there’s more to an egg than you
would expect to find under a
hen.
J. H. McIntosh, of Route 1,
Winston, found an egg in his
chicken yard which plainly
showed the hen that laid it had
ambitions. The hen obviously
was impatient and determined to
get this egg-laying business over’
and done with, and tried to do
it all at onca. The egg weighed
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