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Ccii CHRISTMAS SEALS
TO HELP HEALTH FiGHT
vVtr on the White Plague to Be Ad
vanced By Sale Which Begins
Deci-.mber 1st.
-wide preparations ; te nip..!
| v . ( urinK completion lor the rale '
, ,, Christmas seals, t‘- the bene
0 f the campaign against tuber-
which will be conducted in
(jeorgia this year from December 1
, 0 ii inclusive.
Thut the state will buy a heav
i uota Cl f these seals is confidently ex-
‘ >cU . ( j by the state-wide ^nti-tuber
'.r,,-i- association. Reports coming
:n ,' n , m practically every city and
unity in Georgia indicate a wide-
' ,. u ! interest in this effort to stamp
. t ] . great white plague and its
decimation, both of individ-
”,! 1 . and of valuable property,
j: cost of tuberculosis to the 1
conservatively placed * at
... three million dollars every 1
nd this amount does not in- :
' any estimate for the mental
and suffering either of the
,.>t . or of their helpless loved
figures are compiled exelu-
irom actual figures which val-
,!(.liars and cents the value to
• to of each life prematurely
■ t ..g, , |.y tuberculosis; the cost of
I,attention and nurses and the
.• , burial of the victims,
p , i it is remembered that it is
... il by specialists that eight
lout i : every nine deaths from this
would have been preventable
Ijf jn ciligently treated in the early
tagi 1 '. the necessity for supporting
he work of the fighters against this |
Imodoin plague is fully realized. This
ljidu is being waged through many
■channels, the chief of which however,
. ion. Education, beginning
, l.ihood, in proper sanitation,
spe food, proper living, will do j
no than any other one thing to 1
it i on this dread tax upon the .
j. I womanhood of the
pat ul nation.
T ; anti-tuberculosis seals which !
i ■ sold in Georgia this year
arrv i 1 .'.' double barred cross of the
nt, ukerculosis association. The
v raised goes all to the work
t-i ■' and is divided between the lo-
L a l woik iri the individual county
L tate organisation.
You can’t beat my prices on
wits or overcoats—come ;p and
let nit show you what l have and
get nrices before yon buv.
‘ At GEO. W.‘BARR’S
The Popular Priced Tailor.
jUF’. want ads bring results
UNION-RECORDER
ODD AND INTERESTING THOUGHTS ON ARMISTICE DAY j MILLEDGEV1LLE MAN
IN SPARTA THURSDAY
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
Goins of pure nickel are the most
difficult of ail to counterfeit.
•Doctors say that sitting with the
leg-s crossed is conductive w opesity.
Two year , ago on the 11th of No
vember the armistice which ended the 1 , . “
, , , A business engagement brought
world war went into effect and the Mr. John Harper) of Milledgeville,
(runs which had cost the lives ot to Sparta Friday. The visitor is
! nearly ten million men ceased firing,
he number ot bachelors over 35 1 o; u, v i <• . ,
whn vi i. , Since that day profound changes
Uho go to the altar as bridegrooms , ,
is steadily increasing. i have come ovor the world and its
.. j people. New times are ushered in
German guns were recently being 1 !lnd nevv conditions prevail. The
destroyed under the Peace Treaty at j vet T foundation of government have
i rate of 1,000 a week. ! been shaken and all human institu-
j tions have been put lo the test.
The inhabitants of Greater London 1 0ut ot " ar the wolld went into
equal in number all the men, women ! s P €C ulation, extravagance and all
and children in the whole of Canada, j manner of follies. Now at last the
world Jja a recovered its senses. The
smoke of the war has cleared away,
the passions it engendered have cool
ed a little and we begin to see in it?
true perspective the greatest catas
trophe of all time.
It is clear to us now that the
frightful di Auction of wav cannot
enrich the world. We cannot create
wealth by destroying it. There were
many who thought ‘he war had
ushered n a period of unprecendent-
ed prosperity. We now are unde
ceived. We realize that the world
has lost half it. working capital and
no alchemy of speculation, no leger
demain cf statistics, can hide this
momentous fact. The bubble of
A Persian carpet was in use for
over two hundred years in the main
ball of the palace of the Shah in
Teheran.
Toads in India are so used to
snatching at objects that they have
been known to snap up and cat red-
hot charcoal.
A newly-invented machine kneads
dougn with metal arms, which re-pro
duces exactly the movements of the
human kneader.
A boy who appealed before a Lon
don police magistrate recently admit
ted that he had one hundred situa
tions in two years.
well and most favorably known to
Sparta and Hancock county folk. He
is a native of this county and has
many relatives among its citizens.
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Harper
moved from this county to Milledge
ville, and since that time he has be
come identified with many Baldwin
county interests that have been de
veloped largely through his energy
and business sagacity. At present
he is clerk of the city of Milledge
ville.
Though he has lived in the Bald
win county capital for a quarter of
i century, Mr. Harper still feels a
strong attachment for the county of
his nativity and is deeply interested
in the well being of its citizens.—
Sparta Ishmaelite.
Listen to this: We are cutting the | Buggy Harness we have been sell-
j price on every thing in our store. For j >ng all the year for $32.50 cash, has
instance, we will sell a buggy or wa- been tut In $28.60. No decline in
! gon, for just what they cost us today pi ' oe at factory, decline only at our
in car lots to put them on our floor, Everything else in same pro-
Milledgeville Buggy & Furniture Co. i t’ on ‘
Milledgeville Buggy & Furniture C«.
WANTED—4, 5 or 6-room house in
town or inside the city linvts.
Anywhere so it will be convenient
to work in town. Please notify at
once, F. E. JONES, Sopevton, Ga.
prodigal spending has run its course.
It took his bitter experience to
bring the world to its senses. Hu
manity has just awakened from its
delirium—a kind of brain fever'that
resulted from the surgical operation
which cut off ten million men. There
v,.. i„„ • ... . i never was a surgical operation like
Nearly a dozen important streets „ 1 ,
that. Never a fever raged so fierce
ly as the one that seized the writhing
body of the race And swept the
whole world into folly.
Now the fever is gone and the
bedy of humanity is deeply depress
ed. Presently it will begin to gain
strength. The one thing that will
aid recuperation ar.d hasten the re
covery of strength is the old-fashion
ed virtue of industry, accompanied
hv another, occvcmy.
The govern ••it’s propaganda of
hr'ft became tiresome to the prodi-
• als, but rev they would lay its
truth to hi art. They have person
ally proven the fees that therg is no
sure road Vo wealth, comfort or in-
denendi ice, fo r rn individual or a
nation, but by industry and econ
omy. It is significant of a return
to ->v f .y that the salies of Thrift
WOOD FOR SALE—Will fill all
orders for cord wood at $6.50 per
peculation has burst; the mania for I cord beginning Oct. 1st. Cash with
Beira, in Portugese East Africa, is
a city of zinc. For all the buildings,
and almost everything else from rail
way cars to coffins, zinc is used.
in London have no house numbered
13, evidently in deference to the pop
ular superstitution which regards that
number as unlucky.
Nineteen heavily loaded freight
cars broke loose while being switch
ed from one track to another at
Troyes, France, and rushed downhill
towards a station. An employe jump
ed on a bicycle and raced along the
track parallel >vith the train, and
then, jumping on one of the fast-
moving cars applied the brakes and
prevented a serious collision.
order. J. H. ENNIS.
Paper bootlaces, made in Germany
are now on the market.
Blue-eyedi cats are almost always
deaf, while their voices are many
times louder than the voices of ordi
nary cats, probably because they can
not hear themselves.
WOOD FOR SALE—Will fill all
orders for cord wood at $6.50 per
cord beginning Oct. 1st. Cash with
order. J. H. ENNIS.
The grasshopper has its ears in its
legs; at least this is the case with
the long-horned varieties. In the ca c e
of short-horned grasshoppers, the
ears are at the back of the roots of
the wings. The position of the ear
on the leg is just below that pari ot
the front legs which is the equivalent
of a man’s knee. The ear varies a
good deal in form. In some cases
there is a slit in the leg, while in
others there is a film covering a
broader onening.
at i Savings Stamps increased 44 per
: in October.
It is a good idea to make Armis
tice Day a milestone which will mark
•the beginning of a new era of thrift.
It is that which will restore prosper
ity and make life worth living.
^ £3 £3&&& H OS £8« Kl
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MILLEDGEVILLE BUGGY AND FURNITURE CO.
Dealers in
BUGGIES, WAGONS and HARNESS,
SAMSON TRACTORS and TRUCKS,
AND OLIVER TRACTOR IMPLEMENTS.
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No Long Story to
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