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Cbe Glevelanfc Courier.
Official Organ of White County, Ga
Published Weekly At Cleveland Mu.
Jas. P- Davidson, Editor.
Entered at the Post office at Cleveland
Ga., as second class mail matter.
Subscription, 11.50 per year
in advance
Now it is believed that our trade
with foreigh countries will jump a'
a rapid rate, arid large markets in
Germany and Australia will be
found for our wheat, corn, cotton,
tobacco, and other farm products.
A scientist says “the atomacb
holds a pint,” but fails to tell us
where to find it.
Some men ride the cow catcher
of a train of thought and othhers
are content to hang on the rear end
of the caboose.
He (beside her on the divan)—
“Dearest, your pulse is beating ter¬
ribly fast.” She— “Bonehead.
that’s my wrist watch.”
Accidents are fewer in short
skirts, to the wearer, if not to the
beholders.
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey has
for the past week been very busy
answering, or trying to answer
some charges he had sent out in
pamphlet form dealing with peon¬
age, mistreatment and servitude of
negroes in Georgia by the white
people who had them employed.
One reading this pamphlet and
not knowing the conditions in
Georgia, would think we were a
horrible bunch of creatures. The
governor has carried the issue to
tire very extreme and it is time for
all loyal and law-abiding citizens
to s.iow their color and stand.
There are few cases where the
negroes of Georgia are cruelly
treated, and to make it appear that
every county is guilty of crime like
the Williams case in Jasper coun¬
ty, or nearly as bad, is a shameful
outrage to the dignity of the com¬
mon wealth..
As we see it, it ts the most sacred
duty of a high State official to raise
this most sacred dignity instead of
lowering it and giving it the black
eye, its the governor makes it ap¬
pear, for he names the county by
number so and so and the case
likewise.
Evety fair-minded citizen in
Georgia believes in seeing that the
negres are given juft ice, and they
get it, too. No one can deny these
facts.
White county was charged some
time ago as being one of the coun¬
ties in the mountains ot Nortli
Georgia as “driving out the ne¬
groes,” burning their homes and
shooting up their families. These
statements appeared in two of
Georgia’s metropolitan newspapers
and of conrse gained wide publici¬
ty, and we venture to say that the
reporter never put his foot on
White county’s soil. Had he done
so he never could have written such
an unjustified areicle about White
county.
You men who doubt these state¬
ments can have access to the :ourt
records,and there you will find that
we deal justice to all races indis¬
criminately, and we believe the
other North Georgia counties do
likewise.
It is true that in these mountain
counties moonshine liquor is manu¬
factured and sold freely, but it can¬
not be said that they are the only
ones manufacturing liquor. Any
sensible person knows better.
Don’t they make and sell it in Ma¬
con, Atlanta and Savannah? If
net, where do they get it? We do
confess that our mountains have
concealed many blockade stills and
4 hey make and sell liquor, possibly
■to the people living in Atlanta and
Macon, but they do not make
all that is drunk there, according
to the official analytical report giv
-en in the papers recentlr by an
lanta chemist who made the
of a quart of liquor reecently.
THE CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
The blockaders here would think it
a hanging crime to make such stuff
in the mountains.
We believe the governor
should be anxious to see that jus
tice is administered, but when he
tokes reports that have been
gerated and publishes them he has
gone too fur—that is where he
now. According to a report
fished in the Atlanta Journal Jan
uary 30, by Bishop Warren A.
Candler: The whole South
only sixty lynching*, and they
were to avenge the most
crimes, while in the North 600 un¬
explained assassinations occurred
and were hardly known to the out¬
siders, and many of them were per¬
petrated by hired gunmen. Yet,
some high official, seeking we know
not what, but not a political office
by the people, publishes it in clear
terms that we people of Georgia
and the Southland torture these
negroes in many untbought-of ways
when if the real facts were known
and thus disseminated, it would be
published that the negroes in Geor¬
gia and the Southland are, as a
whole, treated more humanely and
witli more justice and respect than
in the North.
Governor Dorsey is right insofar
as that justice should be adminis¬
tered, but when he actnally black¬
ens the whole State by some un¬
founded or exaggerated occurences
he has gone entirely too far.
Johnny Jones, thut clever young
editor of the LaGrange Reporter,
has this to say about a law abiding
citizen :
“Our idea of a law-abiding citi¬
zen is one who goes fishing and
really brings home some fish.”
Now, John, it might pessibly be
that we are wrong, but judging
from your article, fish must be very
scarce in Troupe county. Wliai
you need is a whiff of good moun¬
tain air and not fish—before you
go to the senate chamber in June.
Besides, we have the fish.
During all these times of commo¬
tion and financial depression, the
duties we owe to one another
should not be shunned. There are
of course, numerous duties we owe
to our living feliowrnen, but we
should not forget tire respect for
the many venerable characters who
are now resting beneath the sod in
the “City of the Dead.” Besides
these res pacts, it adds greatly to our
pride ef cleanliness, integrity and
progressiveness to make u good ap¬
pearance to onr visitors, and our
mountain town pride must make a
good impression on these visitors,
but to do this, friends, we must
get busy and sot it date and clean
off the Cleveland cemetoyy. Now,
don t wait very long in _ setting this
date. If you can’t go and work,
hire some one in your place.
It is well to bear in mind for the
preservation of good health to bavg
a balanced ration and moderate
eating.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C.J.Mend¬
ers, of Leo, twiu boys one day last
week.
Mr. G. \Y. IJ um ill, of fjixon,
Tenn., is visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Frank Carroll. This is Mr.
Hatnill’s second trip to Cleveland,
the first being when Mr. Carroll
was sheriff. Mr. Hainil thinks
things have changed considerably
since his first visit to our little city.
”
Rev. and . Xf Mrs. C. „ ... W. tT ,
son and children are spending
few days with Mr.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
derson.
Mrs. Jonn Davidson and Mrs.
Alex Davidson visited
Monday to attend the bedside of
their sister, Mrs. S, A.
has been very ill with
but is now improving.
Messrs. J. I . Iv. and
McDonald are visiting relatives
j Fitzgerald, Ga., at present.
j Dr J.
E. Norton is unable to
} 0111 this " eek on account of a
stroke ot P ;lra b »is.
The Cleveland and
] baseball teams met on the
| diamond, and after a terrific
the score was one run in favor of
Clermont.
A party ieft town Wednesday
mornlng for a few days fishing at
jj urton dam ; This lake is some 65
Qr ^ mile8 round it it and $ miles
across at the wi .lest place. The
'
Georgja Railway and Power C om
pany stocked it some years ag0
with three carloads of b!ack basS)
an<] u jg reporled t0 be the best
figH in the wllole Southl . tnd .
Besideg the bagS) there are moun .
tain trout in the streams that run
in the lake.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Wiley spent
the week-end with their son Henry
in Atlanta.
Mrs. A. G. Quinn is slowly im¬
proving aftera long illness.
NOTICE.
I have thoroughbbred Jer ey bull
for service at my home one and
one-half mile of Cleveland. Fee$i
at the gate.
R. W. Ash.
NOTICE
I have opened at my home (the
parsonage) a watcli and clock re¬
pair shop and earnestly solicit the
patronage of the general public.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
W. A. TATUM.
Legal Advertisements
Georgia, White County:
Will be sold at the court house door in
said county on the first Tuesday in June,
1921, within the legal hours of sale, to
wit: A one-half undivided interest in
and to parts of lots of land Nos. 118 and
139 in the third land district of said
county, containing two hundred and
eighty acres more or less. Said land
known as the Sanders Goss old home
place in said county, with alt improve¬
ments thereon, said property levied on
SS the property of G. W. Goss, to satisfy
an execution issued on the 22nd day of
April, 1921, from the Superior Court of
said county in favor of the Hank of
Helen, of Helen, Gip, and against G. W.
Goss aad Carlton Al|ey. Said property
now in the possession of (}. W. Goss.
Written notice of leyy given as provided
by statute.
Also at the same time and place the
following property: Part of lot of land
No. 128 and containing one hundred and
six acres of land surveyed, commencing
at n post where the Gainesville & North
' western Railroad the westei'ft
crosses
boundary line of said lot; thence south
the original line to the southwest original
line to the Cleveland ami Nacooohee
public ro#(lj thence the meandering o
said road going toward Haeo'ofilipe to a
rockrorner on the southwest bank o
said road; thence a straight line In a
northwesterly direction to where it
stakes Raid rai'road tracks to the begin
ning corner or starting point, exsept one
half acre, on. which stands the Stafford
i house, known as the Stafford bungalow,
This property is a part of the K. J. Hous¬
ton property in Tesnatee militia district,
White county, Ga., with all improve¬
ments thereon. Said land levied on as
the property of Mrs. M. M. Puckett ami
and "W. >?• Houston to satisfy a ti fa is¬
sued on the 4 th day of May, 1921, from
the city court of Atlanta. Poitou county,
Georgia, in favor of American Savings
Bank and against Mrs. M. M. Puckett
and W, 8, Houston. Written notice of
leyy given as required by statute.
This 9th day of May, 1921.
W. A. Jackson, Sheriff.
Frost Proof Cabbage Plants
One hundred acres, thirty million good
stocky plants, ready now. Early Jersey,
Charleston Wakefields, Succession, Flat
j Dutch. $1.50; Parcel $2.50: post paid, 800, *1.00; 500
1000, express, 2000, $3.50;
5000, $7.50; 10,000, $ 12.50. Count and
delive , y g „ aran teed.
Parker Farms, Moultrie, Ga.
I
MALE HELP WANTED
Get busy; keep busy. Is your job un¬
safe f Is it permanent? You want a
life-long business. You can get into
such a business, selling more than 187
Watkins products direct to farmers if you
own auto or team or can get one, if you
can give bond or personal securities. We
back you with big selling helps; 52 years
in business; 20,000,000 users of our prod
u C t s , Write for information where you
can get territory. J. R. WATKINS CO.,
Dept, ill, Winona. Minn.
_
MALE HELP WANTED
WA NTED— Man with team or auto to
sell our p roduc ts in this county. Men
aiu * - Mromen cit v work also
-
wanted. St'Bte whether yen tirefer city
ur wmitry worts, iueuuun tuis
MaCcmuon & Co-, Winona, Mina. 5 30
IN MEMORY
OF MRS. ELIZA TURNER
On Marc h26, 1921, as the sun
was going down behind the west¬
ern horizon, the death angel visited
the home of Mr. J. L. Turner and
took away his dear companion.
She had been sick for quite awhile,
but bore her pain with fortitude.
She told friends who visited her
during her sickness that she did
not fear death, for she was ready
to go, and wat glad to make the
exchange from this world of sorrow
to a land of a never fading glory.
She leaves behind a husband and
two children to mourn her, besides
a host of relatives and friends. She
lived the life of a true Christian
and went about doing good and
speaking kind words, spreading
sunshine and gladness, visiting the
sick and helping those in distress,
always exemplifying the life of
Christ. She was a kind wife and
and mother, always trying to make
her home bright and happy. She
died in the arms of her husband
with a bright smile on her face.
She was laid to rest in Town
Creek cemetery before a large con¬
course of people. Rev. Sam Wat¬
ers, ol Lumpkin cocnty, and Bro¬
ther Crumbey, of Helen, conducted
the funeral service 1 .
She has gone to Yonder City,
To abide forever more.
To a land of fadeless beauty, •
She has reached a brighter shore.
Barth has lost a precious jewel,
God’s own hand was in it all;
In His wisdom it hae pleased Him,
She was ready for His call.
How it fills our hearts with sadness
As we speak the last goodbye;
We will soon meet in gladness,
Where true pleasures never die.
The time draws whan from the clouds
Christ shall with shouts descend,
And the trumpet’s awful voice
The heavens and earth shall rend.
The saints of God from peath set free
With joy shall mount on high;
The heavenly host with praises loud
Shall meet them in the sky.
A few short years of sorrow past;.
We reach the happy shore;
Where death divided fppnde at last
tjha.ll meet to part nq iqore.
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Atlanta, Ga.
These ashes too, this little little dust,
Our Father’s care shall keep
Till the last angels rise and break
The iong and dreary sleep.
Written by her niece.
Miss Cona Nix.
Goosebone Rain Prophecy
-
Wben crickets sing sharply rain
Rain is approaching when geese
wash in flocks.
When flowers close their petals
in daytime prepare for rain.
When chickens go to roost in the
day time rain is sure to fall.
When the roosters go crowing to
bed be sure that rain will shortly
fall.
When the housefly is unusually
troublesome predict an early show¬
er.
When the leaves of the trees
show their under sides one is safe*
in predicting rain.
When women’s curls go out of j
curl it is well to carry an umbrella
with you.
When the owls seek shelter in j
the barn rain is almost certain to 1
fall within a few hours.
Notice
To take care of our summer travel, we wish to announce the follow¬
ing change in “Sunday” Passenger Train Schedule, to take effect Sun
day, May 29th, 1921, and to continue throunb August 27, 1921 :
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY “NO CAANGE”
SUNDAY ONLY
Train No. 5—Leave Robertstown,.Ga., 7 :I 5 a - m -! arrive Gainesville
Ga., 9 :25 a. m.
Train No, 6—Leave Gainesville, Ga., 9 - 3 ° a - m arrive Robertstown,
-,
Ga., 11 15! a. m.
Train No. 7—-Leave Robertstown, Ga., 4 =30 p. m.; arrive Gainesville,
Ga,, 6:4c) p. m.
Train No. 8—Leave Gainesville, Ga., 6:45 P- m -! arrive Robertstown,
Ga., 9 :05 p. m.
1 liis will give our patrons about four and one half hours to spend
at Nacoochee and Helen. Both have the very best hotel accommoda¬
tions, also you can enjoy a fine dinner and a mountain climb.
This notice is given in accordance with the requirements of the
Georgia Railroad Commission.
Gainesville # Northwestern Railroad Company
B. S. Barker, V. P. & G. M. J. H. Lambert, Gen. Pass. Agent
When the birds fly low and spar¬
rows fly in large flocks the rain
prognosticator is safe in warning
of a shower.—LaGrange Reporter.
NOTICE
I will stand my celebrated Stal
lion, Jim Reape, at nty home in
Cleveland this season. I will be at
home every day, except from it
o’ clock A. M. until 3 130 P. M.
Fee will be $15 for a living colt.
The owner must take all responsibil¬
ity of his mare. I will use all care
possible to protect both mare and
horse.
Frank Carroll.
WE START YOU in the candy business
at home, small room or anywhere; ev¬
erything furnished; earn $30.00 weekly
up; men—women; experience unneces¬
sary; advertise candy. Send self-ad¬
dressed stamped envelope for free par¬
ticulars. Bon-Ton Candymakers Co.,
Desk A, Broad St., Philadelphia. Pa.
$30.00weekly up; homework; experience
unneceesary; everything furnished;
send self-addressed stamped envelope for
free particulars. Bon-Ton Candymakers
Co., Desk B, Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa.
