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THE CLEVELAND COURIER
VOL. XXX 11 , No. 4
ASBESTOS BUZZING
Just from the Mountains.
Uncle George Dover is now
building him a little lioude over at
Hardwood Station on tlie G. &. N.
W. K. R.
Mr, Charlie Jackson, from I es
nuteeVariey, was up this way Wed¬
nesday hunting him a milch cow.
The story is now going that one
of our oldest citizens was once sick
and the doctor told him to take
about an ounce oi scorping juice,
lie didn't know how much an
ounce was and he consulted the
the dictionary, which said it took
six‘ecu drams to make an ounce.
So lie look tliat many large ones
and lie was on a drunk all through
the fall. If it had been the product
that our giandfatiters once turned
out it would have made him love
every body lor a few hours and he
could have slept it oft tli.it night
and been himself next day again.
White Comity was formed most¬
ly from 11 abershain wilh a small
st i ip from Lntnpkin in 1N37. Mt.
Bill Shelton, wi.o once lived in
Cleveland at the place where Mr.
John White now rosides, was in
the legislature at that time. 1 he
people took a notion lor a new
county and it was named Wiiite
for a Rev. George White, who was
in the house at the same time and
helped get the local bill through.
Cleveland was"named ic honor of
General Cleveland. of Ilabetsharn,
who was in the Indian wars when
they carried them across the
“Fathers of Waters’" in 1836. It
was first known as*Mt, 5 onali.and
the militia district is still known
by that name.
The first gold found in Georgia
was in \\ bite county by a Mr.
Bowen, and Home say it was
by another fellow. It seems to be
not known for certain.
The largest nugget of gold evet
found east oi the Mississippi river
in the l S., was found by Mr.
John 1 *. Thurmond and weighted
a little over 50x1 pennyweights. So
this county, like California, was
once a gold region and the L. S
had a •mintat Dalilonega, which
was converted into N. G. A. A.
afterwards. The pioneers didn’t
get all the gold for there is plenty
more stored away in these “ever¬
lasting hills,” only waiting for tin
touch of a magic hand. The story
goes that a little ‘ellow once coulci
look across the deep ravine and set
the house with the golden windows
as seen by others on the other sid<
of the gorge. Bnt all i» not gold
that glitters.
Land For Sale.
Just outside the incorporatt
limits of Cleveland, Gu., one 117
acre lot and one 40 acre lot. Tin
price is tight. We are to gel
eie:trie lights soon and evety ini
provement makes property advuno
in price Now is the lime to bn
land. For particulars see.
T. J. McDonald.
FOR RENT.
Mv farm located in Snonl Creek
d^triet of W hite county, G1., 1
for sale or rent.
If interested, write me at loo W
Cherry fM., Winslow, Arizona.
A. O. L tPrude.
FO R SALE
One good cow with young
A good milker.
W. II. Clark.
Robert Mown,
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Devoted to the Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Interests ol White County
FLAT CREEK NEWS
Hy A Writer Much Flat
Well, the weather is still kinder
watery round about here. It would
be a fine time for fish to take an
outing and spend a JJlew days on
land. Don’t think it dry enough
to hurt them very much.
Not much of anything happen¬
ing around here these days, except
Uncle Levi Wtiiklewhisker’s wood¬
en leg lias an abcess formed, which
started from a place the Blue birds
pecked out to build in. Dan Doo¬
little. the cow doctor, says he
thinks that by close attention he
can save Uncle Levi's leg. DoCtoi
Doolittle is using great precaution
in treating the case, lie uses 110
implement larger than a halt inch
1 uger or a small dodge hammer
when examining the would for tear
of infection in the good leg. Doc
keeps it bathed in a solution o!
poison ivy aud administers a hy¬
podermic of strong tobacco juice
once a day. ’Tis thought as soon
is UneleLevi becomes conscious he
may get belter.
Well, sir, the road proposition
reminds one of the scripture where
it speaks of putting new wine in
old bottles. Every time we get
some road it seems tliat the bad
roads gets “builder. A good gun
barrel may be straight and strong
and good at belli ends, but if there
be a bad place in the middle. \Y hy
bless your soul it wont shoot.
Quite a lot of the “Blues” in the
country right now. So iar they
haven’t killed any one, but as this
has been an uncommon year we
can’t tell what might happen, but
we hope for sunshine, health arrd
paid off notes.
Try to write some mote next
week if this happens to get “writ’
and then “git” read.
Have Your Eyes Examined,
Guarantee! Glasses Fitted
Coming again to
CLEVELAND
Wednesday, Nov. 20.
be at
Dr. T, J. McDonald’s Dental Office
Dr. II. C. Thomason
Special Reprrsentative from
TIIF A TLANTA [OPTICAL
Company
Take this opportunity to consult
i graduate and registered optomet¬
rist about your eyes.
Ask Yourself These Questions.
D your eyesight failing?
Do you suffer from headaches?
Do you have nervous spells?
I.)o your eyes run water, burn or
itch ?
Do your eyes get bloodshot and
feel like they are full of sand rj
Do you have pains in and about
your eyes ?
Does everything run together
when you read or sevi?
Do you have to hold your work
it arms length to see it clearly?
After reading or seVving for a
evv minutes, does everything run
or fade out ?
Do you get tired and sleepy from
trying to read or sew?
THESE ARE BUT A FEU
)F HIE MANY SYMPTOMS
)F EYE TROUBLE.
Make our place your headquar¬
ters when in Atlanta. We an
located at
Ivy SC. and Ldgewood Ave.
Plenty of Good Parking Space
C. X. FITTS & SON NUR¬
SERY', Located at Dablonega.Ga.
Let us bsve your orber for Fall
shipment of apple and peach trees
for home or commercial orchards,
C. X. Fitts X Son Nurserymen,
Established 1894
Dalilonega, Ga.
CLEVELAND, GEORGIA, NOV. 15 , 1920
SHOAL CREEK ITEMS
In (he past landlord would trade
tenants off to one another, but two
of our tenants, Mr. Aaron Palmer
and Mr. Lon Ge trn swapped land¬
lords with eaclt other. The Conner
movieg to the residence of the lat¬
ter, and the latter moving to the
residence of I lie residence of the
former, both helped each other
moved.
Will the correspondents tell ti'
in next week’s Courier, What your
essential things are necessary to a
girl or boy’s success in life?
The degree of Mrs. was conferred
on Miss Vera Gooch when the
young lady and Mr. [W tilts Bryant
were joined together in matrimony
last week. Rev. W . P. Same, ot
Walt,00, officiating.
Mr. George Bulgtn, of Cleve¬
land, has moved his saw mill in
lids section and will soon be manu¬
facturing lumber.
Miss Bertha Lee is contemplat¬
ing entering the Cleveland High
School after Christmas.
We wish the revolutionary days
would come again when men wore
knee breeches and silk stockings,
ilien vve could sit with the women
who wear short dresses and silk
stockings. In those days men
powered their hair, which was
bobbed. Now the ladies powder
their faces and bob their hair Our
grandmothers wore ear bobs; now
girls appear ashamed of their ears
md keeptliem hid with a lock ol
hair. On ! for style.
Asbestos is right when lie thtnjui
that oratory is about, a gift ijv tjte
past. Of course ort#ftr«‘ hag'
with strong lungs and a good voice
but one cause is our school teachers
give no training in elocution.
Teachers in the past would spend
Friday evenings requiring the
pupils to declame, match-spelling
and “making manners.” Now
scarcely a boy will recite a piece
from memory, and if the teachei
uses the rod on the boy to Compel
him to speak the parents are angry
at the teacher. Making speeches
in school is the second step toward
a public speaker. Par
ents should have their boys make
speeches at home; teachers have
them speak in school ; board’s of
education should pass a rule re¬
quiring all school children to spend
Friday evening in speaking and
spelling. If the teachers didn’t
execute the rule refuse pay for that
day’s teaching. Then if parents
tell out with teachers it would
tvail nothing. “Making manners”
is an obsolute phase, so vve will
tail it teaching politeneis, as many
itotnes neglect teaching politeness.
Teachers should study etiquette and
teach it, even to keeping one’s lips
md teetli clean.
November 1, 19211.
M rs. T. E. Mauldin,
Robertstown, Ga.
vly dear Mrs. Mauldin -.
As the result of official order 1
published today, Cadet Mauldin,
J. T. has been named as Cadet
First Lieutenant anti assigned to
Company B.
'This means that your hoy lias
lemonstrated his efficiciency in •>
group of nearly five hundred cadets
from thirty-one different states and
five foreign countries. 1 hope that
von will congratulate hint and en¬
courage him to put forth the ef
fort necessarv to qualify lor fur¬
ther promotions.
Sincerely yours,
Superintendent Riverside.
Advertising is the oil that lubri¬
cates the machinery of business.
OAKES CHAPEL NEWS
Mrs R. D. McCollum and son,
Philip, spent the weekend with re¬
latives in Cornelia.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Smith and
children visited Mr. and Mrs. J.IL
Shelnutt Sunday.
Misses Carrie Lou Cash aud Ida
Garmon spent the weekend with
triends near Cleveland.
Mr. and Mrs. ). ' 1 '. Collie, Miss
Miss Gladys Collier and Mr. Roy
McCny, of Toccoa, spent Sunday
with Mr. j. \V. Whitworth and
family.
Mr, and Mrs. Qjiillian Shelnutt
and little daughter, Rucile, spent
the weekend with relatives at
Clarkesvilie.
Mr. and Mrs, Grover Miles, ol
Habersham county, visited Mr.and
Mrs. G. W. McCollum last Sttndav
*
Misses Carmel Chambers and
Lonnie Lee Curtis were the guests
ol Misses F.stell and Rogell \\ hit
v' oil It Iasi Sunday.
Miss Mary Freeman lias returned
home after spending several weeks
with relatives in North Carolina
VON AII NEWS
Here vve are again with no news
of interest, except that it aaius and
minis.
Mr. R. L. Allison is erecting a
new house on his farm, which will
be occupied by Mr, Homer Wood
Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Cantrell
visited Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Helnci
Sunday ■ afternoon.
'"Mr.^nd Mrs. WT R. Tatum, of
Cornelia, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Tatum, of Atlanta, visited relatives
here Sunday afternoon*
Mr. R. L. Allison lias a Porto
Rico potato from his patch ti is
year which measures 2O 3-4 inches
long and 12 1-4 inches in circum¬
ference and weighs 7 11 “. Who
can beat that?
’Possums seem to he pie111ifu
this fail as Mr. Willie Thurmond
has caught about twenty.
Tuesday was the day set for
getting wood at Yonul) school, but
it rained and rained.
Laud Lor Salt*.
85 acres, 1 mile from !lie City ol
Athens, Ga., lias good 4-room
house and lo acres of bottom lai.d,
md is near t u good market* am
good schools and colleges. Would
rent it. See
T. f. McDonald,
Cleveland, Ga
ah cart agree with Doctor Butler
when he says that ttie public tiiinii
needs a constant spur Hi self-exam
ination and self-criticism, says the
Buffalo News. That is the surest
way to correction. Any one can stand
off and criticize the other fellow from
New Year’s day to the next Merry
Christinas without accomplishing
much more than to make a hit of
noise in the world. The individual
who can sit down and criticize him
self is the one who is going to make j
the world just a little better in his j
own person, at multiplied least. It by that 100,000 one j
person can be
the result is going to be a progressive
ly better nation.
The same thought that was behind
the recent importation of quail from
Mexico to various states of the Union
prompts the German government t«.
import 50 tons of live eels—50,000 of
them—for restocking the Baltic coast,
and thousands of minks to help re
plenish the fur-bearing population,
Reis are a staple article of diet, while
minks help to keep the rich warm
and feed the trappers. But does any
one believe that quail will ever again
become so plentiful in this country
that a poor man who has no guti will
be able to buy a few at the butcher
shoo for the family supper?
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WHAT SENATOR HARRIS HAS DONE
Open Letter by Senator Wm. J. Harris
You have a right to know what your
Representative in the Senate is doing,
and that is the purpose of this letter.
Most legislation is done in Committee
rooms, and there is no place where
hard work counts for so much and
speeches so little as in the Senate.
I cannot in this letter go into detail
in regard to my efforts In behalf of
our people, which have saved millions
for Georgia, but shall mention some
important ones:
When the farmers of Georgia pros¬
per, our manufacturers, merchants,
bankers, professional men and labor¬
ers prosper. No Senator has worked
harder to help them.
1 secured passage of the law mak¬
ing it a penitentiary offense for em¬
ployees of the Agriculture Depart¬
ment to give statement, predicting
lower prices for cotton, which state¬
ment two years ago cost the cotton
farmers a hundred million dollars.
I have secured $50,000 annually to be
used to find other uses for cotton. New
uses for thousands of bales have been
found, which helps the price.
Cotton Jinters were formerly in¬
cluded in tile number of bales of
cotton ginned-, which increased the
number of bales on hand and low¬
ered the price of cotton. I had 2he
Census Bureau change this and sepa¬
rate linters from cotton.
I was the first to urge publicity of
income tar returns. Citizens of mod¬
erate means with only a cottage, or
possessing only a few household goods
and wearing apparel, must make pub¬
lic tax returns, and if mortgaged it
is public. Why should men of great
wealth be allowed to keep their in¬
come tax returns secret?
One person In seven in the United
States dies of cancer. We appropri¬
ate millions for diseases of hogs,
horses and cattle, but nothing for can
cer, which causes the death of more
people in the United States in one
year than American boys killed and
died during the World War. My reso¬
lution to appropriate money to dis¬
cover the cause and cure of cancer
was adopted and I am a member of
the committee.
I have supported all measures that
would prevent gambling in cotton
futures on the New York Cotton Ex¬
change. They gamble on ten hales to
every one raised.
I introduced the first resolution op¬
posing the United States giving Eu¬
rope any part of the debts they owe us.
Last year gifts to Europe amounted to
$332,261,750.
Three years ago farmers wrote me
the price of fertilizer had been raised
$7.00 a ton. As a result of my efforts
the Federal government prosecuted
members of the fertilizer trust for com¬
bining to raise the price. The trusts
were fined $98,500, and some barely
escaped the penitentiary. Fertilizer
prices went down $7 a ton, saving Geor¬
gia farmers millions, i have done every¬
thing possible to have Muscle Shoals
developed so as to give the farmer
cheaper fertilizers, but the fertilizer
and water power trusts have kept a
big lobby in Washington to pre¬
vent it.
I first offored measure making in¬
come tax less for those who labor to
earn it.
My colleague and I are authors of
the law to investigate and prevent the
sale of post office appointments in
Georgia by Ben Davis and others.
I am author of amendments to the
Federal Reserve and Federal Ware¬
house Acts.
I secured appropriation for the For¬
eign and Domestic Commerce office
in Atlanta; also for the largest fish
hatchery in the South, and it is lo¬
cated in Georgia.
When the Georgia hog buyers paid
from two to four cents a pound less
for peanut fed hogs than for Kansas
and Nebraska corn fed hogs, my reso¬
lution passed the flanate to experi¬
ment feeding hogs on peanuts and
corn, which showed Georgia peanut
fed hog meat was the best flavored,
and it saved millions to the Georgia
hog raisers.
When the Standard Oil Company
was selling gasoline in other states
several cents a gallon less than in
Georgia, i started an investigation that
stopped this injustice and saved Geor¬
gia gasoline users millions.
When the boll weevil was first so
destructive to cotton the price of cal
‘um arsenate advanced 300%. I se
t $100,000 to find better and
er poison.
most important legislation
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passed by Congress since the Civil
War was restricting immigration and
preventing millions of Europeans from
flooding our country. My bill to keep
Mexicans out of this country was rec¬
ommended by members of the Immi¬
gration committee. Mexicans come to
Texas and Oklahoma and raise several
million bales of cotton yearly, which
brings down the price. My bill stops
this.
I have appeared before the Inter¬
state Commerce Commission several
times to secure cheaper freight rates
for Georgia cotton, melons, peaches
and all farm products. The Senate
has twice passed my bill reducing par¬
cel post rates to the farmers.
1 voted for the 18th amendment
and secured the largest amount yet
appropriated to give this law a fair
trial and prevent loss of respect for
all laws.
I shall do everything possible to
prevent war, a relic of barbarism, and
shall continue voting for measures
to arbitrate our differences. I have
opposed sending our Army and Navy
to Nicaragua and Mexico to hold elec¬
tions and collect debts.
I voted against seating Frank L.
Smith, whose election as Senator had
been bought by the traction and power
interests spending millions, and will
oppose seating Vare.
1 am a member of the Commerce
Committee having charge ot com¬
merce, rivers and harbors. I went
on this committee in order to be in a
position to help develop the St. Mary’*
canal, the Okefenokee, Georgia riverg
and the Savannah and Brunswick har¬
bors.
No Senator has done more work for
the soldiers and sailors. I am author
of several bills to help world war
and Spanish American veterans; one
authorizing the President to appoint
sons of men killed or died during the
World War to the ITnited States Mili¬
tary aud Naval Academies, fifty Geor¬
gia boys can get an education and
become officers.
I was also co- author with Congress¬
man Wright of the act providing for
compensation after the age of 18 to chil¬
dren in schools, colleges and univer¬
sities, whose fathers were killed or
died in the service during the World
War, which gives more than a thou¬
sand Georgia boys and girls $120 »
year on their education.
Appropriations I secured to help the
farmers amount to millions; peach ex¬
periment station Fort Valley; tobacco
station Tifton, naval stores industry;
markets for agricultural products;
cotton; tobacco; hogs; peaches; pe¬
cans; syrup; peanuts, to eradicate the
phony peach disease. I favor larger
good roads appropriations.
I helped secure Veterans’ Hospital
at Augusta; also Fort Bennlng at
Columbus; and Army Headquarters at
Atlanta. These bring Georgia million*
annually.
Jjirgely through my efforts the peo¬
ple of the middle district of Georgia
were saved humiliation of having a
non-resident, Mr. Tilson of Atlanta, as
Judge. United States Judges should
live in the district and be lawyers of
great ability aud outstanding charac¬
ter. On my recommendation Presi¬
dent W llson appointed A. C. King, S.
H, Sibley, B. D. Evans, Wallace Lamb
din, W. E. Thomas and U. V. Whipple.
We spend more than a hundred mil¬
lion dollars annually in Canada for pa¬
per made of spruce. I want to keep
this money in the United States, and
for the past three years I have se¬
cured appropriations for the govern¬
ment to experiment iii making paper
out of Georgia pine, and they have
succeeded. It will not be many years
before the paper mills will move to
our section aud keep these millions in
tiie South.
I hold a higher place on the power¬
ful appropriations committee than any
Georgian ever held, and hope to be¬
come chairman. No one has ever crit
Icized a vote I cast that took a dol¬
lar out of the Treasury.
I have cooperated with the Geor
gia delegation in the House and witl
my Senate colleagues, Senator Hok<
Smith, Thomas E. Watson and Waltei
F. George. Senator Watson said ni
Senator worked harder for the com
mon people. Woodrow Wilson, dur¬
ing his last Illness, said my record
measured up to his high ideals.
I am proud of the fact that not one
of the tens of thousand voteB i
have cast has been against the inter¬
est of the masses who must toil tc
support their families.
WM. J. HARRIS.