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TIE NORTH GEORGIAN.
Publihed every Friday by
J. E. Kirby,
Price 75c. a Year.
CUM MING, GA., APR. 20, 1017
Entered Itine IK, IIKJ”, an second elan*
mutter, ill tin- |><>ht..'lire at Gumming
liu., Act of Congress of March 3, IH7J
Phone No. 44.
Just keep your eye on the Mex.
He’s worse than an ejrg that
won’t hatch,
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Love in a cottage is ideal
when the cottage contains some
thing more substantial than love.
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God loves people who don’t
love themselves. What’s his
opinion of you?
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A cynic is a man who believes
nothing and knows less. We
have a few.
The business man who adver
tises only when trade is brisk is
close kin to the fellow' who prays
for rain during a deluge.
The adinoniti n to turn the
other cheek is all right, but what
are, you going to do when Loth
have been walloped ?
A movement is < n foot for the
government to confiscate all in
comes in excess of SIOO,OOO a
year. Dully! Here’s ours,
The government is to control
absolutely the prices which man
ufacturers may charge for war
munitions. That’s good. But
let’s go even farther and have a
federal commission to regulate
the prices of foodstuffs and jail
the'price Loiters.
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One of the practical patriots of
tliexiay will be who
3 every nerve in the pro
duction of foodstuffs for the army
and civilian population. We can
reduce our wardrobe to a shoe
string and a shirt if necessary,
but we cannot subsist on w&ter
and wind.
In the course of this war,
reader, the opportunity will be
yours to duplicate one of the
greatest miracles of the Master.
The multitude will demand food.
An exchange speaks of a re
cent meeting as “a gathering of
noted agriculturalists.” The
farmers, of course, were at home
preparing for crops.
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A noted writer predicts that
the time will come when all peo
ple will be compelled to be plac
ed on rations. Gosh, hurry it up.
We’ve been on half rations until
it hurts.
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We don’t believe a word of this
talk that women want to join the
army and navy. Every appli
cant would have to tell her age.
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Little teenie-weenie Boy Scouts
are coming light to the front
with offers to serve their coun
try. But Cupid continues to lead
the matrimonial army in the
maddest and wildest charge in
history.
At last the small boy has an
influential champion- A'Liver
pool medical journal emphatical
ly asserts that too much cleanli
ness is injurious to health, and
that soap and water ai’e shorten
ing the lives of the people.
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Clear Your Skin in Lpring.
Spring cleaning i pans cleaning
inaide and outside. Dull pimply akin is
an aftermath of winter inactiv.ty.
yol ,r intest n< s with a mild laxative an.
clean out the accumulated wastes, easv
to take, they do not gripe. Di. Kin- r
I,'ew Life Pil' B "' :1 clear > lUr c “ mp V ;X
ion and brighten your eye. Try Dr.
Kind’s New Life Pills tonight and throw
off the sluggish winter shell. At >
gists, 25c. -Adv.
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Albany.—Arlington ban voted bonds
for the erection of an ice anil cold
storage plant.
Macon. Genet al Harris has receiv
ed from the war department orders
lo begin recruiting in the Georgia bri
gade immediately.
Dublin. Dublin's Chautauqua open
ed here with Clifford Walker, attor
ney general of the state, as the first
speaker.
Tifton.- A petition has Just been
tiled with the ordinary for a “no fenee
election’’ to be held as soon as the
petition can be made effective.
Warrenton. —Dr. W. W. Pilcher has
been designated chairman of the pre
paredness committee of the tenlli con
gressional district and will have the
rank of major.
Augusta.—To be used for the pub
lic good, the sum of $400,000 lias been
left the cily of Augusta by J. B.
White, former merchant prince and
multi-millionaire of this city.
Atlanta. —All property and personal
effects of a suspicious character found
in tire possession of aliens arrested
by the local police has been ordered
confiscated by United States Attorney
General Gregory.
Lavonia. —Much mystery surrounds
the finding of the trunk of Dieut. D.
C. Frizzell in the Tugaloo liver, a
few miles southeast of here. All ef
forts to locate the owner of the trunk
have so far failed.
Macon. —A marriage license was ob
tained here by Harold E. Torrane, of
Savannah, to marry his aunt by mar
riage, Mrs. Annie Lee Torraine of
Hillsboro. She is 39 years old, and
is seven years his senior.
Athens.—At a mass meeting here 255
unmarried men between the ages of 18
and 35, i('solutions were unanimously
adopted by a rising vote indorsing the
administration’s plan of raising an
army selective conscription, 1
Waycross.—At a mass meeting ne
groes of Waycros" pledged their loy
alty to tin United Stales and deplored
(lie apparent effort in some quaitdfrs
to make it appear that the colored race
was furiously entertaining offers from
alleged German agents.
Thoninsville. —On military company
drilled for active service if needed and
two for home guard and police and
riot duly put things on a warlike
footing ;md shows up the general feel
ing of coming preparedness for what
ever may be coming.
Savannah. —Nine German sailors,
including Captain Hulst, of the Ger
man steamer Hoheufelde, , recently
seized by the govenumorit authorities
were taken, from the city jail and
started a trip#supposedly for New*
Orleans.
Jesup. -The largest crowd of school
children ever gathered together in one
plaCe in Wayne county was assembled
in Jesup to celebrate the county com
mencement and field day. There were
over fifty schools represented. The
line of inarch, headed by the Way
cross brass band, was composed of
over two thousand school children,
covering about eight blocks in length.
Tifton. —A terrific hailstorm, accom
panied by heavy wind and terrific
lightning, passed over the southern
end of this county, entirely ruining
cotton, corn, oats and other crops.
The amount of damage to crops and
stock will run far into the thousands
of dollars. At Omega hail fell to the
depth of seven inches and the stones
averaged as large as guinea eggs.
Atlanta. —Considerable interest Is be
ing manifested here, botli by National
Guardsmen and by army officers, in
the report that because of the impos
sibility to get dyestuffs from Germany
there is a strong probability that the
khaki uniform may hare to be aban
doned and in its piace the old “Con
federate grey” will probably be adopt
ed. This color, it is said, is just as
suitable for purposes of invisiblity as
the khaki.
Dublin. —Anew flour mill is being
erected at this place by J. T. l’ope,
who already owns a small one, and
lias been forced to enlarge his plant
greatly. He is now building a three
story brick mill house, in which lie
will install a roller mill of 125-barre
capacity, one that will use 600 bushels
of wheat per day. Mr. Pope erected
the first flour mill in this county about
six years ago, when the farmers took
him at his word and planted enough
wheat to keep one busy.
Waycross.—Chief of Police Colley
and Sheriff Henry J. Sweat, assisted
by all officers associated with them,
are making a careful search for a
white man posing-'as an employment
agent from Philadelphia, who is al
leged to have circulated many false
statement among negroes of this city
and in the country surrounding. One
of the statement is that there will be
serious trouble between the north and
south after May, and if the negroes
want to escape and secure full free
dom and social equality they must
get away from the South before the
end of May.
Atlanta—ln the progress of testimo
ny in the rate hearing before the state
railroad commission, C. McD. Davis
of the Atlantic Coast Line declared
that the price of Georgia cane syrup
has exactly doubled In the last three
crops produced.
Sparta.—More than one thousand cit
izens of Sparta and Hancoqk county in
mass meeting assembled pledged to
President Wilson and the national ad
ministration their support throughout
the coining days of trial, in resolutions
adopted which commended the recent
war action of the president and of
Congress, -'cr-incra,
NORTH GEORGIAN, GUMMING, GEORGIA.
FOOD AND DEFENSE
COUNCILS NAMED
Governor Karris Takes Action, Foiiowing
Suggestions Of Secretary Baker
And Secretaiy Houston
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TO INCREASE PRODUCTION
Military And Civic Leaders Named On
Council, Which Will C; Opeiate
With National BjUy
Atlanta —
Acting upon the suggestion of Sec
retary of War Baker, who is also
chairman of the National Council of
Defense, Governor Harris lias appoint
ed a Georgia state council of defense
to co-operate with the national coun
cil.
Upon suggestion of the United
States secretary of agriculture, the
governor also appointed a Georgia
council on food and agricultural mob
ilization, which is to co-operate with
the state defense council.
The state council of defense consists
of twenty members, one front each
congressional district, whiie the rest
are appointed from the state-at-large.
The duties of this council are out
lined in the governor’s order as being
“to suggest and present measures look
ing to the defense of the state and
such preparation against invasion as
may be required, and to that end the
mobilization of all the interests of the
state in aid of the government in the
war now existing.”’
The governor names himself as the
chairman of the council, and desig
nates such members of the council as
live in Atlanta as the'cxecutive com
mittee.
To co-operate with the Georgia state
council of defense, Governor Harris
named a second council, designated
as the Georgia council on food and ag
ricultural mobilization, this council be
ing named upon request of United
States Secretary of Agriculture David
F. Houston, following the lines of
plans agreed upon at the request of
Secretary Houston in St. Louis ’ re
cently.
Recruits Training At Ft. McPherson
The first army recruits to be sent
to Fort McPherson arrived there and
are quartered in the fort barracks, be
ing distributed among the various com
panies.
It is reported that the men will no*
be trained in a body, but will be ab
sorbed by vaHous units of the Seven
teenth infantiy, paftt of twliich is now
occupying Mrfi ’Person, in order to fa
cilitate the work of making skilled sol
diers of the liew comers.
The "regulars” at McPherson, includ
ing tjie staff of officers, gladly wel
comed the newcomers. As time passes
the regulars at McPherson wii! be con
fronted with a difficult job in training
ike great crowd of recruits who w 11
be sent there from this territory.
500 Men Needed By Fifth Regiment
Following the receipt of orders from
Washington, Col. Orville H. Hall, com
manding die Fifth regiment, Georgia
National Guard, has prepared plans
to open recruiting stations in north
Georgia cities, with a big recruiting
depot at die armory in Atlanta, in or
der to bring the Fifth to full strength
at the earliest possible moment. These
arrangements include also the recruit
ing for Troops L and F, Georgia cav
alry, and Field Hospital corps No. 1.
Farmers Urged To Increase Food Crop
J. J. Brown, state commissioner of
agriculture? Dr. Andrew M. Soule,
president of the state college of agri
culture, and Bradford Knapp, chief of
the office of extension work in the
South, states' relations service, issued
a joint statement appealing to farmers
and farmers' organizations, bankers
and merchants of Georgia to give the
most earnest consideration to increas
ing Georgia’s food crop acreage.
Georgia WiH Get Federal Road Fund
All questions of how the federal ap
propriation for the aid of the states is
to be used in die constructioh of high
ways have been settled, and die only
thing that now stands between Geor
gia anil aid from the federal govern
ment in the construction of public
highways is the completing of die
survey details of die several proposed
state highways which have been out
lined by the state highway commis
sion.
Atlanta To Get Mobilization Camp
Atlanta will he die site for the
grral mobilization camp for United
States soldiers in the southeastern
district, according to members of the
committee of prominent citizens which
returned hoirio afier a trip to Wash
ington and Governor's Island in the
interest of this project.
Extra Appropriations To Be Paid
Governor Harris drew his warrant
for $54,000 for the state sanitarium.
This, with the payment of $21,000 to
the schools and the $548,000 of pen
sions, brings the regular appropria
tions passed in 1015 nearly to the clos
ing point, there being a small balance
due die school fund. The number of
extra appropriation!! later
provided that these should become
payable only after all the regular ap
propriations for maintenance and for
schools and pensions had been dis
posed of.
CONDENSED STATEMENT
—OF THE
— & fan'll
of Cumming, Georgia,
at Close of 3tjtsirres April 4, lOIT.
RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
Real Estate, $6,500.00 Capital Stock, $25,000.00
Funiture and Fixtures, 2,000.00 Surplus and Profits, 32,138 81
Bills Receivable, 151,883.17 Bills Payable, 20,000.00
Cash on hand and in Unpaid Dividends, 120.00
Banks, 26,268.71 DEPOSITS, 129,393 07
Total, $186,651,88 Total, $186,651.88
Deposits April 4, 1917, $129,393.07
Deposits April 4, 1916, 90,162.80
* Increase, $39,230.26
We thank you for your patronage and solicit your future business.
SAFE SOUND CONSERVATIVE
Party Line Courtesy
The quality of service on a party line
is largely dependent upon the co-opera
tion of the subscribers on that line.
No subscriber should use a party line
for long periods of time, to the total ex
clusion of others.
When a party line is found to be in
use, hang up your receiver immediately.
While it is off the hook conversation is
interfered with.
Each neighbor on a party line is en
titled to a reasonable use of the telephone
service, and should not be interrupted or
have the privacy of his conversation inter
fered with.
The Golden Rule applies with partic
ular force to party line telephone service.
When you Telephone—Smile
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE ,(rj£\
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY WfgJ/
J. E. PUETT, MANAGER.
Safe Medicine for Children.
•Is it safer” is the first question to he
considered when buying cough tnedip
cine for children. Chamberlain’s -Cough
Remedy lias long been a favorite with
mothers of young children as it contains
no opium or other narcotic, and may be
given tc a child as confidently as to an
adult. It is pleasant to take, too, which
is of great importance when a medicine
must be given to young children. This
remedy i most effectual in relieving
coughs, colds, and croup Obtainable
every where. —Adv.
Any galoot can tell you how to
manage a wife, but darn few can
do it.
Slop Left Over Coughs.
I)r. Bell's Pine Ttr Honey will stop
that hacking cough that lingers from
January. The soothing pine balsam
loosens the pi logm, heals the irritated
membrane, the glycerine relieves the
tender tissues, 'ou breathe easier and
coughing ceases. Don’t neglect a’lin
gering eougk. 't is dangerous. Dr
Beil’s Pine Tar lfoney is antiseptic and
pleasant to take, benefits young and old,
get it at your druggist today, Portnois
on the battle. 26c.—Adv.
It takes Uncle Sam along time
to get started, but the old boy
can raise a heap of dust when he
finally shakes his legs,
We are told that paper money
harbors millions of microbes. But
shove ii our way—we’re not a
bit scared.
Bad Cough? Feverish? Grippy?
You need Dr. King’s New Discoveiy
to stop that cold, the soothing balsam
ingiedients heal the irritated mem
branes, soothe the sore throat, the anti
septic qualities kill the germ and your
cold is quickly relieved, Dr. King's'
New Discovery has for 4S years been the ,
standard remedy for coughs and colds !
in thousands of homes, Get a bottle to
day and have it handy in your medicine
chest for coughs, colds, croup, grippe
and all brouch.l nflections. At your
your druggist. 50c. Adv.
Some people complain mildly
because of a lack of money, but
we just open our mouth and shout
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It is said that "figures won’t
lie,” but it beats the deuce how
many liars in this country can
figure.
American farmers are mobil
izing for the new spring drive.
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Spring.
Spring is looked upon by many as the
most deliphtful season of the year, but
tins cannot be said of the rheumatic.
The cold and damp weather brings on
rheumatic pains *“hich are anything hut
pleasant, They can he relieved, how
ever. bv applying Chamberlain’s Lini
ment. Obtainable everywhere.—Ad.
The fiy peril is greater than
the submarine. Swat him first!
PROFESSIONAL CAROS.
O. L. HARRIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
- GUMMING, GA.
Office in Farmers & Merchants Bank
Building. (Upstairs.[
J. F. ECIIOLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GUMMING, - GEORGIA.
Office in Farmers & Merchants Bank
Building. (Upstairs.)
DR. M. F, KELLY,
D E N T I S-T,
GUMMING, - - GEORGIA
Office at Dougherty Hotel. 1
.1 ARRET I 1 R. FOWLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. *
CUMMING. GA.
Office in Farmers & Merchants Bank
Building.
OLEN MERRITT. M. W. WEBB.
MERRITT & WEBB,
Representing the best
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
GUMMING, GEORGIA.
Jffi'e in Farmers& Merchants Bank
J L HARRISON, DO S
GAINESVILLE . GA.
Ofeices Over AY. J. & E. C, Pai.mour
Stoke ’Phone No. 560.
HOWARD K, BOWMAN"
DENTIST,
BUFORD, GEOI GIA,
Office in Secret Order Building.
Telepnoue Connection
Pianos and Organs.
For the best Pianos or Organs and
lowest prices, cail on or write
j. m. pirklf:,
Dawsonville, Ga., Rt. 1.
Rubbing Eases Pain
Rubbing sends" the liniment
tingling through the flesh and
quickly Stops pain. Demand a
liniment that you can rub with.
The be£t rubbing liniment is
LINIMENT
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Good for the Ailments of
Horses, Mules, Ct.tiie, Etc.
(foodfor yovr oa'n Aches,
Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains,
Cuts, Burns, Etc.
23 c. 50c. $l. At all Dealers.
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