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Think it
n * s Safe -
S^^hTL^lJ,
Under the carpet, in the teapot, behind the clock—
none of those places are safe hiding spots for money, as
is attested by news items that one sees frequently in the
daily papers.
Robbers and sneak thieves appear to know just where
to look for the family hoard that is hidden about the
house instead of being deposited in a bank, where it
would be safe.
Besides, banks pay interest on time deposits. Put your
money at work for you in our bank where it will be safe.
Farmers & Mercians Bank
o cols •
School continues to improve.
There’s a reason.
Mr. W. T. Otwell was in At
lanta on business Monday.
Mrs. Sallie Tatum is visiting in
Atlanta,
See new advertisement of S.G.
Cress,
Mr. Roy P. Otwell made a bus
iness trip to Atlanta Tuesday.
G W. Heard will pay 18c. lb
for pork hogs. Bring ’em on,
Mr.'J- P. Patterson transacted
business in Atlanta last Friday.
Rev. W. S. Gaines is to be the
preacher at the Methodist church
for another year.
Mr. M. W. Webb spent the
week end with his family in
Gainesville.
Mr. Willis Rogers, of Atlanta,
spent the week end with his
mother.
If you need a nice healthy pig
see Jarrett P. Fowler. He has
some fines worth the price.
Misses Ophie Smith and Mir
iam Hyde spent the week end in
Gainesville.
Pork hogs seem to be scarce
this year, at least not many are
being brought to town.
For a good, new, two or one
horse Weber wagon, see Strick
land & Wisdom.
Col. and Mrs. J. P. Fowler and 1
Mr. Lewis Reid spent-last Friday
in the Gate City.
A movement is on foot to start j
motion pictures again in Cum- j
ming. j
Messrs. Thad Burruss and Rob- j
ert JTatum spent last Friday in
Atlanta.
Mr. G. W. Hanson, who has
been spending several weeks in
Florida, has returned.
THE NORTH uEORGIAN
I It will pay you to read the ads
in this paper. You will surely
find something to interest you.
Wanted—to buy a good second
hand one horse wagon.
S. G. Cross.
Dr. Holtzendorff, dentist, will
be at the Brannon Hotel Friday
and Saturday next, November
18th and 19th.
Mr. Haynie S. Brooks was re
ported on the sick list first of the
week, but we are glad to learn is
some better now.
Mr. Hoy Hansard is reported
as being quite sick with pneumo
nia fever. Hope he will soon be
out again,
Roy Otwell will have your bed
linen or other line of clothes
bleacht j for you, Also your rugs
etc, made new.
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Messrs Ross Carruth and Claud
Groover of Roswell spent Tues
day night with their families
here.
Rev. H. L. Edmondson, who
was stationed at Buford last year
has been sent to Barnesville for
the year 1922.
Mrs. Alice Williams and son,
Mercer, spent the latter part of
the week with relatives at Nor
cross, Buford and Duluth.
Have just received a car load
of guano for your wheat and
other small grain.
G. W. Heard.
See the new Buick adin this of
the North Georgian. The Buick
4 is a DANDY, Call on the deal
er and trade for one. t Price de
livered *1,115.00.
Why bother about hunting for
what you need when you can
step into G,W. Heard’s store and
find everything you want and at
prices below the other fellows’
Oh boy! isn’t it fine to know
that you are going to have some
thing good to eat three times a
day. Just call the Cash Market,
phone 49, and they will deliver
you anything in their line. Or
in case of sickness they will cook
you a nice hot lunch within a
few minutes after they get your
order.
This is roll call week for the
Red Cross. Please be ready with
dollar when the committee visits
you and thereby help the good
work along.
For Sale —or trade. Four room
house and lot, with good barn, on
Tolbett Street.
S. G. Cross.
One 10 inch 6 ply rubber belt,
87 feet long, practically new, for
sale cheap. See Strickland &
Wisdom.
Miss Alice Grogan has returned
from Augusta, where she went
as a delegate to th** North Geor
gia Conference. She reprrts a
very pleasant trip,
Mrs. A- W. Pruitt, who has
been suffering intensely from the
effects of a severe scald received
more than a week ago, is some
better, we are glad to learn,
When in need of repair work
in any shape, form or fashion,
call Cumming Garage, phone SO
SO. They have the best mechan
ics securable. Work guaranteed
Mr. Vince Merritt says that if
the party who took an army over
coat from the Cumming Drug
Store one day during court week
will return the same at once,
no questions will be asked, oth
erwise they may look for trouble
The friends in Cumming of Mr.
Pledger Fincher, Atlanta, will
regret to learn that he is still in
the Wesley Memorial Hospital
and mighty small chances for
recovery.
Buv you a Storage Battery at
the Cumming Garage. They
keep anew supply on hand at all
times, or they will test and re
pair your old battery for you in
good, speedy shape.
The Cumming Public School
basket ball team went over to
Buford for a game last Friday
aft- moon. Tneydid themselves
ere it, allowing Bufora a score
of only 23. scoring 14 themselves
Rev. F. C. Owen and wife left
for their new home in South Car
oiina last week, carrying with
them the best wishes of hun
dreds of friends in Cummingand
Forsyth county.
When in need of storage bat
teries or electrical supplies for
your car you can find a full sup
ply of same at Cumming Garage,
and the best mechanics in North
Georgia to give you courteous
service. Phone 59-86.
There was ginned in Forsyth
county, up to the first day of No
vember, 10,227 bales of cotton,
against 4,308 to the same date
last yeir. Quite a difference,
butjthen, you see, crops were six
weeks earlier this year than last.
HOW ro SAVE COST.
As stated in this paper once
before this year, I have bought
the notes and accounts of Dr. J,
A. Otwell, all of which are past
due, but some of which have not
had attention this fall. Those
who are indebted to Dr. J. A. Ot
well,or myself, will have to PAY
or make arrangements in person
at once or they will settle with
an attorney. These papers have
run too long already and WILL
NOT be carried further.
Respectfully,
Roy P. Otwell.
CUMMING, GA NOVEMBER 18 19U
A Thanksgiving Offering.
Of farm products from every
church in the Hightower Associa
tion f r our Orphans’ Home at
Hapeville. Anything suitable for
the table of our more than three
hundred children there, Such as
Potatoes, Beans, Peas, Corn,
Flour, Meal, Canned Goods, Syr
up, Jellies, Preserves. Peanuts,
Popcorn, Meat, Lard and Pump
kins. Apples, Chickens and Eggs
especially desirable.
Such things as we are willing
to give are to be brought to the
church houses by noon Thanks
giving Day (November 24th,)
and be carried during the after
noon of th^t same day to some
central point in each district of
the as shall be des
ignated by e: eh district manager
and under the supervision of a
local manager in each church.
At this centra’ point everything
is to be gotten in shape to be car
ried on trucks to Hapeville the
next day, and the loaded trucks
are to get together at Alpharetta
by 10 o’clock, a. m and all go in
together.
This is arranged and asked for
in accordance with the action
taken at the Association. What
is given is to be a special free
will offering and not to be count
ed on pledges to the 75 million
Fund. The needs are great and
urgent, May oar people respond
nobly and generously.
Chas. T. Brown,
T. P. Tribble,
G. T. Settle,
B. P. Roper,
G. C. Light,
G. W. Southard,
E. L. Nix.
D. W. DeVore,
I Executive Committee.
LONGSTREET.
Mr. Cecil Puckett of Dunwood
y spent one night last week with
his grandfather, Mr. Will Puck
ett.
Rev John Henderson was or
dained fit Longstreet last Friday,
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Phillips
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. S A
Holbrook Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. C A Puckett of
Atlanta spent Saturday night
with Mr. and Mrs. Tarpley Lum
mus.
Messrs Ellis Pendley and Toy
Hall of Atlanta spent Saturday
night and Sunday with home
folks.
Mr. J C Stowe and family of
Atlanta spent Saturday night and
Sunday with relatives here.
Mr. Otis Wood, wife and little
son were visiting Mrs. Rachael
Wood, near Alpharetta, Friday
night.
Mr. Walter Rudasill and fami
ly w T ere visit ng Mr. and Mrs. Will
Puckett Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nuckolls
spent Wednesday night with Rev
and Mrs. R A Roper,
L. H.
G. W, Heaid is receiving a car
load of good flour, and priced
right. Also a car shorts.
For the best Four in town buy
Dalton Mills. Sold only by
J. G. Puett.
A car load of new flour at G.
W. Heard’s, Every sack guar
anteed.
Buy one sack of Dalton Mills
Flour and you will not buy any
other. Sold only by
J. G. Puett.
Home Circle Column.
Pleasant Evening; Reveries—A Column Dedi
cated to Tired Mothers as They Join the
Home Circle at Evening; Tide.
A Real
Ihanksjiviig
by Frederick Hart
©, 1921, by McClur, Newspaper Syndicate.
“I don’t see why he didn’t write!”
said Mrs. Hulden pettishly. “Of
course I’m glud he's coming home for
Thanksgiving, and all that, but he
might have given me longer notice,
But that’s Just like Bob —always drop
ping in like a tornado, with no more
than a telegram the day before he
comes—and how I’m to get his room
ready, I simply don’t see! I huve the
dinner to attend to, and goodness
knows It’s hard to get things these days
without making preparations for an
other guest. If he’d only written!
All he had to do was to sit down a
week ago and write—”
"Now, mother, don't get all wor.
rted,” pretty Barbara Hulden slipped
an arm around her mother’s ample
waist. “I know you’ve a thousand
things to do, and Bob's coming makes
It harder —but you Just go ahead and
manage the dinner. I’ll tlx his room
and everything.”
"Bless your heart, dear, run along
and get It ready. I’m always gald to
see Bob—” Her speech was cut short
by the abrupt exit of her daughter,
who danced off up the-stairs, followed
by her mother’s call. “Be sure and
put out the smoking table! You
know how Bob likes his pipe 1”
“All right, mother dear —I will!’
And Barbara sped to the little room
under the eaves that had been sacred
to Bob Holliday since the time, two
years ago, when he had first comf
to their town to practice law and had
taken up his residence under Mrs.
Halden’s hospitable roof which
declared almost offered comforts
enough to make him forget that hf
ever hud had any other home.
Since that summer, when he hud
saved Mrs. Halden’s little savings and
her home from the clutches of a grasp
lng syndicate of real estute sharks
he had been like a son to the good
woman. She had let him do very
much as lie pleased around the house
and had even hinted at his paying nc
board, but Bob had Insisted on giving
her what he termed a ridiculously In
adequate sum each month.
When success brought him fume and
fortune he hud refused to take up oth
er lodgings, claiming that he eujoyec
the home cooking and the home asso
clatlons of the little brown house neai
the edge of the town more than ht
could ever like the garish splendors
of a hotel or the loneliness of bach
elor apartments.
For the past two months he had
been traveling In the West on a big
railroad cuse. Hls sudden wire, re
ceived the <duy before Thunksglvlng
had been the first apprlsal of his re
turn that Mrs. Halden had had.
Now as she busily arranged hei
kitchen In preparation for the iuanu
facturing of a dinner that should sur
pass all her former efforts lu thui
line, she blessed the chance thai
brought “her boy,” as she called Bob
home at the holiday season, while sh
outwardly feigned great Irritation a
his unceremonious announcement oj
his return.
Meanwhile, up In Bob's room, Bar
bara was busily putting thing!
straight, spreading clean linen on tilt
bed, arranging the cover on the dress
er, Beelng that the smoking table was
supplied with matches and trays foi
Bob’s ever present pipe, and generallj
making things fresh and sweet for tin
reception of her hero. For Barbaru
Bob was a good deal of a hero, thougl
she would hnrdly have confessed It
even to herself.
She attacked the dresser lust of all
Intending to take out of the drawer!
any odds and ends that might be li
them and leave space for shirts, col
lars and other articles of mascullnj
apparel.
The big lower drawers were empty
and beyond a quick glance In searct
of truant dust she did nothing tc
them; but one of the smull top draw
ers stuck obstinately In the manner
of some drawers. She gave a hard
tug; the wood remained obdurate; she
set her teeth and pulled violently.
The next moment she was sitting on
the finor with the recalcitrant drawer
upside down In her lap and a lot of
odd-looklng papers scattered about.
With u little laugh and a shrug at
her awkwardness she rose and stooped
to gather up the papers. As she
picked up one scrap, larger than the
others, she huppened to glance at it,
and something that was written on the
top gripped her attention. With the
blood dyeing her cheeks, she reud:
“To Barharu.”
Below were some lines of poetry.
She reud them through. They were
not so good, as poems go; In fact,
there were spots where the meter halt
ed and staggered, and the rhymes
were not above criticism; but to the
heart of the girl who read them, they
were more beautiful than any words
of the greatest singers of all time.
For there In written words was ex
pressed the love of a man for a inuld—-
the love of Bob, her hero, for her—
for herself, Barbara Halden!
She read (lie verses through. Then,
with the blood dyeing her cheeks, she
hastily thrust the paper Into the bosom
of her dress. Bob—Bob loved her!
He bad never spoken, but the verses
spoke for him. And she —she knew It
now—she had loved him ever since he
had come to the house. Her heurt
sang a paean of thunksglvlng that at
last she knew. And he was coming
In on the evening train!
The 7:25 bore to the tow n a hand
some young inun who hastened from
the station to Mrs. Ilalden's house In
Hie nearest taxi. He was greeted with
n IMILj 11 fr
The Next Moment She Was Sitting on
the Floor.
effusion mingled with repronch by the
good woman and by a girl who had
formerly rushed to greet him with a
glad cry and outstretched hand, but
who now shyly stood hack and blushed
at his hearty clasp. And Boh, looking
keenly at her with his eyes trained to
reud human faces and learn the
thoughts beneath the masks, realized
that she knew —and grew red and em
barrassed beneath her glance.
It was not till after the late sup
per that they had a chance to talk.
And the first words that Boh said as
he sat alone with Barbara In Mrs.
Maiden’s tiny living room were:
“How did you know?"
“I—l—oh, Bob, forgive me!” Bar
bara was almost In tears.
His arm around her shoulders as
sured her of his forgiveness.
And tliva, with averted eyes. Bar
bara repented a few lines of the
verses she read. A few only, for
Bob’s lips on hers stopped her before
she had gotten farther than the first
"I love you.’’
"I knew I’d left those foolish verses
behind,” said Bob after a time, "But
I never dreamed you’d find them."
“It was an accident,” replied Bar
barn, happily. “But oh, Bob deur, I’m
so glad it happened!”
And Mrs. Halden, coming In to wish
them good-night and a happy Thanks
giving, said, when she had recovered
from her surprise, that she was glad,
too.
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