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Summerville
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Athletics are good for the individ
ual. even if he never wins a game.
Too many irons in the fire may
only mean that you haven’t enough
fire.
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There was a time when automo
biles were nuisances that frightened
horses.
Politicians can always tell you how
the election was worked after the
election.
Star gazers may know the future,
but if they do they ought to be richer
than they are.
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School teachers, worrying about
salaries, might make more money
worrying about teaching.
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Every community is lucky in hav
ing some citizens in its midst and un
lucky in the presence of others.
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You never can tell when your best
friend will take you to ride and let
the ambulance carry you to a new
home.
Men might, some day, try to list
the things on which they agree and
stop some of the conflict over dis
puted questions
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Taking care of the boys and girls,
growing up in this community, is the
biggest task that faces Chattooga
County adults.
The business in Summerville be
longs to the merchants of this mu
nicipality, but nobody is going to give
it to them on a silver platter.
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The business firms of Chattooga
County are ready for the Fall season
with well assorted stocks of merchan
dise. Before making your purchases
give the home town business men an
opportunity to supply your wants.
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When you hear that somebody has
said something mean about you, ex
cuse it on the ground that all people
are not smart enough to understand
everything.
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Two Facts Make a Problem.
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Two facts stand out in the present
stage of American industrial affairs, i
The first is that a remarkable re- '
covery is holding up and going
strong; the second, is that employ
ment is not keeping up with produc
tive activity.
These facts, undisputed as they
are, present the American people with
a real problem that will last them for
some years.
Take for example the report of the
Federal Reserve Board for July on
production and unemployment. Tak
ing 1924 to 1926 as normal, or 100,
the figures show that industrial pro
duction in July stood at 108 but fac
tory employment was 87.7 and fac
tory payrolls only 77.8 per cent.
The outstanding fact is that few
er men are doing more work for less
pay than in the years 1924-26. Obvi
ously, this means less purchasing
power for laborers and less sales of
manufactured products, which is the
cycle that leads to more unemploy
ment.
How to Be Successful
If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, ex
perience your wise councillor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius.
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NOUR ,t,£AS
ARE 'VO
"Shallow’ wits censure everything that
is beyond their depth
SEPTEMBER
A, .X 17—Indecisive, bloody battle
of Antietam ends. 1862.
: IS—Palmer, first chiropractor.
SPIHEf starts his practice. 1895
19—New Amsterdam’s Gov
•QnTi’m Kieft starts first U S
brewery. 1640.
jV.'”—A 20—Upton Sinclair, author and
politician, born. 1878
—a 21 -All lottery advertising is
wv**? barred from United States
IvCsy, mails - 1890
r 22—British capture and hang
K I Captain Nathan Hale.
£ | 6 1776
a 23—Martyred President Gat
field buried at Cleveland.
1881 ®'”™
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Promise Yourself.
Certainly we do not wish to bore
our readers with diatribes against
i the killing of so many American citi
zens on the highways of the land, but
it is a serious matter when nearly
three thousand citizens bite the dust
every month in automobile accidents.
The number of those injured is ap
palling. The economic loss alone jus
tifies a campaign to reduce the acci
dents and save life and limbs.
There is much that the average
man or woman can do in this drive
for safety. No one has to wait on his
neighbor. You can make up your
mind today that, hereafter, you will
drive more carefully. Others can lo
the same. The cumulative effect will
be tremendous even if there is no
organization, no publicity and no
boosting.
We hope that at least one reader
of this article will decide immediate
ly to take the pledge of the safe
driver. If you are the one, you need-
I n’t bother about advertising it to the
I world. Just remember your promise
to yourself when you drive your au
tomobile.
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Should Be Compensated.
Gus Langley, of Morris Plains, N.
j J., was “ready to die” seven times,
.he asserts, in the North Carolina
death house, where they shaved his
head, before receiving news of the
\ seven reprieves which gave him a
chance to establish his innocence.
Last month Governor Ehringhaus
: signed a full pardon for the man who
faced death after being convicted of
| a murder that he did not commit.
, Parole Commissioner Gill approved a
i suggestion that the Legislature pay
Langley for the time he spent in
prison and it seems probable that
legislation to this end will be passed.
The experience of this man bears
out the suspicion that the verdicts f
juries are not always what they are
expected to be. It reminds us that
itir system of trial by jury is not in
fallible, even though we readily agree
that it is, from the standpoint of the
WHETHER YOU have a piano or a
radio (or both) it represents plenty
of money. Is it fully insured togeth
er with all the many other articles
which make your home ? Are you sure
you have adequate insurance ?
Ask us to insure your household
goods and personal belongings in the
Hartford.
Summerville Insurance Agency
OFFICE: Chattooga County Bank. Telephone 364
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936
accused, the best in the world. Plain
ly, the man in New Jersey is entitled
to compensation from the State that
subjected him to such punishment and
there are others like him scattered
throughout the United States who
probably deserve the same treatment-
From Other Papers.
It might be a good time to get
European statesmen to come over
to this continent and look at the
boundary line between the United
States and Canada, which runs for
thousands of miles without a fort.
—Summerville News.
That international boundary is cer
tainly something that both this coun
try and Canada can well be proud. If
peace and good will that exists be
tween our country and Canada were
world wide, we are sure that the
world would be a much more desir
able place in which to carry on an
existence. —Cherokee (Canton) Ad
vance.
NEW-FANGLED DEVICES.
(Jackson Herald.)
Some rich stories come out of the
kitchens where these new-fangled
refrigerators and electric stoves are
being installed. One is told rtf ; the
south Georgia cook whose electrical
bill for the first month was as great
as a whole year’s bill should have
been. Naturally a howl went up from
that part of the house where the
money had to come from. But the
cook was delighted with the stove.
She said it was the nicest thing she
ever saw. She had operated it a
whole month without having to put a
piece of wood into it and without
having to light it again. It had burn
ed steadily night and day throughout
the month.
DARING YOUNG MEN—EVERY
TOWN HAS THEM.
(Toccoa Record.)
Nobody thinks you’re smart, young
fellow, when you go whizzing around
corners at fifty miles an hour.
Nobody marvels at your excep
tional ability in keeping her right
side up when you smear black rub
ber on the pavement while the tires
scream the warning: “Look out—here
comes a jackass.”
Os course, people look up from
what they are doing and crane their
necks at you as you go whizzing by.
But that look of awe you see on their
faces isn’t open-mouth admiration
for your daring, your hell-bent sup
er-ability to keep her from careening
into the sidewalks. •<
They’re not envying you, young
fellow, they’re pitying you. They’re
feeling sorry for you, maybe hating
you for your utter lack of respect for
the lives of others. They are hoping
their children are safe out of the
reach of the hurtling juggernaut of
potential death that you are driving.
Don’t get the idea you’re brave,
young men, when you swing her
roaring around turns. Don’t get the
idea you’re dashingly picturesque—
flaming youth. You may have plenty
of guts, but they’re where your
brains ought to be.
AND WHAT OF COTTON.
(Elberton Star.)
The demonstration of the cotton
picker last week convinced the hun
dreds who watched it operate that
the day of the present cotton pro
gram is limited. W. Hill Hoseh, a
former county agent, but now farm
products agent of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and R. R. Co., talking at the
Kiwanis luncheon yesterday, said he
witnessed the demonstration, and was
convinced that at last a machine had
been invented which would be a suc
cess. A few things about it needed to
be perfected, but it picked the cotton,
missing only a small part, did not
pull off the bolls and did not injure
the stalk. He explained the workings
of the machine and how it was made.
The cotton picker can not be made
to do its best work on rough, hilly
Jland, but it will enable the delta and |
prairie farms, and those with only
rolling lands to gather cotton with
out the aid of the human picker and
at a much less cost. Experiments
showed that the sample of cotton
picked by the machine and that by a
good hand were of equal quality. The
whole means that the day of the
small cotton farmer and of the hu
man cotton picker is nearly ended,
and that soon the present way of
farming must undergo a real change.
Mindful of the small farmer and
those dependent on picking cotton
► this year, the government —the New
Deal, if you please—has arranged so
that the machines will not be sold
now, only leased to a few farmers. So
this year there will be no change in
the method of gathering the cotton
crop.
Fortunately for Georgia, she is di
ready going into raising tobacco and
• live stock. In a few years these and
■ other industries will take the place
’ of so much cotton, though always
■ some cotton will be raised.
Smallpox Once Expected
j Until comparatively recent times
smallpox was looked upon as an un
avoidable affliction.
Sleighs in New York in 1704
Sleighs were common in New York
a half a century before they were used
I in Boston. Sleigh racing was common
in 1704.
YOUR PROTECTION
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Our many years of conscientious service to the
public of this community in itself constitutes assurance
that you will get only high grade, honest funeral mer
chandise, plus thoughful personal service, that we have
built our reputation, and that reputation is our most
priceless asset.
Taylor Funeral Home
Day Phone: 376 Night Phone: 361-2
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Grocery SALE
We are closing out our entire Grocery Stock at Rock-Bottom
Prices. We need the space these groceries are occupying. There
fore, they must go at some price. Stock up while they last!
No. 2 cans Corn 6 cans 45c 4 Tall Cans Evap. Milk 29c
No. 2 cans Tomatoes, 6 for 45c 8 small cans Evap. Milk 29c
can Sausage 20c Post Bran Flakes
l-lb can Sausage 14c g ]bg Pure Coffee 29c
1/2 Gal. Karo Syrup 33c j ]b paekage Coffee l2c
1 pint Karo Syrup .. 2 for 25c 3 ]b package Rjcel9c
Ilb Maxwell House Cos. 26c
No. 2 English Peas .. 6 for 45c Pinto Beans 4 lbs 22c
No. H/, Tomato Juice. 6 for 45c Grsat Nor ’ Beans -- 4 lbs 25c
No. 2 String Beans .. 6 for 45c Na ’’ y Beans 4 lbs 2Sc
No. 2 Hominy 6 for 45c Lima Beans 2 lbs i sc
No. iy 2 can Mackerel 10c 10 lb bag Salt lsc
The above list is just a sample of the prices at which we are
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closing this stock cut. There are a great many more every-day
items at give-away prices that w e do not have space to mention.
TUTT O N Q
=z 5 & 10c Store
“Down By the Depot” Summerville, Georgia.
Unde Sam
Is now co-operating with this Bank, so that no mat
ter where you live it’s as easy to bank here by mail
as calling here in person. Your postman is our
“agent” and brings this bank right to your door.
A great many people in this and other counties are
now making use of our banking-by-mail service and
you, too, will find it easy and profitable to use. It will
be a privilege and a pleasure to serve you.
FARMERS & MERCHANTS
OPEN 8:30 A. M. BANK CLOSE 3:00 P. M.
Make Our Bank Your Bank—Use Blue Checks
Member: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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