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GT.O'KGIA OUT) TELLOWS’ CONVENTION
Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. Will Tleet in Thomasville, Ga., /lay 25-27—" The White of the Roses an Ideal Spot For the
Joyous Gathering 9 * —The Nelv A. R. & A. /lakes Great Preparations to Handle the "Good Felloes/ 9
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fair, arcadian skies whose ambient blue encircles
beautiful homes! ’ ’
The Odd Fellows could
not have selected a more
ideal place for holding their
Annual Grand Lodge Meeting
than Thomasville. This
beautiful city is located in
South Georgia within twelve
miles of the Florida line,
thirty-five miles from Talla
hassee, Florida, the capitol
of the Peninsular State, and
fifty miles from the Gulf of
Mexico. It is 350 feet above
the sea level and in the midst
of a vast pine forest.
Thomasville happily com
bines everything necessary
to constitute both a health
and pleasure resort. Hun-
of tourists annually
visit Thomasville for pleas
ure and recreation, and they
find both. Thomasville is es
pecially noted for itsbeauti
ful driveways, radiating from
the city through t'he pine
forest, like spokes in a
wheel. There are twelve
public roads which intersect
the broad Boulevard that
entirely encircles the city.
Visitors should not fail to
take a drive around the ‘city.
Magnificent winter homes have been erected by
winter visitors from the North and West, and
nothing has been left undone to beautify the
grounds adjacent to these splendid residences.
The city is well lighted with both gas and
electricity, and has .a system of sewerage. The
streets are broad, well-kept, and shaded in many
places with native shade trees. The place is noted
for its beautiful flowers that bloom all year round.
“Best Way to Thomasville”
is via
Atlanta Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad
The only Line having its own rails and through ear
HEN the Odd Fellows’ Convention of
Georgia shall have been given in history
next week, we believe they will make one
united chorus in paraphrasing Frank L.
Stanton’s prose poem tribute to Smith
ville long ago:
“And now, 0, Thomasville, quiet,
dreaming Eden of the sweet Southwest,
pulsing with loving tender life neath
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ATLANTA, GA., MAY ’909.
service between Atlanta and Thomasville.
In addition to its regular daily trains leaving
Atlanta at 7:15 a. m. and 7:50 p. in., arriving at
Thomasville 6:45 p. m., and 8:45 a. m., the A. B. &
A. will operate an,“Odd Fellows Special,” leaving
Atlanta Tuesday, May 25, at 8:00 a. m., arriving
Thomasville at 5:45 p. m. The “Special” will be
personally conducted by Mr. F. M. Woodall, Past
Grand, Central No. 28, and Conductor and Engineer
will be Odd fellows. The equipment will be the
standard of. excellence in passenger service, vesti-
COUNTRY CLUB, THOMASVILLE, GA.
baled from end to end, electric over-head fans and
every other comfort known, to modern travel.
Round trip tickets will be sold at very low rates
from all important stations in Georgia on May 23,
24, 25 and for trains scheduled to arrive at Thomas
ville before noon, May 26, good returning up to and
including May 29.
A Word from the Editor.
We have done something this week we never did
before—we have given our first page, not simply to
the announcement of a great convention of Odd Fel
lows, but also to the announcement of a railroad.
It is the “A. B. and A.,” as the Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Atlantic is affectionately called, the
great new enterprise which has done so much tor
the material upbuilding of the Southeastern South.
It is positively remarkable to hear with what wide
spread enthusiasm —almost affection —this new road
is regarded.
It must mean that President H. M. Atkinson,
Vice President Preston Arkwright, and General
Passenger W. H. Leahy have pursued a high-toned,
gentlemanly policy all the time and everywhere,
which has made the people genuinely and unselfishly
interested in the success of the new road.
You also read that immediately—in that fraction of
a half second —the thought occurred to the peasants
to turn to the Almighty. Skeptics laugh at their
falling on their knees in prayer, at their procession
with the cross, but through tiheir tears the peasants
saw more than the laughing skeptic—they saw the
Eternal Spirit. In that half minute more than 100,-
000 died. Many more have passed away between
then and now. Despite this phenomenon we should
still assume this to be an orderly universe. Nothing
material remains. Life, spirit, faith, hope and love
—they do remain. They are eternal. The spirit
that prompts —the spirit of industry and enterprise
—will remain to prompt the survivors to greater
efforts. —Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of New York.
TWO TOBIAHS A TEAH.
11VE CZNTS A COn.
Mr. Atkinson has brought
in cash something like forty
millions of dollars into this
section in building one of
the best equipped railroads
in the world.
How magnificent to see
such gentlemanly manage
ment of marvelous millions!
The A. B. and A. in its
present achievements and
ultimate success will help
to clear solution the vexed
problems of t'he “railroads
and the people.”
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In a great disaster like
the recent Italian earth
quake the spiritual benefits
outweigh the physical evils.
These cataclysms and tidal
waves are upbuilding the
spirits of men to richer,
riper and more enduring ef
forts. The fact that things
are transient and temporary
makes bettett- men.
Already we have a new
sense of kingship. You read
how the king and queen im
mediately went to the aid of
the unfortunate peasants.
