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10 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA MAY 21, 19W Augusta Council Plans to Observe Silver Jubilee Celebration to Be Coincident With State Convention— Luke Hart to Be Speaker. Augusta, Ga.—Patrick Walsh Coun cil, Knights of Columbus, will ob serve the twenty-ilfth anniversary of its organization June 6 coinci dent with the meeting of the annual convention of the Georgia State Council here. The dinner which will feature the celebration will have as its only speaker Hon. Luke Heart of St. Louis, prominent member of the Missouri Bar and supreme ad vocate of the Knights of Colum bus. The convention program will open Sunday morning when the Knights will receive Holy Communion in a body at St. Mary’s-On-The-Hill. Rev. James A. Kane, pastor, this being the regular Communion of the Coun cil. The Fourth Degree will be ex emplified during the day. Monday the state convention will meet at Knights of Columbus Home, State Deputy Wm. H. Mitchell of Macon presiding. There will be a luncheon for the visiting delegates and members at noon and an auto mobile trip after the sessions. The dinner will be served at a country resort at 6:30 P. M., Grand Knight J. Coleman Dempsey presiding, and Mr. Hart will deliver the address of the occasion. Dancing will follow the dinner, which will be attended by Knights of Columbus and their ladies. Tire arrangements committee is headed by Lecturer L. A. Dorr of the council, assisted by several committees, all of which are func- tioiting so well that the plans are completed. Visiting Knights from every Council in Georgia as well as from several in other states are ex pected for the celebration, which it is hoped to make the greatest K. of C. affair in the quarter of a cen tury of the local Council’s existence. HARPER BROS. Art Store 426 Eighth St., Phone 730 AUGUSTA, GA. Perfect -Fitting Eye Glasses. Eyes Thoroughly Examined. Spectacles, Eye Glasses and Arti ficial Eyes Accurately Fitted. MEKEDITH OPTICAL COMPANY 748 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS WHITNEY-McNEILL ELECTRIC CO. EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Let Us Light Your Home With Artistic Fixtures 720 Broad Augusta, Ga. Telephone 1316 Signs and Outdoor Advertising MILLIGAN ADVERTISING SERVICE Augusta, Ga. Busbia & Dennis, Inc. Realtors Homes, Farms and Loans Will Appreciate Chance to Serve You. 134 Eighth Street Augusta, Ga., Phone 1142 H. J. Markwalter — DEALERS IN — Fancy Groceries, Fruits, Etc. IMPORTED SAUSAGE Foreign and Domestic Cheese of Ail Nations. Telephone 1004 1001 Broad St. AUGUSTA GA. Georgia’s Spanish Mission Rains Recall History Dating Back to 1566 Atlanta Journal Magazine Story Tells of Labors of Fran ciscan Friars Among Indians Here Scores of Years Be fore Founding of Jamestown and Plymouth Ed. H. Bradley in the Atlanta Jour nal Magazine. Cuirassed and helmeted solders of the Spanish king busy at their rou tine duties in and around a grim, walled little fortress looking out across a vast expanse of salt marshes toward the Atlantic that stretched away to the eastward; black-robed Franciscan friars at their devotions in the rude little mission chapel that stood close to the fort; and at a little distance, squatting around camp fires, a hun dred or more copper-skinned war riors glowering at the white men’s outpost on the edge of a new world. Such a scene was a daily occurrence three and a half centuries ago at Tolomato, the Indian village on a bluff overlooking the delta of the Altamalia river, on the Georgia coast, about midway between Sa vannah and Brunswick, a few miles north of Darien, one of the oldest settlements on the south Atlantic seaboard. Then, one day, there was a great uprising of the Yemassess against the Spanish conquistadores and their priestly asociates. Juan, eld est son of the mico, or chief of the village of Tolomato, led war riors as they swarmed out of the jungle and overwhelmed the little garrison that fell under the savage attack. Their holy calling did not save the Franciscans, who perished along with the soldiery. The vet eran Father Corpa, head of the mis sion, was taken prisoner, but was subjected to terrible indignities by the Yemassees, and finally be headed. A huge cross molded of crude con crete made of crushed oyster shells and lime, manufactured from the same material, today marks the spot in the midst of the ruins of the Tolomato misison, where his re mains were committed to earth by the avenging military expedition tliat speedily came northward from St. Augustine to wreak vengeance on the Yemassees for the massacre of the Spanish outpost. That was in 1597, a little more than thirty years after the founding of St. Augustine, llie first white setlement on the North American continent, which antedated by one year only the es tablishment of the Spanish military and mission posts on the coast of what is now the state of Georgia. “Tabby,” the primitive form of concrete invented by the Spaniards Tor use in the constx'uclion of their outposts, is the material of which the old fort and mission at Tolo mato are built. Lacking cement, they crushed oyster shells and obtained a fair quantity of lime. Mixed with sand and shells, they developed from this practical formula a con crete that has defied the elements for centuries. The Tolomato fort is octagonal, its walls more than a foot thick .with a floor of the same material, “tabby.” The char acter of the roof is problematical, for only fragrants of the walls re main. Several buildings, all con nected, were ranged along the bluff at the foot of which flows the little tidewater river that winds through the marshes out toward Sapelo sound at the mouth of the Atla- maha. A little distance removed from the main group of structures was the prison, with its dungeons and nar row cell rooms just large enough for a man to stretch at full length on the floor. None or the buildings were more than 30x50 feet in dimen sions, some of them much less than that, hut it is evident that they provided quarters for perhaps half a hundred soldiers and priests. One of the distinguishing features of the architecture and typical of the pe riod in which the buildings were erected, is a beautiful flat Spanish arch still intact over one of the doorways. The territory that is now Georgia was then known as “Guale” by the Spaniards, who paid their first visit to the coast in April 1566, Menen- dez having founded St. Augustine in 'September, 1565. The settlement on St. Catherine’s was the first of the chain of outposts ,and in 1573 the Franciscans entered the province, five priests being in charge of as many establishments along the coast. Two of them, Friar Corpa, and Friar Velascola, lost their lives in the uprising headed by Juan, and Father Davila, of Jekyl, was wounded. There was a period of re ligious inactivity following the Ye- massee rebellion and massacre, but the missions were restored in 1606. They were a day’s journey apart by canoe and so arranged that all could he reached on one itinerary starting at St. Marys and coming northward to Cumberland, thence to Jekyl, to St. Simons, to Talaje, which was on the mainland be tween Brunswick and Darien, thence to Tolomato, to Zapala, to Santa Catalina, and on to Tupique. A century and a half before Og lethorpe’s time the Spanish and French were sending trading vessels to the Georgia coast, bringing back sassafras and wild turkeys, which the Indians brought in to exchange for weapons, bright-colored cloth and trinkets. Ancient documents show that in one season more than 10,000 wild turkeys were bought from the In dians around St. Simons and ex ported to Europe. And though more than three centuries have elapsed the wild turkey is still found in considerable numbers in the vast swamps along the Atltamaha river and in the upland ridges along the coast, furnishing splendid sport for hunters every season. The ruins of the Tolomato mis sion stand on the plantation known as The Thicket, and formerly owned by Captain Charles Spalding, of the United States Dragoons, who fought through the Seminole war with his regiment. A few miles away his brother, Colonel Randolph Spalding, had his country seat, “Ashantilly,” named for the ancestral home of the Spaldings in Scotland. During the War Between the States this splen did old ante-bellum mansion was shelled by a federal gunboat that steamed up from Sapelo sound to bombar the towns and villages in the Altamaha delta area. Several shells struck the Spalding home, de molishing the left wing, but the captain of the warship learned of Captain Charles Spalding’s relation to the owner and gave the order to cease firing. “Ashantilly’ ’has been restored and stands as a stately me morial to a period of history color ful and romantic. ST. LEO ACADEMY Accredited High School Conducted by the Benedictine Fathers. Ideal Location St. Leo, Pasco County Florida DESIGNS FOR ADVERTISERS ll you Intend to eet out a circular, (older or advertisement of anv kind let us make a good picture or design to liven it up. Wo will help you get any kind of advertising matter ready for the printer at moderate cost. Write, call or ’phone us. WRIGLEY ENGRAVING COMPANY R NODES BI-PC. ~ AT LA/4 TA “BEAUTY CONTESTS’’ New Evidence of Catholic C n c in Editorial in R ev jy a I Noted in Sweden Vatican’s Offical Organ By N. C. W. C. News Service. Rome.—Count della Torre, ed itor of Osservatore Romano, of ficial organ of the Vatican, has just written an article' protest ing against beauty contests, which he says incite girls to “sacrifice their happiness to their happiness to their vanity.” The editor was inspired to the writing by. the international beauty contest arranged for Gal veston, Tex. The article, intensely ironic in tone, concludes wiith the state ment that “Many honest girls are being sacrificed to public cu riosity. They will lose much of their 'modesty. Afterward they will not see their home and their family wiith the same eyes. Women are .fraail, but hteir fraity is being exploited for commercial reasons. The extrav agant homage which will be paid to them will givfe them an exag gerating sense of the value of hteir beauty. They are sacrificing their happiness to their vanity. To fascinate men they will pass honest men by.” An Ecclesiastical Province. A province is the territory, com prising usually several dioceses, within which an archbishop or met ropolitan exercises jurisdiction. (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) Stockholm.—Three new Catholic churches are under construction in Sweden at this writing: one at Oer- ebro, to honor the Swedish martyr Eskil, the first Bishop of Straen- gnaes, who died in 1076, stoned by the peasants whom he sought to convert; another at Hclsinghorn, which will be dedicated to the Saint whom the people of the North ven erate as the patron of sailors; and the third one at Norrkoping, the fourth largest city of Sweden which is to bear the name of St. Bngitta of Sweden. The Catholic revival is gomg on in the land despite ail *the restric tions to religious liberty still upon the statute books. The impulse giv en to it by the Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, wh ; eh was participated in by several adherents of the Luther- an Church, continues to be felt. Promoters of a pilgrimage from all the Scandinavian lands to Our Lady of Lourdes, which is to take place in the course of next July, look for ward to increased blessings for the movement of conversion from this homage to the Blessed Mother of God. The religiously untilled field in Sweden remains very large indeed for the Catholic Church; for the last decennial census registered but 3,- 424 adherents of the Church in a population of 5 904,439 inhabitants. ESTABLISHED 1858 The Perkins Manufacturing Co. Yellow Pine Lumber Mill Work — Doors — Sash and Blinds AUGUSTA, GA. PHONE 711 L. SYLVESTER & SONS Established Over Half a C;ntury Outfitters for the Family Agents for Kuppenheimer and Society Brand Clothes 816 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. SOUTHERN TIRES contain materials and workmanship which measure up to the highest standards known to the tire industry. SOUTHERN TIRES are economically manufactured and the prices are unusually low. Put a pair of SOUTHERN TIRES opposite the highest priced tiro yon can buy, type for type—when they are worn out count the cost. The President of Your Association rides on SOUTHERN TIRES and if you can’t secure them from your dealers—write us giving dealers name. Southern Tire and Rubber Co. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Recent research in ancient Span ish archives has resulted in the dis closure of much valuable informa tion concerning the early settle ments on the Georgia coast, a period of history that is touched on rather lightly by most writers of today. The settlement at Tolomato was per haps the most pretentions of any along the coast, being intended by the Spaniards to control the terri tory as far inland as Tama, the present site of Macon. Of the half dozen posts in the tidewater sec tion, the one at Tolomato was re garded with particular importance by Avendano, the governor of Flor ida, who established most of the early. settlements. Santa Maria, at St. Marys’ was only a mission, as were San Pedro, on Cumberland is land; Ospo, on Jekyl, and San Buena Ventura, on St. Simons. The post on Sapelo Island was fortified to a de- S ee, and Santa Catalina, on St; therines island, although the cap ital of the Spanish province and un doubtedly well fortified, now shows no sign of nfiltary occupa tion. HANSBERGER’S PHARMACY Jno. A. Bresnahan, Proprietor Drugs, Toilet Articles and Candy Phones 2667-2668 934 BROAD STREET Augusta, Ga. MONEY IN OLD LETTERS Look in that old trunk up in the garret and send me all the old en velopes up to 1880. Do not remove the stamps from the envelopes. You keep the letters. I will pay highest prices. GEO. C. HAKES, 290 Broadway, Mow York, N. Y. Wm. SCHWEIGERT, THOS. S. GRAY, R. M. RILEY President Vice-Prea., Cashier, Asst. Cashier. UNION SAVINGS BANK Augusta, Georgia COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. 3 y t PER CENT INTEREST