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FAIR A VITAL FACTOR
If the officials of the Griffin
Spalding County Fair association
cessful fair held here, they do so
justifiably and pardonably. For the
annual fair has become a vital fac
tor in the tipbuilding of Spalding
and adjoining counties in many
ways.
It continues to liven interest in
better ana more varied farming, and
the resulting benefits arc- reflected
each year in the exhibits,
show not only careful planning, but
accomplishments in using more ef
ficient methods as well.
The fair is educational in that it
Shows the resources and products
of our community and our neighbors
in an understandable form that gives
enduring emphasis.
While the formal motive behind
the fair is educational that feature
does not outweigh the recreational
side.
Man is by nature a creature of
routine, in the shop, in the store, or
on the farm, and it is essential
that he be given release from the
monotony of the every day grind.
Hence, while the educational side of
the fair is stressed, the recreational'
and holiday aspects have been care
fully preserved, as they should be.
The fair offers such a wide varie
ty of entertainment that it attracts
every one, and while it cannot cure
ills, it can make you forget them.
You are urged to lose your wor
ries in the gay throngs on the mid
way, in the thrills of the horse
races, or in tihe novelty of the thous
and and one other attractions.
On the eve of this great fall fes
tival and season of relaxation The
News joins with all Griffin in bidding
you a hearty welcome.
TO GOAL-SEEKERS
Happily we all shoot at the moon
with ineffectual arrows; our hopes
are set on inaccessible El Dorados;
we come to an end of nothing here
below.
Thus felt Robert Louis Stevenson.
In an essay, Apology for Idlers, he
«oints out that interests are oniv
plucked y p t 0 sow themselves again,
like mustard:
“You would think, when the child
was born, there would be an end to
trouble; and yet it is only the begin
ning of fresh anxieties; and when
you have seen it through its teething
and its education, and at last its
marriage, alas! it is only to ha'I
new fears, new quivering sensi
bilities, with every day; and the
henlth of your children’s children
grows as touching a concern as that
of your own.
“Again, when you have married
your wife, you would think you were
got upon a hilltop, and might be
gin to go downward by an easy
slope.
44 But you have only ended court
ing to begin marriage. Falling in
love and winning love arc often
difficult tasks to overbearing and
rebellious spirits; but to keep in love
is also a business of some import
ance, to which both man and wife
must bring kindness and goodwill.
“The true love story begins at the
altar, when there lies before the
married pair a most beautiful con
test of wisdom and generosity, and
a life-ion ~ struggle towards an un
attainable ideal.
a Unattainable? Aye, surely un
attainable, from the very fact that
they are two instead of one.
There is only wish realizable
on the earth; only one - thing that
can toe perfectly attained: Death.
"And from a variety of circunu
whether it be worth attaining. ft
A strange picture we make ,on
our way to our chimeras, cease
lessly marching, grudging ourselves
the time for test; indefatigable, ad
venturous pioneers.
It is true that we shall never
reach the goal; it is even more
probable that there is no such place;
and if we lived for centuries and
were endowed with the powers of a
god, we' should find ourselves not
much nearer what we wanted at the
end,” ventures Stevenson.
it O toiling hands of mortals! 0
unwearied feet, traveling ye know
not whither! Soon, soon, it seems
to you, must come forth on some
conspicuous hilLtop, .and but a little
way further, against the setting
sun, descry the spires of El Dorado.
“Littlw ye know your own blessed
ness; for to travel hopefully is a,
better thing than to arrive, and the
true success, is to labor.’'
WILLIAMSON
Mrs. Addie Clyde Scott, of At
lanta, is spending a week with her
mother, Mrs. W. W. Shannon.
Mr. I^jnks, of Atlanta, spent the
week-end with friends here.
Miss Nina Mae Buffington,has re
turned from a visit to relatives at
Cochran.
Mrs. R. H. McLucas spent Mon
day- in Atlanta.
Mrs. Annie Middlebrooks, of Lo
cust Grove, spent Thursday here
the guest of her sister,.....Mrs. J. C.
Beauchamp.
Miss Evelyn McLendon, who is
attending school in Atlanta, spent
the week-end with home-folks here.
Azalee Ridley, the efficient post
master of this plae, has gone to
the mountains of North Carolina for
his health. His many friends wish
his a speedy recovery,
Paul Beauchamp attended the
football game in Atlanta Saturday,
He was accompanied home by his
w ^ e > who ,1ac * spent the previous
week with her mother, Mrs. J. E.
Smith.
Mrs. Hunton Alien attended the
meeting of the sixth district chair
men at Jackson Friday.
Mrs. Will Fillyaw spent Monday
in Atlanta.
A. P. and R. II. Dickinson, Hom
er Carreker and Paul Beauchamp at
tended the fair in Atlanta Wednes
day.
Dr. W. L. Beauchamp spent sev
eral days last week in Atlanta.
Mrs. A. P. Dickinson was hostess
to the Woman’s Club Friday after
noon. The next meeting will be
with Miss Opal Dingier.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Melville, of
Hyattsville, Md., were guests of
Mrs. J. E. Beauchamp for the week
end.
Quite a good many from here at
tended the Flint River association of
Baptist church in Zebulon last
Mrs. Hugh Allen and daughters,
and Sara, spent the week
with her sister, Mrs. Singer, in
Rev. B. L. Betts, of Griffin,
an interesting sermon at
Methodist church Sunday morn
and evening.
Mrs. R. L. Allen spent several
last week in Zebulon with her
Mrs. Robert Dupree.
The friends of H. G. Kenney will
sorry to learn of his serious ill
Elder Malaier, of Griffin, is spend
some time with friends here.
ZEBULON NEWS
(Pike County Journal)
Miss Dewey Slocdfllb was call
home Wednesday on account of
death of her grandmother.
Col.'*■ and Mrs. E. M. Owen spent
in Atlanta.
Messrs. D. S. ■ Barrett and C. P
attended the state democratic
in Macon Wednesday.
Mr. Colie Buchanan spent the
at Cordele.
Mrs. W. O. Williams, of Culloden
was in Zebulon Tuesday.
Mr. Robert Iverson of Woodbury
was in Zebulon Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Maxey spent
4 ^turday in Macon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Franklin were
in Macon Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Reeves and
•hildren spent the week-end with
relatives in Griffin.
Miss Elizabeth Baker, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end with homefolks.
Rev. Gideon Horne, of Meansville,
was in Zebulon Wednesday.
Miss Lutie Head, of Atlanta, spent
the week-end with her parents, Dr.
and Mrs. J. M. Head.
Mr. and Mrs. Berner Scott, of At
lanta, were the’ recent guests of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edd Scott.
Mr. E. Middlebrooks and son, Guy,
were with homefolks at Hillsboro,
Sunday.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
SOUL l
VICTOR ROUSSEAU *6
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caster, with tt>e transient risen m
humor lighting up his face. "I toad
the hardest conceivable battle ovtr
that bottle, I set It up before me,
and t held ray right hand back with
my ieft, and I said. ‘1 ana winning, in
Joan Wentworth’s name.' And at last
the drug devil was beaten. And no
more morphine until tonight."
“Doctor Lancaster,
brave and wonderful! cried Joan,
profoundly stirred. Remember that!
>ne of tire bravest men I have ever
known. Never tell me again that you
have lost your power of will. We are
winning fast."
He placed his hands upon iier shoul
ders and stood looking at hfer. Upon
ids face was an expression of indul
gence, as if he was considering her
enthusiasm In the light of his experi
ence of life, so much deeper than hers,
so much the more profound. Then the
took passed; the years seemed to fail
from him, and strength eame into his
face.
God bless you, my dear, he said,
and bent and kissed her forehead.
she's turned and ran upstairs, Her
heart was singihg in her breast. The
flood of sunlight that came through
the eastern windows, illuminating the
dusty Interior of the old building,
seemed tike a spiritual light, flaming
into this dark place where shadows
had dwelt so long. She went Into her
room and dressed for the day. She
hud never felt so happy before. And
now the life in Avonmoutb had be
come as dim ns a dream, and she
cared no longer whether she returned
or not. A charge had been granted
to her, a man’s. life put into her keep
ing; that trust she meant to fulfill.
She had saved Lancaster, and site
would outwit Myers, and remove the
only obstacle to Lancaster’s recovery.
She knew the man incited the doctor
to drug himself. She would have
known that even without the matron's
statement to her. But why should
Myers wish Lancaster to drug himself
to death?
He must be acting for others.
Whom? No matter. Once the drug
evil was overcome, the plot would be
revealed and overthrown.
As site stood at her window Joan
heard footsteps on the path below.
Looking down, site saw the secretary
leaving the house, carrying a suitcase.
k>r heart uimost stood still. Surely
dyers had not acknowledged defeat
■ ml taken Lancaster at his word?
iureiy he did not mean to go without
uother struggle?
She watched him cross the grass
>eslde the chicken coop to where the
veed-grown path joined the winding
, oad. He was outside the grounds
f the institute now. and he was still
’ oing in the direction of station,
the
le disappeared behind the hedges, ap
peared again, a long way off, and van
shed finally. He was gone, and the
ilr seemed the sweeter, the day more
.dorious.
Joan almost danced downstairs to
the dining room. I.ancaster was at
the table, waiting for her.
“Mr. Myers lias gone away I” she
cried. "Doctor Lancaster, your evil
spirit lias departed, suitcase and all."
Lancaster looked.at her gravely. “I
know." i he said.
“Did he come to you? Did you dis
charge him?”
“He did not come to me. He did
not tell \hc matron he was going It
Inok^ “NttS’ bnd.” 1 said Joan firmly, struggling
ntainsl her conviction, “He was
afraid. You will never see him again."
"You know what the Bible says
about the unclean spirit who leave! a
man. and returns with seven others
when he finds Ills home swept nnfl
gsmlahed?" s>
"Doctor Lancaster, lie lias no hold
on you. He can do nothing, and he
will never dare to return.”
"Well, my dear, we have a respite,
at all events,” Lancaster answered.
“So let us eat our breakfast, and aft
erward I’ll take you for a ramble
through the woods, and we'll hold the
fort together until evening.”
Chapter VIII
By the next morning there was no
doubt that victory had been won.
There was color In Lancaster's face,
a lightness In his step; and. best of
all, he was psychically whole, The
drug devil still clung to the nervous
refuges of its physical domain, the
hands still trembled, the man started
at sudden sounds; but the shifty,
furtive, lying spirit had taken Its do
pa rt ure.
Joan only discovered afterward
what Lancaster must have endured.
The treatment had been more heroic
than Joan had known, with her own
limited experience, and the antidotes
which she administered, under Lan
caster's own directions, were purpose
ly limited, for fear of supplanting one
hahit with
Lancaster hail gone tnrough tne
worst of his ordeal: and yet certain
features of his illness were puzzling
to both of them. The symptoms of
npwphltoe poisoning, elusive and pro
tean as they are, seemed in this case
irreconcilable with those classically
accepted. There was Lancaster's com
plete prostration on the morning when
Joan discovered the nature of his ill
ness. He told her afterward that lie
hud been conscious all the limp, but
physically inert, as if paralyzed. That
did not point to morphine poisoning,
/ And a certain lethargy remained one
of the last symptoms of the case.
The intimacy of the sick room, born,
of their struggle, hud become the most
natural thing to .both of them. The
passing of Myers had -wrought an ex
traordinary change in the atmosphere
of the institution. And somehow the
news of Lancaster’s recovery had
spread into' Millville. Joan inferred
that even the country people had boy
cotted ttie institute, but now two moth
ers brought their babies to Lancaster,
and It was amazing and delightful to
- .J<7iin trl the doctor’s
see transforma
tion, his joiliness and tenderness to
ward the children.
“I’m using my respite,” he .said
whimsically. “I want to get well to
face’my harder battle.”
“It is no respite,” answered Joan.
“You' are free now. Doctor Lancaster;
it is only a habit of thought that holds
you.”
There ensued three wonderful days
after the secretary’s departure, always
to remain clear in the girl’s memory.
They were three days of uninterrupt
ed recovery. After the second no
more morphine,was given- The fight
was won; there was no questioning
that.
“I suppose you will have to return
to Avonmonth soon.”-Joan suggested.
He turned a startled look on her.
“Yes—soon,” he said, and fell Into a
gloomy meditation from which she
could not arouse him.
That afternoon a telephone message
came from Thompson, a lull village,
fifteen miles distant. A farm-hand
had been crushed by a falling tree;
would I.ancaster come at once and see
If anything could be done for him?
“Would you like to come with me?”
asked the doctor.
If I can he of help.”
4 - Of course you cun—the greatest
help. I shall need you botfly*perhaps,
to administer an anesthetic," he an
swered.
Lanca ster, telep honed to J enkins Tor,
the buggy, and half an hour later they
were driving along the country road
Into the heart of rite mountains. They
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traveled for the most part in silence;
Lancaster's thoughts were occupied
with ids prospective case, and Joan
wns content to sit quietly at his side
and watch the changing panorama of
the land she loved and knew so well
The road ascended continuously, un
til at last, when the sun was low down
In the sky, they entered Thompson, a
tiny settlement In the very heart of
the mountain peaks. ,
It was n serious case, and the pa
tlent was already comatose, The
tree had fallen across the chest, crush
tng It, and driving a rib Into n lung
An Immediate operation offered the
only hope, and the doctor decided to
perform It in the cabin.
Joan, having bundled out the family
and the neighbors, administered the
ether. She had never been greatly
Impressed by ttie legend of the skilled
surgeon witn the wonderful touch:
her first operation at Avoninouth had
teemed to her like a sort of glorified
(To Be Continued.)
FRIDAY, October 10, 1924
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tickets for Fair can
had at following places:
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