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Cumming, Georgia
The Country Preacher
—By—
Rev. Newton Wise
Goodmorning! Here I am back
again, back in my study at the begin
ning of a beautiful day after a very
busy week end. It is here tha’t my
strength is restored and my inspriat
ion increased to begin another weeks
work.
I want to write about a subject
that I have thought of so often. The
reason I have thought about it so
much lately is because there is a
building near by home that reminds
me of it. It is the unfinished task,.
Each time I go to one of my churches
I pass a large house that was never
finished. I dont know whose it is and
I feel sure that some reason that the
owner couldn’t help caused him to
stop building it.
But it preaches a sermon to me.
Every time I see it I think of the
unfinished task. I think of the life
that starts out with a bright future.
But for some reason, that perhaps
he couldn’t help, it is never finished.
I feel sure that when the plans were
being made the owner cquld just
see a beautiful home there some day.
Perhaps he lay awake at nights plan
ning and dreaming of the time when
it would be complete.
How true that is with most all of
us. I think of the life of the person
that I tried to help. I could just see
a fine personality out of the one who
was very young but for some reason
unknown 'to me, my work was never
completed. I can see the life of the
young man who was covered in sin
and who by the help of God, I had
hoped to help. But it was never done
I think of the sermons that I had
worked so hard on and planned so
much on preaching but somehow it
was never finished the way I hoped
it would be. I think of the church
as struggling along and that I prayed
that somehow as its pastor, I could
help build but somehow my work
seemed to avail little.
I think of the words of comfort I
wanted and planned to say to some
one but they were incomplete. I
think of the friendship I wanted to
make but it was disrupted by some
thing.
There are many young people who
start out in life to make a doctor or
a profession of somekind but never
finish. The unfinished task haunts
him down the night It follows him
wherever he goes and makes his life
unattractive and miserable.
What caused the incompletion. Per
haps interest in another house some
where else or perhaps because the
owner couldn't pay the price. How
can it ever be completed? I don’t
know for certain but am inclined to
believe that the only way would be
for it to be torn down and start all
over again. Since the material in it
is so old and weatherbeaten it would
probably have to have new material
throughout.
And so does the unfinished life.
It moist begin all over again. It must
leave its life up to the great architect
the great contractor, Jesus Christ.
The weeds of sin must be dug up
and the life must be cleaned up. But
thanks be to God that there is always
hope of rebuilding.
There will be another chance Sun
day to try again to preach that ser
mon that was not finished last Sun
day. There will be another chance
to day to make the friend that I
failed to make yesterday.
The kingdom of God in this world
is complete. The work of Jesus is
complete. He gave his life for man
and left his work to his followers o
Their work is still incomplete. May
we by his help finish the building
of his kingdom. The ideals of peace
in the world among nations and
among people within a nation are in
complete. May we try again to build
it.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
COME TO CHURCH SUNDAY
Baptist Church
Walter M. Blackwell, Pastor
10:00 A. M. —Sunday School each
Sunday morning.
11:00 A. M. —Preaching Service on
First and Third Sunday.
8:00 P. M. —Preaching Service on
Every Sunday Night
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The Women’s Missionary Soclet
meets twice a month on Monday at
ternoon at 3:30 o clock after the first
and third Sunday.
The Baptist Training Union meets
each Sunday evening at 7 o’clock.
Methodist Church
J. W. COFFMAN, Pastor
10:15 A. M. Sunday School each
Sunday morning.
First Sunday Morning and night.
Ebenezer. Piedmont Afternoon.
Second Sunday Cumming and Shiloah
Sunday Morning. At night Cumming
Third Sunday morning, and night
New Hope.
Fourth Sunday morning and night
Cumming. Afternoon at Bethelview.
WOMEN’S CIRCLE
The Young Women’s Circle meets
once a month on the first Monday
evening at 8:00 o’clock.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The Woman’s Society of Christian
Service of the Cumming Methodist
Church meets once a month on Mon
day afternoon at 3 o’clock after the
second Sunday.
FSA Families Buy
30 Tons Of Seed In
Live-At-Home Drive
1 Gardens will be the order of the day
for Georgia FSA families with the
purchase of 30 tons of garden seed,
it is announced by George Montgom
ery, state cooperative specialist of the
Farm Security Tdministration
These seed, Montgomery pointed
out, will furnish 6,000 families with
garden seed, with the main objective
Jof their purchase aimed toward in-
I creasing the varieties of vegetables
grown, which in turn will improve
the diet of the families. The complete
assortment, which contains 29 pack
i ages, weighs approximately 10 pounds
jThe seed are available to FSA fam
ilies at a price of $1.85, which must
Ibe paid in advance.
' The present consignment of seed
represents an investment of sll,lOO
| and is the first time the FSA clients
have undertaken to purchase '(.hat
many seed cooperatively. To distri
bute the seed, Montgomery explained
the company from which they were
purchased divided the state into four
districts and shipped the packages to
seed companies in Athens, Macon,
Waycross and Albany for final dis
tribution to the borrowers in the coun
ties which each city serves.
Montgomery said the variety of
seed makes it possible to have a yel
low vegetable during every season of
the year. These are rich in Vitamin
D which is most important to good
health.
Miss Ruby Thompson, associate
FSA director in charge of home man
agement, urges FSA families to adopt
as a slogan, “Grow a garden and live
at-home”, and put it into practice.
“The families wdio live out of their
gardens and pantry know' a year
round garden means good food and
good health,” Miss Thompson said,
“and also by having fresh vegetables
the entire year it means a smaller
canning budget.
“However, one of the primary pur
poses in buying these seed is to ‘en
able our borrowers to grow a larger
variety of vegetables than ever before
and this point cannot be stressed too
strongly. The families w r ho every year
have good gardens are usually re
warded w'ith good health and happi
ness.”
Home-Grown Food
Prove Main Factor
For Farm Family
LAVONIA, GA., On a farm not far
from here lives a family of nine, in-
Jcaudin/g seven children, There are
six girls with rosy cheeks and bright
eyes, ranging in ages from 15 down
to four for the twins. They are pic
tures of health—thanks to plenty of
home-grown and home-preserved vic
tuals.
Back yonder—2l years ago, to be
exact—when Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Fin
ley began a farming career together,
they decided that food conservation
was a big factor in the diet in order
to be healthy. Today this couple is
proud of their healthy children. They
realize the value of good home-grown
food and they know their live-at-home
plan of food conservation has been a
guiding hand in making their boy and
The Forsyth County News
six girls as healthy as any in the land
The live-at-home program of the
Finleys begins with production. In
addition to the field crops, about five
acres are devoted each year to vege
tables and other food products. Thru
out the summer the family diet in
cludes many kinds of fresh vegetab
les, together with sufficient meats,
milk and butter—all home produced
It’s during the summer and fall
months that Mrs. Finley prepares the
winter food supply. She puts the ve
getables and other food products in
glass cans. Last fall, with the help of
her 15-year-old daughter who is a
memlber of the 4-H club, she filled
over 800 half gallon jars. This equi
valent of 1,600 quarts included 45
different varieties of vegetables,
meants, and fruits. She also canned
200 containers for her mother.
Never have the Finleys bought any
canned vegetables. Each fall finds
them with a liberal supply of canned
goods on hand, some of which were
preserved three seasons ago.
Four of the girls are in school, two
of whom go to Lavonia, while the
others attend a local community
school. At Lavonia, they serve hot
lunches for a nickel apiece, to be paid
either in cash or in food products
brought from home. This amounts to
$2 per month for the two Finley girls.
So they carry canned string beans to
school to pay for lunches. At 25 cents
per half gallon jar, their hot steam
ing lunches cost them eight jars of
beans a month. During a school term
it means a saving of $lB. And that
amount saved isn’t bad for the 72
containers of beans it takes for the
two children.
, In addition to canned goods, this
Franklin county farm family always
has plenty of staple food products. On
the average, they gro wabout 100
bushels of sweet potatoes, 40 bushels
of Irish, and enough sorghum for 50
gallons of syrup. Their main cash
crop is cotton and it is supplemented
with small incomes from surplus
amounts of other crops not needed
for home use. They also produce an
adequate supply of meats.
4-H Boys And Girls
Report Progress In
Marketing Project
R. J. Richardson, of Tifton, poultry
marketing specialist of the Agricul
tural Extension Service, reports that
4-H club boys and girls in 53 counties
are hard at workk with their egg
marketing project
Check on activity indicates that so
far about 2.400 cases or six cars of
eggs have been handled by ihe 4-H
club boys and girls, Mr. Richardson
says. This same check indicates a
value on the work so far of $1,445.
“Preliminary work of learning the
grades of eggs, factors affecting egg
quality, producing good-quality mark
et eggs and practice work on candl
ing for interior quality is finished,”
the Extension specialist explains.
“Club members are now doing the
actual job of marketing for them
selves or neighbors. Demonstrations
concerning candling of eggs, defects
found in eggs, how hot weather af
fects the interior quality, weighing
for weight grades, care and handling
before marketing are some of the
educational features in this work.”
The contest part of the project
work ends Junel and county winners
will be determined shortly after, he
states. A large grocery chain in At
lanta (Rogers) is sponsoring the con
test in cooperation with the Agricul
tural Extension Service. State win
nesr will go to Chicago in December
when the National 4-H Club Con
gress holds its annual meeting.
FORSYTH COUNTY CONVENTION
SINGING MET WITH BETHEL
VIEW SUNDAY
The Forsyth County Convention
Singing held its Semi-Annual meeting
with Bethelview Church, Sunday,
April 20, which was highly enjoyed
by a large number.
The singing was opened by the
president of Bethelview r Singing
Class. The following leaders led the
class three pieces each., Mr. F. W.
Tarrant of Atlanta, Arthur Haygood,
Mr. Rogers of Atlanta, Thomas Thorn
hill, Herchel Holbrook, then adjourn
ed for lunch.
Mr. Herchel Holbrook opened with
one song after which the following
led two pieces each: F. W. Tarrant,
Mr. Rogers, Willie Wills, Jay Hol
brook, Paul Thompson, L. T. Harris,
Duet by Mr. F. W. Tarrant and wife,
Cumming quartet one song, Thomas
Thornhill, Cherokee Five, Alonzo
Fowler, Egbert Whitmire, Carl Hol
brook, Cumming quartet, Alton Hugh
es, Mr. Rogers, Cherokee Five, F. W.
Tarrant, solo by Betty Lou Holbrook,
Whitmire Trio, Hershel Holbrook one
•song, solo by Mattie Ruth Whitmire.
Herman Roper will he president at
the next meeting, Hershel Holbrook
was elected vice-president.
Piano solo by Miss Whitmire.
Closing song by Hershel Holbrook.
Prayer by Alton Hughes.
Next meeting will be held with
Pleasant View Church in October.
Pianist for the day were Miss
Whitmire, Mrs Hershel Holbrook and
Arthur Haygood.
GOODYEAR AWARDS CONTRACT
Goodyear Aircraft Corporation an
nounces the awarding of the contract
for construction of a big new airplane
parts plant to the Clfmmer Construct
ion Company, of Akron.
The contract covers a factory
building of steel, brick and glass,
which will be 1,000 feet long and
400 feet wide.
Two supplemental structures, a
steam plant and a drop hammer
building where forgings are shaped,
will be contracted for in thg near
future. The immediate plant area will
cover some twenty-five acres includ
ing railroad sidings, roadways and
parking grounds.
When completed, the plant and
equipment will represent approxi
mately $3,700,000. It will be devoted
to the manufacture and fabrication
of metal parts such as tail surfaces,
ou'trewings and kindred sub-assembl
ies for war planes included in the
government’s defense program. These
parts, in turn, w illbe delivered to
primary plane manufacturers for in
tegration.
Goodyear entered this phase of the
airplane business last summer, utilfz
ing space and metal fabricating
machinery at the company’s huge air
dock. Rapidly increasing demand for
these parts made it necessary to
arrange for substantial expansion of
the original plant facilities.
The new plant will be financed and
owned by the federal Defense Plant
Corporation, a subsidiary of the R.
F. C. It will be leased, managed and
operated by Goodyear Aircraft Cor
poration.
It is scheduled to be completed for
occupancy by late summer.
Main entrance to the new plant will
be from Emmet Road which forms
the south boundry of the airport.
Here are some of the material re
quirements which indicate the huge
size of the new aircraft parts plant:
Eight million pounds of steel
Twelve thousand barrels of cement
Eight thousand tons of sand.
Twelve thousand tons of gravel
One million, one hundred and
twenty-five thousand feet of lumber.
The building will be of monitor
type construction,' the outer walls of
which will be mostly of steel and a
heat-resisting type of glass. Light
ing equipment of an advanced design
will be used.
Rev. Paul Barnes will preach the
4th Sunday in April at Beaver Ruin
Baptist Church at 11 o’clock. Every
body invited to come out and hear
him.
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Communion Services will be held
at Beaver Ruin Baptist Church the
first Sunday in May, Being May 4th.
All sister churches invited to attend.
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please reutrn tag and bracket to Miss
Helen Arrendale or to The Forsyth
County News.
ODELL NEWS
Mrs. TANARUS, M. Rogers spent Sunday
afternoon w'ith her daughter Mrs.
Am on Davis
Mr. and Mrs. George Bates visited
Mrs. Wilburn Cobb Sunday afternoon
Those vidTting Mr. and Mrs. Author
Martin Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Hershell Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Clar
■nce Brown and children and Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Martin
Mrs. Frank Wood and son spent
Monday with Will McGinnis
Mr. John Carnes and children spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Buel Mar
tin near Midway
Misses Margaret and Louise Nun
naly spent one evening last week
with Miss Evelyn Martin
Mrs. Fannie Brannon spent Sunday
afternoon w'ith Mrs. E. A. Strickland
Mrs. Carrie Cobb and children
spent Thursday night jvith her moth
er Mrs. Ida Bates
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Cobb, Mr. Wil
How Banks Speed Up
Community Prosperity
A man working alone with a forked
stick or a hoe can turn up a few
rows of earth for seeding.
A man with a horse and a steel
plough can do a hundred times as
much work; while a man with a trac
®tor and a gang plough can turn up a
'thousand times as much land.
In the same way a bank enables a
community to make faster and more
productive use of its circulating dol
lars. A bank, therefore, is a powerful
piece of modern financial machinery,
which directly contributi s to the wel
fare and progress of the people it
serves.
BANK OF CUMMING
ROY P. OTWELL, President
Thursday, April 24, 1941.
burn Cobb of Macon visited their
parents last Sunday
Several of this community have
meaaels
Eire Is the greatest enemy of the
forest, causing untold damage to
timber and young growth each season
Dr. R L. Hunter
DENTIST
Alpharetta, Ga,
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example, you can cook an
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run an entire day for three or four cents.
When you consider all the various house
hold jobs it does, electric service is the
biggest bargain in your home. Further
more, it is one of the few things whose
price hasn’t gone up. In fact, it’s cheaper
now than ever before 1
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