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Volume 46. NORTH GEORGIA CHAM PIONS IN 4-H FORESTRY ifli''' ::i '’' • • , JB IlflyiPPrlywff : ij. ‘Mr sfc -~' : -> JWfSWM'PSHmR Hr ''?yWgßiKaMMtßKff A ! teJ2' t HpSCTKraK ££ * ‘ *psklß|. f\ HSH 1 ~ 29 BHSk^ *' • s ws&Bmem V! *,** i jUf North Georgia Champions in the 4-H Club f orestry project, named at the district achieve ment meeting in Athens recently, are, left to right: Peggy Samples, Banks county; Thad Rush, Floyd county; Elizabeth Ann Coffee, Ban ks, and Idus Herrin, Habersham. As senior win ners, Elizabeth Anne ajid Thad will attend the G eorgia 4-H Club Congress in Atlanta, October 4—6, to compete for state honors with winners f frim five other Agricultural Extension Service districts. The 4-H forestry demonstration program is sponsored by Southern Bell Telephone Co; 1-t - V ; f-.?*’■* * • #*! **’•*.• Services Begin At Holbrook Camp on August 19th. The many people who attend Hoi brook camp Ground are looking forward to the opening service at 8 p. m. August 19. This will be the 118th time the religious people of this section of Georgia have as sembled for ten days of song, pray er and preaching service*. The preachers this year will be Rev. Wallace Chappell and Rev. Tom Watson with Bishop Arthur J. Moore preaching at the 11:00 o’clock service Sunday, August 21. The host preacher is Rev. Eugene Pelt and the District Supt., is Rev. Nat G. Long. Mr. Harry Sellers will lead the singing. The beginning of Holbrook was in 1839 when Mr. Jesse C. Hol brook donated forty acres of land to the Methodist Church to be used for a camp ground. Even though it belongs to the East Atlanta Dis trict of the Methodist Cnurch. the policy is interdenominational. It is governed by the tent holders, as sisted by a Board of Managers who are elected by the tent holders. The people that tear and the many followers of the Camp Ground come from various religious back grounds. The only conveniences of the early campers were the covered wagons, the open fire for cooking, the spring at the foot of the hill for a water supply and the brush arbor used to hold services. The fellowship was important, the so cial life meant much to these peo ple but the most important thing was the preaching of the word. Preachers with flaming hearts and glowing messages preached with great power. Friends sought to lead the wayward into fellowship with God and every one was anx ious to get on a higher plane of religious experience. The fame of Holbrook spread and more people became interested. Im provements were made year by year so that now there is a beauti ful campus, spacious Arbor sur rounded by forty-four cottages equipped with electricity and run ning water. Many people are un able to tent but attend the services and return to their homes each day The aim of the Camp Ground group, as in early days, is to bring people into a deeper religious ex perience, a fuller knowledge of Christ and into a Christ dedicated life. The theme of the Preachers will be Christ and their messages will ring throughout the Camp, in viting people to the alter as in the days of old. HOLBROOK CAMP Meeting Services will start at this Old Camp Meeting Ground on August 19 and will run through the 28. Bishop Arthur Moore will preach at 11 A. M. oa August 21st. Come and enjoy the meeting with us. The Forsyth County News OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUM MING DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO UEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HA LI. AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. (City Population 2,500) Cummingr Georgia, Thursday August 18, 1955. Forsyth County High School News The date for registration in the high school and the elementary school will be August 30, begin ning at 8:30 A. M. All the high school students will report to the new building for registration and the elementary students to the old school building. Everyone is urged to register on August 30, so the course calendar and schedule can be completed in time for the opening of school. Football practice started at six o’clock last Monday morning. Nine teen boys reported for the first practice. There will be two practice periods a day for the next two weeks. Coach Henderson would like to see any one that wants to play tto come out this week. It will be too late to make the team if you wait until school opens. The first game is September 2. Football Schedule for 1955 —56 September 2—Cassville There September 9—-Manchester There September 16—Norcross Here September 29 —Eastonolle There October 7 —Clarksville Here October 14—Acworth There October 21—Hogansville Thei;e October 28—Clayton There November 4—Coosa Here November 11—Roswell Here At the present there are only two vacancies in high school. We need a commercial teacher, a math ematics and science combination teacher. ASC NEWS TJie Forsyth County ASC Com mittee Office has been allocated some more money for use in car rying out the 1955 ACP Program. All the farmers who have signed an intention sheet to carry out a practice and have not received an approval for this practice should receive one during the week of August 15, 1955. All the farmers who have received an approval for their practices may come by the County ASC Committee Office for purchase orders for this material. There still remains 28 overplant ed cotton farms in the county. If you overplanted your cotton allot ment and you operatae another farm on which cotton is planted it will be necessary for you to de stroy the overplanted acreage or pay a penalty before a marketing card can be issued to either farm. The 1955 Cotton Marketing Cards are being typed and will be mailed to the farmers during the month of September. IMPORTANT NOTICE There will be a gathering at the Midway Methodist Church on Sat urday momin September 3, 1955 for the purpose of cleaning up the Grounds and Cemetery. All who have loved ones buried here, please come and help. Cancer Crusade Quota For Forsyth County $786 Chairman States Joe Brooks, Chairman for the Cancer Crusade in Forsyth County today announced that the quota set for our county is $786.00. Brooks revealed that 106 Forsyth Countains had received free care valued in excess of $42,500.00 dur ing the past seven years. “Of course we do not know how many of our people are receiving pri vate care, but we do know that everyone benefits through the re search sponsored by the American Cancer Society,” he stated. Through research, we hope can cer cann, some day, be prevented. Through medicine, cancer suffer ers can be made more comfortable and through education we hope everyone of us will recognize the danger signals and act early so that they may be cured, hft con tinued. “I want to urge our people to continue this fight against a ter rible disease. Those who can, ase asked to contribute liberally to the Cancer Crusade. So far we have received $198.20. If you have not contributed yet, please send your contribution to me at the C. H. Brooks & Son Grocery,” he con cluded. Soil Conservation News Forsyth County W. S. Sutherland owner of farm land near Midway church in the southwest section of the county is having a lake formed. Wayne Cole man of Roswell is the contractor. Management and conservation of pine tree woodlands have been dis cussed freuently in meetings. The D plus 6 method of harvesting timber is recommended. Along with this D plus 6 method the SCS technicians are suggesting that all woodland owners study soil sur vey maps of their farms which may now be studied in terms of site index for different kinds of pine trees. The D plus 6 method of harvesting is the simplest meth od for the average landowner to understand. It simply means spac ing the trees the average tree dia meter plus 6 feet, i. e. trees aver aging 6 inches in diameter plus 6 feet would be space 12 feet apart and trees averaging 10 inches in diameter would be according to D plus 6, 16 feet apart. Card Of Thanks We wish to take this opportunity {to thank each one who helped in any way when our home was struck by lightning. May God bless those who gave work or money. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brackett Sixth Annual Horse Show To Be Held Here Saturday August 20th. The Kiwanis Club will hold its sixth Annual Horse Show at 7:30 P. M. Saturday night, August 20th at the porsyth County Athletic Field.. This will be the biggest and best show by far and one of the largest crowds ever to attend a sports fevent in the county is expected to re on hand to se this great show Ivhich will be managed by Col. •Jimmy Seasholes again this year. The show will be judged by Hon. Horace B. Young of Fitzgerald fcnd James Chambers will be Ring JMaster. Over 100 horses have al ready entered to participate in the 1 big classes. Several of these class fs will be confined to local horses only. > Plenty of parking space will be available and the Club has recently purchased and donated to the Ball park 200 movable bleacher-type seats. Ringside box seats will be available as usual. # Advance sale of general admis scio* and reserve seat tickets has s&rte.j v and these tickets can be obtained from any Kiwanian. Bring the family out and enjoy this bi show. « Today & Tomorrow Louie D. Newton " «. > EUROPE On the occasion of another visit to Europe, attending the Jubilee Congress of the Baptist World Al liance, I found myself asking the questions so often asked, but so difficult of answer. How could nations make so mary mistakes across the two thousand years that have marketd the' story of what we call civilization in Eu rope’ For, one has cniy to look at the symbols of sweat and tears and blood- grim sentinels of war’s de solations—to understand that civi li/aricn in Europe has, for the most part, missed the boar. I think I got one of the answers as we stood at the tomb of Napo leon. The magnificent building, once a church, now devoted to his tomb and to the tombs of other warriors, was filled with curious tourists, knowing little history, and chiefly concerned to get snapshots of the resting place of one of the men who ground Europe beneath the cruel chariot wheels of selfish ness. I asked a Frenchman, a very in telligent man who teaches in the Sarbonne, what the building was used for beside the tombs of these warmakers. He explained about the War College to the rear, and then said: "And then for beggars. All about this place you will find beggars.” That was a solemn and terrifying answer, but it likely points to the truth. France, like so many other nations in Europe, is poor, very poor. They have spent their money for war and pleasure, and the Eu rope that might have been is to-, day a place of tears and despair. The 395,000,000 people, piled up in Europe.like sardines In a can— -89 per square kilometer —do qot have too much to look forward to. They have been wasting their en ergies in meaningless wars too long. Only a few nations, like Switzerland, Sweden, and a few others have avoided this folly. Many of them could not avoid It. They were victims of circumstance. And so, it is the sad story of men like Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, and all the rest —men j who were trying to build houses of sand, forgetful of the words of the Son of God. "Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in •vain.” KNOW WHO’S BEING NEGLECT ED IN GEORGIA SCHOOLS? The bright child. Teacher, time filled with scores of the average and the slow, has little time to. develop his potential abilities. County Population 15,000. Number 43. TRUETT-McCONNELL JUNIOR COLLEGE ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF THE MUSIC FACULTY •> President Joe H. Miller, Truett- McConnell Junior College, announ ces the completion of the faculty for next year by the addition of Mr. K. Eugene Martin and Mrs. Sarah Leathers Martin, who will hold positions in the music depart ment. Mr. and Mrs. Martin will be a big factor in the expansion of the music department of Truett-Mc- Connell. With their appointment, the college will also offer organ lessons for the first time in the history of the college. An invitation is being issued to the church or ganists of this section to take or gan lessons and for the churches to send prospective organists to the Music Department for lessons. Mr. Martin is a native of Cory don Kentucky where he graduated from high school. He attended Evansville College, Evansville, In diana and received his Bachelor of Music degree there in 1952. He later attended the Southern Bap tist Theological Seminary and re ceived his Master of Music with a major in piano and a minor in voice. His experience includes teaching in Evansville College and for the past few years he has been the Minister of Music of the First Baptist Church, Mt. Olive, North Carolina. While at the First Bap tist Church he has developed a fully graded music program. This experience wil lenable him to train students at the college to set up the church music programs that | are advocated by the State Music Department under the direction of Dr. Paul McCommon. Mrs. Martin is the former Sarah Leathers from Decatur. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Leathers of 270 Third Avenue. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott Col lege with a mojor in organ. She has also completed one year of post graduate work at the South ern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville in organ. She has ser ved as organist at the Oakhurst Baptist Church in Decatur, in Louisville, Kentucky, and was the organist at the First Baptist church Mt. Olice, North Carolina. Mr. Martin will head the music department, will teach voice, piano and direct the choir and Mrs. Mar tin will teach organ. CARDOF THANKS ' We wish to take this opportunity and means to thank each Indivi dual in the Cumming and surround Ing communities for their many acts of kindness and thoughtful ness, during the sudden Illness and death of our loved one. We sincerely appreciate each comforting word that was spoken, each hand-clasp and the many cov ered dishes, the beautiful flowers and floral arrangements. We especially would like to men tion and thank the following in dividuals: the Physicians and Nur ses of Atlanta, Rev. Harold Zwald, Rev. Henry Warren and Rev. John Ozley, Jimmie Barnes of the Ot well & Barnes Funeral Home, Paul Forrest and each member of the First Baptist Church Choir, The Honorary escort and each active pallbearer. Mrs. Margarett Thomas Webb Joel Glendon Webb '+ '■+ < BHil* * ' nHr • . “No Time For God” A little poem attracted my at tention in the Church Bulletin, at The First Baptist Church, at Cum ming and It also called to mind a a little poem I learned a long time ago. I am passing these little thoughts on to you with a prayer that these thoughts may call you back to God and you may again have peace of Soul. “NO TIME FOR GOD” No time for God? What fools we are, to clutter up our lives with common things, And leave without heart’s gate The Lord of life and Life itself—> Our God., No time for God? As sodn to say, jio time * i To eat or sleep or love or die. j Take time for God Or you shall dwarf your soul, And when the angel death | Comes knocking at your door, A poor misshapen thing you’ll be To step into .eternity Norman L. Trott Another poem that reminds us of the workings of time, sin and Death. I pray that this little poem may cause us to think on our way and cause us to work while it is day for the night cometh when no man can work: Time worketh Let me work too, Time undoeth, > Oh, let me do! , As busy as time my task I ply ‘Till I rest in the rest of Eternity. Sin Worketh Let me work too, [ I Sin undoeth, Oh, let me do! I As busy as sin my task I ply ‘Till I rest in the rest of Eternity. Death worketh Let me work too, Death undoeth, Oh, let me do, ' ] As busy as death my task I ply ‘Till I rest in the rest of Eternity. (I do not remember the author) W. R. CALLAWAY Harmony Church Will Celebrate 100th Anniversary Sept., 4th. New Harmony Church will cele brate her 100th Anniversary on September 4. All members are urg ed to be present and bring a friend There will be dinner on grounds. We invite every Sister Church and all churches to be present on this day. It will be a day of giving Thanks to God for the good that has been accomplished here at New Harmony. There will be an unveiling of a Marker set for the Anniven sary, so come on all you members and sign the Register so we can tell how many people of which be longed to New Harmony are pres ent. Friends, Neighbors, Everyone be present. Hear some good sing ing and Preaching. It will be worth your time. We will look for you.