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RANDOM NOTES
By Old Caesar.
Early Sowhatchee School History
(Continued).
It would be better to go back to
the ’Fifties now and pick up two
games that were overlooked. One
was called “hard knucks,” and the
other “turning the teacher out’’ the
first day of April. The first game
lasted only about two and a half
weeks. I don’t remember who got
up this game. However, it came in
and the boys all agreed on Friday
but one, Jasper Whittington, to prac
tice the next week to get our knuckles
toughened up to engage in the battle
the next Monday, the gainer to be
crowned champion of the “hard knuck
ring.”
On Monday morning, the week of
practice, Jim Walters walked in
with a small board about three inch
es wide by eighteen inches long.
He held something in his left hand
as a fiddler would hold his fiddle.
The boys crowded around him to
know what it was. He told them it
was his grind-rock to grind his axe,
and he gave the boys a lesson on
how to grind the ax with a short
tattoo of his knuckles on the board.
Only one lesson was needed. Every
boy had a board on short notice,
that is, all but Jasper Writtington.
Before the week end it was generally
conceded that Jim Walters would be
the champion. Monday came; at
noonday the contest. The challenge
was two words, “paw out.” Jim
W. had challenged every boy but
one, and put them all in the back
ground, and that one was Jasper
Whittington. Jim walked over toward
Jasper with a broad, triumphant grin
on his face. Jasper stepped out with
the challenge, ‘‘paw out.” Out went
Jim’s “paw.” Jasper hit his knuckles
a terrific blow, which sent Jim wind
ing back three or four steps, twisting
and rubbing. The boys gathered
around rapidly. Jasper extended his
hand to Jim, which he grasped and
said, “Jasper, I didn’t know you had
rocks for knucks.”
A short talk from our teacher,
JMr. Windsor, next day on the pre
servation of our hands broke up this
game.
“Turning the teacher out” rules:
Six boys were selected to do the
work. The teacher’s back must be
put on the ground and kept there,
but if the teacher could get four
boys under him and keep them there
then the teacher won the day. Will
give only one turning out, which was
the most exciting and longest tussle
we ever had. Our teacher, Mr. S.
T. Howard, of Blakely, was not a
large man, but very active and strong.
Our leader was Mr. W. B. Weaver,
on whom all the small boys depend
ed in all their needs and wants. All
the small boys were trained for a
month before the first day of April,
using one of the grown up boys as
the teacher. As before stated, six
boys were selected for this occasion,
Jim Glenn and Jasper Whittington,
at the feet, known as right and left
socks; Claude Glenn and William
Anderson, as right and left crotch
breakers; Jim Walters and John W.
Anglin, Jr., being a little taller were
known as right and left gloves, or to
control the hands and arms. The
morning came, and by sunrise the
door was barricaded with logs and
poles and the six boys on the inside
to wait for the coming of the teach
er. All other children were in hid
ing nearby. Mr. Howard soon came
and deliberately viewed the scene,
then, putting his dinner bucket down,
laid aside his hat and coat and com
menced to move the poles and logs.
As the boys were rapidly moving
away, every nerve in those boys was
strained to the utmost tension. It was
a time fraught with great moment.
The last log was being carried away.
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: the boys following close in. As the
j log left his hands the boys seized
j him with a yell which brought all
! the boys and girls out from their
hiding places with loud cheering,
j Round and round, over and under,
J with no obvious gain on either side,
but in an unguarded moment with
'jJim Walters, the teacher threw him
loose out four or five feet. Jim re
| covered and with a yell, “ding your
hide, you think one of your hands is
as strong as I am all over, do you?”
But the right glove went on to stay
in time to save the day. The socks
raised him clear from the ground,
the crotchers broke his forward
position and the gloves were carry
ing his back slowly but surely to the
ground. At last the yell of victory
was heard from the boys. They be
came the heroes of the day. Our
leader lined us up and our teacher
grasped the hand of each boy com
plimenting and praising him. Terms
of the victory were two lessons for
the day and balance of time for play.
Often in retrospecting childhood
scenes I fall in with that beautiful
poem,
“Backward, turn backward, O, time
in your flight,
Make me a child again just for to
night.”
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GEORGIA —Early County:
J. G. Chambers, a resident of saU
county, having duly applied under
the provisions of the Civil Code, Sec.
3089, et seq., to be appointed guard
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
To the Qualified. Registered Voters
of the Kestler School District in
Early County, Georgia:
By virtue of a petition to the un
dersigned directed and in pursuance
of the law, we do hereby call an
election for the Kestler School Dis
trict, to be held on the 10th day of
September. 1924, at the Damascus
Justice Court House in said School
District, being the regular voting
precinct of the 854th Georgia Militia
District in said county, between the
hours prescribed for the election of
State and County Officers for the
registered, qualified voters of said
District to determine whether or not
there shall be issued for the said
School District bonds aggregating
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,-
000.00), to defray the expenses of
building and equipping a school
house for said District. Said bonds
shall be of the denomination of five
hundred dollars ($500.00) each, bear
ing interest from September 10th, |
1924, at the rate of five per cent per 1
annum, payable semi-annually. One ,
of these bonds of such denomination
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of the years 1925 to 1938, both in-!
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ive; three of these bonds shall ma-j
tore on February Ist of each of the.
years 1949 to 1952, both inclusive;
and two of these bonds shall mature
on February Ist of each of the years
1953 and 1954, so that all of said
indebtedness shall mature on Febru
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shall be paid semi-annually on Feb
ruary Ist and August Ist of each
of the years herein named until said
bonds shall be paid. Those desiring
to vote for the issuance of said
bonds shall have written or printed
on their ballots, “For School House;”
those desiring to vote against the
issuance of said bonds shall have
written or printed on their ballots,
“Against School House.’’
This the 7th day of August, 1924.
DR. P. H. KEATON,
Chm., Board of Trustees, Kestler
School District.
W. R. PULLEN,
Sec. and Treasurer of the
Kestler School District.
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