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EARLY COUNTY NEWS
OFFICIAL GAZETTE
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Blakely, Georgia
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Blakely. Ga., September 25, 1925.
Judge Custer’s charge to the Dough
erty county grand jury in Albany
Monday has been widely commented
on by the press throughout the
State, especially that part of his
message dealing with Sabbath ob
servance.
The Early County Club Hatchery
will re-open Monday. The hatchery
has certainly stimulated interest in
poultry raising in Early lounty, and !
three successful co-operative poultry
sales held In Early county last
Spring netted poultry raisers a neat j
sum.
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William (J. MeAdoo, on his return
from a vacation trip to Europe, an
nounces his intention of taking the
slump for John W. Davis and mak
ing several speeches in the Western i
States. Mr. MeAdoo is conceded to
be tlie most popular man in the
Democratic party with the Western
agricultural population, and it is
hoped that he may swing some of
the States in that section for the
Democratic nominee.
Nearly ull of American baseball !
fandom is pulling for the Washington!
American League team to win the
pennant that the great veteran pitch
er, Walter Johnson, mignt. for the
first time in his career of 18 years
m (he major leagues, engage in
world series exhibition. Johnson
is one of the greatest characters as
v-»‘ll as one of the finest players
the game lias ever known, and is
perhaps the only ball player living
who is cheered in defeat as well as
victory.
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We may expect little else from the
daily newspapers in the coming
weeas inn glaring headlines and
sensational write-ups of the double
poisoning case in lira, 111., wherein a
minister of the gospel has confessed
to poisoning his wife, while his
i ,er confesses to the murder of her j
husband in the same manner. The I
object of the double murder plot was
that their illicit love affair might j
culminate in marriage. A speedy
court trial and the meting out of
justice should now he in order.
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WHAT ARE YOU FOR?
"We have in mind one who has on
many occasions asked this paper to
take a position he had in mind. Each
time the position requested was a
stand against something. Not one
time lias this person requested the
paper to take a stand for something.
Os course, we understand in our
own mind that this person is so
busy being against tilings that he
neve: hm time to be for anything.
But we often wonder if people realize
how easy it is to drift into the
same pathetic position. The public
does not care for or respect the man
who spends all of his time and util
izes all of his thoughts in opposi
tion. A man must stand for some
thing to gain the respect of his fel
low-men. —Waycross Journal Herald.
THE FOURTH “R.”
i Walton Tribune.
Tlie training and education of chil
dren has never been more thorough
and widespread than at present. The
average parents would spend the last
• cent and the last ounce of strength
for the educational advancement of
their children. But certain evident
facts point to a weakness in our
( present educational system,
i William G. Shepherd, in an arti
• cle in The Literary Digest some time
ago entitled "Why Children Cheat
. and Steal," gave some astonishing
r facts. In the Journal of Education,
5 V. P. Squires, of the University of
North Dakota, reports the examina
. tion of 139 students as to their gen
eral knowledge of the Bible. Eight
quotations were asked for. Only
eight per cent of the students passed
, an average of seventy-five per cent.
’ Seven per cent could not name a
• j hook of the Old Testament and fifty
, per cent could give only ten books
1 of the Old Testament.
Dr. George R. Grissman, of War
rensburg, Miss., examined 2,000 high
school students and found only six
teen per cent could tell where Christ
was born or name his mother. Twelve
per cent did not know the first
clause of the Lord’s Prayer, and
other equally astonishing facts were
revealed.
In a test in West Virginia, only
thirty-two per cent of the pupils
could write the first ten words of
the Lord’s Prayer.
The Christian Century states that
! recently the graduates of a grade
••A" college under denominational con
trol answered a series of questions
as to their beliefs. Ninety per cent
of the class claimed to he Christians.
When they finished their course for
ty per cent stated they did not be
lieve in a personal God. Eighty
! per cent were members of some
church, yet fifty-one per cent admit
ted that during their four years’ col
-1 lege course they had seldom attend
ed church.
These illustrations might be in
definitely multiplied. We must not
content ourselveg with training our
boys and girls in the three "R’s”, so
called Reading, Writing and Arith
metic. No one’s education is com
plete without the fourth “R” —Relig-
ion, Righteousness, Right Relations.
Sam Jones was in the habit of
saying that many preachers had more
religion than sense. It is equally
as true that in our colleges, at least,
many teachers have more brains
than they have religion.
They spend their time in the class
room and out of it, talking about tha
I impossibility of this and the improb
j ability of that, and placing question
marks after every affirmation of the
race, and such figures as those listed
above are the result.
While we teach boys and girls the
facts of life we can teach them faith
as well. Teach them that God cre
ated the arth and all that is in it,
as well as the heavens. Teach them
that the heavens daily declare the
glory of God.
Teach them the wonder of forest
and flower and field, of rocks, and
hills, and rills, of coal anu diamonds,
mines and mountains, of wind and
water, of heat and light, and great
est of all, of life itself in all its
myriad manifestations and that "in
Him we live and move and have
our being;” that we can not escape
God if we would; nothing is able
to separate us from His wisdom or
i His love.
We believe in tlie Ten Command*
! ments, in the Sermon on the Mount,
: in prayer, in the forgiveness of sin,
I in the realization of a “Power Not
Ourselves that means for Righteous
ness.” Every child is entitled at
least to that limited instruction in
the Fourth ‘“R."
It is astonishing why our prescribed
courses iu English uever list any
of the wonderful chapters of the
Bible, or w r hy some of them are not
included in the parallel reading. We
require our boys and girls to rend
the poets and historians and indif
ferently pass by the fountain source
of the finest, fullest and rarest Eng
lish in existence.
Verily, we need more of the Fourth
“R” than of the three “R’s” just now
in every school and in every home
of the land.
Big shipment of Young Men’s
Clothing, special prices, 516.90, S2O
and $25 per Suit, at
CHANCY’S.
John B. Stetson Hats at
CHANCY’S.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
SPECIAL EXCURSION FARES
TO MACON, GEORGIA
And Return, Account Georgia State
l Exposition, October 18-25, 1924.
i Fare and one-half round trip from
stations in Georgia. Tickets on sale
daily from October 18 to 21, inclu- j
i J
sive, also on October 25 for trams
scheduled to arrive iri Macon before
1 noon of that date. Final limit Oc
r tober 27, 1924. Ask ticket agent
for further information.
. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY,
k The Right Way.
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Good Outing, 15c yard, at
f CHANCY’S.
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SHERIFF SALE.
GEORGIA—EarIy County;
On the first Tuesday in October,
1924, will be sold before the court
house door in the city of Blakely,
Ga., within the legal hours of sale,
at public outcry, to the highest bid
der, the following described proper
ty, towit:
Fifteen acres of land in the north
eastern corner of the following de
scribed tract of land: “125 acres of
land, more or less, being parts of
lots of land Nos. 329 and 353 in the
16th land district of Early county, i
Ga., bounded as follows: On north|
by public road running from Milford \
to the Arlington and Damascus j
road, on the east by land of Bud
Davis, on south by land of John
Holtsinger and W. P. Lewis and on
the west by public road running
from Sheffield’s mill to Colquitt, Ga.”
Levied on and to be sold as the
property of C. D. Tyler to satisfy
an execution issued from the Jus
tice Court of the 1435th District, G.
M„ in favor of Albany Grocery Co.
vs. said C. D. Tyler. Levy made
and returned to me by Sid Howell,
Deputy Sheriff. Tenant in posses
sion notified. This Sept. 3, 1924.
T. J. HOWELL, SR., Sheriff.
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PART S—S ERV IC E
Blakely, - - Georgia
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WILLIAMS MARKET
Phone 114:
A first-class market with first-class Meats.
For Saturday we will have a full line of
Western JMeats, fancy Western Steak and
Roast, fancy Western Spring Lamb, Lamb
Chops, Lamb Legs, fancy Veal Cutlets and
Chops. Our usual line of good Native Stew
Meat, pure Pork Sausage, all kinds of Cheese,
Pimento, Swiss Philadelphia Cream Cheese,
Longhorn Cheese, Cured Ham, (that is sliced
just right), Boiled, Baked Ham, Pressed Ham,
Bologna, Weiners, Pickled Pig Feet, a nice
lot of Fryers for Saturday, Claussen’s Cakes,
the best in town, 10c and 40c. Our stock
of Groceries is complete. Fancy Colorado
Celry, Iceberg Lettuce.
H. T. WILLIAMS
Where Service is a Pleasure
BLAKELY, GA.
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