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DAMASCUS SCHOOL MS
STAFF:
Editor-in-Chief Beth Phillips
Associate Editor ...._C. L. Jester
News Editor Doris Lewis
Social Editor Agnes Pickron
Sports Editor Joe Bryan
Humorous Editor James Sanders
NEWS
AH high school will have classes
until 11:00 Friday. After classes
there will be a Christmas program,
which will be made up of four
short plays, and three songs. The
plays will be: “The Spirit of Christ
mas,” ‘Watching for Santa,” “The
Time for Christmas,” “Santa’s Help
ers.” The songs: “Santa Claus Ex
press,” “Christmas Time Is Merry,”
“Happy Hearts Are Best.” This
program will be presented by the
lower grammar grades. After the
program every grade except the
Seniors will have its Christmas tree.
Friday morning, Dec. 11, the
ninth grade dramatized its interpre
tation of “Silas Marner.” The pa
thetic, as well as the humorous,
scenes were brought out so vividly
that everyone could almost imagine
that he was having an insight to
Silas’ private life.
Chief Crowfly and Princess Sil
vermoon, real American-born In
dians, entertained us Thursday aft
ernoon. The program was interest
ing and educational.
A Christmas Cantata, “The Poor
Little Rich Girl,” will be given at
the high school auditorium Thurs
day evening at 7:00 o’clock. This
program is under the direction of
Miss Jeanette Dozier. Miss Dozier’s
expression pupils and a number of
other grammar school pupils will
take part. No admission will be
charged and the public is cordially
invited to attend.
SOCIAL ITEMS
Miss Joyce Mitchell, of Old Da
mascus, gave a pountf party Satur
day night in honor of her guest,
Ouida Verne Mock, of New Hope.
Those who attended the party were:
Martha Hightower, Betty Lewis,
Gladys and Lillie Mae Smith, Mildred
Douglas, Jack and Duddle Collier,
and Edgar Lewis, all of Damascus;
Ouida Verne Mock, Malcolm Kil
crease, James Sanders, Maynard
and Marion Mock, and Arver Bru
ner ,of New Hope; Joe Bryan and
William Carter, of Rowena.
An interesting bit of news in
connection with the basketball game
in Donalsonville Friday night was
that Mr. Philip Grier and Mr. Frank
Ziglar, who went down to the game,
did not return to Damascus until
Saturday morning. It seems two
flat tires was the explanation of
their late return.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haddock
had the following as dinner guests
Saturday night, December 12: Miss
es Jeanette Dozier -and Jeanette
Keil, Mssrs. Philip Grier, Frank
Ziglar, J. A. Pickard, Mr. and Mrs.
A. P. Lewis, and Mrs. McArthur
Jones.
SPORTS
A crippled Damascus quintet out
pointed the Hilton boys’ basketball
team Wednesday night, December
9, by the close score of 16 to 15.
Three regulars for Damascus, Lon
nie Tabb, Bob Houston and Edward
Middleton, were unable to play.
However, the combination sent
against the Hiltonites played a fast
and alert game. Co-captain Zeke
Middleton sank a field goal from the
center of the court in the last three
minutes of play. Hilton’s rally was
one point short.
The girls’ game was unsually slow
with very little scoring. The Hilton
lassies won by a 14 to 7 count.
Our teams traveled to Donalson
ville Friday night to play two of
the best basketball outfits in South
west Georgia. Again the boys were
minus the services of Tabb and
Houston. However, they gave a
good account of themselves in de
feat, holding the Seminole countians
to 22 points, while they scored 10
points.
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Our girls were also on the short
end of a 31 to 13 score. The Sem
inole forwards were quite adept at
sinking long shots, while our for
wards seemed unable to find the
basket consistently.
Several weeks of bad weather and
no practice have not helped to put
our teams in top form. However,
as soon as our long anticipated shell
is completed we expect a considera
ble improvement, especially of the
girls.
Plans are now under way to have
dedication exercises for the shell
and community house on the night
of December 30. The opponents for
,the Damascus boys and girls will
probably be the Arlington teams.
“NEITHER HERE NOR THERE”
Mr. Pickard: If the President were
to die, the Vice President would
take his place, and if he were to die,
who would take charge?
Edgar: The Secretary of State.
Mr. Pickard: No, the undertaker.
Joe Bryan: My teacher has a dear
in his room.
Outsider: Mounted?
Joe: Yes, on the back desk.
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Teacher: Marion, this theme on
“My Parents” is the same as May
nard’s. •
i Marion: Yes’m, we have the same
: parents.
Smart student: Sonny, did you
ever see a house-fly?
Sonny: No, but I’ve seen a cat
fish.
Did you ever eat an electric cake?
No, what is an electric cake?
A cake with currants in it.
There was a girl named Marie,
She said, “Oh, what a beautiful sea!”
: She took a big dive,
An dmet a shark much alive—
Now let us sing page twenty-three.
Texas Christian University foot
ball squad spoiled the hitherto un
blemished record of Santa Clara last
Saturday by winning 9-0. Santa
Clara will meet the powerful Louis
iana State Tigers in the Sugar Bowl
at New Orleans on New Year’s Day.
SHERIFF’S SALE
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
There will be sold by the under
signed, before the court house door
in the City of Blakely, Early county,
Georgia, within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder for cash,
on the First Tuesday in 'January,
1937, the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
A one-third undivided interest in
and to lots of land Nos. 153, 168,
193 and 194, lying east of Spring
Creek, in the 6th land district of
Early county, Ga., said tract con-
Itaining 662 acres, more or less; also
a one-seventh undivided interest in
and to lots of land Nos. 153, 168,
193, and 194 lying east of Spring
Creek in the 6th land district of Ear
ly county, Ga., said tract containing
662 acres, more or less; also that
part of lot of land No. 208 lying
north of a line drawn from east to
west through the center of said
lot and west of the public road from
Arlington to Damascus, said tract
containing 25 acres, more or less, in
the 6th land district of Early coun
ty, Ga.; also all of lot of land No.
207 except 37 1-2 acres in the south
west corner of said lot, containing
212 1-2 acres, more or less, and in
the 6th land district of Early coun
ty, Ga.
Levied on and to be sold as the
property of Miss Maggie Daniels, as
administratrix of Estate of J. B.
Daniels, deceased, to satisfy a fi. fa.
issued from the City Court of Blake
ly in favor of T. G. Avery, as admr.
of Estate of Mrs. T. G. Avery, de
ceased, vs. said Miss Maggie Daniels,
as admx. of Estate of J. B. Daniels,
deceased. Tenant in possession no
tified. This December 8, 1936.
S. W. HOWELL, Sheriff.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Veterinary Medical
Notes
By Clayton Stephens, Senior
Student at A. P. I.
A series of short articles will be
written with a view of reminding
owners of all kinds of livestock of
some of the laws if sanitation, hy
giene and treatment necessary for
observation in profitably raising and
keeping animals. The healthy ani
mal is the profitable one and the
lower animals respond to sane treat
ment in the same degree as the ones
who have thrown overboard the old
idea that stock may be allowed to
“root hog or die”. In this column
no long distance diagnosing will be
attempted and no prescriptions will
be given, for such action would be
unsound and unprofitable. What
will be attempted is to point to
some of the everyday, practical
problems and their solutions in a
general way. The only axe the
writer has to grind is the whetting
of the interest of the farmers in
the health of their animals.
To begin with let us agree that
it is much easier to keep animals
healthy than it is to restore the
health after it is lost. The most
profitable animals never require any
corrective treatment, and it is pos
sible to carry many of the animals
through life in this condition, still
the very best care cannot prevent
all the diseases. But it is to pre
vention, rather than cure, that this
column is chiefly dedicated. How
ever, we should agree that when
corrective treatment is necessary
such treatment should be along sen
sible lines. Before any medicines
are used their actions should be
thosoughly undesstood and we should
know if the action of the medicine
is needed in the particular case. If
it isn’t needed it will do more harm
than good. The well meaning neigh
bor is the salt of the earth, but when
he drenches your animal with all
the gusto of a flapper chewing her
gum in three speeds forward and
reverse without stripping the gears,
while he hasn’t studied drugs, he is
no blessing in disguise. It takes
a strong animal and persistent nature
to overcome such abuse and you may
lay to that.
Tail splitting for “hollow tail” and
its litter mate horn boring for “hol
low horn” are extreme examples of
cruelty to animals, but there are
other practices just as detrimental to
the welfare of animals. The classical
act of giving a cow a ball of rags to
replace the “cud that she has lost”
is bad form, but it is not as bad as
some of the medicinal meddlings, for
the rags are not so powerful in pro
ducing harm. The drenching bottle
in the barn has sent many a mule to
his reward when he might have stood
the “colic” had its contents not been
sent downward so merrily. “Stock
powders” advertised and guaranteed
to cure any and all diseases have
been beneficial to only the manu
facturer. He fattens, the farmer is
fooled and the animal finished. No
two cases of any disease have ever
been exactly alike in all conditions,
so shot-gun remedies and core-alls
are worse than a leap in the dark.
Let us try to prevent trouble, but
when it comes, call a man who has
studied all the sciences upon which
the medical art is founded. Let us
not wait until every Tom, Dick and
Harry has exhausted all the medical
skill that he has learned from the
almanac and Mother Goose Fables on
the animal. In the long run the
best treatment is the cheapest.
Parasites cause more loss than all
other troubles combined so they shall
be discussed in the next article.
The city and county schools will
close tomorrow (Friday) for the
Christmas holidays. The county
schools will re-open on Wednesday,
December 30th, but the city schools
will not re-open until Monday, Jan
uary 4 th.
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Great Britain, abdicated. His broth
er, the Duke of York, ascended the
throne as King George VI. Ex-King
Edward has been given the title of
His Royal Highness, the Duke of
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Most Distant Photo
Ever Taken Reveals
Systems of Nebulae
Pasadena, Cal. —The most distant
photographs ever taken—two sex
tillion miles, which is 2 plus 21 ci
phers—were identified Monday as 200
nebulae, each as large or larger than
the star system to which the sun
belongs, says an Associated Press
dispatch.
The identification as a new fam
ily of Nebulae, or minor universes,
was announced in the annual report
of the Carnegie Institution’s Mt.
Wilson Observatory.
Found by Dr. Edwin F- Hubble
while studying the Bootis Nebulae,
the new cluster has been named
“Hydra No. 1.” Its light required
326,000,000 years to reach the earth.
The most remote single object
ever seen in the sky is a Nebula
situated 500,000,000 light years
away. It also was discovered at Mt.
Wilson with a 100-inch telescope.
Scientific star-gazers hope to un
cover many more secrets of the
heavens when the 200-inch telescope,
under construction for Palomar
Mountain in nearby San Diego coun
ty, finally is ready about 1940.
“Cocktails do not make good
daughters,” observes a cleric. And
the reverse is often lamentably true
as well.—Punch.
Now comes the season of the
year when Tiny Tessie sniffs the
air and shouts gleefully: “Ooh, the
car smells just like daddy.”—Boston
Herald.
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CLOSE DEC. 20th.
My 1936 Tax Books will close
on Dec. 20th and executions
will be issued immediately. Pay
early and save the extra costs.
J. L. HOUSTON
Tax Commissioner.