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MONET IN THE MISSING WORD!
The Sentence is Simple! The Word is not Diffi -
cult! You can Get it!
The Sentence is: “TILL TWILIGHT INTO dark:
What is the Messing Word?
The Contest Closes April 14.
The sentence is from the pen of a well known author.
The sentence is known to no one except the City Edi¬
tor of Tiie Record, who has it doubly sealed and
locked in the safe of the Southern Publishing Co., at
Toccoa, Ga., and will not be divulged in any way till
the envelope is given to the awarding committee, who
decides to whom the money must be paid.
We Propose to Give $ 50.00 to the Gnesser.
For instance : If only one contestant gets the word
right, he or she, as the case may be, will have all the
money. If more than one strike it, the sum will be
equally divided, each correct answer receiving its pro¬
portionate share of the money.
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At the missing word is that each and every guess
must be accompanied by a year’s subscription to The
Record; the guess must be sent in the identical en¬
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send a guess afterwards. The guess must come with
the subscription or not at all. Should a party send
more than one guess, he or she will be entitled to a
share of the fund for each correct guess sent; there
will be no capital prize —every one will get a first prize ;
if more than one person names the missing word pro¬
perly, the money will be equally divided and all stand
exactly on the same footing. Persons may guess as
many times as they send subscriptions.
TO AGENTS —We will allow io per cent discount and
a guess on each subscriber sent in (besides allowing each
subscriber a guess.) There must be at least five sub¬
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THE CONTEST CLOSES APRIL 14— At which time we
will pay out to the successful party or parties the full
prize amouat.
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TOCCOA, HABERSHAM COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1897.
.# SOCIAL
&
Vi 'T? PERSONAL
1 ^
OLA JONES
“A woman never dares to write
As funny as she can,
For fear the public will suspect
She’s some old horrid man.”
That little pithy quartrain, which
I saw not long ago in reading,
strikes me as being very true to
facts as I have known them. Sev-
eral times, when I did a little lite-
rary work out of the ordinary rou¬
tine, that same “old horrid man”
referred to above got the credit,
One time, 1 studied politics until I
became a monomaniac on the sub-
ject; not because I found it so very
interesting,but because a gentleman
friend, who complimented me by
taking it for granted that I was
well informed about the matters
with which the Atlanta papers had
been filled for weeks,was so shocked
when he discovered that I didn’t
know who the gubernatorial candi¬
dates were. I felt like asking him
to excuse me for living, I was so
ashamed of my ignorance. I saw
that ignorance in all its terrible
intensity, and in that moment I
made up my mind to study politics.
No one ever worked at an uncon¬
genial subject more religiously than
I did for a few months. Every day
I read page after page about income
tax. No one could have been more
delighted than I was when it was
decided. I did not care so much
which way. Then came the gold
and silver question, which really
interested me, because the advocates
of each led me to believe that the
whole land would be flooded with
the precious metal which he advo-
cated; and I decided that if both
were true—and there was no doubt
of that in the minds of these great
men —the country must be flooded j
by one side or the other, and that I,
myself, would come in for a com¬
fortable sum of that almighty factor.
In this hope I have been disappoint¬
ed, however ; and having bored my
* “shocked gentleman friend” out of
seven existences, by my systematic
and exclusive discussion of Politics
whenever I see him, under any and
all circumstances, and, failing to
seethe fulfillment of the gold men’s
promises and of my hopes, I have
lost my enthusiasm about the sub¬
jects of which men dream.
But this is quite a digression from
the point I wished to make. When
I was at the height of tny enthusi¬
astic study of the newspapers, I
was appointed to write a paper on
current events. “Out of the fulness
of the heart the mouth speaketh,”
and I could not write upon any
feminine subjects at that time. So
my paper created suspicion among
the club members. “Who could
have written iti 5 5 5 was pictured on
their faces, and one member, whose
address was very pleasing and whose
curiosity was at a little higher pitch
than the others, complimented me
upon it, and assured me that if I
had had a brother or any other use-
able man upon whom she could rest
the suspicion, she couldn't believe
I wrote it.
Another apropos club reminis-
cence, but don't imagine you can
accuse me of personalities, for there
are other clubs than the numerous
ones in Toccoa, you know,
A sweet, bright, but not a bit
conce ited little woman came to me
one day and said : “Aly dear, you
have something to do with the pro-
grammes, haven't you; 5 ” ■ * Y
I replied. “Well, I want to ask a
great favor of you, and I know you
will grant it, won’t you? Promise
me before I tell you what it is.”
“Since it seems to be connected with
the club, I am afraid to make so
inconsiderate a promise,” I replied
“but tell me what it is.”
i i Well, this is it,” and she ac-
companied her words with such an
entrancing, trusting little motion
that I thought I never would be
able to refuse to do anything for
her, “Don’t ever let the committee
put me on for anything. I just
can’t write papers.”
“Why, my dear,” I replied, “you
have had the best papers that have
been read in the club. They are
always charming and original.”
“That is all very true,” she said,
“but I didn’t write them. I forced
into service all my friends who
would be imposed on, and then I
began to pay to have them written,
and now I am bankrupt. Why, I
paid $15 to have the last paper I
read at the club written.”
“Why,” I exclaimed, “I don’t
know a more lucrative business than
writing papers for you. I’d like
very much to be your employee, at
a salary much smaller than you
have been paying.
“But,” she said, in a dear little
spoilt tone, “I am pecuniarily em¬
barrassed, and that’s the reason I
have asked this favor of you. Please
oblige me. ’
And I was heartless enough to
tell her that in consideration of my
certain knowledge that her condi-
tion was not one of inability, but
rather a too modest conception of
her unusual talent, I deemed it my
duty to the club to insist upon her
name being put on occasionally.
A letter, recently received by one of our
prominent citizens from our excellent ex¬
townsman, Mr. J . A. Glenn, who feels the
greatest interest in all that pertains to
the improvement and advancement of Toc¬
coa tells of the intention of Evangelist W.
P. Fife, of North Carolina, to establish
somewhere in the South a Bible conference
on the order of the noted one at Northfield,
Mass., of which Mr. Moody is at the head.
There, students from all over the country
go in the summer to study the hihle for
two weeks, and the lectures given by the
most prominent college Presidents and
Ministere in the United States and Eng¬
land, combined with the spiritual meetings
that are interspersed with them, make the
! season one never to he forgotten because
of the wonderful presence of the Holy
Spirit which pervades them.
The intellectual influence accruing from
these lectures will he appreciated when it
is remembered that such men as Mr.
Moody, Mr. Fife,Drs. A T. Pearson, Hall,
Brooks, Munhall, and Rev. E P. Marvin
deliver them.
Now Mr. Fife in looking over the south
for a suitable place to establish a Bible
Conference of this sort, has almost decided
to choose between Asheville, N. C.,and
; Gainesville, Ga., where he has been this
* Tv ee k. But he has promised Mr. Glenn to
: look at the advantages of Toccoa before
! making his final decision; and, since we
can offer an inducement in our auditorium,
which would save tlm expense of erecting
a building, to say nothing of our delightful
climate and other advantages, I see no
reason why we should not succeed.
Besides bringing here for two weeks four
or five thousand of the most intelligent,
cultured, and spiritual people, who would
go hack to their homes all over the Unite d
states and advertise our tow n, it would he
the means of securing u] permendt
citizens, Mr. Fife and a large number of
SUBSCRIPTION MIES: $1.00 A YEAR
his co-workers, ami the benefit our com¬
munity would receive from the influence
of these families is incalculable.
By all means, let our people make an
earnest effort to secure these advantages.
Mr. Fife, who is expected in Toccoa very
soon, is too well known to make it necces-
sary for me to mention the eulogiums
passed upon him by all who have come in
contact with him in his glorious work for
God.
The Gospel meetings, conducted
by Mr. Miller, of Asheville, N. C.,
at the Presbyterian church this
week, are sure to be productive of
much good. That God is present
is very evident, and Mr. Millers
earnest sermons, so full of Scripture
and telling illustrations, are making
deep impressions upon all who hear
them. Let us hope that this meet¬
ing is the beginning of a glorious
revival, which will reach the heart
of every individual in Toccoa.
The following constituted the
party that attended an entertain¬
ment at the home of Mr. Devereaux
Jarrett, at Tugalo, last Friday eve¬
ning : Misses Ida Hayes, Marie
Bruce, Birdie Mae Jones, Lula Sut-
tles, Berta Payne and Ella Freeman, i
and Messrs, John Mosely, R. Y.
Mulkey, Alex Edge, Sam Mcjun-
kin and T. Cawthon.
Mrs. Edward Schaefer and her
two little daughters went to Atlanta j
Monday to spend several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mason
went Monday to Westminster, S.
C., where they will live during the
next few months. We regret that
two such excellent and useful mem-
hers of our society should leave
Toccoa.
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Mr. Fred Wilson and his friend, ^ !
Mr. Vanderpool, of Atlanta, spent
last Sunday with the former’s pa¬
rents at this place.
Rev. Mr. Jamieson, of Hartwell,
passed through Toccoa last Thurs-
day, on his way home from Atlanta,
Mr. Jamieson is well known and
much beloved in Toccoa, and it will
be of interest to his friends here to
know that be is about to build a
new $8,000 church at Hartwell.
Mrs. Clarence Mason and Mrs.
J. B. Simmons spent last Thursday
in Atlanta.
Mrs. Carlton Nevilie, of Atlanta,:
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Airs.
W. J. Suttles. Mrs. Neville, as
Miss Maggie Suttles, was much
appreciated in Toccoa before her
marriage, and it is with a most
hearty welcome that she returns to
her old home to spend about two :
weeks.
Miss Marie Bruce spent some days
with Miss Myrtle Yow, of Avalon,
Ga., the first of this week.
Mr. Stafford, of Barnesville, Ga.,
was in Toccoa Alonday, and dined
with Mr. and Airs. W. C. Edwards,
Airs. Alary J. Jones went to El
berton Tuesday afternoon, to spend
several days with Airs. j. F. Auld.
Air. AIcKinney, of Demorest, Ga.,
spent Tuesday night with the fam¬
ily of Mr. T. A. Capps.
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Airs. Annie Stehle, 2625 Cottage
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down, could not eat nor digest
food, had a backache which never j
left her and felt tired and weary,
but s i x bottles of Electric Bitters 1
restored her health and renewed I
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$ i .00. Get a bottle at Wright &
Drug store.
NO. 16
Avalon Arrows.
Special Correspondence of The Record.
Avalon, Ga., Feb. iSth.
On Wednesday last, at 6 o’clock
a. m., Mrs. Nancy Williams, of
near this place, passed into the great
beyond. She died of consumption,
having been an invalid for some
time, and also blind for a number
of years. Her remains were inter¬
red at Eastanollee cemetery on Fri¬
day. The funeral services were
conducted by Revs. W. W. Stowe
and G. W. Carroll.
NN e are pained to announce the
death of Dr. Lyon, at the home
of his son, Dr. T. II. Lyon, of
Martin. 11 is illness was short. His
remains were interred at Red Hol¬
low cemetery, last Saturday after¬
noon. The funeral service was
conducted by Rev. W. A. Cooper.
On Saturday night last, the old
man Shuttles worth, near Avalon,
passed into the spirit land. Ilis
death was caused from cancer, it
having severed a blood vessel. He
was buried at Confidence Sunday
evening, service conducted by Rev.
Cooper. The sorrowing bereaved
* n eac * 1 case have our heartfelt sym-
pathy.
The Peoples’ party of Red Hol¬
low district held a mass meeting at
Grover academy last Saturday even-
ing, and passed strong resolutions
indorsing the course of Senator W.
V. Carter, and calling upon the
Populists of the 31st Senatorial dis-
trict to contribute to reimburse Sen-
ator Carter his expenses in prose-
cut ' n g Judges Sweat and Reese,
which the Legislature refused to do.
Rev. J, C. Atkinson filled his
regular appointments Saturday eve-
ning and Sunday last,at Confidence.
He delivered an especially fine ser¬
mon at 11 o’clock on Sunday, in
answer to the question, “What is
life? Text, 1st John : 4, 9.
The Ep worth League met at Con-
fidence Sunday night. The lesson
under consideration was the life of
Moses,
We are glad to note that Hon.
R. D. Yow, who has been suffering
from grip, is able to be out again.
Mr. S. Y. Swilling, who has been
confined to his room for some time,
we are pleased to say is able to get
on terra firma once more.
It would be too tedious to par-
ti cu i ar j ze> S o suffice it to say, that
^j-, ere j s hardly a house in the com-
inunity but has one or more cases
of grip.
The Misses Turnbull, of Tugalo,
bave been visiting in this vicinity,
Mr. James Cooper, of Toccoa,
v i s jted the parental home Saturday
and Sunday last.
We were glad to see Mrs. Ella
Hayes, of Toccoa, at Confidence
Sunday.
We would be glad if some one
would incarcerate a few of the suck-
egg dogs and other nuisances in
t jq s immediate vicinity. So, so.
Keystone.
Read our missing
word contest. Fifty
dollars for the cor¬
rect guess.
Southern Record,
Toccoa, Ga.
Set to a New Tune.
An exchange is responsible for
the f 0 n 0W i ng : Breathes there a
man with soul so dead, who never
to himself hath said, “I’ll pay,
before I go to bed, the debt I owe
the printer?” There are some, we
1 we ij w h 0 never such a
’
tale can tell: but they, we fear,
will go to—well, the place where
there s no winter.