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VOL. XVI.
The BanKs County Sunday School
Convention and Celebration
Along about this time o\ euy year
the mind begins to turn to the
“celebration.” As to crowd, noth
ing not even a circus, nor a hang
ing in Banks county is such a
drawing card.
The intent and purpose of the
celebration was lost sight of years
ago by ninty percent of the people
who congregate h re in llomer
annually on Saturday before the
last Sunday in July. The real
name for this gathering with many
is a home coining. This Is a real
pleasure to many. People who
may fail to come “home” Christ
mas, never fail to come to the cole
brat ion. Many who frolic all the
time, frolic and enjoy the celebra
tion hugely. Nothing like walk
ing, talking, stai ding all day,
chewing gum, drinking red lemon
ade and eating red streaked striped
candy. When the weather per
inits from three thousand to live
thousand congregate here. They
come from every where many ooun
ties over the state and from various
states. This is a gnat gathering
for a home coming.
For a few years back not more
than two or three or a half dozen
schools take any part in the exer
cises proper order, perlect quietude
is unknown. Usually not*inore than
two hundred or three hundred are
directly interested in the exercises
of the schools.
The main trouble of so much
confusion, disorder, and disrespect
is chiefly caused by the lack of seat
ing the vast crowd. The crowd is
forced to stand; becoming tired of
standing, they begin to walk: and
it’s walk, walk, walk all day. Many
who come for the social feature en
joy this part of the program.
For a number of years the cele
bration has met at Homer for good
and sufficient reasons. < >ne is, it
is a central point, another is, in
case of showers, the crowd can Ik‘
sheltered; another good reason is,
we have some more of that good
water that Rev. A1 Harris likes so
well. There might be other rea
sons; but these are sufficient, we
think.
The few. seats that have been
here for years are decayed—aliout
goue. There is no funds for the!
up keep of such accommodations.
What shall lie done about the
celebration (his year! Do you
want it? and do you want it at Ho
mer?
So far as a home-coming is con
cerned, the gathering is a success;
but so far as the real good in the
cause of the Su inlay school work is \
How Editors Get Rich.
After a great deal of worry and
study we have at last figured out
how so many country editors get
rich. Here is the secret of their
success. There is a child born in
the neighborhood. The attending
physician gets *lO. The editor
gives the loud-lunged youngster a
great send-off and gets *O. It is
christened, and the minister gets
$6, and the editor gets *OO. It
grows and marries. The editor
publishes another long-winded
flower}’article and tells a dozen
different lies about “the beautiful
and accomplished bride.” The
minister gets *lO and a plate of (
cake. The editor gets *OOO and j
a request to carry the groom's;
subscription account another year.
In the course of time she dies.
The doctor gets from *5 to *IOO,
the minister gets from *5 to *IOOO,
the editor publishes a notice of
death and an obituary two columns
'Jong, lodge resolutions, a lot of
'poetry and a card of thanks and
)gets *O,OOO. No wonder so many j
Country editors get rich.—Ex,
BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
concerned, but little is accomplish
ed. The crowd is too great unless
handled in adifferent manner. The
proper thing to do is to purchase a
few acres of ground somewhere and
build an arbor, a large one with a
seating capacity of three thousand
or more. Then order will be ob
served.
Owing to the celebration being
held in the heat of the summer, a
change of date was suggested and
agitated This date suggested was
October. At that season of the
year the weather is much cooler,
and necessarily the ciowd would
1h much smaller and more Sunday
schools and Sunday school workers
would take greater interest in the
work.
Another suggestion comes up be
fore the convention sometimes and
that question is the rotating of the
celebration. The crowd would
not be so large, but doubtless more
Sunday schools would take part in
the exercises of the celebration.
The rotation system was practiced
when the organization was in its
infancy. In as much assomefunds
are needed to arrange for seating a
part of the crowd at least, the ques
tion of removal and lotating may
both come up in the convention
this summer, this convention meets
at Homer on Friday July 11th.
All the schools of the county inter- j
ested in this part of the work j
should lie represented by a “large;
majority.” The convention is the
business session and on this day all
matters pertaining to the celebra- ;
tion are discussed and passed up
on.
Let sill Sunday schools who
think of taking a part in the con
vention select their delegatee at an
earlv date. All schools expecting
to take part in the celebration,
should begin to make preparations
now.
The time was wheu seventeen
schools earne prepared to take part
in the celebration. Then it had
outgrown itself for one day’s exer
cises. It would take two days to
go through with such a lengthly
exercise.
If you want a good convention
and celebration at Homer this year,
what will you do to make them
good?
If you want the celebration
moved from Homer where would
you carry it?
What good comes lroin the cele
bration any way?
If you want to say something
let’s hear it.
A Card.
Baldwin, fla., April 28, 1913.
Editor Banks County Journal :
You deserve the thanks of every
j man, woman, boy and girl in
Banks county, for the article you
wrote in the Journal last week on
the taking of the School Census,
and 1 hereby register my si mere
thanks to you.
The State Board of Education
! rules that the Enumerators shall
not be paid if they are lound to be
careless in tneir work.
Tn taking the census we can not,
as you say, afford to miss a single
child. Therefore, I wish to ask
every parent, or neighbor, to please
report to me any child that has
been missed after the Enumerator.
hg.s gone around. I do this, not
to catch the Enumerator, but to
get and report the name of the
child, so that Banks county will
get its share of the public money.
Sincerely,
j. T. Wise, C. S. S.
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A good time to haye a good
1 time is all the time.
Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of BanKs County.
Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Thursday, May I, 1913.
12nd Quarterly Conference
Held at Homer Monday.
Presiding Elder of the Hlberton
district, Rev. T. J. Christian, came
over Sunday afternoon and
preached in the Methodist church
Sunday' night and Monday morn
ing at 11 o’clock.
Quarterly conference' was held in
j the afternoon. All the churches
were represented and a nice report
j was made by each church.
Messrs. Ed M. Pendergrass and
I Hubert Ward were elected dele
gates to the District Conference',
, which meets at Lavonia on Tues
day night after the third Sunday
I in July.
The third quarterly conference
will be held at Mt. Pleasant in
July, on Saturday before the sec
ond Sunday.
Rev.J. Mat Hawkins, manager
of the Orphans’ Home, at Decatur,
was present and made some very
pointed remarks in regard to the
home, its support, etc.
When conference adjourned,
Rev. Christian left via Maysville
for his home at Klberton.
This Good Old World-
By Wait Mason
“This world is but a dismal place,
a desert sad and dreary.” So
Croaker says, with long drawn face,
and Croaker makes me weary. I’ve
luingaround this good old sphere
for two score years and twenty, a ml
fouud that things are pleasant here,
and there is joy a plenty.
Although Brer Croaker tears his
robe and talks like some soured
prophet, he will not leave this gay
old globe until we push him off it.
I’ve noticed that the chaps who
roast this world wherein we’re
dwelling and sigh to join the shin
ing hosts where anthems aye are
swelling, when called away put up
a roar and naught their grief can
soften; they hate to leave th is punk
old shore that they’ve abused so
often. I like to think that when
we die to Aidenu we’ll be wending,
and sing beneath a cloudness sky
in happiness unending. However
glorious the land for which (i hope)
we’re headed we shouldn’t knock
this mundane strand where we are
now homesteaded. 1 hope to have
a harp that’s pealed, and keep that
harp a-humming, but while 1 loaf
around this world I have no kick
a co min g. —Toccoa Record.
His Almost Endless Job.
A small boy watched his mamma
taking ashes out of a stove, and said
Iri a thoughtful manner: ‘‘Mamma, 1
would think the devil would get so
tired taking up Mb ashes."
Standing of Contestants Tuesday, April 29th-
Winners of Votes
Name Postoffice Special Prizes Received
Miss Mabel Ledford Bell ton Ist—Mar. II 530,850
Mrs. Homer Thompson Maysville Ist—Apr. 15 354,075
Miss Kate Ifanlbrook Maysville 2d—Apr. 15 283,075
Miss Kate Wright Commerce, R. 2!l ..2d—Mar. 11 278,475
Mrs. Hattie Wheeler Lula, R. 3 Ist—Apr. 15 270,550
Miss Margie Garrison Homer, It. 1 250,925
Miss Beulah Simmons Homer, R. 1 223,200
Miss May Ifyder Lula, R. 3 2d—Apr. 15 218,700
Miss Mary Griffin Homer 199,750
Miss Boyce Threikeld Lula, R. 3 168,825
Miss Belie Patterson Maysville, R. 28 145,675
Miss Maude Young Homer, R. 1 135,175
Miss Esther Wise Baldwin, R. 1 129,425
Miss Annie Duckett Baldwin, R. 1 102,800
Miss Mary Langford....... Commerce, R. 29 99,600
Mrs. E. V. Gash Ashland, R. 1 98,600
Miss Pauline Patton Lula 97,225
Mis. Bessie Carlton Glyatt. .Lula 88,075
Miss Ella Hill Homer, Jt. 2 80,675
Miss Gertrude Griffin Maysville, R. 1 76,875
Mrs. Annie Allan Jones Alto, R. 1 76,850
Mrs. Mamie Simmons Maysville, R. 27 59,650
Miss Bertie May Ariail Ashland, R. 1 54,825
Miss Eunice Pool Baldwin, R. 1 52,800
Miss Gladys Pool.. Baldwin, R. 1 51,775
Miss Xezzie Mize .Commerce, R. 11 41,150
Miss Bertie Merritt........ Cornelia 5,000
Rev. J. H. Ayers
Here Sunday.
Rev. J. H. Ayers, of Ml. Airy,
pastor of the Baptist church of this
place was here Sunday and lilled
the 11 o’clock appointment
One month ago the church voted
to have no Saturday service for one
meeting, but instead have a Sun
day night service.
At this meeting the church re
newed the change indefinitely to
have no Saturday service, but in
stead have a Sunday night service.
There lieing a conflict of ap
pointments there was no preach
ing at the Baptist church last Sun
day night.
Warden Henderson Resigns-
Mr. F. M. Henderson has ten
dered his resignation as warden of
the Ranks county road gang. The
prison commission has accepted
the resignation, but no appoint
rneut has yet been made, and Mr.
Henderson has not yet been re
lieved.
Mr. Henderson is at home sick
and has been for several days. Age
and ill health is doubtless the
cause of Mr. Henderson’s resigna
tion.
Mr. J. H. Brown deputy warden
has applied to the prison commis
sion for the warden’s place.
Bankrupt Case
Monday morning in this city bc
forc Referee N. L. Hutchens, Jr.,
of Laivrenceville a hearing was
had in the matter of E. G. Brock
of Cortlmerce, bankrupt. The first
meeting of creditors was hell and
an order taken for the sale oi the
stock of goods at an early date,
the’time to be named later. G. L.
Bryson of Jefferson was unanimous
ly elected trustee. In the case
were the following attorneys:
Messrs. R. L. J.nndS. J. Smith of
Commerce, C. E. Bryson and Pem
berton Cooley, of JefferSon, Max
Michael and S. C. Upson ol Athens.
—Athens Banner.
Danielsville Monitor
Changes Hands.
May Ist, The Danielsville Moni
tor changes hands.
We understand that Mr. H. W.
I)yar, of the Comer News, is the
purchaser.
Regretted Womanly Limitations.
She gave an envious thought to the
happier lot of men, who are always
free to plunge Into the healing wa
ters of action. —Henry James.
COLD SNAP “PINCHES” VEGETATION
AND PERHAPS (?) CAUSES LULL IN CONTEST
GAINS MADE BY EIGHT ONLY
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Mrs. Hattie Wheeler Leads—Miss Mary Griffin
Makes Second Largest Gain—ln the General
Standing Not a Change in Position from
Head to Foot —If no more Changes be made
in Position, 0, Where will You be When the
Last Count Comes ?—One Contestant Writes
to Tell Us that She is Working ''Mighty''
Hard and Will be Satisfied if She can Win
the Watch and the Set of ''Rogers' 1847''
Silverware—We are Sometimes a Little
Curious to Know Just What Prize Each Con
testant is Working for—This Contestant
Has Done the Proper Thing- T Selected the
Prizes She Wants and is Now Out After Them
With a Will—With a Determination to Win—
All Stand an Equal Chance at the Silver
ware and the Watch--AIM Right at the Prizes
You Want, and HIT the Mark.
The gains this week are few, but
really more gains reported, and
larger gains than we looked for.
The weather was cool and we did
not expect a heavy vote. We do
look for some pretty heavy voting
before June 10th. By that time
the little cotton will be up and
growing, bowing to the sun as he
makes his course from east lowest.
The May grass will, perhaps, all
be dead, and the June bugs will be
“ juniu’ ” around, and the little
boys will be chasing the lightning
bugs after supper, and the mosqui
toes wiil put op their overcoats and
inform you that they have come to
stay.
Between now and that time will
be a line time for somebody to
build up a good club of subscribers
to The Journal. It will be the
best time to vote. Every old sub
scriber should do his voting before
June lOfh. Contestants should
secure their largest lists in the next
lew weeks. The lady that sends
in the largest club of new subscrib
ers receives the “Booster Prize”—
one 26-piece Set “Rogers’ ls-17”
Silverware in beautiful oak case.
And its possible for you to win an
other prize also June lOth. See
conditions elsewhere.
It is so easy to make gains.
Miss Boyce Threlkeld stands third
in the list of gains. Miss Margie
Harrison was just a few votes be
hind, giving her fourth place, and
Miss May Hyder fifth.
The running is yet easy, and the
gaining is the easiest thing of all.
Figure on the two Miss Kates; one
3-year subscription changes their
positions. A 1-year subscription
changes places of Miss Kate Wright
and Mrs. Hattie Wheeler. One
6-year subscription would give
Miss Margie Garrison fifth place.
Just one 9 year subscription would
land Miss Beulah Simmons back to
fifth place. It would take just
one 10 year subscription to move
Miss May Hyder from eighth place
to fourth place, if Miss Mary
Griffin had just six 10 year sub
scriptions added to her present
vote, her standing would be 559,-
750. Then what would be her
place t Head of course. There is
yet room at the top. Where there’s
a will, there’s a way; and what is
true of Miss Griffin is true of the
others on down the list, it just
takes a little “head” work as you
go along. Your thinking cap
Gains of Contestants This Week-
Mis. Hattie Wheeler.. 18,075
Miss Mary Griffin 12,375
Miss Boyce Thrcikeld.. 6,725
Miss Margie Garrison. 6,150
should be worn until you land the
prize you want. No gain yet made
is so great that it can not be over
come in a week’s time. The run
ning is yet as easy as falling off a
log. Let this be your motto: “ I
can, I will, 1 do believe” that I
can win. Aim high, and hit the
mark or above it.
The best prize is at the top. The
second best is is near the top. Any
of >ou contestants have an abun
dance of time in which to collect
thousands of votes and raise your
standing each week. Every vote
voted is sale. Get votes as con
veniently as you can, and turn
them in. Let your friends know
how you stand and they will know
how to plan and work.
Every bunch of grass killed in
May is dead. Every new subscrip
tion, or renewal, or Trade Coupon
secured and voted, is sealed to
your credit with the lid nailed
down hard and fast—not to be tak
en away from you. Every one
counts for you, and you do not
want to let not even one get away,
if you can help it. Just one vote
at the close of the contest may win
you your most coveted prize, let it
be what it will. Jt behooves you
now to lx; on the watch.
Every contestant has an equal
chance, and all have the same lair
chance at the “ Booster Prize”.
We dare say any one would appro
ciate that prize.
Now, Mr. Reader, if you want
your favorite to win, VOTE NOW!
If you have already voted once, it
is no violation of the law, Htatc or
Federal, to vote twice, or oftener,
if you feel like it. There is no
limit. Your voting is not re
stricted. If you want a 20-year
subscription you get 110,000 votes
for your favorite.
Every contestant should make as
great a showing as possible by
June 10th. In all probability
there wiil be no more Special
prizes. There may be otheis, but
we hardly think so now. So it is
to your interest to get two prizes
now and then get one at the close
of the contest. This is working
your part of the contest in a win
ning business-like way.
If you desire the best in every
thing, pick out what you want from
our list of valuable prizes, and put
forth every honorable effort to win.
This is opportunity time.
The reward is to the faithful.
Miss May Ifyder 5,250
Miss Kate Haulbrook.. 4,450
Mrs. Bessie C. Clyatt.. 1,825
Miss Esther Wise 1,375
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