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~ THE BANNER-HERALD .
: ATHENS, GEORGIA
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LOOKING BACK
Hodgsons—and—Athens, Georgia.
By J. M. HODGSON
(NUMBER THREE)
They came in 1840, arriving in Athens over the
branch railroad from Union Point, arriving on the
first train via mules over this road. Father married
Anne Bishop in Athens; all their children, one girl,
eleven boys, were born in Athens, mostly on Oconee
street; where our home was for many years.
Oconee street was a prominent street in early days,
as it was traveled by the omnibus and all iraveled
to and from the Georgia Railroad depot, then on
top of nill, pear Billy Carr home.
I remember Billy Carr very distinctly; he rode
a nice pony, using a walking cane to urge his mount
instead of spurs. T also remember in Civil War
days; brother Rob joined Young’s Cavalry and had
o furnish his own mount, Father hought a nice
youd® mare for him but she went lame bad with
gwinmey and was unfit for service and Mr. Billy
Cfig‘floaned him a good horse, which Rob rode off
to service. In color she was a flea-bitten gray. 1
don't know what became of her.
QColonel Andy Young was from Union county,
Georgia. He raised a cavalry troup, came to Athens
and camped on hill on Lumpkin street, known as
Watkinsville Roed then, where school building is
now. Brother Bob, Coke and Pike Talmadge joined
him. Young was a kinsman of the Talmadges.
Brother Rob was the youngest of this young trio,
was a spare built boy and Colonel Young made a
courier of him. This was a pretty taxing service.
e recounted to us some of his experiences and
fifial" eapture and imprisonment in Charleston,
South Carolina. 1 think his service broke ‘his
h&lfla‘» and he died a few years after,
"3 fvas told of this instance: Colonel Young de
cided or was ordered to break camp and move to
fl&fing front. It was necessary to have his stock
shfiv;'f“tor traveling. Mrs. Josiah Orr had the only
avalable blacksmith and Colonel Young sent to her
for him. She declined to send him, whereupon Col
onel Young dispatched a message to General How
ell Cobb and Wm. M. Brown in Atlanta, stating
refusal of Mrs., Orr and that he looked upon her
aet as sadicious, aiding and abetting the Union (by
failare to help the Confederacy), and that he
’dm proceed to have her hung. While awaiting a
reply from headquarters Mrs. Orr sent her black
smith, whereupon Colonel Young dispatched an
other message to this effect: “Necessities of the
c@fido not require the execution of Mrs. Orr. She
has isent the blacksmith.” ¢N.B.)—Labor, skilled
and unskilled was largely Negroes. .
%@ffifhen father bronght out the family, Uncle Wil-
Ua?;fb-"was the blacksmith. Father gave him a Negro
as',‘lie‘lper or siriker, whereupon Uncle William said
hé would not work with a Negro. However, this
C 3\ npt be helped and he went hack to his forge
:3 “Jimmy Hull or Bill McAlpin (Negroes were
called in name of owner).
After the Civil War, Lady Lake came through
Athens with her Traveling Circus and was here on
S.ulndgy with a broken axle on one of the heavy
wagons, and they called Uncle Willaim to mend it
;aqzd gpeed them on their way. He batly refused to
‘work on Sunday, but after 12 o'clock Monday
mbtg!ng he was at his forge and mended the axle
sagzqiet them go before day, I reckon. For lights
.{“hhgy"jlad fires on forges, lanterns and torch lights.
. ‘The first circus coming to Athens-after the War
beiibeu the states was Stone & Murray's. Their
tfi‘#t:was on Lumpkin street where the new Chi Phi
fraternity is located. The Yankees were here and
quartered on the campus With their commissary
fia{,tviu old Grady & Nicholson store room, corner of
Brad and Thomas streets. The town had one mar-
W(o}d man Shirley). The Yankees concluded
fln%wn to be under martial rule, and proceeded
tq,"m:jn the circus. The circus people called on old
gzfié‘fist{ifley, and he in turn called on our young
lfi<o help. Then the scrap began, breaking up
the" performance to a large extent. Brother Asbury
‘had traded for his admission by bringing an armful
fzzg@twood‘ to be used in a wire hasket on an iron
m«to give light on the outside. He was there
when the rookus began. He was later found back
of the campus with his lightwood in his arms. He
couldn’t see the circus, so he kept his lightwood.
Nene of us ever saw our grandfather, but the
stpong English principles and precepts of the
Wfimn economy, thrift and industry, influ
ended the lives of my father’s .children. He was
m child to marry, and all things were held
im‘ommon. All monies coming in'was charged to
fif.’ Hodgson and all monies going out was cred
jted to E. R. Hodgson. Uncle William and Aunt
w adopted all Brother Ned's children in love
and interest. “ir
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:_@ave pefore me a - business card of E. R.
- Hodgson and Brothers, dated February 16th, 1842,
which reads: “New Carriage Factory, Athens, Ga.
Family Carriages; . Barouches, Buggies, Sulkies,
J&m Wagons, etc., etc.,” printed at the Sovthern
Banger Office. *- ¥
. " {¥e are grateful that our lives have always min-
Mez:d to our old town. We are also grateful that
our lot has been in such a pleasant place, and
m such” fine people. If we could all follow the
Golden Rule, “Do unto others, as we would have
them do unto us, Love your neighbors, as you
A GOOD MAN CALLED HOME
Just as the shades of twilight were clos
ing the day on Friday, the great Master
summoned the soul of Joseph M. Hodgson
ro its home on High.
On Thursday, May 1, he celebrated his
75th birthday anniversary. He spent his
entire life in this city doing good and con
tributing to the welfare of the community.
He wag a man-of immaculate character;
a man who represented the ideals of good
citizenship; one whose every deed was
worthy of emulation. Ripened by years
of experience, his advice and his wise
counsel was helpful to all those who for
tunately availed themselves of his guid
ance.
. As a business man and leader in com
mercial circles, civic and religious activi
ties, his imprint for good will be felt in
this community for years to come. To him
much is due the building of the Athens of
today.
’ Strong in character, yet .gentle of im
pulse, steadfast of purpose, yet mindful of
‘human weakenesses, his achievement was
to
“So live, that when thy summons comesg
to join
That innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each
shall take
His chambér in the silent halls of death
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at
night,
Scouraged to his dungeon, but, sustained
and soothed *
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy
grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his
couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant
dreams.”
SMALL LOCAL INDUSTRIES
The small local industry is one of the
greatest feeders for the upbuilding of a
community. and for providing work for
the unemployed. In many instances, how
ever, these industries are unable to fil
nance their projects and Ico often they
are torced to close down. Notwithstana
ing the success with which these enter
prises have met, sometimes it is a case of
a few thousand dollars for emergencies in
order for them to tide over a crisis that
is only of a temporary character.
In reply to the call issued months ago
by President Hoover calling on the people
and on the industries of the country to ex
pand and-aid in giving employment to the
unemployed, Mr. Joseph M. Prevette, of
North Carolina, wrote the President as
follows: ) (s i
“One suggestion which T believe will do
more to relieve the present unemploy
ment situation than anything that has
been proposed is to find a way to create
work for thousands of people out of work
largely because of the shutting down of
ismall manufacturing plants in the smaller
cities and towns.” v &
This condition, according to Mr. Pre
vette, is brought about on account of the
tightness of the local money market. He
argues that while these local enterprises
are perfectly solvent and the officers men
of wealth, who are willing to give their
personal endorsement, the ‘loans have
been refused. Naturally, if the local
banks do not encourage and help such en
terprises, it is not likely that foreign
banks would. - - :
The Charlotte Observer in taking up
the letter of Mr. Prevette, addressed to
President Hoover, comments:
“Hundreds of small factories and man
ufacturers could almost double their pres
ent force if they were able to obtain suf
ficient operating finances. In nearly every
instance, it is said, these small industries
have been financed by local banks, but
recently these institutions have found
other investments and have, to a large ex
tent, practically withdrawn funds for
such purposes.”
The value of small industries should nov
be underestimated by the banks of a com
munity, but every reasonable courtesy
should be shown them in keeping with
sound business principles.
LUCY COBPB’S FUTURE
With a commendable majority the citi
zens of Athens and Clarke county Friday
' authorized their City Council and County
' Commissioners to appropriate $5,000
each annually for the purpose of convert
ing Lucy Cobb Institute into a Standard
junior college.
While the people were voting on a spe
cific question of appropriating money,
Ithe real question was: Shall the people
of Athens and Clarke county allow a val
uable community asset perish, when a
small matter of money will avert that
possibility? The answer of the people in
dicates that the spirit which builds com
munities is alive in Clarke county.
Those who have studied the matter be
lieve that Lucy Cobb has a great future
as a standard junior college. Junior col
leges are meeting with the approval of
educators everywhere, and if by small
monetary aid Athens and Clarke county
can utilize the assets wrapped up in Lucy
Cobb, and build here a flourishing junior
college, it will be of lasting benefit to the
community.
. The referendum sets at rest the prob
lem which has been agitating the minds
of the friends of education and progress
in Clarke county. % _
The diplomatic representatives of for
eign governments in America” are permit
ted under the law to have intoxicating
beverages.
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kitchen, to prepare food en route, feature
a new passenger airplane in service be
tween Paris and Berlin.
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porsitip o€ Geotgia, there is xoom fox ¢
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|l A Little of Everything and Not
| Much of Anything
! BY HUGH ROWE |
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Dan G. Bickers, former
Athenian, newspaper man,
poet, feature writer and au
thor, will deliver the alumni
address at Emory University
next month, :
D. G. Bickers, associate editor
of the Morning News, has been
invited to make the alumni ad
dress at Emory University, At
lanta, on Monday, June 9, and has
accepted. The subject of Mr.
Bickers’ address will be “The
Emory Type.”
Judge Wiley Howard, ripe
in age, and in service to his
state, his family and to his
Master, died in the city, at
the home of his daughter,
Mrs., T. F. Comer, Tuesday
afterngon.
A Confederate soldier has pass
ed on to join his comrades on
the camping ground in the Great
Beyond. He was a man of maly
beautiful and substantial charac.
teristics; affectionaie and consid
erate of his own, and of his
f-iends and acquaintenances, his
long and useful life was spent in
contributing to the bettcrment of
mankind. The sincerest sympa
thies are extended to the mem
bers of his family in their great
SOTTOW. 4 IRV
President Hoover has met
with many re<erses of his
policies during his term of
office. The leaders of the
Republican party in the sen.
ate have not rallied to his
suppert. :
His tariff measures were “gut
ted”; many of his appointments
have failed confirmation, and now
it would not be surprising if the
London naval treaty was not de
feated. There is opposition to the
fact in both Republican and Dem.
ocratic quarters; it is not just the
kind of a treaty the people de
sired and poposition to its adop
tion is bound to develop in the
senate. President Hoover made a
good Democrat under President
Wilson, but as a Republican of
fice holder he is a railure. May
be before his term expires, the
Republicans will support his pol
icies, but that is mere specula«
tion, So far they have refused.
Johnnie: “Mrs. Jepson, ‘can
I use your telephone?”
Mrs. Jepson: “Certainly, John
nie, Is yours on the blink?”
Johnnie: “Not exactly, but sis
is using it to hold up the window,
Ma is cutting biscuits with the
mouthpiece and the baby is teeth
ing on the cord.—Exchange. ‘
The Atlanta Georgian, in a
news item Wednesday, an.
nounced that the friends of
John Holder and Ed Rivers
would meet in Atlanta this
week.
The purpose of the meeting is
presumably for political prognos
ticating. Maybe one o both will
enter the race for the office of
governor; who knows hut what
there might be 2 combination
brewing on a 50-56 basis. Some
times, if not at all times, poltiici
ans develop into real acrobats.
Oh, well, what is the use of spec
ulating. It is bound to come cns
before June 3rd, and then we will
know what it is all about.
ATHENS SEVEN YEARS AGU
Friday, May 4, 1923
Cotton: 26 1-2 cents.
Weather: Rain,
Augusta, aßine: “It does with
out doubt mean my political
death, but T insist (that every
Confederate battle flag captored
by Maine regiments in the Civil
War be returned to the Scutherm
States from whieh they came”,
declared Governor Pe-cival P.
‘Baxter.
~ The demand of Gg'Vernor Bax
ter has met with bitter opposi
s Bichard Wl ot Ml
treat; N. C., is visiting her bro
ther, Dr. W.. H. Bocqck. .
Mrs. J. P. Campbell leaves Sat
urday for Columbia, S. C, to
visit her sister before returning
‘to Washington.
- Mrs. Mary Penny, of Vierna,
is visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Penny,
Ensign and Mrs. Charles Snell
ing, of New London, Conn., who
are visiting in Greenville, S. C,
are expected soon to visit Col.
and M:ss. C. M. Snelling.
1001 GEORGIA VERSES
No. 70
(Following logically the estab
lishment of a military post on
Cumberland Island away back in
1670, and presaging the real po
litical reason for the establish
ment of the Colony, by royal or
der, King George Fort, near the
confluence of the Oconee and Qc
mulgee rivers was erected, as a
defense against the Spanish, in
1928~thirteen years before Sa
vannah was settled.)
In those far days of distabce im
mense,
Of wastes of wild new world,
need so- defense
Was seen, . . Here was the
. sturdy bulwark brave,
The buffer-land which to the fu
ture gave
Its promise of protection, to com
mand
Control of that colonial *“No
man’s land”.
High School Meet
Will Be Held in
Athens This Week
The program of the twenty
thizd annual meet of the Georgia
High School .association, to be
held at the University of "Geor
gia, May 8,9, 10, has been an
nounced as follows by Dr. J. S.
Stewart, chairman;
Thursday, May 8: 8:30 p. m.,
recitation contest, chapel, Supt.
H. K. Adams, Thomson, presid
ing.
" Friday, May 9: 9:00 a. m., an
nual mecting association; 9:30 a.
m., home economics contest, Soule
hall;" 11:30 a. m., tract meet, San
ford field;. 11:40 a. m., declama
tion, chapel, Supt. B. F. Quige,
Rome, presiding; 2:30 p. m., an
nual mecting association: 4:15 «,
m., Tech-Georgia baseball game;
18:00 p. m., try-out for debate,
history department, 3rd floor,
Academic building; and 8:30 p.
m., music contest, chapel, Supt.
T. B. Conner, Pelham, presiding.
Saturday, May 10: 9:00 a. m.,
annual meeting association; 11:00
a. m., debate, chapel, Supt. R. E.
Brooks, Albany, presiding; and
12:30 p. m., delivery of awards.
The literary contestants and
officers will room at the Georg
ian hotel; the athletic contestants
and coaches at the Holman hotel.
The University will provide rooms
for the contestants and officers
en the basis of four in a room.
Ext:a accommodations will be
paid by-the occupants.
Coaches H. J. Stegeman and W.
A. Alexander will direct the track
meet. Prof. W. O. Payne will
have charge of the debates. Miss
Susie Burson will have charge of
the home economics contest and
Chas. E. Martin will have charge
of the plans for the chapel con.
tests. District and school officers
have charge of their contestants
ard will see that they are on time
at the several contests.
: NOTICE
. The 95th annual convention of
Stockholders of the Georgia Rail
road and Banking Company will
be held in directors’ room, Geor
gia Railroad Bank, at Augusta,
Georgia, Wednesday, May 1%;-1930;
at 10:00 &mS;AMUEL MARTIN F
me o m,\‘;m R M
The Kill!
LOOKING BACK
- (Continued from column one,
Editorial page.)
to your .fellows, The greatest
Commandment to men is “Fear
God and keep His Command
ments.” 43T
. May Ist, 1836.—Hodgsons.leave
old Englana, their home, to seek
in Carlinville, Illindié, a new
home in which to live and bring
up the family, enduring hardships,
loss and disaster, even death, drift
ing back to Troy, N. Y.,.thence to
Athens, Ga. Out of this original
stock only one son married and
raised a family, whose effort and
influence are for Athens. Has it
meant much or little? Let the rec
ords of Athens and Clarke county
speak.
May Ist, 1855.—1 was born on
Oconee street, Athens, Ga.
May Ist, 1930.—1 will be at my
75th milestone. I am traveling
west; I am content with my lot;
no hurry to be moving on; am
glad to be living in this age. In
these last fifty years, God has
made marvelous revelations to the
mind of man. God has resources
laid up for man and reveals them
as man needs, Water power, coal,
oil, railroads, telegraph, gasoline,
auto, electricity, roads, radio, moyv
ies, air flying, etc., etc.
What will be here tomorrow?
With love to God and good will
to men, ;
| THE END.
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Senator Rivers .
Makes Plan For
Governor’s Race
LAKELAND, Ga.—C. C. Brant
ley, chai#man of the committee in
charge of the preliminary organi
zation of the “Rivers for Gover
no»”’ campaign announced:
“Senator E. D. Rivers will
make the openinlg speech of his
campaign for Governor at Lake
land, Ga., on Banks Lake, in La
nier county, on Saturday June 7th
and will from \th@it date until the
primazy conduet &n active speak
img campaign' ‘throughout the
'state, making from two to four
speeches a day ?n every day ex
‘cept Sundays. ;
i )ficalled that Sen
‘ator Rivers opeßed his campaign
two years ago in his home county
‘at the same place on July 12th,
and during the ensuing. sixty day
period made a tgtal of 138 speech
es. He proposes in his campaign
this year to make* approximately
175 speeches, covering every
county in the state and meeting
the masses of the people face to
face. e s
“A committee has beel named
in charge of arrangements for
the firing of the opening gun,
headed by W. L. Miller# promi
nent banker and merchant of
Lakeland, and completed dctails
of arrangement will be announced
at a later date.
“The entrance sec for Senator
Rivers qualifications will be paid
and his formal entry filed well
within the time limit set by the
Executive Committee but the
senator will await the opening
speech of his campaign to ati
nounce the issues upon which he
rroposes to conduct the race for
Gevernor. L he
“In his opening speech he will
deal with 21l phases of the cam
paign ‘in that fearless and ag
gressive marner, characte istic
of his public service and which
has ‘'made him the most colorful
figure in Georgia politics in a de
‘cade.” 3
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