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VOLUME XXXIII.
RECITAL
FRIDAY NIGHl
At Palace Theater, by
Pupils of Miss Eugenia
Wilkes’ Music Class,
Fayette High School;
'Admission Free.
1. Song, “Chinese Umbrellas,” Cho-
Telegraphic
Announcement
Of Unusual Sale of Coats
and Dresses.
FAYETTE COUNTY
SUNDAYSCHOOLS
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 8, 1922.
JNUMBER 21.
To Meet at Whitewater
Church, December
10, 2 P. M.
rus.
2. Piano Solo, “Let Us Try,” Mar
garet (Wise.
3. Piano) Solo, “Rosebud Polka,”
Virginia McCollum.
4. Recitation, “So Was I,” Claudine
Lester.
5. Piano Solo, “Valse Scherzino,"
Carolyn Gay.
6. Song, “The Quarrel,” Joe and
(Elizabeth Redwine.
7. Piano Solo, “Dance of the Fairy
Queen,” Marion Seagraves.
8. Recitation, “The Raggedy Man,”
Margaret Wise.
9. Plano Solo, “Dolly’s Lullaby,” Sa
ra Eastin.
10. Song, “Jingle Bells,” Chorus.
11. Piano Solo, “II Trovatore,” Grace
McCollum.
13. Recitation, “Sunrise;” “Nigger
Prayer,” Martha Redwine,
14. Song, “Mammy’s Lullaby," Kath
leen Blalock.
15. Piano Solo, “Golden Medal Walt,”
Evelyn Seawright.
17. Recitation, “The Bridge Keeper’s
Story,” Mildred Seawright.
18. Piano Solo, “Butterfly,” Sara
Belle Mathews.
19. Song,. “Trials of a Boy,” Hil
liard Perry.
20. Piano Solo, “Yellow Jonquils,”
Dorothy Redwine.
21. Recitation, “Calls,” Mildred Stell.
22. Violin Solo, “ Home Sweet
Home;” “Lullaby,’ Mildred Seawright.
23. Song, “Jolly Pickinnies,” Chorus.
24. Piano Duett, “Lilly Polka,” Tom
mie and Marion Kerlin.
25. Piano Solo, “City Troop March,”
Lillie Pari McElwaney.
26. Song, “Leave Me With a Smile,”
Chorus.
27. Piano Solo, “5th Nocturne," An
nie Ruth Bearden.
28. Song, “Now Aren’t You Glad,
You Came,” Ch’orus.
Recital to begin at 7:30 o’clock.
98 Years Old, Has Third Set Of Teeth
London.—Harry Gardner turned his
98th year recently, possessed a third
set of teeth and rejuvenated eyesight.
A year ago, Mr. Gardner was forced
to set soft foods and wear glasses,
but the only physical defect from
which he now suffers is poor hearing.
Physicians say that* he is beginning
to develop new tissue.
We have just received a telegram
which appears on page eight of this
issue, from Griffin Mercantile com
pany, the big department store of Grif
fin. The telegram is directed to the
ladies| of Fayetteville and Fayette
county and c<jntains a message of un
usual interest.
This big department store is noted
for its extraordinary sales events, but
this sale as outlined in the telegram
will surpass any value-giving and sav
ings opportunity ever offered the
ladies and misses of the community.
The sale will open next Thursday,
December 14th, at 9 o’clock. The man
agers of the firm give positive assur
ance that every garment offered will
be worth two to three times the price
at which it will be sold, and it is sug
gested to be on time.
WORKERS’COUNCIL
AT HAMPTON
The Worker’s Council of the Flint
River Association, composed of the
pastors, departmental officers of the
church, and associational officers, will
convene with the Hampton church on
Tuesday 12th, inst., 10 a.' m. Let all
the churches be represented. Dinner
will be served by the W. M. S. of the
church.
The W. M. U. of the
Flint River Association
Wins the State Banner
For several years all the Assocla
tional Unions in Georgia have vied
with each other annually to win the
banner offered by the State Union to
the association gaining the largest
number of new organization.
This year our own Flint River Union
won, having organized twenty-six new
societies during the year.
The banner will visit each district.
May it inspire us all to greater effort.
MRS. J. W. R. JENKINS,
Press Chairman.
Boat Collision Causes 26 Deaths
Barcelona, Spain.—Twenty-six women
and children are believed to’have been
drowned in the sinking of a local pas
senger steamboat which was rammed
by a customs boat. Eleven bodies have
been recovered. The customs boat
was a steam launch belonging to the
Tombacco municipal authorities in. Bar
celona.
KITCHENS and COMPANY
FANCY GROCERIES
ALL KINDS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
IN SEASON
CRANBERRIES 20 cts. qt.
BANANAS 25 cts. dot.
ORANGES and
TANGERINES 30 cts. do*.
APPLES 30 cts. doz.
CELERY 15 and 20 cts. bu.
NUTS—
ENGLISH WALNUTS 30 cts. lb.
BRAZIL NUTS 20 cts. lb.
PECANS—
(paper, shell) 17 1-2c lb.
PRUNES 20 Cts. lb.
SEEDED RAISINS 25 cts. lb.
COCOANUTS 10 cts. lb.
CRYSTALIZED FRUITS—
CITRON, ORANGE and
LEMON 75 cts. lb.
SAUSAGE 15 cts. lb.
BREAD—FRESH—EVERY DAY
SATURDAY SPECIALS
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS
—PHONE 83—
ON THE
THE NEW STORE *
l
Just a Word to You!
It tastes
We want to sell you your groceries
better if it
and other foodstuffs.
' We will NOT reduce the quality of
is free from
our goods in order to make so-called
“bargain” prices.
impurities.
But if reduced prices on the highest
standard of goods appeals to you, we
—o—
invite you to give our store a trial, if
not already a customer.
Free from lm-
Wt* are speaking to your common
purities Is
sense and good judgment.
the policy
J. T. McCollum and Son
of this store v
Groceries Feed
Dry Goods
Splendid Program Ar
ranged for Meeting to
Be Held at Whitewater
on Sunday Afternoon,
December 10.
ERS’
S MEETING
THURSDAY, DECEM
BER 14TH, 10:00
O’CLOCK.
FAYETTEVILLE
COURTHOUSE
THOMAS
MILES MURPHY
Prominent Fayette Citi
zen Passes Away at
His Fayetteville
Home.
The Fourth Division of the Fayette
County Sunday School Association will
meet with Whitewater Sunday school,
Sunday afternoon. N. D
president of the Association, has ar
ranged a fine program for the occa
sion and all of the Sunday Schools in
the county will be benefited by par
ticipating in the exercises.
Cotton Expert From the
. State Agricultural Col
lege to Speak.
POINTED
PARAGRAPHS ON
RURAL SCHOOLS
Answer this question in one word:
What is needed to make the rural
schools as good as the city schools?
M-o-n-ety.
To make the rural schools as good
as the city schools we are told 1 that
the country schools should be kept
open at least nine months in the year,
should be taught by better teachers re
ceiving better pay, in better school-
houses with better equipment. Money
will buy these and all the other things
that now go to make our city schools
better than most rural schools.
How can money be raised to make
our rural schools as good as those
enjoyed by the rich and poor children
of the cities? This is the leading
question which should be in the mind
of every citizen during Education
Week,
The average length of school term
in the cities is over nine months in
the year, while the country schools
do not average seven months. Does
this spell equality or opportunity for
the country boy and girl?
A citizens and farmers mass meeting
has been called to meet at the court
Huckaby, j j n Fayetteville Thursday, Decem
ber 14th, at ten o’clock in the morning,
for the purpose of hearing an expert
cotton man.
A State cotton specialist from the
Georgia State Agricultural College
will be here and address this meeting.
The address will deal principally with
cotton facts and how to briqg the
product back to normalcy under' pres
ent conditions.
C. V. Shirley, County Agent, will also
address this meeting, and a permanent
organization is advocated for the pro
jection of the best interests in agri
culture development.
Ways and means to secure sufficient
calcium arsenate for Fayette county
farmers will also be arranged for at
this time.
This is the first move toward a per
fect county program. Shirley put Jef
ferson county on the map, and with
an organization to move solidly for
county-wide benefit, Fayette, with its
magnificent soil and splendid co-opera
tion of all agricultural interests, under
Shirley’s leadership can soon be one
of the best, if not the very best county
in the State.
Cotton is our money crop, cotton can
be raised profitably under present con
ditions, enlist in this meeting, put
yourself into it 100 per cent and Fay
ette county will go over the top in
1923 — better times, better roads, bet
ter schools, better churches and better
people. i
If the city elementary schools are
taught over nine months in the year
by teachers receiving $1,200 and the
country schools are taught less than
seven months in the year by teachers
receiving less than $7001; Are the
country children receiving a square
deal?
If your are interested in the better
ment of country schools write to the
United States Bureau of Education,
Washington, D. C., and receive with
out cost, copies of bulletins, leaflets
and circulars'pertaining to rural edu
cation.
The United States Bureau of Educa
tion now has for free distribution cir
culars and leaflets on such subjects as
Consolidation fo Schools, Transporta
tion of Pupils, Supervision of Rural
Schools, Equipment for One-Teacher
Schools, System of Agricultural In
struction, Salaries of Teachers in
Rural Schools, Distribution of State
Funds Affecting Consolidation, Home
Economics in Rural Schools, Rural
Life and Culture Bibliography, and
Teachers’ Homes.
The rural and village schools spend
annually $392,000,0000 for educating
12,500,000 children. The cities spend
$488,000,000 for 9,000,000 children, or
almost a million more for three mil
lions fewer children—and some people
wonder why the city schools are so
much superior to the country schools.
COMMISSIONER’S SALE.
By virtue of an order of the Super
ior court of Fayette county, Georgia,
in the case of Seaborn Sams vs. W.
J. Sams, there pending, the undersign
ed, acting as commissioners, will sell
to the highest bidder for cash, before
the court house door in the town of
Fayetteville, Fayette county, on the
first Tuesday in January next, all that
tract or parcel of land, lying and being
in the fourth district of originally
Henry, now Fayette county, being 195
acres, more or less, in lots Nos. 201
and 216, and bounded as follows: On
the north by lands of W. A. Ballard;
on the east by lands of Mrs. Ida Sams
and I. G- Woolsey, Jr.; on the south
by lands of W. C. Sams; and on the
west by lands of W. E. Sams and W.
A. Ballard, and known as the old Wil
liam J. Sams place, and being all of
said place except 100 acres sold to W.
E. Sams off the south end of the same,
and now owned by him. This Decem
ber first, 1922.
H. P. REDWINE,
J. A. BURCH,
I. G. WOOLSEY, Commissioners.
FAYETTEVILLE
DEFEATS
McDonough
WHY DO THEY LEAVE
Only 13 of every 10 children enter
ing the first grade of the public
schools remain to complete the twelfth
grade, or the last year of high school.
Of 100 children entering the first
grade 86 reach the fifth, 73 the sixth,
64 the seventh, 58 the eighth, 32 the
first year of high school, 23 the sec
ond year, 17 the third year, and 14 the
fourth year, with 13 (remaining to
graduate.
Upon the subject of education, not
presuming to dictate any plan or sps-
tem respecting it, I can only say that
I view it" as the most important sub
ject which we as a people can . be
engaged in.—Abraham Lincoln.
Where the state has bestowed edif-
cation the man who accept it must be
content to accept it merely as a char
ity, unless he returns it to the state in
full in the shape of good citizenship.—
Theodore Roosevelt.
Education that fails to fit men and
women to play in intelligent, com
manding part as sovereign citizens in
a great industrial and political world
fails of what must in this. day be its
prime purpose. It is not enough to
have understanding and good educa
tion among a few; what we require is
good understanding and good educa
tion en masse. We must in the mass
understand the problems with which
we must deal as a democratic people.
We can advance and develop democ
racy but little faster that we can ad
vance and develope the average level
of intelligence and knowledge within
the democracy. That is the problem
that confronts modern educators. That
is the problem that confronts democ
racy itself.—Samuel Gompers.
The American public school has
grown piecemeal as the country has
been built up, but has not kept pace
with the vast sweep of progress that
has been made in science, industry,
and agriculture. It is no criticism of
the great constructive accomplish
ments of education to recognize frank
ly its shortcomings and deficiencies.
Our educational system can not be
considered adequate .until it has oblit
erated illiteracy and welded our people
into one great composite American
citizenry with common ideals and pur
poses; until it has laid the founda
tion for right living, for health and
physcal vigor; and until it has provid
ed for every American child a com
petent and well-trained teacher.—Wil
liam B. Owen, President of the Chicago
Normal College and of the National
Educational Association.
New York is now planning to get the
sentiment of the people on the wet and
dry subject.
Thomas Miles Murphy, better known
to The News readers as “Primus,”
after a lingering illness covering near
ly a year’s time, quietly passes away
Tuesday morning; at about four-thirty
o’clock, entering into his eternal rest.
“Primus” was born in Lee county,
Iowa, his father — Joseph Murphy —
coming from South Carolina. Sarah
Murphy, mother of “Primus," died in
Iowa, and after her death the family
(came to Fayette county, where they
settled in 1848.
“Primus” served in the War Between
the States in Company “A”, 10th Flor
ida, attached to “Finnigans Brigade,” j
and his life has been spent in the pur-1
suit of agriculture, principally; in the
latter period he has been connected
with the Fayette Hohie Insurance Co.,
in the capacity of treasurer.
“Primus” has always been an inter
esting writer for The News, and, to
gether with his companion writer, “Po
sey,” of Brooks, both have answered
the last roll call and gone forward:
to a great reward.
As a citizen, his life has been spent
in that which makes for the good in
(everything, always endeavoring to be
on the right side of every issue, in
sofar as was his ability; helpful to his
fellow-man; a Mason, and member of
the Methodist church for some fifty-
five years.
The funeral will take place at the
Methodist church at eleven o’clock on
Wednesday morning, after 4 which the
burial will be conducted by the Masons !
in the family lot in the Fayetteville;
cemetery.
“Primus” leaves a wife, Mrs. Eliza-;
beth Murphy, daughter of John and
Margaret Bottoms, of Fayette county,;
and three sons, William T. Murphy, of
Griffin, Ga., George M. Murphy, of
Atlanta, and Edward E. Murphy, also i
of Atlanta; one brother, Joseph H.;
Murphy, of Atlanta, and one sister, Sa
rah Rebecca Murphy, of Carrollton, Ga.;
two grandchildren, Lewis Murphy, son
of William T. Murphy, and Eugene
Murphy, son of Edward F. Murphy.
Fayetteville ,Hlgh school won their
fifth game at McDonough Wednesday
afternoon. This makes five straight
victories to our credit since basket
ball started. The McDonough team
fought hard, but succeeded In making
only three points. A large number of
personal fouls were made on each
side, but more on McDonough. Three
of McDonough’s players were put out
of the game on account of second
fouls; but two had to remain because
they could not provide substitutes.
Beadles was the high scorer for Fay
etteville. He made seven field goals.
The final score was 34 to 3.
Our next game in the league wili-be
with Jonesboro. We beat Jonesboro
by a large score in October, but in
the meantime they have been prac
ticing and they will be one of our
strongest opponents.
Standing of the teams in the north
ern division of the 6th district.
Won Lost
Fayetteville 3
Jonesboro 2
McDonough !. 1
Hampton 0
It even requires horse sense to buy
an automobile. - ■ '
There hope for a town so long as
the saw is heard above the hammer.
FARM TOPICS
by
C. V. Shirley,
ounty Agent
It has been asked by a certain cit
izen of Fayette county what is it that
a County Agent can do through the
month of December that would be of
service to the farmers. If he didn’t
do a thing but formulate plans for
another year he would be doing a great
work, provided these plans were of the
right kind. Not only should the Coun
ty Agent make plans but every farmer
should work out his cropping system.
But we except to accomplish much
more than this as you will find by
reading on.
The boll weevils have played havoc
with our principal money crop—cot
ton. We have learned that calcium
arsenate is very essential in combating
this pest, therefore, we want to have
a meeting in the next few days and
take some active step in buying next
year’s supply. Now, this is where you
should do some planning. Figure out
how much cotton you can afford to
plant so you will know the amount of
calcium arsenate you will need. On
an average it requires about 30 to
35 lbs calcium arseuate per acje for
the season.
Orchards.
If you haven’t already pruned and
sprayed your fruit trees ,you should
look after this at once. In order to
have good healthy trees bearing good
sound fruit, trees should be sprayed
aud pruned. They should be sprayed
with lime-sulphur iu the fall and early
spring to keep down the scale. Dem
onstrations in pruning and spraying
will be given in the different parts
of the county. If you need any help
let me know at once.
The Farm Program.
Last week’s paper outlined a farm
program for Fayette county.
What about meeting and adopting a
program so we will have something
“to shoot at?” Let’s all pull together
and make 1923 a banner year for Fay
ette county.
Every minute of day and night, 32,- :
331 letters are dropped into mailboxes.
The total is 1,400,000 an hour. Small'
wonder, that a letter occasionally goes
astray. Our destructive sense rages at
these isolated delays. It rarely occurs j
to ns to give credit for the vast ma
jority that are delivered on time, for j
the constructive instinct has not yeti
conquered the destructive tendency in
man’s brain. Observing a few isolated:
cases, we accept them as applying gen- j
erally—crime in particular. j
Smith & Higgins, Inc.
1
2 Price Sale
Coats-—Suits—-Dresses
In a word—the warm weather at the beginning 1
of the season explains these radical price re
ductions. Stocks are entirely too large, and
instead of waiting to hold our usual post-hol
iday sales, we are offering you this unusual
opportunity to supply your needs just at a
time when stocks are at their best and the sea
son’s wear is ahead of you.
Cases and racks are filled with the sea
son’s newest and most desirable gar
ments. Beginning Saturday, every coat,
every suit, every dress in the house will
be put on sale at exactly half of former
prices.
NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONS
oats
Coats represent, of course, the season’s newest
models, both self and fur-trimmed. Many nov
elty effects—every good material and color of
the season. Full range of sizes.
$22.45
now
$11.23
$29.75
now
$14.88
$49.75
now
$24.88
$57.50
now
$28.75
$69.75
now
$34.88
$84.75
now
$42.38
Suits
Each garment emphasizes good workmanship,
splendid quality and newest styles and colors.
Plain tailored'and fur-trimmed models that
are bound to suit your particular style.
$34.76 now $17.38
$39.76 now $19.88
$49.75 now $24.88
$57.50 now $28.75
$64.75 now $32.38
Dresses
Poiret twills, tricotines, cantons, crepe de
chines in the very latest models. Introducing
beading, embroidery and contrasting appli-
qued effects. All fashionable colorings in the
group.
$13.75 now
$ 6.88
$18.45 now
$ 9.23
$24.75 now
$1IL38
$34.75 now
$17.38
$39.75 now
$19.88
$49.75 now
$24*88
Smith & Higgins, Inc