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RUSSELL.
The club girls of Russell had a
delightful picnic Saturday afternoon
at the home of Miss Odessa Moore.
Miss Lillian Moore, of this place,
is visiting friends at Madison, Ga.
Rev. R. J. Huff left this week
for Newnan, Ga., where he will
hold a protracted meeting.
Mr- J. I. J. Bell is on the sick
list this week.
Mr. A. A. Darby, of South
Georgia, was visiting his sister,
Mr9- W. P. Smith, Saturday.
Miss Mary-Willie Russel has re*
rurned home from Agnes Scott
College.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Charley
Bunn, a girl.
Mr. 8. C. Pyron spent Sunday
with home-folks at Kant Point.
Mr. Hodge, of Newnan, Ga.,
will soon complete his new build
ing at this place.
The election for mayor and coun
cil of Russell passed off quietly
Wednesday night.
A large crowd attended the ser
vices at the Baptist church Sunday.
Seven additions to the church.
Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Thompson
visited relatives at this place Sun
day afternoon.
Mrs. Walker Wright visited her
parents at Statham Sunday.
TYRO.
Miss Mary O’Shields anJ* Miss
Annie Boyd, of Winder, visited in
our burg last Sunday.
Mrs. Bettie Millsaps and children,
of Winder, visited the family of
J- W. O’Shields last week.
Mrs. Nan O’Shields is spending a
few days with her son, John W.
O’Shields, who is not enjoying the
best of health.
Cols. W. H. Quarterman. of
Winder, and M. D. Irwin, of Law
renceville, visited our place in a
business capacity last Saturday.
Mr. L. J- Johnson is in a very
feeble condition.
W. H. Elrod is on the sick list.
Cold is his complaint —bronchial
tubes affected which hinder free
breathing.
The seventh birthday of Mrs. L.
J. Johnson was celebrated by an i<e
cream festival at the home of Mr.
J. I). Wall, Sr. '
Mr. Will Roberts visited his
mother, Mrs. Josephine Roberts,
last week.
Jim Cody and Joseph Casper,
of Guess Station, visited the family
of B. R. West Saturday.
Wheat harvesting is about over.
We are now picking black lierries to
feed the thresh hands. We have a
few Irish potatoes and beans, and
this is all we promise them, with a
little cornbread. Take warning,
threshermen.
The building committee is look
ing out fur lumber to build our
school house. If you have any
good, cheap lumber for sale, see
them soon.
In company with W. A. Watson
and A. I. Lyle your scribe visited
that genial and entertaining gentle
man, Mr. J. N. McElhaunon, com
monly known as Bud. There are
no more social or entertaining lot of
people than these. Now Bud would
visit your town more, but those
hoseless and muleless machins so
frighten his team (and Bud, too),
that he prefers the hills and hollows
to Statham.
Mr. Walter Roberts and Mr. Fow
ler have a nice fish pond well stock
ed with black bass. A lot of them
in the last few years have l>e< n
placed in Parker creek and Segars’
mill-pond. So hoys, when you
seine don’t kill or destroy the little
fish, and soon you can have larger
ones.
Mr- A. J. Willoughby says auto
mobiles cost him not less than $lO
each year. “Jut” is a two-horse
farmer, and if it costs him that
(and he is correct the way he counts
it) what is the cost to Jackson
county?
In your last issue I said the I. O.
O. F. was a unit. They are in
Tyro section. If you give a weak
ling the long end of the pole he may
pull you down. Now the territory
being the pole, Pentecost the point
of weight and far south of the true
center, we weaklings might pull you
t > a point above your endurance.
So let’s not do that. Come help us
move the point of weight where we
can assist you, brother, and not
only you, but a lot of good men
who need only a knowledge of our
work —(when these good people are
properly informed they will tumble
over each other like sheep to get in
our ranks.) When there they pull.
Natural formations are in our fa
vor, settlements and improvements
are for us. Then being near the
center point lietween county site and
the prosperous town of Winder are
all good arguments, as well as good
roads to all points of the compass.
This is for I. O. 0. F- consideration.
A Tyrant.
NEW TIMOTHY.
Mrs. John Still continues very
ill.
The child of Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Thompson was quite sick first ot
the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cox spent
Sunday with relatives at Russell.
The infant of Mr. and Mrs.
George Cook is seriously ill of
whooping cough.
Mr. Guy Thurmond, of Statham,
was here on business Thursday.
Mrs. Richard Bailey is very ill.
Her friends hope for a speedy re
covery.
Messrs. Willie Smith and Lester
Wood spent Sunday in Atlanta.
Messrs. Jim Burson and Bud
Millsaps, of Statham, made a busi
ness trip to New Timothy Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Austin at
tended a barbecue near Watkins
viile Saturday.
Mr. Paul Lyle, of Winder, was
the guest of his aunt, Mrs. M. A.
Phillips a day or so last week.
Mr. and Mrs Travis Harvil at
tended the funeral of the latter’s
grandmother at Walnut Tueday.
Mr. John Hardigree, of Arnolds
ville, was the guest of relatives here
last week.
Messrs. P. L. Duncan and H. P.
Hardigree have harvested a large
crop of grain with their reaper and
binder.
Mr. and Mrs- E. V. Hardigree
visited the latter’s brother, Mr. El
rod, who is very sick at his home at
Pentecost Sunday.
Mr. H. P. Hardigree and family
were the guests of relatives in Win
der Sunday,
The hour for Sunday school at
Chapel has been changed from 3:00
p. m. to 10:00 a. m. It is desired
that the church members and others
will attend and help make their
Sabbath school a success.
LEBANON.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Martin at
tended service at Galilee Sunday
morning. They spent the after
noon with Mr. and Mrs. D. O.
EUler.
Several of our citizens will at
tend the Jackson county singing
choir next Sunday which meets at
Oconee church.
Miss Belle Hunter, of Jefferson
spent a few days recently in our
midst.
Clem Barrett and Sam Holliday
still hitch their mules to the same
post at J. J. Thurmonds, in Santa
Fe district.
There waR a large attendance at
the prayer meeting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs- W. P. Frost Sunday
night.
C. D. Holliday made a trip to
Red Stone Sunday afternoon •
The Farmers’ Educational and
Co-operative Union will meet next
Saturday at the usual place of meet
ing at 7:00 p. m. A full attend
ance is desired. Business of im
portance.
THE RIDGE.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Robinson at
tended preaching at White Plains
Sunday.
Mr. J. T. Hogan and little daugh
ter, Ava, will start to Baltimore in
two weeks.
Misses Mabelle, Maud and Ruth
Fleeman attended the singing at
Elmwood Sunday.
Mr. and M rs. Love Whitehead,
of Paradise, spent Saturday and
Sunday in our burg.
Miss Lucile Whitehead, who has
been ill with chills and fever, is im
proving rapidly.
Some of our girls say Luther
Whitehead has such large feet that
when he dances they look like two
shoats fighting.
Mr. Lon Whitehead, of near
Winder, passed through here last
Sunday in a “spank” new rubber
bike. Look out girls.
Mr. G. B. Littlefield has pur
chased anew piano from Flanigan
Brothers, of Winder. More music
on the Ridge.
Misses Claudie and Woodie Rob
erts, accompanied by their brother,
Dilmus, went to Pentecost Sunday.
Mr. and Mr3. Jobe Doster, of
Elmwood, spent Saturday night
and Sunday with their aunt, Miss
Mary Doster, of this place.
Well, there has been a little more
“going about” in this community
than common; but it has been so
wet the people couldn’t do anything
else; and couldn’t do that if th<y
had to go “afoot”
Miss Florence Smith, the charm
ing daughter of F. C. Smith, and
Thomas Jim Phillips, of Creek Na
tion, were united in the happy
bonds of wvdlock last Sunday. We
wish them much joy through life,
and can say for Mr- Phillips, he
has captured a prize.
Several of our young men and
some of the older ones are antici
pating going to Jacksonville this
summer. Think I will go to the
mountains where it can be got that’s
made under the pure food law.
Want to join me in this trip, Bob?
Will say to the correspondents
who guessed at that “laugher” that
they hit the nail square on the head.
He says from the way people
guessed, he is known pretty well all
over the county, and believes he
will run for some office sometime
in the near future. Don’t know
what sort of an out he will make
stumping the county during a cam
paign, but I’ll bet a tobacco tag
he can get a crowd while laughing.
Clouds are hanging low and black,
O my the rain is falling;
Over in the cotton patch,
Think I hear some calling.
The voice is calling sad and lone;
It says the glass is growing,
Bascom won’t you come along,
And do a little hoeing.
Nuff Sed.
HERCONOUEHINGFAITH
It Overcame the Scheming of a
Selfish Sister.
By ARABELLA NASMYTH.
[Copyright, WOO, by Associated Literary
Press]
The indisputable fact which has so
Dften sadly surprised people that two
and two will not make five was star
ing the Anslem girls in the face.
It was a year after the death of their
father, and many evasions and putting
off of the fatal day had gone for
naught. They were face to face with
the knowledge that they could no lon
ger afford to keep up the old family
home and, moreover, must do some
thing to add to their infinitesimal in
come.
“In some way,” said Regina, looking
up rather wearily from her pencil and
paper—“in some way we’ve got to have
money. We’ve got to go to work.”
Regina was twenty-six. with rebel
lious dark hair and a firm chin which
always amazed people by the dimple
they discovered in it. Regina was the
one who always did things in the fam
ily. Nobody had ever taken time to
call her a beauty, so she had never
quite realized the fact that she came
very close to being one and could de
vote her leisure to accomplish results.
Of course with Esther it was differ
ent. From the time her first fluff of
golden hair had made itself manifest
and her big blue eyes had first glanced
appealingly at humanity it had been
decided that Esther was a beauty, and
the decision had clung to her through
life, though at maturity it is doubtful
if she would have been thought more
than an ordinarily good looking fresh
young girl had not those around her
been so educated in the other view.
But as a beauty Esther had always
been waited on and put forward, and
even when time went on and girlish
petulance and fickleness and caprice
degenerated into pettishness and self
ish inc-onsiderateness nobody ever ex
pected Esther to do anything but ex
ist.
And now she was thirty, for in spite
of belledom the men who had wooed
her seriously had been few and, with
her aspirations, beneath her considera
tion. At her sister’s fiat Esther drew
her brows together fretfully.
“Work!” she said. “You are ridicu
lous! It’s all very w ell for you to talk,
but how could I work? What could I
do? Regina”—
She hesitated a little, for there w T as
something in the straight browed face
meditatively surveying her as though
she were seen for the first time that
bid her pause. “Regina—if you would
—it would be very easy for you to
place both of us beyond all money
cares forever. I’m sure”—
The voice died away before the spar
kle of anger in the dark face across
the table. Regina bit her Up before
she spoke in a repressed voice. “I
won’t pretend to misunderstand you,”
she said. “It’s like you to propose of
fering something else than yourself!
Understand once for all that I’ll never
marry Dr. Brightright! He is selfish,
be has a cruel and vindictive nature
with all hie surface and polish, and he
is sixty years old.”
"Also be owns the most magnificent
country place in the state and is a
millionaire,” breathed Esther as her
sister stopped. “Really, Regina, for a
grownup person you are distressingly
silly! I’m sure Dr. Brightright is no
worse than lots of men, and think
what you’d have!”
“Which you, of course, would share,”
said Regina coldly. Her face took on
an Immobile expression as she looked
down at her sister. “Understand, I’ll
never marry him. I’ll find work to do.”
“It’s Neal Maxwell!” the older girl
flashed angrily. “You’d be glad of
the chance if you weren’t eating your
heart out for a man who threw yon
over and never cared anything for
you! You’’-
But Regina had swept from the
room, her head in the air, her hands
clutching mechanically the papers cov
ered with their rows of discouraging
figures.
She was hurt as only a proud person
can be hurt, and the sure knowledge
deep in her heart that Neal Maxwell
had indeed, beyond all doubt, cared
for her, in spite of the opinion voiced
by her sister and shared, as Regina
knew, by nearly all her acquaintances
in the town, did not help much in
bearing the taunt
It was a year since Neal hAd gone
abroad as foreign representative for
his firm and eleven months since his
letters had stopped abruptly, without
warning. Her two letters of inquiry
bringing no response, pride had step
ped in and she had made no further
effort to hear from him beyond learn
ing from his firm he was alive and
well.
And when he left they had been en
gaged. She could hardly remember
when she and Neal had not Intended
to marry one another, so many had
been the years of their more than
friendship. In spite of her indignation
and her secret grief, in spite of his
mysterious neglect. Regina_ still clung
to the reeling that, wherever be-iWttJ
whatever had happened, Neal still
must care for her just as day must!
follow night. t +' I
And she was of too strong a nature!
to seek to cover her Jilting by accept-I
Ing the man who had haunted herl
footsteps for the past year, Dr. Bright-1
right, whom she Instinctively disliked I
and steadily shunned, to the' furlttiife I
exasperation of Esther. This had not I
been the first difference they had hk# I
upon the subject. I
This night she was tired, very tire#, ]
and discouraged. Sympathy, under- I
standing or help from Esther she fell I
she never could expect. The weak*
ness, the shallowness, that were her
sister’s were forcing themselves on her
recognition against her will.
If only Esther had been of a differ
ent mold their situation would eye- *
now be vastly Improved. Enedtt; ■**■*. A
ment and energy at her elbow
have given Regina the strength of ten.
Instead there were bitterness, com
plaint and reproach weighing her
down, and beneath it all the old long
ing for Neal, the hurt wonder that he
could have failed her!
Sunk in her thoughts, absentminded-*
ly making preparation for the night,
Regina stood for several minutes star
ing at what she had uncovered at the
bottom of the long utility box on her
dresser without a complete realization
of what the discovery meant.
First it dawned on her bewildered
mind that the box was bine instead
pink, as It should have been.
It were blue It belonged In the &jf
room on Esther’s dresser. The
who had swept and cleaned for them
that day had probably mixed them.
And at the bottom of the blue box, un
der all the handkerchiefs and ribbons
which Regina had mechanically disar
ranged in her search for a particular
ribbon, lay, with a rubber band bind
ing them, the last two letters she had
written to Neal Maxwell Inquiring as
to his silence and which he had, of
course, never answered.
Regina leaned against the dresser,
breathing heavily, clutching the let
ters. trying to think. The face that
looked out at her from the mirror was
white with excitement. Someone had '
kept her letters from reaching Neal
some one— „
In the doorway stood Esther, iKT"'
petulant from the scene downstairs.
As she walked toward her sister Re
gina turned and faced her silently, the
letters In her outstretched palps.
With a little gasp Esther saw, crum
pled into a chair and began to cry In a
frightened way.
“I did It for your own good,” Esther
walled. “Neal never will be rich, and
we want—we need—so much! I thought
—I thought you’d see how much better
a position Dr. Brightright could give
you—l thought you’d forget—l wrote
Neal you were going to marry the doc
tor and hadn’t courage to tell him
yourself and that you did not want
to hear from him again. I—l got
your letters both times by taking them
to slip into the drop while I asked yba.
to get stamps or cards at the window—*
do you remember? I—l did it because
I thought you would be happier, Re*
gina!”
The tall, stern girl, standing like an
avenging goddess, looking down on
the hysterical, weak woman huddled
In the chair, did not speak for some
minutes.
"Why didn’t you destroy them wtMfti
you got them?" she asked abruptly.
“I didn’t dare,” wept Esther. “I
was afraid it was criminal or some
thing.”
The faint flicker of humor which v
swept Regina’s face even In her mo
ment of righteous wrath spread to her
generous heart.
“We won’t talk about It again, Es
ther,” she said quietly. "You’d better
go to bed. And now—now I’m going
to write to Neal.”
IN LIGHTER VAIN.
“Did he say he knew me when I
was a girl?” 1
“No: he said he knew you when
he was a boy. ”
Professor —“What was Nero’s
great crime?”
Bright Pupil —“He played the
fiddle.”
Madame —“Oh, doctor, I owe
you iny life.”
The Doctor —“But —there is my
bill also, madame!”
“There seems to be strange af
finity tetween a colored man and
a chicken.”
“Naturally. One is decended
from Ham and the other from
eggs.”
The Stranger —Do the people who
live across the road from you, Ras
tus, keep chickens?”
Rastus —“Dey keeps some of
’em.”