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Never Before
In the history of our business have
we had such a beautiful array of
Millinery. Great crowds inspected
our Thursday. We expedt
to keep all of the sitock on display
for balance of the week so that if
you did not get to come in on
Thursday or Friday you will have
an opportunity on Saturday.
We Ask You to Come in and Examine our
Stock Closely.
REV. J. W. HAM TO
CONDUCT REVIVAL
At a conference held this morn
ing, attended by representatives
of the various churches of North
Winston, it was decided to join
forces in a big union revival sea
son to last for six weeks. Rev.
J. W. Ham, the well-known evan
gelist of Atlanta, who is now
conducting a series of meetings
at the North Winston Baptist
church, is to do the preaching.
In solving the question of se
curing quarters large enough to
accommodate the crowds it was
decided to erect a large taberna
cle with a seating capacity of
4,000 people. The tabernacle
building is to be 80 feet wide by
150 feet long, with large plat
form for the speakers and the
choir.
The union services are to con
tinue for six weeks. There is
the greatest enthusiasm among
all denominations in the proposed
union services throughout North
Winston and other sections of
the city and it is expected that
this will prove one of the great
est meetings that has been held
in this city in many years.—Win
ston-Salem, (N. C.) Sentinel.
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• W Y ERE thinking of a sociable
mJAf to try to get some money
■ V to get the church painted
" by Easter. 1 suppose you
have noticed how dreadfully shabby it
is getting to be."
Mrs. Oscar Holmes, the banker’s
wife and the spokesman of the com
mittee of three, had her little book
and pencil out
"The church Deeds more’n a coat of
paint. It needs more grace and gump
tion," Mrs. Waters said almost savage
ly. "No, I don’t think you need to
coant on me for anything."
The people of Progress had learned
that when Mis. Waters said “no" she
usually meant it “She’s so queer, so
independent you know," the ladles
said when they got out of hearing dis
tance. **l don’t believe for a minute
It's stinginess; It’s independence.”
“No, it's not stinginess, I know that”
Mrs. Holmes said, “because when we
were packing the missionary box and
everybody was bringing second hand
stuff to put in It she wouldn’t give us
a thing; said she didn’t believe In giv
ing old clothes away and calling it
charity, or giving to the Lord and
trying to get credit on a report for it
She said she’d write the missionary’s
wife a letter and pot it In the box.
And, would you believe it she put a
whole dollar's wortn of postage stamps
and a ten dollar bill In that letter, and
we never would have known a thing
about it If the missionary's wife hadn't
written back to the eoclety.”
Since the Waters family had moved
to Progress, live ysan betas, Ita-
Waters ted certainly asmd (ftp Mp
ttes ef BdteStdl
"queer.” The first experience the Prog
ress people had of her “queerness” was
when she refused to borrow and lend
with her neighbors.
“No, indeed.” she said, “I ain’t that
kind of a womun. I never did believe
in the plan, ‘You lend me your stew
kettle and I'll lend you my frying
pan.’ ”
And yet often after this sharp
tongued lady had been cooking the chil
dren might be seen carrying gome little
delicacy to old bedridden Mrs. Fraser.
The neighbor across the way said that
Mrs. Waters had made a little cushion
and sent it over to a crippled child.
The little church in Progress surely
did need a coat of paint. In fact, It
needed paint outside and paint Inside,
It needed plaster, it needed anew floor
and the foundation at one corner was
crumbling. “I believe I’ll Just go and
Jog up Ezra about It,” said Mrs. Wa
ters. And jog Ezra she did to good
purpose.
“If folks would only stop so much
click clackin’ o’ tongues and ask the
Lord what he’d got to say about
Axin’ up his house they wouldn’t have
to do so much chasin’ round gittin’
eggs and cream and freezers,” she said
to Ezra that night when they were
discussing it. Do you suppose, Ezra
Waters, that if they’d really got down
on their knees to tell the Lord about
ttte doin’a, if they’d said In serious,
solemn earnest, ’Lord, we want to
paint up your dwellin’ place; we're
klnda ashamed of it—how do you
think we’d better go about It?’ and
then waited patiently and prayerfully
for his answer, do you suppose the
Lord would have Bald, ‘Git up a soda
bier Not a bit of it! He’s told them
plain enough bow to go about sicb
things. Nothin’ could tie plainer than
what he’s said about the tenth. Come
to think about it, Ezra, how orach
have we got In that tithe box 7’
“I guess there Is a right smart little
sum,” Ezra answered, “but, you know,
that little Indian girl’s schoolin’ win
be cornin’ due soon. We always pay
It ’long about this time.”
“At the dose of this meeting,” the
preacher announced at the Thursday
night prayer meeting, “there' be
a meeting of the Ladies' society to
discuss plans for the coming Blaster
festival."
Before they could get well turned
around Mrs. Johnson Pepper, the presi
dent of the Ladies’ society, said:
The meeting win plena* eoms to er-
Oer.” she said briskly. “The object ef
Our White Goods
Stock is the prettiest, largest and
most complete that has ever been
shown in Jackson. It will be a rev
elation to you to see what wonder
ful lacy, filmy, sheer goods that is
woven out of cotton. The goods
themselves so beautiful that they
scarcely need any trimmings at all.
mis meeting is thoroughly unaerßtooO,
I presume, but in case there may bo
some here who were not at the pre
liminary meeting might explain that,
the church is very shabby looking, and
we’d decided to paint it before the
summer folks got here for another sea
son. We are going to have a sociable
fo try to raise the money.”
“I’d like to ask,” said Mrs. Waters,
rising to her feet, “if it's the opinion
of this meetin’ that the lord wants us
to have this affair to patch up his
house.’’
“Why, there’s surely no harm in
holding a sociable,” said the president
“ ’Tain’t that,” said Mrs. Waters.
“ ’tain’t that at all. If the people want
to git together every week to enjoy
themselves I’m willin' they shall do it
right in the church if they want to.
But for my part I don’t believe in
spendin’ much on patchin’ up this old
place when it’s locked up 102 hours a
week and only opened six. But it
kind ’a’ hurts me to think we’ve got to
slave ourselves and expose our poverty
before the world by goin’ out an’ sellln’
stuff to git anew coat of paint for the
lord's house. You know that the
lord said the church was his bride,
and do you know I don't believe the
lord would be a bit pleased to see his
bride a-tumln’ an lee cream freeser to
git money for anew coat of paint 1
don’t believe it, nor Kara don’t either.
We both think the lord ought to have
a bran new boose here in Progress, a
house that won’t be shut up, as I said,
162 hours out of every 168. We’ve
been readln* about that church in Phil
adelphia where they have kindergar
tens and leadin’rooms and kitchens and
livin’ accommodations, and we want
a church like that here In Progress,
one for oid and young, that will be
open seven days in the week and till
10 at night Ezra and mail give the
first hundred and the last hundred dol
lars If the peopieTl build that kind of a
church.”
“And to think,” said Mrs. Oscar
Holmes when, the week before the
Easter of the following year, she was
showing a friend around and discuss
ing plana for the opening of the new
Progress Institutional church, “that
any of us was ever mean and unkind
enough to say stingy about Mrs. Wa
ters!
‘This la the ladies’ room, sad**—
pushing back a folding door—“this la
for the men. This other room la for
the kindergarten In the daytime, and
the hjgecr children will play games on
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these mfie tames in the evenings.
This Is the reading room, and thl* is
the kitchen. Isn’t that a lovely pan
try? Mrs. Waters says there’s nothing
about the church gives her more gen
uine satisfaction than this kitchen.
“Bleas her old heart! If It badn’r
been for her we wouldn't bare this
eborek. Bnt, then, she certainly to
queer.”