Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

(Htj? (Etfrijran SfimntaL VoL. 2. jgjjFOß SALE!jpg 1 On Easy Terms at Jackson furniture company. fpjl|l W A GREAT SINGING. whlaski County Singing Convention Held p Great Session at Old Evergreen Baptist Church Saturday and Sunday, April 30th and May 1 st. The follow ing superb singers and organists united to make the fourth session of the Pulaski County Sing ing Convention a great success. SINGERS J. F. Fleming, W. H. Jones, J. D. Fcagin, J. S. Lacey, hi. W. Cooper, Bartow Barker, mL W. Smith, C. D. McKinney, H. B. Lashley, J.F. Worthington Mays, Mr. Baitman, FT,. D. Goodman, J. L. Stephens, D. C. Joiner, A. H. Jones. ORGANISTS M issPearl V aughn, M iss MarthaLy al s, H. B. Lashley, J. 11. Mays, J. D. Feagins. One of tfie finest gatherings and most enjoyable occasions ever held in Pulaski county was the All Day Singing at Evergreen Baptist church Saturday and Sunday, May Ist and 2nd. This old Antebellum Struc ture erected in 1844 midst one of the most beautiful oak groves in all the country was crowded and sur rounded by twelve or fifteen hund red people hailing from all parts of and beyond the county repre senting the best and staunchest citizenship of all this country. It is needless to say that the singing was especially good participated in by the various members of the County Singing Convention and some who were not members. These singings are great things to bring the people together, mingling friendly and fraternal greetings with beautiful songs and praises to the Great Creator. They bring about a better feeling and a broader chari ty for our neighbors and make us better, broader and more useful men and women. A most orderly, gentlemenly, and ladylike crowd was never gath ered together anywhere, at any time or at any place. Enthusiasm, fellowship and good nature seemed to permeate the entire crowd. The quiet demeanor and reverential at titude of this gathering seemed to indicate that these people had come together to promote the higher, pur er and loftier elements of human nature, and to pay loving tribute to COCHRAN, PULASKI COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1910. the Great Creator of all things. It seemed to lie the idea of some peo ple that our good and noble breth eren composing the members of these Singing Conventions gathered these big crowds for a Sunday frolic and picnic, never was there a baser slander. From Saturday morning until Monday afternoon an almost continuous song of praise seemed to go up from this old historic church, and nature it self seemed to lend additional in spiration with all of its beautiful sur roundings in that lovely spot where nestles old Evergreen church, shrin ed in the tender memories of bygone days and standing as a silent wit ness of the faith of a people whose unsurpassed manhood and glorious womanhood should ever be an in spiration to coming generation and nerve them for deeds befitting the noble heritage bequeathed to them by as brave, gallant and chivalrous men, as noble pure and lovely wo men, as the sun ever shined upon. You talk to me of the “Georgia Cracker” and I will tell you of a homogeneous people, through whose veins flows the purest blood of the caucascian races, uncontaminated by the putrid strains of the dregs of Southern Europe and the orient. You tell me of the piney woods farmer, if you please, and speak of him in a contemptuous or slurring manner, and I will tell you of a peo ple whose genius has been retarded, and whose opportunities have been submerged by a great civil war, but who have arisen like the phoenix from the ashes, and are coming with a leap and a bound, and are making this beautiful land of ours blos-som like the rose; and it does not take the genius of a prophet to lift the veil of the future, and place before our admiring gaze the garden spot of the world; whose resources are unlimited, whose climate is unex celled, whose people are incompar able, and whose future bids fair to out class any section of this great Republic in civic, industrial, moral and intellectual prosperity. When Rome was at the heighth of her glory, it was considered great er to be a Roman than a King. The great genius of Caesar blazed a path of glory for his people, unsurpassed in the history of this world. Hj was called the “Father of his coun try” and “imperator” from which comes the modern title of emperor, and w r as made dictator for life. His person was declared sacred and even divine; his statues were placed in the temples; his portrait was struck on coins; and the month Quintilius was named Julius in his honor. The inseparable fame of Rome and Caesar more enduring than brass or marble, will be en shrined in the hearts of all who love the heroic, for generations to come: but beneath our sunny skies, and in the new world whose beacon light of liberty shined forth to ill umine the path way of civilization, and lead nations from the darkness of the middle ages to the glorious light of individual liberty, there arose a leader greater than Caesar; our own Washington, who placed bin time and fortune at the disposal of his coun try, and went down to his grave, the greatest exponent of individual liberty the world had ever seen: and later on, when the great con stitution of these United States was violated by a usurping majority, there arouse another greater than Washington, the immortal Lee, who placed his all on the altar of duty, and bequeathed to his countrymen the noblest name in all the annals of this world. Georgia Cracker! It is up to you to maintain this glorious heritage. You are the descendants of the Hills, Stephens, Toombs, Cobbs, Gordon and a long line of illustrious state men whose fame will endure, when the monuments erected to their memory will have crumbled into dust. They have told us that to be a Roman was greater than a King, but I tell you being a Georgia Cracker is greater than a Roman, and upon your broad shoulder rests the welfare of the empire state of the sunny south, and from your quick brain, strong hand and noble heart will spring an energy that will place Georgia in the front rank of all the states of this union. Organize and maintain greater and better singing conventions. It will help you to cultivate brotherly love, friendship, charity, while you render praise and homage to the great god who made us, and as we gather around the long tables just groaning with everything good to eat this great country affords, and for which Pulaski county is noted, it will remind us of the universal prosperity and proverbial hospital ity of our people, and make us glad that we can occasionally leave our homes, commune with natures God, Council Proceedings. Mayor and Council convend in regular meeting and on roll call the following were present: Mayor W. M. Wynne, H. F. Bullard, E. Cook, Sr., T. L. Bailey, J. A. Fausett and J. C. Urquhart. Minutes of last meeting read and adopted. Appeal case of F. W. Shelton charged with disorderly conduct heard and dismissed. Motion carried that bond com missioners appear before next coun cil to show cause why they haven’t made report . The following bills read and order ed paid. Freight $ 73 Telephone .. 3 80 Freight 80 63 W. S. Hogg 12 00 T. D. Walker, Jr. 2 00 Pay Roll Light and Water.. 490 W. M. Wynne & Son 5 90 Westinghouse Elec. Mfg. Co. 325 No further business council ad journed. J. E. Cook, W. M. Wynne, Clerk. Mayor. Shelton to he Tlried Jlgain. The case of City of Cochran against F. W. Shelton, which was appealed to the city council, was tried in open council Tuesday evening. The mayors decision 1 icing reversed, the case of disorderly conduct was dis missed. Immediately after the trial, Shelton was re-arrested under differ ent charges, and upon furnishing sufficient bond, was released pend ing hearing in mayor’s court next Monday. Rockalyte Paint is equally adapt ed on iron and steel bridges, tele graph poles, piers, ship bottoms, smoke stacks, stand pipes, iron and steel girders, gutters and coping, iron fences, boiler fronts, for water proofing tunnels, subways and gas reservoirs, or in fact anything re quiring an A 1 Paint. For sale by Cochran Lumber Co. Foley Kidney pills are antiseptic, tonic and restorative and a prompt corrective of all urinary irregular ities. Refuse substitutes. Taylor & Kennington. and drink in the inspiration that comes from the fresh air, the sunny skies, the beautiful woods and golden heart of a people, whose homes are consecrated to God, ever open to their friends, and never closed to the needy. NUMBER 50. Local Items. The stockholders of the Cochran Oil Mill and Ginnery held their an nual meeting Tuesday. The same officers were re-elected. H. M. Wynne left for Brunswick Tuesday, on his quarterly watch in spection trip. Mrs. W. G. Clark has move 1 in her new residence on Beech street. Hon. Z. V. Peacock visited Hawkinsville Tuesday. Mrs. Dave Harvard and Miss Gladys Harvard were shopping in Macon Tuesday. T. R. Hendricks, of Macon, is in the city this week. The merchants and business houses are closing their doors at 6 o’clock p. m. by mutual agreement. R. 11. Peacock has purchased an Oakland 30 horse power roadster. Don’t fail to see us before you have any painting done. We carry a large stock of the best paint on the market. Cochran Lumber Co. J Rev. C. M. Dunaway is holding revival meeting in Eastman. Dr. L. B. Kennington visited Macon Sunday. J. J. Blount left Cochran in auto mobile for Indian Springs Tuesday. We have bargains in some beau tiful glass front doors, both stained and plain bought before the price advanced. Cochran Lumber Co. With the grand opera stars auto mobile races and flights of aero planes. Atlanta should lie a very attractive place this week. Mrs. Kathryn Ruff has returned to her home in Atlanta, account sickness. If you want a nice table, mantel piece, porch swing or mission porch set. Call on Cochran Lumber Co., they manufacture them. Prof. Leo H. Browning has been requested to act as judge of liter ature and declamation and Miss Annie Wynne as judge of music in the Eleventh District Convention Contest. J. H. Mullis, Jr., spent Monday in Macon. Foley Kidney Pills contain in concentrated form ingredients of es tablished therapeutic value for the relief and cure of all kidney and bladder ailments. Taylor & Kennington. Miss Mary Weems, of Atlanta, is with Miss Alice Daly as milliner the balance of season.