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VOL. XLVII
Rev. G. J. Davis Resigns Pastorate
Baptist Church; Accepts Marietta Call
SERVED here for past six
years with great results
Preached Last Sermons Sunday—
Entire Community Suffers Loss In
Removal of This Family
Rev G. J. Davis has resigned as
[ pastor’ of the Hartwell Baptist
church, and accepted a call to the
: Marietta First Baptist church.
[ j4j s resignation was tendered the
1 church on Wednesday evening of
I 1 week, and was accepted, in
view of the statements made by
! Bro. Davis who emphasized that if
! he had his wish in the matter he
would remain for life in Hartwell.
He felt that he was doing God’s
will in the matter, and therefore in-
Mr sisted that his resignation be ac
cepted at this time.
Coming to Hartwell some six
years ago from Tennille, Rev. Da
vis has won for himself and family
a place in the hearts of our people
of every denomination, and it is
with reluctance that as a commu
nity we give them up.
As pastor of the Hartwell Baptist
church, Rev. Davis has led his peo
ple forward in a program that places
them to the forefront in Georgia
Baptist affairs.'
In the 75-Million Campaign the
local church has perhaps made the
best record in the State for the
membership, having already paid
mto the fund some $45,000 on their
pledge of over $55,000.
Rev. Davis in 1921 was Moderator
of the Hebron Baptist Association;
he has been a member of the State
Executive Committee for several
years, and otherwise prominent in
the Baptist denomination.
He has been very prominent in
Hartwell and Hart county civic af
■k fairs, also. He is a member of the
Kiwanis Club and otherwise identi-
M fled with the progressive community
I ‘ life.
The church at Marietta is con
sidered one of the best in the State,
and has a large membership. They
have accomplished a great work in
the past and with Rev. G. J. Davis
as pastor will now make even more
rapid strides in the work of the
Kingdom, we predict.
Union Service Sunday Evening.
On Sunday evening the Methodist
and Presbyterian congregations
joined in a union farewell service
for Bro. Davis. A special program
had been arranged, interspersed with
special songs by the choir, includ
ing a number of the retiring pastor’s
■ favorite hymns.
Hon. J. H. Skelton was in charge,
and those making talks were Mayor
A. S. Richardson, for the City of
Hartwell; Mr. W. T. Johnson and
Prof. E. B. McGukin, for the Pres
byterian church; Rev. J. H. Barton,
for the Methodist church; Mr. D. C.
Mr Alford, for the Baptist church; Mr.
E. B. Benson, Prof. J. I. Allman,
Mr. T. M. Myers.
A large congregation was pres
ent, and after the services hundreds
came forward to bid Bro. Davis and
his family God-speed on their way
to other fields of labor.
The church gave Mr. Davis a beau
tiful Hamilton gold watch as a token
of their love and esteem and as re-
A membrance to carfry with him to
mark the time as he journeys in his
new field of labor. It was present
ed in behalf of the church by D. C.
Alford, chairman of the Board of
H Deacons.
In presenting the watch Mr. Al
ford said in substance:
Dear Bro. Davis:—On behalf of
the Hartwell Baptist church this oc
casion offers us an opportunity for
lending in our hearts sadness and
joy. Sadness, because the time
seems to have come for parting
with you as our beloved pastor.
cannot express to you how
we will miss your personal contact:
t saddens our hearts beyond words
express, as we think how you
nave grieved with and comforted
>n times of sorrow and bereave
|M ment.
| '\ e know it will be hard to cure
hearts that are wounded by the
severing of our relations as church
1 pastor, but we remember that
Ihe will of our Lord must be done.
However we will rejoice as we shall
nstantly think of the beautiful
Jg m which you have interpreted
, r ‘- ove of our Master by your faith-
■ tul ministry.
This token of our love that we
sent to you we want you to ac-
Ce Pt in the spirit in which it is
P'en; may it be a constant re
as you see its face and note
ticking away of time that you
■* your dear family are being re-
Irc -mbered by your friends in Hart
well.
Let our consolation be your con
smation as we have the assurance
Hi sadness on account of parting
■1 endure for a night but the joy
> meeting again will come in the
M m °rning.
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Japanese bar natives of Ko
j. ( hma. Mongolia, Siam and Java
Mj r 131 setting in Japan.
M - then, again, you can recog-
HH ’he approach to Easy street by
E® •' ’ervous wrecks along the way.—
■ ' c ’couver Sun.
Qj-en Mary has taken a great
* f° r Ishbel Macdonald,
s Ilf' daughter of
Labor Prime Minister.
THE HAKTWELL SUN.
Many School Boys and Girls
Expected To Enter the Essay
Contest For S3OO In Prizes
Hartwell and Hart county school
boys and girls participating in the
co-operative marketing essay con
test, in which S3OO in gold is offer
ed, will gather at the Hartwell High
School building on Friday morning,
May 16th, at 9 o’clock promptly.
Rules and regulations have already
been published, and it is expected
that a number will try for the prizes.
The subject of the essay is:
“THE VALUE OF CO-OPERA
TIVE MARKETING ASSOCIA
TIONS FOR ALL FARM PRO
DUCTS, TO THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, ORGANIZED ON THE
FIVE YEAR CONTRACT PLAN.”
This contest is open to three
groups:
A. All High School Students of
the State.
B. All students in the elemen
tary grades in schools in incorporat
ed towns of the state.
C. All students in the elemen
tary grades in the rural schools of
the state.
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Commencement To
Start May 23
Elaborate exercises will mark the
Commencement season in Hartwell
beginning Friday night, May 23, and
continuing through May 30th.
There are over 40 boys and girls
in the Class of ’24, perhaps one of
the largest the Hartwell High School
has ever graduated.
All exercises will take place in the
new auditorium, including the pro
gram on Sunday, May 25th.
A complete program will appear
in next week’s Sun.
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Nice Room At State Normal
School Without Cost To Hart
Co. Girl Offered By U. D. C’s
A room has been outfitted by the
Hartwell Chapter U. D. C. in Win
nie Davis Hall at the State Normal
College in Athens, and is now offer
ed free to the first Hart county girl
qualifying.
If there is a girl in Hart who
enters the State Normal for 1924-
25 she can get this room without cost
by applying to Mrs. Fred Wilson, of
Hartwell, president of the U. D. C.
This must be done before June
Ist.
Luther Burbank has offered his
“creations gardens” to the Univer
sity of California for educational
and experimental purposes. He has
been offered SIOO,OOO for them, but
commercial profits interest him less
than the public benefit.
W. M. S. and Laymen of Elberton District
Meet In Commerce Thursday and Friday
The Missionary Societies of the
Methodist churches in Hartwell and
Hart county will be well represent
ed at the annual W. M. S. Confer
ence of North Georgia to be held
in Commerce Thursday and Friday
of this week.
Commerce has prepared, says
Miss Bert Winter, Secretary, for the
largest attendance at the annual Dis
trict Conference the missionary
workers have ever held.
There will two full days and
nights, featured by a program al
most as large as the annual W. M.
S. Conference held recently at Grif
fin. Practically all the best things
have been “drafted” for the Com
merce meeting, including a pageant
by the Juniors, a motion picture
Calcium Arsenate Will Be Sold From
Car By State Board of Entomology
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Poison Will Be Sold For 12 Cents
Pound At Points Along
Railroad
The Georgia State Board of En
tomology has arranged with the
Southern Railway to operate a ped
dler car of calcium arsenate again
this year. A car will be side track
ed at the places and on date listed
below. Cotton growers can secure,
any amount from 100 pounds up,
same to be sold at the car for cash:,
Royston, Thursday, May 15, r.
M., 16th, A. M.
Bowersville, Friday, May 16, P.
1 Lavonia, Saturday, May 17th, P.
M !
Toccoa, Monday, May 19, P. M.,
20th, A. M. . :
Derailed information will be given |
at the car as to best method for con
trolling the boll weevil, together with
instructions as to best use of cal
cium arsenate.
Two vears ago you purchased cal
cium arsenate at nine cents a pound
and your cotton was worth ten cents;
now we can furnish you with cal
cium arsenate at twelve cents and'
HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1924
Southern Presbyterians Gather In San
Antonio, Texas, For 64th Assembly
Mr. W. T. Johnson, of Hartwell,
and Rev. Kcelling, pastor of the El
berton Presbyterian church, left
Monday afternoon for San Antonio,
Texas, where the 64th session of the
General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian church convenes this
Thursday morning for a week’s de
liberations.
Mr. Johnson and Rev. Koelling
are official delegates from the Ath
ens Presbytery.
The two outstanding features are
the election of a moderator to suc
ceed Rev. Alexander Sprunt, of
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REV. G. J. DAVIS
who has resigned as pastor of the Hartwell Baptist church, and accepted
a call to the First Baptist church in Marietta, Ga., leaving this week.
Eighth District Dentists To
Meet In Athens May 20th
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Dentists of the Eighth District
I will meet in Athens on Tuesday, May
> i 20, at the Georgian Hotel.
• ' The program will begin at 3
1 ; o’clock in the afternoon and it is
! expected that nearly every dentist
. in the District will take advantage
! ' of the opportunity to hear the num-
1 ber of lectures to be given.
showing the Methodist work in for
eign fields, etc.
Five Conference officials will also
be present.
Laymen Meet Friday.
On Friday the Laymen of the El
berton District will meet in Com
merce, thus adding largely to the
attendance. A splendid program has
been planned for them, also.
Allman In Charge
Prof. J. I. Allman, of Hartwell, is
Lay Leader for the Elberton District
and will preside in Commerce at the
metting Friday.
Luncheons will be served at the
noon hours both days at the church.
Every Methodist church in this
and adjoining counties should have
a large delegation of Laymen in
Commerce for this session Friday.
your cotton is worth thirty-five
cents.
Controlling the boll weevil with
calcium' arsenate and producing a
normal crop of cotton is no longer
an experiment. Any cotton grow
er can produce a normal crop if he
will follow the method and uses cal
cium arsenate as outlined by the
Georgia State Board of Entomology.
Buy your calcium now and prepare
to dust every acre you plant.
Do not waste your energy and
money planting cotton for the boll
weevil to destroy. Come out to
your station on date named and buy
calcium arsenate from this train.
There will be an exhibit of dusting
■ machines. Come out whether you
want to buy or not, hear the talks
! and get instructions.
Cotton growers who have already
placed orders with us can obtain
calcium arsenate at the car at price
puoted above if they desire.
For additional information see
your county agent, local agent of
the Southern Railway, or u-rite
GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF EN-
TOMOLOGY,
Atlanta, Ga.
Charleston, and the presentation of
the report of the stewardship by
Rev. M. E. Melvin, of Chattanooga,
general secretary. Other important
reports to be presented are those of
the executive committees of foreign
missions, home missions, Christian
education and ministerial relief.
Rapid strides have been made by
the Southern Presbyterians since the
last General Assembly, and the
meeting in San Antonio wil doubt
less be one of the most enthusias
tic the church has ever held.
Exercises Will Close City
Colored Schools Beginning
Next Sunday Afternoon
The Hartwell Colored Public
School will close with appropriate
exercises, beginning on next Sunday
afternoon, the following program
having been arranged by Principal
Geo. E. Archibald and his teachers:
Sunday, May 18, 3 P. M.—Ser
mon by Rev. J. H. Barton, pastor M.
E. church, Hartwell.
Tuesday, May 20, 8 P. M.—Con
cert, Primary Department.
Wednesday, May 21, 8 P. M.—
Concert Play, “Crowning the May
Queen.”
Thursday, May 22, 8 P. M.—Con
cert. Play, “An Old Fashioned
Mother.”
The white people are cordially
invited to attend all the exercises.
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State of Oklahoma To Spend
Ten Millions Year On Roads
Oklahoma is entering the good
road era. 'The greatest sum appro
priated for any former Oklahoma
highway administration was sl,-
000,000. This year, according to
E. Bee Guthrey, secretary of the
commission, the State’s $3,000,000
will be matched with $2,000,000 in
Federal money.
The commissioners intend to
“trade” with counties and have the
$5,000,000 matched dollar for dol
lar. Thus, the highway department,
experts administer a fund of $lO,-
000,000. In six years Oklahoma
will have spent $60,000,000 on
roads.
Hitherto the highways depart
ment has turned the divisions of the
Federal aid roads over to the coun
ties through which they pass for
maintenance. In future, Oklahoma
will maintain her recognized high
ways. Eventually all important
roads are to be maintained by the
State.
Fiddlin’ John Here
“Fiddlin’ John” Carson, who ap
peared at the Hart County E'air last
fall, was a visitor to Hartwell last
Saturday afternoon, and will again
appear on the platform here wihtin
the next few weeks, according to Mr.
George H. Page, of the Hartwell
Furniture Co.
Mr. Carson has recently returned
from New York where he made a
number of phonograph records,
which are on sale at this well-known
Hartwell store. A list of the new
ones are carried in this week’s Sun.
News that Mr. Carson and his fa
mous aggregation will soon return
to Hartwell is sufficient to guarantee
an overflowing house.
Seven More Progressive Schools Will
Ask For Consolidation On June 6th
“DIXIE DOG AND PONY
SHOW" COMING MONDAY
The Dixie Dog and Pony Show
will play in Hartwell' next Monday,
May 19th, giving two performances
—2:30 and 8:15 P. M.
The show grounds are at the Har
vey L. Scott place on the end of
Benson street, south Hartwell.
Trained dogs, pigs, ponies and
other animals are in the show, which
will attract both the young and old.
J. J. Brown Speaks
At Vanna Saturday
Hon. J. J. Brown, commissioner of
agriculture, will speak at Vanna,
Hart county, on Saturday night of
this week, May 17th, the hour being
8 o'clock.
Mr. Brown will discuss questions
that affect everyone, and a packed
house will greet Mr. Brown on this
return to his old home section.
The speaking will take place at
Old Fellowship Academy, and the
public is cordially invited.
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Southern Railway
Officials Here
Messrs. R. B. Pegram, Vice-Pres
ident of the Southern Railway, and
Mr. R. L. Butt, General Freight
Agent, paid Hartwell an interesting
visit Tuesday. The impress they
made on the few business men with
whom they came in contact was ex
ceedingly favorable. Their mission
to Hartwell, it is hoped, will prove
mutually satisfactory to both the
Railway and the business interests
of our city.
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Housewives of Crystal Bay, Lake
Minnetonka, near Minneapolis, have
voted to “boycott all articles adver
tised on billboards in their vicinity.”
No man should judge his new
neighbors by the way their furni
ture looks on a moving van.—Okla
homa City Times.
Before marriage a man yearns for
a woman; after marriage he earns
for her.
Many Attend 69th Session Southern
Baptist Convention In Atlanta, Ga-
Delegations trom practically ev- Baptist Convention with a record
ery Baptist church in Hart county equalled by few in its bounds,
left first of the week for Atlanta, Dr. E. Y. Mullins, of Louisville,
where the Southern Baptist Conven- Ky., is President of the Convention,
tion began its 69th session on and opened the session on Wednes-
Wednesday morning. The Conven- “'.v mornin<”. Dr Mullins is also
tion will continue through next Mon- President of the Baptist World Al
day, 19th. fiance, and one of the leading figures
The Hebron Association, to which ! in the entire church.
the Hartwell and Hart county Many visitors besides the regular
churches belong, is one of the elected representatives are also at
strongest from every viewpoint in tending from Hartwell and the coun
the State, and goes to the Southern I ty.
State of Georgia Received $13,222,000
Last Year; How Money Was Distributed
Total receipts of the state from
taxes, licenses, fees and other
sources during 1923 amounted to
$13,222,122.16, while disbursement::
totaled $12,528,833.75, receipts be-
5693,283.75 greater than disburse
ments, according to a preliminary re
port given out Saturday by W. B.
Harrison, chief clerk in the office of
state comptroller general, Atlanta.
The total amount of the receipts
for 1923 exceeded that of 1922 by
’5332,320.94, while disbursements for
the past year were $455,696.41 less
than disbursements for 1922, the re
port showed.
The figures for the past year are
exclusive of the balance on hand in
the state treasury at the beginning
of 1923. This balance amounted to
$1,633,132.75, which added to the
sum of $693,283.75, representing the
difference between receipts and dis
bursements, makes a balance of $2,-
326,416.50, it was stated.
The receipts included the rental,
and the disbursements the refund of
Fishing Party Had Fine Luck
A fishing party composed of prom
inent Armour Fertilizer and Ten
nessee Chemical Co. officials, head
ed by a local delegation spent sev
eral hours last Wednesday after
noon and night up on the river.
Among those going were Mr. W.
E. Wehner, of Atlanta, and Mr. D.
T. .Bowden, of Columbia, S. C., of
the Armour company; Mr. C. I).
Toombs, of the Tennessee Chemical
Co., Atlanta; Mr. W. H. Reeves, of
Armour; Messrs. Chas. E. Mathe
son. Howard G. Pearman and Alston
B. C. Harper.
They caught sufficient fish for the
entire party and had plenty left.
Mr. Reeves “took the cake” for
his culinary proficiency, and Char-
That Hart county bids fair to
I become a leader in the entire State
of Georgia from the standpoint of
| consolidated schools, seems acer-
I tainty now that seven more of our
1 leading county school districts have
called elections to vote on combin
ing their interests .
Election June 6th.
Union Hill, Air Line and Cross
Roads will ask for consolidation;
Goldmine and Sandy Grove are
pooling their school interests, and
Shoal Creek and Thomasville are the
other two who will vote on Friday,
June 6th, for bigger and better
schools ni their various communi
ties.
Reed Creek and Sardis.
Through the splendid work done
at Reed Creek and Sardis Hart
county has already attracted no lit
tle attention, delegations having vis
ited the schools from far and near.
Another new consolidated school
that has just voted and sold $10,500
worth of bonds for a modern build
ing and equipment is composed of
the old Flat Shoals, Kings Bench
and Midway schools, and now known
as the Mt. Olivet Consolidated
School. This will be ready for the
1924-25 school term, and will have
the vocational agriculture work, as
well as other modern departments.
County School Superintendent W.
B. Morris states that the petitions
presented the County Board by the
new districts voting on June 6th
were almost unanimously signed by
the citizens of the respective com
munities.
It is expected that other sections
of Hart will folllow in the steps of
these, and within a few years our
county will indeed take the lead in
rural education, as she is already
so splendidly doing.
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State Board Clinics Begins
June 2nd Emory University
The State Board of Health, in co
operation with Emory University,
will have a full week of clinics for
the physicians of our state, begin
ning June 2nd.
The clinics will be broad in their
scope, and the physicians will have
an opportunity to see hundreds of
cases of all types of diseases and
operations.
It is all free, as no charge what
ever is made. Especial attention
will be given diseases of children
and venereal diseases.
This is also Alumni week for the
University, and many class reunions
will be held.
warrants of the Western and At
lantic railroad, amounting to $540,-
000, and also a temporary loan of
$500,000 was included in the re
ceipts and loan, with interest, in
cluded in the disbursements.
The largest return from a single
source shown in the receipts was
from motor vehicle fees, these fees
amounting to $2,156,406.08. Receipts
from the state fuel oil tax totaled
$962,986.58 and from oil fees $519,-
219.69. The revenue from general
taxes was given as $4,960,696.01 ;
from inheritance tax $291,958.93.
Collection of back taxes during the
year amounted to $48,759.69. Tax
on grand opera yielded the state $4,-
500, the report showed.
Disbursements during the year in
cluded $4,233,565.09 to the school
fund; $1,152,434.78 to the pension
fund, while the highway department
benefited to the extent of $2,134,-
669.17, it was shown. Taxes re
funded during the year amounted to
$15,102.97.
CHURCH OF GOD
We are requested to announce
that Mr. Jesse Rogers, of Walhal
la, S. C., wlil preach at the Church
of God, about 3 1-2 miles north
west of Hartwell on next Sunday,
May 18th, at 11 o’clock A. M.
Everybody cordially ivited.
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If early spring and summer weath
er conditions are favorable the to
bacco crop for 1924 in Essex Coun
ty, Ontario, will in all probability to
tal 10,000,000 pounds.
ley Matheson says if anybody can
beat Reeves making good old-fash
ioned cornbread for a fish fry he’d
like to see him.
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