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Nancy Hart
Case
-ANNOUNCES-
New Location
We wish to announce that on
Monday, September 15th, we will open
at our new location in the old P. O.
block, room formerly occupied by Car
ter Taxi Company, opposite Ford Sta
tion.
This room has just been repainted
and renovated from front to back, —
one of the cleanest, most convenient
locations in Hartwell.
Everything to eat —well prepared
—served right.
Come to see us.
NANCY HART CAFE
G. C. Locke, Manager - Opposite Ford Station
Interesting Story From Texas of Darkey
Who Left This Section Many Years Ago
The clipping below was sent The
Sun by Mr. Frank Koke, of Ennis,
Texas, who was born and reared in
Hart county. It is from The Dallas
(Texas) Morning News of August
13th, and will be of interest to our
readers, telling of an old slavery
negro, who wandered from this part
of Georgia and South Caro
lina to Texas many, many years ago.
It is as follows:
After a generation spent in slav
ery, followed by years of hardship
and sorrow, Uncle Ike Fretwell, a
Dallas darkey who thinks he must
be at least 93 years old, is spending
his declining days in comparative
prosperity on the bounty of George
Pattullo, noted Dallas author and
journalist. A few days ago “Uncle”
received a letter from his benefac
tor, who is traveling with Mrs. Pat
tullo in Europe. Mr. Pattullo in
quired after the old negro’s health
and specified arrangements for his
meals.
Ike thinks he must have been born
about 1828, although it may have
been even earlier. His point of com
putation is 1833, the year the “stars
fell,” a year of meteoric disturb
ances. Ike said then he ran through
the cotton fields at night with his
skirts uplifted to catch the dashing
brilliants. He must have been 5 or
G years old.
Picked Up by White Man.
His earliest memory is that about
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., SEPTEMBER 12, 1924
that time he was walking along a
winding trail near Anderson, S. C.,
and a white man picked him up and
carried him home on his horse.
“That’s when I came to life,” Ike
said, “I don’t remember nothin afore
that. I don’t ’member havin’ no
pappy or mammy.”
Ike lived with the man who pick
ed him up, a man by the name of
Fretwell, whom Ike has honored by
appropriating his first master’s sur
name. When he was old enough to
do a good day’s work in the cotton
fields, he was sold to traders who
took him to Montgomery, Ala. There
he was re-sold and saw service with
a man by the name of Carr in
Louisiana and Mississippi.
Then Ike wandered into Texas,
first belonging to one planter and
then to another and wound up with
a family by the name of Westbrook
in Robertson county. When the Ci
vil War broke out, Ike followed a
young Westbrook, a Confederate of
ficer, through the battlefields of the
Mississippi Valley and later Virginia,
as cook.
Remained With Weitbrook.
Although freed after the war, he
remained with the Westbrooks until
the idea suddenly struck him that
he might do better for himself by
owning his own farm. He did ex
tensive farming through Texas and
finally wandered into Dallas about
thirty years ago, when he was al
ready a negro of 60 or more years.
“Dallas was a fine place and 1
done only public work,” he related
proudly. Ike says he had a hand
in the construction of most of the
streets and takes his hat off to
“nobody when it comes to laying
a sewer pipe or handling a pick.”
Many features of modern life, Ike
doesn’t care for at all. When Dal
las “cote-house” square was occu
pied by a log cabin, and automobiles
were unknown, he liked the place
better. He absolutely refused to
ride in an automobile or airship,
which he pronounces dangerous.
However, he enjoys nothing better
than a little spin on the railroad
train.
Likes High Buildings.
“High buildings are all right, be
cause they make a gran sho for the
town. But I ain’t never goin’ up
too high in one,” Ike avers.
However, the nonogenerian ad
mits that the present day has some
thing on the antebellum life on the
South. His children were left be
hind him when he was forcibly sold
into slavery and to this day has
never seen them.
“Os course, we are thankful for
what we gets,” he said. “But if I
hadn’t been Marse Carr’s nigger, I
would have my chillun, and they
could take care of me.”
Ike is now too old to work, but
not to walk. His favorite stroll is
through Minger Place, which he
views with the pardonable pride of
an artist. “I helped rig the streets
and set the water pipes,” Ike ex
plains.
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* LIBERTY HILL *•
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Mesdames Rafe and John Cordell |
were the week-end guests of relatives
in Elberton.
The birthday dinner given at the
home of Mr. Charlie Hunt Sunday
was enjoyed by a large crowd.
The prom party given by Misses
Beulah and Eula Stephens last Sat
urday night was enjoyed by a large
crowd.
Misses Mary Richardson, Lois Mad
den and Ruth and Thelma McMullan,
of Elberton, were the week-end
guests of Miss Peggy Cordell.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymon Brown and
little son, Jack, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. S. Shifiet Sunday afternoon.
Preaching at this place Sunday
I morning at 11 o’clock.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for the many acts of
kindness during our recent illness.
E. B. HERRING and Family.
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Preaching service was well attend
ed here Sunday. We were glad in
deed to have one of our district
workers, Miss Wright, with us. We
hope that the young ladies’ class
work that she organized will keep
working for the upbuilding of our
Lord’s cause and kingdom.
Miss Dollye Isom spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Miss Ethel
Isom, of near Kings Bench.
Mrs. Reba Baker spent several
days last week with her mother, Mrs.
Bytha White.
Misses Evelyn and Effie G. Ban
i ister, of Mt. Hebron, were the Sat
urday night guests of Misses Ver
nelle and Montez Parker.
Mrs. M. J. Isom and son, Walker,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Carl Duncan, of
Rock Springs, Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Isom and
family, of Air Line, dined Sunday
with Mrs. Bytha White.
Miss Sallie Isom spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mrs. L. O.
Osborne.
Mrs. Haff Parker visited Mrs. M.
J. Isom Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Boleman vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Mike Fleming, of
Reed Creek, Sunday.
Miss Mae Etta Byrum dined Sun
day with Misses Lillie, Bessie and
Haley Byrum.
Mr. Cleo Welborn and sister, Effie,
were the guests of Miss Lallie Isom
j a while Saturday night.
Mrs. Fred Isom visited Mrs. W.
N. Isom Sunday afternoon.
A large crowd from here attend
ed the close of the singing school
at Reed Creek Friday.
Everybody is busy picking cotton
at this place.
Remember. Sunday school next
I Sunday at the usual hour.
1 BLUE BELL.
NEW MARRIAGE LAW IN
GEORGIA IS IN EFFECT
The new marriage law, enacted by
the legislature at the session recently
ended, is now in full force. There
are fourteen questions to be an
swered before a license can be is
sued; and the application must be
filed at the office of the Ordinary five
days before the license is obtained.
The questions must be answered by
both the groom and bride.
If the parents of the contracting
parties will sign their names to a pa
per prepared for the purpose it will
not be necessary to post the appli
cation, but it must be kept on file.
Judge J. W. Scott, Ordinary of
Hart county, has had blanks printed,
with spaces for the questions to be
answered by male and female as
follows:
Georgia—Hart County. Ordinary’s
office, Hartwell, Ga. Application
for marriage license. Contracting
parties, male and female.
1. Name
2. Residence
3. Age
4. Relationship
5. White or Colored
6. Previously married
7. Divorced
8. Upon what grounds
9. (a) When
(b) Where
10. Any legal inpediments
11. Date of contemplated marriage
12. Place of contemplated marriage
13. Parents’ residence
14. Parents’ nationality
Sworn to and subscribed before
me, this day of 192 ...
Ordinary.
Applicant.
Georgia—Hart County.
I, J. W. Scott, Ordinary of said
county, certify that the applicant
swore to the foregoing
answers before me, and that the
same has been posted in the office
of the Ordinary of Hart county for
five days; or that the parents have
given their consent to the issuance
of marriage license as provided by
law.
Ordinary, Hart Co., Ga.
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Owning A Home
The average home is mortgaged
for 35 per cent of its value.
This is revealed by an analysis of
the last census.
There used to be a fear of mort
gages. Old time melodramas react
ing to the popular notion, extracted
many buckets of tears from audi
ences by depicting the miseries of
the man who had signed part of his
future earnings over to the money
lender.
We see things in a different light
today.
We realize now that it is a wise
man who goes in debt, provided
the debt is incurred for the purpose
of accumulating wealth.
Debt, resulting from spend-thrift
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Hailey Vickery Alex Vickery
Hailey’s Case
Under New Manage
ment.
Vickery Bros, wish to announce that they have taken
over the management of Hailey’s Case, on the square,
and cordially invite the public to visit the m .
Everything on our menu cards will be served; a large
variety of edibles, well prepared and served promptly.
Years of experience in the leading restaurants of the
large Eastern cities enables us to give Hartwell and
the County a restaurant with service surpassed by
none.
We cordially invite you to pay us a call, whether wish
ing a meal or not. Come in and inspect our place.
HAILEY’S CAFE.
Open 6 A. M., to 10 P. M. On The Square
HARTWELL, GA.
spirit, is a vice.
Debt, as a form of compulsory
thrift, is a virtue.
The very heart of any country
is the home. And the best family
is the one that either owns its
home or “has cap set” in that di
rection. •
The family that wants to own
its own home, and is hesitating about
buying or building until it has the
full amount in cash, might keep in
mind that a property secured by
mortgage is easier to “move,” or
sell, because a smaller cash outlay
is involved in the transaction.
In accumulating wealth, Debt is
as powerful a servant as Compound
Interest, though they work in oppo
site directions.
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The United States Patent Office
has issued its 1,500,000 patent. It
was taken out on a submarine de
signed to travel under ice and rise
to the surface by breaking its way
through the ice. The first patent *
was issued eighty-eight years ago.
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Brick-making, the most ancient
of all the industries, is today one of
the basic industries of the nation,
and bricks are composed of exactly
the same material and manufactured
according to the same principles as
the ancient product.