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HART COUNTY “HARVEST FESTIVAL” OCTOBER 16, 17, 18, 1924
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Jesse Mercer’s Bible Found; Interesting
Relic Brings Valuable Data To Light
Educator’s First Wife Buried About
Nine Miles North of Hartwell—
Aging Book Contained History
Family and Sermon Notes
Macon, Ga., Sept. 17.—Hidden
away under a heavy cloak of dust
k and trash that for many years had
accumulated in the attic of the li
brary of Mercer university has been
found the family Bible of Jesse Mer
cer, founder of Mercer university.
The book is at least 110 years old.
It was found by W. R. Carswell, a
Mercer student, while he was rum
maging among a number of old
books and papers.
The Bible is bound in worn sheep
skin and on its title page, it shows
that it was printed in 1814. In its in
terpretation, it tallies with the King
James version.
q Os principal interest in the old
book were the records of Jesse Mer
cer's family, which were written in
his own handwriting, giving dates
of births, marriages and deaths of
his two little daughters and of his
first wife. On a separate page is in
formation about slaves belonging to
the Mercer family.
Sermon Outline Found.
Lying loose in the Bible, were sev
eral notes written by this noted di
vine in bis own handwriting. A
sermon outline which from its con
text and conclusion appears to have
been prepared to be delivered at a
W’communion service, was stuck be
tween the pages.
The record in the family Bible
shows that Jesse Mercer was born
December 16, 1769, the son of Silas
and Dorcas Mercer. On January 31,
1788, he was married to Sabrina
Chivers and from this union there
came two daughters, Mariam the
first and Mariam the second, both
of whom died early, the former when
only nine months old and the latter
when nine years old.
k Sabrina Chivers Mercer died in
Briber 55th years, September 23, 1826,
I at Andersonville, S. C., and on Dec-
I ember 11, 1827, Jesse Mercer was
I again married. This time he married
I the widow of a Hebrew, one Abram
I Simons, with whom he lived until his
I death. Mr. Mercer died in Septem-
I ber, 1841.
It was only after this second mar-
I riage that Mr. Mercer was able to
I found the university that now stands
lin Macon. He was without funds
had an inspiration to do a great
■ work.
Wife’s Funds Used.
Mrs. Nancy Mercer inherited large
I sums of money from her first hus-
I band, Abram Simons, and shortly be-
I fore her death, willed her husband
I a part of her inheritance to be used
I especially for founding the institu-
■ tion.
At any rate it is now established
I that with the hard-earned dollars of
I Abram Simons, Mercer university
I was established.
■ In an unmarked spot by a road-
Epde in Wilkes county, near Wash-
■ ington, Ga., are said to lie the re
fl mains of Abram Simons.
The Mercer Bible is the second
I relic to be found during the past
■.month in the college library here. A
I rare book, “Two Grey Tourists,” by
I Richard Malcolm Johnston, Mercer
■ graduate of the class of 1841, was
I recently found by Miss Sallie Boone,
I Mercer librarian, while she was go
®ing through a lot of old books. John-
LONG BOOSTS HARVEST FESTIVAL
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Real Opportunity To Show What
Can Be Done nl Hart —Urge*
Support of All The People
The Hart County “Harvest Festi
is to be one of the biggest and
most important events of this year
for the county and now is the op
portunity for every citizen in the
!■ unty who has an ambition to see
• ie progress we should have to lend
loeir aid to that end. It matters not
J*hat occupation is followed, some
reipful service can be rendered and
those who are shouldering the re
sponsibility of holding this fair be
s-neak of all this needed co-opera
tion.
It is in a year like this that real
I' r ‘ gress in agricultural work can be
w n. Difficulties had to be over
s >e and the products from the
E ; - garden and orchard which had
f produced under these adverse
1 r conditions show the ability
1 producers to overcome them,
county has some of the most
and progressive farmers to be
<1 in the state. The educational
\ ■ m the county is the talk of the
state and the public-spirit
• citizenship, I feel confident in
K-mg, can not be surpassed. It is
F ln these facts in mind that we
t to see this one of the best
most instructive fairs ever held
It will take that to illustrate
progress being made. One who
not been here to watch the year-
• and monthly progress can see the
? a: progress made probably better
those who have helped make it.
' ee these commendable things on
hand and the only thing which
if” prevent a real demonstration of
> the discouraging influence of
doubting Thomas” who is look-
dark side.
county is now famoua for its
m pure-bred seed produc-
THE HARTWELL SUN.
RUNNING FULL TIME
The Hartwell Cotton Mill here
and Hartwell Mills No. 2 at Toccoa,
are both running every day now ex
cept Sunday.
Business is getting better.
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NEW GROCERY STORE
READY FOR BUSINESS
C. L. Johnson &. Co., is the name
of Hartwell’s newest firm, having
just opened a modern grocery store
in the room on Carolina street for
merly occupied by Mr. Stanly J.
Brown, who moved to new quarters.
The store is being managed by Mr.
Lase Johnson, who has won for him
self quite a reputation in this line.
Their opening announcement ap
pears in this issue of The Sun.
METHODISTS PREPARE
FOR LAST MEETING 1924
Presiding Elder Horace S. Smith
has announced the dates for the 4th
Quarterly Conferences of the Elber
ton District, those in this section be
ing as follows:
Hart Circuit Saturday, October 18.
Hartwell, Sunday, October 19th.
Bowman Circuit, October 4-5.
Canon Circuit, October 10th.
Lavonia Circuit, October 12th.
Elbert Circuit, October 16th.
472,000 WILL ENROLL IN
SCHOOLS OF GEORGIA
BY ENO OF SEPTEMBER
Before the month of September
has passed, approximately 472,000
children will be enrolled in the pub
lic schools of Georgia, according to
estimates made from the records of
the state department of education.
All of the public schools in the
state will open before the end of
September. Some schools in the
state were started a week ago, oth
ers started Monday and still oth
ers will start later.
Preceding the opening of the
schools, teachers attended various
institutes an dcolleges' where they
were gkiven special courses, and
were addressed by members of the
state department of education, and
other well known educational lead
ers.
The records in the educational de
partment reveal that there will be
a total of 17,687 teachers employed
in the schools of the state. Os this
number, 12,532 are white, and 5,155
colored.
The figures show that there will
be approximately 237,375 girls and
232,867 boys who will enter the class
rooms.
Os the grand total of 472,320
school children, 411,744 will enter
the elementary grades, 58,798 will
go to high school, and 1,778 will en
ter agricultural schools.
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An honest politician might as well
be in some other business.
ston was one of the outstanding lit
erary figures of his time. Graduates
of Columbia college have made sev
eral requests for Mercer for infor
mation on his works.
tion. We have more pure seed be
ing grown in the county this year
than can be found in any other sev
eral counties in the state. At pres
ent that consists of cotton, corn and
soy beans, but will be extended to
other crops. These seed are to be
sold at pure-bred prices and those
growing them can find no better and
more effective way of advertising
them than through this county, fair.
No effort will be spared in this edu
cational work.
Those engaged in club work with
the County Agent, Home Demonstra
tion Agent, and Vocational Teach
ers wjll do a liberal part to help dis
play the good work being done there.
This will show the various farm pro
ducts being grown and the truck
crops which are being conserved in
many ways. Products are being put
up in every practical way by the girls
and women for display and for win
ter use.
It remains for those not thus en
gaged in these lines of club work to
do a small part to help and we will
see one of if not the best fair the
county ever held. Since it is need
ed probably worse now than ever to
help boost progress and suppress dis
couragement we should put forth a
special effort.
It has been dry this fall and many
products usually available at this
season of the year will not be plen
tiful but a creditable showing can be
made with practically every product
which can be grown here if those who
have them will only bring them. A
most commendable spirit of county
progress is being manifest in most
sections and we confidently expect
to see this spirit permeate the coun
ty.
Let every name in the county be
displayed on some exhibit at this
“Harvest Festival,” so that all will
have a part in it.
W. S. LONG,
Chairman, Agricultural Committee.
HARTWELL, HART COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1924
BUSINESS GETS BETTER
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 17. —The Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta, serv
ing the sixth federal district compos
ed of the states of Georgia, Alaba
ma, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Louisiana, has announced that
the business outlook in the South
is satisfactory.
Business men here, pointing to the
fact that the Federal Reserve Bank
is always conservative in its busi
ness predictions, assert therefore
when the bank says “business condi
tions may be expected to improve
steadily” it may be accepted as a
probability that business will im
prove.
The Sun Honor Roll
A. D. Richardson, Hartwell 3.
R. L. Anderson, Dewy Rose 2.
Mrs. J. V. Brown, Hartwell 1.
F. A. Weaver, Hartwell 1.
B. E. Craft, Hartwell 2.
W. J. Vassar, Hartwell 4.
W. H. Dendy, Clinton, S. C.
Cooley Harper, Hartwell 3.
A. O. Neese, Charleston, S. C.
C. C. Kidd, Danielsville.
W. O. Herndon, Hartw’ell 1.
G. R. Eaves, City.
A. H. Hall, Hartwell 2.
P. C. Ethridge, Hartwell 5.
J. W. White, City.
Levi Holmes, Hartwell 4.
J. W. Chapman, Hartwell 3.
R. J. Dickerson, Bowman 3.
W. W. Campbell, City.
M. E. Herndon, Valdosta.
C. A. Brown, Hartwell 5.
R. S. Phillips, Canon 3.
C. W. Norman, Hartwell 4.
Mrs. T. Joe Rucker. Hartwell 1.
Miss Louise Meredith, Rome.
A. P. Cook, Owings, S. C.
J. S. Heaton, Hartwell 3.
C. J. Phillips, Hartwell 5.
Dr. J. 1. Jenkins, Bowman 3.
Dr. H. E. Thornton, Dewy Rose 2.
B. B. Mason, Hartwell 1.
Mahlon Scott, Hartwell 1.
E. A. Ayers, Bowman 3.
C. F. Craft, Elberton 6.
W. L. Teasley, Elberton 6.
Geo. E. Bailey, Hartwell 5.
R. L. Myers, Hartwell 4.
Miss Mary Turner, Easley, S. C.
J. T. Vernon, Hartwell 5.
F. C. Elrod, Hartwell.
Pear) Jones, Hartwell 3.
Miss Pauline Brown, Anderson,
S. C
M. H. Atkinson, Hartwell 4.
Joel Condor Richardson, Dahlon
ega, Ga.
A. R. Strickland, Hartwell 1.
P. P. Phillips, Hartwell 3.
J. L. Adams, Hartwell 2.
Capt. W. Y. Carter. Tampa, Fla.
W. E. White, Atlanta.
J. J. Smith, Starr, S. C.
C. H. Skelton, Macon.
Mrs. G. W. Gardner, Jr., Green
wood, S. C.
H. P. Parker, Hartwell 5.
A. I. Miller, Greenville, S. C.
R. J. Dunn, City.
J. L. Feltman, Hartwell 4.
J. W. Evans, Hartwell 3.
R. E. Brown, Hartwell 1.
B. T. Brown, Hartwell 1.
James Cleveland, Canon 1.
Lee Herndon, Bowman 3.
H. G. Pearman, City.
Miss Inez Bradbury, City.
A. C. Cash, City.
W. W. Wilson, Lavonia 2.
J. A. Bailey, Miami, Fla.
Pvt. F. M. Brown, Yorktown, Va.
Miss Pauline Brown, West Union,
S. C.
Miss Vonnie Sanders, Murfrees
boro, Tenn.
W. R. Rice, Bowman 3.
J. M. Nixon, City.
C. H. Temples, Hartwell 2.
L. S. Richardson, Hartwell 2.
A. W. Brown, Hartwell 4.
Mrs. Clark Vickery, Bowersville.
Mrs. Alice V. Dove, Royston 2.
L. P. Cleveland, City.
P. A. Isom, Bowersville 1.
Mrs. Mattie Skelton, Hartwell 3.
Levis Roe, Bowersville.
Mrs. W. R. Martin, Winston Sa
lem, N. C.
W. J. Moss, Duncan, S. C.
Mrs. J. W. Williams, Braselton.
J. R. West, Greenwood, S. C.
D. B. Evans, Hartwell 2.
Charlie Gary, Hartwell 3.
L. L. McMullan, Hartwell 3.
J. W. Madden, Hartwell.
Rev. J. N. Bailey, Hartwell.
M. W. Jones, Hartwell vl.
G. D. Rice, Hartwell 3.
J. W. Cheek, Hartwell 4.
Tensie Waller, Hartwell 2.
Mrs.Wm.Anderson, Greenville.S.C.
J. C. Clark, Hartwell 2.
Mrs. H. P. Dickerson, Hartwell 1.
F. H. Richardson, Macon.
E. C. Teasley, Dewy Rose 2.
P. R. Johnson, Canon 1.
L. W. Stovall, Hartwell 4.
R. F. Looney, Hartwell 6.
W. A. Teip, Hartwell 1.
W. M. Ellinburg, Hartwell 1.
W. B. Chastain, Hartwell 4.
John W. Craft, Hartwell 1.
R. Benton Vickery, Hartwell 1.
W. H. Bailey, Hartwell 2.
P. L. Byrum, Hartwell 6.
B. C. Bailey, Hartw’ell 2.
Miss Sallie Isom, Hartwell 5.
Frank Roukoskie, Hartwell 5.
You will never be accused of
cheating at cards as long as you
lose.
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Police headquarters in New York
is cramped for suitable wall space
to place the bronze tablets on which
are engraved the names of policemen
killed in performance of duty. A
single panel served to record all such
death* in the history of the city up
to , Smee then an additional
panel has been filled and another one
begun. , i
BTH DIS. CONGRESSIONAL
CONVENTION NOMINATES
BRAND AT ATHENS MEET
Dr. Joe I. Jenkins, member of the
Bth District Congressional Conven
tion, and Messrs. E. E. Satterfield,
Clayton M. Herndon, T. M. Myers
and J. Loyd Teasley, as delegates,
attended the session in Athens Wed
nesday at which time the official re
turns were consolidated and Judge
Chas. H. Brand was nominated as
the candidate for Congress.
Hon. Rush Burton, of Lavonia, has
been chairman of the convention for
the past two years, presiding Wed
nesday.
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New Alfords School District
To Vote Bonds On Tuesday
The citizens of Milltown and Mt.
Zion school districts, now Alfords
Consolidated School, will vote on
next Tuesday, September 23rd, for
bonds aggregating the sum of s3,*
300.00, with which they expect to
build and equip a modern building
at some central location.
The Board of Trustees of the new
school is composed of three of the
most progressive citizens in that sec
tion of Hart county, Messrs. Pelzer
Herring, H. O. Cordell ..nd N. B.
Ayers.
Hart county will watch with in
terest and pride the outcome of the
bond election next Tuesday.
CANDLER’S CHAPEL
Mr J. Henry Baker has recently
been elected Superintendent for the
forthcoming year of the Chapel Sun
day School, and is endeavoring to
build up the attendance.
The services start every Sunday
afternoon at 2:30, to which all our
people have a hearty welcome.
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Love is blind to most of the danger
signals.
Many a man who eats pie with a
knife wishes he had an hx.
All women are not devoid of the
sense of humor, if one may judge
by the way some wives manage their
husbands.
Another Stretch Bankhead
Highway Will Be Paved
Paving of the nationally famous
Bankhead Highway at vartsus points
in Georgia is progressing and this
great highway is becoming more im
portant each day as both a local and
transcontinental route.
Construction of the second link in
a hard surface road which will con
nect Atlanta with the South Caro
lina state line was begun at Law
renceville first of the week when
Gwinnett county started work on a
project that will put a paved road
straight through the county from
the DeKalb county line on the west
to the Barrow county line on the
east.
Chairman Holder, in a brief ad
dress, congratulated the county com
missioners, T. L. Harris, Lamar
Jackson and J. D. Miller, on the
progressive spirit they have shown
in co-operating with the state and
federal authorities to bring about the
building of this important link in the I
Georgia highway system and he told
of plans now on foot in other coun- i
ties along the highway between At- ,
lanta and the South Carolina line '
to make it an entirely paved road
for the whole distance. He also paid i
high tribute to,the Kiwanis dull fori
‘QUEEN OF HARVEST FESTIVAL’
HARTWELL, GA.
October 16, 17, 18 ,
Vote for some Hart County Girl for ‘‘QUEEN OF
THE HARVEST FESTIVAL” who will be the center of at
traction on the second day, Friday, October 17th. The
candidate receiving highest number of votes will be Queen.
The six receiving next highest numbers will be “Ladies-in
waiting” to the Queen.
(Mail or hand to THE‘SUN at once)
Coupon —IOO VOTES Coupon
This COUPON is good for 100 Votes for the—
“QUEEN OF THE HARVEST FESTIVAL”
Hartwell, Ga., October 17th
Name
Address
(Votes 20c per thousand)
MERCHANTS GIVE VOTES TO NAME
"QUEEN” OF HART CO. FESTIVAL
WATERMELON CONTEST
CLOSES; LARGEST ONES
WEIGHED 54 POUNDS
The Sun's biggest 1924 water
melon contest closed Tuesday night,
and the awards are made, as follows:
Ist—Mr. O. L. Vickery, of Dewy
Rose 2, August 2, melon weighing
54 pounds.
Tied by Mr. W. C. House, of
Dewy Rose 1, August 25, with melon
weighing exactly 54 pounds.
2nd —Mr. W. C. House, of Dewy
Rose 1, September 15, with melon
weighing 51 pounds.
3rd Mr. Colley a Ayers, of Bow
man 3, August 25, melon weighing
50 pounds.
4th Mrs. L. J. Vickery, Dewy
Rose 2, August 9, melon weighing
47 pounds.
sth Mr. W. Inman Maret, Hart
well 1, August 18th, melon weighing
45 1-2 pounds.
The contest was interesting from
start to finish, and The Sun appre
ciates the co-operation of all who
took part. We will have another
| contest in 1925.
Subscriptions to The Sun have
been awarded the various winners.
LIQUOR AND 15,000,000
AUTOS CAN’T MIX WELL
Atlanta, Ga., Sept, 17.—Georgia
prohibitionists agree that gasoline
has spiked the guns of John Barley
corn, it was pointed out here today
by officials of the Anti-Saloon
League. With over 16,000,000
motor vehicles in use throughout the
country, the general use of liquor,
as in pre-Volstead days, it was as
serted would cause such an orgy of
reckless driving and resulting acci
dents that the country would be ob
liged to enforce prohibition try make
human life safe.
I their untiring efforts that have re
sulted in beginning of actual pav
ing operations.
Approximately fourteen miles of
i road will be paved. From the* !><•-
. Kalb county line to the city of Law
renceville. Th< work will cost ap
proximately $300,000, or about $20,-
500 per mile, and will be completed
by December 31, 1925.
The state highway board is fur
nishing the materials and the county
of Gwinnett is furnishing the equip
ment and the labor. The money to
finance the project is to come from
the county treasury, and no bond is
sue will be required. It is worthy
of note that this paving project will
be one of the few in the state to
be constructed without the aid of a
bond issue.
The road will be paved with what
is known as “penetration macadam.”
It is eighteen feet wide and nine
i inches deep. The rock will be taken
I from the quarries located along the
I highway and the average haul will
: not be more than two miles. It is
■ proposed to construct about one mile
per month, and the entire work will
I be done under government supervis
| ion.
Interest Grows In Contest To Name
Pretty Hart County Girl As Queen
And Six Others As Attendants
That section of Hart county which
has the greatest community pride
will furnish the Queen for the “Hart
County Harvest Festival.”
The merchants below have agreed
to give 100 votes for the Queen for
every cash purchase amounting to
one dollar.
Back the girl of your community
—cal! for your coupons and voti»
them at either bank hi Hartwell.
Votes cast before noon on Tuesday
will be published in that week’s is
sue of The Hartwell Sun.
Watch For This.
The first list of nominees will ap
pear next week.
The merchants participating so far
are as follows:
Hartwell.
J. A. W. Brown.
Brown & Cobb.
J. D. Matheson & Sons.
Lea rd & Massey.
T. G. Craft.
Yates Hardware & Furniture Co.
Hartwell Furniture Co.
O. Y. McLees.
McClure's.
Herndons Drug Store.
Haileys Drug Store No. 1.
Haileys Drug Store No. 2.
Adams & Parks.
E. B. Benson. u
W. D. & R. B. Teasley.
Stanly J. Brown.
Joe H. Herring.
Ben C. Alford.
Cleveland & Teasley.
Vickery Brothers.
Anderson, S. C.
Moore-Wilson & Co.
Dora Geibberg.
The Bee Hive.
Fleishman Co.
The Lesser Co.
Sullivan Hardware Co. «*’
Lavonia, Ga.
Yow & McMurry.
O. D. Cannon.
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WHITE CONVICT’S SKULL
CRUSHED IN ACCIDENT
Janies Ross, a white convict in thu
Hart county chain gang, was serious
ly injured accidentally last Tuesday.
He thoughtlessly walked up behind
another convict who was digging up
a stump with a two edge mattock just
as the implement was drawn over
the shoulder to make the lick. He
received the blow on the top of his
head, the point of the mattock frac
turing the skull.
Doctors Clark and Brown promptly
attended him, performed the neces
sary surgery and the opinion of th*
physicians is that recovery will be
as prompt as could be expected under
the circumstances.
The small boy is apt to doubt the
wisdom of his parents when they tell
him what is best for him.
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A Boston woman with a broad,
social experience for some years h s
been inducing girls in a finishing
school to observe these five rules in
judging a man: See him in work
notice his attitude toward his asso
ciates. See him when things go
wrong. See how he acts in a try
ing situation. Determine his atti
tude toward his mother. And re
member society manners are mere
ly superficial.
$ Jackie Coogan
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On October 26, 1914, the wonderful
little Jackie first saw the light of day
—irfthe city of Los Angeles. Jackie’s
father was prominent in musical life.
Jackie’s first appearance on the stage
was at the age of two, in a New York
theater, where his dad was playing.
At four Jackie was taken under the
wing of Charles Chaplin. Jackis is
loved the world over, ae the star of
“movie" stars.
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