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NATIONAL PUBLICITY EDITION
The First National Bank of Hartwell
Is a Splendid Asset of the County
The First National Bank of Hart
well, and the only National bank in
the county, was organized in 1920.
In 1922 this bank was consolidated
with The Farmers & Merchants Bank,
which had been in operation here
since 1900, over 25 years ago.
Combining their capital stock gave
the new First National Bank a total
of $75,000.00 and they now have a
surplus fund of over $27,000.00.
Deposits and other items in the
statement show the bank in splendid
shape and one of the strongest in
this section of the State.
The officers of The First National
Bank are as follows:
President —F. T. Kidd; V.-Pres—
J. A. W. Brown; V.-Pres.—J. I.
Jenkins; Cashier —J. L. Massey;
Assistant Cashier—W. G. Hodges.
Directors —J. A. W. Brown. F. T.
Kidd. J. I. Jenkins, T. O. Fleming,
B. A. Thornton, J. L. Massey, J. H.
Skelton, Jr., J. G. Craft, J. N. Mays,
A. N. P. Brown, J. B. Gaines.
The working force is headed by
Cashier Jesse L. Massey and Assist
ant Cashier Walter G. Hodges. Other
members are Mrs. A. B. Brown, Miss
Myrtice Hays and Mr. Hoyt Gurley.
The First National Bank is one of
the best managed banking institu
tions in this section, and is a vital
factor in the county’s progress and
welfare.
Its officers and directors are lead
ing citizens of Hartwell and Hart
county.
MR. JESSE L. MASSEY
Cashier of The First National
Bank, of Hartwell. Active member
of the Baptist church, a Kiwanian
and progressive citizen along all
lines.
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MR. T. H. JOHNSON
Coming to Hartwell some twenty
years ago, from Athens, Mr. Johnson
has built up a tremendous business
in Hartwell, operating two stores
here under the well-known name of
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Mr. Johnson is an official member
of the Hartwell Methodist church,
and one of the city’s most progressive
merchants and business men.
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MR S. MAC RICHARDSON
Mr Richardson is a member of the
Hart County Board of Education,
which place he has filled with credit
for a number of years. He is also
an active member of the Baptist
church at Sardis, and a progressive
Sewing Machine Inventor
The father of the modern sewing
machine was Ellas Howe, who died in
1867. The patent for his first machine
was taken out in 1846. and its prin
ciples still form the basis of most mod
em ones. Howe came from Massachu
setts, and earned his living in a fac
tory for making cotton machinery; but
the honor of inventing the first sewing
machine is not entirely American,
since various clumsy machines for
sewing leather and stuff had been
evolved previously in England and In
France. Howe visited England, but
only managed to sell his patents for a
bagatelle of $1,250. The descendants
of his machine can do anything from
button-holing and darning to the finest
embroidery.
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Id'. CI.ACIH-: M. HERNDON
Member of the Hartwell Board of
Education, a member of the firm
of Herndon Bros., druggists, a
Kiwanian, Baptist, licensed pharma
cist, and city builder.
Parti Put Their Dead
on Towers of Silence
It was a terrifying sight and I was
the first European to see it. I had to
camouflage myself and to dress and
act like a native of India In order to
visit the sacred burial places of the
Parsl, says a writer in "Deutsche Med-
Izlnsche Wochenschrift."
The burial places, or rather the stor
ing places, of the dead are the Towers
of Silence. Foreigners can never get
tiiere, dead or alive. AU photographs
are prohibited. Only by special Influ
ence was It possible for me to get near
these strange towers. A Parsl to
whom I had been recommended by a
friend agreed to guide me.
On Malabar hill there is a grove,
surrounded by a high wall. A road
takes one up to the house ot the
guards. We happened to see the burial
of a rich Parsl. The body was dressed
in white linen and lay on a network
of strong linen straps held up by 12
carriers. The entire mourning crowd,
dressed in white instead of black, fol
lowed the corpse two and two. Each
couple was tied together by a white
linen ribbon. Eagles and hawks cir
cled about in the air.
I was unable to get to the Towers of
Silence proper, but my companion de
scribed the burial procedure. The
corpse Is laid on the platform of one
of the towers by men who are em
ployed for their whole lifetime in this
work. As the body begins to decay
the eagles come down. The skeleton
remains for about three months and
then is burled In a valley.
Possibility Venus of
Milo Never Had Arms
It may be some consolation to art
lovers throughout the world, who have
wondered In what position were the
missing arms of the famous Venus de
Milo statue in the Louvre, to learn
that even the ancients themselves were
perplexed on this point, according to a
letter to the Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican.
Doctor Edde, a French physician,
has just made known that during a re
cent visit to Egypt he came Into pos
session of a small bronze statuette of
the satue periotk-as the Venus de Milo.
This statuette Is an exact copy of the
famous Venus, and like the original, It
has no arms. Doctor Edde therefore
concludes that the Venus de Milo
never at any time bad arms, and he
believes that the sculptor, when he
■ had carved out of stone such a divine
form, gave up all idea of adding arms.
When the Venus de Milo was discov
ered on the island of Milo a large re
ward wak offered to anyone who could
find the arms, but. in spite of exten
sive search, nothing was discovered.
Leaf That Will Hide a Man
The ape-man plant is a giant growth
Which once grew all over the world,
but now It is found only on the vol
canic slopes of Hawaii, where it grows
in great profusion. It covered the en
tire earth millions of years ago, when
gigantic animals roamed over the sur
face. The best specimens at present
are found on the sides of Haleakala.
in a gulch, where the conditions re
semble those of a hothouse. A fully
developed leaf of this plant is sufficient
to hide a full-grown human standing
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The oldest married couple in Eng
-1 land have both celebrated, this year,
i their hundredth birthday. They were
j married sixty-three years ago.
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA.
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MR. F. CLARKE GAINES
Member of the Board of Commis
sioners of Hart county, and one of
the county’s leading young business
men and farmers.
Old Scottish Buildings
Something of Mystery
• All over Scotland are hundreds cf
forts built on hilltops. The White
Caterthun, in Forfarshire, is a good
example of these. It consists of four
circles of stone, the diameter of tlie
inner circle being 80 paces. The stones
are 25 feet thick at the top and over
100 feet thick at the base.
Beyond the outer circle is a ditch
with an earthen breastwork round it,
while beyond this, again, runs a double
entrenchment. The entrances to these
various circles are zigzagged, so that
each remains covered by fortifications.
The fort at Bamukin, in Aberdeen
shire, has five great stone circles, all
flawlessly built, although there are no
toolmarks to show how they were
shaped.
These buildings are Interesting, but
not puzzling, but there are others, com
monly known as Picts’ Burghs, to
which no use can be assigned.
A burgh Is a single tower, round In
shape, wide at the bottom and narrow
ing towards the top from the outside.
The outer walls of these towers,
shaped Into circles, have no openings
of any sort except the entrance. Ob
viously, then, the buildings were never
Intended for forts.
Inside the walls slope the reverse
way, and between the two are count
leas rooms, often too small for people
ever to have lived in them. The largest
of these mystery towers is that of
Roussy, In the Orkneys.
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Hartwell Methodist Church
Value of Self-Control
Self-control is self-direction, as well
ns self-restraint. The engineer controls
his engine not simply by preventing it
from running off the track or from
colliding with an obstruction. It It
| rather by making it do the work for
I which It was constructed and Intended
—in pulling the train and getting some
where —that he establishes his reputa
tion as an efficient engineer. Once
give the boys and girls this positive
side of the matter of self-control and
you set them on the path to develop
ment, of operation and a large measure
of success. I>o not be a prohibitive
teacher. —Education.
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MR. I. J. PHILLIPS
Chairman of the Hart County
Chapter American Red Cross, a Di
rector of The Hartwell Bank, The
Hartwell Mills, and for years head
of the Hartwell Grocery Co., besides
other interests.
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MR. W. DeWITT TEASLEY
Member of the Hartwell Board of
Education and progressive business
man of the city. Official member
of the Hartwell Presbyterian church.
When Barrett Wendell
Was Roused to Anger
For all his scholarly dignity, Bar
rett Wendell, Harvard professor, now
and then lost his temper and especially
at football games. In his biography.
M. A. DeWolfe Howes recalls an occa
sion when Doctor Wendell and his
daughter were greatly annoyed by an
excited fan directly in front of them,
who kept leaping up and cutting off
their view.
When protests proved of no avail,
Wendell upraised his professorial cane
and brought it crashing down on the
man’s head, breaking his hat.
A roar of laughter went up from the
delighted students who witnessed the
incident, increasing when the man
turned around shouting furiously:
“Who did that?”
"I did,” replied Wendell calmly.
“Come out and I’ll buy you a new
hat.”
They exchanged cards and were gone
from the game long enough to make
the necessary purchase.
That Boston Joke
A number of boys were playing
baseball in a vacant lot in Boston,
when the ball crashed through the
window of an adjacent house. The
wrathful householder stormed out in
pursuit of the guilty ones. He man
aged to capture one spectacled, slow
footed youth.
“I didn’t do it, mister! I wasn’t
playing with them,” the lad panted.
“Then what did you run for?” roared
the injured man.
“I —I’m afraid that I was a victim
of the prevailing mob hysteria, sir.”—
Country Gentleman.
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REV. J. H. BARTON
Pastor of the Hartwell Methodist
Church.
“From Pillar to Post”
"From pillar to post” means from
one thing to another without any defi
nite purpose, hither and thither, to and
fro, from one court of appeal to an
other without any decision. The origin
of the expression is somewhat obscure.
Some authorities say it refers to the
tennis court. Others believe it to be
an allusion to the schools of horseman
ship in France before the Revolution.
The pillar was the center of the riding
ground and the posts were the columns
around the circumference of the ring.
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MR. WM. C. PAGE
Member of the Hartwell Board of
Education, President of the Hartwell
Furniture Co., active official of the
Hartwell Methodist church and a
Kiwanian.
COME AND SEE
The citizens of Hartwell and Hart
county are a people that respect law
and order. Our ideals of government
are adhered to with strictest regard
for the rights of us all. We are pro
pressive and energetic. The advance*
ment and the development of this
section within the past few years
speaks for itself. We have tried
to show you in this issue what it
was and what it amounts to. We
have only hinted at the possibilities.
They can be best understood with a
first hand acquaintance.
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C. E. WILLIAMS ON BOARD
In the directory published in this
issue the name of Mr. George A.
Shirley remained on the Board of
Commissioners; this should have read
Mr. C. E. Williams.
Mr. Shirley, a leading Bowersville
citizen, was succeeded by Mr. Wil
liams, also another prominent
Bowersville citizen.
In Mr. Shirley the Board had an
efficient worker and in Mr. Williams
is another splendid member who is
always active for the best interests
of the county.
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MR. FRED S. WHITE
Mr. W’hite is Cashier of The Hart
well Bank, Treasurer of the Hartwell
Methodist Church, Sunday school
official, a Kiwanian, Secretary-
Treasurer of the Hartwell Board of
Education, and one of the city’s most
progressive young business men.
Positive Proof That
Woman Had Been Poor
She looked rich and acted rich, be
cause she had married a rich man. yet
at least one woman at the tea party,
says a writer in the New York Times,
discovered that she had once been
poor. “Take it from me,” she said,
“there was a time, not so very long
ago, when she was as poor as the rest
of us.”
“How did you discover that?” in
quired her neighbor.
“Because she knew where I keep all
my housekeeping things. She knew
that the tea caddy was in the writing
desk, that the cheese biscuits and
other edibles beloved of mice were in
that box under the sofa, that the alco
hol for my stove was in the corner be
hind the washstand, that the butter
and milk were on the window ledge
and that the eggs and other foods wer«
in a box on the bottom shelf of the
wardrobe. When we were cooking she
went straight to the spot and got
every one of those things without ask
ing once where they were, which is
something that a person who had not
kept house in one room could never
have done.”
Water Denizen That
Has Few Vital Organs
The little creature called the lance
let Is slender and pointed at both ends
and not very easy to see, since it is
almost transparent and is only from
an inch and a half to two and a half
inches in length.
It lives in shallow water and likes
to stick its head end into the sand,
into which it burrows with great
rapidity. It remains thus for a long
time with its tail sticking out. When
on the surface of the water it Iles on
its side.
While it can neither see nor hear,
there is reason for believing that it
possesses the senses of smell and
taste. Its eggs are laid about sunset
and the larvae hatch out early the
next morning.
The lancelot has no head. More
over, it has neither legs nor pairs of
fins. It has a mouth, however, placed
at one end, which, therefore, may be
called the head end of the body.
It has a stomach, a very simple
form of liver and another simple or
gan which takes the place of a heart,
since it is capable of contracting and
thus forcing the blood, which is quite
colorless, forward to the area of the
gills, where it is purified.—Review ol
Reviews.
Our Debt to Children
Better teachers, fuller school equip
ment, it matters not what they cost.
We owe them to our children, And we
owe them more. We owe them our
own example. What we do, and the
lives they live with us, will affect them
most. Give them a chance to be useful
in their childhood, to practice economy,
to do for themselves. If the greatest
men have usually been born in the
country and later gone to the city, i
there is a reason. Huxley warns us .
not to let a child's schooling Interfere'
with its education. It ought to have
the beet schooling our brains and our
purses can procure. But its deepest
education is in the hands of its parents.
—Norman Hapgood. in Hearst's Inter
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MR. Z. P. BARRON
Manager and one of the owners
of McClures, Inc., of Hartwell, Ga.
Mr. Barron is a member of the Hart
i well Kiwanis Club, a member of the
Baptist church, and otherwise closely
i identified with the life of the com
munity.
Citizens Insurance
Agency
One of the largest insurance
agencies in this section and one of
the oldest is the Citizens Insurance
Agency, which writes fire and kin
dred lines, such as tornado, rain,
plate glass, auto theft, surety bonds,
etc.
The agency is operated by Mr. A.
C. Skolton, who is also a well-known
automobile dealer, and Mr. J. T. Wil
cox, the office being with that of
the Hartwell Buick Co., on the north
east cornor of the public square.
“An Agency Built On Service”
well fits the Citizens Insurance
Agency, as they continue their ef
forts year in and year out to care for
the needs of the people along fire in
surance lines.
That they have succeeded is at
tested to in the large volume of busi
ness they do annually.
MR. R. H. MARTIN
Chairman of the Hart County
I Board of Education; a leading citi
zen of Reed Creek section, progres
sive farmer and county builder.
The Nancy Hart
Case
One of Hartwell’s best eating
i places is the Nancy Hart Case,
I operated by Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Locke
in the Dr. McCurry building opposite
the Hart Motor Co.
They recently moved into the
present location, which had been
completely renovated, and the restau
rant is attractive and home-like.
Courteous service, properly pre
pared foods and reasonable prices
make it a desirable place to eat when
in Hartwell.
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Wahabism is a Moslem reform
taught some 165 years ago by a poor
student of the Koran in Nejd and
championed by the then head of the
family of Ibn Sa’ud. The Koran
according to him, was to be inter
preted freely by the individual read
ing it. Upon alcoholic drinks, tobac
co, jewelry, the wearing of silk and
the shaving of beard and mustache
he laid a strict prohibition.
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MR. A. N. P. BROWN
Chairman of the Hart County
Board of Commissioners, prominent
farmer, a director of the First Na
tional Bank, and otherwise interested
in the affairs of both town and coun
ty.