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The Hartwell Sun
—Established 1876 —
LEON MORRIS&LOUIE L. MORRIS
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1925
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j BIBLE THOUGHT
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PURE RELIGION and undefiled
before God and the Prather is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction, and to keep him
self unspotted from the world.—
James 1:27.
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Wild oats never need irrigating.
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“The prematurely grey often dye
young.” says old Joe.
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Many a modern woman wears more
coats on her face than on her body.
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It is not often that misfortune
overtakes a man while he’s out hustl
ing.
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A petrified man has been found
out in Oklahoma. Well, there are
several of them in Georgia.
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Poverty used to drive a man to
drink; now he drives to poverty in
an automobile.
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Just think what a time Solomon
had trying to remember the birthdays
of all his wives.
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The wicked can get comfort from
the knowledge that then* no prowl
ing reformers in hades, —perhaps.
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Announcement that there are 25,-
000 poets in this country has sent
stock up in factories making bas
kets.
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Money used to make the mare go.
Now, it’s the flivver; and when the
money gives out, credit is relied on
until it gives out.
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The fellow who used to have plen
ty of friends around when ht> fur
nished the liquor now has neither the
friends around, the liquor, nor mon
ey to get it with.
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Atlanta’s Marvelous Growth.
The latest directory of the City of
Atlanta gives this metropolis a pop
ulation of over 250,000. Atlanta is
a great city, and as a Georgian we’re
proud of her.
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Instead of trying to get another
/cotton rqill the Elberton folks are
.talking of clubbing in and paying
taxes for the one they already have
and getting it to running again. Their
cotton mill has not been in operation
for some time. A splendid move.
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You don’t, hear the local W. C.
T. U. organization debating and I
resoluting as to the best means to 1
curb the traffic in the grand and
glorious old buttermilk. No, sir.
They ain’t saying one word about a '
fellow getting all tanked up on this
noble fluid.
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Meetings in the long ago of the
Georgia Press Association were noth
ing less than a prolonged drunk for
a large per cent of its membership.
Now, the fellows take nothing strong
er than that grand and most tempt
ing drink, buttermilk, —and they
have a much better time, after all".
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A Short Sermon For You.
The sacrament of the Lord’s Sup
per, with its emblems of the broken
body and shed blood of Christ, takes
on a very personal meaning to us
when we stop to think that day by
day our own bodies are being broken
and the strength of our lives shed.
The question that should stir most
deeply in our minds is, Are we giv
ing our bodies and our strength in
cheerful services to a great cause as
Christ gave his? If we spend our
strength! grudgingly and in pursuit
of selfish and petty aims, our bodies
are broken for naught, our sacrifices
are in vain, and the highest purposes
of our being are defeated. To give
greatly and cheerfully aS Christ gave
crowns a broken body with triumph
and glory and honor.—Frances M.
Morton.
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JOSEPH JONES
kbr/xl SAYS—
-1 tC77 "There’s nothing more
i C'-w distant than a near
■ rich relative.”
a Et Y ■ Maybe So, Joe,
Maybe So.
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E. QUESTIONS
and Bible Answers |
1) enmaraee children to look np Is
the Bible Answers, it will prove
ntatfc to them in after years.
What cometh when we draw water
out of the wells of salvation? See
Isaiah 12:2, 3.
“FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”
By E.8.8..Jr.
The death of Judge Andrew J.
Cobb brought infinite sadness to my
heart. In my college days at “Ga.”
I came to- know him and love him,
for I was a frequent visitor at his
home through the friendship of his
son. Through those visits I saw
this distinguished Georgian at close
range in his home. I knew Judge
Cobb through my fraternity. Al
though he had been out of college
for many years, he always kept in
, close touch with the chapter at
“Georgia” and was a constant vis
itor at its meetings. The boys
loved him and respected him. And
in the outside world, I knew Judge
Cobb for his reputation of sterling
worth and honorable living. He
was always gentle and kind; stern,
yet forbearing; quiet, yet forceful.
! He was to me all that distinguishes
j the true Southern Gentleman with
all of its chivalry, aristocracy, and
its ethics of honor. Peace be to his
ashes.
Sometimes I think the finest of
God’s gifts to man-kind is that gen
tle touch of refinement that makes
itself so apparent in people around
us. The gift of soft voices, easy
manners, gentleness, modesty, lack
of display, friendliness without
“gushiness,” aloofness without snob
bishness. Those things bespeak the
real Gentleman and the real Lady.
Those things are so readily noticed
(or not noticed) in the strangers
that we see from day to day. I
was riding in Texas the other day
on my way to Colorado. Seated in
the Pullman with me was a little
“Tri-Delt” from Dallas, a girl whom
I had known three years there. We
were chance companions, on the
same train that day, and as we
talked, and as the other passengers
talked or read, at the farther end
of the car there was a woman in
the midst of a conversation with
some-one. She had one of those
harsh, high-pitched voices. Her
voice could be heard all over the
car. And every-one stopped and
listened (they had to stop) and we
heard topics of all kind but mostly
a tirade against the South in gen
eral. My companion, a warm-heart
ed little Southerner, was indignant
and turned to me. “Hear that old
‘Yankee?’ I just feel like going
up there and telling her something.”
Which, of course, was about the
way we all felt. And my little com
panion, telling how all the “North
ern” folks riled her and how quick
ly they could be spotted simply
because they were loud and had
such untutored voices. All of which
is true, for the most part. Only,
in a spirit of all fairness, all North
ern folks aren’t that way. The nice,
refined ones, although their voices
are rasping, talk low and smoothly,
for no matter what port one hales
from, the refining touch of educa
tion, tempers one’s voice. The
heritage of the South is the soft,
mellow voice.
Dallas is a balm for sore eyes at
this time of the year. The streets
are alive with sparkling humanity.
Up and down, across and over beau
tifully' gowned girls walk, or ride
luxuriantly by in magnificent cars.
And along swing the men, clothes
nicely cut and neatly fitting. One
can truthfully say this about Texis
and Oklahoma—, people out-dress
the old South, easily. As a matter
of fact, styles in both men’s and
women's clothes are four or five
months ahead of Atlanta, and the
South. Verily, Dallas is impressive
these /lays. In the main section of
town, five new office buildings are
going up. It is said the city itself
is increasing in population twenty
thousand a year.
Dallas is in the midst of a build
•>ur boom. In the residence section,
beautiful homes are going up like
magic. Two new apartment hotels
catering to the wealthier class with
a new $700,000.00 Methodist church
lead in this part of town. In the
down-town section five new office
buildings. The Republic Bank build
ing costing $1,500,000.00. The new
Baker Hotel of 18 stories and 700
rooms, costing $5,500,000.00. But
the finest of all is the new Santa Fe
That Luscious Buttermilk.
That Hartwell Sun crowd is al
ways telling about the fine treats
they are receiving. In recent is
sues they have told of The Sun
fore? being treated to chicken din
ners by the cftfea of the city, the
fine cakes they received from the
bakery, etc. Last week they were
J the recipients of a large donation
|of potato ehips from the bakery,
i were invited over to the bottling
works to drink their fill of their
I choice beverage and on another day
' they were given all the grand old
buttermilk they could drink. If
I there is anything Louie Morris likes
it’s buttermilk. He says that if a
man wanted a drink o foutlaw li
quor, if he would just drink all the
buttermilk he could hold the boot
leggers would have to go out of
business in a few days.—Royston
Record.
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Nothing, Ernest, Except Two.
What is so rare as a beautiful
April day in good old Georgia
northern, southern, middle, or any
where within its broad and smiling
: confines?—Walton Tribune.
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Aw, Charlie!
Many a woman has shattered her
i ideal by marrying him.—Butler Her
ald.
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Can Get Along Without Them.
The sob squads are always the
i same ones, who are bewailing the
prevalence of crime. No sooner is
i a criminal convicted than thev get
busy trying to set aside the verd’ct
of the courts. Notice them in the
Hughes case, in the Jones I
Bloodworth ease and soon the' - "ill
appear in the Chapman case -o
doubt.—Madisonian.
THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., APRIL 17, 1925
building of 18 stories, costing nearly
6 million dollars. In this building
will be general offices, show-rooms,
stock-rooms, warehouses, an assem
bly room for use of business groups,
or private classes or lectures. But
most remarkable of all, in the base
ment where the mammoth ware
houses are, a great shipping center
is situated. Underground trains
run in and out on their tracks here,
taking their cargo of freight to the
outside world. A new style of
freight engine without noise or
smoke is to be used. Working on
the same plan as electrical storage
battery, these engines store their
steam in their tanks from the out
side, and do their work silently and
quietly from this reserve.
Railroads are working under a ter
rible handicap these days. In spite
of high freight rates and passenger
fares, the yearly earnings of many
systems have been cut down and in
most cases, most companies are los
ing money. Not only is this true of
railroads, but of street-car systems,
too. The main reason of this, is, of
course, the automobile. Cars of all
descriptions, bus lines traveling all
parts of the country, “Jitneys,”—,
all these types of travel have made
serious inroad upon the steam meth
od of travel. To me, it seems al
most tragic, this state of affairs, Not
only that but it seems unjust, cruel,
and an ungrateful treatment of hu
man endeavor. For, we must re
member the railroads built this coun
try. They developed vast regions
which had never seen the light of
day. They have spent millions of
dollars in wages and developments
and their taxes have run into tre
mendous figures. Are the American
people being grateful? It doesn’t
look like it. In the street-car com
panies of the various cities, the same
up-hill fight is being fought. Auto
mobiles and “jitneys” have wrought
havoc. There is no question in my
mind over the great injustice of this
situation. Take Atlanta, for in
stance —, is it right that these “jit
neys” shall come in and usurp pas
senger service and revenues which
rightfully belong to the street-cars?
It is not. The street car companies
have been a big factor in developing
city life, have spent thousands of
dollars for developments, and each
year pay back the county and state
a fortune in taxes. What do the
automobile lines do? Nothing. They
have no property, they pay no taxes
back —, they are parasites.
The above “train” of thought oc
curred to me this morning, upon
reading of the present difficulties of
that great system of railroads, the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
Here is one of the largest companies
in America going broke! A com
pany that developed the North-West
as no other factor cKd. A great
railroad that was aggressive enough
to push into the wilds of previously
undeveloped America and bring civ
ilization to them. They were the
first, also, to electrify their rail
road. It is a serious state of affairs,
surely. Thankfully, it is gratifying
to know that our own “Southern
Railroad” is one of the few sys
tems making money today. Along
with the “Union Pacific,” its stock
is one of the strongest “buys” in
the New York stock market obtain
able.
Spring is here! Tra La, Tra La!
Spring with its alluring weather for
outdoors and cavorting around. Ap
parently in Texas, the while state
has gone golf-crazy. In these last
few weeks I have never seen so many
golf clubs and golf players in all
my life. In Dallas, all the courses
were full to the over-flowing. It
must be the same everywhere. But
golf is not all. Those new, spiffy
models of automobiles are very in
triguing. Watching the passing par
ade is a great sport, itself. Appar
ently, “in the spring a young man’s
fancy” whether he is a shiek, jelly
bean, drugstore cowboy or a colle
gian who has never seen a college
turns not “to thoughts of love,” but
to a smooth running automobile and
to a chic companion, and often the
thoughts of the chic companion turn
to him.
A Suggestion.
Old newspapers are always inter
esting. Kept in order of issue, they
make a history book. They record
markets and the events of a commu
nity.
The home paper is a good neigh
bor. Gives service at low cost. Hands
bouquets to you when you die. even
though your subscription is past due.
Why not make a rule of filing your
home paper. Keep it in your fam
ily. From sire to son let the rule
run. It will be a handy reference.
Value will increase with age. After
while your heirs will fight for it.
Also keep a diary. It is a private
history of your own home, family,
money matters, weather, sales, reun
ions, trips, meetings attended, etc.
A diary is a mighty handy refer
ence. Takes but little time. Special
diary books are sold. They are ar
. ranged to make the work easy. Ap
point one of the children each week
■ or month to make the record.
When did you plant corn, potatoes,
etc., last year? Why did you sow
I wheat, oats or barley? When did
you harvest? Good business people,
whether farmer, merchant, banker or
housewife, should keep a diary.
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Soon Well Fly.
Young Wrigley, the chewing gum
king, will unite with Henry Ford
and his son, Edsel, in airplane build
ing. With this trio behind a fly
ing machine proposition the success
of the enterprise is assured.—Car
tersville Tribune. '
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Need Them Right Now.
Oh! Some of these days, and it
won’t be long, Georgia is going to
have a system of permanent high
tys.—Cairo Messenger.
Yes. I
All things come to the other fel- :
low if you will only sit down and
wait. —Washington News-Reporter.
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We have coined a new word:
“Jamegger.” Hartwell has several
of them around town and on the
edges of town, and many over the
county. They are Jamaica ginger
bootleggers. Most every train brings
them a supply.
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Good Old Summer Time.
Fashion says two pounds of cloth
ing shall be about the limit for the
women this summer. They’ll surely
have to be some mighty light weight
shoes and hats made to leave any
thing to be worn elsewhere. —Ogle-
thorpe Echo.
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Gas Buggies.
Nahum is placed among the “Min
or Prophets” in the Bible, but he
used a “Major” expression when he
wrote: “Chariots shall rage in the
streets, they shall seem like torches,
they shall run like lightning.”—
Winder News.
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Good Times In Georgia.
Normalcy, the station of peace,
plenty and happiness, is not many
leagues away and that distance may
be annihilated easily if you put into
force sufficient pep and determina
tion to reach there this year.—
Monticello News.
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Don’t Ruin The Forests.
Slowly but surely the sentiment in
favor of preserving our rapidly di
minishing forests is growing in Geor
gia and some day we may be able
to stop the shameless slaughter which
has gone on for the past hundred
years.—DeKalb New Era.
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Our Population Increaseth.
In the local columns of The Hart
well Sun last week we noticed 13
announcements of births. That’s go
ing some in one week. Those folks
over there believe in raising babies
as well as other things. No race
suiside there. But 13 is an unlucky
number, they say, and looks like
Brother Morris could have found out
one more birth to make it an even
number.—Carnesville Herald.
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Should Be More.
Over 19 million dollars flowed in
and out of Georgia’s treasury in
1924. There are 189 avenues lead
ing to the state treasury and 101
leading from, the broadest of the
latter is the school fund com. which
rolled last year a total of $14,545,-
073.45; highways was second with a
sum of $2,553,699.07. These two
avenues deserve all the expansion
that can be given them.—Vienna
News.
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Busy Times In Georgia.
The earth’s surface, in cultivat
able fields, has literally been torn up
and turned bottom side up in all this
section during the past few weeks.
The farmers are ready to plant corn
and cotton as soon as the sun warms
the earth. In fact quite a bit of
corn and some cotton has already
been planted and the farmers are
just ready to get down to business.
—Commerce News.
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Think It Over.
Money that we send to other towns
helps to beautify and enrich those
other towns, —our money, that we
have worked for, representing hours
that we have toiled. Why should we
spend our years toiling for distant
peoples? Let us remember from
this day on that money spent in dis
tant cities is labor given to those
cities—labor that goes to beautify
and make more luxurious those other
cities—labor that ought to have been
spent beautifying our own home and
neighborhoods instead. Why should
we send prosperity away to distant
cities where we will not be able to
enjoy it, when that prosperity can
just as well be spent in our home lo
cality where it will come back to us
to make ourselves and our children
and friends repeatedly happy? Let
us keep our prosperity for our own
homes. Think it over; help boost
your own home by buying at home.
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You Tell ’Em.
The girl that ran away from Bes
sie Tift College last fall to wed her
Shiek, has now run to the divorce
court and got her divorce because
the said handsome Sheik could not
get the bacon. He was not a go
getter except for looks. He was
long on hair but short on muscle
and rations. Now the sister says
that she was sorry that she left
school. Maybe she will get some
sense in her “coco” some day.—
Bainbridge Post-Searchlight.
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HOME FIRE EXTINGUISHER
Dissolve 2 lbs. of ordinary Table
Salt and 10 lbs. of Ammonium
Chloride in 3 quarts of Water. Put
in three one-quart thin glass bot
tles, cork tightly. To extinguish a
fire in home, factory or elsewhere,
throw the bottles at the blaze, a gas
will be created which will extinguish
the fire. Keep at a distance until
gas has disappeared.
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Criticising Preachers.
The minister of the gospel has a
difficult people to serve. His critics
are many, and the criticisms are va
ried.
A Texas paper comments as fol
lows: “The preacher has a great
time. If his hair is gray, he is old.
If he is a young man, he hasn’t had
experience. If he has ten children he
has too many; if he has none, he isn’t
a good example. If his wife sings in
the choir she is presuming; if she
doesn’t she isn’t interested in her
husband’s work. If the preacher reads
from notes, he is a bore; if he speaks
extemporaneously, he isn’t deep
enough. If lie stays at home in his
study, he doesn’t mix enough with
the people; if he is seen around the
streets, he ought to be home get
ting up a good sermon. If he calls
on some poor family, he is playing
to the grandstand: if he calls at the
home of the wealthy, he is an aristo
crat. Whatever he does, someone
could have told him to do better.”
Hear And Their
By DANA
A
I RODE the other day.
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FOR SEVERAL hours.
WITH A friend in Texas.
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WHO HAD the “grouch.”
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AND AS we rode on.
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OVER A country road.
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HE HAD little to say.
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EXCEPT TO complain.
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AND THE road was bumpy.
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AND ON all sides.
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POVERTY SEEMS to abound.
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WITH DULLNESS and despair.
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SO THAT later.
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WHEN WE reached town.
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I REMEMBERED nothing much.
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BUT WASTED hours.
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OVER BUMPY roads.
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AND THEN next day.
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I RODE again.
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THIS TIME with another chap.
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AND SO it happened.
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WE TRAVELED that same road.
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OF THE day before.
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ONLY THIS time.
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AS WE rode along.
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I SAW” new sites.
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THAT I hadn’t seen.
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OF BRIGHT new homes.
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AND PASTURES green.
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AND HIDDEN brooks.
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WITH THE world all glad.
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AND AS we rode on.
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I FORGOT the bumps.
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AND ENJOYED myself.
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ALL because.
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MY COMPANION that day.
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WAS AN optimist.
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AND BELIEVED in the world.
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AND THROUGH his reflection.
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MY VISION had changed.
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I THANK YOU.
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New members of the United States
senate were sworn in and cussed out
the very first day.—Shreveport Jour
nal.
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■ The average person is timid about starting a bank ac-
J count with a small sum of money. They carry their money
* about with them, and having it with them they are con
| tinually making inroads on it.
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* But if an account is started there is an incentive to add
| to it, and not having the ready cash in pocket, the inclina-
B tion to buy articles without consideration is curbed.
| As a result, in a short time the first SIOO is accum-
3 lated in the bank—and from that time on the pleasure of
* adding to it is intensified.
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OFFICERS:
B D. C. ALFORD, President - R. C. THORNTON, V.-President
a M. M. NORMAN, V.-President - FRED S. WHITE, Cashier
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■ D’RECTORS:
■ D. C. ALFdRD - s. W. THORNTON - R. E . MATHESON
I. J. PHILLIPS - M. M. NORMAN - DR. W. I. HAILEY
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Kiwanis Club Have
Invitation To Visit
Charlotte
Much interest was manifested at
the Kiwanis meeting on last Friday
in the announcement of construe- .
tion by the East Georgia Power Go., P
of a huge electric power transmis
sion system through Hart county
from Toccoa to Augusta.
Plans were put in motion to con
fer with the officials of this company
and endeavor to have them locate
their construction camp in Hartwell,
and a vote of good will was also
extended the company as they en
tered this field with this big develop
ment, which will cost over $1,000,-
000.00. Other developments are al
so planned near Hartwell.
May Go To Charlotte.
The Kiwanians received a letter
from the Chamber of Commerce of
Charlotte, N. C., in which they ex
pressed their appreciation of the
spirit of co-operation manifested by
the Hartwell Club in the recent ad
vertising program as fostered by the
North Carolina city. They invited
the Hartwell Kiwanians to make a
good-will tour to Charlotte, N. C.,
soon and be their guests at a ban- w
quet to be given in honor of the
Hartwell Club. A committee is at
work on this plan.
Delegate to St. Paul.
Hon. J. H. Skelton, past president,
was elected a delegate to the con
vention of Kiwanis International in
St. Paul soon; another past pres
ident, Hon. R. E. Matheson, was
named alternate.
Thank Commissioners.
The club by unanimous vote ex- w
pressed their appreciation to the
Board of Hart County Commission
ers and also the Board of Aidermen
of Hartwell for their action in pass
ing resolutions endorsing an enabling
act whereby Hart county, Hartwell
and Bowersville could vote for tax
exemption for new industries.
Smoke Hart County Cigars.
Kiwanians enjoyed a smoke at the
Friday luncheon coming from Mr. B.
G. McLane, of Bowersville, who pre
sented them with some of his famous P
“Town Talk” cigars. This is a Hart
county product, and one that is very
popular. Mr. McLane has recently
added a machine which makes sev
eral thousand cigars daily. His
output is always sold ahead.
Vice President W. E. McCurry
presided in the absence of President
J. A. W. Brown, introducing two
visitors of the day: Mr. J. M. Craw
ford, prominent citizen of Red Hill,
Franklin county, Ga., and Mr. Sco
vill Wannamaker, well - known P
Orangeburg, (S. C.) citizen.
Will Help Entertain.
The club voted to help in every
possible way toward the entertain
ment of the annual session of Eighth
District Federated Clubs here in
May.
The attendance prize was awarded
to Kiwanian Frank T. Kidd, a box
of six pairs of sox, presented through
the firm of J. A. W. Brown by the
Interwoven Stocking Co.
Miss Lucile Carter, of Columbia,
S. C., presided at the piano.
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A few persons depend too much
on themselves, but a lot more depend
too much on others.—Newark Led
ger.