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A Special Day For The
The Baptist Sunday Schools of
the State, more than eighteen huri
dred in number, will have a sp'end
id day on the first Sunday in
June, at which time there will
be a special offeiing for charity
■work Ipital. of tne ueorgux Baptist IIos
i This day is observed every
year. The superindents and teach
ers of all the Baptist Su day
Schools of this country are put-
ting forth unualy effort to
this year’s offering the largest
they have ever had
The Georgia Baptist Hospital
receives the sick from every sec
tion of the state. There is scarce
ly a county in the state that has
not sometime during che past
four years sent some ol their
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poor and dependant ones to
hospital, wnere they have
treated free,
More than fifty cripple and de
childien have had their
limbs straightened and
of them made to walk,
most of these ’vere from home
the poor, who were unable to
furnish hospital care fo= Hiese
little ones. More than five hun
dred people have received medi¬
cal and hosoital treatment, pay¬
ing only a small part of the actu
al cost of their board wh le in the
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hospital. It s for this work the
Sunday Schools are asked to make
a special offtnng on June 3rd.
A Cnristain is Christ like, and
Christianity is d dug the things
winch Christ did. One of the
ihings which he devoted more of
his time and thought to was ui
treating to the s:ek and-releiving
the suffering,causing the lime to
and the blind to see. Tb s
is the work to which the Georgia
Hospital vs devoting its efforts
and are limited only by the gifts
j None are ever turned away
from its doors except fora huk
of room aud funds. Here every
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class, condition, and creed are
welcomed. Here all can find op
portunity to exprer the spirit ot
Nathan Kingsbury A farmer John S. Dickson
Muriel Mason A citv boarder Ruth Lenhardt,
Edna Dean A schemer Jessie Strickland
Rooert Sinclair In love wit Muriel Gibbs Strickland
Postman Always late Boyd Culpepper
Tramp A holly terror Joe Strozier I
Auto party Chauffeur, Jack Downer, Mrs. Downer, Pauline,
Helen, Pearman lial),Wayre Hail, Clara Mae Daniel, Berta Little,
Puth Wilson.
Admission Monday and Tuesday evenings, Children, 15c Adults, 25c
Jesus in their gifts. To fail here
is to fail in the fundamentals of
Christianity, for here we are prov
iding for those of oar own land
and country, “He t'aat proviu
eth not for his own hath denied
thetaithand is worse than an in
fildel” $20’06f> will be
his year from the Sunday School
to care for all tne sick por who
are CuTnmg to the Georgia
ist Hospital. Let every
i tendant worth plan which he has
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recevteh, and thissurn will
ed. Jesus will siv to all
give, *‘As oft as ye have done it
unt- * one of tne least ol these sick
ones, ve have done it unto Me.”
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City Court Notice
On accoent of the busy season
the June Term of the city court
will be adjourned over from Mon
day June 4th, to Monday June
25th, 1917
Jurors, parties and witnesses
no. intersted in defaul cases need
nit attend until nine o’clock A.
M. Morulav June 25th 1917.
Geo. L, Goode, Judge C. C
C, J. Culpepper, Cleik.
Entertained
Mr. Gibbs Stnckiand and sister
Miss Jessie, entertained several
friends at their home Fnaav eve
ning. Those invited wore; Misses
Elise Jlarber, Loll to Belle Crow,
Berta L’ttle, Eva More, Clara Mae
Daniel, Gertrude Culpepper, Lula
Mae Addi on, Iiuth Lenhardt,
Lena llewin ana Messrs. Wayne
Mall, Mack WansUiy, Boyd Cul
p >ppe r , Parker Purcell,
Hall, Van Parker, Joe
P. airman Hall, Sanford
Osman Barber Howard
and Paul Smith.
A Letter to The
Public
Carrns il!»>, Qa. Ma»’ 16. fO-17
Tot hr* poople «»f Franklin C >un
tv ‘ e r<:ia.
D.s r Fr e >(ls: -
I f.vl it i burden dutv !
to make .1 L-w statem.-nt- t'u- "gb
the column* of your p ai r, red-
:ave to mvself.
mam* of v<*u r\ well
know, I came io vour c *unlv ov r
two months ago, a free man
joying the pleasure* accompanied
by freedom, that vou. my friends
are appreciating these beautiful
life goinS spring days.
Now that 1 have b^enjencarsce
rated behind cold ptison bars,
shut up from all pour present as
soc : ation. Tie law preseomps
everv mai innooet ot what-ever
charge he may be charged with,
till he shall have been tried and
convicted bv a jury
N o doubt some of you have
reached a verdict before hearing
he ficfc? i n tee case 1 1 asserted
publicity that the repart
c rcula'e 1 on on me being mar-
ried a wife and sent her back to
Texas, and had sent my other lit-
tie sweet wife back home, was
a In* and 1 still offirm the thing
I am not charged in T<xas wrh
Bigamy, No doubt I could have
fought requistioi, and glined f e
figh% but then the envauible con
elusion reached by .he peop e of'
Geo ga and South Cirol na
have been, I was gu lev of what
evv.r charge was alleged against
me. Bjleiving in a God. who
holds and lules the destiniee of
man in its hand, and knowing I
was innocent, I gladly submitted
to go and face nal liken m >n, a
ml in i ih tbch»-it: gnu disgiac*
on my name raiv bn lifted, th.it I
might return to this couutjy a
free man and live daily before
^ou all the doerme 1 have preach
It is going to be a hard fight
lor me alone, fori am now with
out a dollar to pay for council.
1 wish to state, gentlemen of Geo
gia, especially this Coanty you
should take your hats off to your
honoiable S'ceriff, Mr. Wanslev, 1
have never received more couit-
eous treatment by anvone than he
If I come e’ear, and never return
I wish to sti’tp, I shall meet vou
one and a 1 beyond thetuerdd wat
er , around th„> shining throne oi
an endless God.
Witn the sound, who there will
be no more impnsmmt and prose
i ution, but where we shall inarch
• >ut m the mblis of the paridise
of God. in the elesymn fields of
endless bliss, where we wi'i stake
our thirst at the fountain of ev. r
lasting grace, ui a world that shall
neves end As many of you as
can, come into see me. 1 am lone
some, and my noor little wife, is
dying of a broken heart.
A ny little token of friendship
will be so Inghlv appreciated bv
me in mv present distress, May
request all wmo read this and all
mv ti leiuis ch t vou c > ne into see
me, or write me a line; telling me
you still believe in me till I sii ive
been proven :u Uy^
If you don’t wnte me, for Gods
sake wnte mv wiie a cheerlu! let
ter. Addressing’ Mrs. EL a Dav
is, Campahe.iC, S. C.
I am the same true fri n;J t o
Piol Lon Davais. or Rev. Elutna
Davis.
Official Organ «f ■
Franklin County. 1
0conee Merchant is
Loud .In His
Praises
“La t Summer I become sud¬
denly sick” s >ys Mr. 15. H. Hardy
a prominent merchant otWatk-
i’sville, Ga. I had the worse
k n I of dia'-rhoei and it seemed
as if I was going to die. I had
tr ' get » m-ii to look after my
! ' o k in the Store and 1 was in
awful pan.. I happeneb to think
that i had 8(nne Jackson’s Cordial
on rav shelves, so I got a bottle
down and begnn taking it. In
less tnan thirty minutes the pain
entirely left me and L and I felt
as well as ever have felt. Some
time iater the cramping came on
me again and I began taking
Jackson’s Cordial for indigestion
a.id I find it a wonderful medicine
which cures.
I keep it on hand all the time
and I have sold it to hanureds of
CUit " mers fll! ot whonl testily L°
merit. I don t believe there is
a better medicine on eaitti than
Jackson’s Cordial,
For over forty live years Jack -
son’* Cordi.il has been curing all
kinds of atomic'!, liver and kidney
troubles, ft your suffer get a bo;
t e today and obtain relief.
For sale bv J, F. Jones, W. II.
c w. P. Whiten, P. w. Vand
iver and G. R. Harrison,
Sheriff Sales
Georgia Franklin County.
Will be sold before the court¬
house door on the First Tuesday
in J une within the legal hours of
sale to the highest bidder for cash
following real estate, to wit
All that tract, lot or parcels of
and situated, lying aud beiug in
1363rd District, G. M. Said
State and county, in the City ol
Canon, more fully described as
follows, lots Nos 1, 2, 3., in block
“D” each fronting lo7 feet on Car
nesville St. and adjoining J. E.
Strickland’s lot 177 feet on East>
running back from Carnesvilie St.
to lot of Strickland 100 feet each
on back 265 leet to Carnesvilie St.
along lot 4 in block “D.” Also
one lot known as lot No3 in block
“A” beginning at a corner on Pine
St. and Carnesvilie St. and running
thence 100feet along Carnesvilie
St th *nce East 108 feet along the
Strickland lot to Kelly,s lot,thenc
81 feet along Kelly lot back to (far
nesville St, thence West 180 feet
along Carnesvilie St, to beginning
corner. Said four Jots of land lev-
ied ou andjbeing sold to satisfy a
fi fa issued from the Superior
< onrt of Franklin Countv in favor
of The First Naii >na! Bank of El
Pelt ,n, and against Mrs Mnnmi
Turin- n. A quitclaim deed hav
been file ! before levy in the
Clerk’s Office in book L. 12 page
47 2 lor ill ? p.irp <s*of levy and
sale Wnlt.n notice given tenant
in possession as required bv law
T,. M*,W. IM7.
J. W, Wansley Sheriff,