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POLITICS WARMING UP
Bliill 19th Set at Date of Primary;
Candidates Announcing This Wee’s,
While Other* Will Announce
, Later
—
Jackson county's political fathers,
the committeemen who plan and ar
range for elections, wcfe in town
Tuesday, and held the first political
meeting of the year. They met at
the court house, with Homer Han
cock. chairman, presiding; and E. L.
Withamsoa, secretary, recording the
ulwtes Nine of the thirteen dis
tricts mete topmsented at the open
■g of the meeting. In three dis
owns, Corner and Cunning
lam neo cnurmiTteemen had to be
rihanM; J). M Itav.s was selected in
tto C. H. Bell, who
has wo •ft from the county; J. W.
JshmiiM. in Center, to succeed F. F.
CSromfwriL, deceased; W. T. Long, in
CwWiTjrhn, to succeed R. J. Hart
ley. mho has moved from the district.
Others present at the meeting, and
the districts they represent, were:
J. K. Tribble, Jefferson; J. B. Hard
man, Commerce; R. E. Stewart,
Hoschton; G. S. Duke, Randolph;
J. H. A. Simmons, Talmo; D. R. Mar
low, Miller; J. H. Boggs, Harrisburg;
J. L. Barnett, Newtown; J. T. Hale,
Attica. One district, Red Stone, E.
D. Whelchel, committeeman, was not
represented.
The only business transacted, af
ter filling existing vacancies, was to
select the date for the primfky for
county officers, and fix entrance
fees. The date chosen co-incides
with the date of the persidential
primary, March 19th, and closing
date for entrants is March Ist.
The committee meeting started the
political pot to boiling. The present
county officers were on the ground
shaking hands with the voters, and
prospective candidates who aspire to
succeed these officers were also busy ;
circulating among the people, and
making themselves known.
Reference to our announcement
column shows that almost all of
those now holding office have an
nounced for re-election: Clerk
Crooks, Sheriff Collier, Judge Bry
son, Solicitor Nix, Tax Collector
Smith, Tax Receiver Lord, County
School Superintendent Benton and
Treasurer Hancock, The ne\V can
didates are, George W. Westmore
land, for solicitor city court; Arthur
L. DeLaporriere, for chairman Roads
and Revenues; R. M. Culberson, for
sheriff. ,
Others will announce before the
• time closes. The campaign will be
short, and several of the candidates
are already “seeing the voters.”
LANIER—ETHRIDGE
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. C. Lanier, of
Statham, announce the enga.gcmefit
of their daughter, Pearle, to Mr. Gra
dy Lyle Ethridge. of Sparta, the mar
riage to be solemnized in the early
spring.
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• LEBANON •
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Sunday school every Sunday at
2.30 p. m. Don't forget the hour.
Let’s be on time.
Messrs. J. M. and C. 1). Holliday
were the guests of the former's
daughter. Mrs. M. T. Toney, of Ath
ens, Sunday p. m.
Mrs. Lou Redding of Augusta is
visiting her nieces, Misses Anna and
Olivia Fulcher, at this writing.
Mrs. Mary Fulcher has been con
fined to her bed for several days, on
account of sickness, but her friends
will be glad to know that she is con
valescing.
Mr. Lee Duncan of Atlanta spent
the week-end here, truest of Mr. and
Mrs. M. W. Carruth.
Miss Laura Fulcher is confined to
her room with a ease of measles.
Mrs. Lucy Venable is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Annie Martin.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dooley and
baby spent the week-end with rela
tives at Attica.
Mr. Ellis White was in this com
munity one day last week.
Miss Ruth Booth has returned
home, after spending a week with her
aunt, Mrs. Mary Fulcher.
Mrs. Nannie Dial of Bogart is spen*
ding a while with her sister, Mrs.
Mary Fulcher.
NOTICE—LOST OR STOLEN
Someone who had a kind heart
either borrowed or stole my laprobe
from my buggy Sunday night. Any
one finding a brown laprobe with the
lion’s head design on one side, and
black lined on the other side, with a
word in the right hand corner, begins
either with “E” or “N,” please re
turn to the owner. Laprobe was tak
en from my buggy at Apple Valley
church, Sunday night, January 27.
Luther Wilks, Brockton, Jefferson,
Ga., Route 5.
BERMUDA
(W. H. Faust)
Every reader in Jackson county
has doubtless had a more or less var
ied experience with Bermuda grass.
It grows splendidly anywhere. Sandy
soil is fine for it, and so is clay.
About the only difference is that it
is harder to kill in sand than in clay.
When a boy, the writer had to plow
in it. The grass was so thick and
well set in places that it seemed on a
hot day that it would take a pair of
elephants to pull a thumb lancet
through it. Tough! Of course it
was tough. The steak cut from the
neck of the first cow that came out
of the ark was tender as com
pared with it. It grows on top of
the ground, and also underneath the
ground. When you think you have
killed it on the surface, you discover
that a sprig has been left under
ground, and then you have to get
busy and kill it all over again.
I remember when a lad that a
neighbor read in a paper that if a
person was interested enough to send
a five dollar bill to a certain party
he would tell said interested party
how to get rid of the grass. The
money was sent, and the answer was
•—Move off and leave it. Remember
this story as you proceed.
When the grass is set, it is hard
to get free from it. Habit is thus
strong in life. Keep habits well un
der control.
I— Temper. Temper is fine if you
do not let it run away with you. It
is superb to see a man become in
dignant when the strong imposes up
on the weak. How many murders
have been committed because people
let their temper get the better of
them? Better control your temper;
if you do not, it is capacitated to
ruin you.
ll -Appetite is fine. Many a mil
lionaire would give a fortune for the
ability to eat and digest food like
some poor day laborer. But if appe
tite is not controlled, it, too, will
eventually lead to ruin.
111 Sex is wonderful. The world
is populated by sex instinct, but
wherever it is allowed to run unbri
dled, it ends in lust and death of the
direst sort. Debauchery and crimi
nality flourish everywhere where the
sex instinct is not kept under the
most rigid and virtuous control.
IV—Athletics are fine in their place,
but when too much stress is laid up
on physical development, the whole
, educational plan suffers. Pity the
1 man whose body is grown, and who
[ has the mind of a child.
Bad habits fasten and worry and
annoy just as Bermuda worries and
vexes the farmer.
Good habits are very binding, as
are bad. Some great educator said
a while back thut if you could start
a boy out to shine his shoes, meet his
engagements promptly, never be late
for a date, study, read his Bible,
pray daily, and do right until he was
twenty-one, he would keep the right
when he grew older. Certain it is we
would do well to think more along
this line than we have been thinking.
Follow your inclinations to do good,
as well as you follow your inclina
tions to do evil, and you will succeed
in this realm also.
The poet was right when he said—
“l took a piece of plastic clay and
idly fashioned it one day,
And as my fingers pressed it still, it
moved and yielded to my will,
I came again when days were passed,
the bit of clay was hard at. last,
The form I gave it still it bore, and
I could change it never more.
"I took a piece of living clay, and
gently formed it day by day,
And moulded with my power and art
a young child’s soft and plastic
heart,
I came again when years were gone,
it was a man I looked upon,
He still that early impress wore, and
1 could ehnnge him never moi*e.”
Some important questions:
Do you read a Bible a bit every
day?
.Are you neat, and do you finish
up a job as it should be finished, or
do you get through it merely with an
idea of joy when it reaches some sort
of an end?
How often in the days infested with
fears and failures do you pray?
Is your attendance upon the ser
vices of the church as regular as
would suit your dear old mother if
she could have her will in your life?
Do you dress neatly, and in such
manner as to reflect credit upon your
self and family?
Is your conduct on the street and
about the place of business such as
would convince one that did not
know you that you were a Christian?
Go to the Bermuda, young* folks,
consider her ways, and profit by her
failures, as well as by her successes,
The fact of the business is simply
this, after all has been said, if we
would but keep our eyes and ears
• CENTER *
Mr. E. S. Vincent has recently
moved his barber shop t > second
floor known as old Masons Hall.
Mrs. McElhannon entertained her
pupils Friday afternoon by serving
candy. v
Rev. Walter Saye filled his regular
appointments here Sunday morning
and Sunday evening.
Mr. C. Marlow of Atlanta spent
the first of the week with his brother,
Mr. Stoy Marlow, of this place.
Mr. Luther Stone, formerly of this
place, was laid to rest at the Stone
cemetery last Tuesday p. m. The
many friends of Mr. Stone were sad
dened by the news of his death.
Measles are still raging here at
present.
Elrod of Pendergrass
was ilrour town a short while Friday
p. m.
Miss Rosa Nell Wood of Junior
State was the gue3t of the Misses
Pace last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jennings of Athens
spent the week-end with Mrs. W. W.
Rich.
Rev. J. L. Varner filled his regu
lar appointment at Antioch Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. J. H. Dailey of Nicholson was
visiting here Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. J. T. Coile has been elected as
superintendent for the Baptist Sun
day school. We are glad to have
Coile in our church work.
Messrs. Guy Whitehead and Os
car Reynolds of Antioch were in our
town recently.
Miss Annie Evans of Athens was
the week-end guest of Miss Willie
Lou Anthony.
Mr. Jim Tolbert and family of
Hull spent Sunday with Mr. J. E.
Damron.
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* CAUGHT IN THE AIR •
Rev. Huctherson filled his appoint
ment at Dry Pond, Sunday, and all
enjoyed his message. Also, glad to
have Mr. Baker of Hartwell with
them. He is State Secretary of the
Epworth League, and was here in the
interest of a Leagtfe at Dry Pond.
Mr. Clifford Nabers was on the
sick list the past week, but we are
glad he is able to be out again.
Miss Bertha Wilson of Winder was
heme for the week-end with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Wilson.
We are real sorry to hear that
Mrs. D. W. Garrison has been sick
for a week now, and hope she will
soon be well again.
Misses Josie, Lillie, Ila and Cath
eine Jones were the spend-the-day
guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Boswell,
Sunday.
Quarterly meeting will be held
with Maysville church next Sunday.
Mrs. J. T. Holland has been quite
sick the past week. We wish for her
a speedy recovery.
Misses Esther and Dilcia Langford
of Long View school spent the week
end at home with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Whitmire were
week-end guest:* of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Whitmire.
Mrs. Frank Fleming spent last
Friday with Miss Amanda Pruitt.
Mr. Bud Garrison and daughter,
Miss Jurelle, and Mr. Claud Merk,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs Hoyt
Merk.
Mr. Mann Garrison, who has been
sick so long, is considerably worse at
this time.
Miss Lula Voiles of Maysville spent
Sunday night with Miss Fannie Lee
Wilson.
Miss Ethel Mathis spent Sunday p.
m. with Misses Farris and Velna Gar
rison.
TEN GOOD RESOLUTIONS
Try resolving. Here’s ten self!
commandments:
1 will say a hearty “hello” at half
a chance and help everywhere.
I will practice smiling until it be
comes a fixed habit.
I will cultivate my heart as .well
as fill my pocket book.
I will not forget to say ' thank
you” to God and Man.
I will swallow three times before
talking when angry.
I will not criticize but compliment,
folk and that not gingerly.
I will choke back complaints about
aches, ills and bad luck.
I will take my head and heart to
church quite regularly.
I will say my prayers with a
child’s spirit and an adult’s will.
I will daily look myself over and
make all possible improvements.
If in need of Coal, call
Smith Hardware.
open, we would get vitally helpful
lessors from the every day things
around us which we see, and in the
broadest sense do not see every day
of our lives.
fIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES
(By the Reporter)
Pastor Johnson was called to Ma
con, Monday, to conduct the fun
eral of a young man whom he bap
tized while a pastor in that city.
The reporter and Brother A. C.
Appleby heard Dr. W. L. Culberson,
at Commerce, Sunday evening. He
was continuing a study of Matthew,
and delivered a very interesting dis
course.
The prayer service hour was con
. sumed last Wednesday evening by
reports from the Southwide Confer
ence in Atlanta.
The study course in Stewardship
and Missions each night this week,
under the auspices of the Laymen s
League, is being very well attended.
Brother Johnson put in a busy day
Sunday. Sabbath school at 10,
preaching at 11, preached funeral of
Brother J. B. Anthony at 2, assisted
in ordaining Brother Bolton to the
Deaconship at Crooked Creek at 3,
B. Y. P. U. at 6.30, and preached
at 7.30.
We were made glad to have with
us Sunday, Revs. Otis and Luke Mc-
Neal and P. B. Cash. These young
men all recently entered the min
istry, and bid fair to do many years
service for the Master.
Highest price paid for Chickens,
Eggs and Butter. Bring them to us.
, —Kesler & Legg.
While attending court, make your
headquarter* at Bennett & Son s
Drug Store.
For rent, one good two-horse farm.
Third and foui’th. See A. J. Flani
gan.
FRESH FRUIT FOR
BREAKFAST STIM
ULATES THE AP
PETITE
We not only have the
best Fruits obtainable, but
Vegetables, Groceries and
Canned Goods of the high
est quality, at the best price.
KESLER & LEGG
Phone 55
Service —Satisfaction
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- NEW VIRGIL
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Sunday school was very well at
tended last Sunday, regardless of the
cold weather.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Phillips of
Winder are spending some time with
the former’s mother, Mrs. Roxey
Phillips.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Brooks of Jef
ferson were the dinner guests of the
former’s parents last Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Brooks, and family.
Mr. Otis Ivey’s children have the
measles, but we hope they will soon
be well.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Phillips atten
ded preaching at Pleasant Grove,
Sunday p. m., and report a good,
interesting sermon delivered by Rev.
J. T. Eakes of Jefferson. Also, will
preach again the second Sunday in
February, at 11 o’clock, at the same
place.
Mrs. Susan Phillips spent last
Sunday with Mrs. W. 11. Brooks.
Mr. A. T. Phillips motored to
Hoschton last Monday.
Miss Vera Stepp of White Plains
was the guest of Miss Lizzie Brooks
last Sunday.
The singing at Mr. Jim Manus,
Sunday night, was quite a success.
Mr. J. H. Phillips of Walnut was
the Sunday afternoon guest of Mr.
A. T. Phillips.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Phillips and
little daughter were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Phillips last Monday.
Messrs. R. M. Culberson and W. F.
Monroe made a business trip to Jef
ferson last Monday.
We are glad to report that Mr.
Grier’s family are all better with
measles.
On last Wednesday, the 23rd, a
large majority of this section wit
nessed a sad occasion at Walnut
church, in which two brothers, Mr.
John Cruce, and Mr. Tom Cruce,
were lying cold in death at the same
time and their funerals were preach
ed at the same hour by Revs. Odis
McNeal and Sam Higgins, after
which they were laid to rest in the
cemetery at that place, in the pres
ence of a large concourse of relatives
and friends.
Mr. Reece Nlblack is erecting a
new residence, making ready for
house keeping. We wish Mr. and
Mrs. Niblack much success.
To Cure a Cold lit One Day
Take LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE CltbletO It
stops the Gouah sod Headache and works off the
Cold. E. W. GROVE S signature on each box. 30c.
NOTICE
Rev. E. B. Collins, pastor at Pen
dergrass, will preach for the Oconee
people next Sunday at 11 o’clock.
There will be no services on Sat
urday.
W. F. Head.
OF WORK
“Every mason in the quarry, every
builder on the shore,
Every chopper in the palm grove,
every raftsman at the oar,
Hewing wood and drawing water,
Splitting stones and cleaving sod—
All the dusty ranks of labor, in the
regiment of God,
March together toward His triumph,
do the task and His hands prepare.
Honest toil is holy service, faithful
work is praise and prayer,”
—Exchange.
Get a good supply of Coal
and keep warm. Give U3
your ord^r. —Smith Hard
ware.
TICKLING throat
Always an annoyance, worse when
it afflicts you at night. You can
stop it quicklv with
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COUGH REMEDY
Every user is a friend
GAINESVILLE MIDLAND
RAILWAY
1923
Schedules Effective September 9th,
No. 2 leaves Jefferson for Gaines
ville, 8.54 a. m.
No. 12 leaves Jefferson for Gain
esville, 1.00 p. m.
No. 11 leaves Jefferson for Athens,
9.00 a. m.
No. 1 leaves Jefferson for Athens,
4.58 p. m.
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NOTICE
I can give special rates on R. F. D.
for the Atlanta Constitution, daily
and Sunday. Please conic and let me
renew, or subscribe, as this low rate
is offered until March only. Also, I
am still agent for the Atlanta Geor
gian, and Atlanta Journal. Your pa
tronage will be appreciated.—Joe
Levin, Agent.
Habitual Constipation Cured
jn 14 to 21 Days
•LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN” is a specially
prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual
Constipation. It relieves promptly but
should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days
to induce regular action. It Stimulates and
Regulates, Very Pleasant to Take. 60c
oer bottle
FOR SALE
Nice lot of well baled hay, or will
exchange same for yearlings and dry
cattle, e R. C. Roberts.
STOUT PERSONS
incline to full feeling after eat
ing, gassy pains, constipation
Relieved and digestion improved by
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Rich Creamlike
Delightful to take igSjp'
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restores vitality and energy by urifying and en
riching the blood. You can soon £eel its Strength
Invigorating Effect, ’rice 60c.
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bronchial, “flu” and whooping coughs,
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the heart, biliousness and constipation;
Chamberlain's Salve, needed in every
family for burns, scalds, wounds, piles,
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A TONIC
Orove’s Tasteless ’thill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
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it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
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Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
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needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by its Strengthening. Invigor
ating Effect 60c.
A thunderstorm in camp
Jt begins with gentle dropping nt.
tiny elfin hoofs lik *
Galloping hither and thither over th
shingle roofs,
And grows with quick crescendo ,
martial drumbeats do, M
Till it sounds cn the resonant shinel*.
a rousing rat-tat-too.
Then rises a rwrMng tumult, as th*
drops come swift and large
Like the noise of mustering horsemen
when squadrons form and charge
The zigzag lightning flashes illume th.
darkling lake
And the rolling thunder crashes make
the mountains seem to quake
Anon the rush is over, and, muttering
far and low, *
Out through the mountain passes th*
routed cohorts go.
Night casts upon the landscape her all.
effacing shade
And stations firefly rangers in every
copse and glade. f
The crescent moon is sinking below th*
pointed firs
And the breath of the dying west wind
in the fluttering tree tops stirs.
From across the lake comes fitful the
loon's weird, walling cry,
And the owl hoots back respotislv*
from his lonely perch near by.
A solemn hush steals softly o'er lak*
and Wood and hill
And nothing breaks the silence sav*
a far-off whippoorwill.
—Archibald Hopkins.
QUIETEST TIME ON EARTH
Description of Alleged Effort Made by
All People to Find Out Whether
There Was a Man in the Moon.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holies once
gave a witty description of an alleged
effort made by all the people of the
world to find out whether there is a
man in the moon. This wonderful,
plan was as follows: Careful calcu
lations were made to ascertain when
it would be the same time all over the
earth so that all the people of the
earth could simultaneously shout at
the top of their voices. In this way it
was hoped that the man in the moon,
if there were such a peson, would no
tice the noise.
The story goes on to tel] how when
the time approached for the great ex
periment, and ail were ready to shout
as loud as they could, that each per
son reasoning to himself or herself,
that amid so great a noise no one could
notice whether his or her voice
was omitted, determined to remain si
lent, so as to be able to hear the
noise and the better to observe what
the man in the moon would do when
the sound reached him. The result
was that every person on the earth
remained silent and simply listened,
so that the earth was never so quiet
before. —Detroit News.
NECTAR SCENT LURES BUGS
Tests Show That It Is Not Bright
Colors of Flowers That At
tract Insects.
It has been argued by some authori
ties that the colors of flowers attract
insects and that the gay lines and
stripes leading down to the bottom of
deep corollas are guides of the nectar.
This view is stoutly opposed by others
after many observations, who believe
that the color of flowers has no con
nection with the visits of insects, but
that they are attracted by the odor of
the nectar.
They find that any flower is freely
visited if it be nectariferous, no mat
ter how colorless or inconspicuous it
may be. Many gay flowers are wholly
avoided by insects, but by placing nec
tar at the base of such flowers insects
are at once attracted.
Though bright blossoms are un
doubtedly seen by insects at a dis
tance, when they once reach the flow
ers it Is a matter of indifference to
them what their color is—blue, red,
yellow, green or white —if they d'ffer
front one another in no other respect. —
Detroit News.
His Mistake.
A noted violinist, a shy and quiet
man except when ruffled cr annoyed,
was playing at a private house, and
an elderly woman, a passionate lover
of music, drew closer and closer to
him as he continued to play. She was
interested in the score, and to read
it the better she put her head almost
against his. The violinist, who had
been growing angrier every moment,
suddenly ceased playing, and, whip
giing out his handkerchief, wiped tho
woman’s nose with it. She was furi
ous, and grew T more so vvlien lie said:
“I beg your pardon; but your nose
was so close to my face that I thought
It was my own.”
DISAPPOINTED.
Philanthropist (who has Just
dropped a penny In the cup): "I
Imagine you have many disappoint
ments and discouragements.”
Beggar: “Sir, that Is the fourta
one today.”
Legal Tender.
“So Jack Hunter turned down that
beautiful girl and married a wealthy
one. I suppose he figured that her
beauty would pass.”
“No, I guess his main thought was
that the rich girl’s money would.
The Lucky Ones.
North—Banks Is only robbing i?e
--j ter to pay Paul.
South—That’s ail right I'm PauL—
i New York Suu and Globe.