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Plenty of amusements. Interesting sight-seeing trips.
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_ i ij gßife
When Company Comes
WHEN the Carringtons found
at the last minute, that they
would be detained in New
York for about a week, en route
to Atlantic City, they decided to
look up the Frasers. Uncle Henry
and Aunt Edna were eager to meet
their nephew’s wife and children.
‘Cousin Fred suggested telephoning
first But they couldn’t find the
•umber, so decided to take a chance.
They were welcomed with a sin
cerity. that rang true. Margaret
Fraser didn’t seem at all flustered.
After establishing them comfort
ably in their rooms, she informed
them that dinner would be ready
in twenty minutes, aod slipped
away to the kitchen. The visitors
were amazed to find that Margar
et’s “twenty minutes" meant just
that They expected to find only a
hasty snack, but instead, sat down
to a five-course dinner. It was de
licious. Finally, Aunt Edna could
not restrain her curiosity. She
begged Margaret to explain how s'ne i
had managed it. t
“O, this is one of my emerpency
helf dinners,” her hostess replied
smilingly. "I keep one pantry shelf
stocked with a variety of foods that
are ready-to-serve.. So, when I have
to get up a hurried meal, or have
extra guests, I don’t need to run
to the grocery for additional food,
nor delay dinner until it is cooked.
I merely open a few cans. And,
since canned foods are already pre
pared and cooked, I have time to
blend them with other foods and
dress them up in various attrac
tive ways.”
After dinner, Margaret wrote out
for Aunt Edna the following menu
suggestions:
HALF-HOUR DINNER MENUS
Grapefruit Cocktails
Consomme
Duck Sweet Potatoes Saute
Corn with Green Pepper*
Stringlee* Been Salad
Canned Apricot* with Whipped
Cream Qkfee
Hor* d'Oeuvree
(Sardine*, Olive* and Celery)
Croats of Tomato Soup
Salmon Souffle Spinach and Egg*
Pineapple and Cheese Splad
Fruit Cake Coffee
Mixed Fruit Cocktafis
Chicken Broth
Irish Stew
Buttered Sringless Been*
Asparagus Salad
Apple W hip Cbceoe
Coffee.
Canned fruits, Margaret told Aunt
Edna, are so handy for cocktails,
salads and desserts. The juice may
be saved to make refreshing drinks.
Canned applesauce mixed with the
beaten whites of eggs makes deli
cious Apple Whip. Both mixed
fruits and grapefruit come ready
prepared for salad, much
time and work. J
Aunt Edna’s attention wqß also
called to the fact that sweet oota
toes, prepared and cooked, now
come in cans, so that they may
be quickly saute or candied.
Tinned poultry, meats, and fish may
be served cold or re-heated, or cut
up and mixed with other ingredi
ents. The Irish stew suggested is
one of- the menus is quickly pre
pared by cutting up tinned beef and
mixing it with canned vegetable
oup. Diced potatoes may be added,
and of course, sufficient water to
give the right consistency.
Canned spinach requires only a
irief re-heating, Margaret explained.
Cheese now comes in tin, and thug
keeps moist indefinitely. In fact.
Aunt Edna was amazed to learn
how many different kinds of foods
are now put up in this convenient
form. For she had gone on in the
old-fashioned way of preparing and
cooking everything, herself.
"The modern housewife who does
not take advantage of the conven
ience of commercially prepared
f*ods is just a.> foolish as her hus
band wouM lie, if he refused to use
modern, improwsd equipment in his
business," Margaret declared. “I
find I can give much more of my
time and strength to my husband
and children by leaving the tedious
preliminaries of cookery to the can
lers. Besides, canned foods are les*
expensive than fresh, especially
when one takes advantage of sales.
There is no waste in them, either.
And they save the wages of a ser
vant My only servant—but a very
efficient one—is the improved ca
ooener.”
CAUGHT IN THE AIR
Last Week’s Locals.
Mrs. C. R. Davis, after a very
pleasant week spent with her par
ents, Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Henry, in
Calhom, S. C., returned home Sat
urday p. m.
Misses Ruth and Sarah Chandler
spent several days the past week in
Maysville, the quests of Miss Marie
Wilbanks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Boswell and lit
tle Elmer, and Mr. S. N. Boswell,
spent Thursday in Athens.
Mr and Mrs. L. W. Eberhardt spent
Sunday in Franklin county.
Mr. and Mrs. Dillard Vandiver
spent Friday with relatives in Mays
ville.
Mr. Edwin Shuler has (tone to
East La Port, N. C., to work.
Mrs. J. L. Thurmond and little
Edyth, and Mrs. Fletch Wallace, of
Winder, spent the week-end recent
ly with Mrs. J. T. Boswell.
Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge Bryan of
Jacksonville, Fla., have been visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. Poke Catlette, and
other relatives.
Mrs. F. L. Church of Atlanta
spent a few days the past week with
her sister, Mrs. J. T. Boswell.
A most enjoyable affair of the
past week was the re reunion at the
home of Mr. J. L. Langford. About
one hundred present, and with all
those good eats, music and conversa
tion, it was a lovely day.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Delay are wel
coming a little boy, who came to
them the 20th. They will call him
R. F., Jr.
Friends are sympathizing with Mr.
and Mrs. E. N. Elrod in the death
of their little grandchild, in East
La Port, N. C., last week. He was
the little son of Mr. and Mrs. War-j
ren Elrod.
Mrs. Charlie Lord was real sick a
few days last week, but we are glad
to learn she is improving.
Miss Frances Henry spent Satur
day night with her sister, Mrs. C. R.
Davis, en route to Athens and South
Georgia.
Mr. Homer Eberhart of Macon was
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.
W. Eberhart, a few days this past
week.
• HOLLY SPRINGS *
Last Week’s Locals.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. English
Free, last Sunday, a bOj.
Mr. and Mrs. Williamson of South
Georgia returned home last Tuesday,
after spending a few days with their
daughter, Mrs. Loy Hendrix.
Miss Sybil Hancock and brother of
Gainesville visited relatives here
recently.
Mrs. Nettie Hutchins and brother,
Mr. George Hutchins, entered school
at Clermont last Monday.
Miss Aliena Langford left Satur
day to take up her work in Ho.'chton
school.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bigger.? left
for their home near Atlanta, after
visiting for some time here.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Pittman and
Mrs. C. E. Nix spent Sunday in
Hoschton.
Mrs. Hines Hall and little son,
Hinc3, Jr., of Thomasville, N. C.,
have returned home, after spending
some time here.
Mr. J. M. Watkins of Maysville
spent a while this wepk with Ms
daughter, Mrs. J. A. Hutson.
Mrs. J. C. Hancock has returnee
home, after a month spent in Atlanta
and Winder.
SUGGESTS BETTER USE STATE
CONVICTS
A recommendation that some bet
ter method than the present one be
devised for the use of convicts in
Georgia, so that those incapable of!
road work can be made self-support
ing, was contained in a report on the j
state prison department transmitted
to Governor Walker Monday by Sam
J. Slate, state auditor.
The per capita cost of caring for
convicts at the prison farm in 1925
was $354.59, while the per capital
value of their productions was
$106.37, leaving a net per capi.a
loss to the state ol $248.32, the au
ditrr fcir.ttj-l nut in hi i report.
Auditor Sl;it<- <aid that ho is of
the opiruon that the chief executive,
the legihaiore and the prison com-,
mir.ricn i-hmld begin to make prepar
ations to otilrcc prison labor in some
channel other than the farming of
the present property, and realize that
patient planning and study will be
required before a change can be af
fected. He points out that ex
perience fcns shown the present pri
son farm to he unproductive.
Pure Apple Vinegar, 50c
per gallon.—Kesler & Legg.
Great Reunion in Banks
County
(By John T. Boifeuillet)
The exercises of the annual reun
ion of the Confederate veterans held
a few days ago, under the shade of
wide-spreading trees, at Homer,
Banks county, Georgia, commenced
with the singing of Rev. Edward
Perronet’s grand hymn:
“All hail the power of Jesus’ name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown Him Lord of all!”
The vast audience joined m the
singing of this immortal creation,
and the wondrous flood of melody
was carried upon the flower-scented
breezes to the neighboring hills and
the distant mountaintops, and, per
haps, from these heights it was swept
through the gates of the eternities.
The author of this stirring and in
spiring hymn joined the angelic
choir more than one hundred and
thirty years ago, but his memory
lives fresh and green in this sacred
and glorious expression of praise
and adoration, which he wrote in
1779, when the struggle for Ameri
can independence was hold’ng the
attention of two continents. Is it
not possible that these noble verses
by the friend of the Wesleys, and
their co-worker, and as hosannaed
by the purchearted north Georgia
mountainers, are hymed today by
harps which are "strung to the
glories of the skies?”
Other favorite hymns, also patrio
tic songs, wore sung during the ex
ercises. The musical program was
under the accomplished direction of
Rev. Bcvil Jones, formerly of Hom
er, but now in charge of a Methodist
pastorate near Augusta. He is a son
of Mr. L. B. Jones, of Banks coun
ty, who excellently presided over the
general exercises of the reunion.
This heroic veteran of the War
Between the States is now in sight
of the eightieth mile post on the
highway of life. He was not sixteen
years when he enrolled under the
banner of the Confederacy.
A beautiful and most soulful invo
cation was offered by the chaplain
of the Confederates, Rev. J. H.
Brooks, an aged Baptist divine. An
eloquent introductory address was
delivered by Hon. J. B. G. Logan,
who has ably and popularly repre
sented his district and county in the
senate and house of the Georgia leg
islature. Several recitation' and
declamations were exceedingly well
rendered, principally by young boys
and girls. The first of these per
formers was J, C. Smelley, whose
selection was from William Knox’s
“Songs of Israel,” written more than
a century ago, and, though on “Mor
tality,” has become immortal. Hero
is the first verse:
“Oh, why should the spirit of mortal
be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast
flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of
t'he wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in
the grave.” I
It is said that Abraham Lincoln
was very fond of repeating these
lines. And it came to pass that the
eleven-year-old son of a Georgia
patriot repeated them at a reunion
of intrepid men who wore the gray,
in the glorious combat to maintain
their constuticnal rights against the
bloody opposition of the great armies
of which Lihcoln was commander-in
chief, over three decades ago.
Other reciters, and their sub
jects, were: Miss Mamie Jones, “A
Boy From Dixie Land;” Miss Irene
Jones, “A Jacket of Gray;” Burns
Jones, “The Soldier’s Grave.”
Following the morning exercises,
an abundant and delightful repast
was enjoyed by the multitude. In
t'he afternoon the generosity of
Judge W. M. Thomas, the ever faith
ful and popular ordinary of Banks
county, was manifested by his serv
ing to the crowd a luscious water
melon feast.
Banks county is the home of
patriotism. Everybody there seems
to breathe the spirit of loyalty to
country. Parents bear the names of
herrss and statesmen, and they be
stow the like upon their sons. I will
mention an instance, by way of ill - -
tra.'.on:
A J. Hilton, the aiconpishod an!
progre •ivc edito- of the sparkling
and independent weekly, the Bank.
County ,J< urna!, has the heroic end
patriotic name cf Andrew Jackson,
And the bright, manly son of Editor
Hilton has the name of that famous
patriot and orator, Patrick Henry.
Yet, 1 fear that full homage and
reverence are not paid by the citi
zenry of Banks county to the names
of Andrew Jackson and Patrick Hen
ry when the Hiltons arc* being ad
dressed, for sire Ikilton is called
“Jack,” and his offspring is called
“Pat.” A
1 do not know who bestowed the
name of Homer on the charminjf
and cultured town where the Con
federate reunion was held, and I am
finable to say why the county seat
'of Banks was so named. Charmings
| ly situated as it is, contiguous to
beautiful valleys and tree-covered
hills, perhaps some poetic soul, view
ing the lovely landscape as the morn
in light bathed it with tints and shad
ings of endless beauty, and hearing
murmurings ns gentle winds played
harmoniously upon the branches of
the trees like they were harp strings,
he thought of the inspired muse of
'Rcio’s far-off isle and named the
place Homer.
Right now Banks county is filled
with the incense of flowers whose
graceful forms are “clothed in
brighter robes than princes
her fertile fields are smiling with
peace and plenty; her orchards bend
with luscious fruit; cattle grace in.
the green valleys. The visitor grazes
with enraptured eye on a landscape
of rich and varied beauty, and he ap
preciates why the dwellers among
the hills feel a peculiar joy in them,
and have an enduring and passion
ate fondness for these high places
of the earth. “I will lift up mine
eyes unto the hills. . . . My help
cometh from the Lord, which made
the heaven and the earth.”
Homer Is located well within the
boundaries of Banks county, but
Banks seems to have a taste for
border towns. For instance; Belton
is partly in Banks and partly in Hall.
Alto and Baldwin are partly in Banka
and partly in Habersham. Maysville
is partly in Banks and parMy in
Jackson.
I
Dereliction of Duty is
Charged .. 1
|
| Charging T. R. Bennett, state su
■ perintendent of banks, with negli
gence and dereliction of duty in con
nection with the recent failure of
the Bankers’ Trust company, which
forced more than 100 small chain
banks in Georgia and Florida to
close their doors, the Fulton county
grand jury, in presentments submit
ted to the superior court Friday, rec
ommended his removal by Governor
Clifford Walker.
The presentments set out that the
grand jury, during the past few
weeks, has conducted a searching in
vestigation of the operations of the
defunct Bankers’ Trust company and
the Georgia State bank and has
taken voluminous testimony from
many witnesses, including Superin
tendent Bennett himself.
Almost a score of indictments
have been returned against officers
of the defunct company, but the
presentments concern principally the
conclusions arrived at by the grand
jurors concerning the administration
of the banking laws of Georgia as
applied to the Bankers’ Trust com
pany affairs.
The grand jury declares that for
some time previous to the collapse
of the Bankers’ Trust company and
its affiliated financial institutions,
reports of state bank department ex
aminers disclosed precarious condi
tions in some of the chain banks.
Had the superintendent of banka
properly analyzed these reports and
acted under the authority vested In
him by the Georgia banking laws,
the "catastrophe of July 12 would
have been averted, it is alleged.
“The body is of the opinion that
the superintendent of banks has
been negligent in the discharge of
his duties,” the presentments de
clare.
1 “This grand jury concludes that
the superintedent of the state bank
ing department was derelict in his
duty in permitting these conditions
to exist, which ultimately resulted
in this great calamity, injuring not
only the depositors in these institu
tions, but damaging the credit and
good name of the state at large.
I “We recommend the removal of
the superintendent of banks by the
governor of the state under the pro
visions of article 2, section 7, of the
banking code.
“Wc recommend that a copy of
these presents be cerified to the
governor under the seal of this
court.”
FATHER’S COLLAR BUTTON
SHOPS IN BABY’S MOUTH
AND RESULTS IN DEATH
San Francisco.—A collar button
swallowed three month: a;*u by
Florence White, 11 months old, caus
ed the baby’s death here. The child
swallowed the collar button when it
fell from the neckband of her fath
er’s shirt as he leaned over her crib.