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MOBLEY’S
Grocery Department
Spot Cash Special for Oct.
FLOUR
White Lilly, pure and sweet, home ground, unbleach
ed, no baking powder, just old-fashion all-wheat flour.
Every sack guaranteed. Special this week, 48 IT) $2.00.
Sweet Daisy, self-rising flour; those .who have no milk
and require a self-rising flour; every sack guaranteed,
48 lb $1.93.
Cotton Blossom Flour, a good plain flour, 48 Tb $1.95.
Rosemary Flour, that good plain fancy patent, so well
kno\vn to our patrons, 48 lb $2.15.
Supreme, Fancy Patent, extra good one, 48 Tb $2.15.
Sun Beam, extra fancy self-rising, 48 Tb $2.25.
Shorts, Dunlap’s middlings, good one, 75 lb $1.90.
White Shorts, all white, 75 lb $2.40.
Cotton Seed Meal, 75 per cent, $1.75.
Seed Oats, Hasting 100 to 1,75 c.
Pure Lard. Rex. 8 lb bucket, $1.75.
Coffee, good one, grain or ground, 3 Tb for SI.OO.
Sugar, best white granulated, 14 Tb for SI.OO.
COMPLETE LINE FANCY GROCERIES
Other prices in proportion. See us for your needs in
groceries, or phone 193.
It T. MOBLEY & CO.
“The Bathtub Test”
—-plowing through water to prove Chcv
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kinds of weather. This is just one of the
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Grounds.
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Performance
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mile of which is driven under
observation—materials and de
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QUALITY AT LOW CO S T |
BULOVA WATCHES
Look for name ‘'Bulova” on the dial. It is always
your assurance of a perfect time-piece. Priced from S2O
up. BULOVA Watches vary in design to meet varying
tastes; they are alike in dependability.
M.F.FICKETT JEWELRY CO.
, ■'f" Jewelers-OptometrisU
> 224 Clay toe Street Athena, Ga.
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as- 8 645
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H-TonTruck $
Ckanli Only */ 5
1 Ton Truck $
Chaaaia Only •r 5
Price* f.o.b. Flint. Mich.
Good taste and good health
demand sound teeth and
sweet breath.
The use of Wrigley’s chew
ing gum after every meal takes
care of this important item of
personal hygiene in a delight
ful, refreshing way by clear
ing the teeth of food particles
and by helping the digestion.
The result is a sweet breath that
shows care for one’s self and con
sideration for others both marks
of refinement.
Cl 24
WHIG LEYS
3 packs
A TOINIC
Grove's Tasteless 'hill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
Enriching the Blood. When you feel its
strengthening, invigorating effect, see how
it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will theu
appreciate its true tonic value.
Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even chi Wren like it. The blood
needs QUiNINE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor
ating Effect 60c.
PRESSING CLUB
I am operating a Pressing
Club in Jefferson, opposite
Turner, Inc., Store. Am pre
pared to do all kinds of
work, both mens and ladies
clothes.
Will appreciate your pa
tronage.
F. R. WILSON.
Storms Not Sent By God Say
Ministers
(By Willard Neal, in Atlanta Journal)
“The Bible nowhere gives credence
to any theory that storms are sent
by God. The whole book of Job
was written to overthrow the idea."
This statement by the Rev. L. 0.
Bricker, pastor of the Peachtree
Christian church, seems to express
the opinion of the ministers of At
lanta. Five others who were inter
viewed held the same belief.
“We are living in a dangerous
world," continued Dr. Bricker, “one
that has always held hazards. But
there is nothing to be afraid of. We
must take life as it comes. No un
toward events will happen to us if
we stand up and take things face to
face. There is nothing: to fear, either
physically or spiritually.
“This is the best kind of world to
live in. Its dangers strengthen us
and make us more worthy. The path
from the cradle to the grave f nccs
a thousand batteries, and a marks
man gets us at the last; and the last
discovery we make is that there is
nothing to fear."
The Rev. D. Witherspoon Dodge, ,
in discussing visitations of nature, '
particularly the Miami hurricane,
said: “We cannot find in those an
cient records of the life and belief
of people who lived long ago, which
are grouped together in our Bible,
any one harmonious testimony on this
matter.
“In the earlier part of these records
and throughout the Old Testament (
pretty generally, we have naturally a
very primitive and crude type of ,
thinking which simply refers all that
takes place to the arbitrary will of
God. The desolation of some parts
of the earth by flood, the destruction
of some cities by fire, earthquakes,
storms and such other catastrophes
were always accounted for on the
hypothesis that God had sent them
as a divine punishment for the sins
of the people.
“I say that this was a perfectly
natural explanation for people to
make who had not begun to think in
the terms of cause and effect, and to
whom the scientific attitude of mind
which seeks and searches, analyzes
and synthesizes, in order that it may
discover the reasons for things, was
unknown. The theology of the church
for the past eighteen centuries has
beer patterned after the crude idehs
or these early chapters of Revela
f tion.
Jesus’ Answer
“As to the moral aspect of the
question in regard to GoJ .sending
the storm a3 a divine punishment,
Jesus answered that primitive and
childish philosophy of life once and
for all when he said, ‘Do you think
that those whose blond Pilate mingled
with their sacrifices were sinners
above a1! others? I tell you, no.’ |
“Here was a case of wrong think
ing. Jesus corrected it. To think
that God directly causes such suffer
ings puts before us three unanswer
able questions. First, is it just?
Other cities, no different from those
in Florida, have had no such suffer
ings. A God of this kind is lackin';
in ethical discernment and character.!
“Second, it is not true. Natural
forces, over which man has not yet
gained control, produce these catas
tro; hcs. God’s will is not yet done
on earth as it is in Heaven; we make
that prayer daily. Do we understand
the prayer that v.e make? When His
will is perfectly done, those things
will no longer come to pass.
“Third, is a God of that kind lov
able? No. We might fear Him, be
afraid of Him, stand in awe of Him,
but we could not love Him. He does
not correspond to the features of
that God of Whom Jesus told us when
He said, ’When you pray, say, Our
Father Which art in Heaven.’ ”
The liev. Carter Helm Jones, pas-'
tor of the Second Baptist church, i
said: j
“The Miami storm was not sent by
God. He i3 fair and does not work
in that way. This storm was a natur
al phenomenon.
“God is a just provider. He has
made the laws of nature, and He
keeps them. He looks over the old
and the young, and loves the good and
the had alike, for doe3 He not let
rain fall on the just and the unjust?
to Scripture*
“Blaming the storm on Provi
dence is contrary to the teachings of
‘.he Scriptures. Jesus denies any
such things in the following pir'age,
‘There were present at the season
some that told him of the GaHleeans,
whose blood Piiate had mingled with
their sacrifices. And Jesus answer
ing said uto them, Suppose ye that
these Galileeans were sinners above
all the Galileeans, because they suf
fered such thir<g.;?
“‘I tell you nay: but, except ye
repent, yc shall all likewise perish.
Or those eighteen upon whom the
tower in Siicam fell, and slew them,
i
think ye they were sinners above all
men that dwelt in Jerusalem?’
“On another occasion Christ denied
that infirmity or disaster was meant
as a vengeance. ‘And as Jesus pass
ed by, He saw a man which was blind
from his birth. And His disciples
asked Him, saying, Master, who did
sin, this man, or his parents, that he
was born blind? Jesus answered,
Neither has this man sinned, nor his
parents, but that the works of God
should be mado manifest in him.’
“We cannot say that God wreaked
a vengeance in Florida, as He did
in Sodom. Was there more sinning
there than in New York, or Fairs, or
Atlanta? Again the Master denies
the allegation, when He says, ‘Judge
not that ye be not judged.’
“God, after all, is more than cre
ator. He is a loving father, aiul
would not wreak vengeance on the
good people with the evil."
The Rev. W. 11. Houghton, pastor
at the Baptist tabernacle, said: “God
has destroyed whole cities and na
tions, but I do not believe that was 1
intended in the Miami disaster. The
hurricane was a natural occurrence,'
and Miami happened to be in the
way. |
“Miami, like the rest of the world, '
was doing a dan -erous thing in
crowding God out. The world is chas
ing money and pleasure, and the pace
is getting too fast.
“The hurricane had one beneficial
effect. It slowed us all down. The
entire world paused u moment to
think, and to regard the future. It
enused many to pray, something that
some had almost forgotten how to
do.
“It also brought home to us two
lessons. We have been shown our
duties to nil who have suffered, and
it has brought us to the realization
that God is of more importance than
entertainment, business, and having
a fine home.”
“The recent hurricane was not sent
directly upon the people of Miami by
God, but He devised natural laws
which made the disaster possible,”
said the Rev. L. Wilkie Collins, pas
tor of the St. Paul Methodist church.
“If man had peaceable possession,
with no interruptions from the ele
ments, he would be too satisfied and
life would be too easy. When folks
find the world too soft, they become
wenk and flabby. The strength
which God built into man helps him
to overcome hardships, and in turn
the worldly troubles mpke him strong
er. Man enters the supreme kingdom
through strife.”
i The Rev. C. M. Meeks, pastor of
the Park Street Methodist church, rc
, garda the storm a natural event.
“From time immemorial men have
charged the gods with visiting their
wrath upon the disobedient sons of
men in fire and flood, pestilence and
death,” he said. “Primitive man knew
.no better way to explain such dis
'as ters. - . I
| “Error sometimes seems to be more
persistent than truth. To a Christian ‘
man the integrity of God must be 1
maintained at all cost. Anything that'
compromises His goodness, justice 1
and mercy, we must shun.
I “The logic of charging misfortunes
( of men to His direct purpose runs
counter to the tenor of Scriptural
teaching and concludes that all who
lost their lives were sinners above *
1 ot'-ers, that the stricken areas were
• more sinful than those escaping.
I “Hence, if all who died in the re
cent storm died because of their
wickedness they are in perdition.'
Some infants and small children lost'
their lives, they must also be sinners
although they knew nothing of obed
ience or disobedience to moral law.
All who escape must have been too
good to die, although we have read
in the papers that stricken towns were
guarded to prevent the looting of
dead bodies or pilfering of wrecked
homes and commercial establish
ments.
“God permits many things that He
does not cause. I prefer to think He
permits such disasters rather than
that He sends them to punish way
ward people. If every city where
wickedness thrives were stricken by
storm and flood where is one that
would escape? ‘Those eighteen upon
\ whom the tower of Siloam fell and
slew them, think ye that they wi re
.inners above ail men that dwelt in
Jerusalem? I tell you nay,’ was the
answer Jesus gave to such questions ”
It is claimed that sweet potatoes
as ?. cash crop in Toombs county
have paid be.ter this year than cot
ton. Approximately 1200 acres were
planted in potatoes in that county
this year, and 100 cars have already
been rhipped.| The heaviest ship
ping season is in July.
You can tava money by placin’
your order for your winter’* cuppiy
l of COAL during Auguti. We will
1 appreciate an opportunity to lerve
and can make prompt deliveries
( —New Winder Lumber Cos.
On Being A Good Sport
(From Augusta Chronicle, Oct. 7.)
It is apparent as this is written
that Dr. L. G. Hardman, of Com
merce, will be the next governor of
Georgia. The Chronicle congratu
lates him nnd we hope that he will
make our great state a governor of
whom all of us will be proud. Cer
tainty we need at the helm of this
state, at this time, a man who can
lead us aright and steer us toward
the goal of a greater Georgia. We
need n man with vision, with broad
experience, with a keen insight into
the needs of our state and one who
can make the legislative and execu
tive branches of our state govern
ment co-ordinate. That Dr. Hard-
man may be able to do this we are
frank to say we sincerely hope.
We believed thht John N. Holder
i was the man to lead us and we still
think so. He has the most admir
able equipment of any man in the
state of Georgia, in our judgment,
but the deep prejudices that had been
injected and the slanders circulated
' against him in the months preceding
the first primary were too deep to be
overcome. It is n great pity that a
man’s character has to face assassi
nation when all of his life he had
lived uprightly, and who was so close
to the hearts of his home people
that they voted twice in hia favor
and against his opponent who hap
pened also to be from the same coun
ty. ,
John N. Holder will always bo lov
ed by his friends who know him to
,be honorable, true and noble in
[ character, and the sweetness of his
nature will not be affected by hia
defeat. He is great in defeat, just
jas he would have been great in
I victory.
The verdict of the people of
Georgia in favor of Dr. Hardman
cannot be construed as a verdict in
favor of a huge bonded debt for
state to build highways, since
Dr. Hardman expressly catnc out
against bonds. Therefore, we need
|iA>t expect any attempt at the next
( session of the legislature to pass a
( bond if sue on to the people since the
governor elect is openly opposed to
them, according to his last publish
ed statements, and John Holder and
( his highway board will continue to
I build roads on the pay as you go
plan.
The Chronicle has endeavored to
I conduct it editorial policy in such
a manner that there will be no sores,
Jor even scars, left. Certainly, we
have tried to do the decent, honor
able thing. In the heat of political
there are charges and counter
( charges, and Mr. Holder and his
i friends had to defend him from at
tacks made on his character. He
f stood silent during the entire period
I before the first contest, and that is
perhaps wherein he made his mis
take. During the last campaign he
did answer them, and carried the
fight into the enemy's territory. Two
t more weeks would have given him
to answer his tradacers and ac
cusers all over Georgia, and the re
sult of yesterday might have been
changed.
However, as we stated at the out-
I set, we wish to congratulate Dr.
I Hardman, and we wish to pledge him
our support in every movement for
the best interest of Georgians, and
whether we were Holder men or
, Hardman men before, we are all de
voted to the interests of our great
j commonwealth, and no blind pre
judice or passion shall ever warp us
in our attitude toward the Hardman
administration. We went the limit
for the man whom we considered the
best fitted, and now that it is over,
have no alibis to offer.
Perhaps we will be pardoned for a
personal word, and that is for the
editor of this paper, who was so inti
mately connected with Mr. Holder’s
{campaign, to express his great ap
preciation to the people of the Tenth
congressional district, who supported
Mr. Holder so loyally.
The Tenth district cast 22 county
unit votes out of a total of 32 for
Mr. Holder in both the first and the
second Certainly John
Holder would have been elected by
a tremendous majority had every
section functioned as well as the
historic Tenth. We do not consider
this a personal tribute, hut as an evi
dence of the appreciation of the peo
ple of this district for the sterling
qualities of John N. Holder, who has
served Georgians so long and so well.
COUNTY CHOIR MEETING
The Jackson County Choir will
meet at Mountain. Creek church,
three miles west of Pendergrass, on
the fifth Sunday in October. All
come and bring your dinner and sonjf
books.
G. R. Griffith, Pres.
W. C. Wilhite, Sec’y.