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Gossip— A Sweet Morsel
(From Athens Ilanner-Herald)
Idle gossip is a cesspool for breed
ing geims that scatter destruction of
character and sometimes death of in
nocent parties in its wake.
An editorial appearing in the Syl
vester Local cites four cases, two
murdc ■ and two jail cases brought
ishout in Worth county through idle
gofeip dispensed by the gossip car
riers of that community. The writer
of the editorial does not mince
words, but in a straightforward man
ner, deals with actual occurrences of
a most deplorable character. The
editorial reads as follows:
"During the past four months idle
talk idle gossip—has cost the lives
of two men in Worth County, sent
another to the penitentiary for life
and another is in jail on a charge of
murder.
"Not only that but it has brought
sorrow and maybe misery to four
families.
“Both tragedies were the result of
idle talk—idle gossip.
"In March, on a Monday morning,
Maurice Calhoun went to the home
of William Downs to sec him about
something lie is alleged to have said.
Soon Calhoun was shot down—dead.
Downs was tried, found guilty of
murder and sentenced to the peni
tentiary for life.
"On Saturday night, last, Jake
Itiu went to the house of J. W. May
t< e him about some idle talk—
wine idle go .-.sip- about something
somebody said somebody else told
them (hat Bius said about May.
"in a .' . t time after Bius ar
ri i I he wa dead and May is in jail
on a charge of murder.
"Idle talk! Idle gossip had scored
another notch.
"Calhoun dead. Wife and chil
dren forever deprived of his love and
support.
"Downs sentenced to life, in jail
awaiting the outcome of an appeal
for anew trial. Wife and children
likely deprived of his love and sup
port.
"Bius dead. Wife and seven
children forever deprived of his love
and support.
"May in jail charged with murder.
"All resulting from idle talk—
idle gossip.”
From the foregoing it will be seen
how easy it is to cause death and
destruction through the circulation
of gossip that has no foundation of
fact to support it. Some people
live and thrive on gossip—much of
it manufactured, but sweet morsels
to roll under their tongues without
considering the seriousness of their
idle rumors and gossip.
There are gossip mongers in all
communities —people who can not
repeat a rumor without elaboration
and coloring it to such a high state of
misrepresentation it is of little akin
to the idle rumor that was first sent
out on the rounds of the gossip re
lays.
Idle talk and idle gossip are two
of the greatest evils ever visited up
on the human race, but it has been
one of the weaknesses of the people
since time immemorial.
OLD TIMER TELLS OF FIRST
WAGON IN THIS SECTION
(From Gainesville News)
Much interest has been aroused in
old timers of this section by the
story regarding the ancient log cab
in at the City Park erected to enter
tain members of the National Edi
torial association, which story ap
peared in The News sometime ago.
Seeing and reading about the old
cabin and of by-gone days has
caused many old-timers to think of
their childhood and young manhood
days.
J. B. Landrum of this city, who
lived on the opposite side of Wahoo
before the Civil War, tells an inter
estin'' story about the first wagon
in this section and the first one he
ever saw. Before relating the story
regarding the wagon he told of the
eld sleds that were used before the
wagon came into being.
Mr. Landrum stated that the first
wagon belonged to “Uncle Billy
Peeler,” who lived near the old mus
ter grounds on the ridge between
Wahoo and Little river.
The hutis of the wagon, according
to the narrator, were made of post
oak in which holes were bored for
the spokes which were made from
hickory saplins. Not a nail or a
piece of metal was used on the
wagon. The coupling pin was made
of wood as well as the axle, through
which a hole was bored in the end.
A wooden lineh pin was driven to
hold on the wheel. Two oxen were
used to pull the cumbersome wooden
wagon over the rought trails and so
called roads of days of long ago.
Suave Auto Salesman—lt runs
;?o smoothly you can’t feel it, so
quietly, you can’t heart it, has such
perfect ignition you can’t smell it,
and as for speed—you can’t see it,
Londoner—My word! How do
.you know the bally thing is there?
George Washington Knew
The Trials Of A Farmer
Senator Morris Shephard of Tex
as happened to fall into conversa
tion the other day with representa
tive of the Division of Information
and Publication of the United States
George Washington Bicentennial
Commission. The Senator represents
the largest agricultural State in the
Union, and quite naturally the sub
ject of George Washington as a farm
er came to his mind. We’re all in
clined to look on our burdens as the
first and worst of their kind, said the
Senator. And no doubt the disas
trous drought of last year, that laid
a blight over a great section of the
country and cuused distress and loss,
might be set down as one of the
outstanding afflictions in our his
tory. But the records show that
these cycles of rain deficiency are
fairly ngulur recurrence. George
Washington himself was a sufferer
from these periodic failures in what
the weather man calls precipitation.
“He took a mighty hard blow,”
Senator Sheppard reflected. “The
other day I ran across a letter that
Washington wrote from Mt. Vernon
to a friend of his. The letter was
dated April 4, 1788, and it impress
ed me so that I had it copied. Here
it is.” The Senator drew from his
pocket a typewritten sheet. In this
letter Washington discloses that he
knew very well what it was to lose
nearly the whole of his crops. It’s an
interesting revelation of the man and
hi trial.-. He says, the Senator
read:
“Dear Sir: lam very sorry I
have not yet been able to discharge
my account with the James River
Company, for the amount of which
you presented me with an order.
“The almost total loss of my crop
last year by the drought, which has
obligated me to purchase upwards of
eight hundred barrels of corn, and
my other numerous and necessary
demands for cash, when I find it im
possible to obtain what is due to me
by any means, have caused me more
perplexity and given me more un
easiness than I ever experienced be
fore from want of money. In ad
dition of these disappointments
which I have met with from those
who are indebted to me, I have in
my hand a number of indents and
other public securities which I have
received from time to time as the
interest of some Continental loan
office certificates, which are in my
possession.”
That was in 1 788, the Senator con
tinued. Exactly eleven years later,
in 1799, the last year of Washing
ton’s life, he suffered again from
drought. What he has to say of
that experience will interest every
farmer of today. I copied for me
this letter that Washington wrote
to a friend, dated August 17, 1799.
The Senator read it as follows:
“The drought has been so excessive
on this estate that I have made no
oats and if it continues a few days
longer, 1 shall make no corn. I
have cut little or no grass; and my
meadows, at this time, are as bare as
the pavements; of consequence no
second crop can be expected. These
things will compel me, I expect, to
reduce the mouths that feed on my
hay.”
Doesn’t that sound as if written
last year, Senator Sheppard re
marked. That last line in Washing
ton’s letter completes the parrellel
between his experience and the loss
of our farmers who w'ere compelled
to sell their stock for lack of the
means to feed them.
So even George Washington, one
of the wealthiest men in his time
the Senator reflected, knew what it
was to take a crippling loss at the
hands of Nature. And in the first
letter I read you, the Senator smiled,
Washington sounds a note that will
make him understandable to many a
present-day American out side of
farming circle. Even the Father of
our country knew what it was to be
behind with his bills, and had to put
up his own equivalent of a modern
hard luck story to account for his
lack of cash.
CAN YOU BEAT IT?
Tennyson could take a worthless
piece of paper, write a poem on it,
and make it worth $65,000. That’s
genius.
Some men can sign a check and
make it worth $50,000. That’s capi
tal.
The government can take an ounce
of silver worth 50c and make it
worth sl. That’s money.
A mechanic can take material
worth sls and make it into watch
springs worth SSO. That’s skill.
An artist can take a 50c piece of
canvass and paint a picture on it
worth hundreds of dollars. That’s
art.
A merchant can take an article
costing 75c and sell it for sl. That’s
business.
The author of this can write a
check for $9,000, but it wduldn’t be
worth a cent. That’s tough.—Ex.
LAUGH AND GROW FAT
(Furnished by Rev. J. O. Burnette)
The merchant had come home
tired, as on previous evenings, but
in keeping with a rule on which he
prided himself, gave up some of his
time to his little son, who usually
had a number of questions saved up
for him. On this occasion, the boy
leaned against his father’s knee, and
innocently asked:
“Daddy, is today to-morrow?”
“No, my son, of course to-day isn’t
to-morrow—not yet, “replied the
father, with a premonition of im
pending trouble.
“But, you said it was.”
“When did I ever say such a thing
as that?”
“Yesterday, you did. You said
that very thing.”
The father scratched his head in
deep study, but finally rallied, and
said:
“Well, son, it was: to-day was to
morrow yesterday, but to-day is to
day to-day, jflst as yesterday was
to-day yesterday, but yesterday is to
day, and to-morrow will be to-day
to-morrow, which makes to-day
yesterday and to-morrow all at
once.”
“Now, run along and play, ” and
the father collapsed into his big
chair with a sigh of relief.
* * *
“You ought to have seen Mr. Mal
lory when he called upon Dorothy
the other night, “remarked Frank to
his sister’s young man, who was tak
ing tea with the family, “I tell you
he looked fine, sitting there along
side of her, with his arm—”
“Frank,” gasped his sister, her
face crimson. .
“Well, he did,” persisted the boy;
“he had his arm—”
“Frank,” screamed the mother,
frantically.
“Why,” whined the lad, “I was—”
“Frank,” said the father, sternly,
leave the room.” And Frank left,
crying out as he went: “I was only
going to say that he had his army
clothes on.”
* * *
During the Sunday morning ser
mon a baby began to cry, and the
mother carried it towards the door.
The minister paused, coming down
from his high pitched tone, and
said: “You needn’t leave, madam.
The baby is not disturbing me.”
The mother looked toward the
pulpit just before reaching the exit,
and said distinctly: “No, but
you’re disturbing him.”
* * *
By-stander: “What are you dig
ging out that hole for?”
Pat: “Arrah: And it’s not the
hole I’m digging out; I’m diggin’ the
dirt out and lavin’ the hole.”
K> * *
Some few years since, during a
hot political campaign, but before
the days of woman suffrage, one of
the feminine sex was anxious to
cast her vote for a certain candidate,
and fervently exclaimed, “Oh, if
the Lord had only made me a man.”
“Perhaps he did, said another, “but,
you haven’t just happened to find
him yet.”
Maysville, Ga.
WILMA RUCKER KILLS
JIM SMITH AT COMMERCE
Jim Smith, colored, was killed in
stantly nere Wednesday about 10
o’clock a. m., by Wilma Rucker, an
other negro. The implement of
death was a single barrell shot gun
loaded with bird shot, and fired at
close range.
Smith was wroking on a car in
the vacant lot at the side of the
Carr-Pounds Motor Cos., when Ruck
er made his appearance with the
gun. and told Smith to “Stay away
from my wife or I’ll kill you.”
It is reported that Smith answer
ed Rucker with an oath, and told
him to attend to his own business
or he would get him. Rucker an
swered back with a load of shot,
which blew away almost the whole
side of Smith’s head. Smith died
almost instantly.
Rucker gave up to Chief of Po
lice Nelms, who lodged him in the
city jail until further orders.—Com
merce News.
Rucker was turned over to Sheriff
Culberson, and is now in the Jack
son county jail, awaiting the August
term of Jackson superior court.
Bobbie was reading history, and
looking up suddenly, he asked,
“What is beheaded, mother?”
"Having his head cut off, darling,”
she replied.
After a thoughtful moment, Bob
bie remarked: “I suppose defeated
is having his feet cut off.”
GAINESVILLE MIDLAND
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SALE OF LAND
Georgia, Jackson County. Because
of default in the payment of a loan
secured by a deed to secure debt
executed by E. D. Garrison and T.
W. Garrison to the undersigned, The
Federal Land Bank of Columbia,
dated the first day of January, 1927,
and recorded in the Office of the
Clerk of Superior Court of Jackson
County, Georgia, in Book WW, Page
69-70, the undersigned has declared
the full amount of the loan, with
interest, and advances made by the
undersigned, due and payable, and
will, on the 4th day of August, 1931,
acting under the power of sa’e con
tained in said deed, during the legal
hours of sale, at the court house in
said county, sell at auction to the
highest bidder the lands described
in said deed, to-wit:
All that certain lot, tract or par
cel of land, containing one hundred
and nine and fifty-eight one hun
dredths acres, more or less, located,
lying and being in the County of
Jackson, State of Georgia, and 257th
G. M., being bounded on 1 the north
by lands of S. V. Wilhite, east by
lands of S. V. Wilhite, south by lands
of M. G. Toney and Claud Vandiver,
west by lands of R. C. Roberts, y.d
having such shapes, metes, courses
and distances as will more fully ap
pear by reference to a plat made by
W. T. Appleby, Surveyor, on the
sixth day of October, 1902, a copy of
which plat is on file with the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia, S. C., being
the same lands conveyed by J. C.
Stephens to E. D. and T. W_ Garri
son by warranty deed dated January
3, 1920, which said deed is recorded
in Deed Book No. S. S., pages 559
and 560, in Office of Clerk of the
Superior Court of Jackson County,
Georgia.
The undersigned will execute a
deed to the purchaser, as authorized
by the deed aforesaid. This 6th day
of July, 1931.
The Federal Land Bank
Of Columbia.
Cooley & Cooley,
Attorneys for The Federal Land
Bank of Columbia.
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For Further Information write
C. G. LaHATTE, TPA
Atlanta, Ga.
BANK STOCK FOR SALE
Ten (10) shares of First National
Bank Stock (of Jefferson) for sale.
Price very reasonable for quick
sale. Address: Box 633, Athens,
Ga.
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and have swimming
in my head. I would
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headache.
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be I could wear out
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headache.
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using it 20 or more
years, I am satisfied
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foods require a lot of
(fj preparation and handling,
and some seem simply to flow
together under your hand.
Among the simplest to serve,
either by itself or in combination
with other foods, is canned Hawaiian
pineapple. A large amount of this
fruit, of course, is eaten just as it
coines from the can. Much of it,
however, is combined with other
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just the forms in which it can be
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Sliced pineapple is best, for in
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Oldest Emory Graduate Dies
Dalton, Ga.—William Jefferson
McDaniel, 98, oldest graduate of
Emory University and one of the
most distinguished citizens of this
section, died at his home here today.
Mr. McDaniel was hurt in an ac
cidental fall some time ago and his
death was directly attributable tc
the injuries sustained at that time.
G. D. ROSS
Attorney-at-Law
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