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PAGE SIX
TWITTERING OF
TIMOTHY TWIG
(By R. H. Bennett, in Wesleyun
Advocate)
A One Cent Wedding Fee
A friend tells me of his pastor’s
marrying a couple. The groom
handed him a little package suppos
edly the fee. The parson peeled off
wrapper after wrapper. At last he
came to the kernel of the bundle and
there was one cent. He laughed
over it and charged it up to profit
and loss. Some years after, a man
called at his study. “You don’t re
member pie, but some years ago you
married me and 1 gave you one cent
for the service.” “Oh, yes, 1 re
member that.” No preacher would
ever forget a thing like that. “Well,
said the caller, “that was all 1 could
risk on her then, but it has turned
out first rate, and here is ten dollars
I want to give you.” The preacher
put him down as a dead game sport,
though somewhat behind in schedule,
and murmured under his breath,
“An honest man’s the noblest work
of God.”
“Ain't No Woman Worth A Dollar”
1 had a yard and chore boy work
ing for me—an inky black withered
little dwarf. One could not tell by
his looks whether he was fifteen or
fifty. In the spring time as Tenny
son says about Eros, his fancy
lightly turned to thoughts of love.
He footed it six miles to the Court
House and got his marriage license.
As he was leaving the office, the
clerk said, “Hold on, you haven’t
paid me.” “I don’t hab to pay
nuthin, does I?” “Yes, one dollar.”
Handing the license back to the
Clerk, he said, “Here Mister, take it
back. Ain’t no woman wuth a dol
lar.” He retraced his hegira and
took up his job again as happy and
unconcerned as ever. When you
write your essay on “Why Bachelors
Remain So," put this story in it.
Paid Him In Chickent
My friend Prater, was awakened
one night at his home in the Ten
nessee mountains. From an upper
window he asked the caller his mis
sion. “A marriage." Prater dress
ed, went down and found that the
wedding was four miles away, and
no conveyance. But game and vig
orous he took the four miles up the
mountain on the hoof, the messenger
guiding. Arriving at a cabin, he
tied the knot, and the groom said,
“You’ll find your fee behind the par
lor door.” With pleasurable thoughts
of a bag of specie too heavy for hand
or pocket, Prater investigated the
other side of the door, and found
two chickens tied together at their
feet. With his usual jollity he
swung the fowls over his shoulder
and trudged back with his booty.
Chickens were worth there then
twenty-five cents apiece. Put that in
your essay on “Why Preachers
Leave Home—at Night.”
MOTOR VEHICLES IN STATE
GAIN 7.6 PER CENT
Georgia had 7.6 per cent more
motor vehicles in 1937 than in 1936,
while registrations for the United
States jumped 5.5 per cent, reach
ing a now high of 29,705,220, figures
released by the Atlanta Motor Club
revealed.
The report showed that Georgia’3
registrations totaled 441,847 at the
close of last year as compared with
410,583 in 1936. New York led all
other states with a total of 2,561,-
703.
Of the 29,705,220 motor vehicles
in the United States, 25,449,924
were passenger vehicles and 4,255,-
296 were trucks. The 1936 regis
tration was 28,165,550. California
ran a close second to New York,
the former having a total of 2,484,-
€53.
TOBACCO CROP THIS
YEAR EXPECTED TO
NET 75 MILLION
Waycross, Ga. Merchants
throughout the more than 50 coun
ties making up the south Georgia
tobacco belt are bracing themselves
for the sudden impact of an expect
ed $15,000,000 cash to be turned
loose within the four weeks follow
ing the start of tobacco sales July
28.
That much money was paid for
last year’s crop, and generally it is
believed the 1938 crop is equal in
both tonnage and quality. Farm
officials from Athens estimate 90,-
000 acres of tobacco has been plant
ed, well above the state allotment
•of 83,000 acres.
If apples or tomatoes are pricked
•with a fork before they are baked,
they will not break open while cook
ing.
ITEMS FROM COMMERCE NEWS
Liquer Car Ovarium*
A 32 Chevrolet aedan, reported
carrying a load of 108 gallons of
liquor and in which three young
white men were riding, overturned
at the intersection of South Elm
and a side street just beyond the
cotton mill office Monday night, do
ing considerable damage to the car
and slightly injuring one of the oc
cupants. The names of the three
men have not been ascertained. Of
ficers Bullock and Culberson took
the men in custody and poured out
the liquor. This is the third car
captured within the month and a
total of 388 gallons of liquor have
been confiscated.
Shirley Family Hold* Reunion
With the visit of Mrs. Lillie Bond
(formerly Lillie Shirley), Mr. and
Mrs. John I. Ford and two daughters,
Shirley and Carol, of Louisville, Ky.,
a reunion was held at the home
stead by the children of the late
Butler and Elizabeth Shirley Sun
day, July 10. A delicious dinner
was served picnic style on the
grounds. There were present, in
cluding six daughters, one son, 23
grandchildren, and 4 great-grand
children, and Miss Inez Hunt,
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Odell-Archer
Miss Desser Archer, who has been
connected with the Commerce Hos
pital for sometime, and Mr. Callo
way Odell of Kannapolis, N. C., were
united in marriage on Easter Sun
day but kept the marriage secret
until July 4th when Mr. Odell came
down and carried his bride back to
Kannapolis with him. They will
make their home in Kannapolis.
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W. B. Rice Home
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rice and Mrs.
R. F. Warren have returned from
Atlanta, where Mr. Rice spent the
past three weeks at the Piedmont
Hospital.
INSANE PATIENTS
TO BE EXCHANGED
Violently insane persons housed in
jails throughout Georgia will be
provided for at the state hospital in
Milledgeville under a plan devised
by the State Board of Public Wel
fare.
Following a conference with Gov
ernor Rivers and the state board of
penal administration, the board
agreed to institute immediately an
exchange arrangement for violent
ly insane persons.
Under the exchange program,
sheriffs can rid their jails of noisy
and violent charges by placing them
at Milledgeville and taking over the
custody of a harmless inmate. The
board has 221 applications for ad
mission to the already overcrowded
hospital.
Insane patients have accumulated
in county jails since the state board
last June 8 ruled that no more pa
tients could be admitted at the hos
pital under any circumstances be
cause of overcrowding and danger
ous housing facilities.
W. B. DILLARD REMOVED TO
HIS HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Friends of Dr. Walter B. Dillard,
who has been confined at Emory
University Hospital for the past two
and one-half years, will be interest
ed to know that he has been remov
ed to his home at 384 Orleans St.,
S. E., Atlanta. He will be very glad
to have his friends come to see him
when they are in the city. Mr. Dill
ard is a superannuated minister in
the North Georgia Conference.
8188 COUNTY REPEALS
RULE DISMISSING
TEACHERS WHO MARRY
Macon, Ga.—The Bibb county
board of education has abolished its
rule which for the last eight years
has automatically dismissed any wo
man teacher who married during the
school year.
Former Mayor Wallace Miller,
who sponsored the original rule, of
fered the repeal resolution.
“Frequently,” he said, “the most
desirable teachers do get married
and are lost to the system.”
SPECIAL
The ham actor, married and di
vorced five times in three years, gal
loped up to the minister with his
sixth bride. It was the same preach
er who had married the actor on
previous occasions.
After the ceremony was complet
ed, the actor reached into his wallet.
But the preacher waved the money
aside.
“Hold it, son,” he advised. “This
one is on the house!” . . .
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
38 Pulp Mill* Operating In
Southern Slat**
Athens, Ga.—Southern forest ex
periment station of New Orleans,
La., emphasizes in its seventeenth
annual report that continued oper
ation of the South’s expanding pulp
industry is dependent upon new
growth replacing timber used for
pulpwood us fast as it is cut from
the forest.
The report said, at the beginning
of this year, in 10 Southern States
from Virginia to Texas, there were
in operation, or under construction,
38 pulp mills, with a total reported
capacity of about 10,000 tons of
pulp per day and a total investment
of approximately 200 million dollars.
“Busines* On Upturn,” Circu* To
Take Road
Macon, Ga.—Downie Brothers
Circus will take the road again in
August, Charles Sparks, show owner,
announced here.
The circus ended its 1938 tour
May 31 in Portsmouth, Va., after
six weeks and two days on the road.
“Reports show that business con
ditions are definitely on the up
swing,” Sparks said.
The date will depend on how soon
preparations can be completed.
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Tiny Kid Slipper* Just Wear and
Wear
Cumming, Ga.—On the tiny feet
of 23-month-old Rachel Ann Heard
is a pair of plain black kid slippers
which, in the 29 years since they
were bought in Gainesville, have
been worn by no fewer than 12
other persons.
The slippers were bought jn 1909,
in her childhood, for the present
Miss Sallie Kate Heard.
They have been worn in turn by
eight nephews and four nieces of
Miss Heard, and now have been
given “temporarily” to tiny Rachel
Ann.
Georgia Fertilizer Sale* Under Last
Year’* Total
Atlanta.—Fertilizer sales in Geor
gia for the first six months of 1938
dropped considerably beneath the
figure for the same period of 1937,
C. A. Gillespie, chief fertilizer in
spector of the Department of Agri
culture has revealed.
The 1938 figure, however, was
slightly above the sales for the same
period of 1936.
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82nd Birthday Observed In Dawn
Bicycle Ride
Washington, Ga.—William Meri
weather Hill celebrated his eighty
second birthday at his home here,
starting at the crack of day as he
mounted his bicycle for his usual
trip to his near-by farm.
His eight children, some from
Canada, others from Florida, came
to help celebrate the anniversary at
a barbecue dinner.
For a half-century Mr. Hill has
ridden a bicycle between his Wash
ington home and his farm. He
“broke” in his fifth about Christmas.
When Mr. Hill retired from busi
ness last year, a specialist told him
bicycle commuting should be aban
doned. He protested, and the
specialist modified his edict. “But
ride less frequently and at a slower
speed,” he urged. Mr. Hill, how
ever, still may be seen daily riding
to and from the farm.
Sting of Bee Kills Woman in 20
Minutes
Ligonier, Pa.—The sting of a hon
ey bee killed Mrs. Nancy Hamlin
Shaffer, 52, wife of a councilman, in
20 minutes.
She was stung in the throat while
working in her garden. Dr. C. D.
Ambrose said the resulting swelling
strangled her.
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Cotton Payments To Begin In
August
Washington, D. C. Southern
cotton growers co-operating in this
year’s cotton program may expect
subsidy payments to begin in Au
gust, but it is likely to be Septem
ber or October before checks move
in any volume.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
said payments would be expedited
in the $130,000,000 program, but
indicated time would be required for
clerical work.
6/** /"P cures
o MALARIA
in 7 days and relieves
COLDS
Liquid, Tablets first day
Salve, Nose Drops Headach, 30 Min.
Try “Rub-My-Tism” - World’s Best
Liniment
To keep the flower garden look
ing well all faded blossoms and dead
leaves must be picked and soil
around plants weeded and spaded.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
R*pbrrjr Juice And Blood
Kansas City.—" Send an ambu
lance. Three children arc bleeding
to death in a wreck here.” An in
tern and a half dozen police, sum
moned by the frantic telephone call,
soon were removing the children
from a smashed car. Patrolman
Benton Tibbs touched an apparently
bleeding arm, then smiled. A jar
of raspberry jam had been broken.
No one was hurt.
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The One-Legged Man Came Along
Lynchburg, Va.—When a box con
tributed to a church rummage sale
yielded only one shoe, the women
jokingly remarked they would have
to sell it to a one-legged man. A
short time later a one-legged man
appeared, found the shoe fit his foot,
and bought it.
NO CONVICT CAMP, HALL
COUNTY SAVES $9,352.28
A recent check by the Hall county
commissioners of the first seven
months of this year as compared
with seven months of 1937 reveals
the fact that the county saved $9,-
352.28 by hiring county workmen to
keep up roads and property instead
of maintaining a convict camp for
that purpose.
According to figures, the county
spent for convicts and public works
the first seven months of 1937,
$65,578.82 as compared with $56,-
226.54 the first seven months of
1938.
MILLION IN W. & A. CHECKS
MAILED
Atlanta.—One hundred fifty-nine
checks totaling $1,213,494.31 were
mailed Friday to Georgia counties as
their share in the money obtained
from sale of the W. & A. Railroad
rental warrants.
Under law, half of the funds from
sale of the warrants goes to the
counties. The other half will be
used for the building program of the
state eleemosynary institutions.
MAGILL WILL TRAVEL WITH
GOVERNOR RIVERS
Athens, Ga.—Dan Magill, associ
ate editor of the Banner-Herald,
will travel with Governor E. D. Riv
ers and handle publicity during the
chief executive’s campaign for re
election, it was announced Frjday.
MRS. JEROME WALLACE PASSES
Following an illness of only a few
days, Mrs. Jerome Wallace passed
away July 15 at the home of her
son, Guy Wallace, in Monroe. Mrs.
Wallace was 79 years of age, and
was a native of Jackson county, be
ing the former Miss Julia Amanda
Lord.
Surviving the deceased are the
following children: J. Otis Wallace,
Mrs. Ada Palmer, Guy Wallace,
Charles W. Wallace, and Mrs. Addie
Williams.
Mrs. Wallace was a sister of the
late Rev. J. W. Lord.
Robert A. Brice, cashier of a
Gainesville bank, has had his faith
in humanity renewed. A stranger
walked in, asked for him, identified
himself, pulled a fountain pen out
of his pocket and said: “I believe
this is yours—it has your* name en
graved on it.” The man was Claude
Spivey, of Homer, who stated he
had picked up the pen the day of
the tornado over two years ago and
had not been back in Gainesville
since.
VAN CLEVE
Furnishes Flowers of all kinds for
all occasions—Pot Plants, Cut Flow
ers, Corsages, Bouquets, Flowers for
weddings or funerals.—Mrs. J. C.
Bennett, Local Representative.
FOR SALE
One Shetland Pony, saddle and
bridle. See G. H. Martin, at Jeffer
son Motor Cos.
FARM FOR SALE ON EASY
TERMS
Mrs. Sallie P. Thomas Place, 261%
acres, 5 miles east from Jefferson,
and one-half mile from Red Stone
Station, and on public road.
For further details and terms, see
Mrs. H. C. Maynard, Winder, Ga.
GET DRIVERS LICENSE
We are requested to say that the
State Patrol will be in Jefferson on
July 26, and at Commerce on July
28. for the purpose of issuing drivers
license.
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Baltimore, Md. $12.34 ffiji
New York, Y 18. Of ’
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Birmingham, Ala. 4.80
Memphis, Tenn. 9.90 . ■
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ATLANTA WILL INAUGURATE
NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW
First Show Will Be Held in Connection With
Southeastern Fair, October 2-9
GEORGIANS FEATURE LIVESTOCK
Gcoi-y.a Commissioner of Agriculture, Columbus Roberts, looks on
while President Mike Benton of the Southeastern Fair attaches Livestock
feature plate on an automobile. These plates are available without cost
at a chain of filling stations. The plate will admit cars to free parking
space at the Southeastern Fair and National Livestock Shew in Atlanta,
October 2-9.
Atlanta is organizing its first Na
tional Livestock Show as the feature
attraction ot the 1938 Southeastern
lair, October 2-9, Mike Benton,
president of the Fair Association,
announced following a meeting of
directors.
The show will be open to all live
stock that can qualify, be they beef
cattje, dairy cattle, swine, mules,
work horses, saddle horses, chick
ens, sheep or what have you.
Attending the meeting were Tap
Bennett, of the Pine Mountain Val
ley Rural Community Corporation;
Dr. Milton P. Jarnagin, head of ani
mal husbandry. State College of
Agriculture; R. E. Davis, beef cattle
specialist. State College of Agricul
ture; S. E. Truitt, Fulton county
agent: E. S. Papy, fair director;
Mike Benton, Ivan Allen, vice chair
man of the fair association: Wal
ter C. Hendrix, general counsel for
the fair association; J. N. Armour,
vice president; Virgil Meigs, secre
tary; F. B. Stewart, director of ex
hibits.
Columbus Roberts, Georgia Com
To remove lime which accumu
laes on the inside of a tea kettle,
boil a strong solution of vinegar in
side of the kettle, then rinse
thoroughly before putting water in.
THURSDAY. JULY 21. IMS. 'I
missioner of Agriculture, has this
to say about livestock development
in Georgia.
“The Georgia farm program has
undergone many changes during the
last few years and nothing has con
tributed more to its diversified plan
than the development of the Live
stock industry.
"Georgia farmers are being paid
$25,000,000 annually by large pack
ing plants for live stock to be pro
cessed, every major packing firm in
the United States having plants in
Georgia. Mostly cattle and hogs are
sold. Improved herds of both are
being raised by Georgia farmers,
peanut fields furnishing excellent
grazing for the famous ‘Georgia
Peanut fed’ hogs.
“Much progress is also being
made in the state in the Dairy bus
iness. Herds are being improved
and kept free of disease and ticks
and Georgia Dairymen are now pro
ducing practically all of the fluid
milk and cream consumed in the
state, and a large percentage of the
butter, also.”
To tell when a cake is done: It
shrinks from the pan, it springs
back when pressed lightly with the
finger, it leaves a clean, non-sticky
tester of straw .