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CLASSES IN Vocal Instruction and Song Interpretation MISS JESSIE COLLIER TeL 169. OCALS, PERSONALS AND SOCIAL NEWS Mr . and Mrs. T. S. Cole left for 'V home at Logansport, Indiana, ] a c* week, after a three months’ stay a a t \ he home of Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Mar T in. These people greatly en deared themselves to the Barnesville people as they are devoted to the thur ,h and Christianity at large. Mr. ari d Mrs. Cole made many warm {r iends during their stay here, who hope they may return to the city sometime for a longer stay. SPECIAL NOTICE—TWO CARS OF No l TIMOTHY HAY AT $33.00 PER TON; A LOT OF GOOD YOUNG MULES, PRICES RIGHT; WOOD AND COAL; AND ACID and soda for your crops. SEE ME BEFORE YOU BUY.—W. R BAIRD, MITCHELL'S OLD STA BLES. 2 ' 19 Senator J. C. Collier received this week a cablegram from Mr. D. C. Collier, who is now in Europe, that he would sail from Glasgow, Scot land, on February 14th for America on the new Cunard Steamship Cameronia and expects to reach home about February 25th after two or three days in New York City. Mr. C. M. Dunn left Barnesville Monday for Sarasota, Fla., after spending a week here with his fami ly. He has been in Sarasota for some time engaged in the real estate •business, in which he is doing well. That Florida city is being developed at a rapid rate and it affords great opportunity for business. ~ . • Mr. Homer Howard of Wartrace, Tenn., has been on a visit with the family of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Howard, the past week and has been receiving cordial greetings from many friends throughout the com munity. N. B—WE ARE STILL LEADING ALL MIDDLE GEORGIA IN THE VERY BEST GRADES and STYLES OF ANY AND ALL KINDS OF HARNESS NEEDED OR USED ON THE FARM. OUR PRICES ARE MOST REASONABLE. YOU HAVE A STANDING INVITATION TO CALL AND SEE US. —CORDIALLY YOURS, W. H. MITCHELL & CO. Messrs. Emmett Langford of Barnesville and Joe Martin of Milner spent last week in Columbia, S. C., attending a meeting of representa tives of the Federal Land Bank from various southern states. They re port a helpful convention and an en joyable time. Mayor W. T. Summers, who has been at Sarasota, Fla., for several weeks, returned home last week and has been given a cordial welcome. He reports much activity in Florida, particularly in the real estate busi ness in certain sections of the state. Mr. J. W. Brown, cashier of the Second National Bank of Griffin, spent Sunday with his family here, returning to Griffin Monday. He had been sick for several days but his friends hope he will soon be fully recovered. FOR SALE—Pair mare mules, splen did workers or will trade, also one gentle Georgia raised work mare 8 \ • ars old, also three young cows, fresh in milk.—W. H. Mitchell & Cos. Miss Evelyn 'Matt, who is teaching the school at Yatesville, spent the week end with the family of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Matt, at their home on Greenwood street. Mr. E. O. Dobbs, Jr., one of the 5 'ight students of Emory University, • ent the week-end at home with the family of his parents, Col. and Mrs. L. O. Dobbs. Mrs. J. C. Butts and little daugh ter, Ann, of Gainesville, were the ' cent guests of Mrs. B. H. Butts at her home on Forsyth street. Mr. Mike Jones of Macon spent Tuesday in the city transacting busi ness and was warmly greeted by numerous friends. Mrs. M. F. Carriker spent last week in Thomaston on a visit with relatives and friends. Mr. Gene Armstrong spent Mon day and Tuesday in Atlanta looking after business interests. Mrs. Chester Burnette of Macon, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Torbert and family of Thomaston, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Harvey of Thomaston and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hall and family of Montezuma, attended the funeral of Mrs. L. S. Burnette Tuesday. Messrs. Charlie Gordy, Emmett Gordy, Robert Burnette, Alvah Bur nette and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bur nette of Atlanta came down Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. L. S. Burnette. Misses Bertha Hightower, Doris Moore and Lucy Bush were in Grif fin Thursday, going up to see “So Big” at the Alamo Theatre. Mrs. Preston R. Chaffin will re turn Thursday after a few weeks visit with relatives in Cummings and Canton, Ga. WANTED —To buy or trade for 25 to 50 beef cattle. —W. H. Mitchell & Cos. Mr. Edward Elder was the guest for the week-end of relatives and friends in Macon. Mr. W. V. Lifsey of New York City was the guest of his aunt, Mrs. E. Whittle, Sunday. Miss Mary Allen of Atlanta was at her home near Barnesville last week-end. Mr. Charlie Wadsworth is ill at his home. Mr. J. M. Middlebrooks spent the week-end at home. Mr. Jesse Burns of Macon was at home last week-end. ELLIOTT—SMITH Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Elliott, of Barnesville, announce the engage ment of their daughter, Mary Irene, to Mr. Frank Willis Smith, the mar riage to be solemnized February 18. The above announcement, of deep interest to many friends in Lamar and adjoining counties, appeared in the Sunday papers. Hearty congratulations will be ex tended to the happy young people over their approaching marriage. GORDON HONOR ROLL GRAMMAR SCHOOL First Grade Hubert Adams, Ralph Freeman, Charlene Graddick, Sadie Porch, Sarah Virginia Sims, Joe T. Smith, Terrell Tarpley, Mag dalene Weaver. Second Grade —Florence Leach, Isaiah Pitts. Third Grade —James Evans, Car roll Garland, Raymond Hall, Louisa Porch. Fourth Grade —Mattie Lee Evans. Seventh Grade —Mary Helen Gil pin, Jean Hastings, Ernestine Mil ner, Mariam Ocletree. MRS, BURNETTE DIES Mrs. L. S. Burnette died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bob Hall, at Montezuma, last Sunday and was buried Monday in the Greenwood cemtery. The service was held at the First Methodist church, Rev. Marvin Franklin, the pastor, preach ing the sermon, paying a beautiful tribute to her life. Mrs. Burnette was 76 years old and was a good woman, who had hosts of friends in Barnesville and throughout this section. She was a devoted member of the Methodist church. Mrs. Burnette was a Miss Mary Gordy of Upson county and was mar ried to Mr. L. S. Burnette when 17 years old and through all these long years they had lived happily togeth er. She is survived by her husband and eight children, to all of whom tender sympathy is extended in their sorrow over the death of the good woman. —o Following an increase in milk prices in England, a farmer offered to deliver the first five days’ supply free. and guaranteed to give custom ers their average weekly supply with out charge for two weeks in June each year. Would Let All Have a Chance to Make Good By MILDRED C. GOODRIDGE ((£>, 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) T"\AVID ROSS had received a heavy blow financially and to his uflfec tions as well. He was an odd, silent old fellow, but when an Impulse swajed him he carried It to the full limit. --- - m ***"**- Thus he had done with the son of an old-time friend now dead —Vance Peters. Mr. Ross had formerly oper ated a little shop In Vlrden, given to the manufacture of hardware special ties. He took a fancy to young Peters and retired from the business In his favor. He still retained ownership of the business, but gave Peters full sway, asking only a monthly statement of the business. One night the shop burned down and Vance Peters disappeared. With in twenty-four hours It was known that he had been embezzling money. The day nfter the fire Mr. Ross sat at home gloomily Immersed In thought. Hls adopted daughter, Elsa, watched his mood pityingly. ! “Father," she spoke finally, “do not let this trouble distress you." 1 “If I had followed your advice I should have been better ofT," was the frank reply. “You never liked Vance, you believed that he was deceiving me, and you were bright. For one tiling I am sincerely thankful! That Is that I did not urge the wish of my heart that you and Vance should make a match of it. "I find that Vance had little or no system In the business,” Mr. Ross told Elsa. "He had a bookkeeper, and un der manager and a traveling man. They were all here this morning to learn what the prospects were of the plant starting up again." “Why, are you thinking of that, father?” asked Elsa In some surprise. Rogers, the bookkeeper, turned out to be quite an exquisite. He lay around smoking and reading In a com fortable hammock most of the time, but was always on hand for Ills meals. The old assistant mannger, Mnlion, devoted most of his time to hanging around the village billiard hall. Both borrowed money from Mr. Ross, who catered to their necessities and studied them. Young Bert Delaney was restless and out of sorts the first day lie ar rived. "See here, Mr. Ross," he said in his Independent off-handed way, “yon’re a generous-lienrted old man, but I’m no sponge. I don’t see why three husky fellows like us should be dependent on you." “Don’t you want to resume your old position when we start up business again?” Inquired Mr. Boss. “Surely, but I’m not bom to be Idle.” “All right; I’ll make anew bargain with all three of you fellows. There’s a big garden to take care of, there’s wood to saw and all kinds of odd Jobs about the place. Put In your time about them and I’ll pay a fair price for the service.” Rogers regarded his well-manicured hands and the rough garden tools, shrugged his shoulders and betook himself to his hammock. Mahon tried clearing some brush, got a few thorns In his fingers and hied him to cue and Ivories for solace. Bert pitched in forthwith. He mended the broken fences. He made the straggly garden look as If an ex pert had gone over It. One morning Mr. Ross came out to find him with saw and buck tackling a four-cord pile of stove wood. The old man’s eyes twinkled secret ly. That evening when work was sus pended. he stole out to the woodpile and put a little clinking bag way un der the last log of the heap. Bert rather liked the task. The wood was Just behind the kitchen where the falry-Uke form of pretty winsome Elsa constantly flitted. Sev eral times she brought the worker a glass of cool lemonade and then they had an enjoyable chat together. “See here Mr. Ross,” said Bert, two days later, “that wood Is all sawed and I found this little bog under the last log.” “Oho! yon did?” chuckled the old man. “What’s In It, now?” “A dozen gold half eagles." “That so?” chirped the old man. “I reckon the fairies have rewarded j-ou for your industry. See here, Mr, De laney. I put them there and you’re going to keep them." “I don’t like overpay—” began Bert. "There’s better than that coming,” announced Mr. Ross. ’’l’ve been studying you, and that ladylike book keeper, and that shiftless assistant manager. Yon can have the position If you want it." Bert did not reply. Ills face grew so serious and thoughtful that Mr. Ross stared at him in wonder. “Why!” he exclaimed, “you don’t mean to say you turn down that kind of a chance of a lifetime, do you?” “It depends,” said Bert deliberately. “On what?” "No —on whom,” corrected Bert. “I’m a plain, blunt fellow, Mr. Ross. Pm half In love with Miss Elsa. I'll be wholly in love with her If I stay here. That might not suit you—” "Does It suit her?” challenged Mr. Ross. “I think so, I hope so.” answered Bert. “Then go and settle It with her and decide on my offer.” And an hour later Bert had accepted the position, for Elsa had accepted Urn. Obtolete Document The folding rooms of the capltol are filled with thousands of publications that are either obsolete or worthless for public distribution, the public printer declares. In the storage vaults of the capltol may he found an nual reports on finance dating ns far hack ns 1870. agricultural yearbooks of the crop of 1879 (although new ad ditions are printed at the rate of 400,- 000 copies annually), reports on the I'nrls. exposition of 1878, ten-year-old nautical almanacs, prayers of the chaplain of the Sixty-second congress, army regulations dating back to 1805 and thousands of obsolete congres sional directories. Knew Their Origin A young woman recently received Instruction In the art of Indian basket ry, and had made several copies of In dian baskets of which she was proud. A friend, who had been liv ing In Arizona, culled upon the young woman, who showed the baskets with considerable pride. "They are really very well done,” commented the visitor, "but, of course, •they are not the real Indian baskets." “Why, Mrs. Robinson,” Indignantly exclaimed the maker, “how can you say that when I Just told you that 1 made them myself t" And Father Fled •‘Father,’’ said little Algernon, "why has my hair grown so much longer than yours, when yours has grown so mych longer than mine?” Exit father! According to recent claims of the Royal Aeronautical society, Solomon gave to the son of the Queen of Sheba a machine that is believed to be an air glider. a Card of Thanks We wish to thank each and every one of our friends for their kindness during the sickness and death of our dear mother, Mrs. E. B. Reeves, also for the beautiful floral offerings. —Her Children. SPEECH OF HONORABLE WILLIAM H. CARTER Barnesville, Ga., Feb. 10, 1925. Mr. B. H. Hardy. Dear Sir:—Attached you will find the speech of Hon. W. H. Carter to which I referred in conversation to day. This speech was delivered at the very pleasant occasion of the an nual banquet of the department and mill heads of the William Carter Company at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on the evening of January 29th. As you know Mr. Wm. H. Carter is president of the William Carter Company, of which the Barnesville mill is a part. If you agree with me that this will be of general interest your publish ing it would be very much appre ciated. Yours very truly, CARTER-COLLIER COMPANY, J. A. Cason, Asst. Treasurer. Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow Employ ees, Ladies and Gentlemen: It cer tainly gives me a great deal of pleas ure to greet you this evening and to talk with you, because it is not as it was this morning when I talked to the salesmen alone. lam now talk ing not only to the salesmen but to those who have helped the salesmen and helped the organization. So we have with us this evening the fore ladies, the foremen, the salesmen, the superintendents, our head sales man, heads cf the different depart ments that plan the work and the whole key to the William Carter Company. All here for a good time. I am going to take up but little of your time in talking to you this even ing because we are here for pleas ure, but I want to congratulate you on that wonderful, loyal co-operation that’ each department has given to the rest of this organization. That co-operation means everything to you and to. us. Co-operation means success. Those who are against co operation are carrying themselves down to ruin, and no concern can grow to be great and famous with any articles that it manufactures un less it has behind it loyal and honest people. Employees embued with a will and a determination to do every thing that they are told to do. This is also true of our superintendent, who knows how to direct them in their work, with the knowledge that it can be accomplished; and our head salesman who plans the sales, be cause he has had practical experience and knows how to sell goods, as Mr. Drumheller knows how to make them. This organization, growing up through loyalty and honesty, has learned a great many things, and still has a great many more to learn, but I would not give a hurrah for any concern in the United States that cannot make a success with this loy alty and with this free feeling, which each has for the other. I do not care for all the competition there is anywhere in the United States, and Pure Drugs The greater ef ficiency of Pure Drugs makes it worth w hile to come to this store where on ly the purest of Drugs are used. Barnesville Drug Cos. J. E. BUSH, Manager # Barnesville, Georgia after traveling abroad last year, 1 do not give a hurrah for all the com petition there is the whole world. We have an organization that haH been growing step by step for 25 years. It has been a wonderfully progressive organization. It was started 00 years ago by a man who came from England a short time be fore, with but five shillings in his pocket, getting a job as soon as he landed in New York. In due time he put one machine in his kitchen, and from that time on added another and then another. Finally a little shop was built and from that, this organization has grown. 1 feel proud of it tonight and I feel proud of every single one of you who has helped us so ma | ttrially. I have never been as proud I as I was yesterday when it was my privilege to go up to the Springfield Mill and show you all what a won derful mill we have there, and the splendid type of people that are working in this factory, as fine as you would find anywhere. Compare them with the high school scholars; yes, compare them with those in our colleges. Look at the men who are working there; look at the women, and any man who is familiar with people of that kind cannot help but feel proud. He cannot help but feel happy. We are going on to bigger I and better things. Our factories will sometime cover many acres of land and we will have many offices | scattered throughout the United , States, until every man and every ! woman in every household, from one 1 end of this country to the other, North, East, South and West, when ; they talk of underwear will talk only ; 'of Carter’s. It will be the family' watchword throughout the country. It seems to me that there has been ! considerable talk in later years by ( ! scientists about the subconscious j mind. You have read it in books, j and 1 have thought about this a great j many times. lam not going to try j to describe to you what the sub-! conscious mind is, as far as books j or science is concerned, but we all j know that the subconscious mind is l always working, and it has brought to me a great many times the answer to those things that I have been thinking about. I have thought sometimes of things l pertaining to genius and patents— something that was going to reduce | the cost of labor, or some other angle of our business that bothered me. I ! have gone to sleep thinking about it J and would wake up in the morning with it still on my mind. I would think of some new device that could reduce the labor, improve the meth ods, and thus lessen the cost. I knew that it could be accomplished, and finally after having given this great thought the subconscious mind brought before me a true picture— an answer to those things that I had been thinking and worrying about. The subconscious mind works while you are asleep. It works while you are awake, and that man or woman who has got his mind on that par ticular thing which is bothering him will have those thoughts come to him almost like a flush out of a clear sky. You can see it as plain as clay and you say to yourself, "Why didn’t I think of that before?” That is how the subconscious mind that you have been reading about so much in late years works. But it never reveals anything to the man or woman who does not think. It comes only to those who are ready to receive it; who put their energy into all they do, and think over those thinga which they want to accomplish, saying to themselves, “Can I do these things better?” So it is with you salesmen. You are going out to sell your quota, and you are going to increase the sales of our organization this year by over two million dollars. You have got Ito do .something besides work. You have got to work and think, and this thinking will save you many miles of travel. It will help you to do what vou are doing better, and by thinking and planning you are going to better understand the people with whom you will have to deal. The subconscious mind is a great master over men and women if they will only think, and we urge you to get busy along those lines of endeavor. There are many people in the mill who now hold responsible positions, and many more who would like to hold responsible positions, who are willing to think; and some real good thoughts come from some of the peo ple in our mills who, although they do not hold very high positions, show that they can think. They are the ones who will and do receive promo tion. A great organization like this does not achieve success just by sheer luck. It comes from good manage ment on the part of those who think. An organization of this sort appre ciates the alert minds among its em ployees and they know that the great est asset of any corporation or any organization, is to have employees who are working for its interests. I am proud of you and I like you.