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Donalsonville <ga.) news Thursday, January i, iss*
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Out on a limb..
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cordings of this song have
been sold /vyithin;,, the past
two months .and, ii the ; Hym
nils containfog.it , laid
hack to
stretch moj-e.£hap } <|» r mi}q.
Eight of the outstanding
singing groups in the country
have recorded it. They include
such famous iChorpses -as The
Statesman quartet,The Le-
Fevre Trio, The; Stamps-
Baxter quartet, The jHarmb
neers and others,. Jt v has been
published by such.well known
publishing houses as Stamps
Publishing Co., of Dallas,
Texas. y
For this.- beautiful; \ and
stirring song, Brantley .Geor-
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A Card, of Thanks
I would like to take this
this opportunity to thank
eacn person for their prayers,
cards, flowers, and other re
membrances sent me while I
was in the hospital.
Mercian Minter
A Card of Thanks
I want to take this oppor
tunity to thank all the doc
tors and nurses at the Donal
sonville Hospital for their
kindness during my stay
there. i J
Buster Ausley
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I
ge received the magnificent
sum of twenty dollars. That
is all he has ever gotten out
|of it except the satisfaction
of knowing that he wrote it
and that it is published and
recorded under his name.
Asked' why he never re
ceived more, he gave the fol
lowing account:
During the crop year while
plowing he would hum to him
self and one day he noticed
;that he was humming the
same tune over and over and
’every now and then he would
make a change or two in it
until finally it suited him. He
drew straight lines and set
the tune to notes.
One Sunday afternoon he was
over at his son’s home and the
words suddenly came to him and
I when he got home he arranged
them to ' the music. The results
were that he had written the most
popular Sacred song of the cent
ury. That was in 1946.
The next ye A he went to the
county fair in Dothan, Ala_, where
one day and night is set- aside for
old fashioned singing. He showed
the song to Harvey Ethridge,
whose quartet was there and Har
vey asked his to let them sing it.
The crowd seemed to like it and
a fellow came up to him and ask
ed him if he would take twenty
dollars for the song. He took it.
Brantley George, his wife and
six children, share cropped with
‘ Hanks Davis for some years and
for a longer time with Dr. A. B.
Davis. A couple of years ago he j
bought a farm in Early county
just above Jakin upon which he I
made a down payment. He is 63
years of age but works like a ■
young man. When interviewed he •
was carrying a load of com that
looked too big for an ox to carry.
When asked where he learned •
music he said that he had attend-^ 1
ed several traveling music classes.
He said that the first singing 1
school he attended was taught by I
Mr. Ethridge and that he studied
narhidny under Mr. S. J. Perry.
He has fead “Lane’s Analysis of
Harmony and Composition” and
“Dr. Herbert’s Harmony” and
“A. J. Shoewaiters Harmony”.
Mr. George says that words just
come naturally to him an<j that he
sometimes huffiß the tune an 3
makes wp thfe words as he gt»ee j
long. He .has had 25 other ,
published, although none have been !
as big a hit as “Hide Me, Rock Os
Ages”. | ,
Brantley George has spent the
twenty dollars and is still holding
the bag.
LIONS SEE SLIDES
OF SANTA
The Donalsonville Lions
met Tuesday after an absence
of one week for Christmas.
Jabo King, program chair
man, presented Henry Erwin,
who showed slides of Santa
Claus’ visit to Donalsonville,
and Jim Steiner, who showed
a film on Summer camping.
iD. F. Wurst, chairman of
Santa Claus committee, ex
pressed his appreciation to
OBITUARIES
A.
; Mrs. Edward A. Pumphrey, Sr
1 Mrs. Edrawd A. Pumphrey,
Sr., 78, of Donalsonville
. formerly of Oakland, Cahf.,
passed away Sunday morning l
.in a local hospital after a
. lengthy illness. f ■=
Funeral services held
•Monday morning \n Friend
ship Methodist C^ urc h, w jth
Rev. Henry Er*i n and Rev.
• C. B. Ware Evans
Funeral Hora® was in charge.
! Active ’pa&bearera were Bo
; McLeod v Tun Williams, Boyce
r Hall, Luther Spooner, Norman
; Hatcher and William Hoyle.
Following the service, the
f body was shipped to Oakland
i for interment in the Mountain
1 View Cemetery.
l Surviving are a son, Ed
j ward Pumphrey, Jr.,, Donal
i sonville; a daughter, Mrs.
■ Mary Ellen Gray, Berkley,
Calif., two sisters, Mrs. Ben
’ Cravey, El Paso, Texas, Mrs.
> Ester Branscum, Oakland;
’ t/wo brothers, Otto Hvidberg,
■ Haines, Oregon, Johnny Hvid-
■ berg, Eloy, Arizona, five
grandchildren and one great
grandchild-
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Brantley C. George
The man who wrote one of
[gospel music’s biggest hits of
all time died at his home in
Jakin on Thursday morning.
I Brantley C. George, 77,
'died after a lengthy illness.
■He composed the song “Hide
i Me, Rock of Ages,” which has
been recorded by many of the
Reading gospel music artists
and which sold many copies.
George never realized the •
riches for his composition, be
cause he sold all rights to it
i for a small sum of money. He '
, wrote many others but none ' ;
,caught on like his Rock of , 1
, Ages number. ;
| Funeral Services were held '
Friday afternoon in the New '
Hope Baptist Church' near 1
Blakely.' Interment was in
the George family cemetery (
with Evans Funeral Home (
directing. Rev. Hugh Whits *
conducted the seryice. ‘ J
pallbearers for Mr, George 1
were Luther Waller, Griffin J
Houston, Renfro Ckrter, Vin
son Evans, Choice Chance and I
Morris Lindsey. J
Surviving are three sons,
Clinton George, Blakely, Ar
thur George, Archie George,
Jakin; two daughters, Mrs. <
Ray Reynolds, Lakeland, Fla., <
Mrs. K. R. Pomaroy, Taljahas- |
see; three sisters, Mrs. Wai- ■
ter Sheffield, Mrs. Green
Middleton and Mrs. J. B.
Gregory, Colquitt, 14 grand
children and seven great
grandchildren.
Harvey Lee Alday
Harvey Lee Alday, born
October 22, 1906, died Decem
ber 26, 1963 in Charleston,
S. C. He was the son of
Henry Franklin Alday and
Clara Smith Alday, formally
of Donalsonville.
He is survived by three
sisters, Mattie Keenum,
Charleston, S. C., Essie Kin
sey, Mt. Pleasant, S. C., Bes
sie Holley, Barnesville, Ga.;
a half sister, Dixie Donalson,
Bainbridge, Ga.' Also a half
brothel Hubert 1 Alday of Al-
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all who helped make Santa’s
visit a success, and promised
a financial report soon.
Visitors of the dub were
Nathan Gilbert, Jim Jernigan,
Gil Kelley, Jr., Tommy
Blackburn, Arthur Griffin
land Mike Hampton.
Os manners, morals, religious news..
I By. GB. Ware
Christinas - New Year
Transition
k Every life is a chapter in
jthe history of humanity. This
‘ends the 1963rd year of our
I I Lord from birt-h of the Baby
i Jesus in Bethlehem. Back
I through unmeasured -aeons
■ history has been - in- the
1 making. How long time has
• been matters little, bqt how
’ well it, has been used deter-
• mines the record in history
each individual.
J Half of the people in the
1 U.S.A, have lived - longer,
as much as three times, than
5 Jesus, the Man =of
1 His record in history radiant
-1 ly grows beyond e cempre-
Ihension, though there seem
’ ed but little promise of ac
complishment during hi s
• eartnly ministry. While the
’ record of the citizen called
I by my name may soon be
; but a misty memory in not
’ many minds. ’ 1
However, in the ten com
mandments we are warned!
' and assured that the iniqui
ties of the fathers are visit
ed upon the children untb
the third and fourth genera
tions, but mercy unto thou
sands. Meaning that evil will
finally die, but good is inde-
NEW LODGE OFFICERS
The regular election of of
ficers for the coming year was
held at Salem Lodge No. 267
F & A. M. The following were
elected by the members and
duly installed by Emsley To-i
Jar and Luther Hastey, past
masters of Seminole Lodge
No. 83:
I Jay T. Odom, worshipful
master; Sylvester Yates, se
' nior warden; J. W. Warciner,
junior warden; J. C. Earnest,
chaplain; Willis Collins, treasu
urer; J, W. Kirkland, secre
tary ; ’ I l:.l ■ • ■ • . .
James Stewart, senior dea
con; F. E. Carrol, junior dea
con ; M. J. Conyers, senior
Stewart; Bobby Earnest,*ju
nior steward; Aubrey Alday,
tyler; J. C. Earnest, director
of work. a 1 - 1 |
bany, Ga., several nieces and
nephews.
%ora Carnes t-'
Miss Sora Carnes a form
er resident of Donalsonville
died Tuesday in the Goodwill
Home in D ‘
Announcing
.abe sft wsi
I have purchased from the estate of the late Dr. Albert
H. Mills the • DfUg Business formerly known as
, . * vSemmote Drug Company.
- . A..3A
In the future the store will be operated under
1 the name of
SEMINOLE
There'■'♦iff be a '
Sensed duty at gU times Yflur
patronage wiU be^mi ated . to
Byron Merritt, J r .
structible because it is eter
nal.
The poet prays that all evil
deeds may die with the dy
ing year. Better to pray that
one may make needed amends
before the year ends, for
wrong is wrong and must be
righted, or by its ghost we’ll
be affrighted. It takes more
than wishful song to make
right any wrong.
In the world of business
industry, commerce stock
taking and checking for gain
or loss is essential. The
machinery of the much tout
ed automation wears out,
breaks down, and must have
constant care, repair and re
■ placement at heavy cost
[Witness the brand new local
paper mill two years in build
ing, in operation and physi
cally there is sickness, acci
dents and general debility
which necessitates medica
tion, hospitalization, doctors,
nurses, specialists, and lost
time with heavy expense,
leaving many victims dead
! broke and in ill health im
pairment. < ;
Into the doldrums of des
pair come the Light of the
World, gift of God. In the
spirit of that light and pro
mise has come all the good
represented by Christmas. In
this spiritual realm the Chris
tian plan of salvation makes
••provision for complete restor
• ation and establishment in
transition from the old, un
satisfactory situation into a
new creature in Christ Jesus
to whosoever will take stock,
figure out the great cost and
loss, and by faith seek the.
highest and best, the trans
formation can be made.
The year with its sins,
hurts, ills, and blessings is on
the way out. The sin-sick
soul can be .made miraculous
ly whole with the discarding
of the harmful, and beginning
again, ' x
There are many and vary
ing predictions of probable
conditions in the business and
political realm, and we are all
wearing out physically. Many
of these things are utterly be
yond our control, but in the
spiritual realm’,growing and
going on toward perfection is
possible with the help of the
All Powerful. Jesus said
“Seek first the kingdom of
God and righteousness, and
all these things shall be add
#d”.