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VOL 8
6. F. Homcutt,
Farmer-Editor,
To Oppose Brown
G F. Hunuicutt, prominent
tanner and editor of the Southern
Cultivator, a well kuown farm
publication, is a candidate for com
nnssioner of agriculture of Geor¬
gia iu opposition to John J Brown,
subject to the democratic primary
-next year,
Mr. Huunicuit’s formal auuouce
meet, made Saturday, follows:
“I. hereby announce to the vot
era of Georgia that I am a euudi.
date for the (.osition of commis¬
sioner of agriculture. Friends from
mauy sections of the state have
asked me to run. 1 have nev*-r
asked tor office before. My lite has
been spent on the farm, and work,
ing for the interest of the farmers,
for the last twenty years 1 have
naveied into every county in our
state, meeting personally thous¬
ands of our farmers and familliar
izing myself with the couditions
under which they labor, so I am
acquainted with the needs of the
farmers from first-hand informa¬
tion. If elected to thi9 responsi¬
ble positiou 1 promise to give our
people:
“1. Afclean, conservative, busi¬
ness admii)8tratiou.
“2. I will endeaver to make the
iuforma8ion given out by the de¬
partment rotiable and worthy of
couddece at home and abroad.
expenses,
and the number of appointees, as
much as possible, m keeping with
efficiency. A great effort is now
beiug made to increase taxes. 1
aland tor a decrease in expenditures
ami belter service.
‘*4. i will co-operate fully with
the agricultural college, and other
state ageucies that are working for
the upbuilding of agiieulture iu our
state.
"is, I will work to keep our state
iu her position as the empire state
of the south, and liftli iu agricultur.
al production in the Uuited Slates,
which place she formerly held.
“6. 1 will do all in to
- bring the department into more vital
touch with the practial fanners ot
oar state, instead of using the pat
ronage of the office to build up i
political uiacniue,’
‘‘7. 1 will endeavor to get a
more perfect system worked out,
whereby the live departments un¬
der the commissioner’s direction
mey be correlated so as to save list
motion time anu money. The state
auditor in his report to Ex-gover
nor Hardwick said the books in the
agricultuial department are loosely
kept. This department could be
run on two thirds of the present
expenditure.’
‘‘8, [ ask tor the active sup¬
port and the vote of ail my friends
the friends of my fathe. Dr. J . B.
Hunnicutt, who once held the po
sition of assistant commissioner of
agriculture, and of all who desire
clean, conservative methods in the
administration of our governmen¬
tal offices.
“9. 1 am frequently told that
it will be hard to beat J. J. Brown
and bis huge political machine,
which he has systematically built
up by the bestowal of the patron¬
age cf the office.’ I put it up
Bquarely to the voters of Georgia
whether they will endorse such
methods or not.’
The present commisskner
hrs held the office eight years.
This is long enough.’
“G. T Hunnicutt”
FOLEY f0» RNfUMATINM KIDNEY AND Hilo fUODEB
KIPNfYS
Two S.|SchooIs|
Name Committees
For Christmas
A union Christmas tree for
■Sunday Schools of the Ellijay Bap¬
tist church and Methodist
south, will be given at the Ellijay
Baptist church at 6 o’clock Mon
day evening, Dec 24.
The following committees
ippointed:
1. Committee to buv presents:
\lrs. Chastain, Mrs. N. L.
ersley, Mrs, VV. A. Allen, Mrs.
H. Burtz.
2. -Committee to get tree: R.
J. Welch, Vergil Stephens, Her¬
man Pinson, J. F. Sigman.
3. Committee to get holly; J.
i’, Stephens, William James, Em
arson VVateis, Foster Milton, Kei>
uetb Patterfon, John Stephens,
Thomas Smith.
4. Decorating committee :Kev.
Jonu G. Lupo, Miss Peaii Cox,
Oiiaruie Tyukersley, Agnes Kay,
Mrs. Clias, Poindexter, Annie Sel¬
lers, Ida Simmons, Jim VVateis,
Carter Jones, Morris Tankersley,
Paul Sellers, Everett Kay.
5. Program comoiit.ee: Flora
Dover, Laura Kate \\ aters, VV m
nie Holden, Annie Sellers, ioa
oimmuus.
6. Committee to lemove pres¬
ents lrum tree: Roy Cobb, Ernest
Hudson, Carter Jones, Charlie
Poindexter, W. B. James, E. F,
Waters, Felix MuKinuish.
7. Committee to deliver pres¬
ents: Oleeta Tankersley, Mary Joe
Kay, Crawloru, bora Frames Or»*vf-*4> Alice Ainu,
tez iuary i rnsv..,
Audry Patterson, Erna Bell Chas¬
tain.
8. Committee to remove tree:
N. L. Tankersley, J. E. Barclay;
Dow Hamrick, Charlie r’oindex-n r,
E. F, Maters, Dr. E. VV. VVaikins
Jr*
cong—“Hark the Herald Angels
Sing,” by audience.
Prayer—By Kev- John G, Lupo,
Acrostic— ‘‘Merry Christmas,” by
14 girls and boys.
Heading—By Trances Cobb,
otory of the Ages—By 6 girls
neadmg—By Joe Sellers.
*»«■"« CRrrvls B)
II girls.
ZION KILL
Mre. M. M. Dale and daughter
Gladys, visited Mrs. Lillie Plem
mons Tuesday night.
Mis Carrie Davis was the guest
of Misses Opal and Eunice Latt«
Sunday and reported ? jolly time.
Miss Leila Sluder spent the
night with her sister, Mrs. A. J.
Davis Tuesday night’.
Mr. Fred Ferguson made busi¬
ness trip to Atlanta last week.
Misses Cordia and Gladys Dale
visited Mioses Estelle and Lola
Page.
Mrs. Sallie Hill visitad her
sister, Mrs. Ollie Higdon Thurs
day.
Mr. Ed Scott from Murray visi¬
ted his grandiathir. Mr. Bill Har¬
per recntly.
Mrs. Mary Souther was calling
on Mrs. W. M, Davis Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fowler
has moved to Mr. W. P. Harper’s
firm.
Arvil Fowler visited Howard
Plemmons Sunday.
Prater Souther made a business
trip to Ellijay Saturday.
There will will be a pound sup¬
per at Mr. A J . Davis' Christ¬
mas eve night.
Best wishes to the Times-Cou.
r tr and its many readers.
Delmer Harper has returned
home after visiting his father ,n
Atlanta. Rain and Mud
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DEC. 21. 1923
Christmas 1923
This is a time fur kind thoughts.
It is also a good tiifoe to^givej those
thoughts voice, Tp all subscribers,
readers and others fcfae Times-Courier
gives its greetings. \ This Christmas
we want to express i)ur good-will to¬
ward you, one and Jail, not in a cold
and distant way; blit, if w T e can in
words, friendly-like ms if we were face
to face.
By wishing you t merriest Christ
mas you ever had e shall enjoy our
own the more and o our little part
to widen the reach f good-will in the
world. We believ< the Christmas
spirit promotes the appiness of every
body, and so we p pose that every
one of us try hereai ter to make all
the days like Christ] as. In the name
of Him who saw tl e world first at
Christmas we greet rou.
Ctol Sample tu.u
His New Leaf
By CHRISTOPHER G. HAZARD
Gerk Be¬ |B LOOKED
Hero by like a farm i
a chunk. With
His his red hair,
Safe his growing forehead, low
Robber upon
his pale and watery
e ^ s - h,s *****
to figure and awk
ward maiiner , and
Firm—'His his slow speech,
Leaf of Gold he did not seem
billed for a suc¬
cessful life, and he caused many to
TS
ionable store. His name had shrunk
from Solomon to Sol, as an indication, j
lerhaps, liege that the full name was too ]
a program for him, while his
surname suggested that he was but a j
smrii part of what he desired to be.
TUs suggestion was based upon
fact, for there was in Sol a dissatis¬
faction with himself that gave promise
of improvement, an ambition that set
before dm a goal farther on and
higher ny than his smarter associates
had purpled. Beneath his red thatch
and behini his unattractiveness Sol
had a consdence, a heart and a most
determined vffl. it was the honesty
and the rellibility of his character!
that had givenhim favor with his em¬
ployer, and a certain considerate kind-,
liness had made him acceptable to the
customers — quafties not common
enough in these da.'s to be despised.
At this New Year time Sol Sample
was particularly anxbus to turn over
a new leaf. He sharer, the desire that
comes then to us all tt break into a
better future. It is an early stirring
of life’s spring season, i thought of
renewing with the young y^ar our lost
youth, of possible attainments of pur¬
ity and beauty, a rekindling of old en¬
thusiasms. Let those who will, sn
at New Year resolutions: there isB 8
reason for them and there Is prom» se
in them. They present to a plowbB 8 ^
something more than a mirage al 8 ' 3
they offer to a roue one more glim«P se
of heaven.
But Sol hardly knew what to w
upon the blank page after he
turned it. There seemed to him t
no better course than to plod thr
another three hundred and slxtyl k]
days as faithfully as he might
how, which was. after all, abou
good a prospect as anyone could
had. live-1
Sol’s puzzle, however, was si
for him by others and in a most
expected manner, as Is the case wlti
so many puzzles. In his makeup h
had taken the first nose that turnei
up and now he made the best possib
*6 ctjf
Was Marched Into the Little
Office.
of the first 1
event that gave him
It came about in this
After the holiday rush he had been
one evening to close the store. He
put things to rights and closed the
upon the proceeds of the day’s
and was about to extinguish
last light when he became con¬
that he was not alone In the
The next moment he felt the
of a revolver barrel upon his
and heard a firm, hard voice in¬
him to hold up his hands.
As his next experience he was
into the little office and
to open the safe. As he spun
knob that controlled the combina¬
he made a rapid survey of his
with his mind while he
fumbled with the numbers of the
He could think of nothing
■orth trying until there flashed upon
the memory of a certain trick by
hich he had once overthrown his
Adversary in a wrestling match. He
still had the muscle of an athlete and
e short stairway up to the desk
his plan. With a lightning-like
he displaced the weapon
sent his captor backwards down
stairs. Whirling to defend himself
was surprised to find no further
from the robber and upon
he found that with a
neck the thief had lost all
to do further mischief.
Sol thus became quite the neigh¬
hero. People began to put a
estimation upon him. He was
to a position in the factory,
output of which the store had
handling. From that, sterling
qualities carried him to a
Today his name is upon
sign that ach ertises the business,
there In full. Solomon Sample is
to become the whole piece. All
he discovered himself and
was found iu the emergency that
called for a real man. So It proved
Sol’s new leaf was a gold leaf.
($, 1931, WestWa Newvpsper Union.)
Special Legislature's
Session Cost State
$87,500, Report Says
The extra session of the Georgia
general assembly, which adjourned
lsst Friday, cost approxunetnly
187,500, according to estemates of
tt.o state treasury departmeut.
This is about $2,500 less than the
estimated cost of the session.
The per diem of senators and
representatives, a t $7 each, for
thirty eight days, aggregated $68,
652. Thu mileage of senators anu
representatives was about $7,986.
The secretary of the senate anu
clerk of the house received, iu the
iggregule, $4,490, out of which
ihoy paid their clerical a8sisi- ut s.
The messengers, doorkeer-^ 8 , P a S eo
»nd porters iu the br^sos received
<6,764. bo*ief expressed by leg¬
It is the
islators !*ad others that a single en¬
actment of the assembly—the En*
ais revenue bill—will more than
reimburse the state for the cost of
the legislature.
ELLA GAP NEWS
We are having some very bad
amy weather at this writing bu
«e shouldn't complain for we hao
such a pretty fall
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Daven
port are visiting her parents Mr
and Mrs Walter Lindsey, of Ti¬
oga.
Mrs. Alice Ray and Miss
cie Odum visited Miss Ellen Eller
last Sunday.
xauua CUlUlilin^
and Miss Vera Wooten visited
Misses Ellen and Cleo Elitr last
Sunday afteinoon.
Air Garvin Davis has returned
home after spending quite awhile
in the north.
Mr. Will Evans and family has
moved to rhe T. T. Pope farm
near Ella Gap,
Tilton Eller was calling on A.
W. Cumming Sunday afternoon.
Frank Stenibrioge is still saw¬
School will be out next Friday,
a successful term taught by
Robert Holt.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holt will
Christmas with homefolks
Mountaintown.
Some Whitestone fellows came
to Ella Gap Saturday night,
the night in the depot and
very burning it down.
Mr. A. W. Cumming is build¬
a very pretty house for Mr.
D. Ralston, on top of the
Early Hill. Mr- Ralston will
that his home. Mr. Kin¬
will move to Mr. Ralston’s
Mrs. Laura Davis visited Mrs.
Ralston last week.
Christmas will soon be here so
hutry up everybody and get your
presents ready. We are expect¬
ing to have a Christmas tree at
Libei ty.
Best wishes to the Times-Cou
and its many readers.
Merry Christ mas
Better Than Pills
For Liver Ills.
Closes Go. for High^School Christmas;
Has Successful Term
Under the splendid management
of Prcf. Panter the first half of the
term of 1923-24 has closed after
having reached an enrollment of
310 pupils. The largest and most
successful in the history of the
school.
About one-third of our number
*re boys and girls from the couu
try, who have come here, rented
room8 aud -foing their cooking m
order t*»t they may take advan¬
tage of opportunities offored in
this school.
Two literary societies have been
rganized for the high school pu¬
pils. James Tankersley is presi
aent of the Lanier t&nd Lowery
Holden of the Lowell society.
Eeacli society gives two pro¬
grams a mouth, on Friday after¬
noons, to which the friends of the
school are invited.
Our school library is one of the
oest iu North Georgia, having just
received a large number of books
writteu by the best authors. It is
delightful to watch the eagerness
witu which the children read these
ooOks. Miss Annie tellers, the
librarian, is to be commended for
the uutiriug effort she mauifosts
in the discharge of her duties. We
now have the required number of
nooks necessary for an accredited
high school.
The music class of 3) pupils un
der the direction of Mias Gls
Adams has made splendid progress
otic is efficient in her work, having
a natural tuleot for music together
with her splendid training which
makes bar a very capable teacher.
Thu domestic science department
under the efficient management of
Miss Stumbridge has done good
work. She has a class of forty-two
high school girls. Who could es.
innate the amount of good that
the r*
will roach homes us a result o!
tuu traiuiug?
Due to the leadership and uu<
tiraug efforts of the president of
the Parent-Teacher's .association,
Mrs, Alice Teem, and her faithful
co-workers, this organization lia*
been an important factor in the
success of the school. They equips
ped a first aid and a rest room, also
printed 5U0 bulletins which is a
credit to any school. They placed
a handsome table and hoc,tease in
fcne library, a cabinet iu the do¬
mestic science room and have an
order for a roller top desk to be
used iu the principal’s office.
The spelling match ot Dec. 7th
which was giveu lor the benefit of
the school, was sponsered by tHis
organization.
As the old year goes out aud the
ueiv comes in the faculty, with co¬
operation of the good people ot the
town, hope to carry this good work
forward-building character und
further citizenship tor our country,
Mrs. Ella Fowler,
Chairman Publicity Committee.
School Notice
The annual trustee’s election
will be held Dec. 28th, .1923.
The 1924 school term will begin
December 31st, 1923, Let all the
country schools start on that date.
Respectfully,
F. E. Pettit, C. S. S.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
C A S T OR I A
FOLEY KIDNEY PIUS
FOB 8ACKACHS KIDNEYS AND SUDDEN.
