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ROCKY HILL NEWS.
Mias S. P. Skelton visited Mr. and
Mrs. Starr of Logansville last week.
Mrs. G. G. Davis spent Sunday
with Mrs. W. S. Jones and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Eason and
daughter, Rosie, visited Mr. T. N.
Skelton’s family Sunday.
Mrs. W. B. Mann spent Monday af¬
ternoon with Mrs. G. B. Dial.
Miss Juliet Skelton spent Tuesday
night with Miss Elma Mann.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Peek and chil¬
dren spent Friday night and Saturday
with Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Dial.
Mr. Gus Giles was in this communi¬
ty Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mann were the
guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Mann, Sunday afternoon.
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Mr. John Giles, of Wanutgrove,
was in this community Saturday.
Misses Bessie and Fima Mann visit¬
ed Misses Motes of Princeton Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Dial and tw r o
children spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Peek
of near Zingara.
Mr. Charlie Lee of Lithonia was in
our midst Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Dial spent Sun¬
day with his son Mr. Carl Dial.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Costley and Mr.
and Mrs. Claud Hood passed through
this community Sunday.
The 4th quarterly convention of the
Centerville union S. S. Association
will be held with Salem S. S. 7 miles
East of Conyers Saturday Oct. 22.
Every body invited to come and bring
full baskets.
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Tingling Ears.
If your ears burn, people say, some
one is talking about you. This is very
old, for riiny says, "When our ears do
glow and tingle some do talk of us in
our absence.”
Shakespeare in “Much Ado About
Nothing” makes Beatrice say to Ur¬
sula and Hero, who had been talking
of her, “What Are is In mine ears!”
Sir Thomas Browne ascribes this
conceit to the superstition of guardian
angels, who touch the right ear if the
talk Is favorable and the left If other¬
wise. This Is done to cheer or warn.
One ear tingles, some there be
That are snarling now at me!
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Just as you are pleased at finding
faults you are displeased at finding
perfection.—Lava ter.
MIXON NEWS.
Mrs. O. L. Holmes spent Sunday
with Mrs. T. H. Aiken.
Mrs. James Hodges was the guest
of Mrs. M. J. Pickett Sunday.
Mr. Hulon Leverett, of Meehanics
ville, spent a short wfhile Sunday af¬
ternoon witjh Mr. McCart.
Mr. I. T Parker made a busines
trip to Jackson Thursday.
Several young couples from here
attended the singing at Gaithers Sun¬
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Goins visited
relatives in Jasper Sunday.
Mr. Dawson Red, of Eudora, was
a visitor here Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. W. H. Ivey spent Saturday
afternoon with Mrs. J. H. Pope.
Mr. Ray Reynolds spent Monday in
Mansfield.
Mrs. M. J. Pickett left Wednesday
for Alabama, where she will spend
several months with her daughter,
Mrs. Emmett Nash.
Mr. W. H. Ivey made a business
trip to Covington Thursday.
Mr. W. Aiken, of Covington, spent
Thursday here with relatives,
Mrs. Edd Bawels and her mother,
Mrs. Thomas, of Butts county, visit¬
ed Mrs. W. C. Pope the latter part
of the week.
Mrs. J. H. Pope and daughter, Miss
Sallie Mae, spent Wednesday after¬
noon with Mrs. A. J. Fincher.
Several young people from Eudora
attended Sunday School here Sun¬
day.
Mr. M. I. Glazier, of Concord, spent
several days last week here with
friends^
Mrs. Herman Grant spent Tues¬
day in Covington shopping.
Mr. P. J. Rogers, of Covington,
and Miss Nelle Wright, of Leguinn,
spent a short while Sunday afternoon
with Mrs. Herman Grant.
Mr Emmett Nash, of Alabama, vis¬
ited relatives here the latter part of
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pope spent
Monday in Covington, the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Will Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pope and lit¬
tle daughter, Rutih, spent Sunday
with the latter’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. I. L. Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fincher spent
Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr.
and Mr®. Billie Fincher.
Messrs. Will Savage and Venus
Aaron, of Hayston, and several young
men from Gaithers, attended the sing¬
ing given by Misses Nellie and Ora¬
cle Parker Sunday night.
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LEGUINN LOCALS.
Mr. John P. Thompson spent Sun¬
day with his daughter, Mrs. E. B. Ed¬
wards.
Mr. Clarence Meadors was the guest
of Messrs. Bloss and Bankston Elling¬
ton, Sunday.
Mr. J. S. Wright and Miss Lois
Wright spent Monday in Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Piper, of
Snapping Shoals, were guests Satur¬
day and Sunday of the latters parents
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bailey.
Miss Lartrelle Meadors had as her
guests Sunday Misses Clara Meadors,
Lois Wright and Bessie Thompson and
Mr. Frank Meadors.
Mr. Pelses Austin, of Salem spent
Wednesday here with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wright and lit¬
tle Miss Eloise Corley of Starrsville,
visited Mrs. J. S. Wright’s family last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lassiter and
children were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Austin Sunday.
The young people enjoyed the sing¬
ing very much, given by Mrs. I. W.
Maedors Sunday afternoon.
A Startling Reply.
“It is very detrimental to the con¬
versation if you play bridge while
talking. A gentleman once entered a
room and walked up to a lady who
was deeply engrossed in correcting her
score. ‘How d’ye do, Mrs. So-and-so?’
he exclaimed.' ‘I have just met your
children with the nurse. By the way.
how many have you got?’
“The lady looked up and replied,
‘Sixteen above and twenty-four be¬
low.’ ’’—From “The Confessions of a
Bridge Player,” by Quilon.
How Stupid!
Mrs. Jones treading)—It says here
that a nautical mile is 6,080 feet and
a statute mile is only 5,280 feet. Why
Is that? I thought a mile was a mile.
Mr. Jones (without looking up from
his paper)—Well, a mile is a mile, but
a statute mile is measured on dry
land, while a nautical mile is measured
on the water, and you know most
things swell when in water.
Mrs. Jones (resuming her reading)—
Why. of course! How stupid!—Ladies’
Home Journal.
Th* Advice Seeker.
“When a man asks me for advice,”
said the good natured person, “I al¬
ways find myself getting into a dis¬
cussion.”
“Well,” replied Mr. Sirius Barker,
"most of us ask for advice because
we would rather argue than work.”—
Washington Star. (|
JUVENILE BLOCKHEADS.
Stupid Boys Who Developed Into World
Famous Men.
There is quite a long record of fa¬
mous men who in their boyhood were
regarded as fools and dullards. Sir
Walter Scott was called a “blockhead”
by his mother. The mother of Brins¬
ley Sheridan despaired of teaching him
the simplest elements. Her death
aroused him to activity and he bet a me
a scholar, philosopher, poet, wit, states¬
man and orator. Dean Swift, the keen¬
est wit of his age, was “plucked” at
Dublin university. Newton. Shake¬
speare, Michelangelo and Oliver Gold¬
smith all come in the category.
One day a slatternly woman rushed
out of a little grocer’s shop gripping
an unkempt boy by the ear, and as she
pulled him along she shouted to her
neighbor:
“My heart is fairly broke with that
brat, Tammy, and he is so stupid he
can learn nothin’!”
That stupid brat Tammy became the
poet Tom Moore.
- In a country schoolhouse in Queen's
county, Ireland, a boy with a blunt
knife cut in the desk “A. W.,” the in¬
itials of his name. The teacher, who
caught him in the act, cried out:
“Stupid, you are better at cutting let¬
ters and destroying desks than you are
at learning your lessons!”
That boy was Arthur Wellesley,
known to fame as the Duke of Wel¬
lington, hero of Waterloo.
In the middle years of the last cen¬
tury, In St. Malachy’s college, Belfast,
a boy carved the letters “C. It.” in the
wood. The French professor reported
him and declared that he “was besides
a worthless boy, who would never
amount to anything.”
“I will amount to more than you!”
returned the youth.
He did, for he became lord chancel¬
lor of England—Lord Russell of Kil
lowen.—London Graphic.
Peculiarities of Lichene.
The lichen la remarkable for the
great age to which it lives, there being
good grounds for believing that the
plants endure for 100 years. Their
growth is exceedingly slow, almost be¬
yond belief, indicating that only a lit¬
tle nourishment is necessary to keep
them alive. In a dry time they have
the power to suspend growth alto¬
gether, renewing it again at the fall
of rain. This peculiarity alone is
enough to make the lichen a vegetable
wonder, as it is a property possessed
by no other species of plant Another
Interesting fact about lichens is that
they grow only where the air is free
from dust and smoke. They may be
said to be a sure indication of the pu¬
rity of the air, as they are never found
growing In cities and towns where the
atmosphere Is Impregnated with dust,
•oat, smoke and other Impurities.
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