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Way. Julyj g, 1940
—NEWS FROM—
ROCKY
PLAINS
By MISS IRENE HARVRY
Services at Countyline Baptist
Church: Morning and evening
worship services will be held at
Countyline Baptist Church next
Sunday, July 21st. Sunday School
will meet at 10:00 under the di
rection of Mr. Wash Steadham.
Mr. Steadham is deeply interested
in the work and has won the
nearts of the members of the Sun
day School. Rev. G. W. Huime of
Monroe, pastor, will preach. You
are most cordially invited to at
tend these services.
Mrs. Paul Stewart and son,
Thomas, spent Friday night and
Saturday with Mr. and Mrs.
Pressley Boyd, in Porterdale.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hearn and
Mr. Edgar Thacker, of Decatur,
spent the week-end with Mrs. Jo
sie Harvey and Mrs. W. B. Har
vey.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Boyd had as
their week-end guests Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Wicks and children,
Marvin and Lewis, of Atlanta.
Misses Lurlene and Mary
Thompson spent several days re
cently with their brother. Mr. J.
R. Thompson, in Laurensburg, N.
c.
Misses Virginia, Lizzie V. and
Shirley Holder and Russell Holder
of LaGrange are visiting their
unde and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Cook.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Adams
and children, of Porterdale, were
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greed to by attorneys for
in a damage suit filed
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from a State of
protection of the
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bals of the
minted out that the division
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cture before hearing argu
f counsel in order to get
0 background and not as
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Home," Bardstown, Ky. Shown 1. to r_ Cols. Robert out of 33-passenger
Barry, New York; J. Fred Miles, Kentucky; Lieut-Gov. new
Rodes K. Myers. Kentucky, and Howard Chandler stratoliner with machine i rm
Christy, who painted the great composer's portrait. 40271 guns in Army test. Wrl
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.
V. Smith.
Miss Ruby Warren entertained
the young people with a birthday
party recently.
j Mrs. Ola Harvey Thacker is vis
iting relatives in- Decatur and At
lanta.
Miss Jimmie Long, of Coving-
ton, spent last week with Mr. and
Mrs. Homer Long.
Miss Virginia Holder, rrf La
Grange visited Miss Olena Pres
ton Thursday afternoon.
Miss Irene Harvey attended the
Gevington News iuncheon at the
Delaney Hotel Saturday.
Mr. Lory Preston spent several
days last week with his uncle, Mr.
Bruce McCart, at Snapping
Shoals.
Tribute
Below is a resolution to one of
of the leading residents of Rocky
Plains, submitted by the entire
community of Rocky Plains:
Once again the death Angel
has visited our community at
Rocky Plains on Saturday, June
22, 1940. a sweet spirit was re
leased from pain and suffering
and took its flight to God who
gave it uniting Mrs. Minnie Gard
ner Thompson with those who
them in praise and adoration of
ed so long and faithful.
Mrs. Thompson life was early
given to God, uniting with Hop
well associate reformed Presby
terian church, And its interest
lay close to her heart. She gave
to it many years of faithful and
untiring service, She contribu
ted to every department of its
work with a whole-hearted loy
alty and self-sacrificing spirit.
She served many years as a
Sabbath School teacher for the
ladies cla.^s. She was a splendid
teacher.
She was a Charter member of
the woman’s Missionary Society
of Hopewell. She held various
offices and in every care was
faithful and could be depended
upon to attempt willingly any
duty asked of her.
She was a regular attendant
upon all church services and
meeting of any sorts of the society
as long as it was her privilege
to attend.
We shall sorely miss her quiet,
but cheerful presence, her sane
counsel, her material aid, and
most of all her prayers.
She will be sorely missed as
mother. In a very few months
the children not once, but twice,
have heard the message that
our “Lord doth not willingly af
flict” but “doth all things well”
He’s own word is “fear thou not
for I am with thee. I will
strengthen thee! yea I will help
thee! for I will uphold thee”,
community and home 1 but her
works do follow her.
May her example inspire those
of us who remain to “carry on
our great work with great zeal
with an even brightening vision
we shall see again our love ones.
We commend her children to
Him who alone can comfort her
and pray that they may follow
her as she held at Hopewell on
Sabbath after noon June 23, at
at 4.00 o'clock with Rev. T. P.
sence of a large group of joining
relatives and friends. The many
beautiful wlowers were just one
testimony of the esteen in which
she was held.
She is servived by two daugh-
THE COVINGTON NEWi
Tomorrow's
Sun
By the time these lines appear
j in Convention print, the Democratic have, National
may and pro
i bably will have, nominated Mr.
Roosevelt for thq presidency. This
will suit th e writer perfectly and
suit the country the same.
But if the Democrats should go
contrary to expectations and nom
inate another candidate than Roo
sevelt, our second choice would
be James A. Farley, the big,
wholesome and aple Democratic
Naional. Chairman.
With the sole exeception of
Farley is probably the most popu
lar man in United States, for
many good reasons. As remarked
before in this column, the nick
name “Big Jim” fits him like a
glove -pits the hand. He is big
in physique, big in character, and
and big in ability. He has done
the bigges job for his party of any
National Chairman in its history.
He has done the biggest job as
Postmaster-General of any man to
hold that post. If elected presi
dent, he would do another big job.
His qualifications measure up to
the Presidency, great as the off
ice is.
The Washingtin writers predict
that Chairman Farley will step
down at Chicago, and thenceforh
devote his great talents to organ
izing a syndicate to buy the New
York Yankees, where we hope
the Big Boy will make himself a
million dollars. He richly de
serves it, as he has gone in debt
on his Postmaster-General’s sal
ary. As National Chairman he
drew no salary or emoluments of
any kind.
Chip Roberts, of Atlanta and
Washington, announces that when
Chairman Farley steps down, he
(Chip) will step out as Secretary
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, Just here it is pertinent
to observe that Chip has done a
very fine job for the party also.
In only one particular is the
Republican nomination of Wen
dell‘Wilkie objectionable to Ga.
people. This is the fact that Pres
ton S. Arkwright is likely to
to be chosen as his successor to
head the Commonwealth – Sou
thern Corporation, which will take
him to New York.
Georgia has no abler citizen
and business man, no more be
loved gentleman, than the great
President of the Georgia Power
Company. His removal to New
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! Mrs. A. G. Shankle has return
ed home after spending a month
In New Orleans with her sons and
their families.
Miss Hazel Brown, of Atlanta,
and Master Doyle Moore, of Roys
ton, visited Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Brown, Friday night.
Mrs. C. P. Deden and daughter,
Dorothy, left Tuesday for their
home in Houston, Texas, after a
visit with Mrs. W. C. Jones.
Mr. Herbert McNabb, of Atlan
ta, spent the week-end with his
mother, Mrs. Janie B. Smith.
Mr. Carl Giles was the week
end guest of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Giles.
Mrs. W. C. Jones had as her
guest over the week-end. Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Jones, Jr., and Mr.
Harrison McCrory, from Royston.
Mrs. Hendrix Rountree left Sat
urday for Savannah to join her
husband, after visiting her par
ents, Mr, and Mrs. W. E. Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Floyd had
as their dinner guests Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. P. O. Floyd and baby,
Janet; Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Jans
sen, of Atlanta.
Mrs. Hugh Chambers has re
turned to her home in Atlanta
after visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. R.
Gardner.
Mrs. Ufa O’Neal, from Roberta,
returned to her home Sunday af
ter spending several weeks with
her niece, Mrs. T. H. Whit.
Mrs. G. B. Ellis and Mr. and
Mrs. Weyman Ellis spent Sunday
afternoon with Mrs. W. C. Jones
and Mrs. J. C. Fdlis.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Gailey, of
Covington, visited Mr. and Mrs.
A. G. Brown, Sunday evening.
Miss Bessie Turnbull left last
week for her home in Florida
after spending some time with
Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Carroll.
Mrs. Carl Giles, Mrs. J. D. Boyd
and Mr. Claud Giles spent Tues
day in Atlanta.
Mrs. William Ellis and little
daughter, Margelee, have gone to
Gillsville to visit her parents,
Mr .and Mrs, Henderson.
Consumption of flue-cured to
bacco in cigarettes and smoking
and chewing tobacco increased
about 13 million pounds in 1939
over 1938,
Thompson. Covington, two sons,
Messers W. H. Thompson, Dan
ville, Va,, and J. R. Thompson,
Laurmburg, N. C. one brother,
Mr. J. S. Gardner, Covington,
six sisters, Mrs. J. T. Weaver,
DoraviUe, Mrs. J. W. McDaniel.
Gardner, Columbus, Mrs. J. O.
Black and Miss Bell Gardner,
children, Harriet and Katherine
and John Riley Thompson, Dan- l
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Powder Springs Club
will Aid Wild Life
Cooperation of sportsmen ift
southwest Cobb County to
stop dynamiting and seining in
Sweetwater Creek was urged
by John W. Beall, assistant dir
ector of the Division of Wildlife,
in an address to the Men’s Club
of Powder Springs recently.
The club is planning to esta
blish hatcheries in the Powder
Springs area after it was learned
that streams and ponds may be
stocked with young fish.
York would be a heavy loss to the
entire State. Mr. Wilkie un
doubtedl was the strongest man
the Republicans could have nom
inated, ami Mr. Arkwright is em
inently qualified to take his place
as head of the Commonwealth –
Southern. But still, Georgia can
not afford to lose him for the
benefit of the Republican Party.
If the country ever had an abler,
fairer, squarer president than
Preston Arkwright. He has been
at the helm of the Georgia Power
companies for a third of a century
He is universally respected and
admired throughout Georgia, both
on account of his brilliant abili
ty and his liberal dealings with
the public and his company’s em
ployees.
It was through his far-sighted
vision and faith that the power
company in 1912 commenced a
vast and far-flung system of hy
dro-electric plants and transmis
sion lines to provide Georgia with
abundant cheap power for the
benefit of the people and as a
means of attracting new indus
tries to he State.
Mr. Arkwright is a national
figure in the power industry, and
has long exercised a powerful in
fluence in shaping its policies
and public relations. He has ser
ved as president of the National
Electric Light Association and also
as president of the Association of
Edison Illuminating Companies.
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PAGE THREE
Bourdon Turtle Pokes
Around for 27 Years
One hundred yards in 27 years i
Such is the rate of one Bowden
errapin, set free in 1923 by its
owner, W. M. Adams. Rough
calculation places the speed of
the “slow poke” animal at slightly
more or less than .0245 inches per
hour.
Mr. Adams scratched his inlials
on the tortoise's shell and bade
him farewell, but the creature,
apparently having nowhere to go,
just traveled in circles for overU
a quarter-century. Mr. several Adams |
reports having seen him
times in the interim.
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