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Rockdale Co.
Legals
Lible for Divorce
Angus Leon Mixson
Vs
Ethel bv-.rrell Smith Mixson
Superior Court, Rockdale
Ga.
January Term
Libel for total divorce.
T- Ethel Burrell Smith Mixson
Defendant.
You are hereby commanded to
be and appear a. the next term
of the Superior Court, Rockdale
County t Ga. to be held on Third
Monday in January 1942, to an
swer the complaint of the plain
tiff mentioned in caption, in his
libel for total divorce.
This 14 day of Nov. 1941.
C. R. Vaughn, Atty.
L. M. McDowell Clerk,
Superioi Court.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE
Georgia, Rockdale County.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary, of said State
and County, will be sold at pub
lic outcry on first Tuesday in
January, 1942 at the Courthouse
door in said County, between the
legal hours of sale: to wit 121
and acres being of land in more or less lying j
Rockdale County, j
Ga., in the 11 District originally
Henry now Rockdale County
known as the J. R. O’Neal home
place, and bounded as follows on
the North by lands of C. R. Mor
rison on East by lands of A. M.
O’Neal and M. J. Harbin on the
South by lands of A. M. O’Neal
and M. J. Harbin on the West by
lands of C. E, Williams. This farm
has 2 good dwellings 2 good barns
2 good pastures with running wa
ter in them, plenty of wood and
saw timber on farm. Porperty be
ing sold for distribution among
heirs Terms of sale cash.
This December 2, 194J.
A, M, O’NEAL, Executor of
J. R. O’Neal Estate.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends
for the kindnesses rendered dur
ing the illness and death of our
beloved mother, Mrs. Claudia
Hinton Nolan.
MRS. DESSA HITCHCOCK
MR. A.ND MRS. J. G. TLiRNER
MR. AND MRS. H. H. NOLAN
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many
friends for their kindness shown
us during the illness and death
of our dear husband and father.
MRS. L. D. DOBBS
MISS DOROTHY DOBBS
L. D. DOBBS, JR.
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i Mother of Colleges’-Emory at Oxford
Editods Note:—Describing emory
at Oxford as the “Mother of
leges,’* Cicero Leon Thompson, in
a feature article in the Sunday
MagazinesecbonoftheAtlanta
Journal, traces the origin of Emory
University and Georgia Tech back
to the town of Oxford.
In view of the widespread in
(crest in “Little Emory" the News
is reprinting the article for its
readers.
Oxford, Ga., is one up on Ox
j ford, England Only one Univers
j I ity was started at the English towm
of that name, but at Oxford, Ga.,
two of the largest schools in the
j state had their beginnings: Em
ory University and Georgia Tech,
Few people who see the impres
i si\'e pink marble building and
! smooth green lawns of the present
| | Emory campus realize that it was
| started as a small manual labor
i school back in 1834 The first
i students of Emory—there were 30
j j of them—had three hours to work day. on And the farm they
for a
didn’t care much for cotton-pick
ing time, either.
And hardly anybody who sings
about a Rambling Wreck from j
Georgia Tech knows that Tech can
trace its origin bake to the time
(1884) when Isaac Stiles Hopkins,
then president of Emory, began
teaching the boys something about
his hobby of tooleraft and design
n both wood and iron. The boys
learned to create so many beauti
ful and useful things that a de
partment of technology was put in
at Emory, out of which grew the
idea of a separate School of Tech
nology. established by the Legis
lature in 1889. Dr. Hopkins re
signed from Emory to become the
first president of Georgia Tech.
It is as the first home of Emory I
University, however, that Oxford
is best known. For 105 years
there has been a school there.
After Emory University was mov- J
ed to Atlanta in 1919, there was a
preparatory school at Oxford; in
1929 it was made into Emory j
Junior College, which has 200 stu
dents enrolled this session. Only
during Emory the War closed Between the school— States j
was as a
and then it served as a hospital
wounded Confederates. As soon
as the war was over, old Davy, the
school janitor, rang the historic
bell on top of Seney Hail to an
nounce the re-opening of classes. !
As the origin of this bell, which j
clanged a hundred strokes over ;
WSB for Emory’s centennial in j )
1936, and still rings for classes
every hour, there have been num- j
erous stories that have become
part of the legend of Oxford. Stu- !
dents and faculty members spo
radically make attempts to solv e
mystery. Old-timers at Oxford
said Napoleon Bonaparte brought
bell back from his Russian ex
pedition, and that Napoleon III
presented it to Dr Alexander
Means, who was then president of
Emory. The tale went that on Dr.
Means’ visit to France, he and the
Emperor discussing the I
were
school, and the Emperor expans
ively inquired if the school need- j
ed anything. Dr. Means said they
had no bell; so the Emperor said,
“Here, take this one."
However, when Dr. Harris !
Parks Jr. climbed up to the tower
in 1931 to copy the inscriptions on
the bell and found that these were
in Spanish, the story had to be re
vised to make it Napoleon's con
quest of Spain. According to this
account the bell was taken from
a Spanish monastery by the French
invaders. Another story has the
be ” coming from Florida, it is
very heavy about 3'4 feet high,
and inscriptions on it are partly in
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Scenes at Emory-at-Oxford
but mostly in Spanish.
they read, “In the year
1796 our Lady of Grace pray for
us. My sonorous voice with sweet
melody praises God, and guides
to Heaven. It was made the Rev
erend Father Maestro Friar Eu
genio Gomez being prior.’’
The late George W. W. Stone, of
the class of ’75, offered this ac
count of the bell’s origin: “Na
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vent bells in Spain and sent them
back to Paris to be made into can
nons. The metal was found un
suitable for this purpose, and
thrown aside. Dr. Means happened
to see one of these old bells 50
years later when he was visiting
Paris, and bought it for Emory.”
A letter from Dr. Sarah E. Bran
ham, who grew up in Oxford and
has since become one of the most
valued women employes of the
United States Government, states
positively that the bell was from
one of the ships of the Spanish
Armada, and was presented by
Queen Victoria to Dr. Means while
he was in Europe. This version
was corroborated by Mrs. Sue
Means Johnson, of Gainesville,
Ga., the granddaughter of Dr.
Means. There is a tale that the
bell was annoying to at least one
president of Emory—Dr. O. Z.
Smith—because the boys rang it
at all hours of the night. So. Dr.
Smith fixed that by taking the bell
down_ It was unused for years,
until in 1882 it was given its pres
ent place of honor on top of Seney
Hall. A great many names and
initials of famous as well as un
known Oxford graduates are carv
ed in the bell tower and on the
bell itself.
Contrary to general belief, Em
i ory-at-Oxford was not started as
a school for the education of Meth
odist ministers. It began as the
; Georgia Conference Manual Labor
] School. In 1836 the trustees of this
I school chartered Emory, which
later took over the G. C. M. L. S.,
to give students the classical edu
cation that the manual labor school
did not stress sufficiently, naming
the new venture for Bishop John
Emory, of Maryland, a famous
prelate who had presided over the
Georgia Conference the preceding
year. There is an amusing story
that the school owes its existence
to the love of “Uncle Allen" Turn
er, of the Conference for an argu
ment. Dr. Stephen Olin. president
of Randolph-Macon College in
Virginia, came to the Conference
to seek its support for his college,
and the Conference was ready to
oblige, when “Uncle Allen" saw
the chance for a debate, and rose
to his feet. “If education is such a
good thing,” he said staunchly,
“we had better have a college of
our own."
He lost the argument; the Con
ference voted to support Ran
doiph-Macon; but the seed was
planted, and when Emory event
ually was started, it was with
funds borrowed from those col
lected for Randolph-Macon.
The site for the college was
chosen: a small clearing about a
mile from Covington, Ga. Ignatius
Few, a hard-jawed, God-fearing
minister, was selected as Em< ,-y’s
first president. He roiled up his
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building the college. He named
the town where the institution
was placed Oxford. The only
citizens were a few farmers and
the handful of men on the faculty,
with their families. The first
class of three seniors was gradu
ated in 1841: Henry A. Bass, Armi
stead R. Holcombe and Adam C.
Potter.
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credited with causing the split be
tween the Northern unt, o>. 1
branches of the Methodist Church,
which reunited last year, The
story is that Bishop J. O. Andrew,
then president of Emory, had a
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young negro slave named Kitty,
who had been willed to him with
the stipulation that when she be
came 20 years of age he would
send her to Liberia The North
ern bishops, with abolition in the
air, thought it was wrong for a
man of his rank to own a slave.
They asked that he either free her
or resign his position in the
church. It was against the law's of
the state to free a slave, and Kit
ty didn’t want to be freed; so
Bishop Andrew refused the de
mands of the Northern bishops.
A long controversy raged, and
eventually the Southern Confer
ence broke off relations with the
Northern church. Recently Kit
ty’s cabin was moved to the old
Salem Camp Ground, where it is
now on exhibition. Kitty is
buried in Bishop Andrew's ceme
tery lot with his family, by his
expressed wish
The pride of’Oxford is its 100
year-old church with pine-hewn
seats and 48 lamps, one for each
state in the Union, One of the
most famous sermons on “The
New South" during reconstruction
days was delivered in this old
church by Dr. Atticus G. Haygood,
later Bishop Haygood, who was
then president of Emory. A copy
of the sermon happened to fall in
to the hands of George I. Seney,
a banker of New York, who sent
Dr. Haygood word that he wanted
to see him. After he had heard
Dr. Haygood’s plans for Emory,
Mr. Seney gave $10,000 to the
school. When he was criticized for
giving money to a Southern in
stitution instead of to his own peo
ple. he said, “These are my peo
ple; we are all one people"' Sen
ey Hall was named for him, and
he later made other gifts which
brought his contributions to $130,- |
Five bishops have lived at '(1x
ford—Pierce Haygood, Andrew,
Key and the late beloved Bishop
Warren A. Candler who is buried
there. Probably nowhere else in
the world are more leaders <!
Thursday, T) eo . ^ber
A RECORD HIGH
Egg production during October
totaled 6,600,000 cases, a record
production for the month. Produc
tion during the 10 months of this
year also was the largest of rec
ord. The rate of egg production
per layer during October reached
a record high of 8.2 eggs for the
month. Farm laying flocks dur
ing October averaged 290,900,000
layers, the largest number for the
month since 1930. Hatchery pro
duction of baby chicks in October
totaled 21,406.000 chicks, a record
production for the month.
Method,sm ...... buried than in . this ...
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Other famous people who have
made their homes there are Cor
ra Harris and her circuit-rider
husband, Lundy Harris; L. Q C.
Lamar, ambassador to France for
the Confederacy and later an as
sociate justice of the U. S.
Supreme Court, and Dr. Alexan
der Means, the one-time president
of Emoiy, who was credited with
the invention of the electric light
before Edison.
Of interest to everyone in Ox
f orc j j s the tree that owns itself
jt is commonly known as “The
prince of the Forest.’’ It is a true
white oak and is said to be more
than two and a half centuries old.
The circumference of its branches
and foliage is approximately 350
feet. The Rev. George W. Yar
brough, whose father was once a
citizen of the town, used to make
yearly pilgrimages to Oxford to
visit his old home and see “his
good friend the tree.” Every
Christmas he would send a card
addressed to the tree, and the
postmaster would pin the card on
the gigantic trunk of the oak. Re
cently the commissioners of the
town deeded this tree to itself.
thus making it impossible for it
ever to be cut down. This is the
second tree in Georgia to receive
this distinction; the other is in
Athens. t
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