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Waynesboro, Ga., March 25, 1922
VOLUME FORTY-ONE
With the last issue The True Citi
zen closed its 40th year and with this
issue enters upon its 41st year, with
renewed zeal and determination, we
hope to make The Citizen cne of
the best county papers in Georgia.
We feel certain we can no so with
the co-operation anj lull support of
the progessive citizens of the county.
Forty years is a long time to be at
the head of any business concern; and
the management is gratified by the
fact that we are still able to go
on. Few are living now, wno
were here when the first edition of
The Citizen came from the press.
Many of our beat friends—the finest
teilows in the world —have gone on
ahead and left us pegging away in
the same rooms where w'e started our
work. i ~ ,
Waynesboro lias more than trebled
in population since we came to town
With only a few stores then; now
with many additions; with more and
better stocks of goods. Then most of
the better class of goods were purchas
ed frcm Augusta. Now our stores
carry as high a quality of goods as can
be purchased in any city. Then there
w r as only one railroad with two
mixed passenger trains each way. Now
we have two railroads with four strict
ly passenger trains each way daily.
There were no oil mills, wagon fac
tory. dairies, fertilizer mixing plants
public warehouses, garages, no elec
tric light plant, water and sewerage
system, no ice plant, no telephones
and only one telegraph office. Now
we have all these and as good as any
town of its size can boast.
All of these modern, up-to-date in
dustries have come since The Citi
zen started on its weekly grind. How
we have kept pace with these improve
ments, and how well we have si cod the
test of Time, we leave to the judg
ment of our readers.
Our old press sang its swan song,
after 39 years of splendid service,
three we'ks ago. It had outlived the
factory that built it. and tor that rea
son could not be overhauled and put
in good running condition again. With
in a very few days w 3 will liave a
new 1 press installed, modern in every
detail, in the place where the old one
stood for so long a time, and >!ie
management expresses hopes that he
will still be on the job when the new
one is worn out.
Again with thanks for the long pat
ronage extended to us, we start Vol
ume 41 with renewed faith in Way
nesboro and Burke county generally
that it will always prove to be the
leading county in the best state in
the Union.
NO BACKWARD STEP
Under the superintendency of Hon
E. B. Gresham, brother of the present
county school superintendent, every
white school in Burke county was giv
en a nine month s school term. Since
that time every white child in the
county has had the opportunity so
far as public funds have been con
cerned of attending school for one
hundred and eighty days during the
year. It is true that many counties
have not had this long term but the
tendency hus been upward all the
time and not backward.
In all this discussion there is no
word of criticism for the Board of
Education or the county superinten
dent. But before they vote on the
question we would like to have them
weigh -very carefully their responsi
bllity to the children of Burke coun
ty, As was pointed out last week in
the resolution of the Rotary Club
there is no need for this drastic ac
tion. The county is not in debt. The
Board of Education is not in debt to
any significant amount. As a coun
ty we must wake up to the fact that
big, modern progressive communities
are’ constantly voting bonds for every
sort of improvement. There is no
bonded debt cn Burke county.
Conditions are going to brighten up
with this year’s crops. Our farmers
arc planting something besides cot
ton. We are not going to he depen
dent on this single crop any longer.
Let us keep every white school in
the county 'open lor the full nine
months. We can do it. There are
soveral w’ays the county Board can
handle the situation though it be
sifßhtly acute.
The county board of education has
never been extravagant and we un
derstand that they are behind bit I. lit
tie over fifteen thousand dollars
which is nothing for a county ( as rich
as Burke.
With a five mill tax for schools the
county pays something over forty
thousand and wo get more from the
state than the county pays. Eighty
thousand dollars a year ought to keep
every white school in the county
open for 9 months and give the color
ed children proportionate advantages
It is a fact that cannot be disputed
that if we shorten the term we lose
the best teachers of the county. They
are not going to stay on short terms
and decreased salaries. Then who is
hurt? Who suffers? The children of
tomorrow, Burke county in that event
will be worse off tomorrow than she
is today.
Our word to the Board and the
county superintendent is: Look care
fully, gentlemen, and give the coun
ty /he very best. Wo believe that the
county is willing to pay for the very
best educationad advantages.
JEWISH RELIEF FUND COMMENT.
If he following item from the Sav
annah News referring to the fund he
ing raided l n Waynesboro for the re
lief of suffering Jews in Europe
states:
A report was read from the commit
tee at Waynesboro, headed by S. Wein
traub, in which it was shown that on
the first day contributions exceeding
sfioo were secured, and it was explain
ed by the chairman that this is in
a section with only abcut 250 white
families, oulv six of whom are Jewish
‘The communication stated that it
was expected that the quota would ex
coed SI,OOO, as the matter had been
brought” to the attention of the citi
zens "through an appeal by the Mayor
and announcements by the ministry
from the pulpits, and collections were
jrade ihrough the civic clubs and the
v iricu ; fraternal organizations.”
THE ( RHYME WAVE
Mil] : Scribbler has sold his poem at
last !
Dale: Eid he?
Hill: No —net a ditty; I saiu a poem
Wayside Tales.
BACK YARD GOSSIP
It w r ould be said indeed of out
deplorable Talbotton tragedy, which
was aired in the courts last week,
some lesson be not extracted for the
future guidance of men and women.
As we see it, and have seen it all
along, both McNiece, who was slain
and Coart, his slayer, are in a very
large sense, the victims of “back
yard gossip.” And we say this with
out the slightest personal bias in the
matter; for we are not acquainted, so
far as we can recall even by sight
with any of the parties to this tragedy
All the evidence in the case, show
cd, of course, that Coart went to Me
Niece’s office with a pistol in his pock
et, and when he left there McNiece
was mortally shot; ;admittedly by
Coart, who, at the time refused to
give his reasons for the act. After
wards however, the “enternal trian
gle” came into the case —which the
prosecution, at the trial, sought to
make a quadrangle—and we were told
that McNiece had been “too Intimate”
with Mrs. Coart, and for this Coart
killed him.
This intimacy—right and proper un
til tlie back-yard gossip began to
meddle with it—had extended over a
long period and throughout the course
been on about as friendly terms as It
the McNieces and the Coarts —had
of it, so it seems the two couples—
is possible for married friends to be;
going everywhere together, visiting
back and forth, dinning together, and
the wives actively associated ln
church and community work.
But, also, all this was destined to
end. Gossip began to sow its deadly
seed. And what frightful fruit they
bore!
At least, this gossip theory was
the theory of defense —it was all It
had to offer—gossip had poisoned the
mind of one of the husbands against
the other, and against his own wife.
From then on, he “saw” and “under
stood” many things; things that had
no meaning for him before—nor for
any other normal person.
if the slayer’s own statement—all
that the defense saw fit to offer in ex
planation of and in extenuation of the
killing—is to be accepted, the neign
bors “told him things” and set him
to thinking. These neighbors
thought they saw McNiece and Mrs.
Coart too much together; sometimes,
even, when Coart was away from
home. Oh, the awfulness of a man
and woman—both married to some
one else—"being seen talking together
perhaps even riding together, in broad
daylight, on the streets of a small
town, where everyone could see!
Gossip said, “there’s something wrong
there!” And there’s no more uncom
promising thing than small town
gossip when it gets to going. We we re
born and reared in one of its breed
ing places; and we know its face,
and we know its mind, and we know
its heart —if it has any mind and any
heart.
“He was here while you were gone
That’s what the neighbors, some of
them, whispered into Lee Coart's
ear—so he says. At first, of course,
he paid no attention to it; no loyal
husband would. But they whispered
to him again and again; and the time
came—so he says—when it began to
prey upon his mind. He spoke to his
wife abiut it. McNiece was the cause
of it. He Had “come between” Lee
Ccart and Rosa Coart; between has
band and wife—so the husband said.
So some of his neighbors told him.
Perhaps he believed it. The more he
listened to his good neighbors—still
relying on Coart’s own statement for
this theory of his motive for killing
McNiece —the more he believed it. It
tco full possession of his mind; got
“into his blood” —his “hot, chival
rous Southern blood” —and put mur
der in his heart. Though he did not
think of it as murder; nor did his
lawyers, apparently; nor did his loy
al riends; and he has many of the
latter, who have stood with him
throughout. But no more friends
than his wife, and hers were firm and
outspoken in their defense of her char
ac ter—a character never before call
ed ln question—indeed .many of them
are bitter in their denunciations of
the attacks made upon her character
by her husband and his attorneys.
There can be little difference of op
inion as to the responsibility of the
“hack-yard gossips” for this act; for,
as viewed from any angle, “over-tho
fence talk” finally sent Lee Coart to
see A. B. McNiece, in the latter’s of
fice—with a pistol in his pocket.
At any rate, McNiece is dead, and
his wife is a widow. Coart, unless
he secures a new trial and a modified
verdict, must go to the penitentiary for
life; and his wife is worse than a
widow.
Four lives, therefore, sacrified to
—“back-yard gossip.” A whole com
munity shaken to its very foundations
by a terrible tragedy. Neighbor set
against neighbor, and a d,v-en or a
hundred otner tragedies in the mov
ing. possibly, if nil .»re no: careful.
Sentwi uit sit"'' uinl
wrought up over it all; a veritable
plague of clashing opnion let loose
by the shot that sent A. B. McNiece
to his grave and Lee C'oart to the
penitentiary.
Back-yard gossips, behold your
work! What more could you wish to
accomplish in one small town? With
only two of your neighbors—or, at
most four —as the targets for your
tongues.
Who was it said that “Fire and
sword are but slow engines of de
struction in comparison with the
babbler”—thrjt other name for the
backyard gossip.
And who are these back-yard gos
sips but those “narrow minded and
ignorant persons.” os some one else
ha ssc well described then and their
mental capacity, who “talk about
persons ami not things.”
Upon such as these every communi
ty should frown. From such as these
goo,i Lord to deliever them,
every community should pray the
It is too late, perhaps, in Talbotton’3
case—at least, in so far as four of its
most respected citizens are concern
ed—but it may not be too late for oth
er communities to profit by the lesson
-Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
NATURAL QUESTION
Kriss: The doctor has granted me a
now lease of life.
Fross: That’s fine. Will you be able
to meet the rent?—Wayside Tales.
—We are receiving daily neiv
spring goods, ladies ready-to-wear,
and hat. Give ufi a trial before buy
ing elsewhere. We assure you we
will give you better prices and quail
ty. Your money refunded if not sat
isfactory. S. STEINBERG & CO.,
Max Grablowsky, Mgr., Waynesboro
Ga.—advetisement It.
ECHOES OF THE IST
DISTRICT CONVETTION
The Savannah Press correspondent
from Statesboro says one of the fea
tures of the luncheon given by the
Statesboro Ad Men’s Club to the First
district editors on the 20th was:
“One of the features of the lunch
eon, which was presided over by Presi
dent McCroan of the Advertising
Club was the presentation of a large
straw hat to W. L. Sullivan, editor of
the Waynesboro True Citizen, and the
new president of the association. Mr.
Sullivan has not worn a hat since the
great war. Experience “over there”
taught him to cast aside all excess
baggage. He travels light. It was de
cided that the dignity of the new of
flee to which he had been chosen
made the wearing of a hat a necssity
and he was lassoed by the editor of
the Texas Ranger, who happened to
be present as a guest, hog tied by the
editor of the Southern Ruralist and
Athletic News and in this way was
brought up to the speaker’s stand,
where the hat was forcibly placed
upon the head and caught there with
a half hitch plow line put under his
chin. It is thought he will wear the
hat for a day or so at least.”
He also mentioned the “sham bat
tle” between two of the representa
tives of the daily press—Dan G. Bick
ers and Willie G. Sutlive, who stuffed:
the country editors full of their
“grievances” which wound up with
much “consternation and shooting”
finally with laughter and good feel
ing. This stunt was much enjoyed.
This is a picture of Editor Sullivan
cf The Waynesboro True Citizen
trying to shoot a fellow citizen of
Waynesboro for making fun of the hat
the editors of the First Congressional
district gave him at Statesboro on Mon
day. Editor Sullivan never wears a
hat—or didn’t until he became presi
dent of the First District Association.
Then his fellow editors gave him one
This is a picture of it. It was taken
on the streets of Waynesboro about
an hour after Editor Sullivan got
home. The folks had never seen him
wearing a hat and they thought it was
sort cf a wild Mexican that had struck
town. See how the editor has to de
fend himself with a gun. There is a
fellow behind the blackberry bush
with another gun. He got mad be
cause Sullivan had a hat something
like his. That made two mad men
with guns and big hats. We leave It
to our readers to speculate on just
what happened. We haven’t the heart
to tell ’em. It must have been some
thing awful. But we here and now
shut out all evidence that we had any
thing to do with what happened by
drawing the
CURTAIN
—Bill Biffem in Savannah Press.
It was announced that A. M. Deal
one of Statesboro’s prominent citi
zens had oeen stung ty ;he congress
ional bee and would oppose “Fet”
Overstreet for at the coming
election. Mr. Deal’s entrance into
the race silences the 'ever ieaay
Charlie Edwards from running, as
he says he must give up »o his
friends in Bulloch.
The Statesboro Advertising Club
is one of the livest and most active
organizations w r e have seen recently
They are busy doing things and they
are getting results.
The editors of the district are un
der obligation to the Statesboro cream
ery for an excellent sample of their
butter, which each one carried home
and enjoyed.
Dr. Soule made a splendid talk to
the people of Statesboro at the court
house after the luncheon, which was
right to the point and If followed out
will help not only Statesboro but ev
ery community in the state.
Savannah and Tybee will be the
place of the next meeting in August
and we can all go “Whore Ocean
Breezes Blow, on the “Right Way,”
the Central of Georgia Railway.
The “Right Way” published by the
Central of Georgia Railway was rep
resented by Messrs I). A. Pritchard
an ( | Jack McCartney. Who can say
that any paper was better represent
ed?
THE GEORGIA FARM
The news that a large corporation
is to be organized and capitalized at
Augusta for the buliding of a grain
elevator, flour, corn and feed mill, and
sweet-potato house, is the kind of
news that Georgia people in this new
day of agriculture and conflict with
the weevil should always highly ap
preciate. It is to be sincerely hoped
that the co-operative activities to be
undertaken for the farmer during the
next few years will meet with the
bast possible success and pave the
way for greater effort along this line
There is no just reason in the world
why the Georgia farm should not be
a center of prosperity, a prosperity
solid and enduring in all kinds of econ
omic weather and agricultural situa
lions. There was a day in Georgia, as
w’e all know, w’hen the farmer was in
dependent and the merchant and even
the banker were more or less direct
ly dependent financially upon him.
Of course, no one desires that the
merchant and banker should be any
thing but independent, but there is a
great crying need today for the farm
to be much more than self-sustain
ing. The man who follows the plow
deserves more than merely suffering
and toil, mere than inconveniences
that make his wife a slave, more than
a condition that calls his children
from the school to the field. The very
backbone of civilization should be
found on the farm. It is the country
blood of yesterday that: has made the
cities great; where will the city get
this special kind of solid stock tomor
row if the situation in the rural dis
tricts is not made friendly to the bios
soming of culture, enlightenment and
financial independence?—Macon Tele
graph.
PLANE SAILING
Jones: I told the aeroplane man I’d
give him $5.00 to give me a ride.
Bones: Did he take you up?—Way
side Tales.
THE TRUE CITIZEN SATURDAY MARCH 25, 19!!S.
THE PEOPLE ARE PAYING FOR
PAYED ROADS WITHOUT
GETTING THEM
If the rains of the past few weeks
haven’t put the people of Georgia to
thinking a whole lot about permanent
highways, then we can’t imagine
what will.
Not only has travel over the pub
lic highways been reduced to a min
imum these past several weeks, with
the consequent interference with busi
ness—entiling in itself, hundreds of
thousands of dollars loss, both direct
and indirect —but it is going to cost
a lot of money to put these dirt roads
into condition for travel.
If we had our guess, w’e would say
that, within the past few days, the
dirt roads of Georgia, as a conse
qence of the recent rains, have —or
will, before they are repaired and re
surfaced—cost the people of Georgia
enough to pay a year’s interest on
$5,000,000 of bonds. Yes. not only
enough to pay the interest on such an
issue, but enough to provide for the
sinking fund, as well, And we wouldn’t
be at all surprised if it hasn't been
enough to take care of an even larg
er bond issue, when we consider the
loss to trade that impassible roads
have entailed.
But none cf this loss fell on those
communities having* paved roads, at
least, not within the limits of their
paved area. Beyond that, of course,
they suffered too, so that the loss
occurred by dirt roads in Georgia dur
ing the past few weeks may be said
to have been general.
! So once more, we have cur age-old
object lesson again: It is better to go
on paying for bad roads —roads that
can be washed to pieces everytime
there is a rainy season; and must
theerfore, be repaired at heavy ex
pense—or is it cheaper to pay for pav
ed roads? Particularly when w r e can
distribute the cost of the latter over
a long period of years, and, besides,
make the automobile owners pay for
them.
! The latter is w r hat is contemplated
by the proposed state good roads
bond issue; that the state borrow en
ough money to build permanent (pav
ed) highways connecting every coun
ty seat with «very other county seat,
as nearly as possible, and let the peo
pie who own automobiles pay it back
from year to year, interest and all.
In other words, by devoting the pro
ceeds of the sale cf state automobile
licenses and the gasoline tax to that
purpose.
This, certainly, seems fair enough,
j An opportunity to get Georgia out of
the mud at the expense of the people
who are perfectly willing, most of
them, to pay for the privilege of get
ting themselves and the balance of
their state out of the mul. oAnd yet,
we find some people opposing the pro
position. We confess we can’t un-
I derstand it; except on the principle
that always there will be found peo
ple to oppose almost anything, no mat
ter how great the benefit to come from
it. —Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
A GRAIN ELEVATOR
The proposal to erect a grain e!eva
tor, merchant mill .storage ware
house and potato curing plant meets
with the unanimous approval of the
public of Augusta and vicinity. A
corporation is to be organized to con
struct the combined establishment
and the enterprise will cost in the
neighborhood of $200,000. At a meet
ing of the Farm Bureau held on Tues
day, according to the plan discussed,
each farmer in the county will have
the privilege of taking stock.
The purpose of the enterprise is to J
store corn, small grain, velvet beans,
and sweet potatoes that are grown
in their territory as w r ell as do cus
tom grinding and the company will
give the option of buying the farm
products outright or advancing 80
per cent of their market value. This
will prove a convenience to the farm ;
ers for handling their surplus pro- j
duce that must be appreciated, as it
will give those that need it ready j
money for their crops, while affording
all the opportunity to dispose of their
holding to the best advantage.
Augusta used to be in times past,!
one of the biggest milling centers in
the South, if not the largest. There
were four cr five large merchant mills
in operation here, and all doing a
splendid business. Carmichael’s Mills
was probably the oldest and was sue
cesslvely known as Cunningham’s
and then the Clark Milling Company.
Warren’s Granite Mills became the:
picker room of the Enterprise Fac
tory. Baker’s Paragon Mills is now I
the Union Cotton Seed Company’s ’
mills and Stovall’s Excelsior Mills, af
terwards J. M. Berry’s stood right be
side it and became a part of the Lorn
bard Iron Works. At a later date !
came Miller’s Mill, afterwards Nixon j
& Schley’s Mill. There may have
been others, but those named are the '
most prominent.
However this splendid group of
merchant mills will suffice to show j
what an enormous business was ;
done at this point in one period of
the city’s history. The history of a i
city repeats itself as well as most
other things in life. The same con \
ditions that made Augusta a great mill j
ing center will probably prevail in
the near future. Large quantities of I
grain were grown in the surrounding ;
territory and brought here to be ,
ground when waterpower was cheap I
and abundant.
The boll weevil has dealt cotton
production a severe blow and in this
! section of the South it is question
i able whether or not the farmer will
! ever go back to growing cotton ex- ;
i effusively. They have found out that
they can grow so many other things !
to perfection in which there is greater
profit, that they may consider it a hap
! py release from the thralldom of cot :
| ton. Another consideration will be
that the adjacent territory is a splen
, did grain producing territory where
! grain can be grown as cheap or cheap
l er than anywhere else on earth For
these and other reasons we predict
that the elevator, mill and storage
warehouse forming a combination cn
terprise will attain fine success—Au- j
gusta Herald, March 18, 1922.
|
BUYS TWO CARS OF VELVET BEANS
While in the city Wednesday Mr.
Hub Franklin, of Tennille, bought two
car loads of velvet beans in the pod
from C. P. Daniel’s Sons. Mr. Frank
lin does a large business in the pro-!
duce line and came oVer the Waynes- !
hero especially for the purpose of buy
ing beans.
THE PAY RUN
Mix: It certainly pays to do right in
the long run!
Fix: Yes, but it is such a long run!
—Wayside Tales.
THE SOUTH AND COTTON HILLS
la the Daily News Record of New
York of an issue of the week appear!
a most significant interview upon thj
cotton manufacturing industry. An
important factor in the cotton goods
market said: “You have seen the last
ney cotton mill built in New England
there is now but one center for mill
construrtion —and that is the death.*
The labor problem of New England
is given as the cause of ibis revolu
tion of the cotton mill industry as to
location. Back of 'the labor question
however, is the decline of the agricul
tural activity in the regions surround
ing the old cotton mill areas. In the
South the labor problem is simple cf
solution. In the South the agricul
tural country is devolping—for the
support of vastly increasing and in
creased mill village populations. The
mill operatives must have food, that
food must be made in the territory
near the mills. The South offers the
better conditions and the additional
advantages which are logically attri
buted to the milder climatic conditions
The authority quoted in the New York
trade paper declares that many New
England mills are being closed, the
machinery being removed to the South
and the old buildings left vacant in
the East. He says, too, that the gen
erally spread theory that New Eng
land mill help is more efficient than
the mill labor obtainable In the South
is “a myth.” And he tells why:
In the South, there is Ameri
can labor —speaking, reading and
writing English. Compare this
with the state of affair*' in New
England, where it is a difficult
proposition to get a weaver to
watch sixteen automatic drapers,
even though they be driven by in
dividual motors, and require lit
tle attention.
In the South, indeed—especially in
certain sections of Georgia and South
Carolina —the mill settlement has in
the past ten years developed into a
community system that far outstrips
the politics-ridden municipal system
of some of the cities. There are school
systems and welfare organizations
and organized means for making'life
safe and broad and happy in some of
these mill settlements tnat would put
to shame the public school systems of
many a city and give valuable les
sens to the associations and soceitiss
which have been at work in the or
dinary center of population.
The cotton mills of the East are con
ing to the cotton fields—not only for
the reason that it is business sense
to locate the mill where the raw mi
terial can be obtained at a minimun
cost for delivery, but for other reasons
The factor quoted said:
Present indications are that the
New Englnad cotton mill indus
try will slowly move South. The
only thing that is holding a num
ber of mill men in the East to
day is the fact that there is cen
tered the most important finish
ing plants of the country. There
is a great advantage in being
close to the finishing mills. How
ever, cnce the finishers start to
more South—and that is not en
tirely unlikely, based on the la
bor proposition—then there is
nothing to keep many of the mill
men in the East.
Southern mills, generally are,
better equipped than Eastern
plants.
The South is coming up agricil
turally; watch it now come forwa,‘d
in manufactures —and cotton leads”
—Savannah News.
THE USE OF THE CLUB
There has been a good deal 3alcL
recently of the need for the organua
tion of the young men of the communi
ties into a form of co-operation Dr
the general onward welfare—the utili
zation of the vim and enthusiasm, tie
initiative and the energy of the youag
manhood, the life of tne fellows wio
are beginning just to feel thtir
strength and who are willing to dare
as well as do, to risk as well as run,
to start something as well as to held
on. In a number of communitiw,
notably in South Georgia, already the
young man power has already c-rgtp
ized itself for community
for aggressive and progressive cln
structive work, it has b3ou remark
able that in these several outstaiu
ing instances there has been all the
boosting necessary to arouse interest
and then enthusiasm and to create a
publicity atmosphere—and also there
has been the solid element of earnest
ness, definite planning, good judg
ment and the firm foundationing of
movements which have given to enter
prises begun by these young men a
permanence that is a fine phase of
the activilty.
For example that Statesboro Ad’/er
tising Club is composed of young nen
mostly—men young in years for the
most part and young still in visioning
and live and active irrespective of
years. The club has done things; it
got Statesboro talked about; It ?ot
the home folks to feeling more optimis
tic and confident: it attempted things
the old timers said could not be done
and did them; it has healthy enter
prises established and going strong
which circulate money all over Bul
loch. It is a vital force in the agricul
tural and commercial life of the town
and county. For another example,
the Waynesboro Luncheon Club —
which was organized by of and for
the young men of the county seat of
Burke to do things for the old town
and the county, and which ambitpuß
ly grew to be a Rotary Club, the
club having the distinction of being
the only such in a town of as small
a population as Waynesboro in all
this part of the country, This
received its charter this week and
will send a large and lively delega
tion to the district convention in
Savannah—the baby bunch of Rrttes
in Georgia. That club is the living
expression of the idea which takes
the young izranhood and puts it to
splendid constructive work for a riefi
nite purpose in a specific territory. It
happened that the “luncheon club’ cf
Waynesboro was going strong just at
a time when the county and town
needed it as it was never needed be
fore arid as they probably will fcver
need so acutely again just such •! re
pository for the vital energy of
fidence and activity and initiative.
That club has done things.
And these are but two sample cooies
of a whole edition of organizations
among the young men of the many
communities in South Georgia-- organ
izations which are the salt an>t il.e
seasoning of the earth in this sec*!on
of it, the yeast that will leaven the
whole South Georgia lump. Clubs
like these are trumps—Savannah News
Buy at home and help yourself,
THE OLD HYMNS
By Frank L. Stanton
There’s lots of music in ’em —the
hymns of long ago,
And when some gray-haired brother
sings the one I used to know
I sorter want to take a hand —I think
of days gone by—
“On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand
anq cast a wistful eye!”
There’s lots of music in ’em —those
dear, sweet hymns of old,
With visions bright of lands of light
and shining streets of gold;
And I hear ’em ringing—singing
where Memory dreaming stands,
“From Greenland’s icy mountains to
India’s coral strands.”
They seem to sing #>rever of holier,
sweeter days,
When the lilies of the love of God
bloomed white in all the days:
And I want to hear their music from
the old-time meetin’s rise
Till “I can read my title clear to
mansions in the skies.”
We never needed singin’ books in
them old days—we knew—
The words, the tunes of every one —
the dear old hymn book through!
We didn’t have no trumpets then,
no organs built for show,
We only sang to praise the Lord,
from whom all blessing flow.”
An’ so I love the good old hymns
and when my time shall come —
Before the light has left me and my
singing lips are dumb-*-
If I can hear ’em sing them, I’ll
pass without a sigh
To “Canaan’s fair and happy land,
where my possession lie.”
“The Atlanta Constitution.”
LITTLE DIME
Little dime, little dime, where are
you going?”
“Alas and alack! where I haven’t a
showing.
For gum or a dope or a morsel of
candy;
For peanuts or cigarettes—any
thing handy,
I’m only a mite in the wage of the
day,
And master is reckless, and flings
me away.”
“Little dime, little dime, where are
you brothers?”
“Ah, master was foolish, indeed,
with the others.
He hid them away in a family
crock,
With a lot of old bills he had sewed
in a sock;
But a thief came around in the dead
of the night,
And cribbaged the cash and made cer
tain his flight.”
“Little dime, little dime, which were
the wiser:
To squander at will, or to hoard like
a miser?”
“Indeed, I should call it an ex
cellent. plan,
To keep us all earning as fast as
we can,
For master ,and home, and community
too,
With a neat little fortune just yon
der in view.
And so, since you ask me, I’m pre
fectly frank
To admit I should like to be put
in a bank—Augusta Chronicle.
LARGE COPPER STILL
CAPTURED IN BURKE
Deputy Sheriffs Felker and Scott Raid
Still oil Newberry Creek—6o Gal
lon Copper Still Result of Raid-
Most Complete Ever Seen in This
Section.
Last Thursday night Deputy Sheriffs
Scott and Felker assisted by Police
man Coombs an c i Tinley raided a still
on Newberry creek on the Brit Rog
ers place in Burke county. They cap
tured a 60 gallon copper still, com
plete, one of the most modern ever
seen' in this section. They poured
out 1,000 gallons of mash and brought
a sample of the low wine in in a keg
and a sample of the whiskey. The
fire had just been drawn from the
furnace and the still was still warm
taken. No one could be seen around
the still, but John Milledge, a negro
man living nearby was arrested and
lodged in jail as liquor kegs, etc were
found around his bouse. He is still
in jail awaiting trial. The negro de
nies any connection with the still.
Augusta Lumber Company
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Branan’s Drug Store
Tlxe I3lcrae of
Home - Made Ice Cream
From now on we will serve at our
SANITARY SODA FOUNTAIN
QUR FAMOUS HOME-MADE ICE CREAM
The milk and sweet cream used in the manufac
ture of this cream is received fresh every morning
from Neely’s Sanitary Dairy, and is made into
Ice Cream the same day.
Phone us your orders; we appreciate them,
large or small.
Nunnaily’s and Hollingsworth’s Candies
Agency idle Hour Nurseries. Phone 182
WAYNESBORO HIGH AND IN
DUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN PARADE
The paraue Tuesday afternoon of
the pupils of the Waynesboro High
and industrial school was a splendid
exhibition of our colored citizens in
entering actively into the spirit of
clean-up week, inaugurated by the
Woman’s Club of Waynesboro.
The children of each grade of par
ticipated under the management of
the teachers of the school. The pa
rade halted at the Confederate monu
ment at the intersection of Liberty
and 6th streetas and sang patriotic
songs.
It was a hiost creditable showing
for the school and attracted much at
tentlon as passed through the streets
1 Cent a Word
Column.
SEED AND PLANTS
—“Select Watson melon seed grown
especially for planting Not a melon
shipped from field from which these
seed were saved. Mr. E. E. Chance
planted seed grow T n by us last year,
and a telegram from him dated July
sth, 1921 read thus. ‘Melon seed prov
ed very satisfactory.’ Price $2.00 per
pound F. O. B. Allendale, S. C. Cash'
with order.”—Allendale Hardware
Co —advertisement 4t.
—-Millions of fine stocky frost-proof
cabbage plants, Early Jersey. Charles
ton Wakefield, Succession, Fiat Dutch
Prepair Mail 200. 60c., 400, SI.OO, 1,-
000, $2.00, Express 2000 S3OO, 500.56.25
10,000, SIO.OO. Get price list Sweet
potatoes, Tomatoes, and all other
plants. Parker Farms, Atlanta, Ga.—
advertisement—4t.
—For sale white prolific seed corn
-6-eared variety. Standardize your
corn and realize from two to five
cents per bushel more for your corn
Apply at this office—advertisement si
—5 or 6 bushels of field selected
Whateley’s prolific white seed corn
for sale at $2 per bushel. H. A. Hill
Rt. 1, Mcßean, Ga.—advertisement It
pd.
Just received genuine Pennsylva
nia grown Dent Corn the kind that
make the big ear. For sale by.
S. SCHWARZWEISS— advertisementtf
EGGS AND POULTRY
—Barred Plymouth Rock eggs from
prize winning strain at $1.50 per set
ting. The rooster in this flock was
a first prize winner—Johnston’s Drug
Store—advertisement.
—White Leghorn Eggs for sale
Barron and Hollywood strain. Heavy
layers. $1.50 for 15. Mrs. W. M. Dan
iel, Munnerlyn, Ga.—advertisement 4
AGENTS WANTED
—Live agents wanted to handle city
trade for the genuine J. R. Watkins
Porducts. Write quick for free sam
pie and particulars. The J. R.
Watkins Co. Dept. 74. Memphis, Tenn
—advertisement 5t pd.
PIANO TUNING
Anywhere in Burke county. Thirty
three years experience, Phone 3682 J.
D. W. HUTTO & SON. 511 3d street
Augusta, Ga.—advertisement4tpd
MISCELLANEOUS WANTS
—We are receiving daily new
spriilg goods, ladiqp ready-to-wear,
and hat. Give us a trial before buy
ing elsewhere. We assure you we
will give you better prices and quail
ty. Your money refunded if not sat
isfactory. S. STEINBERG & CO.,
Max Grablowsky. Mgr., Waynesboro
Ga.—advetisement It.
—26 years active experience in com
pounding medicines. This is a long
time, but it insures patrons the ex
perienced and most careful service at
Stembridge’s Drug store —advertise
ment tf.
—Lost on Thursday. March 16th,
one breast pin, four leaf clover de
sign with white stone in center. Find
er return to this office and receive
reward—advertisement ltns.
I will pay the highest market
price in cash for hides and all kind*
of furs. Give me a trial. S. Schwarz
weiss.—advertisement.
—Pumpkin yam sweet potatoes
for sale at 60c per bushel. J. B. Gor
don, Waynesboro, Ga.—advertisement
2tpd.
—Little Red Riding Hood is a treat
fer grown-ups as well as children.—
advertisement.
—Use Georgia products.