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LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
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OFFICIAL ORGAN LEE COUNTY
AND CITY OF LEESBURG
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 21, 1923
Sleep is said to be nature’s great
restorer, but it takes gomething
more than sleep to restore a town
to the position it has lost through
non-action,
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Every number of The Journal is a
salesman visiting the homes each
week and soliciting business for its
advertisers.
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COMMUNITY BUILDERS.
Community building is partly a
matter of good business system and
substantial construction of homes
and business centers, and good
roads and all that. But it is more
than that. It also calls for build
ing character.
A town may not be exceptionally
prosperous in a business way. But
if it has good organizations working
for human development, you have
a good community. Any person
who attends any school, church, or
society, the purpose of which is edu
cation and progress, and does faith
fully his share of the work thereof,
is helping build his community, even
if he is only the youngest pupil in
the district school.
THE INSIGNIFICANT MAN |
A great body of doctrine has de
veloped in the effort to create na
tional efficiency. This instruction
urges young people to be very care
ful about their personal appearance.
We are told that we must be neatly
and carefully dressed, and that a
shabby appearance hurts our chances
in life. All of which is perfectly
true.
The up to date man gives a hastly
glance at the person that seeks his
attention. If there is something
slightly wrong about the visitor’s
clothes, or manner, the business man
often assumes that he is an insignifi
cant kind of a fellow, an dno ‘“go
getter”.
In the main these small details are
useful signs of character, The man
who is careless about his personal ap
pearance is more likely to be care
less about his business affairs, than
one who is scrupulous in such de
tails.
Yet the people who judge by ap
pearances alone are often deceived.
Many insignificant looking people
may have had interesting experi
ences, and be effective in their own
lines of work. The unobtrusive look
ing fellow who looks as if he amount
ed to nothing may have proved a
hero in the fighting in the Argonne,
while the business men were adding
up columns of figures at home. The
rough looking countryman may be
an extremely keen observer of life,
and have a clear vision of public
policy which statesmen could well
emulate.
Great men have usually ltked to
get out among the common people
and get their reactions from life.
Abraham Lincoln used to sit in the
store hang-outs and listen to the
local characters talk. Many mon
archs of the old world have made it
their practice to wander incognito
among their people, and gain what
wisdom they could from the com
mon man. His point of view is
based on practical experience and it
can never be ignored.
INABILITY TO CO-OPERATE.
A bank official in a town where
there is no Chamber of Commerce
or other like organization, was asked
a few days ago why the business
men of his place did not organize.
Things had been going pretty badly
in that town.
There were plenty of bright peo
ple, and a great deal of fault finding.
Plenty of folks could show what
ought to be done, and where the de
fects had been that had held the
town back. But there was no con
certed plan to remove those defects
and work for better results.
The reply was that the project of
a Board of Trade had been talked
of but that the business men had
never been used to working together.
It seemed to be impossible to get
them to think of co-operation for a
common cause. Each merchant came
to his store or factory in the morn
ing, and worked solely for the pros
perity of his own concern, He would
never be willing to give any time for
the general advancement of the
town.
A city or town usually has certain
fundamental defects as a business
and residential center that need to
be removed. But those defects can
not be go rid of -aswa result of
individual effart. x‘:fil some or
;gcnization reprgsentng th\wholo
‘community, “to hter ther, and
iagitat’e and agita il publie senti
ment has reached the point where it
lwill provide means for remedying
those lacks or faults,
i As long as the business men of
the town referred to, pursue their
present policy, they will just scram
ble among themselves for the dollars
of their townspeople. The total of
business will remain about the same,
and each individual’s share will be
about the same. If they would get
together, work unitedly for a gen
eral advence, they would increase
their total prosperity, and the indi
vidual share of all progressive con
cerns woul jump to higher aggre
gates,
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OUR CHRISTMAS CAROLS
In pagan days dancing was usually
accompanied by singing, and later
dinclng and singing continued to go
together, even in Christlan churches,
Around the year 1200, however, dance
ing was glven up, but the singing per
gisted. During the lifteenth century
the singing of carols became very
popular, particularly in England and
France. The first carol printed was
the Boar's Head carel, which was
printed In 1621, and is stlll sung
every year at Oxford college, England,
The French carol was given the name
“noel."
CHRETMAS CONTEST
Have a large bunch of mistletoa
bung in the archway. Have the chil
dren guess the number of berries on it,
awarding a prize to the one guessing
the nearest,
THOSE NECKTIES
Santa Claus, what neckties are com:
mitted in thy name!
Listeni
Wall paper was very costly when
first introduced. As late as the end of
the Kighteenth century when an owner
was leaving a house he advertised
among the things which he desired to
sell ot to rent the paper on the walls,
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“Colleen” and “Mavourneen."
In Ireland a girl is called a “col
leen.* “Mavpurneen" fs the irlsb
term of endearment for @& thil o 2
woman, in other words, the Ivish for
“gweetheart.”
OQur Clerics,
Little by little the jokesmith's stock
n trade Is belng depleted through scl
mtific discovery. An English profes
sor now declares that people get
sleepy during the sermon because they
Aypnotize themselves gazing fixedly at
the preacher. It is not because they
are inattentive, but because they are
too attentive. Therefore, jokes on the
subject are not knocks for the parson,
but boosts.
Famous Musicians.
A London writer calls attentlien to
the fact that the names of many com
posers begin with B. He notes Bach,
Beethoven, Bax, Bliss, Bridge, Bern
ers, Brahms, Berlloz, Borodine, Balfe,
Bennett, Bellini, Bantock, Bizet,
Bishop, Brunneau, Boccherini, Balaki
vaff Bovce. Busoni. Ryrd and Bull
PRI B A
Highest-Priced Tobaceo.
The highest-priced tobacco grown In
the world Is produced in a certain area
pear the western coast of Cuba which
{s more than twenty-five miles square
The fine aromatic tobacco grown there
can be produced nowbere else.—Brook:
lyn Eagle.
Enjoying Other Men” Minds.
1 dedicate no inconsiderable portion
»f my time to other people's thoughts.
I dream away my life in others' specu~
lations. I love to lose myself in other
men's minds. When lam not walking,
I am reading; I cannot sit and think,
Books think for me.—Lamb, =
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA. -
WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING
A STORY OF CHRISTMAS IN PROSPECT
. fiY RORBRERT B. McCORD
From Ormewood Court at sunset I
was starting home, to my lm,ke place
in the country when a swecetl . voice
called; “Wait a minute, 1 want to
tell you something” It was' Mar
jory, just ready to whisper that some
thing in my ear, when a whole throng
of little and larger youngsters camne
crowding round us. : ,
Marjory is tem, but, like many of
bher sex some older, shé rizes to a
situation. She beckoned that con
gregation backward and led me down
through the grove In front to the
band-stand which the Atlanta Masons
bufit when they held their picnic at
Ormewood Ceurt last summer. }
The band-stand rested above the
bluft at the foot of the glope, a great
place to watch the sun gink behind
the park and the long ghadows blend
into one mellow twilight. This was
one of those summer days that bobs
up in winter, as if it bad forgot the
time of year. Marjory is a eummer
girl carrying in her eyes the spring
time sparkle of joy and hope. :
“I want to tell you something,” but
looking up she saw that she was gtill
some distance from my ear. “Sit.
down and talk to me a minute!” she;
safd with that feminine authority
which no mere man can well turn
down,
“I made 100 today in arithmetic
test, and you said girls don’t do well
in figures.” 1 corrected that it was
just “some girls.” She reached ove
and seized my hand, evidently believ
ing that I was going. “I've made 100
on every test I've had this fall, and
now what do you think Santa Claus
will bring me?”
She held firmly to my hand while I
looked up the hill at those youngsters
running over the grounds of Orme
wood Court. Not one of them had
a daddy or mother to whom they
could tell their litcle achievements
and their confidences as Marjory was
telling me. “Does Santa Claus come
to Ormewood Court? You know I
was not here last Christmas.” And
then for once the amimation of her
features seemed to go as her head
bowed low. She was thinking of
where she was and who was with her
a year ago. She's lost her folks since
then. How things can turn about
and all be changed in one short year!
1 looked upon the fields there below
us in the hollow. The vari-colored
leaves from the grove in which we
sat had traveled down there on- the
wings of the wind and formed a win
ter blanket, a home for God’s tender
plants which a few weeks ago were
flowers. The buttercup and daisy,
the violet and dandelion were each
glve{l a snug warm place down there
shielded from the winds of winter.
Marjory too was protected fromn the
Ted’s Gift to -
the Christ Child
ND there were in the same
country shepherds abiding
in the fleld, keeping watch
over their flock by night.”
Slowly &nid reverently the
minister read the beautlful
old Christmas story to the
waiting congregation. Ted
gettled snugly againgt the
back ef the pew and listened. He had
listened to the story every Christmag
morning as far back as he could re
member; but teday it seemed differ
ent! A
“And suddenly there was with the
angel, & multitude of the heavenly
host,” continued the minister,
Ted's eyes grew wide with wonder.
It was more wonderful, more beautl
ful than any fairy story he had ever
read.
“And, 10, the star went before them,
and led them to where the young
ehild lay.”
“And they brought him gifts, gold,
and frankincense, and myrrh.” A
Ah, those kings were rich; they
could afford to bring him gifts. He
pitied the shepherds. They brought
no gifts; they must have been poor
like him! Then he looked up quickly:
“And we, too, may bring Him gifts;
the poor, as well as the aged,” con
cluded the minister, -
Ted's breath came quickly and his
eyes shone with excitement. He was
‘a Mttle child, and he was poor,- and he
wanted to give the Christ Child a gift.
The people were trooping out of the
church now, in merry groups. No
body noticed the shabby little boy,
who, with flushed face and question
ing eyes, went slowly down the steps
and turned into a side street. Sud
denly be remembered; the cloud left
his face and he dashed joyously down
the snowy asidewalk, A wonderful
thing had happened last night! Santa
Claus had paid a visit to his home for
the first time, although he had hung
his faded, little stocking under the
mantel every Cbhristmas eve. It was
so nice to have a Christmas gift of
his own; Ted thought lovingly of the
new top and quickened his steps.
%A little child may bring him gifts”
the words rang through his head.
Well, he had nothing to give. Then he
stopped short—he had his top!
The next Sunday morning a little
boy in a threadbare sult slipped
quietly into a back pew of the great
church. He carried with him an odd-
Jy-shaped package, which he fingered
lovingly all through the service. Then
the organ played softly and he could
hear the clink of the money as it fell
{nto the collection plate. He held the
precious package close to him—the
plate was coming nearer—it - had
Shased Jato the next pew—now it had
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| Marjory Wants a Home
winds of winter. But Marjory was
‘a human soul, reminding one indeed
of the flowers, but requiring some
thing more than the roof above her
shead to shelter her from the winters
-and. the summers,
~ “Suppose old Santa should bring
you a new mother and daddy,” I said.
Quickly she cut those wonderful eyes
up at me and laughed right out, just
as a child gets the tears and laughs
all mixed up. “I was thinking how
it would lovk on Christmas morning
to find a mother and daddy in my
stoeking. Up in the country Santa
(laus always came to our house. But
I've heen' wondering whether he
would’ come at adl to Ormewood Court
where there are so many children.”
l “Yes,” I said, “he will come here,
‘but we are looking for a good home
and lots of love for you and many of
‘thoge boys and girls up there be
f6te the hour of Christmas gets here,
and Old Santa always finds the homes
into which our children are adopted.”
} Going home 1 thought and wonder
ed, with all the gocd homes up and
‘down the state, homes that are child
less, couldn’t we get Marjory and
many others of these children hap
pily settled with foster-parents before
Christmas? This Georgia Children’s
Home Society in Atlanta, of which
Ormewood Court is the Receiwving
Station, has settled some twelve hin
dred others with fond foster-parerts.
Why let these lovely youngaters now
in walfting feel that nobody wants
‘'them?
pad whaWHATIF IT IS2. ;
- Mistleto# may be parasiti¢, as. the
‘hotanisty ¢laim, but properly festooned
upon ‘the. chandeller with the soft
lights glowing through its leaves, at
Christmas time, and the girl there un
flefnaath it, in view of the traditions,
welr suppose it is parasitle®
GEORGIA—Lee County.
Will be sold before the Court
house door in said County on the
29th day of December 1923 between
the legal hours of sale the following
property, to-wit:
All of the live stock belonging to
Stovall, Yeoman Lyon Company cons
sisting of fifty seven mules, three
horses, fifty two head of hogs, two
cows; all of said live stock being
of various sizes, and discriptions and
being now located in the stable op
erated by said Stovall Yeoman Lyon
Company; .
Also all plows, plow tools, wagons
and all other farm equipment, tools
and implements belonging to said
Company.
“Also the entire stock of goods,
merchandise and fixtures ldcated in
the storehouses and warchouses oc
cupied and used by said Comnany
including the mill and mill fixtnres
used in. connection with the business
of said firm:
Also five shares of stock in Far
niérs Warehéuse Company of Lees
burg Georgia of the value of on¢
htindred and twenty-five dollars.
“For a complete discription of ali
of caid property reference may bc
had to an inventory to be filed in the
office of Clerk of Lee Superior Court
at least five days before the date of
said sale. Any person desiring tc
inspect the said property before said
date or before said sale may have an
opportunity of so doing by applying
to S. J. Yeeman, receiver of said
firm.
Said sale will be conducted under
the rules usual in conducting sale:
nder cquitable matters. Said sale
vill bo for ecash subject to confirma
tion thereof by the Honorable Judge
7. A. Littlejohn Judge Lee Shperio
Court. The successfull bidder or bid
ders at said sale will be required tc
{eposit with the Reciever ten pe:
cent of the amount of his said bid
2t said sale, the balance thereof tc
"¢ paid in the event said sale is con
rmed as aforesaid.. In the event
2id sale is not confirmed then the
said amount of ten per eent will be
cturned. f
This December 18, 1923.
j S. J. YEOMAN,
| Receiver of Stovall Yeoman
.Lyon Company, |
FIRE! FIRE!
Are you protected if your home should
be destroyed by fire tonight? If not you
. are making a great mistak? by not hav
ing it insured in some good reliable
company. : E
I represent some of the oidest and safest in |
in the United States and will be glad toE
talk it over with you at any time—let me
write a policy on your home—others con-i
sider it better to pay a little for insur«E
ance than to lese a lot by fire. i
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i CITY TAX NOTICE
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E. All parties who owe the City
|taxes for the year 1923 are here
fby notified that the Tax bocks are
‘now open and you can pay yeur
‘taxes any time et the office of the
' Clerk and Treasurer in the Barber
‘shop. The books wiil positively close
on Dec. 20, 1928, and Fi Faz. Will
be issued on Dec. 21st. Fay befcre
!that time and save’ yourself addition
al cost.
/ T. R. BASS,
: Clerk and Treasurer.
TilIE SECOND COMING OF
‘CHRIST——A Book Published and for
sale by Miss Allie Lawhon. Price
inside the state 87c¢; outside the
!state 39c.
Envy of Talernt.
As to clever people’'s hating each
sther, 1 think a litile extia talent does
soictimes tmake people jealous. IThey
becune irritited by perpetual attempts
and failures, end it burts their tem
pers and dispositions, Unpretending
welocrity i 3 good, and gonlas is glo
rlous; but a. weak flavor of genius in
ain essentizliy common person is detest
able. Tt spoils the grand neutrakty of
a commenplace character, as the rins-
Inzs of an unwashed wine glass spoll
a dranght of fair water—Oliver Wen
dell Helines.
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Ciimate and Decafness.
It is curions to note how -deal
mutism varies in different countries
In Switzeriand, for lstance, owing to
the prevalence of cretinism, 245 pe®,
100,450 of the inhabitants suffer from
It, v hereas the general averzge amedg
Europcan countries is 79, and jn the.
Unifed States, 68, per 100,000 =