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LEE COUNTY JOURNAL ————————————————— OFFICIAL ORGAN LEE COUNTY AND CITY OF LEESBURG e PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J. P. HORNE EDITOR AND i . PURLISHER . Ente the Pohiotfi:: - . b.',‘ Q«Q A, as "“dg e l; matter, S I il Advertising Rates Furnished on ' Request, Subseription $1.60 A YEAR E__——_:_-:_':_-_'_______...."_.-————-—--—-—_— 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, e — Every number of The Journal is a salesman visiting the homes each week and soliciting business for its advertisers. i e s 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, Sure, Santa Was Here o ~ ST T R o 4 3 Bok "y, 3 ISR A &5 é’_r.:; gs R ”"7."'\. Vi Pt A st 7 Lk 3 o 4 _A-Q BV i | {S “. 2’., (o P R Y A ? M »fi_ g ¥ % R . o ¥ & @ R 7. BN VT T A i QR g;\‘ PO e i /’/ PR <:¢§;‘,"t o, o bt "y M 5 $ & a:“*;’.if%;.‘ 7g Rl e N g T XK N WL o "” T A "’;,,_:"*».:,.?fl' '; s -,‘('-\\., Ai A ' » (RN Ak B N e g i Ny R ¥ R NG Ve R 28 fg ey I‘ S o p A A R el R k. i in i W M G 50% . (3B e o WP i o S v $s g W Rt T 0T iy T B ot ’Qw iata oy s, s 4 U R r PO R SRR R s 2 % Nt Moo \x N G W S 8 Y M R g R G N e N S 5g Y “,.:'4; E R K Y SRR PN SR, Y 4»‘5 '}( AR ;» M oi, oA ¥ s Y, ¢ 1R E A gA T o R P R R A g B *"'.'f"* St s{“;* . " Y o W i Ry i S S [ * AT IR ) P S 8 o i 1§ 28 ! P e » . g PR Lo "I - Do e 5 F o) J Py b 4 o 2 ::"‘\ ( S M e 55& 0L R N o & e 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, ~Rrooklyn Bagle. e “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. 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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 i T. . THARP, ; B ek Georgia= =\ AR R =T = I=~ Y P (,‘/"]«""DT%E;’A l aEEEor ! wmng4 ".» . ',;'“‘*'3"""‘\,'f:““"-;i"l""fi;‘i"‘»“‘f-‘? :§£\ BulCk 031.‘8 (S i is encased'in §= /e | rubber cables ‘ S (g.—/’ —and-rubbe SREEAE s 1) grommets. 8\ \7'>—7// Ohisis oneaf W —\| 7 the features & KO that makes RN Buick aClass | AN\ X ‘Ainsurance N e risk Buick is the Standardo’/Comparison Five Passenger Touring $1 295 Two Passenger Roadster 1275 Five Passenger Seden . 2095 Five Passenger Double Service Sedan . . .- 1695 Seven Passenger Touring 1565 Saven Passenger Cedan. 2283 Five Pastenger Touring $§ €65 Tw. Passenzer Roadster 935 jceaf.o.b. Buick Factories; gov;xnmant tax to be added. E-20-15-NP CGNSOLIDATED HIOTOR COMPANY | ALBANY, GEORGIA When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them T.A e e % id ¥el@ % i ® & . v S ety PRt gt ST e e §t it 15 results you want you should use this paper. It circuates in the maiority of borres in the conrmunity and has ahwavs been cen< Ry I 0} E 2% 2 A PLaE i ami vV A TAT T Hewspaper & - T=o n-ups quarrel .avent ~ e cafldren oy foric 2:d the wheic fame flv toaas it from covet to cover. They wil read yeur »d if you place it botov them in the prog<s edium, Repairing Holes in Lingisum. Suaeli hales in inlafd iinoieuin may be filled with weited paraftin, contaia ing a few drops of ink or dye the pre vailing cclor in the paitern. Best te do this Lolore you refinish the ling wum and it wili hardly be noticed and will 2dd months «f service.to same. e s “| Vs X." The prefives of nceud” and “hscw 0" are - derivedd Guni o othe Geiek weades, felre, ond e om, faiselood, Sombioed with othoer words—or formae of words==they have the {ollowing aeaning: 1. A fule, spurious- or counterieit condit'on. 2. An abnoimal {ormn of or a close reseibience te {something). 3. A resembiance In many sympton:s, but g lack of the spe 2ific characters that mark.the true form; said of disegses, 4. Non.Euciid: fan geometry—as, for example, & pseudo-angle. : o Three Passenger Sport Boadster . « « « « $1675 Four Passenger Sport Touring e 1008 Brougham Sedan « . . 2238 Four Passenger Coupe . 1995 FOURS :lr“_ive Paseenger Sedan . $1495 Four Pagsenger Coupe . 1395 i CITY TAX NOTICE | ; 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. ’ Bl 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 =