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« STREET OF IRWINTON:
Thinking that, as er all the joking,
perhaps Fred Everett is right, I pick
out a large, healthy doctor to go
riding with Sunday afternoon. So I
"visit Toomsboro with Dr. Brookins
for a few minutes. Used to travel
with doctor when he first came to
Toomsboro, and I was also new to
the neighborhood. Once down in the
southern part of the county while he
was giving his attention to a patient
I picked a hatful oi fine huekeberries
in a patch in front of the house and
then sat down to enjoy a feast. They
were my first gallberries. A hatfull
has lasted me twenty years.
Walking along Monday afternoon
happily meditating on my Izaak
Walton secret, Frank Bacon startled
me by suddenly asking wtere m-y
newfound fishing place is, and before
I knew what had happened the
secret was out.
Mr P. H. Ward of Danville was in
the city Monday morning for a little
visit- He wouldn't listen to the
dictum that a visitor must remain in
town at least half a day. He was
associating with Victor Davidson
while here.
Mr Cuyler Adams of Allentown
was among the Monday visitors to
the city-
Geo. 11. Carswell and son, Harold,
looking very much at home in the
old town Saturday.
Julian Bloodworth of Lewiston was
on the S.reet a short while Monday
morning, but resisted the desire to
sit down a while.
Bill Dixon was showing an extra
luxuriant sprig of crab grass on the
Street Saturday and the crowd looked
on in a popeyed wonderment wh n
G. T. Waters walked up and asked
what Bill was doing with the swamp
grass. Bill looked at him in
considerable disgust and said - -
Swamp grass your hind foot! And a
big laugh broke up the show.
Nat Bacon comes along the street
Saturday with a mansized string of
fish, and he wasn’t hiding them either.
During the summer trucks should
carry signs: To The Creek; and
To Mclntyre, and save boys the
trouble of stopping drivers to learn
their destination.
MfW. T. Weaver of Stevens
Pottery was in the city Wednesday.
Find Buddy Hatfield sitting in a
rocking chair front of Johnson’s store
with a tin bait can on the pavement
beside him. He denied that he was
to take the the rocking chair to the
creek, but Buddy will bear watching.
Tell B. A, about a new oil well in
North Georgia, but he savs the first
oil stock he bought made him too
slick to buy any more.
While E. Johnson and Frank
Johnson were visiting in Memphis,
Tenn., Monk felt responsible for the
store and filling station and barked
at all the customers and ev».n the
tourists who didn’t stop.
Mr and Mrs Fred Everett, Miss
Mary Tigner attended a showing of
“The Rogue Song” at the Rialto in
Macon Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Ben Simmons of Greensboro
was a visitor in town Sunday, meeting
school day friends of long ago.
Henry Adkins hears a tree frog
talking out loud about how^dry he is.
Folks on the street complaining about
dry weather. We don’t like rain
and we don’t like drouth, and very
often we don’t like one another - -
what a world"for happiness.
Feeling somnolent myself, day be
fore yesterday morning, and when
Victor Davidson eased up to me and
said, Who’s Who! I just knew I
was out in the swamo, desered by
prankish fishermen. But on being
more aroused saw that, he was not
really a large, handsome owl, and
that he wanted a copy of “Who’s
Who.”
P. M. Jackson of Toomsboro was
in the city Wednesday.
W C. Matthews brings to town
the nicest English peas 1 have seen
this spring.
Walter Adkins and Miss Bessie
Adkins visited Toomsboro Wednes
day morning.
Children busy smoking pieces of
glass to look at the sun, and old
folks impatiently writing to take the
glasses the minute they are fixed and
do all the looking.
The English sparrow likes his dust
bath, it makes him feel so chickenish,
but I got a laugh at one Wednesday
morning when he plunged down on
the newly topsoiled Pennyrow road
and sank to bis eyes in dust. He
had a very industrious bath-
Mrs H. B. Adkins, Mrs N. 11.
Bacon, Mr Walter Adkins spent
Tuesday in Macon
Lee Pennington out from Macon
Monday. Says the bus business is
growing.
Frank Dixon with canes on the
side of his car, seems to be waiting
for a signal that it is the right
minute to start on a fishing trip.
Mr Holliman Hitchcock, Misses
Mary Lizzie, Bernice and Evelyn
Hitchcock, of Linton were guests of
Mr I. F. Billue and family Sunday
afternoon. /
About the shortest period of time
for the number of days in it is the
school vacation.
Miss Ellen King and Miss Maggie
Wood went shopping for the store in
Macon Tuesday.
With Mrs H, G. Lindsey, Miss
Mary Sue Lindsey, Miss Mary Tigner
to Toomsboro last Friday afternoon
and the city looked a little bit lonely
Hot weather had run the folks inside
the houses. Talked awhile with Mr
and Mrs H, E. Stephens and their
interesting daughters, Martha and
Mary. Sampled new artesian well
and Dr, Ware’s ice cream.
A strange complaint for Irwinton
where water is scarce - - Horace
Lindsey says their well has too much
water, so he is boring a new one,
figuring that a pipe-size well will not
hold as much water as an old style
well.
Enjoyed a chat with Mr W. H.
Lee Wednesday. Mr Lee while
looking through some books and pa
pers recently found a copy of a news
paper published in Milledgeville in
1860 and the old paper was so inter
esting that he read it all even the
advertisements.
Irwinton friends saw Trussell Dean
in Macon Saturday and we are glad to
learn that he has about recovered
from his recent injuries in an auto
accident and is now out of the
hospital.
Street of Chicago —April 29th a
horse sat down in the middle of a
busy street and took a good, long
rest while thousands of people stood
looking on and wondering to see a
horse act so human. Such are the '
things that interest us in the little
village or the big city —anything a '
little bit odd to release our mind
for a few minutes from the dreariness
of the usual.
Miss Annie Lou Camo of Gordon
was guest of Miss Eunice Sanders
the past week end.
Mr I’aul Lee of Gordon was in the
city Tuesday.
Leon Player is in and around the
city of Griffin (not Griffin District)
hobnobbing with those who are not
oyerlv anxious to purchase 1930 tags.
Middle Georgia College
Through the superb cooperation of
the faculty and student body, Middle
Ga- College will have an excellent
swimming pool ready by the time
summer school begins June 9tb. Mr.
John Mullis, the contractor, started
pouring the cement today and will
rush the work. It will be one of the
best pools in this section having a
depth of from three to ten feet- This
is the second addition made this year
for the pleasure and convenience of
the students and faculty. Last fall
an excellent gymnasium was built.
Neither of these splendid • additions
will cost the State anything as the
funds have been secured from other
other sources. The next addition
will be the fencing around a new
athletic field which is to be completed.
Last year the college made a
library drive which resulted in
securing a large and well selected
library for the high school an<j college
work. There is still a great need of
books of fiction and it is the hope of
President Browning that at least one
thousand volumes of fiction and
biography will be given the library
sometime in the near future. A full
time librarian has been in charge all
the year and has accepted for the
next term.
Friday evenings, May 9th, at 8:30,
Miss Willewis Maxwell, head of the
Dramatic Arts Department, will
present her pupils in a Song and
Reading recital.
Pres- Browning made literary
addresses to the classes at Pitts High
School and Cadwell High School
this week. He was very much im
pressed with the'- classes graduated
from these schools.
Mrs. Floyd, principal of the Moore
School in Twiggs county had a
delightful picnic at her school
closing Sat. Sat. Fitzpatrick, Mrs.
Carswell, of Jeffersonville and Pres.
Browning made short addresses.
The graduating exercises of Middle
Ga. College will begin Thurs. after
noon May 15th. and close Monday
evening May 19th. Thurs afternoon
Miss Merle Eubanks, the Home
Economice teacher, will have her
pupils put on a fashion show, Thurs
day evening Mrs Tyler, the Wind and
Stringed Instruments teacher, will
presen; her pupils in a recital. Fri
day evening, Miss Maxwell wiJ
present the class play. Sat. afternoon
the Ciceronian and Demosthenian
Societies will hold their debate and
contests. Sunday Morning, Rev.
W. B. Feagan, of Baxley will preach
the commencement. sermon, and
Monday evening the closing exercises
will be held.
The first Junior College class will
be graduated this year.
Ledtures on Economics
Saturday, May 3, at Gordon, the
Wilkinson county home demonstra
tion council will hear speeches on the
betterment of economics and social
conditions in Wilkinson, by Mrs-
Harper Tucker, president of the
State home demonstration council,
and Mrs. Julia Kitchens, Wilkinson
county home demonstration agent,
Mrs Allen Dixon is president of the
county council which has a county
wide membership. .
Mr J. A. Brannan, of Gordon, who
was quite seriously injured when his
automobile overturned several days
a»o is reported as improving satis
factorily. An X ray examination in
Macon showed that he had not suffer
ed internal injuries as was feared at
first.
The highway out of Irwinton to
Macon is open for sravel now. It is
not necessary to go by Mclntyre.
