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The Wilkinson County News 7 • IRWINTON, GEORGIA. BjELI B. HUBBARD Editor and Publisher. ■b—— ?| Official Organ Wilkinson County. ————— ■ Mrs. T. A. Gibbs, Representative for The News, at Gor ■ don, Georgia. ■J. L. Dean, Authorized Solicitor and Collector of Sub ■ scriptions, Irwinton, Ga. H^atered at the Post Office at Irwinton, Ga., under the ■ Act of Congress of March 3rd., 1879, as second class ■mail matter. ■Subscription: One Dollar per Year Payable in Advance 1 THE GRADUATE ■ i ’ As the month of May draws to a close so does the ■spring term of the several schools throughout the state. ■At the conclusion of the term the seniors graduate and ■receive their diplomas. . This diploma is evidence throughout their lives of the labor they have faithfully performed to acquire their Education. This diploma is evidence that these young men and women are qualified for the fight in life that every human being must wage in order to accomplish any of the good things that a kind Providence has given us. In the beginning of the future the young men and Women should have as their motto the motto adopted by the graduating class of Gordon High school, and that is: “Not finished, just begun.” We were very much im pressed with this motto when we read it, and we believe that every young man and woman in graduating should ■forever bear this fact in mind, that when they graduate they have “not finished,” but have “just begun.’’ K-, It is sad. to look back over the lives of some bright and brilliant young folks who accepted their diplomas, and instead of just beginning their career in life, he or she accepted it as finished, and the result was that they never accomplished anything in life. I The record that any boy or girl will make in life depends, to a great extent, upon their own determination; their own will-power, and not, as some may think, on just “luck.” You have the brains; you have the health; you have the opportunity; you have the education, and it is now lip to you to furnish the everlasting energy and deter mination to succeed. There is nothing that succeeds like success. Forever keep this saying in your mind, and should you seemingly fail in your first undertaking, do not give Up, and for the sake of your own future do not accept it as a failure, but renew your efforts and resolve that you will make success out of the seeming failure. Too piany brilliant minds have become dull and inoperative on account of a seeming failure, when, as a matter of fact, the seeming failure was only one of the natural Consequences that everyone necessarily has to contend with, and which, if you succeed, you must overcome. We speak from a sad experience in life, and we know whereof we speak. If you will pardon us for this per sonal reference, we say that if we had not possessed an undaunted determination we would have given up many years ago. But we have renewed our effort, and every time we received a knock and a disappointment in life it operated only as an inspiration for us to overcome ^hose obstructions which our enemies and competitors in life are invariably throwing in our pathway. r As you now begin your career in life you also will come in constant contact with people harboring petty jealousies, and conspirators will plan to injure you, and pany times will this class of people throw stones in your pathway. If you do not keep an everlastingly dil igent outlook for those stones of obstruction, your toes Svill strike them and down in defeat you will go, to your everlasting regret and to the disappointment of your teachers, who have so tirelessly and so painstakingly labored to equip you for life’s journey, and to the sor row and misery of your hopeful parents. ■ This is an age of progress and also an age of com petition. The average person, when he starts out in life now, must rely upon luck and favor of others. But you jbave to crank up your car of life, put her in high, step on the gas, and keep a constant, diligent and never-ceas ing lookout down the road ahead of you. Having now in your possession your evidence of learning and the evidence of your qualification to work And make a livelihood, you start out upon that journey ■with the admiration of the faithful and loving mother and the assurance from her that you will succeed, it is necessary that you select the avocation in life to which you are best suited and in which you prefer to engage; and having thus made your selection, love it and nurse it, and care for it as you will love and care for the wife or the husband who becomes your companion in life in the future. Having selected your avocation in life and having made up your mind to make a success in that particulr undertaking, remember that there are also public duties you are required to perform as well as managing your private affairs. You have acquired your education in life not only ■to qualify you to manage your private affairs, but one yf the most important duties devolving upon you is the •duty of being patriotic to your country, loyal to your gov ■hunent, true to your God, and courteous to your fellow ■citizen; and in the performance of this duty never let corrupt influences govern you in casting your ballot, but vote always for clean candidates and a better and more honorable management of the public affairs of your com munity, your state and your nation. You are the ones who will manage this government, and upon you rests this solemn responsibility. Do not disappoint us! THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE In this day, when the legislators of this country seem to forget the rights of American citizens, we think that the people should refreshen their memory by reading the very foundation of American independence, and we pub lish below that great document framed by Thomas Jeffer son and adopted by the Congress. It is as follows: “When, in the course of human events, it be comes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of minkind re quires that they should declare the cause which impels them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self evident, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator wijh certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pur suits of happiness. That-to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gov erned. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to insti tute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to ef fect their safety and happiness. Prudence, in deed, will dictate that governments long estab lished shall not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evidences a design to reduce under ab solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their, future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter former system of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid World. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws I of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in the operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has ut terly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, un- , less those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right in estimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfitable, and distant from the depository of their public records for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses re peatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolution, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from with out, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws of Naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hith 'er, and raising the conditions of new appropria tion of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for estab lishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their sustenance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our leg islature. He has affected to render the Military in dependent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and acknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. * For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. For protecting them, by a mock trial, for punishment for any murders' which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States. • For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us without our con sent. tion of lands. THE WILKINSON COUNTY NEWS, Saturday, May IS, 1925 For depriving us in many cases of the ben efits of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses. For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an ex ample and fit instruction for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies. For taking away our charters, abolishing our mosi valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Government. For suspending our own legislatures and de claring themselves invested with the power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has dictated Government here, by de claring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. v He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tryanny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidity scarcely paralleled in the most braberous ages, and to tally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring oil the inhabi tants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian sav ages, whose known rule of warfare is an undis tinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Gordon Church and Lodge Directory GORDON BAPTIST' CHURCH D. T. Cox, Pastor. Sunday Service: 10 A. M. 10:00 A. M. -Sunday School. Every Sunday morning. 11:00 A. M. Preaching Services. Every Sunday. 7:00 PM: B. Y. P. U. Every Sunday 8:00 P. M. Preaching Service. Ev ery Sunday. Monday, 4:00 P. M. Ladies’ Missi onary Society. Wednesday, 8:00 P. M. Mid-week Prayer Meeting. Friday, 7:00 P. M. Friday night Bible Class, Taught by the Pastor. Everybody welcome. METHODIST CHURCH. Methodist Minister: W. J. Simmons Sunday Services: 10:00 A. M. Jno. T. Stokes, Superintendent Sunday School, Every Sunday. 11.00 A. M. Preaching by the Pas- Second and Fourth Snoaays. ('4 c. .Epworth League. Every Sun day night. 7:30 P. M. Preaching by the Pastor Every Sunday. Monday 3:30 P M. Woman’s Miss Lnary Society. Mrs. T. A. Gibbs, President. Thursday, 7:30 P. M. Prayer Meet ing. Every week. GORDON LODGE, NO. 240 FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS Meets every First and Third Wed nesday nights, at Masonic Hall. Visiting brethren invited. R. H. Camp, Worshipful Master. GORDON CHAPTER N. 155 O. E S Meets every First and Third Tues day night in Masonic Hall. All visiting members invited to attend. Mrs. E. P. Anderson, Worthy Ma tron. BEES FOR SALE. Several colonies of Italian Bees tor Sole. Eight and ten frame with fixtures and supers. A bargain at farm. Also Prime swarms for April delivery. Purchaser to furnish hiv es.—D. N. SMITH, Toomsboro, Ga. Wife—“ Have you really told the cook that she and her sweetheart are । with us? Is that quite the thing?’’ tiu Band —“No. It isn’t the thing, but I’m getting tired of his always having the best of all the food?”— Vikingen, Oslo. “Jim, that necktie you are wearing is the worst I ever saw.” । “Say, dine with us to-night, will 'you, old man?” * 1 “Sure! But what’s the connection?” | • “I want you to repeat that remark ■ before my wife.”—Boston Transcript. CHURCH AND LODGE RECTORY OF TOOMSBORO. Toomsboro Baptist Church. Dr. J. C. Solomon, pastor. Preaching service Second Sunday in each month. Morning service 11 o’clock. Evening service 8 o’clock p. m. in each month at 3:00 p. m. Woman’s Missionary Society. Meets Monday after second Sunday Baptist Young People’s Union: Ev ery Thursday night at 8 o’clock. Sunbeams: Mrs. J. C. Colllins, Lead er. Every Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Everybody cordially invited to all these services. Methodist Church, b Rev. T. A. Mosley, pastor. Preaching service every Fourth Sunday. Morning service at 11 o’clock Evening service at 8 o’clock. Sunday school every Sunday morn ing at 10:00 o’clock. Epworth League each Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock. x Woman’s Missionary Society month ly on Monday afternoon after the Fourth Sunday. Christian Church. Rev. F. D. Wharton, pastor. Preaching service every first and third Sundays. Morning service 11:00 o’clock. Evening service 8 o'clock. Sunday School each Sunday at IC a. m. Woman’s Missionary Society meets each Monday after third Sunday at 4 o’clock. Junior Christian Endeavor each Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Toomsboro Lodge No. 290 F. & A. M. Meets on Friday evening before the third Sunday in each month and Wed nesday night before the first Sun day. ■ ALEX S. BOONE, W. M. D. R. FREEMAN, Sec. Sweet Gum Camp No. 281, W.O.W. Meets evrey first and third Thurs day nights. FRED MERCER, Clerk. J. T. MILLS, C. C. GEORGIA INDUSTRIAL NEWS Savannah Riding & Driving Club to erect new building. Chicamauga— Plans under way for construction of $35,000 Masonic tem ple. Perry—Warehouse Company dou bling capacity of local gin. Mortgage Forlosures by the federal farm loan system have amounted to only three-tenths of one per cent of the loans made in the eig’qt years of existence of the Federal Land banks and the Joint Stock Lands banks. Rome—Chamber of commerce plan ,ning direct Rome-Ashville highway [through mountains of north Georgia. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren.' We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legisla ture to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our imigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimi ty, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of jus tice and consanguinity. We must therefore ac quiesce in the necessity which denounces our sep aration, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in War, in Peace friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress / Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies, are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude Peace, contract alliances, establish’ commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our gacred honor. IRWINTON CHURCH AND LODGE DIRECTORY Baptist Church. Dr. Harrisson, Pastor. Preaching services every second and fourth Sundays. Morningse^g ices at 11:00 o’clock; evem^B at 8:00 o’clock. Sunday school r -i ut .".MO u c^pF T. ■ W i ■ ~0 1 I^l 8 w ' Y 'l • ■ .!.8-y ■ - ing. 11. M. SkelM Irwinton Lodge No. Meets second and four^B nights in each month. Visitir^^H ren invited. R. E. MADDOX, W. M® E. R. PIERCE, Sec. York, Pa.—One of the most en thusiastic anglers here is Mrs. C. A. Love, 82 years old. Science is starving mosquitos to death by destroying with chemicals the vegetable animal life on which they feed. Only once is a pearl mentioned in the Old Testament. Kansas has more forest trees today than when the state was founded. Atlanta—Office building to be con structed here at cost of $6,000,000. Watkinsville—Athens Railway & Electric Company negotiating for lo cal electric light franchise. Building permits issued in Georgia during month of March totaled $5, UM,IOO. Cairo—Material assembled for con struction of proposed warehouse. Louisville—T. B. Kelly Company building ten three-room negro dwel lings. Jeffersonville—West Lake post of fice to be reopened. Hartwell—Three banks of Hart county report total deposits of $500,- |OOO. I' Clyde—Henry Ford buys 9000 acres ‘of land in Bryan county and large tract in Chatam county. Bainbridge— Approximately eight miles of city streets to be paved this summer. Thomasville—Warehouse Company selects site for erection of building. Valdosta—Ten streets to be paved in addition to large contract awarded some time ago. Tobacco acreage in Georgia practi cally doubled this year. Savannah—Store building at 14 Broughton street to be remodeled. Newman—New equipment received for ten rooms in city hospital.
