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About Wilkinson County news. (Irwinton, Ga.) 1922-2008 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1925)
VOLUME IV Gordon High < School Open With exercises appropriate open exercises the Gordon High Schoo! was opened last Monday'- irfbrning for “the 1925-26 erm, under the su pervision of Prof. H. R. Bowles, who begins his third year’s work in this 1 . capacity in Gordon. A good delegation of parents, ' school officials and visitors were pre sent t witness the opening exercises and to take some part in them. The- Gordon igh School has enjoyed <a very healthy growth under the lead ership of Pref. Bowles and the peo- ! pie .of Gordon are Iking frward to 1 even bigger and better thingse under - his administratin. The attendance has commenced well and it is said that a large number of pupils will enter within the next few weeks, making the enrolment of the school up to its capacity. Just as wc go to press we learn of the death of Mr. Orin Massey at his home in Gordon after an extended ill •ness. An account of his death and i " funerarwni be carried in next week’s Jr • News.’ GORDON LOCAL NEWS. _ School time /md everything seems to be in better working order. Miss Frances Camp went to Ma con Monday. Miss Louise Brpokins left Monday for Augtrsjff for Tweek* visit. Mltp ^rwldie May Stull is visiting the Elam House for a- few days, the ’■'guest of her brother, Mis. Harry S^ull M'rs^'Goodwrri -fljlier returhej^on day from Jackson, Miss., where she has been for the past month with her husband. - ' Mr. arid Mrs.- Logan White and children left Suhday, August 23rd., for Haddock, to sperid the day with Mrs, J, F, Little. Mr. White’s sister, it being the birthday of-Mrs. Little. From there they motored to Atlanta to visit Mrs. A. J. Morris. They visit ed Stone Mountain, while there, re turning home last Sunday night. Mrs. Claude Holder, of Dublin, is * the guest of Mrs. J. B. Stinson this week. Mrs. Evelyn Sanders returned Sunday afternoon from a delightful visit to relatives m Macon. Miss Katie Wood, 'of Atlanta, af ter a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. E Stokes, left, Monday for Fitzgerald, as trimmer for a milinery establish ment. ' '=srs T. Duffy, W. A. Jones, T. b ’Viotored to Macon Tuehday > n nto see the ball games. is, R. H. Stinson is spending sev . ii days- with the family of I. B. tinson. Miss Alaa Lindsey left for Tooms boro Sunday afternoon. She will teach again in the school there. A few of our good citizens met Tuesday-morning at ten o’clock'at the Baptist church .to pray for rain. SEND US YOUR COTTON W« guarantee correct weights and best pricey times, having direct connec •tion'^KWe Cotton Mills. - Will also advance money to those who . wish to hold for higher prices. Willl ap preciate the patronage of our old Wilkin son County frlvhML^ W. o. Kinney & Company 457 Pine St., Macon, Ga. The Wilkinson County News Goodrich Buys Fall Goods In Cliis issue of The News is car ried the half-page advertisement of ’hilip Goodrich, leading merchant of Gordon, in Dry Goods Shoes, Cloth ing, Ladies’ Ready-to-wear, and Kir bhbaum suits for men, which are be ing featured by Mr. Goodrich this .eason. No better suits are made than :his line and the people of Gordon ind Wilkinsn are fortunate to have a live dealer here carrying this line of. suits. His store is also headquar ters for a full line of ladies’ ready to-wear, hosiery, millinery, etc. Mr. Goodrich buys in great quantities and is therefore able to undersell all com petion in his line, and at the same time give customers the highest grade of merchandise for least money. His Krschbaum suits are priced at $35.00 for two pairs of pants, and $27.50 for suits with one pair of pants. The New York buyers for this store have just shipped in a very large stock and the goods are now being unpacked and displayed for the anticipated large Fall trade. Mr. Goodrich is offering the farmers' of' this section 25 cents a pound for cotton, one half cash and the balance in trade to be taken up within six months. By this arrangement the peo ple are able to sell their cotton for considerably more than the. market. Our readers are urged to look over this advertising and visit ^fr. Good-r rich for anything in Dry Goods, Closur ing, Shoes, Hats, La dies' ready-.to4i rear, Millinery etc, on which they save a good many <lollartto! ?- We carry this week-the halft^jjgiig advertisement of the Mozo- Cater Company, of 213 Cotton Avenue, Macon Georgia, in which they are of fering extra special values in High Class Furniture and house furnish ings. The people of Wilkinson County are advised to go to Macon and look over their stock when contemplating purchases in this line. Mr. I. B. Stinson, of Gordon, was r visitor to Irwinton Tuesday morning Mr. and Mrs. Ira B. Stinson were visitors to Macon Friday. I _ —l 1 Mr. and Mrs. Irby, of Gordon, have returned Hom a delightful, week’s trip to Atlanta, where they visited relatives. - THEWJM. U. OF THE BAPTIST | CHURCH HAS SOCIAL y The W. M. U. of Gordon Baptist church met Monday afternoon at - Four .’clock at the church for a social I. with thirty eight present. A very in teresting program was rendered by - the Vice-president, Mrs. Will Brooks. 5 Gong: We praise Thee O God. By Society. t Prayer: For hame board. Mrs. t Davis. i. ( Song: If Jesus goes with me. Socie- IRWINTON, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 3, 1925. News Late This Week Owing to the fact that we have been delayed in getting our new plant installed, this week, the paper is several days late in reaching our subscribers. It is the intention of the pew management to get- the paper in to the mails on Thursday afternoon of each week hereafter in order that all subscribers may get their paper pot later than Friday morning. The paper hereafter will go to press on Thursday morning. AH copy for ad vertisen^ents, news, notices, etc. will have to be turned in not later than Wednesday afternoon to insure in sertion for that n^ek. rhese rules are 'imperative wing to the fact that advertires must get their messages to -the public by Fri day for the week-end trade. i ty. Devotional: Jennie Fountain. Song: Is your life a channelL of blessing. Society. Prayer: Miss Marye Fountain. A reading: “In glad the sun is shinning”, a Sunbean girL Song : Jesus wants me for a Sun Bean, By two Sun Bean girls. Song: Give Ten. by ten Jr. G. A. girls. Song: Jesus bids us shine ten Sun Bean girls. Closing prayer Mrs, West Brooks After the m-qituun the guests as where delicious bJwWnHM^M^ecrvcd. ■SSBUGeorge H. Carswell went over W dordn ^4 Saturday mrning to at DIPHTHERIA AND - HOW TO GOMBAT IT Although Its terrors have be«n great ly. reduced by the widespread use ot antitoxin, diphtheria is just as eeriour a disease among children as It ever was. The death rate has been lower ed. but there are just as many eager of diphtheria as there were before anti toxin came into use. The Diphtheria Carrier. Not so many years ago It war thought that the diphtheria bacillus could escape from the throats of those 111 with the disease and hide in books clothing, ceilings, carpets and many other places, ready even after man; months or years to pounce upon poo’ Innocent, children, Jump Into the! throats and begin their perniclou work again. Fumigation and all kind; of tricks were employed to disinfec 1 . such articles, but in spite of every pre caution diphtheria cases did not dim inish very greatly. 1 Then the laboratory test was de t vised and the physician was enabled to make more accurate diagnoses o diphtheria. This test will actually tel i whether or not the diphtheria bacilhif ; is present In the throat or nasal pas sage. It was found that the gem lived sometimes for weeks or month* ; In the throats and air passages oi diphtheria convalescents. What wa more surprising it was also found thai the germ could remain present in th< throats of a small percentage of chil . dren fa nd also grown people) who hac never had diphtheria. In such cases the germ did not multiply or causs . any trouble. Thus we have twn kinds of carriers of the diphtheria bacillus. First, ths convalescent carrier who has recover ed more or less completely from ths symptoms of the disease and Is Im mune for the time being agains' further attack, but whose throat ant air passages harbor the virulent dipb theria bacillus, ready to be coughec or sneezed into the throat of som< one else or transferred by the com mon drinking cup and other direc routes. Fortunately we can avoid tin convalescent carried by keeping htn Isolated until several laboratory test; show that the germ has disappears; from Ills throat. Second, and of greatest importance is the "healthy carrier" who gets th, germ from a "convalescent carrier and harbors it in his throat withou developing the disease or without evei being aware of its presence. Th' "healthy carrier" is. therefore, muc’ more dangerous than the convalescent It has bees found that about one chili jg, in every fifty la a healthy carrier. New Fish Laws For The State The following communication has , been sent out to the press of the state ; by State Gamer and Fish Cmmissiner 1 Peter S. Twitty: “Amng the several provisions of the Game and Fish Bill passed by the recent General Assembly and ap prved by the Governor, is ne which prohibits seining r netting in any of the fresh water streams of Georgia for a period of five years. The see t|on of law prohibiting seining reads as follows: ‘lt shall be a misdemeanor for any person to take from any of the fresh water streams of this state any fish with sein, net, gig or spear or with any other device or by any Other means than with a hook and tine fnr a. period- five years; provided nothing in this act shall prohibit the taking of minnows where a seine is used for such purpose, the same not io exceed four feet in length, and provided, that the provisions of this section shall not prohibit the taking of shad fish in the manner and season provided by law.’ This law, according to Commissioner Twitty, applies to even private ponds, but the owner of a private pond, his immediate family or tenants, may fish in said pond at my time and in any manner they please. Under the old anti-seining aw it was necessary for two grand juries to recommen dits adoption be ’bre the law became effective. But •Re new law is state-wide in its ef ect and now applies to every county n the State, and no action of the ^and jury is necessary. "Another provision of this bill RAIDERS GET LARGE STILL AND TWO MEN. County Policemen R. L. Thomas, Ellis McDowell and J. H. Hartley raided a still near the home of Bob , Brooks Friday morning, taking Brooks and a twelvc-ycar-old negro boy, besides a 75-gallon capacity cop per still. Brooks came to Irwinton, । where he gave bond for his. ap , earance a - , he October te no: Su lerior Court. t IAtONG LIFE’S j TRAIL | By THOMAS A. CLARK < 4 k Dean of Men. CniTerwlly of Illinois. I (®, 1924. Wewtern Newspaper Union.) WORK UIV HEN I am dead," John M. Sid VV dell once said, "I want you to carve on my tombstone this line: 'Here j Iles a man who lived a number of years and found out one thing—that ( there is no substitute for work.' ” It has been generally conceded, 1 , believe, that our first parents, before they transgressed the regulations of , the Garden, had nothing to do but en । Joy themselves —to snip off a shoot oc casionally from some over-ambitious . vine or flowering shrub and to watch things grow. If such a condition of affairs had continued long they would ~ have left the Garden of their own ac ' cord from utter weariness and dlssat , tsfgctlon, and would not have had to , be driven but as they were. । When the Lord said to Adam, "In d the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat f bread," It was not a curse V- -ns pro o nonncing but the greatest he could have conceived. T *s' peeple in the world tre ' work —and the most uset e matter how hard and c. .. .i. r work may seem; and the m ohap ' py are those who have not d< but to think about themscl A great deal of the en. the h world baa gone into the on of d "labor-saving" devices, nnd the op ie eratlon of every such device involves a uew kind of labor, and the total , t amount of work demanded is about |P the same as it was before. The people whom I hhve known who have tried tg the hardest to devise some way to get out of work have expended more pbys teal energy In their attempts to evade p work then would have been necessary |p to accomplish the task they were at „ tempting to sidetrack. J( Siddell was right. There Is no sub , n stitute tn the world for work, and it's (e Just as well there isn't, for nothing .j. Induces more peaceful, more genuine lt satisfaction, more real happiness than work well conceived and well per formed. _ TWIGGS COUNTY HAS NEW REALTY COMPANY JEFFERSONVILLE, Ga., Sept. 4— The new real estate firm recently or ganized in Jeffersonville, has a num ber of small farms listed for sale and rent. The number of tourists pass ing through Twiggs County for Flor ida stop here, and a number of inquir ies have been made regarding the value of farming lands in this county. The soil that is for sale runs in price from $lO to sls per acre, and most of the land is partially improved but the houses are small. This county has some of the best soil in the state for all general line of soil in the state for all general line agriculture, especially'for bright leaf tobacco. The dairy industry in being advocated and the bermuda fields af ford ample grazing fields eight month o fthe year. Some of this land being listed in the local real estate office is located in Twiggs County and the fruit grown here for past number of years cannot be excelled in quality jnd flavor. The new organization is under su pervision of F. C. Balcom, local mer chant and farmer of this place. A canvass of the county will be made at an early date and the land that is listed for sale will be partly improved by the owners and sufficient pasture ground to take care of a small number of cows. With the first rainfall a genera, soil improvement program will be launched in the county b ya large number of farmers who expect to plant a large acreage in vetch, rye, and oats. Funds for advertising the county to the outside world are being collected and ths& behind the move ment expect a good return for their labor. prohibits the use of fish baskets or traps or similar devices at any and all times, and makes it the duty of game wardens, deputy wardens and other police officers to destroy all traps, basekets and dther devices used in violatin of this act. “Under these new provisions of the law only hook and line fishing will ■ oe permiSsable in Georgia during the i next five years. The law goes still । further and makes it the duty of the J Board of Game and Fish to prohibit aven hook and line fishing during the spawning season in any county of the state where one grand jury of chat county recommends. ' “A third provision of the bill pre j scribes a penalty of from SIOO to I SI,OOO for dynamiting fish. “The Department of Gam eand Fish 1 announces a reward of $25 for the ar- I rest, and conviction of any person violating the anti-seining law r the ■ law prohibiting the use of baskets 8 and traps. A reward of SSO is of ( i'ered for the arrest and conviction of 1 any person dynamiting fish. These rewards expire January 1. 1926, but are subject to renewal at that time. “A special corps of deputies has , been employed by the Department of t Game and Fish to see that the new ’ fishing laws are rigidly enforced.” FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK For the many patrons that we have we are operattng tn which to deposit ,funds. We have combined safety this bank to give them something more than a sate place with courtacy and survice. SAFETY—COUKTSEY-—SERVICE. DEPOSITS INSURED. I, B. STOraON PRES. F. s ENGLISH CASHIER Miss Shepherd is Hostess On Thursday afternoon August twenty-first, Grace Shepherd enter tained at her home the Junior G. A. of The Gordon Baptist church. The porch and living rooms were beautifully decorated wit hsummer flowers. The guests were received in the living room where the devo tional was given by the leader, Mrs W. E. Ward. Prayer by the hostess’s mother, Mrs. Shepherd. We then as sembled on the porch for * contest of a mixed names of eleven books es the Bible. Sara Walden winning the prize. After the contest the guests were entertained by each making a Love Gift, such as towels, table doil ies and wash cloths, etc for our Or phans Home. After which dainty refreshments were served. The guest list included the mem bers of the organization, their leader, Mrs. W. E. Ward, her assistants, Miss Leila May Brooks and Miss Clara SeweL Misses Cathryne and Mildred Settles of Cinkbest, and the hostess grandmother, Mrs. West Brooks. Wc ■■ rd *' was a find little hostes and I am sure we all feel it a treat to be with her. i Our girls are very much interest ed in the work of G. A. and we ask the prapers of the good people that we may grow higher and higher in the work for our master. CITATION GEORGlA—Wilkinson County. Daisy Adams Brand, vs. Wprth Brand. To thhe Sheriff of Said County, eating: The defendant, Wprth Brand is hereby cited and required personally, or by atorney to be and appear at the Superior Court to be hel din and for said County on the sth day of October, 1295, then and there to make answer or defensive allegation in writing to the plaintiff’s libel, as in default thereof the court will procee according to the statute in such cas es made and provided. Witness the honorable James B. Park, Judge of said Court, this the 27th day of August, 1925. ALEX S. BOONE, Clerk, ALL DAY SINGING AT POPLAR HEAD SUNDAY The annual singing convention will be held at Poplar Head School house on the first Sunday in September, 1925. There will be an al^ day singing, and dinner will be served. Those re siding in that section are requested to bring baskets to feed the large crowd that is expected to be present. This singing is an annual event and is always enjoyed by the large crowds that attend. Mr. Warwick ,of the Pynetree Pa per Company, spent the past week end in Atlanta with relatives. NUMBER 18
