Wilkinson County News
IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
A. K. SMITH Editor and Publisher
u. HUBBARD Founder and 2. v Editor.
o.mi Organ Wilkinson Count; .
Mrs. T. A. Gibbs, Representative for The News, at Gor
don, Georgia.
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Act of Congress of March 3rd., 1879, as second class
mail matter.
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EIGHTS OF CITIZENS TO THE COURTS
(By ELI B. HUBBARD)
Section sixty three sixty of the code of Geor
gia, which is paragraph fcur of section one of ar
ticle one of the Constitution of the State, provides:
“No person shall be deprived of the right to pro
secute or defend his own cause in any of the courts
of this State, in person, by attorney, or both’’. Par
agraph five of the same section and article pro
vides: “Every person charged with an offence
against the laws of this State shall have the privi -
]ege and benefit of counsel; shall be furnished, on
demand, with a copy of the accusation, and a list
of the witnesses on whese testimony the charge
against him is founded: shall have compulsory pro
cess to obtain the testimony of his own witnesses;
shall he confronted with the witnesses testifying
against him:shall have a public and speedy trial by
an impartial jury.’’
The above is the fundamental law of this State,
and when any person, however, humble he may be,
is deprived of either of the rights enumerated in
the above provisions, is denied a constitutional
right, and his trial is an absolute nullity.
When any man is accused of a crime or mis
demeanor, the constitution of this great State guar
antees to him the right to have his cause tried in
Professional Cards
F. S. English
Fire and Life Insurance
Insure Your Property with me.
Gordon, Ga.
Jno. T. Stokes
Great American Hartford, Prudential
FIRE INSURANCE
Gordon, Ga.
Eli B. Hubbard
Atoorney at Law
Practice in all Stat a Courts.
IRWINTON, GA.
Dr. E. D. Gleason
464 Plum Street
Licen cd Veterinary Surgeon. Treats
all Sick and Crippeld Domestic Ani
mals. Diseases of Dogs a Specialty
Macon, Georgia
Dr. Geo. IF. DuPree
Physician and Surgeon
Lee Building.
Gordon, Ga.
Dr. J. T. Mills
Physician and Surgeon
Office Upstairs
Post Office Building
Toomsboro, Ga.
DR. J. B. HELTON
Dentist
Office at Residence
Gordon — — — Georgia
Dr. A. Durward Ware
Physician and Surgeon.
Office in Drug Store.
Toomsboro, Ga.
Winfred A. Ryle
Attorney at Law
513-14 Bibb Building
MACON, GEORGIA.
DR. J. H. DUGGAN
Physician and Surgeon.
Dr. Parker’s old. Office.
IRWINTON, GA.
Jos. 4!. Moore
Funeral Director and Scientific
Embalmer.
Milledgeville, Ga.
■, 121 W. Hancock Street
the courts of the State and not only tried in the
courts, but the trial is to be by a jury, a.speedy and
public trial by an impartial jury.
When any man or body of men seeks by coer
cipjj or any other way to compel a man to plead
guilty to an offense against hi^ will, and espec all'y
when he is innocent, then that man or body of
men seek to take away from that man one of his
constitutional rights as a free and independent cit
izen; and they themselves become malefactors and
should be dealt with as the law prescribes.
The law presumes every man to be innocent 01
the offence with which he stands charged, and this
presumption goes with the defendant through the
trial until the State by evidence proves his guilt be
yond a reasonable doubt.
It is the intention of the Constitution of this-
State that its citizens life, liberty and property
should be sacredly protected, and that they should
not be deprived of either except by due process of
law; and by'due process of law means that he
shall have a fair and impartial trial in the courts
that are created by the Constitution and the several
acts of the legislature No private tribunal, be it
either composed of many persons, or one person
°nly, acting as the self appointed tribunal of that
body, authorized or unauthorized by it, can arraign
one of the citizens of this State before that trib
unal and try him. When this is undertaken and the
respectable citizens of the community ratify such
conduct, then it is that the Constitution of this
great State becomes a scrap of paper, the temple
of justice totters, and law becomes a farce. Should
this sad day ever dawn in this great State then
we say that the precious blood of the patroits of
1776 was shed in vain; that the great Declaration
of American Independence, was written by Tho
mas Jefferson and first read to the American
Congress by John Adams, should be forgotten by
our people as a document of liberty for it is false
in its meaning; that the protection guaranteed to
our citizens by our government is meaningless in
its entirety; that the privations that the noble
womanhood of this great nation suffered during
the revolutionary war has been desecrated and
tramped upon by,an unappreciative people: God
forbid such a day should ever dawn:
7HURCH AND LODGE
RECTORY OF TOOMSBORO.
Sunday Services: 10:00 A. M. Jno.
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.
Woman’s Missionary Society.
Meets Monday after second Sunday
in each month at 3:00 p. m.
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.
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.
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 Thun*
day nights.
FRED MERCER, Clerk.
J. T. MILLS, C. C.
WE GUARANTEE
Our Work to be as Good
as the Best. Courtesy and
Promptness is our Watch
word. We strive to Please
DAVIDSON’S BARBER
SHOP. Gordon, Ga.
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.
Wedneiday, 8:00 P. M. Mid-week
Prayer if " eUng.
Friday, 7:00 P. M. Friday night
Bible Class, Taught by the Pastor
Everybody welcome.
METHODIST CHURCH.
. Methodirt Minister: W. J. Simmons
T. Stokes, Superintendent Sunday
School, Every Sunday.
11 00 A. M. Preachint hy the Pas
.?r, Second and Fourth S'lnaays.
<’ 45. -Epworth Leagu’. Every' Suu
day night.
7:30 P. M. Preaching by the Paster
Every Sunday.
Monday 3:30 P M. Woman s Miss
ionary 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 Hnb
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.
IRWINTON CHURCH AND
LODGE DIRECTORY
Baptist Church.
Dr. Harrisson, Pastor.
Preaching services ivery second
and fourth Sundays. Morning serv
ices at 11:00 o’clock; evening services
at 8:00 o’clock.
Sunday school every Sunday after
noon at 3:30 o’clock. J. E. Butler,
superintendent.
Methodist Church.
R. E. T. A. Mosley, Pastor.
Preaching services every first and
ALONG LIFE’S
TRAIL
By THOMAS A. CLARK
Dean of Men, University of Illinois.
((g). 1924. Western Newspaper Union.)
THE SNAP
Ml ’M LOOKING for a three-hour
* course to fill up my program for
next semester,” Gregg said to me yes
terday. “Do you - know any snap
course?”
Before I answered him my mkad
went back to commencement time. We
were sitting on the porch talking it
over, Frank and I, after the fellows
had left We had been celebrating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of our gradu
ation from college, and we Tad had
three happy days together with the fel
lows, some of whom we had not seen
since the day we parted after our
commencement exercises. We had^all
been struck by the changes which had
come to each of us, and naturally each
one had swelled with satisfaction
whenever some one intimated that he
had changed little.
Mac had been in Arizona most of the
time, working cruelly hard in the
mines; he was bald and seamed and
crippled with rheumatism. Pete’s hair,
which had been a riotous bunch of
black curls, was entirely white. Fred,
who had been slender and smooth
cheeked, showed a face that was the
result of hard struggle and a physique
that pulled the scales at twice the
amount he could manage when he was
a freshman. Ed seemed most like him
self; brown-haired, smooth-faced, slen
der as a boy, he had changed the least
of all.
After they were"hil gone, some way
we decided that Fred had gripped us
most of all. He had been a wild, un
trained, harem-scarem fellow, who
cared little for God or for his instruc
tors. He had brought himself to the
front; he was the head of a big en
gineering plant; he had great ambi
tions for the future, and he was man
aging his men and his boys in a mas
terly way; best of all, he had con
quered himself, and all the wild pas
sions that seemed to rage through him
were under his control. His face
showed character and conquest and
self-control. You could tell by looking
at him that he was strong and depend
able. He bad tried the hard thing and
he had made good at it, while Ed was
just as he used to be. He had got ao
where; he had no ambition to get any
where. He had not sacrificed; he had
not suffered, and for him there had
been no development. And so, as we
thought It all over, we decided that
the man who had changed the most
had done best.
The man who Is looking for the
snap, for the soft job, Is not likely to
get anywhere', a passive, unaggressive
existence means weakness and stagna
tloa.
"No,” I said to Gregg, “I can’t think
of any snap courses.”
WRIGLEYS
EVERY 'Of
Probably one
reason for the
popularity of
WRIGLEY’S is that It lasts
so long and returns such
great dividends for so small
an outlay. • It keeps teeth
clean, breath sweet, appetite
keen, digestion good.
Fresh and full-flavored
always in its wax-wrapped
package.
I JI
LIVE OAK CAMP
No. 279
GORDON, GA.
Meeting nights every
two weeks
A. H. Massengale, C. b.
J. E. Hog ?, Clerk
third Sundays. Morning services at
11:00 o’clock; evening services at
8:00 o’clock.
Sunday school every Sunday morn
ing. H. M. Skelton, superintendent.
Irwinton Lodge No. 150 F. & A. M.
Meets second and fourth Tuesday
nights in each month. Visit irg breth
ren invited.
R. E. MADDOX, W. M.
E. R. PIERCE, Sec.
SUGGESTED REPORT ON
STATE MISSIONS
Under State Missions in Georgia
we have the departments of Adminis
tration. Sunday School, B. Y. P. U.,
W. M. U., Enlistment and Evangelism
Pastoral Aid and Church Building.
These departments have shown ad
vancement and increased effective
ness in their respective spheres of
service during the year. Last year the
i Board employed 146 workers who
i traveled over 312,000 miles, deliver
ed 10,385 sermons and addresses,
held over 4,000 prayer meetings,
made over 69,000 religious visits and
reported. 2,943 accessions to the
churches, 1,810 by baptism and 1,133
by letter.
Although mission receipts from the
churches have been greatly reduced,
the Board has succeeded in keeping
up the various phases of the work in
a very satisfactory degree. But it has
been necessary to retrench and so the
Board ha ; been under the necessity of
making less liberal appropriations
and many applications have had to be
denied. In Pastoral Aid 163 churches
and mission points received help in
the support of a pastor, during the
past year, and 14 churches, which had
previously been promised aid, were
given help in church building, al
though in this last department the
wark has been greatly handicapped
by lack of funds.
B. Y. P. U. Work in Georgia con
tinues to advance. At the present
time our unions are increasing at the
rate of one day. This means that con
tinually we are establishing in the
churches a training service which will
equip the members of such churches
to serve the Lord more effectively.
The plans and activities of the B. Y.
P. U. are in close coordination with
the Kingdom program of our demon
ination, and the majority of B. Y. P.
U. members over-the state are sys
tematic and proportionate givers, de
voted and trained stewardsr-Jt. is hop
ed this number increased rapidly.
The Sunday School Department
continues to show splendid progress
in all the things that go to make for
larger and better Sunday schools in
Georgia-leading the South in teachei
training diplomas in 1924, also in
standad departments and the indica
tions are that the 1925 record will be
even better than 1924. About 20 asso
cittions now have full time Sunday
school field workers, and for the sum
mer months twelve additional work
ers were in the field. This work is be
ing financed by the associations in
cooperation with the Baptist Sunday
School Board in Nashville. For the
past two years the promotion of daily
vacation Bible schools has been an
important phase of the work carried
on in connection with the Sunday
School Department, and the number
of vacation schools in Georgia Bap
tist churches has increased from 7 in
1923 and 37 in 1924 to more than 7f
this year. The Baptist Sunday Schoo,
Board has prepared excellent lesson
courses and other material for the
work of these schools.
The past year has been a busy one
in the Department ofEvangelism and
Enlistment. Six men are now engaged
in doing enlistment and evangelistic
work. The report shows that 300 pas
tors and 150 Mercer ministerial stud
ents served 830 churches and die
work in 86 associations last year. As
a result of this cooperative work 8,-
633 were added to our churches by
baptism and 3,837 by letter.
The progress that continues to b<
made by our Woman’s Missionary
Union is phenominal. Their organiza
tions are growing in number and in
membership. They have in Georgia
nearly 4,000 women and young peo
pie enlisted in missionary activ
ities. These good women believe in
prayer and persoanl service. Theii
gifts to the Baptist 75 million Cam
paign- were more than enough to
meet their quota. Their motto for
the new year is, “Go ye into all the
world; and ye shall be my witnesses.
Our laymen are interested and ac
tive in the affairs of the Kingdom.
The Baptist Men’s Meeting, held in
Atlanta in March of this year, brou
ght together a goodly number of lay
men from all parts of the State. Par
tircular emphasis was given in this
meeting to Evangelism and Steward
ship and there was opportunity for
conference together in the laying of
nlans for carrying on the work. It is
hoped to make this a annual meeting
of our men.
Realizing the need and the great
opportunities of the present hour in
our State Mission work and in all
phases of our denominational activ
ity, your committee would urge our
leaders and our Baptist people gen
erally to give whole-hearted support
to our Cooperative program for the
carrying forward and enlargement of
the work of the Kingdom.
Evans & Brookins
Physicians—Surgeons
Masonic Building
Gordon, Ga.
This Business Pays More Than
100 Per Cent Profit—You
Are a Stockholder.
We are interested the more In cor
porations, business establishments
and institutions in which our monej
is invested. Os course, we all have e
passive interest in any enterprise
which will expand and develop oui
resources, thereby benefiting the com
mercial activities of our state. Civle
pride compels us to recognize the far
reaching effect of ail institution;
which bring to us culture and refine
ment and the betterment of society
However, we always show specific in
terest in that particular institution in
which our capital is invested. “For
where your treasure Is, there wiiryour
heart be also.”
All of our State institutions merit
the support they receive at the hands
of our legislature. They were created
and are supported for the express pur
pose of serving, in their varlous’ways,
the people of the State, who maintain
them directly by payment of taxes.
Some of our institutions, however,
could do a much greater good to a
greater number of people by being
supported commensurate with the
services rendered. Such institutions
which show large dividends on the
Investent should have the whole heart
ed co operation of our legislature. For
Instance, our State Board of Health
returns, reckoned in the commercial
value of its services, many times more
than the capital invested. It uses the
talents entrusted to It well indeed.
Health of the individual is the foun
dation stone on >hich the progress
and success of the individual rests.
Any country which neglects the health
of its Individuals must of necessity
weaken, crumble and give place to a
more sturdy people. There was once
the great Roman Empire.
. If we would compare our State In
this particular to our neighboring
States we would at once see that
Georgia appropriates to its Health De
partment much less per capita than
any of her surrounding sisters. They
have seen the good work of health
protection to their citizenry, realizing
that the sickness of each individual
is an economic loss to the State. They
take particular Interest and pride in
these institutions which return to
them so large dividends in safeguard
ing health.
Our State Board of Health is doing
remarkably well in serving the peo
ple, In view of Its limited means.
However, so much better and more
expansive work could be done with
an Increased Investment. Which of
you would not increase your holdings
many fold In any business that was
earning for you, in value of services
rendered, more than 100 per cent on
your investment each year.
Last year the legislature approprl
ated SIO,OOO to the State Board of
Health for the Venereal Disease Con
trol Bureau. In the annual report of
this Institution for 1924, we find that
the laboratory of this division alone 1
made 19,832 examinations, which, if
given the commercial value of $5.00
each as is charged by private insti
tutions amounts to $99,160. A large
amount of field work has been done
in addition toward eradication of ve
nereal diseases, the value of which
cannot be calculated in dollars and
cents. This is only one of the many
departments of this institution each
of which show similar results. We
think, that such a worthy institution
should have the financial support
which it so deservlngly merits.
GROWING PAINS.
We often hear of children suffering
with “growing pains.” There is no
such “animal.” A child who complains
of “growing pains” is a sick child and
needs the services of a good physician
without delay. There may be serious
causes for the pains suffered by chil
dren. If the child is under three years
of age, It is possible that the trouble
is rickets; this is a general disease
and not a disease confined to the part
of the body where the pain exists. It
Is a serious disease and one that should
have the attention of a competent phy
sician, so says our State Board of
Health, who would likely prescribe di
rect, sun’s rays and cod liver oil. In
the older child the pains are likely
due to septic absorption or septicertia.
ft is our duty to find the focus of the
Infection and remove it. Quite often
this is diseased tonsils, abscessed \
teeth or adenoids. It is Imperative
that we get the offending pus out of
the system without the least bit of
delay; it is foolishness to. postpone an
operation tor the removal of diseased
tonsils. All enlarged tonsils are not
infected tonsils, and often do not need
removing, but the tonsil that has pus
in it should com e out and be removed
completely,- not just ..'clipped, but dis-,
weted out. There are other sources of
Infection that we cannot discuss in
this article, but often the most seri
ous damage done Is not apparent; it
U most likely the heart that suffen
and in after years will give trouble
The serious membrane that lines
the joints and the heart is most like
ly to be affected in “growing pains;'
you generally have a true rheumatism
The heart has likely been the first U
suffer, so it well behooves us to have.
a good physician make a most thor-.
ougb examination In all such cases
Remember, growing does not produce
pain; there is a reason; find it; re
move it. '
Plain, almpla food la beat for
