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PUBLISHED IE THE INTEREST OF RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERA 7 URE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE .
VOL. XX.
W. C. Westbrook Explains,
Knowing that it was common
after a man had held the offico of
Representative for two terms, to
make a change, and after hear
ing a number of our people talk
upon the subject, I was convinc
ed that our people were willing
to make a change.
I had some aspiration to repre
sent the county in which I have
lived for fifty years if I could be
elected without getting in a
scramble over the office, so I
made inquiry over the county as
opportunity would permit as to
my acceptance and who would be
my opponent. I m 9 t with all the
encouragement among the vot
ers of the eonnty that one could
wish; I heard of no one who
would likely be in the race, ex
cept the possible announcement
of the present encumbent.
I made a trip over to Waleska
to attend the Commencement,
and when I got home I was told
that one of my neighbors was in
the race and had arranged to be
at Cumming when the Executive
Committe met, and was likely to
put m his annuncemenf at once.
Sol met him on the road as he
was going to Cumming, and,
without asking him for any com
promise, or why he had come in
t]\~. vner* so euddonlv, I told him
that if he made the race that I
would not enter it. I did not do
this because I was afraid to make
the race against him, for I feel
sure that I could stand my hand
with him. but we both have
homes in the same neighborhood
and belong to the same church,
and of course this would mean
division among friends, and I had
rather have peace at home than
to go to the Georgia Legislature.
Besides if three of us were to run
on this side of the county, it
would make us easy prey for some
one on the other side of the coun
ty who would come in the race,
Quite a number of my friends
have expressed their regret that
I will not likely be in the race,
but I must consider HOME first.
I hope we will have a good man
to represent our county, for I am
proud of Forsyth county and feel
like she is one of the best coun
ties in the state.
As Prohibition will likely be an
issue in the next Legislature, and
as our county has been prohibi
tion so long, we should send a
man pledged to protect this issue.
Thomas A. Edison, the great
Inventor, never said a truer
thing than when he said that,
’’Liquor was like sand thrown in
the eyes of civilization."
As education, and especially
Agricultural education, is now
is now one of the leading ques
tions of the day. we want a man
able to help uphold this great
question and see that the Agri
cultural schools are fostered and
protected.
As we have no railroad in the
county we should feel very much
interested in good roads. I think
®he IVortlj (Georgian.
Mr Elliott Castleberry and fami
ly visited at Mr T S Bennett’s
Sunday,
I reckon all the correspondents
are getting ready for the June
singings.
Mr Vergil Vaughan visited his
mother Mrs Hassie Vaughan Sat
urday and Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Truman Bennett
spent Monday with Mr and Mrs
Bascom Fowler.
Mrs Hassie Vaughan has pur
chased her anew piano.
Wheat harvest will soon be here.
Everybody invited to attend the
singing at Mr J M Satterfield’s on
route 6, the 3rd Sunday p. m.
Messrs Lucine, Luther and Los
son Bennett were the guests of
Messrs Roy ann Hillis McGinnis
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Elliott and little
brother Carol spent Monday at
Mr J H Castleberry’s.
Mr Bill Bennett spent Sunday
night with Mr Roger Martin.
Red Bird.
Ohamberiain’B Stomach and Liver
Tablets will brace up the nerves, banish
sick head ache, prevent despondency
and invigorate the whole system. Sold
by all dealers,
that the alternate road law should
be controlled by a direct vote of
the people of each county. I
think there should be a law to re
quire every road hand in the
county to work tha same amount
of time on the roads, and that
the Grand Jury should say how
many days each year they should
work. The Commissioners could
divide their hands according to
the need of their roads, and I
think they would show consider
able improvement.
I feel very grateful to the peo
ple of the county for the many
nice things they have said to me,
and of me, in this my first, and
possibly my last, little flash in
the political world. Let us make
a strong pull for good men to
govern the state, and especially
a good man to represent the
rand old c ounty of Forsyth.
W, C. Westbrook.
ROUTE 3
A nice shower of rain fell Sun
day,
The farmers around here are al
most done chopping cotton.
Mr Grady Green and family vis
ited at Mr Ernest Terry’s Satur
day nipht and Sunday.
Mr J H Castleberry and family
visited Mr E E Castleberry Satur
day night.
Mr Walter Hendrix passed
through our burg Sunday.
Misses Ada Vaughan, Lizzie
Satterfield and Lillie Green 6pent
Saturday night and Sunday with
Misses Odessa and Nancy Dukes,
I wonder if Jay Bird had a good
time at Midway last Sunday.
Miss Bertie Elliott spent a few
days of last week with her aunt
Mrs Odessa Smith.
GUMMING, GA. .TUNE 10 1910.
ROUTE 7
Rev Shield filled hie regular ap
pointment at Midway Saturday
and Sunday.
Wheat is about ready to harvest
in this section.
Miss Pauline Dodd spent Satur
day and Sunday with home folks.
Mr J L Sewell and family of
Heardville, visited Mr J S Han
sard and family Saturday night
and Sunday.
Miss Sibil Fowler was the guest
of Miss Maude HolDrook Saturday
night and Sunday.
Messrs Claude Webb and Elbert
Monroe visited near Birmingham
Saturday night.
Mr and Mrs John Cook spent
Sunday at Mr D W Boling’s.
Miss Flossie Hendrix visited Mr
Charlie Hendrix and wife Satur
day night.
Mr and Mrs M L Holbrook spent
Saturday night and Sunday with
their son Mr General Holbrook.
Mrs Phillip Neese, of Atlanta, is
spending a few weeks with her
mother Mrs Polly Kemp.
Miss Mae Fowler was the charm
ing guest of Misses Pauline and
Irene Dcdd Sunday night.
Jay Bird,
ROUTE 6
More rain, more rest.
Several from here attended ser
vices at Beaver Ruin Sunday.
Mr and Mrs T J Pirkle spent
Saturday on route 6.
There will be an all dav singing
at Corinth Sunday, several good
leaders are expected. Everybody
cordially invited to come.
The many friends of Mrs C T
Williams will be glad to know that
she is improving after an illness
of several weeks, at her home rear
Hoschton.
The birthday dinner given by
Mrs Alice Williams Sunday in
honor of her son Furman was en
joyed by all present.
Curiosity.
The french say it requires the
presence of three generations to
make a perfect home, and we are
glad to see that the grandmother
is becoming more hignly apprecia
ted in this country, as she no long
er confines herself to the chimney
corner and her knitting, but takes
a kindly interest in all that goes
on ; keeys mind and body discip
lined by study and active, useful
participation in what is going on
around her, and is as careful of her
appearance as when she was a
young girl.
Lame shoulder is almost invariably
caused hv rheumatism of the muscles
and yields quickly to the free applica
tion of Chamberlain’s Liniment. This
liniment is not only prompt and effec
tual, but in no way disagreeable to use.
Sold by all dealers.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is sold
on a guarantee that if you are not satis
fied after using two-thirds of a bottle ac
cording to directions, your money will
be refunded. It is up to you to try.
Sold by all dealers.
That Dreary Parlor.
We do wonder why people try
so hard to make their booses ugly,
inside and out. They spend dol
lars, yes. lots of them, to -in fill
ing their dwellings with what is
neither useful nor ornamental,
when a few cents and perhaps a
little more sense would have made
them handsome. The best parlor,
what misery sits enthroned within
its forbidding doors! When yon
make a visit vou are invited within
its sacred portals. The door creaks,
as if protesting against the invas
ion. A clammy atmosphere en
velopes you as you enter that
makes you involuntary shudder
and wonder if the room is haunted
You sit on a hair cloth chair and
clutch frantically at the arms to
keep from slipping off. The am
brotypes of deceased uncles and
cousins and aunts look down at
you from their oval frames and
scowl. The whatnot in the cor
ner is covered with bric-a-brac in
tended to be ornamental, but which
looks more like some play house
replete with broken dishes and
empty bottles, and kept in the best
room in memory of some child,
dead years ago. You feel in your
bones that there has been no one
in that room for months before
and that when you go out it will
once more be sealed like a tomb
and left to the care of the relatives
on the wall. You long for a
glimpse of the sunlight out of
doors. If you could se3 a hat or a
coat lying carelessly about to de
note that you were still in the land
of the living, it would be a relief.
You wish vou could find a cat
in the room and step on its tail, 01
ruD a pin into the old aunt who
looks down from the wall with a
stony stare at least fifty years old
or kick the hair cloth chair right
into the whatnot, or do anything
to cause a little commotion and an
appearance of 1 fe. And when,
after a visit of half an hour, about
as cheerful as a funernal. you
leave the room, you feel as if you
had been in the presence of the
dead. The best parlor, where sun
light and children, and laughter,
and music and fun are excluded,
should give place to something
more cheerful and more fitting for
Chrstian homes-
Good and Bad Mothers.
The difference between goad and
bad mothers is so vast and so far
reaching that it is no exaggeration
to say that the good mothers of
this generations, are building the
homes of the next generation, and
the bad mothers are building the
pnaons. Fcr out of families nations
are made ; and if the father be the
head and the hands of a family, the
mother is the heart. No office in
the world is so honorable as hers,
no priesthood so holy, nofluence so
sweet and strong and last ng Un
selfish love is the mother! Cheer
ful obedience in the children! In
whatever home these forces are con
stantly operatives, that home can-
not be a failure. And mother-love
is not of the right kind, nor of the
highest trend, unless it compells
this obedience, The assertion that
affectionate firmaess and' even
wholesome chastisement is unnec
essary with our advanced civiliza
tion, is a specious and dangerous.
Tho children of today hove as
many rudimendary vices as they
had ih the days of the patriarchs ;
as a general thing they are self
willed and inclined to evil from
their cradles; greedy without a
blush, and ready to lie as soon as
they discover the use of language
A good mother does not shut her
eyes to these facts; sho aocepts her
child as imperfect, and trains it
with neverceasing love and care
for its highest duties. She does
not call impertinence “smartness,”
nor insubordination ‘ high spirit”
nor selfishness “knowing how to
take care of itself,” nor lying and
dishonesty sharpness.
My young lady reader, if you
are looking for your prince, just
test his nome cynduct before you
accept him. Don’t be guided in
your choice by what a young man
be in your parlor; find out what
he is iu his mother’s sitting room.
Don’t judge him by how he can
dance, or turn a compliment, or
tip hifi hat, or c&rrVj yobr small
bundle; find out how agile he is to
do a service for his old maid aunt,
or how he speaks to the women
folks when his collars ajv not laun
dered to suit him. I' he stands
the test, catch him quick for he i
1 rtra-avis Togeih . v<>u may
<*-oah|iah . kingdom •. N> none
'u the kingdom . ven — a
h'Opvhoinel For 1 no where
mi ual c msiderai i • .•-bound
i tie 1 n-ippv on ugh it be
le ip fl ;t in t • n, or an
.dob hui on th ,
The man who n. . • an-es his
vfp and- rves to hni< !•• 01 one.
And the man who n- a good
win m ire than she dt-s< rves hasn’t
been rjorn yet.
One of our town girls recently
sent 25 cents for a receipt to pro
mo e and preserve beauty She
received the following reply r
‘•Mind your mother and stay home
nights.”
A ’Dreadjul Wound
from a knife, gun, tin can, rusty nail,
fireworks, or of aDy other nature, de
mands prompt treatment with Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve to provent blood poison or
gangrene. It’s the quickest, surest heal,
er for all such wounds as also for Burns,
Boils, Sores, Skin Ersptiens, Eczema,
Chapped Hands, Corns or Piles. 25c at
Dr John Ilockenhull’s.
Marvelous Discoveries,
mark the wonderful progress of the age.
Air flights on heavy machines, telegram;,
without wires, tearible war inventions
to kill men, and that wonder of won
ders, Lr, King’s New Discovery—to save
life when threatened by coughs, colds,
lagrippe, asthma, croup, bronchitis, hem
orrhages, hay fever and whooping cough
or lung trouble. For all bronchial af
fections it has no equal, It relieves in
stantly. Its the sirestcure, James M.
Black of Ashville, N. C., K. R. No 4,
writes it cured him of an obstinate cough
after all other remedies failed. 50c and
£I,OO. A trial bottle free. Guaranteed
by John Hockenhull,
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