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THE NORTH GEORGIAN
VOL. XXXII l
locals,
Mr. G. L. Merritt has been in
town this week on business.
Need any insurance, fire or
life? See A. C. Kennemore.
Mr. Gus Carruth, of Gaines
ville, was a Sunday visitor here.
Mr. John Ed Kirby made a bus
iness trip to Atlanta Tuesday,
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School re-opened Monday with
a good attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pirkie vis
ited in Atlanta one day last week
Henry Hurt says to tell the
people that the Road Tax MUST
BE PAID AT ONCE.
Messrs. Roy Otwell, Maynard
Mashburn and J. E. Puett spent
last Friday in Atlanta.
Messrs. And> Merritt and Clif
ford visited in Atlanta Friday of
last week.
Mrs. Jesse Exum, of Atlanta,
has been visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Pruitt.
Mr. Oscar Hyde has accepted a
position with the Cumming Drug
Store.
The Ladies Sewing Club met
with Mrs. R. E. Hope last Friday
afternoon.
Mr. Edwin Rogers has returned
to Atlanta, after spending two
weeks with home folks.
Mr. Willis Ro'ers made a bus
iness trip to Atlanta latter ptrt
of last week.
The lady members of the Meth
odist church “pounded” their
pastor Monday night,
Mr. Dewey Evans, of Atlanta,
is visiting Mr. W. C. Wheeler
and family.
Miss Estelle McClure, of near
New Hope, spent last week with
her sister, Mrs. T. P. Burruss-
Messrs. H. E. Brand and Ray
mond Merritt made a business
trip to lawrenceville last week
We are sorry to learn of the
serious illness of Mrs. Forrest,
mother of Rev. G. W. Forrest.
Have you paid your road tax?
Better get a move on if you
havn’t. Henry Hurt savs he’s
got to have it.
The Ladies Missionary Society
of the M. E. church met with
Mrs. G. M. Puett Friday after
noon of last week.
The Baptist Missionary Socie
ty, Circle No. 2. gave their pas
tor a “pounding” one night last
week.
Mr. Olen Merritt is adding some
new rooms and other improve
ments to his dwelling on Tribble
Gap Street.
Messrs. Glenn Bagley and Jno.
Strickland left last Tuesday for
Young Harris where they will
re-enter school.
Postmaster A. G Hockenhull
is ha ring the post office building
wired for electric lights. Mr.
Maynard Mashburn will furnish
the “juice.”
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Closes Temporarily.
The Farmers and Merchants
Bank was temporarily closed by
the Board of Directors Thursday
of last week on account of slow
collections.
This will be deplored by every
body in the county, as the insti
tution has verily been a friend to
the people of this section.
The Bank has resources of
about a half million and only
owes $78,000.
It is our opinion that the bank
will be re-opened shortly.
Why Not a Clean Up Club?
Spring will be with us again
very shortly now, and the ques
tion of community beauty and
sanitation will come to the fore.
What’s the matter with hav
ing a “Clean Up” club in this
town?
Why can’t we have an organi
zation of public spirited men and
women whose business it would
be to encourage the cleaning up
and beautifying of the town?
Such an organization would ac
complish wonders in a short space
of time. We haven’t a citizen
who wouldn’t heartily
in such a movement; and many,
once it was under way, would go
to great lengths to outdo others
and carry off the prize.
And a prize, we would sug
gest, should be given not for the
best place, but for the one show
ing the greatest improvement.
Sanitation is necessary to
health, and we can’t have sani
tation without cleanliness. And
cleanliness can be produced only
through the systematic co-opera
tion of the entire community.
We believe such a movement
would prove popular in this town
Certainly its benefits would be
many and far reaching.
This paper only wants one of
fice in such a club—that of chief
booster.
Rev, F. C. ’Owen filled his ap
pointment at the Methodist
church Sunday and at night. A
fair sized congregation was out
notwithstanding the inclement
weather.
Forsyth county lost a mighty
good citizen Christmas week,
when Mr. C. A, Milford died
from the effects of a kick by a
mule. He leaves a wife and sev
eral children, who have the sym
patiy of many friends.
Mr. VV.T. Fowler, of Pitts,Ga.,
was shaking hands with Cum
ming friends Tuesday. He had
been to see his mother, near
Ducktown, who is very sick, we
are sorry to learn.
Mrs. E H, Chadwick, died in
Atlanta of paralysis iast week,
and the remains were brought to
Friendship for burial, the funer
al being conducted by Rev. C.A,
Wallace. Mrs. Chadwick was
about 80 years old and formerly
resided hear Cuba. She leaves
many relatives to mourn her
death-
School Notice.
"On January 15, beginning at 9
a. m., a special examination will
be he!d for those who are now
teaching without license and
those who expect to teach before
the general examination.
A. B. Tollison,
Superintendent.
Mrs. E. L. Bradford is visiting
relatives in Texas.
GUMMING, GA JANUARY 14 UGH
BRANDYWINE.
As I have been absent for some
time I will come again.
Well, we are having some rainy
weather at present.
Nothing but rain and mud—
not much visiting going on.
Mr. Frank Baker made a busi
ness trip to Atlanta Friday,
Mr. J. E. Bagwell visited his
son, Mr. B. R. Bagwell, Satur
day.
Rev D M Nalley and family
spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs.
G W Stone.
The sick of the community are
better at this writing.
iThe school at Brandywine is
progressing nicely under the
management of Prof. Fred Dris
kell and Miss Francis Bowen.
Mr. Bill Stone and wife and
father visited his sister, Mrs.
Will Moulder, Friday.
As news is scarce for this time
I will fly away.
Blue Bird.
ROANOKE NEWS
fiMrs. Cora Nuckolls spent Thurs
day with her sister, Mrs. Tessie
Phagan.
Mrs. L. B Dover and son, Clif
ford, spent a few dayf last week
with Mr. and Mrs. L R Nix, near
Orange.
Mr. Cecil Chadwick and wife
spent Thursday night and Friday
with Mrs. L B Dover.
Mr. C H Bruce and wife spent
Sunday night with Mrs. Lucy
Dover.
Mrs. Cora Nuckolls spent one
day last week with her brother,
Mr. Feddie Dover.
There Is lots of moving in these
parts.
Well, as news is scarce,
close.
Plow Boy.
Notice.
To the citizens of the town and
community:
If you remember, last summer
we all made a subscription to the
Cumming school fund. Now,
these amounts are past due and
only a few have paid any at all-
Please remember that these
pledges stand against you just
the same as a note. If you want
our school to fail, just neglect
paying your amount. You may
bear in mind that if these a
mounts remain. unpaid it will
force us to close our school.
Yours very truly,
G. W. Ingram,
Sec, & Tr. School Trustees.
You Need
INSURANCE
Let me write it. I represent
BeorgiaFamers Firs Insurance Cos.,
—AND TIIE—
Joffsnsn Standard Life Insurance Cos.
Office in the Court House
A. C. Kennemore.
LONGSTREET.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Strawn spent
Saturday night and Sunday at Mr.
J. M.Stows’
Mr. R J. Pierce is spending a
few days with his daughter Mrs.
Pierce Cobb.
The many friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Grady Puckerr are symphis
ing with them in the death of
littl son, Lanier, which occured
Sunday night,
Mrs. J. H. Padgeet is spene
ing a few days at Mr. Mannel
Richards’
Mrs. Hermon Monroe and child
ren of Chattalisochee have return
ed to their home after spending
the past two weeks at Mrs. Mar
tha Hambys’
Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Richards
announce the arrival of another
fine boy while Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Holbrooks announce the arrival
of another little girl.
L. H.
Notice to Creditors of Farmers &
Merchants Bank, of
Cumming. Ga,
In accordance with the provis
ions of Sections 13 and 14 of Ar
ticle 7 of the Banking Act, ap
proved August*l6th, 1919, you
are hereby notified to present
your claims, properly attested,
on or before ninety days from
date.
Also depssitors are nereby no
tified to bring their pass books
to be balanced and compared
with the books of the bank, fil
ing same with Mr. J. V, Hall,
liquidating agent.
This ldth day of January,l92l.
T. R. BENNETT,
Superintendent of Banks.
Helpful Advice
A se'’c,<e case of smallpox had
left Mr. Long badly pitted. Cindy
the cook was worried.
“Mr. Long” she said solicitous
ly, “ Why don’t yo hab vo face
manicured? De tell me it shore
will make dem scars come off,”
The Letter of the Law
Tiny Joan had been iristructed
by her nurse that she should not
be seen in her nightdress by the
boys. One morning her small
brother cane to the nursers before
she was dressed. The small maid
cal’ed out, You tanttum in. I’ve
dot my nightie on.
Silence fora second, then, You
tan turn in now, I tut it off!
Mr. George Waldrip, who lives
near Midway church, committed
suicide Wednesday by shooting
himseK in the head. Financial
worries is supposed to be the
cause of the act.
Home Circle Column.
Pleasant Evening Reveries A Column Dedi
cated to Tired Mothers as They Join the
Home Circle at Evening Tide.
KEEP YOUR TROUBLES SACRED.
A wife of forty, whose life cannot have been all sunshine,
writes the following advice to married couples :
“Preserve sacredly the privacies of your home. Let not
father or mother, sister or brother, or any third person even
presume to come in between you tw r o, or to share the joys
and sorrows that belong to just you two alone. With God’s
help build your own quiet world, not allowing your dearest
earthly friend to be the confidant of aught that concerns your
domestic peace. Let moments of alienation, if they occur,
be healed at once. Never speak of it outside, but confess to
each other and all w’ili come right. Never let the morrow’s
sun find you at variance. Renew or review the vow at all
temptations. It will do you both good. And thereby your
souls will grow together, cemented in that love which is
stronger than death and you will truly become as one.”
So many parents make the mistake of allowing their girls
no independence of thought or action. Every smallest detail
of their lives is decided for them. Their clothes, the books
they should read, the friends they should make are all chosen
according to the parents’ idea of what should be. Under
such discipline a girl very soon loses all desi:e to decide things
for herself, except in very exceptional cases. She clings to
her mother’s apron strings until she is married and then, nine
times out of ten she settles down in the same town or some
times in the same house —at any rate close enough so that
mother is easy to reach. If cnance does take her out of
town the poor husband has a most catastrophic time ahead
of him. Still, if the girl has the right stuff in her she will
come out on top, but so many eears of dependence on others
has probably robbed her of any ability to find her own pow
ers.
Such a girl, whether she marries or not, when she loses
her parents, is a pitiful object. Mothers and.fatheis should
realize when rearing their children that, according to the law
of life they cannot be with them always and they should teach
them to fight their own battles and live their own lives. This
is one of many ways in which the lower animals show a
greater amount of common sense than we humans.
So many marriages go to pieces on such tiny rocks that it
seems a pity with two pilots at the wheel these rocks cannot
be avoided. Perhaps the fact that there arc two pilots is
where the trouble comes in.
Asa rule sensible thinking people have some little time to
consider matrimony before they attempt it.
But the mere fact that they are sensible in other things
seems to make them lose their heads when they contemplate
marriage. They have plenty of evidence on every side of
the pitiful mistakes that have been made yet this in no way
serves as a warning.
Even when a man has so little sense as to contemplate go
ing over Niagara Falls in a barrel he at least profits by the
mistakes others have made. Not so in matrimony. Each
one of us thinks he will be the beautiful exception and that
life will go on in one rosy dream of happiness forever and
aye.
Well, it can’t be done when you are dealing with human
nature and the sooner our young people realize that fact the
better. The first year of married life is the foundation upon
which the whole structure rests. It is a period of adjust
ment and as a rule there is just as much adjusting to be done
on or.e side as another. It is no time for selfishness. It is
the time to learn the likes and dislikes of the other. It is the
time to overcome mannerisms and habits that offend.
If more young people would go into marriage realizing
that it depends on themselves absolutely, whether they make
it a success oi failure, and not upon some ethereal forces
flying about in the clouds, our divorce courts would not be
so busy.
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The man who knows little is confident of many things.
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