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VOL. XXXII.I
Court next week.
Don’t forget the baptising next
Sunday morn ; ng at 10 o’clock.
Mr. Howell Montgomery has
discontinued his bus line to At
lanta,
Mrs. Wesley Hawkins was re
ported on the sick list first of the
week.
Mr. Leroy Edmondson, of At
lanta, was visiting relatives in
town part of last week and this.
See new advertisement of the
Cumming - Alpharetta ■ Roswell-
Atlanta Bus Line.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Groover,
of Nashville, Tenn., are spend
ing sometime with relatives here
The Ladies Missionary Society
met with Mrs. John Hockenhull
Monday afternoon.
. For sale—6o acre farm. Terms
and price to suit,
S. G, Cross.
Dr. Holtzendorff, dentist, will
be at Brannon Hotel Saturday,
August 20,
Mrs. Calvin Turner, of Buford,
was the guest of relatives in town
part of last week and this,
Messrs. Willis and Edwin Rog
ers, of Atlanta, spent the week
end with relatives here.
Mrs. Hiram Kelly and children
of are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. E, W, Mashburn,
Mrs. Dewey Lipscomb, of Law
renceville, is the guest of Mrs.
Mary Lipscomb and family.
The friends of Dr, W.E.Lip
scomb are glad to see him out a
gain, Jafter an operation at the
Downy Hospital. Gainesville.
Little Annie Long, of Atlanta,
is spending sometime with her
grand father, Col, A, H. Fisher,
and family.
Mr. Sam Fleming, of Atlanta,
came up reunion Saturday
and remained with home folks
till Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Vestus Moore and
little son, of Atlanta, who have
been visiting relatives in the
county, have returned home.
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Col, J. F. Echols, who has
been visiting relatives in town
and Cuba, has returned to his
home in Atlanta,
The ball game between Cum
ming and Flowery Branch Satur
day afternoon last was won by
the visitors. Score Bto 2.
Mr. Babe Gage reports plenty
of open cotton, and expects to go
to picking next week. He plant
ed King's Early variety.
NOTICE TO THE PUBUC.
On August the 2nd I lost my
pocket book. Same was found
by W. E. Bell and was delivered
to me by him in a very satisfac
tory manner. In justice to Mr.
Bell I make this statement to
clear up rumors that has been
circulated in this and adjoining
counties.
Respectfully,
R. A. Hardimam
THE NORTH GEORGIAN
S. G. Cross has fresh bread
three days in each week—Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday.
Miss Lucile Vance, of Griffin,
was the charming guest of Miss.
Nettie Lewis Groover several
days of last week.
Miss Gussie Bell Steele of At
lanta, who has been visiting Miss
Sallie Blackstone for the past
week, ha3 returned home.
Mr. Marshall Groover and chil
dren, of Roswell, were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Groover.
Mr. Clifford Long, of South
Georgia, and Mr. and Mrs. Mor
gan Long, of Atlanta, visited
Col. A. H. Fisher and family one
day last week,
Mrs. Webster Kellogg and chil
dren, who have tjeen visiting in
the county for a week or more,
returned to their home in Atlan
ta Monday.
rx-i'S
Misses Louise and Margurite
Foster, of Roswell, who have
been visiting Mr. A. G. Hocken
hull and family, have returned
home.
For sale—Good house and lot
on Tolbert street, will sell cheap
or trade for good automobile. See
S. G. Cross.
Miss Polly Dodd, of Atlanta,
was the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Wesley Hawkins, from Saturday
till Monday. She was accompan
ied by her friend, Miss Jones.
There will „be a reunion of the
Hutchens family, and connec
tions, next Saturday, at the old
homestead, where Mr. Milton G.
Hutchens now lives. A good
time is expected.
There will be speaking at the
court house next Tuesday, at the
noon recess of court, in the inter
est of the Cotton Growers Asso
ciation. Every one interested in
the price of cotton is urged to at
tend.
The reunion last Saturday was
the best ever. To those who were
present—and they numbered
about three thousand—it is un
necessary to say anything, but
to those unfortunate enough to
stay away, we will say that the
speeches were fine, music good,
dinner enough to have fed twice
the crowd, everybody in a good
humor and had a good time.
Important Notice.
All parties who are due me the
special tax for 1921 can find me
at Cumming this week where
they can settle same at once.
Yours respectfully,
W, A. Thally, T. C,
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A CALL TO MEN.
To every man in Cumming and
Forsyth county, who loves so
briety and good order and be
lieves in the enforcement of law'
—all such men are called to as
semble in a great mass meeting
at the court house on Sunday af
ternoon next, [August 21) at 3
o'clock, Eastern Time, for the
purpose of conferring together
in regards to matters of vital in
terest to every citizen and to ev
ery home. Some able speakers
have been invited to address us
on this important occasion, Meet
ing called by
Chas. T. Brown,
Citizen and Baptist Pastor.
ROUTE 2
By Leon Livingston.
Although I have been a silent
reader for sometime I have been
none the less an interested one.
Hot and dry in this part: rain
badly needed.
We notice from time to time
some improvement in the North
Georgian. If everybody would
do their part it would be the best
paper in the world,
Protracted meetings are in or
der now, and those who attend
will no doubt have a good time.
But just how many will go for
the right purpose we do not know
There still a few' who go to meet
ing to hear the g®spel preached
and to worship God, while there
are others who go, we are afraid,
with other and worse intentions.
Miss Myrtle Pirkle and Mrs.
Elsie Wallace, of Atlanta, who
have been visiting ther father,
Mr. J M Pirkle, have returped
home,
Messrs J H and Will Worley
and Roy Bettis made a business
trip to Atlanta last Thursday.
Getting arrested is no w r ay to
study the law. A bushel ofjfun
often ends in a peck of trouble,
If every would do half as well
as they know they ought, this
old world be a much better place
to live in.
Mr. Edmond Hughes w r as the
guest of the writer Sunday.
Among other things which
have changed—for the worse
in the past years, is songs arftl
music generally. WhenjStephen
Collins Foster composed My Old
Kentucky Home, one of the best
of old folk songs, he was visiting
his Uncle on his plantation in
Virginia, Just as he w'as finish
ing the song, his sister seated
herself beside him on a bench, in
the shade of a grove surrounding
the house. As he began hum
ming along on his song his sister
took up the tune, and there was
also a mocking bird high up in
a nearby tree singing his sweet
est notes, several negro children
were ’ romping in the yard, the
old negro women were in the
kitchen, and the men were’in the
field nearby A great mastiff
lay not far off, and every one
was apparently interested in
their own affairs. As the singers
continued, so beautiful and touch
ing became the melody, that the
little negro chaps quit their play
and stood with hands behind
them, the women came around
the corner and stood deathly still
as tears rolled down their cheeks
So tenderly sweet was the music
as the singers came to the words
“weep no more my lacfy,’’ etc.,
the laborers came and leaned a
gainst the fence listening, en
tranced, to the solemnly pure
rendition. The old dog came and
lay at the singers feet, the mock
ing bird descended to the rose
bush near the singers and mur
mured only an occasional “tweet
tweet.”
Now compare an instance lik
this with anything that the mod
ern songs and “jazz” will cause
and see for yourself which is best
from a sacred viewpoint. While
the song I have reference to is
by no means a sacred song, and
was not intended as such, yet it
is capable of giving any one a
more sacred inspiration than the
sacred music of today [some of
it, ] is so mixed with jazz and rag
time that much of it is unfit for
use anywhere except at enter
tainments, dances, etc.
We are enio.ving the controver
sy between Bob White and Plow
Boy. Come on, fellows, such ar
ticles are interesting, and do no
harm, that I can fee.
OIJMMLNG, GA. AUGUST 19 19U
What has become of our good
writer, David Dawdon? Would
re ry much like to hear from him
again,
Notice.
I am located back in Cumming
with my father in the barber
business. For first class barber
work and baths call around to see j
us- Send the children any day!
except Saturday.
W, J, Mashburn.
NEW LIBERTY
SLWell, after being absent a week
will come again.
I sure have been in some good
meetings and met a lot of good
people. We have some good folks
yet, and will have as long as the
world stads. On the other hand
we are sorry to say we have a lot
of bad folks that is causing a lot
of trouble, but surely they will
see their wrong and stop before
it is too late.
Mr. Turner Wallis and family
spent Monday afternoon with E
L Bagwell and family.
Rev C A Wallis is at Harmony
this week, helping Rev Roper in
a meeting. Wallis and Roper
can’t be beat in a revival meet
ing.
The meeting at New Harmony
was fine and we met some fine
people over there. Revs Roper
and Wallis did some good preach
ing and the result was 48 to be
baptised.
It seems that most of the
j churches are having good meet
ings this time and many souls
being saved.
Rev Wallis can’t serve all the
churches Another year that is
wanting him, but no doubt he
will serve all he can, as he is in
the work shoulder deep.
.
The rain is helping the crops
and the weevils hurting the cot
ton.
Well, I have been off for three
weeks ana don’t know much to
write except I have sure been in
some good meetings.
Bob White.
LONGSTREET.
Mr. J C Stowe and family of
Atlanta spent a few days of last
week wit.i relatives here.
The many friends of Mrs. C 0
Pu:kett will be pleased to know
that she is at home again, after
spending sometime in Atlanta at
the hospital.
Mr. Luther Williams and fam
ily of Alpharetta, Claud Elliott
and family, Mr. and Mrs. W A
’ Myers were visiting Mrs. Martha
Ramsey Sunday.
Miss Jewell Padget spent Sat
urday night with Miss Dora Cox.
Messrs Berry Henderson, Ho
mer Hendersonand wife, Wright
Bagwell and wife spent Sunday 1
with Mr. and Mrs. S \ Holbrook.
Mr. Emmett Hamby of Chatta
;hoochee spent Sunday with his
mother, Mrs. Martha Hamby,
Mr. and Mrs! J L Holbrook and
daughter were visiting Mr. and
Mrs. R G Holbrook Sunday.
Miss Fannie Stowe spent a day
or two of last week with Mr. Jno
M Stow and family.
Mr. Ed Ramsey and family
were visiting Mrs. Sallie Sandow
Sunday afternoon.
L. H.
A school to train girls to be
come experts in fig picking has
been started near Fresno, Cal.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Foster, of
Roswell, are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Hockenhuh.
Home Circle Column.
Pleasant Evening Reveries —A Column Dedi
cated to Tired Mothers as They Join the
Home Circle at Evening Tide.
THE DIAPPEARING FAMILY DINNER.
American leisure is driving the good old dinner from A
merican homes. The gap is ever wideningbetween the group
that believe that the home is the basis of America and make
the fireside the keystone of life and the other group that look
on the home as a place to be avoided except at roosting time,
Twenty years ago when lather had finished an honest days
woik he went home. Mother and the kids were at the door
to meet him, and the circle was one that got the fundament
als of life. Each had some work to do in keeping the home
up. The nation was built by fathers, mothers, sons and
daughters ol such.
Then came the automobile, movies, jazz, auction bridge,
and what not. They have affected and continue to affect the
American home. Where it all will lead, who can foretell?
Father conies home now early in the afternoon. Mother
is at the door, but not with the idea of home. She has on her
finery and is waiting for father to motor out to the golf links
for a game. The family fireside no longer calls. One can
dine in a country roadside or at the club. The children will
get along all right. They or the maid can shake a supper out
of a tin can in less time than it takes to tell. The kids will
then be off for the neighborhood movie house.
Motoring takes one to the cool spots and the fine outdoors.
Golf is an excellent exercise. The movies have their uplift.
Dancing is pleasant pastime. Play of any kind is good, so
long as it is balanced with work and is not overdone. But
regardless of that, home is still the keystone of the nation.
Rural America still has its family dinners. But in the larg
er communities where the number who are burning the can
dle at both ends is ever growing, the fundamentals of life
are bring lost sight of in the chase for the pleasures at the
end of the rainbow. —Minneapolis Journal.
Wouldn’t life be richer and sweeter if more of the little
courtesies were shown when there are no eyes to behold
them save those tnatare sure to brighten at the unusual dem
onstration. Is there any one in the world as sweet and true
and devoted as the home folks, yet are there any in the whole
wide world treated with the scant courtesy these dear ones
receive? Bring the company manner into the intimacies of
home and life and see how much brighter and sweeter will
seem the world at large for the knowledge that you are giv
ing your best to those who deserve it most.
Work is no dishonor, but laziness is a discredit to anyone.
It is good and proper to have good wages but half pay is
much better than nothing, and even working for nothing is
far better than laziness or vice. The devil always finds em
ployment for the idle. Idleness is the begetter of crime. It
is degrading and demoralizing in its tendencies and criminal
in its results. The idle are always tempted and their veiy
dependence makes them ready and willing victims for temp
tations. There is no true manhood without independence,
There are abodes in every city—humble, two stories; four
plain, unpapered rooms; undesirable neighbors; and yet is
there a man who would not die on the threshhold rather than
surrender? Why? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it
he sees angels of God hovering near. The ladders of heaven
are let down to that house. Over the child’s rough cribthere
arejthe chantings of angels that look over Bethlehem. It is
home. These children may come up after a while, and they
may win high positions, and they may have an affluent res
idence ; but they will not until their dying day forget that
humble roof, under which their mother sang, and their fath
er rested and their sisters played.
f
lie who ‘trains himself from luxuries may help others in
necessities, and he who helps others may look to Providence
! to help him in his hour of pressing need.
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I Piide goes before destruction, but honor and nobleness,
land independence of soul are approved by our Maker and
I are profitable to mankind.
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