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By Mrs. Roy Cook
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Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur
«ay of Cedartown visited their
aunt. Mrs. Edith Ray, Monday
evening, July 17. Mrs. Alma
Parker returned home with
them after spending 10 days
with Mrs. Edith Ray. Mrs.
Parker is Mrs. John Arthur
Ray’s mother.
Mrs. Frances Graboweicki
o f Passaic, N.J., and Miss
Debbie Pickle enjoyed dinner
Wednesday evening at the
Riegeldale Tavern.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Grabo
weicki of Passaic, N.J., and
Mr and Mrs. Roy Cook were
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Cook and Marie Thursday
evening.
Visiting Mrs. Edith Ray dur
ing the past week were: Mrs.
Frances Graboweicki of Pas
saic. N.J., Mrs. Bill (Maggie
Belle) Woods of Pearl River,
La.; Burton Gayler of Lake
worth. Fla.; Mrs. Nona Laura
Snow and David of Trion; Mrs.
Maude Tallant, Mr. and Mrs.
Cliff Norton, J.C. Williams,
I dith Williams, Larry Burge,
Mrs. Gussie Brewer, Miss Inez
McCrickard, Mrs. Jewel Elrod
daughters, Sharon and De
loyce, and grandchildren, Beck
and Freddie Hardin. Mrs. G. C.
Pickle. Mrs. Roy Cook, Mrs.
Annie Myrtle Koonce and two
of her grandsons, and Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Williams.
Congratulations to Don Ray
and Sheila Rowlls who were
married Saturday afternoon.
We wish you both a long life
and happiness.
Mr. and Mrs. Swede John
son of Toledo, Ohio, and their
nephew, Pete Cornish of St.
Petersburg, Fla., visited Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Pickle and
Debbie Saturday afternoon.
Pete’s mother is the former
Miss Ann Woods of Lyerly and
is the sister of Mrs. Swede
Johnson, the former Miss Mas
sena Woods.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Grabo
weicki of Passaic, N. J., Mrs.
Maggie Belle Woods of Pearl
River, La., Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
Pickle and Debbie, Mr. and
Mrs Roy Cook, and Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Reece, enjoyed supper
at the Boat Dock Restaurant at
Cedar Bluff, Ala., Saturday
evening.
Roy Cook visited Amos
Caloway and sister, Miss Annie
Caloway, Thursday morning.
Visiting Mrs. Gussie Cook
and Donald during the past
week were: Burton Gayler,
Mrs Daisy Gayler of Lake
worth, Fla.; Mrs. Maggie Belle
Woods of Pearl River, La.; Mrs.
Frances Graboweicki of Pas
saic, N. J.; Winston Gaylor of
Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs. Mary
McDanal and Mrs. Janet Bore
land of Irondale, Ala.; Mrs.
Mary Nell Mobbs, Mrs. Mable
Crose and children, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Cook and Marie, Rev.
and Mrs. Lawrence Burge. Mrs.
Ruby F.lrod, Mrs. Janice
Rogers and son, Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Peppers, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Gayler, Doyle Gayler, Mrs.
L. B. Cook and Jackie, Debbie
Denson, Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cook,
Mrs. Doll Brooks and Mrs.
Ruby Fleming.
Visiting Miss Ruth, Zeke
and Will Thomas during the
past week were: Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Humphrey of LaFayette,
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Battles, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Floyd, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Cook, and Bernard
Shaw.
Happy birthday greetings go
to the following, Terry Daggett
who celebrated his birthday
anniversary Tuesday, July 11,
Mrs. Bob Marshall, Burton
Gayler and L. B. Cook who
celeberated their birthday anni
versaries Friday, July 21; Mrs.
Joe D. Henderson Sr., Charles
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McLeod of Rome, and Hollis
Standfield who celebrated their
birthday anniversaries Monday
July 24.
Candy Rowlls spent Satur
day night with Mr. and Mrs.
Terry Daggett, Michele and
Charles.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Terry Dagget, Michele
and Charles were: Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Douglas and children.
Visiting in the afternoon were
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Edwards.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Millican Saturday were: Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Rowlls and Con
nie, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Buddy
Hines and Kelley, Cindy
Brown, and Candy Rowlls.
Cindy Brown spent a few
days last week with Mr. and
Mrs. Buddy Hines and Kelley.
Mrs. Martha Hines and
Kelley, Mrs. Helen Daggett,
Michele and Charles, and Mrs.
Julia Mae Millican visited Mr.
and Mrs. J.M. Hines and Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Brown and
Cindy Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Julia Mae Millican and
Mrs. Helen Daggett, Michele
and Charles visited Mrs. Brenda
Gladhill and Candy Thursday
afternoon. Candy returned
home with them for a few
days’ visit.
Spend-the-night guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Millican
Saturday night were Candy
Rowlls and Robin Millican.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warren
visited Mr. and Mrs. Buddy
Hines and Kelley Sunday eve
ning.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Pickle
and Debbie and Mr. and Mrs.
Ronnie Graboweicki met Mrs.
Maggie Belle Woods of Pearl
River, La., at the airport in
Chattanooga, Tenn., Friday
night.
Get-well wishes to to
Freddie McDonald who is in
Memorial Hospital at Bristol,
Va. We wish you a speedy re
covery, Freddie.
Also, get-well wishes go to
Mrs. Ruth Green of Adairsville
who is in Floyd Hospital,
Rome. She had surgery Tues
day. Hope you have a speedy
recovery, Ruth.
Ricky, Sheri, David, Dale,
and Debbie Mitchell spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Elbert
Mitchell.
Mrs. Jim McDonald is keep
ing her granddaughter, Lisa,
while Lisa’s mother, Ruth, is in
the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob McCrick
ard and Barry and Miss Inez
McCrickard, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Bill McCrickard Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Barbara McCrickard,
Mike and Lynn visited Mr. and
Mrs. Bill McCrickard Saturday
afternoon.
Roy Cook was honored
with a birthday dinner by his
children Sunday, July 23, at
the home of one of his daugh
ters Mrs. Ruth Kirby, in cele
bration of his 74th birthday
anniversary which was Mon
day, July 24. Those helping
enjoy the delicious dinner and
celebrate his birthday anniver
sary were; Mr. and Mrs. Joe D.
Henderson Sr. Glenn and Wynn
of Rome; Mrs. Maggie Belle
(Cook) Woods of Pearl River,
La.; Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Grab
oweicki of Passaic, N.J.; Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Pickle and
Debbie, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Reece, Mr. and Mrs. Jody
Cook, Joel Jr., Tony and Mar
garet, Mr. and Mrs Ted Stancil
and Teddie Jr., Mrs. Ruth
Kirby, Jack, Nancy, Nona, and
Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. Scott
Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. William
Ragland and Lisa, Wayne Wil
liams, the honoree, and Mrs.
Roy Cook.
PASTOR’S CORNER
< Continued from Ed. Page)
matters of the law, judgment,
mercy, and faith. “These ought
ye to have done,” said our
Lord, “and not to leave the
other undone.”
It is possible to become so
engrossed with our traditions
and programs that we stray
from the center and get lost on
the circumference. It is part of
the strategy of the devil to get
us so drunk with the wine of
lesser enthusiasms that we are
never filled with the Spirit for
our main responsibility. We are
putting everything into build
ing expensive launching pads
but we are only firing fire
crackers. I have read of a group
of boys who started out one
afternoon to play ball. When
they reached the field, they
discovered that they had for
gotten to bring the ball. In his
impatience one young fellow
said. “Forget the ball, let’s
start on with the game!” One
has the unhappy feeling these
days that in much of our re
ligious impatience about wait
ing on God, we are trying to
get on with the game, but with
out the ball.
The most important thing
right now is to separate the
primary from the secondary,
find out what is the main busi
ness of the church and get busy
about it. These first things we
ought to do and not leave the
other undone.
The first duty of the church
today is to repent. Our Lord’s
last word to the churches is not
the Great Commission; it is a
call to repentance. To five out
of seven churches in Revelation
He said “repent” and at least
five out of seven churches need
that message first today. It is
the last thing most of them are
willing to do. They will put on
evangelistic meetings, study
courses, but a week devoted to
church revival is unpopular.
What we call “revivals” are
usually evangelistic services or
drives for new church mem
bers.
Surely most church people
do not have an understanding
of what revival really is. It is
the blind spot in our eyes to
day. We can “see” everything
else but revival, Christians get
ting right with God and with
each other. Actually, “revival”
is an Old Testament term. The
New Testament word is “re
pent.” Real revival means re
pentance and confession of sin,
renunciation or forsaking of
sin, reconciliation and restitu
tion, getting right and making
things right with others, separa
tion from the world, submis
sion to the Lordship of Christ
and being filled with the Spirit.
All of this begins with repen
tance. In real repentance
Christians, like Isaac of old, dig
again the wells of their fathers,
reopen channels that are
clogged by sin. Repentance
breaks up fallow ground and
until we do that, we sow
among thorns and vainly scat
ter seed on unbroken hearts.
Repentance rolls the stone
away from the sepulcher so
that Lazarus can come forth.
There are still Marthas who
fear that it will create an un
pleasant situation but dead
churches can not be resur
rected without disturbing the
status quo.
Furthermore, the church
needs to produce a better grade
of Christians. Dr. G. Earl
Guinn said: “We have enough
promoters and cheerleaders.
We have had enough bonfires
and pep rallies. We need a bet
ter team on the field.”
We need to produce better
examples of what we preach.
Our problem is quality, not
quantity. We need to improve
the sort as well as increase the
size. Our church membership
may grow without our church
members growing. Such growth
is only statistical, not spiritual.
The word “Christian” is both a
noun and an adjective. We are
long on noun Christians and
short on adjective Christians.
We need more Christian Chris
tians.
in the last place the church
is to disciple ail nations. This
does not mean that all nations
will become disciples but it
does mean that out of all na
tions we are to gather disciples,
not merely believers, but dis
ciples who continue in his
Word, to use our Lord’s own
definition. We are to baptize
them as an outward symbol of
an inner experience, identifica
tion with Jesus Christ in death
and resurrection. And we are
to teach them not merely to
know all things our Lord has
commanded but to observe
them. These two words “to.
observe” are with many of us
the lost words of the Great
Commission. It is not mere
knowledge of the command
ments but obedience to the
truth that matters most.
To repent, to produce bet
ter Christians, to disciple all
nations, these things the
church needs to do. When our
Lord said to the Pharisees,
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TELOGA WOMAN DEPENDS ON THE SOIL
Her Hands Fashion a Livelihood
BY DIXIE C. MILLER
In the Teloga community
lives Mrs. Jewel Brock. Many
will recognize this energetic
woman when they view Chan
nel 5 TV today at 7 and 11
a.m. and Friday, at noon.
Mrs. Brock is being featured
because she has lived on the
land and learned to make use
of the soil in growing vege
tables and fruits. Too, she
keeps a cow which she milks.
The home is modest but
very pleasant. Flowers bloom
in both the front yard and
back yards. And neighborhood
children play in the yard. One
or two children enjoy the two
rope swings tied to a limb of a
strong tree.
In the lush pasture, Pet, the
cow, grazes contentedly. And
to the left of the home toma
toes are ripening in the
“almost an acre” garden tract.
A plow which Mrs. Brock
pushes was sitting in a row
which she was cultivating. Okra
is in the garden; also green
beans, peas, and squash. And
the roasting ears of corn in the
three or four rows at the edge
of the garden are ready for
vegetable soup.
In fact, Thursday morning
of last week Mrs. Brock had
made several jars of vegetable
soup from the fresh corn, okra,
and tomatoes. She adds the
irish potatoes and onions and
perhaps beef when she opens a
can of the vegetable soup for
dinner or supper.
Grapes have already ripened
on the rows of grapevines at
the back of the house. And
there are rows of beet pickles
in the house, prepared just for
keeping Mrs. Brock’s vegetables
and fruits in that she cans. The
well from which she gets her
water for the house is in the
canned vegetable and fruit
storage house. Here can be
found jellies, jams, preserves,
cucumber pickles - almost any
thing in the canned food line.
The butterbeans, corn, and
black-eyed peas are put into
the deep freeze. In fact, all
kinds of peas are put into the
freezer.
“I’ve never bought a glass of
jelly in my life,” said Mrs.
Brock. “We married Arledge
and I-in February and I
started canning as soon as stuff
came in. I’ve never been with
out canned fruit or vegetables.
I did buy a jar of strawberry
preserves soon after Arledge
and 1 were married. Now I raise
my own strawberries.”
The pleasant-faced woman,
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MRS. BROCK WITH PET
Reunion Scheduled
The annual Miller-Dawson
reunion will again take place
Sunday, Jul 30, at Cloudland
Community Center.
Descendants, relatives, and
friends of the late Martha Daw
son Miller and James Manon
Miller are asked to meet at the
above-mentioned site at mid
morning and bring a dinner
basket.
“These things ought ye to have
done and not to leave the other
undone”, he was stating a prin
ciple that covers far more than
tithing as contrasted to judge
ment, mercy and faith. It is a
matter of giving priority to the
top items on the agenda.
There are many concerns
worthy of the churches’ atten
tion but these three which I
have presented are her main
duty today and any day. These
ought we to do and not to
leave the other undone.
her brown eyes sparkling be
hind her glasses, the dark
brown hair neatly brushed,
smiled, “When my husband
dated me, he drove a T-model
car. In the cold weather we
couldn’t go anywhere much
’cause the car didn’t have any
windows in it.”
Jewell Chamlee was born in
Henegar, Ala. She was one of
twelve children born to W. T.
and Nellie (Bunch) Chamlee.
They lived on a farm. Then Mr.
Chamlee heard of the Trion,
mills. So he pulled up stakes
and moved his family to Trion.
They lived in Frogtown. And
the girls and boys and Mr.
Chamlee worked in the mill.
“We were going to get rich,”
said Jewell, a smile on her lips.
“Papa said we’d get rich. I
worked a twelve-hour shift
each day, making $9.90 for a
week’s work.”
Jewell Chamblee worked
the first shift. She worked in
the napping room. Arledge
Brock worked on the second
shift. He shod the horses and
mules. Jewell and Arledge met.
They began to date. After
Jewell and Arledge Brock were
married, Jewell changed from
the first to the second shift.
But she didn’t get to work
many months before the young
couple was expecting their first
born.
Arledge and Jewell had four
sons born to them. Melvin,
Harlan, Donald, and Lavon.
Back in those days, nails were a
problem for barefoot boys.
When Lavon was five the
Brocks lived at the Stancell
place -he was running and
playing with several boys when
he stepped on a nail in a plank.
The nail went deep into the
ball of the small boy’s foot.
Arledge and Jewell doctored
Lavon’s foot with home reme
dies, then carried him to the
hospital in Trion.
Penicillin had just been dis
covered. Lowell, Jewell Brock’s
brother, was sent to a hospital
in Rome to get enough
penicillin to start Levon on.
Later, Lowell had to go to
Chattanooga to get more of the
wonder drug.
There were times when it
was feared Lavon wouldn’t
make it. But the little boy’s
infected leg was amputated just
below the knee, and he did get
well. As soon as he could wear
an artificial foot, Lavon began
wearing one. As he grew older,
he was able to play ball as
other boys did. Lavon now
works at Honey Path, S. C., for
Any excuse may justify
delay but it doesn’t get work
accomplished.
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In 1947, Arledge Brock pur
chased an 85 acre farm from
Charlie Harper and the Brocks
moved into the house on the
farm. Mr. Harper had pur
chased the land from the Bo
hannans.
“We farmed with horses and
mules,” said Jewell Brock.
“Later, Arledge bought a
tractor and other machinery
and we farmed with the trac
tor. He kept a horse for garden
ing. We raised cotton and corn,
hay, peanuts, and potatoes. We
raised everything we ate.”
The Brocks had stopped
raising cotton before Mr. Brock
died.
“I rent the government
some of my land,” continued
Mrs. Brock, “Donald, my son,
who lives across the road car
ried on the farming for me. He
grows corn and hay.” She
paused, then added, “1 don’t
like bought milk. So I keep a
cow. I call her Pet, and she is a
pet. I milk Pet myself,and I
churn. Pet has a calf. I let the
calf have half the milk. If the
calf is a male calf J fatten it to
store in the deep freeze.
Donald sowed the pasture in
fescue for the cow to graze on.
He keeps his cattle in the pas
ture, too.” She smiled, "I
always give Donald half of the
calves 1 fatten.”
Jewell Brock attends Teloga
Baptist Church and Sunday
School. She teaches the begin
ner’s class in Sunday School
and sings in the church choir.
“I love children. All the kids
love me. I keep cookies for
children when they come.”
said Jewell Brock.
Fetching the churn, Jewell
said that sometimes churning is
done in the shade of a tree in
the back yard. She showed sev
eral butter molds. There was a
pound wooden butter mold
that J M. Howard gave Mrs.
Brock for a pound of butter.
And she has a half-pound but
ter mold that molds perhaps a
small rounded pat.
Jewell Brock is indeed an
unusual woman. Iler hobbies
are gardening, going to church,
and singing. She enjoys hearing
others sing and likes to join in
the choir.
“1 am not a hand about
making anything,” said Mrs.
Brock. “1 can make things
grow in my garden. I have what
folks call a green thumb al
though my thumb is more
dirt-stained than green. I can
stick things out and they will
live and grow.”
GATHERING TOMATOES
It’s never too late to start
driving carefully especially on
your vacation trip.
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ALMOST FORGOTTEN PROCESS
The congenial woman
picked up two sacks of dried
apples to turn on the other
side. Drying apples must be
turned so as to dry evenly.
Jewell Brock was never still.
As she talked, she moved about
doing things. “After Arledge
and I were married he traded
for a little A-model roadster
He used to haul passengers
back and forth when he
worked at the mill. When we
lived at Harrisburg, Arledge
was the only one who had an
A-model, and he hauled passen
gers to Trion. When we used to
go get sugar on the sugar
stamps, and to get shoes on the
shoe stamps, he’d carry a car
load to get the stamps. One
time, there was one woman
who rode with the men back
and forth to get the stamps. 1
often teased her about riding
with so many men. She always
took it good-naturedly.”
Two boys came into the
room. One was her grandson.
They were going down to the
creek to go swimming. The
creek flows through Mrs.
Brock’s farmlands
“We’ve never lived out of
hearing of the Trion Mil)
whistle,” said Mrs Brock “Ar
ledge seemed to like to live
within hearing distance of the
whistle.”
All of Jewell Brocks’ sons
are married. “I have fourteen
wonderful grandchildren. Iwo
live across the road from me. I
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Jewell’s brother from Trion
dropped by. He chatted for
awhile and both recalled the
days when they rode in two
horse wagons and their early
days on the farm.
The sun was beginning to
move westward. Happy laugh
ter came from the rope swings
under the tree. Piled under the
tree were mounds of freshly
harvested Irish potatoes.
In the garden, the sweet
potatoes had replaced the Irish
potatoes. The vines of Big Boy
tomatoes were leaning slightly.
Ihe fifteen-foot (or perhaps it
was less, but it was a huge bean
vine) was hanging full of green
beans. In the orchard, apples
could be seen easily from the
narrow road that leads into
where the Brocks live.
Here Jewell Brock has made
a paradise not a paradise of
Luxury living, but one where
the work of a woman’s hands
has fashioned a livlihood Vege
tables, both frozen and
canned-ample for the coming
winter; fruits grown on the
farm, canned or frozen; fresh
milk that Jewell Brock has
milked from her cow Pet, and
yellow butter that she has
churned.
For her artistry in home liv
ing, Jewell Brock will be fea
tured today and tomorrow on
an Atlanta Television Station.
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