About The Middle Georgian. (Jeffersonville, Ga.) 1925-???? | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1925)
Only 14 More Days Before The Middle Georgians Big Prize Contest Closes With the PUBLIC SCHOOLS of TWIGGS COUNTY By B. S. Fitzpatrick, Supt. It was the delightful privilege of the writer of these lines to appear as one of the guests at a tea given by the Parent-Teacher Association of Smith high school last Thursday evening. Sandwiches, cakes, tea, and lemonade were served in the most elegant man ner, the young girls and boys of the school filling the role of waiters in the most graceful manner. Entertaining readings were given by Miss Catherine McCallum and Master D. S. McGee, and the music, with Miss Reba Adkins at the piano and Miss Agnes Ketterbaugh on the guitar, was another one of the attrac tions of the evening. During the evening Mrs. Kathleen Carswell, Mr. E. Y. Mallory, Jr., and the county school superintendent were called upon, and all responded in short addresses, in which, after the successful career of the school had been commented upon in complimen tary terms, its future needs were stressed. Mrs. E. Y. Mallory, 'Jr., is the pres ident of the Parent-Teacher Associa tion, and the graceful and charming manner in which she discharged her functions on this occasion was a mat ter of general comment. The Smith high school is one of the banner schools of the county, and plans are on foot now to add another room to the building and another teacher to the faculty. * * * Information has just reached the department of education in this coun ty from the state department that Twiggs high school and Danville high school will receive state aid this year under the Rogers-Barrett Act, the former school getting the bonus for high schools and the bonus for high schools and the bonus for consolida tion, the latter school receiving only the bonus for consolidation. * * * Before we pass on from the con sideration of teacher-selection for next term, permit me, patient reader, to add a postscript to the paragraph published in the last issue of this paper on this subject. There are so many good things expected of the teacher that it would be impossible to enumerate them all, and the things about to be mentioned would be con sidered nonessential, but they are not to be despised. A teacher's personal appearance is one of her strongest assets. Every child has an inherent love for beauty —beautiful forms, beautiful features, beautiful colors. The great God made the child so, in harmony with the beauty so lavishly scattered around him, and the teacher that fails to take advantage of this instinct in the child makes a grave mistake. Every teacher should be the Lady Beautiful to the child, and if she could stop just a moment at the Beauty Parlor on her way to school, she would find the children more easily controlled after she got there. A dowd (pardon the word;, it is a bad word but expressive) has no place in the schoolroom. Another essential qualification in the teacher is a good voice, and yet, one so little thought of. When we think of little nervous children having to sit in the schoolroom all day under the harsh, shrill voice of a thought less teacher, it makes us feel for them. The eyes and the ears are the broad avenues to the mind and soul of the child, and how beautiful and pleasant should they be made. I have heard it said of Helen Kellar, whose contact with the outside world was through the touch, the hand-grasp, that she could read the character of the people with whom she shook hands through that handshake. If I were teaching school, I would make it a point to see how well I could culti vate my voice, to meet the require ments of the schoolroom. I know a little teacher that does not speak much above a whisper, just loud enough to be heard by the pupils; and I have watched the reaction in the pleasing expressions on the children's faces and their earnest application to their tasks, 0, Teacher! Teacher! what a won derful part you play in our civiliza * tior! THE MIDDLE GEORGIAN JEFFERSONVILLE LIONS TRIM DANVILLE TIGERS Last Monday afternoon a large crowd witnessed one of the best base ball games of this season, between the Danville "Tigers" and the Jeffer ; sonvi'le "Lions," Jeffersonville win ning 9 to 6. ; A feature of the g,me was the ' pitching of Harrell for Jeffersonville, 1 who held the opposing batters at • his mercy. 'The batteries were: For Jefferson ville, Harrell and Califf; for Danville, ' Maxwell and Fowler. The game was a benefit for the Twiggs County As sociation, clearing $15.55. In the near future a return game will be played in Danville. CLUB GIRLS OF TWIGGS WILL HOLD MEET HERE JULY 2-4 The club girls of Twiggs have been looking forward to the county short course that will be held in the Twiggs high school building July 2, 3 and 4. The home demonstration agent has prepared a very interesting program for the three days. The mronings will be given to canning, preserving, and bread making, while in the afternoon splendid demonstrations will be given as well as some sewing by the girls themselves. On Thursday night an entertainment will be given by some of the best talent of the county. The public is most cordially invited. Friday night the girls will have a party, given by Mrs. K. J. Carswell as well as it being stunt night, at which time each community repre sented will put on some stunt for their group. There will be a picnic dinner served each day to the girls. The first day they will bring lunch from home. The second dinner will be furnished by the merchants of Jeffersonville and the third day the P.-T.A. will sei r e. At night the girls will be taken care of in the homes of Jeffersonville. Among those assisting in this, the best short course in the history of Twiggs county, are Mesdames Julia Kitchens, H.D.A. of Wilkinson coun ty; T. E. Methvin of Jeffersonville, Miss Pearl Solomon, Jeffersonville; Old Marion Chapter of the D.A.R., the Merchants of Jeffersonville and the P.-T.A. of Jeffersonville. Saturday at the noon hour small prizes will be given for the best community stunt, best individual stunt, best club emblems, best loaf of yeast bread, best jar of canned veg etables, best jar of canned fruit. The girls themselves will act as judges. The following girls have indicated they will attend: Misses Bessie Hin son, Ara Floyd, Wylene Nobles, Hazel Nobles, Robie Nobles, Annie Lewis, Estella Rozier, Mae Sanders, Nomie Bell Floyd, Ruby Floyd, Reba Adkins, Edna Tharpe, Corrine Lewis, Mary Williams, Daisy Snow, Lillian John son, Pauline Fountain, Eunice Foun tain, Roxyleen Slappey, Margaret Vaughn, Gladys Sanders, Bessie Yancey. DRY BRANCH NEWS Remember! Preaching Sunday is here again. Let's all try and meet JUv. Underwood at Stone Creek Sunday. The many friends of G. A. Onea! are sorry to know that he is suffer ing from a sprained back. H. A. Burkett of Perry was visit ing friends and relatives here for the week-end. Milton Edgar of the Edgar Bros, of California, was looking after busi ness interests here Monday. The fmailies of S. W. Pierce and G. H. Wimberly motored to Macon Thursday where Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Wimberly spent the afternoon with the latter's mother, Mrs. W. H. De fore. The rest of the party went to the movies. Mrs. J. S. Baker was a visitor in Macon Saturday. Notice of Intention to Apply For Local Legislation. Notice is hereby given that a bill will be introduced during the 1925 meeting of the General Assembly of Georgia, entitled "An Act to provide for the holding of four (4) Terms a year of the Superior court of Twiggs county, Georgia, in the Dublin Judi cial Circuit. To provide for the time of holding the same, to-wit: On the fourth Mondays in February, May, August and November each year. The May and November Terms being terms at which no juries are used, and no cases tried at said May and November terms in which there are issues of fact, and for other purpos es." This the 19th day of June, 1925. L. L. GRIFFIN, Representative-Elect Twiggs Co., Ga. Successor to THE TWIGGS COUNTY CITIZEN JEFFERSONVILLE, TWIGGS COUNTY, GA., JUNE 25, 1925 Advertising and Job Printing Coupons Count Big Votes, Candidates.—Help Your Candidate By Giving Her Your Work. When you have won your first vic- Itory,1 tory, it's not a goal, it's only a step forward. Don't forget, candidates, advertis ing and job printing coupons count large votes. Every $7.50 worth of coupons you sell until Wednesday night, 9 p.m., carries the same vot ing power as the 5-year subscriptions, which is 20,000 votes. Suppose you should sell $75.00 worth of coupons, you have to your credit 200,000 regular votes, and the prize votes you get on every $lO in cash will give you 375,000 votes as Jeffersonville Local News James Powell of Atlanta is the guest of his mother, Mrs. J. E. Powell. Mrs. Charlton Chapman, who has been the guest of Mrs. Lee Carswell, has returned to her home in Macon. Misses Ruth and Gladys Califf are attending summer school at G.S.C.W. at Milledgeville. Mrs. Naomi Mormand of Macon was the guest of Mrs. J. S. Vaughn last Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Paul Solomon and daughter, Betty, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. W, Jones, of College Park. Master Henry Faulk Harrison is spending some time in Scotland as the guest of his grandmother, Mrs. Henry Wimberly. Miss Valeria Cowart is the guest of Macon relatives. D. Y. Califf left Tuesday with Ed Willis of Macon for a motor trip through Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill .Methvirr sp6#it the week-end with relaitves in Senioa. Miss Theo Sinquefield of Augusta was the guest of Mrs. 0. T. Chapman Friday. Mrs. Lucy Wall has gone to Atlanta to be the guest of Mrs. George Crisp. Rev. L. E. Brady spent a few days here last week as the guest of friends. He was pastor of the Methodist church for several years and has a host of friends here. Mrs. W. F. Slappey had as her guest for the week-end Miss Annie Fitzpatrick of Tarversville. Forming a congenial party motor ing to Indian Spring last Sunday were Misses Lois Gettys, Lois Vaughn Mrs. Marshall Gettys, Carl Gettys, W. J. Jenkins and R. J. Winter, of Gor don. W. F. Shannon of Macon spent Fri day in Jeffersonville. Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Rogers had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs C. A. Brooks, Mrs. T. E. Sheffield and Mr. Anderson of Macon. Ed Key was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Norris and family for the week-end. Holbert Rogers is spending the week in Macon as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Brooks. Paul Solomon left today for Miami, Fla., where he will spend his vacation as the guest of his brother, Harry Solomon. S. C. Jones left Sunday for Punta Gorda, Fla., where he has accepted a position. F. Y. Stokes was the week-end guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stokes. Misses Geneva and Essie Hamrick and Eunice Rivers spent Tuesday in Dublin. Mrs. Lee Carswell was hostess on Friday afternoon at her home near Jeffersonville at a delightful informal tea honoring Mrs. Carlton Chapman, who was her guest for the week-end. The guest list included Misses Lois Vaughn, Dorothy Jones, Mrs. 0. T. Chapman, Mrs. Paul Solomon and Mrs. W. H. McCrary. Card of Thanks. Here we wish to thank our many friends and relatives for their kind ness and sympathy during the recent illness and death of our dear baby. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Floyd. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our sincerest thanks for the many acts of kind ness shown us during our recent be reavement. May God's richest bles sings rest upon you all. M. D. Simpson and Family. prize votes; add these votes together and you will have a total of 575,000 votes. Just think! If you should sell $l5O worth of coupons you will have to ,your credit 1,150,000 votes. Enough lofIof thfse coupons may put you over f the top—how many we do not know, so get busy. Don't forget, after Wednesday night, July Ist, these coupons will have less voting power until the close of the contest. Go After the Sale of the Coupons! , E+'ery business man should buy at least $25 worth of these coupons. ALLENTOWN NEWS I Hubert Daniel of Auburn was the weel-end guest of Miss Charlotte Shemutt. Miss Helen Daugherty is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. D. Smith, at Bain bridge, Those motoring to Recreation last Thursday night were Misses Georgia Land, Mary Maxwell and Elizabeth Maxwell, and Messrs. Alf Truitt Land and .Pat Adams. Misses Loci'; Lami, Jennie Ct^r. Meadows and Mr. John Maxwell went W the ball game, Dublin vs. Adrain, at Dublin last Thursday aft ernoon. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Smith and children of Bainbridge were week end guests of their mother, Mrs. G. 0. A. Daughtry. Miss Lois Johnson left Sunday for Bulled, where she will, spend some timeßE " es "Sinquefield spf Augusta was the guest of her aunts, Mrs. I. N. Meadows and Mrs. J. T. Land, last week. Herbert White and Miss Lorene Lassiter spent Sunday with Mrs. E. C. Adams. Miss Virginia White was in town Sunday. Those attending the singing con vention at Idylwilde last Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Adams, Misses Georgia Land, Jennie Claire Meadows and Virginia White. Mrs. E. C. Adams, Mrs. W. M. Al len and Mrs. H. H. Watson spent last Wednesday afternoon in Dublin Rev. E. L. Tiffany preached here last Sunday. Quite a large con gregation enjoyed the sermon. Miss Augusta Adams was the guest of her brother, Mrs. W. C. Ad ams, last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Paynp spent last Saturday night with their mother. Mrs. J. J. King. Misses Georgia Land, Virginia White and Jennie Claire Meadows had a very pleasant trip to Wrights ville, Tennille and Sandersville last Sunday afternoon. Those enjoying the dance at H. S. Denson's last Saturday night were: Misses Elizabeth Maxwell and Mary Maxwell of Danville; Elizabeth and Charlotte Shelnutt,, Virginia White, Lois Johnson and Jennie Claire- Meadows; Messrs. Alf Truitt Land Pat Adams, A. W. Daughtry, John Maxwell and I. N. Meadows, Jr. Miss Floy Fambrough was the week-end guest of Misses Elizabeth and Charlotte Shelnutt. The Christian Endeavor entertained with a lawn party at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Den on, on Friday night. Proms were enig ed until late in the evening, when a delicious ice f urse was served. Thrs? presen' were Misses Lucile Lamb, of Dan tPe, Fay Fambrough, Georgia Land Virginia White, Florence Land, Jen nie Claire Meadowy, Elizabeth and Charlotte Shelnutt, Lois Johnson. Bessie Yancey; Messrs Emory Lin der, John Maxwell and Willis Adams of Danville; Robret Lamb of Cochran; Dave Green, Wilber Thompson and Ralph Wade of Montrose; Pat Adams, Sam King, Tod Adams, I. N. Mead ows, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Adams, Mrs. H. I. Johnson, Mrs. W. M. Allen, Mrs. J. G. Collier and Mrs. E. J. Denson. "My last request," said a dyin; nan the other day, "is that my grea< grandchildren may see the end o: he war debt negotiations." Idling your life away is merely serving time. LATE ISSUE, AND THE CAUSE Owing to an accident to our me chanical equipment, in the form of the breaking of the press, this issue of The Middle Georgian has been de layed. Although the break-down co curred last Tuesday, while the first •form of the paper was being run, it I could not be repaired in time 1 complete the printing process. ' This issue was printed on the ' press of the Cochran Journal, whose 1 editor and publisher kindly and in a spirit of fraternal fellowship, tender ed us the use of his equipment until lours can be repaired and again be put in commission—which ..will .be Iwithin the next few days. I— TWIGGS WOMEN ENJOY PROFITABLE WORK ON STATE COLLEGE CAMPUS By Mrs. R. B. Norris. Life, to the farmer's wife, is not such a tragedy as some killjoys would have us think it is. Even the old adage, "'Tis better to be born lucky than rich" might be ap plied, for just such instances as the following prove that the farmers' wives are the luckiest set of folks anywhere. They are even beginning to think that they are all born under Capricorn (which, as you know, is the luckiest star extant). Mrs. Kathleen Carswell, home dem onstration agent, came as a good angel and took three women, who are interested in the farmer and his fu ture, to Camp Wilkins, Athens, Ga. These women were Mrs. Walker Jones, Mrs. J. H. Balcom and the writer. The party arrived there Mondayt evening, June 8. The cordiality with which they were welcomed was con tinued throughout their stay. Ev erything possible was done for their comfort and happiness. On Tuesday the party saw on their programs "Bacteriology Lecture," Dr. Burkhart. They looked at one an ther and perhaps thought they were in for an uninteresting hour. But it proved to be highly interesting. Dr. Burkhart showed them through a microscope the germs causing "T. 8.," typhoid, and diphtheria. Os course, scarcely any of them felt like ever eating again when they found that these little bugs were present to some extent in all of our food. Per haps they resolved then and there to wash, scour, scrub, and in every way cleanse pots and also food. That afternoon Miss Susan Mat thews, nutrition specialist, gave a lec ture on "Nutrition.'' She told them of the food values, giving a chart to explain. This will prove very bene ficial to the housewife in preparing a balanced meal. On Wednesday Dr. A. M. Soule, ppresident of Georgia State College of Agriculture, gave a talk. While these other lectures had been of a specific nature, Dr. Soule General ized. His lecture appealed more to the asethetic sense. To show the scope taken in by the lectures during the week, on the program for Wednesday we might see this: 9:30- 10:30 Dairy Demonstration; 10:30- 11:30 Style Show. Fun also was mingled with "ab sorbing knowledge" all the week. Tuesday night was stunt night and gales of laughter came from the audience. On Friday night they had a dance, a real old-fashioned one. One thing these 'ladies particularly noticed was the zeal displayed by the girls at Camp Wilkins, in their work. They are working their way through school. After seeing the methods and the fine training these girls are receiving they knew that a new era was being opened in the world in the economics line. Miss Phinney, of the Victor Co., filled their leisure hours with pleas ure. She played many records, giving a minute history Ci each one played. Twiggs county citizens have rea son to be proud of the fact that they 1 are so ably represented on the staff of the Home Demonstration Council. Miss Hennilu Hughes is secretary of he Council. After a week "of being away at college" these ladies came home , anxious to put into practice the out ;standing ideas they had learned of poultry, cooking, sewing, designing, interior decoration and gardening. , Perhaps Twiggs county shall soon see benefits derived from this week. The 'NOTION COLUMN By O. Haskins, Herself. We went to call at the home of a : friend of ours a while back. The Mistress of that particular realm let us in with the conventional ceremon , ies only we thought she appeared , very absent-minded, rather preoccu pied, as if the present world of guests and other realities were a thing apart from he: life. She added, , partly in explanation and perhaps partly in apology for her lack of in terest in our appearance, "We are looking at the picture." Now we ourself know very little about the theories of Art; we only know what pleases our eye, and we are not particularly concerned wheth er our eye can tilt at a picture with true critical precision or not. We might also add that we despise those women who join Art Clubs to sop up some of that glittering aragon of art standards—who join just as a pose, you know. We ourself can't even be modern enough to make crown nor feet of some of this cubist apprecia tion. We like the picture that sets something humming inside us, but we can't give the appropriate name for the humming; we don't know what means the artist employs to secure that much appreciation from us, bourgeoise as it may be to admit it. And worst of all, we seem de lightfully happy in our ignorance. But—we left ourself standing at the door of a friend's house. She I took us into her livingroom, and she [indicated a chair we might have. There were others there, people we didn't know. They didn't appear to notice us, nor-did our hostess deem in troductions in order. They were all looking at the picture. Wie routed to. It seemed like a very ordinary oil of an old man, when we first gave our attention to it. We sat a few minutes, hoping with a lot of telepathy mixed in with the hop ing, that soon somebody would speak up and tell us what we ought to ad mire in that picture. But nobody did. Nobody said anything. Everybody was looking at the picture. Well, we do not need Mrs. Post to tell us that if we can't be interested we can at least be still, so we sat quietly enough—like everybody else— looking at the picture. Then we noticed forth efirst time, the hands of this old man in the pic ture. We would say in our inexperi enced way that they were well done, they had such expressive characteris tics, hands that seemed to be alive, sensitive and accustomed to perform ing the beautiful acts of a beautiful life. We looked farther up the picture to see if the face thrilled us as those hands did. Anyway, furtive glances at the others in the room informed us that everybody else was looking at that face. How can one describe that face? That craggy brow, behind which sure ly some stronghold of thought lay se rene; those eyes, as still—why, as still as God, and almost as deep; that mouth, sympathetic, almost like a woman's and yet lips over which re buke might tumble in vast confusion of strength to route a wrong or warn an erring one. Maybe those hands wrote, maybe they played some of those ageless bits of music, maybe they themselves painted, interpreting that attractive face. We do not know. We only know that after we had spent an hour before that picture, we felt as if we had been baptised somehow, as if we could never again think an ordi nary thought, or sound a trite word. We even think we staggered a bit as we realized it was time to go. Our hostess didn't go to the door with us as we left; something in our eyes perhaps told her we didn't want her. We left looking at the , picture. Outside, the sun glared at us, the ; rattle of the city bruised us, the urge of the busy day trampeled on us. We caught our breath—and hastened to ‘ make up the time we had lost—if we ' had lost any! But that is uor idea of the way to enjoy art. While father worries over the Mel -1 l<n plan his young son devises his : .own watermelon plan.„
