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GIBSON RECORD *
Published to Furnish the People of Glascock Coun ty a Weekly Newspaper «.nd as a Medium for the Advancement of the Public Good of the County.
VOL. XXXVII. No. 49.
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State.
Results of Wednesday’s election for
city officials at Bainbridge show J.
M. Simmons re-elected mayor without
opposition.
Thomasvilie city council has fixed
the city tax rate for this year at it
biUIs. This is a reduction of 3 mills,
as compared with 1930.
The mayor and council of the city
of Jonesboro have fixed the tax rate
for 1931 at 7 mills, a reduction from
the previous year of 1 mill.
The Moultrie observer says that
Colquitt county will resist the order
of the state tax commissioner to in
crease its 1931 tax digest 6 per cent.
Super-power of 50.000 watts was
granted the Atlanta Journal broad
casting station. WSB, recently by the
Federal Radio commission in Wash
lngton.
Outstanding church leaders from
many sections of the south are to
gather at Rome October 16-18 for the
Georgia convention of the Christian
Endeavor society.
According to a report from Valdosta
Thursday a tremendous fire was ras
*»* » u.
eastern part Lowndes county, due
to the extreme dry weather.
Sam Cnin, Jr., of Cairo, has produced
a sweet potato weighing seventeen and
one-half pound, it is being viewed by
many, who declare it to be the largest
potato they have ever seen.
Hugh Wilson Evans, 41, judge of the
Bibb county juvenile court and one
of the state's leading child welfare
workers, died unexpectedly recently
in a private hospital in Macon.
Less than 25 per cent of the 20,000
bales of cotton of the 1931 crop which
have been ginned in Colquitt county
has been sold, it was estimated in
warehouse circles recently at Moul
trie.
Mr. Peyton LeRoy Graves, general
.gent of the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Coast Railroad company, and otio of
the best known railway executives in
thU section, died recently at his of
flee in Atlanta from heart failure.
W, e. Page, president of the R. w.
Page corporation, newspaper publish
era, has announced that an inter-city
meeting the ran aw r„„„
elec, a. tm at colum–us Oe
0 6r 28,
Fire destroyed the Farmers’ ware
house and an adjoining building
Soperton recently at a loss ot ap*
proximately $25000. Seven hundred
win\gm°on° “ 8 n wer ° de8tr0yed 1n the
What . promises . , to k be a record ,
breaking peanut crop is being mar
Jric?. Se'groiersTave evefreceivS
Thia decline in prices has not slowed
up the rush to the shelling plant at
Moultrie.
A report from Bainbridge says that
Decatur county overwhelmingly voted
In favor of adopting a recent legisla
tiva enactment abolishing the offices
of tax collector and tax receiver and
creaUng the new office of tax com
mUsioners.
That English walnuts can be suc
cessfully grown in South Georgia has
been demonstrated by H. X. Striplin,
residing near Raines, who has two
trees now bearing. The trees are
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Evaporators
In Stock for Quick
LOMBARD IRON WORKS
– SUPPLY COMPANY
Visitors Welcome at Plant
Farmers Urged to Keep Up Fight For Extra Session
Of General Assembly of Georgia
Another ... ... letter, written ... with ...
a
view of further keeping up the
niorale of the great army of cot
ton farmers. Not to yield a point,
nn , . ... , ,
sera.: a f l V 1 ‘ 1 ° n un "
.
r will not have the finger of
* cam P aint ®f ' at us as ( IV ltter »*
I’!' 1 , 'who' bf day , r ® celve (be
those »Seri,™ lriv fwiinc
M r S sune miiii.miiy ol vxen
don f l hou « ood and fa,thful sei "
vaats '
® s .» 'j® a ie much encouraged
.
Inst ire rve.V° rf
nor n.n i uc ucs o h B
"g}* f*, . v , tin ns his . face ., ?! hom , m ^ the ,o
continued pleadings, begging,
^^ thii! ib,"
uisiamt we can’vUuM- tan tisuai
• semblance of \ ICIORI.
IZe a
c South Carolina and Louisiana
passed the Lotion Holi
?, ay SS, .. “T TlS Oov2™or S
. J ne u ?; c rnuI „ l “ e
Cl State ot 1 exas, State 1 of . Missis
slppl ; Missouri, and the
,n V ,nlK>rs . ol , a ‘heir General Assein-
11 k s are niade U P °* intelligent
.
w<n Y al bve ot the large cot
” L?” J * , ihnn° fl lan “ aI ‘ ol ihec^nn" |he cot.on
. , the cotton belt must
ro "o >»
t,0 J ?. f
! ar n’, i ^ P i '
forts are in l l ,
( Oui .r fn tiou rnor win will soon Cf „,, , he be- ,
teCS fl01 " Vhe
v Lolllslana i ;
Sml.r,,, L ? fn P £n?" d
A*Kansas which, w with h lhe contin
a ^ d «*«»“« V "‘T’
[ a Sk ed - sl.n tng Georgia cotton
armors ought to at least move a
,u 'art <>* stone.
mrseenig «j.;> laa noy ^ry Governor, smart, shrewd but 1
*Mmt :believe he has more Intel
”» eiuc amt foresight than the
Governors ol the other live eol
ou pro. ,uou«s,ales. Do you
V
r.-| r ir • • • iii
^ s lale aLe * s ®' ? 1 nil,g??nh “, ra **™P h ihmft aboat lihertv ! berty ’
etc., and its liberty and life we
are begging for NOW. We
LL^vhmihl b'v, y f?, Sl rn U l fe !f’ where .
they aie faiily sensible and m
telhgent people but our Cover
scems to lose S1 8 ht of thls
heavily fruited, and the nuts are
a fine flavor.
Governors of nine states in the
southeast have been asked to name
delegates from every county to at
tend a general southeastern economic
conference at . avananh October 19-
22 to discuss the "inter-dependence
of Industry and agriculture.”
Gen. William Harden, of Savannah.
86-year-o!d Savannah historian and
member of a distinguished southern
family, was elected as major general
in command of the Georgia division,
United Confederate Veterans, at their
annual reunion, which met recently
in Savannah.
A committee of Augusta citizens,
headed by Thomas J. Hamilton, editor
of the Augusta Chronicle, will go to
Boston to place before the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways association in the
next few days a plan for a nine-foot
channel in the Savannah river, from
Augusta to the sea.
Atlanta bankers who purchased 2,-
700,000 rentals of the state-owned
Western and Atlantic railroad at a
discount, recently paid the state $1,
902,112.20, the total amount, at a bank
rental discount rale of 4.41 per cent.
In a report on manufactures just re
leased by the bureau of census, Geor
gia is revealed as the leading state
of the country in the production ot
turpentine and rosin.
A mas3 meeting of farmers and
business men at Buchanan recently
adopted a resolution asking the na
tional congress and state legislatures
to enact a moratorium on collection
of interest installments and principal
on farm mortgages for two years.
A miniature bale of cotton, draped
in mourning ribbon, indicating the
death of the once proud king of the
sooth, occupied a prominent place in
the exhlbt of the Corinth Agrienltural
club at the Georgia-Alabama Fair
which opened at West Point Tues
day.
GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931.
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fact and thus far has turned his
hack on the COTTON FAR
MERS and is in sympathy with
th e p EN\ .
Possibly the Governor after
in tli e East attending the foot
ball games, he is now in a more
receptive moo d and will listen to
the pitiful, urgent appeal of the
thousands of cotton farmers for
a ca “ of the Georgia hopk Assembly.
to b* he »1I1 now
s ( op j ong €noug h t 0 visualize,
draw a mental picture of the
ragged, hungry, poverty striek
en co ([ oa farmer their wives and
their ch “ dren and show a wil
their 'jogness bankrupt to help condition them out by an of
immediate call of the Georgia
Legislature NOW.
These cotton farmers who are
forced to seU colton at 5c P er
P°^ d a ' ld ?° l ! 0n Seed at 1 ? C per
b U shel are legion and are losing
thousands and thousands of dol
| ars ( j a ily, when if our Governor
would listen tc our honest, earn
est > sin cere appeal and call our
!■*«“*!«" hour, it would ft ow> very “ much l <“* stimu- ,.'■*«
late the price of cotton.
It’s awful for the cotton, specu
lators to gobble up so much dis
tress when cotton at 5c per pound, will
in a few’ months it
reach a very much higher price,
V* this e crop ' hunible of cotton firmer is who entitled made to
the profit on this advance which
is sllre come, and not the
M.ecuiah.r who is already rich in
money and land - *
1 attended a meeting of far
mers, 800 or 1,000 strong, tat .lef
fersonvilie . Twiggs county, this
week. Speakers on. the occa
? K,n ' vere as follows: Dr - W. G.
^ I^ee Congressman W. W. Liinen,
Ul, « «’ Mize ’ 3 ^presenta
tive of the First National Bank
D f Macon, Miss Henriille Hughes
and the writer, J. W. Whiteley,
and I truly believe 80 per cent of
the entire audience was in favor
of the “Cotton Holiday” fob 1932.
A motion was made after the
writer cohclmlctl k his speech – lo
| ate a vole o» II, hut chair
rnan re used P erm “ ‘he mo
", t ° be voted UP 0 "
I 11 S ‘1 shame u to Io< ? k on lhi *
scene day by day , and see these L
poor struggling farmers drive up
the “slaughter house” to be
far ced to sell their product at 7c
pound below, the cost of pro
duction. God speed the day
when these same poverty striek
Pe»I»‘c will turn the cor
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w HEN Marie Antoinette was
told that the people had no
bread she is said to have an
swered: “Why don’t they eat
cake?” Had*this flippant Queen
lived in a later epoch, she might
very well have recommended a
fruit bread to the hungry peas
ants. For certainly there is no
more nourishing or appetizing
form of the staff of life than tasty
fruit muffins or biscuits. Here
are some excellent recipes.
Blueberry Biscuits: Sift to
gether two cups flour, four tea
spoons baking powder, one tea
spoon salt and two tablespoons
sugar. Gut in four tablespoons
shortening, or work in with linger
tips. Add seven-eighths cup di
luted evaporated milk to make a
dough soft enough to drop. Add
Bring the Record Your Job Printing
and, be in a position to name
THEIR OWN PRICE ON THEIR
OWN COTTON AND COTTON
his hP^’fi automobiles USt ivi S d0C and j as does Wltb any
much profit on our product just as
as the steel corporation or
fertilizer manufacturers and oth.
ers, 1– and if our Governor will help
us a call of the General As
senibiy that we may enact a law
or . Cotton Holidoy” ,632.
we Yes'sir, $m 1 be on our way to this end.
w’hell the a day will yet dawn
cotton farmer will
name the price for his own prod
«ct ™''°â€“" just as the manufacturer
merchandise. s J* oe Y It lot not, l" n why ^ 0r not? ot ^ r
the Ljtf prohibition station RIGHT of planting NOW cot- for
ton is the only immediate relief
^ A?n'"T"* l he , p £ esent de P‘orable con- EV_
e! c bas T Itefise Blinking man and woman
cannot** be enough to know it
done otherwise, as
many rich, unscrupulous far
mers will plant cotton, increas
und a out there “"TiT*" will .be an acreage y
reduction so they can “cash in”
? n the advance in price. Hence,
d will require a law to hold these
fellows in,the middle of the road.
Now when all the cotton states
enact sopie kind of cotton law,
‘hen a Conference, or committee,
from each cotton state will be
called together to agree as a
whole as to a complete “holiday”
on cottoW acreage or on some
decrease of 70 or ,5 per cent as
might meet the approval of the
majority, of said committee,
Then all the states would ratify
‘he action of the committee and
all the cotton slates wOuUl enjoy
a law as to planting ? of
COttt n In 1932.
Governor, Georgia farmers, write your
wire your Governor,
plead, yes, get on your knees and
heg for a call of our Georgia As
sernbty times, at once and maybe some
some day ,he will be
aroused from his Rip Van Wm
kie sleep and hear your prayers.
‘ ir * If, ue ‘° not favor believe the he chosen can few con
when your pleadings are before
he ™ other ful' y cotton a " d thc states' f ? ,overa will « rs soon of
be helping you with their plead
>ngs. It would lake a man of
£‘one *ull call. to refuse longer your piti
Am I right or am I wrong?
.1. W. Whiteley,
Warrenton, Ga.
two-thirds cup well drained
canned blueberries quickly and
carefully and drop by spoonfuls
on a buttered baking sheet or in
muffin tins. Bake in a hot oven
(450 degrees) for twelve to fifteen
minutes.
Try Thla for Breakfact
Apple ana Date Huff ins: Beat
two eggs and add one cup milk.
Sift together two cups flour, three
tablespoons sugar, tour teaspoons
baking powder, and one-halt tea
spoon salt, and add to first mix
ture. Add one-half cup canned
apple sauce and three tablespoons
melted butter. Add one-half cup
chopped dates, and pour into but
tered muffin tins. Bake about
fifteen to twenty minutes in a hot
oven (400 degrees). ThU make*
eight to ten muffins.*
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR
Churches Have An important
Place In Warren County History
(By Mrs. W. F. Wilhoit, County
Historian.) history"of
Below is a Grove' the
0 , ic church at Locust in
Warren v ' arien countv c0,u -• It u was " as written written
K: nt;:'
iime a pupi] in lhe academv then
wards ,* [ became 111 tbat ... a c,ly member ’ She 0 . of after the ‘
Visitation Order, in Mobile, Ala.,
and was known in religious fi„e. cir
clcs „ si9 ,„ Allgus She
passed a „ " ay several . years ago.
‘he article , appeared in the col
umns of “The Catholic Mirror,”
Baltimore, Md., soon after it was
written in ,890. It is beautifully
’
written ... and . shows-how . . Miss ... Ma- ..
8 l, nes heart glow ed with faith
in her religion and reverence and
love for her church. It will have
to be abridged to b e used in the
history .... ol Warren county, , but . , it ..
is presented in full for the benc
fit of the readers of The Clipper.
Ft was through ,th e kindness of
M«M»r O.bnd, of Mt. St. J ose j* 1
. ^gusta, » . 41 that . 41 the article .. ,
in was
obtained:
The Cradle of Catholicity in
Georgia.
(Bw N. J M.)
par awav from the si«ht and
sol , n d of men, in the shadowy
stillness of a southern forest,
|{ es a |jtu e country walls'enclose graveyard.
R aUg h rock the
consecrated acre seamed with
innumerable hillocks half hidden
by russ et leaves from the hoary
oak,. and j )V the creeping myrtle
an d i vy filling each nook and
C revice. A tall cross, fashioned
tjmbers, stands sentinel
S j us t ^3out With* - the to r heavy*
vards ^ awa ‘ v. ^d a clear stream,
park i in dimpling over
shining white rocks, ever imir
„ UII - e s a gentle requiem for the
SJlta au i e t sleeners Their silence is
by any oUmr
soun d, as “„ce manv years la” have
JJS3 ,i!S the nm
an d ( probably, never again will
the sods be turned to give a man
his six feet of earth. The totter
ingi discolored gravestones bear
names loved and honored
throughout the land’ and the
Ient slumherers beneath
earned well their peaceful rest,
p or j iere ]j e men ^ an( j women
who
of the Faith, abandoned their na
“ ve ‘ and and sought homes
among strangers in a strange
land: and here these sturdy pio
a ^ rs ’- hundred years ago,
Idled the trees, hewed the logs
aI ? d T eare< the first Catholic
Church . ever built on Georgia
*o!b Here close beside their last
resting-place, separated only by
‘he rippling stream, is the sacred
spotspot. hallowed as the birth
place State of Catholicity in the Em
pire of the South.
The builders chose for their
little log structure (the cradle of
the faith) a site as beautiful las
nature could afford in a lavish of
her charms, a spot where she
could supply the granduer and
magnificense they desired, but
could not give, to their hunible
little
In an opening of the forest a
deep, strong spring empties its
cool waters over great flat rocks
into a tiny stream which broad
ens and circles prettily around
an elevated grassy slope separat
ing it from the forest paths,
Upon this slope, within this sane
tuary of nature’s forming,
placed their little church, as if
thought was to make it the
the tabernacle in Nature’s tern
Its lowly roof and rude
were to shelter the King of
and if within there were
rare tapestries, no fluted col
nor groined arches, with
a velvety carpet of rich green
stretched from its threshold to;
water’s edge; huge oaks and]
stalwart pines upheld a cano
roof of inter-mingled
branches, and the arching limbs
ciast soft shadows a/!hwart the
religious light” of the leaf
strewn aisles. Golden-hearted
Cheerokee roses climbed with
dainty sweet-briar, the wild pink
honey-suckle. and white-robed
and peeped through
the dark foliage of oak and pine
like the changing tints of cathe
dral windows. Fragrant forest
flowers incensed the air and
wooed the honey bees from dis
tant hives to lend their soft hum
ming accompaniment to the joy
ous choir of feathered songsters
and the sweet solemn music of
the wind among the pines.
On every side the fair locusts
were in flower, heavy with their
milky, sweet-scented blossoms,
and the new-comers named this
favored spot “Locust Grove.”
The dear old name, the name by
which the great Bishop England
knew it, will go down with it
into history, notwithstanding
that the monarchs of the age,
steel and steam, now call it by
another name.
It is Right Rev. Dr. England
who first tells 11 s about the set
tlement. After speaking of the
consecration of Right Rev. John
Carroll in 1790 as Bishop of Bal
timore, which diocese then com
prehended the whole United
States of America, he says:
“About this period a few Cath
olics from Maryland removed to
the state of Georgia, to the vicin
ity of where the Church of Lo
cust Grove was subsequently
built. Previous to their removal
they applied to the bishop for a
clergyman lo accompany them,
but were unable to obtain this
which blessing; yet v#s the spot on
that they settled destined to be
from which the Catholic
Church in this state should date
its origin.”
“At lhe time of the Revolu
tion,” he says on another occa
sion, “Maryland was no longer a
Catholic settlement. The de
scendants of Lord Baltimore
toad abandoned their religion,
SmiBF and but very 1 Sr few 1 of the Catholic
faith, or their property propeUy from Iro,n con- con
flscation”
Such was the situation of whit
began as the Catholic Colony in
the ihose state As remained^“.fiSl manv as could of d
who
their states^ religion emigrated '^watlin. to other
hereby the
««
seeking to crush out.
One hundred years have passed
since the band of Maryland Colo
nis's, fleeing from persecution
and robbery found neaoeful
on worship Georgia soil ind I'ree
to God as their
hearts desired. Settling as they
did in the interior of the slate
and more -than double that dis
tance Irom Savannah, now the
Cathedral city of the diocese, it
seems somewhat remarkable
that here should have bec-n the
spot chosen by God to cradle the
inlant church, which has attain
ed so strong and vigorous *
growth Tbe.se thVoughout the state.
forced Maryland Caliholics,
to quit their native state,
were mostly families of wealth
and culture. They were, more
over, large slave-holders, and
doubtless came into the interior
to avoid the fever which devas
many sections, and also to
purchase extensive tracts of land
in the fertile counties of Wilkes
and Warren. Among the colo
streets was a branch, of the To “Stone
of Maryland,” which
Father Stonestreet S. J.
Georgetown,
There were also the Lucketts,
Seotts, Hargraves, Thompsons,
Brooks, and many qther yet re
in ciphered and revered,
They were prosperous and well
content in their new home. The
lands gave abundant yield, and
owners found ample protec
lion in the liberal constitution of
their adopted state; for though,
when Georgia Was a British col
ony 'the spirit of the British code
of persecution domineered in full
vigor over the land, after the
Revolution, Georgia was one of
the first states to establish re
ligious freedom and continued to
be most strenuous in its defence,
Their many neighbors, mostly
Virginians, with many French
Huguenots and English Presby
terians, received them in frientl
ly spirit and showed no bigotry
or hostility,
— From Warrenton Clipper.
(To be continued)
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