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GIBSON RECORD
Published to Furnish the People of Glascock County a Weekly Newspaper and as Medium for the Advancement of the Public
a Good of the County,
VOL. XXXVIII. No. 20.
Matrons Club Work
Recorded In History
(From Warrenton Clipper)
(By Mrs. W. F. Wilhoit, County
Historian.)
(In last week’s installment of
the history of Warren county in
The Clipper, a sketch of the work
of the Matrons Club of Warren
ton since its organization in 1899
began. It is continued below, be
ginning with the reproduction of
a clipping from the Augusla
Herald of 1926 telling about the
Club’s activity in erecting a mon
ument in 1903 when a row' of
horse hitching racks stood on the
courthouse square. Ed.)
(From Augusta Herald 1926)
Mrs. Wilhoit, the first presi
dent of flie Matrons Club, and at
present a-t the head of the local
Woman’s Club, tells an amusing
incident in connection with the
early activities of the club.
The Incident of the Hitching
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Tire"space that you now see oc
cupied by a park in front of the
court-house, formerly was en
tirely taken up with a square of
hitching-racks for the farmers’
uses when they came to town to
■trade. Those hitching-racks must
have been there ever since War
renton was a town for no one re
members when they were placed
there. But they were unsightly,
right in the heart of the town,
and the bane of the club women’s
existence. So women-like, we set
to ing work break by argument and fuss
to tne men’s morale,
and have them removed.
’’But no argument we could
produce would have any effect.
In fact most of the men of the
town seemed to take the hitching
posts as symbols of their sov
ereignity, and maintained the
idea that they should be relin
quishing all the ideas of their
manhood if they yielded to the
women in this.
“Womanlike we worked on,,
and never once gave up the idea
of by some hook or crook getting
rid of those unsightly racks.
We thought we had reached a
beautiful solution when the Ma
trons Club decided to erect a
handsome granite shaft to the
Confederacy—and cal place to the only logi
put it was in the cen
ter of the square before the
court house, right exactly in the
center of the hitching racks.
“But did that get them down?”
the former director of the Ma
trons Club reminisced amused
ly. “It did placed not. We had the
monument in the center
of tlw raeks and had the unveil
ing exercises, at which Hon. Boy
kin Wright, of Augusta, and Col.
•I. E- Pottle, now of Millegeville,
were the speakers. The actual
unveiling was done by Mrs. Rob
ert English, the wife of a sub
marine commander in the U S.
navy, who was then Eloise Wal
ker, ia very small child. But to
do this we had to nearly sign
away would our earthly rights that we
the hitching merely remove enough of
racks to enable the
exercises to go on—and then to
put them back immediately.
“All of which the daries c oni
plied with,” continue] the for
mer president, “but it didn’t
make when our thought feel^^s of. all any the belter
we mon
ey we had put in that monument.
We got sorer and sorer, and
somehow the men of the commu
nity began to get suspicious that
the women should tear down the
old atrocities some night, so they
took out an injunction against it,
which Sheriff W. O. Brnikley
carried around in his pocket for
instant use so long that it nearly
became worn out. Several times
in the middle of the night he got
up and came down town on a
false alarm that something was
happening to the hitching posts.
Each time he found he’d been on
a wild goose chase. And then
find one morning, w r e all awoke up to
the whole thing gone, and
even the postholes packed tight
with dirt.
Ladies Plead “Not Guilty”
“And. honestly, would you be
lieve it?” relates Mrs. Wilhoit,
“as surely as I am standing here
the ladies had no-thing to do with
removing them. But to this day,
nobody really knows who did it.
Of course w r e all have our sus
picions. And if the man whom
w r e think did it should ever run
for office—I’m not saying any
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GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
Tlie only negro daily newspaper In
existence, the Atlanta World, began
publication recently in that city.
John Thomas, a negro holiness
preacher ot Fort Valley, receutly ate
forty-eight scrambled eggs at one sit
ting.
The common schools of the state
will receive $1,780,175 of the $-‘,000,
000 loan negotiated recently by Gov
ernor Russell.
Trustees of the University Hospital
at Augusta have asked a grant of $7,
OOo for 1932 from the Richmond coun
ty commission.
Bessie Tift college at Forsyth cele
brated its 85th anniversary Saturday,,
Visitors and alumnae.-(rCEi- the' entire
pfesent.
Columbus and Muscogee county
spent $4,454.88 during February in
public relief service, H. B. Crawford,
city manager, reports.
The slate board of health collected
$588,618.05 during the year 1931 and
spent $5G8,721.25, finishing the year
with a balauce of $19,896.82.
Messrs. Henry Wilkinson, William
Edwards and Sam F. Sullivan have
been appointed by Judge C. W. Wor
rlil as registrars for Terrell
The last link of a paved highway
from Atlanta to Brunswick will bo
surfaced under a contract let by the
state highway board recently.
A program of relief and rehabilita
tion has been launched in Georgia’s
storm-torn areas by the Amerieau Red
Cross and co-operating relief agencies.
Officials of the Ellis lodge of Geor
gia have decided to defer the Geor
gia rally of Elks at Waycross in June
until next year, it was announced re
cently.
A mall pouch was recently stolen
from near the depot at Cartersville,
which was later found with many, let
ters scattered about, all of them
opened.
Dr. C. G. Butler, well known Gaines
ville physician, was elected president
of the Ninth District Medical Society
at the annual meeting at Gainesville
recently.
Progress is being made in Ware
county in the campaign against tu
berculosis. In the past fourteen
months 42 persons have been X-rayod
and examined.
John Cown, of Greenville, has been
recently appointed state inspector for
Georgia by the 1932 crop production
loan office, agriculture department, at
Washington, D. C.
Payment of 100 per cent of their
deposits was assured depositors in the
defunct Decatur Bank and Trust com
pany at a meeting of the Decatur De
veloping company recently.
The state board of public welfare at
Atlanta went out of existence on Jan
uary 1 without debts and with no
cash balance, an audit filed recently
with Governor Rusell showed.
Street improvement bonds, totaling
$24,000, have been sold for $24,422.43
to the J. H. Hilsman company and the
Citizens and Southern company, of At
lanta, by the Columbus city commis
sion.
The state school loan of $2,000,000
was turned over to the school de
partment recently, following payment
of the amount to the state by the
Georgia banks which had advanced the
money.
W. C. Bradley, of Columbus, was
named chairman of the board of di
rectors of the Coca-Cola company at
the recent meeting of stockholders at
which the entire membership of the
board was re-elected.
A cargo of raw sugar from the
Philippine Islands arrived at Savan
nah recently aboard the Norwegian
motorship Farnwood. Heretofore all
raw sugar shipped to Savannah came
from Cuba because Philippine ship
ments were too heavy to make this
port
The Georgia School of Technology
collected $1,759,566 from all sources
and expended $1,696,027 during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, leav
ing a balance of $62,938 on hand, ac
cording to a report recently filed with
Governor Russell by State Auditor
Tom Wisdom.
Publication of the book, "Martha
Berry, Friend of the Southern High
lander,” by Tracy Byers, is announced
by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, of New York,
for the latter part of April. This is
the first book about the work of Mar
tha Berry, founder and director of
the Berry schools.
The Cobb county grand jury recently
GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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1—Women campers in tosemite National park snow bound by the heaviest snowfall ever recorded in that re
gion. 2 —William A. Irvin, who has-been made president of the United States Steel corporation to succeed James A.
Farrell. 3—Remarkable action photograph of Japanese soldiers pursuing Chinese near the ICiangwan racetrack out
side of Shanghai.
sanctioned the ceding of the Roswell
district to Fulton, thereby eliminating
an objectionable situation brought
about by the merger of Fulton and
Milton counties.
Selection of the University of Geor
gia at Athens for the next meeting
and election of Dr. T. M. Simpson,
head of the department of mathemat
ics of the University of Florida, to
the presidency, featured the closing
session at Gainesville, Fla., recently
of the southeastern section of the
Mathematical Association of America.
Gold Treasure Trove
Discovered in Hedge
Towednack, England.—Eight articles
of gold found in a hedge at Anmlveor
farm, here, were declared by the coro
ner to be treasure trove.
He seised them on behalf of the
crown, but said lie would give consid
eration to a claim lodged on behalf of
the duchy of Cornwall, from which the
prince of Wales draws dues.
The articles were stated to be 3,000
years old, and three of them were fine
specimens of torques or collars, or
neck chains.
Wales Plans to Teach
His Nephews to Box
London.—The prince of Wales plans
to become a boxing and gym instruc
tor to his young nephews, Lord Las
celles, sons of the princess royal. The
new residence of ttie princess royal
(Princess Mary) at 2 Green street,
Park Lane, contains a full-sized box
ing ring and two gymnasiums.
Hint for Fishermen
“When ye have taken a great fish,
undo the raawe, and what ye find
therein make that your bait, for ft f*
best."—Dame Juliana Berners, 1490.
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after Harvey they had S. enabled Firestone an (left automobile foreground) running finds railroad the new tracks Firestone to rail record tires in between pcrfect^eondition
Jacksonville, Florida. The on set a Miami and
bettered by 42 minutes the fastest car, covering railroad 405.7 miles at an average speed of 64.39 miles an hour,
shorter. The smooth run between these two cities made over a route 40 miles
and quiet operation of the flanged pneumatic tires was a revelation. Mr Firc
stone believes that miles of unused railway tracks will be reopened through their use. With Mr
Firestone, who is chairman of the board of The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, are, left to right!
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., vice president; Clifford D. hnutii, development engineer, who operated tile
car; and John W. Thomas, president of the company.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart with a lar
pmi weighing 125 pounds which she
landed after a shark had taken a bite
out of it just ns the noted author was
bringing it in.
Explaining Undertow
When a wave rushes up on a beach
the water must recede. Meanwhile an
other wave is approaching. Tills sec
ond" wave climbs over the water which
Is running back. This 18 repeated
lime and time again. There is there
fore a seaward (lowing current set up
under the advancing waves.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR
Agricultural Squibs
Vegetable acreage In New York
state lias increased 38 per cent in
the past 10 years.
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The .Japanese beetle continues to
spread. It 1ms now appeared as far
apart as Charleston. S. C., and Cleve
land, Ohio.
The 1031 potato crop allows ISO
pounds of potatoes for each person
in the United States, T/ils Is 11!
pounds less than the average for th j
past 5 years.
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Rye sown as a full cover crop and
turned to..let in the rpringv !:■< 9 re
turned to the soil, from a'good crop,
4,700 pounds of organic matter and
78 pounds of nitrogen; ns much nitro
gen as is contained in 500 pounds of
nitrate of soda.
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Better results in feeding wheal to
hogs are obtained if the wheat is
ground “medium fine.” So ground it
is fully equal to corn.
The total United States crop is in
dicated at 10,000,000 bushels this year
21 , 000 , 00 0 bushels last year and 18,-
400,000 bushels for Hie 5-year average
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The pear blister mite Is a very
small mite which burrows beneath the
leaf surface during the spring and
summer months, causing “rusty"
spots.
Wartime Nurses
The army nursing corps says that
tn the Spanish-A meric,in war woman
nurses were first used in the army
hospitals. There nurses were under
contract to the government. Dr. Anita
Newcomb McGee, a contract surgeon,
was appointed superintendent of the
army nursing corps. It was mainly
through her efforts that the corps was
organized and became a part of the
United States army in 1001;
* : Typewriter Doctor
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Ey RUBY DOUGLAS
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T looked IE cashier up from of the his Brookville desk as Sylvia, bank
ids competent little stenographer, en
tered his ofiice humming gayly.
"Why the mirth on Monday morn
ing, Miss Sylvia?” he asked.
“Tlie old, old reason—joy in having
created something!" she told him.
“Tell me—let me be joyful, too,"
persisted the cashier.
He had known Sylvia since her
childhood. Theirs was a friendly,
family acquaintance as well as a
business association.
“I will—but you won’t like it,"
Sylvia laughed.
“Oh—conceived the Idea of getting
married, I suppose.”
Sylvia raised her hands In protest.
“Not nt all. But the effect on you
will be just the same. I am going
into business for myself.”
Tlie cashier listened while tlie girl
unfolded tier plan. The idea had
come to her on Saturday morning like
a flash of lightning from the unknown
spaces. She had recognized it at once
as an inspiration, and all through the
week-end site had been turning it over
In her mind until now it was a con
crete plan all formulated and ready to
put into action.
“Then you’ll be a typewriter doctor,
I gather,” said the cashier when she
had finished her out line.
"Yes—that’s an attractive way to
call it. There is no one in town who
can mend a machine. You know your
self what a nuisance it is when the
typewriters here tn tlie office are out
of order. We have to send to tlie city
add not only pay tlie man’s expenses
but wait till he finds it convenient.”
“Oh, I think you have hit upon a
splendid Idea. I—of course we hate
to lose you, but we can’t expect a girl
with your ability and ambition to go
on working for some one else at per
haps twenty dollars a week. Go to
It, Miss Sylvia, aiM we will give you
all the support we can."
Tlius Sylvia severed her connec
tions with the Brookville hank but
she took with her aii the good will of
the officers and emjuibyees who, one
and all, promised to l**lp her to get
launched in her new venture.
She found a diminutive office on the
main street and called herself, a
"Typewriter Doctor.” She bad a na
tive mechanical sense and more than
a little practical business ability.
It was not long before Sylvia was
very busy, and she had found it nec
essary to make a few trips to the
city in order to learn from the makers
of various machines a number of in
tricate little peculiarities of their own
typewriters. But she was quick and
determined to succeed. Nothing
seemed too difficult. S!io was happy
and busy and she was experiencing
the thrill that come s with achieve
ment.
One morning a young man appeared
In her office.
"Good morning," she said cheerily.
The visitor explained that lie was a
writer and that he lived on a farm
outside the limits of the city. His
typewriter had become very badly in
need of parts and repairs while he
was in the middle of some work for a
weekly publication. He asked wheth
er lie might bring in his machine and
perhaps rent one for a few days.
That was his problem.
Sylvia assured him that that was
her work, and she had several ma
chines on hand that she could let him
choose from. For by this time she
had not only gone into the business
ot renting typewriters but she had ac
quired the agency of a neat little port
able machine and was making hand
some commissions on this.
If the young woman recognized an
other finger of fale pointing the way
to her pathway she did not admit it.
She confessed to herself that she was
glad Mr. Bob Saunders would have to
return for his machine. She liked
him.
In a day or two. Bob Saunders ap
peared again. He was buoyantly
happy.
“You are a mascot as well as a good
typewriter doctor, Miss Bates,” he
said.
"How do you know?” asked Sylvia,
for his machine was not ready.
“I have sold the story I wrote on
the rented machine for more than a
third again of what I have ever re
ceived before from tlie same people,”
he told her enthusiastically. “Now I
can well afford to get the parts.”
He remained in the little office
longer than was necessary, but Sylvia
kept on working. He was lost in ad
miration of tlie deft, easy way in
which she went about mending this
machine, adjusting that one, cleaning
another.
It became a habit—watching her.
"Could you—perhaps—doctor tlie
heart of typewriting man, .Miss—Syl
via?” he asked her one day after many
weeks.
“I—might, if It needed it.” admit
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