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VOL. XXXVIII. No. 36. History of Williams Creek Church By County Historian (From Warrenton Clipper) (By Mrs. W. F. Wilhoit, County Historian.) (Continued from last week) From the records it is evident that Jethro Darden had a son who bore the same name who had grown to manhood and joined the church at Williams Crgek, for Jethro Darden from 1811 is designated a Jethro Darden, Sr. In 1812 Jethro Darden, Jr., un der the guidance of John Baker, is introduced into the machin ery of the church for they are sent to represent the church to the Association that year, and it met at the County Line Meeting House. The church was not represen ted at the Association in 1813, hut in 1814 the old standby, John Baker, and his protege, Jethro Darden,. Jr., attended the Association together. Two dol lars were sent by the church “to pay for the minutes.” in February, 1815, the min utes record that “the church have agreed to put a piece twen ty-six feet long to the end of the framed part of the house and a shed ten feet wide the length of the whole house, the house to be fitted out with seats and win dows, as many as may be neces sary, left to the discression of the commissioners, which are Joseph Cohron. John Baker, Ja cob Darden, Mountain Hill and Jethro Darden, Jr.” “Jacob Dar den wishing to be exhonorated from acting x x x we therefore appoint Silomon Lockett, Elsq., in his room and as Brother Ba ker is the undertaker of the work we appoint William Dar den in his place.” Jethro Darden, Jr. and Ben jamin Brantley bore the Asso ciational letter, written by John Baker, to the Association which met at Long Creek, Warren county, in 1815. Jethro Darden, Jr. t was not put under the care of Benjamin Bfantley, for his name is recorded as the first messenger appointed. While the repairs and the en largement of the building w r ere going on the church decided it a good time to re-establish the lines, so it was “ordered that Brother Cohron and Brother Jethro Darden, Sr., wait on Mr. Elliott and request him to assist them in establishing the lines of the lot of land on which the meeting house stands, so the church can, at any time know where the corners and lines are by having reference to the Clerk’s office of Warren county, where the deed of conveyance, given by Willis Perry to the church is recorded.” It was further ordered that “Brother Jacob Darden be appointed door keeper and have the house swept once in evey three months and open a new 7 spring or keep the one in as good order as pos sible for the space of twelve months from the above date,” February 17th, 1816. Jethro Darden, Jr., was ap pointed to write the Associa tional letter and he and Joseph Cohron were “ballotted in” as messengers for the 1816 meet ing. One improvement called for another, so it was further “or dered that the meeting house be planked all around underneath with good heart plank and that the posts that the plank is nailed to be good heart posts < and put three good blocks and one pillar of rock underneath.” Brother Hight undertook the job “and the church agrees to pay him nineteen dollars and fifty cents when the work is completed.” At the end of the year Brother Jacob Darden had been such a satisfactory “door-keeper” and spring cleaner that he was re appointed for another year. Jethro Darden, Jr., again pre pared the letter and he and Brother Cohron carried it to the Association this year, 1817, and three dollars were sent to pay for the minutes. GIBSON RECOR Published to Furnish the People of Glascock Coun ty Weekly Newspaper dnd ;. Medium for the a as a Advancement of the Public Good of the County. S 1 Mellowed ! 4 I A HUNDRED MILLION lilt ii ii: YEARS RE ' - fitiiii iifiiiii ¥ . ■i . 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Nothing but Bradford-Allegany crude—the costliest of all Pennsylvania grade crudes—is Note: For those who prefer a Mid-continent used in the manufacture of Sinclair Pennsyl- oil we also sell Sinclair Opaline, blended from vania Motor Oil. But even Nature with all its the oldest Mid-continent crudes, de-waxed and hundred million years of mellowing and filtering also freed^from petroleum jelly. SI N C LA I R CPennsyli vania MOTOR OIL J. ft. A 9e ***** •“X Copyrighted m Xii > j: 1932 ' ,y.‘ by S. R. Co. (Inc.) 4 ., w<4 – > J • c< v ; tjr . 0 ■ 4 S0/,j °C.J ■ :V 6 'J- Brother Jacob Darden failed to serve his entire second year as door-keeper, for in Sister Stone took charge of the work and it was agreed “for her to have at the rate of five dol lars a year for her services.” In 1818 Jethro Darden, Jr., prepared the letter to the Asso ciation and Jethro Darden, Sr., and Joseph Cohron were the messengers. It was held at Pow elton, Hancock county, that year. Jethro Darden, Sr., and Benjamin Brantley were mes sengers to the Association and Brother Bass wrote the letter in 1819. Daniel Culpepper, Sr. a mem ber of the church, who had ta ken part in the Revolutionary War, died August 4th, 1819. During all the years since its GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932. organization in 1787, perfect unity had dwelt in the church and only short comings of the members marred its placidity, but now, just as the ^* rne a P proached for the meeting of the Georgia Association in 1820, a dark cloud loomed over the ho rizon of the church and threat ened to destroy it. No inkling of impending danger is given in the minutes until the letter to the Association was written when Brother Rhodes, who had served the church for sixteen years and had just been dis missed, together with the dea cons of the church “sent to the church that the church should not have the letter to the Asso ciation read, or filled out with the messenger’s names.” The demand was debated and finally it was decided to wait till the next day, but the messengers were appointed and two dollars and fifty cents were to be sent lor the minutes. The next day ^ j et t er was rea( j an( | *‘ re . ceived without amendments.’’ The church was in sore dis tress. They were like a fold of: frightened sheep without shepherd and it seemed that order reigned. From the records it is found that Thomas Rhodes, the pastor of Williams Creek since 1804, had been guilty of some offense and had been excommunicated from Shiloh church of which he was a member. Some of the members of Williams Creek church felt that it was not wise to continue the pastorate of a man who was not ^ member of SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR Another New Plan To Increase Cotton Price Is Proposed Atlanta, July.—A national tax that would have the effect of im mediately raising the selling price of all agricultural prod ucts, as a means of restoring prosperity, was proposed Satur day by William G. Hastings, di rector of publicity for the An sley Hotel, who calls upon Dem ocratic leaders to incorporate the proposal in their program. “If the cotton grower requires 15 cents per pound to make a profit,” I#\ Hastings argues, “let Congress place a tax of 15 cents per pound on all cotton purchased for less than 15 cents, the tax to be paid by the pur chaser. Cotton immediately would rise to 15 cents per pound so the purchaser could escape the terriffic tax. Apply the same principle to wheat, corn, to all products of the farm; shortly the farmers would begin receiving a profitable price for their wares and prosperity would come out ‘from around the comer, and land right in our laps, for when the fanners make a profit, prosperity will return, and not before. You cannot place half our population on starvation wages and expect the other half to be affluent. In order to prevent foreign dumping, it would be necessary for Congress to place an equal izing tax on all imported agri cultural products. This is a simple matter of arithmetic and proper legislation. “It may be argued that this plan is class legislation or that it is too radical,’’ Mr. Hastings continued. “Perhaps it is both. I’m neither a politician nor an economist. But it seems to me that if coal, oil, copper, steel and many other commodities can have a protective tariff to insure a profit, our farmers are equally entitled to a domestic protection that will insure them a profit. The city dweller cares little what he pays for agricul tural products, provided his in come is in the proper ratio. He would rather have a $300 in come with 15-cent cotton than a hundred-dollar income, or is as the case with many now, no in come at all, with 5-cent cotton. “While not professing to be an economist,’’ Mr. Hastings said: “I believe the idea is sound and I hope our political leaders will give it serious consideration. There would be some confusion at first until stocks held by manufacturers were consumed, but I think most of us would prefer that few weeks of months of confusion to bring back pros perity rather than wait for it under present conditions, which, many people believe, will re quire several years to settle.” Mr. Hastings stated that he has submitted the plan to Gov ernor Roosevelt and Senators George and Cohen for their con sideration. any church and had been ex communicated, and they so ex pressed themselves, but others of the membership wished to continue Brother Rhodes and they proved to be in the major jty. It was the fact that the mi nority was insisting on ac quainting the Association of the facts and seeking for ad vice and guidance in their ex tremity that brought the condi to a climax, and when the Association concurred in the opinion of the minority that it was unethical to have an ex communicated minister in charge of the church the Rhodes faction met and drew up a dec laration which was placed on the minutes and subscribed to by Robert Shuffield, Jethro Dar (Continued on ia. t rage) Bargaining for Victory As an example of the religious con cepts of the pagan world of the Greek and Roman classical period the story ts told of two cities, at war with each other, both soliciting the god Apollo at Delphi for victory. One offered a tenth of the spoil to the shrine for vic tory. The other, hearing the offer, of fered a ninth, thus assuring victory for themselves. Snulin* Charlie S–y6" rCV'l €f) © V Qj i And still, fti gossip Hornet gets ;V hot as a # tilings anybody about says her- mean