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GIBSON RECORD Published to Furnish the People oi Glascock County a Weekly Newspaper dad as a Medium for the Advancement of th e Public Good of the County. VOL. XXXVIII. No. 43. Sketch of The New Providence Church For County History (From Warrenton Clipper) (By Mrs. W. F. Wilholt, County Historian.) (Continued from last week) The minutes of Sunday, Jan uary 4th, 1862, record that a prayer service should be held the •third Sabbath in each month to pray for the members who had joined the‘'Southern forces in th$ War Between the States, and in obedience to the proclama tion of President Davist the 28th day of February of the same year was set apart as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer for our Confederate government, “also in observance to the proc lamation of Governor Brown we, the church observe the seventh of March for the selfsame pur pose.” Thomas R. Morgan and Rad ford Gunn were messengers to the Association in 1862. In the book of minutes framed with broad bands of mourning are the two death notices: “De parted this life August 31st, 1862, our beloved brother, Joseph A. L. Heath, killed in the fight at Nfanassas,” and “Departed this life September 15th, 1862, our beloved brother, John Pate, a soldier in the Confederate ar my. ” Cruel was was claiming some o its victims from the New Providence church. Eleven months later the no tices of the death of Joshua H. Gheesling and F. M. Heath were given. Both were Confederate soldiers and the latter was killed at Chancelorsville.’ * 1% September, 1863, a collec tion* was taken for “our soldiers of. the 22nd and the 48th Geor gia_ Regiments.” Three dollars w^s sent. The heart of New Providence church was torn with grief as is evinced by the minutes of De cember, 1863, for they record, “In accordance with the request of Governor Brown we, as a church, meet the 10th of Decem ber to observe that day in fast ing, humiliation and prayer to Almighty God to interfere by His almighty power to stop this cruel war.” The business of the church was x not neglected, in spite of sorrow ing hearts, and J. F. Heath and T. P. Jones were sent as messen gers to the Georgia Association in 1863 and 1864. As they did the previous year the money that had been sent to the Association for missionary purposes was again diverted to the soldiers of the 22nd and the 48th Georgia Regiments. Three dollars was again sent, and again in 1864. Thomas B. West was called to the pastorate of New Providence church in January, 1864, and en tered immediately on his labors. The roll of New Providence church as it stood at the close of the War Between the States in cludes the following: Thos. J. Jones, Joel F. Heath, Thos. M. Brown, Samuel A. Gheesling, Taylor A. Walker, Samuel Hall, Jesse M. Eliott, Gashua Duckworth, James Hall, R. M. Wilder, Thos. R. Morgan, Samuel G. Hall, Aaron Jackson, B. R. McGinty, Henry Harper, E. T. Parker, John V. Hall, Thos. T. Duckworth, Edward Cary, Win. H. C. Hall, Joseph S. Isdel, Wm. T. Gunn, Robt. Farr, Vir gil A. Gheesling, Sylvester Wyl der, Henry W. Heiath, Geo. S. Heath, James R. Hill, Simian F Ivey, Caroline C. Heath, Eliza beth Jones, Elizabeth Gheesling, Syntha Wynn, Mary Conaway, Mary Perry, Martha Sammons, Rebecca Harper, Martha Bowing, Nancy W. Hill, Nancy Scott, Ma ry Henley, Mary Brown, Mary Walker, Candis Dyer, Nancy Heath, Mary A. E. McGinty, Mla ry McGee, Malica Jackson, Eliz abeth D. Geeslin, Elivalett Wil der, Mary A. Wright, Elivaletl Hendricks, Ann S. Geeslin, Ana Wynn, Martha F. Hall, Harriel A. Littleton, Sely Hall, Nancy 1 McGinty, Francis Cary, Levinej Duckworth, Jane Duckworth Francis Ivey, Nancy A. Beck "Charles R. Crisp, – ■ ■*s : y–s STATESMAN” Two weeks prior to the opening ol the senatorial campaign, the Atlanta Journal {now supporting Mr. Crisp's opponent for the U. S. Senate), paid this tribute to Mr Crisp, under the heading: "Charles R. Crisp, Statesman “If there were more like Charles R, Crisp ours would be a better government and a happier nation. Georgia is rightly proud ol him, and informed people the country over know him as a tower of strength.” VOTE FOR CRISP on Sept. 14th ( Paid Political Advancement) *— 4 Elizabeth rl . ... S. _ Beck, „ , w Nancy Dyer, n Juha Dyer Susan C. Dyer meder S. Beck, S*iFtiIi Bcj nolds .Mary A. Parham Francis Hill, Louisa C. Woodall, M. A. Purvis, Martha A. W heeler, Georgia Ann Harris, Anna Gees lm. Francis Lazcnby, Mary Ann Howell, Henrietta H. Geesun, Ann L. Hall, Elizabeth Hall, Ma r / a A kli<*u, l rai 'f ls A. Eliott, Sebuafa , Sammons, Su san D. Hill, A. J. S. Gunn, Susan Fr U P. n ’ ^ ecca ^ r fV.V, Hall, eor « ,a A ’ “• *A>sy Conaway, Anna \ Hall, Casapdra It.. Walker, Jmia E. Cason, Myy h.^owe, Cmithia E. E, Proven, Susan A» SymM A. SnTelds. EmdHy an ~ ‘*. i ,ry On the . fly „ leaf ot the book . m which the records of New idenee church are recorded is following: “Henry W. got home from he war May 10th, 1865. Culpepper, Harhuck, V. and Carter came home him and took dinner. S. H. C., Co. I). 5th Ga. Regl.” In that same year it was moved and seconded that church give the colored brelh ren of this church-a conference for their own benefit.” The minutes of February 2nd, 1867, record the fact that “Brother Heath prefers charges against Jim l’elts for moving off to Rome, Ga., without letting the church know* of his wherea- Odd-r-But TRUE <> . Wf iiitsig HE' WtoVC–vQM Of K m £tM ^ONttMN–.XHTHt otl. 0H\Ttb p 0 •*!? 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In 1867, a “list of the colored brethren” was given as follows: Wright’s Jane, exc.; Mrs. Hills Synth, exc.; Mrs. Bray’s Matilda, dismissed by letter; Wright’s Lizzie, restored and letter grant ed; Might’s Alfoid, dismissed by letter; Hill’s Perry, dead; F, Kill’s Lucy, by death; Bray’s Bush, excluded; Pound’s Sarah, excluded; Brother Brown’s Crittv, exrluded; Sister Wynn’s Clarissy, excluded; R. R. Beck’s Martha, excluded; R. R. Beck’s Sezar, excluded; John Felt’s Jim, excluded; Hcrry Wynn’s Mar tha, excluded; Ben Chapman’s lean, excluded;* Henry Wynn’s Abner, excluded; Harrison How ell, excluded. Thomas B. West was still serving as pastor. Thus. P. Jones and J. F. Heath wer e sent to the Georgia Association to represent the church that, year, 1865, and J. F. Heath and J. W. Beck served the church in the same capacity in 1866 . * J. F. Heath and R. R. McGinty were delegates to the Associa tion in 1867. In 1868 J. F. Heath and Thos. ^ Brown were elected delegates ind in 1869 j. F . Heath and J. Keck were delc–dtes ^as Hicha rd r. McGinty or (la j ned ( ],. aeon j n 1870 by a pres bytery composed of Thos. B. yv’est and J. W. Ellington. j p Heath and It. R. McGinty Were delegates to the Associa |j on j n 187() and a i 80 j n 1871-72. Joseph Harris was elected c i,orister in 1873. j p. Heath, clerk of the church and deacon, died on June 1873. Jesse A. succeeded him as clerk of the chiirpli. . Five, dollars jvas^senf/tp.. Association in 187.% leafed p )r the publishing of the rninutes R. R. McGinty and J. A. Woodal were representatives N w Providence church. The care of the church over to Reuben | or R ie year ^74 w rj, a salary jf ' ( $20.00 allowed. o n March 28th. 1874, S. Olieesfin^ by presbytery was ordained composed of a r,. vs . Asa Duggin, T. J. Pilcher, Alexander and T. B. West. r r McGiniv and J. A llie Wood a R were messengers to Asso in 1874 and 75. Q n December 4lh, 1875, J. A. Woodall and his wife were giv en letters of dismission from the and J. V. Hall succeeded | 0 r u . clerkship of the church. Thos. R. West, pastor in A. J. Woodrnff Visits Gibson Albert J. Woodruff, Decatur, Ga., member of the Georgia Pub lic Service Commission, was in Glascock county last week, mix ing with his friends. Mr. Woodruff is the only gen eral business man on '.he Com mission, the other lour mem bers being lawyers. If strikes us as mighty good judgment that one well rounded business mhn should be kept on this Commission. He was recently r }(W • -1 i i X, ; ,;V v. J m t v j .d A. J. Woodruff elected President of the South ca .tern Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, consisting of the members of ten State Commissions; a very merited honor, His administration is noted fearlessness, efficiency and that commends itself to * very serious judgment of UBe voters of- our county. He is his first full term and is aiding the usual endorsement, Woodruff of a second term. Mr. carried Glascock county 232 to 50 when he was elected to the charge ’ resi Sned the pastorate of lhe cIll,rc * 1 * n January, 1876, and W. Ellington was called. He acce Pl e( l an <l began his duties at ouce ' R. R. McGinty and S. A. Ghees ,. * in 6 were messengers to the , As- . sociation in 1876-77. ^ le c * ll,rc h “raised and payed ovcr *° th e pastor of this church the slim of $206.00 for his labors ,jt Grolher Jesse Woodall returned ew Prtividence. ** ie minutes of the conference °* September 8th, 1877, record: (Continued on ia t page) SUBSCRIPTION f 1.06 PER YEAR Motori–s of £a– \ Georgia Can Enjoy AAA Service Now All motorists of East Georgia may now enjoy AAA service and protection it was announced re cently by officials of the Ameri can Automobile Association which has its headquarters in the Richmond Hotel, Augusta. This has been made possible by the Augusta Automobile club which has recently received no tice from National AAA Head quarters that 14 additional coun ties in east Georgia have been added to the Augusta club’s ter ritory. The clubs will be imme diately be organized into the East Georgia Motor Club. There are already more than 500 mem bers of the Augusta club which will back the East Georgia Unit and become a substantial branch of it. The platform of the East Geor gia Motor club will include: ac tivities to obtain a state highway patrol for Georgia, a state driv ers license for Georgia, uniform traffic code, an automobile title law and for license to be issued through branch offices all over the state of Georgia. And to work towards the completion of paving of all main highways in the following counties: Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Ev ans, Emanuel, Glascock, Jeffer son, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs, Warren and Wilkes. Besides advocating the above program the East Georgia Motor club and Augusta Automobile club offers to its members: free emergency service, theft protec tion; a $50.00 police bond card, free legal assistance, $1,000.00 automobile accident insurance policy which also pays $10 per xtfeeff Tor Injury: full member ship in the American Automo bile association an<^ 1085 AAA affiliated Motor clubs and a courtesy credit card with Postal and Western Union telegraph companies. Branches of school boys safety patrols will be established in each of the 17 counties included in the East Georgia Motor club AAA franchise which will be un der the direction of W. F. Ship man, secretary of the Augusta AAA cleb. Other officers are J. Clarke Jack, president; Jerry* E. Lyons, vice-president; D. H. Johnson, treasurer; W. M. Les ter, attorney; and the following directors: John T. Cleckley, B, H. White, B. H. Whitton, General Peter E. Traub, P. A. Steiner, O. H. Attridge, Edward L. Douglas, John W. Haley, Major Oscar Krupp, George R. Stearns, Jr., W. B. Trimmier, J, R. Mixon, Alvin Lefkovits, Dr. W. A. Mul herin, M. Starr Smith of Augus ta; T. M. Nickles, of Richmond county at large. And the fol lowing branch directors: R. M. Weeks of Wrens, Ga. ; R. L. Ber thea of Louisville, Ga.; Alvin Neely of Waynesboro, Ga.; S. W. Overstreet of Wadley, Ga.; D. J. G. Saggus of Harlem, Ga. There will be a director elected in each of the 17 counties as soon as the membership quotas are raised and meeting held in each county for the purpose. Annual dues will be $10 with an entrance fee of $2 for the first year. No other costs or as sessments. Here la Simple Way to Avoid Nervous Trouble In one of his addresses, Dr. Charles H. Mayo suid: "Every other hospital bed in the United States is for men tally afflicted, Insane, idiotic, feeble minded or senile persons. That’s wor ry. It is worry that breaks down the brain, not work as such.” In this connection we are reminded of the prescription which a physician gave to a highly nervous patient whose life was made miserable by a constant procession of fears and forebodings. The physician seuled the prescription in an envelope, told the patieut to take lt.home, to treat it confidentially, but to use ft freely in as large doses as was necessary. This magic seven word prescription which has worked wonders with many people read: “The things you fear most never hap pen.”—rFrom How to Live. GEORGIA NEWS Happenings Over the State Judge John Hunt, of Griffis, Geor gia’s 85-year-old pension commission er,. died recently after an illness of several weeks, Georgia farmers reeeived.$907,981.02 for 7,243,110 pounds of tobacco sold at auction on state markets, the Georgia Bureau of Markets reported recently. Erection ot five first claas filling stations in Balnbrldge within the last two months is in ,a measure an indi cation of the renewed .confidence hi the return of /good business. A $50,000 issue ot Whitfield county road bonds has been sold to an At lanta banking firm for 884,150 plus accrued interest, legal opinion . and printing ot bonds. W. G. Brisendine, of Fort -Valley, was elected general chairman of a committee formed tor the completion of paving on the Dixie Gulf Coast highway between Macon and Americus. The first bale .of new cotton was sold at Madison recently for 20 cents per pound. U graded -strict middling 15-16 staple and was purchased by W. W. DeBeaugrine for the Godfrey Warehouse Company. The first bale ot cotton grown in Clarke county in 1982 brought 10 cents a pound when sold at Athens recently. The bale weighed 466 pounds afcd was grown by J. H. Towns, prominent -farmer of White hall. Funds with which to meet, prompt ly September 6 pay rolls due more than 3,000 city employees Of Atlanta were assured when Mayor 'Key and City Comptroller £. .Graham West negotiated from local hanks. a lofn of About 8245,000 The people ot the Cjilwfcm com munity ..ate .planning 4o fight the cuiuige of the highway between Sparta and* Augusta which has been pro posed by tbe county commissioners on account of the excessive cost of right of-way through this village. As cotton prices advanced sharply during the past-week textile mills in the Macon territory stepped up pro duction, giving Jobs .to hundreds of laid off employes mad increasing the working houre ot others, wblle some plants hate been forced to run .over time. Continued unfavorable weather is greatly retarding the harvest ot cotton and peanuts in Terrell county; In fact, throughout southwest Georgia and unless more favorable weather prevail# growers who had antici pated good yields will suffer disap pointment. Insistence of the people, of Lowndes county that the link of the Atlanta Jacksonville highway in that county is beyond repair and should he re paved emphasizes tbe blunder made in the construction of this highway only a few years ago, which, says an Atlanta daily editorially, is an inex cusable waste. Highway construction contracts to taling $1,000,000 will be let about Oc tober 1, it was announced recently by Captain J. W. Barnett, chairman of the State Highway Board, despite prospects of a curtailment of the ag gregate construction program owing to increasing coats .of labor of road building material. Through a public fund raised by the Waycross JournalrHeraid, a 13 year-old Ware county boy is .to re ceive an operation. for. removal .of a brain tumor in ,a Baltimore hospital. The newspaper called attention .of. its readers to the need for an operation and said that a.noted .brain .surgeon bad agreed to contribute his services. P. A. Bustin, of Hancock county, has donated tbe religious books of his grandfather, a minister who preached in Hancaok, Baldwin and Putnam counties over 100 years ago, to the Historloai Museum of tke Georgia State College tor Women in .MUiedge viUe. .Some of the books dale back .as far as 1787 And.the collection con tains much valuable Georgia history which . has been carefully preserved by Mr. Bustin. Interest in the forthcoming meeting At the Georgia Press Association has been pleasantly.ttimulated.by the ex traordinary prize offer of the Tlftoa Gazette, of which John G. -Herring is editor. Prizes totaling $75 will be given to those editors, and reporters who pen the best, stories or editorials -about the meeting, the only require ment being that -each .contestant be present at the meeting, .basing his writing .upon, .firat-rband observation (Continued on ast page)