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Mrs. .William Gibson is visiting
relatives in Atlanta.
* * *
Miss Virginia Bussey, who is at
tending school at G. S. C., Milledge-
ville, spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bussey.
Mrs. R. H. Govan, of Atlanta, is
spending the week in Thomson.
♦ * •
Mr. John Samuels, of the U. S.
navy, is spending a furlough at
borne.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wall and little
son are enjoying a pleasure trip in
Florida.
Miss Janie Wilson, of Jacksonville,
Fla., is expected next week to visit
ber sisters, Misses Clara and Lucy
Wilson.
* * ♦
Miss Ruth Scott will leave Sat-
■rday for Atlanta to attend grand
•pera and to be the guest of Mrs.
Torn Scott.
Mrs. Clifford Farmer has as her
guests her mother, Mrs. Voss, and
Miss Evelyn Fife, of Atlanta.
Mrs. Lilia Hamilton and Miss
Gladys Hamilton spent the week-end
with Mrs. T. .1. Epps in Augusta.
Mrs. Wesley Shields and little
daughter Marjorie, of DeLand, Fla.,
are visiting at the home of Mrs. W.
II. Shields.
Mrs. Harold Trimble left Thursday
for Atlanta to spend a few days.
She was accompanied by little Mary
Anna Middaugh, of Atlanta, who has
been visiting Mrs. R. L. Iladaway
for several weeks.
Those attending the singing ser
vices of the Wisdom Sisters at the
Woodlawn church in Augusta this
week were Rev. J. T. Robins, Mr.
J. B. Boyd, Mr. A. H. Curtis, Mr.
and Mrs. C. V. Curtis, and Miss
* ouise Black.
♦ * *
Mrs. Willis Howard and Willis, Jr.,
Macon, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
i v B. Samuels.
FOR MISS SHIELDS.
The bridge luncheon given by Mrs.
Milton Brown Wednesday for Miss
Nancy Shields was a charming affair
honoring this lovely bride of next
week.
An effective use of spring flowers
made a lovely setting. Easter lilies
and dogwood were predominant in
the receiving rooms, and delicate
crabapple blossoms formed the basis
of the decorative scheme in the din
ing room.
The luncheon table was beautifully
arranged with lighted pink tapers
and a centerpiece was crabapple blos
soms showered with lilies of the val
ley. The place cards were little
brides.
Miss Shields was presented a hand
embroidered linen towel.
Mrs. Brown wore a becoming frock
of tan crepe, and Miss Shields was
pretty in a chic gown of blue mole
skin crepe made on straight lines
with a touch of embroidery on the
sleeves. Her hat was a becoming
sport model of shades of lavender.
Playing bridge and mah jong were
Miss Shields, Mrs. Gordon Usry, Mrs.
Roy Govan, of Atlanta, Mrs. Arnold
Ansley, Miss Delle Lokey, Mrs. J.
S. Boyd, Jr., Mrs. R. S. Iladaway,
Mrs. Adrian Morris, Miss Ruth
Scott, Mrs. Boyd Baston, Mrs. Edgar
Wilson.
BUSY CLUB WOMAN.
Among the appointments of Mrs.
Ira E. Farmer are included a meet
ing with the General Federation of
Women’s Clubs at the Biennial Con
vention in Los Angeles, Cal., in June,
she being on the program to speak
on Home Demonstration Work.
She will be instructor in Club Re
lationships at the Club Institute at
Mercer University in June.
Mrs. Farmer will attend the Demo
cratic Convention in Atlanta next
Wednesday as one of the delegates
from McDuffie county, and will leave
on the morning of the 24th in the
Bankers’ special, which will stop in
Thomson for lunch. She will speak
that night at the annual banquet of
the Georgia Bankers’ Association in
Augusta at tho Bonair-Vanderbilt,
on “The Banker and the Canning
Club Girl.”
* * *
Mrs. W. C. McCommons and Mrs.
Jim Curtis will attend grand opera
in Atlanta next week.
Mrs, Joe Richards, of Augusta,
and Mrs. Edward Roberson, of New
port News, Va., visited relatives jn
Thomson Wednesday.
Mr. John T. West left Thursday
morning for Atlanta to attend a ses
sion of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Mrs. A. W. Smith left Thursday
for a visit to Misses Caroline and
Willie White Smith at Agnes Scott
College, and Mr. Louie Smith at
Emory University.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS PARTY.
Mrs. Harold Trimble complimented
her Sunday school class with an Eas
ter egg hunt at the home of her
mother, Mrs. R. L. Hadaway, Wed
nesday afternoon.
Miss Sophia Porter was presented
a large hand-painted Easter egg for
finding the largest number of eggs.
After the egg hunt other interesting
games were played.
Those present were Misses Kath
erine Burnley, Sophia Porter, Mary
Wells, Kitty McCorkle, Florine John
son, Ruth Blanchard and Agnes
Goldman.
Mrs. Mable Trowbridge, of Au
gusta, visited relatives in Thomson
this week.
* • *
Mrs. Curtis Trowbridge, of Augus
ta, is visiting Mrs. J. L. Shields.
♦ * *
Mr. and Mrs. 0. P. Hunt, Mrs. R.
M. Stockton and Mrs. Ray Milkins
attended the Tenth District school
meet in Louisville today.
BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Little Caroline Gheesling, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gheesling, of
Bainbridge, celebrated her 2nd birth
day with a delightful Easter party
Monday afternoon at the home of her
grand-mother, Mrs. W. F. Gheesling.
The little guests enjoyed an Easter
egg hunt and a number of out-of-
door games and were presented with
egg favors and cornucopias filled with
small Easter eggs.
About fourteen little guests were
present.
Miss Eva Ellington arrived' home
Thursday evening to spend some
time with her mother, Mrs. C. H.
Ellington. Miss Ellington has just
returned from a delightful visit to
the Bahama Islands.
Mrs. Rosa Reese is expecting her
■on, Mr. Jutson Reese, of Atlanta,
to return home for a visit of a few
days next week.
Sarah Curtis, the little daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Winton Curtis, is
said to be some better after several
days of serious illness.
Mrs. Morris Acree, of Camilla, and
Miss Lois Ragsdale, of Tignall, will
arrive this week to be the guests of
Miss Nancy Shields.
Miss Allene Lokey, who has been
os hing in Wagner, S. C., will re
am home Saturday.
AT BAPTIST CHURCH.
Next Sunday morning at the Bup-
jst church the pastor will preach on
"“The Spiritual Significance of the
Re surrection.” On account of tho l’e-
vival meeting at the Methodist churoh
there will be no evening service.
Try our Pure Pork
Sausage. City Market
Co.
On May 8-9, the Convention of the
Federated Women’s Clubs of the
Tenth District will meet in Thomson.
There will be representatives from
most of the clubs throughout the
PLAN MEMORIAL
DAY EXERCISES
An elaborate event of Tuesday was
District—women
every
I ternoon was the monthly meeting of
and community coming to get in
spiration to take back home and to
report what they have done. Thom
son will not have to report anything
•they will see for themselves. We
the Daughters of the Confederacy at
the beautiful suburban home of Mrs.
H. T. Clary. The receiving rooms
were transformed into a bower of
spring-like loveliness by the lavish
want them to remember us at our use of fra K rant crabapple blossoms,
best. We wish we had more flowers, j lilies, flags and oxalis. The
to bloom for them, more birds to sing President, Mrs. C. P. Watson, pre-
lEaatrr Bag
By Mary Graham Bonner
(©. 1924. We.t.rn Newspaper Union.)
for them, more beautiful places to
show them, but we can only give
sided.
Plans for Memorial Day observ-
them the best we have. We want ance were completed, much interest
every home, every street, every store, I anc ^ enthusiasm being manifested.
every business house to be at its
prettiest. Let every one that loves
to have nice things said of their home
town do everything possible to make
it attractive. Let everyone put the
best foot foremost.
SHIELDS—WEST WEDDING
PLANS.
Marked interest centers in the
plans of the Shields—West wedding
which will be solemnized Thursday
evening at six o’clock at the home of
the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
O. Shields.
Miss Sarah Shields, sister of the
bride, will be maid of honor.
Mr. Toby O’Berry, of Willachochec,
will be best man.
Little Mattie West and Mabel
Trowbridge, of Augusta, will be
ribbon bearers.
Mrs. E. C. Hawes and Mr. Charlie
Curtis will render a lovely selection
of nuptial music and Rev. J. T. Robins
will be officiating minister.
Immediately lifter the reception
following the ceremony the bride ami
groom will leave on a trip east.
A number of delightful affairs
have been given for this popular
bride-elect during the week and other
entertainments planned for her will
be the party given by Mrs. E. C.
Hawes Saturday afternoon; a lea
by Mrs. R. H. Govan Monday after
noon and a bridge tea by Miss Delle
Lokey Tuesday afternoon.
PROGRAM AT METHODIST S.
SUNDAY MORNING.
Prelude—Orchestra.
Song—Hark Ten Thousand Harps
and Voices.
Prayer.
Recitation—“To You” — Elizabeth
Hobbs.
Simg—At the Cross—Juniors.
When It’s Spring—(Exercise)—
Beginners.
Chorus—Class No. 6.
Thanks Be to God—(Exercise)—
Class No. '5.
Roll Call—Scripture Quotations.
Responsive Reading.
Lesson Period.
Song—I Shall Know Him.
Reports from classes.
Offering for Sunday School Day.
Reading—Mrs. C. Gibson.
Song—The Way of the Cross Leads
Home. ,
Benediction.
MAIDS AND MATRONS CLUB.
Mrs. J. S. Boyd, Jr., entertained
the members of the Maids and Mat
rons club delightfully this (Friday)
afternoon at her home on Jackson
street.
The guests played bridge in the
reception rooms which were beauti
fully decorated in a color scheme of
lavender and white, using baskets
and vases of lilac and Easter lilies
and white tapers in silver candle
sticks. On the tables were dainty
baskets tied with lavender tulle bows
and filled with violet bon-bons.
Mrs. Boyd, assisted by Mrs. J. S.
Boyd, Sr., served an elaborate course
luncheon.
Miss Nancy Shields, Mrs. Roy
Govan, Miss Ruth Norris and Mrs.
Boyd Baston were the guests present
with the club members.
Gift-giving is the natural and pop
ular custom by which people express
the warm feelings which gala, joy
ous and gladsome occasions bring to
the heart.
And of all the days which carry
a message of joy and gladness, Eas
ter easily leads.
Candy again this year will lead,
too, in its popular appeal to giver
md recipient, and THE REXALL
STORE is prepared with a rare va
riety of packages that please.
Palace Drug Co.
NOTIFY COMMITTEE.
The committee on homes for enter
taining delegates to the Woman’s
Club Convention asks that those who
can open their homes to visitors and
have not been seen by committee, to
please phone the chairman, Mrs. E.
M. Miles.
It is almost impossible to see ev
eryone who might take pleasure in
entertaining, and the committee
would consider it a favor to have
anyone notify them of their willing
ness to do so.
NEW CITIZENS.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Evans and fam
ily, of Atlanta, have moved to Thom
son and are occupying the Wilker-
son cottage on Church street. Mr.
Evans is service manager for the
Curtis Auto Co.
Fresh shipment of
Whitman’s Candy for
Easter just received at
Mathews Drug Co.
The chapter decided to observe
Friday the 25th instead of Saturday
the 26th. We respectfully urge that
on the afternoon of that day the
stores be closed and all business in
town be suspended, that the people
may pay their tribute to the heroes
of the Confederacy, to those who are
still with us and to those who ha\te
passed on.
A public barbecue will be served
from 1 to 2 P. M. on the court house
lawn. A generous dinner will be
given for 50 cents. The public cor
dially invited.
Guests entertained by the chapter
will be the veterans, the ministers
of the town, and Mr. J. Richard Bow
den, the speaker for tho occasion,
and Colvin band.
Committees appointed are as fol
lows:
Barbecue—Mrs. Ellington and Mrs.
Strother.
Public Table—Mis3 M. B. Burnley,
chairman; Mrs. Kathryn Houston,
Mrs. Julia Hamilton, Mrs. Burnley,
Mrs. Anchors.
Guest Table-—Miss Bessie Usry,
Mrs. II. T. Clary, Mrs. W. W. Down
ing, Miss Kate Benning.
Candy Table—Mrs. M. W. Dunn,
chairman; Mrs. E. M. Miles, Mrs.
Harold Trimble.
Invitation-—Mrs. Lockett.
To Decorate Stage—Mrs. Anchors,
Mrs. J. B. Burnside.
To Decorate Monument—Mrs.
Delle Watson, Mrs. Edgar Wilson.
To Clean Soldiers Grvaes—Mrs^
Brinkley.
The usual march of the children
will be dispensed with. They will
carry flowers to school and at noon
place them on the graves of the vet
erans.
A special committee has been ap
pointed to mark each grave with a
Confederate flag, a beautiful thought
suggested that the graves of the
deceased members of the U. D. C.
be marked by a flag at 2:30 P. M.
The following program will be ren
dered at the auditorium:
Music by the Colvin band.
Address, Stone Mountain, Irby
Hunt.
Memorial Address, Mr. J. Richard
Bowden.
Reading, The Little Rebel, Ellie
Ruth Lewis.
Reading, The Truth of Appomat
tox, Mrs. Anchors.
Song, double quartette—Ben Bolt,
When You and I Were Young, Mag
gie—Miss Ellington, Frances Reid,
Ruth Goolsby, Edna Rabun, William
Smalley, Mr. E. D Gunby, Ben Neal,
O. P. Hunt.
Benediction,, Rev. J. T. Robins.
An interesting memorial program
arranged by Miss Stovall followed
the business session. A very infor
mal social period \v*as enjoyed by 48
members and several invited guests.
Mrs. Clary, an ideal hostess, assisted
by Mrs. Pace, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Bas
ton and Mrs. Adkins, served an elab
orate salad course, followed by
strawberry shortcake. Unique fav
ors suggestive of Easter were artis
tically carried out in the refresh
ments. PRESS REPORTER.
HE churches are filled with
flowers.
Many people are weurlng
flowers.
The church hells are ring
ing, people are hurrying to
church In a new, vigorous, glad spirit.
The choirs are singing. The congre
gations sing, too.
"Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!”
The air still holds some of the win
ter’s chill within it, but there Is, too,
the warmth of spring to be felt.
Everyone feels It. Everyone Is smil
ing, happy, gay.
They are wishing each other “A
Happy Easter."
Children have been given gay Easter
eggs and they have been given choco
PROGRAM.
For Easter, New Gilead Sunday
School.
Song—He Keeps Me Singing.
Prayer.
Song—All Hail the Power of Jesus
Name.
Scripture Reading—Hoyt Farr.
Lesson Period.
Solo—0 Happy Day—Mrs. Emmie
Anderson.
Recitation—Easter Bells—Georgia
Belle Wood.
^ Why Do Flowers Live Again?—
Connie Aldred.
Easter Time—Claude Ware Ander
son.
Christ The Lord is Risen—Lawton
Norris.
The Origin of Easter—J. T. Pate.
Song.
Benediction.
NOTICE.
There will be a called meeting of
the Woman’s Club Saturday after
noon at 4 o’clock, Knox Hotel, to
consider a change in plans of enter
taining convention. All members
urged to attend.
Cheese, Cheese, 30e a
i pound. City Market Co.
late innies with sweet chocolate ex
pressions on their little chocolate
faces; even their ears are alert In their
chocolate fashion.
New clothes nre being woru. Or old
ones are spruced up.
There Is new life, new courage, new
Joyousness In the air..
"Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!”
Risen With Christ
It Is not possible to be risen with
Christ and yet remain on the level of
those who neither know nor Kbr
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UUIST is risen!" is the
regular salutation all over
eastern Christendom on
Easter Sunday morning.
It is ttie re-echo of the
wonder cry of the first
Christians us the realization at last
forced itself upon them that the im
possible had happened ; Christ is risen !
They had found It such a bitter thing
to lay their beloved Master dead in
the grave. Death always is bitter, us
ually almost Impossible to bear up
against.
Of His death the disciples were cer
tain ; of their grief there could be no
doubt. Every one of us who owns a
little plot of holy ground, consecrated
to us by what we could see through
tears of an open grave, of falling clods
of earth going to earth, can sympa
thize with them. We know what the
blackness of that darkness Is, from
whence there conies no response to
our cry.
"Christ Is risen!” The message
came on the first day of the week, with
the risen Savior Himself as its proof.
Sorrow fled, the blackness of the grave
was changed Into brightness of joy un
speakable; "Christ is risen!" The
grave had not Imprisoned Him ! Death
had not conquered Him! His own
pierced body was there again, endued
with thrilling life once more. Ask His
mother. She knows her Son. In the
ecstasy of love, too full of joy even
to wonder, hear her answer—"He is
risen. Indeed!’’
Ay, Christ is risen! And the grave
has not hurt Him. Nay, He is the more
glorious for it! His body is now su
perior to time and space, or to any of
their laws; just as the Easter lily is
superior to the bulb you bid in tlie
ground ; or, as the waving corn field is
better than the bare grain in the sack.
And the loved ones, even the little
ones we laid with such sorrow in the
grave, they, too, will rise in like man
ner, all the better; ay, ever so much
better for the death which makes the
resurrection possible! Just as we, too,
taken apart, bit by bit, by the tender
alchemy of the grave, as the watch
maker takes apart a watch, shall be
put together again, purified, glorified,
to go on forever, and forevermore.
JOHNSON’S
Of Course
Phone 193.
Your grocer serves
you with the necessities
of life. What would
you do without him?
Call Johnson’s.
Fresh Potatoes, Beans,
Beets, Turnips, Bell
Peppers, Tomatoes.
Cabbage Plants.
Green Cabbage, Rut
abagas, Fancy Bana
nas, -Oranges, Apples,
Grapefruit, etc.
These prices hold
while this car lasts:
100 lbs Hen Chow
(scratch feed), $2.90.
50 lbs Hen Chow $1.50.
100 lbs Chicken Chow
der (laying and grow
ing mash), $3.90; 50 lbs
$2.00.
Call the name “Puri
na”; take no other.
100 lbs Baby Chick
Chow, $3.25; 50 lbs for
$1.70.
100 lbs. Startena for
$4.75; 50 lbs $2.50; bales
50c. Feed this and see
’em grow.
Maple Syrup, 35c bot
tles.
Royal Scarlet Grape
Juice, pints, 35c.
Puritan Sliced Beef,
cans, 29c.
Fancy Canned Black
berries, No. 2 can, 30c.
Fancy Red Pitted
Cherries, No. 2 can, 35c.
Don’t forget Royal
Scarlet Coffee.
SENSATION SELF
RISING FLOUR, $1.00
24 lbs.
Daihty, Omega, Ida-
home and Majestic
plain flour.
Gold Medal Flour.
Come in and look our
stock over. A wonder
ful line of fancy canned
fruits, vegetables, etc.
Prompt delivery.
When you think of
groceries think of John
son’s.
Cow Chow means
more and better milk
and butter.
Pig Chow lowers the
cost of producing pork.
Choice Timothy Hay.
O-Molene Horse Feed,
feed 1-3 less.
Cotton Seed Meal and
Hulls.
Beet Pulp, Brown and
Gray Shorts.
Elsewhere will be found the card
of Dr. W. W. Terrell, who has opened
an office over Thocson Hardware Co.
Dr. Terrell comes highly recommend
ed as a physician, by those who know
him. The Progress is glad to state
that the health of Dr. Terrell has
improved to the extent that he can
again enter the practice of his pro
fession, and we bespeak for him a
part of the public’s patronage.
666
is a prescription for Ma
laria, Chills and Fever
or Bilious Fever. It kills
the germs.
Fresh Jersey Butter,*
45c lb. City Market Co.