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93 HURRAH FOR SANTACLAUS! CHRISTMAS IS COMING You will find on display at our store the most complete and Up=To=Date line of Holiday Goods e 4 /er before shown in Pelham. It Will Pay You to See us Before Buying Elsewhere. Don’t Forget The Place FARMERS HARDWARE COMPANY. PELHAM, GEORGIA. Ail Ail Al All Ail Ail Ail Alii 1 Ail' Ail Alii' a! Ail Alt jt M. Teachers’ Examination. Camilla, Ga., Dec. 1, 1908. The State School Commissioner has appointed December 18 and 19, (Friday and Saturday) 1908, as the occasion for a general examination of applicants for li¬ cense to teach in the public schools of Mitchell county. All parties who are interested, and do not hold the right to teach in the county, will please take no¬ tice. The examination will be held in the High school building, be¬ ginning eight-thirty (8:30) o’clock a. m. Friday 18th inst., 1908. Respectfully, dec4-8t J. H. POWELL, C. S. C For Rent. Leijtht-roQjn Dwell ing. Large THE PELHAM JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DEC. 18 1908. The College on Wheels. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 14.—The “agricultural college on wheels,” inaugurated by Dr. A. M. Soule, president of the $100,000 agricul¬ tural college at Athens this spring, will be repeated next year, begin uing about the first of March. There is now pending before the Georgia Railroad Commission a request from Dr. Soule, asking the consent of that body to allow the railroads to grant this free trans¬ portation, and the commission will approve the request at an early meeting. Chairman Mc¬ Lendon is an enthusiastic sup¬ porter of the “agricultural college on wheels,” and believes that it is vastly beneficiaj to the up¬ building of agricultural education in Georgia, and should be oper farough the State each year, oule, as Asking Too Much. I believe there is a story toSd of Mark Twain that in youthful days, being sent out by his mother to weed a cer¬ tain flower bed and finding baore weeds than flowers, he came back and asked if he might not “flower the weed bed.” Our little Alfred probably has as great an aversion to work**aa had the youthful Clemens. Admonished to pull some rather large weeds- in the back yard, after a faint hearted lift on one of them he shouted: “Mamma, bow do yon think. I’m go¬ ing to pull these weeds when the whole world is hitched on to them?” What He Writes First. About the first thing tbe a verage man write will his name. do in testing That is a BwSCya »i>a is to as i$*&e as the habit of writing “Now time for all good men to come to the aid of tbeir party" on the typewriter. The man who sells fountain pens knows the custom well One dealer said the other day that he couldn't account for It on the baste of egotism, but explain¬ ed it simply because a name was one thing most folks expected to lave to write a great many times with a pen and therefore wanted. Cl ncinmd Bn- LOO For Us! Dec. 14th to 19th. We Will be in Pelham With a Bunch of Extra Good Horses and Mules