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October 20, 1922
THE MERCER CLUSTER
Page Three
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ITS A PLEASURE
TO SERVE
MERCER MEN
Wa want you to feel at home,
fellows, in our atom.
Drop around any old time,
whether you trade or not
Tattnall Square
Pharmacy
Mercer’s Drug Store
on eampuB
1% of our (roes receipts go to
promoting Mercer athletics.!
Phones SMI and 2224
and *114
FORMER MEOk MAN
■ PREACHER CHAMPION
Dr. James B. Turner Heads Al
bany Tennis Players.
:
F. C. Benson F. A. Whitaker
C. M. Bullard Vivian H. Roberta
F. C. Benson Co.
“The Square Deal Store”
FOR GOOD CLOTHES
FOR COLLEGE MEN
Phone 4336
666 Cherry St., Macon, Ga.
WITH
BEST WISHES
The
Macon News
MACON, GA.
YOUR FRIENDS
Bayne-Martin
Drug Co.
Cherry and Broadway
Bibb Building
Phones 1941-1942
“Superior Service”
C. H. Hunnicutt
Clothing Co.
EVERYTHING FOR
MEN AND BOYS ^ \
A Guarantee with Every
Purchase
317 and 319 Third Street
Macon, Ga.
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Hotel Lanier
CATBRS ESPECIALLY
TO
MKRCRR STUDENTS
THEIR FAMILIES
AND FRIENDS
SHER HATS
Where you get most lor
your money in hat value
$2.45 udia between to $4.95
SHER HATS
558 Cherry St.
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VUOORNOY &URNAGIAN
JEWELERS
^rf^s&uvtagco.
Grass Watel> Co.
j; Repairs 111 Cherry Eagraving
When Dr. James B. Turner, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Al
bany, Go., won the city tennis singles
championship, he brought to light the
fact that a preacher can do more
than preach.
Dr. Turner is a graduate of Mercer
University and is pastor of one of
the largest churches in Albany and
enjoys an extensive popularity
throughout the city. He is a lover of
clean sports and an athlete of no
mean ability..
Dr. Turner went through the semi
final match* with ease, but when he
went into the finals with Walter
Williamson as an opponent, rough
sailing was encountered. Finally,
however, the Baptist shepherd won
three necessary sets after a hard
fight with his opponent. 'The score
was 6-3, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3.
seme of the great acts “strpwn along
hla backward path,” he confessed
that ho one time invented a cork arm
i ingenious device to pick up dis
tant biscuits and fried chicken other
wise out of his reach. “Patent applied
for.” (He is a logical inventor, too.
Let Athens look out!)
And as to ids life purposes, he
modestly answered: ”1 hope some day
to develop into a thorough gentle
man.”
And, pleasantry all aside, Walter
George is already that—a Christian
gentleman—as thoroughly modest in
manner as his brilliant genius is con
spicuous and proud as we are of him,
Mercer wili be prouder yet to claim
him as one of her noble sons.
Cups Life A* hspintitr,
Debater, Orater, Miter, Stifcit
(Continued from page one)
years might hold for both of us at
Mercer the East grew radiant with
the alchemy of youthful ambition.
Such was my first glimpse of WaJ
ter George—a picture intensified, or
may be partly effaced, by the pres
ence of a bright and charming young
lady visiting in that section, who
chaperoned me in a buggy to his
school; and when I hear George speak
now in the society halls I catch again
the pensive threnody of t|ie sighing
pines, hear again the rippling music
of her girlish laughter and bask once
more in the lingering sunshine of her
happy smiles. No wonder that amid
such surroundings our young cham
pion, inspired by his “Highland
Mary,” dreamed “the applause of lis
tening Senates to command.”
When I next met Waiter George
he was a student of Mercer Univer
sity, having entered in the autumn
of *97, .
I learned from reliable sources that
he had graduated with marked dis
tinction at the Houston High School
where during his brilliant career he
won all the honors President Powell
the faculty and the students could
heap upon him.
One time he was elected a debater
in a proposed contest with a neigh
boring school; but the debate never
came off. The other side must have
heard of George, and were afraid to
meet him. Perhaps the greatest dis
tinction that ever came to him in hii
own county, where he is very .popu
lar as .a speaker, for,, a man of his
years, was when he and Gen. Clement
A. Evans were the principal, orators
at a'big Confederate reunion and the
beardless boy magnetised the crowd
in that electrifying manner so natural
to him.
■ At Mercer
George became a member of the
Ciceronian Society and the Sigma Nu
Fraternity.
He soon came to the front as one
of his societies’ most . polished And
logical speakers.
In ’98 he represented the Sopho
more class in the Ready Speakers’
Contest,' making a speech on ten min
utes* notice that would have done
honor to a lawyer qf many years’
experience.
When the coming debate with the
State University was announced, all
eyes turned toward George as one of
Mercer's champions, and in seconding
his nomination, the mah who found
him in the little school house among
the pines described him in this one
phase: “A logical orator, a scholar,
genius and a gentleman.”
He, like Bolding, is a remarkable
impromptu, debater, and the Athena
speakers need Hot .be surprised
find their speeches literally picked to
pieces by him.
- As a fitting tribute to Mr. George’s
culture and polish as a writer, he has
been elected to the responsible post
tkm of editor-in-chief of Meteor's I
maghlfisst annual, “The Ki
seopp,” and he will make an able suc
cessor to gifted John Roach Straton.
When
A SMILE
Joka Miltoa Samples
saw a face today that wore
The smile of ah old time friend;
It brought back memories of yorie,
And joys that youth attend.
W. M. CRAPS
H. MORGAN
CENTRAL SHOE SHOP
saw there friends of other days
I loved long since, now lost awhile;
And flowers in pleasant woodland
_ ; ways .
Came back in that sweet smile.
I felt the grace of childhood's time,
Its innocence and truth, - •
The tin-toy days arid-nursery rhyme
In the bright first dawn of ycuth.
Sweet smiles tnat call from out the
, past, ,
The bliss of days by-gone.
While here -on earth this life shall
last.
I’ll claim you foy my own.
VIRGINIAN TALKS SENSE
Dr. J. J. Wicker, of Richmond, Vo.,
who is in the city conducting a series
of services at the First . Baptist
church, spoke to the students in
chapel Wednesday morning, using for
his. subject, “The Low of Life.”
“I believe in a reasonable, logical
religion, but not a blind religion,”
said Dr. Wicker, “arid I think the re
ligion of Jesus Christ will stand
every test to which it might be put.”
.. Mr. Earl Wolslagel,. of Asheville,
N. C., .who is singing for Dr. Wicker
in his meetings, sang several pieces.
WE MAKE THOSE OLD SHOES NEW AGAIN
WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER ’EM ALL THE TIME
- “Absolutely Best Leather Used—First-Class Workmanship”
Phone 4126 - / 71314 Broadway
SWEATERS
IN MERCER COLORS
Southern Sport Supply Co,
ASHBY FUSS, Manager
§09 Cherry Street Dempsey Hotel 1
Just received shipment of.
the latent style collar at
tached shirts at
: $1.95 and $2.50
Mercer Belts with genuine
cowhide straps. large va
riety of styles and finishes,
$1.50
Pure Wool Sweaters, in all styles and Mercer colors—
$7.95 to $9.50
Dempsey Haberdashery
HOTEL DEMPSEY
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Smitty’s Place
The Best Place
' • . for
Soda, Lunches, Cigars
Cigarettes, “Hot Dog” and
Good Old Barbecue
TRY US
HARRY’S CAFE
315 Cherry Street* Near Terminal Station
Real Home Cooking
For Mercer Men
| \ Open Day and Night PHONE 3515
"Say It
With Flowers"
Nutting Floral Co.
Flowers for |
All Occasions j
i
I' ..Phono 1776. Night Phone 3654-J. 414 Second Street
, Macon’s Leading Florists - j
PHONE 717
New Yfifk Hat dean* Pirlers
563 Cherry St., Macon, Ga.
All Kinds of Hata Cleaned
and R?bl<>cked
Monogram and Social
Stationery
AMERICAN PRINTING Cfc
Reliable Printers
662 Mulberry St Phone 3286
Who Goes to the
PHILADELPHIA
HAT CLEANING CO.
FOR MAKING HIS OLD HAT NEW
Telephone 3066
S&8 Second Bt- Macon, Ga.
Phone S7M
Jacobs & Rosky
MERCHANT TAILORS
41« Cheriy Street, Macon, Ge.
MERCER BARBER SHOP
Operated b* Student
open at 1 o’clock and close
at 7 dally. Your patronage will
he ammeiated."
Representing; Bouton Shoo Shop
K. D. GLBATON
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