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Captain Abram 81-
H second marr.age and
Riberited by hla aecond
par firat husband, Jesse
enabled to establish the
Christian
working in the wheat ail along.
"From Kansas I wont to: Iowa,
Hera’s where the trouble started.
During the harvest season the labor
ers are allowed to ride the freights,
provided they can get along with the
I. W. W. who practically rule the
West during this season. I refused
to Join the organisation and as a re
sult I was many times thrown off the
train'." 1
The "Dean,” as he is known among
soma of the students, says that be
wouldn’t taka anything for his expe
rience. "I traveled over 0000 miles. ge-
a through twenty-two statee. I saw
far the time being as many people
I ot the West sea it always. For over
two ssontha, Baa day and all, I wore
nothing sxcspt overalls, paring tbs
trip I spent about, $66 and saved
ssteathlag over $116, which 6 scat
A' special train, via the Central of
Georgia Bailway, has been secured,
and the students will Isave at 10
o’clock tomorrow morning.
The Bears are how ih the best of
condition for the struggle, with the
exception of BU McDonald, who is
THE MERCER CLUSTER
Lee Sees Petrel Defeat
With T Told You So’ Air
Triumphant Prophet of Dining
Hall Fame Again Predicts
Bear Victory.
Ogle-
By “Clank” Burghard
. “Mercer is going to beat
thorpe!” ....
Lee Buttle, than whom Booker T
Washington in his balmiest days Was
scarcely more famous hereabouts, won
for himself everlasting glory by pre
dicting Mercer’s victory 0”er the
Florida ’Gators last Saturday- In view
of the correctness of his last predic
tion,- Bee’s statement that Mercer is
. sure to win from Oglethorpe will
greatly encourage Mercer supporters
everywhere.
The forecaster was in the kitchen
busily rolling ont dough for a pie
crust when approached aboutg his
views on, Mercer’s chant-es against
the “Stormy Petrels” of Oglethorpe.
“I’ve got it figured out,” declared
Lee. placing the dough in the pic pan
and preparing to add the filling. '“We
got that Florida ’Gator in a bear hug
Saturday afternoon, and we squeezed-
him so hard that his scales curled up
on his back .like, the feathers on- a
frizzly chicken. He couldn’t even
breathe.” ‘ 7 ' > \ •
<■ bee balanced the pie-pan bn one
hand and carefully cut the extra
. crusting from around the sides while
he finished his argument.
“Do you think that a bear that can
do that to an alligator si going to be
frightened by a bird? Be yourself,
son, and don’t look so pale and fright
ened. ‘Pluck the Petrel’s plummage,’
is going to be my boy’s motto for
next Saturday.”
He laid the pie on a shelf with
long row of others - just like it,' and,
emphasizing his Anal remarks with
sweeping strokes Of a butcher knife,
he declared the following in Ijis own
graphic, Lee Battallion manner
, “-Mercer boys is going to . have tur
key for Thanksgiving.' They always
do. Mercer boys is going to have
chicken for Thanksgiving. They al
ways do. This Thanksgiving they will
have a new dish, well done, French
fried, cooked in butter, stuffed with
oysters, and served with shouting and
singing. , It js called Picketed Petre
Pellican.” *
the Mercer students are more anxious
than ever to avenge the defekt of
last year. The Petrels are awaiting
them, just as eager to repeat their
performance of last yaer. Like birds
of prey they are awaiting the on
slaught of the Mercer Bears, ready
to fasten their talons into ..the juicy
meat of the Bruin eleven. The Bean,
however, are preparing to raise their
mighty paws in opposition, tear the
Petrel feathers asunder, and ring the
necks of the Stormy birds as they
swarm out on Spillers Filed tomor
row afternoon.
It will be a drama—a real football
melodrama in which not -only the two
opposing teams will participate, but
the student bodies of the respective
institutions as well, a drama in which
two strong, '.hard-fighting, determined
football teams shall be the principal
actors, and shall hold the. ceiiter of
he grid stage' for an exciting two
hours.
A plunge, a buck, a gain—a shout
from hoarse student body, a mighty
roar from the Mercer rooters, and the
fight. will be. on
Five Cents Is Fare
Of ‘Hoboing Parson’
On Long Road Trip
Walker Makes Trip From Chi
cago to Carrollton in
Four Days.
BEARS INVADE NEST
OF OGLETHORPE BIRDS
(Continued from page one)
and the 'Oglethorpe plumage adorn
ing their shaggy heads.
“Beat Oglethorpe ” has been the
slogan on every Mercer tongue dtir-
ing the past week, and “Beat Ogle
thorpe” will be the slogan at Spider’s
Field. This is the spirit which - has
been builded on the Mercer campus in
less than a fortnight. - The student
body has seen wha the team really
can do with the proper stimulus', With
the proper backing and with the nec
essary fighting spirit injected into it
-from the students themselves.
Personally, we are ready to agree
with; Coach Robinson that, in order to
produce a winning football team, the
students must talk football, think
football, slid sleep football from
morning till night—then throughout
the night dream football. That is the
coach’s' idea of making a football
team fight, of helping them win. We
agree wish him. For the spirit that
was shown here last Friday Was an
unbeatable and unquenchable spirit,
a spirit that would not admit defeat
under any circumstances. That is the
stuff football teams are made of. The
students must give - it to them,
. cannot obtain it from the air,
Keen Rivalry -Exists
So it is “On to Atlanta ” for
Mercer student body tomorrow,
mammoth parade- is being planned
the students upon their arrival—a
march just to let the Atlanta folk
know UiBt lfprrpr la
Cat Farm Bankrupt;
All Nine Lives Lost
In Financial Crash
By T. H. Smith
From Chicago to Carrollton in four
days on five cents is the record set by
Kadmond E. Walker, the hoboing par
son of Mercer : University.
T left Chicago on Monday morning
with five cents and arrived. at my
home in Carrollton on Thursday night
without one cent,” said Walker. “Of
course all of my r.iding was
freights. Most of the time 1 was per
mitted to ride oil tanks or empty cars,
but when I reached the South I was
very often forced to ride the rods,
which wasn’t at all pleasant, but
beggars can’t be choosers^
. “During the four days I didn’t go
to sleep at all. It was very seldom I
had a chance even to close my eyes
much less to' sleep. Many times I
wanted to stop and sleep in some
body’s barn, but always managed to
keep on because I Wanted to reach
Georgia in. time to rest up a bit be
fore the opening of Mercer.
“What did I do for something to
eat? Well, it wasn’t much. I was
lucky enough usually to And an apple
orchard or tomato Aeld along the rail
road .track when I 'was waiting for
the next freight. While walking down
the track in a lonely place in Tennes
see I found a dime, and, believe me
it looked like a Ave-dollar bill. With
it I bought a loaf of bread, making
my total expenses Afteen cents,
did not beg nor bum a meal during
the four days.”
Rode Freights
Walker left Georgia in June with
two other college‘mates for the har
vesting in the Western Wheat. fields,
For, experience, but mostly for Anan
cial reasons, they decided to ride the
freights all the way. From Georgia
they went to Oklahoma. Here his
companions deserted him after
taste of the harvest season. Walker
then decided to Anish the trip alone.
From' Oklahoma he went to Kansas,
in the wheat ail along.
Radio Fiend Catches
WMAZ By Watch Tick
■ \
It is rumored that Hillyer Strat-
on will hot be allowed to take his
dollar watch on class any more.
It keeps both the-students and pro
fessors awake.
The watch ticked loud enough
to be heard all over the United
States Thursday, night and when
heard it sounded like the ticking
of a Big Ben. The radio fan who
heard it said that he had been
tuning - to pick up station WMAZ
while Professor Robinson was
speaking but that he could not hear
anything until the patch was hung
on the microphone in the broad
casting room and then he . got us.
Doctor Fountain, the supposed
accuser of Straton, has proved that
a watch tick, to be. heard 300 miles,
would have to' be louder than the
boom of the biggest gun used in
the World War.
JESSE MERCER’S
BIBLEJS FOUND
Student Discovers Relic AnM
Rubbish in the
- . Library '.
(Special to the Cluster)—It Is re
ported that R. G. Wilson, President Of
the Tindall Ranching Company, which
went into bankruptcy last night,
started, while in a fit of despondency,
to cast himself into the Ocmulgee, bit
that when he got dnwa
landlady met him and. ai
chicken was the menu. M
Beneath the. rubbish and traah in
the Mercer library attic was found
recently the 110-yeaf-old family Bi
ble of Jesse Mercer, founder of the
college bearing hia name.
Winburn R. Carswell, a student who
had remained over during the sum
mer to work rn the campus, was the
finder of tho relic. It will be placed
in the vault in the Administration
Building, it is understood, along with
other historical milestones of Mercer’s
past.
This is the second recent discovery
of a rare book that had in some way
slipped into the unknown throtigh
attic route on the college
here. Some months ago Mias
Boone, in looking through a batch
old books, found what is thought
be the only copy now in print of
Grey Tourists,” a novel of
life - by Richard
Mercer aiumnus apd
American literary
It is
the
the
It was
sheepskin and
information that
in 1814, with com-
by William W. Woodward,
and Chestnut streets,
wait until aftcrjipf .IM <1(1^ Philadelphia. Griggs and Dickinson,
|he ate put Mm hi a MMc from*
of mind aud he InMMfW May his
4 - jpjjppr
The cu| form Js bankrupt. Mr. Wil
son, the president, gave two reasons
for the failure of the company. The
first was that there were not enough
suckers among the Mercer students
and the second was that Professor
Joseph Robinson, one . of the biggest
stock holders, has hired ’awyers to Ale
three suits against, the company.
The three suits filed by Professor
Robinson, if won would amount to
$50,001. There is one suit for the
alienation of the affections df his four
kittens, Tabby, Melinda, Booby and
Tommy, for which he wants $60,000.
The other two are for libel and slan
der for $0.50- each.
Infuriated persons, who claim that
the corporation was in the beginning
a hoax, have been holding public dem
onstrations in the streets and the
members of. the company when they
go out are kept under guard of the
police. '
The Cluster sent a reporter to in
terview £>r. Weaver on his opinion of
the company and he said that he was
surprised that it had failed. It seems
that he had just decided to invest
$1.00 in ten shares.
The books of the company allow the
total assets of the company to be IS
cats, including Professor Robinson’s
four pure brads, $1.20 in cash, and
20,000 shares of stock with a par
value of $6.10 each. The liabilities
of the company total around the mil
lion dollar mark.
The heaviest losers in the invest
ment are: Freshmen Lane, Pierce,
Bodenhamer, Wood and Straton;' Pro
fessor Joseph- Robinaon, Dr. William
Russel Owen, and Professor Peyton
Jacob,
Goof: “I think I smell cabbagu
burning.”
Gupha: “Take your head off that
radiator than.”
also of that city, were the printers'.
In the handwriting of. the noted
Baptist divine Were the records of
the Mercer family, dates of birth,
marriages, and the deaths of his two
tittle’daughters and of his first wife.
In addition to the family account, a
separate page carried the same in
formation concerning the slaves of the
Mercer family.
Lying loose in the big Bible, were
several notes in Mercer’s handwrit
ing, including a couple of mortgages
made out in the simple style of that
day and certifying that one Thomas
Sipham was bound to Mercer in the
amount of $1,500. for each note. A
sermon outline, which, from its con
text and conclusion, appears M' have
been prepared for delivery at a .com
munion service was stuck between
pages of the book. At the sixth
FOR PRIVATE PARTIES
AND BANQUETS
Oriole Dining Rooms
. over New York Csfo
. Music by The Qtorgiana
MERCER'S OPTICIAN
W. B KEILY
“Maker a( FiaaGlaama”
Pbooe 4IM
Providence this, Which
college on Jewish
has been amid of this
the founding of the de-
institution. Especially
remarkable whim it is re-
that the founder of the col-
expected to make it a Baptist
seminary.
WMAZ PROGRAM HEARD -
THROUGHOUT AMERICA
(Continued from page one)
fesaor Edgar E. Folk oii “The Lan
guage of Journalism.”
The following program hat been an
nounced for next week:
Tuesday Dr. Rufus W .Weaver will
deliver- the sermon and the ladles of
the Saturday Morning Musk Club will
furnish the sacred hymns and an
thems. The musical program Is un
der the directorship of Mrs. Charles
M. Powell, Jr., ami Mrs, James T.
Wright.
On Wednesday night the. program
will be in charge of the K. A. Fra
ternity. It will begin at 10 o’clock.
< The regular Thursday. Educational
program will be postponed on account
of the day being Thanksgiving.
LOST—Between 1414 Edgewood Ave
nue and Sherwood Hall,, a half-
moon beauty pin, engraved with
orange bloasoma.' Finder will pie
return to Mrs, E. C. Anderson, 1414
Edgewood.
Patronish^ the -
Tattnall Square Pharmacy
* “Mercer Boys’ Hangout” -
Drug*, Toilet Articles, Razor Blades, Etc.
A full line of Mercer Pennants, Belts,' Pillows, and Stationery
LUNCHES, SODAS, SANDWICHES, CIGARETTE8
“Try the Drug Store Firat”
. J. S. DUMAS, Prop.—A Mercer Graduate and Booster
NEEL’S
“Dress Well and Succeed”
SWEATERS
for Dress
. for Sport
Congratulations, Mercer, on
beating Florida. How about
celebrating with a new
sweater from Neel’sT
' Slipovers $340 to $10
Ceata, $10 to I17AT
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