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♦ SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2005
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HHJ Joan Dorset!
Sam and Katie Stewart cut the red velvet bride’s cake.
New Year's Day
wedding unites couple
It was a family wedding
and reception for Katherine
Frances Alethea Stewart
and Floyd Samuel Smarr at
First Baptist Church Perry
on Saturday afternoon, Jan.
1, 2005.
Their attendants were
Katie’s sister Jennifer
Stewart and Sam’s brother
Matthew Lee Karros and
several children.
They were married by
Katie’s uncle Rev. James N.
Stewart. The bride’s father
Dr. Dan Stewart sang “The
Lord’s Prayer.”
Katie’s cousin, 14-year
old Joey Herrington, who
Don't lose money when
furnishing your new home
Just take a look around
Houston County and especial
ly the Perry area these days
and you will see that we are
definitely in a building boom.
I’m Ytot sure where all the
folks are coming from or
exactly how they are afford
ing these homes that are in
the S2OOK and up range. I do
see one major mistake hap
pening though that I want to
encourage folks to be aware
of.
When making the major
purchase of a lifetime, a new
home, you should furnish and
decorate it with the best qual
ity you can afford. It is very
easy to just go down to a fran
chise store like Rooms 2 Go or
something and get it all done
in one fell swoop. The attrac
tive thing about this is usual
ly that you don’t have to pay
for it for a couple of years.
The bad thing about this is
that if you don’t pay for it
within that time, you will pay
way more for it in interest. It
is easy to be utilizing the fur
nishings and forget about
that payment due until it is
upon you. By time you get it
paid for, it is worn and possi
bly out of style. Another
major consideration to think
about is that as soon as you
cany that S2OOO couch out of
the store, it depreciates by 25-
50% and is now considered
“used furniture”. However, if
you purchase an antique
piece for your home that is
S2OOO, when you carry it out
the door, it is still worth
S2OOO and will most likely
appreciate in value each year.
Now, of course it isn’t really
practical to have a delicate
Duncan Phyfe sofa in the
playroom where the kids
jump up and down on it but
vintage bedroom suites, din
ing room suits, tables, lamps,
linens and pictures are classic
styles that will remain fash
ionable for years to come and
are made of quality materials.
If you haven’t been in the fur
niture stores lately, try to find
a dresser or table that is all
wood and made in America.
Also, a lot of modem furni
ture styles are “massive” and
“overstuffed” in size. If you
have an 11 x 12 bedroom, it
will be overcrowded by a mod
em set.
A hundred year old table
overcame leukemia as a
young child, sang a beautiful
rendition of “Butterfly
Kisses.” Her aunt, Kim
Herrington, directed the
red, black and white festive
holiday wedding.
Katie and Sam are honey
mooning this week in the
north Georgia mountains
near Ellijay. She will contin
ue her education at Georgia
Southwestern College and
Sam is a self-employed
welder in Cordele. They will
be at home at 311
Smokehouse Road, Cordele,
GA 31015.
- Joan Dorsett
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Jillinda Falen
Antiques
falen@alltel.net
refinished, is good for another
50 years! A lot of modem
furnishings appear to be
wood but are actually com
posites, and plastics and
veneers. A good quality
antique sofa reupholstered is
again fashionable and good
for another 25 years! Take a
look in today’s decorating
magazines and you will find
that antiques and modern
pieces also work together
quite well and you can mix
and match different woods
such as oak, walnut and
mahogany.
Good sturdy antiques that
may have lost their gloss and
glory can also be painted
and/or distressed and used
many different places in the
home. Wardrobes or old radio
cabinets and servers make
great entertainment centers
or tv stands. A beautiful
headboard that no longer has
it’s rails or footboard can be
put with a Hollywood bed
frame. Architectural pieces
such as corbels, moldings or
mantels can find new life as
decorating accents. Most
antique shops are happy to
help you find just what you
are looking for and it is also
fun to check out the thrift
stores and flea markets to
find that hidden treasure!
Happy Collecting!
Jillinda Falen is the owner
of Carrie Lynn’s Antiques in
Perry. She has been collecting
and selling antiques for over
21 years. She is also an expe
rienced estate liquidation spe
cialist. You may contact her
via email at falen@alltel.net,
www.antiquesingeorgia.com
or through the Houston Home
Journal.
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Five generations of the Marshall family gathered for this picture on Christmas day at the home of Jackie Marshall
of Perry and the late Earl Marshall. From left are Jackie Marshall, Marie Marshall who is now 101 years old, Jackie
Marshall’s daughter, Laurie M. Jackson of Rocky Mount, N.C., her granddaughter Rachel J. Callis and great
granddaughter, six-week-old Madison Callis.
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Fairy tales let us use our imagination
Christmas and New
Year’s Day have passed our
way another time as we roll
on through our lives. We
had good times celebrating
the holidays this year
although they were quiet -
no rowdiness or excitement
and I kind of miss that sort
of thing. I guess we’re sup
posed to be sedate and prop
er as we age but I resent it.
I believe I would still be a
bit rowdy if I didn’t hang
out with un-rowdy people.
Christmas morning when
our grand and great-grand
children arrived to open
presents and share our
feast, I was surprised when
each of the boys—ages 6, 8
and 10, didn’t dive under
the tree for their gifts. They
first went to the “fairy
box.” This is an ornamental
four by four inch box that
their grandmother, Martha,
places odd little things in
and implies the fairy put
them in there to play with.
Of course, they are tiny
things as we all know
fairies are tiny beings and
have no use for large items.
The boys look at them and
exclaim over them then
replace the box till the next
time.
Christmas day there was
a bitty bird in the box and
knowing the boys would
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Irene Hamer
Columnist
trenehamer@juno.com
visit again before we left for
home, when our yellow
cockatiel shed a few little
feathers I placed the two
smallest ones into the box.
Now these boys are like
most kids nowadays, they
have virtually every toy
known to kids plus all the
video stuff, but they show
more interest and have
more pleasure, albeit for a
short time, over the fairy
box than they do for all the
other stuff.
On the way home Myrel
and I were talking about
what fun that is and what a
shame it is that the word
“fairy” has been corrupted
and become pejorative. I
believe this has helped
destroy the pleasure that
fairy tales have brought to
countless children through
generations.
What a shame it is that a
few narrow minded people
have managed to virtually
rid the shelves of the won
derful books of tales that
took us into other times and
spaces. Thank goodness J. J.
Rowland and her Harry
Potter books have come
along to spark the imagina
tion of this generation of
children and hopefully, sev
eral more generations to
come. Even with her won
derful writing and story
lines, people constantly try
to ban the books claiming
evil works are afoot.
Balderdash! Kids know the
difference between fiction
and reality in stories by the
time they are old enough to
read for pleasure.
We have lost the tales of
elves and fairies, beautiful
princesses and handsome
princes, wicked witches,
evil queens and benevolent
kings, tales that have been
“told since the dawn of sto
rytelling by the people of
northern Europe.” That
quote comes from the copy
of Grimm’s Complete Fairy
Tales that sits on my book
shelves and I believe that
the stories have been
passed down that long.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Perryan
among Bons
Hommes
presentees
The 55th annual Yule Ball
of The Bons Hommes
bachelors club of Macon,
was held at the City
Auditorium on Friday, Dec.
17. Among the 30 young
ladies who were present
ed to Macon society was
Christen Watson, daugh
ter of Draper and Dawne
Watson. Her escort was
her father and her mar
shals were her brothers
Terry Watson and Travis
Watson.
From left: Terrell Draper
Watson Jr., Christen
Dawne Watson, Terrell
Draper Watson and Dr.
Travis Shaw Watson.
McDavid Studios
I always preferred Hans
Christian Andersen’s tales,
but I think that was only
because his descriptive
prose generated better
mental pictures. Goodness
knows, the fairy tales took
me to impossible places at
times in my life when I
needed impossible places to
flee to. I wonder if the tele
vision cartoons and video
games take the imagina
tions of children today
where fairy tales did mine
then?
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