The Ellaville Sun Friday, August 19, 1938 No. 8 SCHLEY SLANTS by Raymond Duncan PROLOGUE We sincerely hope readers of today's column will enjoy it more than we are enjoying writing it. Through an error which could not be attributed justly to any one, copy for the front page of today's issue--written late Wednesday night without an electric fan but with mosquitoes---did not appear at the printing plant Thursday morning. Just where it might be at the moment we could not say. The story is that many, many words are being brought back to this typewriter for a return appearance by the unpopular demand of a linotype operator who is speaking a language we have heard in baseball dugouts when the umpire missed one and at dice games when somebody rolled a "snake eye" to outscore a 12. But there is a sense of humor to almost everything and this is no exception. BETTER STICK TO CARDS Mrs. Margaret Johnson turned a bridge party into a grammatical guessing game--in which nobody won--the other day because she remembered one of the late O.O. McIntyres's oddities. When he needed a good paragraph the popular columnist used to say he was still trying to find somebody who could tell him the past participle of the word "wrought" without referring to a dictionary. Mrs. Johnson says more than half a dozen school teachers or former school teachers were forced to go to the foot of the class because they did not know. And no one new. That night Mrs. Frank Alexander pulled the question on her old English instructor at Georgia Southwestern College at Americus, Mrs. Mary Lou Jordan. Mrs. Jordan replied "Work." The dictionary said so, too. So Mrs. Alexander called all her friends to tell them someone did know. Incidentally, used in this sense the word is archaic. THIS IS WHAT HE CAUGHT Ordinary Tom Rainey caught his fishing hook in a hollow log Friday afternoon and caught, ........... well, this is what he caught: He gave the line a slight jerk, moved the log and a swarm -------- "I'll bet there were two thousand"---of bumble bees roared out and overcame him. Mr. Rainey dived into the water and stayed there a long while. Several still clung to him when he came out. Within less than one hour he was ill. He was fishing at Buck Creek. NEGRO HOUSE HERE DAMAGED BY FIRE Fire, said to have been started by sparks from a defective stove flue caused a small damage at a negro tenant house near J.H. Stevens' residence Tuesday at noon. The fire department answered an alarm and quickly brought the blaze under control. The house was owned by Mr. Stevens. PLANS FOR CLINIC TO BE MADE Athletic Association to Hear Dr. W.F. Castlellow at Meet Tuesday Night The Rev. R.C. Howard, president of the Ellaville Athletic Association, Thursday called a meeting of the group for Tuesday night, August 23, to discus plans for promotion of a clinic for social diseases here next month. The meeting will be held at the gymnasium and will begin at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. Dr. W.F. Castellow, head of the Americus and Sumter county health department, will outline aims and benefits of such a clinic in the principal address of the meeting. Dr. L.S. Boyette and Dr. Arch Avary and Mrs. Margaret Hardeman, district health nurse, will attend. Committees will be named to effect arrangements for sponsoring a sound motion picture early in September dealing with aspects of the clinic. Plans for a meeting late in September for election of new officers and drafting of the fall sports program also will be discussed. The association, formed last September, has supplemented its promotion of a broad sports program by pioneering in advocating civic projects. More than 90 are members. 'FUNERAL HELD FOR LAMAR MCMILLAN, 2 Funeral services for Lamar McMillan, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel McMillan of near Charing, were conducted from the residence last Friday and burial was in Bloodworth cemetery. He died Thursday after an illness of three weeks. The boy was a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Lawhorn of Schley county. 26 UNITE WITH EBENEZER CHURCH DURING REVIVAL 16 Join Through Profession of Faith; Baptismal Service is Held Twenty-six persons united with Ebenezer Baptist Church during the annual revival which ended last Friday night. Eleven who joined by profession of faith were baptized at services held at Muckalee creek last Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Five who united at the Friday evening service will be baptized the first Sunday afternoon in September. The list of new members follows: by profession of faith, Vera Stewart, Sara Powell, Clara Brown, Mary Alice Philmon, LeRoy Stewart, Earldean Marshall, Bill Brown, Charles Stewart, Alexander Jones, Ralph Johnson, Edith Owen, and Mary Ranew; from the Methodist church, Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Allen, Mrs. Willie Stewart and Miss Mary Lightner; by letter, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Marshall, Hilton Marshall, Miss Ethel Johnson, Melville Johnson, the Rev. and Mrs. H.H. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Park and Lucile Park. The Rev. William Carnes of Hartwell assisted the pastor, the Rev. H.H. Fowler, in conducting the meeting. REUNION IS HELD SUNDAY AT HOME OF MR. AND MRS. MATHIS A reunion of the Tidd family was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mathis near Andersonville Sunday. The families gathered early and enjoyed talking until noon, when a delicious picnic lunch was served under the cedar trees in the front yard. Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Wadsworth of Buena Vista; Mrs. Emette Walker and sons, Harold and Jerry of Knoxville, Tenn.; Mrs. Walter Reeves, Mary Lillian and Asa, Jr. Moore of Macon; Mr. Paul Cook of Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Cook and children, Juanita and Richard; Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Tidd and daughter Venida of Ellaville; Mr. Graves Tidd of Andersonville; Rev. and Mrs. W.A. Joyner and daughter, Marjorie; Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Wall, son and grandson, Matthew and Dickey Wall; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Tye and children, Joyce, Betty and Leonidas; and Miss Catherine Wall of Americus. MISS HILDA COSPER HOSTESS AT PARTY Miss Hilda Cosper entertained with an enjoyable prom party Friday night. In the living room, bowls of mixed garden flowers were arranged. Miss Cosper, assisted by her sister, Anita, served sandwiches and iced tea. Among those attending were: Misses Elsie Rainey, Charlotte Jones, Lorena Jordan, Winifred Greene, Juanita Cook, Dorothy Lowry and Sara Pilcher; Edwards Murray, Junior McNeal, Homer Moore, Dixon Hogg, Finis Allmon, Charlie Pilcher and Woodrow Daniel. HOSPITAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. John Turner announce the birth of a son at Boyette's clinic Sunday morning. He weighed four and a half pounds. Miss Lala Poole underwent a tonsilectomy at Boyette's clinic Wednesday morning. end # 8