The Ellaville Sun Friday, September 16, 1938 No. 12 J.W. LARKIN FUNERAL HELD Prominent Farmer Is Laid To Rest Sunday Afternoon by Charles Wall, Sr. Funeral services for James Walter Larkin, 62 year old farmer and prominent citizen of Schley County in the Fellowship community, were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Lutheran church (Mt. Zion) on the Ellaville Oglethorpe highway in Macon county. Burial was in the church yard cemetery. Rev. W.W. Whaley officiated. Friends and sorrowing relatives were shocked at his sudden death which occurred at his home on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 10. Mr. Larkin always took a leading part in all matters pertaining to the welfare of his community and the termination of his useful career will be sorely felt throughout the county. He was a member of Corinth Methodist church and was for twenty years a member of the board of trustees of the Fellowship school, serving as its secretary-treasurer. During his tenure a new building has been erected, the bonded indebtedness for which has already been retired, more teachers have been added, and the school is one of the few in the county now furnishing to the pupils noon-day lunch without cost. He was a son of the late pioneer Schley county citizen, James J. Larkin, who died in 1923, and Mrs. Susie Larkin who still resides in Lowe community. Besides his mother, he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Kate Holloway Wall Larkin, 11 children, eight sons, Henry, Russell, Emmett, Charlie, Roy, William, James, Lynwood and three daughters, Mrs. T.W. Brown, Mrs. Clifton Wall and Mrs. Rainey Wall, all of whom reside in Schley county except Russell and Roy who live in Macon county nearby; six step-children, Mrs. Darcie DeVane, Mrs. Addie Larkin, Nellie, Lillie Mae, Dorothy and Percy Wall; six grandchildren, one great grandchild; one brother, W.O. Larkin; five sisters, Mrs. Bob Robinson, Mrs. George Robinson, Mrs. John Robinson, Mrs. E.M. Taylor and Miss Wilma Larkin, besides numerous other relatives. All children except Lynwood were born under a former marriage. He married Miss Pearl Lee Ellis on December 18, 1898 and she died on August 27, 1923. On May 19, 1925 he married Mrs. Kate Holloway Wall. The amalgamation of these two families brought a tremendous responsibility upon the head of the home and it became a source of pride for those who had the opportunity to observe to point out just how devoted this father and adopted father was to his trust. He was just as loyal to his neighbors and friends, and besides his immediate family, a host of friends will sorely miss his friendship and fidelity. (Transcriber's note: James Walter Larkin's marker at Mt. Zion indicates his date of birth as 25 November 1873. Pearl Lee Ellis, 1st wife is buried there as well as other family members.) 12 ENROLL FOR COLLEGE Incomplete Registration of Southwestern 235 Twelve Schley county students were among 235 freshmen who enrolled Thursday at Georgia Southwestern college at Americus. The total registration figure is incomplete, President Peyton Jacob said Thursday afternoon. Local students who registered were Edwards Murray, T.H. Stevens, Jr., Melville Johnson, John D. Wall, Bobby Rigsby, Charles McNeal, Jr., Miriam Dupree, Doris Cripps, Winfred Greene, Lorena Jordan, Jeannette Strange and Thayer Causey. Sophomores register Monday. THE HILL by Charles Wall, Jr. Washington, in the District of Columbia, is thought of as the 49th state of our Union, but why don't we call it a state of mind. It is the most disorderly state known to mankind, without reason or sense of direction. Those who claim citizenship will exchange it for the right or privilege of nodding to the great or those who think they are near great. This nod is usually in a quickly passing moment because everybody is in a hurry to get nowhere. Nobody is going anywhere in Washington except to a tea, a party or a conference which everybody forgets as soon as it is over. Everybody in Washington is a Romeo. There are five females to every male. Anything short of a crippled peg-legged or wheel chair occupant is sure of attention, which is always flattering. Breakfast is the way most people start the day off, but not in this city of (whatever they are called, it slips my mind at the moment). Here it is important because it is the time when you begin to get it "straight." In one block in any direction you can meet a dozen men who had breakfast with the president. Another dozen who talked to Farley while he shaved. At last (least?) six that had an important telephone call from some member of the cabinet. Even some poor fool (who) ran into the French ambassador. Oodles of them have learned authoritatively that, " ............................ ." This is instead of "State Affairs," a state of affairs. In every hip pocket there is a letter which will prove that you stand pretty high with somebody in Maine or elsewhere and that entitles you to be snooted or in the back room of Harry's place, where all important meetings are held. HOSPITAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Rainey Wall announce the birth of a son at Boyette's Clinic Monday. He weighed six and a half pounds. Mrs. J.H. Dyess who underwent an operation for appendicitis at Boyette's Clinic last week was removed Saturday to the home of Mrs. Lucy Dyess. OUT OF THE PAST 25 Years Ago--1913 Ellaville was saddened this week by the death September 15, of Fannie Holloway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Holloway. She had been ill several weeks. end # 12