The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-09
GRAND RIDGE.

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Grand Ridge. March IA week Of
special services Is being held in the
Presbyterian church The pastor, Rev.
w. s. Lee being assisted by the Rev.
Marion Stafford. pastor OF the Marian
na Presbyterian church. The services
| being held at and Z: 80 .. m. the same
being q new arrangement for the day
| services, and Is found to be most de-
strable change for the day meetings,
as 1t allows the school children to come
direct to church at the close OF school,
and the attendance Of the children with
their eager eyes and responsive faces
| Is always an inspiration. Rev. Stat
ford is a profound theologian, a ready
| speaker, and most winning address; 80
mat all are instructed and delighted.
On Tuesday evening all the children
| were asked to bring lead pencils and
after the regular sermon, to the fun
congregation, he closed with the bene-
dtctton and then exhibited five differ
ent colored lead pencEls-which he
showed TO contain two materials
wood and lead Which was most val
liable? How is the lead pencil like
man soul and body.
The different co1ors Of wood around
the lead is tine same in each like the
five different colored races of the
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ferent in color. but all the same lead.
So in races OF men all one kind OF
souls.
Then a pencil can't oe used until !
is 'sharpened?" So man Is best for
service when disciplined, and trained.
And thus the minds and souls of chill
dren must be "shaI-pened."
Then some pencils were OF com
plete. did not have a head, Or an
eraser" We often have TO rub out"
our many mistakes, and showed that
old and young have to do q great deal
of rubbing OUT during our lives. No
description on many pages would do
justice to this illustrated lecture to
children, and your good readers can
enlarge lad dibitun1".
The next lecture to the children re-
quired each one to bring a nail; a big
nail or httle nail, a new nail or q
rusty one, a straight nail or a crooked
nail. The lecture Friday evening he
had the children bring a grain of corn,
a. bean, or a nut and through these he
draw a parelIei that was at once ex-
tremely interesting to old as well as
young. and lessons have been thus IL
Illustrated that will not soon be forgot
ten.
The Farmers Busy.
Thursday was the great day for fer
tilizer here, a larger number of teams
being loaded than any day this season.
Farmers are taking hold with ever in
creasing eagerness and this season the
good roads are a great comfort i'll
hauling. A larger area is being planted
in melons, and if the crop should be
good. our lead in that industry will be
increased. Sugar cane will be much
less than heretofore, co ton and corn
win each be greatly increased and our
farmers are doing better blowing, and
learning that it pays to use fertilizer.
The yield of corn is fully twice as
heavy as ten years ago and may be in
creased four fold The day is not far
distant when a public grain elevator
with Smelling and sacking machinery,
will be required to prepare the surplus
fer the city market and wi n this a
small packing house for pork. The
writer remembers before a live hog was
shipped to Chicago and when a farmer
killed as high as two hundred large
hogs, choosing tn coolest weather of
winter, when the meat would freeze
as hard as stone, and thus full freight
cars were stored, filling the car as full
as of wood, and it was then taken into
the Armour packing house, and stored
until the weather began to thaw, when
they were cut up and the meat sailed. |
Now ali hogs in the north are shipped |
ION foot" and the packing house is kept |
from freezing in winter and refriger- |
ated in summer and so we will have to |
Go in the south until enough hogs and
cattle are grown to require slaughter, |
and curing houses. These days and /,
these things are not far in the future. |