Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-04

To present the advantage of mem
bership in the Georgia Historical So
ciety to the people of Georgia and to
explain the aims and purposes of the
society, Otis Ashmore, who was, until
he retired last July, for twenty con-
secutiye years superintendent of Sa-
vannah's public schools, within the
next few weeks will visit all of the
principal cities of Georgia and many
OF the smaller county seats.
1.-The society. keeping step with
Savannah's present progressive ew-
forts to reach out and join hands with
the rest of Georgia in everything
which concerns the city and state, has
decided greatly to enlarge it's scope,
and to make itself known throughout
the state as I'm organization which
embraces all of Georgia and in which
tie whole state should be interested"
said w. w. Mackall, president of the
society yesterday.
Mr.. Mackall said the society Is
about to re-occupy it's famous old
home, Hodgson Hall, which for thirteen
years, from 1903 until last summer.
was loaned to the city of Savannah as
free public library. The Savannah
public library has moved into new
building owned by the city and the
society will now resume, in It's Hodg-
son Hall, it's statewide work more ac-
lively than ever before.
In Connection with this expansion
movement the society will publish a
magazine known as the Georgia HIS
torical Quarterly. Articles for the
first issues of this magazine are now
being prepared. This issue is expect
ed to be in circulation in March.
At a cost of several thousand dol
lars, said Mr.. Mackall, Hodgson Hall
is being completely renovated and re-
fitted inside and out, and will be ready
for occupancy soon. The annual meet
ing of the society will be held in
March when, with the first issue oil
the quarterly magazine distributed
throughout the state, the remodeled
Hodgson Hall re-occupied, the society
will have an elaborate annual banquet
at which Alex C. King, noted Atlanta
lawyer. will be the principal speaker
1.-THE Georgia Historical Society is
an old and honorable society, one
which is connected with all the his
tcrical societies in the United States
and which has been very useful II
preserving the history of this state,
said Otis Ashmore.
although we now have members
from many parts of Georgia as well a:
other parts of the United States anC
foreign countries, yet, for some reason
the membership in Georgia outside o.
Savannah has not been as large as il
should have been. Perhaps this may
have been the fault of the society II
not reaching out and meeting the PEG.
pie of Geirgia half way, putting be-
fore them its aims and mhat it stool
fer, and asking people interested II
the historic welfare of the state tc
jcing its ranks.
, Georgia is especially rich in valu'
able and honorable history, but much
of it is unrecorded and unavailable
and year by year it is passing into OBJ
, livion. For the past seventy eight
years the Georgia Historical Society
has been the great center in Georgia
for Georgia historical information, a
source from which all or part of prac-
tically every history of Georgia has
come. Among the society's collection
of 10000 volumes are many original
sources, including rare manuscripts
and other documents relating to Geor-
gia's history.
"But no society in the South has
ever done enough along historical
lines; the south has been too remiss
about this. In the North, especially in
New England, there is a monument
marking the spot where every 'histor'
ical' character stumped his toe, and
there are unlimited written records OF
every historical event, 10 matter how
trivial. But here in the south. espec-
tally in regard to Colonial and Revolu-
tionary history, we have been very
remiss, allowing some Of the greatest
historical events to go unmarked and
unnoticed
Records of such events are to be
found in the Georgia Historical sOci-
ETY., but these records will not become
the property of the public of Georgia
and the South until the public takes
greater interest in such things. The