Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-08-14
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EPWORTH CLASS
SOCIAL

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EPWoRTH CLASS
SOCIAL
Of unusual interest was the unique
program enjoyed last Thursday night
in the League room of the First Me-
thodist Church converted for the time
into reception room of attractiveness
through the efforts of the Jealous com
mittee in charge composed of Mr..
and Mrs. Burr Stokoe, Mr. and Mrs.
]. H. Burke, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kim
ball, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Justice, Mrs.
Albert Drummer and Mrs Myrtle Beau
champ. The subjects assigned dealing
with old colony interests called forth
record attendance and we're entered
into with unwonted zest, being en-
joyed by near fifty members and Wis
itors.
Following the program the commit
tee served a fruit salad course with
iced tea and small hand mounted pho
tographs of the church were given as
souvenirs. During this social hour
there were passed photographs OF the
colony period which were refreshing
to the memory and provoked no little
merriment with regard to the styles
portrayed. Miss Verna Mae Drummer
was dressed in a 1900 costume OF her
mothers which created considerable IN
terest it being. beautiful model tor
its day, but quaint III 1874. Inc
hit of the evening was the closing
song composed as a parody by Mr..
and Mrs. ]. H. Burke and Mr.. M
Mosher on the "Old Oaken Bucket
Everyone was furnished copy and
Joined heartily in the singing. The
program consisted Of the following
talks:
The Early Local Church-Mr A. G..
Early Choirs and Singers-Mrs. I.
Gelders.
Early Sunday School Programs =
Mrs. M. E. Whitman.
First Band and Athletic Organiza-
tion-Mr. w. c. Wilkerson.
Educational Beginnings Mr.. /.
Gelders.
The Styles of the Early Days -
Mrs. C. A, Newcomer,
"reminiscences in General.
Inventions and Developments.
ne L ClepIlOilc dllu AutOiiODHS
Rev. J. H. Elder.
Photograph, Aeroplane and Radio
Mr.. J. H. Burke.
Readings-"M Memories" and can old
Sweet Heart of Mine"-Clara Belle
Drummer.
Song always in the Way"-Mrs.
Myrtle Beauchamp. -,
"On the Banks of the Wabash" and
"Sweet Bunch of Daisies MIR. Burr
Stokoe.
! instrumental "Silvery Colorado ,
Saxophone-Miss Katherine Frey.
Organ Solo and Piano Solo Mr..
Ray Frey.
Song "The Days of Old Shacktown'
How clear to our minds are the days
of "Old Shacktown,"
When memory unbidden presents
them to view!
The tents and the shanties, the pallets
and "shakedowns"
And all the discomforts the first
corners knew;
The tall standing timber, the roads
winding thru it,
The sand ankle deep as most every
one tells;
The shacks that we built and the wells
we dug near them,
And cen the rude buckets that hung
in the wells.
Chorus
The old inon buckets. the galvanized
buckets,
The battered tin buckets that hung
in the wells.
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Do you mind now the time we stepped
off at Lula :.
The nearest approach that by rail
we could land;
How we took to the trail as it wound
through the forest,
With branches and mud holes by
bridges unspanned
And we ended our journey as day
light was waning,
Before it was time for the curfew
to knell;
Then foot-sore and weary, and heated
and thirsty,
We drank from the buckets that
hung in tine wells.
Chorus
The old surface water the germ laden
water,
The wigg1e tail water we drew from
the wells.
Old time in his passage sure wrought
many changes,
But few now are with us who knew
the place then.
Old friends have departed and new
ones have gathered,
Well ne'er see the old ones togeth-
err again;
For now they are scattered all over
creation.
How many are living, no estimate
tells,
But meier shall we meet in like sit
uation,
And drink from those buckets that
hung in the wells
Chorus
The old iron buckets, the galvanized
buckets,
The battered tin buckets that hung
in the wells.
SING AT MT OLIVE
The Ben Hill County Singing Con-
vention will convene at Mt. Olive on
next Saturday and Sunday. Singers