Newton County GaArchives News.....BRICK STORE UNION OBSERVES THANKSGIVING December 13, 1907
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The Enterprise December 13, 1907
     Mr. Editor: By special request of the Local Union of Farmers at Brick 
Store, I send you for publication in our county paper an account of a meeting 
held there on Thanksgiving Day.
     The union is comparatively young not having long been organized, but is 
growing rapidly and is in fine working order, having already accomplished much.
     Early on Thanksgiving Day, the members of the union with their families 
met at the hall and began the program of the day. The ladies began preparing an 
oyster stew, which at noon served. Six tables were spread with all the good 
things, in addition to the oyster stew, and after an hour of feasting and 
enjoyment, the Lodge called an extra session and the following named ladies, 
wives and daughters, joined the Union and were duly obligated: Mrs. Kate 
Stewart, Mrs. Hardman Osburn, Miss Mamie Ozburn, Mrs. Fannie Higginbotham, Mrs. 
Lula Higginbotham, Miss Bell Pearce, Mrs. Ella Pearce, Mrs. Pink Patrick, Mrs. 
Annie Stewart, Mrs. Mary Calvort, Mrs. D. H. Mobley and Miss Laura Mobley.
     Speeches and talks were made by Mr. I. L. Paine, Mr. Thos Elliott, the 
president, and others. Our active and wide awake trade agent, Baxter Leach, 
gave the Union quite an interesting report of his work and to him in a large 
measure, the success and enjoyment, of the day was made possible.
     At about 4 p. m. all repaired to their homes, glad in their hearts that 
Thanksgiving Day had been spent in the way of praise and work for the up 
building of the Farmer’s Co-operative and Educational Union of America. Let the 
good work go on, and we commend the interest taken in our Union by our wives 
and daughters to all the local unions in the county and state, and the time 
will come when our women will become a mighty power in doing much to free us 
from the yoke of oppression as they have from the rum curse.
D. H. Mobley, Chaplin


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