Newton County GaArchives News.....G. C. ADAMS, Newton's Next Representative September 10, 1926
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The Covington News September 10, 1926
     G. C. Adams, the twelfth son of sixteen children of Elder and Mrs. Wm. 
Adams, was born in a log house soon after the Civil War in Hays District, Newton
County. All except four years of his life has been lived in his native county.
     He suffered the privations of this _____ reconstruction period the result 
of Sherman's march to the sea. Families had hardly enough food and clothing. 
Often children owned Sunday clothes jointly. He and his brother, Homer, owned a 
hat between them and when one went to church or visited, the other had to 
remain at home.
     His father was a Primitive Baptist, and a Calvinist and Puritan to the nth
degree. He counted _____ home discipline as important as food and raiment.
     Mr. Adam's only public schooling was at Wood Lawn, the little one room 
unpainted school house near Hays Courtground, but by constant study and the 
assistance of a brother who attended Peabody College he has attained a high 
degree of culture. He owns one of the largest and best selected private 
libraries in the State.
     He lived on the farm until after he was grown, when he entered school work.
He was principal of Pine Grove School. Palmer-Stone Institute and the fifth 
District A. & M. School at Monroe. He served fifteen years as County School 
Superintendent of Newton County.
     His advanced and progressive work in consolidation and transportation, and 
his organization of the first Boys Corn Club gave him a national reputation. 
The organization of this Corn Club in Newton County was the beginning of all 
the boys and girls agriculture clubs in the United States and the civilized 
countries of the world.
     He married Miss Lillie Green of Good Hope, and they have seven children.
He and Mrs. Adams live in a beautiful country home in the Brick Store District.
     He is well qualified to fill the office to which he has been elected, and 
may be trusted to act according to the dictates of his conscience.

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