Tyrone News
By PRISCILLA MAXWELL Please call 706-678-7657
Coming up this Sunday morning, November 12, at Phillips Mill Baptist Church, there will be a deacon ordination service for Dean McDonald. Many older people have fond memories of his grandparents, the late Ellis and Irene Sherrer of Union Point, and his mother Rachel who was secretary at Union Point Baptist Church for years, and a first cousin of the late Henry Rice of Phillips Mill who was Henrietta Lunceford's father. Friends and relatives are cordially invited to attend. Dean visited with Morrison Maxwell briefly Saturday. Don't forget the Lottie Moon Missions Banquet of the Georgia Bap- tist Association that will be held at the First Baptist Church, Washington, Thursday night, November 16, at 6:30 p.m. Please come to the fellowship hall with your covered dish. The meeting will be in the same place. All persons of all ages are welcome to take part. Special guests will be missionaries Rev. Clarence Lance who grew up in Wilkes County and his wife Lynne. It will be a good time to bring your shoe boxes for "Operation Christmas Child" sponsored by Samaritan's Purse - Franklin Graham. Priscilla Maxwell joined her daughter Mary Jane Scarborough and grandson Tyler Saturday morning and all enjoyed attending the Tignall annual festival. Besides window shopping, buying food, etc., I had the pleasure of getting to see a number of old friends. The music was good, too. Afterwards, we went to Augusta. Mildred and Dan McAvoy and Jerry McAvoy enjoyed visitors, Gloria Hardy, Donnie and Claudia McAvoy, their daughter, Tammy Gabriel, little Daniel and friend Hope, Denise McAvoy and Dorothy Ann Saxon. Phone calls and cards brighten their days. Two Phillips Mill Baptist WMU ladies met last Wednesday at the church for the November meeting. They were Virginia Hunter and Priscilla Maxwell. We missed Evelyn Cofer who wasn't feeling well. It was good to see her at church Sunday. We have had several families to buy property in our community near Griffin's Store. Two families, I understand, are from out-of-state. Johnny and Rhonda Griffin Newberry purchased Mort and Janet Hill's house across the road from the pastorium a while back for their son Griff. I have not met our newcomers yet, but hopefully I will soon. Griff is a great-grandson of the late Joe and Gladys Hackney Griffin of Phillips Mill. There's nothing like good team work at anything. Many times I can't help but think of the business traveler en route to his next meeting. He was lost on a country road. While he tried to adjust his reading glasses and find the road on a map he accidentally drove off the pavement onto a soft shoulder and into a ditch. Though he was not injured, it took only a couple of attempts to back out for him to realize that his car was indeed stuck in the mud and the spinning tires were just digging it in deeper. He happened to see a farmhouse in the distance, so the man walked there to ask for help. The farmer was nice and quickly said, "Old Warwick can get you out," as he pointed to an old mule standing by the fence. The man thought as he looked at the haggardly mule and back at the farmer who just kept standing there repeating, "Yep, ol' Warwick can do the job." So the traveler thought he had nothing to lose. So the two men and mule made their way back to the ditch. The farmer took a look and hitched the mule to the car. He told the traveler to stand up on the road. Then with a snap of the reins he shouted, "Pull Frederick! Pull Jackson. Pull Theodore! Pull Matilda! Pull Warwick!" And with that the mule heaved and pulled the car out. The businessman was amazed. He thanked the farmer, paid him for his trouble, patted the mule and asked, "Why did you call out all of those other names before you called Warwick?" The farmer grinned and said, "Old Warwick is just about blind. As long as he believes he's part of a team he doesn't mind pulling." Remember, God loves you.
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