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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2933-result of Christian Science, hastened to write to his brother at his home atDallas, Texas, and urged Christian Science treatment as a last resort. Thebrother acquiesced, acceded the above treatment, and today is a well man,occupying a responsible position and attending to a business that requires aclear mind and good health.Naturally such a miracle made a deep impression and led Mr. Brown, tosever his old membership with.the church in which he had long felt at homeand been useful, feeling it necessary to decline the urgent request that hebecome assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. He no longer felt inharmony with the old creed and is too honest in his convictions to assiimefurther official relations with the Missionary Baptist Church, but on the otherhand asked and received his withdrawal papers, lie has never had reason toregret this action; on the other hand, the further he and his beloved wifestudy this great subject, the more thankful do they grow that such opportunity is theirs and that it will be a precious heritage for their children.W. J. PAULK. Clerk of the Superior Court for Irwin County, W. J.Paulk has filled that office with utmost satisfaction and efficiency for the pastfive or six years, and is one of the enterprising arid best known younger citixensof Irwin County.He is a native of this county, having been born March 12. 1882, and bothhis parents, Lucius and Elizabeth (Vickers) Paulk, the former a native ofthe same county and the latter of Coffee County. His father was bornJanuary 1, 1856, and during most of his active career was a farmer and stilllives on his country place in Irwin County. For sixteen years he served asa member of the County Board of Education. The mother died in 1887 whennot yet thirty years of age. She was the mother of four children: Mrs. AvaMcMillan, of Irwin County; Mrs. Teresa McMullen, of Tift; W. J., who isthe only son, and Mrs. Alda Tucker, of Berrien County.As a boy W. J. Paulk had the usual experiences of a farmer lad andattended the public schools of Irwin County. He had his first experience inbusiness at a store in Ocilla where he remained six years, and then in 1910gained the suffrage of the people of Irwin County and was elected to his firstterm as clerk of the Superior Court. He has been re-elected and has servedconsecutively since that year, receiving a renomination in April, 1916, without opposition. He is one of the leading democrats of Irwin County.On November 23, 1910, he married Miss Lelia Story, of Abbeville, Georgia,daughter of Llewellyn Story, of Abbeville. They are the parents of twochildren: Reba May, born September 1, 1911, at Ocilla; and Clarice Verda,born January 28, 1913, at Ocilla.WILLIAM ANSEL ADAMS. Possessing the distinction of being the firstdemocrat to be appointed postmaster of the thriving City of Fitzgerald,Georgia, William Ansel Adams also holds prestige as the youngest postmasterin an office of its class in the State of Georgia. For some years, up to the timeof his appointment to his official position, he was well known in businesscircles as the proprietor of Adams Candy Kitchen, an enterprise which hebuilt up from modest beginning to large proportions, and established an excellent reputation in commercial circles as a live, energetic man of business, whofound time to spare from his personal affairs to devote to matters in whichthe community was interested. Since becoming postmaster he has laboredfaithfully and with good results to better the mail service.Mr. Adams is a Texan by nativity, having been born at Temple, in theLone Star state, November 14, 1882, a son of James Ansel and Betty (Luke)Adams, natives of Mitchell County, Georgia. The paternal grandfather of"William Ansel Adams, Adam Adams, was born in Georgia, in 1822, and fora number of years followed farming in Mitchell County, this state. In later