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TACK EIGHT
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Kve hundred seniors of junior col
leges in Georgia have been invited to
spend next Saturday at Wesleyan.
Tlie Earl House at Clayton, one of
North Georgia's most famous resort
hotels, burned to the ground Mon
day.
Gov. E. P. Rivers Monday urged
Georgians to observe National Cot
ton week May 17-25 by purchasing
cotton articles.
The Idle Hour Country Club at
Macon has been selected as the site
for the 1940 Georgia State Amateur
Golf Tournament July 16-20.
The city of Savannah concluded
the year 1969 with a surplus of $87,-
642 in revenues over expenditures, it
is shown in an annual audit.
Miss Jeanette Harris of West
Point, Ga., has been elected presi
dent of the senior class for 1940-41,
at Wesleyan College in Macon.
John Edward Pair, 65, of Macon,
for 48 years an engineer for the
Central of Georgia railway, died ot
heart illness at his home Monday.
Funeral services were held Mon
day for Col. Marion Turner, 68,
prominent Hawkinsville citizen and
well known Georgia attorney, who
died Sunday.
Mrs. Fannie Ponder, more affec
tionately known in Richland as
“Aunt Fannie” celebrated her 93rd
birthday anniversary at her home in
Richland last Saturday.
W. H. L. Roberts, well known Sa-
vannahian Saturday concluded his
connection with the Conklin Tin
Plate and Metal Ct., with winch he
has been connected for 50 years.
Janie Clarke, 16-year-old Reidsville
high school student, was killed near
Reidsville early Saturday night
when an automobile in which she
was riding - collided with a wagon.
Nancy Lee Wilson, 15, died at Sa
vannah Sunday night at her home
after being accidentally overcome by
ga sin the bath room. She was the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. S. B. Wil
son.
Thomasville's yearly rose show,
which annually attracts thousands of
visitors to South Georgia, will be
held on April 26, it has been an
nounced by the Thomasville Garden
Club.
Arthur Anderson Sanders, 18, died
in a hospital at Waycross Monday
of gunshot wounds sustained Sunday
night when he was cleaning his gun.
the accident occurred at his parents
home.
The Georgia motor vehicles divis
ion Monday placed an “Open foi
Business” sign on its office window
in the state capitol and started re
ceiving 194!) driver's license renewal
applications.
Superintendent cf County Schools
John A. Thruston has announced
that Upson county schools will be
closed in the very near future, due
to non-payment of expected funds
from the state.
Charles Converse, 35, native of
Valdosta, and for several years
American consul ir. London
died early Sunday in the naval hos
pital at Washington after an illness
of several months.
Macon police were asked Saturday
to search for Fred Martin, 26, Thom
aston, who was said to have left
home Monday to attend a fraternal
meeting in Macon. He has not been
reported seen since.
A Liibb county coroner's jury in
vestigating the death Sunday of Mrs
Mary Frances Stone ordered Joseph
Collins, 19, of Macon, held for in
voluntary manslaughter in the com
mission of an unlawful act.
Evander Shepard, Jr., prominent
Griffin businessman and superin
tendent of Dovedown Hosiery Mills,
was found dead in the garage at his
home Monday of a bullet wound. A
22 calibre rifle lay beside him.
Herman DeLeFierre, Jackson coun
ty merchant and farmer Monday an
nounced his candidacy for Congress
form the Ninth Georgia district. The
seat now is held bv Representative
B. Frank Whelchel, of Gainesville.
Approximately 2,150 students rep
resenting 83 Georgia high schools
will take part in the fourth annual
state music festival to be held in
Milledgeville Monday and Tuesday of
next week, Mrs. Max Noah, chair
man, announced Saturday,
Members of the LaGrange First ’
Baptist church .Sunday celebrated
the 112th anniversary of the found
ing of the church at services which
also honored the pastor, Dr. W. E.
Howard, whose birthday anniversary ;
coincided with that of the church. |
Mrs. Clifford Walker, wife of the |
former governor who has been very 1
ill at her home at Monroe for the
past month is reported much im
proved. It is expected she will have ,
entirely recovered within a short |
time
Funeral services for Mrs. Henry .
Lee Dunn, a former resident of Tal- |
botton who died at a Macon hospital’
Saturday were held . at Talbotton j
Sunday afternoon at the home of the
deceased's mother, Mrs. Loula Ma-
hone.
The April term of Schley county
superior court convened last week
with a light docket of civil and crim
inal cases to clear. Judge W. M.
Harper of Amerieus presided ar.d E,
I.. Forrester of Leesburg was prose
cutor.
May 6 and 7 have been set as the
dates for the annual Sumter County
Boys and Girls Hobby Show, spon
sored by the Rotary club, it was an
nounced Saturday by J. T. Taylor
and Bill White of the Hobby Show
committee.
Montezuma's handsome new post
office, a structure of red brick trim
med with white Georgia marble, is
progressing rapidly. The white fa
cade with a carved inscription has
been completed, and work will be
gin on the interior before many
days have passed
Ralph Jones, head of the photo
graphic department, will be a prin
cipal speaker at the 13th annual
meeting of the Georgia Scholastic
Press Association of the Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism of the
University of Georgia, Friday, May
3. He will speak on "Pictures in the
News.”
A Lions’ Club has been organized
in Thomaston. T. 13. Echols v as
elected president, H. N. Hammock,
first vice president, Tom Hardman,
second vice president; G. R. Hen tun
third vice president; James Levie.
tail twister; William Smith, lion
tamer; L. M. Bowen secretary ar.d
I reasurer.
A tomato festival sponsored by the
Pelham Business Men's ciub, will
mark the opening of the tomato
shipping season at Pelham. The late
for the festival has not been fixed
pending the development of the crop
which may be slightly retarded this
year because of unfavorable weather
conditions.
Amid unusual secrecy imposed be
cause of wartime conditions, the
Italian fleet was gathering Saturday
to embark Monday on maneuvers
which naval officials described as
the regular spring training. While
concentration points were not dis
closed, there were indications that
naval preparations were being made
at the southern seaport of Toranto.
M A X CH EST ER POST.M A ST ER
RESIGNS TO TAKE ROUTE
Manchester, Auril 15—Welby Grif
fith, popular postmaster for several
years, has accepted a position as
rural carrier.
M. R. Twitt.v, former citizen, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy be
ginning his duties about April 21.
>67,700 BID FOR OLD
COLUMBUS POST OFFICE
Washington, April 15—The Public
Buildings Administration announced
today that the G. C. Woodruff Co.,
of Columbus, Ga., had offered a high
bid of 867,700 for the old post office
building and site at Columbus.
John Woodruff, Columbus, offered
866,666.66 and W. T. Heard, Colum
bus, $38,000.
R. M. HOUSER, 67.
FORT VALLEY, DIES
Ft. Valley, Auril 15—R. M. Hous
er, 67, prominent Fort Valley resi
dent and brother of the late Emmett
Houser, “the father of Peach coun
ty,” died at his home here today af
ter an illness of several days.
One of the owners and operators
of the Ft. Valley Crate and Basket
Co., he was a native of the town and
had lived there ail his life. He was a
steward in the Methodist church, and
was active in various civic enter
prises.
Mr. Houser is survived by his wife
Mrs. Fannie Branham Houser; a son
Russell Houser, also of Ft. Valley;
and a sister, Mrs. Will Culler of
North, S. C.
THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
St. Dept, of Education
Sponsoring Meetings
To Help Rural Schools
The State Department of Educa
tion is sponsoring a series of dis
trict meetings for educators and
laymen for the purpose of devising
ways of improvng rural education.
Meetings at seven points in the
ctate, scheduled April 15-2.3, are to
deal with the rural education prob
lems with informal panel discussions
in which laymen as well as educa
tors will carry on a kind of public
round-table discussion with the au
dience privileged to ask questions
and participate.
'Die schedule of meetings is,
Gainesville, April 15; Statesboro,
April 16; Blackshear, April 17; Moul
trie, April 18; Perry, April 19; Grif
fin, April 22; Rome, April 23.
An impetus to hold these meet
ings, it is stated, grew out of a
largely attended and enthusiastic
conference on rural education re
cently held in connection with the
Georgia Education Association at
Macon.
The panel at each meeting will be
called upon to discuss an enlarged
program of public service by rural
schools. Among the questions that
will be discussed will be: “What re
sponsibility should the school assume
in dealing - with the farm problem
with which people are confronted?
What adjustments in our present
school program must be made in or
der for them to best serve our farm
people?” Other questions deal with
improvement and beautification of
homes, health, recreation, the advis
ability of developing school com
munity canning plants and shops for
repairs of farm equipment, and fin
ally the training of rural teachers
for these services.
Setting up a program to deal with
rural problems not only for boys
and girls in the schools, but for out
of school youth, and for adult men
and women will be discussed.
A moving picture “Georgia Schools
Go to the Farm” is to be presented
to show how teachers of vocational
agriculture and home economics ar«
dealing with rural problems. This
picture was filmed in Georgia and
released as a production of the state
board of education as a contribution
to the Georgia program for improve
ment of instruction, and was made
>y the division of vocational educa
tion.
As a member of each panel, M. E.
Thompson, assistant state superin
tendent of schools and director of
the Georgia Program for Improve
ment of Instruction, will explain the
purposes and general scope of the
discussions. As another member of
-ach panel, Dr. M. D. Collins, State
Superintendent of Schools, will sum
marize and stress important points
developed by the panel.
District Supervisor J. M. Gooden
will direct the panel discussion at
Perry.
Announcements state tnat the pan
els will be composed of persons from
various parts of each district and
will include a representative of the
county school superintendents, prin
cipals or superintendents of rural
schools, teachers of vocational agri
culture and home economics, county
board members and local trustees,
P. T. A’s, laymen, administrators of
vocational education, clergymen, and
classroom teachers.
STATE CCC CAMPS
GET 94 MORE BOYS
Georgia's allotment for CCC camps
has been increased by 94 boys for
the quarter beginning April 1, Wel
fare Director Braswell Deen an
nounced Friday.
lhe increase brings the allotment
for Georgia from 1,077 to 1,171, and
another increase is expected fo r the
quarter beginning July l.
REPUBLICANS OF THIRD
DISTRICT TO MEET AT
FORT VALLEY MAY 2
Ft. Valley—District officers of the
Republican party for the third con
gressional district at a called meet
ing here Thursday issued a call for
the district convention to be held in
-the Wilcox county court house in
Abbeville at 10 a. m. May 2.
The district organization will reor
ganize, elect officers, and name a
delegate and alternate to the nation
al convention at Philadelphia, June
24, it was announced by J. H. Crum-
mey, Rochelle, district chairman.
The meeting at Ft. Valley was ar
ranged by Mr. Crummey. The third
district emabraces 24 counties.
GEORGIA, APRIL 18, 1940.
BAPTISTS TO GATHER
IN AMERICA S SOON
Amerieus.—The first of four dis
trict meetings planned for Georgia
by the Georgia Baptist Convention
will be held at the First church here
April 22-2.3.
State and Southern Baptist leaders
| High Tribute Is
Paid Memory of
Judge M’Laughlin
will speak on the program. Leading | [) r . Frederick S. Porter Praises
the group will be Dr. R. G. Gresham j _ , . . r,, l ■
of Moultrie, president of the slate j Services of Jurist at Funeral in
convention. Columbus.
LOSS TO PEACH
CROP IS HEAVY
Griffin, Ga., April 13.—Peach grow
ers were fearful Monday of a $5,-
000,000 loss to the Middle Georgia
fruit crop as a result of Friday
night's unseasonable freeze.
Frank Gaisscrt, president of the
Georgia Peach Growers Association
ayd a grower himself, said he made
a quick check-up in Spalding and ad
joining Pike county today and found
the crop “almost a total loss.”
.GEORGE DON M.DSO \ r WINS
TEACHING BELLOWSHIP
Amerieus, Ga., April 12—Geo. W.
Donaldson, director of the Anthony
school, laboratory school of Georgia
Suthwestern College, has been grant
ed a leave of abser.ee for one year
to do graduate work at tlie Uni
versity of Georgia.
Mr. Donaldson has been grunted a
teaching fellowship and will serve
as associate director of the demon
stration school of the University of
Georgia school of education.
JOHN ELDER GROSS
IS DEAD AT THOMSON
Thomson, Ga., April 14.—Funeral
services for John IC. Gross, retired
business man and farmer, who died
Sunday after an illness of many
months, will be held Monday at his
residence. Rev. J. D. Matheson will
officiate, and burial will be in Thom-
j son cemetery.
I Before entering business, Mr. Gross
was a prominent educator and an
| active civic and church leader,
i Surviving are two daughters, Mrs
| R. L. Howell and Mrs. J. Q. West
both of Thomson, and eight grand
children.
LATE ANNOUNCEMENTS
IN STATE RACES SEEN
Atlanta, April 15—Despite reports
arriving with each sun that Mr.
Politician here or there is just one
breath from announcing, you'd be
safe to make .this election bet—that
this will be a campaign year of 11th
hour sombrero slingings.
When Gene Talmadge asked re
cently “who ever heard of announc
ing in the dead of winter?” he might
have added a P. S. “or the Ides of
March?” for that matter, April's
fleeting without any names added
to those of Hugh Howell and Colum
bus Roberts as announced guberna
torial candidates.
man shot by own
“BURGLAR ALARM”
Macon, Ga., April 7.—S. M. Ed
wards’ henhouse burglar alarm
works. He found out for sure when
it shot him today.
He had rigged up a shotgun at
the door to his poultry yard here in
the hope of nabbing the next chick
en thief.
Today, Officers C. H. Sauls and R.
N. Etheridge reported, he forgot to
let the hammer down. When he rose
early, went out to feed his fowls,
and opened the door, he received a
fu 1 load of No. 7 shot in his right
arm and chest.
He was in fair condition today at
the Macon hospital.
GEORGIANS OPPOSE
CHAIN STORE TAX
AT HOUSE HEARING
Washington, April 15.—A hosiery
manufacturer and a spokesman fot
vegetable growers added their op.
position Monday to the Patman lull
to tax chain stores.
John M. Berry testified before a
House ways and means subconrmit-
tee that had it not been for largo
chain orders placed in advance, his
Rome, Ga., hosiery mills would have
had to eke along on a month to
month basis.
“1 think chains get merchandise to
tlie public cheaper than anybody
else,” Berry said.
Chain stores provide a valuable
outlet ior vegetable growers, said
U. F. Sams Jr., of Clarkston, Ga
president of the Vegetable Growers
of Amercia.
Legislation of the Patman bill type
Sams said, would “thoroughly dis-
rupt our national system of distri
bution.”
Columbus, Ga., April 12—High
tribute was paid to the memory of
Judge Charles Franklin McLaughlin
who died unexpected Wednesday
night at his home, as funeral serv
ices for the prominent jurist were
conducted at I o’clock Friday after
noon at the St. Paul Methodist
church, of which he was a member
and chairman of its board of stew
ards.
Coming here from Thomaston Ga.,
where he is conducting an evange
listic meeting, Dr. Frederick S. Por
ter spoke feelingly to the vast con
gregation which filled the church.
"He was my dear friend,” said
minister. "This community has suf
fered an irreparable loss in his
passing, as have the superior courts
of the Chattahoochee circuit also.”
“In order to find the most fitting
epitaph for this great man, 1 have
turned to Holy Writ,” he declared.
“A certain passage therein describes
so perfectly the life of Frank Mc
Laughlin that it seems almost sac-
rilige to try and elaborate upon it.
I refer you to the 13th chaptter of
Acts, 36th verse, ‘For David after he
had served his own generation by
the will of tiod, fell on sleep.’
Frank McLaughlin
his own generation
has passed on to his
“And so
after serving
nobly and we
reward."
Dr. Porter,
the young
Porter said
privilege of
pastor of the First
Baptist church, asserted that Judge
McLaughlin was a humane and con
siderate jurist, tempering his justice
with mercy,
“He knew men and understood
them,” the minister said, “but he
l ever allowed his contact, as judge
with fallen men to embitter him to
ward humanity, but contrariwise en
deavored at ail times to try and re
construct men where there was some
hope of redemption. He called me to
his office many times to advise with
him concerning ways and means
helping some unfortunates."
Dr. I’orter related how, as he was
preparing to come here for the sen
ices, a young man in Thomaston
had asked him if he knew Judg
McLaughlin. Answering
man affirmatively, Dr.
that the youth replied:
“I never had the
knowing him, but my father alway
spoke of him as one of bis dearest
friends.”
Dr. Porter said that when he
stopped for a few minutes in Talbot
ton, en route here, a resident of that
city remarked:
“Judge McLaughlin’s death is the
greatest blow that Talbot county
has eceived in more than a genera
tion.”
in closing, Dr. Porter paid touch
ing homage of Judge McLaughlin, by
relating a story concerning his own
boyhood life.
“1 recollect, as a boy,” he assert
ed, “how the old lamplighter in my
home town would light the lamps
every night. How every evening as
the shades of dusk were falling, this
good old man, whom I loved and re
spected, would emerge from his sta
tion and go up to a lamp and light
if, and then go to the next one and
ight it, and so—on and on—down
the long thoroughfare until he was
out of my vision.
But (he lights continued to bum
—after he had gone—proof that
had been along there. ^
“And so, although our be]
Inend here has passed from our
sgqht do you think for a moment
hat he has gone? No! The lights he
has kindled thru his noble and ten
der life will continue to bum in the
memories and the hearts of his loved
ones and his true friends as long as
ihose hearts shall beat.”
Re\. K. II. McGregor, pastor of
he church, officiated at the services
emg assisted by Rev. G. N. Rainey
superintendent of the Columbus dis-
tnct > and Dr. Porter.
The minister spoke from an altar
,.jh had '»een transformed into a
--olid sea of beautiful flowers.
A number of officials were present
5 the services, including Judge Chas
rriII, of the superior courts of
he Pataula eircuit; Judge Henry
eraV 4 ^ „ Greenville : Readier Gen.
mil 3 " Wlet0n ’ an<l Sta to Coni-
. mner of Agriculture Columbus
“ut-oMown
leased were present, and
he
ved
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her husband, was a pr onii
her of the South Georgia
at the time or his death j,
1914 she moved to Oxford
she might give her
sons th e ,
tunity of one of the best
the state at that time. i°
1919, she moved to Atlanta' I
iar purpose.
With every change of re
Mrs. Boland became doselv
fled with church and 0 j vic ‘
At the time of her death a
president of the W. c. f ,. j
Peachtree Road Methodist'
which union she organized
. ears ago. In every sphere j,
she moved Mrs. Boland's j,
for good was a mighty f nrr
vacancy caused by her death]
keenly felt.
Mrs. Boland was horn and I
in Butler, the elder daughtqL
late Mr. John and Mrs. n, ltJ |
ray Cameron, and was in >J
jear of her age. She was
ate of the old Butler Male aJ
male College, of which her
was one of the contractors
erection of the building that]
< d the one destroyed by fi rf ]
early ’80’s and later replaced]
present structures housing J
graded and high school
ments..
Surviving Mrs. .Boland g
four sons, Fay Candler, Dr. (
Galloway, Herbert Came
Jas. M. Boland; also two
Miss Annie Cameron, who n,
home with her; Mrs. II. j. pj
Butler; one brother, Mr
Cameron, of Griffin.
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stars and production artisil
viewed by members of
news service. This proved tol
of the most interesting paitil
program.
When served we ate on l
race of the Radium Spriral
with the celebrities.
Following the barbecue
Pop broadcasting program :
Lutterworth and Park Jo |
given.
After this program
pleasure of talking with I
Keys, famous actress who ph|
part of Suellen in Gone i
Wind, Billy Lee, the star i:|
Eater, his mother and dad,i
Brown, Jean Cagney, John|
and other famous persons.
At 8-30 p. m. we attended j
mier where we heard the fu
chestra of Enoch Light, mol
picture, Biscuit Eater, The [
was a sensation being made |
old Georgia soil at Alban;,
were only three Hollywood J
the picture, all others b«|
talent.
Any one who loves chile
and out-door sports will a
picture. My advice is for;
it at your very first oppoi
We wish to again thank |
Mrs. Dean and the Parana
duetion Company for : |
grandest afternoons and
have ever spent.
CITATION
Georgia—Taylor County:!
To All Whom It Mav Cuntfj
Bartlett F. Fuller, a
this state, having in due '1
plied to the undersigned!
dianship of the person and j
Bertha Irene Fuller,
hereby given that the
will lie heard at tlie next]
Ordinary for said < I
First Monday in May, 19^1
Witness my hai d I
signature. This April b, MJ
L. T. PEED,
the church was crowded '• |
parity.
The stewards of the St
odist church and menibelO
Columbus bar attended the f
m a body, and also were >
pallbearers.
County offices at. tlie
were closed during tlie
and officials and empH
among those attending the J
Interment was held in
cemetery.
Active pallbearers " fI, l
Johnson, J. B. Key, It. -' [ '
E. Chancellor, Hubert
Perkins, Wm. del.. WorsWj
D. Foley and E. W.
Honrary pallbearers: L
kin, Sr., B. H. Chappell. ^
W. Wo mil, Stewart Fb' 1 "’!
El He, Willis Battle, W.tt|
Lon. A.L. Singleton, J« "jL
Dr. Guy Dillard, Dr. A I
Dr. Bert Tillery, R«.v S " V J
Park, Edmond Page. I || 'f
tis, H. D. Smith, Then 6.
Felton Clements and