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VOLUME SEVENTY-SIX
PRESIDING ELDER
TO PREACH SUNDAY
REV. W. L. DUREN WILL CON
DUCT HIS FIRST SERVICE AT
METHODIST CHURCH. HOLDS
CONFERENCE IN AFTERNOON
Rev. W. L. Duren, who at the last
meeting of the North Georgia Meth
odist conference was transferred
from the pastorate of the Grace
church of Atlanta to the presiding
eldership of the Griffin district, will
preach at the Forsyth Methodist
church Sunday morning. The first
quarterly conference will be held
Sunday afternoon.
This will be the first service held
in Forsyth by the new presiding el
der and the people are looking for
ward with pleasure to hearing him.
MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS
WILL CLOSE NEXT FRIDAY
The public schools of Monroe
county will close Friday for the
Christmas holidays and open again
the first Monday in January. The
session thus far has been a success
ful one on the part of both teachers,
and pupils, and while a number of
consolidations went into effect the
first of the team and brought new
relationships and new duties, the
plans of the system have been work
ed out harmoniously and for the ad
vantage of all concerned.
LICNS CLUB PAYS PART
COUNTY AGENT’S SALARY
At the meeting of the Forsyth
Lions Club held Friday night it was
voted to pay $150.00 on the salary
of the agricultural agent for Monroe
county and to donate $50.00 to the
Forsyth charity organization. I| was
announced that on account of the
Christmas season no meeting would
be held on December 26.
A very interesting program was
well rendered by students of Bessie
Tift College in which the various
Christmas customs were discussed.
The Saturnalia was given by Ruth
Sanders; The Yule Log, Anne
Clarke; The Christmas Tree, Velma
Rowland; Santa Claus, Virginia
Slaughter; Christmas Carols, Sara
McGee; The Christmas Element, Vir
ginia Dutton.
BESSIE TIFT COLLEGE
WILL CLOSE FRIDAY
The second week of the winter
quarter will be completed at Bessie
Tift College on Friday, December 19,
and the Christmas holidays will be
gin at noon on that date. The great-
PROGRAM
NEW FORSYTH THEATRE
Friday-Saturday, This Week
LEATHER NECKING
An All Star Comedy Bombshell
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, DEC. 22 AND 23
FRANK MORGAN AND OTHERS IN
FAST AND LOOSE
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, DEC. 24 AND 25
THE BIG TRAIL
Greatest outdoor Romance of the screen. A sweeping, inspiring
Spectacle with a mighty theme and glowing love story
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, DEC. 26 AND 27
THE RENEGADES
This is another good one that you should not miss
Show will open at 2:30 on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
We thank our many friends for their loyal patronage and wish for
everybody a Merry Xmas and Happy, Prosperous New Year
er number of the students will spend
the holidays at home and classes will
begin again January 6. A number
of the members of the faculty will be
away also and this departure of so
many members of the college com
munity will leave a wide gap in many
circles in Forsyth.
ATLANTANS VICTIM OF
ACCIDENT NEAR FORSYTH
Two Atlantans who were en route
to South Georgia for a hunting trip
were injured in an automobile
accident on the highway near For
syth Sunday afternoon.
Wilbur J. Davis suffered cuts about
the head and hands and bruises on
a leg, and a Mr. Jameson received
a broken collar bone and other in
juries when their coupe overturned
three times. Mr. Jameson was driv
ing, it is reported.
A Negro boy ran out of a side
road at ‘‘Tom’s Place” about three
miles north of the city, and to avoid
hitting him Mr. Jameson cut sharply
to the right. The body of the coupe
was demolished and one of the occu
pants was thrown through the top
as the car was overturning. Friends
carried the men to Atlanta after they
were given medical treatment in
Forsyth.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
WILL MEET FIRST TUESDAY
A meeting of the Confederate Vet
erans belonging to the Quitman
Guards has been called for the first
Tuesday in January. This meeting
will be at the invitation of the Cab
aniss Chapter U. D. C. and will be
held in the Forsyth Masonic Hall at
10:00 o’clock, January 6. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
WOODMEN OF WORLD ELECT
OFFICERS FOR ENSUING YEAR
At a meeting held last week, the
following officers were elected by
the Woodmen of the World for the
ensuing year: F. R. Stokes, council
commander; W. G. Starling, advisor
lieutenant; J. A. Abernathy, banker;
E. T. Grant, clerk; W. G. Kimbell,
escort; George Adams, watchman; R.
E. Smith, sentry; A. M. Zellner,
manager for three years; C. G. Las
seter, manager for one year.
MEETING OF COUNTY
TEACHERS POSTPONED
The meeting of teachers of Mon
roe county, which was to have been
held Friday, has been postponed.
The meeting will not be held on ac
count of the fact that a number of
the teachers will at that time be
leaving for the Christmas holidays.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY. GEORGIA, DECEMBER 18, 1930
u. s. Highway official speaks on
BEAUTIFICATION OF ROUTE FORTY-ONE
Mr. Ora E. Chafin, executive vice
president of the U. S. 41 Associa
tion, was in Forsyth Monday night
and delivered an address before a
number of citizens at the public li
brary. He outlined the scope and
importance of Highway 41 and
stressed the fact that the time had
arrived for the beautification of the
route. He pointed out that the
movement had been endorsed by the
federal and state highway authori
ties, which would bear the expense
of planting and fertilizing shrubs
and trees and that Mr. B. C. Milner,
assistant engineer of the State High
way Department, would give his ser
vices without charge in mapping out
the details of the beautification of
the various sections of the route in
this state, the only expense to the
counties being the shrubs and trees,
many of which may be native to
the section through which the high
way runs. An appeal was made for
the various organizations of the
county to support this movement and
thus make the highway more attrac
tive and a greater source of profit
through its increased use by tour
ists.
Mr. Chafin spoke in part as fol
lows on the subject of “Beautifying
a Two Thousand Mile Boulevard”:
Men and women of prophetic vis
ion began some ten years or more
ago to make predictions that trans
continental boulevards would soon be
constructed that would be useable at
high speeds from one end of the na
tion to the other. The State of Flor
ida, and doubtless every other state
through which U. S. 41 highway
runs, has had its prophets and seers,
who not only predicted that the fa
mous Tamiami Trail in that state
would be transformed into the bou
levard class by 1930, but also that
the transcontinental highway from
the Great Lakes to the Florida Keys
would be ready for high speed traf
fic at the same time.
The fulfillment of these wonder
ful predictions matured several years
even before 1930 arrived, so that
now the average tourist can, with
ease and comfort, ride the whole
length of U. S. 41, from Copper Har
bor on the south shore of Lake Supe
rior to Naples in far southwestern
Florida, in less than a week’s time,
and besides see all the worthwhile
sights as he goes along.
This great boulevard highway sys
tem, 1951 miles long, serves the
greatest agricultural and industrial
area in the United States; passes
through Chicago, the greatest rail
road center, byway of the wide
reaches of the famous playground
country of Indiana, Illinois, Wiscon
sin and Michigan of summer vaca
tion renown, the impressive moun
tain summer resorts of Georgia and
Tennessee and the tropical winter
playground of Florida; taps almost
the exact center of population of the
United States; provides a mighty
trunk line artery for over 23 per
cent of the country’s population; and
runs through a land possessing 20
per cent of the national wealth.
Along its entire length there abides
the thrilling romance of history of
Joliet, of LaSalle, of Marquette, of
Lewis and Clark, of Daniel Boone,
of George Rogers Clark, of Governor
Oglethorpe, of DeSoto and De Nar
vaez, and many another explorer
and pioneer. This highway presents
to view a changing scene of rarest
charm and beauty; from the land of
the Chippewas, made famous by
Longfellow to the habitat of the Sem
inole amid the fastness of the Flori
da everglades; from the winter bound
country of ice and snow to the per
petual warmth and sunshine of the
semi-tropics; and from the impres
sive greenery and silences of the
great north woods of Wisconsin and
Michigan to the stately palms and
the ravishing splash of multicolored
flowers in year round bloom in Flor
ida.
Serving so wondrous a constituen
cy, where nature conspires with his
tory in such a lavish way, there still
remains an element that is lacking to
make this road one of the most talk
ed of and most intensively used
main trunk line highway in America.
That element is HIGHWAY BEAU
TIFICATION, which still must be
said to be in the dreamer stage
of development. To be sure there
are many organizations, largely,
perhaps, women’s clubs, societies,
flower guilds and the like, that
make use of local city beautification
as a major endeavor. However so
far no movement has appeared along
the line of any major trunk line road
to beautify it with trees and shrubs
and flowers for its entire length.
Such an activity, occurring persist
ently and simultaneously all along
the entire mileage of U. S. 41, should,
in the course of a few short years,
create a highway so beautiful, that
every motorist, everywhere, hearing
of its beauty, would want to ride ov
er the road from one end to the
other.
Some may call this a dream of
mental extravagance, an extrava
gance however, which we are going
to term a vision that is well with
in the realm of early possibility.
Surely when the women, and for that
matter the men too, who live along
the line of its meanderings catch a
real glimpse of what this major plan
of beautification means to them and
to their communities, to the en
hancement of their land values, to
the increase of their population, and
to the incalculable rise in volume of
bttsiness done in all the cities along
the line, to say nothing of leaving
behind a perpetual heritage to pros
perity of priceless worth, it should
take but a few short years to beau
tify it.
1 Many active men and women in
Florida who are experienced in beau
tification work would be glad to en
ter upon such a program. Surely
there are proportionately quite as
many in every other state where this
highway runs, in Georgia, in Ten
nessee, in Kentucky, in Indiana, in
Illinois, in Wisconsin and in Michi
gan, who are just as experienced and
just as active in matters of public
interest, who would gladly join in
the conversion of this prophetic vis
ion of U. S. 41 beautification into an
early major accomplishment.
CHILDREN’S EYES CROSSED
BY CHANGING THEIR USE
OF RIGHT OR LEFT HANDS
OMAHA, Neb.—Attempts of pa
rents to change their children from
left to right-handers, or vice versa,
are liable to cause their offspring to
become cross-eyed, Dr. Geo. Oertal,
of Syracuse, N. Y., told the Ameri
can College of Optometry.
LUCY JIM WEBB CIRCLE
MEETS WITH MRS. RUMBLE
The Lucy Jim Webb Circle of the
Methodist Woman’s Missionary Soci
ety met on Wednesday afternoon,
December 10, at the home of Mrs.
F. M. Rumble. There were eleven
present. The meeting opened with
the song, “Silent Night”, after
which Mrs. U. L. Porch read the de
votional. Mrs. Walter Bramblett
and Miss Vannerson were in charge
of the lesson on “Life and Letters
of Paul”. The meeting closed with
another song, “Joy to the World”,
after which a delightful social hour
was enjoyed.
MONROE COUNTY BANK
DECLARES 22ND DIVIDEND
At a meeting of the directors of
the Monroe County Bank held Tues
day a dividend of eight per cent was
declared, and will be paid January
1. This will be the twenty-second
consecutive dividend to be paid by
this bank, which has maintained a
steady growth in assets, service and
patronage throughout the years of
its existence. The bank reports that
it has enjoyed a good year’s business
in spite of the trying financial condi
tions during 1930.
The meeting of the stockholders
of the bank will be held on the third
Tuesday in January and officers for
the ensuing year will be elected at
that tim^
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PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL
SAYS PROSPECTS FOR NEW
YEAR ARE ENCOURAGING
Under the heading “Looking To
ward the New Year”, President A.
E. Clift of the Central of Georgia
in a statement published today dis
cusses the outlook for 1931. Review
ing 1930, he says:
“The year about to close will be
recorded as a difficult one for agri
culture, industry and commerce. The
railway industry has experienced a
period of declining traffic, due in
part to general conditions and in
part to other causes. This has neces
sitated drastic economies, but the
railroads have been successful in
maintaining a high standard of ser
vice, in operating efficiently and in
protecting their plant and equipment
from deterioration.”
Mr. Clift says that in general pros
pects for the new year are some
what encouraging.
“The outlook for the railroads is
improved,” he states, “because of
a better understanding of transpor
tation matters by the people, and be
cause of Qi^ny evidences of coopera
tion, support and friendly sentiment
on the part of the public. This in
formed public will, it is hoped, re
sult in national and state legislation
to equalize the competitive transpor
tation situation.”
In closing, Mr. Clift says: “In a
spirit of cincere gratitude the man
agement extends the season’s greet
ings to members of the railroad fam
ily and to our patrons for a happy
Christmas and a prosperous New
Year.”
SEED LOANS PRACTICALLY
REPAID BY MONROE FARMERS
The farmers of Monroe county
have made a fine record in the pay
ment to the government of seed
loans which fell due this fall. About
$17,000 was borrowed by local farm
ers under the government seed loan
plan and of this amount only $2,000
remains unpaid and this remainder
is secured by cotton and will be paid
when the cotton is sold.
BOOKS-BOOKS
All of our 75c Fiction at 40c
All SI.OO and $2.00 books Half Price
Rhodes Seed Co. '
PHONE 61 AND 165 — QUALITY AND SERVICE
CITY GROCERY CO.
Nice Select Fruit at Prices All
Can Afford
(Full of Juice and Sweet as Sugar)
Lemons, per dozen j 19c
Oranges per dozen only 12c
Grape Fruit 6 for 25c
Tangerines, dozen only 15c
Grapes, pound 10c
Apples per dozen 19c
Cocoanuts, 2 for 15c
Walnuts, Brazil Nuts and Pecans per pound 27c
Plum and Fig Puddings (Heinz) 35c
Raisins, new crop, 2 lbs. for 25c
Fresh Eggs, per dozen 35c
Mixed Candy, per pound 15c
Matches 2 boxes 5c
Wishing You All a Merry Christmas—Thanks
CITY GROCERY CO.
NUMBER FORTY-SIX
COUNTY POLICEMEN
CONTINUE RAIDS
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DAME AND ZELLNER DESTROY
SEVERAL STILLS AND WHISKY
AND BEER IN RECENT RAIDS
IN MONROE COUNTY.
The enforcement of prohibition in
Monroe county continues to leave
behind it a trail of wrecked stills and
diverted .material, several raids hav
ing been made recently by enforce
ment officers. On November 30 of
ficers Dame and Zellner destroyed a
still and 200 gallons of beer midway
between Holly Grove church and
Dames Ferry, located on land ad
joining the farm of W. P. Christian.
On December 8 Messrs. Zellner and
Waits destroyed a twenty-five gallon
capafcity still on the Ocmulgee river
on an island known as Polhill Sta
tion between Dames Ferry and Ju
liette. On December 8 Messrs. Dame
and Zellner destroyed a 25 to 40 gal
lon capacity still and 200 gallons of
beer on an island below Dames Fer
ry near Carstarphen’s old mill. On
December 9 the county policemen
destroyed part of a still and gave
chase to a boy near the Bazemore
place in the Dyas-Moran community.
TARPLEY-HILL
The friends of Mr. John M. Hill of
Hampton, formerly of Forsyth, will
be interested to learn of his ap
proaching marriage to Miss Julia
Tarpley, of Hampton.
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