About North Georgia tribune. (Canton, Ga.) 1934-1973 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1939)
Official Organ 8 Cherokee County VOL. VI No. 37. Think o’ That By TOM ARNOLD Everybody knew him as "Dr. N. J.” Dr. Newton Jasper Coker. The big point is that everybody knew him and he knew them and loved them and proved his love in many ways that you can see about you. It is enough that you just love your fellow man. Abou Ben Ad- em's name led all the rest of those the Lord had blessed simply be cause his one virtue in a life of fault was that he loved his fellow man. And Dr. N. J. heaped the meas ure full and to over-flowing with love for others and then capped it with a life of service. I am not talking now, as some times we do about just abstract things. The proof of the meas ure of his love is here, although his spirit departed Monday night. Dr. N. J. wanted people to get along. He doctored them and made them well and strong so that they could get along. He wanted them to have a bet ter place to take their suffering bodies and he with his splendid son built a fine hospital that any big city would be proud to have. He wanted the people to live bet ter while they were well and he provided fine cattle to milk. * ilzee These are practical things. Many a child had an extra glass of milk for supper last night because of Dr. N. J., and will continue to do so. Here’s how that works. Dr. N. J. bought some fine live stock and kept them here avail able to the people of this county and their cows were bred up be cause of it. So that today many people here have good cows to milk, cows that give enough milk so that their boys and girls may have it to drink. So that a man may lay up treas ures in Heaven by just that sim ple act of taking an interest in his community progress and help- ing people to get along. How many people are alive to day because of Dr. N. J. nobody can tell. We know that the hos- pital that he has put in motion here and the son he left to head it will continue to serve possibly for all time to come. And don't over look the grand daughter, Miss Mary, just graduated from Canton High and now off to Georgia to study medicine. You can measure a man's use- fulness that way but you can nev- er know how far that usefulness will extend. Better livestock, improved hos- pital service, a life line that is a desire to serve humanity’s health, those are the things that Dr. Co- ker did that you can see and know they are started. How far they will continue time alone can tell. But you do know this: The good that men do live after them and their shortcomings are as writing in the sands for wind and wave to brush away. Only the good en- dures. The rest, if you really love your fellow man, is just a repiti- tion of mistakes that time will cure. Dr. N. J., on the very last day of his life that he was able to go spent that day trying to help prog ress. It was last year, shortly af- ter the Fair and he went with me to discuss an important detail of the Fairgrounds with Ott Ken- nett, owner of the land. As a result of that negotiation the Fair and the American Legion obtained a new lease and a new op- tion on the grounds and they have been bought for the Fair and the Legion by Mr. E. A. McCanless and Mr. P. W. Jones. He didn't do things like that to see the lights blaze and hear the music and see the wheels go around. He did them because ne wanted better cattle so that chil- dren can have the extra milk they need. And now he ,is with Ben Adem. There's something about a band. Of course it isn't an essential or fundamental part of school. But it adds so much to the school once you have it you wonder how the school ever got along without it. When formal opening exercises were held Tuesday morning, every- body had forgotten about the fact that we have a band. But there it was in the orchestra pit, and when the boys and girls started marching in the band gave them martial music. The emotional appeal of the band was great. And the boys and girls as they marched into the auditorium stepped in time to the music with that quick, exhilirated step that made you realize how proudly young Americans can walk if you give them the cadence. I The Rotary Club for sponsoring : the band and Prof. Smith for teaching it so thoroughly in one year, are to be commended and the school is to be congratulated for this useful and instructive ad- dition. Strike up the band! Tax Commissioner Wright has done the unusual, typing the coun- ty tax returns and has received fa- vorable comment for it from the state tax office in Atlanta. Continued on Page 8 CANTON, GEORGIA FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1939 PAGES TODAY PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY P.-T. A. Opens Cooking School; Session on Friday Canton women were in attend- ance at the grammar school audi- torium Thursday afternoon for the first session of the P.-T. A. cooking school. The school will continue through tomorrow with a session at 3 o’clock in the after noon. Miss Ada Williams, lecturer and home economist of the Spry Re- search Kitchens is conducting the class. Meals were prepared from the stage and explained step by step to the audience. Electrical appliances for the school were installed by. Morgan Brothers, who also donated some of the prizes. Other Canton mer chants and the Spry Kitchens do nated prizes. Among the prizes given Thurs day afternoon were an electric coffee maker, a set of refrigerator dishes, a kitchen clock, two finger waves, several baskets of grocer- ies and other things. Prizes Friday will include an electric toaster lamp, four finger waves, baskets of groceries and foods, and sprays. Homecoming Day At Mayhew Sunday Homecoming Day will be observ- ed by the Ficklen Memorial Pres- byterian Church, at Mayhew, next Sunday, September 17, with ap propriate exercises. After Sunday School at the regular hour. Dr. J. M. Richards, President of Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, will preach at eleven o'clock. At noon there will be a basket dinner, followed by a time for the renewing of friendships and for fel- lowship with one another. In the afternoon, some time will be devoted to singing, and the day's program will be brought to a finish with another sermon by Dr. Richards, beginning at 3:30 P. M. The choir of the Mars Hill Presbyterian Church, Ac- worth, plans to be present, to add its musical talent to that of others. The public is invited to attend these services, and share in this day of Christian fellowship. Come, bring a basket of dinner, and en- joy these good things with the peo- ple of the church and community. war! Dr. N. J. Coker Dies; Is Paid Wide Tribute Leader Passes DR. N. J. COKER Hickory Flat To Clean Cemetery Hickory Flat cemetery will be cleaned off Tuesday, September 19, All interested are urged to come and bring tools. Work will begin in the morning and continue thru- out the day until it is finished. Former Tribune Employee Dies Niles N. Austin, 49, formerly connected with the Tribune force, but for the past three years a re sident of Gainesville, died Tuesday in Decatur. He was linotype oper- ator at the Tribune and has since been connected in that same line with the Gainesville Eagle. He is survived by his wife, and mother, Mrs. Valeria M. Ozman. Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon with burial in East View Cemetery. Congress Called to Wrestle With Neutrality Laws; Some See War Danger Here Entrance Dates Told for County Clubs Exhibits All 4-H club girls are requested to enter individual clothing and canning exhibits on Friday, Sep- tember 29, unless it is impossible to get in on that day. If this is the situation, they will be accept able on Saturday, September 30. All women are requested to en- ter all individual sewing and can- ring exhibits on Saturday, Septem- ber 30. This order of entrance will pre- vent confusion and delay in regis- tration and display. Your cooper- ation will be appreciated. Martha O'Farrell, H. D. Agent President Roosevelt calls Con gress into session next Thursday to enact neutrality laws. Neutral ity laws now prohibit shipments of arms, ammunition and imple- ments of war to warring nations. The neutrality law sought will permit such shipment to combat- ants. Some see the danger of war, rather than neutrality, in it. French troops have pushed well into the Saar basin region, in the direction of the German fortified wall, which is expected to crumble. Many British troops have reached France. Germany's push into Poland con- tinues, with rains now setting in a hope for the Poles to lean on. Russia is being drawn rapidly into the conflict. She is aligned al ready with Hitler. The fight on the sea continues with Germany apparently a- head in the number of ships sent to the bottom by submarines. Friends Pay Honor To Prominent Citizen On Wednesday Morning Dr. N. J. Coker, one of the most useful citizens of Cherokee county for nearly half a century died Monday night in the hospital that his life built here. Dr. Coker was active in medi- cine, in education, and in the prog- ress of livestock and agriculture and the improvement of his county throughout all the adult time of the 71 years of his life. Funeral was conducted Wednes- day morning at the First Baptist Church by Rev. O. M. Seigler, pas- tor and Rev. Peter Manning, of the Inman Park Methodist Church, At lanta. Pickens-Cherokee Medical Asso- ciation which he helped to organ- ize, the American Legion of which he was a member, and deacons of the First Baptist Church of which he was chairman, were honorary escorts at his funeral for which business generally remained closed in a final mark of respect. He had been ill for several months. Newton Jasper Coker, member of an old and distinguished Georgia family, was born March 14, 1868, in Cherokee County, Georgia, son of Shealtiel Latharius and Eliza- beth (Perkins) Coker. On his ma- ternal side he was the great grand-son of Moses and Elizabeth Perkins who were charter mem- bers of the First Baptist Church at Canton when it was constituted on the 23 of August, 1833. His paternal grand parents were Thomas and Elizabeth (Cobb) Co- ker. They were natives of Virgin- ia and migrated to Cherokee Coun- ty, Georgia, in the early thirties. Dr. Coker received his education in the Public School at Canton. Then attended college at Dahlon- ega College, Young Harris College and the Medical Department of the University of Georgia in Au- gusta. He received the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in April, 1893. He took post-graduate work in 19- 13 at the Post Graduate Medical School in New York City. Doctor Coker began his practice of medicine at Chappells, S. C. in May 1893. He remained there four years then returned to Chero- kee County, Georgia. On Decem- ber 15, 1910 he opened offices in Canton, Georgia and has prac- ticed medicine continiously since that time except for a brief prac- tice in Bartow and in Forsyth counties. When the United States became involved in the World War, Dr. Coker volunteered his services to the Government. He was commis- sioned Captain in the Medical Corps June 25, 1918, and was as- signed to the 62 Pioneer Infantry stationed at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. He was hon- orably discharged from the Army December 11, 1918 and returned to Canton to resume his work as a practicing physician. Quite aside from his professional activities in connection with his own private practice. Dr. Coker took a lively interest in the work of several associations and groups. He was a member of the Ninth District Medical Association, the Cherokee County Medical Associa- tion, of which he was formerly president, the Georgia State Med- ical Society and the American Continued on Page 8 To Plan Program For Citizenship Day, Oct. 12th Details of ceremonies to recog- nize and certify as citizens those Cherokee boys and girls that be- come of legal age this year will be discussed next week at a meeting of the American Legion Committee and school and civic heads. George Doss, Americanism chair- man of the Legion here, announced he will call a meeting next week of his committee, with presidents of Lions, Rotary and Woman’s Clubs, Superintendents Haworth and Booth, Dr. W. M. Bratton, pre- sident of Reinhardt, and others. The ceremony will be held in se- veral Cherokee county communi- ties, on Oct. 12, following instruct- ion in citizenship. Mountain Woman Sees Movie Here For First Time Mrs. Carrie Wright came to Can- ton this week, guest of Mrs. John S. Wood, in the longest visit Mrs. Wright has ever made from her home on the shores of Blue Ridge Lake—and saw her first picture show. Mrs. Wright was reared in the mountains along the Toccoa River in North Georgia, and has lived there all her life. Schools were and still are undeveloped there. Mor- ganton, nine miles over rough roads is the nearest high school. Mrs. Wright and her husband, Louis, are farmers. They sold three farms to the Tennessee El- ectric Power Company, to be swamped by the lake. Since then they have rented their lands and continue living there. They did not know—or care much—that a war was on in Eu- rope and had never heard of Pol- and. They don’t take newspapers because there is no mail delivery and the nearest postoffice several miles from home. "We just keep busy on the farm, and make a living and let the rest of the world go on,” said Mrs. Wright. "The folks outside call us moun- tain Hooziers and we laugh about it and enjoy our lives." Gordon County Singing Meet September 25 The Gordon County singing con- vention will be held at Fairmount on Sunday, September 24, in the high school auditorium. This fall session will undoubtedly be one of the best in the 54 year history of the convention. One of the high- lights of the convention will be the Vaughan-Daniel quartet, who will return at the request of a great number of people. Leaders and quartets from Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee will be present. The public is invited to attend. Map of New Submarine Warfare in Atlantic UMDLAND, FRANCE1 S.S.MANAAR YORK TORPEDOED AZORES ■ MIES cue o 2 6 € 5.5 PUKKASTAN TORPEDOED GERM AN SHIPS IN REFUGE; Z L 0 w S.S OLIVEGROVE TORPEDOED < a 0 z REPORT AT LEAST 40 SUBS DETECT EO HERE $.S. ATHENIA TORPEDOED Oar x 2000 •This excellent map shows the be- ginning of submarine warfare in the Atlantic as German . U-boats continue their attack on British craft. Capt. Giles Stedman of the United States liner Washington rescued 33 persons from the tor- pedoed British freighter Olive- grove off the Irish coast. While 54 German ships were said to have taken refuge in the neutral port of Vigo, Spain, reports of torpedoed ships continued to come in. The British steamer Manaar was sunk by a submarine attack off the Por tuguese coast. The freighter S. S. Pukkaston was sunk off Lands End, England. Reports that 40 submarines had been detected off Cobh, Ireland, were received in the U. S. Plans for County Fair Being Made Rapidly Returns to War Hickory Flat to Hold Community Fair Soon One of the outstanding heroes of the World War, General Maxime Weygand, 72, was placed in com- mand of France’s eastern forces in the Mediterranean area for the new war with Germany. One of his duties will be to ensure safety of the Suez Canal, the Allies’ lifeline to the East. ‘Salvation’ Is Baptist Topic Sunday Night "Salvation, Is It Keeping Tra- ditional Views For the Experience of Divine Grace?” will be the sub- ject of the sermon of Rev. O. M. Seigler, pastor of the First Baptist Church, at the service of worship Sunday night. He will preach on, "Christ’s Last Charge to His Fu- ture Followers,” at the morning service of worship. A departmental Sunday School convenes from 10:00 to 11:00 o’- clock. The Baptist Training Union meets at 6 P. M. You are invited to all services of the day. Shaws to Manage Hotel Canton Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Shaw arriv- ed this week to manage the Hot- el Canton, succeeding Mr. A. W. Glenn, who goes to the Langren Hotel in Asheville. The Langren and the Canton are both William Faw Hotels. Mr. Glenn came here this year when Mr. Faw first leased the Hotel Canton. He and Mrs. Glenn and the children were to return this week- end to Asheville. With Chicken Supper Hickory Flat will inaugurate the Cherokee County fair season with a community fair and chicken sup- per Saturday, Sept. 23. Exhibits for the Cherokee Coun ty Fair, Oct. 2-7, will be selected there. Several other communities also are planning to have fairs at which they will select their county fair exhibit. The community fair at Hickory Flat will be under the direction of the women of the community as sisted by Miss Martha O’Farrell, county home demonstration agent. Chicken supper, served from 7 to 9 in the evening, will be under the direction of Dr. W. 0. Rhodes. The public is invited to the fair and to the supper for which a charge will be made for the bene- fit of the community. Plans were going forward rap- idly this week for the Cherokee County Fair, sponsored by the A- merican Legion, with $1,000 cash premiums offered for home, live- stock, poultry, agricultural and community exhibits. With $75 the top prize for com- munity exhibits and some cash a- ward for every community that provides a creditable community exhibit, this feature is expected to lead in interest. A forestry exhibit with the CCC camp at Pine Log mountain being assisted by the Cherokee County TPO is expected to attract wide attention. This will be an educa- tional exhibit, showing many prof- itable timbers from Cherokee coun- ty and the uses to which they may be put, together with a study in the need of preventing forest fires. RAMBLIN’ ‘ROUND BY J. B. PARHAM A two-pound sweet potato with a ten-penny nail growing through it was brought to the Tribune office Thursday by Cherley Sexton of Ball Ground Rt. 5 Other than the nail sticking out both sides the po- tato was normal and will likely go into a sliced potato pie at an early date. Ernest Stone brought us three stalks of turnip greens that struck us at the hips. Noble Langston, Stone’s neighbor, grew the salad. This is pretty good for fall tur- nips, but we had ’em last spring that struck us around the shoulders and one stalk made a mess. Be- sides the wife gathered the blooms for flowers for the house. The other Sunday morning the madam being gone we thought we could make out fine. We had cof- fee, sugar, some sliced bread, ice, etc. A little salt meat was in the larder. We had a couple of daily papers to read about the war. We thought we were setting pretty. We had a package of up-town ci- garettes and reached for a match. What, no matches. We searched all pockets and found some inter- esting articles, but no matches. We searched everybody’s pockets on the premises. No matches. More interesting items. ford, Texas, announced the arri- val there of one, Otto Sherman on a verge of a break down or a jump out. Otto says he caught a plane out of Atlanta and was home in a jiffy. But he added that if they would only have let him out en route he would have paid twice the amount of the ticket. He says the trip was fairly pleasant except for an old maid on the plane who had a nose like a bird dog and she con- tinually complained that she smell- ed everything from hair tonic to burnt rubber. We have just learned what will end the war and stop the loss of life and suffering. One of our country brothers told us last Sat- urday. He said for somebody to just go over to Germany and shoot old Rudolph Whitley who was causing it all. —o— Friends here of the Austins will regret to hear of the death of Niles Austin in Gainesville Wednesday night. The Austins lived in North Canton and Mr. Austin was a lino- type operator for the Tribune in the fall of 1934 and 1935. They have many friends here who sym- pathize with the widow and the mother in their bereavement. Well sir, there are champions in Continued on page 8 We have about decided that the most essential thing is matches, and the most difficult thing to keep is a supply of matches.Wonder how many times that question is asked? "Gotta a match?" That re- minds us, we want to smoke right now. Nope, no matches. Gotta go down stairs and bum one. These premises would be a good insur ance risk if it takes matches to burn up something. An air mail letter from Here- Conference At Me. Church On Sunday Morning A church conference will be held in connection with the 11 o’clock worship service at the First Me- thodist Church on Sunday morn- ing. The conference will be for the purpose of electing a delegate to the North Georgia Annual Con- ference which will be held in At- lanta on November 12. The Rev. R. P. Etheridge, pas- tor, will speak Sunday morning on the subject "On Pleasing Pagans." Are there any pagans in our com- munity? Who are they and what can be done about them? These are some of the questions the pas- tor will discuss. Sunday evening he will speak on "Christian Patience." The evening service is at 7 o’clock. The Wesley Fellowship Class will have charge of the Wednesday evening prayer service at 7 o’clock. County Council Has Important Meet, Sept. 23 An important meeting of the 4-H Club and H. D. Council will be held at the courthouse on Sat- urday, September 23 at 1 o’clock. All members are urged to be pre- sent as definite and final decisions will be made for community booths and settlement of all problems that might arise concerning the Coun- ty Fair. The H. D. Agent, County Agent, and a representative of the Fair Association will be present to re- present each phase of work. Birthday Dinner To Be Sept. 24 The annual birthday dinner giv- en for Mr. George W. White, and his niece, Mrs. Maggie Henson, will be September 24 at Mr. White’s home near Shoal Creek. First Bale! Cherokee county’s first bale of cotton was harvested and sold by Carl Reeves to J. H. Johnston Company of Wood- stock, Mr. Johnston reported. Mr. Johnston said this is 13 days behind last year’s first bale, and the crop this year will be short. The bale weighed 528 pounds and brought $54.13. New Citizens Name — Address Date of Birth — Sex If you have become or will become 21 years of age between Oct. 12, 1938 and Oct. 12, 1939 fill out and return this blank to George Doss, chairman Americanism Committee, American Legion, Canton, Ga.
