About North Georgia tribune. (Canton, Ga.) 1934-1973 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1939)
Official Organ Cherokee County North Ororgia Tribune JA REALINEWSDAPER e FOR NORTHGEORGIA 8 PAGES TODAY VOL. VI. No. 40. CANTON, GEORGIA FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1939 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Think o’ That By TOM ARNOLD Everybody had lots of fun and entertainment at the fair this year, but nobody lost view of the fact that the exhibits from farm and homes of Cherokee county are of the first importance. Communities of Cherokee county are to be congratulated for their interest and their hard work to make a beautiful thing of their ex- hibits. They are doing a wonder- ful work on these Cherokee county farms. Visitors and judges told me that they had seen no better exhibits anywhere, and with the exception of a few much larger fairs they had seen nothing to equal the community exhibits here. Special thanks is due from the Fair Association and the Ameri- can Legion to Miss Lula Edwards, Mr. A. C. Moore and W. R. O'Dell who judged the exhibits for us. They did a fine job. Nowhere has there been a great- er community co-operation than in this Cherokee County Fair. Last Friday and Saturday there were enough people in the buildings working at the job of getting ready for the fair to have formed a pretty fair-sized midway crowd. They were working together and doing a fine job. Communities that do that will succeed. School authorities tell you that a great many school-age pupils are out of school. Under the law they must go to school. Books are free and teachers cost the children nothing. These children that are neglec- ting their school advantages are paving their own way to the poor- house—or rather to the modern version, the relief rolls. They will fail now to equip themselves to make a living so that in the future it will be their faults that put them on the public charity. In the past it was not exactly so. There were opportunities but not so great as today. Boys and girls must have books and in the past they were to be bought. To- day the state gives them free. People ought to go to school. Saw Farmer (Rube) Jones very studiously inspecting community exhibits, livestock and poultry at the Fair. Farmer Rube, you may know, is going to farm the old Brown farm this year. He was getting some good pointers from Uncle Cate Worley, Mr. T. J. Carpenter, Mr. Wash Chambers and others who have as much farming behind them as Farmer Rube has in front of him. Another farmer at the Fair was Fred Wilbanks, winning some Jer- sey honors, and Mack Steele mod- estly telling about winning Cobb County's blue Ribbon on Mules last week. Canton and Cherokee county al- ways have been rather proud of the morals of the community, and this isn't peculiar to immediate vicin- it so much as it is to all of North Georgia. So that a gentleman who came here some two months ago com- mented that he had never experien- ced the high moral conduct of a community as he had experienced it in Canton. That doesn't mean that he found a goody-goody peo- ple here, but he did find a people who are seriously conducting their own affairs in a decent manner. People step over the bounds oc- casionally yes. But you don't find whole waves of crime and drunken- ness here. Comparisons are difficult as well as odious. Any other part of the state would claim the same. And we won't name names in this. But in a big city in Georgia there are thousands of arrests in a month, for drunkenness, theft, robbery, and every depravity to which mankind has come. These figures were reported in the daily press. We notice that Continued on Page 8 $50 Reward Offered by Mayor For Town’s Stolen Watch-Keys Who's got the key? Not the key to the situation nor the key to the city that is given convention delegates. It's the key the policemen use to punch a clock to see if they are awake. And it's stolen! Not ‘it' but a whole string of them. Mayor Pettit offers $50 of the tax-payers’ money to find who did the stealing. It's an amateur contest. Professionals all have fail- ed. It works like this: If you expect burglars, you hire a watchman and you give him a recording clock and nail some keys up along the route he is to follow. He punches each key at 45-minute intervals and that makes a record on the clock that he was there and awake. The mounting crime wave in oth- er cities alarm the city fathers. There hasn't been a crime here since the boys caught a fellow in a tight down near the wholesale house about four years ago and arrested him for a burglar. First Prize Community Exhibit At Cherokee County Fair HICKORY FLAT COMMUNITY .1. jr :the set it Hickory Flat again won the $75 ring exhibit is shown above. Twelve each, provided a problem for the first prize offered at the Cherokee other splendid community exhib- judges. County Fair. Picture of the win- its, all taking money down to $51 —B & B Photos—Gainesville Community Exhibit Won By Hickory Flat Again Waleska Wins Second Place For $50 Prem ium And Other Com munities Win Cash Hickory Flat duplicated its last year's achievement by winning top prize of $75 cash for the best com- munity exhibit at the Cherokee County Fair. Judging community exhibits was the high spot in the Fair's exhibi- tion of agricultural products, live- stock and handicrafts. Other winners in the community exhibit group were: Waleska, 2nd, $50; Modesto, 3rd, $25; Avery, 4th, $17.50; Lathem- town, 5th, $12.50; Holly Springs, 6th, $7.50, and Burris, 7th, $5. In addition the six other com- munity exhibits that did not come into the prize winning class were awarded $5 each for efforts in bringing the exhibits to the fair. Although the top prize in com- munity exhibits was won by a re- peater, there was quite a scramble of the other prizes as compared to last year. In 1938 Avery was second. Lath- emtown third, Mayhugh fourth, Oakdale fifth, Burris sixth and Toonigh seventh. All of the exhibits were so cred- itable that the judges were put to the task of considering every point in detail in order to reach their decisions. These points are var- iety, value and marketability, qual- ity, educational value and attrac- tiveness. Every exhibit had all of these points covered in their booths. The result was that only by de- tailed comparison could the judges reach their verdicts. The judges were Miss Lula Ed- wards, Athens; A. C. Moore, Jas- per and W. R. O'Dell, Ellijay. Livestock, agriculture and Poul- try were judged by Frank W. Fitch and Arthur Gannon of Ath- ens. The judges gave detailed in- struction to inform the exhibitors of the points they should seek to develop in the various groups to improve quality and win premiums. The exhibits were praised highly by the judges and other visitors. Awards, subjected to correction by comparison with the official prem- ium list, are: POULTRY Winner in the poultry division are as follows: Best trio (1 male and 2 females) All breeds and ages competing; Continued on Page 8 But they thought crime might spread to Canton and to protect property they bought a clock for the police to carry and punch. Somebody stole one of the keys be- fore the policeman got to it for the first punch and then doubled back and got the rest of them. Everytime the officer would go to punch a key, the culprits would steal the one behind him. They knew when he started punching how long it would take him to punch a key and go to the next one. They got the one he had just left. Like a smart pig following a far- mer to grist mill, staying just one rise behind. Now they got some new keys. And they are nailed down tight, so it will take a hammer to move them. And Mayor Pettit offers fifty bucks to the sleuths who will bring before him the thieves—and prove the theft in court. "It won't be any little court eith- er—they are going to the big court” said the Mayor. Lions Organizze At Ball Ground; Charter Oct. 24 Ball Ground Lions Club was or- ganized this week, officers were installed Wednesday night, and Charter night was set for Oct. 24. There are 14 members. Herman J. Spence, attorney practicing in Canton, was elected president, and O. W. Groover and J. O. McCollum vice presidents, with Guy D. McKinney, secretary. T. F. Smith was elected treasur- er. Cliff Holcomb was named Lion Tamer and A. J. Lovelady Jr., Tail Twister. J. H. Cook and Fred T. Boling Jr., were added to the board of di- rectors. Meetings will be held Tuesday evenings at the Ball Ground School. sored by the Canton Club. The sore dby the Canton Club. The Canton Club also sponsored the Jasper Club, organized this sum- mer. Roy Cobb was named charter night chairman. Other members of the club are John B. Taylor, Prof. J. W. Lee, A. O. Ingram, E. M. Holcomb and J. H. Cook. Ora E. Chapin, commissioner of Lions International, attended the organization meeting. Other guests included J. H. Bagwell, deputy dis- trict governor; N. E. Fackler, Can- ton Lions President; John Teasley; President Joseph A. Gwinn, of the Jasper Club and Roscoe Pickett Jr., vice president and Jesse Dar- nell and Greely Holcomb, members of the Jasper Club. Haworth Asks Parents’ Cooperation In Children’s School Attendance To Canton and Cherokee County Parents: May I ask your cooperation in securing regular attendance of your children in the Canton Public Schools? It works a hardship on the teachers to try to teach pupils who are not regular in attendance. Also your child is placed under a handicap in trying to catch up in his studies. Moreover, the school authorities feel that your child will be less likely to get in trouble if he is in school. May I call your attention to the Georgia Compulsory School Law which makes it a misdemeanor for a parent to wilfully allow his child to miss school, provided the child is between the ages of eight and fourteen? This is punishable by a fine of ten dollars. You perhaps know that the mon- ey to run the schools on depends upon attendance. In Canton the schools may receive from the state this year about one hundred dol- lars a day or eighteen thousand dollars for the school year. If all should be absent every day Canton would lose that amount. Do you realize that in the Can- ton Grammar School last year, 125 pupils dropped out? The amount lost from the state is equivalent to pay the salaries of four teachers for the entire year. It is equiva- lent to buying about one hundred fine books a month or nine hun- dred for the year. When your child stays out of school it is depriving other child- ren of books or something they have a right to find in school. I am sure that you will cooper- ate with all of us in trying to make this school succeed in a big way. N. R. HAWORTH, SUPT. CANTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. J. I. Darnell To Preside Oct. 12 At Masons Meet J. I. Darnell, High Priest, of Canton, will preside over the ninth district Royal Arch Masons con- vention in Gainesville October 12. The meeting will convene at 3:30 o'clock for the annual session. Other prominent Canton masons who will take part are A. M. Mode, secretary and W. R. Greene Sr. Principal Soujourner. The business session will be held in the afternoon with dinner and the Royal Arch Degree in the eve- ning. The degree cast of the Can- ton chapter has been selected to confer the degree before the as- sembled convention. A large par- ty of Canton masons are expected to attend the meeting. Other North Georgians who will figure prominently in the conven- tion are, Grady Willingham, Cop- perhill; E. D. Kenyon, and Wilson Smith, Gainesville; C. M. Morcock, and C. A. McKelney, Lawrence ville; H. C. Cole, Ellijay; W. W. Taylor, Caysville. Clubs Have Joint Meeting Saturday The North Georgia Division of the Improved Order of Redmen met in fall convention Saturday in conjunction with Pocohontas Sat- urday at the Redmen Hall. Many important officials of the division were present for the meeting. A basket luncheon was served after which a degree contest was held between Canton and Lindale with Canton winning the banner. About three hundred members at- tended. Among them were: H. A. Savage, New Holland, Great Sachem; George Wallen- haupt. Canton, Great Senior Saga- more; W. R. Waits, Lindale, Great Junior Sagamore; C. C. Gillette, Atlanta, Great Chief of Records; Mrs. Holsenbeck, Aragon, Great Pocohontas; Mrs. Cora E. Smith, Atlanta, Great Keeper of Records. Baptists Begin New Departmental Year on Sunday Last Sunday the Baptist started a New Year in the Teaching and Training Department of the First Baptist Church's activities. Last year the Sunday Schohol had an a- verage attendance for the fifty- two Sundays of 418. The Baptist Training Union enjoyed one of their best years. A complete org- anization has been set up for the year 1939-40. All officers and teachers have been elected by the Church, promotion exercises al- ready completed and everything ready for a better year than the one just passed. Sunday the Pastor will speak at the morning service on "The Chris- tian and His Money” and will speak at the evening service on the topic "The I Am " The Sunday School hour of tea- ching will begin at 10:00 A. M.1 and the Hour of Training will start at 6:00 P. M. There is a class for everyone in the Sunday school and a place for training in the Training Union. o Bill Goodwins Announce Birth of Daughter Sept. 17 Mr. and Mrs. Bill Goodwin an- nounce the birth of a daughter Shelby Jean, on September 17. Citizenship Day Plans Completed By Chairman Doss Complete plans for the program Oct. 12 when the American Legion and State Department of Education will sponsor a Citipenship Day exercise to recognize young Amer- icans were announced this week by George Doss. E. M. McCanless, Legion Dis- trict Adjutant, will be master of ceremonies. Mr. Doss is chairman of Thom- as M. Brady Post, American Le- gion, Americanism committee and of the Central committee composed of representatives of school and civic organizations. Cherokee county boys and girls who become of voting age during the year from Oct. 12, 1938 to Oct. 12, 1939 are urged to attend the program which will be at 7 o'clock in the evening at Canton High aud- itorium. The ceremonious recognition of aliens who are admitted to cit- izenship led leaders of the state to believe that boys and girls who grow up in America should be recognized also and instructed in the rights and privileges of citizen- ship. A certificate will be given to each new citizen who attends the meeting Thursday, Oct. 12. DeLacey Allen, former Georgia Commander of the American Leg- ion, will deliver the principal add- ress. The Canton High Band will play patriotic music. Rev. J. B. Ward, post chaplain, will lead the prayer. After the as- sembly sings America, Chairman Doss will explain the purpose of the meeting, and Miss Martha Galt, Woman's Club president, will discuss "The Woman Citizen." John S. Wood, former solicitor, judge and Congressman here, will introduce Mr. Allen. After the address the formalities of presen- ting the certificates to the new citizens will be conducted. ‘Youth Week'To Be Observed By 1st Methodist “Childhood and Youth Week” will be observed by Methodists of Canton October 8-15. A special service for parents will be held Sunday morning. The pastor will speak on the subject, "What Par- Cents Owe to their Children." A special service for children will be held on Sunday morning, Oc- tober 15, as a sequel to the service Sunday. Sunday evening the pastor will use as his subject " Unsatisfying Forgiveness”. As a special fea- ture Miss Mable Lewis and Roger Lewis will sing. The Epworth League will meet at 6:15 o'clock. Cherokee Schools To Open Monday For Second Term Cherokee County schools will o- pen Monday for the second part of the school year, according to ann- ouncement by E. T. Booth, super- intendent of the county schools. The schools plan to run for seven months and with two months al- ready completed will have fulfilled their regular schedule. RAMBLIN’ ’ROUND BY J. B. PARHAM At least a thousand or more school children had one good day this week when they invaded the fair grounds on Tuesday. It mat- tered not whether the ferris wheel squeaked or the whip engine run hot, they were on there riding round and round, up and down from nine in the morning till as long as their parents or teach- ers would permit. We rode to town from the fair grounds Tuesday evening with Dad Sims and half a dozen of the neighzors' children and heard some interesting first hand remarks from the kiddies about it all. Rich- ard Sims expressed himself as be- ing delighted with the fair, ex- cept funds ran low along about noon. Said he had spending money and some extra big money which he sunk down deep in a hidden pock- et for emergencies. At lunch, he had one nickel and made din- ner on a wiener and a glass of water. Then it was that little Dad grew panicky and sent out the SOS. He called up big Dad and said to rush over with some more funds, "I will meet you at the gate.” Lit- tle Sue Edge lowed she had suffi- cient funds but had to lend out a dime which crippled her finances considerably. Young Carl Edge said nothing. It seemed that a something was turning round in his head. Reluctantly they pull ed themselves away from the great- est fair they ever attended or will ever attend and Wednesday pored Crowds Set Record At Fair; Two More Days of Big Thrills Fowler Elected Head of Singing Meeting Sunday A. H. Fowler was elected presi- dent of the Cherokee County Sing- ing Convention at their annual fall session at the Holbrook Camp- ground School auditorium on Sun- day, October 1. He succeeds Roy Holbrook. Other officers elected were E. E. Whitmire, vice president, and H. A. Haygood, secretary-treasurer. The finance committee consists of Er- nest Turner, Levi Gaddis and Win- ston Woodrange. It was decided that the next meeting would be held at the Holly Springs auditor- ium on the fourth Sunday in April. The session was opened with a song by Roy Holbrook. This was followed by a prayer by J. W. Man gum. Singers who performed Sunday morning were: H. A. Haygood, D. W. Wood- ring, Wallace Fowler, of Alabama, W. M. DeVaughan, Dalton, A. H. Fowler, Troy Daniel, Alabama, A. M. Rainwater, E. E. Whitmire, Les- lie Gaddis, North Canton Quartet, Troy Davis, Ellijay, Reno Smith- wick, Vaughan-Daniel Quartet, Alabama; G. B. Wigenton, Marvin Webb, Atlanta, Robert Milford, Buford Quartet, C. L. Holcomb, Miss Cas ey. In the afternoon: Roy Holbrook, John Daniel, Ala- bama, Herman Roper, J. B. Hada- way, Ernest Turner, Bernett Sis- ters trio, Dan Bryant, Lloyd Law- son, M. B. Elliott, W. M. De- Vaughn, Betty Bannister, Willie Ellis, J. W. Lacy, Arvil Weaver; Canton Quartet, W. T. Bagley, Sunshine Quartet, Albert Williams, Alabama, Carl Rainer, Alabama, Miss Catherine Rainwater, guitar solo, E. E. Whitmire trio, Grover Higgins, Walton Taylor, J. B. Ti- ten, Atlanta, Sunrise Quartet, At- lanta. Rotarians Hear Outstanding 4-H Club Enthusiasts Rotarians heard a program pre- sented by outstanding 4-H Club members at their regular meeting on Tuesday. W. A. Adams, Jr., of the Avery Club, Dessie Mae Bald win, North Canton, Carlton Hen- drix, Woodstock, Vinnie Ruth Land Avery, were the speakers. All of these boys and girls were winners of leadership scholarships offered by the Cherokee County Fair Association in 1938 and all attended the leadership conference at Athens. In their talks they discussed their experiences at this meeting. over school books with the fair, merry-go-round, ferris wheel and whip still in their minds. A married couple in Canton who love children but have none of their own, was fondling what they thought was an infant. They chuckled him under the chin, goo- gooed at him with baby talk and eventually said they thought they would give him some ice cream, only were not sure the mother would agree. The "baby" said: "Oh, that's ok, she does occasion- ally. The baby proved to be past three years old and could talk, but small to its age. Gene Grizzle, 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Grizzzle, of Union Hill, while digging sweet potatoes, found a potato with a nickel growing in it. The potato was brought to the Tribune office for us to see but it was not left. We are going to dig our crop soon and will examine them potatoes carefully. We are under obligations to Minister Wm. A. Hillhouse, of Hol- ly Springs, for a poke of sweet ap- ples. These are said by the min- ister to be the only sweet apple to ripen this late in the fall of the year. F. M. Bishop fetched in a bag of them Delicious apples that grow so abundantly on his farm out the Orange Road. A former Home Demonstration Agent of Cherokee county. Miss Continued on Page 8 Two more days of the Cherokee County Fair remain, with thrills and entertainment in store for thousands. Now that the judging is over and the awards made, exhibits become more interesting. The public now can get some real information by studying the exhibits and by com- parison can see how it happened that certain one won. Attendance already has set new records at the gate. Children's Day, when the children were ad- mitted free Tuesday, proved also a record Tuesday for paid admiss- ions, with almost 2,000 other chil- dren passing the gates. Plenty of free parking space is provided adjoining the Fairgrounds on the South. An admission gate has been opened on that side, so that people can walk directly into the grounds from their parking places. Exhibits will remain in place un- til after closing Saturday night, so that there is ample opportunity for everybody to see them. On the midway there is the grea- test assortment of shows, rides and concessions ever brought to Can- ton. Barfield's Cosmopolitan shows have extended themselves this year to provide for this community the type of entertainment that is want- ed here. There is no gambling and no vulgarity, but don't get the idea it is a tame show. There are thrills in every inch of the midway, many new attractions along with the standard rides and shows. Flying Columbians in a great free act give the public one of the greatest aerial shows on the road today. It alone is worth the price of admission. Schoolboy Patrol Guests at Lions Lunch Thursday Canton Lions Club had as spe- cial guests at Thursday's luncheon Canton's Senior Schoolboy Patrol, and Chief Hoke Forrester, their guide and mentor. Patrol Captain Gene Lathem and Lieutenant George Doss explained the work the patrol does, its mem- bers standing guard at street in tersections in town and riding school busses to and from school. Those who ride the busses are instructed to leave the bus when- ever it stops and see to the safe- ty of children boarding or leaving the bus. They work closely with the state highway patrol. At street intersections in town and road junctions and intersec- tions in the country the patrolmen halt traffic whenever necessary to the safety of the children. I In the case of busses stopping on the highway, all vehicles either meeting or passing the stopping or stopped bus are required by law to halt until the bus proceeds. More than 700 school children were struck two years ago, 83 a year ago and 3 so far this year in the entire state, the boys said. Saving that many lives is the re- markable record for which the en- tire state and the Canton Lions Club as local sponsors are proud. Seigler Named Moderator of Noonday Meet O. M. Seigler, pastor of the First Baptist Church, was elected moder- ator of the Noonday Association at the 81st annual meeting of that body on Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Spring Street Baptist Church, Smyrna. Dr. Seig- ler succeeds Dr. George F. Brown, of Marietta. P. G. Smith, of Marietta, was named clerk, "Dad" Sims, of Can- ton assistant clerk, E. B. Awtrey, of Smyrna treasurer. Every church in the Association, 39, sent letters to the association. Dr. I. A. White, who will soon be 82 years of age, preached the in troductory sermon on Wednesday morning. Dr. White used as his subject "Biblical Materialism Vs Spiritualism”. John B. Payne of Blue Ridge was also one of the feature speakers of Wednesday’s session. He spoke on "Christian Stewardship”. On Thursday, the Rev. J. H. Ful- ler, pastor of the Sandy Plains Church, delivered the Missionary sermon. Several members of the Canton church attended the meeting. Daughter Is Born To Mr., Mrs. H. S. Davis Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Davis an- nounce the birth of a daughter, Sarah Louise, on September 28.
