Official Organ
of
Cherokee County
North Georgia Cribunr
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VOL. VI. No. 41.
CANTON, GEORGIA FRIDAY, OCT. 13, 1939
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Think o’ That
By TOM ARNOLD
Cherokee county’s biggest fair,
just ended last week, attracted a
number of distinguished visitors.
Among them were Man Mountain
Dean, the wrestling movie actor,
who lives at Norcross. He visited
the fair with Mrs. Dean and their
niece.
Also there were Logan Kelley,
immediate past commander of the
Georgia American Legion, with
Roy Hutcherson, Worley Shelly
and Mr. King all from Buford.
And from Jasper came Comman
der Butler, of the Legion post at
Jasper, Olen Cagle, Pickens ordin
ary, and others. All of them were
very welcome.
The Fair Management express
es the hope that those persons who
were detained while slipping into
the Fair without paying their ten
cents at the gate will return to
visit next year's Fair—and come in
the right way.
It was as much fun as anything
else when those watching for slip-
ins caught the culprits and had
them buy two tickets instead of
one. One ticket was for admiss
ion and the other for the trouble
in guarding the grounds.
The Fair belongs to everybody.
The bulk of the admission money
goes to the Fair Association. That
is its principal source of revenue.
When the management reduced the
price to a dime it was felt that ev-
erybody ought to pay that dime.
Incidentally, the Fair has the
names of about two dozen that are
known to have slipped in but could
not be caught at the time. They
will save themselves embarras-
ment by paying now. It is not too
late.
Otto Sherman, when he comes to
Cherokee, always starts something.
This time it was a big snake.
He has a whole community east
of Canton exercised about a snake
with a body as large as a barrel.
Several people have reported that
others have seen the tracks of the
serpent. Some women are afraid to
let their children out of the house.
And Otto is out there in Tex-
as chuckling about the tale he
started while visiting here. It's bad
enough on the children. But the
women are threatening not to let
their husbands go out nights, and
that will be very, very bad.
W. D. Young of Gainesville, has
assumed his duties as district for-
ester for the district that includes
Cherokee. While many friends
will regret the transfer of T. P.
Hursey from this district, they will
have a ready welcome for Mr.
Young.
North Georgia has become for-
esry conscious in he last few
years. Some counties still permit
the indiscriminate burning of for-
est lands, but those that have kept
the fire out already have come to
realize the importance of timber.
The prediction may be judicious-
ly made that within a few years
there will be no more wanton burn
ing in North Georgia. The timber
that fire destroys is a crop that
grows without work until the day
of the harvest and is proving high-
ly profitable.
Parts of Cherokee county have
little timber. Those parts were
public minded enough to go along
with the timbered part of the coun-
ty to save the timber that was
here.
Although it was not easy for
them to see it, those parts of the
county without much timber now
see the value of saving what there
is and of growing more.
Above 10,000
See Fair, Set
New Records
Records were broken at the Che-
rokee County Fair this year when
10,247 paid admissions entered the
gates to view the exhibits and en
joy the various forms of entertain
ment. Checks for the premium win
ners are being mailed at this time,
another record, as the lists have
not heretofore been completed in
less than two weeks following the
fair.
Below is a list of the premium
winners, which added to the list
issued last week makes it com-
plete. All winners will receive their
checks this week.
FOOD PRESERVATION
Canned vegetable exhibit: 1st,
Mrs. Clifford Little; 2nd, Mrs.
Scott Carney; 3rd. Mrs. Elvetta
Blanton; 4th, Mrs. Carl Worley.
Canned fruit exhibit: 1st, Mrs.
Clifford Little; 2nd, Mrs. Byron
Gramling; 3rd, Mrs. Carl Worley;
4th, Mrs. Scott Carney.
Fruit juice exhibit: 1st, Mrs.
Carl Worley; 2nd, Mrs. Mary Gay;
3rd, Mrs. M. S. Baldwin; 4th, Mrs.
Fred Worley.
Special menu exhibit: 1st, Miss
Miriam Gramling; 2nd, Mrs. Carl
Worley; 3rd, Mrs. Mary Gay; 4th,
Mrs. Scott Carney.
Jelly exhibit: 1st, Mrs. Clifford
Little; 2nd, Mrs. M. S. Baldwin;
3rd, Miss Miriam Gramling; 4th,
Mrs. 0. H. Bishop.
Preserves, jam and marmalade
exhibit: lst., Mrs. R. H. Dorsey;
2nd, Mrs. Carl Worley; 3rd,
3rd, Mrs. Scott Carney; 4th,
Mrs. M. D. Baldwin.
Pickle exhibit: lst, Mrs. Elvetta
Blanton; 2nd, Mrs. Scott Carney;
3rd, Mrs. B. W. Land; 4th, Mrs.
Carl Worley.
II. D. CLUB SEWING
Crocheted rug: 1st, Mrs. Amanda
Jackson; 2nd, Miss Mattie Lou
Smith; 3rd, Mrs. H. A. Pinyan.
Best cloth bed spread: lst, Mrs.
M. W. Little; 2nd, Mrs. J. W. Rop
er; 3rd, Mrs. Amanda Jackson.
Best crocheted bed spread: lst,
Mrs. John Epperson; 2nd, Mrs.
Dozier Edwards; 3rd, Mrs. Fred
Worley.
Appliqued quilt: 1st, Miss Lu-
cille Harbin; 2nd, Mrs. B. W. Land;
3rd, Mrs. J. A. Harbin.
Best child's outfit (under 6):
lst, Mrs. D. A. Gramling.
Vanity set: lst, Ruby Hardin; 2nd,
Mrs. Fred Worley; 3rd, Miss Vinnie
Ruth Land.
Luncheon set (13 pieces): 1st,
Mrs. B. W. Land; 2nd, Mrs. F. M.
Bishop.
Articles made from sacks: 1st,
Vinnie Ruth Land; 2nd, Louise
Land; 3rd, Mrs. M. W. Little.
Cotton dress: 1st, Mrs. Scott
Carney; 2nd, Mrs. Byron Gram
ling; 3rd, Miss Miriam Gramling.
Pieced quilt: lst, Mrs. McIntyre;
2nd, Mrs. Clarence Bedelle; 3rd,
Mrs. B. W. Land.
Luncheon set: 1st, Miss Willie
Mae Chapman; 2nd, Mrs. Mary
Gay; 3rd, Mrs. Bell Pace.
Pillow cases: 1st, Mrs. Fain
Cline; 2nd, Mrs. Scott Carney; 3rd,
Mrs. B. W. Land.
Dress made from sacks: 1st,
Mrs. O. H. Bishop; 2nd, Mrs. J. L.
Carmichael; 3rd, Miss Martha
Gramling.
4-H CLUB SEWING
Junior sewing: 1st, Hazel Bald-
win; 2nd, Margaret Smith; 3rd,
Ruth Pittman.
1st year sewing: 1st, Evelyn
Heairlston; 2nd, Mae Cagle; 3rd,
Dorothy Pinyan.
2nd year sewing: 1st, Freddie
Wilbanks.
3rd year sewing: 1st, Mora
Mae Kuykendal; 2nd, Dacia Cook;
Continued on Page 8
Peacock Rei
Of County I
Bagwell Is Host
At Gulf Meeting
Gulf service station operators
were guests Monday night of J.
H. Bagwell, agent here, at a busi
ness meeting and steak supper at
the Canton Woman's Club.
After an informal supper the sta
tion operators listened to an out
line of the winter sales campaign
by J. A. Thompson, Atlanta, Gulf
sales representative.
L. B. Jones, Georgia sales man
ager and F. C. Rogers ,merchandis
ing representative, attended and
participated in the program.
Others attending included:
J. A. Dickerson, H. A. Pinyan,
H. A. Forrester, Joe Byers, Ball
Ground, J. L. Lawson, W. R. Green
Jr., W. L. Lawson, C. M. Wood,
Alpharetta, J. G. Lawson, W. L.
Bates, Alpharetta, J. H. Dilbeck,
Jasper, H. J. Moody;
Theodore Cox, H. L. Dilbeck,
Jasper, C. L. Lewis, W. H. Cable,
Waleska, H. V. Byers, Ball Ground,
H. J. McRae, R. L. Wright, El
lijay, J. Ralph Moody, Troy
Mack White, W. B. Rhodes, F. W.
Killian, John Teasley, Raymond
Reece, Ellijay, Lee Pritchett, Elli
jay, B. H. Bagwell, R. E. Day, T.
H. Sosebee, R. J. Hubbard, Wood-
stock, and Robert Wheeler, Jas
per.
Georgia Power
Builds Plant
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 13.— Im
mediate contruction of a $4,000,000
electric generating plant at Macon
by the Georgia Power Company has
been announced here by Preston
S. Arkwright, president. The plant
will be operated by steam and will
have a capacity of 60,000 horse po-
wer. The second largest steam-op-
erated generating station in Geor-
gia, it will be capable of producing
1,000,000 kilowatt hours a day when
completed in 1941.
The $4,000,000 plant will be the
largest single construction project
the Company has undertaken since
1930. Although it will serve the
entire state, location of the plant
at Macon was decided upon, Mr.
Arkwright said, because of the ra
pidly-growing power requirements
of Middle and South Georgia.
About $1,000,000 of the total
I cost of the plant will be paid to
local labor in wages and salaries
at the plant site, in addition to
jobs that will be created in supply-
ing brick, sand, cement, lumber and
other materials. Georgia materials
wil lbe given preference whenever
possible.
The plant will operate inter
changeably with coal, oil and nat-
ural gas as fuel. It will burn 480
tons of coal or 15,000,000 cubic
feet of natural gas every 24 hours
at full operation. The boiler, which
will be the largest ever installed
in a power plant in the South, will
be the equivalent in height to a
10-sory office building.
Head
Bank Problems
Told to Rotary
Meeting Monday to
Name Successor, Tran
sact Other Party Busi
ness
Cherokee County Democratic Exe-
cutive Committee will meet Mon-
day morning at 11 o'clock at call
of Chairman C. H. Peacock.
The call, issued Wednesday by
Secretary Sam Dawson, is for the
stated purpose of considering
electing his successor and such
other business as the committee
may desire.
It is customary at this time of
the year to fix rules for the coun-
ty primary and set the primary
dates, since next year is election
year for county offices.
Chairman Peacock announced
some time ago that he would re-
sign for business reasons. He has
been chairman for about four
years.
‘Living’ To Be
Service Subject
At 1st Baptist
"If Canton Is A Good Place to
Live, Then Why?" will be the sub-
ject of the sermon of Rev. O. M.
Seigler, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church, Sunday morning. He
will preach Sunday night on, "Liv-
ing the Whole Life in the Night.”
|The pastor gives the urgent re-
quest that every member of the
church be present Sunday for the
services of worship.
W. L. Blackwell, general super
intendent of the Sunday School re-
minds us that in some lands hun-
dreds of thousands of people hide
in secret places to study the Bible
and that at great risk. In America,
in Georgia, in Canton, the govern-
ment protects our rights to study
the Bible and defends us in the
study. Every church in all the land
should be filled every Sunday with
grateful students in searching the
Scriptures. Sunday School hour
each Sunday morning from 10 to
11 o'clock.
The Baptist Training Union
meets at 6 P. M. Unions for all
ages above five. Miss Betty Coker,
Director.
You are invited to all services of
the day.
Cherokee Schools
To Open Oct. 23
Cherokee County Schools will
open Monday, October 23, instead
of the date announced in last
weeks' paper. This is according to
announcement by E. T. Booth,
county school superintendent.
Chalcedonia To
Have Performance
"Red and Raymond and their
Boys from Old Kaintuck" will be
at the Chalcedonia School, three
miles from Canton, on Monday, Oc-
tober 16, at 7:30 o’clock.
Youth, Now Citizens
By W. S. Elliott
Problems of the Prudent Bank-
er were discussed Tuesday before
the Rotary Club of Canton by Wil
liam S. Elliott, Canton banker and
recently elected president of the
State Banks Division of the Am-
erican Bankers Association.
Mr. Elliott was introduced by
E. A. McCanless, who was program
chairman for the day.
Mr. Elliott linked his views on
banking with a plea for a return
to sane laws in all things that have
to do with the liberties and free-
dom of America under Democratic
institutions.
He said the problems of the ban-
ker are five principal ones:
1. Abnormal liquidity. That
means the banks are in a safe con-
dition but not a healthy one. They
can pay off depositors any time
the demand is made, but they can't
make money because their resourc
es are mostly in cash lying idle.
2. Loans. It is difficult to make
loans now because of low interest
rates and the lack of public need
for working capital. Call money,
ten years ago going a 6 to 12 per
cent, now goes for a fraction of
one per cent.
3. Investments. With money ly
ing idle in banks and overhead go
ing on, banks are seeking invest
ments for large sums the public
will not absorb in loans. Banks are
restricted to investments in safe
securities, the majority public
bonds. Government and state bonds
now pay a small percent and sell
at a high premium.
4. Government supervision. Banks
are critically supervised by gov-
ernment agencies, with Federal Re-
serve. Federal Deposit Insurance
corporation and state banking a-
gencies each telling banks what to
do, sometimes each instructing dif-
ferently. Result: Bank of Canton
made 101 reports last year, or one
for every third day of banking bus-
iness.
5. Government competition. Go-
vernment is making many loans,
some for as long as 35 years, bad
banking principals but used by go-
vernment to make loans the banks
would gladly make in many instan-
ces. Government loan rates are
lower than banks are generally per-
mitted to consider.
Despite all these troubles, Mr.
Elliott said, and with the govern-
ment tendency to centralize power,
banking along with it, the record
of state banks is particularly
bright. He pleaded for a fight on
the public's part to preserve Am-
erican institutions, even if Amer-
ica should stand alone as a demo-
cratic government.
He said that all business, banking
too is based on confidence and
trust. Destroy that, he added, and
you destroy the economic fabric
of the nation and invite dictator-
ship.
Masons to Meet
At Hickory Flat
Hickory Flat Masons will confer
the Entered Apprentice Degree at
the lodge Saturday evening at 7
o'clock. J. R. Payne is Worship-
ful Master. All qualified Master
Masons are invited.
of U. S., Recognized
Lions, Lionesses
To Meet At
Contest Supper
Canton Lions will entertain their
Lionesses at next Thursday eve-
ning's regular meeting. President
N. E. Fackler announced.
The event will be a supper at
which the two losing teams in the
recent attendance contest will be
hosts, one team furnishing, the
other preparing and serving the
meal.
Committees from the two losing
teams are Frank Stewart, Sonny
Jones and Taylor Young, and Dr.
Charles Andrews, Henry Daniel
and J. D. Foster.
The meeting will be at the Lake
Club, with the Legion Hall the
alternative if the weather is bad.
Woman Speaker At
1st Methodist On
Sunday Evening
Mrs. Annie Laura Greiner, of
Waynesboro, Ga., who has spent
many years in Church work in
China and India, and lately re-
turned from the Orient will speak
at the Methodist Church at seven
o'clock on Sunday evening. Her ad-
dress will largely relate to her ex-
periences as a missionary. The pub-
lic is cordially invited to hear her.
At the morning service the pas-
tor will use as his subject "A
School Boy in an Ancient City.”
This service is dedicated to the in-
terest of the children and youth of
the church and all the child-
ren and young people are urged to
attend the worship service at ele-
ven o'clock.
Cotton Ginning
Off 300 Bales
Census reports show that 1,254
bales of cotton were ginned in Che-
rokee County from the crop of
1939 prior to Oct. 1 as compared
with 1,562 bales for the crop of
1938.
Care, Not Luck,
Urged for Friday
13th, by Fireman
This is Friday the Thirteenth.
Lots of people are supersti-
tious about the combination.
Newly elected Chief Guy Cur-
tis of the Canton Fire Depart-
ment, says he is not supersti-
tious, but he hopes nobody will
get careless with fire.
Carelessness is worse than su-
perstition, says the new chief.
RAMBLIN' 'ROUND
BY J. B. PARHAM
Organizations are being formed
in this county's untimbered sec-
tions for the purpose of saving
and growing timber.
So that Mr. Young is coming to
a county where his work will meet
with sympathy and help. Chero-
kee county, taking the lead in fire
restriction, has done a service to
neighboring counties that also are
rapidly coming to see how much
they can save.
Mr. Roosevelt Visits Grandson in Seattle
Hampshire hogs are a hobby with
Theo Stivers of Rome.
Mr. Stivers realized a dividend
on his hobby at the Southeastern
Fair when he won championship
boar along with other premiums.
Mr. Stivers is in the flour mill-
ing business. His hog business is
just a hobby, but one that he works
at. He calls his hog farm Hamp-
shire City. He loves to watch them
grow.
Paul Carmichael
To Speak Sunday
At Holly Springs
The Rev. Paul Carmichael will
speak at the Holly Springs Bap-
tist Church on Sunday morning at
11 o'clock. A large attendance is
expected.
Cemetery Work
At Big Springs
All parties interested in the
Big Springs cemetery are re
quested to meet at the cemetery
on Friday, October 20, to help clean
Visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John I men to take a picture of John Boettiger, Jr., now
Boettiger, in Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Franklin D. seven months old. This is the first picture of the
Roosevelt, wife of the president, called in camera- | latest Roosevelt grandchild.
off the cemetery.
We had an unusually attractivei
table decoration the past week. It
was a cluster of large Japanese I
persimmons of a deep, rich color,
the foliage is very pretty and
tropical looking, and the fruit is
large almost as large as oran-
ges. If they are as pleasing to the
palate as to the eye, you sure
have something. They were sent
to us by Hon. Lamar Rucker of
Athens. The Madam saw them in
the Rucker garden while in Ath-
ens last July and was promised to
receive some when they were ripe.
So sure enough they arrived sever-
al days ago. So thanks so much to
the Ruckers. We can’t help but
think what a good time one of
these North Georgia possums would
have to stumble up on one of these
clusters just after a big frost.
Jack Williams, a rat terrier dog
belonging to Paul Williams, is lost
and Paul wants him back. Not
that he is any account but they
just like him. He is brown with
white spots, small dog, and has a
long tail, four legs, two ears and
is a normal little dog. The Dan
Henderson dog has been recovered
so don’t look any further for him.
Everybody now is happy, including
Dan and the hound.
Some newspapers have a custom
when a tramp printer comes along
he is given a meal for his life’s
story. And some of them are racy
stories. An old broke down edi-
tor an d reporter came in last
Monday. We traded on a pair of
socks and a dime cowboy handker-
chief. But we didn’t have time for
the story. However, in passing,
said he was one time the champion-
walker of the U. S., walking
from Richmond, Va., to Califor-
nia in 112 days. Besides walking
Oath Administered and
Certificates Given To
Those Newly of Age
An America saved to serve great-
er human freedom through an en-
lightened citizenry was envisioned
Thursday night here, as a large
group of Cherokee county youth
received their first citizenship pa-
pers.
Exercises at the Canton high
school auditorium recognized these
youth, young men and women who
this year reached legal age, citi-
zens of today and America's lead-
ers of tomorrow. ✓
The program was sponsored by
the Georgia Education Association,
the American Legion, and civic bo-
dies throughout Georgia. Locally
it was sponsored by Thomas M.
Brady Post No. 45, American Le-
gion, with the aid of school and
civic bodies.
George Doss, Americanism
chairman of the Legion here, de-
livered certificates after a pro-
gram that heard words of advice
from older citizens and the new ci-
tizen's viewpoint expressed by
Jesse Martin of Canton, himself a
new citizen.
Col. E. M. McCanless, district
Legion adjutant presided. DeLacey
Allen, Albany, former Georgia Le-
gion Commander, delivered the
citizenship address. Miss Martha
Galt, Woman's Club president, dis-
cussed the woman citizen.
Invocation was by Rev. J. B.
Ward, Legion chaplain. Chairman
Doss explained the purpose of the
meeting, and John S. Wood, for-
mer Legion commander here, in-
troduced Mr. Allen.
The program was interspersed by
patriotic music by the Canton High
Band. The oath of Allegiance was
administered to the new citizens,
just as it is administered to aliens
who become citizens. The affair
was a recognition of their newly
acquired status as voting citizens
of the United States.
Circuit Bar Units
To Meet in Macon
Officers of the 33 circuit bar as-
sociations in Georgia, units of the
Georgia Bar Association, will meet
Oct. 20 in Macon, to discuss asso-
ciation business.
A. J. Henderson of Canton is
chairman of the Georgia Bar As-
sociation's Committee on Circuit
Bar Associations..
Other members of the committee
are Abit Nix, Athens; Wilson Par
ker, Atlanta; Earl Camp, Dublin;
Cliff Hatcher, Waynesboro; Y. A.
Henderson, Calhoun; S. H. Dykes,
Americus; Frank McDonald, Way-
cross; Claude Christopher, Griffin
and H. G. Bell, Bainbridge.
President John L. Tye Jr. of the
Georgia Bar Association will ad-
dress the meeting. Officers of the
Blue Ridge Circuit who will at-
tend are Carl Tallant, Cumming;
A. H. Burtz, Ellijay; Herman
Spence, Canton and Wm. Butt,
Blue Ridge.
Cash Prizes Will
Be Awarded at
Bowling Center
he is an organist and an Episco-
palian.
The fair is all over and brought
out a big attendance and many
stories of the first fairs here and
the struggle to keep them going
It was told on Bill Elliott during
the early fairs when he had hold
of the purse strings, that he would
count all pedestrians, those in autos
and trucks and wagons on the
road to the fair, and do some fig
uring.
A certain percent would not even
stop. A certain percent would not
go in and a certain percent would
probably go over the fence, the
remainder were on the barrel head.
Miss Helen Wilkins (now Mrs. Al-
ton Hogan) was home demonstra-
tion agent and closely allied with
the fair. Mr. Elliott called the
fair grounds one day and inquir-
ed as to the crowds. Miss Wilkins
said it was their best day, and
right then they were lined up in
front of the ticket office to the big
road. Mr. Elliott said: "You mean
single file?"
That inimitable Sgt. Ben Swan-
cey, who does some farming on the
side up around Sandy Plains
is getting results. He was seen
on a bale of cotton one day this
week making for the gin. He had
hitched to the wagon a big horse
and a little mule and a whip longer
than wagon, team and all. We
now look for cotton to slump.
Minister Wm. A. Hillhouse, of
Holly Springs is at it again. He
sent us this week a twin potato
weighing about five pounds. This
potato and the one Uncle Cate
gave us will put us through to
frost.
Continued on Page 8
W. D. Thompson, of the Canton
Bowling Center, announced this
week that cash prizes will be
awarded to high-pin bowlers du-
ring the time between October
16 and November 16.
The cash awards total twenty-
five dollars. Five dollars will be
awarded for the highest individ-
ual score during the period and a
prize of $2.50 will be given the se-
cond highest score.
Bowler getting the highest to-
tal of pins in the time specified
will receive $5.00. Mr. Thompson
explained that no matter how
high a game or how low a game
anyone rolls, the highest total of
pins takes the cash. $2.50 cash
will be given for the second high-
est total.
High five man team total for
the month gets $5.00 and high
ladies score receives a $5.00 cash
award.
Mr. Thompson stated that or
ganization of teams for a bowl-
ing league is being effected and
play will start soon and continue
through the winter.
Roscoe Reece Is
Buried Sept. 23
At Big Springs
Roscoe Reece, 14, died Sep. 21 at
the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Reece, near Avery. He
had been ill about two months.
Funeral services were conducted
September 23, by the Revs. G. R.
Frazier and C. H. McGinnis. In-
terment was in Big Springs cem-
etery.
Besides his parents he is survived
by two sisters, Mrs. Nellie White,
,Miss Mattie Lou Reece and one
brother, Oscar Reece.
