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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX-A oty j | ; | e | May Be Setting for Re-en-| actment of Disastrous | Freeze of 1932 ; ; e | Early Truck Crop Being Marketed in Macon | 1 Area Last Week | : e oSpmasosen i A suggestion that the u\\'ﬂvl'ﬂ" and operators of farms mnhr:u*ing% woodlandd in the United States| #tudy the system of organized I'nr—t ep! markets, being developed '-"“I ﬁilccossfullv in Sweden, in :xdvanc-" .k.. by C. L. Forsling, director of; the Appalachian Forest lifxpériment; atation, U. S. department of agri-| guliure forest gervice, in an arti-| ele to appear in the February i~ | sue of the Farmers I~"--h'ruri‘.‘nf News, published in Asheville, The Appalachian stationm, with/| Beadquarters, here, has charge of)| 4ﬂeral forest research wovk im the | #tates of North and Seuth Caro~ | e, Virginia and West Virginia,| and parts of Tennessee, Kentucky | and CGeorgia. i ' Forsling, in his article contrast-| ;&;tﬁrest market conditiong in Swe-| E’\"and North Carolina particul-l arly, directing attention to the fact that in North Carolina two out ofl @yery three acres are forest and on farms one out of every two acres.' ~ “For most other farm commodi ties,” he says in the Federation News article, “there are reasonably well established markets. The far mer knows where to sell, how to ‘prepare his products for sale and| %’:‘nt market Information indi-| ‘cates what prices to expect. ~ “No suen situation exists,” he @ontinues, “w i etarrgdpttacinn | gontinues, “with regard to forest‘ products. Timber markets are! Jocalized and for the most part un certain, A remedy for this situa- E rnot only should lead to better| ,; pes received for the products that are marketed but to better forest land management .. .” . ~ Pointing out that the density of; “ population in Sweden is about 62 spersons per square mile as com '& sd to 65 persons per square amile in North Carolina, the Appa :* Forest director explains in thi4 article that timber growing and \est industries rank among the “;&v- sources of income in Swed :‘ m, About 1.9 per cent of the total ifarm income in North Carolina is farm woodlands, whereas 51 per ?’;; t of all farm property is wood +kand. %i Forest products enter extensive 1y Into foreign trade in Sweden, _About 90 per cent of the swan and *f ed wood, 75 per cent of the ~Wood pulp and 60 per cent of the ~paper is exported. A little less than one half of the forest land 8 in farms or other small owner ~ship, about one fourth in public ~_pwnership and the remainder in| ~the hands of corpovations and large | ylanded owners. Half of the popu-| ~lation lives on farmg and because LOf the relatively small acreage of © cultivated land much dependence -48 placed on the forest land to sup ~ port the farm families.” . Describing the Swedish coopera tive system, Forsling said: “Al gh the organizations differ “gomewhat in form and activities _ Aheir objective include proper man gement of forest lands, represen ation of the forest owners before the forestry boards and other au “ghorities, advisory and educationa’ #ervice, standardized rules of mea _ BMyrement, preparation of products - for sale and improved conditions of ~ #ale and delivery. ¢“A very important part of the . educational work takes the form of _dnformation furnished by the ofﬁ-I ~ edals of the association concerning ’ upply and demand, prices, suitable Siggpes of production, ete. The aim 8 not to extend cooperative manu ({' jeturing further than is necessary ﬁ} prevent monopolieg or industrial ~ €6mbines from gaining control of “markets and charging excessive __prices. ' The cooperative movement é';, 8 been extended to provide low %x} ~housing, farm garketing and ~ other undertakings. Not the least ‘e these ig the farm forestry co- S ©Operatice movement, although it is mewer and less developed than “many of the others.” N. D. Powers, Georgia Farmer, Tells How He Used Alfalfa to Stop Large Gullies Before Soil Conservation Service 'gl‘he "Soil Conservation Servioel cplan of using meadow strips to| “eentrol the water emptied tromx “térraces is pothing new to N. D.| . Powers, one of the cooperators in| - §be demonstration area at Rome. | "3 Ten years ago there was 2 pMarge gully extending down throughl natural draw on the Powers'| ffarm and draining a wide area. | ‘, the gully cut deeper into thel " Subsoil Mr. Powers decided some “thing had to be done to stop itsl Progress. aﬂ% plowed down the banks and| "Beeded the whole gully to alfalta,"i g said. “The alfalfa stayed on gere four years and when it be- | “gan to run out I sowed the gully| ¥ oats and peas for a year and| en planted alfalfa again. 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FIFTY WOMEN NOW EMPLOYED N NEW WASHINGTON MILI New Machines Have Been Ordered; More to Begin Work Soon WASHINGTON, Ga.—The num ber of employee of the Royal Man ufacturing company, new shirt fac tory here, is now twice as large as was expecteq when operations were begun two weeks ago. Fifty women punched clocks at the plant Thursday morning. Throughout the plant progress has been rapid. Tt is expected new machines avill be installed at an early date gs they have already been ordered, this assuring many more people of jobs. Installation of a laundry to prepare finished shirts for the market is also be ing planned soon, Sewing of shirt is now being completed, the girls having learn ed the work much faster than was expected, faster than new groups ever have before said Mrs. Gay Martin, the superintendent. She saiqg a few more will be added to the staff next week and added: “We have more thap enough ap plications, As soon as we can and as rapidly as we can, we will no- ! tify those who have applied andi they then will report for work.” | With time taken for dinner the plant is now in operation from 7:80 in the morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. These hours di vide the daylight as much as pos sible. MThe hours include 45 min utes more than the plant will be in operation when operators .of the machines learn to run them with greater speed. Mrs. Martin said employes have made excellent progress and there has been ‘ne trouble from some of ‘them failing to report. “I am hav ing the time of my life working with these people” she declared. This is one of the several new industrial accomplishments in northeast Georgia during the last Tew months. Pretty soon new farmers will be preparing for a new crop. It is very essential to be careful with fire. Burning destroys young trees, in- Juries old ones, destroys large amounts of forest litter which is most valuable as a soil builder and for erosion control, and destroys much food and shelter that is es (sential to birds and other wild | life, : et oP A .e o < e the gully. That alfalfy has been catching soil there for 10 vears and it has huilt the gully up level with the rest of the field. “They said, ‘ves, alfalfa, lesped eza and other close-growing crops |that pravent erosion.’ I brought i them down here to where that gully used to be and told them 1 had a demonstration, too, and they agreed it was a good onve. I didn't like their strip-cropping idea because it sounded like patch farming to me,” Powell continued, “but they maid they used close growing vegetation on strips and I agreed to try it. That strip-crop ping idea's all right, teo. ““This fall, we seeded the mead ow strip to alfalfa and it's looking mighty pretty now.. Somehow I feel a lot more comfortable about that field when I see the clouds rolling up like they were getting ready to send down a gullywash- B e R e G j NICHOLSON NEWS NICHOLSON, Ga.-—Miss Gladys Sorrow, age 25, passeq away at her home here, Tuesday morning. Miss Sorrow had the misfortune of losing her eye-sight g little over two years ago and had suffered with her head since then, but her untimely death was a great shock to the community. She was the daughter of Mr., and Mrs. G. C. Sorow, and besides her parents, she leaves a sister, Miss Travie Sorrow, three brothers, Grover, Audry and Ambry Sorrow all ov Nicholson, together with many other relatives and friends. This voung lady was loved and honor ed by all who knew her and her death briﬂgs untold sorrow .to many. Op Friday evening, January 15,| Woodrow Wilson of the Cabin Creek community and Miss Ge neva Wilbanks of this place were ‘happily married by the Rev. G. T. (Carithers Mr. Wilson is the son of Mrs. Estelle Vincent, an es teemed young gentleman, and is being congratulated upon winning the charming young lady, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, W. E. Wilbanks, as his future compan ion They are at home to their friends north of the eity. Roads in this section are get ting in bad shape over the contin ued rains. The highway from Ath ens to Commerce has several bad places in it. By all means the highway department should give ‘this thoroughfare immediate atten tion and render the people of this )secuon a favor by paving the high way . . Cal Brock is reported on the lsick list. ¥Friends trust that he will soon recover. | J. H. Davis of Maysville, was visiting here among relatives the firsy of the week. French McConnell and family of lApple Valley, have moved here as future residents. | Mrs. W. T. Whitley is visiting in Athens, where she is the guest; of relatives. | | DANIELSVILLE NEWS | £ eet e e A R ! By MARTHA GRAHAM | Miss Evelyn Mann of Daniels ville, made the honors list of North Georgia college for the Fall Quarter. This list is made up I of students who have made an av erage of “B" op more, Mr. and Mrs. Dillard Jordan spent the past week-end in Atlan ta, visiting relatives, i Miss Juddye Bowers visiteq her | sister in Winterville the past | week-end. { Rev. B, W, Hancock is expect lod home this week from Atlanta, where he recently underwent an l operation. : Mr. Dillard Jordan pnd Mr. Will ’D. Graham attended the Rural Letter Carriers banquet at !.hel %Ansley Hotel, in Atlanta, Satur-l ! day evening, where they heard the national president Raymon H.J Combs and other officials of the! department. | l Mrs. Jack Moss of Athens, was a recent visitor of her mother, Mrs, Fannig Lee Gholston, 4 Miss Coyetta Thomas and Miss Geraldine Henley, visited Miss Meadow Bates Tuesday. Mrs. R. C. Qriffeth, Miss Pa i tricia Griffeth and Mrs. G. O. | Griffeth were among the visitors |to Athens Saturday. i Due to the unusual weather con { dition. We have a number of sick !pvople in our community with colds. We are really wishing for some sunshine, I Mr. and Mrs. Holden Hardman, gMiss Inez Huff and Mr. Hoke David were spend-the-day guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Adair in Adairsville. Miss Carolyn Knighton was a wizitor to Athens Saturday. Mr, Palmer Huff spent the past week-end with Mr., Charles Dav ‘idson in Athens. - ; Judge B. T. Moseley has been l&n Carnesville the first of the NORTHEAST b GEORGIA :] By Hinton Br; o T The many small cities of north east Georgia are preparing their annual ROOSEVELT BIRTHDAY BALL, honoring the great humani tarian, with proceeds going to the Warm Springs Foundation endow ment fund. Georgla’s share s SIOO,OOO, It has already been announced M. D. COLLINS, state superintend ent of schools, will be the principal speaker at the annual graduation exercises at Washington High school. The program will be June 1 H. M. TARPLEY, superintend ent, announced. Friends of HERSCHEL HILL well known Winder eitizen, will be glad to know he is improving from injuries received in an automobile accident last week. : Among the schools Kknown to have been closed during a part of last week due to buses being un able to make their rounds were, CRAWFORD, [Lexington, Homer, Maxeys and seven schools in Step hens (Toccoa) county. It lookg as if Uncle Sam’s mail must go on. Up at Bogart POST MASTER O. H. BRADBURY HOKE H. WHITWORTH, carrier and BART POWELL, his assist ant, have finally outdone the muddy and jmpassable roads, Friday and Saturday Mr. Powell rented and rode a horse around 10 miles of the route after everything on wheels failed. The remaining 54 miles were served by Mr. Whit worth. The farmers of that progressive HARTWELL section are now spending, or saving, exactly $23,- 412,21 received last week by L. C. Westbrook, county agent. This was a part of their slice for participat ing in the Soil Conservation pro gram., To date they have received more than $37,000 and the total for this county alone is expected to be more than $150,000. Who says it doesn’t pay to cooperate with the new administration? g Down at MADISON people are LOOKING AT THE FRESH green English peas from the garden of MRS, W. N. ALLISTON, She ha, ‘already had them for dinner one ‘day and more are to be picked |'They were planted in August and FARM _B_HI LF 3 “Sdlection and Care of Beef Cattle in Georgia” is the title of a new bulletin that came off the press at the state agricuitural ex tension service Jduring the last ‘week. The bulletin ig well illus trated with outstanédirg heef type animals, and takes ap be¢t produc tion p:ssibilities in Georgia select ing feeding and managing the breeding Lerd, baby bYeaf production finishing steers, mar<? ing and dis e2s2. Thke bulletin was jpranared by R, E. Davis, extension beef cattle specialist, with assistance from the animal husbandy depart ment of the College of Agriculture and Experiment Stations of the state, It is number 4600, and free copieg can be obtained from county agricultural agents or by writing the Agricultural Extension Service. Athens, Ga. Two-thirds of the farms in Geor gia during 1935 were operated by tenants and croppers, a national farm tenancy report released this| week by the U. S, Bureau of Agri cultural Economics shows. Farm tenancy in Georgia has been on the increase until the 1935 census which showed a slight decrease. In 1900 about 60 per cent of the farms in the state were operated by tenants and croppers, compared with 66 per] cent in 1910, 69 per cent in 1920,] 68 per cent in 1930 and 66 per cent| in 1935. Percentage of the land in| the state operated by tenants a.nd] croppers increased from 39 per cent in 1900 to 56 per cent in 1935. The report further showed that 42 per cent of the farms in the Unit ed States and 45 per cent of the farm land in 1935 were operated by tenants and croppers. Only Mississippi had a larger percentage of farms operated by tenants and croppers than Georgia. The 800 birds competing in the 11th Georgia National Egg Laying contest at the College of Agricul ture in Athens during December layed an average of 20.7 eggs, and the feed cost for the month aver aged slightly less than 25 cents per bird, the monthly contest re port reveals. | Acquisition of 133,184 acres ot} land for federal wildlife refuges was recently approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation commission. Thel 'land lies in 21 states, includingl | Georgia, and will be turned over 'to the U, 8. Bureau of Biological 'survey to eplarge 34 migratory bird‘ 'and upland game refuges. ' Production of eggs per hen overl the country last month was slight ly above average despite relativelyl high feed costs, the U, S. Bureau| of Agricultural Economics reports. Mild weather tended to offset th THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORTIA as you know the weather really cooperated. Announcement hag been made of the change of ownership of the Toccoa Furniture company, form erly operated hy W. C. EDWARDS and associates. Mr. AND MRS. J J. POWELL are the new owners. The ecapital stock of the corpora tion will be $15,000 divided into 150 shares of the par value of SIOO each, The shareholders of the Bank of SILOAM met last week and the following changeg were made: president, J. H. DOLVIN; vice president. J. B. Dolvin; cashier D. C. Owen; assistant cashier, Miss Grace Johnson. This bank recently paid a four per cent divi dend. Here ig one that is really en couragement for every farmer who has or could have cows, WILKES COUNTY farmers who in 1928 took their “cotton money” and bought machinery for a cooperative cream ery have reported the organization has paid farmers approximately $500,000 since its establishment From this county 350 farmers, we didn’'t gay dairymen, send cream to WASHINGTON, GA. each week The creamery churns from 1,500 to 4,000 pounds of butter each week. The dairy cattle population is now 8,600, : I WPA oficials have approved plans for a new jail at ELBERTON and advertisements for bids will begin soon. The total cost of im provements will be almost $30,000. The government will pay 45 per cent and the county the remaining. In MORNOE the NATIONAL COMMITTEE for the Roosevelt Birthday ball has named D. | “RED” BARRON as chairman. The well known professor, ex-athlete and former manager of the Atlanta Crackers, will be assisted by the Junior Service League. This week we will end up with two of CAREY WILLIAMS Sense and Nonsense items from the Herald-Journal at Greensbroo, Mr. Williams says “A mule-headed man won’'t even listen to horse sense” and the best one, “You can train most any animal to stand still ex cept a small boy.” effect of high-priced feed, which otherwise was expected to check production, s % A list of the leading plants that ‘provide food and shelter for wild life was recently printed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, It ig circular number 412, and a copy can be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, I Washington, D. C, for 5 cents, l Housewives in several large cities can now buy ready-for the oven poultry. The chickens are Kkilled, ‘immediately frozen, the full-drawn carcas is wrapped fin" cellophane and officially labeled after it ig in spected by U. S, Government in-l spetors for condition and whole- Isomeness. The birds are usuallyt Ipacked six to a box, l The principal problem with per ‘'manent pastures is to get a thick ;sod of grass. Too often the land retired to _pasture is so poor and eroded that it will not grow a thick sod. Such areas should be improved so they will furnish bet-| ter grazing and ample protection against erosion. Some methods of improving pastures are by apply ing commercial fertilizer, planting the proper grass mixtures, contour furrowing, checking any gullies 'that may be developing and the addition of organic matter to the soil. Remember that land well covered with grass is fully protect ed against excessive erosion. l Because it is so widespread and not so noticeable, sheet erosion is far more dangerous and causes greater losses of valuable plant food than does the *formation of | gullies. Examine your fields and ‘see if sheet erosion is getting in 1 its devastating work. ~ The farmer cultivating sub-mar ‘ginal land is no longer able to produce his crops efficiently. He must use more fertilizer, just as many seed and do just as much work, but simply does not receive the same returns becasue the top soil has washed away. Many farmers in Soil Conserva tion service projectg in Georgia have found that using grass and other vegetation is generally the cheapest and most practical way to control run-off water coming out of terface channels. In the past, some terraces have not check ed erosion effectively. One rea son was that the outlets to many of those terraces were not arrang ed to handle the run-off from very heavy rains. And often, the far-I mers figures terrace outlets cost too m 1 himborazo Photographed at I*ast Chimborazo Photographed at I%ast e — s o v e o - . i . i . . A=s G A ; b i s ey ’W% e ' e @.. . 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Miss Margaret Dell of Thomson spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Mae Dell. Mrs. Rob Ray returned last week after spending several weeks with her daughters in Birmingham, Ala. The first quarterly meeting was held at the Methodist church Fri day. The new presiding elder, Rev. Byrd, delivered a sermon at 11 o’clock, after which lunch was served by the members. At two o’clock the first quarterly confer ence of the year took place. A goodly number attended. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hardigree spent last Sunday in Godfrey with relatives. Mrs. L. E. Lawson is well enough to he up, her friends will be glad to learn. E Miss Lily Mae Thomas spent Thursday with Miss Dot Dell. The Bishop Epworth League at tended a League picnic, given this month at Madison, last Tuesday. Mr. Walter Miller visited last week in Tifton. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Breed love and Miss Margaret Dranch attended the theater in Athens last Wednesday evening. Mrs. Maud Norton is nursing in Athens. Mrs. Louise Kirkpatrieck is re covering after a recent operation. She is at the home of her sister, Mrs. Jim Foster. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Doster and Mr. L. E. Dawson, all of Thom aston, spent last Sunday with Mrs. L. E. Dawson. Miss Lily Mae Thomas has ac cepted a position at the Moon’s Beauty Shop in Athens. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Branch, jr., spent Wednesday and Thurs day in Atlanta. Mr. Dike. Hardigree is spending the week-end in Macon. Miss Willie Mae Yearwood and Mr. Walter Miller spent Friday with Miss Martha Dobbins at Poplar Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Mell Bell enter tained Monday evening with a dinner party. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kenimer and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Branch, jr. Miss Willie Mae Yearwood and Mrs. Walter Barnett spent Tues day with Mrs. Elmer Hardigree. Mr. Otho Branch spent the first of last week in Atlanta on busi ness. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Maxey visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bar nett recently. MAXEYS NEWS MAXEYS.—The Maxeys P.-T. A. held their first meeting of this vear Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Gibbs had charge of the program. Our school is enjoying the nice volume of books that Mrs. Joe Fambro gave to the library. Mrs. Fambro has been very generous to our library, as she had already given us-a set of encycloped’z. School closed here Tuesday on account of bad roads. Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Cabaniss attended the funeral of Mr. Allen Rice, jr. in Lexington Tuesday. Mrs. George Bell, who has been confined to her bed for - several days, is reported much better. Mr. and Mrs, W. T. Brightwell and Mr. and Mrs. ,T. J. Bright well attended the show-in Athens Wednesday night. i ' Mrs. Willie Graham and Mrs. George Tuyrner visited relatives. at the Glade recently. Mr. W. H. McGahey died at the home of his daughter in Florida, en January 13th, and his body was brought here for burial last Saturday. We extend to the be reaved wife, four -daughters and two sons, our deepest sympathy. vears, cheaper and more éffective terrace outlets have been develop- | § ! i Ceorgia Farmer Has Mar ket for Everything But Forest Products TIFTON, Ga.— () —Farm ex perts have warned that unseason ably warm weather in Georgia throughout January has become a menace to tobacco, fruit and other crops. S. H. Starr, director- of the Coastal Plain Exreriment Station here, in a public statement ad dressed to tobacco growers said the present mild weather may be “setting the stage for a r‘e-enact-' ment of the disastrous freeze of 1932” when 75 to 80 percent of to-‘ bacco plants in beds and poorly protected beds were destroyed. ! The 1932 freeze came on the night of March 9. “It was pre- ! ceded by a mild winter very muchl like the preseng one,” Starr said, in urging growers to protect theil‘l plants against late cold spells. 1 In other sections of the state, county agricultural ngents'(dvised! farmers to guard against the| temptation to piant too early. J. C. Richardson, Dougherty county agent, said if the present warm weather continues, farmers in the Albany area, and in other sections, will become uvor-anxiousl to ])l:mlI, ’ If they do plant too early, he said, the “first freeze that comes‘ along will Kkill the crops.” Rich ardson said the grain cror already is suffering from excessive growth, and rust. The Macon News reported the unusual spectacle of green pas-I tures for livestock in middle Geor- | gia in January. Some early truck crops are being marketed in that? area now. Growers said the fu ture of virtually all crops depends on the weather, One peach grower in Montezuma is icing the roots of peach trees in an effort to keer them . from blooming too early. At Moultrie and Valdosta, two of 15 tobacco centers in south ' Georgia, growers said the warm weather presented two problems: I—Plants will grow too fast and a late freeze might kill them. 2—Blue mold, tobacco disease, thrives on warm weather. But barring a late freeze, or too much blue mold damage, tobacco growers predict a bountiful crop. County Agent W. D. Hillis at Moultrie said tobacco beds look zood now. Valdosta reported some farmers are sowing a few extra seed in their beds as they remove weeds, to providte late plants in 'event early ones are Killed by cold. . Georgia Farmers Plant Over Four Million Pounds of Winter Legume Seed; Result of Farmers Wanting More Feed and Good Soil Georgia farmers during the last fall, for the first time in history, planted more than 4,000,000 pounds of winter legume seed to improve the soil and produce feed, reports from county agricultural ' agents compiled this week by E. D. Alexander, agronomist with the Agricultural Extension Service, re veal. That is 20 per cent more winter legume seed than was planted ip the state during the fall of 1935, and more than twice as much as was planted in 1931, Alexander said. “The increase has been a direct result of a desire of the Georgia farmers to take better care of the soil through a planned system of soil conservation and improvement and to insure against SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1937, ISTRIC f { Superintendents, Teacher. ~ And Delegates From 7 I Cities Present FARBER, MORRIS SPEAK e —————— Some Boy or Girls in This Section Will Win Trip To New York e —— ’ By HINTON BRADBURY District News Editor. The best musical and dramatie ‘talent found M this section of the state was shown here in Athens Friday night at a banquet g the ;Georgian hotel given by Louis 7 Rigdon for his Athens disiri winners of the Atlanta Journa) School of the Air programs. Dele gates, teachers and superinteng. ents of schools in more than 19 counties were present. - Louie L}. Morris, editor of the Hartwell Sun, proved not only to be an editor but an il)l(‘]'f';lxng speaker during the program. The promotion manzger of the Journal, Clark S. Farber, praised the work of Mr. Rigdon and assured the students present the Journal was always ready to serve those who are *“doing things.” In June the newspaper wil aweard the winner in the School of the Air program, a trip with ex renses paid to Radio City, in the bright lights of New York. Mr. Rigdon has directed programs here before and his work has the sup port of the State Department of Education as well as the National lEducation Association and other groups. This is an example, and a ' good one, of what Mr. Rigdon and Ithe Journal are doing to develop I fine arts in Georgia public schools. | Among those taking part on the I])mgram were Miss Martha Duke, ;Ealomon; Miss Jane Holland . Monticello; Miss Frances Richard [son, Hartwell; Oscar J. Dorr Madison; Miss Mary Clark, Hart l well. Miss Gloria Barton, Hartwell; IDavid Crawford, Madison; Miss Doris_Burson, Winder; Miss Edith Trouthman, Covington; Georeg | Williams, jr., Crawfordville; Miss IMary Esther Harvey, Monticello; IFrederlck Griffeth, jr., Bastman; Miss Ethel Belle Smith, Monticel ' lo; Walter McElhenney, Monticel 'lo; Arthur Carpenter, Eatonton; jMiss Betty Russell, Winder; and ' Miss Edythe Trapnell, Covington. ~ Others present included Mrs. Rigdon, Atlanta; Mrs. Edna Dorr, Madison; Mrs. R. C. Singleton Eatonton; Mrs. Mary Linder Bar ton, Hartwell; Mrs. L. C. Spivey Katonton; Mrs. Edwin Strange Winder; Mrs. George Clark, Hart well; Mrs. Frank Harris, Winder. Mrs. J. A. Wisner, Covington; Mrs. . C. Kelly, Monticello; Mrs. Troy Vickers, Crawfordville; A. M. Tommey, J. C. Tolbert and H. E. Bishop, Athens. Mr. and Mrs, C. S. Fincher, Batonton; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Nash, Crawfordville; Miss Elsie Galkin Smerling, Atlanta. . BOGART NEWS Sae e SRR s e #————— ’ BOGART—Miss Ruby Ruth Wwat son delightfully entertained hers Saturday afternoon with a mis celaneous shower in honor of Mrs Joe Allen Dunahoo, the formef Miss Marguerite Glenn, who was maried on December 22 and now |resldes in Winder. | Mrs. Dunahoo has been a mem- I'ber of the Bogart school racult}' for the past two years, her orig inal home being at Carlton. After contests ang games Misses Helen Watson, Irene Whitehead land Frances Nunnally presnted the lovely gifts after which delicious refreshments were served. Mrs. J. H. Glenn, spent the past week-end with her daughter, IMrs. 0. C. Ppul; The Bogart High school girls basketball team will meet the girls from Piedmont college at Demor est, Ga. there on February 6. Mrs. Weymond Whitehead nad Ilittle son of Athens, were weelf‘ end guests of Mr. and Mrs. w. E. Whitehead. | The many friends of Mrs. T B Cantrell will yegret to learn of her illness at her home heré The friends of little l,man Dietz will be glad to know she IS rapidly improving following 2 es cent. sickness. and wish for her 2 speedy recovery. BEE R L s I SN Abng e by producing win ’tel‘ forage to supp yment that mroduced in the su:ﬁ&,”:"he said. “Encourageq by the governmem" lagricultural and soil conservation programs, farmers inthe state are ‘making real progress toward im proving their soils,” he added. The 4,000,000 pounds of winter legume seed, the reports show, were planted on 159,448 acres of which 37906 acres Were hair¥ vetch, 92,025 aCres Wwere Austrial winter peas, 29,163 acres were crimson clover and 354 acres were Monantha Vetch. The c oun! ¥ agents also indicateq that about 89 per cent of the acreage sown 10 these crops are to be used for soil improvement, and that about 20 per cent was sown with small grain ¢

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