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VOL. 62—No. 29.
1934 AUGUST ? 1934
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KIMBELL BAPTISTS
GO TO MACEDONIA
ANNUAL SESSION WILL BE HELD
FOR TWO DAYS, AUGUST 29-30.
GOOD PROGRAM HAS BEEN
ARRANGED.
The annual session of the Kinibell
Association, composed of Baptist
churches in Butts, Henry and Mon
roe counties, will be held with Mace
donia church Wednesday and Thurs
day, August 29-30. An interesting
program has been arranged and in
dications point to a large attendance
of prominent church leaders.
'lhe following program has been
Wednesday Morning, August 29
9:30 —Devotional, Bryant William
son.
9:45 —Organization and order of
business.
9:50 —Report of executive com
mittee, Rev. J. B. Stodghill.
10:10—Report of Workers Coun
cil, Rev. G. L. Brooks.
10:40 —Report of B. Y. P. U., Mrs.
J R. McMichael.
11:10 —Recognition of visitors.
11:20—Introductory sermon, Rev.
G. L. Brooks.
Lunch.
Afternoon Session
I:ls—devotional, P. H. Weaver.
1:30 —God’s Acre report, A. C.
Norman.
2:00 —Mission report:
(a) Co-operative, T. A. Nutt.
(b) State, W. H. Etheridge.
(c) Home, J. H. Patrick.
(and) Foreign, Miss Willie Wood
ward.
3:oo—Law and order, Mrs. J. T.
j^oore.
Miscelleanous business.
Adjourn.
Thursday Morning, August 30
—Devotional, Mae Childs.
9:4s—Reading of minutes.
. 9:50 —Report on Christian Litera
ture, L. J. Washington.
Report on Christian Education,
Rev. R. B. Harrison.
10:50 —Report on W. M. S., Mrs.
J. B. Childs.
11:20—Missionary sermon, Rev.
Scott Patterson.
Lunch.
Afternoon Session
1:15 —Devotional, Mrs. Lincoln
McConnell.
1:30 —Digest letters, R. E. Ether
idge.
1:40 —S. S. report, J. C. Kinibell.
2:lo —Benevolences:
(a) Hospital, Rev. R. B. Harri
son.
(b) Orphans Home, L. R. Wash
ington.
2:50 —-Memoriall report, Rev. T. J.
Thaxton.
3:00 —Nominations.
3:10 —Miscelleanous business.
Adjourn.
2,623,000 HEAD OF CATTLE
PURCHASED BY THE U. S.
Washington, D. C. —The farm ad
ministration announced Saturday
that more than 2,623,000 head of
had been purchased in drought
states.
Payments for drought-stricken cat
tle puurchased by the government up
August 10 totaled $18,96,282 for
1,388,077 head, indicating an aver
age price per head between $13.60
and 13.70. Payments for the re
mainder have yet to be made.
The cattle were purchased from
180,576 farmers.
URGE FARMED TO
SAVE FORAGE CROPS
SHORTAGE OF FEED CROPS
LLIKELY TO RRESULT AND
FARMERS ARE TOLD TO SAVE
THE AVAILABLE SUPPLY.
Athens, aG. —Farmers of the state
have been urged to save all available
hay and forage crops this year in a
joint statement issued here by Harry
L. Brown, director of extension of
the university system, and R. L.
Vansant, rehabilitation director.
“Indications are there will be an
acute shortage of feed for live stock
throughout the country this year,”
the statement said, “and it is im
perative that all of the hay and for
age crops available be harvested.
“Pastures and hay crops in other
sections of the country have been
seriously affected by the drought and
farmers who have been supplement
ing their own production of feed
crops with hay from other sections
will not have this supply to draw on
this year.
“In consequenc, it is absolutely
essential that every farmer harvest
all his growing crops which may be
used for hay to avoid a serious emer
gency in Georgia.
“As an indication o fthe feed situ
ation in this country, a survey shows
pastures are the poorest in 50 years
and hay production is 30 per cent less
than the average of the past five
years.
“Conditions for the production of
hay and forage crops have been good
in’ Georgia this year and it is hoped
farmers will take advantage of this
situation to harvest all available.”
jacksotTschool
BE SENIOR HIGH
PUPILS FROM COUNTY WILL AT
TEND JACKSON HIGH SCHOOL.
LENGTH OF TERM AND OPEN
ING BE FIXED.
At a meeting of the Butts County
Board of Education last week the
Jackson high school was again named
as the senior high school for the
county, and all pupils residing in
the county will take the tenth and
eleventh grade work at the Jackson
school. This arrangement has been
in effect for the past several years.
When the board meets in Septem
ber the length of the term and open
ing of the fall term will be fixed.
Salaries of teachers have been fix
ed at the same level as for the past
year, the board stated.
A committee was appointed to con
sider the purchase of two new truck
bodies.' With this equipment the
transportation facilities of Ihe coun
ty board will be up to standard.
While nothing definite has been
done as yet, the board still hopes
to obtain federal aid in building and
equipping anew plant at Jenkins
burg.
FIRST OPEN BOLLS OF
COTTON BEEN REPORTED
B. H. Hodges and V. H. Carmich
ael, Butts county growers, are among
those to report open bolls of cotton.
Last year the first bale of cotton
was sold August 8 by Mr. B. H. Hod
ges. A few days ago Mr. Hodges
estimated it would be around August
20 before he would have a bale ready
for market.
F. O. CLOSES AT 9 P. M.
BY ORDER OF INSPECTOR
The Jackson post office is now
closing at 9 p. m. by order of the
post office inspector, it was stated
at the office here Tuesday morning.
This order will remain in effect until
further notice.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934.
BELL ARRESTED FOR
CUTTING WHITE MAN
BLACK WHO SLASHED AND
STABBED T. W. HIGGINS CAP
TURED AT RHINE, GA. NOW
IN ATLANTA JAIL.
Walter Bell, negro farm tenant
who seriously slashed and stabbed Mr.
T. W. Higgins, well known resident
of Iron Springs district several weeks
ago, was arrested last week by offi
cers at Rhine, Ga. Sheriff Pope
went for Bell and placed him in jail
in Atlanta for safe keeping.
When the August term of Butts
superior court convenes next Mon
day the case wlli be presented to the
grand jury for investigation. The
charge against Bell is assault and
intent to murder. If indicted by the
grand jury, Bell will probably be
tried during the August term of
court.
Mr. Higgins, who was seriously
cut and stabbed by Bell, is recovering
from his injuries and is now able to
be out again.
AUGUST TERM TO
CONVENE MONDAY
CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES
WILL BE HEARD DURING THE
TWO WEEKS TERM. JUDGE
PERSONS WILL PRESIDE.
The August term of Butts Superior
Court will convene in Jackson next
Monday, with Judge Ogden Persons,
of Forsyth, presiding, and Solicitor
General Frank B. Willingham, also of
Forsyth, acting as state’s counsel.
The first week of court will be de
voted to hearing civil cases. The cal
endar as arranged by Clerk S. J. Fos
ter contains quite a good many civil
cases.
Criminal business will be taken up
for the second week. There is no
great amount of criminal business in
prospect, court officials state. Per
haps the most important criminal
case to be taken up is that of Walter
Bell, negro farm tenant, charged
with cutting and stabbing Mr. T. W.
Higgins. Bell was arrested only last
week after eluding officers for sev
eral weeks.
Court will be convened at the
usual hour Monday and Judge Per
sons will deliver his charge to the
grand jury after which the civil
calendar will be taken up for consid
eration.
REVIVAL SERVICES BEING
HELD MACERONIA CHURCH
Revival services which began at
Macedonia church Sunday will con
tinue through Friday night. The
pastor, Rev. J. H. Hays, is doing the
preaching and the singing is in charge
of members. The hours of service
arc 10:30 in the morning and 7:30 in
the evening, sun time. Much inter
est is being shown and the public is
cordially invited to attend the ser
vices.
$3,500,000 PAID FOR
THE 1934 PEACH CROP
Macon, Ga.—Approximately $3,-
500,000 was paid to Georgia peach
growers for their crop of approx
imately 10,000 cars this season, W.
C. Bewley, manager of the Georgia
Peach Exchange reports.
Fast motor transport moved about
20 per cent of the crop to northern
markets, it was reported.
The Apache Indians considered the
dandelion their favorite food.
History records that the ancient
rhaiaohs used 100,000 slaves for 20
years to build the Great Pyramid of
Egypt.
DRASTIC CONTROL
OF FOOD SUPPLY
WAR-TIME MEASURES MAY BE
TAKEN TO CONSERVE NA
TION’S FOOD SUPPLY. TO RE
VISE PLAN FOR 1935.
Washington, D. C. —Planning war
time vigilance over the nation’s food
and feed supplies next fall and win
ter, the farm administration also is
pieparing drastic revisions of its
1935 crop control programs.
Official government estimates are
for the lowest crop production in
more than 30 years because of con
tinued drought. Therefore, the
AAA has undertaken a day to watch
over conditions and is starting an in
ventory of the food and feed supply
which will form the btsis for guid
ing its work during the coming year.
Next year’s wheat supply is likely
to call for the same acreage planted
during the years 1927-32 rather
than a 15 per cent reduction from
that figure. Necessity for this move
grew from the prospective cut in the
carryover from last year’s excessive
figure of 270,000,000 bushels to
about the normal of 125,000,000
bushels.
Cotton production limited this yea*-
to 25,000,000 acres under the vol
untary control plan and to 10,560,251
bales under the Bankhead act, prob
ably wil be extended to 1935 to allow
production of 32,000,000 to 35,000,-
00 0 acres. This year’s large carry
over of 13,000,000 bales is expected
to be cut to about the normal level
of 5,000,000 bales next year as a re
sult of the prospective short crop
ox 9,195,000 bales.
The program for corn and hogs
is still to be considered.
Final decision will hinge largely on
the report of the feed and forage
situation showing suppliess available
in comparison with the livestock pop
ulation it must support.
Over a period of years, according
to Secretary Wallace, the number of
hogs tends to balance with the supply
ol corn. The administration wil seek
to maintain this ratio.
J. MOTE WATTS HOME
GUTTED BY NIGHT FIRE
FJRE OF UNDETERMINED ORI
GIN DISCOVERED IN EARLY
HOURS OF TUESDAY MORNING
LOSS IS A HEAVY ONE.
Fire the origin of which has not
been determined gutted the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Mote Watts on Cov
ington Street shortly after midnight
Monday.
When the fire was discovered by
neighbors the alarm was given and
the fire department responded,
promptly and by good work prevent
ed the flames from spreading to ad
jacent property.
The top part of the dwelling and
practically all the interior burned,
leaving only the bare walls.
Members of the family were at
tending the camp meeting and no
body was at home when the fire
broke out.
The Watts home, a two story
structure of substantial design and
containing eight or ten rooms, was
located in the midst of a popular
residence section on Covington street.
There was some insurance, it is
announced, but the loss is a consid
erable one. Practically all contents
were wiped out by the fire.
There are 2,000,000 square miles
of arid territory in China.
Twenty-three hundred silk worms
are required to make one pound of
silk.
TEXAS DROUGHT COSTS
THE FARMERS MILLIONS
EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLA
TURE CALLED TO DEAL WITH
SITUATION. ALL CROPS AND
LIVESTOCK SUFFER.
Looking over their drought-parch
ed field’s Texas farmers figurue that
nature’s strike has cost them millions
ol dollars.
Temperature records have been
equaled and in some places broken
this summer, cotton has not grown
properly, wheat was far short of nor
mal, ranges have dried up, corn has
turned brown, many Panhandle farm
ers have abandoned their homes and
most of the 254 counties in the state
are either on emergency or second
ary drought lists.
Cotton crops in each of three wide
ly separated counties have been dam
agegd more than'sl,ooo,ooo and the
normal Panhandle wheat crop of 35,-
000,000 bushels will be about 18,-
000,000. One rancher traveled 6,000
miles trying in vain to find pasturage
for his herds.
The wheat area northwest of Ama
rillo served by one railroad did not
move a carload of grain. It usually
produces from 1,000,000 to 1,500,-
000 bushels. In that sector July was
the hottest and driest July in forty
two years.
At the request of Governor Mir
iam A. Fui’guson the Texas legisla
ture will meet August 27 to author
ize issuance of additional state bonds
to relieve unemployment. Reports
showed, she said, that the extended
drought and other adverse conditions
had created a situation of acute
alarm.
STATE WILL PAVE
SIX MILE STRETCH
HIGHWA YFROM JACKSON TO
HENRY COUNTY LINE WILL BE
HANDLED BY STATE, ACCORD
ING TO ANNOUNCEMENT.
The state highway board announ
ced last week that it would pave
the 6 miles between Jackson and the
Henry county line on route 42. The
road between Porterdale and Cov
ington was another project to be
handled by the state* highway board.
This decision was reaehe*d when
the Whitley Construction Company
was enjoined by the government be
cause ol failure to comply with NR A
requirements as to wages and hours.
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The state highway board, after
the injunction against Whitley was
granted, took over a project between
Barnesville and Culloden in Lamar
county and one between Thomson
and Augusta.
The announcement said that the
state highway board would lease the
Whitley Construuet: .n equipment
and proceed with the paving.
Equipment used on other projects
was to be shipped here and the work
of paving on the local project was to
get under way this week, according
to announcement from Atlanta.
As originally planned th econtract
for paving the 6.066 miles between
Jackson and Jenkinsburg was to be
awarded August 16, but that was
changed when the state highway
board decided to do the work itself.
REVIVAL SERVICES START
AUGUST 22 AT CORK CHURCH
Revival services will begin at the
Cork Methodist church on Wednes
day night after the third Sunday in
August, with the pastor, Rev. Harvey
A. King conducting the meetings.
Services will be held daily at 7:30 p.
m. and the public is invited to attend
these services.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
GEORGIA’S COTTON
CROP 881,000 BALES
CROP REPORTING BOARD ESTI
MATES GEORGIA CROP AT
LESS THAN MILLION ON CON
DITION 69 PER CENT.
Augustl prospects for the Georgia
cotton crop this year indicated prob
able production of about 881,000
bales (5001bs. gross weight), accord
ing to the first cnodition report of
the season issued through the Geor
gia Crop Reporting Service. This
production figure is based on con
dition of 69 per cent of normal as
reported by about 1800 crop corres
pondents distributed over all sections
of the satte. Reported condition on,
August 1 last year was 78 per cent.
Upon the current estimated acreage,
less 10-year average abandonment,
leaving 2,105,000 acres for harvest,
the yield per acre should amount to
about 200 pounds as compared with
246 pounds last year, 154 in 1932,
and 215 in 1931. Ginnings last year
were 1,105,000 standard bales; in
1932, 840,000 bales; and in 1931
1,393,000.
Since the middle of June there
has been wonderful recovery over
most of the section just mentioned.
Where progress in early season ap
peared two to three weeks behind
usual, it has regained most of the
lost ground. Especially is this true
in the southwest. Hot, dry weather
most of the time has largely checked
weevil damage that earlier was a ser
ious threat. Bolls are beginning to
open in some areas, although con
siderable blooming is still being re
ported.
Final production will depend upon
whether the various factors affect
ing the crop during the remainder of
the season are more or less favor
able than usual.
THOMPSON HEADS PARTY
TO R. L. C. A. MEETING
MEETINC IN DENVER WILL AS
SEMBLE CARRIERS FROM ALL
PARTS OF COUNTRY. DATE'
IS AUGUST 21-24.
Gordon H .Thompson of Jackson,
state president of the Rural Letter
Carriers Association, V. W. Fretwell,
ol Jackson, and J. W. Capel, of Mu
ltna, left Tuesday by motor to at
tend the national Rural Letter Car
riers Association meeting in Denver,
Col., August 21-24. Mr. Thompson
is a delegate at large from Georgia.
The other delegate from the state
at large is Charles C. Wall, of Ella
ville, state secretary. Each congres
sional district has a delegate and
Georgia will be well represented at
the national convention. This state,
it is expected, will take a prominent
part in the proceedings of the nation
a! meeting.
Delegates in addition to the presi
dent and secretary include the fo!
lowing from each congressional dis
trict:
T. A. Kennedy, Manassas.
J. E. Mobley, Bainbridge.
J. M. Levie, Montezuma.
Joe P. Howell, West Point.
L. C. Henderson, Dunwoody.
Cecil F. Hall, Sandersville.
H .E. Mize, Cave Springs.
C. L. Mathis, Stockton.
Thomas G. Walters, Toccoa.
W. D. Graham, Danielsville.
While away Mr. Thompson and
party will visit Hot Springs, Pike’s
Peak and other places of interest in
the West. They will probably re
turn through Kansas and Nebraska ir.
order to obtain first hand informa
tion of drought conditions in that
section.