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VOL. 63. —NO. 51.
ADJOURN BUSINESS
ON CHRISTMAS DAY
fOST OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED
AND RURAL CARRIERS WILL
HAVE HOLIDAY. TO CARE
FOR THE UNFORTUNATE.
Christmas Day, falling this year
Wednesday, will witness a cessa
.ion of all business activities in the
community. All busness institutions
will be closed for the day.
The post office will be closed and
rU ral mail carriers will enjoy the
i holiday.
I The churches will have approp
■ rate Christmas programs and the
■'die folks will be remembered with
Hltktmas trees.
Both city and county schools will
lie closed for the holiday period and
Boys and girls will be at home
dor the yule season. For the young
people it will be a delightful season
if visiting, attending parties and
(swapping experiences.
So far as can be learned adequate
provisions has been made to take
iar of unfortunate families in the
tcmnty. The Associated Charities,
ilie Red Cross and other groups will
lee that cheer is brought to those
in unfortunate circumstances. Bus
iness men, the Kiwanis club and
iiher groups and organizations have
donated to the Christmas fund.
The pre-holiday season has been
marked by brisk shopping and all
merchants report satisfactory sales
The volume will increase for the
.Text few days, Christmas eve bring
ing a climax to the year’s greatest
buying season.
With better conditions existing on
the farms and in buisness circles the
Sthristmas season will • bring the
['.‘opie solid comfort and satisfac
tion.
NAME MEMBERS OF
COTTON COMMITTEE
MEMBERS OF DISTRICT COM
MITTEE WILL BE NAMED TO
SERVE NEXT YEAR AT SES
SIONS HELD FRIDAY.
Members of the various com
munity cotton committees to serve
the Bounty for the ensuing year will
at meetings to be held
liiday. A letter to all contract
signers has gone out from the coun
ty agent’s office notifying them of
the hour and place of meeeting.
The following schedule has been
, arranged:
k Friday, December 20, Towaliga
Jenkinsburg at 10 a. m. centra,
'time.
Friday, December 20, Tussahav,
and Indian Springs at 2 p. m. central
time
The letter to growers says each
signer will have the privi-
Uol *' ,J ng the meeting and
lace in which schoo 1
* s or his farm is loca
f the community com
iparatory to work on the
i program, whch will
et. under way in a short
/ fars of the county cotton
tee will be named after the
jnity committees have been
and.
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black widow spider was
SHOWN BY MR. KITCHENS
Mr L O Kitchens, of Jackson
route 4," showed a black widow
,pider at this office Wednesday. It
, va s one of several found on too
premises during the year Mr.
Kitchens stated.
REPORTS SHOW KIWANIS
CLUB HAD BUSY YEAR
SEVERAL WORTHWHILE PRO
JECTS PUT OVER DURING
YEAR AND KIWANIS CLUB
PROUD OF RECORD MADE.
Reports of standing committees
leatured the meeting of the KiwanL
ciub Tuesday night, and these re
ports showed the club has had an
active and successful twelve months.
M. L. Powell, county agent, who
i? chairman of the committee on agri
culture, compiled his report, which
was read by another member of the
committee, as Mr. Powell was at
tending a meeting in Atlanta. This
report showed what has been ac
complished in 4-H club work, a mem
ber winning a free trip to Chicago,
club camps held at Indian Springs
and on the Power company lake, the
trip to Camp Wilkins, building oi
the community canning plant, soil
improvement) work, terracing equip
ment for the county, and the value
of the 1935 cotton crop was pointed
to as an improvement over recent
years.
Most of the other reports were
brief, but covered the activities out
lined.
The report of N. F. Land, chair
man of the committee on Underpriv
iledged children, showed outstand
ing accomplishmnts during the year.
In the early spring two diptheria
clinics were held, treatment having
been provided for several hundred
children, by means of funds raise !
throughout the county. A crippled
child was given treatment at the
Scottish Rite Hospital, the club pay
ing the transportation, and letters
of deep appreciation have been re
ceived from the mother and grand
mother of the child, now able to
walk. A tonsil clinic was held and
a dental clinic is now being planned.
Considering the funds in hand, thri
commitee has done wonderful work
foi better health in Butts county,
and Mr. Land is due the thanks of
the club and citizens of the county
for the splendid results accomplish
ed.
As chairman of the committee on
Fublic Affairs, J. D. Jones stated
that the paving of route 42 had been
completed during the year, a bridge
built across the Ocmulgee river, the
community canning plant erected,
the school auditorium project ap
proved and efforts to acquire land
for a state park at Indian Springs
were outlined. This project, dor
mant for the present, will be revived
later, it is hoped. The new post
office building was mentioned as a
community asset, and work in con
nection with the county agent and
home demonstration agent was ex
plained.
Mr. J. T. Douglas was a guest of
the club and dinner was served by
the Woman’s Club, Mrs. J. W. Mor
ris chairman.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR WILL
TOAST GRAND OFFICERS
Alexius Commandery No. 22
Knights Templar will have its an
nual Christmas observance in the
asylum Christmas morning at 10
r/c’ock. At that time messages will
be read from the grand master of
the United States and from the
grand commander of Georgia, E. D.
Kenyon, of Gainesville. Toasts will
be drunk to those ranking officers
and messages conveying the good
vill of the local Sir Knights wired
to them.
The service is a beautiful and im
pressive one and all members of the
commandery are asked to be pres
tilt
E’ephants continue to grow for
about forty years.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935
SCHOOL HOLIDAY
TO BEGIN FRIDAY
CITY AND COUNTY SYSTEMS
END FALL TERM FRIDAY AF
TER SUCCESSFUL PERIOD.
SALARIES BRING CHEER.
Ending a successful fall’s work,
schools in the city and county sys
t m will close for the Christmas holi
days on Friday.
The county schools have set De
cember 30 as the date for opening
c-f the spring term.
The Jackson public schools will
epen on Thursday, January 2.
Bringing cheer to the teachers in
both school systems was the payment
in full of all salaries. This is a re
cord that few school systems can
equal, and is pleasing not only to
teachers but to the board of educa
tion and the friends of education in
general.
Many of the out of town teachers
will spend the Christmas season at
their respective homes.
For teachers and pupils alike the
Christmas season will prove an en
joyable one.
AGENTS MEET AND MAP
PLANS FOR NEW YEAR
COTTON PROGRAM FOR 1936 AND
EXTENSION WORK MATTERS
DISCUSSED AT MEETING HELD
IN NATLANTA.
County farm agents and home
demonstration agents in the Atlanta
zone spenl'Tuesday and Wednesday
in Atlanta and heard plans for the
1936 cotton program and extension
work in. general outlined.
The district meeting, presided over
by L. I. Skinner and Miss Lula Ed
wards, in charge of farm agent and
heme demonstration agent work in
the fourth district, presided at the
sessions.
The first day was given for a dis
cussion of the 1936 cotton program.
Flans for carrying out the govern
ment control program were discuss
ed.
Wednesday was devoted to a dis
cussion of extension work in general
and the mapping of programs to
make this work of the greatest good.
Miss Evelyn Kent, home demonstra
tion agent, and Mr. M. L. Powell, farm
agent, were among those from here
who attended the meeting in Atlanta.
FAMILY ROW RESULTS
IN DEATH OF NEGRO
CHARLIE JOHNSON, NEGRO MAN
KILLED BY WIFE AS RESULT
OF WHIPPING. COMMITMENT
TRIAL HELD.
Charlie Johnson, negro man about
SO years of age, residing on the J.
S. Ba'l farm, was shot and killed by
his wife, Luvinia Johnson, Saturday
night at a late hour.
The shooting followed a family
row in which Johnson is said to
have beat his wife. He left the
house to secure a stick to continue
the punishment when the woman
secured a shotgun and fired as John
son entered the door.
The discharge entered the black’s
head, causing death in a short time.
The Johnson woman, together with
her mother and two children, remain
ed a3 the home and made no effor:
to escape. County policemen Wil
liamson and Gifford arreeted her
Sunday morning.
Fo’lowing a commithent trial be
fore Judge J. A. McMichael Monday
afternoon the Johnson woman was
exonerated.
CITY PRIMARY TO
BE HELD THURSDAY
THREE CANDIDATES ENTERED
FOR MAYOR. FIRST AND SEC
OND WARDS HAVE OPPOSI
TION FOR COUNCIL POSTS.
Jackson voters balloted Thursday
lor officers to serve the city for the
ensuing 12 months. The pol’s opened
at 8 a. m. and will close at 4 p. m.
For the office of mayor there are
three candidates, S. H. Eiseman.
merchant, P. H. Weaver, seeking re
election and J. L. Lyons, former
mayor. Mr. Eiseman, the third can
didate qualified on December 12 be
fore entres closed at 6 p. m.
For council from the first first
ward there are two candidates, J.
Hall Turner and J. W. O’Neal. Al
derman A. C. Fnley did not stand
for re-election.
In the second ward where Alder
maa J. R. Thurston did not seek
further service there are two candi
dates, A. S. Mills and E. H. Pace.
Alderman J. B. Settle in the third
ward and Alderman 11. M. Moore in
the fourth ward will be nominated
without opposition. Both are vete
rans in the point of service.
The above contests are the ones
voters will be called on to decide.
For the board of education W. E.
Watkins seeks another term as chair
man, and members of the board, by
wards, include Dr. R. L. Hammond,
H. W. Turner, D. W. Ham and W.
M. lledman.
H. L. Daughtry, chairman of the
executive committee, and all mem
bers of the committee are unoppos
ed. By wards members of the ex
ecutive committee are 11. O. Ball,
H. S. Downs, R. P. Newton and H. R.
Slaton.
Owing to the contest for mayor
and for council in two oof the four
wards it is likely a large vote will
La polled. The registration is ap
proximately 493.
The vote will be by the city at
large.
Considerable interest is being
shown, with the race for mayor hold
ing first place.
Those nominated Thursday will be
duly elected the first Wednesday in
January.
5,175 BALES ARE
GINNED IN COUNTY
COUNTY’S COTTON CROP FOP
YEAR WILL BE UNDER TRAT
OF 1934 BURKE IS STATE
LEADER TO DECEMBER 1.
Butts county had ginned prior to
December 1, a total of 5,176 bales
of cotton, compared with 6,566 bales
to theaame date in 1934, showing a
decrease of 391 bales, according
tc figures furnished by the censu
bureau.
Total production last year was
5,728 bales, and this year’s crop will
be under that figure, with the final
report to be made later in the sea
son.
Up to December 1 Georgia had
ginned 1,029,474 ba'es. That com
pares with 954,306 bales to De
cember 1, 1934.
Burke county is leading the state,
with 30,616 bales to the first of the
month. Other large producing
counties show ginnings as follow.-:
Laurens, 29,564; Carroll, 26,178;
j Kmanuel, 22,844; Bul’och, 20,140.
Counties in this immediate section
had ginned the following number of
tales, the report shows:
Butts, 5,175; Fayette, 6,910;
Coweta, 10,957; Henry, 13,921; Jas
per, 5,221; Lamar, 4,218; Monroe,
4,174; Newton, 9,101; Spalding, 5,-
i 799 • Upson, 2,577.
METHODIST CHURCH TO
HAVE UNION SERVICE
JACKSON CHURCHES TO COM
BINE IN SERVICE SUNDAY
NIGHT. SPECIAL MUSIC BY
ALL CHOIRS IN CITY.
A union service will be held ar.
the Jackson Methodist church Sun
uay night at 7 o’clock, and the ser
mon will be preached by Rev. R. B.
Harrison of the Baptist church.
Special Christmas music, directed
by Mrs. D. P. Settle and with Annie
Rosa Bond as pianist, will be a fea
ture. Choirs of the three Jackson
churches will take part in the sing
ing.
The entire service will be one
appropriate to the Christmas season.
To this service all citizens of the
community are most cordially in
vited.
ASSETS OF BANKS
SHOW HUGE GAINS
NATIONAL BANK REPORT AN IN
CREASE OF BILLION DOLLARS
IN ASSETS AND SHOW DE
CREASE IN LOANS.
Washington, D. C. —A jump of
more than a billion dollars in na
tional bank assets during the four
months ended November 1 was re
ported Saturday by J. F. T. O’Con
nor, comptroller of he currency,
along with a $63,000,000 drop in
their loans.
In his report of the figures as
sembled from his last call for a con
dition statement, O’Connor said the
banks’ assets aggregated $27,430,-
730,000 Nov. 1, an increase of sl,-
869,665,000 since June 29.
Loans and discounts totaled $7,-
301,371,000, compared with $7,365,-
226,-000 on the previous cnl).
There was 5,409 active banks on
Nov. 1, 22 fewer than in June.
Investments in government obliga
tions, including government guaran
teed securities, rose $320,589,000 be
tween the two calls, amounting to
$7,393,596,000 on Nov. 1.
Balances due from correspondent
banks and bankers increased $991,-
852,000 to a total of $7,402,696,000.
Deposits rose $1,614,990,000 to
tatal $24,033,236,000. This was $3,-
210,000,000 greater than a year ago.
The book value of national bank
capital stock was $1,776,691,000.
Its par value was $1,782,313,000.
This book value, while $32,912,000
down from June 29, was still $4,-
912,000 above that at the first of
the year.
DONATION TO CHARITY
AND CLUB CORPORATION
MADE BY KIWANIS CLUB
In keeping with its annual custom
the Kiwanis club voted Tuesday
right to make a donation to the As
sociated Charities as a Christmas
fund to help unfortunate families of
the county. Half of the donation
goes to the Associated Charities and
half to the Jackson Club Corpora
tion.
In addition to the club donation,
members will bring gifts to the Car
michael Drug store Monday night
end these will be distributed by Vh :
i ladies and rural mail carriers. Gifts
' of candy, fruits, pencils, tab'ets and
school supplies will be appreciated.
i
GEORGIA WOODLANDS ARE
RESTOCKED WITH TREES
1
Georgia wood'ands have been re
stocked with 3,500.000 seedling
pines, black walnuts and black lo
custs during the past year, a distrib
ution more than double that of last
year, according to B. M. Lufburrow
state forester.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
AUDITORIUM WILL
BE STARTED SOON
BUILDING PROGRAM FOR THE
JACKSON SCHOOL WILL COST
$12,000. WORK TO BEGIN ON
DECEMBER THIRTIETH.
Work on the Jackson school audi
torium, a project involving $12,000,
will begin on December 30. At that
time the razing of the present build
ing and clearing the site for the
new building will begin.
District engineer Cannon, of Col
umbus, , and Division Engineer Gar
land, of Griffin, spent Monday in
Jackson conferring with member's
if the board of education re’ative to
the building program.
The federal funds arc already
available, having been received: at
Columbus several days ago.
The city of Jackson will furnish a
foreman and certain parts of the
material.
E. I. Rooks, well known Jackson
contractor, wi’l be in charge of the
work.
Local WPA labor will be used
as widely as possible. If experien
ced men are not available in the
county, workmen will be obtained
from the re-employment office in
Griffin, it was stuted. However,
most of the labor will be done by
local people.
It is the idea of the engineers
to rush the work as rapidly as pos
table. The building will be com
pleted just as early in t!he new year
as possible, members of the board
stated.
Two new class rooms, alongside
the present high school building,
will be added, and the auditorium,
with a seating capacity of 500, will
he connected with the high school,
all enclosed under one roof.
The building will be brick veneer,
and the plans call for a comfortable
and well arranged structure.
A great improvement over tho
present auditorium, which has serv
ed for many years, the new building
will be a welcome addition to Jack
son’s school facilities.
Work on three colored school
houses will begin in Butts county
about the second week in January,
it is stated by Van Fletcher, county
school superintendent. One of tha
buildings will be in the Foster and
Head community in southwest Butts,
one near Stark and one near tha
If. O. Ball farm.
Jackson and Butts county citizen
are greatly encouraged to know that
new, enlarged and improved school
facilities for the city and county
will be available.
The board of education has work
ed hard and effectively to secure tho
rew auditorium. W. M. Redman
i has been especially active and zea’-
I ous in working for the auditorium
1 and has spent considerable time and
! effort to put the program over.
KIWANIS CLUB WILL
SUSPEND MEETING ON
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24
The Kiwanis club of Jackson will
not hold its regular meeting next
Tuesday, having voted to suspetrt
the meeting on account of the Christ*
mas rush.
Members will meet at Carmichael
Drug Company Monday afternoon nt
5 o'clock and sign attendance slip*
and in that way keep up the attend
ance record.
The next regular meeting of th;
club will be held on December 31.
! American women are guardians of
more than $200,000,000,000 of the
national wealth and pay yearly taxe*
in excess of $5,000,000,000.