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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938
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have national forests within their
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INSURANCE
Street Skating Is
Banned By Council
MEASURE OF SAFETY TO PE
DESTRIANS ADOPTED. SKAT
ING BE PERMITTED IN ZONES
NAMED BY CITY COUNCIL
Skating on the streets of Jackson
is prohibited by an ordinance adopt
ed Monday night by city council.
This action was taken as a meas
ure of safety to pedestrians.
The menace of serious accidents
led to the adoption of the ordinance,
4 t
it was stated.
Skating in restricted zones, to be
named by city authorities, will be
permitted.
The days and hours in which skat
ing will be permitted and the zones
where the sport may be engaged in
will be worked out and announced
later.
The ordinance is effective upon
I publication. The ordinance will be
jfound in this issue.
INDIAN SPRINGS
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hoard motored
to Rentz to visit Mrs. Hoard’s pa
retns, Mr. and Mrs. Mullis.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spaulding and
their granddaughter, Miss Jean M.
Babington, had as their guests over
the week-end Messrs. Roy Drum
mond and Carl Nelson of Council
Bluffs, lowa. Mr. Drummond and
Mr. Nelson were former schoolmates
of Miss Babington in the North.
Mrs. Pledger of Atlanta is here
visiting her mother, Mrs. Piper, and
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moss.
Miss Evelyn Archer spent Sunday
with Miss Minerva Torbet of Indian
Springs.
Mr. Kyle McMichael visited in
! Greenville, S. C., last week.
Mr. B. T. McMichael, Miss Mar
garet McMichael, Mrs. W. L. Hollo
way and Miss Jean M. Babington
motored to Macon last Saturday and
spent the day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cornell have
returned from an extended trip in
Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Holloway had
as their guests last Sunday Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Holloway of Culloden and
also Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hoard of
Indian Springs.
Miss Miriam Tucker of Cork spent
Sunday in Indian Springs visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Bob Torbet.
Miss Kathleen Strickland returned
from Roanoke, Alabama, where she
has been coaching a play.
FORSYTH BAPTIST CHURCH TO
HAVE ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM
Forsyth, Ga. —The First Baptist
church of Forsyth will observe its
100th anniversary on Sunday, Jan
uary 30. Former pastors, non-resi
dent members and those who in the
past had their membership in the
church have been invited for the
celebration. The First Baptist church
of Forsyth was founded in January,
1838.
Dr. Aquilla Chamlee, president of
Bessie Tift College and a former
pastor of the church, will preach the
centennial sermon. Dr. James W.
Merritt, of Atlanta, will be one of
the speakers.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
W. D. Compton, Jr.
Is Killed In Smash
THREE RESIDENTS OF COCHRAN
AND NEGRO PREACHER MET
DEATH WHEN CARS COLLID
ED FRIDAY NIGHT
Funeral services for Mr. William
D. Compton, Jr., former Butts coun
ty citizen, a resident of Cochran for
some years, who received fatal in
juries when the car in which he was
riding collided with another car on
the Macon-Cochran highway Friday
night, were held in Macon Sunday
afternoon and interment was in the
Jackson cemetery.
Three other persons died as a re
sult of injuries sustained in the col
lision between the two automobiles.
Theye were J. A. Floyd, city clerk
and treasurer of the city of Cochran,
and his son, T. Watson Floyd, clerk
of Bleckley county superior court,
and H. L. Lewis, Macon negro
preacher.
Mr. Compton and the Floyds were
en route to Macon to visit Mrs.
Compton, ill in a Macon hospital, and
the Floyds to visit their son and
brother, also ill in a hospital.
The accident happened, it was said
by officers, when Lewis turned from
a side road directly in front of the
car occupied by Mr. Compton and
the Floyds.
Mr Compton was pronounced dead
upon arrival in a Macon hospital.
The elder Floyd died shortly after
the accident and the son sevreal
hours later.
The unfortunate accident came as
a profound shock to the family and
friends here. Mr. Compton was born
and reared in Butts county, a son
of the late Mr. W. D. Compton and
Mrs. Laura Fletcher Compton. For
some years he was connected with
banking institutions in this section
and for the past few years had been
stationed in Cochran where he acted
as liquidating agent for closed banks.
He was regarded as a capable bus
iness man and was connected with
families long prominent in the up
building of this section.
Mr. Compton was a member of the
Methodist church, a Mason and
Shriner.
Surviving Mr. Compton are his
wife, the former Miss Archie Speer,
of Wadley; three sons, DeWitt Comp
ton, Chauncey; Dwight Compton,
student at the of Georgia;
Irvin Compton, Cochran; three sis
ters, Miss Eva Compton, teacher in
the Jackson public schools; Mrs. Hat
tie Compton Blankenship, matron at
Thornwell Orphanage, Clinton, S. C.,
and Mrs. J. W. Dozier, Monticello;
three brothers, Clarence M., Julian
J. and H. Fletcher Compton, of Jack
son.
Last rites for Mr. Compton were
held at Hart’s Mortuary at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon. Services were
conducted by Rev. W. M. Haywood,
pastor of the Methodist church in
Cochran, and Rev. G. Reid Smith,
pastor of the First Street Methodist
church in Macon.
Pallbearers were F. L. McVay, J.
E. Cook, L. S. Leach, H. McWhorter
and L. B. Kennington, of Cochran;
Dr. Charles Toole, Jr., of Milledge
ville, M. E. Everette, of Dublin and
Edgar Ware, of Eastman.
Graveside services were held at
the Jackson cemetery Sunday after
noon at 3 o’clock. Many relatives
and friends paid a final tribute to
this prominent citizen and numerous
floral offerings attested the high es
teem in which he was held.
CARRIERS ATTENDED FUNERAL
RITES FOR MR. V. W. FRETWELL
Among the rural carriers and mem
bers of their families who attended
teh funeral services of Mr. Van Wil
son Fretwell Friday afternoon were
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cauthen and Miss
ißeckie Cauthen, Jonesboro; Mr. and
i
Mrs. W. D. Bohannon, Moreland; J.
W. Capell, Molena; G. L. Lindsey
and Cliff Brown, Locust Grove.
Charles Wall, editor of R. F. D.
News in The Atlanta Journal, paid
Mr. Fretwell a deserved compliment,
calling attention to his long and
faithful service as a postal employee.
COUNTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
LISTED IN CONSTITUTION’S
GOVERNMENT CONTEST
(Continued From Front Page)
and home demonstration agent; the
efforts to improve the county’s live
sotck industry by importing brood
mares and a registered jack and
purebred pig project for the boys.
This topic was included in a review
of the dairy and poultry industry,
canning plant, work shop for boys
and Butts County Fair.
7. 4-H Club Work. This topic
was covered by Miss Myrtie Lee Mc-
Googan, home demonstratiaon agent,
in which it was shown 126 girls are
enrolled in 4-H clubs and the work
carried on in the several projects—
gardening, cooking, sewing, home
making, health, handicraft, wild life
conservation and work among adult
farm women.
8. Beautification. Mrs. J. T.
Warthen of the Mimosa Garden Club
and Mrs. Hugh Mallet of the Jackson
Garden Club compiled information
on this subject. It was shown that
much has been done to beautify high
ways, school grounds, churches,
parks, public buildings, homes and
stores.
9. Soil Erosion. County Agent
M. L. Powell handled this subject,
outlining the fact the county has
bought terracing equipment, terrac
ed 1,000 acres of land, followed this
W'ith cover crops and co-operated in
the Soil Conservation program and
that benefit payments for 1937 will
be around $60,000.
10. Forestry. W. H. Wilson, clerk
of the board of commissioners, com
piled data on this subject. Progress
is being made in keeping fire out of
forests, the report said.
11. Forums. W. M. Redman,
mayor of Jackson, collected informa
tion on this topic. Attention was
called to the forums sponsored by
the Woman’s club and to the several
prominent public men who spoke in
the county during the year.
12. Wild Life. Miss Myrtie Lee
McGoogan gathered information on
this subject. She sketched organiza
tion of the Butts County Game and
Fish Conservation Club, the stocking
of the streams of the county with
fish and placing quail on farms.
13. Co-Operation. This was han
dled by Miss Beth Towles, director
of the Public Welfare Department.
She showed what has been done
since the inception of FERA, then
WPA, National Youth Administra
tion and Civilian Conservation Corps,
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directing attention to the support
given by the county in the public
welfare program, beginning July 1,
1937, and the aid rendered by
churches, schools and organizations
in meeting needs of poor families.
14. County Improvement. W. H.
Wilson, clerk, compiled the data on
the public improvements carried out
by the county in 1937, including re
pairs to the court house at a cost
of $3,902.50, the building of anew
jail at a cost of $27,421.24.
15. County Finances. This sub
ject, also handled by Mr. Wilson,
showed a tax digest for 1937 of $2,-
853,686, an increase in values of
$69,294 over the previous year, a
reduction in the county tax rate of
one mill, the total income from all
taxes, including gasoline and the re
volving fund set up through sale of
highway certificates.
16. General. Mr. Wilson also
collected the data on this topic. The
.county’s area of' 203 square miles
was cited, the population (1930 cen
sus) of 9,345 was given and atten
tion directed to the fact the county
has no outstanding debts except $90,-
000 bond issue and that interest and
principal on bonds had been paid to
January 1, 1938.
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MISSIONARY TO SPEAK
Mrs. Etta Sherley will speak at
the Church of the Nazarene at 7 p.
m. Saturday, January 29. The pub
lic is invited to haer this missionary
who advanced alone into heathenism
in Swaziland, where no missionary
had ever been, after thirty years in
Africa. Her message is expected to
be of special interest.
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