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Thursday, February i6, 1939
Program Was
Given Monday
On Georgia Day
JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAD
INTERESTING EXERCISE MON
DAY. FACTS ABOUT THE
STATE BROUGHT OUT
Georgia Day was the inspiration
for the program held Monday, Feb
ruary 13, by the Jackson public
schools. Georgia Day fell on Sun
day and the 205th anniversary of
the founding of Georgia was observ
ed the following day with an appro
priate program.
The program was opened by sing
ing Georgia Land, followed by re
sponsive reading and prayer led by
Jack Suffridge. The founding of
Georgia was given by Josephine
Jones. Hilda Edwards gave some
interesting facts on the State Bird,
the State Flower and the State Tree.
A few “firsts” in Georgia educa
tion was given by Mildred Welch.
Hilda Henderson gave a history of
the capitals of the state.
The poem, “Keep-a-GoiiT,” writ
ten by Frank L. Stanton, first poet
laureate of Georgia, was given by
Mary Lane Mallet.
The program was closed with sing
ing the official state song. J. W.
Bond announced the program.
Composing the program commit
tee were Hilda Henderson, chairman,
Josephine Jones, Hilda Edwards and
Mildred Welch.
WORTHVILLE
Miss Sara Swint of Sharpsburg,
Mrs. Ira Thaxton and Mrs. R. W.
Lamb of Jackson visited Mr. Asa
Martin and Mi's. Lottie Martin dur
ing the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Cawthon and
family and Miss Catherine Stodg
hill of Atlanta were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. R. 0. Stodghill Sunday.
Friends of Mr. J. H. Pope will be
interested to know that he returned
home Friday from Crawford W.
Long Hospital and is doing nicely,
following a major operation two
weeks ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Thaxton of
Jackson spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. C. N. Thaxton.
Miss Jennie Lou Pope, student at
Bessie Tift, spent the week-end
with homefolks.
Mr, and Mrs. F. B. Mason, Mr.
and Mrs. C. N. Thaxton and little
Carlton visited Mrs. Inman Smith
and children at Stark Sunday.
Messrs. W. F. and J. H. O’Neal
and Miss Dorothy Ann O’Neal of
Jackson visited Mrs. J. H. Pope on
Sunday.
EXAMINATION HELD HERE
FOR JULIETTE POSTMASTER
Ten applicants, three women and
seven men, for postmaster at
Juliette stood a civil service exam
ination in Jackson Saturday. The
examination was conducted by J. D.
Patrick and Mrs. J. G. McDonald
of the local Civil Service Board. R.
B. Giles recently resigned as post
master at Juliette to engage in farm
ing and the appointment will be
made from among the eligible appli
cants.
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BE PLANTED SOON AS DRY
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Funeral Director
OLR SERVICES AVAILABLE
TO ALB' REGARDLESS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITIONS.
- -Equipment the Best
February Term
Hears Criminal
Cases, Adjourns
COURT ADJOURNED WEDNES
DAY AFTER DISPOSING OF
SEVERAL CRIMINAL CASES.
NO IMPORTANT CASES HEARD
After disposing of a good many
criminal cases during\he week Butts
Superior Court adjourned Wednes
day afternoon.
No criminal cases of importance
were scheduled for the term. Among
the cases disposed of were the fol
lowing:
M. L. Holges, Jr., driving car
without license, plea, $5.
Johnnie B. White, public drunk
eness, verdict, 30 days or $25.
Stanley Coleman, driving car
without license, plea, $5.
Arthur Cook alias Son Tank,
stealing shotgun, verdict, 12 months;
resisting arresting officer, verdict,
12 months; having liquor, verdict,
12 months.
Reginald Yancey, driving car
without license, plea, $5; driving
automobile while under influence of
liquor, plea, G months or SSO.
M. E. Tyner, driving car while
under influence of liquor, verdict,
costs.
Shug Burford, having unstamped
liquor, plea, cost or 30 days.
Homer Brownlee, carrying con
cealed pistol, plea, SSO or 6 months.
Ed Thaxton, carrying concealed
pistol, plea, SSO or G months.
R. C. Gault, violating state nar
cotic act, plea, 12 months proba
tion, SIOO.
Forest McLendon, larceny, verdict
of not guilty.
Obe McDaniel, simple larceny,
verdict, cost or 30 days.
JENKINSBURG
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Colwell, of
Towaliga, visited Mr.;. J. L. Whita
ker Saturday.
Miss Lucy Minter, Bessie Tift
student, spent Sunday at home.
Miss Evelyn Whitaker spent the
week-end in Macon as the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Colwell.
Mrs. C. 11. Kitchens and small
son, Jimmie, of Atlanta, spent Sun
day with Miss Eda Leverette and
her father.
Miss Emma Lou Childs and Mrs.
Elma Childs, of Atlanta, were week
end guests of Mrs. J. B. Childs.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Allen, of At
lanta, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. D.
Bankston Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Pullin are now
occupying the Hairis home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Craig, of At
lanta, and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Joy
ner, of Ola, were guests Monday
of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Bankston.
Jimmie Stallworth has been con
fined to his room for several days
with tonsilitis.
Mrs. R. C. Woodward, of East
Point, spent Saturday with hor
mother, Mrs. W. T. Thurston.
Mrs. J. G. Childs spent Tuesday
in Atlanta,
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Franklin, of
Jackson, were dinner-guests Sunday
of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Pullin.
Friends of Mrs. I. 11. Mills will
be sorry to learn of her illness.
Mi - , and Mrs. H. A. Maddox and
Stanley and Miss Grace Bankston,
of Atlanta, spent the week-end with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Bankston.
Mr. C. H. Farrar has been on the
sick list for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sims, of near
McDonough, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Pullin Sunday.
Mesdames J. B. Childs, J. H. Jack
son and Leon Pullin attended the
funeral of Mr. A. G. Combs at Lo
cust Grove Monday afternoon.
Miss Virginia Argo and Master
Billie Argo, of Macon, spent the
week-end with Miss Elizabeth Lev
erette and Master Jack Leverette.
Mrs. George Stone spent part of
last week with her parents in Mon
.roe.
Mrs. Carrie L. 'Price visited Mrs.
A. B. Florence in Atlanta last week.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS. JACKSON, GEORGIA
Lucius Adkins,
Griffin Negro,
Gets New Trial
GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE IN CON
NECTION WITH SLAYING OF
CHIEF C. T. THORNTON ON
OCTOBER 25, 1938
Under a decision announced Wed
nesday the Georgia Supreme Court
granted anew trial to Lucius Ad
kins, Griffin negro, convicted at a
special term of Butts Superior Court
and given life sentence for conspi
racy in the slaying of Police Chief
C. T. Thornton on October 25, 1938.
Three negroes, Jim Henry Wil
liams, Charlie Rucker and Raymond
Carter, were electrocuted at Tatt
nall Prison in December as actual
slayers of the police officer.
Lucius Adkins and his wife, Mat
tie Adkins, were said to have taken
the three other negroes from Grif
fin to Jackson in Adkins’ car. Both
Adkins and his wife were indicted
for murder, but the woman was ac
quitted. Lucius Adkins was con
victed by a Butts county jury and
sentenced by Judge Ogden Persons
to life in the penitentiary.
A. M. Zellner, Forsyth, and
Threatt Moore, Jackson, were ap
pointed by the court to represent
the Adkins negroes.
The Supreme Court pointed out
that Adkins claimed the three ne
groes paid him to take them to
Jackson on the pretext of seeing
some girls, and after taking them to
Jackson Adkins and his wife visited
with an uncle in the outskirts of the
city and were there when the slay
ing took place uptown.
“The evidence was not sufficient
to prove that Adkins was a principal
in the second degree or a conspira
tor,” the Supreme Coui't held.
What folks aint up on, they’re
down on. Wise ’em up—advertise.
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it means something to You, too”
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X DON’T work for a cotton mill,
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Neither do you. But there are 60,000
people in Georgia who depend on the
cotton mills for a living. These peo
ple earn —and spend —545,000,000
a year. Some of that money goes
through your hands every day.
“That’s why all business is better
when the mills run. No wonder! It’s
the state’s biggest industry.
“Cotton mills are the Georgia farm
ers’ best customers, too. They buy
over a million bales of cotton per
year. They are Georgia’s largest buy
er of power and fuel and many other
things, too. When the mills shut
down all business is hurt.
Mr. H. G. Hawkins
Claimed By Death
The death of Mr. Henry Grady
Hawkins, 47 years of age, a resi
dent of Pepperton for a long num
ber of years, occurred Wednesday
morning at 6 o’clock. He had been
seriously ill for several days of pneu
monia.
Mr. Hawkins was born in Putnam
county, a son of J. William Haw
kins and Mrs. Cora Cardell Haw
kins. Asa young man he came to
Jackson and had been connected
with the Pepperton Cotton Mills
since that time. He was widely
known in political circles and served
for many years as a member of the
Butts County Democratic Executive
Committee. A loyal Democrat, he
always supported the party ticket
with spirit and interest.
Mr. Hawkins was a member of
the Odd Fellows and Junior Order
of United American Mechanics. He
was liberal in his charities and al
ways eager to donate to the support
of a good cause and to aid those in
distress. He was widely known
throughout the county and had many
friends who were distressed to know
of his death.
Surviving relatives are his fath
er, J. W. Hawkins, of Madison, Ga.;
two sisters, Mrs. E. W. Hudgins, of
Jackson; Mrs. Maud Moon, of Madi
son; one brother, Ellis Hawkins, of
Madison; four aunts, Mrs. J. W.
Kelley and Mrs. J. J. Baxter, of
Jackson; Mrs. Annie Wood, of Grif
fin, and Mrs. M. M. Collins, of Thom
aston; two uncles, Julian Cardell,
of Locust Grove, and O. L. Cardell,
of Atlanta.
Funeral services were to be held
at the Pepperton church Thursday
afternoon at 3 o'clock EST and Rev.
G. O. Fuller will officiate. Burial
will be in the Jackson cemetery,
Thornton Funeral Homes in charge
of arrangements.
TELL 'EM AND SELL ’EM
DIXIE THEATRE
Matinee Every Day 2:30; Night Shows 6:45 and 8:45
SATURDAY—DOUBLE FEATURE
No. 1— 808 STEELE IN
“DURANGO VALLEY RAIDERS”
No. 2 Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers and Chick Chandler In
“WHILE NEW YORK SLEEPS”
MONDAY & TUESDAY
“SPRING MADNESS”
—WITH—
MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN, LEW AYRES, ANN MORRISS
” WEDNESDAY
“LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE”
—WITH—
ROBERT KENT, JUNE TRAVIS, ANN GILLIS
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
LORETTA YOUNG, TYRONE POWER, ANNABELLA
—IN—
“SUEZ”
—WITH—
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT, HENRY STEPHENSON, SIG RUMANN
SATURDAY CONTINUOUS SHOWING 1:00 TO 11:00 P. M.
FLOVILLA
Mrs. J. L. Holloway has reutrned
home after an extended visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hayes and fam
ily in Warm Springs.
Mrs. Park Newton, Jr., of Bir
mingham, Ala., is spending a few
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. R. Edwards.
Mrs. J. C. Funderburk and Mrs.
Vivian Hightower were visitors in
Jackson Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Barnes and
Miss Christine Barnes were visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Setzer in
Griffin Sunday.
Friends of Mrs. Oscar Hay will
be sorry to know she is on the sick
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“Everyone knows they don’t want to
shut down. But if taxes get too heavy
if the mills are choked by unwise
laws —if they have to pay out more
than they take in—they might have
to close. That would hurt every
body. So, I say-LET’S KEEP THE
COTTON MILLS IN GEORGIA.”
LET S KEEP/^
COTTON MILLS
IN GEORGIA
list this week and wish for her a
speedy recovery.
Miss Alice Smith had as her guest
Monday Mrs. O. E. Smith.
Mrs. Johnnie Moss spent Monday
in Jackson with her children, Mr.
and Mrs. B. H. Moss.
Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Long visited
their aunt, Mrs. E. N. Thompson, in
Griffin Sunday.
Mi - . A. F. White was a business
visitor in Macon Monday.
Mr. Owen Smith has returned
home after spending a few days
with his grandmother, Mrs. Lula
Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Long and fam
ily and Mrs. Maud Long spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Dodson.