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VOL. 68 —No. 3
The Demand For Livestock Exceeds
The Supply At Auction Held Monday
good prices and lively
BIDDING FEATURES OF SALE
HELD JANUARY 15. EXPAN
SION PROGRAM CONSIDERED
The supply of livestock offered
at the auction in Jackson Monday
was not equal to the demand, and
buyers from a large area attracted
here by the sale, departed with or
ders unfilled.
The volume was small, but good
prices were paid. For the first time
since these sales were started the
number of hogs sold exceeded the
number of cattle. Usually cattle
far outnumber the hogs, but the or
der was reversed at Monday’s auc
tion.
The Central Georgia Livestock As
sociation will hold the next auction
on Monday, January 29.
Prices for cattle remain unusual
ly strong and show evidence of
higher levels as the grazing season
approaches. Good feeder type cat
tle will command a handsome price
a little later, according to informed
livestock dealers.
In accordance with one of its pur
poses, that to arouse interest in pas
ture building and to stock farms
with a better type of cattle and
hogs, the association plans several
public meetings just a little later in
the season. Outstanding livestock
authorities will be invited to come
here and talk to Butts county breed
ers.
Plans for buying purebred beef
type cattle are still being considered
and it is likely there will be a defi
nite announcement along that line
before many days.
Asa 4-H Club project boys will
be encouraged to obtain and feed
out calves and steers for market.
With the spring season not far
away, efforts will be made toward
arousing interest in pasture improve
ment, and it is likely this spring will
see the greatest pasture improve
ment campaign the county has ever
witnessed.
SUB-COMMITTEE TO
MEET SATURDAY ON
PRECINCT VOTING
The sub-committee of the Butts
County Demooxatic Executive Com
mittee, named by Chairman G. E.
Mallet to work out a voting ar
rangement in Jackson and Indian
Springs districts, which have two
voting precincts, will meet in the
courthouse here Saturday at 1:30
p. m. CST.
Members of the sub-committee
are Mrs. W. B. Powell and S. L.
Etheridge, Indian Springs district,
R. P. Newton and Paul Tyler, Jack
son district, and J. H. Pope from the
county at large.
It has been reported there has
been duplicate voting in Indian
Springs and Jackson districts, which
use the same registration list at
both precincts, and the sub-commit
tee is trying to work out a plan to
stop that practice.
REV. J. H. CLARKE
FILLED PULPIT IN
JACKSON SUNDAY
The Rev. J. H. Clarke, pastor of
the Forsyth Presbyterian church
and editor of the Monroe Adver- ,
tiser, preached at the Jackson Pres- j
byterian church Sunday at the
I
t morning hour. He made an inter
lesting and instructive talk on Sun
iday observance, with Mark’s gospel
las the basis for the sermon theme.
| Mr. Clarke is one of the widely
known ministers in the Atlanta
Presbytery and has served the For
syth church for many years. He also
is editor of one of the well printed
and ably edited weekly newspapers
of this region
Farmers Signing
To Grow Pepper
Current Season
LOCAL GROWERS THRONG OF
FICE IN JACKSON FOR CON
TRACTS. PEPPER BEDS BE
PREPARED LITTLE LATER
Butts county farmers thronged
offices of the Pomona Products
Company Monday and Tuesday to
sign contracts for pimiento pepper
acreage during the current season.
Notices had been mailed for grow
ers to call on these dates and many
interested producers called and ob
tained signed contracts.
The next step will be the prepar
ing and planting of pepper beds,
which will come a little later in
the season. Seed, treated for dis
ease, will be furnished by the com
pany.
For the 1939 season Butts coun
ty farmers planted some 800 acres
on contract for the Pomona Prod
ucts Company. The season, large
ly because of weather conditions,
was not a good one and the Jackson
plant operated only a few days dur
ing the season.
Prices to be paid growers this
year are S3O per ton for No. 1 pep
per and S2O per ton for pepper of
No. 2 grade.
Indications are the acreage in the
eounty will be approximately the
same as for last year. Growers hope
for a better year in production and
will strive to accomplish that end.
Rigid Rules Be
Applied To Sale
Of Farm Seeds
FEDERAL SEED ACT WILL IM
POSE RESTRICTIONS ON SALE
OF SEEDS, EFFECTIVE FEB
RUARY 15, THIS YEAR
R. N. Etheridge of the R. N. Eth
eridge Seed Company spent Monday
in Birmingham, Ala., where he at
tended a meeting of southeastern
seed dealers called to study the new
federal law which imposes rigid re
strictions on the sale of farm seeds.
The new law, Mr. Etheridge explain
ed, will become effective February
T 5, 1940.
After the federal laws becomes
effective farmers will be required
to certify to the purity of the seed
offered for sale and explain whe
ther or not the seed is mixed with
weeds or other objectionable crop
plants, and samples must be taken
and kept for a year. The law cov
ers practically all seed offered, such
as wheat, oats, rye, barley, peas,
beans, etc., Mr. Etheridge explain
ed. A detailed report must be fill
ed out with each lot of seed sold.
While the new federal law will in
volve considerable detail, it will be
for the protection of seed buyers
and will prove a good thing, in the
opinion of Mr. Etheridge.
SPALDING COUNTY
PRIMARY BE HELD
ON MARCH 20TH
The Spalding county primary will
be held March 20, with entries to
close February 29, it was decided
Friday at a meeting of the Demo
cratic executive committee. The
following assessments were levied:
Clerk of court, S6O; ordinary,
S6O; sheriff, S6O; tax collector,
S6O; tax receiver, S6O; county school
superintendent, S4O; county com
missioner, S4O; cfty court judge,
S4O; solicitor of city court, S4O.
JACKSON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940
Jurors Called
For February
Term Of Court
WINTER SESSION SCHEDULED
TO BEGIN FEBRUARY 5. A
TWO WEEKS TERM TO HEAR
CIVIL, CRIMINAL CASES
Grand and traverse jurors have
been drawn for the winter term of
Butts Superior Court which is sched
uled to convene February 6 for a
session of two weeks.
Following the usual procedure,
civil cases will be heard the first
week and criminal business' will be
disposed of, the second week.
Tuesday was return day when
suits returnable to the February
term were required to be filed with
Clerk Sara Foster.
Jurors called for service in Feb
ruary include:
Grand Jurors
George F. Etheridge, Horace
Bankston, R. T. Smith, W. M. An
drews, J. D. Brownlee, J. E. Bond,
J. B. White, J. H. Patrick, Levi
Barnes, J. P. Lemon, George Brooks,
T. A. Nutt, Miller Ogletree, W. E.
Smith, Walter J. Smith, O. L. Wea
ver, C. R. Sims, L. V. Collins, T.
O. Bell, C. D. Fletcher, R. D. Bank
ston, D. 0. Woodward, B. F. Coop
er, W. M. Glass, W. M. Bond, R. R.
Hay, J. P. Head, J. H. Pope, H. C.
Brooks, J. L. Lyons.
Traverse Jurors, First Week
Lindsey Maddox, Roger Kimbell,
D. P. Long, Marvin Vickers, R. J.
Carmichael, George H. Kimbell,
Thomas Cooper, George Spencer,
Jack Nelson, W. H. Moncrief, W.
A. Smith (609), R. M. White, Floyd
O’Neal, J. F. Cook, J. P. Hunt, S.
L. Gray, W. S. Weaver, J. L. Heath,
J. W. Pulliam, J. A. Leverett, Mar
vin Harris, D. W. Ham, S. S. Pace,
George Harkness, L. L. Colwell, L.
H. Perdue, Asa O’Neal, Dile Car
lile, Hulon Cook, W. L. Clark, W.
D. Jolly, W. J. Saunders, Leonard
Duke, J. E. Cornell, A. G. Spencer,
Robert Woods, A. C. Finley, J. O.
Minter, J. H. Holifield, M. J. Free
man, A. F. Taylor, A. F. Whitney,
P. A. Smith, Newt Treadwell, J. W.
Welch, M. B. Farrar, W. G. Barnes,
Marvin Tillery.
Traverie Jurors, Second Week
F. L. Maddox, Harold Barnes, W.
B. Hodges, J. L. Compton, Ralph
Stallsworth, P. H. Weaver, T. H.
Faulkner, Thomas Jester, J. H. Buc
hanan, T. H. Waldrop, Morris Wil
liams, Joe M. Moore, A. M. O’Neal,
J. O. King, John G. Brooks, W. P.
Thaxton, R. A. Allen, Wayne Barnes,
Elmo Cawthon, R. H. Burford, W.
C. Garr, H. O. Smith, Tom Stod
ghill, J. H. Price, R. L. Glaze, W.
F. Collins, L. Redditt, J. C. O’Kel
ley, W. C. Redman, Fred Morgan,
J. W. Kitchens, George Barnes, Er
nest Smith, A. F. Hammond, J. A.
Turner, E. K. Huie, G. W. Caston,
E. J. Reeves, Dewey Wise, Warren
Evans, W. A. Smith (613), R. B.
Thompson, J. R. Johnson, F. C.
Maddux, W. F. MaLaier, Walter
Jones, Paul Tyler, Julian Kimbell,
Ira Thaxton, Linton Grant, H. F.
Compton, C. F. Smith, Luther Biles,
Homer Harris, D. V. Grant, W. T.
Fletcher.
JACKSON PLAYS
FORSYTH THERE
THURSDAY NIGHT
The basketball teams of Jackson
and Forsyth High Schools meet
Thursday night in Forsyth on the
court of Mary Persons High. Game
time is 7 o’clock central time.
This is the first time this season
these teams have met and good
games are expected as the two
schools are keen rivals. The Jack
son boys have won one game and
lost four, the girls have won three
and lost two thus far.
Kiwanis Marks
Quarter Century
January 21-27
JACKSON CLUB WILL OBSERVE
ITS 19TH ANNIVERSARY AT
PROGRAM NEXT WEEK. MISS
MORELAND WAS SPEAKER
Kiwanis International will ob
serve its silver anniversary the week
of January 21-25, and the Jackson
club will observe its nineteenth an
niversary at the meeting Tuesday
night. A widely known speaker will
be invited for the occasion.
The Jackson Kiwanis club receiv
ed its charter on January 15, 1922,
with a charter membership of 52.
Kiwanis International was found
ed in Detroit on January 21, 1915.
The organization now has more than
2,063 clubs, with more than 100,-
000 members, in the United States
and Canada. Clubs in the United
States and Canada will unite in
staging anniversary programs. The
growth of this civic club has been
remarkable and the silver anniver
sary will be used to stress the aims
and ebjectivcs of an organization
dedicated to unselfish service.
At the meeting of the club Tues
day night Miss Virginia Moreland,
of Newnan, Welfare director in the
fourth district, was the guest speak
er. She was introduced by Mrs.
F. C. Hearn, director of the Butts
County Welfare Department, and
the program was arranged by N. F.
Land, chairman of the Under-privi
leged Child committee.
Miss Moreland stressed the im
portance of a community program
that included proper standards of
health, needs and decency. Urging
better health standards, she said a
warptd body often means a warp
ed mind. She strongly emphasized
the need for a health unit in Butts
county. Recreation was pointed to
as one of the needs under present
conditions. Miss Moreland declar
ed the WPA has filled a distinct
need and said there will always be
community needs not covered by
the welfare program.
N. F. Land reported on the Christ
mas fund, showing that 13 families,
numbering 49 persons, were given
fruits, candy, food, clothing, etc.,
at the Christmas season at a cost
of about $15.00.
E. I. Carruthers, Jr., superinten
dent of the Central Georgia Elec
tric Membership Corporation, was
cordially welcomed as anew mem
ber. January 16 was a birthday
for Levi Hurt. Dinner was served
by the Woman’s Club, Mrs. O. A.
Pound chairman.
COUNTY CLAIMANTS
PAID $1,021.50 IN
MONTHLY BENEFITS
For the month of January old
age pensioners, dependent children
and the needy blind receiving aid
from the Department of Public
W’elfare were paid $1,021.50, it is
announced by Mrs. F. C. Hearn, di
rector of the Butts County Welfare
Board. Checks were received and
distributed Tuesday.
The money was divided among
the recipients as follows: Old age
pensioners, 183, $877.00; depen
dent children, 7, $116.50; blind,
4, $28.00.
The present Butts county allot
ment is $1,024.00 monthly.
The Welfare Board will meet at
6:30 p. m. Monday to consider the
February budget.
REV. H. F. BEATY TO PREACH
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Announcement is made that the
Rev. H. F. Beaty, of Tallahassee,
Fla., will fill the pulpit at the Jack
son Presbyterian church Sunday at
11 a. m. The public Is cordially in
vitfd to attend.
$45,000 Damages Asked In Suit
Growing Out of Train-Car Crash
January 26 Is
Date For Meeting
History Society
FIRST IN SERIES OF 1940 MEET- J
INGS BE HELD FRIDAY OF
NEXT WEEK AT BANK OFFI
CES IN JACKSON
The January meeting of the Butts
County Historical Society will be
held Friday night, 26, at 7 o’clock
in the offices of the Jackson Na
tional Bank.
This will be the first meeting
since November, the December ses
sion having been cancelled because
of the Christmas holidays.
Miss Ruth Phinazee, chairman of\
the program committee, will present
the program at this meeting. Some
subject of timely historical interest
will be discussed.
At this meeting it is expected
there will be a report on the placing
of two historic markers at Indian
Springs. According to notice by
C. C. King, Jr., historian of the
State Park Service, these markers
are ready to be placed and this will
be done as soon as the weather per
mits. The markers will commem
orate the signing of the treaty of
1825 with the Creek Indians and
the Mclntosh House, historic inn
erected about 1823 by Joel Bailey
and William Mclntosh.
Because of the interesting pro
gram and the discussion of mark
ers, it is expected there will be a
large attendance of members. In
terested persons, whether members
or not, are cordially invited to be
present.
Pullin Elected
To Head Credit
Group For 1940
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
HELD FRIDAY IN JONESBORO.
GOOD SHOWING MADE FOR
LAST TWELVE MONTHS
Reports submitted by officers at
the annual meeting of stockholders
of the Jonesboro Production Credit
Association Friday in Jonesboro
showed substantial growth and
progress for the last twelve months.
Officers making reports were E. S.
Settle, president; A. L. Wooten, vice
president, and B. H. Abbott, Jr.,
secretary arid treasurer.
Last year the association made
loans totaling $346,000 to farmers
in the counties of Butts, Clayton,
Spalding, Henry, Fayette, Fulton
and DeKalb.
The stockholders elected as di
rectors: E. S. Settle, of Butts; S.
E. Smith, of DeKalb; J. H. Manning,
of Fulton; A. L. Wooton, of Clay
ton; W. B. Pullin, of Henry.
Officers named include W. B.
Pullin, of Henry, president; A. L.
Wooton, of Clayton, vice president,
and B. H. Abbott, Jr., of Jonesboro,
secretary and treasurer.
Jack Frost, representing the Pro
duction Credit Corporation of Co
lumbia, S. C., was present and ad
dressed the meeting on functions
of the co-operative associations.
Applications for loans for 1940
operations are now being taken.
Miss Ruby Bailey, assistant to the
field representative, is now located
in the courthouse in Jackson and is
receiving applications from borrow
ers.
Captain E. S. Settle and Clifford
Stroud were among those from
Butts county who attended the meet
ing in Jonesboro.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
DEATH OF MRS. CHILDS ON
SEPTEMBER 6, 1939, BASIS OF
ACTION FILED BY HUSBAND
IN SUPERIOR COURT
Marquis W. Childs, husband of
Mrs. Effie Pauline Childs, killed
September 6, 1939, when the auto
mobile in which she was a passen
ger was struck by a northbound
freight train at Jenkinsburg, has
filed suit in Butts Superior Court
for $45,000 damages.
The suit, made returnable to the
February term of Butts Superior
Court, was brought by Attorneys B.
B. Garland and W. E. Watkins and
was filed in the office of Clerk
Sara Foster January 15.
This is the second suit for dam
ages arising from the fatal crash,
one of the worst in the county’s
history. Mrs. Marquis W. Childs,
llfiss Martha Elizabeth Henley and
Miss Mary Ruth Wells were instant
ly killed when the car in which they
were riding was struck by a Sou
thern Railway freight train. Elwood
Wells, driver, and Miss Carolyn
Wells, other occupants of the car,
were seriously injured.
Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Henley, pa
rents of Miss Martha Elizabeth Hen
ley, filed damage claims amounting
to $33,000 the past fall.
The suit is directed against the
Southern Railway Company and
Fletcher A. Chapman and F. H. Mc-
Dervitt, employees in charge of the
train.
The petition sets out that Mrs.
Child 6 at the time of her death was
an employee of the pepper factory
in Jackson and earned $2.00 per
day, $125 per month, $1,500 per
year and had a life expectancy of
30.32 years. She was 36 years old
when killed, the petition avers.
The petitioh charges negligence
as a cause of the accident, in that
the train was running at excessive
speed through Jenkinsburg in vio
lation of a town ordinance limiting
the speed of trains through the
town to 15 miles per hour; that the
engineer failed to blov/ the whistle
or slow down at a highway crossing
and that there was an obstruction
near the road crossing.
L. R. WASHINGTON
MAY RUN FOR THE
COUNTY COMMISSION
Mr. L. R. Washington, one of the
county’s well known citizens, is be
ing urged by his friends to offer
as a candidate for Butts county
commissioner in the April primary.
There is one place on the board to
be filled in the April election.
A resident of Worthville, Mr.
Washington is active in business and
religious affairs, is a successful
farmer and business man and friends
point to his qualifications for mem
bership on the county commission.
Assured of wide support, Mr. Wash
ington now has the matter under
consideration.
In the event Mr. Washington con
sents to run he will offer for the
place now held by B. H. Hodges,
veteran member of the board.
JACKSON A. C. PLAY
IN GRIFFIN ON
FRIDAY NIGHT
The Jackson Athletic Club teams
meet those of the Salvation Army
in Griffin Friday night on the Sal
vation Army Court. The Griffin
teams will be seeking revenge for
the two smashing victories won over
them Friday night by the Jackson
clubs on the court at Indian Springs.
The frirls won 29 to 21 while the
boys routed the Spalding county
team 39 to 26.