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VOL. 69—No. 1
Kiwanis Club
Will Install
Next Tuesday
INSTALLATION WILL BE IN
CHARGE OF HAMILTON HOLT.
LADIES’ NIGHT MEETING TO
BE FEATURE
Officers of the Jackson Kiwanis
club for 1941 will be installed Tues
day, January 7 at 6 p. m. with Ham
ilton Holt, Macon, past governor of
the Georgia district, in charge.
Music for the evening will be di
rected by Mrs. J. W. O’Neal and
S. H. Thornton will lead the sing
ing. The invocation will be by Rev.
Gaither A. Briggs and Mrs. W. E.
Watkins will be in charge of the
Ladies’ Night program.
Officers to be installed include:
Rev. J. C. Callaway, president; E.
H. Pace, vice president; John G.
Yarborough Jr., secretary and treas
urer. Mr. Callaway succeeds W. M.
Redman who held office the past
year.
Directors are: H. 0. Ball, J. D.
Jones, N. F. Land, W. E. Barfield,
J. W. O’Neal, M. L. Powell, S. H.
Thornton.
Members of standing committees
have been named by President Cal
laway and following the installation
program the club will launch a pro
gram of civic improvement.
The meeting will be a highlight of
the new year and a large attendance
is predicted.
Judge Head Is
Sworn In For
Another Term
ORDINARY, GIVEN OATH BY
JUDGE OGDEN PERSONS, IN
TURN ADMINISTERS OATH TO
BUTTS OFFICIALS
Judge Ogden Persons came to
Jackson Friday and swore in Judge
G .D. Head, ordinary of Butts coun
ty, for another term.
As ranking officer of the county,
Judge Head administered the oath
to all county officials. Some of
these were sworn in the first of the
week and others later in the week,
pending the arrival of bonds.
New officers assuming duties the
first of the year are W. M. Redman,
treasurer; J. D. Pope, sheriff; Paul
Maddox, clerk of court, and W. 0.
Moore purveyor.
Officers serving new terms are:
G. D. Head; ordinary; J. S. Ball, tax
collector; J. Edward Carmichael, tax
receiver; W. G. Preston, school su
perintendent; B. H. Hodges, coun
ty commissioner; J. M. D. Bond,
coroner.
OFFICERS FOR
EASTERN STAR
ARE INSTALLED
The installation of officers to
serve Jephtha chapter, No. 252,
Order Easter Star, was held De
cember 27. Installation was in
charge of Mrs. M. C. Johnson, with
Mrs. J. O. Cole as marshal. Both
are past matrons of the chapter.
New officers are: Mrs. Ada Miller,
worthy matron; Rev. T. G. Linkous,
worthy patron; Mrs. Dan Hoard,
associate matron; M. C. Johnson,
associate patron; Mrs. Herbert
Moore, conductress; Mrs. C. D.
Thacker, associate conductress;
Mrs. J. T. Moore, secretary; Mrs.
T. G. Willis, treasurer; Mrs. J. B.
Hopkins, Ada; Mrs. Beulah Arm
strong, Ruth; Mrs. M. C. Johnson,
Esther; Mrs. J. B. Stodghill, Mar
tha; Miss Pauline Mallet, Electa;
Mrs. J. O. Cole, marshal; Mrs. W.
F. MaLaier, chaplain; Mrs. Madge
Godsey, organist; Miss W. W. Jam
ereon, warder; E. H. Pace, sentinel.
New Year Sale
Of Livestock
Coining Monday
BUYERS AND SELLERS OF
CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL
MEET HERE AND EXCHANGE
DOLLARS AND GOSSIP
Fred Morgan, president of the
Central Georgia Livestock Associa
tion and one of the best auctioneers
in this section, is tuning up his
voice for duties at the livestock auc
tion sale in Jackson Monday.
This sale, first of the new year,
is expected to start off the new
livestock season with a bang. As
new plans are forming for 1941,
the livestock situation is sure to
come in for lively discussion and
many producers will want to start
early in getting their requirements.
The sale is expected to be a good
one, with bidding livelier than for
some weeks.
Fancy prices were paid at the last
sale December 23 and information
from leading markets shows that
livestock prices are holding up well.
The Butts county auction market
is the oldest in this section and
since it was organized in May, 1939
has enabled farmers to sell thous
ands of dollars worth of livestock
for cash. An expanded program will
be carried out in 1941.
Among the new year resolutions
don’t fail to include one to attend
the livestock sales and support the
Central Georgia Livestock Associa
tion in its efforts to make this a
real livestock country.
Georgia Crop
Estimate Up 20
Million In 1940
COTTON PRODUCED LARGEST
CASH INCOME. TOTAL CROP
VALUES FOR YEAR ESTIMA
TED AT $163,882,000
Value of all Georgia crops in
1940 is about $20,000,000 more
than in 1939, Archie Langley, agri
cultural statistician of the Georgia
Crop Reporting Service, announced
this week. This value is 14 percent
greater than the 1939 figure. The
1940 total value was $163,882,000
compared with $143,986,000 the
previous year.
Practically all the increase was
due to higher yields per acre and
higher prices for certain crops rath
er to an increase in acreage, with
peanuts having the greatest in
creased value with 57.3 percent, Mr.
Langley said.
The current yield of 251 pounds
of cotton was the highest in the his
tory of Georgia with the exception
of three years—l9ll, 1914 and
1937. The 1940 cotton acreage of
1,946,000 was the lowest snce 1873
with the exception of 1929 which
was 1,929,000 acres.
The hay crop in 1940 was the
largest on record and is said by ex
tension agronomists to be the best
quality hay produced in Georgia
since the Extension Service was es
tablished.
The value of the sweet potato
crop was 3.9 percent lower than in
1939.
The value of the sugar cane pro
duction suffered the largest de
crease of all Georgia crops—39.2
percent.
Georgia crops which showed an
increase in value included velvet
beans, Irish potatoes, corn, hay,
commercial apples, wheat, cotton
and cottonseed, oats, cow-peas, rye
i
and pears.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1941
Registrants
Sent Service
Questionnaires
MEN FROM 101 TO 151 BE RE
QUIRED TO FILL OUT QUES
TIONNAIRES. THIRD LIST
WILL BE CHECKED
The Butts county draft board on
December 21 mailed questionnaires
to fifty registrants, numbered from
101 to 151, as follows:
101, Monroe Myrick; 102, Rivers
Waites; 103, Marvin Lee Johnson;
104, James Goodrum; 105, Charlie
Ponder; 106, S. T. Robison; 107,
Clifford Lee Goodrum; 108, Jessie
Roddy; 109, John Arthur Smith;
110, Walter Pierce Fuqua; 111,
George Ray Saunders; 112, James
Watts; 113, Morris Morgan; 114,
Albert Walter Watson; 115, Abra
ham Rupert Trimier; 116, Clemmie
Doyle Edwards Jr.; 117, Julian
Clyde Callaway; 118, Luther Coplin
Biles; 119, Hugh Cardell Kelley;
120, Early Holder; 121, Jonas Tay
lor; 122, Charlie Preacher Benton;
123, Willie Frank Sidney; 124, Mar
vin Stodghill; 125, Joseph Mays Gil
more; 126, Samuel Marshel Hender
son; 127, John Frank Thomas; 128,
Eugene Fuller Rooks; 129, Clifford
Garr Stroud; 130, John Olin Petti
grew; 131, Chester Pritchet Smith;
132, Joe Brown Roberts; 133, Ray
mond Thomas Smith; 134, Thomas
Boyd Gardner; 135, Marvin Rogers
Bennett; 136, Wilson Harris Welch;
137, Levie Carr; 138, Little George
White; 139, E. S. Showers; 140,
Wm. Benj. Cothran; 141, Geo. Har
old Brooks; 142, Ernest Jr. Gibson;
143, Robert Perry Harrison; 144,
Andrew Jackson Coleman Jr.; 145,
Brown Lindsey Gaston; 146, Lucian
Dodson Singley; 147, W. A. Laster;
148, John Ellis Pope; 149, Henry
Sims; 150, Tommie Joe Enlow; 151,
John David Dover. .
Schools Will
Resume Work
After Holidays
COUNTY SCHOOLS OPENED ON
WEDNESDAY AND JACKSON
SCHOOL WILL BEGIN TERM
MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK
After the Christmas vacation, dat
ing from December 20, the Butts
county schools opened Wednesday
for the spring term.
The Jackson public schools will
begin the spring term next Monday,
January 6.
The Christmas vacation was a
pleasant one for pupils and teachers
and all will return to work refresh
ed and rested.
Salaries in full in both school
systems were paid in advance of the
Christmas holidays.
With an improvement in health
conditions it is likely there will be
an increased enrollment and atten
dance for the spring semester.
FIVE PERSONS
LYNCHED DURING
THE YEAR 1940
Records kept by Tuskegee Insti
tute show that five persons were
lynched during the year 1940. That
compares with 3 in 1939, 6 in 1938,
and 8 in the years 1937 and 1936.
States in which lynchings occur
red and the number in each state
are as follows: Georgia, 2; Ala
bama, 2; and Tennessee, 1.
Of the persons lynched, 1 was
white and 4 were Negro. The of
fenses charged were: wife beating
and drunkeness, 1; attempted rape,
1; attempting to qualify to vote, 1;
altercation with white man, 1.
Winners Picked
For Decorations
At Yule Season
MRS. H. O. BALL PLACES FIRST.
MISS AKIN AND MRS. HUNT
AWARDED PRIZES. LAMPS
ARE GIVEN
In the contest sponsored by the
city of Jackson for the most attrac
tively decorated home at the Christ
mas season, first place was awarded
to Mrs. H. O. Ball and Miss Lucile
Akin and Mrs. John Hunt were
runners-up.
First prize was a three-way floor
lamp valued at $8.95, and second
and third prizes were table lamps
valued at $3.95.
The judges, chosen from outside
Jackson, are reported to have had
difficulty in arriving at a decision,
so numerous were the decorated
homes. The contest aroused consid
jerable rivalry and this season there
| were scores of homes decorated in
a way to please all. The homes
l were admired by hundreds of people
land the decorations were declared
I
to have been as pretty as any ever
seen in the state.
In announcing the decision of the
judges, Mayor W .M. Redman ex
pressed on behalf of the city his
appreciation for the interest and
co-operation shown by the people
of the entire community.
Shareholders Of
Credit Group
To Meet Jan. 4
JONESBORO ASSOCIATION TO
HEAR REPORTS FOR PAST
YEAR. DIRECTORS AND OFFI
CERS WILL BE NAMED
Annual meeting of stockholders
of the Jonesboro Production Credit
Association will be held at the court
house in Jonesboro Saturday, Jan
uary 4 at 10 a. m., W. B. Pullin,
president of the association, said.
At the meeting reports on busi
ness for the past year will be sub
mitted by officers. Directors will
be elected and other business trans
acted. Officers expect a large at
tendance of members.
The association recently repaid
$20,000 of its capital stock to the
Production Credit Corporation at
Columbia.
The Jonesboro Production Credit
Association serves 'farmers with
short term loans for farming and
livestock production in the counties
of Butts, Henry, Clayton, Spalding,
Fayette, Fulton and DeKalb. In
1940 loans were made to 725 mem
bers for a total of $378,000.
JACKSON MINISTER SPOKE
TO COVINGTON ROTARY CLUB
The Rev. J. C. Callaway, presi
dent-elect of the Jackson Kiwanis
club, went to Covington Tuesday to
speak before the Rotary club at
12:30 p. m. on the Jackson play
grounds. This civic project has
aroused wide interest over the state
and Mr. Callaway told how the play
grounds were built and equipped.
He spoke for Van Greene who was
scheduled for an address but could
not be present.
4,320 BALES GINNED IN
COUNTY TO DECEMBER 13
Prior to December 13 there had
been ginned 4,320 bales of cotton
in Butts county, compared with 4,-
685 bales to the same date the year
before, a census bureau report shows.
The state had ginned 979,778
bales, against 904,771 bales to the
same date in 1939.
Report On Christinas Basket Fund
Made By Chairman J. C. Callaway
First Men Be
Called Tuesday,
January Seventh
CELEBRATION SUGGESTED FOR
FIVE WHITE BOYS WHO RE
PORT to fort McPherson
NEXT WEEK
Butts county’s first reigstrants
will report to Fort McPherson Tues
day, January 7, and it is suggested
that the county give the men a
rousing celebration, as was done in
World War days.
Called for service next Tuesday
are the following white men:
Adieus Andrew St. John, James
Elwood Singley, John Curry Caw
thon, James Oliver Beauchamp, Da
vid Bailey Woodward.
Gervin Richard Lewis is designa
ted as first alternate.
The five white men and one Ne
gro, Albert Porter, who reports f<fh
duty January 20 at Fort Benning,
make up the January quota for Butts
county. Porter, the draft board
said, is a volunteer.
Under the selective service act
the men will be called for a year of
training under the national defense
program.
TALKS BY CLUB
MEMBERS TUESDAY
AT KIWANIS CLUB
Talks by Annie Lois Browning,
state champion in egg marketing
and Thomas Freeman, state cham
pion in health, both of whom
recently returned from a trip
to the National 4-H Club Con
gress in Chicago, featured the
meeting of the Kiwanis club Tues
day night. Mr. Freeman told some
of the highlights of the trip to Chi
cago, while Miss Browning traced
the history of club work from its
inception in Newton county to the
%
present. Both were applauded for
their interesting contributions to the
program, which was presented by
M. L. Powell of the Agricultural
committee.
Final planß were made for the in
stallation January 7. Dinner was
served by the U. D. C., Mrs. L. M.
Crawford chairman.
MISS FOSTER TO
ASSIST WITH WORK
IN CLERK’S OFFICE
Announcement is made that Miss
Sara Foster, clerk of Butts Superior
Court for several years, will assist
Paul Maddox, newly elected clerk,
for the first part of 1941. As as
sistant to her late father, Judge S.
J. Foster, and as clerk since his
death, Miss Foster is familiar with
every detail of the office. She is
a widely known business woman and
her conduct of the office has been
marked by courtesy, tact and effi
ciency and patrons of the office will
continue to receive a high degree of
service.
TWO CCC ENROLLEES WILL
REPORT ON JANUARY NINTH
Butts county will send one white
youth and one Negro to CCC camp
on January 9 at 8 a. m. The boys
will report to Fort McPherson.
The white youth is Jesse Aldine
Norris, and the colored boy is Leon
ard Fitch.
The county had a quota of two
whites and two colored but there
were not enough registrations to fill
the quota, Mrs. Helen Spencer, act
ing director of the Welfare Board,
said.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
For the general information of
the public this statement is made by
the chairman of the Christmas Bas
ket Fund that you may have a pic
ture of what was done. With the
$165.00 that was contributed plus
the large amount of food and other
commodities and clothing the unfor
tunate of the City of Jackson and
Butts County were taken care of
well. We were able to help through
this source between Sixty and seven
ty families, many of them in very
dire circumstanes. We went into
many homes where there were rag
ged und barefoot children who would
have had no Christmas at all had it
not been for this concentrated ef
fort on the part of the Churches,
Clubs and other organizations of the
City and County. In addition to
all of the food and clothing that
was donated, the Committee pur
chased the following items:
72 Pairs heavy underwear, 12
Sweaters, 27 pairs shoes, 6 double
blankets, 12 pillow cases, 75 yards
sheeting which made 15 sheets, 75
yards print materials for dresses,
overalls, work shirts, etc., 10 24
lb. sacks flour, 30 5 lb. bags sugar,
16 2 lb. bags sugar, 76 1 lb. pack
ages coffee, 30 12 lb. bags meal,
50 lbs. mixed candies, 300 candy
suckers, 10 bags oranges, 3 boxes
apples, 2 boxes or 40 lbs. raisins,
18 SI.OO boxes groceries.
With the aid of a very efficient
committee composed of workers
from the County Welfare Office,
the various churches and other or
ganizations of the City and County,
the task of making up the packages
ready for delivery was accomplished.
Through the generosity of Settle &
Robison, Spencer-Buchanan and Noah
A. Powell, trucks were furnished
the delivery of all the packages.
Our sincere thanks go out to all who
had any part in making this under
taking a success. In addition to the
work done by the committee and tho
baskets delivered, many other kind
deeds were done by individuals and
groups. The Jackson Progress-Ar
gus took one family to play Santa
Claus to ,thc Wesley Fellowship
Claus to, the Wesley Fellowship
School took one, two classes from
the Baptist Sunday School cared for
families, five baskets were donated
by Miss Annie Lou McCord and
two by Miss Lucile Akin.
There were perhaps many more
delivered that the writer knows
nothing about. The Spirit of the
Christ prevailed throughout the City
and County and as a result many
were made happy at the Christmas
time. We believe that as much as
$350.00 was given to charity by
the citizens of the City and County
during the season.
J. C. CALLAWAY, Chairman.
BOARD PLACES 3
WHITES AND SEVEN
COLORED IN CLASS 1
Selective service registrants in
numbers from 101 to 151 were clas
sified Monday by the Butts county
draft board and three white men
and seven Negroes were placed in
class 1, according to information re
leased by the board.
White men placed in class 1 are:
Andrew Jackson Coleman Jr., Rob
] ert P. Harrison, Joseph Mays Gil
more.
Placed in class 1 are the follow
ing Negroes: Charlie Preacher Ben
ton, Levie Carr, Little George White,
! James Davis, Willie Paul Carr, Ce-
Ibron Smith, Ernest Junior Gibson.