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VOL. 69—No. 19
Thousands Of Visitors Seek Rest
And Recreation In Butts County
Butts county long i-ecognized for
its superior advantages in recrea
tional facilities welcomed thousands
of visitors Sunday, as the state park
at Indian Springs was thronged
with a crowd estimated as high as
4,000, while other thousands at
tended the motorboat races at Jack
son Lake.
V. W? Cole, superintendent of
the state park, said the crowd was
one of the largest ever seen at the
park in May. All facilities were
crowded throughout the day and
parking space was at a premium.
The opening of the racing season
on Jackson Lake atti'acted a record
crowd, said by some to the largest
ever to attend the water classic.
The motorboat races provided plen
ty of thrills for the spectators who
jammed every corner of the lake.
Throughout the day and far into
the night all highways were jammed
with traffic. However, despite the
hundreds of automobiles on the
highways there was not a single se
rious accident, according to a check
made by officers, and this has been
the subject of favorable comment.
In the Indian Springs state park
and Jackson Lake Butts county pos
sesses two of the major outdoor at
tractions in the state. Indian
Springs, famous as a health resort
and recreation center since Revo
lutionary War days, is more popu
lar than ever. Hundreds go there
for rest and recreation and many
to drink the mineral water, which
has remarkable curative powers in
many cases.
The hotels at Indian Springs ai-e
now open and with the picnic sea
son on in full swing it is predicted
1941 will see more visitors than
ever before in the history of this
popular resort center.
Successful Was
Revival At The
Baptist Church
MEETING CLOSED TUESDAY
NIGHT. SEVERAL ADDITIONS
TO CHURCH ROLL. FINE RE
SULTS FROM REVIVAL
The revival services at the First
Baptist church closed Tuesday night,
and from the standpoint of inter
est aroused, attendance and gain in
church membership the evangelistic
Meeting was declared among the
most successful in years.
Dr. J. Ellis Sammons, pastor of
the Vineville Baptist church in Ma
con, was guest minister and his con
vincing sermons, clear and logical
reasoning and ability as a speaker
stamped him as one of the leading
pulpit orators of the state. Dr.
Sammons made many friends during
his stay in Jackson and a return
visit at some future date will be
welcomed.
The singing was in charge of the
church pastor, the Rev. Gaither A.
Briggs. Good singing was enjoyed
at all services and proved a helpful
feature of the meetings.
Ten additions to the church roll
were received during the meeting,
this attesting to the deep impression
made by the visiting minister.
Leaders and officers of the church
expressed satisfaction at the results.
They wish to thank the community
at large for the support extended.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TO
HAVE SERVICES SUNDAY
There will be preaching services
at the Jackson Presbyterian church
Sunday, May 11, at 11 o’clock. Mr.
Hoge Smith Jr., student at Colum
bia Theological Seminary, will
preach. The public is invited to at
te*d this service.
Kiwanis Club
Will Hear Dr.
Pierce Harris
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO AR
RANGE MEETING IN INTER
EST OF STATE PARK. RE
PORTS WERE MADE
Guest speaker at the meeting of
the Kiwanis club May 13 will be
Dr. Pierce Hands, who at that time
will be conducting revival services
at the Jackson Methodist church.
At Tuesday night’s meeting Pres
ident Callamay appointed J. Avon
Gaston, N. F. Land and J. W.
O’Neal as members of a committee
to arrange a meeting at Indian
Springs to promote development of
the state park. The committee was
instructed to report by May 13. It
is expected that officials of the state
paik service and other leaders will
attend the meeting, which has for
its purpose selling the park to Butts
county people and to the state at
large.
W. M. Redman and J. Avon Gas
ton attended a meeting of the
Thomaston Kiwanis club Tuesday,
and discussed plans for the Thom
aston and Jackson clubs to enter
tain the California-Nevada district
during the international convention
in June. Both clubs will appoint
committees to work out the details.
Attention was dii'ected to the
ninth division meeting in Milledge
ville April 13. Those destring to
attend should notify the committee
on interclub relations.
Dinner was served by the U. D.
C., Miss Hattie Buttlill chairman.
Kiwanian Smith of the Griffin club
and Doyle Jones Jr. were visitors.
New Members
Enrolled In
Defense Class
VOCATIONAL TRAINING Ft)R
NATIONAL DEFENSE CONTIN
UES TO GROW. NEW MACHIN
ERY TO BE INSTALLED
Dan Thurston, head of the voca
tional training school for national
defense, carried on by the Jackson
board of education and the State
Department of Vocational Educa
tion, says new classes have recent
ly been enrolled. There are now
both morning and njght classes.
Orders have been received for
five drilling machines, Mr. Thurs
ton explained, and the equipment
is to be enlarged to take care of
new government orders.
Of the graduates of the first
course, Mallory Henderson is now
making torpedoes in Washington, D.
C., and five of the boys are employ
ed as general machinists in the Hen
derson Machine Shop and Foundry
at Hampton. All are receiving good
wages, Mr. Thurston said, and all
are making good.
Taking the night machine course
are: Irvin Benton, Gus Carmich
ael, Leonard Washington, Candler
W’ebb, W. F. Leverette, James Whit
aker, Arthur Stodghill, Edward
Washington and Albert Maddox.
The morning machine class in
cludes: Oscar Barnes, Robert Wood,
Harold Thurston, Winfred Burford,
and H. T. Brown and Robert Coker
of Griffin.
Enrolled for the night welding
course are: Robert Ousley, Joe
Boyd, Harold Evans, Robert King,
dox, while in the morning welding
class are Bailey Woodward, Win
ford Poss, Robert Riiey and R. M.
Byard. Martin Van Goss and Drew
ry Goss of Griffin.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941
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DR. PIERCE HARRIS
Evangelist
Questionnaires
Mailed May 1
To Registrants
COUNTY DRAFT BOARD RE
CEIVES ORDERS TO CLASSIFY
ALL REGISTRANTS BY JUNE
30. RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
The Butts county draft board
mailed questionnaires to 50 regis
trants on May 1. Replies must be
received by May 8. Numbers run
from 356 to 407.
The local board has x'eceived or
ders to classify all registrants by
June 30, 1941. Restrictions as to
classification of registrants have
been lemoved, the order explained.
Almost one-half of the registrants
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in Butts county have received ques
tionnaires, including the current
list. The county had approximate
ly 975 men to register last fall, and
the questionnaires have passed the
400 mark.
Men to whom questionnaires were
mailed May 1 are:
Thomas Presley Thurston, Clar
ence Auburn Byars, Roy Oliver
Bartlett, Willard Julius Dunn, James
Edgar* Hilley, Morris Mayfield,
James Oscar Byars, Cleave Douglas,
Eddie B. Brooks, William Oxford
Wise, Roger Durward Bankston,
George McDowell, James Edward
Brown, John Singleton Robison, Ray
mond Taylor, Monroe Sparks, Joe
Lummus, James Lamar Bond, James
Carter, Alonza Upshaw, Roy Miller,
Leonard Bryan Dodson, Frank Dud
Fears, Climie Adams Thaxton, James
Floyd Mask, Benjamin Morgan,
Neal Taylor, John Bishop Jester,
Fred Lee Fitch, Charlie Myrick, Asa
Harold Maddox, Ulyses Smith, Wil
liam Bell, Oscar Lenwood Barnes,
Jeff Pike, Alien Lewis Freeman,
Charlie Holsey Goodman, John Aa
ron Allen, Alvin Eugene Rush, Wil
liam Otis Ball, Lee Otis Griffin,
Billy Hampton Davis, Hamilton Ed
gar Freeman, Tommie Lee Evans,
Walter Franklin Cothran, Victor
Arnold Wilson, Jesse Bailey Jones,
Clarence Leonard Pippin, Woddie
Watts, James Stanley Coleman, Dan
Stokes.
TOTAL OF 2,243
MATTRESSES ARE
COMPLETED HERE
The mattress project, which has
been in operation since last sum
mer, has been completed and a total
of 2,243 mattresses have been made
for low income farm families. Miss
Myrtie Lee McGoogan, home demon
stration agent, said 660 mattresses
were made last year and 1,583 this
season.
Practically all families in the
county, meeting the requirements,
were given two mattresses and some
families got three.
A comfort project will be start
ed here later in the year.
Evangelistic
Services At
Jackson Church
DR. HARRIS, FORMER BIG
LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER,
BE GUEST MINISTER AT RE
VIVAL MAY 11 TO 18
Special evangelistic services will
begin Sunday, May 11, und continue
through May 18 at the Jackson
Methodist church. Plans have been
completed for the campaign and the
church is expecting one of the great
est meetings in its history.
The official board is fortunate in
securing the servees of Dr. Pierce
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Harris, popular pastor of the First
Methodist church in Atlanta, to be
the guest evangelist. Dr. Harris
has an unusual x - ecord as a minis
ter. He has held successful pas
torates in many places in Georgia
and Florida before being appointed
to the Atlanta First church.
Dr. Harris is a former big league
baseball player. For a number of
years he was with the Detroit Ti
gers, and during the time he was a
baseball player, which was many
years ago, he received as high as
$7,500 per year for his services.
When he felt the call to preach he
gave up this salary to become the
pastor of a Methodist circuit prom
ising only S6OO. It is said of Dr.
Harris that he knocks a “home run”
each time he walks into the pulpit.
Fortunate also is the church in
securing the services of the Rev.
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REV. L. F. HUCKABY
Song Leader
L. F. Huckaby, pastor of the First
Methodist church in Rockmart, to
direct the chorus choir. He is a
singer and director of ability, and
sings the gospel songs in an appeal
ing and challenging manner.
Two services will be held daily.
The afternoon service will be at
3:30 on the courthouse lawn, the
weather permitting. .The 8 p. m.
service is to be held in the church
auditorium.
The city council has granted per
mission to the church to use the
city siren to announce the afternoon
service. The siren will be sounded
at 3:15 to announce the service at
3:30.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all these services. "Come
early if you want a back scat,” is
the admonition given by the pastor,
the Rev. J. C. Callaway.
LIGHT RECEIPTS
AT STOCK SALE
HELD ON MONDAY
Though the prices were good, the
amount of livestock offered for sale
Monday was small. Bulls sold up
to 0.45 cents; calves up to 0.75 and
hogs went at 7.05.
The date of the next sale was not
announced by officers of the Cen
tral Georgia Livestock Association.
With Large Increase In Attendance
Cooking School Acclaimed Success
Flint Bar To
Meet May 14
Indian Springs
MORNING AND AFTERNOON
SESSION WILL BE HELD.
JUDGE FRANKLIN INVITED TO
ADDRESS LARGE GROUP
Annual meeting of the Flint Cir
cuit Bar Association, one of the
oldest groups of its kind in the state,
will be held Wednesday, May 14 at
Hotel Elder, Indian Springs. Judge
Ogden Persons, Flint Circuit judge,
will be host to members in the four
counties of Lamar, Monroe, Butts
and Henry.
Invited to address the convention
this year is Judge A. L. Franklin
of Augusta.
The meeting will begin at 11 a.
m. and there will be a morning and
afternoon session. Following the
morning address luncheon will be
served.
At the afternoon session there
will be a forum meeting and Judge
W. Y. Atkinson of Ncwnan, retir
ing president of the Georgia Bar
Association, will be in charge. Re
ports will be made to the Georgia
Bar Association meeting in Savan
nah and the forum is expected to
prove interesting and bring out
facts that concern all members of
the bur.
Officers of the Flint Circuit Bar
Association are:
Harvey J. Kennedy, Barncsville,
president; J. Paxton Erwin, Barnes
ville, vice president; E. L. Reagan,
McDonough, secretary and treasurer.
The Jackson Club Chorus will
provide music and entertainment
for the group.
An interesting fact in connection
with the Flint Bar Association is
that all meetings have been held at
Indian Springs, where the associa
tion was organized. Judge Persons
has been host to the group since its
organization and members look for
ward to the meetings with eager in
terest.
Big Increase
In Number Of
Women In Clubs
A total of 294 Butts county
women are enrolled in some phase
of homemaking, Miss Myrtie Lee
McGoogan, home demonstration
agent, said. This compares with
245 in 1940, the increase being a
large one and is taken as an evi
dence of the interest in this work
under a capable leader.
Homemakers clubs are organized
in practically all county centers aRd
at the stated meetings various prob
lems in home improvement are stu
died and actual demonstrations giv
en. This is considered one of the
most important phases of home
demonstration work.
Enrollment in 4-H clubs for the
year include 120 members in girls
clubs and 101 in boys clubs. A num
ber and variety of projects are car
ried on by the 4-H club members.
SHORT SESSION OF COURT
WAS HELD HERE MONDAY
i
- short session of the May term
of Butts Superior Court was held
Monday by Judge Ogden Persons
of the Flint circuit. Orders were
taken in a few cases and jurors
were drawn for the August term.
Solicitor General Frank F. Willing
ham accompanied Judge Persons to
Jackson.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Jackson’s second annual cooking
school held at the auditorium Thurs
day and Friday, with civic clubs as
sponsoring agencies, proved an en
tire success. The number of prizes
was larger and the attendance con
siderably in excess of that in 1940.
The Georgia Power Company and
the city of Jackson who co-operated
in making the school possible wero
pleased with the results. Both agen
cies express satisfaction at the fine
support accorded.
Clubs sponsoring the cooking
school realized a neat sum after all
expenses were paid, it is explained.
The public was attentive and ap
preciative. Substantial prizes were
awarded each afternoon. Business
firms were genei-ous in donating
merchandise for prizes and the city
of Jackson donated several lamps
as prizes.
The consensus is that the cooking
school of 1941 was larger and bet
ter than the one of the preceding
year. With the enthusiasm aroused
and the interest created promoters
look forward with confidence to an.
even larger and better school in
1942.
Miss Nell Woodward, home eco
nomist of the Georgia Power Com
pany, assisted by Miss Patricia Col
lier and Frank Hood, division mana
ger of the Griffin territory, was in
active charge of the school.
The sponsorng agencies and all
those responsibly connected with tho
school desire to thank the publio
for its generous patronage and es
pecially thank business firms for
donations.
The following films made dona
tions to the cooking school, accord
ing to a list furnished the Prog
less-Argus for publication.
PH-H Postel Elegant Flour Cos.
through Wilson Grovery, Monticello,
Ga., Postel dealer in Jackson, Allen
Hom-Ond Store; Royal Crown Bot
tling Cos., City Wholesale Cos., H.
V. Kell Cos., Coca Cola Rotting Cos.,
Weldon’s Nursery, Tom’s Toasted
Peanuts, Whatley’s Flower Shop,
all of Griffin, Ga.
Kraft Cheese Company, Church,
& Dwight Cos. Inc., Westinghouso
Electric Supply Cos., Thompson-Bo
land-Lce, Rich’s Inc., Norton Salt
Cos., through Allen’s Hom-Ond
Store, Stone Baking Cos., Southern
Bread, Atlanta Baking Cos., Bamby
Bread, American Bakeries, Merita
Bread and Cakes,
Company.
Armour Packing Cos., through
Pepperton Store, Hormel Packing
Cos., through Pepperton Store,
Kingan Cos., Pomona Products Cos.,
Royal Baking Powder Cos., Brillo
Manufacturing Cos. Inc., White Pro
vision Cos., Griffin Laundry, H. W.
Lay & Cos., Gardner’s Products, the
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MANY ATTENDED
LIVESTOCK DAY
AT STATE COLLEGE
Butts county was well represent
ed at the annual Livestock and
Equipment Day at the University
of Georgia College of Agriculture
May 1. The local group reported
an interesting and profitable trip,
with a barbecue as the feature of
entertainment. Attending from
here were: •
J. H. Patrick, F. H. Morgan, M.
L. Powell, Walter Smith, H. 11. Mc-
Cord, C. H. Rivers, P. J. Evan?, R.
E. Evans, O. N. Brownlee, Lake
Clark, Olin Pettigrew, P. H. Weaver,
O. L. Weaver Sr., O. L. Weaver .Jr.,
A. L. Weaver, McKibben White, G.
F. Gilmore, Dr. R. A. Franklin, J.
H. Pope, L. J. Washington, F. S.
Smith, Arthur Haynes and others,
others.