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VOL. 67—No. 47
■Pepperton Made Wonderful Showing
In Red Cross Membership Campaign
IN PEPP'fcRTON COT
TON MILLS REPORT NEARLY
$300.00 WITH OTHERS YET TO
REPORT. FINE SPIRIT
Butts county will reach and pass
its quota of $600.00 in the annual
Red Cross roll call campaign if the
rest of the county does as well as
Pepperton. Workers in the Pepper
ton Cotton Mills, with the village,
store and office force yet to re
port, have contributed $283.70, ac
cording to figures furnished by Miss
Marguerite Fletcher, chairman of
the roll call committee for Pepper
ton.
People of Pepperton have shown
a wonderful spirit of interest and
cooperation and have displayed their
patriotism in a manner that counts.
Miss Fletcher had the active as
sistance of department heads, in
suding a committee consisting of
W. 0. Ball and Lonnie Rawls from
the card room; W. S. Henderson,
shop; V. A. Wilson, yard room; H.
J. Quinn, cloth room; M. C. John
son, spinning room; W. C. Broom,
Dock Boyd, Lee Glaze and T. F.
i
Quinn, weaving room.
Amounts contributed by these de
partments, a tabulation by Mrs. Ju
lia Frances Hay shows, were:
Spinning room $ 84.10
(Ist Shift 33.50; 2nd 24.10;
3rd 25.50).
Weaving room 167.50
(Ist Shift 60.00; 2nd 66.00;
3rd 41.50).
Yard service 3.50
Shop 6.50
Cloth room 3.85
Card room 16.00
Other contributions 2.25
Total $283.70
Members enrolled include: Grace
Arnold, J. D. Arnold, John L. Aw
try, George Ball, Col., Levi Ball,
Col., J. S. Ball Jr., Henry Barber,
Col., Pearl Barber, Col., Azilee Bar
ker, W. D. Barker, Julius Batche
lor; Louis Batchelor, M. F. Batche
lor; A. D. Baughcum, Lula Mae
Ijjaughcum, Margie Baxter, D. H.
Beaslee, J. O. Beauchamp, James
Bedsole, L. A. Bedsole, Walter Bed
sole, Evie Lee Bennett, Marvin Ben
foett, Ervin Benton, Frances Biles,
Dock Boyd, George Boyd, J. P.
Boyd, W. H. Boyd, James Brown,
Col., Ben Brown, Col., C. A. Byars,
James Byars, Laura Byars, Luther
Byars, Margie Byars, Trudie Byars,
B. G. Bird.
Homer Capps, Ada Carter, J. C.
Carter, Bonnie Caston, Frances Con
ley, A. A. Cook, Etheleen Cook,
Girden Cook, Ler>a Cook, Marion
Cook, Mattie Cook, Willie Rue Cook,
A. M. Corley, Lizzie Crane, Thelma
Crane, Travis Crane, Ann Craw
ford, H. H. Crawford.
Louise Davis, J. R. Dickerson,
Tom Dickerson, H. J. Dodson, Ber
nard Duke, Bernice Duke, Eva Duke,
Julian Duke, Lonnie Duke, Mary
Dunn.
Katreen Elliott, S. A. Elliott, Nel
lie Enlow, Allen Evans, Irene J.
Evans, Lewis Evans, Rufus Evans,
Sam Evans, Wayman Evans, Z. P.
Frrrar, Sara Faulkner, William Fos
ter, Col., Eddie B. Fuller, I. D. Ful
ler, Obie Fuller.
Ethel Gerald, H. D. Gerald, Bes
sie Gilbert, Eloise Gilbert, James
Mary Gordon, Daisy Grant,
Earl Grant, Julia Grant, Mattie Lou
Grant, W. V. Grant, Dock Greer,
Carl Gregg, Clara Gregg, Wilburn
Gregg.
Ardell Hardy, Fleddie Hardy, Inez
Hardy, Lamar Hardy, Lovie Hardy,
Opal Hardy, Troylese Hardy, Grace
Henderson, Hilda Henderson, Sam
Henderson, Lorie Hoard, Ran Hoard,
Susie Hoard, Minnie Hoard, Ru
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JOIN
WELFARE BENEFITS
OF $1,892.00 PAID
TO BUTTS CLIENTS
Butts county clients received the
amount of $1,892 for the month of
November in public assistance ben
efits, according to Mrs. L. M. Spen
cer, director of the Welfare Board.
The amounts by groups included:
Old age pensioners, 274, $1,735;
blind, 7, $54.50; aid to dependent
children, 6, $102.50.
Checks were received and dis
tributed Monday.
Large Committee Named to Direct
Campaign For Community Christmas
ALL COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS
REPRESENTED BY WORKERS
! WHO WILL HAVE ACTIVE SU
PERVISION OF BIG DRIVE
Committees for the Butts County
Community Christmas Chest have
been completed, and all organiza
tions are represented and will have
an active part in directing the big
yule drive.
j In addition to chairmen, named
November 7, the following members
have been added to all committees:
Finance: J. C. Callaway, chair
man; Mrs. George Gilmore, Jack
son Woman’s Club; Mrs. A. L. Weav
er, Towaliga PTA; L. R. Washing
ton, Tussahaw PTA; T. A. Nutt,
First Baptist church; Mrs. Rufus
Hall, Indian Springs PTA; W. M.
Redman, Jackson Methodist church;
Miss Pauline Mallet, Eastern Star;
Mrs. S. M. Ridgeway, Jackson UDC;
Mrs. Pearl Crane, Pepperton PTA;
Miss Ruth Middlebrooks, Jenkins
burg PTA; Miriam Maddox, 4-H
clubs; Mrs. B. K. Carmichael Jr.,
Jackson Presbyterian church; Mrs.
J. B. White, Mimosa Garden Club;
Mrs. Dean Patrick, Jackson PTA;
Mrs. J. W. O’Neal, Cherokee Gar
den Club; Miss Mary Downs, DAR;
Mrs. Horace O’Neal, Hawthorne
Garden Club; T. E. Robison, Kiwan
is club; Mrs. Hugh Mallet, Jackson
Garden Club; Marion B. Cook, Naz
arene church; Miss Lena White and
Mrs. S. W. Maddox, WCTU.
Toy Collecting; Mrs. W. O. Ball,
chairman; Mrs. Charles Redman,
Jackson Woman’s Club; Mrs. R. B.
Fletcher, Towaliga PTA; Miss Ber
tha Williams, Tussahaw PTA; Mrs.
M. L. Powell, First Baptist church;
Mrs. E. R. Edwards, Indian Springs
PTA; Mrs. P. H. Weaver, Jackson
Methodist church; Mrs. C. D. Thac
ker, Eastern Star; Mrs. J. S. Ball
Sr., Jackson UDC; Mrs. Lee Glaze,
Pepperton PTA; Mrs. C. D. Flet
cher, Jenkinsburg PTA; Doris Biles,
4-H clubs; Mrs. Henry Byron, Jack
son Presbyterian church; Mrs. F. C.
Rossey, Mimosa Garden Club; Mrs.
George Sims, Jackson PTA; Mrs. B.
B. Watkins, Cherokee Garden Club;
Mrs. T. B. Miller, DAR; Mrs. George
Mathewson, Hawthorne Garden Club;
Julian Callaway, Boy Scouts; R. P.
Newton, Kiwanis club; Mrs. E. S.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941
Business Houses
To Observe Nov. 27
As Thanksgiving
TWO THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS
IN MONTH CAUSE CONFU
SION. BUTTS COUNTY TAKES
ORIGINAL THANKSGIVING
Butts county, a major portion of
it at least, will observe Thursday,
November 27, as Thanksgiving Day.
That is the consensus of business
firms, according to information fur
nished the Progress-Argus this week.
In accordance with the usual cus
tom, all places of business will be
closed on November 27.
President Roosevelt named No
vember 20 as Thanksgiving Day,
but Governor Talmadge stuck to
the last Thursday as a day of
thanksgiving and praise for Geor
gia.
The post office here will keep
November 20 as a holiday and ru
ral and village carriers will have a
holiday. The county library will
be closed that day, but the Welfare
office and the county agent’s of
fices will remain open and take the
27 as a holiday
Schools in the Jackson and Butts
systems will observe the period from
November 27 to December 1 as hol
idays.
Settle, Jackson Garden Club; Miss
Betty Hoard, Nazarene church; Miss
Annie Lou McCord, WCTU.
Clothing: Mrs. (J. D- Head, chair
man; Mrs. M. L. Powell, Jackson
Woman’s Club; Mrs. F. L. Maddox,
Towaliga PTA; Mrs. Thelma Eber
hart, Tussahaw PTA; Mrs. Dan
Thurston, First Baptist church; Mrs.
R. C. Riley, Indian Springs PTA;
Mrs. Mary Mallet, Jackson Method
ist church; Mrs. Troy Willis, Eas
tern Star; Miss Hattie Buttrill,
Jackson UDC; Mrs. Tommis Joe En
low, Pepperton PTA; Mrs. B. R.
Hay, Jenkinsburg PTA; Josephine
Maddox, 4-H clubs; Miss Myrtie Lee
McGoogan, Jackson Presbyterian
church; Mrs. Henry Byron, Mimosa
Garden club; Mrs. R. B. Fletcher,
Jackson PTA; Mrs. M. L. Powell,
Cherokee Gorden Club; Mrs. T. G.
Willis, DAR; Mrs. Jack Moore, Haw
thorne Garden Club; Arthur Stod
ghill Jr., Boy Scouts; W. G. Smith,
Kiwanis club; Joyce Tillery, Naza
rene Church.
Purchasing: Mrs. D. P. Settle,
chairman; Mrs. Marvin Ridgeway,
Jackson Woman’s Club; Mrs. George
Etheredge, Towaliga PTA; Miss Vir
ginia McMichael, Tussahaw PTA;
Mrs. Candler Webb, First Baptist
church; Mrs. Walter Norsworthy,
Indian Syrings PTA; Mrs. F. C. Ros
sey, Jackson Methodist church; Mrs.
John Nutt, Eastern Star; Mrs. H. O r
Ball, Jackson UDC; Mrs. Oliver
King, Pepperton PTA; Mrs. J. O.
Minter, Jenkinsburg PTA; Miss An
nette Moore, 4-H Clubs; Mrs. C. T.
Gifford, Jackson Presbyterian
church; Mrs. 0. A. Pound, Mimosa
Garden Club; Mrs. F. C. Rossey,
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NAZARENE CHURCH TO HAVE
ZONE RALLY NOVEMBER 23
The Atlanta zone of the Church
of the Nazarene will meet at the
Jackson high school auditorium on
November 23 at 3 p. m. Speaker of
the occasion will be the Rev. J. C.
Henson, Who is touring Georgia
during this month. Churches to be
represented are: Atlanta, East
Point, Barnesville and Jackson. The
public is invited to attend the serv
ice.
Study Valuable
In Choosing AAA
Committeemen
VOTERS EXERCICSE THE DEM
OCRATIC PROCESS IN ELEC
TING MEN TO SERVE THEM.
•FULL VOTE IS STRESSED
By M. L. POWELL, County Agent
Butts county farmei’s, working
amid a welter of swift-moving de
velopments on the agricultural front,
will move into the new AAA pro
gram year December 1 with one of
the most important of their annual
tasks confronting them—the selec
tion of community and county com
mitteemen, delegates and alter
nates.
n
Right now, even in the midst of
the rush of the farm plan sheet
sign-up this week, there is a real
need for straight-thinking. In these
days, when war and the threat of
war impei’il the future of all peo
ple, it is of tremendous importance
that our farmers give careful
thought to their choice of the men
who are to lead them through agri
culture’s maze of problems.
Community elections will be held
at times and places to be announc
ed soon. In each commuinty of the
county, farmer-members of the as
sociation will elect delegates and
alternates to a county convention,
and members and alternate mem
bers of the community committee.
The county convention, in turn, will
elect members of the county agri
cultui’al ■ conservation committee, in
i
whose Hands will rest the responsi
bility of administering the AAA
program in the county.
The agricultural conservation
program represents democracy in
its purest form. To serve in these
posts is an honor every farmer
should covet, and to exercise fran
chise as a farmer-elector is an hon
or equally important. It rests with
in the power of our farmers to se
lect good or poor leadership.
In the perilous days that are
ahead, it is essential that we have
in these positions the best of our
agricultural minds. If the farmers
of Georgia could once grasp the se
riousness of the situation confront
ing our country, they would know
that every red-blooded American
must work shoulder to shoulder to
defend democracy against the dan
gers threatening it.
Any person having an interest in
a farm, registered as a member of
the county association, and partici
pating or cooperating in the farm
program will be eligible to vote in
the election of committeemen, del
egates and alternates.
Butts Farm Bureau Elected McCord
As President and Gaston Secretary
SPIRITED MEETING HELD FRI
DAY IN COURTHOUSE. MEM
BERSHIP COMMITTEE WILL
COVER ENTIRE COUNTY
At a spirited meeting in the
courthouse Friday afternoon the
Butts County Farm Bureau was or
ganized by electing H. 11. McCord
as temporary president and J. Avon
Gaston as secretary and treasurer.
About thirty members were en
rolled at the initial meeting and a
membership committee was appoint
ed to canvass every portion of the
county and enroll as many members
as possible.
Twenty-five members were neces
sary to form a local chapter. The
membership fee is $3 per year, $1
of which remains in the local treas
ury, $1 goes for magazine sub
scriptions and $1 goes to the Na
tional Farm Bureau Federation in
Chicago.
Community Christmas Chest Holds
Meeting and Perfects More Plans
Payments Under
1940 AAA Program
Total 8 Million
GEORGIA FARMERS SHARE IN
LIBERAL GRANTS FROM FED
ERAL TREASURY. LAND HELP
ED BY SOIL PACTICES
Total payments already made to
Georgia farmers, together with es
timates of those remaining to be
made, under the 1940 parity pay
ment program of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration amount
ed to $8,660,138.63 as of June 30,
the Department of Agriculture an
nounced this week.
For the nation as a whole, pay
ments totaled $210,003,151.
The parity payments, made to ad
just the difference between actual
and parity prices, were made to
Georgia producers of cotton and
wheat who participated in the 1940
AAA farm program.
At the same time, farmers partici
pating in the 1940 Agricultural Con
servation Program carried out prac
tices designed to protect and im
prove many thousands of acres of
Georgia cropland. These included:
New seedlings (including annual
and perennial legumes and grasses),
487,637 acres; green manure and
cover crops (summer and winter
cover crops, and cover crops left
on the land), 2,068,401 acres; ero
sion control practices, 2,032 acres;
terracing, 15,693,000 linear feet;
fertilizer and lime applications,
limestone, 83,700 tons, and 16 per
cent superphosphate or its equiva
lent, 32,144 tons; and forest tree
practices (including planting trees,
maintaining and improving stands,
and rehabilitating damaged wood
lands), 42,917 acres.
SPECIAL OFFERING
FOR THORNWELL ON
THE FIFTH SUNDAY
The Jackson Presbyterian church
and Sunday school will have a spe
cial offering for Thornwell Orphan
age, Clinton, S. C., on Sunday, Nov.
30. All members have been re
quested to make a contribution on
that date.
The orphanage is supported by the
synods of South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, and several hundred
children are being given good train
ing. There is local interest in
Thornwell because Mrs. Hattie
Blankenship of this county is one
of the matrons.
Attending the meeting here were
farm leaders, including L. S. Wat
son, district Extension agent for
northwest Georgia, and J. S. Rogers
of Pelham, who appeared for H. L.
Wingate, state president, who could
not be present because of official
business in Washington.
Mr. Rogers explained the need
for farm organization to continue
parity payments and to obtain a
fair share of the national income.
Farmers, he explained, have not been
getting their fair share of national
income as compared with labor arid
industry. By organization farmers
of America can make their influ
ence count in Washington when leg
islation is being shaped.
There is a good deal of interest
in the organization and indications
are Butts county will have a large
and influential chapter of the Farm
Bureau.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
SUM OF $500.00 SET AS GOAL.
WOULD MAKE ORGANIZA
TION PERMANENT. BEGIN
COLLECTING TOYS EARLY
Meeting in the Methodist church
parlor Sunday afternoon, represent
atives of the Butts County Commu
nity Christmas Chest set a year’s
goal of $500.00, decided to make
the organization permanent and vot
ed to begin collecting toys and cloth
ing immediately.
Presiding ‘was Miss Lucile Akin,
chairman, and six of the nine com
mittees recently created were rep
resented.
The finance committee of which
the Rev. J. C. Callaway is chairman,
will make its drive for funds De
cember 3-8. However, the date may
be extended through the 13th to
give all portions of the county an
opportunity to contribute. As stat
ed above, the goal for the year is
$500.00, and of that amount SIOO.OO
may be set aside as a revolving or
emergency fund to care for cases
of acute need.
The committee on collecting toys
and clothing will stage its campaign
December 1-6. Boxes will be placed
in schools December 1. Old toys
that can be repaired and made ser
viceable, discarded clothing that can
be renovated and used are solicited.
In this way the organization plans
to hold down expenses while at the
same time serving a useful purpose
at the Christmas season.
Churches are expected to assist
in the drive, but will have their
own white Christmas for shut-ins.
Their contributions will become a
permanent part of the records for
future years. All those not reached
by the churches will be raised by
the county group.
The purchasing committee will be
gin its work early, as soon as funds
are available.
It was suggested that children be
stationed on trucks to help dis
tribute gifts. All portions of the
county will be represented in the
distribution. The transportation
committee will make the distribu
tion of gifts on December 23.
Packing of gifts will be complet
ed on December 22. The collection
of boxes for gifts will begin at
once. Those having Jxoxes are re
quested to notify the committee and
receptacles will be called for.
A building to house the gifts
where packing may be completed
will be selected by the receiving
committee right away.
T. A. Nutt was unanimously elec
ted treasurer of the Community
Christmas Chest.
The telephone committee will se
lect its own members.
’Mrs. J. B. Settle, with a long
experience in this line of work, was
welcomed at the meeting and will
serve as a member of the steering
committee.
Since the idea was first suggest
ed and following the organization
meeting November 7 the campaign
to bring Christmas comfort and
cheer to all unfortunate families
has been received with wide favor
throughout the county.
GINNED
2,976 BALES PRIOR
TO NOVEMBER FIRST
A report by Riley H. Hay, spe
cial agent, shows Butts county had
ginned 2,976 bales of cotton prior
to November 1. That compares with
3,651 bales to a similar date in
1940, a decrease of 675 bales. To
tal county production last year was
about 4,385 bales.
In 1921 Butts county ginned 2,-
976 bales to Nov. 1, and in 1931
5,239 bales.