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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1946
WORTHVILLE
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Mrs. Edward Greer and daughter,
Barbara, of Cedartown spent the
•weekend with Mr. and Mrs. L. J.
Washington.
Miss Sylvia Pope of Atlanta, Mr.
and Mrs. M. D. Bledsoe of Mans
field visited Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pope
over the weekend.
Mr.. W. J. White visited Mrs. El
mer Cawthon Monday.
Friends of Mrs. L. L. Washington
l-egret she is ill in an Atlanta hos
pita.
Jared \\ hite of Spartanburg was
the recent guest of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. White.
Miss Vivian Pope of Atlanta was
the weekend guest of her parents,
PBBB
t Dr. Hitchcock’s
vJLAXATIVJE powder
AS'DIRECTED
BUY U. S. SAVINGS BONDS
AYES EXAMINED GLASSES
FITTED—LENSES DUPLICATED
In Covington Tuesday and Saturdaj
Dr. Joseph E. Edwards, O.D.
Jackson, Georgia
S. H. THORNTON
Funeral Director
Our services available to all re
gardless of financial conditions
Equipment the Best
FUNERAL INSURANCE
TO THE PUBLIC
WE HAVE A PRACTICALLY NEW MILL AND
ARE IN POSITION TO DO THE VERY BEST OF
WORK AND WE GUARANTEE PERFECT SAT
ISFACTION TO EVERY ONE WHO BRINGS US
WHEAT TO GRIND.
WE MAKE WHITE FLOUR
WE ALSO PAY TOP PRICE FOR
ALL WHEAT BROUGHT TO
OUR MILL FOR SALE.
HAMPTON MILLING CO.
HAMPTON, GEORGIA
INSECTICIDES
It is “bug” time again and with the rainy weather
the man who has a good garden will have to fight
hard. We have a good supply of the following in
secticides:
MOP-N-Mix, NIAGARA Calcium Arsenate, Acme
Dusting Sulphur, Acme Bordeaux Mixture, Orchard
Brand Arsenate of Lead, Kyrocide-C, Kyrocide
D-50.
Mexide Dust, Shawnee Rotenone, Paris Greens
Black Leaf Forty, Red Arrow Garden Spray, Gar
den Flit.
GET YOUR SUPPLY WHILE
STOCK IS SUFFICIENT
Csnniciiscl Bros., Inc.
Seedmen to the Southeast
Phone 2871
JACKSON, GEORGIA
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Pope.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Washington,
Mr. and Mrs. Rebon Maddox and
little daughter, Carol, visited Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Pons in Atlanta on
Sunday.
Misses Lucy, Carolyn and V yo
lene White of Atlanta, Mr. and
Mrs.. E. M. McCart and children of
Stuart were recent guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. White.
Rev. B. N. McHan, pastor of the
Jenkinsburg charge, filled his reg
ular appointment Sunday afternoon
and was supper guest of Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. White.
Mrs. W. L. Adams and little
daughter, Linda, of Columbus were
weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. White.
SERVICES SUNDAY AT THE
FLOVILLA M. E. CHURCH
Rev. B. N. McHan, Pastor
Church school at 10:15, R. C. Ri
ley, superintendent. Preaching at
11a. m. and 8 p. m. Subject for the
morning hour, He Paid His Fare.
For Sunday evening, His Prejudice
Uncovered. The Youth Fellowship
meets at 7:15 p. m. The public is
invited to all services.
Lawrence S.
CAMP
WILL DISCUSS THE
GOVERNOR’S RACE
W S B
TUESDAY, JUNE 11
6:30 P. M.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Wickard Sketches Benefits REA Has
Brought to Farms, Towns of Nation
Rural electrification has brought
untold benefits to farm families of
the nation and has been a factor in.
stimulating business on Main Street,
Claude R. Wickard, administrator
of the REA says in an article in the
Rural Electrification News. He
wrote: !
Farmers have been the prime!
beneficiaries of the REA program.
No one can question the great
and economic advances brought to
the farm by electric power.
But Main Street, too, has bene
fited.
Our government, through REA,
has invested upward of $450,000,-
000 to bring light and power to
1,400,000 rural users. And the ru
ral people who have been aided by
that program have spent an equal
amount for house wiring, for elec
tric appliances and equipment, for
plumbing and for farmstead reno
vations.
Main Street has been the funnel
through which a great part of these
vast expenditures have poured.
These hundi-eds of millions of dol
laars have meant trade to Main
Street’s stores; jobs to the people
who live in our small towns. They
were an important factor in Main
Street’s well-being before the war;
they will be important to Mainj
Street’s future prosperity
Electricity has proved to be a
money-making tool for the farm
er. He has used it not only to light
en his own labors but to increase
his own farm revenue. Thei’efore,
in addition to the direct investment
of large sums of money for labor,
supplies, appliances and e q u iP ment >
rural electrification has had an im
portant secondary effect on Main
Street’s prosperity.
If this country is to experience
any great future exodus from rural
to urban areas, the migration is
least likely to occur from farms
and farm areas which have been
aided by electricity. Because this
prosperity of the average small
town is linked for better or worse
to the prosperity of its trade areas,
towns surrounded by well-electrified
rural areas, face a more stable se
sure future than those whose mar
HEAR
E. D. RIVERS
IN PERSON
HkK-' % V
JST
AT JACKSON BUTTS COUNTY
SATURDAY -'-***B. 3 P.M.
MEET US AT THE
COURTHOUSE SQUARE
IF YOU CAN’T COME AND SHAKE HANDS
WITH GOVERNOR RIVERS - LISTEN TQ
YOUR RADIO WSB 3 to 3:30
THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY FRIENDS OF GOVERNOR RIVERS, GEORGIA’S NEXT GOVERNOR.
keting areas are still in the coal oil
age.
When an REA co-op carries out
the REA program of area coverage
it stabilizes values not only in its
farm area but in the towns. And
contrari-wise, anything that impedes
the full electrification of a rural
region is not only harmful to the
farms condemned- to darkness but is
harmful to Main Street.
Many rural merchants have a
understanding of that fact. Some
of the REA co-ops can remember
when town merchants rushed to de
fend them against actions on the
part of others which threatened to
cut off certain portions of their
trade areas from REA-financed ser
vices.
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But the story of • the mutual in
ter-dependence of farmer and Main
Street is one that should be told
again and again—in the newslet
ters and through the newspapers
and on the radio. Once again we
are reminded of those great lines:
For Whom the Bell Tolis. Yes, It
Tolls for Thee.
District Farmers
Plant 4,000 Acres
In Kudzu, Sericea
During the 1946 planting season,!
cooperators of the Towaliga Soill
Conservation District planted more
than 4,000 acres of gullied and bad
ly eroded land to kudzu and sericea
lespedeza, according to J. A. Bur
nett, chairman of the board of dis
trict supervisors.
The acreage in the district plant
ed to kudzu and sericea this season
is greater than the accumulated
acreages planted to these crops since]
the district began operation in 1941.1
In Butts county this year, the co-J
opei’ators planted 36 acres of kudzu
and 100 acres of sericea; making ai
total of 136 acres of eroded land ;
I
which will soon be producing good!
crops again. These acreages added
to those planted in previous years]
are fast changing the gullies andj
barren hillsides into carpets of green
feed crops which are so badly need
ed not only for livestock feed but as
a barrier to prevent washing away
of our most valuable topsoil. Other
conservation measures are being es
tablished on a similar speed-up basis
in this county and throughout the
entire district. Farmers have become
convinced that conservation farming
established on an accelerated basis
and maintained is the only hope for'
a fertile soil and a more productive
agriculture.
Kudzu and sericea, which are per
ennials and deep-rooted crops, are
able to withstand droughts better
than shallow-rooted crops and are
ideal for supplemental grazing when'
permanent pastures are cut short
during dry months. Kudzu is a good!
land builder as well as an excellent'
hay and temporary grazing crop.
Tests conducted at the Georgia Ex-]
perimefit Station, Griffin, have
shown that kudzu remains good
livestock feed even after frost has
killed the vines. Sericea, like kudzu,
is a good grazing and hay crop as
well as being an excellent soil build
ing crop. Many farmers are deriving
a good cash income from sericea
seed harvested in the fall. One sow
ing in the spring for hay after which
seed is harvested in the fall seems
to be a general practice in the dis
trict, says Burnett.
The increased speed in which the
kudzu and sericea is being planted
on cooperator farms in the district
are examples of acceleration in es
tablishing conservation practices by
farmers who have complete soil con
servation plans on their farms. Prac
tices such as terracing, pasture im
provement, crop rotations, wood
land improvement and farm pond
construction are other conservation
measures which cooperators are
speedily installing on their farms
under the supervision of Soil Con
servation Service technicians.
Farmers of the district are fast
gearing their operations to a speed
up of conservation farming because
they realize that soil conservation
efforts were started many years too
late and speed along with untiring
efforts on their part will have to off
set the delayed start in fighting this
sin of erosion.
GLADIOLUS FOR SALE, $2.00 A
DOZEN. PACE FLOWER SHOP.
LOST —Poland China brood sow,
j weighs about 350 pounds. Reward
James Moore, Jackson Route 2.
6-6-2tp
FOR SALE—Two - piece living
room suite, 1 hall screen, 1 steel
folding cot with mattress, 1 laundry
heater, 1 5-foot dining table. Ira S.
Jones, Route 42 on Howard Jolly
Farm, 2 miles from Jackson.
6-6-ltp
FOR SALE Farm 50 acres IVt
miles north of Jenkinsburg. Four
room concrete house, two perches,
concrete floors, one barn, 15 acres
under wire, pasture. Crop partly
started. Give immediate possession.
O. E. Smith, Jackson, Ga. 5-16-tfc-
ORDERS NOW TAKEN for
Speed-O-Print mimeograph mach
ines, automatic or hand feed. Auto
matic feed machine, complete with
counter and standard kit, only
$49.50. Delivery guaranteed within
two weeks. For i speed, accuracy,
and ease of operation Speed-O-
Print mimeograph machines are un
equalled. We carry a complete
stock of mimeograph supplies. Jones
Office Supply Cos., Phone 4281.
NOTICE
To returning veterans and others:
I represent the GEORGIA LOAN
& TRUST CO. and can make you
an interesting proposition to make
you a long term loan to buy farm3
and build thereon.
C. L. REDMAN
JACKSON, GA
FOR FLOWERS ON ALL
OCCASIONS
See The
grlffin flower shop
599 South 6th Street, Griffin, Ga.
Tel. 4443—Night 4233
Weddings, Corsages, Arrange
ments, Funeral Designs—Potted
Plants.
“When It Is Flowers . . . Say It
With Ours.”