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PET of the WEEK
by
Dale Whiten
Miss Ethel Smith, who
lives on Pratt Smith Road in
the Iron Springs community,
has four goats which she has
had for about a year and
which she says make very
affectionate, and very useful,
pets.
According to Miss Smith,
she bought the goats to help
clear away some underbrush
on her farm, but she says
now she has grown so fond of
them, she does not plan to
sell or eat them.
Miss Smith has names for
all of the goats, and she says
she believes Johnny, the
smallest of the four, recog
nizes his name because he
always bleats when she calls
him. The others’ names are
Annie, Billy and Betty.
In addition to their natural
ly grown diet, the goats eat
specially prepared goat food,
and Miss Smith says that
contrary to what most people
think these goats won’t eat
just anything.
“Their food must be clean
and tasty ~ they won’t even
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Once you discover how nice
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Different methods of pot
ting are included in a U.S.
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Double potting supplies
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Set it inside a larger
watertight container and.fill
the space between with peat
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moss. The moss holds water
and supplies it, through the
porous clay pot, as needed by
the plant.
AND REMEMBER, don’t
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plants die because of too
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Selecting and Growing
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LUNCH TIME FOR THE GOATS Miss Ethel Smith
(right) of the Iron Springs community gets some help from
a neighbor, Susie Mae Wilson, in feeding her pet goats. Miss
Smith said her goats are rather selective about what they
eat and like lots of attention and affection. —Photo by
Carole Lawrence.
eat a piece of lettuce that’s
withered," she remarks.
Miss Smith says the nature
of the goats is interesting to
observe, such as their greedy
and selfish attitudes about
their food and not wanting to
share the food among
themselves.
According to Miss Smith,
the goat she calls Annie is a
milk goat, but she has never
been bred. She says the breed
State Welcome
Centers Greet
Five Million
The year of the Bicenten
nial, a time of celebration for
America, was also a time of
history in the making for
Georgia tourism. For the
first time since the State built
the first of several special
welcoming centers in 1962,
visits at two of the
centers—Ringgold and Val
dosta—have each topped one
million. In 1976, overall,
statewide Welcome Center
visits have grown by over 8
percent.
Altogether, five million
people came through the
Georgia Welcome Centers
during 1976 —over one mil
lion more than visited the
centers in 1975.
Commissioner Milton
Folds of the Georgia Depart
ment of Industry and
Trade—the State agency
responsible for operating the
State’s nine Welcome Cen
ters, expressed confidence
that the 1976 record Welcome
Center attendance is indic
ative that the past year has
been extremely productive
for all phases of the Georgia
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of the other two big goats is
Übian. The goats get checked
periodically by Miss Smith’s
nephew, Dr. William Mitch
ell, who gives them the
necessary medical attention.
Miss Smith says there are
quite a few children in the
area who like to visit and talk
to her goats and watch them
play.
Travel Industry.
“Statistics which reflect
economic growth in the
industry will not be available
until later in the Spring of
this .year, but it is apparent,
from the Welcome Center
activity, that Georgia
tourism was definitely on the
upswing in 1976—1 think we
can look forward to a
substantial increase over
1975 in areas such as travel
taxes, overall travel industry
sales and receipts and in the
number of Georgians em
ployed in the travel serving
industry,” Folds added.
In 1975, Georgia gained
SIOO million in taxes derived
from travel spending, over
132,000 Georgians were em
ployed in travel serving
firms and the overall sales
and receipts for the travel
industry amounted to $3.4
billion.
Georgia Welcome Centers,
operated by the Georgia
Department of Industry and
Trade, are located at
Ringgold, Lavonia, Augusta,
Sylvania, Savannah, Kings
land, Valdosta, Columbus
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Wm. Hollis
Kitchens Was
Buried Friday
Mr. William Hollis Kitch
ens, 73, of 336 North
Mulberry Street, Jackson,
passed away early Wednes
day morning, February 23, at
his residence following a
lengthy illness.
Born June 16, 1904 in Butts
County, Mr. Kitchens was
son of the late Mr. W. R.
Kitchens and the late Mrs.
Clara Pearl Pulliam Kitch
ens.
He was a member of the
Joppa Lodge No. 666 of
Masons. He and his wife
attended the Jackson Pres
byterian Church when health
permitted.
Mr. Kitchens is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Kein
Kitchens of Jackson; two
brothers, Graydon Kitchens
of Atlanta and George G.
Kitchens of Jackson; three
sisters, Mrs. Vernita Pope of
Jackson, Mrs. Kate Owens of
Conyers, and Mrs. Merle
Kitchens of Jackson; several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Mr.
Kitchens were conducted
Friday morning at 11:00
o’clock from the chapel of
Sherrell Funeral Home with
Rev. Clarage Tucker, pastor
of the Worthville Baptist
Church, and Rev. David
Beville, pastor of the Jackson
Presbyterian Church,
officiating. Interment was in
the Worthville Baptist
Church cemetery with Sher
rell Funeral Home in charge.
Pallbearers were Alton
Kitchens, Onree Kitchens,
Orville Kitchens, David
Morris, Carlton Morris, and
Joe Fleming.
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