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Brantley County’s Chief
Products Are Naval Stores,
Lumber, Pulpwood, Livestock,
Tobacco and Honey.
VOLUME 34 — NUMBER 30
AUCTION TIME FOR GOLDEN WEED — Paul Morgan, left center, warehouse
man, conducts the sale along a row of tobacco in the Brantley Brick Warehouse
No. 2 -in a photo taken during the 1953 season by J. B. Hendry from up in the
rafters of the warehouse.
LIVESTOCK MART
TO REOPEN
NEXT THURSDAY
The Nahunta Livestock Auction
will reopen at Nahunta next Thurs
day, Aug. 5, it is announced by J.
D. “High Pocket” Hughes, the new
manager of the stockyard.
Sales will be held every Thurs
day thereafter, Mr. Hughes stated.
He request Brantley County live
stock farmers and those from sur
rounding sections to bring their
livestock to the Nahunta market.
Mr. Hughes assures farmers they
will receive prompt, courteous ser
vice and the highest market prices.
Hortense Memorial
Church Services
Services will be held at the Hor
tense Memorial Church on Sunday,
August 1, it is announced. The
change of the date from the regular
meeting day on Aug. 15 is because
of the Hortense Camp Meeting
which will be in progress at that
time.
Rev. Robert Varnedore of Alma
will preach at both the morning
and evening services at 11:00 A.M.
and 8:00 P M.
Pvt. Andrew J. Johns, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert L. Johns of Na
hunta was recently assigned to
Service Company of the famous
508th ‘Red Devil” Airborne Regi
mental Combat Team, the only
such combat team in the United
States.
BLACKSHEAR TOBACCO
MARKET
REPORT OF SALES AND PRICES
POUNDS AMT. PAID AVERAGE
Thursday, July 15 458,658 $249,913.73 $54.49
Friday, July 16 204,052 110,186.56 54.00
Monday, July 19 580,466 322,097.56 55.49
Tuesday, July 20 488,872 260,512.00 53.29
Wednesday, July 21 450,274 236,415.93 52.50
Thursday, July 22 550,128 294,005.15 53.44
Friday, July 23 518,160 277,121.65 53.48
Monday, July 26 622,266 343,907.73 55.27
Tuesday, July 27 633,490 344,871.33 54.44
WantUy Enterprise
NAHUNTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954
WAYNESVILLE
Guests of Mrs. S.‘ C. M. Drury
for the weekend included Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Drury and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Drury and
children of Vidalia; Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Middleton and sons of
Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Yancy
and son of Jacksonville and Mar
vin Drury of Brunswick.
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Miss Shelba Jean Jacobs has re
turned home after a month’s visit
in Lafayette, Indiana and Charles
ton, S.C.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hunnicutt
of Landover, Md. are spending se
veral weeks with Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Hunnicutt.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Hull, who
have just completed a trip through
the Western United States stopped
over with Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Robin
son for a few days.
Miss Yvonne Bass of. Ft. Pierce,
Fla., is spending the weekend with
' Mr. and Mrs. Clovis Johnson.
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Mr. and Mrs. Delmas Mattox and
son and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hucks
of Charleston, S.C. spent last week
end with Mrs. W. H. Jacobs.
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Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Thomas
and children of Cummings, Ga., are
1 spending two weeks with her pa
। rents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Walker.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Young of
Jacksonville spent the weekend here
with relatives.
ATLANTA COUPLE
HURT IN WRECK
ON ROUTE 301
An Atlanta couple was injured
in one of two accidents occurring
Monday, the Waycross State Patrol
station records revealed.
The injured who were taken to
the Ware County Hospital in a Min
cy ambulance were listed as Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel A. Freeman of
116 Mt. Paren Road, Atlanta.
They were injured when a car
driven by William Hamilton of Zep
hyr Hills, Fla., went out of control
and skidded into the path of the
Freeman car.
Mr. Freeman suffered lacerations
of the head and body and his wife,
a bad cut on the right leg. Mr. Ha
milton was charged by investi
gating Trooper J. H. Cofer with
driving on the wrong side of the
road. The mishap occurred about
2:05 p.m. yesterday on U.S. High
way 301, about ten miles north of
Nahunta.
No injury resulted from the other
wreck which happened Monday
morning about ten miles east of
Blackshear on Georgia Highway 38.
Investigating Trooper P. O. Temples
quoted tobacco truck driver Willie
E. Farmer of Wilson, N.C., with
stating that his truck jack-knifed
and turned over when he applied
brakes to avoid colliding with an
unidentified car which passed him
and cut in front of him without
sufficient clearance.
Welfare Office
Is Moved to
Brooker Building
The Brantley County Welfare
Office has moved from the Health
Center Building to the Brooker
Building in' Nahunta, it is announ
ced by Mrs. Lelia Turner, county
welfare director.
Anyone having any business with
the welfare office is requested to
remember the change in office lo
cation. The office is now upstairs
in the Brooker building-
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Mr. and Mrs. Huland Herrin of
Jacksonville spent the weekend with
Mrs. J. J. Herrin.
Hickox W. M. S.
Was Organized
Sunday, July 25
A Womans Missionary Society
was organized for the women of the
Hickox Baptist Church on Sunday
afternoo^July 25 with Mrs. Lula
Brbwn of the Nahunta Baptist
W.M.U. assisting in organizing and
electing officers for the hew organi
zation. ~
The officers elected were; .Presi
dent, Mrs. U. O. Stokes, Ist vice
president, Mrs. Loraine Jacobs; 2nd
vice-president, Mrs. Betty Hendrix;
Secretary, Mrs. Carrie Herrin;
Treasurer, Mrs. R. E. Lee.
Committee chairman appointed
were: Mission Study, Mrs. Sayde
Thornton; Communtiy Missions,
Mrs.. Julia Bohannon; Benevolence,
Mrs. Margie Rowell.
The next meeting of the W.M.S.
will meet on Friday P.M. at eight
o’clock. August 20. The organization
will meet once each month on Fri
day evening after third Sundays.
Rev. E. T. Corbett of Waycross
is pastor of Hickox Baptist church,
with preaching services held on
first and third Sundays in each
month. Woodrow Hendrix is supe
rintendent of Sunday School with
an enrollment of 121. The church
has six Sunday School rooms. Plans
are under way for the organiza
tion for the men of the church, in
the near future.
CLARK GAINES
PLEDGES AID
TO FARMERS
‘ HARTWELL, July 28 —A big
home-coming rally given here Wed
nesday by homefolks for Clark
Gaines, candidate for Commissioner
of Agriculture, heard him pledge
that through provision of adequate
warehouse and storage facilities
for the farmers surplus products he
would put an end to costly waste
ful haphazard marketing of those
products and bring about orderly,
profitable sales of farm production
all the year round.
Mr. Gaines was born in Hart
County and resides in Elbert, where
he operates a farm, and citizens
from counties throughout this area
attended.
The Georgia farmer, Mr. Gaines
told them, needs a marketing and
distribution system that reaches
out to markets far beyond the bor
ders of this state.
Another great need, he empha
sized, is “a warehouse and storage
system for surplus products to sell
farm crops gradually and at a pro
fit. That Is, a means of preventing
major losses our farmers have suf
fered for years because they have
not had sufficient warehouse and
storage facilities to prevent forced
sale of their production.”
He continued —“A warehouse
and storage system with proper
marketing contacts in the various
centers of consumption in the nation,
whereby farm crops can be put in
storage by our farmers can be mar
keted gradually and at a profit, will
stop such losses as we have .suffered
and will bring the farmer a profit
for his products. Those things are
simple business needs.
VOTE FOR
ERNEST VANDIVER
for
Lieutenant Governor
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
BLACKSHEAR MARKET TOPS
STATE AVERAGE BY $2.94
Volume of leaf sold on
reached a total of 4,506,366
nine days of sale resulting in
PERSONAS
A number of members of the
1942 class of Nahunta High School
gathered for a reunion on Saturday
night, July 24 with a dinner at the
Gold House. Present were; Harvey
Person and wife of Waycross, Lee
Broome and wife of Blackshear,
Effie Smith Middleton and her hus
band Emory Middleton, Nahunta;
Edris Royster Gomez of Madison,
Wis.; Julia Herrin Davis, Marshall
Strickland and Bobby Strickland
and Lucille Strickland Parks all of
Nahunta.
Mrs. Ralph Gomez and children,
Beth and Scott of Madison, Wis. will
leave on Thursday, July 29 after
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Royster for two weeks.
Jeane Knox of Jacksonville is
visiting her aunts, Misses Mary
and Lera Knox and Mrs. Jasper
Johnson and Mrs. Dick Allen.
Miss Eppie Roberson, instructor in
Miami schools, is spending several
weeks at home.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Marjenhoff of
Charleston, S.C., were' guests of
Misses Mary and Lera Knox last
week.
Mrs. Lera Knox and her guests,
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Marjenhoff made
a trip through Florida last week
end. Points of interest they visited
included, Tampa, St. Petersburg,
Sarasota, Passa Grill Beach and
Orlando.
Dr. Dale Wilson of Miami was
guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Middleton last week.
Mrs. C. L. Middleton and her
Sunday School class of Hortense
Memorial church went to St. Simon
and Set Island after Sunday school
on Sunday last week. They visited
the historical spots on the Island
and had a picnic lunch at Epworth
by-the-sea.
Members of the Young People’s
Class going on the trip were: Sybil
Strickland, Polly Moody, Shirley
Moody, David Nichols, Sonny Moody*
Delores Drury, Shirley Ann Drury,
Mary Ellen Nichols, Inez Sloan,
and Mrs. Ike Moody.
Joe Bill and Mary Barefoot of
Waycross are spending a few days
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. L. Anderson.
Bob Strickland of Nahunta and
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith of Bruns
wick have returned from a two
weeks trip to Canada, visiting Mont
real and Lake Placid, N.Y.
Minnie and Joyce Johns of Jack
sonville are spending three weeks
with Mr., and Mrs. D. F. Herrin.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Johns and
family of Naples, Fla., are spending
this week with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Johns and other re
latives.
Mr. .and Mrs. Noel Lewis of St.
Marys spent last week in Nahunta
with reltaives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Levesque, Mrs.
Raymond Woods and little daugh
ter, Susan of Jacksonville visited
Mrs. J. J. Herrin and Mrs. Johi
i. Lee on Sunday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. James Herrir
nd Karen of Jacksonville visitec
•elatives on Sundaj' July 18..
Fay and Kaye Herrin have return
ed to Jacksonville after visiting re
latives for a few days.
Raymond and Kathy Woods spent
three weeks with Mrs. J. J. Herrin
Jean Herrin of Jacksonville spent
some time with reltaives in River-
side Community.
Johnny D. Brooker, sop of Mrs.
i Lovie Wildes, of 1719 Norwich St
Brunswick, joined the V.S. Marine
Corps and was inducted Thursday,
July 22. He will be stationed at Par
ris Island, S.C.
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For the Sportsman* Brantley
County Has Deer, Turkey,
Quail, Foxes, Coons;
Also Good Fishing.
the Blackshear market
pounds Tuesday, the first
a $54.12 average.
Blackshear’s season average
was thus $2.94 per hundred
above that for the Georgia mar
kets as a whole.
Volume reached a high for the
season Monday when pounds were
sold for a $54.44 average. How
ever, volume for the nine-day >
peroid was off considerably from
last year when 6,009,124 pounds
were sold during the first nine
days.
Approximately 3.8 per cent,of
tobacco sold on Georgia and
Florida fule-cured markets went
under Government loan to the
Flue-cured Stabilization Corpora
tion. The total for Monday’s sale
was only 1.6 per cent.
JACK WILLIAMS
DAY OBSERVED
IN WAYCROSS
(From The Atlanta Constitution)
Monday was Jack Williams Day
at Way cross as his friends and neig
hbors paid tribute to this gentleman
who has given so much of himself
in the task of serving others.
The celebration might well' have
been expanded beyond Waycross
and Ware County. For more than
half a century he has worked for
his community and for his state.
Few people in Georgia have com
manded more affection and respect
during their life than has Jack
Williams Sr.
The list of honors that have come
to him were all well-deserved. The
latest tribute by a grateful com
munity is perhaps the prize of
them all. Certainly he would think
so.
As an editor, as a legislator, as
a state and civic leader, Jack Wil
liams Sr. has set enviable records.
The Constitution joins his home
town friends and those all over
the state in gratitude and best
washes. '
Birth Announcement*
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Woods
announce the birth of a little girl
born on June 30. She has been na
med Susan Darline. She weighed
six pounds and eleven ounces.
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Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Robinson
announce the birth of a little girl
on Thursday, July 15. She has been
named Mary Ellen.
ROYAL
THEATRE
Nahunta, Georgia
Time: Monday thru Friday,
8:15 P. M.
Saturday: 7:15 and 8:45 P.' M.
PROGRAM
THURS., FRI., JULY 29 - 30
“Casanova’s Big'
Night”
With 808 HOPE
and JOAN FONTAINE ’
SATURDAY, JULY 31*
“Belles of
San Angelo”
With ROY ROGERS
MON., TUES., AUGUST 2-3
“Cripple Creek”
With GEORGE MONTGOMERY
and KAREN BOOTH
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4
“The Lion Hunters
With J. SHEFFIELD
THUS., FRI., AUGUST 5-6
“Quo Vadis”
With ROBERT TAYLOR
and DEBORAH KERR
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7
“Big Heat” 7
With GLENN FORD
