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the Homes in Brantley
County Read The Brantley
Enterprise, Their Home
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VOLUME 36 — NUMBER 14
SWEEPING THE COUNTRY
OLD TIMES RECALLED WHEN
THIS EDITOR WAS POETIC
A letter from Enoch F. Smith of Gainesville, Ga.,
enclosing a clipping from The Gainesville Daily Times
brings back a memory of my youthful days when I tried
to write poetry.
The letter from Mr. Smith, who is proprietor of
Gainesville Glass Company, was as follows:
Mr. Carl Broome,
Nahunta, Georgia
Dear Mr. Broome,
While reading our local paper yesterday, 1 hap
ened to see a very interesting article. It was especial
ly interesting to us since we know you. I thought you
would be interested in getting it.
Give everyone in Nahunta our best regards.
Yours very truly,
GAINESVILLE GLASS CO.
Enoch F. Smith, Owner.
P. S. We really do enjoy getting the Brantley Enter
prise. It makes us feel like we aren’t so terribly far
from home.
Come to see us.
The article sent by Mr. Smith from The Gainesville
Times was as follows:
FORMER RESIDENT RECALLS
HIS POEM ABOUT WAUKA
In Nahunta, Georgia, in Brantley County, Carl
Broome presides over the operation of the weekly Brant
ley Enterprise.
• Mr. Broome is a Northeast Georgian, a graduate oi
the Chattahoochee High School in 1914, a former teacher
at the Clermont school, a former pastor and is now a
newspaper editor. Neither we nor he can say what his
progress on the ladder of life has been as he has moved
from one successful career to another, but we can say
that Mr. Broome is a fine gentleman with a healthy
nostalgia for the mountain country.
We prevailed upon him to dig into his memory for
a poem he wrote many years ago on dignified old Wauka
Mountain. Written in 1913 or 1914, the poem was printed
in either the old Gainesville Eagle or the old Gainesville
News. He couldn’t remember which.
Mr. Broome couldn’t find it but he remembered most
of it. Here it is, for those who are friends of Wauka
Mountain or of Mr. Broome, or both:
Thou great hill that stands alone
In silent majesty and might,
Speak to me in voiceless tone
The message of thy lofty height.
What savage hordes have topped thy crest,
Explored thy caves, thy nooks and slopes?
What secrets lurk within thy breast
Os ancient dreams and shattered hopes?
Breathe in me thy breadth of view
And granite firmness of thy bone
That held thee facing strong and true
The tempest tides of ages gone.
What lofty monument art thou
To thy Maker’s mighty power
O’er cloud and flame that crown thy brow
And keeps thee till the final hour.
JESUP SENTINEL WARNS OF CLIP JOINTS
The Jesup Sentinel has warned, in an editorial, con
cerning the reported “clip joints” existing in Wayne
County. The Sentinel’s editorial was as follows:
WAYNE COUNTY WAKES UP
Many of the leading businessmen of Jesup were
brought to a sudden realization that the many rumors
regarding clip joints, gambling, etc., in and around Jesup
were true on Tuesday morning of this week when Edwin
Tocci, returning from a short trip to Florida, stopped in
the office of the Chamber of Commerce and'reported that
he had been “taken” for several hundred dollars.
Many of us realize that the greatest assets of this
county, and perhaps one of the principal reasons for the
growth of the county has been the people of the county.
Nothing attracts industry, leaders and people any faster
than a united people. A people with a sincere interest in
their fellowman, a genuine desire to help and serve those
about us, this is what has attracted industry, and what
has caused the county to grow and prosper, this great
asset is something of which we are all justly proud, but
we must realize that with this growth, come elements that
are undesirable, gamblers, clip joint operators and others.
We must support the efforts of all interested parties,
we must report rumors and facts if possible. Once report
ed we as leaders of the community, must follow through
to see that the sale of illegal whiskey, gambling and other
attractions that are harmful, not only to our business, and
tourist trade but our own children is stopped and the
operators of such given the maximum sentence
We are awake, we know that rumors have been cir
culating, we know now that these are more than just
rumors. Knowing this, action is left to the people of the
county.
“It isn’t a disgrace to have the Itch, but it is a dis
grace to keep it.”
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
By Carl Broome
WAUKA
By Carl Broome
April 2, 1956
Srantky Enteryrto
Mrs. Carrie Davis
Funeral Services
Held Saturday
Mrs. Carrie Davis, 88, of Hor
tense, died Monday night, March
26, in a Waycross hospital after
a short illness.
Mrs. Davis was a former resi
dent of Jeff Davis County but
had made her home with her
daughter, the late Mrs. Alton M.
Campbell, since her husband’s
death in 1927. At the time of
Mrs. Davis’ death she was resid
ing with a granddaughter, Mrs.
Ollen Jacobs of Hoboken.
Surviving her are: one daugh
ter, Mrs. Margie Goolsby, Atlan
ta; six granddaughters, Mrs. J.
B. Davidson, Hortense, Mrs. Ol
len Jacobs, Hoboken, Mrs. Her
man Lewis, Nahunta, Mrs. John
A. Gaissert, Sparta, Mrs. Ruth
Smith and Mrs. Olita Dean, At
lanta; four grandsons, Rayford
Campbell, Brunswick, Bernard
Goolsby and Jeff Goolsby, Al
bany, and Norman Goolsby,
Texas; also 22 great grandchild
ren and six great great grand
children.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday, March 28, at the Zoar
Baptist Church in Appling Coun
ty, with the Rev. Hurst officiat
ing. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Pallbearers were her grand
sons, Rayford Campbell, Bryant
Davison, John Gaissert, Bernard
Goolsby, Jeff Goolsby and Dave
Dean.
Palmetto News
By Mrs. W. H. Jacobs
Misses Mary Alice and Faye
Eunice of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
visited friends here last week
end.
Mrs. Carl Burney Jr. of Con
neticutt spent a few days visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. Carl Burney
Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Kittely
Moody.
Mrs. Redick Thornton and
children “of Way cross spent the
weekend with her mother, Mrs.
W. H. Jacobs.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Standard
and daughter, Sandra, of Savan
nah visited Mrs. Standard’s pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Lane
of Browntown last weekend.
The Easter egg hunt at the
Palmetto Outpost on Saturday
was well attended.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brizandine
of Augusta visited Mrs. S. C. M.
Drury on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Harrison
of Brunswick announce the birth
of a son on March 31. Mrs. Har
rison is |he former Miss Darlene
Drury of Waynesville. The baby
has been named Franklin Rod
ney Jr.
Visitors in the community on
Sunday were; Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Moye, Guen, David and Patsy of
Brunswick; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Harrison, Teddy and Terry of
Blythes Island; Mr. and Mrs.
Richard McDowell of Dinsmore,
Fla.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Herrin and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Huland
Herrin and children and Mrs. R.
C. Woods and children, all of
Jacksonville, visited their parents,
Mrs. J. J. Herrin and Mr. and
Mrs. T, V. Rhoden during the
past weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Barnard
and Mr. and Mrs. Linton Brooker
and son Tim of Nahunta left
Tuesday, April 3, for a trip to
points in California. They will be
gone about three weeks.
John N. Howard, USN, was
scheduled to return to Long
Beach, Calif., April 1, aboard the
Pacific Fleet destroyer Frank E.
Evans.
Kenneth E. Kelley, USN, son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Kelly of
Route 1, Hortense, was scheduled
to return to Long Beach, Calif.,
aboard the destroyer Frank E.
Evans.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, April 5, 1956
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Brantley Industrial Development
Corporation Applies for Charter
Nahunta High School Enters
District Literary Contests
The Nahunta High School is
entering a full literary team in
the literary meet in Douglas Fri
day, April 6.
The following students will en
ter; Boy’s Essay, Wain Brooker;
Girl’s Essay, Sybil Strickland;
Declamation, Auvell Raulerson;
Boy’s Solo, Melvin Griffin; Giri’s
Solo, Rose Mary Smith; Girl’s
Trid, Rose Mary Smith, Dorothy
Morgan and Sonja Batten; Piano
Solo, Carolyn Higginbotham;
Girl’s Reading, Jerrie Harper;
Home Economics, Willene Row
ell; Boy’s Typing, John Allen
Moody; Girl’s Typing, Mary
Grace Moody; Shorthand, Janice
Herrin; Boy’s Quartet, Melvin
Griffin, Marvin Griffin, Wade
Strickland and George Thomas.
The district debating and spell
ing have already been held. Na
hunta won second place in de
bating and third place in spell
ing. The debating teams were:
Affirmative, Wade Strickland
and William Royster; the negative
team, Virleen Strickland and Au
vell Raulerson. The Senior Class
represented the school in the
spelling contest.
The following teachers have
assisted in training of students
for the literary event:
Shorthand and Typing, Mr.
Wright; Girl’s and Boy’s Essay,
Mrs. Davis and Mr. May; Decla
mation and Reading, Mrs. May;
Piano, Girl’s Trio, Girl’s Solo,
Boy’s Solo, Boy’s Quartet, Mr.
Barr; Home Economics, Mrs. Her
rin; Spelling, Mrs. Davis, Mrs.
Moody and Mrs. Herrin; Debat
ing, Mr. May.
Nahunta High School won se
cond place in 1953, first place in
1955. This trophy is becoming
more competitive each year.
Track Meet
At Nahunta
April 13-14
Nahunta High School will plaj’
host to the Eighth District Track
meet April 13-14.
A number of schools in the
•“C” division and “B” division
will participate. This track meet
will determine the track champ
ions of the district. Hoboken is
the defending “C” champion and
Nahunta is the defending “B”
champion.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this track meet. There
will be no admission.
Time Extended
For Securing
Fishing Licenses
Fulton Lovell, Director of the
State Game and Fish Commis
sion, announced today that the
deadline for new hunting and
fishing licenses has been extend
ed to April 15.
All Wildlife Rangers are be
ing instructed to not require- the
new hunting and fishing licenses
through this date. This extension
is due to a delay in securing the
new licenses from the printers.
New licenses are on sale at
local license dealers all over the
State. All persons fishing over
the age of sixteen must have a
license to fish in the State of
Georgia.
Pond owners and their famil
ies and tenants can fish in their
own pond without a license. All
other persons must have a cur
rent license to fish.
Persons of sixty-five years of
age or over are entitled to hon
orary license that are good for
life. This license can be obtained
by applying to your local Wild
life Ranger or the nearest Game
and Fish Commission office.
For any information concerning
hunting and fishing laws please
contact District Office, Metter.
Georgia, phone 5-3455.
Eastern Star
Installation
Date Changed
Miss Malva Alice Keen, newly
elected Worthy Matron of Sa
tilla Chapter 365, O. E. S. an
nounces that the date for the
installation of officers has been
changed from April 10 to the
following regular meeting, April
24.
The officers to be installed are:
Malva Alice Keen, Worthy Mat
ron; David Page, Worthy Pat
ron; Ruby Herrin, Associate Ma
tron; Delma Herrin, Associate
Patron; Lurline Broome, Con
ductress; Zoie Stokes, Associate
Conductress; Daisy Hunter, Sec
retary; Mamie Orser, Treasurer;
Elmer Crews, Chaplain; Ocie
Keen, Marshal; Nohah Sadler,
Adah; Verona Crews, Ruth;
Louise Drury, Esther; Bertha
Miller, Electa; Alene Page, War
der; Aaron Sadler, Sentinel.
The installation program will
be open to the public.
Car Stolen
At Hoboken
Was Found
An automobile belonging to S.
P. Wise of Hoboken was stolen
from in front of the Dukes home
Friday night, March 30, and was
found by sheriff T. E. Raulerson
at Blackshear Saturday morning,
according to the sheriff.
The car was a 1950 Ford Con
vertible. Sheriff Raulerson of
Brantley County was notified of
the theft Saturday morning.
While on his way to Hoboken to
investigate the sheriff heard a
state patrol radio call about a
car that had been stolen in
Blackshear.
The sheriff surmised that the
thieves who took the car from
Hoboken had carried it to Black
shear, left it and had stolen an
other car there. He picked up Mr.
Wise at Hoboken, went to Black
shear and found Mr. Wise’s car
parked near the Church of God.
The car stolen at Hoboken had
only about a gallon of gas in it
and the thieves had run out of
gas at Blackshear and stolen an
other car to proceed north.
Two hitchhiking young men
were seen at the store of Noah
Griffin on Highway 121 south of
Hoboken just before the car was
stolen. It is thought they might
be the ones who took the car of
Mr. Wise.
The thieves had not been ap
prehended up to Wednesday,
April 4.
Five Brantley
Boys Make Good
College Record
Five Nahunta High School
graduates are making an out
standing record at South Georgia
College. Allen Sloan, Ray John
son, Glen Strickland and Dewitt
Drury made the dean’s list the
past quarter. Carl Highsmith
made the dean’s list first quarter
but didn’t quite make it the past
quarter because of sickness.
All five of these boys made a
good record while in high school.
Nahunta High School has many
graduates attending college this
year. There is no record yet to
indicate that a single college stu
dent has failed in college.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Rowell
of Hortense announce the arrival
of a baby boy born Sunday, Mar.
18- He has been named John
Randy.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Marvin Highsmith
Fatally Injured
In Auto Accident
Marvin N. Highsmith, 25, of
Thalmann, was fatally injured
Wednesday, March 28, when his
automobile overturned north of
Sterling. He was alone when his
car crashed, and he was thrown
from the vehicle.
Mr. Highsmith was a life long
resident of Thalmann, where his
father was postmaster. He was
a native of Brantley County, an
Air Corps veteran and was en
gaged in the logging business.
Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon at Smyrna
Church, near Lulaton, at 4 o’-
clock with the Rev. Dalton Little
and the Rev. Cecil Thomas of
ficiating. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Quinton
Chapman, Thomas Chapman, Carl
Davis, Thomas Davis, Mack
Chancey and Mack McLean.
Honorary pallbearers were; D.
A. Howell, Harvel Nail, Kaiser
Harrison, Gene Pollard, Van Bar
din, A. C. Blount, Dewitt Moody,
S. B. Highsmith, Jessie Howe,
Earl Ganey and B. M. Harrison.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Josephine Walker Highsmith; two
children, Diane and Danny; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold B.
Highsmith, Thalmann.
Waynesville
By MRS. PETE GIBSON
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Lightsey
went to Appling County on Sun
day to visit Mrs. Sallie Lightsey.
Mrs. Mattie Benjamin of Tam
pa, Fla., is visiting her sister,
Mrs. W. R. Gibson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Walker and
sons, Bill Gibson, Mr. and Mrs.
Laurence Thomas and children of
Brunswick attended homecoming
at Hickox Baptist Church on
Sunday.
Guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Robison for the Eas
ter holidays were: Mrs. Minnie
Barrnett, Mr. and Mrs. Ward Ro
zier and son.
Mrs. W. R. Gibson, Mrs. Mat
tie Benjamin and Mrs. Pete Gib
son visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Anderson in Jesup on Monday.
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Pete Gibson was a visitor to
Macon on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Lightsey
spent last week end in Metter,
Ga., visiting his brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Edgy and
children of Brunswick spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Robinson
and Carol and Mary and Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Moody, and Nancy and
Danny of Nahunta were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Robinson on Easter Sunday.
Miss Frances Walker spent the
weekend with friends in Wood
bine, Ga.
The Waynesville Baptist Sun
day School entertained with a
weiner roast at the church on
Saturday night, March 31. About
30 to 40 people attended.
A Miller family reunion was
held Sunday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Truby Thornton in
Waynesville. Among those at
tending were Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Thornton of Waycross; Mr. and
Mrs. B. F. Thornton, Mrs. Louise
Blue and daughter, Nancy; Mrs.
A. T. Harrison, Sr., and son,
Mike; Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Harri
son Jr. and sons, Tom and John;
Miss Wanda Harrison, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Miller and family, all
of Brunswick.
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The Home Newspaper is
Read Like a Letter From
Home. If They Don’t
Subscribe, They Borrow The
Enterprise.
Purpose to
Secure New
Industries
A corporation to promote the
industrial development of Brant
ley County has been formed by
a number of Brantley County
citizens.
An advertisement of the appli
cation for a charter for the cor
poration is being run in this
newsppaper this week and will
be run three weeks hereafter.
The corporation will have the
privilege of issuing 4,000 shares
with a par value of $lO each. The
charter will be for 35 years.
The name of the corporation
will be “Brantley County Indus
trial Development Corporation”.
Members of the corporation seek
ing the charter are R. B. Brook
er, D. F. Walker, J. W. Brooker,
I. J. Davis, Mrs. Katie Ham, Roy
Ham, R. C. Harrell, Jr., J. A.
Drury, E. Parker Dodge, C. J.
Broome, S. K. Allen, Hokes S.
Wilson, E. L. Sears, J. C. Allen,
Elroy Strickland, D. S. Moody,
A. J. Stokes, I. F. Brown, T. E.
Raulerson, T. L. Dowling, J. C.
Moody, W. B. Harris, Roy Har
per, J. T. Morgan, Claud A.
Smith, D. F. Herrin, Dr. E. A.
Moody, K. S. Varn, A. H. Mor
ris, Virginia Roberts, J. D. Or
ser and Avery Strickland.
The main purpose of the cor
poration is to secure industries
for Brantley County. The com
pany would erect suitable build
ings and lease or sell them to
industries wishing to locate in
Brantley County.
The corporation still has hope
of securing the garment factory
which indicated a desire to lo
cate at Nahunta.
Minnow Sellers
Must Now Pay
State Licenses
Fulton Lovell, Director of the
State Game and Fish Commis
sion, explained a new law that
will go into effect as soon as
licenses can be printed and plac
ed in the hands of the License
Division Chief, Tom Sanders.
This new law was passed by the
last session of Legislature and in
effect it will concern the hand
ling of minnows for bait, stock
ing and restocking of fresh wat
ers in the state. This law was
passed to keep diseased and un
desirable species of fish from our
lakes and the streams of our
state.
Last year many reports came
in of minnows that were diseas
ed being brought into the state
from out-of-state privately own
ed fish hatcheries, and most of
these were of undesirable spec
ies. With the large population of
rough fish or undesirable fish in
our streams people who are
bringing these fish into the state
are working against the depart
ment’s efforts to bring about bet
ter fishing for the sportsmen of
Georgia.
A license will be required by
all dealers selling minnows for
bait, stocking and restocking of
the fresh waters in the state.
Copies of this law can be ob
tained by writing to the State
Game and Fish Commission, 412
State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.
Nahunta Woman
Wins Award for
Catching Fish
SARASOTA, Fla. — Winner of
the weekly Trout fishing award
at the Sarasota Terrace Club
here this week was Mrs. Tho
mas Nilsen of Nahunta, Ga.
Mrs. Nilsen, a guest at the
Club where she and Mr. Nilsen
are vacationing this week, won
the award with a string of 21
Trout she boated during a single
day’s effort in the Gulf of Mexi
co.
