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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Oct. 11, 1956
Waynesville
News
By MRS. PETE GIBSON
Mrs. W. B. Whitener of Jack
sonville returned to Waynesville
with her father, Mr. Jim Smith
who has been in a Jacksonville
hospital.
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Mr. and Mrs. J< Cooper and
daughter of Cocoa, Fla., spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J.
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Q. Smith Jr.
Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Truby
Thornton on Sunday were Mrs.
A. T. Harrison, Sr., Mr. and Mrs.
A. T. Harrison Jr. and family of
Brunswick.
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Mr. and Mrs. Carl Driscoll and
Mrs. O. Keen were visitors in
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Waycross on Monday.
Mrs. Lloyd Robinson visited
relatives in Jacksonville over the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Millis and
children and Rev. and Mrs.
Charles Chancey and children
visited Mr. Ben Rozier on Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Davis,
Dorothy and Ray, Mrs. Oliver
Prescott and Rebecca went to the
Davis family reunion at Dasher’s
Place near Savannah on Sunday.
Mr. and Mi;s. Marshall Row
land on son, Marty of Fernan
dina Beach, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby
Rowland of Jacksonville visited
the Misses McSweeney’s and Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Leggett on, Sun
day. «
Mr. Joe Chancey of White Oak
visited Mrs. W. R. Gibson and
Mrs. Mattie Benjamin on Sun
day.
Meetings of
School Boards
Must Be Open
“County boards of education
are not authorized under the
state Constitution and laws of
Georgia to exclude the public
from any official meeting,” the
Attorney General has ruled.
A county official had asked if
a board of education had authori
ty to close the doors to the
board’s executive sessions.
One of the steps in producing
quality cotton is to pick it when
it is well open and dry—and as
free of trash as possible. That’s
the word from specialists at the
College of Agriculture Extension
Service.
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Cotton Grades
Average Higher
Than Year Ago
Upland ginned so far this sea
son has averaged higher in grade
than that of a year ago.
Arthur B. Bond, Extension
Service cotton ginning and
marketing specialist at the Col
lege of Agriculture in Athens,
said this USDA information is
based on the September 10th
U. S. Cotton Quality Report for
ginnings prior to September 1.
Bond said the report shows mid
dling white and higher grades
comprised about two-thirds of the
total early ginnings.
At this time last year, he add
ed, less than half the ginnings
attained those grades.
The specialist continued that
the report reveals sharp decreases
in the proportions of the lower
white grades, compared to a year
earlier, but a significant increase
in the amount of spotted cotton.
The grade index of cotton gin
ned prior to September 1 this
year, Bond stated, is 98.5 against
95.7 a year ago. He explained that
the middling white grade equals
100.
Bond said the grade index on
Georgia cotton ginned so far is
98.6 compared to 98.4 in 1955.
A slight decrease from last year
in the average staple length of
cotton ginned through August
was reported. The specialist said
this is attributed in a large de
gree to the extremely dry weath
er in some parts of the cotton
belt.
Bond explained that most of
the cotton ginned each year is
classed free by the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture for farmer
members of cotton improvement
groups organized under the
Smith-Doxey Act. Last year, he
said, about 80 percent of the
total U. S. cotton production was
classed for producers under this
program. This was the highest
percentage of the crop classed
since the beginning of the pro
gram in 1938.
Extension Service Agronomist
J. R. Johnson reports that small
grain occupies more than a mil
lion acres of Georgia land, and
that mor^ .than 60 percent of this
is grazed during the winter.
J. F. Knox, Pierce County's
Oldest Citizen, Dies at 97
John Franklin Knox, the oldest
citizen of Pierce county, died last
Thursday afternoon, Oct. 4, at the
age of 97.
Mr. Knox had been in declin
ing health for several years. He
passed away at his home in
Blackshear.
Funeral services were held
Saturday at 11 a. m. at the Mount
Zion Primitive Baptist Church
with Elder J. A. O’Neal and the
Rev. H. Lester Dixon officiating.
Burial was in the Henderson
cemetery in Pierce county.
Mr. Knox was the oldest des
cendant of a pioneer couple,
James and Nellie Strickland, who
came to Blackshear from Wayne
county in 1831 and have several
hundred descendants now living
in Pierce county.
Mr. Knox himself was born on
a small farm in Wayne county, in
a section that was later to be a
part of Pierce county and is at
present located in Brantley coun
ty. Nearly all of his life was
spent in Pierce county.
He was a farmer until his re
tirement a number of years ago.
Mr. Knox had been a member
ts the Mount Zion Primitive
Baptist Church for 41 years, since
1915. At one time he was the
church secretary.
His parents were the late
Franklin Knox, formerly of
Wayne county., and Katherine
Stewart Knox of Blackshear. His
father was a soldier of the Con
federacy and was stationed for
a time at St. Simons Island, later
joining Capt. James Knox’s
Company of the 26th Ga. Regt, in
the fighting in Virginia. It was
in Virginia that Franklin Knox
contracted tyhoid fever and died.
The mother of Mr. Knox, left
on the farm with three children
and a Negro slave, later married
John J. Henderson, known to
everyone in his day as “Jack.”
Mr. Henderson, the step-father
of Mr. Knox, also served in the
Confederate Army and was after
ward sheriff of Pierce county.
Mr. Knox recalled a few years
ago his memories of the freeing
of the slaves after the War Be
tween the States. He was six
years old at the time.
“On the day of the Proclama
tion,” he said, “my father-in-law
took me on his horse to my Aunt
Myra Grady’s home in Black
shear. All the women' and chil
dren were told to keep off the
streets and stay in a wooden
building (where the Pierce Trad
ing Company hardware store
now stands). I don’t believe any
of the women were scared, but
my aunt took me with her to the
building, while some big Yankee
from the north made a speech to
the Negroes.
“There was a big cannon in
front of the building, and every
now and then they would shoot it
off. It scared me nearly to death
and went like a clap of thunder.
I had heard that the Yankees
killed folks with the cannon, and
when it went off that day, I
thought my time was up. I
learned better later on.”
Mr. Knox in recent years also
recalled seeing Yankee prisoners
being brought through Black
shear on top of box cars, hang
ing their legs over the sides.
Before the train began coming
through Blackshear, he used to
relate, the stagecoach used to
stop at the home of his grand
mother, Mrs. Nancy Strickland
Stewart, to change horses. He
said his grandfather started
keeping the stagecoach. ’ line
horses before .his death in 1854.
Mr. Knox remerfibered when
Way cross was called Tebeauville.
“Before the War (Between the
States),” he said onde, “there was
also a railroad running from
Brunswick to Tebeauville. My
mbther took me on my first train
ride, near the close of the war,
to visit my aunt, Mrs. Dora Knox
Jones, of Lulaton. We changed
trains at Tebeauville, and I was
quite excited at the time.”
At the age of 18, Mr. Knox was
married to Miss Martha Aspin
wall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Aspinwall of near Bristol.
Twelve children were born to
them. She died in 1912, after a
long illness, in the West View
Hospital in Savannah.
In 1917, Mr. Knox married
Miss Johanna Volberg, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Volberg
of Atlanta. She was born in Ger
many and came to America when
she was eight years old.
Mr. Knox farmed during all of
his active life. He recalled liv
ing on a farm near the Satilla
River and seeing each spring the
logs being floated down to the
sawmills at Burnt Fort. He used
to help his step-father tie the
log rafts together and go with
him down the river to Brunt
Fort. “Once, my step-father re
ceived as much as S4OO for a raft
of square cut heart pine,” he
OLDEST CITIZEN PASSES — J.
F. Knox Sr., 97, Pierce county’s
oldest citizen, who died Thurs
day, Oct. 4, at his home after a
long illness.
said.
One of his vivid boyhood me
mories was of being sent to
Blackshear for Dr. A. M. Moore
on occasion of the birth of And
rew Henderson. He had to cross
the railroad bridge after mid
night and he recalled it as a
frightening experience.
The passing of Mr. Knox re
moves from the community a
living landmark of Pierce county
history. He had many friends
throughout this section who
mourn his passing and extend
sympathy to his family.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Johanna Volberg Knox,
Blackshear; four daughters, Mrs.
S. M. Bennett, Orlando, Fla., Mrs.
Mary Mendenhall, Charleston,
S. C., Mrs. Kate Knowlton and
Mrs. Reno Baucom, both of Atl
anta; three sons, Ollie Knox, W.
B. Know, and Franklin Knox Jr.,
all of Blackshear; two brothers,
Joe Henderson of Salt Lake City,
Utah, and Crawley Henderson of
Willacoochee, Ga.
Pallbearers were grandsons,
James Knox, Johnny Knox, John
David Knox, H. D. Knowlton,
W. V. Knowlton, Dick Bennett,
Quinton Bennett, and Roy Ben
nett.
Darling Funeral Home had
charge of arrangements.
Self-Inspection
By Restaurants
Urged by Officer
“Restaurant operators should
accept greater responsibility for
the sanitary conditions of their
establishments, if they expect to
receive their share of the pro
fitable tourist trade,” Dr. Glover,
director of the Pierce health
department, said this week, in
announcing a stepped-up pro
gram of restaurant inspection and
enforcement of the foodhandling
regulations of Pierce’s sanitary
code.
“It is the duty of the manager
of each public eating place to as
sure the public of clean, whole
some food which is stored, hand
led and served in such a manner
as to prevent contamination that
might lead to food poisoning or
other disease,’ Dr. Glover said.
“Many travelers have -learned
from unhappy experience that it’s
well to pick with care the places
where they eat, and turn thumbs
down on any doubtful looking
restaurants.”
Although fortunately food poi
soning outbreaks have been rare
in Pierce Co. Dr. Glover de
clared, the danger is ever pre
sent, and can be avoided only
by constant vigilance and observ
ance of safe foodhandling meth
ods. Figures collected by the U.S.
Public Health Service show thdt
in 1954, there were 11,704 cases
of food poisoning reported in this
country.
Therefore, Dr. Glover urged
managers to be their own inspec
tors and check every point of
their operations. “Make a com
plete inspection of every part of
the restaurant at least twice a
day,” he advised. ‘Note any un
clean conditions and order their
correction. Be constantly alert
for any unsanitary practices on
the part of your employees. Check
especially the sanitization of
utensils. Except where disposable
sanitary paper service is used,
insist on thorough sanitization of
all untensils.”
The director expressed his sat
isfaction with the cooperation his
program has been receiving from
the majority of operators, and
declared that his department was
prepared to give all possible
assistance to solve the sanitation
problems of individual restau
rants.
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6-Foot Rabbit-Swallowing
Rattler Bites, Kills Dog
A six foot rattlesnake Monday
morning bit and killed a pure
bred Boxer dog belonging to
J. M. King of Highway 38 near
Blackshear before King managed
to shoot the snake with a shot
gun.
King’s two Boxers spotted the
rattlesnake about 7:30 a. m. Mon
day and attracted their owner’s
attention by their barking in a
field near his home.
When King arrived at the
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scene, one of the dogs, “Buster”
a year old, attacked the snake and
was bitten twice on the head
before he could be stopped
King got a shotgun and killed
the rattler with two shots, the
snake being partially concealed
in the grass.
The snake was an unusally
large one and when King shot the
rattler in two a fairly i arge
rabbit was found inside of it
The snake had 12 rattles.
