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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 33
10 Waycross Business Firms
Invite the Patronage of
Citizens of Brantley County
They Offer Reliable
And Competent
Service to Customers
In this issue of The Brantley
Enterprise will be found the
reader advertisements of 10 Way
cross firms which are leaders in
their respective lines of business.
The 10 Waycross firms repre
sented in this week’s annual pre
scription are among the best in
their lines in this section. They
offer the services of their firms
to all the people of Brantley
County and will be found reli
able, courteous and efficient in
serving your needs in their lines.
These firms cooperate annually
with this newspaper and its ad
vertising representative in pre
senting their invitations for your
patronage.
They are all prominent and
reliable firms and have many
personal friends and patrons
among Brantley County people.
The 10 Waycross firms coop
erating in this reader advertis
ing in this issue are as follows:
Worten & Blount Machinery
Company.
Dot and Duncan Grocery.
R. B. Zachary Furniture Com
pany.
Business, Inc.
Royal Crown Cola Bottling
Company.
Ware Mirror and Glass Com
pany.
Bailey Monument Company.
Southeastern Brick Company.
Walden Ornamental Iron
Works.
Phelps Dairy.
Pierce Chapel to
Hold Revival
Beginning Monday
There will be a revival at
Pierce Chapel Methodist Church
beginning on Monday night Aug.
19 and continuing through Sun
day night Aug. 25. Sunday Aug.
25 will be observed as Homecom
ing Day. Night services will be
gin at 8:00 p.m.
The pastor, Rev. Jack Gorham
will conduct the revival. Rev.
Tom Lee will deliver the Home
coming Day sermon at 11:00 a.m.
followed by a basket dinner on
the grounds. A cordial invitation
is extended to everyone.
Royal Theater
Program
All Pictures in Cinemascope or
wide screen.
Show time: 8 P.M. week days;
On Saturday two shows,
7 P.M. and S:3O P.M.
Sunday 3:30 P.M. only.
Closed on Tuesday.
Admission adults, .45;
children .20
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
AUGUST 16-17
“The Fastest Gun
Alive”
With GLENN FORD,
JEANNE CRAIN and
BRODERICK CRAWFORD
In Cinemascope
SUNDAY & MONDAY
AUGUST 18-19
“Tea House of the
August Moon”
With MARLON BRANDO
Cinemascope and Color
CLOSED ON TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY b THURSDAY
AUGUST 21-22
“Bhowani Junction”
Starring STEWART GRANGER
and AVA GARDNER
In Color
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
AUGUST 23-24
“The Big Land”
Starring ALAN LADD,
VIRGINIA MAYO and
EDMOND O’BRIEN
In Color
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Nahunta Baptist
Choir Honors
Bowman Barr
The Nahunta Baptist Church
choir held a party Friday night,
Aug. 9, and presented the choir
leader, Mr. Bowman Barr, with
a nice present for his services in
training and leading the choir
and his outstanding leadership
with the church and school music
groups.
Refreshments served were lime
sherbet, ginger ale, punch and
mixed cookies.
Among those attending the
choir party were Carl Highsmith,
Aubrey Highsmith, William Roy
ster, Janice Royster, Janice Har
per, Alice Sue DePratter, Mrs.
Virgil Strickland, Mrs. Gertie
Strickland, Virleen Strickland,
Myra Strickland, Wade Strick
land, Arlene Strickland, Helen
Strickland, Mrs. Marshal Strick
land, Dorothy Morgan, Marian
Morgan, Mrs. Irvin Crews, Mrs.
W. C. Long, Mrs. Cecil Thomas,
Ann Thomas, Bowman Barr, Iris
Barr, Mrs. O. S. Barr, Carolyn
Higginbotham, Jean Esther High
smith, Auvell Raulerson.
Visitors from out of town were
Miss Una Faye Roberson, Screv
en, Ga.; Miss Jane Ashley, Craw
fordsville, Ga.; and Miss Sarah
Owen Etheridge, Sandersville,
Ga.
Avery Rowell Tell*
Os Big Catfish
Caught by Knox
To the Brantlf? Enterprise:
Last Friday morning, Aug. 9,
I was working on Buffalo Creek
and came in contact with Bill
Knox and his son. As Bill is one
of the king fishermen of south
Georgia, I was not surprised
when I found him with a large
string of catfish.
He invited me to his house and
he put the largest one of his cat
fish on the scales and the fish
weighed 40 pounds. Bill said this
monster catfish was caught with
very light tackle.
Bill said (not Elvis Presley)
that he was going to have those
catfish singing in Buffalo.
We’re all shook up.
Ranger A. M. Rowell.
4 Charged in
Ware County
Burglaries
WAYCROSS, Aug. 13 - Four
persons, including one juvenile,
were arrested by Ware County
authorities for grand jury action
on charges of breaking and en
tering and grand larceny, Sher
iff Robert E. Lee reports.
The four were taken into cus
tody by Sheriff Lee and GBI Lt-
Johnny Dixon following their in
vestigation of the burglary at
Laura S. Walker State Park and
the theft of boat motors.
Sheriff Lee identified three of
the persons arrested as Marshall
Martin, 19; Johnny King, 19, and
Billy Carver, 25. Under Georgia
law, the names of juveniles are
withheld.
Sheriff Lee states the quartet
is charged with breaking and en
tering the concession stand at
Laura S. Walker Park and tak
ing about SIOO in cash and sev
eral cartons of cigarettes.
The motors were carried* to
Fernandina, Fla., where the 25-
hp. one was sold for SSO and the
30-hp. motor, valued at $550, was
sold for $125, Lee said. Both mo
tors were recovered and returned
to their owners, Lee said.
Sheriff J. Walter Crews of
Brantley County aided the Ware
County officers in solving the
burglary of the concession stand
at Laura S. Walker Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson
and Rev. and Mrs. Robert Ruling
and son, Timmy, all of Fernan
dina Beach, Fla. spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Elias
Herrin.
Srantley Entrrprtfif
Griffin Family
Reunion Was
Held Sunday
Approximately 15 0 relatives
and a few friends of Mr. and
Mrs. R. A. Griffin gathered at
their spacious country home near
Little Buffalo Church five miles
south of Nahunta Sunday, Aug.
11, for a family reunion and a
basket dinner.
The occasion was in honor of
their daughter Mrs. Mamie G.
Byrd and granddaughters Edna
Marie and Julia Kay Byrd of
Abilene, Texas, who are spend
ing two weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. Griffin.
The group reviewed old times
and enjoyed fellowship together.
Many still and moving pictures
were taken of the days activities.
Among the out-of-town rela
tives attending the reunion were
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Higginbotham
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
Wasdin, all of Folkston; Mr. and
Mrs. Hilton Higginbotham, Floral
City, Fla.; Mrs. Bruce Courtney
and children of Gainesville, Fla.;
Little Miss Karen Spears, Lake
and, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
O’Quinn, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hig
ginbotham and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward Knox and family, all of
Waycross; Mrs. Lizzie Wasdin
and daughter Lula of Screven;
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Higginbo
tham and daughter of Waynes
ville; Mrs. J. E. Knox of Miami.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Higginbotham
and Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Cochran and Mrs. Leila Jones,
all of Thomasville; Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Cochran and daughter of
Abany, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Irvin
Morgan and children and Mr. and
Mrs. Loy Morgan and children
of Tifton; Mr. and Mrs. J. K.
Higginbotham, Mr. and Mrs. A.
L. Higginbotham, Mr. and Mrs.
L. E. Higginbotham and daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Higgin
botham and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. G. K. Ferguson and chil
dren, Mr. and Mrs. David High
smith, and Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
Griffin, all of Brunswick, Ga.;
Mr. Wendell Higginbotham,
Americus, Ga.; and Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Griffin of Macon.
Many other relatives and
friends attended from Nahunta;
Hickox and other sections of
Brantley County.
Knox Cemetery
Will Be Cleaned
Friday, Aug. 23
The Knox Cemetery will be
cleaned off on Friday, Aug. 23,
it is announced by M. F. Wildes.
Everyone who is interested in the
Knox Cemetery is requested to
come there on Friday, Aug. 23,
with tool for cleaning off the
burial grounds.
By Mrs. Nolan Davis, Jr.
Mrs. L. C. Colvin is now at
home after being a patient at the
Memorial Hospital in Waycross.
* » *
Mr. and Mrs. Bing Russell and
sons Bobby and Jeff of Juliette
were recent visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. S. D. Kelley.
• • •
Mrs. Albert Thomas is a pa
tient at the Memorial hospital in
Waycross.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ira Thomas and
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thomas are
spending this week at Fernandina
Beach.
* » *
Mrs. G. C. Wallis has been a
patient at Memorial Hospital but
is improved and now at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Lar
kins.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. Olin Jacobs is a patient
at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta
where she underwent major sur
gery.
• • •
Mrs. Otis Jones is visiting her
daughter and son-in-law and
their children in South Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Bentley,
Michelle, and June moved to
their new home in Brunswick
Villa at Brunswick, Georgia on
Monday.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 15, 1957
Hoboken News
By Mrs. Nolan C. Davis, Jr.
Advent Church
To Meet in
Association
The Southern Association of
Independent Advent Christian
Churches will hold their annual
associational meeting at New
Hope Church Monday, Aug. 19
and continue through Saturday,
Aug. 24, it is announced by Lewis
S. Aldridge, church reporter.
Services will be held each
night at 7:45, with prominent
ministers in charge of each serv
ice. Business sessions will be held
Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23-24
at 10:00 A. M., with president
W. L. Taylor in charge.
Ministers who will have charge
of the nightly services are as fol
lows:
Monday, Aug. 19, Rev. T. W.
Howe, Jacksonville.
Tuesday, Aug. 20, Rev. J. E.
Aldridge, Waycross.
Wednesday, Aug. 21, Rev. J. S.
Aldridge, Waycross.
Thursday, Aug. 22, Rev. H. E.
Aldridge, Waycross.
Friday, Aug. 23, Rev. W. L.
Taylor, Cordele.
Saturday, Aug. 24, Rev. F. E.
Highsmith, Jacksonville.
Mrs. Mamie Byrd
And Daughters
Are Entertained
Mrs. Mamie G. Byrd and
daughters Edna Marie and Julie
Kay of Abilene, Texas, were en
tertained with a supper Friday
night, Aug. 9, by Mr. and Mrs
A. L. Higginbotham at the Hig
ginbotham home in the Wain
right community near Nahunta.
Other guests enjoying the hos
pitality of Mr. and Mrs. Higgin
botham were Mr. and Mrs. M. F
Wildes, Mrs. Marshall Strickland
and son, Mrs. Gladys Higginbot
ham, Mrs. Loy Morgan .and chil
dren of Tifton, Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Griffin and Mr. and Mrs
Dewey Hickox and children.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Walker of
Opelika, Ala., announce the birth
of a son born Aug. 8, weighing
eight pounds. Mrs. Walker is the
former Miss Annie Hickox. The
new baby has been named Thom
as Lamar Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Riggins
of St. Marys, Ga., announced the
birth of a baby girl born July
26, weighing five and one-half
pounds. She has been named Lo
retta Leah Riggins. Mrs. Riggins
is the former Miss Anne Johns.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bass of Route
1, Nahunta, announce the birth
of a baby boy born Aug. 4, weigh
ing 7 pounds 6 ounces. It has been
named Charles Manning.
Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Davis, Sr.
had a cottage at St. Simons last
week and had as their guests al)
of their children and all six
grandchildren. Those spending the
week were Mr. and Mrs. Nolan
Davis, Jr., Margaret, Diane, and
Judy Raye; Mr. and Mrs. A. F.
Nichols and Joan; Mrs. J. W.
Abell of Starke, Florida and Mrs.
W. A. Thomas and Joy and Andy
of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Lastinger
have returned from a trip to
Pensacola. Mrs. Morris McClure,
Kimberly Jo and Terry Lynn re
turned home with them for a two
weeks visit.
» • »
Miss Sylvia Kelley spent last
weekend at St. Simons as the
guest of Miss Margaret Davis.
Mrs. Lillie Meyers was hostess
to Circle 1 of the Hoboken WMS
on Monday evening. Bro. L. B.
Jones taught the Study Course on
Prayer. Those attending were
Rev. and Mrs. L. B. Jones, Miss
Vida Mae Kelle/, Miss Georgia
Dubose, Mrs. Elery Kelley, Mrs.
J. C. Dryden, Mrs. Nolan Davis
Jr., and Mrs. Meyers. The busi
ness session was conducted by
Miss Vida Mae Kelley after which
refreshments were served by the
hostess assisted by Mrs. J. C.
Dryden.
Brantley County Schools to
Begin Classes September 2
Teachers Are
Announced
For Fall Term
Brantley County schools will
open Monday, Sept. 2, it is an
nounced by superintendent Her
schel Herrinr
The pre-planning week will be
gin Monday, Aug. 26 and run
through the week to Friday, Aug
30, Prof. Herrin announces. Stu
dent enrollment will begin Thurs
day, Aug. 29, when the school
buses will begin to roll.
A full corps of teachers will
be in the classrooms when classes
begin Monday, Sept. 2, as every
position in the various faculties
has been filled.
The list of teachers for the va
rious schools, as announced by
superintendent Herrin, is as fol
lows:
Bertha S. Jacobs, Visiting
Teacher.
Edna L. Adams, Instructional
Supervisor.
Hoboken High School:
C. B. Littlefeld, Principal.
Dudley Spell, Coach & Physical
Education.
John A. Griffin, English.
Walter J. Moore, Agriculture &
Shop.
Robert E. Bolling, Science.
Helen L. Carter, History.
Marcie J. Colvin, Home Eco
nomics.
Mildred S. Moore, Mathematics.
Mrs. Herbert Reeves, Commer
cial.
Margaret Webb, Librarian.
Ernest Abercrombie, 6th Grade
Ruth Perkins, 6th Grade.
Jennie Larkins, sth Grade.
Carolyn Kelly, sth Grade.
Mrs. I. J. Woodard, 4th Grade.
Edna T. Strickland, 3rd Grade.
Faye Parnell, 3rd Grade.
Bertha M. Jones, 2nd Grade.
Peggy Spell, 2nd Grade.
Eva Kate Ellis, Ist Grade.
Christine Abercrombie, Ist
Grade.
Vera Griffin, Public Schoo)
Music.
Eloise Davis, Secretary.
Mrs. Thelma Thomas, Dietitian
Hortense:
W. R. (Bobby) Strickland,
Principal.
Carl Highsmith.
Betty S. Rowell.
Ida Vause.
Christine Miles.
Jonnie Campbell.
Nahunta High School;
Thomas H. Edwards, Principal.
W. C. Long, Agriculture and
Shop.
Harold L. Scott, Coach & Phys
ical Education.
Eldred Mann, Music, Spanish
and English.
C. Russell Huffman, English.
John L. Merritt, Mathematics.
Gordon D. Wright, Commercial.
John Rawlins, History.
Jimmy Herrin, Assistant Coach
& Mathematics.
Melburn Kelly, Band.
Mabel Moody, Science.
Oma Lee Herrin, Home Eco
nomics.
Virginia Raulerson, Science &
History.
Mary Lou Gibson, Librarian.
Lester Edgy, Bth Grade.
Coyla Drury, Bth Grade.
Karroll Kitchings, 7th Grade.
Eunice Lightsey, 7th Grade.
Marguerite Smith, 7th Grade.
Dorthy Graham, Secretary.
Mrs. Lizzie K. Herrin, Dietitian.
Nahunta Elementary:
Lois C. Williams, Principal.
Clara Highsmith, 6th Grade.
Eleanor Edgy, 6th Grade.
Herbert Colvin, 6th Grade.
Nellie Long, sth Grade.
Patricia Lee, sth Grade.
H. L. Montague, sth Grade.
Edna Manor, 4th Grade.
Grace Wakley, 4th Grade.
Julia Gibson, 4th Grade.
Mary Mason, 3rd Grade.
Lillian Baxter, 3rd Grade.
Elsie Nessler, 3rd Grade.
Winnie Moore, 2nd Grade.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Zilphia Montague, 2nd Grade.
Mae Johnson, 2nd Grade.
Eula Powers, Ist Grade.
Rachel Burden, Ist Grade.
Katie Griffin, Ist Grade.
Mrs. Elvera McDonald, Dieti
tian. /
Mrs. Vashti Jones
Funeral Services
Held Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Vash
ti Jones, who died Friday, Aug.
9, were held Saturday afternoon
at four o’clock at the graveside
in High Bluff cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ivey Riggins,
Leßoy Strickland, Henry Riggins,
Frank Riggins, W. T. Hickox, and
Harry Riggins.
The wife of the late Johnny
Jones, Mrs. Jones was a member
of the Mars Hill Primitive Baptist
Church.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. H. J. Douglas and Mrs.
Joe Riggins, both of Hoboken; 16
grandchildren, 34 g re a t-grand
children and two great-great
grandchildren.
Terry Allen
Played in
All-Star Game
Terry Allen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. K. Allen of Nahunta,
played in the all-star basketball
game in Atlanta Wednesday
night, Aug. 14.
Terry was an all-state star and
a mainstay of the Nahunta Wild
cats during the past basketball
season.
Details of the Atlanta All-Star
game were not known at time of
going to press.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira L. Rowell and
three children, Nancy Ruth, Leon
ard and Donna Jean, of Jackson
ville, Fla., visited Mr. Rowell’s
mother, Mrs. C. F. Rowell, the
past weekend.
• • •
Iva Lee Herrin is spending this
week with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Johnson and Rev. and Mrs. Rob-,
ert Huling at Fernandina Beach.
1 TA I AMMlil* Hb
forts From B
:
AS INCREDIBLE AS it may
seem, the Department of Agricul
ture is upset over the prospect of
an increase in the price of cotton
this fall and has asked Congress to
do something about it.
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alarm about the fact that the more
rapid-than-antieipated depletion of
the nation's cotton surplus is ex
pected to result in a mandatory
increase in cotton price supports
for the 1957 crop. He called for im
mediate Congressional action on
proposed legislation to offset such
increases by giving the Secretary
further authority to cut support
prices for basic commodities.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH the
present farm law, the Department
on February 9 announced a support
price for upland cotton of 28.15
cents per pound for %-inch mid
dling grade. The law requires that
this figure be re-evaluated at the
beginning of the marketing season
and raised if supplies have fallen
below certain fixed levels.
Because of the laudable, if be
lted, vigor with which the De
partment this year has imple
mented Public Law 480 and com
panion statutes to sell surplus
American cotton abroad, exports
for the current year will be in
excess of 7.5 million bales, more
than one million above earlier esti
mates, and exports for next year
will be much greater than the anti-
(N»i T rnnfd M f«wraiM«>C MpraM/
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Nahunta High
To Organize
School Band
Nahunta High School will be
gin a band program this year.
Melvin Kelley from Sardis, Ga.,
has been employed by the Board
of Education to organize and di
rect the band for the local school.
Mr. Kelley is a graduate of
Georgia Teachers College where
he majored in band. He did his
practice teaching at Glynn Acad
emy where he worked as the
band director there. Mr. Kelley
has had experience playing in
bands and orchestras.
The Nahunta Lions Club has
voted to sponsor the band. The
Club will begin a drive for funds
in the near future to buy the
large instruments a school usu
ally furnishes. All small instru
ments will be furnished by eaeh
student who participates.
An order has been placed for
the large instruments and it is
hoped they will be here by Sep
tember. An instrument display
will be held the day of registra
tion in the gym. The band direc
tor will tell something about each
instrument. Parents and people
interested in the band are in
vited to attend this display.
Card of Thanks
We wish to take this means to
gratefully acknowledge and to
expressions of sympathy during
the illness and at the death of
our mother, Mrs. Mattie C. Pur
dom.
We appreciate the beautiful
floral offerings, and every kind
ness. We want to thank the la
dies of the Nahunta Baptist
Church and the ladies of the
Raybon Advent Christian Church
for the covered dishes they pre
pared for the family. The food
was so helpful.
’ cipated 4.5 million bales. This-will
invoke the so-called “escalator”
■ clause of the farm law requiring a
i higher support price.
1 "It now appears,” Mr. Morse
wrote, "that the law will require
. price supports for the 1957 crop to
- be increased above the 28.15 cents
- per pound level. ... It is therefore
. urgent that legislation be enacted
, in this session of Congress as we
। have recommended.”
' THE ARGUMENT OF the Agri
culture Departmept'that such an
increase in the support price will
result in the creation of a greater
cotton surplus indicates that the
Secretary and his associates either
fail to understand or have no faith
in the programs which Congress
has given them at their request to
prevent just such an eventuality.
Congress passed Public Law 480
to encourage the exportation of
surplus commodities for sale on
the world market and enacted the
Soil Bank Program to reduce pro
duction of these same commodities
here at home. The objective of
these programs was to create a
more stable market on which the
farmer could demand and receive
higher and more realistic prices
for his produce.
If the Agriculture Department
will properly and vigorously ad
minister the laws now on the
books, there is no reason why an
increased support price on eotton
should result in a new surplus. The
cotton farmer deserves this iong
overdue increase and I do not
believe Congress will be in the
mood to deny it to him.
| Tr u e D .
| Morse, acting
gs o r Secretary
iof Agriculture
f Ezra Benson,
| has written the
House and Sen
| ate Committees
lon Agriculture
lex pressing
(Plus Sales Tax)
The children of
Mrs. Mattie C. Purdom.
their kmd
