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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 43
This float was entered in The Brantley Company’s 100th anniversary celebra
tion parade by the company’s Nahunta agency which is under the management of
Elroy Strickland. The float was arranged by the Hoboken and Nahunta chapters
of the F.F.A., with the help of Avery Strickland, Brantley County Forest Ranger,
Lee Herrin, Jack Moore and W. C. Long. The float represented tobacco growing,
cattle raising and permanent pastures, forestry and pulpwood.
Riverside HD Club
Elected Officers
At Friday Meeting
The Riverside Home Demon
stration Club met at the home
of Mrs. H. Q. Thrift Friday af
ternoon, Oct. 18.
New officers were elected for
the coming year. They are Mrs.
Ealon Manning, president; Mrs.
Leland Manning, vice-president;
Mrs. Calvin Crews, reporter;
Miss Elsie Wainright, devotional;
Mrs. Marvin Purcell, assistant
devotional; Mrs. Essie Thrift,
game chairman; Mrs. Allie Wain
right, secretary-treasurer.
Miss Sara Simpson gave a
demonstration on caning chairs
and stools. Plans were discussed
concerning the fair booth.
The hostess served crackers,
deviled eggs, lemon pie and
punch.
Weather Report
For Past Week
By J. A. ROSS
U.S. Weather Bureau report of
temperature and rainfall at Nah
unta for each 24 hour period of
week ending.
Nahunta Sta. High Low Rain
Thursday 83 62 0.70
Friday 82 60 0.01
Saturday 75 55 0.00
Sunday 70 46 0.00
Monday 76 42 0.00
Tuesday 81 60 0.00
Wednesday 81 65 0.06
Royal Theater
Program
All Pictures in Cinemascope or
wide screen.
Show time: 7:30 P.M. week days;
On Saturday two shows,
7 P.M. and 8:30 P.M.
Sunday 3:30 P.M. only.
Admission adults, .45;
children .20
CLOSED MONDAY,
TUESDAY & FRIDAY
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
OCTOBER 25 - 26
“Gun Fight at the
O. K. Corral”
With BURT LANCASTER
and KIRK DOUGLAS
FRIDAY NIGHT SHOW
AT 10:00 P. M.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27
“War and Peace”
With AUDREY HEPBURN
HENRY FONDA
And ANITA ECKBERG
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
OCTOBER 30 - 31
“The Buster
Keaton Story”
With DONALD O’CONNOR,
ANN BLYTH and
RHONDA FLEMING.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Hickox W.M.S. Met
With Mrs. Bohanon
The October .meeting of the
Hickox W.M.S. was held at the
home of Mrs. W. L. Bohanon.
Mrs. Sadye Thornton and Mrs.
Betty Hendrix had charge of the
program on “An Open Door”.
Mrs. Betty Hendrix, president,
was in charge during the busi
ness session.
Others present were: Mrs. Jo
sie Mae Jones, Mrs. Lizzie Mae
Hendrix and Mrs. M. L. Ander
son.
The hostess served cake and
soft drinks.
Mrs. Bohanon also entertain
ed with a birthday party for the
fourth birthday of her sop, Gar
ry. The children attending with
their mothers were: Kathy Jones,
Karen and Ricky Hendrix, and
Harriett Thornton. Halloween
motif was the theme of the
children’s party. They were en
tertained on the lawn while the
ladies met inside.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Johns
are the proud parents of a baby
girl, born October 12, in the
Pierce County Hospital. She
weighed eight pounds and two
ounces. Her name is Alazada Lu
cille. Mrs. Johns will be remem
bered as the former Miss Lucille
Hickox of Route 2, Waycross.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Chambless
attended the National Funeral
Directors Association convention
in Atlanta this week.
Postmaster and Mrs. E. Parker
Dodge left Sunday for the Na
tional Postmasters convention in
Los Angeles, Calif. They went to
Atlanta where they joined other
postmasters and their families for
the trip west in chartered buses.
They will be gone about three
weeks.
Mrs. C. Winton Adams, in-
structional supervisor of Brant
ley County Schools, will attend a
three-day conference of super
visors in Atlanta beginning Oct.
30. The conference topic will be
“The Characteristics of a Good
School.”
The WSCS of the Nahunta
Methodist Church will meet on
Wednesday night, October 30, at
6:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
W. C. Long. Mrs. Long will di
rect a study course.
The Nahunta Garden tlub
will meet at the home of Mrs.
Jos. B. Strickland on Tuesday
afternoon, October 29 at 4:00
p.m. Mrs. Mollie Highsmith will
be co-hostess with Mrs. Strick
land. Mrs. Elroy Strickland will
have charge of the program. AU
members are urged to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. George Reha and
two children, Cindy and Del, of
Dover, Delaware, are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. R. I. McDuffie this
week. Mr. Reha is in the U. S.
Navy, stationed at Dover, Del.
Personals
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SraniUy Enterprise
Note Dated
In 1874 Wins
SIOO.OO Prize
At The Brantley Company
drawing last Wednesday C. M.
Dowling of Nahunta won SIOO.OO
for having the oldest record of
a business transaction with The
Brantley Company or its affil
iates.
The note was dated Black
shear, Ga., Jan. 30th, 1874, and
read as follows:
“One day after date I promise
to pay Brantley & Co. or bearer
the sum of Sixty three and 871
100 Dollars for supplies furnish
ed me during the year 1873 to
aid in the support of my family
for value received with ten per
cent interest from the first day
of January, 1874.” Wiley (X)
Robinson, His Mark. Attest: A. J.
Strickland.
C. M. Dowling
Wins SIOO Prize
C. M. Dowling of Route One,
Nahunta, won a prize of SIOO at
the Brantley Company’s 100th
anniversary celebration at Black
shear Wednesday, Oct. 16.
Mr. Dowling won his SIOO
prize for possessing the oldest
bill or note of the Brantley Com
pany held by anyone present at
the celebration. His bill dated
1874.
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BRANTLEY
ENTERPRISE
PART OF THE HUGE CROWD ATTENDING — Photographer J. B. Hendry snapped this picture showing part
of the large crowd present for the afternoon speaking and drawing for SIO,OOO in prizes on The Brantley
Company’s “Appreciation Day.”
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Oct. 24, 1957
Mrs. Matilda King
Funeral Services
Held Sunday
Mrs. Matilda Moore King, age
70, died in Memorial Hospital in
Waycross Friday night, Oct. 18.
She was the daughter of the
late John Gordan Moore and
Hester Rewis, and a native of
Brantley County.
She is survived by two daugh
ters: Mrs. R. H. Beckham, San
ford, Fla., and Mrs. L. B. Spald
ing of Miami, Fla.; one son, Hil
lie King, Brunswick; four bro
thers, James M. Moore, Fernan
dina, Fla., Jessie Moore and
Henry Moore of Hoboken, Ga.,
and Allen Moore, Jacksonville,
Fla.; fourteen grand-children and
two great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock
at Hoboken Baptist Church with
Rev. J. C. Shepard and Rev. J. B.
Jones officiating with burial in
Moore Cemetery.
Pallbearers were nephews:
Tolly Moore, Robert Beckham,
J. P. Moore, Leroy King, Mathy
King, and Junior King.
Mincy Funeral Home of Way
cross was in charge of arrange
ments.
Hickox HD Club
Plans Fair Booth
The Hickox Home Demonstra
tion Club met at the home of
Mrs. Alfred Thomas on Wednes
day, Oct. 15. The devotional was
led by Mrs. Emory Middleton,
and Mrs. Edward Brand had
charge of the program on Home
Improvement and re-upholstering
chairs. Miss Sarah Simpson dem
onstrated weaving chair bottoms
with cane.
Mrs. Clarence Allen presided
during the business session. Plans
were made for a booth at the
fair.
Others present were: Mrs. M.
L. Anderson, Mrs. Lavelle Bo
hanon, Mrs. Neil Hendrix, Mrs.
Ronald Hendrix, Mrs. Woodrow
Hendrix, Mrs. Owen Jones, Mrs.
Arthur Keene, Mrs. George Loyd,
Mrs. Julia Smith and Mrs. Lovie
Thomas.
Toasted nuts, crackers, sand
wiches, pumpkin pie, coffee and
punch were served by the hos
tess.
Mrs. Nan Proctor
Died in Waycross
Mrs. Nan D. Proctor, 75, died
Friday in a Waycross hospital
after a brief illness. She was a
native and life-long resident of
Ware County, the wife of the
late Lem Proctor.
Mrs. Proctor was a lifetime
member of the High Bluff Primi
tive Baptist Church in Brantley
County. Survivors are a brother,
the Rev. T. M. Lee, Waycross;
four foster daughters, Mrs. Her
man Turner, Waycross, Mrs.
Floyd Thomas, Waycross, Mrs.
Jack Crosby, Jacksonville; four
foster sons, Huey Griffin, Hobo
ken, I. W. Woodward, Atlanta,
J. L. and Harold Woodward,
Waycross; and several nieces and
nephews,
Russell Lashes Ike's Foreign Policy
As Causing Middle East 'Powder Keg'
Methodists Will
Meet in Conference
At Atkinson
Rev. J. A.. Wiggins, pastor Na
hunta Methodist charge, an
nounces that there will be the
2nd Quarterly Conference of Na
hunta Charge, Sunday, Nov. 3,
including Nahunta, Atkinson and
Waynesville churches.
At Atkinson Methodist Church
at 11 o’clock Sunday, Nov. 3,
Rev. Monroe Yarbrough, District
Superintendent, will preach, and
outline the great program of Me
thodism for the year. Dinner will
be served, public cordially in
vited.
Hortense 4-H Club
Met Thursday
The Hortense 4-H Club met
Thursday, Oct. 17, for the pur
pose of filling out enrollment
cards and choosing the different
projects.
Because of resignations from
the offices of secretary and vice
president, new officers were e
lected. They are Kathleen Wilson,
secretary, and Wanda Rozier,
vice-president.
Ronald Drury, reporter.
Riverside Revival
Meeting Begins
Monday Night
Riverside Baptist Church will
begin a revival meeting Monday
night, Oct. 28, it is announced by
R. I. McDuffie, one of the dea
cons. ,
Rev. Willie Beall of Hazlehurst
will be the visiting preacher.
Rev. Eddie Dixon is the pastor.
The revival will continue thru
Sunday, Nov. 2, with an all-day
meeting and dinner on the
church grounds. Everyone is in
vited to attend all the services.
Waynesville
News
Mr. and Mrs. James Rogers of
Jacksonville and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Crews of Brunswick
visited their sister and family
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edgy the
past weekend.
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edgy and
grandson Stanley Edgy returned
home Monday after visiting their
daughter and family Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Evans in Athens. They
also visited points of interest in
North Carolina Sunday.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Senator Richard B. Russell Friday night declared in
Blackshear that U. S. foreign policy is at its lowest ebb
since World War I as a result of the launching of Russia’s
earth satellite and the failure of the Eisenhower Doctrine
Royal Theater
To Show Big
WesternMovie
One of the best western movies
ever made will be shown at the
Royal Theater in Nahunta Friday
and Saturday night, Oct. 25 and
26.
The picture will be shown
BOTH Friday and Saturday so
that everyone may have a chance
to see this great movie.
“Gun Fight at the O. K. Cor
ral” is the picture scheduled for
Friday and Saturday showing. It
is a movie version of a historic
incident of frontier days when
Wyatt Earp and his two brothers
and Doc Holliday, the fastest
gunman in the west, tangle with
five lawless characters in a gun
fight to the finish at the O. K.
Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
Doc Holliday was a dentist
from Valdosta, Ga., who went
west and became known as the
quickest man on the draw in
the entire west. He had tuber
culosis and knew he was doomed
to die and he seemed to want to
die with “his boots on” rather
than to wait for a slow death.
Wyatt Earp, as a law officer,
had the job of putting down the
various gun fighters who tried
to terrorize the town. After out
laws killed one of his three bro
thers, Wyatt, with his tw^ re
maining brothers and Doc Hol
liday, had the “finish-fight” with
the Clanton gang of outlaws at
the O. K. Corral in Tombstone.
The Gun Fight at the O. K.
Corral was one of the big turn
ing points toward law and order
in the old west. And Doc Holli
day, the Valdosta, Ga., dentist,
had a big part in teaching the
outlaws a lesson.
You’ll miss one of the best
western .movies, if you fail to
see “Gun Fight at the O. K, Cor
ral.”
Royal Theater to
Present Late Show
Friday Night
The Royal Theater at Nahunta
will have a “late show” Friday
night, Oct. 25, when the western
picture, “Gun Fight at the 0. K.
dbrral,”. will be shown at 10:00
p.m.
The late show will be given
because of the Halloween carni
val at the school during the
early hours.
The picture will be presented
at the late show and also Satur
day night, October 26.
Keep up with the News
About Your Home County.
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Enterprise," $2.50 a Year,
$3.00 Outside the County.
(Plus Sales Tax)
in the Middle East.
Speaking to the annual ban
quet of the Blackshear-Pierce
County Chamber of Commerce,
Russell called the Middle East
situation a “powder keg’’.
He said international leader
ship of the United States has de
teriorated on every front, as a
result of a policy of “dollar
diplomacy.”
Touching on national issues,
Georgia’s senior santor lashed at
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson’s farm policies, which
he said “can be disastrous to the
farmers of the United States.”
“Benson is fighting farmers,”
Russell charged. He said the
country is losing a great source
of strength in the “liquidation of
the family size farm.”
Integration Crisis
Russell, who led the fight of
Dixie senators against the Civil
Rights bill, referred to the Little
Rock integration crisis as the
aftermath of a Supreme Court
decision that “made the Consti
tution a thing of wax.”
He said the high court turned
its back on the “separate but
equal” doctrine that had stood
for 80 years and relied on the
writings of a Swedish socialist
whose book had not even been
introduced as evidence in the
case.
Russell also said he resented
the way the south has been ma
ligned on the floor of the Senate
and in U. S. Information Service
broadcasts with regard to treat
ment of Negroes.
He said the U. S. would have
the best racial propaganda in
the world if it would teH. other
nations how the 17 million Ne
groes of the United States have
progressed with the help of
white people.
Though speaking with a cold
Senator Russell delivered a
forceful speech that brought fre
quent applause from his aud
ience. Russell was introduced by
O. D. Johnson, retiring president
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Large Crowd
The annual banquet was held
at the Grady Street School lunch
room and was attended by ap
proximately 250 members of the
Chamber and special guests.
Among guests introduced were
Congresswoman Iris Blitch and
her husband, Dr. Erwin Blitch,
of Homerville; Acting Mayor
Aubrey Geiger of Blackshear;
Mayor Nesbert Thomas of Pat
terson; Chairman of Pierce
County Commissioners T. N.
Harrison; State Representative
W. H. (Bill) Kimmons; and
representatives of the press and
radio from Blackshear and Way
cross.
Musical selections were ren
dered by a trio composed of
Misses Lavados Barnes, Jackie
Howard, and Norma Jean Coch
ran, with Miss Carolyn Cochran
as pianist.
Rev. H. L. Dixon gave the in
vocation and President Johnson
welcomed the group and present
ed the president’s report. Treasur
er J. A. McDuffie gave a finan
cial report showing that the
Chamber has during the past
year paid off an indebtedness of
$1,400 and now has a bank bal
ance of $973.80.
New President
President Johnson presented
the incoming president, John
Shackleford, and Mr. Shackle
ford closed the meeting with a
short talk asking the cooperation
of all members of the Chamber
during the coming year.
The new board of directors of
the Chamber, taking office Jan.
1, 1957, includes Mr. Shackel
ford, president; James R. Tyre,
vice-president; Troy Sellers,
treasurer; S. M. Waters, Alvin
Ratliff, J. M. Dean, Mack Carter,
R. A. Johnson, D. O. Wheless,
and Mershon Aspinwall Jr., di
rectors; Lee S. Purdom, attorney;
and Rev. R. C. Johnson, chaplain.
Eldred Mann Is
Future Teachers
New Sponsor
The R. D. Thomas Future
Teachers of America Club has a
new sponsor this year, who is
Mr. Eldred Mann.
Initiations will be held later
in the year and invitations will
be issued. One of our projects
will be a bulletin board at
Christmas.
Aria Dean Wilson, reporter.
