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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Oct. 24, 1957
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
CARL BROOME EDITOR and PUBLISHER
Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as
second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
Official Organ of Brantley County
STUDY IN CONTRAST —A mule drawn tobacco sled
and a modern mechanical tobacco harvester symbolized
old and new farm methods.
PATTERSON UNIT— The Patterson Lions Club built
this attractive float. The attractive young ladies are
Patterson cheerleaders. (Photos by Hendry Studio.)
Chicago Negro Woman Pens
Revealing Letter to Paper
Editor’s Note: The following
letter was written to the Jackson
(Miss.) Daily News by Sudie Mae
Lewis, Negro resident of Chicago:
I have written several leading
magazines supported by the
NAACP but have yet to see one
in print or a word of acknow
ledgement. So once again I turn
to my white friends to get ac
tions.
I have taught many colored
children in the deep south, and
was born and raised in the cot
ton field myself. To some this
may sound like a starved, inhu
man existence, let me say here
that these were the happiest days
of my life.
I am getting on in years now, |
my health is gone. I long to
spend my last days and be bur
ied deep in the Mississippi soil.
I want my own kind of people
to lay me away in a Christian
manner in a free church yard.
Eleven years ago I heeded the
wild tales down there of the
wonderful north. I came to Chi
cago with the hope of being a
society lady like I had heard so
much about. But what I want to
tell my people, the colored peo
ple of Mississippi, is this: Just
being allowed to sit up front on
the crow ded busses and here and
there a colored child in school
with the whites does not mean
that the respectable white peo
ple will take you into their
hearts and homes fully and free
ly as they do one of their own
kind.
And the whites that will and
do are just mixed trash that any
self respecting Negro will do
well to shun.
I beg you to listen to one who
knows about these things. For
your own sake, the welfare of
the coming generation, DO stop
and think these things through
“Do Not Push Integration”
It just means giving up your
own life and none of us can ever
be happy trying to adjust and
conform to the rigid rules laid
down for us by white society.
When you give up your own
schools and churches you are
giving up your last hold on your
precious freedom. Down there
you can meet and mingle, serve
God in your own way, shout and
sing if you feel like it. Here you
would get thrown in jail if you
attempted to shout to God in
church or anywhere else.
Down there you can have your
own entertainment in your own
way. Nobody disturbs you so
long as you don’t disturb the
peace. You have as good schools
there as anywhere in this world
and a lot more freedom than you
will find on northern trials.
If you can't be anything worth
while in a segregated school, you
certainly won’t amount to any
thing worthwhile in an integrat
ed school.
Be Proud of Your Own Race!
One other thing I have learn
ed I want to pass on to you—
nine out of every 10 dollars you
hand over to the NAACP goes
to pay the white agitators of
newspapers and magazines. This
is no hearsay, I’ve worked for
them, and I know. Their price is
high. They are well paid to ped
dle their agitation and stir up
trouble. And all they care about
is the money you hand them.
Just try paying them a social
call. In fact, the whole north,
both black and white is sick and
tired of the mess it’s made of this
entire segregation business.
Stick to your own way of life,
be proud of *your own race in
' stead of trying to push and shove
into places where you won’t be
happy.
Today I have no regrets I was
born black. I have done what I
' could to help my race improve
i their way of life. Don’t ever
blame the white race or any oth
er race for any of your failures.
[The fault is purely your own.
We all have the same opportuni
, ty. It’s up to each race to rise
or fall.
You’ve never had it so good
as you have in dear old Dixie
today. God being willing, I’m
coming home to Mississippi this
fall where black is black, white
is white, and all a friend to man.
Sudie Mae Lewis,
Chicago, 111.
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON—Blackshear and Patterson high
The Brantley Company parade October 16 under the direction of
TWO MORE LOVELIES—Misses Susie Sims and Olivia
Walker were among the young ladies adding beauty to
floats in last Wednesday’s parade.
List of Prize Winners
In Brantley Co. Drawing
Several thousand persons were on hand for the
drawing of free cash prizes at The Brantley Company’s
centennial celebration last Wednesday, October 16.
As part of their 100th anniver
sary celebration the company
gave away SIO,OOO. Over 100 per
sons were made happier with
crisp new SSO and SIOO bills. R.
D. Thomas, vice-president of The
Brantley Company, was jn
charge of the give-away, assist
ed by other company personnel.
A list of the winners follows:
$500.00 — Truman Bradley.
$300.00 — Henry Strickland.
$200.00 — Mrs. E. J. McKinney.
SIOO.OO went to Louise Carter,
age 105, for being the oldest
person present.
SIOO.OO was awarded to Mr.
and Mrs. O. G. Sapp who have
been married for 65 years.
SIOO.OO went to Mr. and Mrs
Charles Bryant for being the
newest married couple present.
They were married Sept. 29,
1957.
SIOO.OO went to C. M. Dowling
who presented the oldest written
evidence of a business transac
tion with The Brantley Com
pany.
SIOO.OO went to each of four
of the largest family groups.
They were Zibe King, Mrs. Ar
thur Moody, R. P. Allen, and
Odis Youmans.
SIOO.OO was given to each of
the following: Virgil Dixon, T.
R. Scott, Darcile Cauthern, Mrs.
N. A. Hindman, R. C. Crawford,
Mrs. Alvesta Spell, Mrs. J. A.
Harris, Jake Fulton, Wilbur Dix
on, Rema Boatright, Mrs. Mary
Cofer, N. F. Cochran, Mrs. Rei
nell Carter, Janis O’Steen, L. A.
Dixon Sr., L. A. Eunice, Lamar
Bryant, Oden Dixon, Mrs. Dock
Boatright, Edward F. Rudder
man, W. M. Aspinwall, M. C.
Peacock, Cheryl Bargeron, Lizzie
McNair, Jimmie Lee Melton,
Mrs. N. E. Aldridge, Sandra Bo
wen, Mildred Bargeron, Faye
Courson, Joe Dubberly, Mrs. H.
J. Liles, Blaney Smith, Mrs. Ar
thur Cason, Mrs. Virgil Carter,
Mrs. Anna Chancey, E. A. Pow
ers, Ray Sapp, Mrs. James E.
Lee, Mrs. G. W. Courson, Cheryl
Tally, N. E. Aldridge, J. A. Wig
gins, Frances Olliff, N. F. Bla
lock, Alton Boatright, Susan
Henderson, Roland Smith, Mrs.
H. C. Kimmons, Mrs. B. L. Bar
geron, P. C. Harper, Doris Pender
Mrs. Kelly Turner, J. L. Brad
ley, Mary B. Walker, Christer
Lee Eaddy, A. J. Crump, Miltor
Strickland and Betty Raulerson.
$50.00 was given to each of the
following: W. H. Wright. E. L
Davis, Mrs. E. L. Smith, Carrol.
Phillips, Annie Griffin, Deasy
Dixon, Tommie Brown, Marvin
Carter, Alvin Roberts, Roland
Thomas, Avery Strickland, John
F. Gruber, • Fiona Graham, Mrs.
Oran Dixon, Erlish Walker, J. E.
Carter, Mrs. Earl West berry, L.
R. Bowen, Mrs. Greene Smith,
H. G. Lovell, Mrs. Henry Clough,
Lera Harris, Thelma Crosby, Re
becca Lane, Charles M. Scott,
Mrs. A. R. Carter, and Billy
Holland.
A drawing for The Brantley
Company employees who were
not eligible to win the above
listed prizes was held last Tues
day afternoon. Leo J. Allen,
president of The Brantlty Com
pany, released the following
names of $50.00 winners:
A. L. Howard, Mrs. Anna Mc-
Alpin, Mrs. J. Hugh Moore, Mrs.
David Earle McKinney, Mrs.
Louise Batten, Miss Susie Carter,
Fred T. Hobbs, Morris Dowling,
Curtis Joyner, Elroy Strickland,
Major McGauley, John Baxter,
Vernon Hodges, J. E. Crawford,
Ernest Williams, Aubrey Geiger,
Troy Sellers, Mrs. Nancy Spell,
Mrs. Mary Hyatt and Ed Jacobs.
A small advertisement in The
Brantley Enterprise will be read
like news. One time 75 cents,
three times $2.00.
| PHARMACEUTICAL fl
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I Haknowt th»t when a prescrip-
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B with highest quality ingre-
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Knight-Vickers
Drug Store
Ernest Knight, Carey Jones,
Luke Stewart, Pharmacists
Phone 2251 Jesup, Ga.
school bands and majorettes combined to march and present music in
Jimmy Screws. A band from Bacon County High School also participated.
THE BRANTLEY COMPANY FLOAT— Miss Mary Linn Brantley, great grand
daughter of the Brantley Company’s founder, shown on The Brantley Company
fl oa f. (Photos by Hendry Studio.)
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WILSON'S GARAGE
PHONE 2-2721 NAHUNTA, GA.
Coast Line Railroad Co. has
asked the Georgia Public Ser
vice Commission for permission
to discontinue agency service at
Offerman in Pierce county.
At a hearing last week, the
railroad reported that for the
12 months ended last April it
had revenues of $6,690 at Offer
man and spent $6,707 to operate
this agency.
The Railway Express Agency
also asked for authority to dis
continue its agency service at
Offerman.
There was no opposition to
the application.
