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EDITOR’S MOTTO
"Be not diverted from your
duty by any idle reflections
the silly world may make
upon you, for their censures
are not in your power and
should not be at all your con
cern”—Epictetus,Roman philo
sopher.
VOLUME 47 - NUMBER 39
"YOU TALK TOO MUCH”
I got this subject from a phonograph record —
“You Talk Too Much.” The Bible says: “If anyone
thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue
his religious observance is useless.”
My sister gave me a fountain pen when 1 entered
the ministry. Inside the box in which the pen came
were the words: “When this pen flows to freely it
is a sign that it is almost empty and should be refill
ed.”
The small amount of ink remaining in the pen runs
around in the container, and when the pen point is
downward the small amount of ink remaining runs
out, all at once and smears the paper. The delicate
controlling mechanism has no influence over the
amount of ink that comes out.
This illustration of the pen says the same thing a
bout “ink” as the Bible says about the “tongue.” I
have heard the following remarks in my time con
cerning a person who talks too much:
“That person does not think before she speaks.”
“That man does not use his brains when it comes
to talking.”
“I would hate to be that woman’s neighbor.”
“I wonder if she thinks I believe her?”
You see, as Emerson said, “You can fool some of
the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the
people all the time.”
The Book of Proverbs says: “Put away from thee a
forward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”
That is, put away an unmanageable tongue.
Look at the other side: “The right word spoken in
due season, how good it is.” Think about what prayer
does; what Christian teaching accomplishes; what a
word in love heals.
One does not have to “shoot a pistol” to be guilty
of murder.
HighwayDepartmentTells
Os Brantley Construction
Jesup, Georgia, September
21, 1969 . . . The opening of
the ninth annual Highway
Week in Georgia and nation
wide finds a total of $54,222,-
285.07 in road contruction and
improvement projects under
way throughout the 28 county
Jesup Highway Field Division,
according to Field Division
Engineer Auvergne d’Antig
nac.
The purpose of the National
Highway Week, Mr. d’Antig
nac said, is to give special em
phasis to what is being done
to invest the motorist’s gas
tax dollars in improvements
that will offer more highway
service, greater saftety, low
er per-mile driving cost, and
decreased driving time in re
turn for his investment in his
road program.
“We also hope to remind the
citizen of the many ways in
which he is directly or indirect
ly dependent upon his high
ways in his day-to-day life”
he continued.
“The dollars invested in
Georgia’s highway program
are economically important in
themselves. The Jesup Division
head-quarters, for example,
has an annual payroll of
$789,148.20. Resident engi
neers offices, maintenance u
nits and road contractors and
material supplies all over the
Division represent similar
sources of dollars for area
merchants and services.” Mr.
d’Antignac concluded.
Present Road Construction
and its evaluation in Brantley
County is as follows:
0.7 Miles of Paving Streets
in the City of Hoboken, Ga.,
total of $12,670.37.
1.8 Miles of Paving Streets
in the city of Nahunta, Ga., To
tal of $24,707.50.
1.8 Miles of Grading &
Drainage on County Roads in
Brantley County, total of $33,-
869.44.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
The Implications
of the Scriptures
By Rev. J. Loy Scott
Pastor, First United
Methodist Church
Bobby Chancey
Is Candidate
For Aiderman
TO THE CITIZENS
OF CITY OF NAHUNTA:
This is to announce that I
am a candidate for aiderman
for the City of Nahunta, in the
election of October 1. I serv
ed you for three-and-a-half
years as efficiently and fairly
as I could and if you elect me
again, I will do all in my
power to promote the best
interest of all our people.
Please regard this as my
request for your support and
your vote on election day.
Thank you sincerely for your
kindness in considering my
qualifications.
Yours sincerely,
Bobby Chancey
Bob Hendrix
Is Candidate
For Aiderman
TO THE CITIZENS AND
VOTERS OF NAHUNTA:
I wish to announce that I
am a candidate for city alder
-nan. Having worked for the
city for many years. lam a
ware of the needs of our city.
If elected, I will cooperate
with city and county officials
strive for more up-to-date city
government, reduce taxes and
expenses.
Your vote and support will
be appreciated.
Thank you.
Robert W. (Bob) Hen
drix.
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
County Commissioners
Adopt 1969 Tax Levy
Resolution and order of the
Board of Commissioners of
Brantley County, Georgia,
levying taxes for the year
Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-
Nine (1969).
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED
AND RESOLVED, by the
Board of Commissioners of
Brantley County, Georgia, sit
ting for County purposes on
this the 12th day of Septem
ber, 1969, that there be and
is hereby levied and assessed
for the year 1969, upon all
taxable property of said
County of Brantley, State of
Georgia, subject to taxation,
same to provide the necessary
revenues and requirements of
said County, the following
purposes, to-wit:
1. To pay the expenses of
the administration of the
County Government one-tenth
mills.
2. To pay the principal and
interest of any debts of the
County and to provide a sink
ing fund therefore two-tenths
mills.
3. To build and repair the
public buildings and bridges
four-tenths mills.
4. To pay the expenses of
the Courts, and maintenances
and support of prisoners and
to pay sheriff’s and coroner’s
and for expense of litigation
one and three-tenths mills.
5. To build and maintain a
system of Roads (County) 4
and five-tenths mills.
6. For public health pur
poses in said County, and for
the collection and preserva
tion of records of vital sta
tistics seven-tenths mills.
7. To support paupers one
tenth .mills.
8. To pay County Agricul
tural and Home Demonstra
tion Agents four-tenths mills.
9. To provide for the pay
ment of old age assistance to
aged persons in need, and for
the payment of assistance of
the needy, blind and to depen
dent children and other welfare
benefits, provided that no per
son shall be entitled to the
assistance herein authorized
who does not qualify for such
assistance in every respect, in
accordance with the enact
ments of the General Assem
bly which may be of force
and affect prescribing the
qualifications for beneficiaries
hereunder; provided that no
indebtedness of liability a
gainst the county
shall ever be cre
ated for the purpose herein
stated, in excess of the tax
es lawfully levied each fiscal
year under the acts of the
General Assembly authorized
hereunder for such purposes
one and two-tenths .mills.
10. To provide for the crea
tion of a fund to be used for
assisting, promoting and en
couraging the location of new
industries in said County, and
for the development of agri
culture in Brantley County
Georgia five-tenths mills.
11. To provide for Fire Pro
tection, for Forest lands and
to further conservation for
natural resources seven-tenths
mills.
12. To provide for the pay
ment of Workmen’s Compen
sation, insurance for the em
ployees of said County as pro
vided for by law two-tenths
mills.
13. To provide medical care
and hospitalization for the in
digent sick people to Brant
ley County, Georgia one-tenth
mills.
14. Making a total in the
aggregate to twelve and four
ty-one hundred dollars ( $12.-
40) on the one thousand dol
lars, of taxable property of
said Brantley County, Geor
gia, exclusive of the levy
to pay charges for education
all purposes and to pay school
bonds.
15. To pay charges for ed
ucational purposes and to
pay levied only in strict com
pliance of law, and under and
by virtue of the recommenda
tion of The Board of Educa
tion, of Brantley County,
Georgia, at a meeting held on
the 12th day of September,
1969, a certified copy of said
resolution being hereto an
nexed immediately following
this paragraph, and being the
page immediately following
this page.
RECOMMENDATION OF
THE BOARD OF EDUCA
TION OF BRANTLEY COUN
ITY, GEORGIA, TO THE
Board of Commissioners of
■ Roads and Revenues, of said
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, September 25, 1969
County, for the levy of taxes
for the support and mainten
ance of education for the year
1969.
AT A MEETING, of the
Board of Education of Brant
ley County, Georgia, held on
the 12 day of September, 1969,
the following resolution was
presented to said Board, and
after motion being duly made,
seconded and unanimously car
ried, said resolution was re
gularly adopted.
RESOLVED That the Board
of Education of Brantley
County, Georgia, recommended
and it is hereby recommended
to the Board of Commissioners
of Road and Revenues, of
Brantley County, Georgia, that
a tax for support and main
tenance of education foi’ the
year 1969 A. D. of 9% Mills
or $9.50 Dollars on the One
Thousand Dollars be levied on
all taxable property in said
County of Brantley (save that
exempted by the Constitution
and the Laws of the State of
Georgia, as to personal and
homestead exemption), and
1 Mills be levied on taxable
property in said County of
Brantley as provided by the
Constitution and the Laws of
the State of Georgia to retire
the Bond indebtedness.
This 12 day of Sept.
1969, C. D. Gibson
Chairman Board of Ed
ucation, Brantley Co.,
Ga.
ATTEST:
Mable R. Moody Board Sec
retary
I, Mable R. Moody, Sec
retary of the Board of Edu
cation, of Brantley County,
Georgia; do certify that the
above and foregoing is a true
and correct copy of a Resolu
tion and Recommendation of
the Board of Education of
Brantley County, Georgia,
regularly passed by the Board
on September 12, 1969, and do
hereby certify said resolution
and recommendation, to the
Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues, of Brant
ley County, Georgia, as such.
This 12 day of Sept.
1969. Mable R. Moody
Secretary Board of Edu
cation, Brantley Co., Ga.
WHEREUPON, in full com
pliance with the above and
foregoing resolution, of the
Brantley County, Georgia,
Board of Education it is here
by ordered and resolved by
the Board of Commissioners of
Brantley County, Georgia,
that for the support and main
tenance, of Public Education
for 1969 of 9 and one-half mills
or ($9.50) dollars on the one
thousand dollars be levied on
all taxable property in said
county of Brantley and the
State of Georgia, (save and
except that exempted by the
constitution and laws of the
State of Georgia, as to exemp
tions as to personality and
Homestead).
And, in further full com
pliance the resolution of the
Board of Education aforesaid,
there hereby levied one (1)
Mills on the taxable property in
said State and County as
provided by the Constitution,
and the laws of the State of
Georgia, to retire the bonded
indebtness incurred, by said
Brantley County, Georgia
Board of Education.
IT IS FURTHER OR
DERED AND RESOLVED
THAT, all taxes be collected
by the Tax Commissioners of
said County, as provided by
law.
DONE AND ORDERED, by
the Board of Commissioners of
Brantley County, Georgia, af
ter motion duly made, sec
onded and carried, on this
the 12th day of September,
1969.
George F. Stewart
Chairman Board of
Commissioners of Brant
ley County
ATTEST:
Mary Lee Wiley Clerk
I, Mary Lee Wiley, Clerk
of the Board of Commissioners
of Brantley County, Georgia,
do hereby certify that the a
j bove and foregoing pages is
a true and correct copy of the
original order and resolution
levying taxes, for Brantley
County, Georgia, for the year
1969, as the same appears on
the minutes of said Board.
Mary Lee Wiley Clerk
Board of Commissioners
of Brantley County
MR. AND MRS. CORBET WILSON
Recently Married at Hickox Church
Hendrix-Wilson
Miss Lulu Gale Hendrix be
came the bride of Corbet Wil
son in a lovely September
ceremony performed by Rev.
Carlos Chapman at Hickox
Baptist Church, September 12
at 8:00 P. M.
The bride was given in mar
riage by her father, Ronald
Hendrix.
The matron of honor was
Mrs. Diane Willis, sister of
the bride.
Bridesmaids were Mrs. Jan
ice Hendrix and Mrs. Cama
lee Dean.
The groom’s best man was
Leon Wilson, his brother.
Ushers were Ronald Hendrix,
Jr. and Cleve Wilson. Ring
bearers were Scott Willis and
Marty Hendrix.
A reception was held in
the church social hall with
Mrs. Herschel Herrin, Mrs.
W. W. Hendrix, Mrs. Lyman
Rowell, and Mrs. H. T. Ja
cobs entertaining the guests.
Servers were Miss Peggy Wil
son, Miss Deborah Johns, Mrs.
Johnny Crews, and Mrs. Terry
Griffin. Miss Barbara Ann
Wilson kept the Bride’s Book.
The pianist was Marshall
Allen and solist was Miss
Deloyce.
Youths Get Jobs
In Neighborhood
Youth Corps
Part-time jobs for 235 youths
in Brantley and eight area
counties are being provided
by the Neighborhood Youth
Corps program during the
1969-70 school term.
Youths 14 and above who
are still in high school, and
16 and over who are drop
outs began work under a new
contract with Slash Pine
Community Action Agency,
Inc.
Twelve Brantley County
High School students are
working eight hours per
week during the school year.
They are receiving work
training experiences in a
variety of job classifications
and at several work sites in
the school system and com
munity.
Herbert Colvin is serving as
County Counseler Coordinator.
In the out-of-school compo
nent four dropouts are author
ized to work 28 hours per
week in the county and will
continue their schooling at
least six hours per week
through the area adult edu
cation programs.
Early fall is a good time to
transplant daylilies, according
to Henry Clay, horticulturist
with the University of Geor
gia Cooperative Extension
Service. Daylilies can be lo
cated in full sun or partial
shade. More information on
daylily culture is available
from county Extension agents.
Personals
Brantley County High P. T.
A. meeting Monday night
Sept. 29, at 8:00 in the school
Cafetorium. All parents are
urged to come and .meet their
child’s teacher.
Felix Mungin, 20, whose
.mother, Mrs. Nancy Mungin,
lives on Route 1, Waynesville,
was promoted to Army spe
cialist four Aug. 25 near Wurz
burg, Germany, where he is
serving with the 3rd Infantry
Division. Spec. 4 Mungin
is a clerk-typist with Head
quarters Company of the di
vision’s 3rd Supply and Trans
port Battalion.
Mrs. Lawton Strickland and
children, Karen, and Larry,
left Monday to join her hus
band, M-Sgt. Strickland, at
Kadena A.FB, Okinawa. They
will be gone two and one half
years. Mrs. Strickland and
children lived at their home
here while he was in Thailand.
Mrs. S. K. Allen, Terry Al
len and Mrs. Donny Griner
attended the funeral of Mr.
Simon Courie in Atlanta
Thursday. Mr. Courie was the
father of Mrs. Charles K.
Allen. He had visited Nahun
ta in August and attended the
wedding of Barbara Allen.
Mrs. Bill Brooker remains
a patient in the Baptist Hos
pital in Jacksonville where
she has been for two weeks.
Mrs. Charles Wilson is a
patient in Waycross Memorial
following surgery on Tusday
of this week.
Mrs. Harold Calhoun of
Terrytown, Ga. arrived Sun
day to spend this week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wilson.
Emory Middleton
Announces for
City Aiderman
TO THE CITIZENS AND
VOTERS OF NAHUNTA:
I am a candidate for city
aiderman in the forthcoming
election of Oct. 1.
I will do my best to seek
the best administration policies
and procedures of city govern
ment if I am elected.
It is my intention to see
each family before the election.
If I should miss seeing you,
consider this my request for
your support.
Sincerely
Emory A. Middleton.
Bookmobile Schedule
Given for October
Wednesday, October 1, Way
nesville, Hickox, Nahunta,
Old Post Road.
Wednesday, October 8,
Brantley County Schools.
Wednesday, October 15,
Schlatterville, Hoboken, Ra
bon, Hortense.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Nahunta to Elect Mayor,
Aidermen Wednesday
Alvin Jacobs
Funeral Service
Held Tuesday
NAHUNTA — James Alvin
Jacobs, 68, of Nahunta died
Sunday at Memorial Hospital
in Waycross after a long ill
ness.
He was a native of Brantley
County and a member of the
Nahunta Baptist Church.
He was a past mayor of
Nahunta and served until ill
health forced his retirement.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Rhoda Griffin Jacobs of Na
hunta; one daughter, Mrs.
Ina Mae Purdom of Nahunta;
five sisters, Mrs. Mary Harri
son of Waycross, Mrs. Nora
Highsmith of Lakeland, Fla.,
Mrs. Gladys Higginbotham
and Mrs. Lena Strickland,
both of Nahunta and Mrs. Ma
de Colvin of Hoboken; four
brothers, Dr. Ivey Jacobs of
Way cross, Dan Jacobs and
Horace Jacobs, both of Nahun
ta and Leon Jacobs of Hobo
ken; six grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
at the Nahunta Baptist Church
Tuesday, Sept. 22. Interment
was in the Hickox Cemetery.
Pallbearers were nephews
Omer Higginbotham, David
Jacobs, Edmund Jacobs, Billy
Thomas, Nathaniel Griffin, and
Gerald Jones.
Honorary pallbearers were
Plenn Crews, J. D. Orser, W.
M. Burden, Gatson Thornton,
Lankford Blocker, George
Dykes, John Wilson, R_. B.
Brooker, Osborn Moody, Vir
gil Strickland, Alvin Drury,
Dewitt Moody, W. B. Harris,
Fred Lewis, Jessie Lee,
Hoke Wilson and Earl Rau
lerson.
Clough-Pearson Funeral
Home was in charge.
ASC Committees
Are Announced
Results of the September 17,
1969 community committee e
lection for the Hickox, Hobo
ken and Nahunta ASC Com
munities, were announced Fri
day by George Dykes, Chair
man, Brantley ASC County
Committee. The election was
held by mail and ballots were
counted publicly by the Coun
ty Committee September 19.
Farmers elected to serve are:
Hickox Community; Alfred
Thomas, chairman, John I.
Lee, vice-chairman, Jim R.
Herrin, regular member,
George M. Johns, first alter
nate and W. M. Batten, sec
ond alternate.
Hoboken Community; L. E.
Dickerson, chairman, R. E.
Ammons, vice-chairman. R. J.
Douglas, member, J. Robert
Hunter, first alternate, L. S.
Hickox, second alternate.
Nahunta, Community; Moul
trie Purdom, chairman, James
A. Herrin, vice-chairman,
Fred J. Chesser, member,
Charles P. Davis, first alter
nate, E. J. Wilson, second al
ternate.
The chairman, vice-chairman
and member of these commit
tees met in a convention in
the Brantley County office
Sept. 23, and elected farm
ers to fill vacancies on the
County Committee.
George Dykes was re-elec
ted chairman, Neil Hendrix,
vice-chairman, Donald F. Ste
vens, regular member, Henry
G. Lee, first alternate and
Owen G. Prescott, second al
ternate.
Nahunta Baptist Church
To Observe Homecoming
Nahunta Baptist Church will
observe Homecoming Day Sun
day, Sept. 28, with preaching
by the pastor, Rev. Ernest
Purcell, at 11 o’clock.
Sunday school meets at 10.
Dinner will be served at the
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
AND TAX
Inside county $3.09
Outside county, in state $4.12
Outside state $4.00
The Nahunta City election
will be held Wednesday, Oct.
1, with a .mayor and four ai
derman to be elected for two
year terms.
Mayor T. E. Raulerson is
seeking reelection and Virgil
(Dick) Allen is opposing hirti
in the election.
Six candidates are vieing
for four posts in the race for
aiderman. They are Bobby
Chancey, Robert Griner, Bob
Hendrix, Andrew Johns, Em
ory Middleton and Kenneth
(Bozo) Willis.
The polls open at 7 o’clock
Wednesday morning and close
at 6 o’clock, mayor Roulerson
said.
Mrs. Alice B. ?
Highsmith
Died Thursday
Brantley Countians were
saddened to learn of the pass
ing of Mrs. Alice Brown
Highsmith, 92, of Nahunta,
whose death occurred Thurs
day morning, Sept. 18, at
Glynn-Brunswick Memorial
Hospital following a short
illness and her passing re
moves one of Brantley Coun
ty’s oldest and most beloved
residents.
Mrs. Highsmith was born in
Wayne, now Brantley Coun
ty, and was the daughter of
the late Martin Monroe and
Sarah Jane Purdom Brown.
She received her education in
the public schools of the
county and had resided in the
Lulaton community for almost
all of her life. She was the
widow of the late Erastus
Eugene Highsmith.
Possessed of a quite man
ner and unassuming disposi
tion, she was a kind and
true friend, devoted to her
family, always thoughtful and
unselfish. She loved and serv
ed her community well and
her dedication to Christian
principles had tremendous
influence for good.
Survivors include four
daughters, Mrs. Ethel Brad
dock of Jacksonville, Fla.,
Irene Haenel of Nahunta,
Mrs. Connie Harrison of Thal
mann and Mrs. Ray M.
Browne of Belle Glade, Fla.;
one son, Harold Highsmith of
Thalmann; one sister, Mrs.
Mary Patterson of Fort Lau
derdale, Fla.
Also surviving are 12
grandchildren, 20 great
grandchildren, 7 great-great
grandchildren, several nieces,
nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services were held
at two-thirty o’clock Satur
day afternoon, Sept. 20, from
the graveside in Smyrna Cem
etery with the Rev. Cecil F.
Thomas officiating.
Serving as pallbearers were
the Messrs. Addison Strick
land, Hoke S. Wilson, W. B.
Willis, Harrell Strickland, R.
D. McLean and Curtis Walden.
The many beautiful floral
tributes attested to the es
teem felt for the deceased.
The family has the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral
Home of Nahunta was in char
ge of arrangements.
Bethlehem Cemetery
And Church Grounds
Cleaning Tuesday
The Bethlehem Cemetery and
church' yard will be cleaned
off Tuesday, Sept. 30, it is
annonced by T. V. Rhoden.
Everyone interested in Bethle
hem Church is requested to
be on hand with tools for
cleaning the burial grounds
and the church yard.
noon hour.
A number of former pas
tors and members are ex
pected to attend the home
coming rally. Visitors and
friends of the church are in
vited to attend.
