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VOLUME 50 - NUMBER 26
A Voice in the Wilderness
July 4, we will be celebrating the anni
versary of, the signing of our Declara
tion of Independence. On July 4, 1776,
we or our forefathers declared ourselves
free.
The signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence ranged in age from 26 ( Edward
Rutledge, South Carolina ) to 70 (Benjamin
Franklin, Penn. ). Lawyers were the most
numerous; four were physicians and one
was a clergyman. Many were planters
and farmers. Some, such as Franklin and
Jefferson , were difficult to classify be
cause of the range and diversity of their
activities. Those from New York, Mary
land and South Carolina were considered
the richest. First to die was John Morton ,
Penn., inApril 1777; a close second was
Button Gwinnett of Georgia, killed in a
duel. The signer who lived the longest
was Maryland's Charles Carroll of Car
olton, who died in 1832 at 95.
Many of the signers saw their homes
destroyed; some were captured and im
prisoned; others lost their wealth, some
their lives. All knew and accepted the
premise when they signed the Declaration
that they were pledging their lives, for
tunes and sacred honor. All were subject
to the supreme penalty as traitors. Os
them, it may be said:
Heroes of old I humbly lay
The laurel on your graves again;
Whatever men have done, men may,-
The deeds you wrought are not in vain.
CHICKEN OR TURKEY
DINNERS AND SUPPERS
FRIDAY - JUNE 30 - AT THE
NAHUNTA CHURCH of GOD KITCHEN
Dinners 12 til 2 - Suppers 5 til 7 p.m.
PLATES $1.25
Crews —Henry Assists
Drug Overdose Victim
City Policemen Crews and
Henry acting in response to
warrants for Disturbing the
Peace and to search of the
premises aided a stricken resi
dent of Nahunta by calling the
Brantley County Rescue Unit
and getting him safely to the
emergency receiving at the
Waycross Hospital.
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
THIS WE BELIEVE! IF YOU FIRST SUBMIT, YOU WILL LATER SURRENDER. ”, . . and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore. Epheslans6:l3.l4
Policeman Henry with confiscated drugs
William B. Graham formerly
of Brantley County and past
Juvenile Judge in Waycross
was under duress of an appar
ent overdose of drugs. Gra
ham was reportedly kept in
“ intensive care” through Mon
day.
The City Policemen went to
the Graham home located near
PATRIOTISM& I
"Patriotism is that love for country in the
hearts of the people which shall make that
country strong to resist foreign opposition
and domestic intrigue - which impresses each
and every individual with a sense of the in
alienable rights of others and prepares him
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to accept the responsibility of protecting
those rights.
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American Tribune, March 7, 1890
“ Duty then is the sublimest
word in our language. Do
your duty in all things. You
cannot do more. You should
never wish to do less.” ...
Robert E. Lee.
“ I will return.” ... General
Douglas MacArthur, 1942.
the City water tank at 2:00
a.m. Sunday. Policeman Henry
reported receiving many com
plaints of loud crying and sere
ams for help from the Graham
home.
Chief Crews and Henry con
fiscated many bottles of both
prescription and non prescrip,
tion drugs and other parapher.
nalia for drug injection.
THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE, NAHUNTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 29, 1972
Morgan Announces
For Clerk’s Office
TO THE CITIZENS OF BRANT-
LEY COUNTY:
I hereby announce my can
didacy for the office of Clerk
of Superior Court, in the elec
tion to be held August 8, 1972.
You enabled me, by your
vote, to run a creditable race
four years ago for this office,
by casting over 1200 votes for
me, for this I am deeply grate
ful. After much consideration
and encouragement from many
of my friends, I have decided to
enter the race for Clerk of
Superior Court again.
I am a native Brantley Coun
tian, graduating from the Na
hunta High School in the class
of 1953. I am a member of the
Advent Christian Church, the
Nahunta Masonic Lodge, the
Hasan Temple of Albany. I
also hold membership with the
Brantley County Farm Bureau,
the Woodmen of the World, and
the Georgia Democratic Party.
If you give your honor and
trust, by electing me as your
next Clerk of Court, I promise
you, in return, four years of
impartial service. Your wish
es will be my command. You
will be paying your clerk of
Court $ 6500.00 per year for
his services and I promise
you to be on the job, ren
dering you my personal ser
vice. Economy will be prac
ticed and in effect in the Cleiv
k’s office.
If elected, January 1, 1973,
I promise to keep you, the
Citizens, informed by releasing
to the local news media the
following: Drawing of the Jury,
meeting of the Jury Commiss
ioners, Court Terms and the
need of the incoming Grand
Jury to make appointment to
the Board of Education.
There will be dockets open
to your inspection of all cas
es. I will diligently and faith,
fully undertake to collect all
fees, fines, forfeitures, com.
missions, costs, allowances,
penalties, funds and monies and
pay them into the County Treas
ury by the 15th of each month.
The office will be open each
day with the exception of Wed
nesday and Saturday after
noons, open these afternoons
only by your request.
Please accept this as my
platform and request for your
vote and support August 8,
1972.
Faithfully Yours,
S/ Hilton Morgan
Hilton Morgan
Councilman Chancey and Engineer Johns Inspect well drilling
City Water Mains Plaqued
While Sand Stops Meters
Nahunta Engineer, Reppard
Elmo Johns reported troubles
with the City water works.
According to ” Rep ”, sand
has been pumped out of the
City well in to water mains
and has stopped many of the
water meters. The sand pro
blem was limited to the east
side of town.
City officials have contracted
with Sapp Drilling Company, a
Brunswick firm to correct the
problem in the water works.
According to Engineer Johns,
the problem of sand pumping
was outlined by a Geologist
from the Department of the
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Interior who discovered that
the water well was 676 feet
deep with casing down to only
510 feet. The Geologist sta.
ted that sand was being pumped
up from below the casing.
According to well driller
Sapp, there was a “ Cave in”
of sand 42 feet deep in the
bottom of the well.
To eliminate the problem,
the city is going to have add
ed a 4 inch casing from the
510 feet level, down 232 more
feet.
To connect to the additional
well casing, the driller will use
a system of ” Lead Seals ” to
connect the pipes of different
sizes.
“ Nahunta residents are be.
ing supplied water from a well
installed in 1936 which will
be adequate as a temporary
water supply,” said Mayor Pur
cell.
Driller Bobby Sapp said
" this is about the sixth well
we have had to improve” re
ferring to the now defunct drlU
ling company that drilled the
well in 1964.
According to the Mayor and
Engineer, the cost of the job
has not been determined.
