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THE JACKSON HERALD
Published Weekly
$1 .50 A Year—ln Advance
Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice
as Second-Clas3 Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackson County
JOHN N. HOLDER .Editor
W. H WILLIAMSON But. M'g’r.
Jefferson, Ga., August 5, 1926
Two y orris? kdies and two young
men were killed Sunday, when their
unto sped into the path of a Penn
sylvania passenger train after it had
waited for a freight on another
track to pass.
Friend? of Mr. Dan Majfill of the
Athens Banner-Herald sympathize
with him on account of the passing
of his brother, Mr. J. W. Magill, of
Hartwell. Funeral services for Mr.
Magill were held in Hartwell, Thurs
day.
Commerce peach growers estimate
there will be about 250 cars of
peaches shipped from that point this
season. For the pest two weeks pick
ing, packing and shipping peaches has
■engaged the attention of many inter
tested workers.
The agricultural community buys
more than any other class in the
country. About 40 percent of the
country’s purchasing power in the
farming section. When agriculture
prospers there is a good buying de
mand all over the country.
Five girls were killed and a sixth
one had both legs broken on Sunday
afternoon, when the car in which
they were riding between Gastonia
and Bessemer City were struck by
a Southern passenger train. One of
the young ladies * driving the car.
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Editor Shackelford of the Ogle
thorpe Echo has been seeing snakes.
We suggest that Either Williams of
Greensboro, or Shannon of Com
merce, go over to Lexington and
find out what is the matter with
the nestor of the Georgia Press As
sociation. .
The first br.le of cotton sold in
Georgia this year was raised in Web
ster, Fla., and sold in Savannah for
99 cents per pound. The bale was
then shipped to New York and auc
tioned on the cotton exchange bring
ing 80 cents per pound, which amount
was give to charity. Then it was
shipped to Liverpool, where it will
be re-auctioned for charity.
Expert railroad men say that it
takes a fast railroad train an aver
age of siven seconds to pass a cross
ing. Yet, according to reliable sta
tistics, just made public, more than
7,000 automobilists were killed at
grads crossings last year over the
country. They could not wait seven
seconds. There ■+-, only one rule to
follow: Let the train go by. What
are seven seconds in the life of a
motorist? To lose them may.be to
save 50 years!
Before we get our highways paved,
the Savannah Press says the next big
problem will be the widening of the
hard surfaced roads we now have.
“Narrow roads,” says the Press,
“were all right in the horse and bug
gy days, but, with half the negroes in
the State driving second hand autos
and half the white folks being in
such a helufahurry to get where they
are going, it would seem that the only
trouble with a 50-yard road would
be that it wasn't wide enough." We
are surely living in a fast age.
WOMEN LOOK ’EM OVER
The League cf Women Voters of
Athens gave a luncheon recently to
which were invited candidates for
the various offices in the coming
election, with the request that they
come prepared to answer certain
questions, and state their positions
on different problems now confront
the voters.
The questions were incorporated
in the form of a printed questionaire
to be filled out and read by the can
didates.
In additioh to the questionaire
each candidate was allowed three
minutes in which to address the meet
ing, with Judge J. K. Hines, candi
date for re-election to the state su
preme court, and Eugene Talmadge,
candidate for commissioner of agri
culture, being allowed five minutes
to speak.
Fourteen candidates were present,
and responded. One local candidate
declined the invitation to attend the
luncheon, but requested that his an
swer to the questions be read. *
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cheatham, af
ter spending a few days with the
former’s mother, Mrs. J. B. Cheat
ham, returned to Toccoa Monday.
A Fair Sample of Georgia’s
Constructive Policies
(From Atlanta Journal)
Admirable evidence of Georgia’s
roadway improvement in recent
years, and also of her public school
progress, is to be found in the pic
turesque highland counties, where, in
the nature of the cause, construction
comes hardest and where educational
effort meets peculiar barriers. In
the record of what has been done of
late to link those once solitary reg
ions to the life of the commonwealth
and of the world every Georgian can
take hearty pride and can read
therein the pledge of a wondrous
future. Roads have been blasted out
of mountain cliffs and bridged above
gorges and rocky streams, to be sent
winding through “valleys of vision”
as beautiful as ever human eye be-
held. Good schools have been fos
tered where once the light of learn
ing came in fitful gleams, if at all;
and now educational opportunities
steadily widening for those mountain
children whose lineage is of Ameri
ca’s purest Saxon, blood.
The simple facts of this develop
ment, as set forth elsewhere in The
Journal today by our staff corres
pondent, Mr. HarJlee Branch, will
give the reader new faith in Georgia’s
principles and policies as well as in
her resources. Any state would be
proud of the Appalachian Scenic
highway between Gainesville and the
North Carolina line—proud of the
quality and the economy in its con
struction, together with the charm
and grandeur of the landscape it
traverses. This is but one of namer-i
ous highways of importance now com
pleted or in process ofbuilding.
Among them are those from Gaines
ville to Dahlonega, from Atlanta to
Dahlonega by way of Roswell, Al
pharetta and Cumming; from Can
ton to the Tennessee line by way of
Jasper and Blue Ridge; from Blue
Ridge to Clayton by way of Blairs
ville, T, oung Harris and Iliawassee;
from Clayton to Franklin, North
Carolina; from Cornelia to Clayton
by way of Clarkesville, Tallulah
FalD and Lakemont; and from
Gainesville to Seneca, South Caro
lina, by way of Baldwin, Cornelia
and Toccoa.
Such construction in the face of
such natural difficulties appear the
more notable in light of the fact that
it has been carried through without:
one dollar of bonds being issued by I
the state. Some of the counties con-!
corned have provided their part of
the cost through local bond issues, |
and all have shown a splendid spirit i
of enterprise and co-operation. But 1
the state highway department has de-!
pended wholly, aside from federal
aid, on the fuel oil tax and motor
vehicle license fees; and until re
cently did it receive anything like its
due share of those two soures of re
venue. Seeing what he and his as
sociates had been able to do for the
state in its entirety, as well as for
the mountain counties, with that limi
ted income. Chairman John Holder
concluded that the future could be
well cared for without abandoning
Georgia’s historic policy of moderate
taxes and freedom from oppressive
bond issues.
On this firm ground it was that he
championed the Cash as opposed to
the Credit plan, notwithstanding that
the latter would have proved far the
easier course for the head of the
highway department, by dispensing
with the need of scrupulous economy
and resourceful business manage
. ment. Had Holder thought less of
the public weal and more of his own
convenience, he would never have
challenged the proposed state bond
issue of seventy million dollars or
more, especially when organized poli
tics was making a furious drive for
its passage. Before the people had
time to investigate and reflect, “Pay
As You Go” was not the popular
slogan it is today. Comparatively
few were acquainted with the full
record, and all the influence which
propaganda could exert as well as all
the pressure which vested politics
could bring to bear, was clamorously
behind the bond project. Against
those powers John Holder dared lift
a voice of experience, of reason and
of warning. His administration was
assailed, his motives impugned, his
constructive services were denied or
belittled; but the truth stood, and the
truth will triumph.
Because he was a stalwart defen
der of Georgia’s tried principles and
good name in that hour when her
traditions were being scorned and her
character being traduced, he logically
became the candidate of the clear
thinking rank and file in the present
contest for governor. His election
will mean, not only a vindication, once
for all, of prudence as against ex
travagance in government, but abo
a pledge that the constructive poli
cies for which he has stood will con
tinue building e greater Georgia.
Comments On Governor’s
Race
(From Dawson County Advertiser)
Knocking Increase* Holder Vote
They may knock John Holder, a
few arc, but they better be'rure of
a good foundation, else their knock
ing will have no effect, and we be
lieve this fact will be realized by an
overwhelming vote on September
Bth.
(From Winder News)
I Why ".Ve Arc Not For Dr. Hardman
The editor of The News has 2hvays
felt kindly towards Dr. Hardman.
We supported him in his two other
races for governor. Here is why we
are not supporting him now: In hri
speech at Gainesville last week, a
mong other things, he said, that he
favored a bond issue that would take
care of the rural roads leading to the
rural schools and the churche- and
court houses, and an equal’amount |
for the erection of centralized scr.ooi
buildings in every county in the state
and a like amount for use for the
improvement of highways.
It would take a tremendous bond
issue to do what Dr. Hardman pro
poses. At first he was silent on the
bond issue, later he made the impres
sion on our minds that he was oppos
ed to bonds, and now he seems to
favor bonds to a large extent. The
Doctor has made the impression on
?ur minds that he has no clear cut
convictions in the matter.
The News is opposed to bonds for
any purpose whatever. We are im
proving our roads and schools in fine
style and we cart carry out the im
provement program as to schools and
roads without issuing any bonds.
That’s our and that’s why
we are going to vote for John Holder
for governor.
(From Cleveland Courier)
Issue Is Bonds Or No Bonds
The governor’s race is based on
bonds or no bonds for roads and
schools, but everybody won't vote
for the Issue; they win vote for the
man. The next governor that will
hold the reins of Georgia will be
John Holder.
(From Franklin News and Banner)
“No Bondi,” Is Enough 'Said
Chairman John N. Holder, of the
state highway board, is devoting him
self stenucusly to his daily round of
duties, and is saying nothing about
his race for governor. But he said
“NO BONDS.” And there he stands
like a stone wall in the interest of
Georgia’s suffering tax payers. On
that issue thousands of Georgians
who know him like Holder knows the
state, are conducting his campaign
for him while he devotes himself to
other duties which the office he is so
well filling requries at his hands.
(From the Swainsboro Forest-Blade)
“We Owe Much To Holder”
The state of Georgia is due John
N. Holder a debt of undying grati
tude and devotion for his efferots in
defeating the proposed bond issue
at the last session of the legislature.
Mr. Holder went into the defeat of
this measure with all the energy he
possesses, not because it was a per
sonal matter, nor because he would
be affected any more than the other
taxpayers of the state, but because
he had studied the matter and sifted
it from every angle, and fie knew
that it would be a great burden
heaped upon the taxpayers of the
state. In a very great measure Mr.
Holder is responsible and deserves
the credit for the defeat of this
, measure. . . .
Mr. Carswell is stumping the state
in the interest of his candidacy for]
governor, but he cannot get'around
the fact that he is favoring a state
bond issue.
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(From the Moultrie Observer)
Fear He Will Make Good
While few political agitators are
calling on John Holder to resign as
chairman of the highway board lie
is going about aver the state letting,
new contracts for paving, fog bridges
and for general road improvement.
Holder is running for governor with
one hand, and proving to the calami
;ty howlers of the state with the
other that we have sufficient income
I now to enable us to build roads and
: pay ior them a3 we go. Maybe those
I who are shouting requests to him to
!esign fear that he is going to mike
out too good a case for the pay-as
! you-go crowd.
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Atlantian Writes of Holder’s
Candidacy
A citizen of Atlanta, replying to
an editorial in the Macon Telegraph,
says, among other things:
i “If I believed in bonded indebted
ness; if I was in favor of mortgaging
the future generations, the gener
ations unborn; if I favored doing
i business and charge it to those to
*
come after us, I would support Mr.
Carswell for governor. But if I
wanted to “pay as I go”; prevent the
burden of taxation from becoming
more onerous; oppose bond issues
state wide, in face of the fact that
the counties are from time to time
putting on local bond issues as big
13 they can carry without additional
burdens of state bond issues, I would
support the great commoner of Jack
son county, The Honorable John N.
Holder.
•‘The honesty of the candidates are
not questioned be me. *So far as
( their personal integrity is concerned
Georgfa will be safe in the hands of
either, but taking the policies that
should champion, I say'without hesi
tation that I had rather commit the
destiny of Georgia in the hands of
the Honorable John* N. Holder than
' any other of the candidates seeking
I the governorship of the old Empire
Slate. If we want the crown of in
dustrial glory upon Georgia’s head,
and the record of consciencious in
dependence beneath her feet, it is
decidedly clear that Holder will be
elected the next governor of our
State.”
OUR NEXT GOVERNOR
182 Way St.. Athens, Ga., Aug.
2, 1926.—Dear Herald: Enclosed
find two stanzas of “jingle,” v r nich
can be sung to a war song of the
60’s. Any Confederate Veteran can
sing it.
The first line of the war song is
“Jeff Davis is the man to command
the boys and plan,” etc. The two
stanzas are my composition.
Yours truly,
S. P. Orr.
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Our Next Governor
John Holder is the man,
Who a campaign knows how to plan,
And he’s very sure the vict’ry to ba
gaining;
He is running for a place,
With others in the race,
But theyTl fail to win the goal he’s
claiming.
He in office has been tried,
His experience is wide,
And he’ll guide the Ship of State
with safety;
The thing for us to do
! Is to put John Holder through,
As the chief of Georgia’s rulers.’
SIXTY MILES OF MELONS
Of the twenty-eight different
! fruits and vegetables which scored
so remarkable a shipping record in
the week ended July the seventeenth,
watermelons led the list with a total
of seven thousand, six hundred cars,
or enough to make up a train sixty
i miles long. More than seven million
melons, it is computed, were shipped
in the course of the week.
THE BAPTIST W. M. S.
The Womans Missionary Society
of the Baptist church met in the
Baraca room Monday afternoon at
4 o’clock in their monthly meeting.
The president, Mrs. Southworth,* led
the opening prayer, and presided over
the business meeting.
The reports of officers and circle
leaders were very encouraging.
Mrs. A. H. Brock, chairman of the
nominating committee, presented the
names of the new officers for the
ensuing year,- and had them voted
I upon, as follows: Mrs. Sara South
worth, Pres.; Mrs. Cox, Vice-Pres.;
Mrs. J. C. Bennett, Secretary; Mrs.
Clifford Storey, Treasurer.
After the business session, the
president turned over the meeting to
the Myra Wilhite Circle, who had
charge of program, with Mrs. A. C.
Appleby leader.
The devotional was conducted by
Mrs. A. J. Johnson.
Song, Revine Us Again.
The subject being Cuba and the
Canal Zone, the following program
was rendered;/
j The Land of Eternal Summer, by
Miss Louise Ellington.
The People of Cuba, by Miss Mary
] Appleby.
| The Social Life in Cuba and Other
Facts About Cuba, by Mrs.
A. C. Appleby.
The World’s Meeting Place, by
Mrs. Marion Richardson.
The program was interesting and
instructive, as the labors of our mis
: sionaries and native workers invited
us to share in them through prayer
and sympathetic wishes and fellow
ship offerings.
Those present, were: Mesdames
Sara Southworth, A. J. Johnson, A. H.
Brock, Fannie Turner, Fred Roberts,
Marion Richardson, Clifford Storey,
A. C. Appleby, J. E. Tribble, J. L.
Bailey, John Catlett, Clarence Wil
hite, J. C. Bennett, Misses Kate
Roberts, Mary Appleby and Louise
' Ellington.
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SCHOOLNOTICE
Martin Institute To Open Sept. 6th,
Registration of Students to Begin
Sept. Ist.
Registration of students will begin
at Martin Institute at two o’clock
Sept. Ist. At this hour all students
expecting to enter the Senior Class
will report. The course of study,
books to buy and requirements to
graduate, will be discussed with each
pupil. Thursday morning at nine
o’clock all students that are contem
plating entering the Tenth Grade
will report. At one o’clock of this
same day, Sept. 2nd, Ninth and
Eighth Grade students will report.
Friday, Sept. 3rd, all grades from first
through the seventh will report to
their rooms in the school building
and register with the teachers.
It has been decided advisable to
have these three days of registration
to help thsjiupils get properly placed
and graded. In most cases, a good
portion of the first week of school
is used to grade the pupils and for
books to be secured. These three
days of registration will get every
thing in readiness for classes to be
gin on Monday, September 6th.
The Board of Education has auth-j
orized the handling of high school
books at the school building. It
hoped that all students will arrange
to secure books as they register.
The County Board of Education has
authorized a Jefferson dealer to
handle the common school books.
There will be an incidental fee of
one dollar, to be paid before Christ
mas, and one dollar to be paid after
Christmas. This is not a tuition,
but a fee for incidentals. High
school students must pay this fee,
or make definite arrangements with
Supertendent by Sept. 15th.
The outlook, at the preseift time,
is very bright for one ©f the best
school years in the history of our
schooL The Board of Education has
made it possible to secure a full
corps of degree treaehers for otfr
high school, and largely normal
trained teachers for the grades. It
i3 thought that by the end of the
school year the accrediting commis
sion will place the school from Class
Two into Class One.
It is hoped that the dates of reg
istration will be kept in mind. If
you are not planning to start to
school for several weeks after the
opening, make plans to come and
register, so that you may know the
class you will enter. Registration,
j after September 6th will be done in
! the afternoons after school.
Arrangements have been made
with Mrs. A. D. Spealman of Hosch
ton to take charge of the dormitory
in the capacity of matron. Any
pupils in the county desiring to se
cure rooms and do light house keep
ing, should make arrangements with
Mrs. Spealman or the Superintendent
as soon as possible. There is room
in the building for about thirty pupils.
O. C. Aderhold, Supt.
Eat Georgia Raised Foods
An effort is being made by Frank
T. Reynolds, of the Georgia Hotel
Mens Association, to influence Geor
gia hotels to serve Georgia products
to their guests. The Atlanta Con
stitution: says
“Georgia peaches, Georgia water
melons, Georgia yams, Georgia cane
syrup, Geprgia butter, and so on,
are without a peer, in the produc
tion of these food and fruit com
modities, anywhere in the world.
They ought to be featured every day
in the year on Georgia hotel tables,
for even those commodities that are
perishable, except watermelons, can
be easily preserved. It is now possi
ble to so “cure” the yam that it may
be available as a food every day in
the year. Georgia peaches can be
carried beyond the fresh fruit season
in cans or as preserves. Georgia
cane syrup, butter, poultry products,
etc., are available every day in the
year. Illustrate Adth Georgia eggs.
One county in the state supplies many
of the Florida hotels at a premium
from January 1 to May 15—a 5-cent
to 10-cent dozen premium over Flor
ida eggs. Why should not Georgia
hotels, certainly of the better grade,
feature Georgia eggs all the time?
It would stimulate egg production,
which can be made profitable. There
are as good “country-cured” hams
raised in Georgia as in Virginia.
And yet the markets cannot get Vir
ginia hams in sufficient quantities to
meet thp demands. Why not feature
Georgia country hams on the hotel
menus, and let the guests find out
how delightful they are? In
than a year the demand for Georgia
country hams would increase ten
fold.”
Miss Minnie Head and Mrs. Jim
mie Cothran are spending the week
in Atlanta.
TANNER-GRIER
Lumpkin, July I—Exquisite sim
plicity and rare beauty marked the
wedding ceremony of Mis3 Emelyn
Francos Grier, of Lumpkin, and Mr.
Ernest Tanner, of Atlanta, which was
: solemnized at high noon, in Lumpkin
Methodist church, on J*ne3o, Rev. ty’
M. Carmichael officiating.
The church was appropriately dec
orated in southern srailax, palms and
ferns, Vith tall floor baskets holding
; white lilies, and old-fashioned cande
labra holding white tapers.
Mr. Frank Thompson presided at
the piano. Prior to the ceremony Mrs.
Watson House sang “Angel Guard
Thee” and “The Sweetest Story
| Ever Told.” During the ceremony
“To a Wild Rose” was softly played.
The bridal party entered to the
strains of Medelssohn’s Wedding
\ March. First came the ushers, Mr.
L. P. Grier, brother of the bride, of
West Palm Beach, Fla.,-and Mr. Chas.
Farrar, of Williamson. Next came the
bridesmaids and groomsmen down op
posite aisles. Miss Carter wear
ing a gown of orchid with picture hat
of orchid and pink, and Mr. Horace
Bridges of Atlanta. They were fol
lowed by Miss Elizabeth Morton in
a gown of rose georgette with pic
ture hat of rose, and Mr. Ralph Bridg
es, of Atlanta. The bridesmaids car
ried bouquets of pink roses.
Miss Louise Humber, maid of hon
or, enterred alone, wearing a gown of
a lovely shade of green with picture
hat of rose and green, carrying a bou
quet of roses showered with lavender
sweet peas.
The bride entered with her father,
Dr. R. L. Grier. She wore a gown
of flat crepe in shades of tan and
cork, with hat, gloves and slippers to
match, and carrying a bouquet of
bride's roses showered with swanso
nia and sweet peas in pastel shades
of pink. The groom entered with his
brother, Mr. Bryson Tanner, best
man, from Gainesville.
Preceding the bride was the flower
girl, dainty Miss Jean Thompson, car
rying a pink basket filled with pink
Preceding the groom was
the ring-bearer, Miss June Moseley,
carrying the ring on a satin cushion.
Both these winsome maids wore
frocks of pink nialine with silver
trimmings over pink S3tin.
The bride, a resident of Lumpkin,
! is the only daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
.R. L. Grier. She numbers her friends
I by her acquaintances; and is a teach
er of prominence 5n Georgia.
Mr. Tanner is a business man of
Atlanta, and is connected with the
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Cooperative
Association. He is a grandson of
, the late Rev. W. H. Bridges and Mrs.
Bridges of Jackson county.
The wedding journey includes a
tour through the mountains of North
j Carolina and Tennessee.
Mr. and Mrs. Tanner are at home
.to their friends in Sylvania, where
Mr. Tanner will represent the com
pany with which he is at present con
nected. —Lumpkin JoarnaL
SOILS ADAPTED TO ALFALFA
The State of Georgia can be divid
ed into roughly four areas—the
mountain region; the limestone val
leys of the northwestern part of the
State; the Piedmont region, a belt
through the central part of the
State; and the coastal plains area,
that consists of all that section south
of a line through Columbus, Macon
and Augusta. Of these regions the
Piedmont, or the central part of the
State, that is this section through here
which is made of practically all red
soil, is best adapted for alfalfa pro
duction. In this region the heavier
stiff clay soils seem to be best adapt
ed, although alfalfa can be grown
successfully on some of the heaviest
types of the sandy loam.
The lighter, gray' soils should be
the last to be used for alfalfa in
this section. The reason alfalfa is
best adapted to this section seems
to be because most of these soils are
either neutral, or show very little
acidity, which is unfavorable to pro
duction of this crop.
The work at the Georgia State
College of Agriculture doe not show
any very marked affect from lime on
these soils. However, as a general
policy of alfalfa production, it is
best to use some lime. Another
reason for alfalfa being adapted to
this section is the mineral content of
these soils, as alfalfa is a crop that
requires a considerable quanity of
mineral elements.
O. W. .Jones,
Special County Agent,
Banks and Jackson Counties.
Commerce, Ga.
Mr. John Miller of Atlanta was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Pinson here Sunday. He \vas ac
companied home by Mrs. Miller an
little daughter, who spent several
days here visiting her parents. .