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THE JACKSON HERALD
Published Weekly
$1.50 A Year—ln Advance
Entered at The Jefferson Postoffice
as Second-Class Mail Matter
Official Organ of Jackifon County
JOHN N. HOLDER. Editor
W. H. WILLIAMSON But. M’g’r.
Jeffcrcon, Ga., April 21, 1927.
The annual meeting of the Mul
berry Baptist W. M. [I. was held
with Zion church, near Hoachton,
one day recently. Six societies were
represented at the meeting.
Seventy-five farmers at Madison,
Ga., on Wednesday of last week
sold pouUry to the amount of $1,300.
One man sold 350 fryers for $275.
Tiie county agent had charge of the
sale.
A slogan that is being heralded to
housewives, club women, Parent
Teacher association members, Ser
vice Star Legionaries, mothers, wives,
hotel keepers and restaurant pro
prietors, is, “If You Eat—Buy Geor
gia—raised Food.”
Mr. Will Cummings, a brother of
Mrs. Nancy Wood of was
buried at Bethabara church, near
Hoschton, following death which re
sulted from a fall down an elevator
shaft in Atlanta, where he was em
ployed. He was 39 years of age.
While thousands of men Were
fighting the ravages of the greatest
flood on record in the Mississippi
valley last week, and heavy rains
were falling in Louisiana, and other
states, the people in Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, and other New Eng
land states were praying for rain to
end the prolonged and disastrous
drouth.
Lieutenant James Wright, official
delegate of the Cobb-Delaney Camp
Confederate Veterans arrived home
Saturday night praising Tampa for
the treatment given at the annual U.
C. V. Reunion held there recently.
Lieutenant Wright remained in Tam
pa two weeks. Lieutenant Wright
•was the only delegate from the local
Camp. It was his thirty-third re
union.—Athens Banner-Herald.
Mr. Homer Eberhart, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. Eberhart, of Hurri
cane Shoals, who is a law student at
Mercer University, will graduate
from that institution in June with
second honor, having made the sec
ond highest record in the class. Mr.
Eberhart graduated, took his B. S.
degree at the State University in
1925, where he was also accorded
great distinction.
The cow-hog-hen plan is being ex
ploited in every county. This means
that more butter, more eggs, more
poultry, more pork, more vegetables
■will be produced this year on Georgia
farms than ever before. The towns
people and city dwellers must buy
this food, or there will be an over
production. Already Georgia im
ports more food stuff than she ex
ports, so even a blind man could tell
w hich way we are headed.
The State Normal School at AtV
ens will graduate this year a class
of nearly 300 students. Belonging
to this class are Misses Martha
Evelyn Alexander, Clara Shankle,
Margaret Shankle, Edith Cornelia
Nix, Ellen Ruth Sanders, Mary Ella ,
Sims, of Commerce; Marian Frances
Carlisle Lula Voyles, of Maysville;
Ann Elise Jordan, Mazelle Marlowe,
©1 Hoschton; La Ware McElhannon,
of Nicholson; Helen Storey, Jeffer
son. The graduation exercises will
occur on Wednesday, June Ist.
Mr. E. T. Comer, who died in Sa
vannah recently, leaving an estate
estimated between $2,000,000 and
$3,000,000 willed that following the
death of his widow, one-third of his
estate is to be divided as follows:
University of Georgia, 41 per cent;
l niversity of Alabama, 41 per cent;
Art Department of Wesleyan Col
lege, 11 per cent; Wesleyan College,
Macon, 4 per cent; Union Society
for Bethesda 3 per cent; worthy stu
dents are to be provided for in the
income from the college donations.
Some of our exchanges, the Jack
son Argus in particular, think the
speaking and publicity campaign con
ducted over the state to further the
cow-hog-hen program would be of
greater benefit to the farmer if the
agencies promoting this would turn
their attention towards providing a
market for these eow-hog-hen pro
ducts. The farmer is producing all
the time, but when there is no mar
ket for his surplus milk, eggs, and
vegetables, he becomes discouraged,
and turns back to cotton, which at
least can always be sold at some
price.
The Texas Cotton Ginners’ Asso
ciation, which met at Dullas, went
on record as favoring cotton instead
of jute for bagging..
The Toccoa Electric plant was
sold -recently to the Georgia Power
Cos., for $125,000; $65,000 cash, and
$3,000 a year for twenty years. Ths
plant was owned and operated by
the City of Toccoa.
The first shipment of Georgia
poaches from the peach section at
Fort Valley is expected to be about
May 10. The variety will be the
Mayflower. The Uneedas will be
ready for the market the last of May
or the first of June.
The Commerce News says, “One
gin in Commerce ginned 1300 bales
before Christmas, and this same plant
[has ginned 1300 since Christmas,
and still ginning, 200 bales thi3
week. The 1300 ginned since
Christmas was practically all frost
bitten, yellow cotton, that has soil
around 8 cents per pound.”
In many sections of south and
southwest Georgia cotton is ready to
chop. It is “up” in central Georgia,
and is being planted in north Geor
gia. The planted acreage will prob
ably be normal, but when the aban
doned acreage is taken into account,
it will possibly be some smaller, net,
than in 1926.
Statistics shown by the Manufact
urers Record places the United States
in the position of importing more
foodstuffs than i3 exported. From
statistics the Record gathered reliable
figures that show that in recent
years our imports of foodstuffs
have been steadily gaining in com
parison with the exports of food
stuffs, until we have now reached a
!
point where we buy more foodstuffs
abroad than we export. Possibly
this is why we have an overproduc
tion of many products.
Thirty-three Northeast Georgia
farmers have signed contracts to
grow vegetable produce for the
Athens Market Incorporated, it was
announced Tuesday by Fred Voyles,
local manager. Mr. Voyles stated,
also that six counties are represented j
iin the contracts which involve one
hundred and fifteen acres. The
l i
largest contract is for twelve and
one-half acres and the next largest
is for ten and one-half acres. The
contracts call for growing the follow
ing vegetables: beans, tomatoes, egg
plants, lima beans, squash, okra, cu
j cumbers and bell peppers.
In 1925 Georgia failed by 45 mil
lion pounds to raise the butter
which' its people consumed. It con
sumed 50 million pounds, of which
it raised 5 million, and bought 45
million. The money thus out
side the state amounted to $18,009,-
000. And yet, there were thousands
of times when the farmer who car
ried his butter to market, could find
no buyers. Enormous sums were
also expended outside the state for
beef, pork, eggs, poultry, corn and
hay. Think what a change there
would be if sufficient amount of
j these products was raised in Georgia
|to supply the demand, and the buy
er and the seller could always meet.
I Wednesday was observed as “Al
falfa day” at the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture, and a large num
ber of farmers of the state were
there to obtain the latest informa- j
tion regarding this crop. A year ago
through the cooperation of bankers,'
the county agents brought 300 farm- j
ers to the college for a day in the
interest of this “wonder crop,” and;
during the last year the seeding of
5,000 additional acres of alfalfa has
been reported. It is the hope of
the college that the crop will be
doubled during the next season. Dr.
'Andrew M. Soule, president of the
'college, described “Alfalfa day” as
an occasion of great importance to
I the agricultural and financial life of
the state.
Isn’t it comical to hear politicians
howl about getting politics out of,
this and that and the other depart-1
ment? We have heard more of that
hypocritical stuff in the past two
years than ever before. Any man by
this time ought to have sense enough j
to know that we will always have j
politics in every thing, church, lodge, i
school and community matters just
as long as the world stands. Where- j
over a man is either appointed or
elected to office there will be poli
ties and the man that thinks other
wise is dumb and deaf. It is a waste
of time and effort to be harping
about this thing. There are more
politics right now in the churches
than ever has been, and that condi
tion is growing. And the very men
that put them there are loudest kick
ers on the subject.—Bainbridge
Post.
Hon. Julian B. McCurry, 47 years
of age, a former state senator and
secretary to ex-Governor Thomas W.
Hardwick, of Hartwell, Ga., died at
a private sanitarium in Atlanta at
11 o’clock Tuesday night of last
week, after an extended illness.
Automobile accidents were respon
sible for 441 deaths in 78 large cities
during the four weeks ending March
26. This was a decrease of two from
the previous four-week period. Five
cities reported no fatalities. Atlan
ta reported five deaths during this
period.
Between 150 and 20b persons were
killed and hundreds injuied Tuesday
night of last week, when a tornado
laid waste to virtually the entire
town of Rock Springs, Texas. Rock
Springs is an inland town of 800
population without a railroad, about
90 miles northeast of Del Rio and
70 from Kerrville.
David and R. W. Mc-
Duffie, two Emory University stu
dents, left Atlanta on April 9th to
engage in debates with teams from
six universities—Birmingham South
ern, University of Arkansas, Dallas,
Tex., Southern Methodist University,
McMurry College, Baylor University,
University of Louisiana. They re
turned Monday, after having* won
every debate, a record perhaps never
equaled in debating circles in any
college in America, or anywhere, for
that matter.
A report issued by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, January
28th, giving the “Cotton Outlook for
1927” seems to indicate that some
body is preparing to produce too
much cotton again this year. The
tone of this report is that the cotton
farmers will probably not reduce
cotton acreage this year very much
if any. In West Texas, plans are
already well under way to increase
the cotton acreage over last year.
If the present indications of cot
ton farmers are carried out, there
is nothing except unfavorable weath
er or heavy insect damage that can
prevent the production of another
big crop in 1927.
MARTIN INSTITUTE ADVANCED
TO CLASS ONE, ACCREDITED
HIGH SCHOOLS
Superintendent O. C. Adcrhold
ha3 been, notified by Dr. J. Stew
art, that Martin Institute has been
advanced from Class 2 of accredited
high schools to Class 1, and is now
eligible to be placed on the Southern
accredited list.
I We congratulate Mr. Aderhold and
others who are responsible for this
honor. It places this school just
where it should have been all the
time. Martin Institute’s past history
and achievements, covering a period
of long years, during which time it
l has given to the state and nation
many splendid 'graduates, deserves
this recognition, and it gives us great
pleasure to know that the school is
again measuring up to the standard
which places it on the accredited
list.
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BUSINESS MENS EVANGELISTIC
CLUB MET SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The regular meeting of the above
club was held at the Baptist church
1 Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o’clock.
J President Turner presided. Those
present were: J. C. Turner, Dr. C.
. B. Lord, P. Cooley, G. W. Westmore
land, Revs. A. J. Johnson and L. B.
'Linn, W. M. McDonald, H. E. Ader
hold, C. E. Hardy, U. G. Hardeman,
|M. M. Bryan, A. E. Pittman, W. H.
j Williamson, P. T. Pendergrass, W.
IW. Dickson, J. Z. Carter. H. T.
Mobley, C. D. Duke, J. W. Stockton,
and J. C. Bennett, Sr.
The subject for the meeting was
I —The Hope of the Christian; and
! the speakers were Messrs. Westmore
land, Turner and Hardeman.
| Two quartettes, selected from a
j new book, were rendered by Messrs.
Lord, Carter, Bennett and Harde
man.
j The club will visit Mizpah church,
below Red Stone, Sunday afternoon.
HEADACHE 12 YEARS; SURGEON
FORGOT NEEDLE
Cedar Rapids, lowa.—Alvin Vold
lering of Reinbeck has no headache
.today for the first time in 12*years.
| He blew his r.ose and found a half
, inch piece cf needle in his handker
chief.
Twelve years ago, when a soldier
( in .he Philippines, Volderbing was
kicked in the head by a horse,’ A
j surgeon operated and presumably
left part of a needle in the man’s
head. Recently physicians diagnosed
his affliction as brain a':;cess and
| forecast his early death.
' itrs. 0. C. Aderhold was the week-'
end guest of her parents in Atlanta.
,
Miss Ethel Moore is the guest this
week of relatives in Maysville.
i Hon. Thos. J. Shackelford of Ath
ens was in the city Sunday.
Miss Marjorie Sue Holder spent
a part of last week visiting in At
lanta. •
Mrs. 0. P. Aiken has returned
from a week’s visit in Gainesville
with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Whelchcl.
Miss Thelma Sims has returned
homo from a visit to her sister, Mrs.
Fred L. Archer, of Lavonia.
Mrs. M. A. McCoy .spent Sunday
in Athens, the guest of Mrs. Duke
Myers and daughters.
Mr. M. L. Mobley, Jr., of Lagrange
spent Saturday night and Sunday in
Jefferson.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Thompson and
two sons were guests on Friday and
Friday night of their sister, Miss
Reba Thompson, in Danielsville.
Mrs. J. W. Stockton left Saturday
for Palatka, Fla., where she was
called on account of the illness of
Mrs. Fritz Stockton.
Mrs. H. L. Richardson and little
son of Lagrange are in the city
this week, the guests of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Ethridge.
Mrs. Patricia Randolph of Mel
bourne, Fla., and Mrs. Ruth Cramer
of Carrollton, were week-end guests
at the Harrison Hotel.
Mrs. W. S. Pinson of Atlanta is
the guest of Jefferson relatives this
week. Mr. Pinson came up for the
the week-end, but returned to At
lanta Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Boyce B. Mobley of Atlanta
spent Sunday with relatives in Jef
ferson. His friends were delighted
to see him recuperating so rapidly
from his recent appendix operation.
Mrs. R. B. Smith of Greenville, S.
C., is the guest of Jefferson relatives.
She came over to be with her broth
er, Mr. Wesley Hancock, who has
, been seriously ill for several days.
! Mrs. R. D. Moore accompanied Dr.
and Mrs. Thurman Sparks to their
home in Columbia, S. C., on Satur
day, and will spend several days
with them.
Nat Hancock returned Tuesday
night to Davidson College, Davidson,
N. C., after spending the Easter holi
days with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Han
cock.
Col. and Mrs. Clarence Whelchel
and Professor Pittard of Gainesville
were in Jefferson a short while Sun
day, en route to Winterville, where
they were guests of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Aderhold of
Commerce, and Mrs. W. J. Peeples
1 and son, Billy, of Athens, were
| guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. H.
E. Aderhold, at their home on Law
renceville street.
| Joseph Levin, Dickson Storey and
Franklin Holder, who spent the
Easter holidays with their parents in
Jefferson, returned to Charleston, S.
I C., Monday to resume their studies
' at Citadel.
j Miss Lillian Wills of the Thomas
, ton school faculty, and Mr. Ralph
I Wills, a student at the State Uni
j versity, spent the Easter holidays
1 with their mother, Mrs. W. T. Wills,
i Mrs. Wills friends will regret to know
j that she has been ill f*r several days,
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Bryan, Mrs.
J. A. Wills, Mrs. J. S. Ayers, Mrs.
J. C. Turner, Mrs. L. H. Isbell, Miss
'es Mary Ruth Wills, Cue Moseley,
Frances Turner, Ruby Hancock and
Kate Roberts, were among the Jef
fersonians who enjoyed the Easter
j Cantata given at the Baptist church
in Commerce on Sunday evening.
Mrs. Willie Johnson Suddeth of
I Atlanta spent the week-end with her
mother, Mrs. N. A. Johnson, at her
. home on Washington street. While
| here she planned a delightful Easter
party and egg hunt for Mrs. John
son, M’rs. J. A. B. Mahaffey, and
Mrs. Frances Dyarman of Ohio, who
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ora
Smith. These three grandmothers,
I who have reached the ages of 74, 7G
and 75, respectively, forget their
more than “three score years and
ten” for the time being, and entered
into the joyful spirit of the occasion
with the bouyancy of younger years.
Another guest who enjoyed the af
fair was Mrs. Stepp, who resides in
Johnson home.
i i
Mr. Hamilton Stockton of Atlanta
spent Sunday in Jefferson.
Mrs. Homer Hancock and Mrs. P.
Bertran spent Thursday in Atlanta.
i
1 Mr. R. B. Smith of Greenville, S.
C., spent the week-end in Jefferson.
Miss Frances Smith spent the
week-end with her mother in Jeffer
son.
Mr. W. D. Griffith, Jr., of Cor
dele, spent the week-end with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Griffith.
Mrs. W. M. McDonald, Miss Mary
Alice and Harry McDonald, spent
:Saturday in Athens.
“Sonny” Johnson of Atlanta was
the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs.
jF. P. Holder.
Mr. George Dewey Bailey spent the
week-end with his wife and son in
Jefferson.
I Mrs. T. A. McElhannon spent a
part of last week with Mr. and Mrs.
J*. N. Holder in Atlanta.
Professor and Mrs. L. F. Elrod
and two sons of Granite Hill were
visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Storey,
Sr., during the weeK.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanday Nunn and
little daughter, Ruth, of Anderson,
S. C., spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Rankin.
Mr. Clarence Twitty, who has re
turned to his first love and resumed
his work as a Knight of the Grip,
spent Sunday at the Harrison Hotel.
Mesdames A. H. Moore, J. C.
Turner, W. H. Smith and E. M. Mc-
Donald were visitors to Athens on
Wednesday.
Mrs. George Storey, Misses Mar
tha Carter Storey and Helen Storey,
and J. D. Ellington, of Athens, visit
ed relatives in Jefferson Sunday.
Mrs. M. L. Mobley, Jr., and little
son, of Lagrange, have been spend
ing the past week with Jefferson
relatives.
Mrs. J. C. Smith had as her guests
on Saturday, Miss Ruby Neal of the
Fifth District A. & M. School facul
ty, Miss Mary Neal Shannon, and
Miss Eloise Stephens of Commerce.
• Mr. and M!rs. Sam J. Bell, Mr. Sam
J. Bell, Jr., and little Miss Jaquetta
Kilmer, of Atlanta, spent Saturday
in Jefferson, and were dinner guests
of Mrs. Ora M. Smith.
Little Miss Kathleen Flanigan of
Atlanta spent the week-end in Jef
ferson, the guest of Miss Virginia
■ Ann Holder.
Friends of Mrs. S. S. Hancock
will regret to learn of her continued
illness at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Hancock.—Athens Banner-
Herald.
Mr. and Mrs. Golden Griffith,
Misses Gladys and Sara Louise, of
Cordele, spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Griffith, and
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lord.
' According to promise, Cave Spring
B. Y. P. U. will render a program
and pageant next Sunday afternoon,
April 24th, at Oconee church, after
Sunday school. Everybody invited.
Mrs. V. A. Niblack has returned
from a visit to Decatur and Atlanta,
and has as her guest this week Mrs.
Comer Weaver and little son of De
catur. Mr. Weaver, who spent Sun
day here, has returned to Atlanta.
-
i Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Yarbrough and
three children of Commerce spent
the Easter holidays with Mr. and
Mrs. B. H. Collier. They also had
as their guest, Mr. Paul Collier of
Atlanta.
| Rev. J. A. Simpson and Mrs. Simp
son of Ila spent Sunday in Jefferson,
guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Bryan.
Mr. Simpson, who is Field Evange
list of the Athens Presbytery, occu
pied the pulpit at Thyatira on Sunday
afternoon.
—
Mrs. John C. Turner was host >S3
at the regular monthly meeting of
the Commerce Chapter, D. A. R., of
wn:ch she is a member, on Wednes
day afternoon of last week, enter
taining her guests, numbering se fer
al ladies from Commerce and Hoo’h
ton, in her usual gracious manner.
The Thursday Ladies Club was
beautifully entertained on Thursday
afternoon by Mrs. W. T. Bryan, Jr.,
at her home on Lawrenceville street.
Her guests were Mesdames H. E.
Aderhcld, M. M. Bryan, A. J. Flani
gan, Dudley Moore, R. J. Kelly, S. C.
, Morrison, Miss Mary Ruth Wills.
Mr. J. B. Storey of Murphy, N. C.
was in the city Sunday.
Mrs. Curtis Anderson and son
were visitors to .Athens Saturday.
Misses Sarah Craft and Myrtle
Jane Pinson of Athens visited home
folks here Sunday.
Mr3. J. E. McElhannon is spend
ing a few days with Mrs. W. S. Pin
|son, at her home in Atlanta.
Mrs. J. S. Cothran of Atlanta is the
guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. F. Morrison.
Miss Wanena Rogers of Atlanta
spent the week-end in Jefferson at
, the home of her aunt, Mrs. F. H.
Rienhart.
The friends of Mr. W. H. Merk
i will regret to know that he has been
confined to his home from sickness
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Armour of Atlanta
are welcoming the arrival of a little
girl. Mrs. Ai-mour will be rememb
ered as Miss Hautie Wilson.
The Study Class of the Presby
terian Womans Auxiliary will meet
at 3.30 o’clock Monday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. A. H. Moore, on
l Martin street.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harris of
Crawford announce the birth of a
daughter. The little girl is a grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. N.
Pinson of Jefferson.
Messrs. M. M. Bryan and W. T.
Bryan spent Tuesday in Atlanta, at
tending the‘session of the Georgia
manufacturers association. The
former was named on the new board
of directors, which was not only a
compliment to Mr. Bryan, but was a
wise selection on the part of the
association.
The friends of Miss Ruby Chry
stal will be interested to know that
she is recuperating very satisfactori
ly from an operation for appendicitis,
performed at the hospital in Athens
.last week. Miss Chrystal is a daugh
ter of Mrs. M. R. Chrystal of Jef
ferson, and is taking a course in
nursing at the General Hospital,
Athens.
| Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bryan, Jr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Bryan were
called to Athens Tuesday to the
beside of Mrs. W. T. Bryan, Sr.,
who sustained several painful in
juries in an automobile wreck. As
Mrs. Bryan’s chauffeur was turning
the car around, another car ran in
to it from the rear, the impact
breaking the windshield and doors,
and she was severely cut by the
glass. She is at the hospital, but her
friends and the friends of the family
in Jefferson will be delighted that
the cuts are not serious.
Friends in Jefferson of Mrs.
Varina Dunbar Almond will learn
with regret that her husband, Mr.
Harold Almond, is confined to his
bed in a hospital in Atlanta, suffer
ing from injuries sustained in an
automobile wreck on Wednesday
evening of last week on the Atlanta-
Conyers road, in which two men, C.
E. Drew, chief deputy collector of
internal revenue for Georgia, and H.
H. Daniel, deputy clerk in the bank
ruptcy division of federal court, lost
their lives. Besides the two deaths,
five people were seriously injured,
when two automobiles came togeth
er on a curve in the highway.
EX-SERVICE MEN, NOTICE
There will be a meeting of the
American Legion Friday night, April
22, 1927, at the court house, Jeffer
son, Ga. There will be things of vital
interest to every ex-service man. Be
on hand not later than eight o’clock.
H. W. DAVIS, Commander.
MISS MATTIE BAILEY
Death summoned on Sunday night
the soul of Miss Mattie Bailey. She
( passed away at the County Home,
I where she had resided for many
years. She was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Sherrod Bailey,
and is survived by a large number of
relatives.
Her remains were interred in
Thyatira cemetery on Monday after
noon.
’ MR. J. B. SYKES
Mr. J. B. Sykes passed away at
his home in the Mill Village at 8
a. m. Wednesday.
| Mr. Sykes was 71 years of age.
He was a native of Florida, and had
resided in Jefferson for the past two
'years. He was loved and esteemed
j by his many friends, who greatly de
plore his death.
' His body will be interred in Wood
bine cemetery today, Thursday,
i He is survived by his widow; by
two sons, Willie and Dewey Wood
Sykes; and by one daughter, Miss
Freda Sykes.
FOR RENT
The home on Lawrenceville street.
Could be used by two families. Po
session given about June Ist. —See
Mrs. W. T. Wills.
| A fine line of Fresh Fish,
Saturday, at Boggs & Days
man's. J