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The J ackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
EXCHANGE NOTES
Item* of Intere*t From Among Our
Neighbor* And Friend*
(From Commerce News)
Mr*. Edward Jach*on Die*
Mrs. Jackson, wife of Mr. Edward
Jackson, died at her home three miles
>outh of Commerce last Saturday af
ternoon, following an illness of sev
eral months duration. She was 39
years of age, and fs survived by her
husband and one child. The inter
ment was made at Grey Hill ceme
tery Sunday afternoon, conducted by
Rev. A. 0. Hood of Nicholson.
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(From Elberton Star)
They Keep On Pecking On John
Holder
The Atlanta Constitution and a
few other daily and weekly papers
in Georgia just can’t see any good
in the present highway board or
their method of building roads.
They can’t separate themselves from
the idea of a big bond issue to build
the roads which we now, or soon will
have, money sufficient to build with
out waste and graft. The black eye
these newspapers are giving the
state by continually crying: “mud,”
•‘mud,” regardless of the truth of
the statement, isn’t helping their
cause with loyal Georgians. Be
hind the screen the real trouble
seems to be more of a personal fight
on John Holder than anything else.
(From Dawson News)
Advertising I* The Rememdy
“It is estimated that mail order
houses of the country distribute more
dollars worth of catalogs each week
to persons of the Pelham postoffice
than the combined advertising of all
the merchants of the city,” says the
Pelham Journal. That, as our con
temporary remarks, is one reason why
many people are sending local mon
ey to foreign cities, never again to
be put into circulation here. It is
gone forever. What is true of Pel
ham is true of Dawson, and practi
cally every other of the smaller
towns.
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(From Dawson News)
Stop Singing The “Blue*”
One thing is sure—either we will
have to stop singing the “blues” in
Georgia or people with money are
not going to invest here. We can
not tell them in one breath that the
state is behind all others in educa
tional advantages and reeks with il
literacy, that our roads are mud
holes, and in the next that here is a
good place to invest and live.
(From Maysville Correspondent)
Maysville Teachers
The following teachers have been
elected at the Maysville High School:
Prof. Soseby, Supt.
Miss Melba Carter.
Miss Bonnie Carter.
Miss Austin Haralson.
Miss Laura Porter and Miss Lou
Meaders.
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(From Savannah Press)
Monument To Dr. Crawford Long
The doctors of Georgia have open
ed their convention in Athens. Sev
eral years, ago the State Medical As
sociation met in Athens, and Dr.
Hardman, in Jefferson, eighteen miles
*rom Athens, unveiled the monument
to Dr. Crawford Long. Dr. Woods
Hutchinson, the famous physician,
made an address, awarding the palm
for the discovery of anaesthesia to
:J r. Long. The meeting in Athens
'his year recalls that memorable con
vention.
(From Hoschton News)
Mi Edith Roberts Wins Honors
At A. & M.
Among the contestants in the Che
mical Essay contest there were three
•'inners from the Fifth District A.
<v M. School: Miss Edith Roberts,
<i's Lucia Monroe, and Mr. William
Hollis, each receiving twenty dollars
gold and a certificate of honor.
1 hese papers were selected as the
' est in the State. More than a hun
'red High schools entered. They will
he entered for national prize of
? 1 00.00 scholarship to any college
or university.
1 he school is to be congratulated
“ Hiis, as well as the recent victory
winning three out of four Banners
the District School meet in Ath
ens.
Miss Roberts is the daughter of
m. W. Roberts, of near Hoschton,
‘ ‘ and is to be congratulated on win
lg honors in the above school.
N. G. A. COLLEGE COMMENCE
MENT, JUNE 3-6, 1927
Dahlonega. Commencement ex
ercises of the N. G. A. C. will be
held June 3-6, and a splendid pro
gram has been announced, as follows:
Friday, June 3, 8.30 p. m., En
tertainment, Corona-Hederae Liter
ary Society.
Saturday, June 4, 9 a. m., Inspec
tion and Prize Drill.
11.30 a. m., Oratorical Contest.
3 p. m., Sham Battle.
6 p. m., Alumni Business Meeting.
8.30 p. m., Buffet Luncheon, for
Alumni.
9 p. m., Under-graduate Dance.
Sunday, June 5, Commencement
Sermon, Dr. Wallace Rogers, Pastor
Trinity M. E. Church, Atlanta, Ga.
Monday, June 6, 9 a. m., Turning
in Equipment.
11a. m., Champion Debate, Decora
Palaestra and Phi Mu Literary So
cieties.
5 p. m., Graduating Exercises.
The program above is a splendid
one, but the Sham Battle on Satur
day afternoon will be of special in
interest. Where it will be held, at
least 20,000 people can see it con
veniently, and it is a show not given
in any other place in Georgia that
we know of. The one last year
seemed to be very much appreciated
by the children, and even more so
by the older people. It will be
fought according to modern tactics;
trench mortars, hand grenades, ma
chine guns, smoke sereens, etc.
The school is closing a most suc
cessful year’s work, and the com
mencement exercises is looked for
ward to with much interest.
MRS. YOUNG ALLEN DIES IN
CHINA
Macon, Ga.—Bishop W. N. Ains
worth, presiding bishop of the Orient
for the Methodist church, south, re
ceived a cablegram toijay announc
ing the death in Shanghai Saturday
of Mrs. Young J. Allen, one of the
oldest missionaries on any field.
Mrs. Allen and her husband, the
late Young J. Allen, who died 20
years ago, went to China in 1859.
As Miss Houston, of Newnan, Ga.,
Mrs. Allen had graduated the year
before from Wesleyan college. Mr.
Allen had been graduated the same
year from Emory university. After
the death of her husband, Mrs. Al
len continued to serve in Shanghai,
and was in her 68th year of service.
It was Dr. Allen who translated
most of the English books into Chin
ese. He had the ear of the ruling
and literary classes in China, and was
accorded the most distinguished po
sition among the missionaries serv
ing in China. A street in Shanghai
was named for him. It was recalled,
in connection with his death, that
at the time he and Mrs. Allen want
ed to go to China, sufficient funds
were not on hand to enlarge the
field, and they personally raised
money to pay their passage. When
they went to China it was on a little
sailing vessel, and the voyage re
quired seven months.
Mrs. Allen is survived by two
daughters and one son, all of whom
are living in China.
MEDAL FOR CARL PAYNE OF
AUGUSTA FOR HEROIC WORK
For his part in saving the life of
Raymond Shivers, a lineman of the
Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric
corporation, who was almost killed
by a high tension wire near Wrens
on April 5, Carl Payne, another em
ployee of the Augusta-A.iken, will
be awarded an Insull medal, if ef
forts started here work out.
The award is designed to add an
incentive to the study of artificial
respiration on the part of electri
cians. In the accident in question,
Payne and other employees of the
company worked air in and out of
the lungs of the injured man by arti
ficial respiration. It is said that
for nearly eight minutes there was no
sign of life in the body of the in
jured boy.
The Augusta-Aiken has been try
ing to train all its employes in the
methods of artificial respiration,
and one of the fruits of the efforts
seems to have been the saving of
the life of young Shivers.—Augusta
Chronicle.
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The above js of interest to the
people of this county, as Mr. Payne
is a Jackson county boy, being a son
of Mrs. W. T. Mauldin, who lives
near Jefferson.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
JACKSON COUNTY FEDERATION
PLANS SUMMER MOTHERS’
CAMP
The following was taken from
the Sunday’s Atlanta Constitution
page of—Georgia State Federation of
Womens Clubs:
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The Jackson County federation met
at the home of Mrs. J. T. Quillian in
Commerce on Thursday, April 28.
This was the first meeting of the fed
eration. Mrs. Morris Bryan, of Jef
ferson, the president, presided. Mrs.
J. J. Harber, of Commerce, was
elected vice president, Mrs. T. C.
Hardman having resigned. A com
mittee was appointed to confer W)lh
Miss Reba Adams, county demon
strator, and Mrs. G. A. Johns, :f
Winder, chairman of community ser
vice, to consider the advisibility of
holding a mothers’ camp in Jackson
county during the summer. Mrs.
Claude Montgomery, of Commerce;
Mrs. Hugh Crooks, of Jefferson; Mr£
H. P. DeLaperriere Hoschton, and
Mrs. John Braselton, were appointed
on this committee. A committee
was appointed to draw up resolutions
to send to representatives, senators
and influential citizens showing the
need for a county health officer in
Jackson county. Mrs. T. C. Hard
man, Mrs. J. J. Harber and Mrs. A.
E. Shankle were appointed on the
committee. The following chairmen
and committees were named: Citiz
enship, Mrs. A. L. DeLaperriere,
Hoschton; public welfare, Mrs. O. E.
Shankle, Commerce; education, Mrs.
Clotfelter, Braselton; roads, Mrs. H.
E. Aderhold, Jefferson.
The clubs were urged to send boxes
to Hospitals 48 and 62 in September,
the ninth district north. After the
business the Kiwanians’ Sunshine
quartet rendered two selections. Dr.
A. A. Rogers, Commerce, gave an in
teresting short talk on the Ellis
health bill and introduced Dr. Aber
crombie, of the state board of health,
who addressed the club. He gave
many interesting and startling sta
tistics and urged us to try to secure
a health officer in Jackson county.-
Mrs. Hiram Flanagan, vice president
of the ninth district, from Winder,
was present and spoke, in a fenT well
chosen words. After adjournment re
freshments were served. The next
meeting will be held in October.
NOTICE OF CITY COURT OF
JEFFERSON
While notice was published that
the appearance docket of this court
would be called this day, but in this
same notice the public was advised
that no jury trial would be had on
this day, and since defendants hav
ing suits filed against them return
able to this term may be laboring
under the impression that no court
would be held at this May term, 1927,
of this court, and that it was not
necessary to file any defense for
that reason; and it further appearing
that this notice was not in the form
of an order entered on the minutes;
and the law providing that the ap
pearance docket shall be called
upon some day previously fixed by
the judge or on the last day of the
term: It is, therefore, ordered, that
the appearance docket be called on
Monday, the 30th day of May, 1927,
at 2 o’clock, p. m., and if not regu
larly called on said day the same
may be called, without further notice,
upon any day thereafter during this
term of this court. It is further
ordered, that this the May term,
1927, remain upon for the dispatch
of any business that may come be
fore the court, and a jury'may be
summoned at any time during the
term if the judge should decide the
business of the court requires the
attendance of a jury.
In open court, this May 16, 1927.
JERE S. AYERS,
Judge City Court of Jefferson.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MEETING
The Jefferson Chamber of Com
merce held its regular monthly ses
sion last Thursday evening, and
honored the faculty of Martin In
stitute by having them as guests.
After the regular routine, the fol
lowing program was rendered, and
was highly enjoyed by all present:
Piano Solo, Miss Bennett.
Reading, Miss Johnson.
•Vocal Solo, Miss Harris.
Musical Reading, Miss Mosely.
Vocal Solo, Miss Duncan.
Reading, Miss Dawson.
Duet, Misses Duncan and Mosely.
$2,000,000 ROAD
CONTRACTS LET
"Georgia's road construction bud
get for the year was increased by
$2,000,000 Friday when the state
highway board in session at F.ast
Point let contracts for road building
projects which will call for this ex
penditure. This sum, added to other
construction projects under way,
brings the total up to $8,000,000.
With $2,000,000 additional con
tracts to be let in July, with the city
of Atlanta, spending $8,000,000 de
rived from a bond issue for viaducts
and other city needs, and with many
counties and municipalities carrying
out improvement projects, an ex
penditure of approximately $20,-
000,000 in public works will be under
way in a few weeks.
Roads to be built with the $2,000,-
000 allotted Friday will link up gaps
in important highways of the state.
The $2,000,000 to be awarded in July
will complete the paving of the high
way from Atlanta to the Alabama
line and from Atlanta to the North
Carolina line, on the Atlanta-Ashe-
ville highway.
180 Mile* of Road
Under contracts awarded Friday,
180 miles of hard surfaced roads will
be constructed along with 25 bridges.
July projects will include paving of
the highway from Morelands to Ho
gansville, on the Atlanta-Montgomery
highway, and for paving the link of
the Atlanta-Ashville highway, ex
tending from Cleveland to the Hall
county line.
Links to be furnished under con
tracts awarded Friday will be on
trunk lines from Atlanta to Chatta
nooga; Atlanta to the South Caro
lina line; Augusta to the Florida line,
Savannah to the Florida line and Ma
can to the Florida line.
These links will provide roads on
these trunk routes which are either
paved or hard-surfaced for their en
tire length in Georgia.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
THE BUSINESS MENS EVANGE
LISTIC CLUB MET
-* w - ffhe regular meeting of the Evan
gelistic Club was held Sunday af
ternoon, President Turner in the
chair. There were several songs
used, including two quartettes by
Messrs. Hardeman, Carter, Barnett
and Lord. Prayers offered by Mes
srs. W. W. Dickson, U. G. Harde
man and C. E. Barnett. Scripture
reading by A. S. Johnson.
The subject was—Jesus Christ Our
Shepherd, Comforter and Friend, dis
cussed by Messrs. Turner, Bryan
and Bennett.
Others present included A. E. Pitt
man, A. J. Johnson, P. T. Pender
grass, the pianist, J. E. Randolph, V.
C. Jennings, Carl Legg, W. H. Wil
liamson, H. E. Aderhold and L. B.
Isbell.
The annual meeting will be held
next third Sunday afternoon, at
which time officers are to be elect
ed.
The club visits the Convict Camp
at or near Braselton next Sunday af
ternoon.
PUPILS OF MRS. J. S. AYERS TO
GIVE RECITAL
A series of public recitals will be
given by the pupils of Mrs. J. S.
Ayers, at her studio, on Washington
street.
The first, Thursday evening, May
26, at 8.30 o’clock, presenting Miss
es Louise Roberts and Rose Daniel,
piano; assisted by Mrs. M. M. Bryan
and Miss Nelle Blackstock, voice;
and Miss Joyce Storey, reader.
The second, the following Friday,
at 3.30 p. m., presenting the pupils
from Grammar grades.
The third, at 8.30 Friday evening,
a presentation of the High School
pupils, also Misses Fannie Matt Car
ruth, Edna Duncan, Cue Mosely,
Adele Head, and Nelle Blackstock.
Those interested in these recitals
are cordially invited to attend them.
T. E. RITCHIE NEW EDITOR
COLLEGE PAPER
Mr. T. E. Ritchie, formerly a stu
dent at Martin Instiute, and now at
the University of Georgia, was re
cently elected editor-in-chief of the
Georgia Agriculturist for the next
school year. The Georgia Agricul
turist is a monthly magazine, pub
lished by the Georgia Agricultural
Club and the general student body
of The Georgia State College of Agri
culture. The editor is elected by
the students from the next year’s |
senior class. * |
Thursday, May 19, 1927.
CLIPPINGS FROM EXCHANGES
(From Atlanta Constitution)
38 Clemency Plea* Before
Commiition
The state prison commission
Thursday took under advisement
pleas for clemency filed before that
body in behalf of 38 prisoners now
serving terms of varying lengths in
the state prisons.
One of the petitions under consid
eration is that of John Williams, fa
mous operator of the “Jasper county
murder farm,” who was convicted of
killing Lindsey Peterson, one of his
farm hands, and one of 11 negroes
murdered on the Williams place.
Williams is serving a life sentence
and is asking for a parole or pardon.
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(From Winder News)
Mail Order Businc**
We occasionally receive an article
from some mail order house, such as
pencils, ties, cards, etc., asking us to
remit for them. If they enclose re
turn postage we always return them
at once, as such business should not
be encouraged. If no postage is en-
closed for the return of the article,
we write them for sufficient postage
to cover cost of letter and the re
turn of the article. If we never
hear from them we keep the article.
The best thing to do is to turn down
promptly all such propositions and
trade at home.
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(From Hartwell Sun)
What A $3 Ad Did
An Oklahoma girl advertised for a
husband, and landed one within a
very short time. The advertise
ment cost $3. She paid the wed
ding expenses, $9. In less than a
year the husband died, says the
Atchison Globe, and left his widow
an SII,OOO insurance policy.
(From Winder News)
Building Of Roads Goes Right On
In spite of all the shrieking and
weeping and bellowing and snorting
of our friend, Jim Holloman, of the
Atlanta Constitution, for bonds, the
building of roads goes right on, and
is comparing favorably with other
states, and when completed vyill be
paid for. John Holder's anti-bond
position is un-assailable and is ac
ceptable to the solid, substantial,
far-seeing citizens of his state.
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(From Oglethorpe Echo)
Other Kinds Of Statements
Looks to us like the road bond
advocates, having run out of facts
as to road conditions and activities
in the state to boost issuance of
bonds, are in their desperation, re
sorting to other kinds of statements.
W 6 traveled fifty miles the other
day over a road they have been re
porting as being in a state disgrac
ing condition, and found it ideal for
bowling along at a thirty-mile gait.
The proponents of bonds are evident
ly imagining things.
(From Athens Banner-Herald)
What Ailed The Chickens
Recently the widow of a farmer,
striving to keep the farm going, had
some difficulty with her hens, and
wrote the following letter to the
Department of Agriculture:
“Something is wrong with my
chickens. Every morning when Ij
come Out I find two or three lying on J
the ground cold and stiff with their i
feet in the air. Can you tell me
what is the matter?”
After a while she received the fol
lowing letter from the Department:
“Dear Madam: Your chickens are I
dead.”
MAYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
The Maysville High School will
hold their commencement exercises
at the school auditorium beginning
Thursday night, May 19th. All ex
ercises will begin promptly at 8.15.
Thursday night, May 19th, Music
recital.
Friday night, May 20th, Primary
grades.
Saturday night, May 21st, Senior
play, “Cyclone Sally.”
Sunday, May 22nd, at 11.30, Bac
calaurate sermon, by Dr. R. A, For
rest, Toccoa, Ga.
Monday, May”23rd, Junior High
School play.
Tuesday, May 24th, Graduation
exercises, educational address by Col.
J. W. West, Pres. N. G. A. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Barber and
daughter of Florida are in the city,
guests of Mrs. C. O. Brock and other
relatives.
Vol. 52. No. 3.
"ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES
OF WHAT WHISKEY, LUST AND
SIN WILL LEAD TO”
New York.—The death sentences
hanging over the heads of Mrs. Ruth
Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray
have affected them in opposite man
ner, it was revealed Saturday.
Gray sees himself “one of the best
examples of what whiskey, lust and
sin will ultimately lead one into.”
He is described as resigned to his
doom.
Mrs. Snyder, the Queen’s Village
housewife, sees her-eif a victim of
injustice and is prepared to fight
against the death penalty.
Grny’s picture of himself as a
“best example” wa< sketched in a
note ho addressed “to the police.”
The note said:
“I wish to take this opportunity of
thanking the many kind Christians
from all over the country who took
j time to pray for me and to send me
j letters of sympathy and literature of
! faith. Would that I had time to
answer each one. But your efforts
have not been in vain for I have
been saved.
“May the day come when people
will clamor and fight to enter into
t.hc churches to hear God’s word as
they did to enter this building to
hear such sordid words of shame and
sin. Would that every man and wo
man who is not living in keeping
with the commandments take heed
from this ease and turn to God for
forgiveness.
“I am one of the best examples
of what whiskey, lust and sin will
ultimately lead one into.
“I have seen so many pitiful case*
here as an inmate of this institution
as to what liquor and improper re
lations will exact in payment that it
makes me more than anxious to help
my fellowman gee the light of God
as their own salvation.”
Mrs. Snyder, Gray said, does not
“believe in God.”
Gray and Mrs. Snyder began Sat
urday arranging for their trip Mon
day to Sing Sing’s deathhouse. They
are under sentence to be electro
cuted the week of June 20.
MARTIN INSTITUTE COMMENCE
MENT PROGRAM
The students and faculty of Mar
tin Institute are making plans for
the commencement exercises to be
held May 29th to June Ist.
The program is as follows: Sun
day, May 29th, 11a. m., Commence
ment Sermon, Rev. Pierce Harris,
Buford, Georgia.
Monday, May 30th, 6 p. m., Class
Day Exercises.
8.30 p. m., Senior Play, “SUN
SHINE.”
Tuesday, May 31st, 8.30 p. m.
Literary Night, Delivering Medals,
etc.
Wednesday, June Ist, 8.30 p. m.
Literary Address, and Delivery of
Diplomas, Mr. Kyle T. Alfriend.
All the above mentioned exercises
will be held in the Martin Institute
auditorium.
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
Saturday afternoon as Mr. and
Mrs. M. G. Toney, and Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Head and daughter, Miss
Montine, were going home, the car
jin which they were riding collided
with another car driven by a son of
Mr. J. D. Potts, near where the road
from Mr. Potts’ home enters the
Jefferson-Commerce road. Mrs.
Toney suffered a fractured arm; Mrs.
Head was considerably bruised on
the back of the head, and possibly
hurt internally; while Miss Montine
was slightly bruised on one side.
The men escaped with slight injuries
and shock.
Sunday afternoon a car in which
Guy Fleeman and another young man
were riding turned over, and Guy was
pretty badly hurt.
PROGRAM FOR B. Y. P.
U. DISTRICT RALLY TO
BE HELD AT MT. OLIVE
Devotional, Edna Mae Porter.
Business Meeting.
Three Minutes Speakers from
Maysville, Commerce, Ridgeway and
Apple Valley.
Address, Rev. A. J. Johnson.
Special Music.
Awarding of Banners.
Garland Benton, Chorister.
Mary Lee Nunn, Pianist.
Sallie W. Benton, Cor.-Sec’y.
Doctors McDonald, Lord and Ben
nett attended the Georgia Medical
Association in Athens last week. ,