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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
EXCHANGE NOTES
w , items Of Interest Among Our
Neighbors And Friends
( j. A , m Athens Banner-Herald)
s Meadows Dies in Athens
\ Andrea Meadows, 21-year-old
yp of Dean and Mrs. J. C).
died at an Athens hospital
[ UI . iy at 12.30 p. m., following an
, es of a few days,
fill funeral was held from the
sidenee, 1137 S. Milledge avenue,
i(ia\ afternoon at 3.30 o’clock.
i,. L. Hill, pastor of the First
e 4 varian church, conducted the
•vitts, and interment followed in
s Oconee Hill cemetery,
jj Meadows, who had been in
h e ns for three years, completed
e requirements for a master’s de
ee at the University of Georgia
it week, after being a graduate
[dent at the University this year,
e taught school two years at Jef
•son, Ga.
Graduating from high school at
e age of 13, Miss Meadows was
e youngest undergraduate student
Northwestern University in a
idy body of 'IO,OOO students. She
s graduated from Northwestern
th a bachelor of arts degree at
i age of 18.
Miss Meadows was born in Amory,
ss., Nov. 12, 1911. She is surviv
by her parents, Dr. J. C. Meadows,
an of the University of Georgia
liege of Education, and Mrs.
:adows; a sister, Elizabeth Mead
si brother, John Meadow's, Jr.;
amlmother, Mrs. Mary Andrews,
and several aunts and uncles.
The deceased was one of the most
members of the college con
gent, and her untimely death
ngs sorrow to a wide circle of
ends and acquaintances.
(From Atlanta Journal)
ache Bell, Jr., Makes High Record
Rathe Bell, Jr., of Atlanta, was
e of the two Emory seniors select
t the Eagles Club, highest honor
f society on the campus for non
ifernity men, it was announced
turday. Bell achieved wide recog
ion as a baseball coach with the
lanta Sandlot League. At Emory
coached his class team to tWQ
impionships. He is now in charge
all baseball instruction in the' uni
sity. He is active in campus ac
ities and is studying law.
o o o
(From Gainesville Eagle)
ainesville Named Winner Of Dis
trict Basketball Tournament
At chapel Monday Prof. Maxwell
nounced that the court injunction
wonting Gainesville having the
iphies won during the Ninth dis
ct tournament at Chicopee had
tn dismissed, and he would present
™ to the team. After a short
k on the merits of the team and
captain, he ' presented th'e silver
ing cup signifying that Gainesville
and won first place to Captain Rob
■ Strickland.
Mrs. Belle Gittens Interred At
Antioch
Funeral services for Mrs. Belle
,r non Gittens, 64, who died at her
iidence Sunday follbwing a long
Jess, were conducted Monday af
’noon from the Antioch church,
th Rev. L. P. McNeal, of Chicopee,
ieiating. Interment was in the
Ur ' h cemetery. Born in Jackson
Un tv, Mrs. Gittens moved to Hall
ari early age. Preceded to the
ave by her husband, Mr. H. L. Git
ns > eight years, she is survived by
s on, H. W. Gittens, a daughter,
rs ' M. J. Rider, both of this city;
o brothers, O. W. and B. F. Mor
ion - of Hall county, and eight
a ndchildren.
r - and Mrs. Albert Richardson
er >t the week-end in Jefferson.
r - and Mrs. W. H. Cox spent'
v era! days this week in Winder
id Jefferson.
Mfs. R. C. Roberts of Jefferson
ent last week with her sister, Mrs.
* L. Richardson.
r - and Mrs. J. A. Crook of Pen
lr?rass were guests of relatives
Te last week. Mrs. Crook will be
aasantly remembered as Miss Etta
*ans.
.4 wy}'" w ’■ •-%
David Holliday of Maysville,
daughter of the late Hon. J. E. J.
r,J ' is filling the unexpired term in
* school at Red Stone. Mrs. Holli
and Miss Lollie Belle Lord are
* ‘ n g their home at Red Stone dur
the remainder of the school ses
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SALE OF BEER LEGAL
FRIDAY IN 19 STATES
In at least 17 states and parts ol
cwo other states 3.2 per cent beet
may be sold next Friday.
In five additional states dates in
the future when the sale of the
brew will be permitted have been
set. They range from April 13 to
July 1.
In 11 more states bills making the
rale possible are in the legislative
mills, with no certainty when they
will be passed.
Beer sale bills have been defeated
in three states.
In two states ’the situation de
pends on a voters’ referendum.
The states in which.the.3.2 beer
may be sold next Friday, unless the
present situation changes before
then, are Arizona,' California, Con
necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Neva
da, New Jersey, .New York, > -Ohio,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington
and Wisconsin.
Louaiana Soo'n To Follow
Some of these states will permit
sale because all the necessary legis
lation has been passed*; be
cause there are no prohibiting statu
tes, and still others because only the
fixing of tax rates remains to be
completed.
In Delaware the brew may be sold
only in the city of Wilmington. In
Maryland sales will be permitted
only m Baltimore and two counties.
The dates on which the sale will
become legal * in other states are:
Louisiana, April 13; Vermont, May
1; Wyoming, May 18; West Virginia
June 9; North Dakota, July 1.
The status in other states is:
Alabama—A bill providing for sale
has been reported favorably by the
house committee and may be con
sidered next Tuesday. v •
Arkansas—The bill died in com
mittee.
No Action In Georgia
Colorado—Legislature deadlocked
over question of local option. Only
extraordinary action will make the
beverage legal by April 7.
District of Columbia—Houaa*~and
senate have both passed bill, but
senate must act on house amend
ment.
Florida—No action.
Georgia—No action.
Idaho—Bill defeated.
lowa—Legislation pending.
Kansas—No action. Law prohibits
“intoxicating liquor” and attorney
general says it’s up to jury to de
cide whether 3.2 per cent beer is in
toxicating.
Maine Manufacture, transporta
tion and sale of malt beverages of
alcoholic content to be determined
by supreme court authorized.
Massachusetts —Manufacture legal
ized. Bill providing sale machinery
being rushed.
New Hampshire To Export
Michigan—Pending.
Mississippi—No action.
Nebraska —Pending.
New Hampshire—House passed
bill permitting one brewery to manu
facture for export only.
New Mexico—Voters to decide
September 19 whether to retain sta
tute prohibiting sale of any beverage
with alcoholic content.
North Carolina —Bill legalizing
beer May 1 passed in senate; house
action anticipated next Tuesday.
Oklahoma —Bill on house calendar.
Rhode Island —Bill’s consideration
in house next Tuesday anticipated.
South Carolina — has passed
bill.
South Dakota —Subject to referen
dum.
Tennessee —New bill probably will
be introduced this week.
Texas —Bill reported favorably by
house committee.
Utah —Bill defeated.
Virginia—No action.
georgia automobile
ACCIDENTS TOTAL 1,272
FOR MONTH OF MARCH
Georgia highways and thorough
fares increased their death toll dur
ing March, according to statistics
compiled by the Dixie Motor Club
through Charles Cook, secretary.
During the month, according to
the records, ther6 were 1,272 auto
mobile accidents, as compared to 843
for February. This was an increase
of 429. Out of this total number of
accidents there were twenty-four
deaths, against twenty-one for Feb
ruary. In 396 accidents drunken
drivers figured and in two cases boys
under 12 years of age were drivng.
Women in only 143 reported
cases.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
HON. J. E. J. LORD
Ex-Representative of Jackson County
Died Suddenly in Jefferson
Last Wednesday
This whole section of Georgia was
shocked Wednesday afternoon of
last week when the news was flashed
throughout the community and over
the wires that Hon. J. E. J. Lord
had fallen unconscious on the street
; n Jefferson as he was walking from
.he office of County School Superin
tendent T. T. Benton to the court
house. He was carded to the apart
ment he occupied in the Bailey
building, on the public square, where
physicians worked heroically to re
store him to consciousness, but he
expired in about 45 minutes.
Mr. Lord and his daughter, Miss
Lollie Belle, have been teaching for
the past few years at Red Stone, be
tween Jefferson and Athens, and oc
cupied an apartment in Jefferson
during the week, going to their home
for the week-ends. He returned from
the school room Wednesday after
noon, and was apparently in the best
of health. That the hand of death
should take him so suddenly and so
unexpectedly, caused great sorrow,
and a great shock to his hundreds of
friends.
After preparing the body for
burial, it was carried to his home,
near Commerce, and funeral services
were held at Mt. Olive Baptist
church, of which he was a loyal and
leading member, and interment was
in the qhurch cemetery. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev. C.
W. Henderson of Quittman, Rev.
Tooke of Commerce, and Rev. R. M.
Rigdon of Jefferson. The pupils of
Red Stone school attended in a body.
The deceased was 71 years of age,
but was alert, active and energetic.
He was a natjve of Jackson county,
and was a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Lord, pioneers of the
county.
He was prominent in the religmus,
educational and civic progress of his
county and state. An active member
of the Baptist church, a teacher in
Of“the county for forty
nine years, a member of the Masonic
and Odd Fellows fraternities, being
Past Noble Grand of the Odd Fel
lows, an ex-representative in the
general assembly of Georgia, he had
given much of his life in the service
of his people, and had filled these
responsible positions with credit to
himself and honor to his state. He
served the county in the Legislature
for eight years. On Sunday preced
ing his death, as a Deacon in Mt.
Olive church, he acted as Moderator
at the call of the new pastor, Rev.
Tooke.
In edrly manhood, he married Miss
Easter Wilhite, a daughter of the
late Mr. and'Mrs. John M. Wilhite.
She survives him, together with the
following children: Herman Lord of
Chicago, 111.; Spurgeon Lord of Bir
mingham, Ala.; W. B. Lord, of Lees
vil.le, S. C.; Mrs. David’Holliday of
Maysville, Mrs. Raymond Reynolds
of Atlanta, Miss Lollie Belle Lord
and Gladstone Lord, who are at
home. Also, a niece, whom they
reared, Mrs. Fletcher Spear, of Mays
ville, and nine grandchildren. He 13
survived also by four brothers and a
sister, Messrs. Fletcher of Jefferson,
Charlie of Commerce, Sam of Chat
tanooga, Tenn., and Joe of Atlanta,
and Mrs. Hattie Talant, of Kennett,
Mo. Two daughters, Gladys and
Sybil* died in childhood.
Mr. Lord was keenly interested in
singing, and was a leader at many
singing conventions in various parts
of the State. He received his educa
tion at Commerce High School and
Martin Institute.
2 Overdue Payment*
To Confederate* Will
Be Made This Week
A. L. Henson, director of the vet
erans’ service office, announced Sat
urday that two past-due payments
to Confederate pensioners would be
made during the middle of the com
ing week.
He said one payment from $63,650
accumulated, from W. & A. Railroad
rental certificates, would be made to
pensioners whose names were on the
1930 rolls, and another from cigar
ette tax payments to all pensioners.
The first payment, he said, would be
between sls and sl7, and the second
S3O for pensions due for February of
this year.
There are 898 soldiers and 2,957
widows on the Confederate pension
rolls.
Where Much Of The
Slate’s Money Goes
Where do* all the money go is
so often asked by the taxpayers, and
why areiour schools behind after
paying the high tax burdens?
Represent ve Sims, of Brooks
county, ©Uls attention to the fact
ih&L the { spent for college stu
dents 22times as much per stu
dent as it did for the common school
boys and girls.
The appropriations were $4,411,-
250 for the common schools in 1932
and $1,900,500 for the university
system in 1932.
The enrollment in state institu
tions of higher education and per
capita cost to the state Of Georgia
as of October 15, 1932, are given as
follows by Representative Sims:
University of Georgia—Enroll
ment 1,110; president’s salary, $7,-
700; dean, $4,420; law dean, $5,850;
per capita cost to state, $144.92.
College of Agriculture—Enroll
ment 408; president’s salary, $7,650;
per capita cost $154.63.
Georgia Tech—Enrollment 2,015;
president’s salary, $8,100; dean, $5,-
000; per capita cost, slls 00.
Georgia State College for Women
—Enrollment 1,139; president’s sal
ary, $6,000 and living quarters; per
capita cost $160.07.
■State Teachers College, AthenX—
Enrollment, 510; president’s salary,
$5,400; per capita cost $109.09.
South Georgia Teachers College, at
Statesboro —Enrollment, 444; presi
dent’s salary, $4,500 and house rent
and apartment; dean, $3,400; per
capita cost $206.55.
Georgia State College for Men, at
Tifton—-Enrollment, 232; president’s
salary, $3,240; per capita cost,
$223.88.
State Agricultural and Normal
College, Americus, Ga.—Enrollment
266; president’s salary, $2,700 and
board for family; per capita cost
$121.00.
SINGING CONVENTION
State singing Convention To Be
Held Here Next Sunday
Next Sunday, April 9, will be an
outstanding day of worship in song
in Jefferson, as the State Singing
Convention wili hold its annual ses
sion here. Delegates from all sing
ing organizations in the state, lead
ers of song from every section, and
hundreds of visitors, are expected to
be in the city and take part in the
program. The session will be held
in Martin Institute auditorium.
The song service will begin in the
morning, and continue throughout
the day, with a recess at the noon
hour. All persons attending are ex
pected to bring lunch.
Lovers of music are anticipating
a day of rare pleasure and enter
tainment.
ROOSEVELT HAS SAVED
TOTAL OF $572,000,000
IN HIS MONTH IN OFFICE
Washington.—ln the scant month
that President Roosevelt has had
control of the government, he has
now instituted economies estimated
to total $572,000,000 a year, and at
least jinother estimated $100,000,-
000 is in early prospect.
This is the record:
Reduction in veterans’ benefits,
decreed Saturday, $400,000,000.
Cut in veterans’- administration
expenses, $50,000,000.
Reduction of all federal salaries
15 per cent, $120,000,000.
Consolidation of farm credit
agencies, $2,000,000.
The additional $100,000,000 is
considered a minimum estimate of
the savings to be achieved by re
organization and consolidation of
other federal agencies under the
power already granted the President
by congress. Other economies may
be achieved later by still further re
duction of departmental functions.
THIRD OF STATE’S AUTO
LICENSE TAGS SOLD
On the basis of present figures, al
most two-thirds of the automobile
owners in Georgia have not yet se
cured their 1933 tags, and after April
15 every sheriff in the state will col
lect $1 on each tag application in his
county. 295,000 tags were sold in
1932, and only 100,000 were pur
chased this year prior to April 2nd.
There are eleven lady rural mail
carriers in Georgia.
Thursday, April 6, 1933.
W. t SMITH
Prominent Jackson County Citizen
Dies At Talrao
People in Jefferson Friday morn
ing who saw Mr. W T . C. Smith here
at that time could” scarcely be con
firmed that in the early morning
hours of Saturday death summoned
him to his eternal home.
On returning from Jefferson to
his home in Talmo, he suffered a
stroke while looking after some work
in a warehouse, and was found in a
serious condition. He was carried
to his home, and given immediate
medical attention, hut death follow
ed in a few shprt hours. *
Mr. Smith was 62 years of age.
He was a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Joe M. Smith' and a grandson
of that prominent, pioneer citizen,
Uncle "Cotton Billy” Smith. He was
engaged in farming, and was highly
esteemed by a wide circle of friends.
His demise has removed from the
county an excellent citizen.
His wife, who was a Miss Harri
son, died about a year ago, and he
is survived by three children, Miss
Gussie Smith, who teaches at Talmo,
and Harrison and Charles Smith of
Atlanta.
Funeral services were held at Pen
dergrass, Sunday afternoon, and in
terment was in the Pendergrass
cemetery.
RELIEF MONEY
Relief Money Being Spent In Jackton
County, Starting Last Monday
Jackson county will expend dur
ing the next two months $7,035 for
relief; this amount having been ap
portioned the county through the
Georgia Relief Administration, Her
man P. DeLaperriere, director. The
money is a part of Georgia’s share
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, and must be spent with
in the duration of two months. At
the end of that time, the administra
tion will apply for additional funds
for further aid.
Those funds must be used in furn
ishing relief and work to needy and
distressed people, and in relieving
the hardship resulting from unem
ployment. The funds are borrowed
through the Board of County Com
missioners, and are to be repaid, with
interest at 3 per cent per annum, by
deducting from future federal aid
road funds due to Georgia, beginning
in 1935.
The responsibility for local admin
istration is vested in a local Investi
gator, who is Mr. Luther F. Elrod,
and a local Committee, which is com
posed of A. J. Murphy, Talmo,
chairman; Mrs. A. B. Deadwyler,
Commerce, vice-chairman; Dr. J. C.
Verner, Commerce; J. A. Crook, Pen
dergrass; Greene Braselton, Brasel
ton; A. L. DeLaperriere, Hoschton;
Mrs. M. M. Bryan, and Judge C. L.
Bryson, Jefferson.
At present time, the money is be
ing spent on county roads, a large
force of hands being at work on the
old Jefferson-Pendergrass road.
Those in charge will endeavor to
reach every section of the county,
especially where there are school bus
and rural mail routes. No funds
must be used for equipment, mater
ials or supplies incident to work, but
must be paid to laborers.
Primarily, the object in spending
this money is to aid unemployment,
but some of it can be used for direct
relief in cases of sickness. Food,
clothing, fuel, etc., may be supplied
destitute people who by reason of
age or infirmity or other like rea
sons can not work, or for whom work
can not be found.
McCLURE—-SMITH
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McClure, of
Acworth, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Lassie Marie, to
Rev. Harry Lee Smith, of Jefferson,
the wedding to be solemnized at an
early date. The bridegroom-to-be is
the popular pastor of the Jefferson
Circuit, and will bring his bride to
Jefferson. Miss McClure and Mr.
Smith were class mates at Reinhardt
Normal Junior College, and„she is
now teaching in the school at Wood
stock. *
Some statistician has figured that
it will take 33 glasses of 3.2' beer
to make one drunk. If this is true,
bootleggers will continue plying
their trade.
Vol. 58. No. 38.
MANY GEORGIANS
CUT FROM ROLLS
Atlanta.—About 12,000 Georgians
now receiving disability allowances
from the government will be elimin
ated entirely from the rolls, and ap
proximately 100,000 Georgia veter
ans will he affected by the new sche
dule of veterans’ benefits announced
by President Roosevelt.
He said the number of those eligi
ble for hospital service would be cut
from the present 100,000 to about
12,000.
The new rules limit hospital serv
ice to veterans suffering from serv
ice-connected disabilities, and those
totally disabled from non-service
causes. Sirmon said there were a
bout 9,000 Georgians suffering from
service-connected disabilities and a
bout 3,000 totally disabled from non
service causes.
Approximately 25,000 persons in
the state are now receiving either
compensation for service-connected
disabilities, or disability allowances
for other causes, the legion adjustant
said.
The new rule? provide allowances
for non-service disabilities only
when they are total and permanent,
which provision, Sirmon said, would
eliminate 12,000. The remaining 13,-
000 of those receiving payments will
be affected by the changes in ratings
and compensation schedules.
■Sirmon estimated that 3,000 wid
ows and other dependents of World
War vefferans would be affected in
Georgia, and that the changes in
rules for Spanish-American War
veterans’ benefits would apply to a
bout 2,500 persons in the state.
U. D. C. MEETING
The Jefferson Chapter of U. D.
C’s. met at the home of Mrs. S. A.
Boland on last Friday afternoon,
with Mrs. J. E. Randolph and Mrs. A.
C. Appleby as assistant hostesses.
The meeting was opened by the
reading of the Ritual by Mrs. Boland,
followed by the Georgia Song.
The minutes were read by the
secretary, anti approved. Reports of
different committees followed.
A motion was made and carried te
endorse Mrs. L. W. Green, of Syca
more, Ga., for First Vice-President
of the Georgia Division of U. D. C.’s;
and Mrs. Newton M. Jordan, of Ten
nille, for Third Vice-President, at
the meeting to be held in Athens
some time during October. The Jef
ferson Chapter was also requested to
grow flowers which would bloom in
the fall, preferably the colors of red
and white, to help with the decor
ations at this meeting.
A most interesting letter was
read from Mrs. Bashinske, the State
President, in which she spoke of the
different work being done in Geor
gia by the U. D. C’s.; and that since
the suspension of publication of the
Confederate Veteran Magazine, the
Atlanta Journal will have a full page
one Sunday each month devoted en
tirely to the news of the different
Chapters of the U. D. C’s. This
space will be fully as much as was
had in the Veterans Magazine.
Plans were discussed for Memorial
Day, which will be announced later.
The program for the afternoon was
in charge of Mrs. J. D. Escoe, and a
most interesting one was given, the
subject being, “Slavery in the Six-
ties.”
Mrs. J. C. Bennett gave a paper
on “The Old Time Slave.”
Slavery in Georgia” was discussed
by Mrs. T. T. Benton.
A poem, “Uncle Eben,” was read
by Mrs. Escoe.
The meeting adjourned, and the
hostesses served delicious refresh
ments. •
Those present, were: Me.dames J.
O. Stockton, J. E. Randolph,- J. C.
Bennett, S. A. Boland, Fannie Turn
er, J. H. Hogan, C. T. Storey, Jr., T.
T. Benton, Sam Kelly, J. D. Escoe,
Fred Evans, Effie Flanigan, Miss
Vennie Barnett.
WOMAN’S CLUB WILL MEET
MONDAY
The Jefferson Woman’s Club will
meet Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
at the Mrs. Stanley Kesler,
with Mrs, Kesler, Misses Peggy Ba
ker, Sarah- Whitaker, Alea Betts and
Martha Watson hostesses.
The following program has been
arranged:
Music.
Assets and Resources of Georgia*
Miss Kate Duke.
Rise and Development of Educa
tional Institutions, Mrs. T. T. Benton.