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The Jackson Herald
1. Holder & Williamson
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Ml |, f:n Of Interest Among Our
'"'T ighbor* And Friends
The Meridian, Miss., Star)
W Capt- A. P. Gathright
H impressive were the grave
'll at the funeral of Cap-
H . .p. Gathright Sunday af-
M n . A-s the body was being
,i Magnolia cemetery a
osed of Mrs. N. D.
, Miss Mary Cook, J. L.
a Walter Gressett sang
X T’- :t .y Ring Those Golden
Bells on the city fire trucks
accompaniment for the
H and the city firemen who
H.i ri s pallbearers stood at at
with bowed heads.
.Hire number of grief-stiickcn
H attended the rites held at the
tnc ,. Sunday afternoon, the
.!. L. Neill, pastor of East End
church; J. H. Street of
Baptist, and Dr. T. M.
0 f Fifteenth Avenue - Bap-
W officiated, and paid eloquent tri
■ t 0 Captain Gathright, who for
H years had been connected with
H as engineer of the water de
,,-a the service, the quartette
‘Does Jesus Care?” and “Shall
at the River?”
long funeral procession of
and relatives was headed by
Chjf of the Fire Department W. F.
C. Eaxtin.
ike profusion of lovely flowers
atlEted the love friends held for
Cmiin Gathright.
attendance at the funeral was
estiiiated as being more than three
the largest number of any;
ever held in our city.
(From Commerce News)
E. H. Cobb Dies In South
dflg Carolina
■rs E. H. Cobb passed ;away an
Hary 11, at her home in Green
■. S. C., after an illness of eight
Mrs. Cobb was the .daughter
late Mr. and Mrs. Sim Christ-
Vof near Commerce, and will-he
■embered here as Miss Florence
Bistler. She was born July -20,
Ba, and was a member of the
nee Avenue Baptist church, of
Lens. Besides her husband, she
survived by one son, Mr. W.
rence Marlow, of Athens; and
r daughters, Miss Lucille Cobb,
>. Chap Thatcher, of Greenville,
L'.; Mrs. Z. L. Wilson, of Shelby,
C., and Mrs. VW. C. Simmons, of
boken, N. J., two sisters, Mrs.
die Wilhite, xjf Jefferson, and
i. Ruby Hale, of Athens. The re
ins were brought back here, and
dees were conducted fnom the
unt Olive Baptist church by Rev.
C. Hardman, on Friday. Inter
it was made in the Short ceme-
■g'ble List For Commerce Po3t-
H office Announced Tuesday
■ " i e names eligible for the Com-
postoffice have been ansounc-.
Bln- those in charge of making the>
■rintmenf. They are: C. M. Scog-I
■> Mrs. Cliff Ward and Y. J.i
It is understood that fromS
■ list <>f three will Ice selected one!
■MI the place now occupied by J.|
I s Ruth Sanders Sell* Short Story
hundred and twenty-five dol
■ a short story! Miss Ruth:
■dors, daughter of Dr. Laetus
of Commerce, is the happy
■l‘i' nt of a check for this amount
■1 her for a .true story written by
■ and submitted in a contest for
■ I.nOO prize offered by the Mac
■' <: n Publishing Company..
Visits 1 Florida
s Annie Hawkins, Mrs. E. C.
‘Oid Miss Suzanne Stark left
V,v 1, Fla., Tuesday for a .stay
■ few days.
■ffroni Athens Banner-Herald)
Alexander, Scholarship
■ ’Vinner, Featured in Recital
■ •‘►tg'iner Alexander, winner of
I lt'33-34 scholarship in piano at
|l ’ diversity, opened the Music
| feciation program at the chapel
■rsday night, and showed con
■|'ely with his master interpre
■!! of the first movement of
wC OVen ’® ® onata 1° A. flat that
it was no accident. This
■ec'ent, Andante with variations,
B*. full play to both technical and
■ 'onal scope of the artist, and
played it with depth
jB° ne and feeling. His intelligent
■ n f? and clear tones made the
stand out in each of the vart-
SINGLE COPY sc.
Crop Production Financing
By Farm Credit Adm’tion
An agreement between the Farm
Credit Administration and the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration
with reference to financing of crop
production in 1934 gives the follow
ing information:
“The farmer who has not signed
a production control agreement will
be required to furnish, in addition
to other necessary loan papers,
satisfactory evidence that he plans
no increase in production of basic
agricultural commodities in a man
ner detrimental to the success of the
production control programs. Farm
ers who have signed control agree
ments will need no further proof of
their co-operation in order to bor
row.”
“A list of all who have signed
production control agreements will
be made available to the Farm Cred
it Administration. Each production
credit association will have in its
possession the list of farmers co
operatng with the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration in the ter
ritory it serves, ami, therefore, will
know which farmers have signed a
greements. Thus, each farmer who
has not signed such, an agreement
wifi be required to obtain a state
ment from the county council to be
set up in each county by the AAA
with authority to issue certificates
respecting crop production by farm
ers who are not named on the list
'of co-operators. The production
credit associations will accept such
certificates as satisfactory evidence
that the persons to whom they arc
issued are not increasing their pro
duction in a manner detrimental to
the success of the program. 5 ”
“The close co-operation between
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration and the Farm Credit
Administration does not contemplate
an undue hardship on those who have
not joined production control asso
ciations,” stated Wm. I. Myers,
Governor of the Farm Credit. Ad
ministration. “It does look for
ward, however, to a co-ordination of
the efforts of these two agencies of
the Federal Government in hringing
about production control and the
co-operation of the agencies which
affect this control.”
The Farm Credit Administration
will handle all production credits
for the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture. All short time production
credit loan for Farm Credit Admin
istration will be affected by the a
bove information. ’Loans granted by
the Farm Credit A&ministration on
land nor long time ’leans will not be
affected by the above quoted infor
mation.
For more detail 'information, the
Farm Credit Administration will
handle all production loans relative
to crops and live stock made through
local Production Credit Association,
Intermediate Credit Bank, Regional
Agricultural Credit Association,
Crop Production Loan Office (com
monly called Seed and fertilizer
loan#)., etc.
Yours for service,
W. HILL HOSCH,
County Agent.
Cotton Adjustment
Contract Promotes
Balanced Farming
The cotton adjustment program
for the next two years as outlined
in the reduction contract now being
offered farmers of Gesrgia and the
Soufth, and which is receiving the
unqualified support of the grewers,
is more than a mere effort to re
duce the production of cotton. It
endeavors to help the growers set
up a balanced system of farming
such as agricultural leaders have de
scribed as being needed to make the
South permanently prosperous.
Reduction of the cotton acreage
by 40 per cent in 1934 will leave
land available for the production of
feed crops for home consumption,
and will allow the growing of soil
improving and erosion-preventing
crops which will aid the grower dur
ing future years to produce the
basic crops on less land. The con
tract further permits the landower
to set aside certain acreage for the
use of tenants in producing needed
supplies for their own use.
qtions, particularly (fine being the
rendition of the variation in which
arpeggios furnished the background.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
MONROE TO HONOR
EDITOR CALDWELL
Monroe, Ga. —Edward A. Cald
well, editor of the Waltdn News,
preacher and civic leader, will be
tendered a banquet by the citizens
of Monroe at the Hotel Monroe,
Than y. Jar. ny 25.
The dinner will be in recognition
and appreciation of Editor Caldwell’s
fifty years’ service as a newspaper
man, and is sponsored by the Mon
roe Kiwanis Club. Ernest Camp,
editor of the Walton Tribune, Mr.
Caldwell’s local contemporary, will
act as toastmaster.
Editor Caldwell was born in Mon
roe, July 8, 1872, the son of James
Monroe and Rebecca Maughon Cald
well, a member of a family into
which nine sons were born. He unit
ed with the Methodist Church when
a mere youth, and when about 18
years of age became a local minister
in his church.
During the intervening years he
has served as pastor of some of the
leading rural churches in Walton,
Morgan and Jackson Counties. Dur
ing his many years’ ministry he has
conducted 1,030 funerals, performed
678 marriage ceremonies and baptiz
ed 850 people.
He attended school less than a
year, but entered the office of the
Walton News as an apprentice at
the age of 7, pushing the roller a
cross the bed of an old Washington
hand press, and performing other
duties delegated to the priner’s
“devil.”
He became local editor of the
Walton News while yet in his teens,
and served as such until the paper
was purchased by C. G. Hester and
himself in 1931. He has served at
editor of the paper since that time,
and Mr. Hester as business manager-
Edibor Caldwell’s wife is one of
the most gracious and popular ma
trons of the community and his only
daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Caldwell Mc-
Dowell, is one of its loveliest young
women. An only son died a num
ber ®f years ago.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
A. Leakier-Training •meeting will
he held at Martin Institute Auditor
ium on Tuesday, January 3®ith, at
16 a. m. This meeting is planned to
gdt all '4-H Club, Home Demi-nstra
tron Club Officers and Project Chair
men together to give Ihem instruc
tinns as focal leaders.
Misses Willie Vie Dowdy, Susan
Mathews, Katherine Lanier, Lula
Bdwards and Lucile 'Turner will be
present ’from the Extension Division
in Athens to give instructions to the
local leaders.
Supt. T. T. Benton, will speak to
the group; also, Mr. Willie Hill
.Hosch, county agricultural "agent.
SARAH WHITAKER,
Home Demonstration Agent.
BOLTON—-FLANAGAN
Athens, Ga.—Announcement has
been made of the marriage of Miss
Pay Flanagan, of this city, and Mr.
Leonard Bolton, of Commerce. The
marriage was solemnized in Ander
son, S. C„ January 6, in the pres
ence of a few close friends. Mrs.
Bolton is the popular daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Flanagan, and
has been entertained at a number
of prenuptial parties.
Mr. Bolton is the son of itfrs. L.
J. Bolton, of Commerce, and follow
ing a wedding trip will be at home
to their friends in Commerce, where
the bridegroom is established in
business.
TUCKER—MACON
Mcßea, Ga.—-Mrs. Dora Lanier
Tucker, of Mcßae, announces the
marriage of her daughter, Susan
Virginia, to Horace Leonard Macoa,
the ceremony having been perform
ed Friday evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Gilmore, in At
lanta.
The bride is the daughter of the
late Memory James Tucker, of
Statham, and is the granddaugh
ter of Mrs. Susan Elder and Dr. O.
W. N. Lanier.
Friends of Mr. Ben Parks of Mays
ville will be pleased to learn he has
returned, to his home, after being
given surgical treatment at General
hospital.—Athens Banner-Herald.
MRS. J. B. CHEATHAM
CALLED HOME ABOVE
The stream is calmest when it nears
the tide,
And flowers are sweetest at even
tide,
And birds most musical at close of
day,
And saints divinest when they pass
away.
In the twilight hours of January
17th, 1934, the sainted spirit of
Mrs. Ella Garner Cheatham took its
abode in the heavenly jnansidr., af
ter an illness of some duration,
though she was only confined to her
bed for a short while. She bore her
suffering patiently, having abiding
faith in Him who doeth all things
well. She lived a life of usefulness
for nearly 82 years.
Another life is ended, another
home overshadowed; a mother, a
grandmother, a friend, has gone to
meet the Master she served so long
and so well.
And though for her the sun has set
’Neath the horizon here,
A shining star has risen there,
For all is well with her.
Sarah Ella Garner was the daugh
ter of Mr. 'and Mrs. James Monroe
Garner, and was married to Mr. J.
B. Cheatham when she was 26
years old, who passed away 24 years
ago.
To this union were born eight l
children, one dying in infancy.
Those surviving her, are: Mrs. Joel
Sitts, Roy Cheatham, Miss Montie
Cheatham, Jefferson; F.mory, Shreve
port, La.; Bob, Jasper, At*.; Jesse,
Toccoa; and Tom, Maysville.
To her children and grandchil-
dren she left a rich legacy in the
quiet and unassuming life she lived,
and only those who knew ber best
could fully appreciate her untiring'
devotion to her Bible., and to her
God, for whom she silently witness
ed. With her many .virtues sbe
builded her own monuments, and
left her loved ones pleasant memo
ries of<harlife, which shall be hand
ed down lii future generations to in
fluence them for goofi.
Even death has a wonderful mission.
Though it robs us of those we love,
It draw's us from our surroundings,
To long for the meeting above.
No matter how heavy your loss is, j
No matter how great your despair, i
Doesn’t Heaven seem nearer and,
brighter,
To know that some loved one isj
there?
She had been a loyal member of ;
the Baptist church for over 40|
years, .joining at Academy church,j
later moving her membership to j
Jefferson.
She was a consistent church mem-|
her. Asa friend and neighbor, she>
was loyal and true; but it was in her*
own home and the homes of her
children she counted for most. Her
advice was often sought by those
dear to her, and always wisely given.
Funeral services were conducted
at the First Baptist church, Jeffer
son, by her pastor, Rev. R. M. Rig
don, with comforting words. The
hymns so appropriate to the life
she lived were very impressive, “In
the Sweet Bye and Bye,” “How Firm
a Foundation,” and “Beautiful Isle
of Somewhere.”
The pall bearers were Messrs. H.
J. W. Kizer, Clifford Storey, Frank
Drake, Clarence Blackstock, Guy
Strickland, and W. W. Dickson.
The Senior Class of Martin Insti-
tute were honorary escorts.
The many and beautiful floral of
ferings bore silent messages, and
told of bow she was held by those
who knew her best.
Her remains were carried to the
family burying ground, and laid a
way near the same place where she
lived, where she was born, reared,
and where she was married —there i
to sleep beneath the fragrant flow
er covered mound until the resur
rection morn.
To the bereaved ones, we would
say—be of good courage, death is
not an ending of life; it is merely a
door way through which you must
pass in order to enter the glorious
and blissful haven of the spirit. The
same hand that marks the body for
death, also marks the spirit for life.
Mr. and Mrs. George Storey of
Athens, and Mr. and Mrs. Claud
Daniel of Jefferson, were her© Sun
day as the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Smith.—-Winder News.
Thursday, January 25, 1934.
JAMES W. ARNOLD
ACCUSED OF MURDER
Athens, Ga., Jan. 19.—James W.
Arnold, Republican national com
mitteeman from Georgia, Friday was
arrested on a charge of murder and
placed in the county jail here fol
lowing the shooting to death of
George Hawks, tenant farmer on Ar
nold’s Oconee County plantation,
late Thursday.
Arnold’s ariest followed the re
turning of a verdet by a coroner’s
jury earlier in the day which charg
ed the committeeman with the kill
ing.
Arnold issued a signed statement,
setting forth his version of the kill
ing of Hawks.
He said he left Athena with his
wife, his shotgun and a bird dog to
go to his plantation Thursday, in
tending to pay off his tenants and
hunt a covey of quail.
Arnold, said he had previously
sought to have Hawks and his fa
ther, Henry Banks, move away from
his place because they were unsatis
factory, but that he had been unable
to get them to leave.
Thursday, he said, he took out e
viction papers.
Arnold said he and his wife stop
ped at the tenant house and she
went in while he went to pay off his
hands. He said young Hawks ap
proached him with an ax handle,
threatening his life.
The committeeman said he called
to the elder Hawks to come and get
his son, but that the older man
sought to take a knife from his
pocket and called to George to “go
on and kill him.”
Arnold said he bucked away, but
the younger man kept coming, an/1
he fired one shot from his gun.
The sister of the dead youth was
said to be an sye witness to the af
fair,, and :she testified at the coro
ner’s jury hearing.
ARNOLD FREED BY GRAND
JURY
Watkrnsville, Ga., Jan. 22.—J. W.
Arnold was released tobay after the
dconec- county !grand .jury refused
to indi*:t him f©T the killing of Geo.
Hawks, young temnit farmer on his
.plantain n.
A m© bill wm returned by the
grand ijary after a tw and one-half
‘hour .ttucly of eridenc* presented by
'witnesses at its investigation, which
required a greater pant of the day.
Immediately upon the grand jury’s
inaction, .Judge Portson issued an or
der nSeasing Arnold from custody.
MRS- W. B. PATRICK
PASSES IN MONROE
The many relatives and friends
•of Mrs. W. B. Patrick will be sad
dened t*> learn of her death, which
occurred at her home in Monroe
; Friday, the 19th. The funeral was
conducted at the home Saturday af
ternoon at three-thirty o’clock by
her pastor, Rev. Clark, of the First
Baptist church, and Rev. Edd Cald-
well. She was laid to rest in the
Monroe cemetery. She leaves be
sides her devoted husband, seven
children, Miss Mamie, of Monroe,
Bert E. and Miles C. of Winder, Mrs.
Z. W. Howington of Shelby, N. C.,
Mrs. Tom Robertson and Hoyt Pat
rick, of Monroe; thirty-eight grand
children and four great grand chil
dren ; two sisters and one brother.
HUTCHESON IS NAMED
TO SUPREME COURT
Judge John Bell Hutcheson of
Jonesboro, for years judge of the
Stone Mountain circuit, has been!
appointed Associate justice of the
Georgia supreme court to succeed
the late Justice H. Warner Hill.
The appointment was announced
Sunday afternoon.
Early Monday morning James C.
Davis of Stone Mountain, a former
representative of DeKalb county, was
appointed to succeed Judge Hutche
son. Both of the new jurists were
administered their oaths of office
Monday morning,
Mrs. L. B. Isbell spent Sunday at
Wesley Memorial Hospital with Mr.
Isbell, who recently underwent an
operation for the removal of a cata
ract. Mr. Isbell’s condition is very
favorable, and he is expected home
probably the latter part of this week.
Vol. 59. No. 29.
MRS. J. S. SHERARD
DIES IN DECATUR
Mrs. Joe S. Sherard, aged 76,
died at her home in Decatur Thurs
day. Funeral services were held at
the home Friday, and interment was
in West View cemetery.
Mrs. Sherard was Miss Etnma
Winburn. She was a daughter of
“Uncle Billie” and Mrs. Winburn,
former citizens of Jefferson. She
was born and reared in Jefferson,
the Winburn home being on the
corner of Lawrenceville and Wash
ington streets. The residence was
burned several years ago, and the
lot is now owned by Mr. L. B. Is
bell.
Surviving Mrs. Sherard are two
daughters, Mrs. W. H. Pendergrass
and Mrs. C. 11. Bell, of Decatur; one
son, Leo Sherard, of Atlanta; two
sisters, Mrs. W. H. Arnold of In
dian Springs, and Mrs. W. A. Al
len of Atlanta, and two brothers,
W. R. Winburn, of Gainesville, and
D. D. Winburn of Lithonia. k
MR. WALTER W. PETHEL
Mr. Walter W. Pethel, 30, well
known Jackson County citizen, died
Saturday at his home at Talmo
following a lengthy illness. The
funeral services were held Sunday
morning at the Talmo Baptist
church, with Rev. George Collins of
ficiating, and interment was in the
cemetery there.
Bom in Jackson County, he had
made, his home here all all his life,
being identified with the religious
■and civic life of his community. He
was a member of the Baptist church
and the Woodmen of the World. He
is survived by two children, Winona
and Tarvis Pethel; two brothers, Al
ton Pethel, of Alto, and Lester
Pethel, of Talmo; a sister, Mrs.
Ralph Owen, of Gainesville, and his
mother, Mrs. R. C. Pethel, of 1 al
mo.
Martin Institute Wins
From Athens High
(By Reporter, in Athens Banner)
Martin Institute defeated the Ath
ens High school basketball quintet
here Saturday night in a fast and
hardfought game by the score of
37 to 18.
Although the score gives the Jef
ferson team a large margin, the
Maroons put up # a great fight, and
the game was much better than the
score indicates. It was the second
defeat that Athens has suffered at
the hands of Jefferson this season.
The game was smoothly played,
although numerous fouls were call
ed on the two teams. Twelve per
sonal fouls were called on the Ath
ens team, and the Martins had eight
called on them. Jefferson made eight
of their free throws good, while
Athens made six of their foul throws
good. Only one man, Guest of Ath
ens, was put out of the game on four
fouls.
Jefferson’s two griat little for
.vards, Duke and Doss, were out
standing players for their team, and
between them managed to get 26
points. Each shot 13 points, al
though neither played the entire
game.
On the defensive side of the game
the work of Culberson and Savage,
the two Jefferson guards, was un
excelled. Playing man-to-man de
fense, the Jefferson team took the
ball away from the Athens players
time after time, apd scored field
goals. x
Addison Beacham, Athens for
ward, was the high scorer for the
losers with seven points, although
Cooper with six, and Southerland
with five, followed closely behind.
Incidentally these three players
were the only ones to score for
Athens.
The lineups: t
Jefferson (37) Athens (18)
F.—Doss (13) Beacham (7)
F. Duke (13) , 7/ Clements
C. —Breazeale (3) _ South’and (5)
G. Culberson (6) Cooper (6)
G.—Savage (2) Guest
Substitutions: Athens, Wilfong
and Stegeman; Jefferson, Carroll,
Bailey and Higgins. j
Referee, Chapman (Georgia). ‘''
Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Carter, Mr. J.
B. Patrick and Mrs. J, O. Stockton
were in Monroe Saturday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. W. B. Patrick.