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W Neighbor* And Friend.
■ , Pe . c; ,!e Heirs In Oil Well Ca.e
H* (i r „n. Gainesville News)
■ ' : 'of interest to many
handed down re-
B ,], e district court of Rusk
Hl' tv Texas, regarding interest in
well lands in the M. J.
B ' j ~f Texas. The judg-
K ;I '.v.ir:<•,i to the heirs of Jesse
. former resident of Gills-
B L „vi: *19.000 and a one-fifth
; d<d interest in 80 acres of
jj, the center of the oil belt.
Hone these heirs are W. A. Miller
B Gl ;uville and his daughter, Mrs.
B ra Felker of New Orleans, C. J.
■ glkr , of Gillsville, Mrs. George
Hrwcil of Flowery Branch, H. W.
BaOeis of Toccoa, Lon, Enoch and
B Blackwell of Banks county. All
■ descendants of Jeddiah Black
■ of Franklin county, father of
Bsc Blackwell, who bequeathed
B acres in the True League to his
Bfe and certain children. Judge A.
B Wheeler of Gainesville represent-
B the heirs in the case, which is
Bbject to review by the supreme
Burt of Texas.
B Miss Mary Clark, 78, Die. At
K Tadmore
■ Aar: Mary Clark, 78, of Maysville
Bad in Tadmore District died at
last Thursday from heart
ov • Iropsy after an illness of
than a year. She had for
H ar < :a her home with her neph-
B Mr. Will T. Marlow. Aunt
wl'.n -pent most of her life in
Bicfoon minty, was a Christian wo-
Han of the old fashioned school,
Kred ar.k n-pected by all who knew
Her. She has no brothers or sisters
Hurviving her. She was a sister of
■he late Roe Clark, Civil Wat
Beteran, and of James Clark, who
■esided many years in Tadmore Dis-
Btrid. The funeral was held at
■Center Grove Friday at 11:30, Rev.
■H. G. Jarrard conducting, and in-
Hterme.nr at the Center Grove ceme
tery.
Gives Prisoners Good Food
(From Banks County Journal)
Warden Bert Hancock has several
acres planted in garden truck for
his men. The vegetables are about
ready for use, and will be a great
help in feeding the convicts. He
gave the convicts a barbecue on
July 4th. There has been times
when the convicts of this county
were not fed according to law and
otherwise treated very brutally, but
Warden Hancock treats the men un
ter his care in a humane manner
ttd gives them proper food as the
bw provides.
* * * *
Mrs. Seagraves And Sister Die At
Same Hour
(From Commerce News)
Mrs. B. D. Seagraves died at a
hospital in Athens Wednesday, July
Fourth, after an illness of ten days.
At the same hour, her sister, Mrs. J.
k Sanders, died at her home near
Dawson. Neither knew the other
wa * sick, it is said. They were the
daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs.
• H. Barnett of Clarke county,
he double funeral and interment
at Buena Vista church, in
adison county, Thursday afternoon
at 4 o’clock, the Rev. Thomas of
tlanta officiating.. Mrs. Seagraves
® survived by her husband; three
aughters, Mrs. Woodrow Minish,
and Miss Bobbie Lou Seagraves, of
Commerce; Miss Nell Seagraves, of
hens; and one son, Hugh Dorsey
‘■'Oagraves of Commerce.
D °n t Go Courting On Jefferson-
Athens Road
(From Athens Times)
Don’t do your courting on the
efferson road after this—you’re
to get caught. There was a
/ •’' interesting story in the paper
‘couple of days ago about the pe
lons being introduced before the
Meeting of the Clarke county board
commissioners.
f -.izens along the Jefferson road
complaining of “excess court
on the old unpaved road. Thej
la-j- '°' !ce Patrol the road regu
retr>ember some years ago at
ununc i school when students came
j n a ' Athens to have a vacation —
a studying—and frolicked
’ more than they do now.
( many parked cars out
‘ e Jefferson road that it looked
ornpkin street during a big
SINGLE COPY sc.
Forty New Books At Club
Library
Following is a list of the 40 new
books purchased by the Woman’s
club for the library:
A White Bird Flying, Aldrich.
Crippled Lady of Peribonka, Cur
wood.
Satin Straps, Maysie Grieg.
Kindled Flame, Margaret Pcdler.
The White Cockatoo, M. G. Eber
hart.
Mystery of the Frightened Lady,
Wallace.
Swift Water, Emilie Loring.
The Jackson Trail, Max Brand.
Fair Tomorrow, Emilie Loring.
Pirates Purchase, Ben Ames Wil-
liams.
Murder by an Aristocrat, M. G.
Eberhart.
Lonesome Ranch, Chas. Seltzer.
The Arranway Mystery, Edgar
Wallace.
Murder at Wrides Park, J. S.
Fletcher.
Love’s a Puzzle, Faith Baldwin.
Money Musk, Ben Ames Wiliams.
Undertow, A. Hamilton Gibbs.
An End to Mirth, Ben Ames Wil
liams.
Path of True Love, Margaret C.
Banning.
There’s Always Another Year,
Martha Ostein.
Wild Wind, Temple Bailey.
Bitter Heritage, Margaret Pedler.
The Door, Mary R. Rinehart.
The Round Up, Clarence Mulford.
Desert Sand, Margaret Pedler.
White Collar Girl, Faith Baldwin.
Jonathon Daughter, Lida Larri
more.
Lantern in Her Hand, Bess
Streeter Aldrich.
Robin Hill, Lida Larrimore.
Dancing Lady, James Bellah.
All the King’s Horses, Margaret
Widdemer.
The Great Abduction, Arthur
Somers Rache.
Keeper of the Keys, Earl Derr
Biggers.
Kroal Baby, Cynthia Stockley.
Comrades of the Storm, Peter B.
Kyne.
Murder at Hazelmoor, Agatha
Christie.
Enchanted Ground, Temple Bail
ey.
Girl Into Woman, Sophi Kerr.
Gay Courage, Emilie Loring.
Whispering Valley, Robt. Ormond
Case.
The above books will be rented at
5c per week. The library is open
each Tuesday from 4 till 5.
Mrs. J. D. Escoe, Librarian.
Election For Sheriff Of
Barrow County
Sheriff H. 0. Camp of Barrow
county has tendered his resignation
to Ordinary B. C. Hill, preparatory
to taking up his work as deputy
marshall of the Northern district of
Georgia. Sheriff Camp has held of
for 20 years, being the only sheriff
Barrow county has had. He has
made a model officer, and relinquish
es his post with the good will and
sincere respect of all classes of peo
ple. His son, Clay Camp, has been
named acting sheriff until a special
election is held. The election has
been called for August 15.
It is currently reported that there
will be quite a number of candidates
seeking the office which Sheriff Camp
has vacated. Among those who
have publicly announced for the of
fice are: Frank Healan, Roy C.
Hardigree, H. G. Hill, J. T. Williams
and Willis McDaniel. In addition
to these a large number of others
have let it be known that they will
be candidates for the office and their
announcements will doubtless be
made within the next week or so.
Figues just released by the Tal
lulah Falls Railway show that its
net operating income for the month
of May, 1934, was $622.31. Net
operating income for first five
months of the year was $366.66.
This is the first time, we are advised,
that the railway has shown a profit
covering operations over a period in
any year since September, 1930.
football game. A favorite pastime
of the high school contingent was to
ride along this road very swiftly and
yell out that it was after eleven
o’clock at the parked cars. . -The
sound of cars cranking up sounded
like the warming-up of the Indiana
polis speedway.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
EXTRACT FROM
SPEECH OF JUDGE
CLAUD C. PITTMAN
Judge Pittman then turned his
fire on the governor’s part in the
administration of the affairs of the
board of control with reference to
the state hospital at Milledgeville,
charging that during the first year
of Governor Talmadge’s administra
tion deaths among inmates of the
hospital increased from 163 to 1932
to 270 in 1933 and attacking finan
cial transactions between the gover
nor and the board of control which
he said cost the people of the state
several hundred dollars.
He attacked the governor for re
ducing the appropriation to the in
stitution and for his instructions tc
the board of control to pay up back
debts of the hospital and absorb
those payments in six months.
“The governor of Georgia is an
ex-officio member of the board of
control of that institution, and all
other public institutions,” Judge
Pittman said. “Section 35 of the re
organization act of 1931 specifically
declares that ‘no member of the
board of control directly or indirect
ly shall sell or buy from any insti
tution under its control or supervis
ion’. This provision was wisely put
into effect to prevent favoritism or
fraud in the management of our
eleemosynary institutions. Also it
wisely provided for this invasion of
members of the board trading with
themselves to stimulate competition
among those who were selling to the
public institutions of the state.
“Hon. J. Howard Ennis, of Mil
ledgeville, at this time had a quar
terly contract duly executed for the
sale of all beef to this instiution at
.0485 per pound dressed. Prior to
the appointment of E. E. Lindsey,
chairman of the board of control, all
supplies for our public instiutions
were purchased in the open market
and the ward for the supplies being
made to the lowest bidder. In abso
lute disregard to the law and of the
custom to stimulate competition and
quality to be received by these in
stitutions, he bought a carload of
scrub hogs consisting of 102 hogs
from the Talmadge farm and they
were shipped from Scotland to Mil
ledgeville on September 29. There
were 102 hogs in this car averaging
No. 3 grade. The freight collected
in the amount of $47.85. At that
time the state sanitarium was being
supplied with No. 1 grade hogs from
Toomsboro and from Baldwin coun
ty farmers at 3 cents per pound de
livered. The market on No. 3 grade
hogs at that time was 2 1-2 cents
per pound. E. E. Lndsey paid Tal
madge 4 cents per pound for that
carload of hogs, thus making Tal
madge a present out of the state
treasury of the taxpayers’ money of
$349.35 for that one car of hogs.
At the same time he purchased a
carload of scrub cattle from the
Eugene Talmadge farm, consisting
of 49 head of cattle, weighing 24,770
pounds. At that time cattle were
being purchased from Baldwin coun
ty farms at 2 cents per pound, and
the low bidder on the meat contract,
Hon. J. Howard Ennis, was furnish
ing dressed meat to the state sani
tarium at .485 per pound. Eugene
Talmadge demanded that he be paid
3 cents per pound for the cattle on
foot. These cattle were shipped to
him and he refused to pay 3 cents
per pound for the cattle and noti
fied Talmadge to that effect, where
upon E. E. Lindsey settled with Eu
gene Talmadge, whereby the board
of control paid the freight on the
car, which amounted to about S4B,
and in addition wrote Talmadge a
check for $179. In that deal E. E.
Lindsey took approximately $225
out of the taxpayers’ pocket and
gave it to Eugene Talmadge.
“If Talmadge is such a great
friend of the farmers and cattle
raisers of Georgia, why should he
seek to make secret contracts with
the chairman of the board of con
trol for his cattle at a higher price
than the other farmers of the state
were receiving for theirs. And why,
in his eagerness, to take advantage
of his official position, to violate the
law that is specifically prohibited in
state officials or any member of this
board from so doing?
Claims No Taxes
“Now in his Bainbridge speech he
said he shipped this cattle because
he wanted to save the terriffic pro
cessing tax to the instiution. I do
not know whether it was a wilful
misunderstanding of the fact of the
McHATTON HEADS
HOMESTEAD PLAN
Athens, Ga.—The appointment of
Dr. T. H. McHatton, of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture, as
manager of the Chancellorville
Homestead project in Jasper and
Putnam counties, was announced in
Washington today by the division of
subsistence homesteads.
As manager. Mr. McHatton will
work out details for the project and
will have charge of the 16,000-acre
tract in the lower Piedmont section
of Georgia which will be built with
a $2,500,000 grant of public works
money. One hundred families will
form the nucleus of the project.
The project contemplates a back
to-the-farm movement in the estab
lishment of units of 50 acres for
each family, of which 30 acres would
be arable and the remainder mar
ginal and forest lands.
The hundred families would thus
take up 5,000 of the 16,000 acres,
leaving 11,000 acres to be handled
from a community standpoint or as
cropping areas for the maintenance
farms.
Each farm is to be equipped with
a residence, barn, hog house, poultry
houses, farm machinery and animals
to th| value of $4,000. More than
l,2oorfarm families have applied for
accommodations.
The plan includes eventful pur
chase by the tenants, but in the
meantime it will be a self liquidat
ing project to be liquidated within
30 years with an interest rate of
3Va per cent.
Erosion Project Selects
Fifty-Six Workers
Noble M. Patrick, Allen L. Ven
able and Frary Elrod of Jefferson,
Ernest W. Jackson, T. H. Massey
and L. P. Duncan of Commerce, are
among those who have been select
ed to report for work on the Sandy
Creek soil erosion project. Fifty
six men and boys have been chosen
to begin work building check dams
and. erosion control structures in
gullies, under direction of Engineer
O. E. Hughes. Loy E. Rast is re
gional drector. Lamar Green, Ath
ens, and James Donald, Calhoun,
have been named terrace foremen
for the project, and the laying out
of terrace lines began last week on
the farm of J. O. M. Smith near Ila.
The selection of the 56 men, it
was explained, was made from ap
plications which have been filed at
the office, and several factors were
taken into consideration in choosing
the workers. As much consideration
as possible was given boys who need
ed funds with which to continue or
begin their college education, and
experience played a large part in
the selection, as some of the men
will be trained to supervise soil e
rosion work in other sections of the
state with the co-operation of the
Emergency Relief administration
and rural rehabilitation work in
Georgia. Many of those given work
are in need, it was pointed out, and
others will be added to the force
from time to time.
2,500 CATTLE IN GEORGIA
Atlanta, Ga.—Approximately 2,-
500 head of beef cattle have been
shipped from Kansas City to Geor
gia.
tax or his ignorance. There was and
is no processing tax on cattle sold
eleemosynary institutions and if he
doesn’t know it, he ought to know it.
“Around the first of February this
year E. E. Lindsey bought a car of
scrub cattle from Taxicab John
Whitley, consisting of 37 head. It
was billed to the state sanitarium as
weighing 22,030 pounds, but actual
ly weighed only 15,730 pounds. This
car arrived in Milledgeville on Feb
ruary 4, and E. E. Lindsey paid
Whitley 3 cents per pound, which
was 1 cent above the market price
for such cattle, and in addition to
this he paid the freight which a
mounted to approximately SSO. The
net weight of the car of cattle after
butchering, was 7,250 pounds. Un
der the contract then existing with
the low bidder for furnishing cattle
to the state instiution the same a
mount of beef wouldn’t have cost
the state about $375. In that deal
E. E. Lindsey took from the pockets
of the taxpayers of this state a
round $270 and put it in John Whit
ley’s pocket.”
Thursday, July 12, 1934.
NEW DEAL GETS
BIG MAJORITY IN
DIGEST POLL
New York, July 7.—The final re
turns on the Literary Digest’s poll of
public opinion on President Roose
velt’s acts and policies, on the whole,
show that three out of every five
persons approve.
Of the poll taken in forty-eight
states, Vermont was alone in regis
tering disapproval. This opinion
was held by 53 per cent of those
balloting.
The total number of votes cast
was 1,772,163, divided between 1,-
083,752 for the general policies of
the New Deal and 688,411 against
them.
The greatest switch from Roose
velt was shown in South Carolina,
with California showing the great
est swing over 14 per cent to him.
In six special polls conducted
among bankers, the clergy, business
men, educators, lawyers and physi
cians, all groups voted in favor of
the New Deal with the exception of
the bankers.
The bankers voted 13,795 to 12,-
528 against the general acts and
policies of the President.
In the other groups the percent
ages in favor of the New Deal were:
Clergy, 54 per cent; business men,
56 per cent; educators, 67 per cent;
lawyers, 53 per cent, and physicians,
56 per cent.
ADVISORS CHOSEN
ON NEW FARM ACT
IN THIS DISTRICT
A commission to advise farmers of
the Northern District of Georgia on
the recently enacted bankruptcy law
was appointed by Federal Judge E.
Marvin Underwood late Saturday.
The commissioners, serving in the
forty-four counties of the Northern
District, will help farmers to invoke
provisions of the bankruptcy act ap
proved by congress March 3, 1933,
and amended June 7, 1934, with re
spect to securing an extension or
compromise settlement of their
debts.
The farmer may apply to the
commissioner of his county to call a
meeting of his creditors and make a
composition settlement of debts, or
make an extension of the time of
payment.
According to the act, the court
confirms the proposal of bankruptcy
if it is a feasible method of liquida
tion for secured creditors, if it fi
nancially rehabilitates the farmer; is
to the best interest of creditors, and
is “offered and accepted in good
faith.”
Col. G. W. Westmoreland of Jef
ferson was appointed as conciliation
commissioner for Jackson county;
Gordon Logan for Banks, R. H. Kim
ball for Barrow, Hope Stark for
Gwinnett, John M. Johnson for Hall.
Jefferson Has A Run-Away
Mule Excitement
Jefferson had the unique occur
rence Saturday afternoon of two
run-a-way mules. It is so seldom
that a mule is to be seen on the
streets, and especially on Saturday
afternoons, when every thoroughfare
is lined with automobiles; therefore,
a run-a-way mule was a novelty.
The mule, hitched to a buggy (an
other rare occurrence) and tied to
a post (a thing we did not know ex
isted) became frightened, puiled up
the post and started at break-neck
speed down Sycamore street. In his
flight he collided with another mule
and buggy, and the spectators had
the rare opportunity of witnessing
two run-a-way animals. They reach
ed the bridge at the foot of Syca
more street before being stopped.
Just how they succeeded in avoid
ing a collision with more than one
automobile is more than we can un
derstand.
MR. GEORGE CASH IS TAKEN
BY DEATH
Mr. George Cash, 74, died on
Monday, June 25, at the home of
his son, Mr. Homer Cash, in Candler.
Funeral and interment occurred
Wednesday at Union church, Hall
county.
Surviving Mr. Cash are nine chi.-
dren and four brothers. One of the
brothers is Mr. Milton Cash of Jack
son county.
Vol. 60. No. 1.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(By Leila Bates, Home Dem. Agt.)
All-day canning short courses with
each club in the county was started
July 2. Brockton, Hoschton, Long
View, Jackson Trail and Apple Val
ley girls 4-11 clubs have had their
short courses. In most cases good
attendance has been shown. It is
important that members take advan
tage of these short courses, for food
preservation is ar. important part of
the club program. It will be im
possible for the agent to give more
than one day during the summer to
each club in canning. It would be a
fine thing if each member would
bring one non-club member to these
meetings, so that the work may be
more far reaching.
• • * *
Gladys Kimbrough writes in the
Farm Journal: We suggest a code
for one of the more important of
the home industries-canning. She
suggests the following home canncr’s
code: “I agreo to can a sufficient a
mount of fruits and vegetables to
round out a low cost adequate diet
for my family. An adequate diet in
cludes two servings of fruita and
two of vegetables for each member
of the family each day of the year.
“I agree to can by plan. The plan
will necessitate making a list of all
the locally grown fruits and vege
tables which may be canned; the
number of weeks or months each is
available in the raw state; the num
ber of quarts of each that should be
canned in order to furnish a year
round supply.
“I agree to can by rule, so that I
can be positive that my home can
ned products will be attractive in
appearance, natural in flavor and
color, and of highest possible food
value.”
* * * *
Every family in Jackson county
should work out a canning budget
for the family, and strive to fill that
budget. The requirements per per
son per year of canned foods is:
vegetables, 28 quarts. Dried fruits
may be substituted for canned ones;
one poundd of dried fruit being
equivalent to about 3 quarts of can
ned fruits. The family requirement
may easily be found by multiplying
the requirement for one by number
members in family.
* * * *
The county home demonstration
council met Tuesday, July 3, with
seven members present. The coun
cil voted to send Mrs. Bob Griffeth
of Plain View community to Camp
Wilkins for farm and home week,
July 30, August 4.
* * * *
The state federation of county
home demonstration council will
hold the annual meeting Thursday,
August 2, beginning at 8.30 o’clock,
in the auditorium on Co-ordinate
College Campus. This is during
farm and home week, and it is
hoped that a number of club women
will go over to Athens just for the
day if they cannot arrange to go for
the week.
Friday, July 13, is guest day at
the girls 4-H club camp at Thyatira.
Parents of the girls, club members,
county commissioners, and members
of the board of education are invit
ed to visit the camp on Friday.
* * * *
The flavor of canned berries will
be fine if sugar is used in canning;
it is best to make this into a syrup.
The use of berry juice instead of
water in this syrup will give a richer
color and flavor. For fine berries,
use a No. 3 syrup (6 1-3 cups sugar
to 1 gal. water or berry juice.)
After the berries have been careful
ly sorted and lightly washed, pack as
closely as possible without crushing.
Fill jars of fruit to within one
quarter of an inch the top, and
cover with cooled syrup. Fit rub
bers, and then lie, loosely on glass
jar and process, pints, 6 minutes,
quarts 12 minutes, counting the
time after boiling begins.
An educational conference, com
posed of county and city school su
perintendents, teachers, laymen and
club women is being held this week
at the State University Summer
School. The conference is asking
for a modern, adequate supported
educational system for the state.
Mrs. Charles Center, president of
the Georgia P. T. A., presided over
the opening session.