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The Jackson Herald
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I Jtenl , Of Interest Among Our
■ W ' Ne-Shbor. And Friend.
! :,I “ Dunf>ho ° Killed By
R Lightning
B tK , onl Winder News)
■ Dunahoo was killed by
R Friday afternoon at
If her brother, Mr. Eugene
R niiii Mi.- Dunahoo with other
■ the family were sitting
■ , ......,!-i when a bolt of light
■ , . .’ K a tree near the porch
Kjumped to her body killing her
Mis.- Dunahoo was about
■ of age and is survived by
R e ‘ brothers, Messrs. Eugene, W.
■ , in(l ,| 0( . Dunahoo, and several
Lews and nieces. Funeral ser
■ , were held Sunday afternoon
L the heme of her brother, Mr.
■ H Dunanoo, being conducted by
| v , Otis Cruce and Mr. Rich Hay
■ Interment was in the family
Rnetery.
I** • *
■ New Sweet Potato Brought To
I Eagle
I | (From Gainesville Eagle)
Blhe first new sweet potatoes in
■is section are claimed to have been
■own by Green Hunter, colored
Racher here and who is 85 years
R Uncle Green, as he is known
Ron? his white folks, said he was
R:in? sweet potatoes by July 4 and
R that day celebrated the day by
Rving a sliced potato pie.
■| Monroe Visitors
H iFrom Walton News)
|H\( : Ross, of Fort Lauder
e. phas arrived to be the
>• parents, Mr. and Mrs.
V Alien. She will be join-
■ week by Colonel Ross,
f, re they will attend the
Fair at Chicago. Mr. and
F.- have hundreds of admir-
R e fr a-. . who are always glad to
them.
HR Mr. :i , Truutt, of Pendergrass,
' of Editor and Mrs. Ed
C.. ■ Sunday, and was given
most- ai. happy welcome. Mr.
an up-to-date ser-
Hice station some few miles out
Jt-ifersun on the Jefferson-
RCa.::- highway, and receives a
- jiutr inage that he greatly ap-
Rireciates.
R
I Likes Cheese
R i From Sandersville Progress)
RAn old colored man named Jim
who works on Mr. Charlie
Rlordan's farm, one mile north of
ville, was in Mr. C. A. Ad-
store one day last week and
with wistful eyes the open-
R t a fresh block of cheese. He
.i he had never had as much
to eat as he wanted, when a
ig salesman asked him how
he could eat at one time. He
Applied that he could devour about
Rhree pounds. The traveling sales-
Run then agreed to pay for that
Ruantity if he would eat it, and Jim
R?reed to undertake the task. Three
Rounds were cut off and given to
Rim and a curious crowd watched
Rie proceedings, as he chewed and
■fallowed. Within a short time the
Rtrce pounds disappeared, and Jim
■then agreed to eat a pound of candy
R a chaser. Two half-pound sticks
*ere given to hhn and they went
file same way as the cheese. Some
Predicted that this unusual feast
*oul<i result in the old colored man’s
death, but the next morning he was
*t work in the cotton patch, and
l*ter came to town and offered to
re Peat the performance, but no one
*°uld back up his voracious appe
tite.
Sailors-Baxley
I (From Commerce News)
1 The marriage of Miss Leona Sail
|ps to Allen Baxley of Waynesboro
f* solemnized Saturday evening,
■l’ a t 7 o’clock at the Madison
pastorium by the Rev. M.
I Smith. Mrs. Baxley is the
I “?hter of J. R. Sailors of Com
|®eret Mr. Baxley is the son of
I* and Mrs. E. J. Baxley of Way
|fl? 0ro ’ cou Pl e will make
I e ' r h.,nie in Commerce.
|| Escaped Convict is Caught in
i Commerce
| Pierce, Commerce Negro,
I a Ptd from the Jackson county
'• mp Wednesday evening a
clock, and was recaptured
'" r ‘ -?ht the same evening by
* m Lord and Ralph Lewis.
' e * who had been incarcerated
J Months ago to serve a twelve
SINGLE COPY sc.
Campaign Opened To
Save Key West, Florida
Key West, Fla.—Florida’s one
time largest city, Key West, today
was in the hands of a “receiver,”
who will exploit its sunshine and
picturesque tropical scenery in an
attempt to economically revive the
city.
“The thing to do,” said Julius F.
Stonq, federal relief administrator
for Florida, who took over the
stranded city and county, “is to
make Key West so attractive as to
revive tourist trade and bring back
lost prosperity. Key West should be
made the ‘Bermuda’ of Florida.”
Industry Shifts
Shifting of industry, the removal
of a navy base and an army base,
the fact that air lines flew over
Key West with most of the passen
ger traffic, and the New Orleans-
Havana sea train taking most of the
freight had reduced the plight of the
citizens of Key West and Monroe
county so that a state of emergency
was declared.
The city council of Key West and
the county commissioners of Mon
roe county, in resolutions, yielded
their legal rights and asked Gover
nor Dave Sholtz to take charge.
Governor Sholtz called in the FERA.
Rather than placing the inhabit
ants on direct relief rolls or moving
them to some other city, such as
Miami or Tampa, Administrator
Stone decided that the best method
would be to plan projects that would
make the people self-sustaining a
gain. This would be the best as a
business proposition for relief cost
for the next five years would be
$2,000,000.
Key West is the southernmost
city of the United States. Situated
on a coral island as part of the Flori
da keys, it was born of the sea and
for years prospered on trade and
fishing industries. Gradually these
industries shifted. Cigar factories
that had employed 10,000 moved to
Tampa; sponge fishers went to more
profitable waters; abandonment of
the naval base meant a $500,000 loss
annually.
The population dropped from 18,-
000 in 1920 to 12,000 in 1930.
More than half the present citizens
are on relief rolls.
“From 1,400 to 1,500 families
must be cared for immediately to
prevent starvation and disease,”
Governor Sholtz reported in asking
for federal aid. “There can be no
greater emergency than that which
now confronts these people.’
Outstanding Player Contest
Warming Up
The race for the most outstanding
player in the Georgia Piedmont Lea
gue of baseball players is warming
up.
Carl Stuart, Jefferson hurler and
heavy hitter, Klip Costa, M hitehall
second baseman, and Charlie Arnold,
Statham backstop, are in a tie as far
as points go. All three have 5,000
votes to their credit.
The center fielders are having a
hot race. Bill Giles continued to
lead the poll and now has 9,000
points. E. B. Thompson, Good
Hope manager, came out of nowhere
to move inte second place. Thomp
son has 7,000 points. Red Dickens
and Woodie Gann, pitchers for the
Bishop and Athens teams respective
ly, are having a hot battle for the
pitching honors. Dickens has to his
credit 6,000 points while Gann is
only 500 behind.
The voting has improved steadily
and before the contest closes, Au
gust 1, a real battle for the gold
baseball and places on the all-star
team appear certain.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith of
Greenville, S. C., were guests of
their mother, Mrs. Ida Smith, for a
brief visit Sunday.
months sentence on conviction of
charges of disorderly conduct, was
working in the field at the penal
camp when he made his break for
freedom. He made his way to
Commerce, and was caught at his
brother’s home at midnight behind
the old oil mill. Officers Lord and
Lewis made the arrest, ending the
eight hour search for the escaped
convict. The Negro still has ten
more months to serve on his sen
tence. ,
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
‘None Starving in Georgia,’
Says Miss Shepperson
“There is no one today starving
in Georgia.”
This was the statement of Miss
Gay B. Shepperson, Georgia federal
relief administrator, who Celebrates
this week the first year of her ad
ministration.
“We have not made tremendous
progress, but we have certainly re
lieved absolute need,” the tall, able
federal administrator said.
Miss Shepperson, who is the only
woman relief administrator in the
country, believes that there is anew
feeling of confidence and hope a
mong the unemployed.
“The frantic attitude has left the
persons we have on relief now,” Miss
Shepperson said. “A year ago they
were desperate.”
Miss Shepperson pointed out that
the federal relief program has set
tled down to well-organized purposes
and is no longer simply “a doling-out
agency.”
“Opportunity to the needy to help
themselves is the keynote of our
efforts now,” the relief administra
tor said.
“The rural rehabilitation program
is based on this idea. Give a man
land, a home, a mule, cow and
chickens and he can get on his own
feet.”
Miss Shepperson said there were
1,000 Georgia families under the
rural rehabilitation program at
present and she expected to have
10,000 on the program by Novem
ber.
She further pointed out that some
50,000 gardens have been establish
ed in various parts of the state work
ed by persons on relief rolls. Can
ning plants have also been establish
ed everywhere, she said.
Miss Shepperson said that the
greatest problem in relief adminis
tration involved the large percentage
—something like 50 per cent of the
total—who are above the ages of 45
for women and 50 for men.
These persons are unable easily
to readjust themselves to industry
or commercial life, if at all, she said.
The administrator said that the
present relief rolls numbered about
75,000 families for Georgia, with
two-thirds of them on direct and
the other third on work relief.
Miss Shepperson would make no
prophecy of the future of the feder
al relief program.
“It is too big a problem to try to
follow out to what it all will come
to,” she said. “We can at least go
ahead with the assurance that a real
need is being met, which is a direct
responsibility.”
Mississippi Votes Dry
First of the states to ratify the
eighteenth amendment, and first of
the southern states to submit the
question to voters since repeal of
national prohibition, Mississippi de
cided Tuesday to remain dry, as she
has been for the past 25 years.
That is, she will be dry as far as
legal hard liquor is concerned, the
vote having been almost 3to 1. The
last legislature legalized 4 per cent
beer, but one county, Jefferson Dav
is, voted against that in Tuesday’s
referendum.
Only 13 of the 82 counties want
ed hard liquor legalized, and they
were located in the river, coast and
delta sections of the state.
MRS. J. B. PINSON AND
MR. ELMORE HOLMES
WIN THEATRE MONEY
The largest crowd ever assembled
in a Jefferson theatre was present
Monday night at the Roosevelt to
witness that excellent picture, “The
Life of Virgie Winters,” and to be
present at the final drawing of S2OO.
Every seat was taken for the first
performance, and the overflow crowd
was sufficient to fill the building for
the second show.
The interest and excitement oc
casioned by the drawing of S2OO
was tense. Several numbers Were
drawn before the holder of the lucky
ticket answered to his name, and
SIOO went to Mrs. J. B. Pinson, and
SIOO to Mr. Elmore Holmes.
The manager of the Roosevelt,
Mr. S. C. Ware, has won many
friends in Jefferson. He is giving
the people the newest shows, and
they are showing their appreciation
by giving him a large attendance.
Jackson County Camp
Home For Homeless
Georgia has five transient treat
ment centers, known as a Transient
Bureau, under the direction of Ma
jor J. Arthur Flynn. The bureau
maintains four camps. These camps
are located at Commerce, Augusta
and Savannah, and one for negroes
at Fort Benning. The duties of the
Transient Bureau is to care for the
floating population, victims of the
depression who wonder about in
futile effort to find work. At pres
ent there are said to be 5,000, half
of them in family groups, who are
seeking aid.
Railroad detectives, magistrates,
travelers’ aid society representa
tives and relief officials send home
less persons to the bureau.
They are first registered. The
next step is a physical examination,
showers, shaves and haircuts, clothes
if needed, and living quarters in a
bureau lodging. Family groups are
kept intact.
Then comes the task of determin
ing what the transient wants to do
with himself or herself. They are
offered free transportation home, or,
if they wish to remain, provisions
are made for taking care of them
until work can be found.
Those who want to stay are given
work relief in the cities, direct re
lief if aged or disabled. Later, if
capable of such life, they are assign
ed to one of the above named camps.
“We know that a great many trav
el about from an inner restlessness
and spirit of adventure,” Major
Flynn said, “Especially the young.
Twelve per cent of transients regis
tered stay only 24 hours.”
Six per cent of the registered
transients are college-trained men
and 80 per cent of them have had
high ‘'school education or better.
All professions, trades and occu
pations are represented among the
bureau’s wards. Twenty-two per
cent of single men are under 21 and
10 per cent are over 50.
Every state in the union is repre
sented among the transient popula
tion cared for in this state.
G-. orgia bureau records show that
15 per cent of single men return to
their homes, 22 per cent of single
women return and 26 per cent of
families. The rest remain or wan
der away after a short stop with the
bureau’s agencies.
Operated under the Georgia Fed
eral Emergency Administration, the
transient bureau spends about $90,-
000 a month in its work.
WINDER MAN FOUND DEAD
NEAR SUWANEE
Mr. Leno Young of Winder, was
found dead near Suwanee last week.
His body was lying beside the rail
road tracks and it is believed he lost
his life in an attempt to catch a
train. Mr. Young was about thirty
years old and is survived by a wife
and one child of Duluth, his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Young and
several brothers and sisters of Win
der, and a brother, Mr. Leo \oung
of Commerce.
STATE CHEMIST ROW IN COURT
Controversy between Governor
Talmadge and G. C. Adams, com
missioner of agriculture, as to who
is state chemist in the Department
of Agriculture, resolved itself Fri
day into a legal battle that will be
fought out in the courts.
Quo warranto proceedings, filed
Thursday afternoon in the DeKalb
Superior Court, will be heard July
28 before Judge James C. Davis, at
Decatur.
BOYKIN—CARTLEDGE
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cartledge of
Atlanta have announced the mar
riage of their daughter, Genelle, to
Mr. Thomas Cooper Boykin. The
ceremony was performed July 9 at
the parsonage of the First Metho
dist church in Gainesville, Rev.
George M. Acree officiating. Mr.
and Mrs. Cartledge once made their
home in Jefferson.
FARMER—TURNER
Mrs. J. A. Farmer, of Nicholson,
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Mattie Elizabeth, to Rob
ert Leroy Turner, of Athens, the
marriage to take place at an early
date.
Thursday, July 19, 1934.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(Leila Bates, Home Dem. Agt.)
The girls 4-H club camp was held
at Thyatira, July 11, 12, 13. The fol
lowing girls attended the camp:
Winnie Merle Pettyjohn, Talmo;
Elizabeth Hood, Jefferson; Mary
White and Mary Ethel Deadwyler,
Maylsville; Katherine Wallace, Nich
olson; Bernice Webb, Plain View;
Nona Lee Hawks, Jackson Trail;
June Lott, Hoschton; Zelma Redd
ing, Eva Black, Bold Springs; Sara
Sell, Hazel Peebles, Lizzie Ruth
Fambrough, Long View; Christine
Wilkes, Brockton.
Camp opened Wednesday after
noon at four o’clock. The girls went
swimming, after which they enjoyed
a picnic supper. The group was led
in an impressive vesper service by
Mr. Thomason, Pastor of First Meth
odist Church, Jefferson.
Games were played until dark, a
short conference with the hyme
demonstration agent followed, and
the day was ended by the singing of
taps.
The parts as they appeared on
the program on Thursday were:
Swimming and hiking, breakfast,
cleaning and inspection of camp;
health demonstration, food preser
vation, music appreciation, lunch,
rest and quiet hour; Reading, illus
trated lecture ir. marketing, swim
ming, supper, with the county of
ficials as guests, Vespers, games,
stunts, and taps.
Friday’s program was just as full,
with swimming, breakfast, table eti
quette demonstration, yeast bread
making demonstration, music appre
ciation, lunch with parents, friends
and council members as guests; as
sembly for final part of bread mak
ing demonstration; awarding of
prize in music contest, assembly of
County Home Demonstraton Coun
cil, with Miss Nixon Mobley in
charge of a musical recreation hour.
The camp broke at 3 p. m.
Miss Mobley endeared herself in
the hearts of the girls at camp by
the splendid talented way in which
she led them in their daily class in
music. The girls were asked to
write a paragraph in music. Mary
Ethel Deadwyler was awarded a
leather photograph album for first
place.
Mrs. Leila R. Mize inspired the
girls in marketing during her visit at
the camp. She convinced the girls
of the need of more locally canned
food of high quality to supply the
demand of our own county people.
For each girl she emphasized speci
alization in canning of one or two
products, using the 4-H lables and
working up sale locally, which is
easy when the public knows they
are getting quality.
Miss Bess Kelly of Jefferson
taught the class in personal hygene.
She demonstrated the proper care of
the nails. Each girl was given a
sample of tooth paste.
Miss Perkerson, home demonstra
tion agent from Lawrencevilie, who
as a club girl years ago won for
herself recognition by her ability to
make yeast bread, had charge of the
bread making demonstration. All
girls elegible to enter the bread con
test were allowed to knead the dough
for a few seconds, so as to learn the
“knack of kneading.” Receipes and
yea3t were given each person, to use
at home.
Jackson county should be proud
of its older club girls. It shows
prospects of living up to the con
tribution it has to extension work in
the past. Winnie Merle Pettyjohn
looked even professional giving the
food preservation demonstration.
Elizabeth Hood may be small, buthas
energy enough to direct one game
after another, and has anew one at
command as soon as the group is at
its height in the previous game.
She also gave the table etiquette
demonstration. Bernice Webb is an
older club girl who is dependable
enough to take care of the girls in
swimming, and always willing to fit
in whenever needed.
Mrs. Edwin Wills of Jefferson as
sisted with camp, and made friends
with every girl there.
The 4-H program calls for a four
fold development, and so Head,
Hand, and Health must have the
Heart, and for that reason the spiri
tual development of the girls had an
important place in the camp pro
gram. The girls are indebted to
Rev. Thomason and Rev. Rigdon for
the sweet and impressive vesper ser
vices each evening.
Vol. 60. No. 2-
Bring University Back To
Athens
At a mass meeting of the citizens
of Athens called to protest against
the withdrawal of bus service, other
matters were injected into the meet
ing, and resolutions were introduced
that caused sharpe debate. One was
a request that the Clarke county
representatives demand that tho
Board of Regents and the head
quarters of the University of Geor
gia be moved back to Athens from
Atlanta.
The adoption of the resolution to
“move the University of Georgia
back to Athens” drew much ap
plause from the audience. Candi
dates for legislature present were
asked to declare themselves on tho
purpose.
Stating that the University of
Georgia is being dismembered and
scattered over the state, Hon. TANARUS,
J. Shackelford said that the head
quarters should rightfully be in
Athens, where it was organized and
where it had been supported by the
citizens for years. He skid the Uni
versity should not be a political or
state office. He decried the fact that
Athens, the “mother of the Univer
sity,” now has no representative on
the Board of Regents.
Mrs. Longino Heads
Douglas Club
The Club page of the Atlanta
Constitution says:
“Mrs. Alice Longino was elected
president of Douglas Woman’s Club
at the June meeting. ,
Mrs. Longino will assume her new
duties on October 1, and is at pres
ent making plans and selecting com
mittees for fall activities. She ia
well qualified for tjie work of tho
presidency of this, one of Dougfas
most important civic organizations.
She served last year as correspond
ing secretary of the club. In addi
tion to her activities in this organi
zation, she has for many years been
a leader in church work of the First
Baptist church. These successful
endeavors, coupled with her ac
knowledged business ability, give
convincing evidence that the local
club will, enjoy strong leadership
during the coming year.”
Mrs. Longino was formerly Miss
Alice Blackstock, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Blackstock.
She was reared in Jackson county,
and educated at Martin Institute.
Georgia Share* In Record
U. S. Cattle Drive
Georgia, along with other South
ern states, is now participating in
the greatest cattle drive in the his
tory of this country, Tap Bennett,
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, said Friday whale in
Atlanta.
The drive represents the imme
diate transfer of 500,000 head of
cattle from the drouth areas of tho
Middle West to Southern pasture*.
The cows are being purchased
from farmers in the West by the
AAA and turned over to the FERA
to be pastured and later processed.
.It is the plan of the Relief Admin
istration to can all of the beef with
in the next three or four month*
and later distribute it' to needy
families on relief rolls.
MRS. LUCY CLIFTON
Mrs. Lucy Clifton, aged 58, died
Friday at the home of her son, Mr.
J. R. Clifton, in the Jefferson Mill*
village. Mrs. Clifton was a native
of Alabama, and was the daughter
of Mr. Mack and Mrs. Isabel Brown
Overton. She came to Jefferson
with her son, who holds a respon
sible position with the Jefferson
Mills.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday by Rev. T. D. Johnston, and
interment was in Woodbine ceme
tery.
Mesdames Stanley Kesler, 2. A.
Boland, W. C. Smith, T. T. Benton,
H. E. Aderliold, M. M. Bryan, H. A
W. Kizer, L. J. Lyle of Jefferson; C.
E. Pittman, C. W. Hood, Jr., S. J.
Smith and T. C. Hardman, Com
merce; H. P. DeLaperriere, Russell
Hoseh, M. Blalock, Etta Brown
Cruce, Hoschton, were among those
registered at the Woman’s Club In
stitute in Athens last week. __ ,