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The Jackson Herald
Ey Holder & Williamson
EXCHANGE NOTES
New* Item* Of Interest Among Our
Neighbor* And Friends
New Br'-fc? Over S. A. L. Track* I*
Sought By Clarke
(F row Athens Banner-Herald)
Construction of anew bridge
across the Seaboard Airline track
on the Athens-Jefferson highway,
where several persons have been
killed in automobile accidents, is be
ing sought by the Clarke County
Boar ’ Commissioners. At its
meeting recently, the commission
decided to ask for state aid in build
ing the bridge. The decision to
make the step was influenced by the
recent automobile wreck in which
John Rainey Bratton of Atlanta, a
student, lost his life and two others
were injured. The commissioners
also decided to ask the state high
way department to push the work of
paving the Jefferson road to the
Clarke county line. It is said the
highway board has already accepted
this project but, for some reason ac
tual construction has been delayed.
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No Mere Fishing Until June Ist
(From Clarkesville Advertiser)
Monday saw several local fisher
men take their last fling at the fin
ny tribe for several weeks, for the
state game and fish department had
issued warning that the season would
be closed from April 15 until June
1. The lakes of the Georgia Power
Company are included in the order
to rod and reel enthusiasts. Streams
in eighteen mountain counties, in
cluding Habersham, White, Stephens
and Rabun, are not affected, how
ever, and fishermen can enjoy the
sport in these streams juntil Novem
ber 15.
D. A. Thompson, Hall Farmer Die*
(From Gainesville News)
David Alfred Thompson, 67, Hall
county farmer, died at his residence
on Gillsville, Route 1, in the Tad
more district, following a prolong
ed illness. Funeral services were
held from the Oak Grove Baptist
church, the Revs. L. L. Bennett and
C. P. Vaughan, officiating. Inter
ment was in the church yard.
In addition to his wife, he is sur
vived by three sons, Claude and Er
win Thompson, of Gillsville, ,Route 1
and Charles Thompson, of Gaines
ville; two daughters, Mrs. E. P.
Eberhardt and Miss Plonie Thomp
son, of Gainesville; R. F. D.; eight
brothers, T. S., R. L. and J. H.
Thompson, of Atlanta; W. A. and J.
S. Thompson, of Miami, Fla., C. V.
Thompson, of Birmingham, Ala., G.
G. Thompson, of Athens, and J. M.
Thompson, of Jefferson; three sis
ters, Misses Plonie and Delia Thomp
son, of Atlanta, and J. R. Hudgins,
of Miami, Fla., and 13 grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
XXX
Miss Long To Wed Mr. McConnell
At Ceremony In .July
(From Atlanta Journal)
The interest of friends is centered
in the announcement by Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Long of the engagement
of,their daughter, Ammie Belle, to
Mr* Don McConnell, the marriage to
be solemnized in July. Miss Long
is the second daughter of her par
ents, and Miss Marie Long and Miss
Mary Frances Long are her sisters.
Her grandparents were the late Mi.
and Mrs. E. C. Hale and Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Long, all formerly of
Jackson County. She is a graduate
of Girls’ High School and later stu
died to be a laboratory technician
at the Georgia Baptist Hospital. Mr.
McConnell is the only son of Mrs.
E.* D. McConnell and the late Mr.
McConnell. His only sister is Mrs.
Ralph Ridley, of Columbus, Ohio.
He attended high school in Aber
deen, S. D., and Perdue University.
At present he is associated with the
Southern Bell Telephone & Tele
graph Company, coming to Atlanta
from St. Louis six years ago.
XXX
Jewell Chandler Stabbed By Wood
(From Commerce News)
Jewell Chandler lies at his home
in South Commerce in a critical con
dition, it is said, as a result of being
stabbed by a knife in the hands of
Ansel Wood on Wednesday after
noon. The men, according to a re
port made by them to Chief of Po
lice Hix, were engaged in a social
game of cards when Wood became
incensed and jerked out his knife
and began stabbing Chandler. Chan
dler, who said he had nothing with
which to defend himself, tried to get
out of his reach, jumping a ditch in
SINGLE COPY sc.
Three Questions Are on Dry.
Repeal Ballot
Georgia voters who decide the
fate of the state’s old bone dry law
in a referendum May 15th find three
separate questions awaiting a/iswer
on their ballots.
One is whether beer up to 6 per
cent alcoholic content shall be legal
ized, regardless of whether the dry
law is repealed; the second is wheth
er a grape or berry grower may
make and serve without tax payment
wines of alcoholic content produced
by fermentation; and the third is
whether the dry law shall be repeal
ed entirely.
On the ballot will appear:
“For adoption of beer license act.
“Against adoption of beer license
act.
“For adoption Georgia products
wine act.
“Against adoption Georgia pro
ducts wine act."
“For repeal.
“Against repeal."
Those who wish to vote against
any of these proposals must strike
out the lines which read “for,” etc.,
while those wishing to vote for them
must strike out the line reading
“against,” etc. The lines left un
stricken on the ballot express the
wish of the voter.
A voter may vote against repeal,
for beer or wine or vice versa. None
is required to vote on the same side
of the general issue on the three
bills.
If adopted the beer act would
legalize malt beverages, impose a tax
of $1.25 for each 31 gallon contain
er and proportionate taxes on small
er amounts and require an annual
license fee of SI,OOO from members,
SSOO from wholesalers and $lO from
retailers.
Of the total tax receipts the state
revenue commission would be allow
ed three per cent for administrative
and enforcement purposes and the
other 97 pier cent would be allocated
to providing free textbooks for
schools.
The wine bill, besides letting a
producer make wine of his grapete,
berries or other home grown pro
ducts, would allow him to sell it to
any legally designated wholesale or
retail dealer without payment of
taxes, or to retail it himself upon
fulfilling proper legal requirements.
An election to prohibit sale of
wine in any county could be called
on petition of 15 per cent of the
registered voters. No election would
be needed by individual counties to
permit home made wine sales if the
general bill receives favorable vote.
The general question of repeal
means the retention or discard of
the state dry law. If the majority
-vote against repeal the old law stays
in effect.
If the majority vote for repeal,
then the Georgia prohibition law
goes into the discard. It docs not,
however, legalize the sale of liquor
of itself but establishes a local op
tion system by counties. Any coun
ty desiring to legalize liquor may
do so by holding a county election
upon petition of 15 per cent of the
registered voters.
If a county, in event of repea.,
voted to legalize liquor, it could be
sold only in uncut packages and
there could be no consumption upon
the premises except in hotel private
dining rooms.
the effort but Wood, he said, follow
ed him and stabbed him again.
Wood was lodged in the county jai
at Jefferson. Both men were said
to have been dringing.
Harmony Grove Mill* Clo.ed Along
With Other Textile Plant*
Inability to pay present prices for
cotton and failure to sell cloth are
reasons given for the closing of
Harmony Grove Mills. It .. hoped
that matters will be adjusted and
that the mills are only '“ d
poraihly hut nothing definite
known.
National Overall Ct. Ship. Overall*
To Africa
The National Overall Cos. made a
shipment of overalls to South Africa
la st week. The manager, Mr. Mo
Ser, on being asked * thts *ms he
first shipment made to South Africa
replied that it was not, several form
er shipments having been made.
Asked then what other countries re
felved Commerce overalls he replied
, t- hp really had no way of know
ing The overalls are usually sent to
Ne W Orleans for exportation and
the names of the countries to which
they are sent is not usually known.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(Leila Bates, H. D. A.)
Walnut Home Demonstration Club
had the best attendance of any club
during the week of April 15th; 27
members were present, and three
new members were added to the roll.
They were: Mrs. J. E. Bridges, Mrs.
W. O. Cruce, Miss Charlotte Cash.
XXX
The following girls have express
ed desires to enter the County Stye
Show for this year: Murdeile Thur
mond, Inez Wilkes, Corrine McEl
hannon, Ruth Swindle, Jane Lott,
Sara Harper, Hazel Peebles, Martha
Beth Lavender, Dorthy Merk, Nell
Garrison, Vesta Mathis, Jeanette
Shuler, Lorene Hudson, Lois Pitt
man. The County Style Show will
be held about the last week in June,
and any other girls planning to en
ter this contest should send in their
names to the Home Demonstration
Agent as early as possible.
XXX
Dr. Cox, of Emory University in
his talk, “Some Social Trends and
Their Relation to Family Life,” at
the Georgia Home Economics Asso
ciation meeting in Macon on April
12, said: “With the growing inde
pendence of women and the higher
training they are receiving, it some
times becomes necessary for the wo
man to earn the livelyhood. Who
then shall keep the home and care
for the children? The affect is de-
cided. It retards marriage, increas
es divorce, reduces the size of the
family, and allows the home to go
by default. Then is the home going
to be broken up and something else
take* its place.” Dr. Cox touched on
the liquor question as to its affect
on home life. He brought out the
fact that there has been a rapid
tendency toward women smoking.
Advertisements have brought pres
sure to bear upon smoking, so that
to be a modern young woman she
must smoke. He says the same thing
is true of whiskey. , Dr. Cox feels
that for the sake of the young peo
ple of today the home must either be
brought back, or the community must
be built up so that their ideals,
views, and opinions will be lacking
the mob influence. “Rural Com
munities are the hope of the future,
he stated.
Garden Work For April
The tenth of this month is as late
as any of the frosty hardy vegetables
should be planted. It is not much
use to plant lettuce, spinach, Eng
lish peas, Irish potatoes, or put out
onion sets, or cabbage plants after
this date.
Plant corn, bush beans, squash,
cucumber, cantalope and water
melon any time this month. Plant
pole beans, bush beans, lima beans,
field peas and okra the latter part
of the month.
Transplant tomatoes, egg plants,
pepper and sweet potato plants, the
last of the month.
Continue tr break and put in good
condition any ground that is to be
planted in the next few weeks. It
is always a good plan at this time of
year to break and harrow your
ground a week or ten days before
you wish to plant. If you can get a
good rain on it after breaking and
plant as soon after the rain as the
ground will do to work, you will
seldom have any trouble getting a
good stand, unless a heavy rain
comes immediately after you plant.
You may begin to have trouble
with insects. Plant lice, harlequin
bug, potatoe bettle and Mexican
bean bettle are insects most likely
to appear at this time.
Plant Ike can be controlled by a
spray of Kerosine Emulsion. The
Harlequin bug must be picked off
by hand and killed.
Arsenic of lead or Paris green will
kill )he Irish potato bettle. Two
or three sprayings or dustings are
generally all that is necessary.
The bean bettle can be controlled
by either of the following materials:
dust made of 1 pound of calcium ar
senate, one puond of powdered sul
phur, and 4 to 6 pounds of hydrated
lime. But a spray that is probably
better is made of one pound of ar
senate of lead, 4 pounds of lime to
50 gallons of water.
Fire of undertermined origin de
stroyed the feed barn at the Metho
dist Orphans Home, Decatur, on
Sunday afternoon. A quantity of
hay and corn stored in the barn was
lost in the blaze.
Black Blizzard's Disastrous
Force Described by Reporter
The United Press sent a corre
spondent into the dust storm states
to report first hand on what he saw
and what he learned from the peo- 1
pie of that section. Below we give
his first dispatch, as follows:
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Clayton, N. M., April 15.—The
wall of dust, at least 10,000 feet
high, boiled over the horizon on the
wings of a gale and engulfed me and
every animate and inanimate object
in blackness laden with stinging dirt.
I drove here from Felt, Okla.,
through a region once called the
“bread basket of America.” The
storm broke suddenly at about 5 p.
m. yesterday. Leaving Felt 1 heard
cries of “dust storm, dust storm.”
I saw men and women and children
running toward their homes. Brave
with inexperience I drove on.
Race* Storm
Soon the fearsome force was up
on me. Across the horizon the earth
rose into the sky. At the top the
dense black wall was a wierd yellow
fringe. I raced the storm for 55
miles, seeing the ground, like the
troubled surface of a volcanic pool,
rising into the air. It caught me at
the M. H. Doerksen ranch. I wheel
ed into the ranch yards and stopped
six feet from the stout, tightly built
stock barn. Before I could dash
through the doors the iust hit. I
spat on my handkerchief and held
it to my nose. I could not see my
hand at my face.
The dust was inescapable. It sift
ed through the double walls of the
barn and made the air almost un
breathable. It was like emery dust.
My lungs still ache.
In the stalls, frightened cattle
bellowed and snorted incessantly.
Gradually the first phase of the
storm passed. I opened a door and
after a time could see the outline of
the automobile. After two hours
I could see the ranch house 61 feet
away.
In the next few hours the storm
thickened and thinned alternately
several times. Between me and the
sun the dust streaked over the plains
in sheets. In an interval of light I
saw a chicken’s head protruding from
a drift and pulled the bewildered
bird free.
Frightful Trip
The remainder of the trip to Clay
ton was frightful. While in the barn
two feet of dust had drifted against
the car. Driving was by instinct.
Once I ran into a ditch that had
been filled with dust. Another time
I ran over a farmer’s mailbox which
became visible only when it was a
foot beyond the radiator cap.
It is not flippancy when I say I
had received a tatse of what B. A.
Donaldson, L. M. Price, Preston
Foreman, G. E. Stewart and others
told me last week when I visited
Stratford, Texas, west of here, after
a swing from Sayre, Okla., through
the Texas Panhandle towns of Ama
rillo and Dalhart.
It seems tragically casual to ro
port that the dust mantle has stifled
crops over millions of acres in the
southwest. But the men who own
the land are not beating their
breasts. Many, like Donaldson, who
owns 1,000 acres of land near Strat
ford, have quit the fight. Donaldson
fought the reluctant earth eight
years, drobght another two. Two
and a half months of dust whipped
him.
“The damage will never be repair
ed,” he said, sweeping his arm in a
wide circle over desolated wheat
fields, stripped of topsoil.
“I couldn’t sell my land now .. . -
I guess I’ll just have to lease it and
leave.”
G. E. Stewart, another wheat
rancher, said “there’s lots of them
talking about leaving, especially
renters —people who couldn’t hold
on.
A truck drove by, its wheels kick
ing up clouds of yellow dust. The
driver wore an army gas ’mask. But
the storm wasn’t bad then.
“You can see a quarter of a mile,”
Stewart pointed out.
Stewart said his farm hadn’t re
ceived any appreciable rain since
1931.
“When business takes a lick at a
man, it’s a depression,” he said,
“When nature does, it’s a calam
ity.”
Farm* Stripped
I saw mile after mile of dust
drifted like snow against the fences
and acre after acre stripped of veg-
Thursday, April 25, 1935.
ATHENS HIGH TRACK
TEAMS WIN MATCH
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Athens, Ga.
The Athens High school track team
Friday afternoon won a victory
here in a four-cornered affair with
Jefferson, Toccoa and Commerce,
piling up 41 points, to 25 for its
nearest foe, Jefferson. Toccoa ran
Jefferson a close third with 21
points, while Commerce managed to
gather only 3 markers.
The Summary
100-Yard Dash— Westmoreland,
Toccoa; Cagle, Athens; and Sprat
lin, Jefferson. Time, 11 seconds.
220-Yard Dash —Spratlin, Jeffer
son; Westmoreland, Toccoa; and
Chastain. Time, 23.6 seconds.
440-Yard Dash—Cagle, Athens;
Hancock, Jefferson; and Westmore
land, Toccoa. Time, 57.2 seconds.
120-Yard Hurdles—Pittard, Ath
ens; Andrews, Toccoa; and Bryan,
Jefferson. Time, 15.5 seconds.
Broad Jump—Pittard, Athens;
Westmoreland, Toccoa; and Spratlin,
Jefferson. Distance, 18 feet 11 inch
es.
High Jump—Reagan and Bennett,
both of Jefferson, tied for first place.
Westmoreland of Toccoa came third.
Height, 5 feet 8 inches.
Pole Vault—Andrews, Toccoa,
first; Wier of Athens and Mitchell of
Jefferson, tied for second. Height,
10 feet.
Discus Hurl —Pittard, Athens; Wil
liams, Athens; and Greason, Com
merce. Distance, 101 feet 4 inches.
Shot Put—Pittard, Athens; Wil
liams, Athens; and Greason, Com
merce. Distance, 41 feet 6Mi inch
es.
880-Relay—Athens, Jefferson and
Commerce. Time, 1 minute 39.5
seconds.
JUDGE H. C. TUCK SPEAKS TO
WESLEY BIBLE CLASS
The Wesley Bible Class of the
Methodist church school had the
great pleasure and distinction on
Sunday of having as their guest
speaker, Judge Henry C. Tuck, pro
minent layman of Athens. Col. Tuck
discussed in a most able manner
“Life in the Light of Eternity,” the
Easter lesson, taken from the Bibli
cal story by Luke and John. His
talk was heard witl\ much interest
and pleasure by the adult and young
people’s departments of the school.
Accompanying Col. Tuck to Jef
ferson were Mr. C. S. Compton and
son, and Mr. Elmer J. Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Ritchie, Jr., of
Rock Hill, S. C., spent the week-end
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. A. Evans. Mr. Ritchie is as
sistant soil erosion expert at Rock
Hill.
etation and topsoil and in place?
drifted high with dust.
L. M. Price, president of the
Stratford State bank, sees only one
chance of salvation, “a deluge of
rain.”
Sherman county, Texas, in 1931
produced 5,000,000 bushels of wheat.
The crop this year, Price said, will
not make 100,000 bushels. Much of
the land is mortgaged, mostly to the
government.
The land is empty of livestock.
Most of it was sold as an alterna
tive to death in barren and water
less pastures. One sees no chickens,
few hogs, hardly any cattle. There
is no feed.
Few ranchers have any faith in
federal soil-erosion projects. What
can man with tractors and listers do
to control a destructive phenomenon
that ravages thousands of square
miles?
“Give us rain to get some grass
growing,” said Preston Foreman,
federal relief agent for Sherman
county.
Some wheat farmers, however, are
“chiseling” their land—furrowing
the fields at right angles to prevail
ing wnds.
Federal money has kept business
going since 1933, W. T. Martin, im
plement and hardware dealer at
Stratford, said. A score of families
who came to Sherman county in
1929 have left in recent weeks. Sev
eral scores have emigrated from the
area north of Dalhart.
J. R. Pope, a farm worker who
left Guymon, Okla., expressed the
feelings of the discouraged ones:
“My boss, John Booth, has 200
acres of wheat, sickly stuff, left out
of 800 acres. I couldn’t stand it any
longer. I had to move.”
Vol. 60. No. 33.
IMPROVED HIGHWAYS
ARE CHANGING TLAN OF
MERCHANDISING IN STATE’
In the report of a study of the
location of small and large retail
outlets in rural and urban communi
ties, the U. S. Department of Com
merce has issued its first statement,
which deals with Georgia.
The research is designed to cover
several states and Georgia’s compila
tion furnishes many interesting facta
of economic character.
Observers see in the report a trend
toward lurger trading centers, prob
ably due to improved highways and
a changing plan of merchandising.
Two-thirds of the retail stores in
Georgia sold less than one-sixth of
the merchandise handled in the state.
Of this group of stores not one sold
over SIO,OOO and of all the stores in
the state 65 per cent of them sold
less than the amount of goods.
Slightly more than half of the re
tail stores in Georgia are located in
communities or towns of less than
2,500 population. A total of 16 per
cent of all the stores in Georgia re
ported sales of less than SI,OOO,
while 21 per cent sold between sl,-
000 and $3,000 in merchandise. A
majority of the stores reporting
sales under $7,000 were in rural
areas.
General country and farm sup
plies stores constituting 87 per cent
of the stores of this character are
located in small town and rural
areas and these did 74 per cent of
the state’s business in their field.
Only 12 per cent of apparel stores
are located in towns of 2,500 or less
and these did less than 4 per cent of
the state’s business.
THE EAST SIDE CHOIR
MET AT BEREA, SUNDAY
Gee, you missed a treat if you was
not numbered among the attendants
at the East Side Choir meeting at
Berea, Sunday afternoon. Publish
ers, professors, and leaders were
listed from Jackson, Clarke, Madison,
Habersham and other counties, and
cities as far off as Thomasville, N. C.
A good bunch of singers; a house
full of music lovers; a good time
for all. The following program wa3
enjoyed by the attendants:
Opening song: Eugene Daughtery,
Pres.
Prayer: Rev. A. D. 'Barnett.
Arranging Committee: J. T. Nunn,
A. I). Barnett.
Leaders: Roy Whitehead, Jack
Wilbanks, Llewellyn Patton, A. H.
Percell, Aubrey Benton, Miss Ellen
McDonald, Mrs. J. B. Vaughn, Miss
Eulalia Vaughn, Grover Sailors.
Solo, with full chorus: “What
Would Poor Folks Do?” Miss Eula
lia Vaughn.
Collection: $3.18.
Invitations: Cornelia, Nicholson,
Sanford. By majority vote, San
ford School Auditorium selected as
meeting place, May 19.
A call meeting of the choir will be
held with the Thyatira church, the
afternoon of Sunday, May 5.
Leaders: Miss Louise McEver, Ed
Spinks, L. L. Williamson.
Duet: “My Mother,” A. H. Per
cell, and Miss Helen McDonald.
Leader: Mrs. Ed Spinks.
Recognition of Col. Henry Davis,
Jefferson, a faithful stand-by and an
addition to bass.
Duets: “I Love My Saviour,” and
“Endless Joy is Coming,” by Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Spinks.
Leader: W. S. Oswell.
Duet: “Brighter Every Day,” Mrs.
J. B. Vaughn, and Miss Eulalia
Vaughn.
Leaders: Jewett Barnett, Llewel
lyn Patton.
Trio: “He’s A Soviour To Be
Proud Of,” Mrs. J. B. Vaughn, Miss
Eulalia Vaughn, and Ed Spinks.
Quartette: A. H. Percell, Miss El
len McDonald, Ed Spinks, and Llew
ellyn Patton.
Leader: Llewellyn Patton.
Welcome: J. T. Nunn.
Duet: “You’ve Got To Live Your
Religion Ev’ry Day,” Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Spinks.
Organists: Llewellyn Patton, A. H.
Percell, Miss Eelen McDonald, Miss
Sara Nell Hutchins, Harold Cooper.
Benediction: G. C. Sorrow.
Explanation: By some means the
records for the March 17 meeting at
Maysville were misplaced, and we
eould not get them for publication.
Eugene Daughtery, Pres.
Jewett Barnett, Sec’y.