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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Willianuon
EXCHANGE NOTES
Mew* Item* Of Intere.t Among Our
Neighbor* And Friend*
(Gainesville Eagle, Oakwood Cor.)
Mr. B. H. Hill
Mr. Ben Hill, G 2, passed away at
his home here Wednesday, May 1.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church by Rev. L. P. Mc-
Neal, assisted by Rev. Bone and
Rev, Bennett, on Thursday, and in
terment was in Oak View cemetery.
Mr. Hill was a member of the
Methodist church, and left a host of
friends to mourn his passing. Be
sides his wife, he is survived by the
following children: C. A/ and Her
schel Hill of Oakwood and Mrs.
Charlie Merritt of Chicopee; three
brothers, John, Henry and Paul Hill
of Winder, and a sister, Mrs. Susie
Perry of Winder.
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Miss Leachman Dies At Local
Hospital
(From Commerce News)
Miss Rosa Leachman, 20, died at
the Commerce Hospital Saturday
night, after havipg been there for
only one day. Miss Leachman had
been ill for only a week, a sufferer
from diabetes. Miss Leachman was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Leachman. She is survived by her
parents, four brothers and four sis
ters.
Three Children Bitten By Squirrel
While playing in the their
home on Pine street Wednesday af
ternoon, the tw r o younger children of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim J. Harber were
attacked by a squirrel and badly
scratched and bitten. An older
daughter ran out t</ scare the squir
rel away, when the squirrel jumped
on her and clawed her rather badly.
A negro working in the garden ran
to their rescue, and killed the
squirrel with a hoe. Mr. Harber im
mediately cut the head off and sent
it to Atlanta for examination, and
received report that it showed no
sign of rabies.
Lurff-Cheek
Of cordial interest to friends here
and elsewhere is the announcement
of the marriage of Miss Lillian R.
Cheek, youngest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry M. Cheek of Commerce,
to Sydney Percy Luff, youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Luff of Ports
mouth, England, at Ferndale, Mich.,
on 20, 1935.
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Miss Head Honored At Suprise
Party
(From Albany Herald)
Miss Ruth Head, whose engage
ment to Mr. Samuel Hobson Gregory
was recently announced, was honor
ed at a surprise party Tuesday after
noon, when a group of friends en
tertained at the home of Mrs. R. E.
Brooks, on Highland Avenue. The
guests enjoyed contests with prizes
going to Mr. B. C. Bass and Mrs.
H. H. Perry. Later in the after
noon refreshments were served and
a beautiful coffee table from the
guests was presented to Miss Head.
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More of Our Railroad Goe*
(From Oglethorpe Echo)
Still more of what was left of the
! former Lexington Terminal railroad
t tracks4nto town is being torn up this
| week. The main track to the near
i depot on the outskirts of town and a
|“kick-in” side track to accommodate
Itwo or three cars will still remain.
I Quite seldom now that the train
* makes trips here, only when carload
lots of freight are to be delivered
and that is by no means often. It
is not improbable that the entire
track to Crawford, or to the Gordon
planing mills, will be taken up at
®o distant day. Then Lexington
shrill be a full fledged non-railroad
tfbwn.
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ightning Rip* the Seat Out of
Negro’s Pants
(From Dawson News)
5o Shepard, negro farmer, feels
he is living on borrowed time, says a
mwestine, Texas, dispatch.
880 was sitting with his wife in
thfcir small cabin. A bolt of light
ning darted through a chink and
Struck Bo’s right sleeve, ripping it
off. The bolt followed Bo’s body
deprnward, burning holes in his right
leg, tearing off the left
pa|)ts leg, leaving the trousers seat
less and shredding Bo’s left rubber
boot. Through with 80, the bolt
followed a nail through the floor
andi killed eight hens and a rooster
beneath the shack. After an ex
arair a - ion physicians reported neith
er Bo nor his wife was injured.
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Governor And Newspaper
Don’t Exactly Agree
Atlanta, May 10.—A published
report that Governor Eugene Tal
madge had ordered Tom Linder,
commissioner of agriculture, to re
frain from writing about “secession”
of Georgia from the Union today
drew a statement from Talmadge
that he had not issued “any ultima-'
turn” to Linder, and a comment from
Clark Howell, editor and president
of the Atlanta Constitution, that
the governor “does not deny that he
reprimanded Mr. Linder.”
The governor’s statement said:
“The Constitution has published a
news item doing Commissioner of
Agriculture Tom Linder a great in
justice.
“I did not issue any ultimatum to
my personal and political friend,
Tom Linder, to cease doing anything
or to give up his office.
“I did not threaten directly or in
directly to call out any National
Guard to put Tom Linder out of
office.
“The Constitution further stated:
“The governor would make no com
ment on the situation.”
“No representative of the Consti
tution called me in regard to the
matter and I was very much sur
prised when I read the article in
the paper.
“Immediately on reading the ar
ticle I called up Mr. Clark Howell,
Sr., and told him 1 thought the
proper thing to do was for him to
publish an apology to Mr. Linder.”
On being seen with reference to
Governor Talmadge’s statement, Mr.
Howell said:
“The governor telephoned me at
my home last night asking that we
publish an apology to him and to
Mr. Linder for the story in which it
was stated that he had reprimanded
Mr. Linder for his secession utter
ances.
“I told the governor that I would
be glad to apologize if he would
state that he had not reprimanded
Mr. Linder.
“The governor said that no news
paper had a right to report a pri
vate conversation, whereupon I said
f would not apologize unless the
governor stated that he had not re
primanded Mr. Linder, in which
event I would be glad, to say that
the article had been published up
on a misapprehension.
“The governor does not deny that
he reprimanded Mr. Linder for his
repeated secession statements. He
went so far as to tell Mr. Linder if
his secession utterances were re
peated he would demand that Mr.
Linder’s Market Bulletin copy be
submitted to him hereafter for ap
proval, before publication.
“It is to his credit that the gov
ernor has not denied that he repri
manded Mr. Linder—nor will he do
so.
“He has not approved Mr. Linder’s
secession utterances, but on the oth
er hand has been greatly provoked
by them.
“There is no issue whatsoever be
tweent the governor and the Consti
tution as to the article referred to
except perhaps as to details of his
threat to remove Linder. He repri
manded him severely and the gov
ernor will not deny that he did so.
In this reprimand he expressed the
overwhelming sentiment of the
state.”
COMMISSIONERS SELECT
ATLANTA FOR 1936 SESSION
Savannah, Ga.—A ringing indorse
ment of President Roosevelt and the
national administration, the election
of George F. Longino, of Atlanta, as
president, and selection of Atlanta
as the 1936 convention city, featur
ed the clo.sng session Saturday of the
twenty-first annual convention of
the Association of County Commis
sioners of Georgia.
Applause accompanied the rising
vote of confidence in President
Roosevelt, after the resolution had
been opposed by the Decatur County
delegation, through J. E. Drake,
chairman of its county board.
While agreeing with the “princi
ple” of the resolution, Commission
er Drake contended that there is
now “a controversy on in this state,
and we should not involve ourselves
in a polit ; cal wrangle.” He did not
refer to Governor Talmadge’s at
tacks on the President. All but the
Decatur County delegation, how
ever, voted for the resolution.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
RELIEF WORK
Mi** Sheppcrson To Direct State
Work* Progre** In Georgia
Washington.—Harry L. Hopkins,
federal works progress administra
tor, Saturday announced the ap
pointment of seven state works pro
gress administrators. They includ
ed :
Alabama, Thad Holt, now director
of the Alabama emergency relief ad
ministration.
Louisiana, Frank H. Peterman,
now director of federal relief in
Louisiana.
Florida, C. B. Treadway, now
chairman of the Florida emergency
relief administration.
Georgia, Miss Gay B. Shepperson,
now director of federal relief in
Georgia.
Mississippi, Wayne Alliston, of
Jackson.
In making public Saturday an out
line of procedure for handling work
projects under the $4,000,000,000
fund, Frank C. Walker, applications
director, listed these “controlling
principles” of eligibility as announc
ed by President Roosevelt:
“The projects shall be useful.
“Projects shall be a nature that
a considerable proportion of the
money spent will go into wages for
labor.
“Projects which promise ultimate
return to the federal treasury of a
considerable proportion of the costs
wrill be sought.
“Funds allotted for each project
should be actually' and promptly
spent and not Weld over until later
years.
“In all cases projects must be of
a character to give employment to
those on the relief rolls.
“Projects will be allocated to lo
calities or relief areas in relation to
the number of workers on relief
rolls in those areas. . . .
“To move from the relief rolls to
work on such projects or in private
employment the maximum number
of persons in the shortest time pos
sible.”
Procedure Is Told
Here is the procedure outlined
Saturday by Walker for getting
work projects before his applications
division:
New non-federal projects—those
submitted by individuals, states,
counties, cities or other government
al agencies—will go to state public
works directors. They will trans
mit them to PWA headquarters in
Washington which, in turn, will
check the recommendations and sub
mit applications to Walker.
New York relief projects—those
where the unemployment situation
demands “small useful projects”—
will be filled with the works pro
gress division of Harry L. Hopkins.
This division will submit applications
to Walker.
Pending federal and non-federal
projects already approved by PWA
will go direct to Walker.
New federal projects will go di
rect to Walker from the interested
government agency.
All new projects—federal and
non-federal —will be passed on by
Hopkins before Walker’s applications
division submits them to the allot
ment committee, which advises Presi
dent Roosevelt on dispensing actual
funds.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST ANNUAL
MEETING WEDNESDAY
Memphis, Tenn. —Six thousand
Southern Baptists are expected here
Wednesday for the annual Southern
Baptist convention.
Convention officials are in a cheer
ful frame of mind because of a de
cided upturn in economic conditions
during the year, the convention re
porting more than a quarter of mil
lion dollars increase in receipts for
missions and benevolences during
the year.
EAST SIDE CHOIR "MEETS
AT SANFORD SUNDAY
The auditorium of the Sanford
School, located near Gordon’s Chapel
Methodist Church, Madison County,
will be used by the East Side Choir,
Sunday afternoon, May 19, begin
ning promptly at one-thirty o’clock.
Many good leaders are expected to
take part in the program, and all
attendants are assured of a pleas
ant time.
Eugene Daughtery, Pres.
Jewett Barnett, Sec’y.
Mr. W. C. Elliot Victim of
Automobile Collision
Mr. W. C. Elliott, aged 41, who
resided on Route 1 out from Jeffer
son, and Mr. A. W. Noell of Athens,
died at a hospital in Athens Monday
morning from injuries received in
an automobile collision Saturday
afternoon.
Messrs. Elliott and Noell receiv
ed fatal injuries when a McDormun-
Bridges ambulance driven by Mr.
Noell, was in collision with a car
driven by Mr. Elliott as the latter
turned into Hill street from Pope
street, into the path of the ambu
lance as it answered a call to the
corner of Hill street and Milledge
avenue.
Funeral services for Mr. Elliott,
were held Tuesday morning at the
Baptist church in Commerce. The
services were conducted by Rev.
Tooke, pastor of the church.
Surviving Mr. Elliott are his wi
dow and seven children, Jeanelle,
Geraldine, Gwenelle, Jacqueline, J.
P. W. C. and Curtis Elliott; father,
S. J. Elliott, and five sisters, Mrs. C.
O. Wood and Mrs. R. E.‘Moore, both
of Commerce; Mrs. Rush Roberts,
Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. Mary
Hamby and Miss Rowena Elliott,
both of Smyrna, Ga.
Money Should Be Paid
Pensioners
According to the Atlanta Journal,
sufficient tobacco tax was collected
during the first three months of the
year to pay pensions to Confederate
Veterans and have almost $129,000
left to pay on amounts due for oth
er years. However, the State is in
arrears with the veterans to the a
rnount of $2lO each, $l2O in 1933,
S3O in 1934, and for the months of
April and May in 1935.
The Journal says:
“The income from the state’s
cigar and cigarette tax is now more
than sufficient to pay current pen
sions to Confederate veterans, it
was revealed at the State Revenue
Department Wednesday.
“The income from the tobacco tax
amounted to $368,923.43 for the
first quarter of 1935, or approxi
mately $123,000 per month, while
the amount required to pay all Con
federate veterans and their widows
S3O per month is slightly less than
SBO,OOO. However, the state will
owe each pensioner $l5O carried
over from the years 1933 and 1934
and the excess will be used to pay
this indebtedness.
“There are now 501 soldiers and
2,134 widows of soldiers on the
Confederate pension rolls. The
larger number of widows is account
ed for by veterans marrying young
er women.”
Odd Fellows Preparing For
State Grand Encampment
Attention of Georgia Odd Fellows
will be centered next week on the
annual meetng of the grand lodge
of the order at Fitzgerald, coinci
dent with the meeting of the Grand
Encampment and the Rebekah As
sembly. The joint convention will
be in session May 21-22-23.
John Camp Davis, of Rome, grand
master of Georgia Odd Fellows, has
announced that George L. Scates, of
Fort McPherson, has resigned as
grand marshal of the grand lodge,
and that S. J. Smith, Jr., of Com
merce, has been appointed to fill the
vacancy. He has been grand con
ductor.
O. R. Glenn, of Columbus, has
been elevated from the office of
grand guardian. George W. How
ard, of Cedartown, has been appoint
ed grand herald.
MISS RUTH FRANCES LEWIS
WEDS MR. WHITLEY ASKEW
A marriage marked by beauty
and dignity and one of cordialy in
terest to hosts of friends was that of
Miss Ruth Frances Lewis and Mr.
Whitley Askew which was impres
sively solemnized on Wednesday at
the Hapeville Methodist Church. Mr.
Ridley Askew, twin brother of the
bridegroom, was best man.
Following the ceremony, Mr. and
Mrs. Askew left for a wedding tri to
Washington City, and upon their re
turn will reside in Hapeville.
Mr. Askew is the son of Rev. and
Mrs. J. Askew, former residents of
Jefferson. The family has a wide
circle of friends here, who will be
interested in the wedding.
Thursday, May 16, 1935.
WOMAN’S CLUB
Hold* Intereating Meeting At The
Home of Mr*. J. D. Eicoe; Ad
dre** By Mi*t Mary E. Creawell.
One of the most delightful pro
grams of the whole club year was
enjoyed Monday afternoon by the
members of the Jefferson Woman’s
Club, when Miss Mary E. Creswell.
director of Home Economics at the
of Georgia, addressed the
club on the subject, Home Manage
ment Problems Involving Family
Relationship.
The meeting was held at the home
of Mrs. J. D. Escoe, with Mrs. James
Carroll, Mrs. Effie Flanigan, Mrs.
Lewis Mobley, Mrs. B. E. McCollum
and Miss Rose Daniel joint hostesses.
The leading thought in Miss Cres
well’s talk was changing conditions
in the home, and how family coun
sels, in which parents and children
unite in discussing home problems,
will meet these changes.
Other features of the program
tftat were greatly enjoyed were a
vocal number, “In the Evening by
the Moonlight,” sung by Misses
Thelma Lankford, Billie Hardy and
Eloise Hood, and a reading, “How
Hiram Saved Her Life,” given by
Miss Bess Young.
Prior to the presentation of the
program, the regular monthly busi
ness session was held, and reports
were made by chairmen of depart
ments.
The department of Fine Arts, Mrs.
Stanley Kesler, chairman, announc
ed a display at the home of Mrs. Kes
ler on Friday and Saturday after
noons, May 17 and 18, of hand work,
works of art, collections of anti
ques; in fact, such things as the
new pattern quilts, crocheted coun
terpanes and bed spreads, afghans,
shawls, hand made rugs, bags, woven,
crocheted and beaded, children and
baby clothes, hand work on any kind
of linens, antiques in quilts and
counterpanes, coverlets, antique
brass or china, noted and antique
paintings.
The display will not be’confined
to members of the club. Every per
son who has some work of art, some
thing beautiful or aesthetical, some
handiwork that would interest lov
ers of the artistic, the beautiful and
the historical, are invited to bring
the same to the Kesler home prior to
Friday afternoon, so that the same
may be arranged for display. A
contribution of 10 cts. will be asked
of all who visit the display.
The Public Welfare department,
Mrs. H. E. Aderhold chairman, pre
sented to the club a request that the
club sponsor a typhoid clinic for
those on relief in the county. In
view of the fact that the club had
only recently held a clinic for both
typhoid and diphtheria, a motion was
carried to ask the Jackson County
Federation to be responsible for the
additional clinic.
The treasurer reported $ll.OO
sent to the Tallulah Falls school.
The American Home department,
Miss Vera Keyy, chairman, reported
two units on Mothercraft, completed
by the pupils of the eighth and ninth
grades.
Federal Housing was discussed by
Miss Leila Bates. Three canvasers
have covered the county in interest
of this important project of the New
Deal, and, as a result, numbers of
homes will be repaired, remodeled
and modernized. Also, several new
homes will be erected.
“Bird Life” was the topic stressed
the past month by the department of
Education, Mrs. H. J. W. Kizer,
chairman. Also, the club will raise
funds for a scholarship to be used by
Miss Leila Bates in her 4-H Club
work. .
The Treasurer of the “Chain
Party Fund” announced $30.80 al
ready secured. When the chain is
completed, the funds will be used
in buying furnishings for the Log
Cabin on the Institute campus.
The nominating committee pre
sented the names of Mrs. J. N. Hol
der for president, and Mrs. Guy
Strickland for vice-president, and
they were elected.
After adjournment the hostess
served delectable refreshments.
The members present, were: Mes
dams J. D. Esco, James Carroll, Ef
fie Flanigan, Stanley Kesler, R. J.
Kelly, H. J. W. Kizer, H. E. Ader
hold, Guy Strickland, John Hardy, T.
•T. Benton, W. D. Holliday, Harolj
Wall, Fred C. H. I
J. N. H<
Vol. 60. No. 36. /
Commencement Exercises
Dry Pond School
Starts Friday
Commencement exercises for the
Dry Pond Consolidated School will
start Friday night, and last through
Monday night of next week, it was
learned today.
The program Friday night will be
presented by the Grammar School,
and many interested numbers will
be given. On Saturday night the
high school play, “The Path Across
the Hill,” will be given, while on
Monday night graduation exercises
will be held. Col. Joseph D. Quil
lian, Winder attorney, and one of
the outstanding lawyers of this
section of the State, will speak.
Those who arc to graduate from
the Junior High School are Rosebud
Caldwell, Rose Davis, Ida Mae
lespie, Annie Hendrix, Mae Hendrix,
Claudene Hudson, Lorene Hudson,
Lillian Perry, Wilson Caldwell, and
Emmett Roberts.
The Dry Pond School has had a
very successful year, and the com
mencement exercises should be very
good. A small admission price will
be charged for the play Saturday
night, but the exercises Friday and
Monday nights will be free.
Callaway Mills Exonerated
The textile labor board an
nounced Saturday it had found the
Callaway Mills, LaGrange, Ga., had
not violated the labor provisions of
the recovery act and the NR A tex
tile code, as charged by striking un
ion workers.
Following a* walkout February 28,
three local unions of the United
Textile Workers filed a complaint
with the board accusing the mills of
failure to bargain collectively inter
ference with self-organiation of
employes, reduction of wages below
the code minimum, failure to main
tain wage differentials between
classes of workers, and increase of
work assignments contrary to the
code.
The charges, the board said, “were
not sustained by the evidence.”
COTTON QUOTAS FOR
COUNTIES GIVEN OUT
Quotas of cotton which may be
sold tax-free in 1935 ( under the
Bankhead act have been announced
for Georgia by Harry Brown, direc
tor of the State Agricultural Exten
son service.
The total 1935 figures is 836,710
bales of 478 pounds net weight a
gainst 737,590 in 1934.
Quotas for counties in this section,
for 1934 and 1935, respectively, all
of them showing increases, are:
Jackson, 12,932-13,449; Banks,.
4,800-4,817; Barrow, 8,090-9,065;
Elbert, 7,887-8,756,
Franklin, 9,742-10,398; Clarke, 3,-
329-3,768; Gwinnett, 13,021-14,479;
Hart, 11,011-11,719.
Madison, 9,910-11,063; Morgan, 7,-
858-8,725; Newton, 6,424-6,980; O
conee, 5,944-6,623; Oglethorpe, 7,-
151-8,003; Walton, 15,200-10,650..
HUDSON—WHEELER
Wide-spread interest is- centered
in the announcement by Mr. and
Mrs. John L. Hudson of Atlanta of
the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Nancy Hudson, to Mr. Grant
Wheeler of Atlanta, formerly of Jas
per, the marriage to be solemnized
in June.
The mother of the bride-to-be is
the former Miss Lilly Hardy, who
was reared in Jackson county. She
is a neice of the late Mrs. V. A.
Niblack, and Mr. John N. Hardy,
and has a number of relatives ia
Jackson county.
Sunday’s Atlanta Journal carried
a lovely picture of Miss Hudson.
A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT
The “send-a-chicken” chain letter
made its appearance in Greensboro
Saturday, when Rayfield Williams,
negro bootblack, originated the chain
and put it in circulation.
“It carries out the chicken ire
every pot idea,” said the negro.
The negro handed his letters in
person, so as not to get in any
skirmish with the postal authorities*
—Greensboro Herald-Jourtfsl.
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