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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
EXCHANGE NOTES
New* Item* Of Interert Among Our
Neighbor* And Friend*
Mr*. Mary Free Is Claimed By
By Death
(from Winder News)
Mrs. Mary A. Free died at the
home of her niece, Mrs. B. F. Burns,
of this city, Thursday of last week.
Mrs. Free suffered a stroke of appo
plexy early Thursday morning, from
which she never regained conscious
ness, and death followed in a few
hours. For the past twenty years
Mrs. Fiee had made her home with
her niece, Mrs. B. F. Burns, of this
city. She was affectionately known
as “Aunt Mary” by a host of friends.
Her husband died forty-three years
ago. They had no children. The
funeral service was held at White
Plains church, in Jackson county,
Saturday. She was a faithful mem
ber of the Methodist church for
many years. The funeral service
was conducted by Rev. T. H. Shackel
ford, pastor of the First Methodist
church of Winder. Mrs. Free is
survived by one sister, Mrs. J. J.
Shed, of this city, and a number of
nieces and nephews.
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(From Athens Banner-Herald)
Soil Ero*ion Service Name Ordered
Changed
Announcement bf the change of
the name of the Soil Erosion Service
to that of the Soil Conservation Ser
vice was made today by H. H. Ben
nett, chief of the service, in Wash
ington, D. C.
A letter announcing the official
change name was received by Loy
E. Rast, regional director, here.
The letter stated that “here'after the
Soil Conservation Service title
should be used to the entire exclus
ion of the old title.”
Christian Churches Hold District
Meet
(From Walton News)
Mount Vernon Christian church
was host to the semi-annual conven
tion of the Northeast Georgia Dis
trict of Christian churches last
Thursday. Approximately 40 church
es are in this district and all were
represented with pastors, laymen and
church members. Rev. W. B. Mc-
Donald, of Wnder, presided over the
meeting. Among the other denomi
national leaders who took part in
the day’s program were: State Evan
gelist Bruce Nay; Mr. John H. Wood,
of Rome; Pastor C. R. Stauffer, of
the First Christian church, of At
lanta; and Rev. Stanley R. Grubb,
pastor of the First Christian church,
of Athens.
Hall County Youth Whipped By
Snake On Father’s Farm
(From Gainesville News)
June Vickers, 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Vickers of near Oakwood,
received a severe lashing from a big
snake last Thursday af
ternoon on his father’s farm. He
was walking near the house when
he saw a young rabbit charmed by
the reptile, and threw a rock at the
pair. The rabbit ran, this angered
the snake and he made for young
Vickers.
The youth ran, but was overtaken
in a few steps, and the snake wrap
ped its coils firmly around his body
and began lashing his legs with its
tail. Vickers, a powerful 175-
pounder, tripped the reptile’s body
and tore it loose. Flinging it from
him, he hastily grabbed a big rock
and mashed its head. He has been
exhibiting whelps on his legs as big
as a man’s finger, and fiery red, as
a result of the encounter.
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(From Covington News)
County Residents See Famous Bell
Buzzard
The famous Bell buzzard, wide
ly known and seen iover United
States for many years, was seen
Monday afternoon by Mr. Switzer,
on the N. H. Piper farm near Por
terdale. Mr. Switzer called every
one in the house out to see the
buzzard. According to those pres
ent, the big bird circled over the
house several times, swooping low
at times, enabling them to see the
small brass bell fastened around its
neck tinkling with every movement.
XXX
Mrs. L. G. Hardman On School Board
(From Commerce News)
At the regular meeting of the city
council on Monday night, Mrs. L.
G. Hardman was unanimously elect
ed a member of the school board to
succeed Dr. A. A. Rogers whose
SINGLE COPY sc.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(Leila Bates, H. D. A.)
Miss Willie Vie Dowdy, Home Im
provement Specialist, spent Wednes
day in the county working with the
Home Agent. Meetings were held
with Hosehton and Long View girls
and Walnut women.
Miss Dowdy discussed window
treatment and color schemes for bed
rooms with the girls. She showed
both good and bad types of material
for curtains. She emphasized the
selection of material for the room
that brings out the personality of
the girl. Delicate pastel colors are
becoming to the blond and the rich
red, brown and orange, and yellow
colors make the coloring of the
biunette girl richer and more beau
tiful. The glass curtains should be
light cream, ecru, or yellow, so as to
permit the sun rays. Glass curtains
made of blue, green and the darker
colors, not only fade quickly, but
also shut out much more light.
Short windows should be draped
in longer curtains, without a valance,
so as to give more height. Tall
windows that one desires to make
shorter, should be dressed in short
er drapes, and the valance may be
used. (A window is a picture to be
framed.)
A harmonous color scheme should
be decided upon, and then carried
out in the glass curtains and drap
eries, the bed spread, foot stolls,
runners or vanity sets, pillows, and
dressing table drapery.
Miss Dowdy discussed budgeting
of time and money with the Walnut
Home Demonstration Club. “One
cannot separate the budgeting of
time and money,” Miss Dowdy said,
“for they are so closely related.”
“A woman usually finds time to
do the things she wants to do. If
one would keep a record work
done for one week, she would find
many unnecessary things being done.
Records show that the average wo
man uses four hours a day cooking,
and only 38 minutes training chil
dren. The home exist for the child
and his training is the big job o|
the mother. She should learn to
practice short cuts in house keeping,
such as serving one-dish dinners on
wash days, church twice or three
times weekly, instead of daily, and
by shifting work and responsibility
to other members of the family.
It is an injustice to the child for
any mother not to teach that child
that the work to be done in the
home is to be shared by him. He
can bring the wood, water, and do
many other tasks while the daugh
ter from early childhood should be
taught the jobs about the house,
such as house cleaning, washing
dishes, cooking and sewing.
“The fact that one has no money
to spend is a greater indication that
person needs to budget,” Miss Dowdy
said. Benjamin Franklin said, “A
dollar saved is a dollar earned.” A
spending plan for one year will re
veal to many women that too much
is being spent for some things, and
not enough for others.
The following women agree to
keep accounts in the Extension
Home Accounts Books furnished by
the Extension Department for one
year: Mrs. H. C. Baird, Mrs. C. C.
Banks, Mrs. W. W. Banks, Mrs. W.
0. Cruce, Mrs. Wylie Hayes, Miss
Rita Nell Baird. Any other home
makers interested in the account
book, can obtain one from the Home
Agent.
XXX
27 ladies joined the Home Demon
stration Club at Mt. View at their
regular meeting Tuesday, May 14;
60 ladies were present for this meet
ing.
Of all the asinine twaddle that has
ever appeared in print, this weekly
stuff from Tom Linder is about the
limit.—Macon Telegraph.
term has expired. Dr. Rogers had
served for little more than a year,
having filled the unexpired term of
R. C. Nix, deceased. However there
is a ruling relative to the school
that no board member shall succeed
himself.
Miss Stovall Become* Bride of Otis
Anderson
Of interest to a wide circle of
friends not only in Commerce but in
other sections of the state is the
marriage of Miss Martha Stovall and
Otis Anderson which took place in
Clarkesville Friday afternoon, May
10.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
ILLUSTRIOUS POR
TRAITSJEORGIANS
Trust Company of Atlanta Has 16
Portrait* of Georgian* on Their
Wall*, Prints Sent to Jefferson and
Maysville.
State-wide interest has been evi
denced in the recent completion of
the 16 portraits of illustrious Geor
gains by the noted Atlanta artist,
Lewis C. Gregg, and following a
veritable deluge of requests made by
librarians and educators that the
paintings be made available to
schools and other institutions, the
officers of the Trust Company of
Georgia, in Atlanta, where the origi
nals are hung, decided to reproduce
the entire collection in a striking
monotone print 20 by 24 inches and
offer it framed under glass as a gift
to institutions.
One of the beautiful reproductions
has been presented to Martin Insti
tute, the Maysville High School, and
the Woman’s Club Library.
Announcement that the framed
print was available for donation to
institutions met with instant response,
a response that was almost over
whelming. More than 400 schools,
colleges and libraries requested the
reproduction the first week follow
ing the offer.
The State has just cause for the
pride with which she points to her
gifted sons and daughters. They
have contributed much to the enact
ment of her glorious pageant of his
tory. Through the corridors of im
mortality stride an assemblage of
Georgians the equal of which can be
boasted by but few commonwealths.
Hung on the walls of the banking
institution at the suggestion of Mrs.
T. K. Glenn, wife of Thomas K.
Glenn, president of the Trust Com
pany, the original paintings of illus
trious Georgians are considered to
be among the best existing likeness
es of the men and women they de
pict.
The central portrait of the group
replica, appropriately enough, con
tains the likenesses of Button Gwifi
nett, George Walton and Lyman Hall,
the Georgians who signed the Decla
ration of Independence. Grouped
around this painting in tasteful ar
ray are reproductions of the paint
ings of General James Edward Ogle
thorpe, founder of the colony Wil
liam Harris Ci-awford, United
States Treasurer and Ambassador to
the Court of Napoleon; Rebecca Lat
imer Felton, the first woman to be
come a United States Senator; Tom
ochichi and his nephew, Toncana
howi, Chief of the Yamacraw Indians
and friend of Oglethorpe’s colonists r
the Rev. John Wesley, founder of
Methodism; Crawford W. Long, dis
coverer of anaesthesia; Sidney La
nier, noted poet; Eli Vvhitney, in
ventor of the cotton gin; Joel Chand
ler Harris, writer of the famous Un
cle Remus stories; Alexander H.
Stephens, Vice-President of the Con
federate States of America; Josiah
Meigs, first president of Franklin
College, later the University of
SENIOR PLAY AT MARTIN INSTITUTE
AUDITORIUM, FRIDAY, 8:30, MAY 24TH
THE SENIOR CLASS OF MARTIN INSTITUTE WILL PRESENT
“CRASHING SOCIETY,” A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS,
FRIDAY EVENING, 8:30, SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Adam Dunnigan, the husband Garnett Spratlin
Elsie Dunnigan, the ruler of the Dunnigan home Sara Hanson
Marguerite, their oldest daughter Hazel Lang.on
George, their son
Christabel, their younger daughter Marjorie Daniel
Scruples-Scruples, the butler Raymond R.gdon
Miss'Gadgett, tutor - - Emma Nell Nunn
Mr. Van Witherspoon, leader in New York society /• J. * uUer
Mrs. Van Witherspoon, his wife Lucile Doss
Cyril Van Witherspoon, their son Herbert Hudgins
Agatha Mulrooney, Virtuoso Carnrta Kirk
John Miller, Reporter Ed Doss
Admission, 15c and 25c.
The story of the play centers around the old saying,” you can take the
man out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the man.”
Adam Dunnigan, beneficiary of a million dollars from Uncle Oscar, has
left Jerkwater and gone to New York, where his wife, Elsie, has deter
mined to make the “social register.” Marguerite and George are in sym
pathy with their father, while Christabel, the younger daughter, is highly
enthusiastic over the possibility of penetrating the ranks of high society.
Elsie’s attempts to climb the social ladder include a reception for the Van
Witherspoons, a family prominent in New York society. Home-sickness
for his old home-town and complete disgust with Scruples-Scruples, his
literal-minded butler, make Adam form a plot to get Elsie out of New
York.
Commencement Exercises
Begin Friday Evening
Commen<jpment activities at Mar
tin Institute will begin Friday night
with the annual senior play. A cast
of the characters and a short resume
of the story will be found in another
column.
Sunday morning, at 11:30 o’clock
in the auditorium, Rev. George
Acree, pastor of the First Methodist
Church, Gainesville, will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon. Special music,
under the direction of Miss Nixon
Mobley, will render a special an
them.
Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock,
Class Day exercises will be held in
the auditorium. The program will
be a trial of the Seniors with wit
nesses, jury and judge.
Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock,
the Seventh Grade graduation will
take place.
Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock,
Hon. John S. Wood of Canton will
deliver the literary address to the
graduates. The first and second hon
or graduates of the class, Garnett
Spratlin and Miss Emma Nell Nunn,
will deliver the Valedictory and Sa
lutatory address, and the diplomas
will be awarded by Mr. M. M. Bry
an, president of the City Board of
Educatioh.
The list of Seniors is as follows:
Misses Irene Brooks, Marjorie Dan
iel, Lucile Doss, Neta Elder, Louise
Hale, Sarah Hanson, Billie Hardy,
Kathryn Hopkins, Martha Howard,
Myrtle Howard, Hazel Johnson, Car
rina Kirk, Hazel Langford, Myrl
Logan, Nancy Moore, Emma Nell
Nunn, June Potts, Norene Potts,
Edith Rankin, Regina Sims, Melba
White; Messrs. Durwood Bennett,
Sam Dean Bennett', Amos Caldwell,
J. T. Cato, Claude Culberson, Edd
Doss, Z. J. Fuller, Cecil Hancock,
Herbert Hudgins, Lyndon Hunt,
Jesse Murphy, Harold Purcell, Ray
mond Rigdon, James Roberts, Clar
ence Sheridan, Garnett Spratlin.
All exercises of the commence
ment program are free except the
Senior play. The school and the
class hope that there will be a good
attendance for tRe - play. The pro
ceeds of the play go to pay the ex
penses for the commencement.
The school, invites all friends to
the programs of commencement.
Georgia; Henry W. Grady, editor
and orator; Robert Toombs, soldier,
statesman and orator; Frank L.
Stanton, first poet laureate of Geor
gia; and Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus
Lamar, Justice of the United States
Supreme Court.
One cannot help, in gazing on the
group, with being struck by the
versatility of the State’s great men
and women. Representative they
are of the finer and higher concepts
of life that lead to immortality. Re
ligion, the arts, statesmanship, in
vention and progress, humanitarian
service and pioneering, surely one
cannot but be a better Georgian for
having looked upon the portraits of
.these men and women.
Thursday, May 23, 1935.
WOMAN’S CLUB
DISPLAY
Fine Art* Department of Woman’s
Club Ha* Wonderful Display of
Interesting Articles.
One of the most successful and de
lightful affairs of the club year was
the Fine Arts exhibit at the Kesler
residence on Friday and Saturday af
ternoons, sponsored by the Fine Arts
department of the Woman’s Club,
Mrs. Stanley Kesler, chairman.
Articles of rare value and handi
work of unusual beauty and dexteri
ty were on display. That so many
beautiful and interesting works of
fine art could be assembled by such
a large number of people on such
short notice was almost incredible,
and to even undertake to give the
history, or even a list, of the most
interesting articles on exhibit, would
be futile.
Mrs. the chairman of the
Fine Arts department, is a painter
skilled in depicting subjects in col
ors, and is especially noted for her
work in china painting. Her individ
ual display, consisting of a handsome
punch bowl, dinner set, numerous
bowls, vases, etc., merited the high
est praise.
The display of beautiful linens,
quilts, bed spreads, etc., charmed the
visitors. Some of these were of the
most modern patterns and designs,
whil<j others had been handed down
from generation to generation, and
showed the skilled handiwork of the
grandmothers of other days Daguer
reotypes of the forefathers who liv
ed a hundred years ago elicited
much interest.
As we said before, it is futile to
attempt to name even a small num
ber of the many things on display,
but an article that was greatly ad
mired was a wedding veil of silk
lace, 105 years old, worn by the
grandmother of Mrs. Ora Smith, and
also worn by Mrs. Smith on her
wedding day. Other articles were,
a ginger jftr and a celery dish, 100
years old, and a syrup pitcher, 200
years old, displayed by Mrs. M. M.
Bryan; a celery dish that had be
longed to the family of Mrs. Ora
Smith for more than a century.
Another interesting collection was
displayed by Mrs. Sam Kelly and
Mrs. Lucy Carr, consisting of ceh
tury old pieces they had inherited
from their grandmother, Mrs. Nath
aniel H. Pendergrass, who before
her marriage was Emmaline Bryant.
She received her education at Win
ston-Salem college. A baby dress
in this collection was made of the
finest linen and embroidered in a
beautiful design. Also, a corset,
worn by Mrs. Pendergrass in her
girlhood days, was made from heavy
cotton material. The cotton was
raised on her father’s farm, spun in
to thread and woven into the ma
terial of which the garment was
made by her mother’s hands. It had
wooden stays ,and resembled simi
lar garments of more modern times.
Among other interesting articles
were a quilt and a child’s dress made
75 years ago by Mrs. W. F. Starke,
grandmother of Mrs. W. Hill Hosch.
A knitted counterpane of beauti
ful design, 100 years old, exhibited
by Mrs. George Henry Fite. A
counterpane of similar age and de
sign by Mrs. Ora Smith. #
An embroidered spread, the ma
terial hand-woven, made by the
great grandmother of Mrs. W. T.
Bryan, Jr.
A quilt, on which was embroider
ed the date, June 11, 1854, by Mrs.
Sam Kelly.
A baby dress belonging to Miss
Sallie Bryan that was made by the
late Mrs. Southworth from a dress
worn by her grandmother in 1860.
A necktie worn by Mr. E. S.
Ethridge 70 years ago, and made by
his aunt, Mrs. Martha Skelton.
A spread made by the great grand
mother of Mrs. C. H. Legg from
home-grown wool, hand dyed, spun
and woven.
A pair of trousers had the follow
ing history: “These trousers were
made by Mrs. John B. Garrison, for
her little grandson, B. E. McCollum,
to play in, when he visited at her
country home. The thread was
made, woven and dyed by her own
hands. John B, Garrison and his
wife were the second white family
to settle in what was then the
Cherokee Nation. Their daughter,
Frances, was the second white child
born in Cherokee county.”
The lacy, crochet spreads, the
Vo!. 60. No. 37.
Georgia Votes Dry on
Whiskey, And Wet on
Beer And Winea
Georgia voters decided in Wed
nesday’s referendum by a majority
of 243 of a total vote of 164,000 to
keep the State dry as far as the sale
of whiskey is concerned, but modi
fied the bone dry law which had
been in effect since 1917, by voting
to legalize 6 per cent beer and do
mestic wine. The election was one
of the closest popular elections in
the State’s history. The official
tabulation showed a vote of 81,891
for repeal, and 82,134 against re
peal.
The official tabulation showed a
vote of 85,433 to 76,608 for beer,
and 83,155 to 75,535 for wine. When
the beer and wine vote is certified
by the Secretary of State and sign
ed by the Governor, the sale of these
beverages will become legal through
out the State under certain legal
restrictions. i
Jackson Vote* Dry
A tabulation of votes found in an
other column shows Jackson coun
ty’s vote to be 1011 to 250 in favor
of sustaining the dry law; 977 to
277 against beer; and 974 to 272
against wine. Only one precinct.
Center, voted wet, and this by a ma
jority of only three.
THE PRESIDENT
AND THE BONUS BILL
“Crackerland in Washington,"
Ralph Smith’s Washington Column
in the Atlanta Journal, says:
“In vetoing the Patman bill.
President Roosevelt doesn’t close
the door of the United States treas
ury in face of World War veterans
seeking payment of their adjusted
service certificates. . . .
Even though the veto is sustained
—and sustained it will he in the
senate—the President is perfectly
willing that the bonus shall be paid
by Action of congress at this . ?ssion
—same, sane and sound action that
will not pave the way to an orgy
of inflation. . . . Indeed, it is be
lieved the President is anxious to
have the issue disposed of at this
session-*-far more anxious to pay
the bonus than arc many of its
loudest and noisest advocates in con
gress.
“The Presidential veto of the bill
doesn’t prevent congress from send
ing another and more acceptable
measure tc the White House before
adjournment. It is within the pow
er of congress to write into any
pending administration bill, 'or into
one of the big supply bills, a pro
vision for the immediate ayment
of the bonus, and if the pi vision
conforms, in general terms, to the
Georgc-Vir.son or the Harrison
measures, heretofore rejected in fav
or of the inflationary Patman bill,
the belief is that Mr. Roosevelt will
approve it.
“And the best thought in con
gress inclines to the belief that the
matter will take this course, de
spite the secret hope of many bla
tant, insincere “friends” of the sol
diers that the issue may be kept a
live until the next campaign. It is
no secret in Washington that several
of the “statesmen” who have been
loudest in their protestations of
friendship for the soldiers are play
ing a game designed, primarily, to
get the President and his party into
a hole.”
49 KILLED AS PLANE FALLS
Moscow.—The Maxim Gorky, larg
est land airplane in the world, crash
ed after a collision with a small air
plane Saturday, killing 49 persons,,
including eight women and six chil
dren, in the worst disaster ever to
befall a passenger plane.
The crew of 11 and the 37 passen
gers of the giant liner, which the
soviet used to spread propaganda,,
were all instantly killed when it hu
tled to the ground.
The pilot of the smaller machine,
who was stUDting in violation of"
strict orders, also lost his life.
Pieces of the victims were strewn
over a village.
beautiful quilts of intricate patterns,
the embroidered linens, all of mod
ern days, were no less admired than
were those* oY*a century ago: and *
hundred years from now will be just
as interesting to the descendants of
the present generation.