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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
GEORGIA ENTERPRISES
There is no more welcome visitor
to Jefferson than Colonel E. C.
Stark of Commerce, who is always
full of cheer and warm greetings
for his many friends. Recently he
said, “It took only a short while to
get subscribed fifty thousand dollars
in Commerce for anew factory.
Already the city not only has a cot
ton mill, but other manufacturing:
plants, all of which are a splendid
asset to our community. These give
employment, bring trade, increase
business, and produce prosperity.
Commerce has manufacturing, finan
cial and educational institutions, of
which we are justly proud; but one
enterprise has had what I call phe
nominal success, and that is the
Commerce Building & Loan Asso
ciation. It is eight years old. It
has a capital of one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, all of
which is busy all the time; it has
never had a forced foreclosure, no
customer has ever defaulted in pay
ment of principal or interest due, it
has never failed to pay a semi an
nual dividend, and it adds yearly to
its surplus. Is that not a good re
cord?” We stated to him that it
was not only good, but a perfect
record. It is an enterprise of which
any city might well feel proud.
Hon. John B. Hardman is president;
Mr. H. F. Bray, secretary and treas
urer; and Colonel E. C. Stark, at
torney.
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In our sister city of Athens is an
other enterprise that has had mar
velous success, and that is the
Southern Mutual Insurance Com
pany, which insures against loss by
fire. It is eighty-nine years old.
Its presidents have been such men as
Ferdinand Phinizy, Young L. G. Har
ris, W T . W. Thomas, Billups Phinizy
and A. E. Griffeth. It is purely a
mutual company. It has a surplus
of more than one and three-fourth
millions of dollars. It takes only
the choicest fire risks. It re-writes,
however, insurance on all property
insured by it that it has not money
to pay the loss. Its losses each year
are so small that the policy holders
receive back fifty per cent of the
premium paid by them. This is due in
part to taking only select risks, and
in part by the economic manner in
which the business of the company
is handled. It pays moderate salaries
to officers and employees, and it has
few of them. The present president
of the Southern Mutual is A. E.
Griffeth; and secretary and treasur
er is Andrew Cobb Erwin. Both
are fine business men.
Andrew Erwin at one time was a
politician, with a brilliant future.
He once was mayor of Athens, mem
ber of the house from Clarke, and
a delegate to a national Democratic
convention. In all these positions
he showed himself to be a man of
unusual ability, sound judgment,
and unquestioned courage. He was
never defeated for any office to
which he aspired. His friends free
ly predicted he would become gover
nor of Georgia. He voluntarily re
tired from political activity after be
coming secretary of the Southern
Mutual, and he has made a fine re
cord in the business world. In de
clining to become a candidate for
other offices than the ones held by
him, he followed somewhat in the
steps of his distinguished father,
Hon. A. S. Erwin, who was once
Judge of the Western Circuit, but
declined re-election. He would have
had no opposition. He was a model
judge, and there is little doubt about
his being Chief Justice of Georgia
if he had aspired to it. He en
joyed law practice better than office
holding. Andrew Erwin enjoys the
business, rather than the political
life.
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Mention is made of the enterprises
at Commerce and Athens because
they are not only Georgia business
ventures, but home corporations.
One is located in Jackson county,
and the other just five miles from
the Jackson county line. One de
clares a nice dividend to its stock
holders, while the other pays its
stockholders, who are the policy hold
ers, fifty per cent. If these have
achieved success, then other similar
concerns should be organized and
operated so as to give employment
to people in Georgia, pay Georgia
people dividends, and keep millions
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of dollars here which now go out of
the state. Georgia should not only
have more building and loan associ
ations and fire insurance companies,
but should have life insurance com
panies, and more pants and shirt
factories and similar manufacturing
enterprises.
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We have never favored state high
way patrol. We still doubt its prac
ticability and wisdom; but the law
is now on the statute books, and it
behooves every Georgian now to
render any and all aid to make it a
success. We know nothing about
the peculiar fitness of J. C. Carter,
who has been designated to be at the
head of this department, but we do
know Clem E. Sutton of Washing
ton, who will be its attorney, and
will therefore have much to do with
its functioning, as he will be the
one to construe and interpret the
act. Since he is the author of the
law, he knows better than any other
person just what it means, and how
to make its application. The ap
pointment of Judge Sutton as speci
al attorney for this department is
ideal. Georgia has no more capable
lawyer, no more faithful servant nor
upright gentleman than Clem Sut
ton.
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It is no time to criticise Governor
Rivers for leaving a hospital in
Georgia just after an operation and
making a long journey to California,
where he was ill for several days,
which caused his friends uneasiness
and apprehension. This is water
over the dam, and changing the
figure, this is looking back; and the
Good Book says, “Whosoever put
teth his hand to the plow and look
eth back is not worthy the Kingdom
of Heaven.” However, just a word
about the future. Since being the
Chief Executive, we have not made
a single suggestion to him, nor given
him any advice. He has not sought
from us either. Now’, however, w r e
are going to make a suggestion, and
that is this. Let the Governor go
to a hospital in Atlanta, remain
there until entirely well, after which
stay in Atlanta and look after the
affairs of Georgia, which will take
nearly all his strength and time.
Leave off so much speech making.
May be, the Governor does not
realize the intense campaign for
governor, his strenuous life during
the session of the legislature; and
the vigorous efforts by him and his
much speech making for the pro
posed amendments have about ex
hausted his strength.
He needs to take things easy, re
cuperate, and get strong again. To
solve the present important and
pressing problems, to man the State
with assistance and helpers who are
in thorough accord with his views
and are loyal to him, and for him to
direct the State affairs generally,
will require every ounce of nervous
and physical energy he possesses. He
should not draw on his reserve pow
ers by making so many speeches,
and visiting through the State and
performing duties which can be done
by others. Taxation, free school
books, longer term schools, improve
ment of health conditions, agricul
tural betterment, highway construc
tion and old age pensions—each is a
big question, but taken all together,
they mean a mammoth problem.
These and other state matters re
quire a strong and healthy man to
handle. A sick man just cannot do
the job. Let the Governor rest,
play, take recreation, and not work
more than eight hours per day; but
leave off riding over the country
making two or three speeches a day.
This is the suggestion. He can take
it, or leave it. We have had our
say.
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O. 0. Mclntyre, one of the great
est column writers on the press of
the United States, has this to say:
“One of the most poignant edi
torials I ever read was recently pen
ned by Frederick Sullens, editor of
the Jackson, Miss., News. He wrote:
“Mrs. Anne L. Sullens, wife of
this writer, passed into the Great
Beyond at daylight this morning.
One cannot write when eyes are
blinded by fast-falling tears and the
brain is numbed by life’s greatest
sorrow.
“Cod never brought into being a
truer, sweeter, nobler or higher
type of womanhood than this wife
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
Contract For Work On
Commerce-Athens High
way to Be Re-Let July 23
Due to the fact that all bids sub
mitted to the State Highway Board
on June 18 for the paving of 0.305
miles and grading of 4.571 miles on
the Commerce-Athens highway, were
too high, the bonrd is re-advertising
the project to be re-let on July 23.
A notice to contractors desiring to
bid on this project will be found in
another column of this issue of The
Herald. The lowest bid submitted
June 18 was by W. L. Florence Con
struction Company, of Powder
Springs. Their bid was $09,181.53,
which the highway board considers
too high.
Three other contracts are also
held up by the board for the same
reason. These projects with an
nounced low bidders are:
Burke County: 9.021 miles of pav
ing on Sylvania-Waynesboro road,
Joseph R. Cothran, Jr., Atlanta,
$76,616.36.
Jenkins and Emanuel Counties:
17.381 miles of paving on Graymont-
Millen road, William F. Bowe, Jr.,
Augusta, $156,326.66.
Lowndes County: 3.728 miles
grading on Valdosta Madison, Fla.,
road, John Monaghan, Inc., Pelham,
$43,611.75.
WEDDING BELLS
Presley-Lacey
Married on June 28 in Commerce,
Miss Rosa Pearl Presley of Mays
ville, and Otis Lacy, Jr., of Com
merce. The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Presley. Mr.
and Mrs. Lacey are at home in
Commerce.
Aderhold-Sims
Miss Mary Sue Aderhold, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Aderhold,
and Robert J. Sims, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Sims of Jefferson, were unit
ed in marriage at the Baptist Pas
torium in Commerce Friday night,
June 25th, Dr. C. C. Tooke officiat
ing, using the ring ceremony. Mr.
and Mrs. Sims are now at Carnes
ville, where the groom is stationed
as a member of the state highway
department.
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Dyar-Eubanks
On Saturday, June 26th, Miss
Lucy Mae Eubanks, daughter of
Mrs. W. Dillard Eubanks, was unit
ed in marriage to Cecil Franklin
Dyar, son of Mrs. J. A. Dyar and
the late Mr. Dyar. Mr. and Mrs.
Dyar will reside in Commerce.
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Blackwell-Ed wards
Newt Blackwell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Blackwell of Jefferson,
was united in marriage on July 5 to
Miss Dovie Lee Edwards, daughter of
Mrs. Jane Edwards of Hoschton.
The ceremony was performed by
Judge W. W. Dickson.
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Murphy-Cooper
Announcement is made of the
wedding of Tom Woodrow Murphy
of Pendergrass, to Miss Ernest Irene
Cooper, also of Pendergrass, the
ceremony having been performed
by T. W. Gee.
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Baxter-Sailors
On June 26 in Commerce, Edd
Baxter and Miss Pauline Sailors,
both of that city, were united in
marriage by Rev. W. J. Spearman.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Obe Sailors, and the bride
groom a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L.
Baxter.
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Stephens-Dorsey
J. C. Stephens and Miss Dorothy
Dorsey, who reside in the southern
section of the county, were joined in
marriage June 26 by Judge W. W.
Dickson. Mr. Stephens is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Stephens.
Miss Allea Betts of Athens was
the recent guest of Mrs. Dudley
Moore.
of my bosom, or one who had more
trusting faith in God. It is hard to
say ‘Thy will be done.’ I cannot say
it now.
“Good friends, dear friends, true
friends, all ye whom I have tried to
console with written words when you
were crushed with similar sorrow
and there seemed naught but dark
ness, pray for me. I now kqow'the
meaning of Gethsemane.”
GROWING TOBACCO
O. L. Singletary Is Successfully Pro
ducing Tobacco In Jackson County
In years gone by people grew to
bacco in this county. It was not
marketed, but consumed by the
growers. The “pig tail” was a fa
miliar piece of tobacco in other days
of the past.
Last year a small patch was plant
ed by a farmer in Harrisburg dis
trict. O. L. Singletary was present
ed a “twist” of it. He is a native of
North Carolina, and grew up in the
tobacco belt of that state. He
knows tobacco planting, cultivating
and curing just like a native son of
this county knows about cotton cul
ture. The piece of tobacco present
ed him impressed him that this
county has soil suited to the grow
ing of this crop. He decided to
make a try out of tobacco on his
farm near Brockton. Four acres were
planted, and today it is very pxomis
ing. Already he is constructing his
curing house, and will be ready to
market the crop when ripe, gather
ed and matured. He believes the
land will make at least one thousand
pounds per acre. Insurance to the
amount of one hundred and fifty
dollars per acre has been written by
a well known insurance company.
If this crop proves a success, as
Mr. Singletary thinks it will, then
he wishes one hundred other farmers
to join him in tobacco growing.
Said he, “Already sbety farmers
have agreed to join me in growing
this money crop other than cotton.
I want just one hundred to agree
to co-operate with me. If I know
anything about farming, it is
tobacco culture; and I believe
right here in Jackson we can make
a fine success of growing tobacco.
Cotton growers in this county can
not produce the staple in competi
tion with Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan
sas, Mississippi, or even South Geor
gia. -These states yield without com
mercial fertilizers more per acre
than Jackson county lands with it.
So we must raise something for a
money crop besides cotton. I be
lieve tobacco is the crop. Let ber
muda grass grow on the hills to be
grazed by cattle, plant some land in
tobacco and cotton for money crops.
Make rich the land cultivated for
these and grain crops with domestic
fertilizer from cattle, and Jackson
county farmers will come into their
own. I shall have pictures taken
of my tobacco crop, which I am go
ing to ask The Herald to publish.
If people cannot go in person to see"
my tobacco crop, they may see pic
tures of it. I really believe tobacco
growing will prove a blessing to
agriculture in Jackson far beyond
the expectation of even the most
sangune.”
Mr. Singletary is a man of inia
tive, as well as indomitable energy.
Since becoming a citizen of Jeffer
son, he has developed enterprises,
and is a partaker of all efforts for
the public weal of this city and this
community. It is hoped his efforts
in tobacco culture will prove emi
ently successful.
SINGING CONVENTION NOTES
Remember that the Jackson Coun
ty Singing Convention meets at
Mount Olive Baptist Church, Satur
day and Sunday, July 24-25.
Among the latest developments is
the promise of the Parker Quartette,
Anderson, S. C., to take part in the
convention.
Other leading features are on the
program, which assures the success
of the assembly, which we hope to
make the best ever.
The entertainment committee,
with the hearty co-operation of ev
ery Jackson county citizen, will see
that every visiting song leader is
entertained.
If you have not already selected
the delegation to represent your
church, Sunday school, choir, please
attend to this matter at once—the
day is drawing nigh.
All publishers are prfviledged to
bring or send their books to this
convention, and they will be shown
every courtesy available by the
authorities.
Jewett Barnett, Sec’y.
Miss Helen Richardson of Atlanta
and Miss Sara Wills were recent
guests at a house party entertained
by the Misses Shankle of Commerce
at Lakemont.
Thursday, July 8, 1937.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(Eugenia Boone, H. D. A.)
The crunty bread contest was
held Saturday, June 26th, at the
home economics laboratory at Mar
tin Institute. Ruth Shirley, Clara
nell Lavender, Ernestine Howard
and Mary Reynolds made loaf broad,
biscuit and muffins in the contest.
They were judged by the laboratory
technique, as well as the finished
product. Claranell Lavender from
Bachelor’s won first place. Her
bread exhibit was nice, and her
methods were good. She will repre
sent Jackson county in the district
contest.
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The county style review and team
demonstration contest was held
Tuesday, June 29th, at Martin In
stitute high school auditorium. The
first four places were won by the
following girls, named in the order
which they won: Vivian Shirley,
Dorthy Blackstock, Ernestine How
ard, and Louise Lavender. These
girls will be given medals. Since
Vivian Shirley is too young to be
eligible for the state contest,
Dorothy Blackstock will represent
the county. All the girls made their
dresses nicely and wore them well.
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There were four team demonstra
tions, as follows:
Ruth Shirley and Vivian Shirley,
Color in The Costume.
Dorthy Blackstock and Nelle
Brooks, Making a Dressing Table.
Mary White and Estelle Hill,
Burning Tests for Materials.
Ernestine Howard and Doris
Walls, Flower Arrangement.
The first team on the list won, but
since Vivian Shirley is ineligible be
cause of age, Nelle Brooks will work
with Ruth Shirley in a team demon
stration for the district.
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The county 4-H club camp will be
held at Thyatira July 14, 15, and
16th. Letters have been sent to
each club girl, giving a list of what
she is asked to bring for camp. A
very interesting program has been
planned. July 16th has been de
signated as home demonstration club
day. All members are invited to
come to spend the day.
TOBACCO MARKETS OPEN ON
JULY 29
The Tobacco Association of the
United States has fixed dates for
opening of auction sales on South
ern tobacco markets.
They are:
Georgia, July 29.
South Carolina, August 10.
Eastern North Carolina, August
26.
Middle belt, September 16.
Old belt, September 30.
Virginia dark belt, November 29.
Georgia’s 1937 tobacco crop, dam
aged this spring by blue mold, a
plant disease, is expected to be con
siderably below the near record
86,566,298 pounds sold in fifteen
markets last year.
Unofficial forecasts of the reduc
tion range from 10 per cent upward.
The market which opened August
1 last year, and continued through
out the month, saw $18,141,577
pour into the hands of Georgia
growers to set an all-time record fpr
tobacco receipts.
CONTRACTS GIVEN
TO GEORGIA FIRMS
Washington, D. C. —Government
supply contracts awarded during
the week June 24 included two large
contracts to four Georgia firms, ac
cording to announcement by the la
bor department.
The Bona Allen Company, Incor
porated, of Buford, got a contract
from the postoffice department for
$45,100.00 worth of letter carrier’s
satchels, to be delivered in 1937.
The Villa Rica Mills, Incorporat
ed, Villa Rica, the Golden City
Hosiery Mills, Villa Rica, and the
Villa Rica Hosiery Mills, Villa Rica,
share a contract with a Charlotte,
N. C., firm—the Johnston Mills
Company—for $92,714.33 worth of
cotton socks. The contract was let
by the CCC through the war de
partment, and is for delivery No
vember 19.
The contracts were awarded after
competitive bidding.
Vol. 61. No. 49.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
Dairy farmers of this county
should join the Georgia Dairy Herd
Improvement, and thus derive the
various benefits which membership
in the organization offers. Here are
outlined some of these benefits.
The Bureau of Dairy Industry re
cently set up a system of permanent
dairy records, available to all mem
bers of associations in the different
states. Under the federal bureau’s
program, each member w’ill have the
animals of his herd positively identi
fied, and these records will be placed
in his herd-record book.
In addition, he will receive prov
ed-sire information on every sire
that has a daughter in the tested
herds, and a proved-sire list at in
tervals of six months. And then, as
the production records accumulate
year after year, all data reported on
t)he herd will be summarized and
tabulated periodically.
Aside from these benefits, mem
bers of the Georgia Dairy Herd Im
provement Association get valuable
assistance from production records.
They also have records on the cost
and consumption of feeds, and on
milk weight and butterfat. Herd
owners can thus figure profit and
loss, which enables them to do a
more intelligent job of culling their
herds.
About 600 cows are now regis
tered in the Georgia Association,
and several hundred others are ex
pected to be added during the next
few months.
Membership in the Georgia or
ganization costs the dairyman only
a nominal sum, compared with the
benefits received.
Emergency distribution of food
stuffs, obtained through surplus re
moval programs conducted by the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration aided materially in increas
ing returns to producers and in al
leviating distress among victims of
local or widespread disasters in the
United States during 1936. In one
section of Georgia hit by a destruc
tive tornado, food was made avail
able to the need in less than an.
hour after the tornado had passed.
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On Friday afternoon a meeting
of farmers and their wives was held,
as scheduled, at the court house in
Jefferson to discuss the organization
of a curb market in Jackson county.
There were some fifteen producers
present at this meeting. Mr. L. E.
Farmer, extension marketing special
ist from Athens, was present, and
discussed most clearly the benefits
to be derived both by the producers
and consumers from such an or
ganization, as well as the problem
to be dealt with in getting the
market established.
We feel like it would be a great
help to our farmers and farm wo
men to have the market for their
use. At the same time we feel sure
it would greatly assist the house
wives and other people of the town.
At an early date we plan to call
a meeting of the parties who have
shown an interest in this work and
discuss further the perfecting of an
organization.
If you are interested, please get
in toueh with Miss Boone, your
home demonstration agent, or your
county agent.
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During the past week we visited
57 of our 4-H club boys and their
projects. Some of these boys have
excellent demonstrations of corn,
cotton, poultry, pigs and calves, as
well as some good gardens.
Due to the illness of our county
agent, we have been delayed in
visiting the remainder of these pro
jects. Within the next few days,
however, we expect to see all the
other projects which we missed.
We think we have some excellent
club boys conducting projects this
year. Their records at the end of
the year will no doubt prove this
fact.
J. W. JACKSON,
County Agricultural Agent.
Some days ago Mr. L. R. Sheridan
presented to us for inspection and
perusal Volume 1 of Bancrofts His
tory of the United States, and
Volume 1 of Rollins Ancient His
tory. These are histories written by
well known authors, and their study
brings pleasure, as well as informa
tion and instruction.