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The Jackson Herald
By Holder & Williamson
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Cha irman R. S. Johnson of the
Public Welfare Board of this county
says that something over seventeen
hundred dollars have been received
to pay old age pensions in Jackson.
The number of persons on the roll
in this county has npt yet been de
termined, as all seven hundred ap
plications have not been passed on
by the county board. The statement
is made by Mr. Murdaugh, head of
the welfare department of the state,
that the old age pension will be
forty-three per cent of thirty dol
lars, or $12.43 per person, per
month. For some time it has been
anticipated that the full amount pi’o
vided by law would not be paid, but
any amount less than seventy-five
per cent of the maximum, or $22.50
per pensioner, will be a dire disap
pointment to these old folks. They
fully expected the full thirty dollars,
and any such sum as $12.43 will
cause a great protest from these
worthy citizens and their friends.
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Amelia Earhart planned and en
deavored to execute circling the
globe in an airplane. She had suc
ceeded well until the last long
stretch of her voyage twenty-five
hundred miles over the Pacific ocean.
She charted to land on the tiny is
land of Howland far out in the great
ocean. She failed to reach this des
tination, and is lost somewhere, or
has met death. Never in the history
of the Old World has such a search
been instituted for one person who
is lost. The government of the
United States has put to work every
agency that can be of service in this'
undertaking. Engand, Japan and
other governments are tremendous
ly interested in finding the lost
aviatrix, and are lending a helping
hand to this end. Multitudes of
people are hoping and praying for
her rescue. The intense interest of
governments and millions of people
in finding this one person should not
fail to convience any skeptic of the
brotherhood of man. In man is a
Divine part like unto the Great I
Am, the God of Heaven and Earth.
Judge B. Frank Whelchel, con
gressman from this district, pro
poses to furnish to the newspapers
of the district, a statement each week
showing just what bills and resolu
tions have been passed by congress
and signed by the president during
that period. He does not offer to
be a correspondent, furnish news
and make comments on what tran
spires in the national capitol, but to
list only the laws passed. Judge
Whelchel is ever alert to the wel
fare of his district. At all times he
keeps in intimate touch with every
county, every militia district, and
with many persons. He is earnest
and active in behalf of the people of
the ninth. No man in congress
serves his constituents more faith
fully than Judge Whelchel.
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tell me why so many of
our boys do not succeed?” The
question was asked Dr. S. T. Ross
by a citizen of Winder. While here
attending a meeting of the Jackson-
Barrow Medical Association, Dr.
Ross, a prominent member of it,
told some friends at the Harrison
Hotel his answer to this question.
His reply to the questioner was,
“Now, let’s see about the boys that
have grown up in our city. One is
a United States Senator, one is an
expert aviator, another is in the
army as an officer, two or three hold
responsible positions with the feder
al government, some are physicians,
lawyers, manufacturers, ministers,
business men, and farmers. The
boys reared here do not all live in
our midst. The field of activity for
many of them is elsewhere. A large
percentage of those whose homes are
right here where they grew up are
worthy men who have achieved suc
cess in their chosen field of labor.
When you begin to count those who
have made good, their number will
exceed many fold those who have
not. We will call their names one
by one to prove to you the verity
of my statement. The citizen who
addressed the remark to me just
mentioned had to agree with this
statement. It was the analysis of
the situation, and naming the young
men which convinced him of his
mistaken opinion.”
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Dr. Ross continued his conversa
tion with the citizen. Said he, “I
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was reared in Jefferson, and went
to school at Martin Institute. When
I was growing up I have heard the
same remark about the young men
of that place you just made to me
about our young men. A? in every
town, there were young men in Jef
ferson and community who seemed
to be without ambition and who had
not the right conception of the
duties and responsibilities of life,
but an overwhelming number of
those with whom I associated in
those by gone days have made good
citizens, and some have been re
markably successful. Some have
been honored by filling important
offices in county and state; some
have made brilliant records as news
paper people, lawyers, physicians,
teachers, and ministers. While oth
ers have achieved success right in
Jackson county in business or agri
culture, many went back to the old
home place, and after the passing of
parents, have reared families and
carried on where they were born,
and where their fathers lived, and
are an honor to the county in which
they live. Just because a few young
men have been failures, we are
prone to magnify their number,
and minimize the number who have
done well.”
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Dr. Ross is one of the Jefferson
worthy men who has achieved suc
cess as a physician. But in addition
to this, he is a citizen full of good
works, and is a potent factor in
every effort of his city for its pro
gress and betterment. It so hap
pened that the next day after hear
ing the defense of the young men
of this day and generatiop by Dr.
Ross, we read what a great news
paper writer had to say on this sub
ject:
“To hear the squawkers Youth has
slipped the halter.
“And is capering, like the frisky
colt, along dangerous paths. Every
generation has had its fling of wild
youth.
“But little is heard of the vast
majority of boys who are bucking
realities without a whimper. Work
ing hard by day to pay for school
tuition by night. I know of one in
especial whose parents are employ
ed. Due to their tasks, the three
meet but twice a week for dinner.
“And what joyous interludes they
are. Each has a thrift account.
Twice a month they attend a neigh
borhood movie together. There are
many such boys who will be the
background of our future democra
cy.”
While Dr. Ross has been practic
ing his chosen profession for many
years, yet time has not laid a heavy
hand on him—few wrinkles in his
face, and few, if any gray hairs in
his head. Another physician who
usually attends the session of the
bi-county medical association is Dr.
L. C. Allen, of Hoschton, who at
tended the last meeting. He is
virile and active* At this last ses
sion he said to some friends, “For
nearly a half century I have prac
ticed medicine in this and other
counties about Hoschton. While
others take vacations, I have never
taken time for such recreation. My
work has kept me busy. I still keen
busy, and enjoy by labor. In this
day of automobiles and hospitals, a
doctor does not live the strenuous
life he did when patients were -visit
ed in a buggy, over muddy and nar
row roads, and when most patients
had to be treated in their home, and
operations performed there. Now it
is different. They are usually car
ried to a hospital for operation; the
automobile has taken the place of
buggy, and roads have been much
improved.” Dr. Allen and his son,
Dr. M. B. Allen, have an up
to-date hospital in Hoschton. In
addition to his work as a physician,
Dr. Allen is an extensive farmer,
and takes a hand occasionally in
politics. Several times he has rep
resented Jackson in the legislature,
where he made a fine record. At
present he is a member of the Pub
lic Welfare Boai'd of Jackson Coun
ty.
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Another man who is not an en
thusiastic vacationist is Dr. John F.
Yarbrough, presiding elder of the
Gainesville district. In his sermon
in the Methodist church here recent
ly, he said, “During the years I have
served as an itinerant Methodist
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
WEDDING BELLS
Dean-Richard*on
Of much interest is the announce
ment by Mrs. Tatom Zellars Dean of
College Park of the engagement of
her daughter, Margaret Virginia, to
Donald Richardson, the marriage to
be solemnized August 7, at the Col
lege Park Baptist Church. Miss Dean
is an only daughter of Mrs. Dean
and the late Mr. Dean, of College
Park. Her mother, before her mar
riage, was Miss Harriet Colquitt,
descendant of the Word and Colquitt
families of Georgia and Virginia.
Mr. Richardson is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Richardson, of Col
lege Park, formerly of Jefferson.
Mrs. Richardson is a descendant of
the Whitmire and Boles families of
Georgia. He attended Martin In
stitute, in Jefferson, and Mercer
University. Mr. Richardson is con
nected with the Western Electric
Company.
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Smith-Castleberry
A quiet but beautiful event of
Tuesday afternoon of last week
which centered interest of many
friends was the marriage ceremony
uniting Miss Ruth Smith and Charles
Castleberry, Jr., which took place in
the study at the Commerce Baptist
Pastorium, Dr. C. C. Tooke, pastor,
officiating. Mrs. Castleberry is the
younger daughter of Ford L. Smith
and the late Mrs. Smith, who was
Miss Octavia Strickland and the late
Mr. Strickland. Mr. Castleberry was
reared in Gainesville where his par
ents now live. He has prominent
family connections there and else
where in the state. He is manager
of the Atlantic & Pacific Company
in Commerce.
Gipson-Magoffin
The marriage of Miss Annette
Gipson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Frank Gipson of Commerce, Ga.,
and Edward T. Magoffin, an attorney
of 225 Broadway, New York City,
took place Wednesday morning,
June 30th, at 10 o’clock at the
Church of the Transfiguration, the
Little Church Around the Corner in
New York. Miss Gipson is a well
known pilot and has made many re
cords in aviation for women. For
the past five years she has made her
New York home at the Roosevelt
Field Hotel and she maintains hang
er No. 33 and two of her own air
planes at Roosevelt Field. Mr.
Magoffin resides in East Orange, N.
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Wil>on-Lomai
Of interest is the announcement
by Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Wilson of
Commerce of the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Cortez Wilson,
to Clarence Harmon Lomas, of Co
lumbia, S. C., Miss Wilson is a
graduate of the Teachers’ College
in Athens and attended the Univer
sity of Georgia and Duke University.
During the past two years she has
been a member of the faculty of the
John de la Howe School at McCor
mick, S. C. Mr. Lomas is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lomas, of
Columbia. He received his B. S.
degree from Clemson College and
his M. S. degree from the University
of Missouri. He is the assistant su
perintendent of the John de la Howe
School at McCormick.
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Turk—Huey
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Turk, of Mays
ville, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Martha, to Samuel
Winfield Huey.
preacher, more than one charge has
offered to give me a month’s vaca
tion and pay my expenses while ab
sent. I have never accepted the of
fer. My reply to. brethren who are
so considerate of me, has been that
jnerchants do not close their stores
for a month, factories do not cease
their operations, lawyers and phy
sicians do not close their offices for
such a long period, and I do not feel
that I should neglect my duties as
pastor for thirty days. There are
always members of a charge who
never go away on vacation, and they
are entitled to the gospel if they
wish to hear it. So I have never
left my work on a vacation since I
have been a member of the North
Georgia Conference.” Other physi
cians and preachers enjoy a vacation
occasionally. Some enjoy staying at
home, while others delight to go
fishing, hunting and visiting.
STATE MARKETS
AID TO GEORGIA
FARMERS, RALLS SAYS
Hamilton Ralls, state supervisor
of marketing, says state operated
farmers’ markets have done away
with the “one pay-day” system of
Georgia farmers.
“The markets give farmers an op
portunity to have weekly or month
ly cash incomes instead of the old
time one pay day in the fall for
cotton,” he declared.
“We can’t make markets,” he
said, “but we can keep farmers in
informed as to what the market is,
so they can move their produce in
telligently.”
Ralls said 300 truck loads of pro
duce were moved through Atlanta’s
state market Wednesday and the
Macon market is handling 100 truck
loads daily. Others have been in
full operation at Douglas, Valdosta,
Thomasville, Glennville, Claxton and
Boston since produce began to move
about February 1, he said.
He declared the markets were
inspiring diversification of crops.
Snap beans topped the sales at
Georgia farmers markets during the
first six months of 1937, the sales
aggregating 52,491 bushels and
bringing in $304,982.
The next largest money crop was
tomatoes, sales bringing in $172,411,
while green peas came third with
$62,762. Proceeds of other sales
included lima beans, $86,175; cab
bage, $58,836; green corn, $67,616;
lettuce, $14,276; okra, $16,768;
peaches, $16,609; potatoes, $43,308;
strawberries, $37,106; sweet pota
toes, $41,466, and bunched turnips,
$10,933.
Market Supervisor Hamilton Ralls
said all produce handled at the
markets went to wholesale buyers,
many of them out of state.
The eight markets are centers at
which the State Agricultural De
partment helps bring buyer and sell
er together, Ralls explained, but
takes no part in the actual sale.
MELONS, PEACHES
BOTH WELL BEHIND
1936 PRODUCTION
Macon, Ga.—Shipments of peaches
and watermelons, two of Georgia’s
principal early summer crops, con
tinued to lag behind marks set last
year.
Peach shipments are more than 50
per cent behind the same date last
year. The Market News Service re
ported total shipments of 1,247
cars, while 3,050 cars had been
shipped on the same date in 1936.
Unfavorable weather during the
budding season was given as a rea
son for the decrease in shipments.
Prices for the crop were report
ed good.
From Moultrie, the Market News
Service reported watermelon ship
ments of 5,161 cars through July 8
compared with 5,323 cars last year.
An encouraging note came .from
the south Georgia tobacco belt
where farmers are busy curing the
leaf for the market opening July 29.
Growers and warehousemen re
ported expectations of a quality crop
and good prices. The tobacco crop,
ravaged in early season by blue
mold, is expected to be smaller than
the near record 86,565,298 pounds
sold last year.
A 15 per cent acreage increase in
cotton, Georgia’s No. 1 crop, was
forecast by the crop reporting ser
vice.
Total acreage on July 1 was
placed at 2,644,000. Last year 2,-
299,000 acres were estimated in
cultivation July 1.
STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
TO HAVE HEADQUARTERS
IN SOLDIERS’ HOME
The rtate highway patrol has ar
ranged to establish temporary head
quarters at the Confederate Sol
diers’ Home, it was announced
Thursday by Judge Clem Sutton,
author of the patrol bill and special
counsel for the organization.
Judge Sutton said he had made ar
rangements with the governor for
the use of about forty vacant rooms
at the home, and hoped that the ar
rangement could be made perma
nent.
He pointed out that there are
seventy-five rooms in the home but
only twelve old soldiers there now.
Thursday, July 15, 1937.
COUNTY AGENT’S
COLUMN
The Georgia Experiment Station
extends a cordial invitation to the
farmers of Jackson county to visit
the Station any day during the week
of July 19.
Of interest at that time will be
the variety tests with cotton, corn,
and lespedeza; fertilizer experiments
with corn, cotton and pastures; feed
ing experiments with hogs, dairy
and beef cattle, and sheep; experi
ments with tomatoes, grapes and
peppers; water culture studies of
cotton feeding; peanut breeding
work, etc.
If you are interested in visiting
these demonstrations, please get in
touch with the county agent,
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Some Advice On Feeding Of 4-H
Beef Calves ,
The county agent this week offer
ed 4-H club members some sugges
tions on the feeding and care of
their beef calves.
Pointing out that a general fault
with cattle is that they are too thin
when marketed, the agent declared
that a calf can be finished properly
only through a skillful feeding pro
gram. A calf can be taught to eat
grain, even before weaning, by use
of the creep-feeding method. A
common type of creep is a feed
trough of grain, enclosed in a por
tion of the pasture, with the open
ing made too small to allow large
cows to enter the enclosure.
Since most of the 4-H members
get their calves already weaned,
their main object is to fatten the
calf. For this reason, it is well to
let the calf take as little exercise as
possible, and still remain in good
health.
It is possible to cut down on the
calf’s exercise by limiting the range
of the pasture. A ten-acre pasture
for the young calf is recommended,
but a pasture of two or three acres
will be sufficient after the calf is on
full feed. When the creep-feeding
method is used, the exercise can
further be cut down by placing the
creep and the watering place near
together.
A calf on full feed should con
sume from IVi to 2 % pounds of
grain per day for each 100 pounds
of live weight. Thus, a 400-pound
calf will eat from 6 to 10 pounds of
grain daily.
The agent advised club members
to provide a heavy grain ration,
since the tendency is for a young
beef animal to grow, rather than to
fatten. Available salt and a suf
ficient amount of clean, fresh water
are also important. You are also
warned against any sudden change
in the feed for cattle.
Control Weevil By Picking Up
Square*
Since considerable boll weevil in
festation has been reported in some
sections of the state, all cotton
farmers are urged to fight the wee
ville by picking up weevil punctured
squares, which have fallen to the
ground, and then destroying them.
While this is one of the most ef
fective ways of controlling the pest,
it must be carried out at once in
order to be‘successful. By picking
up the squares, some farmers have
been known to control the boll wee
vil without additional control meas
ures.
A small percentage of the weevils
that go into hibernation in the fall,
live to emerge in the spring. Those
that do survive lay only a few eggs
in the first cotton squares, and then
die. These eggs soon hatch out and
grow into adult weevils, and a rapid
multiplication of these pests is soon
under way. If given long, rainy
spells of weather in which to thrive,
these weevils can cause serious
damage to the cotton crop.
When the boll weevil deposits its
eggs in the cotton squares, those
squares usually-turn yellow and drop
to the ground. If the fallen squares
are picked up and destroyed, the
weevils are soon wiped out, or near
ly so.
When the weevils are thus remov
ed, the cotton plants are able to put
on a good crop of cotton before
weevils have time to come in from
other fields. How'ever, the import
ance of picking up square early in
the season is emphasized, since it
will do very little good later on.
J. W. JACKSON,
County Agricultural Agent.
Vol. 61. No. 50.
OLD AGE PENSIONS
WILL BE PAID OUT,
STARTING JULY 20
Payment of Georgia’s old-age pen
sions will begin about July 20 and
the first month’s rolls will be com
pleted by August * 1, Lamar Mur
daugh, director of the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare, announced
Saturday.
Murdaugh said he has, to the
credit of the department for the
payment of old-age pensions, about
$9 00,090, two-thirds of which was
provided by the state and the bal
ance by the federal government.
This is to run for the months o£
July, August and September. Pen
sion funds for the balance of the
year will be made available in the
fourth quarterly budget which will
be submitted to Governor Rivers
October 1.
Asked how many old people would
receive pensions this month, the di
rector declared that he believes he
has enough money on hand to pay
all of those who are certified by the
county units.
“Of course it will be a great job
for the county boards to get all
eligible pensioners on their rolls in
such a short time,” Murdaugh said.
“In fact it may take the entire three
months to get the program working
smoothly but I feel safe in saying
that after the three months have
elapsed and we go into the final
quarter of the year everyone will be
satisfied with the results.”
MISS BROCK AND HER )
QUINTETTE OF CHARMING
NIECES IN JEFFERSON
Miss Bonnie Brock, member of
the high school faculty of Athens, is
entertaining at a most delightful
house party at the Harrison Hotel
this week, her guests being her five
attractive nieces, Misses Sarah, Mar
garet, Dorothy and Sammie Lou
Duckett of Charlotte, N. C., and
Sylvia Therrall of Columbia, S. C.
The charming quintette are grand
daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.
H. Brock, and during their early
childhood days spent many happy,
moments in the home of the grand
parents; in fact, some of them first
saw the light of day in the family
residence on Martin Institute street,,
where Professor Kizer now resides.
It was in this home that their par
ents, Sam Duckett and Miss Lourine
Brock, and P. T. Therrall and Miss
Annabel Brock, were married!,, and
of course they experience great jtfj
in visiting the town where their'
mothers were reared and where the
family is so well known and has so)
many friends. j
Miss Sarah Duckett, the eldest of
the group, is a member of the 1937
graduating class of Duke University;
Misses Margaret and Dorothy Duck
ett. attend Queens Chieora College,
in Charlotte; and Miss Sammie Lou,
youngest of the Duckett sisters, is a
high school girl. Miss Sylvia Ther
rell attends the University of South
Carolina, at Columbia. While irt
Jefferson, they are entertaining
themselves visiting relatives and old
friends, and meeting new acquaint
ances. On Sunday afternoon they
motored into the country to visit
the family of Mrs. C. A. O. Brock;
Monday found them driving to
Oconee Baptist church, which their;
great-grand father organized, and
where his body now rests; Tuesday
they visited Miss Doris Hancock, at
Camp Takeda; Wednesday was spent
in Athens; in fact, every moment id
filled with some new event that is
exciting and pleasant. Their only
Jefferson relatives in their grand
mother’s family is Mrs. Lizzie
Strickland and her son, Guy Strick
land. The former is their great
aunt
It has been a great pleasure to
know the charming young ladies,
and we hope their visit to Jefferson
will bring them all the pleasure they
anticipated Their aunt and chape
ron, Miss Bonnie Brock, is* well
known to Jeffersonians, who are al
ways glad to welcome her back homa
on a visit.
Mrs. J. G. Durham, of Mulberry,
was admitted to the hospital Satur
day morning with a badly broken
and shattered thigh’ bone in hip
joint. She is 84 years old, and lie**
condition is serious. Mrs. Durhani
is the mother of Mrs. Alex Hill, Mrs.
Joe Wood and E. L. Durham.—
Hoschton News.
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