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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1937.
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Stanley Kesler was confined to his
home the early part of the week,
suffering from a severe cold.
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\l r . and Mrs. Rufus Hooper were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Wills, in Winder.
Miss Elinor Johnson of Talmo was
Thanksgiving guest of her parents,
Mr and Mrs. H. G. Johnson.
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Miss Bess Kelly of Roopville was
the Thanksgiving holiday guest of
her mother, Mrs. Sam Kelly.
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Charles and Donald Bryson of At
lanta were guests Sunday of Judge
C. L. Bryson.
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Wade Hampton Williamson of At
lanta spent Thanksgiving Day here
with his parents.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Thompson
spent several days last week with
their son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
John G. Thompson, in Buena Vista.
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Miss Edith McDonald of Atlanta
spent Thursday in the city with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mc-
Donald.
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Misses Sara Dadisman of Toccoa,
and Mary Erwin Smith of Elberton,
were guests for week-end at their
homes in Jefferson.
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Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Lyle and Miss
Evelyn Beatty spent the Thanksgiv
ing holidays at the country home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Beatty.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Storey, George
Storey and John D. Storey of Athens
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Storey, Sr., here Sunday afternoon.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Castleberry
of Rome were guests Thanksgiving
of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Echols. They
were accompanied home by Miss
Elizabeth Echols for the week-end.
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Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Hooper had as
guests Thanksgiving, Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Hooper and daughter, Stoy
Hogan, Gladys Hanes and Boyce
Hooper.
Miss Eloise Hood of N. G. C.,
Dahlonega, and Miss Elizabeth Hood
of Hartwell were guests of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 0. Hood,
for the week-end.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Carter enter
tained at dinner on Tuesday even
ing for Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Weir,
Elliot Weir, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Wilbanks and children.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Weir of Com
merce entertained at Thanksgiving
dining. Covers were laid for Mr.
and Mrs. J. S. Robinson, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Wilbanks, Elliott Weir,
and Mr. and Mrss. C. E. Weir,
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Whether or not you are a mem
ber of the Jefferson Woman’s Club,
you are cordially invited to attend
the Library Tea on Friday after
noon, from 3.30 to 5.30, at the City
Hall.
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Miss LaNell Vandiver of Man
chester, and Ralph Vandiver of
Gainesville, spent the week-end at
the home of their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Vandiver.
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The many friends of Mrs. C. B.
Whelchel will be glad to know she
has returned home from the hos
pital. She is still confined to bed,
but is improving nicely.
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Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Howell had
as dinner guests on Thursday, Mrs.
W. B. MeCants and Miss Charlotte
McCants of Winder, and Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Moore, Lewis and Flor
ence Moore, of Atlanta.
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After spending several days with
his mother in Jefferson, Cecil Han
cock returned to Atlanta Sunday.
Donald Hancock, who was also at
home for the Thanksgiving holidays,
left Monday for Toccoa, where he
is located with the post road forces,
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Stewart Lord, J. E. McElhannon,
Jr., Curt Collier, Jr., Tapley Wil
hite, and Misses Mary Daniel and
Eloise Hood, after spending the
week-end in Jefferson with their
Parents, returned Sunday afternoon
to North Georgia Junior College,
Dahlonega.
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Misses Hazel Johnson, Vera Cul
berson, Frances Nunn and Billy Har
dy came up from G. S. C. W. to spend
Thursday with their parents in Jef
ferson. Miss Hardy had as her
guest, Miss Jeanette Rainey of Ca
milla, who is also a student at G. S.
C. W.
LOCALS
Mrs. J. A. Wills was a visitor in
Atlanta Tuesday and Wednesday.
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■Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith of
mton, S. C., were guests Sunday
of their mother, Mrs. Ida Smith.
Mrs. A. M. Hardy has been con
fined to her room this week on ac
count of sickness.
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iss Margaret Ozburn, who is
teaching in Waycross, spent the
past week-end in Jefferson, the
guest of Miss Frances Ellington.
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Miss Elizabeth and Farrell Rob
erts of Atlanta were at the home of
their mother in Jefferson the past
week-end.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wood of
Oconee Heights were guests Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Alexander.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Wilson spent
Thursday in Atlanta, guests of their
children, Mr. and Mrs. Armour, and
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Medlin.
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Mr. and Mr3. Jack Hardy had as
Thanksgiving guests the latter’s
parents and brothers, Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Harris, Paul and Billy Harris,
of Jacksonville, Fla.
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Frary Elrod of Augusta spent the
week-end here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. F. Elrod, and had as
guests John McMurray and daugh
ter, Miss Mary, of Augusta.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Roberts, Jr.,
and Mrs. R. C. Roberts of Gaines
ville, Miss Dona Luttrell of Ken
tucky, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. Roberts.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McKay, Miss
Marion and Raymond Rigdon spent
the week-end with their parents,
Rev. and Mrs. R. M. Rigdon. Ray
mond had as his guest one of his
college friends, Sam Lowe, of At
lanta.
Jefferson welcomes as new citizens
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Massey, who have
moved here from Brockton, and
have an apartment in the Randolph
building. Mr. Massey has opened a
grocery store just beyond the E. E.
Martin store.
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Raymond Rigdon, recently elected
president of Georgia Baptist Stu
dent Union, left Macon Wednesday
for Nashville, Tenn., to attend a
Presidents’ B. L. U. Convention of
Southern Baptists.
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R. H. W’hite is erecting a beauti
ful brick bungalow on Railroad Ave.,
which he and Mrs. White will occupy
when completed. Mr. White is
manager of the Texas Company ser
vice station in the Jefferson Mills
Village.
The circles of the Presbyterian
Woman’s Auxiliary will meet on
Monday afternoon at three o’clock
with Mrs. S. J. Smith. Mrs. A. B.
Deadwyler of Commerce, Presbyter
ial Secretary of Christian Education
and Ministerial Relief, will be guest
speaker. Each member is urged to
be present.
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The Methodist missionary society
will meet at the church Monday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock. Installation
of officers and a Harvest Day exer
cises will feature the program. All
members are urged to be present,
and visitors will be cordially wel
comed. This will be the last meet
ing of the year.
Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Green, Rey
nolds Green and Mrs. Green’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Higgins, left to
day, Wednesday, for Elberton, where
they will occupy the Methodist cir
cuit parsonage. Miss Elizabeth
Green, a member of Martin Institute
senior class, will remain here until
the close of the 1937-38 school ses
sion. She will make her home with
Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Eliecr. The
parishioners and friends of the
Green family regret that conference
thought best to give Mr. Green work
elsewhere.
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Dr. J. W. Fenten arrived in the
city Monday, and is giving instruc
tions in First Aid and Accident Pre
vention to the teachers of the coun
ty. The sessions are being held
from 3.30 to 6.30 at Martin Insti
tute, and will continue through
next week. The school is for the
purpose of training health education
teachers so that they may instruct
these subjects to public school pu
pils, and is sponsored by the State
Board of Education. Dr. Fenten
was sent to Jefferson by the Nation
al Red Cross.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
LOCALS
Mrs. F. P. Holder was a visitor in
Atlanta Sunday.
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Miss Julia Roberts spent the
Thanksgiving holidays in Athens,
the guest of Miss Jean Overton.
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Miss Frances Ellington of the
Chipley school faculty spent the
week-end here with home folks.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Andrew and
Mrs. J. B. Pinson of Atlanta spent
Friday here, visiting C. N. Pinson.
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Johnnie Harwell of Washington,
D. C., was visiting in Jefferson last
week.
Professor and Mrs. H. J. W. Kizer,
Bert Kizer and Edwin Aderhold
were visitors in Atlanta Saturday.
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C. A. Webb has ordered the ad
dress of The Herald changed from
Royston to Route 3, Maysville.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allgood of
Athens were guests of Jefferson rela
tives on Sunday.
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Mrs. R. M. Gudger of Chatsworth
is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. P. Hol
der, at her home on Martin street.
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Mrs. Fred Northcutt of Toccoa
spent the week-end here with her
parents, and was accompanied home
by her son, who spent the past two
weeks here with his grandparents.
Rev. Clyde Patrick, member of the
North Georgia Conference, was in
the city Monday, en route to his
new home at Lula, where he was as
signed at the last conference.
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Loy Cowart of Graymont spent
part of last week here, and was ac
companied home Sunday by Mrs.
Cowart and son, who spent several
days here with their grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Storey, Sr.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mcßee, John
Hancock, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
B. Adams lfeft Tuesday for Ever
glades, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Ree will visit their son and daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Martin.
John Barnett was visiting his
uncle, Clifton Barnett, and other
relatives here last week. Mr. Bar
nett is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Barnett of West Palm Beach, Fla.,
and is a student at Oglethorpe Uni
versity, Atlanta.
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Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Staton and
children were in Clermont recently
to join with other members of the
Staton family in the celebration of
the BGth birthday of Mr. Staton’s
father, a prominent Hall county
citizen.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kelly were
hosts last week at a lovely family
dining. Covers were laid for Mr.
and Mrs. Kelly, Sam and Martha
Ann Kelly, Mrs. Sam Kelly, Mrs.
Lucy Carr, Miss Bess and Edwin
Kelly.
Harold Hardy, who has been con
fined to his room, first from the ef
fects of an appendix operation and
later from an attack of pneumonia,
is able to be out again, and hopes
to resume his duties in the school
room at Fayetteville next week.
His numerous friends are delighted
that he is well again.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith, Charles
and John Holder Smith were supper
guests Sunday evening of Mr. and
Mrs. J. N. Holder. They were en
route from Tennille to Gainesville,
where Charles and John Holder
Smith are students at Riverside.
They had spent the Thanksgiving
holidays at their home in Tennille.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Randolph and
Miss Dorothy Randolph were guests
of Mrs. Towns and Mrs. Williams in
Athens the past week-end, where
they were joined by Miss Louise
Towns, who came down from New
York. Miss Randolph returned Sun
day to Dalton, where she is a mem
ber of the school faculty.
Waggoner Alexander of Char
lottsville, Va., spent Thursday and
Friday in Jefferson with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Alexander.
Young Mr. Alexander, who holds a
high school diploma from Martin In
stitute, an A. B. and an M. A. de
gree from the State University, and
studied for a year in Europe, is now
working for a PhD degree from the
University at Charlottsville. Added
to these remarkable accomplishments
for a 23-year-old student, he is a
talented musician, having studied
under some of finest teachers here
and in Europe.
LOCALS
Key Holliday of Athens was a
visitor in Jefferson Sunday evening,
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Mrs. Dora Stepp has returned to
her home in Monroe, after a visit of
several days to her daughter, Mrs.
M. N. Brown.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Brown and
children were visitors to Monroe
Sunday afternoon.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Guest of Mon
roe were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
HolWay, Thanksgiving.
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Mrs. Sam Holliday spent Monday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Gilmer
Mauldin.
Mrs. Henry Polk Barnett and lit
tle daughter, Sarah Louise, are in
Murphy, N. C., visiting Mrs. Barnett’s
father.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Mobley of
LaGrange were guests the past
week-end of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hol
der.
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Mrs. John Waddell of Henderson
ville, N. C., was in the city Thursday
and Friday, the guest of Mrs. F. C.
Staton.
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Substitute Christmas Seals for the
usual stickers when you wrap your
gifts. Use Seals on all your letters
from now through Christmas.
Mrs. Evans Wright, who has been
in Atlanta for several days, called
there by the illness of her mother,
has returned home.
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Friends of C. T. Storey, Sr., are
glad to see him able to be out again,
after being Confined to his room for
several days with sickness.
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Miss Merle Kinningham had as
her guest for the Thanksgiving holi
days Miss Mildred Chandler of At
lanta.
Plan now to call at the City Hall
on Friday afternoon, between 3.30
and 5.30, and get a cup of tea, there
by showing your interest in the
Woman’s Club Library located there,
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Rev. and Mrs. Nat G. Long of
Atlanta announce the birth of a son
on Wednesday, November 24, who
has been named Nathaniel Harrison
Long.
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J. B. Dockins, a former resident
and sheriff of Rabun county, who is
now making his home at Braselton,
where his daughter is a teacher in
the schools, was a visitor in Jeffer
son Tuesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Sims, Miss
Annie Hawkins, William Booth, Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Maley were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Booth on Thursday. Oglethorpe
Echo.
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Mrs. A. J. Gillen, who has been in
Athens for some time, spent last
week with her son, Billy Gillen, and
wife. She has sufficiently recover
ed from illness to return to her
home in Maxeys.—Oglethorpe Echo.
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Visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Rankin during the holi
days were Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Nunn,
Ruth and Carol Nunn, Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Rankin, and Summie Rankin
of Anderson, S. C.
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Miss Lurline Collier of Athens,
and Ben Collier of the state soil
erosion forces located in the north
western section of the state, were
guests x>{ Mrs. B. H. Collier last
week.
Miss Frances Roberts of Iva, S. C.,
spent the holidays last week in Jef
fersop with her mother. Accom
panied by Mrs. Roberts and Miss An
nie Roberts, she was a visitor in
Atlanta Friday.
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Miss Sarah Hanson, who has been
in Pensacola, Fla., with Mr. and
Mrs. B. W. Hanson for several
months, is spending this week at
home, and will go to Milledgeville
Monday to assume a secretarial po
sition.
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Mrs. Virginia Legg Carter of At
lanta, and Stanley Kesler, Jr., of
Georgia Tech, were in the city
Thursday and Friday, and joined the
other members of their family at a
Thanksgiving dining at the country
home of Mr. and Mrs. Legg.
Friends of Miss Woodie Ray will be
glad to learn that she has graduat
ed from Nashville General Hospital,
and has accepted a position with a
Nashville Hospital as supervisor of
surgery. Mrs. Azilee Ray and Dor
sey B. Ray will join her in Nashville
the 15th of December to make their
home.
T. B. First Cause of Death between IS and 35
NUMBER OF DEATHS
tuberculosis HfIHHHHHHKEiIiL!
ACCIDENTS
HEART DISEASE
PNEUMONIA
CANCER
NEPHRITIS A •
CEREBRAL ffSB
HEMORRHAGE Hml
The Illustration above. In showing
(he seven leading causes of death In the
United States, reveals the startling fact
that tuberculosis occupies first rank as
the cause of death for the productive
fears between 15 and 45. Nearly 40,000
men and women in that age group died
(ast year from this preventable disease.
Tuberculosis accounted for almost 16
per cent of deaths from all causes dur
ing the 15 to 45 age period although it
LOCALS
Tuberculosis is everybody’s pro
blem. Everybody should buy and
use Christmas Seals.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gilmer Mauldin and
Rubye Lynne spent the Thanksgiv
ing holidays with the latter’s sister,
Mrs. C. W. Bagwell, in Gainesville.
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Jefferson-Harrisburg district com
mitteemen for the 1938 farm pro
gram, elected at the election held on
Monday, are R. H. Wall, R. H. Grif
feth and R. G. Adams.
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Rawleigh R. Smith and family,
who have made their home in Jef
ferson for the past several years,
have moved to Monroe. Mr. Smith
was highway patrolman here, after
wards serving as city policeman.
BAPTIST CHURCH CHRISTMAS
PAGEANT
The pageant at the Baptist church
will be presented on Sunday even
ing, December 19th, at 8:15 o’clock.
By special requests, “Why The
Chimes Rang,” which was given last
year, will be repeated.
LIBRARY TEA FRIDAY
AFTERNOON
The Library Committee of the Jef
ferson Woman’s Club is giving a
Silver Tea on Friday afternoon, De
cember 3, from 3.30 till 6.30, at the
library located in the City Hall.
Every one is cordially invited to at
tend.
PITTMAN—HOWZE
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Mr. and Mrs. James Walter Pitt
man announce the marriage of their
daughter, Ann, to Dr. Jo Woodsey
Howze, on Saturday, November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred and
thirty-seven, Corpus Christi, Texas.
At home after December first,
Pampa, Texas.
REV. BRUCE NAY AT CHRISTIAN
CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY
The pulpit at the Jefferson Chris
tian Church will be filled next Sun
day at 11 a. m. by Rev. Bruce Nay
of Atlanta. Mr. Nay is a former
pastor of this church, and is held in
high esteem by the citizens of Jef
ferson, all of whom will be delight
ed to know that he isl to be guest
speaker here Sunday.
MRS. AYERS HONORS MUSIC
CLASS
Mrs. J. S. Ayers entertained the
pupils of her music class at a tea at
her home on Wednesday of last
week. She was assisted by Mrs. L.
H. Isbell, who had charge of the
class during the two months that
Mrs. Ayers was in Europe.
After a program of music given
by the pupils, Mrs. Ayers gave an
interesting account of her travels,
and presented each pupil with a gift
that she brought from the shops of
Florence, Italy.
Delicious refreshments were serv
ed, and the guests lingered to in
spect the many souvenirs and to
hear more about the far-away lands.
Cure your hams with Mor
ton’s Smoked Salt. Best
method on the market. N.
N. Pendergrass Estate.
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was responsible for only 5 per cent of
the total mortality for all age periods.
The latest statistics show that the seven
leading causes of death (shown above),
called by some the “Seven Horsemen of
Death,” continue to be led by tubercu
losis as a robber of lives in these highly
Important years. Until tuberculosis
ceases to kill our young men and
women in such large numbers Christ
mas Seals must be used as ammunition
in the war on the Great White Plague.
FOUR CONVICTS FLEE
BANKS COUNTY GANG
Homer, Ga.—Sheriff Farris Brew*
er reported Monday four white con
victs broke from the Banks county
chain gang during the previous
night by prying open the cage in
which they had been locked.
Joe Gunn, prisoner sent up from
Habersham County for theft, tha
sheriff said, returned voluntarily to
the convict camp Monday morning.
Sheriff Brewer listed two of the
other escapes as Mell Cowart and
William Thompson, both convicted
in Banks county, and said the other
man, whose name was not available,
had been sent up from Fulton coun
ty.
The club women of Georgia, in an
effort to put a stop to the destruc*
tion of native wild holly in the Geor
gia woods by irresponsible persons
cutting it for Christmas decorations,
are seeking to educate the people of
the state to decorate their homes
with other greenery.
R. L. Vansant, state rural rehabili
tation director for the Farm Securi
ty Administration says Georgians
must adopt a systematic and wide
spread program of soil conservation
to have a prosperous agricultural fu
ture in the state. Thousands of
acres of Georgia land have been
farmed to death, he declared.
The discovery of anew serum for
the eradication of pneumonia at
tracted nation-wide attention among
the medical profession. It is said
that this serum is an absolute pre
vention of pneumonia and that the
federal government is now having
the 30,000 CCC boys inoculated.
Dr. Thomas Barran, Jr., surgeon
general of the U. S. Public Health
Service, has given his endorsement
to the serum, and while it is yet in
an incipient stage for treatment of
the general public, it has been de
veloped far enough to warrant the
federal government officials to pre
scribe it for use among its own em
ployes.
Rev. J. N. Miller, member of the
African Methodist Episcopal church,
at the conference held recently in
Macon, was re-appointed presiding
elder of the Milledgeville district.
Miller was reared in Jefferson.
LOST
One white with brown head bird
dog pointer, and one black and white
spotted hound. Finder return to
Lester Wood, Jefferson, Ga., and re
ceive reward.
THINGS ONE SHOULD KNOW
A sliced banana added to the
white of an egg and beaten until
stiff makes a delicious filling for a
cake pie.
When packing dresses for travel
ing lay tissue paper or cheese cloth
twice the length of dress on table,
lay dresses on this and cover with
tissue or cheese cloth. Fold, pack
last in suit case and you will find
dresses will not wrinkle.
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To separate a head of lettuce when
the leaves are tightly grown togetb*
er, hold under running water. Th*
force of the w r ater separates leaves
without breaking.