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First Grade
We had a Christmas tree last
Friday, and every pupil had a gift.
We have anew reading book. It is
about a boy named Billy, and a lit
tle dog named Happy. We have
been learning some new songs.
Second Grade
We had a pretty Christmas tree
in our room. We had a short pro
gram Friday, and lots of our moth
ers came. Every one received gifts.
We had so much fun. Our trees
are almost filled up with Santa
Claus heads. We are all looking
forward to “Old Santa” coming, for'
we have studied our reading hard.
Third Grade
Last week some boys got our
Christmas tree. We decorated it
with chains, and bells, and stars. We
drew names, and ail brought pres
ents.
Fourth Grade
We had examinations last week.
Miss Samples has been sick again.
We had a Christmas tree, and deco
rated our room. We drew names
last Thursday. Mrs. Osborne is our
teacher.
Fifth Grade
The fifth grade boys and girls car
ried their narcissus bulbs to their
mothers this week. Most of them
are blooming. Each person had a
wonderful time at the Christmas
tree, and enjoyed the sixth grade
program.
Sixth Grade
We all had a nice time at our
Christmas tree. Before we gave
out the presents, we had a program.
The fifth and seventh grades were
invited. The program was as fol
lows:
Scripture, Camp Mooney.
Prayer, Annie Mae Jordan.
Christmas Story, Sadie Crisler.
Christmas Story, Jo Haines.
Reading, Doris Hill.
Seventh Grade
We have been standing final tests
this week. We also decorated our
Christmas tree. The girls finished
their presents, which they gave to
their mothers.
Junior Audubon Club New*
The Junior Audubon Club had a
Christmas party Tuesday, December
14th. We sang “Jingle Bells.” This
was followed by a Christmas story,
given by Mary Reynolds. Every
one enjoyed the contests pertaining
to Christmas. Punch and cookies
were served.
High School
The Maysville boys and girls play
ed good games here with Demorest,
Friday night, December 10th. The
girls lost their game by four points.
It was the best game they hive
played yet. The boys won their
game, and were very proud, because
Demorest won the first game we
played with them. The girls are
very sorry that there will not be an
other game until after Christmas.
The eighth and ninth grade Home
Ec girls made gifts for Christmas.
They also made cookies and candies
last week. We had a very good
time at the Christmas tree in the
Gym, Friday. Every one received
lots of gifts. We are all looking for
ward to the holidays, which will
last two weeks. The people of
Maysville enjoyed the chicken sup
per given by the Seniors, Thursday
night, in the Home Ec. and Senior
rooms. The Senior Class is planning
to take a trip in the spring.
FORTY-FIVE ADDED TO ROAD
PATROL
Atlanta.—The number of patrol
men in the ranks of the State High
way Patrol, recently created new de
partment, was increased by forty
five last week, as that number of
probationers were added to the rolls.
If these qualify during a three
month test period, they may enlist
for a three year term. Five weeks
preliminary training, which include
instruction in target practice and
first aid treatment, as well as ele
mentary criminal and motor vehicle
law, will be given the new officers.
The Highway Patrol is financied
altogether by the allocation of the
money derived from the newly
levied drivers’ license.
SPECIAL NOTICE
The City Tax Books will
close December 20, 1937.
After this date, a penalty
of 7% interest will be add
ed to all past due taxes.
Guy Strickland,
Clerk & Treas.
Christmas Sea! your Christmas
Hail.
Convicts on Holiday Parole
For the tenth successive year the
frowning gates of Kilby prison, Ala
bama's state penitentiary, swung
open Thursday night in order that
every inmate who had deserved in
dulgence by good behavior might
enjoy the Christmas holidays for
two week}. Approximately 500
were told that they might go where
they pleased if they would give
their “word of honor” that they
would return to the prison on or be
fore January 2. Since several re
turning prisoners have been injured
while trying to steal rides on trains,
they were given the friendly advice
to stay away from the railroad
yards, but there were no strings to
them.
A great majority of them have re
latives or friends somewhere out in
the world to whom they can go and
enjoy this fortnight of freedom and
partake of Christmas cheer in all its
forms as well as those members of
society who have not offended
against the law. Two "lifers,” how
ever, explained that they had no
where to go—no friend, no chick or
child—and would be as well off in
the prison as anywhere else.
On its face this annual parole of
hundreds of felons, convicted of
practically every crime known to the
law, may seem a hazardous piece of
sentimentality, but it is best to judge
by the results. In the course of
ten years about four thousand pri
soners have been allowed this holi
day privilege and only 20 have fail
ed to keep their “word of honor.”
There have been many pathetic and
some amusing stories of the efforts
of prisoners to get back in time in
spite of unforeseen difficulties which
naturally delay the best of travelers.
ISN’T IT TRUE?
My father says the paper he read*
ain’t put up right;
He finds a lot of fault, too, he does,
perusin’ it all night;
He says there ain’t a single thing in
it worth to read,
And that it doesn’t print the kind of
stuff the people need;
He tosses it aside and says it’s
strictly on the bum.
But you ought to hear him holler
when the paper doesn’t come!
He reads about the weddin’s and he
snorts like all get out;
He reads the scoial doin’s with a
most derisive shout,
He says they make the papers for
the women folks alone;
He’ll read about the parties and he’ll
fume and fret and groan;
He says of information it doesn’t
have a crumb —
But you ought to hear him holler
when the paper doesn’t come.
He is always first to grab it and
reads it plumb clean through.
He doesn’t miss an item, or a want
ad—that is true;
He says they don’t know what we
want, the darn newspaper guys;
“I’m going to take a day some time
and go and put ’em wise;
“Sometimes it seems as though they
must be deaf and blind and
dumb.”
But you ought to hear him holler
w'hen the paper doesn’t come.
—Cambridge North Star.
NO HELP FROM GRANDMA
Several weeks ago, my brother
promised to go skating with me and
a party of friends. A short time
before we were to go, however, two
of brother’s friends came by and
tried to persuade him to go to a
movie with them instead.
I was furious because he had
broken his word—or was on the
point of doing it—and there was a
hot argument going on when my
grandmother entered the room. I
explained to her what the trouble
was, and concluded by saying:
“And grandma, I think brother’s
dirty! Don’t you?”
In her calm and innocent way she
replied:
“Why, Evelyn, I don’t know. I
haven’t looked at him.”—Evelyn
Waterhouse, in Atlanta Journal.
TRY THIS ONE
Multiply your age by 2 and add 5
to the result. Then multiply by 50.
Add the change in your pocket, if
less than a dollar.
Subtract the number of days in
this year, 365. Then add 115 for
good measure.
The two left hand figures will
show your age, and the two right
hand figures, the change in your
pocket.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
COLORED PEOPLES 4-H CLUB
NEWS
Dear Club Folks and Others-
This will be our last new* article
for our clubs until after Christmas,
and I want to thank all of you for
the interest shown in helping to
make rural life happier and more
satisfying, if such has been done.
I wish for all of you a merry, profit
able Christmas, und prosperous New
Year; and that all concerned will
greet the New Year with a determi
nation to make 1938 the best year
we ever had in trying to make the
best better. Remember, Christmas
comes but once a year; yet, we still
have a God to fear. Begin now to
try to make others who are in need,
happy; for we get our greatest hap
piness out of making others happy.
Think of those around you whom
you can make sunshine in the house,
when there is none without. Let’s
not be selfish, though you can but
give the widow’s mite. The least
you do for Jesus, will be precious in
His sight.
Commerce 4-H club held their last
club meeting for 1937 on December
Bth, with 79 members present. We
were glad to have Mrs. Allie Potts of
Brockton with us, and demonstrate
to the club members on how to make
useful, inexpensive Christmas gifts.
She knows how to keep boys and
girls interested. Every one enjoyed
hearing her talk and seeing her
demonstrations. We will be glad to
have her with us at any time.
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New Grove 4-H club met on De
cember 9th, with 29 members pres
ent. All showed great interest in
the demonstration given, and were
trying hard to finish up their pro
jects carried for the year.
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Daniel Grove club boys are tak
ing more interest in club work. They
are making bill folders and pocket
books, and using zippers from worn
out zipper jackets for fastening
them, and learning to put rounds
and bottoms in old chairs to make
home life more comfortable
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Jefferson 4-H club met December
10th, with 30 members present.
Demonstrations given in wearing,
and decorations, cutting for their
school room windows with the help
of the two faithful teachers, who are
over worked with the many grades
and large number. Several demon
strations were given, and patterns
cut for cutting and making Christ
mas gifts.
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To All Secretaries of Clubs:
Flease make ready all secretary re
cord books and send to me by the
end of the year. Farm Men and
Women, don’t forget to prepare for
your farm conference to be heil in
March. Bea leader in your com
munity, and show your gameness.
M. R. Torbert, H. D. A.,
For Colored People.
BAPTIST MISSION BUDGET
$468,000
The Home Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, em
bracing eighteen southern states,
Panama and Cuba, approved a budg
et approximately $468,000 for 1938
at its final session in Atlanta.
Accepting a financial report show
ing its total receipts for-ten months
of 1937 to be $426,003 —an 11 per
cent increase over the same period
of 1936, the convention approved
the appointment of 322 mission
workers for 1938.
The board also approved a pro
posal to transfer the property of the
Southern Baptist Sanatorium at El
Paso to the Southern Baptist Foreign
Mission Board for use as a semi
nary for Mexican ministers and as
a publishing house. The sanatorium,
valued at more than $325,000, was
closed in September.
Plans to establish a pension board
to devise a system of mission work
ers’ pension was referred to the ex
ecutive committee for further study.
It was pointed out that social securi
ty legislation does not apply to em
ployes of religious groups.
Three Danger Zones
1. Women, between 15 and 30
whose tuber
culosis mortal
ity is one and
one-half times
higher than
that for young
men in the
same age
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group. 2. Working men between 20
and 45 for whom it is the leading
cause of death. 3. Negroes whose
mortality is three and one-half times
that of white people. Christmas
Seals are fighting in these danger
zones.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
The South’s Standard Newspaper
NOW PRESENTS THE BEST PAPER IN ITS HISTORY
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provement that has been made, both in the makeup of the paper
and its contents.
Several months ago the type was enlarged, and now can be
read by even the weakest eyes.
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while national and world affairs are reported by the Associated
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sociation.
In The Constitution you will find an unsurpassed sports page
and numerous features for every member of the family. On Sun
day there are 16 pages of comics in color, a four-page roto section
and anew magazine containing articles of both local and nation
al interest.
There is also Dr. Geo. Gallup’s Forum of Public Opinion.
These polls conducted by Dr. Gallup have been astonishingly ac
curate, and it was one of the very few that correctly predicted the
outcome of the last presidential election.
If you want to keep abreast of the times, you cannot be with
out the Constitution. See our dealer in your town, and he will be
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CONSTITUTION DEALER:
M. F. PERRY, Jefferson, Ga.
FARM FOR SALE
109 acres, 75 acres cleared, ex
cellent pasture, live stream; good
well; 6 room dwelling, 2 3-room ten
houses, and good barn. All build
ings are in good condition. This
farm is located 3 miles north from
Jefferson, and is known as the Doss
Garrison farm. This is a bargain,
and can be bought on easy terms.
Look it over today, and if you want
to buy a bargain write or see: Sam
Hickman, Box 187, Athens, Ga., Or:
S. Kinningham, Box 683, Gainesville,
Ga.
HELP KIDNEYS
To Get Rid of Acid
and Poisonous Waste
Your kidneys help to keep you,veD
by constantly filtering waste matter
from the blood. If your kidneys get
functionally disordered and fail to
remove exccra impurities, there may be
poisoning of the whole system and
body-wide distress.
Burring, scanty or too freouent uri
nation may be a warning of some kidney
or bladder disturbance.
You may suffer nagg./ig backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting 1 up nights, swelling, puffin css
under the eyes—'eel weak, nervous, all
played out.
In such cases it is better to rely on a
medicins that has won country-wide
acclaim than on something leas favor
ably krown. Bsc Doon'u i-’ills. A multi
tude of grateful people recommend
Doan’s. Ask your n eighborl
[Doans Pi ns
We handle the Famous Mor
ton’s Smoke Salt for curing
your hams and bacon. Also,
“Tenderquick” and other
preparations. See us. N.
N. Pendergrass Estate.
fefferson Insurance Agency
General Insurance,
Jefferson, Georgia.
Gifts of all kinds for men,
women and children, at
Moore & Ellington Drug Cos.
WANT TO RENT A FARM
I want to rent a two-horse farm,
comfortable residence, good land
and outbuildings. I furnish myself.
I will pay part of crop or standing
rent. I live near Maysville, at Ed
Chapman place. Communicate with
me at Maysville, R. F. D. 1. Refer
ence, Colonel George W. Westmore
land. H. C. Ledford.
PLAN YOUR TRIP BY RAIL
At
NEW LOW FARES
FAST CONVENIENT SCHEDULES
ALL STEEL EQUIPMENT
AIR-CONDITIONED
SLEEPING CARS and DINING CARS
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Inquire at Ticket Offices
E. E. BARRY,
Asst. Gen’l Passenger Agent, Atlanta
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
1 • B.—First Cause of Death between 15 and 45
NUMBER OF DEATHS
TUBERCULOSIS
HEART DISEASE
PNEUMONIA BBS 9
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HEMORRHAGE Wm r
The illustration above, in showing
the 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
years between 15 and 45. Nearly 40,000
men and women in that age group died
last 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
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. , 3?
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.