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THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS. 1938.
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Electric Alarm Clock $3.70
I. E. S. Floor Lamp $8.95 I \ 7^
Automatic 2-Slice Toaster..slo.7o
Focusing Bed Lamp $4.40
Hair Dryer $4.70
Automatic Waffle Iron $7.70
Sunbeam Mixmaster $26.25
G-E Mahogany Mantel Clock $8.70
l '-l JJ Rand Electric Shaver $10.25
Railley Pin-It-Up Lamp $1.15
TERM.# Folding Traveling Iron $3.70
( Discounts for cash)
GEORGIA POWER CO.
XMAS HOLIDAY FARES
On Sale Daily December 10th to January Ist
Limit January 10, 1939
iy 2 c PER MILE IN COACHES
2y 4 c PER MILE IN PULLMAN
TRAVEL BY TRAIN—THE SAFE WAY
For Rates And Schedules Apply Ticket Agt. or
H. E. Pleasants, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. Atlanta.
SEABOARD RAILWAY
Important Notice
City Taxes Now Due
After December 20th, all fi fas
will draw 7 per cent interest
No Exceptions Made
H. E. Aderhold, Mayor
2CONOMICAL FARES
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Coach Tickets
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AIR-CONDITIONED Sleeping Cars,
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TRAIN TRAVEL
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CLAUDE T. HUNT,
Assistant General Passenger Agent, Atlanta
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
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Firtt Grad*
The first grade pupils liked their
new music book. They are learning
some Christmas songs. We had a
new pupil this week. She is Dorothy
Anne Smith. We now have 50 on
roll. We are sorry that Eugene
House is out of school on account
of illness.
Second Grade
We have decorated our room for
Christmas. When we are absent we
get a hole punched in our bell, and
then it won’t ring. On our bulletin
board we have the word Christmas
across the top, and all the decor
ations at the bottom. Our sand
table is pretty. It’s a snow scene in
the forest with a pretty house, old
Santa and his reindeer. We are
practicing a program for chapel.
Third Grade
We are working on a Christmas
program, and are learning Christmas
carols.
Fourth Grade
We have anew pupil. His name
is Harvey Smith. In Language, we
have written the story of the Christ
Child and business letters to Santa
Claus. Howard McCoy wrote the
best letter.
Fifth Grade
In Health, we are learning to cut
out letters. We are making health
booklets. We have our Geography
booklets finished. We decorated our
room for Christmas.
Sixth Grade
We are going to have a Christmas
tree, and we are making Christmas
wreaths. We are going to hang
them around the room. We are go
ing to draw names for our tree next
Wednesday. We are making Christ
mas candles. The holders are made
of pine burs. A doctor and two
nurses examined all of us last Tues
day.
Seventh Grade
Our room has been making Christ
mas decorations by using silver
paint. We have painted holly, china
berries, sweet gum balls and pine
burs. We have pictures of candles
on our windows. We have narcissus
bulbs blooming in our room. Our
class is studying a unit on Forestry.
In Agriculture, we have learned the
value of forestry as a crop.
High School
The eighth grade Home Ec class
has organized a club. They hope it
will be a great success. The boys
and girls gave a very interesting
chapel program Friday. It was based
on Joel Chandler Harris. They al
so sang, “I Ain’t Gwine Study War
No More,” and “Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot.” The ninth grade has
started a Christmas program. The
Home Ec girls are making gifts. The
tenth grade History Class is having
a court trial. They are trying Har
old Cheek for robbing a bank.
BLACK SHEEP’S WOOL REALLY
IS GRAY
Washington.—A black sheep, it
appears, isn’t black.
John Cooper, director of a sheep
experimental laboratory on the
Navajo Indian Reservation at Fort
Wingate, N. M., advised the Federal
Indian Bureau that black sheep’s
wool is a gray shade, and sometimes
turns to brown in rugs.
A Wonderful Selection of Shoes,
Shirts, Ties, Belts, Supporters,
Handkerchiefs, to please ail.
Nuts, Fruits, Candies. Make our
Store Your Store for Christmas.
Kesler & Legg
Jefferson, Georgia
SEE US FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS NEEDS
BARGAINS IN ALL LINES
HOSCHTON METHODIST
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
HOLD MEETING
Hoschton.—Mrs. O. N. Dyar was
hostess to the December meeting of
the Methodist Woman’s Missionary
Society, with Mrs. R. L. Pirkle, presi
dent, presiding.
Reports were heard from super
intendents and committees. Mrs.
Cruse, chairman of Spiritual Life,
reported the Week of Prayer held at
the church with good attendance and
a generous offering. Mrs. Ralph
Lott, chairman of Mission Study, re
ported “The City Church" present
ed by Rev. W’. G. Henry. The Bible
Study, “The Stewardship Life,” was
given at two meetings by Mrs. W. D.
Bell. The Parsonage Committee,
Mrs. H. F. Braselton, Mrs. M. B.
Cruse and Mrs. C. T. McDonald,
made no report, but was very active
during the past month in preparation
for the new preacher and family.
The treasurer reported $50.74 paid
in 1938. The local treasurer report
ed a balance on hand of SIO.OO.
Mrs. M. B. Allen presented the
following program: Devotional, by
Mrs. O. N. Dyar; “The Gift of the
Magi,” by Mrs. H. F. Braselton; and
this was most interesting.
The following officers were in
stalled for 1939:
President, Mrs. R. L. Pirkle.
Vice President, Mrs. Princeton
Pirkle.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. John
O. Braselton.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.
Lloyd Lott.
Spiritual Life, Mrs. M. B. Cruse.
Children’s Committee, Mrs. H. F.
Braselton, Mrs. Alton Adams, Mrs.
W. H. Maddox, Mrs. 0. L. Vickery.
Mission Study, Mrs. Ralph Lott.
Bible Study, Mrs. W. D. Bell.
World Outlook, Mrs. C. T. Mc-
Donald.
Christian Social Relations, Mrs.
M. B. Allen.
Supplies, Mrs. Jack Boggs, Mrs.
M. Blalock.
Publicity, Mrs. W. D. Bell.
Refreshments were served by the
hostess at the conclusion of the
meeting, to sixteen members.
M. C. BUFFINGTON’S LAST RITES
HELD
Gainesville, Ga.—Funeral services
for M. Cook Buffington, 77, who died
suddenly of a heart attack Wednes
day at his home near Pendergrass,
were held Thursday afternoon at Air
Line Baptist Church. Rev. C. E.
Vaughn officiated, and interment was
in the churchyard.
Born in Hall County, he lived in
Atlanta many years, was a pupil at
the first public school on Walker
Street, and a graduate of the old
Atlanta College. He was a merchant
in Hall County a long time, but has
made his home in Jackson thirty
years, where he was a successful
farmer. He was a member of the
Baptist Church.
Surviving are four sons, Claude,
of Tucson, Ariz.; Dan, of Gaines
ville; Cook, Jr., of Pendergrass, and
Ralph Buffington, of Houston, Tex.;
two daughters, Mrs. W. B. Thomp
son, Maysville, and Mrs. M. E.
Browning, Seneca, S. C.
Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(By Elsie Bowman)
Home Plantings
Nothing so adds to the beauty of
home surroundings as a few natural
shrubs, vines, or green tress. They
show up the color of the buildings
and make the home grounds more
beautiful in mid-winter.
Home-owners who have not al
ready planted shrubs around the
foundation of their buildings will
find that now is the best time to
make settings. Shrubs change the
appearance of the house from just a
mass of wood, stone, or brick to a
home fitted into a natural setting.
In choosing shrubs for planting,
the habits of the plant, height and
spread, type of foliage, color, flow
ering dates, disease resistance, and
general features adapted to Georgia
climate and conditions should be
considered.
Also in planting, one must con
sider the height of the floors from
the ground and the height of the
windows. Small shrubs should be
placed underneath the windows,
while taller ones are best placed be
tween them. Where the driveway
is near the house, shrubs may take
up too much room, and a small vine
may serve the purpose of adding
natural beauty to the straight walls.
It is preferable to use a few varie
ties of shrubs, with each variety to
itself, so that there may be banks of
color as each blossoms, rather than
a mixture of colors. Mixed varieties
make the place look patchy.
To use in front of plantings or
windows, either the pink spirea or
the Thunberg barberry is good. In
wide spaces between windows, one
may use any of the taller shrubs.
Holly on the north side is good, with
the chokeberry and a sweetshrub or
two banked under it.
For other exposures, crepe myrtle,
red haw, althea, and Christmas
honeysuckle are good. Narrow
leaved evergreens, such as Junipers,
pines, and arbor vitaes, are also
adaptable.
Handling Keroiene
Any spot that’s too hot to place
your hand is also too hot to place a
can of kerosene. Although its flash
point (100 degrees F.) is much high
er than that of gasoline, it is still
necessary to store and handle kero
sene or “coal oil,” carefully to pre
vent fires. Actually it is safe only
when it is cold.
Here are some “don’ts” on using
kerosene around the home.
Don’t set a kerosene lamp or lan
tern on or above a stove or in any
other place where the kerosene
might become heated. It may flare.
Don’t locate a kerosene stove,
lamp, or heater where curtains may
blow over it or against it.
Don’t place a kerosene lamp close
to the ceiling or the wall.
Don’t place a kerosene stove
against a wall. There should be a
sheet of metal behind it and an air
space behind the sheet of metal.
Don’t hang towels on a rack above
a kerosene stove. They may catch
fire if the kerosene flame should
flare up or if they happen to fall
down.
Don’t let wicks get dirty or un
even, and keep burners clean.
Don’t neglect the drip pan.
Probably the most frequent cause
of kerosene explosions or fires is
the habit of using it to start a fire
in the range quickly. Equally un
safe is it to fill a lamp or stove while
it is lighted, or a lamp while it is
hot just after being extinguished,
or to fill either after dark with the
aid of an open light such as another
lamp, candles, or matches. If the
lamp or stove tank must be refilled
at night, use an electric flashlight.
Chemical fire extinguishers have
saved many homes from being reduc
ed to ashes. Even a bucket of sand
or damp sawdust is very effective, if
used before a fire gets too much
start.
PORK WELL SALTED;
DROVE CUT IN HALF
Dublin, Ga.—On Friday J. C.
Sumner, farmer near Spann, Ga.,
gave his 45 hogs ‘‘about two hatsful
of salt.”
Wednesday he had only 20 hogs.
Twenty-three became sick and died;
two others are missing.
Sumner brought one of the ailing
hogs to Dublin, where Veterinarian
J. L. Smalley made a post-mortem
examination.
The veterinarian said he could
find no cause for the hog’s death—
unless it was salt. Salt, he said,
sometimes caused illness in hogs.
PAGE THREE
Planting Trees To Stop
Erosion of Land .
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Co-operating farmers in the Soil
Conservation Service Broad River
District area in Northeast Georgia
will plant approximately 400,000
trees on steep and severely eroded
land this winter ns a part of the
erosion-control program on their
farms, according to C. B. Beale,
Forester. These trees will not only
protect the land against erosion, but
will also provide fuel, farm lumber,
and eventually a crop of saw-logs
from land which cannot be used
safely nor profitably for production
of other crops, Mr. Beale pointed
out.
Demonstrations of proper wood
land management, meanwhile, ars
being conducted on existing wood
land, where farmers are now obtain
ing their winter fuel supply by im
provement cuttings, which consist of
removing unthrifty and defective
trees. This leaves the straight, rap
id-growing trees to grow to larger
size and be harvested later for saw
logs. To date 16 demonstrations
have been conducted in Madison,
Franklin, Banks and Hart counties.
Many farmers formerly cut their
best trees for fuel wood and left the
inferior trees, which resulted in the
gradual deterioration of the stand,
and gave them little incentive to
maintain the land in trees, the for
ester explained.
Asa part of the woodland man
agement program, service forester*
have marked trees to be left in the
stand for the timber crop on a por
tion of the woodland on co-operating
farms. By following the demonstra
tion method, farmers will be able to
produce a profitable timber crop
which will justify their efforts in
protecting their woods and maintain
ing the land in trees, Mr. Beale said.
M. L. LOWE, JR., IS
TAKEN BY DEATH;
SERVICES SATURDAY
M. L. Lowe, Jr., 17, died at his
residence on the Jefferson-Athena
Road Friday morning at 5 o’clock af
ter an illness of one week.
Funeral service were held Satur
day afternoon at 3 o’clock from At
tica Baptist church, Rev. A. E. Lo
gan, Baptist pastor, officiating.
Interment was in Attica church
cemetery. Pallbearers were J. B.
Ammons, Edmond Dills, Leon Wood,
Burgess Butler, J. T. Parham and J.
D. Parham.
Surviving Mr. Lowe is his father,
M. L. Lowe, Sr., Athens; six sisters,
Mrs. E. R. Lance, Mrs. J. M. Wood,
Mrs. R. J. Fuller and Mrs. J. B.
Capes, all of Bogart, and Mrs. G. G.
Archer, Mrs. W. D. Fuller, both of
Athens; brother, W. M. Lowe, Ath
ens; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Lowe, Athens, and a number
of aunts and uncles.
A native of Jackson county, Mr.
Lowe was the son of M. L. Lowe,
Sr., and the late Mrs. Georgia Par
ham Lowe. He was born July 23,
1921, in Jackson county, and had
lived here al lhis life. He had a
large number of friends among both
young and old who will be deeply
grieved to learn of his passing.
’CRACKER EXPLODES,
BOY LOSES FINGER
Vidalia, Ga.—Georgia’s first re
ported pre-Christmas firecracker ac
cident occurred here, even as city
officials elsewhere prepared to bar
the sale of holiday fireworks.
‘‘Duck” Peterson, small negro boy,
lost several fingers when a “dud”
firecracker exploded as he picked it
up.
Fireworks have been freely used
in downtown Vidalia since the first
of the month.
Drives to prevent such accidents
meanwhile were reported in Valdos
ta and Columbus. In the former
city, an ordinance has been approv
ed forbidding the sale of fireworks
within the city limits, and in Colum
bus, city and county officials extend
ed a ban on fireworks to a point
three miles from the city limits in
every direction.
MAN WHO CAST FIRST SLUG
ON LINOTYPE MACHINE DIES
Baltimore.—Ferdinand K. Wich,
71, said by friends to have cast the
first type on a linotype machine,
died at his home recently.
The type was cast when he work
ed as an apprentice for Ottmar Mer
genthaler, inventot of the linotype.
For the past nineteen years he had
been a machinist for the Baltimore
News-Post.