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BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Purebred Slock It Sold In Alhent
Athens, Ga.—Thirty-six purebred
beef animals brought $5,152 at the
first public uuction of the Georgia
Aberdeen-Angua Breeders' Associa
tion. The highest priced animal, an
Angus heifer, sold for $360.
The average price for the 36 ani
mals was $143. Included in the auc
tion were 22 Georgia-owned cattle
and 15 animals consigned by cattle
breeders from Virginia.
The 17 Angus bulls brought sl,-
482, or un average price of $99 per
bead. The 21 Angus heifers were
auctioned for $3,670, un average
price of $175.
The highest priced animal was con
signed by Modena Plantation, Sa
vannah, and was bought by George
IV. Cuttin, Warrenton, Va. The
highest priced Angus bull brought
it* owner, also the Modena Planta
tion, $175 and was bought by Rab
un Craft Farm, of Rabun Gap.
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Fire Destroys Montreal Hall
Montreat, N. C.—Fire early today
destroyed Anderson auditorium,
ccene of many meetings and confer
ences at this assembly ground of the
Southern Presbyterian church, and
oue of the most widely known re
ligious buildings in the south.
ffhe auditorium, a handsome
structure built in the early 1920's
of native stone, was valued at SIOO,-
000. It had a seating capacity of
3,000.
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Albany Editor Is Put Forth For
Governor of State
Atlanta.—Georgians not entirely
hnppy over the current selections pa
rading in the gubernatorial paddock
continue to cast about for a likely
“strong man” candidate—the latest
being the proposal to enter Henry
T. Mclntosh of Albany.
A farmer, G. W. Newton, sugges
ted Mclntosh in a letter to the Moul
trie Observer, published in the Col
quitt county city near the home of
the Albany Herald. Mclntosh is edi
tor and publisher of the Hena'ld,
well known throughout Georgia.
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Heard High School Is Swept By Fire
Franklin, Ga., April 2.—The
Heard County High school’s main
building was swept by (ire today,
and was a total loss.
All equipment, including a fine li
brary contained in the main struc
ture, was a total loss, amounting to
pome $30,000, with $15,000 insu
rance.
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Grrdy County School Out Of Fjnds
Cairo.—Eight of Grady county’s
14 schools either wholly or partially
buspended operations at the end of
the seventh month of the 1939-40
term. Financial difficulties caused
the suspensions.
The county’s two senior high
schools at Cairo and Whigham are
struggling along on a tuition basis,
officials reported, with plans to com
plete the normal term of nine months
if sufficient support of the tuition
plan can be maintained.
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Mitchell Board To Pay Teacher*
Camilla.—The Mitchell county
board of education Wednesday
agreed to pay the eighth month sal
aries of white teachers and bus
drivers in the county but announce
ed local boards would have to pay
salaries for the ninth month,
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Retired Doctor Plan* To Plant
Record Corn Row
Vidalia.—Dr. John M. Meadows,
who recently started farming after
practicing medicine for 50 years,
aaid Wednesday that he was planning
the longest row of corn ever laid out
in Toombs county.
The row is 15 miles long and will
be hilled for each three feet.
Dr. Meadows expects to raise 26,-
400 hills of corn and to get between
250 and 300 bushels from his long
row.
The long corn row is plowed in
an irregular field and runs around
and around without a break from
the starting point to the center of the
field. The field is level.
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Doctor* To Hear Dr. Seale Harri*
In Athena Talk
Athens, Ga.—Jackson County doc
tors will assemble in Athens, Ga.,
April 12 where they will hear Dr.
Seale Harris, of Birmingham, Ala.,
address the University of Georgia
Faculty Science Club at 8 p. m. in
Memorial Hall.
Dr. Harris, one of Georgia’s most
distinguished alumni, will speak on
“Insulin Jitters.’”
Strong drink is unquestionably an
evil, and evil cannot be used tem
perately: its slightest use is abuse;
hence the only temperance is total
abstinence. —Mary Baker Eddy.
GENEALOGY OF A FUR
COAT
(McCall’a Magazine)
In a nondoscript building on a
New York side street, 200 men sit
with opened catalogues on their laps.
An auctioneer drones monotonous
ly. A brow wrinkles and prices are
up a peg. An almost indiscernible
motion of a pencil is caught by the
swift, roving eyes of the auctioneer.
A sale is completed. This is one of
the world’s great fur auctions: one
of the two in New York. As many
as 100 sales are completed in an
hour and in a day’s time three
quarters of a million dollars’ worth
of furs have changed hands.
Raw furs by the ton pass through
these places on their way to manu
facturers who will process them into
coats for countless women. The
auctions are the bottlenecks of the
trade. St. Louis has one to sell the
catch of seals from the North Paci
fic. Copenhagen sella Greenland’s
output. There are others, but none
is as large as those of the twin fur
capitals of the world, London and
New York.
The United States is by far the
world’s greatest fur consumer. Well
heated homes have done away with
the necessity for heavy underwear
—and created the need for heavy
wraps for outdoor use.
Something like 18,000,000 ani
mals ure trapped each year in the
United States; muskrats o’possums
and skunks leading the list. About
400,000 minks and 300,000 silver
foxes ate produced by commercial
breeding. Although these furs have
a gross value estimated at $50,000,-
000. In addition to this the United
States imports something like $43,-
000,000 worth of furs a year. These
imports include such exotic furs as
stone martens from the Balkans and
sables from Russia; but by far the
greater tonnage consists of the low
ly rabbit—coney to the trade. Rab
bits come from Austria, New Zea
land, France and Belgium. Among
imports the sheep family—lambs,
Persians, carakula—make up the
largest dollar volume. With war
jeopardizing the supply, the Biolo
gical Survey fears further depletion
of domestic stocks.
Let’s see something of this fab
ulous trade that extends from the
tundras of Siberia to the swamps of
Louisiana. There is no better
place to begin than with your own
fur coat. Perhaps it is a Hudson
seal—a euphonistjc name for musk
rat. Its genealogy?
In all likelihood the individual
skins came from American farms—
possibly farms in several states.
Nearly all trapping in this country
is in the hands of farmers and their
sons and not in the hands of pro
fessionals. The long journey which
carries the pelts to your hall coat
rack begins when the farmer sells
his catch to an itinerant fur buyer.
Furs that arrive from thousands
of such small collectors are graded,
sorted, given lot numbers and cata
log listings In storage rooms sever
al floors below street level they are
placed in wire bins for inspection
by prospective bidders.
At the auctions bidders attempt to
preserve the utmost secrecy. Possi
bly they will later want to resell
their purchases. If they do it is best
for the new customer not to know
too much about the original price.
After a skin dealer has made a
successful bid, then processing of
furs begin. Rabbit skins are dyed
to simulate beaver; ground hog be
comes mink, and skunk becomes
sable. Skins go next to manufactur
ers, then to wholesalers and finally
to retailers.
This \ admittedly,; \an ultra
simplification of what happens in
the helter-skelter fur business. Furs
very possibly go through a dozen ad
ditional hands before they wind up
in retail stores.
For a while terminology was so
complex that only a fur merchant
could know that sealine and squir
relette were in reality rabbit. Then
the Federal Trade Commission step
ped in. Today even the most un
wary buyer knows what she is get
ting. Beaver-dyed-coney means rab
bit dyed to imitate beaver; and so
with mink-dyed-muskrat; sable-dyed
skunk and others.
New York does about 85 per cent
of United States fur manufacturing.
The yearly total of this business is
well in excess of $125,000,000.
Once skins leave the auction no op
eration from which profit may be
squeezed is over-looked. Fur scrap
will illustrate. Tiny cuttings—re
fuse from the garment industry—
are sewed together to make toys,
glove linings and slippers. Unwant
ed white stripes cut out of skunk
pelts are stitched together to make
cheap coats. Until a few years ago
this business almost en
tirely to one town in Greece. Amer
ican skunk stripes are now staying
at home.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
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Last Week's Locals.
We are sorry to have to place the
name of Mrs. Sallie P. Lipscomb on
the sick list. However she is im
proving.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Porter of Dry
Pond were visting relatives here
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cooper, Mrs.
Joe Wood of Athens, Miss Barbara
Beatty, and Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Lyle
of Jefferson were guests at the home
of Mrs. J. A. Beatty Sunday.
M rs. Wirrpn Lipscomb of Atlanta
visited reatives here during the week
end. The many friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Lipscomb are interested to
know that they are being transferr
ed to Salem, N. C.
Mrs. J. B. Langford, Misses Grace
and Mary Nell and Hoyt Langford
motored to Gainesville Sunday.
Everett Brumbalow spent the
week-end with relatives near Gaines
ville.
MLss Helen Haines spent the week
end at the home of her grand moth
er in Gainesville. She was joined
there by her mother, Mrs. Haines, of
Madison.
Messrs. Edward Ragan of Toccoa
and Harry Ragan of Clarkesville
were recent guests of reatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown of
near Harmony spent Sunday with
the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A1 Irvin.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brown visited
Mr. and Mrs. Judge Garrett Sun
day.
The Center Grove W. M. S. will
have r study course at the church
next Friday night. All members are
urged to be present.
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Last Week’s Locals.
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Bridges
and family of Commerce were guests
of relatives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. (Bose) Cruce
were visitors here Sunday.
Miss Lucile Evans spent Monday
with friends at Rraselton.
Several from here spent the week
end visiting friends at Cleveland.
Mr. and Mrs. Burgas Kinney of
Arnoldville were guests Sunday of
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hayes and
children of Gainesville spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Pierce.
Mrs. S. Brooks of Mauntain Creek
and Mrs. Lewis Sailors visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Davis Brooks,
recently.
Miss Hazel Barton of Danielsvillle
was guest recently of Miss Geral
dine Cash.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Murray and
sons spent Saturday night with Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Sutton of near
Belmont.
Several from here were in Gaines
ville this week to see “Gone With
the Wind.”
Mrs. J. A. Crook of Pendergrass
was with relatives one day last week.
Paul Freeman of Gainesville spent
the week-end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Freeman.
Miss Lucile Evans was guest re
cently of relatives at Pendergrass.
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Langford of
Dry Pond and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Cash and Miss Etta Cash were visi
ting relatives here recently.
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Last Week’s Locals.
Sunday school was well attended
Sunday.
Remember, the second Sunday in
April we will have with us a visiting
preacher, Rev. Savage.
Clarence 'Sailors and family visi
ted Bob Sailors of Commerce Sun
day.
Miss Mary Jarrett visited Miss
Francis Dunson Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Eberhart spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Rache
Pittman.
John Perdue and family spent the
day Sunday with Johnnie Wilson of
near Gillsville.
Several around here are sick with
the flu, but we hope they will soon
recover.
BLAST FROM GUN KILLS
WINDER MAN
Winder, Ga., April 3.—J. Albert
Rutledge, 38, well known Winder
electrician, was found dead at his
home here today as the result of
shotgun wounds which a coroner’s
jury decided were self-inflicted.
Survivors, besides his wife, in
clude his father, H. A. Rutledge;
three sisters, Mrs. Spurgeon Stone
siper, of Atlanta, and Misses Alma
and Desma Rutledge, of Winder;
two brothers, Thomas Rutledge, of
Decatur, and Herbert Rutledge of
Winder.
Select Suitable Grades of
Material For Summer
(Elsie Bowman, H. D. A.)
In shopping for fabrics to be worn
during warm weather, Georgia farm
women have the problem of select
ing the type of material—cotton,
rayon, or linen. In addition they
have the task of choosing the grade
most suitable for the use to be made
of the material.
Linen, for example, can be purchas
ed in many varying. Length of fi
tre directly affects the quality of
linen fabrics. The long fibers, call
ed “line,” are used for table and
dress linens. The short, broken ones
or “tow” are used for coarser fab
rics like toweling, crashes, and nov
elty luncheon cloths. So the label
"all pure linen” does not tell the
whole story. It is necessary to know
whether the linen is line or tow.
Some of the coarse, irregularly
woven linen materials are made
from grass linen, or “ramie,” which
is a related fiber with many of the
same properties as linen. You may
see the table doilies and runners and
embroidered scarfs of ramie.
The natural color of linen is gray.
Linen is sold in different degrees of
bleach. The more the cloth is bleach
ed the more it is weakened. Half
bleached or three-quarter-bleached
linen will gradually whiten . during
use and is stronger than fully bleach
ed linen.
Most of the coarser or loosely
woven linens are sized to give them
the stiffness that is characteristic of
the linens. After sizing or glaze is
washed out, the cloth becomes slazy,
porous, and limp. So in buying lin
en dish towels and similar articles,
hold them up to the light to see
whether the individual yarns stand
out or whether the fabric appears
to be glazed over.
Most linen garments have to be
pressed after each wearing, but this
objection has been overcome to a
certain extent by special wrinkle
resisting finishes on some of the lin
ens you see.
It is difficult to distinguish be
tween linens and cotton by the burn
ing test. Both burn in much the
same way, but sometimes the break
test will show the difference. When
a cotton yarn is raveled out and
broken the ends will be brushy; an
untreated, all-linen yarn breaks with
a pointed end. Linen yarns that
have a special finish may have a
fluffy break like a wool yarn.
“BUILDING SOUTHERN
INDUSTRIES”
(From Carroll Free Press)
During the past score of years,
industrialization of the South has
proceeded at such an amazing pace
as to completely change the econ
omic life of the entire section. The
South is no longer an agricultural
empire that is dependent upon im
ports from the North and from for
eign countries to supply its manu
factured articles. Industry and ag
riculture are independent. To flour
ish each must have the support of
the other. The South today is large
ly self-contained; its industries con
tribute to agriculture; and agricul
ture contributes to its industries.
Support by Southerners of their
own industries is, of course, exer
cising common sense. Supporting
southern industries, increases our
purchasing power, which enables
more of our agricultural products to
be purchased and consumed in the
South.
One of the largest industrial
plants established in Dixie in recent
years is the nitrate pant at Hope
well, Va. The Barrett Company
distributes the product, Arcadian Ni
trate of Soda, throughout the coun
try, but by far the bulk of the soda
is used on southern farms. The soda
base is made at a large plant in Ba
ton Rouge, La. Then it is shipped
to Hopewell, Va., where the finished
product is produced. All southern
ingredients are used in its manufac
ture, the plants are operated by
southern labor, and a very large part
of the nation’s commercial nitrogen
is produced by this company right
here in the South.
The Hopewell plant is also an in
valuable asset to America’s national
defense. Up to the time of its op
eration, begun in 1928, the country
was wholly dependent upon impor
tation of foreign nitrates to be used
in the manufacture of munitions.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
There is scarcely a crime before
me that is not directly or indirectly
caused by strong drink.—Judge
Coleridge.
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The sight of a drunkard is a bet
ter sermon against that vice than the
best that was ever preached upon
that subject.—Saville.
Boy in Gold Rush
Notv 100 Years Old
Feels Fine hut Spends Lot of
Time Lying Dotvn.
ST. LOUlS.—James M. Shucy has
safely passed the century mark in
age, but says he can't remember
worrying about anything since he
and his father ran out of grub dur
ing the gold rush of ’49.
“I’m never sick, feel fine, never
felt better,’’ he said. Net so strong
as he was 90 years ago, however,
he spends a good deal of his time
lying down. In ’49, he soys, his
family moved West with other gold
seekers.
“Dad took a fool notion to get
rich and we pulled up stakes and
started to California in a covered
wagon," he said. “That was some
trip. We got as far as Salt Lake
City and dad started digging.
“The ground was hard and the
gold was deep and we got only a
goose quill full. Dad sold it for
food and we started back East.
“Yep, it was an interesting trip,
all right," he recalled. “All across
the plains we’d ruft into Indians.
They’d ride their ponies along even
with the wagon train, but they kept
a good distance away. They’d hear
the music sometimes at night and
creep up to the campfires and just
sit there out of the light. They were
good Indians and never gave us
any trouble."
Shuey says he married only once,
to "a girl off Fiddle Creek name of
Reid. She was 15 when we married,
a fine girl."
He moved to St. Louis 35 years
ago and went to work for the rail
roads. He carried mail and worked
as a section hand, but says he
doesn’t remember as much about
that as he does about the family’s
migration to the West and back
again.
Three of Shuey’s 13 children are
still living. He has 12 grandchil
dren, seven great-grandchildren and
a great-great-granddaughter.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT!—ICE
CREAM MADE FROM COTTON
Dallas, Tex. —King Cotton, prob
lem child of the South, has anew
offspring: Ice cream.
The development of the ice cream,
made with special meal and extract
from cotton as a base, was revealed
by Sim T. Lake, president of the
State Restaurant Association of Tex
as.
He said it would be served as a
test to more than 1,000 restaurant
men next Thursday night during the
joint convention of the Association
and the Southwest region of the
National Restaurant Association.
The new ice cream was originated
by Prosper Ingels, hotel pastry chef
(Hotel Adolphus) in co-operation
with the state of Texas and the Na
tional Cotton Council in the cam
paign to find new uses for the cot
ton surplus.
The young Belgian chef had been
experimenting with cotton ice cream
for a year-and-a-half and only re
cently perfected the formula.
If the restaurant men pass a fav
orable verdict, Ingels added, one of
the largest manufacturers in the
country (Borden) has agreed to
market the ice cream.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness
is of the 'worst sort. It spoils
health, dismounts the mind, and un
mans men.
PINES’ IMPORTANCE
CITED BY FORESTER
If any doubt exists in the minds
of landowners about the value of
trees as a farm crop, it will be quick
ly dispelled when they have seen
and read the Department of Agricul
ture’s newest booklet, “Southern
Pines Pay.”
“Southern Pines Pay” is a story
in pictures, graphically illustrating
the development of planted pine
forests from their origin to full
growth. Its text, written by Wilbur
Mattoon, senior forester of the For
est Service, sets forth clearly and
forcefully examples of how southern
farmers have turned idle lands into
productive forests.
“While there is nothing new to
the conception that young pines can
occupy soil too depleted for other
crops, that they grow very rapidly,
and that after a short period of
years the plantations will begin to
give financial returns, the approach
of this bulletin to the subject of re
forestation is distinctly novel,” says
Mr. Mattoon.
“No other region offers greater
possibilities for continuous timber
cropping, and certainly our pines are
an extremely important potential
source of southern prosperity.”
Copies of “Southern Pines Pay”
may be obtained from the Regional
Forester, U. S. Forest Service, At
lanta, Ga.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11. 1940
Early Railroad Station
Near Baltimore Closed
The 108-year-old Baltimore & Ohio
station agency at Relay. Md., a
few miles southwest of Baltimore,
has closed its doors. From the
day in 1830 that the first station
building was erected there until
now. Relay has been a landmark in
American railroad history.
Standing on a high bank along the
Patapsco river, during colonial
times its site overlooked the flour
ishing river port called Ellcridge
landing, a few miles north of Chesa
peake bay. Indeed, until a devas
tating flood swept the valley in 1868,
the river was still navigable from
the bay to the landing, and a small
tug hauled iron-laden scows over
the route several times a week.
Meantime, however, the valley be
gan to acho to the sharp toot of loco
motive whistles.
Construction of the B. & 0.,
America’s first commercial railroad,
had been started in Baltimore in
1828. Within two years the rails
reached out 13 miles to the famous
mills at Ellicott’s. Peter Cooper
had already run his “Tom Thum”
locomotive over the stretch, but the
young railroad still put its depend
ence on the “hay burners”—or
horses, and half way of the route
it had stables where it put on fresh
teams, or “relays." Hence the
place became known as Relay and
continued to be an important point
for interchange of traffic for many
years.
During the Civil war period, Relay
was a troop concentration camp.
Now this historic and beautiful old
station no longer echoes to the rum
ble of baggage trucks, and the click
of ticket stamps. Shifting of sub
urban population has made it more
convenient to serve the public at
other nearby stations.
Whispering Schoolboys,
Here’s a Scientific Tip
Dr. J. O. Perrine, who studies
such things, believes that the rea
son why schoolboys aren’t often
caught whispering is because they
don’t use the part of the voice which
distinguishes one person from an
other.
“Whisperers can’t be recognized
on the evidence of sound alone,” he
said. “If a schoolboy can keep a
straight face and not look guilty, he
is all set—but you shouldn’t tell
them that.”
To demonstrate, Dr. Perrine used
a loud-speaker with four “throats,”
each of which responded to a differ
ent “frequency” the quality of
sound which determines whether it
is “high” or “low."
With the high frequency throats
turned off, speech or song from pho
nograph records had a musical qual
ity but was not intelligible.
Eliminating the very highest fre
quencies alone made a singer lisp.
With the low frequencies eliminated,
speech was understandable but
harsh and unpleasant.
“Few persons realize,” Dr. Per
rine said, “that such a thing as mere
lack of high frequency overtones
could make a person unpopular and
a failure."
New Telegraphic Device
Automatic telegraph, the latest
advance in modern telegraphy, are
ready for commercial use in Rocke
feller Center office buildings, New
York. Each customer is supplied
with an automatic telegraph cabinet
and key, which permits him to send
his own telegrams. Telegrams for
transmission by the automatic tele
graph need only be typed or written
in black ink or black pencil on a
special sending form and dropped
into a slot in the cabinet. An exact
facsimile of the message is auto
matically received in the local tele
graph office. Telegraph officials
foresee the day when similar de
vices, with coin slots, will appear
in many public locations such as
drug stores, transit terminals and
building lobbies.
Honduras Mahogany
English woodcutters in the Seven
teenth century came from Jamaica
to the mainland of Central America
to get out “logwood,” a valuable dye
wood. They discovered that this re
gion produced mahogany. Until the
treaty of 1783 between England and
Spain, the English were not sup
posed to cut mahogany in Honduras.
However, the temptation was great
and much of it was cut and the cut
ters were often in serious trouble
with the Spaniards. The colony was
twice wiped out and the survivors
sold into slavery. According to
Thomas Sheraton’s book, “The Cab
inet Directory,” published in 1803,
Honduras mahogany was the prin
cipal kind then being used in Eng
land.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation for the kindness and
sympathy shown us at the death of
our dear brother and uncle, Daniel
Webster Wood. May Gods richest
blessings rest upon each and every
one.
Mrs. Allie Mae Weatherly.
Mrs. Mary Hogan.
No man is more cheated than the
selfish man.