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The Jackson herald
By John N. Holder.
MISS MADDOX WEDS REV.
JOHN E. WILSON
Macon, Ga., June I.—Miss Wilda
Ruey Maddox, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Maddox, of Rebecca, will
wed the Rev. John Elbert Wilson, of
Midville, June 25, according to an
nouncement of her engagement. The
wedding will take place at 7.30
o clock on Tuesday evening, June
25, at the Rebecca Methodist church.
The youngest daughter of her par
ents, the bride-elect is a sister of
Mrs. L. P. Legg, of Ashburn; Mrs.
Byrd Richey, of Rochelle; Mrs. J. H.
Holleman, of Toombsboro; Mrs. W.
D. Giiffeth, of Cordele; Mrs. W. I.
Dixon, of Gordon; Roy and Carter
Maddox, of Rebecca. Her mother is
the former Florence Ellen Carter,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
0. G. W. Carter, of Jackson county.
Her father is a son of the late C. W.
G. Maddox and Mrs. Clara Starke
Maddox, of Jefferson.
Miss Maddox was graduated from
Rebecca High School and attended
Wesleyan Conservatory where she
received a diploma in dramatic art
last week.
Mr. Wilson is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Corbin Wilson, of Mid
ville, formerly of Camilla.
Mr. Wilson attended Camilla High
School, Emory Junior College at
Valdosta, received the A. B. degree
from Emory University, Atlanta,
and later did post-graduate work
there. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, D. V.
S., and E. Club honor societies, serv
ed as soloist and president of the
Emory Glee Club and is a member
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fra
ternity.
Mr. Wilson served on the faculty
of Emory Junior College, Valdosta,
as assistant state director of rural
research for the Works Progress Ad
ministration in Colorado, as general
representative for the Alkahest
Celebrity Bureau of Atlanta. In
1938 he' entered the South Gerogia
Conference of the Methodist church
and is at present serving the pasto
rate at Midville.
MRS. GEORGE WELLS
LEARNING AVIATION
The following from the newspaper
in Anderson, S. C., will be of much
interest to the friends in her home
town of Mrs. George J. Wells. Mrs.
Wells is the former Miss Billie Har
dy, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. C.
E. Hardy. She was reared in Jeffer
son, is a graduate of Martin Insti
tute and attended the State Univer
sity, but cut her college career short
by marrying Lieutenant Wells. The
paper in Anderson says:
“Mrs. Billie Wells, wife of Lieu
tenant George J. Wells, C. A. A. in
structor at the local airport, made
her first s olo flight this morning and
two perfect landings. Mrs. Wells
is the second woman to solo at the
local airport, the first having been
Miss Annie Corley, secretary in the
Anderson Social Security Office.
Lietenant Wells and Mrs. Wells
came to Anderson in January for the
beginning of the student flying pro
gram under C. A. A. They are res
idents of Jefferson, Ga.”
Lieutenant and Mrs. Wells, who
have been visiting her home here for
several days, spent Tuesday in An
derson. Mr. Wells is leaving this
week for Ohio, where he will take a
course in aviation that is necessary
before he can become a government
pilot. Mrs. Wells will be with her
parents during her husband’s ab
sence.
MISS WITHROW TO BECOME
BRIDE
Announcement is made by the
Rev. and Mrs. 0. J. Withrow, of
Gray, of the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Frances Ellen With
row, to George Genneth Dillard, of
Cusseta, Ga., and Madison, Fla., the
wedding to take place in the early
summer.
Rev. Withrow at one time served
the Maysville Circuit and the bride
elect has a wide circle of friends to
■wish her happiness.
MASSEY—MILFORD
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. C. Massey, of
Commerce, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Everette, to Er
nest Milton Milfor<j, of Commerce
and Abbeville, S. C., the marriage to
be solemnized at an early date.
A sharp tongue is the only edge
tool that grows keener with constant
use, —Washington Irvmg.
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MISS HAYS AND MR. ASKEW
MARRY
Douglasville, Ga.—Mr. and Mrs.
William Mortimer Hays, of Douglas
ville, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Rosalind Hays,
to William Fain Askew, of Atlanta
and Jacksonville, the- marriage cere
mony to be performed at the home
of the bride’s parents on June 22
at 4 o’clock.
The bride-elect attended West
Georgia College at Carrollton and
was graduated with the degree of
bachelor of science from the Univer
sity of Georgia in 1938.
She was an officer in every cam
pus club at West Georgia, including
the Mu Zeta Alpha honorary society
and the staffs of the college annual
and newspaper. At present she is
connected as laboratory technician
with the Georgia State Health De
partment in Atlanta.
The groom-eect is the only son of
Mr. and Mrs. Minor Price Askew of
Atlanta, Mrs. Askew being the for
mer Miss Nelle Appleby. His only
sister is Miss Sara Askew. On the
maternal side, Mr. Askew is descen
ded from the late William Crawford
Appleby and Sara Harrison Appleby
of Jackson County. On the paternal
side his grand parents are Mrs. Car
oline Holder Askew and the late Lee
Olin Askew. He is a graduate of
Boy’s High School in Atlanta and
attended David Lipscomb College
in Nashville, Tenn. The Seaboard
Finance Company is his business
connection.
BISHOP MOORE TO MOVE
RESIDENCE TO ATLANTA
Bishop Arthur Moore, distinguish
ed Methodist leader, has been ap
pointed bishop for Georgia and
Florida, and will reside in Atlanta.
The appointment was made at the
recent Asheville conference.
Bishop Moore has been responsible
for work in the Orient, Europe and
Africa since 1930, but during his
work in foreign fields has maintain
ed his home in San Antonio, Texas,
where he was formerly pastor of
the Travis Park Methodist Church.
He will move to Atlanta at an early
date.
In his new work, Bishop Moore
will have charge of the North Geor
gia, South Georgia and Florida Con
ferences. His first official duty will
be to preside at a meeting of the
district superintendents of the North
and South Georgia Conferences at
an early date.
MISSES VIRGINIA LOUISE
PORTER AND SARAH MADE
LENE COX TO GRADUATE
Tihe sixty-eighth annual Com
mencement of North Georgia College
will feature home-coming events for
former students and for friends and
patrons of the college. A general
alumni and old students meeting will
be held Saturday afternoon, June 8,
at four o’clock followed by supper
for the guests of the college and
the commencement address that
night at 8:30 by the Reverend Ed
ward G. Mackey of the Atlanta First
Methodist Church.
Rex Home-Coming dance will be
held Thursday night, June 6, and the
Sigma Theta Home-Coming dance
Friday night, June 7. Final mili
tary events including final parade
will be held Friday morning.
A class of 160 will receive di
plomas, among them Miss Virginia
Louise Porter of Jefferson and Miss
Sarah Madelene Cox of Commerce.
W. B. HARRISON DIES SUDDENLY
ON FISHING TRIP
William B. Harrison, comptroller
general of Georgia for the past 11
years and one of the state’s most
colorful political figures, died sud
denly Monday in Lithonia. He was
68 years old.
Apparently in the best of health,
the veteran political leader had left
Atlanta Monday morning for a fish
ing trip to Eatonton. While return
ing, he was fatally stricken as the
car passed through Lithonia and was
dead when a physician reached him.
A heart attack apparently caused
death, the physician said.
JORDAN—FLEMING
Announcement is made of the
marriage of Frank E. Fleming and
Mrs. Marjorie Jordan. The cere
mony was performed Saturday even
ing by Rev. R. M. Rigdon.
He is happiest, to be king or pea
sant, who finds peace in bis home.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
WILLIAM ARNOLD DROWNED IN
LOUSIANA
An incident of deep sadness had
its ending Monday afternoon, when
the body of William Arnold was
laid to rest in the cemetery at Miz
pah Presbyterian church, Rev. Joe
Parham officiating.
Mr. Arnold belonged to the Unit
ed States Army and was stationed
in Louisiana. On Sunday. May 12,
while swimming in the Red River,
he was drowned, but *his body was
not recovered until the latter part
of last week. It was shipped to
Gainesville and was brought to the
home of his parents, near Apple
Valley, and carried to Mizpah for
interment Monday.
He was the son of Ernest and
Mrs. Elizabeth Pinson Arnold of
Harrisburg district. His brothers
and sisters are Clyde, Henry and
Horace Arnold, Misses Mattie Ruth
and Mary Lee Arnold. His body was
accompanied home by Private Mor
gan of 29th Infantry, Fort Benning,
who was called to Louisiana to iden
tify the body.
JACKSON COUNTY
SONS GRADUATE FROM
STATE UNIVERSITY
Seven hundred and seventy-two
seniors had degrees conferred upon
them at the University of Georgia’s
137th annual ’ (graduation exercises
Friday at twilight in the campus am
phitheatre.
Among the graduates were D. Tap
ley Wilhite, -Jr., and Jack Cecil Har
dy of Jefferson, Reagan Holly San
ders of Commerce and John David
Storey of Athens who were, award
ed diplomas in Bachelor of Science
in Commerce; William Leroy Kin
ney of Braselton, Bachelor of Science
ni Agriculture; W. B. Gunter of
Commerce, Bachelor of Arts; H. B.
Wall of Statham and William C.
Wheeler of Maysville, Bachelor of
Science in Agricultural Engineering.
METHODIST MISSIONARY
SOCIETY
The Methodist Missionary Society
held the regular monthly meeting
Monday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. J. A. Wills, with the president,
Mis. H. I. Mobley, presiding.
The Spiritual Life Message was
given by Mrs. M. L. Mobley who
had for her subject, “Testing Con
duct by Its Usefulness.”
The study of the Mission book,
“Great Adventurers” was continued,
with Mrs. J. L. Anderson leader.
The “Great Adventurer” chosen by
Mrs. Anderson was Miss Nannie
Holding, Missionary of the Texas-
Mexican border. She told in an in
teresting mannar the story of Miss
Holding’s life, v/hich is the story ol
the opening of the Women’s work ot
the Methodist church in Mexico and
along the border.
The business session included re
ports, and discussions of the differ
ent phases of the activities of the
society.
After adjournment, the members
enjoyed a social meeting, the hos
tesses serving punch, sandwiches and
wafers.
MISS JOYCE STOREY PRESENTS
SPEECH STUDENTS
On the afternoon of May 22nd,
Miss Joyce Storey presented mem
bers of her Speech Class in a re
cital. The setting for the program
was a garden. The stage was beau
tifully decorated with running ros
es.
By their reading, the pupils
showed much improvement during
the year. Those present enjoyed a
delightful program.
Appearing on the program were:
Ada Ellen Hardy, Barbara Johnson,
Emilyn Aderhold, Pat Turner, Mar
tha Jean Elrod, Jack Purcell, Pat
Dozier, Virginia Kesler, Mary Smith,
Irma Frances Wall, Emma Sue
Thurmond, Martha Ann Kelly,
Mary Hal Moore, Barbara Beatty,
Ethel Martin, Gene Smith, Janet
Hood and Donald Roberts.
ROTARY CLUB ENTERTAINERS
Little Misses Charlotte Hughes,
Imogene Westmoreland and Barbara
Johnson, with songs and dances,
were entertainers for the Rotary
Club at the luncheon Tuesday. Miss
Miriam Bennett accompanied them
on the piano.
Other visitors at the luncheon
were Harry Butler and Stanley
Kesler, Jr.
History Sealed In a Crypt
Six thousand years from now when
the “Crypt of Civilization” is open
ed by people living in that age, there
will be found four mementoes placed
there by W. 11. Smith to furnish his
toric data of things that happened
in 1940. The Crypt is a vault,
built at Oglethorpe University, and
scaled at the closing exercises of the
school, not to be opened until the
year 7940. Mr. Smith was invited
to place within its archives a few
historical articles, namely, a petrified
Irish potato; a gavel made from the
historic mulberry tree that once
grew on the public square of Jeffer
son; a First Day Crawford W. Long
Cache and Stamp and a newspaper
article on the life of Dr. Long writ
ten nineteen years ago.
If, perchance, 6000 years from
now, the city of Jefferson is no lon
ger on the map, and the name of
Crawford W. Long is obliterated
from history because of more mo
mentous discoveries, when the Crypt
is opened, these articles sealed with
in its walls, will remind a future
generation that they once existed.
MISS MABETH STOREY
PRESENTS MUSIC PUPILS
IN RECITAL MAY 23RD
Oh Thursday evening, May 23rd,
a program of music was presented
by the pupils of Miss Mabeth Stor
ey.
The first part of the program was
given by Barbara Johnson, Emily
Aderhold, Helen Carney, Patricia
Turner, Tommie Bryan and Paul
Wilson. Each one rendered musical
selections, which delighted their
parents and friends and showed a
great improvement during the year’s
work.
Saranelle Marlowe of Pendergrass
rendered the second part of the
program. Her musical talent and
technic were displayed in each se
lection. She is to be commended
for her work during the year.
CONFERENCE ON EVANGELISM
AT FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, ATHENS
A conference on evangelism has
been announced to be held in the
First Presbyterian church, Athens,
Thursday June 6, 4:00 to 9:00 p. m.
A program of distinguished speak
ers has been planned and at 6:30
o’cock the visitors will be entertain
ed at supper by the host church.
Those going from Jefferson are
Mesdames A. H. Moore, Janie Sil
man, S. B. Archer, L. H. Archer, O.
L. Singletary, J. C. Alexander, Dr.
J. E. Coker, Clarence Silman, Miss
es Frances Smith, Doris Hancock,
Mary Hal Moore, Sara Frances Arch
er, Mary Kathryn Archer, Gwen
dolyn McDonald.
FINALS IN SCHOOL
OF AIR LAUNCHED
Miss Doris Hancock returned Fri
day from Commerce, where she has
had charge of the music department
of the High School. She had as
her week-end guest Miss Sue Bow
ers of Bainbridge, the Speech teach
er of the same school.
Both Misses Hancock and Bowers
had winning pupils from the state’s
most talented high school and gram
mar school boys and girls in music
and spoken English, chosen from the
300,000 students in 400 Georgia
public schools who participated in
the ninth annual series of The At
lanta Journal School of the Air
during the past school year.
These winners were accompanied
to Atlanta Tuesday by Misses Han
cock and Bowers, where they broad
cast in the final auditions, and if they
win will be awarded free trips to
Washington and New York as guests
of the Atlanta Journal. Pupils from
ten districts in the state will contest
this week, but the winners will not.
be announced until July 6.
Muss Hancock will present Miss
Gwendolyn Hood in music and Miss
Bowers will present Miss Jane Wil
liamson in spoken English. Kenneth
Pittman and Sara Davidson of Com
merce were contestants from the
grammar school department of the
school at Commerce.
WOMAN’S CLUB MEETS MONDAY
WITH MRS. R. J. KELLY
The Jefferson Woman’s Club will
meet at 4 p. m. Monday at the R. J.
Kelly home on Athens street. The
hostesses are Mesdames Kelly, Billy
Wall, H. L. Bentley, Claud Catlett,
M. L. Mobley, J. N. Holder.
Thursday, June 6, 1940.
STOLEN JACKSON COUNTY
SAFE FOUND IN FULTON
COUNTY
Fulton County police Thursday re
ported the discovery of a battered
iron safe containing many office
records, which apparently was taken
in a store burglary Ht Apple Valley,
Jackson County, Georgia.
The old-fashioned safe, about
three feet square, was found in
an abandoned barn on the place of
Mrs. Ludie Waits on Baker’s Ferry
Road near Utoy Creek. The combi
nation had been punched and sev
eral hundred papers were scattered
about it. From these papers county
police believe the safe came from the
general store of J. C. Sims, of Apple
Valley. They said it appeared the
safe had not been there long. Jack
son County authorities were notified,
and the mystery of the safe was
cleared up when W. J. Colquitt went
to claim the same.
He told officers a store at Apple
Valley, in Jackson county, had been
robbed Tuesday night and that a
truck was used to haul the safe
away. It contained only papers and
two or three $lO gold pieces, he
said. The papers were recovered
near the safe.
O. C. ADERHOLD SPEAKS AT
BAPTIST CHURCH
0. C. Aderhold of the State Uni
versity was guest speaker at the
Baptist church Sunday morning, and
was greeted by a large number of
his many Jefferson friends, who
heard with much interest and pleas
ure his talk on Democracy. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Aderhold and
they were guests for lunch of Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Aderhold.
Mr. Aderhold taught for several
years in Martin Institute and his
friends here are numbered by his
acquaintances.
METHODISTS ASSIGN
TEXAN TO GEORGIA
The southeastern jurisdictional
conference of the Methodist church
assigned its eight active bishops re
cently in accordance with the rec
ommendations of its committee on
episcopacy.
The assignments which are for the
next four years, included:
Bishop Arthur J. Moore, of San
Antonio, Texas, to the North and
South Georgia and Florida confer
ences. Bishop Moore has had charge
of Methodist interests in the orient,
Africa and Europe for the last six
years.
Bishop W. T. Watkins to the South
Carolina and Upper South Carolina
conferences. He has been in charge
of the Georgia and Florida confer
ences.
PENSION CHECKS MAILED
Pension checks totalling $63,150
were mailed out Friday to Georgia’s
87 remaining Confederate veterans
and 1,969 Confederate widows.
Eighty-one veterans who get SSO
per month will deceive $4,050, six
veterans at the Old Soldiers’ Home
will get $5 each, 818 widows who
were married prior to 1881 will get
$24,540, and 1,151 widows who were
married prior to 1920 will receive
$34,530. The checks are mailed
each month to the ordinary of the
county where the veterans and wid
ows reside.
A FEMALE PROSPECT FOR
GOVERNOR
Washington.—Stella Aiken, of
Savannah, special assistant to the
attorney general, is being urged to
become the first woman to enter a
Qeorgia gubernatorial race.
Miss Akin confirmed that a group
of Georgia friends called on her to
urge her to run, but she declined
to name her callers or to discuss her
proposed candidacy.
Admitted to the bar in Savannah
in 1917, Miss Akin is a member of
the Georgia Bar Association and
other legal associations. She is a
Presbyterian, 42 years old and was
the first president of the Georgia
League of Women Voters.
Weevil. At Work
Sparta, Ga.—Boll weevils have
appeared in the cotton fields of Han
cock county, athough cotton is ex
ceedingly small for this time of the
year, due to the late season. Most
farmers are beginning the use of
calcium arsenate and other poisons
to kill off the pest and try to save
the crop. ,
Vol. 63. No. 51.
A HAPPY FAMILY REUNION
AND HOUSE PARTY
An enjoyable House Party in Jef
ferson came to a close Friday morn
ing when the host, R. L. Mathis of
Thomasville, and his guests left for
their respective homes, after spell
ing a week at the Harrison Hotel.
The House Party guests were R. L.
Mathis and his four daughters, Mrs.
John J. Bell of San Antonio, Texswa,
Mrs. A. D. Mayenhoff, Jr., of Jack
sonville, Fla., Mrs. A. B. Hughes of
Cooledge and Miss Eloise Mathis of
San Antonio, Tex., and five graurl
children, David, Eileen anil Pamela
Bell of San Antonio, Marlene Muy
enhoff of Jacksonville and John l>.
Hughes of Cooledge.
Mr. Mathis is a son of Mr. :tivj
Mrs. Harris B. Mathis, former citi
zens of Jackson county who row
reside in Hall county, and a brother
of Grover Mathis of Jefferson. ll©
was reared in Jackson county but
left here several years ago to make
his home in another part of the
state.
The family, being almost too largj®
to be entertained in the homes *f
their Jackson county relatives, de
cided to meet in Jefferson at fbe
hotel and spend each day visitmuf
among the relatives. On the morn
ing of their departure, they wer®
gueSts at breakfast of Mr. and Mrs.
Grover Mathis.
Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Mayenhoff, Mrs.
Hughes and Miss Eloise Mathis a*
giand-daughters of Mr. and Mrs. St.
G. Henderson, their mother being;
the late Ida Henderson Mathis,
therefore, not only the Mathis fami
ly, but the Henderson family afsx
enjoyed the visit of these kinspeoplc.
Relatives and friends were delighted
that they planned to hold the family
reunion in Jefferson.
DISTRICT LEAGUE OF > •
STEWARDS AT TALLULAH
FALLS JUNE 11TM
An address by Hubert T. QuilHan,
president of LaGrange Female Col
lege, a stop-over at Clarkesvilie
| where lemonade will be served, ar>dt
| i barbecue supper will feature the
i tenth meeting of the Gainesville-
District League of Stewards which
will be held at Tallulah Falls June
11.
Allen A. Phillips, pastor at Tallu
lah Falls, states that preparation is.
being made to serve over two hun
dred visitors at the barbecue which
will be served there beginning:
promptly at six o’clock.
Frank E. Gabrels, who will head
a large delegation from Clarkesvilie,
say3 there will be plenty of i’reo
lemonade on hand there to serve ail
who pass through his city on their
way to this meeting.
It is suggested that the delegates
leave home early and bring thetir
families with them and spend the
afternoon in the mountains around
Tallulah Falls, visiting the power
plants and other points of interest
before supper.
All of the stewards of the more
than one hundred Methodist church
es in the Gainesville District are
members of the League and are in
vited, together with the other lay
men and pastors, to attend this
meeting.
PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
The circles of the Preabytcn'aT*
Woman’s Auxiliary met at the" home
of Mrs. J. C. Turner Monday, June
3rd, at 4 o’clock.
The meeting was opened witi*
prayer by Mis. J. C. Alexander, fol
lowed by the song, “We’ve a St try
to Tell to The Nation.” The regular
order of business was carried out.
Mrs. J. C. Turner gave the devotion
al, the theme of which was, “The
Fruit of the Spirit is Joy.” She al
so had charge of the program,.
“What Has Foreign Missions Done
for My Generation?” She was as
sisted by Mesdames Coker, Claude
Barnett, S. B. Archer, L. 11. Archer
and Hal Moore. The meeting closed
with prayer'by Mrs. Turner.
A social half-hour was enjoyed.
The following members were pres
ent: Mesdames J. C. Alexander, doe
Bilderback, Janie Silman, J. CL
Turner, W. M. McDonald, Mstry
Alice McDonald Venable, J. E. Cok
er, L.- H. and S. B. Archer, C. O.
Brock, Ora Smith, Claude Barnett.
O. L. Singletary, Hal Moore. Visit
or, Miss Doris Hancock.
The chameleon, who is said to feed
upon nothing but air, has of all ani
mals the nimblest tongue.—Swift.