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The Jackson herald
By John N. Holder.
METHODIST PASTORS
ATTENDING ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
Rev A. B. Elizer and Rev. W. B.
'Hughes, together with all other
Methodist pastors of the North Geor
gia Conference, will assemble at
Wesley Memorial Church, Atlanta,
Thursday morning at 9 o’clock for
annual conference session, at which
the pastors will be given their ap
pointments for another year. The
session will come to a close Sunday
afternoon immediately following the
reading of these appointments. Jef
ferson and the Jefferson circuit are
expecting the return of both Mr.
Elizer and Mr. Hughes; that is, un
less the Bishop and his cabinet have
slated them for a field of greater ac
complishments.
Reports to be given at this con
ference show that 5,250 new con
verts have been received into the
church membership, approximately
$500,000 spent on new church build
ings, more than SIOO,OOO paid on
liquidation of old debts, a building
program launched for 1941 involv
ing at least $75,000, pastors’ salaries
increased in 50 instances, a of
church organs installed ranging in
price up to $25,000, and a general
improvement inV church morale
throughout the conference territory.
An interesting feature of the com
ing conference session is the appli
cation of a class of eight young min
isters for admission on trial. Young
ministers in the class of applicants
are the Rev. Andrew Jackson Wal
drep, of Forsyth; the Rev. Henry
Grady O’Bryant of Dawsonville; the
Rev. EJlbert Walter McDougal, of
Brookton; the Rev. Carl Jesse Dodd,
Jr., of Emory University; the Rev
Tillman Newton Wise, of Holly
Springs; the Rev. Webb Black Gar
rison, of Ellenwood; the Rev. Harry
Beattie Free, of Cedartown; the Rev.
James R. Phillips, of Emory Uni
vei’sity; and the Rev. Holland Hope,
of Emory University.
Among the ministers serving in
detached capacity, and who are now
asking for appointments, are Dr.
William P. King, of Nashville, and
the Rev. Frank Quillian, of Decatur.
Dr. King has served as editor of the
Christian Advocate during the past
decade, and Mr Quillian has been
superintendent of the Methodist
Children’s Home at Decatur.
The Rev. C. V. Weathers, chair
man of the committee on memoirs,
announces that three ministers have
died during the year and that a
special memorial service will be held
in their honor during the wek. >Min
isters who have passed away were
the Rev. L. P. Huckaby, of Atlanta,
who died February 27; the Rev. W.
B. Mills, of Holly Springs, who died
May 25, and the Rev. A J. Sears, of
Chamblee, who died last November
30.
Wives of ministers dying during
the year were Mrs. A. M. Sprayber
ry, of Atlanta; Mrs. J. F. Davis, of
Carrollton; Mrs. C. C. Jarrell, of Au
gusta, and Mrs. J K. Brown, of
Blue Ridge.
Three hundred and three Metho
dist laymen have been elected as
members of the Conference, and
will be present during the session.
Of the 303 lay members, 56 are wo
men, and of that number seven are
wives of ministers.
REV. R. CLAUD SINGLETON TO
HEAD RELIGIOUS WORK AT
UNIVERSITY
Rev R. Claud Singleton, pastor of
the Methodist church at Grantville,
will have charge of the Wesley
Foundation at the State University
the coming conference year. He suc
ceeds Rev. Claud Fullerton who will
become pastor of the Wrightsville
Methodist church.
Rev. and Mrs. Singleton and their
two sons, aged 2 and 7, will make
their home in Athens. Mrs. Single
ton ms the former Miss Clifford Rig
don. Before marriage, she was a
member of Martin Institute faculty,
and no young woman ever did great
er work among the young people of
the Jefferson Methodist church than
she. We predict a successful career
for Rev. and Mrs. Singleton among
the University students in their work
in the Wesley Foundation.
To have true courage, man needs
faith in God. —Charles Kingsley.
SINGLE COPY sc.
JEFFERSON BUSINESS
GIVEN BIG BOOST.
MERCHANTS PLEASED
Jefferson Business Houses have
been both aggressive and progressive
this fall in a Campaign for more
trade. Although last Saturday was
very cold, a large crowd was seen
in this city. The streets were lined
w'ith cars.
The warehouses have all been re
ceiving large quantities of cotton,
but they have room for still more of
the fleecy staple. Their business
has been satisfactory. The bank is
crowded with depositors and custom
ers at certain hours of some days in
each week. People are paying off
their notes and meeting other obli
gations. One man said “People are
not only paying new debts but clean
ing up old ones two and three years
old.
The business in the post office has
increased until another clerk has
been employed.
The weather this fall has been
ideal and cotton has been gathered
until now the fields are black. Farm
ers have been very busy sowing fall
grain. Every preparation is being
made that is possible at this time to
finish sowing grain and gathering the
corn crops before the rainy season
comes. Both the cotton and corn
crops in this county are a high aver
age. The price received for cotton,
together with subsidy and better
ment checks, gives the farmer a fair
income from the flecy staple. As
stated above, this has enabled him
to pay debts and to have money with
which to buy, not only necessities,
but some luxuries. In trade the
past month has ben a very good one
for Jefferson, but merchants expect
the next to be one of the best in the
history of this little city. Look out
each week for the message of the
business people found in these col
umns. Please read every statement
made on these pages.
Gainesville Trials Reopen
Postal Case
Gainesville, Ga.—With trials of
widespread interest scheduled, Fed
eral District Court, Gainesville Di
vision, convenes Monday, November
25, for two weeks, with the newly
appointed judge, Robert L. Russell,
presiding for the first time.
Keenest public interest probably
will center in the pending trials of
Harry Graves, publisher of the Tri-
County Advertiser at Clarkesville; J.
H. Holcomb, of Ball Ground, and
Paul Grogan, of Ball Ground, all of
whom are charged with soliciting or
offering money for procurement of
postal jobs.
Indictments of the four men for
alleged irregularities in seeking post
al positions followed on the heels of
the acquittal of Congressman B.
Frank Whelchel on eight counts,
along with H. Grady Jones, Pickens
County commissioner, on charge of
conspiracy to sell postal jobs
The four men are accused of of
fering or giving "Whelchel money for
postal jobs for themselves or rela
tives.
QUAIL SEASON OPENS
FOR 141 COUNTIES
The bird dog and his master will
return to the woods for action this
week for the first time since last
March
The quail season opens Wednes
day in 141 counties, making it unan
imous in the state, as 18 southeast
Georgia counties opened November 1.
However, there has been little hunt
ing, according to wild-life rangers,
who said that warm weather and
snakes have kept the hunters and
dogs out of the woods. Others, the
Wild-Life Division reported, have
refrained from shooting birds that
have not reached maturity.
Ideal weather conditions, cold
weather coming on top of rain, are
promised for early season shooters.
Added to this is a crop of quail that
has been described as “the finest of
10 years” in practically every coun
ty in the state.
Along with the statewide quail
season comes the legal shooting on
wild tufkeys, which also appear to
have been seen in the river swamps
of south Georgia and the increase
likewise prevails in the north Geor
gia mountains.
The bag limit of quail is 15 a day,
or 30 a wek. Only two turkeys a
season are allowed to be taken. The
season on these two fine game birds
extends through March 1.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
EMORY HILL CHEATHAM
ANSWERS LAST CALL
IN SHREVEPORT, LA.
Another son o i Jackson county,
Emory Hill Cheatham, succumbed to
an attack of heart trouble on Friday
at his home in Shreveport, La. A
message of his illness came to his
relatives here Wednsday.
Emory Hill Cheatham, 57 years of
age, the son of the late J. B. and
Mrs. Ella Garner Cheatham, was
born and reared at the Garner home
stead on the old Pendergrass road.
He was educated at Martin Insti
tute and in early young manhood ac
cepted a position with Swift & Cos.,
well-known Chicago fertilizer manu
facturers and meat packers, finally
locating in Shreveport, where he be
came one of the outstanding citizens
of that city. He took a deep interest
in all civic and religious movements
and at the time of his death was a
deacon in the First Baptist church
of Shreveport.
Among his boyhood friends in
Jackson county he enjoyed wide
popularity and they are grieved over
his untimely death.
Surviving the deceased are his
wife and a daughter of Shreveport,
and the following sisters and broth
ers, Miss Montie Cheatham of Jef
ferson, Mrs. Joel Sims of Arcade,
Tom Cheatham of Maysville, J. B.
Cheatham of Toccoa and Bob Cheat
ham of Jasper, Ala.
HEARING ON CAKE WALKS IN
CARNESVILLE
Lavonia, Ga.—The fate of the
cake-walk and other “benefit” af
fairs used far and wide hang in the
balance with this little Franklin
county city the center of a contro
versy on the outcome of which may
rest the legality of such performan
ces
A hearing before Judge Clarke
Edwards, of the northern judicial
circuit, in Carnesville, will answer
“yes” or “no” to the controversial
question: “Shall cake-walks be per
mitted in Franklin county schools?”
iAe controversy began Hvo weeks
ago, flared anew last week when a
minister filed a petition branding
games at a Lavonia Halloween carni
val as “gambling.” Asking an injunc
tion against the Halloween games,
the Rev. Red Lunsford, pastor" of
Fairview Baptist church, four miles
west of Lavonia, was granted the
hearing, which will determine the
fate of a now-temporary injunction.
The “games” to which he referred
were the cake-walk, bingo and a raf
fle.
As it is known in this section, a
cake-walk is a game where each of
several participants pays a sum and
is permitted to walk around a large
numbered circle. When a signal is
given the walkers stop and the per
son standing on-the lucky number
drawn from the hat wins a cake.
Cakes are given by town folk.
ILLEGAL TO SELL
AUTOMOBILE TAGS
BEFORE JANUARY
Atorney General Ellis Arnall Sat
urday put the brakes on the plan
of the present state administration
to sell 1941 automobile tags before
January 1.
“I am of the .clear opinion that
the Legislature has made no pro
vision for the sale of 1941 tags dur
ing the calendar year of 1940, but
to the contrary has definitely provid
ed that 1940 tags shall continue to
be sold until the expiration of
1940,” the attorney general said.
“Accordingly, I am of the opinion
that it would be illegal to sell or of
fer for sale 1941 tags before Janu
ary 1, 1941.”
Jurors Drawn For November
Term U. S. Court
The following grand and traverse
jurors from Jackson county have
been drawn for the November term
of the United States District court,
northern district of Georgia, Gaines
ville division, which convenes in the
Federal building in Gainesville,
Monday morning, November 25, with
Judge Robert Russell, presiding.
GRAND JURORS
William H. Deavors, Thomas C.
Langford, Dan H. Cooper, James C.
Hope and T. Jeff Oliver, Col.
TRAVERSE JURORS
A. Jack Murphy, Charles C. Nunn,
W. Harrison Vandiver, Hollis Hen
derson, Henry S. Fite, Nolan W.
Braselton, Hoke Deaton, Opal Shir
ley, Mem Bryson, Col.
ANDREW JACKSON WHITE DIES
SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME IN
CALIFORNIA
Friends and relatives in Jackson
county were shocked last week when
a message came from Los Angeles,
Calif., that Andrew Jackson White
had died from heart trouble.
Mr. White was 60 years of age.
He w’as born and reared at the
White homestead on the Jefferson-
Pendergrass road, where Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. McDonald now live, and
where his grand parents and parents,
the late J. Webster and Lorena Rob
erts White made their home.
The deceased was educated nt Mar
tin Institute. At the age of twenty
seven, he went to the W’est and for
a long time has mad* his home in
Los Angeles, where he had establish
ed himself in the business world and
was noted for his upright character.
At intervals he returned to Jackson
county to visit his relatives, and
the Herald each week kept him in
formed ojT the changes in his boyhood
home. Only a short time ago, he
renewed his subscription His many
friends here are deeply grieved over
his death and extend sympathy to
his family.
Funergl and burial services were
held in Los Angeles Saturday.
Surviving Mr. White are his wife;
three children, Robert and Miss Dor
othy White and Mrs. Jack Williams;
a brother, J. D. White of Ocala, Fla.,
and a sister, Mrs. A. D. McDonald.
Georgia To Get
A Million More
In U. S. Funds
Georgia will receive approximate
ly $1,000,000 in additional federal
funds for vocational training in con
nection with the national defense
program, M. D. Mobley, director of
vocational education in the State
Department of Edncation, announc
ed.
This includes between $300,000
and $400,000 for industrial centers,
approximately $500,000 for equip
ment to be used in general shop
work training for youths between 17
and 25, and approximately $200,000
for use in the state’s NYU training
program.
These funds will not have to be
matched by state appropriations,
Mobley pointed out, and their 1 pur
pose is solely for training men in
mechanical skills useful in wartime
ACCIDENTS TAKE
LIVES OF EIGHT
OVER WEEK-END
, Six persons were killed in week
end highway accidents, whole two
others met death when the engine
and five cars of a fast Southern
Railway passenger train derailed
near Pine Grove, Ga.
The dead were:
Harris Elmer Holcomb, of Atlan
ta.
E. B. Mercer, Southern Railway
engineer, of Macon.
P. M. Johnson, 48, fireman, of
Macon.
Luther Henry Kight, 19, of Clax
ton.
Tom Smith, 55, of Between, Ga.
Clarence Folsom, 24, Ellenwood.
Bud Folsom, 65, of Ellenwood.
Miss Florence Helen Yarbrough,
17, of Blackshear.
JACKSON COUNTY GETS
JOBLESS INSURANCE
Jobless insurance amounting to
$1,660.21 was paid to eligible work
ers in Jackson County by the Bu
reau of Unemployment Compensation
in October, Commissioner of I>abor
Ben T. Huiet has announced. -Num
ber of payments was reported at
306.
Total payments for the month, he
said, amounted to $309,650.78, the
smallest amount disbursed in any'
month this year. Represented by
47,116 checks, the payments brought
the cumulative total since the bene
fit-paying program was inaugurated
to well beyond $7,000,000.
The balance in the state Unem
ployment Compensation Trust Fund,
was reported at $24,155,857.94 as of
October 15. The Trust Fund is used
exclusively for the payment of bene
fits to tide workers over between
jobs.
Courage and perseverance have
a magical talisman, before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles
vanish into air.—John Quincy
Adams.
Thursday, November 21, 194 C.
REV. ELIZER SPEAKS
TO ROTARIANS AT
TUESDAY’S LUNCHEON
That was a beautiful and inspiring
talk made last Tuesday at Jefferson
Rotary by Rotarian Rev. A. B. Eli
zer on the origin and meaning of
Thanksgiving.
At its cpnclusion, President Hen
ry W. Davis said, “I feel sure I voice
the sentiment of the entire member
ship of Jefferson Rotary in saying we
hope Rotarian Elizer will be here a
year hence, and as a member of this
club make a talk then on Thanksgiv
ing.” This meant he hoped Rev. Eli
zer will be returned to the pastorate
of Jefferson Methodist church for
another year. Rev. Elizer has not
only been a pastor here, but has
been active in every effort for the
social, civic and religious progress of
this community. He has served four
drears as pastor in Jefferson, the time
limit for pastors generally speaking
of the Methodist church, but they
may serve for a greater number of
years where there are special and
peculiar reasons for it. People of
this town, as well as the membership
of his own church, are anxious for
| the return of Rev. Elizer to the Jef
ferson charge for another year.
There were only three absent from
the Rotary luncheon Tuesday. The
Rotary Anns will be entertained be
fore the Christmas holidays, the date
being yet undetermined.
The singing was very good with
Miss Mabeth Storey at the piano.
WALTON NEWS ITEMS
J. J. Scgars, a member of the fac
ulty of the Georgia Vocational &
Trades School, at Walker Park, and
who is making the county a very fine
citizen, was a caller at our office
Thursday afternoon and kindly hand
ed us the dollar to advance his sub
scription another year. To the agri
cultural and livestock endeavors, of
the county, Mr. Segars is proving
himself a decided asset.
tt t t
On Tuesday I drove over to Jef
ferson and there was so much evi
dence of comfort and even prosperi
ty all along the way. Driving over
the detour to Winder, pretty homes
—many freshly painted—yards full
of bales of freshly-ginned cotton,
slick cows grazing by the roadside,
and streaks of bright green in the
gardens and fields, showing turnip
greens and collards ready to be
gathered and put into the steaming
pot.
tt t t
While in the court house in Jef
ferson, a man came in selling black
walnut meats, and as I had not seen
so many since I used to sit behind
the chimney and pick them out with
a hairpin on a cold day, I asked him
where he got them. He told me that
he lived in Jackson county and was
selling 200 pounds of walnut “good
ies” each week from his own trees,
and could sell more if he had them.
This was anew enterprise to me.
S. S. ASSOCIATION TO MEET AT
NEW VIRGIL
The Jackson County Sunday
School Association will hold its con
vention at the New Virgil Baptist
church all day Sunday, December 8.
Those attending are requested to
bring picnic lunches and remain for
both sessions. The meeting is held
under the auspices <>f the Gorgia
Sunday School Association of which
Mrs. J. J. Simpson is general super
intendent and is for church workers
of every denomination. The morn
ing session will start at 10:30 a. m.,
and that of the afternoon at 1:45 p.
m.
A most interesting program will
be provided consisting of inspiration
al addresses, talks on teaching meth
ods and conferences on Sunday
school problems. Every church work
er in the county is urged to be
present.
THANKSGIVING SERVICES THIS
EVENING
Thanksgiving services will be held
on this (Wednesday) evening at
7:80 in the Presbyterian church,
with Dr. J. E. Coker, pastor of
church, presiding. Rev. Milo H.
Massey will conduct the services and
preach at this hour. Choirs of the
different churches in the city will
have charge of the song service. ,
Moral courage is requisite to
meet the wrong and to proclaim the
right.—Mary Baker Eddy.
Vol. 66. No. 24.
VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS
FILL FIRST DRAFT.
FIRST MAN CHOSEN
Queationnairs were mailed oat
last week by the local Board of He
lective Scivice to 115 registrants,
but only three men from
county are required in the first draft
that will be sent to camp in Decem
ber. However, since the call was
made five registrants have volun
teered service in the regular army,
and officials believe this will take
care of Jackson county's first quota.
In Georgia, almost 1,500 men
have signed applications for volurv
tary induction into the Army or
Navy and officials believe that the
number will be doubled by next year.
This means that the state’s Decem
ber draft quota of 412 men will be
filled by volunteers, with enough
left over to complete the second
quota in January.
The early reports show that, 65
boards have accepted 323 white vol
unteers and 183 Negro volunteers
from the registration lists. Nine
white youths and 11 negro boys be
tween the ages of 18 and 21 also
have asked that they be considered
ahead of the men on the order lists.
In scattered communitius in the
United States ( on Monday little
groups of men raised their right
hands, swore to bear “true faith and
allegiance” to the United States, and
became soldiers under the nation’s
first peace-time conscription pro
gram.
The historic ceremony, to be re
peated day after day in hundreds of
draft centers until 800,000 men have
entered service by next June 30,
was believed to have taken place
first in Boston.
There, John Edward Lawton, 2-
year-old unemployed plumber’:; help
er, and single, was credited with be
ing the first to qualify for service
of the nearly 17,000,000 men from
21 to 35 years of age, inclusive, who
registered under the draft low List
October 16.
“You arc the first man in the
United States to be inducted under
this program,” Captain Harold E.
Linderson told him. “You’ve got
a whole lot to live up to and weVe
expecting a whole lot from you.”
HERALD EDITORS REMEM3ERF.D
G. H. Martin is having a turkey
dinner on this Thanksgiving Day at
his home in the country near Oconee
church. The Editors of th"; paper
were honored with an invitation to
partake of this repast, but an invita
tion to dine had already been ac
cepted before receiving his friendly
and gracious request. Mr. Martin
has many warm friends, one of whom
is the Editor, who hold him in high
esteem and who rejoice that his
health, which has not been too good
for several months, is somewhat ’im
proved. He is one of Jackson coun
ty’s progressive farmers and a par
taker of those efforts made for the
betterment of agricultural conditions
in this county and the general wel
fare of community, county and state.
SINGING AT HOLLY SPRINGS
The Fourth Sunday Night Singing
Choir will meet at Holly Springs
Methodist church next Sunday night,
November 24. The Dixie Four
Quartette of New Holland and many,
other good singers will be there.
Everybody come, and bring song
books and let’s make it a real good
singing.
G. B. Langford, Pres.
LEAVE INCUBATORS
Savannah, Ga.—Mary, Ann and
Sue, triplet daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. E. S. Coursey, declared their
independence on Armistice Day.
They ffeft the incubators they have
occupied since their birth seven
weeks ago and received their first
soap and water bath, put on their
first real clothing. The doctor had
said “okay” to the change.
MARIETTA TO INVITE CHRIST
MAS VISITORS
Marietta, Ga., Nov. 13.—For th
second season, Mayor L. M. Blair
Will place in the mails at the end of
this month 12,000 personal invita
tions to persons in northwest and
northeast Georgia and Alabama, in
viting them to Marietta tS view
Christmas decorations in <*ity
and the business district, ,