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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, ,