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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941.
COMMERCE NEWS
ITEMS
COMMERCE HIGH WINS UNANI
MOUSLY IN DEBATE
Commerce High School is off to u
good start for the District Meet, hav
ing won both sides of the question,
Resolved, “That the Power of the
Federal Government should be In
creased.
Misses Jean Hood and Edith Bol
ton championed the negative side of
the question against Eastanollee
School at Eastanollee last Friday
morning and Miss Henrietta Gunter
and Lawrence Cushing won a unani
mous decision also in representing
the affirmative side against Baldwin
School at the Commerce school audi
torium.
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MISS RAY ADDRESSED METHO
DIST SUNDAY SCHOOL LAST
SUNDAY
Miss Bonnie Ray, recently return
ed Missionary from China, address
ed the Methodist Sunday School
Sunday morning. Miss Ray, who
has spent the past twenty-three
years in China, was dressed in a na
tive Chinese Costume and appeared
very much a part of the interesting
program she presented. She sang
two songs, one of our songs with
Chinese words, another of native
Chinese music. She talked of the
fearful conditions in China today, of
their poverty, their warring country,
of the people themselves and earnest
ly plead for the prayers of all Chris
tion people for them.
WILL UNVEIL MONUMENT
The J. E. B. Stuart, United Dau- j
ghters of the Confederacy, will un- j
veil a monument to Confederate j
Veterans and their wives on Memo
rial Day, April 26. A fine program
is being prepared and a great crowd
is expected to attend.
The monument will be placed in
the former Spencer Park, now Con
federate Memorial Park and will be
unveiled by two great grand-children
of Confederate Veterans, Little Miss
Corine Harden, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. N. Harden and Charles W.
O’Rear, Jr., the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. O’Rear. They will
be dressed in costumes of the ’6o’s.
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COMMERCE COLLEGE GIRLS
MAKE FINE RECIRDS
Miss Gwendolyn Hood, freshmen
at Shorter College, Rome, Ga., has
recently been elected sophomore
representative on the Student Coun
cil of the Student Government As
sociation of the college for the com
ing year.
Miss Eleanor Campbell is one of
the honor students at North Geor
gia College at Dahlonega.
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—"“MR. NIX RECOVERING
Mrs. Ed Massey and Mrs. Abit
Nix of Athens visited Mr. J. M. Nix
Tuesday. Mr. Nix is recovering
from a recent severe illness.
Lamar Murphy Is Making
Good on Newark Team
(From Hoschton News)
Press clippings coming to us from
the big Newark, N. J. daily papers
indicate strongly that Lamar Mur
iphy is showing excellent promise of
making with the Newark team in the
International League of baseball
clubs. According to William Klien,
noted sports writer of Newark who
is now in Florida with the club,
Murphy may blossom into another
Keller or Holmes.
He played in 61 games with
Amsterdam, N. Y., in the Canadian-
American League last year where he
smashed opposition pitching at .329
and drove in 64 runs, better than
one per game. He ammassed 15
home runs, 11 three baggers and ten
two base hits.
It is just over the river to Yankee
Stadium, or under the river by Mr.
McAdoo’s tunnel. Maybe the kid
will send us passes to his first world’s
series and we will get to see him
knock one clear to the Polo grounds
up under Coogan’s bluff. So, we
say good luck and Godspeed.
FRANK BAKER, MASONIC
SECRETARY
Macon, Ga.—Frank F. Baker, for
25 years secretary of the Grand
Lodge of Georgia, F. & A. M., died
at his home in Macon Wednesday
morning after a long illness.
He had served as secretary since
his appointment by Grand Master N.
H. Ballard in June, 1915, and had
been re-elected annually since at
sessions of the Grand Lodge, many
times by acclamation.
Mr. Baker was known as the
“father” of the endowment fund
for the Masonic home here and had
traveled many miles in its behalf.
He was instrumental in organization
of a profitable print shop at the
home.
Eaton V. Whelchel Is Laid
to Final Rest
I
Lafayette, Ga.—Funeral services
for Eston V. Whelchel, 70, were
held Thursday afternoon from the
Methodist church at Chiekumauga.
Mr. Whelchel was a member of the
pioneer W’helchel family of Gaines
ville, Ga., where his early youth was
spent. In 1898 he entered civil ser
vice and served the United States
Government in Guanahani, Cuba,
where he was in charge of the Nor
mal Industrial School during the
Spanish-American War. Mr. Whel
chel was connected with the Nash
ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail
way from 1921 to 1938, when he
was retired. His death was due to
a paralytic stroke.
He is survived by his wife, who
was formerly Miss Laura Jones, of
Chickamauga. (Four daughters,
Misses Helen, Pearl and Mary Whel
chel, Mrs. W. J. McClatchey, and
three sons, Edward, Harry and Eston
V. Whelchel, Jr., all of Chickamau
ga. One sister, Mrs. R. N. Massey,
and three brothers, L. E., Pliney and
Coyle Whelchel also survive.
Allen P. Rice, Sr., Dies in
Florida
Funeral services for Allen P.
Rice, Sr., were held in the Baptist
church at Commerce on Wednesday,
April Ist. Mr. Rice passed away at
his home in Sarasota, Fla., March
31st. He was 70 years of age.
Mr. Rice was a former prominent
business man of Commerce, a mem
ber of the firms of Power & Rice, of
Williford, Burns & Rice and of
Burns & Rice Company. Several
years ago he moved to Florida,
where on the morning of March 31st
he was taken suddenly ill, dieing
thirty minutes later.
He is survived by his third wife
and by a son, Allen P. Rice, Jr.; a
sister, Mrs. O. W. T. Rogers of
Mountain City, and two brothers, G.
T. Rice of Commerce and W. B. Rice
of Athens.
Death of Griffin Woman
Laid To Heatless Hair
Wave Solution
Poison absorbed through the scalp
from a liquid solution used in giving
heatless permanent waves caused
the death of Mrs. Agnes Scott Sear
cy, 39, prominent Griffin woman,
who died in an Atlanta beauty par
lor March 19 while undergoing a
hair treatment, it was learned Tues
day.
An autopsy report filed Tuesday
with the Board of Health at City
Hall by Dr. Allen H. Bunce stated
that Mrs. iSearcy died from “acute
hydrogen sulfide poisoning as a re
sult of absorption of such material
through the scalp.”
‘'Chemical examination of the
blood shows strong evidence that the
material applied to the patient’s
scalp had been absorbed and was
present in the circulating blood,” the
report said.
Died In 3 Minute*
Mrs. Searcy was said to have died
within three minutes after a highly
volatile liquid solution used in giving
permanent waves without heat had
been applied to h'er scalp in a local
beauty parlor.
No official announcement was
made of the place where the death
occurred.
Officials of the Food and Drug Ad
ministration of the Federal Govern
ment, who have been making elab
orate chemical analysis of the wav
ing solution, declined to reveal the
name of the preparation until their
experiments are complete.
They pointed out that although
the application of the solution may
have been fatal in an individual
case, they must make extensive tests
to determine whether it was “gener
ally dangerous.”
Fluid Widely Used
The special hair treatment which
allegedly caused Mrs. Searcy’s death
is reported to have been used on a
national scale for the last seven
years, some 90,000 applications hav
ing been made without mishap. It
was introduced in the South, howev
er, only within the last year.
The hair-waving solution is spray
ed on the subject’s scalp by means
of atomizers around which the hair
has previously been set in curls. As
the highly alkaline liquid is applied,
it emits fumes. To prevent the es
cape of these a rubber cap is sealed
tightly over the head while treatment
is in process.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 16,690
bales of cotton were ginned in Jack
son County, Georgia from the crop
of 1940 prior to April Ist, 1941, as
compared with 13,503 bales for the
crop of 1939.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
CCC 8 YEARS OLD; ACTIVITIES
LISTED
Washington.—The Civillian Con
servation Corps was eight years old
Monday.
It has 275,000 enrollees manning
1,500 camps, has “graduated" 2,-
600,000 youths and has spent s2,*
800,000,000. Director J. J. McEntee
said in a review of corps activities
Sunday that among other things the
members had built 118,492 miles of
truck trails, 6,000,000 erosion check
dams, 84,737 miles of telephone
lines, 101 radio stations, 24,969,767
rods of fence, and 68 airplane land
ing fields, in addition to planting 2,-
060,403,000 trees and spending 6,-
273,000 man-days fighting forest
fires.
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FARMERS RESETTLED IN
WHEELER COUNTY
Alamo, Ga.—The Federal Govern
ment has purchased a 6,000-acre
tract of land in the extreme western
part of Wheeler County near Scot
land.
The land was purchased to build
houses for tenant farmers forced to
move from the Hi'nesville area. This
was the second purchase made by
the government in Wheeler
County of this kind, 1,200 acres
having already been bought.
Approximately 30 houses are un
der construction now, and more are
expected to be erected at an early
date. The houses are constructed
for temporary use. The tenants
will be allotted 66 acres of land to
the plow for farming.
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INSULIN PRICE FIXING IS
CHARGED BY JURY
Washington.—A federal grand
jury indicted three drug manufac
turing companies and seven of their
officers Monday on a charge of vio
lating the Sherman anti-trust act in
the sale of insulin.
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WILLKIE’S SORE THROAT COSTS
REPUBLICANS $13,000
A bill for $13,000 has been pre
sented to the republican national
committee by Dr. D. H. Barnard,
California specialist, who treated
Wendell L. Willkie’s throat during
the 1940 presidential campaign.
Barnard joined Willkie’s cam
paign train at Kansas City after the
republican presidential nominee be
came extremely hoarse on his west
ern tour. He remained with Willkie
almost two months.
Republican officials said that Barn
ard’s bill would be a matter for con
sideration by Sinclair Weeks of Mas
sachusetts, the new party treasurer.
In Beverly Hills, Dr. Barnard
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN
RP BLOOM ferti ! izer
* * Red Bloom
E L Has the Difference
' JpSk That Difference Means
MORE cotton and
CORN PER ACRE
No other fertilizer made like RED BLOOM. We
use different materials and compound it dif
ferently. That difference makes your cotton
step off faster in the Spring, pull stronger
through the Summer, hold out longer in the Fall
and matures the bolls better —therefore more
cotton.
The farmers who use it vouch for every state
ment we make.
Suwariee, February 13, 1941.
Dear Mr. Woodruff:
Last year I used your Red Bloom guano for the first time.
I made a bale to the acre on land where I had never made a
bale before. I used no side dressing but my cotton remained
green and matured the bolls as well as other cotton that had
side dressing. I will want Red Bloom again this year.
E. F. DURHAM.
Dacula, February 12, 1941.
Dear Sir:
Last year I used your Red Bloom fertilizer on part of my
crop. On the other part I used an Atlanta made guano. I
noticed the Red Bloom started off better in the spring, stayed
ahead all summer and held out longer in the fall, maturinng
the bolls better.
I have used practically every kind of guano sold in this
section and I like your Red Bioom better than any guano I
ever used.
L. J. CROWE.
Please see us, see our representative or write
us telling how much you want. Our trucks will
drive to your door. Put the money on the bar
rell head.
Place your order early to get prompt delivery.
G. W. WOODRUFF
Winder, Georgia.
said submission of bill was “just i
routine.”
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YOUTH’S DEATH IS ATTRIBUTED
TO MENINGITIS
Forsyth, Ga.—H. J. Jackson
20-year-old Monroo county youth,
died in a private hospital here early
last night of an illness diagnosed by
Dr. B. L. Smith, attending physician,
as “the epidemic type of meningi
tis.”
Jackson died within a few minutes
after arrival at the hospital.
The Jackson youth’s death is the
second in Monroe county within the
last 30 days attributed to meningi
tis. Miss Cornelia Chancellor 15,
Forsyth high school student, died on
March 10 of an illness diagnosed as
the non-epidemic type of meningi
tis.
lone Corley, 6, also of Forsyth,
has been at Macon hospital since
March 12 for the non-epidemic type
of meningitis. Her condition was
termed “still serious."
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HUSBAND CANNOT CLAIM
WIFE’S RINGS, JUDGE SAYS
Philadelphia.—Jud,?e George Bow
en Parry holds that a husband has
no claim on his wife’s engagement
and wedding rings.
Parry yesterday ordered Joseph
Weintraub to return the rings to his
wife, Mrs. Jessie Weintraub, who
contended her husband took them
without her consent when they sep
arated last September.
Weintraub declared he gave the
rings to his wife on the condition
that they would always be a part of
his estate.
“It is so unusual and so con
trary to ordinary experience,’’
Judge Parry said of Weintraub’s
claim, “that I unhesitatingly reject
it.”
RECORD-BREAKING FUND FOR
FARM BENEFITS APPROV
ED BY SESATE
Washington.—The Senate passed
Thursday a record-breaking farm
bill carrying $1,340,610,744 in cash
and sent it back to the House fo > -
action on $449,786,707 of increases.
Every one of scores of increases
in agricultural funds recommended
by the Senate appropriations com
mittee were approved. These in
cluded a $450,000,000 fund for
“parity payments” to farmers com
plying with <rop control programs
which was adopted 61 to 9.
“Germany is making fabric for
ai'my uniforms out of wood.”—
Press report. It is hoped that ter
mites in the German soldier’s pants
will divert his attention and greatly
lower his efficiency.
2/nc/e TUrfcde/scu/s:
WANTS )
Folks are usually will- other plant food “vita
■ mg to pay more to get min" elements, iodine, bo- j
the beau That’s natural. ron. magneaium, calcium.
The beat ia usually the manganese, and many more,
cheapest. Dae it regularly on all your
Chilean Nitrate of Soda, for crops, in mixed fertiliser
instance! It’s natural, the before planting, and as top
P only natural nitrate in the dressing an.l aide dressing
wor |d. later on. That is the way
Ye I it tot It no more, to get the full benefit
It contain* 16% nitrogen of its fertilising and soil- j.. <
and small quantities of improving qualitie*.
Be sure you get
NATURAL CHILEAN
UH ro NITRATE
fi AD IC :OF SODA M
BAPTIST W. M. U. HOLD
SESSIONS
The annual associational meeting
of the officers of the various socie
ties of the Baptist Woman’s Mis
sionary Union of the Sarepta Asso
ciotion convened Tuesday of this
week in Commerce. The district
rally of this association for this dis
trict will meet in Apple Valley on
April 24.
The Executive Board met on
March 27 in Athens, with Mrs. W.
E. Broach. Association superintend
ent, presiding.
Mr. D. B. Nicholson, B. S. U.
secretary of Georgia, spoke to the
Board on “The Churches’ Responsi-
11. S. CENSUS
MAKES NEWS
Many New Additions to Towns
Exceeding 1,000 Population
Many important gains, striking gains, in popu
lation— among the 562 communities served by
the Georgia Power Company are shown by
the United States Census for 1940.
With anew population figure of 10,243,
Gainesville joins the group of largest commu
nities served by the Company those having
more than 10,000 people. Its increase over the
1930 population of 8,624 was 19 per cent. There
arc eight other cities in this class, to which the
Georgia Power Company supplies electric serv
ice. They are: Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Colum
bus, Rome, Athens, Brunswick and Decatur.
In the next group, cities of 5,000 to 10,000 in
habitants, there are four newcomers: the lively,
expanding cities of Hapeville, Statesboro, Tifton
and Toccoa. They take their r>lace with five
other progressive towns served by the Georgia
Power Company: Americus, Carrollton, Cedar
town, Dublin and Millcdgeville.
Nineteen smaller towns, helped by favorable
business and agricultural conditions, climbed up
into the third group of communities, having be
tween 1,000 and 5,000 people. These 19 were
Aragon, Austell, Brookhaven, Butler, Chamblee,
Chatsworth, Clayton, Crawfordville, Dahlonega,
Darien, Ellijay, Graymont-Summitt, Hardwick,
Helena, Oglethorpe, Pembroke, Scottdale, Shan
non and Summerville. All told, there are 94
towns in this class.
And the total of all towns of over 1,000 popu
lation served by the Georgia Power Company
is 112.
Which leaves 450 communities of less than
1,000 population.
In other words, only 20 per cent of all the
towns we serve have as many as 1,000 people,
while 80 per cent have fewer than 1,000.
Like Flintside, for instance, which has a pop
ulation of 6; Gaillard, which has 9; and Double
Branches which has 28.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
PAGE THREE.
bility To Its Young People.”
“Conditions in our war-torn world
are distressing,” he stated, “and, be
cause of the unknown or unpre
dictable results of the war, it is
most difficult to hazard a prophecy
for the church of the future. My
guess is that the church of the fu
ture that holds its young people
will have to have these things:
“(1) An attractive physical ap
pearance, (2) A wholesome recre
ational program, (3) An honest at
mosphere, (4). Ability to teach
youth spiritual insight, and (5) A
chansre to grow.”
Everything these days seems to
be in a state of flux—flux ona
thing and then another.