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The Jackson Herald
Volume 75.
J. A. DAVIS,
PROMINENT CITIZEN,
DIES AT BRASELTON
The many friends of Mr. J. A.
Davis were shocked and saddened
by his sudden passing on Novem
ber 20, at his home in Braselton. Mr.
Davis had been under the care of a
doctor for several months, although
he was able to look after his busi
ness and was always jolly and cor
dial to his friends.
Mr. Davis was born and reared in
Braselton. He graduated from a
business college and worked in At
lanta for several years, after which
he worked in the Braselton Bank for
twenty-five years. He served on the
city council and as secretary of the
Board of Education of Braselton
High School and deacon of Zion
Baptist Church for many years.
Mr. Davis married Miss Minnie
Hyder of Hall County, Georgia, who
preceded him in death in 1944. To
this union was born one son, Joe
Hyder Davis, who survives them.
Mr. Davis also leaves four broth
ers, O. F. Davis, Braselton; Manley
Davis, West Palm Beach, Fla.;
J. W. A. Davis, Atlanta; Judge T.
Hoyt Davis, Vienna, Ga.; and three
sisters, Mrs. Ella Weatherly, Brasel
ton; Mrs. Georgia Anderson, Hosch
ton; Mrs. Dora Holland, Braselton,
and a large number of nieces and
nephews.
The large group attending the
funeral and the beautiful flowers
were evidence of the respect held
for him. The services were conduct
ed by Rev. Wiley P. Holland, assist
ed by Rev. G. L. Roper and Rev.
Otis McNeal at Zion Baptist Church
Sunday, November 21 at 3 o’clock.
The many friends of Mr. Davis
will miss him in every walk of life.
WINS HONORS
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Mrs. Earl Lawson, District Deputy
Giand Matron of the Fifth District,
Order of the Eastern Star of South
Carolina, was honored recently by
her District at the Inspections of
their Chapters by being made an
honorary member of the following
chapters: Faut, at Monarch; Lock
hart, at Lockhart; Chester, at Ches
ter; and Ralph Vernon Wood Mem
orial at Winnsboro.
Mrs. Lawson will be remembered
here as Miss Emelia Mitchell, the
daughter of Grady Mitchell and the
late Lillian Venable Mitchell.
VISITORS HERE
FOR FUNERAL
Out-of-town visitors for the fun
eral obsequies of Mrs. C. E. Wier
were Mrs. Guy Maddox, Roy and
Carter Maddox, Mr. and Mrs. L. P.
Legg of Rebecca, Mr. and Mrs. Buck
Dickenson of Gordon, Mrs. Herbert
Holloman of Toomsboro, Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Griffeth of Cordele, Mr.
and Mrs. C. H. Thompson, Miss Bob
bie Thompson of Ashville, N. C.,
Rev. and and Mrs. Barrett Barton
and Miss Betty Barton of Sandy
Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cole
man and family, and Robert Cole
man of Milledgeville, Mr. and Mrs.
Summers of Spartanburg, S. C., Mr.
and Mrs. R E. Meade of Crawford,
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Robinson and
Miss Callie Mae Huddleston, Misses
Louvenia and Ellie Wier, Mrs. Tren
ton, Charles and Harold Trenton
and Webster Carter of Atlanta, Rev.
and Mrs. R. E Carter, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Crawford, Miss Betty Craw
ford and Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon Hunt
of Athens, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Barnett and Larry Barnett of Dem
orest.
Single Copy Five Cents
JUDGES HAIL
BROCKTON,
BROOKTON
By MARJORY SMITH
Constitution Staff Writer
BROCKTON Jackson County’s
community of Brockton and Hall
County’s Brookton, at the foot of
the Blue Ridge Mountains, have al
most identical names —and that’s
not all the enterprising farm com
munities hpve in common.
Both are County winners in the
second annual North Georgia Farm
Community Improvement Contest
of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce Farmers’ Club. They are in
the running for the SI,OOO top State
prize.
Touring contest judges yesterday
pronounced 1948 accomplishments
of Brockton and Brookton” striking
—“an example to make the whole
State proud.”
United Brockton citizens turned
out with story after story of com
munity achievement—from 11-year
old Patricia Venable’s display of a
new church library to the record •of
Farmer Hoyt Howington and his
five sons, who, with improved farm
ing methods and “a tractor apiece,”
increased total farm production 300
per cent.
“We sare our new washing ma
chines with our neighbors,” Mrs.
Mays Venable disclosed, in an un
witting revelation of the co-opera
tive spirit back of Brockton’s strides,
Sixty-nine white and three Negro
families, banded together in an im
provement association headed by
the Chairman, the Rev. Truman
Thomas, have beautified their whole
community.
Brockton during the past year
achieved its goal of canning and
frozen food budgets for each family
and at least a hog and a cow to each
family. It organzied a Boy Scout
Troop, increased church attendance,
and added Sunday School rooms to
the church. “And we had fun,”
smiles Mrs. Venable, “at fox hunts,
turtle stews and cake walks.”
DRY POND
Mrs. Hoyt Merk and Mrs. M. D.
Wilson were hostesses when the
Dry Pond Home Demonstration
Club held its November meeting at
the Dry Pond School with a large
and interested group of ladies pre
sent. After an informative demon
stration by Miss Hancock, the ladies
set a date to hold an ex-tra meeting
to make aluminum trays and coas
ters for Christmas gifts. Each club
member contributed twenty-five
cents toward the funds for a dem
onstration bookmobile. Delicious
chicken salad and agge salad sand
chicken salad and egg salad sarid
at the conclusion of the meeting.
FARM BUREAU MEETS
Interesting reports from the con
vention in Macon and plans for a
chicken stew in December were the
highlights of the November Farm
Bureau meeting at the Dry Pond
school. Final plans for the com
pletion of the membership drive
were completed by the large group
of members present and the Dry
Pond chapter declared itself ready
and willing to kelp sponsor a Farm
Bureau Fair for Jackson County in
1949.
MISSIONARY SOCIETIES
TO MEET
The Dry Pond W. S. C. Sand the
Oconee W. M. U. will have the De
cember Christmas meeting and
Christmas tree next Monday after
noon at the Dry Pond School with
Mrs. B. B. Langford as hostess.
Jefferson, Jackson County, Georgia
FILM SHOWS
GEORGIA’S FARMING
IMPROVEMENT
County Agent John L. Anderson
favored Jefferson Rotary Tuesday
with a moving picture, showing agri
cultural improvement in Georgia. It
showed in particular the farming
operations of Cason Calloway on his
thirty thousand acre farm in Harris
County and some of the farms in
Georgia operating under the Calla
way system. It showed the great
benefits of soil conservation and the
disastrous effects of soil erosion.
Some Jackson county scenes were
in the picture all of which were very
interesting to the Rotary Club.
The picture was one of the most
entertaining and enjoyable Jeffer
son Rotary has yet seen on the
screen. Where there is productive
land, there is plenty of prosperity
and where there is eroded and run
down land, there, it was shown, is
found want and hard times.
J. W. Early, acted both as Ser
geant-at-arms and secretary.
Guests present were Paul Plagi
nos of Gainesville, Virgil Jones of
Atlanta and Corporal James H.
Byrd, who was the escort of the
body of Harold Latty to Jefferson
and to his last resting place in Cal
vary cemetery, Hall County.
Church Notes
FIRST METHODIST
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REV. LAMAR WATKINS, Pastor
10 A. M.—Church School.
11 A. M.—Morning Worship.
Sermon by pastor.
6:3o—Youth Fellowship.
7:30 P. M.—Evening Worship.
The Sceond Quarterly Conference
will be held at the close of the even
ing worship period. The Pastor who
will hold the Conference urges all
officials in the church to be present.
Those whose positions in the church
require that they make reports are
asked to have them ready.
Christian Church
HEBER R. ALLEGOOD, Minister.
Sunday, December 5, 1948.
Bible School—10:00 A. M.
Classes for all ages.
Morning Worship—ll:oo A. M.
(Communion and Sermon).
Youth Meeting—s:3o P. M.
The public, especially those with
out a regular Church home, is cor
dially invited to worship with us.
First Baptist Church
J. D. MATHESON. Minister.
10:00 A. M.—Bible School.
11:00 A. M.—Morning Worship.
6:30 P. M.—Training Union.
7:30 P. M.—Evening Service.
Welcome.
W. S. C. S. WILL
MEET AT CHURCH
The Methodist Womans Society of
Christian Service will meet at 3:00
o’clock Monday afternoon in the
church. The hostesses are Mrs. G.
H. Fite, Mrs. R. J. Kelley and Mrs.
J. E. Randolph.
EARLY MORNING
SERVICE AT
BAPTIST CHURCH
A beautiful and an impressive
Thanksgiving service was held at
the Jefferson Baptist church on
Thursday morning. A large congre
gation gathered at 7:30 a. m. for
HAROLD LATTY
NOW RESTS ON
GEORGIA SOIL
In Italy, in 1944, Harold Latty of
this county was killed while fight
ing for his country, and at that time
he was buried in Italy. Recently
his body was exhumed and on Mon
day arrived in Jefferson, accom
panied by Corporal James H. Byrd.
It was placed in the Randolph
funeral parlor until Wednesday,
when it was carried to Calvary
Baptist Church in Hall County and
given a military burial. The Ameri
can Legion and Veterans of Foreign
Wars had charge of the services.
Commander J. Foster Eckles of
the American Legion and W. Jesse
Murphy, head of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars organization of this
county, together with other veter
ans, accompanied the body from
Jefferson to its last resting place.
Harold Latty leaves a mother,
Mrs. Minnie White Latty; a sister,
Miss Bettie Latty of Thyatira com
munity, and a brother, Carlton Lat
ty of Holly Springs.
The caskets of soldiers whose
bodies have been brought home
from overseas are not opened after
their arrival.
LADIES MAKE
ALUMINUM TRAYS
On Saturday, November 13, a
class for making aluminum trays
was held in the Home Demonstra
tion Agent’s office. The women, un
der the supervision of Miss Matilda
Housch, Home Demonstration Agent
made a fine beginning and were
very interested in their work. The
group met the next Wednes
day to finish their .trays and each
one was quite pleased with their
project and were all anxious to get
more metal and make trays for
Christmas gifts.
Those attending were: Mrs. Wal
ter Carlan, Mrs. R. D. Gasaway,
Mrs. E. H. Deaton, Mrs. W. A.
Wages, Mrs. R. S. Johnson, Miss
Catherine Mobley, Mrs. John An
derson, Mrs. J. D. Escoe, Mrs. W. H.
Duncan.
HENRY I. MOBLEY 111
CHRISTENED AT
METHODIST CHURCH
At the close of the morning serv
ice at the Methodist church on Sun
day morning, the pastor, Rev.
Lamar Watkins, christened Henry
Isham Mobley 111, four and one
half month’s old son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. I. Mobley, Jr., of Decatur.
Besides the congregation, the
service was witnessed by the baby’s
grandfather, H. I. Mobley, promi
nent business man of Jefferson, and
Mrs. Mobley, by the maternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Durham,
prominent citizens of Decatur, and
by the baby’s aunt and uncle, Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Long and son
Johnnie, also of Decatur.
T. E. L. CLASS
T. E. L. Class will meat December
7th, Tuesday, at 3 o’clock at the
home of Mrs. C. B Lord. Each
member is asked to make an effort
to be present as this is the time to
make plans and draw names for
the Christmas party.
song, sermon, prayer and praise.
The message was delivered by Dr.
Milo H. Massey. Others taking part
in the service were Rev. H. R. Alle
good of the Christian church, Rev.
Lamar Watkins of the Methodist
congregation and Miss Mabeth Stor
ey, organist.
The host pastor,. Rev. J. D. Mathe
son, was in charge of the service.
Thursday, December 2, 1948
SATURDAY, DEC. 4
ELECTION DAY
FOR FARMERS
Saturday, December 4, Jackson
County farmers will make their an
nual selection of community com
mitteemen to represent them under
the Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram. The newly elected commit
teemen will take office January 1,
1949, and hold it for the following
12 months.
Twenty polling places have been
established in the county and they
will remain open from 8:00 a. m. to
5:00 p. m.
There is no “party ticket” or list
of candidates since the committee
men are elected by “write-in" bal
lots.
On the same ballot, delegates to
the county conventiion will be nam
ed and these delegates will elect the
county committee the following
Saturday.
R. Victor Richey, Chairman of the
county committee, announced this
week that any owner, operator, ten
ant or sharecropper on a farm on
which AAA payments, either in the
form of cash, conservation materials
or service, have been earned under
the 1948 Program is eligible to vote.
Qualified voters also include those
farmers who have a cotton insur
ance contract or if they are eligible
for a commodity loan or other price
support.
Below are listed the communities
and polling places for the county:
Attica—L. R. Lavender’s Store.
East Redstone—Cooper's Store.
West Redstone—Arcade Grocery
Store.
Center—Clarence Brooks’ Store.
East Newtown—Seagraves’ Gin.
West Newtown—Sunset Inn (B. F.
Cowart).
Cunningham—Ben Wrights Farm.
Talmc—Murphy’s Store:
North Harrisburg Harrisburg
Courthouse.
South Harrisburg Mays Vena
ble’s Store.
East Jefferson—AAA Office (Jef
ferson).
West Jefferson—J. K. Wilbanks’
Store.
Randolph—Randolph Courthouse.
Hoschton—Lott’s Store.
Porter—Braselton School.
Miller—Miller Courthouse.
East Minish —W. B. Benton’s
Store.
West Minish—White Hill School.
North Minish Carl Chandler’s
Store.
Wilson Atkins Bank Building,
(Maysville).
18-YEAR-OLD MEN
MAY VOLUNTEER NOW
A limited number of applicants,
18 years of age, is to be accepted for
a one year enlistment in the U. S.
Navy during the month of Decem
ber. This was announced by Ralph
B. Maxwell, MMC, USN, Chief in
charge of the Athens Navy Recruit
ing Station. Men in this age group
who volunteer for one year’s duty j
will discharge their obligation for
military service under the Selective ■
Service Act and will not be subject
to the draft upon discharge. For
further information see your Navy
recruiter.
SINGING CHOIR
The Hall-Jackson County Choir
will meet at Walnut Church Sun
day afternoon, December 5, at 1:30
o’clock. Everyone invited.
NO. 2 W. M. U.
Circle No. 2 of the Baptist W. M.
U. will meet with Mrs. R. S. Medlin
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Each
member is urged to be present
ALLIE B. POTTS
LOSES LIFE
IN AN OLD WELL
On the pages of the Holy Book
are these words: “There is but a
step between me and death,” which
were illustrated in the death of
Allie B. Potts on Tuesday of last
week.
With gun in hand he went hunt
ing, and for some time traversed,
familiar fields and forests in search:
of the festive hare, elusive squirrel
and swift moving winged game-
Without a moment’s warning, he
made a step which carried him to
the bottom of a dry well located not
far from Sardis, a colored Presby
terian church. He plunged to its
bottom.
When he did not return home by
nightfall, his family became uneasy
and instituted a search for him. The
community was alarmed and joined
in the effort to find the missing citi
zen. A thorough search was made
of the woods and finally someone
noticed this well. Investigation was*
made and the body was found it its
bottom. Equipment necessary to res
cue him was brought and a citizen
was eased down this death hole
until he reached bottom, where the
remains of A. B. Potts was drawn
from its depths. One leg was
I en and his body was otherwise full
of wounds and bruises.
His remains were interred in
Bethany cemetery Friday at 3 P. ML,
where was gathered one of the larg
est assemblies ever seen at a funeral
in this cemetery. Rev. Truman
Thomas conducted the obsequies-
Mr. Potts was one of the leading
citizens of his community. He was
kind, friendly, neighborly and had.
a host of true and devoted friends
who are pained beyond expression
at his tragic demise.
He was a member of one of this
county’s pioneer families, and was
born and reared in the community,
in which generations of his people
had lived before him. His family is
one of the best known, most worthy
and most esteemed of all the pioneer
people of the county.
•
Mr. Potts leaves a wife, Mrs. Allie
Humphreys Potts; four daughters
and a son, Mrs. Clyde Brown of
Wallace, N. C., Mrs. L. D. Robinson,
Mrs. L. S. Helms and Mrs. S. C_
Caudell of Charlotte, N. C. and W. J.
Potts of Jefferson; four sisters, Mrs.
L. L. Davis and Mrs. S. T. Hood
of Commerce, Mrs. W. W. Dickson
and Mrs. J. A. Thurmond of Jeffer
son; a brother, G. L. Potts of Route
3, Jefferson, and eight grandchil
dren.
In the death of Mr. Potts, we ex
tend our deep sympathy to the be
reaved wife, children, and other
relatives.
WM.L. CATLETT
BURIED AT
HARMONY CHURCH
Funeral services were held or
November 29 at Harmony Christian
Church for William L. Catlett, wfo>
passed away at his home in Colum
bus, hio. Rev. C. C. Tooke andL
Rev. T. C. Hardeman of Commerce
conducted the service Mr Catlett,
was a native of Jackson County.
.He is survived by his parents, Mr;,
and Mrs. J. N. Catlett, of Com
mrece; two sons, William Catlett, of
Redondo Beach, Calif.; and Austin
Catlett, of Commerce; and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Rufus Smith, of Athens;;
two brothers, Harvey Catlett, and!
Clarence Catlett, both of Commerce;
and a sister, Mrs. Lum Porter, of
Commerce.
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