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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1949
THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Post Office
As Second-Class Mail Matter
ALOAfi TOE WAY
In all great and important under
takings Divine Guidance and help
should always be asked. Ever since
he has presided over the Jackson
Superior Court Judge Clifford
Pratt has put into practice this
principle, for on the first day of each
term, court is opened with prayer
by some minister of the gospel. This
year the one who performed this
service was Rev. J. D. Matheson,
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Jefferson, whose petition was
earnest, fervent and couched in
beautiful phraseology. As long as a
public official “Trusts in the Lord
with all thine heart and lean not
unto thine own understanding, but
in all thy ways acknowledge Him
and He will direct thy path,” this
officer will never go far wrong. This
statement can be applied not only
to public officials but any private
citizen.
Two attorneys who were promi
nent and conspicuous figures at each
session of Superior or City Court
for more than a half century were
very much missed at this session
of court—Judge W. W. Stark and
Thomas J. Shackelford. The former
is still in good health, but is now
basking in Florida’s sun. Each year
he spends several weeks vacationing
in the “Land of Flowers.” Judge
Stark presided over either the Su
perior Court of the Piedmont Cir
cuit or the City Court of Jackson
fcounty for nearly fifty years.
Tom Shackelford has passed on. '
He was one of the most successful
attorneys who ever practiced in the
Jackson County courts. Not only
was he skilled in the knowledge of
the law, but was a powerful and
effective pleader before a jury. He
was usually on one side of every
important case in the Jackson coun
ty courts.
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Judge Pratt said in his charge to
the Grand Jury, Georgia needs more
doctors. Some sixty-five counties
have not a physician, the State Hos
pital in Milledgeville and several
private hospitals have a dearth of
doctors. Provision should be made
for educating more physicians. So
cialized medicine in our opinion is
not the remedy for lack of medical
service in some places, but more
doctors will remedy the situation—
socialized leads* to social
ism and maybe to Communism.
While in the courtroom last week,
Judge G. P. Martin said to us, “I
want you to meet a man.” He then
motioned to a gentleman and when
he came where we were talking,
Judge Martin said “I want you to
meet the handsomest Chief of Police
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JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder... Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
among all the peace officers of Geor
gia, Chief of Police of Commerce,
Some of us in Commerce think our
city has a very efficient chief.” The
Chief of Commerce has a pleasing
personality. We were glad to meet
the man who looks after the peace
and good order of our sister city of
commerce.
Since Sheriff John B. Brooks
wears a big white John B. Stetson
hat, he looks very much like his
grandfather, A. R. Braselton, who
served this county as Sheriff some
fifty-two years ago. Later he was
Chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners. In whatever posi
tion he served he made an efficient
officer.
To hear names of jurors called
and to see them sworn in, is always
an interesting part of court proceed
ings. The law provides that intelli
gent and upright men are chosen
for jury duty. In all probability the
person who knows more men in
Jackson and can call them by their
given name is Clifford Storey, the
efficient Clerk of the Superior and
City Courts. He calls the name of
every person who is drawn and
serves as a juror. He calls them and
knows them. Women in Georgia
have not been made eligible for jury
duty. In some states, women as well
as men, serve on juries and try
cases.
The reasons usually given by
many of those seeking divorce are:
Mental Cruelty; Constant Nagging,
or Desertion. Not lpng since we read
in the press where a Judge of the
Superior Court asked for a divorce
from his wife because she spent
much more than he made. His in
come was not sufficient to pay all
her many bills. The divorce was
granted him. All divorce cases up
contested are heard by the Judge.
If contested, a jury passes on it.
The Grand Jury is a very busy
body, examining books of county
officers, inspecting County Farm,
public buildings, and in passing on
indictments. Besides murder, rape,
and other felony cases passed on by
the Grand Jury, investigation is be
ing made of the illegal sale of in
toxicants, and a number of true bills
we hear have been returned against
“blind tigers.” Some of these cases
will be tried at this term of court.
It is said that it is not a difficult
problem to buy liquor in Jackson
County. The Grand Jury is thor
oughly investigating this matter,
and is doing something about it.
County Commissioners Chairman
Will Wages has had a cheerful smile
and a glffd handshake for every
body during this term of court, be
cause he has had few complaints
about "bad roads.” During the past
year many improvements have been
made on the highways. Some new
ihe Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
bridges have been built, but placing
top soil on a hundred miles of roads
and putting crushed stone in low
and boggy places have brought sat
isfaction to the traveling public.
Now few impassable places are
found in any of the county’s thor
oughfares.
Judge Clifford Pratt did not have
a monopoly of courts the first day
of Jackson Superior Court, for while
he carried on the business upstairs,
Judge L. B. Moon was holding Or
dinary’s Court downstairs. While
some months Judge Moon has a
heavy docket, but this month it was
somewhat light. The Grand Jury is
in session just across- the hall from
Judge Moon’s office.
A visitor at court last week was
W. A. McElhannon, of Lincoln, Ala.,
who was born in Jackson County,
and reared and educated in Jeffer
son. He is the son of the late Thomas
A. McElhannon, who served Jack
son County as Sheriff for several
terms. He was Sheriff of this county
when the present jail was erected.
Mr. W. A. McElhannon is a Spanish-
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American War veteran, who has
made his home in Alabama for a
half century.
The Braselton Banking Company,
of- Braselton, chartered a few
months ago, recently published in
these columns a financial statement
of its assets and liabilities. It has a
capital stock of $25,000; surplus,
$53,000; deposits, $189,000; loans and
discounts, SIB,OOO, and owes no bor
rowed money. Its loans are about
one-fourth of the capital and sur
plus. This statement shows that it is
quite a strong and healthy bank.
One of its chief assets is not visible,
and that is the good will apd con
fidence of the people in the man
agement of this institution.
We commend to the consideration
of the people of Jefferson and com
munity the appeal of Marshall Mel
vin and J C. Alexander, for funds
for the enlargement of the Jeffer
son Presbyterian Church building,
which is the oldest house of worship
in this city. With its large columns
in the front entrance it is an im
pressive and . beautiful structure.
However, the appearance of its front
has been impaired because of the
loss of the high steeple by lightning.
This loss silenced the church bell
which had very sweet and mellow
tones, as it summqned the people
each Sabbath to worship. It is now
desired to add Sabbath School
rooms to this holy edifice. While the
membership of the Presbyterian
Church is not as numerous as that
of some other denominations, it is
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34,001,950 SCHOOL
LUNCHES SERVED
Georgia schools participating in
the nationol school lunch program
served 34,001,950 noon lunches dur
ing the 1947-48 school term, Russell
H. James, who directs the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture food distri
bution program in the Southeast,
reported.
James said all Southeastern
Schools participating served a total
of 23’,436,283 lunches during that
period-13,000,000 more lunches than
during the 1946-47 term.
Sixty-seven per cent of last term’s
school lunches were “Type A” meals
with milk, sufficiently complete to
meet pupils’ nutritional require
ments, James said. He is nwo work
ing with State educational agencies
on a plan to increase the number of
schools serving Type A lunches with
milk.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SAID:
“A Bible and a newspaper m
every house, a good school in every
district—all studied and appreciated
as they merit—are the principal
support of virtue, morality and civil
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