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The Jackson Herald
Volume 76.
48 CONTESTANTS
ENTER 5-ACRE
COTTON CONTEST
There are a total of 48 cotton con
testants entered in the 5-Acre Cot
ton Contest in Jackson County. Of
these, 46 are white and two are col
ored. The names and addresses of
each of these in this contest are as
follows:
Charlie Sailors, S. H. Bolton, Tom
Finch, J. H. McCain, Walter Shields,
D. D. Day, all of Route 2, Jefferson;
Y. Z. Sailors, Onnie Hill, Vester
Massey, Tommie E. Childers, Joseph
L. Trammell, Route 3, Jefferson;
Willie J. Dills, L. P. Drown, Ben
Wright, Route 1, Jefferson;
Bennie D. Loggins, Will Pace,
Tom W. Kesler, B. T. Kesler, James
T. Whitehead, Nicholson;
Thurston Williams, R. W. Parr,
L. B. Ward, Maysville;
E. L. Hunt, Lawrence Williamson,
T. D. Reidling, James Reidling, T.
A. Benton, Alvin Benton, C. H.
Brown, Dan J. Wheeler and W. L.
Martin, William W. Ginn, Telford
Minish, Johnny W. Shields, Mike
Bowles, Marvin E. Burroughs, Wal
ton C. Davis, Walter Embrick, Jim
W. Williams, Col., R. M. Fields, Col.,
all of Commerce;
Bartow Hall, W. M. Freeman, J. Hv
Cash, Hoschton; John Davenppit,
Braselton;
Jerome Wages, Jesse McDonald,
Statham; H. A. Langford, John
Frank Thomas, Pendergrass.
County Agent John Anderson
states that there is much interest
being manifested in both the 5-Acre
Cotton and Corn Contests this year,
and speaks well of the progressive
ness of Jackson County farmers.
Good yields are going to be made
in cotton, notwithstanding a year of
heavy weevil infestation.
MISS REYNOLDS
DIES AT HOME
AUGUST 23
Miss Helen Blondell Reynolds
died on August 23 at the family res
idence on Route 2, Jefferson.
She was sixteen years of age, and
had been ill for several months.
Funeral services were conducted
from White Plains Baptist Church
with Rev. J. O. McNeal officiating.
Survivors are the parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Marion Reynolds, and the fol
lowing sisters and brothers; Misses
Doris Lee, Bonnie, Nannie Bell and
Katherine Ryenolds, and Eugene
and David Reynolds.
Abit Massey Wins
Important Appointment
Abit Massey, youngest son of Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Massey, of Athens,
has assumed duties in the State Law
Department in Atlanta, as Execu
tive Secretary to Attorney-General
Eugene Cook.
Massey, who received his B. B. A.
degree from the University of Geor
gia in June, 1948, and completed
one year of law in the upper 5 per
cent of his class, will complete the
requirements for an L.L.B. degree
at Emory University’s Evening Law
School.
MISS ETHRIDGE
NAMED CLARKE
COUNTY REGISTRAR
Miss Lola Ethridge has been
named a member of the Clarke
County Board of Registrars, Sup
erior Court Judge Henry H. West
announced.
Judge West said that Miss Eth
ridge will take the place on the
board formerly held by Rufus
Crane, who resigned.
Single Copy Five Cents
SISTER OF JUDGE
MOON PASSES
IN ATLANTA
Funeral services for Mrs. Alma
Elizabeth Reynolds were held in
Atlanta Sunday afternoon, Rev. L.
E. Smith officiating. Interment fol
lowed in Greenwood cemetery.
The deceased was the widow ef
the late W- E. Reynolds. She was
a native of Jackson County, a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
G. M. D. Moon.
Mrs. Reynolds has been a resident
of Atlanta for twenty years and
was a member of Payne Memorial
Methodist Church She was a lady
of many admirable and beautiful
traits of character and was held in
high esteem by a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
O. E. Morrow and Mrs. Roy Smith of
Atlanta; four sons, V. C., M. P., and
E. G. Reynolds of Atlanta and W. R.
Reynolds of St. Louis, Mo.; a sister,
Miss Kate Moon fo Hoschton; two
brothers, Judge L. B. Moon of Jef
ferson and Bob Moon of Hoschton.
OVER 64 MILLION
urr INCREASE
IN TAX DIGEST
Witfi 16 of the State’s 159 counties
yet unreported, Georgia’s net prop
erty tax digest for the calendar year
1949 already has shown a net in
crease of $64,193,553 over last year.
The net property tax digest—min
us homestead and personal property
exemptions—for the 143 counties al
ready reported totals $1,068,484,921
as compared to $1,004,291,368 for
1948.
Thirteen counties showed decreas
es, largely caused by homestead ex
emptions.
The increase in Jackson County
is $43,000.
BEN WRIGHT
SELLS FIRST COTTON
IN JEFFERSON
Ben Wright brought to Jefferson
on last Saturday the first bale of
cotton of this season. The bale
weighed 432 pounds, the price re
ceived was 30 3-4 cents per pound—
sl32.B4. The cotton was ginned by
H. S. and G- H. Fite and bought by
Carter Warehouse. The variety
was Stoneville.
Mr. Wright has about 650 acres in
cotton. Forty families produced and
will gather the crop of cotton, to
gether with corn, hay, potatoes and
other crops.
When not employed on the farms,
these families are engaged in cut
ting pulpwood.
C. F. HUTCHESON
VISITS JEFFERSON
C. F. Hutcheson, of San Martini,
California, was a guest this week
at the home of Mrs. J. C. Bennett.
Mr. Hutcheson is auditor in foreign
countries for a large organization,
and has just returned from Europe.
After visiting his family in Cali
fornia, he will leave for Mexico and
Central America. During Jack Ben
nett’s residence in California, he and
Mr. Hutcheson formed a close friend
ship which has continued through
the years, and he has made frequent
visits to Georgia to visit Mr. Ben
nett, who now resides in Spartan
burg, S. C. Enroute to Jefferson,
Mr. Hutcheson visited Mr. Bennett
and family in their South Carolina
hor"e.
Jefferson, Jackson County, Georgia
MRS. W. T. WILLS
BURIED TUESDAY
IN JEFFERSON
Mrs. Laura Canning Wills, widow
of the late W T. Wills was laid to
rest Tuesday afternoon in Wood
bine Cemetery, Jefferson. Mrs. Wills
passed away Sunday at her home in
Moultrie.
Funeral services were conducted
from the Jefferson Methodist
Church of which for many years
before moving to Moultrie she was
an active and loyal member. Rev.
Lamar Watkins conducted the serv
ice, and music was rendered by Mrs.
J. M. Melvin. The pall bearers were
H. E. Aderholt, R. J. Kelly, C. H.
Legg, E. L. Kelly, H. D. Dadisman,
C. B. Boggs.
The honorary pall bearers, asso
ciates and close friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Wills during their residence in
Jefferson, were H. T. Mobley, J. N.
Holder, E. M. McDonald, C. T.
Storey, Nat Hancock, Green Bras
elton.
Surviving Mrs. Wills are three
children, Mrs. Jim Bivins and Rus
sell Wills of Moultrie and Ralph
Wills of Albany; and five grand
children.
Mrs. Wills was a descendant of a
prominent family of Hall County.
After her marriage, she and Mr.
Wills resided for a while on the
Wills family farm near Lebanon,
then moved to Jefferson and es
tablished a home on Lawrenceville
street. She was an active partici
pant in the civic, social and religi
ous life of Jefferson and resided
here until her children married and
settled in Moultrie.
ROTARIANS HEAR
TALK ON VALUE
OF 31-FESCUE GRASS
Torn Galloway, Soil Conservation
Technician of Hall County, brought
to Jefferson Rotary Tuesday a mes
sage on anew grass, 31-Fescue,
which is a great asset to a farmer
who plants it, either as a forage for
cattle, hogs, turkeys, etc., or to cap
italize on the sale of the seed.
Mr. Galloway said to save the soil
from washing, the land must have a
cover. Different things, such as les
pedeza, clover, kudzu, Bermuda arid
other grasses are successfully used
for a top cover for soil, but a com
bination of Fescue and Ladino clo
ver makes a pasture that can be
grazed in winter as well as summer.
Fescue has become available in
quantities only in the last two or
three years, and the seed are ex
pensive, but farmers are now using
it in considerable quantities and it
pays as a cover crop and a grazing
crop.
Mr. Galloway congratulated Jef
ferson and Jackson County on the
completion of the drainage project
on Curry’s Creek. This project is a
concrete demonstration of what co
operation between the Federal,
State, County and City governments
and individuals will accomplish,
said he.
Seven members were absent. Just
before the meeting of Rotary, there
was a heavy rainfall, which, no
doubt, kept some away.
Guests were R. D. Hilley, oft 1.4
R. E. A., guest of R. J. Kelly; E. F.
Hutcheson, of San Martini, Calif.,
guest of C. T. Storey; and Elmo F.
Smith, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, guest of
John L. Anderson.
Rotary had anew program chair
man, C. T. Storey, who will have
charge of the programs during the
month of September.
The President, Nat Hancock, pre
sided.
CARL BLACKSTOCK
ANSWERS LAST
SUMMONS
On Thursday afternoon, August
lfc, 1949, Carl Blackstock passed
away at his home on the Gaines
ville Highway. He had been suf
fering frhom a heart ailment for the
past year, but his death came sud
denly and was a shock to his family
and friends.
He was born October 8, 1888 and
had spent his entire life in Jackson
County. In December 1915 he was
married to Miss Irene Hayes who
preceded him to the grave several
years ago.
In his youth he joined the Acad
emy Baptist Church at which place
his body was interred. Funeral
services were conducted by the Rev.
Jim Harvey on Saturday morning,
August 20, at 11 o’clock. A beauti
ful tribute in song was paid him by
a quartet composed of Mrs. Boyce
Hooper, Miss Jane Staton, Messrs
L. B. Moon and Vernon Carter, with
Mrs. L. B. Moon accompanist.
The following neighbors acted as
pallbearers: Shade Storey, Laster
Porter, Terrell Benton, J. C. Coving
ton, Allen Crocker and Leon Beck.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs.
H. H. Turner, Jefferson and Mrs.
Otis L. Cato, Gainesville; five
brothers, Clarence, Bob and Hugh of
Jefferson, Paul of Talmo and Harry
of Atlanta.
Church Notes
Presbyterian Church
i W. R. THURMAN,
Student Supply Pastor.
10:00 A. M.—Sunday School.
11:00 A. M.—Church Service.
It will be our pleasure on next
Sunday, September 11, to have DO
E. L. Hill, pastor emeritus of the
First Presbyterian Church, Athens,
with us for the morning service.
Dr. Hill will preach the sermon
and preside at the reception of new
members.
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Champion will also be
baptized at this service. All the
members and friends of our church
are cordially invited to be present.
We are genuinely grateful for the
encouraging support of our many
friends during our revival services
last week.
FIRST METHODIST
Lamar H. Watkins, Pastor.
10 A. M.—Church School.
11:00 A. M.—Worship Service.
8 P. M.—Evening Service.
First Baptist Church
J. D. MATHESON, Minister.
10:00 A. M.—Bible School.
11:00 A. M.—Morning Worship.
7:00 P. M.—Training Union.
B:oo—Evening Worship.
Welcome.
PREACHING AT
APPLE VALLEY
Rev. C. E. Vaughn of Gainesville,
will preach at Apple Valley Baptist
Church, Sunday night, Sept. 11, at
7:45 o’clock. All have a cordial in
vitation to be with us in this serv
ice.
ACADEMY
Sunday, September 11, 1949.
Sunday School: 10:00 a. m., Fred
Smith, Supt.
Baptismal Service: 11:00 a. m.
This service was scheduled for Aug.
28, but was postponed due to rain.
Thursday, September 8, 1949
140 ATTEND
YOUTH MEETING
HERE SUNDAY
Jac-Bar-ton-ett Group of Young
People from some of the Methodist
churches in Jackson, Barrow, Wal
ton and Gwinnett counties held
their quarterly session in Jefferson
Sunday afternoon with the Jefferson
Youth Fellowship acting as hosts.
Carroll Dadisman, of Jefferson,
president of the local organization,
introduced Rev. Lamar Watkins,
who presented Mrs. W. Y. Smith, of
Winder, who entertained the group
with an interesting and impressive
talk.
Miss Rachel Thompson, of Bethle
hem, the retiring president, presided
over the business meeting; Miss
Emogene Fleeman, of Jefferson, was
in the secretary’s chair. The first
item of business was the election of
officers for the ensuing year, with
the following result: President, Har
ris Brooch, of Campton; Vice Presi
dent, Billy Strickland, of Dacula;
Secretary, Miss Jacquelyn Smith, of
Winder; Treasurer, Carroll Dadis
man, of Jefferson; Worship Chair
man, Msis Joyce Venable, of Jeffer-
son Circuit; Community Service,
Miss Maxine Davis, of Dacula;
World Friendship, Miss Emogene
Fleeman, of Jefferson; Rec. Chair
man, Mac Haynie, of Winder; Adult]
Leader, Rev. Lamar Ray, of Dacula. j
Special topics of interest to the
group were discussed and voted
upon.
Among the ministers accompany- \
ing the young church workers were
Rev. L. G. Marlin, of Bethlehem,
Rev. Delma Hagood, of Winder, and
Rev. Truman Thomas of the Jeffer
son Circuit.
The young people from the Jef
ferson Circuit were awarded the
banner for the largest attendance.
After adjournment, the Woman’s
Society of Christian Service of Jef
ferson, served sandwiches, cookies
and iced tea. One hundred and forty
persons were present.
NEW PASTOR
CHOSEN AT SALEM
The Georgia State Convention of
the Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holi
ness Church met with Salem
Church on August 27 and selected
pastors for another year. The Jef
ferson Church voted 100 percent for
the return of Rev. C. H. Moncrief.
Other churches and their pastors
in this conference are as follows:
Antioch, Walter G. Smith - ; Athens,
J. H. Kesler; Atlanta, Ervin Ussery;
Canon, Grady Haley; Commerce,
Henry Knight; Dunson, J. T. Cas
tleberry: East LeGrange, W. B. Pitt
man;
Galilee, D. E. Beachump; Griffin,
W. H. Griffin and wife; Hillside, J.
L. Slaughter; Jersey, Howard Dun
can and wife; Maysville, Lucille
Parr; New Haven, W. D. David;
Newnan, T. W. Miller; Nicholson,
D. E. Beachump;
Oak Grove, To be supplied; Pine
Grove, Rever S. Wade; Rockmill, W.
R. Ball; Rome, J. L. Anderson;
Salem, D. H. Kesler; Social Circle,
Mrs. P. J. Stamey; Thomaston, Jack
Roberts; Toccoa, A. O. Hood; Union
Point, Clark Sorrow.
B. T. U.: 7:00 p. m., Dwight Porter,
director.
Evening Worship: 8:00 p. m.
GALILEE
Randolph Cochran, Minister.
Sunday School—10:00 a. m.
Morning Worship—ll:oo a. m.
Evening Worship—B:oo p. m.
Everyone welcome.
Hope Adams, Supt.
TOM HOLDER
BENNETT DIES AT
HOME IN CALIFORNIA
With deep regret we chronicle
the passing of Tom Holder Bennett,
son of the late Jack and Mattie
Holder Bennett. He died August 31
of a heart attack at his home in
San Francisco. Funeral and burial
services occurred in that city.
Tom Holder Bennett was born
August 7, 1900, in Commerce. In
young childhood, he came with his
parents to reside in Jefferson. Fol
lowing the death of his mother and
the re-marriage of his father, the
family moved to San Francisco.
In 1918 he became associated with
the firm of W. P. Fuller and Cos. as
office boy and at his death was
credit manager of the firm. In all
of his services he had a deep sense
of responsibility, and his faithful
and conscientious attention to duty
won for him success in the business.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Gio
vanna Diquito Bennett, two sons,
Harold and Thomas Donald; two
brothers, Jack Bennett of Spartan
burg, S. C., and Alfred Bennett of
California; a sister, Mrs. S. I. Myers
of California.
JACKSON COUNTY’S
FIRST BALE OF
COTTON SEPT. 1
Thomas D. Reidling’s Gin in Com
merce ginned a bale of cotton on
September Ist from the 1949 crop.
The cotton was grown by Hoke
Hill on the farm of Mrs. B. M. Dur
ham.
The bale weighed 450 pounds and
was bought by L. L. and V. L. Davis
of Commerce. The.staple was mid
ling and the price paid was 33 cents
per pound.
Birth
Announcements
Tommie Belinda House
Sergeant and Mrs. John R. House,
of Topeka, Kansas, and Jefferson,
announce the birth of a daughter,
Tommie Belinda, on September 1
at St. Mary’s Hospital, Athens. Mrs.
House is the former Miss Tommie
Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Bell.
Robert M. Freeman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Freeman
announce the birth of a son, Robert
M. Freeman, Jr., at St. Mary’s hos
pital, Athens, on August 25. The
baby is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Hardy and Mrs. G. P.
Freeman.
Luther Gerald Standridge
Mr, and Mrs. L. C. Standridge
announce the birth of a son, Luther
Gerald, on August 28. Mrs. Stand
ridge is the former Miss Curtice
Evans.
H. D. COUNCIL MEETS
SATURDAY AT COURT
HOUSE IN JEFFERSON
The Jackson County Home Dera
onstratiion Council will meet Sep
tember 10th, at Jefferson Court
House, 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. Royce Braselton from Bras-,
elton plans to give a very interest
ing demonstration.
Let’s have a good representation
from each club in the county.
Mrs. Carl Porter, Pres-
TALMO P.-T. A.
The Talmo P.-T. A. will meet at
the school house Friday afternoon,
September 9th, at 3:30 o’clock. This
meeting is important and all parents
are urged to attend as plans for the
year will be formulated.
No. 12.