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SEMINOLE COUNTY
Georgia’s Peanut Center
she richest and best farming section
of the world, the home of the in
dustrious farmer.
SI.OO A YEAR IN ADVANCE
VOLUME XXV.
Seminole*County Schools Will Open
For Fall Term Next Monday
Attends Convention
Ellison Dunn attended the annual
convention of the Southeastern
Theatre Owners Association in
Jacksonville, Fla., this week. He
participated in the association’s an
nual golf tournament, winning the
first flight, the prize being a travel
ling bag. He also won low score prize
for the second day of the tournament,
a pair of golf shoes.
Peanut Picking
In Full Swing;
Prices Hold Own
Peanut picking has begun in full
swing this week in Seminole, the
pickings being of the Spanish variety.
Runner peanuts are being taken up
now and the farmers are pushing the
work to forestall any damage that
might come from rains.
The hog market continues to hover
around the same level of the past
few weeks. One farmer sold 10 head
of hogs this week for $2lO, while
another farmer reported selling 19
head that brought him $395.
Cotton has shown another ad
vance this week, the top price paid
being 17 3-4 cents per pound, but a
decline was noted Wednesday and the
top price Thursday was 17 1-2 cents.
Peanuts are being marketed as
they are picked, local buyers state,
and selling cards are available to the
growers.
Produce prices pn local markets
r f?<ursday molding \/ere as follows:
Cotton, middling _
Cotton Seed, ton SSO
Hogs, No. 1 —' 10c
Hogs, No. 2 912 C
Hogs, No. 3 9c
Peanuts, Spanish No. 1 S9O
Peanuts, Spanish No. 2 SBO
Shelled Corn, per bushel 69c
SPECIAL LIBRARY NOTICE!
Seminole WPA Public Library will
observe the following schedule each
day in the week.
Morning hours 10 to 12 O’clock.
Afternoon hours 2 to 5 O’clock.
Ljllie Seale, Librarian.
I S? W/ INSURANCE O 11
S <// FOR EACH A'l § I
\\v£ depos,tor jjy II
DO YOU FEEL THAT YOUR
ACCOUNT IS TO SMALL
TO BE WELCOME?
Please don’t let that bother you for
i moment.
As a customer of our bank all our
facilities, our service and our ex
perience is at your disposal just as
though you were the biggest
customer on our books.
We ask for the opportunity to help
make this account of yours grow.
May we try?
Commercial
State Bank
Phis Bank Is a Member of the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
Smtatemttnllr Nma
Supt. N. P. Malcom announced
this week that all Seminole county
schools will open next Monday
morning at 9 o’clock a. m.
Personnel of the faculties for the
F. D. R. and Iron City schools are
complete, but one more teacher is to
be elected for the Donalsonville
school and this was to de done this
week.
Some changes have been made in
the faculty members since the list
was published last month, but these
are comparatively few:
According to Mr. Malcom it is
planned that the opening exercises
will be very brief Monday. Books will
be given out to the pupils and assign
ments of lessons for the next day will
be made.
According to plans full length clas
ses will begin on Tuesday.
The faculties for the various
schools, are as follows:
Donalsonville School
Elementary; Miss Louise Lane,
Mrs. M. T. Simmons, Mrs. J. D. Ra
bon, Mrs. Phil Yarborough, Mrs. Mary
Newberry Kirkland, Miss Vesta Min
ter, Mrs. Ralph Williams, Miss Mollie
King, Miss Maude Bragg, Miss Merle
Reed, Mrs. Bill Goodner, Miss Irene
Adams, Miss Beth Mosely, Miss Adelle
Minter.
High School, Mrs. Leon Barber,
Miss Henrietta Carson, Mrs. J. I.
Hickson, Miss Clyde Ward, M, P.
Stein, E. C. Davis, and C. B. Rickman,
principal.
Iron City School
Junior High School, Elementary:
Miss Pearl Heard, Mrs. Roy Whittle,
Miss Clarice Hay, Miss Nell Wheller,
Miss Margaret King. Miss Ruby Wad
dell, Miss Ruby Drake, Mrs, M. P,
Stein.
High School: Mrs. Porter Smith, C
L. Drake, Principal.
F. 1). R. School
Elementary: Miss Edna Earle
Moore, Mrs. Annie Rosa Greene, Mrs.
Velma Hardy, Mrs. Elizabeth Voor
hies, Miss Alma Adams, Mrs. E. C.
Bridges, Jr.
Migh School: Mrs. A. C. Weston,
Charles Bridges, Bruce Baker, J. C.
’ Booth, principal.
Brilliant Company
On Tuesday afternoon, September
9th the Donalsonville Garden Club
had its regular monthly meeting in
1 the lovely home of Mrs. L. J. Cowart
' on Woolfolk Ave. We were in a car
waiting for the meeting to adjourn.
Presently there was a stir and out
came a group of mothers, wives and
daughters who entered their cars and
rolled away.
It was a brilliant company, we cpuld
not fail to notice the culture, elegance
refinement and beauty displayed by
these Southern soft speaking women.
Donalsonville is no ordinary town
and we are proud of the fact that we
I live here among such people.
M. C. Liddell.
Mrs. C. A, Bruner and daughter
' jean, of Ft. Myers, Fla,, and Miss Alj
lene Bruner, of Orlando. Fla., arrived
! Monday to spend a week with Mrs.
Bruner’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mor
gan Lisenby.
Ford Dealer
Occupies New
Business House
The Faircloth Motor Company
here, of which T. H. Faircloth is
owner and manager, has just complet
ed a modern garage and showroom
here on Second street at the corner
of Dowling avenue and this new firm
has already moved into the building.
Mr. Faircloth states that he has
on display quite a few of the new
model V-8 cars and that he is now
equipping his service department,
and will be ready to repair all mak
es and models of cars. First-class me-1
chanics will be in charge of the repair
department, he states.
He extends a cordial invitation to
the public to visit his showrooms, or
let him demonstrate the Ford line.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA,
Low Income
Farmers Increase
Purchasing Power
——
Cooperative associations of low-in
come farmers in the Southeast, as
planned by the Farm Security Ad
ministration are expected to be great
boons for local merchants, it was
i pointed out today by Hugh E. Glea
jton, FSA farm Supervisor for Semi
j nole county.
Mr. Gleaton pointed out that group
■ action by FSA farm families will in
! crease their purchasing power, and
! said that everywhere possible the
purchasing will be done through local
| business houses.
“In a few months,” Mr. Gleaton
said, “purchasing and marketing as
sociations of FSA borrowers will be
1 organized in every county of the
Southeastern States—Alabama, Flori
da, Georgia and South Carolina—or
sound existing organizations will be
used.
“They will enable the little farmers
to buy together for great savings, to
plan production together, t> sell to
gether and to reach markets more
conveniently and cheaply. They will
enable them to obtain machinery and
■ breeding stock which the little man
j alone could never afford; to get medi-
I cal, dental and veterinary services
I that he wonldn’t have otherwise.
“Yet none of these benefits will
I involve competition with existing
i private agencies. A cooperative asso
ciation does not contemplate setting
up a store. On the other hand, it will
strengthen buying power and provide
more patronage for local businessmen
in every line.”
Mr. Gleaton said the organization
of cooperative groups in this county
'will bo announced ah-sooh as possible.
1 ■ “We look here, as elsewhere,'’ he
'said, “to support for the Farm Securi
;ty principle, on which its new Division
(of Cooperatives was set up. That is.
'that cooperation among small farm
ers is not only good business, but al
so good citizenship.
Small farmers, working together in
communities for mutual benefit for
1 the first time, already are finding
■that they can do things for themselv
: es, win more advantages and more
jeonsideration, than ever before.
“More than 1,500,000 pounds of
poultry, produced in the ‘Food for
Defense’ Campaign, have been mark
eted in the four stater through group
action, without great dislocation of
markets. Could the little farmer, a
lone, have done this without loss?
Typhus Fever
Survey Is Being
Made Here
I A survey of typhus fever.and its
(control Is being made here under the
1 supervision of the State Health De
i partment, The News is informed.
I According to officials of the health
i department typhus fever is contracted
'by being bitten by fleas from large
; rats, and strangely enough was the
! statement that the rats bearing flea:
{of this type are found in the business
section of the town, not in the coun
try.
The officials making the survey was
studying the possibility of rat-pros
ing all the business houses, which car
I be done at a nominal cost, and a sav-
■ ing of hundreds of dollars yearly
I more than enough to cover the ex-
I pense involved, will result when the
destructive rodents are kept away
from the business district.
A noticeable increase in the num
ber of large rats in the city has beer,
observed and doctors report a rapid
rise in the number of typhus fevei
cases this year.
A resolution adopted by the Lions
Club recently urging something be
done about rats and mosquitoes
brought favorable action from city
'council and the county commissioners
i and the state health officers were
I sent here to investigate.
I
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Saunders and
young daughter, Sylvia, of Bonifay
Fla., spent the week-end here as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Shingler
Jr., and Mrs. J. T. Saunders.
DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1910.
Five White, Two j
Negroes Leave
For Army
Five white boys and two Negroes i
left this week as Seminole’s draft 1
quota for the month of September, ac- ’:
cording to Clerk L. C. Hay, of the '
local Board. , 1
Mr. Hay states that the September 1
quota, both white and colored, was :
filled with volunteers. ; 1
The white youths volunteering who
left on Tuesday were: Marcus Green.
Murray, Clarence Williams, Arthurs
Lee Cross, Benny Hilton Lane and
Harold Connie Chancy.
The Negro volunteers were Charlie
C. Cummings and James Hopkins.
They were inducted Wednesday and
were sent to Fort Benning, the white
youths going to Fort McPherson.
The quota for October was announc
ed by Mr. Hay as having been receiv
ed this calling for only one white man
and two colored. |,
I
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Beer Dealers
Warned To Clean ■
Up Or Close Up
ATLANTA Septetmber B—Heed-1
ing the warning of the Brewers and!
Beer Distributors Committee of Geor-;
gia to “clean up or close up”, 175'
beer retailers in the state have eli
minated all of their former anti-so-|
cial practices and now are operating
their places in a lawful, orderly man
ner, Judge John S. Wood, state direct
or of the committee, announced today.
The total of those “cleaning up” to
date represents only a partial recheck
if the 273 retail places which have
received warning letters from the
mmmittee, Judge Wood stated. Forty
-ix retail permits have been cancell
ed by the State Revenue Department
at the committee’s request since the
movement was launched early in 1940,
one license was suspended for a thirty
day period, and two retailers surrend
ered their license after receiving let
ters from the state director.
Oyster Season
Open Here Now
The season of the year when oysters (
on the half shell are sold in Donal- (
sonville is now here and a local deal
er, Buck Jones, is serving quite a few
daily to customers at his place of
business, the Citv Case.
’ J
For many years oyster dealers
have done a thriving business here !'
with this sea food, more oysters pro
bably being sold here during the fall
and winter season than in any other ‘
community of like size in the south. I (
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
The Board of County Commission- ,
ers has instructed me to proceed at
once to levy on automobiles, trucks,
household goods and other personal '
property to satisfy any unpaid tax,
fi fas.
Let the public take notice, that I will 1
he compelled to proceed immediately 1 1
to levy unless all taxes are paid in :
full. Permit me to urge you to come
in at once as the costs usually amount I'
to more than the taxes when levies ’
ire necessary.
C. L. CHANDLER, Sheriff, 1
1
GRADUATE OF SEMINOLE 1
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL JOINS '
ARMY. MAKES GOOD 1
I f
Finley R. Perry, son of Mr. And p
Mrs. M. D. Perry, of Iron City, Geor- ’
ria, who joined the Army on Septem
ber 22, 1938 has now acquired the J
<rade of Master Sergeant, the highest !
rank to be held in the Enlisted per- ■ 1
sonnel of the United States Army. J
Master Sergeant Perry is one of the
/oungest Master Sergeants in the'
Army and with only 3 years service.
His time expires on the 21st of Sept
ember 1941. He has already announced I
.hat he will reinlist. Sergeant Perry I
is planning to take a 30 day reinlist- <
ment furlough the first of October, i
On his trip he plans to visit relatives t
in the near vicinity of Donalsonville,
Georgia. ‘ <
Neal’s Landing
Reopened To
Light Traffic
The Neal’s Landing Bridge was re
opened to light traffic such as pas
senger cars and pick-up trucks on
Thursday afternoon, Glenn Gibson, of
the state highway department main
tenance division states. For the pre
sent gasoline trucks, and heavily lad
en produce and other trucks must de
tour the bridge.
Mr. Gibson states that the approach
to the bridge will be reinforced with
a number of new piling placed at in
tervals between the present piling
to give it strength and to prevent a
repetition of the damage caused re
cently when a gasoline truck plowed
through the railing and fell to the
ground below damaging the under
structure of the bridge.
The merchants of Donalsonville, as
well as the public generally, will be
■interested to learn that light traffic
may cross the bridge as it has been
very inconvenint to detour the addi
tional 12 miles since the bridge be
came impassable almost three weeks
ago.
When the bridge is ready to per
mit passage of all kinds of vehicles,
The News will be glad to give this
the needed publicity.
The Donalsonville merchants appre
ciate the trade received from Florida
trritory and have been actively urg
ing the state to make the repairs as
, early as possible.
Local Scoutmaster
Commended On
Scouting Record
Buddy Sullivan, local scoutmaster,
this week received a very interesting
letter from Sidney Carpenter, Assis
tant Executive of this district, with
headquarters at Tallahassee.
Mr. Carpenter’s letter is high in
his praise of the recent camp held by
the scouts at Camp Sawyer, and his
letter, in part, follows:
“We are enclosing the Certificates
for the Awards made your Scouts at
the Court of Honor held at Camp
Sawyer. Also enclosed are First
Class Awards for Brantley Jenkins,
Tim Williams, and other Certificates
earned at the previous Court as re
quested in your letter.
“May I take this occasion to special
ly commend you for the excellent job
that you fellows are doing in Donal
sonville. It warmed my heart to find
you conducting a real honest to good
ness Troop Camp. I have seen lots
of Troop Camps, but I don’t recall
any better conducted ones that yours.
The moral of the boys was A-l, the
Camp site especially ideal, anti the
Leadership which you recruited to
help was very good. Speaking of
Leadership. It seems to me that you
had several good men working with
you that we do not have registered
in Scouting, I think it would be a
fine thing for you if these men were
recruited as full-fledged members
with definite assignments such as .As
sistant Scoutmaster, Court of Honor
Members, and etc. Os course, before
they could be registered they would
have to be elected to the job of Assis
tant Scoutmaster by the Troop Com
mittee. Those who might be reeiu’t
ed for the Court of Honor would
have to be elected by the District
Committee.) It does seem that you
have some excellent material here.
To bring them in full membership
honors would be more apt to assure
their full participation.
“I am looking forward to my next
visit with you and the men in Donal
sonville, Sscouting has come a long
way in the last few months and we
are anxious to continue helping you.”
NEW FIRM
Mr. H. F. Barbree, and son, H. F.
Barbree, Jr., former residents of
Donalsonville, have returned here to
open up a wholesale drug and candy
business, The News was informed
this week.
The firm will have its stock rooms’
over the Seminole Drug Store.
DONALSONVILLE
Capitol of Seminole County
The home of progressive people, pret
ty homes, good churches, splendid
schools and the best of climate.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
Men Wanted To
Aid English
Defense Work
The Georgia State Employment
Service, a division of the State De
partment of Labor, today announced
its 32 local offices will assist the
British Government in enrolling
American technicians for service with
the British Technical Corps.
A special campaign, Commissioner
of Labor Ben T. Huiet announced,
will be conducted by the Employment
Service throughout the month of
September and longer, if neccessary,
to enroll workers on a voluntary bas
is for work in England as paid mem
bers of a non-combatant body of civil
ian craftsmen.
The campaign, he said, is being
undertaken on a nation-wide scale and
follows endorsement of the work of
the Civilian Technical Corps by the
President and officials of the Office
of Emergency Management.
“Recruitment of American workers
for service with this non-military
group in Englad is an important
step in the administration’s program
for increasing United States-British
cooperation,” Mr. Huiet said.
“The Civilian Technical Corps is a
non-combatant group of skilled crafts
men organized to maintain and repair
radio location apparatus, communi
cation systems and other vital techni
cal equipment used by the naval, mili
tary and air forces.”
First Fire In
Several Months
Here Monday
The first fire alarm sounded here
in many month.; occurred on Monday
night ‘it 2 o’clock, when a small blaze
originated at the Donalsonville Grain
and Elevator Company.
The fire was discovered by ihe
night watchman who extinguished it
immediately with practically no
damage.
Just how the blaze originated could
not be detern'iined other than a theory
that a spark from the smokestack
could have started it.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hodges, of
Bainbridge, were guests of Mrs, E.
E. Babb Sunday.
OLIVE
THEATRE
Saturday Only
X' Roy Rogers, ki
“SHERIFF OF TOMBSTONE”
Monday And Tuesday
■ Fred Mac Murry and Madeleine
Carroll, In
. “ONE NIGHT IN LISBOND”
Wednesday
Richard Dix and Patricia
Morrison, In
“THE ROUNDUP’’
Thursday And Friady
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and
Rita Hayworth, In
“BLOOD AND SAND”
■ ■■■■■ ■ I ■
MIDGET THEATRE
SATURDAY
Bob Crosby and Ruth Terry, In
“ROOKIES ON PARADE”
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NUMBER 33.