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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 • 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” ■ ■ NUMBER 33.