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SEMINOLE COUOTT Georgia’s Peanat 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. TEMPORARY NAVAL RECRUITING STATION TO BE HERE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD. The Navy Recruiting Station at Tallahassee announces that a tem porary recruiting sub-station will be opened at the Donalsonville Postof fice on Monday, November 3rd for the purpose of interviewing those in terested in the Navy and giving pre liminary examinations to those who wish to enlist. The recruiting officer points out that any youth may come to the post office on that date and he will be given all information concerning the navy without any obligation. It is also pointed out that the Navy is permitted to take men who are signed up for the Selective Ser vice providing that they have not act ually been called for induction into the Army. Those considering joining the Navy should bear this in mind, they will be learning a trade while earning their living, and when they are discharged from the Navy will be skilled work men. Men will be accepted from 17 to 31 years old for the regular Navy and up to 50 in the Naval Reserve. If you are interested in joining the navy or would like more informa tion, see the recruiting officer at the Donalsonville Postoffice, Monday, November 3rd. Hours 9:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. Baptists Are Holding Series Os Services ■■ ■ ** A series of revival meetings are in progress at the Baptist Church this week with the pastor, Rev. J. A. Dur en, doing the preaching. Meetings be gan Sunday and will continue through Sunday night, November 2. The feature of the meetings are the song services being conducted by Mr. O. H. Lewis, a member of the church. Special music is being rendered at many of the services. Two services are being held daily, at 8:00 o’clock A. M. and 7:45 P. M. The pastor extends a cordial invita tion to attend. Mrs. Bill Goodner spent last week in Fort Monroe, Virginia. CASH For Emergencies.. A family emergency, a sudden trip out of town, a business opportunity call for one thing—CASH—and in a hurry. Time may not wait for you to ar range for a loan or borrow from a friend. Your best bet is to build up a re serve in the bank for the uncertain ties of the future. Take good care of this account and some day, it will take good care of you. We Are A Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Commercial State Bank Donalsonville, Georgia Bnnalfintttitlb News ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■a al CONDITION UNCHANGED The condition of Dr. Thomas Cha son remains unchanged, according to reports from his bedside. While his general condition is reported as slightly improved, little hope is held for his recovery. In his weakened con dition, visitors are not permitted to see him. Baptist Orphan’s Home To Erect 39 Buildings The Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home located in Hapeville, Georgia, has an appraised value of around $600,000. There are 213 acres of land, contain ing 39 buildings in the main plant at Hapeville. The Home cared for 314 children during the past year. Newly acquired property will enable the Home to take in an additional 100 children during the coming year. t The Home is controlled by a Board Jof thirty Trustees from the repre sentative cities Und rural areas of the state who are elected by the Georgia Baptist Convention at its Annual Ses sion. The Home has one of the fine Hol stein-Friesian Dairy herds of the South, a large number of hogs, raises several thousands of chickens yearly. The Home operates its own print shop, shoe repair shop, modern laundry, and many other puases of activities saryin orphanage life. The Home pro duces as much milk, butter, eggs, gar den truck and other produce as it possibly can. The children all engage in helpful activities around the place. The Georgia Baptist Orphans, Home is absolutely dependent upon the Baptist Churches and Sunday Schools in the state. What they do at I their annual ingathering of produce! and cash in the Fall, determines to a big extent what the Home can do for ; boys and girls during the year that follows. Corn, oats, hay, potatoes, syrup, canned fruits and vegetables, hogs and beef cattle, are the principal itenjs needed by the Home. COTTON GINNING REPORT Census reports show that Seminole county had ginned 3574 bales of cotton this year prior to October 18th as compared with 3236 bale for the pre vious year on the same date. This is an increase of 338 bales over 1940 and both figures are virtually final reports for the ginning season. Decatur county figures revealed 971 bales for as comparde with 891 bales for 1940, as of October 18th. HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL A Hallowe’en Carnival will be held at F. D. R. School on Friday night of this week, it was announced Wednes day. A cake walk, beauty contest, bingo party and fish pond will be among the many entertainments and games to be offered. Proceeds of the carnival will go for school purposes and everyone is urged to attend. DONALSONVILLE BOYS ATTEND FFA RALLY IN MACON Clovis Miller, Elton Parker, J. B. Clarke, and Fred Brackin, along with their chapter adviser, E. C. Davis, at tended the annual FFA Rally in Ma con, October 17-18. After registering at Hotel Lanier' FFA headquarters, they took part in a parade with several other Georgia; F. F. A. boys through downtown Ma-j con. Friday afternoon a cotton-corn| judging and seed, tree, and shrub, identification was held. Several priz-1 es were awarded but unfortunately; none of the Donalsonville boys won any. F. F. A. Reporters J. B. Clark and Fred Brackin. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA Harvest Jubilee Will Be Held Next Week I j Scott Exposition Shows will be on the midway at the annual Seminole County Harvest Jubilee Celebration to be held here all next week. The shows will occupy the usual grounds across from the Seminole Hotel. On Friday school children will be given a half holiday and will be ad mitted free to the fair grounds. Rides will be also rduced to give all children an opportunity to enjoy the fair. Scott’s shows boast 6 riding devices, 6 shows and 25 concessions. Among the shows is a wild west rodeo occupy ing a large arena and featuring rides ! of 6 bucking horses. Also featured at the fair will be the free act. This consists of trapeze ar tists direct from the Wallace Bros, circus and is said to be one of the most famous acts of its kind. Gate admission prices this year will be 11 cents, this including 1-cent fed eral admission tax. The local Lions Club is sponsoring the fair and will receive a portion of the proceedings which will be used in paying for prizes and expenses attach ed to the cattle and hog show to be held in this county next March. CHEST CLINIC TO BE HELD HERE SOON A chest clinic is to be held here soon, a limited number will be given opportunity to have X-ray pictures of their chest at this time. This clinic will be conducted by the Ga., Depart ment of Public Health, Division of Tu berculosis Control, Georgia Tuber culosis Association local phy sicians. Since only h limited number can be taken, any who are interested in this examination should see Mrs. Jewell Cumbie, County Nurse at once. A personal history must be made and appointments given prior to day for clinic or examinations cannot be se cured at clinic. Those who have been in contact; with someone who has or has had; tuberculosis should be examined. All those between the ages of 12 and 25 j years who have not had chest X-ray J in the last year should apply at once i to Mrs. Cumbie, as these are ages when one is more likely to develop tu berculosis. All those who have the following symptoms should see Mrs. Cumbie for appointments: loss of weight, loss of strength (tired worn out feeling), loss of appetite, increased nervousness, shortness of breath, pain in chest, night sweats, cough that hangs on for long time, continued raising of spittle, and blood spitting. People who are troubled with asthma, chronic broni cal trouble, pleurisy, and pneumonia. Do not put off making your request for examination as this opportunity can not be offered again for several months and there is danger in delay ing this examination. NOVEMBER 15TH LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR RENOVATING MATTRESSES. If you are interested in renovating your old mattresses at the County Mattress Center to remake old mat make application at once. Bill Brigham County Agent stated that applications will be accepted at his office or the Mattress Center through Saturday, November 15th. Under this renovating program any family in the county may use the Mattress Center to remake old mat tresses. All equipment and materials except cotton and ticking are furnished at the Center. Each family is required to pay in 60c per mattress to cover the coopera tive cost of operating the Center. TO GIVE PRIZE Mr. Morrison P. Shingler, of the Donalsonville Warehouse Gin, an nounces that three big prizes will be awarded to three persons who ginned cotton at his gin this year, and that the awards will be made at his office Saturday of this week, November Ist, at 3 o’clock p. m. He urges everyone who ginned cot ton at his gin to attend. ’ DONALSONVILLE NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 ST, 1941. Walt Harlow Flays Talmadge In Letter I feel as a citizen of Seminole, County Georgia and as a well wisher for the good of not only Seminole county but the whole state that I should make known to the general public some of the conditions now fac ing us. I have always been not only a supporter of Governor Talmadge but I have spent some money in his behalf as a candidate every time he ran for any office. I have paid my own ex penses as a delegate to conventions nominating him for public office. I have hauled people to the voting plac es who could not have gotton there other than by walking several miles, I did this thinking it to be the best interests of the state to do so. As this late date I have begun to realize that all this was a sad error on my part. If all the counties of the state have the same setup in them as we have, they are in a horrible condition. For several months past many of the law abiding citizens have been checking up on some of the Talmadge appoint ees and yoh can hardly imagine what has been and is now going on. For some time, Talmadge-appointed of ficers having been seizing fish nets from ponds and using them for them selves and special friends which is in violation of the fish and game laws, and gigging in Spring Creek has been going on for some time. Other people are deprived of the illegal pri ; vilege. The selected few are the very special friends of Talmadge and whom he depends upon to carry this county for him. Hope you voters all over the county will remember this flagrant violation of the laws and wl.*.’ another election rolls around lets show a hand of decency and stop rotten robbery or elections. If the people of Seminole and Decatur coun ties don’t get busy and stamp out this lawlessness by prosecutions and by putting men in office who are honest and trust worthy the very worst will happen to us. Not long ago I wrote Talmadge telling him of some of these happen ings in this county and Decatur. I did not hear from him. Later I went up to Atlanta so that I could talk to him face to face. He was in his office. I advised him through the lady in the Governors reception room that I was there to sec him. This lady is the “go between”. Several went in and out of the Governors office, I asked one or two of them if the Governor was in, I was informed he was. I sat there for four long hours thinking; that he would be courteous enough to allow me to talk to him. What hap pened ? He left his office by a private side door and 1 came home. I wrote him. I received a very curt letter> stating that he was sorry. My con-■ ference had been blocked by the guil-, ty. W. E. (WALT) HARLOW). I Rev. J S. Lough To Attend Conference Rev. John S. Lough, pastor of the local Methodist Church, leaves next Tuesday for the annual South Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episco pal Church to be held at Valdosta. The conference officially opens Wed nesday morning and will be concluded with announcements by the Bishop on Sunday. Rev. Lough has served as pastor of the local church for the past three years and his numerous friends here are making a strong effort for his return. Under his capable leadership the local church has made marked pro gress. All obligations of the church have been paid in full, and a nice in crease has been noted in the member ship of the church. He and his wife are popular with a wide circle of friends, not only in his own church but with members of other denominations, all of whom will be pleased to have him returned here. Mr. Roy Whittle, of Moultrie, spent, last week-end with relatives in Iren City. The Call America Heeds , Jr /fi Jr M Jr; jWwl ih- -A I HF? J W IwWB Hf Jr J i' W®/ iaS • ffiMxjySE ■F i ran 99 BBS ag ® MS 99 The Red Cross nurse is the symbol of the 1941 American Red Cross Roll Cali poster, appealing to all men and women to join their local chapters as members during the annual Roll Call. Bradshaw Crandell, distinguished poster artist, painted the poster and :es Fedden is the model Arnold Will Speak Over W. S. B. Attorney General Ellis Arnall will speak over radio station W. S. B. from ; Atlanta Saturday night, November 1. at 7:30 P. M. His Message will be of vital im portance to all Georgians. Listen in and hear what he has to say. Condition Os Lester Mathis Reported Better Reports from the bedside of Lester Mathis, former resident of Donalson ville, who has been gravely ill since October 6th, are to the effect that he is showing improvment and hope for his recovery is held. Mr. Mathis received several frac tures of the legs and internal injuries when he swerved a large gasoline truck he was driving and ran into a ditch to prevent running into a pas senger car that stopped suddenly in his path near Columbus. He recently received a basket of fruit from an admirer of his heroic I deed and in the basket was found the ] following note: “With kindest wishes 'to Mr. Mathis, the brave and self ■ sacrificing young man who risked his I own life that the lives of two others i might be saved. I do not know whether j or not you are a Christian, I hope you are, but I do know you did a Christ- I like thing; Christ gave up His life i that all who believed on Him might have life eternal, while you almost gave up yours to save the earthly liv es of those two women. “May God bless you and restore you to health.” A Friend. Messrs. Truett Roberts and Ear nest Doster, of Tifton, spent last week i end here with their parents. They were accompanied back to Tifton by j Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Roberts and Miss ’ Ellen Goodwin. 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 NEW HOME Mr. Buddy Sullivan has begun con struction of new home in the Shing ler sub-division here, this section be ing located southwest of the Court house. PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION THEATRE Big Midnight Show Halloween Saturday Only Don “Red” Barry, In “K ANSAS ,( YCLONE” Monday And Tuesday Bud Abbott, and Lou Costello. In “HOLD THAT GHOST" Wednesday Richard Arlen and Jean Parker, In “FLYING BLIND” Thursday And Friady Robert Taylor, as “BILLY THE KID” BaßaaHnsaa al MIDGET THEATRE SATURDAY Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett. In MAN HUNT’ IB n S 3 ii s S S 2 <S ■* NUMBER 40.