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SEMINOLE
A SMALL BUT
PROGRESSIVE
COUNTY
$2.00 a Year in Advance
VOLUME XXXIII
Seminole School Audit
Completed This Week
T. A. Drake, Chairman of the
■Seminole County Board of Educa
tion, states that the complete audit
of Seminole Couny School System
for the year ending June 30, 1949,
and also for the period July 1, 1949
to January 31, 1950 has recently
■been completed by the State De
partment of Audits, B. E. Thrash
er, Jr., State Auditor.
Mr. Drake states that this audit
consists of 18 pages itemizing re-
Baseball Directors Meet,
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Agree On Park Rental
The temporary officials of the
tentative D’ville Basdball Club
met last Saturday morning and
came to an agreement of the rental
of the park from J. B. Gibson. Un
der the agreement, the Club would
pay a sum of $2000.00 for the rent
al of the park for the 1950 baseball
season and Mr. Gibson would pro
vide for the upkeep of the park in
return for the concession stand.
Other action taken at the meet
ing included a report from C. L.
“Windy” Bivings on prospects for
having Blakely, Colquitt and Bain-
loop under the reduced
conditions. As here, those towns
are also interested in organizing a
league but likewise have made no
definite plans.
The Directors decided that four
games a week would be the limit.
The teams would be composed of
ocal residents of the county. A
time limit was set, stating that any
one residing here on January 1,
1949 Would be considered local resi
dents. A committee, composed of
C. C. Foster, Al Cordell and Y. L.
Roberts was named to the Eligibili
ty Committee.
A Finance Committee was ap-
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNT Y OF SEMINOLE AND CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA.
ceipts and expenditures, and that
each member of the Board of Edu
cation, who are C. D. Thomas, J. S.
Adams, J. M. Hunter and W. 0.
Greene, have a copy of the audit
and will be glad for anyone to see
this audit and to discuss with them
any part of it in which they are in
terested. A copy is also on file in
the office of the Coun y School
Superintedant and you are welcome
to examine it at any time.
pointed. Norman Hatcher, Mack
Fain, Jr., C. L. Bivings, L. H. John
son and T. H. Faircloth were ap
pointed to this committee. The
funds to operate the team is to be
raised by pulclic subscription.
Another meeting was scheduled
for Thursday night of this week
and a second public meeting to
elect permanent officers will be
announced soon.
Serving in a temporary capacity
are C. C. Foster, who was named
president, L. H. Johnson, vice
president and L. H. Hastey, secre
tary and treasurer. Windy Bivings,
Yank Roberts, Al Cordell, Mack
Fain, Jr., Norman Hatcher, C. N.
Berkeley, Tommy Faircloth, Hill
Pace, Bob Johnson and Roscoe
Burke are the directors.
Following is the complete agree
ment over the rental of the park:
“We recommend to pay to Mr. J.
B. Giibson the sum of $2000.00 for
the 1950 baseball season, or as long
as we want to play baseball in che
year, 1950, the sum of $2000.00, this
includes all baseball equipment,
Uniforms, bats, balls, bases, gloves
and parafanilia of umpires, in fact
all baseball playing equipment.
This equipment is to be owned by
the new organization. We are tc
have full control of baseball park
at all times during this period, re
gardless to race, color or creed. Mr.
Gibson is to have full control of
all concessions at all times during
this period. He in turn for these
concessions, is to keep the ball park
in readiness for each of our ball
games at all times, including grass
mowing, sound equipment, water
systems and electrical fixtures.”
Special Term Os
Court March 13th
Announcement was made this
week that Jurors drawn for the
January term of Court—Trial and
Petit Jury—will meet at the Court
house Monday, March 13th.
SING AT HAMMOCK
SPRINGS SUNDAY
Everyone is invited to attend the
regular Sing at Hammock Springs
Church the first Sunday Evening,
March 9th.
At this time a Committee for the
Seminole County Singing Conven
tion will be appoited.
DONALSONVILLE, (GA.) NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD, 1950.
Canning Company Secured;
To Employ 30 Workers
Peanut Acreage
Cut 20 Percent
A statement from Warren L.
Davis, Jr., Administrative officer
of the Production Marketing Ad
ministration of Seminole County,
gives the fact that this year’s pea
nut allotbment for peanuts for
Seminole County is 15,685.9 acres
compared to last year’s allottment
of 19,660.4 acres, which is a 20-112
per cent cut for this year.
Mr. Davis states that notices
were mailed Tuesday, February 28,
for allottments to individual farms.
These allottments are posted in the
office of the PMA for public in
spection.
The Administrative officer an
nounces that in the P. M. A. office
they have available Kobe Lespede
za, Dolomitic Limestone, and Cal
careous Limestone. Both Lime
stones have a price set up includ
ing delivery and spreading on the
farm. These prices are set up un
der the purchase order progam.
Aunt Jemima To
Appear In Person
*“Au n t Jemima,” nationally
known trade mark of pan cakes,
grits and other cooking items, will
be in person at the local Jitney
Jungle all day Saturday, March 4,
according to an announcement
made by Lonnie Jernigan, manager.
Mr. Jernigan announced that she
will set up a stove and display the
good taste of the Aunt Jemima
products.
This display is one of the finest
in the country representing food
display. “Aunt Jemima” is a south
ern negress who has been chosen
by that company as a true-to-life
double for the “Aunt Jemima” who
appears on boxes of all that comp
any’s products.
Auction Features
Dairy Cow Sale
Feature of the Seminole
Livestock Auction Market this
week was the sale of dairy
cows.
Fresh cows with calves by
the sides brought $135.00 to
$175.00; sipringers $120.00 to
$155.00. Stocker cattle sold in
a range of $15.00 to $23.00;
Butcher cattle sold in a range
of SIB.OO to $24.00.
Grade hogs sold as follows:
No. I’s, $16.10; No. 2’s, $15.75;
No. 3’s, $14.75; Top Heavy’s
for $15.60; and Roughs sold
for $11.59 to $13.45.
This week Ralph Trawick
drew the pure bred free hog.
WANT ADS PAY—READ THEM
C. C. Foster, Manager of the
local Chamber of Commerce and
President of the Lions Club, an
nounced this week that a canning
plant has been secured for estab
lishment here. The plant will begin
construction immediately and will
be completed within 45 days.
Upon completion, the canning
plant will employ 30 people and
Construction of the Farmers
Market continues on schedule.
Steel has arrived and is now
being erected. This includes the
upright “H” beams and the
girders. The floors have been
poured and finished. ATI that
remains to be done after the
erection of the steel is the
walls, wiring, doors, etc.
will be located on the lot east of the
Donalsonville Grain and Elevator
Co. facing the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad.
A meeting of the stockholders
was held on Monday night of this
week, at which time officers were
elected. E. L. Davis, of Palmetto,
Fla., was named president and D.
F. Wurst, vice-president. Julian
Webb was elected secretary and
treasurer and the following were
named as directors: Ellison Dunn,
D. F. Wurst, R. E. Wheeler, Jno. L.
Drake, Sr., E. L. Davis, Hugh D.
Broome and A. A. Parker.
The president, E. L. Davis, has
fifty per cent of the stock in the
$30,000.00 corporation. The new
company will bear his name, being
named Davis Canning Company of
Donalsonville, Ga. Mr. Davis, who
now resides at Palmetto, Fla., has
a plant in that city now called the
E. L. Davis Canning Co.
Mr. Davis, in making his decision
to locate here, says that he likes
this section and is contemplating
moving his family here. He fur
ther says that he hopes to make
this county the canning center of
Southwest Georgia. He added that
the goods canned here would be of
'the same high grade as that hand
led by the E. L. Davis Co. in Pal
metto.
The length of time that the plant
will be in operation will depend on
the amount of produce raised by the
farmers, officials said, and again
stressed the fact that a sufficient
amount of crops must be planted.
Operating at an expected rate of
1000 cases of processed foods per
day, there are several crops of
which unlimited amounts can be
handled. Among those named were
tomatoes, field peas, okra, sweet
potatoes and com.
Mr. Davis said that only bunch
beans were suitable for canning.
The new business was secured by
the work of the local chamber of
commerce and the Lions Club. Un
der the terms of the corporation,
the stock is owned by Mr. Davis
and a number of local business men
whose names follow:
D. F. Wurst, John L. Drake, Sr.,
R. E. Wheeler, A. A. Parker, E. E.
Moseley, T. H. Faircloth, Julian
Welbb, P. E. Shingler, J. L. Jerni
gan, E. P. Stapleton, L. R. Robin-
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DONALSONVILLE
HOME OF THE
BEST PEOPLE IN
THE WORLD
Five Cents Per Copy
Local Lions Meet,
Hear E. L. Davis
E. L. Davis, of Palmetto, Fla.,
was present at Tuesday’s meeting
of the Donalsonville Lions Club.
Mr. Davis is owner and manager
of the E. L. Davis Canning Co.
in Palmetto and told the Lions Club
why he has decided to come to
Donalsonville to establish a vege
table canning plant. “I like the peo
ple of Donalsonville and I like this
section,” he said.
He added, “This may become the
largest canning center in Georgia.
I urge the business men and farm
ers to work for the new State
Farmers'Market here that you may
have vegetables in quantity in or
der to attract buyers and to obtain
the best prices for those vegeta
bles.”
I was made known at the meet
ing that Donalsonville Lions are
sponsoring a vegetable program,
for Seminole County and that they
are working through the vocation
al teachers and the County Agri
cultural Agent.
For the best acre of bunch beans,
okra and tomatoes grown in the
county, a cash prize will be given
by the Lions Club. President C. C.
Foster appointed as a committee to
work out plans for the prizes, C. C.
Baker, vocational teacher; Clarke
Mosely, and H. E. Ragan, county
agent.
A committee to formulate plans
for growing, grading and awarding
prizes are veteran vocational tea
chers Gerald Hooks, Roy Brooks,
and W. E. Brigham. These vegeta
bles are to be sold through the
State Farmers Market at Donalson
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