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Chevrolet Reports
Continued Gains
Continued gains over the sec
jnd-best February in the history
the company were reported by
Chevrolet here today, with
)f its dealers’ hew passenger
mri truck sales figures for the
econd ten days of March.
The increase totalled 55.8 per
, rnt 0 ver the same period last
nont h total sales being 33,510.
Viiliam E. Holler, general sales
nanagei announced. New car
ales gained 23.4 per cent over the
irst ten days of March he said,
The period showed a 38.4 per
ent gain over the second ten days
f March, 1939, when 9,303 fewer
nits were retailed.
Used car sales also showed a
trong upward trend, with a gain
! 26.2 pei cent over the compar
ble period last year, a total of
2 853 used cars being retailed.
Ised cat sales for the second per
)C t of the month also surpassed
lie showing made during the first
In L davs. with a gain of used 30.4 per
n t over the 40,528 cars
kid during that period.
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—NEWS FROM—
HAYSTON
BY JEANETTE ROWLAN®
Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Henderson,
of Atlanta, visited Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Jackson Sunday.
Miss Mary Hays, of Atlanta,
visited her brother, Mr. Emory
Hays, over the week-end. While
here she called on Mrs. Joe Bas
kett, Miss Fannie Gregory and
other friends.
Mr. Neil Jackson, of Athens,
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Jackson, Sunday.
Friends of little Mary Sue
Hitchcock regret to learn of her
sickness. Here’s wishing for her
an early recovery.
Several from our community at
tended the singing at North Cov
ington Wednesday night. All re
ported a nice time.
Mrs. Glenn Jones, of Covington,
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Rowland Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Biggers and
Helen were the guests of Mrs.
Chas. Ivy Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fuller and
Mrs. Joe Wright, of Atlanta,
the week-end with their mother,
Mrs. Dessa Wynn.
Miss Beulah Slaten and Miss
Ruth Gunn, of Covington
the week-end with Mrs. Reba Ivy.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Canup vis
ited JVIr. and Mrs. Bill Cagle Sat
urday afternoon.
Mrs. Myrtle Berry spent a
days last week with Mr. and Mrs.
E. L. Tuggle.
Mr. and Mrs. Few Ivy visited
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Tuggle Satur
day night.
About 90 per cent of the United
States’ annual corn crop of two
and a half billion bushels is used
for animal feed.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Group of 84 Georgia Families
Make 20 Years of Progress
Twenty years of progress
spanned in five!
Incredible as it may seem, that
is exactly what the 84 Farm Se
curity Administration families in
Jefferson County have accom
plished. These same families who
were destitute, hungry, and many
sick in 1935, caring little for the
present and less for the future, are
today living on farms, some of
which they own, all with money
in the bank, well fed, health im
proved and more important —
hopeful.
These families had no capital
with which to operate a farm, no
w'ork stock, no live stock, nothing
but the clothes on their back, a
few household goods, usually large
families and a heritage of hard
work and poverty left them by
forebears unable to keep apace
with the rapidly changing eco
nomic fortunes. Most of them were
sharecroppers or tenants who
toiled unendurably hard for the lit
tie money so vital to stave off
actual hunger.
In company with Thomas W.
Wilson, farm supervisor for Jef
ferson and Johnson counties, and
to whom much of the success of
the FSA program in these two
counties is due, we visited several
rehabilitation families.
these was hard-working 27
old Bennett Joiner, who with
wife and son, O’Delle, age
lives on an 80-acre farm five
west of Louisville in one of
finest farming sections of
son County. Mr. Joiner
$487.50 in 1935 to establish
self, today owes nothing, and
$110 in the bank as operating
ital.
Last year Mr. Joiner made
and one-half bales 6f cotton
nine acres with two acres
ing better than a bale to the acre.
He pays 834 points of lint
to his landowner as rent and
year made most of his money
cotton, although he had 300
els of corn, 31 bushels of
26 bushels of peas, 25 gallons
syrup, 1,600 pounds of meat,
50-pound cans of lard and an
garden for home use and sale
surplus.
Mr. Joiner’s own words,
didn't have nothing."
accurately his and other
conditions in 1935. Continuing,
said. “I’m a whole lot better
now. Plenty to eat and
Farm Security gave me a
Without it. I don’t know where
be today.”
The Joiners have a car, a
Mr. Wilson, they “have come up
the ladder fast.”
Tom O. Burke has given the
other Tenant Purchase farmers a
record to shoot at. Mr. Burke, 48,
and father of seven children, was
taken on the FSA program in
1935, and made such rapid ad
vancement that in the fail of last
year he was placed on Tenant
Purchase, the government agency
designed to help families secure
their own farms. It is difficult to
believe, but Mr. Burke increased
his net worth (inventory value,
minus all debt) from $41 in 1935
to $2,983 at the close of 1939.
His farm is located five miles
south of Wrens in a fertile area,
He is making extensive
ments to his house, barn and pas
ture, He now has four cows, 50
chickens, two mules, one horse,
and 22 hogs. In 1935 he had . .
Mrs. Burke canned over
25 0 quarts of vegetables, meat
fruit'last year with her pressure
cooker, a familiar device
housewives of Jefferson county.
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OXFORD
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Miss Evelyn Sewell spent
day in Atlanta.
Mr. Carl Giles, Jr., spent
week-end with hi« parents
cently.
Mrs. Rose Manning, of
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
and Mrs. Pickett, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Tanner,
and Mrs. M. D. Tanner, of
were the dinner guests Sunday
their sister and
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Treadwell.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Palmer,
Clyde Hoover and little
Sara Sue, of Macon, was
guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
don, Saturday.
Miss Lucy Cline has returned
Wesleyan college, after
the spring holidays wi-th her
ents, Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Cline.
Mrs. W. H. Budd, Sr., of
lanta, is spending several
here with her children, Mr.
Mrs. W. H. Budd, Jr.
Mr. W. T. Hamilton of
spent Monday with Messrs.
and Emory Stone.
Miss Rebecca Weldon spent
day in Atlanta, and while
visited Mrs. H. D. Guerrant.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
visited Mr. Edwards mother,
Flint Hill, Sunday.
Mrs. M. R. Gardner, had as
guests Thursday, Mrs. Harold
and little son, from Conyers.
Mr. and Mrs. Cam McElroy
spent Sunday with relatives at
Monroe.
Mr. and Mrs. Riley Robinson
and children spent Sunday at
Lawrenceville, with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. L. £. Herrington
and children, Margaret and Penny,
of Monticello, were week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Floyd and
baby, Janet and Mr. and Mrs. R.
S. Jansson, of Atlanta, were din
ner guests of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Floyd, Sunday
night.
Mrs. James Baker spent Satur
dya in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Berry have
moved into the beautiful home
just finished on Emory street.
Mrs. Lenora Williamson, of At
lanta, spent the week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Weldon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Forrester,
of Atlanta, visited friends here
Sunday.
Lamar Weldon spent Saturday
in Atlanta.
Mrs. J. O. Weldon spent Mon
day in Atlanta with Mrs. L. L.
Johnson and Mrs. O. F. Sealey.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Berry had
as their guests Sunday. Mr. and
Mrs. H. O. Whelchel, of Coving
ton, and Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Pruitt,
of Decatur.
Mrs. Chambers has returned to
Atlanta after visiting her daugh
ter, Mrs. M. R. Gardner.
Mrs. Charley Barrett and
dren spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. G
Phillips.
Mrs. A. W. Sawyer and chil
dren were visiting Mrs. J. H. Dor
sey for this week-end.
Mrs. Rosa L. Manning is
her sister, Mrs. J. W. Pickett, for
a few days.
In feeding hens, watch
body weights and, if they are get
ting too fat, reduce the amount
of com fed daily.
In 1938 crops on land receiving
water from Federal irrigation en
terprises totaled less than 1 per
cent of the harvested crop acre
age in the United States.
More than 7.600 boys and girls
entered oF- uHr r2y --------
entered Four-H Club poultry
jects in 1939.
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SHOALS
Mrs. Luthor Smith and children
Evelyn, Joyce and Miss Mildred
Tomlin visited Mr. and Mrs. Lo
tha Piper Sunday in Henry Coun
ty.
Mrs. L. P. Fincher had as her
guest last week her sister, Miss
Lottie Reynolds, of Stewart.
Little Belva June Bunn visited
relatives at Stewart during the
week-end.
Mrs. L. P. Fincher, Miss Lottie
Reynolds were the spend the day
1 guests of Mrs. O ,C. Tomlin and
family Wednesday.
Mrs. Fred Piper and children
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
O. D. Harcrow.
Mrs. C. B. Bunn spent Satur
day with Mrs. O .C. Tomlin.
Miss Cornelia Tomlin visited
Misses Sara and Julia Veal Satur
j day Mr. evening, Andrew Fincher is visiting
relatives in Atlanta for a few days.
Mrs. L. P. Fincher, Mrs. O. C.
Tomlin, Misses Mildred and Cor
nelia Tomlin visited Mrs.
er’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
Reynolds, at Stewart, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bunn
ited Mrs. Bunn’s mother at
art Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Piper visited
Howard Moss Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Fincher,
Cornelia Tomlin, Mr. Herman
ited friends and relatives at
art Sunday.
Miss Mildred and Cornelia
lin spent Wednesday night
Mrs. L. P. Fincher.
At the West Virginia
ment station it was found
with a flock of White
egg production declined at
rate of 19 per cent each
compared with the
year.
Railroads use approximately
million new crossties each
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—NEWS FROM—
FLINT HILL
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
son and children, Betty and
spent Friday night w'ith
Atha, of Loganville.
Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Wiley,
Covington, visited Mr. and
Guy Butler, Sunday afternoon,
Mrs. J. D. Dennard and
Jesse Dennard spent Friday
Mrs. L. R. Jones,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Brooks
daughter, Sara Jean, were
Sunday guests of Mr. and
Robert Whrte, of Conyers.
Mrs. A. W. Harper, Mrs. L.
Jones and Misses Inez Harper
Louise Jones visited Mrs. S.
Dial and Misses Mildred and
Dial recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Grayd Berry
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daughter, Ila, of Covington; Mr.
and Mrs. George Berry, Mr. an3
Mrs. L. R. Jones, Miss Louise
Jones, and Messrs. Lester Harper
and Raph Jones were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Hays,
of Mansfield.
Mrs. R. E. Lee spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Day,
of Porterdale.
Mrs. Hugh McLanahan, of Cov-
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Friday afternoon.
Mr. Lester Harper and ■ i
Ralph Joeec spent Saturday ni
with Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Rashie Sheph
and family were the Saturt
night guests of Mr. and Mrs. G
Butler.