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Thursday, June 11, 1953
THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL
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Published in The City of Pembroke Every Thursday
Frank O. Miller ~ T Owner and Editor
Mrs. D. E. Medders Local Editor
Official Organ of Bryan County and Toe City of Pembroke
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Pembroke Suffers Great Loss
By Losing Rev. Tom Watson
We have just learned that we are going to lose Tom
Watson as Pastor of The Pembroke Methodist Church.
This is indeed sad news for our entire little city, as
well as for the Methodists of this community.
While we are not a Methodist, having been bom a
Baptist and remained one for our entire life, we have learn
ed to love and appreciate our little Methodist Pastor, lom
Watson. „ .
Being Editor of the local paper, as well as Mayor ot
the little City of Pembroke has caused our paths to cross
on many occasions. We have enjoyed working with out
local Methodist Pastor, and believe him to be one of the
finest Christian Characters we have ever known, although
handicapped, by the loss of a leg, this has not dampened
his spirit and he gets about with an enthusiasm that one
can’t help but admire.
During the three years he has been in Pembroke he
has done an outstanding job. He came to Pembroke when
Bruce Wilson was sent to Macon from here, and knowing
of the marvelous work that Rev. Bruce Wilson did, we just
could not help but feel that we had “dropped a notch”
when we first met the new Methodist preacher that was to
succeed Bruce Wilson, and could not help but feel a little
sorry for him.
But Tom Watson needed no sympathy, or understand
ing, he took hold of the work where Bruce Wilson left it
and went on to even greater glory than was true during the
four years before he came here.
His church has made steady progress and today is one
of the widest awake churches that we know of. Tom Wat
son was never satisfied, always believing that he and his
flock could do better, and he was ever urging them on to
greater efforts and sacrifices in the causes of the Lord.
While we are happy to know that the Bishop has rec
ognized Tom Watson’s ability and will move him on to a
bigger and greater field, where his courage, ambition and
determination to serve his Master can bear greater fruit,
still we will miss him in Pembroke.
His place will be a hard one to fill.
We just hope that the Bishop will send to Pembroke a
young man, who has ideas and an ambition to build a big
ger and better church, such as our little friend Tom Watson
has manifested during the past three years.
So often it is the “misfortune” for a little town like
Pembroke to fall “heir" to a good man, a fine preacher, but
an “old man” who has already did his bit for the church
and would be more or less retired to a little church like
Pembroke to rest on his laurels of yesteryear.
Pembroke has had two wonderful men here during the
past seven years, first there was Bruce Wilson, who dem
onstrated his ability so well that he went from here to
Macon to a much bigger church and field, and then came
Tom Watson, who has done as well or better than Bruce did,
and now we understand that Sunday was his last sermon
at Pembroke, as it will be announced today or tomorrow of
his new charge.
WhereveY he goes, they will be the gainer and Pembroke
will be the loser.
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PEMBROKE JOURNAL, PEMBROKE, GEORGIA
Small Town Georgia Boy Did Things
In A Big Way In The Nations Capital
In this article we are paying tribute to the life and
memory of a small town Georgia boy, with a common school
education, who left Georgia with just a few dollars, a thirty
five dollar worn out Chevrolet automobile, a wife, two chil
dren, and a mother to make his way in the world.
That man was W. H. Smith, a brother in law of Ye
Editor who passed away at his home in Bethesda Maryland
on Sunday, May 31st.
At the time of his death he was owner of the W. H.
Smith Realty Company at Bethesda, Maryland, occupied a
$60,000 office building which he owned, and had just com
pleted ten homes on one street, one of which he movd into,
the others were for sale for $25,000 and more. In addition
he had seven homes out in the suburban section of the city
that ran from $75,000 to $150,000 each. He had a large
sales force and bore the reputation in Bethesda of being
one of the leading real estate men of that section.
Bethesda, Maryland is a continuation of Washington,
D. C. and it is impossible to tell when you leave one and get
to the other.
We had thought that people living in the large cities
were unknown and had very few friends, except those that
you were dealing with. But we were evidently wrong, for
never have we seen so many pretty flowers at any ones
funeral as was those at the Smith funeral, they were gor
geous beyond description. Hundreds of people kept up a
steady stream of callers at the funeral home from Sunday
until the funeral was held Thursday afternoon. Friends and
neighbors sent in baked hams, roasted turkeys and other
good things, like we do here in Pembroke, and never dream
ed that it was done in any big city.
We heard many men say that only Harry Smith could
have done the things that he did. Which goes to prove that
it is within the fellow himself to make good, for this poor
boy from Effingham county, who married our baby sister
had only a grammar school education, no money, and he
certainly made good in his chosen profession as a real
estate man.
County Agent's News
By I). E. MEDDERS
Even though beauty is its own
excuse for being, don’t endanger
life just for beauty’s sake, home
landscapers of Bryan county were ;
advised this week by I). E. Med
ders, county agent, who added that
shrubs should not be planted near
a drive where they will become a
traffic hazard.
Pointing out that many home
drives have become traffic haz
ard, Medders said that there is
no rule that one has to plant
shrubs at the entrance of a drive.
Even shrubs that are small when
planted have away of growing tall
quickly so that a driver’s vision
of a street or road is dangerously
obscured.
To avoid this needless hazard
to safe driving, the county agent
suggested using a good sod of
grass or ground cover such as ivy,
vinca, or one of the low growing
azaleas at drive entrances instead
of tall growing shrubs.
Plantings, if used, should not be
taller than eye level from the driv
er’s seat in a car, he continued. A
t,ree may be all right, provided
low branches are removed.
Medders said that this precau
tion regarding home drives also
applies to property corners at road
intersections.
Dress Revue Held
By Three Colored
Home Demon. Clubs
Approximately 70 people were
present recently to see twenty-five
members of the Mill (’reek, Pem
broke, and Groveland Negro
Home Demonstration dubs model
the dresses they had made in the
sewing projects this year.
The affair was held at the Pem
broke High School, with lama Ba
con, home demonstration agent,
under whose direction the dresses
were made, announcing each metn
l>er as- she appeared. The styles
modeled were street and afternoon
dresses and a summer suit, and
were made of nylon, tissue ging
ham, chiffon voile, butcher linen,
chambray, and sheer cotton. Pic
tures were taken during the af
ternoon.
Those making dresses were Lois
Cross, Thelma Field, lassie Cross,
Bessie Groover, Carrie Smoakes,
Dora Porter, Ruby Benjamin, Re
becca Burgess, Maebell Bailey,
Mattie Strange, Mattie L. Hines,
Elizabeth Haynes, Lucile Brown,
Etner Hines, Clara Garrison, Ol
lie McCoy, Maxie Bell, Altee
Moody, Nettie Carroll, Minnie La
nier, Alberta Smoakes, Ella Man
gum, Marian Gorham. Mamie Car
roll, and Queen Byrd.
Negro Pembroke HD
Club Has Creditable
Flower Show
Anna Black, Marie Cochran,
Clara Garrison, and Lucile Brown
were winners in the flower show
held recently by the Negro Pem
broke Home Demonstration club
in the lunch room of the Pembroke
High School.
Anna Black won first place in
the mass arrangement group,
with Marie Cochran and Clara
Garrison placing second and third.
Her gladioli corsage also won a
blue ribbon for Clara Garrison and
Lucile lirown was awarded a red
ribbon for her dahlia corsage.
Those having entries in the
show, which w'as very creditable
according to Lena Bacon, Negro
home demonstration agent, were
Anna Black, Mary Bush, Marie
Cochran, Etner Hines, Mattie L
Hines, Clara Garrison, Lucile
Brown, Queen Byrd, and Minnie
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Notice of Election of
Coastal Soil Conservation
District Supervisors
June 19, 1953
To All Qualified Voters: All
lands within the boundaries of
Bryan County of the Coastal Soil
Conservation District, described as
follows:
Notice is hereby given that on
the 19th day of June, 1953 between
the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00
p.m., a nelection will be held for the
election of one supervisor from
Bryan County for the Coastal Soil
Conservation District.
Voting place will be open in the
courthouse in Pembroke, Georgia.
Persons qualified to vote in a
general election under the' Con
stitution of the State of Georgia
are eligible to vote in the election
of supervisors.
Only those persons residing
within the Coastal Soil Conserva
tion District will be eligible to vote
in the election of supervisors.
June 12, 1953 is the closing date
the State Soil Conservation Com
mittee will accept nominations for
candidates for the election. Nomi
nations must be in the office of
the Secretary of the State Com- j
mittee (address below) not later
than June 12, 1953.
The signature of 25 qualified
voters is required to nominate a
candidate.
STATE SOIL CONVER
VATION COMMITTEE
By: E. H. Thomas. Execu
tive Secretary
Extension Building
Athens, Georgia
Dated this 26th day of May, 1953.
NOTICE
GEORGIA, Bryan County
Pursuant to Code Section 106-
301 of the Code of Georgia, notice i
is hereby given of the filing of the :
application for registration of a I
trade name by W. L. Downs, resi-!
dent of Blitchton, Bryan County.
Georgia, doing business asi
BLITCHTON SERVICE STA |
TION, located on U. S. Highways!
No. 80 and No. 280 at Blitchton, !
Georgia.
This the 25th day of May, 1953.
U. J, Bacon,
Clerk Superior Court
Bryan County, Ga.
Emanuel County
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Emanuel, one of Georgia’s oldest counties^ spreads out '
over 1,000 square miles, and is often called Ine btate ot
EmanueL” Emanuel produces sweet potatoes, corn, nuts,
sugar cane, hay and velvet beans, and is justly famous
throughout Georgia for its annual Pine i ree r estival.
Stock raising is an increasingly important industry in this
county and hogs, turkeys, chickens and goats are numbered
among its exports. Swainsboro and Summit- Graymont are
industrial centers with men’s wear factories, lumber mills,
meat curing plants and a furniture factory.
In this and other Georgia counties, the United States
Brewers Foundation works constantly to maintain whole
some conditions where beer and ale are sold. Close atten
tion is given areas near camps of the Armed Forces, and
both military officials and Georgia law enforcement
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