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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXV. No. 13
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936
ESTABLISHED 1870
METHODIST MEETING
WILL BEGIN SUNDAY
ASPARAGUS SEASON
ON; PEACHES UNHURT.
HIGHLIGHTS IN GEORGIA NEWS
SOIL CONSERVATION
PLAN TO BE EXPLAINED
Rev. Mack Anthony Of Co
lumbus 1 o Do Preaching
A series of meetings will begin
at the Perry Methodist church
next Sunday. March 29. Rev.
Mack Anthony, pastor of the
Winton Methodist church, Co
lumbus, will be the preacher.
Services will be held twice dai
ly, at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m. dur
ing the week, and at 11:30 a. m.
and 8 p. m. on Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Anthony is the son
of Rev. Bascom Anthony, well
known preacher of the South
Georgia conference, who is asso
ciate editor of the Wesleyan
Christian Advocate since his sup-
eiannuation.
Kev. Mack Anthony has been
in the conference for ten years.
He is a young man of unusual
brilliance and deep spiritual
qualities. He is a charming
speaker and has a special appeal
for young people.
Rev. W. P. Blevins, Perry pas
tor, feels that he was fortunate
in securing Rev. Mr. Anthony to
conduct the services at this an
nual series of evangelistic meet
ings. Rev. Mr. Blevins urges
the heartiest cooperation from
the entire membership and the
public at large in these meetings.
The other congregations of the
town and county are invited to
attend.
Dr. Sutton Here April 5
Dr. Willis Sutton, superinten
dent of the City Scnools of At
lanta, will be the guest speaker
at the evening service at the
Methodist church, Sunday, April
5.
GARDEN CLUB MEETS
Civic improvement plans and
reports featured the March meet
ing of the Perry Garden club
held Friday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Vernon Tug
gle with Mrs. Mayo Davis and
Mrs. A. M. Anderson, Jr., as co
hostesses.
A Clean-Up Week will be
sponsored by the club during
April. It was reported that one
hundred dogwood trees had been
planted in the playground and
walkways are now being laid
out. A flower exchange will be
held Friday aoternoon at the
home of Mrs. G. E. Jordan, the
president.
An interesting talk on “Phlox”
was made by Mrs. R. E. Brown.
“New Flowers” was discussed
by Mrs. J. 0. Coleman. Miss
Martha Cooper told of “The
Birds We See In Our Gardens.”
A color scheme of yellow and
white was attractively carried
out in the decorations of the
home and in the dainty refresh
ments served by those entertain
ing.
SAFETY SLOGANS
The only time to prevent an
accident is before it takes place,
after that it is too late.
I didn’t know it was loaded is
never a valid excuse for killing
a person with a loaded gun. A
gun loaded or unloaded should
never be pointed at another.
A movement was started the
first of the year to continue
through 1940 to reduce traffic fu
tilities 35 per cent during the
period.
An accident is an unpleasant
thing to think about, but it makes
a lot of difference whether you ;
know in your heart it is your
tault or the other fellow’s fault.
Drive carefully. Be sure.
Few flue fires result from lined
fiues. All flues should be lined
with flue lining tile.
. The most dangerous ash can >
imaginable is a paper box.
The six weeks that one has to;
"Pend thinking while a broken
pone is mending could be saved
m the majority of instances by
six seconds thinking before the
accident happens.
CARD OF THANKS
Asparagus shipments from
Houston county began last week.
The exact number of crates is
not known as several have been
shipped from Marshallville and
Fort Valley as well as by truck
from Perry.
Express shipments from Perry
totalled 6 crates up to Wednes
day morning. Among the grow
ers shipping from Perry are: C.
E. Pyle, J. T. Overton, O. B.
Muse, and A. W. Tabor.
At one time, Houston was one
of the largest asparagus produc
ing counties in Georgia.The acre
age has been greatly reduced un
til now there are only 300 acres
in asparagus.
The crop was retarded on ac
count of the extreme cold weath
er but the quality of the aspara
gus is very good.
Besides asparagus Houston
CDunty produces large quantities
of peaches, watermelons, and
canteloupes for market.
The peach trees have been in
bloom for over two weeks. The
blooms are unusually beautiful
this year and the orchards were
a lovely sight to local people and
the large number of visitors who
drove through this section to see
them.
There is no indication that the
cold weather has injured the
peach trees. Prospects are for
a normal crop. Acreage in peach
orchards has been drastically re
duced in Houston county during
the past few years.
There are 1,500 acres of fruit
bearing peach orchards in the
the county now. 500 acres have
been set out in peach trees the
past two years.
3,000 acres in the county are
planted in watermelons and
around 1,000 acres in cantaloup
es every year.
VESPER SERVICES
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
Substantial decrease in deaths
jin Georgia in 1935 as well as
sharp decline in many of the ma
jor diseases were revealed in the
annual report of the State Board
of Health, submitted by Dr. T.F.
Abercrombie, director of the
State Department of Public
'Health. A total of 1,508 fewer
j persons died in Georgia in 1935
than died in 1934, while births
'also recorded a decrease of 2,-
515 in 1935 as compared with
1934.
Making Georgia self-sustain
ing, the ultimate goal in agricul
tural development, Dr. Paul W.
Chapman, dean of the State Col
lege of Agriculture at Athens,
has inaugurated and put into ac
tion a comprehensive program
for close cooperation of the ag
ricultural branches of the state
university system with progres
sive farmers in all parts of the
state. One of the principal fea
tures of the program is called
“Farm and Home Cropping
Plan,” designed to make each
farm, large and small, self-sus
taining in the matter of food and
feed crops.
Problems of the livestock in
dustry in South Georgia are to
be discussed at the third annual
livestock field day of the Geor
gia coastal plains experiment
station at Tifton April 1. A pro
gram also has been arranged for
farm women who attend. i
The memory of Thomas Jef
ferson will be honored by the
Georgia Woman’s Democratic
Club April 10 in Atlanta with a
luncheon at which several lead
ing citizens of the state will pay
him tribute.
The annual convention of the
Georgia Department of the
American Legion will be held in
Athens, June 25, 26 and 27.
Harry Stillwell Edwards,noted
Georgia author, has been select
ed by Georgia Tech as Honor
Day Speaker at exercises to be
held in Atlanta May 15.
I Plans to reduce Georgia’s
jWPA rolls an estimated 8,000 by
j April 1 and close to 16,000 by
June 30 have been announced by
officials.
Atlanta probably will offer the
most elaborate and varied pro
gram of public entertainment
ever attempted by a southern
city in celebration of the first
dogwood Festival during the
week of April 19.
With sufficient funds on hand
to meet all current expenses, the
county of Lumpkin, of which
Dahlonega is the county seat,
will levy no county taxes during
1936—a record which officials at
the State Capitol said had not
been attained by any other coun
ty at least since 1921, and pro
bably not for a much longer pe
riod.
Founding of the first woman’s
college fraternity in America is
to be commemorated with a me
morial fountain on the campus
at Wesleyan, Macon, Ga. The
fountain will be completed in
time for dedication as an event
at the Wesleyan centennial cele
bration this spring.
TALMADGE COLLECTS
GAS TAXES BY COUP
have
Georgia farmers now
new farm program, and just in Promises Tax Reduction; To
time to consider it before plant- !
Rev. James A. Ivey, pastor of
the Pinehurst and Unadilla Bap
tist churches, will be the speak
er at the Vesper hour at the Per
ry Baptist church Sunday even
ing. Mr, Ivey has been here
before and needs no introduction
to the church. He is a genial,
consecrated minister of Christ,
and never fails to bring a sound,
wholesome, instructive and in
spiring message. The public is
cordially invited.
The Sunday school is expect
ing to have a record number
present Sunday morning as Mis
sionary Day is to be observed.
Mrs. F. W. Withoft, chmn. of
of the B.W.M.U. work in this
region, will bring to the Sunday
school a message on the work of
Home and Foreign Missions and
what the B. W. M. U. is doing,
and what the Sunday school and
church can and are expected to
do.
The Sunday school is cooperat
ing with the other churches of
the Southern Baptist convention
in stressing missions each Sun
day in March. This closing pro
gram on Missionary Day will
summarize the vast mission work!
of our Southern Baptist Home!
and Foreign Mission Boards.
Sunday School — Sunday, i
10:15 A. M., W. B. Roberts Su- j
perintendent.
Morning Worship — Sunday,
11:30 A. M.
Vesper Service, 6 30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting-—Wed.8:00 p m.
Rev. J. A. Ruffin, Pastor
PERRY
THEATRE
A Martin & Thompson Theatre
P. H. S. ACTIVITIES
I wish to thank my friends for 1
ffieir vote and support in my
race for County Treasurer in the
recent Primary.
Aubrey Anderson.
Fr'. ard Sat.
WESTERN FRONTIER
with
Ken Maynard
$50 Given Friday Fight
Wed. and Thurs.
KARLCFF in
TH- SUCK ROOM
Bargain Matinee Wednesday
at 4 p. m., 10c to all.
Arbor Day
Arbor Day was appropriately
observed last week by a playlet
given by the fifth grade at the
assembly of both grammar school
and high school. Miss Dorothy
Jones directed the children in
this playlet.
Unit From Amateur Hour
A unit from the Major Bowes’
amateur hour program, sponsor
ed last week by the Legion Aux
iliary, presented a very enter
taining assembly program Mon
day morning. Ann Gordy led
the devotional, after which she
introduced the program. Jimmy
Ruffin, dressed in a cowboy suit,
sang “Home On the Range.”
Frances McLendon, dressed in
an Uncle Sam costume, gave a
tap dance. After this the senior
girls sang, “The Lady Dressed
in Blue.”
About The School
Miss Martha Cooper acted as
supply teacher last week for
Mrs. Evans, who was sick with
flu.
Mrs. Coleman has her sociolo
gy class drawing plans for hous
es. They are studying “Better
Homes.”
Miss Rainey has received some
new books for the tiny tots.
They are attractive in bindings
and illustrations, as well as in
subject matter.
Miss Cooper took her health
class to Dr. Foote’s office last
Thursday. He gave a very in
teresting talk on the care of the
teeth.
Miss Edenfield’s classes are
making a study of the dictionary-
now.
Two classes, the juniors and
sophomores, had weiner roasts
Friday night.
Perry High Band
The Perry High band was or
ganized Thursday, March 12, un
der the direction of Mr. Taylor.
The first band meeting was nela
Thursday morning last week.
The band consists of eight mem
bers, one girl and seven boys.
Ruth Tabor has been elected sec
retary and treasurer. The first
instrument lesson will be held
next Thursday.
Mr. Taylor organized a band
here several years ago. Quite a
number of the business men
were members then.
With the backing of the town
and the cooperation of the school
we are hoping to make this
band a success.
Lessie Gray.
BONAIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST
Miss Mary Talton is spending
a few days with Miss Minnie
Rice in Macon.
Miss Ruth Fender spent the
weekend in Tifton with friends.
Mr. Edgar Walker, Mr. and
Mrs. Collier and Miss Ann Col
lier, of Montezuma, visited Mr.
and Mrs. R. P. Walker Sunday.
Miss Clara Jenkins, of Kath
leen, spent the weekend in Perry
with Mr. and Mrs.G. W. Bray.
Miss Ida Mae Rutledge enter
tained a group of the high school
set Friday night with a party
About twenty guests enjoyed
this lovely affair.
Friends of Mrs. G. W. Bray
are sorry to learn that she is ill
with pneumonia.
Mrs. L. S. Hayes and Mr. Le-
land Hayes were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J.P. Stalnaker Sunday.
Mrs. G. W. Whittaker and Mr.
and Mrs, Cecil Whittaker, of
Macon, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs, C. B. Watson Sunday.
Miss Madge Warren spent the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. J.
S. Andrews, of Kathleen.
The Bonaire P. T. A. is spon
soring a Dad’s Night program
Friday night, April 3,at the Bon
aire High school auditorium. All
the dads and members of the
P. T. A. are urged to come.
Mr. Earl Stiwait, pastor of the
Bonaire Baptist church, was
guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Talton Sunday.
ing the bulk of their crops this
year. Under the program Geor
gia farmers will get payments
from the Government for grow
ing more soil building crops and
reducing their acreage of such
soil depleting crops as cotton.
There will be no contracts with
farmers, but any farmer who
meets the requirements will be
eligible for the payments.
The program will be largely
handled in the state by local and
state committees of farmers co
operating with the county agents
and state officials of the Agricul
tural Extension Service, just
like the crop adjustment con
tracts were handled.
County Agent W. T. Middle-
brooks of Houston will be sent
details of the new soil conserva
tion program in about a week.
After receiving this information,
Mr. Middlebrooks will mail noti
ces of meetings to be held
throughout the county for the
purpose of explaining the plans
to every producer,
of Houston will be asked at this
time to cooperate in the program.
At a recent conference Harry
L. Brown, director of the Agri
cultural Extension Service, said,
“If Southern farmers will co
operate in the real spirit and
purpose of the program, it will
mark the end of the era of soil
exploitation and the beginning
of an era of soil building that
will in time insure a real and
lasting prosperity for Southern
agriculture. ”
Score Foes Friday Night
WESLEYAN COLLEGE
PLANS CENTENNIAL
ATLANTA, Ga.—Happy over
his coup replenishing the state
treasury with almost $1,000,U00
in gasoline taxes, Gov. Eugene
Talmadge Tuesday reassured the
people of Georgia he would cut
their tax rate on real estate be
low four mills.
Talmadge gave notice that in
his speech over the Atlanta Jour
nal radio station VVSB, from 8:15
to 8:45 p. m. (E. S. T.) Friday
night, he would “take the hide
off” those opposing his one-man
rule of the state’s money.
Last year he reduced the ad
valorem—the only tax for state
purposes in the state constitu
tion—from the limit of 5 mills to
the present 4 mills.
Talmadge Monday by a quick
action switched the chairman
ship of the revenue commission,
charged with the collection of
fuel oil taxes under legal execu-
- tions, from Paul Doyal to De
. i l ' s Facto Comptroller General J. B.
Carreker.
This gave Carreker executive
authority for the commission and
he got the cash from the banks.
Doyal was under court injunc
tion at Rome preventing him
and De Facto Treasurer J. B.
Daniel from diverting the mon
ey, most of which goes to the
highway depratrnent, to any oth
er purpose.
Thus the oil companies, which
previously had refused to pay
the money they collected for the
the state to Carreker as comp
troller general, the usual proce
dure, paid him as chairman of
the revenue commission.
Doyal remains a member of the
revenue commission in charge of
the income tax and automobile
tag divisons.
R. E. Matheson, although not
having been re-appointed by the
governor since his commission
ran out some months ago, is the
third member in charge of cig
arette and cigar stamp tax col
lections and the delinquent tax
divisions.
The state highway board was
prepared to pay the remainder
of the $2,600,000 due on high
way refunding certificates Wed
nesday, the day they were due.
The governor ordered them
ahead of time to avoid a court
action against the“dictatorship.”
Already more than $1,000000 has
>een paid into counties holding
them.
talmadge said he was paying
for Friday night’s radio time out
of “my own pocket ”
“We are collecting the taxes
now,” Talmadge said, “and the
money is being applied according
to law.’’
Talmadge has been operating
the state government since Jan.
1 under his one-man rule due to
failure of the 1935 general as
sembly to enact an appropria-
Wesleyan College alumnae
everywhere are meeting on “All-
Wesleyan Day”, March 28, to
hear plans for the colorful cele
bration which will take place at
the college this commencement,
May 29-June 1, in honor of the
hundredth anniversary of the
granting of Wesleyan’s charter.
It was on December 23, 1836,
after a heated deoate in the
legislature, that Alexander
Stephens made the eloquent
speech which curned the tide in
tavor of education for women.
On this date the charter was
signed for the first woman’s col
lege in the world authorized “to
grant degrees to women.”
A pageant based on the histor
ic speecn ueiivereu in iooj by
Daniel Chandler before the De-
mosthenean and Phi Kappa So
cieties at the University of Geor
gia will be given at commence
ment. Chandler’s speech, main
taining that “the mind of wo
man is capable of great improve
ment” is said to have been di
rectly responsible for the more
lenient attitude toward woman’s
education and the granting of
the charter to Wesleyan.
The oldest national sororities! tions measure,
in the United States, the Alpha
Delta Pi and Phi Mu, were or
ganized at Wesleyan in 1851 and
1852 as the Adelphean and the
Philomathean Societies.
The first Alumnae Association
in the United States was organiz-!
ed at Wesleyan in 1859.
NOTICE OF ELECTION OF TRUSTEES
FOR COUNTY SCHOOLS
Miss Dorothy Howard,a teach- m the United States was organiz-[ The County Board of
er in Dooly county, spent the at Wesleyan in 1859. j tion at the regular March
weekend with her parents, Mr. A hundred years of Wesleyan’sUng set Friday, April 3,
and Mrs. R. H. Howard. history will be portrayed in the I date for electing trustees
Misses Mary Leverett, Mil- j commencement pageant in which the vacancies caused by
dred Watson and Grace Hayes, j alumnae of the college from all tions of terms in the
students at G. S. C. W., were atj°ver the country will take part, [schools:
at home for the spring holidays!
Educa-
meet-
as the
to fill
expira-
following
last week.
Miss Shirley Fay Parker, of
Kathleen, was guest of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Perdue Sunday.
Mr. D. B. Perdue, a Mercer
student, was at home last week
end.
MUSIC CLUB MEETS
COTTON REPORT
Perry, three to be elected
! to fill vacancies of F. M.
[Greene, J. A. Grubb and G.
~ w ' . |C. Nunn; Elko, three to fill va-
Census report shows that there -cancies of .). N. Buff, J. H.
were 5,513 bales of cotton ginned [Clark, and H. S. Kezar; Hayne-
m Houston County from t h e v ille, three to fill the vacancies
crop of 1935 prior to March 1 as |0 f E . H. Wimberlv, A. J.Parker,
compared with 5,659 bales ginn- land 0 . G. Harrison: Grovania,
ed to crop of 1J34. j two to fill the vacancies of C.
;G. Harrison, and C. E. Pyles;
CARD OF THANKS [Henderson, one to fill the va-
The Mozart Music club met at
the home of Barbara Whipple
March 18.
After all business transactions [recent Primary
an interesting program was
given by the program commit
tee. Games were enjoyed by
the entire club during the social
hour.
Mrs. Whipple served the
with delightful refreshments' til May 1, for the purpose of
during the social hour. [ceiving taxes.
Reporter. J W. C. Watson, T. C.
t , , . , jcancy of P. H. Hodge.
I .wish to thank my Ir.ends for Voting will be at the regular
their vote and support in my
race for County Treasurer in the
J. E. Carney.
TAX RECEIVER’S NOTICE
j I will be in Perry every Satur-
club : day from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. un-
precmcts.
W. B. Evans, C. S. S.
METHODIST NOTES
Church School— 10:15 a. m.
Worship Services—S u n d a y,
re- 11:30 a. m., and 8:00 p. m.
IYoung People’s Service 6:15 p.m,
{ Rev. W. P. Blevins, Pastor.