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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXVI. No. 5
MAJOR PROVISIONS
OF PENSION BILL
Major provisions of the Ri
vers-sponsored old age pension
bill, which was introduced in
the' general assembly last week
inc’nde the following:
Eligible Persons: Those 65
years ot age or over who have
been residents of the rotate for
at least three years and have
not “sufficient income or other
resources to provide a reason
able subsistence compatible with
decency and health.” No person
who is the inmate of a public
institution may receive a pen
sion, but any inmate may apply
for aid and begin receiving it
as soon as he leaves the insti
tution.
Amcaut of Assistance: Based
on the “conditions existing in
each case,” payments to each
pensioner “shall be sufficient
when added to all other income
and support of the recipient, to
provide ... a reasonable subsis
tence,” except that payments
can not exceed $30 per month.
Applications: Written appli
cations must be filed with coun-
| ty departments, which would be
I created under terms of a bill in-
I troduced in the senate last week.
Judges of superior courts would
apomt five-member boards in
each county to administer the
act under regulations provided
by the State Department of Pub
lic Welfare, also to be created by
the same senate bill.
Confederate Veterans: Con-
| federate veterans and widows al
ready receiving would be requir
ed to apply to the county boards
for assistance under the new act,
but the boards could not re
duce the amount they now re
ceive in pensions ($30 monthly).
House leaders said this provi-
I sion was designed to allow the
I federal funds to pay half the
Confederate pensions, and thus
release half of the state money
now going to such pensions for
other uses.
Payment of Pensions: Pension
checks will be issued monthly by
the county departments after in-
! vestigating the applicants, find
ing them needy, and determin
ing the amount to be paid each.
Funeral Expenses: County
boards could allow up to $75 for
funeral expense of any recipient
who dies.
Recovery from the Estate:“On
the death of any recipent the
total amount of assistance paid
under this act may be allowed'
as a claim against the estate of
such person after funeral ex
penses not to exceed $75 have
been paid and after the expense
o> administering the estate has
been paid. No claim shall be en-
torced against any real estate of
recipient while it is occupied by
the surviving spouse, or depen
dent.”
Removal From County: If a
Recipient moved from one county
0 an °ther, he could have his
'Time transferred to the new
county and continue to receive
the assistance.
Finances: Counties would
a\e to put up the cost of pay-
nf® v!* 6 Pensions and 10 per cent
r cbe administration expense
01 eacil county; the state would
JtPciy bo each county 90 per
of, 01 tile pensions paid and
N? er cen b of the administration
A’ f rov ’cded “that such state
t i Pai ^ en b shall co-operate with
p Federal Social Security
2 1 ? obtaining . . . aid as
sp H m the federal social
tn ac ^ an amount equal
The total sums ex-
v, At . , ec ‘ or such assistance but
bp exce&d $30 per month to
rrh t0 eac ^ rec ipient.” i
jw A m eans that counties
of th ' V 0a Fl pay 10 per cent
] a F administration cost and
thp e L C " nt pensions; that
of n/ te w ° uld P a y 9b per cent
40 n e adm inistration cost and
0; f the pensions; and
„V .. me federal ffnvprnmpnt
PAST DUE TAXES
I To the People of Houston
i County:
1 he default in the payment of
taxes by the taxpayers of Hous
ton County has become a serious
matter. Not only we as officers
ot the County are embarrassed,
but the holders of county war
rants are entitled to their money
People who sell to the county wili
not and cannot sell to the Coun-
ty cheaply when they are uncer-
tain when they can collect upon
their county warrants.
Positive instructions have been
issued to both the tax collector
and sheriff to collect all past due
taxes without futher delay.
J. A. Davis, Chairman
T. L. Warren
Warren B. Hodge
W. D. Kersey
A. L. Sasser
County Commissioners of Hous-!
ton County.
Hodge-Podge
By R. HODGES
w. m. s. Officers have
JAN. MEETING IN PERRY
The Executive board of the
Woman’s Missionary Society ofi
the South Ga. Conference met)
in Perry Wednesday and Thurs-I
day, last week, for the annual!
January meeting, at the home
of the conference president, Mrs.
G. C. Nunn.
An informal session and de
votional period were held Wed
nesday night,followed by a social
hour with Mrs.. Nunn as hostess.
The iadies had a delightful din
ner at Lee’s Cafe before the
session.
Thursday was devoted to bus
iness including plans for the
annual conference which will
be held at Centenary Church,
Macon, April 7-9. At noon, a
lovely luncheon was served by
a committee of the Susannah
Wesley class, composed of Mrs.
C. S. Gurr, chmn.; Mrs. L. M.
Paul, Jr., class president; Mrs.
C. E. McLendon and Mrs. J. T.
Bonner. Mrs. T. C. Rogers and
Mrs. W. P. Blevins were invited
guests on this occasion.
Members of the board pre
sent were:
Mrs. G. W. Matthews, Fort
Valley; Mrs. C. C. Sapp and Mrs.
J. T. Douglas, Albany; Mrs. F.
M. Mullino and Mrs. J. W.
Flitch, Montezuma; Mrs. Dan
Harris, Sandersville; Mrs. W. H.
Ketchum and Mrs. T. J. Stewart,
Macon; Mrs. R. A. Peeples, Val
dosta; Mrs. R. D. McNeil, Amer-
icus; Mrs. Lucius Lamar, Daw
son; Mrs. J. B. Dillard, Davis-
boro; Mrs. W. P. Marshall, Sa
vannah; Mrs. B. M. Poer, Ar-
hngto; Mrs. Wm. Mizell, jr.,
Folkston; Mrs. H. W. Carter ana
Miss Addie B. Greely, Colum
bus; Miss Bessie Miller, Cairo;
Mrs. J. L. Hodges and Mrs.
Nunn, Perry.
We are indebted to Mrs. E. H.
Wimberly, of Hayneville, for
| following article:
A rock chimney marks the
I site of the old Hayneville Acade
my within whose walls many
: distinguished Georgians re-
! ceived their education. It was
reputed to be one of the oldest
institutions of its kind in the
I South.
j in later years, among the
'prominent names enrolled were:
j James Pope Brown, Ed Henry,
I Tom Taylor, Charles F. Cooper,
[John Powers, William Lester,
and others.
The grades were not then
designated first, second, and so
on. When asked, “what grade i
are you ?”, a student invariably!
answered: “In the first reader,”
or, “In the second reader” as the
case might be.
The reader, blue-back speller,
and the slate were the chief re
quirements for students upon
entering school.
The school session was an all
day affair.
Those were the days of con
centration and of memorizing,
or else the grim school-master
would resort to the use of he
hickory stick. The result of
this was the old Academy pro
duced many orators and states
men.
Those were the days when the
reader included philology, liter
ature, history, and poetry.
Town’s Fourth Reader was as
difficult for a child nine or ten
years of age as a high schoolcur-
riculum would appear to a child
of this age today. However,
such learning displayed the
force and reach of the human
mind of a child.
As a side issue, Cupid put in
some good work; for the old
desks were found to be deeply
carved with such names as Su
san, Mary, Anne, etc.
In a reader (which I possess),
published in 1838, there is writ
ten, seemingly with a quill, these
words. :
“Sleep, heart of mine,
Why should love awake thee?
Like yonder cloud oe’rhead,
To thy rest betake thee.
“Awaken, heart of mine,
From such dangerous sleeping,
For love’s most beautiful
PERRY HIGH ACIJK1TIES basketball news iPRESS TO BE FETED
BY ATLANTA PAPER
Library To Recei\e Display
of Books
On February 12, the Perry
High School Library will receive
a group of seventy-two new
books tor young people and adults.
1 hose books are from the Georgia
Library Commission. The books
are open for inspection and the
public is invited to see them.
Robert tireene
New Book
A new book which the library
i has received is Furniture of the
Olden Time by Frances c lary
j Morse. This book was donated by
I the grade mothers of the grad
uating class»bf 1936 for the class.
it will be of special interest to
antique lovers as it discusses at
length, with illustrations, the
various forms of antique furn
iture, such as Early American,
Chippendale and Sheraton.
Pat Cartledge
Debating Society Organized
The Senior class organized two
debating societies recently. In
one section of the English class
Frank Daniel was elected presi
dent of the society. Christine
Young and Virgil Hay selected
the subjects.
In the other English class
Mary Armstrong was elected
president and Kheunette Ford
and Annie Ruth Harper selected
the subjects.
In the near future the two
Societies will debate each other.
Some very good debates have
been given in both classes
Annie Ruth Harper
Maps
r I he seventh grade is having a
contest in the 'geography class,
students are exhibiting maps they
have made. The.-e maps show the
products of the different stetions
of the United States.
Panthers to Play Chauncey j
Friday night the Perry Pan-; :
thers will play Chauncey on the
local court. Chauncey is the only
high school team that has beaten
Perry. The Panthers are out for
revenge.
Panthers defeat Pitts
Tuesday night the Perry High
Panthers defeated the Pitts ca-
gers here to a score of 29-27.
This was a fast game through
out and was close all the way.
Friday night Perry played' By
ron in Byron and defeated them
25-14. Saturday night Perry de
feated Bonaire in Bonaire to a
score of 33-12.
This year Perry has scored
629 points to their opponents 364.
The scoring has been led by!
Grinisley, but since Christmas
Parker has been high scorer on
several occasions.
Tuesday night of next week
Perry plays Hawkinsville here.
POTATO ROTS REDUCED
BY PROPER TREATMENT
MISS WOODWARD TO
ADDRESS BOOK CLUB
visions
Truly end in weeping.”
Sentimentalists, weren’t they,
even in the old days?
Notwithstanding their roman
tic sensations the graduates of
the old Playneville Academy be
came men of power and attain
ment so great as to be classed
among the leading intellects of
the state.
BONAIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST
Miss Mary Ellen Stafford was
was week end guest of Miss Fay
Walker.
Mrs. C. P. Taylor, Mr. Pope
Taylor, Jr., and Mr. .). C. Slo-
curnb were week end guests of
Mrs. W. H. Talton.
Sweet potato rots, which each
year take a heavy toll of this im
portant Georgia crop, can b e
greatly reduced by careful selec
tion and treatment of seed pota- — - w —
toes and draws, County AgentW. J world, and a host of others, in-
Atlanta, Ga.—Members of the
Georgia Press Association will
be the guests of The Atlanta
Georgian and Sunday American
at a luncheon at 2:30 o’clock,
Friday, February 5, at the At
lanta Athletic Club.
Notable newspaper writers and
artists, in Atlanta for observa
tion during the week of The
Georgian’s Silver Anniversary,
also will attend the banquet and
meet the editors of Georgia’s
daily and weekly newspapers.
“We here at the Georgian feel
particularly close to the Geor
gia Press Association, for on
three occasions that organiza
tion has recognized the efforts
of our newspapers by public
award,” Herbert Porter, Pub
lisher of The Georgian and Sun
day American, said.
“Among the guests, who in
addition to the editors, will at
tend the luncheon are such out
standing artists as Billy de Beck,
creator of “Barney Google,”
Russ Wcstover, who draws “Til-
lie the Toiler,” Dr. Lewis Haney,
financial writer; Dorothy Kilgal-
len, the girl reporter who was
the woman to fly around tin
Miss Emily Woodward of Vi
enna, author of “Empire,” wili
be the guest speaker at the an
nual luncheon of the Wednesday
afternoon Book Club to be given
at the New Perry Hotel, Satur
day. February 13.
Miss Woodward, an eminent
newspaper woman, is a past
president of the Georgia Press
Association and former editor of
The Vienna News. She founded J
the Georgia Press Institute.
Miss Martha Cooper is presi-j
dent of the club. The following!
committee is in charge of arran-|
gements: Mrs. J. 1-5. Calhoun,!
xMrs. J. L. Beavers, Mrs. C. B. i
Andrew and Mrs. A. P. Whipple. |
MRS. DANIEL RETURNS
Nearly every family has a
true, funny story that has been
handed down for years. In our
family, we have this one:
A women who lived a very
circumscribed life was worried
over some silly, inconsequential
thing that a neighbor had said
about her. She came to our
grandmother with thisgrievance
and received the following ad
vice:
“Don’t be upset. Be charita
ble; God didn’t make us all alike.
Remember, it takes all kinds of
folks to make a world.”
Whereupon the disturbed wo
man exclaimed: “That’s right
and I thank God every day I
ain’t one of them.”
There’s also to this story, a
moral which you can easily see.
federal government
Pension 1 ?) 7 5 ° P6r Cent of the
Mrs. Beulah R. Daniel, field
consultant Health Nurse lorDis-i
trict 9, returned to Perry Mon
day after an absence of several'
months spent in study at Pea
body College, Nashville, Tenn.
and at the Training Field center j
at Brunswick, Ga. .Mrs. Daniel!
is located in the government office
in the Anderson Building.
Friends of Mr. Henry Powell
! will be glad to know that he is
i recuperating nicely from an at
tack of pneumonia.
Mrs. George Blair and Mrs.
Hen Vandergriff returned t o
their home in Elizabeth, N. J.
after spending three week with
the r parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Sisson.
Miss Ida Pearl Stalnaker was at
the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Stalnaker, during
the week end.
Miss Carolyn Tucker spent the
week end with Miss Elizabeth
Marshall in Bonaire.
Miss Nell Watson and Mrs. C.
B. Watson visited Mrs. Cecil
Whitaker, Thursday and Friday.
Miss Virginia Dunaway spent
the week end with Mrs. Herman
Watson.
'I he Perry Panthers were vic
torious over the Bonaire crew
Saturday night by a score of 32
to 12. The score at half was 10 to
7 in favor of Perry. Bonaire plays
Pinehurst Friday night and Una-
dilla Saturday night. Both are
double headers and will be play
ed on the local court.
PERRY MOTOR CO.
LOCAL DEALERS
FOR PENNZOlL
T. Middiebrooks points out
The County Agent this week
received a circular prepared by
H. W. Rankin, plant disease spec
ialist with the state Agricultural
Extension Service, outlining a
system for preventing sweet pota
to rots. He highly recommends
the system, and passes along the
six suggestions:
Do not use for seed any pota
toes which have shown rot on any
part. Cutting the rotten spot out
usually does no good.
Soak all seed potatoes for ten
minutes in Corrosive Sublimate
solution, using 3 ounces Corrosive
Sublimate to each 22 1-2 gallons
ot water. (Jse a wooden vessel
as the solution corrodes metal.
Bed potatoes without rinsing,
Bed treated seed in a place
where potatoes have not been
grown before.
Do not use manure which may
contain refuse from sweet pota
toes in the beds or sweet potato
fields.
Dip the roots of the draws when
you transplant them in a solution
of 1 pound Copper Sulphate, ami
1 pound lime to 2 1-2 gallons of
water or a solution of 1 ounce
Semesan in 3 gallons of water.
Set the draws in land in winch
sweet potatoes have never been
eluding two of the Hearst cor
respondents who recently have
returned from duty in war-torn
Ethopia and Spain.
planted or at least i.i wn.ch no! Graves’
GA. PRESS INSTITUTE
TO HEAR NOTABLES
Atlanta, Ga.—Dr. Alexander,
of Columbia University, recog
nized as one of the foremost ed
ucators in America, will speak
to the editors of Georgia, Feb.
17, opening the Georgia Press
Institute at Athens. The Insti
tute opening on Wednesday, will
conTTnue thru Saturday, Feb. 20.
In announcing Dr. Alexan
der’s appearance, John Paschall,
associate editor and managing
editor of the Atlanta Journal
and John Drewry, director of
the Henry Grady School of
Journalism at the University of
Georgia, stated their belief that
he has a message of importance
to Georgia editors and the peo
ple of the state at large.
Another speaker will be John
Temple GravesII, son of the cel
ebrated Southern editor and ora
tor, who will speak on Friday of
Press Institute week. Mr.
. : ? Irs - Dan Harris, cf Sanders- Mr. and Mr?. Luther Spears
rA: was the guest of Mrs. G. announce the birth of a son on
'•inn several days last week,* Sunday, January <->1.
TUCKER FUNERAL HOME
Perry, Ga.
Phone 173 Swift St. J
A Dignified and Sympathetic
Service
AMBULANCE SERVICE
A wise old owl is giving some
timely advise to local motorists
in the new series of Pennzoil ad
vertisements appearing in the
Home Journal. The adverti-e-
ments are something entirely new
in motor oil advertising, with
each one featuring an amusing
caricature of an old owl and
two little ones.
According to Louis Singleton
of the Perry Motor Co., local
Pennzoil representatives, increas
ed sales volume in this territory
indicates that hundreds of motor-1
ists already are taking the
trouble from rot
encountered
nus ever beet;
newspaper column,
which originates in the Birming
ham Age-Herald, is carried in
rn, z, , * . . . i ilcllli ni'U-UURlU, lb Cell 1 IUU III
the County Agent pointed out the Atlanta Constitution, and
that a handy way to treat seed
potatoes is to use 50 gallon bar
rel. This will hold 22 1-2 gallons
of water and 3 ounces of Corro
sive Sublimate, and leave room
for a sack of potatoes. Use thin
sacks or baskets as thick heavy
sacks absorb too much treating
material. Raise and lower the!
sacks several times to make sure
of wetting the potatoes. Because
the solution is weakened by the
potatoes, being soaked in it, add
1-2 ounce of Corrosive Sublimate
after each treatment and bring
the water level back up to the
221-2 gallon mark. After 5 or 6
treatments throw the solution
away and make up a new lot. i
Corrosive Sublimate is deadly
poison, he warned.
HEARD DISTRICT NEWS
has created a large following for
this gitfed interpreter of sect
ional life.
FIVE STOCK SHOWS
TO BE HELD IN STATE
Five state-wide Fat Stock
Shows and Sales, and more than
a dozen more local ones, will be
held in Georgia during March
and April, and R. E. Davis, beef
cattle specialist with the Agri
cultural PIxtension Service, re
ports that more high quality
steers are now on feed for these
shows than ever in the history
of the state. The sixth annual
show and sale will be held in
Savannah, March 25-26. Au
gusta will hold its first annual
j show and sale March 30-31. Al-
,, . .. „ , , ! bany will follow with its fourth
Mr. and Mrs. 1 aul Clark and s annual affair April 6-7. Macon’s
children of Liberia, spent Sun-/fj rs t annual show and sale is
day with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. j scheduled for April 12-13, and
Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Carney and family. • seconc j annua j show and sale
Bobbie Edmondson of Grova-lis set for Atlanta April 20-21.
ina. spent Saturday night With | More local shows and sales will
Glenn Heard. ! be held at Columbus, Valdosta,
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McGee of j SHvania, Blakely, Moultrie,
Walden, were the guests of her I t 1CU JV ^!: on ’ Blakshear,
mother, Mrs. J. W. Kersey, Sun- i Baxl( W> Mount Vernon, and other
1 points.
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Mangrahales
Griffin and family of Macon
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Hollis.
NOTICE
“ B |i Mr. and Mrs. I, V, Heard had
adviie to
Pennzoil.” He announced that
Pennzoil is available at all dealers
displaying the bonded Pennzoil
dealer sign.
The American Legion Auxilary
,vir. emu ivirs. x, v, nearu naa a ^ V ie home ot Mrs.
as their guests Sunday, Mr. andj • ^ rs - Bier-
Mrs. John Carswell of Grovania, ce and Mrs. G. W. Rhodes as co-
and Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Wat- Jj° Q s . tess ’ Thursday, Feb. 11th at
son and children. i3:A) p. m.