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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXVI. No. 7
ESTABLISHED 1870
TOURNAMENT OPENS;
PERRY IS FAVORITE
The Third District’s Class B ;
boys’ basketball tournament
opened at Pitts at 3 o’clock Tues
day afternoon with the Cuthbert
High cagers meeting the Ella-
viHe High basketeers.
Five games were played in the
tournament the first day. The
tourney will run through Satur
day night. Saturday night .the
winners of the Class C meet will
combat the Class B champions.
The finals between the four
sectional winners of Class C
tournaments will be played
Thursday and Friday.
Perry, Chauncey and Pitts are
favorits in the Class B tourney.
Hawkinsville, Eastman and
Ellaville have above the average
teams and nny prove to be dark
horses in the meet.
The pairings are as follows:
Upper bracket: Pitts vs
Americus, Buena Vista vs Fort
Valley, Hawkinsville vs Vienna,
Eastman vs Ashburn.
Lower bracket: Perry vs bye,
Sycamore vs Cordele, Cuthbert
vs Ellaville, and Chauncey vs
bye.
Harold McNabb of Albany
will referee all games.
The following are results of
games played Tuesday afternoon
and night. Eastman defeated
Ashburn, 31-27; Ellaville con-i
auered Cuthbert, 41-33; Syca
more beat Cordele, 35-33; Pitts
smothered Ameri«us. 64-14;
Hawkinsville checked Vienna,
38-26, and Fort Valley won from
Buena Vista via the forfeit
route.
Wednesday night at 7 o’clock
Ellaville plays Chauncey, at 8
o’clock, Hawkinsville battles
Eastman, at 9 o’clock, Perry
combats Sycamore, and at 10
o’clock the Pitts crew engages
Fort Valley.
D. A. GARVIN PASSES
AT CENTERVILLE HOME
HIGHLIGHTS IN GEORGIA NEWS
| ^ Funeral services for D. A.
I Garvin, merchant and farmer at
I Centerville who died at his resi-
jdence Saturday night, was held
at 11 a. m. Monday in the Hattie
Baptist church ther<>. Elder J.
Harvey Daley officiated and in
terment was in the Garvin ceme
tery.
Pallbearers were R. F. Scar
borough, 0. E. Rape, 0. E. Rape
Jr., Ralph Rape, Ed Cheek and
Felton Strafford.
Mr. Garvin was born in Hous
ton county, August 26, 1882, the
son of A. J. Garvin and Mrs.
Georgia Brantley Garvin, and!
had lived in the county all of his I
life. !
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. C.
L. Davis, a neice, Miss Margaret
Davis; two nephews, Carey Da
vis, Jr., and Floyd Davis; and an
aunt, Mrs. Carrie B. McIntyre,
all of Macon.
PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES
Club Presents Program
The Perry High school Music
club presented a program to the
student body on Monday morn
ing. Those taking part on the
program were: Maurice White,
Jean Grubb, Marion Grubb,
Robert Greene, Albert Skellie,
Leonora Houser, Rheunette
Ford, Ruth Tabor, Carolyn Mar
shall, and Ruth Munson.
Latin Notes
P. T. A. MEETING
The February meeting of the
Perry P. T. A. was held at the
school Tuesday afternoon last
week with Mrs. T. R. Summers,
the president, presiding.
Founder’s Day was observed
with an impressive candle light
ing ceremony, arranged and pre
sented by the program chairman,
Mrs. W. B. Evans, who intro
duced the program with an orig
inal birthday thought.
A pretty three-iiered cake,
decorated in the P. T. A. colors
ei blue and gold, held twelve
candles. The three on the top
tier were lighted in honor of
M rs - Theodore Birney, Mrs.
rhoebe Hearst and the teachers
and present members of the Per-
G association. On the second
tier were the nine candles lighted
oi' the seven past presidents of
r D rfl organization, Mesdames
I 1 Cooper, Holt Skellie, C. D.
Cooper, H. P. Dobbins, J. A.
E. Gor.iy and Miss
artha Cooper; the present
Z S \{ ent r Mrs - T - R - Summers,
and the P. T. A.’s future.
hose who lighted the candles
e even teachers of the
Fvo A Misses Mary Lee Greene,
VaH i ai o m : Kathryn Lawson,
A] Rl u Smith, Dorothy Jones,
W,p e Ryals > Louise Houser,
Lo, S y - als ’ Mary Dil1 a r d ,
"Wise Ramey and Mrs. J. 0
The second year Latin class
has just begun the study of
Cesar’s military campaigns. As
an introduction to. the course,
they compared Caesar’s army to
the United States army in size,
equipment, methods, dress, etc.
Then each member constructed
a miniature instruments of war
fare. Those having the best
pieces were Norton Buff, Jerry
Jones, and Ida Stembringe.
Tournament
All of the students are inter
ested in the tournament this
week. More news of it will be
found elsewhere in the paper.
1 The Georgia house of repre
sentatives voted a $10,000 fund
Monday to investigate state
i operation under former Governor
Eugene Talmadge with one mem
ber warning “we are going to
resurrect Talmadge and bring
him back to beat hell out of us.”
The Bureau of Public Roads
has informed Represeatative
Ramspeck there is approximate
ly 18 million dollars available for
Georgia road construction. Of
this amount, 13 million dollars
was unexpended balance avail
able as of January 1. Of the
five million-dollor allocation,
$600,000 will be available for
farm-to-market roads, providing
it is matched by equal state
funds.
A public hearing Thursday will
begin action on two prohibition
repeal measures introduced in
j t h e house of representatives
j Monday.
j One of them, signed by Repre
sentative Theo W. Coleman of
j Lowndes county, would give the
I state a monopoly of hard liquor,
land would yield an income of ap
proximately $4,500,000 annually,
the author estimated.
The other was signed by Rep
resentative William G. Hastings
of Fulton county, and would al
low repeal on a local option plan
based on referenda in the vari
ous counties. His bill provides
for “package stores” and for li
censing bars in dining cars.
Hastings estimated state reve
nue at $2,400,000 annually from
an excise tax, plus income from
license fees.
Income for the state of Geor
gia during 1936 amounted to $30,-
962,304, compared with $29,173,-
695 for the previous year, ac
cording to State Auditor Tom
Wisdom’s report on the state
treasury to Governor Rivers The
increase was $788,609 for the
year. Funds were divided $21.-
758,595 to allocated funds and
$9,203,709 to the general fund.
The 1936 fiscal year was operat
ed under executive direction and
without a legislative appropria
tion, the auditor pointed out, re
ferring to the one man control of
former Governor Talmadge.
Though the General Assembly
figuratively took off its coat anil
got down to business with the
least possible delay few actual
laws have been adopted and
signed by Governor Rivers. The
most important of these to the
state at large is the bill provid
ing lor a uniform seven months
school term. Another quickly
made law was the temporary ap
propriation bill. Others on the
verge of being made laws are
the highway patrol bill and so
cial security legislation.
REHOBOTH MEETING
IN PERRY FEBRUARY 26
The annual meeting of the Re
hoboth Woman’s Missionary Un
ion will be held at the Perry
Baptist church Friday, Feb. 26,
and the session will be presided
over by Mrs Alva Davis, super
intendent of the Rehoboth W. M.
Among the leading speakers
be Rev. Jacob Gartenhaus,
GAME PROTECTION IS
SOUGHT INPROGRAM
VALENTINE CARNIVAL
D. A. R. MEETING
Betty Jone a s nd & h ' gh SCh ° o1 pupil
wJ d ?! tional enjoyable fea-
Fir«t-r j , P r °gram was the
“Hrn- ^ni e band’s rendition of
and Fla * Goes B y.”
L T dwalks °f New York.”
W L. Norwood, Jr.,
Sk'eii!r ” hippie, and Albert
social hour 6 hostesses durin £ the
A Washington birthday pro
gram was presented by Mrs. L.
M. Paul, Sr., at the February
meeting of the General Daniel
C. Stewart chapter of the D. A.
R. which was held Wednesday
afternoon last week at her home.
“When Washington Was At
Home in Charleston, S. C.” was
the title of a paper given by Mrs.
C. B. Andrew. Mrs. J. A. Da
vis talked on “Washington, Our
National Capitol” and Mrs. L.M.
Paul, Jr.,on"National Defense.”
!Mrs. Paul, Sr., told of the “Ori
gin of Home Sweet Home.”
The brief business session was
presided over by Mrs. H. T. Gil
bert, the regent, who announced
that the traveling Genealogical
library will arrive February 16
and the members will have ac
cess to these books two weeks.
Mrs. James Long of Fort Val
ley was welcomed as a new
member.
Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Smoak
were assisted by their daughters,
Miss Roselyn Paul and Mrs.
Long in serving a delicious salad
course during the social hour.
The Valentine carnival given
by the Perry P. T. A. in the
school gymnasium Friday even
ing was an occasion of enjoy
ment for the pupils of the school
and other children of the com
munity. The selection of the
grammar school and high school
Valentine queens, from those
elected from each grade, was a
feature of special interest. Mer-
ryle Hunnicutt, the third grade
representative, ond Miss Mar
jorie Warren, tenth grade, re
ceived the largest number of
votes. They were crowned by
Miss Mary Dillard at the close o;
the evening.
Bingo and a Valentine heart
tree furnished amusement. A
variety of good things to eat, in
eluding plate suppers, weiners,
candy, sandwiches, coffee and
cold drinks were to be had.
About $70.00 was cleared.
The ways and means commit
tee of which Mrs. Max Moore is
chairman, and Mrs. C. C. Pierce
co-chairman, was in charge of
this affair. Other members ot
this committee are: Mesdames B.
H. Andrew, Jr., G. D. Harvey
and C. I. Shelton. W o r ki n g
with this group were the presi
dent, Mrs. T. R. Summers, the
teachers, grade mothers and
other P. T. A. members.
Georgia editors a t present
gathered at Athens for the an
nual Press Institute, were con
gratulating John Paschal, asso
ciate editor and managing editor
of the Atlanta Journal and John
Drewry, of the Henry Grady
School of Journalism at the Uni
versity of Georgia, on the splen
did program, which included
addresses by John Temple
of the Birmingham Age-Herald,
Dr. Thomas Alexander, of Co
lumbia University and Professor
Thomas Barnhart, of the Minne
sota School of Journalism. The
gridiron banquet to be held Fri
day night, will be presided over
by Miss Emily Woodward, for
mer president of the association
and founder of the institute.
of the Home Mission board, who
will bring the missionary ad
dress, and Miss Miriam Robin
son of Atlanta, State Young Peo
ple’s leader.
Mrs. F. W. Withoft, divisional
vice president of the West Cen
tral division W. M. U., will also
speak and her subject will be
Extension and Enlistment.
The Rehoboth group includes
churches of Forsyth, Montezuma
Beynolds, Macon, Fort Valley,
Roberta, Marshallville and other
places of this section.
MRS. J. W. HADDOCK DIES
BONAIRE NEWS
HEARD DISTRICT NEWS
EMORY GLEE CLUB STOPS HERE
ford 'i nd Mrs - Charles Lank-
birrh ^anta, announce the
on FoV a Son ’ Samuel Leonard,
mar£ brUary 14 - Before h e .
Miss rffv. ^ rs ' Lankford was
!y of PeJ?y nne Crowe11 ’ former-
Golvard left last
si )e will B^Jdyn, N. Y., where
'•ml w p e Hi a - re f’ Mr -
hnie. Harris, for some j
da ^ghters M R S L G P' Harvey and
di« ;. * n s> Betty Jane and Ad-
Cel to with relative^ in M ° nti '
The Emory Glee club of Em
ory University, the “South’ s
Sweetest Singers,” stopped in
Perry for lunch Friday after
noon, on their way to Tifton for
a concert there Friday night.
Francis Nunn, former presi
dent, joined the club here. Dr.
Malcolm H. Dewey is director.
The club will have eight concerts
on the tour, including engage
ment at Miami Biltmore at Mi-
mi. There were 39 boys on the
trip.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Kel-
! ler, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Day, of
J Athens, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred-
| erick Pember, of Augusta, were
j the guests recently of Mr. and
j Mrs. W. D. Kersey.
Mrs. I. V. Heard and Mrs.
'Paul Clark spent last Wednes-
jday with Mrs. J. E. Carney.
Mrs. Wes Jones, Mrs. Will
IKimbrew, Mrs. John Herrington
land Mr. John Parker, of Macon,
I were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Carney Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hollis and
little daughter, Bobbie Jean,
j spent Saturday in Macon.
Mr. and Mrs. V. M' Smith and
sons, Billie and Roliie, Miss
Elizabeth Murray and Miss Fa-
rice Spargler, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Sasser.
Miss Carolyn Marshall, of Per
ry, was the week-end guest of
Miss Carolyn Howard.
Mr. Julian Nowell visited Mr
Jack Bell Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Edwards,
Miss Kathryn Edwards and little
Niel Edwards, visited Mr. and
Mrs. T. J. Mitchell, of Coch
ran, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Johnson
and family, df Wellston, spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Johnson.
Miss Ada Anthony visited Miss
Lucile Goss, in Byron, during
the week-end.
Miss Emma Hamilton, of Ma
con, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Stalnaker.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sullivan
and family were the guests of
dr. and Mrs. G. S. Walker Sun
day.
Mr. Carlton Hayes spent the
week end with relatives in Well
ston,
The Byron girls will come to
Banaire Tuesday for a practice
game. This game will be in pre
paration of the tournament
which is to be held in Vienna on
February 25th.
Miss Thelma Goss is spending
a few days with her sister, Miss
Lucile Goss, in Bonaire.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. P.
G. Marshall, who are ill at thier
home in Wellston, are wishing
them a speedy recovery.
FORT VALLEY,Ga.—Funeral
services for Mrs. J. W. Haddock,
83, were conducted from the
home on College street Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock (CST)
with Rev. M. D. Reed, Baptist
pastor, and Rev. J. E. Sampley,
pastor of the Methodist church,
officiating.
Mrs. Haddock had been ill for
some weeks, and her death was
not unexpected. She was a mem
ber of the Fort Valley Baptist
church. Mrs. Haddock was the
former Miss Mary Lou Killen,
daughter of Judge Doddridge
and Ann Baskin Killen,of Perry.
In 1874, she married Edwin John
Houser, oldest son of Captain
and Mrs. John A. Houser, of
Fort Valley, who died in 1886.
She was married to J. W. Had
dock, of Quitman, in 1903 and
lived there until his death in
1933. She has since made her
home with an only son, John A.
Houser, of Fort Valley.
Besides her son, survivors in
clude two granddaughters, Mrs.
W. B. Collins and Mrs. S. V.
Olenic, of Rome; three grand
children, Claire Houser, Burton
Collins, Jr., Laura Olenic, ol
Rome; and one sister, Mrs. Fan
nie Norwood, of Perry. Inter
ment was in Oaklawn cemetery.
AUXILIARY MEETS
The February meeting of the
Georgia farmers are urged by
Zack D. Cravey, Commissioner
of Game and Fish, to participate
in the 1937 Agricultural Conser
vation Program of the Federal
Government.
Cravey states that while this
plan is primarily directed to the
conservation of the soil on farms,
it is also very beneficial to the
wildlife of the state.
Restrictions on land rented
under this program require cer
tain proportions of the feed to
be left on the land, both for soil
building practices and for wild
life feed.
Farms will be divided into
classes I and II. Class I pay
ments are expected to average
about $9.00 per acre. Class II
poyments will be made at va
rious rates depending upon the
practices carried out, the rates
for most practices being within
the range of $1.00 to $3.00 per
acre. Payments will be made
upon application filed with the
County Agricultural Conserva
tion Committee, within the pre
scribed time, and upon verifica
tion by that committee of the '
performance of practices on
farms for which work sheets
have been filed.
In the Southern Region (in
cluding Georgia) payments may
be made for various practices,
which as an incidental effect,
will prove of benefit to wildlife.
Class I or diversion awards may
be earned for certain reductions
in acreage of soil-depleting crops
such as cotton, tobacco, corn, po
tatoes, etc., and substituting for
them on land from which no
soil-depleting crop is harvested
the same year; grain, sorghums
(seeded solid), sweet sorghums,
millets or Sudan grass, not har
vested for grain, seed or forage;
cover crops, including rye, bar-
lej, oats, wheat, and grain mix
tures, not cut for grain or hay
and left on the land; and forest
trees planted on cropland .since
January 1, 1934. Class II or
soil-building allowances may be
earned by planting of lespedeza,
any sorghum, Sudan grass, or
millet (or in a cropping rotation,
mixture of grasses or legumes)
and all the crop left on the land,
md for forest trees ^planted on
cropland in 1937.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given of in-
Auxiliary to the Robert D. Col- ‘V ,ie V c 7 * , u ven OI ln '
lins post of the American Legion ! [ th app th ,f, passa 1 Re
was field last Thursday at the k.h Ass ,?™kly °* a 1°-
was field last Thursday at tht
home of Mrs. W. G. Riley with
Mrs. G. W. Rhodes and Mrs. G.
C. Pierce as co-hostesses.
A talk on “American Citizen
ship” was made by Pat Cart-
ledge. Mrs. L. M. Paul, Jr.,
talked on “National Defense.”
fnis program was arranged and
presented by Mrs. J. M. Gooden,
Americanism and National De
fense chairman.
In the business session, presid
ed over by Mrs. J. B. Calhoun,
the president, committees were
appointed to make plans for the
sixteenth birthday anniversary
of the Legion to be celebrated
cal bill entitled as follows:
“An Act to create a new char
ter for the town of Perry in the
County of Houston, and to rein
corporate said town under the
name of the City of Perry, and
to define its territorial limits;
to continue in operation, confirm,
and consolidate all Acts hereto
fore passed incorporating said
town and amending the charter
thereof; to provide for all ordi
nances, rules, regulations, and
resolutions of said town, now in
force and not in conflict with this
Act, to be preserved, continue cf
force and remain valid and bind
ing until the same are repealed
March 15. Mrs. T. R. Summers[,. n .j , i * ,
and Mrs. E. V. Peed were ap- add ; ai ™ 2nded -. ta declare and
pointed to have charge of the > ^® t . Rute tde n&hts and powers
- - K • of said corporation; to provide
MR. J. J. STRIPLING DIES IN TEXAS
Mr. J. J Stripling, a former
resident of Houston county, died
at his home in Port Arthur, Tex
as, last Sunday, February 14.
He was a brother of Mrs. Geo.
T. Hunt, of Kathleen, G. L.
Stripling, of Macon, and J. R.
Stripling, of Hialeah, Fla.
! Mrs. Juliette Hurst Lee and
daughter, Miss Juliette Lee, of
Dawson,spent the weekend with
Mrs. Lee’s mother, Mrs. Sam
Hurst, and her brother, Mr.Sam
I Hurst. 1
John Hurst spent last week
end at Mercer University with
his brother, Mr. Hunter Hurst.
No one cancels his life insur
ance because he gets sick, but
some merchants, when business
gets dull, cancel their advertis
ing.
NOTICE
The Perry Garden club will
meet at the home of Mrs. W. K.
Whipple Friday at 3:30 p. m.
The members are asked to
bring their year books. A prize
will be given to one havi-ng the
book with the most attractively
decorated cover.
cake; Mrs. T. C. Rogers, chair
man of entertainment, and Mrs.
C. C. Pierce, refreshments.
This unit approved the resolu
tions of the Cordele unit to pre-
the rights and powers, duties
and qualifications of all officers,
and the manner of their election
and removal from office; etc.”
This sixteenth day of Febru-
sent the name of Mrs. E. C. Pul-1*• S1 ^ een £ n d f y , ot * epr .u
|pn fnr hThTp nrpQiHpnt ! a ^y> nineteen hundred and thir
len for state president
The members were invited toj
attend a third district meeting toi
be held in Fitzgerald on March 4. J
A dainty salad course, in which I
the Valentine motif prevailed,
was served by the hostesses atj
the close of the meeting.
ty-seven.
Felton Norwood,
Clerk, City of Perry.
JOKES
POLLY ANNA BEAUTY SHOPPE MOVES
The Polly Anna Beauty Shoppe
will be moved at an early date
from the Masonic building to the
Whipple building on Ball street.
The rooms it will occupy in this
building are being attractively
decorated and will be efficiently
equipped.
Miss Glowee Johnson, the new
Visitor: “Your uncle seems a
little hard of hearing.”
Jasper: “Hard of hearing! I
should say not! Why, once he
conducted family prayer kneeling
on the cat!”
Do not start your car or allow
the engine to run in the garage
while the doors are closed. The
exhaust fumes will produce
, death in a few minutes. They
operator, is experienced and has attack without warning, first
recently completed a post grad-[paralyzing their victim, so that
uate course in Jacksonville, Fla. 1 he cannot escape.