Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, February 02, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL VOL. LXVIII. No, 5. COUNTY RAISES $4OO IN POLIO CAMPAIGN —— Houston county raised $408.56 in the drive to raise funds to aid Infantile Paralysis sufferers and fight this dread disease, accord incr to incomplete reports re ceived Wednesday by S.W. Hick son, committee treasurer. The money was realized through But ton Sales and various entertain ments held by committees in the C °Theamounts reported to date are as follows: Perry, $163 36; Centerville, $53.38; School Chil dren, $52.65; Bonaire, Wellston, and Kathleen, $3B; Henderson, $29: Clinchfield Union, $11.25; Retry Baptist church, $16.80; El ko, SU: Grovania, $3.07; Hayne ville, $3.55; Clinchfield. $5, Perry Methodist church. $5.50. $BO of Perry’s fund was raised Monday night, the President’s birthday, at a party at the school building. One of the best local entertainments ever given in Ferry was presented at this time under the direction of Mrs. E. P, Staples. The program included several vccal numbers by Mrs. Virgil Bass with Mrs. Mayo Davis as pianist; tap dances by Jack Wynne; black face comedy skit by Jake Parnell, Dr. Geo. B. Foote, and G. Francis Nunn in eluding guitar solos by Dr. Foote, songs by Mr. Nunn, and dancing by Mr. Parnell: songs by the Harmony Girls, Misses Leonora Houser, Margaret Powell, and Evelyn Hunt, with Mss Willie Ryals as pianist; a drill by high school girls directed by Miss Opal Hughes. Dan Dobbins was master of ceremonies. Games and dancing were en joyed in the Home Economics department. County Chmn. J. P, Etheridge was present and thanked all com mittees for their fine work. KIWANIS CLUB MEETS Walter Williams, president of Macon Production Credit Asso ciation; W.H, Watson, secty. and treas.; R. L. Knight, J. B. East erling, Jr., C. B. Matson, direc tors; together with the employes of the association, Mr, braddy. assistant to the secretary and Ireasurer, Miss Hazel Anderson and Mrs. Harris, secretaries; Homer Calhoun of Bibb County and Mercer Murray of Peach County, Inspectors, were guests at the Kiwanis luncheon. Also present as guests were Joseph E. Cagle, president of the Federal Intermediate Ci eJit l ank of Co lumbia; Hnara Garoner, vice president of Production Credit Corporation, and Mr. Miller, con nected with Production Credit Corp. Francis Nunn and Wendell hippie rendered several vocal selections and Horace P. Morgan, agronomist with the Soil Conser vation Service, with headquart ers in Perry, male an interest ing talk on reforestation as a phase of soil con enation. YOUTH RALLY FEB. 12 At Mulberry Street Methodist Church in Macon, beginning at Thursday evening a great ?,,, y young people will be held. J nia is one of the initial Youth Crusade rallies being held in all churches. Bishop Decell is to be L ‘ie chief speaker on this occa ylo t Dther speakers will be Dr. j L Senter of the Vineville, Methodist church, and Dr. S. O. i Kimbrough of the f or.h Alaba-j ;I ja conference. Quite a number! M young people from Perry will! ntiend this rally. All chose in-1 j-orested in going will meet at the! Methodist church at 6:30 Thurs day evening. Conveyance has' >een secured for all who will at-J »-end. ELKO CHARGE NEWS | , {jj e best quarterly conference \ Elko charge, Methodist church, will be held with An ■ew Chapel at Houston Lake, Wednesday. Feb. 15, at 11 a. m. ~ will be conducted by l Presidin £ Eider, Rev. Silas! i hnson. Dinner will be served) the ladies of the Andrew! ' napel community. Everyone invited to attend. Rev. W. J, Erwin, Pastor, i | WESLEYAN GLEE CLUB | TO BE HERE SUNDAY | j Members of the Wesleyan Col lege Glee club will participate in I the services at the Perry Metho dist church next Sunday at the I regular morning hour, 11:30 [o’clock. These young ladies will have charge of the music and [ conduct the choir at this hour, 1 having prepared a special pro igram for the occasion, j Members of the Glee club who will be present are: Misses Ora Hollis, Addie Rie McKellar, Frances Campbell, Margaret Lewis, Margaret Hunter. La- Verne Baird, Yvonne Walker, Jan Stanton, Virginia Scar borough; Miss Martha Schaeffer, accompanist. The first Sunday in February is being observed throughout the church as College Day, which is an annual observance participat ed in by thousands of congrega tions, laying emphasis upon the importance of Christian educa tion. Upon request Wesleyan College has kindly consented to provide an appropriate program for the observance of the day in i the Perry church. Through the [years Perry girls have attended [Wesleyan. The peofie of Perry have good cause to feel that Wesleyan is “our own college,” and :re always doubly interested in any program participated in by the students of this institu tion. COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS OF J, P. ETHERIDGE GIVEN j Hon. J. P. Etheridge, Houston I County Representative in the Ga. [ Legislature, has been appointed to the following committees; County and County Matters, vice-chairman; Amendments to Constitution, No. 1; Conserva tion; Education, No. 2; Game & Fish, Rules, Ways & Means, , Georgia State Sanitarium, Peni tentiary, Privilege of the Floor, Public Highways No. 2, Public Welfare, Sanitarium at Alto, and Stats Prison Farm. IN MEMORY OF MRS. JONES On January fifth just as the day was coming to a close, the death angel came into a home in the little community of Heard, thus causing the sad news that Mrs. Annie Jones had passed away, leaving there a loving daughter, a devoted son, and a heart broken husband to mourn her death. Many friends too were deeply touched for they loved her dearly. She had been sick for a long time and we knew her days were just a few but hearts were not prepared to meet the sudden shock. Truly the community has suffered a great loss, but re joice in that sweet hope of our loss being her eternal gain. She was a faithful member of her church and proved that she loved her Blessed Redeemer by the sweet Christian life she lived. She lived a life that was a light to others on their way and we i will cherish it in our memory,for lit will live on and on though she ! sleeps. We know the fireside is lonely and the vacant chair can never be filled, but God doeth all things [good for those who love Him and may His Blessed Words. [ “God Giveth, God Taketh, Bles l sed be the name of the Lord, ” be I a comfort to each of you. ! To you lonely ones, we beg you | not to weep for your loved one, | but to dry your tears of grief for ; some day we hope to meet her in 1 that grand and glorious Reunion [ where all is peace and love and I partings are no more, then we | will understand. A Friend. Valentine Carnival Perry Basketball Court THURSDAY, FEB. 9, 7:00 P. M. Sponsored by Perry P. T. A. j SUPPER - GAMES PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1939 J VALUE OF COUNTY CROPS ESTIMATED 1 Estimated total value of prin* [ cipaj crops and livestock produc* : ed in Houston county during 1938 is placed at $960,000 by County Agent W. T. Middle brooks. This is a decrease of 20 per cent from the correspond ing total for 1937, being due to bad weather conditions and a * lower price for products as well 1 as a reduction in the cotton crop Of the cash crops, cotton leads ' with a total value for lint and seed of $300,000. Last report on cotton ginnings gave 4,377 bales ginned in 1938 in Houston coun-[ ty as compared with 5,200 bales | in 1937. 1 Peanuts are second with a val ; ue of $lBO,OOO, and corn, third ’ with a value of $144,000. Other valuations are as fol lows: Wheat, $40,000; Oats, ; $40,000; Pecans. $35,000; Hay, $30,000; Watermelons, $16,000; 1 Pepper, $10,000; Cantalopes, $B,- * 000; Vegetables, $25,000; Aspara -1 gus, $2,500; Rye, $1,500; Hogs, $108,000; Cows, $20,000. 1 ; STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING OF PRODUCTION CREDIT ASS’N. i The annual Stockholders’ Meet ing of Macon Production Credit Association was held at Perry at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday. S. A. Nunn extended a wel come to the officers, directors, j members of the association, and the visitors present. Walter Williams of Jones coun ty, president of the association 1 presided. A full report of the year’s operations of the associa- I tion was presented by President Walter Williams and Secty. and Treas. W. H. Watson, Hi a n > Gardner, formerly of Eaton ton, ■ talked on production credit and - the working of the production credit system. Mr. Gardner is ■ vice-president of the Production Credit Corporation of Columbia, : S. C. Joseph E. Cagel, presi-! 1 dent of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Columbia, was a visitor and made a short talk. Mr. Cagle, like Mr. Gardner, is ! native Georgian and was former ly assistant superintendent of Banks of Georgia, i Approximately three hundred ! stockholders from a number of different counties in Middle Georg a were present at the 1 : meeting. This was the largest attendance in the history of the j ; association. C. Boss Watson of: . Houston county and J. B. Eas-1 i terling, Jr., of Macon county, ; were re-elected as directors for 1 three-year terms. MR. M. T. PEW i By PAUL MUSE I Do you know M. T. Pew? If you do nor, or if you have never • given him much consideration if you do know him, I want you to give this shadowy individual ; some extra attention. Something needs to be done about him—or to him. ; As a man among men I like to ; know every one. As a minister • I want to have a kind word and ; welcome for every one. There is one exception to this. It is this fellow M. T. Pew. I have ■ no welcome for him in my ; church, I do not even wish him well—this black sheep. I hope that his tribe may rapidly di minish, for he certainly is one of the devil’s right hand men. And he is a power in the church. M. T, Pew never has anything to say. He is as still as the dead and as silent as the tomb. Yet he is the most disturbing presence a preacher has to face. His silent, lifeless attitude throws more coldness over a church service than a flock of icebergs or a congregation of I crapshooters. His blankness Isays with thundering effect that | the person who ought to be ' where he is doesn’t care a rapi ! for the preacher, the sermon or | the service. Louder than any ! words could say it his emptiness jis the speech of action that says: j “The church doesn't amount to 'much anyway.’’ The careless, j indifferent pose of M. T. Pew, —l wirnmmmmm—mmmmmmmm—mmmmmmm- NEW SUB-DIVISION OPENED IN PERRY A new real estate sub-division has been opened in Perry this week by Dr. K. L. Cater on the property where his former home stood until destroyed by fire sev eral years ago. The main street through the sub-division is an extension of Evergreen street. There are three avenues, Cater Ave., Dun can Ave., and TolleSon Ave., Which are sixty-six feet wide. Sidewalks are twelve ft. wide. Duncan Ave, joins Washington street in front of Mrs. Minnie [Couey’s home. [ There are thirty-five building 1 lots for homes in this section. A few of the lots are on what is known as the Duncan land, own ed by Mrs, R. L. Cater and Mrs, Rol Pate. Rhodes Sewell surveyed the land and drew the plans. Grad ing work was done under the su pervision of Homer Chapman. ALL CONSTRUCTION RECORDS BROKEN BY HIGHWAY BOAHD The present State Highway Board broke all previous con struction records during the fis cal year ending June 30 by spend ing $20,507,767 on construction projects, it was revealed in the board’s report, just made public. This construction expenditure compared with $13,524,715 in 1937; $10,746,251 in 1936; $ll,- 619,991 in 1935, and $9,016,229 in 1934. Of the 1938 expendi ture, $18,944,789 went for actual construction, $1,145,446 for con struction supervision and $417,- 531 for surveys. Of the contracts let during the fiscal year $12,- 608,685 were federal aid pro jects and $3,215,091 state aid l projects. The remainder were county, post roads and miscella neous projects. During the year the board add ed 834 miles to the State High way System bringing the sys tem to a total of 10,935 miles. On [the system there still are 4,295 miles of plain earth roads. There are 472 miles of top soil or sand clay surface roads, 845 miles surfaced with gravel and maca dam, 2,535 miles that have had surface treatment with various materials, 360 miles of penetra tion macadam, 457 miles of bitu -1 minous concrete, 1,921 miles of : concrete and 12 miles of brick 1 paving. | The Highway Board is compos-) led of W. L. Miller, of Lakeland, [chmn.; James L. Gillis, of Soper jton, and Herrm n Watson, of ; Dallas. ’ and that, too, right under the ■; nose of the preacher while he is ; | trying to preach, says, “Your rwork, the ministry and the gos- I pel are very insignificant mat ; ters— not near as important as the morning mail, the Sunday paper or street-corner yarns and > town gossip.” •j I’d rather preach to a house I I full of bootleggers and gamblers ; I than a house full of the like of i M. T. Pew. In fact, M. T. Pew i !is a greater menace to the coun try than all its underworld of 1 1 bootleggers, gamblers and im -11 moral degenerates. Were it not • for the former perhaps there j would be none of the latter—at 11 least not many. i Many people in this country : 1 become excited over the presence : and activity of so-called “Keds,” j “Communists,”and “Socialists.” ■j A far greater threat to Ameri icanism than all these combined jis the like of M. T. Pew. And there is nothing that takes the i preach out of the preacher sol ! completely as the presence of j i this scalawag at a service. Could i we do away with M. T. Pew the| devil would lose one of his best' friends and the church would be' rid of its most serious handicap. | If more people would attend : church we would see less of M * iT. Pew, Who is this M. T, Pew, any-|, way? Let’s sit on him. APPLICATIONS FOR LOANS BEING RECEIVED! I Applications for emergency! crop and feed loans for 1939 are now being received at Court House, Clerk’s Office, Perry,Ga., by C. G. Hayes, field supervisor of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Section of the Farm Credit Administration. The loans will be made, as in the past, only to farmers whose cash requirements are small and who cannot obtain credit from any other source. The money loaned will be limited to the farmer’s immediate and actual cash needs for growing his 1939 crops or for the purchase of feed for livestock. Farmers who can obtain the funds they need from an individ ual, production credit association, bank or other concern are not eligible for crop and feed loans from the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Section of the Farm Credit Administration. BONAIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS ITEMS Or INTEREST The Bonaire basketball teams defeated the Byron teams on the local court Saturday night, Jan. 28. These games were the fourth in a series played by these teams. Both Bonaire teams were victorious. The boys score of 35 to 13 makes it a tie in games for the quintets. The girls score of 11 to 9 gives the Bonaire lassies three victories and one tie. The school is glad to welcome Eula Todd as a new member of the senior class. Her name puts our senior roll back to eighteen again, a very promising class. Miss Sara Frances Benfroe, Bonaire, spent the weekend in Macon with her sister, Miss Pol ly Renfroe. Miss Margaret Stafford, Cen terville, visited her sister, Mrs, G. L. Jordan, Macon, during the weekend. Miss Lois Akin, Centerville, spent the weekend with Miss Sara Rape. Mr. and Mrs. John Launius and Mary Katherine, Ashburn, spent the weekend in Kathleen with Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Talton. Mr, and Mrs. G. L. Daniel, Carrolton, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Watson for the weekend. Miss Lillian Kirtland, Bonaire, spent the weekend in Macon , with friends. Misses Sue Morris and Helen Marshall, Wellston, spent the! weekend in Peny with Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Moody. | Mrs. L. B. Sasser, Bonaire, • spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Watson, Kathleen. Mrs. W. C. Tidwell and son, Charles, Miss Hilda Fowler ann •Mr. C. J. Holland, Macon, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H C. Wheelus during the weekend. Mr. John Ozburn and son, of North Carolina, were in Bonaire' last weekend because of the se rious illness of Mr. Ozburn’s mother. Mrs. Shepard Sasser and daughter, Nan, of Kingsport, Tenn., are spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Sasser,! Bonaire. Mr. J. H. Mize, Ashland, Ga.D visited his daughter, Miss Annie Lou Mize, in Bonaire PTiday. Miss Mize accompanied her father to Leslie, where they spent the weekend with her brother. Miss Margaret Story, a teacher| in Jeffersonville school, visited| nomefolks during the weekend, i Mr. and Mrs. Warren Howard! and children, Byron, were the' guests of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin j ; Davidson Sunday. I; Mr. Johnnie Joyner, Mi con, j spent the weekend with Mr. ancT Mrs. L. J. Joyner, Bonaire. i , BAPTIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. Sunday Preaching Services, 11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Mid-week Prayer Service, Wed nesday, 7:30 p. m. The church welcomes you to its services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor, , ESTABLISHED 1870 PACE URGES AAA. I TO ISSUE CHECKS ( A letter from Congressman Stephen Pace states: “I have been pressing the A. A. A. to issue benefit checks to the farmers of my District at the earliest possible moment,as many of them will need this money to start their farming operations this year. “You may recall that it was late summer before these checks were issued last year. I have a statement today from the Athens office which 1 would be glad for you to pass on to the farmers in your county, as follows: “ ‘You are advised that we ex pect to begin certifying applica tions for payment late this week or early next week. We have already begun the work of audit ing applications and computing payments for several counties. We will audit these applications as rapidly as our facilities per mit and hope to have checks go ing forward to several counties early in February.' “Of course the Athens office cannot authorize payment until they receive the farmer’s appli cation nor until the necessary basic data has been submitted by the County Agent. It is there fore most important that all of the farmers entitled to these benefits payments file their ap plications with the County Agent without delay. If any consider able number should delay mak ing application, it will mean that all the farmers in the county will be delayed in receiving their checks.” COTTON WINS WAR OVER RAYON FOR TIRES Southern farmers and others interested in the prosperity of the growers of cotton have been seriously disturbed by reports of the inroads that rayon has been making in the markets for merly reserved to cotton. For instance, automobile tires have been requiring 300,000,000 pounds of cotton annually-about 10 per cent of domestic produc tion. Recent reports that rayon would rapidly occupy this field because of its superior perform ance in tires have caused grave concern. Now comes announcement of a new method of processing cotton for auto and truck tire cords which shows performance strik ingly superior both to rayon and cords made of cotton by old pro cesses. Three years of research, 1 tests and actual service experi ence have shown tires made of the new cotton cord to out-last any rubber tread the tire mak ers have been able to produce. Tires do not get as hot, do not grow in size, and regularly out last two or more retreads. This purely Southern product, developed and produced by j Southerners, The Bibb Manufac turing Company, a large cotton mill at Macon, Ga., is based on an entirely new principle of pro cessing. Instead of depending entirely upon twist to give the cord strength as has been the i case since the beginning, a pro- Icess of bonding together the cotton fibers by first softening the waxes in the fiber and finish ing the cord while these waxes are soft, then permitting them to harden, has resulted in a cord of revolutionary character istics. Southerners no longer must ! sacrifice pocket book to loyalty. [Tires made of new Heat Resis- Itant Process Cotton Cords last longer, are stronger and safer and cost less than rayon tires. Southerners demanding them help their pocketbooks in two ways at the same time. METHODISTGiRGH NEWS Worship Services—Sunday 11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Church School—Sunday 10:15 a. m. Young People’s Service—Sunday 6:30 p. m. Mid-week Service Wed. 7:30 p. m. Rev. Paul Muse, Pastor.