Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, March 16, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL VOL. LXVIII. No. 11. HOUSTON BOYS 6ET awards for cattle Houston county boys made a ..-underfill showing m the Macon Cattle Show Monday as every : ntry from the county won a nrize and the grand champion ship went 10 Billy Richardson. Houston and Bibb county lad Houston won first prize, $l5, ; n the county contest of light weight group, pen of 5. Boys displaying calves in the county <rroun were: Horton Ferguson, Hovce Kersey. Frank Giles, Bil ly Giles, and Wallace Moody. Twelve-year-old Billy Richard foJ is the son of Mr. and Mrs W. jjfcli’ Richardson of Macon who Whave a farm near Elko where the 11 bov raised his champion animal, II a black Angus that he calls Jer || rv Another calf. Amos, won ll other awards. In all, Billy won l| a silver loving cup with his name || and Houston county engraved on [I it. a blue and a red ribbon, and il $23.75 in money. I Judges’ decisions were based Hon conformation, finish, and || quality of the animals. II The show is sponsored by the 11 Macon Chamber of Commerce in H cooperation with 4-H and FFA || groups. Altogether the entries || are finer than they were last || year, it was ssid. ||‘ County winners in each c’ass W were as follows: 4-H light H weight, third, Horton Ferguson, ■ Houston;fifth, Frank Giles, Hous- H ton; sixth, Marvin Griffin, Hous [| ton; eighth, Tommy Holloway, [I Houston; ninth, Thomas Walker, H Houston. ft Four-H medium weight, first, I Billy Richardson,Houston;fourth, I Billy Giles, Houston; seventh, I Royce Kersey, Houston. * I Four-H heavy weight, second, I Billy Richardson, Houston. I Reserve champion of the 4 H ■ groups was James O’Connor of 9 Dodge and champion and reserve I champion in the Future Farmers lof America groups was Billy I Dixon. H Winners in the FFA classes ■ were; Light weight, first, Wallace ■ Moody, Houston; sixth, Cullen I Talton Houston. [I FFA heavy, th'rd, Walter I Gray, Houston. H The amounts of money won bj ■ Houston boys are; 4-H club ■ boys--Royce Kersey, $8; Horton I Ferguson,sl3; Billy Giles, $11.75; ■ Frank Giles, $10.50; Marvin Grif ■ fin, $6.25; Tommy Holloway, ■ $3.75; Tommy Walker,, $2.50. ■ F. F.A boys---Wallace Moody, ■ $12.50; Walter Gray, $10; Cullen ■ Talton, $6.25. i Ihe 4-H boys were supervised I I by W. T. Middlebrooks. county H a gent, and R. E. Arline. as sistant. j. I , p h e T. P- A. boys were super | I lset * by Cohen Walker, principal ■ Ferry High school, basketball news .1 Next Tuesday, Merch 21,Perry ■ anthers and Bonaire Wildcats ■ will clash in a game that will de ,| ermine the champion of Houston ■ ounty. This will be an annual ■ d air and much interest is being ■ Mown in this new series. The iv! r -7 Panthers are heavy fa- Inf Vu to CO P the championship ■ tLof G C T ty - which is an honoi ■ hniLf 3 des ' red very much by! ■ ooth teams and their fans. Don’t |Mu'S. Tucsda - v " I h ract ' ce is moving InSl ICeiy and several of the I inv.c'o j are ma king much pro- Ish team next yeai : ■ histnn e e°T? e the best in the History 0 f Perry High. I Warren Lee, Mgr. j I PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE j ■ cam. V V^ obert . F - B °y d of De-| ■ PresK,V a '-’ Preach at the! ■ ni. SnnJ 6rian church at 11:30 a. j |thenJi ay ', Bev< Mr. B °y d is Fen vS y e l ected P astor of the i pastorafp Ur £ h and wiil begin his : about e yi a snd 5 nd at ClinCh ‘ pL.-if. 8, N- Clements and Mrs. hp tucker, Detroit, Mich., son gUeStsof Mrs. W. E Swan- M , n Miss Norine Swanson M ° nday night and Tuesday. | LEGION T O OBSERVE j 2 oth ANNIVERSARY ■i I The Auxiliary to the Robert D. j Collins post of the American Le ■ jgion will entertain the members of this post at a banquet this evening (Thursday) at the Le gion Home in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Ameri can Legion. Dr. Lee Evans, Tifton, the first commander, will be master of ceremonies. Mrs. J. B. Cal ■ houn, Auxiliary president, is the general chairman of arrange ments. All charter members, past commanders, and past Auxiliary presidents have been invited, in addition to the Legion members. i MRS. RHODES RE-ELECTED PRESIDENTJMWY P.Ti Mrs. G. W. Rhodes was re elected president of the Perry P. T. A. at the March meeting held Tuesday p. m. at the school. Other officers re-elected were , Mrs. E. W. Traylor, vice-presi | dent, Miss Kathryn Lawson, secty. Mrs. A. P. Whipple was named treasurer to succeed Mrs, J. M. Gooden, who resigned. Supt. E. P. Staples, in talking ,on the present school situation, | assured the members that the school will operate seven months, and expressed hope for a nine months term. Miss Evelyn Hunt presented her third grade pupils in a “Safety” program consisting of jingles, slogans, and songs. Miss Anna Grubb played a pi ano solo, “A La Bien Aimee, ”by I Schutt. The attendance prize was won by the sixth grade of which Miss Eva Borom is teacher. KIWANIS CLUB MEETS The Perry Kiwanis club heard a talk on Public Library Work by Mrs. Marshall Haslam, of Fort Valley, Tuesday at the luncheon meeting. Pres. G. W. Rhodes pres'ded. Mrs. Green of Fort Valley sang a solo with Mrs. Mayo Davis as accompanist. Local guests of the club were Mrs. J. M. Gooden, president of the Book club, Mrs. W. K. Whip ple of the Sorosis club, and Mrs. J. L. Beavers, librarian of Perry Public Library which is sponsor ed by the Kiwanis club. The Fort Valley club has been invited to be guests of the Perry group next Tuesday. COLORED EXHIBITS Colored people o f Houston county having exhibits at the Macon Fat Cattle Show were Lu cile Flowers and Neal Williams who also displayed calves in Per ry Saturday, Lucile won third prize in the medium wt. group. Negro exhibitors carried some very fine cattle to the Macon show. A whole hog, cured like a ham, is on display in the show window of McLendon Auto Co. W. T. Flowers, colored farmer, made this unique looking animal, I HOME RE-MODELED Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Beckham have recently re-modeled their j home into a Cape Cod type of j cottage. A room has been add ied to the side and the house re | painted white. The arched door i way with its paneled front door jof cerulean is most attractive, j The dark colored shutters form a pleasing contrast to the light !finish of the house, j NOTICE I ' Home and Personal Exemp-[ tions—Any one failing to file his tax return for 1939 with tax .re ceiver by April 1, 1939, will not j get any Exemption and have to | pay full amount. I I will be in my office every day! except March 2Q, 21, 22* and 23. E. W. Marshall, Tax Re ceiver Houstoit-Co. Ga. 1 I & PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1939 Igray wins prize IN LOCAL CALF SHOW Walter Gray, Jr., won first i prize with his calf in the Hous ton County 4-H and FFA club ! fat calf show sponsored by the Perry Kiwanis club in Perry Saturday. ■ The project was supervised by ■ R. E. Arline, assistant county agent and L. Cohen Walker, vo-, i cational agricultural teacher in | Perry High school. Prizes were donated by the ; Kiwanis club and S. A. Nunn, j mayor of Perry, from whom thei calves were originally purchased, j The winners were as follows;! Walter Gray, Jr., first; Horton! Ferguson, second; Royce Kersey, j third; Frank Giles, fourth; Billie! Giles, fifth. Others competing were: Mar ' , vin Griffin, Jr., Tommy Hollo- 1 way, Wallace Moody, Cullen Tal ton, and Tommie Walker. Prizes were awarded on the basis of profit per capita invest ed, finish, and disposition and handling qualities. The calves 1 were Herefords. The judges were J. A. Maul din, Dodge county agent; J. H. Cornwall, assistant Sumter coun ty agent, and George T. Oakley, Macon county agent. Walter Gray is a member of both the 4 H and the FFA. His calf weighed 570 pounds when he bought it, five months ago, and weighs 860 pounds now. He sold it Tuesday at the fat cattle show in Macon at a net profit ol $4O, after winning third place Monday in the heavy weight classification of the FFA group and a $lO prize. Walter’s calf was fed ground snap corn, ground velvet beans, cottonseed meal, and peavine hay. The majority of these calves had this same diet. The Perry Loan and Savings Bank made loans to the boys for the purchase of the calves last October. The calves are now about fourteen months old. The gains they made in weight during the past five months are as follows: Gray’s, 290 lbs.; Ferguson’s, 260 lbs.; Kersey’s, 240 lbs,; Giles’, 200 lbs. -.—... ii .... ..—l, M.i.i i Mrs. Culver Palmer and chil dren, Culver, Jr., and Ann,spent Tuesday and Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bonner. BOOKS By PAUL MUSE John Milton, in one of his essays on the power of the printed word, said, “I’d as leave kill a man as destroy a good book.” And Milton should be a competent judge of such matters, since he gave to the world some of its best literature. Milton’s estimate is not an over emphasis. Books are a part of the world’s population, and of an order only a little lower than man himself. They are all but human; are, in fact, transcribed personality. Per sons and personalities live on and on in them. In them we have an imperishable vault in which “the last will and testa ment” of the ages is preserved. One of the “miracles” of the ages is the radio, that instan taneously puts us in conversa tional touch with the whole world. But without books we would never know what Moses saw and thought and said. The world would be poorer in not knowing the story of Joseph; in being unacquainted with Paul; in being ignorant of what Plato* dreamed and wrote. Books have told us the story of the ancient world and made us aware of the doings of men who lived long ago. In books we stand with Paul on Mar’s Hill; find a new world with Columbus; march with lNapoleon from Marengo to ■Moscow; land at Jamestown ! and settle at Plymouth. In books, “The Book,” we hear | the Christ speak, see Him on i the Cross, and stand by the jtoomb of death which He has (broken. We live in the present, but through books we also live with oar fellows of long past centuries. Mathusala lived over jPERRYPASSESQUOTA I IN WESLEYAN DRIVE I Perry raised $1,163 in the cam j paign to raise funds to re-pur i chase Wesleyan College, March i 15, from its bond-holders. This amount was $163 above the quota of $l,OOO set by local leaders. The campaign was directed lo cally by Rev. Paul Muse and Mr. land Mrs. S. A. Nunn of the Per ;ry Methodist church and Mrs. jWordna'Gray and Mrs. G. C. | Nunn of the Weslevan Alumnae | club. I Working with Mrs. S. A. Nunn iin soliciting pledges were these 'ladies: Mesdams L. F. Cater, C. !E. Andrew, J. L. Hodges, T. C. (Rogers, B. H. Andrew,Jr.,A. P. Whipple, J. M. Gooden. L. M. jpaul, Jr., W. T. Middlebrooks, G. C. Nunn, W. K. Whipple, R. lE. Brown, E. F. Barfield, C. P. Gray, Pat Muse, Floyd Tabor, M. G. Edwards, and J. M. Hol leman. Members of all denominations have co-operated with the Metho dists and the Alumnae in raising | Perry’s quota. Sunday evening, at a union I service at the Methodist church, 'Rev. Mr. Muse and Rev. J. A. Ivey, Baptist pastor spoke on the need for Christian education. Reports on the local campaign were made by Mrs. Floyd Tabor, Mrs. G. C. Nunn, and S. A. Nunn. In the interest of the drive, the Wesleyan club of Perry had a lovely party Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Jordan. Cash donations of $B4 and $2OO in pledges were made. A program of readings and songs was given by a group of Wesleyan Conservatory girls in cluding Miss Laverne Baird, niece of Mrs. C. C. Pierce of Perry, who sang several solos. Professor Joseph Maerz accom panied the girls to Perry. Mrs. G. C. Nunn welcomed the guests and spoke in behalf of the campaign, Mrs. Jordan was assisted in receiving and entertaining by members of the club. The beauty of the home was enhanced by artistic arrange ments of peach blossoms, white 'flowering peach, and spring flowers. At the close of the evening, delightful refreshments were served. [nine hundred years. In booksi we may live nearly as many! thousand. How shadow-like and emp ty our lives would be without books. What a gift is that of reading! A friend said to me, “I don’t think I could live if I could not read.” There are books and books —good and bad. With mod ernized low-cost printing we have showered upon today much in the printed word that is “trash ysensational so called “realism;” “cheap stuff,” indeed, that makes a specialty of writing up the bad spots of human nature. It is reading matter that devel ops in those who read it a mor bid taste for the “stirring scenes of rotten doings.” It is true that there are people who drink, “cuss” in between ev- | cry sentence, deport them selves most loosely morally, land make light of a high orderj of life. There have always been people like that. Every community has “dirty spots” in it. But who is the sensible, decent person who wants to hang these soiled pictures up in his front yard or sitting room ? It is much worse to hang them up in one’s mind. Some i library tables are laden with 1 cheap, sensational magazines.! Religious or Church papers) and reading of an elevating tone are conspicuous in their i absence. These thoughtless l people perhaps never think of, the inevitable whatever one! reads goes into the “blood l stream” of thought, life and | character. The content of one’s j life can scarcely rise above j one’s reading. ' NEW BOOKS RECEIVED j . BY PUBLIC LIBRARYi 1 i The citizens of Perry are re-; spending generously in donating • to the library, equipment, mag azines and books. The member \ ship which is growing daily is 3 free to all citizens, i Through the cooperation of the , state library commission the lo - cal library is able to furnish the , readers any reference work de • shed. New books on the shelves are: All This and Heaven, Too— ; Rebecca Field. Blackberry Winter—E v e 1 y n i Hanna. j Disputed Passage— Lloyd , Douglas. Deep Summer -Gwen Bristow. Dr. Nation’s Wife— Mildred Walker. Handsome Road—Gwen Bris tow. Rebecca-- Daphne Du Macvier. With Malace Toward Some— ■ Margaret Halsey. ; MINERAL INDUSTRY NEEDS , DEVELOPMENT IN GEORGIA 1 J The time has come to give Georgia her rightful share of the i profits now contributed to north ern industry, Captain Garland Peyton, director of the Georgia Division of Mines, Mining and Geology said this week. I “The people of Georgia do not : realize that there are vast re serves o f untouched minerals i which could give them pre-em inence in industrial wealth be l yond their imagination. Most Georgians do not know their • state possesses the second largest variety of minerals of any state in the Union.’’ Captain Peyton cited a story told by the late Henry W. Grady in 1889, about anative Georgian: . “They cut through the solid mar ble of Pickens county to make his grave, and yet a little tombstone i they put above him was from ’ Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and i yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried i him within touch of an iron mine ■ and yet the nails in his coffin and the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburg. 1 They buried him by the side ol the best sheep grazing country on earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought fron. the north. They buried him in a .New York coat and a Boston pair Jof shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati, . . The South didn’t furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the. hole in the ground.” The real wealth of any mineral industry comes from the i ay rolls of the skilled labor required to ■ change the raw materials into finished products, Captain Peyton pointed out. “Millionsof dollar.- are spent annually in the South east for finished products that! could be made in Georgia from our own mineral resources. The Division of Mines, Mining and Geology has pointed out for years that Georgia could supply the world with high grade white paper. “The combination of our kao lin with our forest resources! makes an unexcelled opportunity for the establishment of a new ; industry in Georgia. We have also pointed out that Georgia oc cupies a key position for the I manufacture of rock wool, the most widely used of building in-j sulating materials. Our cement J plants have a capacity twice as’i great as their production, yet we| buy a large part of our cement | from outside the state. We have; vast deposits of high grade lime- 1 ■ stone, yet we continue to buy) several million dollars worth of I , lime every year from outside j 1 Georgia. In fact, our whole min-i ! eral industry consists of miningj | and shipping raw materials that! ■ are fabricated elsewhere at a M handsome profit.” | “The attraction and develop- j ment of mineral industries ini j Georgia depends on the work and l ;research of technically trained' |men,” he said. “We must also: advertise Georgia and let theji world know about our state' : through the publication of geolo- i 'gical bulletins and other means.”! ESTABLISHED 1870 'COUNTY INCREASES FORAGE CROP ACRES f Houston county farmers last year planted the largest acre age in history to soil improve ment and forage crops, Coun ty Agent, W. S. Middlebrooks announced this week. This included 8,500 acres in Austrian winter peas, 500 acres in vetch, 1 5 acres in crim son clover, 300 acres in crota laria. Farmers in this county also established permanent pastures on 75 acres, and cleared an additional 100 acres preparatory to seeding for pastures. In the state as a whole, more than 10 million pounds of win ter legume seed were used in 1938. This was enough to seed a total of 381,116 acres in Au strian winter peas, vetch, and crimson clover. Austrian peas proved to be the most popular of the winter legumes, as farmers planted 218,678 acres to this protective winter crop. Hairy vetch rank ed second with 84,905 acres, and crimson clover was close behind with 77,286 acres. Mo nantha vetch was sown on 247 acres. »[. The state-wide compilation showed that Georgia farmers planted 140,811 acres in rye. 48,538 acres in crotalaria, and 1,544 acres in alfalfa. They sowed 104,944 acres in lespe deza, and left 55,890 more acres to re-seed. Permanent pastures were established on 38,120 acres in the state, and 28,706 addition al acres were cleared for pas tures preparatory to seeding. Winter legumes were sown in orchards on 59,759 acres. “Farmers in all parts of the state now realize the import ance of carrying out these practices,” Mr. Middlebrooks said. “The crops which con serve and improve the soil are, generally speaking, the same ones which provide livestock feed. As a result, these two factors go hand in hand in helping the farmer work out a well-balanced farm program.” FIND OUT CRAZY NOW" Can you imagine how teachers would act if they lost their mincls---went crazy? Well, come to the faculty f)lay Friday night and see the Perry teachers in an insane asylum. Miss Evelyn Hunt thinks she is Cleopatra and Miss Louise Hous er goes around drawing whip penpoop and Mrs. Coleman wants to be the Guillotine and. all the rest of the crazy ones do crazy things,--Mrs. Wordna Gray,Miss Margaret Powell, Miss Leila Du pree, and Mr. Williams, And its funny too, to see what hap pens when those who are sane get mistaken for crazy inmates. Its a show you can’t miss. And too, you will be doing a good deed while getting a good night’s entertainment. The proceeds of the play will go for benefit of the junior class. Come and bring the family to see Who’s Crazy Now?, Friday, March 17, at 8:00 p. rn. Prices 25c and 15c. The junior class is sponsoring the show. ETHooisTctiußcines 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. 8:00 p. m. Rev. Paul Muse, Pastor. BAPTIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. Sunday Preaching Services, 11:30 a. m, and 8:00 p. m. Mid-week Prayer Service, Wed nesday, 8:00 p. m. The church welcomes you to its services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor,