HOUSTON 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,
