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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXVIII. No. 29.
COUNTY TREASURER I
OFFICE ABOLISHEDj
The office of County Treasurer !
of Houston county was abolished
hv the last session of the Gen
ii Assembly of Georgia and all
bocks, papers, records, and oth-
: r property and business of the
Ice of County Treasurer are to
he delivered to and disposed ot
hv the County Commissioners of
Roads and Revenue of Houston
county as soon as this law be
comes effective Jan. 1, 1941.
The law concerning this change
in Houston county’s government
•g Act No. 118 on Page 625 of the
1939 edition of Georgia Laws,
w hich book was sent by the
state to the Houston County
Court House last Friday.
That such a law had been
passed was not known by the
public as the usual procedure in
such matters was not followed.
Notice Not Published
Notice of intention to ask pas
sage of local legislation is neces
sary on the part of county legis
lators. The law clearly states
that “no local or special bill
shall be passed unless notice of
the intention to apply therefor
shall have been published in the
locality where the matter or
ihing to be affected may be sit
uated, which notice shall be
given at least thirty days prior to
the introduction of such bill in
the General Assembly, and in
the manner to be prescribed by
law. The evidence of such no
tice having been published shall
be exhibited in the General As
sembly before such act shall be
passed.”
In another place the law stipu
latesthat “the title of such bill)
shall be published once in the
newspaper in which the sheriff’s
sales are advertised and shall be
posted at the door of the Court
House in the county,”
No notice of the intention to
pass a law abolishing the office
of County Treasurer was pub
lished or posted in Houston
County. However, it is a law
though passed by the General
Assembly without requiring that
the law governing same be
tracked.
Provisions of Act
This Act provides that the
County Commissioners shall on
their first regular meeting in
January of each and every year
after the Act goes into effect, or
as soon thereafter as practicable,
select some chartered bank or
trust company located in the
State of Ga. to act as a county
depository for the purpose of
handling and paying out all
county funds under the direction
of the County Commissioners.
Such a bank, not the Commis
sioners, will be required to give
bond in the sum of $lO,OOO with
the premium to be paid out of!
county funds. Such depository
shall be chosen annually or more
often upon a failure or refusal to
peform the duties of said posi
tion by any one so chosen.
Court Terms Reduced
Another law of importance to
the people of Houston county is
found on P. 437 of the new 1939
Georgia Laws. This Act pro
vides that after Dec. 31, 1939,
the terms of the Superior Court
pf Houston County shall be two
ni number each year and that
the terms of said court shall be-
Sm on the first Monday in April
and the first Monday in October
each year.
(See Editorial Page)
BAPTIST CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENTS
There will be no preaching
services next Sunday. The pas
tor, Rey. J. A, Ivey, and Mrs
[vey will leave Friday for At
‘anta to attend the sessions of
the Baptist World Alliance.
Sunday school will be held as
ls ual at 10:15 a, m.
the Girls’ Auxiliary met Mon
fJay p. m. with Mrs. A. C.Pritch
tlt - The Royal Ambassadors
Tuesday p.m. at the church,
the Teachers and Officers of the
, S. met Tuesday night at the
church.
Miss Evelyn Hunt is visiting
iVllss Lou se i\lo-re in Macon.
jSCHOOL TEACHERS
! GET SALARY CHECKS
1
j $3,800 was received by the
Houston County Board of Edu
! cation last week from the state
jof Georgia, according to S. W.
; Hickson, county school superin- 1
tendent This money was 50
percent of January and 30 per- 1
cent of February funds due the;
county by the state.
With this $3,800, the board
was enabled to pay all the white
teachers in the county in full.
Hayneville teachers are due pay ■
for one-half month and two of
Bonaire’s teachers have not been
1 paid in full but the salaries owed
them are the responsibility of
these districts and are to be paid
out of supplementary funds.
Mr. Hickson feels confident
that Houston county schools will -
open in September and be able
to operate at least four months
on funds now in sight. He bases
his opinion on information given
out by State Auditor Zach Ar
nold and Gov. E. D. Rivers.
METHODIST CHURCH NEWS
i ■
| The Vesper service Sunday
evening was conducted by G. C.
Nunn’s class of the Young Peo
ple’s department. Miss Florine
Rainey, class counselor, present
ed a program on The Value of
Music in Worship. A talk on
Hebrew music including the
Psalms by Miss Rainey was fol
lowed by a vocal solo, “The
'Lord is My Shepherd, ”by Robert
Greene.
A musical reading, “Glorious
Things of Thee are Spoken,’’was
given by Miss Carolyn Coleman
with Miss Caroline Nunn as pi
anist.
Misses Eleanor Muse, Kath
arine Houser, Madeline Swear
ingen, and Leonora Houser gave
the history of several hymns.
The Men s Bible class of
which S. A. Nunn is teacher
will be in charge of the Vesper
service next Sunday.E. P.Staples
is arranging the program.
Rev. Silas Johnson, superin
tendent of the Macon district,
preached at the morning church
service.
The Workers Council compos
-1 ed of all Church School officers
and teachers, and class officers
met Wednesday night at the
church.
CITY RETIRES BONDS
The City of Perry paid off a
$15,000 bond issue last week.
These bonds were issued 15 years
ago for waterworks and power
plant improvement.
The city now has outstanding
bonds amounting to $27,000; $2,-
000 of which will be paid next
Jan. 1.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
Perry Church
Sunday School-10:15 a. m.
( Worship Ssrvice-ll:30 a. m.
Clinchfield
Sunday School-3;00 p. m.
| Worship Sirvice-8:30 p. m.
| COLORED 4-H CLUBS TO
| HAVE SHORT COURSE
The 24th Annual Short Course
for 4-H club boys and girls will
Ibe held at the Fort Valley N. &
; 1. School July 23 through 27.
200 4-H club boys and girls rep-
I resenting 30 communities in
riPeach and Houston counties will
’ ! attend. These boys and girls
will be given lessons in Agricul
.l ture and Home Economics _ in
■ eluding canning,cooking,sewing,
(home improvement, judging live
5 ! stock, field crops, farm crops, etc,
1 Each boy and girl is to pay
.J 51.50 for the week and those not
boarding in will pay 25cts. This
- takes care of all expenses.
O. S. O’Neal, Co. Agent.
, M. L. Toomer, Home
ji Demonstration Agent.
Mr. and Mrs. Avery Lee spent
f the weekend in Gadsden, Ala.
’ with relatives.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939
PENN-DIXIE PLANT NO. 2 CLINCHFIELD,
GETS TWO NATIONAL SAFETY AWARD
Two national safety awards
were presented employees of
Plant No. 2 of the Pennsylvania-
Dixie Cement Corporation at
Clinchfield Friday, July 14, at
a celebration attended by 500
employees and visitors. The re
award of the Portland Cement
Association trophy, for having
worked through the year 1938
without a lost time accident, was
made to the entire plant. The
Joseph A. Holmes Award went
to the Quarry and Crusher de
partments for an outstanding
record made by these depart
ments. This award is a Certifi
cate of Honor inscribed as fol-
‘‘For operating without a
lost time accident from August
28, 1931 to January 30, 1939, em
ploying an average of 24 men
working 322,170 man hours and
producing 905,270 tons of lime
stone.”
Re awarding of the Portland
Cement Association trophy was
made by R. B. Fortuin, manager
Industrial Relations of the Penn-
Dixie Company. Mr. Fortuin
acted on behalf of the Associa
tion as a member of the General
Accident Prevention Committee
of that organization. The trophy
was formally accepted by C. W.
Rhodes on behalf of the em
ployees.
The trophy was first awarded
to the Clinchfield plant in 1933
and has been re-dedicated every
: year except in 1937 when several
’ minor accidents necessited loss
! of time.
- C.E. Saxon, Birmingham,Ala.,
of the U. S. Bureau of Mines,
| presented the Certificate of Hon
’ or of the Joseph A, Holmes As
-1 sociation to Superintendent E P.
' Newhard. Mr. Newhard in turn
handed it to G. P. Hunnicutt,
present quarry foreman. J. L.
‘ Beavers was congratulated on
! his contribution to the quarry
record as foreman of this de-
partment from 1932 to 1937.
The Holmes Award is a signal ]
honor for the local plant as it is !
3 given only for outstanding safe- [
ty records in mines and quarries
and it is the first time that such
an award has been made within
1 BEERFAGED PROPAGANDA
By PAUL MUSE
The “Fountain of Youth,”
famed in fable and actually
sought for by many has been
found! Ponce de Leon and De
Stoo were mistaken, however. '
They failed to discover this
wonderful life-giving fountain in
Florida. It took the brewers of
America to find the “Fountain
of Youth.” They discovered it
in beer. Beer is the offspring of
decaying and souring stuff.
If all that the advertisements!
of this concoction say is true,
every one should drink beer.
Preachers should preach the vir
tues of beer from their pulpits;
Sunday School teachers should
make it a prime part of their
high function; doctors, nurses
and hospitals should constantly
set forth its marvelous benefits.
The public schools should tire
lessly instruct the children and
youth of the land concerning the
endless benefits of beer. The
states should pass laws mak
ing beer a common beverage to
be served at breakfast, dinner
and supper. This law should
make it binding upon all moth
ers to feed their babies on a diet
of beer; and any man, woman
and child who does’nt drink
beer ought to be branded as ir
religious, unpatriotic, inhumane
slackers altogether.
No more humanitarian thing
has been discovered through all
the ages than beer--according to:
these beer advertisements. The
brewers are the greatest bene
factors who have ever arisen in
the interest of the people and
nation. These advertisements
declare that beer is an excellent
food and a health-giving tonic.
The brewing industry is saving i
the farmer from the poor-house, ,
, by using millions of bushels of
ihis grain. Wages paid to work
ers are keeping hundreds of
! thousands off relief. Beer taxes
increase government receipts,
; and cut down the cost of govern
| merit to all other taxpayers,
j Half-truth is always more de
ceiving than bare falsehood.
Beer advertisements are among
I the smoothest “get ups”, that
the state of Georgia.
Mr. Newhard expressed the
appreciation of the Company and
emoloyees for the honor.
Telegrams were read from
John A. Miller, president, and
W. H. Klein, vice-president,con
gratulating the plant on its safe
ty achievements.
The principal address was
made by Roy Neal of the Macon
Telegraph who praised the em
ployees for their splendid rec
ord. From start to finish Mr.
Neal held the interest of the au
dience with humorous illustra
tions and wit, while injecting
into his address a message of
genuine admiration for the
achievements of the plant in ac
cident prevention.
Several vocal selections were
rendered by colored employees
led by Connie Jones.
A surprise feature of the pro
gram was a presentation of uni
forms to the plant ball team.
The uniforms were the personal
gift of the Company’s president,
John A, Miller. Felix Jones re
sponded for the team and ex
pressed appreciation of the men.
The exercises were held in the'
grove near the spray pond at the
plant. The invocation was pro
nounced by Rev. Robert F.Boyd,
pastor of the Clinchfield Presby
terian church, followed by sing
ing of America by the assembly.
Superintendent E. P, Newhard
was program chairman.
The program was concluded by
singing the national anthem and
the benediction by Rev. James
A. Ivey.
A real Georgia barbecue was
served immediately after the
program. This was in charge of
Walter C. Riley, plant safety di
rector, assisted by a number of
the employees.
Those present included the
employees and their families to
gether with the Perry Kiwanis
club members and their wives.
| Out-of-town guests accorded
special welcome were Mrs. John
j Winn and daughter Katherine of
Nazareth, Pa., and Miss Dorothy
White of Macon, executive sec
retary of American Red Cross.
fall under the eyes of readers of
the press. Looking for food
value in beer is comparable to
looking for a needle in a hay
stack.” Two dollars worth (?)
of beer hasn’t the equivalent
of food of a ten cents loaf of
bread. As for giving jobs to
the unemhloyed, any trustworthy
economist will tell you that, dol
lar for dollar invested, the alco
i hoi beverage industry employs
! fewer people, by far, than the
j legitimate and honorable trades.
Mr. Babson estimates that while
•the alcohol beverage tax brings
lin about $500,000,000 to govern
ment, that the government has
to spend as much or more in car
ing for the poverty caused di
rectly by the drink evil. If
“Old Man Pepul” only had the
eyes and sense to see it he’d see
that the alcohol beverage busi
ness actually increases his tax
burden.
Beer advertisements will run
the picture of some famous
scientist, like Louis Pasteur, cite
some discovery of the famous
man concerning fermentation,
connect it with the making of
beer, leaving the impression
that the great scientists was “all
for beer.” Nothing of its kind
is true in most of these decep
tive claims, or insinuations. The
devil, says the Bible, is “trans
formed into an angel of light.”
i The alcohol beverage business
claiming to be a benefactor of
man in any way reminds one of
the above quotation.
TWO FIRMS COMPLY
i
Two additional firms doing
business in Houston county have
qualified as employers under the
Georgia Unemployment Compen
sation Act, Commissioner of La
bor Ben T, Huiet has announced.
The firms and the number of
, their employees are:
Etheridge Bonded Warehouse
of Perry, 7; Etheridge’s Gin of
, 1 Ferry, 6.
FINE CONDITION OF
PERRY BANK SHOWN,
1
The Perry Loan and Savings;
Bank, Houston county’s only
hank, is in sound financial con
dition with the largest amount of j
deposits and the largest number (
of depositors in its history, ac
cording to its semi annual state- •
ment published last week.
The depositt are $281,904.68 j
and the depositors number 1,400.
The total assets are $346,293.80. (
The Perry bank will complete (
fifty years of service in August. (
Its charter for another period of
fifty years has been renewed re
cently. |
Officers of the bank are: R. L, j
Cater, president; L. F. Cater, i
vice-president: C. E. Andrew, •
cashier: W. V. Tuggle, asst. (
cashier.
PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR ;
INSTALLED SUNDAY NIGHT;
Rev. Robert F. Boyd was in- 1
stalled as pastor of the Perry
Presbyterian church by a com- i
mittee from the Macon Presby- i
,tery Sunday night at a service <
in which the Methodists and*
Baptists of Perry united in wel- I
coming the new pastor.
Rev. W. C. Sistar of Fort Val- s
ley preached using as his text, l
“The Fruits of the Spirit—Joy, ]
Peace, Righteousness, Love.” i
At the installation service, Rev.
Mr. Sistar charged the pastor on
his duties. layman Ben W. .
Holtzclaw of Macon, formerly of
Perry, charged the congregation ;
of the Perry church on its obli
gations to the pastor. i
Mrs. W. V. Bass sang a solo, ‘
accompanied by Mrs. J, B. Cal
; houn, pianist.
GURGEN GOSSIP
By HUBERT B. OWENS
(Head Department of Landscape
Architecture Univ. of Ga.)
Undoubtedly the most promis
ing phase of this modern inter
est in landscaping is the Garden
Club movement. I n Georgia
alone there are more than two
hundred clubs with a total mem
bership of seven thousand The
Carden Club of Georgia was or
■ ganized in 1928. An affiliating
club is required to meet certain
| standards before it can he ad
mitted. It must have been or
ganized and functioning as a
. garden club’for one year. Other
: requirements are participation in
( some civic project for the local
community, holding an annual
flower show, and the improve
ment of the home grounds and
. gardens of the individual mem
bers, The Garden Club of Geor
gia as an organization in itself it
actively sponsoring roadside de
, velopment in this state. For the
' past three years it has sponsored
[ a Carden Pilgrimage in Georgia
’ which has given the public an
opportunity to see the outstand
• ing gardens in all parts of the
, state, and which has also given!
’ Georgia favorable advertising ini
’ the eyes of the nation.
For four years it has assisted
in putting in a Carden School for
! gardeners and garden club mem
, bers at the state University. For
] the seven thousand members of]
j the organization it publishes a]
monthly bulletin entitled “Gar- 1
■ den Gateway?*” which carries
! timely articles on all phases of
I gardening, conservation, road
side development, flower shows,
‘ flower arrangements, etc. This
j year the Carden Club of Georgia
' undertook the construction of a j
1 series of gardens on the Univer- j
, sity campus in Athens to serve i
’• as a living memorial to th e(
• founders of the Ladies’ Garden]
Club in Athens—the first garden ’
club organized in America. This |
makes a splendid project not only j
because of its appropriateness]
but also for the reason that it;
' will serve a superb educational j
r\ purpose for the students at the]
J University—the future garden-!
,1 ers of the state.
'i Many of the member duos of]
’) the Garden Club of Georgia are j
- young, but most of them seem to I
. realize they have much work to [
fdo in their communities. It is
gratifying when one becomes
acquainted with a garden club
2 which realizes its responsibiliy to
f its community and to the state
land nation. 1
ESTABLISHED 1870
HOUSTON’S COTTON
PROSPECTS GOOD
Houston county’s cotton crop
is in good condition and over
6.000 bales should be realized
provided the boll weevil damage
is not too heavy within the next
two weeks, according to W. T.
Middlebrooks, county agent.
Due to unfavorable weather
conditions in the spring, Hous
ton’s cotton is ten days later
than Pulaski’s or Dooly county’s
crop.
The first bale will be ginned in
Houston between Aug, 10-15, it
is predicted by J. P. Etheridge,
Perry warehouseman. Mr. Ether
idge gives July 31 as the earli
est date cotton has been ginned
in this county.
Only 14,000 acres were plant
ed in cotton hy Houston farmers
this year although the govern
ment allotment was 15,200 acres,
A yield of 225 lb. to the acre
was estimated by Mr. Middle
brooks.
Cotton acreage in cultivation
in Georgia this year amounts to
2.064.000 acres, according to the
official estimate issued by the
Crop Reporting Board of the
United States Department of
Agriculture. This acreage is the
same as the acreage in cultiva
tion on July i last year but 23
percent smaller than July 1 acre
age in 1937.
The acreage of cotton in culti
vation in the United States on
July 1 is estimated by the Crop
Reporting Board to be 24,943,000
acres, which is three-tenths of 1
percent loss than the 25,018,000
acres on July 1, 1938, 32.2 per
cent less than the 1928-37 acre
age, and 14.4 percent less than
the 1934-38 average. If the ten
year (1929-38) percentage of
abandonment is applied to the
estimated acreage in cultivation
on July 1, an acreage of 24,424,-
000 is indicated for harvest. This
would be only slightly more than
the 24,248,000 acres harvested in
1938, which was the smallest
cotton acreage harvested since
1899.
J. 0. HOLTZCLAW PASSES
John Graham Holtzclaw, age
82, passed away Sunday morn
ing at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Linton B. Robeson, in Ma
rietta after a long illness.
Mr. Holtzclaw was a former
native resident of Perry and one
of the town’s beloved citizens.
He was a member of one of the
oldest and most prominent fam
ilies of this section. Mr. Holtz
claw was at one time a merchant
of Perry and engaged in exten
sive farming.
He was a graduate of Mercer
University.
For a number of years he had
made his home in Marietta with
nis sister.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 11 a. m. in Marietta
with Rev. George Brown and
1 Rev. I. A. White officiating. In-
I lerment followed in Mount View
cemetery there.
Survivors besides his sister are
his sister-in-law, Mrs. B. C.
Holtzclaw, Atlanta; ten nieces
and nephews including Eb y
Holtzclaw, Perry, and several
j great nieces and nephews.
*
MRS. WADDELL DIES
Funeral services were held
here Monday for Mrs. Alice Lee
' Waddell, 21, wife of J. W. Wad-
I dell, farmer.
i Mrs. Waddell died at her home
(Sunday. She is survived by her
jnusband; an infant daughter,
■ Dorothy Peggy, 10 days old; a
I -ion, J. W., Jr., 2 years old; her
| father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
jW. J. Lee of Fort Valley: four
j brothers and six sisters, includ
-Img Mrs. Paul Smallwood of
j Perry.
The Rev. C. H. Tucker and
(the Rev. J. A. Ivey conducted
funeral services. Burial was in
j Evergreen cemetery, Perry.
Mr. J. C. Mathews, Mrs. Eva
! Spencer and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Fudge, and Mr.
Frederick Fudge spent last week
at the Mathews reunion in Ft.
1 Walton, Fla.
