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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
y OL. LXVIII. No. 35. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1939 ESTABLISHED 1870
FARM meetings to
BE HELD SEPT.II-12i
i
The Agricultural Extension!
c e rvice cooperating with the Soil
(onservation Sen ice, will hold a
series of two educational meet
ings on soil conservation. These
meetings will be of particular in
terest to all land owners. Illus
trated picture slides will be
shown showing the necessity for,
and method of combatting soil
erosion on your farm.
You may not realize it, but
more plant food elements are
carried away from your land by
erosion than by crops planted on
the land. These two combined
are collecting a very heavy toll
on your general welfare.
At the two meetings scheduled
we hope to show you what you
can do in saving your own soil
and make it more productive at
the same time.
The meetings will be held as
follows: . I*, •
Bonaire School Auditorium,
8 p. m. Sept. 11.
Ferry School Auditorium, Bp.
m. September 12,
Mr. W. C. Huggins, District
Conservationist for Soil Conser-1
vation Service will be in charge
of program, assisted by Mr. W.
V. Bass and Mr. H. P. Morgan,
technicians located in Houston
county.
W. T. Middlebrooks,
County Agent.
NEW DENTIST OPENS
OFFICE IN PERRY
Dr. Robert P. Shepard, who
has been located for several
years in Southern Pines, N. C.,
is in Perry this week to begin
his practice of dentistry here.
He will occupy the offices for
merly occupied by Dr. George
Foote in Masonic Building.
Dr. Shepard is no stranger to
the people of Perry and of this
section of Georgia. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J.
Shepard of Fort Valley. Also
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. B. Gammell, at one time were
residents of Perry, and Dr.
Shepard, as a boy, was often in
their home.
As soon as practicable Dr.
Shepard expects to have his fam
ily with him as residents of
Perry.
ROUGH-GINNED COTTON
NOT WANTED BY MILLS
From the standpoint of the
cotton mills proper ginning is
essential, County Agent W. T,
.Middlebrooks declared this week,
in a further effort to acquaint
Houston county farmers to the
tact that they are losing from
$1.50 to $5 per bale on rough
ginned cotton.
‘ Formerly mills took rough
ginned cotton and attempted to
place a penalty on it,” the
agent said. ‘‘But they soon
found that a sufficient penalty
to repay them for their loss in
production seemed to be too
great. Therefore, they have made 1
gin cut cotton totally unmer-|
chantable and roughly-ginned j
cotton penalized from one to
three grades and no premium
paid for staple.”
All of which means that rough
ginned cotton--10.58 percent of
Georgia’s total production falls
Within that category—cuts deep
ir T° fh e farmer’s pockets, Mr.
Middlebrooks said. It is estimat
ed that Georgia loses $5 per bale I
on this grade. Some mills have!
even adopted a policy of reject-1
ln g outright all roughly ginned i
cotton. !
I his causes the shipper who|
has bought this cotton to pay the j
freight from the mill back to the I
warehouse or compress, and,
when he sells it at the latter)
Part of the year he suffers a tre-;
mendous loss,” the agent stated. |
Remember that the spinner to-i
day is competing with rayon j
which is a perfect fibre.”
Mr. Middlebrooks further
Pointed out that the $5 per bale
on over 10 percent of Georgia’s 1
cotton crop hardly covers the
srnount that a community loses
w hen they get the name of hav
‘Og roughly ginned cotton.
fn order to encourage the re
daction of the amount of rough-
PERRY SCHOOL OFFICE
j TO BE OPEN SEPT. 7-8
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The opening exercises of Per
ry High School will be held
Monday, September 11, at 10 a.
m. All patrons of the school are
most cordially invited to attend.
On Thursday and Friday, Sept.
7 and 8, the office'at school will
be open and a faculty committee
present to help all Juniors and
Seniors to select their course of
study.
All students expecting to at
tend college after graduation are
especially urged to come for early
registration.
A complete program of open
ing exercises will be in next
week’s edition of the paper.
Several changes have occurred
in the faculty due to resignation
of teachers. Names of new
teachers will be announced after
approval by the county board of
Education.
"•■HIKE HEED LEST HE FULL”
By PAUL MUSE
j One may fall out of or away
[from the Christian life very easi
ly. He may “backslide,” as
Methodists put it. Genuine reli
gion is a hard thing to keep.
There are so many “pitfalls of
satan,” and “wiles of the devil”
in one’s way, that ’ere the Chris
tian knows it, he has fallen into
one of these.
And one may be sure that the
devil does all in his power to
keep one from knowing that he
has fallen. One of the Apostles,
in describing the devil, says,
“He is a liar, and the father of
lies.” Again he is called, “that
old serpent.” Not only so, but
he is “transformed into an an
gel of light,” so that under his
influence, one does wrong but is
deceived into thinking he is do
ing only right. Some time one
is persuaded by the devil that he
is only “standing up for his
rights,” when indeed he is doing
a great wrong.
When one discovers that he is
not as punctual as he once was
in his religious duties; that he
leaves off praying more and
more; that the Church has less
and less influence over him, he
ought to know that he is falling
away from God. But the devil
will see to it, if he possibly can,
that one who is. falling away
can always find a convenient ex
cuse tor his changed conduct;
may be the unfortunate back
slider will ease his conscience by
finding fault with religion and
the Church. “Let him that
thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Sgt. Clinton C. Duncan
chapter of the U. D. C. will meet
Tuesday, Sept, 5, at 4 p. m. at
the home of Mrs. E. W. Traylor,
The Susannah Wesley class of
the Methodist S. S. will meet
Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 4:30 p.
m. at the home of Mrs. L. M,
Paul, Jr, with Mrs. C P. Gray
and Miss Norine Swanson as co
j hostesses.
ELKO CHARGE NOTES
Schedule of services for the
Methodist churches of the Elko
charge is as follows:
First Sunday--Grovania, 11:30
a. m. and 8 p. m.
Second Sunday-Andrew Chap
lei, 11:30 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Third Sunday—Bonaire, 11:30
la, m. and 8 p. m.
i Fourth Sunday—Elko, 11:30)
la. m. and 8 p. m.
Rev. W. J. Erwin, Pastor.
.
ginned cotton turned out in Geor
gia, a committee, consisting oi
representatives of farmers, gov
ernmental agencies and other
! cotton organizations are promot-,
■ ing a program known as the
| “Georgia State-Wide Program)
for Better Ginned Cotton.”
And farmers who co-operate
with this committee will find that
■by following the recommenda-)
lions of this committee they will
be rewarded by better prices for |
each bale of cotton sold. Do not :
attempt to have your cotton,,
ginned damp or wet, pick as
clean of trash as possible.
NAMED
AS CIRCUIT JUDGE
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A, M. ANDERSON
A. M. (Phil) Anderson of Per
ry was appointed superior court
judge of the Macon circuit and
sworn into office Saturday by
Gov. E. D, Rivers in Atlanta.
He succeeds the late Judge W.
A. McClellan of Macon who died
last Thursday following a long
illness. Judge McClellan ha d
served the circuit as judge for
four and a half years.
Judge Anderson will serve un
til the next general election in
November, 1940.
Gov. Rivers offered the judge
ship to Soliciter General Chas H.
Garrett, of Macon, who declined
the appointment, with the inten
tion of naming Mr. Anderson so
licitor of the Macon circuit.
The new judge will be suc
ceeded as executive secretary of
the state board of Penal Cor
rections by Grover Byars, Rome,
former chmn. of the board.
Mr. Anderson’s penal work
with the state government be
gan in February, 1938, when he
was named to the five-man board
of penal administration. When
this board was abolished by the
last general assembly Judge An
derson was made executive
chairman of a newly created
three-man agency which took
over the duties of the original
board. He was also director of
penal administration at Tattnall
state prison for a time.
Judge Anderson, a native of
Perry and Houston county, is
sued the following statement:
“I am humble in receiving an
appointment to succeed one of
the best judges and the finest
gentlemen I have ever known.
I will do my best to be a good
judge and I am proud to be back
among my people.”
The new judge is one of the
youngest in the state, being only
31 years old.
Judge Anderson was mayor of)
Perry four and a half years and
also served as city attorney. He
practiced law in Perry nine
years. He is an alumnus of Em
ory and Mercer University. He
taught school for a year at Hart
well, Ga,
Judge Anderson is prominent
in Houston county political cir
cles, being chairman of the Dem
ocratic executive committee and
is a member of the third district
Democratic executive committee.
He is chmn. of the county club
of Young Democrats.
He is a Mason and a member
of the Phi Delta Theta social
fraternity. His wife is the for
mer Laura Gilbert, daughter of
Superior Court Clerk 11. T. Gil
bert of Perry. They have two
children.
He is the son of Mrs. A. M.
Anderson, Sr. of Perry, and the
late Milledge Anderson, wffio was
i a prominent business man here.
wfijAREDIRECTOR
MAKES SPEECH HERE
Hon. Braswell Deen, director
of the state department of Pub-|
| lie Welfare, spoke in Perry Tues
day night, Aug. 22, at the Court
House, Mr. Deen discussed the)
various agencies represented by
the Welfare department.
To adequately provide support
for this department, the director!
advocated a state sales tax, say-i
ing that a tax paid at the time of
a purchase was much easier to
pay than a large amount payable
once a year.
KIWANIS CLUB HAS
! TALKS ONC.C.C. WORK
The Perry Kiwanis club at
Tuesday’s meeting heard talks
by three men connected with the
work of C. C. C. camps. They
are: 11. G. Dasher, Tifton, and
Mr, Montford, Spartanburg, S.
C., soil conservationists; a n d
Capt. Davis, Atlanta, of the U.
S. Army.
Information concerning the C.
C. C. camp to be located near
Perry was given out. The camp
will be located here by Oct. I
and will be composed of 200
negro men and 12 white super
visors. The white men and their
families will live in Perry, pro
vided houses can be found.
The soil conservation service
uses the labor of the C. C. C. so
Mr. Dasher and Mr. Montford
outlined briefly some of the work
to be done here. Capt. Davis
stated the functions of the ar
my to be paying, feeding, cloth
ing, housing, disciplining, edu
cating. etc. members of the
C. C. C.
These speakers were intro
duced by Mayor S. A. Nunn.
President G. W. Rhodes pre
sided.
1933 ‘ PLOW-UP” CAMPAIGN
FARMERS TO GET PAYMENTS
Houston county farmers who
plowed up cotton in 1933 and|
took option on it are entitled to
receive an additional payment at
the rate of one dollar per bale,
provided they turn in certifi
cates for redemption before Sep
tember 30, County Agent W. T.
Middlebrooks said this week.
The agent explained that the
certificate of redemption is a
narrow brown strip about four
inches wide and 12 inches long
and bears the following printing
in the upper left-hand corner:
Form No. c-5-1 (Revised) Cotton
Pool, 1933.
Mr. Middlebrooks said farmers
having these certificates should
take them to the county offices
and fill out the required papers
for payment.
“If farmers have misplaced or
destroyed the certificates, it will
be necessary for them to execute
affidavits,” he continued.
ADDITIONAL PERSONALS
Miss Maurice White went to
Ocilla Tuesday for a visit with
Miss Winifred Tucker.
Mrs. A. L. Wilkinson and
daughter, Shirley, Atlanta, spent
last week with Mrs. Wilkinson’s
mother, Mrs. W. E. Swanson.
Mr. Wilkinson joined them for
the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Evans,
j Jr. and Horace 111, Atlanta, ar-,
rived Wednesday for a visit with
Dr. and Mrs. PI. E. Evans,
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Clarke
and son, Carl, and Mr. Jimmie
Mitchell visited relatives in
Americus Sunday.
The friends of Mrs. J. M. Hol
loman will regret to learn that
she sustained a broken collar
bone in a fall she had Sunday in
Jacksonville, Fla. enroute to her
home here from Daytona Beach.
Mrs. Holloman was carried to a
Macon hospital Monday for
treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Edwards
and Mrs. J. P. Etheridge visited
relatives in Macon Sunday.
Messrs. Powers Lawson, Al
len Martin, William Barfield, and
Andrew and Richard Talton
spent Sunday and Monday at
Jacksonville Beach, Pda.
Miss Dorothy Newhard will
leave during the weekend for
! Dalton where she has accepted a
[position as teacher of one of the
(third grades in the schools.
1 The friends of Mrs. W. E. i
Swanson will be glad to know!
she is improving after a lengthy 1
| illness.
I Mr. and Mrs. C.O. Grimes had]
as their guests Sunday Mr. and 1
Mrs. Ralston Padrick, Misses'
' Mary and Frances Grimes, and>
Mrs. C. B. Grimes, Byron.
) Mr. Robert Jordan has return-,
ed from Panama City, Pda. where j
j he spent five weeks. 1
CLINCHFIELD TEAM TO
. PLAY GAME SAT. P. M.
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The Clinchfield baseball team
; will play the fifth game in a
i series with Willingham Mills, of
I Macon, Saturday at 4p. m. on
the Lanier High school diamond
in Macon. The teams are play
ing a championship series in
which the champion team must
win four games out of seven.
Clinchfield has won three games
and Willingham only one.Clinch
field will bo the champions if
they win Saturday’s game.
In case the Clinchfield team
loses Saturday, another game
will be played Sunday at 4 p. m.
at Clinchfield.
i During the regular scheduel,
Willingham Mills won the first
half and Clinchfield won the
second half of games. So a series
is now being played to decide
tne champions. Eight other
teams in the league have been
eliminated by Clinchfield and
Willingham.
Felix Jones is captain of the
Clinchfield team and John Sat
terfield, manager.
Clinchfield has won sixteen out
of the last seventeen games
played this season.
HOLLIS PERDUE PASSES
Lemuel Hollis Perdue, 12 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. PI.
Perdue, Sr., of Bonaire, died
Tuesday night, Aug. 22, in Cole
' man’s Sanatorium, Eastman. He
I had been ill for several days of
acute malaria and was carried to
the hospital Tuesday morning.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Bon
aire Methodist church with Rev.
W. J. Erwin, pastor, officiating.
Interment was in the family
burial lot at Bonaire.
Pallbearers were: Tommie
Holloway, Charlie Kersey, Jack
Stalnaker, Junior Child, and Jun
ior Davidson, his classmates at
the Bonaire school.
The deceased was the young
est child of his parents. He was
a popular student in school and
admired by his companions in
the community.
Survivors besides his parents
are: four brothers, G. E. Jr.,
D. A., I’. W., and J. J. Perdue,
all of Bonaire: four sisters, Miss
Rosemund Perdue, Eastman;
Mrs. Felton Rogers, Misses Mar
garet a n d Elizabeth Perdue,
Bonaire.
USE OF PHOiPHATE
FOR SOIL -'3UILDING
The use of super-phosphate
through an experiment on. his)
own farm has proved its value to.
a young Claris e county farmer,
who this week urged Georgia
farmers to try phosphate as a
soil builder.
lie is Harris Thurmond, 37,
whose 325-acre farm is located
four miles northwest of Athens
of the Jelferson River Road.
Thurmond says phosophate and i
lime used on two once-eroded 1
hillsides on his farm have en
hanced the value of the land,giv
ing him 35 additional acres of
pasture for his 91 dairy cattle.
Thurmond’s farm is one of 12
in Clarke county on which super-]
phosphate has been used as a[
TVA demonstrational plot. The!
results have been unusually j
good, especially on the hillside
plots where he used 100 pounds!
of phosphate and 200 pounds of
lime to the acre.
Thurmond, who is urging his
Clark county friends to place or- j
ders for phosphate under the j
grant-of-aid plan of the Agricul- i
tural Conservation Program, said (
he left a “check plot” in a crim-J
son clover field on which no:
phosphate or lime was used ini
the TVA demonstration.
“1 noticed after the clover had I
come up to a good stand,” he j
said, “that the ‘check plot’ had |
j the appearance of a yellow streak
i running through an otherwise!
i healthy field of clover and pas-
Iture grasses.”
j Thurmond said one of the best
, ways to keep legumes in the pas
i ture mixture is by the use of
■ phosphate.
The Agricultural Adjustment
| Administration is offering phos
phate and winter legume seed as
: grants-of aid. No money will be|
1 necessary for farmers to secure
jHOUSTON WELFARE
! DEPT. INFORMATION
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For the next few weeks, The
Houston County Department of
j Public Welfare, through the
courtesy of the local newspaper,
will conduct a “Let’s Get Ac
quainted With Our Department
of Public Welfare” program. We
hope that you will like this pro
gram. We shall appreciate any
helpful suggestions which you
might make.
Our office is located in the An
derson Building on the corner of
Carroll and Ball streets. The
personnel of the Welfare De
partment consists of the follow
ing members: Mr. Walter C.
Watson, Wellston, Ga., chmn,;
Mrs. Sam P. Houser, Perry, Ga.;
Mr. C. E Pyles, Grovania, Ga.:
Mr. W. W. Gray, RED No. 2.
Unadilla, Ga., and Mr. C. L.Ker
sey, RFD No. 1, Bonaire, Ga.
The office staff is as follows:
Miss Sallie Frank Thompson, Di
rector: Miss Katherine Houser,
Stenographer;Miss Evelyn Hard
in, NYA Assistant: Miss Cleo
Braddock, NYA Assistant.
As a Department of Public
Welfare, when we have applica
tions for assistance,it is our duty
to study the family situation, and
to the best of our ability, with
the resources available to us,
help make plans which seem to
fit the family needs.
Following are some of the
agencies which we represent and
for which we are permitted to
take applications: Work Pro
jects Administration, Civilian
Conservation Corps, Surplus Com
modity Distribution Division,
Free Cancer Treatment, General
Relief, Crippled Children’s Ser
vice, Child Welfare Service, Na
tional Youth Administration, Old
Age Assistance, Aid to th e
Blind, and Aid to Dependent
Children.
We shall take one or two of
these subjects each week and
let you know how these applica
tions are made and to what ex
tent we can be of service in
handling these applications.
It is our wish to be of the ut
most service to our county and
we feel that if the public in gen
eral is better acquainted with
the operations of our office, they
can be of greater assistance in
helping the office serve the pur
pose for which it is intended
PUBLIC WELFARE.
Sallie Frank Thompson,
Welfare Director,
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LIBRARY NOTES
“The Brandons,” by Thirkell,
is a very gay whimsical story of
I English family life. The au
.thor’s following has grown
steadily, Wm. L. Phelips es
pecially recommends this novel
in his autobiography.
A recent donation of books in
cludes many of the classics
among them novels by Dickens,
Thackery and Eliot, the collected
poems of Longfellow, Whittier,
■ and Poe. There are also trans
j lations from such famous au
thors as Tolstoi, France and
Ilansun.
Closed Monday, Sept. 4, legal
holiday.
Library hours 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
i Verneice Beavers, Librarian.
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PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barnes,
Atlanta, spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Barnes.
Janie and Frances Welch, Avon
dale, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
H. E. Gordon this week,
I Mrs. H. T. Gilbert and Mrs.
[Virgil Bass honored Miss Evelyn
i Baker, Charleston, S. C., with a
“Coca-Cola” party Wednesday
morning last week at the home
of Mrs. Gilbert, Twelve of the
young social contingent were
i guests at this delightful affair.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Roberts
[ had as their guests Sunday Mr.
land Mrs. Carl Lewis, Gilbert, S.
jC.: Mrs. G. A. Bloodworth and
! daughters, Ruby, Joanne, and
Carolyn, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Moore, Haddock; and Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Winters, Bradley.
the materials. It is charged
against the soil-building pay
ments without an immediate out
lay of cash other than handling
charges.