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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VOL. LXVIII. No. 49.
HOUSTON PRIMARY
SET FOR FEB. 15
The Democratic Executive
committee of Houston county
mot Tuesday a. m. at the Court
House and set Feb. 15, 1940, as
the date to hold the Democratic
Primary Election for all county
Ot Jan. S "2O, 1940 was fixed as the
last date for candidates to quali
fy for office. Entries will also
close at noon (12 o’clock E.S.T.)
on Saturday, Jan, 20, next year.
Candidates must qualify by that
time and pay their assessments
toJ. W. Bloodworth, secty. and
treas. of the Exec, committee.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Judge
A M. Anderson resigned as
chairman and J. P. Etheridge
was elected to succeed him.
The sub-committee chosen to
make the rules and regulations
governing the Primary is as fol
lows: J. P. Etheridge, J. W.
Bloodworth, and Warren B.
Hodge.
The candidates assessments
were fixed as follows:
Sheriff, $25; Clerk of Court,
$25; Tax Collector, $25; Tax
Receiver, $25; School Supt., $25;
Ordinary, $2O; Commissioners,
$10; Surveyor, $5; Coroner, $l.
The three commissioners whose
terms expire after next year are:
J. A. Davis, A. L. Sasser, and
W. D. Kersey.
The county Democratic execu
tive committee and the county
legislator will be elected in the
state primary to be held in the
fall ot 1940.
The committee is composed of
two citizens from each militia
district and six from Perry.
In order to be qualified to vote,
a person must be registered and
have all poll taxes through 1939
paid up by Jan. 20, 1940, accord
ing to a ruling of the committee.
SPECIAL MESSAGES BY
METHODIST PASTOR
The pastor, Rev. Roy Gardner,
will speak on “The Weaning of
the Church” at 11:30 a. m. Sun
day. In this message Rev.
Gardner will discuss some of the
values many people have found
in the church.
At 6:30 p. m. Sunday the
young people will meet in the
Epworth League with Mrs.
Cohen Walker as their Counsel
lor.
At the 7:30 p. m. service the
pastor will have as his subject,
“The Call of the Risen Christ.”
The pastor will lead the Wednes
day night prayer service, which
begins at 7:30 p. m. Church
School meets at 10:15 a. m. Sun
day.
The public is invited to all
these services.
U. D. C. MEETING
The. Sgt. Clinton C. Duncan
chapter of the U. D. C. met
Tuesday p. m. with iMrs. Alva
Davis, the president. Members
were asked to give candy for a
Christmas Box to be sent to the
Did Soldiers’ Home. Mrs, C. E.
Brunson is in charge of the send
ing of this box.
Mrs. F. M. Greene read a pa
per on Chickamauga and Mrs.
Tom Cater read a poem. Miss
Koselyn Paul played Christmas
Carols.
During the social hour, Mrs.G.
o. Riley assisted the hostess in
serving delightful refreshments.
kiwanis club meets
R. B, Eleazer of Atlanta, Ed
cational director of commission
on Inter-racial Relations,
was the guest speaker at the
t erry Kiwanis club here Tues
day. He discussed past and
present wars and gave four
reasons why we should keep out
the present troubles abroad,
these he classified as the insin
cerity of their organization, in
sincerity of their personnel, in
sincerity of methods, and the ex
pense in men and money. He
praised the American Legion for
its efforts to keep us from be
coming involved in the present
foreign entanglements.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
PLANNED FOR DEC. 17
The three Perry churches will
unite in a Christmas Carol Ser
vice Sunday, Dec. 17, at 7 p. m
at the Methodist church. Follow
ing an annual custom to alternate
between the Baptist and Metho
dist churches, the service is to
be held this year at the Metho
dist church.
The carols tell the story of Re
demption, beginning with the re
joicing of the angels over the
Nativity, continuing with the
fulfillment of the Prophecy, with
praise to the newborn King, the
Ave Maria,the Shepherds Watch,
a Gloria song, the search of the
Wise Men, and a song of rejoic
ing, “Joy to the World,” and
concluding with “Silent Night,
Holy Night.”
Francis Nunn is the director;
Mrs. Mayo Davis, pianist; Mrs.
Virgil Bass, soprano soloist.
E, D, SMITH DIES SUDDENLY
Elijah D,Smith,6B, well-known
farmer of Houston county where
he had resided all his life, died
at 11:30 o’clock Sunday night at
his home near Perry on the Fort
Valley road. A sudden heart at
tack, suffered during the night,
was given as the cause of death.
Mr. Smith was a member of
the Masonic order.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Allie Ingram Smith, and
four daughters, Mrs. O. D. War
then, Vidalia; Miss Grace A.
Smith, Talbotton; Mrs. W. T.
Walton, Mcßae, and Mrs. Chas.
H. Thompson, Perry.
He is also survived by three
brothers, F. P. Smith and P. W.
Smith of Byron, and N. B. Smith
of Fort Valley, and a nephew,
Donald H. Smith of Perry.
The funeral was held at 11
o’clock Tuesday morning at the
residence with the Rev. J. A.
Ivey officiating. Rev. R. F.
Boyd, Perry, and Rev. Robert H.
Orr, Vidalia, Presbyterian min
isters, nssisted. Burial was in
Evergreen cemetery, Perry.
The pallbearers were T.L.War
ren, Cooper Jones, S. L. Nor
wood, George B. Wells, Claud
Andrew and T. D. Mason.
SOIL CONSERVATION BIST.
In the two years since the first
soil conservation district was or
ganized by farmers under State
law, erosion control work in dis
tricts has spread over more than
7,000 farms embracing nearly
two million acres, H. H. Bennett,
Chief of the Soil Conservation
Service announces. On these
farms, scattered through 116 dis
tricts in 23 slates, nearly 72,000
acres have been retired from cul
tivation because of inability to
produce crops profitably. Some
of the submarginal land has
been planted to trees and other
types of permanent vegetation.
Permanent hay acreage has in
creased some 190 percent—from
63,700 acres two years ago to
28,900 acres today.
MRS. HUGHES HONORED
Perry friends and relatives of
Mrs. Dudley M. Hughes of Dan
ville, Ga. were interested and
pleased to learn of the dinner
given by Danville Future Farm
ers and other Danville citizens
Friday night in honor of Mrs.
Hughes whose late husband was
the author of the Smith-Hughes
vocational agricultural act lin
1917, when he was congressman
from the old twelfth district of
which Houston county was a
part. , , ,
The Ten-Year club of vocation
al agriculture teachers presented
Mrs. Hughes with a bronze pla
que inscribed to the memory of
her husband and the fine work
he did as a congressman. Mrs.
Hughes presented the F. F. A.
chapter with an enlarged photo
graph of her husband.
Mrs. Hughes was Miss Mary
Dennard of Perry. She cele
brated her 85th birthday March
31, this year.
Sell! Swap! Rent! Buy! via
the Want Ad Way.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1939
EDUCATIONAL ASS’N
MEETS HERE MONDAY
The Houston County Educa
tional Association met Monday
afternoon, at the Perry High
school, with Supt. E. P. Staples,
president presiding.
An interesting program was
given by Mrs. W. J. Boone, as
sisted by Miss Mollie Lou Cason,
who gave a selection, “Aunt Het
on School Teaching.” Miss Har
dison gave an appropriate prayer.
County Supt. S. W. Hickson
read a letter from Mr. Ralph
Ramsey, acknowledging receipt
of state membership dues from
the Houston County Association
and commending the organiza
tion for its cooperation.
Reports from the group meet
ings indicate that there is much
interest in discussing and keep
ing before the individual teacher
and educational leader his im
mediate problems. In the Ele
mentary department, Miss Eve
lyn Hunt led a discussion on
“Reading,” and “Health” w a s
selected for the next meeting.
“Pennmanship” was the subject
for the Primary group, and “So
cial Science” is to be discussed
at the next meeting with Mrs. W.
J. Boone and Mrs. Irene Gregory
in charge.
In the High School group,some
rather vital questions were rais
ed for consideration.
The next meeting of the asso
ciation wdll be on January 8, at
the Perry High school.
NEW FORD AGENCY IN PERRY
Perry has a new Ford agency,
the Stocker Automobile Co.,own
ed and operated by Alexis Ruth
erford Stocker, who has been
connected with the Ford Motor
Co. during most of his business
life.
Mr. Stocker officially opened
j his agency here last Saturday in
the Srnoak building on Carroll
St. where he is temporarily lo
cated until he can erect a build
ing for his agency, A complete
service station and repair shop
are now in operation by the
Stocker Automobile Co. which
has the dealership for Ford cars
and trucks and Mercury cars.
This firm will also have the
distribution ot the new Ford trac
tor for Houston, Peach, Craw
ford, and Monroe counties. The
owner’s son, Thomas Stocker,
who has specialized in the study
of agriculture, will be in charge
of the tractor division of the
business.
Mr. and Mrs,Stocker and fam
ily will move to Perry from Cul
loden to make their home as
soon as housing arrangements
can be made.
Business Connections
For several years Mr, Alexis
Stocker was asst, manager of the
Ford Assembly Plant at Barcelo
na, Spain, which was in charge
of assembly and distribution ol
Ford cars for Spain, Portugal,
Italy, and Northern Africa.
Then, Mr. Stocker was general
manager of the German Manu
facturing Plant at Cologne where
Fords were manufactured ot
German materials. He resigned
from this position in Germany to
become vice-president of the
United Aircraft Exports Corp.
Mr. Stocker delivered the first
tri-motored Ford airplane in
Europe. For several years, he
has been a sport pilot,
Mr. Stocker resigned from
Aircraft to organize his farm
ing interests on the Rutherford
plantation, near Culloden, having
bought his family’s homestead
there.
Upon deciding to re-enter the
business field, Mr. Stocker chose
that line nearest his liking; to
represent the P’ord Motor Co.
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 7:30 p. m.
Second Sunday-Andrew Chap
el, 11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Third Sunday—Bonaire, 11:30
a, m. and 7:30 p. m.
Fourth Sunday—Elko, 11:30
a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Rev. W. J. Erwin, Pastor.
MOTORCADE OPENS
RT. 11 TO FLORIDA;
A motorcade from Macon, Ga., 1
to Jasper, Fla., celebrated the
opening of Route No. 11, Friday, j
80 automobiles were met at the
state line by 27 Florida cars,
headed by Governor Fred P.
Cone and other prominent Flori
da officials to greet Governor E.
D. Rivers and the Georgians.
The celebration marked the
opening of a highway that be
gins at Blairsville, Ga., an d
traverses Georgia in an almost
straight line through Perry, Ga.,
to the Florida state line.
Governor Rivers made the
dedicatory speech in which he
made special mention of t h e ac
tivity of Isador Gelders, Fitz
gerald, in promoting the con
struction of this route. Governor
Cone also spoke.
Perry Group
Perry was represented on the
motorcade by two cars and six
citizens. Those in the party
were: E. P. Newhard, W, G.
Riley, A. C. Cobb, J. J. Rooney,
E. W. Marshall, and J. B.
Hawkins,
PREPARE KUOZU SEED BEDS
Farmers of this section who
desire best stands of kudzu next
spring will do well to prepare
seed beds this fall, according to
County Agent W. T. Middle
brooks and W. V. Bass of the
Soil Conservation Service district
work unit near Perry.
Experience on several thous
and farms throughout the South
east, it is pointed out, has shown
that the best stands of kudzu
have been obtained where the
plants were set out on well-set
tled beds. Where the land has
been prepared in the fall and
good strong plants have been
set the following spring good
stands have usually been ob
tained. On the other hand,
where the land has been pre
pared in late winter or early
spring and plants have been set
on fresh, unsettled beds, stands
have frequently been rather poor.
Farmers are advised to space
rows for kudzu 12 to 18 feet
apart so that cultivated row
crops may be planted in the mid
dle between the rows of kudzu.
Wide row spacing reduces the
labor required for preparing the
land and planting kudzu. There
have been instances where a
complete stand of kudzu was ob
tained the first growing season
from rows spaced far enough
apart to allow five rows of corn
to be grown in each middle.
INCREASE ACREAGE YIELD
Attention Georgia farmers!
The citizens’ fact-finding com
mittee suggests that you increase
the “size” of your farm by step
ping up the acreage yield. The
fact-finders offer this “Live at
Home Program” to make every
Georgia farm self-sustaining in
food and feed products.
Every farm family should
makeup budgets for food re
quirements for itself and live
stock; the amount of land need
ed to fill the requirements should
be determined and emphasis
should be placed on canning,
preserving and processing of ex
cess food.
The report set out that there
are 71,000 Georgia farms without
a cow; 93,000 without a hog; 30,-
000 without a chicken, and 100,-
000 without a home orchard. For
a model budget for a family of
five the committee mentions
among other things as necessary:
two cows, one beef, one lamb
and a spring hatching of 300
chicks each spring.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
Perry Church
Sunday School-10:15 a. m.
Worship Service-11:30 a. m. ,
Clinchfield
Sunday School-3:00 p, m.
Worship Service-8:00 p. m.
Rev. R. F. Boyd, Pastor.
Want Ads get cash from those
needing your “Don’t Wants.”
SERIES OF SERVICES
j AT BAPTIST CHURCH
i A series of services will be held
jat the Perry Baptist church four
; evenings next week as a part of
the Sunday School's Enlarge
ment Program which has Evan
gelism as its keynote.
Rev. L. H. Wright, pastor of
Tattnall Square Baptist church,
Macon, will preach each night,
beginning Monday at 7:30 p. m.
and continuing through Thurs
day evening. His subject will
be “Evangelism” for each ser
vice.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, Perry pastor,
urges all Sunday school workers
and members an d all church
members, also, to attend these
services.
Sunday Preaching Services,
11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p, m.
Sunday School, 10:15 a. m.
The church welcomes you to
its services.
RED GROSS DRIVE CLOSES
The people of Perry responded
to the Red Cross drive as they do
to all calls for good causes. Nin
ety-four citizens of Perry joined
and $104.30 was raised on the
drive in Perry,
Captain T. M. Evans and Edu
cational Adviser A. E. Barron of
the local C. C. C. camp took up
a collection among the colored re
cruits for the Perry drive. 101
boys contributed $10.30.
Thirty-six members of the Ki
wanis club paid their one dollar
membership fee.
Miss Martha Cooper had
charge of the local drive. Th e
town was divided into different
sections and a worker appointed
for each section. Miss Evelyn
Hunt and Miss Leonora Houser
with the business section raised
$4l; Mrs. Wordna Gray, 17; Mrs.
Vernon Tuggle, $l3; Mrs. Cater
Rogers, $8; Mrs. W. A. Curtis
and Miss Frances Couey, $9; and
Miss Frances Foster, $6.
The annual Roll Call of the
American Red Cross officially
closed Dec. 1, with more than
55,000 enlisted in the great army
of mercy. Additional returns
are expected to swell the mem
bership to at least 75,000, Abit
Nix, stale Roll Call Chairman,
stated.
LIBRARY NOTES
Romance, mystery and west
ern stories form the most popu
lar type of light reading.
Romance
Aldrich, Bess--“ Rim of t h e
Desert.”
Bailey, Temple-“P ea c o c k
Feathers.”
Hill, Grace-“Brentwood.”
Mystery
Biggers, Earl-“ House With
out a Key.”
Queen, Ellery-“D oo r Be
tween.”
Van Dine, S. S.-“ Bishop’s
Murder Case.”
Western
Grey, Zane--“ Betty Zane.”
Curwood, Qliver--“An c i e n t
Highway.”
Tuttle, W, C.-“ Keeper of the
Red Horse Pass.”
“Thimble Summer,” by Eliza
beth Enright, was awarded the
John Newberry medal for the
most distinguished contribution
to literature for children.
Library hours 9 a.m. to 6 p .m.
Verneice Beavers. Librarian.
AGRICULTURE NEWS
The Perry Aggies suffered
their first defeat Friday nigh t in
a hard fought battle in which
the Macon Masonic Home club
outpointed them 38 to 19. Thus
far this season the team has
been undefeated by any team in
its class.
Games next on the schedule
are Wednesday (yesterday), Fri
day, and Tuesday, with the Ma
sonic Home, Vienna, Ga., and
Montezuma, respectively.
Courtney Mason,
Reporter.
It costs you money every time
you Don’t read Want Ads in the
(Home Journal.
ESTABLISHED 1870
lAAA ACREAGE GOALS
! ARE ANNOUNCED
National acreage goals for
principal crops and the rates at
which participating farmers can
earn payments under the 1940
Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram has been announced by the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration.
The national cotton acreage
goal was unchanged, being left
at 27,000,000 to 29,000,000 acres,
while the peanut acreage was
also about the same. For all
types as a whole, tobacco acre
age goals were lowered some
what.
In so far as authorized funds
permit, the 1940 program con
tinues the efforts of farmers
toward abundance for the na
tion’s consumers, conservation of
vital soil resources, and parity
income from agriculture, accord
ing to R. M. Evans, Triple A ad
ministrator.
More opportunity for soil con
servation will be offered under
the 1940 program than was avail
able this year. The program en
courages the use of practices
which normally are not carried
out on many farms. It also in
creases the opportunities for
participation i n soil-building
practices by small farms. On oth
er farms, the money available to
assist farmers in carrying out
soil-building practices is about
the same, except that up to $3O
additional will be available to
help any particular farmer plant
trees.
Although the rate of credit for
several practices has been lower
ed, the cash assistance available
on each farm is approximately
the same. The rate for summer
legumes left on the land is re
duced from $1.50 an acre to 75
cents; summer legumes inter
planted with corn from 75 cents
an acre down to 37cents; les
pedeza from $1.50 an acre down
to $l.OO.
Conservation payment to farm
ers on cotton was lowered to I.G
cents a pound from 1.8 cents,
while rates for flue-cured and
liurley were increased
to 1 cent a pound from .8 cents.
Ton-rate payment on peanuts
was reduced to $2.50 from $3.00.
All rates are subject to revis
ion upward or downward by 10
per cent as an adjustment for
participation when final pay
ments are made. The present
rates are contingent upon the
$500,000,000 annual appropriation
authorized in the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938.
Payments for cotton will be
supplemented by parity pa y
ments from a separate appropria
tion.
FARM FAMILY INCOMES
Farm families probably will
have higher net incomes in 1940
than in 1939, the Bureau of Ag
i ricultural Economics and Home
j Economics say in an outlook re
port. Total receipts from
marketings of farm products are
expected to increase, reflecting
improvement in industrial ac
tivity and in consumer incomes.
Values of products for farm
home consumption also will be
higher. Farm production ex
penses will rise, too, the report
said, but less rapidly than gross
receipts: hence, net returns from
farming probably will increase
more, relative to 1939, than
gross income. Income from
I Government payments are ex-
I pected to be about the same as in
11939, but non-farm earnings of
} family members may increase
with greater opportunities for
[employment. Most farm fami
j lies will be able to buy a some
what better living in 1940 than
in 1939 if the anticipated im
provement in general business
j conditions materializes.
I ■
Next to knowing when to seize
an opportunity, the most impor
tant thing in life is to know
when to forego an advantage.—
Beaeonsfield.
If you want to keep it a se
cret, don’t put it in the Want
Ads.
