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VOL. LXVIX. No, 12. .
kethodists begin
REVIVAL ON EASTER
.
Revival services at the Perry
Methodist church begin next
Sunday morning with the 11:30
service. At this hour, Rev. Roy
rardner will preach on the sub
let “The Risen Christ Lives
Today.” At the evening hour,
8 o’clock, the choir will presen
an Easter Cantata, entitled, “Ret
demption Song.” Large atten
dances are expected at both ser
vices. , , . f
The week day services of the
Revival will begin Monday, with
services at 10 a. m. and Bp. m.
Rev. Willard Rustin, pastor of
Earline Avenue Methodist
Church, Columbus, Ga., will ar
rive Monday p. m. to lead the
singing during the revival. It is
expected that local talent will
make a great contribution in
song and music under the leader
ship of Rev. Mr. Rustin. He was
a member of Asbury College
Glee Club, member of two
quartettes, and has done some
evangelistic singing. He is do
ing a good work in his pastorate
in Columbus.
The preaching will be done by
Rev. Roy Gardner. He will bring
plain, helpful messages based on
the Scriptures. Special services
for the children will be held, be
ginning Tuesday, March 26, at
3:30 p. m.
The committees to help carry
on the work of the Revival will
be announced Sunday.
Easter Program
During the Church School
hour, an Easter program will be
presented by the children’s de
partment. All departments will
assemble in the church auditori
um at 10:40 a. m. for this pro
gram.
Easter Cantata
The Cantata for the evening
service is being directed by G.
F. Nunn with Miss Willie Ryals
as pianist. Mrs. W. V. Bass of
the Presbyterian church is the
soprano soloist. Singers are:
Soprano--Mrs. Bass,Mrs. J.M.
Gooden, Mrs. W. T. Middle
brooks, Mrs. J. L. Hodges, and
Miss Allene Ryals.
Alto-Mrs. G. F. Nunn, Misses
Margaret Powell, Norine Swan
son, and Caroline Nunn.
Bass-J. O. Coleman and Dr.
Robt Shepard.
Tenor-W. K. Whipple and
Chas. Andrew.
EASTER PROGRAM
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
The Young People of the Per
ry Baptist church will present a
Special Easter Program in
Song at the regular preaching
hour, 11:30 o’clock,Sunday morn
ing, March 24. The public is
cordially invited to attend this
service.
The evening service at the
Baptist church will be called off
in favor of the revival meeting
which begins at the Methodist
church next Sunday. It has been
the practice of our church to co
operate with our sister churches
in this way during their revival
efforts. Our people are urged to
attend this Sunday evening ser
vice and others during the series.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
U. D. C. MEETING
The March meeting of the Sgt.
Hinton C. Duncan chapter of
the U. D. C. was held Tuesday
the sixth at the home of Mrs. C.
E. McLendon with her mother,
Mrs. B. H. Andrew, Sr,, as
hostess. The president, Mrs.
Alva Davis, presided.
Mrs. G. E. Jordan gave a pa
per on Montgomery, one-time
capital of the Confederacy, and
Miss Norine Swanson read two
two poems on Spring.
Mrs. C. E. Brunson, treasurer,
urged members to pay dues in
March. Announcement was
made of a rummage sale to be
held Sat., March 23.
A lovely salad course was
served.
Friends of Mrs. S. T. Hurst re
gret her serious illness. She is
ln a Macon hospital.
Houston Home Journal
600 TREES PROVIDED
BY CITY FOR PLANTING
The city of Perry is being
beautified this week by the
planting of 600 trees which were
purchased by the city. The plant
ing is being supervised by the
ladies of the Perry Garden club.
The trees are of several varie
ties,including red and white dog-'
wood, redbuds, red maples, and
Chinese elms. 100 have been
set out on Main street and 50 in
the City Park. A number are
being planted in Evergreen cem
etery and along the drive to the
cemetery. The remainder will
be divided for planting on other
streets in the town,on the church
yards,and on the school grounds.
The garden club requests the
co-operation of residents in tak
ing care of the trees and in
watering them during the sum
mer.
The mayor and council have
the thanks of all citizens of Per
ry for the purchase of these trees.
JUTENDfINCE CAMPAIGN
How many of us have ever
stopped and asked, “How
many products of the Christian
Church are there about us in
our Community?”
Popular education through
the public school system, col
leges and universities came
from the Christ who taught,
“And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you
free.” In the Dark Ages the
Church kept the torch of
learning lighted.
The early hospitals were
fostered by the Church. These
hostels of mercy were inspired
by the Christ, who healed dis
eased bodies and taught that
the body is a dwelling place
of God’s life.
Orphanages and other insti
tutions for Child Care received
their inspiration from the
Christ who said, “Of such is
the Kingdom of Heaven.” The
Church has always supported
more orphanages than any sec
ular organization has done.
Womanhood had a very low
ly place of honor and protec
tion when Christ came into the
world. Christ and His Church
honored woman and won for
her a place of high esteem and
protection. The Church has al
ways sought to build up and
strengthen the Home,
Honesty, Truth, Faith are
the very bases of credit and
of modern business. These vir
tues are the teachings of the
Church.
The foundation of all real
legal systems is found in the
laws of Moses. The Church
has transmitted these laws of
Justice, tempered with the
Mercy and Love of the New
Testament. Many of the finest
protective features of modern
law have been nurtured by
leaders in the Christian
Church.
Few of us would like to live
in a community, where there
was no Sunday School, the
daughter of the Church. We
would not live long in a com
munity, where we and our fam
ily could not have access to a
Church. Most of us want a
good social environment in
which to rear our children. We
want a community dominated
in large part by Christian in
fluences.
To accept these benefits or
to desire them for our families
makes us responsible to sup
port the organizations which
help produce thes* values.
That man or woman who can
go to Church, and will not do
so, is assuming that someone
else will carry his or her re
-ligi o u s responsibility. The
least investment any person
can make in the Church is
Attendance. There is no place
for proxy votes here. The only
way to perpetuate the Church
or any real institution is to in
vest your life and personality
in it.
I The Churches of Perry are
Ihere to serve and help make
a better community. They
should have the interest, at
tendance, and support of every
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1940
HOUSTON CHAPTER
HAS FARM PROGRAM 1
The Houston County Chap
ter of United Georgia Farmers
has made an excellent start on
a program leading to general
agricultural improvement for
all farms of the County.
The program committe con
sisting of S. W. Hickson, S. W.
Newberry, G. E. Perdue, C. E.
Pyles, Geo. C. Nunn, L. W.
Tabor, C. E. Andrew, C. L.
Holt, and W. W. Gray, presi
dent, had a meeting of a ma
jority of the committe mem
bers and studied the major
needs of Houston County. It
was decided that the major lo
cal need was improving the
productivity of the soil in the
county as a whole.
This need is self evident
from the average yield of 191
pounds of cotton per acre and
9.9 bushels of wheat per acre.
The program committe is
making plans to improve this
condition by the following
methods:
1. Use of pure planting seed
and treatment of seed for
seed born diseases.
2. Proper Land Use, retiring
from row crops all sub
marginal, u n productive
or severely eroded land
and adopting soil conser
vation practices to re
claim such land by use of
Kudzu or pine trees, etc.
3. Soil improvement by use
of crop rotation, turning
summer and winter le
gumes back into the soil.
4. Improved cultural and
fertilizer practices.
5. Insect control.
To encourage the adoption
of these methods and practices,
the Houston County Chapter
is sponsoring a 5 acre Corn
and Cotton Contest. Very lib
eral prizes are being offered
in this contest, $lOO.OO for
first; $50.00 for second; and
$25.00 for third prize for each
of the two crops, cotton and
corn. Every white farmer in
Houston County is eligible to
enter this contest. All that is
required is that he register his
intentions of entering contest
with W. T, Middlebrooks,
County Agent by April 1. A
minimum of a total of 20 con
testants will be required to of
fer the above prizes.
A county farm tour is also
planned for late summer to
visit some of these contest!
patches of cotton and corn.
The Chapter plans to have
meetings every two weeks on
second and fourth Friday,
nights of each month at Court- 1
house and at these meetings
educational programs will be
presented along the line of
achieving the above outlined
accomplishments.
These meetings are open to
everyone and not confined to
members only. Every farmer
whether a member of the
Chapter or not is urged to co
operate in improving agricul
tural conditions in the county.
The only way this can be ac
complished is by attending
these meetings and taking ad
vantage of every opportunity
of finding out the best recom
mended ways and means of
improving conditions. Plan to
attend these meetings and stu
dy, plan, and work together
for the betterment of all.
At the next meeting, which
will be Friday night of this
week (March 22), a very in
teresting and instructive pro
gram has been arranged. The
Soil Conservation Service will
furnish this program and deal
with item 2 of the above out
lined objectives, that of “Land
Use and Conservation of Our
Soil.”
I
able-bodied person in the com- 1
munity.
The Easter season of the Ris
en Christ is at hand. The Re
vivals of the Churches are op
ening. Come to Church.
ROY GARDNER, Pastor.
Perry Methodist Church.
FARM EQUIPMENT
SHOW ON MCH. 25-26
The big REA Farm Equip
i ment show is set for Monday
and Tuesday, March 25-26.
The big tent will go up on the
■ Reynolds Golf Course on Rey
nolds-Roberta road, and every
thing will be in order for the
first evening program at 7:30.
It is brought to this area
through the cooperation of the
, Extension Service, the Rural
Electrification Administration,
farm electric equipment manu
facturers with the Taylor
■ County Electric Membership
; Corporation and neighboring
cooperatives in Sumter, Lamar,
i and Upson Counties.
Since running water on the
farm, and modern plumbing
, for the farm bathroom and
farm kitchen are the founda
tions of modern living and per
, haps the greatest singe bene
i fits brought by electricity, a
I complete automatic pressure
■ water system and farm bath
room have, been built on one
trailer, and a complete farm
■ kitchen on another. The two
can back together, hook up to
the tour’s portable power ca
ble, and hot and cold running
i water will spurt from the fau
cets in the traveling kitchen.
The water is carried in tanks
• on the trailers and heated by
’ a standard electric water heat
, er.
Demonstrations showing
■ how running water may be
■ used to increase poultry pro
ductions, its value in the dairy,
in the pigyard, for fire pro
tection, for the effortless filling
of stock tanks, and for many
, other purposes, will be con
ducted by Mr. Harold Clark,
■ of REA.
A Home Demonstration
• Agent will share the program
in addition to supervising the
all-electric lunch tent in which
local farm club women will be
on the job all day and evening,
serving up hot meals. The
whole family can come to the
show prepared to stay all day
without troubling to pack a
lunch.
The dairy section of the
demonstration will show vari
ous types of milkers, cream
| coolers ranging from small five-
I gallon types that can be used
|in conjunction with cream
storage in the household re
frigerator, to big four-can
coolers, sterilizers, and auto
matic drinking cups for the
cattle.
The women, in the mean
time, may attend extensive
1 programs in the big tent,
where there will be groups to
study kitchen planning, elec
tric cookery with the range
and with small appliances, a
laundry demonstration, discus
sions of the farm refrigerator,
and points on the care and se
lection of household applianc
es.
Every farmer in this area,
whether he uses or plans to
use electricity or not, will find
the demonstrations of great in
terest, and profit, and all are
urged to attend.
(10MAHERSBMLS
Miss Martha Cooper, Mr, and
Mrs. W. B. Evans and little
daughter,Martha Aurelia, spent
the weekend in Hilliard, Fla.
with Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ansley.
Mr. Adgar Beddingfield who
teaches at Ideal, Ga. was the
guest of his brother, Mr, J. A.
I Beddingfield, and Mrs. Bed
dingfield Friday night and Sat
urday.
Mrs. J. V. Wallace, of Macon,
and her daughter, Mrs. Bob
Brennan, West Virginia, spent
several days this week with Mr.
i and Mrs. E. C. Leverette at
i Wellston. Mr. Vernon Wallace,
Douglas, Ga., Mrs. Brennan, and
Miss Mary Leverette, Wellston,
, visited Mrs. N. C. Wellons here
Monday. Mrs. Brennan will leave
Friday to return to her home.
Miss Flora Rogers who teaches
at Tifton was at home for the
weekend.
MARCH 31, LAST DAY
TO FILE WORK SHEETS
March 31 will be the last day
to file work sheets for farms
coming under the agricultural
conservation program, Homer S.
Durden, state AAA administra
tive. said this week.
“Farms which were not cover
ed by work sheets in 1937, 1938
and 1939 must have them this
year if their operators are to
share in the 1940 agricultural con
servation payments,” Durden
said.
The Triple A official also said
the county offices have been no
tified of the closing date for ac
cepting the work sheets and
that farmers who have not filed
them should do so at an early
date.
The closing date for a farmer
to file a request for re-constitu
tion of a farm is also March 31.
Durden said no requests for
“combinations” or "splits” after
that date will be acceptable.
SUNRISE EASTER SERVICE
A sunrise service will be held
at Andrew Chapel Methodist
Church, Houston Lake,on Easter
Sunday morning at 6;30 o’clock.
Rev. Roy Gardner, pastor of the
Perry Methodist church will
bring the message at this ser
vice. The beauty of the location
of Andrew Chapel makes this
an especially appropriate place
for a service of this kind.
Other Easter services will be
held as follows: Bonaire, at 9
a. m.; Grovania, at 10:30 a. m.;
and Elko at 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The revival is in progress at
the Elko church with the pastor,
Rev. W. J. Erwin, doing the
preaching. Services are being
held each morning at 11 o’clock
and each evening at 8 o’clock.
HOUSTON CAMELLIA
WINS PRIZE IN SHOW
Mrs. Hollis Kezar won firsts
prize on a Donkalarii Camellia
entered in the Columbus Flower
Show Saturday. This Houston
county camellia won the award
for the best bloom grown out-of
doors.
That this entry was judged the
finest is no surprise to flower
growers of this section who have
gone to Elko this spring to view
these gorgeous camellias on the
bush in Mrs. Kezar’s yard.
Perry is noted for its fine ca
mellias, which aie lovely this
month in spite of the cold weath
er of the winter. Some of the
bushes here are at least a hun
dred years old. Others are
blooming for the first time tnis
spring.
Mr. and Mrs Emmett Barnes
have 140 bushes in about 50 va
rieties, among them some very
rare specimens. T h e Barnes’
home is known as the old Ragan
place.
Mrs. B. H. Andrew, Sr. has
over a 100 camellias in about 35
varieties. Among them is one]
she developed and named for her
granddaughter, Joyce Andrew.
Some of the oldest and loveli
est bushes arc at the old Tharpe
home now owned by Mr. and
Mrs. H. D. Gordy, at the old
Duncan home now owned by Dr.
and Mrs. R. L. Cater, at th e
Norwood home now owned by i
Mrs. D. H. Cooper, at the homes
of Mr. A. A. Srnoak, Mr. and
Mrs. H. T. Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs.
T. C. Rogers, and Dr, and Mrs.
C. F. Cooper.
PEACH TREES IN BLOOM
The peach trees are now in full
bloom in Houston county. In
every direction from Perry there f
are lovely orchards. It is well
worth anyone’s time to ride out
to see the gorgeous spectacle of j
peach trees in bloom,
MRS. CLARKE HURT
Mrs. Henry Clarke of Elko
was painfully injured Monday
morning when a blow-out of a
rear tire caused hef car to over
turn about two miles out of Per
ry. She sustained several pain
ful cuts and bruises but was not
seriously hurt. The accident oc
curred about 11 a. m. ,
ESTABLISHED 1870
FLOWER SHOW TO BE
HELD IN PERRY MAY 3
( ‘
Mrs. G. C, Nunn was re-elect
ed president of the Perry Garden
club at the March meeting held
Thursday at the American Le
gion Home. Other officers elect
ed were: Mrs. H. T. Gilbert,
vice-president: Mrs. Joe Bed
dingfield, secretary; Mrs. Word
na Gray, treasurer.
The club voted to hold the
spring flower show on May 3.
Not only are members of the
club urged to participate but
any one in the city or county in
terested in gardening is cordial
ly invited to enter exhibits.
Mrs. W. C. Talton presented
the program which included a
discussion from the book, Com
plete Garden, by Miss Norine
Swanson and a talk on the Flow
er of the Month, the Pansy, by
Mrs. W. B. Roberts.
First prize, an Easter basket
of Gladioli bulbs, was presented
to Mrs. W. B. Roberts for an ar
rangement of pansies. Those re
ceiving honorable mention on
displays were Mrs. Floyd Tabor,
Mrs. E. M. Beckham, Mrs. G. C.
Nunn, Mrs. George Jordan.
After the meeting, delightful
refreshments were served by the
hostesses, Mrs. E. M. Beckham,
Mrs. A. C. Cobb, Mrs. W. E.
Beckham, Mrs. S A. Nunn, Mrs.
Francis Nunn, Mrs, E. W. Tray
lor, and Mrs. Max Moore.
KIWANIS CLUB MEETS
Roy I. Neal, chairman, and
Miss Dorothy White, executive
secretary of the Macon Red
Cross chapter, spoke to the Per
ry Kiwanis club at the noon
luncheon Tuesday.
The Macon chapter embraces
Houston county. Mr. Neal and
Miss White discussed the work
of the Red Cross.
The club passed a resolution
favoring the closing of all places
of business in Perry, wherever
possible, during the Revival
meetings at the local churches.
It was announced that the di
rectors of the club had decided to
make the securing of public
health service for Houston coun
ty. their main objective.
Fred Sutton of Macon was a
visitor.
P. T. A. MEETING
Officers for the new year were
elected at the March meeting of
the P. T. A. held at the school
auditorium Tuesday, March 12.
Mrs. W. B Evans was elected
president to succeed Mrs. G. W.
Rhodes. Mrs. E. W. Traylor
was re-elected vice-president;
Miss Evelyn Hunt, secretary;and
Mrs. Tom Cater, treasurer.
Rev. J, A, Ivey brought a de
votional message. Barbara
Whipple and Merrill Hunnicutt
gave several piano selections.
An appeal was made for more
pupils to take lunches in the
| lunch room, because the dimes
are needed in order to make ends
meet. The Sorosis club has been
contributing the equivalent of
two lunches daily to the lunch
room.
Plans were made for the P. T.
A. to sponsor a Fathers’ and
Sons’ Night some time in the
near future.
SHOWER FOR IVEYS
The Baptist W. M. S. gave
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Ivey a pan
try shower at their general meet
ing, held Monday, March 11.
{The gifts were presented at this
jtirne as a rememberance for Mr.
Ivey, whose birthday came on
! March 12 and in love and appre
ciation for this pastor and his
wife.
Mrs. C. E. Brunson, president,
i presided and Mrs. J. L, Galle
| mors presented the program.
| John Williamson, Jr, had his
tonsils removed this morning
(Thurs.) at Eggleston Hospital,
Atlanta. His mother is with him.
Several patrolmen were trans
ferred Wednesday from Perry to
other stations. Trooper T. P.
Cross went to Washington, Ga.,
Trooper B. L Sentell to Swains
boro; and Trooper Slaton Toler
to Brunswick.
