Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, May 16, 1940, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXVIX. No. 20. PERRY HIGH PLANS for commencement The commencement program of the Perry High School will be rrjn Friday night, May 17, with the senior class play, “Tillie’s Tea Garden,” and be concluded Friday night, May 31, with the graduation exercises. The baccalaureate address will be delivered by Dr. Josiah Crud up, dean of Science, Mercer Uni versity. Sunday, May 26, Rev. K. F. Boyd, Perry Presbyterian pastor, will preach the baccalau reate sermon at 11:30 a. m. in the school auditorium. Miss Willie Ryals,music teach er, will present her pupils in re cital Tuesday night, May 28. The Junior-Senior banquet will be held Friday night, May 24, at the Legion Home. The faculty will entertain the seniors with a barbecue at Hous ton Lake next Tuesday evening, May 21. Other social affairs will honor the graduates. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS The Kiwanis clubs of the ninth division will have a meeting in Macon Tuesday, May 21, 7:30 p. m. at the Dempsey Hotel. The Perry club will be co-host with the Macon club. Reginald Trice of Macon is dist. lieut-governor. Ladies are especially invited to attend. The annual Vacation Bible School,sponsored by the churches of Perry, will be held in June. Plans are now being made and June 10 has been set as a tenta tive date for the beginning of the Bible school. The Robert D, Collins Post of the American Legion has ex ceeded its membership quota of 56 by 11, having 67 now enrolled The Auxiliary reached its quota of 51 members. W.P.A. LUNCH ROOM The W. P. A. Lunch Room of the Perry school has been suc cessfully operated since its opening in the early spring. About 80 children eat lunch there every school day. About 40 of these pay 10c per meal and the others are furnished free. Nourishing, balanced,and well cooked hot meals are served every day. The school has a fine vegetable garden on land furnished by Mayo Davis. Supt. E. P.Staples supervises the garden. Mrs. G. W. Rhodes is P. T. A. supervisor of the lunch room. The workers are employed by W. P. A. MRS. ARRINGTON DIES Mrs. Sam Hurst, Miss Lula Hurst, John Hurst, and Mrs. Alva Davis attended the funeral of Mrs. A. A. Arrington in El laville, Ga. Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Arrington was a sister of Mrs. Hurst and was before her marriage Miss Bertha Burnam. As a young lady she made her home in Perry with her sister and it was while living at her sisier’s home that she and Mr. were married in 1896. Lie large assembly of relatives and friends at her funeral and the many floral tributes attested to the high esteem in which she hMT She was a member ot the Baptist church and sur viving her are her husband,three -"■ons, five daughters, one sister and a brother. Electric Wiring and Supplies Free Estimates Given Reasonable Prices Complete line of electrical FIXTURES WOODROW GILBERT Phone 202. Perry, Ga. P. O. Elko, R. F. D. Houston Home Journal I SENIOR CLASS PLAY i TO BE FRIDAY, MAY 17 '! j The senior class of Perry High school will present “Tillie’s Tea I I Garden”, a comedy-drama, on .(Friday evening, May 17, at 8:30 i p. m. at the school auditorium. j Originally, a tea garden is a 1 quiet and restful retreat, but i when Tillie starts to open one in the garden of her old home, she doesn’t find it such a tranquil place. She finds that she has an enemy who wants to get hold of her place, but she finds that i she has some true friends. At the opening of the tea gar den, you will see displayed a va riety of talent from the senior class. There are songs, speech es, and dances, and in addition a 'group of musicians who will en tertain you with snappy num : hers. Every member of the senior ■ class takes part in the play. Don’t miss this entertainment! 1 METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS In the Sunday morning service 11:30, Rev. Roy Gardner will discuss the subject, ‘‘The Peril 1 of Emptiness.” Rev. Gardner 1 says: ‘‘This is a different ap proach to an old, old problem. ! Many lives are empty of the | presence of Christ and some 1 great moral purpose in life, and they.are being invaded and over * powered by forces that are hos tile to their welfare and happi , ness. Only Christ can fill the ; empty heart and meet its needs.” In the evening service, 8 [ o’clock, the pastor will bring a sequel to the morning message. ■ He will preach on “The Expul sive Power of a Great Affection.” Epworth League meets at 6:30 Sunday night. The pastor is speaking each Wednesday night in Prayer Meeting on “The Chris tian’s Secret of a Happy Life.” The public is cordially invited to all services. HOUSTON DRUG CO. ADDS WALGREEN LINE The Houston Drug Co. is con ducting its Grand Opening Sale as a Walgreen agency drug store. ! The sale starts today (Thursday) ' and continues thru Saturday, May 16-17-18. A complete line of Walgreen products will be sold I by this local concern at regular Walgreen prices. The owners, W. K. Whipple ; and J. A. Beddingfield, state , that the same popular line of cosmetics, candies, toilet arti . cles, etc., will be continued by , the Houston Drug Co. A com ’ plete line of sundries, household goods, and electrical goods has been added. The interior of this drug store has been re-modeled,redecorated, and repainted. The prescription room has been enlarged and modernized. [ For fount service, eight booths seating 26 people have been built so as to be adequate ? accomodation for party groups. ; WHAT’S NEW? n some of the South Sea , Islands, all news is still con veyed by word of mouth. I All news on the air isn’t good ijnews, but it’s vital--Your radio . brings this news to you---If '.[your radio is out of order—give ' us a ring. Don’t miss the WAR JNEWS. Our service is MOST II REASONABLE. MASSEE—BARFIELD RADIO SHOP Phone 154 Perry. Ga. Messrs. Leon Smith, Tex Fore man, Curley Collins, and the Woodruff brothers, all members of “Fa Pecklers” band in At lanta, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith last Thursday. Angelo Redone Leonardo da Vinci’s great fresco of the "Last Supper” in the Sistine chapel of the Vatican has been re touched more than once; several times the original nudes have bad garments painted about theca. PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY. MAY 16. 1940 (county board of education ouster j SOUGHT BY BONAIRE SCHOOL TRUSTEES To determins whether four members of the Houston County Board of Education shall be re moved from office, a public hear ing will be held at the Court House in Perry next Wednesday, May 22, at 10 a. m. before Judge Malcolm D. Jones of the Macon circuit. This hearing will be held in answer to a petition to Judge Jones filed Friday by C. L. Ker sey, J. W. Perdue, Mrs. George F. Collins, and C. Boss Watson, four of the trustees of the Bon aire Consolidated School District, asking that Raburn Scarborough president of the Board, S. L. Norwood, Jr., J. N. Buff, and Floyd Tabor, other board mem bers, be removed from office on the alleged grounds of inefficien cy, incapacity, general neglect of duty, and malfeasance in of fice. The fifth member of the' county board is C. Boss Watson of Wellston, chmn. of the Bon aire School Trustees, and one of the petitioners seeking to have the other four county board mem bers removed from office. The fifth member of the Bonaire school board is Henry Cullen Tal ton of Bonaire, who did not join in the charges against the coun ty board. Charge* Denied When asked for a statement, Messrs. Norwood, Buff, Tabor, and Scarborough said that they vigorously deny all the charges and would make full answer to I them at the hearing. These men further stated that they welcom ed a full hearing of the charges in open court before the people of Houston county. Sam A. Nunn is attorney for these board members and J. W. Bloodworth and Harry Strozier of Macon are counsel for the Bonaire trustees bringing the charges against the four county board members. The petition makes three charges: 1. That the four members of thf Board of Education of Hous ton County for political reasons refused to re-elect C. L. Wil liams, as Superintendent of the Bonaire Consolidated School for the ensuing year, and that this failure or refusal to re-elect Mr. Williams is due to his failure to support S. W. Hickson, county superintendent of schools, for re-nomination in a recent pri mary. 2. That the said four mem bers of the Houston County Board of Education have dis criminated against Bonaire Con solidated School District in that they have refused to pay the Bonaire School District for high school children who do not live in the Bonaire District but who attend the Bonaire High School and have paid expenses of chil dren similarly situated who at tend another high school in the county. 3. That the four members of the Houston County Board of Education have discriminated against the Bonaire Consolidated School by running other gram mar schools in the county for the full term and failing to fur nish funds to the Bonaire school to enable it to run for the full term. Law Concerning Board Members of the county board of Education are appointed by the Grand Jury. Any member of a county board of Education is removable by the judge of the , superior court of the county on ■ the address of two-thirds of the Grand Jury, if charges made against such a member are ' proven. In order to bring charges against four members of the Houston county board of Educa tion, four trustees of the Bonaire school and other patrons and friends of the school circulated a petition, after court was recesa ■ ed, to members of the Grand i! Jury who served at tne April I I Term of Court. ■ j Eighteen of the twenty-four ij members of the April Grand ; Jury signed a petition stating) that charges were being made | jin Houston county that Bonaire l School District had been dis criminated against and demand ing that an investigation be made and a hearing be held to deter mine whether the charges were true or not. The petition signed by the members of the April Grand Jury does not charge the members of the Board of Educa tion with inefficiency, incapacity, general neglect of duty, or mal feasance in office as does the pe tition made by the trustees of Bonaire Consolidated School Dis trict. The April Grand Jury did not act as a.body in this matter but t\vp-thirds of them signed the petition individually since the adjournment of the Grand Jury. Grand Jury Presentments The presentments of the Grand Jury, which were read in court at the April term and published in the official organ of the coun ty, contain two interesting facts concerning the county board of Education. One is that Floyd Tabor, whose removal is now sought, was unanimously re elected a member of the county board of Education for a four year term, beginning May 15, 1940. The other fact is quoted; “Mr. S. W. Hickson, county school supt., made a detailed re port before this Grand Jury, and we wish to commend the County Board of Education for their splendid and efficient way of handling the affairs of this de partment, especially the reduc tion of the indebtedness.” Williams Popular The refusal af the county board to re-elect Supt. Williams who is very popular in the Bon aire School District has precipi tated this matter. Mr. Williams has been head of the Bonaire school for the past 12 years. The people of the Bonaire School District are also disturbed over the closing of their gram mar school, May 3, due to lack of funds to operate. Twice they have appealed to the county board to re-elect Supt. Williams and continue the operation of the Bonaire Grammar School. At the public hearing before Judge Jones next Wednesday, the county bo.ard will reply to all charges made against them and in so doing will give reasons why Mr. Williams was not re-elected and why Bonaire grammar school could not operate during May. CONTROL PASTURE WEEDS BY MOWING Weeds are one of the greatest enemies of pasture plants and should be controlled if the pas ture is expected to give maxi-, mum grazing, County Agent W. | T, Middlebrooks pointed out this week, in urging farmers to mow their pastures for weed control. “Weeds compete with pas ture plants for moisture, plant food, and space, and, in addition, some of them give objectionable odors and flavors to milk and butter when l grazed by dairy cows,” the agent said. Mr, Middlebrooks asserted that mowing pastures at frequent in tervals is necessary if weeds are to be successfully controlled. He said the cutting of weeds pre vents the production of seed,and, in the case of perennials, it will help to weaken the weed plants and starve them out eventually. “The best plan is to cut weeds when they reach their maximum growth and about the time the flowers form, if the pasture does not contain a number of different kinds of weeds which have dif ferent flowering periods,” the farm agent stated. “A good plan for most any weed is to cut them thoroughly two or three times during the growing season. “Generally the best times to make weed cuttings are the first of June, the middle of July, and the last of August,” he continu ed. “If only two cuttings are made,the latter part of June and the middle of August are con sidered the best. The agent said there is no way of accurately estimating the val ue of a good system of mowing j pasture but many farmers feel that this part of pasture man -1 agement is as valuable as fertili zation. He added that if the pasture is badly infested with weeds, a great portion of the fertilizer will go to the weeds, should the area be fertilized. MEN'S CLASS HOSTS | TO S. S. ADULT GROUP, I The men’s class of the Metho dist Church School entertained the adult department of the school with a delightful barbe cue supper at the Legion Home last Thursday night. 140 men and women attended. Rev. Chas. Jackson, pastor of Centenary Methodist church, Ma con, was the speaker. He spoke on Modern Trends in Religion, saying that there is more toler ance and Jess dogmatism and criticism in religion. He em phasized the fact that religion is more practical because of its emphasis on social responsibili ties and its teaching that reli gion is between man and man and not just between man and God. Rev, Roy Gardner introduced the speaker. W. K. Whipple was program chairman. FARMERS BET LIMESTONE Farmers in 90 Georgia counties have received more than 27,100 tons of limestone as grants-of aid materials under the 1940 Ag ricultural Conservation Program, Homer S. Durden, state Triple- A administrative officer reports. In addition, farmers in these counties have received 1,230 tons of triple superphosphate. Georgia farmers are manifesting great interest in limestone and superphosphate this year and several additional tons are ex pected to be secured by farmers within the next few days. A to tal of 60 tons was received by farmers of Houston county. GA. TO LEAD PARADE Georgia American Legion Posts will lead the annual parade this year at the national conven tion in Boston. The reason is be cause Georgia led the nation in increased membership, its 1939 gain being 140 per cent, repre senting 18,000 new members, 6,- 000 above its quota. Each year the state that leads in member ship increases is granted the privilege of leading the parade. NOTICE Notice is hereby given, in ac cordance with the rules of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, that the time to qualify las a candidate in the Democratic 1 primary election to be held on September 11, 1940, for nomina nation as Represen live in Con gress for the 77th session from the Third Congressional District of Georgia, will expire at twelve o’clock noon, central standard time, June 1, 1940. Democratic Executive Committee Third Congressional District of Georgia. By W. H. Young, Jr., Chairman, [ Bananas were first known as Apples of Paradise, so named by the Congo tribes in the 16th Century. Vacation time is paradise time for the youngsters. A hundred and one ideal and inexpensive GRADUATION GIFTS now on displav—gifts that are practical | as well as a constant source of I pleasure—cameras, toilet arti-! cles, stationery, etc. I PRITCHETT’S PHARMACY The REXALL Store Fountain Perry, Ga. Inscription on Grant’s Tomb | Cut into the marble of U. S | Grant’s tomb in New York are these words: “Let us have peace.” This ! was the sentence he uttered at the first convention which nominated him for the presidency. General Sherman a Rider Gen. William T. Sherman spent his vacations traveling on horseback over the mountains and deserts of the west. He preferred this to any sort of social event. ESTABLISHED 1870 PACE QUALIFIES I FOR RENOMINATION i The Democratic Executive Committee of the Third district met in Americus Tuesday, made rules and regulations for hold ing the congressional primary, and adopted a resolution prais ing the work of Congressman Stephen Pace and endorsing him for renomination. Shortly after the committee set 12 noon, June 1, 1940 as the deadline for candidates to quali fy for congress, Hon. Stephen Pace became a candidate for re election, his entry fee having been paid by a friend. Mrs. John L. Hodges of Hous ton served on the Rules commit tee with Evan Mathis, Sumter, chmn.; H. A. Haskins, Pulaski; S. G. Pryor. Jr., Ben Hill; and Zach Arnold, Clay. The rules adopted provided that the congressional primary be conducted under the rules adopted by the state Dem. Exec, committee. The primary will be held under the county unit plan. The entrance fee was set at $250. After the business was com pleted, the committee sent for Congressman Pace who was in Americus. Mr. Pace discussed the international situation, de claring that “more important than all else is the preservation of peace for our own people." Mr. Pace expressed himself as in favor of adequate national de fense. The congressman sounded a warning against the alarming growth of communism in the United States. The two greatest domestic problems, yet to be solved, are unemployment and farm income, which are interlocked, Mr. Pace said. Congressmen are now making a study of these prob lems, he stated. Representatives from 16 of the 24 counties in the district were present at the meeting. The delegates were guests of Mr, Evan Mathis of Americus at a luncheon. ANNOUNCEMENT The Garden club will have a garden party Friday, 6 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Eugene Beck ham. Hostesses are Mrs. Beck ham, Mrs. W. C. Talton, Mrs. W. B. Roberts, Mrs. S.A. Nunn, Mrs. J, L Gallemore, Mrs. Floyd Tabor, and Mrs. H. T. Gilbert. 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. BAPTIST CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mid-week Prayer Service, Wed nesday, 7:30 p. m. Sunday Preaching Services, 11:30 a, m. and 8:00 p. m. Sunday School, 10:15 a. m. The church welcomes you to its services. Rev. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. ELKO CHARGE NOTES Schedule of services for the I Methodist churches of the Elko !charge is as follows: j First Sunday—Grovania, 11:30 I a. m. and 8:00 p. m. i Second Sunday-Andrew Chap- I el, 11:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Third Sunday—Bonaire, 11:30 i a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Fourth Sunday—Elko, 11:30 j a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Rev, Willard Rustin, Pastor. “Call for Cotton When You Buy” is the slogan of Na tional Cotton Week, May 17-24. New yellow lines will be paint ed soon on Georgia highways to mark “no passing” zones on curves and hills.