Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, November 07, 1940, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LXVIX. No. 45. II yOUSION HAS LARGE j DEMOCRATIC VOTE: I ( I Houston county gave Presi- I Franklin D. Roosevelt 622 I £ to 149 for Wendell L. Will- I kie and one for Roger Babson, I the Prohibition party candidate. | 'At the Perry precinct, 47 vot lad the Independent Democratic I ticket and 15, the Republican, I making 62 votes for Willkie. In I the other precincts in the county, I the Independents received 74 | votes and the Republicans, 13. I In the contest to get out a Iwe vote in Houston county | Tuesday, the Henderson precinct I was first as 78 per cent of its 50 I qualified voters voted. Perry I was second with 74 per cent of its list voting, and Elko came third with 70 per cent voting. Other per centages follow: Wellston 67, Bonaire 67, Kath leen 66, Heard 65, Hayneville 58, and Hattie 50. The vote by precincts is given Wellston 33 30 Hayneville 33 6 Kathleen 26 7 Elko 50 8 Heard 37 5 Henderson 36 3 Bonaire 20 18 Hattie 37 10 Perry 350 62 Total 622 149 MRS. RENFROE DIES Mrs. G. M. Renfroe, age 79, died Friday at her home at Wellston after a long illness. Funeral services were held at 4:30 p. m. Saturday at Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist church of which she was a member. Burial was in the family cemetery near Wellston. Rev. James A. Ivey, pastor of 1 the Perry Baptist church, offi- : dated. 1 Pallbearers were G. E. Per due Jr., D. A. Perdue, Phillip Perdue, John Perdue Jr., Ren troe King, and Kenneth King. Survivors include two daugh- j ters, Mrs. G. E. Perdue and' Mrs. E. G. King, both of Bon aire; two sons, J. K. Renfroe and Edgar Renfroe of Wellston; fifteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren. , ( CHILD HAS EYE INJURY 1 Herman Watson Jr., age 4, of Wellston, had his right eye put out last Thursday morning when playing with his pet goat. A horn of the goat was rammed through the boy’s right eye. The child was rushed to a Macon hos pital where the injured eye was removed. Friends will be glad to learn that he is recovering nicely. The child is the grandson of C. Boss Watson of Wellston. - j SERIAL NUMBERS Serial numbers of registrants received from other states and counties since last week are: 1233 Milton Murkson, Perry, col.; 1234 John Milton Martin, Perry, wh.; 1235 Jess Willard 1 Beasley, Perry, wh.; 1236 John Collins Cannon, Perry, wh.; 1237 Walter Derrille Greene, Perry, wh.; 1238 Robert Henry Brown, Crovania, wh.; 1239 Jeseph Hart well Dobbs, Elko, wh.; 1240 Chester Williams, Elko, col.; 1241 Edward Nolan Byrd, Elko, | wh.; 1242 Roy Hubert Prince,! Perry, wh.; 1243 Ralph Marciene Temples, Perry, wh.; 1244 Pow ers Cooper Lawson, Perry, wh.; 1245 Louie Rice Newberry, Bon-j a *re, wh ; 1246 Lewis Oliver Lit-1 tie, Unadilla, wh,: 1247 Freddie! Huges, Perry, col.; 1248 Fletcher! Royce Hobbs, Perry, wh.; 12491 Joseph Bowie Gray, Perry, wh.;j 1250 Willie Howard, Perry, col.; 1251 Charles Andrew Ross, Per ry* col.; 1252 J.D. Merriweather, Perry, col.; 1253 H. M. Merri weather, Perry, col.; 1254 Lee Coward Gunn, Perry, col.; 1255 Lee Emerson Ellis,Grovaani, wh. A can of soup, available today ‘‘t a dime, once cost the house -11 fie a quarter. Why? Because “ a vertising enabled volume sales. Houston Home Journal j PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES j | In the Perry High school au jditorium Thursday evening at 8 o’clock tbe curtain goes up on “Bound To Marry.” This hu morous play is being sponsored! by the Drill Squad and F. F. A. club. The cast is as follows; Cath erine Hickson as Betty Jane Dove; Ralph Tabor as Augustus G. Baker: Meriamme Rhodes as Hilda Slater; Durwood Wilson; as Samuel Boyer; Julian Caw thon as Billy Powder; Anna Ruth Debbins as June Violet Ray; Mary Lewis as Man d y Snook; Vonceil Summers as Eve lyn Grace; and Courtney Mason plays the part of Mose Lincoln Hall. The Dramatic club meets three times each week. At each of the meetings a different group works on plays, skits, readings, etc. Reading of poetry by in dividual members, discussion of magazine articles on dramatics, and staging of plays are among topics discussed at the meetings last week. A project for the fall is a scrap book of current events to be kept by the group, with a special committee in charge. This book will be given to the library at the end of the year. METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS Church School--10:15 a. m There will be no worship ser vices at the church Sunday due to the absence of the pastor at Annual Conference. The mem bership of the church is invited to worship with our two sister denominations Sunday morning. Sunday night the membership will join in a union Armistice Service at the Baptist church. The pastor left for Annual Conference in Savannah Wednes day morning. He is reporting all financial obligations of the church paid in full. Prayer Service Wednesday night, Nov. 13, 7:30 o’clock, led by the pastor. DRIVING - WHILE DRINKING PROVES SERIOUS OFFENSE Driving under the influence of alcohol has grown to be a seri ous olfense in Georgia —as 5,019 drivers can testify from ex perience. For, according to Department of Public Safety records, that many drivers have had their li censes temporarily revoked or suspended by the courts of the Department. In addition, another 97 drivers ■have forfeited their licenses tem porarily for leaving the scene of an accident; 101 for'repeated vio lations of safety rules and 290 for reckless driving. Major Lon Sullivan, public safety commissioner pointed out that it is an automatic procedure with the Department to suspend 1 for 60 days the license of any driver convicted of operating “under the influence.” Many courts go even further and force the offender to surrender his li cense for three or even six months or longer. Major Sullivan said 4,445 of 1 the total number of suspensions ! and revocations included white drivers and 1,062, negroes. Only 101 were women. He said also that about 12 per cent of the fa tal accidents involved drinking drivers. “Therefore, while suspending j a driver’s license is a severe 1 penalty, ic is justified in the in terest of saving human life,” the Commissioner said. “Geor gia’s continued reduction in j traffic fatalities is due, at least lin part, to the fact that these 5,507 drivers, who committed j major violations, were taken jfrom the highways temporarily.” i . . .—. Total benefits through t h e 'State Department of Public Wel- I fare received in the state for the months of July, September and i October amounted to $2,789,405.- 83. This sum was paid in special assistance to the aged, blind and 'dependent children, surplus com modities, C. C. C. and general ■ relief. The total received in ■ Houston county amounted to '59,596.56. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1940 ’ORDER NUMBERS OF REGISTRANTS GIVEN The Houston county draft board Monday received order numbers for the county’s 1255 registrants. The numbers are being placed on the registrant’s cards and the cards classified nu merically according to order numbers. The serial list with the order numbers will be posted in the Post Office. j By Saturday, questionnaires will be sent to the first 25 names on the order list. The first 100 order numbers are being publish ed this week. The remainder will be published later. Order Serial Name No. No. 1 158 Frank Davis 2 192 M. W. Leaptrot 3 105 John Jefferson 4 188 J. H. Self 5 120 Albert Davis 6 846 W. J. Thomas 7 161 John L. Mclntosh 8 14 W. E. Vinson Jr. 9 57 David Woodard 10 . 153 Cleveland Durham 11 19 Hilliard Roundtree 12 766 Jessie Barrett 13 172 Willie Blackmon 14 126 Dan Daniels 15 187 E. W. Roberts 16 167 Tommie Murph 17 162 B. F. Hardy 18 147 W. L. Best 19 689 E. P. Staples 20 1234 John Milton 21 31 Wm. Kinchen 22 156 Ez. Morrison 23 676 Eliz. Falfack 24 112 Robert Smith 25 185 L. F. Leverett 26 108 Milton Smith 27 109 O. C. Lurry 28 184 R. C. Pettett 29 116 Mason Bass 30 174 Silas Ross, 31 131 L. F. Wommack 32 125 Clarence Wynne 33 138 Luther Leverson 34 142 Albert Thomas 35 166 Lewis Williams 36 135 N. B. Bass 37 183 J. C. Green 38 148 A. M. Anderson 39 198 J. L. Pe/mington 40 139 J. C. Edwards 41 146 R. H. Soloman 42 6 Murphy Sparks 43 122 J. H. Watts 44 83 John Buckles 45 280 D. C. Lawson 46 169 J. H. Wright 47 145 J. H. Langley 48 9 Lee Pitts 49 765 J. C. Dinkins 50 121 Ernest Coleman 51 625 R. L. Glenn 52 181 Eddie Lee Vance 53 660 J. R. Pickard 54 702 B. A. Proctor 55 86 C. S. Jordan 56 114 Ernest Madison 57 136 John Allen 58 820 Earwin Johnson 59 228 Madison Cleveland 60 612 Lewis Davis 61 231 E. J. Nash 62 203 Marvin Griffin 63 196 Deel Nicely 64 21 J. D. Cason 65 165 Earl Sanders 66 768 Ernest Brown 67 747 Robt. Brooks Jr. 68 159 P. W. Walton 69 79 J. E. Story 70 681 J. C. B. Scott 71 782 S. H. Slappey 72 678 J. D. Davis 73 78 A. J. Adkison 74 45 Jack Buckles 75 25 Delzia Duhart 76 609 T. T. Pettitt 77 603 Hollis Brown , 78 154 G. Pete Davis 79 77 Alvin Canion ■ 80 160 Charlie Dismuke 81 764 C. H. Arnold . 82 666 John Lucas , 83 190 Jessie Rowland 84 210 Hugh Lawson 85 67 W. E. Loyd 86 107 Willie Brown 87 180 A. C. Brown 88 59 E. C. Jenkins I 89 74 E. M. Sullivan Jr. 90 246 M. C. Durham 91 667 John Neal 92 176 Pete Rice 93 781 Richard Toliver 94 134 W. L. Jordan > 95 130 W. A. Skellie Jr. 96 124 Gus Durham ! 97 104 A. L. Cherry 1' 98 370 W. A. Cartrell I 99 225 Ramon Green IjlOO 642 R. E. Avery lj > II The average cost of advertis ing a nationally popular soft ) drink is less than 1-50 of a cent a glass. ARMISTICE DAY TO ! BE OBSERVED HERE! I Armistice Day, Nov. 11, will' be observed in Perry with a pro-| gram at the Baptist church Sun day night, Nov. 10, and a supper for all ex-service men Monday night at the American Legion Home. The Auxiliary to the Robert I). Collins Post is the ' sponsor of the observance, j The Legion will take part in 1 Sunday night’s program. Rev. IJ. A, Ivey, Baptist pastor, will ! preside and introduce the speak er, Dr. C. F. Lanier, of Macon, who is assistant chairman of Americanism, Georgia Depart ment of the American Legion. C. E. Andrew, commander of the local Post, will give the Pledge to the Flag. Eby Holtz claw will call the Roll of World War soldiers of Houston county, both the departed and the living. G. F. Nunn will sing a solo. The Junior Choir of the Baptist church under the direction «f Miss Evelyn Hunt will sing sev eral numbers. The.audience will sing patriotic songs. Prayers will be said by H. T. j Gilbert and T. C. Rogers, The public is cordially invited! to attend this program. BUY POPPIES, NOV. 11 Monday, Nov. 11, a committee headed by Mrs. T. C. Rogers of the Robert D. Collins Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary will be on the streets of Perry with memorial poppies to be worn in honor of the World War dead. They will work through out the day, distributing the lit tle red flowers and gathering contributions for the welfare of the disabled war veterans and the families left in need by the death or disability of a veteran. Their unselfish efforts will give every individual in the city an opportunity to pay personal tribute to the men who gave their lives for the country, and to extend a helping hand to those who sacrificed health, strength, and happiness on the altar of patriotism. The Auxiliary women are the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of men who served in the World War. They will do the hard, unaccustomed work of Poppy Day without any recom pense except the knowledge that they are helping keep bright the memory of the war dead and helping keep hope in the hearts of those who are bearing the war’s burden of suffering and privation. They deserve the thanks and applause of the en tire city. When we meet these women on the streets Monday, let us all show understanding of the work they are doing. Let us meet them with a smile of apprecia tion and put on our poppies, glad for the opportunity they are bringing us to honor the nation’s heroic dead and aid those still within reach of our help. PEACH GROWERS TO MEET IN MACON NOV. 14 Two outstanding speakers and! a luncheon program of enter-1 tainment are highlights of a pro-1 gram arranged for the fourth an nual statewide meeting of peach growers in Macon, next Thurs day, Nov. 14. Speakers on the morning and afternoon programs will be Dr. A. M. Musser, one of the na tion’s outstanding horticulturist, and Carroll R. Miller, secretary-! manager of the Appalachian Ap-} pie Service, Inc., j West Virginia. The meeting will be held in the Hotel Dempsey, Macon, be ginning at 10 a. m., and every grower in the state, regardless of his affiliation with the Geor gia Association of Peach Grow ers, sponsors of the program, are urged to attend. County agri cultural agents and production loan association officials in peach producing counties will be special guests. For Sale 1939 Chev. Sedan, t low mileage, reasonable terms, t See Marion Houser, Perry, Ga. j ! BAPIIST ANNOUNCEMENTS i I The general meeting of the j Baptist W. M. S. will be held at [the church next Monday at 3:30 p. rn. The deacons will meet Thurs day night after a dinner given them by Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Roberts. The Clifford Hunter class of the Sunday school had a business and social meeting Wednesday, Oct. 3(). at the home of Mrs. John Satterfield. The Intermediate department of the S. S. was given a social Tuesday night, Oct. 29, at the home of Mrs. J. P. Duggan with the teachers, Mrs. Hugh Lawson, Mrs. Duggan, Miss Martha Coop er, and V. B. Hay as hosts. The young people organized a Baptist Training Union group at the church Sunday night. Mrs. Alton Hardy was named leader. Preaching service each Sunday morning 11:30 and each Sunday evening 7:30 o’clock. Midweek Prayer service each Wednesday evening 7:30 o’clock. J. A. Ivey, Pastor. GARDEN CLUB CONTES! Camellias and Gardenias have been selected as names for the two groups into which the Perry Garden club has been divided for a contest. This contest will in clude the next three meetings ending in January. It is hoped that an increased attendance will i result as well as an enlarged membership. The Camellias with Mrs. W. C. Talton as leader are: Mesdames C. B. Andrew, A. E. Barnes. E. M. Beckham, W. E. Beckham, R. E. Brown, A. C. Cobb, C. F. Cooper, Mayo Davis, J. P. Dug gan,Houser Gilbert, C O.Grimes, G. P. Hunnicutt, A. H, Lawler, W. E. Marshall, Max Moore, E. P. Newhard, Francis Nunn, S. A. Nunn, C. C. Pierce, W. B. Roberts, Floyd Tabor. Lewis Ta bor, C. H. Tucker, T. L. Warren, Cohen Walker, W. K. Whipple, and H. T. Gilbert, and Miss No rine Swanson. The Gardenias with Mrs. J, L. Gallemore as leader are: Mes dames A. M. Anderson, Jr., J. A. Beddingfield, O. G. Boler, Freeman Cabero, J. B. Calhoun, J. O. Coleman, J. A. Davis, H. P. Dobbins, M. G. Edwards, J. P. Etheridge, H. E. Evans, W. B. Evans, N. W. H. Gilbert, Wordna Gray, C. G. Harris, George Jordan, Avery Lee, Pas chal Muse, C. E. McLendon, Fel ton Norwood, G. C. Nunn, A. C. Pritchett, George Riley, C. I. Shelton, E. P. Staples, J. M. Tol leson, and E. W. Traylor, and Miss Martha Cooper. LIBRARY NOTES There is a great variety of reading in this season’s books.! Top ranking American authors have books on the fall lists. A novel by Ernest Hemingway is a literary event. “For Whom the Death Bell Tolls,” promises to excel even his “Farewell To Arms.” It is a long book but the action takes place in three days. It is a story of love and death and the scene is the Civil I War of Spain. Gertrude Atherton, though [over eighty years, has written a very sophisticated story of modern times. “The House of Lee,” has a setting in San Fran cisco and the characters are three women, granddaughter, mother and granddaughter. Not since Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, has a Southern ! story reached such a success as [“Foundation Stone,” by Leila j Warren. ] A superb book is Van Wych Brook’s “New England Sum mer.” It is a remarkable lit erary history of America. “Chip Off My Shoulder’ ’ is an enlighten ing account of American current events by the Southern author, Thomas Stokes. Over fifty novels by popular authors have been added to the shelves. Library hours 1:00 p. m. to 6:00 p. m. NOTICE Unless all 1939 Taxes are paid immediately fi fas will be issued. W. F. Norwood, Clerk. ESTABLISHED 1870 ROOSEVELT WINS IN GENERAL ELECTION , President Franklin D. Roose velt was given a third term in office by a vote that assumed landslide proportions on incom plete returns from Tuesday’s General Election. Wednesday the president appeared assured of states with electoral votes totaling 468, while Wendell Will kie, his Republican opponent, had only 63. Neither of these figures was necessarily a final one since many of the vote reports were incom plete. It was indicated there were 39 states in the Roosevelt column and that 9 had gone to Willkie. Only 266 electoral votes out of 531 were necessary to win. Meantime continued Democrat ic control of congress was as sured. The president’s popular vote with 99,463 of 127,245 precincts in the nation reporting was 22,- 198,790. Willkie received 18,451,148 popular votes. Georgia’s Vote Mounting returns from Tues day’s presidential election swept Georgia’s 12 electoral votes to ward Franklin D. Roosevelt for , the third successive time. The president carried Georgia by a7to 1 margin in 1936 and returns from all sections made it certain that he would hold firmly this state which never has cast its electoral vote for a Repub lican. The unofficial count from 410 of 1,720 precincts gave Roose velt 196,657, Willkie 29,703, Pro hibitionist Roger Babson 1,281, The overwhelming Democratic pluralities confirmed the nomina tion of Eugene Talmadge as Georgia’s next governor and all statehouse nominees on the Dem ocratic ticket. TRACTOR CONTEST AT MUSE FARM FRIDAY A number of the finest young farmers in this area will match furrows at the Paschal Muse farm two miles from Ferry, to morrow, Friday, Nov. 8, in a final tractor operating contest. All are members of the National Farm Youth Foundation. Each of the young men will drive identical tractor and plow equipment over a designated area, starting at two o’clock. A Ford tractor with Ferguson Sys tem and a 14-inch two-bottom plow will be awarded the winner of the final competitions. The contestants are traveling from three states as winners of sectional semi-final contests to compete for the right to win a Ford Tractor and a Ferguson Two-Bottom Plow. Twenty-nine final contests will be held nationally during the coming weeks. Valuable awards will be offered to young men in farming areas over the country. These contests are part of the Foundation program to stimulate interest in modern farming meth ods and to determine proficiency among young farmers. The public is invited to attend and see these contestants in ac tion. Gov.-Elect Eugene Talmadge will make the awards to the winners.—Ad v. N.Y.A. ALLOCATIONS The National Youth Adminis tration’s Georgia district has oeen allocated $2,652,610 for the immediate doubling of the work experience program for unem ployed youths, it was announced. The funds would provide imme diate jobs for 6,000 additional unemployed Georgia youths be tween 17 and 24 years old. NOTICE ! City Tax Books are now open for payment of 1940 Taxes. > W. F. Norwood, Clerk. The automobile that cost $1,500 a quarter of a century ago is sold 1 today for $BOO, and is a much bet . ter car, because of the volume of business created by advertising.