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HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951
Perry Legion
Team Defeated
By Fitzgerald
The Fitzgerald American Le
gion Junior baseball team swamp
ed Perry here last Friday night,
15-3, to win the Third District,
East, tournament.
Perry’s pitchers couldn’t get
the ball across the plate. Walks
and errors accounted for most of
Fitzgerald’s runs.
Fitzgerald 800 302 2—15 8 1
Perry 001 Oil I—3 2 3
Paulk and Rabon; Brock, Tol
leson, Satterfield, P. Hardy and
Satterfield and Cole.
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COOPER ETHERIDGE, right, AND JIM ETHERIDGE JR. are the
present operators of The Home Journal. Cooper Etheridge purch
ased the paper from John L. Hodges in 1946 and Jim Etheridge
Jr. came to Perry this year to be associated with his brother
in publishing the Journal, the official organ of Houston county
and the City of Perry. They prepared all the copy for news and
advertising matter in this 40-page, five-section Home Journal,
largest newspaper ever produced in Houston county.
Perry V.F. W.
Post Named
For Whitten
Perry’s Walter B. Whitten Post
No. 6126, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, was organized in the spring
of 1946 and named for the Perry
service man who lost his life in
World War 11.
Jerry Davis was first com
mander, and post leaders since
then have been Hubert Aultman,
Austin Taylor, Grant Heller and
C. W. Morrow, who is the pres
ent commander.
Other officers of this active
post are Lawrence Mosteller,
senior vice commander; G. T.
Pierce, junior vice commander;
Hugh Lawson, adjutant; Mr.
Aultman, advocate; C. A. Boswell
Jr., sergeant at arms; T. C. Rog
ers, chaplain; Redding Talton,
service officer; Hobart Richards,
publications officer; Dan Grant,
patriotic instructor; A. M, Kick
lighter, surgeon general, Malcolm
Dean, Austin Taylor and Jerry
Davis, trustees.
The Homo Journal, the paper
with the NEWS.
Perry Barber
Shop Center
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As a local “news center,” the
Perry Barber shop is one of the
“rivals” of The Home Journal
and its popular operators are
solid good citizens as well as scis
sns and razor artists.
“Dean” T. R. Summers has
been in Perry 29 years. He was
born in Jones county but came to
Perry from Douglas.
D. M. Stripling came to Perry
from Cordele 21 years ago.
B. W. Bozeman is the “fresh
man” member of the tonsorial
team, having come to Perry 15
years ago from Twiggs county.
They are not only valued mem
bers of the community because of
their earnest efforts to improve
the physical appearance of its
inhabitants, but also because they i
are good humored, good citizens
who, like most Perryans, are gen
uinely interested in what hap
pens to their fellow citizens.
Perry has three tourist facili
ties recommended by Duncan
Hines and the American Auto
mobile Association.
9
Homes Built
By Scores
In 12 Years
More homes have been built in
Perry in the last 12 years than in
any comparable period of 125
year history.
And many more are still need
ed, as scores of people every
week seek “almost any kind of
living quarters in such a nice
community.”
The number of new and reno
| vated store buildings here in the
last few years is almost too long
even to list, as many progressive
and public-spirited business men
have helped with an attractive
civic “face-lifting’ of the down
town area.
Several Subdivisions
Several new subdivisions have
been opened and rapidly almost
filled. One of the earliest and
largest is Smoak subdivision, an
area around the old home-place
of the late A. A. Smoak, large
1 plantation operator.
This property was first bought
by a corporation of Perry citi
, zens, Perry Homes, Inc., which
invested the entire SIO,OOO stock
of the company in the lots and
after selling them to home-build
ers who have erected about 100
homes there, paid $195 to hold
ers of each SIOO worth of stock.
J. P. Etheridge was president and
F. M. Houser, Secretary-treasur
er of the corporation.
Many of the Smoak subdivision
homes were built by J. C. Canady
of Decatur, who later sold all of
his holdings there. Individual
home-owners have built many
more homes in the area, and
about 90 percent of them are
owner-occupied. The subdivision
also has a park with lighted ten
! nis court.
Brookwod Attractive
J. M. Tolleson and sons and
Hugh Lawson of Tolleson Lum
ber and Supply Co. have also
built many homes, notably in
Brookwood subdivision, a wood
ed area where many of the finest
new homes in the city are locat
ed. The Cater subdivision has
also been a prominent develop
ment, on land owned by Mrs.
I R. L. Cater and Miss Katherine
Cater.
Mayor Mayo Davis has built
many homes in a subdivision just,
off Houston Lake Drive, another
in National Heights, just beyond
the old Bonner place atop the hill
on U. S. 41 South, and others.
Penn- Dixie Started It
Harry Grices erect°d a number
personaHv and with Davis
in Houston Home Bii'ldm— Inc.
Even before Wor’d TT t- : - t t
Penn-Dijcie Cement Corp. started
Perry’s building snort by erect- :
ing several homes here shortly
after the plant was opened in
1921.
J. L. Beavers and W. W. Yates
have built many homes for Ne
groes in recent years.
And still more homes are need
ed, for both whites and Negroes.
Baptist Church
Pastors Active
Fastors of the Perry Baptist
church in the 20th Century (ear
lier history elsewhere in this edi
tion) were active in civic and
religious affairs of the commun
ity, as is the present pastor,
Rev. James M. Teresi, who came
here from the Milledgeville Bap
tist church more than a year ago.
He succeeded Dr. Allen J. Free
man, now of Lake City, who was
in Perry from 1948 to early 1950.
Rev. J. A. Ivey, now of Daw
son, was pastor of the Perry
church from 1936 to 1948.
Rev. J. A. Ruffin served the
church from 1933 to 1936 and the
Rev. Julian J. Sizemore from
1930 to 1932.
Rev. A. I. Foster, who had been
an Atony chaplain, was pastor
from 1925 through 1929. He died
at his home here and Mrs. Fos
ter who later built a home on the
Hawkinsville Road, still spends
j some time here each year when
J not visiting her children, the
former Miss Frances Foster and
MaGill Foster.
Rev. Wade H. Lord was pastor
to 1925 and other local church
leaders have been Pastors Robin
son, Adams, Weaver, Brock and
Raborn.
The acreage in cotton in the
United States on July 1 was esti
mated to be 29,510,000, or an in
crease of 59 percent above the
18,613,000 acres reported July 1
1950.
Beloved
"Aunt Bet"
Near 99
Mrs. Betty Woodard, known to
the longtime residents of Hous
ton county as “Aunt Bet, ’ nears
her 99th birthday—she’ll be 99
September 21.
Aunt Bet lives in the dark be
cause cataracts have almost com
pletely blinded her. She “gets
lost” in the house whenever her
housekeeper, Mrs. Mildred Pur
vis, has to go out and Aunt Bet
wants to get around.
Aunt Bet is cheerful and her
mind is clear but she says she is
“ready to go whenever the Lord
wants me.” She gets worried
with herself for her inability to
get around without help.
Aunt Bet was born in Jones
county and her family moved to
Houston county when she was
three months old. They settled
near Kathleen and Aunt Bet was
married to Judge, Ike Woodard,
ordinary. He died many years
ago. Aunt Bet belonged to the
Houston Factory Baptist Church
for half a century, then moved
her membership to the Perry
Baptist Church a few years after
she moved to Perry about 20
years ago. She is a loyal member
and attended services every Sun
day until about a year ago when
she became too feeble to go. She
always waited for W. H. Whitten,
Baptist layman, to come across
Main Street to escort her, and
she still looks forward to his
visit each Sunday morning even
though she cannot attend.
The members of the Houston
Factory Church crowned her as
their “queen” at special services
in her honor 11 years ago.. She
was a Sunday School teacher for
two generations and was a faith
ful and liberal member of that
church. Even after she moved to
Perry she got drivers to take her
out to the church in her 1922
model Ford. This ancient Ford
is still traveling—Aunt Bet sold
it to Paul Middlebrooks Jr., who
says there’s still a lot of life in
the old car.
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FOUR BOVS’ STATERS
Perry High boys who attended
the American Legion’s Boys’
State at Georgia Tech this year
were Mell Tolleson, Harris Sat
terfield, Dick Hardy and James
Mauldin.
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