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Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ross
and children and Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Stalvey were the Sunday
guests of Mrs. J. M. Ross and
family in Rome, Ga.
Miss Hazel Schurch and her
guest, Miss Elsie Stuart, both of
Chattanooga, are spending their
vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Fritz
Schurch and family here.
Mrs. Joe Powell and Miss Bes¬
sie Hunt, who are employed in
Chattanooga, spent the week¬
end at their home here.
Mrs. G. W. Smith were call¬
ed to Dalton, Ga., recently be¬
cause of the serious illness of
her sister.
Mrs. C. D. Forester of Powder-
ly, Ala., and Mrs. Robert Koger
of Houston, Texas, are the
guests of Mrs. W. J. Koger and
family here.
Miss Grace Johnson of Chat¬
tanooga, was the recent guest of
Mr. H. R Johnson and family
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Gass and
family were the week-end guests
of relatives on Sand Mountain.
Jack Forester of the U. S. Navy
who is stationed at Fort Lauder¬
dale, Fla., is spending his leave
with Mrs. J. L. Forester and
family here.
NOTICE OF SALE
Whereas, on the 16th day of
May, 1944, J. E. Page executed
and delivered to D. T. Brown, a
certain security deed, to the land
hereinafter described to secure
the payment of three promissory
notes, each for the principal sum
of $150.00, said notes were of
even date with the security deed,
and were due and payable, one,
two and three years from May
16th, 1944. Said security deed id
of record in the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Dade County, Georgia, in record
book, No. 29, Pages 410 and 411,
reference thereto being made
for its terms and provisions.
And, whereas default has been
made in the payment of the
principal note due, May, 16, 1945
as well as the interest on all of
said indebtedness, and the said
D. T. Brown the holder of said
notes has elected to exercise the
option contained in said securi¬
ty deed and has declared all of
said indebtedness due and pay¬
able at once and default having
been made as set forth in the
payment of the first note and all
interest.
Now, therefore by virtue of the
power contained in said security
deed, and in accordance with
the law made and provided the
undersigned will expose to sale
and sell to the best and highest
bidder for cash, at Public out cry
at the door of the Court house
in Trenton, Dade County, Geor¬
gia, on Tuesday, the 7th day of
August, 1945, within the legal
hours of sale, the following real
estate, to-wit:
Beginning at a corner of N. W.
Garner, Charley Ballard and
Burnet Adkins lands; thence
running North 770 feet to the
center of the road; thence run¬
ning in a Southeast direction
with the road a distance of 786
feet; thence South 482 feet to
the line of M. M. Garner; thence
West to the point of beginning.
Said tract containing about ten
acres more or less, and being a
fraction of lot of land No. 70 in
the 19th district and 4th section
of Dade County, Georgia.
Said land will be sold as the
property of J. E. Page, and to
divest out of him and or his
heirs and assigns, all right, title
or interest which they may have
in and to said land and vest the
same in the purchaser.
The proceeds from said sale
will be applied, first to the pay¬
ment of said indebtedness, in¬
terest and expenses of sale; the
balance, if any, delivered to the
said J. E. Page.
This July 3rd, 1945.
D. T. BROWN.
citation for letter
OF GUARDIANSHIP
GEORGIA, DADE COUNTY:
To all Whom it May Concern:
Mrs. E. R. Wells, having appli¬
ed for Guardianship of the per¬
son and property of James D.
Davis, notice is given that said
application will be heard at my
office, at 10 o'clock A. M., on the
first Monday in August, next.
This July 4th, 1945.
J. M. CARROLL, Ordinary.
FOR SALE—Two splendid milk
cows, one with young calf. See
them at my home.—W. H.
KENNIMER, Rising Fawn, Ga.
Patronize our Advertizers!
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1945.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Defense Access Project No. DA-
RM 41 (1), Counties of Walker
And Dade.
Sealed proposals will be re¬
ceived by the State Highway
Department of Georgia at the
General office at No. 2 Capitol
Square, Atlanta, Ga., until 11
A. M., Central War Time, July
20, 1945, for furnishing all labor,
material, equipment and other
things necessary for the
struction of 1.478 miles of grad-
ing and crushed stone or
base, located in Walker and Dade
counties, on the access road to
the Progressive Industries coal
mines. Beginning at State Route
157, approximately 2.6 miles
north of the junction with State
Route 2, and ending at the Pro-
gressive Industries coal mines,
east of State Route 157, other¬
wise known as Defense Access
Project DA-RM 41 (1) in Walker
and Dade Counties. The work
will be let in one contract.
The Approximate Quantities
Are as Follows:
3.137 Acres Clearing and
Grubbing—Lump Sum.
7390 Cu. Yd. Unclassified Ex-
shoulders and spillways ,.:
cavation and Barrow, in¬
cluding shoulders and spill¬
ways.
1631 Cu. Yd. 4” to 8” (Loose
Measure) Crushed Stone or
Slag Base Course.
Said work shall begin within
ten (10) days after formal exe¬
cution of contract and shall be
within 50 working , .
completed
days. When contract has rt n U»*xr*v* been
executed, written notice shall be
given the Contractor, at which
time, and not before, work may
be started.
Contract executed pursuant to
this Notice is binding on the
State Highway Department, as
such. Said contract will not cre¬
ate liability, expressed or im¬
plied, against the undersigned
Director of the State Highway
Department, as an individual nor
any employee of the State High¬
way Department, in his or her
individual capacity.
The minimum wage to be paid
under this contract shall be the
amounts set out in the Labor
Provisions included in the Pro¬
posal. The attention of bidders
is directed to the Special Pro¬
visions covering employment of
labor, methods of construction,
subletting or assigning the con¬
tract and to the use of Domestic
Materials. »
Plans and specifications are on
file at the office of the under¬
signed at Atlanta, and at Gaines
ville, Ga., and at the office of
the Board of County Commiss¬
ioners of Walker and Dade
Counties at LaFayette, Ga., and
rrenton, Ga., where they may be
inspected free of charge. Copies
af the plans may be obtained up
an payment in advance of the
sum of 45 cents. Copies of the
General Specifications may be
obtained upon payment in ad¬
vance of the sum of $2.50, which
sums will not be refunded
Proposals must be submitted
>n Regular forms, which will be
supplied by the undersigned,
and may J be obtained by a pay-
ient, in advance of $5.00
ich proposal issued. When
roposal is submitted, it must be
jeompanied by a certiflea check
: cashier s check for 5 % of the
>tal bid, to the nearest hundred
ollars, and must be plainly
larked “Proposal for Road
□instruction,’’ County and Num-
?r, and show the time of open-
ig as advertised. Check of the
w bidder will be cashed and all
,her checks will be returned as
>on as the contract is awarded,
aless it is deemed advisable by
le State Highway Department
> hold one or more checks. If
i unusual condition arises, the
bate Highway Department le-
irves the right to cash all
leeks. Bidders Bond will not be
icepted.
Bond will be required of the
iccessful bidder as required by
,w. The bond must be written
y a licensed Georgia Agent in
company licensed to write
iirety Bonds in the State of
eorgia, and be accompanied by
certificate, from the Depart-
ent of Industrial Relations
lat the Contractors is comply-
See
H. F. ALLISON
For
LOANS
INSURANCE
REAL ESTATE
Times Building
TRENTON, GEORGIA
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j ing with the Georgia Workman's
Compensation Act.
Contracts will not be awarded
to contractors who have not
been placed on the list of quali¬
fied Contractors prior to the
date of award. No proposal will
i be issued to any bidder later
than 12 Noon Central War Time
of the day prior to the date of
opening bids,
j All bids must show totals for
each item and total amount of
.bid. Right is reserved in the un-
dersigned to delay the award of
the contract for a period not to
exceed thirty (30) days from the
date of opening bids, during
which period bids shall remain
.open and not subject to with-
drawal. Right is also reserved in
the undersigned to reject any
and all bids and to waive all
formalities.
Upon compliance with the re¬
quirements of the Standard
Specifications, Ninety (90) per
cent of the amount of work done
in any calendar month will be
paid for by the 25th day of the
j succeeding month, provided that
payrolls have been submitted as
j required and the remainder
within thirty < 30 1 days after the ,
Final Estimate is approved by
the Engineer.
This the 30th day of June,
1945.
STATE HIGHWAY DEPART¬
MENT OF GEORGIA.
RYBURN G. CLAY, Director!
ORDERED TO REPORT FOR
PRE _ INE >UCTION, JULY 5TH
!
Sixteen more of Dade’s young
sons have been ordered to re¬
port for pre-induction examina¬
tion on July 5.
These young men entrained
from Trenton for Ft. McPherson,
Ga., on Friday morning,
where they will undergo a
thorough physical examination,
after which they will return
home and await their call to
service.
Ordered to report for pre-in¬
duction examination on Friday
morning, July 5, were:
William Howard Watson, Jim
Bodenhamer, Manuel Reeves,
Howard Edward Johnson, Elvin
Breedlove, Euell Chester Hester,
Lois Palmer, Ernest Middleton
Hawkins, Ervin LaFayette Bow¬
en, Dallas Spencer York, William
Edward Davis, Warren Anzel
Burgess, Jack Solomon Cross,
Herman Eugene Carver, Newton
Price, Ernest Volley Henegar.
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Special Notice To
Farmers
Dr. E. E. Chambers,
Veterinarian, Will Be
in
TRENTON
8 A. M. Tuesday
July 3rd
To Vaccinate Dogs
Against Rabies, and
for Calls of General
Veterinary Work. He
will be in Trenton
Every Month On the
FIRST TUESDAY
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DADE PAGEANT—A part cl the crowd of several thousand that viewed the "return" of Dade
mty, Georgia, to the Union last night in colorful ceremonies at Trenton, county seat, is shown
near the speaker s platform The pageant ended an 85-year-old legend by officially proclaiming
the county a "part of the Urn on" as the American flag was raised for the first time of the court
house lawn.
Free Dade State
Returns To Union
Continued from Page One
Tatum and the Confederacy.
In front of the courthouse a
huge 60-foot flag pole had been
sunk in the ground and cement
poured around its base where it
will stand for many years. Every
now and then a native of Dade
County would glance at the flag
pole from its base to the top and
and smile. Often they were heard
to say to the man next to him,
“See it ” The scene was new and
strange, a scene no living man
here can ever remember having
seen before.
An American flag, the Stars
and Stripes, is floating from the
top of the mast.
It is the first American flag
that has flown over the Dade
County Courthouse in 85 years.
Around the square were other
and Stripes, hanging from
the walls of the buildings and on
short staffs on the edge of the
road. The old International Or¬
der of Odd Fellows building that
was erected in 1857 was decked
in bunting and another Ameri¬
can flag floated in front of the
old Presbyterian Church, over
100 years old. Here some of
Sherman’s men camped in the
“GO’S” and tended their horses
in the church yard.
Out in the country around
people worked Tuesday
for the holiday on the Fourth.
Everyone came to Trenton for
the voting and the festivities.
Many farmer folks from up on
Mountain to the West and
Mountain to the East
were in town to see the county
return t o the Union.
In this county that until 1941'
“you couldn’t ride a mme to
from Georgia,” there is on¬
ly one gateway from the rest of
the state. In 1C41 the E. D. Riv- j
ers highway war blasted and
chipped from Lookout Mountain
and today a fine paved ro cl
leads from L'Fayette across u
Trenton. Just L afore the road
reaches the west*, r.u slope of
giant o’i lookout, a huge gap
has been toasted th ough solid 1
rock.
As an aui mobile speeds a-
cross the ton of Lookout the
giant gap frames in a bear iful
blue Lazed picture the entire
view of Dade Valley. Thousands
of feet below the gap are the
white housese and buildings of
Trenton, sitting on the floor of
the valley, like the small white
stars of the Saint Andrews cross
in the flag of the Southern
Confederacy.
NAURU
CHECKED IN 7 DAYS WITH
666 LIQUID FOR
MALARIAL
SYMPTOMS
Take as directed
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DEALER CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE
Until that scenic road was
chisled from Lookout no one
could enter Georgia’s Dade Coun
ty except through Alabama or
Tennessee. For that reason “The
Independent State of Dade has
been known as Georgia’s Lost
Colony.
Dade County was named for
Maj. Francis Dade, who wrote
his name in large letters in the
history of the American Revolu¬
tion. The county was established
on December 27, 1837, and since
that day has been far more im¬
portant in Georgia affairs than
its size and accessability from
the rest of Georgia might pre¬
tend.
The county sent off many of
her sons to the Mexican War
and when the War Between the
States and secession came a-
brest of Dade, the county was
cital and important to the
State.
Four companies of Confeder¬
ate Infantry were mustered into
the service from Dade and their
name, “The Racoon Roughs” was
exactly what they should have
been named. Most of the tall,
rangy and weathered soldiers
wore racoon skin caps in¬
stead of the Confederate Grey.
They carried the long barrel,
frontier rifle that suited the land
where they had lived. They were
men of tl)c horse not the car¬
riage and when they voted their
name to “Racoon Roughs” they
correctly named themselves.
Many of Dade’s Confederates
were trappers and hunters and
many were workers in the coal
mines of Alabama only 8 miles
across Sand Mountain from
Trenton. They were “roughs”
and their officers lead them
through many of the war’s
greatest battles.
General John B. Gordon, who
lived then at Nickajack Cave on¬
ly a few miles from Trenton,
farmed his first Confederate
; ompany in this area of Georgia,
but his men were listed as Ala¬
bama troops although a great
majority came from Dade Coun¬
ty. Four other companies of in-
mar dod by Captains Hannah,
fantry were formed and com-
B’ O' k, Nesbit and Cureton, local
iC who were elected to their
offices.
These men fought throughout
the war and when the fighting
was over, came home to their
mountain nation to the same life
they lead before the war. As the
years passed, Reconstruction was
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finally lifted and the Spanish
American War started, the child¬
ren of those Confederate fight¬
ers signed up again.
Somehow the county had nev¬
er technically returned to the
Union and actually was a nation
in itself, but the Dade County
men went off to the Navy and
Cuba to fight for the United
States. William H. Brock, the
Trenton postmaster, fought in
the Spanish-American War and
his father was Captain Brock
who lead one of the companies
of the “Racoon Roughs.”
The first World War carried
many Dade Countians to France
and brought not so many back,
and the county still had never
technically rejoined the Union.
By the time Pearl Harbor was
bombed many of the grand¬
children and great-grandchild¬
ren of Brock, Cureton, Hannah
and Nesbit or the men who fol¬
lowed them were already in the
Army. During the early months
of the war when Japan was roll¬
ing up the islands of the South¬
west Pacific into the network of
bases, and Germany was pound¬
ing on England’s and Cairo’s
doors, volunteers from Dade
kept a steady line in front of the
draft board’s office.
But still their home county of
Dade had never returned to
Georgia and the Union.
No one worried about Dade’s
legend of being an Idependent
State, and nothing was done to
actually and administratively
bring the county back to Geor¬
gia.
Although the county is sepa¬
rate, there are representatives
from Dade in the Georgia gen¬
eral assembly, the county is part
of the Seventh Congressional
District, taxes are paid to Wash¬
ington and the State Capitol,
the men are fighting America’s
wars and the people of Dade love
the Union the same as any oth¬
ers.
The day has come when the
legend of the Independent State
of Dade should come to an end,
so last Wednesday the hatchet
was buried, the peace pipe
smoked and the War Between
the States ended.
The victory must still go to
the Union, for Dade County
could not carry on alone.
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