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OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY
Fourth of July—picnics, bar¬
becues, family reunions, swim¬
ming, soda pop, speeches—and
heat. But this seems to be one
holiday that we never stop to
ask ourselves, “How come?"
Most of us just call it Fourth of
July, forgetting its real name,
Independence Day.
If we do think about it at all,
we just think of the times be¬
fore our country's birth as the
times of the early settlers, a war;,
and George Washington as our
first president. But events lead
ing up to July 4- 1776, are
thrilling and exciting reading.
In 1700 there were about 275,
000 people in the colonies but on
the eve of the Revolution we had
grown to almost 3 millions- Phil¬
adelphia was the largest city
with a population of about 18,-
000. Schools had been built and
there were five colleges- There
were libraries and newspapers.
Townships held town meetings,
the counties had county meet¬
ings and there were the state
assemblies..
But in spite of the assemblies
and the right to vote, the colo¬
nies were really controlled by
small groups and royal govern¬
ors from England. This did not
please the colonists. They and
the people who followed them
had worked hard, gained wealth
and land and self-confidence.
Our forebears were a sturdy lot
and different from the people in
the countries they had left be¬
hind.
The French and Indian Wars
had driven France out of North
America, with both the British,
and the Americans taking part.
There was no love lost between
the two. Washington, leader of
the Americans, wrote of the
“dastardly behavior of the Eng¬
lish soldiers," and Wolfe, the
leader of the British soldiers,
wrote of the Americans as "con-
temptable cowardly dogs.”
the leaders said such things, i
is not difficult to think how the
soldiers felt.
After the French and Indian
War, the British thought the
time had come to get the colo¬
nies under better control and
that the trade laws must be en¬
forced. British soldiers were
left in the country to protect the
frontiers, but the Americans felt
they had been left there to en¬
force the deeply trade laws. in debt AlsoBr and the £‘
ain was So it i£
colonies were rich. as
today, came taxation; the Stamp
Act, the Townshend Acts, one o
which included the article on tea
But the colonies were now
stronger and more independent.
They were indignant with t
British. They were indignant
with the small ruling bodies in
the colonies. The mass of the
people were not satisfied- Men
arose to express this resentmen
the twelve years of talking which
preceedlng the war was on. with
few such acts as the Boston
a that we re¬
Tea Party to show
ally meant business. Taxation
without representation was not
to be borne. days
Life in America in those
was not dull. It was noisy,
boisterous, and full of red blood¬
ed men and women who were
not satisfied with their way of
life and were doing something
about it. But talk did not avail,
the people wanted independ
ence, independence from the
mother country, and also from
the class in America who held
too closely with the ways of the
old world.
On the 19th of April,
came the Battle of Lexington
followed by Bunker Hill, Ethan
Allen and his "Green
boys, and then in June
George Washington was
ed commander in chief of
army. Came more battles
still no declaration of war
til on July 4, 1776, when
gress finally adopted the
ation of Independence.
State House Bell, which rang
the news to the crowd
in the streets, by an odd
dence, bore the inscription,
claim liberty throughout all
land unto all the
thereof.”
WATER SYSTEM QUESTION
For too long a time the “water
question”, for Dade county has
been uppermost in the minds of
all. Opinions both pro and con
have been most unpleasant, to
use a very tame word.
On June 24, 1947, the Court
of Appeals of Georgia rendered
a decision- A digest of it is;
The Revenue Certificate Act of
1937 authorizes any municipal¬
ity in the state to create a water
district and to construct, oper¬
ate and maintain a water system
therein, and to finance said sys¬
tem by the issuance of Revenue
Certificates. The Act defines
the word “municipality” as any
county, city or town in this
state.
By resolution, the Ordinary of
Dade county created a water
district to be known as the Dade
County Water District, including
the territory within the cor¬
porate limits of Trenton, and
other territory outside the city
of Trenton. By resolution, the
Mayor and Council of the City
of Trenton created a water dis¬
trict consisting of the territory
within the corporate limits of
the city. Both resolutions au¬
thorized the issuance of Certifi¬
cates in certain amounts to fi¬
nance their respective systems.
Dade County filed a petition
in Dade Superior Court to vali¬
date their revenue certificates.
The City of Trenton filed objec¬
tions, along with certain indi¬
viduals, the objections being that
only the City of Trenton has
authority to determine whether
it desires to be included within
a water district created by the
county or to create tis own wa¬
ter district, and that the county
could not, without the consent of
the city, operate a water system
in the the city, nor could it is¬
sue revenue anticipation certif¬
icates for a district which in¬
cluded therein the territory with¬
in the corporate limits of the
city. The Superior Court Judge
overruled the objections and en¬
tered an order validating the
bonds, The Court of Appeals of
Georgia in its decision dated
June 24, 1947, sustained the Su-_
perior Court Judge, stating that
under the Act either the city or
the county or both could create
a water district which may be
located wholly within or wholly
without the municipality, or'
partially within and partially
without, and that there was
nothing within the Act to pro¬
hibit the creation of two water
districts embracing the same
territory.
The City of Trenton filed a
petition in Dade Superior Court
to validate their revenue certi¬
ficates. Dude comity and cer¬
tain individuals filed objections,
alleging that Dade County had
already included the terrritory
in Trenton in their water dis¬
trict and applied for validation
of their certificates, and that
the city could not validate cer¬
tificates for the same territory.
They further alleged that be¬
cause of the small number of
prospective users the construc¬
tion of such a city system was
impractical, unsound and not
feasible. The Superior Court-
Judge overruled the objections
and entered an order validating
the certificates. The Court of
Appearls of Georgia in its decis¬
ion of this case dated June 24,
1947, sustained the Superior
Court Judge in his holding that
under the Act both certificates
could be«*alidated, but that evi¬
dence should have been submit¬
ted and the Judge should have
passed on the question of wheth¬
er or not such system is practic¬
al and feasible. This case was,
therefore, returned to the Supe¬
rior Court for further hearing
on that question.
When the time comes for val¬
idation of these Revenue Certi¬
ficates. let us have the bids pub
licly advertised, let them be
sealed bids and a day set and
advertised for these bids to be
publicly opened. If this proced¬
ure is followed and the water
question in the future is
a public manner, ------ can
no criticism.
DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947.
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THE DADE COUNTY GAZETTE
Rising Fawn, Ga., December 11, 1879.
This notice appeared in The
Gazette as advertising in the
“Local Options" column;
“Fricks Bros, want all the corn
they can get, for which they will
pay 50c per bushel in cash or
goods.”
Dr. W. P. H. McGuffey is in
town.
Look out for the holiday issue
of The Gazette.
The furnace “blowed in” last
Sunday. They have been mak¬
ing repairs. We learn that
whooping cough is raging in the
Iron Works. One death has al¬
ready occurred-
We regret to lose our Wildwood
correspondent, Bill Flips. Who
will give us the Wildwood news
now?
A. M. Hale and J- B. Guinn
went to Chattanooga last Mon¬
day evening. Hope the boys
had a good time.
From Morganville
Peace and quiet reign over our
village again. A car load of tan
bark is standing on tht side¬
track awaiting shipment.
Observe some farmers are
turning land preparatory for a
corn crop next year, Wheat
looks well. A man reports to
have made 2,000 bushels of corn;
do not vouch for its veracity.
T. J. Lumpkin & Bro., Attor¬
neys at Law, will pay prompt
attention to the collection of
claims and all business entrust¬
ed to their care.
j. G. Hale, Attorney and Coun¬
selor at Law, will practice in the
Superior Courts of Dade, Walker
and Catoosa.
Local Options
Last Sunday, the local editor
reached the majority of 21 years
of age. On Monday evening, Mr.
Fricks called us into his store,
and pretty soon, I was wearing
a size 6%, the best hat in the
house- We return to Mr. Fricks
our most sincere thanks.
Mrs. Morgan of Morganville
was in our town yesterday, in
search of a prodigal brother, a
youth of 12 or 14 probably, who
had left home the night before
to seek his fortune. He had got¬
ten this far, but very likely he
will return home with his sister
this evening- Boys should not
run away from home; this world
is too rough for them.
Mr. Jas. Brock of Trenton has
accepted a position as clerk in
the business house of G. W.
Cureton.
By reference to our market
report, it will be seen that eggs
have advanced to 15c per dozen.
Pork is in demand at 5c and 6c
a pound ; corn 50c a bushel, and
chickens at 12V 2 and 15c.
The Dade County Gazette and
the Louisville Courier are two of
the best weeklies to be found.
This unlighted trailer, moving slowly along the darkened highway,
t~as completely invisible to an overtaking motorist as he came sud¬
denly upon it from around a corner. He crashed into it and was
fatally injured. Just one more of the many bitter ironies of highway
deaths, where a lawbreaker who was indifferent to his own safety and
t T- safety of others escaped injury, while an innocent victim j ' '
4 "that indifference with his life. ) ft
SAFETY TIP OF THE WEEK
Good highway democracy saves
lives ; last year, over 150,000 were
killed and injured because some¬
one claimed special privileges
REPORT OF BOOKMOBILE
SERVICE IN DADE COUNTY
The Dade Cotinty Library
Board and Library Committee
met at the Court House on
June 25th. Miss Sarah Mareth,
our Bookmobile Lady, conducted
the meeting. We were glad to
welcome Miss Lucile Nix from
the State Library Department
and the Chairman of the Walker
County Library Board at our
meeting.
Miss Maret submitted the
following report:
The reading of good books has
been especially fine in some of
our schools, according to a re¬
port made by Miss Sarah Maret,
Director of the Cherokee Re¬
gional Library, which operates
the bookmobile which serves the
schools of Dade county. A to¬
tal of 6,651 books were read from
the bookmobile by the children
of the county for the school year
1946-47. The distribution of this
reading was as follows: Davis
High. 1,823; New Salem, 1,818 :
Rising Fawn, 1,239; New Eng¬
land. 895; Dade High, 490; Wild¬
wood. 386.
The total circulation for the
county for the first six months
of 1947 was 7,923.
A Vacation Reading Club Is be¬
ing conducted by the bookmobile
and all children of the county
who are able to reach the book¬
mobile at one of its stops are
urged to join. A certificate is
sued by the State Department
of Education will be given to
those children who meet the
bookmobile and read at least 10
books during the summer. A
“Gold Star” Certificate is award¬
ed to those who read 25 books. A
record of this reading is kept by
the librarians of the bookmobile
It would seem from this report
, that Dade is reading more and
more books. For the first six
Drug Store Now Under
New Management
T. T. Wheeler has bought the
Trenton Drug Sundries from W.
W. Williams. Though this store
does sell drug sundries, it is also
one of Trenton’s restaurants.
Mr. Wheeler has been operat¬
the Trenton Coffee Shop for
time now, and it is under¬
stood that he plans to keep both
open.
Mr. Williams is erecting the
large building on the southwest
of the town square. The
ground floor is already comple¬
ted and houses the Williams Mo¬
tor Co. Several hotel rooms with
baths are being built on the sec¬
ond floor and the selling of the
will give Mr. and Mrs.
Williams time for their new bus¬
iness venture.
We shall miss them, Johnnie,
Jackie, Fannie and all of them
at the “drug store,” but we are
sure Mr- Wheeler will also give
us a nice clean restaurant, and
we wish him every success.
other drivers at intersec¬
Safe driving means obey¬
the traffic officer or the
light; if in any doubt as
whose turn it is, yield right-
months of 1947 7,923 books at
52.00 a book would be over $15,-
000 worth of books and as I
recall the 1946-47 report was
only about $7,500 worth of books.
It is heartening to know how
the library service has been
appreciated.
However the dark side of the
picture is that the money has
run out again. Last fall when
there was no money individuals
and organizations who felt the
need and the benefit of having
a travelling library in the county
during the winter months raised
the $50.00 a month that it costs
to bring the Bookmobile here.
In order to see that the school
children should have the books.
This was a lot of money to be
raised by so few but as we can
see by this report it was appre¬
ciated.
The State supplies the books
and in other counties the cost
of the bookmobile service is met
jointly by county and school
funds. For a while Dade County
did contribute $25.00 a month,
which is half the amount needed
(and the Lion’s Club contributed
the rest) but it was felt that
there were not enough people in
the county who wanted this ser¬
vice to warrant further expend¬
itures. It would seem by
number of books read, both
the children and adults in
county, that there are
enough people in the county
want this service- Almost 8,000
books distributed is more
being read in the county than
there are people in it.
Do you want the privilege of
using this travelling library? If
you do say so loud, and long and
often for if you don’t there is
no more money and there will
be no more Bookmobile for Dade
County.
MARY FRANCES JACOWAY
WILLIAMS
vs.
WILLIAM D. JACOWAY
FRANK D. JACOWAY
GEORGE H. JACOWAY
MRS LOU KILLIAN '
*
CHARLES C. SMITH, JR-
No. 7, September Term, 1947,
Dade Superior Court
Suit for partition of lands by
sale and division of proceeds.
NOTICE
To; William D. Jacoway, Geo.
H. Jacoway, Mrs. Lou Jacoway
Killian and Charles C. Smith, Jr.
non-resident defendants in the
above styled cause:—
You are hereby notified that
on June 9, 1947, Mary Frances
Williams filed in the Superior
Court of Dade County, Georgia,
Rising Fawn News
By Ruth Wilson
Mrs- Teenle Blevins and son,
Jimmy, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Gossett and Brock
Dean.
Mrs. A1 Hadden and Mrs. F
A- Bettis spent Sunday in Ool-
tewah, Tenn.
Rev. A1 Hadden is home for a
few days, after conducting
revival in Texas-
Mr. W. A. Latta of Piggot,
Ark., is visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Herschel Dean, and Mr.
Dean.
Mr. and Mrs. Allison Blevins
md family of New England spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Castleberry and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Simmons
and family of West Virginia are
visiting Mr. and Mrs- Charlie
Hale.
Teddy. McCloud of Knoxville,
Tenn., is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Smith and family.
Mrs. Ed Heatherly and Jane
Ellen of St- Elmo spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. J. • R.
Smith and family.
Mr. B. B. Kenimer and Carol
and Don spent Sunday with Mrs.
Gaines at Flat Rock, Ala-
Willie G. Williams, Martin
and Billy Joe Bradford, Leslie
and Jack Wilson, spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Coleman and family in Nash¬
ville, Tenn. George Wilson re¬
turned home, after a week’s visit.
farm BUREAU MEETING
HAS LARGE ATTENDANCE
There was a large attendance
at. the Georgia Farm Bureau
meeting last Friday night.
Nearly 50 farmers from all dis¬
tricts in the county heard Wilson
E. Still, Director of Organization
and Research, tell of the benefits
derived by joining the organiz¬
ation,
Mr. Still stressed the fact that
when a lot of people banned to¬
gether in wanting the same thing
that by sheer volume of numbers
their opinions would carry more
weight. That it was only nat¬
ural that if a thousand people
felt one thing would be best
that the opposite would be best
but ten thousand people felt
that it would be natural to be
influenced somewhat by the
greater number. And so it is
with the size of the Farm Bureau
membership.
Nationally our congressmen
will naturally be influenced
when they know so many people
back hom^ are for or against
a certain bill before congress.
To mention just one bill, already
the Farm Bureau fought for a
ceiling price of 35c instead of the
24c that had been set. The far¬
mer must have protection and
the Farm Bureau means to see
that it does-
On a State level the Farm
Bureau fought for and got a
50c refund on gasoline used on
the farms and last year the
State of Georgia refunded $490,-
000 to the farmers.
Locally there may be some¬
thing your county needs. Map
out a program and then go to
work, because if the farmers will
ban together they can get what
they want-
After Mr. Still’s talk, Mr. Gus
Forester, Chairman of the Local
Farm Bureau thanked him and
asked those present if they
would volunteer to try to get
new members.
j Another meeting was called for
j u i y 7 th. at 8:30 P. M. for the
purpose of reporting the progress
(of ^is membership drive.
a petition for me DaniH
certain lands in D ade 105
Georgia, by a sale thereof Con
division of the proc ■
Frank which it D. is alleged Jacoway, that 2
defendant, the
are co-owners
ants in common mfe o
with
of said lands. You
notified that said appll
will be presented to the
for a hearing at 10 c
Thursday, o’clock a
on July Trenton'’ i 7| m .
the Courthouse in
Witness the Honorable »
ford Brooke, Judge of the
perior Court of Dade Con
Georgia, this June 14, 194*
GRAHAM HALE,
Clerk of the Superior Court i
Dade County, Georgia.
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