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Dade County's Only Newspaper.
VOLUME XLVII.
County Meetings Of
Farm Organizations
Communities in Dade County,
Georgia are finding that they
can a lot done by working
together, and are making plans
to do still more to make their
neighborhoods better places to
live.
Last week farm families in
three organized Dade County
communities — Cloverdale, New
Salem and Davis-met to review
what they had accomplished in
the past year in the way of
community improvement and to
set up goals they want to reach
in 1948 New Salem and Davis
are area demonstrations cooper¬
ating with the Georgia Extension
Service and TVA to show
the effect of the use of soil
minerals on the agriculture and
life of entire rural communities.
Cloverdale is waiting approval of
it’s application to be set up as a
demonstration area.
At the Cloverdale meeting,held
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Cicero Forester Wednesday night,
it was reported that the goal
of one acre of alfalfa on each
farm had largely been reached.
Plans were made for meeting
the recreation needs of the com¬
munity and offers of a lot, ma¬
terials, and labor for the con¬
struction of a community center
were made. Cloverdale families
have been organized only a year
to Work together toward satis¬
fying community needs. J. E.
Cagle is president of theit or¬
ganization and Cicero Forester
is secretary-treasurer.
New Salem Community, atop
T '■'okout Mountain, also organiz-
d during the past year and is
working as a unit to improve
agriculture and solve other com¬
munity problems. W. T. Mc¬
Cauley, president of the local
organization, says the communi¬
ty has done much but needs to
keep on with the things it is
doing and go on to other things.
The planning committee met
Thursday night, just before the
community meeting, at the Mc¬
Cauley home and was served a
supper prepared by the women
of the community, that demon¬
strated the live-at-home pro¬
duction of New Salem agricul-
ure.
During the past year New
Salem has made efforts to obtain
electric service for the communi¬
ty, and a resolution was passed
to continue these efforts. An
outdoor recreation area, with
playground and picnic facilities,
has been started near the church
grounds, members of the com¬
munity contributing their time
to do the work. A home de¬
monstration club is to be organiz¬
ed this week.
Additional needs discussed
were a community center, and
more active interest in communi¬
ty affairs by everyone.
New Salem is an entrant this
year in the Community Impove-
ment Contest sponsored by Chat¬
tanooga Civic Clubs. Officers of
the community organization are:
W. T. McCauley, president, and
Mrs. John McGuffey, secretary-
treasurer. Plannng committee
members are: W. T. McCauley,
Mrs. Art Moore, Mr. and Mrs.
John McGuffey, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Moore, Hugh Clark, Mrs.
Stokes McCauley, and Mrs. L- C.
Adams.
The women of Davis Commun¬
ity on Sand Mountain also pre¬
pared supper for the planning
committee meeting Friday night
which preceded the community
meeting at the schoolhouse.
Davis Community was organized
in 1944 and was among the
winners in the Community Im¬
provement Contest last year. At
the community meeting it was
reported 'that home and com¬
munity goals set for the year
had all been reached, with one
exception of the pasture im¬
provement goal.
Goals the Davis people set for
themselves for 1948 included ad¬
ditional soil improvement prac¬
tices such as terracing, cover
crops and crop rotations ; pasture
improvement; investigation of
possibilities for improving mar¬
ket facilities; livestock improve¬
ment; home improvements such
Woodland Demonstra¬
tion On Lambert Farm
Farm woodlands do play a vital
part in the development and
maintenance of the farm. A
concrete example is related by
County Agent L. C. Adams of how
a small woodlot has contributed
to the J. P. Lambert farm near
Rising Fawn, Ga.
Early in the winter of 1944 on
a stop at the Lambert farm and
during our conservation Mr.
Lambert informed me that he
had some timber to ciut. He
said that several sawmillers had
looked it over and that one had
offered him $2,000 for all mer
chantable trees. He stated that
he needed both some ready cash
and some lumber for repairs and
construction work. However, he
did not want to ruin his wood¬
land by having it clear cut. It
had been in the family for two
generations and as a result of
keeping out fire, parts of the
woods had developed into good
timber. Mr. Lambert was pretty
uncertain what to do. It was
explained to him that as an al¬
ternative to clear cutting he
might select and cut only those
trees which should be taken out
'to better tlje stand. In this way
he could possibly harvest enough
logs to obtain both the needed
cash and lumber for farm use.
Such a method, it was explained,
would not only avoid clear cut¬
ting but would actually improve
the condition 6f the woods.
This, he stated, was exactly what
he wanted to do so with the
assistance of a TVA forester we
went to work.
In addition to the construction
of a new house he has remodled
his own home and made repairs
to tennant houses and farm
buildings. He has also cut 200
fence posts from white oak, and
has used most of the tree Laps
for fuelwood.
His records show that since 19-
44 he has sold and used lumber
valued at 1,680 from his wood
land. If the price originally of¬
fered by the sawmiller, $2,000
for 154,000 board feet or $13.00
per thousand, is applied to the
remaining stand of 102,000 board
feet, it is worth $1,326. This
puts him ahe^d of his original
offer by $1,000 and does not in¬
clude the value of the fuelwood
and fence posts or the additional
value that he will realize from
his growing timber.
Mr. Lambert states that he is
certain this method of handling
farm timber is much more pro¬
fitable than the wasteful clear
cutting method. He states that
by selecting only the proper trees
to be removed he has been able
to achieve his objectives and
still retain his woods in good
condition. Mr. Lambert sum¬
med the situation up by stating
this was his first experience in
“eating his cake and having it
too.”
as landscaping, kitchen improve¬
ment, installation of running
water, better hpme food supplies
and betterment of home recre¬
ation; and community improve¬
ments such as recreation facili¬
ties, better roads and improved
appearance of roadsides, bigger
and better fairs and wider par¬
ticipation in them, and more
community 4-H Club projects.
Dosey Smith, D. P. Hood, Mrs.
D. P. Hood and Mrs. Giles Gass,
were elected to represent the
community as members of the
county planning committee
Community oganization officers
are Clarence Guffey, president,
and Mrs. H. H. Bodenhamer,
secretary-treasurer. Member
of the planning committee are:
Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Hood, Mrs.
H. H. Bodenhamer, Clarence
Guffey, Mr. and Mrs.* Henry
Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Pike,
Mr. and Mrs. C. C- Hardiman.
I£r. and Mrs. Dorsey Smith, and
Mr. and Mrs. Giles Gass.
S. G. Chandler, Assistant Dis¬
trict Agent with the Georgia Ex¬
tension Service, spoke at all three
community meetings. “We are
at the crossroads now,” he told
them. “It is up to people to decide
for themselves whether their
decisions for action are to be
made in their own communities
or somewhere else."
lie
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1947.
DADE COUNTY FUTURE HOMEMAKERS
Picture by —W. C. Holmes—
Pictured left to right—1st row-Gertha Stephens, Selma Ann Eichenburger, Lula Morgan, Ruby
Raines, Charlotte Sullivan, Louise Sims, Rubble Livingston, Betty Bates, Edna Belle Cagle, Mrs. L. M.
Allison. 2nd. row-Betty Riddle, Ruby Neal, Vonnie Gray, Bertha Stephens, Mary Eva Page, Betty
Blevins, Margaret Taylor, Carroll Kenimer, Pauline SeJvey. 3rd. row-Emily Lee Wallen, Cynthaa
Moore, Jessie Moreland, Betty Jo Durham, Mary Champers, Audrey Doyle, Clara Mae Wheeler, Billie
Chapman, Edna Lea, Jane Keeton, Roselyn Dyer, Imma Dean Lacy. Back row-Ruth Wilson, Bea¬
trice Castlebrry, Martha June Derryberry, Clara Mae Cuzzort, Beatrice Williams, Della Wallen, Ruth
Bible, Virginia Ann Kenimer-
Members of Club not in picture are: Martha Gossett, Melba Reeves, Jeraldine Gray, Frances Barton,
Evelyn Riddle.
New Beauty Shoppe
Is Most Attractive
Thelma’s Beauty Shoppe is a
beauty indeed. It is located
where the Selective Service Board
use to be in the south end of the
building on the east side of the
square in Trenton. This office
has been painted white, Venetian
blinds with red trim cover the
windows which are in turn hung
with red flowered creton cur¬
tains. (We notice Miss Hatfield
had a red hanky tucked in the
pocket of her white uniform.)
Plants are used for decorating
purposes, even small pots of
flowers in brackets climb one
wall. The furnitube is modern
with crome frames and black
leather seats. Yes a most at¬
tractive place in which to be
beautified. We wish them suc¬
cess in their new business.
NINTH GRADE TEACHER
AND PUPILS MOVED
The State Department of Edu¬
cation allots teachers to the var¬
ious county school system of the
state on basis of average daily
attendance for the previous year,
there is one teacher for each
30 pupils in elementary grades
and one teacher for each 25
pupils in high school.
The state makes teacher allot¬
ment on a county wide basis,
leaving to the local Boards of
Education the distribution of
teachers according to the need
in various schools of the counties
In the event an emergency
arises in any school due to more
pupils enrolling the state depart¬
ment will allot additional teach¬
ers, provided there are more
pupils in the county system than
teacher load on the above basis.
In the Rising Fawn Jr. High
school there were enrolled in Jr.
High 29 pupils with two teachers,
at Dade High there were 183
pupils the first month which is
more than the teacher load for
7 teachers. We had only 6
teachers in our accredited High
school until the Board transfer¬
red one teacher from Rising
Fawn with the ninth grade from
that school, there were 13 enroll¬
ed in this grade. This leaves
sufficient number of teachers at
Rising Fawn to take care of en¬
rollment on basis of teacher al¬
lotment, also it will save our
Senior High School from being
dropped from accredited list of
high schools in the state, because
of overloaded conditions.
There was no other course open
to the Board of Education in
taking care of this situation.
L. M. Allison.
A^L^flZiAN to
BE MARRIED NOV. 23
Of interest to Dade Countians
is the announcement of the en¬
gagement and approaching mar¬
riage of Miss Myrna Ann Renfroe
to Asa Leonard McMahan, by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T- S.
Renfroe, Trenton. Mr. McMa¬
han is the son of Mrs. Cecil
McMahan of Rising Fawn. The
wedding will take place Sunday,
November 23rd at four o’clock
at the Trenton Methodist Church
with Rev. T. N. Orr officiating.
Mrs. H. F. Allison, Miss Jessie
Mae Dyer and E. A. Ellis will
present the nupital music.
The bride-to-be is the sister
of Patsy, Peggy, Bobby and Kelly
Renfroe. She attended Dade
High School and graduated from
Chattanooga High School in 1946.
A sophomore at the Uuiversity
of Chattanooga, she is a member
of various organizations, includ¬
ing Sigma Tau Delta, English
the Southern Accent, school lit¬
erary magazine, and feature edi¬
tor of the University Echo.
The prospective bridegroom
graduated from Dade High
School, later entering the army
for a period of 24 months. He
received h^s discharge in Novem¬
ber of 46. He is the brother of
Mrs. Lloyd Boren, Mrs. Jake West,
Mrs. Charles Kirk, Donovan,
Joseph, and Charles McMahan.
The young couple will make
Rising Fawn their home.
NEW SALEM HOME DEMON¬
STRATION CLUB ORGANIZED
The New Salem Home Demon¬
stration Club was organized on
Monday, November 10th at the
home of Mrs. Tom McCauley.
Officers elected for the current
year are Mrs. Harold Moore,
president ; Mrs. Art Moore, vice
president; Mrs. Tom McCauley,
secretary and treasurer; and Mrs.
John McGuffey, reporter. Chair¬
man for the various committees
will be announced later.
It was decided that the next
meeting will be held on December
9th at the home of Mrs. Jack
Neal- The project will be Christ -
Decorations undei the direction
of Miss Pattie Bos veil, our Home
Demonstration Agent.
There was a discussion about
the Improvement Contest which
the New Salem Community has
entered and which is to be judg¬
ed this Friday. Mr- Tom Mc¬
Cauley, president of this Im¬
provement Organization, was
called in and plans were com¬
pleted for the route which the
judges will take through the
community on their inspection
trip.
Progress In Dade
County Schools
This is National Education
Week. We were not able to visit
all the schools in the county but
we did get a summary of progress
from Superintendent of Schools
L M. Allison.
The North Dade Consolidated
School is still being taught in
three different places BUT it is
hoped that by next Monday,
school will be held in the bar¬
racks, which have been set up
beside the Morganville school
which burned and in the old New
England School. The barracks
have been equipped with propane
gas heat, and a pump and
plumbing facilities are being
completed this week for a water
supply in the barracks. There
are approximately 176 children
enrolled in the North Dade Con¬
solidated Schools.
The Hooker Colored School
has about 38 children enrolled.
On every visit we have made to
this school it has looked as
though it had finished a “clean
up campaign” both inside and
out, though our visits were un¬
expected. At present a new flu
is being built for the stove in
the school house.
We did visit Dade High School-
That poor building is just busting
open its sides with the approxi¬
mately 499 children who now
attend, 191 in the high schoo 1
grades and 298 in the elementary
school. Not so very long ago
this was a fine school building
but populations do increase. Nov
‘not only are the class rooms
full but four classes are being
taught in the basement and one
in the auditorium. Several class
rooms have no desks, some very
scanty blackboard space and
several rooms have no lights
There is a bright side however
The lunch room, tables and
chairs and the kitchen have all
been freshly painted—the trim
is white but the walls are a soft
green. There are also curtains
at the windows.
The class of 1947 gave Venetian
blinds for some of the windows
in the auditorium and dark
brown and red curtains have
been gotten for all the windows.
One class room has been painted
from the money received from
the Halloween carnival.
The Health classes are making
a survey of the weights and
heights of the children in the
school. There is now a music
teacher. Miss Eileen Deel, who
is majoring in piano at the Uni¬
versity of Chattanooga, is there
two days a week and already
has 25 pupils.
The plumbing is gradually be¬
ing completed and it is hoped
it will be finished in the very
near future.
Two barracks have been erect-,
ed at the back of the school
which will be equipped with ga:
heat and will take care of two
of the grades from the main
building.
The materials for the rebuild¬
ing of the Davis School are being
assembled. In the mean time
the barracks have been equipped
with gas heat and electricity.
Their school lunch room is one
of the finest. It is furnished
with all modern equipment and
is serving meals regularily to the
approximately 454 children. 390
in the elementary grades and 64
in High School.
The school at New Salem
though not completed has been
equipped with gas heat, electric¬
ity and running water. This
school also has their lunch room
equipment and the work on the
room is almost completed. There
are 118 children enrolled in this
school.
We have had three of our six
schools burn down with every¬
thing lost and we have suffered
by the teacher shortage, which
is still critical, but progress has
been made.
A visit to your school might
enlighten you. Supt. Allison in¬
forms us that parents are al¬
ways welcome as is constructive
criticism.
Green tomatoes combined with
them carefully to conform with
sweet peppers form the basis for
a variety of pickles and relishes.
Washingette To Open
In Trenton Nov. 20
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Whittle,
who are well known throughout
the county as the representatives
of the Home Supply Company
are going to open on November
20th a Washingnette. This is
a unique kind of laundry service
which has come into being since
the recent war. It is a place
full of washing machines where
you can bring your clothes, wash,
rinse and dry them and take
them home to iron when you
have the time.
Mr. and Mrs. Whittle plan to
begin with eight or ten laundry-
alls and a dryer. A laundryall
is a washing machine where you
put in ten pounds of clothing
and it washes, rinses and damp
dries them before you again
touch the clothes.
This Washingnette will be lo¬
cated in the wooden building
back of I. O. Wheeler’s store in
Trenton. This kind of business
fulfills a long felt need in the
county and we predict success
to Mr. and Mrs. Whittle.
TRENTON GARDEN CLUB
The Garden Club of Trenton
met Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. A. L. Dyer.
Mr. S. G. Chandler of the State
Department of Conservation
gave a very instructive and in¬
teresting talk on conservation
illustrated by colored slides. The
speaker was introduced by Mrs.
F. N. Belk, program chairman,
who also presented Miss Roselyn
Dyer in two clairnet numbers,
accompanied by Miss Kathleen
Morrison at the piano. Mrs. T.
N. Orr gave highlights from the
Bulletin. Mrs. L. M. Allison read
the poem “My Neighbor’s Rose.”
Mrs. E. L. Raulston presided
at the business meeting.
Mrs. E. G. Wright gave the
report of the monthly flower
show.
Mrs. W. H. Brock, who with
Mr. Brqck was leaving in a few
days to spend the winter in Cali¬
fornia brought a large quanity
of Varigated Wandering Jew for
all who Wanted it- Mrs. Dyer
also have plants for indoor gar¬
dens.
Twenty eight members and two
visitors were present.
Mrs. Jules Case was added to
the roll.
Mrs. Dyer was assisted in en¬
tertaining by her co-hostesses
Mesdames A. S. Dies, M. G. Bice,
John T. Reeves and John Hinton.
The December meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Fred
Morgan.
Published Weekly—Since 1901.
NUMBER 44.
Recent Improvements
In New Salem Section
Last January the New Salem
Community organized its self
and entered the Chattanooga
Metropolitian Area Improvement
contest and the wonders done
by these 53 families is astonish¬
ing.
Since the Clubs organization
a 4-H Club and a Home Demon¬
stration Club have been organiz¬
ed and plans are being made
to organize a P. T. A. Library
service is‘available through the
Bookmobile. The Club is still
working to secure electricity for
their community.
As practically all community
meetings are held in their church
and as it is the center of the
community activity it was nat-
uarl that the principle project
was the development and beaut i-
fieation of the church and its
grounds. The services of a
landscape architect were secured
and considerable work has been
done in carrying out these plans,
land has been graded and sur¬
plus trees have been, removed.
It is of interest to note here
that there are 92 people attend¬
ing church regularily and 93 at¬
tending Sunday School.
The community has been or¬
ganized in cooperation with the
TV A and Georgia Agriculture
Extension Service as a Commun¬
ity Demonstration to test phos¬
phate and other fertilizer mater¬
ials. Interest has been created
from observation of these farms
in better farm practices and bet¬
ter type of livestock by a sound
system of planning. So far 26
farm plans have been developed.
95%■ of the farms take part in
the AAA program.
Twelve new homes have been
built and five remedied* and
plans made for more when
materials and labor are avail¬
able. Barns and other outside
buildings have been erected.
Lawns have been planted and
shrubs sdt out at many homes.
Running water has been install¬
ed in many homes and bath¬
rooms added. The convenience
and attractiveness of kitchens
have been improved. Many new
screens have been added or re¬
paired. These are just some
highlights of the many more im¬
provements.
The Home Food supply has not
been neglected- Beef and hogs
have been raised, killed, canned
and stored. Families are raising
adequate feed so that hens are
in production all during the year.
Varieties of fresh fruits and vege¬
tables are raised, canned or dried
to meet the nutritional requests
of the family. Many have hives
of bees.
Nor has the health of the com¬
munity been overlooked. 95%
to 98% of all the infants, pre-
scool and school age children
have received diphtheria, typh¬
oid and small pox vaccines and
several children have had the
whooping cough shots. The
Public Health Nurse has attend¬
ed one of the community meet¬
ings to discuss health problems
and future health plans.
This community -is really ac¬
complishing things. Much hard
work has gone into these im¬
provements. Cleanup cam¬
paigns of yards and roads as
well as the beautification of the
buildings and homes in the area.
T® Mr. W. T. McCauley as Presi¬
dent and Mrs John McGuffey
as Secretary of this organization
who kept pushing to get these
improvements, much credit is
due
AVANS HOME NURSING
CLASS GRADUATES
This class of Red Cross Home
Nursing has been taught by Miss
Helen Self, Red Cross Nurse, to
the ladies of the Avans district.
The twelve ladies wTio have
completed this course and will
receive certificates are:
Mrs. Sadie Kirtland, Mrs. Ma¬
ry Talley, Mrs. Euna Avans, Mrs.
Essie Gass, Mrs- Burma Buch¬
anan, Mrs. Alma Bodenhamer,
Mrs. Lillie Hardeman, Mrs. Flor¬
ence Bodenhamer, Mrs. Opal
Powell, Mrs. Ira Hughes, Mrs.
Clarcy Smith and Mrs. Una Belle
Stone.