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Dade County's Only Newspaper.
VOLUME XLVIII.
Food Supply and
Home Improvement
According to the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics the re¬
tail price index for all food pur¬
chased by farm families from
September 1946 to September
1947 increased ,?4%. The largest
percentage increase reported for
individual food items were; Slic¬
ed bacon, 72%; pork loin, 60% ;
round steak 50%. The prices
cf poultry and eggs for the first
half of 1948 are expected to be
at least high as they were last
year. Those who have bought
these items lately realize the
prices still remain high.
Why should these figures be of
importance to the farm families
of Dade County? Farm families
that need to buy a big part of
their food supply spend this part
of their income that could be
used for farm and home Im¬
provement and other items that
make farm life more pleasant.
Realizing this the people of
Dade County have started mak¬
ing improved plans for the pro¬
duction of more and better foods
through their community plann¬
ing programs and Home Demon¬
stration Clubs. Most of the
Home Demonstration Clubs or¬
ganized have been planning their
gardening program to include
three new vegetables they have
never grown before, setting up a
canning budget to meet the fam¬
ilies need for better nutrition and
some are planning and including
lean meat in the nutritional plan
by saving a beef. We would like
to hear more of these plans for
a beef either canned or frozen.
The County has a community
cannery that can be used by any
farm, family in the county for
preservation of both meats and
vegetables. Come on, families,
let’s plan in 1948 to use it to
Viter advantage.
In the New Salem community
one hears plans of a few extra
rows of vegetables planted in
many gardens and preserved for
use in the school lunch room.
This plan should not only save
money on food but also improve
the diets of the school children.
Yes, homemakers in the coun¬
ty are smart for they realize
better nutrition means better
health and better health means
happier and more contented and
prosperous citizens.
From the farmers’ side of the
picture he can take these figures
on food trends and predictions
and use them to advantage bv
working out his farm plans to
include these items above the
families need, for marketing.
Even a few dozen eggs a week,
a few extra pounds of butter or
a beef or pork sold during the
year can add much toward feet-
ing incidental expenses of any
farm family. Maybe to pay the
light bill, buy the children a new
pair of shoes, or those food items
it is impossible to raise on the
farm.
All this talk of increased and
improved food supplies goes back
to the source of supply, the farm
land. Every farmer knows poor
land, producing a minimum a-
mount of food and feed does not
support a prosperous food and
livestock program. The farmer
that needs to buy most of the
feed to feed a flock of chickens,
fatten a beef or pork is losing
most of his profit. Improved
soil supports improved homes
and more modern equipment
W'hich makes farm life easier
and happier.
Much has already been done
toward improving the farm and
homes through the Community
Improvement projects carried on
by Davis and New Salem Com¬
munities and other communi¬
ties report similar improvement
eevn though they entered no
Community Improvement Con¬
test.
Enthusiasm seems to run high
this year for more of these im¬
provements as showm by the
plans of the Community and
County Agricultural program set
un by representatives from dif¬
ferent communities. These plans
include ’•pcommendations for
improved health through sani¬
tation by stressing the value of
screening houses, installing san-
itrv privies, correct lighting and
imorovpd water supplies.
As the homemakers spend'
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948.
Registration Books To
Close February 14
Home Orchard Speci¬
alist To Visit Dade
County
Mr. George H. Firor, Extension
Horticulturist from Athens, will
be in Dade County, February 17-
18-19. Mr. Firor will be available
for assistance with orchard man¬
agement and will be glad to dis¬
cuss such problems as pruning
spraying and general care of
home orchards.
A meeting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Logan on Lookout
Mountain has been arranged for
Tuesday afternoon, February 17
at 1:30. If the weather permits
a demonstration will be given in
the field on pruning and spray¬
ing of fruit trees. The Home
Demonstration Club will attend
this meeting as their regular
monthly meeting. This same
type of demonstration will be
given Thursday morning, Feb.,
19, at 9, o’clock at the Dorsey
Smith farm on Sand Mountain.
The Avans Home Demonstration
Club will be expected to attend
this meeting as regular club
meeting of February. There will
also be a community meeting
Wednesday night, February 18th
a:t the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Cicero Forester in Cloverdale
community, at 7 o’clock. The
Home Demonstration Club of this
community will be expecetd to
attend this meeting as their re¬
gular monthly meeting. At this
meeting the orchard specialist
will discuss home orchard prob¬
lems. Mr. Firor will also meet
with the Home Demonstration
Club of Morganville community
at the home of Mrs. M. E. Patter¬
son on Wednesday after, Feb., 18,
at 2 o’clock. The meetings at
New Salem, Morganville, Clover-
dale and Davis will take place
of regular Home Demonstration
Club meetings for February.
Farm people from o*her sec¬
tions of the county are cordially
invited to attend any or all of
these meetings. Home orchards
can play a very important part
in the food production program
as recommended by the county
agricultural program committee.
Twenty-Three
For Dade Primary
Last Thursday before twelve
noon twenty-three candi¬
had filed with Secretary
P. Cole of the Democratic
Committee, the neces¬
statement, 21 had paid their
and a candidate for coroner
county surveyor had paid
$2,50 a piece.
* Those who qualified are:
For Ordinary
C. W. Hitt
John Murphy.
A. W. Peck
County Treasurer
Milton Case
Virgil Jenkins
Fred A. Morgan.
Tax Commissioner
Mrs. W. F. Morrison
J. Z. Bobo.
Max Page
County School Superintendent
L. M. Allison.
Roy Moore
For Clerk Superior Court
Graham Hale.
Farrell W. Bradford
For Sheriff
J. H. Baty
M. E. (Jack) Ford
F. C. Graham.
J. W. (Bill) Lynch
For State Representative
Maddox J. Hale.
William J. Pike
For State Senator
Rufus w. Massey.
Woodrow W. Gross
For Coroner
Charles T. (Tommy) Sims.
County Surveyor
W. P. Cole
Sheep grazing on winter pasture belonging to Mr. H. D. Smith,
Big Oak Farm, Slygio
more tme in the kitchen than
any other part of the house they
are interested in improved kitch¬
ens through rearranging, to
save steps, labor saving devices
and improving their attractive-
ness.
The Home Demonstration
Clubs plan to promote these
kitchen improvements through
contests and demonstrations on
kitchen planning.
Realizing the success and pros 1
-
perity of a community is judged
by its homes the County Agri-
cultural Program set up goals
for outside improvement such
as cleaning premises, whitewash-
ing or painting houses and out-
houses, cutting weeds and clean-
ing out fence rows and corners.
Yard improvement adds much
to the appearance of a home.
With the abundant supply of
native shrubs and flowers to" be
had in Dade County every farm
home could be made more at-
tractive by their use. Mrs. Art
Moore’s yard in the New Salem
Cnmrminitv n prind cYnmnlp of
what can be done with these
naUve shrubs.
Several interesting reports
have been received from indi-
viduals in the county on plans
and progress being made in dif-
ferent communities and we wish
there had been more of these but
time limits and bad weather
prevented our contacting all
Deadline Has
Set For Kitchen
1 Otlfpcf
Farm women are interested in
part in Georgia 1948 kit-
improvement contest must
thelr entries in by March 1.
E ff ies f ° r the ^ 48 contes *
be de th ™f h your local
demonstration agent,
wi 1 be scored immedi-
after March lat entry d f d '
and contestants may have
September 1st to complete
Final scoring of
w11 be made between
1st and 15th.
The contest will be under the
of Miss Willie Vie
home improvement speci-
for the Georgia Agricultural
Service, and your
Home Demonstration
Georgia Power Company
of the contest announced |
each six district winners in
state will receive an electric
electric water heater,
range or automatic
washer. ,
Community Club efforts and
also will be rewarded,
to get more of these
as appear In this section.
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
iRegistration Books
Close February 14
The Registeration Books at the
Tax Commisioner’s office will be
closed after Saturday February
14. To be able to vote in the
coming Democratic Primary you
must be registered on these
books.
In spite of the bad weather and
bad roads there have been ap¬
proximately 600 new register-
ations recently with more coming
in each day. Mrs. Morrison
estimates that when the books
close this Saturday there may be
from the different districts ap¬
proximately 200 registered from
Sulphur Springs, 200 from Byrd’s
Chapel, 350 from Rising Fawn
500 from Trenton, 350 from New
England, 400 from Wildwood, 100
from Slygo, 100 from Hooker,
800 from Cole City and 200 fron
New Salem.
March Of Dimes Drive
Reported Sussessful
The March of Dimes campaign
is now over. There were many
things which worked against us
in this campaign, the worst of
which was the spell of extreme¬
ly bad weather. However, the
collection in Dade was
to the usual collection, and I
can report that the total collec¬
tions in our county was $206.31
The number of persons who par-
ticapated was large and a lis
will not be published. $86.47 of
the amount collected was con¬
tributed through the school chil¬
dren of the county by the use of
the March of Dimes coin cards
$89.84 was collected through the
use of the coin boxes which were
distributed throughout the coun¬
ty at the various business places,
and $27.00 came through person¬
al donations by individuals di¬
rect. On behalf of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paral¬
ysis I wish to thank all who par¬
ticipated in this campaign, and
especially wish to thank the
School Teachers and the School
Children of the county, as well
as the merchants and other bus¬
iness men for their cooperation.
Maddox Hale,
Campaign Chairman.
Lions Club Has Inter¬
esting Meeting
The regular meeting of the
Lions Club was held at the Home
Building in Trenton
Tuesday night. The members
guests present were served
a very sumptuous meal by
Geneva Allison and mem¬
of her Home Economics
During the business ses¬
of the meeting the matter
the efforts of members of the
Legion to complete the
of their bilding was dis¬
and the Club voted to
to that worthy cause the
of $100. Individual mem¬
of the Club have helped in
work already and will prob¬
help more before the job is
It was the unanimous
community doing the most
work in the contest
receive an electric roaster
the county council with the
percentage of its club
participating will re-
a one and one-half gallon
maker and an electric
Remember the deadline for
the contest and if you
interested contact your home
agent.
Pattie L. Boswell
Home Demonstration Agent
Notice To the Voters
Of Dade County
The law requires the Board of
Registrars to certify to the vot-
er’s list at least ten days prior
to the date of the Primary Elec¬
tion which is to be held on March
6 . A good deal of work is re¬
quired to get these lists in shape
after the voter’s books are closed
and prior to the certificate of the
Board. After consulting with
members of the Board of Regis¬
trars it has been determined that
it will be necessary to close the
voter’s books after Saturday,
February 14, 1948. Any and all
persons who wish to register and
vote in the coming primary elec¬
tion, please do, at the Tax Com¬
missioner’s office on or before
February 14. if there is any
question about whether you are
registered or not you should
check to be sure. If you have
moved out of one Militia District
and into another during the past
two years you should check to
see that your registration is in
the proper district. In order to
vote in the Primary you hav
to vote in the district in which
you are registered and this
should be the district in which
you live. There is no poll tax to
be paid. All you have to do is
to Register in the proper dis¬
trict, and then vote in that dis-
Mrs. W. F. Morrison,
Tax Commissioner.
Salem Again j
In Times’
Subscription Drive
In spite of our continued bad
the 4-H Clubs brought
thirteen subscriptions this
The drive closes this week
the winners will be an¬
next week. Unless the
and Dade High Clubs turn
a lot all at once, it’s going
be a close race between the
Salem and Rising Fawn
This week Gwene McKaig from
New Salem Club is leading
six subscriptions. Through
efforts The Times will go to:
Rountree, S 2/c Richard
Mrs. Eleanor B. Davis,
Lula Bradford, S. R. Tim¬
and Porter Everett.
Lacy Neal has turned in two
Seems like this is about
subscriptions from this bud¬
young salesman. W. P.
and Herschel Neal will re¬
The Times through his ef¬
The Rising Fawn subscriptions
from Louise Hawkins who
in Mrs. W. A. Hawkins;
Kathleen Morgan w
us Mrs. K. L. Criswell and [
Edwin Hall comes Mrs. W.
Konrad.
From the Dade High Club
Williams sends us W. L.l
and Marion Blevins i
in Mrs. M. M. Blevins.
of those present that the
which the American Legion
undertaking is a worthy one.
one which deserves the help ,
help—of the citizens of
community whether they are
of the Legion or not.
After the business session a
inspiring talk was given by
Charles J. Costner, a new¬
to our county. Dr. Costner
planning a new theatre for
as well as having open¬
a coal yard here, and it was
from his talk that he is
man who is looking forward
a bright future for this terri-
and that he is willing to do
part to bring such a future
Published Weekly—Since 1901 .
Trenton Garden
Twentieth
Meeting Saturday
-
The Garden Club of Trenton
held its twentieth anniversary
meeting at the home of Mrs.
G. Morrison on Thursday, Feb.
Mesdames J. G. Nethery, D. E.
Morrison and R. M. Morrison
were associate hostesses.
E. L. Raulston, our president pre-
sided at the brief business
ssion. The following officers
were elected for the coming
year: Mrs. J. G. Nethery
dent; Mrs. A. L. Dyer,
president; Mrs. R. M. Morrison,
Mrs. G. C.
treasurer. Mrs. H. J. Allison
as chairman of the nom¬
committee.
As Mrs. F. N. Belk read the roll
of charter members and past
each one was present-
with a lovely corsage by Mrs.
Williams. As the mem-!
roll was read, Mrs. S. l
placed a white carnation
a vase as each name was call¬
and in a few well chosen
gave a resume of what the
Club has meant to her
the years. Greetings,
and items former! of.
news, sent by
were read as the roll
called by Mrs. W. W. Daniel.!
especially interestnig bit of j
was sent by Mrs. B. W.
who told of her mother;
an early meeting of
Garden Club of Trenton up-
her return to Arkansas, she
a Garden Club in her
community. This club re-
celebrated its nineteenth
anniversary.
A history of the Garden Club
was assembled by the charter
members, Mesdames J. G. Neth-
0 T !
Ellis and G. C. Tatum. Mes-
E. M. Parker, T. N.
and L. M. Allison assisted in giv-
the history in the absence
Ellis, Hale and
At the close of the meeting,
E. L. Raulston read an ar¬
“The minutes of the anni¬
meeting of the Garden
of Trenton, Feb., 1968”—a
and idyllic prophesy
the future years of the club
setting goals, well worth try¬
to achieve.
Mrs. W. G. Morrison was unan¬
voted an honorary life
in appreciation of her
ready hospitality and faith¬
work during the years.
Delicious refreshments were
in the dining room, where
large birthday cake bearing
candles formed the center-
on the table. Mrs. Doug¬
Morrison poured coffee.
Members and guest numbered
Legion Notes
The Legion Hall has a beautiful
ceiling with beams and new
ann elleci walls. The electric
are being installed. A nice
Hall until you look down
the floor or out in the kitchen,
Many man hours have gone
n to this work and many more
be needed. If you can’t give
day’s work yourself, send some-
to work for you or give a
pay to help pay someone to
in your place. More work-
wd l be needed.
There is not enough money in
Legion treasury to buy the
The building commit¬
is soliciting help, lumber or
with which to buy the
The names of those and
they gave will be published
week in The Times
Let’s get this job finished while
at it. Join us at the Legion
each day and help with the
send a man to replace you
give the money to pay a man
help the Building Commit¬
in their eforts to raise money
the flooring
E. 0. Sims Appointed
Trenton Station Master
E. O. Sims has been appointed
permanent Station Master for
I re ai . nton 10ad ’ Agent A ent for the Southern
> £ for the Railway
_
ess and Mana S er of the
es ern Union office - Mr. Sims
nas been with the Southern Rail-
, Ioad since 1913 serving
most of
ls time in Alabama. He comes
0 us ^ om Chattanooga office,
^ r - was born and raised
in Chilton County, Ala. He is
1Tiair ted and has three children,
,
wo w hom are. married, and_,
Joy ’ who lives at home. At th&.
!present he M. commuting from,
ba1 ttanooga, but hopes he soon
v hi be able to find some place
to live in Trenton.
“I am very happy to be here,”
Mr. Sims said, “and any time I
can serve you 1 sha11 be very S Iad
do so - - Ue w iU-. be glad to.
RdP with such things as gched-
ldes and Pullman reservations,
* s at the depot each week day
f rom 3:99 A. M. to 5.00 P. M
CHURCH SERVICES
TRENTON BAPTIST CHURCH
Rey. Wash' Phillips, Pastor
Sunday School, 10 A. M.
Preaching, pjay£®meetin& n . Al J*.
Wednesday at
7 p m. '
Choir Practice Friday 7 P- M.
NEW SALEM METHODIST
Sunday School 10 A. M.
Preaching 11 A. M.
Epworth League, 6:00 P. M.
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NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST
John North, Pastor .
Sunday School 10:00 C. 8 . T.
Services each. Sunday at 11:00
Bwtday night B. T. U, at -6:00,
services at 7:00.
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EAST VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH
j v R{ehards; Pastor
Sunday 7 School, 10:30 A- M.—
E. W. Conkle, Superintendent.
Preaching, 11 A.'M.
Preaching, 7 P. M.
A.
PINEY GROVE BAPTIST
Rev. Pearl Tinker, pastor
Sunday Sqhool 10 A, M.
Superintendant, J. H. Tinker
Preachng 11 A. M. and 7 P. M.
Prayer Service Wednesday 7 P. M.
Everybody welcome"
CHURCH OF GOD—TRENTON
Rev. Roy Masseilgale, Pastor
Sunday School, 10 A. M.
Preaching 11 A. M.
Virgil Daniel, Superintendent.
Bible Class Teacher, Rev-. E.
S. Buchanan.
Services Friday, 7 P. M.
DEER HEAD COVE BAPTIST
Rev. .Dewey Dodd, Pastor
Sunday School, 10 A, M- N. R.-,
Plovins, Superintendent, .
Preaching, 11 A. M.
RISING FAWN BAPTIST
Rev. J. T. Bradley, Pastor
Sunday School, 10 A. M.
Preaching li A. M.
B. T. U. 6 P. M.
Preaching 7 P. M.
WOODLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. R. L. Howell, Pastor
Services at 11 A. M- and 8 P. M.
Sunday School 10 A. M.
Winfred Hartline, Supt.
Training Union, 6 P. M.
Henry Elliot, Director.
TRENTON CHURCH OF CHRIST
Sunday School, 10 A. M.
‘Preaching, 11 A. M.
Evening Service, 6:30.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday
at &>30.
CLOVERDAL BAPTIST
Rev. Paul Howell, Pastor.
Sunday School, 10 A. M.
Preaching, 11 A. M.
Evening Service,* 6:30 P. M.
Prayer Meeting, Thursday at
P. M.
RISING FAWN METHODIST
Rev. T. N. Orr, Pastor.
Rising Fawn, 11 A. M.
Cave Springs. 6 P. M.
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