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VOLUME LI
DALLYIN’ IN DADE
By Myrna R. McMahan
This Week’s Personality
... is David Thomas Brown,
New England lumberman
livestock trader. He was born in
Hamilton County, Tennessee in
1838, one of three boys and two
sisters. All his education was
received in Tennessee schools,
for after his parents moved to
New England in 1900, he at¬
tended high school in Nash¬
ville, playing football as tackle
and graduating in 1903.
His first job was picking
strawberries and the first mo¬
ney he ever earned was a
quarter for a whole day’s pick¬
ing.
Following his graduation, he
spent some time at home, then
went to Birmingham, where he
was employed by the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railway Co. Af¬
ter three years, he returned to
Dade and married Mi's Bertha
Alpha Street, of New England,
in 1903. They have become the
parents of six fine children
since.
Mr. Brown's Initiation into
the sawmill business came in
1910 when he bought some
chinery and a little timber to
s~w up at his present location.
Te now manufactures pine and
oak lumber which is shipped all
over the country. Sixty-five
men are employed at the saw
mill. He has perhaps the oldest
payroll in the county, dating
from 1910.
He is a tree farmer in one
respect; he cuts timber by For¬
estry Service rules, never cut¬
ting anything under six inches.
At present, he has about 15,000
acres of timber which have
been cut over, with new timber
growing up.
Mr. Brown estimates that-he
has spent half his life as a mule
and cattle trader, having a
great interest in livestock since
his early youth. He has built a
few Herefords into a sizable
herd which grazes on his rol¬
ling green acres around New
England. He recalls the time
when Texas fever was so pre¬
dominant among livestock in
Dade County that all animals
had to be dipped every few
months. Traders were not per¬
mitted to sell cattle from Geor¬
gia in either Tennessee or Ala¬
bama, so he shipped out car¬
loads of cattle to other states
for immediate slaughter.
Mr. Brown’s sons operated the
Brown Bros. Grocery until 1942,
when they were called into ser¬
vice, so he bought it and has
operated it ever since. A year
or two ago, he remodeled the
service station at Brown’s Mo¬
tor Court into a grocery and
commissary and moved his line
of business across the hill to
the new location,
Besides his home and
the three main interests in
life are farming, livestock
timber. He is a successful
berman and cattleman
owns a few farms, so
businesses keep him
busy. Uppermost in his mind
the welfare of the younger
eration in the county and
development of Dade’s
and livestock. When he
find the time, he listens to
games over the radio and
he has generously donated the
use of one of his fields as
football playing field for the
Dade High Wildcats, he takes
in their games 'forty* when possible. TgoT'Mr.
About years
Brown became interested in
utilizing lands around New
England which belonged to
people who had moved away, so
he has gradually come into pos¬
session of these tracts and built
up the land with cover crops.
Two-thirds of the town of New
England (which was really a
town generations ago, being
laid out with streets, a bank
and a hotel) is now under the
ownership of Mr. Brown.
Don’t forget that each voter
who will cast his ballot Decem¬
ber 4th for Mayor of Trenton
must be registered. The Record¬
er’s books will be open for 30
days prior to the election and
will be closed five days before.
Devoted to the Best Interests o r Dade County and Georgia.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1951
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for all parents and patrons
of schools to accept this invi-
* The theme "Unite For
Freedom ” should serve well to
call our attention to the
tanee of American education
and to pass critical judgment
the needs of the American
public school.
American- Education Week is
observed this week in Novemberj
btghinmg with Armistice
All the public schools in Dade
County will open their doors to
the public.
The theme of American Edu¬ I
cation Week is “Unite For
Freedom.” American education
has a decisive role to play in
helping our country to hold the'
line of freedom. In the days 1
ahead the schools will be called i ;
upon to carry heavy emergency
loads as well as take care of the
instruction of the largest en¬
rollment in history.
Schools are an integral part
of the civil defense program.
Education is indispensable in
building the military might of j
our nation. It is also one of our
attLJTXlogiefthaJ’louM
destroy the very foundations of
our republic.
Efficient sch:ols directed by
qualified professional person¬
nel, housed in adequate build¬
ings, and provided with the ne-
cessar _____^ y teaching ........, o tools _____ for ... a _
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modern program are imper-
atives in building national unity I
and strength. To serve our
tion and the cause of freedom j
effectively, schools should be
provided with the materials,
manpower, and financial re-
sources needed to meet their
huge responsibilities.
Each school will be prepared
to present its program to the
public during American Educa¬
tion Week. It would be profit-
C. 0. Giles Injured
Mr. C. O. Giles, of North Tren¬
ton, was injured last Friday
evening when his jeep and a
car driven driven by by Miss Miss Betty Betty
Cochran, of Tiftonia, collided as
he turned out onto the high
way from his home.
Cecil Christopher, who was
taking his sister, Imogene, to
the hospital from the train-car
collision in Trenton, passed at |
that time, and as Miss
Cochran’s car hit the jeep, it
swerved to hit the Christopher’s
car. Damage to the three vehi-
cles is unknown, but Mr. Giles
is in a Chattanooga hospital in
a serious condition. He received
face and head injuries.
Miss Cochran showed no
signs of injury when she ap¬
peared in Ordinary Peck’s of¬
fice the next morning. Appar¬
ently, Christopher was unhurt
and his sister received no fur¬
ther injury.
Two Dade Boys
For Induction
Two more Dade County
left Monday for induction
the service. They are Dana
ra ^ d Samples and William
! McBryar.
School Sumy
To Secure Building
From the State Superintendent of Schools comes word
a survey of the schools of each county must be made to
the money for building purposes. This is being done in each
ty j n the s tate.
™ s surve! ' lnclulies an lnspectlon sch0 »' J> lants -
. buildings and grounds, in
order that the condition of these will be serving
each may be noted and a blue- P & y-
print like plan made of each Standing Committees
school. The school population Steering Committee M.
trends of the county is to be Ba * e> Chairman, Mrs. J.
gotten. This means finding out Fr * cks > F. H. Cagle,
for the past years, now, an d Gray, Program and A^ Committee—Mrs. L. Dyer,
estimating for the years to L Fricks Chairman,
the number of children - ’
attending at each school. This Nora Pickett and Fannielu
can be done by finding out how, Whort ' er - Mesdames Inez
much the increase has been mons - Lorene Blake,
during the years and by pre Fricks, Mary Townsend,
school children still in the 1 ^°“ re ’ Terrance Moore
homes how much the class rolls Lyman la>loi.
will increase in the future. i Population Committee -
Superintendent Roy W. Moore H. Cagle, Chairman,
called meeting of citizens w c Cureton , Henry
a Dewey Bradford> H omer
from all over the county to Asa L McMa han, Madge Ba
come to his office Monday night j ard> Gertrude Wallen,
to discuss plans of how Dade Holtzhower and Nae
should complete its survey. He Misses Bess cureton and
read from other counties’ re- Cole. Ray Smith, Grady
cently completed surveys to Kaig> char i es T Sims,
.
give the group some idea of B i eV j nSi Asa L. McMahan,
what what is is expected. expected. McBryar, Fred A. Morgan,
A Steering Committee, which ter Everett, Fred Gass,
is composed of a chairman and carter, Wayne Leverett, J.
the chairman of four commit- Crawford, W. T. Mull and H.
tees was named. Supt. Moore Beckham,
named Mr. M. J. Hale as chair- plants Committee —
man of this Steering Commit- Gray, Chairman, Bill
tee and Mrs. J. L. Fricks Chair- Dewey Bradford, D. E.
man of the Program Commit- son, W. C. France, Dewey
tee, Visiting Teacher, Mr. Firm Terrance Moore, Doc
H. Cagle, Chairman of the Po- j r i. h. Wheeler Jr., I.
.,
pulation Committee, Mr. Char- wheeler Jr., Murphy Burrell,
Gray, Chairman of the x B rown, W. L. Fannin, V.
Flants Committee, and Mr. A. L! Castleberry, Monroe
Dyer, Chairman of the Finance Newell Ellis.
Committee. The completed re- Finance Committee — A.
ports are to be turned in by No- Dyer, Chairman, J. L. Fricks,
vember 26. j A case, George A. Carroll,
.
Fr:m the forty present came Raymond Townsend, R. C.
suggestions ““ of people to serve mas, Lyman Taylor, Henry
f the . various committees. The liott, Grady Rrarlfrrri Bradf. ’ w ' T ’
principals ---*-* of the schools —*- —-----— will Cauley and — 1 Mrs.
assist each committee. All of Morrtoon.
Published Weekly—Since 1901
Train-Car Collision Kills 2
Four Others Injured Friday
About nine-thirty last Friday evening, a collision between a
north-bound train and a car driven by Johnny Bice, 16, of Gilber-
town, Ala., proved fatal for Franklin D. (Dick) McMahan, 17, of
New England and Bobbie Jean Daniel, 14, of Trenton. The acci¬
dent occurred on a crossing east of the Trenton square as the
snow
finite report as to the cause
the accident has been
Others in the car were
|gene Christopher, 15, Betty
rows, 15, and Meredith
16, of Trenton. The
girl was taken to the
by her brother, Cecil, and
treated for a brain
and a severe forehead cut.
were involved in another
| before reaching the
She is recovering
Miss Burrows received
I to both- legs, jaw and face,
| was reported to have
thrown from the car. The
girl was slightly hurt and
not taken to the hospital.
a former Trenton resident,
caped with a back injury.
The group was en route
from a movie and were
in the direction of the
girl’s home.
The dead received head
juries, believed to be skull
tures, with Bobbie Jean
ing a broken leg. Dick was
lieved to have been injured
ternally. Both were riding in
back seat.
Young McMahan died
10:20 at Erlanger, a few
nutes after he was brought
with Miss Daniel succumbing
2 p. m. He never regained
ciousness. He was an
of Happy Valley Farms. He
survived by his parents,
and Mrs. George McMahan,
i Fnglnrtih at*
Roy, Herman, Douglas,
Carl and George, Jr., five
ters, Mrs. Estella Simmons,
ing Fawn, Mrs. Juanella
ler, Marie, Pauline, and
Ann; maternal
Tom Shawich, of
Springs, and paternal
father, George C. McMahan,
Rising Fawn. The fuheral
held Sunday at the
Fawn Baptist Church with
Revs. T. C. Nelson and
Baker officiating.
were Frank Woodyard,
Dean, Mickey Bobo, A. C.
and interment was
Hannah^Cemetery. Miss Daniel Girl
was a
member of the 4-H Club and
I where she was a member of
basketball team, Survivors
4-H LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
The dreams and the efforts of the 2,000,000 and more people 4-H
members will make tomorrow’s world better. These young in
the painting for the 1952 National 4-H Calendar symbolize the rlub
members who celebrate the fulfillment of their year’s project work
during National 4-H Club Achievement Week November 3-11.
4-Ii ACHIEVEMENT WEEK—November 3 - 11 is National
4-H Club Achievement Week. Today 4-11 makes up the largest
organized group of rural young people in the world. Enrollment
is «s over over 2,000,000. 2,000,000. These These boys boys and and girls, girls, along along with wttn 275,000 adult aaun
leaders, wil observe Achievement Week with banquets, exhibits
and During the — Week - they - will ..... take stock of thir ---- 1951
tours.
accomplishment;!.
NUMBER 44
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ro¬
bert Daniel, Trenton, sister,
Miss Patricia Ann Daniel,
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Cade Sullivan, Trenton.
Her uncle, Sgt. Raymond E.
Sullivan, of Fort Hood, Texas,
arrived too late to attend the
funeral.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at the Trenton Church
of God, with the Rev. Pearl
Tinker officiating. Pallbearers
were classmates of Miss Daniel,
while interment was in the
Brown’s Gap cemetery.
FIRST SNOW
FALLS FRIDAY
The rain Friday night turned
, to snow about seven o’clock,
surprising- the south Dade resi-
dents with its large flakes. It
lay for a time in the valley, but
the next morning the moun¬
tains around Mentone were
beautiful.
Some of the football fans en
route to Atlanta report that
patches of snow still cculd be
seen in the valley on the other
side of the mountain.
The weatherman had warned
that a freeze would hit that
night and he wasn’t wrong.
Such occurances as a “busted”
combine motor, valued at about
$600, substantiate this fact.
Saturday Dade shoppers cer-
ta-inly gaw t-h.; sweater and
coat counters a going-over,
which was a practical thing to
do—if you don’t have enough
warm clothing, you’d better get
it, for we are in for visits from
Jack Frost from now on.
SENIOR 4-H OFFICERS
ELECTED RECENTLY
At a recent meeting of the Ris¬
ing Fawn Sr. 4-H Club, the fol¬
lowing officers were elected to
serve for the coming 4-H year:
President, Bessie Steele; Girls’
Vice-President, Kathryn Fricks;
Beys, Vice-President, Don Ke-
nimer; Secretary, Sue Riddle;
Treasurer, Ray Bobo; Reporter,
Peggy Renfroe, and Recreation
Chairman, Kakie Fricks.
Club plans will be announced
later.