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Tubby Case Foils New Two Deputy Accidents Luke Mitchell Reported reported In M:rganville Dade Over and Weekend New
"his week that two auto acci¬ and the other at Piney.
Tears' Robbery Attempt last dent weekend. occured One in Dade was between County either were no acciden't. personal injuries
James ‘Tubby” Case is glad he
decided to work on New Year’s
Eve. broke into
Would be thieves
.he TCtum fc Case store in
Trenton New Year’s Eve, backed
a truck up to the rear entrance
and prepared to carry off some
valuable merchandise. They had
FLASH!
Constable Horace Baty report¬
ed Wednesday morning that two
men, both of Chattanooga, have
been arrested and are being held
ly Chattanooga police in con¬
nection with the attempted rob¬
bery of the Tatum & Case store
New Year’s Eve. One of the men
is colored, Harry Moore. The
other is Edwin Hamill.
Moore is wanted for a number
of charges by Chattanooga police
and will not be brought to Tren¬
ton. Hamill will be jailed in
Trenton pending trial.
The two men were discovered
when Constable Baty and Tubby
Case reported the
truck to the Chattanooga police.
The truck was stolen in Chat¬
tanooga.
broken a window pane and en¬
tered through a window in
rear of ;he store. They carried
a large floor model radio
the floor and were preparing to
! carry it down the steps for load¬
ing into the truck when
‘opened the front door, at
7 P. M.
Tubby reported that he
them scampering out the
when he came in. They
Into the Dodge panel truck
drove off around the corner
the Morrison Hardware
the square. This ended their
truck ride as the 'truck
In o the ditch and hte
thieves made their exit on
The Williams wrecker was
led to pull the tTuck out of
ditch by Constable Horace
As the truck had
t??s, Baty assumed that it
a stolen one.
There were no witnesses
he escape and Tubby Case
unable to get a look at
No merchandise is
Tubby said after a brief
The robbery attempt is
first in Trenton for some
11 ^ unusual in that it
Place so early in the
*hen there was quite a bit
activity around the square
In Wheelers Drug Store
door.
hr. Middleton
ed By Native County
Spencer
Webster [ 1 vT C !Pa ° UrKy f CT
Miss
he P a I>er’ ran a
, cle
‘ on Dr. Middleton
k! h a Picture of the Dade
> iorLS Club presenting
pr °nze plaque for 55 years
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v!w :,^ a han [ ticIe about' b y Mm. Myrna
Dr.
‘ ch appeared in the Dade
l Times last year.
d T Middleton was
: ' e Paper for sending
v- Thood if COmm church, union service to
the
J are 1 ® * a Ptist Church of
" ' a community,
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LETS mMUP AND HO IN 52!
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HIGHLIGHTS OF 1951 IN DADE COUNTY
A Brief Summary of Happenings Last Year
JANUARY
«
Dade County Gym burns.
Farm Planning Committee
sets 1951 goals.
New closets added on stair¬
ways in Court House.
Farm Bureau and Co-op hold
joint all day annual meeting'
4 H’ers receive achievement
medals.
Hospital Authority and Coun¬
ty officials of Dade, Walker and
Cattoosa sign agreement, last
link to starting Tri County
Hospital.
Curtis L. Blgham assumes
duties as Assistant County
Agent.
FEBRUARY
I. o. Wheeler takes over the
Wheeler’s Restaurant from Ter¬
rill Wheeler.
Seventh Dis.rict Press Associ¬
ation entertains 7th District
S.ate Legislators.
County raising money to re¬
build gym.
Cold weather, below zero re¬
ported on mountains.
New England community gets
old school as community house.
Freeze and snow stops busses
for a day.
Many forest fires reported.
i Jurors drawn for March term
of Cloudland „ Superior c ° State ur ^ Park erects
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signs as all Georgia state parks
| receive markers.
Home Demonstration ladies
! attend annual district confer¬
ence.
Food Preservation Clinic.
Court House receives fire ex-
‘ ta f“ 1,ers and Ilre ,l8htln8
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H “ me Dem °" stralton Agent
Highway crew working
on Lookout Mountain Road.
MARCH
Ganaway & Riley Five and
Dime Store opens in Trenton.
Jonquils blooming when freak
snow and freeze leaves county
icy wonderland.
Poultry Clinic.
March term of Superior Court
and first term in newly created
Lookout Judicial Circuit with
newly elected Judge Freeman C.
McClure,
Grand Jury recommends Dr.
D. S. Middleton be reappointed
county physician; Cleron Kyzer
be be armointed appointed on on School Board
and J. E. Strawn, District 1089,
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952.
S. Townsend, 974, Joe Doyle,
W. T. McCauley, 1214, Wal¬
Wilson, 1038 and Hobart Wil¬
1037, be named J. P., N. P.
4-H’ers receive baby chicks.
Sunrise Easter services in
churches throughout
Lookout Mountain road closed
washout.
First meeting of Truck farm¬
to make plans for Co-op
farming.
All U. S. farm agencies co¬
and U. S. Department
Agriculture recommends all
agencies to be in one
if possible.
APRIL
3% State sales tax goes into ef¬
Dade’s baseball season opens.
Special crew works on Look-
:ut Mountain road.
Home Demonstration clubs
Dress Review.
Red Cross Home Nursing class
Dade High School.
Teachers elected for 1951-52
term.
Dade High School and New
Elementary schools tied
91.9% average daily atten¬
for first 7 months cf
Lookout Valley Baptist Sun¬
School Convention held in
Fawn.
Rising Fawn organizes senior
Club.
Tax Equalization Board meets.
Dade County Farmers earn
$32,171.00 in Agriculture Con¬
Program payments.
H. F. Allison named Dade
County’s only Registrar.
MAY
Slygo Improvement Club or¬
ganized.
Scalf district ge s electricity.
Graduation at Dade County
T. R. Tucker receives Farm
Home Administration special
award.
Trenton Furniture and Appli¬
ance Store opens.
Belfrey with electrical chimes
added to Trenton Methodist
Church.
87 children have perfect at¬
tendance in Dade schools.
JUNE
Insect Control Clinic.
Flower Show held by Garden
Club.
Abandoned Truck
Found By Officers
County officers have located
a 1950 Ford truck on
Mountain which was
about 30 yards off a road in
woods. Deputy Luke Mitchell
ports that the motor,
sion and wheels were
and the truck had no
It appears, Mitchell
to have been abandoned
about four or five weeks. County
officers are con acting state
trolmen and police cf
and Tennessee in an effort
determine ownership of
truck.
Davis High Publishes
First School Paper
The first issue of the Davis
High School newspaper came
out December 21. The name of
the paper is The Tattler , with
a motto of Covers Sandy Like
Mountain Dew.
There are 12 pages in the first
issue, printed on yellow and
gray paper. Co-editors of
Tattler are Lillie Mae Manning
and Derval Nixon. The art edi-
tor is freddy Shaw and the
sport editors are Rebecca Gray
and Robert Forester
Henry Elliott is the faculty
adviser.
Otis Foster Retired
R Otis ; R Merritt J ail Foster, £ l ! rk 73, , 3 D died
December 27 in a Veterans Hos-
! pi al in Nashville. He was a
retired Railroad mail clerk and
veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Ccrdia Lee Sitton
Foster; sis er, Miss Delma Fost-
jor of Prattville, Ala.; two
j Cliff Foster, Houston,
Texas, and Malcolm A. Smith,
and a niece, Mrs.
I Robert Morgan, Birmingham.
services were held from
j the Trenton Revs. Allen Me.hodist T. Newby
w jfh
r. q Dye-s officiating.
pallbearers were Dennis
v an, Bill Brown, Newell
j ac k Davis, Louis Sims
Charlie Hixs:n. Honorary
bearers were A. L. Dyer, Dr.
S. Middleton, Jerry Pace,
Ta um, W H. Brock, Louis
Bryar, John Graves, Wiley
Cleron Kyzer, E. A. Ellis, E.
Parker, Col. D. E. Morrison,
G. Morrison, Jr., Fred
Harold Cox, L W. Giles, E.
Raulston, James C. Case,
Snyder, Doc Hixson,
Williams, Buck Gifford,
Tatum, Edwin Wells,
Gray, Tommy Sims,
| Parker, Jules A. Case, John
Clift, Woodrow Tinker,
Gray, and members of the
road Mail Clerks.
was in the Sitton Cemetery.
DADE COUNTY
NURSING CONFERENCE
; The Pabhc Health Nurse
hold a Nursing Conference
the basement of Rising
Methodist w a. Church rav. u Tuesday rr. Tor,
18 at _ 2 P. M.
The service is for
mo hers, infants, and
| These conferences are to
P lace home visitmg '
OPEN HOUSE AT
dYESS HOME
The Rev. and Mrs. R. Q.
will hold open house at the
parsonage of the Trenton
odist Church this Sunday
er no:n from 2 to 5 P. M.
members and friends are
ed.
Contract let to repair Lookout
Mountain Road.
June term of Superior Court
no juries drawn.
Dade plants 67,525 young pine
trees during 1950-51 season.
Trenton Telephone Company
bought by W. R. Tatum from
Mrs J. G. Gray.
JULY
New Salem 4-H Club receives
gift of Registered bull.
Barbecues at New Salem and
Rising Fawn on 4th.
Dade enters Forest Fire
vention Contest.
Health Center approved
Dade.
Slygo Valley starts
1 y Park.
Contract let for
and grading Sand Mountain
Road.
Ray Fischer, first Dade
ty boy to be killed in Korean
action.
AUGUST
Election for Solicitor
in Rome, Macon and
ern Circuits. 74 votes cast
Dade.
Lookout Valley Baptist Asso-
ciation annual meeting at
le.
Workings held at grounds
Dade’s gym.
Farm Bureau holds picnic
picks its Queens.
Jury boxes revised.
First football practice.
Wind and rain storm,
lines down.
Work star ts on
Mountain road.
4-H’ers attend Annual
council meeting.
School s arts August 31.
SEPTEMBER
contest .
Living room won
Mrs. E. G. Wright, Jr.
John L. Case Co. opens „
and improved store.
September term of
Court lasts all week.
Joe Paris first Negro in
County to sit on Traverse
Authority granted for
of Tri-Coun.y hospital
ground breaking
held.
Work on Sand Mountain
starts.
Ray Bobo winner in
Citizenship con test,
state meeeting.
(Coatinued on back page)
Published Weekly — Since 1901
NUMBER 52.
Census Figures Reveal
Dade Farm Progress
Moore Gets 129 Bu.
On Mountain Acre
Terrence H. Moore is the win¬
ner of the contest sponsored by
the Farm Bureau for the most
bushels of corn per acre last
year, county agent L. C. Adams
levealed this week. Moore, whose
farm is on Lookout Mountain,
got 129 bushels. He will be ad¬
mitted to the “100 Bushel" Club
of Georgia later this month.
This accomplishment was out¬
standing particularly in view of
the drought which cut yields
over this part of the country
summer.
Dade Coun'.y has three other
members of the 100 Bushel Club
! basb3 j 4949 yields.
on 0 cr0 p
^ ^ “Sonny” McMahan is the
^leader, getting a yield of 141.3
busbe i s an acre on b i S Rising
p awn f arm that year. Ar*t Moore
cf Lookout Mountain, got 122.9
bushels and Bryon Forester, bushels'
cloverdale> got 115.4
Lyman Taylor, of Sand Moun-
tain, got 101.5 bushels an acre
4949 bu t was no t entered in
^ con t e st and therefore is not
1 member of the club.
a
John Whitt Member of
Pioneer Family Dies
John M. Whitt, 83, died Dec.
31, 1951, at his home in east
Trenton. The Whitts are one of
the old Dade Couny pioneer
families, having settled on land
between the gulch and Lookout
creek. He is survived by his
S i X children, Mrs. J. C. Case,
1 E. Selvey, Trenton; Mrs.
jvirs. R
r B. Smith, Long Island, Ala.;
1 Mrs. W. C. Smith, Ringgold, Ga.
Joe whitt, Decatur, Ala., and
j 0 h n whitt, Jr., Austell, Ga; a
S j S ter, Mrs. Elbe Gifford, New
England; 24 grandchildren and
4 great-grandchildren. Funeral
services were held from his res-
i dence W fth Revs. H. C. Smith
and p ea rl Tinker officiating,
Active pallbearers were J. B.
j Sullivan, J. A. Case, Jim Broom,
Robert Forester, Robert Allison
and j 0 hn Reeves. Honorary
pallbearers were Col. D. E. Mor-
Lewis McBryar, Claude
Sims, Fred Morgan, J. H. Selvey
Dean Jeffrey, Jim Tinker and
|a. whitt c. Killian. Cemetery. Burial was in the
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George Wheeler Dies
( After Short Illness
I George W. Wheeler, 82, of
Piney Community passed away
January 1, 1952. He was born in
|Alabama but had lived in Dade
County for the past 60 years.
f » . black-
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Ruby Daniel, . , Mrs. Gertrude J . . _ Fos-
iter, \ Mrs. Henry Barton all ,, of .
I Trenton and 6 sons, Bill, Fred,
Earl, G. W., Jr., Spencer and
R, B. Wheeler all of Trenton.
Funeral services are Thursday
afternoon, January 3 at 2:30 P.
M. at his residence. Revs. Pearl
Tinker and Grover Long will
conduct the service. Pallbearers
will be Leon Barton, Woodrow
Tinker, Clarence Crabtree, Col.
Douglas Morrison, Raymond
Morrison and Theodore Quinton -
Burial will be in the Trenton
Baptist Cemetery with McBryar
Funeral Home in charge.
More farms is -the current
trend in Dade county, accord¬
ing to the 1950 Census of Ag¬
riculture figures released by the
U. S. Department of Commerce
on Farm, Farm Characteristics,
and Farm Products last fall.
There were 698 farms in Dade
in 1950, compared with 557 in
1945. The number of acres In
farms has increased from 52,-
217 to 65,498. Though the numb¬
er of farms has increased, the
average acreage has remained
about the same, being 93.7 acres
per farm in 1945 and 93.8 acres
in 1950.
The greatest increase In
farms by size has been in those
the 10 to 29 and 30 to 49 acre
The number of farms
from 10 to 29 acres has
from 96 to 165 and
the number which consist of
30 to 49 acres has increas¬
from 108 to 165. Over 47%
the farms in Dade fall into
cf these groups.
The number of large farms
also increased considerably.
1945 there were only nine
having from 220 to 259
In 1950 the number had
to 14. Farms with 260
499 acres increased during
five year period from 21
28. Farms of the 500 to 999
variety grew from nine to
. One farm over 1,000 acres
added since 1945, making
of that size in 1950.
Dade has a land area of 105,-
acres. The area belonging
farms is 62% of that total,
making it an agricultural
The remainder is moun¬
heavily wooded with
and steep areas. However,
large part of the area be¬
to farms is in timber.
Home ownership of.the farms
rapidly increased, which is
healthy sign. In 1950 there
504 full owners of farms
with 374 in 1945. Also
1950 there were 102 part own¬
ers of fagms, compared with
25 five years earlier. There
were only 90i tenant farmers
last year, compared with 158 in
1945.
According to these census fig¬
ures, 576 farms, representing
82.5%, had electricity in 1950,
compared with 111 , represent¬
ing only 20%, in 1945.
The number of farms having
telephones, however, has not
shown enough increase to make
too much difference. Only 32
farms had telephones in 1950,
being only 4.5% of the total
farms. This is, nevertheless, an
improvement over the 14 farms
representing 2.5%- of the total,
which had telephones in 1945.
Other interesting figures are
in the equipment found on Dade
farms in 1950. Ninety-nine had
electric water heaters. Home
freezers were found on 31 farms
and electric washing machines
on 415.
In number of cattle during
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RANGER TOWER PUT
ON SAND MOUNTAIN
A large forest tower, which wil*
rise 100 feet cff the ground, ar¬
rived Wednesday afternoon in
Dade. This tower is being put
up on Sand Mountain between
Magby Gap and Whiteoak Gap,
Ranger J. C. Pace revealed. This
tower, he said, will give the for¬
service a good view into
all of Dade. The
Lookout Tower, on the bluff of
Lookout Mountain at Johnson
Crook, is used for watching the
southern end of the county.
