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Ltade County’s; Only Newspaper.
VOLUME LIU
Successful Gross ■■
The Grand Opening of the
Gross Mercantile Co.
Scruggs Grocery was attended
by an estimated one thousand
people on Saturday night when
the prizes were won. During
the two days of the opening,
the stores stayed full of peo-
pie, looking, praising and buy-
ing from the well stocked
shelves and show rooms. Both
merchants considered the open
ing a “grand success.”
Saturday night folks began
gathering early to see who was
going to win or if they would
be the lucky winner of all the
fine prizes. The first prize to
be won was at Scruggs Groce-
ry. This Westinghouse DeLuxe
Sewing Machine went to James
B. Raines. Suzanne Morrison,
youngest daughter of the W.
O MorrLsons, was the attract-
ive wn.morst.pr youngster u;hn who put nut. in in hpr her
hand and pulled out the
names.
Other -..... prizes winners ____________ at
Scruggs were: Pauline Pauline B-..., Bally
who won a 100 pounds of flour;
Fred Ledford who won a drink-
aooler; Lennie Re\Mdastle an
alarm clock; Connie Gray an
alarm clock; Charles
a coffee maker; Roy West a
coffee maker; Nancy Clark a
case of B-B Jelly; A. C. Dur¬
ham a case of B-B Jelly, and
$5.00 baskets of groceries went
to Grace Wheeler, Leon Bar¬
ton, L. S. Blake, Roy West and
Mrs. W. I. Price.
Prizes at Gross’
After the prizes had been
won at Scruggs’ the crowd
moved over to the Gross Mer¬
cantile Co. where all waited
expectantly for these winners:
1st prize of a Frost-Free West¬
inghouse Refrigerator went to
Henry Gray; second prize of an
L. & H. Range went to Ken¬
neth Cureton. Dennis Sullivan
won^third prize of 6 gallons of
outside Sherwin-Williams house
paint, and Bud Crane won the
fourth prize of a platform
rocker.
Prizes had been won during
the two days if you held a
lucky number on your door
ticket. Various articles through
INSTALLATION OF j
WSCS AND GUILD
The WSCS and the Guild Church of |
the Trenton Methodist
met at the church Thursday j
night, June 18, for a joint in-
stallation of officers.
Mrs. E. M. Parker presided
over the installation with a
beautiful ceremony.
Those elected were:
WSCS: — President: Mrs. H.
E. Gross; Vice President, Mrs.
E. S. Pace; Secretary, Mrs. L.
S. Blake; Treasurer, Mrs. W.
I. Price.
Guild — President: Mrs. E.
G. Wright, Jr.; Vice President,
Miss Lelia Kimbrough; Secre-
tary, Mrs. R. L. Blake; Trea-
surer, Mrs. Cleron Kyzer; Pro-
motional Secretary, Mrs. Jules,
Case. I
After the installation Mr.,
Parker presented Mrs. Grover
Tatum with a gold pin from
the Society for outstanding
Years In This
By Myrna R. McMahan
Jorge Mascunana, able print-
er of The Dade County Times, ,
with his family will celebrate
Sunday, June 28th the fiftieth
anniversary of their arrival in
America. The occasion is one
of great joy, for the Spanish
family has found in this coun-
try the combination of love
and hospitality that has made
their stay here very gratifying.
The Mascunanas are an old
printing family, from Jorge's
grandfather, who ran a print¬
ing shop in Spain, to his bro-
thers and sisters and himself,
all of whom let printer’s ink
get into their blood before
they were out of the toddling
sta g e
His father, Joaquin, went to
Cuba while still a small boy
where he and his father, who |
had followed the printer’s
trade in Spain, set up a Job
Printing Shop. After Joaquin’s!
marriage, he and his wife ran
Devoted to the Best Interests or Dade County and Georgia.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1953
out the store were marked with
and as you walked
about and saw one to corres-
pond with yours,the article was
a gift to you.
Among these winners were:
Charles Williams, Mrs. Chap¬
man, Mrs. W. A. Scruggs, Mrs.
Bill Pressley, Melvin Dean, Miss
Rose Dyer, Mrs. M. R. Wil-
j I son, Mrs. John Pike, Mrs. W.
i p rice> M rs. J. D. Crisp, Os-
[car Greene, Miss Bertha Ste-
phens, J. E. Smith, Mrs. Ar-
n old McGuire, Bob Russell,
Mrs. R. T. Dodson, Robert
Brown, Mrs. Nettie Gass, Mace,
smith, Mrs. John Cole, Arvil j
Pennington, E. A.. Ellis, Mrs.
Nettie Jenkins, Wifiis West,
Mrs. J. S. Crane,"Mrs. Harold
'colson, W. E. Smith, Russell
Hester, J. E, Tucker ' Leonard
and Mrs Larking
Blake a^ake.
Flowers for Openings
During ,, the two . day opening, . j
,
WecMs for the opening paint-
ed «*» the front of the show
case window. Inside there were
d *P lay slgn * f oth « r various
arti « les for sale taped on the
1 V^Vter ® e^mTueTof u
wild fl ° w ers. Mrs. L. S. Blake,
had picked and attractively
arranged these and presented
them for the opening. Mont-
ford Tatum was on hand these
two days and looked very na¬
tural as he sat at the casher’s
counter.
The new addition of Gross
store which housed the elec¬
trical equipment and furniture
was graced by two large bas¬
kets of glads, gifts from the
Tri-State Supply Co. in Chat¬
tanooga and the Simmons Mat-
Co. Representatives
from Westinghouse and Sher¬
win-Williams Paint Co. were
on hand during the two days to
help with the opening. Mrs.
Robinson Hampton is
back looking natural working
the Mercantile Co. Mrs. H.
Gross made an attractive
of the records at the
work for the past year. Each
the Society gives a pin to
a member which entitles her
to Life membership,
The WSCS and The Guild
then met separately for the
business session. Afterwards,
they all got together for a so-
cial hour. Refreshments were
served by Mrs. Gross and Mrs.
Evelyn Pace.
CONCERT AT RISING FAWN
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
A concert of gospel singing
will be held at the Rising Fawn
School auditorium Saturday,
June 27 at 8 P. M There will
be quartets from Lookout Mt.,
Sand Mt., Tiftonia, Piney
Grove, and New England.
There will be a snack bar
is but sponsored willInto by ™f the Par d0 ”; j
ent’s Club of Rising Fawn.
Admission 25c and 50c. i
business and became the
parent^ of seven children,
Sometime around the turn of
the century, Joaquin began
of all the wonders of
America about which much
told by trave ers, so on
26, 1903, he boarded a
steamship bound fo. ampa,
Florida, leaving his wife, Con¬
cha, behind to settle their af¬
fairs and sell the shop.
Then on June 28, Mrs. Mas¬
cunana repeated Joaquin s
route with their small children,
and was impressed, as w r as her
with the country’s
The couple lmme-
diately began making prepara-
tions /or the establishing
the first Spanish printing shop
the South and also the only
print shop in Ta pa.
™nts Pup€ '
They printed a daily paper, p
Diario de Tampa,” the first
daily paper in the
in addition to Job work
Dade Wins - Davis Loses
The Dade Basebal Club
its first game in six starts last
Playing Dixie on their
field, Hale in the pitch-
ing box led the team to a 11-8
win,
Hale ’ pucnuig Pitching the me entire enure
game, was also high hitter
getting 2 for 4. McMahan
J. Williams had a three bag
ger a piece. Rogers for Dixie
home _ Dade
scored a run.
at bat 37 times and only had
9 hits, Dixie had, 16 for 43
Runs were made by Carter,
Johnson, Williams, McMahan,
T. Castleberry, Hale and Dow-
dey ' Ha e was g ven tde wm
and Davidson J losing , ) pitcher ,
Dade 400 003 400—11
Dixie.. .202 001 201 — 8
Davis, playing the .. top . team
of t.hP the ipaeiip league - lost lost their their game " ame
« _T‘ “ " ar r “° n
B * m Patton 2 * . or , d nau
..
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A survey of the mileage of all
in Dade County has just
completed. The entire
took three weeks with
„ M. _ Crow and ......... Mr. Reed
the gtate Highway De-
and Harold Cox
Hninp 1 flip survpv
Tbe committee not only gets
mUeage Q{ all the roads ln
county but makes a plat of
the houses, bridges, curves,
culverts on the roads. All
this information will be as¬
and when put togeth-
will be made into a map. It
bfi several months befor e
finished map will be avail¬
j The state pays the county so
much according to the mileage
of roads in the county It was
found that Dade 289.53 miles
of roads in the county which is
approximately the same as
on the last survey, in
this 84.99 miles are state
[maintained roads. Thay are
Highway 11 running north
and south through the county,
the Trenton-LaFayetle high
way up and across Lookout
Mountain, to Scenic Highway,
running north along the top of
Lookout and the New Sand Mt.
highway running from
up Sand Mountain to the Ala¬
Co. Lions Club Installs New Officers
The Lions Club met Tuesday
June 23, and installed
new officers who were
on May 12. The meet-
was held on the Cleron
terrace with a ham
and all the fixings.
Mr J. C Billue totalled
new oftlcere. in . an top . to-
ceremony. took place and j^ 11 was fol f j
by a movie.
These new officers will take
the first meeting in
and are:
President, W. Dudley Cure-
BAPTIST
IN MACON
Lookout' Valley Baptist Asso¬
was well represented at
Georgia State Training
Assembly in Macon, Ga.,
8-13. Four churches'were
Cloverdale s e n t
and Aliene ^ j
Kay Tatum
Rising Fawn sent Miss j
Riddle and Bob Steele; New ;
Misses Betty Sue Morgan
Shirley J Stallings; Wood- I
Mrs. Grace Elliott and
and Mrs. Henry Elliott.
Tatum was the Sword Drill
in the association, and
Betty sue Morgan the
—,____ ^ Tournament winner,
These two young girls com-
and . the printing ... of .. English ...
and Italian papers, which was
to come later. At that time, all
printing was set by hand.
Some years later, two linotype
machine were added.
All the children were ini¬
tiated into the rigors of the
as soon as they were f.ble
to read. After school, report¬
ing to the shop was compul¬
Jorge, being the small¬
est, used a stool to reach the
to set type and com-
pose. His brothers, Ricardo
Joaquin, Jr., learned to
the presses, and a sister,
who at that time was
become the first woman
of the Typographical
did most of the compo¬
in the shop. When the
were bought Manuel,
and Miguel became oper¬
At night, all would gather
a large round table to
more information about
only home run of the day.
Evans and Hale had a two base
hit a piece. Runs were made
by b. Patton, Hale, Stevens,
Roberson and Calvard.
I Calvard. pitching the first
four innings, allowed 7 hit
, .. , .
' Boatfielri ..' in 3 1n l
, , „ .
’
, d fo n
j thJrd phillips was
wining pitcher.
! Davis........ 140 010 200- 8
Harrison Bay. 832 000' 04x 17
Games June 28 _ Davis at
Dixie and Dade at Whitwell.
Standings
W l
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n , ie . ............... 4 c
Davis................a '' ............
Q ........... ............? 2 | =
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ton; Vice President, Bob Ale-
xander; Second Vice President,
W. G. Morrison, Jr.; Third
Vice President, Lucien Wilker-
son; Secretary and Treasurer,
L. C. Adams; Lion Tamer,
Raymond Morrison; Tail
™«ter Martin Neth/ery; Di-
: rectors for vc&r. Tom Ken-
one
g
Directors for two years: Leon
^ MaddQx Rale
j i Qulnton Avakian beC ame at a
new member of the club
; t his meeting. Guest of the
evening was Rev. Robert L
[Hilton.
_
peted in the district meeting in
Calhoun last April but lost to
other contestants. This honor
did win for them a free trip to
the State Training Union As-
sembly at Mercer University.
Each Each of ot the the delegates aeieg said
they enjoyed the week at Macon
despite the heat and home-sick-
ness suffered by one or two.
The climax of the meeting
was the Friday night service,
when hundreds of young peo-
pie dedicated their lives to the
ministry, ___ missionary ____________ „,nrt work, and »nH
full time chirtsian service.
While in Macon, Mr. Elliott
served on the State Nominat-
ing Committee. He is the
Training Union Director of
this Association.
the 1 % work . each . was a to do i. i
adulthood called some to
vocations. Some times it
necessary to finish up job
of the day. Even Mrs.
nana participated, doing
ing for catalogues and
books, etc.
Jorge Learns English
Jorge came into
work with Americans
than the rest of the family
subsequently learned to
the language fluently, so
[worked in the front
'varying his hours with
ing the linotype or the
press. Other brothers
ally learned to speak
but since the family lived
worked around other
they did not find it
to become acquainted with
nd\v language.
The family was saddened
1930 with the death of
mother, but Jorge's sisters,
and Soledad, took
Published Weekly—Since 1901
Study Plans For Court House
The Grand Jury, sitting at
the March 1953 term of Supe-
rior Court made the following
recommendation in their pres-
!“ th = tm C ' nt ““ \ r ‘ " We “ 0u5e have and Mam,ned rec °”7
(mend that Mr. W. „, G. (Bill)
Hughes, Mr. Pat Baugh and
Mr. Grady Prince be employed
by the Ordinary to examine
roof and roof supports and that
he act upon these men’s re-
comendations. ” .
These men with D. T. Brown,
who ^ foreman of this Jury ’
and W P Cole and Walter
, ;Simpson have met several
tim cs with the Ordinary since
this recommendation was made,
The Schmidt Engineering Co.
in Chattanooga has been down
here several times to see what
will have to ... be done and ... what
can be done.
| Engineers have drilled around
! the Court House to se £ if
are any y cavities which would
maRe he CQurt House settle
any more They are satisfied
that there will be no more ap-
preciable sinking of the build-
j ng
They — - have found that the
roof was not sufficient
framed to carry its weight
will have to be removed. Be-
cause they were not
dra “ d [or “ ,e * t ““* ot ‘ h
| bm,d ™ „' vhcn * was bull
three walls are leaning in . and
one out. The heavy roof is sit¬
ting on these walls for support.
The walls,, themselVes, they
found to be in good shape if
I they can be framed or held
I where they are but if the roof
'fell in, it would kick the walls
oufc ’
j In the u engineers report
also said that the floor of the
auditorium was framed to car-
jry a 30 pound weight per
square foot and modern
regulations require it to be 100
pounds per square foot in
Public building. .
, The Ordinary and the
mittee have discussed this re-
They agree that the roof
'will have to be removed and
.the walls tied together
plans are still incomplete as
just what is the best method
[to make the second floor walls
[sufficiently strong to hold and
to be safe.
A.E. Moore Named On Ga. FB
Mr. Art Moore, prominent
farmer from New Salem, has
been appointed to serve on the
Fruit and Vegetable Committee
which will meet in Macon July
2, to draw up recommendations
for Fruit and Vegetable Pro-
jects for the State of Georgia
for next year. These recom-
mendations will be presented
at the annual Farm Bureau
Convention which will be held
later on in the year.
Mr. Moore is a leading
Work on Sand Mt. Road
taken in work on the Sand Mt.
Road. The road has been black
topped and will soon receive
the third and final coat.
The ditches have nat been
dressed as of yet. We under¬
stand that Raymond Doyle
said he believed the road would
not have to be closed again.
A heavy stream of traffic
keeps a continual line mov-
ing... cars come from Ider,
Flat Rock, Higdon, Bridgeport
, this road,
and other places use
About 5:30 to 6:3o a. m. the
first shift of workers come off;
the mountain; 12:00 to 12:30
P m the second shift and
.
later the third shi ft These
three shifts of workers , going
^ coming m the same day !
k the road very busy _ and
ecially at the men ti 0 ned
bours
■
! This new foad ^ a wider _
than __ usual two lane road .
( When talking to those liv-
! 1
,ing on the Sand Mountain
road they say, “you have no
idea the pleasure...” “We have
lived in a sea of dust for so
long...” Plans for paving this
road have been made so many
.■ 1 jthe i 1 management u « m i of 4U the ,, large 1 n
j house _so it was not long until
.the new routine became com-
'.monplace.
j On March 9, 1943, Joaquin,
the father, died, leaving his
shop in the efficient hands of
his cildren. As time passed Ri-
cardo left to start a grocery
business and Miguel to become
a cabinet maker which left
the shop with Joaquin, Manuel
and Jorge.
Jorge, in 1939, had married a
widow, .Carolyn Brantley, who
had three small children, in
1940 a son,, George, was born
to them. George contracted
rheumatic fever and doctors
'advised a move to the moun-
tains. In 1948, Jorge and his
family moved to Dade County
and the change has proved
right for 12-year-old George is
no longer bothered with the
fever. Jorge could not stay
away from, a print shop and
The Dade County Times was
NUMBER 25
Farmer of ^ the State and he
will be in a position to offer
valuable assi itance to the
Committee on the production
of tjuality produce, and on
gradeing and packing for re-
tail market,
It is an honor for a member
of Dade County Farm Bureau
to serve on this Committee,
since ther are only five or six
Truck Farmers from the entire
State ask to serve on this Com-
mittee.
ed that “seeing was believ¬
ing.” This road eliminates
much of the dust and is deeply
appreciated by Dade citizens
and those who travel it and live
beside it.
DADE COUNTY MAKES
CONTRIBUTION TO 4-H
CENTER RECENTLY
Mr. W. C. Cureton, of Ris¬
ing Fawn, who is Treasurer of
Dade County 4-H Club Center
Committee, recently sent a
check of $335.00 to the 4-H
club Foundation. This amount
w m be matched by state funds
and will be used in construct-
mg this Center. „ ontpr
Money must be on hand for
the construction to go forward,
at times the funds are
badly needed to“ keep con¬
struction going full speed. This
Center is needed for educa-
tional purposes for the great-
es ^ you ^ b organization in the
world—the 4-H Club. Youth is
our greatest asset—any 4-H
Club member would be glad to
accept your contribution if you
have not alread made one.
indeed tiniiir very f fortunate ai*! n M A i a IT when f V\ n T> Vr
joined their staff where he
still working,
| Not a one of the family has
even visited outside the
since they came here in
for they are very proud of this
country, its wonderful
nities, its friendliness and
freedom-loving peoples,
Receive Naturalization Papers
When World War II came
along, Jorge and his brothers
felt that they would like to
show appreciation to the
United States t|y becoming
American citizens. This they
did and have been devoted to
their new country every since,
j This is truly a golden anni-
versary for this family, one of
1 achievement, pri^e and love
and a s tory to impress upon
each of us the limitless values
of our status as citizens of
these United States of Ame-
rica
