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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1953)
the Me Count)) 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 .. . ion Milac Of III KUdUS KASnC M^nnprf III 111 UflUC IlflflP 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 „ . — y .......... 7 1 ! ... we ,, fi 2 n , ie . ............... 4 c Davis................a '' ............ Q ........... ............? 2 | = • 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
