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By FRED HARTLEY
With the 1954 football season
officially over at Dade High, a
D8t 0 n the back is due the team
for their spirited performance
the gridiron. Scrappy to the
on even
end they never gave up,
when the odds were stacked
heavily against them.
And the odds were mighty
heavy 3 t times. Ask some o.
our 140 - pound linesmen who
laced a 250 -pound bruiser
across the scrimmage line.
Coach Delmas Freeman deserves
applause for keeping the
spirit up as lie put the boys
through the pra ctice grind,
teaching them to play for vict¬
ory. but never to forget their
i sportsmanship.
As long as we're tossing out
Bouquets, we ought t o throw
one to the fans, too, Folks who
have been around here for a
long time tell me that their
team support and conduct at
the games this year is un¬
matched by any previous sea-
on.
It was sheer bedlam that
broke loose during the half-
time Intermission a t last Fri¬
day’s game. Utter confusion
reigned as the two “touch”
teams — or gangs — tried their
hand at the game. It was orig¬
inally planned to have eight on
each side, but the boys just
kept piling out of the stands
and into the lineup.
Most of the player^ largely ! .n
the 20 to 30 age group, found
it rough going, being so badly
out of shape. Yours truly came
off the field with a slightly
darkened eye in a state of
complete exhaustion.
Tiie result: a scoreless tie.
Carol, Edna and Hazel were the
names of three mischief-mak¬
ing young ladies who set a rec¬
ord for destruction during this
year’s hurricane season. But
they are gone now, and we’ll
never see them again.
But there’s another tempest
in our midst that has been
around for about four years
now and is showing no signs of
blowing itself out. Those of us
who had hoped that hurricane
Joe had spent itself in fury
during the televised hearings
last summer realize now that
we were just experiencing the
lull at the storm center.
Hurricane Joe is back with us
again, blowing as fierce as ever,
and spreading its own brand of
destruction as violent as Ha¬
zel's. Hazel and her sisters
threatened life and property;
Jo® threatens our freedom of
expression, our traditions of
Justice, and our national repu¬
tation.
The most disturbing thing
about McCarthy is not what he
does or says, but the fact that \
he-like the Pied Piper—has
fooled so many into following
him.
Dade Indian Village Site ot Chickamauga's War Council
Back in the days when George
c ^‘a^hington e U. was still president
' - S., a Cherokee vil-
- Dade County figured
large i n an Indian rebellion.
success or spread of the
^Prising 10 the might have meant the
U. s. of all the
*est of the Appalachians
‘° vhe Spanish or British.
ru^ T koni Mountain
J Town, lo-
on east bank of
n ,°' al Cr eek about one mile
°- f the place where Tren-
.
• - >*’ stands, was the site of
ar c °uncil in 1792 where the
fK , e taid
• - plans to
launch a
W gn against federal
• e * in the area. It also
was
Ceath ^ace of a great Che-
• okf e chieftain.
^•caded y hlage was one of the
Five Lower Towns of
Caickamauga tribe, a re-
shoot and and implacable off.
of the Cherokees The
Stw adt
stration Council, meeting Wed-
nesday, November *10 at the
Trenton Methodist Church,
agreed to sponsor a "Club of
the Year" contest in 1955 in
preference to a “Woman of the
Year” contest as originally
planned. The competition will
start in January. The commit¬
tee in charge of the event will
set up rules to govern the con¬
test.
The Avans club was in charge
of the program. Mrs. Gass read
the Scripture and Mrs. G. C.
Tatum led the prayer. Two
poems were read, “The Farm¬
er’s Thanksgiving” by Mrs. D
P. Hood, and “Thanksgiving”
by Mrs. M. R. Wilson. Mrs.
Evelyn Reeves led two songs,
“Come, Ye Thankful People,
Come” and “Revive Us Again.”
The minutes were read by
the secretary, Mrs. M. R. Wil-
eon. The treasurer’s report
showed a balance of $90.35 on
hand.
It was agreed that the coun¬
cil meetings in the future would
be held in the different com¬
munities with the club in that
community to act as hostess.
The 1955 schedule will be as
follows: February, Slygo; May,
New Salem; August, Rising
Fawn; November, Wildwood.
The dress revue was set for
the second week in April. The
committee in charge was in¬
to contact ‘ the man¬
structed
ager of the Dade Theater to
see if it might be staged there.
A committee appointed to
work on the year book agreed
to meet Saturday, November 20.
They were as follows; Rising
Times To Close
For Holidays
Next week’s issue of The
Dade County Times will come
out on Wednesday. The Times
office will be closed from Wed¬
nesday afternoon until the fol¬
lowing Monday morning in ob¬
servance of Thanksgiving.
Four Called For Pre
Induction Physicals
Four Dade County youths
left here Tuesday to undergo
their pre-induction physical
examinations at the U. S.
Armed Forces Induction Cen-
ted in Atlalnta.
Kenneth Stephens, Billy Jack
Campbell, Charles J unior
Whisenant and Lawrence Ed¬
ward Woodyard were the four.
A-Ray Clinic Held
Here Last Friday
The Mobile X-ray y Unit visited
12 at the Health Center in
Trenton. Sixty-six persons were
The next visit by the i
will be in the early spring.
other four towns of * ^ t r>v, 4 „v
amaugas were Nickajack, at
the present Shellmound, Tenn.;
Running Water, on the east
side of the Tennessee River be¬
low the present Hale’s Bar Lock
and Dam; Long Island, on the
island of that name at Bridge¬
port, Ala and the eastern bank;
and Crow Town, on Crow Creek
near Stevenson, Ala.
Mentioned by De Soto
No one knows exactly when
these Five Lower Towns were
first settled. History records
that some of them, at least,
were occupied by the Chorokees
when Hernando De Soto passed
through this area in 1540. They
became a hotbed o f rebellion
shortly after the American Re-
volution when most of the
Cherokees r.hernfcees made their peace
with the government. The war-
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
IME DADE COUNTV TIMES. TRENTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1954
Avans. Mra Bob Whlte; Mor ';
ganville, Mrs. Sue Oliver; New
Salem, Mrs. Harold Moore; Sly¬
go, Mrs. Edgar Moore; Trenton,
Mrs. Ed Pace; Wildwood, Mrs.
George Carroll, Jr.; New Home , 1
to be appointed later.
It was announced that the I
dlstrict meeting was scheduled
for December 13 at Kensing¬
ton. Miss Willie Vie Dowdy,
Home Improvement Specialist,
will give a demonstration on
Christmas decorations.
Mrs. A. L. Dyer and Miss!
Naomi Hubble announced that I
the Trenton Garden Club would
sponsor the Christmas lighting
contest again this year and ex¬
plained the rules. Both the en¬
trance door nad the\>utside de¬
corations will be judged. 1
If you wish an evening of fun
and entertainment, plan to at-
tend the annual Davis Harvest
Festival which will be held
the school Saturday night, No¬
vember 20. Much time and
energy has been exerted by the
faculty, students and patrons
of the community in planning
this event. It should be a night
long to remember.
The various clubs of the
school will be sponsoring booths
this year. The Service Club will
be selling popcorn, candy and
peanuts. The Journalism Club
will be featuring the school
paper in their booth where
they will be serving cold drinks.
The Future Homemakers and
the 4-H Clubs are sponsoring a
souvenir stand whose items
have been made by the mem¬
bers themselves. The bowling
i alley will be under the leader¬
ship cf the “D” Club members.
Selling handkerchiefs from
members of the New Home
Home Demonstration Club. The
Avans Home Demonstration
Club will be featuring home-
made aprons in their booth,
SECOND MONTH’S ATTENDANCE REPORT
White
Schools Enrollment A.D.A. %
NEW SALEM ..........158 150.9 96.73
...............
DADE HIGH............... .........215 199.45 94.45
DADE ELEMENTARY....... ........482 434.95 94.34
NORTH DADE ..........259 240.10 94.32
.............
DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL...... ........92 79.35 92.38
DAVIS ELEMENTARY...... .........547 477.60 91.83
RISING FAWN.............. .........183 161.30 90.59
Colored
HOOKER .......... 52 49.55 95.28
....................
TOTAL* White............ ........1936 1743.65 93.44
Colored.......... ........ 52 49.55 95.28
Second Month 1953:
TOTAL White ........... ............1874 1676 92.6
Colored......... .......... 50 49 97
NEW SALEM ON TOP
New Salem School led the list in percentage of school attend-
ance for the second month of the current school year with an
i average ss? daily attendance of 109.9 and a percentage r c e n 1 a 8 e of of 96 96.73. 73
I Hooker colored school had 95.28 per cent.
Dade High was second among the county’s white schools and
Dade Elementary barely nosed out North Dade for third place.
the corresponding month of 1953.
likp seement ^ of the Cherokee
nation grumbled about the
treaty and resolved to continue
their relentless fight against
the hated , whites , ..
It was this defiant crowd, led
by Chief Dragging Canoe, that
settled in the Five Lower
Towns. They continued to mo¬
lest the white settlers in the
area and to make plans for a
general uprising to regain com¬
plete control of the lands they
once held. In this latter pro¬
ject they were aided and en¬
couraged by the Spanish who
then controlled Florida and the
lands west of the Mississippi.
Under kjt the terms of the Trea-
ty of Paris in ,
States had been granted all the
territory east of the Mississippi
which lay between Florida and
Canada. The Spanish wanted to
contain the Americans to the
lands east of the Appalachians
RaW MoiUltaUl Still
Sheriff F. C. Graham and
his deputy, C. W. Graham
seized and destroyed a
co PPcr still last Friday, Nov. 12
Tde still was located on Sand
Mountain, approximately nine
mUes west of Trenton. Also
ca P tl ired were eight 60-gallon
barrels of mash and the com-
plete fittings necessary for
tilling.
Seven Attend Trion Library
o
Cherokee Regional Library was
held last Thursday night at the
Raleigh Tavern in Trion. It was
the tenth annervesary o f the
establishing of the library which
serves Dade County b y Book-
| country Other booths store, will fish include pond, bas- the
j
j keioall thrown, penny throw,
ring throw and spook house.
The highight of the evening
will be the crowning of the
kings and queens in the audi¬
torium. Mrs. Kate Elliott and
Mrs. Geneva Allison are chair¬
men of this event.. The Ugly
Man’s Contest, under the lead¬
ership of Mrs. Tucker and Mrs.
Smith, will feature the mer-
chants in the ''ommunity.
A chicken supper will
served in the cafeteria by Mes-
dames Ellis, Bryant, and Powell.
Plates are 50c for children and
75c for adults.
Proceeds from the festival
will be used to make a payment
on the indebtedness of the new
lunchroom and to pay for the
new automatic bell system.
Festivities begin at 6:30.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Dade High School will hold
its Harvest Festival on Friday,
November 19, A fish supper, a
one-act play, and booths in the
commercial building wil be
featured at this event.
and so strengthen the Spanish
' hold western America. The
on
i British, to a lesser cfcgree, were
! a ^o anxious to regain posses-
| sion of the American heartland,
The Spanish and British, then
found willing allies in the Five
Lower Towns. The Chickamau¬
gas responded to their overtures
enthusiastically. The Indians
didn’t hate all whites—just the
Americans who were settling
and farming on the land they
once roamed and hunted,
Meet on Lookout Creek
The war fever increased
among they became the^ ‘ Chickamaugas. more ferocious. ‘"‘ DaUy _ On
Feb. 26, 1792, Lookout Town was
the scene of a bahbaric scalp
Idance celebrating the massacre
, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
chief of this village, Dick Just¬
ice, and others, took the scelp
, Jn thelr teeth and lt lnt0
■' pi©c M ^ they danced. Two
days later, the great Cherokee
100 Present To Form Watershed
Over 100 persons jammed in-
t0 the Dade Hi § h School lunch-
; room here Monday to form a
Iocal organization to seek fede-
ra ^ assistance in a watershed
1 project for Lookout Valley and
i tde surrounding mountains. The
8 rou P voted to make applica-
_
j tion for ^ preliminary survey
under the Watershed Protection
Flood Prevention Act.
The group elected officers to
service,
Mrs noirpp Farrar, from
Chattooga County and Chair¬
man of the Board presided at
the meeting which was held be¬
tween the courses of a delicious
turkey dinner. Miss Annie Rae
Jennings, the regional Director,
gave a short but full report on
the library progress for 1954.
Two adult American Heritage
Programs had been sponsored
by the Library, also a young
adult’s discussion class, a story
hour lor pre-school children,
and an hour program 0 f fine
music each week. Reading Club
certificates were given t o 400
members of the club.
Praises Davis Library
Miss Jennings told in her re-
port of the emphasis placed
this year on creating central¬
ized libraries in the schools. She
praised the Davis High School
for the remarkable work done
there. Davis High, she said,
reads more books than any
other school in the region.
There are 45,000 books, 683
recordings and 526 film strips
ready for public use. During the
first ten months £ f this year
174,617 books have been circu¬
lated. The Bookmobile has tra-
viled 8,419 miles and circulated
92,164 books.
Miss Sara Maret, who was
once Dade’s wonderful Bookmo¬
bile Lady and Is now President
of the Georgia Library Associa¬
tion, was present and gave an
informal talk on her memories
of the beginnings of the Cher¬
okee Regional Library Service.
She remembered and told a
great deal about the beginnings
in Dade County.
Each county gave a report of
what the library service had
meant to their county. Mr.
David O. Chumley, principal at
Davis High School, spoke brief¬
ly on what .their new school
library has meant to them and
the fine cooperation and help
they had received from the
Cherokee Regional Library.
Attending from Dade County
were Mr. Chumley, Mrs. E. A.
| j Ellis, a member former and Dade Mr. County Ellis,
Board
|Mr. Henry Elliott a Dade Coun-
j ty Board member, Miss Bess
Cureton and Mrs. Douglas Mor-
i rison, Board members a n d on
the Regional “ ' Executive * Com-
j Morrison.
chieftain Dragging Canoe, who
now headed the Chickamaugas,
joined the bloody festival at
Lookout ' Town. T ’“™
Dragging Canoe himself led
the f a n a t i c al rites, dancing
around the fire with savage
frenzy. The hysterical exertion
proved to be too much for the
old warrior. He died the follow¬
ing day on the banks of Look¬
out Creek. Historians have call¬
ed him “the greatest of the
Cherokees.”
The death of Dragging Canoe
did not dampen the. war ardor
of the Chickamaugas. The half-
breed John Watts became their
chieftain. And throughout the
summer of 1792, they made
ai ? s ° r a campaign toward
Nashville.
Tennessee was not yet a state,
but the territory from the Ohio
River to the Georgia line was
! under the authority of the ter-
1 ritorial govenor William Blount.
Published Weekly—Since 1901
head the organization, naming
Col. D. E. Morrison as presi¬
dent, W. H. Pullen as vice pre¬
sident, and Jules Case as sec¬
retary-treasurer. All the of¬
ficers were elected by voice
vote without opposition.
Five Directors Chosen
It was agreed to name five
representatives from various
sections of the area to comprise
o board of directors. The
group split up so that each sec¬
tion might select its own repre ¬
sentatives. They were appoint¬
ed- as follows: south valley,
Otis York; central valley, Chari
ton Holmes; north valley, Dave
L. Brown; Sand Mountain, Giles
Gass; and Lookout Mountain,
Roy Moore.
Col. Morrison, the county
soil conservation supervisor,
acted as moderator for the
meeting and explained the plan
which offers federal aid to
small watershed areas (250,000
acres or less). If the U. S. De¬
partment of Agriculture acts
favorably on the application,
the government will build dams
at key places 6 n the watershed
to impound surface water in
order to prevent floods and the
washing away of the valuable
topsoil.
He pointed out that already
13 watershed areas in the state
of Georgia alone have made
application to be included in the
plan. He stressed the fact that
the county or its people oblige
themselves in no way by mag-
ing application. It simply asks
that the government under¬
take a survey here to deter¬
mine whether or not flood con¬
trol measures are need and
practical here.
No Obligation
In answer to a question about
Eleven Wears Down Wildcats, 19-2
The Ringgold Tigers, with
their beefy line and superior
manpower reserves, handed , „ j „ j
Dade . High TII , a 19-2 , n „ defeat . , . here
on the ,, Dave L. Brown field firrM to
,
wind up Wildcats „ r ., , . , season.
Ringgold’s captain, Ray El¬
rod, was credited with two of
the visitors’ touchdowns by
running the ball 25 yards across
the goal and by snagging a 31-
yard pass for the fourth quail-
er score. The home team scored
its two points when Bill Pitts
intercepted a pass from Harold
Shankles in the end zone ana .
was tackled by Bobby Lee and ,
Derrell Hughes. The other
Ringgold tally came on a quart-
erback sneak by Billy Davis.
By allowing the two points to
be scored against them, the
visitors nipped a Dade scoring
threat The Wildcats had
launched an offensive 15 plays
earlier and rolled down the
field 70 yards. iDade threatened
again in the third quarter,
pushing to the Ringgold 17.
the first period set up the in-
His headquarters a t Nashville
was the most heavily fortified (
American post in the western
* anc * S ' ^
The Spanish were kept busy
supplying arms and encourage-
ment from Pensacola. In Se P"
,
tember, the village of Willstov, n
(where Ft. Payne now stands;, j
was the site of a Chickamaug!f
war council. The chiefs voted
overwhelmingly for war.
Two days later, the Chicka-
mauga warriors assembled at
Lookout Town and made plans
for their revolt. On Sept. 11
they declared war and later be-
gan their march northward.
Chief Little Turkey, who head¬
ed the Georgia Cherokees, hast¬
ened to inform Gov. Blount that
five lower towns on the.
Big River (Tennessee) have de- j |
termined to go off to war. It 1S
|
not the consent of the whole
only ‘
Nation, nor any part of it
NUMBER 44
the outlay of funds, Col. Mor¬
rison answered that' no finan¬
cial obligation whatever is in¬
curred by making the applica¬
tion. He said, however, that if
the government were to under¬
take the project here, specifica¬
tions might call for individual
farmers or groups of farmers to
sow or terrace a field in order
to prevent washing into the
water impounded behind the
dams. “But that would be no¬
thing more than just good soil
conservation practices, anyway,”
he added.
In pointing out the advanta¬
ges o f the project if accomp¬
lished here, Col. MorrLson listed
the following:
1. Insure an abundant water
supply for Trenton and other
communities for all time.- That
would in turn be an induce¬
ment to industry to locate here.
2. Insure better roads by
checking washouts and in gen¬
eral making for better drainage.
3. Prevent flooding of culti¬
vated areas and the consequent
erosion by impounding excess
water behind dams.
4. Make possible recreation
areas for fishing and swimming.
Good Representation
Various persons present ex¬
pressed their approval of the
move and their hope that It
could be accomplished here.
Farmers, merchants, public of 1
ficials, teachers .professional
men and industrial workers
were represented at the meet¬
ing.
Col. Morrison encourged ev¬
eryone present to push the idea
whenever possible. A large fact¬
or in consideration of the appli-
cation will be the degree of
public support and interest
'shown in the project.
vaders’ initial tally 36 yards
from the goal line. In the se-
cond 1 - quarter, a blocked kick
gave ® the Tigers ® possession of
theb all on the Dade 43. Six
plays later the , touch- , ,
J came
,
The Wildcats were handi¬
capped by injuries before the
game started. Willard "playing Ryan
Bobby Lee were
with bandaged hand and arm .
The Dade el ^ ven felt the loss
Qf Johnny Lynch who was hurt
ear]y Jn the game and never
retumed tQ the lineup
Th(? Trenton team, stopped a
bid fQr thlrd TD
inches short of the goal as the
game ended.
YARDSTICK
Dade RG
First downs.. .. . . 11 11
yardage rushing . .198 235
Net yardage passing . 34 42
net yardage... . .232 277
passes attempted . . . . 8 6
passes completed. . . . 3 ft
passes intercepted . . 1 1
lost.. . . 11 0
ed 4 0
. . 45 25
them five towns.”
j ohn watts launched his of-
f€asive as planned( but dld not
receive the support from the
Q ^ ber tribes he had hoped. The
Americans were ready for the
Indians, and spanked them
soundly near Nashville.
That was the beginning of the
end f 0r ^ be Qhickamaugas. In
179 ^ Gen. James Robertson led
an expedition against them and
completely destoryed the vil-
lages of Nickajack and Running
water. In January, 1795, Watts
made peace with government
for his tribe in the Tellico Block
House Treaty.
The Chickmaugas never gave
any serious trouble after that.
They left this area with the rest
0 ^ Cherokees in the 1830s.
drawn largely from the book,
“old Frontiers,’ by John P.
Brown, a Chattanooga histori-
an.)