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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1955)
Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LV DALLY IN’ IN DADE William H. Dimau Reminisces. . . . Our personality for this week lives at the back end o f no- wheie by his own admission. William Henry Dugan of calls h i s 104-acre cove farm, which also includes part of mountain, “Owl Holler’’ because you just about have to be an owl to get there. His grandfather, William Hughes, cleared the first land in the community while the In¬ dians were still in Dade Coun¬ ty. Dugan Springs, once .a fav¬ orite picnic spot, was named for his uncle Jim. Mr. Dugan’s fa¬ ther, John Dugan, was born on the Tittle place at Morganville and worked as a guard at the Cole City coal mines. Mr. Dugan first made his ap¬ pearance in the world on April 1, 1876 in the old Cole home- place. He learned the “three ft’s” in a log cabin school at Sarah’s Chapel, New England, Morganville, Slygo and Cole Ci¬ ty. He attended the latter school durmg , . the , year has , . family . lived , at the mine encampment. His mother, the former Miss Emily Hughes, was in bad health dur¬ ing his boyhood, and was treat¬ ed by E. R. Wells grandfather, Dr. Davis. Since the doctor's home was at Cole City and his father’s work was there, the family moved to the mountain when Mr. Dugan was eleven years d?d. He earned money by peddling garden vegetables to the free la bor there and later was to be¬ come guard at Rattlesnake Mine. Married Laura Killian Mr. Dugan and Miss Laura Killian were married Jan. 17, 1904, after which he settled down to farming and selling produce. The couple raised four children, Harold, Edith, Lawr¬ ence and Grace. Harold is the only one of the children living at Slygo at this time. The coal mines figure again in the story, for Mr. Dugan worked for awhile at the coke ovens which were run then by free labor. At the age of 21, he went to Durham to work at a coal washer. When the Cole Ci¬ ty prisoners were moved to Durham around 1897, he guard¬ ed for three months, but didn’t like the job so he came back home to the farm. A period of employment in the timber business at Aetna and Whitwell, Tenn. followed, After a while, he became ill and for the second time, re¬ turned to the farm. Member School Board In 1902, he was initiated into the Odd Fellows a t Trenton. When Dade High School was completed and being ccn- solidated, Mr. Dugan was a school board member for four years. He offered his resigna- tlon about the time the boaxd Zoo, "Ga. Hi Profitable Tourist Attractions Tourists driving along High- ay 11 near Rising Fawn can at fail to miss the bright pink gns erected by Ralph Rumley dvertising “Pete the Bear” nd “the Georgia Hillbilly” long with cut-rate gasoline, a on, bears, monkeys, coons and chimpanzee. All this and more may be :en for nothing when a tourist ;ops for a bit of leg-stretching t the Bluff View Service Sta- on, but before he climbs back ito his car, he has likely ought a souvenir or tw'O, let unior ride the “buckin’ bron- o” and perhaps bought a bot- e of pop for Pete. He probably tipped the old entleman if he listened to his ;ories, and if he had his gas ink filled up too, he left Ris- lg Fawn minus a few dollars, 11 of which was what Mr. _____ and s Ruirdev nlanned i n the t nlace Vhen Viicii the me young yuuiig Rumleys, iv “‘ J 10 are the parents of a small ughter named Beverly, first irted In business three and a If years ago, they operated a Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY JULY 31, 1955 By Myrna McMahan was making plans 'o consolidate the Morganville School. From 1929 to ‘32, Mr. Dugan was one of three members of the now-abolished road and re¬ venue board which proposed the first bond issue to build reads through the valley and on the mountains. Mr. Dugan remembers that the bonds to¬ talled $60,000. Ha had always enjoyed work¬ ing with his hands, so when he started whittling wooden lamp bases and other small articles, his workmanship was so good that he began selling his hand¬ iwork. Before long, however, factories could produce these articles much faster and sell them cheaper than Mr. Dugan could make them, so he stopped carving except for an occasion¬ al piece for his own pleasure. Painted for Amusement Last year, he was forced to lie arcund the house with a bad cold and boredom set in. One day as he was walking through fche ]Mng room> he slipped on some crayons his grandchildren had left cn the floor, so he de¬ cided he would show them what he could do. The picture he d:ew was quite good so he tried another. Almost before he knew it, sketching and painting became a hobby. Growing interested in another medium, he tried water colors which were too runny to suit him. Then he bought some oil paints. His first effort was a portrait of his mother, painted from a photograph. Next he began painting scenes from his imag¬ ination and a time or two paint¬ ed picturesque local scenes. His friends kidded him about being a male “Grandma Moses , but they respected his talent and gave him much encouragement. When his blood pressure started acting up, he stopped j this activity arcund and is. content the house, now I to putter taking Chattanooga Times sub¬ scriptions, which has been a sideline for many years. This is the first yeai the Du¬ gans have not had a garden. They cnce enjoyed raising cat¬ tle, but are only able to care for a milk ccw, yearling and a calf. j Perhaps Mr. Dugan will take there is 1 up painting again; much to be said about the “Sun¬ | day painter” who relieves him- self of worry and tension while I expressing his innermost emo¬ tions. We will do well to join Mr. Dugan i f and when that time comes. ICE CREAM SUPPER ! Please to an Ice Cream : come Supper Saturday night, July 23 on the New England Methodist Church lawn. Proceeds will go toward getting playground equipment. We need your help : Boy Scout Troop 36 1 badly. small one-r:om Shell station. With the use of a series of signs placed a mile or mere down the highway in both directions, they brought in enough business to be able to expand within a short while. Souvenirs of Every Description Living quarters were added to the rear of the station and a gift shop was built on the south side of the original building. Souvenirs of eve:y description were a rY a n ged in the shop. This, mis, added auuea to io the me colorful, wiunui, at- tention-catching pennants; which flutter across the high- way and cn each side of the station, made it an inviting place to step. About two years ago, the Rumleys bought a six - months old black bear from a man who j got him in Canada. The bear ! was named Pete and soon learn- | ed to drink soda pep. children His own- like ers CIO found that if * - anything well ____,, enough, their parents °have to like it too, or else, so Pete became very popu- liar. GEORGIA SENATORS IIAIL GIANT RIVERS PROJECTS.— Pleased at final success crowning their efforts of rha.ny years, Sena¬ tors Walter F. George and Richard B. Russell happily scan a report of Georgia river dam projects, just approved by the Senate. A total of $176 millions will be used to build multi-purpose Chattahoochee River (Fort Gaines) and Savannah River (Hartwell) dams. The Army Engineers will begin construction this Fall. White House approval is now expected for the appropriations bill which gives Georgia the only new dam projects in this region. Senator George said “unsurpassed teamwork” of the Georgia Delegation was respon¬ sible for this success, and he praised all the Georgia Congressmen for their cooperation on the projects. Boxcar Lands in Ditch A loaded freight car was de¬ railed and a second car pulled across the track when a draw head broke and dropped down on a north b:und freight. The accident took place about 4 a.m. Wednesday just north of Squir¬ rel Town Creek across from the Dave L. Brown farm. The derailed boxcar landed in the ditch and the second car was left half on and half off the track. A few feet of track and ties were torn up and had to be repaired by work gangs before the freight train could meve. Passenger trains were held up until this was accom-' about 10 a. m. Traffic Meets With Cancer Six members of Dade Coun- ty’s Cancer Unit met Tuesday night at the Health Center to make plans for a fund-raising drive in the near future. induced Mr. Armstrong, field representative frem the state cencer unit, Miss Fannilu McWhcrtcr, Public Nuise, Miss Naomi Hubble, Home Demon- stration Agent, Dr. Jacobs from , the Wildwood Sanitarium and Mrs. G. A. Grant, Registered Nur e from the Trenton Clinic ■nd Health Chm. of the Avans H. D. Club, Mrs. Davis, Welfare director, and Martin Nethery,. It was decided to send letters containing cancer facts of Dade and a request for contributions, The following is an excerpt from the letters which will be mailed: Cancer will strike 1 out of every four men, women and The Rumleys also found that they liked animals so well that they bought another bear and net l:ng after that, added mon¬ keys, fexes, coons, squirrels, paorot and a talking crow to their menagerie. Recently | they bought a lion from a tra- , v eJing show . nd a chimpanzee, j which was the most expensive of all the animals. II. F. Sullivan billed as “Hillbilly” The first cf May of this year, Mr. II. F. Sullivan was hired to j sit in a black and red buggy j and talk to tourists. He was billed as the “Georgia Hillbilly” land is quite picturesque with jhis gray beard and bright blue .eyes. He has been a familiar figure down around Rising Fawn for the past ten years, walking up and down the highway with a ;sack on his back. The contents of the sack were usually furs or : herbs, fnr for Mr Mr. Sullivan Sullivan is is an an py- ex¬ j pert trapper hunting and has for worked herbs fer years I which he . hipped to herb mar- W. Grady Crane, 65-year-old retired faimer, was found hang¬ ed in a barn near hks home two miles north of Trenticn Tues¬ day afternoon. The body was discovered shortly after five o’clock by his wife, who became hysterical but managed to run down to the highway in an at¬ tempt to get help fnem passing motorists. After some minutes, William P. Dempsey of Chattanooga and Clarence Thomas o f Trenton stopped and helped Mrs. Crane to contact the proper authori¬ ties. Dr. N. H. Hutchinson was called in the absence of Coron¬ er Charles T. Sims who is away on vacation. Sheriff F. C. Gra- tam, Chief Deputy Bill Norton and Ordinary R. M. Morrison went to the scene of the hang¬ ing to investigate. The Sheriff said Crane had looped a short length of rope over a rafter in the barn and tied the dangling end around his neck. He apparently stood Preliminary plans for addi- tions to the New Salem and Rising Fawn Schools have been approved, Supt. Roy Moore an- .nouneed Tuesday. The county school superintendent and Mr. Hunt, whose architectural firm is engaged in drawing up plans for all Dade County’s school projects, made a trip to Atlanta Monday to discuss the plans with the State School Building Service. Changes i n the New Salem school building will include re- j novation of the old lunchroom tnd basement and additions of I two classrooms, clinic room and \ teachers’ lounge. The Fawn old will school al- building at Rising so be renovated, with the office on the highway became so con¬ gested that Sheriff Graham was called in by the railroad offic¬ ials to direct cars around those that had stopped to see the accident. A wrecking device on the work train was used to lift the partially derailed car back onto the track before it was taken to the Chattanooga Roundhouse fpr repairs. After the track had been repaired so the freight train could move orr, this wrecking crane lifted the over¬ turned boxcar from the ditch, set it back up on the track and it was taken t o Chattanooga for repairs. children now alive if the pres- ent rate continues. This means that 1,841 citizens of Dade will at some time have cancer. Many people have been cured of cancer but twice as many could have been cured if they had received prompt, proper treatment. There have been 43 known deaths from cancer in p) ade County during the past ceven years, p a j n ^ n 0 1 a symptom of EARLY cancer. Learn the 7 Danger Signals. j n the past seven years 27 patients from Dade County have received free services for can- ce r. The average value of the treatment over the state is ap- proximately $400.00 per State Aid patient. This means that Dade County people have re¬ approximately $10,800.00 in free cancer treatment during the past seven years. kets in St. Louis. He lives on top of Fox tain alone, except for thirteen , dogs which keep him company. One in particular, which he i---- * I brought from Arkansas eleven ■ years ago, wakes him up each merning at the same time by !scratching and pawing at him. Another deg looks after the | rest in the pack whenever they : get sick or have sores. Dogs Help in Trappirtg The dogs have helped in trapping the muskrats, coons skunks and minks that Mr. Sullivan earned his living by. Exactly how he catches skunks, Mr. Sullivan declined to say. Fur prices are down now, so he doesn’t plan to trap any more fer awhile. He is also known for his abil¬ ity to catch rattlesnakes with¬ out being harmed. He has no fear of them once they are in his sack, but he will not at¬ tempt to pick one up until he has tired them by pushing them around with a stick. He says when a rattlesnake has been Published Weekly—Since 1901 Crane Self Work on School and library being converted ln- to a classroom. The present lunchroom will be torn down, and a new kitchen, cafeteria, library, workroom, clinic room, effiee, teachers’ lounge and girls, rest room will be built onto 'the north end of the building, Supt. Moore reported that work on all school projects that are currently under way in the coun- ty are progressing. Workmen laying brick and blocks at North Dade, and enough found- ation at the Hooker School has been laid for the plumbing to be roughed in. At Davis, work on the ceiling on the old build- ing will be completed this week, while the footing for the new building has been finished. 3 Dade 4-H'ers Placed in District Three Dade County 4-H’ers second in the district project achievement contests held last week in Athens. They are Linda Ballard, Billy and Lar¬ ry Konrad, Linda was entered in junior public speaking while demonstration on farm and home electricity was enter¬ ed in the junior division. He had made a lamp from an earthenware jug. Larry’s record was judged second best in state. Others entered in various classes were Alfred Barnes, public speaking, Larry Konrad, forestry, Robert Ryan, Thelma Keel, junior talent, Peggy Forester, Gail Hughes and Shelby Everett, senior talent, Linda Jo Pace, junior biscuits, Patterson, junior dress re¬ vue, Norma Jean Gray, junior corn muffins and Jackie Wil¬ son, senior public speaking. The youngsters encountered stiff competition but all made a fine showing. The senior tal¬ “fooled around with” long enough, it will quit rattling and try to stick its head into the ground. It is then that Mr. Sullivan slips a sack over it to carry it off. He sold two of the snakes last summer to be used in a brush arbor meeting, one cf which bit and killed a nyin. The old man was born in a homestead in Missouri and lived in Oklahoma and Arkansas be¬ fore coming to Dade County. He has farmed, picked cotton on the Delta, and trapped furs for a living. A widower, he has a sen living in Texas, but the two rarely get in touch with each other. Walking Habit He was not able to begin school until he was ten years old, and then had to walk three miles to school. “I got used to walking then, and been walking ever since, Mr. Sullivan declares. It takes him an hour to walk down the j mountain and an hour and a | j half to walk back bought up. the Since Bowater NUMBER 27 on a bushel basket and then kicked it from beneath his feet. Been In 111 Health According to reports, Crane had been in ill health for some time, and other than this, the sheriff could find no other rea¬ son for Crane’s suicide. He was a disabled veteran of World War I. Funeral ser¬ vices were set fer Saturday, Ju¬ ly 23. Red Cross authorities are trying to contact his sons, W. G. and John C. Crane who are stationed with the Navy in Florida and Rhode Island. Other survivors are his wife; two more sens, James Crane of T'enton and Marvin C Crane of Tiftonia; four daughters, Willie Mae Crane, Oakland, Cal¬ ifornia; Sarah Crane, Trenton; Mrs. Fred Vick, Chattanooga and Mrs. Alton Vick of Siluria, Crane’s death makes a total cf eight violent deaths in the county since January. ent group was one of the six that the judges picked for all¬ round entertainment and audi¬ ence appeal. 4-H’ERS GO TO CAMP AUG. 8 Applications are being taken now by the County Agent's of¬ fice for the 4-H Camp which will be held at Rock Eagle, Au¬ gust 8-11. Frank Hall Dies Suddenly Funeral services for Frank A. Hall, Route One, Trenton, were held Tuesday, July 19 from the Rising Fawn Baptist Church, with the Revs. Taylor Castleberry and John Beasley officiating. Interment was i n Trenton Baptist Cemetery. Mr. Hall, who was a World War I veteran, died suddenly Sunday, July 17. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lora Hale Hall; two sons, Dan Hall and Edwin Hall; one brother, Van Hall, all of Trenton, and several nieces and nephews. mountain top two years ago, he is able t o catch a ride occa¬ sionally on a logging truck. He carries water from a spring to his little house a mile away, so walking takes up a lot of his day. He was requested to watoh for fires by the paper company during the summer months and had to call in about one last year. He says he hasn’t had to since. Mr. Sullivan expects t o cut timber this winter on the moun¬ tain along with a little trap- ning. He plans to stay on in ;he county indefinitely. And from the way the Rum¬ leys’ business is going, they plan to stay on, too. The pass¬ er-by will find at most any time of the day, cars from any part of the country will be clustered around the station. Mr. and Mrs. Rumley seem to have discovered the secret of attracting business, so the only way to go is up. Dade County can always use more business, so more power to them.
