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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1955)
Dade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME LV DALLYIN' IN DADE 64 Uncle Bob” McKaig Reminisces. . . Whenever I talk to Dade’s cider residents, I usually run across little-known historical fact? about the county. For in- stance, during the course of conversation with ‘“Uncle McKaig the other day, I found that there was cnee a road Lookout Mountain at New Eng- land called the McKaig Gap Road. It wns built by his people when they operated a small iron furnace there in the mid- die 1800’s. Shortly after they had established that particular furnace, they sold out and to Rising Fawn, where they started a small blower-type furnace which was later sold to a company that established the iron works. Grandfather Drew Land in Johnson’s Crook Mr. McKalg’s grandfather owned almost all cf Johnson’s Crook at the time, having drawn it after the Indians left the county. It was there that his father was captured by the Yankees during the Civil War. He was a Union soldier until he grew dis- satisfied with the way they were fighting, then deserted tc come home. After his capture, he was marched up the moun- tain via a road the Yankees had dug out at the head of John¬ son's Crock, and taken to Chick airiaug'2. He again slipped away and joined the Confederate Army for the remainder cf the war. In 1870, he moved to Lookout Mountain ?s one of the first settlers' and began farming. After he married, he became the father of thirteen children. “Uncle Bob" was bom in 1877, about the time the New Salem community was building up. There were few homes and no stores or roads as we know them. First Church on Mountain Built 1884 The first church was built in 1884 out of logs and served also as a school. He attended three months months cut out or of the tne year year and ana re- re- members that there were no J high school ___i classes _____ taught. • Al- n_ though he attended church re¬ gularly, he didn’t know what a AVANS H. D. CLUB PLANS PICNIC The Avans Home Demonstra tlon Club met Saturday night, July 30, at the home of Mrs.. K. T. Bodenhamer. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. G. A. Grant, president. The Bible reading was by Mrs. J. D. Pike from the 25th Chap¬ ter o f Saint Mathew. The prayer was led by Mrs. J. O. Gass and roll call and minutes by Mrs. F. W. Talley. The Club will meet with Mrs. H. H Bod¬ enhamer one evening soon to work on the Scrapbook. Mrs. Grant gave a report on the Cancer meeting held at Trenton and the Club decided to sponsor the showing of a cancer film in cur community in September. Our picnic was planned for Aueust 19 at Wor^ the nicnic ground oa top of mi to start Dade Bank Considered Atlanta Journal Writer (Editor’s Note - Since we have si next row days, we are postpon- ing the article cn the mines un- til after ear tour.) (The following i s a reprint . from an article in Saturday, July 30, 1955 Atlanta Journal.) Margaret Shannon: Barjk to Put Dade Back in Georgia Trenton—A hole is going ST.m’SE T^en finished, „ all goes wed »ade County will have a bank I This will be a change of life for Dade, which is so stuck up | in the northwest corner of Georgia that on occasion it Is Site dt ionnti limes Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AUGUST 4, 1955 By Myrna Sunday Schcol was until was seventeen years old, which time one was He recalls that both and Baptists would hold at the same time in ;church, with the preachers turns refuting the other. 1 While still a young man, forked I in the as mines, a guard then at Cole coal as it was leaded into road cars for the trip down mountain to Shellmound. Reece and Dr. Davis were perintendent and camp respectively, during the Mr. McKaig worked there. boarded with John Stevens at boarding house, After the mines at opened up and the Cit y P-isoners moved there, McKaig went there to for ten years. Raises “Small’ - Family In 1900 ho was married to Rising Fawn girl, Miss Nora Gatlin, who passed away two years ago. They built a home on their 320-acre farm miles south of what is now the Massey place and raised ten children. “Only ten,’’ he puts it, which seems a small family tc the old-timers who were raised in families of a dozen or more children. He has farmed and cut timber ever since. A staunch believer in modern farming methods, he wishes he knew twenty years ago what he knows now about farming. He was Dade County’s first Farm Bureau member, in Walker County until a chap¬ ter was formed here in the county. He has served as a di¬ rector and still likes to keep up with the organization although he is crippled with rheumatism and a little hard cf hearing now. After he became unable to work on the farm, he went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Dessie Massey, and contents himself with reading the Bible and attending church brush brush arbor arbor meetings. meetings. Now Now and and then then his his mind mind Knni, back to the fvm old niH days, Have and nnH lives once more the colorful days of his youth. to Rising Fawn, August 15, the Council picnic. Mrs. J. O. Gass will go to Dalton to the Handicraft meet¬ ing. All the ladies are filling cans with vegetables and pickles since here is no fruit. Toma- toes are a very good for fruit and are plentiful. Miss Hubble gave a straticn cn roaches and habits. She told the best to destroy these pests and proper utensils to use. . Refreshments were served by the hostess assisted by Mrs. J. D. Pike. Due to sickness no report made on the June meeting at Mrs Henry Ellictts ncr May meeting at Mrs. D. 1 attendance Hood’s but good demonstrations «er, reported, Verna M. Hood, r^vr. hardly taken into account as a =rs tact. Somebody said Dade County was the last of Georgia's 159 counties without a bank, but I haye learned that possibly five tthers do nct have banks. Enfiugh Uniqueness This robs Dade of a of uniqueness, but of ^mouenceTin^ther its bank. Dade has enough respects to with ed that point real- ££ [MtnKK _ as I call been rcckln6 al °^ l< ™ ^ ^ a gQod while, i had one ac _ 1 cording to Mrs. Douglas . E E. Mor Mor . Probation Revoked Judge John W. Davis was in Trenton Friday to preside ever a cne-day session in court. An out-of-the-county land case, two damage suits, a probation revocation and several demur¬ rers were brought to his atten¬ tion during the day. Damage suits filed by John Bradford Sr. as next friend lor his two sons John Jr. and Jim¬ my Ray, against Dan Atkins, doing business as the tD'an At¬ kins Motor Co., and James Cecil Lowe, were settled for $500 in each case. M. J. Hale was at¬ torney for the Bradfords. The case of the State of Georgia vs. Joe Ashley, alias Atchley, was heard by Judge Davis in the afternoon. Ashley was represented by D. L. Lome- j nick and was charged with lating the terms of a sentence imposed upon him during the March term of court. At that time he was sen- tenced to a year in a public werks camp and fined Ashley was placed on probation Hale Makes First Deposit in Bank _ 1 The first depositor in the j vault of the Bank of Dade, which is currently under con- struction, was made Tuesday by Maddox J. Hale, local attorney , (and a stockholder cf the bank, j The deposit but then was it quite is fitting unex- pected, that a prominent citizen should be the first to take advantage of the bank’s services. At the time the deposit was made, Hale was one of several “sidewalk superintendents," who had congregated before the excavation to watch Col. Morrison’s supervision of the work going on. Attorney Hale and Ordinary Morrison were there on Col. Morrison’s invita- tlon to see the concrete poured over the heavy lattice work of steel in the walls of the vault. PLANE CRASHES NEAR NEW HOME A twin-jet Navy plane crash- ed on L add Mountain [Guild, j Guild, dur Tenn., Tenn., heavy heavy Monday Monday overcast, overcast, afternoon afternoon killing killing i ng a a the p uct instantly. The 'T’v,« nionp exploded and burst into flame immediately following the crash. The scene of the crash is about a mile and a half from Mrs. Laura Haynes’ store at New Home and across the Geor¬ gia state line. Several persons in the community saw the plane before it crashed and reported 1.0. Wheeler Sr. Property Changes Hands The I. O. Sr. ness property on the southwest corner of the public square has been sold to Mrs. Agnes Case Elzey and her husband, the Rev. Roland C. Elzey of Etowah, Tenn. Mrs. Elzey is a sister of Mrs. Grover Tatum, Jules A and James C. Case of Trenton. According to H. F. Allison, 1 real estate agent who handled 1 the dea 1, the purchasers are planning to improve the prep- erty in the near future. The purchase price was not dis-j dosed. Wheeler operated a grocery risen, but for sad reasons there s ss -■ lnt ° 7 I tain and made that descent into Trenton that 1. alwaysso coles- sal because of the view. It is of wide open spaces. I don’t know whether you can see but if they were in the right places, you could. At the courthouse nearly ev- eryibody was away at a funeral, One who was there, however, seemed to be very interested in get by * County Treasurer James V Jenkins. "Good for the Town” “I guess they’ll take my job when we ge t the bank,” he said, 'But it’s good for the town.” and his sentence suspended “as long as he dees not possess or sell any alcoholic beverages at any time..” Upon hearing testimony of law enforcement officers on re¬ cent developments in the case, the judge ordered , that , Ash- leys probation sentence be • withdrawn and revoked, and ; that he ‘be confined to a pub- lie works camp for the remain- j der of his sentence. Ashley was represented by D. L. Lomenick Erby Brown pled guilty lor pressing liquor and received l a fine of $35. He entered the; only plea of guilty heard by the judge during the day. The next term of court will 'convene in September at which time the case of Paul Crane will be tried. Sheriff F. C. Graham a trip to Reidsville, Ga July 29 to transfer Crane from the federal prison to the Rome jail. He completed a year’s sent- ence for manslaughter on that date and is at the Rome jail to await trial for tht murder of Junius Nesbitt. - * _ someday being filled with so much money may have made the attorney’s fingers tremble as he lighted a cigarette, for the next thing anyone^knew, the lighter lay within the yawning cavity cf the steel vault. Since it was given him by his wife and much-valued, thej lighter was retrieved by Charles; Guinn, of Cave Springs, who is working on the construction and used an old mason’s idea for retrieving lost articles in that he placed a 'ball cf clay mud over the end of a long stick, pressed it down over the lighter and pulled it up through the 10 ft. deep form. Hale was much relieved and work went back to normal at the Bank of Dade. Business people on the ________ ‘ arg whQ ha 1 pened t0 i ook ■ out and Trentons „ * . fire en- see g,ne in action Monday r!10in * ling, experienced a thrill quite unlike anything they had seen ^ j tim , e {or it wa3 on its ^ the scene of a blaze defitroyed a frame dwel- in ° ow hv uy L. B. (Lump) Daniel and , his son Walt. The Daniels lost all their pc'session in the fire, which broke cut in a back room while they were away from home. By the time Cleron Kyzer, who is in charge of the 1926 American LaFrance truck, was notified, the entire structure was ed in flames The truck reached the Daniel home within 4 or 5 minutes after the report was in. Accompanying Kyzer on the dash to the fire were Russell (Rip) Gifford and Henry Spen cer who were forced to hang on for dear life as the) engine made the turn arouna Square Square at the pe- I that it appeared to be in trou- ble. A parachute was seen by an j unidentified unidentified worn worn an an who who j | [stated stated that that it it was released from ^ plane cj nn before hpfnrp it it crashed. pmshed Sheriff Graham, Deputy Bill Norton and others made a, search of the area until 3 a. m. I Tuesday morning for the para¬ chute, but no signs were found, j Furthur investigations are be- Ing made by the Naval Air Sta- i ticn Atlanta, who with- 1 in are j holding the name of the pilot j until next of kin are notified. is adjacent to the Williams Mo- tor Co. and Dade Theatre, for a number cf years until he moved to Chattanooga approxi- mately three years ago. It was then remodeled to house the Gannaway and Riley 5c and 10c Store and the Trenton Furni- ure and Appliance Co. The corner space remained empty until a few weeks age, when the Sandige Construction Co., contractors cf the new dial telephone system, began using for a storage and equipment He explained that he handles * keP ‘ a C1,attancc,ga bank, and all business is trans- j ^ chcck Most countie* counties designate designate a bank as treasurer." he said. “So maybe Dade won’t have any use for my job. I don’t know. That’s just the way I figure it." He said people who live in a twon without a bank don’t think much about it. They get used to cashing checks at stores, and stores get used to cashing checks. On Friday and Saturday, when most people re¬ ceive their paychecks, mer- chants by custom an keep more money mnnpv on nn hand hand. Published Weekly—Since 1901 Rain Makes Road Slick Monday Accidents Injured Two Monday afternoon’s rain pos¬ sibly was cause for two acci¬ dents near Trenton about four o'clock in the afternoon. Dean Jeffrey, 80, was seriously injur¬ ed, and Fred A. Morgan, re- ceived slight injuries when Morgan - s truck was struck b automobUe , bearirig Texas u . cens lates in frQnt of Jeffery . s home Morgan was traveling south anrf had made a left turn to let a passcnger , cut at his Re waj3 off the pave _ t when the Texas car> driven a man listed by the state patrol as Mr. Sandle, crashed into the front end of the truck, The impact hurled Jeffrey out on the pavement and sent automobile off the highway into the Jeffrey front yard,, where it came to a step against the front porch. Both vehicles were damaged considerably. The injured were taken to the Trenton Clinic where it was found that Jeffrey has a heart ailment, was from head injuries, bruises and possible internal ire Destroys Daniel Home Monday rilous speed of 25 an hour. The clang, clang of the ancient ho?) bell rang rQno - Hpat clear tn to the t h« toes t.ne.n nf of on-lookers, providing added f exc itement to the Incident, Many followed the engine to the Daniel home, which Is lo- oated about a quarter mile off the Sand Mountain highway and up a narrow dirt lane. Within a short while after the fire was seen from a dist¬ ance and reported, the lane was clogged with cars and those j who were thoughtlessly first to blocked reach the the scene read, making it impossible for the fire engine to get close en- ough to put out the flame*, Although the house was pract- j ically destroyed at that time an outbuilding could have been saved had the engine been able .to get close enough. Citizens are requested to try to keep the roads clear In the event of a future Ure^ They are , i , sig nsot flames are | ,app Qnr ,„ rprit Plug Horse Derby The annual Plug Horse Derby been set for September 2 Chattanooga, it has been an- Martin Nethery, pres¬ den t c f Die Dade County Lions ub sp onsors of derby entries the county, has appointed R. L. Hilten as cc-chair- Those eligible should contact Hilten and submit their early, since the numbei entries are limited and are cn a “first-come-first basis. Horses, mules ponies may be entered. For participation in the der- Dade County is allowed to so many boys who are po- tential boy scouts to the Ser- Camp each year, Six beys from the county be- the ages of ten and four- attended c am p all last »=ek. They were Harold Brad- ford, of the Buff Bradford^, ! son Douglas E. (Froggy) Morrison, retired Army cclonel, is erecting the bank building. His wife’s newspaper, The Dade County Times, will move into the build¬ ing,too. Bank’s Officers Col. Morrison is vice president of the bank. George Harrison of Rockmart is president. Jules A. Case, D. T. Brown and Ray- mend S. Townsend are di¬ rectors . Mrs. Morrison says the first stock issue was snapped right up. More was released and it was snapped right up, too. She said Trenton was growing in size, but business didn’t seem to be increasing and maybe the bank would help to keep some NUMBER Z% injuries. He was sent to a Chat- lancoga hospital and remains in a very serious condition. j Morgan received a head cut and was able to report to work as usual Tuesday morning. Accident South of Trenton Follows Shortly after the Sandle au¬ tomobile had been towed to Wall's Service Station by Virgil Wall’s wrecker, news of a se¬ cond accident reached the in- vesiigation officer, State Pa¬ trolman Wolf. Automobiles driven by Word Page and Conrad Morgan, col- hded at the intersection of the j old Union highway road and the Page Blrm- as was ' attempting to make right turn a onto the highway. Page’s 37 model car was knocked off into a pasture and Morgan’s automclbile was spun around by the force of the col¬ lision. No injuries were report¬ ed. Accompanying Trooper Wolf on his investigations was Chief Deputy Bill Norton. New Jury Revisors Two new Jury Commissioners have been appointed to fill va¬ cancies in the Dade County Jury Commission which were created upon the retirements of E. R. Wells and R. P. Fricks. They are W. H. Pullen of Morganville and W. H. Kenlmer of Rising Fawn. Others on the commission are: J. C. Pace, Trenton; K. D. Teet, West Brow; D. T. Brown, New England; and W. C. Bodenhammer, Davis Community. For the first time in the his¬ tory of Dade County, women’s names will be added to the jury when the commission meets this month. a Mullins youth who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mullins, Leon Moore’s son and two Mc- Kaig boys. W. G. Morrison, Jr. carried them to camp and John Murphy b rou ght them baclr home. of it at h o m e. The United States ^government has recog¬ nized Trenton’s growth by re¬ classifying the post office from third to second class. Maybe, she mused, the bank j will even help Dade County to feel mere like a part of Georgia. At least people won’t have to go eff to Tennessee to put their money away for safekeeping in Chattanooga banks. Mrs. Morrison keeps remind¬ ing Dade Countlans through her paper that they are Geor¬ gians. She has two subscribers, however, who must be hard to convince. They live across Sand , Mountain and to come into the 1 county seat of Trenton they . have to drive up into Tennessee and back down into Georgia.
