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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1955)
ibe side mum Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LV Fair Plans CATTLE SHOW, TRADE DAY TO HIGHLIGHT FAIR Plans for Dade County’s Fair are shaping up, with year’s livestock show to be of the biggest in decent A meeting of the county stock committee and all trants planning to show in the fair has been set for day night, Sept. 30 for of making final and rule classifications. meeting will begin at 7:30 p. in the courthouse. Rules previously drawn up quire that a 1 1 livestock to shown should be on the grounds at 8 a. M. October in readiness for the show is scheduled to come off at a m. Sale of livestock will gin at 1 p. m. The Committee furthur requires cattle to be halter - broken order to be eligible for money. The grand steer of the show will $65 cash, with other class reserve champion steers to ceive prize money also, the li t being available in the catalogue. Pr-ior to the cattle sale, will be a type illustrating the choice cuts beef and their percentage relation to live weight, should be of interest to producer and consumer of Present plans of the stock Committee include enlarging of livestock on the fair grounds to 100 head of cattle. “Trade Day” New Feature of Fair A new feature of the fair year will be “Trade Day’’ the benefit of those in selling or swapping any item c o n c e i v able. event will be handled by County Agricultural of which W. H. Pullen is man. The idea was planned to pro¬ mote trading, swapping or ing any item no longer by any individual. A area will be provided for who bring such articles as plows, coffee pots or hounds. At the end of the cattle for those who have not of articles brought, the of an auctioneer will be able free of charge. planning to take advantage this new idea are asked leave a list of items to be posed of with the County The Dade County Times or H. Pullen, so list may be lished prior to Fair Day. It the opinion of several tural and community that “Trade Day” can be ed into a gala annual event . Persons planning to place hibits in the fair are urged bring them to the fair after 3 p. m. Thursday or be Methodist Church Plans Centennial Celebration Members of the Whiteside Methodist Church are making plans for the Centennial and Homecoming which will take place October 9. In honor of the occasion, Mrs. Inex Doyle Stines is preparing a history of the church which will be pub¬ lished sometime in the near fu¬ ture. The following is her brief sketch of the church’s history, interspersed with information supplied by Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend. In the early 1800’s in a little corner of Marion County an Indian village stood on the banks of the small stream Run¬ ning Water, which still winds its way along the foot of Etna and Sand Mountain and pours its secrets into the mighty Ten¬ nessee River. When the first white settlers came into this valley, they found an Indian Mission, but they were not content to wor¬ ship with the redskins. They soon built their own house of worship, approximately fifteen by twenty feet in size, with a large fireplace at one end. On Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade and THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1955 Shaping Up | H. D. COUNCIL TO SPONSOR FAIR FOOD The food booth at the County Fair, which is up October 21-22, will again sponsored by the Home stration Council, it was Monday during a called ing of the organization. Representatives of the clubs present voted ly to sell hot dogs, coffee, and cold drinks during the days of the Fair. Mrs. A. Dyer, council president, pointed Miss Bess Cureton head the committee in of the booth. The following ladies then appointed by Miss ton to help plan the Mesdames Jiles Gass, Club; Virginia Ferguson, Home; Edgar Moore, Slygo; T. Lea, Wildwood; W. C. ton, Byrd’s Chapel; Cecil Kaig, New Salem; Elmer Morganville and A. L. Trenton. Mrs. Bill Konrad was nounced as chairman of the hibit committee who will each entry as it comes in. will be assisted by Sonny McMahan, Fred son, W. W. Williams, J. M gers, W. L. Simpson and Hawes. These committee bers have been requested to someone to replace them they will not be able to serve. Miss Naomi Hubble, demonstration agent, each club represented to get touch immediately with committee on space in order that space ments may be worked out everyone’s satisfaction. She so reminded the group club scrapbooks are due Dec. 1. TRENTON ENTERED IN IMPROVEMENT CONTEST Trenton has been entered the Georgia Better Home Towns according to a statement this week by Mayor A. L. Since there is so much build¬ ing going on in the town, Mr. Dyer felt Trenton had a chance in the contest. T. S. Renfroe and Rev. R. L. Hilten are assembling pictures for the scrapbook of improvements, and others will be asked to help with the project. Construction going on in¬ cludes the new bank building, post office, M. J. Hale law of¬ fice, new high school and the addition to Gross Mercantile Co. Several new houses have also been built. The bank build¬ ing, when completed, will also house The Dade County Times and will include two efficiency apartments Concrete block and brick-veneer walls for both the bank and the Gross addition are going up, and the Hale of¬ fice building is almost com¬ August 8, 1828, Rev. North mitted Elizabeth Murphy the Methodist Church, thus gan the chain of that has survived for one dred twenty-seven years. According to Elizabeth phy’s granddaughter, Mrs’ zabeth Townsend, she have joined the church by let¬ ter because she was when she was very young. Townsend’s family has reason to believe that their cestors had a great deal to with the original church she understands was built Murphy’s Hollow on a wet-weather branch Meeting House Creek. It was not built of logs most of the early houses, was made of lumber and nailed over the joints. Mrs. Townsend believes that type building was called houses.” had By 1838 the Indians moved away and the white pulation steadily increased. The N. C. & S. T. L. way was completed in 1854 W. M. Davenport, Chatta. Woman Die Two persons were killed In Dade County and three injured during the weekend. Mrs. Lor¬ ain M. Busby, of Chattanooga, and Wesley M. Davenport, 27, Trenton resident, died in auto¬ mobile accidents and were pro¬ nounced dead at the scenes of the two crashes by Coroner C. T. Sims. Mrs. Busby, wife of Leo Bus¬ by of Chattanooga, was killed about 6:30 a. m. Friday morn¬ ing in a head-on collision atop S^nd Mountain, about a mile east of the Davis School. Three other persons were injured in the accident and are being treated at a Chattanooga hos¬ pital. They are listed as James Be- lue, 27, Long Island, Ala., driver of one of the cars, who received injuries to the right arm and a f rehead cut; Clell „ ... H. .. Yates, „ 27, of Avans, formerly of Chat¬ tanooga, driver o f the second “ v, . T . 3 CUt °T the left ! eye and was reported . In- a semi-conscious condition, and i Albert Anderson, 31, of Long Island, who received a bad cut ! on the upper lip. It was reported that Mrs. Busby and Anderson were pas¬ sengers in the Yates car. At the hospital, Yates said he “black-i ed out” after coming over a hill and that the two cars collided on the top of the hill. The road , was said to be “very dusty” at the time of the accident. No charges have been made in con¬ nection with the wreck. Davenport Killed Sat. Night Davenport, known by many as “Pig Wheeler”, a name he car¬ ried from boyhood days, died instantly about 8:30 p. m. after the car he was driving plunged down an embankment off the Trenton-LaFayette highway. He was reportedly e n route up Lookout Mountain to carry Ray Moore, a n acquaintance, home when the accident oc¬ curred. Davenport’s car, a '55 model, went off the mountain at the first curve, known as “horseshoe bend” and was practically demolished. The body was pinned inside the car in such a way that it took investigating officers and the ambulance driver some time to extricate it. Moore received only slight injuries and was re¬ leased after treatment at a hos¬ pital. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Peggy Trotter Davenport, Chat¬ tanooga; one son, Wesley Ben¬ jamin Davenport, Chattanooga; mother, Mrs. Ruby Brock, grandmother, Mrs. Ely Wheeler, aunt, Mrs. Clara Breedlove, un¬ cle, D e w e 1 Breedlove, and a cousin, Glenda Breedlove, all of Trenton. Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Trenton Church of Christ with Rev. Joe Mayhew officiating. Interment was in Payne Cemetery. the name Whiteside was given the station in honor of Col. James A. Whiteside who gave the right-of-way for this pro¬ ject. In the year 1855 the Etna Mining Company opened there, bringing more people into the valley. These people realized their need for God in their lives and the church membership increased. These pioneers lived in peace until the Civil War, when the Federal Army marched into that section of the country. They made camp along the banks of Running Water Creek and tore down the little church moving it some three miles from Murphy’s Hollow to their camp site at Whiteside on the Reddow property to use as their office. After the war the people came to the church in this location until 1877 when a beautiful new church was built near by. It was also used for school purposes with Mrs. Townsend one of the first pupils. Here the people Court Unable to Empanel Twelve Jurors Crane Paul Crane, who was for murder in connection the fatal attack on aged Junius Nesbitt in October 1<951, came to trial this week criminal court. The case, headed a long criminal was dismissed from the dar of this term of court twelve qualified jurors not be found from among seventy drawn. The case be re-scheduled for a later of court. Prior to this defense lawyers for Crane, L Lomenlck, Joe Wild, Jr. Andrew Cain, entered for continuance of the case for a change of venue, both which were overruled by court. A sanity trial -was held, with the jury little over an hour before reachlng . the decl5ion that defendant was sane and fore capable of conducting »wn trial. Earl B fcl| and At torney “Sandy” Clower of attorney for the Nedbitt estate, represented the state. “Not Had Time To Prepare Evidence The defense entered the con- motlon ° n the pounds since their flrm had not retained until a week ago, y had not had sufricieI J t to prepare necessary evi¬ Judge Davis overruled motion for the reason that of the lawyers for the de¬ was familiar with the before that time. Crane released from the state penitentiary at Reidsville, Ga. July and knew then he was indictment. When the change of venue was made, Crane's bro¬ ther, Hershel Crane, took the to testify that there was much “ill feeling” throughout county concerning the case, that he had heard it said the defendant would “be con¬ victed on general principles if else.” Asked by Attorn¬ Clower to state the names these persons, Crane declined answer. Paul Crane then went to the to testify in his own be¬ making the statement that did not think he could get a trial in Dade County be¬ of this talk. He also said since his discharge from army, he had never lived in county, but that his mo¬ home was here, and that wished the case transferred Walker County. The court overruled this mo¬ following Sheriff Graham s that he had not the case discussed any than any other murder Several witnesses for the state in readiness for the trial, three prisoners from who will have to be worship until 1886 when the peaceful Running Water over¬ flowed and washed the church from its foundation, damaging the furnishings and destroying valuable records. The building was restored and again used for worship. The years pased — the early pioneers began to leave this val¬ ley to go to their Eternal Home. But their children had inherited a priceless possession — their Christian Heritage. This generation was faced with disaster in 1913 when they watch ed helplessly as the church burn¬ ed to the ground. Immediately construction of a new building began. — Serv¬ ices were soon being held in the new church but furnishing was not completed for several years. This church is still being used Through the century the peo¬ ple have worked to keep a Meth¬ odist Church in the valley. When we of this generation become weary we pause and think of the battles our ancestors fought to give us religious freedom. Seventy-eight pastors have Published 1901 returned to the Trenton when the case is Crane, who was being held in Rome jail before this week court, was returned there with the Reidsville Tuesday. Mrs. Ogreeta Pace of was the first woman in county to sit on a jury, the concerning a charge Gerald Logan of Lookout for speeding. Logan was ped by She riff Graham Deputy Bill Norton on the of June 23, 1955 for at speeds "exceeding 100 110 miles per hour”, the ment read. Logan defended himself, ing as evidence a book ing the actual speeds his mobile and that of the were capable of making, he said were not the high of speed he is accused of veling. He brought out both cars were equipped stock engines. Logan also ified that he was not that fast and that he had way if knowing he was followed by the law or he would have stopped. Sheriff Graham’s Dade G.S.D. By Spencer Jenkins Scoring three touchdowns via the air and two by way of land, the Dade High Wildcats made it three games in a row in the win column with a 34-7 victory over Georgia School for the Deaf at Brown Field last Fri¬ day night. Halfback Carl Steele south- pawed a 12-yard pass to Dale Sims, who took it on the GSD 2-yard line arid stepped over for a T.D. early in the second quarter and also 'tossed a 12- yard pass to end Derreli Hughes in the third quarter for a T.D. Quarterback Harold Shankles threw a 14-yard pass to End Eugene Keith for the third T.D. by air early in the fourth quarter after the Wildcats had recovered a GSD f u m ble on their 18-yard line. Scatiback David Steele scored the first touchdown for Dade as GSD fumbled on the third play of the game and Harold Shankles recovered on the GSD 19-yard line. The Wild cats moved the ball down to the 8- yard line where David went over for a T. D. on an end run. Steele scored his other touch¬ down on an 18-yard run in the second quarter. For the night, Steele picked up 101 yards rushing on nine plays for an average of 11 yards a try. His run of 46 yards in the 3rd quarter was the longest run of the game. He ran from his 12-yard own 42-yard line before line being to the stop- GSD j served this circuit and have ceived a total of 357 into church. Bri. John H. Parrott, in 1873 and 1874, later Miss Lou Griffith of Valley. The letter he wrote his friends here telling of coming marriage is with church records. Another well loved Bro. J. A. Darr of 1874 1887, later moved to Jasper published a paper there. (Ed. Note — Rev. Darr, he was pastor of the Fawn Methodist Church in was also publisher and editor the Dade County Gazette.) Of the present Mrs. Mary Smedley Price, 85, the oldest member, and is i n her 70th year of church work. Her sister, Lou Smedley Dagnan has a member for 69 years. Through the years the has been on the Dade Washington C i r cuit and Etna Circuit, formed years ago which at the time includes three NUMBER 37 included statements that he followed Logan from the Plaza Court at New England along Highway No. 11 and up Look¬ out Mountain, where he turned on the red blinker light and the siren. After a short deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. During court week, Mrs. Bon¬ nie Lacy, the other woman jur¬ or drawn, was called to sit on the case of the State vs. Dol- and Tishaw, charged with driv ing while intoxicated. Tishaw was found not guilty. While these cases were being heard, Mamie Clay of Hooker pled guilty to charges of using obscene language and operating a disorderly house. She was placed on 24 month’s probation provided she conducts herself in an orderly manner and does not violate the terms of her probation. Other Cases Found guilty by juries were: Lewis Taylor, Abandonment Jim Bodenhammer, Bigamy Bill Raines, Possessing Liquor Results % o f cases tried after The Times went to press will b-* carried next week. ped. Donald Vaughn kicked 4 out of 5 placements and also showed up well on defense. Center Ed Vaughn played a good game and also recevered a fumble to set up the Wildcats’ second T. D. GSD scored in the" last quar¬ ter as they marched 65 yards to ficore after recevering a Wild¬ cat fumble o n their own 35- yard line. Ronald Bell scored from 15 yards out and the try for extra point was good. Dade beat a highly-spirited team from GSD. End Bobby Lee was injured and had to leave the game ear ly in the second quarter. Score by Periods: Dade ......... 7 14 6 7—34 G. S. D.......0 0 0 7—7 Dade is building up an im¬ pressive record with only one loss and three straight wins. team has scored a total of 111 points to their opponents’ The next home game for the will be Friday night, 7 when they meet Buchan¬ rated the strongest team in 4-C. Buchanan has al¬ scored a victory over Ga. for the Deaf and Bre¬ last year’s 4-C champions. The winner of this game has excellent chance of becom- i n g this y e a r’s Region 4-C According to Wild¬ fans, the Dade team has a good chance o f winning Buchanan. Annex, Hale Chapel and White- side. We have been in the Jas¬ per, Cleveland and Chattanoo¬ ga Districts. Members of the Whiteside Church are extending an invi¬ tation to all former pastors and their families, former members, and all their friends to bring a basket lunch and spend a day of fellowship at the Whiteside Methodist Church o n October 9. 1955, the c e n t e n nial and Homecoming Day. The morning program will be¬ gin promptly at 10:00, E. S. T. Lunch at 12:00 noon and the afternoon program, which will include the dedication o f the church, will begin at 2:00 P. M. E.S. T„ When Bishop Short v i s i ted here last March, he stood in the quietness of the chapel and be¬ gan to sing—“O Come to the Church in the Wildwood", which is very descriptive of The Whiteside Methodist Church.
