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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1955)
Dade County’s Only Newspaper. P ALLYI N’ IN DADE Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend Leads Active Life . . . One of the sprightliest and most attractive little cld ladies we have had the pleasure of meeting has lived arcuhd Mur¬ phy’s Hollow, Whiteside and Wildwood all her life; in fact, some of her family were early settlers in that area, hence the naming cf Murphy’s Hollow. She is Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy Townsend, 80, sister to Dade County Tax Commissioner John Murphy, Mrs. Will (Edwina) Austin, X. B., Joe and Q. R. Murphy. Mrs. Townsend has another distincticn to her cre¬ dit, that of being mother of J. M. C. (Red) Townsend, former Dade laywer who rose to Judge cf the Cherokee Circuit and is ncv: Judge of the Court of Ap¬ peals in Atlanta, and Raymond Townsend, postmaster, mer¬ chant, farmer, and member of the Bank of Dade board of di¬ rectors. Noted for Cheerfulness and Wit Now, Mrs. Townsend doesn’t really need all these “famous” Dade County folks to be news¬ worthy, for her warm person¬ ality and wit make her a “ce¬ lebrity’’ in her own right; everywhere she goes she is able to greet old and new friends. Strangers do not remain mere acquaintances when intro¬ duced ... they are her friends. | Last. Sunday, October 9, was a good example of her popular¬ ity and charm. During the 100th birthday celebration and home¬ coming of the Whiteside Meth¬ odist Church, probably no one else shook hands with sc many people as Mrs. Townsend. One of the oldest members of the Whiteside church, Mrs. Town¬ send enjoyed seeing Rev. W. L. Tate, father cf Mrs. Raymond Morrison, and minister a : ( Whiteside several years ago. She modestly says that she has never “done anything”, but to a great many of us, a life spent in the kitchen as house¬ wife and mother is a life well- spent and cne worthy of spe¬ cial notice. Mrs. Townsend was born at Cole Ci y in 1875, the oldest child of J. P. and Mary Martha Ann Coin Murphy. Her father worked in the mines guarding convicts during the time Capt. Reece was superintendent. The family moved to the hollow while she was very young, then to Whiteside, where she lived until her marriage in 1896 to W. J. Townsend. Most of her schooling tock place at Whiteside, which had a very good school for that pe¬ riod in history, she remembers. LEATHER WORK—I. W. Orton of Piney, who makes hand- tooled belts, purses and billfolds of fine quality leat tr > J'' display his handiwork which includes wood lamps an o items ai the Plum Nelly show this weekend. dt Cmmtii t Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 1955 Coal was mined in quantity in that area, and the mining com¬ pany around 1885 was interest¬ ed in seeing that the small handful cf children got a good educa'Ion; therefore, good tea¬ chers were hired and a new sys¬ tem of teaching set up. At the age of fifteen, Eliza¬ beth Murphy began teaching, entirely too early, she feels. She taught at Murphy’s Hollcw and Cole City, and remembers hav¬ ing the Avery, Parker, Doyle, Perkins and Murphy children as her first pupils. After her marriage, she and Mr. Townsend began house-' keeping at Wildwood; then fol- ! made lowing his death in 1924, she J i her heme with son Ray- mond who, with his wife and 1 three boys, lives on part of the Cravens property. Lives on old Cravens Place The hills of Wildwood were full of iron ore, in the latter that 1800’s the but of mining such poor operations quality j few j attempted were not worth the effort. provided It was this supply of ere j that J. R. Cravens with the ambition to make some use of it, so in 1882, he built and incorpcrated a paint mill on the creek about a mile from the present Townsend home. He also had flour and meal ground. Mrs. Townsend re¬ calls hearing that although the flour ground was not the best in quality, the corn meal was excellent. Many residents of the little community semetimes exchanged wheat for flour else¬ where in the county. Flowers and the Townsend boys are Mrs. Townsend's ma¬ jor interests now, with her grandchildren holding top i place. She is very preud of ! them and has made each a quilt, using such favorite pat¬ terns as Dresden Plate and Sunburst. Some of her daintily- stitched quil s have been exhi¬ bited in the county fair. She enjoys attending the Doyle reunion at the home of Jchn Doyle in Murphy’s Hollow each year and hasn't missed a one. She chuckles that even though it is now called the Doyle-Murphy reunion, the Murphys can’t hold a candle to the Doyles in attendance, for the Doyle clan is one of the largest in the county. An interesting person is one who takes an interest in life... and Mrs. Townsend would cer¬ tainly rank high on anyone s We wish her the best of everything. _ Dade Craftsmen to Exhibit at Plum Art Show Samples of Articles to Be Shown 100-YEAR-OLD QUILT—Miss May I. Cuxeton displays a lovely quilt, exquisitely stitched by her mother, Mrs. Maddie Christian Cureton, about a hundred years ago. The quilt will be one of many from Dade County homes which will be shown at Plum Nelly and at the Fair. I | j MRS. CURETON TO SHOW VARIETY OF ARTICLES— Mrs. Dudley Cureton, who is in charge of *he Dade Count'/ Craftsmen Booth, will show a variety of handmade items, in¬ cluding the ceramic tile picture she holds above. CERAMICS AND BUTTONWOOD — Mrs. Cureton poses with ceramics she has made and buttonwood collected during a recent vacation on the Florida Keys. Published Weekly—Since 1901 On Saturday and Sunday, October 15th and 16th, the ninth annual presentation of he now-famous Plum Nelly Clothesline Art Show will be held in the open woods at Plum Nelly, ( "Plum out of Tennessee and Nelly out of Georgia’’), mountain studio of Miss Fan¬ nie Mennen, Chattanooga art¬ ist and teacher. Every fall Miss Mennen gathers a group of tri- state artists and craftsmen and displays their work upon cloths- lines hung between the trees on the bluff overlooking Johnson’s Crook. This year’s show will feature some 300 paintings, the work of eleven painters and fifty-five craftsmen. Newcomers to the 1955 clothesline are Robert Caldwell, Mildred Jarrett, Frank Helms, Charles Doughty and Lucile Wilkinson. Veterans re¬ turning to the show are Fred Leath, Frank Baisden, Bill Jer- nigan, Margaret Parsons, Bar¬ bara Williams, Gina Plunguian (pain ing and sculpture), and Miss Mennen. A new feature of the “gallery’’ will be the port¬ folio collection which each painter will bring in a display rack at comfortable browsing height. Booths will be set up by craftsmen; Pottery by Adelaide Beck Chase, Weaving by Eliza¬ beth Jackson and Associates, Honey by Mr. B 1 a c k e more, Hand-made articles by Dade County’s craftsmen, Kitchen Linens by Miss Mitty Mocre, The Jolly Weavers of the Frye Institute, Weaving by the Ber¬ ry Schools, Mrs. Smotherman’s hand-painted china, and a va¬ riety of crafts from Georgia’s Home Demonstration Clubs, be¬ ing collected by Miss Mildred Ledford, Home Industries Spe¬ cialist . Gina Plunguian, sculptor, will bring her por rait head she is now working on and will have her model present and will give a demonstration of clay modeling both days of the show. Virginia Dudley’s beautiful enamels will be sold this year through the All-Georgia Crafts Booth. Miss Dudley will be in Abingdon, Va. the weekend of the show, attending the Educa¬ tional Conference of the Soy- thern Highlands Handicrafts Guild. Frank Baisden has spent the summer painting a series of stunning watercolors, many cf which used as their inspiration the rock formations at the bot¬ tom of Sitton’s Gulch and the wildf lowers cf Dade County. Miss Mennen, having taken a year’s leave from last year’s clothesline, returns this year for the first time any¬ where, her paintings done in Hai i, two winters ago, when PLYWOOD BOWLS AND TRAYS—Mrs. E. S. Oliver will exhibit her wood bowls and trays in the Dade County booth at Plum Nelly. NUMBER 39 she was on leave to study and travel on a Ford Fellowship.. The Mambu Coats, with their authentic voodoo designs from Haiti, will be shown this year by Betty Cureton in the booth of Dade County’s Handcrafts. Delicious sandwiches, coffee, home-made cake, hot-dogs, drinks and ice-cream will be sold from the Plum Nelly wood¬ shed by the ladies of the New Salem Women”s Society of Christian Service. Apple cider and gingersbread will again be served by Mrs. Art Moore, whose galy-festooned booth has been a regular feature of every clothesline show. Mr. Edgar Whited and his boys will again operate a park¬ ing lot in their transformed corn-field at the en ranee to the grounds. The services of Mr. Dave L. Brown’s sprinkler, keeping the dirt roads wetted down leading to the show grounds, have been secured. Visitors are urged to wear comfortable walking shoes and garb suitable for the woods. Artists and craftsmen will be iden" ified by bright red garments. The public is cordially invit¬ ed to attend the show which is one of the most interesting and unique art shows anywhere. Ar¬ rows pointing the way to Plum Nelly will be set up both days of the show. All Communities Planning Entries In Fair, Oct. 21-22 Community leaders in all parts of the county are getting together samples cf needlework, canning, crafts, etc., for exhibit in the 1955 Dade County Fair, which is planned for next week end, October 21 - 22. The following ladies are just a few of the many who are helping with community exhi¬ bits: Mesdames R. W. Boyd, R. S. Townsend, R. C. Foster, J. C. Wallin, G.- A. Carroll, Jr., J C. Hancock, W T. Lea and O. C. Turner, Wildwood; Mes¬ dames Joe Light, Sr., and E. S. Oliver, Morganville; Miss Bess Cureton and Mrs. M. R. Wil¬ son, Rising Fawn; Mesdames Delmas Freeman, Bob Alexan¬ der, R. L. Hilten, J. M. Case, Virgil Jenkins, John Tatum and Martin Nethery, Trenton; Mes¬ dames George Grant, Mary Tal¬ ley, Jiles Gass and C. M. Bo- denhammer, Avans; Mrs. Nola Crisp, New Home; and Mrs. Bill Gray, New Salem. Mr. Worth Lea is also assisting with the Wildwocd booth.
