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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1955)
Dade County's Only Newspaper. lv DALLYIN’ IN DADE Sulphur Springs Post Office Established Before R. R. Built According ,o what we can piece together from several re¬ sidents of the county, the Sul¬ phur Springs post office, which was discontinued last month, is probably the first established in Dade County. Believed by some to have been originally at Sulphur Springs, Ala., a few miles away, the post office was established before the railroad was built hrough Sulphur Springs, Ga. It was located in Henry Smith’s Store, father of T. — B. Smith, - whose name may be recognized by many of the older genera¬ tion. Once Freight Center After the railroad was survey¬ ed, Henry Smith deeded right of way and land for the depot, which was torn down a number cf years ago. Freight yards were built, making Sulphur Springs one of the busiest tanbark and timber centers from Meridian to Chattanooga. It was there that timber off both Lookout and Sand moun¬ tain, was loaded on flat cars. Hugh Forester and Mark Scruggs, mail carrier be’ween Rising Fawn and Head River, furnished us with the above in¬ formation and also told us that the late John McGuffey was postmaster there for about for¬ ty years. He is no relation to the John McGuffey who is a re¬ sident of the New Salem com- muni y, however. Other details, such as date of establishment, are not available due to lack of records. Accord¬ ing to regulation, post office records dating back from 1914 were sent by Rising Fawn Post¬ master J. L. Fricks to the Post Office Departmen’, and those up to the time it was discon¬ tinued destroyed. R. F. D. To Sand Mtn. During “horse and days,” according to Mr. Scruggs’ memory, ’here was a rural route from the Sulphur Springs pcst office to Sand Mountain. He said that mail in those was net too private, since per- sons making a trip down mountains were asked to back their neighbors’ mail. The lot of postcards was read and the “mail man’’ able o greet his friends bits gleaned from the cards. From Smith’s Store, the office was moved to Forester’s Store where it mained until Mrs. Forester signed in October. Her was postmaster until his in 1948 when she replaced When no one could be found continue the pest office Mrs. Forester decided to .«» dos* down. route was changed to Fawn Star Route, for w h i c Mark Scruggs is carrier. A typical day for Mr. who has been carrier for past ten years, begins at 7 a. when he leaves his Head born born Writes 7th Grade Essay on Dade m mwm In In studying studying the the history history of ol Georgia, the students in Mis _ A,da Keith Bottom’s 7th grade class at Dade Elementary School became really interested when they started studying about Dade County. Though the county students have done it before Mrs. Bottoms encour¬ aged her class to gather more facts about the county than those which appeared in the history book to write a theme on what they found. We are publishing the winning essay which was judged from the se- veral found best by the class Dadp Pmintv corned ic in the western of the state of wide at the widest. All together It has 288 square miles. I>ade at first was a part of Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade and THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1955 By Myrna McMahan ( Head River and has lived most of his life there, he was very familiar with the route when he was first awarded the contract. Before the establishment of the Star Route, he drove his pick-up truck directly to the post office a. Sulphur Springs to leave mail which had been sent by way of Head River, then came cn to Rising Fawn where he loaded up Star Route mail to go back up the mountain. The changeover to Rising Star Route affected his sched¬ ule little; instead of stopping Sulphur Springs, he straight to Rising Fawn. He finishes his route a; ap¬ proximately ten o’clock. The difference between a rural car¬ rier and a star route man is that the latter has time to chat with the neighbors as he goes along. Also the s.ar route posi¬ tion is let toy contract where the rural carrier is appointed after taking a civil service exa¬ mination. Breaks From Routine There are times when the same schedule gets pretty dreary, Mr. Scruggs says, but the things chat happen on oc¬ casion make up for it; such as the time about four years ago when snow on him to slide into a ditch He had to leave the mail and the truck to walk four miles for a shovel Then there is the man whoto litle out to the mailbox with a chicken for Mr. Scruees to wring its neck She has doing it for years and and <utu • * Mr Scruggs has come to regard it as mere routine. Occasionally he spots a few deer as he drives along but has never tried shoot one. Mr. and Mrs. Scruggs own a farm cf their own, but at pres- ent live on Dr. G. W. Stephen- son’s place and care for a total of 450 acres. Mrs. Scruggs was Miss Mable Mathis of Cedar Grove before her marriage. The iC0U ple have two children, both grown . Peeled Tanbark j Mr . Scruggs’ employee father, of John the Scrug g S was an Rising Fawn Furnace at one time and lived both at Rising Fawn and at Sulphur Springs. He peeled tanbark seventy-six years ago on Lookout, hauling it by steer-wagon to Sulphur Springs to the freight yard. To drive through the little community with its houses now, one can - hardly imagine the activity that we nt on there. Although cea sed to be in operation as a Da de County freight center a number of years ago, the side tracks a nd .section houses were loot .cm u p i »? Jve years ago. e w torn down years before. m the closing of the post of- , Dade lost one of fice there, has its most poignant reminders of the past; who but time we to i ma halt ^ c ^ es pro- ^° n and are ■ Walker Walker and a n d ^oosa Catoosa County. County Later it was decided Dade and Walker were large enough. Jn 1838 Dade was chopped off from ^^ ^ new 117 years old. At the time of the Civil War, Dade County seceded from the State of Georgia because it wa too slow to secede from the Un- ion. It rejoined officially on Among the first families to move here were: the Morrisons, paces, Allisons, Tatums, Jen¬ kins, Rosses, Tinkers, and k““*b *>*"*•> — - Th . e n j nrpd and New Salem. - ing^ ^ churches churches, ln D ade County; ten Methodist VETERANS DAY—Governor t.Vl.irvln Griffin signs Proclamation naming November 11th as Veterans Day”, replacing Armistice Day, by act of President Eisenhower’s proclamation in 1954. Witnessing the signing are: (left to right) Pete Wheeler, Director, State Department of Veterans Service; Jack Langford, Chairman, Veterans Day Com¬ mittee; V. F. W. Department Commander Randolph Wedlock; Albert Cutler, of the Spanish War Vets; Commander Carl Norton, of the Dis¬ abled American Vets; Lrgion State Department Commander Leon Hobby; Commander Leon Hutchins, of the AMVETS; A1 Singer, Jew¬ ish War Veterans; and Judge A. L. Henson, Chairman, State Veteran* Service Board. Tour New Home Judging of the New Home AreTtoSovment 0 ^TonTeTt took place Tuesday afternoon withithe followingJudges being conducted on a tour of com- munity s.nce Oct., improvements 1954. done Miss Sue Mayo of Knoxville, Wh °. iS * Uh the I ^ . * Darden ExteIls | on Economist, and 1 "T™,”’ Albertsville f the comi>anymg the judges on the to " r w ' re H ' M Moms - C °Z munlty ,mpr:vem ™ 1 spec,a “ with the Ga Extension live Service ' - G ° Unty A gei ! t L ' ^ Adar ^ s - Na0 ®t. - . Home Demon- strati efr-ft-v, 5„ Agent, iooni represenatives ronroeon^titrue i ^ be Dadfi county Times and Chattanooga Free Press, Mesdames E E Ferguson, W. B. n a ynes, Robert Dunn;'Lr‘J. Hurst, Robert Dodson, Jack Crisp MiS5 Linda gallard and And j Hurst. Mrs Ferguson was ^ charge Qf the tQUr in the a , bse nce of Mrs Jfle NeeJy presid ^» t of the New Home community Club, church,^ Firs , t W£U v.—, . the Th e* *.w.. New Home _______ where 'following persons spoke on various phases cf commun it y Hf e : Mrs. Lloyd HarriSi ’ home focd supply; Mrs.’ Ver- nQn whizna’nt, D unn farming; Gra- dv Home Demonstra- ‘ ti Qn G lu,b work; Mrs. W. B. H ayneSt community club achieve- men j s; J. Hurst, church activities; Miss Linda Ballard, CHARGES SET FOR FIRE TRUCK OUTSIDE CITY The City Council passed a resolution at the regular meet- j ng held Monday night to charge for the services of the fire engine outside the city limits. j when the engine is called cuteide the city, a charge of $10 S5 3 ; S10 for ea.h additlona ndditional hour hour af- ai ter the first hour wl a I charged. Thi, fire essary engine, in order which to mainta is an n th^ model. . ............ J ^ ap “ L Christ,'and three Churches p o Christ, and five live i Then; are three P Dost offices it ?rehto„, one ana one^at B f ng rrs.» , i gross, ine population P P now s n.j. has two main highways, ti S number eleven running f fflJhwav r om North o South and State Ind number one hundred tard fortv-three running East- Trrnss from the Alabama line Lookout Mountain. Tahnson’s Crook ’and located East of Rising Fawn, Sit on’s Gulch, which is now a State - renamed Cloudland Trentcn the county sea , is located about the center of school and 4H activities; ^oL^Tfhe^in of community has been a recreation program for youth. This effort m e t much success, with older of the community taking on picnics, entertaining c °°Pf rati ^ ™ th the f T D »s'inviting i i Service; the younj; A. A pie , ( to their homes fer re res ments and games after -he The The doorfand’'windows doors and windows the ,hLS antl ato ta ““' electric range and a cold box. Many other have taken place; including community nnmrniMaitv turnip tnrnln patch, ntliph sever a) new houses and of older homes, Stops at he following "Were ’made dufiftg the tout 1 : The Jeff Nixons, Yancy Clay- ten’s fall garden, E. A. Stall- lugs’ new home, R. L. Morgan’s strawberry patch, C. L. Ivey’s food cellar, W. B.. Haynes’ store and house, the bouse, Mr. Whitmire’s ______ Mrs _ John -____ Brown's house, the Willie and Mrs. R. P. Dunn’s. Delicious refreshments served at the home of Dnnn during a brief sdcial per- iod which ended a most esting tour. A more detailed port cf the tour will appear a later issue of the Dade ty Times. IciTY ELECTIONS DECEMBER 6 1 Electlon5 for the City Tren ton have been set for f j rst Tuesday in w hich will be December M A L Dyer has nounced. City elections held ev6ry tw0 yea rs for the fices of mayori recorder, c ° u ~ The re S istrat t on book ^ . en at the city Hal j for who aJe not a i rea d y on the clt Everyone urged to make certain he or ^ properly regl£te red before election. Its last last census, census, 1950, 1950. was was apprexi- apprcxl- mately “ 750 Gladys Mahan 7l . h Grade ot Mr Gather Informa^n The children, to gather the needed information information went went to the the older members of their families, the County Agent and their newspaper office. They inter- viewed any older person whom they thought might be able o help them. Barbara Kyzer, Rita i Jenkins, Gladys Mahan, Dennle Goodman and Serlta Wheeler showed particular Interest in gathering facts. All information was turned to older readers). As these facts in number, the class be- Published Weekly—Since 1901 Paul Crane Held In Ohio Sheriff F. C. Graham an- nounced Tuesday that Ohio po- lice had captured Paul Crane In Wor hingten, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. The fugitive from a Rome, Ga. jail, who had been sought for eleven days long with two fellow prisoners, was caught Monday night fol- '.w ing a chase with Worthington prlice, who termed his actions while driving a car were “sus- plrious.’’ When the police gave chase, Crane suddenly cut the car into an alley and began running. The officers fired three shots in <o the air and one at the men before Crane stumbled and fell, whereupon he and a who was In the car during the "hase were caught by the of¬ ficers. The car turned out to be stolen. His brother, Clyde Crane, was arrested last Wednesday night in Chattanooga following a tip Two Houses One Threatened Fire StrUCk at three Dade t^TSd^Uy^’amtg- ing another . ^ the Jes , e Lynn and Herman Bruce homes at New England burned tp thfi „ round with on j y a n v ing room savcJ | The Lynns lost all their fur- nl ure and pcrs0 „ al bclongln3s , w hi| e the Bruces managed to on]y a roft and cha , r out Mrs ' Bruce ’ who works the shlft> was g^p at the time (h( , „„ brc]te out an<J WM awakened by a neighbor saw tbg fi ames cause of j ires was not established, The hcme ot Mr and Mrs. Sam _ Elder, ___ which ....... Is located a block sou h of the Trenton square, was seriously theatened when a mattress caught fire from a reported short In a bed lamp. The Elders were away Four Accidents In Dade Court’' During the past week Sheriff Graham and his staff have been ca,I e dto ‘he scene cf se- veral auto wrecks, | 7 The most November serious 4 occurred and almost at p. m. took the life of a woman driver, > Mr. and Mrs. James Price, who on the Dave L. Brown farm near Wildwood, were leav¬ ing the farm and had stopped to shut the gate when an auto¬ mobile driven by James Weems of Route 3, Hixson, Tenn., left the highway !o crash into the side of their car. Mrs. Price, who was driving, time of the collision J? and * „„ rov.ly missed being in the path f „ the ine offending ouenamg vehicle. ~ Mr. Erice . ^ as seriously a s ‘ atement t0 S h ® 'S" ^ith l^m tv . J Q Z QU to sleep, awakening when his car hlt a spi ii way . n e was charged ] with driving ”j his auto- (bi lng t contr m of 3> wiUiam Clift Eratt, of Fort ! Payne, suffered minor injuries mere. mere. Ed Ed Taylor, Taylor son son of of Mrs. R ena Taylcr, told Mrs. Bot- toms, the teacher, “I’ve lived here all my life and I never SS TS LVt.7^ H their themes. One Teacher, 55 Students Mrs. Bottoms teaches Social Science (which used to be called History) to both the 6th and 7th grades and Is the Home Room Teacher for the 7th grade. In this grade, which became so In- terested in Dade Coun y htsto- ry, there are 55 children which Is an exceptionally large class for one person to teach. The students are. Dianne Allen, Thomas Barnes, Baty, Vivian Baty, Evon Bear- 1 den. Patsy Blackstock, Sherry NUMBER 42 to the police by two young boys. Clyde h'd been staying at he heme of „ woman rient and was uspe; ted by the boys, who waited until he fell asle p h-n s' 1 hi~ nts’-ol and went •» the ’-olice station to describe him. The boys, who asked that eir nam s not be u?ed for fear “they might be killed,” evtdent- !y had access to the house, The two prisoners who es- caned from Rome with the Cranes are still at large. They are Lindsey Branton and Char- les Turner. Both Clyde and Paul Crane are in the custody of U. S. Marshals. Sheri f Graham and a police officer from Rome left this morning for Columbus to bring Paul Crane back t: Geor¬ gia. Clyde will also be brought back to Georgia. Additional charges of fleeing the state to avoid prosecution have been filed against the pair. from home, Mrs. Elder working manfgefhf'tL'L^gewood^Sub- Division and Mr Elder ln Chattanooga. A neighbor, Mrs. H cward McKaig> noticed Smoke coming cut from under the j eaves of the house and lmme- diately called he fire depart- ment . 1 The smoke was so dense that j Tommy Gray. Howard McKaig Monrce McKaig - wh0 were the first to arrive cn the scene, cotUd not stay ln5lde t0 locate immu the blaxe. A long hose from the fire truck, manned by Clercn j Kyzer and Rip Gifford, extin guished the mat ress and bed which ... were completely ... des¬ . troyed. The heavy smoke blackened the walls and celling which had just been 'reshly painted and turned appliances yellow. when his nut-'motole hit a d‘t-h wo and a half mil." ,tj south of Trentcn. Eratt was aftemp' in to pass a freight van when an unidentified man ran in front, causing the van driver to pull over. Erattt was forced to run Into the di ch, damaging it to the extent that it had to be towed ln by a Williams’ wreck¬ er. Hallowe’en night James Long ran into the rear of a 1955 au¬ tomobile which was parked on the Trenton square with no ligh s showing. The r ront end of the Long automobile and the rear of the other auto which was cwned by Harvey Alvin Shaw were badly damaged, As a* was w as reported reponja in m last n»n. week's we». Sims ran Into a dept c d ® ^^Lfe^n^hthwav "almost MS several passengers but none wprp rprinrtpd in1lir pd it was originally . . . reported rpnortpri th that t prank- Drank moved the barricade but according to the sheriff, it had not been moved. Bessie BeMle Leu Leu Clark, Clark, Donniey Donniey Con- Con- ner v Edward Daniel, Winston Daniel, Roy Dawkins, Randle .Dickerson, Glenn Gass, Glenn ^ Haney, Glenda ^ Harrison, Wil¬ liam Donald Hester. Lamar Hu chings, Mary Fran¬ ces Hutchings, Rita Lee Jen¬ kins, Barbara Kyzer, George Lee, Jimmy Lynch, Gladys Mahan, ; Louis Massey, Arnold McCon- nville, Peggy Milligan, Carolyn Mitchell, Ronald Mocre, Cecil Morgan, Lynda Jo Pace, Nellie Raines, Fanette Sargent, Linda Kay Sims. Eugene Smith, Do- ■ ra ld Smith, Edward Taylor, Jo Ann TroxteU, Robert Walston, serita Wheeler, Douglas Wheel- Diane, Wheeler, Rebbecca Wheeler Gwendolyn Whited, Jo Woodtta. Thomas Yates.
