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Baptist Association
The Lookout Valley Mission¬
ary Association will hold its fif¬
ty-fourth annual Session next
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
Head River Baptist Church.
Visiting workers and speak¬
ers will be Dr. R.T. Russell, Dt.
John J. Hurt, Mr. John R. Nun-
nally and Rev. Harvey R. Mitch¬
ell.
Reports will be given on the
work accomplished in the coun¬
ty this year.
The meeting will begin 7:15 p
m. Tuesday night and will ad¬
journ at 9:15, beginning again
at 9:00 a. m. Wednesday morn¬
ing.
SIGHT CONSERVATION
TROJECT
In order to raise money for
their Sight Conservaton Pro¬
gram, the Dade County Lions
Club members next week will
begin a sale of electric light
bulbs. Members are planning tc
sell to all comers and make a
door to door campaign.
This very worthy cause, which
the Lions Club has financed
for a good many years, helps
to pay to have children’s eyes
examined and to buy glasses
when necessary.
WANT ADS
PIANO FOR SALE—Will sell in
your neighborhood fine Spinet
piano to responsible party who
cani ^n,ake small down pay¬
ment and assume sm all
monthly payments on balance,
also Mirror Spinet only $295.00.
Might consider renting if not
sold at once. Write;CREDIT
DEPT., 83 Alabama Street S.
W., Atlanta, Georgia. 8-31
Buy your new Ford from 2 Dade
County boys, Nelson Burrell
or Jim Murphy at Bert Brown
Motors, 4509 Rossville Blvd.,
Chattanooga, Tenn. Phone
4-1541. 5tp-8/30
DR. G. K. MacVane
Chiropractor and Naturopath
720 N. Gault Avenue
Ft. Payne* Ala.
HIGHEST prices paid for pine
and poplar logs. See us if you
have any to sell. Dyer Lumber
Company, Trenton, Ga.
I DO Public Hauling. Whitwell
Coal, etc. Andy Newby, Tren¬
ton, Ga. OLiver 7-4542.
8--23 pd.
TWO Hereford males, one two
years old—other 15 months
old. Priced to sell. Bill Austin,
Trenton Furniture Company.
8-16 pd.
Regular meetings Trenton
Lodge No. 179 F. & A. M. the
second and fourth
Saturday nighte each
month at 8:00 p. xn.
All qualified Masons invited
to attend.
Joe K. Rogers, W. M.
J. M. Rogers, Secretary
CITATION
JEORGIA, DADE COUNTY,
ro ALL WHOM IT MAY CON¬
CERN:
Hazel R. Lancaster having in
lue form applied to me for
’ermanent Letters of Adminis-
ratiin upon the estate of James
J. Lancaster, deceased, this is
o notify the next of kin and
reditors of the said James B
Lancaster deceased, that said
implication will be heard be-
ore me at the regular Septem-
ier Term, 1956, of the Court of
)rdinary of said County.
WITNESS my hand and offi-
ial signature, this 6th day of
August, 1956.
R. M. Morrison
Ordinary, Dade County, Oeor-
;ia.
4t 8/30/56
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AUGUST 16, 1956
DADEMONT TREE FARM
RELATES COLORFUL HISTORY
From "Georgia Forestry” Dec¬
ember, 1955
More than a century ago,
young Georgia landowner look¬
ed over a peaceful green valley
that stretched out between the
rugged Lookout and Sand Moun¬
tains. The landowner was J. W.
Cureton, the land was a wooded
tract of more than 1,000 acres of
some o f Northwest Georgia’s
finest walnut, cherry, shortleaf,
oak and maple. The name of the
land was Dademont, and today,
one hundred and five years la¬
ter, Da demon!, still in the hands
of the Cureton family, i s
as one of Georgia's outstanding
tree farms.
Faded family archives today
give us brief but revealing
glimpses into the story of the
Cureton family and of the vast
variety and volume of forest
products which came from those
highly productive Dade County
woodland acres. They tell how
J. W, Cureton left his beloved
Dademont during the war be¬
tween the States to become a
Colonel in the 39th Georgia
Regiment, and they tell of his
election following the war to
the State Legislature, where
served terms in both houses.
All during this period, the rol¬
ling valley lands and the bord¬
ering mountain slopes ot Dade¬
mont were growing timber. The
area’s number one assets were
timber and water power, and
Lookout Creek, flowing north
along the base of Lookout Moun¬
tain, furnished -the power. A
stone dam and turbine supplied
power for a grist mill, a wool
carding mill and a cabinet shop.
Pieces of walnut and cherry
furniture made in that shop 100
years ago still can be found in
some of the homes around Ris¬
ing Fawn, the pleasant little
Dade County community which
lies nearly adjacent to the Dade¬
mont Tree Farm. The fancy
fancy carved walnut doors made
at Dademont were in great de¬
mand, as were the window and
door frames fashioned from
clear, dense pine. Barrels for
shipping products of the grist
mil also were made in the cab¬
inet shojx
Colonel Cureton died in 1885,
but ownership and management
of the Cureton woodlands still
was in Cureton hands. And the
timber still continued growing
through the years, in 1916, the
first stumpage sale was held on
the property, with all the tim¬
ber being sold on a boundary
basis for $20,000.
A quarter of . century passed
and under new times and new
conditions, the owners of his¬
toric Dademont became inter¬
ested in forestry and scientific
forest management. A seven
acre eroded field was planted tc
loblolly pine, marking a new era
in Dademont history. In 1944
the owners joined TVA and the
Georgia Extension Service in ,
forest management demonstra¬
tion, and, with organization of
a County Forestry Unit in 1945.
Dademont came within the
sphere of the Georgia Forestry
Commissoin’s fire control and
fire prevention program. Four
years later, on March 4, 1949 :
the Cureton tract was accredit¬
ed under the Georgia Tree Farm
System. have
Sales during recent years
always been on a selective cut¬
ting basis. In three sales—one
in 1944 and one in 1949, saw-
miller A. L. Dyer, of Trenton,
harvested 782,000 board feet
from 587 acres. Total stumpage
price was $14,600.
WE SELL typewriting paper,
white and yellow second
sheets, thin paper marked
“copy” and two sizes of mi-
meograph paper.
Limns
TOTHetD/TOI
FAMILY LETTERS
Before me are two
One was stamped at
Georgia by pen in India
December 19, 1887 and
ed to James Forester,
Alabama. The other is addressed
to Mrs. Mary Rebecca
Smith, Georgia. Some of you
recall a very interesting
written by my sister Nell (Mrs.
J. W. Blaylock. Blair, Ky.).
referred to Sulphur Springs and
Smith post offices. These
envelopes indicate that Sulphur
Springs was called Smith back
in the gay nineties when it was
changed to its present name.
My mother was the daughter
of G. A. R. Bible of Clover-
dale and papa the son of Peter
Forester of Gloverdale. At the
date of the envelope mentioned
above, papa was working for the
Alabama Great Southern R. R.
directing a wheel barrow crew
as 100 men made a big fill near
Gadsen on what is now the
Southern Ry. (When papa came
home he sometimes hitched Old
Jule to the buggy and took ma¬
ma to church. Jule was 39 years
old when they put her to sleep..'
The post master at Smith, Ga.
in beautiful Spencerian hand
canceled the stamp (2 cents) by
pen and then had written under
his post mark, "Hello Jim” on
the envelope of my mother’s
love letter to papa. On the back
of the envelope in rubber hand
stamp on the same day bears
Gadsen, Alabama.
The second envelope bore a
letter from mama’s brother John
Bible who was congratulating
mama and papa on their choice
of each other. It was stamped
Villa Rica, Ga., by rubber stamp
January 1888. They married
April 8, 1888. At my mother’s
request, in February 1943 a very
interesting stack of "love let¬
ters”, written in the eighties by
mama and papa, were placed
in her casket by her right side.
I have only one of the envelopes
I could humbly wish that some
some of the children had asked
ed mama for this stack of in¬
teresting letters.
Papa and Uncle George For¬
ester were arrested some 93
years ago by the Yankee Army
in the creek bottom near the
spot where the Forester re¬
union will be conducted. Grand¬
ma was a very brave ilttle wo¬
man and made a plea for the
boys and for her sick husband
Peter. The two little boys were
released and Grandpa was un¬
harmed.
Thank God for devoted pio¬
neers of Dade County, men and
women of conviction and char¬
acter who bjazed the trails for
many schools and churches. The
Important things of life seem¬
ed to center about the church
and the school. But my, what a
character buildiing unit the ear¬
ly Dade County home was. We
will never fully appraise the
early Christian home. God give
us more Christian homes.
Rev. Fred Forester
PARTY HONORS
S. G, CHANDLER
County Agent and Mrs. L. C.
Adams attended a party last
Friday night honoring Mr. S. G.
Chandler.
The party was held at the ex¬
periment station at Blairsville,
with county agents and their
wives from 26 counties in Mr.
Chandles’s district attending.
Mr. Chandler is being ipro-
m oted from District Agent to a
state-wide job. His title will be
state Demonstration Leader
with head-quarters in Athens,
Georgia.
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'Push-Button Rain' Means
Profit to Tifton Farmer
A dependable 7 1 / 2 -horsepower electric pump helped
W. A. Fletcher, one of our Tift county farm cus¬
tomers, to greater profits this year.
Mr. Fletcher used the pump in irrigating 8%
acres of tobacco, 15 acres of corn and two acres of
early tomatoes. His leaf yield was unusually good.
He expects to make at least 75 bushels of com
per acre. His tomatoes sold for $1,040.
Mr. Fletcher requested and received the assist¬
ance of one of our rural engineers in planning the
irrigation system.
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