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Dade County’s Only Newspaper.
VOLUME LVIU
I. 0. Wheeler Buys
Grocery - Service Sta.
The Gray Grocery and Serv¬
ice Station in Trenton has a new
■owner as of Monday of this week
I. O. Wheeler has purchased the
stock from Tommy Gray and
with his son Jerry will continue
to operate the business. Mr. and
Mrs. Wheeler, and Jerry, will
move to Trenton as soon as they
can sell their house in St. Elmo.
Gray continues to own the
store building and fixtures. He
did not reveal his future plans
saying he and his mother Mrs.
J. G. Gray, who has helped him
in the store, will take a little rest
for a while.
Special Meeting
Of Fair Committee
Called for July 31
At a Dade County Fair Com¬
mittee meeting last week, each
Fair Committee chairman was
asked to meet with his commit¬
tee to formulate definite plans
to report at a specially called
meeting of the entire group on
Thursday evening, July 31, at
the Georgia Power office.
Time is getting short for the
work to be done by several of the
committees and the group hoped
this extra meeting, with reports
would speed things up.
Sheriff Foils
Break
Upon investigation, after hear¬
ing a scratching noise in the jail
Sunday night, the Sheriff found
the two Langston boys, Charlie
Hicks and Ed Frazier all busily
engaged in trying to scratch
themselves out of jail. They had
broken a tea cup and with the
pieces were attempting to scratch
the plaster away around a win¬
dow. The Sheriff reports they are
now locked in the “bull pen”.
There were seven traffic cases
for various offenses and one
dr unk driver picked up on Dade’s
highways over the weeek end.
Shots Required for
Entering School
This Fall
Diphtheria, Whooping Cough,
Small Pox and Polio are requir¬
ed by Dade County Board of Ed¬
ucation before the child enters
school this Fall.
This service is available to you
through your family physician
or your Local Health Depart¬
ment. Immunization Clinics are
held every Friday from 8:30 till
5:00, at the Dade County Health
Department.
More Books Arrive
For Dade Library
The Dade County Library re¬
ceived almost 100 new books this
week. This brings to almost 200
the number of new books re¬
ceived this month.
The Library is open all day Fri¬
day and Saturday mornings. It
is located in the basement of the
Morrison office building.
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia .
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1958
"Citizens of Tomorrow
This week’s “Citizens of Tomorrow” are from left to right, top
picture: Alice Fay and Sandra Kay, 17 mos. old daughters of Mr.
and and Mrs. Johnny C. Wallen, Wildwood. Center row: Wanda
Gail, 8, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Whited, Wildwood; Becky, 6, and
Patricia, 11, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harrison, Rising Fawn.
Bottom row: Jimmy Harrison, 6, son of Mrs. C. B. Harrison, Tren¬
ton; Marian, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil McKaig, Rising
Fawn; Walt III, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walt Haering, Jr., Trenton.
Dade Elected Chief and Princess
Not ten but 52 “Little
returned to Dade County
Friday from a week’s stay at
Rock Eagle 4-H Club
They were accompanied by three
squaws and two braves.
History was made at Rock
Eagle last week since this was the
largest group of young people
ever to use the facilities of the
great 4-H Club Center at one
time. There was a total of 997
Four-H Club members, agents
and leaders present for the North
Georgia 4-H Club Camp. 23 of
the 26 counties in the N. Ga. Ex¬
tension District were represented
The remaining three counties
will attend camp either at Rock
Eagle on a later date or at one
of the three or four other camps
in Georgia.
The 4-H Club Center is divided
into three areas which composes
the great Rock Eagle Nation.
(During camp the club members
inhabiting each of these areas
assume the name of an Indian
Tribe—Cherokees, Shawnees or
Muskogees. There tribes compete
for points during the week and
the tribe having the most points
at the end of the week is award¬
ed the tribal shield. Points are
awarded on the basis of camp
clean up, having lights out at
11:00 p. m., class attendance and
area clean up. We are very hap¬
py that the Dade County group
was a part of the winning tribe.
The Muskogees win ‘em tribal
shield. We heap proud!
Each club member participat¬
ed in one major interest group
such as crafts, woodwork, metal
craft, leather, cement,
living, drama, fashions for the
modern ^ miss, forestry, fun with
management,
Telephone service to the New
Salem Community is now a real¬
Six phones are already con¬
nected and the Trenton Tele¬
phone Company is working every
day to connect up the rest.
Because the new enlarged
switchboard has not yet arrived
and the New Salem subscribers
were getting impatient to have
telephone service, they are now
being hooked up on the old board
However this will mean a lot of
doubling up, at least for the pres¬
ent, and all New Salem subscrib¬
ers will be on party lines as the
old board is not large enough to
take care of these additional
sect study, out door cooking, rec-
leadership, what every
boy and girl should know, and
wildlife. Minor interest group
included: crafts, Indian lore, and
nature hike.
All campers went swimming
twice a day and participated in
organized recreation once or
twice daily.
We were very glad to have Mr.
and Mfs. Harold Dugan and fam¬
ily and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Moore
and daughter of Slygo visit us on
Thursday and Friday. They
seemed to enjoy camp life very
much. Mr. and Mrs. Moore’s two
sons, Larry and Gary spent the
week at camp.
Perhaps the most outstanding
feature of the week was the pa¬
geant on Thursday evening which
was held out by the lake shore
by a traditional Indian camp
fire. The area was lighted with
the big camp fire and several
brightly burning torches. The
pageant portrayed one of the
legends about the great Rock
Eagle mound for which the camp
is named. The Chiefs and Prin¬
cesses of the three tribes,, carry¬
ing burning torches which re¬
flected in the lake, rowed to the
6hore just as the sun was set¬
ting and the festivities began.
In addition to the pageant
there were contests and games
in which the three tribes com¬
peted. If someone had heard the
tribes yelling he might have be¬
lieved that real Indians had re
turned. They yell ‘em heap loud!
Four campers from Dade
County were honored by being
elected Chief or Princess in their
respective cottages. They were,
Dana Nethery, Mike Doubleday,
Doubleday and Kenneth
Publish ed Weekl y—Sinc e 1901
Installed at New Salem
Landowners to Plant Seedlings
It was reported at this week’s
meeting that 81,500 tree seedlings
1___] had U__ been _ ordered ^ am on tho the TVjHp Dade
County Forestry Demonstration
Club’s campaign to have 100
landowners in the county plant
100,000 tree seedlings this sum¬
mer.
The Club was pleased with the
report except that these orders
went to only 2o landowners so
the campaign will continue un¬
til Sept. 1 in the hope of inter¬
esting a larger number of tree
farmers.
Ewell T. Brown, new chairman
of the club, reappointed the same
board of directors:—J. C. Pace,
Fred Mahan, Cecil McKaig, and
D. E. Morrison.
Hears About Watershed Project
At a Dade County Water Au-
thority meeting held this
Col. D. E. Morrison, Soil Conser¬
vation District Supervisor and
Kenneth Vann, Soil Conserva¬
tion Technician, were invited to
talk to the group about Dade’s
Small Watershed Project for
which application has been
made. to
The Authority was anxious
know how the Watershed pro¬
gram would tie in with the work
of the Water Authority. Ool. Mor¬
rison and Mr. Vann explained
that during a heavy rain water
would be impounded for use dur¬
ing dry spells. By damming up
the excess water in specified
creeks could be kept from
Revival Aug. 3 at
Sand Mtn. Church
The Sand Mountain Method¬
ist Church will begin an “Old
Fashioned Revival” on Sunday
pight, August 3 at the church
The Rev. Charles Holmes, pastor
of the Signal Mountain Method¬
ist Church and former pastor at
Morganville, will be the evan¬
gelist. The singing will be led by
Pennington. Three campers from
Dade who took as their major
interest “Drama” helped to plan
iand acted in the Vespers service
the story of the Good Samaritan.
These boys did an outstanding
job. They were: Kenneth Pen¬
nington, Charles Haygood and
Ralph Geddie. AH of the boys and
girls received certificates in the
classes they attended and did a
wonderful job of making this an
/outstanding week of camp.
We are very sorry that Alojean
Word had to miss camp. Beverly
Sharp attended camp in her
place.
NUMBER 30
subscribers with individual lines.
About 50 New Salem residents
have signed up for telephqne
service. Haygood’s Grocery was
the first to have their telephone
connected as they are about in
the center of the area to be
serviced and this makes it more
convenient for everyone to meks
their necessary calls until their
convenient for everyone to make
own telephones have been con-
nected. George Shipp, the Tren¬
ton Telephone serviceman and
W. R. Praiter, a telephone serv¬
iceman from Bryant, Ala. are
doing the work.
All telephones will be on the
“Oliver” exchange.
Freddie Mahan Wins
over 60 entries were submitted
(in the Slogan __ Contest « 1_ _ sponsored
by the Club. First place winner
was 12 year old Freddie Walker
Mahan and his slogan was, “Im¬
prove Our Forests and Improve
Dade County”. He will receive a
cash prize of $10.00.
Larry Konrad, age 15, won
second place and a cash prize
of $7.00 with, “Reward for Good
Forestry Sense is Dollars and
Cents". Janice Marie Davidson,
11 years old, won third .place
and $3.00 with, “Good Forestry
Takes Hard Work, Don’t Ruin it
with Carelessness”. Chairman
J Brown awarded the prizes.
overflowing their banks and
(flooding fields and roads. The
water which could be saved
would make lakes which could
be used as fish farms or for rec¬
reation. They explained that the
territory, which not only takes
In Dade but includes part of
of Hamilton Co., Tenn and De-
Kalb Co., Ala., have already been
inspected and approved by the
region engineers and that our
project is awaiting approval for
additional survey.
The Authority agreed to have
their engineer work with the S.
C S. Watershed authorities to
explore the possibilities and ad¬
vantages from which mutual
benefit could be derived.
Rev. Bill Phelps, pastor of
Payne’s Chapel Methodist Church
on Lookout Mountain.
In preparation for the revival,
which is a part of this year’s
church emphasis on “spiritual
depth”, many plans are being
carried out. The week of July 28
-Aug. 3 is to be taken up each
night by a prayer meeting in
the homes of church members
with the congregation invited.
On Saturday night, August 2, a
prayer vigil will be held at the
church from 7 P. M. to 10 A. M.
the next morning with each
person taking a one hour period.
During the revival week, the
W.S.C.S. is sponsoring a noon-day
prayer time from 12 noon to 1
P. M. at the church. Personal
visitation in behalf of the re¬
vival will be held each Sunday
p. m. leading up to the revival.
The revival committee con¬
sists of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Long,
Mrs. Herman Gass, Mr and Mrs.
H. H. Bodenhamer, Mrs. J. O.
Gass and the pastor of the
church, Rev. Billy Picket.
Everyone in the community is
cordially invited to attend.