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CIRCULATES
IN BEST
SECTION OF
NORTH GEORGIA.
VOL. 50; NO. 31.
MACON CONVENTION
IS TO BE GREATEST
IN STATE’S HISTORY
PLANS BEING MADE TO CARE
FOR FIVE THOUSAND DEL
EGATES OCT. 7.
(By Georgia News Service)
MACON, Ga.—Plans are (being
made to care for 5,000 delegates hi
addition to numerous other visitors
who will attend the state Democratic
convention here Oct. 7. Chairmen of
local committees in charge of ar
rangements declare that it will be the
largest gahering of a political party
ever held in Georgia. It will, ac
cording to Chairman Charles S. Reid,
“take on ithe tone of a vigorous,
militant Democratic rally.”
Although the main convention wi’
not open until Oct. 7 many prelimi
nary events are being arranged for
the day before. These include a gi
gantic military parade and a recep
tion and banquet to be followed with
a ball. During the evening some
speaker of national importance will
address the public at the municipal
auditorium. At 9 o’clock on the morn
ing of the 7th there will be a prelimi
nary meeting for the introduction of
various visiting guests and distingu
ished members of the party. The of
ficial business of the convention will
begin at 11 o’clock. The Democratic
Women’s club will have a two-day
meeting just ahead of the convention,
on Oct. 5 and 6.
From his offices (in .Atlanta
Charles S. Reid, permanent chair
man of the convention and the new
chairman of the state Democratic ex
cutive committee, has issued an in
vitation to the newspaper editors of
the state to occupy a special reserv
ed section.
“Mr. Rivers is desirous of having
full representation and participation
of the press,” said Mr. Reid in his
letter to the editors. “As a matter
of fact it is planned by Mr. Rivers
and the Macon committee on arrange
ments that this convention will take
on the one of a militant, vigorous
Democratic rally.
“Therefore, he has asked me • to
extent to you his personal invitation
to be present at the convention and
to -be seated in a section which will
be reserved for the editors of the
state and marked Editors’ section.”
Space section has been reserved on
the convention floor for all members
elect of both house and senate. Am
ple space will also be reserved for
their guests and families.
State electors and the delegates to
the national convenion at Philadel
phia will be among the honored
guests, and will occupy a reserved
section on the stage.
Plans foi* the state Women’s Dem
ocratic convention on Oct. 5 and 6
are in charge of a committee headed
by Mrs. L. I. Waxelbaum, who has
been appointed general chairman by
Mrs. A. F. McGee, president of the
Bibb County Women’s Democratic
club. She will be assisted by Mrs.
E. P. Johnston, Mrs. John B. Clark
and Mrs. R. L. Hailburton.
One of the features of the women’s
meeting wil be a contest for young
speakers under 21 years of age. Each
affiliated club in the state can en
ter one speaker to talk on President
Roosevelt or the New Deal. Clubs
should send their entries to Mrs. Mc-
Gee or to Mrs. Julian Lane, of States
boro, chairman of the state speakers’
bureau.
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F.F.A. Chapter Holds
Regular Meet Sept. 22
The Summerville FFA chapter
held its regular meeting Tuesday
night, September 23. New offifcers
who were elected are: President, Dos
ter Housch; vice-president, Joe Elam;
secretary, Jas. Smith; treasurer, Fay
Maxey; reporter, J. H. Willingham;
watchdog, Joe Denson; adviser, J. N.
Young.
Four new members were initiated
to the Green Hand degree. They
were Billy Whitley, R. B. Headrick,
J. D. Pledger and J. H. Bullard. Aft
er the initiation the new officers en
tertained the chapter with a water
melon cutting..—Reporter, J. H. Wil
lingham.
. B.Y.P.U. Association
Rally Day October 4
The Chattooga County B.Y.P.U. as
sociation will hold its annual Rally
day at the Pleasant Grove Baptist
church Sunday, Oct. 4. All members
are urged to attend.
Big Gain Shown In
Cotton Ginnings
Census report shows that there
Were 580 bales of cotton ginned in
Chattooga county from the crop of
1936 prior to Sept. 16, as compared
with 193 bales ginned to Sept. 16,
etop of 1936.
The Summerville News
FARMERS ADVISED TO
SAVE LESPEDEZA SEED
INDICATIONS POINT TO AN IN
CREASED USE OF LESPE
DEZA SEED.
With indications pointing to an in
creased use of lespedeza for soil im
provement, forage and erosion con
trol, County Agent J. E. Baker and
E. D. Alexander, forage crop special
ist with the State Agricultural Ex
tension Service, advises farmers to
harvest a supply of lespedeza seed
for next spring planting.
“With little extra expense enough
lespedeza seed can usually be saved
for farm use,” Alexander said. A
rears grown for seed purposes alone
are more dependable than areas graz
ed or cut for hay in early summer
and then allowed to seed. Only un
der favorable conditions can the
p nts that are used for hay or late
"* be depended upon to make
sufti second growth for profit
able se«£ duction. Under these
conditions u enough seed are
produced for iv ‘ 'g.
The seed of the .imon, Tennes
see 76 and Kobe varieties can be har
vested by cutting the plants when
the seeds are mature with a regular
mowing machine with a lespedeza
seed pan attached to the cutterbar. A
good portion of the seed will shatter
and be cause in the seed pan. Those
remaining on the plants can be saved
by taking the plants up while damp
and threshing either|with the regular
grain thresher or by beating out with
forks or sticks. A good amount of
lespedeza seed can be saved by col
lecting shattered seed on a close floor
from plants cut late and stored for
hay. Seed can also be collected from
hay racks arranged so as to catch
the shattered seed.
Korean lespedeza seed are not
harvested successfully with a seed
pan. The plants should be cut when
the seed are mature and threshed as
suggested for the other varieties,”
the forage crop specialits concluded.
Presbyterian Laymen
Meet On October 16
The next regular meeting of the
laymen of the Presbyterian church
vill be held Friday night, Oct. 16
The subject will be the history of the
Presbyterian church in Chattooga
county.
Phone L. C. Turner at Summerville
mills for reservations.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Broome, who
have been at Alamo, Tenn., for las
several months, arrived Thursday tc
visit relatives here
Plans for Fair
Being Shaped
Premium List Announced In This
Week’s Issue of The News.
Plans for the 1936 Chattooga coun
ty fair are rapidly taking shape. The
premium list, with the exception oi
me community exhibits and live
stock departments, are published in
this week’s issue of The News. The
committees in charge of the com
munity exhibits is working out a dif
ferent basis for awarding the prem
iums in this department and will not
be ready to report until next week.
Fair officials, doubtful during the
early summer of the success of the
annual exhibition of farm products,
have reversed their opinion and now
predict that exhibits in this depart
ment will equal if not surpass any
thing yet seen in the county.
It is planned to put on a better live
stock show this year than ever before.
The fair directors, recognizing the in
creasing importance of the live stock
industry in Chattooga county, are
offering better premiums in this de
partment, with a view to encourag
ing the farmers to pay more atten
tion to this industry.
The ladies’ department, as usual,
will be one of the most interesting
features of the fair. Splendid prem
iums are being offered and all indi
cations are that the exhibits in this
department will equal anything that
has been shown in the past.
The schools of the county are plan
ning to make their part of the fair
more interesting than ever before.
Several new features have been add
ed in this department. A recitation
and declamation contest will be held
on Thursday night, Oct. 29, at 7:15,
at the high school auditorium, and
on Friday night, the high schools of
the county will contest in best one
act plays. Each school will be limit
ed to a play twenty minutes in
length. This was a new feature of the
fair last year and proved very pop
ular and entertaining, and everyone
is looking forward to the one-act
plays. On Saturday night, at 8 o’clock
the schools present a Major Bowes
amateur program, which promises to
be very interesting.
Splendid premiums are also being
offered in the boys’ and girls’ 4-H
clubs, and good exhibits are ex
pected in these departments.
The Cumberland Valley shows will
furnish the amusement features of
the fair.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1936.
Chattooga Has Been Granted
Nearly Million in U.S. Funds
Farmers Receive Bulk of This Sum for Rehabilitation
W ork—Home Building and Refinancing Also
Come In for Share in Allotments.
In giving a partial list of federal
expenditures and disbursements inci
dent to the recovery program by the
United States government that have
been allotted to Chattooga county
farmers, home owners and others
benefitted by the moneys that have
been received here—s7Bo,ll9 —it can
easily be seen why candidates favor
ing President Roosevelt and his enor
mous recovery program were swept
into office in Georgia’s Sept. 9 pri
mary election—especially the splen
did vote given these candidates in
this county. ,
Under the AAA rental act, the
armers have received the sum of
$180,772 in benefit payments, while
$23,096 have been paid to them un
der the AAA cotton price adjustment
act. These payments cover a period
of three years.
Eight hundred and eighty-eight
loans have been granted to farmers
amounted to $65,610 for the four
year period.
Thirteen Home Owners’ Loan cor
poration loans have been approved
and granted in the county, these
amounting to $20,657. Also ten loans
granted under the modernization act
and one under thfe mortgage loan
act. These payments have amounted
to $4,300.
The Works Progress Administra
tion has allotted $52,091 for im-
Local Persons Aid
In Compiling The
American Guide
One of the most valuable sources
of materia 1 used in preparing the
American and Georgia State Guides
has been the volunteer assistance of
local persons, who with a sincere in
terest ’ in their respective communi
ties, have given generously of their
time and effort.
The Guide books, giving a com
plete picture of the Georgia and the
American Scene, are the results of
many months of intensive research
vork by the field workers, this ex
tensive research being supplemented
y the aid of local persons with very
complete and authoritative knowl
dge of local points of interest, his
oric background, recreational faci
ities and scenic attractions. With
ut the aid of these volunteer con
stants the high degree of accuracy
nd completeness which gives such
zalue to the Guide books would have
cen well-nigh impossible. The work
>f the consultants will be greatlv
ppieciated by all readers of the
books.
No efforts have been spared in
making the Guides authentic, accu
rate and complete for a Guide-book
nust, of necessity, be reliable and
dependable
Among the persons of our coun
y who were requested to supply the
ditors of the Guides wit hauthori
tative and accurae information for
use in the book are J. H. Shepard,
Miss Maude Sewell, Miss Beulah
Shropshire, Dewey Hammond, W. T.
edbetter, Misses Anna and Cora
Gamble, Mrs. I. M. Henderson, J. H.
Cook and Col. Wesley Shropshire.
Prof. Bell Resigns As
Lyerly High Head
Glenn W .Bell has tendered his
resignation as superintendent of the
Lyerly High school, which position
he has held for the past four years,
and will become connected with the
Hoke Smith Junior High school in
Atlanta.
During his term in Lyerly, Prof.
Bell has almost doubled the enroll
ment, as well as placing the school
on the state accredit list and he was
instrumental in securing a new gym
nasium and auditorium for the
school which has just been completed
at a cost of SICi,OOO, built with WPA
aid.
John E. Herndon, of Holland, has
been named as Prof. Bell’s successor
and is well qualified for the position,
being a graduate of Maryville col
lege, Maryvill.e Tenn., and of the
University of Tennessee, holding a
B. A. degree. He has been teaching
in the high school department of the
school for two years.
Prof, and Mrs. Bell will be great
ly missed in Lyerly, where they have
endeared themselves during their
residence there.
Mrs. H. D. Mallicoat spent the
week-end in Chattanooga.
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FOR EXPERT Radio Repairing, call
Phone No. 416.
N«w» Want Ads Brine Results
provements in the county. Revenue
from the RFC act has amounted to
$61,000, while under the CWA and
FERA acts $130,712, excluding ru
ral rehabilitation advances, have
been received from the government.
Under the NYA high school aid
act, thirty-four boys and girls in the
county have received SBOI in student
benefits.
Other expenditures and-or dis
bursements from emergency funds,
such as commodity credit corpora
tion, civilian conservation corps, for
est service, national park service, bu
reau of public roads, production cred
it associations, regional agricultural
credit corporation, land utilization
hnd rural resettlement divisions of
resettlement administration, REA
and TV A, advances of federal home
loan bank board to federal savings
and loan association, as well as cer
tain sectional or state-wide projects,
such as phony peach disease control,
white pine blister rust program, etc.,
are not listed in above, except in
case of CWA and FERA.
The list also excludes such expen
ditures and-or disbursements as those
expended during this period through
regular channels and appropriations
for construction and payrolls, such as
war department, department of com
merce, department of agriculture,
postoffices and the like.
County Agents Get
Information About
Farmers’ Payments
(By Georgia News Service)
ATHENS, Ga.—The agricultural
extension service has announced that
county agents now have details of
payments which Georgia farmers can
get for carrying out various soil con
servation practices
Officials stated that farmers are
not paid on land merely because it
is in soil conserving crops. The soil
building payment, for example, is
paid only for adopting specific soil
building practices, which can be
adopted anywhere on the farm.
There is still time to plant soil
conserving crops and adopt practices
that will increase the soil building
allowance of farmers under the new
agricultural conservation program, it
was announced.
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Bible Conference At
Trion Baptist Church
The Trion Baptist church is plan
ning a regular Fall Bible conference,
to be held beginning the third Sun
day of October, lasting for eight
days.
This year the conference speaker
will be Rev. T. W. Calloway, pas
tor of the St. Elmo Baptist church,
Chattanooga, Tenn. Pastor’s Callo
way is a brother of the Rev. T. F.
Calloway, the president of our Geor
gia Baptist convention.
More announcement of this con
ference will be made later. Let us
remember the dates —Oct. 18-25. We
look forward to a time of real bless
ing in the study of God’s precious
Holy Scriptures. All born-again
Christians are asked to earnestly
pray for God’s richest blesings upon
this conference. Let us arrange now
our schedule so we may attend as
many of the services as possible.
FOR EXPERT Radio Repairing, call
Phone No. 416.
PRESBYTERIAN.
SUNDAY, OCT. 4.
Rally Day—9:4s a.m.
Evangelist Williams, 11 a. m.
You will notice that next Sunday
is a very important Sunday. First
it is Rally day in the Sunday school.
This is the Sunday everybody starts
back to Sunday school if they haven’t
already started since the summer
letdown. We want you next Sun
day. And you should be there, for
you need the good one gets out of
attending Sunday school.
Second, Lay Evangelist Williams,
who is preaching at the tent, will
preach at our church next Sunday
morning. There will be no morning
service at the tent, but Mr Williams
will occupy the pulpit of the Pres
byterian church. You should hear
him. And you should also attend the
afternoon and night services at the
tent. Hundreds of people are coming
to these services. Elsewhere in The
Summerville News is a notice of the
hours and subjects of Mr. Williams’
services at the tent.
News Want Ada Bring Results ‘
EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS
DRAWING BIG CROWDS
MASS MEETING FOR WOMEN
AND GIRLS TO BE HELD
AT 2:45 SUNDAY.
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HOWARD S. W ILLIAMS.
A mass meeting for women and
girls 13 years of age and up at 2:45
o’clock next Sunday afternoon in the
big gospel tent on Washington ave- ■
nue will be one of the peak services
of the interdenominational,) county
wide revival now in progress in j
Summerville under the leadership of i
Lay Evangelist Howard S. Williams,
nationally known soul winner of;
Hattiesburg, Miss., whose stirring,
messages are drawing record break-;
ing crowds every night *t 7 o’clock. I
The message that Mr. Williams
will give to the women is said to
have been highly indorsed by teach-'
ers, college presidents, ministers and!
parent-teacher organizations in sis- j
teen states. Ministers and doctors
have been invited, in fact have been I
urged to attend the service.
Many feaures for the revival have ,
been announced, including a program ’
of songs by a choir from Rossville !
Friday night, a program of music by
the children of Summerville and vic- j
inity Saturday night and a special >
program by young people of the high
school next Tuesday evening.
On next Monday night by request
Mr. Williams will relate his experi-1
ences in a revival he held for seven |
weeks in “bloody” Herrin, 111., where |
he went during bloodshed, riots and <
murders in 1925, a revival said to
have been the most unique in the j
history of evangelism in America in
the last fifty years. Mr. Williams,
went to Herrin with a Bible and is
said to have accomplished more than f
the state militia of Illinois did with j
guns. Many people were converted |
and peace and tranquility came to.
the strife-torn section as a result of,
the preaching of the love of Christ.
Magazines and newspapers all over j
America devoted many columns of I
space to telling of the event.
The revival is attracting wide at
tention, people coming from many
distant places to hear the music and ,
sermons. Music is being led alter- |
nately by J. H. Cook and Roy Hemp- |
hill, of Summerville, and Robert I
Houts, of Rossville, the latter being
in charge of the choir members who I
will appear Friday night. Pianistsl
for the revival are Miss Almazada ■
Eilenburg, Miss Mary Thompson and!
Mrs. Duke Espy.
A capable corps of ushers has been ;
organized, composed of Charles Coch
ran, Douglas Baker, Duke Espy,
John D. Taylor, Jr., Charles Turner,
Archie Farrar, Grady Gaines, Wil- j
liam Cleghorn and George Gaines.
The ministers of Summerville ex-;
press themselves as highly pleased j
with the progress of the revival so I
far, and heartily indorse the mes-1
sages of the evangelist. All have
called in their mid-week and night;
services for the campaign. They are
the Rev. S. L. Hunter, Presbyterian; j
the Rev. J. C. Jackson, Baptist, and
Rev. E. P. Eubanks, Methodist, and
the Rev. Embry Williamson and J.
H. Smith are co-operating. Mr.
Williams preached at the Baptist
church last Sunday morning and will I
occupy the pulpit of the Presbyterian j
church next Sunday morning at 11
o’clock, when he will talk on “Rom-■
ans 8-28.”
Mr. Williams is one of the busiest
evangelists ever to come here. He
is speaking from 3:30 to 4:15 on the
afternoons of Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of each week at'
the tent, and almost daily talks to
students in either the high school or
grammer schools, in Summerville or
South Summerville, in addition to
making personal calls and contacts.
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CIRCULATES
IN BEST
SECTION OF
NORTH GEORGIA.
PRESENTMENTS OF
GRAND JURY FOR THE
SEPTEMBER TERM
URGES THAT TRUANT OFFICERS
BE APPOINTED FOR EACH
MILITIA DISTRICT.
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To the Honorable Claude Porter,
judge S. C., Chattooga Co., Georgia:
We, the grand jury, recommend
that the proper parties investigate
and find out if we have truant offi
cers and if we haven’t, that such of
ficers be appointed in each militia
district. We also recommend that the
board of roads and revenue install
sanitary drinking fountains in and
around the courthouse.
We find the toilets in courthouse
in bad shape, the system is worn out
and this matter has been called to
the attention of the courts from time
to time without success. We would
like to have some action at once. We
recommend that these old toilets be
removed, and replaced by new, auto
matic toilets, and that after this is
done that our sheriff see that the
janitor keep the toilets and rest of
the courthouse clean and in a sanitary
condition at all times.
We recommend that the juries and
bailiffs be paid $3 per diem for their
services.
Chaingang
We, the grand jury, visited the
chaingang and found the camp in
good condition. There are ample sup
plies and equipment on hand. We sub
mit inventory attached hereto cover
ing supplies and equipment on hand:
One case, 24 cans, pork and beans,
two-thirds case Octagon soap, one
package onions, nine pick handles,
twenty hammer handles, seventy-five
pounds baking soda, forty pounds
coffee, fifty pounds salt, seven sides
country bacon, twelve bushels meal,
three and one-half barrels flour, fif
ty pounds sugar, 350 pounds pinto
beans, fifteen gallons vinegar, two
barrels pickles, four brooms, three
cases No. 3 corn, four gallons Flit
fly spray, twelve cans blasting pow
der, one and one-half case dynamite,
one-half dozen shovels, fifteen bush
els Irish potatoes, two dozen ax han
dles, 700 cans string beans, 200 cans
No. 3 tomatoes, 100 one-gallon cans
sorghum, one 30-gallon barrel sor
ghum, nine wheelbarrow's, four large
wash pots, ten cords pine wood, one
complete outfit kitchen and cooking
utelsils, nineteen mattresses, twenty
three pillows, three dozen shirts, one
pair shoes, one lawn mower, sixty
hogs, 150 bushels corn, two tons hay,
one lot farming tools, 500 gallons
gas, 250 gallons Diesel oil, four bar
rels Diesel motor oil, one-half barrel
alemite, four barrels motor oil.
One shove trailer, five Chevrolet
trucks, one gas shovel, two Diesel
tractors, two Gal. tractors, two road
graders, thirty grader blades, one
concrete mixed, one air compressor
two mules, fifteen goats, two road
scrapes.
Pauper Farm
We find the houses and buildings
in fair condition, and that they have
tw’enty inmates on hand. We submit
itemized inventory of supplies on
hand:
Twenty inmates, five bushels corn
meal, 200 pounds flour, fifty pounds
lard, 25 pounds meat, ten pounds su
gar, fifty pounds coffee, five pounds
baking soda, ten pounds salt, one
case Octagon soap, one case washing
powder, thirty-five gallons syrup,
about 400 three-pound cans of fruits
and vegetables, ten bushels Irish po
tatoes, one bushel dried butter beans,
one nice sweet potato patch, fourteen
acres in corn, four acres in peas,
about 1,000 bundles fodder, two tons
peavine and herds grass hay, two
good mules, three good cows, one
Chevrolet truck, farming tools suit
able for farm, one acre in clover, ten
cords stovewood, fifty gallons gaso
line, half case cylinder oil.
Justice of the Peace
We, the committee appointed to
examine the books and records of the
justices of the peace, have examined
these records of the J. P.’s of the
following districts: Summerville, Ly
erly, Subligna, Trion, Menlo and
Seminole, which were the only dock
ets submitted. We have also examin-
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Lyerly 4-H Club Holds
Meeting September 17
The Lyerly 4-H club held its last
meeting on Thursday, Sept. 17. We
enjoyed a splendid program, which
was planned and directed by Ella
Edwards, program chairman.
We were exceedingly glad to have
at this meeting Miss Edwards, the
district supervisor, and Miss Nelson,
assistant 4-H club leader. After the
program they both made interesting
and important talks on points that
will help us to carry out our goal in
making this the best year Lyerly
I school has ever had in 4-H club work.
—Reporter, Martha Floyd, Lyerly 4-
i H. Club.
$1.50 A YEAR