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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. o 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. o 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. o 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. Bl » ! " / - J Sr ' L— ; J 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. Continued on Last Page. 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. © 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- Continued on Last Page. o 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