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State-County
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Happenings
VOL. 50; NO. 47.
“Where Would
You Travel?”
Wise Owl Asks
Story of Mollie, a Little Irish Girl,
For Whom Fairies Danc
ed and Sang.
By “THE SUNSHINE LADY.”
“Where would you go if you could
travel any place in the world that you
wished?” the Wise Old Owl asked
me last night.
“Oh, there are so many places I’d
like to go,” I tok' him. “There are so
many things I’ to see. But 1
think if I could > c’y one place
in the world, perhaps,,. to Ire
land. There are fairies ‘ o< 'Zs e l hey
say, that the people see sou.
I suppose you’ve seen many pu
in the world, haven’t you, Wise Owl."
“Yes,” he replied. “I’ve traveled a
great deal, but I think North Geor
gia is as beautiful as any place I’ve
seen. Let’s ask the boys and girls to
tell us where they would go if they
could travel any place in the world
that they wish?”
Prize of 50 Cents.
“That’s a good subject,” I agreed.
“They should be able to write us
some good letters about that.” So,
boys and girls, we’re expecting many
fine letters from you, for you know,
besides the SC-cent prize which is
given each week to the boy or girl,
12 years old or under, from whom we
receive the best letter, we give hon
orable mention for all good letters.
And four good letters from you make
you a member of the Boys’ and Girls’
Sunshine club.
“Since you mentioned Ireland,”
said the Wise Old Owl, “I am going
to tell you an Irish fairy story. I
suppose our boys and girls know that
Ireland is a country way across the
ocean, and it has the greenest grass
and trees of any country in the world
“There are many fairies in Ire
land. A great number of the people
say that they have seen them. The
fairies live in the hills, near the
lakes, along the sea shore, and in the
fields near the homes of the people.
“Mollie was a little Irish girl. She
lived with her mother and father and
her three little brothers in a small
cottage which had a thatched roof.
Mollie Meets a Fairy.
“One day while Mollie was playing
in the fields she stumbled over a
large rock. As she turned to look at
the rock which had rolled over when
she kicked it, she saw a tiny creature j
climbing out of the hole which the
rock had covered.
“Mollie watched in surprise, and
when the little person had come out
of the hole and was sitting on the
rock, Mollie asked, ‘Are you a fairy ?
And how did you get in that hole?’ ;
“ ‘Yes,’ was the reply, ‘I am a
fairy. A wicked witch put me in there
and covered the hole over with a rock
so I could not get out.’
“Just then they noticed a cloud of
dust coming down the road and the
fairy cried joyfully, ‘There comes the
band of fairies.’ And she ran to the
road to meet them. Mollie ran after
her for she wanted to see the fairies.
“The fairy queen was so glad to
have her lost fairy back that she or
dered all the fairies to come into the
field and sing and dance for Mollie.
So Mallie sat on the grass and lis
tened to the most beautiful music
that she had ever heard.
Come Back Again.
“‘Won’t you come back again?’
she begged when they were abwut to
leave. And they promised to return
the next day. Every day for the next
week Mollie went to the field and
watched the fairies dance and sing.
Then she asked "them to take her to
fairyland.
“ ‘Will you come and stay with
us?’ the fairy queen asked, and Mol
lie forgot her home in her wish to
visit fairyland. She said she would
go with the fairies and never come
back. So they took her to the castle
of the queen and dressed her in a
fairy gown.
“But Mollie’s mother and father
were sad because they did not know
where their little girl had gone. Her
brothers were lonesome for her. So
her oldest brother, Mike, said he
would go and find her.
“He did not know that she had
gone to live with the fairies. He went
to the field where she had played so
often before she went away. As he
looked around he saw a large circle
on the grass. He knew that must be
where the fairies danced, so he
thought he would stay there and ask
the fairies to help him find his lit
tle sister.
“He waited until long after dark
and then he heard the sound of beau
tiful music. He laid down on the
grass and kept very quiet. When the
fairies came near him he was sur
prised to see with them the little
girl for whom he was looking. But
Mollie did not see him. She just
watched the fairies.
Magic Dress.
“The dress which the fairies had
given Mollie made her unable to see
or hear her brother er that *he
The Summerville News
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.
BREAKING OUT, NOT IN,
NEGRO CLAIMS IN PLEA
ATLANTA. — “Mr. Judge, I was
drunk and got locked up in that
store. I didn’t break in it.”
Such was the defense offered
yesterday in Fulton superior court
by Frank Parker, 23-year-old neg
ro, who was charged with burglary.
Parker told the jury he had en
tered the store before it closed to
buy a 5-cent piece of candy and
went to sleep by the stove, drunk.
When he awoke, he said, the store
was closed. The jury held Parker
broke in the store and took $4.63
from the cash register, however,
Judge Blanton Fortson, of the
western court circuit, sentenced
him to serve from 5 to 10 years.
Million Insurance
. aken by Romans
In St ate Mutual
Confidence in Company and Its Of
ficers Is Shown in Most Sub
stantial Manner.
Over a million dollars in new,
sound insurance was taken in Rome
last week by citizens and placed on
the books of the State Mutual Insur
ance company without cost to it as
a testimonial to the company and its
officers which have just re-entered
the active life insurance field.
This additional million or more in
surance brings the total amount in
force to approximately three mil
lions. The company, with $1,800,000
in active insurance, a million and a
half in assets and a surplus of $350,-
000, was turned back to the policy
holders by the Georgia Insurance
department recently. The company
reorganized with John M. Graham,
president of the National City bank,
at its head; Geston Garner, insur
ance commissioner, who carried the
company through its dormant period,
as executive vice-president; Dudley
Magruder, secretary; O. P. Willing
ham, treasurer, and Dr. George
Smith, medical examiner.
While in the hands of the state
insurance department the State Mu
tual met every obligation one hun
dred cents on the dollar and increas
ed its assets from an impairment of
nearly a million to a net million and
a half to the good with a large Sur
plus. Policies in the State Mutual
have a legal reserve behind them
substantially larger than that requir
ed by law.
The re-entry of the State Mutual
into the active insurance field is be
lieved the most progressive step
taken in Northwest Georgia in 25
years and that it will prove of finan
cial benefit, either directly or indi
rectly to every citizen’s interest in
this section.
The officers and directors plan a
big victory dinner to the men who
wrote this minimum of a million dol
lars in insurance, to which promi
nent men of this section will be in
vited. The date will be announced
later.
TRUSTEES ELECTION.
An election of school trustees will
be held Saturday, Jan. 23, in those
districts where vacancies have not
been filled, caused by resignation or
moving away.
KATHRYN HENLEY,
County School Supt.
LARGEST.
Probably the largest money settle
ment in income tax fraud history was
accepted last week by the govern
ment when Moses L. Parshelsky,
realty man, paid $2,000,000 in back
income taxes and plead guilty to an
indictment charging tax evasion.
was near her home. For’ the fairies
did not want her to leave them.
“But Mike spoke to the fairy
queen. ‘Please let Mollie come back
to us,’ he said, ‘for «he is the only
little sister we have and we are
lonesome for her. Mother and father
are sad too.’
“The queen called all her fairies
together and told them what Mike
had said. But they did not want to
let Mollie go. However, the fairy
whom Mollie had helped to escape
from the hole told Mike that if he
would gather a bunch of shamrocks
and put them in Mollie’s hands she
would not go away with the fairies
when they left.
Shamrocks.
"Now Ireland is the only country
in the world in which shamrocks
grow. It did not take Mike long to
gather a large bunch of them and
bring them to Mollie. Still she did
not look at him or speak to him. But
when the fairies left the field, Mol
lie remained with her brother.
“Mike took her home with him,
but it was not until her mother had
taken off the magic dress that the
little girl knew where she was. Then
she was happy to be home. She play
ed with her brothers and never want,
ad to *o with the fairioi afain.”
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CHATTOOGA COUNTY
TO ENTER CONTEST
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Chamber of Commerce to Sponsor the Atlanta
Constitution County Development Contest.
The Summerville Chamber of Commerce, with the assist
ance and endorsement of the county board of roads and revenue,
has entered Chattooga county in the very interesting county de-
velopment contest for 1937, wh:
Atlanta Constitution to encourage the
counties to make improvements in
county government.
The wide-awake directors of our
local chamber of commerce have been
assured the full co-operation of our
county board of roads and revenue
and Chattooga county has already
been entered into this great contest.
Many handsome prizes will be award
ed the winning counties who com
pete for better county government
regulations.
There are ways to improve and
modernize county government af
fairs. The officials of the local cham
ber of commerce are asking every
public-spirited citizen of the entire
county to assist in winning this
COUNTY GETS 1936
BENEFIT CHECKS
CHATTOOGA FARMERS HAVE
RECEIVED 430 CHECKS TO
TALING $19,646.88.
Chattooga county has received so
far 430 checks amounting to $19,-
646.88 to be paid to farmers who co
operated with the government under
the 1936 soil conservation program.
During the spring of 1936 seven
hundred and thirty-eight farmers ex
pressed themselves as wanting to co
operate with this program to the
extent of executing work sheets.
We should receive in the near fu
ture benefit checks for these produc
ers which will total somewhere in the
neighborhood of sixty to seventy
thousand dollars.
Information pertaining to the new
1937 program will be available at an
early date. However, we don’t antici
pate many changes from last year’s
program.
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HOUSEKEEPER wanted to do light
work. Write “Housekeeper,” care
Summerville News.
TO ERECT FLAMING TORCH.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Plans are
being made to place a flaming torch,
visible for thirty miles on clear
nights, in the seven-ton right arm of
Vulcan, god of iron, when the giant’s
new perch atop Red mountain is
completed. The gas flame would be
three feet high and a foot wide.
LOST —Near Trion, a little white
dog, bench leg, white fist, with
narrow leather collar; female. An
swers to name of “Trixie.” Anyone
knowing of her whereabouts please
notify Henry Woods, Summerville,
Ga., Route 1.
Briefs: Very Brief.
President Roosevelt asks for $790,-
OOO.OOCI for relief to July 1.
Supreme court upholds retroactive
tax on profits in silver deals.
Britain bars volunteers for Spain
and asks others to do same.
Lasser, head of WPA union, de
mands $1,040,000,000 fund.
Richberg declares that public opin
ion must guide the courts.
Alice Stone Blackwell disappointed
in women’s use of vote.
President orders two battleships
because of treaty curb’s end.
Miscellaneous taxes 49 per cent, of
revenue in fiscal year.
Roosevelt asks 19 governors to
back child-labor amendment
U. S. embargo on arms for Spain
is put in force.
Post office deficit increased $22,-
COO.OOO in 1936.
Navy buys 400,000 pounds of cop
per in the open market.
State control of soil conservation
program opposed by Wallace.
Federal Reserve System’s earnings
off to $8,026,000 in 1936.
Congress freshman class includes
95 in House and 16 in Senate.
Treasury reports that per capita
debt on Dec, 11 **• 6366. M.
ich is being sponsored by the
worthwhile contest for our county by
offering their plans, advice and
thoughts upon improved county gov
ernment.
It is hoped the entire population of
the county will pull together as “One
Big Unit” and study up the very best
system for running the county af
fairs; the best, most economical and
progressive of any county in Georgia.
Chattooga county can and must
win the 1937 county government de
velopment contest.
At the regular directors’ meeting
of the local chamber of commerce
last Tuesday evening, the child wel
fare and county school improvements
were endorsed and approved.
NEWS OF PEOPLE,
THINGS IN STATE
HOUSE AND SENATE AGREE TO
BEGIN SIXTY-DAY SES
SION ON JAN. 25.
ATLANTA, Jan. 18. (GPS).—Busy
Assembly: Though the preliminary
session of the general assembly saw
hundreds of bills dropped into the
legislative hopper, real action will
begin Jan. 25, when by joint resolu
tion the house and senate agreed to
begin the regular sixty-day session.
During the recess many solons went
to Washington to witness the inaug
uration of President Roosevelt.
Among important legislation intro
duced at the short session was the
appropriations bill of $5,767,750 to
operate the state for the six months
until the regular bill can be drawn
and approved. Gov. Rivers named
Lint Miller, of Lakeland, chairman of
the state highway board and this
probably means that bills abolishing
the board and creating a new one
will be sidetracked. Appointees of
Gov. Talmadge submitted for senate
approval were sent to Gov. Rivers
along with the retiring governor’s
final message. The messgae was re
turned, but the names of appointees
were deleted. The Talmadge investi
gation bill providing $250,000 ex
pense money was about to be intro
duced when Senator Paul Lindsay,
of DeKalb, withdrew it to have it
redrafted, eliminating the quarter of
a million for expenses. Seventy-five
house bill and five senate bills set
the pace the first day. Pet adminis
tration measures, an old-age pension
bill, a highway patrol bill, a home
stead exemption bill, made their ap
pearance early.
Big Rail Buying: The most out
standing development in the field of
transportation in 1936, according to
Atlanta executives, was the large in
crease in railway buying equipment
and materials. This buying totalled
$727,000,000, an increase of 80' per
cent, over 1935. Purchases this year
will show further substantial in
crease, it was declared, though 1936
was the best year since 1930.
Razzed by Mail: Atlanta Policeman
Harry Vaughan got a razzing by mail
recently when he tagged an automo
bile downtown for illegal narking.
The car owner, a traveling salesman,
drove to Wichita, Kan., and from
there mailed back the tag to the po
liceman with the message, “Come up
and see me sometime.”
Pardon, Governor: While his sec
retaries prepared a list of about 2,-
500 persons he has pardoned or pa
rolled in the last two years for sub
mission to his successors, Gov. Tal
madge said, “I don’t know, exactly
the number. I pardoned everyone I
thought there was any reasonable
justification for pardoning. I’m sorry
there were not more.”
SUMMERVILLE M. E. CHURCH.
Sunday, Jan. 24:
Church school at 9:45 a.m.
Preaching at 11 a.m. by the pas
tor; subject, “Finding God’s Will.”
Young people’s service at 6 p.m.
A program at 7 p.m. given by the
pastor and young people, “An Eve
ning In An Old-Fashioned Christian
Home.”
A cordial invitation is given to all
who are not going to attend church
school and preaching elsewhere to
come to ours.
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Bethel Presbyterian Church
Sunday, January 24.
Sunday School 10 o’clock.
Preaching 11 o’clock by the Rev.
E. R. Leyburn, D. D.
You *r« invited to attend thoee eer
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WITNESSES OF KIDNAP
WILL FACE SUSPECT
TACOMA, Wash.—Eyewitnesses
of the Charles Mattson kidnaping
will confront ex-Convict Leigh H.
Fowler, 36, now thta he has been
compelled to graw a beard, it was
learned Tuesday from an unem
peachable source.
This was disclosed as federal bu
reau of investigation agents fin
ished questioning Fowler for the
third time at Bellingham, Wash.
WAR PENSIONS.
Pensions to dependents and partic
ipants in all wars received $589,564,-
326 from the veterans’ administra
tion during the fiscal year that end
ed last June. This sum does not in
clude payment of the bonus.
Tallapoosa Lodge
To Confer Degree
For 7th District
Plans Being Made For May Conven
tion With Several Interest
ing Features.
By WILL A. PATTON
Convention Publicity Director.
ROME, Ga., Jan. 19.—(Special)—
The Tallapoosa Masonic lodge, of
Tallapoosa, has been secured to ex-1
emplify the degree of Master Mason 1
for the Seventh District Masonic as
sociation at the May convention to
be held in Rome, it is announced by
W. B. J. Floyd, worshipful master.
Two years ago, the Tallapoosa Ma-1
sons conferred the Third degree in[
Rome and made a favorable impres-1
sion with the large audience present
to witness the work. Announcement
of the Tallapoosa lodge’s appearance
before the Seventh district Masons
will be received with a great deal of
interest due to the fact that this
lodge has one of the state’s out
standing degree staffs. It is stated
that more than half the members of
the Tallapoosa lodge are holders of
cards indicating their proficiency in
the uniform work. This high percent
age is due to the untiring efforts of
R. J. Carnes, custodian, who suc
ceeded the late Charles J. Ogles as
custodian.
When Mr. Floyd was elected to
head the Masons of the Seventh dis
trict he promised that a good pro
gram would be prepared for the con
vention to be held next May. He has
definitely arranged several fine fea
tures for the two days’ session in
addition to bringing the Tallapoosa
Masons to Rome. Mr. Floyd also stat
ed in his inaugural address that he
would endeavor to make the conven
tion more of a district affair instead
of just a Rome meeting, and to this
end he is making plans. He is anxious
that the honors be distributed among
just as many lodges as is possible to
do so.
Two Outstanding Speakers.,
Two of the best Masonic speakers
in Georgia have been secured to ad
dress the Masons of the Seventh dis
trict next May. Announcement of
these speakers will be made later.
One of these speakers will be on the
“Ladies’ Night” program and the
other will speak at the large Mason
ic rally preceding the conferring of
the Third degree on Thursday night.
The worshipful master states that
the “Ladies’ Night” program is
scheduled to be the best ever held in
Rome, the main feature of this af
fair being the Greenfield Chorus and
four-piece specialty band of the
Greenfield lodge of Atlanta. These
organizations appeared recently be
fore the Grand Lodge in Macon and
their coming to Rome will be their
first time to be heard in North
Georgia.
The lodges of the district are re
quested to boost the convention from
now until May and to urge the Ma
sons to come to Rome in large num
bers for both days’ sessions. There
will be entertainment for the Masons
and their families on the first night
at the City auditorium. The dates of
the convention are the third Wed
nesday and Thursday in May.
CHIPLEY, Ga., January 15.
Rev. Alfred Pullen, pastor of Chip
ley Baptist church, tendered his res
ignation to the local congregation
last Sunday, and announced his ac
ceptance of the pastorate of the
First Baptist church, Cuthbert, Ga.
The departing pastor’s resignation
was also sent to the congregations of
Mt. Zion Baptist church, Columbus,
Ga., and Union Baptist church, Har
ris county.
The Rev. Mr. Pullen has served the
churches here more than three years,
having come to his present pastorate
Jan. 1, 1934, at te close of a period
of study at the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary, Louisville, Ky.
His last pastorate before entering
the seminary or study was the Co
lonial Hills Baptist church, East
Point, Ga., which he served for near
ly three years. He will begin his
ministry, in Cuthbert the fifth Bto*
I day in January
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X THIS
WEEK
Gov. Rivers Starts
“House-Cleaning”
On State Capitol
Gov. Rivers Starts on Fulfillment of
Camplaign Pledges Immediately
After Inauguration.
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA, Jan. 18.— Georgia’s
“old state capitol ain’t what she used
to be four or five days ago!”
There is now a smoothly function
ing governor’s office with an “open
door” policy at all times when exec
utive duties will permit Mr. Rivers
to see visitors personally; two busi
ness-like branches of the general as
sembly; new faces; a new atmos
phere; things both look and feel dif
ferently.
Work of Georgia’s new governor,
E. D. Rivers, began immediately aft
er his inauguration. Oath of office
was administered to the constitution
al officers, Atty.-Gen. Yeomans,
Secretary of State Wilson, Comp
troller-General Harrison and Treas
urer Hamilton, as well as School Sup
erintendent Collins. Jack Stoddard,
Washington, Ga., editor, was sworn
in as the new adjutant-general and
Marion Smith, dismissed by former
Gov. Talmadge, was reinstated as a
member of the board of regents.
Moving swiftly in the few days re
maining before he was called to
Washington this week to attend the
inauguration of President Roosevelt,
Gov. Rivers started house-cleaning;
held conferences with legislative
leaders, which were followed by the
introductions of bills calling for a
general election in June to vote on
old-age pensions, appropriations for
operation of schools seven months in
the year, free text-books, funds for
increasing health work. Plans were
begun for prompt investigation of
the Talmadge regime; reorganiza
tion of the highway board was begum
E. Jack Smith, district highway
engineer of Macon, was sworn in as
a member of the board when W. E.
Wilburn, chairman, resigned. The
chief executive immediately trans
mitted to the general assembly for
action on a report from State Audi
tor Tom Wisdom that there was a
department deficit of $69,349 in the
agricultural department when the
new commissioner, Columbus Rob
erts, took office and that former
Commisisoner Linder left the depart
ment without reporting to the state
treasurer a total of $6,127 in collec
tions that has been made.
Second bombshell from the old re
gime came when, following receipt
of a report from Comptroller Harri
son that A. L. Henson, director of the
veterans’ service office, failed to
turn in $849 in taxes collected, Gov.
Rivers immediately dismissed Hen
son and appointed Sam Askew, chief
clerk, to serve in his place tempo
rarily.
Later the same day Chairman G.
B. Carreker, of the state revenue
commission, resigned and the gov
ernor appointed Judge J. B. Jones to
the post, declaring the appointment
of the distinguished jurist the “hap
piest” he has yet made. Only a few
minutes after being sworn in, Judge
Jones announced appointment of
Marcus P. McWhorter as director of
the motor vehicle division, replacing
W. L. Joiner.
Before the day was over Judge
Jones and McWhorter, in re
sponse to the governor’s injunction
to obey the mandates of the people,
had dismissed more than one hundred
“Talmadgeites.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
who is vitally interested in the en
dowment campaign for the Warm
Springs Foundation which Georgia
originated, is eager for the campaign
to succeed so that he may know the
work of the foundation will be per
petuated when he is no longer in pub
lic life. —(Buy a Button.)
GIVES CLOTHING TO NEEDY.
... DALLAS, Tex. —In an attempt to
repay kindnesses received as an im
migrant boy, who arrived in this
country in 1892 from Austria penni
less, I. Rude, a merchant, gave away
26,000 articles of clothing to hun
dreds of tattered men, women and
children on Christmas day. They re
ceived new shoes, sweaters and other
articles of clothing.
RADIO STATIONS.
There are about 25,000 radio sta
tions in operation throughout the
world, exclusive of ship, aircraft,
amateur and portable transmitters,
according to the annual report of the
federal communications commission.
In 1928 there were about 1,700 sta
tions. In the broadcast field there
were 656 licensed stations in this
country last year.
PREACHING NOTICE.
Rev. Williams, pastor of the South
Summerville Baptist church, will
preach at Poplar Springs church next
Sunday, Jan. 24, at 2:30 p.m. The
public i» cordially invited to coma out
I and haar him.
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$1.50 A YEAR