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CIRCULATES IN THE
BEST SECTION OF
NORTH GEORGIA!
VOL. 25; NO. 28.
Mrs. Armour
Speaks at W. C.
T. U. Meeting
Temperance Workers Organize Lo
cal W. C. T. U., With Twenty-two
Members—Officers Elected.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour address
ed the women of Summerville at the
Presbyterian church Wednesday,
Sept. 29. Mrs. Armour is one of the
national speakers of W.C.T.U. Her
address was presented with all the
fiery eloquence of a camp-meeting
evangelist and with the fervor of a
great soul dedicated to a great cause.
Within the compass of one hour,
she presented the evils of alcohol from
the scientific as well as the moral
and Christian points of view. The de
structive work of liquor since the re
peal of the Eighteenth amendment
was presented. She also outlined the
splendid work the W.C.T.U. is doing
in educational work at the present
time. The hopes of the future were
painted in bright colors.
Mrs. Armour was presented by the
Rev. G. G. Ramsey, who introduced
her as a great temperate leader, a
great Christian, and a great Meth
odist.
The Rev. J. G. Kirchoff presided at
the meeting.
After the program was completed,
the temperance workers immediately
organized a local W.C.T.U. Twenty
two women joined and all the officers
were elected and the work was plac
ed on a working basis at once.
Mrs. Harry Marks was elected pres
ident. Mrs. Reuben Garrett w’as chos
en as vice-president at large. Mrs.
John D. Taylor was elected as re
cording secretary, and Mrs. Burton
as corresponding secretary. Mrs. A.
J. Eilenburg is the treasurer.
The following were chosen as de
nominational vice-president: Mrs. J.
A. League, Mrs. Earl Beatty and
Mrs. Rice Morgan.
Mrs. Marks, the president, is grat
ified at the interest of the women in
the cause of temperance and is plan
ning on a great program for the lo
cal work in Summerville.
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY DINNER.
The friends and neighbors of Uncle
Joe Kellett gave him a surprise birth
day dinner Sept. 17, honoring his
seventy-first birthday. The beautiful
cake was prepared by Mrs. C. T.
Webb.
Each one carried a well-filled bas
ket and arrived at his home about
12 o’clock.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
C. T. Webb and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Johnson and family, Mr. and
Mrs. D. I. Goodman and family, of
Berryton, and C. L. Wynn.
Skipper Rewarded.
ATLANTA, Oct. 3 (GPS)—Paul j
Richands, who, during his first year j
as manager of the Atlanta Crack
ers, piloted his team to a pennant,
a victory in the post-season play-off |
and in the Dixie series, has receiv-!
ed his reward. President Earl Mann
has re-signed him as manager for
1939.
Retention of the lanky catcher as
manager was no surprise, but the
move was a popular one with At
lanta and out-of-town fans. The
brilliant young skipper’s home is in
Waxahachie, Tex.
Way Now Clear For
Low Housing Plain
ATLANTA. —Georgia's $16,000,000
slum clearnce and low-cost housing
program can go forward now without
interference.
Constitutionality of the housing
authorities and housing co-operative
laws, passed at the last session of
the Georgia General Assembly, have
been upheld by the State Supreme
Court.
The decision means that seven
Georgia cities in which housing au
thorities have been set up and fed
eral funds earmarked can begin im
mediately their slum clearance proj
ects, according to George B. Hamil
ton, director of the state housing au
thority. Actual construction will be
gin as soon as preliminary work, such
as selecting sites, is completed.
Atlanta’s $9,000,000 is the largest
allocation for slum clarance in the
state. This will be matched with
$900,000 put up by the Atlanta Hous
ing Authority, of Which Charles F.
Palmer, president of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, is chairman.
Other allocations made by the Unit
ed States Housing Authority are:
Augusta, $1,250,000; Athens, $270,-
000; Columbus $850,000; Macon, sl,-
250,000; Rome, $540,000 and Savan
nah $2,700,000.
The Supreme Court’s decision up
held Judge A. L. Franklin of the
Richmond County Superior Court, in
dismissing a petition challenging con
stitutionality of the acts. The ac
tion was brought as a test case to
determine the validity of the Georgia
acts.
Snnuiwrmllr Nms
NEWS TO OFFER ANNUAL
SUBSCRIPTION BARGAIN
The Summerville News will offer its annual
subscription bargain during the Chattooga Fair.
You can get The News for only SI.OO a year, pro
vided you pay up all arrears and subscribe for one
year in advance.
This offer applies to new subscribers as well as
old subscribers.
If you live away from Chattooga and cannot at
tend the fair, you may take advantage of this special
offer by mailing in your subscription to The News.
This offer will positively close Nov. 1.
HUNTER, FISHERMAN
CATCH ALLIGATORS
ABBEVlLLE.—Alligators were the
big game of the week, according to
news stories from Abbeville and Lud-
• owici.
Norman Conley, one of the best
fishermen near Abbeville, caught a
seven-foot alligator on a limb line
which was set near Poor Robin spring
for catfish. It was stated that the
hook was caught in a flank which
suspended him in the water so that
he could not get a foothold upon the
ground when it would have been an
easy task to break the line or hook.
In Ludowici, R. S. Gordon prefer
red to capture his alligators by track
ing them down, instead of using the
rod and reel. His ’gatorship, which
was about five feet long, was track
ed from a pond about a quarter of a
mile from Gordon’s house to the gate
leading into Gordon’s field. A yard
dog was baying at the amphibian
when Gordon found him. •
5 Million In Dividends
Are Paid In Georgia
ATLANTA, Oct. 3. (GPS)—A to
tal of $5,897,155 in dividends is be
ing paid out to shareholders of cor
porations whose activties are cen
tered largely in Atlanta and other
sections of Georgia but whose op
erations are, in some instances, in
ternatonal in scope.
The dividends, which started go
ing out Oct. 1, represent the quarter
ly distribution of profits. Thus, the
total gives only a partial picture of
the industrial and commereal situa
tion in this section, since many cor
poratons are on a semi-annual ba
sis, paying their shareholders in July
and January.
The Nitrate of Soda demonstration
plot conducted by the Lyerly chapter
F. F. A. shows a marked difference
where soda was used as a side dress
er and where no soda was used. The
plot is on the Holland and Lyerly
highway on the farm now worked by
Harris Edwards.
The one guessing the closest to
the yield will receive $2.00\
All farmers are asked to drop by and
put in their guess soon, as no guesses
will be accepted after Oct. stn.
The plot is supervised by J. N.
Young, Vocational Agricultural teach
er of Lyerly High School.
Cotton Patent Granted.
ATLANTA, Oct, 3 (GPS)—A pat
ent on a compress for shaping cot
ton bales has been granted to Albert
E. Elliot, of Atlanta, according to
announcement from the United States
patent office in Washington.
Elliot, who filed his patent appli
cation July 10, 1933, renewed the plea I
on Jan. 26, 1938. He was awarded)
the grant on the strength of seven
new ideas in his invention.
WANTED—Boarders, by day, week
or month. Also meal boarders. —
Mrs. O. J. Espy.
Crane, Snake In
Death Struggle
QUITMAN. —An unwritten trag
edy of wild life was found by W.
A. Griffith, veteran fisherman who
spends his time plying his rod and
reel on the lake at Ocean Pond. Go
ing to the lake for his accustomed
fish the other day, he noticed that
a large crane which usually was
standing near his boat, always in
the same place, was missing. A
search revealed the crane, lying
dead, near its accustomed place,
and its bill was sticking into a
large water moccasin, also dead.
The two had apparently engaged in
a death struggle, each killing the
other. The crane probably succumb
ed to poison from the reptile after
the snake had been killed by the
bill of the crane thrust into its
body. ’ 5
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1938.
CAN’T MAIL LETTERS
IN EIRE ALARM BOXES
ROME.—An attempt to mail a pos
tal card in a fire alarm box put the
Rome fire laddies on the run last
week, and Rome may claim the dis
tinction now of being a “metropolis.”
Fire department officials said that
a false alarm was set off on a Sun
day afternoon at 12:51, apparently by
some unidentified woman who bought
some post cards at a local drugstore
and tried to mail them in one of the
city’s fire alarm boxes. Two com
panies responded to the alarm, but
when they arrived on the scene th<
woman had left, very likely in some
embarrassment.
Criminal Cases Tried
n Superior Court
Criminal cases disposed of in Chat
tooga superior court this week. The
civil docket will be taken up today:
Marvin Love—Two cases; verdict
of guilty in each case.
Mark Thompson—Verdict of guilty.
Clyde Baker—Plea of guilty.
J. W. Johnson—Plea of guilty.
Milligan Roberts—Plea of guilty.
Leonard Hutchins (two cases) —
Plea of guilty.
Paul Hunter—Plea of guilty.
Idas Griffith—Verdict of guilty.
James Ware—Plea of guilty.
Bitty Teems—Plea of guilty.
J. D. Phillips—Plea of guilty.
Charlie Gossett—‘Plea of guilty.
Clarence Booker—Verdict of guilty
Arthur Webb —Plea of guilty.
Johnnie Hutchins —Plea of guilty.
Gordon Pangle—Plea of guilty.
Lee Hawkins —Nol-prossed.
Alfred Stewart —Verdict not guilty.
Alfred Stewart —Verdict of guilty.
Nap Richardson—Verdict not guil
ty-
W. D. Burrage—Plea of guilty.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
(J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor)
9:45 A. M.—Sunday school.
11:00 A. M.—Morning worship and
Communion service.
1:30 P. M.—The young people leave
for rally at Dalton, which begins at
3 p.m.
The second Pioneer Rally of Cher
okee Presbytery will be held Sunday
afternoon, Oct. 9, at 3 p.m. in Dal
ton. All boys and girls in the Pres
bytery between the ages of 11 and
15 a»e urged to attend. We will leave
Summerville at 1:30 and are hoping
for a good crowd from our church.
Bring a picnic lunch; the Dalton
young people will provide cookies
and punch.
Do not forget the installation serv
ice the third Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
Rev. J. C. Jackson, of Summerville,
will give a word of welcome.
Rep. John Melton, of First church,
Rome, will preach.
Rev. Taylor Morton, of La Fayette,
will charge the people.
Elder - Quinn McArver, from Sardis
church, will charge the pastor.
Thirty Georgians Are Listed
In the Who’s Who Book
ATLANTA. Thirty Georgians
were among the 2,545 prominent
Americans listed in “Who’s Who in
America,” the 1938-39 edition of
which was released this week.
Margaret Mitchell, whose novel, 1
“Gone with the Wind,” sent her to
a top spot in the writing fraternity,
is singled out by the publishers as
one of the nationally prominent per
sons named in the 1938 group. Among
the Georgians were the following
Atlantians: Harold Bush-Brown, ar
chitect; Ralph R. Byrnes, college
dean; Walter C Carter, lawyer; Ry
burn Clay, banker; Rufus E. Cdement
university president; Mayor William
B. Hartsfield; Clark Howell, editor;
Judge William F. Jenkins, Frederick
H. McDonald, construction engineer;
Margaret Mitchell, author; Eurith D.
Farmers Urged
To Apply For
FS A Loans Early
Ample Funds Have Been Provided
For Next Year’s Loan Require
ments; Additional Funds Available.
Farm families who desire federal
aid to finance crop-making opera
tinos next year are urged to make
arrangements early, said Charles D.
Sanders, rehabilitation supervisor in
charge of the farm security admin
istration office in Chattooga county.
Ample funds have been provided
for next year’s loan requirements of
families who farmed with FSA as
sistance this year, and additional
funds are now available to allow
more families to be aided.
“An advice from our regional of
fice in Montgomery, Ala., states
that new families may be helped this
year if applications are submitted in
time to be handled. New applicants
are urged to make arrangements be
fore the rush season. The local of
fice in the court house will be open
every afternoon during this month
except Saturdays between the hours
of 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to receive ap
plications,” Mr. Sanders said.
“Loans are ipade to finance pur
chase of necessary farm supplies,
live stock, seed, fertilizers, feed,
tools and food. They are made to
families who own or rent lands that
are capable of producing a good liv
ing and the additional earnings to
repay loans. If the borrower is a
tenant, it is required that he must
have a written lease for the period
of the loan.”
Assistance is given the family in
working out a practical plan of farm
and home management. This plan,
worked out by the borrower and the
county rehabilitation supervisor, out
lines the operations for the year bas
ed on available farm labor and pro
ductiveness of the soils to be culti
vated. The plan provides for food
for the family and feed for the
stock so that the family can live at
home and also produce a cash income
to retire debts and buy more live
stock and equipment, or other prac
tical requirements.
Plans To Redeem
Wesleyan College
Students at the country’s oldest
college for women, Wesleyan, at Ma
con, this week looked forward to
“owning their own college again,”
as terms for repurchasing the prop
erty of the school from bondholders
were announced.
A statewide campaign to raise
a half million dollars will be ini
tiated soon by the century-old insti
tution in an effort to redeem its
buildings by December 1, 1940, when
the final installment on $467,850, the
purchase price, is due, according to
Dr. Dice R. Anderson, president.
Should the college succeed in
raising the funds it would be free
of financial burden for the first time
since 1928.
The college was offered for sale
last March to the highest bidder af
ter an extensive building campaign
was interrupted by the depression
years. The property was bought in
by a committee of bondholders which
recently agreed to terms by which
the college is to repurchase its build
ings over a two and one-half year
period.
Despite its financial difficulties of
the past few years, the college has
maintained its enrollment and kept
its scholastic standing high.
FOR SALE—Used brick, doors and
flue cleats. Also three apartments
for rent. —Myrtle’s Beauty Shoppe,
Phone 404.
Rivers, Governor of Georgia, James
E. Warren, telephone executive.
Other Georgians listed were: Con
gressman Stephen Pace, Americus;
Howell C. Erwin, Athens lawyer;
Lansing B. Lee, Augusta attorney;
O W Conger Bainbridge club woman
Elmer Ransom, Augusta author; Mrs
Roy R. Kracke, of Decatur, professor
of pathology; Cullen B. Gosnell, pol
itical science professor at Emory Un
iversity; John M. Steadman, profes
sor of English at Emory; Frederick
L. Jones, James H. Porter and Kerr
B. Tuppe, all of Macon; William J.
Vereen, Moultrie; Thomas K. Graham
of Oglethorpe University; Graham
Wright, Rome; Josephe S. Bolten,
John T. Burkhalter and Robert S.
ope, all of Savannah, and Helen p.
Longstreet, of Savannah Beach,
NEW PASTOR OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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REV. J. G. KIRCKHOFF.
NEW PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR
ASSUMES DUTIES HERE
The Rev. J. G. Kirckhoff, who was
recently elected to the pastorate of
the Summerville Presbyterian church,
moved his family here from Calhoun
last week and has assumed his duties
as pastor.
The manse has been completely ren
ovated and nOw is one of the most
attractive homes in the city.
Mr. Kirckhoff succeeds the Rev.
Sterling L. Hunter, who resigned as
pastor of the church last fall to ac
cept a call in Florida, since which
time the church has been without a
pastor.
The Presbyterian congregation is
to be commended in getting such a
splendid pastor, and The News joins
the people of Summerville in wel
coming him to our city. »
Collins Named Head
State Red Cross Drive
ATLANTA, Oct. 3 (GPS —Geor-
gia’s superintendent of schools, Dr.
M. D. Collins, has been appointed
Georgia Roll Gall chairman for the
Red Cross. Mrs. George D. Good
man, member of the Atlanta chapter
of the Red Cross and on the board
of directors, ■will act as publicity,
chairman.
With the exception of Atlanta and
Fulton county, the roll call for the
state will be held from Nov. 11 to
24. The Red Cross was organized in
Washington, D. C., in 1881, and dur
ing its fifty-seven years of exist
ence the flag has flown over every
major disaster in the United States.
The work of the Red Cross chap
ter in Georgia is carried on each
year through the efforts of the thou
sands of volunteers who serve with
out pay, and through money donated
by the thousands who accept the in
vitation to join.
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.
Below is an itemized list of my
campaign expense as a candidate for
representative of Chattooga county
in the primary election of Sept. 14,
1938:
Entrance fee $ 50.00
Announcement in paper 10.00
Gas and oil 50.00
Miscellaneous 60.00
Total $170.00
T. A. COOK.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this Sept. 27, 1938.
JOHN S. JONES, Clerk, S. C.
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.
The following expense was incur
red in my recent race for state sen
ator:
Entrance fee $ 50.00
Announcement - 10.00
Pre-election announcement .... 5.00
To Trion band 5.00
Cards LOO
Soft drinks -15
Paid for gas and oil 57.25
Total $135.00
All paid by self, except one pack
of cards from friend.
B. E. NEAL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this Oct. 4, 1938.
H. A. ROSS, Ordinary.
LIBRARY.
Increase in circulation:
Sept. 1-Sept. 15 138 Readers
Sept. 15-Sept. 30 200 Readers
“I want my mind to grow,
So, to the library I will go.”
Public Librarian.
Uses Windmill
To Put Out Fire
BOWDON. —Time once was when
fires in the country generally didn’t
stop burning until they didn’t have
anything else to burn. But that
time is fading, at least it is in Car
roll county. The home of R. D. Tis
inger, Carrollton attorney, caught
fire last week. The blaze had made
considerable headway and did much
damage before the Tisingers swung
into action with a fire hose at
tached to their windmill. The re
sult was that the fire was extin
guished before it could finish what
it started out toYfo.
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WE E K’S ISSUE
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Rumors of Special
Assembly Session
Are Being Heard
Appearance In Atlanta of House
and Senate Leaders Give Certain
Credibility To Rumors.
ATLANTA, Oct. 3 (CNS)—'Geor
gia solons may be called into anoth
ier extraordinary session this winter
1 to deal with the problem of state fi
i nances, rumors widely circulated
; thoughout Georgia reported during
j the week. No comment on the rumors
came from Gov. E. D. Rivers upon his
! return to the state capitol at the
conclusion of a brief holiday that
| followed his strenuous campaign for
I re-election, but the appearance in
I Atlanta of many administration house
I and senate leaders during the week
l gave a certain credibility to the ru
) mors.
It was reported that tentative con
-1 sideration was being given to sum
moning the solons for a brief session
' in -November or even earlier to con
sider the state’s growing need for fi
nancing for the administration pro
gram of expended state services to
j the citizens.
Increased needs for funds in the
. department of public welfare, which
I has pending many pension applica
tions for which money is not avail
j able, and to balance the school bud
get, where there is a possibility that
adequate funds for full payment may
not develop were reportedly the rea
sons behind the contemplated call for
the session.
The next regular session of the as
sembly would convene in January,
with a new personnel in the senate
and many changes in the house mem
bership, and it was believed that an
emergency session might be necessary
to clear away present fiscal worries
and pave the way for a study of tax
revision when the regular session met
to grant appropriations for the next
two years.
Civil Service Examination Announced
The United States civil service
commission has announced an open
competitive examination for the po
sitions named below.
Senior Stenographer, $1,620 a year;
Junior Stenographer, $1,440 a year;
Senior Typist, $1,440 a year; Junior
Typist, $1,260 a year, for appointment
in Washington, D. C., only. Appli
cants must have reached their eight-
I eenth birthday, but must not h#ve
passed their fifty-third birthday.
Closing dates for receipt of appli
cations for this examination are:
Oct. 3 from states east of Colorado,
and Oct. 6 from Colorado and states
westward.
Full information may be obtained
from the secretary of the United
States civil service board of eyami
ners at the post office or customhouse
in any city which has a post office
of the first or second class, or from
the United States Civil Service Com
mission, Washington, D. C.
Boy Scout News
The Boy Scouts will meet Friday
night at 7 o’clock at the Baptist
church. We are expecting several new
members out this week. All those
boys who have been attending the
past meetings are asked to come Fri
day night. Plan now to come.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Sunday school at 9:45; Dr. E. R.
Buskin, superintendent.
Preaching, morning, 11 a.m.; sub
ject, “What the Church Does For the
Individual.”
Evening preaching service at 7:15
p.m.; subject, “Christianity’s Judg
ment Seat.”
Young Peoples’ service at 6:15.
Prayer meeting Wednesday eve
ning at 7:15.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sunday, Oct. 9, 1938:
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Duke
M. Espy, superintendent. The lesson
topic for Sunday is “Spiritual Wor
ship.”
Morning worship at 11 a.m.; “If A
Man Die, Shall He Live Again?” The
pastor is speaking on the above sub
ject by special request.
B. Y. P. U. at 6:15 pm. A great
young people’s organization is being
started and is beginning to function
smoothly. Come out.
Evening service at 7:15.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at
7:15 p.m. Bring your New Testa
ments.
Fellowship club Thursday at 7:30
p.m. Varied program.
Dr. Marion McH. Hull
To Speak at W.M.S.
On Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 1:30 p.m.,
the Subligna W.M.S. will have as
its guest Dr. Marion McH. Hull, dean
of the Atlanta Bible institute, who
is known throughout the state for
his radio talks on the Sunday School
lesson.
The W.M.S. is very anxious for
all the Missionary societies of the
county to avail themselves of this
j opportunity to hear Dr. Hull, who
will teach the Book of Solomon &t
i this time.
The public is most cordially invited
to attend this meeting, which will be
held at the Subligna Methodist
church. “ v v ’
MRS. W. J. WHITE, JR.,
Secretary.
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