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CIRCULATE IN (BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 15
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA. June 27 (GPS).—Gem
gia’s principal need is local capital to
finance both industries and agriculture,
declared a survey report made recently
to the state board of regents by IT >t
C. M. Destler. of the South Georgia
Teachers’ college at ('ollegeboro.
“In common with other southeastern
states, Georgia needs capital to finance
the expansion of her industries and di—
verfication of her agriculture,” the report
said. “Yet outside ownership of many
utilities, factories and mines drains her
of capital earnings while her banking re
sources are disproportionately small.
“In common with the southeast, Geor
gia suffers from a scarcity of technical
skill in almost every occupation and lacks
the knowledge necessary for the most
profitable employment of her resources.
We have wasted our soil and forests,
neglected to conserve our mineral and
water supply resources, and permitted
the development of a demoralizing sys
tem of farm tenancy that is eroding both
man and land alike.
“The federal government will not solve
all our problems for us. We must depend
upon ourselves, upon our own wealth
and resources, with what help we can
get from our neighbors and the federal
government.”
Community Asset: “In addition to
providing safe and dependable service,
the railroads continue to make important
contributions to the communities they
serve," declares the Denison (Iowa) Bul
letin. “lowa merchants and industries
benefit greatly by railroad employe pay
rolls. which are spent in towns along
their routes, as well as by their large
purchases of materials and supplies. To
preserve the railroads in lowa they must
be recognized as a home industry, well
worthy of the patronage and support of
all the people of the state."
Gist Os the News: Exercises commem
orating the seventy-fifth anniversary of
the Battle of Kennesaw mountain, one
of the bloodiest conflicts in the Atlanta-
Chattanooga campaign, were held Sunday
on the northern slope of the huge moun
tain . . . For the fourth time the Ge >r
gia supreme court recently upheld the
constitutionality of the milk control act
. . . Plans are under way for establish
ment of a state-wide police radio hook
up. The system would tie closely with lo
cal stations throughout the state, and ad
vocates said it will “cure all troubles
now experienced by the patrol” . . Bitsy
Grant, Atlanta’s midget tennis star, re
cently won the Southern Lawn Tennis
championship for the eighth time ....
The Atlanta Crackers are having tough
sailing at present, but Manager Paul
Richards still believes that when the
campaign is over in September his team
will be on top.
School-Boy Patrol
Honored! In Atlanta
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA.—Schoolboy traffic experts,
nineteen of whom were more expert than
the rest and one the most expert of all.
were honor guests at a dinner given them
here last week by Wiley L. Moore. The
dinner was attended by Gov. Rivers. Phil
Brewster, director of the state highway
patrol, and Lon Sullivan, deputy direc
tor of the patrol.
Marvin Thomas, head of the Atlanta
schoolboy safety patrol, was an honor
guest at the affair.
The honored twenty boys were authors
of the best letters submitted in a safety
competition. Their reward is a trip to
Washington and to the New York World’s
fair. Ralph Moutgomery, 17. of Thom
son, whose letter was adjudged outstand
ing, was presented a medal by Gov-
Rivers.
The other nineteen were : Jack Wheelis,
of Maysville: Dei-ward Garrett. Hawkins
ville; Emory Blasingame, Marsella; Al
len Matthews, Thomaston; Mercer In
gram, Bainbridge; Jack Barnard, Dacula ;
Spencer Jernagin, Thomasville; Ray
ford Brooks, Trion; B. W T . Baker. Jr..
Lawrenceville; Ronald Widner, Metter;
William Bell, Sylvania; Albert Bradley,
Buford : Terrel Quick. LaGrange ; Ancel
Dyal, Baxley; Robert Hightower, Rich
land ; Charles Ruff, Elberton ; John Em
ory Mullis. Alma; Harold Higgins, Bre
men, and Millard Agerton, Preston.
The 100 boys attending the encamp
ment in Atlanta represented 5.000 school
boy patrolmen in the state sponsored by
the state patrol.
Labor party bans alliances this year;
aims to build strength for 1940 New Deal
backing.
News Want Ads bring quick results
WHO KNOWS?
1. What is a foreign “concession” in
China ?
2. How old is the U. S. Military acad
emy at West Point?
3. What was the Black Tom disaster?
4. Is MJarlene Dietrich an American
citizen?
5. How many Spanish refugees remain
in France?
6. How lontf has the federal govern
ment operated in the red?
7. What is the “Italian Arrow"?
8. What part of the consumer's dollar
goes to the producer?
9. Does any section of country face
drought conditions?
10. Did the RFC make any profit on
the San Francisco-Oakland bridge bonds?
(See “The Answers” on Another Page.)
Smmmmnlb fas
State Fiscal Year
Drawing To Close
ATLANTA, June 27 (CNS).—With
more than five million dollars of the ap
propriation to the common schools for
teachers’ salaries unpaid, the fiscal year
of the state of Georgia was drawing to
a close this year. July 1 marks the new
year on the books of the state.
State Auditor Zach Arnold and his
staff began preparations for their annual
investigation of the affairs of every de
partment. as departmental employes clos
ed the pages on their 1938-39 records.
LOW RENTS HEING
CREATED RY ÜBH A
WASHINGTON. D. C.—The lowest
rents for decent modern homes ever
reached in this country have been achieved
in some of the first housing projects near
ing completion, by local authorities with
the aid of the United States housing au
thority. This fact was revealed today by
Nathan Straus, USHA administrator, in
announcing the rent schedules actually
set by the local authorities of Austin,
Tex.: Jacksonville, Fla.; Buffalo, N. Y..
and New York City.
'With an average shelter rent of $6.59
monthly for a family dwelling, Austin
has set a record,” Mr. Straus said. “High
er costs for materials, labor and mainte
nance in the other three cities compel
rents higher than this unbelievably low
figure. Yet in all of them the rents for
the w.ell-built new homes are actually
lower than the average rents now paid
for slum dwellings.”
The average monthly shelter rents per,
family announced for the Jacksonville
proect are $10.58; for two projects in
Buffalo the average is $13.25; for the
Red Hook project in Brooklyn, it is about
$17,000.
Mr. Straus pointed out that these low
rents mean that the local authorities
participating in the USHA program will |
actually rehouse low-income families now
■ompelled to live in slums. He said that
the projects will serve families with iv- |
erage annual incomes estimated as fol |
lies in Buffalo, SBSO, with some as low
$300; Jacksonville. $750. with some al
low as $500; the project for white fami
lies in Buffalo., SBSO. with sime as low
is $600; and the negro project in Buffa
lo. $750, with some as low as $500; New
York City, $950, with some as low as
S7OO.
“Private capital cannot provide new !
housing for income groups much below
the $1,750 class.” said Mr. Straus. “These
'gures reveal how far from competing
with private capital is the USHA pro
gram. Only those families living in slums
ind definitely substandard housing am!
having insufficient income to pay for
decent housing are eligible for projects
built with USHA aid.”
Under its present program to rehousi
160.000 low-income families, the USHA
lends local authorities 90 per cent, of
the total development cost of approved
projects. To bring rents within the reach
of low-income families, the authority
makes an annual grant and the local an
rlionty supplements this with an a'lnu il
grant, usually in the form of tax exemp
tion.
Gore Future Farmers
Elects New Officers
By BILL KING.
The Gore chapter of Future Farmers
of America held a regular meeting Fri
day night, June 23, at 8 o’clock. The
main purpose of the meeting was to elect
officers of the chapter for the 1989-4 C
term.
It is the custom of the chapter that
the boys who are seniors act as the nom
inating committee. The nominating com
mittee this year is composed of Harold
Storey, Arnold Perry, C. B. Fulton, Jack
Scott and Roger Louie Hansard.
For most of the officers’ positions two
boys were nominated. Those elected wei-
Charles Hendrix. president; Bernard
Storey, vice-president; Robert Hunter,
second vice-president; James Perry, sec
retary; Claude Dawson, treasurer; Bill
King, reporter; Lewis Baggett, sergeant
at-arms ; Herbert Hawkins, first conduc
tor ; Herbert McClain, second conductor,
and J. W. Pinion, farm watch dog. These
newly-elected officers will be installed in
their respective positions at the next
meeting.
Charles Hendrix, who represented our
chapter at Jackson lake during the an
nual state F. F. A. convention, gave an
interesting report on his week’s stay.
Every chapter in the state had the op
portunity to send two boys to represent
their chapter at this convention. This
year Sears, Roebuck & Co. awarded five
dollar scholarships to one of the delegates
from each chapter to be used to defray
that delegate's expenses at the conven
tion. Classes were held in the mornings
at the convention. These classes were
to instruct the delegates on -the duties of
different officers and some of the funda
mentals of parliamentary procedure.
The officers for the state association
of Future Farmers for next year were
elected.
The next F. F.A. meeting will be at 8
o’clock Friday night, July 7. It is of
great importance that all members be
present.
GRANDMA HITS HOME RUN.
BRISTOL, Conn.—During a softball
game at a church picnic, Mrs. Martha
Steele, 73-year-old grandma, stepped to
the plate, swung at a low. inside curve
and slammed the ball for a 150-foot home
run. Her only regret was that the bases
were empty at the time.
President insists that congress act on
neutrality amendments before going home.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939
COTTON COUNCIL
READY TO START
RESEARCH WORK
COTTON RESEARCH FOUNDATION
WILL BECOME RESEARCH DI
VISION OF COUNCIL.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 28.—Moving
forward with co-ordination of the cotton
industry’s efforts toward increased con
n.uon. the National Cotton council
announced today an agreement under
which the Cotton Research foundation
Will become the research division of the
council.
President Osar Johnston, of the Cotton
Council, and President Everett R. Cook,
i ilie Research Foundation, said in a
joint statement that the new affiliation
woud become effective on July 1.
Operating through multiple fellowships
in the Mellon Institute of Industrial Re
search, the foundation will continue its
present exploratory program and in ad
dition will handle all matters of scien
tific research arising out of activities of
the national counci.
“This very practical arrangement,”
said Mr. Johnston, “has the double ad
vantage of coordinating the efforts of the
two organizations and of providing the
Cotton Council immediately with a scien
tific research division which unTier any
other plan would have required consid
erable time for organization and develop
ment.
“It is a major step toward efficient
co-ordination of the efforts of the cot
ton industry as it proceeds with its new
and aggressive program for increased con
sumption of cotton and cottonseed prod
ucts.”
< Tcnnized in Memphis three years ago,
the research foundation has under way
or completed twenty-nine projects look
ing toward new uses for lint and seed
products. New uses and processes which
already have passed laboratory tests are
being further developed for final com
mercial production.
Already on the market is a sweeping
compound composed mainly of cottonseed
hull bran which has been found to have
superior cleaning properties. Most recent
laboratory announcement is a white pa
per embodying cottonseed hull fiber.
In addition to its work in the I’itts
!>n .h laboratories of the Mellon insti
tuate, the foundation has projects under
way at the University of North Carolina,
the University of Texas, the Texas Tech
noligical colege, the University of Ten
nessee, and the University of Pittsburgh
Further expansion of research projects
to be undertaken in colleges and uni
versities where suitable projects are pro
d and to the extent that available
funds make possible.
i •> addition to funds which will be pro
vided by the five primary raw cotton in
terests comprising the National Cotton
Council, the foundation will request sup
port from other interests whose welfare
-l-'sely linked with cotton economy.
Commenting on the new affiliation.
President Everett Cook, of the founda
tion, said he was convinced that “through
•< h a co’"’''nation of effort, both organ
izations will be able to increase the ef
fectiveness of their work in behalf of
■ ’ton industry. We are happy in
deed to join forces with the council in
its vital program.”
WPA Pile Driver
Fished From Creek
BAXLEY.—A WPA crew near this
city appeared at work one morning to
find that a pile driver, to be used in re
building Miles bridge on Big creek, had
been pushed into said creek.
No clues have been uncovered as to the
perpetrators of this mischievous act, but
word has been advanced that some typi
cal “worker” performed too good a job—
of leaning on his tools.
Educators realize need for changes in
schools, but are doing little to make
them, survey holds.
Wallace tells Alabama Press associa
tion fairness of newspapers is a factor
in recovery. '
“CREPE ON THE NEWS-ROOM DOOR”
(Dedcated to the late O. J. Espy.)
It was one Friday morning, and just a year ago;
The sun was brightly shining, and my heart was all aglow,
I walked up to a building, as oft I had before; :
My heart was then made sad to see “crepe on the News
room door.”
I knew it was a token that one had passed away
In the golden bye and bye, to live in endless day;
And when we meet him yonder on that Celestial shore
In glory-land we’ll see no crepe upon the News-room door.
No graveyards mar the beauties of heaven’s grand domain,
There’ll be no disappointments, and there’ll be no cares
and pain;
There’ll be no death, nor sickness; up there we’ll weep no
more;
We’ll even forget we saw the “crepe upon the News-room
door.”
THOMAS D. LYNN
kOAD LEAGUE PLAN
WINNING SUPPORT
OF LEGISLATURE
ATLANTA. June 27 (CNS).—The ‘All-
Georgia Plan’ for the solution of the
state’s fiscal problem is winning wide
support among members of the Georgia
general assembly. Dr. R. J. Kennedy,
proponent of the plan and president of
the Citizens’ Road League of Georgia,
believes.
Besides appealing to hundreds of
thoughtful citizens, who regard the sev
en-point plan as offering the most order
ly and permanent solution to the state's
problems of finances, the ‘All-Georgia
Plan' has won wide acceptance among the
ranks of the county commissioners of the
state, who find in it a solution of the
complex relationship between the state
and its county governments. Five of the
seven points in the plan were endorsed
in separate resolutions by the Commis
sioners’ association, while the entire plan
was recommended for consideration to the
association’s legislative committee as a
possible basis for their program before
the assembly.
Primary objective of the Citizens’ Road
League of Georgia, in which several thou
sand Georgians with an interest in th<
cause of better roads are enlisted, is im
provement of the state highway system
and its early completion. The league re
gards as especially menacing recent pro
posals to divert substantial portions of
the highway department’s funds into oth
er channels, pointing out that such di
version will result in substantial loss
of federal grants and in a disruption of
the paving program.
Jsghway revenues, interpreted in
amounts available per mile on the sys
tem* now the lowest than in any year in
the past decade, records disclose. In 1935,
an average year of operation, the high
way department had available for con
struction and maintenance the sum of
$1,281 a mile; in 1938 this had dropped
to $1,028 a mile. These figu res represent
the total income of the department from
state funds, deducting the amounts re
paid to the counties for refunding cer
tificates.
There has been a slight increase in the
sums available from gasoline taxes, but
this has been more than offset by the
additional mileage taken on the state sys
tem, which must be maintained by the
department.
At present, the state has 4.767 miles
of unpaved road on the system, await
ing construction. This is about 45 per
cent, of the total, so that the claim that
the ‘highway system is nearly complete'
is without foundation.
Most pressing problem, however, is re
construction. Many of the roads built in
the early nineteen twenties are in a se
rious state of disrepair. Repaving of some
of the primary routes, used by heavy
traffic daily, is essential, and the cost
of this work wil] be a severe drain on
highway income. Os course, as increased
mileage goes on the system, maintainence
total costs increase, and while improved
and mechanized methods of maintaining
the system have reduced drastically the
per-mile maintenance cost, the annual to
tal expended for this purpose is in
creasing.
Feeling that the highway problem is
an integral part of the state's general fis
cal problem, the Citizens’ Road league
advocates stabilization of the state’s in
come, adequate provision for the common
schools and the welfare program, and es
tablishment of a non-partisan budget
commission, as well as the allocation of
gasoline revenues to the highway depart
ment and the 150 counties of Georgia
solely for road building and maintenance.
Toombs Negress has 115
Candles On Birthday Cake
VIDALIA.—Aunt Julia Small. Toombs
county negress. who was “8 years old the
year the stars fell,” staked her claim a»
the oldest living inhabitant of this state,
when she blew out 115 candles on her
birthday cake June 15. Using the spec
tacular meteor shower of 1833 as a clue.
Aunt Julia’s birth date was calculated at
1825.
Despite her 115 years, this long-time
resident of Lyons annually plants a tur
nip patch, periodically makes a boiling
pot of soap, and until very recently has
made frequent trips to town.
Supreme Court
Sets a Record!
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA. —Working diligently to'
clear its docket, the Georgia supremel
court handed down what is believed to
be an all-time record number of decisions i
during the week ending June 18.
The state’s highest tribunal took ac
tion upon a total of eighty-one cases. It
delivered sixty-seven written opinions,
passed upon 13 motions for rehearing and
decided one certiorari motion.
A veteran official, connected with the
court for more than half a century, said
it was the largest number of cases within
his memory to be delivered in one week
by the supreme court . Decisions are
handed down once a month, usually 1
numbering between twenty and twenty
five.
$6,000,000 DIVIDENDS
TO BE PAID IN STATE
ATLANTA, June 27 (GPS).—In the
early part of July more than $6,000,000
in dividends will be distributed to stock
holders of twenty-eight Georgia compani
es, a survey in Atlanta revealed. This is
the largest total in years, last year's fig
ures being $5,787,000 and in 1937 the
total was near $4,607,000.
Among the concerns paying the largest
amounts are the Coca-Cola company.
$3,893,925 in quarterly and semi-annual- j
dividends; the Georgia Power company.
$737,235.75 in quarterly dividends; Bibh
Manufacturing company, $200,000; At
lanta, Birmingham & Coast 'Railroad
company, 5 per cent, preferred, semi-ian
nual $2.50. totaling $129.507.50: West
Point Manufacturing company. 30 cents.
$108,000; Citizens & Southern National
bank, semi-annual, 30 cents, $150,000;!
Nehi corporation, $103,000.
A number of local corporations expect
ed to pay dividends around July 1 are
not included in the survey as informa- i
tion regarding their payments were not
available.
HERE AND THERE
MYSTERY ‘KIDNAPING’
IN ATLANTA REPORTED
A mysterious snatch, witnessed by an
Atlanta man, gave police a puzzle re
cently.
Jack Helms, of 425 Spring street. N.
W., reported that while driving through
Grant park he saw two men get out of
a car, grab a girl about 17 years old,
force her into the vehicle, and drive off. I
Helms said he followed the car to De
catur and Moore streets, where he lost
it. The car bore a Texas license plate,
Helms said. Police said they had no idea
who the girl might be.
POLICE COWBOY’
KOI ND UP BEES
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Cowboys use
horses to round up cattle, and Patrolman i
J. V. Tillman, of the Memphis police
force, uses his motorcycle to round up
bees.
It all happened when a swarm of bees
gathered on a sign over a Memphis bus
station. Officer Tillman rode under them
with his motorcycle, honked his horn sev
eral times, and the bees peacefully set
tled in a pastboard box.
ONE JEFFERSON NICKEL
FOR EVERY 3 PERSONS
WASHINGTON Spiking recurring
reports that the new Jefferson nickel had i
been withdrawn from circulation, the ’
treasury said recently that there was one
such coin in circulation for every three I
persons.
Since the 5-cent piece was introduced
last November, the mints have turned out
t>3,t>86,000 coins bearing the profile of the
third president. Os these, 48,080.000 have
been placed in circulation.
Several hundred million buffalo nickels
are still in circulation and will be used
until they wear out.
MEAL OF 250 GRASSHOPPERS
PROVES SOMETHING TO POLICE
LINCOLN, Neb.—A man who said he
wanted to prove the edibility of insects
gave police a bit of a turn recently.
The man, a 51-year-old World war
veteran, told officers he felt no ill ef
fects from his diet of about 250 live
grasshoppers a day. He explained he
swallowed them whole, because that's the
way birds do it, and washed them down
with a molasses solution.
MOTHER IS KILLED TRYING
TO SAVE CHILD FROM AUTO
FITZGERALD, Ga.— Struck when
she attempted to snatch her 3-year-old
son out of the path of an automobile. Mrs.
Frank Williams, mother of five, died of
her injuries.
A 12-year-old daughter saw the acci
dent. She and her brother were aceom- ■
panying the mother home from a neigh
bor's on the Fitzgerald-Broxton road when
the child ran into the road. The mother
dashed to save him.
The child's leg was broken but he is
reported out of danger.
DRIVER ARRESTED;
FOUND TO BE ‘BLIND’
The wheels of justice may turn slowly
but they turn out some queer cases in
the end. When a motorist at San Jose,
Cal., was arrested on a charge of drunk
en-driving, a search of his papers reveal
ed he was receiving a blind aid pension
from the state, and that also a brother j
living with him was receiving a blind
pension.
As the possession of a driver’s license
and a certificate of blindness impressed
the officers as being incompatible, they
had tfie driving license annulled.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
GA. LEGIONNAIRES
ELECT BAXLEY MAN
AS THEIR LEADER
HOYT BROWN ELECTED NEW
COMMANDER OF GEORGIA
AMERICAN LEGION.
ATLANTA. June 27 (GPS).—Geor
gia’s new commander of the American
Legion is Hoyt Brown, of Baxley, native
of Habersham county, civil engineer and
graduate of Georgia Tech. He was elect
ed state commander, to succeed Logan
Kelley, of Buford, at the closing session
of the state convention held in Atlanta
last week.
Frank Moxley, postmaster of Wadley,
was elected vice-commander. Pat Kelly,
of Valdosta, former state commander,
was elected national executive committee
man. Other officers named were: Jim
Bankston. Atlanta, finance officer; Rev.
Father Dan McCarty. Columbus, chap
lain, and Ben Hogue, Atlanta, historian.
Division commanders were elected as
follows: Arthur Dillon. Savannah;
Henry L. Holland. Fort Valley: Frank
Pons, Augusta; Louis Mauldin, Clarkes
ville.
Area commanders were elected as fol
lows: Sanford Butler. Savannah: Hoyt
Wimpy, Thomasville; J. J. Pryor. Fitz
gerald; Kelly Bowman, Barnesville: W.
A. Dodge, Jr., Atanta; Stewart Wooten,
Millledgeville; Victor Waldrop, Carters
ville; Branee Lee, Waycross; A. B. Cam
eron, Gainesville; Paul Ponder. Madison.
At the same time the Georgia depart
ment of the American Legion auxiliary
elected Mrs. J. P. Kelly, of Atlanta,
president. Other officers of the auxiliary
elected were: Mrs. R. G. Vinson, of
Thomasville, first vice-president; Mrs.
Fred Vandiver, of Manchester, historian,
and Mrs. Carl Saye. of Athens, chaplain.
Mrs. W. F. Davison of Baldwin, retiring
president, was elected national commit
teewoman, and Mrs. C. H. Alden, of
Cornelia, was elected alternate national
committeewoman.
Augusta was chosen the 1940 conven
tion city of the Georgia department of
the American Legion.
Guernseys Sold By
Riegeldale Farm
TRION, Ga. —The following registered
Guernsey cows and bulls have recently
been sold by the Trion company-Riegel
dale farm, according to the American
Guernsey Cattle club, of Peterborough,
New Hampshire.
Riegeldale Edna 517883. sold to Harry
A. Marion, of Lindale; Sultan’s Connie
336164, sold to H. C. Brogdon, of Cal
houn ; Lucerne’s Jessie 211440. sold to
G. C. Causby, of Calhoun; Riegeldale
Viking's Barton 272626, sold to O'. D.
King, of Bremen: Riegeldale Illustrious
Boyer 272627, sold to T. W. Malone, of
Sugar Valley; Riegeldale Mck Bruce
272628. sold to W. R. Fouts, of Calhoun ;
Riegeldale Viscount’s Benny 272629. sold
to E. F. Golden, of Bremen; Riegeldale
Viking's Bok 272630, sold to B. O. San
ders. of Buchanan; Riegeldale Dugald's
Supreme 272625. sold to J. F. Hutcheson,
of Buchanan.
GUERNSEY SOLD TO GILLILAND
ANNISTON, Ala. A registered
Guernsey cow has recently been sold by
S. A. Smith & Sons to Joe Gilliland, of
Lyerly, Ga. This animal is Bachelor’s
Retreat Smith 587047, according to the
American Guernsey Cattle club, Peter
boro, N. H.
GUERNSEY SOLD TO SMITHS
LYERLY, Ga.—A registered Guern
sey bull has recently been sold by Joe
Gilliland to S. A. Smith & Sons, of An
niston. Ala. This animal is Riegeldale
Illustrator 244041, according to the
American Guernsey Cattle club, Peter
borough, N. H.
“CLOSED FOR LUNCH"
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Explaining ab
sence of the proprietor at midday, a large
sign on the door of a Lexington restau
rant advised: “Out, Closed for Lunch,
Open Later.”
Mrs. Pilkenton
Dies In Molena
GRIFFIN, Ga., June 23.—Mrs. J. T.
Pilkenton, prominent resident of Molena,
in Pike county, died this morning at her
home there.
She was the wife of J. T. Pil
kenton, and was the mother of Miss Nelle
Pilkenton, teacher at Griffin High school.
Prior to her marriage on Dec. 16. 190".
she was Miss Clenda Carreker, of Center.
Tex. Active in religious work, she joined
the Mt. Olive church in Pike county at
the age of 16.
Funeral services were conducted from
the Mt. Olive church Saturday afternoon
at 3 o’clock. Burial was in the Mt. Olive
churchyard.
Surviving Mrs. Pilkenton. in addition
to her husband, are three daughters.
Misses Elizabeth. Fay and Nelle Pilken
ton, of Molena ; three sons, Thomas, Jack
and Walter Pilkenton, of Molena; her
mother. Mrs. H. J. Carreker. and four
brothers and four sisters, all of Texas.
(Miss Nelle Pilkenton is a former
school teacher in the Summerville High
school, and her many friends here sym
pathize with her in the loss of her mo
ther,)
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