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High School Seniors
Presents Play
Friday Evening
This year the Summerville High
school seniors are presenting a mys
tery drama, “The Mystery of the
Masked Murderer,” by Helen A- Mon
sell. The cast includes twelve boys
and girls who were chosen not only
for their acting ability, but on a
scholarship standard. The play is
under the direction of Miss Evelyn
Hoge, assisted by Eugenia Langston
who, by the way, his displayed out
standing dramatic abilities in pre
vious school productions.
The characters are of interesting
and varied types. Hill Bohannon is a
promising youlng chemist dallied
Walter Aines. The part of his in
dustrious friend, Eddie Conrad, is
played by Charles Greene. Paul El
rod is the efficient messenger boy.
As far as the ladies are concerned
there are definitely some contrasts,
pH none of them free from suspicion.
There’s the nervous little landlady.
Can’t you just see Josephine Crouch
wringing her hands over her finan
cial problems. And feature Louise
Brown as Moira Moss, her heart
broken daughter. Their maid is
Hulda, portrayed by Harriet Whis
nant. We’re still questioning if she
is as dumb as she appears (who, the
maid or Hulda ?).
Now guess who Betty Broome is
this time —a level-headed college girl,
Judith Atkins, as usual she knows
how to take hold of things. Jacqueline
Rich is her fluttery little friend,
Anne Bradley, ,and if you don’t be
lieve Jackie is more dramatic than
ever, just come and see her. But
there is some new talent, too. Helen
Espy is the sweet little Rose Lawn,
but again we wonder if she is as
sweet and innocent as she looks. Lu
cille Johnson chatters around as
Kathryn Tremayne, apparently inter
ested only in dress fashions—remem
ber we said “apparently.”
It will really be a show to see
Irene Hammond putting on such lord
ly airs, and Ava Lee Brown as Miss
Carney is some spiritualist, or is she
a spiritualist after all? Well there
are plenty more questions to be an
swered, too, but come on and get a
first-hand view of the problems being
solved.
The play will be at 7:30 p.m., May
24, at the High School auditorium and
admission is only 10c for children
and 25c for adults.
Drivers’ License Time
Will Not Be Extended
Deadline is June 30
ATLANTA, Ga., May 15.—There
“absolutely” will not be an extension
in the period to renew drivers’ licenses
this year, Major Lon Sullivan, com
missioner of public safety, announced.
The deadline is June 30 and drivers
who fail to renew by then must un
dergo the rigid safe driving examina
tion. The rule, Major Su'livan said,
requires those without valid license
to stand the tests, whether they are
beginners, or have moved here from
another state, never obtained a Geor
gia license or if they had one for
merly and allowed it to expire.
Major Sullivan said the renewal
period opened April 15 and gives
drivers 75 days to renew, two weeks
longer than they had in 1939.
“Thus, we feel there is no reason
for ertending the period and that def
initely will not be done,” he said.
“Drivers who want prompt service
should apply at once and not wait
until the last minute when there will
be a rush.”
He said applications are coming in
faster than they did last year and
that more than 50,000 new licenses
have been issued. Applications can be
secured at filling stations, garages,
sheriffs’ and chiefs of police offices.
Each application should be accom
panied by the stub from the driver’s
present license as well as a check oi
money order made payable to the de
partment of public safety.
The commissioner urged applicants
in filling out their licenses to be sure
to (1) give correct descriptive infor
mation asked for on the application,
(2) copy correctly the license num
ber from the old permit, (3) sign the
application.
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"They that govern the least make the
most noise.”
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21— DeSoto, Spanish discov
erer of the Mississippi,
died, 1542.
22 Southern U. S. ports de
dared open to commerce,
1865.
23 South Carolina ratified
Constitution. 1788.
24 The Paris World's Fair
l gi opened. 1937.
• 25 —lews ordered to leave
1 > U- 1937.
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Detroit and Akron, 1938.
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VOLUME 54; NO. 10
Achievement Week
Os Local Library
Creating Interest
(At Court House)
The Church Day, May 20, and Lions
C'ub Day, May 21, have passed away.
Mrs. Henry Bradford and Mr. T. J.
Espy are telling you about them.
Achievement Week was celebrated
this week at the Chattooga County
Library. Monday, May 20, was des
ignated as Church Day and if the
number of church members calling
and registering at the Open House is
a fair test it was a big success.
The library was beautifully deco
rated with spring flowers, donated by
Mrs. J. M. Bellah. Mrs. Mary Adams,
our faithful librarian, graciously
greeted all guests and urged their co
operation in making the library an
even greater success.
Guests were particularly impressed
with the repaired and rebound books,
which work was done by other ladies
working with the WPA division.
We wish to commend Mrs. Adams
on the splendid, untiring work she is
doing to make the library useful to
all. citizens of our county and her
work with the chidren’s department
has been especially fine.
Our greatest need now is more new
books.
We must all get tobether and have
a rental table so we can secure more
new books, paying only a few cents
a day to read a book and thereby
keeping more books on the shelves
for those who cannot afford to pay.
This Open House work has brought
to our attention the real value of
the Chattooga County Library and
has also made us realize we would
not have had this cultural influence
except for WPA assistance.
’ Men’s Day
May 21 was set aside as Men’s Day
for the Chattooga County Library.
This library is sponsored by the aid
and efforts of WPA and through the
remainder of this week open house is
being kept for the purpose of show
ing Chattooga countians the many j
opportunities afforded them through
the efforts of WPA.
Upon visiting the library, one is!
impressed by the wide variety of
reading matter that is offered to our
people.
During Men’s day some 22 men j
came in for the purpose of seeing j
the advatages of this library. During j
the same day 35 books were checked
out in addition to those visiting
above named, making a total sum of
57 visitors on Men’s day.
The library was decorated with
beautiful roses, which were contrib
uted by Mrs. Harry Marks, and the
librarian was most courteous, taking
her time to explain the advantages of
tha library.
This library is open to each and
every person of Chattooga county and
it will ibe well worth your while to
stop and look around among the books
and also ask the librarian to explain
what the library holds in store for
you.
The reception committee, composed
oi Fred Aldred, Harvey Phillips, T. J.
Espy and D. T- Espy is indeed proud
of the progress made and urges each
and every Chattoogan to give their
wholehearted co-operation and sup
port and in turn receive the many
ducational benefits afforded by this
library.
Come and make a visit.
Wednesday, May 22, Woman's Or
ganization Day. Reception committee,
Mrs. Penn Selman and Mrs. W- B.
Hair, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 23, P.-T. A. Day.
Reception committee, Mrs. Harry
Marks, Mrs. Paul Weems, Miss Eliz
abeth Jackson and Miss Kathryn
Henley, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Friday, May 23, Children’s Day.
(The best day of all-.
Group 1, High School, 2-3 p.m. Re
ception committee, Mrs. Leon Story,
assisted by Misses Bettie Sisk and
Eebtie Jean Story.
Group 2, Grammar Grades, 1-2
p.m. Reception committee, Mrs. D.
T. Espy and Mrs. Mid Allen, Jr., as
sisted by the little ladies, Ann Allen,
Arlene Woods and Rose Nell Weems.
Miss Flora Mae Hardeman will
carry the papers for V. R. C- enroll
ment.
Group 3, Primary Grades, 11-12
a.m. Reception committee, Mrs. Mag
Espy and Mrs. Alfred Taylor, assist
ed by the little girls, Jacky Taylor
and Mary Espy.
The announcer of each group will
be the gifted little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Weems, who in her
wonderful original way will tell the
girls and young ladies how to become
members of the Vocational Reading
-iub (V. R. C.’s.)
Mrs. Mag Espy will entertain the
children with two beautiful stories.
Children’s Day program will be held
in the Legion Hall just below the
courthouse County Day, May 25.
Reception Committee 2f:30-4:30-
Demonstration Agent—'Miss Mil
dred Henry.
County Farm Agent—Mr. O. P.
Dawson.
MARY HEMPHILL ADAMS
Librarian
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940
Dr. B. F. Shamblin
Passes Away
Monday Morning
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Shamblin, a
native of Chattooga county, who has
practiced medicine for over fifty
years, died at the family residence in
Lyerly Monday, May 20, 1940, at 5:65
a.m. He was 80 years of age and had
lived a very useful and active life.
He was not only a good physician,
but a beloved and useful citizen, a
Christian gentleman, a good school
teacher and an ordained minister of
the Church of Christ.
Dr. Shamblin was bom Nov. 8,
1859. In March, 1886, he began the
practice of medicine in Cherokee
county, Alabama. Later he attended
the Atlanta Medical school, now Em
ory university. He also took a post
graduate course in 1900 at New York
Polyclinic institute.
Dec. 18, 1889 he married Miss
Sarah Daugherty, of Cherokee coun
ty, Alabama. To them one daughter
was born, now Mrs. Thad McCoy, of
Douglasville, who survive.
Feb. 20, 1908 Dr. Shamblin mar
ried Miss Oneida Morris, of Gordon
county. To them was bom one daugh
ter, now Mrs. Thomas W. Hardy, of
Lyerly, who survives.
Dr. Shamblin was an active mem
ber of the Church of Christ and also
an ordained minister. He has con
ducted as many funerals and married
as many couples as any otjier min
ister in this county. He has always
been a great asset to -hist community
and considered one of ithe most im
portant citizens of this county.
He helped organize the Chattooga
County Medical society and served as
its first president. He will be sadly
missed in North Georgia.
Besides his two daughters, two
grandchildren, Sarah McCoy, of
Douglasville, and Morris Hardy, of
Lyerly, survive this beloved deceased.
Also surviving are two brothers, J.
D., of Austin, Texas, and A. P. Sham
blin, of Paris, Ark., besides a host of
friends.
The funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. at the
Baptist church in Lyerly. The 'body
lay in state at the church from 2 to 3.
C. W. Landers was the officiating
minister, a former pastor.
Interment in Lyerly cemetery, with
Paul Weems Funeral home in charge.
'The Green Hand’
Menlo School Gym
Tuesday, May 28
The much talked-of moving picture,
“The Green Hand,” is to be shown at
Menlo school in the gymnasium on
May 28 at 8 p.m. under the auspices
of Menlo Chapter of Future Farmers
o! America-
The premiere showing of the pic
ture was recently made at Athens, j
where most of the scenes were en
acted- More than 6,000 people viewed
he picture and high praise was given
by th;i press.
The picture is 'based on a book of
the same name written by Dr. Paul
W. Chapman, dean of the State Col
lege of Agriculture, the name being
the first degree given to * Future
Farmers of America. It is a story of
a country boy. expelled from school j
because of his rowdiness, induced by |
a new teachcV of vocational agricul- j
*-ure to return and under whose guid
ance the boy became interested in
agriculture; joined the F. F. A. and
began to develop leadership.
His career is beset with difficulties
which were overcome one by one until
the picture ends in a glorious victory
in public speaking contest at the Na-j
tional F F. A. convention
Many exciting episodes, it is stated,;
are shown, including love interest, a
hunting mishap, a trial, fights, sav
ing of the home farm from a mort
gage foreclosure and a display of fine
sportsmanship.
The boy who plays the part of the
green hand is Alpha Fowler, Jr.,
Douglasville, former F. F. A. chap
ter president and ex-president of the
Georgia Association of Future Farm
ers of America.
The teacher of vocational agricul
ture who takes a prominent role in
shaping the career of the green hand,
is M- D- Mobley, director of vocation
al education in Georgia.
According to reports of the picture,
it is full of stirring action from be
ginning to end. The ideals of the Fu
ture Farmers of America are brought
out, also instances of success in farm
ing by seizing opportunities for mak
ing money.
The public is invited to attend, en
joy the picture and learn something
of what the Future Farmers of Amer
ica stand for and what they are do
ing. The admission is free, and we
cordially invite all people to come.
Mr. E. Gaskin is visiting friends
and reatives in the county for fifteen
days before leaving for Meridia n ,
Miss., on a
Great Progress
Noted in Cotton
Mattress Project
The cotton mattress project is
meeting with much success through
out the state, with more than 1,000
mattresses already completed and
over 30,000 applications received,
Miss Lurline Collier, state home
demonstration agent, reported from
Athens this week.
A total of 140 applications have
been taken in Ohattooga county, ac
cording to County Agent O. P. Daw
son and Home Demonstsation Agent
Mildred Henry. They said there
should be 1,000 farm families to ap
ply for mattresses and that intense
interest is being manifested in the
mattress program whch is designed
to reduce the surplus supply of cot
ton and provide mattresses for low
income farm families.
The mattress program, now in op
eration in all of Georgia’s 159 coun
ties, was recently inaugurated in
four counties, Jackson, Mitchell, Polk
and Washington. Since that time,
more than 1,000 bales of cotton and
105,000 yards of ticking has been
ordered, all of which is provided by
the Federal Surplus Commodity Cor
poration.
Over 78,000 farm families in Geor
gia are eligible to apply for mat
tresses, according to Miss Collier,
who is in charge of the mattress pro
gram in this state. Approximately
1,000 people, both white and negro,
have volunteered to give assistance
in the project. County farm and
home demonstration agents are in
charge of the work in the counties.
Through the Agricultural Exten
sion Service and its farm and home
agents, the cotton and ticking is re
ceived from the Commodity Corpora
tion for the construction of the mat
tresses. The AAA committee in each
county supervises the receiving of
applications and certifies the eligible
families- Applications, however, are
made directly to the county farm or
home agent and volunteer leaders in
the various communities, a list of
which was mailed to each producer
last week.
BJG SINGING AT SOUTH SUM
MERVILLE SATURDAY NIGHT
there will be a big singing at
South Summerville Baptist church
Saturday night, it has been announced
this is to be the biggest event of its
kind of the year. Make •your plans to
attend this big event. The following
quartets will be present: Jackson
quartet, Powell quartet, Summerville
quartet, Mountain View quartet;
South Summerville quartet; Berryton
quartet, Stevenson quartet and Ber
ryton trio. John Cox will be in
charge.
EDMUND T- ADAMS DIES IN
HOSPITAL IN JACKSON, MISS.
Friends here of Mrs. Mary Hemp
hill Adams grieved with her at the
news of the death of her husband,
E. T. Adams, at a hospital in Jack
son, Miss., Tuesday, May 14th, after
a five year illness.
Two weeks previous to his death
he fell and broke his hip, which
caused his death.
Twenty-three years ago Mr. Adams
married Miss Mary Hemphill, a for
mer resident and teacher of this
counts, at Chapel Hill church in Mis
sissippi. He formerlf owned a large
plantation near Yazoo City before his
health failed.
Surviving Mr. Adams besides his
widow, who is Chattooga county li
brarian, are three children, E. A.
Adams of Yazoo City, Miss.; W- J.
Adams, a corporal in the marines at
Paris Island, and Mrs. Roy Hernng,
of McCool, Miss.
The funeral services were held
Thursday at 10 a.m. at Berea, Miss.
Interment in Berea cemetery.
Mrs. Adams has many friends and
relatives here who sympathize with
her .in this sad hour.
COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULE
The Summerville public schools
will begin their special activities for
the 1940 commencement on Friday,
May 24. At 7:30 that evening the
high school senior play, “The Mys
tery of the Masked Murderer,” will
be presented.
On Sunday morning, May 26, the
bacca'aureate sermon will be deliv
ered by Rev. M. D. Short, pastor of
our local Baptist church, at the First
Baptist church. Special music for
this service is being supervised by
Misses Annie Pitts and Almazada El
lenburg.
At 2 o’clock Monday afternoon spe
cial chapel services will be held at
the high school auditorium for the
presentation of awards.
On Thursday evening at 8 o’clock
Miss Annie Pitts will present her
pupils in a music recital.
The grammar school graduation
exercises will be Thursday morning
at 10 o’clock. The week’s activities
will culminate Thursday evening at &
j o'clock when, the high school gradua
j tion Exercises will 'be held at the high
* school auditorium. Mr. J. A. Cook will
1 ucljvcp the commencepacnt address.
250,000 Lunches
Served WPA
Aided Lunchrooms
Almost a quarter of a million hot
lunches, enough to serve a family of
three for seventy-three years, have
been served in the WPA operated and
WPA aided lunchrooms of District 4
this year.
The hot lunch program has grown
constantly since the beginning of the
present school year. In November,
1939, fourteen projects employing 37
women served 21,208 school lunches
in this district. By January, 1940, the
number of projects had increased to
twenty-one, employing 59 women and
serving 30,748 hot lunches. In April,
1940, with several schools closing and
operating school gardens, the proj
ects served 57,031 lunches last month.;
In this district lunch projects are
being operated in Bartow, Carroll,
Catoosa, Chattooga, Cobb, Douglas,
Fannin, Haralson, Murray, Paulding,
Pickens, Polk and Walker counties, j
Lunch projects are available to the i
other counties of the district if prop- \
er sponsorship can be secured.
The results from the hot lunch pro
gram are noticeable improvement in
children’s health, school attendance
and discipline problems. One school at
the beginning of the school year re
corded a large number of undernour
ished children. At the end of the
school year the teachers reported a
marked physical and mental develop
ment in these children.
Primary rules of the lunch room
are a better balanced meal, cleanli
ness, neatness and good cooking. The
department of public welfare furnish
bleached muslin from which the WPA
sewing rooms make uniforms for
lunch room workers-
The ideal way for a lunch project
to begin is, as one in Fannin county
is beginning now, with a school gar
den from which vegetables will be
canned for use in the lunch room dur
ing the school year.
The lunch project not only pro
vides food for children, but gives the
teacher an opportunity to direct the
child in eating correct foods and to
direct him in habits of good manners.
Some of the best school systems in
the district have adopted the WPA
plan for serving school lunches and
have proved that it is a successful
program that touches thousands of
pupils.
WPA “THIS WORK PAYS YOUR
COMMUNITY” WEEK
Professional and service projects.
Como one Come all!
Sewing Project South Summer
ville, road to Lyerly, just before
crossing railroad.
Surplus Commodity Project—Old
Flour Mill building, Summerville, Ga.
Library Project—Courthouse, Sum
merville, Ga.
Combined Statewide county records
Indexing Project Courthouse,
Summerville, Ga.
Book Repair Project—Courthouse,
Summerville, Ga.
School Lunch Project—Grammar
school, Summerville, Ga.
Garden project.
Workers Service Project—Menlo
High school, Menlo, Ga.
Education Project—Colored School
building, Summerville, Ga-
When—May 20-25, 1940-
WORK PROGRESSING ON
INSTALLATION OF GAS PIPES
The installation of the pipe line by
the Southeastern Pipe Line company
from Port Saint Joe, Fla., to Chat
tanooga is nearing Summerville. A
large number of the crew will stay
in Summerville for about thirty days.
j
LITTLE MISS MARY MAGALINE
WHITE FATALLY INJURED BY
CAR ON THURSDAY MORNING
All of Summerville were saddened
Thursday morning when news spread j
that little Magaline White had been
seriously injured when a car, driven
by Bill Phillips, had knocked her
down on the Summerville-Rome high
way as she was crossing near Mr. j
Love’s filling station about 10 o’clock.
She was rushed immediately to the
local hospital by some of the wit
nesses of the accident.
Her condition was considered very
serious, her skull was fractured, one
leg broken and other injuries. She
never regained consciousness and died
Saturday about noon.
The bereaved family have the sym
pathy of their many friends over the
county.
She was the fourth daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. White, of this place.
She attended the grammar school
here. Surviving the deceased are her
parents, five brothers, Paul, Marvin,
Daniel, Billy and Orville; four sisters,
Mrs. Dewey Peppers, Mrs. Paul
Bishop, of Lyerly; Miss Clara and
Devada White.
The funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Revs.
Toler and Hitt* officiating in the
presence of many friends, and rela
tive? at the Berrytor. Church of God.
Interment in Berryton oemetery with
Paul Weems in charge of arrange
ments.
$1.50 A YEAR
Banquet at High
School Library
Monday Evening
The P.-T. A. sponsored banquet at
the high school Monday evening was
: a great success. Ninety-three guests
were served. The proceeds went to
! the P.-T. A. for the lunch project.
: The purpose of the banquet was to
! acquaint the public about the many
projects in the county under the
Works Progress Administration, There
are nine projects now operating in
this county and benefiting many un
employed.
The following very interesting and
instructive program was given:
Mr. Fred Aldred presided very
capably.
Rev- C. C. Cliett gave the invoca
i tion.
Senator M. E. Brinson, in absence
of the mayor, gave a short welcome
address.
Miss Jewell Dunn, of Marietta, a
WPA supervisor for this district,
gave greetings from other prominent
supervisors in Washington. She also
gave some statistics from Chattooga’s
nine projects and told about two new
projects that we could have: House
keeping project and the Recreational
project.
Mrs. Harry Marks, the president of
the P.-T. A., gave a shoit review of
Chattooga’s nine projects.
A lovely plate luncheon was served
by the P.-T. A. committee, Mrs. Paul
Weems, chairman, assisted by Mrs.
Harry McGinnis and some of her
Home Ec students.
The national hook-up over the radio
for this national affair, as May 20
was date set to observe as WPA in
formation day over many states, was
not clear, so copies of the speeches to
be broadcast from Washington were
given locally by Mr. Fred Aldred,
Miss Dunn, Mr. M. E. Brinson, Henry
Powell and Miss Sells as Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Adams gave information con
cerning the Chattooga Public Li
brary. “Please visit the library this
WPA week” was her plea.
Misses Lula and Lena Griffith
gave a questionnaire about the sew
ing projert. Over $4,000 was paid in
salaries in sewing room last year in
this county.
The Summerville quartet gave two
very good songs.
Miss Eula Chadwick then gave a
report on local lunch room and gar
den projects.
Mrs. Helen Chandler gave a report
on the indexing project at the court
house
Mrs. Della Everett gave a report
on the book repair project.
Senator Moses E. Brinson gave an
address and stressed the importance
of the WPA projects in Chattooga
county. He compared the organiza
tion of WPA in the United States to
Hitler’s organization of armies in
Europe and the difference in re
sults.
The Sumrerville quartet gave three
more excellent songs which were en
joyed very much.
GORE HIGH SCHOOL TO CLOSE
The following is a schedule of pro
grams as they will appear at Gore
High school, beginning May 24, and
closing May 28. Friday night, May
24, 7:30 o’clock the elementary grades
present a varied program beginning
with the first grade and culminating
with the seventh grade exercises and
presentation of awards and certifi
cates.
Saturday night, May 25, 8 o’clock
the senior class presents “Crashing
Society,” a three act comedy. This
play is full of funny situations and
hearty laughs. You will really en
joy it.
Sunday morning, May 26, 10 o’clock
; in the school auditorium we will have
the union Sunday school program un
der the direction of the Pleasant
Grove Baptist church. Mr. A. E.
| Dositer, of Lyerly, Ga., will present
(the lesson- All denominations are in
vited.
At 11 o’clock Sunday morning Rev.
Kenneth Hamilton, of Rome, Ga., will
bring the baccalaureate message.
] Nothing is scheduled for Monday
night. Tuesday night, May 28, 8
; o’clock, we will have our commence
i ment exercises. Charles Hendrix and
1 Bill King will give the salutatory and
valedictory respectively. Dr. M. D.
Collins, state superintendent of
schools, will deliver the address to
the graduating class, after which
awards and diplomas will be pre
sented.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all who wish to attend any or all of
j these programs.
Mrs. W. R. Stephenson is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Leila Gamble, in
1 Chattanooga this week. While there
1 they will visit Mrs. N. M. Curbow in
, Oakdale, Tenn.
———
Miss Frances Mullen spent the
week-end as guest of Miss Madelyn
i Barker.