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MISS JULIA WALKER
TO MARRY MR. NORRIS
The following announcement will
ibe of much interest here as the bride
elect is the attractive and popular
neice of Miss Maude Sewell and re
sided here with her aunt for seven
years. She attended high school here
and made many friends by her eharm
ing personality and sterling charac
teristics.
WALKER-NORRIS
Mr. and Mrs. J- E. Walker, of
Hickory, N. C., announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Julia Lee, to
James Rufus Norris, of Anderson, S.
C., the marriage to take place on
June 9 in Hickory at the First Bap
tist church.
Rev. W. B. Underwood, pastor of
First Baptist church, Douglasville,
Ga., an uncle of the bride-elect, will
officiate.
Miss Walker is the attractive
youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs-
Walker. She is a graduate of the
Summerville High school and of Bes
sie Tift college in Forsyth. She has
taught in the Newton County school
system in Covington for the past two
years.
Mr. Norris is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Norris, of Hartwell, Ga. He
received his degree from Erskine col
lege. He holds a position with Duke
Power company, Anderson, S. C.,
where the couple will reside, follow
ing their June marriage.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE GLEE
CLUB HERE FOR WEEK-END
The West Georgia College Glee
club, composed of twenty-two stu
dents from Carrollton, sang at the
Methodist church Sunday evening.
The Epworth league served a plate
lunch to the Glee club- The boys were
guests in the homes in Summerville.
William Cleghorn is a member of this
club.
The club also gave some good
numbers at high school auditorium
at chapel Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H- Reavis and
family left Saturday for their new
home in Grenville, New Mexico. Mr.
Reavis and family moved here from
Tennessee about twenty years ago.
He has been a rural mail carrier for
about that time. Miss Evelyn Reavis
was a popular member of the gram
mar school faculty this year. Mr.
Reavis has exchanged routes with an
other carrier in New Mexico, who
will arrive in a few days and will re
side in his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Broom, of Wil
son, N- G; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Rackley and children and Mrs. Sara
Allen Van Horn and sons, of Cus
sita, were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. M. M. Allen, Sr., Sunday.
SPRING CREEK SERVICES
Prayer services Saturday evening
at 7 o’clock, Frank Palmer in charge.
The Rev. Frontz, of Second Baptist
church, LaFayette, will preach for
us at 7:30. This man comes to us
highly recommended by our pastor, so
let’s give him as good attendance as
we have been giving our pastor. Our
attendance was unusually good on last
preaching day. Bro. Cleghorn will
also be with us Saturday evening and
Sunday at 11 o’clock.
Sunday school at 9:45.
B. Y. P. U. Sunday morning at 7
o’clock, followed by preaching by the
Rev. Thompson, of Trion. Come to all
services.
A goodly number have been attend
ing prayer service each Wednesday
evening at Chapel Hill- Remember,
next Wednesday night, Lloyd Tapp
in charge.
Rev. R. L- Barnes will preach after
prayer services. Come, you are wel
come to worship with us.—-Mrs. Frank
Palmer, Reporter.
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Kathleen Norris Says:
There's Deadly Boredom in
Being Too Lucky
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS
THE truth is, most of us
American women live un
der unnatural conditions.
Our lives are so easy that life is
very hard for us!
We have to keep thinking up
artificial ways of keeping busy.
There are great necessities all
around us, bitter needs of hun
ger, housing, unemployment,
mothering of the motherless,
comforting the hopeless, solv
ing any tiny one of the millions
of problems that our civiliza
tion leaves in its wake. But
these are uninviting subjects.
What to Do?
So we support matinees, afternoon
movies, bridge clubs, amusement
clubs, language and book-binding
lessons, tea shops, beauty parlors,
cultural and pseudo-political lec
tures; we encourage smart middle
aged women to talk new book and
new movement and new thought to
us; we gather in big department
stores to learn how to make lamp
shades and hook rugs; we attend the
club when the dramatic section or
the musical section or the domestic
science section is putting on a pro
gram, and we live within sound of
the radio.
Added to these are unnecessary
shopping, and unnecessary fussing
over meals. Our meals! Foreign
women look in complete bewilder
ment at the countless menus that
are published in this country, thou
sands and thousands of meals print
ed every month, and consider we
have spoiled appetites. Chopped nuts
and whipped cream, larded this and
breaded that, jellied soup and
stuffed celery, desserts that are
beaten and creamed and set and
surrounded with walls of lady-fingers
and soaked with rum; even the sim
ple old cellar vegetables of our fore
fathers are minced and rolled in
crumbs and fried and puffed and
embellished with raisins.
Nothing REAL to Accomplish.
And all this means that we haven’t
enough REAL things to do.
It sounds so fortunate, so much as
if we were to be envied! Electric
lights, gas stoves, linoleum that
needs only a wipe with a damp
cloth; everything canned and pack
aged and convenient even the
humble applesauce, the unpreten
tious new potato, the familiar bis
cuit. One can buy shelled peas and
lima beans, shelled crabs and
shrimp, ready made pie-crust and
patty shells.
Fifty years ago housework was all
absorbing. No permanents and
painted finger-nails then! The kitch
en was a place of ashes, coal, yeast
rising, mops, scrubbing brushes,
peeling apples, chopping and stir
ring and skinning, cleaning fowls,
handling great pots of soup bones,
rolling out square yards of pastry.
Women did all the family laundry,
they did all the sewing, they cared
for the children in health and for
everyone in illness.
Frightened at Boredom.
And that’s what women are doing
in nine tenths of the world today.
When they are doing anything else,
although they may be free and rest
ed and groomed and lovely as to
hair and skin and fingernails, and
up on the latest lunch dishes and
bridge points of The Four Aces, they
are also apt to be bored frightfully,
as their more hard-working sisters
never were bored, and sometimes
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY SO, 1940
they get frightened, as realer wom
en never are.
For example, here is a letter from
an Arkansas woman who lives in
a four-room city apartment, loves
her husband, fears she’s losing him.
“Leonard is always kind to me,”
she wails, “but he doesn’t need me!
His breakfast is only orange juice,
which I leave in the ice-box over
night. He lunches at the factory 13
miles out of town. He comes home
after a late afternoon stop at the
ckvb, where he plays a few games of
dominoes or bridge, and has a to
mato juice. His taste at supper is
simple, nothing fuSsy or elaborate;
in ffict, he often has only a bowl of
rice, cereal or crackers and milk,
and a cookie. He likes the packaged
cookies better than home made.
An Empty Existence.
“I get up after he goes in the
morning, wash his orange-juice
glass, my coffee cup and spoon, and
make the beds. It is now about
quarter past nine. And Leonard gets
home at six.
“We are among the many,” the
letter goes on, “who decided early
in married life that we could not
afford a family. I would not want
a child unless I could give that child
every advantage of raising and edu
cation, and the experience of the
few couples we know who have tak
en the risk does not tempt me.
“Perhaps I am critical, but this
life does not seem satisfying to me,
and I feel that my husband and I
are drifting apart. It is in vain that
I occasionally try to interest him in
cards, some outstanding movie, or
an effort to widen our circle of
friends. He seems to need very lit
tle, and it is not imagination that I
am not included in that little, after
14 years of wedded life. If I am
away for a few summer weeks, he
keeps the house quite as well as I
do, getting his own breakfast and
supper and washing up after them.”
Misses Joy of Being Needed.
Poor woman, 14 years a wife, and
trying to interest a man in cards,
movies, or new acquaintances! She
is not really needed anywhere; she
never feels the glorious necessity of
doing things, deciding- things, trying
to crowd in a little extra service for
someone, trying to squeeze out time
for an hour’s delicious leisure. I
have known women whose hands
were always full of cooking utensils,
or swiftly busy with blankets and
sheets, or burdened with heavy,
exacting babyhood, had more actual
joy in living in five minutes than
this woman knows in as many
years!
The woman who wrote me that
letter doesn’t know it, but she is a
coward. She has been made a cow
ard by her own nature, that is un
imaginative, lazy, easily influenced.
These are minor faults, perhaps, but
we pay for them more highly than
for more serious ones.
Just Isn’t Living.
To live in one dull apartment,
year in and year out; to agree that
having children is too much of a
risk to run; to follow the example
of other stupid women blindly, won
dering all the while why life tastes
so flat, is to grow gradually less
and less aware of the amazing op
portunities all about her, to forget
what freedom and independence are,
to sink gradually into an atrophied
condition from which nothing can
arouse her!
Science and civilization have tak
en away from us women many of
our old royal rights of service and
usefulness. But it’s a poor heart
that doesn’t find a latter day substi
tute in a world as needy as this one
FARM BRIEFS
BY JACK WOOTEN,
Extension Editor
Cotton Mattress Program
Latest reports indicate increased
interest in the cotton mattress pro
gram now in operation in all of
Georgia’s 159 counties. More than
50,000 applications have been received
for mattresses, and some 35,000 eligi
ble families in 94 counties have not
yet applied, according to State Home
Demonstration Agent Miss Lurline
Collier, who is in charge of the mat
tress program in Georgia. She says
2,340 bales of cotton and 221,800
yards of mattress ticking have been
ordered. The program is being con
ducted by extension service workers,
in co-operation with the AAA and
Federal Surplus Commodities Cor
poration.
According to report of the local
county agent and home demonstra
tion agent, Chattooga county AAA
county committee, has approved 160
applications and the first order for
cotton and ticking supplies to make
120 mattresses has been applied for
to state office.
The county and home agents again
wish to warn the people of the
county thaf the latest information
we have that the closing date for
making application for a mattress
will be the fifteenth of June.
The local county and home agents
also again wish to solicit the co-op
eration of the public in this county in
getting all families who have a gross
income of less than $409 to make ap
plication for a mattress- This pro
gram is designed to dispose of more
than a million bales of cotton which
will certainly help all farmers, so
if you are not eligibe to get a mat
tress help get the applications of
those who are eligible before the
closing date. We have already placed
orders for 12 bales of cotton and
have applications approved to use 16
bales, and applications including
those who have not been approved to
use 24.2 bales. We should use at
least 50 or 60 bales of surplus cot
ton in this county. Anyone is eligible
for this mattress who did not have a
gross income of more than S4OO and
received any portion of this income
from the farm.
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Fk AYING TAXES is just one of the ever aware that our privilege of serving
■ many essential obligations in the Georgia also involves obligations to
■J life of a worthwhile citizen. The Georgia—if we are to sustain the right
$4,016,671 which this Company to our slogan: A Citizen Wherever We
paid in taxes for 1939 made us Serve.
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states best citizen. Power Company employeg and foll ® w
In fact, having such a big stake in us i Q to the 555 communities we serve.
Georgia’s welfare only serves to put us That’s why our employes throughout
on our mettle in all the other more state, from management to laborer,
aggressive, more constant, more respon- are good patriotic citizens and loyal
sive, more human phases of citizen- homefolks in their own home towns,
ship. That’s why we patronize home men
. . chants; keep money in home banks;
It makes us keenly conscious that, as advertise in home papers; try our court
an electric company and a citizen, we cases, when they sometimes rise, with
are honor bound to render the best elec- home lawyers; call home doctors when
tnc service it is in our power to give— we are sick; belong to home churches
at rates that are reasonable by any ju- anf l Ben d our children to home schools
dicious comparison whatever. —take a vital, vigorous, interested part
It reminds us lat to be entitled to f orw ard-looking activities of
fair treatment from our fellow-citizens, every town and city in which we live
we must be fair to ourselves; that, of and a ® citizens.
course, we should never intentionally The taxes we pay are really only an
commit a wrong, but if we should, we entrance fee letting us into the broad
must right it. This big participation in field of Georgia - building opportunity
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
SPORTS
By BUSS WALKER.
The big Dalton day celebration
goes into full swing next Sunday aft
ernoon at Engel stadium with Cowboy
Paul Richards and his Peachtree cow
boys endeavoring to take a double
headei* from Manager Ki Ki Cuyler
and his larruping Lookouts. It is
also to be trophy day, President
Trammel Scott, a former Dalton boy
and a baseball player of no mean
ability in his own right making the
presentation to Joe Engel and the
Lookout fans of their tenth trophy
in the eleven years that the Bush
League Barnum has been at the helm
of the good ship Lookout. The pre
game ceremonies will be in complete
charge of the Dalton Junior Cham
ber of Commerce with Hizzoner, the
mayor of Dalton pitching the first
ball, and Trammel Scott doing his
best to catch it. The Dalton band
has been invited to furnish music
for the gala occasion. Dalton day is a
big event each year at Engel sta
dium and Joe Engel agreed, on re
quest from the Jaycees to combine
it with the trophy day, since the
Dalton Jaycees put on an opening
day campaign and helped to fill the
stands and win the trophy for Chat
tanooga. The double-header itself is
to be a real sporting event, as Man
agers Richards and Cuyler have a lot
of rivalry between them and Cuyler
hasn’t forgotten that 3-game spank
ing at the hands of Oom-Paul and
his Crackers last fall in the Shaugh
nessy playoff, after the Lookouts had
won the pennant. Biafth managers
will have their best pitchers saved
back for the occasion in an endeavor
to take both ends of the double fea
ture. The Crackers are going great
, guns right now and it looks like the
Lookouts, after having a lot of player
shifts through no fault of Cuyler,
have at last hit their stride and are
going places. Manager Truck Hanna
of the Memphis Chicks and Manager
Herb Brett of the Little Rock Trav
elers have both said that both At
lanta and Chattanooga have better
teams than the. Nashville Vols and
so it may he that we’re going to
have another fouifteam race down
the stretch this fall for another pen
nant, with both the Crackers and
Lookouts involved!. Next Sunday’s
double-header may mean the differ
ence in one team or the other com
ing out on top at the end of the sea
son.
The Lookouts have gone back to
afternoon ball except on Tuesday and
Friday nights, as it is just a little
too cool for comfort in the stands
every night this early in the season.
Friday night will be ladies’ night and
the Lookouts play a double-header
with Nashville, starting at 7:30.
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 some
2,000 racing pigeons will be released
before the game for the start of the
Chattanooga National, to decide the
1940 champion. Cities from all over
the eastern half of the United States
will be represented in the race, which
is a real spectacle.
CHATTOOGAVILLE
WOMAN’S W. H. D. CLUB
The Chattoogaville Woman’s Home
Demonstration club met at the home
of Mrs. Henry Floyd May 23- Eleven
members were present.
Miss Henry gave a very interesting
talk and demonstration on “Making
Slip Covers.’
The business session of the meet
ing was held after the demonstration.
Delicious refreshments were served
by the hostess during the social hour.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Jim Lipham.
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