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Mrs. Strickland
Died Sunday
After Illness
Mrs. Jodie Drinson Strickland died
Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the
home of her son, Mr. and Mrs. Olin
Strickland, at Pennville, after a two
month’s illness.
Mrs. Strickland, the widow of the
late Mr. Will Strickland, was a be
loved Christian character, a good
wife and mother and an active mem
ber of the Summerville Methodist
church here for many years and also
the Missionary Circle. She lived a
useful and helpful life. She suffered
much but was so patient and cheer
ful. She was 65 years of age and had
lived most of her life near Summer
vili •. \
■She was efficiently nursed and
cared for during her illness by Mr.
and Mrs. Olin Strickland. Surviving
the beloved deceased are her three
sons, Olin, Paul, of Trion, and Glenn,
of near Summerville; six grandchil
dren; one sister, Mrs. Ludie Tribble,
besides a host of friends.
The funeral services were held at
the Methodist church Monday after
noon at 3 o’clock by the pastor, Rev.
C. C. Cliett, assisted by Rev. Herbert
Morgan.
Special music was given by Mrs.
C. C. Cliett.
The pallbearers were Messrs Kerr,
Jim T. Greeson, Roy and Milton
Housch, Eddie King and Housch Mc-
Abee.
Interment in the Strickland lot in
the local cemetery. Not many months
previous was -Mr. Will Strickland’s
death and also a son, Bryant.
Paul Weems Funeral Home in
charge.
4
x Isaac Newton Rodon
Mr. I. N. Roden died at the fam
ily residence at Oak Hill Friday night
at 11 o’clock after only a week’s ill
ness, due to an injury. He was only
36 years of age.
Surviving Mr. Roden are three
brothers, J. M., of Lookout Moun
tain; W. F. and G. N., of Sand
Mountain, and one sister, Mrs. Jim ;
Thrasher, of Oak Hill.
The funeral services were held
Sunday at 2 p,m. at Wesley Chapel,
Rev. Andrew Hass officiating. Inter
ment in adjoining cemetery, with
Paul Weems Funeral Home in
charge.
LITTLE BILLIE WAYNE
FOUNTAIN DIES ENROUTE
TO HOSPITAL MONDAY
Little Billie Fountain was taken ill
Monday at 12 o’clock. His parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Fountain, of Oak
Hill, were bringing him to the Sum
merville hospital and he died en
route.
•Surviving the little deceased are !
his parents, The funeral services
were held at the graveside in the Oak
Hill cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 2
o’clock. Interment therein. Paul
Weems Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. John S. Cleghorn is convalesc
ing at Emory hospital in Atlanta.
Rev. Thompson Davis, of Calhoun,
is visiting his father, T. T. Davis,
who continues ill.
“HEAVEN CAN WAIT”
NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT
Rev. C. C. Cliett announced last
week that his subject last Sunday ■
night at the Methodist church would
be “Heaven Can Wait.” Dr. Ra'/'i j
Gillam, a Presbyterian minister who
has just retired and is making
his home in Summerville, preached
last Sunday night at the Presby
terian church. Mr. Cliett ’’-’cided
that “Heaven Can Wait” could wait
another week and went with his eon- I
gregation to the Presbyterian church
last Sunday night to give Dr. Gillam |
a welcome. Mr. Cliett will use as |
his subject next Sunday night •
“Heaven Can Wait.”
10 A.M.—Sunday school, Dr. E. R.
Buskin, superintendent.
11 A.M.—Preaching by the pastor.
6:45 P.M.—Epworth league.
6:45 P.M. —Junior league.
7:30 P.M.—.Preaching by the pas
tor.
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“It takes a wise man to discover a wise
man.”
JULY
9— Braddock defeated at
Wji.— -3 Monongahela. 1755.
10— Versailles treaty present
ed to Senate. 1919.
11— New York Triborough
bridge, costing $65,000.-
000. dedicated. 1936.
- 12— Germany aud Austna re-
G V vived "friendship" pact,
1936 -
“ 13— U. S.-Russia trade agree-
t ment concluded, 1935.
a 14— Gold discovered in Hel-
f ena. Mont. 1864.
15—Secy. Wallace asked
Zs *'• 31% cut in wheat acre-
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VOLUME 54; NO. 17 SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940.
$28,795 Available for Carrying Out
Approved Soil-Building Practices
Chattooga county farmers this
year are offered greater opportunity
for soil conservation than in 1939 be
cause there will be available approx
imately $28,795 as assistance for car
rying out approved soil-ibuilding prac
tices under the 1940 Agricultural
Conservation Program.
The county’s soil-building goal, ac
cording to Mr. Brison, chairman of
the county AAA committee, has been
approved by the state AAA commit
tee at 19,196 units. Approximately
10,000- units were not earned last
year, which amounted to $15,000.
The soil-building practices and the
rates of assistance have been ap
proved by the state committee to be
included in the county’s soil building
goal. Assistance will be made avail
able for these practices when car
ried out according to specifications
contained in the 1940 AAA Georgia
handbook, a copy of which has been
furnished each farm operator.
The approved practices for Chat
tooga county are, as follows:
Application of Materials
I— Application of (a) 300 pounds
of 1 per cent superphosphate (or its
equivalent), (b) 500 pounds of basic
slag, or (c) 750- pounds of rock or
colloidal phosphate to, or with the
seeding of, perennial or biennial
legumes, perennial grasses, winter
legumes, lespedeza, crotalaria, annual
ryegrass or permanent pasture—one
unit ($1.50).
2.—-Application of 1,000 pounds of
ground limestone or its equivalent—
one unit ($1.50).
Seedings
3 Establishing a permanent vege
table cover by planting crowns of
kudzu—four units (6) an acre.
4 Heeding adapted varieties of al
falfa —one unit ($1.50) an acre.
5 Seeding winter legumes—one
unit ($1.50) an acre.
6 Seeding lespedeza two-thirds
unit (s2l) an acre.
Pasture
7 Establishment of a permanent
vegetative cover by sodding—three
units $4.50) an acre.
8— Establishing a permanent pas
ture by seeding—two units ($3) an
acre.
9 Contour ridging of non-crop
open pasture land —1,000 linear feet
of ridge, one unit (-1.50).
10— Contour listing or furrowing
non-crop pasture land —four acres,
one unit ($1.50).
Erosion Control
ll Construction of standard ter
races for which proper outlets are
provided—2oo linear feet of terrace,
one unit ($1.50).
12 — Stripcropping with alternate
strips of close-grown crops and in
tertilled crops—four acres, one unit
($1.50).
Green Manure and Cover Crops
13— Green manure and cover crops
—one unit ($1.50) an acre.
14 — Cowpeas, velvet beans, crota
laria, or soybeans, interplanted or
grown in combination with soil-de
pleting crop—four acres —one unit
($1.50). ■
Forestry
15— Planting forest trees five
units ($7.50) an acre.
16— Cultivating, protecting, and
maintaining, by replanting if neces
sary, a good stand of forest trees,
planted between Jan. 1, 1937, and
Jan. 1, 1940—two units ($3) an
acre.
TO MY V. R. C. READERS OF
CHATTOOGA PUBLIC LIBRARY
When the bus stopped at Smyrna,
Cobb county, a sweet girl of 13
stepped in and took her seat beside
me. She had a book in her hand and
I soon learned she was a V. R. C.
girl. She had read 20 of the 25
books, talked so interestingly and
enthusiastically about them, and I
thought, “Oh, how nice to be a V.
R. C. girl—and talk and be so en
tertaining.” I thought of you boys
and girls—-how I hated to be away
from you.
Do hope you are keeping up with
your reading and are going to have
“a shower of stars” when I return
home. I ask no greater joy.
Your Librarian,
MARY H. ADAMS
CEMETERY NOTICE
Cemetery at Wesley Chapel -will be
cleaned off July 26, 1940. Those who
cannot come will please send money
to hire hands.—J. G. Ceach, G. E.
Anderson, Committee.
MR. AND MRS. F. W. BROOME
ENTERTAIN ON THE FOURTH
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Broome enter
tained thirty-five friends and rela
tives on the Fourth at their country
honfe, south of town, with a lovely
barbecue. The out-of-town guests
were Miss Ann Alexander, of "Cin
cinnati; Mr. and Mrs. R. 0. Storey
and Miss Martha Jane Story, of
Rome.
s Miscellaneous
y 1 17—Growing of a home garden for
-a landlord, tenant, or sharecropper
- family on a farm —one unit ($1.50) a
- garden.
The closing date for carrying soil
-1 building practices with AAA assist
, ance under the 1940 agricultural con-
- servation program has been set for
f i Nov. 30, 1940.
i A farmer can get soil-building as-
- sistance at the rate of $1.50 per unit
Hup to a given amount, or maximum,
tifor his farm. This maximum is fig-
I ured as the sum of four items, as
• follows:
- j (1) 70 cents per acre for the crop
-5 land in excess of the sum of the al
; i lotments for cotton, tobacco, peanuts,
- wheat and in Chatham and Effing-
- ham counties, potatoes:
> (2) $1.50 per acre for the com-
i mercial orchards on the farm Jan. 1,
i 1940:
(3) 25 cents per acre for the fenced
- non-crop open pasture land having a
specified carrying capacity in excess
of half the cropland;
s (4) $7.50 for each acre planted to
s forest trees up to S3O.
: To show how this maximum assist-
• | ance for soil-building practices is
! calculated, Mr. Brison took the case
I. of a farm with 100 acres of cropland,
■ a cotton allotment of 20 acres.
I The rate of 70 cents per acre of
; cropland applies to 80 acres (acre
age of crop and in excess of cotton al-
: lotments); the rate of $1.50 per acre
-' for commercial orchards applies to 4
acres; and the rate of 25 cents per
acre for fenced non-crop open pas-
. ture land applies to 6 acres (acreage
■ of pastue in excess of half the crop
land).
To get the maximum regular soil-
■ building assistance payment for the
■ farm, the three items are added, as
! follows:
, Cropland (80 x7O cents), $6.50;
commercial orchards (4 x $1.50), $6,
i and pasture land (6 x 25 cents),
. $1.50, or a total of $63.50..
’ “In this example,” he said, “the
sum of $63.50 is the largest amount
available to assist the farmer in car-
L rying out regular soil-building prac
tices. However, there is additional
allowance of S3O which can be earned
. by setting out forest trees. Should
the farm earn the full amount of the
, regular allowance of $63.50 and set
out four acres or more of forest trees,
’ then the maximum soil-building as
i sistance available so this farm would
be $93.50.”
Mr. Brison said all of the soil
: building practices should be carried
’ out in accordance with specifications
set out in SR-401-Georgia, a copy of
! which is available for every farm op
erator in the county.
; Mr. Brison said that if the farmer,
in the specific example pointed out,
i fails to carry out all of the prac-
’ i tices mentioned in the example, ho
I will only get the assistance for the
practices he does carry. out. No
farmer will receive assistance for
practices not properly carried out.
' The county AAA chairman also
said the farmers shou d remember
that no conservation payments of any
■ kind will be made when the cotton
allotment is knowingly overplanted,
I and that provision has been made for
- deductions from the Conservation
, payments on other crops, as well as
1 from the soil building payment, when
i the allotments of such crops are over
planted. ♦
WATCH IT GROW
Stop, Look, Listen, each one of
cur readers. Why not join in with
the “crowd.” that’s doing things.
What crowd ? Why haven’t you
heard? The “crowd” that’s interested
and helping make the Lunch Room
Project (of local school) a success.
For more details see or call Mrs.
Harry McGinnis, 75-30; Mrs. Harry
Marks, 11-12; Mrs. David Espy, or
see any of the project workers. If
you could have seen the wonderful
results of projects last year without
the canning project, due to faithful
ness of Mrs. Paul Weems, P.-T. A.
president, you would try to be first
to join this “crowd” we’re speaking
of.
This is what has been done last
week, regardless of weather in the
way of canning (all jars donated):
Huckleberries, 10 quarts; tomato
juice, 11 quants; tomato condensed
soup, 22 quarts; chili sauce, 9 pints
and 6 quarts; tomato chutney, 27
pints; beans, 16 quarts; beets, 13
pints; plain tomatoes, 2716 gallons
and 6 quarts; squash, 3 quarts.
Besides these filled jars, this num
ber was not filled but donated. 11
half gallon, 20 pints, 55 quarts, 48%
pints, 26 gallon jugs. Watch for next
report, we have grown lots in num
ber already and this 4s only three
days of the week gone. What do
you say now? Don’t you want to join
and help?
Homecoming at
Wesley Chapel
Church Sunday
The pastor and members of Wes
ley Ghapel Methodist church in
Walker county are planning to have
a homecoming on Sunday, July 28th.
This church is perhaps one of the
oldest in Northwest Georgia, records
showing that there was an estab
lished congregation as early as 1836.
The first church was a 2-door log
structure, which was replaced in 1881
with the present building.
dinner will be served at
noon. Former pastors, members and
friends of the church are cordially in
vited to come. Those who have loved
ones buried in near by cemetery, are
asked to bring flowers for graves.
A committee composed of J. E.
Perry, R. C. Junkins, Fred Bow
man, J. V. Palmour and G. E. An
derson are planning to have guest
speakers for morning and afternoon.
The annual revival will start on
Sunday night, the 20, with J. R.
Posey, pastor of the Methodist
church at Blairsville, Ga., doing the
preaching. The regular pastor of
Wesley Chapel is Rev. G. A. Lively.
EMORY MATHIS BRINGS
IN FIRST COTTON BLOOM
The first cotton bloom of the year
was brought to The News office Mon
day morning by Emory Mathis, who
lives on Little Sand Mountain.
Personal News
Os Interest Here
Mrs. L. L. Lang and daughter are
visiting Mrs. J. V. Wheeler this week.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Broome left
Tuesday for Key West, Fla., where
Mr. Broome has accepted a job with
the Smith Construction Co. there.
• • •
Miss Annie Ruth Mims has re
turned to her home in Goldsmith, S.
C., after spending the past week-end
with Miss Mabel Aldred.
% • • ’
Miss Mabel Aldred is spending this
week in Lithonia with her sister,
Mrs. Hillman Jackson.
♦ * •
J. H. Sewell is recovering nicely
from injuries received in a fall re
cently.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gamble, Jr.„ of
Norfolk, Va., are guests of J. T.
Gamble and Miss Polly Gamble.
• • •
Miss Therese La Blanc, of New
Orleans, is a guest in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Espy.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hix, who have
had rooms with Miss Maude Sewell
on Espy street have taken a larger
apartment with Mrs. Hawkins on
Trion road.
• * •
Messrs Leon Gamble, William Kee
'ton, J. T. Gamble, Jr., Robert Gam
ble, D. T. Espy and Leon Gamble,
Jr., attended the baseball game in
Chattanooga last Thursday.
• * •
Miss Anne Brown and Cariton
Irvin, of Atlanta, were married
Wednesday, July 3, at the Methodist
parsonage with Rev. C. C. Cliett of
ficiating.
• • •
Friends of Mrs. Mary H. Adams
will be glad to know that she is re
covering from an operation at the
home of Mrs. Maud Carney in At
lanta.
Annual Meeting of North Georgia ,
Electric Membership Corporation
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the annual membership
meeting of the North Georgia Elec
tric Membership Corporation whicß
is to be held on Aug. 1. The busi
ness meeting will be held at Dalton,
starting at 9 o’clock, and it is hoped
that all business may be transacted
by shortly after 10 o’clock in order
that all may enjoy a social get-to
gether the rest of the day.
W. L. Manton, superintendent, has
just completed arrangements for the
exclusive use of Freylach’s lake and
swimming pool on the Dug Gap road,
three miles southwest of Dalton for
a basket lunch picnic and all-day-get
together. This well-known recreation
park has ideal facilities to take care
of the comfort of the hundreds of
people expected on this occasion.
James A. Pope, former senator
from Idaho, now one of the directors
of the Tennessee Valley Authority
and a speaker of national reputation
has accepted an invitation to ad
dress the Withering. Invitations
havu beeh sent to David E.
Lilienthal, TVA director Harry Slat
tery, REA administrator, and W. E.
Lions Club To
Sponsor Minstrel
The Lions Club is sponsoring a
minstrel for the benefit of the com
munity work that they continually
carry on in and around Summerville.
C. W. Peacock, Jr., the president, is
sponsoring this show and has asked
Mrs. John D. Taylor to coach it. The
tentative date is July 30th. Further
announcement will be made in this
paper.
Last year under the direction of
Homer Woods, president, and a com
mittee composed of W E. Turner, T.
J. Espy, Jr., Claude Bagley. Hoyt
Farmer and others the Lions club
spent $250 on hot lunches at the
school and relieving distress during
the cold period. SSOO on the Scout
cabin and about SI,OOO in labor and
money on the football field.
All this money was not contributed
by Lions, and those who backed the
Lions in their activities have served
their town and county well. 400 let
ters of appreciation were sent by the
committee to those who did con
tribute.
The Lions club does not own any
thing. The Scout cabin belongs to
the Scouts and the football field be
longs to the school. The Lions only
want to help in things that are
worthwhile for our citizenship at
large.
Clayton Peacock presides well to
be under the strain of being a new
president.
Fire Destroys
Residence
A house owned by Miss Evangeline
Tate on the Summerville-Trion road
was destroyed by fire about 9 o’clock
Wednesday morning. The fire started
from a defective flue. The building
was partly covered by insuance.
DR. AND MRS. O. A. SELMAN
ENTERTAIN ON THE FOURTH
Dr. and Mrs. 0. A. Selman enter
tained about thirty-five of their
friends and relatives with a delicious
barbecue at the Selman cabin at
Gore on the Fourth.
BIBLE SCHOOL CLOSES WITH
EXERCISES AT BAPTIST CHURCH
Miss Elizabeth Jackson, Mrs. Penn
Selman and Rev. M. D. Short were
sponsors for a Bible school at the
Baptist church for the past two
weeks.
One hundred and thirty-nine pupils
were enrolled, the average attendance
was eighty-two.. Fifteen pupils had
perfect attendance. Twenty came
for only one day and were counted
as visitors. An offering of $4.54 was
given for the orphan home, also 8
cups, towels, 12 tea napkins were
made for the orphanage and three
cans of fruit were also donated.
One sack of sugar was given to a
needy family.
Three speaker stands were made
for the Sunday school rooms, and
one table for the primary room.
Ann Allen and Bob Cordle were
the flag bearers.
Little Janet Copeman carried the
Bible.
The teachers were Misses Annie
Pitts, Mildred Fowler, Frances and
Hazeltine Burgner, Dorothy Harlow
and Catherine Henry; Mesdames Don
Copeman, Glenn Pless, Venice Cox,
Leon Storey, M. D. Short, G. D.
Espy, Graves Myers and Rev. M. D.
Short.
The exercises by the pupils at
the First Baptist church Sunday
evening were very interesting.
Hering, consulting engineer of the
REA and replies indicating their in
terest have been received. Definite
commitments are expected from
some of them early in July. An an
nouncement of other speakers will be
made later. President Roosevelt,
who also was invited, has replied
that due to the pressure of state af
fairs and unsettled conditions thru
out the world he will not be able to
be present.
Arrangements have also been made
for the erection of a large circus
tent on the grounds which will house
a large number of very interesting
exhibits. It is expected that this tent
will provide a meeting place for
friends and neighbors from all over
the territory of the North Georgia
EMC.
Many other plans for entertainment
features are under way but are not
yet ready to be announced. Further
announcement regarding these will
be made nearer the date of the meet
ing.
Every member of the corporation
should make plans to bring his fam
ily and enjoy this worthwhile outing.
Atlanta Cotton
.j
Office Reports
Requests for Form
Requests for application forms on
which to file for free government
classing of 1940 cotton have come to
the Atlanta office of the Agricul
tural Marketing Service from 651
group representatives and members,
it was reported today by Joe H. Mc-
Lure, who is in charge of the cotton
classing office in this area.
The several cotton offices of the
service report a total of more than
2,000 requests for application, which
is more than twice the number of
groups approved for the free class
ing and market news service last
year. “The large number of requests
for applications already received,”
Mr. McLure said, “indicates that even
more cotton improvement associa
tions want their 1940 cotton classed
than was the case last season. This
increased interest makes it especial
ly important that applications be filed
not later than ear>y July to facilitate
approval of the forms and delivery
of supplies to each group representa
tive before his first cotton is picked.”
Os the applications already filed,
110 had been approved to June 24,
compared with 98 approvals reported
to June 24 last year. “Considering
the lateness of the present season and
the need for replanting in many
areas,” said Mr. McLure, “group rep
resentatives appear to be making an
effort to get their applications .in
early.”
Applications from organized cotton
improvement groups in the Atlanta
area or requests for application forms
! may be sent to the Atlanta office of
the Agricultural Marketing Service,
Room 601, 441 West Peachtree street,
Atlanta, Ga. Forms must be filled
in and filed before Aug. 1 for Geor
* gia, Alabama, South Carolina and
Florida and not later than Aug. 15
for North Carolina and Virginia.
With the Churches
SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor
The Union Daily Vacation Bible
school will begin Monday at 9 a.m.
All are invited to attend. There will
be classes for ages 3 to 15. As the
Bible school will last only one week
we would urge you to begin Monday
and allow no time to go by before
starting.
Sunday Services
9:45 A.M. —Sunday school, Mr. D.
L. McWhorter, superintendent
11 A.M.—Morning worship.
2 P.M. —Sunday school at Way
side.
6 P.M.—League Fellowship hour.
7:30 P.M.—Evening worship. ,
NOTICE
There will be a singing held at
Hanson school Sunday night, begin
ning at 7:45 o’clock. Many singers
and quartets are expected to be there.
Mr. R. L. Smith will be there with
plenty of new books. Everybody in
vited to attend this singing.—Com-
mittee.
Canning Factory
Workers Must
Have Number
Workers planning to get jobs in
commercial canning factories should
make sure that they have social se
curity number cards ready now, ac
cording to Mr. H. Knox Smartt,
manager of the social security board’s
Rome, Ga., field office.
“Commercial canning factory rep
resentatives have informed us that,
inasmuch as the law requires them to
report the social security account
number of each worker on their pay
rolls, they will require that everyone
who works for them this season have
and present a social security number
for their inspection and recording.
Mr. Smartt said.
“According to Regulation No. 3 of
the social security board, the term
‘agricultural labor’ does not include
service performed in connection with
the commercial canning or commer
cial freezing or in connection with
any agricultural or horticultural com
modity after its delivery to a ter
minal market for distribution fob
consumption,” said Mr. Smartt.
Applications for social security
numbers may be secured from the
nearest postoffice and mailed to so
cial security board at West building,
Rome, Ga.
If the worker has lost his card, he
should secure one of these applica
tions and mail it now as it takes sev
eral days to secure a duplicate card.
To delay doing this may mean his
office w-ill not be able to give prompt
service because of the last minute
rush, Mr. Smartt warned.
$1.50 A YEAR