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HERE N
THERE
The regular meeting of Trion
Chapter O .E. S„ U. D., will be
held at the Masonic Hall at 7:30
p. m. Monday, May 3.
All members are urged to be
present as there will be initatory
work, according to Mrs. Foy Holt,
Secretary.
A Sunday School Study course
is being conducted at the Penn
ville Baptist Church this week,
by the Rev. Paul E. Goodner,
Pastor.
“Building a Standard Sunday
School,” is the subject being
taught.
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Dorothy Stanfield, of
Trion, will be a freshman at
tendant at the Anderson College,
Anderson, S. C., May Day festivi
ties, at 5 p. m., Saturday, May 1.
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Summerville Presbyterian
Auxiliary is sponsoring a nursery
for small children during the
morning service, enabling those
who have small children to at
tend the service.
The public is cordially invited,
according to the Rev. H. R. Fos
ter, Pastor.
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Rev. S. G. Stanley, Pas
tor, will conduct a revival series
at the Pennville Gospel Taber
nacle beginning Sunday, May 2,
according to an announcement
by church officials this week.
Services begin at 7:30 each eve
ning.
The church bus will run to
Trion and Summerville each
night, it was disclosed, and the
public is cordially invited to at
tend.
Total sales at the Coosa Val
ley Livestock bam in Rome on
Wednesday, April 21, was $26,-
152.10, at which time 45 buyers
and 97 sellers exchanged one
horse, 39 hogs and 305 cattle.
Hogs were sl6-$23 cwt.; calves,
$8.75 to $27 cwt.; bulls, $14.50 to
$22 cwt.; steers, $16.40 to $28.50
cwt.; slaughter cows, $lO to
$20.10 cwt.; dairy type heifers,
sl7 to $25.25 cwt.; springers, $59
to $165 per hd.
—o—
Melody Boys will be in
concert at the Sardis Baptist
Church. Chattoogaville, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 8, also at 2:30
p.m., Sunday, May 9, it has been
announced. The Sardis Baptist
Church is located four miles
south of Lyerly on the Lyerly-
Alabama Highway.
The public and other quartets
are invited to attend the sing
ings at this church.
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A. Justice, Chairman of the
Board of Commissioners, Chat
tooga County, who has been ill
in Erlanger Hospital, Chattanoo
ga, Tenn., has been removed to
his home and is reported im
proved.
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C. (Red) Powell, Sum
merville Post Office employe,
and prominent throughout the
County, is in a critical condition
at his home in Summerville. His
condition was “about the same"
Wednesday, according to rela
tives.
Marriage licenses were issued
by County Ordinary J. W. King
to the following during the past
week: Leon Johnson Gamble and
Marion Eula Steele; Floyd M.
Steele; Floyd M. Gunarch and
Mary McCary; Charles F. Lump
kin and Bertha Payton.
—o—
person was booked for
speeding, eight for disorderly
conduct and three unidentified
persons for double parking by
city police officers this week.
Henry Claborn Reeves was cit
ed for speeding, while the fol
lowing were arrested for disor
derly conduct: Jim Ronnsaville,
Mrs. Bill Dunn, Mack Anderson,
Hoke Dunaway, Carl Suttle, Bob
bie Browning, Lee Kellett and
Charlie Kirby.
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Wesleyan Service Guild
will have a benefit supper from
6 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. Saturday,
May 15, at the Grammar School
Cafeteria, Trion.
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group of Chattooga County
teachers attended the Walker
County G. E. A. unit meeting at
the Fortune Grammar School,
LaFayette, on Wednesday.
They were: Miss Jewell Poole,
Mr. BeAngelo, Mrs. Graves Myers,
Mrs. Bob Guffin, Miss Hughie
Majors, Miss Mamie Smith and
Miss Dorothy Alexander.
The junior class of the Lyerly
High School will present “Aunt
Tillie Goes to Town,” at 8 p. m.
Saturday, May 1, at the school
gymnasium.
NOTICE
All dogs in the city limits
must be inoculated by May 15,
according to Police Chief W.
M. Whaley.
Those without collars will be
dene away with at that time.
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VOL. 63; NO. 17
75 Farmers Go On Farm
Tour Throughout County
Visiting farms throughout
Chattooga County and thereby
receiving pointers on how they
might improve their own farms,
were 75 Chattooga County farm
ers who went on tour Friday.
Conducted by County Agent J.
B. Butler, the group tour first
stopped at the pasture and farm
oi A. B. Hammond, at Berryton.
“Mr. Hammond had some im
proved pastures with Dallas
grass, blue grass, white Dutch
clover and other improvements
in the pasture which was taken
in five years ago,” Mr. Butler re
ported. “At the time it was con
verted into a pasture, it was just
an old bare hill, which had once
been a baseball park. With prop
er fertilization and seeding, he
had as good a pasture as can be
found in North Georgia.”
The County Agent pointed out
that Mr. Hammond is a dairy
farmer and has plenty of com
post to help build up the pas
ture.
The farm of T. S. Weems was
the next observed on the tour.
“Mr. Weems had crimson clo
ver on this field about three
years and he harvests the seed
each year,” Mr. Butler said. “The
return is about SIOO per acre. A
lot of good crimson clover was
sown last fall throughout the
county and on this tour we saw
as good winter cover crops as we
have ever had in Chattooga
County.”
W .W. Cook’s farm, at Chat
toogaville, was pointed out to
the group as a good job of soil
building.
“This year he has most all of
his farm sowed in some kind of
winter cover crops,” according to
the county agent.
“On Mr. Cook’s farm we look
ed at some vetch, pastures and
cattle. He has approximately 60
head of cattle and has done a
lot of fencing during the past
few months.
Mr. Cook has most all of his
farm where he can turn his cat
tle in and let them graze. With
all these cattle, he has a lot of
compost to put out, and this, of
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150 GALLON STILL
RAIDED ON LOOKOUT
A fully-equipped, 150-gallon
liquor still, located on Lookout
Mountain, approximately two
miles west of the Mount Olive
Church on Gilreath’s Creek, was
raided by county officers Wed
nesday, April 21, according to
Sheriff A. H. Glenn.
One thousand gallons of beer
were destroyed at the still, how
ever it was not in operation and
no one was captured, it was
stated.
Officers making the raid in
cluded Fred Stewart, Paul White,
Rob King and Bobby Keith.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS music is general
ly recognized as an essential
and effective influence upon
which people of all races
throughout the ages have come
to depend both for entertain
ment and inspiration; and
WHEREAS, in times of great
national crisis, and especially
during the global war in which
we, with our Allies, were en
gaged, music was recognized
as one of the most beneficial
agencies for the relief of ten
sion due to war nerves, and for
the sustaining of public mor
ale; and
WHEREAS, the war drew to
a victorious close in Europe
and our armed forces joined
with those of all the United
Nations in a determined cam
paign to bring about final vic
tory with the complete defeat
of the Japanese in the Pacific,
the need for the beneficial ef
fects of music heightened ra
thr than lessened; and
WHEREAS, the inspirational
influence of music will be nec
essary and effective in the
building of peace during»the
post-war years;
NOW. THEREFORE. I, Wil
lis S. James, as Mayor of the
City of Summerville, do here
by designate the period from
May 2 to 9, inclusive, as MU
SIC WEEK IN SUMMER
VILLE and urge members of
our various musical organiza
tions, as well as all our citi
zens as individuals, to co-op
erate in making this event the
stimulating success which it so
rightly deserves to be.
Dated this 26th day of April,
A. D„ 1948.
WILLIS S. JAMES,
Mayor.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1948
LUNCH ROOM EXPANSION IS
MODERN DAY‘MIRACLE’
The story of the Summerville i
School lunch room is one that!
demands great applause for the I
people whose unceasing efforts I
have made it what it is today
and encourages those who are i
benefited to be proud and appre
ciative.
Walking into this room, where
more than 400 school children
are fed nourishing lunches daily,|
one sees perky, red curtains
swishing in the breezes, shining
clean floors, and well-painted
walls and ceiling. There are I
white-topped tables, running I
lengthwise, with long benches on
either side, to add to the pretty
picture.
At the rear is the kitchen
which is one of the best-equip- '
ped in this county.
But three years ago, this same,
neat room, was a poorly-ceiled,
badly floored temporary senior
classroom, being used following
the burning of the high school.
The walls were unpainted, water
seeped in and stood on the floor
which was somewhat below the
level of the ground.
It was in the 1946-47 school
term that the Summerville Lions
Club and the Parent-Teacher
Association had the room paint
ed in an attractive combination
of tan and ivory.
Twelve tables were made and
painted, and placed in the new- i
ly-organized lunchroom.
Mrs. J. E. Baker, who was then 1
purchasing agent, used some
proceeds from the annual county
fair to purchase four dozen forks
and spoons.
At the beginning of the 1946-
47 term there was Ittle equip
ment of any kind and little of it
was suitable for a school cafe
teria.
At that time, the County Board
of Education sponsored the
project. Personnel of the lunch
Local Events Spark
'NationalMusic Week’
Sponsored by the Summerville .
Music Study Club, National Mu- ' i
sic Week, May 2-9, will be ob- .;
served here by a series of events, | ’
including the appearance of the. j
Rome Symphony Orchestra, at 8 [ <
p. m. Thursday, May 6, at the
Courthouse auditorium. Tickets j
may be purchased from any Mu- i
sic Club member, it was dis
closed. i
Other scheduled events in- ;
dude a radio program at 2:15 i
p. m. Tuesday, May 4, over a lo- 1
cal broadcasting arrangement; a j
high school program at 2 p. m. -
Thursday, May 6; a vesper hymn ]
service at 5 p. m. Sunday, May 9,1
under the direction of Mrs. J. F. I
Harmon at the Summerville i
Presbyterian Church. |]
Judge Rivers Looks To
Golden Rule' for Peace
A man whose business is deal
ing out justice believes that the
only way the world can sceure
peace is by dealing justly with
his neighbor, that is, practicing
the Golden Rule.
Eighty-one-year-old C. D. Riv
ers, Chattooga County City
Court Judge, who is prominent
in judicial and historical circles
throughout this section of Geor
gia, points to Matthew 7, Verse
12 (the Golden Rule) as the
basis for world peace.
Although not a member of any
church, and, in fact, seldom at
tends any church, Judge Riv
ers is an ardent student of the
Bible.
“In my opinion,” the gray
haired judge said, “The honest
way to peace would be for na
tions, by mutual agreement, to
disarm themselves of all weap
ons except cheap hunting guns
of the same pattern and power,
according to the idea in Isaiah,
2:4, and Matthew 7:12.”
Judge Rivers said that in the
event of war with Russia, he be
lieves that both we and Russia
would be “worse off” after the
war than We now are.
Possessing a vivid memory,
Judge Rivers is often sought as
I room included Mrs. Edy the Mc
| Ginnis, supervisor; Mrs. Kate
[Murphy, purchasing agent; Em
i ily Stewart, Helen Scott and
Louise Hinton, cooks.
The personnel is the same to
|day, with the exception of th D
cooks, who are Annie Ruth Scott
and Emily Stewart, and the ad
dition of an assistant purchas
ing agent, Mrs. W. T. Lawson.
During this year, $3,197.46 was
received by the local lunch room
[ from Federal funds. The set-up
[specifies that the Federal Gov
ernment will match a specific
j amount of local funds, giving 9
cents per child fed per meal.
During the past school term,
i the kitchen and dining room
were painted in a nice grey and
white, and 15 tables were added.
Also purchased was a refrigera
tor, triple sink, regular cafeteria
stove, steam table, dish washing
machine, curtains, dish truck,
SSOO of china, glass and silver,
silver bins, potato peeler, and a
number of pieces of large cook
in g equipment. In addition,
plumbing was installed and a
storage room was built. Five hun
dred trays have been ordered.
Mrs. McGinnis states that the
improvements in the lunchroom
were made without the aid of
outsiders with the exception of
S3O given by local businessmen.
The actual meals are a matter
iof pride with the lunch room
staff and the response of the
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NOTICE
The following business places
in Lyerly will be closed each
Wednesday afternoon begin
ning May 5:
Jackson Bro.. R. W. Bagley,
A. N. White, Lyerly Cash Store,
D. W. Copeland, and Taylor
Bros.
“Schools, church groups, music
teachers and the Music Club are
all co-operating to present this
wide range of vocal and instru
mental programs,” club leaders
stated.
The keynote for “Music Week”
is the original theme of 25 years
ago, “Foster American Music.”
“Unlike most special ‘weeks’
and celebrations, Music Week is
not an organized directed pro
motion emanating from a cen
tral point,” it was stated, “but
instead, it’s great strength and
vitality lie in its aim to be an ex
pression of popular interest. As
long as Music Week adheres to
this purpose, it will find its nour
ishment in the hearts of the peo
ple.”
[an authority on the history of ]
Summerville and Chattooga [
County.
He was born on Feb. 12, 1867
in Lowndes County, Alabama, !
and except for a brief interval, j
has spent his entire lifetime in
Chattooga County, after having
moved here while a child.
1 His grandfather, Dempsey Riv
ers, was born in Chesterfield [
District, S. C., in 1790, and im- 1
' | migrated to DeKalb County, Ga., [
[in the early 1820 s.
“After leaving there he moved
■' to a site in the Northwest part
lof Floyd County, which is now
' [ included in Chattooga County.
[ four miles south of Summer- [
i ville,” the grandson recalls from
■ | stories told him by his father. i
1 | The Indians were still in this
i territory on Nov. 24, 1834, when
' Judge Rivers’ father, John W.
> Rivers, was born on the plot of
, of land in what is now south
, east Chattooga County.
An act of the General Assem
: bly organized the County of
Chattooga on Dec. 28, 1838, and
. the place that is now Summer
s ville was chosen to be the court
house site or county seat, Judge
, Rivers states.
: “The original site was mostly
Bond Issued
For Public
Health Fund
C. B. Akin, member of the
[ Chattooga County Medical Board
I has been issued bond for receiv
ing the Public Health fund, set
; aside by the County Board of
• Commissioners, and designated
[ to be turned over to the Medi-
I cal Board as soon as a bond was
[issued, it was disclosed yester
day.
The fund, which constitutes
[approximately SB,OOO, will be
[ turned over to the Medical Board
[ as soon as the bond is presented
[to the Commissioners, John Da
i vis, Clerk, said yesterday.
A doctor has been hired, and a
building rented for the public
health program in this county,
and when the equipment is pur
chased it will be ready for op
c ration, County officials state.
BOARD EQUALIZERS
NOW IN SESSION
The Chattooga County Board
of Tax Equalizers is in session
at the present, the session hav
ing opened April 10 and con
tinuing through May 1.
! L. W. Mitchell is Chairman,
[and he is assisted by B. F. Loga
and F. A. Williams. Mr. Williams
was appointed to succeed J. C
Chamblee, who died in Decem
ber, 1947.
Sidney Dew to Be Scene
Os Scout Leaders Course
A Scout Leaders training
course will be held at the Boy
Scout camp, Sidney Dew, on May
15-16. All Scout Leaders who do
not hold the training award in
Scout Leadership are urged to
attend.
The first course will begin at
2 a. m. Saturday, May 15, and
the final course will close at 5
p. m., Sunday, May 16.
The cost of the course is $2.50
per person and meals will be
served in camp.
Local Women Observe
Home Demonstration
Week May 2-8
Chattooga County women will
join in the observance of Na
tional Home Demonstration
Week, May 2 to 8, Miss Juanita
Burkett, County Home Demon
stration Agent, has announced.
During the week, a large pro
portion of the 50,000 home dem
[ onstration clubs in the United
States will hold appropriate cel
ebrations using the theme, “To
[ day’s Home Builds Tomorrow’s
World.”
“Views of the News,” a pro
gram of the Atlanta radio sta
tion, WSB, will salute the home
demonstration clubs on Tuesday,
May 4.
Nearly 112 farm women are
enrolled in six community home
demonstration clubs in the coun
ty, Miss Burkett said.
Menlo Seniors to Give
Repeat Performance
The Menlo High School senior
class will present a repeat per
formance of their play “Hi and
Si sin New York,” at 8:30 p. m.
Tuesday, May 4.
wheat fields and General John
Davis surveyed the town into
lots, streets and alleys on both
sides of what is now Commerce
Street.
“The first brick building in
the new town was two stories
high and was erected in 1839, on
the spot where Jackson’s Drug
Store now stands.”
The judge states that, there is
a brick on the south side of the
drug store which was taken from
the first building, when the
present one was built.
“My father was a Confeder
ate soldier in the War Between
the States, and was promoted to
Captain of the First Arkansas
Battery Confederate Artillery,”
[the judge said. “They took part
in the Battle of Missionary Ridge
and the Battle of Chickamauga,
[and afterwards the siege of At
lanta.”
The young John Rivers later
met Miss Eliza Jane Thurman, of
DeKalb County, and they were
married.
They moved to Lowndes Coun
ty, Ala., W’here C. D. Rivers was
born on Feb. 12, 1867.
The family lived in Greenville,
Ala., for a few years, where Mr.
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Ward 1 Councilman
Election Saturday;
Three Candidates
BOOKMOBILE TO BE
IN CHATTOOGA CO.
The Bookmobile will travel ’
[ throughout Chattooga County I
May 3.
The schedule is as follows:
! Monday, Teloga, Menlo and
Cloudland; Tuesday, Gore and
[ Subligna; Wednesday, Wel
come Hill, Pennville and Ber
ryton; Thursday, Lyerly, Hol
land and Chattoogaville; Fri- |
day, Summerville.
County Only
$l5O Short On
Cancer Drive
I The response to the plea for
| contributions to the Cancer drive
[ has been good in Chattooga
[ County, according to leaders of
the Junior Woman’s Club, which
is sponsoring the local drive.
Five hundred of the $650 goal
[ already has been contributed [
[ from Summerville, and reports
from other communities have
not yet been turned in, it was
[stated.
April has been set aside
[ throughout the nation as “Can
cer Control Month,” and funds [
[ are being raised to combat this
dreaded disease, which kills one [
in three persons. Money derived
[ from the drive will be used to
educate the public concerning
[symptoms and treatment of can
cer and to do research work.
John Maddox
Speaks at Rotary
Meeting Here
John Maddox, Rome Rotarian
[ was the guest speaker yesterday
|at the weekly luncheon-meeting .
[ of the Summerville-Trion Rotary [
[ Club, which was held at Riegel- I
dale Tavern, Trion.
Speaking on his assignments
during the war while connected
with military intelligence, the
speaker illustrated his talk with
drawings.
He told how the search started
for “something” when a cowboy
in the West picked up a fraga
ment of burned paper, bearing
Japanese characters.
“With this meager clue, the
FBI and Military Intelligence
pieced together the fact that the
| Japs were launching bomb-laden
[ balloons 40 miles from Tokyo
’ and letting them ride the wind
to this country, deposit their
[load and automatically be de
stroyed,” he said.
The speaker concluded his re-
I marks with the thought that just!
beyond Japan and in the same
path of winds is Siberia, which
[is controlled by a country with
[which our relations have been
[strained lately.
I Yesterday’s guests included ;
[ John Rooney and John Maddox, [
Jr., both of Rome, and Henry [
Goeda, of Charlotte, N. C.
RITES HELD FOR
INFANT BEASON
Shirley Mae Beason, 6 month- [
! old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. i
Robert L. Beason, died at her
home in Jamestown, Ala., on |
April 21.
The infant is survived by one
brother, Ronald Lee, of James
town.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Wesley Methodist
, Church Friday afternoon with
the Rev. Jeff Dale, of Berryton,
■ officiating. Interment was in the
Rhinehart Cemetery near James
town. J. D. Hill Funeral Home in
charge.
MRS. LIZZIE ACREY
DIES SUNDAY
Mrs. Lizzie Acrey, 77. died Sun
-1 day, after several weeks’ illness.
She was a resident of Route 3.
Summerville.
, Mrs. Acrey is survived by one
[sister, Mrs. Mary Cole, Route 3.
[and one brother, Jess Reynolds,
■ of LaFayette.
: ; Funeral services were conduct
: led at the Welcome Hill Baptist
Church. Monday morning, with
• the Rev. Gus Reed, the Rev.
; Frank Craton and the Rev.
Frank Godfrey officiating. In
, terment was in the family lot of
. the Pennville Cemetery. J. D.
Hill Funeral Home in charge.
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CIRCULATON
THIS WEEK
$1.50 A YEAR
Final plans are being made
for the election for Councilman,
Ward 1, Summerville, which will
be held on Saturday, from 7 a.m.
[ to 6 p. m. at the Courthouse.
Those holding the election will
[include Harry R. Foster, W. H.
Clark and Roland Hemphill.
Candidates include Joe Gaines,
Bryant McSpadden and W. A.
Bagley.
The election was Necessitated
■when Otis Gorman, who was
[elected in January, of this year,
tendered his resignation, effec
tive April 15.
Peace, Second of
Local War Dead,
Arrives Here
Word was received today of
[ the arrival of Pvt. Frank Quarles
Peace, World War II veteran,
who died overseas on Nov. 28,
11944, after wounds received in
[ action on Nov. 27, 1944.
The remains will arrive In
Summerville at 5:49 p. m. Fri
\ day, and will be taken to the J.
D. Hill Funeral Home to await
[ funeral services, which will be
held at 2 p. m- Sunday at the
Trion Methodist Church with
the Rev. J. A. Langford and the
Rev. John Daniel officiating.
Pvt. Peace is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Peace; two sons, Frank Lee and
Richard R.; one daughter, Jan
ice Dean; five brothers, Fred, of
Summerville; Judd and Otis, of
Trion; J. C., of LaFayette: Ross,
of North Carolina; three sisters,
Mrs. Lillian Smith, of Rossville;
Mrs. Nora Garner, of LaFayette;
Mrs. Edna Boatman, of Trion.
VFW Post No. 6688 and Amer-
I ican Legion Post 129 will render
complete military honors, and
[interment will be in the Trion
Cemetery.
Singing to Be
Here Sunday
The semi-annual Chattooga
County Singing Convention will
be held at the Courthouse, be
ginning at 10 a. m. Sunday, May
2, it has been announced by Al
vin Pahnour, President.
Singers are expected from all
over Alabama. Tennessee and
Georgia, it was stated, and a
special feature of the program
will be the appearance of the
Speer Family, of Nashville, Tenn,
who also will appear at the
Courthouse auditorium at 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 1. In addition,
several local quartets are sched
uled on the program Sunday.
The singing conventions are
held on the first Sunday in May
and the first Sunday in Septem
ber of every year.
Cancer Society's 'Treasure
Hunt' Offers 1,000 Prizes
Want to win a house? Or a new
1949 Ford automobile? Or food
[for a family of four for a year?
Or any one of nearly 1,000 other
I prizes?
You’ll get the chance to do it
iin one of the biggest and most
[ unusual prize awards ever made
[ in Georgia.
It’s the state-wide “Treasure
Hunt” sponsored jointly by the
I newspapers which are members
lof the Georgia Press Associa
-1 tion, and the Georgia Division,
American Cancer Society, as a
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