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Bryant and Sons Lumber Com
pany were the only bidders on
the construction of Summerville
High School Auditorium, accord
ing to an announcement by
members of the Board of Educa
tion
The bids for the colored school j
and the installation of heating i
plants at Gore, Lyerly and Su
bligna are to be opened today, it
was stated.
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Lyerly Masonic Lodge will
confer the Masters Degree upon
a gioup of candidates tonight
(Thursday), and Past Grand
Master Dewey H. Woolstein and
a group of brethren from Cher
okee Lodge will assist with the j
work in the absence of the reg- |
ular master, W. P. Lovett, who is
traveling in the Eastern states.
All Master Masons of the
county are invited to attend.
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Summerville student, Charles
Carlie Hendrix, is one of more
than 400 candidates for degrees
at regular Spring Commence
ment exercises at Emory Uni- j
versity this week.
Mr. Hendrix is scheduled to i
receive the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity in the first split grad- I
nation ceremonies in Emory’s
century-plus history, according
to an announcement by Dr. I. W.
Brock, university registrar.
The Mason - McCauley Post
0688, VFW. will meet at 8 o’clock
.tonight (Thursday) at the Court;
House in Summerville.
James L. Carmichael, Swains
boro Quartermaster and Adjut
ant of the State Department of
the VFW, will speak.
Plans are being made for the
installation of chimes at the
First Baptist Church, Trion, and
over SI,OOO has been contributed
to the fund, according to J. C.
Woods, treasurer.
The chimes are expected to
cost approximately $1,500.
Anyone wishing to contribute
may do so by contacting any of
the following: Mr. Woods, the
Rev. S L Walker, Mrs. Robert
Wilson, 335 Elm Street; Miss Gar
trelle Duff, Trion Hospital; Mrs.
Jewie Reynolds, 352 Walnut or
call Sli:* loe Collette, Sr., Elred
Purrett, W. Fuming. Trion
High School, or Miss Lois Pea
cock, of the Trion Grammar
School
The Rev. Mr. Schroder, teach
er of Bible at Berry College, will
preach at the 11 a. m. service,
Sunday, June 6, at the Unity
Baptist Church.
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Forty-one buyers and 163 sell
ers exchanged 498 cattle and 89
hogs in Wednesday’s sale in
Rome, when the total was $40.-
329.96
Hogs were $12.30 to $23.50
cwt.; calves, $8 to $26.25 cwt.;
bulls, $13.80 to $22 cwt.; steers,
$lB to $25.50 cwt.; slaughter
cows, $11.20 to $22 cwt.; dairy
type heifers, $15.75 to $24.25
c-wt., springers, S7O to sl6l per
hd.
Menlo Vacation Bible
School Announced
The Menlo community-wide
Vacation Bible School will com
mence at 8:30 a. m. Monday,
June 7. at the Menlo Presby
terian Church, according to
church leaders in the town.
The school wall feature Bible
study, missionary stories, hand
work and music. Refreshments
and varoius recreational pro
grams also have been arranged.
Workers from all the churches
will be on hand to assist, and
leaders are anticipating one of
the best schools yet, it was stat
ed
All children from 4 through
16 are invited to attend, and
transportation is being arranged
for those outside of Menlo.
Brown In Jail Here
On Cattle Theft Charge
Harold Jesse Brown, of Rome,
is in the Chattooga County jail
on a charge of cattle stealing in
the vicinity of Summerville, ac
cording to Sheriff A, H. (Tiny)
Glenn.
Brown is alleged to have stOi
len a cow from the Griffin Young
farm on the night of May 19. and
one from the pasture at the resi
dence of Rebecca Adams, also on
the same night.
Several cattle are reported as
missing from various other farms
in this county, as well as in Dade
County, Sheriff Glenn said, and
Brown is suspected of being con
nected with these thefts.
There is definitely another
party connected with Brown in
the cattle stealing episode, the
Sheriff said, however, his iden
tity has not yet been revealed.
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VOL 63; NO. 22
Clean-Up Week Set, June 7-12
CHILDREN S PICTURES
Representatives of VV 011 z
Studios, who were in Summer
ville on Saturday, May 22,
making pictures of children to
be published in The News will
be at the high school from 1
to 5 p. m., Saturday, June 12,
to show proofs of these pic
tures.
The picture will appear in
The News ONLY if you call in i
person and select your favorite
proof.
RAMEY 18 DELEGATE '
TO DEMOCRATIC
NAT’L. CONVENTION
H. Grady Ramey, of Trion, has
been named a Georgia delegate
to the National Democratic Con
vention ,in Philadelphia, Pa., on
July 12, accordnig to an an
nouncement by the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee, at
the meeting held Monday in At
lanta.
At the meeting, State Chair
man James S. Peters made a
pledge that Georgia’s delegation
would not bolt the Democratic
National Convention.
$2,000 REPORTED IN
LOCAL CRUSADE FOR
CHILDREN DRIVE
Approximately $2,000 has been
donated by Chattooga Countians
to the Crusade for Children
drive, according to L. B. Harrell,
chairman, who states that this
is. of course, far from complete.!
J. A. Byars, Trion chairman,
reported that approximately sl,- i
600 has been contributed by
Trionites, and other incomplete j
reports are as follows: Penn
ville, sll3. James Floyd chair
man; Dickey ville, $l5O, Jinij
Leath, chairman. Summerville,!
Sl5O, Mrs. J. R. Burgess, chair
man.
Leaders express confidence!
that the goal of $4,500 will be i
attained when complete reports |
are made.
POPPY SALE SUCCESS
WITH S4OO RAISED
The VFW Buddy Poppy Sale
was described by local Chairman
Charles Green as very success
ful. with approximately S4OO re
ported in an incomplete return j
Three thousand poppies were;
sold on Friday and Saturday of;
last week.
The Girl Scouts throughout,
; the county co-operated whole
! heartedly in the sale, Mr. Green
said, and much credit for the'
! success is due them. In Summer- j
viile, the group headed by Mi s
Alma Zada Ellenburg and Mrs. :
j Minters, sold poppies on the
streets, and the Troop in Trion
j also participated.
Miss Carol Patterson won a
jpiize for selling the most poppies
i and runner-up was Miss Geneva
Scoggins. Both girls received
I cash prizes.
Mrs. Newman and Mrs. Watt
Lanier were in charge at the
Montgomery Knitting Mill and
i Florence Hudson directed the
isale in Berryton.
The VFW wishes to thank all
: those who contributed to the
| success of the drive.
ROBERT TRIMBLE
ELECTED OFFICER
IN ROA CHAPTER
A Northwest Georgia Chapter
lof Reserve Officers Association
| has been approved and char
jtered by the Georgia Department
'according to an announcement
; made at a meeting held on Mon
day, May 24, at the City Hall in
LaFayette.
Maj. Fred B. Henry, of LaFa
yette, was elected president, and
the other officers are as follows:
Lt.-Col. W. P. Addison, Rossville,
vice-president, and Capt. Robert
D. Trimble, Summerville, secre
tary-treasurer.
Members from Summerville in
clude Lt.-Com. NAT’S Mose E.
Brinson; Maj. Inf. J. T. Stubbs,
Jr.; Capt. Adj. Gen. R. D. Trim
ble: Lt. Navy T. J. Espy, Jr.; Lt.-
jUSN. J. H. Farmer; Second Lt.
I Air Corps Robert C. Bagley.
The organization is an associa
tion of officers banded together
for the purpose of supporting
and assisting in the develop
ment and execution of a military
policy for the United States,
which shall provide adequate
national securiy, it was pointed
cut.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1948
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READY FOR TEA are these five high school girls and their
teachers. Shown left to right are Miss Jean Duff, Miss
Sara Ayers, Miss Fat Tedder, Miss Hilda Tyler, Miss Imo
jean Gass. Mrs. J. A. Duff, at whose home the tea was held.
Miss Jeannie Floyd, Mrs. Edythe McGinnis and Miss Geneva
Coats, teachers. The tea was given on Friday, May 27, as
a project of Misses Duff, Tedder and Ayers.
| Miss Smith I
Killed in
Truck Crash j
Miss Sara Margaret Smith, 23-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Florence Y. Smith, of Ber
ryton, died instantly in a truck
crash at Americus at 6:30 a. m.
Friday.
The young woman was riding
j in a heavy truck which went out,
|of control and crashed, also
j killing the driver of the vehicle.
Besides her parents, she is
j survived by four sisters, Mrs.
Aretha McFarland, Nattie Lee.
Sybil and Joe Ann Smith, of Ber
iryton; one borther, Bobby Ray
| Smith, of Berry ton: one half
brother, Manford Smith, of Tex
as; her grandmother, Mrs. Wil-
I lie Sumlar, of Rome, and great
grandmother, Mrs. S. A. Smith,;
| of Rome.
The body was returned here
early Saturday morning by a J.
D. Hill ambulance and funeral
services were held at the Berry
ton Church of God at 4 p. m
Sunday with the Rev. Jeff Dale
and the Rev. Tommy Waits offi- i
ciating Interment was in the i
Summerville Cemetery, with the j
|J. D. Hill Funeral Home in j
J charge.
LOCAL BOY TO
| ASSUME DENT!ST
DUTIES HERE
Dr. R. E. Davison, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. D. Davison, of Sum
merville. plans to assume the
practice of, dentistry with Dr.
Eerlon Lovingood, of Summer
ville, in June.
The young dentist will com
plete six years of college work on
June 8. He is now a senior at
I Washington University School of
; Dentistry, St. Louis, Mo.
Davison, 21, was first on the
dean’s list at the close of last
September. He attended Emory
j University, Atlanta, for two
years and has spent four years
at the St. Louis School of Den
tistry.
After graduation, Dr. Davison,
his wife, Marilyn, and daugh
ter, Nancy, will return to Sum
merville, where they will reside,
and where Dr. Davison will en
ter practice.
Dr. Davison has worked out
and perfected diagrams and
methods of teaching visual edu
cation in the school of dentistry,
according to a recent issue of the
Dental Journal. The work done
by the Summerville student has
ibeen described by the school as
| entirely original and most con
structive. School officials point
ed out that the work done by Dr.
| Davison will greatly simplify
j work of students in the future.
| The improvements have been
i adopted for permanent use at
I the school, officials said.
j Cemetery Corporation
To Meet Here Friday
The Summerville Cemetery
Corporation will meet at 4 p. m.
j Friday at the City Hall for fur
ther organization plans, it has
been announced by Mrs. J. S.
Cleghorn, secretary.
The organization has been
chartered and improvement
plans are under way.
Anyone interested in the de
velopment of the cemetery is in
vited to attend the meeting on
Friday.
Knothole Gang
Proposed for
Trion Youths
A Trion boys “Knothole Gang”
is being planned by Smitty
Smith, it has been learned, and
all boys interested are asked to
report at the baseball park at 1
p. m. Friday for the first meet- j
ing.
A large pressure cooker will be l
raffled off to get the program
started and funds from which
will be used to buy bats and balls :
Caps and tee shirts with team
I names will be obtained as the
program progresses and more
'money is available, it was stated.
Mr. Smith conducted similar
; programs in his home town,
Windfield, Ala., for several years
j under the sponsorship of Ber
nard McFadden.
WORKERS SCHOOL
CONDUCTED AT
TRION CHURCH
! A Christian Workers’ School is
j n progress at the Trion Meth
| odist Church this week where
i the Rev. J. A. Langford is pas
' tor and R. W. Coarsey is super
; intendent of the Church School.
A course for adult workers is
being taught by Dr. R. S. Guptil!,
of Atlanta. The course for chil
: cren workers is being taught by
Mrs. Levert, of Atlanta, and the
1 youth workers course is being
; taught by the Rev. Arthur Pil
igrim, pastor of Greenville Meth
odist Church.
The Rev. Mr. Pilgrim is a Sum
i merville boy, having received his
high school education there.
Later he graduated from Young
Harris College, and from Emory
University he received his B. Ph.,
! and B. D. degrees. He has been
pastor at Greenville for five
1 years.
MALCOLM GAYLERS
CONDITION 'GOOD'
The condition of Malcolm Gay
; lor, 25, who was seriously injured
Thursday afternoon in a sawmill
• i accident at Lyerly, was reported
1 by Summerville Hospital attach
es late yesterday as “good.” It
■; was expected that Mr. Gaylor
! would be removed to his home
| sometime today.
Mr. Gayler suffered severe
I cuts about the body after hav
ing been pulled into the saw,
| which was accidentally turned
| on when a fellow worker fell and
struck the switch.
BUSINESS SCHOOL TO
OPEN HERE TONIGHT
A business school will open at |
7 o’clock tonight (Thursday), at '
the Summerville High School.!
according to an announcement 1
by the Chattooga County Board
of Education, which is sponsor
ing the school.
Certificates will be given upon,
completion, it was stated, and
credit will be given on a high
school diploma.
Courses to be taught include
Chamber of Commerce
Sponsors City Drive
GARBAGE CANS TO
BE ON STREETS SOON
Through the efforts of the
Chamber of Commerce, G. J.
Boling, of the Standard Oil
Company, has presented the
; City of Summerville with eight
oil drums, which the city will
; paint and place over the city ;
; for the disposal of garbage
; and waste paper.
Put your waste in the gar
bage cans, NOT on the street.
It’s a part of “Clean-Up.”
Severe Hail
Storm Strikes
Summerville
Summerville was struck by a
severe hail and electrical storm
i Thursday afternoon, and the
electric power was disrupted for ■
one hour and 16 minutes.
Damage is estimated to be
thousands of dollars, with sev- j
eral roofs having been damaged;
and window panes in some homes |
and businesses were broken.
Many persons described the
hail storm as the worst in 30 or;
40 years.
J. F. King
Dies at Home
J. F. King, 80, died at his home.
Summerville, Route 3. Tuesday at;
; noon.
Mr. King is survived by a bro
j ther, T. W. King, of Summerville.
Funeral services were conduct- !
' 1 ed at the Sand Springs Baptistj
Church at 2 p. m. yesterday, with
; the Rev. Gus Reed, of Rome, and
> the Rev. Floyd Higgins, of Sum
merville, officiating. Interment:
in the church cemetery. J. D.
Hill Funeral Home of Summer
ville in charge.
CHATTOOGA DISTRICT
SCOUTERS MEET
The Chattooga District meet
! ing of the Boy Scouts of Ameri-;
ca was held at Riegeldale Tav
ern, Trion, on Friday, May 28,
. when J. D. Simmons, chairman.
; presided. Willis James gave the
,; invocation.
’! Mr. McCartha, chairman of or
• ganization and extension, stat-j
> ed that all troops in Chattooga
District were registered and in i
. good standing.
Having a greater number of
boys in camp this summer was
. the theme of the meeting and
j the group discussed how' the Dis
trict Committee would aid troops
r in Summerville and Trion in at
r tending the camp.
The next meeting for the Dis
| trict Committee will be held at j
, Camp Sidney Dew during the j
regular camping period.
MR. FISHER PAYS
NEWS OFFICE A VISIT
J. H. Fisher, a Chattooga
County old-timer, who boasts ;
l that he’s 83 years old, stopped
[ Qy the office last week to get
a copy of The Summerville
News.
Mr. Fisher, who lives on Sum- j
merville, Route 2, that
■ he’d never been away from the
County except for four years
during his entire lifetime.
The aged man has no im
mediate family, his wife and
onl ydaughter ha ving died sev
eral years ago, however, he
makes his home with his
i grandson, Glenn Morris.
typing, shorthand, bookkeeping,
business English, secretarial and
business spelling.
“Much interest is being shown
and several applications from
tsurrounding towns have been
received,” it was stated.
| All those interested are urged
to attend tonight’s meeting, at
which time the nights on which
the courses will be taught and
other plans will be made.
The city Paint-Up. Clean-Up campaign which the Chamber of
Commerce, the City and The Summerville News proposed for early
Spring is now an actuality.
Under the direction of E. C. Pesterfield, chairman of the Cham
ber of Commerce Clean-Up Committee, and through the procla
mation of Mayor Willis James, the Junior Woman’s Club, the Gar
den Club, American Legion Auxiliary, Boy Scouts, other civic or
ganizations and the voluntary efforts of individual citizens, Sum
merville will spend the week of June 7-12 in an all-out clean-up,
paint-up program that will leave the town spic and span.
- i In Droclaimine the week of
WHAT YOU CAN DO
IN THE CLEAN-UP
1. Clean up your owm home ;
; and garden.
2. Join your friends in a
neighborhood project to cor
j rect eyesores and fire hazards
i in your block or on your street.
3. Take active part in civic 1
! groups that co -operate in or
ganized Clean Up campaigns.
Call the Chamber of Commerce
to see how you can help.
Clean-Up Week
Aids Fight
On Disease
i Summerville doctors hail
! Clean-Up Week as a three
i pronged weapon in the fight
against dirt, disease and fire.
Maintaining that the thorough
cleaning and renovation homes,
j and gardens receive in the na-!
'Tonally observed week make
i rhem more healthful places, Dr.
J J. Allen encourages ccsnmu
nity action to extend the usual
annual household check -up
throughout the neighborhood.
Dr. W. T. Gist stresses the
: point that this community clean
up week is not just a battle
against dirt, but is a life-saving
campaign.
Cleaning combustible rubbish
and other fire hazards from the
homes helps save lives by remov
ing a prime cause of fires, Dr.
R. N. Little states.
Cleaning out vacant lots and
j alley ways removes refuse, stag
nant water, and weeds in which
j house flies, mosquitos, and other
disease-bearing insects breed,
and is a vital health service.
; Scouring these lots helps rid the
neighborhood of rats as well as
providing growing children with
a proper place to play.
So, they suggest, enter the
battle of the broom and help
jsave lives.
Telephone Directories
Given Chamber Commerce
As a public service, Miss Grace
Weaver, manager of the Sum
merville Telephone Company,
will place in the central office
|of the Chattooga County Cham
ber of Commerce telephone di
| rectories from the following
I cities: Atlanta. Rome, LaFay
! ette, Chattanooga, Birmingham
land Dalton.
The directories in the Cham
jber of Commerce office are plac
ed there to be of benefit to local
merchants and others who find
it necessary to call these cities
frequently, and at the same time
Jit will relieve the local telephone
i exchange of added duties in
| looking up numbers for these
cities, especially during periods
(that telephone traffic is heavy.
MENLO SCHOOL BIDS
TO BE RECEIVED
Bids for the construction of
one new school building at Men
lo will be received by the Chat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion until 11 a. m. Tuesday. July
! 6, it has been announced.
Prospective bidders are asked
!to contact the County Superin
! tendent of Schools and make ap
plication for plans and specifi
cations which are being drawn
I and will be ready for bidders by
jJune 15. '
City Court Postponed,
According to Sheriff
There will be no City Court by
jury as scheduled to begin Mon
day, June 7, Sheriff A. H. (Tiny)
Glenn has disclosed.
The next regular session will
be held on the first Monday in
August, it was stated.
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CIRCULATION
THIS WEEK
$1.50 A YEAR
XII pi UUlClliillilg 1/iIC WCCA UI
June 7, Clean-Up Week, Mayor
Willis James wrote the Chamber
of Commerce as follows;
June 1, 1943
Mr. M. E. Brinson,
President Chamber of Com
merce,
Summerville, Ga.
Dear Mr. Brinson:
Following up our telephone
conversation of yesterday with
reference to the Clean-Up,
Paint-Up Week, being June 7
i to 12th, inclusive:
After talking with Mr. E. C.
Pesterfield. who is chairman
of this committee, it will be
satisfactory to proclaim this
Clean-Up, Paint-Up Week for
the City of Summerville.
Yours very truly,
W. S. JAMES,
Mayor.
In enlisting the aid of the va
rio u s women’s organizations,
. Chamber of Commerce Chair
man E. C. Pesterfield received
! the following response from Miss
| Mae Earl Strange, president of
the American Legion Auxiliary:
‘The Legion Auxiliary will not
only give full co-operation to
| the Chamber of Commerce in
[this clean-up program, but here
'by appoints every member of
me Auxiliary as a committee of
! one in their own neigrborhood
j t o get out and rap on the doors
Jot their neighbors and friends
during the campaign in order
that each neighborhood can be
a challenge to every other neigh
borhood in cleanliness and neat
, ness.”
The Junior Woman’s Club, un
der the leadership of Mrs. J. R.
■ Burgess, president, has appoint
;j ed committees in each of the
i! town’s four wards for creating
interest in the Clean-Up Drive.
Miss Mittie Dodd, of Menlo,
' president of the Chattooga
County Garden Club, also has
appointed the club membership
as committees of one in their
communities for pushing for-
I'ward the paint-up, clean-up pro
, gram.
Trucks Available
,' Under the Clean-Up program
'jMayor James stated that the
■ I garbage trucks would be availa
ble in the following sections of
; | the city:
Monday, Ward 1; Tuesday,
Ward 2; Wednesday. Ward 4;
Thursday. Ward 3; Mill Village,
Friday; business section, early
: every morning.
* Under the direction of Police
Chief W. M. Whaley, the main
; business streets will be thorough
’ ly washed and cleaned.
‘ The local clean-up campaign
1 is but a pre-view of what can be
1 done to make Summerville a
; more attractive city. According
to Mr. Brinson, of the Chattooga
County Chamber of Commerce,
and Mr. Pesterfield, the coming
clean-up. paint-up drive is the
first step the city will take in
participating in the Champion
Home Town contest sponsored
by the Georgia Power Company.
During the next few months
the Chamber of Commerce will
sponsor every effort on the part
of civic organizations, church
groups or individual participa
| (ion in promoting improvement
in industry, agriculture, educa
, lion, health and sanitation, mu
nicipal development, business,
housing and civic improvement,
transportation, recreation facili
ties and any other need that will
improve the city’s community
life.
The success of next week’s
campaign will be in the hands of
the individual citizens of Sum
merville, and not with the or
ganizations sponsoring the move
ment. The beauty of Summer
ville lies in how the individual
keeps up the appearances of his
own home or business.