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GIBSON RECORD
Published to Furnish the People ot Glascock County a Weekly Newspaper rind as a Medium for the Advancement of th e Public Good of the County.
VOL. XXXVIII. No. 51.
Historical Sketches
Of Towns Located
In Warren County
From Warrenton Clipper
(By Mrs. W. F. Wilhoit, County
Historian.)
(The following installment of
the History of Warren county is
*
the second one of a series of
sketches of several of , its towns,
This week Shoals, Norwood,
Barnett and Camak are the towns
included.—Ed.)
Shoals
About five miles below Jew T -
ell on the Ogeechee river is a
fine water power, which with its
surroundings has been known
ever since the early settlement
of Georgia, as the “Shoals.”
Late in the eighteenth century
this , . property acquired ... by
was
Col. Richard Bird, who came
from V lrginia about that time.
It was laiter owned by a J fr.
Cheeley, who was also from
\ trgima.
Hie grist mill is large and
complete and is arranged to
grind both wheat and corn Col.
Bird also operated a plant tor
making thread and carding
wool. This was the first woolen
mill to he established in Geor
gia. ,, He also , experimented . , , with
iron ore that was found m that
section and established the first
iron works in Georgia. Inde
structible heaps of slag bear tes
timony to his labors in this line,
tho it proved to be a failure.
Col. Bird was vefy wealthy.
He and his family were highly
educated and cultured and they
lived in fine style. His will re
corded in the Ordinary’s office
disposing of his effects con
firms the statement that he was
a man of means.
The old Bird home was sit
uated in a shaded location just
above the dam on the eastern
side. A short distance away,
among some gcanite bowlders,
was a bold spring of clear, cold
water. Upon the summit of a
hill in the rear is a graveyard.
The old dwelling was destroyed
by fire in 1894, at that time,
owned by Mr. N. H. Coleman.
This old home had the dis
tinction of being the birthplace
of William L. Yancey, one of the
most notable leaders of the
Southern Confederacy and who
after the War Between the
States became a United States
Senator from Alabama. His
mother, who was a relative of
the Bird family, was on a visit
when his birth took place.
There are several rapids on
the Ogeechee, above Shoals, pro
duced by that strata of granite
that permeates the State of
Georgia east and west; but be
low, the river gradually de
scends into the flat coastal
region and slowly winds its tor
tuous way to the sea.
Sixty years or more ago the
water of this stream was usual
ly clear, but the clearing of the
lands above and the natural ero
sion of the soil has caused the
water to become more or less
discolored, and this, in a large
measure, accounts for the scar
city of fish, which were so plen
tiful in the old days.
About 1870, it became neces
sary to replace the old dam with
a new one and in tearing away
the old one it was disclosed that
all the nails used in its con
struction were forged in a black
smith’s shop. The information
has been handed down from fa
ther to son that the race, which
is cut through solid granite for
some distance, was not blasted
out with explosives as is the
usual way, but was accomplished
by burning huge pine logs on
the surface until a certain
amount of gianite would shell
off. Day labor and pine logs
were doubtless cheaper in those
days than gun-powder, and dy
namite was then unknown.
Mr. Hunter Coleman owns
the property today. The old
mill has faithfully done its duty
in the past, and been a boon to
many generations, and still is
doing its duty even to the pres
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Chevrolet Car Now
Twenty-one Years Old
Detroit—.Special—The coming
week marks the “coming of age”
of the world’s largest automo
bile company.
For, just 21 years ago—on
Nov. 3, 1911—the Chevrolet Mo
tor Company was incorporated
in Michigan for the manufac
ture and sale of automotive ve
hides.
The first car ever to carry
the name “Chevrolet” came out
of an upstairs flat converted in
to a workshop in Detroit, and
a generation iater, the name
has decorated more than 8,000,
000 radiators of cars e/id trucks
throughout the world.
Today the Chevrolet Motor
Company has a past record of
leading the industry in sales in
three years out of the past five,
For the 1932 yea r-to-date Chev
ro j e { registrations outnumber
the second highest make by ap
proxhuately 100,000 units, indi
ca tj n g another year of Chevrolet
leadership and an increase in
“fl rs t s » to four years out of the
past c s j x
Curiously enough, tne first
Chevrolet bore a basic reseni
lilance to the modern product of
the company in that Louis Cbev
rolet, famous race driver of
ano ther era, who did some ex
perimental work on the first car
and whose name it perpetuates,
employed a six cylinder engine.
The company’s greatest compar
ative success came with this
type of motor, built exclusively
during the past three years, and
now being copied by other en
trants into the low priced mar
ket.
In another sense the early years
of the company bear a strange
parallel to modern days in that
as early as 1915 Chevrolet
launched in the volume car field,
where it was later to achieve
leadership, with the introduction
of the Model “490.” This car,
named for its price, was a sensa
tion in its day, and production
of it w r as continued for several
years This, incidentally, was
the lowest priced Chevrolet ever
on the market until the reduc
tion of the base price on the
1931 series to $475. The present
base price is $445 F. O. B. Flint.
After the formation of the
company, a decade elapsed be
fore 1,000,000 cars had been
turned out. But since those
years, when Chevrolet was find
ing its place in an already large
industry, the company has writ
ten a veritable Horatio Alger
story of modern business growth.
Chevrolet became a part of the
General Motors group in 1918,
hut only in the past decade have
the swift strides to first place in
the industry been achieved. In
1921, Chevrolet built only 4.5 per
cent of all passenger cars and
trucks produced by the industry.
At present one out of every
three cars and trucks is a Chev
rolet Six.
In 1925 production for the first
time passed the half-million
mark in a single year. Two
years Iater it exceeded one mil
lion cars in twelve months.
Most of the present directing
heads of the management were
active in the organization when
the sweep to first place gathered
momentum in the early twenties.
Foremost of the company’s ex
ecutives are W. S. Knudsen,
president and general manager;
H. J. Klingler, vice-president and
general sales manager; M. E.
Coyle, vice-president and gener
al auditor; C. E. Wetherald, gen
eral manufacturing manager,
and J. M. Crawford, chief engin
eer
Prolectin* th# Bird*
"Few small birds,” says a writer
In Bird Notes and News, ‘‘can keep
ahead of a car for any length of time
if It is going <0 miles an hour or
more." The statement Is not made
os an interesting example of relative
speeds, hut a3 an appeal to motorists
!<> rake thought of the birds when
driving through wooded country. Sych
thought, if exercised by all drivers,
would nowadays save more birds to
the vv axis than manv realize.
Buy Georgia farm products.
GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932
Copy of Official Democratic Ballot For Election November 8
STATE OF GEORGIA—GLASCOCK COUNTY
OFFICIAL BALLOT
FOR ELECTION, NOVEMBER 8th, 1932
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
For President of the United States
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
For Vice-President of the United State*
JOHN NANCE GARNER
For Presidential Electors State of Georgia
State at Large
(Vote for Two)
CAM D. DORSEY
MRS. OSCAR McKENZIE
1st District
H. P. SMITH
2nd District
W. J. CROWE
3rd District
MRS. NORA LAWRENCE SMITH . .
4th District
N. F. CULPEPPER
5th District
JOHN W. WEEKS
6th District
CHARLES J. BLOCH
7th District
JUDGE NEWT MORRIS
8th District
DEWITT ROBERTS
9th District
MRS. MARY JARRETT WHITE
10th District
HUGH J. ROWE
For United States Senator
(To succeed WALTER Walter F. F. George for full term)
GEORGE
For United Stlftes Senator
(For unexpired term of William J. Harris, deceased)
RICHARD B. RUSSELL, JR.
For Governor
EUGENE TALMADGE
For Secretary of State
JOHN B. WILSON
For Attorney General
M. J. YEOMANS
For State Treasurer
MI. L. LEDFORD
For Comptroller General
W. B. HARRISON
For Commissioner of Agriculture
G. C. ADAMS
For Commissioner of Commerce and Labor
H. M. STANLEY
•-TC . For M. D„,C0LL1NS C
i Prison nmissioner
(To succeed E. L. Rainey for full term)
E. L. RAINEY
For Public Service Commissioner
(To succeed Albert J. Woodruff WOODRUFF for full term)
ALBERT J.
For Public Service Commissioner
(For unexpired term of Calvin W. Parker, deceased)
JULE W. FELTON
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
(To succeed H. Warner Hill for full term)
H. WARNER HILL
For Associate Justiee Supreme Court
(For unexpired term of James K. Hines, deceased)
R. C. BELL
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
(To succeed R. C. Bell for full term)
R. C. BELL
For Judge Court of Appeals
(To succeed Alexander W. Stephens for full term)
ALEXANDER W. STEPHENS
For Judge Court of Anp eals
(For unexpired term of O.H.B. Bloods worth, deceased)
FRANK A. HOOPER, JR.
For Judge Court of Appeals
(To succeed Frank A. Hooper, Jr., for full term)
JOHN B. GUERRY
For Judge Court of Appeals
(For unexpired term of R. C. Bell, resigned)
I. H. SUTTON
For Judge Superior Court Alapaha Circuit
W. R. SMITH
For Judge Superior Court Albany Circuit
B. C. GARDNER
For Judge Superior Court Atlanta Circuit
(Vote for Two)
E. D. THOMAS
G. H. HOWARD
For Judge Superior Court Blue Ridge Circuit
J. H. HAWKINS
For Judge Superior Court Chattahoochee Circuit
C. F. McLAUGHLIN
For Judge Superior Court Northern Circuit
BERRY T. MOSELY
For Judge Superior Court Oconee Circuit
ESGHOL GRAHAM
For Judge Superior Court Ogeechee Circuit
WILLIAM WOODRUM
For Judge Superior Court Cherokee, Circuit
C. C. PITTMAN
For Judge Superior Court Coweta Circuit
LEE. B. WYATT
For Judge Superior Court Dublin Circuit
J. L. KENT
For Judge Superior Court Eastern Circuit
PETER W. MELDRIM
For Judge Superior Court Macon Circuit
LOUIS L. BROWN
For Judge Superior Court Northeastern Circuit
(For unexpired term I. H. Sutton)
B. P. GAILLARD, JR.
For Judge Superior Court Piedmont Circuit
W. W. STARK
For Judge Superior Court Southwestern Circuit
W. ML HARPER
For Judge Superior Court Stone Mountain Circuit
JOHN B. HUTCHESON
For Judge Superior Court Tifton Circuit
R. EVE
For Judge Superior Court Toombs Circuit
C. J. PERRYMAN
For Solicitor General Alapaha Circuit
H. C. MORGAN
For Solicitor General Albany Circuit
ROBERT B. SHORT
SUBSCRIPTION $1.09 PER YEAR
For Solicitor General Atlanta Circuit
JOHN A BOYKIN
For Solicitor General Augusta Circuit
GEORGE HA1NS
For Solicitor General Blue Ridge Circuit
H. G. VANDIVERE
For Solicitor General Brunswick Circuit
W. B. GIBBS
For Solicitor General Chattahoochee Circuit
A. JONES PERRYMAN
For Solicitor General Cherokee Circuit
JOHN C. MITCHELL
For Solicitor General Coweta Circuit
WILLIAM Y. ATKINSON
For Solicitor General Dublin Circuit
J. A. MERRITT
For Solicitor General Eastern Circuit
SAMUEL A. CANN
For Solicitor General Flint Circuit
F. B. WILLINGHAM
For Solicitor General Griffin Circuit
W. H. CONNOR
For Solicitor General Macon Circuit
CHARLES H. GARRETT
For Solicitor General Piedmont Circuit
CLIFFORD PRATT
For Solicitor General Rome Circuit
J. FRED KELLY
For Solicitor General Southern Circuit
G. C. SPURLIN
For Solicitor General Southwestern Circuit
HOLLIS FORT
For Solicitor General Stone Mountain Circuit
CLAUDE C. SMITH
For Solicitor General Tifton Circuit
W. C. FOREHAND
For Solicitor General Middle Circuit
MARVIN L. GROSS
For Solicitor General Northern Circuit
A. S. SKELTON
For Solicitor General Ocmulgee Circuit
C. S. BALDWIN, JR.
For Solicitor General Oconee Circuit
M. H. BOYER
For Solicitor General Ogeechee Circuit
W. G. NEVILLE
For Solicitor General Pataula Circuit
R. A. PATTERSON
For Solicitor General Toombs Circuit
M. L. FELTS
For Solicitor General Western Circuit
HENRY H. WEST
For Representative in 73rd Congress from the
Sixth District of Georgia
CARL VINSON
For State Senator from 18th District "i
**> (*=» t For , , Reprllgbtaave WILLIAM M. LESTER
(general Assembly
LEON L. PEEBLES
For Ordinary
M. L. LOGUE
For Clerk Superior Court
THOS. A. WALDEN
For Sheriff
J. L, KITCHENS
For Tax Receiver
T. J. KITCHENS
For Tax Collector
ALLAN KELLEY
For Treasurer
J. A. GRIFFIN
For Surveyor
D. J. MAY
For Coroner
W. R. WALDEN
For County Superintendent of Schools
THOS. G. KENT
For County Commissionem
H. G. SAMMONS
V. A. WILCHER
E. E. HAIDDEN
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Place a cross (X) mark in the bracket beside th«
word "FOR” preceding each amendment for which
you desire to vote.
Place a cross (X) mark in the bracket bepide the
word “AGAINST” preceding each amendment which
you desire to vote against.
NOTE: Constitutional amendment No. 4 below waa
amended prior to passage by striking section exempt*
ing forest lands frpm taxation, and said exemption
does not appear in body of bill.
To convene General Assembly and Inuagurate
Governor in January.
1 ( ) FOR the ratification of the amendment to Article 3,
Section 4, Paragraph 3, of the Constitution, providing
for meeting of the General Assembly in January, to
inuagurate the Governor.
( ) AGAINST the ratification of the amendment to Ar
ticle 3, Section 4, Paragraph 3, of the Constitution,
providing for meeting of the General Assembly in
January, to inaugurate the Governor.
To qualify elector to vote on payment of poll tux
2 ( ) FOR ratification of amendment to Paragraph 3,
Section 1, Article 2, of the Constitution so as to permit
poll a person to register and vote upon the payment of
tax.
( ) AGAINST ratification of amendment to Paragraph
3, Section 1, Article 2, of the Constitution so as to
permit a person to register and vote upon the pay
ment of poll tax.
To authorize school hoards to contract for education,
transportation and care of children of school age.
3 ( ) FOR ratification of amendment ‘ to Paragraph I,
Section 4, Article 8, of the Constitution authorizing
County Boards of Education, Independent School
Systems, and Local School Districts to contract with
each other.
( ) AGAINST ratification of amendment to the Consti
tution, County Paragraph Boards 1, Education, Section 4, Article 8, authorizing School
of Independent
Systems, and Local School Districts to contract with
each other.
To classify intangible property for taxation, and td|
limit the ad valorem tax on intangibles to five mill*.
4 ( ) FOR ratification of amendment to Paragraph 1,
Section 2, Article 7, of the Constitution authorizing
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