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The Official Organ
Baker County
Established 1912
VOLUME 28. NUMBER 8.
Mitchell REA Gets Allotment
$264,000 For Rural Lines
NEW ALLOTMENT WILL BUILD 322 MILES OF LINE
SERVING 1357 CUSTOMERS IN SEVEN COUNTIES.
MANY ALLOTMENTS ANNOUNCED.
Formal announcement from the
Rural Electrification Administration
in Washington, was given Monday of
an allotment of $264,000 to the Mit
chell County Electric Membership
Corporation for the construction of
rural power lines into the several
counties already served by the com
pany.
The REA Monday announced allot
ments totaling $7,993,500 which
brings the total amount alloted
since 1935 to $249,708,793 for the en
tire United States.
The allotment made to the Mitchell
County Electric Membership Corpo
ration is for the construction of 322
miles of power lines in Mitchell, Ba
ker, Miller, Early, Decatur, Worth
and Dougherty counties. The new lines
will serve approximately 1357 custo
mers.
The local REA company had pre
viously been alloted $412,000 for the
construction of 469 miles of line serv
ing 1,950 members in Mitchell,
Dougherty, Worth, Decatur, Turner,
Calhoun and Randolph counties. These
lines have all been completed and
have been energized for service. The
last section of the project, was the
palhoun and Randolph county loop,
which was energized about two weeks
ago.
Os the $412,000 alloted above,
$25,000 was alloted to be used for
the construction of a cold storage and
processing locker plant.
Wiring and plumbing loans to the
project amount to $76,000.
Along with the announcement of the
Mitchell county project, were an
nouncements of allotments to the Col
quitt county project in the amount of
$362,000; alloted for the Grady
County project $66,000; allotcd the
Walton county project $124,000; and
allotment to the Jefferson county
project, $306,000.
Baby Cyclone Carries
House Hundred Yards
Elberton. —The family of E. V. Mc-
Lanahan of Bowman were astonished
recently to find that their 5-room
house, occupants and all, were being
conveyed bodily through the air for
almost 100 yards. The explanation
of the occurrence was an embrotic
cyclone which damaged little else in
the community except this dwelling.
Two children suffered minor bruises,
but no other injuries were sus
tained. Two more children were
found in the basement, though no one
was able to explain how they man
aged to get through the flooring.
Boy Receives 2,300
Volts Slightly Hurt
Gainesville. —Little 9-year old Bob
bie Fowler combined a 25-foot fall
with some 2,300 volts of electricity
recently and is still able to tell of his
experience. Bobbie and Awo chums
were climbing ip a sweet gum tree
when he slipped and, .fell, his body
striking an eledtric wire. The full
charge shot through him before he
landed upon the) ground 25 feet be
low. Bobbie is it hpme recuperating,
now from burns on his. hand, side,
knee and right ejbow.
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LIBRARY NOTICE
Beginning September 15th, the Ba
ker County Library, located in the
courthouse, will be open each day from
12 until 5 P. M.
EMMA C. ADAMS,
WPA Librarian.
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Quitman Equines
Die Os Strange
Sleeping Malady
Quitman. —A rare equine malady
has been found prevalent among
mules and horses of this section. The
disease, equine encephalomyelitis, or
better known as “sleeping sickness”
has claimed around 30 horses here,
according to Dr. R. C. Fuller, veter
inarian. The disease, which is some
times contracted by human beings is
conveyed by mosquito bites and may
be prevented, but not cured, by a cer
tain type vaccine which has recently
been developed.
Newton School
Opens Monday
The Newton High School will open
for the 1939-40 term Monday morning,
September 18th, at 9 o’clock. Parents
and friends are invited to be present
on this day. A short opening exercise
is being planned after which pupils
and teachers will meet in their re
spective rooms to organize their work.
The school is anticipating a great
increase in the school enrollment this
year. And the Trustees have stated
that a bus or car go around Monday
morning and bring all the pupils who
want to come, in to school. The New
ton School will have more buses and
larger ones this year. Mr. Oscar Ir
vin will drive the one to Hoggard’s
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In addition to the regular school
curriculum, the Agricultural Depart
ment will continue under the direction
of Mr. Woodfin K. Hulme of Elber
ton, and Miss Ellen Hall will have
: charge of the Home Economics
partment. Mr. Emory Leonard, Su
perintendent, will teach the Commer
cial Course in addition to his regular
work. These courses have been given
before in the school and have proven
very beneficial to the pupils.
The following teachers have been
named for this term: Mr. Emory Leon
ard, of . Macon, Superintendent; Mr.
Woodfin K. Hulme, of Elberton, Vo
cational Agriculture; Miss Ellen Hall,
Home' Economics; Miss Agnes Pres
ton, Mrs. Virginia Bowen, Miss Mar
garet Hudson, Mrs. J. H. Jernigan
and Miss Alma Ellis.
The Trustees and faculty held a
meeting at the school house Monday
evening and made plans for the open
ing of school. It is believed that New
ton will have a very successful year.
The faculty and trustees have been
assured of the cooperation of each one.
Miss Hall Entertains
Baptist W. M. S.
The Baptist Woman’s Missionary
Society met Monday afternoon at the
home of Miss Mattie Lee Hall.
Mrs. Price Hall gave a very inter
esting program. After which Mrs.
R. L. Hall, Sr. took charge of the
business hour. Miss Alma Ellis, the
president, sent ih her resignation due
to other work. The society gave her
a rising vote of her loyal'and'efficient
, service, and regretted her having to
give up the work. Mrs. Hall appoint
ed a committee to nominate a new
president. Plans were also made for
observing the special days of prayer.
Miss Hall served delicious refresh
ments and was assisted in entertain
ing by Mrs. Geo. Durham.
Those present were Mrs. R. L. Hall,
Sr., Mrs. J. H. Jernigan, Mrs. T. D.
Preston, Mrs. C. O. Hall, Mrs. C. S.
Adams, Mrs. V. T. Akridge, Mrs. H.
H. Radford, Mrs. Price Hall and Mrs.
Geo. Durham.
Walter Swann
Shower Honoree
Mrs. Dan Miller entertained with a
miscellaneous shower at her home on
Tuesday evening, honoring Walter
Swann, whose home was destroyed
Saturday night. The home was beau
tifully decorated and the many gifts
were displayed in the living room.
Delicious refreshments were served
the guests.
Fat Used in Early Paints
The early types of paints were
made by blending pigments with a
quantity of fat or grease.
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1939.
Baker Sportsmen
Give Ranger Support
To the sportsmen of Baker County,
please accept my thanks for your gen
erous support in this Conservation
Program. With your continued in
terest fish and game in our counties
will continue to multiply.
Laws are not the only necessity in
protecting the vast wealth in our
counties. No matter how badly need
ed the laws concerning Conservation
may be unless they are backed by pub
lic sentiment and public support.
They are not going to accomplish the
purpose for which they have been cre
ated.
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“The Prayer of a True Sportsman”
Dear Lord:
Make me appreciative deeply the
Wild Life of my section which you
have so graciously placed here for
my enjoyment and pleasure as well
as that of my neighbor. Make me
obey the Laws of God and Man. With
reference to our game and fish teach
me to so act that when I meet and
talk with my “Wild Life Ranger that
I may look him full in the eye and
say, I have protected the game of
my County. I have reported to you
all law violators, with reference to
the game and fish and I have not
acted unlawfully. I have not vio
lated the game and fish laws of my
State and when comes the long winter
evenings and I rest in my humble cot
tage by the side of a friendly fire
and I think of the happv hunting days
of the past I may have no regrets. I
can say that I have faithfully and
honestly kept the game laws of the
State of Georgia.
Sportsmen, help me to put our coun
ties on top.
JOE T. GLAWSON,
Wild Life Ranger.
Oddity Editor Has
Headache on ‘Figrape’
Marietta Times, by Warren Duffee
—The Times’ Oddity Editor has a
headache. You see, it’s his job to
think up names for all the aborted
agricultural oddities and hortucultural
hangovers that our good friends in
the county find growing on their
places. First, a good neighbor found
tomatoes flourishing on a potato vine.
The Odd. Ed. called those “pomatoes”
and got away with it. Last week, a
guy over in Carroll county plucked
an apple from a grapevine, so the
grapevine tells us, and it was dubbed
a “grapple.” And still the lexicog
raphers let the Oddity Editor get away
with it. But this week came the
knockout punch—a roundhouse right
to the head. Like the “grapple” it
too came via the grapevine. E. W.
Hendon who farms just off Canton
road above Noonday church, dis
covered two healthy young figs, pret
ty as you please, growing on his
grapevine. Os course, there were fig
trees nearby and the fig roots and
the grapevine probably united in some
kind of subterranean wedlock without
the benefit of clergy and produced
their unusual prodigy. Anyway, the
offsprings were named “figrapes.”
And the Odd. Ed. is awaiting their
coming of age so that he and Mr.
Hendon can eat one apiece and see
just what “figrape” tastes like. But
in the meanwhile, ,the Odd. Ed. is
laying awake nights fqr, feur that
some enterprising agriculturist will
graft a butter-bean vine to an apple
tree. And he’d have to call the re
sult "apple butter.” Which is prob
ably a, good way to end all this apple
sauce anyway.
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Shower For Swann
Family Tuesday Night
The Junior-Adult Bible Class spon
sored a miscellaneous shower for the
Swann family, whose home was des
troyed by fire Saturday night, at the
home of Mrs. R. L. Hall ,Sr. on Tues
day night. The home was decorated
with beautiful flowers. The gifts were
displayed in the dining room. There
were many useful and beautiful gifts.
The hostesses served punch and
cookies.
About fifty guests called during the
evening.
George Washington as President
George Washington served two
terms as President, but his first
term began when he was inaugurat
ed April 30, 1789. and ended March
3, 1793. His second term extended
the full four years.
Had Rogue Money Tax
Rogue money tax in Scotland of
ancient days was applied to the ap
prehension and prosecution of crim
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MARKET AND CROP
SURVEY BY AGENT
Mitchell Agent Writes Com
prehensive Survey Os General
Price Conditions.
Prospective proauction of the Geor
gia cotton crop as indicated on Sep
tember 1 was about 1,27,000 (500 lbs.
gross weight), according to the Crop
Reporting Board of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. This forecast is
based upon data furnished by crop cor
respondents well distributed over the
state and takes into consideration re
ported condition of crop, extent of
wevil damage, number of bolls consid
ered safe per plant and other factors
bearing upon outturn of the crop.
This estimate represents an increase
of 27,000 bales over the estimate re
leased one month ago. Acreage for
harvest is estimated at 2,008,000 after
allowing for 2.7 per cent abandonment
from the 2,064,000 acres in cultivation
July 1. The yield per acre is indicated
at 245 pounds as compared with 203
last year, 270 in 1937 and the 5-year
(1934-1938) average of 230 pounds. In
dicated production is 20.5 per cent a
bove last season’s 852,000 bales. In
creased production this year i s
brought about by a 20.7 per cent in -
creased yield per acre. Acreage indi
cated for harvest is slightly under the
2,009,000 acres harvested in 1938.
Weather during the first half of
August was generally dry and favor
able in most sections for development
of the crop, but during the latter half
of the month frequent and heavy rains
were received. Not only was this fav
orable for the boll wevil but it caused
considerable shedding of squares and
small bolls of late cotton. Early cotton
in all sections, except northern Geor
gia had stopped setting effective fruit
at the time the rains started but many
small bolls already set were lost either
from shedding or from the boll weevil.
Northern and mid-state sections are
making substantial gains in produc
tion over last year, but in southern
Georgia decreases are indicated. June
and July tains in southwestern and
southcentral areas, with resulting
weevil damage and grassy fields, ac
counted for the unfavorable showing
in this territory. Some complaints
have been received of cotton rotting in
the bolls and of open cotton being beat
out by rains but most of this injury
is to quality rather than quantity. The
crop is opening rapidly in all but
northern counties and ginning is well
under way in the south and beginning
in mid-state territory.
Final outturn for the season will de
pend upon whether the various factors
affecting the crop for the remainder of
the season prove to be more or less
favorable than usual.
LIVESTOCK
Hog prices suffered another down
turn in the southeast as of September
11. Values broke a flat 50c from Fri
day and Saturday, following a sharp
decline at Chicago and other midwest
ern terminals. Receipts swelled, too,
rolling up a total of 1,032 at the sev
en plants up to 7:00 A. M. today a
gainst 498 last Monday, while 12 mid
western markets received 51,800 sal
able hogs today or about normal for a
Monday, At any rate; last week’s sky
rocketing prices in a series of erratic
markets werecaUsed by factors that
were not substantial enough to hold
and the flurry died out, resulting ih
serious set-backs. However, today's
prices in the southeast are still 50c ov
er a week ago.
The sudden rise in prices together
with the just as sudden drop that set
in on Friday of last week found many
producers in the southeast unloading
hogs in an active fashion. Not only
were mature hogs pushed into market
but a liberal portion of pigs were
marketed. Nevertheless, a rather
healthy outlet was noted for pigs, al
though some reports indicated that
buyers from the north were absorbing
a large percentage for further feeding
and finish. The fact that some sections
in the southeast have experienced a
lack of feed tended to result in great
er than normal movement of pigs also.
Hogs slaughtered under federal in
spection during the month of August
totaled 2,791,604 head or an increase
of slightly more than 13 percent over
the 2,466,949 in August of 1938, while
8 months ending August 1939 found
25,264,140 head slaughtered against
21,945,026 i nthe same eight months of
1938, an increase of slightly more than
13 percent.
POULTRY
R. J. Richardson, of Tifton, poultry
marketing specialist for Georgia Ag
ricultural Extension Service, announc-
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Preacher Didn’t
Practice What
He Preached
Sylvester.—“ Brethren, its er sin
tuh steal!” But Brother James Col
lins, negro, who is said to be a preach
er, obviously forgot the other night
what he had preached. He is being
held in the city jail for letting a cow
belonging to someone else follow him
down the road. The cow, it so hap
pened, was owned by Mr. J. B. Ham
mack at Tempy. About midnight on
a Saturday night the person was seen
leading the cow down the road.
Friends of Mr. Hammack saw the
cow, and recognizing it, rushed over
to tell Mr. Hammack who notified the
police. The next morning the cow was
discovered tied in a swamp near the
spot where the two youths saw the
parson. But when the parson was
questioned he declared that he knew
nothing of the adventure related since
he was drunk on homebrew the night
before. Though being held in the
county jail on a warrant charging him
with swiping a cow, the parson’s con
science is absolutely clear.
Reforestation Is
Golden Opportunity
In the furrows between two rows
of corn lies a golden opportunity for
Georgia’s reforestation, states J. S.
Cross of Albany, District Forester for
southwest Georgia.
This is the story being written
throughout the State today by mem
bers of Future Farmers of America
chapters in cooperation with the Geor
gia Division of Forestry, with demon
stration plantings of slash pine be
| tween row crops. It is the story of
a victory for moisture conservation
for prevention of fire ravages, soil
erosion, and utilization of wet mar
ginal lands.
Unproductive spots bleaching in the
hot sunshine or souring in wet strips
are no longer marring the appearance
of many good farms. These ugly sur
faces are being retired from cultiva
tion on a three-year plan and covered
with healthy, orderly interplantings
of slash pine. Spots and corners
heretofore turned back to nature to
wrestle out a re-seedling of pine in
ten to fifteen years through briars,
fires, and neglect, are now-a-days
turned into a luxurious, even growth
in three years. Row crops make suf
ficient profit to pay for the cultiva
tion.
The change is worked out smoothly
by planting row crops between grow
ing trees, both usually eight feet
apart. The crop may be corn, pea
nuts if not pastured, peas or cotton.
It makes little difference because the
results are the same. The grower
himself is as agreeably surprised as
the observer when he is forced to
hurry the third year’s crop off in or
der to get it out of the way of the
new trees. They often are eight feet
tall by this time—standing from 544
to 1,000 trees to the acre, depending
upon spacing.
Rapidly eroding, sloping fields or
soggy strips respond to such inter
plantings equally with other types of
lands and soils so nearly unproduc
tive as to be the “problem” spot of
the farm. Planted on the contour so
beneficial for. moisture conservation,
and wholly protected through culti
vation from fire that ravages the
“old field” seedlings, the between-the
row trees come, into turpentine and
pulpwood production by the time trees
on abandoned lands get a foothold.
The value of cultivation to the trees
is reflected ih the rapid early growth
and the tact that trees mature to
large-dimension timber by the time
the random seedlings reach the tur
pentine and pulpwood stage.
In the furrow between two rows of
corn, peanuts, peas or cotton, on thou
sands of acres of unproductive land
marring the appearance of otherwise
good farms, lies a brighter future for
farm income and Georgia’s reforesta
tion.
While the F. F. A. youth and the
Georgia Division of Forestry lead the
way to these profitable inter-plant
ings, Georgia landowners both old and
young will take part in the program
and will be able to profit and enjoy its
advantages.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
thanks for the many kindnesses and
floral offerings rendered us during
the sickness and death of our beloved
one. May God’s richest blessings be
upon, each of you.
Mrs.. Sam Houston and. Children,
Mrs.,Henry Houston, Sr., Henry Hous
ton, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Sib Rhodes, Mr.
and Mrs. H. A. Harkin. , • :
A County of Good
Farms, Good Schools,
Good Churches and
Good People.
51.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
MITCHELL FAIR
PLANS COMPLETED
Fair Opens October 2nd For
Full Week. Two Horse Races
Scheduled.
From The Camilla Enterprise.
Final plans for the Mitchell County
Fair, sponsored by the American Le
gion the first week in October, were
rapidly taking shape this week and
a meeting of the fair committee with
general chairman J. R. Bramlett is
scheduled for this Friday night.
The Mitchell County Fair, which
will be held at the race track grounds
on the old Newton road, promises to
be the largest and best fair held yet
by the Mitchell county post of the
American Legion.
In addition to the regular agricul
tural exhibits, a livestock exposition
will also be held. Pens and stalls to
accommodate a number of head of
livestock will be constructed on the
rack track grounds and one of the
finest displays of Mitchell county
bred stock is expected to be on ex
hibition. T । t f J !
The committee is making every ef
fort to make the livestock show one
of the major attractions, this being
the first year that livestock has been
included on the program, and because
Mitchell county is in the heart of the
rapidly growing Southwest Georgia
livestock section.
Splendid agricultural exhibits will
also be arranged in tents. The gen
eral displays will be altered slightly
from those of past years, with each
community or club depicting in their
exhibit some theme of the farm and
home garden, rather than just a gen
eral exhibit of handiwork and farm
products. Communities will compete
for the prizes on the basis of the
presentation of the general theme, as
well as the quality of the exhibits.
Two big days of horse races are also
scheduled for fair week, which is Oc
tober' 2nd, through the 7th. The
races have tentatively been set for
Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If
the weather prevents the holding of
the races on either of these days, new
ones will be selected during the week.
Tom’s Amusement Company will be
in charge of the midway and will pre
sent plenty of entertainment for fair
visitors, as well as provide the many
side shows and rides.
Swann Home Is
Destroyed By Fire
The Home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Swann was destroyed by fire Satur -
day night. The building and furnish
ings were completely destroyed. The
origin of the fire was not determined.
The family was away from home.
When the fire was first noticed it was
impossible to get it under control
and burned to the ground in a very
short time.
No part of the loss was covered by
insurance.
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