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The Official Organ
Baker County
* Established 1912
VOLUME 28. NUMBER 25.
WINNERS NAMED IN
RUN-OVER PRIMARY
Hall Defeats Twitty. Brunson
Wins Over Jones. Rooks De
feat's Ethredge.
In the run-over primary held Wed
nesday, January 10th, in the office
of County School Superintendent,
R. L. Hall won over his opponent by
a majority of 43 votes, R. L. Hall
receiving 642 votes while Dr. C. W.
Twitty received 599.
In the race for Ordinary, W. E.
Jones, incumbent, was defeated by a
majority of 15 votes ,his opponent,
R. M. Brunson, receiving 628 Votes
and W. E. Jones 613.
The only County Commissioner in
the run-over was N. H. Etheredge,
from Anna District, who was defeated
by his opponent, W. E. Rooks, by a
majority of 144 votes, Etheredge re
ceiving 544 votes and Rooks 688 votes.
A tabulation of the entire county by
precincts will be found elsewhere in
this issue of The News, giving full
detail of the votes by precincts.
Mitchell Jury
Indicts Hatcher
A special session of the Mitchell
County Grand Jury was called
Saturday to investigate the cases of
A. J. Hatcher, white man, and Jabo
Moore, negro, charged with stealing
livestock. The grand jury indicted
the two men for simple larceny on
two counts before adjourning.
Judge B. C. Gardner of the Su
perior Court Albany Distict, called
the grand jury to reconvene when Hat
chel, previously acquitted of the same
charge last October, asked for a com
mitment trial.
The two men were arrested in Al
bany less than a month ago when it
was alleged that they tried to sell two
stolen cows at a packing plant in that
city. They were returned to Mitchell
County to face charges and Hatcher’s
bond was set at $15,000.00.
The livestock stealing situation has
been a problem in the Mitchell Su
perioi- Court for several years and
Judge Gardner at the last term of
court, speaking after the cases had
been dismissed, delivered a stinging
rebuke to jurors when a verdict of
“not guilty” was returned against
Hatcher who was charged with live
stock stealing.
Motorists Offered
Improved Gasoline •
Standard Oil stations and dealers
are today offering their customers
the new, improved Crown Gasoline—>
a popular priced gasoline that meets
specifications for premium anti-knock
performance.
Road tests have proved that this
new gasoline gives motorists quicker
starting, faster pick-up, smoother op
eration, more mileage, and a new high
in knockless power. It also contains
a unique solvent action, which helps
to reduce the tendency of carbon
formation.
Today’s purchasers of popular price
gasoline demand the performance
heretofore obtainable only in premium
grade at premium price, and the de
velopment of this new, improved gaso
line was to meet this demand.
Dutch Kast inches Highest Mountain
The highest mountain in the Dutch
East Indies is Goenoeng Rinjani,
12,550 feet above sea level. The
people are similar to the Balinese.
U - Save - It
Prescription Shops
208 Pine Ave.
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Exchange Bank Bldg.
Albany, Ga.
Save Here Every
Day in the Month
Bahr (tattiy Nws
City Election Held
Last Saturday
The city election for the purpose
of electing a Mayor for the year was
held Saturday. C. C. Merritt, former
Mayor, resigned in December when he
moved to Florida and there was a
vacancy existing. Only two prominent
men offered for the place, being V. T.
Akridge, Manager of the Suwannee
Store here and being a very active
business man, and T. A. Rogers, who
has been connected with the Norris
Grocery Store for several years, mov
ing here from Mitchell County.
Not much interest in the city prim
ary was created until the day of elec
tion, when possibly the largest vote
ever cast in a city primary was cast.
There being 139 votes cast.
Mr. Rogers won the election by a
majority of 13 votes over his oppo
sition, when he received 76 votes and
Mr. Akridge 63 votes.
Bethany News
GARDEN CLUB MEETS
The Bethany Garden Club met for
their regular meeting Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Carrie Craft,
with Mesdames Ross Newton, Henry
Killebrew and T. L. Gamble assisting
Mrs. Craft in entertaining.
Mrs. David Jones presided over the
business session and the round table
discussion on pruning shrubs and
roses and planting hardy annuals.
We were favored with a recitation
by Betty Jean Rooks, a duet by Betty
Ethredge and Charlene Goolsby, with
Margie Lawrence at the piano and a
reading by Mrs. Ross Newton.
Mrs. David Jones presented each
member present with a package of
Sunset-Giant Marigold seeds which
she raised.
Members present were: Mesdames
David Jones, Edwin Jones, Sam Tim
mons, Ike Newberry, Tally Belcher,
Fred Smith, Ervin Goolsby, Ross
Newton, L. W. Parr, John Ethredge,
Luke Ethredge, Kittie Tyson, L. D.
Lawrence, Warren Rooks, Milton
Rooks, Will Rooks, Theo Killebrew,
Henry Killebrew, Early Craft, T. L.
Gamble, Wyatt Brooks, Carrie Craft,
Bob Hamill, Misses Ruth and Reba
Craft, Delores Rooks, Myra Newton.
A sweet course with coffee was
served by the hostesses.
The next meeting will be with Mrs.
Bob Hamill.
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Mr. and Mrs_ Ralph White have
moved to Ochlocknee to live, where
he has charge of the Suwannee Store.
We will miss them here, but wish for
them success in their new home.
Miss Clara Dell Starr, of Cuthbert,
visited her sister, Mrs. Henry Kille
brew and Mn. Killebrew last week.
Mrs. Will Rooks and Betty Jean
Rooks were visitors in Albany Satur
day.
Messrs. Watson Craft, Charlie Ray
and Frank Ethredge were visitors in
Albany Saturday.
Miss Delora Ethredge, who attends
school in Colquitt, spent the week-end
with home folks.
Miss Howell Ethredge is on the
sick list with the flu. Mrs. Theo Kille
brew is teaching in her place.
Polish Linguist
Visits Gainesville
Gainesville.—An interesting char
acter one Rudolf Flemkey, World War
veteran visited this city recently,
and amazed the citizenry with his
command of Polish, German, Russion,
Jewish and English languages. Flem
key was a chaplain with the “Old
Hickory” division from Tennessee dur
ing the war, and is minus three fin
gers as a result of his activity in bat
tle. The versatile 71 year old native
of Poland has served as a spy, customs
official, and baseball umpire during
his varied career.
Early Risers
See Frozen Fog
Lexington.—A London fog is a mere
bagatelle to citizens of Lexington
after the frozen phenomena they ex
perienced recently. Amazed early ris
ers were greeted with an unusually
dense mist, which froze as it formed
and sprinkled vegetation with a pow
dery ice. According to witnesses, the
density of the ice-fog was so great
that automobile traffic was virtually
prohibited, several motorists manag
ing to creep along at 5 miles per
hour.
NEWTON, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12. 1940.
CONSOLIDATED RETURNS OF BAKER COUNTY RUN-OFF
PRIMARY—JANUARY 10, 1940
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For County School Supt.
R. L. HALL, JR 334 18 80 104 106 642
DR. C. W. TWITTY 101 125 137 171 65 599
For Ordinary
W. E. JONES 266 78 75 98 96 613
R. M. BRUNSON 168 64 141 179 76 628
For Commissioner Anna Dist.
N. H. ETHREDGE 260 39 61 123 51 534
W. E. ROOKS 176 102 153 153 120 704
Elmodel P.-T. A. In
Regular Session
The Elmodel Parent Teacher’s As
sociation met in regular session Tues
day, January 2nd, in the tenth grade
room.
Due to the resignation of our presi
dent, Mrs. James Hudgins, Mrs. C. O.
Hall presided over the business meet
ing. Minutes were read by Mrs. J. C.
Odom Jr. and adopted.
It was decided that the P.-T. A.
would sponsor a shower for the lunch
room at an early date and that some
means be provided for the patrons of
our school to understand the work and
needs of this school lunch.
A committee was appointed to
nominate a President for the ensuing
year.
After the business was attended to,
the meeting was dismissed.
About twenty members were pres
ent.
Gas Line Pipe
Arrives In Camilla
Seventeen cars of eight-inch pipe
arrived at the Atlantic Coast Line
Depot this week and were unloaded
by a crew of workmen, which is the
first sign of construction on the gas
line from Port St. Joe to Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The line will pass across the western
part o fMitchell County and cross the
। Flint Rwarnnto-Baker.
The seventeen car loads contained
approximately twelve miles of pipe,
running about eighty-four sections of
forty-five feet to the car. Each sec
tion weighs about 1300 pounds and
it required a crew of seven men and
a derrick to accomplish the unload
ing. Little groups of spectators
gathered to watch the workmen unload
the cars early this week. They ac
complished the task at the rate of a
car an hour, unloading 84 sections of
1300 pounds each in forty minutes.
The pipe is capped on either end and
looks solid from the highway.
Right-of-ways are being obtained
from Mitchell County farmers whose
land the line will pass through. It is
understood that it will be laid three
feat underground.
The pipe line is to be a common car
rier, carrying gasoline, kerosene and
oil from Port St. Joe to points as
far north as Chattanooga, Tenn.
There will be pumping stations about
every forty miles.
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Farmers Cooperate To Promote
"National Pork Weeks” In February
From Camilla Enterprise,
Mitchell county pork producers were
planning this week to join in with
eight other largest pork producing
counties in the promotion of two “na
tional pork weeks” to boost consump
tion in Georgia and throughout the
nation. ,
A meeting was held Wednesday
night at the office of the county agent
at which were present representative
pork producers of the county. A simi
lar meeting was held in Pelham on
Tuesday.
Mr. H. M. Morris, representative of
the Southwestern Chain Store Coun
cil was present and told of the plans
to name February Ist through the
10th and February 29 th through
March 9th, “national , pork week.”
Extensive advertising campagins are
being planned by the 50,000 stores rep
resented through the Southeastern
Council to promote the use of pork
during that week.
While the meeting here Wednesday
was merely a preliminary meeting,
producers went away enthusiastic
about the jiew drive to boost con
sumption. *The main purpose of the
drive being to use up a portion of the
pork products now' on the nMrket and
make way for new pork production.
It is hoped that by thus relieving the
market of it’s present surplus a gen-
Mrs. W. T. Ozmore
Passes In Florida
Mrs. W.’ T. Ozmore, 74 years old,
passed away at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. H. L. Fountain, Lake
land, Fla., with whom she and her
husband had been making their home
since moving from this county several
months ago.
Mrs. Ozmore was born and reared
in Randolph County and moved to Ba
ker County in 1909 where she lived
until several months prior to her pass
ing. She had been married to W. T.
Ozmore for more than 54 years. She
was a member of the Liveoak Baptist
Church in this county.
Besides her husband, W. T. Ozmore,
she is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
H. L. Fountain, Lakeland, Fla.; Mrs.
Albert Burton, Bluffton, Fla.; one
son, R. L. Ozmore of Colquitt; one
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lake Ozmore,
of Cairo, Ga., fourteen grandchildren
and three great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Be
nevolence Baptist Church in Randolph
County. Pall bearers were selected
from friends in Randolph County.
Interment followed in the cemetery
there, with Shaffer Undertaking Com
pany, Cuthbert, in charge.
Ecological Study
To Help Control
Os Georgia Game
Atlanta, Ga.—Charles N. Elliott,
director of the Division of Wild Life,
providing for ecological investigations
by which he desires to ascertain the
food and cover requirements of the
bobwhite, quail, ruffed grouse, chukor
partridge, wild turkey and cotton tail
rabbit.
The work is part of the program
being carried out by Wild Life rangers
and District Chiefs, observers close to
these game birds anti animals in all
parts of the state.
“This study is unscheduled,” Elliott
pointed out, “but we are touching upon
it every time we have the chance and
we hope that it will help us learn the
shortest cut possible to a state-wide
management program designed to in
crease federal aid for such study, but
Elliott believes that much benefit may
be derived from the observations of
Georgia’s Wild Life Rangers.
The problem will be approached
from its physiological aspects, but
laboratory studies supplemented field
work will be done on a very small
scale.
eral rise in the price the farmer will
receive will follow. It was stressed
at the meeting that pork should be
easily sold in the promoting campaign,
it being at record low prices both for
the farmer and the consumer.
The nine heaviest pork producing
counties selected were Mitchell, Col
quitt, Brooks, Crisp, Sumpter, Tift,
Thomas, Dodge and Bullock. Pro
ducer committees are being set up in
each county. From these committees
a delegation from each county will
meet in Atlanta early next week with
Southeastern Chain Store Officials,
to map out plans for the program.
After plans are formulated, the com
mittees in each county will return
home to do promotional work in their
respective counties. It is planned to
have every civic organization and club
in the state of Georgia to feature pork
at the meeting on both of the desig
nated weeks.
Producers named to form the Mit
chell County committee were J. W.
Coliins, Flint; C. D. Phelps, Camilla;
Fred Hand, Pelham; G. D. Kierce,
Pelham; C. B. Cox, Hopeful; J .B.
Miller, Baconton, and P. A. Branch,
Sale City.
This committee is to meet in a few
days and select a chairman and also
delegates to attend the Atlanta meet
ing. ’ <|
ELMODEL SCHOOL
NEWS
EIGHTH GRADE HAS
CHAPEL PROGRAM
The eighth grade was in charge of
the regular chapel program Tuesday
morning, Mrs. Eugene Hall, our spon
sor, helped us with the following pro
gram.
Bible Reading—Ernestine Stamps
Song—By the Class.
Toasts To The New Year—Ruby
Nelle Redmond, Demar Brown, Martha
Eubanks and Theresa Ferguson.
Piano Solo—Muriel Parr.
Poem—Melba Butler.
Song—Keaton Johnson and Gladys
Kirksey.
Poent—Jesse Goodman.
Camilla Host To
Baptist Meeting
Rev. S. 11. Bennett of the Camilla
Baptist Church announced this week
the appointment of the Camilla church
as host to one of ten regional meet
ings to be held by Baptists in the
state of Georgia during the last week
in March.
Dr. James W. Merritt, Atlanta,
Executive Secretary of the Georgia
Baptist Convention, notified the Ca
i milla church Sunday that they had
been designated as one of the meet
ing places.
The regional meeting to be held
here in Camilla will be similar to
other meetings over the state held at
the same time by the Baptists of
Georgia. The purpose of the re
gional meetings, Rev. S. H. Bennett
explained this week, was for the pur
pose of church leaders and interested
members meeting together to discuss
evangelism, stewardship and other re
lated subjects.
Only one day will be devoted to the
meetings and prominent speakers and
churchmen will lead the discussions at
each meeting.
Dr. James W Merritt, of Atlanta,
will be in charge of the meeting to
be held in Camilla.
Prominent speakers who will ap
on the program here include Dr.
Earl D. Pierce, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn.,
and former Executive Secretary of
the Minneapolis Convention; Dr. R. C.
Campbell Executive Secretary of the
Texas Baptist Convention and Dr. El
lis Fuller, pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Atlanta.
A large crowd of church leaders and
interested church members from all
over southwest Georgia are expected
here for the day to attend the meet
ing.
Announcement will be made later,
Rev. Bennett stated this week, as to
the exact date in March on which the
meeting will be held but it is expected
to be one day of the last week in the
month.
Ancient Shoe Toe
Found Near Madison
Calhoun.—Wanted: the back part
of an iron shoe, used in Civil, Revolu
tionary, or Spanish War days. The
front section of the crude boat-like
boot was discovered recently near
Madison by W. R. Holbert, of Oak
man; and despite the efforts of sev
eral boys to find the rear section at a
reward of $lO, no success has been
encountered. The ancient piece of
footwear contains hexagonal hobnails,
and braided pins line the upper rim to
hold the leather around the wearer’s
foot. According to the owner- of the
relic, the break in the shoe is straight
and at about the point of the front
instep.
Two Held In Fur
Shipments At Patterson
The State Division of Wild Life is
not overlooking trappers in its drive
on violators.
It was announced today that two
persons, a trapper and an express
agent, face charges of shipping furs
illegally from Patterson is charged
with shipping pelts of fur bearing ani
mals out of season and L. V. Sim
mons, Express Agent, is accused of
receiving for transportation pelts and
transporting them without showing
shipper’s license number on way bill.
Fred Brewer, Chief of the Plains
District, said that the shipments were
located with the aid of a federal of
ficer in St. Louis.
No Mahogany Forests
No mahogany forests exist since
mahogany trees grow scattered
throughout the jungle with an aver
age, usually, of one or two trees to
। the acre in virgin forests.
A County of Good
Farms, Good Schools,
Good Churches and
Good People.
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
SUPERIOR COURT
TO OPEN MONDAY
Regular January Term Will
Convene. Grand Jury To Be
In Session Monday.
The regular January term of Baker
Superior Court will convene Monday
morning, January 15th, with the Hon
orable B. C. Gardner, Judge, presiding
and Col. Carl E .Crow, Solicitor Gen
eral, representing the State.
Only the Gram! Jury will be in ses
sion Monday and no civil cases will
be called for that day. The trial jury
is to, report Tuesday. A big court is
not anticipated. However, it is re
ported that between sixty and seventy
warrants are to be placed before the
Grand Jury for inspection, which, il
true, will necessarily consume some
time.
Civil cases placed on trial docket
only those that have been pending,
there having been but few new cases
placed on the civil docket.
Tucker W. M. U. To
Meet At Harmony
The annual meeting of the Baptist
Womans Missionary Union of Tucker
Association will be held on Wednes
day, January 17th, ten o’clock, C. S. T.
at the Harmony Baptist Shurch.
Mrs. C. A. Hautman, of Dawson,
Divisional Vice President; Miss Mir
iam Robinson, State Young People’s
Leader, and Dr. Ladislau Biro, of
Rumania. Missionary of the Southern
Baptist Convention, will be guest
speakers of the day.
Mrs. J. L. Green, Associational Su
perintendent, and Mrs. W. P. Henry,
Young People’s Leader, will preside
over the morning and afternoon ses
sions.
All members of the W. M. U., all
pastors in the Association, and all
I others interested are cordially invited
'to attend this meeting.
Christmas Party
For Primary Grades
The first and second grades of the
Newton School were entertained with
a Christmas party in their room on
Friday before Christmas by the Grade
Mothers, Mrs. W. C. Musgrove, Mrs.
Frank Davis, Mrs. T. A. Riley and
Mrs. Clark Edwards. After the room
tree ,the children were served fruits,
nuts, candies and cookies. This was a
real Christmas for these first and
second graders, and all, including the
teacher, appreciate very much the in
terest given them by their Grade
Mothers.
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