85 years ago: August 24, 2024

Dublin Courier-Herald, Dispatch, and Press

STYLE SHOW DRAWS THOUSANDS
A style show was held by the R.L. Stephens store on Tuesday evening, August 22, at 8:30, and the affair was crowded to capacity. There were more people on the outside of the building than on the inside, all eager to see the beautiful style revue.
People were present from Wrightsville, Soperton, Sandersville, Douglas, Adrian, and many other nearby towns to see authentic styles and living models.
Stephen’s Store has made a hard drive to make this entire section style conscious and quality conscious, saying, “These are two things in life to be acquired by an individual that cannot be given them, and there is no substitute for them. Once acquired, never forgotten.”
This thought was apparent in the reading and modeling throughout the entire revue.
The commentator for the evening was Miss Roberta Smith, who did full credit to each garment on the runway and to each model in this lovely show. It was with genuine pleasure that others heard the voice of this excellent reader.
The first person to appear in the runway was little Miss Blanche Willis – all dressed up for the cold weather in her lovely white Bunny coat and hood to match, wearing high boots with fur bands at the top. She carried a large white satin banner bearing the words “Fashion 1939” in red satin.
Following on the heralding of fashions by this lovely young Miss was the first model, Mrs. George Carter, appearing in a smart red and black flannel costume suit The hat was postilion crown with small brim in legation red with black bustle-back trim. She had red gloves and a black suede bag.
The second model, Miss Jocelyn Tanner, wore a crepe frock of sooty black with the bustle back from a Balenciaga adaptation, a smart black hat with the same bustle back as her frock. Black crepe bag, black suede gloves – accenting gold fabric on her dress and a gold frame on her bag, completed the outfit.
The third model, Miss Elizabeth Merritt, the perfect size 11 from the Junior Department, was adorable in a replica 1880 style of block flannel and three small ripples in the back of the short jacket to her flannel suit. Accessories were a simple tailored felt hat with high Postilion crown, a round black bag with bright gold frame to match an ornament on her hat, and black suede gloves.
The fourth model, Miss Alice Jepeway, was particularly in the picture wearing a crepe frock with the sleek midriff and very full skirt silhouette. She wore a cushion brim hat with a red coq feather, a red-stone necklace on her frock, red gloves, and a black bag.
The fifth model, Miss Mary Moorman, was definitely 1939 in an adaptation from Alix – a flannel costume suit. The dress had a full back panel with unpressed pleats, and the jacket fitted to the waist with a slight adaptation of the bustle back. Her hat was a forward tilt with wide satin loops and streamers to match the satin top of her frock. She carried a novel suede bag and gloves of black.
The sixth model – Miss Virginia Wiggins – was a replica of the styles of 1860-1880 in her faille frock with its low sweeping back fullness and a very low bustle edged with velvet. Her black hat featured a bustle, also edged in velvet. A lovely velvet bag and black gloves were used.
The seventh model, Miss Mary Ellen Alsup, presented a wool costume suit which was used at the Madmoiselle Clinic in the Pierre Hotel in New York City. The jacket was a waist length model lined with bengaline, making a bengaline collar and lapels a part of the bengaline waist to her suit. Her hat had a smart back bow of Bengaline, matching her frock and a large dotted veil snood. There were a black dog-suede bag and black gloves.
These seven young ladies modeled the entire revue and did a lovely job – each showing was as beautiful to look at as the others. Sports clothes was the second showing, the third the social register, the fourth the “South,”
and on to Showing number nine, the “end to a perfect day,” A girl dons her best attire and does her best grooming to go out with her best escort and with her best friends to a favorite place of amusement. She was shown to the audience in her favorite clothes – dinner, evening frocks, and all.

DUBLIN GUARDS FETED
With Europe tottering on the brink of another gigantic armed conflict, Dublin’s reserve troops plan a celebration on Monday night of their 20th year as federally recognized national guardsmen.
At Sessions Lake, enlisted men and officers of Company K, together with their invited guests, will gather at 8:30 for the annual supper that commemorates that date just 20 years ago – August 18, 1919 – when the federal government extended recognition to the local infantry company as the first in the state of Georgia. Only one other national guard was in existence at that time – the old Elizabeth Rifles Company of Atlanta.
The guardsmen will assemble at the armory at 7:30 p.m.
With the present enlisted men and officers will be former officers of the company and battalion and regimental commanders together with instructors from the unit infantry headquarters in Macon.
When first reorganized after the World War, Col. Lewis C. Pope, present commanding officer of the 121st Infantry, was captain of the company, then a part of the 122nd Infantry.
Later, the company was redesignated Company K of the 121st Infantry.
The local company was in existence before the World War, having been first organized in 1916, but it was not until 1919 that the federal government duly recognized the unit.
At present the company is manned by three officers and 6 enlisted men, and is a company of the Third Battalion.
Officers of Company K are Captain Clifford H. Prince, commanding officer; First Lieutenant Brooks Bryan, and Second Lieutenant A.T. Coleman, Jr.

LEGION COMMITTEES
Standing committees for the ensuing year were announced today by Commander E.F. Moxley for the Dublin and Laurens County Post of the American Legion.
Commander Moxley has named 12 committees – executive, property, entertainment, child welfare, finance, visiting, Americanism, publicity, athletics, community service, legal, and membership.
New officers, headed by Commander Moxley, were installed at a picnic-meeting at Sessions Lake on August 10 when Hoyt C. Brown of Macon, State Legion Commander, made the principal address.
Other officers are T.C. Bobbitt, first vice commander; Owen C. Roberts, second vice commander; W.H. Hobbs, adjutant, G.B. Parrott, finance officer; J.M. Peacock, service officer; David Morgan, sergeant at arms; M.G. Combs, chaplain; C.C. Crockett, judge advocate; and O.B. Overstreet, historian.
Committees:
Executive – E.F Moxley, Chairman
W.H. Hobbs, G.B. Parrott, T.C.Bobbitt, O.C. Roberts, Leon Wade, D.W. Knight, M.Z. Claxton, E.E. Prescott
Property – E.E. Prescott, Chairman
Tom Lester, J.T. Wright, Tom Hodges
Entertainment – M.Z. Claxton, Chairman
R.H. Hightower, T.C. Bobbitt, George McCullars, O.C. Roberts
Child Welfare – Leon Wade, Chairman
R.H. Hightower, Dr. C.A. Hodges, S.M. Allsup, G.V. Cochran
Finance – G.B. Parrott, Chairman
David Morgan, D.W. Knight, W.H. Hobbs
Visiting – E.J. Cliatt, Chairman
B.C. McLendon, J.M. Peacock.
Americanism – Carl Nelson, Chairman
C.C. Crockett, A.J. Hargrove
Publicity – R.H. Hightower
O.B. Overstreet
Athletics – T.C. Bobbitt, Chairman
Leon Wade, George Foster
Community Service – M.Z. Claxton, Chairman
E.E. Prescott, T.W. Hill, L.D. Woods
Legal – Carl Nelson, Chairman
C.C. Crockett
Membership -S.V. Conyers, Chaiarman
T.C. Bobbitt, D.W. Knight, J.E. Chambless, David Morgan, Fred Camp, George McCullars, L.D. Woods, M.Z. Claxton, J. F. Pierce

BOND POSTED IN ASSAULT CASE
Eustice Mimbs, charged along with four others with assault with intent to murder in the stabbing of Herman Howell, Dublin WPA worker, posted $300 bond today and was released from the county jail, Sheriff I.F. Coleman’s office reported.
Release of Mimbs left only Earl Davidson in jail, the others having posted necessary bond to the October term of Superior Court – Ray Woodard, Clyde Lovett, and Nelson Sears.
Meanwhile, Mr. Howell was reported by Claxton Hospital attaches as resting well and showing some improvement.

SEATS ON SQUARE
For the benefit of the public a number of benches are being placed on the Court House lawn, some marked for colored, others for white people.
V.R. Jenkins, who is superintending the placing of the benches, said that he hopes the public will help take care of the seats so that they may long be enjoyed and kept in good shape at all times. He urged people to co-operate in caring for this public property.

BUILDING PERMITS FELL
Dublin’s building activities last month fell behind the high level established during June but held above the July 1938 mark, according to records at the office of M.A. Rogers, City Clerk.
Total permits filed during July of this year amounted to $9,450 as compared with $7,415 during the same month of last year. Permits during June were boosted by business construction, which was almost altogether lacking in the July permits and totaled $17,450.
Included in the July permits this year were four houses, a seed warehouse, and two repair jobs.

BAND TO PLAY IN ATHENS
The members of the Laurens County Drum and Bugle Corps have been invited to play in Athens during Farm and Home Week. More than fifty students will go in the party, which has been arranged by G.V. Cunningham, State 4-H Club leader, who has arranged for the group to spend Thursday night at Camp Wilkens, the state club camp, located on the campus of the College of Agriculture.
They will appear on the 4-H Day program and will wear the national colors, green and white.
The band was praised generously when they played at the Rural Entertainment contest in Baxley on July 6. It was there that Mr. Cunningham and other Extension officials made definite plans to include them in the program.

HARMONY NEWS
By Mrs. C.A. Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bracewell have returned to their home in Gainesvlle, Florida, after being called here by the death of the former’s father, Mr.
Bennie Bracewell.
Mrs. Randolph Clark was a recent visitor in Charleston, South Carolina.
Mrs. F.R. Moore spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. W.M. Herndon.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Dixon of Glenwood were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sampson Bracewell.
Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Moore of Pine Hill were Sunday guests of the former’s mother, Mrs. A.L. Moore.
Mrs. Ira Bracewell and Mrs. Albert Bracewell were Wednesday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Cooper.

NEW BETHEL
By Mrs. J.W. Ward
Mrs. Tom Cauthen was called to Milledgeville recently on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Chandler Dennard.
Miss Lucille Reese has returned from G.S.C.W., where she attended summer school.
Friends of Richard Singleton are sorry that he is ill. He is a patient at Coleman Hospital.
Mr and Mrs. Charles Waldrep were visitors in Dublin on Wednesday.
Miss Verla Lee has returned from a visit to Belton, South Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Brown and children were visitors in Dublin last Saturday.

BLUE SPRINGS NEWS
By Mrs C.B. Hester
Friends here of Mr. and Mrs. Broxton Hester regret that they are moving from this section. The will go to Collins, where he has a position with the State Highway Department.
Friends here of Thad Donaldson are glad to know that he is improving after an operation at Thompson Hospital.
Little Fay Fullford has as her guest this week little Jacquelyn Sutton of Dublin, Route 6.
Mrs. Myrtice Hester and children, Rembert and Ginger, and Leland Donldson spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Hicks near Scott.
Mrs. Arthur Fulford is spending some time with her father, Mr. Neely Stewart, who is seriously ill. Friends here wish for him a speedy recovery.

JOBLESS PAID
Unemployed workers in Laurens County were paid $227.89 in benefits by the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation during the week ending August 19, 1939, it was announced today. Number of payments was reported at 43.
Aubrin U. Hogan is manager of the Dublin office of the Georgia State Employment Service through which payments are handled.

EXCHANGE CLUB MEETS
Dublin Exchange Club held its weekly meeting at Sessions Lake yesterday where a delightful chicken and fish dinner was served.
Among the projects being fostered at this particular time is an effort to bring a unit of the State Highway Patrol to Dublin.
A report made by Stanley Reese indicated that Dublin has a good chance to get the headquarters for a patrol station established here.
By unanimous vote, M.B. Carroll, Sr., the father of Exchangite Cecil Carroll, was made Honorary President of the Club.
Visitors at the dinner were W.R. Latham, Jr., County Sanitarian; Paul Ward, A.T. Stevens, Jr., Donald Winn, and Dr. A.C. Johnson, Jr.

RED CROSS ANNIVERSARY
The far-flung ramifications of the Red Cross were observed here on its 75th anniversary, August 22, according to Miss Blanche Metts, secretary of the local organization.
Miss Metts said that the Red Cross was first organized in 1864 by the Treaty of Geneva, which was called by Henri Dunant for the purpose of drafting an agreement for neutralization of the war wounded and the relief forces working among them.
Today every civilized country in the world has its Red Cross.
The Dublin Chapter observes its seventh anniversary on October 15 of this year. The chapter was re-organized seven years ago after doing work through the World War period.

BUREAU FINDS JOBS
Placements by the Dublin district office of the Georgia State Employment Service for the first six months of this year totaled 1,263 persons, Aubrin U. Hogan, district manager, reported today.
Mr. Hogan reported that of the 1,263 persons who found work, 556 were in private industry while the remaining were in public jobs. At the first of January there were 5,114 persons who had applications for job cards filed in the Dublin office while on July 1, only 4,873 persons had applications. with the office.
It was explained that when persons were found temporary jobs their cards were not removed from the files.
Working with Mr. Hogan in the investigation of the jobless and in efforts to find employment for those out of work are Paul Ward and Holt Register, interviewers in the Dublin office, which covers eight counties.
At the same time it was reported that initial unemployment compensation claims, payments on which averaged about $5 per week, in this district, amounted to $1,265 during the first six months of this year.
A total of 1,298 calls were made on private employers by the representatives of the office to explain services offered by the office and to acquire information regarding their employment needs, it was explained.
The Dublin office covers Laurens, Bleckley, Johnson, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, and Wheeler counties, including WPA and PWA placements.
Mr. Hogan also reported that he was seeking jobs for 81 persons who had filed unemployment compensation claims in his office from other states.
A majority of those filing claims, he stated, are canning plant workers who had worked out of the state during the season. He said that every effort is being made to place them in private industries in the state.
The Dublin office handles clams for other states for unemployment compensation as well as for Georgia.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS 20
Laurens County’s Health Department was organized twenty years ago with Dr. Ovid H. Cheek as Commissioner of Heath. He was commissioned on August 1st, 1919, by the State Board of Health under the Ellis Health Law and is now the oldest health commissioner in the state in point of service in an original appointment.
The Health Department has gone forward from one small office over Hicks Drug Store into one of the most modern health offices in the state. Dr. Cheek was the only person in the office at first, but now he has added a clerk, nurse, and engineer to his personnel.
Dr. Cheek said that the main work of the organization from the beginning has been to bring about a reduction in the death rate caused by typhoid, diphtheria, maternal deaths, infant deaths, malaria, and tuberculosis, and that this has been done in Laurens County.
He said that the Laurens County Health Department is second to none in the state and added that his office is operating with less money from the county than any other health office in the state.
“Statistics show that people live an average of four years longer in a health – officered county than in a county which has no health department,” he said.
Dr. Cheek has always been active in the county, district, and state medical societies, having served as president of the county and district societies and also as President of the State Public Health Association.
He had had public heath experience with the State Board of Health in making a survey of hookworm infection in the western part of Georgia and in cooperating with the International Health Board.
Commissioner Cheek received a special training in pubic health at the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, which was the only medical college giving such a course at the time of his graduation.

COLORED NEWS
Miss Dulcena Hoffman and Miss Gladys Horne have returned home after visiting relatives and friends in Atlanta. The two young ladies report a very eventful and enjoyable trip.
James Herman Wiggs, Sr. is visiting his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiggs, in Jacksonville, Florida. His many friends wish for him a very pleasant stay while there.
Miss Arlena Curvin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.C. Curvin, left the city on Thursday, August 17. for Miami, Florida, to spend several weeks with her aunt and other near relatives. Her friends hope for her a successful trip.
Mrs. Mamie Thomas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is spending her vacation in this city as the house the guest of Mrs. L.T. Simmons of 701 Rowe Street and other relatives in this section. Mrs. Thomas will return to Philadelphia the first of September, where she will resume her duties in
the Quaker City.
There will be preaching at the Howard Chapel A.M.E. Church on Sunday evening at 8:30 by Rev. George Jackson from Florida. His subject will be “God and Refuge of His People.”
Also on the program this night will be a Singing Contest between the Sunset Four and the Dublin Jubilees No. 1. Everybody is cordially invited to be present.
We want you to come out and enjoy a good sermon and witness an enjoyable contest of singing. Brother D.S.Lawrence will be the Master of Ceremonies for the singing contest.
Deacon Barnes of Rice Hill Baptist Church is the Master of Ceremonies. We are asking everyone to bring at least ten cents for the collection; we will accept more, of course.

ENJOYABLE TACKY PARTY
The Intermediate B.Y.P.U. Department of the First Baptist Church was entertained with a tacky party at the home of Mrs. R.M. Stanley on Madison Street.
As the guests arrived, they were served refreshing punch by the hostess.
Proms and games formed the features of entertainment, and at a late hour a pound supper was served.
Those who attended the affair were Misses Jean Stanley, Caroline Brigham, Margaret Hicks, Grace Bennett, Mary Daniel, Blanche Coleman, Topsy Williams, Martha Tharpe, Jean Adams, Louise Rountree, Ellen Smith, Mae Hightower, and Mary Lee Hightower, and Messrs. Tom Lawrence, Brooks Rice, James Green, Sandifer Brunson, Burton Hancock, David Walters, Edward Cliatt, John Baldwin, Frarie Smalley, Jimmy Whitaker, Fred Bell, Lamar Rutland, and Milo Smith, Jr.

HOBBS HOME SCENE OF PARTY
The Junior Department of the Marie Baptist Church Sunday School was recently entertained with a delightful party at the home of Mrs. Horace Hobbs.
Games and stories were enjoyed on the lawn, after which delicious punch and wafers were served.
Mrs. W.W. Wells, Mrs. E. E. Swinson, and Miss Eithel Jones assisted in entertaining.
Present at the party were Maggie Wyatt, Virginia Maddox, Dot Martin, Ann Hobbs, Iris Martin, Rebecca Wyatt, Betty Watson, Eldee Hobbs, Kelley Wyatt, James Maddox, and Lester Watson.

OLIVET NEWS
By Gladys Scarborough
H.L. Porter is visiting relatives in this community.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Harville were recently visited by Mr. and Mrs. Ben Melton.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Hooks and Mrs. Pearl Peace were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Porter.
Misses Lillian, Alma, and Agnes Herrington were Sunday guests of Misses Annie Lora and Christinne Young
Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Scarborough had the following as their Sunday guests: Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Hooks, Mr. and Mrs. W.J.Howell, Mr. and Mrs. John Herrington, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Melton, and Mrs.Willie Young.