85 years ago – July 19, 1940: 27 houses to be moved for highway

Dublin Courier Herald, Dispatch, and Press

With two crews on the job, work of removing some 27 houses within the city limits of Dublin on the right-of-way of the proposed newly graded Dublin-Glenwood road will get underway on Monday morning, it was revealed today.

M.L. Moxley of Tarrytown, with his own crew, Lacy Sutton, furnishing supervision and equipment, and with the county furnishing laborers, will begin moving the houses in order that the right-of-way may be cleared for state highway department engineers.

Mayor D. Sessions of Dublin and J.F. Graham, Laurens County Commissioners Chairman, conferred yesterday afternoon and made the final plans for moving the houses in a negro section of the city through which the new right of way will be cleared for state highway department engineers.

A contract for grading 9.999 miles of the route, beginning at the end of pavement in Dublin and continuing beyond Reedy Springs Creek has already been let by the highway department.

Highway officials indicated that all of the houses would be moved within 30 days in order not to hold up actual work of grading the road.

CITY ELECTIONS SET

The 1940 tidal wave of politics today extended to the whole of Dublin.

With state campaigns already heatedly underway, judicial circuit contests beginning to warm up, and county races starting to simmer around the edges, and the presidential election due in November, the Dublin Democratic Executive Committee announced that the regular election for city councilmen will be held on August 14.

Secretary of the Committee R.L. Webb reported that the city committee met in executive session yesterday and set July 1 as the deadline for candidates to qualify and for voters to register in the election which is to fill three places of aldermen from the city-at-large. Candidates must qualify with Secretary Webb prior to 6:00 p.m. on that date and prospective voters must make things right with City Clerk M.A. Rogers by the same time.

Although all present aldermen whose terms expire at the end of this year were not contacted, it was reported in city political circles that all three would be candidates for re-election.

Those whose terms expire next January first are Aldermen E.B. Mackey, W.P. Tindol, and Bruce Suggs.

Qualifying fee was set at $10 by the committee.

Officers of the four man committee were also named at the meeting yesterday. J. Marion Peacock was elected chairman, and Mr. Webb was named secretary. Other members of the committee are J.O.Ogburn and O.R. Bennett.

DUBLIN SCHOOL FACULTIES NAMED

A complete faculty list for the 1940-41 term of city schools of Dublin was made public today by Superintendent A.J. Hargrove, who revealed plans for instigating a tuition plan for all non-resident school children.

Mr. Hargrove said that tuition would be paid by all out of town students:  

Senior high school students – $45.00 annually

Junior high school and elementary students – $36.00 annually

All colored students – $20.00 annually

A plan has been worked out, said the superintendent, for the payment of teachers’ salaries as they come due in the 1940-41 school year.

The faculty list follows:

City Superintendent – A.J. Hargrove

Secretary – Miss Katherine Chappell

Senior High School:

Fred Driver – Principal

B.C. Jarrard – Dean of Boys

Miss Frances Fordham – Dean of Girls

Miss Frankie Calhoun

Miss Lillian Bedingfield

Miss Maybelle Stith

Miss Frances Gillen

Jack L. Powell

Junior High School

Miss Hope Chavous, Principal

Miss Gertrude Pierce -Assistant Principal

Miss Frances Davis

Miss Maud New Shepard

Mrs. L.L. Porter

Miss Mary Sumner

Calhoun Street School:

Miss Pearl Cofer, Principal

Miss Mamie Ramsay, Assistant Principal

Miss Louise Buchan

Miss Mala Stanley

Miss Ruth Dabney

Johnson Street School:

Mrs. W.W. Ward, Principal

Miss Mildred Bishop, Assistant Principal

Miss Ida O’Neal

Miss Cinderella Brunson

Miss Ruth Arnold

Saxon Heights School:

Mrs. Alice Brinson, Principal

Mrs. George Barbre

Mrs. W.R. Lanier

Miss Ellen Shelor

Washington Street Negro School:

Marcus A. Ingram, Principal

Charles W. Waterman

Alonza Bailey

Carolyn Waterman

Rebecca Myers

Essie G. Ingram

Rosa Belle Smith

Home Economics teacher to be employed

Telfair Street Negro School:

Susie W. Dasher, Principal

Sophronia D. Walker

Julia Thomas 

CHAPMAN NAMED COMMANDER

M.A. Chapman, Dublin broker, has been named Commander of the Dublin District of the State Defense Corps.

The Dublin District includes several counties in this section of the state. The number and names of the counties included in the Dublin Division have not yet been announced by state officials of the Defense Corps.

Mr. Chapman is in Atlanta today attending a meeting of district commanders for the purpose of perfecting final organization for the state set-up. They will select county unit commanders in line with suggestions made by a citizens committee.

The names suggested for Laurens County were selected at a meeting in the city hall, called by Mayor D. Sessions. Two other names were suggested for    Commander,  Dr. C.A. Hodges and Trammell Keen.

Final plans for the district and county organization work will be completed when Mr. Chapman returns from the Atlanta conference. 

$1,832 WORTH SURPLUS FOOD

During the past 30 days, needy persons residing in Laurens County have received a total of $1,832.15 in commodities, according to figures released today by Braswell Deen, Director of the Georgia State Department of Public Welfare.

Harry Stevens is the manager of the local depot.

Surplus farm products are purchased by the Surplus Marketing Administration and turned over to the State Welfare Department for distribution to needy families throughout the state.

In Laurens County there are 755 families certified by the local Welfare Department for the receipt of commodities. Deen explained that the primary purpose for the surplus removal program is to relieve the farmer of his surplus products and at the same time to give to needy people the benefit of such surpluses.

“During the past few years, the farmers of this nation have raised more farm products than the people could buy. The resulting surplus forces market prices down to extremely low levels and the growers sustain a loss.

“The problem of converting the harmful effects of these surpluses into an advantage to both the farmer and consumer is being attacked by the US Department of Agriculture and the Surplus Marketing Administration.

“The success of the plan is evidenced by the fact that last year over $3,000,000,000 worth of surplus commodities were distributed throughout the State of Georgia,” Deen stated.

COTTON GROUP NAMES PROXY

Officers of the Farmers Mutual Warehouse Association of Dublin, a co-operative farmers organization, were elected at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, Ford Roe, manager, announced today.

He announced that directors for the ensuing year were elected at  the second annual meeting of stockholders. Directors named were:

J.L. Allen

J.E. New

W.W. Bush

C.L. Thigpen

W.R. Werden

E.L.Evans

W.L. Lake

James Fordham

C.G. Wade

Present officers of the Association are W.R. Werden, President; J.E. New, Vice President; and Mr. Roe, Secretary, Treasurer. 

A barbecue at the Compress started the day’s program, which was highlighted by speeches by well informed cotton men from throughout the South. Some 300 persons were in attendance, including stockholders, cotton warehousemen, cotton buyers, and bankers.

Stanley Andrews, editor of the American Cotton Grower, of New Orleans, Louisiana, painted a dark picture for the future of American exports, which he said have already been cut about 20 per cent due to the European war. He said that this reduction in exports will result in a larger cotton carryover during the coming year.

C.G. Garner, marketing specialist of the College of Agriculture of Athens, deplored the low income of Georgia farmers and advocated co-operative marketing as a means of increasing income.

D.W. Brooks, manager of the Georgia Cotton Producers Association of Atlanta, under which the local warehouse operates, explained co-operative cotton warehousing as applied to the local organization.

4-H BOYS GO TO CAMP

Laurens County Agent Harry Edge and 19 young 4-H Club boys of Laurens County will leave early Tuesday for a three-day stay at Camp Wilkins near Athens, topped off by a return sight seeing trip through Atlanta.

Mr. Edge said that the boys would be given sight seeing trips in Athens and through the College of Agriculture as well as have a program of planned entertainment and recreation.

On the a return trip, he said, they will go through Atlanta for a trip to the State Capitol and Stone Mountain.

Boys to make the trip include these:

T. W. Humphrey, Jr.

Harrell Patisaul

Edsel Patisaul

Lester Patisaul

Deward Wade

Richard Custer

Rentz Napier

L.L. Hall

James Lowery

Leland Rowe

B.H. Williams, Jr.

Donald Tipton

Willie T. Williams

Russell Hall

Ray Dominy

Kytle Wynn

Louis Parker

Gurvice Manning

Dudley School bus driver Ramsay Ware will carry the group on the trip.

CHAMBLESS FAMILY REUNION

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Y.G. Chambless of Rentz enjoyed a reunion and dinner together at their home last Sunday. Their children served delicious dinner which was spread on the table under the trees in the yard.

All of the family was present except Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Chambless and son, Harold, of Atlanta and H.D. Avera, husband of Mary Lynn  Chambless of Tampa, Florida. 

Present were 

Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Chambless

Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Chambless and daughters, Ann and Betty Lynn

Mrs. H.D. Avera and son, Chambless

Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Green

Mr. and Mrs. .R. Chambless and children, Proctor, Fred, and  Nell

Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Wells

Mr. and Mrs. Y.G. Chambless, jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Jansen

The Chambless family, natives of Monroe County, Georgia, moved to Rentz in 1918. The family has been wonderfully blessed in that there has not been a death in the immediate family. All nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Y.G. Chambless are living and doing well and all are married to Laurens County residents.

Mr. and Mrs. Chambless make no boast of this fact themselves, but the influence of the Christian home in which they reared their large family is reflected in the members of the family as it finds itself in the community today, including those who have married into the family – each one of whom the family is justly proud to own.

The family plans to make the reunion an annual affair.

MARIE NEWS

    By Mrs. H.E. Hobbs

In the absence of Rev. Charles Maples of Marie Baptist Church, Howard Scarborough, Ministerial student of Bethsaida, spoke at the morning and evening services.

J.L. Perry has as his guest, Grover Tyner, of Augusta.

Congratulations to Miss Joyce Wyatt on her birthday anniversary, July 14.

Misses Virginia and Emily Hobbs are entertaining with a house party at the home of their aunt, Mrs. J.E. Hobbs. Their guests are Beulah and Ellen Payne, Janette Dominy, Hazel Wilder, and Vivian Weaver.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Deen of Jacksonville, Florida, were Sunday visitors here. They left on Monday morning for Mount Holly, North Carolina, to visit their brother, Gus Hobbs, and family. Mrs. Mackie Anderson and J.E. Hobbs accompanied them on their trip.

MONTROSE NEWS

Revival services began Sunday at the Montrose Baptist Church at 8:30 p.m. Rev. O.N. Shanes conducts the services. The public is cordially invited to come.

Charles Lamb of Alabama was the guest of Miss Lossie O’Neal on Sunday.

Miss Mary Helen Simmons is visiting in St. Petersburg, Florida, with relatives.

Kline Scarborough entertained a group of his friends with a hay ride to Sessions Lake recently. The group left Montrose on a truck load of hay at 5:30 p.m. and returned home at a late hour.

Bowling and dancing were enjoyed by the young people, who included the following: 

Miss Dell Payne

Miss Joyce Porter

Misses Carolyn  and Frances Hodges

Miss Edna Earl Fletcher

Misses Nell and Lyma Lord

Miss Mary Patterson

Misses Nell and Miriam Cook

Miss Mildred Hall

Billy Edge

W.C. Shelnutt, Danville

Lonnie Smith, Jr., Danville

Robert Hodges

Bill Simmons

William Edge

Jack Cook

Jack Payne

William Edge

Acting as chaperones for the party were Misses Marie Payne of Atlanta, Martha Williams and Mrs. D.T. Payne. 

PINETUCKY NEWS

Mr. and Mrs. Wilborn Williams announce the birth of a daughter on July 10. She will be called Sarah Ann.

Mr and Mrs. Willard Shepard, Phyllis and Willer Jean Sheppard of Dexter were Wednesday and Thursday guests of Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Register.

Little Glenda Jean Kennedy is able to return home after being a patient at Claxton Hospital.

Willer Jean and Curtis Lee Carey were Tuesday guests of of Polly Harden.

Dorothy Rozier has as her guest her cousin, Doris Rozier.

Mr. and Mrs. Obie Lowery, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wallace, and Miss Evelyn Lowery of Macon were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brantley.

Mrs. J.L. Brown was a recent guest of Mrs. N.H. Williams.

Mr. and Mrs. Tullie Kennedy were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilborn Williams.