85 years ago: November 9, 1939

ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM

A complete program for Saturday’s observance of Armistice Day – twenty-one years following cessation of hostilities the world again finds Europe in the throes of another war that threatens to spread into other countries – was announced today by E.F. Moxley, Commander of the Dublin and Laurens County Post of the American Legion.

Abit Nix, widely known Athens attorney, will make the main address of the day in a program beginning at 10:30 in the Courthouse following a colorful parade on downtown Dublin streets. Col. Nix will be introduced by Col. C.C. Crockett, local attorney.

Commander Moxley said that the gigantic parade will form at the Courthouse at 10:00, move down Jackson Street with the Laurens County Drum and Bugle corps in the lead, to Maiden Lane. There the parade will swing back towards the Courthouse, led by the Dublin High School Band.

World War veterans, the two bands, Boy Scouts, and the Red Cross will be represented in the parade.

Commander Moxley urged all veterans to take part in the parade. 

“This is our first effort at parading.” the Post Commander said. “Others do it, and we can if the boys will respond. Come out and be a part of it. Let’s make it a success.

“The complete program follows:

 Advancement of Colors – National Guard

“Star Spangled Banner” – Dublin High School Band

Invocation – M.G. Combs, Post Chaplain

Welcome – Col. Carl K. Nelson

Roll Call of Dead – M.G. Combs, Post Chaplain

Red Cross Nurses – MIsses Margaret Hicks and Lenita Morgan

Taps – at 11:00 – Laurens County Drum and Bugle Corps

Introduction of Guest Speaker – Col. C.C. Crockett

Address – Hon. Abit Nix 

Announcements – Post Commander E.F.  Moxley

“America” – Dublin High School Band

Benediction – Post Chaplain M.G. Combs

DR. WALTON HERE

Dr. John M. Walton of Swainsboro and former Dublinite, will become associated with Dr. A.T. Coleman at the Coleman Hospital here on December 1, it was announced today.

Dr. Walton, who resigned as Medical Director of the Swainsboro District of the State Health Department to join the staff of the Coleman Hospital, has had wide experience in the field of internal medicine with special emphasis on epidemiology of infectious diseases.

A graduate of Dublin High School, Dr. Walton, whose mother is Mrs. F.H. Rowe of Dublin, took his pre-med work at Davidson College at Davidson, North Carolina, and at the University of Georgia in Athens. He then graduated from the University of Georgia School of Medicine in Augusta.

Following his graduation at Augusta, Dr. Walton served three years internship at Grady and Crawford Long hospitals in Atlanta. After his hospital work, Dr. Walton went into private practice in Atlanta, later giving up his practice to take a position with the State Health Department in 1937.

Since being connected with the Health Department, Dr. Walton has taken a one-year course in epidemiology of infectious diseases and public health work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Walton was placed in charge of the Swainsboro District of the Health Department’s work when the state was divided into six health regions in July of this year.

Dr. Walton and his wife and young son, John Walton, Jr., will make their home with Mrs. Rowe for the present.

Dr. Walton expressed great pleasure in being able to return to Dublin to renew old acquaintances.

IRISH CLOSE SEASON

      By Billy Keith

Coach Jarrard’s Dublin High School Irishmen are cocked, primed, and ready to stage their grand finale of the current football season against what is expected to be a scrappy outfit from Eastman High.

The kick-off is set for 3:30 on the local gridiron. Eastman and Dublin both thus far have only one victory to their credit, and a hectic battle is expected to get off to an early start.

Eastman turned back the Irishmen of Coach Kelly last year, 13-0.

To add color to the game, Dublin’s smartly dressed 50-piece band, led by high stepping Billy Keith and the 12 pretty majorettes, will perform during the battle and at intermission. Coming away from the Dublin-Eastman battle, Professor J.W. Wiggins will take his musicians to Cochran to take part in the M.G.C. Homecoming Celebration. The band will leave at 6:00.

The gallant fight staged by the locals against Waycross ending in a 35-7 licking last week is still being talked of, especially the way that our boys fought with their backs to the wall all the way.

Taylor Rowland, a junior playing his first year of varsity ball and winning a first string berth since the season officially got underway, has been suffering with a bruised leg and may not be able to play, but the starting line-up may be

Morrison and Parrott – ends

Walters – center

Shepherd and Bradshaw – guards

Scarboro, Brown, Smalley, and Brunson – backs

Hughes and Rowland (?)  – tackles

CADWELL WINS TWO

Cadwell “Bulldogs” and “Bulldogettes” won their opening games by a comfortable margin from the teams from Empire, which had the advantage in so far as they had played three games before the Cadwell encounter.

The girls team, coached by Superintendent  Smith, was behind only once in the game, playing without the services of three of the regular forwards. Although the team was somewhat handicapped offensively, the work of Braswell, Dixon, and Evans at guards was greatly encouraging.

The game was close throughout, ending 18-12. 

Playing were Smith, Wynne, Burch, Faircloth, Braswell, Dixon, and Evans

The boys game was not so close, as Coach Clyde Greenway’s Laurens County Champions took over the game and ran it to suit themselves. The Cadwell offense was working perfectly with the whole team in coordination. Guards were working fine under the Empire goal and were 

never headed once they came in possession of the ball.

The boys game finally ended with Cadwell on the long end of the score, 26-14.

Playing for Cadwell were Wynne, C.J., Mullis, Bedingfield,Wynne,F., Stevens, R.

GIRL SENTENCED

A 13-year-old Dublin girl today was confined to the Georgia Training School for Girls in Atlanta until she becomes 21 years of age, unless otherwise released, because her mother told City Court officials  that 

she was “incorrigible and uncontrollable.”

The girl, Esteen Ellis, was ordered to the Atlanta School yesterday afternoon by Judge E.L. Stephens after hearing a petition by her mother, Mrs. O.T. Ellis, 305 South Lawrence Street, in which she alleged that the young girl had become “incorrigible and uncontrollable to such an extent that her conduct cannot be controlled.”

Mrs. Ellis filed her petition for the  commitment of a minor child through Solicitor Stanley Reese.

Judge Stevens ordered the child committed to the Atlanta School until she reaches the age of 21 years unless paroled or bound out at any time the Board of Control sees fit.

The young girl is the same who testified for the defense in the trial of her father, Thelma Ellis, serving a two to five year sentence for the fatal shooting of Tom Vann, farmer of the Cadwell District. Ellis was tried and convicted at the May Term of Laurens Superior Court after he had surrendered to authorities following the fatal shooting of Mr. Vann.

DUBLIN BAND TO PLAY AT MGC

     By Billy Keith

A colorful Homecoming celebration at MiddleGeorgia College in Cochran is on docket for Friday, topped by a football game between Middle Georgia’s Wolverines and the Teachers of South Georgia College that night.

Dublin High’s 50-piece band has been extended an invitation to attend the game, and Professor J.W. Wiggins announced that the band will make the trip and take part in the festivities, playing during the game and maneuvering on the field at the half.                                                                                                                       

The band took part in Mercer’s Homecoming about three weeks ago, parading in downtown Macon and playing at the Mercer-Birmingham Southern game and was praised highly for their part in the celebration. Since then the band has continued to improve, especially in marching and is the only band in the state to boast a dozen, beautiful, high-stepping majorettes, who made their initial appearance at the Dublin-Waycross game.They made a spectacular show, receiving ample applause from the fans when they took the field with the band at the half, twirling multi-colored batons and stepping high, wide, and handsome in their all white dresses.

Two special busses have been chartered for the Cochran trip. They will leave Dublin at six o’clock on Friday afternoon to take the band members for the game.

Band Members expecting to make the trip:

Trumpets – Blanche Coleman, Paul Watson, Cecil Walters Majee Jepeway, Robert Thompson,Cliff Prince, Lester Porter, and Clarence Burch

Clarinets – Evelyn Wyatt, Blakley Parrott, Jean Combs, Maria Waldron, Lamar Hatcher, Caroline Brigham, Iris Mackey, Clifford Ethridge

Saxophones – Irene Claxton, Billy Scarborough, Billy Black, Newt Morris, Archie Shipes

Piccolo – Edith Woodard

Mellophones  – Vivian Weaver, Mavis Spivey

Drums – Edmond Thomas, Annie Merle Drew, Bonita Chivers, Barney Price, Billy Keith

Bass – Gladstone Daniell

Baritone – Curtis Beall

Trombones – Moffett Kendrick, Hymie Stinson

Majorettes – Margaret Jordan, Margaret Hicks, Margarete Murray, Mary Werden, Jean Brigham, Ruth Baggett, Annette Hodges, Marilyn Miller, Ruth Sapp, Elizabeth Merritt, Wyline Holmes, Louise Rountree

RENTZ NEWS

Those attending the sing at Poplar Springs were Anna Frances Holliday., Isabel Colter, and Mildred Fluery.

Miss Sara Lowery was the recent guest of her sister, Mrs W.H. Register.

Hilton Davidson visited his brother, M.A. Davidson, near Cadwell last week.

Miss Ann Burch spent last week end with Miss Le Merle Browning.

Miss Mary Frances Silas recently visited her aunt, Mrs. M.S. Mullis, in Cadwell.

Clyo Horne spent last week end with Mildred Evans.

The seniors at Rentz High School last week selected the “Who’s Who” in the class, and the list follows:

Prettiest  girl – Jeffelyne Register

Handsomest boy – Dennard Roach

Cutest girl – Jeffelyne Register

Cutest boy – Reyna Williamson

Most Original – Isabel Colter

Most studious -Anna Frances Holliday

Most popular – Jeffelyne Register – Roscoe Rowe

Most athletic – Mildred Fleury – Roscoe Rowe

Neatest – Mary Frances Silas – Reyna Williamson

Most musical- Sara Lowery

Quietest – Anna Frances Holliday – Harold McDaniel

Most talkative – Rolston Davidson

Most dependable – LeMerle Browning – LaFayette Lowery

Most loyal – Emily Strozier

Most courteous – Margaret Thomas

Most Friendly – Isabel Colter

Best all-around – MargaretThomas

F.F.A. INITIATION

     By Edmund Dominy

In conjunction with a chicken supper last Thursday night, the Dudley F.F.A. members initiated eighteen new F.F.A. boys into the Green Hand Degree.

The supper was enjoyed by all present. The following were guests of the chapter: H.A. Edge, County Agent; Troy Edwards,Vocational teacher, Danville; R.O. Powell, Superintendent of Dudley High School; John L. Bridges, Principal of Dudley High School; Charles King, Walter Perry, Charles Fordham, T.C. Bobbitt, Gus Woodard, and W.T. Chappell.

After the supper, Mr. Edge and Mr. Edwards made very interesting and worthwhile talks to the boys.

The following boys were initiated: J.M. Wararen, Clyde Dixon, Clyde Thompson, Jimmy Whitaker, Jr. Thomas Coley, Paul Coley, Windel Thomas, Doyle Raffield, Creal Lister, James Perry, Cecil Woodard, Johnny Clark, Wilson Lewis, Lewis Williams, Jack Perry, Joseph  Taylor, Fred Hatcher, and John Hatcher.

The Green  Hand Degree is the first degree offered by the Future Farmer of America. The qualifications for receiving this degree are these: 1. Must be regularly enrolled in the agriculture class;  2. Have satisfactory program of supervised farming as certified by the advisor.

Great things are expected of the new members who have been awarded the Green Hand Degree. It is hoped that all 18 boys will have accomplished enough progress to be awarded the second degree offered by the F.F.A., Junior Farmers, next year.

The Junior Farmers Degree is conferred when the following conditions can be met:

One year of actual membership in F.F.A.

Possess a satisfactory program of supervised farming

Have earned and have on deposit or otherwise productively have invested at least $25

Be involved regularly in agriculture class

Have an approved supervised farming project

BREWTON NEWS

     By Mrs. H. Brantley

Mrs. Ada Floyd and Miss Grace Keen of Dublin and Mrs. John Clark and little daughter, Patricia Grace, of Swainsboro were recent guests of Mrs. Laura Garnto.

Mrs. Herbert Sheppard was a recent guest of Mrs. Laura Garnto.

H.B. Gaillard visited his daughter, Mrs. Harvey Brantley, recently.

Mrs. Esther Brantley and children, Doyle and Donald, were recent guests of Mrs. Johnny Gay.

Mrs. Jane Hoover and Gaylor Hoover of Wrightsville were Tuesday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brantley.

Miss Ruby Brantley is visiting relatives in Macon.

Freeman Brantley recently visited his brother, Lee Brantley.

Friends are glad to know that Mrs. Johnny Gay is improving after a recent illness.

NEW EVERGREEN

Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge Coleman and children of Wrightsville and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rigsby, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rigsby, and Miss Alma Smith and son, Sam, of Dawson spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Clark.

Mrs. Clarke Matheson of Jacksonville, Florida, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bailey. Mrs. Matheson will be remembered as Exa Lee Radford of Toomsboro.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Page and son and Harry Page of Savannah spent last week end with Mr.and Mrs. J.E. Page.

Miss Opaldine Clark is on an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Roy Rigsby, in Dawson.

Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Couey.

Johnny Wood of Milledgeville spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bailey.

Jim Thompson of Macon is visiting hs brother, Tom Thompson.

Miss Sally Roberson of Glenwood will spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Lawton Clark.

George Page has returned from Savannah where he visited his brother, Wallace Page.

Mrs. Harold McMullin of Olivet visited Miss Opaldene Clark last Friday

Mrs. Robert Powell and children have returned to Dublin after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. T.D. Bailey.

THEIRDELL

     By Mrs. W.W. Chafin

Mrs. Myrtle Pope spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Aughtie Thomas.

Miss Demaris Miller visited Mrs. R. Whitehead on Saturday.

Geraldine and Claxton Pope were Sunday guests of Adell, Kadell, Paul, and Ora Thomas.

A large number of friends enjoyed a birthday diner at the home of Mr. and Mrs T.W. Wood on Sunday.The dinner was given in honor of Mrs. Wood.

CIVIC CONCERT

Membership tickets for the Dublin Civic Concert series, which will be presented here early in the new year with brilliant artists appearing in concert, are being offered to music lovers of this city and section during this week, Mrs. Fred L. Brown, Chairman, announced.

A limited number of memberships are available for the series, and anyone who has not been contacted by the committee is advised to contact of member so that membership may be secured before the quota is sold. It is very necessary that the tickets be taken care of as they will have to be presented for admission to the concerts

Single membership for the entire series is $2.00, and family memberships are $3.00. The family ticket entitles any number of members of a family to attend the concerts.

Out of town committee chairmen named by Mrs. Brown include Mrs. Millard Daley of Wrightsville; Mrs.Will Stallings Soperton; Mrs. Warthen Chappell, Dudley; and Professor W.M. Ouzts, Rentz. They will have tickets for sale in their communities and all information concerning the concert series. It  is probable that other representatives in other nearby towns will be named also.

Members of the Dublin committee with Mrs. Brown are Mrs. J.R. Laney, Mrs. J.F. Flanders, Mrs C.C.Crockett,Mrs. M.Z Claxton, Miss Leah Kittrell, Sam V. Conyers, and A.T. Stevens, Jr.

WILKES NEWS 

Wilkes basketball teams won triple headers over Danville on Wednesday night in the Dublin gymnasium.

Girls’ first team won by a score of 22-17.

Girls’ second team won by a score of 20-2. Hester was high scorer, making 13 points.

The boys played a fast game, winning by a score of 29-13. Maddox was high scorer, making 11 points.

The eighth grade of Wilkes High School has elected class officers for the year. They are the following:

President – Helen Beacham

Vice President – Doris Hester

Secretary – Frances Jaxon

Treasurer – Emma Nell Beacham

Reporter – Mattie Pearl Mimbs.

A “Who;s Who” contest was also held with the following students named:

Best dressed – Emma Nell Beacham and Leonard Donaldson

Best All-Around -Helen Beacham and Edwin Jaxon

Most studious – Mattie Pearl Mimbs and Bill Alford

Wittiest – Frances Jaxon and Alton Long

Neatest – Doris Hester and Earl Wilkes

Nicest – Helen Beacham and Bill Alford

Prettiest and most handsome – Emma Nell Beacham and Edwin Jaxon

Best athlete – Helen Beacham and Leland Donaldson

LOCAL SCHOOL NEWS

Johnson Street

Col. Stanley Reese will be the speaker at the exercises held in the auditorium of Johnson Street School on Tuesday morning at which time a program for American Education Week will be presented. The chapel hour has been changed from the usual hour to ten o’clock for this program for the convenience of the mothers, and a cordial invitation is extended to all patrons of the school to attend.

The following program will be presented:

Song: “America” -School

Song – “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”  -School

Scripture – Psalm 1

Invocation – Mrs. W.W. Ward, Principal

Poem, “America for Me” – School

Address – Col. Stanley Reese

Songs: “Over There,” “Pack Up Your Troubles,” “It’s a Long  Long Way to Tipperary,” “The The Long Long Trail” – School

Song, “Rose of No Man’s Land” – 4th grade 

Medley of Songs – 1st and 2nd grades – “There’s Something About A Soldier,” “Our Boys Did Shine,” “Hurrah for the Red, White, and Blue” 

The National Anthem – School

Pledge to the Flag – School 

Taps

Saxon Heights

Grade mothers and the PTA sponsored a Hallowe’en carnival at Saxon Heights School. Special features of the evening were fish pond, pony rides, bobbing for apples, a trip to the world’s fair, fortune telling, etc. Balloons, candy, cake, wieners, and oyster stew were sold, all proceeds going to the needs of the school

The grade mothers and the PTA wish to thank each one who helped to make the carnival an enjoyable and financial success.

Junior High Bicycle Racks

     By Freeman Harville

Professor Wilcox and a group of boys taking manual arts are building bicycle racks for Junior High School and the grammar grades.

The racks will have a double row of stands for the bicycles so the boys ad girls will not have to lay their bicycles on the ground or lean them up against the wall to keep them from falling. The Council of Dublin furnished the lumber, and the boys are working on the racks at manual arts period at school.

Trip to Cotton Mill

     By O.C. Henderson, Jr.

On a trip to theSouthern Cotton OIl Mill, the seventh grade agriculture class went into the seed bin and saw how seed looked on the insides. In the seed where the little kernel is, is yellow. It tastes something like corn meal.

In the exhaust room, machines rid the seed of trash; in another room the seed cotton is rolled up. In still another room, the men took rolls, pressing them into bales of six hundred pounds to the bale. They make rayon, felt hats, and many other things from the cotton.

The engine room is where is made a mixture of cotton seed meal, cotton seed hulls, and chinese hair to make a cake. Finally the cakes go through a grinding process to make meal.

The class went into a room where a pipe carries the cotton seed oil out of the building. We tasted it and it was so greasy.

KINDERGARTEN HALLOWEEN PARTY

A delightful party of the Hallowe’en season was given by Miss Grace Cowart at her studio on Tuesday morning, October 31.

Miss Cowart greeted her guests and invited them into the studio, which was decorated with gay flowers and Hallowe’en jack-o-lanterns placed about the room.

During the morning, games and contests were introduced for the pleasure of the little guests, and at the close of the party, dainty refreshments were served by the hostess.

Guests invited to enjoy the occasion with their hostess and teacher, Miss Cowart, were Sallie Kingman, Bucky O’Neal, Alan Mason, Bobby Cochran, Caroline Kellam, Beverly Arnau, Larry Hoffman, Helen Rivers, Gene Andrews, Charles Dubberly, Spurgenia Rutland, Arthur Edge, Billy Swilley, Jean Watson, Inell Snipes, Betty Powell, Helen Roberts, Louis Roberts, Charles Hodges, Joan Jones, Annette Jones, Pat Rawls, Inman Shepard, Jr., Mary Elizabeth English, M.Z. Claxton, Jr., Joel Pierce, Tommy Waller, Ulaine Shepard, and Robin Eve.