Social notes and personal travel updates in town
A bustling social page reports Mrs. George ill at home in Covington recuperating with her daughter hosting, plus visits and stays by Mr. and Mrs. T. C. McDonald, Julian, Mrs. J. H. McKibben, L. H. Hurt Jr, Mrs. G. Dol Head, and others in Montgomery Birmingham and Asheville. Names include Miss Neva Fletcher, Mrs. Van Fletcher Jr, Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher, H. D. Watts Jr, and Appalachian State School attendees. Commentary reflects on liberty, government, and a note on Georgia officials’ pay and travel costs in 1936 and 1988 amid school-teacher funding concerns.
Tenant loan applications now being filed countywide
Frank C. Hearn supervisor of the Farm Security Administration in Butts county announces that applications for tenant loans are open. Farm tenants sharecroppers and farm laborers may obtain the necessary forms and information at his office in the federal building or at the county agent’s office for loans to purchase farms.
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Frank C. Hearn
Farm’ Security Administration
Butts County
Fort Farm
City water in Jackson safe claims officials
For weeks rumors circulated about Jackson water. The Public Health Department reports tests show no harmful conditions and chlorine is kept at about four parts per million with half lost to evaporation. Daily chlorine tests and monthly State Health Department checks show no coliform bacteria.
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Jackson
Department of Public Health
Department,of Public Health
State Health Department
Department
of Public’ Health
City Hall
J. H. Rooks
Sup’t. Water and Lights
J. Avon Gaston
Chim, W. & L. Committee
Welfare aid totals for Georgians in year ending June 30
State Welfare Director Braswell Deen reported $8,457,068 distributed to Georgians in old age assistance during the year ending June 30. The monthly average payment was $8.68 for 33,183 persons. More than 1,800 crippled children were examined with 708 treated. Dependent children received $1,111,447 for 11,870 cases. Aid for the blind totaled $151,461.50. Surplus commodities valued at $4,715,107.17 were distributed. Administration costs averaged about nine percent, with 50 percent funded by the federal government and 50 percent by the state.
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Atlanta
Braswell Deen
Horned toads brought from West by Donnie Spaulding
Donnie Spaulding of Dallas Texas visiting relatives in the county solved the horned toad mystery. He brought nine horned frogs on his visit and turned them loose near Indian Springs. In the office last week he had one of the horned toads in his pocket for exhibition.
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Donnie ‘Spaulding
Dallas
Tesas
Yoounty
Ahag
Indian
Dongie
Indian Springs
Dixie Theatre to Feature Westerns and Romance Stardust
The Dixie Theatre presents a double feature with Roy Rogers and Mary Hart in In Old Caliente and The Law, plus Errol Flynn in Dodge City as a Technicolor Western Monday and Tuesday. Cowboy From Brooklyn and The Return of the Cisco Kid follow on midweek and late week showings, with a full supporting cast including Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Alan Hale, and Victor Jory in a lineup of Westerns and adventure under its weekly program.
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Roy Rogers
Mary Hart
Ruth, Hussey
Tom
Neal
Ita Johnson
Errol Flyzin
Dodge City
Dixie Theatre
Flynn
Olivia de Haviland
Ann Sheridan
Bruce Cabot
Alan Hale
Victor Jory
Brooklyn
Dick Powell
Priscilla Lane
Pat O’brien
Warner Baxter
20Th Century-Fox
Cr. Henry
Salem camp meeting opens with major upgrades
The Salem camp ground dating to 1828 and chartered last year as an interdenominational institution will host a camp meeting from August 8 to 13. Improvements include a clubhouse dormitories and enlarged visitor facilities. Leaders include Dr Charles J. Tinsley Dr Bascom Anthony Rev C E Forrester Major Sidney E. Cox and other figures as part of a program with recreation and youth meetings.
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Salem
Séistoric
Bind
Methodist
Baptist
Presbyterian
Episcopal
Salvation Army
Charles Ju. Tinsley
Bascom Anthony
C. E. Forrester
Sidney E. Cox
The
Clarke County Georgia's smallest county by area
Clarke County is the smallest of Georgia's 159 counties, noted for its compact size within the state and its designation among Georgia's administrative divisions.
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Clarke County
Georgia
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