This issue of the Sun is also shown as No. 15. The Oct. 7th issue carried that number as well. This was a double issue that focused on the agricultural community of Schley county. There were many articles on crops, prices and a few on various farmers. The Ellaville Sun Friday, Oct. 14, 1938 SCHLEY COUNTY'S OLDEST WOMAN LIES NEAR DEATH Mrs. J.M. Lawhorn, 101, Schley county's oldest woman, Thursday lay near death of the infirmities of age. A doctor was called for Mrs. Lawhorn for the first time in her life, several weeks ago, it is said. He has visited her several times since. The remarkable story of Mrs. Lawhorn and her 101 year-old husband was told in a feature story in the July 1 issue of this newspaper. HE NEEDS A SIMPLE WORD TO DESCRIBE PRODUCTIVITY Farmer Homer Dupree of Andrew Chapel is looking for a nice simple word to describe the productivity of two of his stalks of corn. He is displaying one stalk with eight fully matured ears and another with six which are fully matured. "They make more than enough to fed a mule a meal in working time, " Dupree declared. "I feed my mules 12 ears apiece when they are working." MISSIONARY LADIES "ATTEND" BRIDGE PARTY A printer's blunder last week placed several members of the Ellaville Baptist Missionary Society around a bridge table, and some of them felt uneasy. The most damnable thing about newspaper errors is the worst of them "make sense," that is, the connection between the right and wrong parts of the story, as it appears in print, read perfectly, from a grammatical standpoint. So the names of several members of the Missionary Society were added to the list of players at Mrs. Daniel L. Rainey's bridge party, and it read "right." Mrs. Rainey didn't mind, but we regretted involving some of the Missionary Society ladies. There is an old saying around newspaper offices that once a paper makes a bad mistake concerning a person, it usually repeats it. Well, about a year ago a careless linotype operator changed Mrs. Rainey's bridge party date from Tuesday night to Sunday night, and the untimely change got past everybody who had a chance to change it. Many eyebrows were lifted. Mrs! . Rainey graciously excused the error. A correction was made the next week. MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY Sincere birthday greetings to Mrs. W.D. Sears, 8th; Miss Dorothy Pilcher, 9th; C.D. Athon, 13th; Richard C. Howard, Jr.--one candle for Dick--and Murry Ellis, 11th; Marvin Phillips and W.A. Wall, 15th; Carrol Jean Athon--it's her first, too, and let's give her a big hand--16th. An out of town anniversary will interest many Ellaville people. Mrs. G.L. Gartner, formerly Miss Flossie Eason of Ellaville, and Mr. Gartner celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Oct. 8. In Atlanta on Sept. 30, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. G.L. Gartner, Jr., at Crawford W. Long hospital in Atlanta. He was named G.L. Gartner, III. Mail or call birthday and wedding anniversaries in your family and among your friends to The Sun. RURAL GEORGIA GOES COURTING First autumn winds may fan the spark of the nation's big time football programs, but they stir an irresistible urge for basketball in rural Georgia. Although football machines have scarcely moved into firing position in the larger cities, many high school and athletic club teams, wearing the colors of small towns in this section already have begun drills for the long cage campaign which lasts from October until March. Schedule makers, planning for early opening games, are busy carding contests which will occupy their teams until the extended series of tournaments which get underway in late January and February. Basketball operations in small towns have been accelerated in recent years. "The sport of cross-roads" used to be played on outdoor courts and watched by small groups of shivering, topcoated spectators, many of whom went because "John is on the team." And inclement weather often wrecked schedules. But late depression days saw the beginning of a decided trend tow! ard erection of comfortable gymnasiums throughout this section. This year will find the few remaining schools dedicating gyms. Modernization of the battle ground has brought a broad improvement. Performances of all clubs are markedly superior, and attendance has gained phenomenally. The average customer has taken the finer points of the game more seriously. Team spirit to "give all for dear old Possum Trot" and community spirit to root the boys to victory mingle to establish small town basketball as a sport which is still played for the game alone. SCHOOL PATROL IS ORGANIZED Local Officers Selected by Supt. Palmer Formation of a local unit of the statewide schoolboy patrol organization promises to promote strong interest in traffic safety at Schley county high school. Supt. E.M. Palmer has appointed officers for each of the nine school buses with Kelley Terry of Midway as captain. Each officer will direct loading of his bus each afternoon and will sit at the front of the bus and alight ahead of each student, being certain the way is clear before allowing him to cross the road. Officers will wear insignia designating their positions. Officers are Marcene Ellis, eighth grade, County Line; Kelly Terry, eleventh grade, Midway; Jack Deriso, ninth grade, Ebenezer; Edgar Fouche, eleventh grade, Glenn Holly; Marcus Dillard, ninth grade Concord; Lynwood Holloway, eighth grade, LaCross; Walter Strange, tenth grade, Lewis. One or more of the Ellaville district will be given a trip over this patrol district with State Highway patrolmen sometime during the school year. Awards will be based on efficiency and scholarship. One student from each patrol district will be given a several day tour of the entire state, with State Patrolmen, sometime next spring. MRS. ODOM, 19, PASSES FRIDAY Brief Illness Fatal to Bride of One Year Mrs. Clemon Odom, 19, died at her home near Concord last Friday after a brief illness. the community was shocked by her passing. She had been married only one year. Besides her husband, she is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grimsley, and seven brothers. COURT SESSION ENDS TUESDAY Two-Day Term Is Heard by Superior Court Schley Superior court adjourned Tuesday afternoon after a two day session. Judge W.M. Harper of the Southwestern circuit presided. E.L. (Tic) Forrester was solicitor. Criminal Cases: State vs. Henry B. Terry, burglary, verdict of guilty. State vs. Ned Aldridge, disturbing worship, plea of guilty. State vs. Lottie Mae Miller, assault with intent to commit murder, plea of guilty. State vs. John Ross, driving car on highway while drunk, plea of guilty. State vs. Joe Porter, disturbing worship, plea of guilty. State vs. John Ross, assault with intent to murder, verdict guilty. State vs. Arthur Milnar, assault with intent to murder, verdict guilty. Civil Cases: Nellie Wall Stephenson vs. Robert Louis Stevenson, divorce, granted. Sheffield Co. vs. C.H. Greene, suit on note, verdict for plaintiff. 136 WORKING ON WPA JOB More than 400 Apply for Jobs in Schley One hundred thirty-six of approximately 400 applicants Thursday had been put to work on Schley road projects sponsored by WPA for relief of farmers who failed to make a living income the year. Mrs. O.C. Hill, county registrar, said 66 men were to be placed on the payroll yesterday, bringing the total to 136, and that certifications for remaining applicants are being rushed as rapidly as possible. H.G. Wimbish has been appointed county supervisor, C.H. Bliss is foreman of the project at Buck Creek bridge and Edgar DeVane is county timekeeper. Only complete projects will be undertaken by the program, repair jobs being out of it's scope. M'LENDON HAS MODEL FARM Farmer G.W. McLendon of LaCross is Schley county's model soil conservationist. Although he used only the most simple equipment, the enterprising farmer has completed effective terracing of the 45 cultivated acres of his 101 acre farm. Starting in the spring of 1937 and finishing the work the past spring, McLendon constructed broad terracing on his rolling, sandy loam farm. His only equipment was a common two-horse plow with an extra long wing. Soil conservation experts who have inspected the work say it is excellent and certain to withstand persistent heavy rains. They point to his accomplishment as ideal and proof that expensive equipment is not necessary for terracing this type of land. County agent P.W. Hamil and a soil conservation engineer laid off the terraces. OUT OF THE PAST Public schools of Schley county open their five-month terms Oct. 27. School officials say they expect the most successful year in history as many schools have contracted with teachers for two extra months, making seven-month terms. SELLARS GROWS 16 BALES ON 15 ACRES Schley Farmer Declares Extra Yield "Just Luck" Cotton farming is the biggest gamble of all gambles, in the opinion of Ben Sellars, Schley county farmer whose bumper crop this year netted him 16 bales of cotton off 15 acres of land. Fertilizer, rain sun or anything else is only superficial in the cotton game, he thinks, where a man is "just gone if he doesn't have plenty of luck." Much of his success, however may be attributed to poisoning, for he was one of the few farmers to use poison to curb the boil weevil threat. The rangy farmer breaks all the rules of scientifically approved farming methods by calling "farm rotation the bunk." He claims that "I never waste my time figuring some way to keep from planting the same thing on a certain plot of land year after year. I just plant as I get ready to and I always come out on top." This year Sellars planted 15 acres of his farm in cotton and off of it collected 8, 063 pounds of lint--or slightly more than 16 bales. "Those 15 acres of land have been planted in cotton since 1931, and they have seen much better cotton years than this, but 16 bales is a new record for me," he exclaims enthusiastically. "And I took less care of it than In previous years." Sellars used 400 pounds of 8.3.5 and 200 pounds of nitrate of soda on his land, but refuses to believe that the fertilizer was the cause of the bumper crop. "It naturally had its effect, as it has every year I've planted cotton, but something we have no power over caused that cotton to grow so good." "That land has been planted in cotton for eight years, and there have been some years that were considered ideal for cotton farming--not like the bad spells of rain and the drought we experienced this year--and I've never had as much as a bale an acre before," he asserts. His other crops on adjoining plots of land were far from desirable, some being below the average, he says. Forty-five acres of corn interplanted with peas and beans turned out "nothing extra." Sixty acres planted in peanuts netted 8,940 pounds. Over a period of the last five years, the average yield of Sellars 15 acres of land planted in cotton has been only 352 pounds---only about half what it yielded for this one year. "Just like I say--you have to be lucky sometime, and this was my year, I guess," he muses. 33 BUSHELS OF CORN AN ACRE Farmer Horace Bell who lives on Dozier's Mill road near here, takes you to his corn crib to show the value of planting Austrian winter peas. Bell has just finished harvesting 480 bushels of corn off 14.3 acres, an average of 33 bushels per acre. Without fertilizer, he planted the crop behind Austrian peas. From an adjoining field, fertilized by soda, he has gathered only 10 bushels per acres, the county's average yield. The Schley county farmer planted 33 pounds of peas, costing $30.65, mixed with 400 pounds of basic slag, costing $28.50 for a total bill of $59.15. On another field he distributed 75 pounds of soda per acre at a cost of $1.32 per acre. end # 15 (2nd one)