MONROE COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPERS 1942 January (misc) Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Newton Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/monroe.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm The Monroe Advertiser - Jan. 15, 1942 (Partial) ........portunity to demonstrate to him our confidence and our loyalty as well as raise funds for a great cause." The full list of counties and chairmen for the sic District is as follows: Baldwin, Georgie Carpenter, Milledgeville; Bibb, Elliott Dunwoody, Macon, Bleckley, Leo H. Browning, Cochran; Crawford, C. E. Harris and Miss Jackuenly McCrary, Roberta; Glascock, Casey Thigpen and B. C. Kitchens; Hancock, Herbert Roundtree, Sparta; Jasper, J. N. Walker, Monticello; Jefferson, M. J. Estroff, Louisville; Johnson, H. L. Fulford, Wrightsville; Jones, W. E. Knox and R. F. Turk, Gray; Laureans, Judge R. Earl Camp, Dublin; Monroe, G. P Whatley, Forsyth; Putnam, C. S. Fincher, Jr,, Eatonton; Twiggs, J. H. Vaughn, Jeffersonville; Washington, W. B. Smith, Tennille, and Wilkinson, A. W. Daughtry, Danville. Again this year 50 per cent of the funds raised in the state of Georgia will be sent to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be used for research. The other half will remain in the Georgia State Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for the exclusive use of victims of polo within our state, Mr. Callaway said. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Bettie Tribble Passes At Forsyth Mrs. Bettie Little Tribble, beloved and prominent citizen of Forsyth, died Monday at the home of her son, James A Tribble. She was 73 years of age. Funeral services were held Wednesday, 11:00 a.m., at the Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Edmund Rudisill, Milledgeville, and the Rev. Paul McKnight, and interment was in the City Cemetery. She was the widow of the late J. J. Tribble. Survivors are one son, James A. Tribble, former mayor of Forsyth, former county commissioner, and present member of City Council; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Marcure, Great Falls, Mont., and Mrs. F. T. Naumann, East Orange, N. J.: two brothers, J.W. Little, Smarrs, and Joe Little; three sisters, Mrs. Lula Brooks, Macon; Mrs. Charles Parham and Mrs. Joe Kimball, Atlanta. --------------------------------------------------------------- --- "Too Kute to Keep" If you call at the post office and Emmett Phinazee, the Postmaster, doesn't seem his usual genial self, don't think that he is mad with you or anything. He's mad all right, and he is "telling the world" that it "just ain't fair". When they started those First Aid courses last week, Emmett went down for his lesson taking with him Ernestine Culbert, Ouida Rhodes and Adonia Willingham. And he says just to think that he "carried three good looking girls", and then when his turn came to "give first aid" he had to bandage up "rusty old Mike Parks". 'Tain't fair, sho nuff, now is it? Well, we guess that Mike might feel that he didn't get a "fair deal" either, in that he didn't get one of thoes "good.......... (partial) ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- Additional Firs Aid Classes Here Arrangements have been made to begin more classes in First Aid. These classes begin Monday, January 19, and will be instructed by Mitchell Coleman, a Red Cross instructor. A class will be held for ladies Monday and Wednesday afternoons at 3 o'clock and one for men on the nights of these days at 7:30 o'clock. Harry V. Smith, Chm. Forsyth Chapter, A. R. C. Geo. H. Alexander, Sub-chairman Emergency Medical Service, Civilian Defense. --------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Substantial Red Cross Gifts Made The work of raising the quota of Red Cross funds which are sought for the emergency, is going forward in Monroe County with a considerable measure of success. Already the fund has passed the $860 mark with a number of committees yet to be heard from. The quota for the county is $1,500, so it will soonthat there is yet some distance to go. The interest of the people in this great work will be much appreciated. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Vocational Meet To Be Held Here On Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock there will be held at the courthouse a meeting to which all the ladies of Monroe County, who are interested in vocational work, are invited. The speakers at this meeting will be G. R. Bethune, U. S. employment official, and J. K. Sadler, director of vocational education. These gentlemen will discuss the nature and purpose of the vocational school in Macon, which is open to Monroe county citizens free of charge. Ladies who desire to secure work in defense projects should attend this meeting. --------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- McMullan Safe In Hawaii Area The many friends of the family will be glad to know that news has been received from George Goodrum McMullam at Pearl Harbor and that although engaged with the naval forces there, he is safe. In a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. McMullan, he stated that although men were on sea duty all the time,.......... (partial) ---------------------------------------------------------------------