Cotton, Movie Night, and Expansion

L1938

In late January two train carloads of Sea Island cotton was shipped from Trenton. The cotton shipper was L. W. Martin Ginning Company and it was shipped to the E. A. Shaw and Company in Baltimore, Maryland. The shipment contained 75 bales of cotton and sold for 25 cents a pound. Mr. Martin stated several more shipments of cotton were made from the county earlier in the season. He also stated the cotton crop outlook was good with the area having a better crop than last year.

1955

The Capital Theatre in Trenton was showing “Gone with the Wind” on Sunday and Monday evenings beginning at 7:30.

Leonard Cobb was the Chairman of the 1955 March of Dimes in Gilchrist County. Mr. Cobb was working with local businesses and the schools to raise funds to go to the nationwide effort to fund testing of a Polio vaccine. Some 294,000 Polio victims since 1938 had been reported in the United States. Bell and Trenton Schools were holding a benefit basketball game to raise funds for the March of Dimes in March of that year.

W. O. Clifton, attorney for the Gilchrist County Board of County Commissioners and the Gilchrist County School Board resigned as the county prosecutor and local attorney Miller Lang was appointed as the new county prosecutor.

1990

Gilchrist County purchased the Northside Church of Christ building to be used as a voting precinct building and the new Gilchrist County Library building. The purchase price of the building was $45,000 and the funds came from a state grant from the Department of Natural Resources. The total grant was for $150,000 and was to be used for voting precinct building improvements and new precinct multi purpose buildings according to Supervisor of Elections Susan Bryant.

• By Cindy Jo Ayers