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EARLYCOUNTYNEWS OFFICIAL GAZETTE. Published Every Thursday OFFICE IN NEWS BUILDING Blakely, Georgia. e 1 W. W. FLEMING AND 80N, Lessees and Publishers. Subscription Rates: On* copy, one year sl-50 One copy, six months ,75 One copy- 50 Cards of thanks, resolutions or trib utes of respect and obituary no tices, other than those which the paper itself may give a3 a matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of 5 cents per line in the Early Coun ty News All legal notices sent to the News for publication should be accompanied by the proper amount of money to pay for their publication. Please bear in mind that these matters are payable in advance and don’t at tempt to litigate at the paper’s ex pense. Watch the date on your label and renew your subscription to the Early County News before the time expires. Remember our terms are cash in ad vance to all subscribers alike. Blakely, Ga., May 29th, 1919. General Green must now be reck oned with. , o Thrift Stamps will stick when a fellow needs a friend. o Money spent is money gone; invest ed in War Savings Stamps, it stays with you. o— The Victory Loan was oversubscrib ed approximately $750,000,000. The oversubscription will be refused. o Two brick buildings going up at once in Blakely would seem to indi cate that we were in the middle of a building boom. Who will be the next? { o The heavy rains of the past few days have greatly damaged the young crops in Early county, especially the cotton crop, according to reports com ing in daily. o The faith that moves mountains is (he faith that gets a steam shovel in stead of an old hoe. Labor saving and time saving is what you want. It means money saving, too, for War Savings Stamps. o The news of the rescue of Hawker, the British aviator, and Grieve, his companion, who attempted a trans-At lantic flight and were forced to light in mid ocean, was the cause of re joicing of thousands of friends, who admired the pluck of these two bird men. o Dougherty county is one of thej latest of Georgia's progressive coun ties to vote bonds for permanent roadways, the verdict at the polls be ing almost unanimously in favor of the project. Is there any reason why Early county voters should not be allowed the privilege to vote on the permanent road proposition? —o With no money to pay off the 170,- 000 claims for insurance on lost par cel post packages, Postmaster Gener al Burleson’s department has de clared a moratorium in this branch. The amounts of each insurance claim, passed by the department, ranges from $lO up to SIOO. The postoflice department has been Hood ed with requests for payment for the approved claims, but nothing can be done until the incoming con gress appropriates the money needed. ,O To an American, Lieutenant Com mander Albert C. Read, goes the hon or of being the first to cross the At lantic in a flying machine. He land ed at Lisbon,' Portugal, Tuesday af ternoon. The actual flying time of the cross-the-ocean voyage, was 26 hours and 41 minutes. Now that the first flight has been made, other at tempts may be expected shortly, and in the very near future we may ex pect to hear of an established air route between the New and the Old World. A MATTER OF FACT AND TRUTH.! Savannah Morning News. In a letter to the New York Sun of May 21, written by William H. Holden of New London, Conn., ap pears this paragraph: “Recently a negro soldier who had recently returned from overseas to his home in Blakely, Ga., was ac cused of wearing his uniform too long and ordered to take it off or leave town. On his refusal to com ply witli the demand he was brutally murdered, lynched by a mob com posed of the usual prominent white citizens, who ignore all laws and statutes, are upheld as benefactors of the white race by the states in which they reside, who regard the constitution as a scrap of paper and whose brutalities have never been surpassed by the Hun in Northern France and Belgium. Will the gov ernment ever make any effort to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice?” “If you see it in the Sun, it’s so,” was a saying once. “Except the edi torials and communications concern ing the South,” is one amendment suggested. Because it was in the Sun, there came to Georgia readers an immediate suspicion of the state ment. The Morning News, to get the record of South Georgia straight, wired C. M. Deal, the mayor of Blake ly, for the facts and received this re ply: “No negro has been lynched in this county because he refused to take off his soldier uniform. Wilbur Little, who was reported lynched, is living and working on the farm of Judge R. H. Sheffield in this county. Cliff Hughes, a negro soldier-, was robbed and killed by Nolan William son, a white man, who began life sentence twenty days later for his crime.” —- The statement of the Connecticut contributor to the Sun is one of a long list of deliberate misrepresenta tions of the facts. The writer in vokes a law that will protect the uni form and the black man. There is such a law and the concise statement of the mayor of Blakely indicates how the law is expeditiously enforced in this State. But there is no law to protect the character of communi ties against the repeated, malicious, slanderous, deliberate lies that are eagerly told and avidly read in sec tions where the crimes against law and order, even against the colored man on account of his race, are mat ters of almost daily record. Georgia does not claim to be inno cent of wrong doing at all times. There are instances of lawlessness and there is individual law-breaking which is at times heinous. It is not true that there is more crime in Georgia than in other States. It is tine that there are many instances like the one cited by Mayor Deal in which the courts, with a white judge, white officers, white jurors and col ored witnesses mete prompt and S - vere punishment to white men for crimes against negroes. The question of color had nothing to do with the case. There was a *crime; it was proved; the criminal was sentenced — and is serving his term. It is also true that there are oc casionally negroes "reported lynched.” The report usually starts from a ma licious 'or an irresponsible source. But there are waiting ones, narrow between the eyes, prejudice and jaun dice soaking their systems, venom under their tongues, ready to seize every rumor and make it the basis for a gross calumny, a bald libel, o'i a community, a state, an entire sec tion. One day the world will calmly judge between the people of a coun ty in which a white man is speedily brought to the severity of justice for a crime committed against a ne gro, a people endeavoring to deal fairly and do justice and enforce its lawns—and the cowardly assassin of the reputation of a whole section who is greedy for rumors and publishes, without the thought of obtaining the facts, flatly asserted reports that are as black in their falsity as they are mendacious in their purpose. Colds Cause drip and Influenza LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the cause. There is only one “Bromo Quinine.** E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c. We can use a few hundred pounds of dried Side Meat. DAVIDSON BROS. EARLY COUNTY NEWS EBONY CAMP NO. 404 W. O. W. Regular meetings first and third Tues V /IjSvKfj ff day evenings in each month. All Sover eigns requested to attend these meet- We invite visiting Sovereigns in good standing to meet with us. Hail over The Citizens Bank. The hour for meeting is 7:30 p. m. LOWREY STONE, C. C. C. C. LANE, Clerk. MASONIC NOTICE. The regular com munication of Mag nolia Lodge No. 86 h. & A. M., is held on the first and third Monday nights In each month. Visiting brethren cor dially welcomed. ALTO WARRICK, W. M. J. G. SKINNER, Secrteary. BLAKELY CHAPTER NO. 44 R. A. M. Regular meetings on second and 1 fourth Monday nights in each month at 8 o’clock. Visiting companions are cordially invited to attend. C. T. ALEXANDER, High Priest. J. G. STANDIFER, Secretary. JOSEPH. H. HAND Physician and Surgeon BLAKELY, : : GEORGIA Office in Fryer’s Pharmacy. Calh attended promptly, day or night. W. H. ALEXANDER Physician and Surgeon BLAKELY, : : GEORGIA Phones: Office 16, Residence 38. Offices; 10 and 12, Alexander Bldg X-Ray and Electrical Equipment. C. L. Glessner B. R. Collins GLESSNER & COLLINS Attorneys at Law BLAKELY, ; : GEORGIA Offices Nos. 7, 8 and 9 upstairs la Southern States Life Bldg. L. M. RAMBO Attorney at Law BLAKELY, ; : GEORGIA Offices in Alexander Bldg. C. T. ALEXANDER Dentist BLAKELY, : : GEORGIA Office upstairs in Southern State* Life Building, rooms 5 and 6. Office hours; 8:30 to 12:00 a. m.: 2:00 to 6:00 p. m. FELIX P. DAVIS Dentist BLAKELY : : GEORGIA Prices reasonable and all work guar anteed. Specialist on Crown and Bridge work. Office in Gay building, first two rooms at head of stairs Phone 157. Drs. Hilliard & Belcher DOTHAN : ALABAMA Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes tested, glasses fitted. Office over Dothan Bank and Trust Co. SOL. G. BECKHAM Practical Machinist and Sanitary Plumber. Phone No. 179 630 South Main St BLAKELY, GEORGIA Satisfaction guaranteed. A. H. MOORE Plumber, Pipe Fitter and Machinist BLAKELY, GEORGIA Estimates furnished on special contract work. J. B. RITCHIE Expert Machinist ROUTE 1 : : HILTON, GA. Repairs sewing machines, organs and clocks. Piano tuning. Will call at your home if notified by mail. Work guaranteed and prices reason able. • Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get restful sleep after the first application. Price 60c. THE NEW YORK STORE. B Beauty at the Wheel I * HI Beauty at the wheel! Ah! how serene she looks: I She knows more about motor cars, than’s e’re been writ in She knows about ignition, short circuits and transmission: .V;! All about her engine and her carburetor, and all their hooks She knows all about her starter, her clutches and her brake: The system that lights her car and blows her horn, her knowl m Anu more than that, she knows full well the need, Os a motor runnning smoothly, when she wants to put on H And for that verv reason, and she’s found the reason true Mg She buys “GREEN FLAG” MOTOR OiL AND NOTHING ELSE, for nothing else will do! v You can buy this splendidly superior PdOTOR OIL from any of the following well known and reliable dealers in this 9 county. Be sure and look one of them up, when yaa “oil up ff L. F. Warrick, Garage, Blakely, Ga. I B. M. George & Son, Damascus, Ga. THE UNIVERSAL CAR ; It’s no longer necessary to go into the de tails describing the practical merits of the I Ford car —everybody knows all about “The I Universal Car.” How it goes and comes day 1 after day and year after year at an operating 1 expense so small that it's wonderful. This ad | vertisement is to urge prospective buyers to I place orders without delay. Buy a Ford car I when you get one. We’ll take care of your or- j|] ’ der—'get your Ford to you as soon as possi ; ble—and give the best in “after-service” when 1 required. f| • I. D. FELDER BLAKELY, GA. I Second Hand Cars for Sale || The Citizens Bank Blakely’s newest banking institution invites your ac count, whether large or small. i Deposit With Us Today W. H. FLOWERS, President W. M. SUTTON, Vice Pres. J. J. HAYES, Vice President R. O. WATERS, Cashier TRY AN AD IN THE NEWS