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VOLUME LXII }> NO. 47 ARLINGTON MAN IS KILLED m LIVE WIRE CAMILLA, Ga.—A. Bruce McCas kill was instantly killed Monday af ternoon about two miles from Camil la at the intersection of the Baker County Power Company and the Georgia-Alabama Power Company hy dro electric power lines. A card bearing the address of Arlington was found in one of his pockets. Mr. McCaskill was in the employ of the Baker County Power Com pany at Newton and about 3:30 o’clock Monday he was informed of some transmission trouble where the Baker County Power Company cuts in on the Georgia-Alabama Power Company lines. He left Newton, which is about eight miles from where he was found dead, and was not found until about 4 o’clock by W. H. Hoggard, superintendent of the Camilla electric light plant So far no one has been found that saw the accident, but witnesses say Mr. McCaskill, after repairing a burned-out fuse attempted to turn the current back on without sever ing a ground wire that he had con nected to enable him to make the repair. The Albany office of the Georgia- Alabama Power Company was noti fied and the current was immediate ly cut off and two men sent to re move the body. A large crowd rode out from Camilla and Newton to the scene of the tragedy. In the dead man’s pockets was found about S4O in cash and two $lO checks. One was given by Mr. McCaskill on a South Carolina bank and the other one by the same name on a Savan nah hank. A Knights ot Pythias badge was also found on his person. He was about 50 years old. MAYOF OF BAINBRIDGE URGED FOR CONGRESS BAINBRIDGE, Ga.-HA. B. Conger, mayor and lawyer of Bainbridge, is being urged by a number of leading citizens here to enter the Second congressional district campaign for congress. When interviewed, the prospective candidate refused to give any definite decision. . Mr. Conger is a native of Tift county. TRUE ECONOMY is buying with discrimination WE HAVE large assortments, competent salesmen, economical prices. SHOPPING HERE is both a pleasure and a benefit. Stem's Dm Store The Store (The Economical Drug Store) Count]) Jftw© Success to All Who Payi Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead." WILL START COUNTY WIDE ORGANIZATIONS ALBANY, Ga. —With the sign-up campaign of the Georgia Peanut Growers Co-operative Association about completed, and 100,000 acres under contract in sight, organiza tion of county-wide organizations and locals for the Association in each county will be started in a few days. J. B. Lawley, who did similar work for the Peanut and Cotton Associa tions in North Carolina, and who is connected with the Department of Field Service and Publicity of the Georgia Peanut Association, will have charge of setting up these county organizations and locals. Mr. Lawley will first visit Decat ur county, which has the largest number of contract signers, and af ter that will go to Grady, Seminole and Early counties, which rank next in order as to members. His plans call for a county-wide mass meeting of contract signers in each county. The first of these will be held at Bainbridge in Decat ur county at a date to be agreed on by Mr. Lawley and local mem bers in Decatur county. At these county-wide meetings, a new and permanent county chairman will be elected for each county to serve for the next year. The counties will then be sub divided into locals, no local to con tain fewer than ten members or more than fifty. Each local will have a chairman, a vice-chairman and a secretary, all elected by the mem bers. A working committee will be named by the chairman. At 8 later date, a uniform date for expiration of terms of offices of officers of lo cals will be set, so that all of them can be elected on the same date next year. Locals will be formed according to militia districts, school-house dis tricts, or such other subdivisions of a county as may prove best in each instance. Locals will meet at least once a month, and oftener, at the pleasure of the members. Local meet ings have proved so popular in other co-operative marketing organizations BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING JULY 12, 1923 You Can Save Money ON ALL SUMMER DRESS GOODS, SILK DRESSES AND LADIES’ HATS We invite you to see for YOURSELF C. L. T ABB & CO. BLAKELY, GEORGIA that the members have held weekly meetings throughout the year. ' The object of this form of organi zation is to bring together growers with the same - local interest, who know each other, who know the territory in detail, and in small num bers, so that all can take part in the conduct of the affairs of the lo cal. This has its value in gathering information for the Association and in doing good community work on roads, schools, sanitation and other matters of general interest. Meetings of locals will be open to the public and non-members will be encouraged to attend, but execu tive sessions will of course be held to discuss confidential business mat ters of the Association. News letters from the Association will be read at local meetings, production problems and other matters will be discussed. The locals, in fact, will be the means of contact between the members and their Association. It is anticipated that the meeting at Bainbridge and those elsewhere will be largely attended by members. RESULTS ANNOUNCED IN TRUSTEE AND TAX ELECTION By oversight last week the News failed to chronicle the result of the school tax and trustee election in the newly consolidated Rock Hill- Sowhatchee school district. The elec tions were held on Saturday, June 30th, and resulted in the choice of Messrs. Eugene M'artin, Wood A. Smith and James M. Lane as trus tees and an almost unanimous vote | in favor of the school tax. The next step will be taken by j this board of trustees by calling an | election for bonds in the near future I by which to obtain funds with which I to erect a modern brick school j building. The trustees, in company with | County Superintendent Melton, went j down into Decatur county Monday to look over some new brick school buildings recently erected in that county in consolidated school dis tricts, with a view of getting a line on the probable cost of a similar structure n the district which they represent. The party was quite favorably impressed with the build ings they inspected. / I RISING SUN I gives a new note or ap preciation to HOME HAPPI N ESS Blakely Wholesale Co. Distributors I , _ VULCfINIZINfi! Get more mileage from your tires. Don’t throw them away. Let us vulcanize them for you. We are now prepared to do this work and all materials used are new. Prices right. We also do high-class Top building and battery repairing. R. L. MARTIN Blakely, Georgia i $1.50 A YEAR