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VOLUME LXII }> NO. 49
JOE VINSON WINS
PRESIDENCY OF
ANNIVERSARY CLUB
Joe W. Vinson, of Blakely, Ga.,
qualified as president of the Anni
versary Club of the Southern States
Life. This is the third time that
Mr. Vinson has served as president
of the club. He has also served one
time as honorary president, having
qualified as the highest producer for
two years in succession, but the
club rule forbids one from serving
as president for two consecutive
years. He was vice president at
large three times, as the second
largest producer for the company,
and vice president for Georgia four
times. His production for the year
ending June 30 was $636,000. Other
officers of the club include Gearry
W. Williams of Florida, vice presi
dent; C. E. Winters, vice president
for Alabama; T. W. Arline, vice
president for Florida; Wilmer L.
Moore, Jr., vice president for Geor
gia; Fred Hines, vice president for
South Carolina, and Secretary Robert
F. Moore, of the company. Besides
the officers, 45 agents of the com
pany in Georgia, Forida, Alabama,
and South Carolina have qualified
for membership in the club and
will attend the Cincinnati meeting
August 6,7 and 8. —The Insurance
Field.
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Joe’s friends are congratulating
him on his newly won honors. He
and MVs. Vinson plan to leave this
week for Hendersonville, N. C., to
spend a few days with Joe, Jr., be
fore attending the Cincinnati meet
ing and enjoying a visit to other
Northern cities.
Where They Go.
The head of the firm caught the
office boy telling falsehoods.
“I’m surprised at you!” he said.
‘‘Do you know what they do with
boys who tell lies?”
“Yes, sir,” was the reply. ‘‘When
they get old enough the firm sends
them out as traveling salesmen.” —
Boston Transcript.
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LOCALS ARE BEING
FORMED IN EVERY
COUNTY IN ASS’N.
ALBANY, Ga., July 24.—Peanut
growers in every county in South
Georgia will in a few weeks have
an opportunity to attend meetings
of organizations in their own com
munities that will be branches of
the Georgia Peanaut Growers Co-op
erative Association. They will also
have a county-wide organization with
headquarters at the county-site to
which their local will send official
delegates for each meeting. The
counties of Decatur, Seminole, Grady
and Early have already set up their
organizations and made selections of
communities for locals. Mitchell
and Miller counties will hold meet
ings this week to perfect county or
ganizations and designate communi
ities for locals.
These community locals are ex
pected to be the very life blood of
the Peanut Associations —the means
of contact between the individual
member and his association. Colonel
Robert E. L. Spence, president of
the Association, is anxious that every
contract signer shall be an active
member of his nearest local. “It will
not only do him good and the Peanut
Association good for him to take
an active part in the meetings of his (
local. Colonel Spence said, “but it
will do his community and his
county good, for these locals will
take up and discuss in an intelli
gent way the problems of the com
munities they represent, such as bet
ter roads, better schools and other
things pertaining to the public
good. Furthermore, it will enable
us who are officers of the farmers
own association —for it is theirs
to handle their problems more ef
fectively. They will be able to sup
ply us with much valuable informa
tion which we can use in marketing
their peanuts to a better advantage.”
While the locals are being set up
in the different counties where there
are enough members, the officers of
the Association at Albany are going
ahead with well-perfected plans for
marketing the crop for which they
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING JULY 26, 1923
WALKOVER
SHOES
WALK UNDER
PRICES
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA
foresee excellent prices. Already it
has been decided that the peanuts
marketed through the Association
shall bear the brand name of “Un
cle Remus,” a name suggested by
John H. Mock, director of field
service. The name is regarded as
typically Georgian and typically
Southern, and one that will carry a
universal appeal wherever children
are read or told the stories that
Joel Chandler Harris immortalized
under the pen name of “Uncle Re
mus.”
It is the purpose of the Peanut
Association to put on the market a
one-pound package of raw peanuts,
similar to the famous “Pickaninny”
brand put out by the Virginia-Caro
lina Peanut Association, which has
so greatly increased the consumption
of peanuts. These packages contain
recipes for making peanut butter and
for many other uses of peanuts. It
is estimated that, with the increased
popularity that will come through
advertising and proper sales methods,
that these packages alone will in a
few years sell a greater volume of
peanuts than are now grown in the
Virginia-North Carolina and the Geor
gia peanut belts—the largest two
peanut-producing areas in the Unit
ed States.
T. B. McDOWELL HEADS
EARLY COUNTY GROWERS
Mr. T. B. McDowell will head
the peanut growers in Early county
who are members of the Georgia
Peanut Growers Cooperative Associa
tion. Mr. McDowell was elected
by the growers at a mass meeting
in Blakely Thursday afternoon. He
was also chairman of the temporary
organization in Early county.
Other officers elected were J. C.
Balkcom, of Blakely, vice chairman,
and E. B. Fields, of Blakely, RFD,
secretary.
Community loeals in Early county
will be established at Damascus court
house, Centerville school house, Ce
dar Springs court house, Jasper school
house. Rock Hill court house, Union
school house and Colomokee court
house.
J. B. Lawley, representative of
the field service department of the
Peanut Association, will return to
Early county at a later date to help
set up these locals.
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