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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. * * * 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. ■ ■" tt.i ■ ■■ TRUE ECONOMY is buying with discrimination WE HAVE large assortments, competent salesmen, economical prices. SHOPPING HERE is both a pleasure and a benefit. Salta’s Sri Store The Start (The Economical Drug Store) (Eadg Ctfutttg Jfetu® Success to AH Who Pay* Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/' 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 O- TABB&CO. 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. I RISING SUN gives a new note of ap preciation to HOME HAPPINESS Blakely Wholesale Co. Distributors VULCANIZING! 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 $1.50 A YEAR