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VOLUME LXII ) NO. 51
HAMILTON’S
MONEY SAVING
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All summer merchandise re
duced to clean out for new
goods arriving daily.
$75.00 Porcelain Lined Alaska Refrigerator.... $Ol-50
60 00 Enameled Lined Alaska Refrigerator... 48-50
45.50 Enameled Lined Alaska Refrigerator 37*50
50.00 Porcelain Lined Gurney Refrigerator 40.00
55.00 Solid White Enameled Alaska Refrige
rator 47*50
32.50 Defender Enameled Lined Refrigerator.. 526*50
66.75 Porcelain Alaska Refrigerator 55.00
43.50 Enameled Lined Alaska Refrigerator 35*00
25.00 Ice Chests 521*50
20.00 Ice Chests TT.. .7 17.00
20 per cent reduction on any water cooler
in stock. 15 per cent reduction on any
Ice Cream Freezer in stock. Porch Swings,
Porch Rockers and all summer items great
ly reduced.
Sporting Goods at 20 per cent off with ex
ception of Base Balls. All Gloves, Mitts,
Masks, Bats at above discount.
Heddon's Dowagiac Minnows, 70c to sl.lO
Our Ambition is to Give More
and Better Goods for
Your Money
Have Just Received
Cotton Pickers Sheets
Cotton Pick Sacks
Cotton Scales
Wagon Body Irons
Rods and Braces
HAMILTON HARDWARE CO.
Phone 146
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
€kdg Contitj) JJetpa
Success to All Who Pay l Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/'
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING AUG. 9, 1923
PRESIDENT HARDING
DIED LASTTHURSDAY
Vice President Coolidge Immediately
Takes Oath as President.
Warren G. Harding, president of
the United States of America, died
at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco,
Calif., Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock.
The end came instantaneously and
without a second of warning. There
was no time to summon additional
physicians, no time t'o call the mem
bers of his official family, aud no
time for medical skill to exercise
its knowledge. was all over in
the twinkling of an eye, and it left
a nation and the world shocked in
grie*.
Mrs. Harding, the constant com
panion of her distinguished husband,
was faithful to the end. She was
reading to him a few minutes before
7:30 o’clock when she noticed a
shudder run through the frame of
a man she had loved, encouraged in
adversity and praised in success.
Before she could arise from her
chair Mr. Harding collapsed in his
bed, and she rushed to the door
calling for the physicians to come
quickly.
Brigadier General Sawyer, chief of
the staff of physicians, who had been
attending the chief executive who al
so was in the room, and the two
nurses present, did all they could,
but it availed nothing. The president
had fought and won one victory
-against disease, bv.i it appeared ill' a
more insidious form and he lost the
battle.
Great as was the shock to all
who dwell under the American flag
and to peoples in many lands, for
Mr. Harding by virtue of his office,
his kindly and his lovable personali
ty, had become a world figure, the
greatest shock came to his wife, read
ing by his side, but she did not
not collapse.
"She was shocked, of course, and
at first unable to realize that she
had lost the husband who had made
up all the interest in her life for so
many proud and happy years,” said
General Sawyer later. "But there
was no collapse, no hysteria. Just
a brave rally to face her sorrow
and the duties devolving upon her
at this hour.”
The burial will be made at Mar
ion, Ohio, tomorrow (Friday), follow
ing a six days’ trip across the con
tinent. Marion is the small city
which Warren G. Harding made
known around the world because
there, from poor and humble sur
roundings, he struggled uoward un
til the American people awarded
him the highest gift and paid him
the greatest honor within their pow
er to bestow. President Hrding
was a man who ‘‘loved the home
folks,” and if he had had time to
leave a parting word it undoubtedly
would have contained instructions:
that he be buried in the town that
knew him as “Warren,” and where
he called most every one by their
first names.
The five physicians who attended
the President wer.e united in their
decisions as to the cause of death,
in a statement signed by all of
them. They declare it was due to
“apoplexy, or a rupture of a blood
vessel in the axis of the brain near
the respitory center.” The state
ment emphasized that death from
such a cause might have occurred
at any time and came after recovery
from the acute illness he had suffer
ed for a week was in progress. The
statement showed conclusively that
the physicians, as well as everyone
else, believed up to the minute the
Executive was subjected to the apo
plectic attack that he was on the
road to recovery. Three hours be
fore the end came the most optimis-
I BLAKELY’S FIRST !
f BALE IS MARKETED |
Blakely's first bale of 1923 cotton
was ginned and marketed Tuesday.
The bale was grown by Messrs.
, -1 • R- and F. B. Calhoun on their
farm near Blakely. It was ginned
by the Calhoun, Loyless & Co. gin
i uery at. the oil mill and weighed
482 pounds, classing as middling.
The bale was stoied at the Far
mers Warehouse and was bought by
J. S. Sherman at 30 cents per
pound.
The seed brought ?36 per ton and
were bought by the ginnery people.
The first hale came in on July 26th
last year.
tic bulletin issued since the President
was taken ill was issued.
Mrs. Harding was reading to the
President an article entitled ”A Re
view of a Calm Man,” written by
Samuel G. Blythe, a noted political
' writer, and published in a current
1 magazine. It described the man to
. whom she was reading, and he was
• interested in it. She paused in her
reading and glanced up, he raised
his hand and said: “That’s good! Go
on. Read some more.”
Those were the last words Presi
dent Harding spoke. In an instant,
a shudder shook his frame, his
hands dropped, and he collapsed.
COOLIDGE SWORN IN TO SUC
CEED HARDING.
, Plymouth, Vt., Aug, 3. —In the lit
tle living room of his father’s home
here, Calvin Coolidge early Friday
took the oath of office of President
t of-the United Tin r/tth w«?s
( administered by his father, John C.
Coolidge, at 2:47, a. m„ Eastern
standard time. Tn a clear voice the
Vice President repeated after his
, father the words prescribed by the
Constitution: “I do solemnly swear
that I will faithfully execute the of
fice of President of the United
States and I will, to the best of ray
ability, preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United
States.” Then, although the Consti
tution does not require it. he added:
“So help me, God.”
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TRUE ECONOMY
is buying with discrimination
I WE HAVE
large assortments, competent
salesmen, economical prices.
SHOPPING HERE
is both a pleasure and a
benefit.
Baltcom’s Dri Store
The Store
(The Economical Drug Store)
$1.50 A YEAR
BIG BARBECUE HERE
NEXTWEDNESDAY
Big Day To Be Pulled Off—Joe Jack
son and Americus Team Coming.
Next Wednesday will be a big day
in Blakely!
Big barbecue and two baseball
games!
Joe Jackson, famous baseball play
er, and his Americus team will be
seen in action at 3:45 o’clock that
afternoon.
A unique feature of the entertain
ment for that day will be a Negro
baseball game at 1:45 o’clock be
tween the Georgia Wildcats (Blake
ly) and the Alabama Coons. On the
will be seen Brannon,
the only pitcher on record to strike
out 27 men in one game. A special
reservation will be madei for the
colored people to attend this game.
A big barbecue dinner will be
served at 12 o’clock, and everybody
in Southwest Georgia and Southeast
Alabama —in fact, everybody from
everywhere—has an invitation to at
tend
This is the first appearance of
Joe Jackson on the local field, and
there are hundreds who will avail
themselves of this opportpunity to
see the famous slugger in action.
Blakely’s already strong ball club
will be strengthened before the week
is over and the local aggregation is
going out with the determination to
trim the Sumter county gang.
An admission price of SI.OO will be
charged, which will include the big
barbecue dinner and both baseball
games. Make arrangements now to
be in Blakely next Wednesday. You’ll
have a big time.
The paving of the roadway from
the court square to the city limits
line on the Colquitt highway whs
completed Wednesday morning and
work has begun on grading the
road north of town preparatory to
the paving there. When this work
is completed Blakely can boast of
two miles of paved road joining one
of the best sand-clay highways in
i the state. i , ’ 1