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VOLUME LXII ) NO. 51 HAMILTON’S MONEY SAVING | COLUMN ] 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.” 1 ■ 11 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