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VOLUME LXIII } NO. 21
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TRUE ECONOMY
is buying with discrimination
WE HAVE
large assortments, competent
salesmen, economical prices.
SHOPPING HERE
is both a pleasure and a
benefit.
Sicoi’s Dm Store
The Store
(The Economical Drug Store)
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NOTICE TO ALL HUNTERS AND FRIENDS!
I have secured some Mexican quail and
have turned them loose on my Sandy Bot
tom plantation. All hunting on this planta
tion is positively forbidden, and all violaters
will be PROMPTLY PROSECUTED; as I
mean to protect these birds. A hint to the
wise is sufficient.
C. M. DEAL.
| LISTEN, LADIES I~|
WE ARE SHOWING THE LATEST STYLES IN
Hats and Dresses
Also Novelty Dress Goods
WE INVITE YOU to COME and LOOK
C. L TABB & COMPANY
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
fijjftritj Count!) JS'etoo
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING FEB. 21, 1924
MR. T. E FORT DIED
SUDDENLY TUESDAY
Mr. Thomas E. Fort, an aged
citizen of the Pine View neighbor
hood, died suddenly at his home
Tuesday morning about 7 o’clock
from heart failure. He was in his
76th year, having been born on .lune
6th, 1848.
Mr. Fort was a native of South
Carolina and came to Early county
some 25 yeart or more ago. He is
survived by his wife and one daugh
ter, Miss Atha. Mrs. Fort has been
an invalid for several years and the
devotion of the old gentleman to her
during her long illness was almost
pathetic and now he has been called
to precede her to the Great Beyond.
His remains were laid to rest in
the Blakely cemetery at 11 o’clock
Wednesday morning, following funer
al services conducted by his pas
tor, Rev. R. E. Zachert, at Pine
View Baptist church, of which he
was a charter member.
Mr. Fort saw service In the South
Carolina militia during the Civil
War, though but a lad at that time,
and was always proud to be known
as a Confederate soldier, belonging
to the local Camp Dostor.
He was- a fine Southern Christian
gentleman. Could anything nobler
be said of him?
May the sorrowing wife and daugh
ter find comfort in the promises of
the Father that the faithful shall
inherit a crown of life.
PARENT-TEACHER MEETING.
The regular meeting of the Parent-
Teacher Association will be held in
the school auditorium Tuesday, Feb
ruary 26th, at 3:00 p. m. program |
as follows:
Recitation: “Wash Day”—Madeline
Gilbert.
Recitation: “The Crowning Indigni
ty”—Merle Calhoun.
Talk: "Mother and Daughter’’—
Mrs. W. J. Grist.
Dialogue: “The Tea Party Hazel
Warrick and Virginia Brooks.
REPORTER.
Etchinsou Hats for men $3.50 to
$5.00. The latest headwear- nifty
and up-to-the minute.
C. E. BOYETT’S CASH STORE.
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LOOKS LIKE EARLY
FAVORS McADOO
FOR NOMINATION
Several hundred Early county
citizens have this week signed
petitions requesting that William
G. McAdoo’s name be placed on
the official ballot to be used in
the presidential preference pri
mary on M'arch 19th.
Petitions will be placed in
each of the drug stores until
next Saturday, and it is hoped
that those who come in from the
country will avail themselves of
the privilege of signing these
petitions, as they must be taken
up and sent to headquarters Sat
urday night.
Mr. J. S. Sherman, who made
the preliminary canvas for names
tells us that 90 per cent, of those
approached willingly signed the
petition and that at least that
percentage favored the ex-Geor
gian’s candidacy.
SECOND CAMPAIGN
FOR MEMBERS IS ON
Albany, Ga., Feb. 18th —The second
annual membership campaign of the
Georgia Peanut Growers Cooperative
Association, which recently got under
way, was reported as making splen
did progress Monday, by John 11.
Mock, Director of Field Service, for
the Association. Mr. Mock, stated
that already more than 12,000 addi
tional acres had been signed in the
new campaign by 500 new members.
While the new contracts were com
| ing largely from counties not here
tofore included in the territory
served by the Peanut Association,
the fact that nearly 2,000 additional
acres had been signed in Mitchell
County, which was second in the state
last year in acreage under contract,
was pointed out as an indication
that the old territory would produce
a large part of the extra acreage ex
pected to be signed this year. Dodge
County, where the Association did
not operate last year, has signed more
than 3,000 acres, indicating that that
county will go in strong for peanuts
as a money crop this year.
Field Service Represcutives ol the
Association, who expect to carry the
campaign for the new members to
some forty-five or fifty counties uot
previously served, as well as to re
work the seventy-seven counties in
which contracts were signed last year
are engaged this week in Dodge,
Wheeler, Tift, Worth and Elbert
Counties. An enthusiastic meeting was
held at Elberton, Saturday, at which
a number of contracts were signed,
showing that peanuts will be planted
heavily even in Northeast Georgia.
Barrow County, also in Northeast
has sent in contracts for
more than 400 acres.
Contracts being signed this year
cover all crops g own ot acquiwd by
the signer for four years, as opposed
to a five year period covered by the
original contracts last year. This
will make all contracts expire at the
same time.
The big co-operative marketing and
farm credits meeting to be held at
Albany, Friday, of this week, Feb.
2£nd, is expected to be a big boost
to the membership campaign, and
to provide a method whereby peanut
growers can provide means of getting
seed on time. The Peanut Association
has a large quantity of the best seed
ever offered in Georgia, but cannot
sell them on time without doing a
great injustice to the original mem
bers. Judge R. W. Bingham, or
Louisville, Ky., Chairman of the Nat
ional Council of the Co-operative As
sociation, and MV. J. D. Bell, Manager
of the Federal Intermediate Credit
Bank, at Columbia, S. C., are to be
the principal speakers at the Albany
meeting.
$1.50 A YEAR
DENBY RESIGNS AS
SCRETARY OF NAVY
Edwin B. Denby has resigned as
Secretary of the Navy, and his resig
nation has been accepted.
After repeatedly declaring he
never would quit the Cabinet under
the fire of those who have criticized
his part in the oil leasing program,
the Secretary notified President Cool
idge this morning he was ready to
stop out.
His decision followed a telephone,
consultation between, the President
and MV. Denby, in which all of the
latest aspects of situation were
talked over In the light of informa
tion passed on to the White House by
Republican leaders in the Senate.
Recently ja number of Secretary
Denby’s friends also have been con
sulted by Mr. Coolidge, and they are
understood to have advised the Presi
dent that they fully understood the
embarrassment that might result in
retaining Mr. Denby in the Cabinet
while the oil annulment suits are in
progress.
Not only was he a party to the oil
leases, having affixed his signature
along with that of Albert B. Fall, but
he repeatedly has defended his part
in the proceedings and has declared
publicly since the present controversy
arose that he believed the contracts
legal and would be willing to pursue
the same course again.
It lias been pointed out to the Pres
ident that it might appear inconsist
ent to have a member of the adminis
tration holding these views remain
in office while the administration it
self, through Its counsel, moving in
. the courts to annul the leases on the
grounds that they were made without
authority of lalw.
’ His resignation was coincident with
1 the completion of Senate confirma
-1 tion of the government’s special oil
! counsel and Mr. Denby’s advisers had
’ urged that once the government had
1 moved in the courts for cancellation
! of the oil leases he signed along with
Albert B. Fall, his position in the
* Administration would become un
1 tenable.
! Mr. Denby’s resignation was sub-
mitted on his fifty fourth birthday.
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SERVICES AT HOLY TRINITY
J CHURCH SUNDAY, FEB. 24
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> Morning Prayer, Holy Communion
t and Sermon at 11 o’clock.
Church School at 10 o’clock.
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; MAKES THE
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: World Briitr
Everything seems more cheerful
when you’re not run down at the
heel. Bring in your shoes and
let us fix them up.
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor daughter a
dress;
If you will go there
To get your shoes to repair,
You wilt be happy, I guess.
Blakely Shoe Shop
DEWOLFE & ARMSTRONG