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VOLUME LXIH }> NO. 29
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 Dm Store
The *de*oJUL Store
(The Economical Drug Store)
MODERN GIRL HOSE
The best Silk Stocking made for $1.50
in the following colors: Black, Pyramid,
Egypt Brown, Desert, Log Cabin, Deer,
Mandalay, Sunburn, Jack Rabbit, Sunset,
French Peach, Dawn, Airedale, Cordovan,
White and Fog.
C. E. BOYETT’S
Cash Store.
Anticipate Your Needs
-OUR LINE IS NOW COMPLETE IN
MILLINERY
Finest evei shown in Piece
Goods and Novelties
We Will Be Very Glad to Show You Through These Lines
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C. L. TABB & COMPANY
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
(Earl]) Cottirtg JJetu©
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —‘‘Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING MCH. 6, 1924
McADOO AND UNDERWOOD ONLY CANDIDATES
TO QUALIFY IIGA. PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
SEEK TO ENJOIN! !
FUQUA’S SALARY
A petition for injunction against
the Board of County Commissioners
and County Treasurer Butler to re
strain them from paying the salary
of Dr. W. A. Fuqua as county dem
onstration agent for Early county was
filed in the superior court Monday.
The petition was filed by Judge A.
H. Gray and names Messrs. T. B.
Harris, J. M. Bryant and J. A.
Stephens as the petitioners.
The petition alleges that the Coun
ty Board of Education has never,
recommended that a tax be levied
for the employment of a county
demonstration agent and the board is
therefore without authority to em
ploy Dr. Fuqua. Judge Yeomans has
set March 15th, in chambers at Daw
son, for the hearing of the injunction
proceedings.
It will be an unfortunate thing for
Early county if the people are to be
deprived of the services of a demon
stration agent through legal techni
calities, just at this period when the
farmers are needing encouragement
to diversify their crop system and
engage in poultry and live stock rais
ing.
COUNCIL INSTRUCTS
CITY MARSHAL TO
COLLECT TAXES
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A. H. Gray Is Named City Attorney
for Current Year.
The city council at their regular
meeting Tuesday night passed a res
olution instructing the city marshal
to levy all tax fi. fas. in his hands
that are not paid by March 20th.
There are some $3,000 of unpaid tax
es and the city is being embarrassed
by their non-payment.
A resolution was also adopted
naming Col. A. H. Gray as city at
torney for the current year.
REED DID NOT ENTER
THE CONTEST
William G. McAdoo and Oscar W.
Underwood are the only candidates
who qualified for the Georgia presi
dential primary to beheld on March
19th, the time limit for entries clos
ing at noon Tuesday.
At a meeting of the subcommittee
of the State Democratic executive
committee held in Atlanta Tuesday a
resolution was adopted providing for
a printing of 500,000 ballots carrying
the names of McAdoo and Under
wood to be distributed to all coun
ties.
The county committees in each of
the Georgia counties have been re
quested to arrange fr the holding of
the primary in their respective coun
ties.
The chairman and secretary of
the committee were instructed to se
cure a suitable building in Atlanta
for the Democratic Convention which
will be held on April 23.
Should the result of the balloting
be contested by any candidate notice
of contest must be filed within ten
days following the primary, according (
to a rule adopted by the sub-commit
tee. County Democratic executive
committees will be required to give
three days’ notice of such a contest
to other candidates before heai'ing the
case.
The subcommittee will meet again
on April 12th and declare the result
of the primary, it was announced.
Former Governor Hardwick, who
led a movement to induce Senator
Reed to enter the contest, issued the
following statement in explanation of
the Senator’s refusal to enter the
Georgia primary:
“Senator Reed has instructed me
not to enter his name as a candidate
for President in the Georgia primary.
It is hardly necessary for me to say
that, in common with thousands of
his friends throughout the state, 1
deeply and sincerely regret this re
fuseal on his part and also the
circumstances that make it necessary.
I have in my possession petitions
from about fifty Georgia counties,
signed by 5,333 Georgia citizens, that
Senator Reed’s name go on the bal
lot in this State. They represent
widespread and general support of
Senator Reed in this state and noth
ing short of the positive and express
command of Senator Reed himself
could prevent me from submitting
them to the committee and from put
ting his name on the ballot."
Polls to Open in Early.
It is believed that the Early coun
ty democratic executive committee
has sufficient funds left over from the
expenses of the county primary to
pay election managers in each pre
cinct in Early, thereby giving the
people an opportunity of voting in
every district.
J. L. UNDERWOOD, JR.,
PASSES GOVERNMENT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
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Atlanta, (la.—According to an an
nouncement made public this week
by Captain Fraser Hale, commander
of the Air Service Unit at Georgia
Tech., .1. L. Underwood, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Underwood,
of Blakely, Ga„ was one of the few
students to pass the physical exami
nation given the members of this
unit by government officials.
The examination given the students
is the same as given to members of
the regular army. The unit located
at Tech is the only one of its kind
in the southeastern district and is
one of the six in the United States.
$1.50 A YEAR
CITY’S NEW ENGINE
BEINGJNSTALLED
The big new Skinner Unaflew En
gine and General Electric Co. Gener
ator recently purchased by the city
reached here Friday.
Superintendent Adams and a crew
of workmen spent Monday and Tues
day and the biggest part of Wednes
day moving the equipment from the
freight car to its place in the i>ower
house.
The combined engine and generator
weigh ten tons and had to be brought
on skids and rollers from the depot
to the plant. The foundation on
which it is being erected took seven
weeks to build and contains 385
sacks of concrete besides the propor
tionate quantity of slag and sand.
The erection of this new equipment
is guaranteed to bring about a large
saving in operating costs in the
manufacture of electric current at
the plant. The initial cost of the
new equipment is approximately sll,-
000 excluding freight charges and the
cost of foundation and extra labor
employed.
COMMISSIONERS
MET TUESDAY
The hoard of county commission
ers held a short session Tuesday
and adjourned to meet again on the
12th. The chairman, Hon. ’£■.»B.
McDowell, was absent on account of
the death of his brother-in-law at
Brundidge, Ala., but the rest of the
board, Messrs. C. W. Bridges, W. C.
Houston, G. E. Pyle and R. S. Rice,
were present.
A petition was filed with the body
for a stretch of new road in the
Rowena settlement about two miles
long, connecting the old Damascus
road with the public road passing
near the new school building at Row
ena. Messrs. D. C. Morgan, J. B.
Daniel and Isaac Newberry were
appointed as reviewers to mark out
said road and report upon its public
utility at the next session of the
Board.
Tax levies were passed to cover
the recently authorized bond issues
in the several school districts of the
county.
HAKES THE
Worli Briiir
Everything seems more cheerful
when you’re not run down at the
heel. Bring in your shoes and
let us fix them up. x
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 will be happy, I guess.
Blakely Shoe Shop
DEWOLFE A ARMSTRONG