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VOLUME LXIII > NO. 31
TRUE ECONOMY
is buying with discrimination
WE HAVE
large assortments, competent
salesmen, economical prices.
SHOPPING HERE
is both a pleasure and a
benefit.
Mcom’s Drill Store
The *&&KoJtIL Store
(The Economical Drug Store)
PEANUTS SHELLED
My old reliable Tom Huston Shelter is nowin
operation just across the street from Holman’s
stables. Shell on this machine and be as
sured of almost no splits and first-class work.
If peanuts are heated in the least your seed
will be paid for on the spot. More than a
thousand Early and Clay county farmers will
testify that it pays to shell on this machine.
Price 20c per bushel of thirty pounds.
BERNARD HERRING
To le Ohs Wbo Really Care for Appearance:
LADIES! MEN!
Pansy Dress— Regal Hat—
A Rhodes Hat— Merit Suit—
Walk-Over Shoes— Walk-Over Shoes—
Humming Bird Hose— Buster Brown Socks—
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THE PRICES ARE RIGHT, AND QUALITY CANNOT BE BEATEN.
TRY US FOR QUALITY MERCHANDISE
C. L. TABB & COMPANY
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Early County News.
Success to All Who Pa y Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING MCH. 20, 1924
ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE
FIRE FOR BLAKELY
Tarver Furniture Company
Building Badly Damaged
Last Night.
Blakely was visited by another
destructive fire last night, which for
a time threatened to destroy a great
i portion of the business section of the
! city, but by excel’ent fire fighting
j was prevented from spreading beyond
j the building in which it began,
j The upstairs part of the Tarver
| Furniture and Hardware Company
j was discovered on fire about 10:00
| o’clock by passersby, and the whole
j upper part of the building was en
; veloped in flames within a few min
! utes time. Dr. P. H. Fitzgerald’s
i
j offices were located in the upstairs of
j this building, together with several
empty office rooms, which were being
used for storage rooms temporarily.
Just where the fire originated or how
it originated is not known, other than
it started in one of these rooms.
! The day having been warm, there
I had been no fire in the building dur
j ing the day.
The building was connected on the
| west side by the Citizens Bank
j building, on the east, by Fryer’s
I Garage and on the north by the
Jr. D. Hall grocery store, and it
i looked very much like the whole
block would fall victim to the flames,
but three streams of water confined
it to the one building.
Mr. Tarver’s stock of furniture and
hardware, which was one of the most
complete for a town the size of Blake
ly in the entire State, was complete-1
■ Iy flooded with water, and the elab
; orate line of furniture is completely
i ruined from its effects, and presents
| a pitiable aspect from its all night
! soaking. Mr. Tarver carried only
$7,000 insurance and estimates his
loss at about three times this amount.
Dr. Fitzgerald’s office fixtures, sur
gical instruments and entire outfit
was a complete loss, being only par
tially covered bv insurance.
The building belonged to Mr. Jos
eph Freeman and was partially in
i
j sured. The exact damage to the
, | structure is hard to estimate, the
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WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO
NEW CAMPAIGN
MEETING RESPONSE
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Albany, Ga.—Response that lias |
been declared encouraging has met
the efforts of the Field Service men
of the Georgia Peanut Growers Co
oprative Association to extend the
scope of this commodity co-op, which
was organized last year. The new
membership campaign, which was 1
launched only a few weeks ago, has '
brought practically all of the new
peanut territory under co-operative j
control. This new territory embraces ’
counties that will grow peanuts as
a considerable money crop for the
first time this year.
The 77 counties where the Peanut.
Association had members last year
included practically all of the coun
ties of the State where peanuts were
grown on any considerable scale as
a money crop. This year, however,
found many additional counties join
ink the ranks of these elevating the
once “lowly goober” to the ranks of
a seriously considered commercial
crop in Georgia. This was true be
cause peanuts sold at much 'higher
prices last year, when a co-op was
in operation, than they had averaged j
for all time since the crop became i
[a money crop in Georgia. Another!
J influencing factor in extending the j
peanut acreage was that many conn- j
ties where the cotton crop failed j
made money on peanuts.
With this new territory already;
practically signed for the Peanut
Association, representatives of the
co-op are taking the campaign back
into the counties where the Associa
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whole upstairs being destroyed, while
the chief damage to the lower floor
Is from water. I
The Citizens Hank building is not!
believed to he damaged other than:
j what injury might have been sustain-,
ed by the wall adjoining the Tarver:
store building.
The public generally sympathize
with these gentlemen in the losses
they have sustained, and are hopeful
that the damaged building will be!
immediatelv repaired.
$1.50 A YEAR
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WILLIAM G. M’ADOO
SWEEPS THE STATE
| .
William G. McAdoo, native Geor
gian and leading Democratic: candi
date for the presidency, completely
overwhelmed Senator Oscar W. Un
derwood, of Alabama, in the presi
dential preference primary held in
j Georgia yesterday.
| The former Secretary of the Treas
| ury took the lead when the first re
i ports began coming in and increased
I
his lead as county alter county came
in registering a majority for him.
Atlanta, Macon, Savannah and Au- .
gusta helped to swell the McAdoo ma
jority, seven of the big six vote coun
ties voting majorities for McAdoo,
only Muscogee of this group going to
Underwood.
McAdoo carried his home county of
Cobb by a big majority, but Ilaldwin
county, where he spent part of his
boyhood, registered a majority for
Underwood. McAdoo carried the home
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tion operated last year. Some of 77
j counties included last year were only
i partially worked, and it is expected
| by Colonel R. E. L. Spence, Presi-
I dent and General Manager of the
j Peanut Association, and by other
j officers of the Association, that the
; intensive campaign now under way
will greatly increase both the num
ber of members in each of these
counties and the number of acres
pledged. In such of the old coun
ties as have been touched in the
new campaign the response has been
enthusiastic, the canvassers declare,
one county having already added
more than 1,500 acres to the big
| total it signed last year. Many who
held off last year to see what suc
| cess the Association would have are
‘ now- convinced that it is really a
I dominant factor in the market, the
| Field Service men say, and these
growers are signing rapidly. Those
who signed last year are assisting in
! many instances to sign their neigh
bors and friends.