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VOLUME LXIV } NO. \2
Coolidge Re-Elected President
By a Tremendous Majority
REPUBLICAN VICTORS
IN TUESDAY’S ELECTION
The election of President Coolidge,
Republican, was early indicated in
the returns which came over the
telegraph wires and radio Tuesday
evening, when the first of the big
Northern and Eastern States report
ing showed heavy pluralities for him
over his chief opponent, John W.
Davis, Democrat, and Robert M. La-
Follette, Progressive.
New York State, where the Demo
crats made their hardest fight, on
first returns showed a heavy plurali
ty for Coolidge and increased with
additional returns until the Presi
dent’s majority reached a mark close
to a million votes more than Davis.
The Coolidge vote in New York was
equal to more than the combined
vote of Davis and LaFollette.
Other debatable territory, including
Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, In
diana and Delaware, very early dem
onstrated that the President would
carry the entire New England terri
tory and centered the interest of
the observers to the Central and
Western States, where Democratic
hope was chiefly centered. It was
to this territory that the Progressive
•andidate, LaFollette, was expected
to show his greatest strengh and
take many of the normally Republi
can States away from Coolidge. The
LaFollette strength failed to mater
rialize and the third party man only
carried his home state of Wisconsin,
and the Republican standard-bearer
continued to pile up an electoral
vote which reached the proportions
of a landslide and justified the an
nouncement early in the evening that
he had been re-elected President.
The Southern States remained
Democratic, and Georgia piled up her
usual Democratic majority, the vote
in this State for Davis being more
than the Coolidge and LaFollete vote
combined.
In addition to the loss of its presi
dential candidate, the Democrats lost
several representatives in both the
Senate and House of Representa
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want you to see what we have to offer you.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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P.-T. ASS’N. HOLDS
INTERESTING MEETING
An unusually large and enthusias
tic number of P. T. A. members were
present at the meeting of the Asso
ciation held October 28th.
The meeting was called to order
by the President, Mrs. Charles Smith,
and the Lord’s Prayer repeated in
concert. Then followed two songs,
beautifully rendered, by the second
grade pupils.
Business was as follows: Roll
call, minutes of previous meeting
read and adopted. Reports of the
treasurer, also lunch room treasurer,
were most satisfactory. Sanitary com
mittee reported that basements and
all drinking fountain's had been put
in order. In behalf of the teachers,
Mrs. Abernathy thanked the Associa
tion for the reception tendered them
after the close of the last meeting.
Dr. Fort, of the State Board of
Health, who is making a survey of
the county with regard to malaria
and hook-worm disease, made a stir
ring talk on health conditions as he
finds them here and throughout the
county. He also made valuable sug
gestions as to how these diseases
may be combatted. These sugges
tions will be acted upon insofar as
time and human nature will permit.
In order to provide money that the
work of eradicating these dread dis
eases may be carried on, a little
play, written by Dr. Fort, will be
put on in the near future. However,
to meet the immediate and crying
need for quinine and other medicines,
it was voted to advance a loan of
the necessary funds from the P. T.
A. treasury.
In this connection may be men
tioned the fact that an effort is be
ing made to carry on the follow-up
work as advised by the local physi
cians at the time when they so mag
nanimously held the free clinics at
the school building.
The small sum of money needed
to compete the November payment
on the piano was directed to be
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING NOV. 6, 1924
WINS DECISIVE VICTORY
CALVIN COOLIDGE
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Chosen by the voters of the United States to head the government for
another four years. Receives an overwhelming majority of the
electoral vote and carries majority of states.
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turned over to the piano committee.
Accordant with Prof. McCarty’s plea
for a bigger and better library, it
was decided to have a book shower
on Wednesday, November 12th. It
is desired that, in giving books for
this purpose, we bear in mind the
needs of children and give only such
books as we might wish our own
children to read.
Since the P. T. A. no longer fur
nish lunch tickets, either free or for
sale, Mesdames Singletary, Moye
and Baggs were named as a free
i lunch committee to co-operate with
! those in charge of the lunch room
! and furnish free lunches to all chil-
I dren who are unable to pay for same.
Sanitary committee for the ensuing
J month will be Mrs. P. B. Calhoun
and Mrs. Lewis Holland.
Mrs. W. .J. Grist and Miss Hunt
will prepare the program for the
j next meeting.
Mesdames Glessner, P. H. Fitzger
| aid, Fitzhugh Fulton and Misses
' Fannie Mae Davis and Willie Mosely
represent the finance committee.
In the voting contest Mrs. Baggs’
grade won the prize for the largest
number of mothers and friends pres
ent.
At the close of business, Mrs. W.
C. Cox, in her inimitable manner,
made a strong talk on ‘‘The Four
i Fundamental Failures of the Ameri
can Homes.”
GINNING FIGURES FOR
OCTOBER 18 ANNOUNCED
1924 Crop Approximately 3,000 Bales
More Than That of 1923.
Mr. W. R. Alexander, cotton cen
sus enumerator for Early county,
informs the News that up to October
18th, 7,029 bales of cotton had been
ginned in Early county from the
1924 crop, as compared with 3,337 to
the same date as in 1923. As the crop
is practically gathered, it is not be
lieved that the final figures will sur
pass the October 18th mark by more
than a hundred or so bales. Should
the final figures reach 7,300, the 1924
crop will exceed that of 1923 by 3000
bales.
The figures for Miller county are
1917 bales prior to October 18th as
compared with 1007 bales to the
same date in 1923.
U. D. C.
The U. D. C. will meet at the
home of Mrs. S. P. Holland next
Frilay afternoon at three o’clock,
with Mrs. Vinson Tabb, Mrs. Fitz
hugh Fulton and Mrs. Holland as
joint hostesses. All members are
urged te be present.
$1.50 A YEAR
HEAVY DELIVERY OF
PEANUTSTO “CO-OP”
Deliveries of peanuts to the Geor
gia Peanut Growers Co-Operative As
sociation by members of that co-op
continue at air unusually heavy rate,
according to officials at the associa
tion. With the crop two weeks later
than it was last year, on account of
weather conditions, delievries are
said to he far in excess of those nn
the same date of last year and tho
rate of increase is growing larger
every day. The Peanut Association is
advancing as a first payment to its
members $65.00 a ton on No. 1 pea
nuts, despite the fact that the mar
ket is nowhere more than SIOO.OO a
ton and is as low as S7O a ton in
some places. Payments by the
Association to its members are run
ning from $20,000 to $35,000 a day.
Ample provisions for financing these
payments wer made through credit
arrangements with the Federal Inter
mediate Credit. Bank at Columbia, S.
C., and through other loans at low
interest rates.
Opinion grows stronger in many
informed quarters that the heavy
deliveries to the Peanut Association
have been largely responsible for
checking a pronounced price slump
that set in shortly after the season
of delivery and sales opened. The
market opened around $120.00 a ton
and slumped as low as $65.00 a ton
in some places, while buying actual
ly ceased in more than one market.
A large brokerage house in Chicago,
one of the largest buyers of shelled
peanuts in the world, in a rctfent
letter to the trade, called attention
to the fact that large deliveries to
the Georgia Peanut Growers Co-Op
erative Association and an increase
in membership by that organization
had been strong contributing factors
in stabilizing the market. The feel
ing seems to be general that such
a large volume of the crop as the
Peanut Association will handle, being
withdrawn from the general “dump
ing movement’’ the non-member
grower is involuntarily engaged in
just now, can not help stabilizing the
market.
It is really true, officers of the
Association say, that the peanut co
op. is actually experiencing a con
siderable increase in membership
without any particular effort being
made just now to secure new mem
bers. More than 150 growers volun
tarily aligned themselves with the
organization in October, and their
numbers included some of the larg
est growers of white Spanish peanuts
in South Georgia. Deliveries thus
far have been confined largely to
that section of the State, as the
Middle Georgia crop will not begin
moving in any volume before the
middle of November.
MR. J. J. HAYES, PROMINENT
BLUFFTON CITIZEN, DEAD
Mr. Joshua J. Hayes died at his
home in Bluffton Sunday evening af
ter a long spell of illness. He was
buried Monday afternoon, the ser
vices being conducted by his pastor,
Rev. Marvin Vincent, of Edison. Ho
leaves a wife and one child, Mrs. W.
O. Shepard, of Bluffton. Mr. Haye
was one of the most influential cit'
zens of this section, being vice pres
ident of the Citizens Bank of Blaki
ly and a director in the First Nation
al Bank of Blakely, and both insti
tutions were closed Monday after
noon in respect to his memory. Man
friends among the readers of th
News sympathize with his bereave i
family.
BIBLE STUDY CLASS.
The Superintendent of Publicity
announces that the Bible Study Clar
of the Methodist church will met t
Monday afternoon at 3:tl0 p. ra. at
the home of Mrs. Grady Holman,
with Mrs. Holman and Mrs. Fitzhugh
Fulton as joint hostesses.