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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 (Continued on next page.) Stock Reducing Sale! Guaranteed all Leather Work Shoes for Boys $1.85 and up Guaranteed all Leather Work Shoes for Men $1.95 and up 220 Best Grade Overalls, worth $2.00, for Men $1.29 Guaranteed fast color Blue Work Shirts .... .59 Overalls for Boys at .49 and up Sheeting. Ginghams, Homespun, Outing— all you want .10 a yard Ladies’ Long Coats at $5.50 and up Ladies’ Wool Dresses at $4.75 and up Every item in our house must go during this month at some price. We don't ask you to buy, but do want you to see what we have to offer you. C. L. TABB & COMPANY BLAKELY, GEORGIA €kdg Ccmtitg Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“3e Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead." 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 v **• M NX am. I 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. '<>> 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.