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VOLUME LXIV NO. 38
BLAKELY BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:45 A. M. EVERY SUNDAY
NO PREACHING SERVICE ON NEXT SUNDAY
BE ON TIME
A wireless from our pastor says good luck for Sunday School next
Sunday. Let’s show him where we are and have a BIG attend
ance Sunday morning.
IMPORTANT: Judge Roscoe Luke is now preaching twice daily at
the Methodist church (3:30 and 8:30 P. M.), meeting to continue
for two weeks. We want every man, woman and child in Early
county to hear Judge Luke’s wonderful messages. All that is nec
essary is to hear him once and you won't miss another oppor
tunity. Let’s go early and get a reserved seat.
W. L. RHODES, Associate Superintendent.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING MAY. ♦*, 1925 $1.50 A YEAR
PEANUT ‘CO-OP.’ TO
ELECT 10DIRECT0RS
Ballots have been mailed to mem
bers of the Georgia Peanut Growers
Cooperative Association for the elec
tion of ten district directors. A
primary was held to nominate two
in each district —the two receiving
the highest vote in each district —
and these are the names submitted.
It happened in two districts, how
ever, that every vote cast was for
one man, and in three other districts
the man who received the second
highest vote would not allow his
name to be submitted; so in five of
the districts there will be no con
test. The ballots are printed on ad
dressed post cards, making it neces
sary only for the members to mark
their ballots and drop them into a
mail box or postoffice. Ballots must
reach the election committee at Al
bany by May 25, to be counted. Fol
lowing are the nominees and the
counties in each district:
District No. 1- —P. J. Brown, of Al
bany, unopposed; Lee and Dougherty
counties.
District No. 2—James L. Palmer,
of Camilla, and W. E. Holton, of
Camilla; Mitchell, Grady and Baker
counties.
District No. 3 —W. J. Oliver, of
Shellman, and H. A. Petty, of Daw
son; Terrell, Sumter. Randolph. Cal
houn, Quitman, Clay counties.
District No. 4 —J. Frank Brown.
Donalsonville, and L. E. Calhoun.
Colquitt; Seminole, Decatur, Miller
and Early counties.
District No. 5 —C. M. Bassey, Bar
wick, and M. M. Blanton, Valdosta;
Thomas, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook. La
nier, Lowndes_. Berrien. Atkinson and
Coffee-counties.
District No. 6—T. B. Jenkins of j
Sumner, unopposed: Worth. Irwin,'
Tift, Ben Hill. Telfair and Wheeler
counties.
District No. 7-Clarence Finleyson.
of Finleyson, and J. M. Hunt, of
Cordele; Dooly, Crisp, Turner, Wil
cox, Pula.ki, Dodge counties.
District No. B—H. R. DeJarnette,
Eatonton, unopposed; Hancock, Put
nam, Jefferson, Greene, Talliaferro,
Wilkes, Lincoln. Elbert, Oglethorpe,
Morgan, Baldwin, Wilkinson, John
son', Laurens, Jenkins, Glascock,
Candler, Bulloch, Bleckley, Burke,
Washington, Treutlen, Screven and
Montgomery counties.
District No. 9—E. C. Kelley, Mon
ticello, unopposed; Jasper, Jones,
Butts, Lamar, Spalding, Oconee, Mon
roe, Clarke, Barrow, Jackson, Wal
ton, Madison counties.
District No. 10—R. L. Arnall, Sen
oia, unopposed; Henry, Cherokee,
Bartow, Fayette, Clayton, Campbell,
Rockdale, Newton, Coweta, Meriweth
er, Troup, Harris, Chattahoochee,
Macon, Marion, Stewart and Webster
counties.
A separate ballot was submitted
for each district, as each member
has the privilege of voting only for
the director of his own district.
SNAKE CAUSES OCCUPANTS
OF BOAT TO TAKE
TO THE WATER
Recently while fishing in Spring
creek, seated comfortably in a ca
noe, Sheriff B. I . Houston. Mr. J.
B. Bush aird Coi. Jesse Drake were
surprised to have a large reptile, a
moccasin, enter their beat
The sheriff made a quick decision.
He would rather be in the creek
than to associate with the snake in
the boaa, so he jumped out, but in
doing so he capsized the boat, the
other occupants, men and serpent,
all going with him into the creek.
The fish! The men did not feel
like fishing after their dip.—Miller
County Liberal.
Messrs. Houston and Drake attend
ed city court in Blakely Monday
and were subjected to a bit of
good natured raillery over their wa
tery experience.
INCREASE SEEN IN
COTTON ACREAGE
The farmers of the south are de
termined to establish a new high
record for the coming season, if in
creased acreage may be taken as
an indication, according to cotton
men of Atlanta.
The government forecast of the
increase in planting is indefinite, but
private agencies are bolder. Esti
mates from private sources indicate
a total cotton acreage of 43,130,000,
making an increase of 4 per cent in
acreage devoted to the cultivation
of cotton.
This may or may not mean an in
crease of cotton production, depend
ing entirely on the weather condi
tions. It is recalled that the past
summer and fall were exceptionlly
favorable for the production of cot
ton, being unusually dry and warm
during a period extending far into
the fall.
According to the forecast Texas
alone will add 669,000 acres to its
cotton area. The 43,130,000 de
voted to cotton, according to private
estimates of the southern cotton
area for the coming season, as
against 39,832,000 in 1924, the year
of the greatest cotton production on
record.
Despite expressed fears that the
substitution of other fabrics for cot
ton in wearing apparel in many
parts of the world might have a
detrimental effect upon the world’s
cotton industry, there is every
good reason to believe, cotton men
state, that the demand for cotton
will steadily increase yer-r afttau
year, and that there oe a
larger market for the staple that
i will absorb the increased production
J that may come through development
of foreign cotton fields.
Although at the present time, it
was asserted, the major portion of
cotton fabrics are used for clothing
there has been in recent years an
ever increasing use of cotton in
various industrial lines, and as in
dustries increase in this country and
in other parts of the world indus
trial uses of cotton may in time
exceed even its use for clothing.
PARENT-TEACHER MEETING.
The regular session of the Parent-
Teacher Association will be held on
May 26th. Meeting will be called
to order promptly at 2:45 o’clock,
and will adjourn in time to enable
members to attend services at the
Methodist church.
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
OF GEORGIA TO MEET
IN ALBANY IN 1926
The Medical Association of Geor
gia at their annual meeting recently
held in Atlanta voted to hold their
next meeting in Albany.
This will be welcome news to the
members of the medical fraternity
in Southwest Georgia. There has
not been a meeting of the State
Medical Association held in South
Georgia since 1910 due to lack of
hotel facilities.
Albany is supplying this need and
the Association will find ample ac
commodations there in 1926.
FREAK “BIRD” ON FARM
IN BERRIEN COUNTY
The Nashville Herald reports that
a v ery peculiar and homely looking
fowl was displayed on the streets
there one day the past week. It was
a chicken guinea. The bird was
raised by Mr. Harris Browning, who
says it is a cross between the Rhode
Island red chicken and the guinea.
It chatters like the guinea, has an
oblong body, and is colored red and
black. Its head resembles that of a
chicken, and it associates with the
chickens. Its eggs are about the
size of the average hen egg.
MORTALITY FIGURES
MAKE GOOD SHOWING
State health authorities are grati
fied at the results obtained in 1924
in their fight on typhoid fever ami
malaria in Georgia, according to Dr.
T. F. Abercrombie, secretary of the
state board of health. Deaths in the
state from typhoid fever averaged
19.57 per 1,000, while deaths from
malaria were 12.64 per 1,000 in 1924
as compared to 18.33 in 1922 and
14.32 in 1923.
Divided according to races, white
deaths were 16.45, and negro deaths
were 22.82 from typhoid fever, while
white deaths were 10.19 and negro
deaths 15.13 per 1,000 in 1924.
Dr. Abercrombie also points with
pride to the record in cases of
diphtheria and croup fatalities, show
ing that deaths from these diseases
of children were 230 in 1924, com
pared to 274 in 1’923, .411 in 1922,
415 in 1921 and 400 in 1920. Diph
theria deaths per 1,000 were 6.60 in
1924, compared to 14.04 in 1921, a
reduction of more than one-half
through preventive measures. In fa
talities the white rate led with an
average of 9.41 to 3.69 among ne
groes.
Vaccination has pr; ctically wipe I
out smallpox fatalities, the statistics
for 1924 show, as there were only
ten white deaths and 15 negro
deaths in the entire state, or an
average of .56 per 1,000.
Measles caused a surprising num
ber of fatalities in 1924, the deaths
reaching 550, or 15.80 per 1,000 pop
ulation. This percentage compared
to 10.16 in 1923, 0.15 in 1922, 3.14
in 1921 and 1.86 in 1620.
The ‘Site per 1,000 deaths in
Georgia during 1924 from scarlet
fever, 0.57; whooping cough, 12.50;
pellagra, 9.68; tuberculosis, 75.591
from cancer, 40.02; from diarrhoea*
and dysentery, 37.97; from puer
pal state, 20.34; from puerperal sep
ticemia, 4.71; and 85.89 from other
infantile diseases. Total deaths in
the state during the year were 34,797,
DEDICATION SERVICE
AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
A special dedication service was
held at Holy Trinity Episcopal
church last Tuesday afternoon at 5
o’clock. The services constituted a
dedication of the new windows re
cently placed in the church.
The Rev. James B. Lawrence, Rec 4
tor of Calvary Church, Americus, and
Archdeacon of the Albany District of
the Diocese of Georgia, conducted
the services, assisted by the Rev.
H. Scott-Smith, Vicar of St. Johns
Church, Bainbridge, and Holy Trini
ty church, Blakely.
Mr. Lawrence took as his subject
“The Beauty of Holiness,” and ex
plained how it was the duty of the
church to worship God in beauty as
well as-in holiness.
A full vested choir added greatly
to the impressiveness of the oc
casion.
Mr. Lawrence was Vicar of Holy
Trinity church for 14 years and it
was due largely to his efforts that
an Episcopal church was erected in
Blakely.
APPALLING NUMBER OF
ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA
America s accident toll is appall
ing, according to figures cited be
fore the Atlanta Safety Council by
C. B. Auel, of Chicago, prominent
engineer and president of the Na
tional Safety Council. Mr. Auel said
that the annual toll of accidents in
the United States is almost double
that of any European country, and
that the annual loss therefrom
amounts to approximately $885,000,-
000.
Mr. Auel outlined the growth of
the national council, stating that its
membership now includes more
than 4,000, and is increasing at a
satisfactory rate.