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AN OPEN LETTER |
• Tarver Furniture & Hardware Co., •
® Blakely, Ga. J
• Gentlemen: Will you please be kind enough to keep open a little later each *
z '<> night until Christmas. I was in your store the other day and I found so many q
• things, I could not get around before you were ready to close. Please stay open un- •
• til, say 9 o’clock, each night, as I have a big job before me in selecting presents for ©
• the children and grown folks, and only a few more days in which to complete my •
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• Sr Your store is recognized as headquarters for holiday goods for this section, and @
• W W.— I trust you will comply with my request. Yours truly, ®
• SANTA CLAUS. •
• DEAR OLD SANTA: ■_ •
• IT IS WITH PLEASURE THAT WE COMPLY WITH YOUR REQUEST. •
; WE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU EACH NIGHT UNTIL 9 O’CLOCK AT •
• THIS STORE. DON’T DISAPPOINT US—COME EVERY NIGHT. S
• YOURS VERY TRULY, W © •
J TARVER FURNITURE AND HARDWARE CO. £
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5 BLAKELY, GEORGIA 4 J
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MAY BE NOW OR NEVER
Under the above heading, Tues
day’s issue of the Atlanta Constitu
tion sounded the following warning
to Georgia counties concerning Fed
eral aid for roads. In a less forci
ble way perhaps the News has be
fore said what is in this article,
but perhaps coining from a higher
source, this article will have more
weight with,those supposed to be on
tlie watch-tower:
The report of Thomas 11. Mac-
Donald, director of the federal bu
reau of roads, just made public, 1
shows that 11,328 miles of high
ways in the United States were
built in 1924 with the co-operation I
of the government—that is, with the
federal aid allocations to match :
r+atc and local funds. This breaks,
all previous records, the more re-1
markable on account of the large'
number of states, in the east and,
central west, and on thg Pacific l
coast, that have already completed i
their entire state systems. Concen-i
tration of the federal aid in fewer:
states, therefore, with a pronounced I
record as to increases, combine to ;
emphasize even more directly the,
tremendous popular interest in high- 1
way development, not only in North
Carolina, or Florida, or Georgia, but
in every state in which the systems
have not been completed. It is the ’
outstanding sequence of a recon-'
struction program of economic pro
gressiveness throughout the entire
country. The foundation for such
a program is, by universal consent,
better highways and better schools,
the two linked into one great bed
rock upon which everything else
worth while must be built.
The federal road act was passed
in 1916—nine years ago. Since
that time 46.485 miles of highways
in the United States have been
constructed with federal aid. and of
that total mileage almost one-fourth
was built in 1924.
The point is unmistakable—the
American public is beginning to ap
preciate the asset value of paved
highways as never before, and the
sentiment that is overwhelming Geor
gia today, is but a reflection of
the same sentiment in every pro
gressive state in America.
In this connection it must not be
overlooked that there is a develop
ing sentiment in administrative cir
clse, led by the president, against
federal aids to state activities of
any kind. This attitude is directed
i primarily at the federal aid for
: highways.
The situation is such that it is
possible that federal road aid will
either be discontinued, or material
ly reduced and applied only to in
terstate highways designated as
“federal highways.”
This may not come in the 69th
Congress, but it may.
Other states have completed their
highway systems with federal aid.
Georgia has no time to spare if it
would participate on a parity, which
it is entitled by every law of justice,
to do. In Georgia the county is
the unit. It is folly, therefore, for
a county to defer or indifferently
delay—making its fiscal arrange
ments, whether by bonds or other
wise, to build its main highways
under existing circumstances as to
federal aid. County after county
has taken advantage of existing
opportunities to get federal aid on
its public highways. The state high
way department announces that it
is ready to supply its quota as the
counties ask for i.t
The county that does not do to
now is asleep and does not deserve
good roads.
More than that, such counties are
liable to wake up some bright
morning and find the offer of federal
aid withdrawn. Then such coun
ties will wake up and wonder why
they slept so long, while other coun
ties were getting the help they
needed and which the sleepy coun
ties could have obtained by the sim
ple asking.
~ALLIWANTISA
BICYCLE
AT CLOSE OF SCHOOL
Your boy or girl has said this to
you—you have promised.
We have the Bicycles plenty
of them. Let’s get together for
the joy and health of your boy
or girl. Our new models are
better. Prices lower.
BLAKELY BICYCLE SHOP.
Blakely, Ga.
We have the goods at the right
price. See us.
TARVER’S.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
FEDERAL AID
BREAKS RECORD
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A new
record for construction of Federal
! aid highways throughout the na
tion was announced last night with
publication of the annual report of
T. H. McDonald, chief of the bureau
:of public roads.
• During the last fiscal year, he
•
said, 11,328 miles of such roads
were built by federal and state
governments in co-operation, ex
ceeding by 30 per cent, the mileage
1 completed in the fiscal year 1924.
| The total mileage completed since
the passage of the first federal aid
.act in 1916, was placed at 46,485
: miles, and at the close of the' fiscal
year 1925 more than 12,000 miles
j.was under construction.
; Forty-three per cent, of the
: mileage completed during the past
year was in the sixteen states mak
ing up the east and west south cen
tral and mountain groups—Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis
isippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla-
Ihoma, Texas, Montana, Idaho, Wy
ioming, Colorado, New Mexico, Ari
! zona, Utah and Nevada.
The total cost of federal aid con
■ struction completed last year was
$242,937,488.37, of which the share
!of federal government was slll,-
■304,737.24.
The total was spread .over about
itwo years required to bring projects
|to completion. Actual disburse
, ments to the states during the period
'amounted only to $95,749,998.11.
j This sum was so said to be not more
i than ten per cent of the whole
annual expenditure for highways by
all units of government, in much of
i which the federal co-operation does
, not figure.
I Motor fuel and motor vehicles
taxes of the several states were
I found by the bureau to have been
, more than sufficient to match fed
eral appropriations and in nearly
I every state the amount appropriated
[for strictly state highways was larg
ler than the sum received by federal
; aid.
LETTERS TO
SANTA CLAUS
Little Tots of Blakely and Early
County Make Known Their Wants.
Blakely, Ga.. Dec. 15, 1925.
Dear Santa Clause:
I am counting the days for you
to com.e Please bring me a tent,
a soldier suit and an air rifle, a
pair of leggins and all kinds of fruit
and candy. Please remember my
mother, daddy and my Pa.
BILLIE LANE.
Blakely, Ga., Dec. 14, 1925.
Dear Santa:
Please bring me a basketball and
a ring. Please remember my moth;
er and my daddy. »I want some
candy also.
EDNA EARL WILSON.
OUR CHRISTMAS WISH
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May the approaching Christmas
season be happier than any that
has passed, and each succeeding
year bring joy in even fuller
measure.
We truly appreciate all the bless
ings of 1925 and in this holiday
season we broadcast our wishes
for a
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND
A HAPPY AND PROSPER
OUS NEW YEAR.
* * •» &
J. BYRD DUKE*
TJ •
i Dear Santa:
Gee, but I’m anxious for you to
j come to ray house, please bring me
a fire truck like Charlie Waller’s,
a stopper gun, a spade, rake and
hoe to dig me a river. Remember,
I’m my daddy’s ’chanic so please
bring me some automobile tools
Don’t forget Mr. Scott and Mr.
Wolfe, because they don’t ever get
me for speeding on my bicycle.
1 GEORGE ALTO WARRICK
Abbeville, Ala., Dec. 15, 1925
Dear Santa 'Claus:
I am a good little boy, and I want
you to bring me lots of things for
! Christmks.' I want a trcycicle, a
drum, an bring me heap o’ candy
i and fruits/ Don’t forget my little
brudder,'Walter. We will be at my
' granddaddy’s Murrell’s house in
i Blakely, pa. Don’t forget them.
EDWIN MEREDITH.