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Wire Fencing, Galvanized Roofing, Cedar Shingles, DricK, Lime,
Cement, Doors, French Doors, Locks—Anything to Build a House
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A FENCE THAT IS REALLY HOG PROOF
Our Galvanized Roofing is the heaviest made. Don’t forget we always have a car of Cedar
Shingles on hand. The best shingles that you can buy. The kind that lasts the longest.
SEE TARVER BEFORE YOU BUY-WE ALWAYS HAVE THE BEST PRICE
Tarver Furniture & Hdw. Co.
BLAKELY, GA. COLQUITT, GA.
NARCOTICS DEALERS
MUST REGISTER BY
FIRST DAY OF JULY
LAW PROVIDES PENALTY FOR
FAILURE TO COMPLY
WITH PROVISIONS.
Over five thousand doctors, drug
gists, manufacturers and others
whose duty it is to register under the
Harrison Narcotic Act, will have to
do so between now and July Ist, or
be delinquent in their registration
and become subject to the legal
penalty for failure to register.
The law provides that “Every per
son who imports, manufactures, pro
duces, compounds, sells, deals in,
dispenses, or gives away opium or
cocoa leaves or any compound, man
ufacture, salt, derivative, or prepara
tion thereof, shall register with the
Collector of Internal Revenue afid
pay the special tax provided there
for.” If you engage in any of the
above you must re-register and pay
the tax or be subject to the penalty.
Blank forms have been mailed to
all taxpayers of record, but failure
to receive these blanks does not re
lieve the taxpayer of responsibility
for registration, and if you did not
receive the blank forms write the
Collector’s office for them. The
forms should be executed complete
ly and accurately, and returned to
the office of the Collector of Inter
nal Revenue in Atlanta. Ga. Per
sonal checks can not be accepted in
payment of this special tax. Certi
fied or cashier’s checks, postoffice
money orders, or cash should be
used, but do not send cash through
the mail. If you do it will be pure
ly at your own risk. List the inven
tory of the narcotic goods that you
have on hand. If you have no nar
cotics on hand then indicate on the
blank form “none.”
The taxes to be paid for registra
tion are as follows:
Importers, manufacturers, produc
ers or compounders, per annum,
$24.00.
Wholesale dealers, per annum,
$12.00.
Retail dealers, per annum, $6.00.
Hospitals, per annum, SI.OO.
Physicians, dentists, veterinary
surgeons, and other practitioners who
lawfully distribute, dispense, give
away or administer narcotics, per
annum, SI.OO.
Paregoric and other narcotic prep
arations, manufacturers of or dealers
in such narcotic preparations (per
sons who sell preparations of any
kind containing a narcotic drug in a
quantity exempted from payment of
HEALTHY AT 102 YEARS,
HAS NEVER HAD KISS
“Kiss your wife every time you
leave home ahd you’ll live to a ripe
old age,” is the advice of Charles
Robertson, a safety director, of Chi
cago, who says domestic felicity
tends to create a mental attitude
which leads to personal precautions
against injury.
Abe Gardner, aged inmate of the
Jewish old people’s home, also of
Chicago, is the leader of the oppo
sition. He says:
“Nothing to it! I’m 102 years old,
I’m healthy and happy and I’ve nev
er been married and I’ve never been
kissed. Safety first!”
DEBT CUT A BILLION
DOLLARS THIS YEAR
Tax Payers of U. S. Are Saved
$63,000,000 Interest.
The government has reduced the
public debt $6,611,000,000. This
extraordinary record was disclosed
by Ogden Mills, under-secretary of
the treasury, in an address before
the New York State Bankers Asso
ciation.
Mr. Mills stated that the debt,
which reached the high-water mark
of $25,484,000,000 on June 30, 1919,
had now been cut to $18,873,000,-
000.
Last year the treasury depart
ment retired $873,000,000 of debts,
and in the fiscal year which ends on
June 30 the debt retirement will
aggregate more than $1,000,000,000.
This means, to be sure, fewer gov
ernment securities for the investor,
but it spells an enormous saving in
interest charges and consequent re
lief to the taxpayer.
How great the relief will be is
strikingly illustrated by the fact that
interest payment/ next year will be
less by $63,000,000 than during the
current fiscal year, due entirely to
debt reduction and funding opera
tions.
stamp tax) must register and pay a
fee of SI.OO.
Our three districts of the United
States Court have on their dockets
entirely too many cases arising from
violations of the Harrison Narcotic
Law, and many of these cases are
against some of our reputable citi
zens. It is dangerous to neglect
or postpone this registration. It must
be done by July Ist. Why not do
it now?
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
News Briefs Tersely Told
Rotarians from 10 cities in south
west Georgia are meeting in Albany
today.
The Georgia Division of the Amer
ican Legion met in Savannah the
past week for the annual convention.
Vienna and the Austrian Republic
gave Chamberlain and Levine a
great ovation on their arrival last
week.
The Illinois legislature defeated a
bill providing for a state referendum
on repeal of the State prohibition
law last week.
Commander Francesco de Pinedo,
Italian aviator, returned to Rome
last Thursday, after finishing a four
continent flight.
Watermelon shipments from South
west Georgia are now becoming
heavy. The peach crop is off 50 per
cent, and the shipments are slowing
up.
Representatives of Great Britain,
Japan and the United States met at
Geneva the past week in a naval
armament conference to discuss
further naval limitations.
Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh received
a wildly enthusiastic welcome when
he arrived in his airplane, “The
Spirit of St. Louis, at his home town
of St. Louis last Friday.
Passenger air service between
New York and Miami will be put into
operation within four months with
Bellance planes, it was announced in
New York the past week.
If you intend to place your order with me for a
BENTHALL PEANUT
PICKER
place it early, as the peanut crop is large and
the late orders may be too late.
C. S. MIDDLETON.
Have on hand a few more tons ARSENIC
for sale at $8.50 per hundred pounds.
The 1928 annual* session of the
' Imperial Council Ancient Arabic Or
i der Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will
|be held at Miami, Fla., with Mahi
i Temple as the convention host.
I Miss Del Ray Adams of Bowman
I was elected Grand Matron of the
• Grand Chapter of Georgia, Order
of the Eastern Star, at the annual
session in Macon the past week.
Increase of pay for firemen, host
lers and helpers on twelve railroads
in* the southeast went into effect last
Monday as a result of arbitration
through the U. S. Board of Media
tion. *
3,000 STATE TEACHERS
WILL BE INSTRUCTED
IN HEALTH EDUCATION
Three thousand Georgia teachers
will be instructed this summer in a
special course in health education,
Dr. James P. Faulkner, director of
the State Tuberculosis association,
announced in Atlanta Saturday.
Under the supervision of Dr.
Faulkner, a special course has been
prepared and introduced in thirteen
white and four negro summer schools
of the state, it was said. In this
course emphasis is placed on the
i study of food problems, the applica
! tion of mouth hygiene, the study of
‘ mental hygiene, studies of tubercu
i losis, malaria, accident prevention
i and other special studies. A compe
■ tent staff of instructors has been
I appointed to present the course, it
i was said.
HALF OF 42 BILLION OF
1927 SALES ON CREDIT
Fifty per cent of the estimated
| $42,000,000,000 in retail sales dur
ling 1927 were credit sales, J. R.
i Hewitt, of Baltimore, Md., vice pres
ident of the Retail Credit Men’s As
sociation, told the National Associa
tion of Credit Men assembled in
their thirty-second annual meeting
lat Louisville, Ky.
The speaker dealt at length upon
the unity of purpose and plan of the
two bodies, and upon their justifica
tion for existence.
“If there is any justification for
the existence of an association of
credit men,” he declared, “it lies in
the ability to render a service to
the merchants of the country by of
fering proper protection of their ac
counts receivable.”
ARMY OF GRASSHOPPERS
THREATENS TO DESTROY
CALIFORNIA GRAIN CROP
Klamath Falls, Ore.—Legions of
i grasshoppers continued their advance
in the Tule lake district of Modoc
and Siskiyou counties in northern
California Saturday, threatening to
strip more than 20,000 acres of
grazing and grain land and every
vestige of vegetation.
Efforts to halt the insect hosts to
jdate have proved ineffective, as the
| ’hoppers have been swarming out of
| egg beds in a continual stream faster
| than they can be killed off.
One army of the insects struck
out on the west side of Tule lake
Friday and stripped 100 acres of
grain of every shoot of green. Heavy
damage was done in other sections.
Thirty tons of poisoned bran and
molasses have been distributed in
the fight to hold the front against
the ’hoppers.
TO CLEAN OFF ENTERPRISE
CHURCH CEMETERY JUNE 30
The News has been requested to
| announce that the cemetery of
Enterprise Freewill Baptist church
I will be cleaned off on the 30th of
June. Those who have friends and
| loved ones buried there are urged to
I come and help with the work. A
I revival meeting will begin on the
2nd of July. Rev. W. T. Hutto will
assist Rev. Ingram in the meeting.
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend the meeting.
TOBACCO GROWERS
I TO HOLD MEETING
; AT TIFTON JULY 1
REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING
FROM SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
IS EXPECTED.
A representative gathering of to
bacco growers coming from points
throughout South Georgia is expected
at the Coastal Plain Experiment Sta
tion at Tifton Friday, July Ist. Be
ginning at 10 o’clock specialists from
the Experiment Station and State
College of Agriculture will show the
growers through the tobacco experi
mental fields where a large number
of experiments are in progress that
are of interest to every one growing
tobacco. Such practical subjects as
soil, fertilizers, varieties, cropping
systems, disease control and various
steps connected with growing a qual
ty of tobacco that will command a
good price will be discussed. The
visitors will have the opportunity of
making comparisons out in the field
of different fertilizer treatments, the
principal varieties grown side by side,
various rotations or cropping systems,
the effects of lime, cover crops, etc.
For the past six years the Coastal
Plain Experiment Station has been
conducting tobacco experiments in
cooperation with the State College of
Agriculture and the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. During this time
much information has been obtained
that has been of benefit to the grow
er.
S. T. NANCE APPOINTED
PERMANENT CARRIER
Mr. S. T. Nance has received ap
pointment as carrier on Rural Route
No. 2, established from the Arling
ton office on April 16th. The route
is nearly forty miles long and serves
patrons in Early and Calhoun coun
ties. It pays a salary of about $2,400
a year with an allowance of about
$360 a year for upkeep of the car
rier’s equipment.
Mr. Nance has been temporary
carrier on the route since its es
tablishment, pending the appointment
of a permanent carrier.—Arlington
Courier.
Zane Grey’s “Forlorn River” at
the Seneca tonight.