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NEWS BRIEFS TERSELY TOLD
President Coolidge celebrated his
51st birthday last Monday.
The Alabama Bar Association met
in Montgomery last Friday.
Montreal, Canada, reported a
light fall of snow on July 4th.
The 1928 convention of Civitan
International will meet in Detroit.
The Southern Newspaper Publish
ers’ Association met in Atlanta last
Monday.
A very severe electrical storm at
Hahira, Ga., injured 20 people last
Sunday night.
The work of gathering and curing
the Georgia tobacco crop is in pro
gress this week.
The U. S. Navy has recently pur
chased 54 bombing planes, with an
option on 96 more.
Commander Byrd announces that
he will attempt a flight over the
South Pole this Fall.
The Central of Georgia’s new
$225,000 hospital at Savannah was
formally opened last Friday.
The Phi Mu Sorority, meeting in
annual session in Macon, has voted
to continue the Healthmobile.
Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, will de
fend his title in the British Open
Golf Tournament next Monday.
The 65th annual session of the
National Education Association met
in Seattle, Wash., the past week.
A terrific heat wave gripped Chi
cago and the Middle West last week.
The death toll totaled more than 40.
A marble slab marking the spot
where Chas. A. Lindbergh first land
ed in France was dedicated last
Thursday.
The fiscal year of the U. S. Treas
ury department ended June 30th. A
surplus of 640 million dollars is re
ported on hand.
The annual meeting of the Geor
gia Division of the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union opened in
Atlanta Wednesday.
Receipts at the Atlanta postoffice
for the fiscal year ending June 30th
amounted to approximately four and
a half million dollars.
The International Christian En
deavor Society met in Cleveland the
past week. The 1928 meeting will
be held in Kansas City.
Whe Chattahoochee Valley Medical
and Surgical Society meets at Warm
Springs next Tuesday and Wednes
day, July 12th and 13th.
Last Monday was the 151st anni
versary of the signing of the Declara
tion of Independence of these
United States of America.
Wheat jumped 5 cents per bush
el last Thursday, due to reports of
dangerous black rust in South Da
kota. Cotton went off nine points.
An English company, manufacture
ing textiles, shoes and allied prod
ucts, has announced the removal of
their plant from London to Rock
mart, Ga., 50 miles north of Atlan
ta. This will represent an invest
ment of a million and a half dollars.
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Quality Goods-
ALWAYS AT A
BETTER
PRICE
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Milton Bryant |
Service With a Smile
Watts Gunn, of Atlanta, repre
senting Georgia Tech, won the Na
tional Intercollegiate Golf Tourna
ment at Garden City, N. Y., the past
week.
John Dempsey, brother of Jack
Dempsey, ex-heavy weight champion,
killed his wife and then committed
suicide at Schenectady, N. Y., last
Saturday.
Lou Gehrig, first baseman of the
New York American League team,
has forged ahead of Babe Ruth as
the home run star of baseball so far
this year.
22 people in the South were kilted
'over the 4th of July holidays and as
1 many more injured by drownings,
grade crossings, auto accidents and
fireworks.
Young Stribling won a referee’s
decision over Chuck Wiggins at Ma
con Monday. The decision came as
a result of a foul by Wiggins in the
6th round.
Col. Geo. M. Bailey, editor of the
Houston Post-Dispatch, died last
Monday. He was at one time with
the Columbus (Ga.) Times. He was
born in Portland, Me.
Recent estimates place the number
of radio receiving sets in the United
States at 6,333,950. Georgia ranks
18th in the list of States, with ap
proximately 92,000 sets.
The 1928 annual convention of
the mystic order Veiled Prophets of
the Enchanted Realm (the Ghrotto),
an auxiliary of Freemasonry, will
be held in Richmond, Va.
Hollins N. Randolph, of Atlanta, ■
was elected president and chairman
of The Georgian Company, publish- i
ers of the Atlanta Georgian and
Sunday American, last week.
Canada celebrated the 60th anni
versary of the birth of the Dominion
last Friday. A feature of the cele
bration was the visit of Col.
Chas. A. Lindbergh to Ottawa.
Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, U. S.
army aviator, was killed last Satur
day at Ottawa, Canada, when his
plane crashed. He was one of 12
escorts of Col.’ Chas. A. Lindbergh.
The U. S. government will shortly
undertake experiments with a float- I
ing airport out in the Atlantic
ocean in conjunction with engineers
of the DuPont Works at Wilmington,
Del.
America captured four out lof five
championships at Wimbledon, Eng
land, the past week, viz: Women’s
Singles, Miss Helen Wills; Men’s
Doubles, Wm. T. Tilden and Francis
T. Hunter; Women’s Doubles, Miss
Helen Wills and Miss Elizabeth Ryan;
Mixed Doubles, Miss Elizabeth Ryan
and Francis T. Hunter.
Commander Byrd and his three
companions made a successful pas
sage from Long Island, New York, to
France, despite the worst kind of
weather, last week. On reaching
Paris, they were blinded by fog and
rain and w'ere forced to land 175
miles west of the capital in the At
lantic ocean near Ver-Sur-Mer. The
total distance was about 4,200 miles.
The plane, America, was damaged,
but the crew were saved.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
ROTARY CLUB HAS
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
Large Number of Visitors and Ex
cellent Talks Are Heard.
Wednesday’s luncheon of the Ro
tary Club was featured by a number
of excellent musical and vocal selec
tions and interesting talks.
Mr. T. E. Bush, well known pianist,
delighted the Club with a musical
and vocal rendition, “The End of a
Perfect Day.” Misses Amzie Jones,
Neta Barham and Carolyn Fryer
| won a round of applause and encore
on the singing of “Muddy Waters,”
and responded with other charming
numbers.
Messrs. H. H. Golson, R. K. Stokes
and G. E. Price, of Abbeville, repre
sentatives of the Abbeville Food
Products Corporation, were guests of
the Club, the first two making short
talks. Mr. Golson’s address was a
masterly argument in behalf of the
growing of food stuffs for home con
sumption, and citing many advantages
to be gained by so doing. He point
ed out that under the all-cotton sys
tem, the farmer has never prosper
ed. He particularly stressed the
importance of the turnip as a money
crop, and stated that S3OO could be
derived from the growing of one
acre of this vegetable for canning
purposes. His talk was one of the
most impressive and convincing argu
ments for diversification ever deliver
ed in this city. Mr. Stokes spoke
of the progress his cannery was mak
ing and talked optimistically of the
prospects for such enterprises though
out the South.
Prof. Haygood Smith, of Georgia
Military Academy, guest of Rotarian
Vinson, made a short talk on boys,
which was thoroughly Stress
ing the fact that the boys of today
are the citizens of tomorrow, he
urged the Rotarians to foster any
movement having for its end the
building of character among the
younger generation.
Miss Claire Phillips, of Piper, Ala.,
guest of Rotarian Wade, delighted
the Club with two readings,
the first of which, “Maggie and
Jiggs at the Golden Gate,” provoked
warm applause.
Rotarian Gray called upon the
Club to assist him in an effort to
interest certain manufacturing inter
ests who aZ? planning to come to
Georgia in locating in Blakely. The
Club voted to make a united effort to
land them, in the event of . which
they would purchase the Blakely
Hardwood Lumber Company plant, or
part of it, it; the deal could be con
summated. i
The list Os visitors included Mrs.
D. M. Wadfh Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Phillips of felontevallo, Ala., Miss
Claire Phillips of Piper, Ala., Prof.
Haygood Smith of G. M. A., College
Park, Ga., Rev. W. T. Bodenhamer,
Mr. T. E. Bush, Mr. John Under
wood, Mr. Joe Vinson, Jr., Misses
Neta Barham, Amzie Jones and Caro
lyn Fryer, Rotarian Sam Pendleton
of Avon Park, Fla., Messrs. H. H.
Golson, R. K. Stokes and G. E.
Price of Abbeville, Ala.
NEARLY 1000 PEOPLE
TAKE TYPHOID SHOTS
Dr. J. G. Standifer, Acting Health
Officer of Early county, reports that
through Saturday, July 2nd, he has
administered the full three-shot an
ti-typhoid fever treatment to 952
people. He has also vaccinated 626
I people for small-pox.
Dr. Standifer reports that the peo
ple in general are continuing to avail
themselves of the opportunity to take
this typhoid insurance. This is quite
necessary, too, for typhoid is a dis
■ ease of summer and fall. The De
i partment of Health of Early county
hopes to be able to report many more
people having taken the vaccine be
fore the close of summer.
The Health Department wishes to
stress the fact that there is NO ma
larial vaccine. Prevention consists
in protecting one’s self from the ma
larial mosquito.
COMMISSIONERS IN
SESSION TUESDAY
The county commissioners held
their regular monthly meeting Tues
day, the full board being present—
Grady Holman, chairman, Clarence
Martin, T. G. Harvey, Jr., C. D.
Tyler and Willie Wiley.
A few road defaulters were ex
cused because of being over age or
under age.
Three tracts of land bought by the
county at tax sales a few years ago
were resold to the former owners,
viz: Steve Mitchell, Mrs. Trudy Cor
ley and J. C. Bostwick.
The rest of the session was devot
ed to issuing county scrip on bills
| presented.
CHEVROLET
LESS THAN 1c A MILE
Yesterday, Mr. J. A. Winslow, Agricultural Agent
• the Central of Georgia Railroad, visited us. The rail
road requires him to keep an itemized statement of his
car’s expense. He showed us this statement. It showed
that from March 15th to June 30th he had run his Chev
rolet 9,568 miles at a total cost for gasoline, oil and re
pairs of but $90.91 less than lea mile.
THAT’S “ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION”
Calhoun Motor Company
PROF. J. L. GRAHAM
HEADS MILLEN SCHOOL
Millen, Ga.—The board of trus
tees of Millen High school has named
Prof. J. L. Graham, former super
intendent of the Blakely High school,
superintendent of the local school j
for two years. Prof. Graham is a
graduate of Emory University and
is now taking his master’s degree at
Columbia University. Mrs. Graham
w’ill be remembered here as Miss
Fannie Blitch, when her father, Rev.
W. M. Blitch, was pastor of the
Millen Methodist church for four
years.
Friends of Prof, and Mrs. Graham
will read the above news dispatch
with much interest, for they have
many friends among the readers of
the News, made during their two
years residence in Blakely, who will
wish them all success and happi
ness in their new fields of endeavor.
Blakely reluctantly loses this splen
did young couple. The News also
learns that Miss Winifred Brooks, a
popular and efficient teacher in the
Blakely schools for several years
past, has tendered her resignation to
the local school board and will go
to the Millen school the coming
scholastic year.
FORMER EARLY COUNTIAN
MARRIED IN CALIFORNIA
The Covina, Calif., Argus of July
Ist brings us news of the marriage
of Mr. George H. Berry, a son of
Mr. E. T. Berry, of Early county, on
June 29th. The Argus’ announce
ment of the wedding reads as fol
lows :
“Wednesday noon in Riverside oc
curred the wedding of Miss Elva
Carter, of West Palm Beach, Fla.,
and Mr. George H. Berry. Rev.
Catherwood of the First Baptist
church of Riverside, formerly of Co
vina, officiated. The bridal couple
were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Berry, the former a brother of
the groom. A wedding breakfast
was served at the Mission Inn. Af
ter a short honeymoon at San Anton
;io Canyon, Mr. and Mrs. Berry will
visit in Covina for a few days, and
then go to Yosemite valley, after
which they will make their home in
Fresno, where Mr. Berry has a
promising position as a cotton buyer
for a Los Angeles firm.
From Cotton, Too!
He: “And who made the first cot
ton gin?”
Young Thing: “Heavens! Are they
making it from that, too?”—Exc.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
There will be sold by the under
signed, at public outcry, before the
■ court house door of said county in
Blakely, Ga.. on the first Tuesday in
August, 1927. within the legal hours
of sale, to the highest bidder, the
following described real estate, to-
■ wit:
All of lot of land number fifty
five (55) in the 28th District of Ear
ly county. Georgia, except the follow
ing parcels: 50 acres in the form
of a square in the southwest corner
of said lot, 25 acres in the shape of
a rectangle lying just north of the
50 acre tract above described and
extending from the west line of said
lot east as far as the 50 acre tract
extends, and 25 acres in the north
west corner of said lot in the shane
of a rectangle extending from the
west line of said lot as far east as
the 50 acre tract extends; said tract
of land containing 150 acres, more
or less.
The above described land levied
on and to be sold as the property of
George F. Pickle and John D. Pickle
under and by virtue of a common law
fi. fa. issued from the May Term.
1927. of the City Court of Blakely
of said county in favor of The
Prudential Insurance Company of
America, a corporation, against
George F. Pickle and John D. Pickle.
Levy made and returned to me by
Sid Howell, deputy sheriff, this 6th
day of July, 1927.
‘ T. J. HOWELL, SR., Sheriff.
Cooled .by the Breezes from the Arctic Nu-Air System
SENECA
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
T onight—Thursday.
BLANCHE SWEET
—in—
“DIPLOMACY”
A Paramount Picture
—and—
, FELIX, THE CAT, CARTOON
7:30 and 8:50 P. M. 15c and 35c
Friday
COLLEEN MOORE
—in—
“ORCHIDS AND ERMINE”
Acknowledged as the most popular actress on the
screen today, Colleen is a sure-fire hit in this gay tale
of a telephone girl. She’s simply great!
—and—
Bluebird Comedy
Saturday
808 CUSTER
—in—
“THE FIGHTING HOMBRE”
Watch this fiery western actor do his stuff!
—and—
“ House Without a Key”
Monday and Tuesday
JOHN GILBERT
—in—
“THE SHOW”
You remernber his work in “Flesh and the Devil.”
He hits the bull’s eye again in “The Show.”
—and —
Educational Comedy
Wednesday and Thursday
BETTY BRONSON
—in—
“THE CAT’S PAJAMAS”
An amusing and highly entertaining romantic com
edy-drama, with pretty Bronson prettier than ever.
Coming Attractions:
“WE’RE IN THE NAVY NOW”
“SLIDE, KELLY, SLIDE”
LON CHANEY in “MR. WU”
“THE GREAT GATSBY”