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SPECIAL SALE ON RANGES!
For One Week we are Offering 20 per cent
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RANGES LS®r
Anything from a Majestic Range to a Four Cap Stove. Now ~
is the time to buy that stove you have been needing so long.
' LET US SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE! '
MF Don’t forget we are headquarters for Galvanized Roofing, Wire Fencing, Building
Material of all kind. Remember, “We Sell for Less.”
Tarver Furniture & Hdw. Co.
BLAKELY, GA. COLQUITT, GA.
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News of
July 6, 1877.)
The new uniforms for the Early
Guards is being made up. Now is
the time to join.
Our devil don’t know what to think
of a man who tells him in the morning
to hurry up w*hile it is cool, and the
thermometer then marking close to
90.
So far as we could see, people in
Blakely observed the 4th of July in
the most patriotic way possible, by
attending to their usual occupations.
(The Glorious 4th did not occupy a
very high place in the esteem of
Southerners in 1877 as the civil war
wounds had not healed. It was not
until Grover Cleveland, Democrat,
was elected president in 1884 that our
people took more than a perfunctory
interest in the national holiday.)
Mrs. C. B. Wooten of Albany is now
On a visit to her sisters in this place,
Mrs. Capt. Davis and Mrs. Judge
Jones. She is accompanied by three
of her children. (The Mrs. Judge
Jones mentioned herein was the ma
ternal grandmother of our young
friend, Mr. Henry Sherman.)
Mr. Hugh Carmichael, whose right
leg was amputated a few weeks ago,
made his appearance on our streets
on Saturday last on crutches. He in
formed us that he had no backset
from the time of the amputation until
his recovery.
Our Baptist friends will bear in
mind that the next general meeting of
their district of the Bethel Associa
tion is to convene with the church at
Blakely on Friday before the sth
Sabbath in this month. A full attend
ance is expected, especially of min
isters and deacons.
Drowned in a well, one day last
week, a small negro boy, some five
or six years old. The drowned boy
was a child of a negro woman known
as Big Liza. She occupied a house
at the former residence of Mr. W. H.
Alexander, and is in the habit of go
ing out to do a day’s work, leaving her
children, of which she had two, behind
her. When she came home on the
day of the drowning she found her
smaller child, a boy about two or
three years old, hung fast on the gate,
and when asked by his mother where
his brother was he pointed to the
well. On going to the well the
mother found her child floating on
the water, a corpse. (Big Liza was
was the mother of the well known
colored preacher-carpenter, Rob
Knight. Rob was probably the kid
hung on to the gate.)
Another week of extreme heat, and
still no rain. Crops are now suffer
ing terribly in this immediate section
from drouth. A few more days of
such extreme heat, without rain, will
almost ruin the corn crop.
Times must have been exceedingly
dull around the court house that week
for neither ordinary nor sheriff had
any advertisements for the month of
July, and Dr. Dostor was still the
only local advertiser.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ON
400 MILE TRIP ON SKATES
Mrs. Henry Pfetzing and her
daughter, who started from Kansas
City, Mo., last week on roller skates,
concluded a 400-mile trip to Peoria,
IU., in four days. They said they
skated 215 miles of the journey. In
some towns they were barred from
skating through, and several times
were forced to abandon their skates
on account of bad weather.
“I would not take a million dollars
for my experience,” said Mrs. Pfet
zing.
Proof Conclusive.
Judge: “But what evidence have
; you that these men are insane?”
Officer: “Well, your Honor, the
! Scotchman was standing on the curb
' throwing handfuls of money into the
street and the Hebrew was picking
it up and giving it back to him.”—
Exchange.
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“Cupid Up to Date” should create
as mufli excitement here as Lind
bergh did in Paris. Go out and see
up-to-date Cupid doing his stunts.
I
F*»LV CfWWTY NEWS. BLAKELY G EOF GT*
BUMPER PIMIENTO
CROP IN JACKSON I
i
Jackson, Ga., July s.—Owners of
the Jackson canning factory, grow-1
ers and business men of the com- ■
munity are jubilant over the out- ,
look for a bumper pimiento pepper ■
crop in the Jackson territory. The :
canning factory, which is now under
going repairs and being placed in
condition, will begin operation about
August 10 on a part time basis and j
by August 20 will be operating at
full capacity. The pepper' crop is i
generally declared to be the most |
promising in the territory and of.
the industry in this section. Some I
planters now have peppers almost ful-;
ly matured.
The best cultural methods are be
ing employed to rush the crop. Ow
ing to heavy and continued rains,
grass got a good start in the fields, •
but this has about been eliminated
and the crop is now in fine growing
condition and applications of nitrates
have been made and will be repeated
to insure' full fruitage.
Announcement is made that J. E. :
Rutter, of Rossville, Ind., an expe-j
rienced canner of life long connection
with the canning industry, has been i
secured for this season as general
superintendent of the local plant.
It is now thought that the canning
plant will be operated on day and
night shifts, giving employment to
about 250 to 300 persons and the j
weekly payroll will amount to from
SIO,OOO to $15,000.
OLD LAW HAD REAL BITE
FOR ALL TRANSGRESSORS
Around 1800 the law had a “bite”
to it in Trumbull county, Ohio, for
an old history just unearthed tells
what a self-organized tribunal did to i
a man convicted of stealing from his
fellow boarder.
The defendant was sentenced to
be “divested of his apparel, tied to !
a tree and subjected to the bites of
mosquitoes for an hour.”
MASONIC NOTICE.
Magnolia Lodge No.!
86 Fret and Accept
ed Masons holds reg
ular commun.eations
on the first and third |
Monday nights in
each month. The |
time is 8:00 P. M. in the summer
and 7:00 P. M. in the winter. Vis
iting brothers are extended a cordial |
invitation to attend.
J. O. BRIDGES, W. M.
R. H. STUCKEY. JR., Sec’y.
attention: I
PEANUT FARMERS! I
We are Early county distributors for the g
LILLISTON PEANUT PICKER |
Our experience in the Peanut Shelling business has
taught us the advantage to the farmer of properly pick- g
ing his peanuts. This means much to him and to us and
for this reason we have taken the sales agency for the g
Lilliston. g
We have personally inspected the new Model Lillis- g
ton, which is equipped with Hyatt Roller Bearings, and g
we find this to be superior to anything else on the mar- g
v ket, and we do not see how the farmers who expect to g
grow Peanuts at a profit can afford to use anything &
else.
It has as large capacity as any Picker, it is made g
right near you where any part may be secured on short g
notice, and does a class of work that can not be done g
with anything else. g
IT WILL BE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO g
CONSULT US BEFORE YOU BUY. WE 1
HAVE A PROPOSITION THAT WILL g
APPEAL TO YOU. g
The Blakely Peanut Co. I
■ BLAKELY, GEORGIA g