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And as usual, we are ready to to serve
you with anything you may need in that line,
such as Fruit Jars, Jar Tops, Jar Rubbers and
Jelly Glasses. We have a good supply now
on hand and guarantee to give you the
very best value at the very lowest price.
Be sure and look our stock over
and get our prices before you
buy. Come to see see us.
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Phone 108 Quick Delivery
COTTON GINNING
FIGURES GIVEN
Crop of 1929 Fell Short of Estimate*
Made by Bureau.
Washington, D. C.—Cotton pro
duction in 1929 was placed at 14,-
828,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
■weight by the department of agri
culture Tuesday in its revised esti
mate of the crop. That compares
with an estimate of 14,919,000 bales
made in December last year and the
census bureau’s final ginning fig
ures of 14,821,499 bales of 500
pounds gross weight, made March 20
this year. The 1928 crop was 14,-
477,847 bales.
The area in cultivation July Ist
last year was 47,067,000 acres, com
pared with an pstimate of 47,569,-
000 acres made on August Ist, and
the area picked was 45,79.3,000
acres, compared with an estimate of
45,981,000 acres, made in December.
The yield of lint cotton picked
per acre was placed at 155.0 pounds,
compared with 155..3 pounds, esti
mated in December, and with 152.9
pounds, the final yield of the 1928
crop.
The production in 1929 by states,
bales rounded to thousands and al
lowances made for cross-state gin
nings, was:
Virginia, 48,000.
North Carolina, 747,000.
South Carolina, 8,30,000.
Georgia, 1,343,000.
Florida, 29,000.
Missouri, 220,000.
Tennessee, 515,000.
Alabama, 1,342,000.
Mississippi, 1,915,000.
Louisiana, 809,000.
Texas, 3,940,000.
Oklahoma, 1,143,000.
Arkansas, 1,435,000.
New Mexico, 90.000.
Arizona, 153,000.
California, 260,000.
All other states, 9,000.
POLICE COURT CASES
ARE DISPOSED OF
The following police court cases,
docketed by Officers Strickland and
McLendon, were disposed of by Act
ing Recorder J. 0. Bridges Monday
morning:
Henry Styles, charged with dis
orderly conduct, was given a $lO
fine.
A $lO fine was plastered on Hol
ly Brown, also charged with disor
derly conduct.
J. D. Brown was fined $5.00 on a
charge of being drunk.
James Johnson, also charged with
being drunk, was fined $5.00.
Arthur Wiggins, on a charge of
disorderly conduct, was given a 100
day sentence on the streets.
FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT,
PATAULA CIRCUIT.
To the Voters of Early County:
I take this method of announcing
my candidacy for Judge of Superior
Court Pataula Circuit, subject to the
rules laid down for the conduct of
the State primary on September 10.
If elected, it will be my earnest de
sire to discharge the duties of this
important office without fear or fa
vor, and in an impartial manner. I
deeply appreciate the splendid ma
jority given me by the people of
Early county in my former race,
in which there were three candidates,
and shall appreciate your support in
this campaign.
Respectfully,
CHAS. W. WORRILL.
RED CROSS INSTITUTE
FOR CHAPTER WORKERS
To Be Conducted at Gulfport, Mi**.,
May 25th Through 31 *t.
Washington, D. C., May 21.—An
institute for chapter workers is to
be conducted by the Red Cross at
Gulfport, Miss., from May 25th
through the 31st, dealing with the
nature and technique of its contin
uing peace-time services. All chap
ters in Alabama, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Flori
da have been invited to send one or
more workers, who will, on their
return, give the local unit the ben
efit of their instruction.
The institute, held in the Great
Southern Hotel at Gulfport, will be
directed by Everett Dix, assistant
manager of the eastern area of the
Red Cross. He will be assisted by
Miss I. Malinde Havey, national di
rector of the public health nursing
service; by Miss Edith Spray, assist
ant to the national director of war
service, and by A. L. Schafer, di
rector of field operations of disaster
relief, who has been in charge of
relief work in various disasters in
the Southern states. These instruct
ors come from the national Red
Cross headquarters in Washingtno.
COUNTRY INHABITED
20,000 YEARS AGO
Opinion of Museum Director Follow
in;: Discovery of Camp Fire Ashes.
Los Angeles, Calif.—The first con
clusive proof that man lived on the
American continent 20,000 or 30,-
000 years ago is claimed by James
A. B. Scherer, director of the South
west Museum, says an Associated
Press story.
Ashes of a camp fire under pleis
tocene rock, discovered by a field
party led by Dr. Mark R. Harring
ton, 21 miles from Las Vegas, Ne
vada, were cited by Dr. Scherer in
support of his assertion.
Doctor Scherer described the dis
covery of the camp fire ashes as the
“most outstanding anthropological
find ever made in the United States.”
The Southwest Museum, in con
junction with the California Insti
tute of Technology, has been ex
ploring the cave since last March.
Doctor Harrington, curator of the
museum, and Doctor Chester Stock,
of the institute, early in their ex
plorations discovered dates from an
atlatl, a weapon that antedates the
bow and arrow, and the skull of a
giant ground sloth. The work since
that time has been directed toward
discovery of some evidence that man
preceded the sloth in the cave. Doc
tor Harrington, in reporting the dis
covery by telegram to Dr. Scherer, |
said:
“Have found in one of gypsum
cave’s rooms a camp fire of our
sloth hunters, a patch of real char
coal under layer of unbroken strata
(of the pleistocene era) in one top-1
most of which are found basketl
maker and early Pueblo artifacts.!
This find established association of }
man and sloth beyond question. Will ■
leave inposition for Doctor Stock of [
institute to see.”
“Until recently,” Doctor Scherer
said, “it was believed that man was
a late comer to North America, but
Doctor Harrington now has proved
conclusively that men of high intel
ligence lived here twenty and per
haps thirty thousand or more years
ago, instead of less than 10,000
years, as formerly believed.
“It now appears that America
was discovered originally by wan
dering groups of Mongloids and that
these first men to come here came
from Eastern Asia, byway of the
Bering Sea.”
Keep trying to improve your skill
on anything, matter* not the under
taking.—advt.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA
A THOUGHT for the DAY
By
AMOS R. WELLS
MOSES’ FATHER-IN-LAW.
Moses was fortunate in having a
sagacious father-in-law and in pos
sessing the wisdom to listen to his
advice and follow it. The great law
giver had been frittering away his
time and strength on petty affairs
which could be quite as well han
dled by lesser men. His father-in
law taught him to reserve himself for
the most important matters.
Thus we also should focus our pow
ers on the biggest things of which
we are capable, and refuse to be tied
up with trivialities. In Thoreau’s
Journal he relates how once the
great orator and statesman, Webster,
sailing with his man Peterson, saw
a sea-serpent rearing a horselike
head some six feet above the water,
with a body the th : ckness of a cask
trailing behind. Said Webster to
Peterson: “Never say a word about
this to any one, for if it should be
known, I would have to tell the story
to every one I met.” What to a
smaller man would have seemed the
big event of his life, was to the mas
ter mind of Daniel Webster a trifle
to which he would not have his
reputation bound.
“Every great matter they shall
bring unto thee, but every small
matter they shall judge themselves.”
Read EXODUS 8:13-26.
(Copyrighted Christian Herald) j
FLETCHER M. POWERS TRANS
LATED.
“There is no death:
What seems so is transition.
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb to the fields elysian,
Whose portals we call death.”
The subject of this sketch was an
old Blakely boy, he being bom here
48 years ago, the son of Dr. and
Mrs. A. F. Powers. His childhood
and young manhood was passed
among the scenes of the home of
his parents and he grew up with the
kind of environments most condu
cive to the building of character and
nobility.
When he was twelve years of 'age I
he became a member of the Metho
dist church and continued his mem-,
bership in good standing to the day
of his translation. Twenty-five years
ago he was married to Miss Effie
Jones, of Abbeville, Ala. Later he
moved to Atlanta, Ga., where he
served with unusual success both as
city policeman and city detective. In
the latter capacity he was given a
complimentary trip to Washington,
D. C., to view the inauguration of
President Woodrow Wilson. In 1924
he moved to Florida, and there he
took up real estate as a business,
and in this venture he was more |
than successful. His business acu
men enabled him to take his place
among the successful real estate men '
of that section.
It was a pleasure to know Fletcher |
Powers, and to understand some-1
thing of his fine character. He sprang
from one of Early county’s best fam-1
ilies, and rich was his heritage in;
blood and home environment. His '
father, Dr, Powers, was a splendid,
gentleman, and his mother was of I
that old school of dignified and
proud women that made our be-1
loved Southland what it is today.
We were grieved to learn that |
Fletcher Powers was dead, and!
shocked when we knew that his
death was so untimely. He wasj
killed in an automobile accident at |
Miami, Fla., and it will take the i
healing action of time to bring us
to a realization of the fact that he
is gone.
He leaves behind to mourn his
passing a widow, two sisters, Mrs.
T. S. Chandler and Mrs. W. A.
Chandler, both of this city; two
brothers, Charley Powers, of Uma-|
tilla, Fla., and Pat Chandler, of
Dallas, Texas.
The face of Fletcher Powers will
be missed by the host of friends
that loved him, and by those of his
own blood and family. The ways of
Providence are past finding out, but
some day we shall understood it all.
Death came sudden to our friend,
but it might well have been so, for
who know r s but that it is best to slip
away unmarred by days of pain and
wasting.
“Soul, we have been long together
Through sunshine and through
cloudy weather.
’Tis hard to part when friends are
dear;
Perhaps ’twill cause a sigh or tear:
Then steal away, give little warning;
Choose thine own time;
Say not good-bye, but in some
brighter clime
Bid me good-morning.”
MRS. BUFORD STEWART BINION
Milledgeville, Ga. —Mrs. Buford
Stewart. Binion, widow of O. L. Bin
ion, of Sparta, died Sunday after
noon at the home of her son, Dr.
Richard Binion, here.- Mrs. Binion
was visiting her son when she suffer
ed a fatal heart attack.
She is survived by two sons, Har
ry Binion, of Sparta, and Dr. Bin
ion, of Milledgeville, and one daugh
ter, Mrs. George Berry, of Sparta.
The funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at 5 o’clock, the
pastor of the Sparta Methodist
church conducting the services.
The deceased was the mother of
the former Mrs. E. L. Fryer, Jr., and
was the grandmother of Miss Caro
lyn Fryer and Master Edward Fryer,
lof this city. She had visited Blake
|ly a good many times and her I
I friends here will regret to learn of |
| her death.
How many ttrokes did it take you
to go around the Golf Links to
| day? advt.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kindness and
consideration in our time of loss
and grief.
. Mrs. T. E. Collins,
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Collins
and Family,
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sanders
and Family,
AMERICA’S MOST
AMAZING PREACHER
This remarkable preacher runs the
I biggest business, so many folks say,
in the city where he has his church.
This preacher has a church member
i ship of 6000 —a Sunday School en
| rollment of 7,000 —a women’s auxil
iary of more than 3,000 members.
On a single Sunday his congrega
i tion made a special offering of
$507,850.
You will find the amazing story of
this amazing preacher in the current
issue of the
New Christian Herald
and in the revitalized Christian Her
ald you will find interesting, exciting
contributions from Honore Willsie
Morrow, Dr. Daniel A. Poling, Mar
garet Sangster, Stanley High, Dr. C.
M. Sheldon and a dozen other “star”
writers. You are missing the livest
magazine in America if you are not
reading the new Christian Herald.
One dollar will bring you Christian
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For the SI.OO I am handing you with
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