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SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
June 17th, 1905.
MISS CLYDE PURIFOY is visit
ing relatives in Madison, Fla.
MISS EMMA FRYER is spending
a few days at Indian Springs.
BLAKELY took two games from
Dawson last week, 8-0 and 5-0.
DR. W. J. JENNINGS returned
last week from a trip to New York.
MRS. A. M. IRWIN is visiting her
parents at Springvale this week.
MR. J. H. FLOWERS has been
elected a trustee of Wesleyan Col
lege.
MRS. ED CHANCY is visiting rel
atives in Birmingham and Mont
gomery.
LITTLE MISSES Bonnie Ruth and
Elia Powell are visiting in Albany
this week.
MISSES Johnnie Strickland and
Irene Stuckey have returned from a
visit to Dothan.
MISS LENA JAMES, of Enter
prise, Ala., is the guest of her broth
er, Mr. J. D. James.
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MISS CLYDE KILLEBREW, of
Arlington, is the guest of Miss Flew
ellyn Strong this week.
DR. S. D. RAMBO, of Marietta,
has been appointed by Gov. Terrell
as a member of the State Board of
Dental Examiners.
Messrs. J. a. mclaurin, e. c.
Gunn and A. A. Downs constitute
the finance committee to raise funds
to erect a Presbyterian church in
Blakely.
FOR THE fiscal year beginning
July Ist, 1905, the salary of Blake
ly’s postmaster will be $1,500.00. In
creased receipts caused the raise in
salary.
REV. B. W. D’AVIS has returned
from a visit to Valdosta. He was
accompanied by his daughter, Miss
Claude, and his granddaughter, Miss
Lucile Black. <
THE MEETING of the South
Georgia Epworth League, due to
meet in Blakely, has been changed
to Hawkinsville. Miss Lula Bird is
representing the Blakely League.
BLAKELY LODGE NO. 89, K. of
P., has elected the following corps
of officers to serve the remainder of
the year: C. C., D. B. Sherman;
V C., J. T. Freeman; Prelate, N. W.
Hurst; M. of W., L. R. Thompson;
M. of A., I. S. Olliff; I. G., J. H.
Butler; 0. G., J. B. Grimsley.
COUNTRY IS ABLE TO
FEED 200 MILLIONS
Officials See No Danger of Food
Shortage.
Washington, D. C.—Despite the
exodus from the farms to the cities
there is no question but that the Unit
ed States will be able to provide its
own food stuffs without importation,
no matter how large its population
may grow. This fact is stressed by
officials of the department of agricul
ture, who declare that modern farm
ing methods and improved machinery
will enable the farmers of the coun
try to raise enough food to feed 200,-
000,000 people. Officials of the de
partment of the census anticipate that
the population of the United States
will just about become stabilized at
200,000,000.
Farm power machinery not only
increases production but reduces ex
pense, according to Nils A. Olsen,
chief of the bureau of agricultural
economics. He added that the re
duction in cost, especially in some
of the semiarid regions of the west,
by the use of farm machinery was
remarkable.
According to Dr. O. E. Baker, of
the department of agriculture, this
country will require for its own use
hardly any expansion of the farm
area and there is no imperative need
for any decided increase in the area
of farm land.
“Nearly all the requisite increase
in our crop acreage during the next
ten years,” Dr. Baker said, “could
be obtained by cultivating the crop
land that is now idle on farms. In
addition our farms contain more than
100,000,000 acres of powable pas
ture.”
“After 1930,” he said, “the coun
try will still have available a half
billion acres of potentially cultivable
land. This is a larger acreage than
now cultivated. Less than one-half
of this potential increase would have
to be added to the existing crop area
to supply a population of 200,000,-
000.
Acre yields are being increased
rapidly by the use of fertilizer and
it is possible that the time any addi
tional land is needed not more than
a quarter of the potential acreage
would have to be tilled to feed 200,-
000,000.
At the beginning of this century*
the total installed electric power per
farm worker in America was 2.2
horsepower. It rose to 4.5 horse
power in the first quarter of the
century and today the total capacity
is undoubtedly in excess of fifty mil
lion horsepower. There are now over
a milion tractors in use and the total
A BASEBALL LEAGUE composed
of six Southwest Georgia and South
east Alabama towns was formed in
Albany the past week. Albany,
Moultrie, Blakely, Fort Gaines, Eu
faula and Dothan are the cities
forming the league.
BLAKELY lost two games to.
Fort Gaines and won one. Fort
Gaines won the first game, 4-1;
Blakely, the second, 4-0, and Fortj
Gaines the third, 7-4. The features!
of the series were work of Newkirk |
at shortstop for Blakely as well as;
the pitching of Baisden.
PLEASANT HILL NEWS, by Joe,
reports that “Mrs. N. J. Galloway is
visiting in Shorterville, Ala.” “Miss
Clifton Gill, Miss Corra Laing and
Mr. Walter Laing visited Sardis
Sunday.” “Miss Hattie Temples, of !
Blakely, and Miss Callie Hoover and
Mr. Willie Hoover, of Cuba, visited
here last week.” “Miss Lonnie Sin
gletary and Mrs. Lessie Hatcher
and Mr. John Everett visited Pleas
ant Grove last Sunday.”
R. F. D. NO. 5 NEWS, by Dan
Tucker, says: “Mr. and Mrs. S. K.
Bush, of Union, were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Sawyer last
Sunday.” “Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Clark, of Bethel, and Mr. M. A.
Kent, of near Bluffton, visited Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Bruner last week.”
“Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Robinson, of
Union, and M% and Mrs. E. G.
Brown, of Colomokee, visited Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Kenney on Sunday
last.”
THE Violet Embroidery Club en
tertained at the home of Miss Eva
Hill Johnson last Tuesday. Those
present were Misses Ruby Fleming,
Flewellyn Strong, DeVotie Hobbs,
Nannie Lou Davis, Floy Brunson,
May Brooks, Eva Hill Johnson, Wil
lie Mae Johnson, Vivian Tyson, Mary
Crozier, Jennie May Jay, Lois Bow
er, Edna Boyd, Ola Bob Jester, Em
mie Lou Stewart, Bertha Waller and
Messrs. Jay, Elder, Smith, Relehan,
Tarver, Jones, Fryer, Hobbs, Bar
ham, Williams, Gay, Brooks and
Irwin.
THE FOLLOWING is the line-up
of the two heavy teams that will bat
tle next Friday: Professionals:
catcher, Freeman; pitcher, Park;
shortstop, Hand; Ist b., Jordan; 2nd
b., Hodges; 3rd b., Strong; 1. f.,
Hurst; c. f., Blue; r. f., A. G. Pow
ell. Business: catcher, Felton;
pitcher, Ed Chancy; shortstop, Vin
son; Ist b., M. C. Cobb; 2nd b., W.
W. Fleming; 3rd b., J. D. .James; 1.
f., Barham; c. f., E. M. Boyd; t. f.,
Underwood. Substitutes for the Pro
fessionals, Jennings, Standifer and
Waters; for the Business outfit, Ray
Odum, John Butler, Henry Butler.
Umpire, C. T. Alexander.
COTTON CONSUMED
DURING MONTH OF MAY
Shows Loss as Compared with Same
Period in 1929.
Washington, D. C. —Cotton con
sumed during May has been an
nounced by the census bureau as
having totaled 473,917 bales of lint
and 68,779 bales of linters com
pared with 532,382 and 66,951 in
April this year and 668,650 and
79,911 in May last year.
Cotton on hand May 31 was held
as follows:
In consuming establishments, 1,-
531,346 bales of lint and 237,505 of
linters, compared with 1,667,394 and
238,509 for April this year and 1,-
475,837 and 232,249 for May last
year.
In public storage and at com
presses 3,337,360 bales of lint and
89,173 of linters, compared with
3,636,296 and 238,509 for April
this year and 1,845,771 and 77,406
for May last year.
Imports for May totaled 53,328
bales, compared with 67,397 in
April this year and 42,486 in May
last year.
Exports for May totaled 208,796
bales of lint and 10,460 of linters,
compared with 349,762 and 9,953 in
April this year, and 313,003 and
15,065 in May last year.
Cotton spindles active during
May number 28,374,434, compared
with 28,860,382 in April this year
and 30,937,182 in-May last year.
- CITATION
GEORGIA, Early County.
To all whom it may concern:
Sallie Amos having in due form
applied to me for year’s support out
of the estate of William A. Amos,
deceased, this is to notify the next
of kin and creditors of the said Wil
liam A. Amos, deceased, that said
application will be heard before me
at the regular July term, 1930, of
the court of Ordinary of said county.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this 2nd day of June, 1930.
H. H. GRIMSLEY, Ordinary,
of motor vehicles now on American
farms is 5,426,900.
According to the Middle West
Utilities Company the fifty million
horsepower aggregate capacity on
American farms is divided into a
large number of small units which
include the following: Animal power,
18,762,000; tractors, 1,000,000;
trucks, 697,300; stationary engines,
2,500,000; windmills, 1,000,000; cen
tral station electric installation, 500,-
000.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
IN APPRECIATION
OF W. W. FLEMING
When Jesus came to the place in
Jericho where Zacheus had climbed
the tree to see Him, Jesus said,
“Zacheus, come down.” Now Jesus
has come to Blakely, not from wan
dering the tiresome paths of the
earth but in the highways of Heav
en and has seen that Brother Will
Fleming has ascended heights in this
life in order to be closer to Jesus
and Jesus has said to him, “Come
up, Will,” and I think He called him
“Will,” as he often addressed his
intimate friends and never His ene
mies. I am sure the Master said,
“Come up, Will, come up from the
limited elevation to which you have
achieved in this life on earth, to
the heights of Eternal Freedom.”
Jesus has called him from the
tree tops of earthly life to the
mountain peaks, yea, He has called
him above the heights of the clouds.
Instead of asking to go home with
Brother Fleming, Jesus has called
him to the Heavenly Home, to be
with Him, not only for the mid-day
meal, but to live forever with God,
His father, Our Father, the Father
of Brother Fleming.
We make no attempt to appraise
the life of our brother—already the
results are evidenced, but we pause
to offer a tribute to his memory,
which will live on with us even
though he, in person, has gone on
to his eternal rest. He has been
faithful to his high ideals, which
were purposes that could have been
inspired only by that matchless man,
his Christ and our Savior.
I do not ask for space to recount
the friendly contacts of his life, nor
to list the numberless deeds he has
performed in his Master’s name, but
ask that we shall plant in our mem
ories the sweetness of his character,
and as we remember the fresh flow
er which adorned his coat, may we
realize that under the flower was a
heart more fragrant, more beautiful,
more enduring, and God has caused
that heart to blossom and shed the
fragrance of our brother’s life in
our midst.
Just a little sunshine,
Just a little rain,
Just a little laughter,
Just a little pain;
Now and then a burden,
All our strength to test—
But the brave go singing
Toward the golden west.
—H. M. MELTON.
Cemetery Grounds To Be
Cleaned Off at Sardis Church
Saturday, June 21, 1930, is the
date. All who possibly can come
and help, as our revival meeting
begins on the fifth Sunday in June
Preaching at 11 o’clock a. m. and
7:30 o’clock at night.
MRS. MYRTLE K. WHITE.
Anxious Father: Doctor, my daugh
ter has every appearance of going
blind and she is about to be married.
Specialist: Get on with the wed
ding as quickly as possible. If any
thing can open her eyes, marriage
will. —Exchange.
WILLIS MERCANTILE CO.
Next to Baikcom Drug Co.
Every dollar you spend at this
store is a span in the bridge
from EXTRAVAGANCE to
ECONOMY.
Maxwell House
TEA— I-4 lb. pkg. 23c
Pet Brand
MILK— TaII can 10c
Smoked Pork
SAUSAGE— Ib. 25c
Kirkman’s Washing
POWDERS— BuIk, lb. 4c
Good Grade
GREEN COFFEE— Lb. 18c
Alaska Chum
SALMON— TaII can 15c
In Cloth Bags
SUGAR— IO lbs. for 54c
Queen of the West S. R.
FLOUR— Best grade, 24 lb 1.00
Cotton 801 l S. R.
FLOUR— Guar’teed, 24 lb. 79c
16 Per Cent Grey
SHORTS— IOO lb. bag 2.25
Strictly fresh Vegetables
all the time.
WILLIS MERCANTILE CO.
Next to Baikcom Drug Co.
BLAKELY, : GEORGIA
FOR BLAKELY MERCHANTS ONLY
Being one of a series of chats with Blakely business men in
which they are told how they can increase their volume of sales
Making the Demand
Equal the Supply
In olden days the merch
ant, who oftentimes was al
so a manufacturer, went
from house to house ped
dling his wares. Then
times changed, and meth
ods changed, and the itin
erant merchant disappear
ed.
In his place came the merchant of to
day—the merchant who is a purchasing
agent for his community.
As a purchasing agent the merchant
buys as he believes the people in his
community will buy from him. Some
times his sales are many, at other times
they are few. Always, however, his
supply is equal to the demand. But the
demand, unhappily, all too often falls
very, very far below the supply. Which
means poor business.
Take your own case. You have, let
us say, enough of the goods you handle
to supply a goodly number of the peo
ple in Blakely who require these goods.
Do they demand these goods in such
great quantities as to make your sup
ply inadequate? The odds are they
don’t..
You need the advertising aid of the manufacturers whose goods you
stock—urge their salesmen to recommend your local home newspaper
THE EARLY COUNTY NEWS
HO N|
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Thi» newspaper has joined
small town newspapers
all over the country in a
nation-wide campaign to
convince national adver
tisers that they can best
assist small town mer
chants by advertising in
the local home town news
papers of the small town
merchants.
this is there’s still another selling force
—and that is the advertising of the
manufacturers whose goods you want to
sell to Blakely’s buyers—which should
also appear in your local, home news
paper.
And you can go far in getting this
aid by talking about Blakely to the
salesmen, through whom you buy your
merchandise—by inoculating them with
the thought that local demand can be
created and directed chiefly through
your local home newspaper—by mak
ing them see how necessary it is to your
business welfare to have the advertising
of their companies in your local, home
newspaper.
Still, you can’t do as
the merchant of old did
and create a demand for
your goods by peddling
them from house to
house. So you take ad
vantage of the very best
means available and ad
vertise in your local home
newspaper. Valuable as