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EARLY COUNTY, GA., Garden Spot of GOD’S COUNTRY VOLUME LXXI > NO, 43 REAPPORTIONMENT ACTION URGED BY SENATOR HARRIS HOPES GEORGIA LEGISLATURE WILL GIVE MATTER ITS PROMPT ATTENTION WASHINGTON, D. C.—United State Senator William J. Harris has joined Senator Walter F. George in urging the next general assembly not to delay reapportionment of con gressional districts. Probability that a number of the present Georgia members will gain important committee posts if the democrats win next year is stressed by Senator Harris as an important matter for the consideration of the legislature. “For the past several weeks,” Senator Harris says in his state ment, “I have traveled over many sections of Georgia and ‘found the greatest interest possible among the people in the efforts of members of the incoming legislature to accom plish matters needed for our state and without exception they stressed the opinion that nothing was more important than redistricting it.” His statement in full follows: “Since I have been a member of the United States senate I have not in any way tried to influence mat-| ters before the Georgia legislature! except in one instance—when I ap peared before the committee and urged an appropriation for a build ing for the Steiner clinic to take care of Georgia cancer patients. I was chairman of the senate cancer com mittee, which explains my activities in this matter. “The Georgia legislature has many vital questions confronting it at the next session, none more important than redistricting the state, and I have faith in their desire and ability to accomplish everything expected of them. • “Our constitution provides for re apportionment every ten years, and most of the legislatures of the other states have already done this. Only in Missouri have they failed, in so far as I know. “Redistricting the state is a re sponsibility that rests entirely with the legislature. They are quite able to take care of this matter without any suggestions from me, and I have none to offer. However, delay ing action on this so that the ten Georgia congressmen would have to be elected from all over the state, thereby depriving each congressional district of the right of electing its own representative, is a matter that concerns me as one of the Georgia senators, for it is necessary to have the co-operation of the house mem bers in accomplishing matters for our state. “Under the seniority rules of the house and senate the members who have been longest in congress are T. K. WEAVER & CO. Special Low Prices —FOR Friday and Saturday We feel sure we are selling many items cheaper than they have been sold in Blakely for many years. $1.95 Men’s Straw Hats . . . SI.OO $1.95 Men’s Shirts $1.65 $1.50 Ladies’ Fancy Heel Hose . . *75 25c Large Bath Towels X 5 GROCERIES 45 pound Can Compound $4-45 1 pound Best Cream Cheese 17 No. 1 Can Tomatoes, can 05 (Limit 5 cans to a customer.) 10c Palmolive Soap, cake .05 (Limit 5 cakes to a customer.) T. K. Weaver & Co. BLAKELY, GEORGIA ®Mlg Conntn ;Xcws ROTARIANS TREATED TO MUSICAL PROGRAM Miss Annie V. Womack’s Orchestra Plays for Club Members. The members of the Blakely Ro tary Club enjoyed immensely a musical program by Miss Annie V. Womack and her string orchestra at the weekly luncheon of the Club held last Thursday at noon. The young lady members of Miss Wom ack’s orchestra who played for the entertainment of the Rotarians were Misses Myrvis Lawrence, Sadie Stan difer, Elizabeth Fryer, Sara Boyett, Hazel Warrick and Madeline Gil bert. They were given a rising vote of thanks by the Rotarians at the conclusion of the program. Sheriff Sid Howell was a guest of Rotarian Alvin Gray. He was com plimented by Rotarians Sparks and Gray upon winning the Atlanta Con stitution award at the Peace Officers Association at Macon for the most meritorious piece of police work dur ing the year 1930. It was announced that the Club would observe annual Ladies’ Night on Friday, June 2Cth, which is the fifth anniversary of the Club. Rotarians Duke and Fuqua were in charge of the last week’s pro gram. President Barham presided over the luncheon and Mrs. Ben Haisten furnished the music for the Club songs. at the top of committees. The house and senate rarely pass the same bill, and after it passes both houses it goes to conference. The vice-pres ident appoints five members of the conference committee, the three ranking republicans and the two ranking democrats, to adjust the difference between the two houses, 'the speaker does likewise in select ing the house conferees, and these ten ranking members <jf the house and senate decide on all changes in the bill, sometimes they almost rewrite the bill, and the house and senate seldom fail to approve their recommendation. When the confer ence report goes to the house and senate, they can vote only on the bill aS a whole as recommended by this committee, and it can not be amended except by sending it back to conference, which is not often done. “As an instance: Congressman Edwards for personal reasons volun tarily retired from congress during the Wilson administration. He was at that time ranking democrat on the rivers and harbors committee, which means so much to the state of Georgia, and had he been re-elected to congress he would have been chairman of this important commit tee. Georgia’s rivers and harbors lost millions of dollars because we had no member on the rivers and harbors committee for several ses sions. The Georgia congressmen are all high on the committees which (Continued on page 5) Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts — BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1931, REV. SPENCER KING ACCEPTS CALL TO BAPTIST CHURCH FORMER PASTOR TO RETURN HERE ON FIRST OF SEPTEMBER Announcement was made at the Sunday school hour at the Blakely Baptist church last Sunday morning that the Rev. Spencer B. King, who was recently tendered a unanimous call to serve the church as pastor, had accepted. Rev. Mr. King formerly served the church here as pastor for a number of years. He left here some six years ago to accept a call to the church at Pelham. After his pastor ate there, he went to Atlanta to ac cept the place of Field Secretary of the State Mission Board of the Georgia Baptist Convention, which position he has now resigned to accept the call to the Blakely church. The announcement of Bro. King’s acceptance was received with de light by the members of the church and hosts of other friends of other denominations in Blakely and Early county and throughout Bethel As sociation. He plans to assume his duties here on September Ist. The letter of acceptance, written to the church and read Sunday morning, is published below: Mr. R. W. Alexander, Clerk, Blakely Baptist Church, Blakely, Georgia. My dear Brother Alexander: Following the receipt, of your letter of May 7, notifying me of the call extended by the Blakely Baptist Church to become its pastor, I en deavored to seek the leadership of the Master—whose we are and whom we serve—and find His will in the matter. I have made two visits to Blakely to see if you good people really want me and, being convinced that you do and that it is our Father’s will, I hereby tender this my ac ceptance of the call to take effect September Ist next. As I recall it this date marks the sixth anniversary of the end of my previous pastorate at Blakely and I am coming back with the thought that my “leave of absence is ended and I am just getting back on the job.” These six years have been busy ones with me and I feel that I have been richly blessed of the Lord in my State Mission activities as well as in my short pastorate at Pelham. I have been quite happy as I have gone up and down Georgia, and the experiences I have had should make me better qualified to do a larger work than when you bore with me in the other years. Indeed I pray that I may measure up to the needs of your important field better than I did in 1921-25. And it is an important field! There is much work to be done. Souls to be won to the Saviour, lives to be brought into blessed fellowship with the Master, homes to be directed in to the type which God would have homes be, a church to be led into larger tasks of Kingdom service and a community to be pointed to the highest plane of true Christian civil ization! These are the tasks to which you have called me and to these tasks I most solemnly and sincerely ded.cate myself. But, I want to state clearely in this my letter of acceptance, I come in the full consciousness that I am to have the hearty cooperation of the entire membership of the church and the people of the community. With out this I would not dare to undertake the smallest part of the job as pastor of the Blakely Baptist Church for, unless I had this cooperation, I would do nothing. Already I have discuss ed with the pulpit committee and the deacons some of the details of the program for the church and have their agreement to the plan, and the hearty expressions I have had from the members and friends of othei - denominations—and of no church—and a number of our colored friends who also seem happy to have me back, make me believe that God is bringing me back to Blakely and that we will be happy as we work together for His glory. I pray that it may be so. I truly trust in these intervening weeks you will not grow slack in your worship of God but that you will be faithful, even though you have no pastor, in your attendance at the regular hours (in the other churches when there is no preaching at your own) and your contributions (which are so greatly needed) both for the local church work and for missions. I beg that you be praying constantly that as I come our Heavenly Father will sanction our services and accept our worship and bless our efforts in His name. With all good wishes for every one of you, I am Your Pastor-Elect, SPENCER B. KING. “Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.” SPRING TERM OF SCHOOL CAME TO CLOSE FRIDAY FORTY-TWO AWARDED DIPLO MAS AT GRADUATION EXERCISES The spring term of the Blakely public schools came to a close last Friday, June sth, the commence ment program culminating Friday evening, when the graduation exer cises took place, and diplomas were awarded to forty-two graduates, the largest class in the history of the school. The school auditorium was filled to capacity for the graduation exer cises, at which time the following program was carried out: Processional. Invocation—Rev. O. B. Chester. Class Song: “Our Old High.” Salutatory—lnez Berman. History—Neta Black. Poem—Louise Bush. Prophecy—Catherine Lanier. Last Will and Testament —Mamie Sara Maddox. Giftorian —Jack White. Valedictory—Carolyn Loyless. Following the program diplomas were awarded to the following pu pils by Mr. W. J. Grist, chairman of the Blakely Board of Education: Misses Mamie Sarah Maddox, Be atrice Duke, Sarah Strickland, Lucile Womble, Doris Thompson, Lois Johnson, Inez Berman, Carolyn Loyless, Robert Lee. Eugenia Tarver, Gladys Temples, Louise Bush, Rebec ca McEachern, Vivian Smith, Annie Claire Shaw, Neta Black, Prudence Singletary Catherine Lanier, Juanita Allen, Doris Harpe, Ruby Elliott, Alice George, Katie Mae Brackin, Rebecca Geeslin, and Messrs. Henry Buchannon, Lane Spence, Chester Stokes, George Ivey, Ottis Hall, Earl Taylor, Jack White, Ernest Spence, Porter Smith, Tom Dunning, Frank Fuller, Robert Puckett, Milton Mar tin, Whalen George, W. F. Law rence, Wilson Davenport, James Bry ant, Leßoy Thompson. The following awards were pre sented by Supt. Mangham: Attendance Certificates (to Ones neither absent nor tardy during the school year)—Nancy Grubbs, Corliss Beatty, Virginia Holman, Enid God win, Eleanor Singletary, Stephen Mc- Cullers, Toy Beatty, Edward Balk com, Troy Beatty, Emma Francis Gay, Nellie Mae Strickland, Francis Grubbs, Virginia Lee, J. R. Lee, Olivia Weaver, Amanda Barksdale, Prudence Singletary, Katie Mae Brackin. American History Medal, given by the Peter Early Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, to the student making the highest general average in American History, award ed to Miss Lucy Maddox, of the 7th grade. This proved to be a close race, the winner making a general average of 99 per cent. The next was Miss Inez Berman, of the Senior class, with 98.5 per cent, and the third was Bill Standifer, of the 4th grade, with 98 per cent. Girl’s Citizenship Medal, given by Mrs. V. F. Balkcom, the present Regent of the local Chapter D. A. R. This medal was awarded to Miss Alice Singletary, of the Junior class. Medals in Music, given by Miss i Annie V. Womack, for general ex- | cellence: In the grammar school de- ' partment, to Miss Sara De Wolfe; in 1 the high school department, to Miss i Miriam Brooks. The Harry Stone Medal, to the ] best all-round man in the Senior ' class. This medal was awarded to i Mr. Henry Buchannon. The presen- ] tation was made by Dr. J. G. Standi- 1 fer, chairman of the committee on 1 award. i The program was concluded with J the class song, “We’ll Always Love ' You, Dear Old High.” The following pupils, averaging i 95-100 were graduated magna cum I] laude: W. F. Lawrence, Inez Ber- ] man, Katie Mae Brackin, Dorris | < Harp, Catherine" Lanier, Carolyn |1 Loyless. Those who averaged 90-95 J and'were graduated cum laude were: 11 ASSESSORS APPOINTED IN HIGHWAY MATTER Judge Worrill Here Tuesday to Hear Condemnation Proceedings. Judge C. W. Worrill came down from Cuthbert Tuesday morning to hear the proceedings instituted by the State Highway Board against several property holders on Highway No. 1 for the necessary right-of-way for paving the section north of the city to the county line. By agree ment with counsel for both the Board and the property holders, the court appointed a board of assessors, con sisting of Messrs. J. S. Sherman, W. J. Grist and H. C. Fort to assess the value of the property to be con demned belonging to C. H. Montfort et al., G. L. Ivey, Fred Collins, Mrs. Ermine Collins Sanders and J. H. Hand et al. The board of assessors for the C. M. Deal et al property is com posed of Messrs. R. C. Howell, W. J. Grist and H. C. Fort. Messrs. N. B. Solomon, H. C. Fort and R. 0. Waters were appointed as assessors in the Mrs. Ellene C. Tar ver property. In the condemnation proceedings against James Middleton, Jr., et al, on Route 38, Messrs. Sherman, Grist and Fort were appointed as assessors. These gentlemen are to meet to day (Thursday), June 11th, when hearings will be granted to those whose property is involved. BLAKELY METHODIST CHURCH O. B. Chester, Pastor 9:45 a. m.—Sunday School; G. M. Sparks, Supt. 11 a. m.—Public Worship. 8 p. m.—Public Worship. Midweek Service, Wednesday 8:00 p. m. Thirteen children and young peo ple were baptized in a special serv ice Thursday afternoon, June 4th, and twenty-four new members were added to the church last Sunday morning. Revival services will begin July 12th. This church is a house of prayer for all people. All who want to pray should attend the services each Sunday. Thomas Dunning, Ernest Spence, Neta Black and Lucile Womble. THE CLASS PLAY The Seniors presented their class play, “Oh, Professor,” to a large and appreciative audience on Thurs day evening of last week. The play, an amusing comedy, was a Wayne P. Sewell production and was coached by Miss Sears. The pupils performed quite creditably and the costumes were especially pretty. Sev eral choruses added to the enjoy ment of the evening. Health Insurance for the Summer—A Spring Tonic Give your body a spring cleaning as you do your house---take Rexall Sarsparilla Tonic— sl.oo To clear up the blood, sharpen the appetite, and tone up the nerves, take Rexall Iron and Cascara Tonic with Celery— Si.oo Strongly recommended by Mr. Balkcom. ♦♦♦♦♦♦ Balkcom’s Drug Store PULL FOR BLAKELY —OR— PULL OUT $2.00 A YEAR BLAKELY TEAM WINS FIRST BALL GAME AT HOME LARGE CROWD SAW BLAKELY DONALSONVILLE GAME LAST THURSDAY Blakely’s first home game of the league season last Thursday after noon was witnessed by a large crowd, perhaps the largest opening day attendance of any of the towns composing the Georgia-Alabama league, the crowd present being esti mated at between three and four hundred paid admissions. Mr. E. L. Fryer, Sr., well known local citizen and ardent baseball fan, pitched the first ball with Mr. Guy Maddox, president of the local club, acting as catcher. Mr. Fryer’s pitch was wild, showing that this former baseball luminary was not in practice. Opening game prizes offered by local business houses were won by the following home players: First home run—Silver miniature baseball, offered by Barham Jewelry Co., was won by F. Williams. First three-base hit—Straw hat, offered by T. K. Weaver & Co., won by Cleveland. First two-base hit—Shirt, offered by Boyett’s Cash Store, won by Ar thur Williams. First single—Carton cigarettes, of fered by Robert Hall, won by Flem ing. First run—Month’s pressing, of fered by Booty’s Pressing club, won by Cleveland. First stolen base —Pair sox, offer ed by Barney Wynne, won by Cleve land. The game was a hard-fought one from beginning to end, with first one team in the lead, and then the other. Mobley was the starting pitcher for the locals, but was re lieved in the fifth'inning by White, who received credit for the victory. Stein was on the receiving line. The score was 12 to 11 in Blake ly’s favor. Donalsonville used three pitchers in an effort to check the local hitters, Rathel started the game. He was relieved by Roberts, who lasted than an inning. Hodges fin ished the game. The contest was featured by timely hitting of both teams, three home runs being contributed during the game. F. Williams’ drive over right-center field fence with two on bases netted the young player a nice contribution from the fans. Score by innings: R. H. E. Donalsonville 210040031—11 14 5 Blakely 16000230x—12 17 1 SUMMARY—Two base hits, H» Hodges, Saunders, Reynolds, Ham- (Continued on page 5)