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Early County
OFFICIAL GAZETTE
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Blakely, Georgia
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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION I
Blakely, Ga., June 4, 1931.
AFTER THE DEPRESSION,
WHAT?
We are indebted to Rockwell
Smith, a real estate man of Nuys,
California, for the collection of cer
tain facts about financial depressions
in the past, which should be valuable
in predicting the future. Mr. Smith
went through a file of newspapers
back to the 1850’s and finds these
facts:
There was a business depression
in 1857 lasting twelve months.
There was a business depression
in 1869 lasting eight months.
There was a business depression
in 1873 lasting thirty months.
There was a business depression
in 1884 lasting twenty-two months.
There was a business depression
in 1887 lasting ten months.
There was a business depression
in 1893 lasting twenty-five months.
There was a business depression
in 1903 lasting twenty-five months.
There was a business depression
in 1907 lasting nearly 12 months.
There was a business depression
in 1914 lasting eight months.
There .was a business depression
in 1921 lasting fourteen months.
The important thing about these
panics, however, is that every one of
them has been followed by flush
times, and the longer the depression
lasted, the longer and more active
the “boom.”
The depression has now lasted
nearly twenty months. We can hard
ly say that the “boom” which will
surely follow it has begun, but it is
clearly on its way. And when it
comes—oh, boy!
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HOW TAXES ARE INCREASED
Muscle Shoals may be a time
worn topic to discuss, but is one of
those political experiments that pile
up the government overhead and
create permanent, increased taxes I
for the people to pay. The more;
such experiments we have, the high-!
er taxes go.
At Muscle Shoals the government!
spent more than $68,000,000 on two
nitrate plants involving processes j
which are now obsolete. It spent
$56,000,000 for the Wilson Dam [
which is capable of producing less |
than 100,000 horsepower under pres-i
ent conditions. To remedy this lack
of capacity, it is now proposed to '
spend $83,000,000 more for dams I
and improvements, bringing the to-1
tai investment to $207,000,000.
On the credit side of the Muscle |
Shoals ledger is an item of $2,600,-
000, the total receipts to the gov
ernment from the sale of power be
tween September, 1925, and June,
1929. Against this must be charged
direct operating expense of $750,-
000. Thus the return of the gov
ernment in four years was less than
$2,000,000 on a direct investment of
$56,000,000 —less than one cent per
year.
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The Albany Herald issued a splen
did extra edition on Saturday after
noon of last week honoring the visit
of the members of the National Ed
itorial Association to that city. The
paper was full of interesting matter
concerning Albany and Southwest
Georgia, which we feel sure made an
indelible impression upon the minds
oi that body of newspaper men.
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tomorrow]
FRANK PARKER >
i I STOCKBRIDGE J
1
1 KENTUCKY
I motored across the state of Ken
tucky from Louisville southward in
to Tennessee a few days ago. The
• Dixie Highway, short route from
! Chicago to Florida, runs through
' the country of Abraham Lincoln’s
forbears. I spent a night at Eliza
i bethtown, county seat of Hardin
■ county, just a few miles from Hod
genville, Lincoln’s birthplace.
Twenty-two years ago I went to
. Hodgenville on the one hundredth
anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, Feb
ruary 12, 1909, in company with
Theodore Roosevelt, whose last of
ficial trip as Presid,ent of the United
States was to lay the cornerstone of
the Lincoln Memorial. Even as re
cently as that there was not a sin
gle automobile in Hardin county, and
no roads that a car could negotiate,
if there had been any.
To judge by the brisk trade in
the attractive shops of Elizabeth
town and the patronage of its mod
ern hotel, Hardin county today, like
the rest of Kentucky, is immensely
more prosperous than in 1900, in
spite of drought and hard times.
The automobile has done more for
rural America in twenty years than
i any other single agency in a hundred
years.
CAVES
Southward from Hardin county
the Dixie Highway runs through the
■ great limestone ridge where water
noles and ponds drain through the
earth into buried caverns. Mam-
i moth Cave, largest of them all, in
whose subterranean river swim fish
without eyes, has been taken over
by the Federal Government as a
national park. There are hundreds
1 of smaller caverns, competing for
tourist trade by signs along the
L highway. A surprisingly large num
ber of people pay adm.ssion to get
the eerie sensation of descending in
-1 to the earth’s interior.
, BEAUTY
Dr. Henry H. Cherry, president of
the Western Kentucky State Teach
-1 ers College at Bowling Green, spent
years persuading the state authori
i ties that beautiful surroundings in a
school had a definite cultural value
for the students. He has built on
1 top of a hill, overlooking a wide,
lovely valley, a group of buildings,
i including gymnasium and stadium,
which are the most perfect examples
of classic Greek architecture I have
ever seen.
The pure beauty of line which
these buildings and the colonnade
above the field exhibit stir the deep
est artistic sensibilities. Around
each of the buildings flanking the
stadium is a deep frieze in the Greek
manner, depicting athletes in ac
tion. These bas-relief figures are
colored, the way the ancient Greeks
used to paint their statues. We see
statuary in museums in pure white
marble but do not realize that the
originals were painted over the stone
in natural colors.
Dr. Cherry has created a thing of
beauty which will be a joy forever
to the youth of Western Kentucky.
TOBACCO
All the way across the state I pass
ed through the burley tobacco coun
try, the tobacco fields plowed and
harrowed and almost ready for
transplanting the plants from the
canvas-covered seed-beds. Cigarette
manufacturers are responsible for |
the increased prosperity of the bur
ley tobacco growers. Up to a few
years ago only the Virginia bright
j tobacco was used in cigarettes. Then
! the American Tobacco Company de- j
j veloped and promoted a cigarette
I made of the burley leaf. And now |
I many of the popular brands are
: made of this Kentucky-grown to-
I bacco.
HORSES
Approaching the Tennessee bor
: der there were more horses and
| fewer motor cars. South of the
| ridge the country resembles the
I blue grass region of eastern Ken
tucky. It is wonderful pasture and
! hay land, in which live stock flour
ishes. There are no pines in the
! region around Gallatin, Tennessee,
where Opie Read grew up. Cedars
are the only native evergreens. It
jis ideal horse country, and a group
!of wealthy men have established an
estate of twenty-eight square miles
on the north bank of the Cumber
land River, where they keep their
saddle horses and a fine pack of
hounds for fox hunting, and enjoy
! life as it used to be lived on the
! old English estates.
CITATION.
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
To whom it may concern:
F. P. Davis having in due form
applied to me for permanent letters I
of administration on the estate of
Mrs. Lena Z. Davis, late of said .
county, deceased, this is to cite all •
and singular the creditors and next
of kin of Mrs. ,Lena Z. Davis, de
ceased. to be and appear at thei
( court of ordinary of said county,;
at the July term, 1931, and show
eause, if any they can, why perma
nent letters of administration should
not be granted to said F. P. Davis
i on said estate.
Witness my hand and official
i signature, this Ist day of June, 1931.
H. H. GRIMSLEY, Ordinary.,
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
v
(Excerpts from Early County News
of June 10, 1881.)
I
THE MACON waterworks were
put in operation on Monday last.
THE DeLesseps Canal Company
. I has purchased the Panama Railroad.
. I
FROM the Savannah News: “Queen
; ; Victoria, who was 62 years old last
1 (Tuesday, will have occupied the
i j throne of Great Britain for 44 years
. ion the 20th of next month.”
J COL. H. C. SHEFFIELD, of Ar
-1 lington, paid our town a visit on
■ Wednesday last.
( A LETTER from R. L. McLain, of
Town Bluff, Texas, is published in
1 The News this week.
, MR. JOHN WADE laid a genuine
cotton bloom on our table Wednes-
I day last. He says it was grown in
■ this county by young Mr. Kirkland.
MESSRS. PRICE, of Leary, and
Rawls, of Arlington, are now con
tractors on the Blakely extension to
' prepare the track for the iron.
OUR PEOPLE look for the arrival
of the meal wagon from Howard’s
, Landing with as much anxiety as they
do for a shower of rain in time of
drought. One load is generally ex
hausted before another arrives. Our
' cribs and mills are both to far off
L for public convenience. Farmers
[ seem to like it, but we don’t.
THE LEGAL fraternity seem to
have a liking for Blakely. Only a
few weeks ago we announced the
' arrival of Col. Clarence Wilson, from
! Louisville, Ky.. and we are now pleas
' ed to announce the arrival and
: settling down to business of Col.
Josiah Holland, of Midville, Ga., who
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Don’t Rasp Your Throat
With Harsh Irritants
"Reach for a
LUCKY instead"
Place yoyr finger on your Adam’s Apple.
You ar® actually touching your larynx—this
is ycur voice box —it contains your vocal
chords. When you consider your Adam’s ~,->3ll
Apple, you are considering your throat— && WBi
your vocal chords.
What Is the effect of modern Ultra Violet Rays
upon tobacco? Dr. E. E. Free, one of Ameri- '■
ca's well-known scientists,who was retained :
by us to study Lucky Strike’s manufacturing
process, addressing the Illuminating Engi-
neering Society, said:
•'The essential effect of the Ultra Violet is the pro*
cluctKin of better tobacco and of cigarettes : v ■
garded by virtually all smokers who have tested ■'*
them as milder and with a lesser tendency to cause '• .<•. .
throat irritation.” .....
Here in America LUCKY STRIKE is the only
cigarette that employs Ultra Violet Rays in :
connection with its exclusive 'TOASTING"
Process—the only cigarette that brings you
the benefits of the exclusive "TOASTSNG"
Process which expels certain harsh irritants £ ' S ' -
present in all raw tobaccos. } W-F
TheA.T.Co..WX\\ ™
It’s toasted”
Including the use of Ultra Violet Rays
eveidn'Zow Sunshine Mellows —Heat Purifies
uwL C ‘ Your Throat Protection against irritation against cough
proposes to come in for his share
of the practice before our courts.
ROAD NOTlCE—Georgia Early
County, L. D. Lassiter and Jordan
Walters, commissioners heretofore
appointed by the Board of County
Commissioners to view the ground
and lay out a road, petitioned for by
W. L. Lassiter, J. B. Mulligan and
others, commencing near the resi
dence of C. C. Black and running
by the residence of W. L. Lassiter,
Jordan Walters, J. B. Mulligan, M.
P. Weaver and Mrs. C. Lane to inter
sect with the Blakely and Gordon
road, having performed the duty as
signed them and having found the
contemplated road will be of much
public utility and convenience, have
proceeded to work out the same
under oath as required by law. It is
therefore ordered that the usual
notice be 'published in the Early
County News requiring all objections
f any, to be filed within 30 days
from this date and with this board,
as in default thereof an order will
be granted on the Ist Tuesday in
July to open said road as marked out
and the same declared a public road
of the County. By order of the
County Commissioners. J. W. Alex
ander, Clerk. May 27th 1881.
MASONIC NOTICE.
Magnolia Loage No
86 Free and Accept
ed Masons holds reg
alar commuir cations
on the first and third
Monday nights in
pneh month. Thv
time is 8 p. m. in the summer, 7:30
p. m. in the fall and spring and 7 p.
m. during the winter. Visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to attend.
SHELLY SIMMONS, W. M.
H. STUCKEY. JR., Sec’y.
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