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GAY'S SPECIAL PRICES
, 8 pound Bucket Compound 90c
1 gallon Jar Mustard 65c
t Laundry Soap, 7 oz. Bar, 2 for 5c
Fish Roe, 14 oz. —Gordon’s 15c
, Heinz’s Pickling Vinegar, bulk, per ga110n.... 35c
Other Vinegar, per gallon 25C
i Mother’s Oats with Aluminum, 55 oz 25c
Black Flag, Fly and Mosquitoes, I pint can . . 50c
i Black Flag, 1-2 pint size. 25c
All kinds of fresh home grown vegetables,
1 such as peas, butter beans, okra, squash, to
matoes, corn, etc.
Gay Grocery Co.
Phone 108 Quick Delivery
$617,543,956 NET
TRADE FOR STATE
RETAILERS IN 1929
$53,003,850,000 IS NATIONAL
TOTAL IN 12.6 STORES
PER 1,000 PEOPLE
Washington, D. C. —Georgia in
1929 had 28,768 retail stores, an
average of 9.9 stores for each 1,000
inhabitants, according to statistics
of the census of distribution taken
for the first time last year in con
nection with the decennial census.
Net annual retail sales of Geor
gia merchants aggregated $617,543-
956, or $212.32 per capita, the an
nouncement made by the Census
Bureau stated.
Net sales by all retail stores in
the United States for 1929 totaled
$50,003,850,000 in addition to which
the Census Bureau calculates there
were direct sales by manufacturers
and other producers aggregating
three billion dollars. The total of
these two figures is nearly two
thjrds of the unofficially estimated
total annual income of the country
from all sources, and it is five times
the value of the average annual
farm crop.
The census figures show there are
1,549,000 retail stores in the United
States, or 12.6 for 1,000 inhabitants,
and that the average store does an
annual business of $32,297. The
average per capita purchases at re
tail amount to $407.52, which indi
cates average retail purchases per
family of three to five persons of
from $1,200 to $2,000 annually.
The retail store purchases of the
several states vary greatly from a
minimum of $172 per capita in
South Carolina to a maximum of
$575 in California and New York.
The figures show that the average
number of stores for 1,000 inhabi
tants varies from a minimum of
8.1 in Alabama to a maximum of
15.3 in Florida and Oregon. The
average sales per store range from
$19,000 in South Carolina to $39,-
000 in Michigan.
These figures are based on a field
canvass last year of every city, town
and rural area in the United States
and they reflect the retail business
of the calendar year, 1929. They
cover all stores, restaurants, filling
stations, and other retail establish
ments except strictly service busi
nesses.
POULTRY PICK-UP
CAR HERE MONDAY
Dr. W. A. Fuqua, County Agent, j
announces that a poultry pick-up car
will be in Blakely Monday morning,
June 29th, from sun-up till noon.
The following prices will be paid:
Colored Fryers—2oc lb.
Leghorn Fryers—l7c lb.
Colored Hens—l4c lb.
Leghorn Hens —11c lb.
Cocks—7c lb.
Turkeys—lsc lb.
Stags—lsc lb.
EXPRESSION TEACHER FOR
BLAKELY SCHOOL ELECTED
Miss Elizabeth Hall, of Newton,
Ga., a graduate of Wesleyan Con
servatory, has been elected as ex
pression teacher with privilege of
doing kindergarten work in the
Blakely public schools for the next
session.
GEORGIA LED IN
1930 PRODUCTION
OF FULLER’S EARTH
NATURAL SUBSTANCE IS USED
LARGELY IN PROCESS OF
FILTERING OIL
WASHINGTON, D. C.—-Georgia
was the leading state in the produc-
I tion of Fuller’s earth in 1930, ac
j cording to statistics compiled by the
I United States Bureau of Mines in
cooperation with the geological sur
veys of the states interested. Flor
ida was the second ranking state and
Texas third, the latter taking over
the rank held by Nevada in 1929.
These three highest ranking states
last year produced 82 per cent of
the total output. The average value
per ton of Fuller’s earth was $12.98
in 1930, compared with $13.64 in
1929.
The total Fuller’s earth sold or
produced in the United States last
year amounted to 335,644 short
tons, valued at $4,326,705. This is
an increase of 6 per cent in quanti
ty and a small increase in total
value compared with 1929. Output
was reported by fifteen operators in
seven states last year, those be
sides the three leaders being: Ne
vada, Colorado, Illinois and Massa
chusetts.
Fuller’s earth is a term used to
include a variety of natural sub
stances that possess the property of
absorbing grease or clarifying,
bleaching or filtering oil. Its origi
nal use was in the fulling of cloth,
but little of it is used now for that
purpose. Its present use is almost
exclusively in bleaching or filtering
mineral and vegetable oils and ani
mal fats, more than 99 per cent of
the domestic output being used for
these purposes in 1930. Until 1895,
when Fuller’s earth was successfully
produced commercially in the south,
this country was entirely dependent
in foreign supplies, but last year im
ports had decreased to 7,718 short
tons. Seven producers in this
country last year exported 14,237
short tons.
INDUSTRIAL? HOME
BAND IS COMING
Free Entertainment at School
Auditorium Monday Night.
A free concert given by the Geor
gia Industrial Home Drum and Cor
net Corps, Macon, Georgia, will be
given at the Blakely School house,
Monday, June 29th, at 8:30 o’clock
and everybody is invited to attend
and enjoy the program.
The Georgia Industrial Home is
non-denominational, and to a large
extent, non-sectional, and is support-,
ed entirely by voluntary contribu
tions. The Home has been doing a
large service for dependent children
for the last thirty-one years and has
been under the present management
for twenty-one years. It has done
a truly wonderful work and is en
titled to the support of all people
who sympathize with outcast and de
pendent children.
Everybody is -welcome, and there
will be no charge for admission, but
a free-will offering will be taken at
the concert, and every cent of this
will go towards the maintenance of
the Georgia Industrial Home. The
concert will be enjoyable to all, and
remember it’s FREE. Make your ar
rangements to attend, and don’t for
get the time and place.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
BLAKELY METHODIST
CHURCH
O. B. Chester, Pastor
9:45 a. m.—Sunday School; G. M.
Sparks, supt.
11 a. m.—Public Worship with
Sermon by the Pastor.
7 p. m.—Young People’s Meeting
for reorganization under the new
plan.
8 p. m.—Sermon by Rev. O. F.
Cook, Presiding Elder, followed by
Quarterly Conference.
Help to make next Sunday a great
day in Blakely when the name of
the Lord will be magnified and peo
ple cheered.
Greet one another in the Lord’s
House with a brotherly word.
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Blaksly Theatre
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Thurs.-Fri., June 25-26
AL JOLSON .
—in—
“BIG BOY”
Sat.-Mon., June 27-29
“Ten Nights in
A Bar Room”
—with—
WILLIAM FARNUM
An all talkie with plenty of
thrills, laughs and tears.
Tues.-Wed., June 30-July 1
“Hell’s Angels”
—with—
BEN LYON, JAMES HALL
JEAN HARLOW
Don’t miss this picture, the
greatest air spectacle ever to
be presented on the sound
screen, the picture that cost 4
millions of.dollars to make.
Matinee Every Saturday P. M.
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attractive, comfortable interior. The slanting windshield is made of
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with safety glass in all windows and doors at slight additional cost.
The price of the new Ford Standard Sedan is $590, f. o. b. Detroit.
F. O. B. Detroit, plus freight and delivery. Bumpers and spare tire extra at low cost. Convenient, economical terms through the
Authorized Ford Finance Plans of the Universal Credit Company
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