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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXIH }> NO. 47
INDICATIONS ARE
THAT QUAIL CROP
WILL BE LARGE
COMMISSIONER TWITTY ISSUES
STATEMENT AFTER SURVEY
OF THE STATE
Georgia hunters should find much
joy in a report from the Depart-!
ment of Game and Fish that “all'
signs point to the biggest crop of
quail we have had in many years.”
Commissioner Peter S. Twitty has
personally visited most sections of
Georgia during the past few weeks
and through local sportsmen and
game wardens has checked up on
conditions in every county. “I have
never seen such splendid prospects
for a fine quail crop”, reports the
Commissioner. “This encouraging
situation is due to a good carry
over from last season, unusually
favorable breeding conditions this
year and a greater appreciation of
farmers and landowners of the eco
nomic value to them of this greatest
of all game birds. Prospects are
also good for a fine crop of wild
turkeys. A dry spring has been con
ducive to the protection of the little
birds, and game wardens and others
who have observed the turkey situa
tion make most encouraging reports
concerning the turkey crop.
“Indications also point to a con
tinued increase in deer. Our best
deer hunting is found in the coastal
section and in South Georgia, but
we are receiving reports that deer
have increased in some sections of
the mountain country to such an
extent that they are actually becom
ing a menace to crops. When it
is recalled that there was not a
single deer in the Georgia moun
tains six or eight years ago, the pres
ent abundant stock of deer in that
section is a tribute to the sportsman
ship and cooperative spirit of our
splendid mountain people.
“This has also been a banner year
for the fishermen. Fishermen as
a whole have reported more and bet
ter fishing of all classes than in many
years. There have been more viola
tions of the fishing laws than usual,
and unfortunately our department
has not had sufficient men or money
to adequately cope with the situa
tion, but we find much encourage
ment in the increasing interest of
the real sportsmen of the state in
the protection and conservation of
our game and fish resources.”
T. K. Weaver & Co.
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24 lb. Sack White Clover - -80 C
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24 lb. Sack SSS—Plain - -
12 lb. Sack Gem - - - -
100 lbs. Sack Shorts - - SX*9O
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BLAKEUY, GA.
Cowntg JXcws
Statistics Given
On Lynchings First
Six Months of 1933
According to the records compiled
at Tuskegee Institute in the Depart
ment of records and Research there
were 6 lynchings in the first six
months of 1933. This number is 1
more than the number 5 for the
first six months of 1933. In 1923,
that is ten years ago, there were
15 persons lynched in the first six
months of the year.
During the first six months of
1933 there were 14 instances in
which officers of the law prevented
lynchings. Os these, 3 were in
Northern States and 11 in Southern
States. In 9 of the instances the
prisoners were removed or the guards
augmented; in the 5 other instances
force was used to repel the would
be lynchers, thus a total of 17 per
sons, 6 whites and 11 Negroes, were
saved from death at hands of mobs.
Os the persons lynched, 2 were
white and 4 were Negro. The of
fenses charged were: rape, 1; murder,
4; charge not reported, 1.
The states in which lynchings oc
curred and the number in each State
are as follows: Georgia, 1; Louisiana,
2; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 1.
‘BILL’ HALL IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF ROTARY CLUB
FILLS VACANCY CAUSED BY
RESIGNATION OF RAYMOND
SINGLETARY
W. A. (“Bill”) Hall, lumber manu
facturer, was on last Thursday elect
ed president of the Blakely Rotary
Club for the year beginning July
Ist to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Raymond C.
C. Singletary.
Rotarian Hall, in becoming the
eighth president of the Rotary Club,
succeeds Alvan T. Fleming, whose
year’s term as president expired at
the end of June.
The Club adopted a resolution of
fered by Rotarian Alvin Gray com
mending the retiring president for
the manner in which he had handled
the Club the past year.
The retiring president thanked the
Rotarians for the co-operation and
loyalty given him and urged a con
tinuance of same for his successor.
The Club, starting on its eighth
year, has a membership of 18 and
for the past six months has led the
Georgia district in attendance.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1933.
WELL KNOWN LADY
PASSES, FUNERAL
HELD SATURDAY
mrs. t. r. McDonald dies at
BIRMINGHAM FRIDAY AFTER
SEVERAL WEEKS’ ILLNESS
Mrs. Emma Willis McDonald, wid
ow of Mr. Thomas R. McDonald,
well known and beloved lady, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
G. R. Parks, at Birmingham, Ala.,
last Friday morning at 9:45 o’clock,
after an illness of seven weeks. She
had been confined to her bed during
this time as a result of a fall in
which she sustained a broken hip.
Her body was brought to Blakely
Friday night and carried to the
residence of Mrs. W. R. Stewart,
where it remained until Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock, when her
funeral was held from the Free
Will Baptist church. Conducting the
last rites were the Rev. K. V.
Shutes, pastor of the church, and
the Rev. Anthony Hearn, pastor of
the Methodist church. Active pall
bearers were Charles Boyett, J. B.
Jones, C. S. Middleton, R. C. How
ell, J. L. Houston, J. H. Butler and
R. C. Singletary. Honorary pall
bearers were S. J. Stuckey, T. B.
McDowell, W. J. Grist, J. B. Duke,
M. T. Chipstead, F. A. Barham, H.
B. Ainsworth and J. G. Butler.
Mrs. McDonald was a member of
the Free Will church, having laid
the cornerstone of that edifice, and
it was her expressed desire that her
funeral be held from that church.
Mrs. McDonald, known to all her
friends and acquaintances as “Miss
Emma,” was a native of Early coun
ty. She was born about three miles
from Blakely on the Blakely and
Colquitt road, on June 3. 1856. She
was a daughter of Joab and Mi
nerva Mathers Willis. In the fall
of 1856 the family moved one mile
from Blakely on the Blakely and
Fort Gaines road. There she spent
her girlhood and young womanhood.
She received her education in the
Blakely schools. She was converted
to the Christian faith under the
preaching of the Rev. Thomas Muse
and the Rev. Mr. Crawford, pastors
of the Missionary Baptist church,
when the Blakely church was lo
cated in the city cemetery. In 1872
she withdrew from the Missionary
Baptist church and affiliated with
the Free Will church. She remain
ed an ardent and active church work
er throughout the remaining years
of her life.
On September 25, 1875, she was
married to Mr. Thomas Roan Mc-
Donald. For two years after the mar
riage the couple made their home
at Cedar Springs. They then bought
a home three miles northwest of
Blakely and resided there for nine
years, later moving to Blakely, where
they made their home until the
death of Mr. McDonald on August
24, 1913. Since that time Mrs. Mc-
Donald has spent part of her time
with her daughter, part with a sis
ter, Mrs. B. B. Sapp, at Graceville,
Fla., and often coming back to
Blakely for a visit with friends.
Her daughter and sister are the
only surviving members of the im
mediate family, but there are num
bers of nieces and nephews who
mourn with them in the passing of
this good woman.
A large concourse of friends was
present to attend the funeral serv
ices at the church and interment in
the cemetery Saturday morning.
City Council In
Monthly Meeting
Friday Night
The Mayor and Council, in ses
sion last Friday night, reduced the
price of ice to wholesalers selling
same out of the city limits of Blake
ly to SI.OO for 300-pound blocks,
or 20 cents per 100 pounds in 900-
pound lots.
An action of a previous Council
meeting allowed those who owe the
city past due taxes until September
Ist, to pay same without interest
charges.
No other business of public in
i trest was transacted at Friday night’s
| meeting.
PROCESSING LEVY
ON WHEAT PUT INTO
EFFECT SUNDAY
TAX IS EXPECTED TO YIELD
$150,000,000 IN FEDERAL
RESERVE
Washington, D. C. —A new tax —
the first of its kind employed in
this country—went into effect at
midnight Saturday and all wheat
processed into flour or other food
products is now subject to a levy of |
30 cents a bushel.
Reports to farm administrators
received up to noon Saturday indi
cated that bread prices will be in
creased generally throughout the
nation this week.
In some centers increases will be
withheld until bakers actually begin
using flour on which a tax has been
paid.
At the same time the tax goes into
effect these levels will also become
effective:
A compensatory import tax on all
wheat imported in addition to the
present duty of 42 cents a bushel.
A tax on floor stocks of flour held
by Millers and wholesalers.
Retailers have thirty days in which
to dispose of flour and products
made principally of wheat which
they have in stock.
The taxes will be collected by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue which
has set up special machinery.
All retailers are required to make
an inventory report of their stocks on
hand as of Sunday and to file it with
the collector of internal revenue for
their district.
Although the rate is subject to
changes, Secretary Wallace has indi
cated they will be made “as infre
quently as possible.”
Translated into terms of the aver
age one-pound loaf of bread, the tax
will amount to .483 of a cent. For
all flour except whole wheat and
graham the tax will be .704 of a
cent a pound.
Recent increases in wheat prices
are understood to have been ignored
by farm administrators in determin
ing the tax rate and its estimated
return.
Conversion factors will be used in
taxing floor stocks of flour held by
millers and wholesalers on July 9.
Those factors fix the percentage of
the per-bushel processing tax on
wheat with respect to 100 pounds of
flour and other wheat products pro
cessed from the grain. A basic con
version factor, which considers 4.6
bushels of wheat equal to 196 pounds
of flour, was used as the basis for
those percentages.
For whole wheat and graham
flours, the tax on 100 pounds will
be 166.67 per cent of the 30-cent
per bushel tax on wheat. On all
other flours, the tax will be 234.7
per cent.
Wheat processed by or for a pro
ducer is exempted from the tax if it
is to be consumed by his own family,
employes or household. That is in
terpreted by the Bureau of Internal
Revenue, which will handle the tax
collections, as providing the farmer
an opportunity to avoid taxation by
having his own wheat ground for his
own consumption or exchanging his
wheat for its equivalent in flour
made from similar wheat.
Likewise tax-exempt are wheat
products received by organizations
for charitable distribution. Refunds
of the tax will be made to those de
livering what products to such
organizations.
In cases where millers export flour
they will be entitled to refunds equal
to the amount of the tax they paid
on the wheat used in manufacturing
the flour. Wheat moving in export
channels will not be taxed, the levy
being applied only to foodstuffs
processed from wheat for domestic
consumption.
ALLIGATOR EGGS
Mr. Sam Harpe, out on Route No.
3, left a number of alligator eggs
at The News office Tuesday. We
are “setting” them in a box of sand
to the rear of the office, and if
the hatch is successful, we may
venture into a new line of business.
Internal Revenue
Collections On The
Climb in Georgia
If internal revenue receipts of
Georgia for the fiscal year 1933 are
an indication of the way in which
the “new deal” is stimulating busi
ness recovery, the Empire State of
the South has no apologies to make
for her part in trying to wrench the
country free from the economic de
pression’s grip.
Figures made public in Washing
ton by the bureau of internal reve
nue show that revenue collections
in the state exceeded those in the
1932 fiscal year by $2,059,592.66.
Collections during 1933 totaled
$6,472,722.82, while $4,413,130.16
was reported for the fiscal year
1932.
Revenue collected during the 1933
fiscal year was classified as follows:
Corporations, $1,889,342.81; indi
vidual, $1,690,792.19; total income
tax, $3,580,135, and miscellaneous,
$2,892,576.82.
CITY ELECTION
TO BE HELD ON
TUESDAY, AUG. 1
TWO COUNCILMEN ARE TO BE
ELECTED TO SUCCEED H. B.
AINSWORTH, J. O. BRIDGES
The annual election for two Coun
cilmen of the City of Blakely is to
be held on Tuesday, August Ist.
The two members whose terms ex
pire at the end of the year 1933 are
Messrs. H. B. Ainsworth and J. O.
Bridges. Both of these gentlemen
have served several terms on the
City’s governing body, Mr. Bridges’
service being several years longer
than that of Mr. Ainsworth.
This is an off-year in the Mayor’s
election, Dr. C. R. Barksdale’s two
year-term continuing through 1934.
Present indications are there will
be no dearth of candidates for the
two places to be filled in the election.
Up to noon Wednesday four can
didates had posted their qualification
notices with Miss Cora L. Saxon,
City Clerk. Alphabetically, they
are: J. O. Bridges, present member
of council, S. G. Maddox, Alto War
rick and Oscar Whitchard. The
News understands that Mr. Ains
worth will not run for re-election.
Candidates must qualify with the
Mayor or City Clerk at least 15 days
prior to the election date, hence the
final entry date is Monday, July
17th.
City Attorney Lowrey Stone has
ruled that the payment of “all poll
taxes” and registration are the pre
requisites for voting in the city elec
tion. Payment of poll tax and regis
tration must be at least 10 days
prior to the election. In this instance
Saturday, July 22, is the final date.
FREE!
Eight silver heavily plated tea-spoons with
the purchase of one sixty cent bottle of
Liquid Veneer
and sixty cents. Or a thirty cent bottle and
thirty cents will entitle you to four tea
spoons—pure silver plate.
Buy now while your initials will be en
graved on them.
FREE!
Balkcom’s Drug Store
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
'6,000 ACRES OF
EARLY COUNTY
COTTON SIGNED UP
LARGE MAJORITY OF FARMERS
FOR GOVERNMENT PLOW
UP CAMPAIGN
With the campaign practically
completed, it was reported to The
News this week by Dr. W A.. Fuqua,
County Agent, that over 6,000 acres
of Early county cotton were under
contract to be plowed up in accord
ance with the government plan for
crop reduction. The quota assigned
Early county was 11,225 bales.
Committeemen in charge of the
campaign report that nearly 95
per cent of Early county farmers
have signed up—an unusually high
percentage.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
continued the campaign, which was
originally scheduled to close on Sat
urday of last week, through Wed
nesday of this week in the hope that
the entire quota of the cotton grow
ing states would be reached. Pres
ident Roosevelt added his personal
appeal to that of Secretary Wallace
and it is believed that the final
check-up of the figures will show
the goal approximately reached. It
is believed that Secretary Wallace
will then proclaim the plan in
effect. Planters are warned, how
ever, not to proceed with the plow
ing up until official word is given.
Early county committeemen are
this week checking up on the signed
contracts, making necessary correc
tions and “putting the finishing
touches” to their work.
The Early county committee is
composed of the following:
Early County Allotment Commit
tee—R. C. Singletary, T. B. McDow
ell, O. H. King, W. L. Mosely, V. G.
Perdue.
Damaicui and Arlington District
Committee— H. C. Haddock, Duncan
Sasser, Jim Garrett, J. G. Craft.
Colomokee District Committee—K.
J. Hodges, G. L. Ivey, F. B. Melton.
Rock Hill District Committee— J,
L. Ricks, C. E. Martin, O. E. Hall.
Cuba and Lucile District Commit
tee—W. T. Clearman, W. T. Bates,
Olin Lindsey, Dewey Cannon.
Urquhart and Freeman District
Committee— l. D. Fekier, Gordon
White, Ed Jones, Warren Chandler,
Theo White.
Cedar Springs and Jakin District
Committee— W. V. Miller, Sibley
Pyle, T. G. Harvey, Jr., E. A. Reed.
Any of the above committeemen
will be glad to assist the cotton
growers in any section of the
county.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
WINS ALL-STAR GAME
In the big all-star baseball game
at Chicago last week the American
League team defeated the National
League team 4-2. John McGraw
managed the National team and
Connie Mack the American team.