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NOTICE TO MILK
CUSTOMERS!
Effective September Ist, our prices will
be as follows:
Sweet Milk, quart XX
Sweet Milk, pint- _ 6 I'4©
Cream, pint - - 4©C
Cream, half pint - XOC
This slight increase is made necessary by
the advancing costs of feed, labor, etc.
T. H. DAVENPORT,
DUNCAN HALL.
Smallest Grain
Crop in 33 Years
Is the Forecast
One of the smallest crops of grain
harvested in the United States in this
century was forecast Friday by the
crop reporting board of the depart
ment of agriculture, which attribut
ed the condition to drouth damage
throughout the middle west.
Its report, based on August 1 con
ditions, indicated the second small
est corn crop since 1901, the small
est wheat crop since 1893 and an oat
crop of about one-half of that last
year.
The board said the drouth had af
fected a larger area than that in
1930, practically the whole of the
United States being injured as of
July Ist.
The area in acute distress is
smaller now, it added, being limited
chiefly to the Panhandle of Texas,.
western Oklahoma and southwestern
Kansas and to an area extending
from central South Dakota into
southwestern Minnesota.
The indicated production of corn!
was placed at 2,273,019,000 bushels
compared with 2,876,000,000 last
year. The crop this year was listed
on August Ist as 65.6 per cent of
normal.
The wheat crop of all types was
estimated at 499,671,000 bushels,
more than 100,000,000 less than the
amount of wheat normally required
in this country for food, feed and
seed.
This compares with a crop last year'
of 726,000,000 bushels.
NEW PINE DISEASE
APPEARS IN SOUTH
A new and threatening pine de
sease, a tree canker, is reported by
Federal inspectors, to be widely scat
tered over the South, attacking all
species of pines. J. D. Diller, forest
pathologist of the United States Bu
reau of Plant Industry, is making
a tour of Georgia after visiting Vir
ginia, the Carolinas and Florida. He
has found the fungus widely scattered
in these states, revealing for the
first time that this disease had ap
peared in the South. His tour of
inspection will continue into other
southern states.
According to Mr. DiHer, other
forms of pine canker, less destruc
tive, have been known to exist in
the south and may be easily con
fused by the layman with the new
canker. The new disease eats into
the wood, frequently girdling and
killing twigs. Trunks and larger
limbs are more slowly destroyed.
The Federal inspector says that
control measures have not been
worked out but that he is visiting
state tree nurseries to see if the
disease is in or near them. If ob
served, diseased trees or seedlings
will be destroyed and burned and
sprays applied to prevent the possibi
lity of canker being spread from
these sources.
DIPHTHERIA AROUND
THE CORNER
September and October will show
an increase in cases of diphtheria.
Why? Schools opening, and chil
dren, who have not had toxoid, ming
ling with, carriers who should have
been detected, are the reasons. Is
your child protected* See your fam
ily physician at once if this matter
has not already been attended to.—
.Georgia Health.
Examination for
Postmaster At
Cedar Springs
Receipt Os Applications to Close
Sept. 15, 1933.
The date for assembling competi
tors will be stated in the admission
cards which will be mailed to appli
cants after the close of receipt of
applications.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exami
nation, as a result of which it is
expected to make certification, to
fill a contemplated vacancy in the
position of fourth class postmaster
at Cedar Springs, Ga., and other
vacancies as they may occur at that
office, unless it shall be decided in
the interest of the service to fill any
vacancy by reinstatement. The ex
amination will be held at Bainbridge,
Ga. The compensation of the post
master at this office was $589 for
the last fiscal year.
Applicants must have reached
their twenty-first birthday but not
their sixty-fifth birthday on the date
of the close of receipt of applica
tions.
Applicants must reside within the
territory supplied by the post office
for which the examination is an
nounced.
The examination is open to all
citizens of the United States who
can comply with the requirements.
Application blanks, Form 9, and
full information concerning the re
quirements of the examination can
be secured from the postmaster at
the place of vacancy or from the
United States Civil Service Commis
sion, Washington, D. C.
Applications must be properly
executed and on file with the Com
mission at Washington, D. C., prior
to the hour of closing of business
on the date specified at the head of
this announcement.
Blakely School Notices
The 1933-34 school session will be
gin Monday, Sept. 11th, at 8:10 a. m.
» •* »
Re-examinations for pupils having
condition subjects will be given at
the school Saturday afternoon, Sept.
9th, at 2:00 p. m.
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Pupils who have finished the gram
mar school and are entering high
school this fall should decide upon
courses best suited to their needs.
In order to help these high school
pupils and others in making a wise
choice I will be in my office every
morning from 9 to 12:30.
* * *
First foot-ball practice will be
held at the high school on Monday
afternoon, Sept. 4th.
WADE WOODWARD, JR„ Supt.
1,571 BALES GINNED IN
EARLY PRIOR TO AUG 16
The cotton ginners census report
for August 16th, issued by the De
partment of Commerce, Bureau of
the Census, shows that there were
1,571 bales ginned in Early county
prior to that date, as compared to
392 bales for the same date in 1932.
The increase is due largely to
the fact that the 1933 crop is fur
ther advanced than was the crop
of 1932, although predictions are
(freely made that, despite the plow
ing up of approximately one-fourth
of the acreage, the crop for 1933 will
be as large as that of 1932.
ROOMS FOR RENT— See MISS
SALLIE STRICKLAND.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY. GEORGIA
ECONOMIC
HIGHLIGHTS
Happenings That Affect the Din
ner Pails, Dividend Checks and
Tax Bills of Every Individual. —
National and International Prob
lems Inseparable from Local
Welfare.
As the NRA campaign entered
the middle of its third week, en
thusiasm was undiminished, pledges
continued to pour in. While troubles
have put in their appearance and the
campaign is obviously touching its
most crucial point, spokesmen are
as confident as ever in forcasting
remarkable results.
The NRA blanket code has usurped
the place of the trade codes in the
news. The latter, however, will
probably be in operation longer than
the NRA, and the law, instead of
public opinion only, is back of them.
It is an open secret that the govern
ment is dissatisfied with trade code
progress and is making every effort
to speed matters up. One of the
most important, lumber, was thrown
out when first sent in. Now the
President has signed an approved
lumber code which is expected to
do much for the industry and its
employes.
Minimum wages from 23 cents an
hour in the South to 40 cents in the
North and West, with a 40-hour work
week which may be extended to 48
hours at seasonal peak. An agency
known as the Lumber Code Authority,
Inc., is given the job of protecting
price levels and controlling produc
tion. Every operating company will
be given an allotment, and produc
tion quotas for various divisions of
the industry will be arranged on the'
basis of consumption, including antic- ■
ipated export demand. Selling!
price is never to be allowed to drop
below the cost of production point. |
Underselling will be illegal. The!
agreement is designed to increase!
lumbei’ and timber employment by
115,000 men.
The electric industry is operating
under a temporary code, until the
Edison Institute can obtain approval
of a permanent agreement. Steel
and automobile industries are bones
of contention. Code officials are
struggling with the problem; if worse
comes to worst the government will
make up codes, force them on the
industries* whether they like it or
not. It’s a case where they won’t
take no for an answer.
The first NRA “chiselers” are ap
pearing. These are firms which sign
the agreement, then violate it by
not bringing wages to the specified
keeping workers on the
job for longer hours than are allqw
able, etc. Cases have been found
where employes have protested, only
to be told that if they reported
violations to NRA directors, they
would be discharged. General John
son and subordinates are going after
concerns falling in this classification.
The law may step in. Signed NRA
pledges are sent through the mails.
Postmaster General Farley is con
sidering the possibility of prosecut
ing employers who sign and then
violate, under the postal fraud
statute.
General Johnson has inaugurated a
Buy Now campaign, with the buying
restricted to NRA members. An
executive order, permitting cancella
tion of government contracts with
manufacturers who have not come
into the fold, has been issued. No
new government contracts will go
to non-NRA firms.
Two famous government bureaus
officially died the other day. One
is the Shipping Board which, with its
subsidiaries, received the neat sum
of $3,600,000,000 in appropriations
during its life, and had a book value
of $288,000,000 at last report. Its
functions—what are left of them—
were transferred to the Department
of Commerce.
Other casualty was the Prohibition
Bureau which came into being in
1920, spent $100,000,000 in 13 years,
and was involved in the loss of 250
lives. Most of the 1,800 dry
agents were dismissed.
The farmer and the grain dealer
found one recent government report
of great interest. It was the latest
crop forecast. Highlight was that
the wheat crop would not be as short
as had been expected, and prices
dropped accordingly. Most remark
able revelation, however, was that
all grain crops will be extremely
short. Total will be smallest in de
cades.
The farm relievers are faced with
(only one very perplexing question
—heavy hogs. The nation now’ has
1.000,000 expectant mother hogs,
and if the birth rate is up to normal
there will be a great oversupply.
I Probable solution will be to en
i courage the marketing of small pigs
Iby paying a higher price per cwt.,
and by placing a stiff processing
tax against heavy hogs. To bring
supply in line with demand, it will
be necessary to remove 500,000,000
pounds of pork and pork products
from the market during the remain
der of this year, and 2,000,000,000
pounds next year.
A 16,561,000-bale cotton crop
was forecast for the South. It is
estimated that this will be reduced
to 12,314,00 bales by the destruction
of 10,500,000 acres of cotton plants
under contract with the Adjustment
Administration.
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Hear new 1934 eleven-tube Philco Radio that not
only gets American reception better than ever, but
get foreign reception also.
Boyett’s Cash Store
Blakely, Georgia
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to extend to my friends my
deepest gratitude and appreciation
for their many acts of kindness
and expressions of sympathy during
the illness and passing of my wife.
SHELLY SIMMONS.
STRAY MULE— Big black mare
mule, weight about 1100 pounds;
12 years old; crop in left ear, black
mouth. $2.59 reward. FRANK
JEFFERSON, Rt. 5, Blakely, Ga.
SING AT COURT HOUSE
i - SUNDAY AFTERNOON
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i The town of Blakely and sur
■ rounding country have a special in
; vitation to an afternoon sing to be
held at the court house next Sun
. day, September 3rd, commencing at
two o’clock. It is expected that the
5 best singers of the Chattahoochee
’ and Flint River conventions will be
- present. The music will consist of
1 class singing, quartettes, spirituals,
etc. Everybody invited.