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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV } NO. 3
ROTARIANS OFFER
$5.00 PRIZE FOR RAT
KILLING CHAMPION
CONTEST OPEN FOR THIRTY
DAY PERIOD, SEPT. 8
THROUGH OCT. 8
The Blakely Rotary Club, in an
effort to help exterminate the rats
in Blakely, is offering a $5.00 prize
to the person (man, woman, boy or
girl) who kills the most rats during
the 30-day period, September Bth
through October Bth.
The Club, at its meeting last
Thursday, voted to offer this prize
upon motion of Rotarian Fryer, fol
lowing a discussion by Rotarian
Gray of the rat situation in Blakely.
The rats are to be delivered to Mr.
-William Barksdale at the city ice
and cold storage plant. Mr. Barks
dale will keep count on them and
announce the winner at the end of
the thirty-day period. The contest
is open to any person in the city
limits of Blakely and the rules re
quire that the rats must have been
killed within the city limits. Or,
they may be caught and brought in
alive. No restrictions are placed on
the manner of catching or killing
them—traps, dogs, poisoning or ary
other method may be used.
The Club members heard interest
ing discussion of NRA codes by Ro
tarians Barnett Solomon, Bill Hall
and Spencer King.
Mr. C. A. Lester, of Donalsonville,
was a guest of the Club and spoke
briefly. He is a brother of former
Rotarian Marvin Lester.
The Club recorded a 100 per cent
attendance at this meeting, which
was presided over by President Hall.
Schools to Receive
5 Per Cent Payment
On Funds for 1933
Public schools of Georgia will get
an additional 5 per cent of their
1933 appropriation, or $192,387, as
soon as checks can be prepared and
mailed out, it was announced this
week by George B. Hamilton, State
Treasurer. The payment will bring
payments to the schools to 51 per
cent of their 1933 funds, whereas
other agencies have received about
45 per cent of theirs.
In addition to the $192,387, a
payment of $25,000 from the equal
ization fund will also be paid, Mr.
Hamilton announced.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
NEW GOODS ARRIVING DAILY
Ladies' newest Silk Dresses $3.95
Ladies' Fall Felts sl.oo to 1.95
36-inch Kordurette Suiting, yard., .40
36-inch Tweed Suiting, yard .35
36-inch Plaid Suiting, yard .25
Summer Wash Dresses .75
Rough Crepe, Fall shades, yard .95
25c quality Voile, yard .15
19c quality Voile, yard .10
SI.OO Full Fashioned Hose, pair .69
NEW FALL DRESSES RECEIVED
EACH WEEK
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GA.
(towtg JJews
Circulating Ice Water
System Installed at
School Building
The school children of Blakely are
due Mayor C. R. Barksdale a vote
of thanks for providing a plentiful
supply of ice water for them for
the coming year. The Mayor has had
installed in the school building a
circulating ice water system which
will provide for the needs of the
entire school at all times.
Other improvements at the school
resulting from the Mayor’s interest
include putting sand on the tennis
courts, cleaning the football grid
iron and putting the grounds in
good condition generally for the
school’s opening. This work was
done by Street Superintendent J. J.
McLendon and his crew of workmen.
County Schools
To Open Next
Monday, Sept. 11
Mrs. McArthur Jones, County Su
perintendent of Schools, announces
that all county schools will open
on Monday, September 11. Every
child is urged to attend the first day
and get his course planned and a
book list, even though he can not at
tend regularly for a few days.
The third grade will NOT buy a
geography book as in the past. There
will be no other changes made in
books for the first seven grades. The
eighth grade history will be changed.
Pupils should not buy history books
until teachers have helped them in
planning courses.
Children are asked to not buy
eleventh grade books until after the
opening of school.
There will be a teachers’ meeting
in the court house on September 9,
at two o’clock. The public is invited.
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Thirteen Scouts and the Scout
master held their regular weekly
meeting Monday night. Games were
played, exercises held and instruc
tions in map making were given.
The time of troop meeting was
changed from Monday nights to
Friday nights at 7:15, the next
meeting being September 15th.
TWO NEW MEMBERS
ON STATE COMMITTEE
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Atlanta, Ga.—Appointment of
Mrs. R. H. Hankinson, of McDon
ough, and Mrs. J. A. Rollison, of
Waycross, as members of the state
democratic committee has been an
nounced by Hugh Howell, chairman.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 7, 1933.
Fall Term of Blakely
School to Open Monday
The 1933-’34 term of the Blake
ly public schools will open next
Monday morning, September 11. The
public has a cordial invitation to
attend the opening exercises at 8:10
a. m.
The faculty elected by the City
Board of Education to direct the
schools is the same as last year
with the exception of the Superin
tendent. Mr. Wade Woodward, Jr.,
for the past five years principal at
Thomasville, succeeds Mr. L. M.
Lester as superintendent. Other
members of the faculty are:
Principal and Athletic Director—
Mr. J. A. Hammack.
High School Teachers—Miss Ella
Jones, Mrs. T. H. Phinazee, Miss
Evelyn Milholland.
Grammar School Department:
Principal and Seventh Grade—
Mrs. Annie H. Martin.
Sixth Grade —Miss Pennie Max
well.
Fifth Grade —Miss Annie Grier.
Fourth Grade Miss Antoinette
Bonner.
Third Grade—Mrs. B. R. Collins.
Second Grade—Mrs. C. M. Baggs.
First Grade—Mrs. J. E. Freeman.
Music—Miss Annie V. Womack.
Expression—Mus. Herbert Ingra
ham.
TUITION FEES
There will be the following tuition
fees for those not entitled to attend
the Blakely schools:
Primary Grades
Ist, 2nd and 3rd Grades—ss.oo
per semester.
4th and sth Grades—s7.so per
semester.
6th and 7th Grades—slo.oo per
semester.
High School
Bth, 9th, 10th and 11th Grades—
s2o.oo per semester.
There will be a laboratory fee of
SI.OO each for students taking the
science courses.
AGE OF PUPILS
Children who will not have reach
ed their sixth birthday by October
15th, 1933, will not be permitted to
enter.
EXAMINATIONS SATURDAY
Re-examinations for pupils having
condition subjects will be given at
the school Saturday afternoon, Sep
tember 9th, at 2:00 o’clock.
COURSE OF STUDY
The following course of study will
be used, and the books listed may
be obtained at Fryer’s Pharmacy.
First Grade
No books for first month. Each
pupil bring SI.OO for cost of their
supplies.
Second Grade
Howard-Hawthorne-Howard Lan
guage Garden; Child’s World Second
Reader; Morey’s Little Folk Number
Book; Trabue-Stevens Speller, Pri
mary Book; Graves’ Muscular Writ
ing, Book II; Playground of Num
berland, Kelso. Each pupil bring
50c for material.
Third Grade
Childs’ World Third Reader; Tri
angle Arithmetic, Book I; Denny &
Trusts Escaped Trusty;
Now Governor Trusts
Trusty Will Be Caught
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Atlanta, Ga. —“I’m an escaped
convict and want to talk to you
about a pardon, Governor,” the man
said over the telephone.
“Come and see me,” Governor
Talmadge told him.
The man, within a few minutes
was closeted with the Governor,
telling him of the many reasons
why he should be pardoned.
“Go on back to the gang. There’s
nothing I can do for you until the
commission meets and then I’ll see
that your case gets full considera
tion,” the Governor is quoted as
having told the man.
“I’ll go back to the gang within
an hour,” the man said.
Police all over Georgia have been
advised to be on the lookout for
Walt Jeffries, trusty, who walked
away from the Upson county chain
gang while serving a sentence of
100 years. He is said to have been
Skinner Our English; Knowlton First
Lessons in Geography; Lummis &
Shawl Road of Health to Grown-Up-
Town; Trabue Stevens Speller, Pri
mary; Graves’ Muscular Writing,
Book 111.
Fourth Grade
Kendall Fourth Reader; Triangle
Arithmetic, Book I; Modern Course
in English, Book I; Brigham & Mc-
Farlane Essentials of Geography,
Book I; Griffith Just Ten Minutes;
Trabue Stevens Speller, Primary;
Graves’ Muscular Writing, Book IV;
Childs’ Book of American History,
Blaisdell & Ball, Little Brown & Co.
Fifth Grade
Kendall Fifth Reader; Triangle
Arithmetic, Book II; Modern Course
in English, Book I; Brigham & Mc-
Farlane Essentials of Geography,
Book I; Evans’ First Lessons in
America; Graves’ Muscular Writing,
Book V; Trabue Stevens Speller, Ad
vanced; Every Day Living, Colbert.
Sixth Grade
Elson Sixth Reader; Triangle
Arithmetic, Book II; Modern Course
in English, Book II; Brigham & Mc-
Farlane Essentials of Geography,
Book II; Mace-Tanner Old Europe
and Young America; Ritchie-Cald
well Primer of Hygiene and Sanita
tion; Trabue Stevens Speller, Ad
vanced; Graves’ Muscular Writing,
Book VI.
Seventh Grade
Elson Seventh Reader; Triangle
Arithmetic, Book III; Modern Course
in English, Book II; Brigham & Mc-
Farlane Essentials of Geography,
Book II; Thompson’s History of the
People of the U. S.; Pleasant and
Profitable Farming; Winslow’s
Healthy Living, Book 11, Georgia
Edition; Trabue Stevens Speller, Ad
vanced; Graves’ Muscular Writing,
Book VII.
Eighth Grade
English—New Practical English
for High School, First Course; Lit
erature & Life, Book I.
History— Coman-Kendall Short
History of England, Revised.
Mathematics—Milney - Downey
Standard Algebra.
Latin—Parsons & Little First Lat
in Lessons.
Science—Clark New Introduction
to Science.
Ninth Grade
English Literature and Life,
Book 11.
History—Webster Early European
History, Revised.
Mathematics—Same as last year.
Science—Hunter New Civic Biolo
gy-
Latin—Second Latin Lesson, Par
sons & Ljttle.
Tenth Grade
English—M. O. S., Book III; Lit
iterature and Life, Book 111.
History—Modern European His
tory, Revised, Webster.
Mathematics Wentworth-Smith
Plane' Geometry.
Latin—Gunnison & Harley Six
Orations of Cicero.
French—Beginner’s French, Fran
coise Crosse.
Science—New Practical Physics,
Black and Davis.
Eleventh Grade
English—M. O. S., Book IV; Lit
erature and Life, Book IV.
History— Cousins-Hill American
History.
Mathematics Wentworth-Smith
Solid Geometry.
Latin—Vergil.
French—La Belle France, Mont
vert.
Science—New Practical Physics,
Black and Davis.
Oyster Season Begins
For State; Season to
Be Good, Says Twitty
September marking the opening
of the oyster season, bivalves from
the beds along the Georgia coast
will shortly be found in the markets
of the principal cities of this and
adjoining states, according to Peter
S. Twitty, state game and fish
commissioner.
Indications for a good oyster sea
son are reported by the commission
er, who points out that there have
been no severe freshets to bring
mud down the rivers and thus
damage the oyster beds.
Mr. Twitty is urging Georgia
housewives to select Georgia oys
ters for their tables, not only as an
aid to the oyster industry, but also
because oysters from the Georgia
coastal waters are tastier than those
from many other sections.
identified as the man who appeared
in the Governor’s office seeking
clemency and was told by Governor
Talmadge to surrender to an officer.
| Serious Auto
Wreck Near City
Last Friday Night
A rather serious auto wreck oc
curred last Friday night about two
miles north of Blakely, when a Ford
V-8 car driven by young Luther
Warrick hit a wagon loaded with
cotton as he attempted to pass an
other car. The wagon and the auto
were demolished and young War
rick and his three companions, Frank
Dennis of Arlington, Earl Pickle
and Jack Hayes, were thrown from
the wrecked car. While all miracu
lously escaped death, Pickle and
Hayes received cuts and bruises and
Dennis was so badly injured that he
was sent to a Cuthbert hospital for
observation. Latest reports indi
cate that he was no so seriously hurt
as was first feared and has returned
to his home in Arlington.
County Tax Rate
Fixed at Ten Mills
On the Dollar
The County Commissioners, in
regular monthly session Tuesday,
fixed the 1933 tax rate for county
purposes at ten mills, the same rate
as for 1932.
In addition to the ten mills, there
is a levy of five mills upon all the
taxable property outside of the
corporate limits of the* city of Blake
ly for the purpose of maintaining
the public schools of said county,
and in the several school districts
of the county an additional levy for
maintenance and bonded indebted
edness of the schools, these figures
being set out in the official notice
published elsewhere in The News.
Added to this will be the four
mills levied by the state, which is a
reduction of one mill from previous
years.
The Board granted some increases
in salaries to employes at the coun
ty convict camp, the following wage
scale going into effect as of Septem
ber Ist:
Joe Grimsley, warden, $90.00 per
month.
R. L. Thompson, mechanic, $75.00
per month.
R. E. Renfroe, tractor driver,
$75.00 per month.
J. D. George, Jr., tractor driver,
$45.00 per month.
A. B. Hayes, tractor driver, $45.00
per month.
R. H. Brunson, bridge man, $50.00
per month.
L. Z. Dozier, day guard, $45.00 per
month.
Hubert Harpe, day guard, $45.00
per month.
Carroll Davis, tractor driver,
$35.00 per month.
Willie McLendon, night guard,
$30.00 per month.
The Board authorized the pur-
We promptly accepted
Bthe provisions of the In
dustrial Recovery Act
in answer to President
Roosevelt’s appeal for
jl Wl DO OUR PART
| J the co-operation of
American Industry.
Buy Your Drug Store
Supplies Before
Prices Go Up
Balkcom’s Drug Store
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
GAME WARDENS TO
i BE OF GREATER
USEFULNESS
MAY BE EASILY LOCATED WHEN
WHEN NOT ENGAGED IN
POLICE WORK
Determined that game wardens
shall be of greater usefulness to the
hunters and fishermen of the state
and get better acquainted with the
public generally, Game and Fish
Commissioner Peter S. Twitty has
put into effect a novel plan, whereby
game wardens, when not actually
engaged in police work, can be
easily located and conferred with.
Every regular game warden has been
furnished with a tire cover for his
automobile, bearing in bold letters
the words, “State Game Warden—
A Good Sportsman Observes All
Game Laws.”
“We want our game wardens to
be of the greatest possible useful
ness to the hunters and fishermen of
the State and also to the farmers in
protecting their lands from trespass
and abuse,” states the Commission
er. “These tire covers have been
placed on game wardens’ automobiles
in order that each warden may be
quickly identified by anyone who
sees his car and wants information
concerning hunting and fishing laws
or who desires to inform the game
warden of violations in his territory.
We want the sportsment of the state
to realize that game wardens are
not merely police officers, but that
they are in fact the servants of
the sportsmen of the state and are
ready and willing at all times to
help them locate better hunting and
fishing grounds and to co-operate
with them in many helpful ways.
We especially want our game war
dens to get better acquainted with
the hunters and the public general
ly, in order that they may be bet
ter prepared to locate and run down
violations of the game laws during
the present season.
“Os course when the game war
den is actually running down a vi
olation or engaged in other police
work, he will remove the tire cover
in order to avoid being tipped off
as to his whereabouts and move
ments.”
chase of one caterpillar tractor and
three 2-yard wheelers.
A contract with the State High
way Board for grading two addition
al miles of the highway south of
Blakely was approved with minor
exceptions, Chairman Cook being
authorized to adjust these differ
ences with the Highway Board.
Present at the meeting was the
entire personnel of the Board, viz:
C. L. Cook, chairman, T. G. Harvey,
Jr., J. P. Hudspeth, C. E. Martin and
C. A. Tiner .