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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV } NO, 4
WAR BEING WAGED
AGAINST RATS IN
CTTY OF BLAKELY
CITY COUNCIL JOINS ROTARY
CLUB IN CAMPAIGN OF
EXTERMINATION
It is safe to say that by October
Bth the rat population of the city
of Blakely will have decreased by
several hundreds, or maybe thou
sands.
Realizing the damage to property
and health being wrought by the
destructive wharf rat, the Mayor
and Council have joined the Rotary
Club in waging war against the ro
dents. A premium of 2c each will
be paid by the city for each rat kill
ed within the city limits during the
thirty-day period of September Bth
to October Bth. In addition to the
2c each, the following prizes have
been offered for the largest number
of rats killed:
First prize, $5.00; given by the
Rotary Club.
Second prize, $3.00; given by the
city of Blakely.
Third prize, $2.00; given by the
city of Blakely.
As a result of the campaign,
rat dogs are being brought into play,
traps are being set and a large
number of the populace are going
after the rats with a determination
to win one of the prizes and to col
lect 2c for each rat killed in addition.
Rules of the contest provide for
the delivery of the rats twice daily,
7:00 to 7:30 in the morning and
4:30 to 5:00 in the afternoon, to
the public hitching place on North
Main street, where they will be
counted by the city policemen and
a record kept of all rats killed.
The contest is open to any person
within the city limits of Blakely and
no restrictions are placed upon the
manner in which they may be killed.
Remember, dead rats are worth
2c each from now until October Bth.
FELDER NOW HAS
FORD AGENCY
Mrs. L. F. Warrick has sold the
Warrick Motor Co. place of business
on South Main street to Mr. I. D.
Felder, the deal being consummated
this week. Included in the sale is
the local agency for the Ford cars.
Mr. Alfred Felder and Mr. E. T.
Evans will have charge of the sales
and office work. The stock depart
ment is being replenished and a line
of new cars will be on display this
week.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
Come in and let us show you our new Fall
merchandise, which is arriving daily
New fall styles in Wash Dresses $1.45
New Flat Crepe Dresses 3.95
Closing out all Summer Dresses .75
New Rough Crepes, yard .95
New Crepe Back Satins, yard 1.45
New Cordurette Suitings, yard .40
New Crepe Suitings, yard .35
SI.OO Chiffon Hose, pair .... .69
Ladies' Felt Hats, from 1.00 to 1.95
Lace and Satin Brassieres .25
Black Kid Pumps 2.95
Black Suede Pumps 2.95
The store where the dollar buys the most
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GA.
Count!) JXcws
5,334 Bales Os
Cotton Ginned in
Early to Sept. 1
The September Ist cotton ginners
census report shows that prior to that
date there had been ginned in Early
County 5,334 bales of the 1933 cot
ton crop. This compares with 1,885
bales to the same date in 1932. These
figures would indicate that despite
the plowing up of 7,000 acres, the
current crop will be larger than that
of last year, although the wide dif
ference in the above figures is due
largely to the fact that the 1933 crop
matured earlier than that of last
year.
State Health Board
Urges Conservation in
Diphtheria Antitoxin
Because it is facing the most
serious financial crisis in its history,
the State Board of Health has ap
pealed to the physicians of the state
to assist in the conservation of its
supply of charity diphtheria antitoxin,
which the law requires the board to
distribute to those unable to buy.
Widespread use of the free supply
of antitoxin by those who are able
to purchase it has so depleted the
funds for this purpose that, unless
relief is obtained immediately, the
supply will be exhaused before the
end of the year. The season when
diphtheria is most prevalent is just
setting in, according to Dr. T. F.
Abercrombie, state director of public
health.
Dr. Abercrombie has told the phy
sicians that if the state is to con
tinue to supply them with antitoxin,
they must rigidly comply with the
following rules:
1. Use state antitoxin only for
strictly charity patients.
2. If you must use antitoxin for
pay patients, collect in advance the
price stamped on the package and
remit at once to the State Board of
Health.
3. Use immunizing antitoxin (1,-
000 unit package) only for small
children who have been intimately ex
posed.
4. If you furnish antitoxin to other
physicians, see to it that it is to be
properly used for charity patients,
or collect from physician in advance.
The State Board of Health is fac
ing the most serious financial crisis
in its history and, unless relief is
obtained in some way, funds available
for the purchase of antitoxin will be
exhausted long before the end of the
year.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead?’
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933.
25,000,000 ACRES
LIMIT SET FOR 1934
COTTON CROP
PRESIDENT IN SYMPATHY WITH
PLAN PROMULGATED BY
SECRETARY WALLACE
Washington, D. C.—A cotton re
duction program intended to limit
the 1934 crop to 25,000,000 acres is
planned by the farm adjustment ad
ministration with the approval of
President Roosevelt.
This would make next year’s
acreage 5,000,000 less than this
year’s and 15,000,000 under the nor
mal planting.
The plan contemplates a combina
tion of rental payments to farmers
and a form of the domestic allot
ment proposal.
It was understood the allotment
feature would include a virtual guar
antee of parity price on approxi
mately half the total crop, the amount
to be arrived at on the basis of
domestic consumption.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., governor
of the farm credit administration,
announced that all farmers who have
pledged cotton as collateral for seed
and crop production loans prior to
this year’s crop will be notified to
sell their collateral cotton at once in
liquidation of the loans that are past
due.
For every bale of cotton so sold,
a bale of long futures will be bought,
as authorized by the agricultural
adjustment act. The long futures
contracts will provide the secretary
of agriculture with cotton for carry
ing out the acreage reduction pro
gram, but the transactions will re
sult in no net sales or purchases,
Morgenthau said.
“The plan,” he explained, “is that
all the collateral cotton other than
that which is security for loans for
1933 production, will be sold by No
vember 1, thereby saving the farm
credit administration hundreds of
thousands of dollars in carrying
charges over what be incurred if the
sale of this cotton and the liqui
dation of these overdue loans were
delayed.”
Sale of the cotton also will place
approximately $36,000,000 in a re
volving fund for creating 12 pro
duction credit corporations, one to
be located in each federal land bank
district. Approximately 588,000
bales of cotton are involved.
Wallace said the president was in
sympathy with the plan.
Fixing the acreage at about 25,-
000,000 would be done for the coun
try as a whole. The allotment would
be given each state and in turn the
county allotments would be fixed and
the county committees would set the
individual acreage for the farmers.
The parity price guarantee would
affect about half of the cotton pro
duced by each county through the
five-year average from 1928 through
1932." The domestic consumption of
years approached about one-half,
year approached about one-half.
County commitees would make allot
ments to the individual farmer on the
basis of the production of the land
during the chosen period. Thus, if
a farm raised 100 bales yearly dur
ing the period and one man culti-'
vated it, next year he would be as
sured the parity price on 50 bales
or slightly less.
About 5,500,000 bales was the
average domestic consumption of cot
ton over a five-year period ending
July 1, 1933.
Farmers would be paid from $3 to
sll an acre for acreage taken out
of cultivation.
cotton Processing tax
IS HIT IN RESOLUTIONS
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Albany, Ga.—lmmediate, abroga
tion of the processing tax on cotton
and early “reasonable and controlled
expansion of currency” were demand
ed in resolutions adopted at a meet
ing of prominent farm and business
leaders held here. The resolution
cites inability of farmers to partici
pate in national recovery due to the
low prices being paid for farm pro
ducts.
The resolution was drawn up by
Senator George and Congressmen
iCox and Castelow.
COTTON CROP
ESTIMATE IS UP
100,000 BALES
SEPTEMBER 8 FORECAST OF
1933 PRODUCTION IS
12,414,000 BALES
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Cotton
production for 1933 was forecast
last Friday by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture at 12,414,000 bales
of 500 pounds gross weight, com
pared with 12,314,000 bales indi
cated a month ago, and 13,002,000
bales produced last year.
The condition of the crop on
September 1 was 67.5 per cent of
a normal, compared with 74.2 a
month ago and 56.6 on September 1,
last year.
The indicated yield per acre was
announced as 197.8 pounds as com
pared with 198.4 pounds indicated a
month ago, 173.3 pounds produced
last year and 167.4 pounds, the
average for the previous ten years.
The production forecast was based
on the preliminary acreage statistics
which placed the area remaining
September 1, for harvest at 30,036,-
000 acres allow deduction for the
probable removal of acreage report
ed by the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, less abandonment on
area not under contract. Last
month’s forecast of production was
based on 29,704,000 acres, the area
in cultivation July 1, was 40,798,-
000 acres.
Abandonment of acreage this year
after July 1, was announced as 1.2
per cent, compared with a ten-year
average abandonment of 2.6 per
cent. The abandonment this year
does not include acreage of cotton
destroyed on contract with the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration.
The condition of the crop Sep
tember 1, and the indicated produc
tion by states was reported as fol
lows:
Virginia, condition 73 per cent of
a normal, and indicated production,
38,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight; North Carolina, 71 and 636,-
000; South Carolina, 63. and 690,-
000; Georgia, 69 and 1,035,000;
Florida, 74 and 33,000; Missouri, 78
and 212,000; Tennessee, 72 and
432,000; Alabama, 65 and 962,000;
Mississippi, 65 and 1,369,000; Louis
iana, 55 and 543,000; Texas, 68
and 3,815,000; Oklahoma, 72 and
1,133,000; Arkansas, 66 and 1,117,-
000; New Mexio, 91 and 65,000;
Arizona, 88 and 82,000; California,
84 and 182,000; all other states,
84 and 10,000.
Lower California, Old Mexico,
(not included in California figures
nor in United States total), 81 and
24,000.
Expect Road Work
To Create Many
Jobs in Georgia
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Atlanta, Ga.—The $10,000,000
allotted to Georgia by the federal
government for highway construction
in the state, and which has been
held up by a dispute over the legality
'of the State Highway Commission,
will come to Georgia immediately to
be spent under supervision of federal
engineers, according to Washington
dispatches. The money will be ex
pended, it was announced, with pri
mary consideration given to employ
ment needs, and the secondary con
sideration will be given to traffic re
quirements.
SLEEPING SICKNESS
APPEARS IN GEORGIA
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Two cases of the dreaded sleeping
sickness, one fatal, have been report
ed in Georgia. The first case was
reported from near Barwick. The
second case, and Georgia’s first
casualty, was that of W. A. Fuqua,
Laurens county farmer, who died
after only a brief siege of the dread
ed malady.
The national death toll is past the
100 mark and centers around St.
Louis. The disease is said to be
more deadly to middle-aged and aged
people than to young victims.
Deputy Collector
Here Today to Aid
In Preparing Returns
I
W. E. Page, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the District of Georgia,
announced today that plans have
been made to have a representative
of his office visit every county in
the State during the next three
weeks, to assist taxpayers in the
preparation of returns due under the
new Internal Revenue Laws. Mr.
Page stated that numerous inquiries
received in his office indicated that
taxpayers desired assistance in pre
paring their returns of Processing
Tax, Floor Tax on Wheat and Cotton
products, Capital Stock Tax, etc., all
of which were provided for by laws
passed during 1933. He is, there
fore, making it possible for every
person in the state to obtain informa
tion and assistance by personal con
tact with a Deputy Collector who has
been specially trained for this work.
There will be no charge for the ser
vice of these men and taxpayers are
urged to take full advantage of this
opportunity to clear up any questions
concerning these new tax laws.
A representative will be in Blake’y
today (Thursday), with headquarters
presumably at the court house.
Rotarians Have
Good Program at
Weekly Luncheon
The Rotary Club, at its weekly
luncheon held at noon last Thurs
day, enjoyed a program of songs
and readings given by out-of-town
guests.
Mr. —. —. Corley, of Albany,
who is spending some time in Blake
ly, delighted the Rotarians with
several song numbers, Miss Evelyn
Dußose playing the accompaniment.
Another enjoyable entertainment
feature was the rendition of three
readings by Miss Louella Phillips, of
Camilla. Her numbers included
“Supposin’ Case,” “Kith and Kin,”
and “Blushing Bride.” Miss Phillips
and Miss Beatrice Duke were guests
of Rotarian Robert Stuckey.
C. D. Duke, a fomer member of
the Club, ‘was a guest of Rotarian
Maddox.
The Club’s rat-killing contest was
discussed and the rat committee was
instructed to confer with the City
Council in regard to the city taking
part in the contest.
The luncheon was presided over
by Vice President Fryer in the ab
sence of President Hall.
A CORRECTION
The News was in error last week
in stating that Mrs. E. H. Dunn and
children had gone with Mr. Dunn
to Thomaston. They will remain in
Blakely for some time yet and Mrs.
Dunn will operate the Dunn pressing
club until she and the children join
Mr. Dunn in Thomaston later on in
the fall.
_ We promptly accepted
m the provisions of the In-
dustrial Recovery Act
in answer to President
!(&► Roosevelt’s appeal for
Wl DO OUR RART
______ I 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
FALL TERM OF
BLAKELY SCHOOL
OPENED MONDAY
LARGE NUMBER PUPILS AND
VISITORS PRESENT AT
OPENING EXERCISES
The public schools of Blakely
opened for the 1933-’34 session on
Monday last with a large attendance.
Chapel exercises were held at 8:10
a. m. with a large number of parents
and visitors present. Opening exer
cises included reading of the Scrip
ture by the Rev. Anthony Hearn,
pastor of the Methodist church, and
prayer by the Rev. Spencer B. King,
pastor of the Baptist church. Dr. J.
G. Standifer, speaking for the City
Board of Education, introduced the
new Superintendent, Mr. Wade
Woodward, Jr., who made a pleas
ing address and outlined the general
policies of his administration.
The others of the corps of teach
ers had all been re-elected and were
in their places. The personnel of
the faculty follows:
Superintendent—Mr. Wade Wood
ward, Jr.
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—Mas. Herbert Ingra
ham.
The Blakely school gets off to a
happy start and everything points to
a successful year.
Local Bakery in
Operation; Bread of
High Quality Baked
Mr. R. L. Whitehurst has leased
the former Blakely Bakery on South
Main street and has it in operation.
Mr. Bill Smith, well known baker, is
in charge of the baking and is turn
ing out an excellent brand of bread,
cakes, pies and other tempting bakery
products. The bread being baked is
prononunced by those who have eaten
it as good as any to be found any
where.
Mrs. Whitehurst is in charge of
the sales'department of the bakery.
It is hoped that Blakely people
will patronize this local industry and
aid in its success.
The name of the new bakery is
The Whitehurst Baking Company.
A message to readers of The News
appears in this issue.