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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.