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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV > NO. 5
GEORGIA SEEKING
FUND TO FIGHT
RAT MENACE
ENTOMOLOGIST YEOMANS TO
ASK FOR GRANT OF
$450,000.00
Residents of Blakely and Early
county will be interested to learn
that Manning S. Yeomans, Georgia
state entomologist, is asking a grant
of $450,000 from the public works
administration for a campaign
against the spread of typhus in
Georgia through eradication of rats.
The entomologist said the eradi
cation plan, for which the outright
grant of funds will be asked by the
United States Public Health Service
and the Bureau of Biological Sur
vey, was approved Saturday by
Secretary Wallace, of agriculture.
Typhus fever has been on the
increase throughout the state some
time, it was said, although fatality
in the 308 cases reported last year
was only 2.6 per cent. It was point
ed out that the cases recorded last
year more than doubled the number
for either 1930 or 1931, and the
number this year already totaled
274. While the mortality from ty
phus in Georgia has been low, the
eradication proposed said it should
be borne in mind that under favora
ble conditions for spread the dis
ease may become more virulent,
spread more rapidly and carry
higher mortality.
Two species of rat fleas have been
found to transmit the disease in Geor
gia, and their destruction on a large
scale can be accomplished only
through eradicating rats, it was ex
plained.
Under the proposal, now being
drafted for presentation to the pub
lic works administration, the eradi
cation work would be though the
State Department of Public Health
and Department of Entomology with
the cooperation of the federal
agencies.
The destruction of rats would be
undertaken from two agencies, one
through trappinng by mobile and anti
rodent squads and another by use
of poison. It is planned to divie the
state into units for the campaign.
The work would center principally
in the peanut growing section of
Georgia, where rats are most preva
lent. Os the $450,000 to be request
ed 75.4 per cent was listed as labor
cost.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
NEW FALL GOODS ARE
ARRIVING DAILY
Flat Crepe Dresses i $2.95 to $4.95
Newest thing in Knit Dresses 2.95 to 4.95
All shades Crepe Back Satins, yd. __ 1.45
All shades Rough Crepes, yd .95
Beautiful Printed Crepes, yd. .95
New Printed Suitings, yd. .35
SI.OO Full Fashioned Hose .69
Ladies’ Hats 1.00 to 1.95
New Wash Dresses 1.45
We have a lot of new things not men
tioned. Let us show you.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GA.
(Snvln Countn ?scws
Billion Dollar
Increase in Farm
Income for 1933
Gross farm income will approxi
mate $6,360,000,000 this year, com
pared with $5,143,000,000 in 1932,
assuming a continued improved de
mand for farm products the re
mainder of this year, according to
a preliminary estimate by the Bu
reau of Agricultural Economics. The
estimate is made up of $6,100,000,-
000 from the sale of farm products,
plus at least $260,000,000 in rentals
and benefit payments by the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration.
Most of the increase in gross in
come is attributed to better prices
for crops, since prices of most
types of livestock have averaged
slightly lower this year than last.
Unless livestock prices advance ma
terially during the last four months
of the year, gross income from
livestock will not be greatly differ
ent from that in 1932, says the
bureau.
The trend of farm prices in the
next few months will be an import
ant factor in determining the gross
income of farmers for 1933, since
farmers’ marketings are usually larg
est during that period of the year.
Should industrial activity improve
during the remainder of this year, a
further increase in consumer and
industrial demand for farm prod
ucts is expected. The bureau has
assumed there will be some further
improvement in business activity
during the next four months, but at
a somewhat more moderate rate
than the improvement from March
through July.
Rev. H. Scott-Smith
To Conduct Service
Here Next Sunday
Having returned from his Euro
pean trip to England, Belgium and
Germany, the Rev. H. Scott-Smith
will resume services at Holy Trinity
Episcopal church in Blakely next
Sunday, September 24th, with morn
ing prayer and sermon at 11 a. m.
This date will mark the fortieth an
niversary of the ordination of Mr.
Scott-Smith as a priest of the Epis
copal church. Mr. Scott-Smith has
served Holy Trinity church at Blake
ly as Vicar for a number of years
dnd his parishioners, as well as his
many friends of other denomina
tions in Blakely, are planning a
goodly turn-out to felicitate him on
the completion of forty years of
service in the vineyard of the Lord.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933.
ALLIANCE SURVEY
SHOWS BUSINESS
IS ON THE UPGRADE
GEORGIA EDITORS REPORT
MORE MEN AT WORK AND
TRADE LIVELIER
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Business in Geor
gia is on the upswing.
Thousands are being employed or
re-employed in the rural communi
ties and industries long idle are again
in operation with thousands of dol
lars added to weekly payrolls, it was
revealed in a state-wide survey con
ducted this week through member
newspapers by the Georgia Newspa
per Alliance.
With more than $6,000,000 put in
circulation through sale of the Geor
gia tobacco crop and aided by the
steady stream of cash pouring in
from the marketing of cotton and
other farm crops, the smaller cities
of Georgia, many of them harboring
active industries, are facing what
promises to be a better future, the
survey revealed.
Relief loans, it was indicated,
have been instrumental in increas
ing re-employment and spurring re
tail trade in many sections.
North Georgia communities, in
cluding Cartersville, Cedartown,
Dalton, Gainesville, Lawrenceville
and Winder, with others, reassured
by the resumption of manufacturing
activities, report increased business
in practically all lines. The reopen
ing of quarries, the full-time opera
tion of ginneries, cotton seed plants
as well as full-time, two and three
shift employment in cotton mills,
are urging the wheels of Georgia
business into speed-gaining mo
mentum.
From Southwest Georgia comes
the report; “Pelham industrial plants
report three times as many men em
ployed as were working under the
10-hour plan and many of them
have gone to three shifts. Saw mills
and ginnery plants operating full
blast, giving full-time employment to
hundreds. Business is good.”
A gain in trade and a more free
circulation of money is reported from
Central Georgia. “Business in the
Sparta section is on the upgrade
with saw mills, planing mills, gin
neries and granite quarries in full
operation. Those payrolls, amount
ing to thousands weekly, and the
funds coming from the cotton and
corn harvest, and the re-employment
of workers long idle, have stimulated
local retail trade and re-established
confidence in this section.”
Reports of increased activity in
the naval stores industry were re
ceived from editors who surveyed
business conditions in the turpentine
and resin belt along the Atlantic
seaboard. “We were hard hit, but
with many camps reopening, stills
again operating and hundreds back
on the payrolls, we are now headed
for better times. Th e past thirty
days has seen a healthy and cheer
ing resumption of business activity
in this section.”
Long dormant, building activities
were reported in many sections of
the state. One editor stated that a
large annex was being added to the
local hotel, two new stores were
being built and several merchants
had built new fronts on their stores.
One editor reported: “A survey
just completed in Thomaston, East
Thomaston and Silvertown shows
that 71 business concerns have added
64 full-time and 43 part-time em
ployees to their forces in order to
comply with the provisions of the
NRA, the resulting weekly payroll
increase amounting to $1,280.24.
These figures do not include the
four cotton mills here where the
increase in payrolls is estimated at
SIO,OOO weekly.”
ARLINGTON MAN
HURT NEAR BLAKELY
Mr. A. D. Jester suffered severe
injuries last Friday at Blakely when
several tons of dirt caved in on him
and covered his body up to his
neck. He was trucking dirt for the
local plant of the International Veg
etable Oil Company from the Bu
channon mill site near Blakely and
a negro helper worked hard to re
move the dirt and call for help. He
was badly mashed and bruised but
fortunately no bones were broken
and he has been in the hospital at
Albany under special treatment
since. Latest reports say that he is
improving, but that it will be some
time before he will be able to get
[out. —Calhoun County Courier.
SUIT IS FILED TO
FORCE ACCOUNTING
FOR SCHOOL FUND
DECREE ASKED FOR AMOUNT
DEPOSITED IN DEFUNCT
CITIZENS BANK
Suit has been filed in the Superior
Court of Early county, by Messrs.
Raymond C. Singletary and W. J.
Grist “and other citizens and tax
payers similarly situated,” against
Mrs. McArthur Jones, County School
Superintendent, and her bondsmen,
The National Surety Company, to re
cover school funds allegedly lost by
the failure of The Citizens Bank of,
Blakely in November, 1931.
The complaint alleges that Mrs.
Jones had on deposit at the time of
the Bank’s closing $21,563.39 of pub
lic school funds of Early county, and
that no proof of claim was made
against the State Superintendent of
Banks for the amount on deposit. It
is further alleged that Mrs. Jones
exacted notes and other collateral as
security for the deposit, and that
of this security, at least $10,006 and
probably more is uncollected.
The petitioners state that demand
was made in writing on May 2, 1933,
before the Board of Education that
they proceed to collect such amount
due the school fund, but that no
action has been taken. The complaint
charges that the “main reason why
said Board of Education has declin
ed to take any action, in pursuance
of said demand,-is: that during the
year before the (Citizens) Bank
closed, said Board of Education,
whose Chairman was president of
said Bank, which later failed, actually
passed a resolution and entered the
same on their minutes, purporting to
authorize the said Mrs. McArthur
Jones, as Superintendent aforesaid,
to deposit and keep on deposit, in
said bank the public school fund of
said county.” The petitioners fur
ther allege that “said Board of Edu
cation had no right under law to
pass such resolution, or to relieve or
release or in any way effect the li
bility of said Superintendent for the
safe custody of said funds.”
Petitioners further state that they
“have made earnest effort to obtain
redress at the hands of said Board
of Education outside of court, and
have failed,” and pray that an ac
counting be decreed between Mrs.
McArthur Jones and her bondsmen on
one hand and the Board of Educa
tion on the other, fixing amount of
public school funds of said county
which have been lost; that judgment
and decree be rendered in favor of
said Board of Education against said
Mrs. Jones for full amount shown
due by her on said accounting, and
against said Mrs. Jones and her sure
ty for the same amount, not to ex
ceed the amount of her bond, which
is $6,000.00.
The Board is composed of the fol
lowing members: Messrs. H. C. Had
dock, Chairman, Shelly Simmons, G.
L. Ivey, F. M. Mosely and O. E. Hall.
Notice of said suit was served on
Sept. 12, return day of October term,
1933, Early Superior Court.
Representing the plaintiffs in this
action are Attorneys Lowrey Stone,
of Blakely, and Bennet & Peacock,
of Albany.
S.-W. Georgia A. M. E.
Conference to Be Held
Here in October
Rev. J. R. Gardner, pastor of
Wesley Chapel A. M. E. Church, an
nounces that Bishop W. A. Fountain
will hold the annual Southwest Geor
gia Conference here at his church
beginning October 11th. The ses
sion will continue through October
15th.
The Conference will mean th’
bringing together of A. M. E. min
isters and leading colored church
men from all over the southwest
section of the state. Several visiting
Bishops and general officers of the
church will be present.
Rev. Gardner asks the encourage
ment and co-operation of all the
people of Blakely and Early county
in general, both white and colored.
The public is invited to attend
the Conference sessions.
Public Invited to
Veterans’ Meeting at
Court House Eonight
Veterans of all wars, their famil
ies, friends, kin by blood or mar
riage, and the public generally is in
vited to attend a meeting at the
court house tonight (Thursday) at
8 o’clock.
The meeting will be addressed by
Chet M. Clark, Liaison Officer of the
State Veterans Service Office. He
will discuss the importance of veter
ans securing evidence in order to
further their claims for remaining
on the pension list. He will give in
detail the functions of the new re
viewing board and the evidence to
be submitted to them, and instruc
tions on beneficiaries. He will also
discuss the National Recovery Act
as it affects unemployed veterans.
Another speaker will be J. M.
MacDonald, Organization Director of
Associated War Veterans for South
west Georgia, who will discuss feder
al legislation as it affects the veter
an and the cause for that legislation.
The Associated War Veterans is
a new organization, and has become
national in scope. Many local serv
ice men, including the leaders in
Legion and Spanish War Veterans
circles, are sponsoring the organiza
tion in this section, it is said.
Local Football
Season to Open
Here Friday
The football season for the Blakely
Hi Bobcats will be opened on to
morrow (Friday), when the local
eleven will tackle the Ashford, Ala.,
squad at the gridiron at the school
ground in this city.
Coach Hammack has been putting
his men through some strenuous
drilling the past two weeks despite
the blistering heat, and the Bobcats
are rounding into shape.
The schedule for the season has
been completed and includes the fol
lowing games.
Sept. 22—Blakely vs. Ashford, in
Blakely.
Sept. 29—Blakely vs. Dawson, in
Dawson.
Oct. 6—Blakely vs. Abbeville, Ala.,
in Blakely (pending).
Oct. 13—Blakely vs. Bainbridge,
in Bainbridge.
Oct. 20—Blakely vs. Columbia, in
Blakely (pending).
Oct. 27—Blakely vs. Americus, in
Americus.
Nov. 3—Blakely vs. Sylvester, in
Sylvester.
Nov. 10—Blakely vs. Ashford, Ala.,
in Ashford.
Nov. 17—Blakely vs. Eufaula, A’.a ,
in Blakely.
Nov. 24—Open.
Nov. 30—Blakely vs. Cairo, in
Cairo.
The prices of admission to the
local games will be 15c and 25c.
A number of Blakely and Early
county citizens motored up to Fort
Gaines and Cuthbert Monday to hear
the addresses delivered by Governor
Talmadge.
We promptly accepted
the provisions of the In
dustrial Recovery Act
in answer to President
Roosevelt’s appeal for
WC DO OUR DART
the co-operation of
American Industry.
Buy Your Drug Store
Supplies BeSore
Prices Go Up
Balkcom’s Drug Store
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
STATE ROARD BOARD
TO BEGIN WORK ON
MAPPING PROGRAM
NO TIME FOR HEARING DELE-
GATIONS THIS WEEK, SAYS
CHAIRMAN
The State Highway Board will get
down to the actual mapping of a
construction program under its
$10,000,000 federal aid allotment
this week, and will not be available
for delegations that want to be
heard at the present time, it was
announced in Atlanta Saturday by
J. J. Mangham, chairman of the
board.
“We have been holding hearings
for six weeks and must get down
to the actual planning of a con
struction program,” Chairman Man
gham said. “For that reason the
board will not be available for hear
ings during the next week. It is
absolutely necessary that the board
give uninterrupted study to the
great task before it, and therefore
its meeting place next week will
not be made public.”
Chairman Mangham also an
nounced that maintenance head
quarters that have been maintained
heretofore at Moultrie have been
moved to Albany and the main
tenance headquarters that were at
Louisville have been moved to
Swainsboro. The changes affect be
tween thirty and forty employees.
The consolidation of engineering
headquarters perfected through the
reduction of the number of divisions
from six to three, does not affect
at present the maintenance head
quarters in the old districts where
there were shops, except as to Moul
trie and Louisville, it was stated.
An assistant supervisor is to be
maintained in each of the old di
visions but the superviser will be at
the engineering headquarters in
East Point, Macon and Fitzgerald.
The new plan will eliminate one
maintenance engineer in each di
vision.
The consolidation of the engineer
ing divisions will save $48,388 per
annum in overhead personnel costs,
it was estimated by department of
ficials.
Under the new plan the number
of engineering divisions conforms to
the number of members of the
board, with Commissioner Max Mc-
Rae, of Mcßae, representing divis
ion No. 1 with headquarters at Fitz
gerald; Commissioner Eugene Wil
burn, of Oglethorpe, representing di
vision No. 2 with headquarters at
Macon; and Chairman J. J. Man
gham, of Bremen, representing di
vision No. 3 with headquarters at
East Point.
Today is the autumnal equinox
and marks the official beginning of
the fall season.