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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV } NO. 19
RAT CAMPAIGN
TO GET UNDER WAY
AT EARLY DATE
MR. L. C. HOBBS APPOINTED
DISTRICT SUPERVISOR
EARLY COUNTY
The campaign against rats and ty
phus fever is expected to be started
within the next few days.
The Early county organization has
been perfected with the appointment
of Mr. L. C. Hobbs as district super
visor. Mr. Hobbs has already select
ed his personnel, which includes 18
foremen with a crew of four work
men under each foreman. These
workmen, who were selected from
those registered in the re-employ
ment office of the CWA, have been
selected from the districts in which
they will work. The total number
to be employed in Early county is
ninety.
The campaign, which is to be waged
simultaneously throughout the entire
peanut growing area of the South,
is under the direction of the United
States Public Health Service and the
U. S. Bilogical Survey. It is hoped
that by exterminating the wharf rat
typhus fever may be eliminated.
The chief method to be employed
in the killing of rats will be poison
ing. This will be followed by a trap
ping campaign.
Mr. Hobbs stated to a News repre
sentative Wednesday that every farm
and farm house in Early county will
be visited during the campaign, and
he asks for the earnest co-operation
of every citizen that the efforts to
destroy the rats may prove success
ful.
Mr. Hobbs will atend a meeting of
district supervisors in Albany Satur
day, when instructions will be given
them and final details arranged for
the campaign, which will, in all
probability, be started next week.
Schools to Re-Open
For Spring Term
Monday Morning
The Blakely public schools, after
a two weeks’ vacation for the Christ
■ mas holidays, will re-open next Mon
day morning for the Spring term.
The schools will continue in opera
tion till June Ist.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
PRICES FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
24 lb. Sack Flour . . .
100 lb. Sack Salt . . . 9S&
1 lb. Maxwell House Coffee 27c
2 Bars Octagon Soap . . . §C
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No. 1 can Tomatoes 5c
3 Bars Toilet Soap .... g<*
10 lbs. Sugar .... 49C
All 10c Snuff, 3 for . . . XSC
Groves Chill Tonic 45c
666 Chill Tonic .... I9C
COME TO SEE US
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GA.
Early County News
CITY COUNCIL
TO HOLD MEETING
TUESDAY NIGHT
CITY OFFICIALS FOR COMING
YEAR ARE TO BE
ELECTED
The Mayor and City Council wlil
hold the first meeting of the New
Year on next Tuesday night.
At this meeting two new Council
men will take the oath of office,
Messrs. S. G. Maddox and Oscar
Whitehard, who were elected last
August, succeeding Messrs. J. 0.
Bridges and H. B. Ainsworth. The
hold-over members of Council are
Messrs. R. C. Howell and R. C.
Singletary. Dr. C. R. Barksdale,
Mayor, continues in office for
another year, having been elected in
August, 1932, for a two-year team
beginning January 1, 1933, and end
ing December 31, 1934.
Included in the business to be
transacted Tuesday night is the elec
tion of city officials for the year
1934. There are rumors of changes
to be made in some of the places
to be filled.
Other important matters will prob
ably come up at the meeting.
Happy Christmas’
Is Observed Here
Blakely on Monday observed per
haps the merriest and happiest Christ
mas in several years.
Although not sharing as liberally
as other counties in CWA payrolls,
local merchants report a much bet
ter holiday trade than a year ago.
Saturday’s business exceeded expec
tations of most of the merchants.
Local welfare workers aided Old
Santa in seeing that there were no
empty stockings on Christmas morn.
The popping of fireworks, the toot
ing of horns, the sound of new roller
skates and the joyous prattle of
children in the early morning hours
heralded the dawn of the Day of
Days. Dads and mothers become
children again and helped the young
sters enjoy the gadgets which the
Patron Saint left on his Sunday night
rounds, and even the weather man
smiled his very best to help make
the day all that it should be.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1933.
Heralding The New Year |
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COUNTY TAKES PART
IN NATIONAL
' COTTON PLAN
PROGRAM FOR ADJUSTED COT
TON PRODUCTION BEING
FORMULATED
Cotton growers of Early are pre
paring to take their part in the great
national program of adjusted eotton
production, and to qualify for their
share of the rental payments which
will be made to those who participate
in the reduction plan.
Details of the Government offer,
which will make it possible for grow
ers throughout the entire cotton belt
to join the fight against runious
surpluses and to reduce their acre
ages without loss of immediate cash
income, are now being placed be
fore the more than a million cotton
growers.
Agricultural extension services of
the cotton-producing States, work
ing with the Federal extension of
fice and the cotton section of the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration, are organizing educational
campaigns to make it possible for
every cotton grower to study the
opportunities in the adjustment pro
gram. Participation is voluntary,
final decision resting with the grow
er himself as to whether or not he
will take part.
The new program, which follows
the emergency plow-up campaign of
the past summer, covers a two-year
period, 1934 and 1935. Like the
emergency campaign, its chief goal
is a reduction of the huge cotton
surplus which has forced the price
of cotton far below its fair exchange
value.
Early county growers who take
part in the program will be helped
to stabilize the whole cotton industry,
according to Dr. W. A. Fuqua, county
agricultural agent.
Southeast And
Georgia Lead In
Recovery Drive
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
That the Southeast in general and
Georgia in particular are leading all
other sections of the country in the
national recovery drive is shown by
reports and comments gathered from
leading business men representing a
cross-section of the nation’s com
merce.
In addition to an unusually brisk
holiday business, improvement is not
ed in the Georgia section as revealed
in the Atlanta bank clearings for the
second week of the month which
climbed to a height of more than
46 per cent over the same period
last year.
The stimulated business and re
sumption of retail trade in the South
east is believed to be a direct result
of increased prices for farmers’
cash crops, bolstered by re-employ
ment and increased wages in the in
dustrial plants, it was stated by
authorities in Washington.
' NEW ERA OPENED
I DURING PAST YEAR,
; JOHNSON ASSERTS
■ NRA HAILED AS INSTRUMENT
IN ESTABLISHING NEW
ECONOMIC ORDER
Administrator Hugh S. Johnson of
- the National Recovery Act viewed
( the holiday season with the convic
tion that this has been “the most
eventful peace year in the history
1 of this country,” and that “a new
“ order has been established which will
affect our entire social and economic
> system for all time.”
It has been a year, he said in a
t statement, “which will go down in
3 history as the one in which the great-
■ est economic change of all time had
1 its inception—for in 1933 we sank to
■ the lowest point in the depression,
i unparalleled in its severity.”
Citing the National Recovery Act
■ as one of the instruments producing
■ the fundamental changes in the eco-
- nomie order, Johnson said open public
- hearings of the financial, industrial
- and mercantile problems have dis
-1 closed facfts and conditions which
■ were never fully comprehended be-
> fore, established a closer and more
- sympathetic relationship between em
, ployers and employes, and given
- “those responsible for the des-
J tinies of our financial, industrial
and mercantile concerns. . .a clearer
s understanding of competitive condi
f tions existing within each particular
f group.”
> As a result, he said, “this appre
-1 ciation of the rights of each has
i brought about a form of industrial
J self-government, which, under normal
J circumstances, could only have been
visualized as possible through a pro
; cess of evolution extending through
1 future generations.”
, “Nineteen hundred and thirty-three
r is the year,” he concluded, “in which
developments have given conclusive
evidence that democracy under the
leadership of a president embodying
the scene of democracy in its highest
sense, has reached a pinnacle in its
climb upward which will serve as an
example to the peoples of the entire
b civilized world, and which will bring
lasting contentment to his people.”
Twelve Million Dozen
Eggs Added to List
For the Needy
r
i Eggs have been added to the list
i of food to be given to the needy,
- with the federal emergency relief
administration ordering the surplus
: relief corporation to buy 12,000,000
- dozen.
I The relief corporation, which is
* headed by Harry L. Hopkins, emer
i gency relief administrator, already is
i buying hogs which are to be turned
I into bacon. Salt pork, beans, canned
beef and mutton also are being dis-
- tributed to the unemployed.
Hopkins indicated the eggs will be
L taken from the surplus in storage in
’ Boston, Philadelphia, New York and
- Chicago. His announcement said
- there were 2,500,000 cases in storage
r throughout the country, principally in
these four cities.
GOVERNMENT MAY
ERECT MODERN
AIRPORT HERE
WOULD SPEND $25,000 AND
EMPLOY MANY CWA
WORKERS
Blakely may have a government
airport if plans which are under way
are approved.
Mr. C. M. Cummings, of Donalson
ville, state inspector for this part of
the government CWA program, was
in the city Sunday afternoon con
ferring with city officials in regard
to the project. Blakely is in line
with a proposed route to Pensacola
and Mr. Cummings stated to the city
officials that he would recommend
Blakely for an airport if a suitable
tract of land can be procured.
It is stated that the tract must
consist of at least 25 acres of land,
which must be tendered to the gov
ernment rent free for a period of
5 years, with the privilege of the
purchase of the land by the govern
ment at the expiration of the 5-year
period.
It is stated that in the event the
project is approved some $25,000 will
be spent in the building of a modern
airport and several hundred men
given employment in its erection.
These workers would be recruited
from those enlisted in the CWA
registration.
The Mayor and Council met in a
call session Tuesday night and ap
pointed a committee to negotiate for
th e necessary tract of land. As soon
as this is done, Mr. Cummings will
be notified.
Weekly Meeting
Os Rotary Club
The weekly luncheon of the Blake
ly Rotary Club was held at the
noon hour last Thursday, with Pres
ident Bill Hall presiding.
The Club members heard an inter
esting account of the trip three of
the Rotarians in company with
other citizens made recently to At
lanta in behalf of the CWA relief
projects in Early county by Rotarian
Jim Grist. His remarks were supple
mented by those of Rotarian Spen
cer B. King and Rotarian Bill Hall.
They voiced the opinion that Early
county would probably receive ad
ditional help early in the New Year.
The Club voted unanimously to
tender the Early County Relief Ad
ministrator, Miss Ainsworth, the
sympathy and hearty co-operation of
the Rotarians, individually and as
body.
Our Gratitude
At this season we wish to thank our
friends for their patronage. Ours has
been the privilege, the opportunity for a
service which we sincerely hope has ac
complished its mission in bringing unqual
ified satisfaction.
We appreciate the confidence which
has been placed in us, and now, at the be
ginning of the New Year, we dedicate our
selves anew to the continuance of this
service, which we trust will continue to
grow more inclusive and helpful.
Balkcom’s Drug Store
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
EARLY COUNTY
FARM HOUSE DATA
TO BE COLLECTED
POTENTIAL DEMAND FOR IM
PROVED FARM FACILITIES
TO BE MEASURED
A staff of one supervisor, 11 wom
en enumerators, three clerks, and one
architect or skilled carpenter began
work this week on a farm housing
survey in Early county, the object
of which is to measure the potential
demand for improved farm facilities.
The survey will also be conducted
in 17 other Georgia counties under
15 supervisors, who are women with
home economics training or experi
ence, on funds provided by the Civil
Works administration. The project
was planned by the United States
Department of Agriculture and the
University System of Georgia Agri
cultural Extension Service and is to
be directed by Miss Willie Vie Dowdy,
extension home improvement special
ist, and G. I. Johnson, extension agri
cultural engineer and state vice
chairman of the survey.
Besides Miss Annie Mae Goss,
supervisor for Early county, and her
staff, the local CWA relief adminis
trator, home demonstration agent
and agricultural agent will assist in
the work. For the entire project,
250 women have been given jobs.
They were selected from local CWA
registrations.
Supervisors and home demonstra
tion agents for 18 counties met at
The University of Georgia last week
and were instructed in the method
and purpose of the survey. On
Thursday the supervisors began pre
liminary organization work in their
respective counties.
In selecting the counties for the
survey, the following were consider
ed: types of farming, physiographic
features, average value of farms and
farm dwellings, nationality or race,
comparative number of owner and
tenant farm houses, and length of
time the area has been settled.
The project in itself was planned
for the re-employment of women,
and although its primary object is
to collect information of the poten
tial demand for improved farm facili
ties, it is also believed that the data
will be used to determine costs of
farm improvement facilities needed
andt to develop plans for installing,
developing and financing these in a
possible public works program of farm
improvement.
Commissioners
To Meet Tuesday
The first meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners for the
New Year will be held on next Tues
day.