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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXV }> NO. 27
SECOND DISTRICT
OPENS IN NEW
New 5 and 10c
Store to Open Here
On March First
A new and attractive 5 and 10c
store will be added to the business
enterprises of Blakely on March 1,
when the formal opening of the
Rogers 5 and 10c Store is given.
The corner store in the Alexander
building, corner public square and
South Main street, has been remod
eled and is being modernly equipped
for the new business.
The store will be in charge of Mr.
J. D. Rogers, Jr., who comes here
from Cairo to manage the store.
Mr. Rogers, his wife and two chil
dren will make their home at the
residence of Dr. C. T. Alexander on
South Main street.
Mr. Rogers stated to The News
that he intends carrying a complete
line of those articles usually found
in a modern 10-cent store, and if
he does not have what his customers
call for, he will get it for them.
Announcement of the store’s open
ing will appear in The News next
week.
The News joins others in extend
ing to Mr. Rogers and his family a
cordial welcome to the business and
social life of Blakely.
County School
Tournament to Be
Held Next Week
Announcement is made by Mrs.
McArthur Jones, County School Su
perintendent, that the Early Coun
ty Basketball Tournament will be
held on Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of next week, March 1-2-3.
The games will be played in the
new shell on the campus of the
Blakely high school. The opening
contest will be at 2 o’clock Thursday
afternoon. Contests will continue
through Saturday night, when the
finals are played. Complete sched
ule of games will be published next
week.
The prices of admission will be:
25c for adults and 10c for children.
Shoes! Shoes!
WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND
MOST COMPLETE STOCK
OF SHOES IN TOWN
♦♦♦♦♦♦
Large assortment of Children’s Slippers just
received in Whites and Patents.
AAAAAA
Shipment of Ladies’ Spring Styles
Just Received.
See our Men’s Sport Oxfords before you
buy. We have just received $2,000.00
worth of high grade shoes.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
BLAKELY, GA.
flmrlg JXcws
Blakely Club Leads
69th Rotary District
In Feb. Attendance
The monthly letter of District Gov
ernor Garland M. Jones was read
to the Rotarians at the weekly
luncheon of the Club held at noon
last Thursday. The attendance rec
ord of the 69th district for the month
of February, a part of the letter,
revealed that Blakely led the dis
trict for the month with a percentage
of a fraction over 95. The Blakely
Club had two hundred percent meet
ings in the month.
Rotarian Woodward discussed the
plans for the basketball tournament
which opens in the new shell here
tonight. Plans for advertising the
event were discussed and a commit
tee of Rotarians was appointed to
work with Rotarian Woodward and
other citizens in properly adver
tising the tournament.
The luncheon was presided over
by President Hall, with Mrs. Ben
Haisten furnishing the musical pro
gram.
Time Extended
To March 1 to
Secure Auto Tags
Governor Talmadge has extended
until March 1 the penalty free
period for purchase of 1934 auto
license tags, but said flatly that there
would be no further extension after
that time.
“There are nearly a hundred thou
sand people in Georgia who haven’t
got their tags yet,” the governor
said, “and that $1.60 penalty means
a whole lot to a whole lot of folks
in this state.
“That’s the only reason I am al
lowing any more time.”
Without extension by the gover
nor the period for penalty-free pur
chase would have expired at the end
of January. After March 1 the tags
will cost the $3 to which Governor
Talmadge by executive order cut
them plus $1 to the sheriff of the
county in which the motorist lives and
20 per cent of the cost of the tag.
The governor directed the Highway
Board to put its tag inspectors to
work now rounding up motorists who
are still using 1933 tags and requir
ing them to get the new tags at once.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1934.
BOYS’ BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
SHELL HERE TONIGHT AT 7 O’CLOCK
The annual basketball tour
nament of the Class B schools
of the Second district opens in
Blakely, tonight (Thursday),
and will continue through
Saturday night.
The games are to be played
in the new basketball shell on
the campus of the Blakely
high school. The new shell, a
CWA project, is now com
pleted, and is one of the most
commodious and attractive to
be found in this section. It is
a credit to Blakely and Early
county, and those who have
not inspected the project will
find it a source of much inter
est and pride.
The basketball quintets of
eleven schools will compete in
the tournament, three games
to be played tonight, four Fri
day night, the semi-finals on
Saturday morning and the fi
nals Saturday night.
The eleven schools compris
ing Class B are: Albany,
Blakely, Cairo, Camilla, Col
quitt, Donalsonville, Moultrie,
Pelham, Quitman, Sylvester,
and Thomasville. The number
of boys and accompanying of
ficials here will be in excess
of a hundred. They will be
guests in Blakely homes while
here.
The complete schedule of
contests follows:
Tonight (Thursday)
Quitman vs. Moultrie, 7:00
p. m.
Camilla vs. Colquitt, 8:00
p. m.
Cravey Advocates
Bird Crop To Sell
Georgia Hunters
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Game and Fish Commissioner Zack
D. Cravey, who is working to im
prove hunting and fishing conditions
everywhere in the state, issued a
statement today advocating game
bird preserves on Georgia farms.
“Even the worst game hog in the
world would not think of going into
a farmer’s barn yard and killing his
hens. The farmer has raised these
hens, and he is entitled to a fair re
turn on what they cost him. Is there
any reason then, why hunters should
expect to be given the privilege of
hunting on land where the farmer
has made every effort to protect and
encourage birds, and where they are
more plentiful than they are else
where? I know of dozens of hunt
ers who will pay for the shooting
privileges on any farm where they
can really get birds. All the land
owner has to do is see that the birds
are there.
“I am urging farmers, therefore,
not to burn off their fields and
hedgerows. The wasted corners of
fields, the dense thickets along the
edge of fields, and the brush pile by
the fence, all are used as nesting
places for quail. In the Department
of Game and Fish we are preparing
a series of letters telling about the
advantages of cultivating for game,
and we can tell you how to attract
and protect the birds. You can raise
a good crop of quail, and when you
raise the crop, you can sell it. It
is always in demand.
“If you want to know what to
plant to increase your quail, we can
tell you. If you want to do this
and list your place as a good place
to hunt so we can tell people about
it, we will be glad to do that for
you. Raise more quail, and you can
have more money. Hunters will pay
to hunt where the hunting is good.
Just let me help you make it good.
I can do it, and I will be more than
glad to do it.”
Pelham vs. Blakely, 9:00
p. m.
Friday Night
Thomasville vs. winner of
Quitman-Moultrie game, 7:00
p. m.
Albany vs. winner of Ca
milla-Colquitt game, 8:00 p.
m.
Sylvester vs. Cairo, 9:00
p. m.
Donalsonville vs. winner of
Pelham-Blakely game, 10:00
p. m.
Saturday
Saturday morning the semi
finals will be played beginning
at 10 o’clock and Saturday
night the finals will be played
at 8 o’clock.
While basketball is com
paratively a new game to
most Blakelyites, much inter
est is being evinced in the
tournament locally. The gala
event has been widely adver
tised this week, and a large
crowd is expected to attend.
The seating capacity of the
new shell is about 800.
The prices of admission will
be 40c for adults and 25c for
children.
Following the opening games
of the tournament tonight the
young folks of Blakely will
give a dance in honor of the
large number of visitors and
to celebrate the opening of the
new shell. Orion Ross and his
Rhythm Kings, widely known
orchestra, will furnish the mu
sic for the dance, which will
be a SI.OO script affair.
Leaders to Launch
Consumer’s Drive
In Buy “Georgian”
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Seeking enlistment of Georgians
in a movement to increase consump
tion of Georgia products, consumer
membership drive of the “Buy Geor
gia Association” will be launched
this week, Mrs. David B. Mitchell,
Atlanta, chairman of the association
advisory committee, announced.
The organization, with headquar
ters in Atlanta at 24 Cain street,
ihas been established as a permanent
■ organization to increase the wealth
jof the state by increasing the pur-
I chasing power of the farmer, Mrs.
! Mitchell said.
“We intend to launch an educa
tional program, with every Georgian
enrolled, to make our people fully
realize that their neighbors are turn
ing out products that are just as
good, and many times better than
those now imported from other
states,” Mrs. Mitchell said.
“Georgia’s natural wealth is han
dicapped and an injustice is done to
our own producers, because the
people don’t know what a wide va
riety of things, and especially food
stuffs, are made to be sold from
Georgia farms.”
Mrs. Mitchell pointed out figures
of the agricultural department re
vealing that $34,000,000 is sent out
of the state annually for foods alone
which are also produced within the
state. This amount is more than
comes in each year, for both the
cotton and tobacco crops, the fig
ures show.
Mrs. Stacey Ernest Hill, Atlanta,
is co-chairman of the advisory com
mittee of the association, the exec
utive direction of which is under
Joseph C. Brown and D. P. Weekes.
Resolutions endorsing the movement
already have been adopted by nu
merous organizations in Atlanta.
An important conference of the
Baptist pastors of the Southwest
Georgia section will be held in Al
bany—an all day session—on next
Tuesday, February 27th.
American Legion
Observes Georgia
Products Dinner
The members of the P. H. Fitzger
ald Post of The American Legion,
with a few invited guests, observed
a Georgia Products Dinner at the
Hall last Thursday evening—an af
fair which proved quite enjoyable to
those present. The luncheon, com
posed almost exclusively of Georgia
products, was served by the Wom
an’s Auxiliary of the Legion.
Interesting talks on Georgia were
heard from the Rev. R. L. White
head, pastor of the Methodist church,
and the Rev. Spencer B. King, pastor
of the Baptist church. Short talks
were also given by Mr. O. R. Brooks,
Adjutant of the Post, Mr. W. J.
Grist and Mr. A. T. Fleming.
Master George Warrick, with his
mother playing the accompaniment,
contributed several song numbers to
the program.
The luncheon was presided over
by Mr. W. C. Jordan, Commander
of the Post.
Seventeen Stand
Examination For
Local Postmastership
Seventeen signified their willing
ness to accept the appointment to
the Blakely postmastership if tender
ed to them by journeying over to
Albany last Saturday to stand an ex
amination for the place conducted by
the Civil Service Commission.
In the crowd were seven ladies and
ten men, viz: Mrs. V. F. Balkcom,
Mrs. J. L. Camp, Mrs. W. A. Hall,
Mrs. L. M. Rambo, Mrs. W. R. Stew
art, Mrs. J. L. Underwood, Mrs. R.
O. Waters, and Messrs. R. E. Allen,
J. G. Butler, H. C. Fort, C. L. Gib
son, C. A. Grubbs, C. C. Lane, C.
L. Middleton, J. L. Underwood, Jes
se Widener, and R. O. Waters.
The names of the three who are
rated the highest by the Commission
will be submitted to the Postmaster
General, who will recommend to the
President one of the three for ap
pointment. It is understood that the
Congressman is permitted by the
Postmaster General to make the
recommendation to the President.
The salary of the Blakely office,
which is third class, is $23,000 per
annum, less 15 per cent. The term
of Mrs. L. M. Rambo, the present
postmaster, expires the latter part of
April.
The low temperature and high winds
have made soft skins
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Almond Cream, or try these less ex
pensive lotions that are so soothing,
so softening
ILASOL
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GLYCERIN AND ROSE WATER
Only twenty-five cents, at
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Balkcom s Drug Store
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
Jack White To Get
Trial With Buffalo
Baseball Team
Friends of Jack White, young
Early countian, son of Mr. Theo
White of the Urquhart district, will •
be interested to learn that he is to
receive a try-out with the baseball
team of Buffalo, N. Y., of the Inter
national League. Jack received a
contract this week calling for a trial
with the team and ordering him to
report at an early date at the Buffa
lo spring training camp at Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.
Jack received the offer through
the friendly offices of Mr. L. R.
Thompson of this city, and Mr.
Fresco Thompson, member of the
Buffalo team last year but this year
with the New York Giants—the for
mer recommending him and the
latter using his influence with the
Buffalo Club officials to have Jack
granted a trial.
Jack earned quite a reputation
here as a high school pitcher and
later was one of the star hurlers of
the Blakely team in the Georgia-
Alabama league. His friends hope
he may make the grade and “go up.”
First 300 Pounds
Free of Hog
Processing Tax
(By Georgia Newspaper Alliance)
Revision of the regulations gov
erning the process tax on hogs, giv
ing owners exemption from taxa
tion on 300 pounds, was announced
Saturday by Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue Helvering.
This gives exemption to the pro
ducer who slaughters between 300
and 1,000 pounds of his own hogs,
and sells or exchanges the products,
but for farmers producing more than
1,000 pounds tax upon the entire
amount will be assessed.
Commissioner Helvering explained
that the new regulations, just is
sued by the Secretary of Agricul
ture and approved by the President,
exempts the producer, if the pro
ducer is owner of the hogs at the
time of farrowing. The tax will be
paid on any amount above 300
pounds.
Farmers who slaughter and sell or
exchange all or any of the products
should confer with the collector of
internal revenues for his district.
Commissioner Helvering said.