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JUST AMBLIN’ ALONG
With guyton McLendon
Pen Portrait* of Blakely
People
Have you noticed the unusual
window display in the Smart Shop?
If you have not, I would suggest
that you do so at your next op
portunity. This is just an example
of the many things which the owner
is talented in doing. I had admired
Miss Una’s window for several days
when one of our prominent busi
ness women called my attention to
taste that was used, and this
lady made the remark: “You know,
that lady can do anything she wants
to.” And I suppose that just about
sums it up. Mrs. Curtis Middleton
is a native of our sister county of
Calhoun. The first recollection I
have of her is in the school room,
where I had several classes under
her (you see, I am very young yet.).
After marrying, she gave up that
profession, but ability will not go un
used, so she entered the business
world where she has shown her real
talents. Hats off to a real artist.
Well at least one person agrees
with me about the affair between
Mrs. S. and the King. I received a
letter from a student at the State
University, and this student’s opin
ion is the same as mine. Please let
me add that although I do believe
that .they will marry, I cannot ad
mire such carelessness in matrimony.
It seems that there is in our midst
newspaper reporters that we knew
nothing about. There is in Albany
a negro newspaper called the Al
bany Enterprise, and in this sheet is
a column written by “Watchful
Eyes” from Blakely. One of the
notes in that column went something
like his: “Two of />ur group were
seen at the Blakely Theatre Tues
day and were they taking it easy.
They seem 2 B in the mood for
love. They were heard singing You
started me dreaming.” Boy! If Win
chell could read that.
We had company for dinner Tues
day, Mr. Marion Mosely from Jakin.
This fine old man seems to have the
secret for keeping young. He is
well into the western side of life,
but his spirit is the spirit of youth.
I believe he is the most universally
loved man in this entire county. Cer
tainly he is loved by everyone who
has come in contact with his beauti
ful soul. Some of you will recog
nize him as the father of Mrs. Charlie
Dunning of this city.
There seems to be a general awak
ening in our fair city. Do your
part to make it complete. No town
will go higher than its religious
standards. A lot of you joined the
church way back yonder when you
still hadn’t put on long pants. Then
you got too big for such things, so
you quit going. A lot of our people
have not been in God’s house in ten
years. Why they would not even
know how to act if they went. Are
you one of them? f you are, be
ashamed of yourself and then try
going back to some of the customs
your mother taught you back when
you put on your Sunday best and
with the love of the Savior in your
heart went happily down the road
to that little old country Church.
I dare you to try it. You will find
that which you have long since lost;
you will find love for your fellow
man; you will find peace that only
He can give. May I look for you
next Sunday? If you sing, we’ll save
you a seat in the choir.
WOOD FOR SALE— Lightwood,
$2.00. Phone 174. BRYANT’S!
MILL.
CATCH that fat ’possum. A guar
anteed ’possum dog for SSO. WAR
REN CHANDLER.
SHERIFF’S SALE
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
There will be sold by the under-1
signed, at public outcry, between.
the legal hours of sale, for cash,l
before the court house door of Ear- ■
ly county, in the City of Blakely,
on the First Tuesday in January,
1937, the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
One-fourth undivided interest in
and to the following described
land, to-wit: 150 acres of land off:
the south side of lot of land No. ’
236, and 125 acres of land off the .
north side of lot of land 235, said |
two tracts of land lying in a body j
and containing 275 acres, and lo
cated in the 6th land district of
Early County, Georgia, and being
the place known as the Elizabeth
Daniel Place.
Said property levied on and to
be sold as the property of Mrs. Kate
Betton to satisfy a fi. fa. issued
from the City Court of Blakely in
favor of T. G. Avery vs. Mrs. Kate
Betton. This December 9, 1936.
S. W. HOWELL, Sheriff.
•FARMERS TO DECIDE
FUTURE OF PROGRAM
FOR CONSERVATION
Tifton, Ga.—The future of the
soil conservation program is up to
the farmers themselves, Secretary
of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
said here last week. He was here
during a tour of inspection of re
settlement projects and rehabilita
tion families in Alabama and Geor
gia.
The agricultural secretary said the
trip was made to obtain firsthand
information for guidance in working
out farm policies of the ad
ministration.
Taking over the Resettlement and
Rehabilitation Administrations by the
Department of Agriculture, Wallace
said, “would appear to be the natural
and logical procedure.”
Tlje soil conservation program
must be worked out in such away
that would not handicap the farmers
in some sections to the benefit of
those in other sections; must be de
veloped as a program for the good
of the farmers of the nation as a
whole, he said.
YOUNG MEN WANTED
FOR ENLISTMENT
IN U. S. ARMY
The United States Army Recruit
ing office located in the Post Of
fice Building, Albany, Georgia, an
nounces that several hundred young
men are wanted for immediate en
listment in the U. S. Army for
service in Panama and the First and
Second Corps Areas. Headquarters
of the First Corps Area is located
at Boston, Mass., and that of the
Second Corps Area at Governors
Island, New York. Vacancies also
exist at Fort Benning, Georgia, in
the Infantry and Field Artillery.
Sergeant G. A. McCallum in
charge of the Albany Recruiting
states that all vacancies must be fill
ed by the 31st of December 1936.
FINAL FOOTBALL GAMES
OF THE 1936 SEASON
High School
Brunswick 7, Albany 2.
Tifton 12, Moultrie 7.
Quincy (Fla.) 7, Bainbridge 0.
Southern College*
Mississippi 0, Tennessee 0.
Texas A. & M. 13, Manhattan 6.
Arkansas 6, Texas 0.
Sou. Methodist 9, Rice 0.
Miss. State 7, Florida 0.
W. Teachers 23, Tampa 22.
Other Important Games
St. Marys 13, Temple 7.
Sou. California 13, Notre Dame 13.
The big news of the past week
was the contemplated marriage of
King Edward VIII of Great Britain
to Mrs. Wallis Simpson, twice di
vorced American woman. The Brit
ish cabinet, headed by Prime Minis
ter Baldwin, and all British royalty
are unalterably opposed to the
match. While known in America
for weeks, the news broke over the
British Isles as a sensation and
fairly rocked the British Empire.
The Spanish civil war continues
with the Communistic government
forces favored in the fighting lately
over the Fascist rebels in the battle
for the possession of Madrid.
John Ringling, last of the famous
Ringling Brothers, of circus fame,
died in New York last week. He was
70 years old.
State anfl County Tax Boots
CLOSE DEC. 20th.
My 1936 Tax Books will close
on Dec. 20th and executions
will be issued immediately. Pay
early and save the extra costs.
J. L. HOUSTON
Tax Commissioner.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
800-POUND TUNA FISH
PROVES BIG PROBLEM
TO GENERAL CAMP
(Sally Forth, in The Atlanta
Constitution)
It’s a safe bet that General Lind
ley Camp will never complain again
over not being able to catch a big
fish. His last complaint on the sub
ject has resulted in his being the
owner of a tuna fish weighing the
insignificant sum of 800 pounds!
Some weeks ago the genial Geor
gian was visiting on the west coast
of Florida and having rather poor
luck as a fisherman. He met Dr.
Brinkley, whose radio programs from
Del Rio, Texas, are heard over the
nation and who was in Florida wat
ers on his yacht. Dr. Brinkley is
quite an Isaac Walton and General
Camp complained rather bitterly
about his own luck, so Dr. Brinkley
offered to send him a tuna the next
time he caught one.
A day or two ago the Atlanta
express agent called General Camp
and said he had a package for him.
When the general answered that he
would run by in his car and pick it
up, the expressman laughed and
said, “You’d better bring a truck.”
Greatly mystified, General Camp
hurried over and found a frozen
tuna fish weighing 800 pounds
awaiting him. The only fortunate
thing was that the express charges
of $65 had been prepaid!
What to do with the fish is pro
viding quite a problem. General
Camp can’t even give it away, so
he has the monster in cold storage
at an ice plant here, where it is
creating much attention. And Sally
is quite sure that the general will
never complain again of fisherman’s
luck!
Pope Pius, supreme head of the
Roman Catholic church, was strick
en with paralysis at Vatican City
last week.
FURNITURE—Another big ship
ment just arrived. CHANCY’S.
STRAY COW— Stray milk cow,
marked D on hip. Finder please no
tify J. O. BRIDGES.
FOR SALE— Pony, bridle and
saddle; pony weighs about 350 lbs.,
and is very gentle. See GEORGE
NELSON.
SHERIFF’S SALE
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
There will be sold by the under
signed, before the court house door
in the City of Blakely, Early county,
Georgia, within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder for cash,
on the Fir»t Tuesday in January,
1937, the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
A one-third undivided interest in
and to lots of land Nos. 153, 168,
193 and 194, lying east of Spring
Creek, in the 6th land district of
Early county, Ga.,' said tract con
taining 662 acres, more or less; also
a one-seventh undivided interest in
iand to lots of land Nos. 153, 168,
193, and 194 lying east of Spring
Creek in the 6th land district of Ear
ly county, Ga., said tract containing
662 acres, more or less; also that
part of lot of land No. 208 lying
north of a line drawn from east to
west through the center of said
lot and west of the public road from
Arlington to Damascus, said tract
; containing 25 acres, more or less, in
: the 6th land district of Early coun
ty, Ga.; also all of lot of land No.
207 except 37 1-2 acres in the south
west corner of said lot, containing
212 1-2 acres, more or less, and in
the 6th land district of Early coun
ty, Ga.
Levied on and to be sold as the
property of Miss Maggie Daniels, as
administratrix of Estate of J. B.
Daniels, deceased, to satisfy a fi. fa.
issued from the City Court of Blake
ly in favor of T. G. Avery, as admr.
of Estate of Mrs. T. G. Avery, de
ceased, vs. said Miss Maggie Daniels,
as admx. of Estate of J. B. Daniels,
deceased. Tenant in possession no
tified. This December 8, 1936.
S. W. HOWELL, Sheriff.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
... LESSON...
JOHN’S VISION ON PATMOS
Le*»on for Dec. 13: Rev. 1:4-18
Golden Text: Rev. 1:1, 18
By REV. CHAS. E. DUNN
The strange but fascinating book
of Revelation is not, as some insist,
a prophecy of the final drama of
the world. It is neither a time-ta
ble of far-off events nor a treatise
on heaven, though there are vivid
anticipations of immortality in it.
Rather is it a tract for the
times, practical in aim, immediate
in purpose. Much of it, to be sure,
sounds grotesque to modern ears,
for it is full of eccentric imagery
and lurid passion. But nothing in
Revelation was strange to the folk
for whom it was written. They un
derstood every word of it.
What was their situation? Toward
the close of the first century an
edict had gone forth from the Em
peror Domitian that his subjects
should worship him as God. The
Jews were exempted from conform
ity to this ordinance, but not the
Christians. Imagine their plight.
On the one hand we observe a splen
didly powerful empire; on the other,
a mere handful of struggling
churches.
At that terrible crisis in the early
history of the Christian movement
Revelation was written. What is its
purpose? To put heart into the
dismayed people of God. Its theme?
The certain victory of the Lord
Omnipotent, and of His Christ.
Here the church is exhorted to be
faithful unto the end, for Rome and
evil are to be destroyed, and Christ
exalted as a conquering King.
Thus Revelation is a flaming tract
of faith for bad times. And inas
much as our own age is threatened
on every side by disintegrating
forces, we find this final book of
the Bible germane to our plight
today. For it calls for a heroism
and endurance needed now fully as
much as in those dark hours when
it was written. And it proclaims
the glorious news that evil, despite
its terrific strength, will be finally
overcome. Its Christ is One who
makes history by marching on glo
riously, and putting his enemies un
der foot.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY AGENT
COTTON WILT COST SOUTH
GEORGIA FARMERS $5,500,000
LAST YEAR—
Cotton wilt cost the farmers of
South Georgia close to $4,500,000,
due to loss of an estimated 57,500
bales of cotton, a survey recently
made by Dr. A. L. Smith, of the
Georgia Experiment Station, and
H. W. Rankin, with the State Agri
cultural Extension Service, and an
nounced this week, shows.
Smith and Rankin surveyed 65
farms over a wide area in South
Georgia, and they found cotton wilt
on 64 of them, showing that the
disease has become established in
the great majority of the cotton
fields of the Coastal Plains of the
State. They found a number of
varieties of cotton being planted by
the farmers that were resistant to
wilt, and they found other common
ly planted varieties that were high
ly susceptible to the disease.
Among the varieties that were
found to be wilt resistant were
Toole, Cooke, and Clevewilt, while
many other varieties suffered heavi
ly from the disease. Different va
rieties showed different degrees of
susceptibility and the amount of
wilt disease carried in the soil va
ried from very little to heavy infes
tation. Because of this, some farm
ers were able to grow susceptible
varieties successfully.
“The survey definitely showed
that there are enough good wilt re
sistant varieties adapted to Coastal
Plains conditions so that it is un
necessary for the farmers to plant
susceptible varieties,” Rankin said.
Wilt is caused by a fungus that
lives in the soil. It grows into the
cotton roots and up through the
stem, and secretes poisons that kill
the plants.
DEMONSTRATION FARMERS
INCREASE ACREAGE IN
WINTER COVER CROPS—
After seeing the value of winter
cover crops demonstrated during
the first year’s operation of the
Soil Conservation Service project
near Rome, Ga., farmers in the area
on their own initiative this fall
bought more than twice as much
seed as the Service furnished for
such crops, according to G. W. Dick
inson, agronomist.
Seed provided by the farmers
planted 975 acres to winter le
gumes, including 125 acres of crim
son clover, 400 acres of vetch and
rye and vetch and oats, and 450
acres of Austrian winter peas, at
a total cost of $2,107.
The Soil Conservation Service
furnished seed to plant 500 acres
to crimson clover and 200 acres to
vetch and rye and vetch and oats.
Winter legumes are particularly
valuable for erosion control, Mr.
Dickinson pointed out, since they
protect the land during the period
of heavy rains when the ground
would otherwise be bare.
Small grains, such as oats and
rye, not only protect the land, but
give the farmer a crop to harvest
as well, Mr. Dickinson said. Aus
trian winter peas, vetch and crim
son clover, as close-growing crops
protect the land and as legumes add
nitrogen to the soil and thereby in
crease the yields of cash crops
which follow.
In farm management studies by
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture it has been found that corn
which followed a winter legume
yielded on an average 14 bushels
an acre more than corn on similar
land that stood bare, while cotton
following a winter legume yielded
an average of 100 pounds more
lint than cotton on fallow fields.
FARM BRIEFS—
(By Ralph Fulghum)
After a recent inspection trip
through Georgia, Secretary of Agri
culture Henry A. Wallace highly
praised rural resettlement and agri
cultural conservation work he saw
in the South. He told reporters in
Atlanta, “The work I saw was fine
and I think we are definitely on
the right track.” He praised high
ly the work of the Coastal Plains
Experiment Station at Tifton. “It
is doing very effective work, es
pecially with grasses.” Harry Brown,
of Athens, director of the State
Agricultural Extension Service and
in charge of the agricultural con
servation program in Georgia, also
drew plaudits from the Secretary.
“He is a rare combination of a good
farm man, an able administrator and
a diplomat,” Wallace said.
* * ♦
Typical of Georgia’s surge to the
front in livestock production, Dr.
Milton P. Jarnigan, head of the
Animal Husbandry Department at
the State College of Agriculture,
was appointed Chairman of the
Horse and Mule Section of the
American Society of Animal Pro
duction which held its annual meet
ing recently at the International
Livestock Show in Chicago.
FOR SALE— SO acres of land.
See HOWARD HARP, at Mansfield’s
Mill.