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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVI }> NO. 19
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GEORGIA HAS ITS
BEST CROP YEAR
SINCE 1929
VALUE PLACED BY BUREAU
OF MARKETS AT
$268,192,250
The best crop year since 1929
brought Georgia farmers $268,192,-
250 during 1936, W. L. Stone, di
rector of the State Bureau of
Markets, estimated this week.
Stone said the estimate, which he
termed “conservative,” shows a gain
of $40,000,000 over Georgia’s 1935
farm revenue. The estimate was com
piled with the aid of federal and
state figures.
The rapidly growing livestock and
meat products industry brought an
estimated revenue of $45,000,000 —
second only to king cotton which
brought, Stone estimated, $65,400,-
000.
Stone made the following estimates
of revenue from the state’s other
leading crops:
Coj-n, $37,500,000; tobacco, $lB,-
150,000; peanuts, $16,200,000; cot
ton-seed, $15,360,000; chickens and
eggs, $12,750,000'; wheat, $8,800,-
000; hay, $5,760,000; peaches, $4,-
500,000; sweet potatoes, $3,750,000;
sorghum, $3,600,000; oats, $3,250,-
000; cow peas, $2,813,500; milk, $2,-
720,000; sugar cane syrup, $2,000,-
000, and honey, $2,000,000.
Stone estimated miscellaneous
vegetables brought farmers $15,-
000,000.
Lanier High School (Macon) de
feated Boys’ High School (Atlanta)
13-0 to win the championship of
the Georgia Interscholastic Athletic
Association last Saturday.
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merited your approval . . . May this
Christmas bring you every happi-
ness and may the New Year hold A#
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well being.
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LET US go back over the cen
turies that we may see the soft
Judean hills flooded with hea
venly light; that we may behod
the flaming star of the East
guiding the three wise men,
Melchoir with flowing white
hair and sweeping, snowy
beard; Caspar, a beautiful
boy, and Balthasar in the prime
of life, symbolizing age, youth
and middle age, bowing at
the cradle in the manger.
CITIZENS BANK
PAYS DEPOSITORS 8
PER CENT DIVIDEND
Depositors of The Citizens Bank
of Blakely, which closed its doors
in 1931 and has since been in the
process of liquidation, were given
a bit of Christmas cheer the past
week when Attorney Lowrey Stone,
liquidating agent for the bank,
distributed several hundred checks,
representing an 8 per cent dividend
on all deposits. The payment made
the past week brings the total paid
to depositors of the defunct bank
to 58 per cent. Needless to say,
the dividend was welcomed by the
hundreds who had money on deposit
in the bank when it was closed.
Georgia Is Most
Dangerous State
For Auto Perils
Georgia is winding up 1936 with
unchallenged control of another
record: the one state, of all the 48
in the union, where it is easiest to
get killed by an automobile.
Figures compiled by the National
Safety Council for the closing year
show Georgia continues her grasp
on the title of the most dangerous
state in the union, 30.6 persons
having been killed per 10,000,000
gallons of gasoline consumed by
motorists in the state.
Nearest competitors to Georgia
for these grim honors are Alabama,
with a record of 28.6, and Tennes
see, with 27.5.
Atlanta’s record for the same
period for the same gasoline con
sumption was 24 deaths. In pro
portion to her population, Atlanta is
exceeded by only three other cities,
Seattle, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
These figures are compiled year
ly by the National Safety Council.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1936.
MOTOR CARRIER
ACT OF 1931 IS
TO BE ENFORCED
RELATIVE TO FARM PRODUCTS
TRANSPORTATION, SCHOOL
BUS OPERATION
In view of the apparent wide
spread misunderstanding and inter
pretation of the Motor Carrier Act
of 1931 relative to the transporta
tion of farm products and the op
eration of school busses, the Geor
gia Public Service Commission de
sires to let it be known that it in
tends to strictly enforce the law as
written.
For the information of the pub
lic, the law dealing with these items
is as follows:
“The provisions in this Act, (Geor
gia Motor Carrier Act of 1931),
shall not include and this Act shall
not apply to;
“Motor vehicles engaged solely in
transporting school children and
teachers to and from public schools.
And cars and trucks hauling people
and farm products exclusively be
tween points not having railroad fa
cilities, and not passing through or
beyond municipalities having rail
road facilities where not more than
seven passengers and/or one and
one-half tons of freight are trans
ported.
“Motor vehicles engaged exclu
sively in the transportation of agri
cultural and/or dairy products be
tween any of the following points:
farm, market, gin, warehouse, or
mill, where the weight of the load
does not exceed 10,000 pounds,
whether such motor vehicle is own
ed by the owner or producer of
such agricultural or dairy products
or not so long as the title remains
in the producer. And the word
‘PRODUCER’ shall include a land
lord where the relation of landlord
and tenant, or landlord and crop
per are involved. The phrase ‘AGRI
CULTURAL PRODUCTS’ as used in
this Act shall include fruit, live
stock, meats, fertilizer, wood, lum
ber, cotton and naval stores, house
hold goods and supplies transported
to farms for farm purposes and/or
usual farm and dairy supplies, and
including products of groves and/or
orchards and also poultry and eggs
and also fish and oysters, and all
country merchants in rural dis
tricts who handle poultry and farm
products in pursuance to their own
business and not for hire, and tim
ber and/or logs being hauled by
the owner thereof, or his agents,
and/or employees between forest
and mill or primary place of manu
facture.”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
WILL SET RECORD FOR
TRAVEL, IT IS BELIEVED
On his return last week from
the Argentine, President Roosevelt
chalked up another 12,000 miles in
his travel-log, carrying the total of
his presidential journeys past the
100,000-mile mark.
Many believe the President, in his
first term, has set a new record for
presidential travel, outdistancing
both William Howard Taft and
Theodore Roosevelt.
His major journeys included a
1934 trip to Hawaii byway of the
Panama Canal; a 1935 trip to the
Pacific coast and back through the
canal; this year’s campaign trip in
to the west; and his drought inspec
tion tour, extended to Salt Lake City
for Secretary of War Dern’s fu
neral.
The city of San Vicente, in the
Republic of El Salvador, was razed
by an earthquake the past week.
Hundreds were killed and many
thousands injured. Property dam
age was tremendous.
THEY BRING from afar
their gifts of gold and frank
incense and myrrh to the
King of Kings, as the song of
the heavenly chorus of angels
on the plains of Bethlehem
floods the air. The Master’s
touch worked strange miracles
long ago. But let us now turn
a simple dial and again a
miracle has been wrought—
even here as it was there
long ago.
THE ROOM is full of sound.
The air is charged with Christ
mas. Even the word is ra
diant with holiness. With the
voices of the present are min
gled those of the past. At
Christmas man is at his
best. It is the blest sea
son of the year. The
season of giving and re
ceiving. The season of love
reborn. It is the miracle
season.
FARMERS ADOPT
PRACTICES THAT
CONTROL EROSION
OPERATORS OF 1,000 FARMS
CO-OPERATING WITH SOIL
CONSERVATION SERVICE
Operators of more than 1,000
farms, comprising 145,488 acres,
are now co-operating with the Soil
Conservation Service and the Geor
gia Extension Service in the erosion
control program in five demonstra
tion areas at Athens, Americus,
Gainesville, LaGrange and Rome,
L. E. Rast, state co-ordinator of the
Soil Conservation Service, announced
this week.
A detailed erosion survey has been
completed for 240,514 acres, in
cluding farms within these areas for
which co-operative agreements have
not yet been signed. This survey
shows types of soil, steepness of
slope, degree and extent of erosion,
and present land use.
Knowledge of these factors goes
a long way toward taking the guess
work out of farming, and this in
formation is used in working out a
co-ordinated farm program adapted
for erosion control for each farm,
he explained.
Although strip cropping was vir
tually unknown in Georgia three
years ago, it will be put into prac
tice on 43,886 acres under present
agreements within the five areas.
Approximately 46,500 acres will
be given proper rotation, providing
for summer and winter cover crops.
Already more than 1,600 miles of
broad-base terraces have been con
structed together with complete
water disposal systems for conduct
ing water from the terraces through
terrace outlet channels to woodland
and pasture areas.
These terracing systems provide
protection to 15,432 acres by me
chanical means and when combined
with strip cropping and contour cul
tivation furnish the best known
method of erosion control in culti
vated areas.
Many steep hillsides that should
never have been cleared of their
protective covering of virgin forest,
Mr. Rast said, are being reforested
or retired to pasture or hay. More
than 8,200,000 trees have already
ibeen planted and a new planting
season is just getting under way.
WOMEN JOIN FIGHT
FOR DRIVERS’ LICENSE
LAW IN GEORGIA
Resolutions from thousands of
Georgia women, asking for a driv
ers’ license and state highway patrol
law, will be taken before the legis
lature at its next session.
Reports from the Dixie Motor
Club, of Atlanta, which is conduct
ing a state-wide campaign for such
a law, show that resolutions from
Parent-Teacher Associations and
Women’s Clubs, all of them asking
passage of such a measure, are
reaching Atlanta at the rate of a
dozen or more daily, coming from
all parts of the state. It is expect
ed that there will be several hun
dred of these to take before the
legislature when it meets next month.
The same reports show that a
large majority of the superior court
judges of Georgia favor such a
law. Not a few of these have
mentioned it in their charges to
grand juries. The juries have, al
most without exception, urged in
their presentments that a license
and patrol law be enacted by the
legislature when it meets in Janu
ary.
HAPPINESS is in the air.
Laughter reigns. In the tongues
of all nations voices are raised
in greeting. The angels sang
out their glad tidings of great
joy above the plains of Beth
lehem and as often as Christ
mas comes, the carols, music,
bells, voices—all unite in a
great singing circle sounding
o’er all the world the glad
words: “A MERRY CHRIST
MAS!”
22 POUNDS SWEET
POTATOES ARE DUG
FROM ONE HILL
A record-breaking yield of pota
toes from one vine was reported
last week by Mr. Tom Floyd, who
farms on the C. M. Deal place. Mr.
Floyd reports that one plant came
up in his garden, and he decided to
let it grow, working it and throwing
additional dirt to the hill ever so
often. A few days ago he decided
to gather the crop, and to his amaze
ment, found 22 pounds of potatoes
on the one vine. He brought the
entire gathering to The News office
and made the publishers a present
of them. They were appreciated,
and are an added table delicacy
during the Christmas season.
Mrs. Tom Sawyer
Passes Following
Protracted Illness
Mrs. Leo Sawyer, age 66, wife of
Mr. Thomas S. Sawyer, died at her
home on Fort Gaines street Monday
morning at 9:30 o’clock. Death came
following an invaldism of several
years. Mrs. Sawyer was a native
and life-long resident of this coun
ty-
Funeral services were held at the
home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock,
with the Rev. Spencer B. King offi
ciating, assisted by the Rev. E.
M. Overby. Interment followed
in the Blakely cemetery with the
J. J. White Funeral Home in charge
and the following serving as pall
bearers: Joe Allen, W. A. Smith, W.
L. Mosely, Rufus King, T. B. Mc-
Dowell and J. F. Gilbert.
Surviving are her husband; one
son, Hollis Sawyer; two daughters,
Mrs. Dallas Spurlock of Dawson and
Mrs. J. J. Childs of Madison; and
three brothers, J. J. King, H. T.
King and O. H. King, all of Blakely.
Mrs. Sawyer was beloved by a
large number of friends. She was a
member of the Providence Baptist
church, and she bore her sufferings
with Christian fortitude. She was
widely connected in this section, and
those who mourn her passing have
the sympathy of a large circle of
friends.
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MASONIC BODIES OF
BLAKELY ELECT
OFFICERS FOR 1937
J. A. HAMMACK NAMED WOR
SHIPFUL MASTER OF
MAGNOLIA LODGE
The Masonic bodies of Blakely,
at meetings held this week, elected
the following officers for the year
1937:
Magnolia Lodge No. 86 F. & A. M.
Worshipful Master: J. A. Ham
mack.
Senior Warden: W. C. Cook.
Junior Warden: W. J. Grist, Jr.
Treasurer: Shelly Simmons.
Secretary: R. H. Stuckey, Jr.
Senior Deacon: J. E. Houston.
Junior Deacon: R. C. Single
tary, Jr.
Senior Steward: O. C. Deal.
Junior Steward: T. C. Weath
ersby.
Chaplain: Rev. W. T. Wiley.
Marshal: G. F. Pickle.
Tyler: L. B. Jones.
The retiring Worshipful Master,
W. H. Ivey, was presented with a
Past Master’s jewel.
Magnolia Lodge was reported to
be in the best financial condition in
ten years, and a revival of interest
was manifested.
Blakely Chapter No. 44 R. A. M.
High Priest; C. E. Martin.
King: C. C. Lane.
Scribe: W. H. Harrison.
Sec.-Treas.: J. G. Standifer.
Capt. of the Host: Earl Beasley.
Principal Sojourner: Lowrey
Stone.
Royal Arch Capt.: W. 6. Cook.
Master 3rd Veil: Shelly Simmons.
Master 2nd Veil: C. A. Grubbs.
Master Ist Veil: W. R. Pullen.
Chaplain: Rev. W. T. Wiley.
Sentinel: R. H. Stuckey, Jr.
Blakely Council No. 39 R. & S. M.
Illustrious Master: Oscar Whitch
ard.
Deputy Master: C. E. Martin.
Principal Conductor o's Work: C.
C. Lane.
Recorder-Treas.: J. G. Standifer.
Capt. of Guard: W. H. Harrison.
Conductor of Council: Earl Beas
ley.
Sentinel: Lowrey Stone.
Steward: Shelly Simmons.