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New Board Os
Commissioners Hold
Meeting This Week
The new Board of Commissioners
of Early county held their first
meeting of the year beginning Tues
day and continuing over into Wed
nesday.
The Board organized by electing
H. C. Fort, of Blakely, chairman.
Other members include J. C. Balk
com of Colomokee, L. H. Baughman
of Cedar Springs, C. E. Martin of
Hilton, and W. R. Pullen of Damas
cus. Bert Tarver, by virtue of his
office as Clerk of Superior Court,
is Clerk of the Board of Commis
sioners.
In the election of county officials,
the following were named:
County Agent: J. E. Leger.
County Warden: J. F. Grimsley.
County Attorney: A. H. Gray.
County Physician: C. R. Barks
dale.
Janitor of Court House: H. T.
Temples, Jr.
It was voted by the Board to
lease the same building for the
County Agent’s office for 1937.
Chairman Fort was authorized to
go to Atlanta and negotiate with
the State Highway Board for a con
tract to grade the Early county
portion of Route No. 62.
The Chairman, with Mr. R. L.
Thompson, was authorized to trade
for a pick-up truck.
It was voted to go to work on
the Blakely and Damascus road,
from Blakely to Liberty Hill, with
a view of widening the road, as
soon as the present WPA projects
in the county now under way are
completed.
$12.00 a month contribution to
the Southern Industrial Home for
helping take care of three Early
county children now in the Home
was authorized by the Board.
Warrants were issued for the
payment of the bills presented to
the Commissioners for cost of oper
ation of the county government in
December.
ANNUAL MEETING OF
ALBANY P. C. ASS’N.
ON JANUARY 14
Mr. P. D. Dußose, local repre
sentative, says that arrangements
are complete for the annual meeting
of the Albany Production Credit
Association, which will be held on
January 14 at the municipal audi
torium in Albany at 10:30 o’clock
a. m. W. M. Van Cise, president
of the association, said that a large
attendance of farmers is expected.
The Albany Production Credit
Association serves Baker, Early, Cal
houn, Lee, Worth, and Mitchell
counties and furnishes short-term
credit for production and other pur
poses to its members. The associa
tion now has a membership of 310
and Mr. Van Cise says that every
member is expected to attend the
annual meeting, at which a complete
report of last year’s operations
will be made, directors will be
elected and plans made for 1937
operations.
The meeting will be attended by
Ernest Graham, President of the
Production Credit Corporation of
Columbia, who will address the
stockholders at the conclusion of
the business session.
MR. ELIJAH S. JONES
DIED FRIDAY AT HIS
HOME IN FORT GAINES
Mr. Elijah S. Jones, 83, father
of Mrs. C. E. Boyett and Mr. Mc-
Arthur Jones of this city, died at
his home in Fort Gaines Friday,
after an illness of a week. Mr. Jones
was tax collector of Clay county for
30 years, and prior to that served
two terms as tax receiver of Cal
houn county.
He was married three times. His
first wife was a Miss Harrison and
by that marriage he leaves the fol
lowing children: Sam Jones of Bir
mingham, Ala., Mrs. Homer Brinson
of Brinson, Ga., Mrs. Charles Boyett
of Blakely, Sandifer Jones of San
ford, Fla., and Miss Sallie Jones of
Brinson. By his second wife, who
was a Miss McArthur, he leaves two
children, McArthur Jones of Blakely
and Mrs. Willa Smith of Fort My
ers, Fla. His widow was Miss Ben
nie Smith of Clay county.
Funeral services were held Satur
day at the Baptist church, conduct
ed by his pastor, the Rev. E. B.
Brooks, assisted by the Rev. Spencer'
B. King of Blakely and Rev. Swoll I
Sawyer, pastor of the Fort Gaines'
Methodist church.
Mr. Jones, who led an active life,
was a member of the Fort Gaines
lodge of Masons.
Plow points to fit any plow at
TARVER’S.
Many Georgia Jobs
Cited As Depending
On Highway Traffic
Automotive, petroleum and other
industries connected with highway
transportation provide jobs and
wages for one out of every six
persons employed in Georgia’s
wholesale, retail and service estab
lishments.
This statement, based upon new
Census Bureau figures, was made
Saturday by the National Highway
Users’ Conference in Atlanta.
Approximately one out of every
six wholesale, retail, and service
establishments in the state, or a
total of 7,159 out of 43,197 such
establishments, depend upon the
automotive, petroleum and allied
trades for its existence.
Those trades, according to the
preliminary 1935 figures just re
leased, account for 19 per cent of
the total payroll of Georgia’s whole
sale, retail, and service establish
ments, or $15,085,000 out of $79,-
202,000.
The total volume of sales for all
wholesale, retail, and service busi
ness in the state amounted to sl,-
089,152,000, of which $207,686,000
represented purchases by motor ve
hicle owners of all classes. From
1933 to 1935, the retail sales in
creased from $352,916,000 to $484,-
687,000, or 37 per cent, while the
automotive retail sales increased
from $42,634,000 to $74,783,000, or
75 per cent. No other trade group
showed such an extensive increase.
Baptist Young Men’s
Class Enjoys New
Year’s Eve Party
The members of the Baptist
Young Men’s Bible Class, with
their wives and sweethearts, enjoy
ed a delightful turkey dinner at the
American Legion Hall on last
Thursday night. Other invited
friends brought the number of those
present to about sixty.
Mrs. J. B. Jones, teacher of the
class, was assisted in preparing and
serving the dinner by some of the
Class members’ wives.
Following the delightful dinner,
a number of interesting contests
and games were enjoyed, with Mrs.
C. R. Duncan and Mrs. Chester
Loback in direction. Quite a bit of
merriment was provoked during
the New Year’s eve watch by this
entertainment. Winners in the
several contests were awarded
unique prizes.
The Young Men’s Bible Class
has a membership of nearly fifty.
It is ably taught by Mrs. J. B. Jones
and the class is an active unit in
the life of the church.
REP. J. O. BRIDGES
LEAVES TO ATTEND
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Mr. J. O. Bridges, Representative
from Early county in the General
Assembly, left today for Atlanta
to be in attendance upon the open
ing session of that body on next
Monday. He, with other Georgia
Representatives and Senators, will
go to Milledgeville Friday for an
inspection of the state prison farm
and the state hospital, with a view
to ascertaining the needs of those
state institutions.
Representative Bridges stated to ■
The News that he is in sympathy
with the Rivers legislative program
and expects to give full co-operation
to the enactment of the measures
sponsored by Mr. Rivers in his
successful campaign for the gover
norship.
It is Mr. Bridges’ belief that the
long term session of the Assembly
will be called within a few days aft
er the expiration of the ten-day
session.
FOR SALE— The McDowell brick
store on east side North Main
street. See R. C. HOWELL or LOW-I
REY STONE.
Lady’s Painful Trouble
Helped By Cardui
Why do so many women take Car
dui for the relief of functional pains
at monthly times? The answer is
that they want results such as Mrs.
Herbert W. Hunt, of Hallsville, Texas,
describes. She writes: “My health
wasn’t good. I suffered from cramp
ing My pain would be so Intense It would
nauseate me. I would lust drag around,
so sluggish and 'do-less.' My mother de
cided to give me Cardui I began to mend.
That tired, sluggish feeling was gone and
the pains disappeared. I can't praise Car
dui too highly because I know it helped
me.** ... If Cardui does not help YOU,
nonsuit a physician.
FARM FOR SALE
The Hill & Ricks farm, 2280 acres, on Blakely and Fort
Gaines road—about 15 plows cultivatable land —ideal lo
cation for stock farm. See—
R. C. HOWELL or LOWREY STONE.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
THIS HAPPENED
IN 1936
By Earl (“Tige”) Pickle
Boondoggling was a by-word, but
President Roosevelt continued to
be the Number 1 man of America.
Gene Talmadge, aided and abetted
by his National Guards, which he
called out at frequent intervals to
quiet anything from a bantam
rooster fight to throwing out a kibit
zer at a check game, ran the state
government without an appropriation
bill. Later he involuntary decided
to return to Sugar Creek with the
unanimous consent of thousands of
Georgia voters. King George V of
England died; the Prince of Wales
ascended the throne as Edward VIII,
only to abdicate a few months later
'for the love of a woman; his brother,
the Duke of York, followed him on
' the throne, thus being the third
' king within the course of a year,
: the second time this has happened
in the history of the British Empire.
; Mussolini drove The Conquering
■ Lion of Judah from Ethiopia and
i took the country for himself. Civil
; War broke out in Spain. Hitler
! banned the movie, Modern Times,
from Germany because the star,
Charlie Chaplin, wore a mustache
similar to his and nobody took the
time to tell him that Chaplin had
been made famous by this little ec
centricity while he was still smell
ing of paint. The Repubicans and
Democrats had their conventions
and the Republicans were about to
nominate Warren G. Harding again
until someone had the brilliant idea
that he had been dead for years.
They elected Landon to be the goat.
Al Smith took out a license to be a
pedestrian; you remember Al, don’t
you? He is connected with the Em
pire State building as manager, I
believe.
Dr. Townsend attempted to re
make America into Utopia. Father
Coughlin proved himself a better
preacher than a politician, and at
that, I’m being generous. Al Capone
continued his laundry work at Al
catraz. Robert Taylor became the
screen’s matinee idol for his ability
to make love to Janet Gaynor, Greta
Garbo and Joan Crawford, and
what’s more, he got paid for doing
it. Grace Moore refused to milk
any more cows, thus establishing a
precedent of beifig the first movie
actress to develop a cow-complex.
Tobacco Road, a play depicting ru
ral life in Georgia, was barred
from Chicago theatres. And Gone
With the Wind became the nation’s
reading habit and Organ Grinder’s
Swing was the tune everyone whis
tled. A man in Philadelphia gained
himself a jail sentence and meanest
man title for throwing banana
peels in the paths of blind people.
Twelve-year-old Kathryn Van Horn
threw herself into the path of a
sled, diverting its course and saving
two boys’ lives; the sled was about
to collide with an onrushing train.
She was decorated by the President.
The New York Yankees became
the world’s champion baseball team.
Max Schmeling fought himself back
into the limelight of the prize fight
business by knocking out the “in
vincible” Joe Louis. Eleanor Holm
Jarrett “champagned” herself from
the Olympic team and Dizzy Dean
took a verbal pot-shot at Branch
Rickey almost daily.
Zioncheck did research work on
how to avoid the Washington police
and went wading in the pool at
Rockefeller Center, accompanied by
his wife. F. D. R. flew the dove of
peace to Buenos Aires. Clark How
ell and Arthur Brisbane, two great
newspapermen, died. Pope Pius
was stricken with paralysis. The
Literary Digest did some bad guess
ing.
The Knock-Knock and Handies
craze swept the country, the Music
Went Round and Round and lots of
people played monopoly. An Ameri
can named Simpson (not related to
Wally) was arrested in Germany
for high treason (not liking Hitler
is considered treason according to
Simpson) and held in jail for a year
without bail or trial.
Gypsy Rose Lee, the burlesque
strip artist, made plans for a mov
ie career, but Will Hays, censor,
shook a negative head. Shirley
Temple made Who’s Who. Franklin
Roosevelt, Jr., became engaged to
Ethel duPont, thus disrupting the
theory that all Roosevelts hate the
munition makers. Charlie Lind
bergh spent the year abroad. Bru
no Hauptmann died from a shock
applied by the state of New Jersey.
J. Edgar Hoover continued his war I
on crime and ridded the country of
the last of the kidnapers. Business
enjoyed the biggest year since the
days’ of 1929. Santa Claus visited
every town and hamlet, including
those in Maine and Vermont.
The year 1936 might have been a
bit daffy in spots, but it was also a
grand year.
May 1937 be even better.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this means of expressing
our heartfelt appreciation for the
tokens of sympathy shown us at the
death cf our loved one. Especially
do we thank those who contributed
the beautiful floral offerings.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. McDowell
and Family.
Don’t throw away that old plow.
We can fix it up. TARVER.
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CAMPBELL-EWALD COMPANY— Advertising
H. T. EWALD, President
GENERAL MOTORS BUILDING DETROIT, MICH Trinity 2-6200
December 31, 1936
Early County News,
Blakely, Georgia.
Gentlemen:
I was thumbing through a copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson the other day and i
saw a phrase which started me thinking about my many years of friendly asso
ciation with advertisers and publishers and which prompts me to write you this
letter of greeting.
The phrase was as follows: “The silence that accepts merit as the most nat
ural thing in the world is the highest applause’.’
Now, that sentence may be perfectly true. It certainly expresses the atti
tude which almost all of us have taken in the past toward many people and many
institutions that we admire and appreciate the most. But I believe that the
troubling years which we have now happily put behind us have altered that atti
tude and made all of us a bit more ready to think of the other fellow and to ap
plaud the job that he is doing, not just silently, but out loud so that he can hear
and know!
And so I am writing to you and to a number of other publishers throughout
the country today to congratulate you on the splendid job which you have been
doing and to thank you for the fine contributions which you have made to the
growth and prosperity of the Campbell-Ewald Company and its clients.
All advertising media are important, of course, but the Campbell-Ewald Com
pany has always considered the newspaper the most vital factor in influencing
the local market for a national producer, and we and our clients continue to hold
this same conviction today.
Our largest individual client, the Chevrolet Motor Company, has just com
pleted the most successful year in its history. It has sold 1,125,000 1936 Chev
rolets, taking first place in both passenger car and truck sales for the seventh time
in the past ten years. It has also sold more than 2,000 used cars, breaking all
previous sales records in that important field as well. All of which, you will
agree, is a magnificent selling achievement.
In that achievement, the newspapers of America—your newspaper—have
payed an important part, and I want to thank you most sincerely on behalf of
the Chevrolet Motor Company and my own organization.
All of our other clients, in many other lines of business, have likewise enjoy
ed a highly successful and profitable year, as has the Campbell-Ewald Company
itself.
In the achievements of these organizations also the newspapers of America
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nalf of these clients, too, for the fine support and co-operation which you have
always given to them and to us.
This has become a rather long letter, but that line of Emerson’s did start me
thinking and did cause me to decide to make my appreciation evident.
My thanks to you again and my very best wishes for a Happy, Prosperous
New Year in 1937.
Sincerely,
H. T. EWALD,
President, Campbell-Ewald Company.