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SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
June 13th, 1912
MESSRS. Lee and Eugene Strick
land have opened a meat market in
the Underwood block.
THE large saw mill of the Arling
ton Lumber Co. was destroyed by
fire last Friday night.
MAJOR W. L. GLESSNER, of Au
gusta, is the guest of Col. C. L.
Glessner.
COL. A. H. GRAY has announced
for Judge of The City Court of
Blakely.
THE REVIVAL SERVICES at the
Baptist church began last Sunday.
Rev. 0. L. Jones is being assisted by
Rev. W. P. Price, of Waycross.
MRS. J. D. ABERNATHY visited
in Columbia Sunday.
MR. F. S. JONES was up from
Bainbridge Sunday.
MISS EMMIE STRONG visited
Cuthbert last week.
MR. ROSS E. HAMMACK was
over from Dothan Saturday.
MRS. GRADY SMITH has return
ed from a visit to Macon.
QUITE A CROWD of young peo
ple enjoyed a surprise party at the
home of Miss Claude George last
Friday night.
MRS. H. H. HOBBS has returned
to her home in Hartford, Ala.
MISS IRENE SKIPPER returned
to her home in Columbia last Tues
day. She was accompanied home by
Miss Ethel Brown and Messrs. Wal
lace James and Jesse Bowman.
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McKinney Chevrolet Co.
South Main Street Blakely, Ga.
THE DEATH of Mrs. C. H. Tar
ver, of Opelika, Ala., is chronicled
in The News this week.
MRS. J. S. MIMS entertained at
a Hearts Dice party last Saturday
in honor of Mrs. J. T. Stewart, of
Macon. Those present: Mrs. Stew
art, Mrs. R. C. Singletary, Mrs. E.
R. Shaw, Mrs. C. E. Boyett, Mrs. B.
R. Collins, Mrs. E. L. Fryer, Jr.,
Mrs. H. C. Fryer, Mrs. R. M. Under
wood, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. J. B. Jones,
Mrs. W. J. Jennings, Mrs. W. G.
Park, Mrs. F. A. Barham, Mrs. J. E.
, Freeman, Mrs. R. M. Smith, Mrs. C.
C. Tarver, Mrs. J. W. Vinson, Mrs.
Walter Thomas, Mrs. W. A. Hall,
Mrs. J. H. Hand, Mrs. D. W. James,
Sr., Mrs. D. W. James, Jr., Mrs. J.
. H. Butler, Mrs. A. D. Harriss, Mrs.
C. L. Glessner, Mrs. Strong, Mrs.
L. M. Rambo, Mrs. W. H. Alexander,
i Mrs. C. T. Alexander, Mrs. W. H.
Powell, Mrs. R. 0. Waters, Mrs. C.
M. Baggs, Mrs. Grady Smith, Mrs.
1 T. S. Toole, Mrs. W. J. Grist, Misses
Agnes Smith, Elizabeth Spier, Ethel
Jones.
MRS. J. T. FREEMAN entertain
ed Friday. Those present: Mrs. M.
N. Gilmer, Mrs. E. R. Shaw, Mrs.
C. T. Alexander, Mrs. C. M. Baggs,
. Mrs. Walter Thomas, Mrs. Grady
> Smith, Mrs. R. M. Smith, Mrs. W.
; A. Hall, Misses Ethel Jones, Elizabeth
Spier and Agnes Smith.
I MRS. W. G. PARK entertained
last Wednesday in honor of Mrs. J.
T. Stewart, of Macon. Those pres
-1 ent: Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. J. S. Mims,
- Mrs. C. M. Baggs, Mrs. Grady Smith,
i Mrs. R. 0. Waters, Mrs. Strong,
- Mrs. C. L. Glessner, Mrs. J. L. Un
derwood, Mrs. C. T. Alexander, Mrs.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
D. W. James, Jr., Mrs. R. M. Under
wood, Mrs. J. B. Jones, Mrs. C. E.
Boyett, Mrs. H. C. Fryer, Mrs. J. V.
Kelly, Mrs. R. C. Singletary, Mrs.
E. R. Shaw, Mrs. Walter Thomas,
Mrs. M. N. Gilmer, Mrs. J. H. Hand,
Mrs. J. H. Butler, Mrs. J. W. Vin
son, Mrs. R. M. Smith, Mrs. J. E.
Freeman, Mrs. J. C. Bryan, Mrs. D.
W. James, Sr., Mrs. W. J. Grist and
Miss Elizabeth Spier.
RGCK HILL NEWS: “Messrs. Cliff
Hubbard and Ashley Temples, of
Zion, were here Sunday.” “ Mr. Coy
Clark was over from Alabama this
week.” “Mrs. W. A. Harper and
family visited Ashford, Ala., this
week.” “Mr. Joe Lasseter, of Zion,
was over our way Sunday.” “Messrs.
Coy Clark and Duncan Hall went
to Long Branch last Sunday.”
“Messrs. Marshall Hall and Nick
Hatcher went to Freeman Saturday.”
“Misses Arrie and Nettie Grimsley
visited Hilton Sunday.”
THE STATEMENT of the con
dition of the Bank of Blakely, pub
lished in this issue of The News,
lists deposits of $39,073.34. It was
signed by W. W. Brunson, cashier.
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Washington, D. C.—About once a ‘
year somebody starts a rumor that
the President’s health is failing. The
latest report of this sort has stirred
up a lot of gossip in Washington,
and started newspaper men and
others to make the most searching in- (
quiries. The net result has been to
prove, once more, that there is noth
ing to the report. The President’s
health, according to everyone who
has facilities for finding out the (
facts, has never been better since he
has been in the White House.
Except for a slight head cold,
which was cured by his recent so
journ at his mother’s home at Hyde
Park, there seems to have been no
foundation for the rumor of his ill
ness. A member of the National '
Press Club who circulated the re
port in the first place has been dis
missed from membership in that
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organization.
The President’s recent utterances
and acts certainly suggest that his
vigor is in no way impaired. His
denunciation of the Supreme Court
for taking a long vacation, from
June to October, when there are im
portant cases pending, is taken as an
indication that Mr. Roosevelt has in
no way abandoned his purpose of
“reforming” the high court. Indeed
he repeated only a few days ago his
belief that his proposal to increase
the Court by the addition of six
justices will be adopted at this ses
sion of Congress.
Impartial observers do not believe
that is probable, but the President’s
statement amounted to serving no
tice on Congress that he has not
abandoned his puropse and is not
willing to compromise. The best
informed opinion here is that the
court-packing plan will not come to
a vote on the floor of either house
at this session. By deferring action,
the President’s friends in Congress,
many of whom are bitterly opposed
to his Court plan, will enable him
to “save his face” instead of expos
ing it to the chance of getting
slapped.
Revision of Tax Laws
The President’s action in pointing
out ways which some wealthy men
have used to avoid payment of in
come taxes has opened up the ques
tion of revision of the tax laws,
which leaders in both houses of
Congress have hoped to postpone
until next session. Once the subject
is taken up for consideration in any
phase, the door is opened for almost
unlimited discussion. There are
scores of “pet” tax measures which
individual Senators and Representa
tives want to bring forward, but the
plan of the leaders it to postpone all
of them for consideration by the ap
propriate committees and to try to
work out a complete revision of the
whole system of the Federal taxation
next year.
Another reason why Congress
does not want to open the tax sub
ject now is the belief that, given a
chance, Senator LaFollette of Wis
consin is prepared to demand the
broadening of the income tax base
to include everyone earning sls a
week or more, and to arouse enough
popular pressure behind that idea to
force its serious consideration.
The President’s proposal for Fed
eral regulation of hours and wages,
which has been embodied in bills by
Senator Black and Representative
Connery, marks another step toward
the piecemeal restoration of parts of
the old NRA. It attempts to do for
industries whose products are part
of the stream of interstate com
merce, what the NRA codes tried to
do for practically all industry in the
matter of wages and hours.
Unlike NRA this is not an emer
gency measure and its main pur-1
pose is not to promote re-employ-1
ment. Fundamentally, the Adminis
tration hopes by this means to
abolish child labor and to put a per
manent floor under industrial wages
and a permanent ceiling on indus
trial hours.
Government Control of Power
The expectation here is that the
wage-and-hour legislation will be
enacted at this session. There will
be material modifications of the bills 1
as introduced, but it is quite likely j
that a minimum wage of around sls
a week and a maximum working
week of 40 hours may be imposed
upon all industries whose products
enter into the stream of interstate
commerce.
Much authority will probably be
given the administrative board to
authorize deviations from whatever
standards are set up in the law, to
meet special regional or other con
ditions. This is of particular interest
to Southern members, who feel that
the problem of Negro labor is one
“For Health’s Sake”
By GEORGIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
All infectious diseases are caused
by germs which are specific for each
disease, and are capable of being
transmitted from one individual to
another. Some infectious diseases,
such as measles, German measles,
small pox, chicken pox, whooping
cough, diphtheria, mumps, etc., are
highly communicable and may be
transmitted often by the slightest or
by early indirect contact. They are
frequently spoken of as contagious
diseases.
In all of the contagious diseases
the infectious agent has a constant
and easy exit from the body of the
infected person. In the most highly
contagious diseases this exit as well
as the portal of entry is the respira
tory tract. The infection takes
place by the inhalation of droplets
of secretion coughed, sneezed or
otherwise expelled from the respira
tory tract of the diseased person.
Direct contact of the afflicted with
the susceptible individual is the most
common means of transmission, how
ever the human “carrier” may be re
sponsible for the spread of many
of the communicable diseases. A
“carrier” is one who, having had the
disease or having been exposed to
the infectious agent continues to
harbor the agent in an infectious. The
“carrier” is frequently immune to
the germ which he harbors or has
the disease in such a mild form that
it is not recognized. The carrier
state has been recognized in the case
of diphtheria, epidemic meningitis,
typhoid fever and infantile paralysis
and without doubt the same condi
tion exists in other diseases, the
causative agent of which to the pres
ent remains unknown and therefore
unidentifiable.
It was formerly believed that cer
tain diseases were air borne, but this
is true in only a limited sense. Some
of the diseases in which the causative
agent is harbored in the nose and
throat are accompanied by coughing
and sneezing so that droplets of
secretions are expelled a number of
feet, and a favorable air current
may carry them further. Such drop
lets are not carried around corners
or out of one room into another ex
cept under most unusual conditions.
The stirring up of the contaminat
ed dust and fine dirt by improper
sweeping or otherwise is another
means of air transmission more im
portant in certain diseases than drop-
which should be approached with
great caution and in which much
leeway should be given to local ad
ministrators.
The administration’s latest plan
for the establishment of seven “re
gional TVA’s” would, in effect make
every great river valley into an ad
ministrative unit, in which the
production and distribution of elec
tric power would be intergrated and
supervised by a Federal commis
sion, superseding state authorities
and effectively putting control of all
electric generation and use, and its
price to consumers, into the hands
of the Federal Government. The
chance of getting this measure
adopted is regarded as very good.
The “March on Washington” of
WPA workers as a protest against
the cutting of relief appropriations,
is beginning to look like a reality.
The word has gone out from Relief
Administrator Hopkins’ office that
millions will have to be dropped
from WPA rolls if the relief appro
priations are cut. The resulting pres
sure on Congress to abondon its
economy idea and give Mr. Hop
kins what he wants is proving irre
sistible.
Royal Crown Cola
... PRESENTS ...
JACK DEMPSEY
IN HIS FAMOUS FIGHTS
Hear Him Each Week Over Your
Favorite Station
WSB—Monday 8:30-9:00 C. S. T.
WSM —Thursday 6:30-7:00 C« S. T.
WLW —Friday 8:00-8:30 E. S. T.
lets because of the greater distance
to which the dust may be carried.
Any disease transmitted by con
tact can, under favorable circumstan
ces, be carried to a susceptible in
dividual by a third person or by con
taminated articles such as dishes,
clothing and toys, and the shorter
the time occupied by the journey the
more likely the successful transmis
sion. The causative agent of some
diseases, such as measles, German
measles, etc., is short lived and brief
exposure to sunlight causes its death,
while that of diphtheria and scarlet
fever is tenacious and long lived, and
these diseases are more likely to be
transmitted by a third person under
suitable conditions.
Since it is impossible to prevent
the exposure of susceptible individu
als to communicable diseases, it is
desirable to immunize against as
many of them as possible. Every
child should be immunized against
diphtheria, typhoid fever and small
pox in infancy, and older individuals,
if they have not been in infancy,
should likewise be immunized. The
immunizations for whooping cough
and scarlet fever are still in the ex
perimental stage, but they may be
worth trying. As yet no suitable
immunization for infantile paralysis
has been devised.
Until such time as other immuniz
ing agents are devised the only meth
od of protecting susceptible indivi
duals against communicable diseases
is to keep them away from individuals
who have them. Unfortunately many
parents believe, that since children
will acquire the more common of the
contagious diseases sooner or later,
no special effort need be made to
prevent exposure. In this connection
it is well to know that about 85 per
cent of the deaths from measles and
whooping cough occur under three
years of age. Obviously it is de
sirable to protect children at least
past this age period against those
diseases which affect the young so
seriously.
When there is a contagious dis
ease in a home it is customary to
require the other children of the
household to remain home from
school, and to prevent their asso
ciation at play with other children
of the neighborhood for the entire
period of the illness of the patient,
and for an additional time equal to
the incubation period of the disease.
If it is desirable not to interfere
with the well child’s school attend
ance and other associations he can
temporarily change his residence to
the home of a relative where he need
be isolated only for the period of
incubation of the disease. If such
a course is impossible then the sick
child can be removed to a hospital
and after a period equal to the in
cubation of the disease the other
children may return to school and
resume their association with other
children. ,
Used Cave for Glass Work
The first glass maker in Scotland
was George Hay (1566-1625). He
took advantage of a peculiarly
formed cave at Wemyss, on the Fife
coast, and set up his furnace there
in.
Time I* Money
“Dey tells me dat time is money,”
said Uncle Eben, “and maybe dat ex
plains why one man has to look at de
town clerk while another wears a dia
mond wrist watch.”