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SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
June 20th, 1912
THE NEWS is now full of politi
cal advertisements.
* * *
JUDGE L. M. RAMBO announces
for reelection as Judge of the City
Court of Blakely.
♦ * *
THE revival services at the Bap
tist church closed this week.
* * *
THE National Republican Conven
tion met in Chicago Tuesday.
* * *
THE National Democratic Con
vention meets in Baltimore next
week.
* * *
REV. CARL DeVANE was ordain
ed as a minister at an interesting
service at the Baptist church last
Thursday. The Presbytery was com
posed of Rev. W. P. Price, of Way
cross; Rev. 0. L. Jones, of Blakely;
and Rev. J. G. Corley, of Colomokee;
and Deacons 0. D. Brunson, J. 0.
Bridges and T. S. Toole, of Blakely,
and J. M. Balkcom, of Colomokee.
* * *
MESSRS. W. B. Hattaway and W.
T. Hammack were down from Bluff
ton Wednesday.
* * *
MRS. H. H. PERRY is the guest
of Mrs. J. B. Jones.
* * *
MR. AND MRS. J. E. Martin, Jr.,
of Arlington were guests of the
family of Mr. N. J. Crozier this
week.
* * *
MRS. J. D. ABERNATHY and little
son, John D. Jr., visited Columbia
Tuesday.
* * *
MESSRS. J. H. Flowers, of Thom
asville, and C. K. Ausley, of Bain
bridge, were in the city Tuesday.
* * *
LITTLE Misses Annie Sarah Wilk
ins and Sara Bird, of Colquitt, were
the guests of Miss Bertie Pearsall this
week.
* * *
MISSES Mary Crozier and Rebe
Standifer and Messrs. John H. Wil
liams, Otis Crozier, Rufus Lane and
Henry Moye attended a dance at
Fort Gaines last Wednesday night.
♦ ♦ ♦
MISS Pauline Pullen, of Arlington,
was the guest of Miss Stella Holmes
last Monday.
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LITTLE Miss Dorothy Toole has
returned from a visit to Bainbridge.
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MRS. O. J. ENGLISH and chil
dren, Carolyn and Jack, of Albany,
were guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Fleming this week.
* * *
ON LAST Tuesday afternoon, at
the home of the bride’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Fleming, their daugh
ter, Miss Emmie Pearl, was united in
marriage to Mr. James M. Haisten.
Rev. 0. L. Jones officiated.
* * *
MISS IRENE STUCKEY and Mr.
John W. Strickland were united in
marriage at the Methodist pastorium
last Sunday morning, Rev. J. C.
Flanders officiating.
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BLAKELY defeated Arlington in
Arlington last Friday, 12-5. The line
up for Blakely: Hobbs, 2b; A. Flem
ing, ss; R. Alexander, lb; Moore, c;
P. Alexander, p; Taylor, 3b; Haynes,
cf; Brooks, If; E. Fleming, rs. For
Arlington, Pittman, c; Sheffield, p.
and cf; Davis, lb; B. Davis, 2b;
Newkirk, ss; Bostwick, 3b; Davis, If;
Beauchamp, cf; Preston, rs; John
son, p.
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HILTON NEWS says: “Mr. Crower
Moore was here Saturday.” “Messrs.
Frank Grubbs and Rufus King went
to Freeman Chapel Saturday.” “Mrs.
Harry Dykes and children, of Free
man’s Chapel were visitors at the
home of Mr. T. R. Grimsley Sunday.”
“Messrs. John Grimsley and Cleve
land Grubbs went to Columbia Sat
urday.”
CITATION
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
To all whom it may concern:
J. G. Killingsworth having in due
form applied to me for permanent
letters of administration upon the
estate of Mrs. Posey Tyler, de
ceased; this is to notify the next of
kin and creditors of the said Mrs.
Posey Tyler, deceased, that said
application will be heard before me
at the regular July Term, 1937, of
the Court of Ordinary of the said
county.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this 7th day of June, 1937.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
SHERIFF’S SALE
GEORGIA, Early County:
There will be sold by the under
signed on the first Tuesday in July,
1937, at public outcry to the highest
bidder for cash, before the court
house door of said county, in the city
of Blakely, Georgia, within the legal
hours of sale, the following described
real estate, to-wit:
A tract of three and one-half
acres of land (together with the
house thereon) in what is known as
Old Damascus, in lot of land number
two hundred fourteen, in the Sixth
(6th) Land District of Early Coun
ty, Georgia, bounded on the north
by lands of Mrs. Claude Webb, on the
east by the J. A. Hightower lands
and lands of Gus Hosendove, on the
south by the J. A. Hightower lands,
and on the west by the old Arling
ton and Damascus public road.
The above described land levied
upon and to be sold as the property
of W. C. Webb to satisfy a certain
mortgage fi. fa. in favor of Mrs.
Hilda H. Bailey, as executrix of the
last will and testament of J. A. High
tower, deceased, against W. C. Webb,
issued from the Superior Court of
Early County, Georgia, on April 7th,
1937, for the principal sum of $96.83,
interest to date of judgment $110.95
and $17.35 costs.
Said real estate levied upon by
the undersigned on April 17th, 1937,
and written notice of said levy and
this sale and the time and place
thereof given to W. C. Webb, the
defendant in fi. fa.
A deed will be executed to the
purchaser at said sale by the under
signed.
This June Ist, 1937.
S. W. HOWELL, Sheriff.
CITATION
| GEORGIA —Early County:
To all whom it may concern:
Mrs. Ida Lewis Hightower, as ex
ecutrix of the estate of Earl S.
Hightower, having filed in this court
her petition for letters of dismission
’ as such executrix of said estate in
; due form, and alleging that she has
‘ fully performed all of her duties as
’ such executrix, this is to cite all
persons interested to be and appear
at the July Term of the court of
Ordinary of said county to show
1 cause, if any they have or can, why
the prayers of said petition should
not be granted and allowed and said
executrix receive letters of dismis
• sion as prayed.
This June 7, 1937.
■ D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
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Washington, D. C.—lt looks as
if the general tax revision, which
Congress leaders had hoped to post
pone until the next session, may be
the live issue which this session of
Congress will have to deal with. The
President’s action in calling attention
to instances of tax avoidance by cer
tain rich men, and asking for a Con
gressional investigation has brought
the subject of ‘loopholes” in the tax
laws sharply to the fore. It has, in
deed, taken the place which Mr.
Roosevelt’s Supreme Court reorgani
zation plan has occupied for more
than three months as the main topic
of interest on Capitol Hill.
While the President has not re
ceded from his belief that the Su
preme Court needs new blood, it is
the best opinion here that his plan
will not be adopted, at least at this
session. It might be possible for a
compromise measure, providing for
two additional judges instead of six,
to get through the Senate, though
that is questionable, but the opposi
tion in the House is now regarded
as strong enough to block action.
Not Evasion, But Avoidance
The whole point of the “tax loop
holes” is that the revenues which
were expected from the undistribut
ed earnings tax, enacted last year,
have failed to materialize, and the
Treasury experts who guessed wrong
about that tax are trying to find an
“out” for themselves by blaming
the failure of revenue upon men and
corporations which have taken ad
vantage of holes in the income tax
laws to pay less than the Treasury
thinks they ought to have paid.
There is no direct assertion that
anyone has done anything illegal. The
unnamed individuals are not accus
ed of tax “evasion,” which is illegal,
but of tax “avoidance” by methods
which may be morally deplorable but
are entirely within the law. The
trouble is with the tax laws, and the
present effort will be to plug up the
loopholes of which these individuals
have taken advantage.
Men whose income is so large
that the payment of taxes upon it is
a serious matter, can afford to hire
legal experts to show them how they
can avoid payment of taxes which
the ordinary citizen has to pay be
cause it is not worth the cost to go
to the trouble of avoiding them.
And one of the big problems is
how to plug up loopholes through
which a few rich men can crawl
without inflicting hardships upon the
vastly larger number of taxpayers
who do not try to dodge.
To Make Names Public
One result of the sudden interest
in tax-avoidance will be to bring
out before a Congressional commit
tee the names of men who are ac
cused of taking unfair advantage of
weakness in the tax laws. Gossip
around Washington is the Adminis
tration hopes particularly to show up
a large motor manufacturer, several
members of a very wealthy family
and the heads of three important
chains of daily newspapers.
It remains doubtful how far Con
gress will go in that direction, but
it is a reasonable certainty that cer
tain practices which the present tax
law permits will be made illegal
and that the pressure for a complete
revision of the tax laws will become
stronger. Tax avoidance alone would
not account, experts say, for more
than $100,000,000 of the $600,000,-
000 shortage in this year’s estimate,
if that much.
Billion-and-a-half Relief Stands
The prospect grows strong for
the enactment at this session of a
new wage-and-hour bill, which will
specify in explicit terms just how
many hours persons engaged in any
labor affecting interstate commerce
may work, and the minimum amount
per hour which they must be paid.
This would remove the main objec
tion upon which the N. R. A. was
declared unconstitutional, that of
delegating too much law-making
authority to the Executive.
The present belief is that the
wages and hours will be fixed at
“forty-forty.” That is, forty hours
a week at not less than forty cents
an hour, or sl6 a week as the mini
mum wage. There is bound to be a
stiff debate on the proposal to fix
that standard, which would have to <
apply to Negro labor in the South;
as well as the white labor in the ■
North; and that does not appeals
strongly to the southern representa-I
tives in Congress.
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of the attempts in Congress to re- ;
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“For Health’s Sake”
By GEORGIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
CONGENITAL CLUBFEET
It is estimated that one baby out
of every thousand is born with its
feeit clubbed. A careful inquiry
into the family history shows that
in about one-fourth of these cases
there is some ancestor with club
feet.
Clubfoot deformity consists of a
turning in of the front part of the
foot, so that the toes point toward
the opposite foot. There is also a
twisted of the forefoot so that the
great toe and inner border of the
foot is elevated. The weight is borne
on the lateral border or outer side
of the foot. The heel is also up
ward, so that it does not touch the
ground. Often none of the sole
touches the ground. The child walks
with a queer gait, picking up one
foot and lifting it over the other.
For this reason the deformity is
sometimes referred to as “reel foot.”
The deformity is noticed at birth
and if not treated, the child is slow
in learning to walk, and after he
begins to walk the dtefojrmity be
comes worse. It never corrects it
self, and the child never out grows
the unsightly deformity. He can
cannot walk comfortable barefoot
ed, as the rough ground hurts the
sensitive skin on the outside of the
foot.
Treatment should be begun as
soon as the baby can be safely car
ried to the doctor. A good time to
start the treatment is when the baby
is about two months old. When the
treatment is begun at this early age,
the deformity can be corrected more
easily than when it is delayed, and
when the treatment is completed, the
foot more nearly resembles a normal
foot. After the child has begun to
walk, the bones become hard, and
the deformity becomes more fixed
and it is much more difficult to cor
rect.
The method of treatment in the
past has been to put these clubfoot
ed babies to sleep and to forcibly
correct the deformity by very strong
pressure with the hands, or by the
use of wrenches designed for this
purpose. In slightly older children
the heel cords were cut in addition
to the stretching of the ligaments
in the feet. In the feet more diffi
cult to correct, an operation was
done on the bone. These “opera
tive” methods often corrected the
deformity sufficient to restore the
feet to approximal normal appear
ance, but usually injured the joints
and left the feet stiff. At times the
stiffness was more disabling than
the original clufboot deformity.
The treatment in most favor in
many of the clinics today, is the
“non-operative” method. The child
with clubfeet is treated by a series
of plaster casts, without putting it
to sleep, and without any cutting.
the President requested is that
W. P. A. Administrator Hopkins sent
out word to many states and com
munities telling how various W. P. A.
projects must be dropped if the ap
propriations were cut.
Letters and telegrams of protest
began flooding Congress, and few
members wanted to take the respon
sibility of standing for re-election in
1938 with the flow of Federal funds
into their districts. The political
power wielded by the Relief Adminis
tration is one of the strongest in
fluences in Washington.
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The deformed foot is gradually un
twisted in a very definite manner,
turning it around into a position
more nearly normal each time the
cast is changed or “wedged”. This
is done once or twice a week. The
deformity is corrected without pain,
and without injury to the many joints
in the foot. This non-operative
treatment gives a foot that not only
looks more nearly like a normal foot,
but gives a foot that is free from
stiffness and that is as useful as a
normal foot.
When this non-operative method
is used, the child does not have to
stay in a hospital during the course
of treatment, but can be carried
back and forth to the doctor. Club
footed children under four years of
age can be successfully corrected by
this method. After this age the
bones have become so well develop
ed in the deformed position, that
they cannot be corrected without an
operation. For this reason children
with clubfeet shuld be treated as
soon as possible after they are about
eight weeks old.
It is difficult procedure to cor
rect a clubfoot deformity, even for
those who have had much experience.
Whenever it is possible, clubfooted
children should be treated by a doc
tor who is specializing in orthopedic
surgery.
It is the experience of some of
the doctors treating clubfeet, that
these children are better off with
out any treatment at all, than they
are when the deformity has been
only partly or incompletely correct
ed. If treatment is started on a club
foot, it should be continued until the
foot is completely corrected. The
child should be taken back to the
doctor at frequent intervals for ob
servation, until it is nearly grown,
to prevent relapse, and to get fur
ther treatment when necessary. These
clubfeet cannot be corrected by
braces or special shoes which are ad
vertised for this purpose.
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