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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXVIII )> NO. 13
Interesting Program
Enjoyed By Members
Os Rotary Club
The members of the Blakely Ro
tary Club, meeting at noon Thurs
day, enjoyed a varied and delight
ful program.
Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Hartsfield, of
Eastman, were visitors at the Club,
guests of Rotarian Ed Chaney. The
former rendered several vocal selec
tions, among them “Believe Me If
All Those Endearing Young Charms,”
“Sweet Mystery of Life,” and “End
of a Perfect Day,” each of which
received hearty applause from the
Rotarians.
Rev. Mr. Hartsfield, a former
member of the Club, gave an inter
esting talk on “Some Rules on How
to Be Happy,” which was greatly en
joyed.
Rotarian Spencer King spoke of
the work of the American Red Cross
—with particular reference to the
current annual Roll Call —and urged
the Rotarians to co-operate whole
heartedly with those in charge of
the movement.
Clem Ezell, president of the Do
than Rotary Club, made up his at
tendance and spoke briefly of the
work undertaken for the current
year by his club.
President Marvin Sparks presided
over the meeting, with Mrs. Ben
Haisten in charge of the music.
ADDED ATTRACTION
AT BLAKELY THEATRE
TODAY (THURSDAY)
The Blakely Theatre is presenting
today, as a special Armistice Day
added attraction, a news reel of
the recent convention of the Ameri
can Legion, held in New York City.
The local Post of the Legion
urges every ex-service man and
members of his family to attend
the theatre today and see this inter
esting pictorial account of the con
vention.
The program for the day, printed
elsewhere in The News, features
Shirley Temple in Wee Willie Win
kie, a vehicle showing the delightful
little Shirley at her best.
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Heavy weight, standard rib, sizes
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MEN’S heavy weight rib Unions,
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LARGEST COTTON
CROP IN NATION’S
HISTORY PREDICTED
The U. S. department Monday
forecast this year’s cotton crop at
18,243,000 bales, which would be
the largest crop in the history of the
nation.
The 1936 crop was 12,399,000
bales. The largest crop previously
grown was 17,978,000 bales in 1926.
It was produced on 44,616,000 acres,
the record acreage. The acre yield
was 192.8 pounds. This year’s crop
is being produced on 33,736 acres,
but the acre yield is 258.8 pounds, a
record picking. The previous record
yield was 233.1 pounds in 1898.
Last year’s yield was 197.6 pounds.
Georgia’s production was placed
at 1,470,000 bales with a per-acre
yield of 267 pounds, against 1,086,-
000 bales and a per-acre yield of
228 pounds in 1936.
Auto Drivers Urged
To Send in License
Application Blanks
The News is in receipt of a letter
from Phil Brewster, Commissioner
of Public Safety, in which he re
quests this paper to urge the people
of Early county to send in, as
promptly as possible, their applica
tions for driver’s license.
The Commissioner says: “It will
be a very short time before we will
have to close down the state and
the congestion of mail that we usual
ly have the last few days before we
close down will be impossible for us
to handle promptly; therefore, we
feel that we can give much quicker
service in getting the license back
to them if the applications are sent
in at once.”
The first time limit for securing
licenses was set for October 20,
and after the time was extended ap
plications have slowed down consid
erably, Mr. Brewster says, “and that
is the reason we want to urge them
to send their applications in as soon
as possible.”
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1937.
The Early County
Junior High School
Basketball League
(By J. D. TWEEDY)
The Rowena basketball teams are
now leading the Early County Junior
High School Basketball League. The
teams of this school have chalked up
four straight wins with no defeats.
Four schools, New Hope, Springfield,
Colomokee and Cedar Springs, come
second with two games on each
side of the ledger. Liberty Hill has
not yet registered a win.
Boys’ and girls’ teams will play
one game a week until each school
has played each other twice. One
game each will be played on home
courts and one each on foreign
courts.
In games played last week in the
league the Rowena girls’ team had
a close call, barely nosing out the
much improved Liberty Hill team by
a score of 12-10. Branch and
Prince were outstanding for Liberty
Hill, while Taylor and Cummings
were best for the winners. Rowena
boys’ team experienced little diffi
culty in winning over the smaller
Liberty Hill boys. The score was
22-10. The Rowena teams had pre
viously defeated the same teams on
the Rowena court.
Last Friday the Colomokee girls’
team lost again to the strong Spring
field girls’ team. The score was
26-16. The Colomokee boys’ team
won a 20-13 decision over the
Springfield boys.
The New Hope boys again defeat
ed the Cedar Springs boys, while the
Cedar Springs girls again trounced
the New Hope girls.
The league schedule for this week
finds Springfield at Rowena, Cedar
Springs at Liberty Hill, and Colomo
kee at New Hope. Games of this
league are always played on Thurs
day or Friday, as per agreement.
The standings to date, with the
boys’ and girls’ games combined in
to one percentage per school, is as
follows:
School Won Lost Pct.
Rowena 4 0 1.000
Springfield 2 2 .500
New Hope 2 2 .500
Colomokee 2 2 .500
Cedar Springs 2 2 .500
Liberty Hill 0 4 .000
Georgia Revenue
Is $12,175,837 For
Six-Month Period
The comptroller general’s office
collected $12,175,837 for the state
during the first six months of 1937,
according to a report filed with
the governor Saturday by State
Auditor Tom Wisdom.
Nearly two-thirds of the collec
tions, $9,267,480, came from the
state gasoline tax. The second larg
est item was $1,187,959 from the
general property tax. Corporation
franchise taxes brought in $364,003
and insurance premium taxes $311,-
117 and sundry occupations taxes
$354,610.
The expenditures of the office
were $115,365, of which $63,739
went for personal services, $15,809
for traveling expenses, $6,607 for
printing, $2,405 for supplies and
materials, $2,285 for equipment and
$2,151 for communication.
The audit revealed that the va
rious county tax collectors owe the
state $2,167,277 for uncollected tax
es over the period from 1930 through
1936. Os these past due taxes $601,-
218 are for 1936, $434,382 for 1935,
$329,086 for 1934, $246,255 for
1933, $329,219 for 1932, $165,203
for 1931 and $67,010 for 1930.
NEWS RECEIVES
NEW HIGHWAY MAPS
New highway maps issued by the
State Highway department, and cor
rected through October 1, of this
year, have been sent to The Early
County News and are for distribu
tion free of charge to those people
who wish one. Only one hundred of
these new maps were sent out and
will be given to the first hundred
who call for them.
The maps show in exact detail the
connection of every road in the state
and indicate points at which con
struction is underway and the type
of work being done.
Half of Georgia’s
Highway Mileage
Now Is Under Way
More than half of the 10,689
miles in the state highway system
will be paved when work now under
construction is completed, it was re
vealed at the State Highway Depart
ment Saturday.
The total mileage actually paved
was 4,792 on November 1, and the
mileage being paved was given as
1,017. Thus when present construc
tion projects are finished the total
paved mileage in Georgia will be
5,809, far exceeding many other
states in the Union.
The present Highway Board is let
ting new construction contracts every
two weeks, the total awards some
times exceeding $2,000,000 per
month. For the past six months the
contracts let have run more than a
million dollars monthly.
The Highway Department has just
issued a quarterly map of the state
highway system dated October 1,
showing the more than 10,000 miles
of roads in the state system, togeth
er with the type of construction of
the roads that have been improved.
This map reveals the great progress
that is being made in paving all the
trunk lines north and south and east
and west across the state.
The map shows the highway mile
age between the principal cities in
Georgia, the condition of roads that
are under construction, together with
the state of detours, the various high
way markers and just what they
mean, and other up-to-the-minute
information for Georgians and tour
ists. A smaller map on the reverse
side shows the main trunk highways
in states east of the Mississippi
River and south of the Great Lakes.
A new feature of the State High
way map is the marking of locations
of Red Cross first aid stations near
several of the larger cities. There
are two of these stations out of At
lanta, two out of Savannah, two out
of Augusta, and two out of Colum
bus.
The maps, printed by the State
Highway Department, are for free
distribution, and for the conven
ience of those who do not want to
go by the Highway Department of
fice for them, The Early County
News has secured a number to be
given away at The News office.
City Offers New
Combination Water
Heating Rate
As a result of action taken by
City Council, at its last regular
meeting, citizens of Blakely desiring
to install water heating units may
do so and receive a rate that will
not be as expensive as heretofore.
The city’s present combination
cooking, lighting and refrigeration
rate is:
First KWH, SI.OO.
Nsxt 50 KWH, 5c per KWH.
All over 65 KWH, 3c per KWH.
In order to use only one meter
per customer and not have to put in
a time switch, the city offers the
following rates to residential cus
tomers who may install heating
units of 2,000-watt size or larger:
First 15 KWH, SI.OO.
Next 50 KWH, 5c per KWH.
Next 35 KWH, 3c per KWH.
All over 100 KWH, 2c per KWH.
It will thus be seen that under
the new combination rate, the first
100 KWH would cost $4.55, and
all in excess of 100 KWH would be
2c per KWH, this being approxi
mately the price paid the Georgia
Power Co. by the City of Blakely
for electric energy.
The new rate should prove an in
centive to the residents of this city
who do not now have electric weater
heating units to install them.
ARMISTICE DAY
PROGRAM AT SCHOOL
THIS MORNING AT 10:30
The Blakely School, with a com
mittee from the American Legion,
is sponsoring an Armistice Day pro
gram at the school auditorium
this (Thursday) morning at 10:30
o’clock. The public is cordially in
vited.
DEATH COMES TO MRS.
MAGGIE CHAPMAN
OF THIS COUNTY
Mrs. Maggie Chapman, age 70,
died at her home in this county
Saturday night about 12 o’clock, fol
lowing an illness of a week.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 3 o’clock, conduct
ed by the Rev. S. B. King. Inter
ment followed in the city cemetery,
with Minter, Fellows & Forrester in
charge, and the following serving as
pall-bearers: George Bush, Gene
Bush, Arthur Chapman, Grady Chap
man, Chester Chapman and D. W.
Nobles, all grandsons of the de
ceased.
Surviving are four sons, Wyatt,
Joe, Emmett and Hamrick Chapman;
two daughters, Mrs. Bessie Bush and
Mrs. Susie Nobles, all of this coun
ty; two brothers, Sammy Sullivan
of Dawson and Frank Sullivan of
Blakely, and one sister, Mrs. Mollie
Morgan, of Birmingham, Ala.
Mrs. Chapman was a native of
Lee county, where she was born in
1866. She had resided in Early
county since 1893, and had many
friends who received the news of
her death with a feeling of personal
loss. She was a member of the
Methodist church.
National Census Os
Unemployed To Be
Taken Next Week
A nation-wide unemployment cen
sus is to be taken next week, plans
for which have been announced by
John D. Biggers, administrator ap
pointed by President Roosevelt.
Postmaster Butler, of the local
postoffice, will on next Tuesday,
Nov. 16th, place in every postoffice
box and rural letter carriers in rural
mail boxes a card to be filled in by
those who are either unemployed or
only part time employed. The card
must be filled in and mailed by Sat
urday night, Nov. 20. The mailing
of the card requires no postage.
The card to be used in the census
lists 14 questions about each indi
vidual who registers. Each question
is fundamental for an understand
ing of the problem of unemployment.
To a large extent the card is self
explanatory. Should there be any
who fail to receive a registration
card, they may secure one at any
postoffice or from any rural carrier.
The confidential nature of the
answers to the questions on the card
will be respected by the Administra
tor of the National Unemployment
Census. The names of the signers
will not be published or made pub
lic in any manner.
The government, in its efforts to
aid the unemployed, seeks to learn
the authentic number of those with
out work, and calls for the full co
operation of the people so this in
formation may be secured.
Watch for the registration cards
and if you are without full-time em
ployment or without any employ
ment, fill in the card and place it in
the mails not later than Nov. 20.
WHEN SICKNESS
STRIKES HOME
You want the best Physician, and the best
Physician requires the aid of a good drug
gist. New discoveries in medicine and
new ideas require the modern druggist to
be up-to-date. We invite you to visit our
modern, well equipped
Prescription Department
Your prescriptions will be carefully com
pounded by a
Registered Druggist
Balkcom’s Drug Store
Blakely, Georgia
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PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
SJ.SO A YEAR
Rev. E. M. Overby
Returns to Blakely
Methodist Church
Rev. E. M. Overby, pastor of the
Blakely Methodist church, has been
returned here for another year, it
was learned Sunday when the ap
pointments were announced by pre
siding Bishop W. N. Ainsworth at the
closing session of the South Georgia
Conference at Dublin. The news of
Rev. Mr. Overby’s return was re
ceived with delight by the members
of his church and other friends in
this city.
The list of the assignments for the
Thomasville district, of which the
Blakely church is a member, follows:
Thomasville District—C. B. Har
bour, presiding elder.
Albany: First Church, J. Ed
Fain; Trinity, J. D. Smith, and
Grace, J. W. Tinley; Arlington, O.
B. Chester; Attapulgus, W. E.
Baconton, E. C. Dow
dy; Bainbridge, Ralph Porter
field; Barwick, L. R. Lancaster;
Blakely, E. M. Overby; Boston, C.
F. Starnes; Brinson, David Cripps;
Camilla, Roy Sampley; Cairo, Le
land Moore; Cairo Circuit, D. B.
Merritt; Colquitt, 0. A. Jackson;
Coolidge, B. D. Sipple, supply;
Donalsonville, J. O. Stanaland; Early
County Circuit, R. F. Owen; Edison,
C. W. Jordan; Faceville, Moody
Booth; Leary, J. W. M.. Stipe; Meigs
and Ochlochonee, Roy J. Bond; Met
calf, W. W. Taylor; Pavo, John
Swain; Pelham, J. A. Thomas; Sale
City, R. E. Brown; Thomasville,
Mack Anthony; West Bainbridge, E.
P. Drake, Jr., supply; Whigham and
Climax, Marvin Vincent.
Student pastor University of
Georgia, L. C. Fullerton; confer
ence missionary secretary, Leland
Moore; district missionary secre
tary, Roy Sampley.
Rev. C. G. Earnest, a former pas
tor of the Blakely church, returns
to Swainsboro for another year.
Rev. N. H. Williams, for the past
four years the presiding elder of this
district, goes to Statesboro, in the
Savannah district. He is succeeded
by the Rev. C. B. Harbour.
A new pastor, the Rev. R. F.
Owen, succeeds the Rev. Ellis P.
Miller as pastor of the Early county
circuit. The latter goes to the Chula
church in the Valdosta district.
It is of interest to friends to know
that the Rev. O. B. Chester, a former
Blakely pastor, goes to the church
at Arlington, which makes him a close
neighbor to friends here.
WELCOME SERVICE FOR
PASTOR SUNDAY NIGHT
The Baptist church has called off
its services for next Sunday evening
and the congregation will join their
Methodist friends in extending a
welcome to the returning pastor, the
Rev. E. M. Overby.
Zenith electric-tuning Radio, tunes
by electricity. See it at BOYETT’S
CASH STORE.