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j EARLY COUNTY, GA. -
GARDEN SPOT OF
j GOD’S COUNTRY I
VOLUME LXXX > NO. 31
STREET PAVING
PROJECT GOING
ON AT RAPID PACE
The street paving project recent
ly begun by the City Council is go
ing forward at a rapid pace, with all
but two streets having been graded
and all the survey work completed,
Zack Respess, state resident engi
neer, who is in charge of the survey
announced this week.
South Church street, which is the
largest of the individual projects and
is one of Blakely’s main streets, is
one of the streets which hasn’t been
completely graded but will probably
be graded before the week ends. This
street will be 25 feet wide, with mod
ern concrete curb and gutter on
either side. Sidewalks will also be
built, but there is no definite an
nouncement whether these sidewalks
will be paved. The pant of the street
between the sidewalk and road will
be sloped and sodded with grass,
making it one of the most beautiful
streets in the city.
Mr. Respess said that asphalt would
be poured within 30 days on these
streets if work went forward as ex
pected. Singletary avenue, the first
street work was begun on, is already
completed, with curb and gutter hav
ing already been built. Other streets
which are included in this project
are Perry avenue, Liberty street,
Robinson avenue (the street which
fronts the school building), Mc-
Donald avenue and part of Bay
street which runs to the side of the
Holland Hospital, Victoria avenue,
Fort Gaines street and Fleming ave
nue.
When these streets are completed
the majority of the city’s streets will
be paved and Blakely citizens who
have been riding these wash-board
thoroughfares for many years are
joyfully anticipating the day when
this project will be complete.
Remember the—
EASTER >
PARADE
STARTS
AT
WEAVER’S
It’s really the dress up time of the year.
Ladies will find the very newest styles in ready
to wear, coats, suits, and shoes. Our large as
sortment of lingerie is bound to please, and
you will delight in selecting new costume
jewelry and lovely spring shades of Humming
Bird hosiery.
Men, it’s your dress up time. New hats,
felts and straws, Manhattan shirts and Nor-
East ties furnish the accessories to blend with
new Curlee, Merit and Sewell suits in our
clothing department. You will also find new
sport suits, coats and slacks. Shoes in keeping
with spring and summer have their place in
our shoe department, and we invite you to
see the new Crosby-Square, Peters and Crad
dock-Terry lines of footwear.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
©Mlg Cotmtg A'ews
GOVERNOR IS
ARRESTED BY
U. S. MARSHAL
Governor E. D. Rivers was arrest
ed in Macon late Friday night on a
■ federal court warrant for contempt
iof court issued by Judge Bascom
I Deaver. The Governor was in at
i tendance upon a meeting of the Geor-
I gia Education Association. He was
later released upon his own recog
nizance, and a promise to appear be
fore Judge Deaver in Macon Friday
i morning.
j The arrest grew out of the high
-1 way board chairmanship row be-
• tween Gov. Rivers and W. L. Miller,
;■ whom the Governor forcibly removed
from the board chairmanship. Mr.
Miller, carrying his fight to the Fed
eral court, obtained injunctions
against the Governor and Adjutant
General Stoddard in the perform
ance of his (Miller’s) duties as
highway chairman. After the in
! junctions were issued, Miller was
again denied access to his office and
the contempt citations against the
Governor and the Adjutant followed.
WORK ON NEW JAIL
BUILDING PROGRESSES
Work on the new Early county
jail building continues to progress
despite several days of inclement
weather, Contractor J. B. Stokes an
nounced this week. Work is being
held up temporarily because of the
delayed arrival of a shipment of
steel, Mr. Stokes said, but if work
goes forward as expected, the jail
will be completed by May 15, as is
specified in the contract.
“Swanee River,” with Don Ameche
and Alice Faye, a tetchnicolor pro
duction, at the Blakely Theatre
Thursday and Friday.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1940.
SUPERIOR
COURT JURORS
ARE DRAWN
The following jurors have been
summoned for service at the April
term of Early Superior Court to be
convened on Monday, April 1.
Grand Jurors— C. E. Gilbert, J. B.
Jones (B), J. R. Prince, B. M. Jones,
C. B. Reese, J. L. Underwood, J. O.
Bridges, C. S. Middleton, W. L.
Mosely, W. R. Averett, W. A. Hall,
H. C. Middleton, J. G. Craft, J. B.
Gaulden, Grady Holman, Sr., J. H.
Dykes, W. B. Regan, Jr., C. R.
Daniels, F. A. Barham, S. G. Mad
dox, Shelly Simmons, Gordon Hall,
F. W. Pipkin, B. M. Garrett, C. C.
Lane, T. H. Smith, C. R. Davis, J.
H. Watson, R. C. Singletary, Jr.,
M. Berman, W. A. Fuqua, 0. H. King.
Traverse Jurors, First Week—J. E.
Freeman, J. W. Grimes, Grady Smith,
W. R. Lane, C. C. Middleton, W. C.
Cook, C. E. Boyett, Howard Byrd,
C. M. Deal, Melvin Middleton, M.
L. Simmons, J. G. Houston, L. C.
Hobbs, M. C. DeWolfe, J. E. Beck
ham, C. W. Bridges, C. L. Cook, D.
R. Deal, L. E. Harris, C. Max Mid
dleton, B. B. Godwin, A. B. Bow
man, H. D. Elliott, G. H. Powell,
A. T. Fleming, A. D. Harriss, J. R.
George, L. L. Harrison, C. E. Pick
ron, L. F. Douglas, J. W. Craft,
Wayne Lindsey, E. J. Houston, H.
G. Harvey, J. R. Puckett, J. G. Shef
field, N. B. Solomon, Ollin Goocher,
C. J. Cox, R. L. Whitehurst, V. W.
Henry, Oscar Whitchard, Jr., J. J.
Elliott, E. B. Davis, H. B. Jernigan,
J. C. Loyless, Sr., J. B. Rice, Tommy
Owen, T. L. Dozier.
Traverse Jurors, Second Week—
J. L. Ricks, W. D. Barbree, C. H.
Tedder, Sevola Jones, J. W. Bowen,
J. W. Miller, T. H. Davenport, L. J.
Cannon, R. O. Waters, J. H. Shef
field, Owen Wills, A. J. Collier, R.
C. Billings, W. A. Reese, J. H. Sut
ton, T. F. Daniels (A), J. R. Her
ring, (A), Ralph B. Scarborough, J.
B. Jones (Jakin), A. E. Langford
(F), T. A. Bell, A. H. McKinnon,
Murray Fain, C. E. Knighton (RH),
W. O. Gilbert, W. R. Alexander, J.
R. Donnan, S. L. Bush, J. M. Bryant,
Ike Newberry (A), M. T. Howard,
T. J. Fort, Sr. (J), W. L. Rhodes,
L. B. Fryer, E. C. McDowell, J. B.
Murdock, Sr., S. E. Kelly, Fred
Sammons, W. W. Jones, 0. E. Gar
rett, W. I. Daniels, J. D. Hoover,
E. E. Wooten, C. H. Loyless, H. J.
Cosby, J. B. Widener, C. G. Jordan
(A), Barney Wynne, J. L. McArthur.
G. M. Moulton, G. L. Ivey, Sr., W.
J. Grist, Sr., M. A. McDowell, W.
D. Chapman, Ernest Sessions, L. B.
Lane, S. T. Lane, H. H. Willis, J. W.
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WILL REDUCE
GEORGIA’S
WPA QUOTA
Georgia’s quota for WPA employ
ment will be reduced 11 per cent in
April, State Administrator R. L. Mac-
Dougall said Saturday.
The April quota will be 44,000
men and women, compared with 59,-
500 for March, according to the order
for a reduction, which came from
National Commissioner F. C. Har
rington in Washington.
“WPA employment is governed
both by need for jobs and by the
amount of money available,” Mr.
MacDougall said.
“Relatively larger amounts of the
federal appropriation for work pro
jects were set aside for the winter
months. Available funds now are
running low and employment must
be adjusted, even though the need
continues in many sections.
“The reductions in the WPA rolls
are mandatory, but we will try to
adjust employment to cause the least
possible hardship.”
Mr. MacDougall said much of the
reduction will come in rural sections
where farming operations are begin
ning to absorb many of the unem
ployed.
“Before we make any reductions,”
he said, “we will consult with local
government officials and co-operate
with them in every way. After all,
the WPA is set up to assist them
in working out their problems of em
ployment, and no cuts will be made
without a thorough understanding by
them of the necessity.”
GOLF COURSE UPKEEP
$2,500 PER YEAR
If Blakely is to have that 18-hole
golf course in Kolomoki State Park,
as local civic clubs have been plan
ning, then the town, county or golf
playing citizens will have to sign
an agreement for the course’s up
keep, which is $2,500 per year.
Sheriff Sid Howell, who is chair
man of the Lions Club golf course
committee, stated Tuesday night that
state park officials said they would
build the course, but the city would
have to keep it up for a period of
five years.
Strickland, J. S. Bush, J. G. Collins,
Floyd Sammons, R. O. Lewis (A),
M. F. Still, L. A. Wiley, J. R. Lind
sey, J. P. Smith, V. L. Collins, I. D.
Felder, Gordon Houston, C. A. Tiner,
C. W. Reed, J. G. Daniels, Jr. (D),
W. L. Cooper, Gaston Cannon.
STATE TROOPER
IS SPEAKER AT
ROTARY MEET
Meeting at noon last Thursday at
the Early Hotel, the members of the
Blakely Rotary Club heard an in
teresting talk on the forkings of the
State Highway Patrol. The speaker
was Corporal Burke, member of the
Patrol, whose talk was largely a dis
cussion of the purposes of that or
ganization and its accomplishments
since it was established by legislative
act in 1937. He gave statistics to
show how the work of the Patrol had
greatly reduced the number of motor
vehicular accidents and deaths since
it began functioning.
Corporal Burke was introduced by
Rotarian “Butch” Hammack. Ro
tarian Charles Boyett was program
chairman for the day.
The Club voted against the pro
posal to divide Georgia into two Ro
tary districts.
President Henry Walton was in
charge of the meeting, with Mrs. Ben
Haisten furnishing the music pro
gram.
Don Ameche and Alice Faye in
“Swanee River” at the Blakely The
atre Thursday and Friday.
ATTENTION!
| GARDEN CLUB MEMBERS
and all who are interest
ed in the growing of flow
ers, plants and vegetables
We have just received a new
wF shipment of
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$1.50 A YEAR
NEWS OF EARLY
COUNTY’S ROAD
PROJECTS
Blakely and Early county will be
interested in the news of the road
building as now going on and other
projects soon to start.
Work of grading the Post Road
to Damascus is progressing steadily
now, although somewhat held up by
bridge and culvert work on the sev
eral creeks. Grading has gone for
ward beyond the W. A. Hall place.
On the Cedar Springs road, the
second five miles has been based
and the paving of this section will
start some time in April. Also, the
work of putting down the base of
the third section into Cedar Springs
has started and, according to Mr.
H. C. Fort, chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners, this third
section will be paved before fall,,
thus giving a paved road into Cedar
Springs. In the meantime, the grad
ing of the remaining section of this
road into Saif old goes on.
West, on State Route No. 62,
known as the Columbia road, work
was started Monday at the river
on grading this road. According to
Mr. Fort, this will be a State and
W. P. A. project, with Early county
doing the machinery work on a
rental or paid basis. This is joyful
news to many citizens of the county,
for that is a muchly traveled road
and has been in bad condition.
East on State Route No. 62, known
as the Arlington road, Mr. Fort
says that the work of laying the
base on this road will be started in
approximately thirty days. This will
be a state job, using convict labor.
There will be curb and gutter for
some five blocks into Blakely and
the paving will be of the sand-as
phalt type. This is particularly good
news to citizens of Blakely, for when
the Arlington road gets bad, it’s
really bad.
Lastly, on State Route No. 1, or
U. S. No. 27, south, known as the
Colquitt road, the part that was so
badly damaged by the freeze of the
late winter will also be repaired
with the beginning of the work on
the Arlington road.
Then, there is the short stretch of
road from State Route No. 1, north,
out to the Indian Mounds, which
will also be paved, it is said.
All this sounds mighty good to
the people of Early county.
DR. COLLINS TO SPEAK
AT BLAKELY FATHER
AND SON BANQUET
The Blakely F. F. A. Chapter will
have its Father and Son Banquet on
March 27 and will presertt Dr. Col
lins, State Superintendent of Schools,
as the speaker of the evening. Every
one is looking forward to this coming
event.
The members of the chapter will
bring their fathers as guests.