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BLAKELY HIGH
SCHOOL NEWS
WEDDING OF TOM THUMB
On April 12 one of the most,
enjoyable events of the year wil
take place! For about fifty members
of Blakely’s very, very young set
■will take part in a “Tom Thumb
wedding, which will be held at the
schoolhouse. Acting as bride will be
Sybil Middleton, complete in white
satin and veil; as groom, Ben Hunt.
Appropriate songs will be sung by
Sarah Jo Miller. The other children,
all under six years of age and in full
evening dress, will make up the
wedding party and the audience.
A special feature of the program
will be a dance, the Viennese Waltz,
given by Jimmy Bush and Gladys
Pace, pupils of Mrs. Crouch, of Al
bany.
This entertainment is being pre
sented by the tenth grade, and pro
ceeds will go to the Junior-Senior
Banquet fund. Tickets —ten cents
for school children and twenty cents
for others —are now being sold by
members of the Junior class. Buy
yours early!
A large crowd is expected, as this
promises to be about the “cutest
affair of the year. So get your
tickets and be at the schoolhouse at
seven-thirty, Friday night.
—REPORTER.
BAND TO PARTICIPATE IN
ALBANY CELEBRATION
Thursday the B. H. S. band will
participate in Albany’s “Biscuit Eat
er” celebration, and will be compet
ing for a SIOO prize for the best
out-of-town band.
This is the band’s major activity
of the week, but last Wednesday
night’s show was regarded as a big
success. The new dance orchestra
was introduced, and the band and
ensembles were up to their usual
degree of excellence. Mr. B. R. B.
Davis fulfilled his pre-show prophecy
that his act, alone, would be worth
the admission price.
—REPORTER.
“WHEN THE WHIRLWIND
BLOWS”
“When the Whirlwind Blows,” a
thirty-minute play written by Essex
Dane, was presented by Narfcy Mc-
Lendon, Nancy Grubbs, and Jane
Bonner at the district meet in Quit
man last Friday night. The play,
dealing with social upheavals in Rus
sia, was directed by Miss Annie
Nelle Collins.
Os the six plays enacted in Quit
man, Thomasville won first place;
Bainbridge won second; and Camilla
won third.
—REPORTER.
F. F. A. NEWS
Last Thursday, April 4, we held
a meeting, during which eliminations
for the public speaking contest were
made. Those participating in this
contest were Joe Brooks, Herman
Collier, and Olin Seago. Herman
Collier, speaking on “Soil Erosion,”
was chosen by the judges as the
best orator, and was awarded a
prize of SI.OO. His talk was inter
esting, and we believe that he will
have a good chance at the district
meet, where he will represent the
chapter.
We had a visitor in our class
Monday morning. Mr. Tom Hardy,
from the Wild Life Department, gave
a very interesting talk on Wild Life.
He is encouraging the boys and
girls to become Junior Rangers to
help protect the game and fish. The
agriculture students will study this
topic and take the test that is to be
given by this department at some
time within the spring.
—REPORTER.
BIOLOGY TRIP
Last Thursday, April 4, the biol
ogy class took “time off” (two pe
riods, to be exact) to observe nature
in her new spring frock. The mem
bers of the class, along with their
teacher, Mr. Davis, made the observa
tion along the Baptist branch. The
main object of the trip was to study
the leaves of the various trees which
have been discussed by the class for,
the past few weeks.
Among the flowers and trees just i
beginning to bloom were the violet, I
the maple, the dogwood, the honey- !
suckle, and the redbud. A few of |
the trees observed were the pine,
the sugarberry, the magnolia, and |
the maple.
Since this was an opportune time I
to catch insects, a few of the stu- !
dents captured butterflies, different
species of beetles—and some went I
even further, getting crawfish and I
frogs to add to their collection.
The trip proved to be most in
teresting, and, in spite of the fact
! that a few of the students fell in
the branch, getting very muddy, the
trip was enjoyed thoroughly.
—REPORTER.
I JUST RETURNED
France is wonderful! Have you
ever been there? The lights, the
cases, the shops! Quaint people,
strange tongues, intriguing customs!
We left America last May to be in
Paris in the spring. Everyone was
gay! Our nearest neighbor seemed
to be shouting, “Spring is here!”
Spring was there! Birds were sing
ing. Trees were blooming. Lovers
were loving. The parks were filled
with healthy children and barking
dogs. After each daily walk through
the park we visited Pierre. Yes, the
“Pierre’s” of Paris are all they’re
promised to be. Wine flows like
water. The food is delicious, each
dainty morsel delicately seasoned,
beautifully prepared.
Let’s not slight the rest of France
nor forget one of its most interest
ing attractions—the peasants, with
their customs handed down from
generation to generation. At night
they gather in a neighbor’s cottage
to relate myths and songs learned
from their forefathers. Every holi
day—Joan of Arc’s day, Mardi Gras,
the Bastile fete—is celebrated in
elaborate fashion with costumes, car
nivals, and native dances. No, you
haven’t seen France, not the real
France, until you’ve joined these
patriotic people on at least one
ceremonious occasion.
Often I wonder, “Will France be
the same on my next visit to her
sunny shores?”
—MILDRED DANIEL.
MAN “RUNS DOWN”
LONG-LOST WATCH
Watch out! If you think someone
is stealing your time, you may have
only lost it. And lost time can be
found. Mr. T. E. Taylor, Grady
county farmer, lost his watch eleven
years ago. But last week it was
run down. Farm hands found the
watch last week when they were
cutting wood. The crystal was brok
en, and the stem was bent. But the
watch was still in good condition.—
Cairo Messenger.
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P. O. Box 306 - > - BLAKELY, GA.
->r..ILY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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BALTIMORE, Md. . . . Mrs. D. T.
Battaglia, wife of a Baltimore phy
sician, shown here with her newly
born boy who weighed 8 pounds,
II ounces. Her neck was broken
In a fall several weeks ago and is
still held rigid with a brace. In ten
days she will be able to be up with
only a collar support for her frac
tured vertebrae.
Dog Days
Dog days comprise the hot, sultry
season of summer during parts of
July and August; so-called from the
fact that the rising of the dog-star,
Sirius, the brightest star in the heav
ens, is coincident with the rising of
the sun. The ancients thought this
conjunction caused the intense heat
of summer, and the maladies which
then prevailed, hence the popular
supposition that dogs are specially
liable to go mad at this season. It
was by mere accident that the rising
of the star coincided with the hottest
season of the year, in the times and
countries of the old astronomers. Its
rising depends on the latitude of the
place.
Airplane Machine Gun
Roland G. Garros, French aviator,
is credited with the invention of the
synchronized airplane machine gun.
He is known in France as the fa
ther of air dueling, which changed
the mode of air fighting considera
bly. In February of the year 1915
he mounted a gun in such a posi
tion that it was able to fire through
the propeller of an airplane, which
was a decided advantage over the
enemies’ mode of fighting. In 18
days he is credited with shooting
down five enemy planes. He was
brought down on the day of his last
victory, April, 19, 1915, and was
taken prisoner by the Germans. He
was unable to destroy his plane,
which the Germans copied, and his
invention was no longer a secret.
Munich Well Motorized
Munich claims to have more auto
mobiles than any other city in Ger
many, there being one for every 13
inhabitants, while Berlin has only
one for every 20.
Geraniums, Saint Paulias, Cinera
rias, Lilies, in bloom, at MRS. MUR
DOCK’S FLOWER SHOP.
LOST OR STOLEN— A black and
white milk cow, with yoke on, and
butt-fieaded. Finder please notify
PEARL WILLIS for reward.
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION
BENEFITS PAID
Unemployed workers in Early
county were paid $11.07 in benefits
by the Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation during the week end
ing March 23, it was announced to
day. Number of payments was re
ported at four.
Total payments to Georgia work
ers that week amounted to $85,-
533.29, represented by 14,033 checks
which went into 125 counties of the
state.
Six hundred eighty-nine payments
for $5,705.94 to workers in other
states who previously had establish
ed wage credits in Georgia brought
the total to $91,239.23.
PUBLIC SALE
GEORGIA, Early County:
Default having been made in the
payment of a debt secured by a deed
to secure the same executed by J. G.
Collins, payable to E. M. Collins,
dated March 30th, 1934, recorded in
Book 44, page 123-4, in the office
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county, and the said E. M. Col
lins being deceased, and the under
signed Pearle W. Collins being the
duly qualified executrix of his estate,
the undersigned will, for the purpose
of collecting the said debt, and acting
under the power of sale contained in
said deed, on the 20th day of April,
1940, between the legal hours of
sale, at the Court House in Blakely,
Ga., sell the lands described in said
security deed, at public outcry to the
highest bidder for cash, said lands
being described as follows:
All that portion of lot of land No.
Ninety Eight, commencing at the
south east corner of said lot and run
ning north along the eastern bound
ary of said lot to the Fort Gaines
& Damascus public road, thence
along said road to a point seventy
yards from the northern boundary
of said lot, thence west along the
northern boundary of said lot to a
point 440 yards east of the north
west corner of said lot, thence south
to the southern boundary of said lot,
thence east along the southern
boundary of said lot to point of be
ginning, containing 147 acres, more
or less.
Also three acres of land, more or
less, part of lot No. sixty three (63)
described as commencing on the ori
ginal line between land lots num
bers 98 and 63, at a point north of
Colomokee creek at a fence row
formerly erected on dry land, run
ning thence along the line between
said lots to the old road bed of the
Fort Gaines and Damascus road,
thence down said road bed to the
dividing line of high dry land and
flat wet land west of Colomokee
creek, thence down said dividing line
in a south-westerly direction along
an old fence row to point of begin
ning.
The said above described lands and 1
lots numbers 98 and 63 being in the
sth district of Early County, Geor
gia. The undersigned will execute
a deed to the purchaser at said sale
as authorized by the terms of the
deed aforesaid.
This April 11th, 1940.
PEARLE W. COLLINS,
as Executrix of Estate of
E. M. Collins, deceased.
A. H. GRAY, Attorney.
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the Roosevelt Game Preserve near Portsmouth, feeding one of the
deer that came close to the lodge on the preserve in a search for
food. The unusually heavy snowfall this .Winter has reduced the
available food for deer and other wild life. This fawn seems to be
enjoying the special jervice.
PUBLIC SALE
GEORGIA, Early County:
Default having been made in the
payment of a debt secured by a deed
to secure the same, executed by V. F.
Balkcom to McKesson-Riley Drug
Company, a corporation, by it trans
ferred to McKesson & Robbins, In
corporated, by it transferred to the
undersigned Elizabeth T. Balkcom,
said deed being dated Dec. 6th, 1932,
recorded in deed book No. 43, page
12608 in the office of the clerk of
the superior court of said county,
the undersigned will, for the purpose
of collecting the said debt, and act
ing under the power of sale contain
ed in said deed, will on the First
Tuesday in May, 1940, during the
legal hours of sale, at the Court
House in Blakely, Georgia., sell at
public outcry to the highest bidder
for cash the property described in
said deed, and as follows:
The two-story brick building and
land upon which same is situated,
being on the south side of the public
square in the city of Blakely, Ga.,
known as the Blakely Dispensary
Building, described in deeds from
W. H. Alexander to Board of Dis
pensary Commissioners, recorded in
deed book V. pages 419-420, and in
deed book Y. page 12, and in deed
from Mrs. Clara Butler to V. F.
Balkcom, recorded in Book No. 36
page 265, all in the office of the clerk
of the superior court of Early Coun
ty; said property being bounded on
north by public square, east by
property of Mrs. W. H. Alexander,
west by property of J. C. Peters.
The said property will be sold sub
ject to a first lien thereon in favor
of Empire Loan & Trust Co., which
is recorded in deed book No. 38, page
326, in office of clerk of superior
court of Early County, and will be
sold as the property of the estate of
V. F. Balkcom, deceased.
A deed will be executed to the
purchaser as authorized by the terms
of the security deed aforesaid.
This April 11th, 1940.
MRS. ELIZABETH T. BALKCOM
A. H. GRAY, Attorney.
FOR SALE— Two fine pure-bred
Jersey cows, $75.00 each; also Jer
sey Guernsey cow first calf, $5.00.
MRS. A. C. SPENCE.
PUBLIC LAND SALE
GEORGIA, Early County: 1
Because of default in the payment
of a debt secured by deed to secure
debt executed by G. L. Ivey to The
Citizens Bank, of Blakely, Georgia,
dated November 28, 1927, and re
corded in Mortgage Book 7, page
140, Early County Deed Records,
which Security Deed, together with
the debt thereby secured, was duly
transferred, assigned and sold to Mrs.
J. H. Hill, the undersigned will, act
ing under the power of sale contain
ed in said Security Deed, and for
the purpose of collecting the indebt
ness thereby secured, sell at public
outcry, at the court house door in
Blakely, Early County, Georgia, on
Saturday, April 13, 1940, between the
legal hours of sale, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following de
scribed property, to-wit:
The west half of lot of land Num
ber twenty-two (22) in the Fifth
(sth) District of Early County, Geor
gia, except three quarters of an acre
formerly deeded to Rosinville Church.
The tract herein conveyed contain
ing one hundred twenty-four and one
quarter acres, more or less.
A deed will be executed to the
purchaser at said sale as provided for
by the terms of said security deed.
This 3rd day of April, 1940.
MRS. J. H. HILL,
Transferee of the Citizens
Bank, of Blakely, Georgia.
J. W. BONNER, Atty.,
Blakely, Georgia.
BLAKELY CHAPTER 44 R. A. M.
Blakely Chapter 44
W Royal Arch Masons
meets on the second
and fourth Monday
nights of each month
at 8 o’clock. Visiting
companions invited.
J. E. Houston,
High Priest.
J. G. Standifer,
Secretary.