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• ANNOUNCEMENTS •
Record of Attendance Last
Sunday
White population of Blakely 1,993
Resident church members 1,274
(Os these 485 are not members here)
Attendance, Morning Worship 292
Attendance, Evening Worship 245
This includes all denominations.
THE BLAKELY
BAPTIST CHURCH
SPENCER B. KING, Pa»tor
How much so many our people
missed by not attending the good
meeting at the Methodist Church last
week! There were doubtless many
who “intended to go” but let some
little thing prevent. Let us all re
solve that we will not allow that to
happen again, and when the meeting
at the Baptist Church begins, next
Sunday week, BE THERE EVERY
TIME.
For next Sunday the pastor speaks
at the morning hour on “A Prayer-
Answering God” and at the evening
service the subject will be “A Re
vival”.
Sunday School at 9:45; Training
Union at 6:30; Preaching services at
11:00 and 7:30.
On Monday the Woman’s Mission
ary Society meets at the Church at
3:00; the Sunbeams in their room at
the same hour. The Intemediate
G. A. meets with Eleanor Green,
the Royal Ambassadors with Victor
Hobbs Hutchinson and the Junior
G. A. with Vareene Woolf —all at
three o’clock.
Wednesday evening Prayer Service
at the Church at 7:30, this being
the final “pray for our meeting”
service at the church. We trust our
people will be much in prayer through
all the days for the Father’s bless
ing upon the meeting which begins
May 12th.
THE BLAKELY
METHODIST CHURCH
E. M. OVERBY, Pastor
Church School 9:45 A. M.
Frank Gilbert, Jr., General Super
intendent.
Public Worship 11:00 A. M. and
7:30 P. M.
At the morning hour the pastor
purposes to preach a short sermon
and administer the Communion.
At the evening hour the pastor is
to preach.
The two Leagues meet at 7:00
P. M.
No Wednesday night prayer meet
ing next week.
Friday night, May 3rd, we are to
have our Second Quarterly Confer
ence. Rev. W. M. Haywood, our
District Superintendent is to be with
us.
EARLY COUNTY CIRCUIT
CHURCH NEWS
C. B. WARE, Pastor
Church services next Sunday,
May 5:
Langston Sunday School 10; Em
mett Williams, Supt. Church Wor
ship and Sermon 11 and 7:30. Ep- ,
worth League 7. x
Sardis Church Worship and Ser- i
mon at 3.
All interested in a Sunday School
at Sardis come.
The Holy Communion Service
will he observed at both churches.
Perfect Bowling
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DETROIT, Mich. . . . George Pal
lage, stocky veteran of Akron, Ohio,
who thrilled the bowling world
when he rolled the seventh perfect
300 score in the history of the
American Bowling Congress cham
pionships.
45,000 JUNIORS LEAD
EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
IN STATE’S WILDLIFE
Records in wildlife activity have
been as common as summer after
noon yawns since the merit system
established an organized and system
atized ranger set-up for Georgia.
Both education and enforcement have
| brought results that are leading close
followers to believe that within five
years Georgia can accomplish a re
storation goal that not long ago ap
peared to be out of sight.
Playing the leading role in this
back to wildlife campaign being
waged were boys and girls in every
county of the state. Approximately
45,000 youngsters of grammar and
high school age and composed chiefly
of FFA and 4-H club members have
joined or become associated with
junior wildlife clubs, according to
Earl V. Lord, educational director
of the Division of Wildlife.
“This is about 35,000 more than 1
we had expected for the whole sea
son,” Lord explained. “All of this;
interest popped up in two months, j
or so it seemed, and its growth has:
been so rapid that we are finding
it difficult to supply this young |
army with information, and other
materials which they demand.”
Lord said that Dodge County was
leading in registered junior clubs
with 16. Wheeler has 11 and Wayne
9. These were organized under di
rection of Rangers J. W. Jones and
T. B. Brantley and have an average
membership of 50.
One young farmer in Hart County
is working on both fish and quail
projects, the two most popular activ
ities over the state, and reports that
he has a fish pond, several pairs of
quail, 100 pheasant eggs, 3 wild tur
keys and several acres of lespedeza,
valuable quail food. There are others
who will submit reports on results
of their work before July 1, when
the contests ends.
Four boys will be given a free
trip to Wisconsin in August to study
the improved methods used by this
state in game and fish conservation.
Two girls will be awarded cash prizes
of SIOO each.
F. F. A. MEMBERS
ATTEND STATE
MEET IN ATHENS
Several members of the Blakely
chapter of the Future Farmers of
America left Wednesday morning
for Athens to attend the state meet
ing being held there this week.
The boys attending will compete
in the shop contest which is one of
the features of the meet.
Making the trip, besides Mr. E. '
H. Cheek, F. F. A. adviser, will be I
Herman Collier, Wilson Fryer, Ben |
Mosely, Julian Wiliams and Luke
Spence. They will return home
Friday or Saturday.
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF MY FRIEND,
MRS. DELLA J. HOUSTON
“As the harvest time was beginning,
And our "home seemed so com
plete,
God came out and gathered
Our loved one so sweet.
’Tis hard to break the tender cord
When love has bound our heart;
’Tis hard to speak the words
We must forever part.”
It is dark in our home, •
Lonely are our hearts today,
For the one we loved so dearly
Has forever passed away.
Though you are gone in presence
Our love will last, dear, forever,
Our love for you and vour eyesjof
blue r
Is a thing but God can sever.
And it shall live ’til eternity
Shall claim the last faint rose,
’Til the sea and hills are one
With the sunset’s burning close.
Each rose is born to die some day,
But the memory of you will never,
And it shall soar from the grave
Like the wings of a white sea-gull,
And bask in the light of Eternity,
Oh! far more beautiful.
For it shall live when we are dead,
And earth is a faint pastel,
It shall lift it sstainless self above
And with you in heaven shall dwell.
And now on heaven’s shore
There bloom and gleams in the
morning dew
A flower no angel there can name,
It is you, dear Della, it is you.
Della, my dear, Della,
It is sweet to breathe thy name,
In life, I loved you dearly,
In death, my life is the same.”
—Her Friend, Mrs. Pinkie White.
TRIPLETS ARE BORN
TO COLORED FAMILY
Newnan, Ga.—There was a black
out in the Cedar Creek district of
Coweta County on April 10. The
stork flew in with triplets.
The triplets were born into the
Luther Smith family, colored. But
the multiple birth didn’t stop with
just that. It resulted in multiple
names. The names: Frank, Frankie,
and Frances.
The attending physician reported
that the babies were doing well.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Feller Pitches No-Hitter in Season Opener
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CHICAGO, 111. ... In one of the most extraordinary pitching perform
mces ever recorded, young Bob Feller, Cleveland star, hurled a no-hit,
i >-run game at Comiskey Park to beat the White Sox 1-0 in the season’s
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MR. JOHN W. WADE
DIES AT BIRMINGHAM
News was received in Blakely
! Wednesday of the death of Mr. John
W. Wade at his home in Birming
ham, Ala., on Tuesday night at 9:10
o’clock. He had been in declining
health for some time.
Mr. Wade was a native of Blakely,
a son of the late Captain Reuben
Wilkinson Wade and Mrs. Wade.
He had made his home in Birming
ham for many years and was actively
identified with the business life of
that city.
Surviving are his wife; one broth
er, Mr. T. W. Wade of New Canaan,
Conn.; and one sister, Mrs. Pearl
Wade Sheppard of New York City.
In addition to relatives, Mr. Wade
had many boyhood friends in Blake
ly who learned with regret of his
passing.
DEPOSITS IN STATE
BANKS TOTAL OVER
A HALF BILLION
Resources of the 267 commercial
banks in Georgia totaled $566,259,-
000 on December 30, 1939, the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation
announced last week.
It said a survey of the insured in
stitutions showed deposits of $498,-
831,000. Demand deposits of the
latest call amounted to $379,391,000
and time deposits totaled $119,340,-
000.
Loans and discounts of the report
ing banks amounted to $217,701,-
000, an increase of $9,964,000 over
December 31, 1938.
Direct and guaranteed obligations:
of the United States government list- j
ed by the Georgia banks amounted ;
to $73,964,000. Other securities,
totaled $45,357,000.
JAKIN HOME ECONOMICS CLUB
It’s never too early or too cold I
for the Jakin Home Economics club j
to go a-hiking—and that was made
pretty evident Saturday morning,
April, 19th at 6:30 o’clock. Clad in
slacks and top coats and headker
chief and laden with old bundles of
every size, the girls set forth. Each
member had one guest—and a syrup
can—not that the guest were classed
with syrup cans; but as you’ll see,
the syrup cans were important.
When the hiking crew finally land
ed and bundles were deposited,
stoves—into which the tin cans had ■
miraculously turned into stoves were
set up. This was done by cutting
a small door in one side and a smoke
hole in the other. This was fed with
small chips and bacon, eggs and pan
cakes cooked on top. Like all out
door breakfasts a little carbon smoke
was mixed in but the food was mighty
good and from the w r ay Joyce and
Faye ate pancakes they were excel
lent. Little Black Sambo must not
have had a thing on them.
After breakfast the girls burst in
to song and whoever said you could
not sing with a full stomach had never
met a group like the Jakin Home i
Economics girls. While in this:
merry mood of song, the group re- j
loaded—with quite a bit missing— I
and set out for home.
Those attending were Misses :
Brown, Hodges, Caldwell, Fain, Jer- i
nigan, Catherine Moates, Virginia I
Harvey, Joyce Jackson, Fay Thomp
son, Frances Merritt, Christine Can
non, Christine Ellis, Jonnie Hudson,
Louise Miller, Trudie Starling and
Carolyn Barbree.
—REPORTER.
Free Circus n’Everything
According to the American Maga
zine, Louis L. Meitus, Chicago lum
berman, started to buy some truck
ing equipment at a circus auction
and ended up in possession of a full
fledged circus, to which he imme
diately invited 10,000 kids. Since
then he has put on over 20 perform
ances, giving out free soda pop and
peanuts, as well as the show.
| FARM BRIEFS
By JACK WOOTEN,
Extension Editor
Lespedeza Fertilizers
There is no definite experimental
data on the increase in the yield of
lespedeza per acre in eGorgia due to
fertilization but farmers are getting
good increases from applications of
phosphate and lime. From these re
sults and results obtained in other
states where lespedeza has been used
for a number of years, it would ap
pear that a practical application
would be 300 to 400 pounds of super
phosphate-or its equivalent in such
materials as basic slag or triple super
phosphate every two or three years
and 1,000 to 3,000 pounds of lime
stone, depending on the acidity of
the soil.
Growing Broilers
Feed consumption and rate of
growth of baby chicks vary widely
with different lots of chicks, manage
ment methods, kinds of feed, and the
time of year, Arthur Gannon, Exten
sion poultryman, says it generally
takes about six and one-half to
seven pounds of mash to grow a two
pound fryer. On the average, it
takes about 10 weeks for the grow
ing period, when chicks are fed a
good commercial starting or broiler
mash containing all the necessary
minerals, vitamins, proteins, and
other nutrients. It often takes much
longer with farm-raised chickens in
case they are not fed a mash.
Exchange Os Cotton
Commodity Credit Corporation has
announced that it had accepted pro
posals from 19 cotton firms to ex
change 25,653 bales of low-grade,
short staple, government-owned cot
ton for high-grade, long staple, pri
vately owned cotton under the cot
ton exchange program announced in
January. With previous acceptances
by Commodity Credit Corporation,
the total amount of government-own
ed cotton to ibe exchanged under the
program now amounts to 186,158
bales.
Improved Land Use
Since 1932, approximately eight
and a half million acres of sub
marginal land, unsuited to continued
cultivation, have been purchased and
developed in the United States for
uses for which this land is better
suited, principally forestry and graz
ing. In dry-land areas this land is
being used to help farmers shift more
to livestock production and away
from the uncertainties of one-crop
farming. The land which has been
purchased is being turned back to
grass and made available to nearby
farmers who need more land for this
type of farming.
LOST COW—Light red heifer,
weight about 450 pounds, under and
overbit in right ear and crop and
split in left. Strayed several weeks
ago. Suitable reward. JOHN HAR
PER, Rt. 3, Blakely, Ga.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
GEORGIA—EarIy County:
There will be sold at public out
cry to the highest and best bidder
for cash, before the Court House
door of Early County, between the
legal hours of sale, on the First
Tuesday in May, 1940, the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
One Mammoth Buckeye Incubator
Number 8.
Said property levied on and to be
sold as the property of T. S.
Chandler to satisfy a fl. fa. issued
from the City Court 6f Blakely in
favor of The Thrift Milling Com
pany vs. said T. S. Chandler, and
said property found, seized and lev
ied upon in the possession of T. S.
Chandler. This August 9, 1940.
SID HOWELL, Sheriff.
BLAKELY SCHOOL
NEWS
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES
The students of Blakely High came
to school Friday morning with two
happy thoughts: first, that it was
i Friday and the next day was Satur
day (on which day you can sleep
as late as you please); and second,
that an enjoyable memorial day pro
gram, directed by Miss Ella Jones,
would take place in chapel that
morning.
The program, indeed, was enjoy
able. The band opened the exercises
with a snappy march, their specialty.
Then Jack Clearman, master of cere
monies announced, in turn, readings
by Jesse Mildred Balkcom, Joanna
Sherman, and Loraine Pritchard. The
[ band concluded the program by play-
I ing the national anthem. After this,
the students marched to the ceme
tery to place flowers on the graves
of Confederate veterans.
F. F. A. NEWS
Last Friday night, April 26, elimi
nations for the Public Speaking andj
Quartette Contests were held here.
The schools represented in the Pub- i
lie Speaking were: Bluffton, Fort:
Gaines, Hilton, Jakin and Blakely.!
Blakely and Hilton were the only
two who had quartettes. The quar
tette contest was won by Hilton en
trants. Their songs were “Shortnin
Bread” and “Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot”; while Blakely’s were “Tent
ing on the Old Camp Ground” and!
“Steal Away”. It took the judges:
a good while before they could make |
their tdeoision because bolth quar-'
tettes did exceptionally well. The
Speaking Contest went as follows :■
Ist Hilton, 2nd Blakely, 3rd Jakin.
4th Fort Gaines, and sth Bluffton.
It was attended by a large group and
was very interesting.
A state examination on wild life
was given to all of the agriculture
boys last Thursday and Friday. Each
boy was made a Junior Ranger. The
boy in the entire chapter making the
highest grade on the test will become
the Chief Ranger. Stephen Mc-Cul
ler and William Jordan each made
95, which was the highest mark. It
will be decided later which of the two
boys will become “big chief”.
COLUMBUS ROBERTS
SAYS:
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the finish regardless of who or how many ’SMfek'* .mF
others may offer. In due time I will an- Us? '
nounce my platform and tell the people how
I stand on every issue in the campaign.’' Jk
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ISAIAH GIVES GOD’S
INVITATION
Lessen for May 5: Isaiah 55:1-11
Golden Text: Isaiah 55:6.
The day’s lesson is an example
like that of the preceding lesson, of
the fact that not all the messages
of the prophets are those of judg
. ment and doom. Some have spoken
■of the “gospel according to Isaiah.”
i The first verse of the lesson is
i similar to the “Whatsoever will” of
I the New Testament.
As in the gospels, food and drink
that satisfy the normal appetite are
used as figures of God’s grace to
the soul. Men are invited to buy
salvation “without money and with
out price.” But it has its own kind
of price, faith, and it is worth more
than all the worlds.
The promise of a Savior was
, abundantly realized in Jesus. And
: Isaiah suggests that salvation is for
all men, for nations that knew not
and were not known by Israel
would “run” unto the nation
through which salvation would come.
In language remindful of a beauti
ful anthem, men are urged to seek
the Lord now. They can only find
him, however, when they forsake
their wicked way and return unto
him. Then he will abundantly par
don, and “as the gentle rain from
heaven upon the place beneath” his
grace will refresh the thirsty soul.
God’s word will not return unto
him “void” but will accomplish that
which he pleases. How sad that
some refuse to be of the number
blessed by his word! A thousand
electric arcs may shine upon blinded
eyes but no ray of light will pene
trate to the dark room of the mind.
So also when a man closes his eyes
to the heavenly light. As for our
selves, let us seek the Lord while
he may be found and call upon him
while he is near.
WANTED—To buy several tons
of hay. DR. W. A. FUQUA, Blake
ly, Ga.