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THIS WEEK
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By EARL “TIGE” PICKLE
Well, we finally got around to see
ing that picture. Or maybe we
should say that it finally got around
to seeing us. At the price of tickets
and the distance it has been playing
from our home, Caesar’s crossing the
Rubicon was easier than Daddy Long
Legs stepping a mud puddle in com
parison. We never did see much ex
cuse for the whole thing, unless it
was to show what a green eyed little
vixen, often referred to as Miss
Scarlett, who was as seductive and
provocative as all get-out, could real
ly do and how far she could go in a
pecuniary way, if she really put her
whole soul and body in to it. And
we do mean body. That wench set
the styles for Reno before Nevada
was even admitted to the Union. She
had more husbands and more ways
of disposing of them than a farmer
has means of coming to town. For
three hours and thirty-seven minutes
Scarlett, devised ways and means of
capturing a jelly-spined fellow named
Ashley Wilkes, and when she finally
did make him, she suddenly came to
the wonderfully amazing conclusion
that she didn't want him at all. but
was just crazy as a winter June-bug
about, a handsome heel called Rhett
Butler, who by this time had gotten
good and mad, so he told Scarlett she
could take a flying leap at a gallop
ing goose, and what’s more he didn’t
give a damn, and he was going back
to Charleston, sit under a magnolia
tree and go into a partnership of 1
wild-oat sowing with some of those
Carolina moon babies.
This gify Rhett was some sport,
a veritable Casanova on horseback,
and besides, he had money. Part of
his time he spent in running Yankee
blockades, and the other part pat
ronizing a thriving and popular At
lanta business concern known as
Belle Watling’s place. Yessir, Rhett
was a riot. All the time we were
looking at the picture we kept think
ing if Rhett could do all of these
things with a broad-brimmed hat. an
old plug horse and a one-shot pistol,
what a devil of a fellow he would
have been if he had had a John B.
Stetson, a Tommy-gun and a sport
model V-8.
There were a lot of other people
BLAKELY F. F. A. NEWS
Last Friday night at the South
west Georgia Fiddlers’ Convention,
the Blakely F. F. A. quartet and
string band won first places in their
| respective contests. There were
| three quartets entered, Hilton, Phil-
I lips and Blakely. There were five
string bands other than the Blakely
| band. The chapter is very proud of
I these victories. Members of the
quartet are William Mosely, Wilson
! Fryer, Mack Jarrett, and Herman
i Collier. Members of the band are
Mack Jarrett, Herman Collier, Hom
er Harrison, and G. W. White.
Last Saturday morning a competi
tive forestry examination was held
at Blakely High School. Several
schools participated. They were:
Fort Gaines, Hilton, Cuthbert, Shell
man, Hopeful, and Blakely. The
winners in this contest will receive
a two weeks’ free trip to the State
Forestry Camp this summer. The
contestants from Blakely were Dan
iel Bailey, Mack Jarret, Luke
Spence, and Emory Durham. Results
of the contest will be known in a few
days.
in it, too, but they really didn’t
amount to much, as they spent all of
their time fighting a war, lacing
Scarlett’s corsets and defending bal
loon-skirted little femmes, who in
stead, oughta been turned across a
rain barrel and given a dang-good
licking.
All and all, Gone With The Wind
is a great and magnificent picture,
and it is just as well that it is, be
cause the darn thing is so noisy you
won’t be able to sleep through it any
how.
HEADLINES WE WOULD LIKE
TO READ: Hitler Shot Dead at
Goering’s Funeral. . .Ritz Brothers
Won’t Make Any More Pictures. . .
j Major Bowes Radio Contract Can
i celled. . .Madam Perkins Removed
j From President’s Cabinet. . ,C. C. C.
Camp Moves To Early County. . .
Peace And Harmony Reign At Geor
gia’s State Capitol.
Probably the reason the city of
Albany continues to grow and pros
per through depression or what have
you, is that the city is blessed with
a wide-awake chamber of commerce
which is headed by capable officials.
We have reference to A. E. Runnels,
secretary to the chamber of com
merce. as friendly and personable a
fellow as we have met in a long time.
Mr. Runnels was in Blakely last
week to address the meeting of the
local Rotarians and the high school
seniors and he seemed to make a hit
with all the home folks, from what
we can hear.
The war is being talked, we admit,
but there are a lot of people who
wouldn’t know about it if the comic
pages hadn’t mentioned it.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
GRADUATES
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MISS MARJORIE STANDIFER
Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. G.
Standifer, who graduated cum
laude from Wesleyan College, Ma
con, last Monday. Miss Standifer
received her A. B. degree with a
major in chemistry and a minor
in journalism, as a member of the
100th graduating class of this
venerable institution of learning.
Miss Marjorie was quite active
during her four years at Wesley
an. She was president of the Cru
cible Club and on the staff of the
Wesleyan her senior year, was as
sociate editor of the Watchtower
her junior year and a junior mar
shal. She was on her class stunt
team for three years, with the
leading role twice. She was also
a member of the championship
soccer and basketball teams and a
member of the swimming team
and received the block W for ath
letics. Miss Standifer is a real
daughter of this college, since her
mother, sister, and two aunts are
alumnae of Wesleyan.
GRIST STATION IS
BEING REPAINTED
In keeping with the Standard Oil
Company policy to maintain neat
and attractive stations, the Grist
Service Station, on the east side of
the courthouse square, is this week
undergoing a complete outside paint
job. It is being done in white and
red and is greatly benefited by this
new paint job.
STATE FUEL OIL TAX
COLLECTIONS MOUNT
Georgia fuel oil tax collections this
month are second largest in the
state’s history.
May collections for April taxes
amounted to $1,874,947.70 on gaso
line and $21,601.67 on kerosene—a
total of $1,869,549.37. Largest col
lections were $1,913,869.64 last Jan
uary.
Watch for the announcement of
the date of the formal opening of
the Peters Drug Company.
ODD NAMES
NOTED IN DRIVER
LICENSE BLANKS
Choice Booze may sound like an
intoxicating drink to most folk, but
to clerks renewing drivers licenses at
the Department of Public Safety, it
is license number 172850.
No fooling—that really is the name
of a Georgia driver. And it’s just
one of hundreds of oddities which
gives clerks handling renewals or
i checking old licenses to be renewed,
a chuckle.
Incidentally, Major Lon Sullivan,
Public Safety Commissioner, reminds
drivers they have only a month left
in which to get their new licenses.
After June 30 they will be required
to undergo the rigid safe driving ex
amination.
Many applicants feel the urge to
give a bit more information than is
requested on their application blanks.
Recently one young man added in
space left for color of eyes, “glamor
ous brown”. And a middle-aged man
described his hair as “gray—darn it.”
All of which appear on their licenses.
Another applicant forlornly wrote,
the color of hair, “none.” And one
described his eyes as “greenish,
brownish-green.”
Born toward the .close of the
World War, license number 459596,
title—Europe Panic Perry—is as
timely today as it was in 1919. Ap
parently, admission of a traffic viola
tion is the name of William J. Walk
er, offset in the license files, how
ever, by that of Safety First Hill.
Those whats-in-a-name clerks get a
kick out of such nomers as William
by the Wood, Willie 5-8 Smith, and
Grand Jury Wheeler. And they fig
ure it was a strange coincidence, in
deed, when the same mail brought in
renewal applications for a Mr. and
Mrs. Drake and a Mr. Duck.
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FOR RENT— Apartment with pri
vate front and back entrance, con
necting bath, kitchen sink. MRS.
RALPH HUTCHINS.
LOST—Sterling tie chain with
initials “E. P.” Return to Tige
Pickle at The News office.
LOST—Bunch of keys, two South
Carolina driver’s licenses, between
Blakely Theatre and Farmers Hard- j
ware Co. Return to Mrs. Beulah!
Bryant’s store for Mrs. Hayes.
UNEXPECTED CHANGE makes
available fine Rawleigh Route in Ear-!
ly county. Exceptional opportunity I
for right man. See G. E. Taylor,i
Colquitt, Ga., or write Rawleigh’s, I
Dept. GAF-30-201T, Memphis, Tenn, i
Watch for the announcement of
the formal opening of the Peters
Drug Company.
Blakely’s Population
Announced As 2,771
GAIN IS 665, OR 31.10 PER
CENT OVER 1930
CENSUS
Blakely’s population is now
2,771, it was announced Wed
nesday by Second District Su
pervisor D. R. Bryan.
The gain is 665 over the
1930 census, which gave this
city a population of 2,106, and
the percentage of increase is
31.10.
This increase in population pro
motes Blakely to the “city” class,
2,500 generally being the number of
citizens necessary to claim the dis
tinction of being a city. The growth
has been steady for the past four or
five years, evidenced by the large
number of new residences built here,
all of which were occupied as soon
as completed. Since no new indus
try of any size has been launched
here, the growth must be accepted
as steady and substantial, and not of
the temporary “boom” type.
Mr. Bryan stated that every ef
fort had been exerted toward secur
ing a correct enumeration, but that
if any one in Blakely had been over
looked, there was still time to be
included in the count if the Super
visor is immediately notified, since
A Three-Way Job!
A Word of Appeal to
the Citizens of Georgia
The wholehearted acceptance by your State
and local law enforcement officials of our co
operation in the campaign to eliminate the
relatively few retail beer outlets that are be
ing improperly conducted, has been splendid.
/ But that’s not enough. It’s got to be a three
way job ... by the industry, the law, and you
•.. the public.
How can you help?
First, simply by refusing to patronize those |
retail beer outlets that are flagrantly violating
the laws.
Second, by reporting to your local law en
forcement officials or to this Committee the
wholly undesirable retail beer outlets oper
ating in your community.
RREWERS&REER DISTRIBUTORS
JUDGE JOHN S. WOOD, State Director \
529 Hurt Building • Atlanta, Georgia
i the figures as announced Wednesday,
I are preliminary and subject to cor-
I rection. Mr. Bryan may be reached
at Thomasville.
The News is pleased with this fine
showing, and believes Blakely will
continue its upward march.
SOFTBALL
Out of two games played this
week, the Blakely Democrats won one
and tied another.
Monday night at the high school
park, the Democrats and a fast
aggregation from Albany, the Al
bany Laundry team, played to a
7-7 tie in 12 innings.
Tuesday night they eked out a 10
to 8 victory over the Lokey Ice Cream
Company team from Dothan.
The next home game will be
played here next Monday night be
ginning at 8:15 o’clock, and Manager
Owen urges everybody to turn out
and support the home team.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our apprecia
tion for the many kindnesses and
expressions of sympathy tendered us
during the illness and death of our
precious baby, and for the beautiful
flowers that were sent.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hartley.