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EARLY COUNTY, GA. |
GARDEN SPOT OF
j GOD’S COUNTRY |
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 38
MRS. ERWIN DIES
AFTER ILLNESS OF
ONLY AFEW HOURS
HAD BEEN RESIDENT HERE
FOR ONLY A FEW
MONTHS
Mrs. Annie Williams Erwin, wife
of Mr. J. M. Erwin, died Thursday
morning of last week at her home
near Blakely. She was ill only a
few hours.
Mrs. Erwin, who was 43 years of
age, was a native of Richland, Ga.,
where she was born August 30,
1897. The family had been resi
dents here for about four months.
Funeral services were held Satur
day morning at the home, with the
Rev. Spencer B. King officiating.
Interment was in the Blakely ceme
tery, with the Minter, Fellows &
Forrester Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements.
Survivors include her father, Rich
ard Williams of Winter Park, Fla.;
her husband, J. M. Erwin, of Blake
ly; eight children, Mrs. Lenora Ring
and Mrs. Mildred Ring of Fitzger
ald, Ga., Mrs. Lula Rasner of Cham
paign, Ill.; Ruby, Herman, Hubert,
Charles and Myron Erwin, all of
Blakely; two sisters, Mrs. J. H.
Flowers of Winter Park, Fla., and
Mrs. Jim Williams of Smithville,
Texas; and two brothers, Coley Wil
liams of Winter Park, Fla., and
Guy Williams of Tampa, Fla.
These have the sympathy of
friends in their bereavement.
ORDINARY MORGAN TO
HOLD COURT MONDAY
Ordinary D. C. Morgan will hold
his regular monthly term of court
next Monday, May sth.
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WOODROW WILSON
CHERRY TO REPORT
FOR ARMY DUTY
Woodrow Wilson Cherry, a volun
teer, will report to the local Selective
Service Board on May 12 for induc
tion into the U. S. army at Fort
McPherson, it was announced this
week by S. W. Howell, clerk of the
board. Should this selectee not be
inducted into service at Fort Mc-
Pherson, Martin Cherry, also a vol
unteer, wil serve as his replace
ment, it was stated.
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Peanut Growers
Vote Heavily for
Marketing Quotas
Nearly 60,000 farmers of twelve
Southern and two Western states
cast votes Saturday to limit the
acreage for edible peanuts for the
next three years under an AAA crop
reduction proposal, a final check of
the balloting has revealed. Only
8,259 growers voted against the
proposal.
Under the restricted production
plan, effective in 1941, 1942 and
1943, the grower will be able to
sell all the edible peanuts grown on
his allotted acreage. Any grown on
excess acreage and sold for edible
purposes will be subject to three
cents per pound tax.
Peanuts sold for crushing into oil
will not be governed by the control
plan.
Polling was heaviest in Georgia,
where about one-third of the na
tion’s peanuts are produced, with
North Carolina running a close sec
ond. Georgians favored the plan
15,124 to 1,437, while in North
Carolina the vote was 14,270 to
1,469.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1941.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
Secretary of State Hull, speaking
in Washington, said “evidence has
been piling up for several years which
makes it perfectly plain that one
group of powers actually does have
designs both upon the new world and
upon the principles, the possessions,
and the way of life that are ours.”
Secretary Hull said “were the con
trol of the seas by the resisting na
tions lost, the Atlantic would no
longer be an obstacle—rather, it
would become a broad highway for
a conqueror moving westward.”
Navy Secretary Knox, speaking in
New York, said “what we all see is
an America gradually becoming en
circled by hostile military powers. . .
openly joined together in a pact they
do not hesitate to say is aimed. . .at
us alone. . .” Mr. Knox said if Ger
many should establish herself in
Africa where submarines, ships, and
bombers “could substantially cut us
from all commerce from South
America,” the Monroe Doctrine
would be “a scrap of paper.”
Mr. Knox said “we must fight ulti
mately unless we find, and put into
effect, measures that will enable
Britain to do our fighting.” He said
Germany would be defeated if U. S.
war supplies and food reach Eng
land—“we shall be beaten” if they
DEFENSE BONDS .
AND STAMPS GO
ON SALE TODAY
PART OF NATIONAL EFFORT TO
MAKE THIS NATION
IMPREGNABLE
The United States Defense Savings
Bonds and Postal Savings Stamps
will go on sale in the Blakely post
office at the opening of business to
day, May 1, as part of the national
effort to make America impregnable.
Postmaster J. Emory Houston an
nounced that plans are completed
for this community, along with thou
sands of others from coast to coast,
to do its full part at the opening of
the savings program.
General Frank C.
Walker, in a letter to Postmasters
throughout the country, said that
the help of local postmasters would
be “a real service to the country”.
He transmitted the thanks of Sec
retary of the Treasury Morgenthau
for the help that local postmasters
had already given in the sale of
United States securities, and also
Mr. Morgenthau’s thanks in advance
“for the co-operation which he
knows you will give to this new ef
fort.”
The new Defense Savings Bond is
similar to the family “Baby Bond”,
of which more than five billion dol
lars worth have been bough by more
than two and a half million Ameri
cans since 1935.
A Defense Bond may be purchas
ed for $18.75. In ten years, this
bond will be worth $25.00. This is
an increase of 33 1-2 per cent, equal
to an annual interest return of 2.9
per cent, compounded semi-annually.
Any time after sixty days from the
date of purchase, the bond may be
redeemed for cash, in accordance
with a table of redemption values
printed on the face of the bond.
To spread investments widely
among all the people in America, a
limit of $5,000 has been set on the
amount of these bonds to be bought
by any one person in one year. The
bonds are in denominations of $25,
SSO, SIOO, SSOO, and SI,OOO, all of
which are sold for 75 per cent of
their maturity value and all of
which mature in ten years.
For the smaller investor who
wants to buy a Government Bond
on an easy payment plan, the post
office will have a new series of Postal
Savings Stamps, at 10c, 25c, 50c, $1
and $5. Each purchaser of any Sav
vings Stamp higher than $lO will be
given, free of charge, an attractive
pocket album in which to paste his
stamps until he has enough to buy
a $25 bond or one of higher de-
THIS WEEK IN NATIONAL
D>E-F'E-N*S*E
do not. Secretary of State Hull also
said aid to Britain “must reach its
destination. . . Ways must be found
to do this.”
Asked to comment on the speeches
of Mr. Hull and Mr. Knox, President
Roosevelt told his press conference
they reflected his opinion. The Presi
dent also said that the neutrality
patrols, established after the out
break of war to warn against ag
gressors’ ships that might come near
the Western Hemisphere, are being
extended as the war comes closer.
He said that they will be extended
to the seveh seas if necessary to pro
tect the Western Hemisphere. Mr.
Roosevelt said the patrols are not
convoys.
Aid to Democracies
The Navy released to Great Britain
under the Lease-Lend program, 20
small, fast torpedo boats and an
nounced discussions are under way
regarding a program for the con
struction of additional small craft
for Britain in Canadian shipyards.
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister King of Canada jointly an
nounced a program to coordinate
Canadian and American defense pro
duction. Each country will provide
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EARLY COUNTY
WELFARE BOARD
MET MONDAY
REPORT .GIVEN OF WORK DONE
AND SURPLUS COMMODITIES
DISTRIBUTED
The regular monthly meeting of
the Early County Welfare Board
was held Monday. Five applications
for old-age assistance were approv
ed, money for these being available
through deaths and transfers to
other counties. As the entire allot
ment of money has been used, no
other cases can be put on until more
money is received, except through
replacements.
The Surplus Commodity depart
ment issued 8,730 pounds of apples,
9,800 pounds of raisins, 6,150 pounds
of lard, 5,2550 pounds of grits, 5,-
250 pounds of meal, 17,100 pounds
of Irish potatoes, 800 pounds of rice,
14,4550 pounds of flour, 800 pounds
of wheat cereal, 1,680 cans of fruit
juice and 14,400 cans of milk to
4,897 school children and 448 needy
families in the county. 104 Farm
Security families were also served.
Os these families, 87 were issued
clothing from the sewing room.
Miss Louie Fort, Assistant Area
Director of N. Y. A., who visits the
local office each week, said there
were 200 boys and girls between the
ages of 17 and 25 working on NYA
projects in Early County. This af
fords excellent training for the
young people, which fits them for
permanent jobs and brings additional
income to the family groups. This
program alone brings $2,880 to Early
County.
The Early County Welfare Board
cooperates in every possible way with
the workers in the Department to
bring all benefits available to the
underprivileged people of the coun
ty, it was stated.
nonynation. Thirty million of these
albums are now being printed.
The cover design of the albums is
in color, featuring a United States
battleship and an eagle bearing the
American flag. On the back cover
is a painting of the Minute Man
statue by Daniel Chester French,
which symbolizes the American citi
zen ever alert in defense of his coun
try. The inscription is “America
on Guard”.
Secretary Morgenthau said that
every boy or girl who saved 10c to
buy a Savings Stamp would help the
country. He added that “you can
safeguard your own money and your
own future, while helping the na
tional defense, by buying United
States Savings Bonds now.”
BOY SCOUT TROOP
MEMBERS AWARDED
TENDERFOOT BADGES
Nine Boy Scouts of the recently
organized Rotary troop received
their tenderfoot badges at an im
pressive ceremony held on Wednes
day night of last week at the high
school building.
Judge J. W. Bonner, president of
the Blakely Rotary Club, presided at
the meeting, gave a short address
of welcome, and introduced S. G.
Maddox, Early county district chair
man of Chehaw Council.
Scoutmaster A. J. Singletary re
ceived the charter, following which
Tenderfoot badges were presented.
Scouts who received their badges
were: Ernest Dunn, Jr., Leonard
George, Sidney Strickland, Knox
Tabb, Louis Patterson, John Hunt,
Lane Middleton, Ed Brasington and
Raymond Bryant.
Revival Meeting
To Begin Sunday
At Baptist Church
A series of revival meetings to
continue for one week will begin at
the Blakely Baptist church next
Sunday morning, it is announced
by Pastor Spencer B. King.
The visiting minister for the se
ries of meetings will be the Rev. A.
B. Hawkes, of Thomaston, Ga., who
is known to many in this section of
the state, Rev. Mr. Hawkes having
served as pastor of the Fort Gaines
church some years ago. He comes
highly recommended and it is ex
pected that his messages will prove
both forceful and spiritually-uplift
ing.
Services will be held twice each
day—Sunday through Friday. The
morning service, beginning at 8:30,
will last only forty-five minutes. The
evening service will begin at 8:00.
It is planned, Pastor King states,
to have special song numbers at
each of the evening services, and
all who can sing and will do so are
urged to join the chorus choir.
A cordial invitation is extended to
every resident of Blakely to attend
all of the services.
In preparation for the meeting
preliminary services are being held
three nights this week, with a visit
ing minister to speak each night.
The Wednesday night message was
by the Rev. J. G. Burgess, of Edi
son. Tonight (Thursday) the speak
er will be the Rev. R. R. Higginboth
am, of Fort Gaines, while the Fri
day night’s message will be by the
Rev. Alfred Pullen, of Cuthbert.
While these services are primarily
for the church membership, everyone
has an invitation to attend.
Coming to Blakely Theatre Mon
day and Tuesday—“ Four Mothers,”
with the Lane sisters, Gale Page and
Jeffrey Lynn.
Baby each week at JOR
DAN’S MARKET.
We Extend Greetings to the
IB auk us Early
as it enters upon its business career.
May it, along with other business en
terprises of our city, render valuable
service toward the progress of our
community and enjoy the confidence
and esteem of our people.
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FIRST STATE BANK
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Maximum Insurance of $5,000.00 for each depositor
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
TWO EARLYCOUNTY
YOUTHS MET TRAGIC
DEATH SUNDAY
HIT BY AUTO WHILE RIDING
BICYCLE ON BLAKELY
COLQUITT-HIGH WAY
A tragic and shocking accident oc
curred here late Sunday afternoon
when two Early county youths, Fer
ris Hester, 13, and Joseph Brown,
20, were instantly killed on the
Blakely-Colquitt highway, near Blue
Creek, when struck by an automo
bile. The automobile then turned
over, injuring the occupants, one
seriously, and the other two with
only slight cuts and bruises.
The two boys had a few hours
earlier attended Sunday School at
the Presbyterian church at Cuba,
the community in which they resided.
With two other companions, they
were out bicycyle riding. Hester
and Brown were riding the same bi
eyle when struck by the auto. The
automobile and the bicycle were
going in the same direction. Mrs.
Annie Bates Leach, of Stuart, Fla.,
and Mrs. Eddie King, of Atlanta, oc
cupants of the car, were hurt when
the car catapulted. Mrs. King suf
fered several broken ribs and a frac- ,
tured leg. Mrs. Leach sustained on
ly minor cuts and bruises. Mrs. King
remains in the hospital, while Mrs.
Leach was dismssed Monday after
noon and returned to her home in
Stuart, Fla. The Negro chauffeur,
Douglas Nelms, received a cut over
the right eye. Nelms was placed in
jail on a warrant sworn to by W.
B. Hester charging involuntary man
slaughter. He was released from
jail Monday afternoon on SSOO bail.
Hundreds of friends attended the
last rites of the two youths Monday
afternoon at the Cuba church which
was filled to capacity with scores
standing outside. Double burial serv
ices were held at the Bush cemetery
following the funeral. A profusion
of spring flowers bedecked the
graves. The Rev. C. L. Liddell, church
pastor, assisted by Rev. J. S. Davis,
pastor of Cuthbert Presbyterian
church, and Rev. Spencer B. King,
pastor of Blakely Baptist church,
conducted the funeral service. The
Minter, Fellows and Forrester Fun
eral Home was in charge of arrange
ments. Serving as pall bearers for
the Brown youth were R. C. Taylor,
C. J. Taylor, D. W. Grimes, Harry
Brown, Marion Brown. Acting pall
bearers for young Hester were Dick
Bridges, Raymond Creel, Otis White
hurst, Millard Houston, <3. L. Jester,
and Bill Creel.
Survivors include Mr. and Mrs.
Hester, parents, and Parks and Dur
ham Hester, brothers. Brown was
the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Brown, and the brother of Eugene,
Misses Hilda and Mildred Brown,
all living.