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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI > NO, 45
JULY 1 DATE FOR
SECOND MILITARY
REGISTRATION
MEN REACHING 21ST BIRTHDAY
SINCE OCT. 16, 1940, MUST
REGISTER ON THAT DAY
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation setting aside Tuesday,
July 1, as second registration day
—at which time “every male citizen
of the United States, and every male
alien residing in the continental
United States or in the Territory of
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Terri
tory of Alaska (other than persons
excepted by section s(a) of the Se
lective Training and Service Act of
1940 or by sectiop 208 of the Coast
Guard Auxiliary Reserve Act of
1941) is required to and shall on
July 1, 1941, present himself for and
submit to registration before a duly
designated registration official or
selective service board having juris
diction in the area in which he has
his permanent home or in which he
may happen to be on that day if—
“(1) Such person on or before
July 1, 1941, and subsequent to Oc
tober 16, 1940, has attained the
twenty-first anniversary of the day
of his birth, and has not heretofore
been registered under the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1940.
“(2) Such person on October 16,
1940, had attained the twenty-first
anniversary of the day of his birth,
and had not attained the thirty-sixth
anniversary of the day of his birth,
and has not heretofore been regis
tered under the Selective Training
and Service Act of 1940: Provided,
That the duty of any person to pre
sent himself for and submit to reg
istration in accordance with any pre
vious proclamation issued under the
said Act shall not be affected by
this proclamation.”
Sid W. Howell, clerk of the local
selective service board, announced
yesterday that Early countians who
must register on July 1 will db so at
the board’s office in the courthouse.
The office will be open from 7 a. m.
to 6 p. m.
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ANOTHER NEW SERVICE AT WEAVER’S
Truck Delivery In Our Grocery Department
Effective immediately we will operate in addition to our
regular battery of bicycle delivery units a truck for the de
livery of groceries from Weaver’s Food Market.
We inaugurate this new service in an effort to speed up
deliveries to our good customers. If you will call us a few
minutes before you anticipate the arrival of your groceries
we will strive to have them at your residence in a jiffy.
May we ask your cooperation in phoning in your orders
as early as possible in the morning and for the evening
meal, or better still, visit our store and shop for yourself.
We are always pleased to serve you, and hope this
service will please you.
Watch for the Black & White Delivery Truck
Weaver’s Food Market
(A Division of T. K. Weaver & Company)
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
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Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
MISS HAZEL
MIDDLETON DIED
LAST FRIDAY
Miss Hazel Middleton, 33, daugh
ter of Dr. and Mrs. C. S. Middleton,
died in a Dothan hospital at 8 o’clock
last Friday morning. She had under
gone an appendix operation on Tues
day night previously and her condi
tion was at first considered favorable
for recovery, but complications which
followed resulted in her death.
Funeral services were held at the
family home Saturday afternoon,
with the Revs. S. B. King and E. M.
Overby officiating. Interment fol
lowed in the city cemetery, with the
Minter, Fellows & Forrester Funeral
Home in charge. Serving as pall
bearers were her six brothers, Cur
tis L., Max, Harvey, Harold, Melvin
and Ralph Middleton, and two broth
ers-in-law, W. H. Fleming and C. H.
Lob ack.
A large number of friends attend
ed the last rites and the floral of
ferings were both profuse and beau
tiful.
Surviving are her parents; one sis
ter, Mrs. C. H. Loiback, of this city;
and six brothers, Curtis L., Max,
Harvey J., Melvin and Ralph Middle
ton, all of Blakely, and Harold Mid
dleton, of Kingstree, S. C. These
have the sympathy of many friends
in the loss of their loved one.
FINAL NOTICE TO
SPECIAL TAX PAYERS
This is my final appeal to the peo
ple of Early county who are required
to register on the special license rec
ord of Early county. All who fail
to register will give their excuses to
the July term of the grand jury.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
SINGING SCHOOL
AT COLOMOKEE
Beginning June 23 there will be a
singing school at the Colomokee
church lasting for two weeks, it has
been announced. Professor Harbin
will be in charge. People of Colo
mokee and surrounding communities
are invited to attend.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1941.
LOCAL ROTARIANS
ENTERTAIN THE
CUTHERT CLUB
ABE CONGER, OF BAINBRIDGE,
GUEST SPEAKER AT FRIDAY
NIGHT’S BANQUET
Abe Conger, prominent South
Georgia attorney, of Bainbridge,
gave a brilliant and forceful ad
dress before a joint meeting of the
Blakely and Cuthbert Rotary club
members and their wives here Fri
day night, when the Blakely club
played host to the Cuthbert Rota
rians, the climax of an attendance
contest which began several months
ago. The Blakely Rotarians lost to
the Cuthbert club in attendance by
less than one per cent.
President J. W. Bonner, of the
Blakely club, presided and intro
duced Cuthbert club members and
their wives who were present.
Mr. Conger’s talk dealt with the
present war and economic conditions
which now exist throughout the uni
verse. He deplored the dictators of
Germany and Italy who seek to
“enslave the world,” and the labor
strikers who seek to hamper the
American defense program.
' “We are today facing a world
condition beyond the grasp of con
ception of the human mind; momen
tous changes in rapid succession fol
low each other across the face of
the earth, in a world, in which at
least in four continents the powers
of tyranny and oppression are array
ed against the forces of reason and
justice, in a titanic struggle that de
termines which type of civilization,
if any, is to survive,” Mr. Conger
said. “Before our eyes and in our
generation perhaps the most mo
mentous period of the world’s history
is taking place.”
Mr. Conger reviewed the efforts of
the dictator countries to amass the
largest armies and argosies of war
planes and machines, and said: “Civ
ilized nations are challenged either
to submit to a single master who di
rects these engines of death and de
struction or to suffer being overrun,
conquered, subjugated and enslaved.”
Mr. Conger briefly outlined the
war’s progress u<p to date and named
the countries conquered by the
Nazi hordes. He continued, “if these
things have happened to weak coun
tries, will they not happen to any
other nation except for the armed
might of other nations to resist the
wave of aggression and conquest?
Does anyone doubt that England, if
conquered, will be subjected to an
even more tragic fate than Belgium,
France and the other nations
already conquered? If England
should fall and her navy should be
captured legions of armies and
navies and the swarming vul
tures of the air, . under the
direction of Hitler and Mussoli
ni, would no doubt, as soon as they
should feel strong enough, attack
the Western World, to incorporate
us into the New World Order and
imprison our institutions and econo
my—making our pattern neither
longer nor shorter than the pattern
which their tyranny might prescribe.
“These things face America today.
They face the whole of the Western
Hemisphere today. They face the
whole civilized world today. The
United States must let the world
know, and must let Hitler and Musso
lini and all of the Axis alliance of
greed and cruelty and military
and naval power, and all the Axis
compact of aggression and mastery,
know just where America stands and
just what America purposes to do.”
(Continued on page 2)
BOARD WANTS TO
LEARN ADDRESS OF
MISSING REGISTRANTS
The local selective service board
is desirous of learning the present
address of the following Early
county registrants whose question
naires have been returned to the
board unclaimed. Any information
as to the whereabouts of these men
will be appreciated by the board.
Names and addresses given at time
of registration are: J. B. Jackson,
Rt. 2, Blakely. Ga.; James Edmond
McDaniel, Rt. 3, Blakely, Ga.; Leo
Love, Cordy st., 23rd ave., Liberia,
Fla.; Willie Adams, Rt. 2, Blakely,
Ga.; Jacob Bush, Rt. 2, Blakely, Ga.;
Solomon B. Hutchins, Rt. 2, Blakely,
Ga.; Cyril Alexander Hodges, care
O. W. Holmes, Marshall, Texas; John
Henry Gilliard, care Ray Sanders,
Blakely, Ga.; John G. Franklin, Rt.
2, Blakely. Ga.; Artha Johnson, Rt.
2, Arlington, Ga.; Johnnie Dawkins,
Rt. 1, Blakely, Ga.; R. W. Hutchins,
Rt. 1, Blakely, Ga.; Jessie Foster,
Rt. 5, Blakely, Ga.; John C. Bivens,
Arlington, Ga.; James Warren, Rt.
3, Blakely, Ga.; Johnnie Lee John
son, Rt. 1, Georgetown, Ga.; Sam
Cary, Sumner, Fla.; Jewell Lee
Jones, care Clark Mosely, Jakin, Ga.;
Odel Knight, Rt. 2, Blakely, Ga.;
Lewis Jackson, Bay street, Blakely,
Ga.; C. W. Gilbert, Rt. 2, Box 118,
Damascus, Ga.; Beirt Lee, Blakely,
Ga.; Enoch Jones Barnes, Rt. 1,
Blakely, Ga.; Hubert Adams, General
Delivery, Belle Glade, Fla.; Sam
Amerson, Blakely, Ga.
MRS. SARAH M.
SAVAGE PASSES AT
DONALSONVILLE
FUNERAL SERVICE AND INTER
MENT HERE ON FRIDAY
AFTERNOON
Succumbing to a heart attack, Mrs.
Sarah McDowell Savage, 75, died
suddenly at Donalsonville last Thurs
day morning at 11 o’clock. News of
her death came as a shock to rela
tives and friends here where she was
born and reared and had spent the
greater part of her life. She had
only a few months ago gone to Donal
sonville to make her home.
Mrs. Savage’s body was brought
to Blakely to the home of her broth
er, Mr. T. B. McDowell, where fun
eral services were held Friday after
noon at four o’clock. Officiating
were the Revs. Spencer B. King and
E. M. Overby, of Blakely, and John
S. Lough, pastor of the Donalsonville
Methodist church. Interment follow
ed in the city cemetery with the
Minter, Fellows & Forrester Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Pall-bearers were: active, J. Ed
Chaney, John L. Underwood, C. E.
Boyett, S. W. Howell, S. G. Maddox,
R. C. Singletary, A. D. Harriss and
W. C. Cook; honorary, J. H. Moye,
A. H. Gray, R. O. Waters, G. M.
Sparks, C. R. Barksdale, C. L. Tabib
and W. C. Cox.
A large number of friends attend
ed the funeral services, and many
beautiful floral offerings were in evi
dence—a tribute of love and esteem
from sorrowing friends.
Mrs. Savage was a daughter of
William A. and Amelia Howard Mc-
Dowell, pioneer Early countians, and
was born in 1865, hence was in her
76th year. She was a lady of cul
ture and refinement and was a mem
ber of the Methodist church. Her
passing occasioned widespread sor
row.
Surviving are two brothers, Thom
as B. McDowell, of Blakely, and Dud
ley H. McDowell, of Washington,
D. C.
FOURTEEN EARLY
COUNTIANS CALLED FOR
MILITARY SERVICE
Fourteen Early county registrants
have been called to report for mili
tary service, it was announced yes
terday by S. W. Howell, clerk of the
local selective service board.
Eight of these, all colored, will
report next Thursday, June 26.
They are: C. B. Bell, Fred Jackson,
Curtis Daniel, Wilson Ford, George
R. Brown. Sanders Ryals, Rayfield
Williams and Johnnie B. Williams.
Serving as replacements should any
of these fail to be inducted into
service are Sanford Powell, John
Wesley Holmes and Leonard Jones,
Jr.
On Friday, June 27, six young
white registrants will report. They
are: John Corley, Alton Burkett,
Woodie McKnight, J. P. Kelly, Beron
Oakley Hodges and Robert Dorsey
Sellers. Their replacements are John
Wilkerson Lay, William David Fer
guson and Russell Drewy Hanks.
Both groups will be sent to Fort
McPherson.
EVERYONE URGED TO BE
READY TO DO PART IN
DEFENSE PROGRAM
O. R. Brooks, captain of the local
unit of the Home Defense Corps,
this week urged all citizens of Blake
ly and Early county to be ready to
do their part in the Civilian Defense
program recently outlined by newly
appointed. co-ordinator, Mayor La-
Guardia of New York. Mr. Brooks’
statement follows:
“To the Citizens of Early County:
“You all know that the President
has declared a state of unlimited
National Emergency to exist, and
that a co-ordinator of Civilian Na
tional Defense has been appointed
by the President in the person of
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New York.
“This is to advise you that the
Civilian Defense will be of such a
comprehensive nature that there
will be a post to fill and duties to as
sume by every able-bodied citizen in
the nation. All the people of Early
county love this country and I am
quite sure that every citizen will
gladly volunteer his services when
called upon to do so.
“In a short time now we will be
gin to organize this county on a
defense basis and will be calling up
on people in every district to take
their place in the program.
“O. R. BROOKS.”
MEETING OF
LIONS CLUB
HELD TUESDAY
The meeting of the Blakely Lions
Club, held at the Early Hotel Tues
day at noon, was given over mainly
to business. R. F. Burch, former
State Commissioner of Natural Re
sources, was a guest of Lion Sid
Howell, and spoke briefly on the
Kolomoki Park project, which he
was largely instrumental in obtain
ing for Early county. Mrs. Burch
was also a guest of the club, as
was Assistant County Agent H. B.
Fulmer.
Lion “Tige” Pickle presided in
the absence of President Philip Shef
field. Mrs. Ben Haisten and Miss
Jane Haisten presented a delightful
program of music on the piano and
solovox.
Blakely F. F. A. News
Members of the chapter and Mr.
Cheek left last Monday morning,
June 16, for Long Beach, Panama
City, Fla. All members made the
trip with the exception of a few who
were working. They will return
Thursday (today). Among the pleas
ures that they will enjoy are swim
ming, deep sea fishing, boat riding,
as well as taking in the city. Each
boy carried an adequate supply of
food to last through his return home.
Cottages were rented on the water
front in which they are staying. The
group left on a trailer truck belong
ing to Mr. S. G. Maddox. Each mem
ber of the chapter and every person
connected with it wishes to express
his sincere appreciation for the un
hesitant cooperation shown by Mr.
Maddox.
Thirty-five baby chick brooders
were completed by the agriculture
students before the close of the past
school term. They were built for the
government farms of this section.
However, a large number of brooders
were completed for the boys and local
citizens. This was some of the most
important shopwork done by the ag
riculture students this year.
Most of the members are striving
for an early start with their beef
calf projects this year, thus result
ing in a better chance in the com
petition in the various shows next
year. Among those who have already
purchased calves are Sidney Strick
land, Wilson Fryer, and Leonard
White. Other members are still pur
chasing beef calves.
—REPORTER.
Us
You Could Lead the Band—
With the Proper Training
Is lack of training keeping you from the profession or job
you have always dreamed of? There are many schools
to instruct you along whatever lines you wish, A per
sonal loan from us can pay your tuition. You take time
to pay while you learn to earn more!
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
ONLY 12 DAYS
REMAIN TO SECURE
DRIVERS LICENSE
COMMISSIONER GOODWIN SAYS
NO EXTENSION OF TIME
WILL BE GRANTED
Commissioner John E. Goodwin, of
the Department of Public Safety,
called attention to the fact that there
are only 12 more days in which to
secure Driver’s License.
In a statement today Major Good
win pointed out that a great many
people seem to think that the Family
Driver’s License is all one license,
however, this is a mistake, as there
will be no difference in the number
of a person’s license—each person
holding the same Driver’s License
number held in former years. The
Family Driver’s License Law only
changes the price of the wife’s and
children’s license.
Major Goodwin further states there
WILL BE NO GRACE GIVEN
AFTER JUNE 30TH, and that road
checks on automobiles would not be
made until after that date, giving
everyone a chance to get their
license.
LOCAL MEMBERS OF
EASTERN STAR ATTEND
GRAND CHAPTER MEET
Mrs. Mary Lee Martindale, Mrs.
Ollin Goocher and Mrs. W. P. Smith
represented Blakely Chapter No. 282
at the annual convocation of the
Grand Chapter of Georgia, Order of
Eastern Star, in Macon last week.
They report a most successful meet
ing. Crape Myrtle Chapter of Al
bany put on the special degree work
in a splendid manner. The new
Grand Matron is Mrs. Louise Carter,
of Savannah.
CORRECTED LIST OF
REGISTRANTS LEAVING
FOR YEAR’S TRAINING
The News was in error last week
in listing the names of the regis
trants who were to report that day
for a year’s military training.
A correct list of the names of
those who left last Thursday for Fort
McPherson is: Wade Leon Jarrett,
Harold William Rizer, C. B. Rizer, J.
Frank Gilbert, Jr., Boib Ridley Hous
ton and Homer Leslie Prince.