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Short Stops
Miss Ruth Smith has returned
from a two weeks’ visit to Cairo.
Visit our closing out sale. Many
bargains. THE SMART SHOP.
Mr. L. R. Thompson is at home
from New York City for a few days’
stay.
Joe Hamil, Jr., of Columbus, is
visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Clara
Butler.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Chancy have
returned from a visit to St. Augus
tine, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Mobley and
Miss Audrey Mobley spent Sunday in
Fort Gaines.
Our Closing Out Sale is now in
progress. Visit us today. THE
SMART SHOP.
Miss Carolyn Middleton has re
turned from Kingstree, S. C., for the
summer vacation.
Mrs. M. W. Carmichael, of East
Point, is a guest in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. B. B. Godwin.
Little Miss Sue Smith, of Savan
nah, is spending this week with her
aunt, Miss Ruth Smith.
Miss Mary Miles Camp is visiting
her grandmother, Mrs. Willie Ven
tress, in Clayton, Ala., this week.
C. R. Barksdale, Jr., has returned
from the Georgia Medical College,
Augusta, for the summer vacation.
Mrs. Joe Seitz and young son,
Terry, of Atlanta, are visiting Mrs.
Seitz’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
Berman.
We carry all good polishes. Let
us keep your shoes like new with
our fine shoe repairing. BLAKELY
SHOE SHOP.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Underwood and
young daughter, Betty, have return
td to Miami, after a visit here to Mrs.
R. M. Underwood.
Mrs. C. C. Freeman and children,
Virginia and Nathan, of Eufaula,
spent the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Hartley.
Mrs. C. B. Bush and son, Carl,
and Mrs. W. H. Rawls and little
daughter, Jan, of Colquitt, were
guests Tuesday of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Minter.
Alex Carswell, a member of the
U. S. Coast Guard, returned to his
base Tuesday, after a short visit
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Carswell, Sr., of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Pr Ritchie and
children, Sarah and Lonnie, of Co
lumbia, and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Clarke and son, Arthur, of Bain
bridge, wer e Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Hartley.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Grubbs and
children, Nancy and Peggy, have re
turned from a visit to Orlando, Fla.
They were accompanied home by Miss
Margaret Rose Miller, who will be
their guest for several days.
DR. 0. H. PATRICK, of Pelham,
Ga., has opened office in Blakely
in the former Peggy Ann Shop, to
test eyes and fit glasses, and will be
here one day in each week (Tues
day) and will appreciate your pat
ronage. Don’t forget the date.—
advt.
FORGET THAT
IT’S HOT ....
Why swelter in the summer heat? Install an
electric fan and forget it’s hot. We have
them, all sizes and prices, to suit every need,
including attractive pedestal fans that can
be easily moved from one room to another.
Let us help you cool your home or place of
business—at a moderate cost.
While inspecting the fans, refresh yourself
with a delightful cold drink or delicious
ice cream. Linger awhile under the
cooling fans.
♦♦♦♦♦«
Your Service Druggists for Over 28 Years
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Fleming and
son spent Sunday in Albany.
Miss Emily Anne Singletary re
turned Monday from St. Simons
Island, Ga.
See the new FRIGIDAIRE on dis
play at W. C. COOK’S. It costs less
to operate.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Johnson an
nounce the birth of a daughter, Sun
day, June 15.
Friends are glad to see Mr. C. J.
Armstrong out again after a recent
serious illness.
It costs less to operate a FRIG
IDAIRE. See them on display at
W. C. COOK’S.
Miss Cena Loback has returned
from Bessie Tift College, Forsyth, to
spend the summer vacation.
R. E. Mills, Jr.,' returned Sunday
to Georgia Tech, Atlanta, after
spending several days at home.
Mrs. B. R. Collins and Miss Annie
Nell Collins are attending summer
school at G. S. C. W., Milledgeville.
The FRIGIDAIRE is the refriger
ator with the meter-miser. This
means economical operation. W. C.
COOK.
Miss Enid Godwin has returned
home from Atlana, where she has
been visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. C.
Haynes.
Mrs. T. B. Gordon and sons,
Robert, Billy and Charles Henning,
of Oklahoma City, Okla., are guests
of Mrs. F. P. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fleischman and
young daughter, of Columbia, S. C.,
are guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Daniels.
Miss Kathryn Underwood left Sun
day for Chicago, where she will
impend nine weeks in study at the
Chicago Musical College.
Mr. and Mrs. Berton Gay and Mr.
—. —. Murphy, of Lakeland, Fla.,
were week end guests of Mrs. Gay’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Roberts.
Mrs. Hubert Farr and little son,
Glenn, returned Wednesday from
Georgetown, where they spent a
week with Mrs. Farr’s mother, who
has been ill.
Miss Carolyn Brunson has return
ed to Blakely for the summer from
Carrollton, Ga., where she is a mem
ber of the faculty of the. Carrollton
public schools.
Mrs. R. D. Norton, of Philadel
phia, is in the city on a visit to her
mother, Mrs. W. H. Alexander. Mr.
Norton, who accompanied her here,
has returned home.
Mrs. G. C. Spillers left Friday for
her home in Tulsa, Okla., after a vis
it to relatives in Early county. She
was accompanied home by five of her
nieces, Misses Montene, Mildred,
Harrier, Lizzie and Lorena Martin,
of Hilton, who will spend some time
in Tulsa.
Blakely friends will be interested
to know that Mr. W. R. Alexander,
Jr., of the West Georgia College
faculty, was recently selected by the
General Education Board as one of
50 teachers in eleven states to at
tend Furman University for a six
weeks’ course in school community
life. Ail expenses are paid by the
Rockefeller Foundation.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Miss Frances Carter, of College
Park, is visiting her sister, Mrs. F.
P. Davis.
Bring your scrap iron and have
it weighed at 30c hundred. J. W.
ALLEN.
Miss Dorothy Thomas, of Kings
tree, S. C., is a guest of Miss Carolyn
Middleton.
Miss Dot Hightower, of Damascus,
is spending several weeks in Jack
sonville, Fla.
Sergeant Harvie Thomas, of Camp
Blanding, Fla., spent the past week
end with home folks.
For fresh pure Milk, call HALL’S
DAIRY. All cows regularly tested
by State Veterinarian.
Miss Ethel Kenney is spending
several days with Mr. and Mrs. S.
A. Williams, in Dawson.
Mrs. W. B. Shepard, of Leary,
spent last week with her daughter,
Mrs. Fred Martin, at Hilton.
Mr. Arthur Johnston, of Camp
Stewart, Jr., spent the week end with
his sister, Mrs. Benett Smith.
Mr. Philip Spence left Sunday for
Atlanta, where he goes to accept a
position with the Retail Credit Co.
Mrs. Cecil Duncan left last week
for Statesboro to attend summer
school at Georgia State Teachers
College.
Mrs. R. B. Jennings and children,
Rufus and Jean, of Quitman, are
guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Beckham.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Williams, Jr.,
of Panama City, are visiting their
father, Mr. Sam Williams, who is
quite ill this week.
Miss Betty Jane Bryant and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Brooks are on a
house party at the home of Miss Ann
Maddox, at Rochelle, Ga.
Rev. C. B. Ware, pastor of the
Methodist churches of the Blakely
Circuit, has returned from a several
weeks’ stay in Colorado.
Mrs. W. R. Alexander and Miss
Eula Trippe have returned from a
visit to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Alexan
der, Jr., at Ga.
Mrs. Harold Davenport and daugh
ter, Dianne, have returned to their
home in Ozark, after a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. H. T. Williams, Mrs. Dav
enport’s parents.
Mr. George W. Mindling, meteor
ologist in charge of the section cen
ter office of the U. S. Weather Bu
reau office in Atlanta, was a visitor
to Blakely Tuesday. Mr. Mindling
was on an inspection tour and in
spected the weather and river rain
fall station in Blakely.
MISS LAURA JO PHILLIPS
BECOMES BRIDE OF
JAMES OTIS BROWN
Cuthbert, Ga.—Of wide interest
throughout the state is the announce
ment by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clif
ford Phillips of the marriage of their
younger daughter, Miss Laura Jo
Phillips, to James Otis Brown, of
Blakely and Macon. The marriage
of this popular young couple took
place at a quiet ceremony in the
home of the bride’s parents Thurs
day evening, June 5.
Mrs. Brown is a representative of
prominent and pioneer families. Her
mother was, before her marriage,
Miss Crooks West, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robert
West. The bride’s paternal grand
parents were the late Reverend and
Mrs. John Phillips. Mrs. Brown is the
sister of Miss Amelia Phillips and
E. C. Phillips, Jr. of Gainesville, Fla.
The bride received her early ed
ucation at Cuthbert high school,
from which she was graduated in
1936 as an honor student. She at
tended Andrew College, where she
was an active member of the student
body. She was a member of Chi
Delta Phi, national honorary literary
society, a cheer leader, and pianist
in the college symphony orchestra.
She was graduated “cum laude” in
1938. Mrs. Brown completed her ed
ucation at the University of Geor
gia, where she received her A. B. de
gree last May. She was a popular
member of Delta Delta Delta so
rority. For the past year she has
been a member of the faculty of
Cochran High School as teacher of
the social sciences.
Mr. Brown, the groom, is the son
of Mrs. John Cicero Brown and the
late Mr. Brown of Macon, and is a
representative of noted families.
His maternal grandparents were the
late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Benjamin
Moore, of Sandersville. His paternal
grandparents were the late Mr. and
Mrs. William Brown, of Warthen.
Mr. Brown is the brother of Mrs. J.
H. Covington, of Reidsville, and Ir
vin R. Brown, of Madison.
Mr. Brown received his early ed
ucation at Millen high school and in
1935 was graduated from Gordon
Military College, where he was cap
tain of the football team. He has
been associated with the State High
way Department for the past six
years and at present is the Assistant
Resident Engineer in Blakely.
Following a wedding trip to Jack
sonville, St. Augustine, and other
points in Florida, the young couple
returned to Blakely and are now
residing on North Main street.
Mr. Bernard Daniels has returned
to Dalton, after a visit to his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Daniel.
Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Alexander and
young daughter, Annette, are spend
ing several days in the city with
Mrs. W. H. Alexander.
Mr. Luther Williams, Miss Kath
erine Knight and Mrs. Emmett Ted
der, of Jacksonville, Fla., visited Mr.
and Mrs. Ledger Knight over the
week end.
Misses Betty Jo Daniels and Miss
Mildred Daniels, who have been at
tending school in Columbia, S. C.,
and Richmond, Va., respectively, are
at home for the summer vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Rhodes and
Miss Alyce Rhodes spent the week
end in Montgomery, going there to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Rhodes’
brother-in-law, Mr. Arthur Walker,
who died Friday and was buried Sat
urday afternoon.
Among those receiving diplomas
from the Norwood Hospital Training
School for Nurses in Birmingham on
May 8 was Miss Mabel Weaver, who
is a daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Weaver of this county.
She has accepted a position begin
ning September 1 with the Pine
Mountain School Hospital, Pine
Mountain, Ky. Miss Weaver’s young
er sister, Miss Jewell Weaver, also
received her diploma from the Pine
Mountain high school, where she
won a scholarship to the business
school in Bowling Green, and will
attend that school the coming year.
MISS CAROLYN FRYER
BECOMES BRIDE OF DR.
DEAN KEELAND CRYSTAL
(Rome News-Tribune)
The First Methodist church pre
sented a beautiful scene at noon
Saturday, June 7, when Miss Carolyn
Fryer, only daughter of Edward L.
Fryer and the late Mrs. Mayme Bin
ion Fryer, and Dr. Dean Keeland
Crystal, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Crystal, of Cle Elum, Wash., were
married. The Rev. George Acree of
ficiated, reading a ring marriage
ceremony.
Candles mounted on white pedes
tal candelabra entwined with bright
green smilax featured the simple ef
fective decorations around the chan
cel. Festoons of smilax, adorned
with nanels between windows and
back of the altar the solid mass of
greenery was studded with Formosa
lilies and white gladioli. The white
lilies and gladioli tied with white
satin streamers marked pews for the
families and guests invited to the
breakfast which the bride’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Fryer, gave
following the ceremony. Palmetto
palms were used around the choir
loft and candles outlined the choir
rail. Bouquets of lilies and palms
were placed high at either side of
the organ.
Mrs. William 0. Tarpley, church
organist, prior to the ceremony, g-ave
a program of music. The tradition
al wedding march was played as
the processional and for the wedding
party to leave the church.
Mrs. Carl DeVaughn, of Montezu
ma, sang, “O! Fair, 0! Sweet, O!
Holy,” and a wedding hymn, “A
Voice That Breathed O’er Eden.”
Ushers were George B. Byrd, Ed
ward L. Fryer, 111, only brother of
the bride, Victor Yeargan and Dr.
William P. Harbin, Jr. They came
down the two central church aisles
in pairs.
The bride was preceded by her on
ly attendant, Miss Frances Faith, of
Baltimore. The maid of honor, Miss
Faith, wore a gown of white eyelet
embroidery and white organdie. The
bodice had the long waisted line and
was closely fitted. She wore a
bride’s maid hat of delphinium blue,
blue mesh mitts and blue slippers
and carried a cascade bouquet of
Belladonna delphinium.
The bride came down a central
church aisle with her father, who
gave her in marriage, as the bride
groom and his best man, Dr. Paul
Schnieder, of Baltimore, stood be
fore the chancel.
The bride, a handsome, imposing
type, with Titian coloring, wore a
simple wedding gown of white organ
die and white eyelet embroidery.
The model had the sweetheart neck
line, fitted bodice and very full
skirt with long train. She wore the
tulle veil back on her reddish gold
hair and it was finger length. She
wore a single strand of small pearls
and carried gardenias showered with
swansonia.
The men attendants wore white lin
en suits, black ties and white shoes.
The groom was similarly attired.
Immediately following the cere
mony Mr. and Mrs. Fryer gave a
breakfast in the blue and silver room
at hotel Greystone for their daugh
ter and her husband.
Receiving with the hosts were the
bridal couple and their attendants
and Mrs. R. R. Crystal, of Cle Elum,
Wash., mother of Dr. Crystal.
Mrs. Fryer wore a simple morn
ing dress of white Capacabana crepe
and her hat was a large picture mod
el of white straw. She wore a single
gardenia at the neckline of her gown.
Mrs. Crystal’s dress was of lace in
a forget-me-not blue shade with
which she wore a leghorn hat. Her
bouquet, worn on the shoulder, was
fashioned of gardenias.
Dr. and Mrs. Crystal left by mo
tor for a western trip and will even
tually go to Cle Elum to spend two
months with his parents. September
1 they will go to Boston to make
their home. Dr. Crystal will be in
the surgical service department of
the Massachusetts General Hospital.
SOME HAPPENINGS IN BLAKELY
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
Clippings from the Early County News of
June 15, 1916
FENCING the fair grounds goes
merrily on and it begins to look like
that the fair is a sure go.
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MESSRS. A. J. Hammack, L. C.
Hobbs, Dick Neeves and Paul Bost
wick spent last Sunday* at Panama
City. Mr. Hammack went down to
make arrangements for a cottage for
his family.
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MR. AND MRS. R. L. Howell and
Master Tom Howell have returned
from a pleasant visit to St. Andrew,
Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Howell
of Jakin, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Howell were also of their party at
St. Andrew.
• * *
MR. PERRY ALEXANDER left
Monday morning to resume his stud
ies at Locust Grove.
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MESSRS. A. J. Singleary, C. S.
Middleton. W. G. Park and J. C.
Loyless went to Georgetown and
Cuthbert Monday to appear before
Judge Worrill in the matter of the
private sale of the Blakely Oil and
Fertilizer Company’s plant in Blake
ly. The Empire Oil Company, of
Atlanta, bought the property at a
price of $20,000.
®2!*bA, s _
Winners of Two Free Games
This Week Are:
Thursday: Mrs. Julius Beckham.
Friday: Mrs. Sarah Brown.
Saturday: C. H. Loback.
Monday: “Bo” Collins.
Tuesday: Miss Mary X. Brown.
Wednesday: Miss Lucy Maddox.
IDLE HOUR CLUB
WEEKEND!
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'A? Wisconsin Cheese, 'W ? j
> lb. 25c >
American Cheese,
| lb. pkg29c |
W 2-lb. pkg.sßc jw
I Wk Velveta Old English -w i
& %-lb. pkg. 18c
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5 lbs. Grits 17c
4 lbs. Blue Rose Rice23c
Gallon can Cooking 0i151.09
Best White Meat, 1b.15c
Water Ground Meal, peck2sc
Staley’s Starch 4 for 15c
2 lbs. Soda Crackers •. 15c
Best Green Coffee 5 lbs. 55c
No. 2y 2 size can Pork & Beans 3 for 25c
Sugar—s lbs. 30c; 10 lbs. 59c; 25 lbs. $1.45
45 lbs. Pure Lards4.Bs
MY ROSE FLOUR
12 lbs. _. 38c—24 1b5.... 70c—48 1b5.... $1.35
BRYANT TURNER
Spot Cash to All One Low Price to All
MR. AND MRS. W. O. Bryant, of
Homestead, Fla., accompanied by
their uncle, Mr. T. J. Bryant, came
up last week to spend some time
with the Georgia home folks.
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MR. AND MRS. Lewis B. Fryer’s
new residence on Arlington street is
nearing completion. It is commo
dious and will be equipped with mod
ern conveniences.
• * •
THE Blakely Methodist church has
been overhauled and will be like a
new church to receive the delegates
to the District Conference that will
convene in our city next Monday.
CAKE WALK AT LEGION HALL
The Blakely Chapter Order of the
Eastern Star will sponsor a cake
walk at the Legion Hall Friday night,
June 20, beginning at 8 o’clock. The
public is invited.
Anamnai k ill Aphids
11 'Bedbugs
Grab Lice
FOR W 7B r Potato Bugs
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BUST ON ONE SPOT • Aik for (too Dog Booklot.
FRYER’S PHARMACY,
BLAKELY, GA.
LIVE STOCK
AUCTION SALE
no* v
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TUESDAY
2:00 P. M.
FARMERS STOCK
YARD, Inc.
ARLINGTON, GA.