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Bonded Warehouse ♦ • T ooooooooooooooooeeoeeooooooooo *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦***♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« ****************************** a ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••■••••••••••••••••••a PHONE 182 A - .. 1.-.-u -local Happenings GOVERNMENT ORDER NOT TO AFFECT LOCAL HOSIERY MILL— The naw government order closing all silk manufacturing plants will not affect the local Georgia Hosiery Mill, J. Melvin Middleton said this week. The mill will continue to run as per schedule unless the govern ment places a restriction on rayon, he said. • • • MISS McGRADY ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER AT FIRST STATE BANK— Miss Wilda McGrady has been electei assistant bookkeeper of the First State Bank and has already assumed her duties, it was an nounced this week. She is a sister of Mrs. Hubert Gilbert, the former Miss Hazel McGrady, secretary to Sheriff Clarence E. Martin. SERVICE = We cordially invite you to let us serve you in any way we can. There are many ways in which we can do so and we believe you will find this to betrue. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL TO SEE US Bank of Early BLAKELY, GEORGIA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All Deposits Insured up to $5,000 (By Wellborn H. Fleming) EDGAR KELLY IS NOW ATTORNEY KELLY— Friends of Mr. Edgar Kelly will be pleased to learn that- he was admited as a member of the local bar last week before Judge C. W. Worrill. Attorney Kelly successfully passed his bar examination on June 25 and was admitted to practice during court last week. Mr. Kelly is one of several “home grown” lawyers Early county has produced. • • • T. S. CHANDLER APPOINTED FOOD INSPECTOR— T. S. Chandler, formerly in charge of the State Farmers Market in Pel ham, has been appointed food in spector for 12 southwest Georgia counties, with Blakely as headquar ters. Mr. Chandler has already be gun the duties of his new position. EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA WAYNE LINDSEY RESIGNS AS ASST. FIRE CHIEF— Wayne Lindsey, who for the past seven months has served as assistant fire chief, resigned Tuesday night and Emmett Peterson was elected by the city council to fill this va cancy. Mr. Lindsey resigned to ac cept a position with a hardware com pany in Sylvester. The City Council also confirmed Tuesday’s election and declared C. E. Boyett and Oscar Whitchard elected to the council. • • • JAMES WHITE ELECTED REPORTER OF GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF FFA— At the annual convention of the Georgia F. F. A. Chapters, James white was elected as a state officer for the coming year. James receiv ed his Georgia Planter’s degree along with Mack Jarrett, Thomas Hatcher, and Joel McDowell this year. He will serve as the President of the Blakely Chapter for 1941-42. Mem bers of the Blakely F.F.A. Chapter are very proud to have one of its members so honored by being a state officer. James served as Reporter of the Blakely Chapter for two years. Last year he won 4th place in the State Reporter contest and is enter ing again this year. Being elected as State Reporter is a high honor for James and his chapter. • • • MR. LANGFORD SENDS US FINE WATERMELON— In spite of the prolonged drouth of a few weeks ago, there have been many fine watermelons produced this year in Early county. It was the good fortune of The News to re ceive one of these the past week— a treat from Mr. A. E. Lang ford—which was one of the finest specimens we have seen this season. • • • MAIL CARRIERS OFFER TO PICK UP ALUMINUM— The rural mail carriers of the Blakely postoffice have volunteered their services in the scrap aluminum drive and will pring to the city any of this vital national defense mate- I rial •which their patrons contribute. Rural residents thus have a method l of doing their bit in the national drive for scrap aluminum. THE PASSING OF A FRIEND One evening last week, Wednes day the 23rd, the following message found me .... “Tom Me passed away suddenly. . .Services Friday morning 10:30.” It was the saddest announcement, save one. my heart has ever known. I have before me now the faithful message that formed each word of that sad announcement. Through the years that shall ibe left me—be they few or many—the memory of that sad hour will not grow dim with the passing. It is given to but few men to love each other as did this man and me. We were bound together by indis soluble bonds of affection. A few years ago we made a “covenant” with each other, that which ever one died first, the other was to preach his funeral ... I was in the shadow of that day when we made the coven ant, as I stood before that vast gath ering last Friday and fulfilled my promise to him. . . I seemed to have in my hand that message that flash ed the crushing news to my bursting heart as I attempted to preach. The last time I had seen him, he was in health. We drove out near his farm, he stopped his car near the roadside, I where we sat for nearly an hour and I talked of the past and the present. He said to me: “You will never know how much you have meant to me—your good letters have strength ened me so much.” Brethren, I count it a gracious benediction to have been this man’s pastor, and to have had his friend ship. It is granted to but few preach i ers to have been so loved. T. B. McDowell is no more among I the living. But it will be a long ! time before he is forgotten. This i life—.this human life—in its varied influence for good or ill, does not end at death. There leaps forth from i silent grave yards potentialities that mould a world. The pale, cold lips lof my dear friend, that can never speak to me again in cherished words, speaks yet from out their pallid silence so loudly that Niagara could i not dull the sound. They speak in I language that our hearts can feel ! and understand, and with emphasis ■ that no intervening years shall ever ■ take away. Soon I too will be gone, and some that see me often—some that I love | —will see my face no more. As I [write these words I pray with all my heart that I may go as peacefully as did my dear friend. I want to leave behind no heart to whom I owe a debt of love and duty that I have not paid. To the end that this may be, I declare a general amnesty now to all who ever did me a wrong. I do, from my heart, forgive them all. And if they meditate yet other cruel wrongs, I pardon them in ad vance, and pray for their forgive ness. And for every wrong I ever did a soul for whom Christ died, I ask forgiveness now, while I am well and strong, because it will be too late if I am overtaken as was my brother —in the flash of an eye. I know that he would rejoice to know that I had settled all earthly accounts. F. G. COCKS, D. D., Former Pastor, Blakely Baptist Church. Tampa, Fla. FOR RENT— Three room apart ment at Morse home. No children. Settled couple preferred. See MRS. R. L. RICHARDSON. Do You Want to Be on a Radio Program? Here’s your chance. A real radio show right in Blakely. Everybody is invited to participate in the WSB Salute to Early County (Originating in Blakely) Thursday, August 21 If you wish to have a part in this great pro gram, attend the Big Show. Any one who can sing, play an instrument, entertain in any way, is invited to contact Editor Fleming of the Early County News or the following com mittee in charge of arrangements: B. R. B. Davis, Earl ‘Tige’ Pickle, C. Bradley Bridges, Mrs. Robinson McLendon, Mrs. C. G. Brewer, Mrs. Ben Haisten. WOMAN’S CLUB TO MEET FRIDAY AT 4:00 O’CLOCK The Blakely Woman’s Club will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at the club house at 4 o’clock, Mrs. Robin son McLendon, president, has an nounced. FOR SALE— Ducks, all sizes and ages. Sixty or more. MRS. W. G. JONES. FOR SALE The lot, with two tenant houses thereon, fronting on North avenue, and to the rear of lot formerly occupied by Mrs. Kate Brooks. A. H. GRAY.