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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
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VOLUME LXXXI > NO. 8
MRS. H. J. COSBY
SUCCUMBS TO
LONG ILLNESS
Mrs. Ida Corine Lumley Cosby,
wife of Mr. Henry J. Cosby, died at
her home in the Lucile community
Sunday morning at 6:25 o’clock.
She had been ill for several weeks.
Mrs. Cosby, who was a native of
Randolph county, was 62 years of
age, having been born on November
19, 1878. She had been a resident
of this county for forty years, and
during this time had made many
friends to whom the news of her
death brought profound sorrow. She
was a member of the Lucile Baptist
church.
Funeral services were held Mon
day morning at 11 o’clock, with the
Rev. W. T. Wiley officiating. Inter
ment was in the Blakely cemetery,
with Minter, Fellows & Forrester
Funeral Home in charge. Serving
as pall-bearers were: Active, Clifford
Cosby and George Coaby, her sons,
William Hoover and Robert Hoover,
grandsons, and Charlie Tison and
Willie J. Hay, nephews; honorary,
Sid Howell, C. P. Gay, Thurman
Rabon, Emory Houston, Leonard
Houston, L. E. Harbin, J. A. Mer
cer and J. H. Maitin.
Survivors include her husband;
two daughters, Mrs. Brink Hoover
and Miss Gladys Coslby, of Blakely;
three sons, Clifford, George and Joe
C. Cosiby, of Blakely; and four sis
ters, Mrs. G. E. Tison of Abbeville,
Ala., Mrs. J. C. DeVane of Ashford,
Ala., Mrs. E. D. Hay and Mrs. W. C.
Hay of Blakely. Seven grandchil
dren also survive.
LIBRARY NOTICE
The Early County Library, a WPA
project, will be open from 12:30 to
5:30 p. m., in order that the school
children may get books during their
lunch hour.
VAltlEs'
RlCE—Water-Maid, 3-lb. sealed pkg.... 23c
ARMOUR’S TREET—Reg. 35c value .... 31c
BLACK-EYE PEAS—Dried 2 lb». 13c
MARSHMALLOWS—I4-oz. pkg 14c
PEANUT BUTTER —Quart jar 25c
MACKEREL—TaII can 12c
ENGLISH PEAS—Argo, small can.. 2 for 29c
DOG FOOD—I-lb. can 5c
TOILET TISSUE—IOOO sheet 6 rolls 25c
MAYONNAISE —Blue Plate, pint jar 29c
TABLE SALT or MATCHES 3 for 10c
CORN FLAKES—Kellogg’s 2 for 13c
POTTED MEAT—Sc cans 3 for 12c
WHITE MEAT—Best grade, lb 17c
PINK SALMON—TaII can 20c
GRITS —Aunt Jemima 2 pkgs. 15c
POTATOES—No. 1 Tablelo lbs. 25c
.... QUALITY MEATS ....
STEAK—Rib or Chack, lb. 30c
SAUSAGE —Mixed Pan, lb. 20c
WEINERS—Lb. -20 c
SAUSAGE —Good Smoked, lb. 20c
BACON—Smoked, sliced, lb. 20c
BACON—Sliced, sugar-cured, lb. 25c
PORK ROAST—Lb. 25c
FRESH AND SALT FISH
-WEAVERS-
CASH & AAARKET &
ARRY ■Y* GROCERY
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EARLY COUNTY
RED CROSS ROLL
CALL IS PLANNED
Officers and workers of Early
County’s Red Cross chapter met last
Thursday at the home of Mrs. C. L.
Glessner to map plans for the annual
Roll Call which will begin during the
week of November 11, Mrs. R. C.
Singletary, Sr., chairman, announced.
Francis P. Simmerville, Red Cross
field worker, was present at the
meeting to assist in the plans for the
annual drive. Others present were
Mrs. C. L. Glessner, co-chairman,
Earl Pickle, publicity chairman, Mrs.
W. R. McKinney, home service chair
man, and Mrs. E. P. Whitehead. Not
present at the meeting was Mrs. J.
A. Hammack, who has been named
Roll Call Chairman by Mrs. R. C.
Singletary.
8,590 BALES COTTON
GINNED IN EARLY
PRIOR TO SEPT. 16
Mr. W. R. Pullen, special agent for
the Department of Commerce, an
nounced this week that up to Septem
ber 16, 8,590 bales of cotton had
been ginned iij Early county from
the 1941 crop as compared with
6,626 bales ginned to the same date
in 1940. The larger ginning figure
this year indicates an earlier crop.
DELINQUENT TAX
PAYERS TAKE NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that after
October 15th levy will be made and
property advertised for sale for all
delinquent taxes due the City of
Blakely. You can save additional
expenses by paying your delinquent
taxes now.
By order of Mayor and Council.
C. C. LANE, Clerk and Treas.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBBER 2, 1941.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
Mayor Singletary and County
Commissioner Fort Endorse
Navy Enlistment Campaign
Mayor R. C. Singletary of the City of Blakely and Chairman H. C.
Fort of the Early County Board of Commissioners this week gave their
endorsement to the U. S. Navy’s campaign for enlistments in this branch
of the military service, and pledged their assistance to the Early County
News in its efforts to interest Early county young men between the
ages of 17 and 31 in “joining up.” The many advantages the Navy offers
to young men are outlined in a booklet which The News has for free
distribution to young men signing and bringing or mailing to this office
the coupon attached to the advertisement on page five of this issue.
The letters of endorsement from Mayor Singletary and Commis
sioner Fort follow:
FROM MAYOR SINGLETARY
Navy Editor,
Early County News.
Dear Mr. Editor:
I notice in your paper that you
are cooperating with the United
States Navy in conducting a cam
paign to interest young men be
tween the ages of 17 and 31 in join
ing Uncle Sam’s famous fighting
fleet. I wish to commend you for
this forward step.
The Navy, probably more so than
another branch of the service, offers
the greatest advantages to young
Americans. The pay is with
a chance of retirement on a sub
stantial income after 20 to 30 years.
It also offers a chance to learn as
many as 50 skilled trades, and,
what’s more, Navy men get paid
while they are learning.
I, as head of the official family
of our little city, wish to commend
you on your active part in this
campaign and wish to pledge my
efforts, and to endorse the Navy to
any young man who is interested in
joining any branch of the United
States service. We have the great
est country in the world. Let’s keep
it that way.
Cordially yours, x
R. C. SINGLETARY,
Mayor, City of Blakely.
NAVY, SHIPS—
Fourteen new ships were launched
in “Liberty Fleet Day” ceremonies
held at shipyards on Saturday, Sep
tember 27, at Baltimore, Md., Los
Angeles, Calif., Richmonds, Calif.,
Portland, Ore., Quincy, Mass., Ches
ter, Penna., Kearnye, N. J., Pasca
goula, Miss., Seattle, Wash., and Wil
mington, Del. The Navy anounced
launching of the battleship Massachu
setts, three minesweepers and the
sumibarine chaser PCSIS.
AID TO BRITAIN, RUSSIA—
The Navy Department announced
15 British and Free French warships
currently in United States ports, and
said 12 others already have left U, S.
ports where they had put in for re
pairs or supplies. The War Depart
ment said 59 officers and enlisted
men of the British armored corps
are studying American methods at
the Army Armored Force School at
Fort Knox, Ky. Treasury Secretary
Morgenthau (announced the Soviet
Government has already repaid in
gold “a litle more than half” of ths
$10,000,000 advanced by the U. S.
Treasury to Russia in August.
PRODUCTION—
Assistant Attorney General Arn
old, speaking at Yosemite, Calif.,
said “there is not an organized basic
industry in the U. S. which has not
been restricting production. . . to
avoid what they fear may be ruinous
overproduction after the war. . .They
have concealed shortage by over
optimistic predictions about sup
plies.”
Mr. Arnold also said “a few
strategically located laibor unions”
were costing the Ame.riean consum
er one billion dollars a year through
labor restrictions on production by
strikes and boycotts for illegitimate
purposes, price-fixing. restricting
labor-saving devices, elimination of
small competitors and owner opera
tors and “tying up huge industries
in the struggle to determine which
of two unions shall dominate the
field.”
SMALL BUSINESS—
Director Odium of the O<PM Con
tract Distribution Division announced
between 100 and 200 offices to help
small shops and businessmen get de
fense work will be opened soon. Al
ready scheduled are offices in Hart
ford, Conn.-, Providence, R. 1.,
Youngstown, Dayton and Columbus,
0.. Indianapolis, Ind., Rochester and
Albany, N. Y., Portland, Me., Spring
field, 111., Springfield, Mass., Tren
ton, N. J., Wichita, Kan., Spokane,
Wash. Existing offices at Harris
burg, Wilkes-Barre and Allentown,
Pa., will be enlarged and the present
39 offices of the abolished Defense
Service will continue to operate, he
said.
Mr. Odium asked 59 major de
fense contractors to appoint “farm
ing out” directors to cooperate in
spreading defense work among small
er firms. He also announced de-
THIS WEEK IN NATIONAL
D-E-F-E-N-S-E
FROM COMMISSIONER FORT
Navy Editor,
Early County News.
Dear Mr. Editor:
I have just seen through the col
umns of your paper that th e U. S.
Navy is conducting a campaign to
interest young Americans in joining
up. I also note that your paper is
taking an active part in securing
these young men for Uncle Sam’s
fighting forces. I wish to commend
you for this forward step and would
like to pledge my services, as Chair
man of the Board of County Com
missioners, in any way possible.
These are indeed grave times in
which we are living. Our way of
life is being challenged. The Navy
needs young men between the ages
of 17 and 31 to man our fleet,
which is now the most powerful in
the world. The Navy offers to men
of these ages a good pay envelope
and the opportunity of learning 50
skilled trades. Any patriotic young
man should investigate what the
Navy has to offer.
I heartily commend you on the
active part you are playing in this
Navy enlistment program, and again
wish to pledge my assistance.
Sincerely yours,
H. C. FORT,
Chairman Early County Board
of Commissioners.
sense contracts with five aluminum
Ware companies forced to abandon
civilian production by shortages and
priorities. Contracts such as these
to avoid community hardship can be
negotiated up to 15 per cent above
minimum prices, performance bonus
can be waived and bid splits allowed
to enable pools of small firms to ob
tain contracts for “bits and pieces”.
ARMY PREPAREDNESS STATUS
Assistant War Secretary McCloy,
speaking in Jackson, Mich., said the
U. S. has an army and an air force
“in the sense that one is in process
of production. . .Some of its ele
ments are prepared to meet any foe.
Yet that army is just becoming an
army. . .”
He said the army has its full
amount of the fundamental weapons
—rifles, bayonets, machine guns,
artillery, grenades—but does not
have its full equipment of light and
medium tanks, anti-tank and anti
aircraft weapons. He said there is
sufficient equipment for training but
heavy production will not come until
this winter or next spring. He said
the Army has much to learn about
the tank-lplane and anti-tank-plane
combinations and “w e still have a
long way to go in our coordination
between air and the ground but we
are beginning in earnest in Louisi
ana now.”
He said plane production “at this
time is still not satisfactory as a re
sult of shortages in manufacturing
facilities and essential raw materials
but it is coming up.” He said sev
eral U. i planes far exceed any
others in the world.
PRIORITIES—
Priorities Director Nelson limited
production of spare parts for pas
senger automobiles and light trucks
for the period September 15—De
cember 31, 1941 to 60 per cent of
the number sold during the first six
months this ear. SPAB said it will
extend to American industry assist
ance in obtaining repair parts.
ANTI-AXIS 'BLACK LIST*
The State Department added 300
South American firms and individ
uals to the origina; Anti-Axis “Black
List” of 1800 nannes and deleted 65
names where corrective action had
been taken since July 17. The new
additions included “Air France” and
“Lati”, a French and an Italian air
line, and the German news agency
“Transocean.” Firms placed on the
blacklist are automatically deprived
of American oil and gasoline and
other supplies from this country.
AGRICULTURE —
Agriculture Secretary Wickard
told Northeastern farm leaders and
agricultural workers Britain will need
between now and June 30, 1942,
cheese, evaporated milk and dried
skim milk that will require process
ing of more than 4 1-2 billion pounds
of milk; a billion and a half pounds
of pork and lard; about 500 million
dozen eggs; 17 million pounds of
(Continued on back page)
REPORTS ARE
THAT QUAIL
ARE PLENTIFUL
Georgia’s early summer drought,
so devastating to fish life, played a
big part in ■ giving the state what
appears now to be the largest supply
of Bobwhite in many seasons.
Reports received at the Division of
Wildlife from Rangers and “lay
men” census takers indicate that
quail population throughout Georgia
generally is plentiful.
That does not mean, however, em
phasized Director Zach D. Cravey,
that hunters /will find more than
they know what to do or that
they should feel free to make “game
hogs” of themselves but it does mean
wildlife in Georgia “definitely is on
the increase.” He urged sportsmen
to give their cooperation by observ
ing closed seasons and bag limits and
always to leave “seed stock” to re
plenish the fields and woods. Quail
seasons opens November 20th and
continues through March. 1.
Young quail as well as turkey,
are susceptible to chilling rains and
this year, fortunately, a majority of
them had passed the fledgling stage
before the prolonged drought end
ed. On the other hand, the dry
weather if anything harmed doves
for these are heavy drinking and the
small amounts of water which suf
fice quail will not quench their thirst.
However, even the dove, according
to national authorities, has shown
some increase in Georgia although
still is not here in satisfactory num
bers. The Director said strict ob
servance of the bag limit, closed sea
son and prohibition against shooting
on baited fields will “help the situa
tion.” The season opens December
Ist.
Deer, especially in South Georgia,
are said to be on the increase also
and farmers in a number of counties
have complained of their foraging in
crops. In 25 North and West coun
ties, where restocking has been un
derway, no open-seasons will con
tinue to be effective this year.
NEW HOPE COUPLE
HURT IN WAGON AND
AUTO WRECK
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Waller, of the
New Hope community, received cuts
and bruises, and narrowly escaped
death, last Saturday afternoon when
the wagon on which they were riding
was struck by an automobile near
Mock’s store. Their two young sons,
Don and Glenn, escaped unhurt. Mr.
and Mrs. Waller were rushed to a
local doctor’s office where they were’
treated and put to bed. Both were
dismissed Sunday afternoon after a
medical examination showed that they
were not seriously injured.
Joan Biondell and Dick Powell in
“Model Wife” at Blakely Theatre
Thursday and Friday.
When You Borrow
Money...
You naturally figure on how you
are going to pay it back. We make
loans payable monthly and we
would like to have the opportunity
of explaining this to you if you need
to borrow money.
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
J 1.50 A YEAR
‘BOBCATS’ DRILL
HARD FOR THEIR
OPENER FRIDAY
Those fighting Bobcats are being
drilled hard each day by Coach Earl
F. Tarre, preparing for the season’s
opener against Colquitt in the Miller
county capital Friday night. Coach
Tarre has the largest squad in
Blakely’s six-man football history
from which to choose his starting
line-up—a total of 23 men.
In scrimmage yesterday Coach
Tarre was scrimmaging two teams,
and it was difficult to tell which
was the first and which the second
team.
On one team there were Hal Wil
lis, Ben Mosely, Harry Siemens,
John Mosely, Bowdre Carswell and
Kenneth Tabb. The other team was
comprised of Joe Tedder, Julian No
bles. Andy Lanier, Thomas Byrd,
Mack Balkcom and Milton Bryant.
These players have an average
weight of around 150 pounds.
The Bobcats will be gunning for
the Miller Pirates Friday night to
avenge the terrible licking they took
last year when Coach Dyar’s lads
were on their victory march. From
the looks of the material, Coach
Tarre has the best-looking team
which has been developed at Blakely
since six-fan football was inaugu
rated here. True, he has only two
or three experienced players in An
dy Lanier, Milton Bryant and Harry
Sirmons, but he has some new and
fast material in Julian (Man) No
bles, who has already distinguished
himself as the fastest man on the
squad, Joe Tedder, a hard-driving
halfback who is also excellent on
defense, and Hal Willis, a fast, hard
tacking end. In view of these
facts. Friday night’s game will prob
ably be rated as a toss-up.
A complete list of Coach Tarre’s
roster is as follows: Hal Willis, Joe
Tedder, Milton Bryant, Ben Mosely,
Julian Nobles, Harry Sirmons, John
Mosely, Andy Lanier, Mack Balkcom,
Kenneth Tabb, Bowdre Carswell,
Thomas Byrd, Harry Pierce, Roscoe
Barrentine, Norman Thomas, Borden
Barry, Ernest Dunn, Jr., Bryan Res
pess, Robert Collier, Max Holman,
James (Josiah) Williams, Leonard
George, Homer Bush.
S.-W. GA. A. M. E.
CONFERENCE CONVENES
HERE NEXT WEEK
The annual conference for South
west Georgia will convene at the
Wesley Chapel A. M. E. Church,
Blakely, on Tuesday night, October
7, and continue through Sunday, Oc
tober 12.
The cooperation of the public is
asked in helping to make the con
ference a success.
The following committee is au
thorized by the church to solicit
funds and other help from, the public
at large: W. C. Cain, Dock Jordan,
Sam Bable, Sr., Whit Moses, Dave
Hollinger.
Rev. I. M. Middleton is pastor of
Wesley Chapel church, and the Rt.
Rev. W. A. Fountain, A. M., D. D.,
Ph.D., Bishop of the Sixth Episcopal
District, will preside over the con
ference.