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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 20
MR. T. F. CORDRAY
DIES FOLLOWING
MONTH’S ILLNESS
Succumbing to an illness of four
weeks, Thomas Franklin Cordray,
85, one of the oldest and best known
residents of E'arly county, died Sat
urday night at 9 o'clock at a Doithan
hospital. Mr. Cordray had recently
entered the hospital for an operation
and treatment.
Mr. Cordray was a native of South
Carolina, where he was born on Aug
ust 15, 1856, but had been a resi
dent of this county for 53 years,
most of which was spent in Blakely.
He was a member of the Baptist
church and a Mason. He was, prior
to his death, the second oldest Past
Master of Magnolia Lodge, and had
held other positions in that lodge.
He had done much for the upbuild.-
ing of Freemasonry ' Blakely. He
' was for many years active in busi
ness, but had retired recently and
had made his home with a daughter,
Mrs. W. W. Brunson, at Colomokee.
Funeral services were held Mon
day morning at 10 o’clock at the
Minter Funeral Home, with the Rev.
Charles Allen, of Arlington, officiat
ing, assisted by the Rev. W. F. Bur
ford of Blakely. Interment was in
the city cemetery, with members of
Magnolia Lodge interring the remains
of their brother Mason with the im
pressive ceremony of that order.
Serving as pall-bearers were six
past masters of Magnolia lodge,
namely: J. 0. Bridges, W. C. Cook,
Lowrey Stone, Abe Berman, W. C.
Jordan and C. M. Dunning.
A large number of friends at
tended the last rites.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Wade Brunson of this county and
Mrs. C. F. Sizer of Gulfport, Miss.,
and a half-brother, W. J. Cordray,
of Ulmers, S. C.
NOTICE TO ALL
EMPLOYERS OF HOME
DEFENSE GUARDS
Due to the existing emergency all
citizens must do their part. Our home
guards will be called out for defense
of our lives and property in our com
munity. It is hoped and suggested
that all employers of such guards will
cooperate by releasing such em
ployees if and when needed and fur
nish such other material assistance as
may be needed to insure our form of
freedom and way of living.
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
OF HOME DEFENSE.
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TALKS FEATURE
MEETING OF
ROTARY CLUB
A talk on the moral and spiritual
values of life and several brief dis
cussions on problems faced by busi
ness featured last week’s meeting of
the Blakely Rotary Club, held Fri
day at noon at the Hotel Early.
The former topic formed the basis
for an inspiring talk by the Rev. W.'
F. Burford, pastor of the Blakely
Methodist church, a recent addition
to Blakely’s citizenship. His 'talk
was an an admonition to not lose
sight of the spiritual values in build
ing a life.
Problems faced by business under
war conditions were discussed briefly
by Rotarians Dick Rogers, Oscar
Whitchard, Charles Boyett, Barney
Wynne and Felix Barham.
ißotarian Marvin Sparks, program
chairman for the day, presented the
speakers. President Henry Wall pre
sided over the meeting, with the
music for the club songs by Mrs. Ben
Haisten.
STUDENT NIGHT
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY NIGHT
The annual observance of “Stu
dent Night”, in which Blakely boys
and girls attending college are honor
ed while at home for the Christmas
holidays, will be held at the Baptist
church Sunday night, December 28.
With Lowrey S. Stone acting as
moderator, the following program
will be presented:
Prelude, Instrumental Solo: Mary
Miles Camp.
Hymn No. 286: Joy to the World.
Scripture, Psalm 23: As the Re
deemed read it, Felix Barham; as the
Lost must read it, Vivian Brunson.
Solo: Eleanor Waters.
Roll Call of Students.
Duet: Perry Bridges and Virginia
Holman.
An Appreciation Quiz: (l)Mary
Standifer, (2) James Hobbs, (3)
Marilyn Reeves, (4) Odelia King,
(5) William Clearman, (6) Dorothy
King, (7) Emily Singletary.
“What I Think of College Life”:
Howard Sherman, Joseph Hunt.
“My Earnest Resolution”: (1) Nan
Nelson, (2) Frances George, (3) Ann
Nelson, (4)Nancy Grubbs, (5) Jack
Clearman, (6) Joanna Sherman, (7)
Loraine Pritchard.
“Supreme Allegiance Beyond Col
lege Days”: Edgar Kelly.
Hymn 290: America, the Beauti
ful.
Benediction: Rev. W. F. Burford.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1941.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,”
INJURIES PROVE
FATAL TO MR.
IDUS D. FELDER
Funeral services for Idus Derrell
Felder, 65, prominent Blakely citizen
who died in a Thomaston, Ga., hos
pital last Thursday afternoon, were
held at the family home on River
street Friday afternoon at four
o’clock.
Mr. Felder succumbed to injuries
received in an automobile accident
near Thomaston early Wednesday
morning. In company with S. G.
Maddox, Grady Holman, Jr., and
Bert Tarver, he was en route to At
lanta, when the car in which they
were riding collided with a school
bus. Mr. Maddox was also bad
ly injured in the accident, suffer
ing a broken knee cap, a chest in
jury and minor bruises. Mr. Tarver
and Mr. Holman received minor in
juries.
Mr. Felder received internal in
juries in addition to wounds on the
head and face, and was carried to a
Thomaston hospital where he remain
ed pntil his death.
His funeral Friday afternoon was
largely attended, there being many
out-of-town friends here for the sad
occasion. Officiating were the Revs.
Spencer B. King and W. F. Bur
ford of Blakely, and —. —. Spivey
of Fort Gaines, with Minter, Fellows
& Forrester Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements. Serving as pall
bearers were R. 0. Waters, Charles
E. Boyett, S. W. Howell, F. A. Bar
ham, J. B. Jones,'J. H. Moye, R. H.
Stuckey, W. H. Wall, A. H. Gray
and W. L. Rhodes. The last rites
at the cemetery were in charge of
the William E. Wooten Camp No. 20
Spanish-American War Veterans of
Albany, who interred the remains
with the impressive ceremony of that
organization. Mr. Felder was a vet
eran of the Spanish-American war
and a member of the Albany camp.
Mr. Felder was a native of
Dooly county, where he was born
on April 10, 1876, but spent his
youth in Fort Gaines. He came to
Blakely as a young man and had en
gaged in business here since. He
entered the automobile business in
1912 and was head of the Felder &
Sons Motor Company. He also had
extensive farming interests, and was
one of the county’s most successful
business men. He was a member of
the Blakely Rotary Club, and his
fellow Rotarians served as an honor
ary escort at his funeral. He was
a former mayor of the City of
Blakely and a member of the Bap
tist church. He was widely known in
business and civic circles and had
many friends throughout the state
Navy Secretary Knox, returning
from a plane trip to Hawaii, report
ed the U. S. armed services there
were not on the alert against the
first Japanese attack. Mr. Knox said
that the Navy lost one capital ship,
a training ship, three destroyers, and
one mine-layer, and suffered damage
to other ships which will take from
several days to several months to
repair. He reported 2,729 Navy of
ficers and men were killed and 656
wounded.
The President appointed Supreme
Court Justice Roberts head of a
special board of inquiry. Pending
completion of the inquiry ranking of
ficers of the Hawaiian command
were relieved of duty and replaced.
In the shift, Admiral Nimitz replaced
Admiral Kimmel as Commander-in-
Chief of the U. S. Pacific Fleet and
Lt. Gen. Emmons, Air Forces, re
lieved Lt. Gen. Short as commanding
officer of the land forces in the
Islands.
THE WAR FRONT—
War and Navy Department com
muniques during the week reported
the sinking of one enemy transport
and “probably” one destroyer, se
vere damage to another enemy
THIS WEEK IN NATIONAL
D-E-F-E-N-S-E
SAFETY SCHOOL
PATROL UNITS
ORGANIZED
Several Safety School Patrol Units
in Early county have been working
since the beginning of the school
year. Among the school units
that have been organized this year
and the names of patrolmen are:
Damascus High School: Dorothy
Cannon, Opal Houston, Harold Jones,
Winnie Middleton, Alvin Mitchell,
Julian Lane, Melvin Henry, Billie
Douglas, William Edgar, and J. B.
Perry.
Rowena Elementary School: Dor
othy Swords, Dorothy Daniels, Frank
Davis, and Ike Newberry.
Liberty Hill Elementary School:
Nina Pearl Palmer, Peggy Joyce
Harper, Mary Belisle, Alice Clenny,
Frances Rogers, J. C. Hunt, Buddy
McDowell, and Robert Greer.
Colomokee Elementary School:
Frank Sexton, Fred Shellhouse, Hor
ace Patterson, Herbert Patterson,
Bill Sammons, Ralph Belisle, Wilbur
Edward Craft, Edsel Scarborough,
Ought Weaver, and Horace Harold.
Cedar Springs Elmentary School:
Anna Martha Messer, Horace Tem
ples, Glynn Chandler, Bernard Jones,
Edward Jones, Jimmie Barfield.
Springfield Elementary School:
Rudolph Reese, Rudolph Riley, Leon
Murkerson, and Glynn Houston.
Jakin High School: J. W. Knight,
Paul Eldridge, Berrien Minter, John
Hines, Billie Reeves, Austin Reese,
Marshall Moulton, Odis Turner, Lo
ren Whittaker, T. K. Hilton, Lorin
Reese, Leon Reese, Pete Smith, Ray
mond Harvey, and Fred Moulton.
Drivers of Early and surrounding
counties are reminded that all these
Patrolmen have instructions to take
tag numbers for violations of the
Georgia School Bus Stop Law, for
failure to stop for a school bus
which has stopped to load or un
load school children, either in meet
ing or passing the bus.
These school patrol units were
organized in cooperation with the
principals of the individual schools
by Trooper L. M. Jones and Trooper
R. M. Cangler.
to whom the news of his tragic
death brought profound sorrow.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Eula Paulk Felder; four sons, I. D.
Felder, Jr., of Clarkesville, Ga., H.
Alfred, E. Thomas and E. Winsten
Felder of Blakely, the latter a stu
dent at Riverside Military Academy;
two daughters, Mrs. George W. Nel
son of Blakely and Mrs. Frank Gra
ham of Fort Gaines; a sister, Mrs.
Sadie Felder Lyle of Sylvester, and
several grandchildren.
I transport, the sinking of a motor
i ship, capture of a fishing vessel, eon-
Itinued successful repulse of enemy
[attempts to take Midway and Wake,
' and continued bombing of the Phil-
I ippines.
LEND-LEASE AID—
War Secretary Stimson issued a
' statement that although lend-lease
aid momentarily lessened after the
Pearl Harbor attack, the increased
war effort “must inevitably increase
rather than diminish shipments to
those who are fighting our common
enemy.” The President reported co
Congress that aid had increased from
$18,000,000 in March to $283,000,-
000 in November—to make a total
of $1,202,000,000 in aid extended to
December 1.
ARMY—
Secretary of War Stimson told
his press conference that although
the $10,000,000,000 supplemental
defense bill provides for an increase
of the Army to about 2,000,000 men,
the War Department is “trying to
develop machinery by which our Ar
my can increase steadily without
limits” and with “the least possible
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COTTON GINNING
FIGURES FOR 1941
ARE ANNOUNCED
Early county’s 1941 cotton crop
passed the ten-thousand-bale mark,
it became known the past week when
W. R. Pullen, special agent of the
department of commerce, announced
the ginning figures released by the.
department. These figures show
that 10,463 bales were ginned in
this county prior to December 1, as
compared to 9,269 bales to the same
date in 1940—a gain of 1,194 bales.
HUNT WITH CARE
CRAVEY CAUTIONS
Keep the holidays free of hunting
accidents—that’s the plea of the
Wildlife Division.
Director Za'ch D. Cravey said the
heaviest hunting of the year will be
done between Christmas and New
Years, if the annual record repeats
itself. And, unless hunters use ex
treme caution in handling firearms,
“tragic accidents will make this an
occasion of sadness for many fami
lies.”
“'’There is too much destruction
and death in the war-torn world al
ready without letting carelessness in
one of our favorite sports cause any
more of it,” said the Director.
First of all rules, he said, is to
treat every gun as though it were
loaded and to remember that “alco
hol and gunpowder do not mix.”
The Director also urged hunters
and fishermen not to start fires, in
tentionally or through carelessness,
in woods. With defense prepera tions
making such heavy demands on the
forests, “our need to protect them is
even greater than ever,” he declared.
Although Director Cravey has plac
ed himself and his entire personnel
at the disposal of the government
for any defense work, Rangers have
not slackened their patrol duties.
Moreover, ’they will be in the field
constantly during the holidays, check
ing on licenses and game regulations.
Even though the sale of licenses
has slowed down somewhat in the
past couple of weeks, it continues
steady enough to indicate that guns
and dogs are giving many Georgians
some relief from war worries, he
said.
FIREWORKS BANNED
The Mayor and Council have giv
en instructions that the ordinances
against the shooting of fireworks on
the streets of Blakely be rigidly en
forced. Take warning, and if you
must shoot fireworks, shoot them at
home.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
A Joyous Yuletide
to you
from the entire personnel of
the
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
SLSO A YEAR
EMERGENCY CROP
AND FEED LOANS
NOW AVAILABLE
Emergency crop and feed loans
for 1942 are now available to farm
ers in Early County, and applica
tions for these loans are now being
received at the County Agent’s Of
fice by L. E. Black, field supervisor,
and Theo White, typist, of the
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Sec
tion of the Farm Credit Administra
tion. This eatly opening of the loan
program in Early County is part of
a plan recently announced by the
Farm Credit Administration, where
by emergency crop and feed loans
are being made available immediate
ly in all areas where farming con
ditions are seriously affected this
year by abnormally low crop yields.
These loans wil be m&de as in the
past to farmers whose cash require
ments are relatively small and who
are unable to obtain from other
sources including production credit
associations loans in amounts suffi
cient to meet their needs.
As in former yeans, the loans will
be made to meet the applicant’s
necessary cash needs in preparing
for and producing his 1942 crops, or
in purchasing or producing feed for
his livestock. Mr. Black pointed out
that eligible farmers desiring to do
so might apply now for loans to take
care of their crop production needs
for the entire 1942 season. Loans
may include immediate advances to
the borrower to meet his cash re
quirements this fall, such as for the
planting of grain crops. Mr. Black
also said that the balance of the ap
proved amount of the loan will be
disbursed when the borrower needs
it to finance his spring crop. In
terest at the rate of 4 per cent will
be charged only during the period
the borrower actually has the use
of the funds.
Farmers who obtain loans for the
production of cash crops are required
to give as security a first lien on
the crops financed, or, in the case of
loans for the purchase or produc
tion of feed for livestock, a first
lien on the livestock to be fed.
Attention, Auto Drivers!
The police department calls at
tention to the fact that the Mayor
and City Council have reissued or
ders to* keep sharp tab on automo
bile drivers who speed and double
park. The police department again
warns the motoring public that these
ordinances will be rigidly enforced.