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THIS WEEK
2WMI By
life Earl
. “Tige”
MMfc W. Pickle
Professor Emmett Williams has
joined the bicycle brigade, adding
another to that fast-growing regi
ment. “Fess” says that there is no
priorities on insurance and that he
still has just as much as before the
war began.
If there is anything lower down
than a person who will employ re
ligion or patriotism for personal
gain, then we have failed to discov
er it. ,
“Sometimes there is a purpose in
not knowing anything. We know, be
cause we have just found it out,”
says S. L. Ham in the Arlington
Courier. Tell us, Editor Ham, be
fore the suspense gets us down,
what it was that you didn’t know
that served such a great purpose.
This seems to us to be a case of
that “man-biting-dog news,” a case
where there was more news in what
you didn’t know than there was in
what you did know.
There are victory suits, victory
gardens and victory bonds. What
we’re interested in most of all right
now is just a plain old victory.
“My mamma don’ tol’ me when 1
was a kid in knee pants” is the open
ing line to a current popular song. A
man in our town who has a flare for
transposing big words for little ones
sings it something like this: “My ma
ternal ancestor has revealed to me
when I was an adolescent in short
trousers.”
Just about everybody in these
parts has entertained or done some
act of kindness for the British ca
dets who are temporary inhabitants
of our country at the present. But
how many of you have entertained
or shown a special courtesy to our
own American soldiers? The lads
who are the noblest of them all. A
man and his wife in our town did.
Seeing two boys stranded at a
local service station late the other
night, this couple came back down
town, picked the boys up and car
ried them home with them and let
them spend the night. The lady of
the house, even though it was after
12 o’clock, donned her kitchen apron
and prepared the soldiers a midnight
snack. This hospitable couple is Mr.
and Mrs. William Cox. We doff our
worn fedora to them.
We note by the papers where sev
eral mayors have adopted the “work
or fight” program in their respective
towns. If you haven’t a job and
won’t work, then you must join the
army and fight, say the mayors. The
motive of this edict might be all
right, but it won’t work. If we
were running an army we durn sure
wouldn’t want a fellow in it who
was too sorry to work for a living.
After May 30th the well-dressed
man will be wearing a victory suit.
The victory suit has no cuffs or
pleats and is also vestless and lim
ited to one pair of trousers. We hope
the victory suit doesn’t turn out like
the automobile. Some bright wit
says that the 1941 car had no shift,
th 1942 car had no running boards,
and. in 1943 there was no car. We
are going to balk at the victory suit
when they are made without pants.
We just must have a pair of trous
ers. If we went around without
them some fellow would probably
have us arrested, even if we were
doing it in the interest of defense,
and besides, we wouldn’t have any
place to carry our watch.
Here Miss Sharon has gone and
broken in our column again. The oth
er day she was playing school. This
time she was the pupil. When asked
if she had studied her lesson, she
replied with this ingenious remark:
“No, I didn’t; there was a blackout
last night.” •
We wouldn’t swear this is true,
but this is the way we heard it: An
English teacher in the high school
here was explaining sentence struc
tures to her class. She read and ask
ed what was wrong with this sen
tence: “The fire was put out before
the volunteer fire department could
arrive and any damage was done.”
A bright boy in the class replied:
“Teacher, if you’re talking about the
The Home Front
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or fronts and backs of jackets or jer
kins may be made from left over
pieces of woven wool. For a woman
smaller than the male who tosses
aside an old woolen suit, any fairly
cleaver seamstress can make a skirt
from the trousers and cut down the
coat for a new suit.
ENOUGH RADIO PARTS—
The WPB’s recent stop order on
new radios doesn’t apply to replace
ment • parts. A few days ago war
production experts broadcast tidings
that sets will be kept in good repair.
Folks can’t be deprived of flash news
from breathless-voiced announcers.
Finished cotton goods prices have
been rising out of proportion to what
the planters received. Since the
basic costs of converters have re
mained relatively stable, OPA has
declared a ceiling on the price of
finished cotton and rayon goods.
COUNTY TEACHERS
HOLD THEIR MONTHLY
MEETING AT JAKIN
■On Friday afternoon, March 6th,
the Early county teachers met in
Jakin. My report usually runs some
thing like this:
The teachers met in the school
auditorium; first, the program was
presented; the minutes were read; a
business session followed; we ad
journed to departmental meetings;
the school served the teachers bar
becue, or chicken, or sandwiches, or
fish; we adjourned to meet at so and
so on such and such a date. We did
the aforementioned, as usual.
Things I noticed at Jakin: regis
tering at the door; gradually as
sembling; the highly-enjoyed piano
duo—Ten Fingers, Ten Toes—com
posed of Mrs. Clark Mosely and Mr.
Virgil Oswald; Mr. Bridges swinging
“.Sweet Sue” on his clarinet. The
numbers presented so well by the
Jakin .Glee Club; Mr. McGlamory’s
report on the principals’ meeting in
Camilla; Mr. Clyburn’s failing to re
port on his short story; wondering if
we should allow students to read in
a class that bored them or encour
age them to help us by contributing
something interesting; trying to de
cide what story I’ll bring to our
next teachers’ meeting; the beauti
ful ceilings in the Jakin school
building; the English departmental
meeting in Miss Campbell’s warm,
sunny room: the bell calling us back
to the auditorium; chicken sand
wiches; pimento sandwiches; potato
chips; coffee with real whipped
cream; no paper plates or cups;
seeing the teachers group off to eat;
checks; leaving—to ford a few
streams home; to meet next at Co
lomokee. „
—REPORTER.
NEW HOPE SCHOOL NEWS
Honor Roll
We are very glad to have so many
on the Honor Roll this month:
2nd Grade—Martha Jene Cannon,
Ruby Bee Houston, Marvin Oliver.
3rd Grade Eugenia Houston,
Jimmie Cooper, Don Waller, Tal
madge Tyson.
4th Grade—Effie Ree Jackson,
Josephine Oliver, Ottis Houston, El
inor Sheffield, Mary Helen Grimes.
sth Grade—Bobby Ann Hayes, Bill
Cooper.
6th Grade Jeanette Houston,
Rebecca Williams, Florrie Black
burn.
7th Grade—Betty Hayes.
The seventh grade is going to
have a play, “Johnny Grows Up,
on March 20.
4-H Club New*
The officers of our club met March
10 and elected an adviser. For ad
viser we elected Mrs. Eppie Lindsey,
fifth and sixth grade teacher.
.Betty J. Hayes, Reporter.
HONOR ROLL OF
SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL
Ist Grade —Hilda Revells, Sarah
Jo Gouber, Elizabeth Harrison, Mary
Lee Glass. Patricia Riley.
2nd Grade —Ronnie Reese, Betty
Mercer, Stanley Knight, Joan Hous
ton, Joe Lewis, Vinson Evans, Am
inogene Hicks, Bryant McMullen.
3rd Grade—Julia Jernigan.
4th Grade— Sybil Brown, Geral
dine Helms, Dorothy Lane.
sth Grade —Juanita McGlamory,
Dorothy Smith, Agnes Hilton, Cor
delia O’Hearn. ,
6th Grade Martha Murkerson,
Louise Knight, Wyatt Williams,
J C Houston, Watson Jones.
’ 7th Grade—Thelma Evans, Easter
Revells.
STEADY WORK — Get established
in a business of your own; earnings
start immediately; we have an open
ing for the right person. Write J.
R. WATKINS CO., 70-92 W. lowa
Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 19-2 t
Buy Defense Bonds —
local volunteer boys, there isn’t a
thing wrong with that sentence.”
The conductor of this mighty pil
lar of wisdom is planting a victory
garden. But because of the extreme
ly bad weather and our antipathy
for labor, it doesn’t look very vic
torious at the present writing. Come
over to our house along about June
for a dinner of vegetables. You
i bring the vegetables.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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