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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO* 34
REGULAR MEETING
OF ROTARIANS
HELD FRIDAY
E. H. Cheek, vocational teacher
of the Blakely high school, spoke to
the Blakely Rotarians at the club’s
weekly meeting held at the Early
Hotel last Friday.
Mr. Cheek gave a report of the
fat cattle show which was spon
sored by the club. He said that it
was the best show ever held, and
with the additional prize money be
ing awarded by the club, more inter
est was manifest this year than
ever before.
Rotarian G. M. Sparks, in tribute
to the late Rotarian “Bo” Collins,
gave a summary of his life, stating
that he would be greatly missed, not
only by his fellow Rotarians, but by
his fellow citizens as well, who knew
him as a young man with sterling
qualities, a man kindly and thought
ful who enjoyed doing things for
others. A moment of silent prayer
was held in tribute to this valued
member.
President Henry Wall presided ov
er the meeting and appointed Rota
rians Chip Grubbs and James Mur
dock, Jr., as delegates to the State
convention which was held in. Macon
earlier this week.
POTATO WITHIN
A POTATO FOUND
GROWING HERE
The season of freakish vegetables
has officially opened. Mr. Walker
Robison, one of our town’s better
“sidewalk farmers,” came in the
other day and left an anemic and
bedridden looking potato. After a
hasty observation and a quick Caes
arean operation, it was found that
the potato had a smaller potato inside
—all of which means nothing, except
that Mr. Walker R. is growing some
strange-1 ooking objects this year.
Make WEAVER’S your Easter
shopping headquarters.
Get Your Easter Outfit
at Weaver s
From Hat to Shoes
• For Men and Women
For Boys and Girls
For the Kddies too
MAKE WEAVER’S YOUR
EASTER HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Georgia’s most complete
small town store. Goods of quality.
Prices low. Service unexcelled.
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All Easter Gifts Attractively
Wrapped. No Extra Charge.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
Qrnvln (Lonntn JNew
DIST. GOVERNOR WM.
B. FREEMAN TO VISIT
BLAKELY LIONS CLUB
William B. Freeman, district gov
ernor of Lions International, will
pay an official visit to the Blakely
Lions Club next Tuesday, when the
club holds its regular meeting.
Mr. Freeman is a prominent at
torney of Forsyth, Ga., and is well
known over the state. He is an out
standing Lion and has been associ
ated with and taken an active part
in the advancement of Lionism ov
er the state.
President Philip Sheffield urges a
full attendance at next week’s club
meeting.
BRITISH PLANE
CRASHED HERE
WEDNESDAY A. M.
A British plane being flown by a
British cadet from Dothan, Ala., and
which got off its course ran out of
gas here about 1:30 o’clock Wed
nesday morning and crashed some
where in the Colomokee community
after the cadet had parachuted to
safety.
The cadet, whose name could not
be learned, jumped from his plane
just as it passed over Mill creek
north of the city limits and landed
in a field nearby. He walked to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Tarver,
where he spent the night. He stated
he was flying at an altitude of 5,000
feet w’hen he junlped.
A report was made to his superior
officer in Dothan. A detail of men
and an officer came to Blakely Wed
nesday morning to get a report of
the crash and to help locate the
plane. Residents of the Colomokee
community heard the crash and said
the plane fell in the vicinity of
Colomokee creek.
Make WEAVER’S your Easter
shopping headquarters.
Flowering potted plants await your
selection at GREENBRIER FLORAL
COMPANY.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1942.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
CEILING CLAPPED ON
DURABLE GOODS PRICES—
In the first bread move to protect
us against retail war profiteering,
the Office of Price Administration
clapped a ceiling over store prices es
durable goods this week. Now, if a
dealer charges more than he has
been charging for these things, he’ll
be violating a Federal OPA order.
Washing machines, ironing ma
chines, vacuum cleaners, radios,
phonographs, household refrigera
tors, typewriters, heating and cook
ing stoves and ranges have been
tagged by the order. This week
dealers who sell these items must
post Government-approved prices and
stick to them.
There is a shortage of these prod
ucts because factories that make
them are busy with war production,
but the Government says it will
crack down on store owners who
take advantage of the shortage to
increase prices.
HONEY FOR SUGAR—
With a shortage of sugar facing
them, some bakers, confectioners,
and ice-cream goody makers turned
to honey for sweetening. They
bought so much of it, that the Gov
ernment had to stop them from raid
ing the hives. But this does not af
fect folks who use less than 60
pounds of honey in their own homes.
All our tea comes from the Far
East, most from India and Ceylon.
Fortunately, we had more tea than
ever before when the Pacific war
exploded, but the WPB isn’t going to
let anyone hoard it. Last week it
asked grocers to limit their sales of
tea to each family in order that
supplies will be distributed evenly
among the nation’s tea drinkers.
County Oil Men
Will Meet Here
Friday, April 10
Wholesale and retail oil dealers
and their employees of Early coun
ty are invited to meet at the court
house in Blakely on April 10, at 8:00
p. m., according to Dunbar Grist,
local wholesale oil man.
“Neil W. Printup, Atlanta, Secre
tary of the Georgia Petroleum In
dustries Committee, and other prom
inent Georgia oil men will attend
and assist in conducting the meet
ing. Matters of vital importance
and interest to all oil men and their
employees will be discussed,” stated
Mr. Grist.
“Oil men from all parts of the
county are urged to be present,” said
Mr. Grist. “These county organiza
tions are strictly non-political, coop
erative groups of oil men, irrespect
ive of small or large company affil
iations. No dues, fees or other as
sessments are required for member
ship or activity in connection with
Cannon Caravan Rolls Through EasL
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' A caravan of old cannon, captured or of American vintage, started
from Pittsfield, Mass., bound for Boston Common, for the purpose of
national defense. Other Massachusetts cities and towns will add to the
caravan as it passes. Most of the guns are relics of the Civil war, moved
from their resting places. Shown above are Legionnaires hitching an old
brass cannon to a team of oxen, ready to join the caravan to Boston.
. THE HOME FRONT .
PORK PRICES CHOPPED—
The OPA has asked butcher shops
and retail meat markets not to raise
the prices of ham, bacon, chops and
other pork cuts. Housewives should
question any increase over middle
of-March prices on fresh pork cuts,
the OPA says, and any marked in
crease should be protested to the
storekeeper.
Production of razor blades was
limited to about one blade per
week per shaver. Take care of your
blades. The precious high-grade
steel you save goes into fighting
tools to protect democracy.
GOODBYE, TROUSER CUFFS— ’
started snipping the part of new
started snippink the part of new
trousers which is left to make cuffs.
The wool thus saved will be re
claimed and used again. So cuffless
pants help cuff the Japs.
SCRAPE UP THE SCRAP—
The Bureau of Industrial Conser
vation reports dire need of scrap
iron, rubber, and paper. Most South
erners have cooperated in the sal
vage crusade, but the government
estimates that there is probably 500
pounds of scrap metal lying around
the average farm. Soon the WPA
Will begin a campaign to collect
scrap metal from the farms for use
in the war effort.
Paper saving helps the war be
cause, among other uses, it’s turned
into cardboard containers to ship
ammunition and bombs and shells to
the front. Five or six copies of this
newspaper can be sent back to the
mills and made into dust covers for
15 airplane motors. Three times
that many copies of your newspaper
can be turned into a container for
a shell large enough to blow up an
important military objective in Ber
lin or Tokyo.
Georgia Ores Doing
Their Part to Help
U. S. War Effort
Georgia minerals are doing their
part to help supply Uncle Sam’s
fighting boys with bombers, arms and
other war equipment, Commissioner
of Natural Resources Zach D. Cravey
said this week.
At least eight minerals classified
as strategic by the National War
Minerals Board are found in Georgia,
plus a number of others, “which
while not definitely classified as stra
tegic, are essential to the manufac
ture of war munitions,” he said.
Captain Garland C. Peyton, Di
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the work. It is largely of a protec
tive nature for motorists as well as
those engaged in the oil business.
“The meeting will be open to the
public. Not only oil men but all per
sons engaged in automotive work
and other interested parties are in
vited to attend,” stated Mr. Grist.
THURSDAY HALF
HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE
BEGINS ON APRIL 9
The surest sign of spring’s ap
proach, with its accompanying symp
toms of “spring fever,” is the an
nouncement that ‘ the annual ob
servance of Thursday half-holidays
will begin here next Thursday, April
9. The holidays will continue through
July 30, according to the agreement
signed, it was stated.
The petition carrying the names of
those agreeing to close was not
given to The News.
MISS ROBBIE
HOBBS PASSES
AT HOME HERfe
. Miss Robbie Lafette Hobbs, 66,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
James B. Hobbs, died at the family
home on South Church street last
Friday morning at 9 o’clock, follow
ing an attack of pneumonia. She
had been ill for some time prior to
the pneumonia attack.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at four o’clock at the
home of a brother, Mr. L. C. Hobbs,
with the Revs. S. B. King and W. F.
Burford officiating. Interment was
in the city cemetery, wth the
Fellows & Forrester Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements, and the
following serving as pall-bearers:
H. V. Killebrew, R. C. Howell, O. B.
Hobbs, James B. Hobbs, L. C. Hobbs
and H. H. Hobbs.
Although a native of Clay county,
where she was born on December 21,
1875, Miiss Hobbs had resided in
Blakely since childhood. She was
the eldest child of the late Mr. and
Mrs. James B. Hobbs. She was a
member of the Blakely Baptist
church. iShe had many friends who
received news of her death with sad
dened hearts.
Survivors are four brothers, O. B.
Hobbs of Montgomery, Ala., L. C.
Hobbs of Blakely, H. H. Hobbs of
Alachua, Fla., and James B. Hobbs
of Ford Lauderdale, Fla., and two
sisters, Mrs. H. V. Killebrew of Al
bany and Mrs. R. C. Howell of
Blakely.
RABBIT MAKES GOOD
SHRUBBERY PRUNER
Elberton, Ga.—Tired of pruning
shrubbery? Get yourself a rabbit.
R. H. Smalley, local vocational
teacher, has found that his cotton
tail assistant does as good a job of
bush-trimming as himself. It all be
gan when a neighbor asked Smalley
to prune a shrub for her. That night
a hungry rabbit made a meal of
the branches, shaping up the bush
to perfection.
Mr. Smalley was applauded for
“his” commendable work. Now he’s
trying to train the rabbit to prune
at command.
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NEW GEORGIA
FISHING LICENSE
Fishing licenses for 1941-’42 have
expired and new ones for the cur
rent season are on sale, Wildlife Di
rector Zack D. Cravey announced.
He said they will be sold at the
court house and prices are the same
as those for licenses which have just
expired: $1.25 for an annual resident
license; $1.50 for a 10-day resident;
$2.50 for a 30-day non-resident and
$5.25 for an annual non-resident li
cense.
Everyone, except fishermen under
16 years of age and anyone who
fishes just in the county of his
residence and uses only worms, must
possess a license. However, Direc
tor Cravey pointed out, all service
men stationed in Georgia are consid
ered “residents” and thus entitled to
the resident license, regardless of
how long they have been in this state.
He said Rangers are making strict
check-ups on licenses.
The Director also cautioned that
Rangers are conducting “relentless
war” against fishermen who use
nets, traps, baskets, etc., and de
clared it is just as illegal to steal
fish that belong to other people or
the public as it is to steal another
man’s chickens, hogs or cows.”
“And the use of nets, traps and
other illegal devices in public waters
is just another method of stealing
fish,” he said. “Rangers have made
many cases for these offenses and
most of the courts are cooperating
by imposing stiff fines on the per
sons found guilty.”
Recently Rangers Arthur Wilson
and Charlis Smith captured 2,000
feet of gill net and made cases
against five offenders in Lanier
county and Ranger C. A. Rayburn
has four cases pending against
Brooks fishermen who were gigging
fish at night by torchlight.
formeiTearly
COUNTIAN PASSES AT
DONALSONVILLE
Funeral services for Robert Lee
Mose Aman, former Early eountian,
were held at the Springfield church
Sunday, March 29, with Rev. Mr.
Vinson officiating and Evans & Son,
funeral directors, in charge of ar
rangements. Interment followed in
the Springfield cemetery and the fol
lowing served as pall-bearers: C. C.
Crook, Walter Williams, B. D. Har
vey, W. V. Miller, W. H. Roberts and
Bryant Chandler.
Mr. Aman died at his home in
Donalsonville last Friday after an
illness of ten days. Death was at
tributed to pneumonia. Until three
years ago, Mr. Aman lived in Early
county wrhere he was born and rear
ed. He was a member of the Meth
odist church.
Only survivor is a sister, Mrs.
Mary Ella Aman Sirmons, of Don
alsonville.