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THIS WEEK
By
Earl
“Tige”
MBhrV Pickle
It is right peculiar the way one
person’s resemblance to another will
bring back little insignificant details
and incidents of years gone by Whch
only exist as fond memories, and
which hadn’t been thought of in
years.
We saw a man the other day whose
features immediately brought to
mind our grandfather—our Grand
father Lindsey, who quietly passed
on to another world one beautiful
spring morning in April twelve years
ago. We don’t say it because he
happened to be our ancestor, but he
was probably one of God’s noblest
creatures. In physical traits he was
not unlike Lewis Stone, the motion
picture actor. And he exemplified
all the beautiful and homely virtues
which Mr. Stone professes as Judge
Hardy in the Hardy family movies.
He was a devout Baptist and his
cburch was his big love. As a kid
we always knew right where to look
for him when he was in church. He
had one place in which to sit and he
occupied this place each time serv
ices were held. We can close our
eyes and see him now—his white
hair, his big palmetto fan lazily
beating a breeze while he held a
song book in his other hand. “Preach
ing day” just wouldn’t have been
preaching day if “Uncle Sam,” as
he was affectionately known, hadn’t
been there. He was a devout Chris
tian and he was never quite so hap
py as when he was listening to the
Gospel being preached.
But this is sort of straying from
our subject, and we’re only telling
all this because we are sorry we
don’t possess many of his good traits
and virtues which made him seem to
Us one of the finest men who ever
lived, despite the fact that he never
was so well-known except in his own
immediate environs and probably
never did anything “big,” as the
world sees things, in his more than
three-score years and ten. Here is
what we began to tell. It was a
long, long time ago, or so it seems,
but certainly it couldn’t have been
more than fifteen or seventeen years
ago. There was a new preacher at
Grandfather’s church. This new
preacher, being a young man, and
no doubt inexperienced in his work,
got up to preach. And for about
fifteen minutes or longer, he began
to tell what the church needed. The
church should be painted. It need
ed a new roof. A new stove w’as al
so needed. He talked on like this
for sometime. Finally, the old man
could stand it no longer. He arose
from his seat, cleared up his throat,
as he had a habit of always doing
before speaking (we can see him
how standing there, slightly stooped,
dressed in his black suit and shoes)
and said: “Well, we came here to
have preaching. I move we have
preaching.”
You could have heard that well
known pin drop.
But have preaching we did.
And, as we remember, a very
good sermon, tbo. In closing, we
might remark that this man and our
grandfather became the very best of
friends and remained so until his
death.
Some headlines we would like to
read: Blakely to Build New School I
Building (we would want this set up
in great big black type) . . . Nazis!
Battling Like Hell to Defend Ber
lin . . . (and another even better
one) Berlin Burned, Hitler in Pris
on .. . BlakelyX/olumbia Highway
Finally Completed . . . Kolomoki
Park to Be Completed ... 150 Men
Enrolled in Early County’s New
Chamber of Commerce.
It just occurred to us that if all
the cranks, and folks who think they
Don’t Guess at the Weight of Your
SCRAP IRON—
/TS VALUABLE
We Weigh and Pay Highest Market Price.
We Buy and Sell Used Tires
J. W. ALLEN
NEAR DEPOT
ALL TO BE ASKED
TO BUY U. S. WAR
BONDS, STAMPS
A home-front army of 60,000
Georgians will take the field on May
1 in a ten-day campaign to enlist
every income-receiver in the state as
a steady purchaser of War Savings
, Stamps and Bonds Marion Allen, ad
j ministrator of the Treasury Depart
■ ment’s War Savings Staff for Geor
gia, announced yesterday.
During that period, Mr. Allen said,
the members of this citizens army of
volunteer “Minute Men” will knock
on the door of every home in
Georgia to secure the pledge of ev
ery person who receives an icome
that he will buy War Savings Stamps
and Bonds on a regular purchase
plan as long as the war lasts, or as
long as his finances permit.
“The pledges,” said Mr. Allen,
“are to be made voluntarily, and
no machinery will be set up to col
lect the amounts promised. Instead,
every pledgor will take upon him
self the responsibility of buying the
amount of bonds and stamps he has
promised to buy. The campaign is
based on faith alone—faith that
Americans are eager to help defend
their freedom and that they will not
shirk.
The purpose of the campaign is
to enable the Government to know
how much income it can expect when
it starts figuring out how to meet
the future costs of war, Mr. Allen
said.
“It can estimate needed taxes. It
can estimate bank credits. It can
estimate man-<power and production.
Until now, though, it has not been
able to estimate how much the peo
ple themselves are willing to lend.
“The pledges will tell the story,
for in the next few months every
state in the union will have com
pleted a house-to-house canvass sim
ilar to the one that we will hold in
Georgia.
“Thus, with some knowledge of
what income may be expected from
the sale of stamps and bonds, the
government can place long-range or
ders, speed production, build up
home defenses and keep the war
materials flowing steadily to our
fighting men overseas.
“The pledge campaign will reveal
how much additional money must be
raised from taxes. The greater the
total pledged, of course, the less the
burden of taxation that will be
necessary.
“Nobody will be coerced into
signing a pledge. No one will be
asked to pledge themselves to in
vest more than they can afford. In
the eyes of the government the man
who says he will buy a ten-cent
savings stamp a week, and keeps his
pledge, is participating in the plan
as .much as the man who can afford
to invest a hundred times that much.
“The pledge is also confidential.
The Minute Man who will knock on
on your door is required to keep
secret the amount of your pledge.
“Nor is the pledge an ‘order’ for
bonds or stamps. The Minute Men
cannot accept money, nor take an
order for bonds or stamps.
“The pledge will also be signed by
persons who are already buying
stamps and bonds because one pur
pose of the campaign is to find out
how many people are already par
ticipating. There is a space on the
pledge card where the signer may
indicate what purchase plan he is
already using.”
The pledge campaign is the most
far-reaching effort to reach all the
know how to fun the war, and plain
durn fools were placed in one line,
that it would reach from hither to
yon, and it would be a good idea if
someone pushed them all in the
river.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you,
but ladies are now making (and
wearing) bracelets, chains and neck
laces out of macaroni—yes, maca
roni. Like some of tjjeir other fads,
it is expected to spread like fire on
a fox’s tail in a dry oat field.
Have you ever thought what a
wonderful world this would be if
there were no wars. Just think if
all this money now being spent for
the destructions of lives and proper
ty could be expended for something
constructive—schools, churches, li
braries. public buildings and hos
pitals. This is wishful thinking, we
admit, but is sounds good just the
same.
Os course, you’ve heard the one
about the lawyer who was upbraid
ing his witness because he wouldn’t
answer a question “yes” or “no.” The
witness tried to explain that there
were questions that couldn’t be an
swered “yes” or “no.” The lawyer
was adamant. The witness asked
permission to ask the lawyer a
question. The judge and the lawyer
agreed. So the witness said to the
lawyer: “Are you still beating your
wife? Please answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’.”
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
IMPORTANT NOTICE
TO TAX PAYERS
Saturday, May 2, is the last day
to pay poll tax and the last day in
which to make tax returns. In order
to be eliigble to vote in this year’s
elections and in order to avoid tax
penalty in making tax returns, this
must be done on or before that
date. Please come by and attend to
this matter.
J. L. HOUSTON,
Early County Tax Commissioner.
BIRTHDAY DINNER
More than 100 people gathered at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant
Mock, in the New Hope community,
Sunday for a big barbecue dinner,
the occasion being Mrs. Mock’s 57th
birthday anniversary.
Those who attended were: Mr.
John Jordan and daughter, Mrs. D.
E. Poole and family, Mr. Howard
Lindsey, Mr. Albert Holley, Mrs. A.
A. Downs, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Coop
er, Mr. and Mrs. Idus Waller and
children, Mrs. Kenneth Law, Mr. J.
B. Bridges, Mr. and Mrs. Brink Hoo
. ver, Mrs. G. W. Gay and family,
' Miss Lessie Houston, Mr. and Mrs.
jW. T. Scarborough, Mr. Buddy Hol-
lington, Mr. and Mrs. Randall Shef
field, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lindsey,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Tiner, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Tiner, Mr. and Mrs. B. W.
Tiner and family. Miss Mildred Tin
er, Mr and Mrs. Will Tiner, Mr. and
Mrs. B. J. Tiner, Mr. and Mrs. Steph
en Cowart, Mr. and Mrs. Marcine
Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Cooper,
Mr. and Mrs. Marcine Warren and
family, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Beach
and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Broad
water and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Newberry and family, Mrs. Smiley
Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Dees,
Mr. and Mrs. Druie Brunson and son,
Mr. J. T. Rentz, Mr. and Mrs. B. W.
Massey, Mrs. Stella Blackshear.
people of the country ever made by
the government with the exception
of the national census, Mr. Allen
said.
“To carry on the canvass in the
159 counties of Georgia,” he contin
ued, “more than sixty thousand pa
triotic men and women have volun
teered to work without pay and
without thanks, except the gratitude
of their government, until the job
is done.
“The volunteers who will do the
actual work of canvassing each
home come from every walk of life.
Nearly every organization in Geor
gia has offered its membership to
serve as canvassing personnel.
“The Agricultural Adjustment Ag
ency and other branches of the De
partment of Agriculture will con
duct the canvass in the rural areas.
“In the cities and towns the Le
gion and the Legion Auxiliary, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the
Spanish-American War Veterans,
the Disabled American Veterans of
the World War, the P.-T. A., the
Georgia Federation of Women’s
Clubs, the Home Guard, Boy Scouts,
National Association of Life Under
writers, the labor unions, the Pilot
Clubs, the Junior Chambers of Com
merce, the Civic Clubs and many oth
er patriotic organizations will make
up the rank and file of the canvass
ing army.”
The state-wide organization has
been set up like an Army, Mr. Allen
said, with a “corps commander” in
each Congressional district. The
commanders are R. H. Gignilliat,
Savannah; M. W. Tift, Albany; Jack
B. Key, Columbus; Ely R. Callaway,
LaGrange; William K. Jenkins and
Raymond Kline, Atlanta; W. G. Lee,
Macon; Roy Lytle, Rome; M. M.
Monroe, Waycross; Frank Gabrels,
Clarksville; and E. P. Peabody, Au
gusta.
FOR SALE!
AT PRIVATE SALE
All Property Owned by the Estate of E. L.
Fryer, Sr., As Listed Below:
Home on North Main street.
Vacant lot north of Fryer’s Plumbing Co.
Two barns and lot west of Davenport
Service Station.
Vacant lot across street from J. C. Loyless
home.
Vacant lot on Fort Gaines street south of
J. C. McCuller home.
Vacant lot north of Miss Willie Byrd Bush
home.
Vacant lot east of Miss Willie Byrd Bush
home.
Farm miles on Cuthbert road.
Farm 10 miles south of Blakely, near Lu
cile.
One medium size Iron Safe.
One Buick Automobile.
One Dodge Hearse.
One one-horse Wagon.
L. B. FRYER - H. C. FRYER
Executors
|WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE
t || i ' |~ 1 Announces the Opening of a
| Eli Bicycle Repair Shop
♦ We’re Bicycle Repair Experts
We Give Bicycle Service at its Best.
| Keep that Bicycle in the Best Running Order,
t It might be some time before you can
| Buy a New One.
: So it’s your patriotic duty to
| give the best care.
♦ When anything is not working perfectly about
$ your bicycle bring it to us. We know what to do.
♦ We’ll check your bicycles without charge and
♦ get it ready for tip-top service at a slight cost.
t Our repairman is an expert.
iWESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE
♦ HERBERT HADDON, Owner-Manager
X t
! Blakely, Georgia
LOOKS FORWARD TO
RECEIVING THE NEWS
Plant City, Fla., April 17, 1942.
Editor Early County News:
Please find enclosed check for
one year’s subscription to the Ear
ly County News. It is a credit to
a town of that size. It is full of
pep. I look forward to it every
week, as it brings me news from
“Home, Sweet Home” in the Da
mascus vicinity of good old
Southwest Georgia.
MRS. H. A. COLEMAN.
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS
AND STORE OWNERS
By order of the Mayor and Coun
cil, all store owners and merchants
are required to close their doors to
business by 12 o’clock, midnight,
each Saturday night.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
CARD OF THANKS
To our many friends we wish to
extend our heartfelt thanks for their
many expressions of love and sym
pathy during the recent illness and
death of our mother.
Family of Mrs. T. G. Harvey, Sr.
Banking is Important
Never before has commercial bank
ing been more important to the in
dividual as well as to the public.
We are trying to do our part, and
your sincere co-operation is greatly
appreciated.
.Bank of Early
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All
Deposits Insured up to $5,000
Our Peanut Seed
Shelters
Are now in operation, hav
ing been over-hauled and re
worked throughout.
For a Really First-Class
Job o£ Shelling Your
PEANUTS
Spanish & Runners
and all your other seed
BRING THEM TO
CASEY JONES
(At old Duke Shelling Plant on
Arlington Road)
TRY AN AD IN THE NEWS