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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 42
2,426 SIGN PLEDGE
IN EARLY’S BOND
AND STAMP DRIVE
Two thousand, four hundred and
twenty-six loyal Early countians
signed pledges in the amount of
$86,143.86 toward the purchase of
war bonds and stamps for the year
1942, according to S. G. Maddox,
executive chairman of the war bond
drive.
The survey was completed last
week, Mr. Maddox said, and showed
that Early county citizens, as usual,
were cooperating whole-heartedly
toward a complete victory over the
Axis powers. Early’s quota for the
month of May was set at $23,300,
and of this amount $11,264.85
worth of bonds and stamps have al
ready been bought. These figures
are through last Friday, May 22.
“I hope all Early countians who
haven’t yet bought their May quota
will do so this week,” Mr. Maddox
said. “As the tempo of the war and
preparations for war increase daily,
it behooves us all to increase our ef
forts on the ‘Bond Front.’ After all,
we are far behind the real front and
the only sacrifice we are being called
upon to make it to give our time and
energy. It would be terrible to con
template if our sons in the battle
zones went lacking because we were
‘too busy’ to push the sales of bonds
and stamps with which to buy the
things they need. Do not be lulled
by the silly propaganda that ‘the war
will soon be over.’ We are just be
ginning to get into it.”
Acknowledging the help of Early
countians in the recent drive, Mr.
Maddox said: “I wish to thank the
200 workers who so cheerfully gave
of their time in order that the pledge
campaign might be made. Everyone
worked magnificently and the drive
went off just as we planned. Early
county has a habit of always doing
its best, and this time was no excep
tion.”
The Negroes of Early county did
SSSDAYSSS DAYS SSS
CONTINUE AT
WEAVER’S
Our Dollar Days Run Thru This Week, Saturday, May 30
8 Yards LL Sheeting, 36 in. widesl.oo
7 Yards Prints, fast colorssl.oo
Men’s $1.49 Wash Pants, pairsl.oo
Men’s Straw Hats, 2 forsl.oo
Boys’ Pants, 98c value, 2 pairssl.oo
Ladies’ $1.25 Silk Hose SI.OO
Men’s $1.69 Overalls, pair ._ SI.OO
Towels, 19c value, 6 forsl.oo
Men’s Ties, reg. 69c value, 2 forsl.oo
Boys’ Shirts, good value, 2 for SI.OO
Men’s Khaki Pants, $1.49 valuesl.oo
Ladies’ Panties, 35c value, 4 pairssl.oo
Satin Slips, $1.39 value SI.OO
Ladies’ Shoes, one table values to $2.95__ SI.OO
Summer Sheer Materials, 39 value,
3 yardss 1 .00
SI.OO SI.OO SI.OO SI.OO SI.OO SI.OO SI.OO
$ This Week Only SI.OO Off List Price on Any $
Silk Dress in the House $
SI,OO SI.OO SI.OO SIOO sl-00 SIOO SIOO
—BUY DEFENSE STAMPS AND BONDS NOW—
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely's Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
(Carb) ■ ComitD Mew
Honor PT-Boat Hero
e
Mrs. John D. Bulkeley, wife of
the PT-boat hero of the Philippines,
is proud of the Navy Belief society
pin she is wearing, and calls the
attention of Stanton Griffis, chair
man of special events committee
of the navy relief drive, to the fact.
They are shown in the reviewing
stand in Times square, New York,
when a parade in honor of Bulkeley
was staged.
TRITE-STATE SINGING
CONVENTION TO BE
HELD HERE SUNDAY
The Tri-State Singing Convention
will be held here Sunday, it was an
nounced this week by D. C. Morgan,
in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Morgan stated that the all-day
session will be held in the court
house, and that loud speakers would
be installed for the benefit of those
who might not be able to find seats
in the court room.
Many singers from southwest Geor
gia, southeast Alabama and north
Florida are expected to take part in
the singing and hundreds of visitors
are expected in the city for the day,
Mr. Morgan said.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
their part, too.' Os the total amount
of pledges, $9,376.27 was subscribed
by 453 Negroes.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1942.
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BANQUET GIVEN
FOR SENIORS AND
ROTARYANNES
In the attractively decorated din
ing room of the Hotel Early, the
Blakely Rotary Club on last Friday
night observed the highlight occa
sion of the Rotary year, when the
members of the Senior Class of the
Blakely high school, the Rotaryannes
and high school faculty members
were guests of the club in its annual
Senior Class-Ladies’ banquet. A hun
dred or more were present on this
occasion.
Dr. W. H. Wall, president of the
club, presided, and acted as master
of ceremonies during an enjoyable
period of entertainment, which was
featured by music, songs, readings
and short talks.
The meeting was opened with the
singing of “America,” and after a
few brief remarks by President Wall,
Rotarian Marvin Sparks welcomed
the Rotary guests. Responding to
this welcome were Mrs. Henry Moye,
for the Rotaryannes and Ralph Dan
iel, class president, for the Seniors.
Then, following the invocation by
Rotarian Bill Burford, a delightful
dinner was enjoyed.
Continuing the program, the fol
lowing order was observed:
Roll Call of Club: “Chip” Grubbs,
Secretary.
Roll Call of Seniors: Ralph Dan
iel, class president.
Song: “God Bless America.”
Accordion Selections: Miss Caro
lyn Holman.
Songs with Guitar Accompani
ment: Fred Pressley.
Reading, “Three Breakfasts:” Mrs.
Thomas Debnam.
Quartet Numbers (under direction
of C. Bradley Bridges, with Virgil
Oswald accompanist): Misses Dynva
Miller, Joyce Jackson, Lucy Hoover
and Johnny Dot Hudson.
Reading, “So Long, Son:” Miss
Joyce Jackson.
The program ended with a few re
marks by President Wall and the
singing of “End of a Rotary Day.”
The guests were then invited to
the Woman’s Club building, in Wood
lawn Park, where dancing was en
joyed.
In addition to the Senior Class
members, the guests present at the
Seniors, the guests present at the
banquet included Mrs. W. H. Wall,
Miss Evelyn Morgan, Mrs. Alta Man
gham, Mrs. Henry Moye, Mrs. J. B.
Jones, Mrs. Charles Boyett, Mrs. Bill
Boyett, Mrs. J. D. Rogerts, Mrs. Al
van Fleming, Mrs. Tom Debnam,
Miss Betty Deal, Mrs. Price Holland,
Mrs. F. A. Barham, Mrs. Richard
Grist, Mrs. Ed Chancy, Mrs. Alfred
Felder, Mrs. Emory Houston, Miss
Mary X. Brown, Mr. Melvin Middle
ton, Mr. H. A. Walton, Mrs. Barney
Wynne, Mr. Fred Godwin, Miss Syl
via Bell, Miss Lillian Fryer, Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Singletary, Jr., Mrs.
J. W. Bonner, Mrs. Lewis Fryer,
Mrs. Dunbar Grist, Mrs. W. J. Grist,
Mrs. E. P. Whitehead, Mrs. Guy
Maddox, Miss Meade Maddox, Mrs.
Marvin Sparks, Mr. Earl “Tige”
Pickle, Mrs. W. F. Burford, Mrs.
Ben Godwin, Miss Ina Claire God
win, Miss Ella Jones, Mr. T. B.
Clyburn, Miss Stiles, Mrs. F. B. Mar
tindale, Miss Whaley, Mr. and Mrs.
E. H. Cheek, Mr. C. Bradley Bridges,
Mr. Virgil Oswald, Miss Dynva Mill
er, Miss Joyce Jackson, Miss John
ny Dot Hudson and Miss Lucy
Hoover.
Members o fthe Senior class are:
Jane Bonner, Margaret Boyett, Jua
nita Corley, Peggy Duke, Elon
Hayes, Marie Monfort, Pauline Liv
ingston, Virginia McDowell, Neva
Nobles, Mary Patterson, Eleanor
Pritchard, Eugenia Thompson, Iris
Weathersby, Dorothy Whatley, Rena
Belle White, Edna Williams, Daniel
Bailey, Mack Balkcom, Borden Bar
ry, Fred Bostwick, Joe Brooks, Mil
ton Bryant, Jr., Thomas Byrd, Bow
dre Carswell, Hamp Clark, James
Collier, Ralph Daniel, Clarence Fai
son, Wilson Fryer, Robert Hoover,
William Jordan, Ben Moseley, John
Moseley, John Pipkin, Fred Press
ley, Jr., Reuben Roberts, Onley
Whitehurst, James White, James
Williams, Harold Willis.
Edger Bergen and Charlie McCar
thy in “Look Who’s Laughing” at
the Blakely Theatre Thursday and
Friday.
GRADUATION
EXERCISES
FRIDAY NIGHT
The curtain will be rung down on
the 1941-’42 term of the Blakely
school Friday night, when forty
young graduates will receive their
diplomas at the graduation exercises
to be held in the Methodist church
beginning at 9:30 o’clock.
The commencement program was
opened Sunday morning, when the
baccalaureate sermon was delivered
at the Baptist church by the Rev.
Spencer B. King. The minister’s
text was from the 17th verse of
the 90th Psalm, “Establish the works
of our hands upon us, the works of
our hands establish thou it.” The ser
mon was a compelling admonition to
youth to do well those things which
fell to their hands to do. A crowd
which taxed the capacity of the
church heard the inspiring message.
Adding to the impressiveness of the
occasion were the beautiful an
thems rendered by the choir.
The program for the morning serv
ice included: Prelude; Processional;
Invocation by the Rev. W. F. Bur
ford; Announcements by Supt. T. B.
Clyburn; Anthem, “Rejoice, the
Lord Is King,” by the Choir; Scrip
ture, Romans 12, by the Rev. W. F.
Burford; Anthem, “Come Unto Me,”
by the Choir; Sermon, “The Work
of Our Hands,” by the Rev. Spencer
B. King; Hymn, “Must Jesus Bear
the Cross Alone?” Congregation;
Benediction by the Rev. Joseph H.
Harvey, and the Recessional.
Monday evening at the city hall
the grammar school pupils of Miss
Evelyn Dußose were presented in a
recital at the city hall. Tuesday
evening, at the same place, Miss Du-
Bose’s high school music pupils gave
their recital. Both these programs
were attended only by members of
the families and close friends of the
pupils due to the limited seating ca
pacity of the city hall auditorium.
Tonight (Thursday) at the Meth
odist church, at 8:30 o’clock, the “Lit
tle Commencement” or graduation
exercises of the grammar school, will
be held and the following program
will be presented:
Pre-Graduation Music: Miss Alyce
Rhodes, Pianist.
Processional: Grand March from
“Aida.”
Invocation: Rev. Spencer B. King.
Class Song: Follow the Gleam.
Salutatory: Tom Jones.
Dedication: Ruth Ann Clyburn.
Giftorian: Winifred Alexander.
Solo, The Beautiful Blue Danube:
Nancy Harrison, with Carol Beck
ham, accompanist.
Valedictory: Marion Dunning.
America: Class and Audience.
Talk: Miss Ted Phelps.
Delivery of Awards and Diplomas.
Benediction: Rev. W. F. Burford.
Members of the class include 13
boys and twenty-eight girls. They
are: Winifred Alexander, Mary Al
len, Lucretia Anglin, Carol Beckham,
Helen Chapman, Ruth Ann Clyburn,
Wilma Cole, Marion Dunning, Mar,
tha Fudge, Marshaline Giles, Mabie
Granger, Joanne Grimsley, Myrtice
Grimsley, Mary Grubbs, Mozelle
Harpe, Nancy Harrison, Joyce Hoot
en, Sara King, Alice Lanier, Velma
McKnight, Dorothy Oldham, Helen
Patterson, Beverley Pierson, Carolyn
Pullen, Nettie Quattlebaum, Gwendo
lyn Tolar, Caroline Whatley, Addie
White, Edwin Brasington, Fred Dar
den, Marshall Day, James Hoover,
Thomas Howard, Tom Jones, Lee
Roy Lane, Billy McCormick, Billy
Peters, Fred Sawyer, Lloyd Dale
Sheffield, Billy Taliaferro, Elvin
Williams.
Friday night, at the Methodist
church, beginning at 9:30 o’clock,
the graduation exercises of the Sen
ior Class will be held and the fol
lowing program will be presented:
Processional.
Invocation: The Rev. W. F. Bur
ford.
Class Song: Class.
Salutatory: James White.
Class History: Jane Bonner.
Prophecy: Elon Hayes.
Last Will and Testament: Wilson
Fryer.
Giftorian: Pauline Livingston.
Valedictory: Margaret Boyett.
Awards and Diplomas: Supt. T. B.
Jab at Der Fuehrer .
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The camera spotted a new gadget
on President Roosevelt’s curio-lit
tered desk as he greeted Egyptian
minister Mahmoud Hassan Bey.
The statuette appears to be a bend
ing fuehrer (lower left) who offers
the seat of his pants either as a
match-striker or a pin cushion.
COMMUNITY CANNING
PLANT BEING ERECTED
ON SCHOOL CAMPUS
A wooden building is being con
structed on the Blakely school cam
pus which will house the new com
munity canning plant and will be
completed and ready for operation
around June I's, Vocational Teacher
E. H. Cheek announced Wednesday.
The building is being constructed
adjacent to the gymnasium and will
be 30x40 feet. It will have a con
crete floor and an asbestos roof.
John B. Stokes is the contractor.
Mr. Cheek said that much of the
equipment for the canning plant
has already been bought, and in
cludes a boiler, two retorts and sev
eral thousand cans, and the public
can avail itself of the opportunity of
using this plant when it is opened a
few weeks hence.
The plant will have a capacity of
2,000 quarts per day. It is a com
munity plant and people using the
plant will be charged only a minimum
amount to cover the cost of the cans.
It is a non-profit enterprise and will
be conducted as such, Mr. Cheek said.
Clyburn.
Farewell Song: Class.
Recessional.
Members of the class who will re
ceive diplomas are: Jane Bonner,
Margaret Boyett, Peggy Duke, Paul
ine Livingston, Eleanor Pritchard,
Iris Weathersby, Mary Patterson,
Eugenia Thompson, Rena Belle
White, Elon Hayes, Juanita Corley,
Virginia McDowell, Dorothy What
ley, Edna Williams, Neva Nobles,
Marie Monfort, Ralph Daniel, Bow
dre Carswell, Fred Pressley, Jr., Wil
son Fryer, Onley Whitehurst, Milton
Bryant, Jr., Mack Balkcom, John
Moseley, Ben Moseley, James Col
lier, Joe Brooks, James White, Reu
ben Roberts, John Pipkin, Robert
Hoover, Clarence Faison, James Wil
liams, William Jordan, Hamp Clark,
Thomas Byrd, Borden Barry, Daniel
Bailey, Harry Sirmons, Harold Wil
lis.
“Checking” for Shopping
Convenience—*
Housewives find it so convenient
and economical to pay by check . . ,
Our simple checking account service
costs only a few cents per check . . .
no heavy balance-in-the bank prob
lems either.
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
$1.50 A YEAR
MEETINGS HELD
TO STIMULATE
PRODUCTION
The Early County Agricultural
Council, composed of farmers and
technical workers, has been holding
meetings in an effort to increase the
production on Early county farms.
Items that were determined as
contributing to increased output are:
soil conservation and improvement,
crop rotation, and the use of ferti
lizer to certain crops.
There can be no argument whatso
ever that improved soil produces bet
ter crops and that depleted soil pro
duces less, a spokesman for the
Council said. Soil conservation and
improvement is not a very great
task. The principal requirement is
planning. Some of the outstanding
aids to soil improvement are cover
crops, crop rotation, and terracing.
Cover crops are of prime import
ance during the present emergency
for several reasons, namely: the in
creased peanut acreage will tend to
sap our land, whereby legumes will
put nitrogen and humus back into
the soil. Also, cover crops can be
and are used for grazing by farm
animals and the production of hay.
With soil improved and a wider use
of commercial fertilizers, production
per acre will be materially increased,
the Council spokesman said. This
increased production per acre is ec
onomical as well as producing a bet
ter quality product.
Conference of Law
Enforcement Officers
At Albany Today
A conference for the second quar
ter of 1942 to be held under the
FBI Law Enforcement Officers Mo
bilization Plan for National De
fense will be held at Albany in the
Federal court room, at 2:00 p. m.,
today (Thursday). Sheriff C. E.
Martin and Police Officer J. L. Mc-
Arthur and officers of their depart
ments have been invited to attend
this conference from Early county
by F. R. Hammack, special agent in
charge of the Atlanta field office.
These officers are expected to take
an active part in the discussion.
The principal speaker at this confer
ence will be the Honorable Guy O.
Stone, State Commander of the
American Legion of the State of
Georgia.
These quarterly conferences are
for law enforcement officers and
are being held throughout the Unit
ed States under the direction of the
Special Agents in charge of the va
rious offices for the purpose of co
ordinating the efforts of all law
enforcement agencies in National
Defense investigations.
Edger Bergen and Charlie McCar
thy in “Look Who’s Laughing” at
the Blakely Theatre Thursday and
Friday.