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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI > NO. 46
Miss Willie Byrd
Bush Passes After
Lingering Illness
Funeral services for Miss Willie
Byrd Bush, -who died at her home on
Lee street early Monday morning,
were held Tuesday afternoon at the
Methodist church. Death was not
unexpected, as Miss Bush had been
ili for several months.
The Rev. E. M. Overby, a former
pastor of the Blakely Methodist
church, of which Miss Bush was a
member, conducted the services, as
sisted by the Rev. S. B. King. A
large group of friends and relatives
attended these last rites. Interment
was in the Blakely cemetery, with the
Minter, Fellows & Forreser Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements and
the following serving as pall-bear
ers: R. L. Whitehurst, Sam Owen,
H. A. Mobley, I. M. Bramblett, Os
car Whitchard and Dunbar Grist.
Honorary pall-bearers were Joe W.
Allen, Lewis B. Fryer, Bryant Tur
ner, R. C. Howell, W. L. Rhodes, R.
C. Singletary, Dr. J. G. Standifer,
F. A. Barham, Grady Holman, and
J. B. Jones.
'Survivors include her stepmother,
Mrs. Bessie Bush; five brothers,
Ernest Bush of Columbus, Huey Lee
Bush of Scottsboro, Ala., Bob,
George and Gene Bush of Blakely;
two sisters, Mrs. Joe Coggins of
Blakely and Miss Louise Bush of
Panama City, Fla.„ and the following
nieces and nephews: Cona Ann Bush
of Columbus, Dorothy Ann and
Yvonne Bush of Scottsboro, Ala.,
and Barbara, Kenneth, David, and
Charles Epp Bush of Blakely.
Born in 1898 in Abbeville, Ala.,
the daughter of the late George R.
(Epp) Bush and Cona Miller Bush,
Miss Bush moved to Early county as
a young girl and here grew into
womanhood. She was well-known
over south Georgia, as she was a
prominent business woman, being en
gaged in the market and grocery
business, which she managed her
self. Because of declining health,
Miss Bush sold her business early
this year. Her health failed to im
prove and eight weeks ago she was
Weaver’s =
announces a paint
department
PAINTS—
VARNISHES—
ENAMELS—
Complete stock of
SOUTHPORT
paint products. (Made by
the Wesson oil people)
Now in stock.
Let us quote you our low
prices before you buy.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
Countn JXcws
NEW V-MAIL SERVICE
BEGINS OPERATION AT
LOCAL POSTOFFICE
To decrease the weight and bulk
and to expedite delivery of mail to
members of the armed forces outside
the Continental United States, the
new V-Mail Service will begin oper
ation at the local postoffice, pending
arrival of the stationery. Postmaster
J. Emory Houston announced yes
terday.
V-Mail is the name given this new
service by postal officials. It is to
be used only by patrons who desire
to communicate with members of
the armed forces who are stationed
in some foreign post. All letters
which are to be carried by V-Mail
Service must be written on this spe
cial paper and envelope, which will
arrive at the local postoffice at an
early date, and no other written
matter may be attached. This new
stationery has been placed on sale
at only a few of the larger postof
fices as yet. It is of special make,
made of light durable paper together
with an envelope which, when fold
ed, gives the appearance of an ordi
nary letter.
In some instances, Mr. Houston
said, these letters will be photo
graphed and placed on a micro-film
and sent with many others to some
foreign port, where they will be
re-written and mailed on to soldiers
just as they were originally written.
When the stationery arrives the
public will be advised through an
other announcement, Mr. Houston
stated.
Blackberries—Rolling stores and
country stores will accept them in
trade. We pay highest cash price
delivered in Blakely. CURTIS L.
MIDDLETON.
taken seriously ill and continued
to grow worse until death came
Monday morning.
A token of the regard and esteem
in which she was held was made man
ifest by the large throng of friends
who attended her last rites and by
the profusion of lovely flowers which
covered her last resting place.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1942,
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ADOPTS
REGULATIONS GOVERNING PRIMARY SEPT. 9
The Early County Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, meeting Satur
day, elected E. S. Collins chair
man and A, T. Fleming, secretary,
fixed Saturday, July 4, 12 o’clock
noon, E. W. T., as the closing date
for candidates to qualify, adopted
rules to govern the primary and
named managers to hold the primary.
The entry fee for candidates for
Representative in the General As
sembly was fixed at SIOO.OO, with
the proviso that if there is more
than one candidate, the assessment
shall be reduced to $50.00. The
assessment must be paid to the
secretary of the committee not later
than 12 o’clock, noon E. W. T., on
July 4.
The committee adopted the follow
ing resolutions governing the pri
mary:
1. Be it resolved by the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of Ear
ly County, That a primary election
be held on the 9th day of Septem
ber, 1942, for the nomination of a
Governor and various state house of
ficers, a United States Senator, a
candidate for Congress from the
Second district, a Judge of the Su
perior Courts of the Pataula circuit,
a Representative in the General As
sembly from Early County, and a
Democratic Executive Committee for
Early county.
2. That said primary shall be held
Under the rules and regulations laid
down by the State Democratic Exec
utive Committee, except as hereinaft
er provided.
3. That for the purpose of defray
ing the expenses of said primary
election each candidate for Repre
sentative in the General A.ssembly
shall pay an assessment of
SIOO.OO, but in the event there is
more than one candidate for Rep
resentative, said assessment shall be
reduced to $50.00. Said assess
ment shall be paid to the
Secretary of the Early County Dem
ocratic Executive Committee not
later than 12 o’clock, noon, Eastern
War Time, on Saturday, July 4,
1942, or in default thereof the
name of the candidate so defaulting
shall not be placed on the official
ballot to be used in said primary.
4. Candidates for Representative
shall file an itemized account of their
campaign expenses by 10 o’clock a
m., on the 10th day of September.
1942, in accordance with the state
laws governing primary elections.
5. No candidate in said primary
shall be declared the nominee of the
party for any of the offices named,
if it shall be made satisfactorily to
appear to this committee that he has
used money, liquor or other thing of
value illegally for the purpose of
securing votes in his race, and this
provision shall apply where such im
proper use of money, liquor or other
thing of value is made by friends of
such candidate with his knowledge.
Nor shall any candidate receive the
vote of the county who violates the
provisions of this state regarding
primary elections.
6. The Australian ballot system
Planning Anti - Submarine Control
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• Shown at Mitchell Field as they discussed the Atlantic anti-sub
marine patrol with Brig. Gen. Jimmie Doolittle (center, seated) are,
left to right, Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley, commanding the First air
force; Brig. Gen. Joe Cannon, commanding the First fighter command;
Col. E. E. Glenn, chief of staff of the First air force; and Brig. Gen.
Westside Larson, commanding the First bomber command. «
shall be used in said primary elec
tion, and managers are instructed to
rigidly enforce provisions of this
law.
7. The candidate receiving the
highest number of votes shall be
declared the winner in each of the
offices to be filled in said primary
election.
8. The participation of any can
didate in this primary shall consti
tute a pledge on the part of that
candidate to support the entire Dem
ocratic ticket in the general elec
tion.
9. The secretary of this committee
is authorized to prepare and dis
tribute the official ballot for said
primary election.
10. The following managers are
named to hold said primary in the
several districts named:
Arlington: W. R. Taylor, E. B.
Davis, W. C. Bryan.
Blakely: J. C. Loyless, R. O. Wat
ers, John H. Williams.
Cedar Springs: J. G. Brantley, L.
H. Baughman, E. A. Reed.
Colomokee: J. L. Bethea, E. S.
Collins, F. L. Williams.
Cuba: G. O. Lindsey, J. B. Bridges,
W. T. Bates.
Damascus: C. H. Lanier, E. L.
Lewis, I. A. Walton.
Freeman: G. H. Owen, Lewis
Jones, George Nelson.
Jakin: Branson Minter, E. C.
Mosely, Marvin Cannon.
Lucile: H. J. Cosby, W. C. Hous
ton, W. B. Reagan, Jr.
Rock Hill: G. M. Stephens, Em
mett .McLendon, W. A. Smith.
Urquhart: John Hudspeth, Theo
White, Shelly Simmons.
Driver’s License Must
Be Secured by Next
Tuesday, June 30
Have you renewed your driver’s
license?
With only about a week until the
expiration of the present driver’s
licenses, Major John E. Goodwin, of
the Department of Public Safety,
says applications for renewal of li
censes are steadily increasing. The
license bureau has adequate person
nel to quickly handle renewals, but
numerous applicants are failing to
send in the renewal stub from the
old licenses, says the Commissioner.
They are applying on old license
forms (1941-’42), and are failing to
complete the applications and put
correct mailing address, and they fail
to make separate application for
each member of the family, all of
which delays the return of the li
cense.
Major Goodwin asks the public to
bear in mind the above named fail
ures and to read the instruction on
the application. Do these things and
renew before midnight of June 30.
We pay highest cash price for
blackberries, delivered in Blakely.
CURTIS L. MIDDLETON, opposite
postoffice.
NATION-WIDE SCRAP
RUBBER CAMPAIGN
CONTINUES THRU WEEK
The nation-wide campaign to gath
er scrap rubber will continue through
this week, and those who have not
aided in the campaign are urged to
gather and deliver any discarded
rubber articles of any nature
to the nearest gasoline filling
station before the end of the week.
The station operators are authorized
to pay a cent a pound for all scrap
rubber, and will in turn be reim
bursed by the government for this
expenditure.
Gasoline rationing of a nation
wide scope will depend largely upon
the success of the scrap rubber drive,
and the probability of some rubber
for retreading of tires likewise may
hinge on the amount of scrap rubber
collected this week.
Lions and Rotarians
in Joint Meeting Hear
Navy Officials
In a joint meeting held at the
Early Hotel last Friday, members of
the Rotary and Lions Clubs heard
two Navy officials of the recruiting
station in Albany speak on life in
the Navy and the part the Navy is
doing in today’s war.
The officers were Chief Specialist
Tommy Hooks and Chief Petty Offi
cer Hollis Stanford. Mr. Hooks spoke
on the different branches of the Navy
and told of some of the Navy’s
modern day war equipment. He gave
an interesting account of how some
of the modern equipment was sup
posedly used in the Battle of the
Coral Sea and at Midway Island.
Mr. Stanford elaborated on the
different branches which Mr. Hooks
had described and also told how a
recruit went* about getting into the
different branches and what the
qualifications are. He closed his
talk by telling his listeners how vital
it is to victory that the United States
have the best Navy in the world and
how the Navy is making a special
drive to gain more men. He charged
his listeners to aid in every way
possible in getting these new re
cruits. “When this has been done,”
he said, “our Navy will not only be
second to none in the world, but
will be twice as large as that of any
other nation, Allied or Axis, in the
universe.”
The meeting was presided over by
Rotarian Henry Wall and a program
of piano music was rendered by Mrs.
Ben Haisten. Guests included W. C.
Cook, a guest of Rotarian Wall, Der
rell Felder, a guest of Lion “Tige”
Pickle, Felix Barham, Jr., a guest
of his father, Rotarian Felix Bar
ham, and R. E. Alexander, a guest
of Rotarian Ben Godwin.
NOTICE TO ALL AUTOMOBILE
AND TRUCK OWNERS
If you do not have your Certifi
cate of Registration that was sent
you when you were sent your 1942
tag and have not obtained duplicate,
it will be necessary for you to ob
tain duplicate, as registrars will not
be able to issue you gasoline coupon
book in July without it.
LOCAL RATIONING BOARD.
BANKS AND
THE WAR...
IVTODERN wars are fought on many fronts,
one of them is right at home. Life
must go on. People must live, eat, have
shelter and clothing, and carry on in many
ways as they did before the war. '<•
The regular services offered by banks to
provide safety for money, expedite payments,
facilitate thrift and so on, are still as import
ant as ever. We continue to offer them, even
though the stress is now on the special war
time services. You are invited to use this
bank.
FIRST STATE BANK
BLAKELY, 1 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
Young Men 18-20
To Register Next
Tuesday, June 30
Alex Carswell, clerk of the local
draft board, announced yesterday
that plans have been made for Ear
ly county’s participation in the
national registration of youths in the
28-20 age group on next Tuesday,
June 30th. The registration will be
held under a proclamation issued by
the President of the United States
under authority contained in the
Selective Training and Service Act of
1904 and the amendment of De
cember, 1941. This (the fifth) reg
istration under the Selective Train
ing and Service Act will be nation
wide and will take place between
the hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m.
The places of registration will be
posted at the court house and in all
the postoffices in the county.
Under provisions of the act “every
male citizen of the United States,
and every other male person resid
ing in the continental United States
or in the Territory of Alaska or in
the Territory of Hawaii or in Puerto
Ric, other than persons excepted
by Section s(a) of the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1940, as
amended, and by Section 208 of the
Coast Guard Artillery and Reserve
Act of 1941, is required to and shall
on June 30, 1942, present himself
for and submit to registration be
fore a duly designated registration
official or selective service local
board having jurisdiction in the
area in which he has his permanent
home or in which he may happen to
be on that day if such male citizen
or other male person has attained
the eighteenth or the nineteenth an
niversary of he day of his birth on
or before June 30, 1942, or the
twentieth anniversary of the day of
his birth after December 31, 1941,
and on or before June 30, 1942, and
has not heretofore been registered
under the Selective Training and
Service Act of 1940, as amended,
and the,regulations prescribed there
under.”
The proclamation further states:
“The duty of any person to present
himself for and submit to registra
tion in accordance with any previous
proclamation issued under said Act
shall not be affected by this proc
lamation.”
JAKIN TO HAVE
REVIVAL MEETING
Rev. Marvin Vincent, pastor of the
Jakin Methodist church, announces
that revival services will be held at
that place beginning the first Sunday
night in July and continuing until
the second Sunday morning. Serv
ices will be held twice daily, except
no day service Monday and no serv
ice at all on Saturday. The first
service the first Sunday night will
be in charge of the lay'men in the
absence of the pastor, who will be
closing a revival at Iron City. A vis
iting lay speaker is expected for
this service. The interest, attend
ance, and cooperation of the public
are solicited for these services. A very
cordial welcome will be extended to
all who come. The church, our
country, and the world need nothing
more right now than a revival of
real religion, Pastor Vincent said.
Blackberries—Rolling stores and
country stores will accept them in
trade. We pay highest cash price
delivered in Blakely. CURTIS L.
MIDDLETON.