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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI > NO. 50
Early County Women
Are Asked to Make
Surgical Dressings
Women of Early county, the op
portunity has come to you to serve
your country in the greatest capac
ity available to civilian women out
side of your homes—the making of
surgical dressings for the soldiers at
the front.
The War Department has asked
Early county women, through the
American Red Cross, for a tremen
dously large quota of dressings.
They should not fail. Only a defi
nite length of time is given in which
to make them. With army-like pre
cision, they must be ready When the
time comes.
The Red Cross wants volunteers
immediately. The classes will be
held in four-hour periods and a vol
unteer should be reasonably sure she
can give eight hours a week to the
work. A few exceptions will be
made. She must attend her class
regularly, be prompt and let nothing
short of illness interfere with the
period she elects. There will be
night classes, too, for those who
cannot work in the day. When ab
solutely necessary, she may shift her
periods by permission of her super
visor. All work will be done at the
Blakely Work Room, according to
army regulations and standards.
Women are asked to please regis
ter at once by ’phone or mail, with
either Mrs. George Gee or Mrs. R.
O. Waters, co-chairmen of Surgical
Dressings.
It is hoped to begin instructions
within two weeks, unless orders to
the contrary are received.
High school students are also eli
gible.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
UNDERGIONG REPAIRS
Work has been started on repair
ing and recovering the Episcopal
church in Blakely.
ALL
Summer Silk
DRESSES
1-2
PRICE
This Week Only
AT
WEAVER’S
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BLAKELY MASONS
ATTEND 2ND DISTRICT
CONVENTION AT CAIRO
Messrs. W. P. Smith, J. E. Hous
ton, E. L. Hartley, L. B. Jones, J. T.
Jordan and Dr. J. G. Standifer rep
resented Magnolia Lodge No. 86 at
the 39th annual session of the Sec
ond District Masonic Convention at
Cairo last Thursday. J. M. Richards,
of Thomasville, was elevated to the
office of Worshipful Master for the
ensuing year; J. E. Houston, of
Blakely, was advanced to the office
of Junior Deacon, and J. R. Bellflow
er, o£ Tifton, was started in line.
The 1943 convention will be held
with Milford Lodge No. 181 at El
model.
Rotarians Hear
Talk on International
Convention at Toronto
The members of the Blakely Ro
tary club, meeting Friday at noon at
the Hotel Early, with President
James B. Murdock, Jr., presiding,
heard an interesting account of the
recent Convention of Rotary Inter
national held at Toronto, Canada.
The speaker was Rotarian Henry
Moye, who, accompanied by Mrs.
Moye, attended that convention as a
representative from the Blakely
club. Rotarian Moye said the con
vention was largely attended and
that a wonderful program of enter
tainment was carried out by the
citizens of Toronto. Many speakers
of world renown appeared on the
program, and the delegates in at
tendance represented almost every
nation of the civilized world.
The Club, in a special election at
last Friday’s meeting, elected Rota
rian Ed Chancy a member of the
Board of Directors to succeed V. L.
Collins, whose death occurred sever
al weeks ago.
Rotarian Kes Forrester, of Do
than, was a guest of the club, mak
ing up his attendance.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1942.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
Interesting Meeting
Os Blakely Lions
Club Held Tuesday
Meeting at noon Tuesday at the
Early Hotel, the Blakely Lions car
ried on a rather spirited discussion
of some much needed improvements
for the city of Blakely and Early
county.
Heading the list of this discussion
Was the need of an airport. This
discussion was led by Lion Jack
Standifer, Lion Philip Sheffield and
Dr. W. H. Wall, who was a guest of
the club.
All speakers agreed unless Blake
ly obtains an airport that after the
war, when most passengers and
some freight and express will be
moving by air, Blakely will find
itself much in the same position as
the old river towns which died with
the advent of the railroad. Follow
ing this discussion, the club voted to
work with the Rotary Club, which,
it was learned, had already had this
project under advisement, in an ef
fort to secure this improvement for
Blakely and Early county.
The club also agreed to renew its
fight for an improved telephone serv
ice and to inquire if anything was
going to be done toward getting the
service modernized.
Two other guests of the club
Tuesday were Judge C. W. Worrill
and Solicitor R. A. Patterson, of the
Pataula circuit, who are in Blakely
this week conducting the July term
of Early Superior Court. Both
spoke briefly, Mr. Patterson relating
two of his jokes in an inimitable
manner, much to the enjoyment of
the club.
It was announced that the Blake
ly Lions Club had been awarded the
district loving cup for having the
highest percentage attendance for
the past year. This award was made
at the State Convention and accept
ed by Lion Oscar Powell, of Arling
ton, one of the zone chairmen in
this district.
Vice-President E. H. Cheek pre
sided in the absence of President C.
G. Brewer.
A program of music was furnished
by Mrs. Ben Haisten, club pianist.
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tanks and planes alone are wars
won. Typical of the 6,000,000 Ameri
can farmers holding the line on the
food front today is John Stiles of
Rockville, Md., who is shown in this ?
symbolic photo which might be en
titled “The Man With the Hoe, 1942.”
On the Warpath, Looking for Nipponese
Flanked by deadly PT boats, an aircraft carrier of the U. S. navy
moves majestically to sea from an undisclosed port. We don’t know
where she’s going, but we know why—to look for Japs and to blast them
wherever they may be fodnd. *
Cravey Urges That
Streams and Lakes
Be Not Polluted
Farmers were today urged by
Commissioner of Natural Resources
Zack D. Cravey not to pollute
Georgia streams and lakes by dump
ing spoiled or surplus commodities
in them.
He explained that when decayed
fruits and vegetables were disposed
of in this manner, they destroy the
oxygen content in water, causing the
fish to smother. Also, sprays on
vegetation often poison water and
render it unfit for fish. Peaches,
especially, are harmful to them.
Commissioner Cravey said pollu
tion has not been as serious this
season as it was last summer when
the drought lowered water levels in
most rivers and lakes. However, he
said Georgia needs an entirely new
set of pollution control laws that he
will ask the next legislature to pro
vide.
Plants where drying, bleaching
and canning operations are carried
on are responsible for pollution of
many of Georgia’s finest rivers. In
most instances officials could prevent
this if they were willing to cooper
ate fully with sportsmen and the
Department of Natural Resources,
he said.
As an example of such coopera
tion, he said the Steinfeldt-Thomp
son canning plant in Adel had
agreed to make special arrange
ments to prevent materials contain
ing harmful chemicals from flowing
into the Willacoochee River.
According to an article which ap
peared recently in the Valdosta
Times, company officials and chem
ists “plan to build a special tank ad
joining the lye-peeler for the pur
poses of reducing the overflow from
the peeler place screens to elimi
nate the solid matter contained in
the overflow from the papper, and
divert liquid waste from the river
stream into a large area of waste
land.”
Tuesday the temperature rose to
100 degrees (official government
thermometer) to make it the hottest
day so far of the present summer.
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water sideways, the USS Doyen,
new naval transport, is shown as
she was launched at the yards of
the Consolidated Steel corporation,
at Long Beach, Calif. The vessel
is said to be the largest naval ship
ever constructed here. <■,
FIRST DRAFT DODGER
CASE IN EARLY COUNTY
REPORTED THIS WEEK
The first case against a draft
dodger in Early county was docketed
here this week, when Deputy Sheriff
C. C. Swann arrested and placed in
jail Rufus Thomas, Negro, who had
been evading the draft since last
last December.
Thomas is - a resident of Early
county, but at the time of registra
tion he lived in Calhoun and was
registered there. He was notified by
his draft board to report for duty
last December, but had never re
ported. Deputy Swann said that
Thomas had been living in the
swamps these months, coming out at
night only to get something to eat.
Funeral Service Here
Monday for Former
Early Countian
Burial service for Erie J. Robin
son, 62, former Early countian who
died in Moultrie early Sunday morn
ing, were held here Monday after
noon in the Blakely cemetery, with
the Rev. S. B. King officiating.
Mr. Robinson, at the time of his
death, was at the home of a daugh
ter in Moultrie where he had been
carried from his McClenny (Fla.)
home after he had sustained injuries
as the result of a fall. Death was
attributed to complications which set
in following the fall.
Funeral services were held in the
Moultrie Baptist church Tuesday at
12 o’clock noon, with Rev. Mr. Gresh
am, of Moultrie, officiating. Follow
ing the funeral services, the body
was brought to Blakely for inter
ment.
Mr. Robinson was born in Homer
ville, Ga., in 1880, but since early
manhood had lived in Early county
until 19.25, when he moved to Cool
edge, Ga., and later to McClenney,
Fla. He was engaged in the sawmill
business in all these places. He was
a member of the Baptist church and
was well known in the lower part of
the county and had many friends
who regretted to hear of his death.
Survivors include his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. B. M. Lindsey of
Blakely and Mrs. Ellis Moncrief of
Moultrie; one son, Ralph Robinson,
of Tampa, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs.
W. A. Jones of Cooledge, Ga., Mrs.
C. C. Craven of Savannah and Mrs.
Chester Hardege of Poulan; and one
brother, T. R. Robinson, of Jackson
ville.
FIRST OPEN COTTON
REPORTED THIS WEEK
The first open cotton of the 1942
season to be reported here this year
was grown by W. R. McKinney on
his farm near Hilton. The cotton
was’■picked Monday morning and was
fully opened. If this is any indica
tion of what the other farmers are
doing, the cotton gins should be hum
ming' within another ten days.
AN INVESTMENT IN THE
SECURITY OF FREEDOM—
As an investment in the security of
our great nation, we have bought
government bonds totaling
$108,000.00
which, when added to that bought
by other individuals and business
es, will help to finance the gigantic
war effort of these United States
—an effort that must not fail, lest
the freedoms of mankind perish.
—HAVE YOU MADE YOUR
INVESTMENT? : : :
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
Maddox Unopposed
For Mayor, Three in
Race for Council
,S. G. Maddox, prominent local
business man, will be elected Mayor
of Blakely in the annual city election
to be held on Tuesday, August 4,
it became known Monday night when
the entries closed to candidates in
that election and no one qualified as
a candidate in opposition to Mr.
Maddox.
There are three candidates for the
two places on Council, City Clerk C.
C. Lane announced. They are C. R.
Barksdale, L. B. Fryer and L. C.
Hobbs. Dr. Barksdale and Mr. Fry
er are members of the present Coun
cil and are candidates to succeed
themselves. Mr. Hobbs, the third
candidate, is a former member of the
city police force and at present is en
gaged in farming operations.
The new Mayor, who will succeed
R. C. Singletary, the incumbent,
Who is serving the second year of a
two-year term and is ineligible for
re-election, and the two members of
Council who are elected on Tuesday,
August 4, will assume office the first
of next January and will serve for
two years.
Naval Recruiters
At Postoffice Here
Thursday, July 30
Several U. S. Navy Recruiters of
the Navy Recruiting Station, Al
bany, Georgia, will be at the post
office in Blakely Thursday, July 30,
for the purpose of interviewing
young men who are interested in the
Navy or Naval Reserve.
The Navy Department announces
that it has lowered the requirements
for vision and urges all those who
have in the past been rejected for
defective vision apply for another
examination when the Navy Recruit
ers are in Blakely on July 30.
The Classes affected by the low
ering of these requirements are:
Class V-2, Aviation; Class V-3, Ra
dio; Class V-4, Naval Intelligence;
and Class V-6, General Service.
The office hours of the recruiters
will be from 10:00 a. m. until 5:00
p. m.
THURSDAY HALF
HOLIDAYS TO END
AFTER JULY 30
The Thursday afternoon half-holi
days, inaugurated here last April,
will end on next Thursday, July 30.
This is in accordance with the clos
ing agreement signed by local busi
ness houses.
The Thursday half-holidays have
been observed during the summer
months here for many years.
The Early County Library will be
open each day from 9 a. m. to 7 p.
m., except Thursday afternoon,
when a half-holiday will be observed.