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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
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VOLUME LXXXIII > NO. 26
V Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
j. Georgians Buy
I $14,248,08 Bonds
During January
Georgians purchased the record
J breaking total of $14,248,087.00
worth of war bonds during Janary,
! it is announced today by Marion H.
fe 4 Allen,
* I administrator of the Georgia
) k War Saings Staff.
a Thg administrator revealed also
thatk the state quota of $9,200,000,
established on sales of series E
bonds only, was exceeded by more
than one million dollars.
I Federal Reserve Bank totals which
were reported to Mr. Allen show that
residents of the state purchased $10,-
280,'M0 worth of Series E bonds and
$3,9§7,68'7 worth of Series F and
5 G bonds during the past month.
The unprecedented January sales
exceeded by more than $4,000,000
the former banner month of Novem
her, when American Legion posts
* throughout the state sponsored
bond sales.
Practically all of the counties in
Georgia exceeded their quotas dur
ing January and in many instances
quotas were trebled and quadrupled,
it is pointed out by Mr. Allen.
During the past four months peo
ple of Georgia have invested $36,-
646,825 in war bonds, Mr. Allen re
vealed, and he referred to this as
“ample evidence that the citizens of
Georgia are wholeheartedly behind
the government in its prosecution of
the war.”
War bond sales in Georgia during
: February are sponsored by the state’s
insurance industry, and this group
has accepted the responsibility of
•f shoving sales beyond the $6,500,000
I quota for the month, Mr. Allen said.
* LOCAL MAN BUYS
I 1,000 BOND FOR
•5 CRUISER ATLANTA
A patriotic Blakely citizen did his
part this week to see that Uncle
-• *, -Sam Wll have pother ^cruiser
the Axis. He is Dr. S. P. Holland,
who purchased a $1,000 bond and
I ear-marked it to go toward the
cruiser fund. Dr. Holland has al
ready received a beautiful certificate
from the Atlanta committee in rec
ognition of his purchase.
Just Around the
Corner is Spring
NEW DRESS MATERIALS
Butcher Linens, printed and solids, yd.____ 98c
Seersucker Materials, figured and stripes,
yard_______________________________________________________ 59c
Crown Tested Rayon Fabrics, new floral
patterns, yard_________________________________________ 79c
Sharkskin Materials, solid colors, yd. 69c
Alpacas, in all pastel shades, yd. ______________ 98c
Shantungs, Rayons in floral patterns, yd.__ 79c
Fast Color Prints, new patterns,
yard 20c, 25c and 29c
IN THE READY-TO-WEAR DEPT.
One rack Dresses, values to $7.95, now,. $2.95
One rack Dresses, values to $16.50, now $3.95
(These Dresses were formerly shown in the stock of Mrs. D. M. Wade)
New Spring Dresses, Suits and Hats
Arriving Daily
Ladies, remember you can always shop at
Weaver’s with the satisfaction of knowing
you may have the very best merchandise at
prices you can easily afford to pay.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
CSitdg Cotntjtj) yHtm
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1943.
Mrs. Elvin Davis
And Infant Son Die at
Bainbridge Hospital
Coming as a shock to her many
friends and loved ones was the news
Friday, January 29, that Mrs. Elvin
Davis and infant son had died Fri
day morning at 11 o’clock at the
Riverside Hospital, Bainbridge.
Funeral services were held Sun
day morning at 11 o’clock at Pine
Grove Baptist church, with the Rev.
E. G. Carter officiating. Interment
followed in the Pilgrim’s Rest cem
etery, near Brison, with the E. W.
Cox Funeral Home, Bainbridge, in
change of arrangements. Serving as
pall-brearers were S. Estill Thomp
son, O. M. Gardener, Charles D.
Thompson, J. W. Powell, Cherry
Taliaferro and Gerald Powell,
A large number of friends and
relatives attended the last rites and
profuse and beautiful floral of
were in evidence—a tribute
love and esteem from sorrowing
friends and loved ones.
Mrs. Davis is survived by her hus
band, Elvin Davis, of Columbus and
Blakely; her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Powell, of Brinson; three sis
ters, Miss Ernestine Powell, Mrs.
Martha Powell McDaniel and Miss
Janette Powell, of Bainbridge; and
four brothers, J. B. and Hardy G.
Powell of Brinson, Private W. C.
Powell of Camp McCoy, Wis., and
Seaman Dallas Powell of San Fran
cisco, Calif. These have the sympa
thy of many friends in the passing
of their loved one.
ROTARY CLUB MEETING
HELD FRIDAY AT NOON
Last week s meeting of , the , Blake
ly Rotary Club, held Friday at noon
at the Early Hotel, was given over
to a round-table discussion of various
matters of interest to the members.
Several Rotarians took part in the
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announced that Agustin Turner, of
Chile, a member of the Board of
Directors of Rotary International,
would be a guest of the club on
Friday, February 19.
Plan your Victory Garden now.
Maknassy, the point at which al
lied forces in Central Tunisia are
driving, has a strategic importance to
both the Allies and the Axis. If the
Allies take Maknassy and press on
3'4 miles to Graiba, they will have
driven a wedge between Marshal
Rommell’s Afrika Korps and the
Axis forces of Colonel General Von
Arnim in the northern sector of Tu
nisia, and the Afrika Corps will be
trapped between the British Eighth
Army and ^ Central A1]ied wedge .
Graibo dominateg the coastal road
that runs up the eastei . n side of Xu _
pis i a , and itg capture would als0 gep _
arate th(j two yital Axis supply ports
of Sfpx and Gabes. Last week two
driving on Mafc
nassy from the northwest and the
southwest showed considerable gains.
The northern column, striking from
the area of Sidi Bou Zid, 29 miles
from Maknassy,' progressed without
“exceptionally heavy” opposition.
The second column, striking eastward
and north from Gafsa, met heavy
air and artillery resistance at Sened,
22 miles southwest of Maknassy, but
captured that station and dug into
positions about a mile east. Allied
infantry have attacked enemy posi
tions at Faid, an important mountain
pass in Central Tunisia, where the
Germans control a high ridge run
ning north and south and extending
almost to Maknassy.
Continuing this drive on the Tu
nisian east coast, Allied bombers on
Wednesday, February 3, attacked an
Axis airdrome at Gabes and enemy
targets near the coast, destroying
six enemy planes but losing eight.
Secretary of War Stimson on Thurs
day, February 4, told reporters that
British and American planes are al
ready using Axis-made airfields at
Tripoli to carry out round-the-clock
raids against Rommel’s retreating
columns and on Axis shipping in the
Mediterranean. The land fighting in !
WELL-KNOWN BLUFFTON
CITIZEN PASSES AFTER
A BRIEF ILLNESS
Mr. Wesley H. Harrison, 72, died
last Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock,
after a short illness, at the home of
his brother, Mr. Henry E. Harrison,
at Bluffton.
Mr. Harrison was born in Clay
county, Ga., on September 14, 1870,
and had lived in Bluffton all his life.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the
residence, with the Revs. J. P.
Touehton and —. —. Jordan offici
ating and Fellows & Forrester of Do
than in charge of arrangements. The
body was interred in the Bluffton
cemetery with the impressive Ma
sonic ceremony.
Survivors are: one daughter, Mrs.
John C. Foster, of Bluffton; two sons,
Moncrief Harrison of Baton Rouge,
La., and Major William R. Harrison
of Vicksburg, Miss.; two brothers,
Henry C. Harrison of Bluffton and
Harrison, of Fort Gaines.
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(Each week in this space will be presented a picture news.)
and word portrait of someone whose name is
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General Charles
de Gaulle
A WEEK OF THE WAR
COMPILED BY OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
•In happier, pre-Vichy days Marshal Petain
said of Charles de Gaulle (then Colonel de
Gaulle), “Some day France will be grateful
and call upon him.” Today General de Gaulle
is helping France recover from the effects of
the blitz he predicted and Petain believed
would never come.
•A graduate of St. Cyr, the French West
Point, General de Gaulle was wounded three
times, captured five, in World War I. He is
a tank corps man, thoroughly familiar with
mechanized warfare and known as a brilliant
strategist. His book, “The Army of the Fu
ture,” contains a description of the blitz tac
tics readily adopted by the Germans, but re
jected by the Maginot-minded French.
•When those blitz tactics succeeded in defeat
ing his beloved France, General de Gaulle or
ganized the Free French (now Fighting
French) whose army is fighting in North
Africa, where the “tall asparagus” of St. Cyr
has become the tall question mark.
Tunisia, he said, appeared to be
growing in scope, but had not yet
reached anything like the proportions
of a major battle.
In announcing the Japanese effort
to regain control of the-entire Solo
mons area, the Navy said air and
surface engagements between U. S.
and enemy forces were continuing.
Both U. S. and Japanese forces had
suffered losses, the announcement
said, but the military situation did
not permit publication of more de
tails at the time. Secretary of the
Navy Knox described these engage
ments as a process of “feeling out”
by both sides—preliminary actions
involving “reconnaissance in force.”
Navy Communique ‘No. 271, issued
Thursday, February 4, shed no new
light on the action, stating only that
details concerning recurrent contacts
between. U. S. and Japanese air
forces will not be announced as long
as such information might jeopard
ize the safety of our forces in the
area of operations. Japanese planes
bombed U. S. position on Guadal
canal, but U. S. planes continued
their attack on Munda, and General
MacArthur’s air force kept up its
almost daily attacks on Rabaul and
on enemy shipping in the vicinity.
On his return from a three-weeks’
trip to the South Pacific, Secretary
Knox said that substantially all or
ganized resistance by Japanese
ground forces on Guadalcanal had
been cleaned up and that American
forces now completely dominate the
Guadalcanal area. On Monday and
Tuesday, February 1 and 2, U. S.
ground forces on the Island contin
ued their advance to the West,
crossed the Bonegi River (one-half
mile east of Tassafaronga and about
10 miles west of Henderson Field),
occupied elevated positions west of
the river, captured considerable en
emy equipment and killed about 100
Japanese.
POSTMASTER CLARIFIES
CONFUSION ABOUT MAIL
TO MEN OVERSEAS
S-ome confusion has arisen about
mail to and from the men in the over
seas armed service. Postmaster J.
Emory Houston sought to clarify this
yesterday when he issued the follow
ing statement:
“Mail to boys overseas is often de
layed because of shipping difficulties
and many times it is lost because of
ship sinkings. Mail from these men
to home folks is received much
quicker because when a ship or
plane is returning from overseas it
is not loaded as when it goes over
and therefore can bring the mail
back. Censorship, too, often delays
mail, but this has been reduced
to a minimum,” the postmaster said.
Food is being rationed in the land
plenty. Raise more food!
Rosalind Russell and Fred Mae
Murray in “Take a Letter, Darling,”
at the Blakely Theatre Thursday
Friday.
PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$1.50 A YEAR
R. C. Howell Opens
Complete Feed
And Seed Store
A wholesale and retail seed and
store to serve this trade terri
tory was opened here this week by
R. C. Howell, well-known Blakely
business man, who states that the
new store, the first of its kind in
Blakely handling only seed and feed,
will carry a full line of all kinds of
seed and feed at all times.
The store, located in the former
Tarver Hardware and Furniture
Company building, will be under the
management of Cyrus D. Duke, well
known Blakely man, who has had
considerable experience in the mer
chandising business. The new store
is open for business this week, due
to the fact that so many farmers
are already in need of seed and feed.
However, Mr. Howell states that the
grand opening, which is to be a spe
cial occasion, with representatives
from the Purina Mills here to as
sist, will be held possibly next week.
The opening date will be announced
later and the public has a cordial in
vitation to be present. The store
will carry seed and feed in wholesale
lots.
“Feed and seed is our business
and not a side-line,” Mr. Howell
stated, “and anything in this line a
farmer needs we will have it.”
Registration For
Ration Book No. 2
February 22-27
Point rationing will be introduced
to the 19,000 residents of Early
county with a six-day registration
period, during which they will get
War Ration Book Two—one for each
member of the household. Registra
tion date, February 22 through 27.
During this six-day period, all re
tail stocks of rationed goods will be
frozen to allow storekeepers to get
their stocks in shape before the day
point ration shopping begins. In oth
er words, you will not be able to buy
any of the rationed foods during the
registration period, but you will be
able to buy other unrationed foods.
Although the exact places for reg
istration have not been announced
yet, the chairman of the Early Coun
ty War Price and Rationing Board
and board members have been at
work with OPA officials, and have
perfected the system by which civil
ians in every community in the
southeastern region will register.
The registration will work on the
same sembly principle as an automobile as
line. Every step will be
clearly defined:
1. Any adult member of the fam
the ily may register for all members of
group. To enter the registration
center lje must show at the door a
copy of War Ration Book 1 (sugar
coffee) whom for each member of the group
for he wishes
CUB SCOUTS MAKE
FIRST DONATION TO
RED CROSS WAR FUND
The Early County Red Cross
Chapter got its first donation to the
1943 War Fund this week from the
boys in Den 1 of the Cub Scouts.
These boys, filled with patriotic en
thusiasm, wanted to do their part,
so Monday afternoon they borrowed
a wagon and mule from the Holman
Mule Company and went out col
lecting scrap iron. An afternoon’s
work netted 600 pounds and the boys
received for it $2.42, which they are
giving to the Red Cross. The boys
in Den 1 are Jimmy Holman, Ted
Whitchard, Sonny Pullen, Tommy
Debnam, Jack Howard and Charles
Brunson.
(Editor’s Note: The Red Cross
War Fund Drive gets under way
March 1 under the leadership of S.
G. Maddox and Oscar Whitchard.
More than ever before, the Red
Cross needs your dollars. Plan a
large donation this year.)
LOCAL BOARO WANTS
ADDRESS OF REGISTRANTS
Alex Carswell, clerk of the local
draft board, is anxious to learn the
address of the following registrants,
all colored, and would appreciate
any information concerning their
present whereabouts: Stephen Elgin
Robinson, William Johnson, R. W.
Hutchins, Johnnie Dowkins, Willie
Howard, Carey Reynolds, W. C. Dos
ter, Orange King, Anderson Smith,
Homer Thomas, Wilbur Vaughns.
WE ARE DOING OUR BIT
ARE YOU DOING YOURS?
♦
On January 30th the First State Bank
bought $100,000.00 worth of United States
Treasury Certificates, thus contributing
toward Uncle Sam’s effort to finance the
war in which we are engaged. Are you
doing your part toward financing our
fight for freedom? If not, begin today!
FIRST STATE BANK
BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Maximum Insurance of $5,000.00 for each depositor
2. Next- he will fill ou a form
for the declaration of the number
of containers commercially canned
goods at home. Just one figure need
be given—the total number of con
tainers, minus the allowance of five
8-ounce containers per person. Each
separate kind of feed need not be
reported. Home preserved foods do
not count.
3. Next he must report how many
pounds of coffee wese on hand No
vember 28, the date coffee rationing
went into effect—less one pound for
each adult. Stamps for excess
amounts will be torn from the sugar
coffee ration book.
4. At the distribution unit the
coffee registrant will present the sugar
books and the declaration form
for canned goods, 1 to a clerk who
will keep the form, and tear out of
each War Ration Book- Two to be
issued the correct number of points
as indicated by the declaration, dis
tributing the deductions equally
among the books for the household.
5. Both War Ration Book One and
Two will be passed to a recording
clerk who will transfer the identify
ing information from each sugar
coffee book to the front of the- new
ration books.
6. A document clerk will assign a
serial number to each point ration
ing book and keep a record of the
serial number issued to each book
holder.
7. The final step will be the vali
dation of the book by a clerk who
will stamp it and write in the serial
number, making it officially com
plete.
Each person will then have a
copy of War Ration Book Two—his
insurance of a fair share of all ra
tioned foods.
As each entry is completed, Book
No. 1 is returned to the person reg
istering.
(Next Week:—What must be done
about declaring the stocks of ra
tioned foods on hand? What foods
are rationed? What foods are ex
empt? Next week’s story will an
swer these questions.)