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Chuck Wagon Gang heads gospel sing SONNY KING became the first South Carolinian to compete in the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. The 50- year-old veterinarian is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O.H. King. MERCER Univeristy Southern School of Pharmacy has named fourth-year student Walter Hilton Wright to the fall semester dean's list. He is the son of Hilton and Mary Wright of Damascus. JAMIE CANNON was named the Grand Champion of the 1997 4-H/FFA local Market Hog Show. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cannon. 25 YEARS AGO March 4, 1982 THE EARLY County Board of Commissioners, following the recommendation of the Board of Tax Assessors, named Harvey Woolf tax assessor. THE EARLY County Bobcats will journey to Macon Friday to play in the first round of the state AAA basketball playoffs. YOLANDA EPPS was crowned Miss Georgia State College. She is also the 1982 Homecoming Queen. THE BLAKELY Pilot Club elected officers for the upcoming year: Mrs. Hugh Eubanks, president; Mrs. A.D. Wilkerson, vice president; Mrs. R.W. Mueller, secretary; Mrs. Ellen Smith, recording secretary; and Mrs. Mary King, treasurer. 50 YEARS AGO March 7, 1957 THE SENIOR Class will serve dinner at the Woman's Clubhouse on Sunday, March 10, from 11:30 to 2 o'clock. CADET HENRY C. Haddock, a member of the senior class at Gorden Military College, has recently been promoted to the rank of master sergeant in the cadet battalion. A BIG GOSPEL sing concert, headed by the nationally famous Chuck Wagon Gang of Dallas, Texas, will be held here at the school auditorium on the night of March 15, under the auspices of the Pilot Club of Blakely. MR. AND MRS. Otis Goocher and children are moving today to Panama City, Fla., where Mr. Goocher has purchased a motel near Panama City Beach. MR. AND MRS. William Lawton Knight of Albany announce the birth of a son, Robert Lawton, March 4, at Baxley Clinic. CAPTAIN WILLIAM Moseley and family have returned from Korea where they spent the past three years while Captain Moseley was serving with the U.S. occupational forces. 75 YEARS AGO March 3, 1932 THE RESIDENCE on River Street, built by the late Mr. C.H. Robinson and owned by Mr. I.D. Felder, was destroyed by fire about midnight Tuesday. A REDUCTION of approximately 15 percent in business licenses was granted by Council at their meeting Tuesday night. MR. JAMES PAUL of Lakeland, who has been spending several weeks with his aunt, Mrs. G.M. Sparks, left Sunday for A&M School of Cochran. MR. AND MRS. W.C. Jordan and son, William, Mrs. W.C. Hutchins and Mr. Ralph Hutchins spent Sunday in Pensacola with Mr. William Jordan and family. THE NEW residence just north of the city built by Mr. C.S. Fryer is now occupied by Mr. J.B. Barwick and family. 100 YEARS AGO March 7, 1907 ON MONDAY night the big frame building on South Main Street, one room of which was occupied by Mr. W.Z.T. Bridges' grocery store and the other by Mr. James Willaford's pressing club, was completely destroyed by fire. DR. R.L. HAMMACK, of Choate, Texas, and Mrs. Laura Lee of Powder Springs, Tenn., were married last Tuesday night. MR. AND MRS. T.S. Woodard are entertaining a wee young lady who arrived Monday night. WORK HAD BEEN started on the new residence of Mr. T.S. Toole in the Southern suburbs. A LITTLE GIRL is being entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Brown Jr. MISS REBECCA GRIST of Macon is visiting relatives in Blakely this week. MR. J.M. Haisten, of Bluffton was in the city Wednesday. 125 YEARS AGO March 2, 1882 MR. F.E. GRIST of Ft. Gaines gave Blakely a call on Wednesday last.
OUR CLERK of the Superior Court, Sheriff and Tax Collector, J.W. Alexander Jr., J.S. Moseley, and George E. Chipstead, have made a bold stroke for re-election. They all have new babies to provide for - and all girl babies at that!
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