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From our Files 10 YEARS AGO May 8, 1997 NICOLE Harrell, daughter of Angie and Tony Harrell was named May Day Queen during annual May Day festivities in Arlington Saturday. KOLOMOKI Mounds State Park was named "Most Outstanding Park Operation" in the region, ranking first out of 21 regional parks. GARDEN Club member Barbara Clifford joined Mayor A.J. Gentry in planting an oak tree at the citycounty landfill on Arbor Day. The trees were donated by the Georgia Forestry Commission. JEFF Braswell, Julie Sharpe and Jeff Perkins were named the ECHS Students of the Month. BLAKELY Mayor A.J. Gentry cut the ribbon on AAA Mobile Homes last Wednesday morning. AAA is owned by Walter Gay and managed by Angie Granberry. 25 YEARS AGO May 6, 1982 THE EARLY County Bobcats, under new head coach Ric Hall, begin spring drills Monday afternoon in preparation for the 1982 football season. THROUGH a joint effort by the Early County Board of Commissioners, the City of Blakely and the Board of Education, the Blakely- Early County Recreation Department will have two new ballfields open for 13- year-olds and up next summer. MR. AND MRS. Fletcher Bailey of Fort Hood, Texas, announce the birth of their nine pound son, Fletcher John-Marcus, born April 27. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Grier of Blakely. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Bailey of Blakely. KARLA Pyle and Jo Ann Taylor were named to the dean's list at Valdosta State College for the winter quarter. 50 YEARS AGO May 9, 1957 JIMMY GRIMES, Damascus FFA member, received 35 cents per pound for his Grand Champion Hampshire barrow at last week's Early County FFA and 4-H Fat Barrow Show. Blakely Peanut Company bought the hog. MRS. E.T. Crawford will present her music pupils in recital on May 14 at 8 p.m. in the new school auditorium. Friends are cordially invited. A 17-YEAR-OLD Blakely girl has been named the "American Homemaker of Tomorrow." She is Priscilla Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sevola Jones, of this city, and a member of the senior class at Blakely High School. REP. LEON H. Baughman is in Washington, D.C., this week with other members of the Ga. Waterways Commission to appear before the budget committee seeking funds for improvements for river navigation. Mr. Baughman, a member of the Three Rivers Development Association is representing Blakely and Early County. 75 YEARS AGO May 5, 1932 DIRECTOR Hal Middleton announces the Blakely Band will give a concert Sunday afternoon on the courthouse lawn. A LARGE quantity of lumber on the north side of Hall Lumber Company was destroyed by fire at an early hour last Thursday morning. MR. BOB BUSH went over to Albany Tuesday for a tryout as pitcher for the Albany baseball team. MR. AND MRS. Phillip Tally and young son, Phillip Jr., have moved to Macon, where Mr. Tally will have charge of a drug store. BRADLEY Bridges and Carter Davis, students at Norman Junior College, spent the weekend at home. MR. CURTIS Middleton is now with the McKinney Hudson-Essex Company as bookkeeper and stock room man. 100 YEARS AGO May 9, 1907 MESSRS. J.B. Tarver and W.A. Hall have bought out the interest of Mr. Grady Smith in the Tarver-Smith Drug Company and hereafter it will be known as the Hall-Tarver Drug Company. AMONG THOSE who attended the big sing at Mt. Hebron Church near Carnegie last Sunday were Misses Vessie Lindsey, Beulah Mashburn, Cleve Peak and Messrs. T.R. Mashburn, Sam R. Lightsey, I.P. Belisle, W.D. Peak and H.Williams. MISS RUBY Fleming has returned from a visit to Americus. DR. J.H. Crozier and Dr. Gordan Crozier, of Cedar Springs, are visitors in Blakely this week. MISS FLORENCE Beauchamp is the guest of Mrs. W.L. Powell this week. THE UNION Sunday School picnic of Blakely was held in the grove near Flowers Mill last Friday and proved a very enjoyable affair. 125 YEARS AGO May 4, 1882 THERE WAS a pleasant picnic at Singletary's Mill yesterday.
RALPH WALDO Emerson, the celebrated American poet, died at his home in Concord, Mass., on the 27th.
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