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Nine miles of road work complete 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1997 THE PURCHASE of Georgia Telephone Company, announced last February, by ALLTEL Corporation was finalized Tuesday afternoon, with ALLTEL assuming control of the company immediately. MR. AND MRS. Marion C. Mock of Blakely celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family Sunday, Sept. 28. WILLIAM John McLeod and Amanda Jane McLeod announce the birth of their son, William John McLeod Jr., born Sept. 18, 1997, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany. JOE AND TINA Owen of Blakely announce the graduation of their daughter, Michelle, from the Mercer University School of Medicine on May 31, 1997. WITH THE rain coming down in sheets and the wind blowing at around 30 m.p.h., the Early County Bobcats overcame Mother Nature and a surprisingly tough Cook County High School team to win 21-0. 25 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1982 BLAKELY'S Stephanie Ross was recently the grand prize winner in the dessert division of the National Pecan Festival Cook-off in Albany. FRIENDS gathered at the home of Mr. Bryant Gaulden Wednesday, Sept. 22 to help celebrate his 90th birthday. He has lived in the Springfield community for 50 years and is a deacon of Springfield Baptist Church. PAUL James, wife Rosa, and children Faye, Cathy and Tyrone of Meigs, Ga., spent Sunday with home folks. HAL HOBBS was named the Chamber of Commerce member of the week. Harold Hobbs has been an attorney at-law for five years in Arlington. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1957 A TALK, well prepared and eloquently delivered, featured last week's meeting of the Blakely Rotary Club at noon Friday. The speaker was John Ellis, administrative assistant to Georgia's Second district Congressman, J.L. Pilcher of Meigs. MRS. FRED Foster left last week to join Rt. Foster at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, N.C. MR. WILTON Howell is improving at Phoebe Putney Hospital, Albany, where he underwent surgery last week. MR. P.E. "Bam" Bridges, who has been undergoing treatment in the Macon City Hospital for two weeks, is reported as improving and expects to return home soon. NEWS Readers will be glad to know that Andrew Sparks, feature writer for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, and Kenneth Rogers, photographer, were in Blakely Wednesday to secure information and pictures on the two remaining covered bridges in Early County. Local Journal readers will await with interest the appearance of this feature story. NEWS Readers will be interested to know that Dr. Milton F. Bryant, a former Blakely boy and now surgeon in Atlanta, was given an award at the Georgia Heart Association meeting in Savannah recently. MISS PEGGY Grimsley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hubbard Grimsley of Blakely, became the bride of Bennie Arlan Eubanks, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Eubanks of Edison, on Saturday evening, Sept. 21, at the home of Rev. W.E. Storey on River Street. 75 YEARS AGO Sept. 29, 1932 THE Bobcats of Blakely Hi open the home football season here Friday at Woodlawn Park, when they tackle the strong aggregation from Alabama Secondary Agricultural College at Abbeville, Ala. DR. I.H. Hunter, a native of Colquitt and a practicing physician with 30 years' experience, recently of Archer, Fla., arrived in the city the past week to practice his profession here. THE WORK on nine miles of road north of the city is about completed. Workmen are now grassing the slopes and shoulders and putting on the finishing touches. MESSRS. Lang and Price Holland have returned to New Orleans to resume their studies at the medical dept. of Tulane University. MR. AND MRS. J.L. Clinkscales announce the birth of a son on Sept. 28. He was named Hulan Ferrell. 100 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1907 ON MONDAY last, Miss Maggie Whitaker, one of Blakely's popular teachers, was married to Mr. M.L. Severance, of North Carolina. MR. M.R. White, who is in the dry goods business in the old dispensary building, has added a furniture dept. to his store. MR. MERI Underwood left Wednesday on a business trip to Waynesboro. MISS ELLA Jones has been promoted as teacher in the Blakely Institute to the place made vacant by the resignation of Miss Maggie Whitaker and Miss Ethal Jones was appointed to fill the place of Miss Ella Jones. MR. M.L. Kent has bought from Mr. R.L. Howell the brick store now occupied by him. BORN unto Dr. and Mrs. C.S. Middleton, on Monday, Sept. 30 - twins, a boy and a girl. MR. W.J. Grist, who is buying cotton in Hartford, Ala., was in Blakely Sunday. MR. W.J. Clemons has sold his place near Sardis Church to Mr. R.E. Allen. MRS. J.H. Flowers, Miss Ella Flowers and Mr. Howard Flowers were visitors in Albany Wednesday. 125 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1882 H.C. FRYER and Son advertise a carload of Tennessee wagons. MRS. H.C. Fryer and children returned home on Tuesday last, after a several weeks' visit to relatives in middle Georgia. MRS. J.J. SMITH and little Miss Smith reached home Tuesday, after a visit up the country. GROVER CLEVELAND, of New York, has been nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for Governor of New York. THE LOCAL ticket so far offered is Rep. B. Chancey, R.H. Powell and B.L. Wolf.
CHARLEY Harris, of Arlington, was in Blakely on Wednesday last.
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