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City employees receive pay increase 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1997 HUNTERS from throughout the southeast converged on southwest Georgia earlier this month to participate in Southwest Georgia Academy's third annual Buck Days. DOUG Williams, lead teacher and interrelated special education teacher at Blakely Regional Youth Detention Center, has been named the State Teacher of the Year for the Georgia Correctional Educational Association. JASON AND Leigh Watson Enfinger announce the birth of a son, Jared Andrew, born Sept. 28, 1997. Jared weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and was 20 inches long. SEVERAL downtown property owners and historic home owners braved the cold weather during the Better Hometown committee's Rehab-A-Rama last Friday evening. The event, held on Court Square, gave property owners a chance to meet with historic preservation experts and local builders about renovation projects. CITY OF Blakely employees will receive an acrossthe board pay increase of four percent if the 1998 proposed budget is approved by the Blakely City Council at its December meeting. 25 YEARS AGO Nov. 18, 1982 CONSTRUCTION on an $8.2 million lightweight aggregate plant will begin below Ft. Gaines soon after this week's signing of revenue bonds. MISS Tamara Lee Holman and James Robert Cannon were married at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 6, in the First Church of God, Kokomo, Ind. MR. AND MRS.W.J. "Bill" Belisle of Plant City, Fla., were honored with a 50th anniversary luncheon at the lovely lakeside home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Belisle in Seffner, Fla., on Sunday, Nov 7. MR. AND MRS. William Dickson Robinson, of Charleston, S.C., were visitors in Blakely for two days the past week. Mrs. Robinson will be remembered here as the former, Mrs. Dorothy Solomon Debnam. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1957 THE LARGEST crowd in the history of Blakely sports is expected to gather at the high school Friday night when Blakely and Quitman tangle for the region 1-B championship. THE MONTICELLO, Fla., eleven was the loser as the Bobcats closed out the 1957 regular season here last Friday night. Score: Blakely 36, Monicello, 6. FRIENDS will be interested to know that Mrs. C.B. Smith, of Hilton, went to Albany Wednesday where she will enter Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital for an operation. MR. AND MRS. Don McLain of Albany announce the birth of a daughter, Karen Lynne, Nov. 13, Baxley Clinic. Mrs. McLain is the former Sonja Ham of Blakely. 75 YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1932 THE FINAL tabulations in the presidential election show that Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee, carried 42 states with 472 electorial votes, to six states and 50 electorial votes for Herbert Hoover. 6,337 BALES of cotton had been ginned in Early County prior to Nov. 1, compared to 12,177 bales to the same date in 1931. THE BLAKELY Bobcats continued their "winning ways" by defeating Cuthbert 27 to 0, here on Armistice Day. THE REV. Spencer B. King is attending the annual session of the Georgia Baptist Convention in Macon this week. MRS. WALLACE Wright has returned to her home in Quincy, Fla., after spending several days here as a guest of Mrs. J.H. Moye. COL. CHARLES D. Russell, a resident of Blakely some 25 years ago, is a leading candidate for mayor of Savannah, his native city. 100 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1907 PRESIDENT Roosevelt signed the proclamation last Sunday which admitted Oklahoma as one of the states of the Union - making it the 46th state. MISS BLANCHE Hawkins, of Americus, is a guest this week of Mrs. J.B. Jones. MR. IDUS Belisle has sold his market and restaurant to the Blakely Ice Co. DR. I.S. OLLIFF is observing short hours this week because a wee baby girl arrived at his home last Sunday. MR. A.E. ALEXANDER has bought from Mrs. Clara Butler the lot just east of the residence of Col. W.G. Park and will erect a residence thereon at an early date. MISS LEONE Houston, of Blakely, and Mr. Arbut Bachelor, of Lucille, were married at the home of the bride's father, Rev. J. Houston, in this city last Sunday. Judge Whitney performed the ceremony. 125 YEARS AGO Nov. 16, 1882 ICE WAS visible to those who were out early this morning. REV. J.B. Culpepper will preach at the Methodist Church next Sunday morning. Presiding Elder Christian will preach at night. THE MESSRS. Porter are moving their stock of merchandise to Marianna, Fla. MR. T.C. Boyd, of the firm of Woodard, Manning and Company, who have established a turpentine farm some three miles west of Blakely, has removed his family to our town. JUDGE J.T. Clark, of Randolph, was elected by the legislature as Judge of the Pataula Circuit in the place of Judge Arthur Hood, also of Randolph.
IT IS ESTIMATED that the cotton crop this year will reach 7 million bales, the largest in the history of the nation.
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