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Wheeler County Eagle
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MAYOR SEARS ANSWERS
MAYOR OF GLENWOOD.
Mr. A. P. Stone, Mayor of Glenwood,
has attempted to reply to ar. article
published in the Wheeler County Eagle
of March 21, 1913, from the Mayor of
Alamo, saying that he speaks for Glen
wood.
Now Mr. Mayor you seem to think
that I have said some mighty hard and
bitter things about your town and her
people. I have not said anything that
I consider harsh at all. I only spoke in
a general way about the matter, as I
see it, and I think if you will read my
article again you will so decide. lam
not mad with any one in your town,
neither am I wanting to say or do any
thing that would engender strife or
confusion among the people of Wheeler
county.
1 think all of this confusion abaut the
location for the court house altogether
out of place. The county was created
with Alamo as the site, and all should
work in harmony for the advancement
of same.
You say Mr. Mayor that it will not
do to say that the $20,00u proposition
was made to Glenwood; that Dr. W. A.
Rivets, B. S Cushoun and J. M. Cook
did not represent Glenwood at all—only
went to Atlanta as private citizens and
had no right to pledge Glenwood. Now
if the gentlemen memioned did not rep
resent your people, why is it that you
people are demanding tnatwe people
at Alamo abide by the agreement made
with the above gentlemen, whom you
say had no right to pledge Glenwcod?
It was the absolute understanding with
our committee that thegentlemen were
representing your people.
You say that some good citizens out
of town fought the creation of the new
county and that they had a right if
they wished to do so. I grant you sir,
that "any citizen had a right to oppose
the new county if they saw fit You
say that this $20,000 proposition was
made to the Georgia legislature and
the people of the whole state. Mr.
Mayor, the fact of the business is there
was an amendment offered to the bill
by Mr. Cook from Telfair county mak
ing it compulsory on us to pay $20,000.
This amendment was voted down in the
house, only one member vot ed for said
amendment, to-wit: Mat C^ok of Tel
fair county. One of the best consti
tutional lawyers of the s ate, then a
member of the house, made a short
speech on the floor before a vote on the
amendment was taken. He said that
the Georgia legislature had no right to
sell counties, that it wasn’t any of their
business whether the people of Alamo
paid anything toward public buildings
or not. however, if the good people saw
fit to give anything all well and good;
that was not a matter for the Georgia
legislature to pass on. The gentleman
referred to was the Hon Joe Hill' Hail
of Bibb county.
Now Mr. Mayor you must have lived
out of town at that time, for it is a
fact that you, with others of your town,
went to Atlanta and went before the
Senate committee and fought with all
your might and ^ou, yourself, when
asked if you were in favor of the new
county, your reply was, "I am not,”
said that you didn't ihink we needed it.
I hope. Mr. Mayor, you remember this.
I remember it very distinctly. How
ever, if Dr. W. A. Rivers, B. S. Cal
houn and J. M. Cook made the wrong
impression upon out committee you
had a perfect right to oppose the cre
ation of the new county. Our commit
tee had the same right to take down
their cash that yon had to fight after
the agreement with Dr. W. A. Rivers,
B. S. Calhoun and J. M. Cook, whom
you say were not authorized to act for
your people. Now Mr. Mayor, if your
Now’s Time to
Gaoen
PAJMAO DRUG COMPANY
Is the place to buy good fresh seeds. We have every
variety. Whenever you need anything in the drug line,
come straight to us for it and know you will get the
best. Our stock is pure, fresh and clean. We have
built up our drug business by never substituting and
always supplying the best.
Alamo Drug Company
ALAMO, GEORGIA
people had stood by the proposition after
the agreement was made about the
$20,000 as we understood that agree
ment bound you people, we would have
been morally, if not legally, bound to
pay the $20,000. Bnt as that agree
ment between our committee and your
citizens was no good as your people
were not bound by it, as our committee
understood, it is all folly to discuss that
any further and we are acting under
the agreement between Alamo and the
citizens of Wheeler county, and that
was to donate $15,000 to Wheeler
county to be used in the building of
public buildings. Not thinking, how
ever, that $15,000 would be a sufficient
amount to build public buildings by any
means. I want to say here that there
is a rumor that if the bonds are carried
we will not pay the $15,000, but this is
not the time; we have already separated
ourselves from the $15,000 and it is
ready when the county authorities need
it.
In regard to the cutting of Mr. Mc-
Arthur’s automobile tires, that is all
news to me.
Mr. Mayor, come np to Alamo and
bring any of your good people that will
come. I will be del ghted to show you
the improvements in our little town,
together with the court house site. I
feel sure when I take you around and
you see what a beautiful place for the
court house that you will agree with
me that Wheeler county has an ideal
location to Ibuild public buildings, on
which we all hope to soon see erected.
H. L. SEARS.
Walters - Morrison Wed
ding
A marriage of much interest to the
many friends of the contracting parties
in Erick,was that of Miss Nora Walters
and Mr. Robert Morrison at the home
of the bride’s grand-parents, ML and
Mrs. R. B. G. Walters at Erick last
Sunday evening at seven-thirty o’clock.
Rey. J. T. Budd, pastor of the Alamo
Metecdist church performed therere
mnoy.
They entered the parlor together, the
bride being gowned in white and carried
a boquet of white roses. They stood
in the center of the guests whi'e the
ceremony was being read that made
them man and wife. After receiving
the congratulations of the many friends
that had gathered they left for the
home of the groom, where they will
! reside in the future
Bailey-Bohannon
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On last Sunday morning at the resi
dence of Judge Wm. B. Ken\ on Rail
road avenue. Miss Beulah Bailey of
Erick and Mr. Bohannon of Lumber
. City were united in marriage, Judge
■ Kent performing the ceretro y in the
। presence of only the family. They left
1 immediately for their futu e home in
‘ Lumber City, where Mr. Bohannon is
’ engaged with the Ocmulgee Lomber
I Company. They have many friends
who wish them much happiness thr< ugh
life.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1913
WAKES TO FIND
BURGLAR AT SIDE
Atlanta, March 26,—Being from long
practice a light sleeper, Dr. Archibald
Smith was stirred from his slumber in
the early hours of Tuesday morning by
the presence of a i.egro burglar,
crouched beside his bed.
He sprang to his feet and seized him
by the throat. The cries by the burglar
aroused the rest of the household, but
when they reached the scene the burg
lar was laying in the middle of the floor,
helpless in the grasp of Dr. Smith.
His brother was fiirst to reach him, and
together they tied the negro with a rope
When Captain Poole and two call
officers reached the scene the burglar
was bundled into the patrol, while the
Peachtree residents turned back to
their pillows. When locked in jail the
negro gave hit name as Clarence Wal
lace. He entered the home through
the rear door, which by some means
had been left open..
NO CHANCE FOR “CLIMBERS”
Social Position la Almost Irrevocably
Fixed In Europe, and
Adhered To.
In Europe everybody has a definite
social position fixed by birth and edu
cation. Individuals pass from one so
cial level to another with more facil
ity than is thought. Yet the vast
mass of Britons, Frenchmen, Germans
and so forth, pass their lives on the
social level where they were born.
Position is fixed. Their compatriots
place them at a glance. Thia caste
makes for contentment. There la
hardly any temptation to spend for
appearance, because such spending
will not lift them ln£> a higher cjder.
The social values are not easily fab
slfled. Thus two merchants of the
same class will have retired with in
comes earned In business. They live
in the same suburb. One has twenty
thousand a year and keeps a motor
car. The other has only five thous
and, and for him a motor car is out
of the question. Yet their families
associate with little envy on one side
or pretentiousness on the other, and
to the man with five thousand a year
it would seem madness to try to main
tain a touring car for the sake of ap
pearing as well off as his neighbor
with four times the income.
In the United States, on the con
trary, the absence of fixed social lev
els tends to encourage lavish spend
ing. People try. by appearances and
the possession of mere things to give
themselves fictitious social values.
This social counterfeiting, though
common in every American communi
ty, reaches its highest development
among the third class of New York’s
spenders. Elsewhere people seem to
feel that the thing is successful If
they can put themselves into circula
tion as twenty dollar banknotes. But
the metropolitan standard of social
counterfeiting Is to pass yourself off
as a safe deposit box full of gilt edge
securities —Saturday Evening Post.
Feathered Architect.
The hanging nests in the cotton
woods and other trees in the suburbs
of Denver, and al! the tpwns In Colo
rado from the eastern slope of the
Rocky mountains to Durango and
i Grand Junction, in the eastern part
of the state, are the work of Bullock
of Bullock’s oriole.
i Bullock's oriole is a wonderful ar
chitect and a shrewd builder. Its nest
is fastened to tbe smaller swaying
branches or twigs of trees, generally
safe from those who would rob or de
stroy eggs or young. Strings, wood,
fiber, horsehair, leaves, wool and soft
materials are used In its construction,
the rim of the nest being so artfully
attached to the limb of the tree that
It can withstand almost any gale that
blows. This oriole is not averse to
stealing string and other material
from the nest of the house finches,
also linnets and other birds. The nest
contains from three to six eggs, and
the young orioles are truly the rock
a-by babies in the tree-tops of the
bird world. —Rocky Mountain Herald.
Ladies, when yo’ bny your
dry goods don’t foi 4to come
to see me for your st. s.
Wheeler County roe Store.
Shoe STORE
For your Summer shoes
and hosiery come to my
store>-nothing but shoes
and hosiery.
New Goods
Right Prices
Wheeler Co, Shoe Store
H. S. HURWITZ, Proprietor
Tilt GROWTH AND NEEDS
OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM
There are two great and potent
factors that bind mankind together in
mutual love and esteem, that uphold
and elevate the human race, that dis
seminate and establish the religion of
Jesus Christ. That accomplishes more
than all other agencies in the establish
ment of law and order, civic righteous
ness and the maintenance of good citi
zeuship and are the real agencies that
cause the manipulations of the social
' relationships of the human family-—
these are the church and school. It is
iof the latter that I shall deal briefly.
The great purpose of the school and
its advantages is to draw from the
I individual all the latest abilities, re
sources, talents and forces of which he
is capable and to develop them to the
extent that he may be useful, not only
to himself but to all mankind. To this
end we have our great school system.
' Hundreds of universities and colleges
dot our land from the Atlantic to the
| Pacific and our young men and women
of ambitious characteristics have prac
tically no legitimate excuse for not
reaping the unspeakable advantages of
our great system of education from the
grammar school to the highest univer
sities.
While the conditions in our own state
have improved with rapid and encourag
ing strides in the past three years, we
are not yet satisfied. We will not be
satisfied until Georgia stands amongst,
if not at the top of the list in this
respect.
We are inexpressably gratified to
note the greatly improved conditions in
respect to educational facilities and ad
vantages in our dear beloved South
Georgia. These are not simply opto
mistic convolutions of the human emo
tions, but they are facts based on con
servative observations. We are forg-
NOTICE!
To Users of Ice
I have arranged to handle ICE this season
at stand formerly used by
J. W. Bullard.
ICE ALWAYS ON HAND.
Expect to give prompt service
Phone 22
G. M. ELKINS
ing to the front in respect to the educa
tion of our boys and girls who will be
the men and women of tomorrow, and
as these conditions of enlightment and
education continue to fasten hold upon
our South Georgia people we observe
the gradual elimination of the spirit of
crime and lawlessness from our midst
and we Will cast off the awful murder
and bloodshed which once avershadowed
our fair name.
The School and church are closely
related and go hand in hand and have a
great many purposes in common. We
have our special schools for the purpose
of training the mind for the proclama
tion and dissemination of the gospel bf
Jesus Christ and these are indispensible
agencies in the establishment of the
kingdom of bur Lord. The problem of
having the bible taught in the public
schools as a requirement for graduation
is a delicate one, while it would be a
great medium for putting the Christian
spirit into the hearts and minds of the
boys and girls, we must be careful in
regard to reposing this responsibility
into the hands of teachers who are not
Christians.
In the consideration of all these
problems that confront us we must in
the solution of them consider the pres
ent conditions that banner county,
Wheeled, whose school system will,
sbme day, stand paramount, and to
make it so we must be enthusiastic
and cultivate peace between the ap
parent factions of this county.
Now as one who sees the shortcom
ings of this county, and knows them,
and knows thrir worth as well, as on 6
who anticipates a great and glorious
future for the making of Georgia’s
history, I want to see every one interest
ed in building a high school at the new
county site and when the building is
completed, and our boys and girls begin
to show their appreciation for these
advantages, our mistakes and short
comings shall be blotted out by the
glorious and refulgent deeds honorably
accomplished. J. A. JOHNSON.
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