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YOUTH LOST WITH STEAMER
AT FORT GAINES IN 1882
“RETURNS TO LIFE”
(By Mattie Thomas Thompson)
Eufaula, Ala., Oct. 8.- —When the
steamboat George W. W iley, plying
between Columbus, (ia., and Appa
lachicolu, Ala., sank at the wharf at
Fyrt Gaines, Ga., during a freshet
in April, 1882, among the half dozen
or more who went to their death with
the boat were two from Eufaula —
one, Mr. W. R. Rivers, second clerk
on the boat, who was the son of
Rev. R. H. Rivers, distinguished pas
tor of the First Methodist Church
here. The other was Charles Spots
wood, 18-yenr-old, only child of Wil
liam and Susan Spotswood, wealthy
negro citizens.
Chaalos was a worthy boy and had
gone as "rouster" on the steamer
Wiley, jpst to make the one trip, be
cause he wanted to “see the big wa
ters of the Gulf at Appaiachicola.’’
Lost With Steamer
The never-to-be-forgotten freshet
noted spread the waters of the Chat
tahoochee at Fort Gaines more than
two miles out on the Alabama side,
and banked them high against the
nearly 400-foot bluff on the Georgia
side. Right at the landing there was
always a strong current and in pre
vious years many lives had been lost
at different times at this point. When
the Wiley struck a snag and went
down, the entire boat was quickly
buried in the deep water.
The body of Mr. Rivers was re
covered from the drift several days
after, but search for the body of
Charles Spotswood was fruitless. His
parents were well to do and paid
liberally for the search.
Mother Paid By Railroad
Susan was my mother’s cook, and
I recall that the Central of Georgia
Railroad Company, which corpora
tion owned the steamer George W.
Wiley, paid her several hundred dol
lars for the death of her son by
drowning while employed on this
boat.
Twenty years after the sinking of
the Wiley, William and Susan Spots
wood both died—the home they own
ed was sold a few years later for
taxes and the family was practically
forgotten.
Last Friday, a gray-haired, aging
negro walked into my husband’s
store, where I sat, and said:
“1 am looking for some of Mr.
‘Telegraph Thomas’ family, my name
is Charles Spotswood; my parents,
William and Susan Spotswood, work
ed for this family, and I carried
telegraph messages.”
Replying to my questons: “Where
have you been all this time? Didn’t
you know that the railroad company
paid your mother for your death by
drowning on the steamer Wiley?’’
He told me the following story:
“Jake Moore (from Eufaula), and
1 were on the lower deck when the
boat went down. After I hit the
water, Jake and me, keeping togeth
er, we swam awhile. Finally Jake
disappeared and I kept swimming
until 1 truck a piece of plank, a part
of a door facing, as it was a long
piece with a short piece nailed to it.
I hung on to it, and didn t know
anything more until I woke up on
the ground, near Shortsville, Ala.,
five miles below Fort Gaines, about
3 o’clock the next day. Two men
and a woman and a boy, were going
to Marianna, Fla., in a wagon and
carried me with them. From Mari
anna, 1 went to Blountstown, Fla.,
and from there to Appaiachicola to
get back home on a steamboat.
Sails For South America
“The day I got there, the sailing
ship Stephens 111 was to leave for
South America loaded with lumber,
and I went on her as stevedore. I
went to many ports, and came back
after seventeen years, stayed in Ap
paiachicola five years, was told by
Mary Peters (a woman from Eufau
la). that my father and mother were
dead and when the ‘Borgas,’ a sail
ing ship that had the same mate that
1 sailed with on the Stephen 111,
came to Appaiachicola and loaded
for the South Seas, 1 sailed again. I
came back to Appaiachicola five
years ago. 1 didn’t know just why
1 never seemed to care to come back
to Eufaula. 1 knew 1 was supposed
to be dead, but 1 just somehow
wanted to stay on the oceans, and I
did.
“The other day a man who is re
lated to the Timothy family of ne
groes in Eufaula said he was coming
to Eufaula and I asked to come with
him.”
This man told such a straightfor
ward story, and was so correct in all
he knew about Charles Spotswood in
his youth and the questions I asked
about his boyhood fitted so perfectly,
that I am convinced he is Charles
Spotswood. The only weak point
about his story was that he claimed
to have written to his parents often,
but never had a reply. This may be
■true, but is at least improbable. He
seemed to wonder why no one ever
beard of his not having been drown-
DEATH Or MRS. JOHN C.
WHITEHEAD
(From Winder News)
Mis. John C. Whitehead quietly
and peacefully passed from this
world of sorrow and turmoil to her
ternal home of joy and happiness,
October the third, at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Burch, af
ter an illness of a few days.
Mrs. Whitehead was the youngest
hiid and daughter of Mr. Green R.
Duke, of Jefferson, Jackson county,
who died in 1866, and who until the
lose of the Civil War was the larg
est planter and slave owner of his
adopted county, to which he came
a young man from North Carolina.
Mrs. Whitehead, whose mother
died when she was only three years
old, grew up during the closing era
of the Old South and the four years
of the Wur Between the States.
She was a pupil of Martin In
stitute, ut Jefferson, Georgia, during
her young girlhood days, and from
this noted school attended Lucy
Cobb, at Athens, finishing her school
period in 1868 in the Female College,
at Covington, Ga.
In 1861), she was married to Mr.
.1. C. Whitehead, one of Jackson
county’s splendid citizens, who died
in Winder about twenty years ago,
and a man whose friendship was
prized by all who knew him.
Mrs. Whitehead had been a resi
dent of Winder for thirty-five years,
and a member of the Presbyterian
church from her childhood.
She liked to talk of the old ante
bellum days, and was ever loyal and
true to the glorious history and to
the traditions of the South.
She is survived by two sons, Mr.
R. G., of Winder, and John Dana, a
resident of the far West; two daugh
ters, Mrs. W. J. Burch, of Winder,
and Mrs. W. T. Hamby, of Decatur;
and a numbci uf relatives in Jack
son and Oconee counties.
The funeral was at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burch, on
Candler street, conducted by Rev.
Edward Russell, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, and Rev. D. P.
Johnson, pastor of the Methodist
church, of this city.
The interment was in Rose Hill
cemetery, where a large concourse
of friends gathered to pay the last
tribute to her, and sympathy to those
who will feel most keenly the loss
of a mother’s love and affection.
THE BOYS IN GREY
With the same valiant spirit which
carried them through the struggling
days of the 60’s a mere handful of
Confederate veterans are gathered
in Savannah this week for the an
nual state reunion—probably the last
reunion for most of them.
There is much pathos in the as
sembling of these “boys in grey.” In
contrast with the swinging step as
they marched bravely to battle is the
feeble tread of tired feet as they ap
proach the victory which over
comes their final enemy—death.
There is not one true southerner
whose heartbeat does not quicken at
the sight of one of these heroes
whose only identification is the un
assuming cross of honor so proudly
worn on the lapel of his coat, and
whose only glory lies in the fact that
he served his beloved southland well.
Soon the time will come when the
reunions will have passed away with
the march of time, but never shall
the memory of the sons who saw no
defeat of principle grow into ob
livion. Like the stars which shine
on and on, the dimmed brightness
will cast a glow which eternity shall
not hide.—Dawson News.
$400,000,000 U. S. DEFICIT
Washington.—Unde Sam ended
today the first quarter of what is ex
pected will be the leanest financial
year in history with a deficit close
to $-100,000,000, compared with a
surplus of about $02,300,000 Sep
tember 30, 1930.
Barring tax increases, there will
be an excess of expenditures over
receipts of probably $1,500,000,000.
Even with tax increases the budget
can not be balanced without borrow
ing because of the enormous certain
deficit.
There is no assurance the admin
istration will go to Congress with a
concrete tax program. In some cir
cles it was believed Secretary Mel
lon, and possibly President Hoover,
would point out to Congress in their
annual report and annual message
the serious financial situation of the
government, the inadequacy of re
venue under the present taxing law,
the inadvisability of the continu
ation of the unbalanced budget and
the necessity for curtailment of ap
propriations.
ed, as supposed, for he claims to
have told the facts to many people
at Appalachicola before he sailed a
way.
LAUGH AND GROW FAT
(Furnished by Rev. J. O. Burnette,
Maysvillv, Ga.)
Conference is most here. Soon we
will make our report. There is a
story of a negro clergyman who so
pestered his bishop with appeals for
help that it became necessary to tell
him that he must not send any more
appeals, His next communication was
as follows: “This is not an appeal,
It is a report. I have no pants.”
• * •
Let all church members read the
following: There was once a runny
kind of a fellow. One day he said
to the local grocer: “I gotta have a
sack o’ flour; I’m all out, and my
family is starvin.” “All right, Jake,”
said the grocer. “If you need a sack
of flour and have no money to buy
it with, we’ll give you a sack; hut,
see here, Jake, there’s a circus com
ing to town in a few’ days, and if I
give you a sack of flour, are you
sure you won’t sell it and take your
family to the circus?” “Oh, no,’’
said Jake, “I got the circus money
saved up already.”
* * *
Which will it be, church members,
offering or a collection? Willie,
aged six, wanted to give his dog,
Fido, a big dinner. He went into
the kitchen just before dinner time
and selected several choice pieces of
fried chicken, placed then on a dish,
and was about to take them out into
the back yard to his dog, when dis
covered by his mother. “My dear,’
said she, “What are you doing with
those pieces of fried chicken?’’ “I
want to give Fido a good dinnei,
was the reply. “Well, you just wait
until after we have had our dinner,
and then you may feed your dog.’’
The portions selected by Willie were
returned, and Fido had to wait. Af
ter dinner Willie’s mother gathered
up a plateful of bones and scraps
and gave them to Willie for his dog.
W’illie took the dish out to Fido, and
said: “Fido, I wanted to make you
an offering today, but the best I
can do is a collection.
* * *
The story goes that a good church
member was out hunting. During
the day a rain storm came on. In
order to keep dry, he crawled into
a hollow log. When the ram began
to fall the- log began to swell, until
he could get neither way. He thought
his end had come. He thought ot al
the wrongs he had ever done and
when he recalled that he had not
paid any thing this year on his
church obligations, and that confer
ence was on, he felt so small that he
crawled right out of the log with
out difficulty. Does this story fit
any one?
PAPER FACTORY OPENS
JANUARY 1
Georgia’s experimental wood pulp
and paper research plant, sponsored
by Dr. Charles Herty, noted New
York chemist, will be located at Sa
vannah and set in operation by Jan
uary 1, it was announced Thursday
by the State Forestry Board.
For erection and equipment of the
plant the Chemical Foundation, Inc.,
of New York has donated $50,000,
which is to be supplemented by $20,-
000 from the state, for operating ex
penses. Dr. Herty will be in com
plete charge of the work at the plant.
The forestry board plans that
wood will he taken from all counties
of the state and utilized in the ex
perimental work. Dr. Herty, by ex
perimenting with the different -woods,
will determine which may be used in
the manufacture of white paper.
In an experiment conducted re
cently in New ork, Dr. Herty dis
covered that slash pine, grown ex
tensively in this state, could be
made into paper at a low cost, and
he expected to carry his experiment
further at the new plant.
PROTECTING HEALTH OF
CHILDREN
Doctor Shirley W. Wynne, Com
missioner of Health, of New York,
has sent out ten health hints to par
ents for children, with the request
that attention be given to each, and
every ailment. The ten suggestions
are as follows:
“Have your child examined by the
family doctor.
“See that he has the required
health certificate.
“See that he is immunized against
diptheria.
“See that he'is vaccinated against
smallpox.
“See that his teeth are in good
condition.
“See that his feet are fitted with
proper shoes.
“See that his clothing fits com
fortably. ,
“See that he has a nourishing
noonday meal.
“See that ho has a lunch in the
afternoon.
“See that he gets one quart of
rr.ilk every day.”
BRAINS NEEDED TO SOLVE
PROBLEM
It’s going to take the brains of
the universe to solve the problem of
the financial crisis, the gang rule
and the crime wave that the world
is facing today. This is the opinion
of Mrs. John F. Sippel, of Baltimore,
president of the National Federation
of Women's Clubs, who stopped over
in Atlanta for a few hours on Fri
day evening.
For months she has been studying
the cause and cure of the depression
—she has held conferences; she has
sent questionnaires, and she has
sought information from various
sources. She says wrtmen can help
—she is urging them to help—by
making sacrifices for others less for
tunate, even as they did in war time
period. •*,
“I am urging women to conserve
foods—to raise bumper crops, and
to can those crops of food so there
will be a supply of winter food. Wo
men must take care of their own
community each unemployment
situation must be met somehow by
employment in each community.
“They must spend as much as pos
sible —buy as many clothes as they
can afford, and give the surplus a
mount to others less fortunate. Wo
men do 80 per cent of the purchas
ing for the country.
“Then there is the boy and girl
just out of college who have pre
pared themselves for their careers—
no jobs are ready for them—they
will become so discouraged they will
lose their morale. Something must
be done so I am urging them to re
main in school —to take post-gradu
ate courses. The same way with the
high school boy and girl who have to
leave school for economic reasons—
they must be kept in school to give
older people employment. So, the
clubs are urging the schools to take
care of these boys and girls who must
work their way through to stay
there.”
Mrs. Sippel spoke of the jobs that
women—especially married women
—are asked to give up and she said
no married woman should work in
these times of stress except for eco
nomic reasons.
“Prohibition? I have always be
lieved in it—still do. The law
should be enforced—we need law
observance, and if we would only
put the right people in office we
should have no prohibition problem,
nor would we have a gang rule.”
She was asked about divorce ruin
ing the American home.
“No, it won’t, divorce is just lack
of self-control in human nature,”
she said.
“Large families may have gone
out of style,” she said in answer to a
question, “but I still believe in them
and think they are the* happiest.
That is the foundation of a good
American home—*-lots of children.
Of course, it means the parents
must work very hard to give them
every opportunity.”
BUILDING A TOWN
There is a game called “Tug of
War.” To play it an equal number
of men take hold of the opposite
ends of a rope and one group tries to
put the other across the line.
If one man on one side fails to
help, and does rfot pull as he should
his side is beaten.
The side on which all are pulling
usually wins.
The same thing is true of commu
nities. If everyone in a town is pull
ing for it, boosting its local indus
tries and trading at home, the town
is going to move ahead and make
better progress than the towns that
do not have the advantages of the
united efforts of their citizens.
Asa rule towns progress and pros
per in direct proportion to the sup
port they receive from the men and
women of the town.
In those towns where little of the
money is kept at home, and at every
opportunity its citizens spend money
out of town, the stores are not so
good nor the merchants so prosper
ous.
Investments in such a town are
worth less and property values go
down, down, down.
On the other hand, the town that
receives the support of its people,
their loyalty and co-operation, forges
ahead. It has the enterprise and
the life and activity that denotes a
good, healthy, active, wide-awake
community. Proper values are high
er here because there is the attitude
of helpful co-operation and loyalty.
—The Willacoochee Times.
“Let me kiss those tears away,” he
begged tenderly.
She fell into his arms and he was
busy for the next few minutes. And
yet the tears flowed on.
“Can nothing stop them?” he ask
ed breathlessly.
“No,” she murmured, “it is hay
fever, you know. But go on with
the treatment.”
Notice!
Jefferson Dry
Cleaners
OFFER A
2 for 1
From Monday, Oct. 12th,
To Friday, Oct. 23rd
Now is the time to have your Summer Clothes clean
ed to put away for next season, and your Winter Clothes
made to look like new, at Bargain Prices. Men, get your
Felt Hats ready for Fall. Tw r o Felt Hats cleaned "and
blocked for SI.OO.
2 suits cleaned and pressed for SI.OO
2 PLAIN dresses cleaned and pressed for sl.oo
2 ladies’ PLEATED dresses cleaned and pressed
for the price of ONE.
1 plain dress and 1 suit cleaned and pressed for SI.OO
2 men’s overcoats cleaned and pressed for SI.OO
2 ladies’ coats cleaned and pressed for SI.OO
1 man’s overcoat and 1 ladies’ coat cleaned and
pressed for SI.OO
If you haven’t 2 suits or 2 dresses, etc., we would not
object to your going in with a friend or neighbor, but the
two articles must come in at the same time under one
person’s name.
We guarantee our same high quality work during
this sale, and will CALL FOR AND DELIVER at these
bargain prices.
Under prevailing conditions, it is almost impossible
for us to buy new clothes —but we can have them made
to look like new by a modern, scientific dry cleaning pro
cess. Think it over and call us.
JEFFERSON DRY CLEANERS
C. E. ROBINSON, Proprietor
PHONE 31 JEFFERSON, GA.
Rescuing Bread Pudding
lOW often you have heard the
peevish words: “Oh, I hate
that old bread pudding!”
Here are two ways to rescue
bread puddings from such
condemnation and make it not a
penalty but a delight:
Haivaiian Bread Pudding : Scald
two cups milk, add one-half cup
sugar, two tablespoons butter, one
half teaspoon salt and one-fourth tea
spoon nutmeg, and pour over two
cups stale bread (pieces not crumbs),
letting it stand until soft and milk
taken up by the bread. Add two
beaten eggs, and pour into a large
shallow baking dish. Lay the drained
slices from a No. 2(4 can of
Hawaiian pineapple over the top, and
bake in a slow oven, 350°, for from
forty-five minutes to an hour. This
serves eight very liberally. Serve
with the following
6 6 6
LIQUID OR TABLETS
Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in
30 minutes, checks a Cold the first
day, and checks Malaria in three
days.
6 6 6 Salve for Baby’s Cold.
INSURANCE
Jefferson Insurance Agency,
General Insurance. S. C.
Morrison, Mgr.
Sauce: Smooth together one-half
tablespoon cornstarch, one-third cup
sugar and one-fourth cup cold water.
Heat the syrup from the pineapple,
add, and cook until creamy, stirring
constantly. Add two tablespoons
lemon juice and a few grains of nut
meg.
Try Whole Wheat
Pineapple Pudding: Toast- four
slices of whole wheat bread, butter
and cut into small squares. Place
in bottom of a baking dish and pour
over the drained fruit from half of a
No. 2 can of crushed Hawaiian pine
apple. Beat one egg, add four table
spoons sugar, one cup milk and a few
grains of nutmeg and pour over.
Bake in a slow, 350°, oven for about
forty minutes. Serve warm with
sauce made by stirring together the
pineapple syrup and some hcav}
cream. This serves six.*
NOTICE
The undersigned hereby
the public that they will not be r
sponsible for any debts contract
by the Holly Springs Gin Cos., r*' r
any way liable for any obligatio
connected with its operation
present season. This Septembe 1
1931.
J. B. Langford, Sr.
Mrs. Sallie Lipscomb.
B. W. Lipscomb.
• J. T. Lipscomb.
H. J. Lipscomb.
Summer prices still available °
COAL. Phone r order now, *"
save money.—Stilae Dadisman.