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UNION RECORDER, MILLEDGEVILLE, CA, FEBRUARY T, IBM
raiLDEN’S LDFE STORY
ISA STIRRING TALE
, and Mcle Man Now But He Starts At 40 Cents A
- J l ’ows How Poor A E'sd Is A LaFayette Square Bench.
[ 5, In Contact With Two Revolutions and Had
Plenty of Adventures
jof-raphe'
rs Tribune New Orlcant.
La.
Vl vn, the other day,
■me friends about
work involving
details, and filled
ket of bullfrogs,
m who plays polo,
, - 0 pounds; who is
• whose ordinary con-
pu,, pounds like a call
lu . t,.p of a skyscraper;
conducting one of the
, f| , v k businesses in the
, r dozen bullfrogs,
an- that a lot of episode
eked into his life. The
salary $900 a year, and expenses, and
no charge for scorpions in the shoes.
Coca Into Jungle
During the next two years, he saw-
service of various kinds in the con
struction and operatnig camps in
ture of ant poison in the campaign to . den, president; Cambron C. Matting. OOflH>CKtOC«tCMa0<tCM>>>xroOC060^
| rd the city of the Argentine pest. His : ly, vice-president; Jacob C. Whilden,
profit* helped hint through the lean ' secretary-tr. 1 a urer.
years, until 1920, when Lykcs Bro- Bin Mule Business
thers offered him the contract to go This company i 3 supplying about
. to Centra! America and buy up cattle 90 percent of the mules to sugar
j for Shipment to Cuba. ! plantations sou h of Baton Rouge.
Another Revolution It is exportir;: upwards of 5000
This trip carried him into Guate- mule* a year to Mexico, Central and
r.mla City, ju?t in time to butt into South America. West Indies, Vind-
the revolution that threw Estrad-. ward Islands, .,nd other foreign
C a hr era into the ash-heap. Oscar countries. It dues a large domestic
joined L?e Christmas and buddied and foreign business in dairy cat.lc.
SPECIALIZED
SER'ICE—
C. H. ANDREWS & SON.
"Nothing But Insurance"
And it 1
[ bo, and -
Oyar has been
I - lff ,baling driver,
. He has
1 ship.. h
and
Yes
detective, an
rcvolu-
down to the
has struggled
nglcs
a* lucky at times to get 1
if"- cane or a hand of bananas
n a wireless
r his head
while he was sending a message.
Perhaps ho .•=»■ it more distinctly
•can -thers in the party, because
p„t bodies necessarily move slow
ly, in rvtr.at or otherwise. He has
berr, bu-t;d that he has had to
in LaFayette
Vmi he has come back.
,at: and he ha*
with Max Schaumburger, who has al
so served a novitiate as a soldier of
fortune despite his dignified appear
ance today and saw duty with the U.
S. Marines at the American legation
in Guatemala City when a band of
Central America, and finally atain- 4.1 mad.- their w-ay up from the coast
ed a salary of $200 a month. In 1914 „ ^ carried with them the protection
he re igned to enter the live stock to neutrals and Americans that Cn-
busineas, in Central America, with his brera, in his attempt to ruin what he
brother Jacob. Then the fun began, could n> t rule, seemed determined to j tie and hog ranch at Lake Providence,
Borrowing .all he could on his life deny Oscar was of the party that gal- ; He is president of this company,
insurance, and pooling his resources loped to the wireless station and sent Mr. Whilden » a member of the!
with Jacob s, Oscar saw before him out the call for the marines, just be- board of management of the foreign;
a star a of chip? totaling $5000. They fore Cahrei^’s cannon found the 1 trade bureau of the New Orleans As- 1
bough some saddle and pack mules, range and sent the place tumbling aociation of Commerce. He'is the!
turned their money into silver pesos, about his ears. It is the only decisive registrar and o director of the Ro-
packod them in 50-pound sacks, to- defeat in Oscar's history. Those ex-1 tary Club of New Orleans and thej
gether with rice, beans, flour, salt, ploding shells made more noise than editor of the Rotary Spirit. He is i
Mr. Whilden has been a pillar of
strength in the tick-eradication cam
paign; he is >till fighting that cattle
with the same courage that would not
admit defeat even when he was bum
ming «»n the benches in LaFayette
Square.
In November, 1928. he organized
the Louisiana Delta Cattle company,
which is operating a 5000-acre cat-
sugar, coffee and gun-powder, upon his
11,0 »»<l ‘lien struck out of Aftcr hjs rucku „ 0sMr wcnt t0
Truxillo through the junylc ‘.mils, 1I(mdlIrM and g „ t logclhcr cat _
to make their fortune. tic. As ho was loading them upon a
They wundcrcd through Honduras steamer, a strike of banana cutters
and Nicaragua, gathering up mules aad rai | rond me „ broke out. Oscar’
steward of Louisiana Lodge F. & j
A. M., Knight Templar, a Shrlncr
and plays a cornet in the Shrine Band
of Jerusalem Temple. He iB a mem
ber of the Southern Yacht club, but
prefers the hurricane deck of a mule
life of 11
liattli
fond
ua the peace-
contrast, looms
•collection's vaults!
Hi* Firu Job
(bear’s fir.-*, job gave him 50 cents
a week, and he didn’t hold it long,
because somebody underbid him at
40 cents. This was when he was a
school boy, delivering papers for a.a
enterprising youngster named Carl
Vinson, today a congressman from
I Georgia.
Oscar was bom in Milledgeville,
Ga.. April 8. 1887. His school days
»et* spent at Georgia Military Col-
I lege, where h.- was captain of the
I ha-eball team, leader of the drum
I and boric corps, and comet soloist.
I This last vice, he has never lost
1 fining vacation days, when the
• tber boys were rusticating alongside
| the ol' swimmin' hole,
ed convict - at the Georgia State Pri
v " n Farm at Milledgeville and when
be cravtd more activity than sitting
on a stump and nursing a gun he did
de?'c!:-.v and police work for the
- mu uscar s ; * —- *• 1
and cattle for the United Fruit com- investment promised to be a total to *■ boat * A nwmber of the Young |
pany and for the Isthmian Canal j oss g ut there Wa5 a gunboat anchor- I Men’s Business Club and the Traffic
Commission. They paid cash when C£I off Cciba, with Old Glory at the- Club of New Orleans. Member of
.hey had to, and traded b^ans when masthead, and Oscar went abroad. As' one carnival organization, chairman
they could. And they had many ad- n resu p_ e f a B j,ort conversation with of t * ie transportation committee of
ventures, in which their lives were in t j,e captain (which conversation could j the 17th DisLrict of Rotary In‘ema-
the balance, but the one that sticks be heard as fur as the hills), Oscar | tional with the duty of getting the Ro-
most vividly in Oscar’s mind was wen{ ns horc with some sailors to drive [ ^* 8 of thc 17 ‘ h Dbtrict to and j
when one of the mules, laden with the cattle and some engineers and from thc convention at Dallas, con-1
silver coin, turned bottom-like up, foremen to operate the trains. The v<?nin K May 26 and adjourning May
while they were fording a river; “and only loss suffered by Oscar was aj*^» 1^29.
oh, inigosh, it sur:. 1 was hot, fishing broken pipe. A striker pulled down* Oscar and Mrs. Whilden and their,
for that money!" They didn’t quit on him with a gun while he was two children, Oscar, Jr., and Harriett. |
loading.
Their home is at 2015 Palmer avenue.
If ■
as in the livest
car. and his brot
in this business,
the way fought
Between the St*
• he had to shift for him-
early in life.
tVh :
He Be,
Riu
turned 20, he was
rtunity in New Or-
in 1907. when the
tally beginning to
dollars a month,
m, all Os-
ram t( , <j n Was ass j st j n t be phnr-
mac> ' bookkeeping and drive an
anbnbMt for the- U. S. Marino hoa-
lltj „ He «et some records, dashing
Sl Charles avenue in those old
too. Vhtn he ho,!!C t0ok first uid
I* ^ su ^‘* r ing and the dying. Once,
°f the wheels off his
. and the patient rolled out
But Oscar hailed a
nd made delivery on
, « a ranRe to say. the patient rc-
•mar'- Perhaps Oscar addressed a
“■ <' • h>m. That would be enough
An «» far that pri
f K| bn!ance,
! 5t0 street.
ir cad Uatron
TYh.
,,,zc a corpse.
• '• was off duty, Oscar
*' nT and baseball, and in
port, when he was de-
ri honor of the Mayer Is-
■ broke his leg in a slide
months in ;i ho-pi al convinc-
that what he craved was ex-
So at 22, he began to ham-
h* door of Crawford H. Ellis
D f - finally landed upon
of the White
purser, salary
or, th and board, but he had
white coats. He con-
•rvinp " th " WOrk for * our y***?.
wan y «bips of the United
' Abangarez.
tier
find his ow
for the Eyes
EuzAntmi Arden has cre
ated an important group
of Venetian Toilet Prep
arations as a part of her
scientific treatment for thc
until they had it. Thc mule was a superintending BI
total washout. completely ruined one of the oldest,: ^* R ambition is to iducato Oscar, J
They Meet a Revolution rankest, noisiest pipes in Oscar’s en- *° <<c ®wy on” where he left off. H
When they hail gathered together tire collection. He still thinks with
quite an impo.-ing train of mules and sadness of that pipe. It saw some
cattle they ran head-on into a revolu- tough times with him, and helped the
tion. Thc alcalde and eommandante marines maintain order,
at Somoto, Nicaragua, had n vast re- So Oscar delivered the goods again,
spcct for Americans and their prop- returned to New Orleans, paid his
erty, and told Oscar that they re- stenographer a year or so of back
gretted it a thousand times, but they wage?, and made a deposit at the bank
could not tarry and give Oscar pro- that completely thawed the president,
tcction, because they needed exercise Then he sent for his wife and baby
and were going to retreat. So Os- and announced that he was through
car placed thc entire pack train at with traveling. Down in Central
the disposal of the government and America, the boys heaved a sigh of
the modest and retiring army rode relief, because they had come to con-
the mules out of thc danger zone, and aider little by little, conditions be-
drove the cattle away from the revo- gan to straighten out, until finally
lutionarics, while Oscar and Jacob it was safe for Mr. Hoover to visit
and the pack mules writh thc silver Latin-Amcrica.
followed at their leisure by a differ-, Begin* to Got Break*
ent trail. j .Mr. Whilden found things break-
They lost some cattle and some ing his way at last As a wholesale
f„ U i>V mules, but they would probably have and retail dealer in an exporter of
done that anyway. After the war hourses, mules, cattle, sheep and
was over, they crossed into Honduras, hogs, he has developed a constant-
and the Alcalde of Danli was so bus- ly increasing business. He is now
picious of them that he wanted to considered the biggest exporter of
have .hem shot at sunrise, but Oscar livestock in the South. He is an au-
outtalked him, and th; alcalde eon- thority on livestock. Hs brother
ceded the victory to save l.is ears. So Jacob joined him aft:r his triumphal
Oscar, Jacob, the alcaide and the rest return from Guatemala, when Os-
of the town celebrated the entente car saw the last revolu ion through,
cordialc. It was a celebration that But Oscar doesn’t restrict himself
is still remembered. Oscar ar.d his to the kinds of livestock enumerated,
train didn't pull out for a week; and He will undertake to" deliver any-
he bought a lot of cattle while he thing .hat advances on leg-, moves
was there. And finally, with an es- on wings or propels itself by a tail,
ertrt of soldiers, they rode into Trux- When the Japanese needed bull frogs,
illo, delivered the mules and cattle, they got into touch with 0. c - ar, and
and returned to New Orleans with he delivered the goods. And when a
$12,000 profit. movie director wanted a dozen bull
Then Oscar throttled down his fro <-"', 10 us0 in comedy. Oscar
voice sufficiently to say **I do” in wasn ' above looking around the
church with a pirl whose i.na K c had s '"’™p s of Lonsiann until he found
been with him lo. these many months a do2I!a extraordinary acrobats. Os-
—Miss Grace Lanne.au Briinrs of Bar- car '"° uM a " d ertake to equip a zoo
linjrton, S. C. Shortly after, he or- on an hours notice,
panized the Central American Cattle In July of last year, Mr. Whilden
Co., Inc. This was on February 1, incorporated the firm of Mattingly
1916. He was president. The com- and Wilden. Besides the export busi-
pany promised well for a time, but ness, this firm is furnishing sugar
went broke in 1918, when his ships planters with mules to bring back the
were commandered by the U. S. S. abandoned acres into production. Of-
Shipping Board. ficers of the firm are: Oscar R. Whil-
SlMfi on Park B«i
nd thc
Venetian Speck
Cream. Nourish
delicate tissues aroi
eyes, keeps them :
and uni ined, fills out wri n-
l. . ..50.
Venetian Special Eye
Lo tion. Tonicfordaily use
with thccyc-cup. Cleanses
and soothes thccycs, keeps
than dear aid bright.
$1, $1.50.
Other Venetian Toilet
Preparations ft.r thc eyes
arc dcscril>cd in “tub
quest or Tin: nnALTiruL,”
Llizabcth Arden’s hook-
on thc correct care of thc
skin. Ask for a copy at
thc toilec £uods counter.
CULVER A KIDD DRUG CO.
Elizabeth Arden
673 Fifth Avenue, New York
ij Old Bond Street, Loodoe
1 rue de la Paix, Pari*
Oscar was flat. He didn’t have
the price of a canary bird’s breakfast.
But he refused to clean the slate by
bankruptcy. He sold everything he
had, even to his watch and personal
effects, and one nisurance policy,
sent his wife and baby to her folks
in South Carolina; and stayed in New
Orleans to face the music.
Somehow, he managed to keep his
office in the Whitney-Central build
ing open. But for the actual lack of
money, he often slept on the benches
in LaFayette Square, and in his of
fice chair. If it had not been for the
Argentine ant,—but never mind the
iFs. If it hadn’t been the ant, it
would have been somthing else. Os
car would have found a way, and you
may lay it to that.
Oscar found a man in Mississippi
who had a lot of gonts. He also
found a man in north Louisiana who
f enuine
ing finally was draw-j wanted to .buy the goats, but didn’t!
tUj_ . * ,uo 0 month
***** purser.
,n 1913, b*
P*ry
11- have a dime. But this Louisiana man 1
had a large quantity of honey. Oscar!
W ’V of the F - ntf * cncrn -° <?r ing ] arranged a trade, the honey delivered j
«t,d aad Comimny thxt lo-jia Ntw OrUuw, fw Uw rmt> deliv-|
!. T'h rail- !md ix North LooMom; thu he a>U I
• ' va> • rodnuo; j tho to ho and is tfco aomofac-
SAY "BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST!
Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are
not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe
by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years.
j DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART |
o Accept only “Bayer'* package
which contain, proven directions.
Hu<t -Rojot- boon •t It *t>h
AwTUMmoIMoodMi 8w
, i. a. *•»« rnmmmmmm
COLDS, INDIGESTION
Tennessee Lady Tells A boat
The Long Use of Thed-
ford’s BlacL Draught .
In Her Family.
Rutledge, Term.—‘Tor thirty years
or longer we have been using Black-
Draught In our homo as a family
medicine, and have found it to be
very handy," says Mrs. John Mc
Ginnis, of near here.
-Since I have been married and
hod children of my own, I have
found It to be a lino medicine to
give them for colds and indigestion.
I have three little girls, and when X
see one of them fretful and 'droopy*
in the morning, I begin treating her
with a course of Black-Draught. It
is not long until she Is lively and
well again. I make a tea of It and
give It to thc children, as they take
ft best that way.
"I take Black-Draught for con
st 1 patio u and Indigestion. If I wake
up with a bad taste In my mouth
and fed sluggish and dull. I know
it Is time for a doso of Block-
Draught.
“We try to keep a box of Black-
Draught always in the house and
arc seldom without it. My health
Is generally good, but I think It Is
a good thing to keep a mild, de
pendable remedy on bond for spells
of constipation."
In use nearly a hundred years.
Twenty-five doses 251. nc-205
black-draught
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