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af. f wield* Politics unman l dio has [>ers of this r®. 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." 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